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LIGONIFR,

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

IN CONGRESS.

A spirited attack on prohibition was made by Representative Richard Bartholdt of Missouri before the house committee on the District of Columbia, which has under consideration the Sims bill providing for prohibition in the district.

As a result of a series of conferences between .Republican leaders in the house, Representative Vreeland of New York introduced a new currency bill. .

The president’s special message was read in both branches of congress. " The senate passed the pension and District of Columbia appropriation bills.

The senate passed the naval appropriation bill after rejecting Senator Piles’ amendment authorizing four battleships by the vote of 50 to 23.

President Roosevelt sent to congress a special message in which he expressed pleasure at the passing of the employers’ liability bill, rapped the injunction abuse, commended ef- - forts to secure a child labor law, asked a statute tending toward national incorporation and in conclusion aimed a shaft at the “wealthy citizen whose theme is extravagance, whose son is a fool and whose daughter is a forelgn princess.” Senators Piles and Beveridge argued earnestly for four new battleships, ithe former urging that a fleet ijpe:kept in the Pacific. The house passed more than a thousand pension bills.'

Representative Lilley admitted to the special house committee that his charges against the Electric Boat company were based on rumers.

PERSONAL.

Robert W. Gott pleaded guilty at Cincinnati to the murder of Dr. Leo Danziger, a prominent physician, and

was sentenced to ten years in sthe

penitentiary. Thomas W. Frankham, cashier of the St. Paul and Western Coal company, of. St. Paul, Minn., is missing and is accused of embezzling $lO,OOO. J. Dalzell Brown pleaded guilty of embezzlement in San Francisco and was given 18 months in prison. Louis A. Gourdain, the former millionaire lottery king, escaped from. St. Elizabeth’s federal asylum for the insane at Washington. Mrs. Jennie A. Call, a Chicago matrimonial agerdt, was sentenced to the bridewell for a year for using the mails to defraud. £ - ) Gov. Davidson of Wisconsin fell on a polished floor and broke his left arm. William D. Haywood was dropped from the employ of the Western Federation of Miners. - :

Secretary of War Taft is preparing to go to the Isthmus of Panama in May. = T GENERAL NEWS. Two state conventions were held by Mississippi Republicans, one faction ndorsing the administration and the other Foraker. West Virginia Republicans instructed for Taft, and those of Pennsylvania for Knox, while Republicans of Vermont and Democrats of Connecticut °elected uninstructed delegations. . Al A plot of Koreans in San Francisco to murder Bishop Harris on his arrival from Korea was frustrated by the authorities. .

_ The battleship fleet left Santa Barbara on its way to Monterey.

Steps were taken in St. Louis to form a $300,000,000 combine of yellow pine companies. . .Part of the Standard Oil company's plant at Cleveland, 0., was burned, the loss being over $200,000. Following the suicide of Charles Coster, a prominent broker and society man, the firm of Coster, Knapp & Co., of which Mr. Coster was a member, announced its suspension on the’ floor of the New York stock ex¢hange. ; Bandits robbed the Scandia State bank of Crookston, Minn., of $B,OOO and terrorized the town.: -

-Returns from the districts in the south ravaged by tornadoes show that at least 350 lives were lost and 46 towns were badly wrecked. it was stated in London that two bags of mail from there, whose contents were valued at $500,000, were stolen in New York.The British cruiser - Gladiator collided with the American liner St. Paul off the Isle of Wight and was beached. Five of the cruiser’s erew are known to have perished and 23 are missing.

Catholics of the New York archdiocese began a week’s celebration of the church’s centennial in New York.

Robert Harrison and his six-year-old son, Thomas, were killed by lightning at their home near Huntington, W. Va. , : E. F. Carty, one of the aldermen of - Rockford, 111., accused of boodling, was arrested and two other councilmen resigned. At Lordsburg, N. M., Oliver Garri_son shot and killed his. wife, " shot George. Allen through the abdomen, vounding #im fatally, and then com- - Burglars dynamited the safe of ‘wille, Ik, taking about $1,600,

Ambassador Reid announced the engagement of his daughter Jean to Hon. John Hubert Ward, brother of the earl of Dudley. » _ Two seamen of the German battleship Elsass were killed and six others were wounded at Kiel, as the result of the explosion of a mine. - Mulai Hafid, the “Sultan of the South” in Morocco, suffered a defeat and fled. : Three thousand Christian = Armenians are reported to have been massacred by Kurds in the provinces of Persia recently invaded by Russian troops on a punitive mission. Several of the buildings on the Jamestown exposition grounds - were destroyed by fire. . : i The Japanese training cruiser Matsushima was sunk off the Pescadores islands by the explosion of a projectile. About 250 men, including the captain of the Matsushima, are lost. Mrs. Belle Gunness, 40 years old, and her three children, were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home near Laporte Ind., and Ray Lamphere, formerly in her employ, was arrested, : - o

INDIANA.

Nine men were killed and 30 persons injured in a collision of interurban trolley cars near Ypsilanti, Mich. Democrats of New Jersey refused to instruct their delegates for Bryan. Republicans of Colorado and Arkansas instructed for Taft. -

Three men were killed by an- explosion of the Egyptian Powder mills five miles from Marion, IIL.: - Mrs. Leonora Pierce and Miss Greyta Fulmer were arrested in Denver on a charge of swindling a blind woman out of $20,000 by spiritualistic seances. Four armed men held up guards who were conveying $lB,OOO from Welch to Dary, W.-Va,, to pay off the employes of the United States Coal and Coke| company. ‘ )

Safe-blowers robbed the People's State bank at Monterey, Minn., of $2,000. ’ A great gathering of the Catholic hierarchy assembled in the cathedral of New York and gave thanks for a century of Catholicism in that city. The, second Atlantic torpedo flotilla arrived at San Diego, Cal. The British torpedo boat destroyer Gala was cut in two and sunk in the North sea by the scout Attentive. One man was drowned.

Robert Bachman killed the little daughter of his brother-in-law, Henry Smith, of Alliance, Pa., while in a religious frenzy. Mrs. Helena Taraba of Chicago killed herself by leaping from a window of a hospital, where she was a patient. o ) Several men were injured by a boiler explosion on the British battleship Britannia. ’ Fifteen persons were drowned near Helena, Ark., by the capsizing of a steamer carrying members of a carnival company.

The attorney general of Towa ruled that the laws of that state did not per-

mit a corporation to engage in the retail sale of intoxicating liquors. Mrs. Sarah Brennan, a respected

resident of Brownville, N. Y. was murdered with an ax and her body concealed in a trunk, presumably by robbers. 3 S

Northern Wisconsin was. swept by violent gales accompanied by snow and severe cold.” ) Santa Barbara’s flower festival in honor of the Atlantic fleet of battleships began with a floral parade and battle of flowers.

Despondent because of ill health, Mrs. Ora Longmoor, the young wife of Jacob Longmoor, teller of the Third National bank of St. Louis, committed suicide’by shooting. - " Cleveland's street car troubles were ‘ended by a'consolidation of the various traction lines with the promise of three-cent fares. Lo

The secretary of the treasury announced a further call upon the national banks for approximately $45,000,000, $20,000,000 to be paid on or before May 9, and the remaining $25/000,000 on or before May 23, 1908. The tri-centennial of the coming of the Dutch to America was celebrated at Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y. ¢

‘Mr. and Mrs. Willard Stone and Boyd Ward were drowned at Muskegon, Mich. e

- The Banco Espanol-Filipino at Manila has been the vietim of extensive frauds, totaling over 75,000 pesos, or about $60,000 in gRd. 1

Half the little French hamlet of Notre Dame De Salette, 16 miles from Buckingham, Ont., on the Lievre river, was buried under a sliding mountain and!at least 30 of its small population are known to have perished. - A severe blizzard, with snow, gales and ¢old, raged over Great Britain, doing much damage. - : For the first time in 80 years, and the second time in the history of the science of medicine, an operation for the extraction of venom from the deadly lance-head viper, said to be the most poisonous of all known reptiles, was performed at the Bropx Zoological park in New York. The third of a teaspoonful of the fluid obtained will meet the demands of the medical world for 50 years. :

Fire in Joliet, 111., destroyed the Boston store and damaged an office building. Loss, $210,000. -

Herman H. Peters of Port Huyron, Mich.,, committed suicide hecause he lost $lO,OOO by the failure of the United Home Protectors’ fraternity. About 225 persons, mostly negroes, were killed and nearly 800 were injured in a tornado that swept over parts of Louislang, Missisgippi and Alabama. Dozens of small towns were wrecked.

The battleship fleet sailed from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara for a five days’ stay. ; Joseph Miller, a wealthy 01l operator of Butler, Pa., was shot by a burglar. : OBITUARY. Jerry Milhoun of Owaneco, 111., dropped dead of heart disease at Pana, wlile attending the funeral of hisg sister, Mrs. Lida Stevens. - John Edward Libbey, president, and Charles B. Church, vice-president, respectively of the Oldest Inhabitants’ association of the District of Columbia, died in Washington on the same day, g Jacob Kohlhaus, who founded the first sash and door factory in western Wisconsin in 1854, died in La Crosse. S

THE MYSTERY OF THE LAWS IN CHINA | The Funny Thnp One Sees Smiling Round the World |

(Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)

~ Shanghai has 12 precinct police stations and one court, known as the "Mixed Court,” because some representative of the several consulates sits each day with the Chinese magistrate.

I was introduced to the magistrate by Dr. Barchet, and found him very gracious, and ‘possessing a fair supply of English. He was dressed in full mandarin dress, brown satin coat, beautifully embroidered, and a black velvet hat turned up about the edge, and decorated with the button, the horse-tail and the peacack’s feathers that indicate a mandarin’s rank. . We went into the courtroom, everyone quickly took their places and the hearings began. All prisoners when brought before the magistrate must kneel during the entire proceeding. Though all the prisoners were Chinese, and the cases were conducted in that language, I could follow most of them, as the English sergeants preferred their charges to Dr. Burchet, who is a proficient Chinese scholar, and he in turn translated them to the magistrate. When a policeman brings a man before the court he drives him by his cue, and when he takes him away, he pulls him by it, or if there are several prisoners, he knots their cues together and pulls them along in a bunch. With such persuasion, a prisoner is not apt to hesitate long. - : For thieving, prisoners are sentenced to a certain number of strokes with the bamboo, or the cangue for 80 many hours a day—sometimes both together. : , The- cangue is a large square board that fits about their necks, and be-

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gides being very heavy and uncomfortable, is considered a great disgrace, for it has the prisoner’s name and crime pasted on it. In order to make the punishment more severe, tie prisoner is often condemned to be taken to the place where the crime was committed, and made to stand near the store or house where the nature of his crime, as well as his name are.plainly to be read by every passerby. This is a terrible punishment for them, for the Chinese are 'very sensitive about being publicly shamed, “losing face,” they call it.

In the afternoon I went back to the mixed court and saw some men bambooed. It was done in a different place from where the trials take place, being at one side of an open court, where a desk was placed, behind which the assistant magistrate sat. : -

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red sugar-loaf hats trimmed with blue, seat themselves on the prisoner’s feet and shoulders, the latter one clutching his cue. :

Two men with little flat .bamboo rods about a yard long squat each side, when one begins and delivers about 25 lashes—then rests, and the other takes it up, counting aloud as they beat. The prisoner howls and cries and begs, tears streaming from his eyes, for though it does not break the skin, it is extremely painful. The men sitting on the prisoner joke and laugh, the officers standing about carry on animated conversations, and as- this all takes place in a courtyard, open to the gtreet, children run in and out, playing and laughing, mothers with babies In their arms look stolidly en, the babies blinking solemnly, while a little crowd of curious men stand about the entrance. o

- - * - . { The mixed court, being jointly un~

der the furisdiction of foreigners, is necessarily more merciful and lenient than an unmixed Chinese court.

A gentleman told me of witnessing a courtroom scene in the interior of China, where a man who refused to confess was struck on the ankle bone with a mallet until he fainted from the hideous pain—the bone being crushed to a jelly. _ -

The most dreadful of all executions in China is the ling chee, or hundred cuts, where the condemned man is given 99 cuts on different parts of the body, contrived with such devilish cunning that death does not come until the last cut, reaching the heart, puts them out of their agony. This execution is only administered for three crimes; attempted assassination of the emperor or empress, the killing of father or mother or the killing of a husband by a wife. The killing of a wife by a husband is not so serious a matter. ;

In China a man must sign his own death warrant by inking his thumb and making the impression of it on the paper. Chinese law, when once it has a man in its clutches, is loath to give him up whether he be innocent or guilty. So if he does not sign the warrant willingly he is tortured until he does it in sheer desperation. Political prisoners, who are sentenced to banishment, seldom reach the place of their destination, for after such a sentence there is almost always an accident, either by the chair in which he is carried being tipped while on a bridge by one of the coolies stumbling and thrown into the river, where there is no hope of escape from the clumsy, tightly-closed affair, or else the banished one is mysteriously attacked by highwaymen and murdered.

All executions of any sort are free for anyone, man, woman or child, to witness. And the effect of that universal and deadly system of bribery is only too apparent, a system that saps the strength and ability of China to become a great country, for from one end of the kingdom to the other there is no disinterested desire for advancement; only a case of the big fish eating up the little ones—and no man so great that he cannot be bought. If a prisoner condemned to be beheaded will pay the executioner a fat bribe he may expect to be sent out of existence with neatness and dispatch after being heavily drugged with opium. But if he refuses, he must guffer a clumsy execution that will be attended by torture and pain before the end finally comes. Even in the simple

and less painful bambooing, a bribe will. induce the whipper to hold the bamboo stiff, causing much less pain than if allowed to bend and spring. The captain of a British barque lying off Canton described the execution of 29 pirates who had attacked a tug manned by coolies and slaughtered the greater part of them. As all executions are free to the public there was a general request by the crew of the barque for a holiday, and permission being granted by the captain, there was a general exodus to the shore..

It appeared that only those of the criminals who cogld not purchase ran.som were executed. Those who had $5O, or friends that could supply that sum, were liberated on payment of the same to the mandarin of the district. The luckless 29 had apparently neither friends nor money. So they were marshaled out of prison under a strong guard of soldiers; and, like the prisoners in our Sing Sing who are allowed for their last meal the best that the prison cuisime affords, these malefactors were furnished any mode of oyveyance at the disposal of the auorities to convey them to the place execution. The tondemned were marshaled in line, and required to kneel on ‘“all fours” before the mandarin and his suite. All knew the procedure, and there was no confusion. The headsman, armed with a keen, broad-bladed sword, stepped out. If this gentleman should fail to sever the head of his victim in three blows, his own would ve forfeit. But in this instance he did his work with both certainty and celerity. Approaching the first in line, he gave a swift, swinging blow on the back of the: neck and a decapitated ‘head reolled onto the sword. :

This dreadful system of bribery and “squeezing” is the canker at the heart of China. Everyone expects it from everyone else; even the childrén are not to be trusted. A Chinese woman sends her child to a chow shop, and weighs the food when it is brought home to see that her own child-is not “squeezing” her. :

In making change, the smallest boy, as salesman, will keep back two or three “cash.” Should you say: “How fashfon you steal my cash? You b’long allee same as t'lef,” he will indignantly answer: “My no b'long tief; my ketchie you watch, then b’long t'ief, but my just make little squeeze.” It would seem as if all the horrible punishments so publicly administered would effectually prevent even the most reckless and hardened from committing crime, but it doesn’t seem to do so, and the courts go on flourishing on the bribes extorted and the money pald by innocent people to keep out of court, for it is openly averred that a Chinese court of justice, among other delinquencies, is not even above blackmail. .

It is not surprising that among the people are such sayings as “Tigérs and snakes are kinder than judges or runners,” or “In life, beware of courts; is death, beware of helll” ; i

Mission of the - Holy Spirit

Sunday Schiool Lesson for May 10, 1908 Specially Prepared for This Paper

LESSON TEXT.—John 15:26—16:24. Memory verse, 13. s -~ GOLDEN TEXT.—“I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever.”—John 14:16. SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES. — The Holy Trinity: Matt. 28:19; Luke 1:35; John 20:22; Acts 5:32; 2 Cor. 13:14; Eph. 2:18, 22; 1 John 5:6-8; Rev. 22:17. Names of the Holy Spirit: John 15:26; Rom. 8:9; Gal 4:6; 1 Theés. 4:8; Heh. 9:14; 10:29; 1 Pet. 1: 11, 12; 4:14; Rev. 4:5. The Holy Spirit in the Old Testament: Gen. 1:2; 6:3; Ex. 31:1-3; Num. 27:18; Judg. 6:34; Neh. 9:20, 30; Job. 33:4; Psa. B51:11, 12; Isa. 32:15; 40:13; 44:3; Ezek. 11:5, 24; Joel 2:28; Mic. 2:7; Zech. 4:6; 12:10. Sins Against the Holy Sbirit: Matt. 12:31, 32; Mark 3:28, 29; Acts 5:3, 4; 7:61; 8:18-20; Eph. 4:30; 1 Thea 5:19; Heb. 10:29. The Holy Spirit and Prayer: Zech. 12:10; Luke 11:13; Acts 4:31; Rom. 8:26, 27; Eph. 2:18; 6:18; Jude 20. The Teacher and Transformer: Luke 12:12; John 3:5-8; 14:26; 16:13, 14; Acts 2:4, 38; 8:29, 39; Rom. 8:2, 11, 14, 16; 1 Cor. 2:4. 9-14; 8:16; 12:4-11; 2 Cor. 3:17, 18; 'Gal.. 5:16-25; 2 Pet. 1:21; Rev, 2:1 | The Comforter: John 14:16, 17; 16:7; Acts 9:31; Rom. 14:17; 15:13, 30; Gal. 6:8; Eph. 3:14-16; 4:3; 5:18. TlME.—Thursday evening, April 6, A. D 30 '

PLACE.—The upper room in Jerusalem.

Comment and Suggestive Thought.

This lesson, which follows immediately upon last Sunday’s, being another portion of our Lord’s last discourse to his disciples, is one of great and unique importance. “The promise of the Holy Spirit,” says Maurice, “is the characteristical one of these paschal conversations; it is that which distinguishes them from our Lord’s discourses to the multitude.” This was a promise to the disciples alone, for the world.outside (John 14:17) could not receive the Comforter, their hearts not being prepared for him. It was a promise precisely suited to the need of the disciples, in view of the coming Separation from their Lord. It taught them that there was to be no separation, but that Christ, in his Holy Spirit, would still be with them. Therefore it is a promise suited to the need of Christians of all ages, who long for a present guide, comforter, and upholder. The Holy Spirit is Christ’s successor among men; and therefore what can be more important for Christ’s followers than to know him, love him, and obey him? Our Lord disclosed him under five aspects: I. The Holy Spirit a witness to Christ (vs. 26, 27.) , 11. The Holy Spirit a comforter in trial (w 8 3.9 y, @ - ; 111. The Holy Spirit a judge of the world (vs. 8-11).

IV. The Holy Spirit a guide to truth (vs. 12-15).

V. The joy and power of the spirit’s reign (vs. 16-24). .

’ Christ foretold what the spirit would do in the world when he is come. He was to do three htings: 1. “Reprove” (R. V., “convict”) the world of (R. V., “in respect of”) sin. “By the world must be understood the yet unbelieving part of mankind, so denominated because it was far the larger part, when these words were spoken, as it still is.”—American.Commentary. The verb has a double sense, “of a convincing unto salvation, and a convicting unto condemnation.”—Alford. The sin of the world is “because they believe not on” Christ (v. 9). It is a notable proof of Christ’s divinity that he, the meek gnd lowly, should select this unbelief in himself as “the only sin worth mentioning. Yet, indeed, it is the root of all other sins whatsoever. It is the reigning as well as the damning sin of the world.”—George Whitefield. “The essence of sin is living to self. Belief in Christ is the surrender of self.”’— Alexander Maclaren, D. D. As belief of Christ is the beginning of all good for man, disbelief of him is the beginning of all evil. : : ' 2. The Holy Spirit would also convict the world in respect “of righteousness, because I go to my Father.” The first step in the spirit’s work is conviction of sin; the second is the exhibition 'of righteousness. “The life of Christ on earth as the pattern for all mankind being completed, the spirit makes known to man the nature of that life, and thus shows what the nature of righteousness is.”— Cambridge Bible. 3. The Holy Spirit would also convict the world in respect “of judgment, because the prince of this world is (R. V., “hath been”) judged.” “The prifce: of this world” (see John 12: 31; 14:30) is Satan, the ruler of all such forces of evil as Judas had now become. “Jesus knew that there was a personal devil. That settles it.”— ' Deems. “However ludricous vulgar superstitions may have made the notion, there is nothing ridiculous, nor anything which we have the right to call incredible, in Christ's solemn declaration that the kingdom of darkness has a king."—Alexander Maclaren, D. D. e ~ The judgment that the Holy Spirit gives is not only a condemnation and casting out of Satan, but it is an enlightenment of the righteous, so that they can form a just judgment regarding the works of the devil.. _ The spirit will guide us “into all truth.” “Dear children,” said old John Tauler (A. D. 1340), “the Holy Ghost will ‘not teach us all things in the sense that we shall bé given to know whether there will be a good harvest or vintage, whether bread will be dear or cheap, whether the present war “will come to an end soon. No, dear children; but ‘he will teach us all things which we can need for a perfect life”” And especially, “he ‘will shew you things to come,”—the revelation given to John; the constitution of the church, laid down by Paul’ and the other apostles’.

New Conception of Scotch Dialect. Some years ago the college entrance requirements in English called for the “careful study” of four or five English classics, one of which was Carlyle’s Egsay on Burns. The applicants for admission to a certain Pennsylvania college were asked to make an estimate of the literary value of Burns' poetry. One aspirant for freshman standing concluded his little essay with, the following remarkable gentence: “Burns would of been a far greater poet if he had not of used so muach slang.”—Harper's.

- REMINDS HIM OF HIB YOUTH. Recollections Come to Man at Sight of a Grindstone. : - . “Down in our back yard,” said the man who boards, “is a reminder of my boyhood, a survival of barefooted, epindle-legged - days. Item, 'a grindstone. ‘ s _“There’s. a boy in our house who turns that grindstone. Early and late he is down there fooling with it. He doesn’t have to turn it, that is why he is so passionately fond of the exercise. If he had to turn it as I did when a boy he could be induced to approach it only through the persuasive application of a stick or the end of a leather strap. The boy next door is his partner in these grindstone stunts. They sharpen knives. The next door boy holds the knife while our boy turns the crank. They have three different knives to work on. Apparently neither of these weapons is ever used for anything except grinding. They are the sharpest knives I ever saw. In the days when I turned a grindstone I turned to some good purpose. The men I turned for sharpened scythes and axes and butcher’s kuives and things, but none of those implements ever got one-half so sharp as the knives these boys own. : “Our hoy and the boy next door get a good deal of fun out of their grindstone, but they miss many of the in‘cidents tilat enlivened my own tussles with that deadly machine. They don’t have anybody to cuff them on the ear, for instance, and growl: ‘Hurry up, there, now. Turn fast till I put an edge on this scythe. It is clouding up, and we must get the rest of that grass cut and dried before the rain comes.” Or maybe it was the weight of an ax I was laboring under.. Unconsciously, or more likely consciously, I slowed up a bit and fell to daydreaming. But I didn’t dream long. A smart box on the near cheek and a nod toward the woodpile brought me to. ‘No time to dawdle, said the somebody who held the ax, and so [ limbered up and for the space of a minute or so put a touch of lightning jnto the revolutions of that stone wheel. :

“It was under such disadvantages that my early acquaintance with a grindstone flourished. These boys know no such incentive to pegging away at their everlasting grinding. Their bouts with the grindstone are mere play. still, lam glad they have it to play with. You don’t see many grindstones in New York, and it does a fellow good to brush up against something that helped form his character.” o

The Closed Season. : A recently married West Philadelphia girl was the innocent cause of much amusement at a small dinner in one of the down-town hotels recently, says the Philadelphia Record. Her father-in-law, having been made godfather to the child of one of his business associates, wanted to give some present to the infant in recognition’ of the honor. Knowing that others intended bestowing mugs, spoomns, ete., he decided that he would go out of this conventional line and give the baby a carriage. - o Being a very busy man, he ¢ommissioned his daughfer-in-law to do the buying, with instructions to get a very fine one. During a lull in the conversation at the dinner the father-in-law said: “Bess, did you get that baby carriage?”’ “Oh, I got you a beauty, and only ten dollars,” was the reply. “You didn’t get a good one for that price,” protested the: father-in-law. “Yes, I did,” asserted the young lady; ‘“the salesman said they were reduced beeause this wasn't the season.” Then she wondered why every one laughed. :

The Man Who Makes Cork Legs.

“A manufacturer or dearer in artificial limbs who wears a cork arm or leg himself is much better equipped for business than his competitors who are sound,” said a man who uses a cork leg. “In fact, it has become a sort of unwritten law among us to patronize such men when possible. “Sentimental : reasons may have something to do with the case, but I guess the chief reason is that we consider that if a man can make a limb for himself that fits like the paper on the wall he can make them for others. “Manufacturers of artificial limbs know this, and frequently you will find an advertisement like this: ‘The So-and-So Artificial Leg is built by a man who is wearing one and who knows from experience what you want for comfort.’ ‘

“This is a strong argument, for it’s no easy thing to get an artificial .limb that just fits. Persons who have trouble getting shoes that are just right are in great luck compared to u..n s S 5

Anecdote of King Edward.

The “Gaulois” relates the following “anecdote delicieuse.” Edward VIIL, while still prince of Wales, was accustomed to take his morning walk alone in St. James’ park. One day he noticed that he was being followed by two little boys, and turned round to look at them.. Although at first much disconcerted, one of , them plucked up courage, and, taking oft his cap, sald: “Your royal highness, my little friend is French, and I have just made a bet with him that you are the heir to the throne of England.” The prince of Wales replied, smiling: “You have won; but what was your little friénd’'s bet?’ “He bet that your royal highness was a Parisian.” “Oh, well, then,” said the prince, smiling, “he has also won.”

Moscow’s Many Beggars.

Of the beggars so characteristic of Russia’s . ancient capital a writer says: “The old city of Moscow could not easily be disassociated from the 50,000 beggars who haunt its snowy streets. The city belongs to them: if the city rats own the drains, they own the streets. They are part of the _city, they are in perfect harmony with it; take away the beggars and you destroy something vital. Some are sc old and weather battered that they make the Kremlin itself 100 k older, and of those who lie at the monastery doors some are so fearfuily pitiable in their decreptitude that they lend powaer to the churches.” :

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«s] have used several bottles of Peruna and I feel greatly benefited thereby from my catarrh of the head. 1 feel encouraged to believe that if I use it a short time longer I will be fully able to eradicate the disease of thirty years’ standing.”’—David Meekison. ' e

Mr. Jacob L. Davis,- Galena, Stone:county, Mo., writes: “I have been in bad health for thirty-seven years, and after taking twelve bottles of your Peruna I am cured.”” Mr. C. N. Peterson, 132 South Main 8t.,, Council Bluffs, Towa, writes: “I cannot tell you how much- good Peruna has done me. Constant confinement in store began to tell on my health, and I felt that I was gradually breaking down.m{' tried several remedies;, but obtained no permanent relief until-I took Peruna. I fels better immediately, and five bottles re.stor,e'd me to complete health.”

Mr. D. C. Prosser, Bravo, Allegan Co., Mich., writes: “Two years ago I was badly afflicted with catarrh of the stomach. I had had a run of ’Srphoid fever, was very deleted. I could find nothing I could eat without causing distress and .sour stomach. g‘ina]ly I came to the conclusion that I had catarrh of the stomach and seeing Peruna advertised, began to take it.. It helped me soon, and after taking three -or four bottles 1 was entirely cured of stomach trouble;, and can now eat anything.”

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