Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 27, Ligonier, Noble County, 24 September 1908 — Page 2

. - . The Ligonier Banner LIGONIER, : INDIANA. e e et e B .et MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WJEEK TOLD IN ' 'CONDENSED FORM. ROUND ABOUT THEWORLD 1 e T Tmr Complete Review of Happenings of .- Greatest Interest from All Parts of the Globe—Latest Home and For eign Items. POLITICAL. ) Charles Evans Hughes was nominated by the Republican state convention on the first ballot. to succeed himself as governor of the state of New York. He received 827 out of a possible 1,009 votes, as against 151 for James W. -Wadsworth, Jr., of Livingston county, speaker of the state assembly, and 31 for former Congressman John K. Stewart of Montgomery. - New York Democrats nominated a state ticket headed by Lieut. Gov. Lewis S. Chanler for governor, and closed their é%nvention with a great meeting which was addressed by Mr. Bryan. ) Judge A. Heaton Robertson of New Haven was nominated for governor of Connecticut by the Democrats. The Republican party was victorious in the Maine state election, Bert M. Fernald of Poland: being chosen governor over Obadiah Gardner, the Democratic nominee. The Republicans also elected all four congressmen and maintained their majority in the legislature, although the Democrats made a good gain in their representation. The plurality received by the Republicans was not much over 7,700, the smallest received in any presidential vear in 25 years. The Republican state convention, of Utah nominated a ticket headed by W. E. Spry for governor. Ex-Congressman John F. Lacey was chosen by the standpatters of lowa to oppose Gov. Cummins -as United States senator to be voted upon at the primary in November. ’ James A. Tawney, James McCleary and Clarence B. Miller were winners for congressional nominations in the three disputed districts of Minnesota. Miller had a landslide- in the Eiglth district, defeating J. Adam Bede by three to one. - PERSONAL. Wilbur Wright broke the European record for sustained flight with an aeroplane, remaining in the air more than 39 minutes. Senor Corea has resigned as NicaJaguan minister to Washington and Dr. Rodolfo Espinoza has been named to succeed him, Wilson Collins, former cashier of a bank at Elkhart, Ind., was released from the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan,, after a six-year sentence for violation of the national banking law. Louis A. Gregori, who. fired upon Maj. Dreyfus during the ceremonies last June incident to the placing of the body of Emile Zola in the Pantheon, the Dreyfus affair, was acquitted by a Jury. John Mouton, a leper, who escaped from the Louisiana leper home in Iberville parish about a year ago, was found selling tickets at a nickel theater in New Orleans. i GENERAL NEWS. ’ The itinerary for Mr. Taft's first campaign tour through ten middle states was announced. A powder magazine near McAlester, Okla., was struck by lightning, the explosion killing one miner and seriously injuring eight others. R Police Commissioner Bingham of New York publicly retracted his recent statement in a magazine article that half the criminals in New York were Jews,

. The New York stock exchange house of E. R. Chapman & Co. was\yictimized to the extent of $30,000 by means of fraudulent-checks. ~ W. W. Reamer of East St. Louis tried to burn his house and family and then made two attempts at suicide. Lured toa lonely spot in Oklahoma City, Okla., Mrs. Harry Pearson was shot and killed by Harry Parker, a grain inspector from lola, Kan., because she wouldn’'t elope with him. Dr. George Morton of New York was_arrested in Philadelphia on a fugitive warrant from New York, chargfng him with securing $lOO,OOO by means of fraudulent notes.

The American battleships Maine and Alabama, the vanguard of the American fleet on its round-the-world voyage, arrived at Naples. Emperor William disappointed the general expectation that he would set foot on French territory in the course of a sight-seeing voyage along the Vosges range. ! 5 P

The business section of Keosauqua, la., was partly destroyed by fire, the loss being $50,000. Charles I. Van Zant, for several years a prominent baseball player, committed suicide at his home in Nashua, N. H. . Jessie and Willie Desmeulen, aged 22 and 16, drowned in the river at Sioux City, la., in sight of their father, who was rowing to their assistance. The nativnal conservation commission has made public the first of its schedules on which the inventory of the country’s natural resources is being conducted, and it indicates an intention to hunt down waste in all its forms and to devise some means to ‘prevent it. s

George Sands, 79 years old, was arrested at his home in Kansas City, Kan., on a charge of making counterfeit money. Five glass fruit jars containing 338 spurious silver dollars were dug up in his back yard. Harry K. Thaw was transferred to the jail at White Plains, N. Y. S

The average wages per hour in the principal manufacturing and mechanical industries of the country were 37 per cent. higher in 1907 than in 1906, while retail prices of food were 4.2 per cent. higher, according to the July report of the bureau of labor. John and Wilbur Patterson, charged with holding up a street car near Boston, Pa., last May and robbing 11 passengers and the conductor, were convicted in the criminal court at Pittsburg. i

Six persons were killed and 30 injured, four of whom are not expected to live, as the result of an explosion of a car of black powder at Windsor, Mo. A white man named Monker and six Indians, are believed to have perished in the forest fire near Grand Marais, Minn. They went to save homesteaders at Nester and were cut off by the flames. . )

Umpire Jack Sheridan of the American Baseball league was attacked by angry baseball enthusiasts in St. Louis. « The United States circuit court of appeals at Richmond, Va., sustained the opinion of Judge J. C. Pritchard in the.famous case of the Flieschmann Company and others against the South Carolina dispensary commission, holding in effect that a state cannot conduct liquor traffic, that being a private business. e The Utah Federation of Labor refused to indorse Samuel Gompers’ circular urging laboring men to vote for Bryan. gore > Suit for the recovery of $lOO,OOO damages, alleged to have been sustained because of a boycott, has been begun against the United Hatters of America by D. E. Loewe & Co., of Danbury, Conn. ‘ b

Five pershhs were killed and 16 injured a er- explosion in a mine near Alx-l. pelle. One Chic¥b woman was almost instantly killed and nearly'two score of other persbns, most of them residents of Indianapolis, were hurt when a Lake Shore suburban train ran into an excursion train at Chesterton, Ind. . A passenger train on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad was wrecked near Clarksdale, Miss. Three persons were killed and 30 injured.

For convicts escaped from the state prison at Jonia, Mich., and two from the penitentiary at Chester, 111. Sixty students of Armour institute, Chicago, were arrested after 20 freshmen had been partly stripped and marooned on a scow in the lake.

Night riders are organizing in northeastern Arkansas, for the purpose of reducing the cdtton acreage for next vear and compelling the holdng of this year’'s crop for the minimum price set by the International Farmers’ Union convention which met at Fort Worth recently. - Whisky and other liquors must have age and natural color or be labeled “imitation.” So decided Judge Humphrey in the United States district court at Springfield, 111., in the case of Wollner & Co., distillers and rectifiers of Peoria, 111. ’

"An attempt to assassinate Gov. Fort of New Jersey has been thwarted. by the watchfulness of post office employes who discovered an infernal machine addressed to him in the mails.;

Fred Peterson, 40 years old, ended his life in Springfield, 111., because he feared he would be a victim of hydrophobia, having been bitten by a rabid squirrel. Denial of any intentional contempt of <court was the burden of John Mitchell's testimony when the former head of the miners took the stand before Examiner Harper in the case wherein the American Federation of Labor officials are accused of contempt in the matter of the Bucks Stove & Range Company. The Chicago to New York express on the Erie road went into the ditch at Geneva, Pa., and 34 persons were hurt. Officials of the road declare some enemy of the company caused the wreck by opening a switch. Jenor Zboralski, a 19-year-old youth from Buffalo, N. Y. was taken into custody at the Polish seminary in Detroit under circumstances which led to a suspicion that he intended to use a loaded revolver which was in his pocket in-attacking Rev. Father Withold Bubaczkowski, head of the siminary. S

Miss Willie Bullinger, 19 years old, was stabbed to death by Lon Rader, aged 21, in Newton, N. C., while seated at the organ playing the closing hymn at Sunday school. ’ Amid intense excitement and to the accompaniment of cheers and groans from immense crowds, the Catholic clergy held their great parade, which was the closing feature of the Eucharistic congress in London.

Dave Newton, a negro, charged with being implicated in the murder of John Buchtrin, a white man, “'who was shot and Kkilled at his home near Brookshire, Tex., was taken from jail by a mob and hanged. . A government crop report estimates the total Canadian ‘wheat yield .at 124,690,000 bushels, an average of 21 bushels per acre. The total yield of oats is estimated at 269,904,000 bushels, and the total barley yield 49,488,000 bushels. =

Frank V. Bennett, a hotel manager of New York, killed himself because of financial and domestiq difficulties and on learning of it, his friend George Crouch, a stock operator, committed suicide. The towns of Grand Marais and Beaver Bay were reported to be burning and many ‘other places were endangered by the forest fires of Michigan and Minnesota.

A hurricane of great fury swept over Turks Islands, B. W. I, and the town of Grand Turk was devastated. A number of lives have been lost, but just how many cannot yet be said. OBITUARY. ' ~ Capt. A. E. Maxwell, general agent of the Seaboard Air Line, with headquarters in Jacksonville, ¥la., and one of the best known railmad men in the south, died suddenly at Gainesville, Ga., of heart trouble. _ Dr. George W. Clark, who was the oldest living graduate of Union college, and as a young teacher “whaled” Roscoe Conkling, is dead at his home in New York, aged 92 years. Hugh Coyle, credited 1 being the original of the mm:F\n agent, died at the county } in Chicaga

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WARBLERS MOST PERPLEXING, MOST FASCINATING FAMILY TO STUDENTS. FORTY DIFFERENT SPECIES The Winged Creatures, and Their Manner of Migrating—Their Colors, Habits and Good Work— Flight of the Hawks. BY EDWARD B. CLARK. . (Associate Member American Ornithologists’ Union.) (Copyright, Joseph B. Bowles.) L.ate September is the warbler season. Untold thousands of the birds forming this family hurry southward. Save to the keen observer their presence is unsuspected. They keep as a rule rigidly to the tree tops, where they carry on unending war against the myriad of insect foes of the foliage. :

The warblers are mites of creatures, the largest of them being about the size of the English sparrow, while the great majority are but a trifle larger than the kinglet, which is the smallest bird we have, barring only the ruby throat hummer. Search all the bird families and you will find few members that are arrayed like unto these industrious little laborers on man’s behalf.

~ There are something like 40 species of warblers, and in their colors they shade into one another so perplexing-

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ly that if the novice in the observing field take them up as his first study he is much more than'likely to conclude before the season is half spent that the bird lesson is too hard to be learned, and to put his glass back into the case and to forego for all time his trips afield. : : On the other hand, for the person who has learned his alphabet and his first, second and third book of birds, the warblers constitute, so to speak, a volume of the rarest interest. An dbserver may scrape acquaintance with the warblers in the springtime and think that he has mastered them so completely that he will not be obliged to hurry after each field trip to some museum of birds to make sure of his lidentifications. September comes and the springtime enthusiast goes again to warbler highways to meet his friends of the vernal year as they come hurrying from the north when the year is in the sere and yellow. He finds a multitude of warblers in a tree, and 10, he is in luck if he can name one of them. Many of the males have changed their plumage with the changing season; the young of the year look unlike either parent, though in most instances bearing some resemblance to the adult female, and the result is that the warbler student, not knowing the idiosyncrasies of the warblers’ fall fashion in dress, is inclined to believe that he has struck a score of new species.. As a matter of fact, in the fall one must learn the warblers all over again. :

After two “sets of seasons” with plenty of closet study over colored plates and stuffed specimens in the winter time, the observer becomes fair-

WIT OF VARIOUS TIMES

Humor of One Period Not Always Agreeable to Another. .

The standard of wit varies from time to time. What passes for the genuine article at one period without challenge is at another condemned as puerile. Stories were commonly told of Beau Brummell and his friends which there is good reason to believe to be authentic, but which would now be regarded as too silly for credence. The famous man about town once laid a wager with the prince regent that he would see the greater number of cats, if the prince chose which side of Regent street he pleased. As the result Brummell saw about 20, while the prince had not encountered one. He was asked to explain the “system” on which he gambled, and did so thus: It was a very hot morning, and George IV., who liked to take his ease, chose the shady side of the street. But cats like sunshine, and gratified their inclination by sunning themselves in large numbers. Beau Nash’s wagers

ly familiar with the warblers, and from that time forward he is much more than likely to neglect his sparrow, thrush, hawk and plover friends for an intimacy with the many-hued warbler midgets. i

I have seen a tree so filled with myrtle ‘warblers (Dendroica coronata) that it appeared actually as though there were a bird for each leaf. During the migration period the warblers do little, when not journeying, but to lisp and to eat. The bird, otherwise well mannered, is given to talking with its mouth full. The warblers are so busy food gathering that they are fearless. It is possible .to approach within a few feet of them: and to watch them at their labor. This, of course, applies to the warblers which feed in the shrubbery &and in the lower branches of the trees rather than to those which prefer the topmost foliage. Touching the matter of the warblers’ plumage, nothing that can be ‘said of its beauty can be deemed extravagant. Take the blackburnian warbler (Dendroica blackburniae), a bird that may be seen at this season-in both city and suburb.. There is no hue-in feathers, to one mind at least, that in point of brilliancy can be compared to the throat of this gorgeous creature. The books put the color down as an orange yellow, but print is cold. Burnished gold is better, and yet does scant justice to the beauty of the subject. Other warblers and other bird families have yellow throats, but the beauty of the blackburnian’s feathers is a thing apart. -

The sauciest of warblers is the Maryland yellow-throat. This yellowthroat, like the blackburnian, is a beauty. With the other bird out of the question the yellow-throat might be awarded the palm. It is not hard to scrape acquaintance with this little fellow. He is always dressed for a masque ball,” and as he peers at you from out the bush . where he has taken refuge his eyes twinkle through the top of his black mask and he seems to say: “Find out who I am if you can.”

The Maryland yellow-throat is a ground lover. It inhabits the whole northern country in summer. It is this beauty which occasionally builds its nest in the unsavory skunk cabbage, a fact which led me in another article to declare that I more than half believed the bird’'s olfactory nerves were lacking. Possibly, however, it is a case of all things being; sweet to the sweet, for the yellow-throat is a sweettempered little fellow, withal his voice is occasionally querulous. Its note sounds something - like “Witchity, witchity, witchity,” though it may be translated to suit the fancy of the hearer. John Burroughs, who is always apt, thinks the yellow-throat politely asks the wayfarer: “Which way, g One of the fascinations of advanced study of the warblers is the possibility that one may stumble upon a rare species. Frank M. Chapman touches upon this point in his ‘“Teachers’ Manual of Bird Life.” He says: “To the field ornithologist warblers are the most difficult as well as the most fascinating birds to study. Long after the sparrows, fly-catchers and vireos

were not always so successful, and he once found : himself nonplussed by a young woman at Bath. Having bet that he would “take a rise” out of the girl, he addressed her with the remark that no doubt she was familiar with her Bible, and had read the history of Tobit and bis dog. “Now,” said he, “can you tell me the dog’s name?” The reply was as prompt as it was pertinent. “Oh, yes, sir; his name was Nash, and a very impudent dog he was.”

Oldest Treaty.

The oldest text of a real treaty extant is that of the convention between Rameses 11., king of Egypt, and the prince of Kheta, which embraces the articles of a permanent offensive and defensive alliance, with. claises providing for the extradition of emigrants, deserters, criminals and skilled workmen. This treaty was drawn up in the fourteenth century B. C., and is the earliest record that we have of any international transaction.

have been mastered there will be unsolved problems among the warblers. Some rare species will be left to look for—it may be a member of the band flitting about actively in the branches above us—and in the hope of finding it we eagerly examine bird after bird until our enthusiasm yields to an aching neck.” Let the student, however, content himself at first with the more common of the warblers. . The black and white ‘warbler is striped with the colors which give him his name. In seeking its food it creeps over the limbs and trunks of trees. It is easily identified. The myrtle warbler, more commonly known perhaps as the yellowrumped warbler, lingers late. It may be known by its bright yellow crown patch and the equally bright yellow spot just above the'tail. The rest of the upper parts are bluish-gray, streaked with black. The throat-is white, while the rest of the under parts are black, yellow and white. Don’t get this bird confused with the magnolia warbler, which has the same general colors differently distributed. In the fall and winter the more brilliant colors of both birds are partly concealed by a cold weather feather growth of somber hue. | Other easily identified warblers are the black-throated green (Dendroica virens), the black-throated blue (Dendroica caerulescens), the cerulean warbler (Dendroica caerulea), the redstart (Setophaga ruticilla), the yellow warbler (Dendroica aestiva), and the chestnut-sided warbler (Dendroica pennsylvanica). : Students of the warblers should go to a museum and there study the specimens which are on exhibition. In the best collections the birds are shown in all the variations of plumage. This purpose of aiding in the identification of their fellows is the only good service which a dead bird performs. He is much more useful in life than in death, and let not the bird observer get the desire to possess a collection of dead birds of his own. The instant that le does he knocks much of the poetry out of the pursuit of bird knowledge. The start of the swallows on their southern trip is the sight of a lifetime. . The% will congregate in myriads above some chosen meadow, In ranks formed in close order they will circle about brushing the tops of the meadow grasses with the tips of their wings. Round and round they go in dizzy flight until suddenly from some point in the whirling column there is an upward movement and like a great cloud with a hurricane pressing at its rear, the mass of birds mounts upward, and then breaking into open order streams southward ‘across the sky. The warblers coming to us from the north in September pass southward 'a.nd then follow the great congregation of native sparrows, the hawks, the hermit thrushes and the rest of the scurrying throng: The golden-crowned kinglet is a ‘notable species. If we treat him well }t’his little fellow may <consent to reimain with us all through the cold of winter. The kinglet is the smallest bird we have, with the sole exception of the ruby-throated humming bird. The golden crowned kinglet is a bird of particular interest. He bears the distinction of having been named by the thlosopher _ Aristotle, who, ' something like twenty-three hundred years ago, met the little fellow and, observing his golden crown, called him Tyrannos, which in the Greek of that day meant “kindly royalty” rather than “tyrant,” the significance which it holds to-day. The bird retains the 'name in the form of kinglet, as it re!tains the golden crown until this very ‘ hour. The golden-crowned kinglet has a cousin who wears a ruby crown. ‘Every bush and tree in the great city parks and along the residence streets ~will bear a burden of kinglets. They drop down from their night flight by the tens of thousands, and taking'sta‘tion in the foliage of shrub and tree begin their work of insect eating. The r kinglets are so utterly fearless of man that they will perch upon his shoul- ‘ der or his hand. A workman last year 'who was helping to dig an excava‘tion for a building on a crowded thoroughfare had a kinglet light upon his ‘hat and stay there for fully five min‘utes while he kept up his measured strokes with the pickax. : ' When the ducks, the geese and the wading birds begin their southern journey every wing stroke of their way is punctuated by the report of a shotgun. The flight of some of the ducks is so rapid that the eye seemingly has difficulty in following their course. Unfortunately for the birds, however, they have not yet succeeded through centuries of training in acquiring the rapidity of locomotion sufficient to distance the projectiles which man has designed to overtake them and to cut short both flight and life. ! Blessings of Cheerfulness. Cheerfulness opens, like spring, all ‘the blossoms of the inward ' man.— Richter. o :

; A New Cure. A doctor whose practice lies mostly in the country districts was recently called to attend a plowman’s boy, whom he found to be suffering from whooping cough. Among his instructions he told the mother to “put some ice in a bag and tie it around the boy’s head.” Next day he called again and was met at the door by the guidwife, who, in answer to his query, replied, “Aye, Jockie’s a heap better the day, but the mice are a’ deid.”—Dundee Weekly Ngws. Another Misunderstanding. A South side man went home and -told his wife that the doctors had discovered the craving for whisky was caused by autointoxication. ‘That's right,” exclaimed the woman, who was trying to induce herrhusband to buy a machine. “Blame it on:the auto!”— Chicago Daily News. ~ Right Action. . : Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action.than there can be two kinds of straight lines.—Herbert Spencer.

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BY GEO. V. HOBART, (“HUGH M'’HUGH.”)

Dear Bunch: In Paris, eh? Give my regards to the Moulin Rouge, won't you?

I notice what you say in your letter about buying a couple of French automobhiles in Paris, one of the same being for me. \ I'm glad-to see you have such a sweet disposition, Bunch, but nix on the Bubble. i Not for yours hastily. I've caught all the diseases to date except the automobilious fever. | While walking around the city streets I have been making a deep study of whiz wagons, Bunch, but so close was the machinery to my outposts at the time and so eager was I to get out of the way that perhaps lam prejudiced. . s |

The automobile is the rich man’s wine and the poor man’s chaser. It keeps our streets full of red, white and blue streaks all the livelong

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Speaking of gasoline na.tura!lyf brings us to kerosene. We have been getting along nicely out here in the country, with the possible exception that Peaches has tried to assassinate all the mosquitoes in the neighborhood with almost fatal| results to herself. | ‘Peaches seems to have Ilabored under the impression that the proper way to assassinate a mosquito is to} throw a bomb at it and then cross the fingers and hope for the best. At any rate, she read somewhere in a book that the kindest way to assassinate -the mosquito is to coax a bunch of them up in the corner and," throw vitriol in their faces, which gen-| erally causes them to be ashamed of themselves and makes them lead less bloodthirsty lives. ‘ | Well, Peaches tried this idea, but ifi g 0 happened that my best pair of trou; gers were hanging in the same cor{ ner which she picked out to work her third degree on the skeets, with the re: sult that my trousers departed t-hisl world in great haste, while the mosqui: toes put thglr stingers up their sleeve{ and ran away, laughing wildly. Then 1 took Peaches out in a vacan lot, far from the bosom of her fam ily, and explained to her the scientifi difference between mosquitoes and

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paid of nine-doll:ir trousers, to all ot which she listened with much patience, except when I swore too loud. But she was .noE discouraged—nay! The next day she read in a paper that kerosene oil was the only genuine and reliable w&ay to overcome the mosquito, so she went after them by the oil route. W : The article in the paper didn’t give full instructions h‘Pw to use the kerosene, so Peaches thought it all out for awhile, and then she poured about half a gallon of oil in the bathtub and waited. B > I think she expected the mosquitoes to walk into the bath-room, undress, grab the soap and plunge into the kerosene oil, where they would perish miserably Withoui even getting a chance to throw up the sponge. : But none of the mosquitoes in our house felt that it was necessary to take a bath, so that scheme failed, while worse and more ravenous and more pitiless grew the hunger of the pests which were using us for a mnieal ticket. : ‘; : '

Then somebody told Peaches. that the right way to apply kerosene oil was to put it in a sprinkling can,then dash up behind: t‘pe enemy and sprinkle them on ‘thi lumbar region. To see Peaches chasing a bevy of mosquitoes around thile parlor with fire in her eyes, a carpet-sweeper in her Jeft hand and a spri‘jkling can full of kerosene oil in her r‘\ight hand was a

ey +f St RN .&‘&Xlfi"} > (GPATRNENS s AT R .‘i,A‘ % " e e & Y R 0", e 7J/ 4 & { . 2 \Zf‘, N S \/ / s SYET et A e .r X Rt Sl A A - ' '(, ',/ 01,, - {&6 { ey ~\_% ¢ - % | Dash Up Behind tfie Enemy. sight such as these eyes ‘\ot mine never before beheld. a 1 If the fire from her eyes had ever reached the kerosene—holy smoke! On the level, Bunch, |if there was any place in our house v&*rhfch Peaches didn’t sprinkle with kerosene it must have been a few of my collars -and cuffs which hadn’t come from the laundry yet. ‘1 : For two days, Bunch, it\rained kercsene in our household. ‘g For breakfast the toast was scented with kerosene, and it }floq.ted like ’1 rainbow on top of the 'cuffee. For luncheon. the codfish cakes behaved like a leaky lamp, and ~ the shredded onions lost all their courage and wanted to leave the room. For dinner the corn beef looked like a roast on John D.t Rockefeller, and the delicate blossoms of the sauerkraut were all shriveled | up, 'and tasted like the Ohio river near Parkersburg. : r o In the meantime, Bunch, the mosquitoes are having the time of their lives. They thought we were giving a Mardi Gras for their benefit, so they sent out invitations to all their friends, with the result that our little family lost more blood than is spilled in a South American revolution. | Peaches has- abandoned |the kerosene idea, and is now fumi%ating the house with something which falls on the insulted nose like a hard slap on the face, so I am writing this letter out in the barn. : My theory about the mo%;quito is that he has humanity stung, going and coming. 1 : * Yours done in oil, I4'JOHN. (Copyright, 1908, by G. W. Dillingham Co.) Had Poor Opinion of Dr, Hall. Rev. Dr. Charles F. Aketi's experi: ence with a would-be convert which he related to ‘his congregation in New York bears close resemblance to an occurrence which the late Rev. Dr. John Hall spoke of several years before his death. A man came to hid and said that he had resolved to- renounce his faith and to devote the rest of his life to the conversion of the Jews, although all his friends were of that persuasion. He told of the eagerness og hundreds to follow him and wanted to have the management of a missim;, “if . the church would pay the expeunse of main: taining it. Dr. Hall said he would consider the matter, - made inquiry as to the man’s character and when he called for an answer declined the offer with thanks. The man seenied to be disappointed, used disrespectful lan: guage and said to the Scotch maid who showed him fo the door: “He’s a hard man to do business with.”,

Thrift in Children. - Some day the plan of providing for children by starting a bank account for each baby at birth and adding to it on each birthday will become general, and ‘there will be a hope of fostering thrift in growing children. The possession of a bank book which they cannot wholly own till legally free from the guidance of parents is often a matter of pride which prompts saving. Everybody knows how hard it Is to save the first hundred- dollars, and how much the difficulty lessens with every addition to that. . : Woman’s Suspiclous Reticence. Are women ,beginning to talk less in the hope of thus better pleasing men? If so, while commending the motive, we would unhesitatingly question the method. The mere music of their voices as e{m&r@eted with the raucous male nete-easily counterbalances any possib{? dZspaxflfy in the ideas expressed. Upon all grounds we cry out for loosening of the delicate tongues Now so stranr%:_ly and so sus piciously stilled.—North American Re view. L ‘v‘J e 10

TEN YEARS OF BACKACHE. Thousands of Women Suffer in the : : - Same Way. - Mrs. Thos. Dunn, 153 Vine St Columbus, Ohio, says: “For more : . than ten years 1 was L 2 in misery with backache. The simplest g * housework completely z exhausted me.” I had f}, no strength or ambiY =2 N tion, was mervouns and . suffered headache and e - * dizzy spells. . After these years of pain I was despairing of ever being.cured when Doan’s Kidney Pills came to my notice and their use brought quick relief and a permanent cure. I am very grateful” : Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. SOUNDS REASONABLE. e : ;3_4'};- ! B a 3 Sa 33 SN | 3 4!33‘36/ 3" a Zr.,;,,,. e e (5% ' \ ;?—;_;.e'; AR YIRS U { 5 g]A3> = ~ b . L ) ']\\\,-»n ! 3 ’ le & - | - 1Y Karl—Papa, I suppose the scidiers have to learn to stand on one leg because they might have one foot shot oft in war. ‘ !

EYESIGHT WAS. IN DANGER. From Terrible Eczema—Baby’s Head " & Mass of Itching Rash and Sores - —Disease Cured by Cuticura. | i i “Our little girl was two menths old when she got a rash on her face and within five days her face and head were all one sore. We' used different remedies but it got worse instead of better and we thought she would turmy blind and that her ears would fall off. She suffered terribly, and ‘would scratch until ‘the blood came. ' This went on until she was five months old, then I had her under our family -doc‘tor’s care, -but she continued o grow worse. He said it was eczema. When she was seven months old ‘1 started to use the Cuticura Remedies and in two months our baby was a different girl. You could not- see a sign-of & sore and she was as fair as a newborn baby. She has not had a sign of the eczema since. Mrs. H. F. Budke, LeSueur, Minn., Apr. 15 and May 2, *07." BATHING AN INDIAN IDOL. Curious Ceremony Attended by Thow sands of Devout Pilgrims.' Thousands of pilgrims from the va--rious outlying villages and other parts of the Hooghly district poured in from an early bhour in .the morning to the temples of Jagernath, says the Calcutta Statesman. - The image of the god is placed on a conspicuous part of the temple, so that it can be viewed at an advantage by the immense crowd of pilgrims, and there at a certain fixed hour the bathing ceremony commences. : 'The most curious ,pgrt of the festival is that water is not poured on the image of the god until a certain smal} bird is found sitting®on the topmost banner of the temple. There_is a popular belief that the bird comes from Puri, the famous place of Hindu pilgrimage, to Maheoh on the day of this festival, and his very presence is an Indication that the ceremony shouild commence. Immediately after the bath the bird disappears. . _ " READY REASONING. , One Guess About Venus of Mils Proved to Be Wrong. [ They stood before the reproduction of the Venus of Melos. : “Her hands must have been beautiful,” said one. - “Very,” assented the other, “I wonder what position they were In?” - ~ “I have a theory that she was represented as busied at her teilet. One hand- probably held a small mirror.” - - “And the other a powder puff, eh? But that theory won’t work.” “And why not?” “Had she been at her toilet her mouth would have been full of hairpins.”—Louisville Courier-Journal “THE PALE GIRL.” Did Not Know Coffee Was the Cause. In cold weather some people think & cup of hot coffee good to help keep warm. So it is—for a short time but the drug—caffeine—aets on the heart to weaken the circulation and the reaction is to cause more chilliness.

. There is a hot wholesome = drink which a Dak. girl found after a time, makes the blood warm and the heart strong. . ; ! She says: - - ,

“Having lived for five years in N. Dak., I have nsed considerable coffee owing to the cold climate. As a result I had a dull headache regularly, suffered from indigestion, and had no ‘life’ in me. . e :

“] was known as ‘the pale girl’ and people thought I was just weakly. After a time I had heart trouble and became very mnervous, never knew what it was to be real well. Took mbdicine but it never seemed to do any good. v “Since being married my husband and I both have thought coffee was harming us and we would quit, only o begin again, although we felt it was the same as poison to us. “Then we got some Postum. Well, the effect was really wonderful. My complexion is clear now, headache gone, and I have a great deal of energy I had never known while drinking coffee. : “I haven’t been troubled with indigestion since using Pestum, am not nervous, and need no medicine. We have a little girl and boy who both love Postum and thrive on it and Grape-Nuts.” ' - “There’s a Reason.” . - Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read, “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. | : Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human