Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 30, Plymouth, Marshall County, 29 April 1909 — Page 6

OUTICAL 4.4. irxTT.1 n rmi 1 i"i"J"i,l'"i' 'rii" t r r 1 A I'ree Trade Swan Sons. The Democratic Senators held a Ions conference alont the tariff bill anil wliat they should da with it. They an said to have concluded that they e-onldu't do anything with the tariff sub of it and that it was not worth while to try. Senator Rayner of Maryland, the chief survivor in the Senate of the classic Democratic tariff poiiy, gave the reason in this outburst of refreshing candor : "Tarif! for revenue only is out of existence so far as the Democratic party I.- concerned. We might just a well write protection into our next platform and let it go at that." These words may well be regarded as the swan sons of the free trade or "tariff-for-rc enue-ouly" notion as a practical policy of American politics. Tie growth of that notion into what millions of sincere men came to regard as a sacred party principle i a curious stry. About seventy years ago energetic Itriiish manufacturers discovered that :?F)iit all that prevented them from doi.ig nearly all the manufacturing was that the food of their latorers was so high priced. They set nbout to get cheaper food, not so much that they might pay lower wages as to get better fed and more contented and effective labor for their money. There was a struggles of about twenty years between manufacturers, who saw world-wide and always expanding trade in cheaper food, and land owners, who had high rents from high prices of grain and wanted to keep them. The laud owners went down .and England becf?ne for a time the factory, while other nations remained the farms. Heraus this policy was enormously and increasingly profitable to IJritain a large number of Britons, with that wonderful British faculty for believing that whatever is to their advantage must be to everybody's, formed the opinion that with the abolition of all trade restrictions would come in a sort of international millennium. They honestly lelieved this. They honestly believed that because the conditions of the time enabled Britain to manufacture most things for less than other nation.? It was a sort of divine order of the universe that their country should be mainly factory and other countries mainly farm. They wrote books, they const ruetcd systems of economic philosophy, to support this gospel, and sent out missionaries to propagate It. How certain sections of the United States, where land-owning profits were .arge and manufacturing proilts were 3ubtful, and the political party whose strength was in those sections swallowed almost whole this British gospel U well known. Yet though they were ?ontent to play farm to British factory other sections and other Americans were not. There were years of controversy jntil the exigencies of civil war compelled a high tariff, and then there were more yeare of controversy whether this policy should be regarded s merely a temporary expedient or as J ustified by results as a fixed political principle. As an Issue of practical politics the controversy may be said to have ended. American tariffs are being reduced berause circumstances have changed and American irdustries do not need so wich protection. As other nations, jvhich for like reasons of national interest have lifted tariffs, grow to something like equality in manufacturing power with those who gained it first, their tariffs may come down. But the free trade or tariff-for-reve-iue-oa!y notion may be sanl to have reused to be practical statesmanship. That this notion, wholly the outgrowth f the particular condition of a particular country at a particular time. ih'uld have ever become regarded as i fixed principle of practical statesnanship gives it high rank In the hisTry of human delusion. Chicago Inter Doe an. The Improving Balance Sheet. ' Secretary MacVeagh and his nssociites are rejoicing over the turn in affairs h their department. They have t right to rejoice. The government's Income at last begins to exceed its Dutgo. For April thus far the receipts have exceeded the expenditures abcat $1,000000. This reverses the general course of things for a long while past. In each of the other nine months of the fiscal year expenditures were ahead. In some of the months the expenditures led by $12.000.000 or innre. It is evident now that the estimates of the shortage for the year which ends on June CO will have to be modified. Two months ago the indications linted to a deficit of $130,000.000 for the year. Then the fiugure began to shrink, but the lowest point that it reached was $100.000.000. There is a fair probability that it may go below that line now. At the end of March the shortage was nearly $00.00000. If the exhibit thus far this month Is maintained to the end. It will te down to $87.000.000 by the beginning of May. Uusually the last two or three months of a fiscal year are the most favorable for the treasury, but the recent setback altered the general course of things, end these months In 1008 showed large balances on the wrong side. What are the causes of the improved treasury outlook? A large increase In the importation of dutiable goods Is one of them. An increase in the consumption of the articles on which internal taxes are levied is another. These reflect a revival in business confidence all over the country, lu most lines of goods the surplus N exhausted, and the improved demand for them compels Idle mil's to reojten and forces the mills wMch have been running on half or three-quarter time to increase their output- So far as can lie foreseen, the only barrier in the way of a general revival la industry is the uncertainty as to the changes which are to be made in the tariff. The conditions are basically solid. Seldom have the number of trade failures been so small, proportionately, as they have been for the past few months. Money is plentiful and cheap. It seems safe to predict that the country's Industries will be out of the Slough of Despond before the end of r.m. No Politic la the Censas. President Taft is right In saying

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g OMMEMT i that there should le no politics In the work of taking trie census. President Roosevelt vetoed the bill which was passed shortly before the end of his term, because it would have given the spoilsmen a chance to control the appointments under it. lie wanted the selections to be placed under the merit system. As the bill with the objectionable clause could not be passed over the veto it was dropped, and in the bill which has just gone through both branches that clause is omitted. It was omitted because Mr. Taft holds precisely the same ground on that point that his predecessor occupied. Tiie taking of the census Is a very important work. It is a business proposition, and business principles should be observed in doing it. Accuracy is an imperative demand in it, and this requires intelligence in the select on of the census takers and in the allotment of their tasks. On their work will be based all the calculations which will be made for the next ten years regarding the country's popuatlon. wealth and general condition. As the allotment of representation in the popular branch of Congress and In the electoral college depends on the count of inhabitants which Is made, every one of the states has an interest in having the count correct. As the country is growing with considerable speed it is well that the census taking should begin early, and should bo pushed with all the vigor and intelligence which the bureau can put Into It. The country wants the figures just as early as it can get them, and it wants to have them correct. Politics will have no place in the selection of the men to do this work. The past ten years has been a period of wide development in all activities throughout the country, and naturally much interest is felt in learning just where we stand. The correct solution of many social problems will depend upon the accuracy with which the various fields are covered in the enumeration of 1910. One census long ago was viewed with some distrust by the country, but possibly the suspicion may have been misplaced. The people want no tainted figures this time. St. Louis Globe Democrat A WHISTLER WHIM. The Artl Wouldn't ArKne About III Birthplace or Ag-e. James McNeill Whistler had nj patience with those ieopJe who would insist upon inquiring into two details of his biography in which lie professed, and professed with some sincerity, that lie was not interested. These details were his age and his place of birth. It was once mentioned in a Parisian paper that Whistler was born In Baltimore. Although this was contrary to fact, Whistler could not be induced to correct It. The mistake was copied over and over again, and angry patriots from, Massachusetts accidentally the birthplace of this citizen of the world, vAmld write impassioned letters to him asking him to deny the libel. All he could be prevailed upon to say was, 'If it pleases any one to have me born in Baltimore, let me be born In Baltimore.' An individual hailing from Lowell, Mass., once apostrophized him in the generally insulting manner which certain people regard as etiquette in addressing a man of genius uion a first introduction. "Mr. Whistler," said the stranger, "like me, you were born in Lowell, Mass., and you are sixty-eight years of age and I am sixty-seven. I rememlKr " The painter interrupted wearily and plaintively: "My dear sir, if you like to be born in Lowell, Mass., and you enjoy being sixty-seven years of age, well nnd good, but I don't want to be sixty-right years of age and don't remeralior lelng lorn in Lowell, Mass." New York Telegraph. Dirtiest Hail war Carriage. She looked complacently at her spotless white kid gloves. "I would never wear these on an English train." she said. "An English railway carriage is the filthiest and most Inconvenient one in the world. "It holds eight persons and to leave it you must ojen the window, lean half way out, reach down about live feet. push back the filthy outside bolt of the door, and then turn the filthy outside handle. For this door won't open from the inside. Its opening entails an acrobatic feat, to say nothing of a black ened glove. "The English like the seat by the door, but they wrangle hotly over who is to open it at the terminus. In third class carriages these wrangles often wind up in a free fight. "But a free fight Is hardly more hilarious. It hardly dirties one up more than th;. opening of these doors." Just Before the Spanking. "Pop, does a chicken come from an pf.V "Yes, my son." "And does an egg come from a chicken?" "Yes." "Well, if a chicken coine from an egg. ami an egg comes from a chicken, which " "New see here. If you are going to prolong this line of thought you can go light to Ud." "Bur. pop!" "Wejl. what?" "How does a chicken come from an "Oh. any hen can sit ou an egg and hatch it." "flee! I'm glad I ain't a ben. It must hurt to sit on a hatchet." Too II Mt!. The glowing rejwrter who wrote tvith reference to a well-known beauty: "Her dainty feet were incased in hes that might have been taken for fairy boots." tied his wardrobe up in his handkerchief and left for parts unknown when It apjK'ared the next morning: "Her dirty feet were incased in shoes that might have been taken for ferry-boats." Boyal Magazine. I'olnt of View. Wifey How does my new spring hat look? Hubby Well, it looks like a week's salary to me, but probably looks like ."0 cents to any other man. It is estimated that there are 2,000,000 dogs in Great Britain.

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forcibly and convincingly when the appalling loss of life which would have otherwise ensued when the ill-fated Republic was stricken far from help became apparent. Th dis aster served to demonstrate that vessels voyaging the pathless wastes of the ocean should be well equipped with thi3 means of summoning help in the hour of dire distress, and wireless telegraphy is the only known means of communication when hundreds of miles may intervene. The United States government requires liners on the high seas to carry the fullest and most complete Installation of the wireless system of telegraphy, but no

provision is uiaue us io Kiive tesseis. ii is probable that the comparatively short distances from land which the ships of our inland waters go does net impress the government olBcials a3 offering an element of danger sufficiently great to make this legal requirement necessary. Tho system can be maintained and operated only at great expense, but no complaint from the companies operating the leviathans of tha sea has ever been made. Beccgnizing in this modern triumph of man's skill and Inventive genius the most efficient protector against loss of both life and property so far known, the vessel owners willingly assumed the burden of the large expenso incurred by the installation nnd operation of the system. The government maintains the shore stations and with the utmost vigilance skilled oierators ever are alert for the ttrst click of the signal key. Work already is under way for the installation of the wireless system of telegraphy on a number of f-hlps sailing to and from Chicago, says the Inter Ocean. The advantages accruing from having the wireless system on lake vessels have been abundantly proven. The big steamship Theodore Roosevelt, owned by the Indiana Transportation Company, has had the system In operation for some time, being the only boat up to date to be so equipped. On one oc

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The Legislatures of a number of States an again considering the ancient question of taxing bachelors; but why, asks a heart specialist Jn the St. Iiouls Globe-Democrat, should bachelors be taxed any more than old maids? People grow hysterical over the declining marriage rate, and rail violently against men who will not take upon their shoulders the joke of matrimony. But is not there something wrong here? Are not the women more at fault than the men? Why, I have known a yoling woman to receive 6even offers of marriage between the ages of

20 and SO, and she Is a spinster to-day. She had chrnees of marrying, ono or two of them very good, yet she refused every offer! For all that, her epinsterbood will be set down as a result of man being tardy in coming forwardman, who prefers his freedom. Ill luxuries, nnd his full liberty! That is the hardship. Man is blamed for not coming forward, when tho blame should rest ou the women. Certainly, tax men who won't make an effort to get married that is a different thing, but precious few would there be to tax. And, most certainly, tax any woman who, having received offers of marriage, has refused them all. granted that all elso is equal. In that event a good sum would come to the revenue annually. Undoubtedly every bachelor is the handiwork of some woman, or women, and. doubtless, there ure plenty of bachelors, from 40 years upward, who would willingly pay taxation rather tlan marry, after the rebuffs and Insults they have received from ladles to whom they proposed. UndoubteUy it is the women who are responsible for our declining marriage rate; they, and not the men, are to blame, and the business woman Is the greatest sinner amongst the sex, especially she who has attained to a salary of, perhaps, $10 per week. I have found It to be a fact that the woman who earns a salary of that kind will not wed on any account; and she who earns, say, $13 to cr week absolutely Jeers at wedlock. In 6hort, the high-salaried lady may be set down as a certain spinster she Is too comfortable (ever to think of marriage; never would such as she consent to be tied down to the routine of ordinary household work. If bachelors are to be taxed, tax tplnsters, too; they are the greater offenders, if the truth be told.

CONQUERING THE TARPON. Sensations of One Who Han Hooked m Ktati of That Kind. The boat stops still ; yonder is a swirl on a wave and a great, dark body, with a greenish back and large protecting tin appears above it; It is a breathless moment, says a writer In Outing. "Look out dar," yells "Tony" ; there is a splash about thirty yards away, your line becomes taut and Is gMding out like lightning before you an apply the brake. When you do it Is almost Jerked from your grasp and simultaneously the tarpon leaps and writhes above the water again. There Is no sight more beautiful to the anj;ler than the graceful, silvery form of the tarpon, like a gleam of light from darkness, leaping forth from the green sea.. That moment when the tarpon has the bait and you strike Is the one of all others most fraught with Intense excitement. It is the firs: crisis in the battle. lie Is down ag'Jn and your book holds. He darts back and forth, ever going deeper in his wild rushes. It is an earnest fight The first ten minutes seem like an hour. ' Rush 'lm reel up, don't let rest"; following the advice, j-our arms tire, your hands become numb, It may be, bleeding and blistered, but you save your fish. Thus you are towed out toward the sea, always fightlDg. In his first mad rushes the huge fish gained on you, taking out nearly JOO yards of your line. During the first half hour he has decidedly the better of the fight and keeps most of the Hue. During the second half hour you gain the lost line foot by foot and the honors nre about equally divided. Now the long rushes and leaps begin to tell and he loses wind. If he did not help to kill himself by these wild rußhes and leaps, you could never land him. By some kind of Intuition an angler can tell when he has gained the mastery over a fish. You feel Instinctively that the second crisis has been passed and the boat turns back toward the bench ; and as the beach is neared you reel in and tight at close range. Once he dashes almost up to the boat and suddenly turns about; you nearly lost him that time. You toon lead him back, however. Now he lies near the boat; you see his gleaming side glisten In the light "Stiddy now," ays your man. as the boat touches the

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beach; you climb out and, resisting his last waning strength, as he lashes spray upon you, pull him out upon the sand and the fight Is won. WOMEN ACCOUNT ANTS. There Are Said to lie Twentr-Flre In the ITnlted State. One line of work which women have recently taken up is accounting. There are said to be about twenty-five women engaged in this work in the United States. They have come into this field within the last two or three years and have met with unexpected success. It I hard work, but It is far more remunerative, according to a writer in the Biokkeeier, than any other of the professions In which women have heretofore engaged. A director In a leading commercial school of New York says: "I know of two wonwn in well known concerns who have mapped out and put into operation a complete new system of financial methods for their employers and who have ever been Intrusted with hi? funds for profitable investment and whose advice has been followed in many other important business undertakings. The number of such women who have proved their ability and liking for this responsible and remunerative work is steadily growing. It offers a splendid field for the woman who 13 not loath to accept responsibilities and who has a liking for the hard work It entails and who Is ambitious." Nea.'ly all the commercial school show a steady increase In the number of woman students over previous years. One of them reports that four-fifths of its students in the regular business course this year, which includes stenography, commercial law, banking, English and kindred subjects, are women. In the bookkeeping classes there are about as many women as men. A vtT large proportion of these women, w ho appear to have marked out a business career, are college bred and many others are high school graduates. One reason given for this tendency la the overcrowding of such professions as teaching. If you must abuse someone, abuse your enemies. A good many people abuse their friends, and call It "criti-

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casion the Roosevelt encountered a small steamer far from shore, the rudder of which had become tmshlpped. She was consequently helpless and was rolling heavily in the trough of the 6ea when found by the Roosevelt A wireless was sent to Chicago Informing a tug company of the accident A tug Immediately was dispatched and the ship towed Into port in safety. Oa another occasion a dead body of a man was found and taken aboard the Roosevelt This ship was met at the wharf by a wagon from the morgue and the body immediately removed, when much delay otherwise would have ensued. As to wireless telegraphy overland, little progress has been made in bringing it into practical working cor.ditbn. Signals were at one time passed between Chicago and St Louis, but the effort to use the same commercially was pronounced futile by reasons of interferences iu many directions, Chicago had at one time communication with Milwaukee by wireless, but it was abandoned as a business enterprise. The demand for a wireless telegraph overland is Insistent in the business world, but the scientists do not seem j have overcome the numerous difficulties in the way of successful operation.

'CLASS" IN ENGLAND. Euaallty la llardlr Known and Social Lines Are Sharply Drawa. The classes are as distinctly marked as though they wore uniforms. At the base of the social pyramid are the agricultural laborers earning from $2.50 to $3.23 a week; 50 per cent of the laborers in England earn 23 shillings a week or less. A fact worth remembering when we revise our tariff, says a writer in Scribner's. Then the farm servants and house servants of the small gentry, earning, the men from $00 to $250 a year, the women from $00 to $125 a year; then the shopkeepers and their assistants and employes; then the richer merchants, and mill or factory owners, and ranking with them the local professional men, lawyers, doctors, dissenting ministers, land agents and the like; next come the gentleman farmers and landed proprietors, and the clergy of the church of England; and finally the country gentlemen and the neighboring nobility, with the lord lieutenant of the county, often a great noble, as the official and political apex. The manufacturer, mill owner and the like receives of course both social and official recognition according to his success and his wealth. In the New England town I have In mind and very proud I am to keep It In my memory of about the same size and relative Importance as the English town I am describing, the governor of the state, who happens to live there, and the cashier of the local bank, and the shopkeeper. If he be of intelligent proportions, would meet at one another's houses, if their common tastes made it agreeable. But It would be considered the height of social glory in this English town should a shopkeeper, no matter how big the shop, or a bank cashier, no matter what his erudition, or even a physician or small solicitor, or small factory proprietor, find himself on equal terms at the table of one of the county nobility, much more at the table of the lord lieutenant of the county, except on some occasion of a formal function. A Tale of a Tape Measure. The explorers were sitting one on each side of the President when Dr. Stein produced from his waistcoat pocket a small spring tape measure in a tiny aluminum drum. "It Is a very curious thing," said Dr. Stein, "but In 1900, when I was In eastern Thibet, I picked up this measure at the foot of an old ruin. I have carried it ever since and use it constantly." Dr. Sven Hedin took the measure, in his hand. "This is mine," he said at oace. "I lost it in Thibet In 1901," and he named the :pot where he believed he had dropped it, with the number of miles it was distant from a certain great lake. This proved to be the spot where It was found. Pall Mall Gazette. HarnluK It. "My wife kisses me whenever she wants money." "Gee! If she was like my wife she'd have your face kissed off by this time." Houston Post 'MEMBER WHEN YOU HAD TO

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CHICAGO'S RICHEST POLICEMAN-

Being a gentleman of leisure, as some persons understand the term, is not to the liking of Michael llassett, who retired from the Chicago police force recently, "the richest policeman In Chicago." llassett has traveled a beat in the stock yards district for twentythree years, and, although not an old man by any means, he thought he needed a rest Now that he has the opportunity to remain in bed until 10 o'clock In the morning and have his breakfast brought to him, he finds that he cannot break away from the habits which have been formed by a life of MICHAEL II AS SETT. rigid routine. In spite of his desir to snooze In the morning he finds himself rising at G o'clock and he Is ut the pol lev station when the "rest of 'the boys" report- When the squad starts out to begin the day's work Michael becomes restless, and by the time the last of the men has filed from the building the "millionaire" has "fallen in" and steps as lightly nnd as proudly as he did twenty years ago. He passes the greater part of the day on his old beat with his successor. "It's great to be rich," says the former patrolman, "but what good do I get out of retiring If I can't quit the beat? My heart Is in the work and my feet won't let me stay away." , TAKE SULPHITE AND TASSES? breakfast for nine days. Look

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Why So Few WrUern Ca Straight im the Point hy Short Cut. Why is it that so few writers are able or willing to say plainly and di-. rt'Ctly what tney mean? Among 1."0 men who live by the pen hardly twenty will be found that have mastered the art of going right to the heart of a subject by the shortest cut, which Is a straight line, says the San Francisco Bulletin. It is the faulty fashion of the. times in literature to approach a point by devious roads. To get the meaning of much smart modern text one must read constantly between the lines. I low many writers there are whose compositions the reader, as he goes along, translates into his own more homely and forthright phrasing! Competent copy readers in newspaper offices and readers of manuscripts sub mltted to magazines and publishing houses observe, more closely than others, this almost universal falling' of writers. It is a rare amateur in letters who does not dilute and enfeeble his narrative with indefinite phrases, ellipses and other vagaries. The trick of plunging in medias res is esoteric. Only the master craftsmen have it The usual writer, opening an article, makes as many feints and useless motions as a scared pugilist who comes to the center at the clang of the gong and fiddles with his fists out of pure ner -ousness. One of the most characteristic marks of the apprentice and the man who has no instinct for literary expression Is the unnecessary introduction. Speech is a mere tool, and those stylists who think rather of how they express a thought than of the value and clearness of the thought itself go on a wrong theory and are vicious. Language is only the clothing of ideas. The main thing Is what is said, and a writer should strive first of all to be clear and accurate. There Is a school of modern writers who deem clarity crudeness, and see in subtlety or obscurity the sum of all literary virtues. Their aim Is to give the reader Just sufficient data to enable him to guess their meaning. Such writers In cases enjoy a transient vogue among that large class of watery-brained persons who never get a thought clear In their heads; but there is no classic In any literature that cannot be understood readily by any fairly intelligent person who knows the language. Good writing, after all. Is the product of clear thinking. Marshal your facts and array your arguments in logical order in your mind and you will possess most of the secrets of rhetoric. A man who has a firm grasp of his niatler cannot help writing lucidly, and is very likely to write with feeling. BE PATIENT WITH THE BOY. The boy has some rights! , They are too often overlooked. ' Older sisters frequently resent them. Even mothers sometimes fall to recogn'ze them. The growing boy has scant courtesy shown him at home. What if his tracks are seen occasionally on the clean floor? What If he does leave doors open when they should be shut? What If he does make noise enough to raise the dead? It must be remembered that these are not crimes or shortcomings. Time and patience can remedy these and many other thoughtless acts. Time, iatlence and Judicious encouragement will prove more effective than fault-finding. Is there any member of the family who hears more complaints of his methods than the boy? Yet he really does many little helpful things that we would miss If they were omitted. He has a right to appreciation and thanks when his small dally chores are well done. Is It right to give the boy the attic room and his sister a big, sunny, second-floor room? , Is it right to think that any sort of cast-off furniture will do for the destructive boy? He might not be so thoughtless and destructive if he possessed a beautiful and convenient room to care for. An appreciation of the beautiful, artistic and orderly is mostly a matter of education, and the boy has a right to It ' A boy has a right to all the home privileges accorded his sisters, and to be exempt from the accusation that he is at the bottom or all the mischief afloat. Philadelphia Record. She Did. One day, while ierformlng for the Inmates of an orphan asylum. Kellar, the magician, walked up to a sedate little girl In the audience and asked: "Will my little lady please examine this handkerchief?" The blushing child did as she was told. "Now," proceeded the conjuror, "we will see if we can find In It some eandy," and. slowly rolling the handkerchief Into ball, he held it out to the small maid. "Please blow on it," he said. The next moment there was a shriek of laughter from all sides. The child had taken the request literally and had noisily performed the habitual rite. Sutx-ess Magazine. A Declining; Japanese Indaalry. The forging of sdmiter blades in Japan was once a flourishing industry, and the workers formed a close and powerful e-crporation. Iiut the Industry has declined for years, and now only two makers are left Messrs. Sonkyama and Myaiuoto. No young Japanese has come forward to offer himself as an apprentice and the question was referred to the mikado with a view of perpetuating the Industry. The mikado has come to the rescue and has founded two scholarships of 100 to Induce two lads to offer themselves for initiation into the art and mystery of making scimlter blades. London Globe. When Cold Breathe Deeply. A simple way to get warm after exposure to cold Is to take a long breath with the mouth firmly shut Kepeat this' several times until you begin to feel the heat returning. It requires a very short time to do this. The long breath, according to the Family Doctor, quickens the pulso and thus causes the blood to circulate faster. The blood flows Into all parts of the veins and arteries and gives out a great deal of heat. It is stated that this method of deep breathing prevents colds and a great many other all men rg If begun la time. , . ,

' i nri u a mmtätmn 1 1 mi Kot Mach Publlo Land Left. Of the publl: land, some 375,000,00 acres, or one-sixth of the original territory, remain lot nearly every acri Is too arid for settlement on the original plan. Of State land the amount ii limited, cave swamp and verfiow tracts that can hardly be settled by Individual effort Over 75,000,000 acres of wet landi might be reclaimed to form homes foi 10.000.000 people, the American Review of Reviews says, while 40,000,000 oi 50,000,000 acres of arid lands might bi irrigated to sustain as many more, bul this cannot be done by Individual ot family pioneering, and must be done, 11 at all, either at collective cost In th public interest or by corporate enterprise for personal interest. No longer Is Uncle Sam "rich enough to give us all a farm;" his princely possession ol a century past Is already given. WISHED FOB DEATH.

Snfferlnsa from Kldaej- Troubles Were So Acute. Mrs. Josephine Jeffery, 24th and Washington Sts., Marion, Ind., says: "To look back upon what I have gone through, it seems a miracle that I live, and I feel that I owe it to Doan's Kidney Pills. My case develoied gradually. First backache, floating spots before my eyes, weakness and exhaustion, then a terrible steady pain over the kidneys and an extreme nervousness. Doctors finally said there was no hope for me, but I began using Doan's Kidney Pills and gradualy recovered my health." Sold ty all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Mil burn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Another One Needed. "Don't yoa think," queried the report er, "there ought to be an honorary de gree to be conferred on men who havi distinguished themselves by conspicuoui acts of bravery?" "I do," answered the college president "We have been discussing that mattet lately, and it is probable that at oat next meeting we shall establish the hon orary dejree of C. Q. D." Chicago Trii ane. A I7 arsons Healtn Ballder. A medicine that will cleanse the bowels and put them in condition to do their proper work unaided will do more than anything else to preserve health and strength. Such a medicine Is the tonic laxative herb tea. Lane's Family Medicine. Get a 25c package to-day at any druggist's or dealer's. No matter what you have tried before, try this famous herb tea. Pure Fiction. Singleton Have you seen the magalines this month? They're Just full of Illustrated fiction. Marryat Yes, and tha greatest piece of Illustrated fK'tion in them is the "ad" showing Low stylish you'd look in "So and So's $7 suit" Philadelphia Press. Ar Toar Clolhea Faded t r Bed Cross Ball Blu and make then white irUo. Large 2oz. package, ft cnta. THE BILLIOX DOLLAR FOKTUKX. Rapid Increase of a Great For tune. The Astor properties now increase as tfever before, writes Burton J. Hendrick in McClure'a. Land values In tha last five years have Jumped 50 and 100 per cent. The forces already described have been especially marked since 1000. The city's population grows at the rate of 100,000 a year. In many sections New York has been largely reconstructed; new headquarters of retail trade and business have developed; public Improvements initiated since then tunnels, bridges, subways, railroad terminals aggregate in; cost not far from $.m000.000. Ttere ha been a general movement of corporations toward New York; practically all the newly organized combinations, for example, have located there. When John Jacob died in 1800, his estate, inherited by William Waldorf, was estimated at $1 30,000.000. If It were worth that then, it is worth $300.000,000 now. Th state of William Astor, who died in 1S02, Inherited by the present John Jacob, was generally placed at about $G5.000.000. If that were an accurate figure It must now aggregate at least $100,000,000. The combined Astor fortune thus Increases with accelerated momentum. In fifteen or twenty years at the present rate of progress it will have reached the billion mark. And then It will go on even faster, until the ordinary mind is appalled at the pro tentious figures. We have seen that the $2,000,000 Invested by John Jacob has multiplied at least 200 times in ICO years. It has reached, at a conserTative estimate, $450.000.000. If th same rate be maintained for another century, the Astor fortune will attain the unimaginable total of eighty billions. We stand aghast at such a possibility, but not more so than would have John Jacob's contemporaries had they foreseen the preseut reality. Iu 1S30 John Jacob was the only man in New York who was worth a million dollars. L'ncle Allen. "I suppose a man never begins to feej really old," said Uncle Allen SpsrU "until be happens to catrh his boy it tLe act of shaving himself." FOOD FACTS. ' ' What an M. D. Learned. A prominent Georgia physician went through a food experience which he makes public: "It was my' own experience that first led me to advocate Grape-Nuts food and I also know, from having prescribed it to convalescents and other weak patients that the food is a wonderful rebuilder and restorer of nerve and brain tissue, as well as muscle. It improves the digestion and sick patients always gain Just as I did in strength and weight very rapidly. "I was in such a low state that I had to give up my work entirely, and went to the mountains of this state, but two months there did not improve me; in fact I was not quite as well as when I left home. "My food did not sustain me and it became plain that I must change. Then I began to use Grape-Nuts food, and In two weeks I could walk a mile without fatigue, and In five weeks returned to my home and practice, tiking up hard work again. Since that time I have felt as well and strong as I ever did In my life. 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