Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 10, Ligonier, Noble County, 28 May 1908 — Page 2

fl'h . . ) @he Zigonier Banney LIGON:FR, - -. INDIANA Record of the Most Important Events Condensed for the Perusal of the Busy Man., IN CONGRESS. The conclusions of the special committee which has been investigating the charges of Representative Lilley of Connecticut that members of the house had been improperly influenced in connection with submarine torpedo boat legislation, that Mr. Lilley had violated his obligations as a member and had acted in bad faith with the committee and in contempt of the house, were sustained by the house by a vote of 157 to 82.

The senate passed the omnibus public buildings bill which carries appropriations aggregating about $35,000,000,, and a bill to prevent the desecration of the flag of the United States.

That Representative George L. Lilley of Gonnecticut was not warranted in bringing charges against certain of his colleagues in the house and accredited members of the press, was the conclusion reached by the special committee named by Speaker Cannon to investigate methods employed by ‘the Electric Boat company of New Jersey in connection with legislation before congress. The committee also charged Lilley with acting in bad faith and with being a tool of the Lake Torpedo Boat company. In the house the conference report on the legislative appropriation bill was agreed to; the bill making an appropriation of $1,500,000 for representation by the United States at the Tokyo exposition in 1912 was passed. The senate agreed to the conference report on the agricultural bill carrying a total appropriation of $11,672,106. The house passed the general deficiency appropriation bill, carrying an appropriation of $17,368,572. The senate substituted the Aldrich currency bill for the Vreeland bill passed by the house, and passed it The house passed the military academy appropriation and omnibus public building bills. ! ——————— PERSONAL. Senator Platt, testifying in Mae Wood's divorce suit, denied that he ever married or promised to marry the plaintiff, repudiated the signature purporting to be his on the marriage ‘cer'tificqte, and the genuineness Qf, sev‘eral letters which Miss Wood testified came to her from him. _

T. A. Mclntyre, bankrupt broker of New York, was indicted and arrested on a’cParge of grand larceny. William L. Wilson was convicted at Port Huron, Mich., of embezzling some $75,000 from the United Home Protectors’ fraternity, of which he was secrefary. .y e 't';feé States Senator McEnery was re-elected by the Louisiana legislature. The czar of Russia celebrated his fortieth birthday anniversary and received a cablegram of congratulation from President Roosevelt. ) Secretary of War Taft returned from his trip to the canal zone. Senator Julius C. Burrows of Michigan has been selected as temporary chairman of the Républican national convention by the subcommittee on arrangements. 7 Mrs. Christina Metsker of South ‘Bend, Ind., was found not guilty of the murder of Carleton Morgan of South Bend, whom she shot April' 10 in front of the 'héme of Mrs. Mae Green in Cassopolis,' Mich. The verdict occasioned a remarkable demonstration in the courtroom.

GENERAL NEWS.

Democratic state conventions in l Michigan, Missouri and South Carolina iopstructed for Bryan. That otl Pennsyivania refused to imstruct its Yelegates, T TN TR | e A o e Ll aS *“Mrs. Carrie Shaw, a wealthy widow of Hortonville, Wis., was found murdered and her friend, Charles Abrams, of New London was arrested. The Atlantic battleship fleet rounded the extreme northwestern point of the United States and entered the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Three persons perished in a fire that destroyed a hotel at Tilsonburg, Ont. " Col. Evan T. Willilams of Ironton, 0., a prominent attorney, was Kkilled when a street car hit his buggy. »,The body of Miss Bertha Vanderbilt, assistant in the Princeton university library, was found floating in the Raritan S&l}&l._ R G The Southern Baptist convention at Hot Springs, Ark., adopted resolutions ' eondemning the liquor traffic in all its poses. ‘ Rev. S. A. Coffman of Fairmont, W. Va., killed his wife by cutting her throat. He said he was temporarily insane. . Mae C. Wood, who is suing Senator Platt for divorce, testified in New York, and identified copies of letters -she says she received from Platt. Deputy Sherif W. H. Farmer of Dawson, N. M., was arrested in connection with the robbery of the strong box of the Wells-Fargo Express company of $35,000 at French, N. M. ~ Fire destroyed the electric light and water plant of Mayfield, Ky., causing a loss of $40,000. : . ~ Rioting in Cleveland, due to the street car strike, almost ceased and - efforts to brinig about arbitration were 5@ o “ = S oa. ‘ win-

A: K. Helgelein, last of the ‘victims of Mrs. Gunness, was buried at Laporte. . The fragments of jawbone found in the ruins of the farmhouse were identified by a dentist as from Mrs. Gunness’ skull : Ten thousand persons were carried by Sunday excursions to the Gunness farm near Laporte, Ind. Efforts to identify one of the bodies as that of John Moe failed.. - £ That one of the seven unidentified bodies dug up in Mrs. Gunness’ barnvard near Laporte, Ind., is that of a woman was reveal by the autopsy, and it is thought to be the body of a woman who disappeared from the farm at the same time as Jennie Olsen. That Mrs. Gunness was dead was made certain by the finding of her false teeth in the ruins of her home near Laporte, Ind. The marriage of Miss Helen Maloney of Philadelphia to Arthur H. Osborne was annulled by order of Justice McCall of the siupreme court of New York. This leaves her the wife of Samuel Clarkson. ? The Carnegie hero fund commission awarded 15 bronze and 15 silver medals, $13,950 jn cash payments and monthly payments to four persons. Seven young society persons of Clarendon, Ark.,, were drowned when the gasoline tank of their launch exploded. Fire destroyéd half the business section of Russell, Man., the loss being $150,000. e Four persons were injured when a “black hand” bomb was exploded in a New York tenement house.

Forty-six members of the New York cotton exchange, were subpoenaed by the federal grand jury, presumably in connection with the case of Edwin S. Holmes.

Night riders near Lancaster, Ky., prayed and sang hymns as they burned a large tobacco barn. e John E. McGaughey of Indianapolis, Ind., former county commissioner, committed suicide -because his name had been connected with official scandals.

With much pomp and ceremony the body of Rt. Rev. I. F. Horstmann, bishop of Cleveland, was interred at that city. Rioting became more serious in Cleveland. Strikers burned a car and in a pistol fight with guards four men were shot.

As a result of the explosion of an old cannon which was being used to fire-a salute to the passing Atlantic fleet near Eureka, Cal.,, one man was instantly kllled, three women and one boy dangerously hurt and a dozen more slightly injured. . Because he was about to be married again George Sterry of New York, 72 years old, was shot and killed by his son George Sterry, Jr. The younger man committed suicide. ; . The big United States collier Vestal was launched at New York and christened by Admiral Goodrich’s daughter. The Allegheny National bank of Pittsburg, Pa., suspended as a result of big thefts of which former Cashier William Montgomery is accused. As a direct result of the suspension of the Allegheny National bank, Carothers & Co., one of the biggest brokerage firms in Pittsburg, were forced into bankruptcy and Attorney F. C. Patterson was appointed receiver, .

The Arkansas legislature failed to convene in pursuance to a call issued by Speaker Allen H. Hamiter, while he was acting governor, and as the result there will 'be no extraordinary session of that body. ¥ A flood in northern Wisconsin did much damage in Mellen and other places, driving many families froin their homes.

The attempt by the members of the state board of arbitration to bring about peace between the Municipal Traction company of Cleveland, 0., and its striking employes resulted in a failure. Violence broke out again, non-union employes being beaten, sevgral cars dynamited and trolley wires ' cut. Postmaster Dury of Two Harbors, Mich., accidentally shot and killed himself. Miss Ethel Burroughs, a senior in Smith college, was killed in a runaway accident at Northampton, Mass. Two men lost their lives and property valued at $350,000 was destroyed by fire in the plant of the Lake Superior corporation in the Canadian Soo, across the river from Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. v Midshipman Arthur Linford Lucas of Cleveland, 0., one of the graduating class in the Annapolis academy, ‘was drowned and Midshipman Carl D. Hibbard of Northfield, Minn., nearly:lost his own lifs jn an effort to save that of his friend. ~EETFTE "I Inmates of the overall factory of the state reformatory in Pontiac, 111., mutinied against their foreman and tried to kill him, with the result that Henry Williams, a negro, aged 25, is in the hospital with three bullets in his body. - : Congressman Frank Clark of the Second Florida district was caned- by ex-Gov. W. S. Jennings, cousin of W. J. Bryan, in the lobby of the Hotel Aragon, Jacksonville, Fla., because he Ica.l.led Jennings a grafter. ~ Peter Rathgaber of Chicago lost $6OO by the “wire tapping” swindle. } The conference of governors at Washington on conservation of the nation’s natural resources énded after the adoption of a declaration of cooperatign and suggestion that the president call the conferees together again in the future, o The right of Président Roosevelt summarily to dismiss a negro soldier of the Twenty-fifth infantry for alleged participation in the riot at Brownsville, Tex., was sustained by Judge Hough in the United States district court at New York.

OBITUARY.

‘William H. Marsh of Brooklyn died of hydrophobia as the physicians had predicted. ‘John A. Hamlin, founder and owner of the Grand opera house, Chicago died of heart disease. : William R. Gunn, a prominent law‘yer and politician of West Virginia, fell dead in Point Pleasant. Hugo Toland, a well-known actor, die@l suddenly in Germantown, Pa. - Lieut. Fonseca of the Brazilian army was killed at Rio Janeiro*in making a balloon ascension. ol

CANTON--CHRISTMAS] | The Funny Things One Sees : in Smiling Round the World , By MARSHALL P. WILDER ~* (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Canton, in spite of its dirt, in spite of its myriad and insistent smells, is fascinating. Beside the ordinary sights of street life that are like a kaleidoscope for change and color, there is a tall and stately pagoda to be seen, the “flow-ly” ‘pagoda, your guide will tell you. Another, known as the five-story pagoda, built in the year 1400, stands at the point of the citadel, the culminating 'point of, the city wall, the ramparts of which are decorated with grotesque little cannon of a bygone age, restihg in wormeaten and rotting wooden gun carriages, ey 3 i Another sight of Canton is Examination ha'l, an institution peculiarly Chinese. hi.re are 7,500 cells in rows, the fronts open to the air. They are only four feet by three, and their only furniture a couple of boards, laid crossways, one for a seat and the other for a writing desk. & Here the civil service examinations take place for the whole province. Students who wish to compete enter a cell, where they remain for three days and nights, absolutely alone, and guarded by soldiers to see that they have no communication’ with each other, or with anyone outside. The examination lasts nine days altogether, in groups of three, with intervals of three days in between, when the students may go outside. It is exceedingly arduous, for there lls not room for comfortable sleep, and the tests are very severe. ) 1t is, however, the ambition of every man to pass this examination if he can. Some old students have been known to go there every three years for 30 years without passing. Out of perhaps 6,000 or 7,000 never more than 300 pass, generally much less. A man who passes is then eligible for any magisterial office in the provincial government, and if he is still

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‘more ambitious and can pass the examination at Peking, as well, he is eligible for metropolitan offices. . So that in China education is the only patent of nobility. In this respect it is one of the most democratic countries in the world, for a man may rise from the lowest rank to a high position. : . Only three castes are prohibited from competing in the examinations, barbers, actors and chiropodists, who are prohibited from most things, as well as their descendants for three generations. '

The good ship Prinz Eitel Friederich bore us bravely from Hong-Kong on our way to India’s spicy isles, and also furnished an experience the like of which we had known neither before nor since. I refer to our Christmas dinner, which we ate amid surroundings so truly novel.as to seem to us now almost as the passing of a dream.:

The Eitel Friederich was not merely a good, staunch ship; she was a magnificently appointed steamer —in short, a floating palace, and the din-

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know what his neighbor held. This mode of procedure provoked hearty laughter and much curiosity as to the ultimate fate of the gifts, each one being securely wrapped until the eventful day should appear. el The 24th of December dawned—not, as we should say in America, clear and cold—but “muggy” and° hot. Clothing, even of the thinnest sort, jeemed superfluous; exertion, even: the mildest, sent little streams of moisture trickling down towards one’s shirt collar. But, never mind. It was Christmas—dear old Christmas eve, and if we were 6,000 miles—more or less—away from home, we were not going to have any less pleasure and happiness out of the occasion. So we donned our bravest attire and, summoned by the -bugle, made our way with the rest of the passengers, also in full dress, to the dining - saloon. Here a scene of marvelous beauty burst upon our eyes; but don’t ask me to describe that table. Running the whole length of the gorgeous saloon it was decorated and twined and blazoned with potted plants and vines, garlands and flags, the whole being set off by a most ingenious and -beautiful arrangement of electric - lights, that peeped out from every ledf and fold and dish as though some fairy wand had touched them into glittering wonder, Little Swiss chalets, set amid' snows of cotton and spangled icefields, gleamed with lights in every tiny window; cascades ran down' through little ice-gorges, lit up with, firefly gleams; the hearts of Christmas roses sent out flashes of beauty, while at the head of the table was a snow man of life-like size and proportion, whose smile was as broad as his ample form. Truly a wonderful sight. And the dinner—well, I have eaten many dinners, and many Christmas dinners, but this was = absolutely" unique. The cuisine of the German steamers is world-famed, and justly so. The celebrated P. & O. line starves you to death in- the mobst highly genteel manner. The insular exclusiveness of this- ancient institution, like that of the much overrated Cunard, has wrung the stomach and bled the pocket of the wayfarer for nearly half a century, while the chilly hauteur of its officers has sent many a passenger to his berth with a frigid heart. Rudyard Kipling says that if you want a favor of one of these magnates you must stand on your head before the chief officer and wave your feet supplicatingly in the air. The serving of the Christmas dinner was truly gorgeous. The procession of waiters reached from the dining table to the kitchen, and each course was brought in with as much pomp as though it were a banquet to

01ld King Cole as we see it pictured In the children’s holiday books. : The oysters, the soup, the fish, each had their separate procession, and the turkey—ah! that turkey! borne aloft on a platter, accompanied bys all the “trimmings,” each with a separate bearer; while the gravy!—words fail me. How shall I describe the gravybearer? A youth with 'solemn brow and stately step, who bore aloft upon one hand the dish of gravy, as though, it were an offering to royalty. In the matter of style he certainly was all to the gravy! With the dessert and coffee song and - merriment burst forth. Every conceivable Christmas glee and carol —not omitting the good old “Tannenbaum” of the Vaterland, which these German officers rolled forth with a volume that made the dishes dance—was sung. And then, the tree! This gorgeous piece of upholstery reached from the floor up into the which lantern, which is the® nautical name for the open dome which rises far’ up almost out of sight from the sgloon. Every year the decorations are brought out from their storing place and hung upon the ' tree, and most gorgeous are they to behold, glittering with electric lights and swaying to and fro with every motion of the vessel. - %1 The distribution of presents was a jolly ending to the evening’s festivity. Some people got their own presents, that they had bought in contributing to the pool, but they enjoyed them just as much. One of ours was a handsome silver spoon, engraved with Chinese characters similar to those on the cane which was présented to me by Mr. Wei Yuk in Hong-Kong, - and which mean “long life and happiness,” or something to that effect. The next day we arrived at Singa pore, and it was with indescribable feelings that I stepped ‘ashore in a glare of tropic sunlight, saying to myself, “Christmas day! It is impossible —l] cannot believe it!” But it was, and I smiled as 1 said to a friend: ‘“Well, we're, certainly in for a hot old time, all right, if nothing else!” ; The Precious Stones. The pearl is nothing but carbonate of lime, and vinegar or any other acid will eat away the polished surface in a few moments. As for the opal, hot water is fatal to it, destroying its fire, and sometimes causing it to crack. Soap is a deadly enemy to the turquoise. If a turquoise ring !s kept &n the hand while washing, in a short time the blue stomes will turn to a dingy green.¥ How Is Julia on Splitting Wood? ~ Miss Julia Chapman won a set of silver knives, forks and spoons in a board-sawing contest given by a medi cine show in Steiwer hall Wednesday evening. She went through her board before any of her competitors had got well started.—Fossil (Ore.) Journal

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“And so you are Cal ‘Atterson’s boy,” said Lim Jucklin as he sat down on 'the steps of the grocery store. “My, how you young chaps come on. And you? Ab Sarver’s youngest, eh? Hasn’t seemed more than a week since I saw you riding a stick horse and here you are big enough to make love to the girls. ; “Don’t make love to ’em? Go on with you. I’ll bet your heart has been wrung and hung out to dry more than once. When I was about your age I fell sick along about tobacco-cut-ting time, and I didn’t think I was ever goin’ to get well. The cause of my sickness was a young gal that came into the neighborhood to visit her uncle. I haven’t time now to tell you how beautiful I thought she was. I didn’t believe she belonged on the ground at all—just touched it now and then to accommodate the earth, you know. She flew down from a cloud that the sun was a shinin’ on and didn’t care to go back. Recollect how astonished I was the first time I ever saw her eat. I thought she just naturally sucked the honey out of the honeysuckle along with the hummin’ birds, and when I saw her worryin’ with an ear of boiled corn big enough to scare a two-year-old calf I went out and leaned against the fence. But it didn’t hurt my love any. I thought e did it just to show that she might possibly be a human being. She didn’t want us all to feel bad. One night I groaned so that mother came to me and wanted to put mustard plasters on me. She ’lowed that mebby she might draw out the inflammation. She thought I had somethin’ the matter with my stomach because I had lost my appetite. I told her that I had an inflammation she couldn’t draw out with a yoke of steers. Then she thought I ought to have an emetfc. I said that if She had one that would make me throw up my soul she might fetch it along, but otherwise It would be as useless as saying mew to a dead cat. Then she thought I must be crazy and came mighty nigh hittin’ the mark, I tell you. “A few days afterward, about the time I was at the height of my fever, [ met the girl in the road and she smiled at me, and I ran against a beech tree and.if I didn’t knock the bark off I'm the biggest liar in the world. When I came to I had my arm around a sheep, a walkin’ across the woods pasture. - : : “My, my, what a time that was to Jdve. The sun had just riz for the first time and they had just called up the birds to give out the songs to them. They wan’'t quite done settin’ the stars out in the sky, and they hadn’t put more than one coat of. whitewash on the moon. Music—it wa'n't there till she came, and the orchards bloomed as she walked along

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R INCLOSE an interesting clipping that will appeal especially to you. Let me know what you think of e it Y. And then she N ¥R 8D doesn’t inclose it e and the recipient % ?f llller tletfter x;ain- . L. 1y hunts for it. o ‘,%” / «,',;’/’ _The noninclose A\ 4 //’/// ing habit follows 7)Y the postal route ¥ all over the world. I (% It can be car- { ‘,,% ried to madden- : ing extremes, as when the young ‘p‘ man who is : *stranded in the west receives a loving letter from his mother, in which, after telling him all the little inconsequerces of his native village, she says, “lI did not know what to get you for your birthday and so inclose a five-dollar bill.” ;

Imagine the feelings of the poor tenderfoot, down 'to his last cent, when he finds that she has forgotten the inclosure. If only she had forgotten the village gossip and remembered the thing- that would have made that particular letter memorable. In the same class as the noninclosers are those who say, “Of course, George will have written you about the mysterious happenings in the house of Cynthia Alendale. How do you account for them?” It is more than likely that if George has written at all he will have said, “I suppose that Emma has told you all about the blood-curdling" affair at Cynthia Alendale’s so I will not wqaste your time by telling you about it." But wasn’t it awful? What are we comng to?> ,

If only George and Emma had assumer that the otHer had not told a gingls thing about the interesting affair! Here and there are péople who hate w receive letters, but most of us are- human (Heaven be praised!) and so in writing put in ‘all the human touches you can think of, and don't assume that *‘the other fellow” has written all the interesting news because you may depend upon it he hasn’t. ' And remember to-put in the inclosure even if you forget to post the letter containing it. e

down the lane. But she didn’t appear to know it, and I want to tell you that I marveled at such ignorance. - ~“lI didn’t have the courage to go straight up to her, and one night 'at meetin’, when I was feastin’ my soul with merely lookin’ at her, up walked a feller and asked if he might take her home. I looked at him, quick-like, expeclin’ to see him drop dead, but he didn’t. Then I waited for the. lightnin’ to strike him, but it didn’t. Then I waited for her to kill him with a look, but she didn’t. She smiled and said yes. Then I sneaked putside and whetted my knife on my boot. There wa’n’t power enough on earth to keep me from bathin’ my hands in his blood. Mother saw that there was somethin’ wrong with me and she came out and asked me if I was sick. I told her I was a dyin’, but before I bid farewell to the earth I was goin’ to cut a scoundrel into strips and feed him to the dogs. But pap he came and took the knife away from me and said if he heard any more such talk he’d tan my hide till it was fitten for shoestrings. I don’t know how I got home that night, but after a long time I found myself a smotherin’ in bed. There was a well in the vard end I thought I'd slip out and drown myself. Just then I heard a rooster crow, and recollectin’ that there was to be a fight over across the creek within a few days, I decided that mebby I still had somethin’ to live for.

“But I didn’t give up my idea of vengeance on that feller, and one day I met him as I was comin’ along the road: I ’'lowed that before I knocked him down it would be well to inform him as to how he stood in my opinion, and I started out and I don’t know what I might have said if he had given me a chance. But he didn’t. He didn’t apgear to think that there were stars enough, 'so he began to knock them out of my eyes and I saw some of them as they sailed away. Among them was a comet with a tail about as long as a well chain. When I came to a muley cow was ringin’ her bell over my head. I propped my eyes open till I could get home, and they covered me with fresh meat and left me to think over the situation. :

“It was no laughin’ matter, boys, I'll tell you that. The next day the girl came over. She said that she heard that a bull had met me and disagreed with me. What a lie that fellow had told her; and she insisted on seein’ me. - She came into the room and I looked at her through a hole in a beefsteak. She laughed. Oh, I don’t blame her now, you understand, hut just at that moment my love stubbed its toe and fell, and fell hard, I want to remark. She said she was awful sorry for me and I said she acted like it. :

n'{' *"1 HEARD a beau- ; ; tiful = story the other day about: | an afflicted father, a loving daughter, @ and a piano. PN : It seems that % . the father . had %’? long wished his ¢ 9 daughter to become ,a proficient I Ny performer on the “ piano, and the S daughter, distrusting her own capaI : bilities, had made i up her mind that , she could never 2 play well enough to make her de--25) & votion of hours [~ o and hours of prac4“‘ tice worth while. Sme el Suddenly, and almost without warning, her father was stricken with blindness, and then the daughter, taking a leaf out of Dickens, determined to play Dot to his Qg.lgb_, and she bought a piano player on the instalment plan.’ ; Her father had been away for some weeks when the automatic player came to the house, and upon his return she said to him: “Father, dear, would you like to hear some music?” And her father said: “I would, indeed, daughter, if you can play some for me. I want to see if you have improved during my absence.” So the old gentleman sat himself down on the sofa and turned his ear toward the piano, and the daughter put a Hungarian Rhapsody by Liszt in its place and started the mechanism. When she came to an end her father called her to him and kissed her upon her forehead and patted her cheek and said: “What a dear little thing it is and how much it loves to please its papa. Paderewski might interpret it differently but he could not play it any faster.” And while the daughter’s pride and her conscience were having it out between them, her father said: “Daughter, I toc have a surprise” He turned toward her and continned: “While in New York I visited an oculist and I can now see as well as I ever could. How much do you have to pay a month for the thing?” ' i o 00 : . Have you a meek husband? , Don’t bullyrag him.. - _ . Remember that even if you did omit

“I tell you love can’t stand much laughin’ at. It's the tenderest plant that ever peeped out of the soft lap of creation, and in laughter if there is no sympathy there’s frost. When s feller stops lovin’ he sees more thaa he did before and yet he is blinder. He sees more in other folks, but sees that they ain’t like the one he loved. And the reason that so few people marry first love is because that sort of love takes hold as if it wanted to kill. Don’t appear that anything else will satisfy it. There’s no use tryin’ to dodge it, boys; a thief in the night can’t slip up on you half so sly. Itis the oldest.thing in the world, but it is so new that nobody knows yet how to handle it. It makes ignorance as wise as a god and hangs a lamp with perfumed oil where darkness always fell before. A good many of the old chaps make fun of it, but when they do you may know that they ain’t nothin’ but money getters, and that marks the death of the soul. Does me good to look at you young fellers; I like to think of the sweet misery you've got to go through with. Oh, yes, there’s more than one love. It's like the rheumatism. One attack may be worse than the others, but it's all rheumatism - just the same; and - Do matter how light you've got it you know when it's there. So you are Ab Sarver’s boy. What's your pap doin’ to-day?’ . . e “Arguin’ politics with a feller when I left home.” ~ © e “Well, he was always a mighty hand to argue. I haven’t seen kim in a long time. It’s asr?ood ways to your house, ain’t it?” Sinl it “About ten miles.” S e

“Yes, and the miles get longer and the days shorter as we grow older. But no matter how old we get; if the heart remains sound, we never forget that rheumatism I told you about. I wouldn’t give the memory of it -for hardly anything in the- world. One of these days you will see her comin’ down the road, a makin’ the orchards bloom as she passes along, and you’ll wonder how you can live another minit, and you’ll wish yourself dead just to make her feel bad. If she laughs gt anything anyone else. says it will send a knife blade through your heart, and if she sighs you'll think it's over someé other feller. There’ll be no such thing as pleasin’ you, but I'd rather have it in store for me than-a mountain range made of gold. Well, boys, it’'s about time I was a goin’ on home. There's a woman there that I féll in love with years ago, and I -haven’t fallen out with her yet. . . “So you are Ab Sarver’s boy. -You make me ! think, my son. - It was your daddy that told the girl I had met a bull, and it was your mammy that made the orehards bloem.” = : (Copyright, by Opie Read.) -

the “honor and obey” clause in the marriage service you were hade partners, and as he probably suggested the partnership in the first place he has some rights. ik _ If you must bullyrag him be sure that you do it in the quiet (or tumult) of your own home. This baiting of a husband in public, while it may afford food for laughter on the part of the groundlings, can but make the judicious grieve. ! ; S

A large woman leading around a small puppy is--always a ridiculous sight. E If you make a puppy of your husband and accompany him out of evenihgs, remember thatesome of the aft-er-laughter will be expended upon you. If he is a puppy feed him well, treat him kindly—and perhaps he will become a jolly dog. - o But do not live a comic supplement life with him, because the comic' paper habit is so general in this country and the types are so firmly grounded in the minds of even the young that you will be recognized at sight, and depend upon it, all the sympathy will go out to the (under) dog.. ; Perhaps you are intellectual and your husband is not. Don’t twit him with your college education. -

When you come right down to it, if he never went to college, you have forgotten most of what you learned there, and so you are not in a position to snub him as unmercifully as you do. e o No doubt your mind was disciplined by the very things you have forgotten, but remember that ‘“while it is excellent to have a giant's strength it is tyrannous to use it likeé a giant.” Lead vour husband up. Don’t beat him down. e : (Copyright, by James Pott & Co.) - Three Men in One, ' A witty writer has observed with much truth that every man is, in' a sense; three different men. In the first place, he is the man he thinks himself to be; in the second place, he is the man other persons think him to be; and, finally, he is the nian that he really is. et A Reasonable Precaution. = “In order to be a regular optimist,” said Uncle Eben, “it's a good idea to staht out wif you arrangements all made foh three square meals a day an’ de payment of de rent,”—Washinyp fon BiaF o e ot e

- FOUND THE CAUSE, ' After Six Years of Misery and Wrong £ Treatment. o John: A. Enders, of Robertson Avenue, Pen Argyl, Pa., suffered for six years with stinging . N ¢ pain in the back, vio- - _lent headaches and O AN B dizzy spells, and was 1 .. p assured by a specialRS>, ist that his kidneys S E=® were all right, though N\ W/ the secretions showed NSNS @ reddish, brick-dust sediment. Not satisfied, Mr. Enders started using Doan’s Kidney Pills. “The kidneys began to act more regularly,” he says, “and in a shkort time I passed a few gravel stones. I felt better right away and since tien have bad no’kidney trouble.” Sold by all dealers, 50 cenis a box. Foster-Milburn Cs, Buffalo, N. Y.

STOPPED TO SALUTE HOGS.

One Man at Least Grateful to the Source of His Wealth.

“The Interpreter” in the American Magazine says of a respectful father he once knew: - “Isn’t it time we took off our hats and thanked this pleasant land for the good things it has done for us by going on patiently covering up our blunders; rectifying our mistakes, and re sponding cheerfully to our every intelligent effort? : - “] knew a man out west who had the right idea about it. His father had made a great fortune in the pork packing business. The heir was -not puffed up by his millions. . Long after he had grown accustomed to the money and might reasonably be expected to look down on butchers, if in walking in the country with his children they saw a drove of hogs on the

road, he would make his little boys stand at attention and take off their hats. ‘I want them to respect the sources of wealth,’ he said.” :

SEVERE HEMORRHOIDS ¢

Sores, and Itching Eczema—Doctor Thought an Operation Necessary —Cuticura’s Efficacy Proven.

“I am now 80 years old, and thrée years ago I was taken with an attack of piles (hemorrhoids), bleeding and protruding. The doctor said the only help for me was to go to a hospital and be operated on. I tried several remedies for months but did not get much help. During this tima sores appeared which ‘changed to a terrible itching eczema. Then I began to use Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills, injecting a quantity of Cuticura Ointment with a Cuticura, Suppository Syringe. It tdok a month of this treatment to get me in a fairly healthy state and then I treated myself once a day for three month§ and, after that, once or twice a week. The treatments I tried took a lot of money, and it is fortunate that I used Cuticura. J. H. Henderson, Hopkinton, N. Y., Apr. 26, 1907.” :

AMENITIES. = : ST v ‘ ; e X == Lol \ | “And you call yourself honest? Huh!” : - “Sjr, I keep the commandments.” “That must be because you've got an idea that they belong to somebody else? : ! His Elusive Memory. _ Employer—William, did . that man who called to see me while I was out leave his name? > > Shaggy-Haired Office Boy—Yes, sir: his name is—is—well, the last part of it is “shaw.” . . Employer-—~What's the first part of it? s Office Boy (making a strenuous effort to recall it)—Well, sir, it's either Grim, or Hawk, or Hen, or Brad, or Fan, or Ker, or Rick, but to save my bloomin’ life, Mr. Townsend, I can't *emember which. . The Objects of Her Feellngs./ “Patrick,” gushed the amorous Wid" ow O’Leary, “Oi’ve long anted t’ con. fiss t’ ye th’ state iv me feelin's toward ye, an’ now Oi must tell ye thot Ol love ivvry hair iv y’r head!” - “Thin, if ye do,” replied the adaman. tine Patrick, who has just come from the barber’s, “Oi'll tell ye, Mrs. O’Leary, thot were ye in Casey's barber shop around th’ corner, ye'd foind Casey sweepin’ th’ objects iv y'r feel-' in’s into his dustpan at th’ prisint moment!”—lllustrated Sunday Magasine. FIT THE GROCER Wife Made the Suggestion. A grocer has excellent opportunity to know the effects of speclal foods on his customers. A Cleveland grocer has a long list of customers that have been helped in health by leaving off coffee and using Postum Food Coffee. ' ; He says, regarding his own experience: “Two years ago I had been drinking coffee, and must say that U was almost wrecked in my nerves. . “Particularly in the morning I was so irritable and upset that I could hardly wait until the coffee was served, and then I had no appetite for breakfast, and did not feel like attending to my store duties. 1 “One day my wife suggested that inasmuch as I was selling so much Postum there must be some merit in it and suggested that we try it I took home a package and she prepared it according to directions. Theresult was a very happy ome. My~ nervousness gradna? disappeared, and: today lam all right. I would adviseeveryone afflicted in any way iwith. nervousness or stomach les, toleave off coffee and use Postum } ; Coffee.” “There’s a Reason.” Z “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. one appears from time to time. Th are genuine, true, and full of human imLRMERE - o ee s T