Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 19, Ligonier, Noble County, 30 July 1908 — Page 2

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

. PERSONAL. ; The prince of Wales landed at Quebec, the warships of three nations saluting him. > Grete Beier, the 18-year-old daughtter of the mayor of Freiberg, Saxony, was beheaded for the murder of the man to whom shé was engaged to be married. g Eugene V. Chafin, Prohibition candidate for president, formally opened that party’s national campaign at Evahston, Il President Roosevelt went to Newport,‘R. I, to attend an important conference of naval officers. ‘William Loeb, Jr., secretary to President Roosevelt, denied the printed report that he was going to Africa with the president for big game. John A. Van Rensselaer, son of Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, and a member of one of New York's oldest families, was arrested on a charge of attempting to extort money from his mother by threats of “blowing off her head.” 1 : Former United States Senator William F. Vilas suffered a hemorrhage of the brain at his home in Madison, Wis. Republican Chairman Hitchcock began a two days’ conference with party leaders of western states in Colorado Springs, Col. ; W. F. Walker, absconding New Britain, Conn., bank cashier, arrived_ in San Diegoé after his long fight against extradition from Mexico. Dr. W..K. Hemphill; charged with Rev. Clyde Gow with manslaughter in ‘connection with the death of Miss Elizabeth Gleason, a young schoolteacher, was found guilty by a jury in Troy, N. Y., and sentenced to serve three years in 'the penitentiary. Gen. James Allen, chief signal officer, and the board of ordnance and fortifications of the war department will recommend the appropriation by congress next winter of $1,000,000 for aeronautics for the army. Isaac Rosenblatt, manager and part owner of a dry goods store in Fond du Lac, Wis., which was burned, was arrested on a charge of arson. The trial of Prince Philip Zu Eulenburg in Berlin on charges of perjury in connection with the . court scandals last year was indefinitely suspended because the prince is in a half-dying condition. > e

i GENERAL NEWS. N In an opinion bristling with caustic comment and criticism thé- United States court of appeals in Chicago unanimously reversed the decision of Judge Landis imposing a fine of $29,240,000 upon the Standard Oil Company of Indiana for accepting concessions from the Chicago & Alton railroad, and remanded the case for rehearing. . Desperadoes “shot up” Jamaica Plain, a surburb of Boston, in trying to escape the police, and killed one person and wounded a dozen others. President Roosevelt. delivered -a spirited and characteristic address at Newport, R. I, before an important conference of American naval officers. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the battleships which the United States is to build in the future, and Mr. Roosevelt spoke warmly in favor of a hard-hitting navy, as good as any in the world, and capable of finding the enemy and “hammering him into guits” ! : : The -Atlantic battleship fleet sailed from Honolulu for Auckland, N. Z. While swimming in Lake Norman, near Norman, Okla., John W. Holland, a prominent business man, and for 15 years a preacher in the Methodist church, was drowned.. Miss Evelyn Walish, daughter of Thomas Walsh of Colorado, was secret1y married to Edward McLean, managing editor of the Washington Post. Santo Purque of Chicago killed his wife and wounded a man whom he found in her company. = _ President Castro has expelled J. H. de Reus, the minister resident of the Netherlands, from Venezuela. A pretty young woman was found shot and killed in a tool shed in Williamsburg, N. Y. : Three bandits held up a saloon in Jamaica Plain, a suburb of Boston, and killed one man and shot two

William Pohlman, a somnambulist, cut his throat in his sleep at St. Louis and only prompt work by physicians saved his life. Mrs. John B. Stetson, widow of a millionaire hat manufacturer, admitted. in Philadelphia that she was to marry Count Santa Eulalia, Portuguese consul in Chicago. e ! Typhoid fever is epidemic in Man--kato, Minn., about 1,500 cases being Teported. | Arthur Meeker of Chicago and A. P. Group of Winchestér were appointed trustees of the University of Illinois to fill vacancies. 5 . Y. M’ C. A. relay runners carried Mayor McClellan's message to Mayor Busse from New York to Chicago in 119 hours and 23 minutes. Fire. destroyed the business section of Cottonwood, Idaho, the loss being St Paul, Minn, failed to break any

R. E. Walker of South Africa won the 100-meter dash at the Olympic games, defeating J. A. Rector of the University of Virginia. A world’s record, by C. J. Bacon of the Irish-Ameri-can A. C, in the 400-meter hurdling, which he won in 55 seconds; an Olyvmpic record of 24 feet 612 inches by F. C. Irons of the Chicago A. A, in the running broad jump; and the victorv'of G. S. Dole of Yale, in the featherweight wrestling, wére the winnings of the Americans. American athletes won two more gold medals in the Olympic games at London. M. W. Sheppard won the 800-meter run and Harry F. Porter the high jump, both setting new Olympic records. : American athletes captured three more gold medals in the Olympia games at London, winning the 100meter swim, the broad jump and the bantam wrestling finals. . The American tug-of-war team in the Olympic games at London, finding the Liverpool police team were violating the rules by wearing specially prepared shoes, made a protest, which was overruled, and then withdrew. Canadian and French dthletes also were dissatisfied with the management of the games. 4o o In view of more than a hundred persons in the ballroom of the Fort Lowrey hotel at Bath Beach, L. I, John Hanna shot 16-year-old Augusta Walz, with whom he was in love, and Ralph Manz with whom she was dancing, and killed himself. 2 The Minneapolis, Red Lake & Manitoba Railroad company served notice on. the Minnesota railroad and warehouse commission that beginning August 1 it would charge a passenger fare of three cents- a mile, thus ignoring the two-cent fare law. “The Western Federation of Miners in convention at Denver officially repudiated the Industrial Workers of the World. » .

William Winter, the veteran dramatic critic, was taken to a Los Angeles hospital in a critical condition. The Pennsylvania Democratic state committee recognized (01. James M. Guffey of Pittsburg as the leader of the Democracy of Pennsylvania, despite the fact tbat ‘he was ousted from the state chairmanship at Denver, Col. Honduras officials denied that war was imminent between their country and Nicaragua. ‘ : Despondent because of ill-health and fearful of the fate which might await her two little children if they were left alone to face the world, Mrs. Gussie Benson drowned them and herself at New York. - President Davilla, the pregident of Honduras, has issued a notice declaring that the revolution in that country is quelled. > . Twelve boys were rescued after jumping into Saginaw bay near Bay Port, Mich., from a burning launch. - Fire in the business district of Fort Williams, Ont., did $200,000 damage. Leslie Carter, formerly prominent in business and society circles of Chicago was adjudged mentally incapable of managing his own _.affairs by a jury in the probate court. - A detective and a woman were arrested in New York aceused of trying to bribe a girl to give false testimony in the Frank Gould divorce case. The British house of lords passed the second reading of the old age pensions bill, thus insuring its becoming a law. Immigration to the United States from all countries, particularly Russia and Japan, showed a marked falling off for the month of June as compared with the same month of 1907, according to figures made public by the bureau of immigration and naturalization. The total immigration aggregated 31,947, compared with 154,734 in 1907.

Two men were killed and a third seriously hurt by an explosion in the Red Dog mine at Webb City,. Mo. | _The internal revenue officers in Cincinnati were enjoined from continuing in effect the news rule for marking and pranding the products of the distilleries, by United States Judge Thompson. : ; By unanimous vote -of the national committeemen of the states west of the Missouri river Chicago was chosen as the main headquarters from which the Republican campaign for the election of William H. Taft as president will be directed. Virginia Harned began suit in Reno, Nev., for divorce from her husband; Edward H. Sothern. i Prisoners in Nebraska penitentiary, idle for more than a month, are begging and pleading for something to do. The Rojestvensky who died 'at Bad Nauheim, Germany, was not the Russian admiral. During a fire in Altoona, Pa., three persons were electrocuted by live wires which dropped to the street. Two masked men held up a stage ‘coach near Likely; Nev., and robbed it of a large sum of money. - : ~ Forty persons were injured in a collision between interurban electric trains at Lovedale, 111. - Six masked men attempted to rob the First National bank of Ada, O, but were driven away by citizens. Fire in a Pittsburg schoolhouse caused a panic in which many children were injured. , . _ President Gompers, Secretary Morrison and John Mitchell of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor were cited to answer on September 8 to a charge of confempt in violating a court injunction forbidding them from continuing a boycott against the Bucks Stove and Range Company. ; Supreme Court Justice Morchauser of New York made permanent an injunction 'restraining the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World from using its present name and title. The order is composed of negroes. - . S

OBITUARY. : Charles Holt, veteran editor and publisher, died at his home in Kankakee, 111., aged 91 years. Henry Codman Potter, seventh Protestant Episcopal bishop of the diocese of New York, died a{ “Fernleigh,” his summer home at Cooperstown, N. Y., after an illness of several weeks. v . George D. Huling, a millionaire of Kansas City, died of apoplexy at Kankakee, 111 ; A% : ‘Lieut. Guy Burr died at Manila " of wounds inflicted by Filipino outlaws.

Are the Japanese A World Menace?

~ (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) ‘During and immediately succeeding the Russo-Japanese war the press of Europe and America went. into ecstasies over the prowess of the Japanese goldier and the level-headedness and strategic ability of the officers who engineered the task of grappling with the Russian army and navy. Enthusiastic panegyrics were written regarding the sacrifices which the patriotic islanders had made to avert a menace to their national existence. Lavish praise was bestowed on the wonderful manner in which Japan, in a brief term of years, had modernized and prepared itself to whip the occidental with his own weapons. During the last few months the tenor of comments has considerably changed, and in many instances editorial writers are deploring the fact that any “fuss” ever was made about the achievements of Japan. The people have commenced to remark that, after all is said and considered, the Japanese are ordinary humanps and not supernatural beings, and the Pacific coast influx of Japanese immigrants has created an extensive and intensive alarm, and caused thinkers and statesmen to pause and consider that the Japanese aggressiveness, fanned into volcanic activity by the successes in the Russo-Japan war, constitutes a menace to the world—at least to the Pacific coast of North America.

And it is not the occident alone which is cogitating over the world menace of Japan. The orient also is displaying unmistakable signs of being fearful of the menacing position and tactics which the island nation has assumed of late. Like the occident, the entire orient showed unbounded admiration of Japan's struggle with Russia. To the orient the issues involved in the Russo-Japan war. meant more than they did to the western world. The Asians were enthusiastic and apprq;ciative of Japan's proving to the oecident that an Asiatic nation was capable of using western methods of warfare to defeat a western people; and if possible the praise of the orient was more lavish than that of the occident. But, as in America and Europe, the Asian attitude toward the mikado’s subjects has undergone a great change. Asia has become fearful of the methods Japan is employing to secure commerciai markets and proclaiming its political suzerainty in Asiatic countries.

The first shock was occasioned by the excesses committed by Japan in Korea. To the entire continent it was patent that Japan was not assuming the suzerainty of Korea for altruistic purposes; the peninsula was to be rid of the Russian and to be utilized by the expanding Nipponese. Tt was expected by eastern peoples.that the Japanese would make the civilization and development of Korea and its resources. a mere secondary - object; very few Asiatics had expected that they would subject the Koreans to the militarism since forced upon them. Japan can offer but feeble excuses for her policy of self-glorification and - expansion and for inaugurating a reign of terrorism in Korea. Her present attitude toward China and her administration of Manchuria unmistakably indicate that the Japanese are determined to carry their operations farther in the continent. If the Chinese reports are to be relied upon, it is certain that the Japanese are making the best of their tenure of Manchuria. By practically monopolizing its trade; by offering special facilities to her own merchant princes and captains of industry, by 'iransplanting the ' petty shopkeepers and affording profitable employment in railroad and government offices to the Japanese proletariat, etc., they are paving the way for complete domination. :

Japan’s program of expansion, it may be remarked, im much like that of England. The island nation of the orient appears to be bent the same way as the island nation of the occilent. England went to India for trade purposes. The East-India Company, a pur'ely commercial organization of monepolists, finding that the government of the day in India was impotent and that general lawlessness and anarchy prevailed, formed visions of obtaining the political supremacy of Hindostan; since -the throttling of the Indian industries and the control of the Easf-lndian markets could then, by control of the tariff, be more effectively and easily brought about. When the English went to India it was the East-Indian ‘‘gold” that attracted them. At that time the country was industrially prosperous. EastIndlan muslins and brass and wood art work were the furore of France and England in that day; but within & few decades the law was so made and administered by the British that English manufactures displaced the East-Indian, just as the Englishman displaced ths natives of the land in the government offices. Within a few generations the EastIndiang fell from their pre-eminent in. dustrial position and to-day, by means of a boycott of English goods and varfous other devices employed to overcome the barriers placed in ‘their way by the alien tariff ma&m and administrators, they are just regenerating themselves from the Jowest and most discouraging sloughs of decadence. ; § ~ Japan's career in Korea and Manchuria significantly shows that the subjects of the mikado are fo g Ir the ‘notsteps of their occideptal = : e ¢ : { }é':’.

ally. For commercial purpeses raflk roads, telegraphs, post offices, electric lights, etc., have been established in India, and a few million of East-In-dians have been enabled to come in close contact with western culture; but India has paid a woeful price for these features of modernization and the benefits which have accrued to India from them are merely incidental. Japan’'s political administration of Korea and Manchuria may add thesa and probably other features of civilization; it may lead to imparting education to Koreans and Manchurians; but this will be incidental and for these advantages Korea and Manchuria will pay a most exorbitant price. When the Anglo-Japanese treaty was signed a few years ago, the .people of India, who had expected that the Japanese would display Asia-for-the-Asiatics sentiments, denounced the alliance and expressed keen disappointment that an Asian nation should join a European power to keep India, an oriental country, under subjection. Hindostan ~was bitterly chagrined. This disappointment' is becoming acuter and changing into a feeling of resentment since the development of Japanese plans for exploiting Korea and Manchuria. The people of India are fast awakening to the consciousness that the foreign policy of Japan is not to merge in an Asia-for-the-Asiatics combine, but to reserve Asia for the Japanese. These apprehensions of the East-In-dians are amply justified by the sentiments of the Japanese, crystallized in a recent frank statement by Count Okuma, the Japanese statesman, made before the Kobe chamber of -commerce. He said:

“You can go everywhere with ease and pleasure under the protection of the Japanese fleet. Being oppressed by the Europeans, the 300,000,000 people of India are looking for Japanese protection. They have commenced to boycott European merchandise. If, therefore, the Japanese let the chance slip by and do not go into India, the Indians will be disappointed. If one will not take gifts from heaven, heaven may send “one misfortune. From old times, India has been a land of treasure. Alexander the Great obtained there treasure sufficient to load 100 camels and Mohammedan Attila also obtained riches from India. Why should not the Japanese stretch out their hands towards that country, now that the people are looking to the Japanese? The Japanese ought to go to India, the South ocean, and other parts of the world.” 4

Count Okuma has since corrected this report of his speech and declares that he did .-not mean that ' Japan should politically subjugate India, but only meant ‘that the island nation should commercially exploit it. Ramanda Chatterji, the editor of the Maodern Review, one of the highest class East-Indian publications under purely native management, trenchantly com. ments on this point: |

“It is not often that we shall bear so honest an avowal as is contained in this extract, of the refl aims and intentions of Japan. . . . The Japanese ambassador in London was referred to before publication for his comment on Count Okuma’'s speech, and he answered that it referred only to trade interests. It will be strange indeed if Englishmen can accept this explanation. A speech which referred to trade interests only, founds all (its sanction—not on South sea or chartered enterprises, not on the history of factories or merchant colonizations, but—on Alexander the Great, on Mohammed and on Attila. . . . The English are alone in Europe in being blind to the aims of Japanese foreign policy. . . . Certain it is that should English policy drive the people 'of any Asiatic country into a despairful acceptance of .the Japanese, the people of that land would ever after have cause to curse the day. If we want to know what are likely to be the methods of Japanese rule, it is well that we should keep our eyes upon Korea.”

All the other enlightened Asiatie countries share this East-Indian attitude towards Japan. China appears to be wide-awake in: this respect. From the manner in which the Celestials are protesting against allowing the Japanese to smuggle arms and provisions of war into Manchuria at the present time it is evident that the Dragon Empire is alive to the menacing attitude Japan has assumed toward Asia. The possibility of a war between Japan and China perhaps depends upon how full the coffers of the Japanese exchequer are; or how much money England and other proJapanese occidental nations can loan the mikado’'s government; but certain it is that the entire orient is vibrant with a dread of the mew Japanese slogan: ‘“‘Asia for the Japanese.”

DIPLOMACY OF A HIGH ORDER. Of Course. Washerwoman Didn’t Really Want Beer, But—‘“Now, Miss Sallie,”. said the woman who comes Monday morning .and plays tunes on the washboard. “Yo’ has' to take mighty good caih o’ yo’ brain, doesn’t yo’? ’'Case dat’s how yo’ all earns yo' livin’, jes’ wid nothin’ at all but yo' brain what’s in yo’ haid. Yo' cain’t take nothin’ strong, case yo' brain ain’t goin’ to work if yo’ takes anythin’ stronger dan tea or coffee. Yo’ cain’t drink no beer nor nothin’ like dat. ¥ nebber cares for beer myself, less i is when I'm doin’ a big washin’ and gets all tired and gone-like. Dat's de only time I ever do take even one glass of beer, Oh, no, Miss Sallie, you says yo’ .haint got any beer in de house so I'll jes’ drink some strong tea, No'm-m-m, I wouldn’t tink ob going after some, no indeed—why, tank yo' Miss Sallie, it de place is so neah, and yo’s so good as to ‘gib me de nickel, 1 reckon 1 cain’t disappoint yo' all. Is dis pitcher clean?’—New York Times. To Surpass Eiffel Tower. M. Tournay, a Belgian engineer, has been commissioned by the committee for the international exhibition at Brussels in 1910 to erect a tower at Ixelles which will be much higher than the Eiffel tower, The cost {s estimated 3% BTy S AT 2T TR &

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" O you intend to : - become an essay- : ist, gentle writer? o . Then learn theart of apt and appo- ( site ' quotation. , Quotations ~are ( not . more desir- § able to a stockr el broker than they \ 5% % should be to you. ‘,' L, | Cultivate Bartlett. | "r,‘.; - o To plant in the SHipE " “>2» bare sands of an R P! 'L arid imagination } 4 -~ . “9%-% the borrowed A flowers of the NN =2 ///%»/ successful gardenL&Z?) ers of literature { is to prepare a / </— ) parterre that : // ‘ sllllall gleasle e;;en ’ £V the critical. or /_g\, when a man not variously learned comes on a passage that he has himself read in the original setting, his vanity is tickled. Tickle your reader's vanity often enough, and he is yours and will sound your praises. ‘A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better,” but you who are not a nightingale might die for shame if it were not for the singing of that large chorus of English birds that make your songs possible. “Homer himself must beg if he wants means,” and if Homer begs, who are you that’says, “to beg I am ashamed?” See only that you beg at the right gates, and you shall enjoy a borrowed richness that in the minds of many passes for a homemade garment of great value. “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,” and others juoted. - “Reading maketh a full man,” not only that, but “out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh,” and he who has read much and remembered much can write well. “Discretion of speech is more than eloquence,” and the most discreet man is the man who knows where to borrow to advantage. There be those who write original essays of which the best that may be said is, “It is his own.” Better far the essay that glitters and sparkles with a thousand gems filched from the world’s great lapidaries. “Brevity is the soul of wit,” but it does not follow that every postal card contains an epigram. ‘The safest way

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Old Lim Jucklin put aside his newspaper, arose, stood on the hearth, and remarked to his wife, who sat in a rocking chair, half dreamily knitting: “They must hire folks by the year to: do nothin’ else but to write about women.” , ‘ “They want to furnish the men somethin’ to read,” his wife replied. “Furnish the men somethin’ to skip 80’s to read somethin’ else,” said the old man. “Once in a while I read 'em though, and I've just read a lot of stuff that I know wan’t written by anybody, man or woman, that had anything else to do—a whole column and a half tellin’ how to -raise children; and I'll bet a steer it was written by an old maid.” : “Limuel, what are you talkin’ about?” ' :

“An old maid, I said; and one of the sort that snatches up her skirts and runs like a turkey hen whenever she sees a child a comin’ toward her.Oh, I know their brand.” “Yes, I suppose so,” said his wife. “But a woman that a raisin’ children hasn’t got time to write; and one that has them already raised is so tired she don’t feel like it.” “Oh, I expected to get it, one way or another,” replied the old man. “It was due and I deserved it. But it does seem that the writers on the subject of women ought to stumble on somethin’ new. But man bhas been studyin’ women—now, let me see. Well, particularly ever since Samgson’s wife cut his hair off,, and he hasn’t stumbled on anything new yet. I've given her a good deal of my time and I'm ready to make my acknowledgments. I've summed up my account book. Two and two make four anywhere else. But with woman two and two sometimes make - six. You can’t tell. Figgers don’t lie, but with her they are mighty accommodatin’. And, Lord bless her, she has finally discovered that man is ber enemy. The old maids have told her so and she has begun to believe it. Over here acrogs the creek the other day a party of ‘em had a.meetin’ and resolved that man was a tyrant and ought to be ousted. Old Miss Patsy Page, that has chased every chance to get married that she could find through a spyglass a comin’ her way, was the president. She called attention to the number of divorces throughout the country, and she sighed over all this waste of raw material. She read a paper, too,’on how to manage a husband. Bet she’d like to read a book on how to catch one.” -“Limuel, she’s a good woman. She sets up with the sick” o “Yes, and when she does the well folks catch it. She’'d sour a mornin's milk by lookin’ the cow in the eye.” “Well,” replied, the old lady, “she says that you used to come to see her,

to insure wit in yvour essay is to pick it where you find it, and ten chances to one that will not be in your own brain. Better the wit of others than no wit at all—which might be a proverb, but is not. Shakespeare has well said: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” If this but applied to your essay, O writer! what an excellent thing it would be! But it lies not within your gray matter to eompass _it. Again, with the bard, you say, “I must become a borrower,” and you walk down the pleasant gardens, plucking here and there a flower of fancy until your little essay shuns the eye with color. “Here’s richness!” Nothing that you can say but has been well said before; therefore quote it, fusing it, if you will, with your poor thought to crystallize it and make it seem a new thing. “Here are a few of the unpleasant’'st words that ever blotted paper.” Do not use them, then. Make your essay light, graceful, full of the whipped cream of human kindness.

“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy,” says Will again, but had he kept silence, what joy the Anglo-Saxon race had missed, and how weak in quotation had been thy essay! Has not this same Shakespeare said, “What's mine is yours?’ Therefore do not scruple to take it if it will “make light where darkness reigned.” “Who would write well must first have loved.” There you are. It is not “nominated in the bond” what you must have loved; therefore it may as well be books as any other thing. You have loved books, you have gathered of their honey; now let it drop off your stylus and sweeten this essay over which you labor. A sixteenth-century writer says: “They lard their lean books with the fat of others’ works.” There you have an old precedent, so fear not. You are in good company. You do but take what others have taken before. Quote you never so well, you do but requote, and it may be fthat he f.om whom you quote lifted his thought from a richer than he. It is well said that ‘“a dwarf, standing ‘on the shoulders of a giant, may see further than the giant himself,” and if he can see further it stands to reason that he can be seen further. Your borrowed plumes will make you a marked man; that is, one who is

and she has hinted that she could have had you.” ] “Ha, if I'd married her she would have had me—you can bet a settin’ of eggs on that.” : “It was the talk of the neighborhood how you used to go to dances with her.” “Yes, it was the talk of the neighborhood ‘whenever anybOdy went with her at all. Gad, she had a tongue that would pick out a briar. And now she is a reformer, an uplifter of downtrod women.: Well, she spent about twothirds of her life tryin’ to tread ’em down. I can recollect when every girl in the neighborhood was afraid of her. An eld gypsy came along one time and had some love powders for sale, and Miss Patsy she bought some and managed to give 'em to Zeb Collins. She must have given him about half a pound from the way he acted. Went out and hung over the back fence and called hogs for ten minutes, he did. After awhile when he was silent she looked out after him and he was a ketchin’ of his horse. We called him Bakin-Powder Zeb after that. But he didn’t rise.” . “I don’t believe she gave him the powders.” “No, just loaned ’em to him. At any rate, he got 'em. And now you trace back some of the biggest of these women reformers and you’ll find love powders in their lives somewhere. There ain’t nothin’ on the earth brighter than a bright woman—and there’s nobody the Lord ought to shower His favors down on more than her. No matter how good a man is he can’t begin to ketch up with her. She is tenderness, love, truth, religion—all in one. But when she’s pizenous—look out. That is the time for Satan himself to dodge. And I'll bet every time he sees old Miss Patsy comin’ he takes to his flinty heels. When a man’s disappointed with.life he generally ‘ries to keep it to himself. But with a woman—she not only wants it to be known, but wants to make others Adissatisfied.”

‘Yes,” said Mrs. Jucklin, “for when a man’s a failure it’s his own fault. A waman could never have helped herself.” “You've got me again and I'll have to get out the best way I can. Yes, the cause of failure lies with the one that has failed. It was a lack of energy, a lack of jedgment—a lack of somethin’. A man must make circumstances, but sometimes circumstances won’t be made. Under the law all men may be born free, but they ain’t born equal. Neither minds ncr constitutions are on a par. with one another in different , men. Man acknowledges this and quietly knocks under, takin’ hold of the next best thing and doin’ with it what he ~an. I'm talkin' aboutsensible map. But the woman—of the Miss Patsy stripe—she does her best

“read, marked, learned, and Inwardly digested.” | : ; “We cag say nothing but what hath 1 been said.’}’ Why attempt the impos‘-* sible, they? “I would help others out of a felow-feeling.” I have been thought-dry myself. . I dare say that there were mornings when John Milton said: “I had rather than 40 shillings I had never begun ‘Paradise Yost” 1 have keyed it so high that it splits my| throat to sing it.” “Angling is somewhat: like poetry—men are to be born sO.” So angle that ye obtain’ the prize. Fish in other men's streams and a full basket will surely reward your perseverance. And when you have spread your wares gn the—market place, not one in ten will care’ who owned the fish originally. You will receive the credit even if you pepper your work all over with quotation marks. Emerson says: “The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until this century.” Do you not see that it was not what Shakespeare himself said that men valued? It was not unmtil his jewels flashed in other men’s bosoms that we perceived their luster. Therefore ‘quote, for in so doing you will be ren: 'dering the bard a service. - Some one. has said: “He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.” Remember ‘that, O gen‘tle essayist! Do not scruple to hélp ‘thyself, and having done so, to “take 'thy pen and write down quickly.” “It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright,” but thanks to your incursions into the flelds of literature, your bag is full. Let it stand. (Copyright, by James Pott & Co.)

Neglected Abbotsford. - The mansion-house of Abbotsfora, world-famous as the home of Sir Walter Scott, is in want of a tenant. The famous library and collection of antiquities are held in trust by the dean of the faculty of advocates, Edinburgh, on condition that the heirs. of the builder of| Abbotsford find accommodations for them in five out of the 40 rooms in the house. : : = ; Safe Rule for Mothers. , An educator said “Let us live with our children,” and if you provide them with innocent surroundings and music, books and sports to use as they choose they will be as happy as.larks and absorb the good influences of their environment. i

and then (tries to get.even by doin’ her worst. She looks for happiness in the misery of others. In a sorrowful countenance she finds the reward of her efforts. She holds man accountable for the fact that she was born a female. The dog that barks at the moon sees somethin’, but the woman that rails against nature sees nothin’ but herself. I know that some of the women folks would like to shoot me for sayin’ it, but I do say that the. mother of a child is greater than the woman ‘that makes a speech five columns long and has the whole community talkin’ about how smart she is:’: s :

“How about the father of a, child? Isn’t he greater than the man that makes a speech?” “He may be. About as no account a man as I ever came across could make a speech for the clouds, I tell you. But when he got through he was just a seashell that the musical wind had been blowin’ into. - That was all. He never had the joy of carin’ for a little human bein’. He was jest a feller that folks could call great be‘cause he could talk. We may -not have a mission on this earth, but if we have ’it is to obey the lovin’ instincts of ‘nature. The man that hates and the woman that has no love in ‘her heart are both the enemies of nature. You ‘may say that old Miss Patsy would have loved if the opportunity had been ‘given to her. She would have married, 'that’s true enough; but I don’t believe she, nor-any of her ilk, ever had any real love in her heart. I'm not standin’ here talkin’ up for man. Bless you, ‘he’s hopeless, He's gone all the gaits. ‘But the best of us have loved and honored our women. We haven’t called ‘them the enemies of man simply be‘cause nature set a limit to our minds iand—-—bec&fuse fate, or whatever you lmay call It, showed us our weakness. ' We've played some cards and have drunk a good deal of liquor, but the best of us have reforraed and we hope ‘the Lord has forgiven us.” “Oh, of course,” said the old lady, “any man is willing enough to ask the }Lord, to forgive him when he knows that it is nearly time for him to die. During all the time, night after night, while these dear little ones that he ‘thought so much of have been growing up, he has been off at elections and other things; and when he gets old enough to quit then he talks about the mission of nature and all that sort of stuff. If man doesn’'t want women to go around makin’ ‘speeches why doesn’t he marry her and take care ot her? If hiLthinksthat marriage is so ‘beautiful for a woman why doesn’t he prove that it is beautiful for him? Summing up my book, as you summed up yours, why doesn't a man learn carlier nofi-w behave himself?” Wb 1 fim you've got me w;"i i ‘ w ‘m b ey _: ‘ =

MORE USED TO SELLING PINS& g’&“\ "NO\DE"N SPECIAL \ \\: Sau } y \ ERenas o { } N \\. ” \\ 3 e ) &> /7 ‘ .‘\‘ s ‘ Q—-\% Absent-Minded Clerk (who has been transferred from notion department) —So. you'll take this piano. Shall 1 send it, or will you take it with you?

ITCHING HUMOR ON BOY His Hands Were a Solid Mass, and Disease Spread All Over Body 5 —Cured in 4 Days By Cuticura. . “One day we noticed that our little boy was all broken out with itching sores. We first noticed it on his little hands. His hands were not as bad then, and we didn’t think anything serious would result. But the next day we heard of the Cuticura Remedies being so good for itching sores. By this time the disease had spread all over .his body, and his' ' hands were nothing but a solid mass of this itching disease. I purchased a box of Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuticura Ointment, and that night I took the Cuticura Soap and lukewarm water and washed him well™ Then I dried him and took the Cuticura Ointment and anointed him with it. I did this every evening and in four nights be was entirely cured. Mrs. Frank Donahue, 208 Fremont St.,, Kokomo, Ind., Sept. 16, 1907.”° ¥

ONE ON THE DOCTOR. | St. Peter’s Query Decided Reflection ; on Medical Attendant. e Dr. Arthur T. Holbrook told a story on his profession. : P ‘A man by the name of Evans'died.,” he said, “and ' went to heaven, of course. When 'he arrived at the pearly gates he said to St. Peter: ; “‘Well; I'm here.’ ' “St. Peter looked at him and asked his name. ‘John Evans,’ was the reply. “St. Peter looked through his book, and shook his head. = “‘You don’t b'elong here,” he said, pointing to the exit. : - ~ “‘But lam sure I belong here,’ said the man. “‘Wait a minute,’ said St. Peter. “He looked again and in the back of the book found his name. : “‘Sure,’” said the guardian of the gate, ‘you belong here. But you wasn’t expected for 20 years. Who's your doctor? "—Milwaukee Free Press.

~ Not the Chair. He was a collector for an instalk ment house; new at the business, and sensitive about performing an unpleasant duty. He was particularly embarrassed because the lady upon whom he had called to perform this unpleasant duty was so exceedingly polite. Still, the van was at the door, the lady was in arrears in’ her payments, and he remembered his duty. b : “Good morning,” said the lady. “It's a beautiful day, isn’t it?” : “Beautiful,” he -agreed. “Won't you take a chair?” she said. “Er—ne. thank you, not 'this morning,” he s.ammered. “I've come to take the piano!”"—Exchange. Swadeshi. > In the sense in which Sir William Harcourt remarked “We are all socialists now,” it may be said that all An-glo-Indians are believers in Swadesh} ‘While all reasonable Anglo-Indians deprecate the senseless agitation and the unsound economics of the extremist advocates of Swadeshi principles, they are all anxious to assist that natural development of indigenous industries and the creation of new ones upon which the future prosperity of the country so largely depends.—Pio neer Mail. . e :

DROPPED COFFEE Doctor Gains 20 Pounds on Postum. A physician of Wash., D. C,, saysot his coffee experience: ; “For years I suffered with periodical headaches which grew more frequent until they became almost constant. So severe were they ‘that sometimes I was almost frantic. 1 was sallow, -constipated, irritable, sleepless; my memory was poor, I trembled and -my thoughts were often confused. . ' “My wife, in her wisdom, believed coffee was responsible for these ills and urged me to drop it. I tried many times to do so, but was its slave. “Finally Wife bought a package of Postum, and persuaded me to try it, but she made it same as ordinary coffee and I was disgusted with the taste. (I make this emphatic because I fear many others have had the same experience.) She was distressed at her failure and we carefully read the directions, made it right, boiled it full 15 minutes after boiling ¢ommenced, and with good cream and sugar, I liked it—it invigorated and seemed to nourish me. | » “This was about a year ago. Now I have no headaches, am mnot sallow, sleeplessness and irritability are gone, my brain clear and my head steady. I have gained %0 Ibs. and feel 1 am a new man. it joo & “I do not hesitate to give Postum due credit. Of course dropping coffee was the main thing, but I had dropped it before, using chocolate, cocoa and other things to no purpose. : “Postum not only seemed to act as an invigorant, but as an article of nourishment, giving me the needed . phosphates and albumens. This is no imaginary tale. It can be substanti- - ated by my wife and her sister, who ‘both changed to Postum and are hearty women of about 70. e oo ~ *I write this for the information and ‘encouragement of others, and with a feeling of gratitude to the inventor of B -~ Name given by Postum Co., Battle ci%n-g “The Road io Welk ~ Everread the above fetter? A new fartoraaty o