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; i s II I 1 1 I I U J hi hi IJs ' 0BOOK jHKMf Xe&vubstamlitig llii' large number 'sIsAodeuts being graduated each year mm the agricultural colleges all over 4is continent. Micro sms to be a .xesftferous shorUge of qualified men Jar Ite work of agricultural teaching. Oat srfgb school hi flio search for a irsrtitvr of agriculture, has gone the I'-cnr.! of sendlm; out mimeographed teller Jo the various -agricultural col leges in the hopes if curing such a ttae of the most encouraging dcvel 4fnnts ia Lho growing of garden Tteblcs is the increasing rccogni mk of the practical importance of meats pure and uniform stocks of seed wiioso varietal characteristics SA Ibem to distinct local condi- sjuI market requirements. Tkv abnormally high prices de arasTcd for oil meal during the past sr. owing to the extremely high cf flaxseed, has led many farm- to inquire into the feasibility of nitwg a small amount of (lax to be 3J iasleafl of depending upon the arjrt.3? for their oil meal. V-anr must be exercised with plant ar asparagus to 6C0 that the s growtD is mowcu anu store the seeds ripen and fall. ribsrvisc the parent plants will scon fer very much dwarfed with a mass T aredlings growing amongst them. ff coups are not well ventilated the smrieg chicks will he too warm dur mm eight and will sweat out more uSxKKgXh during the hours in which tacymght to rest than they will gain outer the most favorable conditions ewkeg tttc day. ffbem we understand that it re safces twenty tons of moiBture to pro tuce a bushel of corn we will study sake its evaporation as slow as urn iT Tf . as crops suffer more from lack cf molsturo than from any other mmefc Urtng. fft eoms come fresh in lho fall, they iutx a good flow of milk during the mater months and in the spring when ftsry era turned on gross this acts as Kseond freshening and thus Iength fs Oitt period of milk production. ft. tahca some extra care to have neat boxes nil clean this time of the 3wr but it pays. If you can't afford Ue your hens clean boxes, they tsnft afford to lay good eggs worth mr three cents apiece. who have young beef steers ham! or can get them at a reason- lrice can do no better than give matter of cattle feeding daring the very full and complete consid- A jgreen bone cutter will pay for jftKff fe one season. Besides being a stealthy food and a great egg- r. cut bono i3 a cheap food ijiared to present high prices for few. can start in the poultry busi- rilh a dozen fowls at a cost of . fite dollars for house and yards. A pftuo box will cost a dollar and te ware fencing about four dollars ML important feature of profitable oa feeding lies in the breeding of Aaetiers. and all experienced feeders ceT sheep recognize the value of the ia building up the mutton flock. J Use breeder says that he can weau Bmk pigs in six or seven weeks if they Jfcxte good care and keep them grow tacas fine as any litter and still have fite oext Mitter six weeks sooner. "tool keep your horse In an ovor arealed stable, and then stand him Tor uses in a freezing atmosphere and timbTpt how he became paralyzed. ia men start for the doctor when Jt fcsvc a sick horse. Others feed mat, care well and drive well, sof hey MaTe to go to uie doctor. To groom the horse well after hard rarfc does not only clean tln skin. tat R prevenLs various parasitic dis nt o! the skin. rft b of supreme importance that 3fc? airy stock should bL Iiaiuiled ;Sxatl7. AVild and intractable animals sjsuall the result of hard han- cesh green bone is of itself almost complete feed, and may be used a& special material for egg produc- Sieeess in pork production is large Qf Cectcd by the attention given to health and comfort of thu brood i is a shame to put fowls into win vartcrs before the latter have as thoroughly cleaned and sprayed. Ucaally it's the poor dairyman who oot want his cow3 tested. For reason he remains poor. A tarter hen usually lays from r to three eggs after she shows a to sit. Cauup quarters often cause leg weak nsx. which may run into rheumatic "fcrocblcs. sh ' IT At the Minnesota experiment sta tion it is believed that greater care ii'iist be had in preparing silago for sheep than for cattle. Sheep require a sweet and dry silsge. Thickly plant ed corn cut before it is well matured, does not make ideal silage for sheep. Corn planted about like field corn. Harvested and put into the silo when it begins to dent, has proven very healthful to sheep, and they have done well upon. If clover hay is fed In conjunction with this silage, cheap and satisfactory gains may be made in sheep fattening. Investigations which have been car ried on for several years in Rhode Island show that the disease known as "black head" in turkeys is spread ing to all parts of the country and that chickens as well as turkeys may become victims. No certain cure has yet been discovered for this disease which has so ravaged the turkey-producing states of the East. Much has been said and written about the importance of keeping dairy utensils perfectly i-leau, but not so much about the churn, and if proper care is not exercised in keeping the churn sweet and clean, the butter will be tainted, no matter how well the milk has been cared for before being ready for the churn. It is well to remember that the pigs must be kept growing from the start if results are to be satisfactory, and If the sows and pigs are fed an insufficient or unsuitable ration until the work Is out of the way bo there will be time to devote more attention to them, a valuable opportunity will be lost to the owner. A distinct flavor of ihe soil has been noticed in butter by French ex perts. Normandy cos taken to a new locality yielded butter percept ibly changed, but not wholly like that of the native cows. In winter, with concentrated food, the character istic soil flavor disappears. With the sheep on the farm the problem of fresh meat for family use is partly sohed. Mutton butch ered on the farm can nearly always be used to ::dantage and then you will know whether you are eating spring lamb or something else. Sheep and other nenous animals which are being fattened for market should be kept a iuift ;'s possible or their feed will not do them the most good. The moie you handle all the live stoLk in a gentle and confiding way the better they will do. We need no longer go to foreign countries for new and better blood, for the great number and high qual ity of American breeding establish ments give ample scope for the avoidance of the pernicious Intluenco of inbreeding In the past and even at the present time, most cf the domestic onions that supply the markets of the large cities of this country, are grown on what is known us muck soil, in most cases land reclaimed by draining swamps. It Is not always the best plan to dispose of beef cattle as yearlings, but in many instances In the corn belt ara It has tome to be a common practice, and is followed by a consid erable number of cattle raisers. The on-hard is unquestionably the ideal place for hog pasture. The needed shade is provided, the hogs will take care of the waste fruit and if properly managed there need be no damage to the trees. IT th cream is churned while sweet, considerable quantities of butter will be lost In the buttermilk, and the fin ished product will be void of the proper flavor, regardless of th ration fed to the cows. Afur the pigs have been put into the fattening pen in the Tall they should be led all that they will eat with a relish for as a rule the shorter the fattening period the larger the profits. The average annual cost of main taining a farm work horse is approx imately S0. and for this cost of main tenance gives a return in work about three hours per day throughout the year. There should not be a wide discrep ancy between the value or the hog house and its occupant. It is as wrong" to put a S100 sow in a $:) house as it is to put a 510 sow in a $100 house. A pullet that ha had all the bono it will eat will mature a month quick er than one that has had none. It may be fresh bone or burnt bone any kind of bone just so it is bone. In purchasing new male birds, se cure those that have something back, of them in the line of good ancestors. The males are worth considering, for thej are half the flock. The droppings from the lanbs are rich in fertilizing value, and it has been found ih:.t spring wheat does uct'er after lambs have- run in the corn. Sorghum, kaflir corn and Johnson grass are often poisonous, when grown without sufficient water and ftV green. Good. fr-sh. pure water is a profita ble addition to milk, as milk is large ly water, but the cow should do the mixing. In Denmark, eggs are carefully as sorted and sold by weight. The big ger the tgg. the bigger the price. Treat your teams considerately and feed them well and yon will get back your care a bundi'edfold. There is more feeding value ia skimrailk when it comes directly from the separator. Uke poultry, sheep pay large re turns for the amount of capital i-vesrtefi. K2aaCBBBBaMBBaflflBM2!2SJ SYNOPSIS. Lawrence Blakeley. lawyer, goes to Pittsburg with tlii forged notes in the Bronaon caa to Kt tlt- deposition of John Gilmore. millionaire. A lady re iust.s Blakeley to buy l:or a I'tiUman ticket. He Kives hr lower It and re tain lower 10. He linda a drunken man In lower 10 and retires In lower - H awakens In lower 7 and flnds his clothes ami bai; tnls.-dng. The mnn In lower 10 is found murdered. C'lr 'umstantial evidence points to both Blakeley and the man who stole his clothes. The train Is wrecked and Blake ley s rescued from a hunting car by a Klrl In blue. His arm Is broken. The jclrl proves to be Alison West, his partner's sweetheart. Blakeley returns home and tlnds he Is under surveillance. Moving pictures of the train taken just before the wreck reve.il tit Ulal:eley a man leap ing from the train with his stolen grip. Investigation proves that the man's name N Sullivan. Mrs. Conway, the woman for whom Blakeley Itoiischt a I'tiUman ticket, tries to make a bargain with tilxsi for the forced notes, not knowing that they are missing. Blakeley and an amateur de tective Investigate the home of Sullivan's Ister. From a servant Blakeley learns that Alison West had len there tin a visit nnd Sullivan had Ix-en attenthe to her. Sullivan is the IniMianrt of a daugh ter of the iniinlered man. Blakeley' house Is ransacked by the ihilice. CHAPTER XXVI. Continued. He drew a chair near the lamp and lighted a cigarette, tiud for a time we were silent. I was in the shadow, and I sat back and watched hint. It was not suprising. I thought, that she cared for him: women had always loved him. perhaps because he al ways loed them. There was no dis loyalty in the thought: it was the lad's nature to give and crave affec tion. Only 1 was different. I had never really cared about a girl be fore, aud my life had been singularly loveless. I had fought a lonely bat tle always. Once before, in college, we had both laid ourselves and our callow devotions at the feet of the same girl. Her name was Dorothy I had forgotten the rest but I re membered the sequel. In a spirit of quixotic youth I had relinquished my' claim In favor of Kichey aud had gone cheerfully on my way. elevated by my heroic sacrifice to a somber white-hot martyrdom. As is often the case. McKnight's first words showed our parallel lines of thought. ' "I say. Lollie." he asked, "do you re member Dorothy Brown-? B-r-o-w-n-e! t That was it!" "Dorothy Browne?" I repeated. "Oh why yes. 1 recall her now. Why?" "Nothing." he said. "1 was think ing about her. That's all. You re member ou were crazy about her. and dropped back because she pre ferred me?" "I got out." I said with diguity. "be cause you declared you would shoot yourself if she didn't go with you to something or other!" "Oh. why yes. I recall now!" he mimicked, lie tossed his cigarette in the general direction of the hearth and got up. We were both a little couscious, and he stood with his back to me. lingering a Japanese vase on the mantel. "I was thinking." he began, turning the vase around, "that, if you feel pretty well again, and and ready to take hold, that 1 should like to go away for a week or so. Things are fairly well cleaned up at the office." "Do you mpan you are going to Richmond?" I asked, after a scarcely perceptible pause. He turned and faced me. with his hands thrust in his pockets. "No. That's off. Lollie. The Seiberts are going for a week's cruise along the coast. 1 the hot weather has played bob with i:ie and the cruise means seven days breeze and bridge." 1 lighted a cigarette and offered him the box. but he refused. He was looking haggard and suddenly tired. I could not think of anything' to say, and neither could ho. evidently. The matter between us lay too deep for speech. "How's Candida?" he asked. "Martin says a month, and she will be all right." I returned, in the same tone. He picked up his hat. but, he had something more to say. He blurted it out. finally, half way to the door. f "The Seiberts are not going for a couple of days." he said, "aud if you want a day "or so off to go down to Richmond yourself " "Perhaps I shall." I returned, as in differently as I could. "Not going yet. are you?" "Yes. It is late"' He drew in his breath as if he had something more to say, but the impulse passed. "Well, good night," he said from the door way. "iiood night, old man." T'ne nest moment, the outer door shimmed and I heard the tnglne of the Cannor.ball throbbing in the street. Then the quiet settled down around me again, and there in the lamplight I dreamed dreams. I was going to see her. Suddenly the idea of being shut away, even temporarily, from so great and wonderful a world became intol erable. The possibility of arrest be fore I could get to Richmond was hideous, the night without eud. I made my escape the next mom- ice throueh the stable back of the? house, and then, by devious dark and winding ways, to the office. There, after a conference with Blobs, whose features fairly jerked with excite ment. I double-locked the door of my private office and finished off some imperative work. By ten o'clock I was free, and for the" twentieth time I consulted my train schedule. At five minutes after ten, with McKnight not yet In sight. Blobs knocked at the door, the double rap we had agreed upon, and on being admitted slipped In and quietly closed the door behind him. His eyes were glistening with excitement, and a purple dab of type writer ink gave him a peculiarly vil lainous and stealthy expression. "They're here," he said, "two of 'em. and that crazy Stuart wasn't on. k"MAN IjOWERT r MAKr ROBERTA R1NE CTrtCOlV ef TC CIRCULAR. SXAIRCAB IlLDSTRATIONS by COPYRIOHT1909 A 9S9BS and said you were somewhere in the building." A door slammed outside, followed by step3 on the uncarpeted outer of fice. "This way." said Blobs, in a husky undertone, and. darting into a lava tory, threw open a door that I had always supposed locked. Thence into a back hall piled high with boxes and past the presses of a bookbiudery to the freight elevator. Greatly to Blobs disappointment. there was no pursuit. I was exhil arated but out of breath when we emerged into an alleyway, and the sharp daylight shone on Blobs' ex cited face. "Great sport, isn't it?" I panted, dropping a dollar into his palm, inked to correspond with his face. "Regular walkaway in the hundred-yard dash." "Gimme lwo""dollars more aud I'll drop "em down the elevator shaft," he suggested ferociously. I left him there with his blood-thirsty schemes, and started for the station. I had a tendency to look behind me now aud then, but I reached the station unno ticed. The afternoon was hot, the train rolled slowly along, stopping to paut at sweltering btations, from whose roofs the heat rose In waves. But I noticed these things objectively, not subjectively, for at the end of the journey was a girl with blue eyes and dark brown hair, hair that could had I not seen it? hang loose in be witching tangles or be twisted into little colls of delight. CHAPTER XXVII. The Sea, the Sand, the Stars. I telephoned as soon as I reached my hotel, and I had nut known how much I hud hoped from seeing her ' El F 1 1 iJi ISls&ffl fXJwMk wmmUL I1 1, n'Arjn 6000000000 Basi They're Here," He Said. until I learned that she was out of town. I hung up the receiver, almost dizzy with disappointment, and it was fully live minutes before I thought of calling up again and asking if she was within telephone reach. It seemed she was down on the bay stay ing with the Samuel Forbeses. Sammy Forbes! It was a name to conjure with just then. In the old days at college I had rather flouted him. but now 1 was ready to take him to my heart. I remembered that he had always meant well, anyhow, and that he was explosively generous. I called him tip. "By the fumes of gasoline! " he said, when I told him who I was. "Blake ley. the Fount of Wisdom against Woman! Blakeley. the Great Un kissed! Welcome to our city!" Whereupon he proceeded to urge me to come down to the Shack, and to say tiiat 1 was an agreeable sur prise, because four times in two hours youths hud called up to ask if Alison West was stopping with hint, and to suggest that they had a vacant day or two. "Oh Miss West!" I shouted polite ly. There was a buzzing on the line. "Is she there?-' Sam had no suspicions. Was not I in his mind always the Great Un kissed? which sounds like the Great Unwashed and is even more of a re proach. He asked me down promptly, as I had hoped, and thrust aside my objections. "Nonsense." he said. "Bring your self. The lady that keeps my boarding-house is calling to me to insist. You remember Dorothy, don't you. Dorothy Browne? She says unless you have lost your figure you can wear my clothes all right. All you need here is a bathing suit for day time and a dinner coat for evening." "It sounds cool." I temporized. "If you are sure I won't put you out very well. Sam, since you and your wife are good enough. I have a couple of days free. Give my love to Dorothy until I can do it myself." Sam met me himself and drove me out to the Shack, which proved to be a substantial house overlooking the water. On the way he confided to me that lots of married men thought they were contented when they were mere ly resigned, but that it was the only life, and that Sam, junior, could swim rI.O -MHMUtt coxMifnr like a duck. Incidentally, he said that Alison was his wife's cousin, their re spective grandmothers having, at proper intervals, married the same man. a--l that Alison would lose her good loflKs if she was not careful. "I say she's worried, and I stick to It," he said, as he threw the lines to a groom and prepared to get out. 1 "You know her, and she's the kind of girl you think you can read like a book. But you can't; don't fool your self. Take a good look at her at din ner. Blake; you won't lose your head like the other fellows and then tell me what's wrong with her. We're mighty fond of Allie." He went ponderously up the steps, for Sam had put on weight since I knew him. At the door he turned around. "Do you happen to know the MacLure's at Seal Harbor?" he asked irrelevantly, but Mrs. Sam came into the hall just then, both hands out to greet me. and. whatever Forbes had meant to say, he did not pick up the subject again. "We are having tea in here." Doro thy said gaily. Indicating the door behind her. "Tea by courtesy, be cause I think tea is the only bever age that isn't represented. And then we must dross, for this is hop night at the club." "Which is as great a misnomer as the tea." Sam put in. ponderously struggling out of his linen driving coat. "It's bridge night, and the only hops are in the beer." He was still gurgling over this as he took me upstairs. He showed me my room himself, and then began the fruitless search for evening raiment that kept me home that night from the club. For 1 couldn't wear Sam's clothes. That was clear, after a per spiring seance of a half hour. "I won't do it. Sam." I said, when I had draped his dress-coat on me toga fashion. "Who am I to have clothing to spare, like this, when many a poor chap hasn't even a cellar door to cover him. I won't do it; I'm selfish. but not that selfish.' rd." he said.' wiping his face. you've kept your figure! 1 can't i 1 " "Lord "how- wear a belt any more: got to have suspenders." Ho reflected over his grievance for some time, sitting on the side of the bed. "You could go as you are," he said finally. "We do it all the time, only to-night happens to be the an nual something or other, and " he trailed off into silence, trying to buckle my belt around him. "A good WMMWMWMWWMWWWWWMW 0mk&' Perfectly True in Theory Impossible to Refute Arguments Made as to the Uprightness of Mankind. "Here Is a curious paradox." said George. "If a thousand soldiers are drawn up in battle array on a plane" they understand him to mean "plain" "only one man will stand upright." Nobody could see why. But George explained that, according to Euclid, a plane can touch a sphere only at one point, and that person only who stands at that point, with respect to the center of the earth, will stand upright. "In the same way," he remarked, "if a billiard table were quite level that is. a perfect plane the balls ought to roll to the center." Though he tried to explain this by placing a visiting card on an orange and expounding the law of gravita tion. Mrs. Allgood declined to accept the statement. She could not see that the top of a true billiard table must, theoretically, be spherical, just like a portion of the orange peel that George 1 - six inches." he sighed. "I never get into a hansom cab any more that I don't expect to see the horse fly up in the air. Well. Allie isn't going either. She turned down Granger this afternoon, the Annapolis fellow you met on the stairs, pigeon-breasted chap and she always gets a head ache on those occasions." He got up heavily and went to the door. "Granger is leaving." he said. "I may be able to get his dinner coat for you. How well do you know her?" he asked, with his hand on the knob. "If you mean Dolly T "Alison." "Fairly well." I said cautiously. "Not as well as I would like to. I dined with her last week In Washing ton. And I knew her before that." Forbes touched a" bell instead of go ing out, and told the servant who an swered to see If Mr. Granger's suit case had gone. If not, to bring it across the hall. Then he came back to his former position on the bed. "You see, we feel responsible for Allie near relation and all that." he began pompously. "And we can't talk to the people here at the house all the men are in love with her. and all the women are jealous. Then there's a lot of money, too. or will be." "Confound the money!" I mut tered. "That is nothing. Razor slipped." "I can tell you." he went on. "be cause you don't lose your head over every pretty face although Allie Is more than that, of course. But about a month ago she went away to Seal Harbor, to visit Janet MacLure. Know her?" "No." "She came home to Richmond yes terday, and then came down here Allie, I mean. And yesterday after noon Dolly had a letter from Janet something about a second man and saying she was disappointed not to have had Alison there, that she had promised them a two-weeks" visit! What do you make of that? And that isn't the worst. Allie herself wasn't in the room, but there were eight other women, and because Dolly had put belladonna in her eyes the night before to see how she would look, and as a result couldn't see anything near er than across the room, some one read the letter aloud to her. and the whole story is out. One of the cats told Granger and the boy proposed to Allie to-day. to show her he didn't care a tinker's dam where' she had been." "Good boy!" I said, with enthusi asm. I liked the Granger fellow since he was out of the running. But Sam was looking at me with sus picion. "Blake," he said. "If I didn't know you for what you are. I'd say you were interested there yourself." Being so near her, tinder the same roof, with even the tie of a dubious secret between us. was making me heady. I pushed Forbes toward the door. "I interested!" I retorted, holding him by the shoulders. "There isn't a word in your vocabulary to fit my condition. I am an island in a sunlit sea of emotion. Sam. a an empty place surrounded by longing a " "An empty place surrounded by longing!" he retorted. "You want your dinner, that's what's the matter with you " I shut the door on him then. He seemed suddenly sordid. Dinner, I thought! Although, as a matter of fact. I made a very fair meal when. Granger's suit-case not having gone, in his coat and some other man's trou sers. I was finally fit for the amen ities. Alison did not come down to dinner, so it was clear she would not en over to the clubhouse dance. I ,led my Wared nrm. and a fict Moi-h. 1 ReIy located sprain from the i.-i-rt'.L- 00 fin pvct!5c for remaining at wreck, as an excuse for remaining at home. Sam regaled the table with 1 accounts of my distrust of women, my one love affair with Dorothy: to which I responded, as was expected, that only my failure there had kept me single all these years, and that If Sam should be mysteriously missing during the bathing hour to-morrow, and so on. ox be -oxti:i;ed.) cut out. Of course, the table is so small in proportion to the surface of the earth that the curvature is not ap preciable, but it is nevertheless true In theory. A surface that we call level is not the same as our idea of a true geometrical plane. Made Oliver Herford Famous. Oliver Herford first sprang into fame as a wit so long ago as when Mrs. James Brown-Potter, whose husband was a near relative of the late Bishop Potter, created a sensation by relin quishing home and family to go upon the stage. While the sensation was at its height the bishop, who felt that disgrace had been brought upon the Potter name by the lady's choice of a career, chanced at a dinner at the Players club In New York to challenge anyone present to make a joke about him that was not a pun based on the verb "to potter." Herford's response. "Actresses will happen in the best reg ulated families" won him the laurel wreath of the club and it has not yet gone out of his possession. Frank M. White, In American Magazine. There caa fee bo bending In wor ship without stoop nc in service. riMn SmCMmt Brrao. Fbrebliuiaa tihtiuc9oftrmitlM.irumi.rt-uucrsla y .. -.ii-..-j- ...ih ateUMll The man who thinks more of his plrs than he does of hie wife and babies Is the devil's idea of what a husband and father should be. Thousands of country people know that in time of sudden mishap or accident llamlins Wizard Oil is the best substi tute for the family doctor. That L why it is to often found upon ihef hclf. A Meritorious Act. Mr. Cynic Tell me one thing you ever did for your fellow men? Mr. Optim This morning I kicked a banana peel off a sidewalk. Judge. Beautiful Christmas Post Cards Free. Send 2c stamp for five samples of our very best Gold Embossed Christmxs Mow er and Motto Post Cards; beautiful colors and loveliest designs- Art Post Curd Club. 731 Jackson St.. Topeka. Kan. May Be Wooden-Headed. Caller I didn't know your son was at college. Is this bis freshman year? Mrs. Bunderby Oh. no, indeed; he's a sycamore. SPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE will cure anv possible case of DISTEMPER. PINK EYE, and the like among horses of all ages, and prevents all others in the same stable from having the disease. Also cures chicken cholera, and dog distemper. Any good druggist can supply you, or send to infra. 50 cents and $1.00 a bottle. Agents wanted. Free book. Spohn Medical Co.. Spec. Contagious Diseases. Goshen, Ind. None in Stock. A well-dressed woman paused la front of the chestnut vender's stand. "Are they wormy?" she asked. "No. ma am."i he answered blandly. "Did you want them with worms?" Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA. a safe and sure remedy for Infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of ( In Use For Over SO Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Ancient City Modernized. Tarsus, the ancient city In Asia Mi nor, where the ayciUe Paul was born. is now illuminated by electricity. The power is taken from the Cydnus river. There1 are now in Tarsus 450 electric street lights and about COO iucandes cent lights for private use. The Way to Find Him. "My wife and I are going to spend a few months with her people at Strong's Corners," said the meek little man "and I want you to mail your pa per to me " "Yes." said the clerk, "what's your name?" "Well er to make sure, I guess you'd better address It: 'Mary Strong's Husband. Strong's Corners.'" Old Pete's Little Joke. Foolish questions and funny answers I were under discussion in tho Trenton avenue and Dauphin street police sta tion the other day. and after listening for a while to some amusing instances. Sergeant, McCay told tho .following: "Old Pete Flood was the attendant In the Franklin cemetery some years ago. and It became tho custom to ask him how business was. just to hear his reply. It camo In a heavy bass voice: " 'Ain't buried a living soul today. Philadelphia Times. VERY LIKELY. The Friend Shucks, dat ain't no uc l "c Hunter Sure It Is! You'd hi wild, too, if you was her! MIX THIS FOR RHEUMATISM Easily Prepared and Inexpensive an Really Does the Work, Says Noted Authority. Thousands of men and women who have felt the sting and torture of that dread disease. Rheumatism, which ia no respecter of age. persons, sex. color or rank, will bo interested to know that it is one of the easiest af flictions of the human body to con quer. Medical science has proven it not a distinct disease In Itself, but a symptom caused; by inactive kidneys. Rheumatism is uric acid in tho blood and other waste products of the sys tem which should bo filtered and strained out in tho form of urine. Th function of the kidneys Is to sift thes poisons and acids out and keep th blood clean and pure. The kidney however, are of sponge-like substance, the holes or pores of which will some times, either from overwork, cold or exposure become clogged, and failing In their function of eliminating thsj poisons from the blood, they remain In the veins, decompose nnd settling about the joints and muscles, cause the untold suffering and pain of rheu matism and backache, often producing complications of bladder and urinary disease, and general weakness. The following simple prescription is said to relieve the worst cases of rheumatism because of its direct ac tion upon the blood and kidneys, re lieving', too, the most severe forms of bladder and urinary troubles: Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Com pound Syrup Sarsaparifla, three ounces. Mix by shaking1 well in a bot tle and take In teaspoonful doses after each meal and at bedtime. Tbo in gredients .can be had from any pre scription pharmacy, and are absolutely harmless and safe to use at any time. yr . vyV-T klsyfc GSfifiseevS v4rf' t