Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 3, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 October 1907 — Page 6

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The Fleet to the raoifle. In his Cairo address the President made it plain that the big naval demonstration In the great Western ocean will take place on schedule time. "This year, I am happy to ay, we shall begin a course which I Npe will be steadiiy followed hereafter, namely, that of keeping the battleship fleet alternately in the Pacific and the Atlantic. Early in December the fleet will begin Its voyage to the Pacific, and It will number among Its formidable fighting craft three great battleships, named, respectively, the Illinois, the Missouri and the Kentucky." lie added that it Is "a national fleet in every sense of the term," the names of the vessels being representative of all sections of the country. The American people will be glad that Mr. Roosevelt has not been frightened out -of his purpose to send the fleet on its projected err'-e. A few' Eastern newspapers which are unfriendly to the President have made everal sort of accusations against him on account of the movement of the fleet They assert that he wants to provoke war with Japan; that he Is anxious to make a demonstration in the Pacific which will impress the popular imagination about the time the national conventions meet, and thus stampede the Republicans over to him for the candidacy for another term ; and that he wants to create a navy which will rival that of Great Britain. Here are a few of the reasons for moving the fleet which are attributed to the President by his enemies. It is noticed, however, th.'tt the great mass of the people are friendly to this projected naval cruise. The 'Uarge that he wants to provoke war with Japan Is too trivial to get any serious attention. No person of sound mind supposes that the President Is seeking another term for himself. The charge that the President would like U see the United States have as great a navy as England's Is about as pointless at that atrocious crime of being a young man of which Walpole indicted Pitt. . We need a g od-sized navy In the Pacific, as well as in the Atlantic. Trouble Is much more likely to come to us from the Western coast than from the Eastern. The Pacific region, as the President intimates, is Just as much a part of this country as is the Atlantic coast. If, in carrying out this program of being prepared to meet trouble when it presents itself from any quarter means that we will build up as big and effective a navy ns England's, the country will not feel downcast on ihat account. St. Louis Globe- Democrat. The Tariff Didn't Do Tbl. No doubt counsel and all others wlthIn hearing were surprised at Mr. John G. Milburn's frank statement on Thursday about the plating of Standard Oil pumping stations on the border lines of New York and Pennsylvania, and clso of New Jersey and Maryland, to evade the requirements of tue interstate commerce law. In each case there was no necessity to file transportation 11 to hvnii ft nil xrfla crn tr n part within a State. When it went over an Invisible line into the next State. It was a?aia pumped to a po'ut within a State, and It made all Us trips to tide water under these snort line consignments. Mr. Milburn, who is the Standard's chief counsel in the peuding case, told the referee that the schem was his. He advised It, "and I thought it was excellent advice," he added. Probably it was, at the time it was given and for the purposes of the Standard Oil Company. Mr. Milburn always gives good advice. That Is why he gets such well-to-do clients as Standard Oil. The fact that he served his client to the best of his splendid abilities calls for no comment here. But when from a familiar quarter a cry goes up that the tariff Is father or mother of the trusts and responsible for all their exactions and oppressions, let It be remembered that It was not the tariff that did this, nor was It a defender of the tariff that promped or devised it. Mr. Milburn is well known as an eminent free-trader and a nienber of the Democratic party which abhors the tariff or thinks it docs. That's all. Buffalo News. The Wood Are Full of Them. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, having just returned from Europe, thinks he is in a position to tell what ails the Republican party. At any rate, he undertakes to do iL He says we must have a revision of our tariff, down, not up, right away, and that the job must be done In a "fair-minded, scientific fashIon," and not in any sense as an attack on bu:.ess or as a disturbance to business." As a theorist Dr. Butler Is fine. So way Wilson and so Is Bryan. The woods are full cf brilliant theorists, which Is to sjy, tinkerers. Jersey City Journal. Axked for n Strlnar. The dear girls were comparing notes on subjects of more or less importance. Tour beau seems rather bashful,' said Stella. "Bashful!" echoed Mabel. "Why, bashful Is no name for it" "Why don't you encourage him?" queried her friend. I have tried," answered Mabel, "but the attempt was a measly failure. Only last night I sat all alone on the sofa and he perched up In a cLalr as far away as he could get. 1 asked him if he didn't think it strange thit the length of a man's arm was the same as the distance around a woman's waist, and what do yoj think he did?" Just what any sensible man would have done tried it, I suppose." "Not any, thank you. He asked if I could find a piece of string so we could measure and see if It was a fact. Ain't he the limit?" In the Great orth Wood. "Off for f. two weeks' prowl in the wocH eh?" said the first guide. "Well, the boys In camp will miss you, Peter." "Thanks," replied the second nide grltily. "I hope this amateur hunter frort the city will do the same." Animal. Little Willie Say, pa, what does it mean when a man takes the lion's pbare? Pa It is a polite way of insinuating hat he acted like a hog, my son. ' The advantage of artificial shade In jthe growing of tobacco and other crops consists of the conserving of the moisture In the soli.

PROMOTING" AMERICAN TRADE.

How Ucrman Explorer Are Proposing to Accomplish It. A Berlin dispatch reports that "much Is hoped" from the visit of American treasury officials to that country in the way of "promoting American Trad." As the steamship service Is already ample. It Ls as plain as a pikestaff that the only way for Germany to increase her sales to this country Is by reducing prices. Germany is at no disadvantage under our tariff laws as compared with othtr countries, although the United States Is at great disadvantage In Germany under the tariff laws of that country. The special competition of German manufacturers is with Americans In the same line. Now, the Germans are quite willing to reduce prices to a point which will displace American goods, provided that they are permitted to sell at a good deal higher prices at home. Unfortunately, that, under our laws, cannot be done. The price at which goods are sold In Germany Is the price on which the same goods must pay duty on entering the United States. Hitherto tlnse laws have been enforced. What "is hoped" by the Germans from the visit of our "treasury officials" Is that hereafter they shall not be enforced, but that by juggling with the "regulations'which are prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury It shall be made difficult or impossible to place before our appraisers the evidence thst Importations are undervalued. Reliance is placed on our executive departments to defeat, by change of the "regulations," the effect of the law. We suspect that they have some 'reason for "hope." We wish they had not. We favor the enforcement of the letter and spirit of the laws national. State and municipal and if they are not satisfactory they can be changed. If the American people want free trade or a lower tariff, let them change the laws, but until they are changed they should be obeyed even if by their violation "trade" can be "promoted" by substituting foreign for domestic products. San Francisco Chronicle. Far from Sennlhle. Here are two extracts from the last speech of President William McKinley, delivered in Buffalo in September, 1901, on the day before his assassination. These extracts are almost invariably omitted when the speech is quoted by the advocates of "more foreign trade" by means of reciprocity in competing products: "By sensible trade arrangements which will not interrupt our home production we shall extend the outlets for our increasing surplus. "We should take from our customers such of their products as we can use without harm to our industries and labor." In a "reciprocity" arrangement with a single European country, entered into July 1, 1907, our purchases of competing products have increased nearly $0,000,000, while our sales to that country In the month of August Just past actually decreased by nearly $C00,000! Was this a sensible trade arrangement? Has it been carried out without barm to our industries and labor? Democratic Split. Massachusetts has elected four Democratic Governors In the last fifty years. The Republicans are united this year, and they are running Gov. Guild ou his record as a platform. On the other hand, the minority party of Dem ocrats is split so seriously that two State tickets have been nominated. With a situation well-nigh hopeless to start with, the Democrats gave their convention day to such bitter fighting within the party that two conventions resulted, with all the acrimony, assault and battery and wounds usual to such an issue of a political meeting. So Massachusetts Is likely to show with the "usual" Republican majority In the coming November election. Indianap olis Sun. In th IntereMt of Forela-nera. If the gala la Imports continues for a year as compared with our exports for the month of July, there won't be any balance in the trade In our favor. The Imports amounted to $124,704,003 for July, 1907, while our exports were $128.703,354, a balance In our favor of only $4,001,291. In other words, the big mail order houses of Europe are getting the best of our institutions. This Is al?o the Taft Idea revise the tariff In the interest of the foreigners. -Pueblo Opinion. X Market Then. The Farmers' Union Is a good thing, but how much would the Farmers' Union have raised the price of cotton under Cleveland's lkst administration? There was no market at home then. The wage-earners were eating at soup houses and going without the goods they are now able to buy. It takes Republicanism and the Farmers' Union to boost things. They go together. Southern American. The Best. "What sort of a young man Is that who was here with you last evening?" "An Ideal young man; handsome, with a grip of steel, and " "You'd better encourage him, but It would be nice if he had a grip of oil ; oil Is a better stock even than steel." Houston Tost. Equal to the Taak. Said She If you attempt to kiss me I shall scream for help. Said He You seem to have overlooked the fact that I am an athlete. Said She What has that got to do with the case? Said He I don't need any help. Candid Confeaalon. Miss rrim think a stolen kiss the most terrible thing I ever heard of. Helen I don't think it Is the most terrible thing I ever heard of. Miss Trim Why not, child? Helen (coyly) Because it bears repeating. Insult PIun Injury. "Oh, you can laugh all you want to," said Green, with a show of Impatience, "but I'm not a3 big a fool as you think I am." "Well," rejoined Brown, "to tell you the truth, I didn't believe it could be possible." Cook a Common Carriers. Mrs. Caller I'm having all kinds ol trouble with my cook. The way sho carries on is something awful. Mrs. Homer I'm doing my own cooking now. What my last cook can rled off was sufficient to start a small grocery." The Troth Comes Oat. Cautious Customer (in drug Btore) How iruch do you charge for a dime's wsrth of tooth powder? New Clerk Twenty-five cents.

OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS

THE PRISON CONGRESS.

iN olden times the Jailer

executioner who clapped his victims Into the dungeon and turned a ponderous key In the creaking lock. He was the official punIsher of bad men. and It was his business to make the prisoners as unhappy as possible. With the change in the conception of

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punishment, by which remedy and prevention, not vengeance, Inspire the treatment which society reserves for offenders, there came also a change in the manner of men who manage the prisons. The Prison Congress, held In Chicago, would have surprised any casual visitor who had derived his ideas of Jail and Jailers from old novels. Here were met together hundreds of wardens, chaplains, prison superintendents, sociologists, physicians, to discuss not only the practical administration of prisons, but the relation of prison discipline to our system of Justice. The Attorney General of the United States spoke from the point of view of a Jurist. The head of the Volunteers of America described their method of helping discharged prisoners to get honest work. The lawmaker learned from the Jailer what arc the conditions of prison life, and how they affect the criminal ; the Jailer learned more about the story of his charges before and after they came under his care. The effect of such unification of Ideas will improve the criminal code, its administration, and the entire relation between society and the criminal. The necessity for Improvement is shown by the declaration of the general secretary of the National Prison Association that"No county or State iu the Union is satisfied with Its methods of confining and caring for Its prisoners." That Improvement will come In directions urged by generosity, humanity, but not by sentimentality, the words of a student of prison work give reason to hope: "The wardens, the actual prison managers, are the finest lot of men you ever saw great physique, earnest. Intelligent no nonsense, but big-hearted and kind." Youth's Companion.

HOW TO REDÜCE THE COST

HE cost of living is high and going higher. But everybody can regulate the amount of money necessary to spend for sustenance. There Is no reason why persons should find it mere expensive to live, if they will only consider the question with care and fix the amount of food they ought to eat.

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We do not advocate the method adopted by twelve hundred people of Kennebec County, Maine, who have pledged themselves to abstain for ten days from the use of meat. In the hope that thus they may be able to force down the price of beef. But there is no doubt that most persons eat two or three times as much food of all kinds as is necessary for them, and a reduction In diet would have a good effect, not only, upon the bills one has to pay but also upon health. If food Is too high, then consume less of it. That is a slmple'rule for comfort, both of ndnd and body. The average man and woman eat so much more than is essen

TREATMENT FOR FLATF00T. Painful Afllrtlon nemedled Only lr Wearing Suitable Support. Flat foot Is a very common affliction. It Is also one which Is frequently overlooked by physicians. The patient complains of pain In the heel, the ankle, the Inner border of the foot, great toe, the muscles of the calf, the knee or even the hip. The busy practitioner notes these symptoms In a hurried, cas ual way, attributes them to rheuma tism, prescribes salicylates and what not and another flat-footed Individual plods his weary way. Increased deformity Is added to what aiay have been merely foot strain In tne lirst place. A curable case has become well nigh Incurable and the med ical profession Is again justly liable to well-deserved censure. Any factor which tends to diminish the muscular power of the foot may cause flat foot A great Increase in the weight borne by the foot may cause it This Increase in weight may be actual, such as occurs In people who put on a great deal of fat, or it may be relative, such as occurs In athletes, Jumpers especially. But by far the most common cause Is a cramnlne of the foot brought about by improper Knots. For treatment, of this condition mechanical support Is best afforded by means of the footplate made from highly tempered steel and molded upon a plaster cast of the foot The footplate should be worn as long as it is required, but no longer. Additional wearing of the plate beyond the time necessary, as indicated by the Symptoms, is simply an additional cause of harm. With the foot plate a shoe should be worn fitting the normal contour of the foot Moat Light-Hearted Street. From the Avenue des Chanps-Elyseos to the Boulevard des CaDuchlns in Paris Is but a step, but there the tune Is even merrier, says the Bohemian. It Is a place of noises, blare, glare, the perfume of women, the raucous honk-honk of automobile horns; by day the street of costly Ehops, by night the promenade In chief of his most satanlc oxajesty. It Is at Its best or worst In February, during MI-Careme, when the air Is thick with confetti and the flenlzens of the boulevards are beside themselves. No use then to sit at one of the little tables on the sidewalk, thinking to enjoy the swiftly changing panorama of the festival. In a moment you would find that a bock or porridge of confetti, four hat Jammed over your ears, the chair Jerked from under you and your erstwhile happy self flat on your back. It Is marvelous, the penetrating quality of confetti! I have shaken It out of my ioaennos pockets, out of my shoes, I have even found It la my socks, and hobnobbing with the francs In my purse. It flits everywhere, and when Ml-Careme U over the streets are thick with It, a multi-colored snow. You buy It at so many sous the package from renders on the boulevards, until the desire for more of It becomes an obscsilon. She Heard It. There was a blast of dynamite not far away, and aged Mrs. Long turned toward the door with a smiling counte nance. "Come In!" Ehe said. "Do you know," she explained to her caller, "that Is the first knock I've heard In twenty-five years.' Ileaponalblllty. "Has he a proper sense of rcsponsl hillty?" isked tho earnest patriot "I don't know," answered Senator Sorghum. l sometimes fear he Is one of those people who are so anxious to be financially responsible that they forget to bo morally responsible." Wash ington Star. Men who arc found fault with are able to say a good doal In their de fense. Every time tho fire whistle blows, thick we can smell burning plot

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army. As a matter of fact these complaints are not new. They are made in England as well as In this country, and the real basis of tt.ein is that both countries get their soldiers by voluntary enlistment and not by conscription. The probability "13 that neither country could procure the kind of men desired by the army officers unless conscription should be resorted to. A few Englishmen have suggested the continental system for their army, but no political party would dare sustain the method, and In this country there is no one who has the hardihood to suggest conscription. Moreover there is some doubt whether Intelligence above a certain level is of any value to a man considered merely as a fighting animal. Especially must there not be a too highly developed, sensitive; and Imaginative nature. As to pay, the ordinary soldier is often a laborer In uniform, and his stipend, with free food, a larger allowance for clothes than he can spend, free lodging, and free medical attendance, is the best laborer's pay In the country. When we come to the experts for the coast artillery, there is a different question raised. To make men good artillerists the government educates them to a point where they become more valuable as civilians than they are to the government. If we are to judge from the pay which the government gives them. But is the government really Inclined to pay one of Its $27-a-month gunners the $75 that a civilian employer Is glad to pay? There are complications. Harper's Weekly.

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i:i;v. h E. HOPKINS. "Fifty per cent or the women who dine at the 'respectable restauranta of our large citlM drink booze." This Is the startling statement of Rev. F. E. Hopkins, pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church In Chicago, whose utterances on feminine Intemperance aroused the city. The assertion Is based on an Investigation which Hopkins has carried on for fifteen years. In the midst of a series of sermons which aroused his fellow ministers and temperance workers to take sides in the controversy Hopkins left h!s church work a day, and with several witnesses made a tour of the fashionable eating places. Sixteen were visited. Between the hours of noon and midnight he saw 4C women and girls enter these places. Of this number 2GU or 0'.) per cent were seen drinking hard drinks. Cider was not counted. At one place the preacher found a trustee of his church. "More men than women were found drinking the less harmful beer," said the Bev. Hopkins, In speaking of the investigation. "Nearly all the women and girls were drinking booze. That sounds slangy, but you can't give it too hard a name. "The cause of drinking among women and girls In all our large cities Is the mad and foolish pursuit of fashion. The drinking habit Is steadily growings Unless something radical is done to stop It at once future generations will suffer." t

ROYAL MISCHIEF. Prince Edward of Wales, son of the Prince of Wales and prospective heir to the throne, Is Just beginning his education as a cadet at the Itoyal Naval College on tlie Isle of Wight Prince Edward, a little more than 13, is entered as an ordinary cadet, and Bhares ail comforts and discomforts with the rest of the lads. If be resembles his father at that age, he is capable of getting a good deal of boyish fun out of life. In a book on the "Private Life of King Edward VIIV some of the escapades of the present Prince of Wales are given. Prince George and his cider brother were "rare young toads," as an old middy remarked. They receled their training on the shool-ship Britannia, and afterward went ou a cruise In the Bacchante. They had to rough It with the rest, and were treated without distinction. When the Bacchante touched at Bermuda, on the famous cruise, the authorities of the Island were anxious to present a bunch of Bermuda lilies to Prince Eddy, a ad anxiously Inquired his Identity. Prince George, over ripe for mischief, j;ave so misleading an answer that tho embarrassing bouquet was presented to several midshipmen before It reached the proper Lands. When the party went on shore to lunch, the two princes got together In the bow of the boat and occupied themselves very mysteriously. When they landed, the assembled uatives were as tonished to see their future king and bis brother with noses of the most brilliant yellow. The two had used the pollen of the lilies to adorn them selves withit was probably their enjoyment of this joke which led the two not to contradict the states eat whloh was soon fter published to the wo aid, that the

tial that seven-tenths of all diseases with which humanity Is afflicted are due to this excess. The paunch to be seen on almost every man over 40, no matter how lean the rest of him may be, is evidence of overeating;, and the fact that many women of the same age are much heavier than they should be proves their lack of self-restraint High prices will be beneficial to Americans If they will Induce a study of the subject of eating, and the reduction In the amount of food consumed that will follow. We should be a much healthier, happier, stronger, more Intellectual and longer-lived people if we should all resolve to eat hereafter, not to satisfy the demands of a pampered and spoiled appetite, but to answer the real needs of the body. Also, we should be richer, for food Is the greatest expense of most of us. If we can cut down our household bills, not only without Injury to our health but actually to Its benefit, we should be grateful to the cause which brought about the change, even though It be the greed of purveyors. Indianapolis Sun.

RECEUITINO FOB THE ARMY.

II EKE is much said about the trouble which I einerienoed in wnrint tha rithf L-!n!

as soldiers for the army. General I . .1 1U A 1 4 A. AM it.

vjievij uas uiuue tue laiesi ujuinuuuuu. The complaints are now made in connection with the effort to increase the pay of the

A CHICAGO MINISTER. heir to the throne had had an anchoi tattoed on his nose. The Prince oi Wales was made exceedingly anxlom by the report and for a long time the story was believed. In Time of Trouble. That the folds of "Old Glory" afford good shelter in auy land is tho obvious point of this New York Timcj story: During one of the frequent revolutions In Halt! a party of American made a riding tour of the mountains One morning a member of the parti suddenly drew rein with an ejaculation, and pointed to a lone ridge where an old tattered Stars and Stripe: fluttered on a bamboo pole. We must pay our respects," som one said. After some search they found a patt that zigzagged up to the wild place. They followed It and at last discovered an aged negro sitting before lili wattled hut smoking his pipe, whiU he kept an eye on the flag. "What's the flag for?" sot e oni asked. "Perfection," said the old man, iui etly. l heah dey dene begin anuddci resolution, so I put hit up. Yah, suk I come hcah twenty-two yeahs ago, an bab dat wiv mch. I'm Gcorgy, as cooh on a steamer out o' Savannah. "Lak de place? Yas, suh. Plan yam an' cotfee an cassava. Resolu tions doan trubbel dls nlggah. Eberj time dey resolute down yander up goes de flag, an dat's all dere is to hit!" Oat and In. White (sympathetica! I) Mrs. St your husband Is in trouble again, Maud? Mrs. Black (cheerily) Nom;. he'i out of trouble dess now de scoun'rel'i In Jail. Puck. If you want to make a man trouhlt in a nice, polite way, let him have the d&rlbtttian of the compUmentajgi tickets.

CUBAN FUNERALS.

Manner of Conducting Them Marked with Little Solemnity. To an American, accustomed to the solemnity that accompanies funeral rites, the Cuban method of conducting a funeral comes as a shock. My first Impression of this occurred one day In Havana, when I was rather startled by seeing a hearse, followed by several carriages, stop In front of a bouse about vhich there was not the slightest eviience of death, sa3'S a writer in Lesie's Weekly. The hearse was black. svith gorgeous gold decorations, and was drawn by four horses, the trap pings of which were orange and black. The driver wore a court dress of purple, black silk knee-breeches, a contiaental hat and black slippers with huge silver buckles. Liveried footmen were also In attendance. In a few minutes a simple coffin was carried from the house and placed in the hearse. This was followed by perhaps a dozen men, svho entered as many open carriages, after which the procession started oft in a sort of gallop. Later In the day I oiet a different style of funeral. Four shabbily dressed men were carrying a rude coffin on their shoulders, while two others, presumably relatives of the deceased, were actually running to keep up with the body bearers. I soon became used to this sad spectacle a funeral of the poorer class. The crape scarf on the door is con spicuously absent iu Cuba, as well as the death notice in the dally papers. Unless the deceased Is a notable character, no mention of the demise will be made by the press. Burial takes place not later than 24 hours after death, and embalming Is uncommon. Cards are sent out by the family announcing the hour of the funeral, and the men receiving these, if they fall to attend In person, are expected to send carriages for the use of the family, if needed, but in many Instances these carriages Join in the funeral procession without an occupant Women do not follow their loved ones to the tomb. and pne sees only men about the grave. If the deceased Is a woman, many of the men who follow her coffin are busi ness acquaintances of her husband or father, and have, perhaps, never seen the lady In life. If a man Is promi nent In the financial world, or well known socially, his funeral cards will be numerous. There Is little religious ceremony over the dead, and none at the cemetery unless the family is wealthy. One afternoon I spent several hours In the famous Colon cemetery at Ha vana. This "city of the dead" lias a particular interest for the American from the fact that it was the resting place of the bodies of the victims of the battleship Maine prior to their removal to Arlington. The cemetery contains a number of beautiful and Imposing monuments. The prevailing mode of burial Is In a grave with a marble slab over the top, or In ovenlike vaults above the ground. Graves are rented for a term of years, and at the expiration of that time, If rentals are not renewed, another may be buried In the same spot. Frequently a photograph of the dead person Is incased in glass and placed at the head of the grave. On account of the warm climate the funerals usually take place late in the evening or early In the morn ing. Once Inside the grounds the coffin is removed from the hearse and deposited before the sacrlstry, where the lid is lifted to permit the physician to see that the box contains a dead body. The coffin is then carried to the tomb. VICTORIA A MIGHTY CATARACT. African Waterfall Far Eclipses Out Own Niagara in Grandeur. Oozing out of a black, boggy depression In the heart of southern Africa it a sluggish, muddy stream which wends It3 way southward, leisurely at first, but It soon grows rapidly In size and strength until It pours Into the Indian Ocean, l,G50 miles away, fourth Id rank among the mighty rivers of Africa, says the Scientific American, About 700 miles from Its source, aud just beyond the cataracts of Mololo, the Zambesi, Joined by the waters ot the Kwando River, spreads out Into what might be termed a lake about sis miles long and over a mile In width. This lake is studded with Islands and the surface is very smooth, the vegetation along the banks being perfectly mirrored In the placid water. Strange to say, the lower end of this lake is marked not by a shore line nor by tha slightest narrowing of Its surface, but by an abrupt fall beside which our much vaunted Niagara Is a mere pygmy. It Is an entire lake that takes the plunge, and not merely a river. A comparison of Niagara and Vie toria falls shows at a glance how vastly greater Is the African falls. At Niagara the river takes a plunge of ICS feet but the Zambesi falls sheer 400 feet The crest of Victoria falls is over a mile long 5.80S feet, to be exact whereas the American fall at Niagara measures only 1.0C0 feet, and the Horseshoe fall is only 1,230 feet across, oi 3,010 feet as measured along the curve. To Illustrate the magnitude of the African waterfall we might depict against It the skyline of New York from Battery Park to Worth street. Not a building would project above the crest ot the falls excepting only the tower of the Singer building, which is now in process of erection. To be sure, in comparing Niagara with Victoria, It must be said In favor of the former that the Horseshoe fall presents an unbroken crest, while the edge of the Victoria Is divided by numerous Islands Into stretches which nowhere exceeds COO feet At the center is Livingstone Island, and to the left as you look up stream. Is the main fall, while at the right of the Island Is the Rainbow fall. Buka Island separates the main fall from the Cascade or Devil's Creek. When the Sea Smr.kea. Explorers tell of the peculiarity of the Arctic regions. When it is very cold a steam as if from a boiling kettle arises from the water. At 40 de grees below zero snow and human bodies emit this vapor. It appears that the colder the temperature the more numerous are the deceptive signs ol heat. When the temperature is lower than 40 degrees the trees burst opeD with a loud report, and there Is a clouc of vapor as if the thing had been done with powder. When It is still coldei the earth cracks open with loud noises, rocks break and streams of smoking water pour from the cracks In the earth. Fire on the end of a cigar will go out but the cigar will emit smoke from the whole surface as If it wer burning under the wrapper. Philadelphia Grit Nothing like old age to knock the conceit out of a man.

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Pattern Department UP-TO-DATE DESIGNS FOR THE HOME DRESSMAKER V V V Ror't Norfolk Salt. tne active schoolboy than the one In Norfolk style. The one shown here can quite easily and readily be made at home and is adapted to all seasonable suitings. Serge and wool cheviots are greatly liked for hard usage, and vari ous mixtures are shown that are well suited to the purpose. The suit consists of the Jacket and the knickerbockers. The Jacket Is made with the generous patch pockets and with applied box plaits beneath which the belt is slipped while It is finished with regulation collar and lapels. There are two piece coat sleeves that are stitched to simulate cuffs and the knickerbockers are of the regulation sort and are drawn up at the knees by means of elastic inserted in the henis. The above pattern will be mailed to your address on receipt of 10 cents. Send all orders to the Pattern Department of this paper. Be sure to give both the number and size of pattern wanted, and write very plainly. For convenience, write your order on the following coupon: Order Coupon. No. 377S. SIZE NAME ADDRESS Tucked Five Gored Skirt. The tucked skirt Is always a pretty and attractive one for light weight materials, and Just now It is a favorite for all fashionable fabrics of the season. Here is one that is shown in a novelty voile stitched with belding silk, but which would be very charming in any of the pretty thin silks as well as in the voile, marquisette and similar fabrics. The wide tucks above the hem give needed weight to thin material, while the flat ones over the hips do away with bulk at that ,oolut The skirt is cut in five gores. The hem and all' the tucks are laid on indicated lines. The vertical ones over the hips are stitched flat, and those at the centre back are lapped over to form Inverted plaits. Beneath these the closing Is made. The above pattern will be mailed to your address on receipt of 10 cents. Send all orders to the Tattern Department of this paper. Be sure to give both the number and size of pattern wanted, and write very plainly. Order Coupon. No. 37CS. SIZE . NAME ADDRESS Little Abat Everything. Fly time the balloon season. The electric chair for executions Is used only In the United States. The Australian government gives her aged a pension of nearly $2.50 a week. A cow's hide of average size produces about thirty-five pounds of leath er. Four thousand and sixty -one muscles have been observed in the body of a nioth. England possesses twenty-eight cows for every hundred of the populat on. Australia has 2S0. More than 10,000 persons are employed In the rock salt ludustry In Austria-Hungary. The Empress of ltussia has a hand kerchief which it took seven years to make. It cost her $.",000. The first cattle and sheep in the United States were introduced Into Virginia in 1Ü10. The first short bonis and Herefords were introduced Into Kentucky In lSlti. "Aero" conies from the Latin "ager," a field, and originally was appllid without reference to Its size, the term being used in England indefinitely fot a long period. With silver at Co cents an ounce, a counterfeiter can. It is said, make five quarters from every ounce quarters Itiat ring true and have every appearance of the real thing. A bird dealer in Paris raises canaries of an orange-red tint by reeding the parent birds on cayenue pepper. Id time be expects that the eggs will produce birds of a bright red hue.

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WHAT IS PE-RU-NA?

fe it a Catarrh Remedy, or a Tonic, or is it Both? Some people call Pernna a greal tonic. Others refer to Peruxia as a great catarrh remedy. 7Mch of these people are rightt Is it more proper to call Perona a catarrh remedy than to call it a tonic? Our reply is, that Fertna is both a tonio and a catarrh remedy. Indeed, there can be no effectual catarrh rem edy that is not also a tonic In order to thoroughly relieve anr case of catarrh, a remedy must not only have a speciflo action cn the mucous membranes affected by the ca tarrh, but it must have a general tenia action on the nervous system. Catarrh, even in persons who are otherwise strong, is a weakened condition of some mucous membrane. There must be something to strengthen the calculation, to give tone to the arteries, tmd to raise the vital force Perhars no vegetable remedy in the world has attracted so much attention from medical writers as HYDRASTIS CAITADEXSIS. The wonderful eÜ-' cacy of this herb has been recognized many years, and is growing in its hold upon the medical profession. TThea joined with CUBEES and COPAIBA a trio of medical agents u formed in Fe runa which constitutes a rpeciüc remedy for catarrh that in the present state of medical progress cannot be improved upon. Thii action, reinforced by such renowned tonics as COLUKSOITIA CA2IADE2TSIS, COBYDAIIS F0B1I0SA and CEDEOH SEED, ought to make this compound an ideal remedy for catarrh in all its stages and locations in the body. From a theoretical standpoint, therefore, Feruna is beyond criticism. The use of Feruna, confirms this opinion. ITuinberless testimonials from every quarter of the earth furnish ample evidence that this judgment is net over enthusiastic, 7hen practical experience confirms a well-grounded theory the result is a truth that cannot be Xot Quite. Penitent Youth (painfully embarrassed) Miss Freckley, I was cr cods: derably excited with wjie when I called on you the other evening. Did did I propose to you? Mies Freckley No, Mr. Katzen; you were not quite er excited enough for that. SKIN SOEE EIGHT YEA23. Spent 300 on Doctors mad Remedies bot Got No Hellet Cntlcnra Care In m. Week. "Upon the limbs and between the toes my skin was rough and sore, and also sore under the arms, and I bad to stay at borne several times because ot this affection. Up to a week or so ago I had tried many other remedies and several doctors, and spent about three hundred dollars, without any success, but this is to-day the seventh day that I have been using the Cuticura Remedies (costing a dollar and a half), which have cured me completely, so that I can again attend to my business. I went to work again to-night. I bad been suffering for eight years and have now been cured by the Cuticura Remedies within & week. Frla Hirschlatt, 24 Coluobus Ave, Nevr York, N. Y., March. 23 and April C, 1DOG." Siamese Hokej-Poier. A touch of appetite wh!ch niako all the world akin Is manifest iu the streets of Bangkok as well ns in the thoroughfares of an American city. The picture of the crowd of Siamese urchins given by Carl Bock In Tomples and Elephants" Is so like that of a parcel of ragamuffins following the' hokey-pokey cart that one Is Impressed by the fact that a child fs a child the world over. "Isa-keel Isa-keel-It Is a queer sound when you bonr It for the first time. A Chinaman comes straggling along the road carrying two heavy palls, swung at the enda of bamboo poles, bawling in long, nasal tones, "Isa-kee! Isa-keel" Presently a crowd of little boj-s collects about him, purchasing with aridity the straise-looking mess-denomlnn-ted 'isa-kee. The vender collects tha coppers offered in payment, and placvs them In a small leathern purse tied about his waist with a bit of string, there to lie in company with a little rank tobacco or opium. Isa-kee" is the Chinaman's reproduction of the English Ice-cream, although there is little resemblance between the commodity he disposes of with such extraordinary rap'dity and the fashionable delicacj of Europe. The preparation Is apparently n concoction of dirty water, half-frozen Flush and sugar. Being cold and sweet, it Is a' favorite of native children, and the ice-cream merchant usually does a roaring trade. It is amusing to hear the little ones exclaim, as they eagerly swallow the frozen fluid, "How It burns i Joat Any Sinn. Miss Gaddie She says she will never marry until her ideal comes to her and says: "I love you." MIs3 Knox Yes, I know. Miss Gaddie But what Is her Ideal? Mi.'vs Knox A man, cf course. Philadelphia Tress. "ÖLD SOAKERS Get Saturated with Caffeine. a When a person had used coffee for a number of years and gradually declined in health. It Is time the coffee should be left off tn order to bee whether or cot that has been the cause of the trouble. A lady In Iluntsville, Ala., says she used coffee for about 40 years, and for the past 20 years has had severe stomach trouble. I have been treated by many physicians but all in vain. Everything failed to give relief. Was prostrated for some time, and came near dying. When I recovered guHicleutly to partake of foad and drink I tried coffee again and it soured on my stomach. "I finally concluded that coffee was the cause of my troubles and stopped using It I tried tea In its place and then milk, but neither agreed with me; then I commenced using Postuin, had it properly made and It was rcry pleating to the taste. MI have now used it four months, and my health Is so greatly improved that I crn eat almost anything I want and can sleep well, whereas, before, I suffered for years with Insomnia. "I have found the cause of my troubles and a way to get rid of them. Yon an depend upoo It I appreciate Postum." There's & Reason. Read Tfca Road to WellvlUe, la pkga.