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THE TIMES. Thursday, May 28. 1908.

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A GRAVE QUESTION THAT NEEDS AN IMMEDIATE ANSWER, DOES HAMMOND LIKE DOGS OR children more?

Which is the more valuable an ef-hnman beings? Is a child capable of defending itself fering from rabies?

most faithful friend. The words of praise snowerea upon xne aoS uy great

Vritor. thn world over have certainly dog is subject to attacks of one of the The disease can be prevented but The simplest -way to prevent the trnm hitting. That eliminates every m !' "nil tcTiv come to it.?"

On Chicago's great south side during the past three days, twelve peo

ple have been bitten by mad dogs, of Does Hammond wish the dog to it-prefer that the animal run without a

its fangs into human beings and innoculate them with hydrophobia. It is up to the city-authorities! v

THE DULY-DALLYING OF OOT THING WHICH STANDS OUT an-outslder In the Gunness horror, and all, is the procrastination or neglect of digging operations in the ogress' private

Of course, we read in the dispatches that hogs yesterday rooted up the bones of another human arm and leg, but it seems that it would be far more decent for Sheriff Smutzer to employ somebody else besides the hogs

to do the disinterring. It is almost a month since the

the bodies of the modern Borgia's victims unearthed. Since that time we have been assured that the sheriff was going to begin digging up more "soft spots"; that he was going to get under the cement floor; that he was

going to do this and do that, yet no It was left to the hogs to go on "We are informed that the sheriff

this and for that thing to turn up before proceeding with the work. If so, why not get more hogs?

THIS DATE rV HISTORY. May 28. 1660 George I. of England born. Died June 10, 1727. 1734 Washington . defeated Jumonvllle at Great Meadows. 17S0 Thorn. Mooro, Irish poet, born in Dublin. Died Feb. 25, .1852. 1843 Noah "Webster died. Born Oct. 16, 1758. - - (1856 British envoy to the United States ordered to quit Washington. 1 1871 Fall of the Paris Commune. : 1878 Lord John Russell died. Born i Aug. 18, 1792. 1898 "William E. Gladstone burled in "Westminster Abby. 1904 Senator Matthew S. Quay of Pennsylvania died. Born Sept. SO 1833. ' TIHS IS MY 5ST1I BEFtTHDAY." ' Empress of Japan, The. present Empress of, Japan was born May 28, 1850, and was the daughter - of Prince Ichljo, who was one of Japan's great men during the previous rebtme. She was the Princess Haruko when she wedded the Emperor of Japan and was raised to the Imperial dignity. The wedding took place Feb. S, 1869, at Tokio. Besides the Crown Prince Yoshikito, the Empress has borne five daughters, who have all been created imperial princesses by the imperial edict of the Mikado. The Empress has also three grandchildren She is splendidly educated, speaking English and French, which is more than the Emperor himself can accomplish. Devoted to lier household affairs, the Empress of Japan is also noted for her activities in charitable work. She has given great aid to the Red Cross movement In Japan. TWO MOKE EI0TERS , FINED AT HAEB0E. Indiana Harbor, May 28. (Special.) The remainder of the twenty - rioters who. rioted in Joe German's saloon n Beach street Wednesday morning, were fined in Judge Relland's court this morning. Tnelr names are: Andrew Opeski. Leonard Kiendyzski. Each man was fined $15.S5 and paid up. Two cases against other foreigners were dismissed and one was nolle prossed. - - -C'

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28, 18 0. at the postofflce, at Earn March 3, 1879." ..12.00 ..1150 CENT ONE Other Newspaper in Calumet Region, Q.9'8 ) PUBLIC FOR INSPECTION AT ALL unmuzzled dog or the life and safety from the attacks of an animal tut . . t.. xl been deserved. But unfortunately the, most terrible diseases known. not cured. disease in man is to prevent the dog Ganger. An von cross a hridtre before vou 1 course they were all unmuzzled. run muzzled on the street, or dods muzzle with the opportunity to sink J THE LAP0RTE OFFICIALS. more clearly than anything else to one which he cannot understand at the authorities to proceed with the ( graveyard.

horrible tragedy was first revealed and

further excavations have been made. with the work. is too busy and that he is waiting for RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS Marmadnke You are In the" wrong pew. thh Times is not printed for P0 people but for 10,000. IVnt CutletProcure two dozen nuts from any hardware store, grind them to a paste, pour a little Standard Oil over them, pour off, strain, beat the paste with an fixe until it tastes like a veal cutlet. Farmer G. Have, y our potatoes' eyes examined by a good oeculist. L Mr No one ever , aspires to the vice presidency but a has-been or a never-was. Thespin Highest -priced man in an Uncle Tom show is the man who trains the bloodhounds. He gets i0 per and beef for the pups. Pet The gazimbo is in wrong, that's alL A aaa is known by the company he keeps and a woman by the servants she can't keep. The latest sign of summer in the Calumet region is the rush of straw hats to the cleaners. There are seme men who would try to g-et to heaven b a technicality of they couldn't set tkere aay other way. Wettest town in America Is Benbow City, 111., a Standard Oil refinery port. It has 800 population. 18 voters, 23 sa loons and the liquor license Btarts the town with a $15,000 surplus. We will now pull down the blinds to avoid beIng disturbed by the press agent of the rum trust and work out the problem. OVn WIFE SAYS i If a man never

eyeaks harshly to his wife, the elgljmver the prayer at the opening of the

eart to Heart Talks, f ' By EDWIN A. NYE. " Copyright, 1908," byEdwin A. Nye. A goulike for.ce. "I am well." Do you ajp-eciate the force of that declaration? Do you realize the power in such aa. affirmative statement? ., Suppose: . Suppose you say to yourself: "I am feeling out of sorts. I am sick." Keep onysaying that to yourself. Say it until 3u begin to believe it You know just "where- that mental process will take you. It will land you in bed. You will have suggested yourself into a real sickness. There isa reason. And because of that reason the practice o; '"suggestive therapeutics" and manjyother things finds place. .TVfe have long been reminded of the scientific truth that the mind influences rthe body. But we have been slow to appreciate the fact that the mind innueoces itself. And one of the ways In ,which the mind may influence itself iby the way of auto-suggestion. The mind can hypnotize itself. This ' possibility makes it tremen dously important that we should be lieve and affirm and suggest to our selves the best things. In many cases the affirmation makes the difference between success and failure, happiness and misery, health and disease. Of course there are limitations to the use of this power of suggestion, and it may be carried to the extreme of ri diculousness. But The potency of it, the possibilities of It, ought to be thoroughly realized and studied and understood by every hu man being. Note this: Darwin tells us that at first the Tt tried to flv. Tf tent nn wnnti-nrr nni - - -- trying to fly. Through constant desire and throaffh constant trial thft eaglft ev0,Ted thQ faculty of fiyinff. Every desire and trial added, as it were, feathers to its pinions until one I 1 X X 1 1 J J xi uay it vas uuie 10 soar m me SKies, co also 13 the Human soul The mind sugests to Itself the possi bility of something it greatly desires. It keeps m desiring and tries again and again to do or to be what it wants to do or become. There comes a day when, through desire and use, new faculties appear or old faculties de velop until the suggestion becomes a fact, We have some of the divine omnipo tence residing within us. Let us study and develop our god likeness. bors say that be is either considerate or afraid of ber. THE BOOSTER'S MOTTO: Keep the dinner pail full. Keep the pay car going. Keep the factory buss'. Keep the workmen employed. Keep the wages up. The trouble with a man Yvho nppears in a new straw hat for the flrst time Is that he is conceltd enough to think that everybody is rubbering at him. A HERCULEAN STUNT. A bewtous and talented maiden has consented to become the blushing bride of a millionaire because he couldn't be jolted off the water wag. for six weeks Oh, water-lilies! . ECHO ANSWERS WHERE? WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE OLDFASHIONED MAN WHO WORE LALAPALOOSAS AND SIDEBOARDS? New Jersey is a bad little state. It refused to indorse Colonel Bryan and also Sec Taft. Caramba! NOT ONLY THE SCOTCH. A Scotchman was teillns a friend how lnKplrlngr bag-pipe lunslc was and that when a Scotchman heard a bagpipe its martial mnsie thrilled htm so that he wauM to flgrllt. !," answered the friend, "and it makes every one else who nears It want to fight, too." A reward might be offered with per fect impunity for any information that might lead to the recovery of the Les lie Shaw presidential boom. IN POLITICS The Alaska delegates to the demo cratic national convention at Denver will support Bryan for president. Five aspirants are in the field for the republican nomination for governor of Minnesota. The contest will be settled at the state convention early ln July Missouri's "big four" to the democratlc national convention will be made up of Governor Folk, Senator Stone, Mayor Reed of Kansas City, and ex 1 Governor Francis Bishop P. J. Muldoon of the Roman j Catholic church of Chicago will de-

UP 'AND "DOWN v IN-INDIANA:-'

Ray Blatchley of Indianapolis, son' of State Geologist Blatchley, who will i graduate from Indiana university in June, has accepted a position as first deputy state geologist of Illinois. He will be stationed at Champaign, where the department is working in con junction with the University of Illi nois. Muncle tonight interested itself in the proposition to make "White River navigable. The Commercial club voted to Join the petition to congress to have the channel deepened and otherwise improved. The rivers and harbors department has had a representative in Indiana for some weeks looking Into the enterprise which is fathered by Indianapolis. - Charles M. Mikels of Newcastle, Ind., has been chosen grand master of the grand lodge of Indiana Free and Accepted Order of Masons at the eighty-seventh annual meeting of the order yesterday. Mr. Mikels ascends to the highest office from the office of deputy grand master, which he has held for the" last year. Captain John D. Alexander of Bed ford, the newly elected and installed department commander of the Indiana G. A. R took charge of the department headquarters in the state house yesterday. Within the next two or three days the new commander will announce his appointments for the ensuing year. Enoch Asbury Stone of Laporte gave as his reason tor deserting nis wire the fact that her former husband had lived in the house with them for seven years, believing that the man was his wife's brother. While leaning against a telephone wire in a shed at the fair grounds at Frankfort, William Malllcoat was instantly killed when lightning struck the telephone wire and the current passed through his body. The course in baking which was abandoned at Purdue university at La republican national convention In Chi cago next month. Brand Whitlock, the young authormayor of Toledo, o., is now Being mentioned as a possible running mate of William J. Bryan on the national democratic ticket. Mr. New has begun to loosen up. Several prominent Hammond republi cans have begun to get tickets for the national republican convention. Lawrence McTurnan, candidate for superintendent of public instruction, was In Hammond yesterday on his way home from Wanatah, where he delivered a commencement address on Tuesday night. Owing to Saturday being Decoration day at Lowell, the big republican club of the three Creek townships that was scheduled to be organized, the date for the meeting has been changed to June 6. The club is prospering financially and otherwise. Six hundred and seventy delegates to the democratic national convention have now been chosen. Of these 410 are Instructed for Bryan, while 260 are, it is alleged, for anybody except Bryan. The conventions of this week and next will probably determine whether the Nebraskan will have twothirds of the convention vote on the first ballot. He must have 672 votes to nominate. His supporters are confident he will have the required number of votes, but the managers of the Johnson campaign, who are exceedingly active, are Just as confident that Bryan opposition will not control more than one-third of the votes on the first ballot. Danville, 111., May 27. The state populist convention did not meet this morning for lack of attendance. General Coxey and seven delegates were all that appeared. The "convention" so far has done nothing but stand on the corner and hope for more delegates. The hour of meeting depends on when they can muster a quorum. The number of deaths from Industrial accidents in the United Kingdom reported for the year 1907 was 4,460, an Increase of S41 over the year 1906 and of 277 on the average for five years 1903-1907. With the exception of quarrying each group of occupations show an increase as compared with 1906. These increases were most marked ln the shipping and mining groups, the fatalities ln these having been 1,363 and 1,273, respectively. In railway employment 487 were killed. Statistics prepared for the General Managers' association show that approximately 345,000 fewer employes are working for railroads ln the United States now than were working Oct. 1, 1907. The statistics include actual figures of employes having a mileage of 71,782, and show these roads since last June have discharged a total of 104,766 employes. On June 30 last these roads had 581,713 employes and last pay day they had 476,947. This is a decrease of 18 per cent. In October last the roads had 40,000 more employes than in June. The percentage of decrease runs between 15 and 25. When you advertise, you must re member that you have to reach a class that has the buying propensity. That's the class THE TIMES reaches. There's some class to that class.

LABOR HEWS

fayette, has been taken up by the faculty of Wisconsin university. Lectures on this subject will be started as soon as 100 students have enrolled.

Frank Stillwell, a Shelby county youth, who was serving a term of from ten to twenty years in the reformatory for burglary, hanged himself last night by using a towel for a rope. The towel was tied to a pipe covering an electric light wire in the top of the cell. Stillwell's cell was located in the same cellhouse as that of John Roach, the Lake county prisoner who hanged himself the night before. Unshaken by the sight of objects connected with the tragedy he recently enacted, Henry F. McDonald of Terre Haute, walked into the circuit courtroom, today to face the charge of murdering William E. Dwyer, his steps halting and carrying his left arm in a sling. There was no sign of emotion. That he might induce the faculty of Concordia college not to send his 23 year old brother Carl to the Rio Grande regions of South America to do mis sionary work. Emanuel Trautman, son of the late Rev. C. A. Trautman of Co lumbus, ex-German Lutheran pastor of this city, has left for St. Louis. Judge A. B. Anderson in the federal court granted permission yesterday to James P. Goodrich, receiver for the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville Rail road company, to issue receiver's cer tincates to the amount of $1,000,000. The request was made in order that the company could proceed with some improvements and to pay some stand ing indebtedness. Raymond East, 26 years old, for a number of years prominent In the younger society circles of Marion, today confessed that he had stolen $800 In currency from the Adams Express company at Wheeling, W. Va., in order to cover a shortage that had been discovered In his accounts. THE CREAM OF THE Morning News ins Aiarlcn-vreeland currency bill passes the House by a vote of 166 to 140. The bill will pass the Senate today or perhaps tomorrow. Monitor Florida, mauled by heaviest projectiles in the navy, comes through t test in Hampton roads splendidly and in fighting trim. Mrs. Elizabeth Tabor of Denver, widow of the late Senator A. W. Tabor, is again successful In saving her Matchless mine from creditors. In the final arguments in the Jerome case, before Commissioner Hand, Attorney Pierce makes a scathing arraignment of the district attorney and the latter gives an impassioned reply. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe observes her eighty-ninth birthday at her home in Boston. Presbyterian general assembly at Kansas City refuses to give official en dorsement to the standard American revised edition of the Bible as the best version. Filipino medical student, after passing two high tests for hospital lntern, is denied a position because he Is a foreigner. Former Police Chief Collins and former Police Attorney Comerford are freed of charges of conspiracy. Three more persons are bitten ln Chicago supposed to have hables. Prosecution of the Illinois Tunnel company is to be asked by its striking employes on the ground that it has concealed accidents to its workmen. Plans on foot to make Chicago the most beautiful city in the world described by Corporation Counsel Brundage. Republican national convention will be formally called upon by Chicago club women to adopt suffrage plank. British nobility out in force at. gala performance of grand opera ordered by king In honor of President Fallieres. Manipulators of May delivery corn apply the thumbscrews and mark a new and higher range of prices; wheat valuesreact moderately; cattle are weak, hogs higher and sheep unI changed Danger of loss of oriental export trade through Pacific coast ports is threatened unless the commerce commission adjusts rates. Athletic stars of middle west to strive for London trips at Olympic tryouts at Marshall field today 1 THE SUPERLOR com NEW CASES. 4677. Bartholomae & Roeslng Brew ing and Malting company vs M. Cvlganovlch. Civil. 4678. William Schwoda vs. Lottie K. Johnson. Foreclosure of mechanics lien. COURT PROCEEDINGS. 3871. Charles Nyechda vs. East Chicago bank. Plaintiff files motion to dismiss and court so orders at plaint iff's costs. 8912. Rosa Fink vs. Abraham Cohen and Fannie Cohen. Attachment, De fendants file motion to publish depo sition on file. Sustained. 3938. A. F. Knotts vs. Joe E. Lange and other defendants. Quiet title Plaintiff dismisses his action as to Buck and OConnell and Hlnes and Buck and O'Connell dismisses their cross complain. 4126. Gary Supply company vs. Ralph McRea and wife. Swift & Co, file interrogatory petition. EAST CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL ADJ0UENS. East Chicago, Ind., May 28. (Special.) The East Chicago city council unable to get a quorum last night at the city hall, adjourned without trans acting any business. The body will meet next Monday night.

lhither the V r r pi o o O O raies uati. By MARTHA COBB SAN FORD. Copyrighted. 1903. by Associated Literary Press. Elsie Reynolds had Just finished her first year of teaching. She had not enjoyed the experience particularly, and now that the train was carrying her back to the east, which she loved, she wondered how she could have even half pledged herself to return in the fall. But she had, and at length she admitted to herself ttie reason for it It was not the work. Work she must have somewhere, to be sure, but it was not necessary to seek it at so great a distance from home. No, it was not the work, but the friends she had i made, or, rather, to be strictly truthful ' and spare herself no blushes, it was one friend, Gilbert Chandler. The admission came as a revelation. For six months she and Gilbert had been good comrades, and they had" parted as comrades, exchanging promises to write to each other during the long summer vacation if it were not too hot and if they were not too busy, etc. ,But Elsie had made the Identical promise to half a dozen other men, more or less, who had come to the train to see her off, for Elsie was pretty and popular and Gilbert Chandler had by no means a clear field. Had the truth been told him (by any one save Elsie) he would have dismissed it with a smile of incredulity. But Elsie had no intention of telling him indeed, having discovered the state of her feelings, she had no inten tion of favoring him with information of any kind.' Gilbert must write first. On that point she was inflexible, even after a month of anxious waiting. Other men wrote, but the seals of their letters she broke listlessly and answered them only in the hope that through them she might bear some thing of Gilbert At length they serv ed her purpose. Over and over again Elsie read the unbelievable words. "You've doubtless heard about Chandler's illness," the letter ran. "Pneumonia has now set in, and that, with the typhoid compli cations, knocks his chances for recoy ery about out, and Just as he was beginning to be looked upon as a young lawyer who must be reckoned with. Tough luck!" Elsie crumpled up the letter and sobbed her heart out. There was no one to comfort her, no one who would even understand. The summer was nearly gone before Elsie received further news. Gilbert had lived through the awful crisis, but not to receive his full health. In fact, the. doctors had ordered an entire change of climate and occupation, and in consequence he had given up all his J youthful ambitions, said goodby to the world of friends and activities and taken up life with his sister on a small ranch in Texas. Then to all who knew her Elsie Reynolds did a surprising and unaccountable thing. She resigned her position in the western boarding school and accepted the thankless task of teacher in a district school in Texas. Her alleged reason that she was tired of civilization and hungered for primitive experience was termed sheer madness. Yet there was no one to hold her back. She was fatherless and motherless and perforce self supporting. For the next two years there were two very small institutions in the Lone Star State that prospered amazingly. One was a forlorn one room schoolhouse, the other a pocket handkerchief ranch which surrounded a brave but unpretentious little bungalow. In both dally miracles were happening. The schoolhouse knew all about the bungaow, but the latter had never guessed the existence of its wide awake neigh bor to the west. And' when a letter arrived there one summer morning announcing that El sie Reynolds was passing through Texas on her way east and if convenient would like to stop off for a few days to visit old friends the bungalow opened wide its doors and windows with as tonishment and let the sun ln like some unexpected guest come to warm and cheer Its lonely heart During the days that must pass be fore she should come all was one busy whirl of anticipation. To Gilbert Chandler and his sister the actual presence of a friend from their old aban doned world would seem nothing short of a glimpse of heaven. Arrayed in its sudden acquisition of muslin ruffles and chintx flowers and quite consciously proud of its honeyBuckle perfume, the little house fluttered and beamed with expectation. At last the great day arrived. Gilbert Tose early, his browned face radiant with happiness, saddled the two horses and went to meet her. The ride back over the rolling prairie, which for each of them held its special meaning, was tremulous with things unspoken. From full hearts little save commonplaces reached the lips. "You have been traveling, Elsie?" "I traveling?" She laughed back at him merrily. "No; same old story, Gilbert teaching.' "But you're brown as a Mexican, and fou don't look the least bit fagged, though thaf s damning you with faint praise," he added, looking at her with very frank admiration. "Where have you been teaching?" "Oh, let's skip sordid details," Elsie answered evasively. "Don't you lova this country?" Gilbert followed her gaze out over the luxuriant wealth of grassy meadwa and beyond to the high, grim mountains,

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-Yes,' he answered loyally; "I J. love It It has given me back my life." To Elsie it seemed as if her heart must cry out and demand the whole truth. "Do you mean that you are really well and strong again or merely that you are grateful just to be alive?" was the question that begged to be asked, but she forced it back relentlessly. Gilbert himself broke the tense si, lence between them. "See, there's the shack," he said joy. ously, indicating the little gray bungalow set cozily in its frame of orchard green. Elsie gave a cry of delight put her . horse to the gallop and rode straight and fast toward the open door. The rest of that light hearted, sun filled day passed like a flash. At the end of it, however, came the inevitable moment when confidence and the exchange of mutual experiences and future hopes would no longer be denied expression.

Gilbert watched Elsie's dark head resting against the vine covered post as she sat on the low steps of the porch, and his heart bounded toward her in a mighty yearning. "It is time now to tell me where you have been these two long years, Elsie. Don't you think so?" Elsie continued looking out on the endless stretch of prairie lawn before them. "Right here," she said at last sisrhing happily. "Here?" questioned Gilbert in amazement "Well, in Texas," Elsie amended teasingly. "Please be serious, Elsie." "I am, perfectly. For two years I've been teaching in a district school down here." "In the name of heaven, why? demanded Gilbert But Elsie would not let her hand be forced. She must know first how the game was to end. "It is my turn to ask a question," she said. "You have succeeded here wonderfully, haven't you, Gilbert?" As he looked down at her his smile had so much pride and pathos in it that Elsie longed to throw her arms about him and to tell him that she knew she understood. "Pretty well," he admitted, for a perverted young lawyer." "Don't" begged Elsie. "I can't bear to hear you speak like that." "Why, bless your sympathetic little heart!" exclaimed Gilbert, noticing the tears in her eyes. "I've no kiek coming over the law business. Am I not a healthy brute again? What elsecount3 beside that?" The joy that leaped in Elsie's heart as Gilbert spoke these words sent tho color flying to her cheeks. That Gilbert might not observe her agitation she Jumped up and pretended to be training a vagrant honeysuckle vine. "But if you are really well again you'll go back to law, won't you?" "Perhaps, some time," answered Gilbert thoughtfully. lie was pacing up and down the porch now. "You see, I've been out of it now for over two years, and it would take some time to get into the running again. Down here I'm making my way far better than I hoped. I think there's a big chance for success. And I'm well here gloriously well." He stopped speaking a moment then added, looking wistfully into the little home and lowering his voice: "The hardest thing is Laving my sister go back. She's to be married this fall, you know. She's been a brick." Emotion checked his further speech. The next moment "vith a little bro ken sob, Elsie was in his arms, and the lovers gave themselves up to the ecstasy of their emotions. 1 Suddenly Gilbert held her at arm's length from him, nearly crushing her slender hands ln the agony of his renunciation. "Xo, Elsie," he said hoarsely, "I can not, I will not let you. I have no right. It would be asking you to sacrifice too much for me. You would die of ennui down here." But Elsie's eyes were shining; her face was radiant with happiness. "You forget dear," she said gently, that I've made It my country, too that I have no sacrifice to make. You are my ail. Besides," she added roguishly, "It's leap year, and you've no right to refuse me, Gilbert " He Began It. The man whose wife often said that "he neter would learn not to talk to people" looked at his seat companion and at the first opportunity broke the silence. "Traveling man, like myself?, he inquired. "Yes," said the other. "Travel for a wool house." "Mine's boots and shoes," said the talkative one, "but I've got a fad for golf you see my sticks? I carry them everywhere on the chance of getting a game. l "Every man ought to have some sort of fad, seems to me. It rests him, changes the current of his thoughts. Don't you agree with me ? Now, golfBut the other had pulled a small round box from his pocket and was ready to talk. "Here's my fad," he broke in, "As I said, I travel for a wool firm, but this I flttle ointment made by an aunt of my. wire is my raa. "I always carry a couple of dozen boxes with me, and, as you say, it rests me and changes the current of my thoughts. And when I find a man like you that can talk about something besides business and evidently likes to tell him the story of one of these little boxes of ointment and what it did, md if I don't convince him in half an hour that it's exactly what be needswhy, I can do it ln an hour sure. "Stung again!" muttered the gotf enthusiast as he looked at the firm jaw t his seat mate.