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INCREASE IN FARM WEALTH SINCE YEAR OF 1895. Then They Were Getting; Loir Price and Producing; Less; on They Ar Getting Top Prices, Producing More and Making Money Faster. By the courtesy of the Philadelphia Record we are able to produce a strong cartoon, the original of which appeared In a recent issue of that newspapav. The picture has for its central thought the steadily increasing prosperity of the American fanner. In the foreground arc two stalwart tillers of the soil standing back to back, while Uncle Sam Is taking the measure of their respective statures. He finds that the farmer of 1001 is half a head tailor than he of 19Ct;. and the legend explains that 1007 has given the farmer In earnings' "one billion dollars more" than in lOOj. Leaning over the fence with wistful, envious expression Is the Wall street speculator, his empty pockets turned Inside out, and fervently exclaiming: "I wljdi I was a fanner!" For this striking depiction of th splendid earnings of the American farmer the free trade Record is to be commended. We do not suppose that the intention was to suggest that the farmer has grown more and more stalwart, and that his earnings show a billion dollars of increase in one year lv cause cf protection. Yet the suggestion is there; ycu cannct escape it Doubtless the Record will scout the Idea that protection has had anything to do with the fanner's prosperity, and will sneeringly ask. "What has protection to cl with big crops?" Let us see about that. It requires GROWING

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By courtesy of the Philadelphia Record. There are more factories In operation now than ever before. There aTe more mills running, more locomotives pulling and pulling the products of factories and mills. Everywhere there is n demand for labor. Farmers, don't you know that this Is what has uplifted ycur market? The prosperity of the wage earners has brought about this unprecedented, prosperity of the farmers. Republican legislation in Congress has done this

no strained argument to show that protection may have a great deal to do with big crops. back to 1803-1S97. The farmer was getting 50 cents a bushel for his wheat aLd $3 apiece for his lambs. To-day, after ten years of restored protection, the price of wheat has nearly doubled and the price of a spring lamb baa more than doubled. Protection has not Increased the yield of wheat per acre, or the percentage ot lambs available for the butcher's block, bat It has Induced the farmer to sow additional acres of wheat, to buy more ewes from which to breed lambs. So protection has had much to do with big crops. Bigger crops were necessary because the millions who work la the mills and factories were eating more and paying better prices for what they ate In 1007, a straight-out protection year, than they did in 1S03-1S07, a "tariff reform" period. It Is estimated that farm land values and the gross values of farm products hare Increased at the rate of a billion dollars a year fully $10,000,000,000 In th last ten years of adequate protection to American labor and Industry. President Roosevelt on the Navy. la a recent speech President Roosevelt put a quietus on those excitable persons who Insist that our fleet of battleships is going to the Pacific to make war on Japan. Nothing of the sort is in the government's mind. The ships are to sail for two reasons. Oae Is that the Pacific coast is as ruch American as the Atlantic, and has as good a right to naval protection. The other Is that a long Yoyage Is the only way to find out the navy's defects- and to givilhe officers and men practical experience. The journ?y is oily a practice cruise, but It should have valuable results. Incidentally, of course, the presence of the battleships on the Pacific will tend to show other nations that "we desire peace because we think it is Just and right, and not from motives of weakness or timidity." But to show that fact effectualy we must "build up and maintain at the highest point of efficiency the United States navy." That can only be done In time of peace, for to build a battleship requires a longer time than any war between two great powers has lasted since Napoleon's day; and it takes longer still to train officers and crews. We have a good nary, but it Is not large enough for our needs. Therefore, though the President did not say so In that speech, we should make haste to enlarge and strengthen It Our navv should be large ami pow erful as any In the world, and we can make it so in a few years with liber ality and energy. The country should urge Congress to make appropriations Ut build at least five battleship every year. We can easily afford to spend S40.COO.000 or $50.000,000 annually on so Important a feature of national de fense. Then naval service should be made more attractive, so that we should always have a sufficient force to man our ships. In advocating a larger navy Presi dent Roosevelt has the supiort of all good citizens. The navy Is our chief defense, ami with our wealth we should not fail to create one that will make us Inv'.ncible on the setts. Chicago Journal. Can't Endure Prosperity. The uneasy temperament of the American people makes it impossible

fc-r thtm to endure anything for a very extended period. They grow weary of prosj;crity and long for a change. The most,oü them are unconscious cf their restlessness, because it is disguised by an aspiration which is euphemistically termed a desire for reform. Th?y are incapable of adhering for an extended period to the idea that it Is a good thing to let we.'l enough alone. In the midst of an unparalleled prosperity they ask for something they think better, and when they get it they find that it is a Dead Sea apple. San Francisco Chronicle!

Roosevelt fn loun. Here are some of the striking features of the President's address at Keokuk, Iowa: Land should be sold outright only In quantities sufficient for df cent homes not in hue areas to be he'd for speculative purpo1- or used as lanehes where those who do the actual work are merely tenants or hired hands. The one object in all our lan;l laws should always be to favor the actual settler, the actual home maker. In addition to the iron highroads of our railway system we should also utilise the great river highways which have been given us by nature. The average American citizen will no more tolerate government ty a mob than he will by a plutocracy ; he desires to sea justice done to and justice exacted from rich man and poor man alike. If a man does well, if he acts honestly, he has nothing to fear from this adaiinistration. But, so far as in me lies, the corrupt politician, great or small, the private citizen who transgresses the lawbe he rich or poor shall be brought before the impartial justice of a court. At intervals during the last few months the appeal has been made to me not to enforce the law 'against certain wrongdoers of great wealth because to do so would interfere with the business prosperity of the country. I do not admit that this (policy) has SOME. been the main cause of any business troubles we have had, but it is possible that it has been a contributory cansc. If so, friends, as far as I am concerned it must be accepted as a disagreeable but unavoidable feature in a course of policy which as long as I am President will not be changed. Tariff Trade Dickers Unprofitable. Those manufacturers who imagine that they are going to obtain easy access to the markets of the world for their surplus competitive products will some day wake up from their dreams. The tendency of all producing nations Is to reserve their own markets for their own producers. When England fifty years ago opened her doors to the world the world did not do likewise, but proceeded as rapidly as possible to close its own doors more tightly. Outside of Great Britain, no country in the world has any intention of accepting from the United States anything that can be produced at home In sufficient quantities. Special tariCf trade agreements will not alter, the situation abroad. The only difference will be that in every trade dicker entered Into the United States will more and more get the worst of the bargain. German Were To Sharp for X'n. The German reciprocity arrangement threatens to keep the eountrj" busy without any further tariff legislation in the immediate future. The Germans were too astute for the American negotiators. The Germans got the concession which empowers them to put their own valuation on their goods sent to America and to pay duty on them accordingly. By undervaluing their goods' one-half, which can easilv be done, the Germans thus cut the tariff in two. That is more of a con cession than even the rippers In this country have been contending for. Gen erally speaking, it is a poor policy that leaves with the foreigner the determination of the duty he shall pay. That is the distinction which German diplo mats have achieved. Cedar Rapids Re publican. The Onilmtone. The advocates of reciprocity are still quoting the speech of McKinley in which he made reference to the desirability of extending the foreign trade of the nation, but it is noteworthy that their quotations are full of asterisks. When the omissions which these mark are supplied it Is plainly seen that the kind of reciprocity which McKinley had In mind was of an entirely different brand from that advocated by the present assailants of the tariff. McKinley advocated reciprocal trade which would not Interfere with the protective sys-' tern; the tariff revisionists aro after that sort of reciprocity which paves the way to free trade by breaking down American Industrie?. San Francisco Chronicle. Feminine I.ofc'ic. Stella If a young man should attempt to kiss you how would you act? I should act on ihe defensive put up a strenuous fight and eventually surrender. Stella But why should you give him so much trouble, dear? Mabel To make him more appreciative. The fiercer the battle the sweeter the victory, you know. One of the best and simplest remedies for keeping the hands whiti and soft is by bathing them daily In tepid water In which has been well mixed half a teaspoouful of the best glycerine and rose water.

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II, I Just had a hunch." That is the way the successful man often explains a particularly wise and remunerative move on his part to the friends who want to know how he did It "Lucky dog," the less successful ones remark as they walk away. Was he lucky? Or did he simply use a little of

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the ordinary amount of brains with which he was endowed. Where did he get the hunch? His "lucky" Inspiration came from a habitual, intelligent use of brains. The "lucky dog" simply put two and two together and believed that they made four. He combined logic with confidence and won. The man without the hunch Is what he is for two reasons. Either he is too indolent to put two and two together, or else after he had put them together, he was afraid that he had made a mistake and that they made something else besides four. A logical mind, ever on the alert to benefit the owner, almost without his conscious volition. Is a product of careful training. If you are complaining that you never have had any lucky hunches, set yourself now to grasp the full meaning of every minute incident that arises in connection with each day's work. Do this every day. Do not let each day be complete in Itself. Relate each day with its complex activities to each other day. Soon you will discover that some incident of to-day has if direct bearing upon some Incident of some other day. You may be the only person who has made this discovery. If you are energetic, you will use it to your own advantage. And there you arc. Your lucky "huuch" has come. Try it Don't be envying other lucky dogs. Make yourself an object for envy. Chicago Examiner.

THE CAPITAL CITY. FFORTS are being made to create In Washington a great national university. Such an institution would find 'already made in Ii r,ntööc!rT(o1 TJhrnre tVirt Mncomn the

scientific departments an enormous material

than the oldest and richest universities can nffcrd. These departments would als provide, t j supplement the regular teaching force of the unUersity, a rich corps of special lecturers and assistants. Whatever may come of this plan, it is a significant expression of feeling long cherished In this country that the national capital ought to be. the chief center of intellectual activities. The older cities of natural growth and commercial

SO MOTORISTS "WON'T SPEED. Some of the I'rernntloni Taken In Rnral District of New Tnclaiid. Bruce G. Eaton, a ranchman from Greeley, Colo., spent several days in Kansas City last week while his motor car was being overhauled. Mr. Eaton with his wife and four children drove a six-cylinder car through from Portland, Me., says the Kansas City Star, They leZi there July 4. going by easy Btages. He says that the worst roads he encountered on the whole trip were between Hannibal, Mo., and Kansas City. "Odd situations arise In these crosscountry trips," Mr. Eaton said. "In Massachusetts the constables and town marshals watch the motorists like hawks and take advantage of every opportunity to enrich the town treasury. I know of one case where a justice of the peace up there was at an Ice cream social. The marshal arrested a motorist. The Judge was called away from the social and assessed a fine of $10. He went back to his refreshments, the motorist paid the fine and went on his way, and the town marshal started out after another victim. I guess he tot one, too. "They have big ropes stretched across the road in some of those little Massachusetts towns, and If a driver speeds his car, up goes the rope. If the rope doesn't stop him the town marshal telephones on down the road and another rope bobs up somewhere. They'll get the driver sooner or later. They're a pretty peaceable lot, however. They're different from Mlssourlans. In this State, to enjoy a motor ride, a man should take a couple of prize fighters and an ax along for protection. Every man you meet driving a team seems ready for a fight. If you turn jour machine to the side of the road and wait for him to pass he'll ieldom thank you. If you go past him fast he says mean things as you go by. We met one man up by Ilaniribal driving a team of mules. The beasts shied at the cur and he got angry. The more I tried to help him the 'sorer' he got. If he could have left that team I would have had a battle, because he was certainly 'riled. Finally, growing tired of his abuse I started the car and went by him. I have visions yet of what he said and tried to say. He was shaking his fists and yelling as we disappeared around a turn in the toad." Mr. Eaton estimates that his trip from Portland to Greeley will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $3,000. REAL PEARL BEFORE SWINE. Jmt Resetted In Time -The Onto Hirer ' Flaherle. W. M. Bottorff and Henry Volt mussel fishermen, who have been taking bivalves from tfie Ohio river six Ändlnf In tht lnsf fpw rinvn a nnmlior of pearls, end so much excitement has been created among the river men on account of their good luck that the Indications are that the mussel fishermen will receive large additions to their numbers, says the Louisville Courler-Jdurnal. Bottorff was In New Albany Saturday and exhibited a handful of pearls, among which were several that were conspicuous for their Ize, shape and purity. One in particular, a pure white pearl the size of a pea, attracted great attention and all sortV of valuations were put upon It by persons supposed to be experts. The majority of the gems, however, were of small size, Irregular In shape, and would sell for but little. When the mussel fishing excitement at Leavenworth, sixty miles down the river from New Albany, was at its height a few years ago a pearl, sold afterward for $C00 to eastern Jewelers, was picked up In a peculiar and remarkable manner. At that time preat quantities of the bivalves were taken from the river and the meat fed to hogs. As the finder of the pearl was feeding the hogs, while in the act Of pouring a bucket of meal into the trough be observed a tiny white ball which he quickly snatched from the jrwlne. Upon examination It was found j t b a pearl of the purest quality.

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supremacy, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and newer cities, Chicago and San Francisco, have necessarily, each as metropolis of a section, remained the brain centers of the country. Washington has never filled out and disguised Its artificial framework. A scat of power and beauty, it has not become a city of homes. As national unity develops, the capital city must become more and more the heart of the country, Berlin and St. Petersburg, hardly less artificial in the manner In which they were decreed as national capitals. Indicate the possibilities of the city of Washington. It Is becoming a favorite place for wealthy people to live in winter. Each year an increasing number of the Interesting throng drawn to thj city by special interests finds permanent lodgment there. Th? geographical position, the natural facilities for traffic, without which no city can have healthy life, the unlimited resources of the government to build up a model municipality, all conspire to make Washington in every sense one of the great cities of the world. Youth's Companion.

result of knowledge that the theft of timber, lands and minerals, ami monopoly of the range, will no longer b permitted. Much of the honest opposition to the crea tlon of national forests comes from a wrong Idea of their purpose and use. They are the first outcome of u general policy that Is slowly taking shape In the publii mind the conviction that our natural resources, forests, waterways and land, are put here to ue used in a defl nite way, and that this use must be open to all alike. National forests are created to insure to the home-builder and to home Industries a perpetual supply of timber, to preserve the forest cover on watersheds, and so toInsure a steady and constant stream flow, and to make certain the fair and lawful use of forest and range. They are open to all persons with the sole restriction that their permanent resources shall be used in such a way that they will net become exhausted, but will remain for the use of others in the future development of the nation. The wise use of all their resources timber, water, lands, minerals and range la encouraged In every way. The chief aim is to make them large factors In the upbuilding of the West and In the permanent wealth of the entire country. The Outlook. I

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GRAND DUKE MICHAEL. While speeding toward Paris Grand Duke Michael Mlchaelovltch was put to the trouble of coughing as a speedier car whizzed past leaving a cloud of dust. Indignant, the Russian ordered his chauffeur to "catch that Impudent dog," and the driver did his best, overtaking the offending car in a suburb, where the owner had stopped. When his car came up with the man whose dust he took the grand duke alighted, his whiskers standing on end, so Infuriated was he, and approaching the car. In which the stranger had taken his seat, he shouted: "I demand an apology from you. sir! I am n grand duke, and want an explanation of your w.int of respect" He added some Insulting epithets as emphasis. Calmly looking over the spoiled offspring of royalty the stranger replied: "Well, I am an American, and If you don't stop your gab I'll punch your jaw." The terse reply cooled the nrdor of the man at whose word millions tremble in benighted Russia. The unconcern of the Yankee tourist was such a shock that the grand duke turned hastily and went back to hie car.

Tho "lead" of a va-y cheap pencil is often nothing but coke. Tho passport system dates back to the time of the Crusaders. One-seventh of Great Britain's foreign commerce passes through the Suez canal. An average of 800 persons are killed in the United States each year by lightning. This means one In every 100,000. John Bull figures out that his country has been successful in S2 per cent of the battles In which It has engaged. Ttm Bishop of Victoria, at Hongkong, who Is appealing for help, has a diocese in Southern China nearly as large as half of Europe. Members of the church defense committee of England are pledged to make church and school the foremost consideration in voting at elections. Many French vineyards are likely to be turned Into rose garden. Tho perfume factories pay $600 per kilogramme for puro essence of roses, and the demand is greater than the supply. The production of oleomargarine in the year ended June 30 rose to C3.9SS,r850 pounds, an increase of 13,82,191 pounds over 100C. The government derived an income of $SS7,G41 from Its tax on the article. The head maid of the Queen Dowager of Italy makes a thousand pounds a year froui the sale of her mistress' cast-off clothes, which arc given to her as a perquisite. Tho purchasers are for the most part American tourists. Since 1890, when tho Grand Army of tho Republic had 409.4S9 members enrolled, its numerical strength has been cut down almost one-half. There are only about 212,000 comrades now. The losses by death run up to 9,t)00 or 10, C00 a year. There Is practlcaly no chance to gain recruits.-Cleveland Leader. Tho murder of a family in a lonely coun-try In Ilunzary has had a re

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NATIONAL FOREST POLICY. OW and then from the West come protest :ud complaints against the policy under which the national forests are managed Some of these are made In good faith, ami should be met with a clear statement o:' just what the national forest policy is and how It is being carried out, others are tl

YANK TO GRAND DUKE. markable sequel. Gypsies are suspected, and every tribe and caravan In th province surrounding Budapest hai been placed under arrest on suspicion It. is believed the government will utilize the occasion for stamping out nomadism In Hungary. Colonel Clowry, president of th Western Union Telegraph Company, en tered the company's ofHco at Joliet 111-, fifty-five years ago and offered to worh six months as a messenger without paj if he were allowed to learn telegraphy At the end of that time he was an expert operator and was given an office at Lockport. He won his military tltl In the civil war. Playthings of Ancient Children. The most primitive toy Is the doll It dates back to prehistoric times and is found In evety part of the world This one would naturally expect tc find. A child, seeing its mother nursing other younger children, would Imitate the example with an improvised doll. Toy weapons, again, are oldei than history. Many of tte other toyi at present In use date from the earliest times of which we have any record. In the tombs of the ancient Egyptians, along with painted dolls having movable limbs, have been found marbles, leather covered bells, elastic balls and marionettes moved by strings. Ancient Greek tomls furnish clay dolls, t- horses and wooden carts and ships In the Louvre there are some GrecoIioman dolls of terra cotta with movable joints fastened by wires. Greek babies had rattles. Greek boys played with whipping tops. So did the boys In ancient Home. New Definition of Memory. "Willie Green," Bald the teacher, "you may define the word memory." "Memory," said Willie. "Is what w forget with." ri lladelphia Record. The smartest young man we evci knew turned out to be the biggest fool we ever knew nftcr he passed So. He was wound up for C5, and was all In at that age. Society has become disagreeable late ly, the women talk so much about thi scarcity cf hired girla

Foil Qnlckunnrt In Kovet TVty. A building foundation of cofferdan construction Is the latest, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. One Is being built to support the new building of A. A. Pope oa the south side of Euclid avenue, just east of East 12th street. The. first step in the building of this foundation, said to be sounder than the solid concrete pillars uder the federal building, Is the excavation to the depth of tea feet. Then 12-lnch steel casings, 35 feet long and 1 foot wide, are driven into the ground their whole length. These casings are dovetailed together, making the casing waterproof. Its interior is then filled with solid con

crete to the height of CO feet The construction of the building proper starts on this foundation. "We are having trouble with quicksand," says General Superintendent Aldrich of the dredging company. "The casing must be driven several feet below the quicksand or the excavation is almost impossible, for the sand rushes under with the water that Is so plentiful here." Aldrich expects to complete the driving of the casing in about two months and to have the foundation complete by the first of next year. A Great Sytera, Master What Is the date of the battle of Waterloo? Tupil I don't know, sir. Master It is a simple matter. If yo-a haven't a good memory, to employ some mechanical method to aid yoa. In this case, for Instance, take the twelve apostles, and the Half of their number, which makes eighteen. Multiply them by 100; that makes 1S00.' Now, take the twelve apostles asala and add a quarter to their number, which makes fifteen. Add It all up together, which makes 1815, the date you want. Quite simple, you see, and you can always reBiemher dates by using that system. A Difficult Roll Call. The professor of English in one of our western colleges was noted for being very .absent-minded. It was his custom to call the roll each morning before the lecture. One morning, after calling a name to which there was no response, he looked up and, peering over his spectacles, he asked sharply. "Who is the absent boy in the vacant chair I see before me?" LIpjdncott's. Appropriately Named. The boy In the paint store dashed hurriedly up the cellar, steps and sought the proprietor. "There's a barrel leaking in the basement!" he cried, "and the automobile stuff Is just pouring out" "Why do you call It automobile stuff?" asked the proprietor. "Because," gasped the youngster, "It's running over everything in sight" Judge, A I'int Gnardlan. The new Singer building in New Tor!: H now up to its thirty-sixth floor and aas only sixteen more tloors to add.Of course it is n little early yet to select an aerial whitewlugs, but it will have to be done pretty soon. The duty of this Important official will be to push the clouds off the root Cleveland Plain Dealer. Reeompen. "They say that suburban life Is not o bad." "No; I suppose not We must remember that a great deal of the suburbmite's time is spent in the city." Pittsburg Post Eaay Money. He's making mony from disease And yet he's not a quack. It's just his own disease, for he's A kleptomaniac. -Philadelphia Press. Sonle Mistake. "That's Prof. Goodsole," said Mrs. rjams. "He's a noted anti-vivisectionist." "I've heard of hhn," observed Mrs. Sud-dyn-Klymer, "but I always thought he was a Congregationalist" 66 Shouts A Doctor of Divinity, now Editor of a well-known Religious paper, has written regarding the controversy between Collier's Weekly and the Religious Tress of the Country and others. Including ourselves. AUo regarding suits for libel brought by Collier's against us for commenting upon its methods. These are his Fentlments, with some rery emphatic words left out "The religious Press owes you a debt of gratitude for your courage In ih'owing up Collier's Weekly as the "Yell-Oh t Man." Would you care to use the Enclosed article on the "Boo I loo Baby" as the "Yell-Oh Man's" successor ?" "A contemporary remarks that Collier's has finally run against a solid hickory "Post" and been damaged In its own estimation to the tune of i-r.ooo.oo "Here, is a publication which has. In utmost disregard of the facts, spread bcadcast damaging statements about the Religious Press and others and has euffered those false statements to go uncontradicted, until, not satisfied after finding the Iteligious Pres too quiet, and peaceful, to resent the insults, it mnkes the mistake cf wandering Into a fresh field and butts its rattled head against this Tost and all the World laughs. Even Christians smile, us the Post suddenly turns and gives It back a do?e of its own medicine." "It is a mistake to say all the World laughs. No cheery laugh comes from Collier's, but it cries and boo hoos like a spanked baby and wants $750,000.00 to soothe its tender, lacerated feelings." Thank Heaven It has at last struck a man with "back bone" enough to call a spade a "spade" and who believes In telling the whole truth without fear or favor." Perhaps Collier's with its "utmost disregard for the facts." may Pay no such letter exists. Nevertheless it Is on file in our oifiec and is only one of a mass of letters and other data, newspaper comments, etc.. denouncing the "yellow" methods of Collier's. This volume is so large that a man could lint well go thru it vnder half a day's steady wori;.. Ths letters come from various parts of America. Usually a private controversy is not Interesting to the public, but this Is a public controversy. Collier's has been using the "yellow" methods to attract attention to itself, but, Jumping In the air, cracking heels together and yelling "Look at nie" wouldn't suffice, so it started out on a "Holier Than Thou" attack on the Religious Press and on medicines. We leave It to the public now, as we did when we first resented Collier's nt- ? tacks, to say whether. In a craving for sensation and circulation. Its attacks do not amount to a systematic mercenary hounding. We likewise leave It ta be public to say whether Collier's

Sports and the Sphere. Some day there will arise a patient Investigator who will work out this problem, Why are most sports but the variants of one object, the propulsion of a sphere? Billiards, baseball, polo, golf, slinging, marbles, squasrh, handball, football, rackets, cricket hockey, bagatelle, tennis, shooting, pelota the basic pursuit in each Is to drive a ball, the propulsion of a sphere. Tipcat, shuttlecock and top spinning are the employment of modifications of the sphere, and archery is but another method of propulsion. It is a strange limitation of form, and there must be a reason. .Those who delve Into origins may ascribe the whole motive of sports to some long armed, hirsute ancester who first threw a pebble at a fellow cave dweller and found It great fun. Or it may be poor mortal's attempt to get in a small fashion into the tremendous scheme of the universe, which Is the everlasting movement of the spheres. Or It may be that sports are framed In Inevitable obedience to some Irresistible law of nature. At any rate the fact Is sports are based on the propulsion of the sphere, and some one ought to find a reason therefor. New York American. Wehter and III Tenant. Daniel Webster once became the owner of some land In New Hampshire, with buildings fhereon, says the Boston Herald. He left the tenant who was there when the premises were conveyed

to him. In possession. One summer, a few years later, as he and his wife were Journeying !n the vicinity of the farm, they decided to take a lcok at It He found an aged j woman In charge. She said In reply to i questions that the place belonged to a lawyer down In Boston named Webster. "What rent do yon pay?" asked the amused owner. "Rent!" she exclaimed, "I don't pay any rent It's bad enough to live here without paying for It and if he don't fix up the house soon I'll leave anyhow. Wonder if he expects I'm going to freeze to death this cold weather?" "Well," remarked the proprietor, -it 13 a pretty hard case, but if you'll accept this $3 bill towards holding on another year, I'll try and see Mr. Webster and have something done about It" With which remark he took final leave of the farm. Old French Dial Rtnx A dial ring," said the curio dealer. "A Trench dial ring of the Eighteenth century. You can tell the time with if ' The ring, of gold, was beautifully chased, and where the stone sparkles usually there was set a tiny sundial. "All you have to do," said the dealer, "is to stand in the right way, holding the dial so that the sua strikes it, and a tiny shadow will tell you the hour. "Such a ring," he concluded, "Is more a curio than an accurate timepiece. It is only good In the locality it Is made for, and even before, unless It is set toward the right point of the compass. It will be several hours out of the way." Louisville Courier-Journal. What Fapa Said. II!m What did your father say when you told him I had asked you to marry me? Her Shall I leave out the ßweai words? ' Him Of course. Her Then I don't believe he said anything. , Distinction vrlth av Difference. Dumley What they call "preferred stock" is the stock that pays dividends, isn't it? Wiseman Not at all; but the stock that does pay dividends is always preferred. Philadelphia Press. 2Vo Looser In the Limelight. Then old Vesuvius checked his rase. And straightway called a truce. "There's too much competition now," He muttered. "What's the use!"

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a Spanked by Its own policy and methods, has not made itself more ridiculous than any comment of ours could make it Does Collier's expect to regain any self-Intllcted loss of prestige by demonstrating thru suits for damages, that it can be more artful In evadiug liability for libels than the humble but resentful victims of its defamation, or -docs It hope by starting a campaign of libel suits to sllen?e the popular indignation, reproach and resentment which it has aroused. Collier's can not dodge this public controversy by private law suits. It can not postpone the public Judgment against It That great Jury, the Public, will hardly blame us for not waiting until we get a petit Jury in a court room, before denouncing this prodigal detractor of Institutions founded and fostered either by Individuals or by the public. Itself. No announcements during our entire business career were ever made claiming "medicinal effects" for either Postum or Grape-Nuts. Medicinal effects are results obtained from the use of medicines. Thousands of visitors go thru our entire .works each month and see for themselves that Grape-Xuts contains absolutely nothing but wheat barley and a little salt; Tostum absolutely nothing but wheat and about ten percent of New Orleans molasses. The art of preparing theso simple elements In a scientific manner to obtain the best food value and flavor, required some work and experience to acquire. Now, when any publication goes far enough out or its way to attack us because our advertising is 'medical," it simply offers a remarkable exhibition of Ignorance or worse. We do claim physiological or bodily results of favorable character following the adoption of our suggestions regarding the discontinuance of coffee and foods which may not be keeping the Individual In good health. We have no advice to offer the perfectly healthful person. His or her health Is evidence in Itself that the beverages and foods used exactly fit that person. Therefore, why change"? But to tho man or woman who Is ailing, wo have something to say as a result of an unusually wide experience in food and tho result of proper feeding. In the palpably ignorant attack on us in Collier's, appeared this statement, "One widely circulated paragraph lalors to induce the impression that Crape-Nuts will obviate the necessity of an operation In apiendicitis. This Is lying and potentially deadly lying." In reply to this exhibition of well, let the reader name it, the Postum Co., says: Let It be understood that appendicitis results from long continued disturbance In the Intestines, caused primarily by undigested starchy food, such

Wm. F. Ramshauer, of New Torlc City, who calls himself The Human Bug," entertained a great part of Cincinnati and the Inhabitants of the Kentucky hills with an acrobatic performance on a flag pole recently. Ramshauer stood on his head, balanced himself on his feet, swung himself like a flag and sat cross-legged like a Turk, reading a newspaper, on the gilded bill that surmounted the SO-foot staff on the nine-story building. Crowds gathered on the down town streets and on the hills on the other siCe of the river and watched the steeplejack work. All the while the pole swayed, but the "Unman Bug" wasn't nervous. It was the first time he wasn't nervous for a week. He says he Is always nervous when he Is down on the ground, and Is at his ease near the clouds. Kamshauer smokes cigarettes, which are supposed to make people shaky. Technical World Magazine. j The Pel Ira a and Its Poach Among the curiosities of nature must be reckoned the pouch of the pelican, which serves equally well as a net with which to scoop up fish and as a bag to convey food to its young. When not I use the bird can contract Its pouch mo that It Is barely discernible, but when It Is fully distended It will hold two gallons of water. When the pelican is hunting for food It flies slowly about twenty feet above the surface of th water, scanning its depths for any sign of its prey. As soon as a fish Is seen

there Is a sudden folding of a pair of wings, & downward plunge with tha speed of an arrow head first into th sea, the unerring marksman reappearing In a moment and floating on tha waves long enough to reveal a gllmpw of a fish gliding down its capacious gullet and to shake the water from lta disheveled plumage. The Conclusion. A group of workmen were argnins during the dinner hour. A deadlock had been reached, when one o the men on the losing side turned to a mate who had remained silent during the whole pf the debate, -'Ere, Bill,- he said, "you're 'pretty good at an argyment Wot's your oplaion? "I ain't a-goffig to say," said BI1U 'I thrashed the matter oat afore with Dick Grey." "Ah!" said the other artfully, hoping to entice him Into the fray, "and what did you arrive at?" "Well, e-venchua;ly,,, said Bill "Dick e arrived at the 'orspital an I mrlved at the perllce station!" London TltBits. Health In the Jnncl. The gorilla was looking at h't reflection in the water. He noted the corded muscles of bis enormous shoulders, his tremendous biceps, the phenomenal development of hla forearm, and the massive proportions of his hairy trunk. "And al! this," he said, "on a diet of fruits and vegetables!" Thumping his broad chest he emitted a roar that resounded through the forest and carried terror to every carnivorous animal within the sound of his xnkjhty voice. Chicaro Tribune. Realizing Seme. "I have always thought I knew whit grinding poverty is," said Ardup; "but I never d:d until this mornin;." "What happened this morn'ms? asked Short "I caught my wife putting burnt breadcrusts in the coffee mill. The closing of the leaves of plants as the evening comes on was at first supposed by botanists to be due to the difference in temperature, but on transplanting the plants into a hot house it was found that the same phenomenon occurred, the leaves closing at sunset Safes-nardlaa' Ilia Lot. "If you do not love me for my beantf, George, I need not fear your love will ever change." "Well, you'd better tell your precloua father not to make any losing investments.' Cleveland Plalndealer. 99 Baby, as white bread, potatoes, rice, partly cooked cerea's and such. Starchy food is net digested la the upper stomach, but passes on Into the duodenum, or lower stomach and in testines, where. In a healthy individual, the transformation of the srarch Into a form of sugar is completed and thea the food absorbed by the blood. But tf the powers of digestion ara weakened, a part of the starchy food will lie in the warmth and moisture of the body and decay, generating gases and irritating the inucouu surfaces until under such conditions the whole lower part of the alimentary canal. Including the colon and the appendix, becomes Involved. Disease sct3 up and at times takes the form known as appendicitis. When the symptoms of the trouble make their appearance, would It not b good, practical, common sense, to discontinue the starchy food which is causing the trouble and take a food In which the starch has been transformed into a form of sugar in the process of manufacture? This Is Identically the same form of sugar found In the human body after starch has been perfectly digested. Now, human food is made up very largely of starch and Is required by tha body for energy and warmth. Naturally, therefore. Its use should be contin ued, if , possible, and for the reasons given above it Is made possible In Uie manufacture of Grape-Nuts. In connection with this change of food to bring relief from physical disturbances, we have suggested washing out the Intestines to get rid of the Im mediate cause of the disturbance. Naturally, there are cases where the) disease has lain dormart and the abnsa continued too long, until apparently only the knife will avail. But it Is a well-established fact among the best physicians who are acquainted with the details above recited, that preventative) measures are far and away the best Are we to be condemned for suggesting a way to prevent disease by following natural methods and for perfecting a food that contains no "medicine" and produces no "medicinal effects" but which has guided literally thousands of persons from sickness to health? We have received during th years past upwards of 2o.0C3 letters from people who have been either helped or made entirely well by following our suggestions, and they are simple. If coffee disagrees and causes any of the ailments common to some coffee users quit it and take on Postum. If white bread, potatoes, rice and other starch foods make trouble, quit and use Grape-Nuts food which is largely predigested and will digest, nourish and strengthen, when other luriiis of lood tio not It's Just plain old common sen re. "There's a Reason for Postum and Grape-Nuta. Postum Cereal Co., Ltd.