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One < hnt Did. Lawyer ( cross-examining witness- Are you sure yon didn't dream that , Mr. Rugbies ? By the way , do you believe in dreams ? Witness Not as a general thing , but I know they coinc true someSHIPS. Lawyer O , they do , do they ? Can you mention a specific instance ? , Witness Yes , sir. You remember. Mr. Ketcham , you paid me $5 the other day that you had been owing me a year. Well , I had dreamed thc > night befor that you sr.et me on the street and paid it I was so Ktrongly impressed with that dream that I hunted you up the next day. you recollect , and dunned you for it. Chicago Tribune. A MID-WINTER VERDICT. Sunshine All Winter" IN "What a "Western Canada Lady Says. Maidstone , Sask. , Canada , Feb. 4 , 1907. C. J. Broughton , Esq. , Canadian Gov ernment Agent , Chicago , 111. : Dear Sir Being so well pleased with Canada we wish my father and brother \o come here. Will you please send Ithem reading matter on Canada ? We have been here nearly a year and are delighted with this country. We ' have lived in Illinois , Iowa , and Michi gan and 'we find Canada away ahead of 'any of them. We have had bright sun- 'sh'ine ' all winter so far , only two nice ' easy snow storms. If it was not all right you know I would not want my 'father iind brother to come here , but 'we think it is grand. Yours truly , ( Signed ) . MRS. ED. TROUPE. The number of cattle in Argentina is 'ectimated at 2r .000.000. Garfield Tea , Nature's remedy for a torpid , inactive or disordered liver ; for : onstipatian , sick headache , indigestion. .A. Born Optimist. When little Leander Bassett asked big Leander , his father , what an optini- .Ist was , Mr. Bassett regarded him I thoughtfully for a moment before he spoke. "I hope you're going to be one , " he ,6aid , slowlj"You favor your Uncle 'William ' in looks , and you've got some of his ways. 'Twould please me might- illy to have you turn out like him. ' "I don't know how the big diction aries put it , but I know the general Idea , sonny , and it's your Uncle Will- son.1'Y I "WJben we had wood to saw an ; split ; he useiT to call it a kind of a battle. Efe'd say , 'When we've disposed of this rregiment , ' pointing to pile o' wood rfather'd portioned off to us , 'I think our troops will be able to make off to the woods without further interfer ence , ' he'd say and then we'd both Slack away like mad. * "When it came to hoeing corn in the j'hoi ; sun , and I'd got clean discouraged , Ifae'd' put his hand up to his eyes and JEay , 'Strikes me we're getting on pretty | fast When we've hoed these two rows and sixteen more , we'll be one more than half done , and plenty of time to finish. ' He'd laugh when he said it and I'd laugh with him. "I couldn't always see it the same way he did , but I learned one thing you can look right'at any hard , dis agreeable job till you can't see any thing else , even when you turn away from it ; or you can look through it , no matter how thick 'tis , same as Will- lam did. He was what I call an optim 1st. " TTB WHOLE FAMILY. Moilier Finds a. Food for Grorrn-upa nnd Children , as "Well. Food that can be eaten with relish and benefit by the children as well as the older members of the family , makes a pleasant household commodi ty. Such a food is Grape-Nuts. It not only agrees with and builds up chil dren , but older persons who , from bad habits of eating , have become dyspep tics.A A Phila. lady , after being benefited herself , persuaded her husband to try . Grape-Nuts for stomach trouble. She writes : "About eight years ago I had a se vere attack of congestion of stomach nnd bowels. From that time on , I had to be very careful about eating , as nearly every kind of food then known to me , seemed to cause pain. "Four years ago I commenced to use Grape-Nuts. I grew stronger and bet ter and from that time I seldom have been without it ; have gained in health .and strength and am now heavier than I ever was. "My husband was also in a bad con dition his stomach became so weak that he could eat hardly anything with comfort I got him to try Grape-Nuts nnd he soon found his stomach trouble Tiad disappeared. "My girl and boy , 3 and 9 years old , do not want anything else for break fast but Grape-Nuts and more healthy children cannot be found. ' Name given ( l > y Postum Co. , Battle Creek , Mich. Head the little booklet , "The Road to "Wellville , " in pkgs. "There's a rea son.1' Y © pinioras of Great Papers 01 Important Subjects. MINHTG FRAUDS. i GREAT many magazines and newspapers contain alluring advertiKcments of Western 7fliuing companies. For the most part , these advertisements make promises that no hon- et and cxptrienced miner would dare make. As a rule , they describe prospects which only one mine out of every 300 fulfills. In some instances there is behind these advertisements not so much as a hole in the ground ; in others old petered- out claims bought for a song , used only in parting hard working people from their surplus cash. The mines that are valuable are not for sale by their owners. If they should be for sale they would be offered privately and the transaction would not be known to the public until it was closed. The mines that are offered to the public are not worth so much as the price of their stock. They are boomed simply to be unloaded on an unsuspecting public. If any holders of such stock do not believe this statement , let them offer to sell back to the companies the stock that thej hold , even at a discount. It might be well for a lot of people to hnve the rude awakening that such a proposition woulrt result in. It would certainly convince them that when they started on the road to "get rich quick" they made a very big mistake. Williamsport ( Pa. ) Grit. OUR NEED OF A GREAT 'J5TAVY. F the United States is to maintain its posi tion as a world power a great navy is nec essary. But a great navy Is expensive , and many Americans find themselves wishing now and then that the country had not branched out into world politics. But it is useless to regret the Spanish war and the .acquisition of Porto Rico , Hawaii and the Philippines. We have been forced into a place with other great powers in the hurly-burly of the world , and nothing can ever restore the quiet and security that were ours in the last century. The life of the race is like the figures in a kaleidoscope , continually changing the rela tive position of its components and never by any chance assuming that shape it showed last week. The United States must hold its position , however much the charge ; it must be ready any moment to defend itself wherever the attack may como. So only may we have peace. We might as well make up our minds now to accept our destiny and prepare to live up to it. Millions of dollars will be necessary and much care , but there is no escaping the necessity. We must build up a great navy as a guaranty of peace. Only by it being equipped for war can we avoid it. Indianapolis Sun. THE HABIT OF PROFANITY. HE common use of profanity is shocking not only to the sense of reverence , which to some extent is a common heritage , but to the sense of refinement. It is possible to hear in public places , along the streets and in the cars language that is unfit for use anywhere , that is disgusting or distressing , according to the mental construction of the unwilling hearer. It is needless for those addicted to the practice to assert that they cannot correct themselves. ' There are many whose ordinary talk when among men is but a line on which to hang a s 'ing of oaths , and yet who , knowIng - Ing themselves to be in the presence of women , never would be guilty of such conduct. They would , in a par lor as a family guest , feel no more impulse to swear than t- HONS IN A FIGHT. While writing of the nature and dis position of lions in her book , "Behind the Scenes with Wild Animals , " Ellen Velvin describes a battle between a number of these brutes which took place in a show-room atv Richmond , Va. It came off at a rehearsal , so that the public lost the chance to see it. Only one man Avas concerned in the fight That was Captain Bona- vita , who had managed twenty-seven lions at one time. The cause of the fight was the arrival of newcomers from their native jungles. When the arena was ready for the rehearsal , Bonavita had considerable trouble in getting the animals out , and when the first one finally appeared , it was not In the slow , stately manner h which he usually entered , but in a quick , restless way , which showed that h/ was in an excitable state. He was followed by seventeen others , all In the same nervous condition. Instead of getting on the pedestals ! a their usual way , the lions , with one exception , a big , muscular fellow , be gan to sniff at the corners of the arena , where the newcomers had been exercising , and every moment added to their rage. Their fierce natures were sxcited by jealousy , and this soon cul minated in rage and passion , so that when one lion presumed to go over to ! i corner and follow up the sniffing of another , the first one turned upon him niid bit him savagely. The other promptly retaliated , and In the twink ling of an eye th y were fighting fiercely. The temper of tue others fiashed up like gunpowder , and almost instantly seventeen lions were engaged in a wild , free fight. The one big fellow which had climbEd - Ed on his pedestal when he entered still sat there , but at this moment the remaining nine lions appeared in the irena , followed by Bonavita. ' * The animals rushed forward into the battle ; the big lion with an ugly snarl leaped from his pedestal into the thick af the fray , and in an instant twenty- seven lions were fighting with teeth ind claws. In the midst of it all stood one man , calm , self-possessed , but , with every nerve and muscle at their to put their feet on the table. Thus , to bring about reform - , form would require nothing but recognition of the decent respect due to men as well as to women. Of the loafers who cumber the corners , and by talk designed to be widely audible insult everybody near them , no voluntary reformation is to be expected. How ever , if the individuals who , with reasons generally good , regard themselves as gentlemen , were to abandon the habit of swearing , they would do much to promote the moral average , and save an often indignant public from having its ears assailed. Philadelphia Ledger. IMPROVING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. . HE upper Mississippi Improvement Associa tion is lobbying in Congress for an appro priation of $20,000,000 to improve the Mis sissippi River from Minneapolis to its mouth. It Is proposed to make the river free ly navigable at all times , and lobbyists say that this will reduce the cost of carriage two cents a bushel on grain , thus saving the people $30,000,000 a year. Such an improvement would be of immense advantage to the- entire Mississippi Valley. The States along the river raised in 1905 more than two billion bushels ot wheatt oats , corn and rye , of which at least two-thirds , or 1,500,000,000 bushels , were shipped. Cheap transpor tation would enormously increase production , and within a few years the country drained by the Mississippi River , amounting to at least one-sixth of the United States , would dominate the world commercially. Great quan tities of products now never leave the farms , and the amount could be added to Indefinitely. The farm land * of the Middle West are not cultivated to half of their capacity to-day. With transportation easy and cheap they could be made to yield as much as land In Bel gium or Holland , which supports a population vastly greater. Making the Mississippi navigable would give a stimulus to farmers all over the Middle West Chicago cage Journal. MORE PIETY WANTED. HAT America needs more than railway ex tension and Western irrigation and a low tariff and a bigger wheat crop and a mer chant marine and a new navy , is a revival of piety , the kind mother and father used to have piety that counted it good busi ness to stop for daily family prayer before breakfast , right in the middle of the harvest ; that quit field work a half-hour early Thursday night , so as to get the chores done and go to prayer meeting ; that borrowed money to pay the preacher's salary and prayed fervently in secret for the salvation of the rich man who looked with scorn on such unbusiness like behavior. That's what we need now to clean this country of the filth of graft and of greed , petty and big ; of worship of fine houses aad big lands and high office and grand social functions. Wall Street Journal. MARRIAGE AT A DISCOUNT. | LL the conditions of modern life are such as to discourage men and women from mar rying , and if they do so to make them dis contented. Divorce has rushed from the extreme of being considered a disgrace which never should be mentioned to that of being regarded as a standard joke in the comic papers , a fit subject to be worked up in stage com edy and hilariously received by large audiences. New York Independent. highest tension , for he knew better than any one else that his life hung in the balance. Bonavita vainly tried to regain mas tery over the fighting beasts. The lions were no longer the puppets of a show ; they were the monarchs of the forest , wild and savage. Seeing his power gone , Bonavita did his best to save his own life. He suc ceeded in getting out , thanks to his wonderful nerve for he had to Jump over the backs of the fighting animals , and In doing so he received a deep wound in the shoulder. There was nothing to be done butte to let the lions fight it out , which they did. For nearly two hours that aw ful battle raged , while I grew sick and faint ; but , when the lions were ex hausted Bonavita , wounded as he was , went in and drove them into their cages. Many of the lions after this terrible flght were seriously injured , and had to be treated for wounds , cuts and tears ; but they had fought themselves out , and the next week they went through their performances as mildly as kittens. Motto for tlie Graveyard. Shortly before one of the new ceme teries just outside the city limits on the north was opened the man who do nated the land used to walk through the property every day. One day he took his gardener with him to make suggestions as to the location of several flower beds he wished to have placed In various sections of the new cemetry. On their way home he told the gar dener he thought there was one thing lacking in the cemetery and that was a gateway at the entrance with a motto inscribed thereon. He said : "John , I have been thinking up the subject of a suitable motto , but can't seem to think of anything that we don't see at the entrance of almost every cemetery we go to. Can't you think of some suita ble inscription ? " John scratched his head a moment and then said : "How would this do , sir : 'We have come to stay ? ' " Phila delphia Record. When it has been thoroughly demon strated that a thing hurts , various men appear who offer to do it without pain , but they cannot The really popular boy always has a "nickname. " MERITS OF THE CAREY ACT. / Settler/ * Can Acquire Title to Irri gated Laud. Easily. The people of the east are as a rule familiar only with the different irriga tion enterprises undertaken by the United States government , says the World To-Day. But in the west there is not a little difference of opinion as to the practical merits from the settler's point of view of the federal plan of reclamation and settlement and the State plan under the Carey act. The latter , which is best illustrated in the Twin Falls project , empowers the State to undertake or to contract for huge irrigation enterprises , permits the settler to contract for a quarter section or less , and when the water is ready to be delivered in his ditches to settle and begin to improve and make a living off the land. He is then able to acquire title to his holdings , provided he clears and cultivates at least one-eighth within a year , when his property becomes taxable and the community can begin public improve ments. Under the Newlands act the Federal government conducts the enterprise and the settler must wait five years before he can acquire his title and must move on when he files his claim , Irrespective of the prospects of obtaining water. Taxes cannot be levied , since the prop erty is not taxable. There is no doubt , of course , that the Carey act allowing of a more flexible method of bringing great areas under cultivation and turn ing them over to settlers , .must be count ed as a highly Important factor In the development of the great west. Nor is there as yet danger of huge corporate holdings. At present the average holdIng - Ing Is ninety acres. Opinion * . "Are you sure your opinions in that matter will stand the test of logic ? " "Logic ! " echoed Senator Sorghum scornfully. "Do you think I form opin ions for mental exercise. What has logic to do with political influence ? " Washington Star. Occasionally a man is so lazy his chief regret Is that he is not so consti tuted that he can hibernate all winter. No woman's picture looks any better because she was trying to look through the skylight when It was taken. THE WEEKLY 12G6 Charles of Anjou defeated Man fred at Benevento. 1CSG Conte Godefroy D'Estrades re signed his commission as Viceroy of New France. 1714 Gibraltar and Minorca , ceded to the English. 177G Battle of Moore's Creek , X. C. 17SO Bank of Pennsylvania , first in the * United States , chartered. 1790 Act ordering a United States census passed by Congress. 1799 Congress authorized ihe revenue marine service flag. 1801 Congress assrrmed jurisdiction over the District of Columbia. 1SQ5 Napoleon started on his second journey across the Alps into Italy The first Trappist monks arrived in Lexington , Ky Thomas Jefferson inaugurated for the second time Pres ident of the United States. 1S11 Massacre of the Mamelukes at Cairo. 1814. French defeated by the allies in battle of Troyes. 1S15 Napoleon I. escaped from Elba. 1S17 Alabama territory formed. 1821 Missouri admitted to the Union ITS the twenty-fourth State. 1830 William Cramp established his shipyards at Philadelphia. 1844 Abel P. Upshur. Secretary of State , and other eminent public men- killed by the bursting of a gun on the steamer Princeton. 1849 Emigrant ship Floridian wrecked off English coast ; 200 lives lost. 1851 Macready's farewell at Drury Lane theater. London. 1852 British troopship Birkenhead wrecked on South African coast ; 4oS lives lost. 1859 Explosion on steamer Princess near Baton Rouge ; 25 lives lost. 1SG1 Territorial government established in Colorado. . . .Abraham Lincoln in augurated President of the United States .Revenue cutter Dodge sur rendered to the Confederates at Gal- veston. 1SG3 Confederate blockade runner Nash ville destroyed near Fort McAllister. 1SG4 U. S. Grant made lieutenant gen eral. 1SG7 Nebraska proclaimed a State by the President. 1SGS Articles of impeachment of Presi dent Johnson adopted by House of Representatives. 1SG9 Congress by joint resolution passed Fifteenth amendment to the Constitution. 1871 Treaty of peace between France and Germany concluded at Versailles. 1872 Ycilowstone National Park estab lished. . . .Thanksgiving service in London for recovery of the Prince of Wales from typhoid. 1875 Civil rights bill passed by the Sen ate. ,1878 Bland silver bill passed over veto of President Hayes. 1881 William II. of Germany married to Princess Augusta of Scbleswig- Holstein. 1888 Explosion on ferry boat Julia at South Vallejo , . Cal. ; 30 lives lost. 1890 Firth of Forth bridge , near Edin burgh , inaugurated. 1892 Supreme Court ajrmed constitu tionality of the McKinley tariff act. 1893 Grover Cleveland inaugurated President of the United States. 1894 Prudente Moracs elected Presi dent of Brazil. 1895 Wedding of Anna Gould to Count de Casteliane in New York. 1897 Fifty persons killed and injured by explosion of gas mains in Boston Japan adopted a gold standard. 1898 Rebellion broke out in Venezuela. . Attempt to assassinate the King of Greece. 1900 Relief of Ladysmith British de feated Boers at battle of Paardeberg. 1902 Paris celebrated centenary of Vic tor Hugo's birth. t903 Fire in Cincinnati caused $2,000- 000 property loss .Edwin L. Bur- dick murdered in Buffalo. 1905 Theodore Roosevelt inausuratea President of the United States Beginning of the battle of Mukden , Manchuria. Notes of Current Kventa , Unions in Spain are said to have a membership of 5G,900. Mrs. Drusilla Morrell. whose husband fought in the war of 1812 , is dead in Brooklyn at the age of 102. She was born in Marlborough , Mass. , in 1804. William A. Lynch , one of the best- known lawyers in Canton. Ohio , and a trustee of the McKinley Memorial Asso ciation , died suddenly in Lisbon , Ohio. President Holdcn of the University of Wooster at Wooster. Ohio , announced that ho had succeeded in raising $17u,000 toward the endowment made necessary to get $125,000 through the Rockefeller fund. Charles Rumblo. who on Nor. 25 last shot and killed Frank J. Emery , pro prietor of the Kentucky hotel. Kansas ' City , Kan. , was found guilty of murder in the second degree in a court in that city. GENERAL BREAKDOWN A Condition Which Dr. Williams' PJn * Pills , the Great Blood Tonic , Hav Been Curing for Years. There is no more perplexing troublt for a physician to treat than debility cases , especially in women , in which there is no acute disease but In which the patient every day sinks lower an'd lower despitfi changes of medicine and similar experiments. That Dr. Williams' Pink Pills win restore health under these conditions is no speculation but the fact has been proved in hundreds of cases similar to that of Mrs. Sarah Ramsey , of 1008 3t. John St. , Lltchfield , III. She says "I never felt well after my first child was born. I had a gnawing pain in my stomach and could not hold any food down. My head ached a great deal and sometimes the pain went all through my body. I had dizzy spella so that I could not stand and seemocr to be half blinded with pain. These spells would often last for over an hour. My blood seemed to bo in a very poor condition and my hands and feet were like ice. I seemed to be growing weaker and weaker and could not get around to do my work in the house. I was extremely nervous and the least excitement would bring on a. dizzy spell. "For a number of years I was under a doctor's care but seemed to get no better. I had heard about Dr. Wil liams' Pink Pills and I began to takfi them. I socm felt better and gained In weight and strength. My nervea are strong now and I am a well woman In every way. " Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all druggists or will be sent , post paid , on receipt of price. 50 cents per box , six boxes for $2.50 , by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company , Schenectady - tady , N. Y. A booklet of valuable in formation , entitled "Plain Talks to Women , " sent , free on request. CASE OF ECZEMA IN SOUTH. Suffered Three Yenrn Hand and Eye Most Affected Xow Well and Is Grateful to Caticnra. "My wife was taken badly with ec zema for three years , and she em ployed a doctor with no effect at all until she employed Cuticura Soap and Ointment. One of her hands and her left eye were badly affected , and when she would stop using Cuticura Soap and Ointment the eczema came back , but very slightly ; but it did her a sight of good. Then we complied with the instructions in using the entire set o Cuticura Remedies and my wife Is entirely - ' tirely recovered. She thanks Cuticura very much and will recommend it high ly in our locality and in every cook and corner of our parish. God bless you for the sake of suffering humanity. I. M. Robert , Hydropolis , La. , Jan. 5 and Sept. 1 , 100G. " Evasive. Teacher ( in manual training school ) What may be regarded as the forerunner of the modern automobile ? Shaggy Haired Pupil Anybody that gits in its way. Great Crop.i ; Fine Climate. The Texas Gulf Coast Country Is now offering the greatest inducement to fanners and other settlers who are pouring into that section from all parts of the north and west A genial cli mate , two crops a year on land costing only § 25 an acre. The Rock Island- Frisco lines are sending an SO-page book descriptive of this great country and making very low round trip excur sion rates to all who write to John Se bastian , Passenger Traffic Manager , Room 5G , La Salle station , Chicago. Thirty years is the average age of an ostrich and the annual yield of a bird in captivity is from two to four pounds of plumes. Grandfather's Cure for Constipation REAT medicine , the Sawbuck. Two hours a day sawing wood will keep anyone's Bowels regular. No need of pills , Cathartics , Castor Oil. , nor "Physic , " if you'll only work the Sawbuck buck regularly. * * * Exercise is Nature's Cure for Constipa tion and , a Ten-Mile walk will do , If you haven't got c. wood-pile. But , if you will take your Exercise in an Easy Chair , there's only one way to do that , because , there's only one kind of Artificial Exercise for the Bowels and its name Is. "CASCARETS. " Cascarets are the only means to ezercisa the Bowel Muscles without work. They don't Purge , Gripe , nor "upset your Stomach , " because they don't actliko "Physics. " They don't flush out your Bowels and intestines with a costly waste of Digestive Juice , as Salts , Castor Oil , Calomel. Jalap , sr Aperient Waters always do. No Cascarets strengthen and stimulate he Bowel Muscles , thdt line the Food jassages and that tighten up when food ouches them , thus driving the food to its inish. inish.A A Cascaret acts on your Bowel Muscles is if you had just sawed a cord of wood , or valked ten miles. Cascarets move the Food Naturally , ligesting it without waste of tomorrow's jastric Juice. * * * The thin , flat , Ten-Cent Box is mada o fit your Vest pocket , or "My Lady's" 3urse. Druggists 10 Cents a Box. Carry it constantly with you and take a 'ascaret whenever you suspect you need me. i Be very careful to get the genuine nade only by the Sterling Remedy Com- lany , and never sold in bulk. Every tab- st stamped "CCC. " 73 $ ARMS FOB REHT . M Ufc HA 1I 1 X CITT