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N" JW? ,-vt -t-1 ' 'ii JJ -ifA J, U v i '.V A MERE CIPHFR. J SflljSrlr " Bertha Bertie, you are simply Im possible. Bertie Nothing is impossible. Bertha That's what I said. A Linguist. The charm of Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart's negro dialect stories "was .greatly enhanced when she read them herself, as she used frequently to do In the early days of her fame, for charity and church entertainments. .Her imitation of the negro dialect was excellent, and her small son, who was very fond of her accomplishment in this line, frequently boasted of It among the other children. Once, when - some of his schoolmates were vaunt ' ing the accomplishments of their sev v eral mothers, he was overheard to de clare: "Well, my mother is smarter than any of yours. She can speak two lan guages." "What are they?" demanded his companions. "White and colored." The extraordinary popularity of fine white goods this summer makes the choice of Starch a matter of great im portance. Defiance Starch, being free from all injurious chemicals, is the only one which is safe to use on fine fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffen er makes half the usual quantity oft. Starch necessary, with the result of perfect finish, equal to that when the goods were mew. Bone of Contention. "Death usually heals all family dif ferences," said the old-fashioned philo sopher. "Yes," replied the shrewd observer, "but usually the reading of the will separates them again." Detroit Free Press. "Cheap Skates." In the (own of North Andover, in habitants have been seen to smile derisively at the following card in a hardware show window: "Kittner & Spinney, Cheap Skates. Come in and Look Them Over." Nothing I Ate Agreed With Me. MKSXENORA BODENHAMEB. Mrs- Lenora l'otlenhamer, R. F. D. 1, Box 9'J, Ivernersville, N. C, writes: "I suffered with stomach trouble and. indigestion for soine time, and nothing1 that 1 at agreed with me. 1 was very nervous and experienced a continual feeling- of uneasiness and fear. I took medicine from the doctor, but it did me no good. 'l found in one of your Peruna books a description of my symptoms. I then wrote to Dr. Hartiuan for advice. Iln said I had catarrh of the stomach. I took Peruna and Manaliu and followed his directions and can now say that I feel as well as I ever did. "I hone that all who are afflicted with the Kime symptoms will take Peruna, as'it lias certainly cured me." The above is only one of hundreds who have written similar letters to Dr. llartmau. Just one buch case as this entitles Peruna to the candid consider ation of everyone similarly afflicted. If this be true of the testimony of one per son what ought to be the testimony of hundreds, yes thousands, of honest, sin cere people. We have in our files a great in my other testimonials. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM CIeCM and beantine tha baae. ltumotcf a luxuriant ermlh. Never Pails to Bettors Otty Cnrca acalp dimn Jt hair liliint fiJcandtljOOat DrcggfeM w Omaha Directory ftnMP Aulabauf hs complete catalogue -will show you -what you -want. G. N. AULABAUGH fcpt . 1506 Douglas SL. OMAHA. TAFT'S DENTAL ROOMS 1517 BmpIis St.. OVIHI. NFB. s Reliable Dentistry at derate Prices. RUBBER GOODS fov mall at cut prices. Send for free catalogue. WiYERS-DILLON DRUG CO.. OMAHA. NEB yilllfkmmmmmmmmmWiiw will fl aTBTBTBTBTBTBTBTBTBTBTBTBTBTBTBTBTBTBTBTBTff Si txzxz flnMImmmmmmmmmmmmlJtUf?-- Ufiwammmmmmmmmicf &" WrrfftmmMmmS3mmWmmW-i:f-. HKErfl Ml " H Beware of theCocgh H PJ that hangs on pcrsistretly. H PH brcaHr.j; your ci-lit's rest aa IZVV H2f exhaastinjyoa'wiJi the violence BSI of the paroxysms. A few doses Mil 9 of Piso's Cure will relieve vron- HHI HH derful'.j- any cou-b, so matter H Bpl bow fcr advanced or serious. 19 VM Itsoothesandbealstheirrinted HH USf solaces, dears the cloed air HHJ BJ passages and the cough cisap- IH aH pears. THE STATE CAPITAL MATTERS OF INTEREST TO ALL CITIZENS. A STATEMENT BY MR BRYAN The Late Democratic Candidate for President Discusses Politics. William J. Bryan issued the follow ing statement: "The election has gone against us by a decisive majority. The returns are not all in, and it is impossible at this time to analyze them or to say what causes contributed most to the republican victory. We made out fight upon a platform which embodies what we believe to be good for the American people, but it is for the people themselves to decide what laws they desire and what methods of gov ernment they prefer. "I have faith that the publicity we asked for will yet commend itself to the American people, that the election of senators by the people will be se cured, that the iniquities of the trusts will arouse an opposition that will re sult in the elimination of the principle of private monopoly. I am confident that the people will see the necessity for the labor legislation and the tariff reduction which our platform demand ed. I am confident, too, that the edu cational work done in this campaign will result in securing greater protec tion to bank depositors. The above are tho -most prominent reforms for which we labored, and I believe that these reforms will yet come, together with more effective regulation of rail roads and independence for the Fili pinos. "I desire to commend the work of our national committee. I am entirely satisfied with Mr. Mack as the chair man and with the work of the mem bers of the committee. I do not see what they could have done more than they did, and as for myself, I put forth every effort in my power to se cure victory for our cause. The nom ination came from the hands of the voters; I have obeyed their command and have led as best I could. Words will not express my gratitude for the devotion which has been shown by millions of democrats during the last twelve years. Neither am I able to adequately express appreciation for the kind words which have been spok en since the election. "If I could regard the defeat as purely a personal one, I would consid er it a blessing rather than a misfor tune, for I am relieved of the burdens and responsibilities of an office that is attractive only in proportion as it gives an opportunity to render a larger public service. But I shall serve as willingly in a private capac ity as in a public one. God does not require great things of us; he only requires that we improve the opportu nities that are presented, and I shall be glarl to improve the opportunities for service presented by private life. "In this hour of national defeat, I find some consolation in the cordial support given by my neighbors, by the citizens of Lincoln and by the people of the state of Nebraska. With a democratic governor and a demo cratic legislature, we shall be able to put into practice so much cf the Den ver platform as relates to state legis lation, and I trust that our state will set a good example that will be an influence for good in the nation." Filipinos Will Go to Yale. Guilermo Pagaduan, M. Lazo and L Topacio, Filipino students who have been at the state university for four years as appointees of the government under the act which provided for the education in this country of a limited number of Filipinos selected by com petitive examination, have received letters from the superintendent of this division of schools, asking if they would accept an extension of their appointments, which expire this June with their graduation from Nebraska, in order that they make take the course in forestry in the graduate school at Yale. They have accepted the extension and will go next year to Yale, under the same conditions which have marked their stay at the state university. Nebraska Debating League. The Nebraska high school debating league issued a few days ago the first annual bulletin of the league, contain ing announcements for the coming year, and a history of the organiza tion of the debating league in the state high schools. It was compiled by Prof. M. M. Fogg of the state univer sity. The book goes into the history of the league, which was organized last January with thirty-one members, with the purpose of furthering debate in Nebraska high schools. The mem bership now is forty-one high schools. Questions for Debate. The question for the 1908-1909 de bate in the Nebraska high school de bating league, which was organized last winter, was announced last week by Prof. M. M. Fogg of the university. The schools which are in the league sent in their choices of a list of ten suggested questions. The questions most favored were on county option, organized labor in politics, the direct nomination of candidates for office, and compulsory arbitration. The question selected has reference to dis putes between labor and capital. Money from Government. Governor Sheldon has received from the government $5;1T5 for the care of members of the Grand Island soldiers home and 32,550 for the Milford home, being at the rate of $100 a year for each member maintained in the homes The payment is for the quarter end ing September 30. There were 207" in the Grand Island home and 102 in the Milford home. The money goes into the general fund of the state. The state built and maintains the homes, but the general government 1 gives $100 a year for members. NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES. Items of Greater or Lesser Impor tance Over the State. Ora Smith, a York boy. had his leg broken in a football game. At Crowley they are boasting of a banner potato yield of 300 bushels on less than one acre. J. L. May of Dawson county lost twenty-four head of good steers from an overload of alfalfa hay in their stomachs. Burglars entered the Banley State bank and made their way through to the roof, but got nothing. The safe was undisturbed. They v secured tools from a blacksmith shop. Farmers should all have telephones. Write to us and learn how to get the. best service for the least money. Ne braska Telephone Company, 18th and Douglas streets, Omaha. "Use the Bell." Rev. P. T. O'Reilly, pastor of the St. Mary's Catholic church at Nebras ka City, has resigned to accept the position as secretary of the archbish op at Chicago. Father Bernard of western Nebraska comes to take his place. While loitering along the railroad tracks north of Bancroft two boys of that place found several revolvers and a watch in a ;ond of water near one of the railroad bridges. One of the revolvers, a Colt's police special, has been identified by a hardware man in Lyons, whose iilace was broken into and from which a number of revolvers and several boxes of ammunition were Jtaken. Following is the Gage county mort gage record for the month of Octo ber: Number of farm mortgages filed, jlS; amount, $41,898. Number of farm mortgages released. 28; amount, $35, C02. Number of city mqrtgages filed, 21; amount $28,284. Number of city mortgages released, 34; amount, $24, 754. Wes Eads of Stanton county, while pulling stumps with a stump pulling machine, had the misfortune to have both of his less broken. He was lead ing the team and a bolt broke, which threw part of the machine against his legs, breaking both of them. One of the horse's legs was also broken and in such a way that the animal had to be killed. Charles H. Lavers of Boston has been selected general secretary of the local Y. M. C. A. at Beatrice to suc ceed Fred Metts, who recently resign ed to accept a similar position with the association at Rapid Ctiy. S. D. Mr. Lavers was until recently assist ant secretary of the Boston associa tion and at one time was engaged in association work in China. He will assume his new duties November 9. Eugene Morey, a civil engineer, W. H. Hand. Dr. Martin. V. B. Sample, W. S. Clapp and Theodore H. Bolte, ill of Kearney, are the names of those who have fully incorporated the pro posed Kearney & Loup Valley rail road.. The capital stock is fixed at flOO.OOO common and $20,000 prefer red. The plan is somewhat more comprehensive than at first proposed, as the terminals selected are Kearney and Hyannis. A number of Austrians who work on the Reck Island section at Ellis were beaten and robbed the other evening, supposedly by two of their fellow countrymen. The men make their home in a car and were awakened about midnight by two masked men who had broken into the car, and while one of them held a revolver the other beat the Austrians into in sensibility, afterward rifling their clothes. The robbers secured about $50. The West Point Farmers' Institute society has published its list of prizes to be awarded at the forthcoming county corn show. For the best bushel of corn, any color, $15 is offer ed. For yellow corn, ten ears, first prize, $10; second, $8; third, $C; fourth, $4; fifth, $2, and on the three next best ?1 each. The same premi ums are offered on white corn. Prizes are offered also for the best single 'ear of corn, for sweet corn and pop corn. The corner stone for the new Meth odist church at Humboldt was laid last Sunday in the midst of a large crowd of spectators, the pastor, Rev.; A. S. Buell, being assisted in the! ceremonies by Rev. George I. Wright of Nebraska City, district superin tendent, who delivered an address af ter the ritualistic work was completed. Underneath the stone the church au thorities placed a history of the soci ety since its organization in 1871, when the old church was erected. Uncle Joe Worrallfi printer and Ne braska pioneer, has been in the city this week, says a Tecumseh dispatch. While there Uncle Joe took the pains to look ud the real estate in Johnson county belonging to a certain man who drew a farm in the Rosebud drawing. According to the ruling of the govern ment, a man must swear he owns no more than 1G0 acres of land or he can not register. This lucky man, accord ing to Worrall, owns 200 acres in John son county. The printer reported the case to the government authorities. Thomas Stanley of Kenesaw had over 100 bushels of potatoes off less than a half acre of ground. A stranger was around among the business men of Stella trying to sell some rings. Upon being told that there was a robbery of a jewelry store the night before he left at once for the depot to catch a train out. At this juncture the sheriff arrived and, going to the depot, found the stranger hid in the weeds. He was placed in the city iail and a thorough search made J of his person, and two bags of gold t rings were found strapped "to his body, besides other items in the jewelry line. A farmers' !nstitute will be held at Merriam, Cherry county, on Tuesday, November 17. Farmers in Washington county are reporting vields of corn from twenty five to forty bushels per acre. Burglars raided a pool hall at Ocon to and carried off about $50 worth of cigars and other property. Fred Acorn of North Bend Is going to feed sheep this winter and has just i purchased 700 head for that purpose. -x Two chattel mortgages were placed i on record at Sidney, Cheyenne county, aggregating $89,000. .The security was herds- of live stock. mars UBBtnTRFI: "-vOSMMMr Oft y e!A&ED G. 5ilTf, Up to January, 1908, 400,000 rubber trees had been planted in Hawaii, up wards of 90 per cent, being the species known as the Ceara rubber tree. There are now five large plantations In operation, and rubber trees are be ing planted by many independent farmers and planters. The oldest plantation is one of those at Nahiku. A first tapping will be made on some of the trees of this plantation during the summer of 1908, or as soon as they have reached a circumference of 20 inches, which is considered to be the smallest size at which it is safe st convenient to tap. The natural home of the Ceara rub ber tree is in the dry regions of Brazil. In former years it was very abundant in the state of Ceara and derives its name from this fact It is also known as the Manicoba rub ber, this having been its native name. The whole tropical world is entering into the cultivation of rubber on a wholesale scale. Rubber is practical ly the only staple crop the supply of which has always come from what may be called natural sources. Even with the increase iu the number of plantations during the last ten years 99 per cent, of all of the rubber of commerce has been procured by the most wasteful and destructive meth ods from natural rubber forests. The rubber gatherer has preceded the tax collector in searching the unexplored and unknown forests in the interior of South America and all over the African continent. He has destroyed forests and exterminated species in a relentless effort to secure enormous returns without the investment of proportionate capital The cause of this frantic search for rubber-producing trees is to be found in the multitudinous uses to which this valuable material may be put. Because of its increasing scope of usefulness the rubber consumers have never been able to procure enough of the raw material to satisfy the yearly demands, so that the end of every decade has witnessed a marked in crease in its value. While it has been long recognized that certain species of rubber-producing trees, notably the Para and As sam rubbers (Hevea brasiliensis and Ficus elastica), were amenable to cul tivation, tropical planters have only recently awakened to the enormous possibilities of a cultivated product which in its raw condition commands a price of $3,000 a ton or more. There is now apparently a race among countries having lands available for rubber production to see which can get the largest acreage of rubber trees into bearing in the shortest time, in order to harvest the marvelous profits which seem almost absolutely certain. The present acreage of cultivated rubber probably exceeds half a million acres, and every year sees additional tens of thousands of acres planted. One of the uncertain factors has been the time which must elapse between the first investment in land, seed, and plants and the realization of . the planters' golden dreams. 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The looking-glass, whether a plus or a minus quantity, plays a more important part in the sickroom than most nurses and physicians give it credit for. "All things considered, I think it a good plan to give a sick person a chance to look at himself occasional ly," said a West side doctor. "Of oir?f. the indulgence must be granted with discretion. If a patient is really looking seedy, a turn at the looking-glass is equivalent to signing his death warrant; but if taken at a time when braced up by some stimu lant or a natural ebullition of vital force, a few minutes of communion with his own visage beats any tonic I can prescribe. It thrills the patient with new hope. It makes him feel that he isn't quite so far gone as he had thought and that possibly z. fight for life is, after all, worth while. Be iu thus sensitive, a persistent with etPSCSL AGEtfT. Jtcfex yv- ttostrns old rubber-plantation companies have been formed and floated in Europe, the United States, Mexico, and the East Indies, some to operate conces sions containing areas of wild trees, others seeking in all haste to plant as large an acreage as possible of one or the other species of rubber producing plants. While the uses of rubber are capa ble of almost indefinite extension, and while new purposes to which this material may be put are discovered every day, the very large areas which have been and will be planted will undoubtedly seriously affect present prices as soon as large areas have commenced to bear. At the present cost of production and at the present market returns the profits are enor mous. If prices fall to a third of those of the present day, plantations already in operation will be able to continue to produce rubber at a profit of at least 100 per cent It will doubtless be with rubber as it has been with all other raw products that the cheapen ing of price will increase the consump tion. The profits already obtained from the cultivation of rubber have been responsible for much extrava gance in management and operation. No one can predict at what period the fall in prices will begin, but it will probably not be for another ten years at least and may not be in twice that time. The best way to keep up the price is to produce only rubber of the best quality or of as good quality as is compatible with normal rather than extravagant management When prices begin to go down, the planta tions which will first feel it will be those in locations least suitable to the growth of rubber trees, or those which are overcapitalized or mismanaged. The Ceara variety of rubber tree grows in Hawaii better than in its native habitat. The rapidity and vigor of growth on the plantations of the island is remarkable. Many trees show a growth of from 10 to 15 feet or more during a single season, with girth measurements in proportion. While the trees on the Hawaiian plan tations are more or less subject to fungus diseases and insect attacks, no specially-destructive disease and nc insect pest peculiar to this plant alone has as yet gained entrance to the territory. The diseases and pests are those affecting forest trees in general. The methods of tapping which the Hawaiian station has developed and the preliminary experiments already made indicate that healthy average trees of the Ceara variety, which have attained a trunk diameter of six to eight inches at three feet from the ground, will yield from five to ten or more pounds of crude rubber each per annum. As most of the Hawaiian plantations have made their begin nings on the prospect of securing one pound of rubber per tree per annum at the end of five years, it is the sanguine belief that the cultivation of rubber trees of this variety is on as sure and firm a foundation in Ha waii as in any other part of the world. MMMMMMVIMMMMNWMMMAAAAMMAMMWMAyWWVWWmWMMWWWWMMWWWWtf - holding of a mirror convinces the pa tient that he must be too horrible for contemplation, and he promptly de cides that' the best thing for him to do is give up the ghost and get out of the way. "That is one of the mistakes hos pitals were apt to make up to a few years ago. When I was a young fel low, getting my first practice after graduation, I served on the staff of several hospitals, and in all, especially in the free wards, those aids to vanity were strictly forbidden The depriva tion went hard with many of the pa tients, particularly the women, and when I came to have a little authority among doctors and nurses I advised a judicious application of looking-glass treatment I still advise it, both in hospital and private practice, for I find that a little reassurance as to the state of the complexion and ap pearance is good." More than 50 organizations exist in Spain for the study of Esperanto. VISITS WITH The Hand of Fate. Both Jones and his wife are fond of her. She is a first cousin on .Mrs. Jones' side and good company oa her own side. That is why they always smiled when she wrote she was coming to visit them. After her husband died they didn't see her for months, and then, one day, she came to stay a week with them in their new home. On th day of her ar rival somebody poisoned the dog! $ ?i He was a Boston. terrier and a good pup. Beside be ing blooded and well-behaved he was interesting and kept Mr. and Mrs. Jones from being lonely when nobody called. There were jx great many tears in the Jones house that night and thereafter for a long time. Final ly Jones took the dog collar and the dog's ball down town and hid them away in his desk where Mrs. Jones couldn't see them. That stopped the r Si CL -i tears, except for intermittent aban donments to grief. vThe next time she came the man of all work fell out of a tree and broke both his feet. Mrs. Jones telephoned Jones to hurry home from the office and from the tears in her voice he knew "home was never like this" ex cept in times of great mental stress. .When she arrived the third time and the maid quit without giving no tice, Jones and his wife began to get superstitious. Every time a letter came from her Jones felt the old at tack coming on and mentally won dered if the house would burn or the hot-water plant explode. Yesterday she dropped in for a fourth visit and Jones left home in the morning with fear in bis heart Sure enough, when he reached the office down town, there was a telephone call to ring Summerdale 234 as soon as he possibly could. Jones rushed to the phone and mad ly began an effort to get into connec tion with his house. After a lively tilt with the telephone girl, he man aged to get Summerdale but he couldn't reach his house. Glancing at his watch he saw that he had time to catch the 10:10 train for home, if he hurried. Just as he was tearing across the bridge to the suburban station, the bridgetender swung the structure and left him stranded in the middle of the river. It seemed to Jones that all the boats in the lake passed thobugh that draw before the bridge finally swung into place again. It was too late then to get the 10:10 train and he resolved to return to the office. Upon arriving there his stenog grapher advised him some one had been calling again from Summerdale and it wasn't his wife! "I suppose it's the undertaker this time," he mentally noted as he un hooked the receiver. Getting the busy signal in his ear, Jones fell back into his chair, discouraged. What should he do? Just as he was considering the ad visability of making a dash for it in the auto the door opened and his wife walked in. "When you came away this morning, dear, you left your keys on the dress er. I knew you would be afraid that you had lost them, so I telephoned. I couldn't reach you so I left word with the operator that I was bringing them down to you, that you might unlock your desk!" "Oh," gasped Jones, in masterful re lief, "is THAT all? I thought" but just then the cousin followed Mrs. Jones into the room, and what Jones thought he kept to himself. But I really and truly believe, from the look on Mrs. Jones' face, that she knew just about what Jones thought! o o o Cheer Up! Has your luck been dead agin you an the hours full o sorrow? Cheer up! There's another day a-comln. Have you been a-hopin somehow that your luck would change to-morrow? Cheer up! There's another day a-comin'. Never mind the things that's happened; keep a-forgin straight ahead; Let the past be deeply buried with its days an' nights of dread; Keep your eye upon the future, into sun light you'll be led. Cheer up! There's another day a-comin. E. A. BrinlnstooL o o o Yes, dear, the song, "Down in a Coal Mine," must have been written by one of the minor poets. A husband at the club isn't finding fault at home, anyhow. it it -ti Are you blue to-d&y? Count your blessing's! -fr -Cr Vanity is the milliner's right-band man. HvmwwHIJUu4 Her Abiding Youth. "I ana afra'd I never will grow up and look like a woman," pouted the bride-to-be. "The other day, while .1 was having one of my new walking suits fitted and was insisting that it would have to be finished this week, the tailor asked me: 'When does your school open?' And that frock is a part of my trousseau!" Not Tobacco. Briggs How do like these cigars? Griggs First rate. What are they made of? Life. The General Demand cf the Wen-bformed of the World hm always been for a simple, pleasant aad efficient liquid laxative remedy of kaWtm ralue; a laxative which physicuMM covM sanction for family tiae because Ms mm poneat parts are known to them to to wholesome and. truly beneficial tnjeffect, acceptable to the'systenVand feaUe, yet prompt, in action. j In supplying that demand with its ex eellent combination of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna; the California Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along ethical lines and refief on the merits of the laxative for i to remark able success. ' - j That is one of' many reasons why Syrup of Figs and FJixir of Senna is given the preference by the Well-informed To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine manufactured by the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for salt by all leading druggists. Price fifty centl per bottle. SEEMED A TRIFLE PERSONAL. Clergyman's Particular 'Reason for Omitting the Fifth Verse. A clergyman ia an Interior town married a woman from whom he re ceived a dowry of $1Q,000 and a pros pect of more. Shortly afterwards, while occupying the pulpit he gave out a hymn, read the first verse and proceeded to read the fifth, corny mencing: "Forever let my grateful heart"! then he hesitated and exclaimed: "The choir will omit the fifth verse. Some of the congregation read the verse for themselves and smiled asj they read: Forever let my grateful heart His boundless grace adore. Which gives ten thousand blessings now" And bids me hope for more. FOR THE LADY OR THE AUTO. Expressman I don't know whether this comes here. The address is In distinct Housemaid I guess it's all right It's either a new tire for the auto, or a new hat for the missus! Tune Kermit Whistled. Mr.W. W. Miller, a well-known law yer, tells an anecdote of Kermit Roose velt, the president's son. "I was acting as steward," says Mr. Miller, "in some gymkhana races at Oyster Bay a few weeks ago, and one of the events was a race In which the contestants had ta ride a given dis tance to a certain spot where an equal number of young ladies stood with pencil, paper and envelope. Each rider had to dismount here and whis tle a tune, the lady writing its name down on the paper. She then had to seal it up in the envelope and hand it to the rider, who remounted and finished the race, delivering the en velope to the judges' stand. The first one in with a correct answer won the event "As steward, I was deputized before the race to write down the name of the tune each entrant would whistle. "What are you going to whistle?" I isked yoang Kermit "I'm going to whistle 'Everybody Works but Father,'" said the presi dent's son. Real Self-Possession. Not long ago a young couple entered a railway carriage at Sheffield and were immediately put down as a bridal pair. But they were remarkably self possessed and behaved with such sang-froid that the other passengers oegan to doubt if their first surmise was correct after all. As the train moved out, however, the young man rose to remove his overcoat, and a shower of rice fell out, while the passengers smiled broadly. But even that did not affect the youth, who also smiled, and, turning to his partner, remarked audibly: "By Jove, May! I've stolen the bride groom's overcoat!" Tatler. I EAGER TO WORK Health Regained by Right Food. The average healthy man or woman is usually eager to be busy at some useful task or employment. But let dyspepsia or indigestion get hold of one, and all endeavor becomes a burden. "A year ago, after recovering from an operation," writes a Mich, lady, "my stomach and nerves began to give me much trouble. "At times my appetite was vora cious, but when indulged, indigestion followed. Other times I had no appetite whatever. The food I took did not nourish me, and I grew weaker than ever. "I lost interest In everything, and wanted to be alone. I had always had good nerves, but now the merest trifle would upset me and bring on a vio lent headache. Walking across the room was an effort and prescribed ex ercise was out of the' question. "I had seen Grape-Nuts advertised, but did not believe what I read, at the time. At last when it seemed as if I were literally starving, I began to eat Grape-Nuts. "I had not been able to work for a year, but now after two months on Grape-Nuts I am eager to be at work again. My stomach gives me no trou ble now, my nerves are steady as ever, and interest in life and ambition have came back with the return to health." "There's a Reason." 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