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Come let us worry together about tßal, ice crop! J TTIUKTi 1 , ' ■JSi If bachelors are to be taxed how can they be expected to save enough money to get married? Mr. Gompers says Just as good men as he have been in jail. Sure enough 1 John Bunyan, not to speak of others. Queen Lil thinks her claim against the government will be paid. Anyway, it won’t hurt her to feel optlmiatic about it. European courts hold that the man who owns land also owns the air over it This looks like trouble for the aeronauts. ‘ It is reported that a German professor has concussion of the brain. Probably caused by a collision between two trains of thought. An Oklahoma woman has 801 ways to cook corn. But mother will go on soaking them in hot water and apply- " Ing father’s best razor. There is no good and sufficient reason why you should mind your own business if. other people will pay you more for minding theirs. More school children are made sick by improper bating than by anything else. The cooks’ union should inspect the fodd of all school children. Mrs. William E. Annis asks: "Is there no unwritten law for brokenhearted widows or fatherless children?” A very pertinent question. Had a woman’s club been in existence in Mark Antony’s time we should not have had to wait till now to learn that he married Cleopatra for her money. __ China now owns its telegraph system >—which makes us wonder if it isn’t quicker to send the Chinese language by freight than try to strain the wires with it. An Eskimo, with a scientific education and the proper outfit, is going, after the north pole in deadly earnest. The Eskimos believe that the pole should be kept at home. “All children are liars,” said a Wisconsin professor. A well-known biblical personage who made the same statement concerning all men admitted afterward that he spoke in haste. One of the preachers says Adam was a loafer. This decision has probably been arrived at because we have no proof that Adam ever got up in the morning and put on the coffee pot for Eve. Mr. Rockefeller has given another fnllllon to the University of Chicago. At the rate of a million a year it will take him twenty-eight years more to give away the $29,000,000 saved by not having to pay the fine assessed by Judge Landis. Massachusetts: has a law to prevent recklessness and speeding in automobiles, which law may be rendered ridiculous by its wrong punctuation, as it forbids driving over roads “laid out Under the authority of the law recklessly or while under the influence of liquor.” Boston, in consequence, is in rhetorical spasms. An extraordinary demand has arisen in the eastern counties of England for lecond-hand Bibles —the older and dirtier the better. Copies which formerly realized four pence are now readily bought for half a crown. They are irelng used to manufacture evidence of ige in the case of old-age pensions. A woman who produced a Bible to prove her age as 76 from an entry on the flyleaf had, unfortunately, omitted to tear out the title page, which showed that the Bible was printed in 1895. In the advertising columns of the newspapers are found the business cards of countless seers and clairvoyants, who promise for a small sum to rend the veil of the future and tell their patrons what is going to happen to them. That palmists, card readers and clairvoyants are able to pay for the advertisements which appear in the same place day after day is evidence that tfiey find enough credulous persons to keep the prediction business on a paying basis. Their victims are beyond reason, or they would reflect that the forecaster of future events, such as the condition of the stock market six months ahead, would make more money by using his knowledge for his own benefit than by selling it for two dollars. Besides the prophets who are |n the business for the profit there is ' tn it, the world is blessed with gen trous philanthropic seers, who publish tree of charge predictions, always of gome disaster, as great storms, earthquakes, wars, and the end of the world. Sometimes an event obligingly falls out on somebody’s prediction, and a reputation is made. If seers in all part* of the world keep on foreseeing earthquakes every day or two, an. earthquake, when it comes, will be likely to find a prophecy awaiting It The room is so taken up with predictions that an event must alight on one of them. A prophet destroys the world

every day or so. But the world oocnnately refuses to be destroyed, and when It comes to an end, only one prophet will be entitled to gasp, “I told you sol” A year ago Mme. de Thebes of France predicted war between Japan and America In November, 1908. Instead, a little later, There was the exchange of peaceful notes. Nothing daunted, madame predicts terrible wars between next August and February, 1910. So look out for a “red year.” An Interesting study of “College Entrance Requirements In Theory and Practice” which appeared in The Independent presented a long list of uni versifies and colleges at which a very large percentage of the students were admitted with conditions. One of these institutions, which took in more than 50 per cent on these terms, formerly insisted that all conditions should be worked off before the student could enter the freshman class. The applicants had to pass examinations, nc matter what school'they came from. If they took the examinations early in the summer and failed in certain studies they worked on those studies through the summer vacation and tried again at the opening of the college In the fall. If they failed this time In whole or In part they were kept out until they could make good. With the system changed, entering with conditions has become the rule, and such a history emphasizes, we think, some of the points that are made by John.G. Bowman, the writer of the article in The Independent. If the purpose of the colleges is to Increase the student roll it is no doubt successful, but the question naturally arises: “What significance have the requirements?” They are, as Mr. Bowman says, not a real minimum, “they are at best an ostensible minimum, any part of which Is, liable in most colleges to temporary suspension and occasionally to complete abrogation.” There is no standard worthy of the name, but merely a pretense at a standard. The requirements look big in the catalogued but the discretion that is used takes .all the fervor out of them and reduces them to an absurdity. There is no real co-opera-tion between the secondary school and the college, but an excellent opportunity is offered for passing along the unfit. If numbers alone is the object Mr. Bowman is right in saying that “the college has embarked upon a dangerous course which threatens its sincerity and its efficiency. ’’ On the other hand, if the printed requirements are unreasonable, “it is .time not to make exceptions that confuse all standards and demoralize students, but seriously to face the problem of organizing preparatory education on a basis that is really vital and Indispensable, and of devising machinery capable of enforcing it” BUYS HER A BOX OF CANBY. Government Makes Good for Chocolates Lott In Custom House. By sending to a woman who lives in i West Fifteenth street a large box of chocolate bonbons to take the place of candy she had lost when it was passing through the custom house on its way to her from Germany, Uncle Sam relieved himself of the suspicion of petty thievery; the New York Press says. The woman did not demand restitution. When she discovered that half the candy which her friends in Germany had «ent her in a huge Christmas egg had disappeared in transit she solemnly sat down and wrote a letter to Collector of the Port Fowler. “Your men hove eaten of the candy which was made abroad specially sot me,” she said. “The occurrence must not happen again.” Her complaint was so straightforward that it impressed the collector. Usually peremptory demand is made for restitution when small loss is experienced on Imported goods. There was nothing of that kind in the woman’s letter. She simply desired that the col- ' lector should know that her candy had been eaten and that it should not occur again. ■ “That letter sounds straight,” the collector said. “I am unwilling that a lady who has paid duty on candy sent from abroad should be deprived of any of It-" He summoned the men who had handled the candy package, which was valued at $lO. There was no chocolate in the corners of any of their mouths. The collector exonerated them all. Finally some one suggested that, rather than be regarded as petty thieves, the men who handled the package make up a fund and buy a box of candy to replace that which had disappeared. They did it, and the collector sent it to the woman with the compliments and best wishes of the men. Th* Distinction. School Teacher —Johnny, what is a patriot? Johnny—A man that tries to benefit his country. School Teacher—And what Is a politician? Johnny—A man that tries to have his ■untry benefit him.—Judge. >on’t Wear ’Em Straight Any More. They were ready to go out. “Is my hat on crooked?” she asked. Thus, owing to the new style of headgear, a traditional phrase used by the feminine sex ever since woman was created, received a stunning blow.— Judge. By and by a man gets tired of asking for his dally bread and Insists on having pie and cake. Life’s a gamble and every man has a chance—unless he’s a Wall street lamb.

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CHUD LIFE SHOULD BE BEAUTIFUL. By Sir Oliver Lodge.

The ultimate object of religious training must be to encourage such ideas and habits as shall result in a happy childhood and a sound and useful life. The first real gods of a child are his parents, however ungodlike they may be. And hence arises that feeling of security and nearness of protection and law which is one of the luxuries of childhood, and, I may add,

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one of the responsibilities of parenthood. That nation or colony which could insure that its children should spend their short and vital early years among healthy, happy surroundings suited to their time of life and state of development, and leading to a gobd, robust, serviceable manhood and womanhood—that nation would In a few generations stand out from amongst the rest of the world as something almost superhuman. From my experience of the Innate goodness of unspoiled humanity I have an idea that if children could be planted amidst favorable surroundings they would nearly all flourish and grow beautiful as plants do under right conditions. No fraction of the world or of the individual can be thoroughly healthy and happy while any member of It is degraded and wretched. BLUFF AND NOISE MODERN WEAPONS. By G. K. Chesterton.

Or. most-political platforms, in most newspapers and magazines, I observe that there are at present only two ideas, either to avoid controversy or to conduct it by mere bluff and noise. Evasion and violence are the only expedients. A man must be deaf to his opponents’ arguments; he may be deaf and silent, and this is called dignity ; or he may be deaf and noisy, and this is called “slashing

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Journalism” But both these things are equally remote from the fighting spirit, which involves an Interest in the enemy’s movements in order to parry or to pierce them. • It is part of that .unchivalrous and even unmilitary idea of bullying; of using bombastic terrors in order to avoid a conflict which is at this moment the highest turret of the tall hypocrisies of Europe. Europe is full Os the idea of bluff, the idea of cowing the human spirit with a painted panorama of physical force. We see it in the huge armaments which we dare to accumulate, but should hardly dare to use. I do not like hovering and lingering threats of armaments nor do I like hovering and lingering threats of riot. If people want to have a revolution let them have it and let it have the advantage of a revolution, that of being drastic and decisive. But a mere parade of pos-

SONG OF THE BY-AND-BY. It seems so far to the happy day When the clouds will leave the sky, But ’tie sweet to hear, when the world . is gray, The song of the By-and-By! i flhe hills and rills—they are shining bright, And our cares like phantoms fly; echo sweet in the lonesome night Is the song of the By-and-By ! It seems so far to the happy day, But its rest they’ll not deny; ,Ve hear what the angels sing and say In the song of the By-and-By 1 —Frank L. Stanton. : Clarence and the Code | kc — Clarence had looked forward to the two weeks of holiday time through all the school months. But when Christmas had come, his brother, who was :he messenger for the firm of Wai wick k Waldon, suddenly became ill. “He’ll ie on his feet in a week,” the doctor ?ald, blit in the meantime the poor lad ,vas worrying about his place in the iffice. “Can’t I, take your place?” asked Clarence. Thus it was arranged and for the two days before New Year’s Clarence ran errands and did everything that vas asked of him. Just as the office ,vas being closed ttte night before New tear’s, Mr. Walwick called him and said that he expected to come down town the next morning although the ifflee would be closed, and he wished Clarence to be sure and get the mail ind place it on his desk and wait for lim. • It was quite early when Clarence found his way inside the silent building. He had brought his skates with tiim, as there was to be a hockey game later, and there was to be the family linnet and the usual good time on New Year’s afternoon. He carefully put the mail on Mr. Walwlck’s desk and sat down to wait. The Janitor came ind swept, but Mr. Walwick, did not »m«. There was still plenty of time before the game, but the clock hands vere slowly turning. Finally he kicked up a magazine and turned over :he pages. The hour when he should be playing came. The game was on now, he knew. The office was getting chilly and he walked abound from room to room. He looked at the clock. The game must Have been over for some time and they would be expecting him for dinner. He was getting cold and hungry. Strange as it was, when he began to give up hope the time seemed to go faster. Finally he curled up on a couch md went to sleep. Dream after dream tumbled over sach other, and in the midst of a won-

sible war seems merely a perpetual anarchy. Revolution creates government, but anarchy only creates more anarchy. a SOCIETY MAKES “PROFESSION” OF CRIME. By H. J. B. Montgomery.

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the penologists Is not only not correct, but is absolutely fallacious. The criminal who finds a fascination in crime has no existence save in the imagination of the penologist. The professional criminal has been made such by society. He is a prison product in the first instance, and when he is released from prison society gives him clearly to understand that his place for the future is with his own class —the criminal class. Out of the light of my own experience I declare that men, even criminals, are not so hopeless, so callous, so incorrigible, so devoid of human feelings as the penologists would have us suppose. In every human being there are principles of good and evil, and possibilities of either being evolved. The easiest way. I suggest, to abolish the professional criminal is to cease manufacturing him. .. HIGHEST FUNCTION OF THE CHURCH. By Rev. A. H. Stephens.

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from compromising entanglements and questionable alliances. exhibiting the purest form of social circumspection and political and commercial probity. • The community has a right to expect something better from the church than it finds in itself—higher ideals and more unselfish endeavor at their realization. In these respects the church owes it to the community that it shall not be disappointed, but that it shall experience the thrill, if not the surprise, of entire fulfillment. The church must seek the co-operation and allegiance of thecontiguous populations, not for its own good, but for the good of those sought, ever teaching the lesson by example that it is more noble to serve than to be served.

derful hockey game, where everybody skated about eating hot goose and cranberries, he heard a bell. He wondered what it could be and before he could .ask he awoke with a start. Almost at his ear the telephone bell was ringing. He jumped and took down the receiver. “Hello !” he shouted. “Is this Walwick & Waldon?” “Yes, this is Walwick & Waldon’s office.” “Well, I hardly hoped to catch any one. Take down this cablegram and rush it through to Mr. Walwick. “ ‘Calcutta, India, Jan. 2. “ ‘Spike sugar Hardly new candle. “ ‘Spiegel, Hocker & Sons.' “There, have you got that ? All right. Repeat it. All right. Good-by.” Clarence rubbed his eyes. There was the message written out, but what a message! It did not mean anything and it was dated a day ahead. He remembered hearing that Mr. Walwick lived in some hotel. He had seen the name some place. Oh. yes, it was on the magazines. There it was, The Albero. Like a flash he ran downstairs and Jumped on a street car. In about twenty minutes he reached the hotel, and as he stepped in the door he saw Mr. Walwick Just entering the dining room. He rushed un to him a®l I IW II HELLO I” HE SHOUTED. Mr.. Walwick looked at him in surprise and then remembered his face. r “Yes, what is it?” “It’s a message telephoned in, sir,” and he gave over the slip of paper. Mr. Walwick looked it over and quickly took a book out of his pocket, went to the hotel office and wrote a half a dozen telegrams. “That was a close shave,” he said half aloud, and then noticed Clarence at his side. “How under the sun did’ you hap pen to be at the office?” 4‘You told me to wait, sir, until you came.” Then ho told the whole story, and when he had finished the head of the great firm of Walwick & Waldon took the messenger boy by the hand Just as if he had been a grown man and said: “Mv lad. you’ve saved us a great

Mf.ny penologists assert that the professionsional criminal is a man whom it Is hopeless to reform. They say that he finds in crime not only a livelihood, but exhilaration, sport, fascination.—He is a beast of prey, who must be not only muzzled but caged in the interests of society. I have no hesitation in stating as the result of my experience that the assumption which underlies the arguments of

The church must ever be the handmaid of law enforcement and stand aggressively for the suppression of vice and public immorality. The highest function of the church is to serve the community in which it is located, in its civic, social and religious life. It should feel its responsibility to present a higher type of life than is found elsewhere, less influenced by human prejudice and human passion, freer

deal of money, and now I think that I would better take you home in mj automobile Just as fast as I can. Youi mother will be worrying about you.” When they were seated in the bij machine and were wrapped in by tin heavy robes, Mr. Walwick suddenlj asked what the boy had thought bj the peculiar message. - “I thought it was very funny, bu how could it be dated January 2, wher this Is New Year’s?” » , “You will have to ask your schoo teacher to explain why, but you sei the earth turns round the sun and 1> is the day after New Year’s in Indis now. Each of the queer words in thi message means a whole sentence wher you look them up in a little book 1 carry. We call it a code.” When they came to Clarence’i house, Mr. Warwick went into th< warm parlor and told the story toW«mother. Then he tetok a piece and wrote something on it/ “Wha do you think that means?” said: Waw heart wire Clarence Youn; desk apple. “I might tell you, sir, if I had thi code,” said Clarence. “Well, here is the code book. Yoi and your mother can look it up.” And this was what they read b; looking up the words: “Walwick & Walden hereby prom is to give Clarence Young the best educK tion possible at their expense.”—Th< Housekeeper. Beasta Fond ot Tobacco. We have all heard of how to tame a lion or tiger by steadily keeping the ey« fixed on him. According to an expert inimal trainer a more effective method is a cigar dr cigarette, says the St Louis Post-Dispatch. "Nearly every wild beast that I. hav< ever come. across.” said this man, “ii fond Os tobacco in some shape or form I made this discovery quite accident ally. One of the.visitors who war ;moklng a cigar , puffed some of tin smoke into the lion’s face as he laj : sleep in the cage. “I expected to see a real riot, but In ■■• toad of that the lion, after giving t couple of sneezes, moved quietly up t< the bars and raised his nose sniffingly as if asking for a second dose. I hav< tried the experiment on all sorts o: wild animals since and I have fount that most of them enjoy thoroughly « big sniff of tobacco. “We used to spjadhaktyu. !k-ing aa< “We had a bear here once that usee -o rub his nose and back 'against th< >ars of his cage just like a cat asking to be stroked whenever any one smok lag a cigar came near him. Antelopei and wild goats aren’t satisfied with th< mere whiff. If you give them a cigai or a cigarette they will swallow it eagerly and, what is more, seem to suf fer no bad effects from their meal.” When the girls rave about a mai when he first comes to town, in thret months they want to set the dog or him. A matchless cigar may be lighted lj some other manner.

THE GOLD INDUSTRY. <n Illustration Which Gives Soin* Idea of Its Immensity in America. An eagle, a $lO gold piece, is Just about one inch in diameter. Imagine a glittering yellow ribbon Os 10 gold oieces, lying edge to edge, beginning at San Francisco and extending eastward through the Sacramento Valley of California, across the lofty Sierra Nevada mountains, spanning the Great American Desert in Nevada and Utah, over - the prairies of Wyoming and Nebraska. 1 cross the green fields of lowa and Illilois. over Indiana and Ohio and Massa- ' chusetts, half way to the British Isles — | Imagine this continuous string of golden i eagles edge to edge, without break ot Interruption, over this vast stretch of*, land and sea—a distance which consumes at least eight days, in the swiftest express train and ocean steamers — and you will be able to form some conception of the amount of gold that has been produced in the United States. It requires some such fl lustration as this to grasp the immensity of the gold Industry, to form some definite idea of the importance and magnitude of the gold production of the North American continent. ° » The profits from the gold industry are magnificent. They are greater than ’ in any other department of commercial activity. The figures of the world's production are euornious. In 1907 the output of the gold mines of the earth amounted to nearly $5001000.000. Os this vast sum about one-half, or more than $200,000,000, was net profit. No other industry can make such a showing as this. This gold was found in America, hi Mexico, in South Africa, in Australia and elsewhere. This huge sum of profits, more than $200,000,000, was distributed to scores of thousands of people. Tramp—Lady, I’m near perishing from exposure! Lady—Are you a Congressman or a Senator?—Town Topics. “Doesn’t she ever stop talking?” “Oh, yes. when she is breaking in a fresh piece of gum.”—Washington (D. C.) Herald. "Is that woman rich?” "Rich? 1 should say so! ~ Why, she can even afford to be a kleptomaniac.”—Baltimore American. “She’s not handsome, is she?” “Lord, no! Say, if there was a tax on beauty, she’d be entitled to a pension.”— Cleveland’ Leader. : “The first time he went out in b is new auto he ran across a few friends, •’ “Did they leave families?—. Baltimore American.' /‘Now, then, look pleasant, please.” ‘Not at all; this is to send to my wife it the seashore.. She would come home at once!” —Fliegende”Blatter. “Was your father college bred?' ‘Yes, but w.e never mentioned it. The college he went to had a rotten football team.”—Chicago Record-Herald. She —Are you good at guessing women’s ages? He- —You dre not over 25. She —How do you know? He —Nt woman over 25 ever asks that ques tion. John—l’ve just lost a thousand dol apsr—Julia—Well, it is better that i shbtild happened to you than t< -wine on the street.—ThClub FellowX “It takes o’ determinatior son,” said Uncle Eben, “to hav y<> own way in dis life, an’ a heap < brains to know what to do wif it afte you gits it.” —Washington Star. Harlemite—lf you wrote yesterda morning, I don’t see why I only g( your note this evening. Downtownit —I do. I affixed a special deliver stamp to the letter. —New York Time “Fonsonby is the laziest man I ev< saw.” “What’s the matter now?” “B wants a safety razor that can be 0] crated by a storage battery conceale In the handle.”—Birmingham Age-He ild. Mrs. Subbubs (engaging cook)—lla' you any male friends.? I can’tjjave ar men hanging around the plaw. Mam Snowball—None, ’cept mah busbar in’ he don’t come aroun’ ’cept on p? jay.—Philadelphia Record. Terrible Child —Will you please pit something for me on the violin, M Jones? Jones—But I don’t know ho’ . Bobby. T. C.—Oh, yes, you do, M . Jones, I heard mamma say you play* I second fiddle to Mrs. Jones. Mrs. O’Toole —-Shure, ’tis bad ma • uers yer goat has, Mrs. O’Flinn. I : found him in me cabbage tl ■ marniu, Mrs. Flinn- —Shure,‘thin, s not bad manners that do bother t e iarlin’. Oi call it blame poor taste Fluffy Young Thing—l’d like to p > pay the express on this package. I rpress Company's Agent—What's 1 >i value? Fluffy Young Thing—Noth! ; sir. It’s a bundle of letters. J :.n sending them back to him.—Chief ;o Tribune. Caller (on crutches and with a ba dage over one eye)—l have come, sir to make application for the amount < i? on my accident insurance policy. I 'll down a long flight of stairs the ot et evening and sustained damages ,t fit will disable me for -a month to co w Manager of Company*—Young mai 1 have taken the trouble to investlj ,te your case, and I find you are not 'intitled to anything. It could not hi called an accident. You certainly ki “v the young lady’s father was at horn —■ Stray Stfiries.

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Tactless, “He's not what you call strictly handsome,” said the major, beaming through » his glasses on an utterly hideous baby a< it lay howling in its mother's arms, '“I ut it’s the kind of face that grows ■' cm you.” ■ » . < “It's not the kind of face that ever grew on you.’’ was the unexpected re- ’■ y of the indignant mother; “you’e, much better- looking if it- haff!”— ; Detroit Njews-Tribune. SIOO Reward, SIOO. The readers of this paper will be p.eased c learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has l)Ce n able to cure in 'll Its stages, and that 4s Catarrh. Hall's 'atarrh Cure Is the only positive cure haw wn to' the medical fraternity. Catarrh elng a constitutional disease, requires a ■nstitirtional .treatment. Hall"? Catarrh i is-taken.lnternally, acting-dhjectly upon i blood and mucous surfaces of the sys--15. L thereby destroying the foundation of disease, and giving the patleqt strength, building up the constitution ami assi.stg nature in doing its work. The proprles havq so much faith In Its curative poWs that they offer One Hundred Dollars sor 1 : i. case that It fails to cure. Send for list - estimonials. > I Tess : F. .T. CHEXEY & CO., Toledo, O. . Fold by all Druggists. 75c. 'lake Hail’s Family Pills for constipation. Facial Concavity, j “Who is that 'dish-faced manp” “He’s the father of eleven - children. iHi’d he dish-faced, too, if yqb had your :se to the grindstone as lonjg as *e has." . .—■ >tiff neck ! Doesn’t amount to mitoh, it mighty disagreeable. Yori’ve .no idra ;iw quickly a little Hamlins 'Wizard 4>il. ill lubricate the cords and ’make you ornfortable ag.ain. Spanish as Spoken.' Dr. A. W. Parsons, the oldest Aincrlu physician, in point gs practice, ir . he City of Mexico, tells a goooi story i ’ his experience in that country, t As a ■'Cung man he had beep knocking spbout i'< estern mining camps in the Mays • i hen gun plays were common. -He had just.landed at one of the gult\ . , ports of Mexico, and was eating 11 * o'clock breakfast at the only hotel tn t wn. He was seated at the table with several other Americans, ail rough jmilroad construction men. Their knowledge of Spanish was rather limited, and their pronunciation atrocious. At the meal one of the men said to ths waiter angrily: r “Dame la mantequilla” (Give me the butter). In good Castilian it would sbund thus: “Da-me la man-te-keel-ya,” with brdad a’s and long e's. Pronounced by the American it sounded, “Dam- ; me la man-te-kill-ye.” The young medico promptly stiffened his legs and slid under -the table. His .stonished table mates looked at each other and then peered beneath the board to see what ailed.him. “Is the trouble over?” he asked one jf them. ‘Trouble? What trouble?” , “Why, whatever it was;” “You must be daft. There is n« trouble, and there has been none.” Reassured, the doctor crawled, out rather sheepishly. ‘The drinks arg or me,” he said. “I understood the mar next to me to say to that waiter, “D-—r ye, I’m go'n’ t’ kill ye!’ and I didn’t intend to stop any stray bullets.” The machine exports of Japan have increased in quantity five times in one year. PRIZE FOOD. Palatable, Economical, Nonrlshinjc. A Neb. woman has outlined the prize food in a few words, and that from personal experience. She writes: “After our long experience with Grape-Nuts. I cannot say enough in its favor. We have used this food almost continually for seven years. ‘•We) sometimes tried other advertised breakfast foods, but we invariably returned to Grape-Nuts as the most palatable, economical ana nourishing of all-, “When I quit tea and coffee and began to use Postum and Grape-Nuts, I was a nervous wreck. I was so irritable I could not sleep nights, had no interest in life; “After using Grape-Nuts a short time I began to improve and all these ailments have disappeared and now I am a well woman. My two children have been almost raised on Grape-Nuts, which they eat three times a day. “They are pictures of health and have never had the least symptom of stomach trouble, even through the most ■severe siege of whdoping cough, they •ould retain Grape-Nuts when all else failed. “Grape-Nuts food has saved doctor illls, and has been, therefore, a ■nost economical food for us.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read ‘The Road to Well- . ville,” in pkgs. “There’s a Reason.” Ever read the above letter? A iew one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true and full of human interest.