The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 3, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 24 November 1910 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal SYRACUSE, - - . IND. ASTIT IS IN REAL LIFE True Story That Differs Materially from “Plot” of the Average f-ovel. A favorite “plot” of western story writers is the “nester” or homesteader, who is persecuted by neighboring ranch “barons” until he relinquished his home and leaves the range to his assailants, or perchance stands -his ground and suffers a mysterious disappearance or is hung from a cottonwood tree. No doubt instances of this kind have occurred, but it is a safe assertion thaf they were very few and far between. One who has an acquaintance among the large ranchmen of today will have a hard time time conceiving of them engaged in driving homeless families into the desert. One is more Jnc’ined to credit the story fold of a’ranchman now living who for many ytars had thrived as a sheep raiser with an unmolested range After a year of ' plentiful, rains, dry farming was proposed in his vicinity, with the result that his usual range was reduced over half by homesteaders’ claims. For over two years the ranchman cursed his unwelcome neighbors with all the expressiveness of his lurid vocabulary. The third season Drought a drought, bankrupting many of the dry farmers. The ranchman assured those who held on that they too were doomed to failure, but his c words -were not.heeded and a number of families suffered actual privation. One day It was learned that the ranchman had bought put a general store in a nearby town and wis crediting the dry farmers on his books. His only com ment was that ‘‘somebody had to keep the damn nestejrs from starving.”—E. D. Ewers in the Los Angeles Times. Life on a Battle Ship. — To the “landlubber,” one of the peculiar and ofttimes discomforting elements of life oh a warship during target practice Is the necessity for numerous baths. After each volley all the men on deck must take a bath. Some times there are four or five baths a day. This becomes quite monotonous. The Japanese inaugurated this practice. A bath id taken before and after shooting, to guard against possible infection of open scratches and cuts from the flying powder. When the big ■ guns go off, the landsman on deck is thrown into cqnsternation. A horrible, sickening wrench makes one feel as if each limb jwas separately grasped and pulled in i various directions, and ft is a long time until he gets his “sea legs” again. Life aboard ship is not the ordeal that rumor has character fzed it. The hardtack legend- is er roneous. The sailors are well fed, ■with the best viands procurable, and their bread, far from being hard tack Is as good as that which is Served io any high class hotel or restaurant There is a spirit of good fellowship «mong the men below decks. Each •nan has his Separate duties definitely designated and there are no petty jealousies.—J. W. Aide In Leslie's. Ona of His Little Slips. Mr. Makinbrakes made another futile effort t to! light the cigar his host had just handed him. “These matches,” > he said absent mindedly, “seem to be lacking in the—tn the —” “Those are toothpicks,” politely explained the host. “Why, of course,” said Mr. Makinbrakes, smiling genially at his blunder; “any blame fool ought to know that Though to be sure I didn’t mean that— I had no indention— I wasn’t referring you know —not for worlds would I have you understand —Mr. Grimshaw, did you ever read Rollin’s Ancient History?” Railroad for Children to Play With. What boy that has ridden on a miniature railway at Coney Island oi elsewhere has not longed to have just - such a toy in his own garden? There are some children in England whc own just such a railroad. They are the children of the duke of Westminster, and their road luns over their father’s estate and that of (f. H. Bartholomew at Blakesley Hall. The engine works with gasoline, and was evidently made in America, as it is ol a type unknown in Europe.—New York World. Be Cheerful Always. Cultivate cheerfulness if only for personal profit. You will do and bear every duty and burden better by being cheerful. It will be your consoler in solicitude; your passport and recommendation in society. You will be more sought after, more trusted and esteemed for your steady cheerfulness. The bad and vicious may be bolster ausly gay and vulgarly homorous, but seldom or never truly cheerful. Genuine cheerfulness is an almost certain Index of a happy mind and a pure, good heart A Shock Absorber. "Didn’t you feel timid about kissing your beau at first?” “Those things come about gradually," explained the dear girl. “I began by kissing Ferdinand through my Tell.” A Shame. Warden —No’m; the guy that killed his family ain’t here no more. Th< governor pardoned him. The Visitor—What a shame; I’ve brought a lot of roses! What othei Murderers have you?

New News a Os Yestepday

Fortune Saved Union Pacific « '

John Duff of Bosion Sent His Securities to New York Just In Time to Meet Payment on Land Grant Bonds. One of the great causes of the finaneial panic of 1313 was the failure of (he banking ho-ise of Jay Cooke & ‘Do. through haring advanced too largely on the bouxls of the Northern Pacific railroad, tii-w in process of instruction. Grave embarrassment was caused to man?' ether railroad :oinpanies fey the paif-e, and not the least embarras.wl of those railroads was the Union Pacific, whick at that lime, was regarded in the railroad md financial worlds as a Boston inititution, since it was one of tjie great railroad properties of the country arhich Boston capital controlled. From about 1856 John Duff of Boston, who easily took rank With the great financiers who began immediately after the Civil war the work of leveloping the railroad systems of the jountry, had been prominently Identi--sed w-ith the Union Pacific. His was, in fact, a leading voice in the affairs as the company, and when it became evident, first to the • officers of the :ompany, and then to the public, that the Union Pacific was not iff a position to meet the next payments on its land grant bonds, Mr. Duff was greatly :oncerned. He had been so closely Identified for seven years with the financial management of the company that he felt that his business credit, Qis personal honor, and, to, some extent, his investments, were involved in maintaining the credit of the Union Pacific. But how was that credit to be maintained, with money in hiding everywhere, and with the Union Pacific treasury without the necessary funds to meet the payments soon due? Not taken into account by the folk who were confidently predicting a default by the Union Pacific was the grim determination of John Duff to protect his good name at all hazards; md so, the day before the coupons as the land grant bonds were due, Mr. Duff called into his office his son-in-law, Dr. William H. Bullard, and lounted out in the latter’s presence i little over three hundred thousand iollars in first; class securities, which,

Invention Edison Valued Most

r ■ Wegaphpne, the Wizard Believed, Would Be More Profitable to Him Financially Than Talking Machine, But Was Deceived. Recently I told the story of the late Dharles A. Dana’s doubt of Edison’s good - faith in claiming that he had inrented a talking machine after the ate Amos J. Cummings and myself had reported to Mr. Dana that Edison had lemonstrated the machine to us, even going so far as to make it reproduce Mr. Cummings’ own voice, inflection ind all; with distinction. After he had shown us the talking nachipe, explained its mechanism and made it perform for us, Mr. Edison went bn to say that he got the idea for the machine while he was at work perfecting his microphone transmitter, extensively employed in the earlier telephones. “One invention almost invariably luggests another,” he went on. “All lorts of notions came to me while I was wbrking out this talking machine. One of them you will see in that big funnel up there.” He pointed to a lhelf upon which rested, or hung, a surious-looking object resembling a gigantic funnel of about tall man weight. ‘And I’m inclined to think,” lie went on, “that there’s going to be more profit in that thing than in this talking machine here. I have about made up my mind that I won’t work jn anything unless it seems to »e to pave some commercial practicability. I can make hundreds of toys, but any fellow with a little ingenuity and p&r Hence can do that. Maybe this talking machine is going to be not much more than a toy, after all, but that thing over there—well, I’ll show you aow it works.” He called two of his assistants to nls side and directed them to take their station on the crown of a hill about half a mile away. While they were doing so, Mr. Edieon bad the big funnel shaped thing taken out in front of his shop. Then, when the men had posted themselves on the hill and stood facing us, an assistant, getting under the big end of the funnel, held it up while Edison called through the other end. From time to time the men upon the hill made gestures to indicate that they aad heard and understood what Edison was saying. Finally, Edison beckoned to them to report in, and when they had done so they repeated practically word for word what we had heard their employer sjty to them through the funnel. Mr. Cummings and I were almost as much astonishedt,over this demonstraion as we had previously been over .he talking machine. “What do you tall the thingT" I asked Mr. Edison-

but a short time before, Mr. Duff himself had taken from his private strong box. “William,” said Mr. Duff, motioning to the securities, “I want you to pack these bonds in a traveling satchel, take the first train for New York, and as early as possible tomorrow morning call at the office! of Morton, Bliss & Co., the railroad’s fiscal agents, and offer them in my name as security for payment of the Union Pacific land grant coupons due tomorrow.” There followed some detailed instructions, and Dr. Bullard was off for New York. Presenting himself at the banking house of Morton, Bliss & Co. on the morrow, a short! while before the beginning of the business day, Dr. Bullard’opened his Satchel in the presence of Mr. Levi P. Morton. “Mr. Morton,”, he said, “I have here a little over thyee hundred thousand dollars in securities of the very highest grade. They are to be deposited with you as collateral security. I have brought them from John Duff, in Boston, and with this collateral as security, Mr. Duff asks you to pay the Union Pacific land grant coupons due today and to keep on paying them until he sends you word to stop.” As Mr. Morgan began his examination of the securities, Dr. Bullard happened to look from the banker’s prl-

HowGrantßestoweda Reward

fl Dr. C. D. Webster of the Sanitary Commission Was Given the Lucrative Post of Consul at Shgffield, England. When General Grant became president one of the country’s most famous “war governors,” William A. Buckingham of Conneticut, became a United States senator, and almost at once there sprang up between the two men a cordial relation that lasted until Governor Buckingham’s death, in 1875. / Asout a year. after this friendship had been formed the president became the guest of the senator at hts home in Norwich, and that the people of the town might meet the head of

“Well, it makes a big sound, and I think I’ll call it the megaphone,” replied Mr. Edison. “As I have already told you, I sometimes think there will be a great deal more in it for me financially than in the talking machine. It will be a great thing on ships; with its aid one ship at a distance can hail another ship easily, and a captain can shout his orders clearly and distinctly through it to the uttermost ends of his vessel. It can be used on land, also, for conversing at great distances. In short, this megaphone of mine enlarges the zone of action of the human voice, and for this reason I am inclined to think at times that it will be a more profitable Invention than the talking machine. You have seen what it can do, and it does it just as easy a* rolling off a log." 1 presume that this was the first public demonstration of the Edison invention that has passed into universal use under the name megaphone—a contribution of human progress that has brought its father cents where the phonograph has added to his wealth by the hundred thousands of dollars. (Copyright. 1910, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) ALLAN DAY IN CORNWALL Great Festival for Young People on the Last Sunday Before Halloween. , If you should ever be in Cornwall, in old England, and should rise some morning before the sun peers over the low eastern hills, and should see a fair maiden, clad only in her nightdress, sedately. seated beneath a tree and solemnly eating a large apple, be not startled, but merely admire; for it is Allan Day. Allan Day is the nearest Saturday to Halloween, and is a great children's festival in Penzance and St Ives In Cornwall. Everywhere are exposed for sale huge apples known as “Allan apples,” and the eating of them brings good luck. Girls and boys put them under their pillows at night and dream of their future husbands and wives. To make the dream come true, one must rise at dawn, and, in perfect silence and clothed only in a nightdress, go out and sit beneath a tree, and eat the apple on which ohe has dreamed, whereupon the future consort will make his or her appearance—a consummation that to folks outside of Cornwall would appear slightly embarrassing. Moreover, if one does not becom} cold, he will remain Immune from chill throughout the year.—The Sunday Magazine.

vate office into the main office of the banking house. It was swarming with clerks armed with coupons of the land grant bonds due within less than a quarter of an hour. Carefully, cautiously, Mr. Morton looked over the securities. Finally, as he laid down the last one, he nodded his head approvingly, the next moment was issuing instructions that the coupons should be paid until further orders, and within less than five minutes the first clerk to offer a Union Pacific coupon received his money, tc the great astonishment not only of himself, but also of the other clerks there assembled, and, speedily there after, of all Wall street For good financial news travels as fast as baa and within an hour Union Pacific Mock, which had been quoted as low as ten cents on the dollar, jumped to twenty-five, and John Duff’s son-in-law had his first lesson in the effect of credit upon a railroad property. Until now, I believe, It has nevei been reported how the day was saved for the Union Pacific by John Dufl pledging his ow'n securities for money with which to pay the coupons. Mr Duff himself never referred to this act of his, not even when he was openly accused of improperly usina bis official relations with a nationally famous trust company to secure ths funds So badly needed by the Union Pacific. (Copyright, 3310, by E.. J. Edwards. AB Rights Reserved.)

* the nation Senator Buckingham gav< a large reception in his honor, Among the citizens introduced t< General Grant was a Dr. Webster. N< soner had the president heard th< name than he detained its possessor “On my staff, Dr. Webster,” explained the president, “was a Col. John Web ster. He was one of the best staff offi cers I ever had, and I always thin) of him when I hear the name of Web ster spoken.” “He was my brother,” said Dr. Web ster. “Then I am more than ever pleased to meet you, Dr. Webster,” replied the president, “and, now that I come ti think of it, you must be the brothei of whom I have heard Colonel Web ster speak as having served without rernjKseration in the hospital service of (the sanitary commission.” “Sis, Mrs. Webster and I were with the sanitary commission throughout the war,’ Dr. Webster answered. And then, because the line behind was pressing, the brief interview came to an end. Late that evening the president told his host the pleasure he ha<> received from meeting Dr. Webstar. “1 know something of the very ? great service he gave as a member of the hospital staff of the sanitary commission, whose work wos of inestimable value to the Union army,” said the president; and then he asked: “Is Dr, Webster practising medicine here?” In reply the president was told that Dr. Webster was now a bookkeeper on a small salary; that the prosperous school he had founded and conducted before the war had broken up wher he went with the sanitary commission, and that, returning fitom the field, he had been glad to get work as a bookkeeper. “Ah,” said the president, meditatively, “there have been many such cases.” And then the subject was dropped. A few weeks later the president re turned to Washington. He had hot been there more than a week or ten days when official announcement w r as made that President Grant had appointed Dr. C. D. Webster of Connecticut United States consul at Sheffield England, at that time one of the country’s best paying consulates. It cams as a perfect surprise to all of Norwich, Senator Buckingham and Dy. Webster included. It was an appoint ment made entirely on the president’! own volition, and made, undoubtedly that Dr. Webster might be recoin pensed in some measure for the loss of his school through his devotion t; the cause of the care of the Union ; soldier. For fifteen years Dr. Webster served as consul at Sheffield, and in all thal time he was not once on a vacation. When Grover Cleveland became president he was disposed to continue the doctor in that post, but political pressure against this policy was too great for Mr. Cleveland not to heed it and regretfully he named a new man as consul. (Copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edward*. AB Rights Reserved.) Balzac’s Letters Preserved. Comte de Lovenjoul has presented to the French academy a valuable collection of letters written and signed by Balzac. The count became possessed of them in a peculiar way. One day he saw a cobbler lighting his pipe with a twisted letter. The ink on the letter was old and the handwriting interested the count, who asked the cobbler to let him look at It He recognized Balzac’s handwriting and signature and gave the man s3.Bs for his letter. The cobbler told him he had more of them. He had bought them In a heap of waste paper to wrap shoes in, and he sold all to the Comte de Lovenjoul

HE SAW THE JOKE AT LAST Stranger in Boston Whi Had Read About Its Streets, Could Not Stop Laughing. He was a middle-aged man, and he stood, with umbrella tucked under his arm in front of the old South church in Boston, chuckling away as if he had just thought of something particularly humorous. “What are you cachinnating about, my friend?” asked one of Boston’s finest. “Hey?” demanded the man with the umbrella, blankly. “I Inquired the cause of your unseemly cachinnation,” repeated tha policeman. “Oh, I forgot this was Boston. 1 reckon you mean laughing, don’t you? Will, I’m cackling over a lot of funny pieces I read years ago in the comic papers about Boston’s crooked streets. I had never been in Boston then, and I didn’t know they were funny—the pieces, I mean. I struck Boston this morning for the first time, and as I meandered around in the rain trying to find my way somewhere, those old stories I read years ago came back to me, with the joke side uppermost, and every time I strike a place where the streets seem a little more tangled up and twisted around than usual I have to stop and ha-ha right out in spite of myself. “Why, I declare, I actually can’t tel] half of the time which side of th® street I’m on, just as It said In the newspaper yarns I used to oread, and yet I never had any idea those stories were intended to be funny until I got here and began to corkscrew around the Hub on my own account. Oh, I’m slow, all right, but I can see the joke when I have a diagram of it right in front of me.” And as the policeman moved on the middle-aged stranger with the umbrella was still standing there, chuckling softly to himself.—New York Times. LIFE HAS BUT ONE PURPOSE Instruction and Refinement of the One Who Is Alive Is Real Object to Be Attained. Life can have but one purpose—the instruction and refinement of the one who is alive. This true, life becomes the soul’s continuing adventure through shifting scenes and seasons an adventure to which are Incident every manner of lure, excitement and thrill. To hate such an adventure or to drudge through It, either through misapprehension or sloth, brings us only a foolish misery which makes a • mock of the joy w T e ought to know. To hail the adventure and dive Into it with manly eagerness and hope, uncovers to our inquiring eyes glory after glory, for those who ask receive, those who seek find, and to those who knock the door of life’s great room swings free. The wise do not dally with life; they do not misconstrue It; they do not neglect it; they do not wish to throw It away. For its intrinsic worth they choose it above rubies and make of it an art whose object, whose compensation, is itself. The thoughtless rabble worry themselves gray and thin over their occupation in life, or their station in life, but the wise man concerns himself first with his craft and station which he catalogues rightly as incidents, not goal?. Full well he knows that no mere thing—no jewel, trapping or other weighable possession—can spur or satisfy his spirit. Only the sheer wine of living can do that, so he makes his drink and stays by the cask. —Richard Wightman, in October Metropolitan. A Gentle Reminder From India. The post office has its delights. And St. Martin’s-le-Grand gives the letter of the Indian whose tutored mind seems to have got indigestion from a dictionary of foreign languages. He is a sub-postmaster, and wants promotion. Here is his letter: "Sir: I have the honor to request you that I did not receive any answer ! to my petition as yet. Though I am , flagrante delicto, aut flat justltia ruat coelum. my younger Fra has gone artlculo mortis. Ipso facto O! tempora O! mores. Does the life of a man go out like a candle? Sic transit gloria mundl that veni, vidi, vici. “Now please arbitrium send a man on my post, that may I do his proper work at home, it is n outrance affaire i d’honneur which Is agenda for your I pertinently consider.” —London Chronicle. Keep Busy. “I have known a great many men who worked hard for a competence and they loafed themselves to death. The man who does not keep busy starts down hill pretty soon and the . one who gives up living interests un- . der the notion that he is going to have a good time will soon be reading ■' patent medicine almanacs and imagining he has all those things and then some. There is a difference between wholesome idleness and absolute loafing, if you will stop to study the matter out. Uses of Transfers. During the evening rush hours two men were riding uptown together in a Broadway car, says the New York Sun. One man paid the fares. Twc transfers,” he demanded. “Why transfers?” asked the other. '“We get off at the Astor place and jan’t use them.” “I know that,” replied the man who had paid the fares, “but I always ask for a transfer simply as a matter of jurecauion, as a receipt.”

FARE AT HARVARD IN 1850 Breakfast at Daybreak and Boilec Dinner Two Days in the Week. The students lodged in the dormi tories and ate at the commons. Tho food then partaken of with thankful ness would now be looked upHn as prison fare. At breakfast, which was | served at sunrise in summer and at ) daybreak in winter, there were doled out to each student a small can of un settled coffee, a size of biscuit, and a size of butter, weighing generallj about an ounce. Dinner waa the sta pie meal, and at this each student was regaled with a pound of meat Two days in the week, Monday and v Thursday, the meat was boiled, and in college language, these were knowr as boiling days. ‘ On th® remaining days the meat was roasted, and t< them the nickname of roasting days was fastened. With the flesh went al ways two potatoes. When boiling days came round, pudding and cab > bage, wild peas and dandelions were ' added. The only delicacy to which no stint was applied was the cider, a beverage i then fast supplanting the small beer lof the colonial days. This was . brought to the mess in pewter cans ! , which were passed from mouth to I mouth, and, when emptied, were again replenished. For supper there was a bow] of milk and a size of bread. The hungry Oliver who wished for i more was forced to order, or, as the phrase went, "seize it,” from the kitchen.—McMaster’s History of the People of the United States. ORIGIN OF “YANKEE DOODLE” Tune Is Believed to Have Pertained to a Country Dance in a Ger- , man Province. Theories concerning the origin of the air of “Yankee Doodle” have been almost as numerous as those touching i the birthplace of Homer. One of the most interesting and, it Is thought, the latest speculation in this regard comes from Germany. It is contended that the tune originally pertained to a country dance of the district of the former province of KurHesse, that it was called the "Schwalm,” and that the air was also played as a military march by bands of Hessian troops during the war of the Revolution. In studying the dances of the “Schwalm,” the German authority w’as struck by their similarity in form and rhythm to “Yankee Doodle.” It is assumed that, as many of the Hessians who served in America were recruited in this district, they carried “Yankee Doodle” with them. Yet, while this theory may be carrect as to the melody, it does not convincingly explain its introduction into America; for the air was played here long before the Hessian troops came. Mention of it appears in a newspaper bearing date of September, 17C8, and it is traditionally supposed to have been brought to the attention of the colonial army In 1755, when Dr. Schuckburgh, a surgeon in the regular British army, recommended it to the colonials as “one of the most celebrated airs of martial music.”—The Sunday Magazine. Ich Dien or Eich Dyn. Which is accurate as the motto of the Prince of Wales —Ich Dien or Eich Dyn? The one is German and the other Welsh. The one means “I serve,” the other “Behold the man” or “Behold your man.” “Ich Dien” was the motto of John, king of Bohemia, whom the Black Prince slew at Crecy. “Eich Dyn” are the words supposed to have been used by Edward I. when presenting his Infant son to the Welsh assembly at Carnarvon. Welsh tradition has adhered naturally to the Welsh form. The other has been more popularly accepted. The coming investiture lends peculiar interest to revival of an old controversy. Settlement must be left to the student of such matters ;but It may ! be news to some readers that there . Is an alternative to the battlefield story. Tribute to Painter’s Skill. One of the still life paintings by Jan van Huysen in the museum at, The Hague was recently injured, but It Is believed that the perpetrator was neither vandal nor thief. | The picture represents a basket of fruit on which a number of insects have gathered. On a pale yellow apple, which is the centerpiece in the cluster of fruit, Is a large fly, painted so true to nature, so say the officials of the gallery, that the canvas was Injured by some one who endeavored to “shoo” it and brought his cane or hand too close to the canvas. “A j tribute to the painter’s genius,” says I ‘he letter recording the fact, “for which the work had to suffer.” .. The Only Role for Him. Torpid Thomas —What do you t’ink, old pal? A swell guy approached me pesterday an’ wanted me ter act In a movin’ picture play. Languid Lawrence —Sufferin’ hobos! An’ why didn’t yer, yer idiot? Torpid Thomas—There wuzn’t nc slttin’ part in the drama he wuz perducin’. Cold Storage Variety. Restaurant Patron —Why, these eggs aren’t cooked at all! Waiter —I’ll swear they were in the water three minutes! Restaurant Patron—Perhaps—but it takes that long to thaw them out doesn’t It?

KNCOURAGEMKNT* itl ' B First Boy—Mother says if I Hl swimming she’ll lick me when I gel back. | Second Boy (encouragingly)—Bui perhaps ypu won’t get back; there’s been lots of fellows drowned in that swimming hole. BABY WASTED TO SKELETON “My little son, when about a year and a half old, began to have sores come out on his face. I had a physician treat him, but the sores grew ■ wqrse. Then they began to come out on his arms, then on other parts, of his body, and then one came op his ohest, worse than the others. Theo I sailed another physician. Still he grew worse. At the end of about a year and a half of suffering he grew bo bad that I had to tie his bauds in cloths at night to keep him from scratching the sores and tearing ths flesh. He got to be a mere skeleton, and was hardly able to walk? “My aunt advised me to try Cutlsura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. 1 sent to a drug store and got a cake of Cuticura Soap and a box of the Ointment and followed directions. At the end of two months the sores were all well. He has never had any sores 3f any kind since. I can sincerely say that only for Cuticura my child would have died. I-used only one cake oi Cuticura Soap and about three boxes of Ointment “I am a nurse and my profession brings me into many different families and it is always a pleasure fc-g me to tell my story and recommend Cuticura Remedies. Mrs. Egbert Sheb ion, Litchfield, Conn., Oct 23, 1909.” Looking After the Eggs. Lady Betty, who is four years olfi and never misses a trick, was taken the other evening to a restaurant for her supper, and with all the importanc® ami sprightly dignity of her yean calmly ordered poached eggs on toast While the little family group wa® awaiting its service the “kiddie”! amused herself by looking out of th® window, pressing against a screen t® get a closer view of something belov. She was warned by her mother thal the screen might give way and let het , fall to the sidewalk, perhaps injuring her terribly. She drew away, thought a minute, and then ‘silfd naivelyi “Would I fall if the screen went out?* “You certainly would,” was her mother’s reply. “And would I get awful hurted?” ”Vcry likely.” “Then what would th® msn do with the eggs?” Easy Marks. “Talk erbo-.it yore easy marks,” said Uncle Silas Geehaw, who had been passing* a week in the city, “us rube® ain’t in it witb them air teown chaps.” “Did yew «ell ’em enny gold bricks, Silas?” queried old Daddy Squasbr neck. “Naw, I didn’t.” answered Uncl® Silas, “but I seed a feller peddlin’ artificial ice—bed th' sign right on hl» wagon—an’ blamed of th’ chumpt didn’t |>uy it for the real thing, by grass!” I DRINK WATER TO CURE KIDNEYS AND RHEUMATISM The People Do Not Drink Enough Water to Keep Healthy, ’ Says Well-Known Authority. | “The numerous cases of'kidney ans bladder diseases and rheumatism arc mainly due to the fact that the drlnlf ing of water, nature’s greatest medfe cine, has been neglected. Stop loading your system with mes icines and cure-alls; but get on th® water wagon. If you are really sick, why, of course, take the proper medicines—plain, common vegetable treatment, which will mot shatter the nerves or ruin the stomach.” - To cure Rheumatism you must make ‘.he kidneys do their work; they ar® the filters of the blood. They musi be made to strain out of the blood th® waste matter and acids that cause rheumatism; the urine must be neutralized so it will no longer® be a source of irritation to the bladder, and, most of all, you must keep these acid® from forming in the stoxpach. This Is the cause of stomach trouble and poor digestion. For these conditions you can do no better than take th® following prescription: Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup C Sarsaparilla, three ounces. Mix by shaking well In bottle and take in teaspoonful doses after each meal and at bedtime, but don’t forget th® water. Drink plenty and often. This valuable information and sin> pie prescription should be posted up ’n each household and used at the first sign of an attack of rheumatism, backache or urinary trouble, no mafr ter how slight.