Ligonier Banner., Volume 39, Number 31, Ligonier, Noble County, 27 October 1904 — Page 3

"a‘m-ﬂ.m. i 1 i o SOOI l ®Bl R i R '}_] e K e TRUIRFES, . ~\n.\.-.“,,, S ; : . A HUNDRED-DOLLAR STABLE Any Farmer Can Build It with Ordinary Tools and Save the Expense of a Carpenter. The cut gives frame and plan for a building or stable generally used by the small farmers of western Kentucky. The low cost of building is not the only feature that recommends it as it is quite roomy for the amount of material used. Any farmer with ordimary tools can build it and save the expense of a carpenter. : e The building is 24x28 feet, with 10foot posts, and 8 feet from loft to floor. The inside divisions make four stalls, three Bxlo feet and one BxB feet. This leaves a driveway 10x24 feet and a corn crib Bxl6 feet. The crib. may be divided : crm, ':v.m i X [L.IT e’ f . £ L T RPN ==l ae e | ! — 2¢ s Ciiaw —d PLAN OF A CHEAP STABLE. into feed room and smaller cribs. The foundations are stones set 18 inches in the ground and extend 6 inches above surface, upon which posts are set. Sills are used only under crib on which floor is laid. / P " Material required, all rough lumber, costing approximately $lOO, is as follows: Twelve pieces 6x6 inch, 10 feet and four pieces 6x6 inches, 8 feet, for posts. These may be made from straight saplings squared with an ax:. For stringers, 8 pieces 2x4 inches by 16 feet; 12 pieces 2x4 inches by 10 feet for girders in driveway on which joists rest; 3 pieces 2xB inches by 16 feet; for ends, 3 pieces 2x6 inches by 16 feet; for joists, 22 pieces 2x4 inches by 10 feet, 11 pieces 2x4 inches by 8 feet; for the plates, 4 pieces 2x4 inches by 16 feet and 4 pieces 2x4 inches by 10 feet; rafters, 30 2x6 inches by 18 feet; rafter ties, 15 2x4 inches by 10 feet; roof strips, 220 Ix 3 inches by 12 feet; battening, 104 14x4 inches by {0 feet, and 48 pieces 15x4 inches by 12 feet; box and cover, 104 boards Ixl2 inches by 10 feet, and 48 boards Ixl2 inches by 12 feet; loft floor, 56 boards Ixl2 inches hy 12 feet; crib floor. 8 boards Ixl2 inches by 16 feet. It will require 8,750 shingles laid 5 inches to the weather. This plan is sometimes changed and enlarged to 30x32 feet or 30x40 feet, running driveway lengthwise of stable. In this case middle posts extend to roof.—W. J. Prindle, in Farm

and Home. . ' TAR IN POULTRY HOUSES. It Is Very Valuable in Many Ways, But More Especially as a Vermin Exterminator. Poultry breeders seem to have failed to discover the value of tar. It is very useful and valuable in many ways. Some breeders tar their poultry yard fences in preference to whitewashing them, says the Poultry World, though we do not like to see it done, for it gives. the surroundings such a gloomy, forbidding Ilook. - It undoubtedly con‘tributes largely to the durability of the wood, protecting it from the ravages of storm and time.: It is in the poultry house, however, that the value of tar is the greatest, for it conduces greatly toward healthfulness. When that scourge of the poultryman, cholera, makes its appearance, we would advise, first, a thorough cleaning of the house; next, a generouscapplication of Carolina tar on all the joints, cracks and crevices ‘of the inside of the building, and then plénty of fresh whitewash properly applied. The tar absorbs or drives away the taint of disease, and makes the premises wholesome. The smell is not offensive; in fact, many people like it, and it is directly opposite to unhealthy. To vermin, lice, etc., the smell of tar is very repulsive, and but few will remain after you have tarred the cracks ‘etc. A friend of ours was once troubled with chicken cholera,.and by adopting the above in connection with removing affected fowls, he soon put a stop to the ravages. -A small lump of tar in the drinking water supplied to the fowl will be found beneficial, provided it is the Carolina tar, which is very different Arom other kinds. , POULTRY YARD ‘PARAGRAPHS. The dust heap is absolutely neces-tary-for fowls, -y Feather pulling is a vice that comes from confinement and idleness. , Allow no filth of any kind to -accumulate within reach of the fowls. Thoroughness in detail in poultry raising is the great secret of success. Common fowls do not possess the characteristic qualities of thoroughbreds. . .

When fowls are permitted to roosi in foul, damp houses it causes droopjshness. : :

Fowls will eat a great deal of granulated charcoal. As a preventive of disease it is invaluable, .

By giving young fowls a free range it will aid materially to develop ‘a strong, healthy constitution. Poultry should always have access to green food when possible, and whet they cannot it should be supplied. Corn, when fed to the hens by itself, has a tendency to fatten rather than produce the most profitable egg. laying.—American Tribune, : Keep Buildings Well Painted. Many farmers - wait several - yeard after painting a building before painting it again. They wait until the building is in bad condition and’ it requires as much or more paint to cover it as it did at first. Buildings should be painted one coat every two or three years. This done, not only will the cost of repairs be lessened, but appearance of the place will be much improved. Fresh paint applied often, even though in small quantities, keeps wood and metal from dzeay,—G. H Peters, in Farm Journal.

RAISE YCUR OWN HONEY. No Farm Need or Should Ee Withoui a Few Well-Cared-For Hives . " of Bees, There is no reason why farmers should not handie their bees along profitable lines, even if they have buta few colonies. Bees, as kept on thefarm —a few colonies here and there, scattered in different localities—ordinarily do the best business, for they are not overstocked 'as they are frequently in large apiaries. Almost double the amount of honey can be obtained from a colony thus situated, and bee-keep-ing, as a rule, is much more profitable if the bees are in proper shape to do good work. The greatest mistake farmers make, is that of limiting the surplus boxes, thus not furnishing the bees with enough surplus capacity. The bees fill this limited space with honey in a few days at the beginning of the honey season and afterwards turn their attention to swarming, and several swarms will be the result instead of a large honey yield. Farmers, in co;gxection with their other work, might as well reap hundreds of pounds of the finest honey instead of obtaining but a few pounds, if they would only give the bees plenty of storage room, and promptly take the honey away as soon as completed. The rule among small bee-keepers is to give but & small surplus capacity in the spring, apd let this remain all summer to be taken off in the fall, supposing that it is an all summer’'s job for the bees, when in most cases this space is filled in a week or two and allowed to remain in the hive all summer, which reduces it to a poor grade of honey as well as a small amount. Hundreds of pounds of first-class honey might have been obtained by giving a larger capacity, and removing the honey as fast as stored and completed. Some localities are better than others, and some seasons are better than other seasons, but it is never a mistake any season to thus provide for the most at all times and under all conditions. By a little forethought and work on the part of the average farmer and fruit grower, he could easily secure all the honey necessary for his own use, snd some to sell also.—Midland Farmer. e e ALFALFA FOR THE HOGS. Good for Building Up the Frame of Animals, But Should Be Fed ! with Discretion. There is no doubt that alfalfa is one of the best foods that can be raised for hogs.”® The cattle man has come to appreciate the value of alfalfa, and wherever he has been able to raise alfalfa he has vdone’so. He has recognized it as a cheap source of protein. The hog raiser on the other hand is coming to realizg only slowly that the hog needs protein at all. *He has come to think of the hog as an animal that needs a food that. will make fat, and, as a result, we see little alfalfa growing on the farm of the man that makes hog raising one of the principal features of his agriculture. :

Alfalfa can be fed in the same way as clover is fed, with the exception that it is not so readily pastured. Alfalfa may be pastured so close that it will only slowly revive from such treatment, while clover can be pastured close and still come up quickly, But alfalfa is a good green food and is good when dry, if it is cut up and mixed with soft food or steamed." :

It has been chdarged that too much alfalfa makes a soft pork, but this is the case only when the hogs are not properly finished on grain. No one believes that a feed like alfalfa should be fed almost exclusively. Itis a good thing to build up the frame of the animals; but it does not provide enough carbohydrates to make it serve the double purpose of a developed and a finisher.— Farmers’ Review.

SELF-FEEDER FOR POULTRY It Assures Ample Rations for Each _ Individual Bird and Prevents Waste of Feed. | To avoid the usual waste in feeding chickens I have made a number of self- _ : _feeders like the one shown in the picv|l ture. The bew - s ! eight inches deep. I | Dplace the! lower edge of the board Z (b) about an inch TR /d’ from the back and e>3 two inches from \.@j% the bottom. This will permit the feed which is poured into the box through door (a), to run down gnly as fast as the chickens eat it from the floor through opening at ¢. Nail on a strip at the front to prevent the chickens from working the feed out on the ground. The opening should not be large enough to permit the fowls getting in to stratch out the feed. It may be fastened to the sida of a building or long strips may be nailed upon it each side to prevent its being upset. This arrangement gives them at all times clean feed with little trouble for the chickens and a great saving in feed to the grower.—T. S. Bronson, in Farm and Home.

Question That Vexes Feeders. Feeding corn wet or dry is a vexed question, and many have not solved the problem satisfactorily. A professor once asked a farmer, “What are you feeding . those hogs, my friend?” “Corn,” said the old farmer. “Are you feeding it wet or dry‘s Iy ‘Don't you know that if you feed it wet to the hogs they can digest it in one-half the time?” The farmer reflected a few moments and said, “Now, see here, professor, how much do you calculate a hog’s time is worth?” It is not so much a matter of time; it is the assimilation which is the important factor of feeding.—Midland Farmer. ; Goats Help in Loading Sheep. Some of the western masters who make a business of shipping sheep to market have trained goats to assist in loading the double-deck cars. As soon as these Judas Iscariots start up a chute, the sheep follow on into the car, Just as soon as one car is filled the goats worm their way out and slide down the chute ready for another. They are worth thelr weight in silver for thig purpose, for by their aid it only requires but a few minutes to load a whole shipment.

Nore.—The followlng article has been widely published and is one of the most remarkable illustrations of the value of careful marshalling and analysis of facts in presenting a subject to the publiec. ' : [ LEVELERS The Mission of Whiskey, Tobacco and - Coffee. : l The Creator made all things, we believe. If so, He must have made these. We know what He made food and water for, and air and sunshine, but why. Whiskey, Tobacco and Coffee? ‘They are here sure enough and each i performing its work. There must be some great plan behind it all; the thoughtful man seeks to understand something of that plan and thereby to judge these articles for their true worth.

Let us not say “bad” or “good” without taking testimony.

There are times and conditions when it certainly seems to the casual observer that these stimulant narcotics are real blessings. ; / Right there is the ambush that conceals a “killing” enemy. One.can slip into the habit of either whiskey, tobacco or coffee easy enough, but to ‘“untangle” is often a fearful struggle. ' It seems plain that there are circumstances when the narcotic effect of these poisons is for the moment beneficial, but the fearful argument against them is that seldom ever does one find a steady user of either whiskey, coffee or tobacco free from disease of some kind. . .~ Certainly powerful elements in their effect on the human race. : It is a matter of daily history testified to by literally millions of people that Whiskey, Tobaceo and Coffee are smiling, promising; beguiling friends on the start, but always false as hell itself in the end. Once they get firm hold enough to show their strength, they insist upon governing and drive the victim steadily towards ill health in some form; if permitted to continue to rule, they will not let up until physical and mental ruin sets in. . : . A man under that spell (and “under the spell” is correct) of any one of these drugs frequently assures himself and his friends: “Why, I can leave off any time I want to. I did quit for a week just to show I could.” It is a sure mark of the slave when one gets to that stage. He wiggled through a week fighting every day to break the spell, was finally whipped and began his slavery all over again. ;

‘The slave (Coffee slave as well as Tobacco and Whiskey) daily reviews his condition, sees perfectly plain the steady encroachments of disease, how the nerves get weaker day by day and demand the drug that seems to smile and offer relief for a few minutes and then leave the diseased condition plainer to view than ever and growing worse. Many times the Coffee slave realizes that he is between two fires. He feels bad if he leaves off and a little worse if he drinks and allows the effect to wear off.

So it goes on from day to day. Every night the istruggling victim promises himself that he will break the habit and next day when he feels a little bad (as he is quite sure to) breaks, not the habit, but his own resolution. It is nearly always a tough fight, with disaster ahead sure if the habit wins. :

There have been hundreds of thousands of people driven to their graves through disease brought on by coffee drinking alone, and it is quite certain that more human misery is caused by coffee and tobacco than by whiskey, for the two first are more widely used, and more hidden and insidious in the effect on nerves, heart and other vital organs, and are thus unsuspeected until much of the dangerous work is done.

Now, Reader, what is your, opinion as to the real use the Creator has for these things? Take a look at the question from this point of view.

There is a law of Nature and of Nature’s God that things slowly evolve from lower planes to higher, a sturdy, steady and dignified advance 'toward more perfect things in both the Physical and Spiritual world. The ponderous tread of evolutionary development is fixed by the Infinite and will not be quickened out of natural law by any of man’s methods.

Therefore we see many illustrations showing how nature checks too rapid advance. Illinois raises phenomenal crops of corn for two or three years. If she continued to do so every year her farmers would advance in wealth far heyond those of other sections or countries. So Nature interposes a bar every three or four years and brings on a “bad year.” Here we see the leveling influence at work, : :

A man is prosperous in his business for a number of years and grows rich. Then Nature sets the ‘“‘leveling influence’”’ at work on him. Some of hisinvestments lose, he becomes luxurious and lazy. Perhaps it is whiskey, tobacco, coffee, women, gambling, or some other form. The intent and purpose is to level him. Keep him from evolving too far ahead of the masses.

A nation becomes prosperous and great like ancient Rome. If no leveling influence set in she would dominate the world perhaps for all time. But Dame Nature sets her army of “levelers” at work. Luxury, over-eating and drinking, licentiousness, waste and extravagance, indulgences of all kinds, then comes the wreck. Sure, Sure. Sure.

The law of the unit is the law of the mass. Man goes through the same process. Weakness (in childhood), gradual growth of strength, energy, thrift, probity, prosperity, wealth, comfort, ease, relaxation, self-indulgence, luxuty, idleness, waste, debauchery, disease, and the wreck follows. The ‘‘levelers” are in the bushes along the pathway of every successful man and woman and they bag the majority. ' Only now and then can a man stand out against these ‘levelers” and hold his fortune, fame and health to the end.

So the Creator has use for Whiskey, Tobacco and Coffee to level down the successful ones and those who show signs of being successful, and keep them back in the race, so that the great “field” (the masses) may not be left too far bekind. !

And yet we must admit that same all wise Creator has placed it in the power of man to stand upright, clothed in the armor of a clean cut steady mind and say unto ‘himself, ¥I decline to exchange my birthright for a mess of potage.” : :

» “I will not deaden my senses, weaken my grip on affairs and Kkeep myself, cheayp, common and behind in fortune and fame by drugging with whiskey,

tobacco or coffee, life is too short. It is hard enough to win the good things, without any sort of handicap, so 2a man is certainly.a ‘fool trader’ when he trades strength, health, money, and the good things that come with power, for the hailf-asleep condition of the ‘drugger’ with the certainty of sickness and disease ahead.” ? ‘lt is a matter each individual must decide for himself. He can be a leader and semi-god if he will, or he can go along through life a drugged clown, a cheap “hewer of wood or carrier of water.” Certain it is that while the Great Father of us all does not seem to “mind”’ if some of his children are foolish and stupid, he seems to select others (perhaps those he intends for some special work) and allows them to be threshed and castigated most fearfully by these “levelers.” SR :

If a man tries flirting with these levelers awhile, and gets a few slaps as a hint, he had better take the hint or a good solid blow will follow. :

When a man tries to live upright, clean, thrifty, sober, and undrugged, manifesting as near as he knows what the Creator intends he should, happiness, health and peace seem to come to him. Does it pay? - This article was written to set people thinking, to rouse the “God within” for every highly organized man and ‘woman has times when they feel a something calling from within for them to ‘press to the front and “be about the Father’s business,” don’t mistake it; the spark of the Infinite is there and it pays in every way, health, happiness, peace, and even worldly prosperity, to break off the habits and strip clean for the work cut out for us. ‘ It has been the business of the writer to provide a practical and easy way for people to break away-from the coffee habit- and be assured of a return to health and all of the good things that brings, provided the abuse has not gone too far, and even then the cases where the body has been rebuilt on a basis of strength and health run into the thousands. It is an easy and comfortable step to stop coffee instantly by having wellr made Postum- Food Coffee served rich and hot with good cream, for the color and flavor is there, but none of the caffeine or other nerve-destroying elementé of ordinary coffee. ( On the contrary the most powerful rebuilding elements furnished by Nature are in Postum and they quickly set about repairing the damage. Seldom is it more than 2 days after the change is made before the old stomach or bowel troubles or complaints of kidneys, heart, head or nerves show unmistakable evidence of getting better and ten days time changes things wonderfully. Literally millions of brain-working Americans today use Postum, having found the value and common sense in thé change. - : . . C. W. POST. A FARMER'S TAME GROUSE Wild Bird Becomes So Accustomed to Man It Follows Him on the Road.

In August, 1902, while he was picking blackberries, Mr. Rand, a Vermont farmer, discovered a flock of seven young grouse about half-grown. The first of the next October, while Mr. Rand was picking apples, he was surprised to see a ruffed grouse walk out of the bushes and come under the tree where he was at work. Bird-Lore tells the story: el “The bird did not appear afraid, but much- interested in what the farmer was doing. ‘lt walked round him and observed him from all sides, and finally hopped on the wall, as if to super-. intend the apple gathering. The bird stayed with the farmer at least .two hours, and when he went away he left it under the tree.

“In the following spring, while he was working in the field, Mr. Rand noticed a grouse following his farm wagon. The bird was undoubtedly his old friend, seeking to renew the acquaintance of the preceding fall. The grouse followed the wagon perhaps 50 rods, until she came in sight of the farm buildings. There she stopped and waited for the wagon to come back again, and then accompanied the team down to the field. The grouse repeated this performance. for several weeks. In fact, almost every'time the farm wagon made its appearance in the field the bird was on hand to escort the team back and forth.

‘“As the grouse continued to grow less shy, Mr. Rand conceived the idea of making her tamer by offering her food and talking to her. The bird seldom ate any of the food offered her. Only once did she deign to take a few kernels of corn into her mouth. .By much coaxing, Mr. Rand finally succeeded in touching the bird. After that the grouse showed very little fear. When Mr. Rand called ‘Chickee! chickee!’ the bird would come out of the woods and sit upon his knee. From his knee she would fly to his shoulder, and then to the ground. “The woods which the grouse frequents are composed of a marginal growth of wilfow, alder, ash and maple, not more than ten rods wide, along a small stream. On the other side is a

cultivated field. A much-traveled highway passes ‘within tea rods. The bird is frequently seen by travelers. In fact, on one occasion she was picked up by two ladies passing in a carriage, and was taken to a neighboring farm+house. This confidence in human beings may some day lead to her death. To guard against this, however, Mr. Rand has conspicuously posted her haunts, and his wishes are respected by the sportsmen.” Wrong Department. A prominent pfysician tells this ‘story at the expense of the modern craze for specialization in the medical profession. A poor woman went to a dispensary to ask for aid for her little son, who had had one of his fingers smashed. At the first roaom where she applied she was told by a curt attend'ant that the boy could not be treated there. : ~ “Wrong place,” he explained, “this is the eye and ear department.” : ~ “Vere is der thumb and finger department?” inquired the woman, sim-ply.—Tit-Bits. ‘e e £ | Not Too Fast. . Mrs. Weeds—Tl suppose the law in this state gives the widow her third. ~ Lawyer—Oh! yes; but you’ve got to get rid of your second first.—Chicago Journal, ; . :

AN & - S Y p N PRIERVOIUI S©) [ g ‘ O LT A M9eodle '- T{’ ::" # n ”;\ S AF . e LOOK ABOUT YOU. Did you ever see a plgeon hepping along the path? . : = Did you ever see a sparrow walk to his : outdoor bath? | Did you ever see a pigeon’s nest that had three eggs, or more? Did you ever see a snow-white colt on any hill or shore? Do you know what letter you may find on cvery leaf of clover?. I mean the little meadow kind that grows the whole world over, Did you ever see two four-o’'clocks were coloeed just the same? . Or_ two Variegated flowers alike, of any size or name? : What animal sléeps standing? You may | meet him in the sireet. How many toes has Pussy on all her little : feet? i If you can tell me all these things—and I must confess I doubt you— You may say you’'ve learned the lesson well, to observe small things abeut you. ~—Kate Lawrence, in Yo‘lith's Companion, CLEVER NEW ENGLAND DOG Has a Mania for Trolley Rides, Goes to Church, But Afterwards Appropriates Property. This is the life story of a remarkable dog, clever and lovable, owned by Town Clerk Madsen, of South Hadley Falls, Mass., as told by the Boston Globe. Trixie was born February 21, 1900, both his father and mother being fullblooded water spaniels. He is a great favorite with all, or a large number of dogs of the town, although not caring much for their company.

He will invariably sit up and beg at the table or wherever any delicacies are in sight. If he is not noticed he will speak. ! He is frequently seen sitting up on the sidewalk before children who have candy. . s

He came naturally by the trick to fetch and carry. His mania for trolley rides was only developed this summer. Now, whenever he sees a car stopped he will look wistfully at the motorman and if the motorman gives him the least encouragement he will jump aboard. If no invitation is forthcoming, sometimes he will smeak on and stow himself away under a seat. He is frequently seen miles away, waiting for a chance to board an electric for home, and the car men say he never makes a mistake in the car. :

He has been to church and Sunday school, but in spite of such good surroundings he has developed a habit of taking home all sorts of articles. There are no less than half a hundred stones in his yard that he secured down street. He does not confine himself to stones. He ran home one day with a bag of marbles, a small boy in close pursuit, and at various times has acquired a Rugby ball, a catcher’s glove and a baseball; again he appeared with an egg in his mouth. He takes naturally to, water, yet he has a horror of being washed, and if he hears the word “bath” or hears the tub being filled he will run and hide. He had an encounter with a hen with chickens which he has never forgotten, and now he gives poultry a wide berth. It was amusing to see him recently on his way home, make a detour into a vacant lot because he met a large rooster standing on the sidewalk, but he cutely pretended that he went out of his way to investigate something. He was the central figure in an-ex-citing and thrilling scene in the spring

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Plates made of compressed paper are ased in some cheap restaurants on the continent. Falling on the floor or other gough usage does not harm such dishes.

WISE OLD SHEPHERD DOG Saved Her Own Life When Her Master Said He Was Coing to Dispose of Her. May was a full-blooded shepherd dog and unusually intelligent. The following true incident indicates that she possessed the faculty of reasoning: She lay in the kitchen one day with her two pups, where her master and another man were engaged in couversation. Finally the man expressed a desire to buy one of the pups, but the owner answered that he was intending to keep one of them and kill May, as she was getting old; as he had not decided which pup to keep, he did not want to dispose of either just. then. At this neéws, May looked her master in the face » moment, then rose and calling her pups, léft the house. That was the last seen of the pups for several weeks. Their mother was watched and followed in the endeavor to find out where she had hidden them, but without success.' Finally the married daughter of the family came home, and being informed of the state of affairs, said to May: “Won’t you show me your pups, May?” Without more ado May led the way to a deserted woodchuci’s hole, and there were the pups, fat and sleek. They were carried to the house, but were not allowed to remain, for again May took them away to what she believed to be safer ¢ aarters, and no one found them again antil they were well grown. : _ It is interesting to know that May’s efforts were rewarded by her life being spared until she died, at last, of old age.—Orange Judd Farmer. AMUSING TRICK WITH EGC. An Easy and Instructtve Experiment in Astronomy at the Breakfast Table. .

Here is a trick which will surprise the whole family. The next time you eat a boiled egg moisten the rim-—not merely the edge, but all the raised part—of your plate and place the empty shell on the wet surface. The shell should be broken off even- = :;/Z;f?’ : ,;;if S *‘:':?gl ¥, q‘gf AR R 4 7_).‘)." 7 '{3;—: "ﬁw{"’ /4 "Hll »\' Q ' TGI = TN ;';::!! Rk Bon o e~ ': 'HOW TO SPIN THE EGG SHELL. ly all around, so as to form a little cup. Now, if you hold the plate up and tip it slightly, the egg will not merely -slide, but spin, along the rim, and by continuously altering the inclination angle of the plate you can make the shell spin all the way around it. I do not mean that it will spin rapidly, like a top, but that-as it goes around the plate it also revolves, slowly, about. its own axis in the same direction. : Now, this, you know, is just wha' the earth does in traveling around the sun, so here you have an easy and pretty lesson in astronomy at ths breakfast table.—Detroit Free Press. TRUE AMERICAN SPIRIT. Keeping Right On, in Spite of Difficulties, Is One of Its Most Noble < Characteristics. . “And what are you going to do now?” asked a friend of a man whose store had just been consumed by fire, and only a part of its contents saved. They were looking at the smoldering ruins when the question was asked. - ‘“Oh, I've rented some rooms up the street, and my goods, what are left of them, are being moved in now. I'm going to open up there, and keep right on until I am able to rebuild.” It was the same reply, brave and undismayed, that whole cities have given when swept by sudden loss and disaster, but the ity could give it only as the stricken individuals gave it one by one. It is the American answer, prompt and courageous, to difficulty and misfortune, and we all are proud of it. But do our young people understand that the qualities which make it possible must be acquired early? The spirit of “keeping right on” in the face of obstacles and discouragement is not one that springs into being suddenly; it is born of long struggle and endeavor, of the persistent habit of meeting difficulties and conquering them instead of being overcome by them. No one who begins life by insisting upon easy places, shirking all hardships, and abandoning the* chosen way as soon as it grows hard is building up that kind of an American.—Wellspring.. Boy Got Even with Druggist. It was a Camden (N. J.) druggist who was routed out of bed when the night bell rang furiously. The wrothy dispenser came down and opened the store door. “I want a bottle of ginger ale, please,” requested the complacent individual who stood without. For a moment the druggist was inclined to be persongl, but then he reflected that since he had come down he might as well do DBusiness. “Twenty' cents, please,’”” he said. *“Five cents ‘wlll be allowed on the bottle when returned.” Two hours later he was awakened by another ring. Again he descended, to find the same complacent customer at the door. “Here’s your bottle,” he remarked. “Gimme my five cents.” Page from a Boy’s Diary. De Wolf Hopper says that his small nephew was given a diary, and one of his first entries was ‘“got up at seven.” He showed it to his mother, and she corrected his sentence. “Got up!” she exclaimed in horror; “does the sun get up? It rises!” The youngster carefully erased the offending words, and wrote: ‘“Rose at seven.” And on retiring for the night he carefully in. scribed in his diary: “Set at eight.”

VEST HAD: SOME DOUBTS. Thought the Legislature Might Repeal All the Smart Young ' Man Knew. - Senator Cockrell tells of the case of a young man who once appeared béfore the commission appointed in Missouri to exame applicants for admission to the bar of that state. It appears, says the New York Herald, that this youtiful applicant, who had failed mizerably in all that pertained to jurisprudence, civil law, case law, sum{nuarv law and due process of lay, was. finally asked by Mr. Vest, for a loné time sendtor from Missouri, whether there remained any questions which the young man would like to have put to him. . “I regret to say.” remarked Mr. Vest, “that you have failed to come up to the mark in the branches .of law upon which we have examined you. But,” added Mr. Vest, in a most kindly spirit, “*we will question your further, if you so desire.” . - “Well, sir,” responded the applicant, *1 would suggest, if you please, that 1 be questioned on the statutes.” T el At this Mr. Vest smiled sadly. “My dear Yeung man,” added he, “l do not doubt that you're up on the statutes; but I do doubt that you will succeed in the law. Suppose you should have the utmost familiarity with the statutes, what's to prevent the legislature from repealing all you know?” : . — e Loth Got It. ) The late sculptor, Bartheldi, was best kinown in this country by his statue of Liberty, the chief feature of which is"its size. Its artistic merits were sucéinetly summed up by a distinguished -foreigner when sailing into New York harbor. Pointing to the gigantic ﬁgure, he asked: “Is that Liberty? : “Yes.” said a bystander. - - “Then give me Seath,” said the foreigner, who evidently knew his Patrick Henry.— Boston Herald. _ D g . Six Doctors Failed. South Bend, Ind., Oct. 24 (Special).— After suffering from idney Disease for three years; after taking (.caiment from six different doctors without g ...re relief, Mr. J. O. Laudeman, of tuis j.a.e, found - not only relief but a speedy and complete cure in Dodd's Kidney Pills. Speaking of his cure, Mr. Laudeman says: “Yes, I suffered from :Kidney Trouble for three years and tried six doctors tono f\ood. Then 1 took just two boxes of Dodd’s \idney Pills and they pot only cured my kidneys, but gave me better health in general. Of course I recommended Dodd’s Kidney Pills to others and I know a number now who are using them with good results.” Mr. Laudeman’s case is not an exception. Thousands give similar experiences. For there never vet was a .case of Kidney Trouble from Backache to Iright’s Disease that Dodd’s Kidney Pills could not cure. They are the only remedy that ever cured Bright's Disease, ' e . The population of London increases by 70800 annually. . ' e : Piso’s Cure cannot be too highly spoken ot as a couga cure.—dJ. W. O'Brien, 322 Tuird Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1500. Officials and merchants do ‘not serve in the army of Japan. '

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