Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 6, Ligonier, Noble County, 30 April 1908 — Page 2

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LIGONIFER,

Record of the Most Important Events - Condensed for the Perusal of the Busy - Man.

IN CONGRESS.

President Roosevelt announced that he would veto the naval appropriation bill should the senate, as did the house, fail to make any appropriation for the two battleships which are authorized in the measure. Consequently Senator Hale gave notice that he would propose an amendment appropriating $7,000,000 towards the construction of those ships.

Speaker Cannon’s resolution providing for an investigation of the paper trust was adopted by the house by a strict party vote.. The speaker then announced the committee of six to conduct the inquiry, as follows: Mann (I 11. Stafford (Wis.), Ryan (N. Y.), Miller (Kan.), Bannon (0.), and Sims (Tenn.). President Roosevelt signed the employers’ liability bill after Attorney General Bonaparte had declared it constitutional. : ’

The house committee on banking and currency voted to lay on' the table the financial bill offered by Representative Vreeland of New York as a substitue for the Aldrich bill, and decided td report favorably the:bill introduced by Chairman Fowler, providing for a currency commission.

The house by a party vote upheld Speaker Cannon’s summary action in squelching the filibusters. - The house committee on, banking and currency voted unanimously to table the Aldrich financial bill. It also was decided to give a hearing to Representative Vreeland of New York, who recently introduced a financial bill. : -

The senate passed the Overman bill providing that injunctions against the enforcement of state laws can only be issued by a majority of three federal judges who are to pass upon them. The senate confirmed the nomination of John S. Leech of Illinois to be public printer to succeed Charles A. Stillings. ' '

PERSONAL. : A writ of habeas corpus was granted at White Plains, N. Y., by Justice Morschauser on application of Harry K. Thaw. - Rev. Dr. Russell J. Wilbur, former dean of the Chicago cathedral, left the Episcopal church and entered- the Catholic church. Ferd Warner, member of the house of delegates of St. Louls, was convict@ed of bribery by a jury and sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary William Cooke, husband of Grace MacGowan Cooke, the well-known authoress, filed suit for &bsolute divorce charging desertion. Preliminary steps were taken for the release of Harry K. Thaw from the insane asylum by habeas corpus. Gov. Deneen granted -~ reprieve to June 12 to Herman Billik of Chicago, condemned poisoner. - Henry M.. Cake of Portland, Ore., was nominated on the Republican ticket for United States senator, defeating Senator Charles W. Fulton. GENERAL NEWS. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., with Capt. Fitzhugh Lee, the president’s military aide, and Capt. Chandler of the signal corps, in charge of the experiments with army ballooms, made an ascension from Washington, landing safely near Wilmington, Del. ° Six hundred editers and publishers gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York to attend the joint banquet of the Associated Press and the American Newspaper Publishers’ association. : . 3

Two men were killed, several injured and the electric light plant in ‘Waukegan, 111., destroyed when a huge fly wheel broke from its shaft.

The village of Mosinee, Wis., was reported to be surrounded by forest fires and in great danger of destruction.

Representatives Tawney of Minnesota and Chaney of Indiana were injured in a street car collision in Washington. : Nine men were killed and 15 hurt when a work train was wrecked near Laquin, Pa. At Warrensburg, Mo., F. O. Hawes, 22 years old, while temporarily insane, shot and killed Marshal James Ryan and Night Watchman Basbahn, and mortally wounded Night Watchman R. P. Pollock. He was shot and killed himself by a negro porter for a local hotel. ;

‘The, American battleship fleet was divided and anchored in four harbors of Los Angeles. ' Mrs. Jessie Llewellyn Call, daughter of ex-Gov. Llewedlyn of Kansas and a well-known newspaper Wwriter, committed suicide in Chicago because of ill health. Union labor at meetings throughout the country protested against recent supreme court decisions and demanded that congress pass certain bills. A recelver was appointed for the Odell Brokerage company of Cincinnati, one of the largest concerns of the kind in the country. . Dr. Lucy Hagenow, a Chicago midwife, was sentenced to 20 years in the zmmry for causing the death of , Jesse W. Osborne of Kokomo, Ind., ~ beart, Fairy McClain Miller, in & jeal-

The home for rich women reduced to needy circumstances, built and furnished by the widow of Charles Osborne, the Wall street banker, was dedicated at Rye-on-the-Sound, N. Y. Harvard defeated Annapolis Naval academy in the eight-oared shell race. Father J. H. Kiel of Holy Name parish, near Hamel, Minn.,"was drowned while out rowing. Two new White Star line steamers, which will be the largest vessels yet projected, will be laid down at Belfast next June.

INDIANA.

Mercy hospital in Big Rapids, Mich., was destroyed by fire. All the patients in the institution and the 40 sisters -of mercy were rescued uninjured. ' : > The business section of Vergennes, 111., was wiped out by fire. : S Instructions for William H. Taft were refused by the state and Second district conventions of New Hampshire. ; William Wolcott and Charles Wolcott, brothers, of Milan, Mich., were instantly killed near Dearborn, Mich., when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Michigan Central train.

The bark of Wauseon, at Wauseon, 0., closed its doors because of heavy withdrawals. g

The grand jury in Kansas City returned indictments against 142 actors, managers and employes of local playhouses for violating the Sumday laws. The Alberta government has issued a warrant for the arrest of Capt. Sarbottle, who disappeared recently and is said to be $7,000 short in his accounts as collector of inland revenue for that province. - Striking high school students at Maysville, Ky., struck Superintendent Clurgir with missiles while he was trying to induce them to return to their desks. In town: elections in Illinois the saloons won in 66 places and the *““drys” in 44. :

Gold, silver and lead, valued at $5,000, were found in an abandoned pile of brick where stood an old smelter at Argentine, Mo. The board of aldermen of Rockford, 111.,, adopted a resolution providing for an investigation into graft charges against several members of their body. Three vagrants expelled from Shawnee, OKkla. fell off a raft and were drowned in the Indian river. Forty-one persons were killed and 60 injured in a railway collision near Mebourne, Australia. Turkey conceded Italy’s rights to establish post offices in Turkish territory and the Italian squadron did not sail for Asia Minor.

N. D. Harlan and W. E. Valk, former clerks in the land office, testified in the land fraud case in Washington that they were paid large sums of money for expediting land deals and for divulging information about boundaries of proposed forest reserves. The bravery and coolness of John Truby, an employe of the Adams Express company at Oil City, Pa., prevented a burglar from getting a package containing $20,000. Several shots were- exchanged between Truby and the robber. : Maybelle F. Strawmski died at the Riverside hospital, New York, from a pin prick in her thumb which resulted in septicaemia. - Three-year-old Mildred Wilson of Upper Sandusky, O. was killed by eating headache tablets. A special grand jury exonerated the officers of New York traction companies of criminal actions but scored the companies for making political contributions. : .

The prince of Wales will visit Quebec in July to dedicate the monument on the plains of Abraham of Gens. Wolfe and Montcalm, who lost their lives there. President Castro is to install a wireless telegraph service in five Venezuelan cities. : Oriental ‘limited No. 2, the Great Northern’s fast passenger train, eastbound, was wrecked and burned near Summit, Mont. Burglars dynamited a safe in the grain store of Youland & McManus at Lynn, Mass., and escaped with $l,BOO. King Edward and Queen Alexandra started on a visit to Copenhagen, Stockholm and Christiania. 3

Too proud to accept aid from -his countrymen, Prince Constantine Paleologue of Greece, who is related to many of the royal families of the old world, is seeking employment in New York.

Mistaken for burglars, John and William D. Frank, sons of R. O. Frank, an East side grocer in Columbus, 0., were -shot and killed by City Patrolmen Heinz and Casey. An Italian squadron set out for the purpose of making a demonstration in Turkish waters. The squadron comprises 19 warships, carrying 7,000 men. The difficulty between the two nations arises out of the refusal of the Turkish government to permit the installation of Italian post offices in Turkish territory, though they are maintained by other nations.

The eighty-sixth anniversary of Gen. U. 8. Grant’s birthday was observed in New York, Secretary Taft, Andrew Carnegie and Leslie M. Shaw addressing a meeting in the Metropolitan temple. . James Lally, charged with the mur der of Herbert Johnson, & newspaper man, was burned to death in a fire which destroyed the jail at Seneca, Kan.

With the dawn of Easter Sunday, Pope Pius’ decree on marriage, emphasizing the sanctity of the relation, went into effect in every Roman Catholic parish in this country. 3 Rev. George W. Tomson, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Woodbury, N. J., shot and killed himself because of a scandal following the announcement of his'engagement to a wealthy widow. : OBITUARY. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, former British premier, died at his oficial residence, 10 Downing street. Jokn MeNabb, the oldest man in Canacda, died on the shores of Lake Maniioba. He was bporn in western Canada in 1800. ; : A. L. Withington, president of the Society for Savings of Cleveland, the largest savings bank in Ohio, i§ dead. W. Brentwood Smith, a member of the banking firm of Winthrop, Smith & Co., of Philadelphia, died, aged 86 years. e s

ODDITIES IN SHANGHAI H:m.. R.:.t.ew.,:”

! . (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) When I first arrived in Shanghai it was something of a shock to hear our honorable consul general say to the boy when sending upstairs for a friend to come down to my room, ‘“Boy, g 0 topside, look-see can ketchee Mr. M. Sposie have got, tellee come downgide,” to which the boy answered as seriously, “Can do,” ahd disappeared. " A story is told in Shanghai of a Russian diplomat who fell in love with & charming German lady. Unfortunately neither could speak the other’s language and were at a standstill as to how they were going to conduct the love-making. They could both talk pigeon English, however, and fell back on that. When anyone in China makes a contract they say “Can:putee in book,” sq the Russian, looking unutterable love at his fair lady, cooed softly, “My likee you—sposee you likee my, can putee im book?” To which she shyly answered, “Can do,” and they were married. : . * . » * «

I found that in point of advancement in the drama the Chinese could not be compared with the Japanese. The stage is merely a raised platform with a row of gas lights across the front, each little jet blinking forJornly at the top of a piece of pipe that sticks bravely up for four or five fnches. Another row of lights is over the stage, and at the back two curtained doorways complete fhe entire stage arrangements. : The play begins at seven, and shortly after that time the tables on the ground floor are fully occupied By Chinese sipping the tea that is an inevitable part of every entertainment, social_call or business meeting. Ohe dollar, Mexican, pays the entrance fee, entitles one to a place at one of the tables, a program and tea all the evening. Extra refreshments, such as fruit, nuts, sweets and the

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übiquitous melon seed, are charged at the rate of 20 cents a bowl.

The attendants who keep renewing the tea cups do so by adding hot water, never more tea, but the pinch of tea leaves in the bottom of each cup seem to possess wonderful powers of endurance. :

In the balcony, that eontains the best seats, for which extra charge is made, people sit by the railing, which is broadened out into a sort of table. On this they lean, and place their tea and refreshments. The waiters walk about 6n a narrow platform outside of the balcony rail, dispensing the hot water and eatables, occasionally passing around mnapkins scalding hot with steam, that are considered very refreshing for wiping the bhands and face. Chinamen and their wives attend the theater together, the only public

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He Prances in Curvetting Handsomely. place where & man is seen with his wife. She is always spoken of by him as “my little stay-at-home,” when he doesn't politely refer to her as “my dull thorn” or “my stupid one.”

1 saw omne Chinese lady, richly dressed and thickly painted, sitting demurely beside her imposing: looking husband. She was smoking a beautiful .gold water pipe that my Chinese friend assured me cost no less than $3OO, in gold, or nearly $6OO Mexican. A strange distinction is . made by serving with special cups: women who are notorious. The attendants are supposed to know them all, and when they come in attended by their Chinese gallants, instead of receiving their tea in the flowered cups that everyone else has, they are served in cups of plain green china. . * . * - . 2 - The play is well under way when we ’ R ¥

enter, and painted and gorgeously robed actors are shrieking (apparently out of the top of their heads) in falsetto voices.

The progress of the play is highly amusing to a foreigner, for, there being no curtain, the actica is never interrupted even though the stage hands are on the stage quite as much as the actors. = : -This seems at first rather a useless performance, but after awhile one realizes that if an actor didn’t give some idea of who he was, and what he fintended to do, it would be difficult to pick him out and follow his performance amid the confusion and bustle of stage hands arranging or removing properties and make-believe scenic effects.

Though there is no scenery there are crude attempts at properties. For instance, a piece of muslin laid down to represéent a river; a curtain hung from two bamboo poles held by coolies is a temple gate; draped chairs and tables are rocks and mountains, and a beat is made of two chairs with a pit of cloth stretched between. When an actor is supposed to enter on horseback he prances in, curvetting handsomely. - The whole performance is singularly reminiscent of childish dﬁys, when “let’s pretend” turned everything to exciting realities. When the actor has_informed the audience what he is going to do he retires, and then makes his proper entrance, going through all the details as he has promised them. As he climbs over the mountains, or gets out of his boat, the stage hands quickly remove them, or, should he enter the temple gate, it immediately walks off, for its usefulness is over, and it must give way to the next scenic representation, which will be arranged as the need for it arises. When an actor dies or is slain in combat he has a most impressive death scene, wriggling all over the stage, to the great delight of the audience, who do not seem to perceive any incongruity when he gets up, after he is thoroughly dead, even to the last little shiver, and calmly walks off.

The actors either wear masks of painted silk or gauze, or else paint their own faces with water colors and a brush until all semblance of a human face is obliterated. There are no actresses, men assum: ing every part. When they make up for women they wear wigs and put blocks of wood under their feet to counterfeit the proper walk of ladies swaying along on their “Golden Lillies,” as the Chinese admiringly style the dreadful little hoof-like feet a Chinese woman spends years of torture in obtaining. There are numerous traveling theatrical companies in China, and thes& generally pitch their tents in the temple courts, thus affording the peo

ple opportunity to kill two birds with one stone .and combine amusement with religion. If one can endure a Chinese theater until the end of the performance, the deafening orchestra, and the falsette voices, he' will find that two ushers come to the front of the stage and announce that the play is finished. Chinese plays never end in any culminating climax, indicating to the people that all is ended, so this announcement is really necessary. - The plays generally abound in preposterous heroes and characters, though occasionally a scene of home life will be represented, giving a foreigner an insight into customs, absolutely unattainable in any other way. But with their faces painted out of all human semblance, ‘their exaggerated and unnatural voi¢es, walk and manner, together with a constant jumble of properties and stage hands, with their feeble make-believes, combine in producing a most amusing and absurd ensemble.

We were not altogether sorry that we had endured unto the end, though the boredom was beyond anything I can remember. We kept our seats, mentally d¢lassing ourselves with the caller who, with a winning smile, said to the little girl who occupied the study while her father, an eminent literary man, was at dinner: , “I suppose, my dear, that you assist your papa by entertaining the bores?” “Yes, sir,” replied the little girl, gravely, “please be seated.” I Know of only one: thing fn China that is funnier, and that is a practice drill of soldiers, which may actually be seen within 200 miles of Shanghali. Here they use weapons of a pattern as ancient as the first .Crusaders, spears with triple points and battle axes on long poles. A row of soldiers armed with these antique curlos stand behind a row squatting on their heels and armed with rifies of the vintage of the American civil war. In front of these a third row of men lie flat like sharpshooters, also armed with the same venerable firearms, When the word of coramand {s given they “make ready” and ‘take aim,” but at the word “fire!” not a trigger {8 pulled, each man says “boom!” with that sublime indifference to the ridiculdus and childlike faith in nmake-beljeve that distinguishes the theaters. : i ‘When an officer was asked why such a performance was alDowed he said it kept the men busy and under discipline and didn’t waste powder. To see a whole company of men ga through this absurd performance again and again as soberly and conscientiously as if really shooting is the most excruclatingly funny thing to be seen in China, compared te ‘which the theater is a poor second '

OUR HEAVENLY HOME

Sunday School Lesson for May 3, 1908 Specially Prepared for This Paper

LESSON TEXT.—John 14. Memory verses 2, 3. : GOLDEN TEXT.—*“In my Father's housé are many mansions.”—John 14:2. TlME.—Thursday evening, April 6, A. D. 30. Jesus’ farewell discourse with his disciples was spoken the evening before his crucifixion. I PLACE.—An upper room in Jerusalem. Comment and Suggestive Thought. The world and everything in it, is a bundle of needs. Everything is hungry. The ground greedily drinks in the rain atd the sun, The tree stretches its hungry roots into the soil and its hungry leaves into the air. Your house is a focus for incoming supplies, of coal, and food, and a thousand luxuries. Every man is hungry for bread, and air, and knowledge, and love. : This sense of need in man is a good thing. Without it, there could be no life, no growth. When a child is not hungry, its parents justly begin to fear for its health. When the soul does not see its needs, it is in a sad condition. )

Perhaps the chief cause of the disciples’ trouble was Christ’s predicted departure into the Great Unknown. See John 13:36. All that have seen their dear ones slipping from sight understand that one of the principal human needs and desires is to know whither they have gone, and if there is to be a reunion. s

Christ answered that question for them and for us. . 1. By revealing heaven as a place, his Father’ house. Heaven is a homelike place, familiar and dear, with lights shining for us in the windows, and the Father waiting for us at the open door. ; 2. By revealing heaven as a place of private, personal abodes, not a vast caravansary. In it “are many mansions,”. “abiding-places,’”” “mansions” coming from manere, to remain. These are permanent homes, not transient abodes like ours on earth.

3. By revealing heaven as a large place, with maay mansions—room for . all. ‘“Heaven will contain immense throngs without being crowded. Its . children will te as the grains of sand that bar the ocean’s waves, or the stars that begem the vault of night. Yet there is room! The many mansions are not all tenanted.”—F. B. Meyer. 4. By revealing heaven as a prepared place; prepared, moreover, by the one best able to make it delightful, since he is the creator of all 'delightful things on earth, and thoroughly knows our tastes and desires. 5. By revealing heaven as the place of communion with Christ, That was ’ the purpose of his going, which saddened his disc’iples———toamake ready -a place to which he could bring them sfor a fellowship without: any more: parting. + 6. By insisting that what was left unrevealed concerning the hereafter is to be thought of as joyful and not grievous. “If it were not so,” if heaven were not this warm, loving, homelike, beautiful place, “I would have told you,” would have warned you and prepared you. . | It is not enough to know the truth about God, or be in the way to God, or even to have the d_iéine life in us; the. human soul longs after God himself. Our Lord met this need by disclosing the final, supreme truth, that he was God: “If ye had known me,’— -recognized my true nature—‘‘ye should have known my Father also.” For Christ was the complete image of the Father. But this answer did not, satisfy Philip. .He wanted some mar-' velous vision of God such as Moses .saw on Horeb. “Perhaps of all the disciples Philip was the least recep- | tive and the slowest to comprehendthe thoughts and, spiritual beauty of the Master. He was the materialist of the company.”—Rev. J. -G. Greenhough. b Christ emphasized the great truth, his oneness with the Father.

1.. By reminding Philip of the long time he had been with Christ—for he had been among the first disciples—and of all the evidences he had seen of Christ’s divinity. 2. By sspecifyingi these evidences, beginning with ‘“the words’™ he had spoken, the wonderful parables, the beatitudes, the model prayer, the sermons, the private conversations—words so gracious, wise, and powerful that they must come from God. 3. By naming also' the works he had done, the long series of convincing ‘miracles, showing such a mastery of nature, disease, and death as only God could possibly possess. : 4. By a personal appeal: “Believe me” when I tell you “that I.am in the Father, and the Father in me.” Christ here turns to all the disciples, for “beliove” is in the plural, and urges them to consider his credfbility. Was he the kind of man to lie? to indulge in empty boasts? to be guilty of what, if false, would be a horrible blasphemy? : The character of Christ, even more strongly than his miracles, proves the truth of his claim to divinity. - 6. By a warning (v. 28) that they were not to expect to see in the Man Christ the awful and splendid majesty of Jehovah. In Christ's human body, to be sure, dwelt “all the fullness of the Godhead bodily” (Col. 2:9); but its outward manifestation was clogged by fleshly limitations, by our human infirmities which Christ took upon him, so that he must say, while in the flesh: “My Father is greater than 1.” This answered Philip’s difficlllty. ; v, EF " -Diamond Earrings for Poodle. Paris.—One of the best-known professional beauties of Paris succeeded in creating a sensation in the Boulevard Haussmann by means of a tiny poodle the other day. This was not due to the fact that the latter’s collar was ornamented with a score of ‘golden coins, nor to the fur coat with a pocket from which a small lace handkerchief was visible, nor to the india-rubber shoes the dog wore, but to two pairs of diamond earrings that glittered, one at the top and the other ‘Bt the end of the poodle’s ears.

ARE MAKING TOWN TO ORDER.

Prince Rupert Will Be the Greatest Model City Yet Built.

A Boston firm of landscape architects has been awarded the contract for making the general plans for the model city which the Grand Trunk Pacific railroad is to build in Britisk Columbia as the Pacific terminus of the great new railroad system which is now being built across Canada. The contract is one of the largest ever given for a similar undertaking, says the Village. As yet there is only a small settlement where it is intended a large and important commercial and manufacturing city will be built. The settlement is on Kaien Island and the new city will be kncwn as Prince Rupert. . : Tl;e area which is available for the site. comprises between seven and eight square miles, although only a small part of this will be developed within the near future. The island is of considerable size, but only about one-third will be available because of the mountain, Mount Hays, which rises to an elevation of 2,300 feet near the center of the island. The railroad will cross from the mainland to Porpoise Island and then to Kaien Island by means of bridges, the first of which will be about a quarter of a mile in length and the second some 200 feet long. Already a dock 'a thousand feet long has been con- | structed along a part of the waterfront and it is planned to extend this for a much longer distance. The shores are very bold and this will aid greatly in preparing places for shipping and also keep down the cost of building docks.

It is said to be the plan to have the shipping and wholesale business on the first level, which rises to 75 or 100 feet; the retail business and the public buildings on the second level, which is some 200 feet high, and forms a sort of ridge, and the residences still further back on a third level of about 100 feet elevation.

Ample provision for parks will be made. There is-an excellent chance for one on a central elevation, another at Point Hays, named, like the mountain, in honor of the president of the railroad, Charles M. Hays of Montreal, and a third at the southwestern end of the city. s

It is probable that Digby Island, just to the ?estward of Kaien Island, will be developed for residences, a purpose for which it is admirably adapted. The expenditures which are contemplated by the railroad company at this place alone will total many millions if present plans are carried out.

Prince Rupert is situated within 50 miles of the southern extremity of Alaska and 551 miles north of Vancouver, at the .very entrance to the salmon fishing grounds. It is in the immediate vicinity of a large number of canneries which send their prod ucts to all parts of the world. Near at hand are the famous halibut fishing grounds. : Already there is considerabe activity on behalf of the railroad, and recently a contract was let for clearing 2,000 acres of land at $220,000.

Only the Runner-Up.

The best man thought he’d take a look around and see that everything was running as a fastidious bride would wish it, and up in the room where the presents were displayed, alone and unhappy-looking, he came upon a youth, seemingly ready, like the wedding guest of the English poet, to “beat his breast.” He was wandering about, looking at silver and cut glass without seeing them, and the best man hardly knew. how to approach him. “Br—have you Kkissed the bride?” he asked, at last. - And the answer told far more than its two meager words mught have been expected to. It was: “Not lately!”— Lippincott’s. :

A Cure for His Trouble.

“Doctor,” said the woman :whose husband owed everybody in town, “John’s in a very bad way. I've been trying to get him to come to see you, but he’s so obstinate, you know, and so I've made up my mind to see you myself and ask whether you think you can do anything for Mmoo ) “What are his symptoms?” /

“Oh, he’s awfully nervous. He never seems to settle down to anything.” “H'm! That’s bad. That puts him in an awful predicament. When a man gets.so that he can neither settle down nor settle up, the only thing I can recommend is travel. Better take what things you can move . conveniently and start on a long journey sometime when nobody’s looking, I won't let on:”’

- Willing to Try Again. : “Jedge,”’ said the old darky, “you been a married man a long time?”

" *Yen' b “An’ you experience is jest an wise?” : ‘

“T hope so. Why?” ; “Well, suh, 1 got a ’oman ter say she’ll marry me—one dat’s willin’ ter rige airly an’ make a livin’ fer de ol man—dat’s why.” “Biit—you® are a very ‘old man. Were you ever married?” “Qh, yes, suh,” was the reply, “in Tennessee an’ Alabama; but both er 'um tried to rule me, an’ so I lef 'um fo' I got experienced good; but r'll say dis much, I hez never yit tried de married state in Georgy!’— Atlanta Constitution. W d

A few years ago many Boers were emigrating form the Transvaal in preference to enduring the monstrous oppression which they were sure the British government was about to impose upon them, says the New York Tribune. And now one of the foremost of them appeals to the British government for- protection for his family from the unjust and cruel treatment which he declares is prevalent in another country and under another flag. Truly the times have changed since “Oom Paul” threatened to await the coming of the invader, seated on the stoop of his house, elephant gun in hand. : ‘ Cause and Effect. “Yes,” said Mrs. Nexdor, ‘my daughter is very persevering in her pianoplaying. Lo you nolice that sne’s improving?” & : ’ “No,” replied Mrs. Peppery, “and 1 also notice that my husband's temper 't S

THE GALL OF THE SOIL. sl : DAYS OF FINANCIAL STRESS MAKE FARM LANDS LOOK : ‘ RICH. . o el A staft contributor of a southern newspaper has taken up the question of the return to the farm of many whd had forsaken it for the glitter of the city. He says: “It is'a well known fact that the history of this Government shows that those men who have been wmost successful in life and who have left their impress upon its people and its institutions as statesmen, soldiers, financiers—have as a rule been those whose youth was spent on the farm, and it is to such as these that there comes with overmastering power THE CALL OF THE SOIL. More especially does it come with redoubled persuasiveness, greater power and sweeter pleading to the man of affairs “when the clouds of financial unrest begin to darken the sky; when the cry of panic causes people to lose their wits and act like stampeded cattle; when with reason or without reason there arises before him the specter of ruin, grinning in-his face and waving its gaunt arms in threatening gesticulation. : s

The pitiable state into which somg men were brought by the recent financial flurry, which happily ‘is now passed, suggests these re!_lections. Some were ruined and a very few became insane because -of their losses. Two or three took their own lives. It is when such times come that the statesman, the great financier, and the man of affairs becomes tired of the struggle. He lays down his pen, turns from his desk -and listens. to the CALL OF THE SOIL. e There are hundreds of cases throughout the United States of those who have money in the banks and are looking for investment #n lands. No investment is better or safer. Take, for instance, thé lands in Western Canada that tan be bought at from $lO to $l5 per acre which yield a revenue equal to and often- greater than their criginal cost. Those lands make a certain investment. - During the past two months large investments in ithese lands have been made, some in- 1 tending to use the lands for farming purposes of their own. Others to re- | sell to farmer friends. The agents of the Government of Canada located at different points.throughout the United States® have in their possession particulars of districts in which: there are . free homestead grants of 160 acres each accessible to railways, markets, schools, churches, &c. These are valuable lands. These agents will be pleased to give information to any desirous of sécuring, and will tell all about the railway rates,s&c ‘

HE COULD BE TRUSTED.

Youngster “Made Good” Before Temptation Was Put in His Way.

A train from the north pulled into the station at Charlottesyille, Va. An elderly man thrust his head out of a window of a day coach and summoned a little colored boy. The following colloquy ensued: B “Little boy, have you a mother?” - “Yassuht® .= -~ C . “Are you faithful to your studies?” “Yassuh.” : F “Do you go to Sunday school?” “Yassuh.” e ; “Do you say your ; prayers every night?” e ! : “Yassuh.” “Can'l trust you to do an errand for me?” ' < “Yassuh.” : r : :

“Well, here’s five cents to get me a couple of apples.”—Success :Magazine. ¥ ;

FROM SUNNY ORANGE GROVES.

The Twice-Told Experience of a‘San Bernardino, Calif., Man. From Sunny San Bernardino, in the midst of orange groves, writes Lionel . . - M. Heath of 158 =3 Eighth Street; “For g \ fifteen -years I suf- :"( % - fered with palns in =o) my back, frequent Eout calls to pass the se:»ﬂ cretions, dropsy, rheuE7\ © Wy matic achesand other \ wm' ( Q\\ symptoms of Kkidney i trouble. I ¢ould get no relief until I used Doan’s Kidney Pills. They cured me five years ago, and thig is twice I have publicly said so. The cure was thorough.” Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. . SHOCK. ; n N & - \", AL & ‘,. 4by 3 5 , \“ \“ﬁi"" L b % : l‘ ~ George—Something is preying on my mind. Mrs. Sharp—Ah, “something” merely wanted a light lunch, I presume. ' How's This? S w.mrmaundndnﬂhnmm" eass of Catarrh that caonot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. L g 7 ¥.J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. ‘We, the und , have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 m believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially sble to earry out any obligasions made by his irm. gu.m-e. KINNAN & MARVIN, : ‘Whoiesale Druggists, Teledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken intermally, acting et o e ian o Feice e e The Poet’s Error. : “Ot course,” said the poet's friend, “he has his faults, but he’s a true poet. He gives his life to the service of the muses—" - s = o - “Yes,” put in the critic, “but seems to make the mistake of supposing that Bacchus is one of the muses.” Enm'ig‘o car;r“ultl‘y’ 'gvoe‘rr';‘rb.étﬂq &t CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it _ Bears the o~ o= : s s« s s " The Kind You Have Always Bought.

-~ THE LIVING RODM, it Should at All Times Be a “Livable® : ROOH!. ‘ What to do with the living room i® a problem that confronts every housekeeper. The living room should be in fact as well as in name a living room—a livable room. It is the room in which the most of our time at home is spent, the hours we have for leisure, the time we have for play, the place where we entertain our friends and it is absolutely essential ‘that the walls and furnishings of the living room should be harmonious in color, suitable in texture, and durable in material.

" The rich, soft, so6lid colored walls are the ideal walls for the living rooms. They make a better back ground for pictures, throw the furniture out in better relief, are less discordant with rugs and carpeting, and indicate a higher degree of taste and culture than do the colored monstrosities which we paste on when we apply wall paper. - : Who ever saw roses climbing up a plastered wall growing out of a hardwood floor? Yet, that is what we suggest to the imagination when we paste paper covered with roses on our walls. They are neither artistic nor true. Roses are all very beautiful, -but they were never made to climb up interior walls and they do not grow from hardwood flooring. The set figures of wall paper are alsc tiresome and equally disagreeable and repellant. . The alabastined wall is the only correct form of a tinted or solid colored wall. Fortunately it is the only clean way, and more fortunately it is the only permanent way; the only way . that does not involve the endless labor in the future.

In lighting the walls some thought must be given the color. Light colore reflect 85% of the light thrown upon them. Dark colors reflect but 15%. Lighting bills can be saved by choosing a color which will reflect the largest degree of light. In north rooms use warm colors or colors which reflect light. In south and west rooms sometimes the light can be modified by the use of darker colors. Dark greens absorb the light; light yellows reflect it; browns modify it, and so on, through the scale .of colors. The color scheme of & rcom not only is dependent upon the color of the carpetings but it is also dependent upon the light of the rooms.

CONCERNING THE OLD MAN.

e hgﬂtlﬂ?\ PAWHATIS | o AT e e 7 ™ ; SR Z ; ’{/|) 5 4 L “ / : = e N 9/, ) 7 e ‘JJ : L ‘\ 2. e N ey £ @ 1} A man whose boy comes home from school and wants help on his lesson realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing. ' Garfield Tea, the herb medicine, insures a healthy action of liver, kidneys, stomach and bowels. Take it for constipation and sick-headache. Write Garfield Tea Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., for free sarfiples. We pré’pare ourselves for sudden deeds by the reiterated choice of good or evil—George Eliot. . Léwis’ Single -Binder Cigar has a rich taste. .Your dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, Il " Let him who would move the worl@ first move himself.—Socrates.

THE COME AND SEE SIGN

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This sign is permanently attached to the front of the main building of the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, Lynn, Mass. : ‘What Does This Sign Mean ? It-means that public i;:ﬁection of the Laboratory and metheds of doing business is honestly desired. It means that there is nothing about the business which is not “open and aboveboard.” It means that a permanent invitation is extended to anﬁone to come and verify any and all statements made in the advertisements of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Is it a purely vegetable compound made from roots and herbs — without drugs ? 3 Come and See. ; Do the women of America continually use as much of it as we are told ? Come and See. : Tydin . Piakham, and is there any am, and is there an M‘;s. Pinkham now to whom sm{ woman are asked to write? ; Come and See. Is the vast private correspondence with sick women conducted by women only, and are the letters kept strictly confidential? Come and See. » Have they really got letters from over one million, one hundred thousand women correspondents? OTave thar: pioal: that Tydls B. ave Pinkham’s ’Je table Compound has cured shomng‘ of these women? Come and See. : 5 This advertisement is only for doubters. The great army of women bloid sl gRO R grron ‘world equals Lydia_ %’u ‘nggmﬁ > Compound for female ills S e e o g efited by 1t; but the poor doubting, S e SRR RS I T Bi R RT e