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Kf,i- VI vifi-t'- - "' r"! - ""? . J 1 i - lppplppppp ColumbusJournal PL m, SIROTHKPL UNar. F. K. tTBOTHKR. Masaamr. mwmsmsamssemBBmB ef Geld. Gold was the substance for which all th worid hungered, and yet when Columbus discovered America there was less than 25.M,090 ot it la all Europe. Sorely it has been a dimcult sabstance to find. Centuries had passed, daring which this yellow metal had been-carefully hoarded, and yet all of Europe held less than a quarter of a billion of it That was a master of 415 years ago. When the great ex plorer set sail for unknown shores the world was Increasing its stock of gold at the rate of. less than $4,000,00 an nually. It would therefore take Eu rope 60 years to duplicate its gold holdings. When another hundred years had passed the output had in creased to $6,000,000 annually. There was nothing startling in such 'an in crease. To bring this about it has been necessary to ransack the treas ures of Peru. Mexico and other new countries. Once more we move the hand of time forward a hundred years until we come to 1700, in which year the average gold production is only $7,000,600 yearly. Certain there was no reason to fear an over-production of gold. .Another hundred years brings us to 1S00. in which compara tively modern time the annual produc tion of gold was only $12,000,000. Thus we find, says Frederick U. Adams, in Success, that, during the three centuries following the discovery of America, the world's average an nual increase in gold was $26,666. Had this modest ratio been maintained for the next hundred years, the total pro duction of gold in 1900 would have been about $15,000,000. How much do you suppose it actually was? Double that amount? Three times it? Hake another guess. It was $262,220,915! Reprehensible Habits. One of the strangest paradoxes in human nature is that men and women, struggling apparently with all their might to succeed, are yet constantly doing things, saying things, and think ing things which drive the very suc cess they are after away from them. They are all the time counteracting their efforts by some indiscretion. Men work like Trojans to get a cov eted position, and then, by getting puffed up with conceit, or by some foolish or 'weak act, knock the scaf folding, which they have been years in building, out from under them, and down they go. Their lives are a series of successive climbs and tumbles, so that they never get anywhere, never accomplish anything worth while. There are thousands of men who are working in very ordinary salaried po sitions, says New York Weekly, who might have been employers them selves but for some unfortunate weak ness, some little deficiency In their natures, or some peculiarity some thing which might have -been reme died by 'a little discipline and self study in youth. Others are always driving success away from them by their doubts, their fears, their lack of courage, their lack of confidence driving It away by reprehensible hab its which repel success conditions. One by one Chicago is losing the laurels forced upon it by jealous rivals. A few days ago statistics were published showing that Switzer land led us as a divorce center and now a doctor who has been down on his knees to see rises to say that the girls of Great Britain are developing feet that will make the Chicago girl's trilbys look like those Cinderella wore when she made her great hit With the head of the male Briton growing smaller and the foot of the female Briton growing larger, remarks the Chicago News, we may well accept the deduction that man over there is soon to be the weaker sex. It Is to he hoped that the girls will be kind to him when, at last he has found his proper place. By racking his memory doubtless he will be able to recall many times when he was kind to them during the days of his supposed superiority. Automobile sore throat and Influen zal the latest disease. It is not how ever, as some may think, or even hope, the person who rides in an auto mobile who gets the disease, but the ipeople who have to breathe the dust that they stir up. Long Island resi dents, whose roads are favorite thor oughfares for the hated vehicles, are the oaly ones so far who are suffering from this malady, but of course it will spread. Perhaps the thread trust craftily put out the story that the price of cotton was to be advanced to ten cents a spool so that the public could feel so relieved when tt was denied as to forget all about the advance from five to six cents at retail. "To famish the girl and we will furnish the house," says an advertise ment That sounds good, says the Kansas City Journal, but it doesn't tell the whole story. You will also be expected to furnish the wherewith. One of the ministers declares that a woman has no sense when she is -fm love. Of course a man always re tains fall possession of his reasoning faculties when he has become con vinced that some woman with an up tUtoi none and a raspy voice is aa aageL Maxim Gorky says the Americans are silent gloomy people." It naast ha remembered that he didn't fjo- to the roof gardens much while he la New York, The State Capital Matters ef General Interest rtoM Nebraska's Seat ef Gari Primary Law Instructions. The county clerk of Cass county tel ephoned to the attorney general that with the poll books sent to his county -was enclosed printed instructions haw to make up the primary ballot It was stated in the instructions that a blank line wastd be left upon which the voter could write in a name. Attor ney General Thompson and Secretary of State Junkin have not seat out any instructions how to make- up the bal lot but have left that to the discretion of the county clerks, who are sup-' posed to follow the law in the matter. Any instructions sent out with the poll books are sent without authority from the state officials and should," according to Mr. Junkin. have no weight with the county. officials. Just how the Instructions got into the poll book package, of course, Is not known at the; state house. These books are sent out by the printers and the coun ty clerks get their printing done where they please. The following two letters contain all the matter sent out by the secretary of state and any matter other than'thfc is without his authority: August 15, 1907. County Clerk: In sending you certificates of filings of candidates to be voted for in the Sep tember primary, this department did not undertake the formation of an official ballot We refer you to sections 8 and 9 of the Primary law as to who shall make up, and the form of ballots. We send you under separate cover blank forms to make returns to this office as provided in section 23. We also shipped you by maH one copy of the Primary law for each voting pre cinct in you county. Please acknowledge receipt of laws and abstracts or notify this office in regard to them. To the County Clerks of Nebraska: Gentlemen: In accordance with the provisions of section 33 of the pri mary election law it has been decided by the attorney general and secretary of state that a separate poll book srust be used for each of the political parties, and they shall be -designated by having the colors covered as fol lows: Socialist red; prohibition, white; republican, blue; democrat, green; people's independent, yellow. A Trip by Governor Sheldon. Governor Sheldon is soon to take a trip with other western governors, which in importance will exceed any journey he has taken since he became governor of Nebraska. He will go to Keokuk, la., to help entertain Presi dent Roosevelt and accompny his party to St Louis, where the president is to speak October 2. At St Louis the gov ernors will be the guests of the busi ness men's league and after viewing the Veiled Prophet parade on the streets and attending the grand ball at night, will go with President Roose velt down the Mississippi river to Memphis to attend a deep water con vention. Governor Sheldon has a plantation in Mississippi and has spent much time there and became well ac quainted with southern people and their customs. Governor Cummlngs in vited Governor Sheldon to come to Keokuk to help entertain the president in that city October the first This will probably be Governor Sheldon's last trip outside the state this year and he may make very few journeys away from Lincoln. He has spoken at many towns in Nebraska since he became Governor, but now finds that official duties require him to remain at his office more than in the, past He will be obliged to decline all in vitations to deliver addresses -during September and October. Burlington Passes. Nearly 7,000 trip passes were Issued by the Burlington railroad during the month of July, according to the re port filed with the railway commis sion. Officers and employes, then families and relatives, and even ser vant girls employed by officers, appear to be in the list Many of the trips are labeled visits. As in the past, the railway commission is in the posses sion of no information showing that the persons listed as employes aw entitled to passes under the anti-pass law which provides that only "bona fide employes, the major portion of whose time is devoted to the service of the company, and the dependent members of their families" may receive passes. F. L. Wolff of Cambridge is in the list as a lawyer who received trans portation from the company without paying for it in cash. In the entire list of nearly 7,000 only one case is reported as a charity case, a woman who was carried from Lincoln to Plattsmouth at the request of the Lincoln charity organization. Express Case Next Week. Federal Judge T. C. Monger in formed Attorney General Thompson he will take up the matter of the ex press companies just as soon as Judge W. H. Monger returns, which will be this week. Judge Monger said he hoped to have all of the state matters now in the federal court passed upon by September 1. This Includes the opinion in the case of the jurisdiction in the matter of the application of the state for an injunction to prevent the railroads from violating the legisla tion enacted last winter. Stay for Harrison Clarke. Judge Sedgswick granted a reprieve for Harrison Clake, the negro mur derer from Omaha, sentenced to hang August 30. The stay will be effective until farther order of the court, which will permit the motion for a rehearing to be heard by the supreme court Judge J. B. Strode of Lincoln and At torney Crow of Omaha appeared for Clarke. Judge Sedgwick did not take action until he had called Attorney General Thompson into the case and asked the poaitioa of the state upon the application. Railroad Must Fix Tracks. Members of the State Railway com mission have returned from their in spection of the Missouri Pacific tracks and'thejr are now at work on an order having for its object a general over hauling aad fixing up of the physical property- of the road in Nebraska. The commissioners brought back the same report a story of wornout rails and brokeomesand the. absence of signs of repair. In. most instances sections of six miles in length are looked after by one foreman .and. a helper. Accord ing to the commissioners the photo graphs filed by the protesting trainmen are more than .verified Commission er Williams continued' his investiga tions down into Kansas and. where the state line was crossed the train ran onto seventy-five pound rails and moved along as smooth as, glass. He was Informed by. an official on the train that It was the Intention otjhe owners to supply Nebraska wmvtae same kind, of rails this year tint?ia stead they had sent up the urge size engines, and these are being used. over the objections oftheenglaeerswho protested to. the officials. It iavthe. belief of employes interviewed by the commissioner that when the tracks freeze up these big engines-will fmasa the present., light rails into, smither eens. In the meantime he" said freight trains a mile In length was a common sight- and fifteen trains a day are scheduled south of Auburn, just an indication of the business this road is doing in Nebraska. Judge Williams was refused a permit to ride on a freight from which the public is bar red and he had to walk from Auburn to Howe, a distance of six miles, then drive to Stella, where he caught the train to Falls City. He then went on to Reserve, Kas., and came back to Weeping Water and in from there to Lincoln. University Warrants Held Up. A large number of university em ployes and instructors and others are liable to go without their August pay for a long time, as State Treasurer Brian refused to sign the warrants Thich were issued by the auditor upon the certificates filed by the state board of regents, Mr. Brian refused to act because Secretary of State Junkin refused to indorse the certificates un til the vouchers from which the cer-' tificates were issued were submitted for his inspection. Until the state treasurer affixes his signature to the warrants they are worth just the pa per they are printed on. Mr. Brian said he would countersign no war rant when he knew the voucher had not been indorsed by tho secretary of state, as the constitution clearly pro vides the secretary of state and the auditor shall audit and sign all vouch ers for money to be drawn out of the state treasury. Some time ago Mr. Junkin served notice upon the regents that he would not sign certificates is sued by them until he had examined the vouchers supposed to be on file at the State university. That month the vouchers were given to him for inspection, and he signed the certifi cates. Exchange of Land Prospects. The associate forester of the United States has written a letter to Gov ernor Sheldon, detailing a plan for the state 'to exchange all its lands In na tional forest reserves for a solid block of national forest land in the state, to be agreed upon by the state and the secretary of agriculture. It is proposed the exchanged lands shall approximately be equaleJ in area and value to the land given by the state. This associate forester says tho present situation involves hardships for the state, as some of (hem own other lands selected as indemnity on account of grants in quantity by con gress and included within the forest reserve, after selection, their holdings are scattered and cannot be economi cally administered as forest land or sold on such good terms as the state could get if the several tracts were not isolated. Free Freight to the Fair. According to a supplement of the special rules and regulations on freight traffic, effective after August 19, 1907, the Burlington railroad has announced Its intention of hauling free of charge exhibits to the state fair other than live stock. This will be brought about by a rebate of the one way charges that must be paid when the exhibit is sent to the fair. If no part of It is sold while there the return will be free of charge, and a-presentation of a certificate from the secretary of the beard that the goods have actually been on exhibit will secure the return of the one way prepaid charges on the outgoing trip. If the goods are sold, or any part of them, the amount of freight on that part will not be re funded. Horse Show at the Fair. The display in the horse depart ment at the state fair, September 1 to 6, promises to excel anything ever seen: on the grounds in this state. There will be great numbers of Per cheron, and French draft Clydes and Shires, English, French and German coach horses. No .Delegates Will Go. Governor Sheldon is not going to permit Nebraska to be represented at a convention which he believes will be dominated by corporations. He has declined to appoint delegates to a convention which the West End Business Men's club of St. Louis has called for the purpose of harmonizing the strained relations which exist be tween state and federal courts .in many parts of the country. The gov ernor, being optimistic, does not be lieve the country is so near a crisis as the St Louis club thinks. Variation in Oil Tests. Oil Inspector Allen has discovered some Standard Oil company's product which tests a different quality at dif ferent times and places, though from the same tank. The oil which went below, the 112-degree test was found at Clay Center. The barrel from which it was taken was marked test ed 116, showing that it came four de grees higher than the standard fixed by law. Deputy Inspector Wheeler tested it at 110 and rejected the bar I reL A test of the tank at Omaha showed 113 degrees. 1 HELRHE THE TOWN HINTS AS TO MAKING THE HOME MARKET' BETTER. HANDLING OF FAIM PRODUCE Hew Merchants ami Farmers Can Co operate to Their Mutual Advan tage in a Business Way. Many agricultural towns could be vastly improved by affording farmers better markets for the produce that they have to dispose ef. In the ra dius of every country village there Is sufficient butter and eggs and other products to be marketed, the hand ling of which would make a profitable business. The custom that has' prevailed for many years of storekeepers indiscrim laately handling produce does not ap pear to be to the' best interests of towns or it may be said, to the mer chants or the farmers. In the first place the average storekeeper has no facilities for the proper handling of perishable products. He may not receive sufficient to enable him to dis pose of the product to the greatest advantage. Therefore instead of mak ing any profit upon what he handles, many times he is the loser and looks for his compensation in the trade that may be given him by the farmers who bring in the produce. It is important to a town whether it is reputed to be a good produce market or otherwise. Where the farmer can receive a cent or two more for his butter and eggs he is likely to turn his attention. In some towns there are regular buyers of produce, ,but often these methods are such as to be- unsatisfactory and re sult in loss of trade to the place. Merchants generally exchange goods for whatever produce -may be brought to them. In many places they will not pay cash, and it has been known where cash has been paid that it im mediately found its way to some other town where goods was purchased. Each town that' has any consider able patronage from the farming com munity surrounding it should have a small cold storage plant One plan that has been found practicable in many towns is the organization of a produce company in which merchants of the town as well as the farmers are stockholders. These concerns pro vide every facility for the proper packing and storage of eggs and but ter and other perishable produce, and sometimes include a butter renovat ing plant Where such companies are operated the merchants refuse to handle produce, referring all who have such to sell to the produce company. The company pays the highest mar ket price for what it buys. Instead of paying cash, due bills are issued which are accepted the same as cash at all the stores in town. Each-week the merchants who receive these due bills in exchange for goods have them cashed, at the office of the produce company. By paying from a cent to two cents a doaen more for eggs or per pound for butter these produce companies have been wonderful factors in bring ing trade to the place. Not alone do they benefit the town by bringing ad ditional patronage to the merchants, but the business can be highly profit able if managed rightly. It requires but little capital to operate such an establishment It is well when organ ization Is taken up to limit the amount of stock that each shareholder receives to one or two shares of a par value of $50 or $100. An effort should be made to have as many mer chants as possible shareholders. Also to secure as many shareholders among the farmers as can be had. It should be understood that instead of paying cash, farmers pay for their shares of stock In produce at prevailing mar ket prices. With all the merchants in the town interested in the suc cess of the company, and the farmers throughout the country also share holders and participants in profits that may be made, it will be soon found that the produce company will be handling all the produce business that originates in the community. In many localities where this plan has been put in operation the farmers have discovered, that they could re ceive better prices for their butter and cream and eggs than under the old system. Being associated in a way with the business interests of the place they become more interested in all affairs of the town and are more inclined to work in harmony with the merchants towards anything that has the improvement of the home town in view. One of the desirable things about this plan is its tendency to lessen the practice of residents of rural communities trading with mail order houses and department stores In the large cities. Another admir able feature is .the adding of an additional labor-saving Industry to the town and the keeping of the earn ings of the people in circulation in the community. - Drug in Food. "The gravy from roast beef is near ly as effective as any iron prepara tion in the relief of anaemia, and con sequently also of the heart discomfort accompanying it" In addition, how ever, to red meat many vegetables, it most be remembered, are able to con tribute valuable proportions of iron to the dietary scheme. This is particu larly true of the beet yellow turnip,, tomato and spinach. Roof Party for Two. "Nearly every night they have a roof party on the roof across the area from my window," said the woman. "It is very simple. It is a lighted red lantern hung on a clothes line and a boy and a girl in the shadow of the chimney just far enough away from the light of it" N. T. Press. Whence "Strawberry." The name strawberry has puzzled a. goof many people who like to find the origin of names. Many suppose It ased to be the custom to string the berries oa straws and sell them in that way. hence the name. But the real same is strayberry, due to the manias habits of the viae. WHERE THE MERCHANT FAILS. An Iowa Farmer Tells Him He Should Advertise, ami Hew. Aa Iowa farmer contributes to the Des Moines Capitol the following verj pertinent suggestion, as to why the mail order houses succeed jut getting the business of the rural communities away from local merchants: "If the mall order houses got $1,M0 ct of this county each moath that be longs to the home merchaats the fault Is with the merchaats themselves. Tbj mall order houses advertise aad give us prices on everything they offer foi sale. They tell us what they have and what-they want for it Of course we get soaked once In awhile aad if we do we can try some other house. Most of the, home merchants who ad vertise at all don't quote prices. They neglect to tell us what we want to know the price. Of course we can go to the store and ask the price of this article, and that but you know how it is one doesn't know so well exact ly what he wants to buy when he gets in a store as when he is at home. And there is where the mail order houses make their hit They send us their advertising matter into homes and we read it when we haven't anything else to do and every member of the family who reads their stuff usually finds something that he or some other mem ber of the family wants and many or ders are made up and sent out just at such times. ' "Right here is where the home mer chant falls down. If he talked up his business to us in our homes the same as the mail order houses do the people would be in to see him the next time they came to town and in many cases extra trips would be made to get the things at once that we didn't know we wanted until they were brought to our attention. "The home merchant can save the expense of getting up a catalogue. We people read the home papers more carefully than we do the catalogue, and If the merchant wants to talk business with us let him put his talk in the home papers, and 'put it in so that we know he means business. The home merchant likely, nine times out of ten, sells his goods as cheap as the mail order houses, and I believe on many things they are much cheaper, but how are we to know if he doesnt tell us about it "A merhant must not think that even his best customers know his goods so well that they can tell what he has without being shown. "It is none of my business how the home merchant runs his business, but I don't -like to see these roasts in the papers all the time about us fellows who get a little stuff shipped in once in awhile and never anything said on the other side. There are always two sides of a question, and I have given you mine. If it is worth anything to you you can take it" BANKERS GETTING WISE. They See Danger in the Mail-Order System of Business. It is only lately that bankers of the west have come to a realization that the mail-order system of business has been a serious injury to them, killing off the business of their towns, taking out of circulation money that should help swell the local bank deposits and otherwise interfering with town pro gress. The trouble has been with many bankers that they failed to consider the buying-goods-away-from-home evil as anything of particular concern to them. When Farmer Smith would buy a draft for $50 or $100 to send to Chicago, the banker got bis ten cents exchange and thought he was that much ahead, while the facts re mained that if he could keep the money from being 'sent from home that $50 of the farmer for the banker might make a dollar or two of profit It was only when the catalogue houses started In to solicit deposits of the people of country towns and farm ing communities that the . bankers took a tumble. Then again some bankers have such an exalted idea of their position in the town that the goods to be had from the local merchants are not good enough for themselves and families, and set a bad example before the peo ple by sending away themselves for what they desire in the way of staples and luxuries. Bankers are conserva tive; and are not forward in making suggestions to their patrons as to what they should do with their money, but In this matter it appears sufficient ly Important to justify the exercise of what Influence the banker can com mand in behalf of home patronage. It is the business of the town and sur rounding country that affords a profit to the bank. The greater this volume of business- can be made the better for the banker and every interest of the town, and the farmers and other laborers as well. D. M. CARR. What, Indeed? A duchess requiring a lady's maid had an interview with one, to whom, after having examined her appearance, she said: "Of course, you will be able to dress my hair for me?" "Oh, yes," replied the girl; "it never takes me more than half an hour to dress a lady's hair." "Half an hour, my child!" exclaimed the duchess, In ac cents of terror, "and what on earth, then, should I be able to do with my self all the remainder of the morn ing?" Buttermilk Cocktail. Throat parched? Irrigate it with a buttermilk cocktail. This Is a new brand of dampness which was devised at the University of Chicago. The buttermilk cocktail is constructed according to the fol lowing recipe: Take a tall, thin glass, drop in a chunk of ice; insert a long slice of cucumber, then fill vith buttermilk. That's all! Reliable Sign of Death. A Frenchman has received a prize for discovering a reliable alga of death. The test consists of the sub cutaneous injection' of a solution of flourescelne, which, if the blood is still circulating, in the course of a, few hours causes the skin to tarn yel tow. WHAT THE WOMEN WORE. Of Cswse the Stery Teller DM - Really Mean Jest That, , A gentleman recently returned from that quiet little Maryland resort Ocean City, has a tale to ten of coa dttkms that are really seasatkmaL Aad the worst, of it was.that he did act know they-were sensational at alL He was oat calling the other evening, aad the conversation started with the shirtwaist man, who, the returned, wanderer said, was to be found In great quantities at the summer resort Then he told about the habit every body down there had contracted of going without hats. This is the way he told it to aa Interested company: "Ton see everybody down there going about just the same. The men never wear coats; they go about in just their shirts and trousers, and the women are just like them." FOR SELFISH ENDS. The Efforts Being Made by the Ameri can Medical Association. The Political activity of the Ameri can Medical Association has become so pronounced as to cause comment in political circles especially as the the avowed purpose of the Doctors of the "Regular" or Allopathic school, of which the Association is chiefly com posed, is to secure the passage of such laws as will not only prevent the sale of so-called "Patent" medicines, but will restrict the practice of medi cine and healing to the "schools" now recognized. This in many states would prevent the growing practice of Os teopathy, and in nearly every state would prevent the healers of the Christian Science and mental science belief from practicing those sciences in which the faith of so many intelli gent people is so firmly rooted. The American Medical Association has a "Committee on Legislation," and the committee has correspond ents in practically every township seme 16,000 correspondents in all. This committee at the last session of the American "'Medical Association held in June of this year expressed a hope that a larger number of physi cians than heretofore will offer them selves as candidates- for Congress at the first opportunity. In its annual report this Committee said: "To meet the growing demands of the move ment, however, particularly if the work of active participation in State legislation is undertaken, a larger clerical force must be employed." This is almost the first time in the history of the United States that any organized class has frankly avowed the purpose of capturing legislatures and dominating legislation in their own selfish interests. The American Medical Association has about 65,000 members of Whom 27,000 are "fully constituted mem bers" and the rest are members be cause of their affiliation with state or local societies. The 'Association owns real estate in Chicago valued at $111, 781.91 and its total assets are $291, 567.S9. Its liabilities, at the time of the annual report which was made at the June meeting, amounted to only $21,906. The excess of assets over liabilities is increasing at the rate of about $30,000 a year, and the purpose of the organization is to dominate the field of medicine, and by crushing all competitions by securing the pas sage of prohibitive legislation, compel all of the people of the United States to pay a doctor's fee every time the most simple remedy is needed. Deaths from X-Rays. The death of Dr. Weigel, a surgeon of Rochester, from a disease due to the constant use of the X-rays makes the fourth who has lost his life from this cause, says the Chistian Advo cate. The others were an assistant of Thomas Edison, a Boston physician and a woman of San Francisco named Fleischman. In the case of Dr. Wei gel since 1904, when his right hand and all but the thumb and a finger of the left hand were removed, there had been four operations in trying to save his life. The first removed a part of the right shoulder: then a part of the muscles covering the right breast. Mystery completely envelops the cause of death, the disease raing un known to medical science, though it is believed to involve some great prin ciple of life. Dr. Weigel was presi dent of the Rochester Academy of Medicine and the American Ortho paedic society. Due Process of Law. At the time of the famous Eastman trial in Cambridge, Mass., two Irish men, standing on a street corner, were overheard discussing the trial. One of them was trying to enlighten the other concerning a jury. "Bedad!" he explained. "You're ar risted. Thin if ye gets th shmartest lawyer, ye're innicint; but If th' other man gets th' best lawyer, ye're guilty." Life. ' Horrible Example. "My dear," said Mrs. Strongmind, "I want you to accompany me to the town hall to-morrow evening." "What for?" queried the meek and lowly other half of the combine. "I am to lecture on the 'Dark Side of Married Life,'" explained Mrs. S.. "and I want you to sit on the plat form and pose as one of the illustrations."- Peculiar Medical Remedy. It was stated at an Inquest on a peasant in a Servian village that the man died from swallowing too many bullets, which he was accustomed to take, in common with all the peasants in that district whenever he felt ilL In Self-Defense. Gabriel Say, what did you let that pestiferous party in fer? St. Peter (wearily) He used to be an insurance agent and 1 either had to let him in or be talked to death. Self-Forgetfulness. Self-forgetfulness in love for others has a foremost place in the ideal char acter and represents the true end of humanity. Peabody. No impulse is too splendid for the simplest task; no task is too simple for the most splendid Impulse. Pail Upe Brooks. MAN-A-LIN I afLmHaSHl MM? er mbk 'ammmmr T mmrnWm Bmmmm- mv.ammmmCBmmimmmMmmKBmmT ammmCsmf Csjpaa inc. lvTMMmamOS) ANr-LIN Is Aa Exctlltsl Rssjtfff ftr Ceastiiatita There are many ailments directly dependent upon con stipation, such as biliousness, discolored and pimpled skin, inactive liver, dyspepsia, over worked kidneys and headache. mfH VI IsMv mtsmVMRv wBvmv can be relied upon to produce a gentle action of 'the bowels, making pills and drastic cathartics entirely un necessary. A dost tr twt if MM-a-lta is atf isafcte ia slight ft-fik attacks, la gripft, aaMs mi iafliKuza. THE MAN-A-LIN CO., CSUMSUS, OBmV . S. A, President Castro's Conceit. Many stories have been told ef Cipriano Castro, president of Venezue la, aad of his monumental conceit. During the Russo-Japanese war the fall of Port Arthur was" being ex plained to him. "Pshaw!" he exclaimed. "With 5 Venezuelans I could have taken it ia four days." "With a thousand, in one day, your excellency," said the diplomatic rep resentative of a European power. Castro was so pleased at what was intended to be sarcasm that, it is said, the diplomat succeeded next day in se curing satisfaction of a claim that his government had been vainly pressing for years. Stopped "Seeing Things.' Enthusiastic Nature Lover (to Re formed Tramp) Ah, my friend, how well you must know the face of na ture, and know it in all its moods. Have you ever seen the sun sinking in such a glare of glory that it swal lows up the whole horisoa with its passionate fire? Have you seen the mist gliding like a specter down the shrinking hillside, or the pale moon struggling to shake off the grip of the ragged storm cloud? Reformed Tramp No. sir; not since I signed the pledge. Of the Cabbage Patch. Cigar Maker Here's a new cigar Tve just been pntting up and I haven't any name for it Suppose you suggest one. Friend (after smoking it) They're naming a good many after characters in fiction now. Why don't you can this "Mrs. Wiggs?" Few Runaways in New York. Although New York is a "hitching postless" city there are fewer runa way horses in its streets than in the average city of one-tenth of its popu lation. New York's Growth. Builders in New York city invest $500,000 each day in land and new houses for apartment dwellers. Life is made up trials and chances given to us to see how we will act and improve ourselves. Grimshaw. It's a Good Time now to see what a good "staying" breakfast can be made without high-priced Meat . TRY A Little Fnit. A Disk if 6raBC-sMs Hi Cna, A Sift-MIf- Eb, Sue Ike, Crisp Twst, CipifPlSmlFNiClffsf. That's all, and all very easy of diges tion and full to the brim with nourishment and strength. REPEAT FOR LUNCHEON. OR SUP PER, and have a meat and vegetable dinner either at noon or evealag. as you prefer. We predict for you aa Increase hi physical and mental power. 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