The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 9, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 June 1908 — Page 6

’• Roosevelt’s Beef Stew. C .An incident Illustrating Colonel Roosevelt's devotion' to the men of his regiment was told by Trooper Burkholder of 1 the Rough Riders. Burkholder was ah "through the active campaign with the Rough Riders. I’ was away on furlough on account of a slight attack of swamp fever when the Rough Riders, were mustered out, and thus missed, as he puts it,* “an opportunity to say good-by to the most gallant commander and the truest man that a soldier was ever privileged to fight under.” • Z “Only us few men who were with him,” said Burkholder, “know how considerate he was of us at all times. There was one case in particular that illustrates this better than-1 can recall. It happened after the fight at La Quasimasl The men were tired with the hard; march and the fighting, and hunger was gnawing at every stomach. Besides, we had our first men killed there, and, taking it all In all, we were in an ugly humor. The usual'shouting, cracking of jokes and snatches of song were missing, and everybody appeared to.be in the dumps. I suppose we were, all thinking of poor Ham Fish’and tjAe rest of the poor fellows who had been dropped in the short scrap. , ' ' “Well, things hadn’t Improved a bit, in fact, were getting worse along toward meal time, When tine colonel began to move about among the men, ■speaking encouragingly to each group. I guess he sdw something was up, and no doubt he made up his mind then and there to improve at least the humor of the men. There’s an old saying that a man can best be . reached through his stomac/h, and I guess he believes in that maxim. Shortly afterward we saw the codonei, his 400 k and two of the troopvers of Company I strike out along the narrow road toward the town, and we wondered what was up. It 'was probably an hour or so after this, and dur- ' ing a little resting spell in our work of clearing ground arid making things a little -camp-ilke, that the savory and almost forgotten odor of beef stew began to sweep through the clearing. Men who were wonting stopped ghort and began to sniff, and those who had stopped work for a breathing spell;, forgot to,breathe for a second.. Soon they joined in the sniffing, and’l’ll wager every one of us was sniffing as hard as he knew how. Oh. but didn’t that ; smell fine! We weren’t sure that it was for us, but we Had a smell of it anyway. Quickly drooping spirits revived, and as the-, fumes of the boiling stew became stronger the humor of the men improved. We all jumped to our work with a will, and picks, shovels and axes were plied in race horse fashion, while the men would stop'now and then to raise their heads and draw, a long breath and exclaim: “ ‘Wow! but that smells good.’ “We were finaly summoned to feed, and then you can' Imagine our surprise. There was a big boiler and beside it a crowd of mess tent men dishing out •real beef stew! We ■'’could “hardly believe our eyes, and I hod to taste mine first to make sure it, wasn’t a dream. You should have seen the expression on the faces of the men as they gulped dowp that stew, and we till laughed .when one New York man yelled “ “ ‘And it’s got real onions in it, too!’ “After we had loaded up we began to wonder where it all came from and then the.two Troop I men told how the” colonel had purchased the potatoes and onions while hjs own cook secured the meat from Slboney. ’• - “You probably won’t believe it, but the bushel of potatoes cost Colonel Roosevelt almost and he had to paiy thirty-odd good American dollars to get the onions, but then he knew what his men wanted and if was .always his men first with him. There was a rush to his tent when we learned this, and if you.ever heard the cheering I’m sure you wouldn’t wonder why the Rodgh Riders all love their colonel. “I see,*’, said Burkholder, “that in* his address* to the men at Camp Wikoff the colonel told how he had to hurry at the ’San, Juan Hill fight to save himself from being run over by the men. That’s just like him to say that; but he probably forgets that more, than half of the men never ran so fast before and* never will again as they had to run to keep up with him. If Colonel -Rooselived in Arizona we would give him any office he wanted without any election nonsense.” —New York Suit Prison Life in Rebellion. Like a voice out of the past, a letter written in 1864 by a Union prisoner at Charleston, S. C., has come to light, which tells graphically of the sufferings of the men confined In the Confederate prison there. It was found among the effects of the late Major George Vanderbilt; U. S. A., who died in Washington last August Major Vanderbilt’s eon, George Vanderbilt of thin city, deciphered the document, which is written on a .scrap of paper in a panelled hand so small that it requires a magnifying glass to read it, says tlie New York Times. . The letter was written by Qapt Burton B. Porter of G company, Tenth New York cavalry. Oapt Porter, In the €«rly stages of the war, was first lieutenant of L company and a close friend of Major Vanderbilt, at that time the commander of company L. The letter be wrote to Capt Vanderbilt from the prison follows: “Charleston, 8. 0., Sept. 28, 1864. — Frlerai Van: Yours of the 31st of August came to hand a day or two since

1 and is the only one I have received ' since I have been in the Confederacy, You can hardly conceive how glad I was to bear from you. Os Capt Page I know nothing, and I think he must be dead or in the hospital. Tell Jim Reynolds I am happy to learn of his ' promotion. Our boys are all well except Bliss, who Is in the hospital, but getting (better. I send this via underground in a gunboatman’s boat “God only knows when I will get . away from here. We are half starved, Those who have no money (and I am one of the number) are almost always hungry. Our rations have been cut down of late. The ‘robs 1 are getting very despondent and some of the citizens tell us that the people here werq, never so low in spirits as at present Old men and little boys are guarding us. We are under Fosterj’s fire night and day, and once in about twenty minutes a shell comes screeching over us. Some pieces have s,truck the building and in the yard. z “ “Fifty cases of yellow, fever in the city this morning. No cases among the prisoners that,! know otj Two thou-i sand officers, au 'd 10,000 enlisted men are confined here. The enlisted men are dylrig fast. ■ They are only half fed, with no shelter. My God, Van, to .be in one continual fight day and night is heaven to this miserable prison life! “I want you to do me a favor by buying up all the reb money you can and send it to me, which will at least prevent me from Starving. My health . is anything but good, but I hope to live it through. Tell Pratt, Jim Reynolds 1 and any of the boys to write who is killed, wounded, etc. ‘The ‘nebs’ look to the election of Mac for President with great anxiety. For the country’s sake re-elect Abe Lincoln and it will be just the thing the ‘rebs* don’t want. Their last armies are in the field. Moray, Johnson, Get man and all are in this place. They did not escape. My reepebts to all. “Remember me to all, jmd God grant that you and I may meet again some day. George, are you going out of the service When your time is up ? Has Seckier been back to the Regiment yet? ■ You told me last spring about him. Read this letter to all toy boys and acquaintances;.” i Capt. Porter was taken prisoner at. the battle of St Mary’g church in Virginia. TwicU he broke through the Confederate lines, but was recaptured. On the third attempt he succeeded in joining Gen. Sherman’s army on Feb., 27, 1865. ’ ' i " ' Warned by a Wet Negro. As our company lay in camp on the east bank of the Mississippi River, one morning, early, we were surprised by a colored man who came walking into camp, - dripping wet, and- when asked his business he said that he wanted to “see de colonel.” Being; shown to the colonel’s tent, and being asked his busi- ‘ , ness, he said he had just escaped from a company of rebel cavalfy who were in damj) about two miles north of that place on the left side of the' river, and who were lying in ambush for the purpose of capturing our company. He stated,, that the rebels intended to hang him the next morning. The colonel asked him how he escaped, and he said he slipped by the guard and crawled along a ditch to the river, where ’he found a log lying in the water, and shoving It into the current and lying on It, drifted down the stream until he came in sight of our tents, affad then he saw we wore the stars and stripfes, and he came into our lines. The colonel Immediately sent us i ‘hq -rivo . gunboats lying Irivet'* and gave orders for the first boat to keep about a quarter of a mile ahead: of the last boat:’ Taking the eriegro in the' srst gunboat with him, hq started, and told the captain to pull in toward'' the left bank, and whenever they saw them pull in. to move off double-quick and fire into the spot where the Confederates were. All, orders were obeyed, and the rebels being J charged upon, started toward the south gunboat crew and were quickly driven northward. They were surprised to| find themselves entirely surrounded by the river, on the east, and. the swamp on the,west, and they made the’r final and then were driven into the swamp, where half of them were captured, their horses being* mired in the :mud. We had,a week’s work getting the prisoners apd horses out of' the swamps. The rebels were very much chagrined when they found that the colored man had deserted the red, white and red ’for the stars and stripes. Capture of a Georgia Flag. Among the many brave deeds done during the war of the rebellion there is none more worthy of note than the capturing of the colors of the Seventeenth Georgia regiment at the battle of Fredericksburg by Jacob Cart of Carlisle. Cart was a private in Company K. (Captain Ecurius Beatty) of the Eleventh regiment of the Pennsylvania volunteer corps. In this battle, on the 13th day of December, 1862, a prominent part was taken by the Pennsylvania reserves. The Seventh regiment was foremost on one of the charges, which resulted, so disastrously to the Union forces, and had attained a polqt within a few feet of the rebel lines. A color bearer of the Seventeenth Georgia flaunted the stars and bars in the faces of thq men of Company A, and Cart, leaving his companions, rushed forward and, tearing the flag from the staff, succeeded in carrying it to his regiment After the battle he turned over thq captured rebel colors to Captain Beatty, who presented them to General Meade. For this act Private Cart' was awarded a gold medal by Congress.

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Story of an Amateur Poultryman. About the most sensible (and I might add, alsp, the most profitable-, beginning I ever saw made in the poultry business was by a young clerk, who lived in the suburbs <*>f a near-by city. He sustained a severe attack of the “hen fever,” t nd, as is the usual occurrence, became enthuse d over the “enormous” profits to be made with poultry. He did net, however, allow his enthusiasm to get the best of the better judgment,” and cause liTm .so resign his clerkship and immediately embark in the poultry business on a more or less extended scale, :ts has so frequently occurred; but, instead, he held on to his clerkship, fixed u) a good, comfortable little house on a back' lot, bought a dozen standard-fired hens and a rooster at a lollar ri head, of a neighboring . sane: er, and thus made his start. This was early in the spring; during the spring and summer he furnished the family table with eggs and chickens. and, besides, hatched and raised something like a hundred young chicks. Out of these he retained twenty-five of the best pul lets for ■ breeders, and, of course, at the same time enlarging his house room; and so. by the next spring, we find that his business has, from nat-' ural carises, tripled itself, and all this time our friend has [been steadily and rapidly gaining in practical knowledge of the business. This natu nl increase continued for iuother year or twq, and by this time he had his business W firmly established on a'paying that he was justified in buying a small farm out at the edge of town, and then and there becoming a full-fledge<jl poultryman, making this his exetosive occupation. Speaking of profits, he recently told me that he scarcely managed to meet expenses the first year, the second year he slightly ntote than kept even£ while subsequent years have not failed to show a rice little sum on the right side of the edger. —Outing. Felice for Hog Yard. ' I '' ' - ‘ I y Small yards [for hogs require very light fences either of boards or wire. The plan shoves cedar posts set less than'eight feet apart. ‘ At the top and bottom are twq by six inch planks set, into the pests and there are seven lateral wires., I * | Denatured Alcohol School. As a result of’ plans which ha,ve been matured by Secretary James Wilson of the ,department of agriculture, there will be (established shortly in his department ar Washington a denatured alcohol school. This will include a small' but complete distilling outfit, including vafs, [worms, engines and other necessary apparatus, while it will be the aim of tme, secretary and his specialists to give a practical demonstration of what; denatured alcohol is, how it is made ajnd" from what products to all visitors att Washington who may be interested iri the subject. Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief’ chemist of the department, has been assigned to the job. Destroying Pocket Gophers. The Nebraska Experiment Station has been investigating the destruction of pocket gophers. As effective and at the same time inexpensive methods as can be employed are: Trapping when done property and in conformity with the animil’is habits; poisoning under certain restrictions and careful prac-. tices; shooting at certain times and under soinq conditions; and lastly the protection df the natural enemies of the animals. It is urged that barn owls, the long-tai led weasels and bullsnakes especialy be spared, since all these animals are particularly noted as enemies of pocket gophers wherever they are found. I » A Blow at the Farmer. The following item of information from a report by the Department of Agriculturie illustrates the effect of the unwarranted advance in prices of meat by the tees trust: “Amor nt saved by the American people eating one-fourth less meat for a year, 8228,000,000.” Hainteating at Right Time. Pick vegetables with the dew on; they are superior to those picked in the hot sun.; Beans, however, must be picked when dry; if vines or fruit are handled when wet they will rust The following are better picked before full

sized: String beans, beets, carrots, corn, cucumbers, peas, \ radishes and sfluash. Don’t allow seed to ripen on the plants or they will stop bearing. Water Pans for Poultry. In the construction of a water pan for poultry some provision should be made to keep out dust and litter. The forms shown in the illustration permits fowls to drink from different sides at one time and presents the smallest possible space for filth to enter. The round cone-shaped ' top prevents the fowls roosting upon it. It may be fixed • - ~ DRINKING PAN FOR POULTRY. on a platform high enough to prevent the litter being rescratched into it, A New Graft. - One of the latest types of swindle that has been perpetrated on some of the unsuspecting farmers of a western locality was worked in this wise: There has been a good deal of talk about bovine tuberculosis in the State in question, and,, taking their cue from this, two fellows joined harids to fleece the dairymen of the section. One, well dressed, wearing glasses and ’having a professional and learned bearing, went through a neighborhood inspecting the dairy cows, representing himself to be a State dairy inspector. In one instance when he ran across a goyd looking herd of cows he condemned a dozen animals as afflicted with tuberculosis, but told the farmer' on leaving not to say anything about it. but to sell them for whatever he could get for shipment out of the State, Two or three days after this fakir Nd. 2 informed on the quiet of .what had been done,f came along ,to the farmer’s place arid asked if he had any cows for Sale. The farmer explained matters apd thought himself lucky to get 82(1 apiece' for the supposedly diseased animals. When he learned a few days later that the whole business was a take pure and simple the dictionary Was entirely inadequate to furnish words which would express .his feeling* *lt is a pretty good thing tb .give'the good looking, glib talking stranger a wide berth unless his identity can be established beyond a doubt. Squash Buffs. . .The squash bug never lays its eggs V>n the stem, unless by accident, but the under side of the leaves. The eggs lire ofqa dark chestnut color, globular in form, and exist in clusters. They may be found by turning up the leaves, when the eggs may be crushed. Another -insect deposits its eggs on the stem; this is the borer. The larvae, as soon as hatched, eat into the stem, and are then difficult to dislodge. One <of the most effectual remedies against enemies of the squash is a solution of saltpeter, which is prepared by dissolving a teaspoonful in a quart of water and sprinkling it over the plant, though sawdust, saturated with turpentine, is also used on the ground plant with success. Sanitary Poultry Nest. The present-day tendency to employ sanitary measures in the dairy, the stable, the doghouse, etc., has at last

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extended to the poultry yard. The industrious hen is to be provided with a sanitary nest which can be readily washed and scrubbed as occasion demands. This recent development is shown i in the accompanying illustration.

The nest is made of wire and is supported in a suitable housing, both of which can be removed from the chicken house when cleaning is necessary. When thus removed they can be conveniently placed in a suitable receptacle containing boiling water and thoroughly cleansed of all impurities and undesirable insects. Fftrin Notes. A Colorado railroad is running potato specials over its lines, for the purpose of teaching farmers how to raise better potatoes. If milk cans and utensile washed thoroughly and scalded last without subsequent wiping they will be much freer from contamination by' bacteria that if scalded and wiped dry with a rag. The 1,300 pound draft horse at three years old can always be counted on by the horse raiser as a safe and profitable proposition. During the past fewyears such an animal has been worth from 10 to 12 cents per pound. Some one who has tried it says that if flour of sulphur is mixed liberally with the seed corn in the planter box the cutworms will not .touch the corn so treated. It is certainly an easy and inexpensive recipe and at least worth trying.

■ Ww J Jr j| Comforts. One cup sugar and two egg® beaten together, one-half teaspoon salt, one cup sweet milk, three cups flour, one teaspoon baking powder. Have ready ! a, deep pan of hot lard and dip in a tablespoonful at a time, as if frying .doughnuts. Dip your spoon in hot lard first and the mixture will not stick to the spoon. When brown on one side they will turn over. Fry brown and -lay on paper to drain. Do not put too many in at once, as they must have room to turn over. Almond Meal. Oatmeal merely softens the water; almopd meal is a substitute for soap. It is made of 4 ounces of best almond meal, an ounce of powdered orris root, 2 ounces of caustic soap ground to a powder, half a dram of oil of bergamot and four drops of oil of bitter almonds. Mix well, and keep on the dressing stand in tightly covered glass jar. When washing pour a little of the meal into the hands and use as soap, treating the face with it. Maple and Prune Pudding;. Soak two cups of well-washed prunes in -water to coyer overnight. In the morning simmer until prefectly tender, then remove seeds and stir in one cup ful of chopped maple sugar, cut in small pieces. The prunes should be nearly dry. Coyer with a good biscuit dough, rolled thin witl/ a half cupful, of shaved maple sugar rolled over it. Bake in a quick oven and serve with cream. Lemon Sherbet. Squeeze all the juice from six lemons and one large orange. ■ Put into this the grated rind of the orange and of three of the lemons and let it steep for an hour. Strain in a bag, squeezing this hard, add two cups granulated sugar and one pint water. Mix Vvell and put into a freezer. Turn until frozen, pack and let it stand for an hour before serving. , How to Save. Pie Juices. In baking any kind of juicy pies, after getting the pie ready for the oven, take a strip of muslin cloth about an inch and a half wide, wring out of cold water, and put it around edge of pie, one-half on pie tin, and none of the juice will run out in the ovem When done lift the cloth right off the pie. Apple Sauce Cake. Stir into one cupful sweetened apple sauce one teaspoonful soda. Cream half cup butter with one cup sugar and half teaspoonful salt. Beat this well into the apple -sauce, adding one cup raisins or currants, or both, mixed, and spices to taste. Last of all stir in one pint flour. Bake in a loaf in slow oven. i Brown Betty. Slice apples fine, crumble your bread, and put a layer in pudding dish, then a layer of apples. Sprinkle with cinnamon and currants. Continue until you have amount required, then drop bits of butter here and there on top. Add a little water and cook ir slow oven until brown. How to Judge Egffs. Boiled eggs which adhere to the'shell are fresh. A good egg will sink ii] water. Stale eggs are glassy and smooth of shell. The shell of a frest egg has a lime-like surface. A boife<! egg which is done and dries quicklj on the shell when taken from the sauce pan is fresh. Suggestions. A crust of bread helps to clean out s sticky bread pan. Petroleum ointment stains are very obstinate and the bjest thing for their is to soak in kerosene. Do not pile left-over cooked potatoes together, as they wifi • sour quickly Spread them out on a large dish. For the picnic dainty salads can bf packed in large green pepper pods oi tomatoes scooped out for the purpose, A sponging with a solution of one part ammonia to ten parts of water is said to brighten the colors of a faded carpet.. Salt thrown into the oven immediately after anything has been burned in il will make the objectionable odor less disagreeable. Select a dozen or so of the smoothest and largest splints from the new broom and lay them away to use ir testing cake when.it is baking. If you accidentally spill ice cream oe a silk waist try using alcohol to remove the grease blemish. It also removes s candy or gum blemish. Nail stains may be removed from wood by scrubbing the wood with absolution of oxalic acid, half a pint ol acid to a quart of boiling water. Alum or common salt dissolved in boiling water and poured into cracks , and crevices forms a sort of cement kills vermin and preserves the wood A reliable baking pbwder is made , with one part of soda, two parts ol cream of tartar and as much cornstarch as the combined bulk of the twe first mentioned articles. ; Select a short-handled dipper for a 1 parafin receptacle. Make a mouth at ' on side, through which the parafin is I poured. A‘toy tea kettle is excellent for the same purpose. , k' \ i

“CHILDREN’S EVANGELIST.” Miss Gamlin, Whose Work Among ike Young Is Very Successful. The ChildmVs Evangelist is the title bestowed, upon Miss Alice Miriam Gamlin, of New York, the superintendent of the evangelistic department of the State Sunday School Association. She has made a special study of evangelistic work among children and has met with remarkable success. She has simple but direct methods of reaching' boys and girls. To even the careless and indifferent child she seems to be able to make the truths of the Christian religion attractive. She brings before the children the beautiful ideals’ and the wealth of wisdom which are | ? .. - -I" t; - - r- — , MISS- ALICE M. OAMLIN. contained in the lessons of the Bible in a manner which always appeals to them. Miss Gamlin is a native of Worcester, Mass., and went through a course of thorough training to fii her for the work in which she is engaged. Five of her seven years in this branch of religious work have been spent in New York. All during the summer season she conducts meetings in the metropolis in tents, which scat from 300 to 500. She is a woman of great; natural ability and of wonderful personal magnetism. —ItW A college youth is rarely as old as he talks. All the world’s a stage, and most of us are in the gallery. The things we turn up our noses at are the things we can't* understand. A girl may make a sweeping assertion without knowing hew to handle a broom. ■ I ; Strawberries come and go, but in boarding house circles the prune is perennial, A man has to have; a mighty good disposition to be willing to admit he hasn’t. Engaging manners are an asset in Bther circles besides the matrimonial market. If a woman can’t find any other way to enjoy herself she will do it by having the, blues. The reason women have so few bad habits is they have such queer ideas ■9f what fun is. There’s nothing makes a man so proud of his brains as for somebody else in the family to have them. A girl always has an idea that if she knew any dukes most of them would want to marry Jier. —New York Press. Tennis Raclcets. What most affects the life of the gut in a lawn tennis racket is dampness, says thb New York Sun. Nowadays rackets are strung so tight that the strings break with even greater frequency than before. The idea is that tight gut sends the br.ll with greater force from the very tense surface. The dampness gets right after these very taut - strings. A lawn tonnis man was explaining recently what precautions have to be taken in sending rackets abroad: “When first we began to send them to Bermuda, for instance,” he said, “we put them merely in waterproof covers. Greatly to our surprise we learned that the entire first shipment had arrived with strings broken. We tried the same packing again, with the same result. ■* “Then we realized what was the ‘trouble and packed the rackets in tin 'boxes. Each box was carefully soldered up and that made them airtight and damp proof.” The lawn tennis man explained a new wrinkle of players. At the end of a season some of them have all the gut cut out of a favorite racket This is done because if the gut were left in a string might break in the winter and put the strain all on the side of the frame, warping it. “With a favorite racket they think it better to pay for restringing them than to run those chances,” said he. “It doesn’t hurt a racket to restring it; really it helps and. improves it.” Even an empty-headed man is capable of getting full.

YOU’RE TOO THIN.] Even Slight Catarrhal Derangementt\ <lf the Stomach Produce Acid Fer~ mentation of the Food. Ifs Stomach Catarrh Some people are thin and always remain thin, from temperamental reasons. Probably in such cases nothing can be done to change this personal peculiarity. But there are a large number of people who get thin, or remain thin, who naturally would be plump and fleshy but for some digestive derangement. Thin people lack in adipose tissue. Adipose tissue is chiefly composed of fat. Fat is derived from the oily constituents of food. — —., , . The fat-making foods are called by the physiologist, hydrocarbons. Thia class of foods are not digested in the stomach at all. They are digested in the duodenum, the division of the alimentary canal just below the stomach. The digestion of fat is mainly, if not wholly, the! work of the pancreatlo juice. This juice is of alkaline reaction, and is rendered inert by the addition of acid. A hyperacidity of the digestive fluids of the stomach passing down into the duodenum, destroys the pancreatic fluid for digestive purposes. Therefore, the fats are not digested or emulsified, and- the system is deprived of its due proportion of oily constituents. Hence, the patient grows thin. The beginning of the trouble is a catarrhal condition of the stomach which causes hyperacidity of the gastric juices. This hyperacidity is caused by fermentation of food in the stomach. When the food is taken into thestomMeh/ if the process of digestion does not begin immediately, acid fermentation will take place. This creates a hyperacidity of the-Stomach juices which in their turn prevent the pancreatic digestiori of the oils, !p.nd the emaciation results. A dose of Peruna before each meal hastens the stomach digestion. By hurrying digestion, Peruna prevents fermentation of the contents of the stomach, and the pancreatic juice is thus preserved in its normal state. It then only remains for the patient to eat a sufficient amount of fat-forming food ß , and the thinness disappears and plumpness takes its place. How X ll * Dirt Flies »t I’annxna. Lieutenant-Colonel George Geothals, chairman and chief engineer of the Isthmian canal commission, told President Roosevelt late in Janua[ry that before January 1, 1915, the ditch which is to bisect the vertebrae of the can continent will be completed and that all will be in readiness fori, the first trip to make the little pleasure journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific, so writes Roy Crandall tn the Technical World Magazine. Inasmuch as the colonel is noted for conservatism and caution, it is believed that he feels deep down in his own heart that at least a year will be cut from that estimate. I In a Flach, Use Allen’s Foot-Ease. A powder to shake Into your shoes. It rests : the feet. Cures Corns. Bunions, Swollen, • Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching. Sweating. feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all Druggists and . Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, .N. Y. He Was Practical. “Young man, you write a good deal of poetry to my daughter.” “Yes, sir.” “It takes a practical man to sup l port a wife.” “Well, it’s this way. I have to write hor an occasional letter, and I’m so busy at the office that I just copy the poetry to fill in.” The- explanation was satisfactory.— Exchange. Do Yonr Clothes Look Yellows If so, use Red Cross Ball Blue. It.will make them white as snow. Large 2oz. ffttekage, 5 cents. ; The Eternal Feminine. “Clara, dear,” the young man began, taking her, little hand in his, “at-last I am in a position to tell you how fondly I- —” Instantly She jumped to her feet and clapped her hands wildly. “I the moth that time!” she said, exultirigiy, as she resumed her seat. “Go ahead, 1 George.”—Chicago Tribune.

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