Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 45, Plymouth, Marshall County, 11 August 1910 — Page 7

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LIKE HOCH. "What have jou to say to this charge of bigamy; -why did you have so many "wives?" "Well, judge, I expected to -weed out a few of them later." RAW ECZEMA ON HANDS "I had eczema on my hands for ten years. I had three good doctors but none of them did any good. I then used one box of Cuticura Ointment and three bottles of Cuticura Resolvent and was completely cured. My hands were raw all over, inside and out, and the eczema was spreading all over my body and limbs. Before I had used one bottle, together with the Cut'cura Ointment, my cores were nearly healed over, and by the time I had used the third bottle, I was entirely welL To any one who has any skin or blood disease I would honestly advise them to fool with nothing else, but get Cuticura and get well. My hands have never given me the least bit of trouble up to now. "My daughter's hands this summer became perfectly raw with eczema. She could get nothing that would do them any good until she tried Cuticura. She used Cutlmra Resolvent and Cuticura Ointment and In two weeks they were entirely cured. I have used Cuticura for other members of my family and It always proved successful. Mrs. M. E. Falin, Speers Ferry- Va., Oct 19, 1903." What They Did With Them. An American who spends much of his time in England tells of a cockney who went to a dealer In dogs and thus described what he wanted. "Hi wants a kind of dog about so 'igh an' so long. Hit's a kind of gr'y'ound. an' yet it ain't a gr'y'ound, because Ms tyle Is shorter nor any o' these 'ere grYounds, an' 'is nose is shorter, an' 'e ain't so slim round the body. But still 'e's a kind o' gr'y'hound. Do you keep such dogs?" "We do not," said the dog man. "We drown 'em." Picturesque Language. "I'm afraid fire has very poor table manners." "Why sor "A young reporter says the 'greedy flames devoured everything In reach and then licked the pal at off an adjoining buildings.' " Birmingham AgeHerald. Picturesque Language. "I'm afraid fire has very poor table manners." "Why sor "A young reporter says the 'greedy flames devoured everything in reach and then licked the paint off an adjoining buildings. " Birmingham AgeHerald. Reformation. "You say you are a reformer?" "Yep," replied the local boss; Of the deepest dye." "But you were not always so." "No. The reformers reformed our town last year aud I want to reform It back again." Pretty Bad. Mrs. Hoyle Does your husband use bad language at home? Mrs. Doyle He talks to me as if I were a fountain pen. If a fireman antagonizes you tell him to go to blazes. Cleaned Out. "I can't pay this taxicab bill." "Then I'll take you to a police station." "I'll pay it. But take me to the poorhouse and leave me there." Louisville Courier-Journal. His Busy Season. "How's business?" "Brisk," answered the druggist. "I've bought tickets for two picnics and four excursions this morning, and donated goods for several indoor affairs." IF YOC VSTi BALL BLUE, Get Red Cross Ball Blue, the best Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package only 5 certs. When a girl marries for a home she eldom boasts of what she gets. Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup. ToTfbildren tthlnc softnsthfruru8,rfducesIn. Citrr'"""" i'T 5 pais, cures wind colic 2Jc a bolUe. You have got to know a business before you can make a success of IL It was one of these

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The Wrong Sort. An old Irish peasant was one Sunday sitting in front of his cottage puffing away furiously at his pipe. Match after match he lighted, pulling hard at the pipe the while, until at last the ground all round his feet was strewed with struck matches. "Come In to your dinner. Patsy," at length called out his wife. "Faith, and Oi will in a minute, Biddy," said he. "Moike Mulrooney has been a-telling me that If 01 shmoked a bit av ghlass Oi cud see the shpots on the sun. OI don't know whether Moike's been a-fooling me or whether Oi've got hold av the wrong kind of ghlass." Scraps. Casey at the Bat. This famous poem is contained in the Coca-Cola Baseball Record Book for 1910, together with records, schedules for both leagues and other valuable baseball information compiled by authorities. This interesting book sent by the Coca-Cola Co., of Atlanta, Ga., on receipt of 2c stamp for postage. Also copy of their booklet "The Truth About Coca-Cola" which tells all about this delicious beverage and why it Is so prre, wholesome and refreshing. Are you ever hot tired thirsty? Drink Coca-Cola it is cooling, relieves fatigue and quenches the thirst. At soda fountains and carbonated in bottles 5c everywhere. It WouidnVStretch, The assessor was doing the very best he could, but the farmer was shrewd and wary. "How many acres of farming land have you?" he inquired warily. "'Bout 20, I guess," said Reuben. "Twenty! Why, it looks to me like nearer 120. Come, now, can't you Increase that a little? There are surely more than 20 acres in that tract Suppose you stretch that a little." "Say, feller," said the farmer, "this ain't no rubber plantation." Harper's Monthly. 1 Don't Eat Soap. Every now and then you get a faint taste of soap in something you eat. That Is because the pot or skillet or saucepan has been cleaned (?) with ordinary yellow soap, and it has left a trace of the rancid fat and nauseating rosin in the vessel. If Easy Task soap is used, the cooking utensils are made absolutely clean and antlseptlcally sterilized. Families that use Easy Task soap seldom have a doctor's bill to pa, because It drives out disease germs with the dirt. One cake of it is worth two of other sorts. Only One Cobb. The morning after Judge Andrew Cobb, a one-time Justice of the supreme court of Georgia, tendered his resignation, an Atlanta lawyer and a shoe drummer sat in the same seat In an outgoing train. The lawyer bought a newspaper and looked over the headlines. Then he turned to the drummer and said: "Well, I see Cobb has resigned." "Gee!" said the drummer. "What Saturday Evening PosL will Detroit do now ?" Philadelphia 119 Years Old When He Died. Paddy Blake, who was born at Ballygireen, parish of Kilnasoolagh, County Clare, Ireland, 119 years ago, has died in the CoroQn Union hospital. Paddy had a clear memory of events that happened a hundred years ago and was one of those who went to see Daniel O'Connell passing through Bunratty Pike on his way to Ennia for the great election of 1S28. Picturesque Language. "I'm afraid fire has very poor table manners." "Why so?" "A young reporter says the 'greedy flames devoured everything in reach and then licked the paint off an adjoining buildings.' "Birmingham AgeHerald. DR. MARTEL'S, r-EMALE PILLS. Seventeen Years the Standard. Prescribed and recommended for Women's Ailments. A scientifically prepared remedy of proven worth. The result from their use is quick and permanent For sale at all Drug Stores. Fine Schoo!. "Your daughter should attend my school of education." "She shan't! She's attended one, and she's positively " "Ah, but I teach a new system. When my pupils are asked to recite they are trained to refuse." Playing the Market. "Curbroke never pays for his meat until a month afterward." "So I hear. Prices in the meantime go up, and he feels as though he'd made someth.'ng." Puck. Uncouth. "He's so uncouth." "What's the matter?" "He actually eats the lettuce leaf the salad rests on." Some people need only a little hole of observation to take in all the important scandals of the age.

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CHAPTER XIII. (Continued.) The mile walk down the pike, lyin? white and ghostly under the starlight was paced in silence, man and boy striding; side by side and each busy with his own thoughts. As they were passing the Deer Trace gates a looseJointed figure loomed black against the palings, and the voice of Japheth Tettigrass said: "Why, howdy. Brother Silas! Thought ye'd gone back to South Tredegar. When are ye comln out to Little Zoar ag'in to give us another o them old-fashioned, spiritual times o' refreshin from the presence of the Lord?" "Why do you ask that Japheth Pettigrass? The Lord will deal with you. one day." "Yes, I reckon so; that's what makes me say what I does. There's a heap o sinners left round here, yit Brother Silas. There's the Major, for one, and I know you're always countln me In for another. I dunno but you might snatch me as a brand from the burnIn', if you could make out to try It one more lap around the cou'se. I been thlnkin right p'intedly about " But the preacher had cut in with a curt "Good-night," and was gone, with his broad-shouldered nephew at his heels; and the horse-trader went on, with the stars for his audience. Pettlgrass was groping for the gat-j latch when a hand fell on his shoulder, and a clutch that was more than half a blow twirled him about to face the roadway. He was doubling his fists for defense when he saw who his assailant was. "Why, Tom-Jeff! what's ailln ye?" he began; but Tom broke in with gaspings of rage. "Japhe Pettlgrass, what did you think you saw last Wednesday forenoon up yonder at Big Rock Spring on the mountain? Tell it straight this time, or I'll dig the truth out of you with my bare hands!" "Sho, now. Tom-Jeff; don't you git so servigrous over nothln. I didn't see nothin' but a couple o' young flyaways playin possum In a hole in the big rock. And I'll leave It to you if I didn't call Caesar off and go my ways, Jes' like I'd like to be done by." "Yes; and then you came straight down here and told my uncle!" The hand he had been holding behind him came to the front, clutching a stone snatched up from the metaling: of the pike as he raru "If I should break your face In with this, Japhe Pettlgrass, it wouldn't be any more than you've earned!" "I tell Brother Silas on you, TomJeff? You show me the man 'at says X done any such low-down thing as that and I'll frazzle a fifty-dollar hawsswhip out on his ornery hide I will, so. Say, boy; you don't certain'y believe that o me, do ye?" "I don't want to believe lt of you, Japhe," quavered Tom, as near to tears as the pride of his eighteen years would sanction. "But somebody saw and told, and made it a heap worso than It was." "Who do you reckon It was told on you? Was there arybody else in the big woods that mornin'?" "Yes: there were three men testing the pipe-line. We both saw them, anfl Nan was scared stiff at sight of one of them;. that's why I put her up in that hole." "When you find out who that feller Is that Nan's skeered of. you can lay your hand on the man ihat told Brother Silas on you. But I wouldn't trouble about it none. If I was you." The dinner at Woodlawn that night was a stiff and comfortless meal, as it had come to be with the taking on of four-tlned forks and the other conventions for which an oak-paneled dining-room in an ornate brlrk mansion sets the pace. Caleb Gordon was fathoms deep In the mechanical problems of the day's work, as w?i his wont Ellas Crafts was abstracted and silent Tom's food chaked him, as it had need under the sharp stress of things; and the convalescent housemother remained at table only long enough to pour the coffee. Tom excused himself a few minutes later, and followed his mother to her room, climbing the stair ti her door, leaden-footed and with his heart ready to turst. "Is that you, Thomas?" said the gentle voice within, answering his tap on the pocel. "Come In, son; come In and sit by my fire. It's right chilly tonight" Thomas Jefferson entered and placed his chair so that she could not see him without turning, and for many minutes the silence was unbroken. Then ha began, as begin he must some time and In. some way. "Mammy," he s.ld, feeling unconsciously for the childish phrase, "mammy, has Uncle Silas been telling you anything about me?" "Something. Thomas, but not a great deal. You have had some trouble with Doctor Tollivar." "Yes." "I have known that for some little time. Your uncle might have told me more, but I wouldn't let him. There has never been anything between us to break confidence, Tom. I knew you would tell me yourself, when the time came." "I have come to te 1 you to-night, mammy. You must hur it all, from beginning to end. It goes back a lon way bs.ck to the time when you used to let me kneel with my heai In your lap to say my prayers; when you used to think I was good. The fire had o!eu down to a few glowing masses of coko on the grate bara when he had finished the story of his wanderings In the valley of dry borts. Throuzh It all. Martha Gordon had sat silent and rigid, her thin hands lying clasped in her lap, and her low willow rocking-chair barely moving at the touch of her foot on the fnder. But wb?n it was over; when Ton, his voice breaking In spite of his efforts to control it told her that he could walls In the way she had chosen for him only at the price a conscious hypocrite rauit pay, she reached up quickly and took him In her arms and wept over him as those who sorrow without hope, crying again and again, "O my sen Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!" CHAPTER XIV. Ones in a lifetime for every youngling climbing the facile or difTlcult slope of the ye.'irs there comes a day of realization, era sudden extension of vision, of Rubicon -crossing from the hither hor of Joyous and irresponsible adolescence to that further one of conscious grappling with the adult fact For Thomas Jefferson, grinding tenaciously in the Boston technical school, whither he had gone late in the winter of Beersheban discontent, the Stream-crossing fell in the spring of the panic year 1833, what time he was 21, a quarter-back on his college eleven, fit hardy, studious and athletic; a paca-sctter for his fellows and the prlds of the faculty, but still little more than an overgrown, care-free boy In Ms outlook on life. Glimpses there had bsen over Into the Promised Land of taaahood. but the crimmin cud of col

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LYNDE by Francis Lynda lege work and play quaffea In healthgiving heartiness is the elixir of youth. The speculative habit of the boy slept In the college undergraduate. The days were full, each of the things of Itself, and if Tom looked forward to the workaday future as he did by times the boyish Impatience to be at it was gone. Chlawassee Consolidated was moderately prosperous: the home letters were mere chronicles of sleepy Paradise. The skies were clear, and the present was acutely present. Tom studied hard and played hard; ate like an ogre and slept like a log. And when he finally awoke to find himself stumbling bewildered on the bank of the epoch-making Rubicon, he was over and across before he could realize how so narrow a stream shovM fill so vast a chasm. Tom received a letter from his father telling of the financial crisis, his fear for the Chiawasse Consolidated, and asking his advice. Tom found this letter In his mallbox one evening after a strenuous day In the laboratory; and that night he sat up with the corpse of his later boyhood, though he was far enough from putting It that way. His father was In trouble, and the letter was a call for help. It seemed vastly Incredible. Thomas Jefferson's ideal of steady courage, of Invincible human puissance, was formed on the model of the stout-hearted old soldier who had fought under Stonewall Jackson. What a trumpet blast of alarm must have sounded to make such a man turn to a raw recruit for help! "It's up to me." he mused, "and I'd like to know what I've been thinking of all this time. Why, pappy's old! he was 40 before I was born. And I've been here taking It easy and having all sorts of a good time, while he's been playing Slndbad to Duxbury Farley's Old Man of the Sea. Comln?. pappy!" he shouted; and forthwith flung himself down at the table to write a letter that was to put new life Into a weary old man who was fighting against odds in the far-away Southland. The lone soldier was to take heart of grace, remembering that he had a son; remembering also that the son was now a man grown, stout of arm, steady of head, and otherwise fightingfit If the storm should come, the watchword must be to hold on all, keeping sUerage-way on the Chlawassee Consolidated craft at all hazards. The June examinations were' not far off, and these disposed of. the manson would be ready to lay hold. Meanwhile, let Caleb Gordon, in his capacity of principal minor stockholder, insist on a full and exact statement of the company's affairs, and here the new manhood asserted Itself boldly let that statement or a copy of It come to Boston by the first rnilL To this letter there was a grateful reply In which Tom read with smlia his father's half-bewildered attempt to get over to the new point of view. It began. "Dear Buddy." and ended. "Tour affectionate rPPV but there was man-to-man matter between the salutation and t lynature. The Inquiry Into 'he affa:J-s f Chlawassee Consolidated had rtv-iled little or nothing more than the general manager already knew. The president had turned the inquiring stock-holder over to Dyckman. the bookkeeper, with Instructions to give Mr. Gordon the fullest possible information, and: I "Dyckmm slid out of It smooth and easy-like," Calem's letter went on. "Ho allowed he was m'ghty busy, right about then. Wouldn't I just make myself at home tnd examine the books for myself? I reckon that was about what Farley waAted him to do. I'm no book expert and I couldn't make heid or tail out of Dyckman's spider tracks. Looks to me like all the books are' good for is to keep people from finding where the company Is at. What little I found out, young Norman told me. He says we're In a hole, and the first wagon-load of dirt that comes along will bury us out of sight" Tom, driven now with the closing work of the college year, yet took time to write another heartening letter to the hard-pressed old soldier. It had been his good fortune to win the Clarkson prize for crucible tests, and to have gained thereby a speaking acquaintance with the multimillionaire Iron king who had founded It Mr. Clarkson Ud not believe that the financial storm would grow to panic size. As for himself, Tom thought the hazard was less jn the times than in the Farleya. Father Caleb was to keep his finger on the pulse of the main offlc?. wiring Boston at the first sign of Its weakening. The junior metallurgical was In the thick of the June examinations when the catastrophe befell. The brief story of it came to Tom In the first dictated letter he had ever received from his father, and the tremulous shakiness of the signature pointed eloquently to the reason. Chlawassee Consolidated was out of blast "temporarily suspended." In the pleasant euphemism of the eldsr Farley; the force, clerical and manual, was discharged, with only Dyckman left In the deserted South Tredegar offices to answer questions; and the three Fcrleys, with Major Dabney. Ardea and Miss Euphrasia, were to spend the summer In Europe. Caleb wrote in some bitterness of spirit Though the Gordon holdings in the company. Increased from time to time as the Iron-master had prospered, amounted to a little more than a third of the capital stock, everything had been done secretly. The general manager's own notice of the shut-down had come In the posted "Notice to Employes." When the Farleys should leave, he would be utterly helpless; on their return they could repudiate everything he might do In their absence. Meantime, ruin was Imminent The affairs of the company were in the utmost confusion; the treasury was empty, and there were no apparent assets apart from the Idle plant Creditors were pressing; the discharged workmen, led by the white coal-miners, were on the verge of riot; and Major Dabney's royalties on the coal lands w-ere many months In arrears. Tom rose promptly to the occasion, and in all the stress of things found space to wonder how It chanced that he knew instinctively what to do and how to go about it Before his Information was an hour old a rush telePram had gone to his father, asking from what port and by what steamer the Farleys would sail; asking also that certain documents be sent to ft given New York address by first mall. This done, he laid the exigencies frankly before the examiners in the technical school, praying for such leniency as might be extended under the circumstances. Since all things are possible for an honor-man, beloved of t!jse whose mission It Is to grind the human weapon to Its edge, the dlfllcultles In this field vanished. Mr. Gordon could go on with his examinations until his presence was needed elsewhere: and after the stressful moment was passed he could return and finish. TL, return telegram from Gordonla was a day late. Knowing diplomacy only by name, Caleb Gordon had gone directly to Dyckman fw Inform

regarding the Farleys' movements. Dyckman was polite to the general

manager, but unhappily he knew noth!ng of Mr. Farley's plans. Caleb tried elsewhere, and the little mystery thick ened. At his club, Mr. Farley had spoken of taking a Cunarder from Bos ton; to a friend In the South Tredegar Manufacturers' Association he had con fided his Intention of sailing from Philadelphia. But at the railway ticket office he had engaged Pullman reserva tions for six persons to New York. This last was conclusive, as far as it went; and Japheth Pettlgrass sup plied the missing item. The Dabneys and the Farleys made one party, and Japheth knew the steamer and the sailing date. "Party will sail by White Star Line Baltic, New York, to-morrow. Nsw York address. Fifth Avenue Hotel. Pa pers to your care 271 Broadway by mall yesterday," was the message which was signed for by the door keeper at the mines and metallurgy examination room In Boston, late in the forenoon of the second day; and Tom looked at the clock. Nothing would be gained by taking a train which would land him In New York late In the evening; so he plunged again Into the examination pool and thought no more of Chlawassee Con solidated until his paper on qualitative analysis had been neatly folded, dock eted and handed to the examiner. (To be con tinned.) AT DANCING SCHOOL. Some Children Enjoy the Diversion and Others Do Xo. To most little girls and many little boys dancing school is a delight, but not to all. The mother of one smUl boy, who usually accompanies him to the class, partly to encourage him regularly as the fateful hour ap proaches he is sunk in resentful and despairing gloom and partly to enjoy the pretty spectacle, noticed one after noon lately that although he had bowed correctly before several little girls in turn, he had failed to secure a partner. She beckoned him to her side. "Why wouldn't any of those little girls dance with you, Bobby?" she in quired. "Did you ask them nicely?" "Well, mama," admitted Bobby, re luctantly, "I'm not sure whether it was nice, exactly, but it was truthful; and you say I'm always to tell the truth. I said. 'May I have the pain of this dance with you?" and they would n't any of them danco with me. But you know perfectly well, mama, it wouldn't have been true if I'd said 'pleasure.' " Bobby's partners, when he was induced to use a formula somewhat less frank, were almost always selected from among girls older and larger than himself. His mother remon strated, adding, as she Indicated a light and graceful little girl of something less than his own years, "Why do you never ask little Katharine? She dances beautifully." He turned a baleful eye on Katharine, who was Indeed an admirable dancer, but a rather over-dressed, precocious and noticeable child, and demanded with indignant scorn: "Do you s'jose I'd be consplcuated by that kid?" His feelings were respected, and he was allowed the modified "pain" of se-k-cting a more sedate partner. The shy little daughter of a. dis tinguished novelist, who was recent ly sent for the first time to dancing school, had long dreaded the ordeal. Her father, knowing her fondness for poetry, tried to overcome her fears by familiarizing her mind with alluring songs and poems' picturing the Joyous sportlveness of the dance; and he appeared to have succeeded. Es pecially was she pleased with the airy charm of the Shakespearian injunction to the fairies to "foot it featly here and there." and with the Milton Jc invitation to Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe. Thus poetically Inspired, and cheer--ed also by the possession of a pair of fascinating bronze slippers with beaded bows, 6he started off In fair spirits. But alas! once arrived, bashfulhess1 overpowered her, and she found the' afternoon an embarrassing and unhappy experience. Returning home. she cast the treasured 6llppers wildly from her as she entered, flung herself into her father's arms and sobbed inj a voice of miserable disillusionment: "I don't want to foot it featly, papa, I don't want to! " And oh, I don't want my toes fantastic! I like my everyday common sense last lots better!" i Youth's Companion. Beating- ibv Postoffice. Here is a curious process by which the French postoffice was beaten. A wealthy merchant who refused to pay an excess fee was sued by the postal authorities and lost the suit He retaliated by building a shanty in a remote district of the Hautes-Alpes, about twenty miles from any postoffice,' and Installing therein a shepherd, In whose name he subscribed to the daily Tetlt Journal. According to the terms of the postal monopoly in France, the department is bound to provide a daily service wherever required, and it would have been necessary to engage a postman solely for the delivery of this newspaper, as no other house Is to be found within a radius of about eight miles. The postoffice, sooner than embark on an expenditure of about 5240 a year, consented to forego the 10 centimes (2 cents) in dispute, pay the defendant's costs and compensate the shepherd for the loss of his dally paper. Cordially Invited. Glasgow invitations are nothing if not hearty. Two friends met after a fairly long separation. "Man, Tam." says one, "whaur in all the alrth hae ye been hldln yersel'? I havena seen ye for an age." "Weel, Jeems, I've been doon Gourock way a guld while. Come doon an' see me sume. I've got a set of good boxing gloves, an if ye come doon any day I'll knock the face aff ye," London Tit-Bits. Erabarraaalnar Question. Police Justice Have you any way of making a living? Vagrant I hev. y'r honor. I kin make brooms. Police Justice You can? Where did you learn that trade? Vagrant I decline to answer, your honor. Home Herald. Ambiguous. "I wonder what the teacher meant about the singing of rry two daughters. "What did he say?" "He said that Mamie's voice was good, but Maud's was better siilL" Cleveland Leader. In the Midst of It. "Did you find that local atmosphre you were looking for?" "It found me," responded the novelist "I got mixed up with a cyclone before I had been fooling around two dais." Louisville Courier-Journal.

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NDUSTRY THAT NOW REACHES SUM OF $36,000,000. .argest Part of the Crop Is Consumed From the Street Stand Most Nutritous of All Nut Foods. The person who buys a nickel's forth of peanuts to munch at the ball ;ame, to feed to the squirrels in the ark, or to gladden the hearts of the :iddies at home, scarcely realizes that ie has contributed to an Industry that ast year farmed a $1,000,000 crop, and vhlch placed on the market in vaious forms reached the enormous sum if $36,000,000. But it is a fact! This little seductive nut a resoluion to "eat just one" Is soon forgoten whose birthplace is America, vas, until comparatively recently, unippreciated either as to the "money n them," or as a really nutritious roduct Today the peanut plays an mportant part in pleasure, from the well dinner party to the ever-present lemocracy of the circus, ball game, or )icnic. After all, what is a ball game, i picnic, or a circus without the peatut accompaniment? By far the largest part of the crop s consumed from the peanut stand, he little whistle-sign of the roaster eing . the signal for the average roungster to suggest to dad or ma hat some of them would be very ac:eptable, and the paternal or maternal jarent's willingness nine times out f ten to invest. Yet there are miliens of bushels that go to the fattenng of hogs throughout the south, the 'eeding of poultry, while the vines )ften cured as hay, feed thousands of toad of cattle, and even old Mother Sarth is nourished by the roots of the lant, which furnishes nitrogen to it rom the air. r The result of all this Is that sclenists claim that the peanut, which in he past was not very highly regarded, b the only food staple that will at once lourish man, beast, bird and fields. It s the most nutritious of the entire nut 'amily, rich In tissue building properies, containing glucose and carbo lydrates and is the cheapest Beyond the shadow of a doubt it is first !rom both a dietary and economic itandpoint The fact of the matter Is the peanut n about every way is in a class by tself as regards price, average nam)er in pound, edible part, waste, and 'at They average about 350 to a pound at a cost of 10 cents, the edible portion is ,73.6, waste 26.4, and the imount of fat is placed at SO per cent These are remarkable figures when )ne stops to consider them, - and brought out more clearly when compared with the small Texas pecan, Its ucarest competitor, which sells for )vcr a third more, averages but 216 :o a pound, has a waste of 61.8 per rent, edible part but' 38.2, and con:ains 68 per cent, of fat The farming of peanuts during' the past five years not longer than this ias become an established industry of :hls country. At present about fivesixths of the crop comes from VIrgina ind most of the balance from Tennessee, Georgia. West Virginia and the Carolinas, although most of the southern states contribute some. As the peanut Industry has Increased so has .he use of all nuts grown mightily as an article of food during the last lecade, and the entire family now forms a most important part of the liet of the physical culturist and vegetarian. Bird's Barbed Wire Fences. There may be seen along the roadsides in Central America a brown wren about the size of a canary which builds a nest out of all . proportion to Us apparent needs. It selects a small tree with horizontal branches growing close together. Across two of its branches it lays sticks fastened together with tough fiber, until a platform about six' feet long by two feet wide has been constructed. On the end of this platform nearest the tree trunk it then builds a huge domeshaped rest a foot or so high with thick sides cf interwoven thorns. A covered passageway Is then made from the nest to the end of the platform in as crooked a manner as possible. Across the outer end, as well as at short intervals along the inside of this tunnel, are placed cunning Iittlo fences of thorn3 with Just i.pace enough for the owners to pass through. On going out this opening Is closed by the owner by placing thorns across the gateway and thus the safety of the eggs or young is ascured. Selfishness Prevailed. Sweet Iittlo Frances and her mother long have had an understanding that, father being the completing member of the loving trio, he shall never be left alone upon the comparatively few and rare occasions when business permits him to share the. delights of the pretty suburban home. Not long since, however, a neighbor invited mother and child to go motoring with her; father was not included In the invitation for lack of room. The choice of motoring or staying behind with father was offered Frances, who pondered In silence for some time. "Course, father's too dear- for anything," she said, at last, "and we never do leave him alone on Saturday evenings.. But," with a wistful glance at the snorting car, "he wouldn't want us to miss such a pleasure, and," tossing all thoughts of self-denial lightly to the winds, "everything has to have a first time!" A Blind Gardener. Not satisfied with the manner in which his son3, Fred and Thomas, had planted the posts around the lot, George Samuels, a blind resident of Bloonisburg, Ta., replanted them, and even the sons, who had thought they had done a good job, were forced to admit their sightless father had improved the work. He dug the holes, planted the posts and built the fence. Samuels takes care of his own garden, even weeding it, and has never been known to mistake a plant for a weed. Ho lost his sight in au explosion in an iron ore mine. A Patron. ' "Mr. Cairiman is very busy now," said the private pecretary of the railroad president. "is there anything I can do for you?" "Gh," replied the pompous visitor, "just a friendly call. I thought he'd like to know that I ride on his suburban branch now. I'm Col. Nuritch." Hal Ha! A man was robbed at the point of a pip. which he thought was a revolver. It was a meerschaum.

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Geo Baker? Ella A man is as old as he feels. Stella How about woman? Ella She is as young as sho . can bluff people Into thinking she is. She Burned the House. A woman in Montana sat down the Mher day and thought about house cleaning about the carpets and rugs ;o clean, the woodwork to wash, the Dedding to wash, the curtains to wash, ;he portieres to wash, the stairways ind the railings and the floors and the steps and the windows and everything else to be washed and cleaned and she got so worried over the prospect that she set fire to the house. Do you blame her? If she had only known as you do that Easy Task soap will do half the work of washing and cleaning, she would have felt more cheerful. It's a nickel a cake and one woman said she would pay a dollar a cake for it if she could get it no other way. The Nurse's Opinion. A nurse had been called as a witness to prove the correctness of the bill of a physician. "Let us get at the facts In the case," said the lawyer, who was doing a cross-examination stunt "Didn't the doctor make several visits afte. the patient was out of danger?" "No, sir," answered the nurse. "I considered the patient in danger as long as the doctor continued his visits." An Unnecessary System. "You ought to have a burglar alarm system in your house," said the electrical supply agent, "so that you will be awakened if a burglar raises one of thft windows or opens a door at night" "No burglar can get In here whinle we are peacefully sleeping." replied Mr. Newpop. x "We are weaning our baby." N Picturesque Language. "I'm afraid fire has very poor table manners." "Why so?" "A young reporter says the 'greedy flames devoured everything In reach and then licked the paint off an adjoining buildings.' " Birmingham AgeHerald. On a Stygian Ferryboat. Charon was ferrying a passenger across the Styx. "Fine scenery for my toothpowder ad." cried the shade. Thus we see the ruling p&sslon survives. She Knew the Worst Mistress (hiring servant) I hope you know your place? Servant Oh, yes, mum! The last three girls you had told me all about it The Motive Power. "A western editor says nobody was ever hurt while taking a 'joy ride' on the handles of a plow." For Red, Itching- Eyelids. Cysts, Styes Falling Eyelash and All Eyes That Need Care Try Murine Eye Salve. Aseptic Tubes Trial Size 25c. Ask Your Druggist or Write Murine Eye Remedy Co Chicago. What's become of the hookworm fake? Gone out of Stiles? When will they get into Stiles again? Eh, Dr. Stiles? T)r. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Rugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take. Do not gripe. I have been to feasts of arguments where the only result was a constipation of real original Ideas. YELLOW CLOTHES ARE UNSIGHTLY. Keep them white with Red Cross Ball Blue. All grocers sell large 2 oz. package, 5 cents. A man's argument is nearly always self convincing. r. ALCOHOL-3 PER CENT ÄVetfelable Preparation for Assimilating iteFoodandRegulaling the Stomachs and Bon-els of Promotes Dicstion;TieerfuInessandRcst.Contain.neitker Opium .Morphine nor Mineral Not Narcotic Fttpt tfOMDrSAfflUfmfiE; Anil 51 hirm Slid CUrSitd Suf Ii nmmrftnm rmvor A perfect Remedy for Constipation . Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea, Worms ,Convu!sions .Fever ishncssand LOSS OF SLEEP Tac Simile Signature of The Centaur Company;. NEW VORK. Guaranteed under the Foodani Exact Copy cf Wrapper. n I l jj I

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Oversupply of Alcoholic Stimulants Disturbed Schedule of Funeral Arrangements. Dean Ramsay's memoirs contain am anecdote of an old woman of Strathspey. Just before her death she solemnly instructed her grandnephew:' "Willy, I'm deeln', and as ye'll hae th charge o a I have, mind now that as much whisky is to be used at my fa-1 neral as there was at my baptism." Willy, having no record of the quantity consumed at the baptism, decided; to give every mourner as much as b9 wished, with the result that the n! neral procession, having to traverse ten miles to the churchyard on short November day, arrived only at nightfall. Then It was discovered that th mourners, halting at a wayside Inn, bad rested the coffin on a dyke and left It there when they resumed their journey. The corpse was a day late in arriving at the grave. His Soft Answer. And this is the sort cf excuse yo put up for coming home two hours late for dinner and In such a condition that you and that disreputable Augustus Jones were out hunting mushrooms, you wretch? And where, pray, are the mushrooms?" "Eere zay are,m' dear. In m res" pocket; and w'ile zay in so many cf 'em, m dear, we had lots of fun Gus an I huntin' 'em." Low Rate Niagara Falls and Return Twenty-sever.th annual excursion,' Aug. 22, via r,'.V.kel Plate road. Special train. Tickets also good on train. 4, Valparaiso and Cleveland inclusive. Good returning 12 days. Ask agent or write F. P. Parnin, T. P. A.. FL Wayne, Ind. It's the experience of every mas: that he wants a lot he doesn't get and gets a lot he doesn't want Many a girl who refuses to star single also refuses to stay married.. Don't Persecute your Bowels Cot oat otfrfttoi 4&J yMfjhT6s TW im trat CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS Purdrvegctalie. A4 eumiMte biU, and ootb the defecate cf thebowd. Cart CmSick Hbcb sal ta&wsa, at siSsea bow. Small PUL Small Dom, Small PriceJ Genuine mutku Signature A Skin of Beauty 1 9 a Joy Forever. T. WKUIX COURAUD'm Onmmtmt Crmsm m agio I Bmmmttnmmm KeraoTes Tmn, rimp 1-recklea, Motb Ia!rbe, and errr blemjteb on beast. I DaarDdo-uw-tlon. ll bastion tbetestot Q yrs Dd Is to bansw W wetast it vm be sure It iftproerly made. a cpt Bo conntrrfrit of similar name. Dr. A. Harr said to a lady of the bintton (a paUect)i; "At you U4 will um tbeaa. 1 r,nmmn Gotirand's Cream s tbe least harmful of all the fckm preparations. " For rale by all dracrrKtan Cane r-Goodi Dealers in tbe U.& .Canada ana Europe. FerlT. Hopkins, Prop., 37 Great Jons: SL, taYsi -1 ILJ Did you hear It? How embark rassing. These stomach noises make you wish you could sink through1 the floor. You imagine everycxw hears them. Keep a box of CAS-' CARETS in your purse or pocket and take a part of one after eating. It will relieve the stomach of gas. sa CAS CARETS 10c a box for a wsek's treatment All drocsitts. Biggest seller la the world mHUou boxes a month. STOCKERS & FEEDERS Choice Quality; reds and roans, white faces or angns bought on orders. Tens of Thon sands to select from. Satisfaction Goar anteed. Correspondence. Invited. ! Come and ace Xor your seit. National Live Stock Com. Co. AI either EMsasCty.MAM St. Jtpk.M. S.Oamaka.HB PATENTS Watson .Csleman.Wi tngton.b.C Booxnfres. B eat retereaoea W. N. U, FT. WAYNE, NO. 3J-1913. For Infants and Children. TIio J(int3 Voii Ilauo Always Doughi Bears 'the Signature of In ÜSQ For Over Thirty Years Ta car wa Mkar. tvvorv J axle mm Keeps the spindle bright and I tree from grit. Try a boxy Sold by dealers everywhere. STANDARD OIL CO. UncozvoratedJ

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