The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 38, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 18 January 1912 — Page 6

Syracuse Journal » W. G. CONNOLLY, Publisher. SYRACUSE INDIANA GOLDFISH WERE LOST AT SEA Monkey Reached In a Glass Globe anc( Fed Them to MuchPleased Dog. Lightly loaded, the Oriental liner. Rygla, Captain Meyer, from Hongkong, -was buffeted about forty-eight hours a violent gale two days after she had left Yokohama. She kept pitching and rolling, often going over until the seas were on a level with her rail. The propeller was out of the water land fanning the air half the time. The jßteamer was nineteen days from (Yokohama to the Columbia River; The Chinese boatswain is mourning •overthe loss of a fine assortment of Japanese goldfish he was bringing to (Portland. There were two thousand fin the shipment when the steamer left (Yokohama, but the number had been (reduced to thirty-five before he found -out what was becoming of them. When he did learn, his ire knew no (bounds. The glass globe in which the fish imade their home stood near the cage of a large chimpanzee, another possession of the boatswain. The owner decided to solve the mystery of the disappearance of his fish, and so he kept an eye on them for one whole day when the Rygia was within about a week’s run of the river. Along about noon he heard the chimpanzee give a succession of low whistles. Immediately a black chop pup came rushing out on deck. Wagging his stumpy tail, he squatted down before the cage of the big simian. With dexterous movements Os his long arms, the chimpanzee reached into the globe and brought out two handfuls of goldfish, which he threw down in front of the pup. The dog had gulped them down and was licking his chops before the astonished Chinaman could make a move to put a stop to the proceedings. He chased the pup away and returned to have it out with the chap in the cage. But the monk only grinned and whistled some more, which caused the pup to return in a jiffy. The chimpanzee fed the pup 1,965 goldfish during the passage and the Chinaman figures his less at many yens.—-Portland (Ore.) Letter to Philadelphia Press. No Authority. William Dean Howells, the American novelist, tells the following story on himself: “I got into an argument one day with my wife on the propriety of using a certain word in a sentence. My wife maintained there was no right in favor of my usagp, and I held that there was. So, to end the matter, I took the Century Dictionary and looked it up. “ ‘Ah,’ I said, ‘here it is, with just the usage I employed,” and I read the justifying quotation aloud. But my wife was still dubious. ‘Whose quotation is that?’ she wished to know. “Again I studied the printed page. Why, it says Howells.’ “ ‘Oh,’ answered my wife with a triumph of scorn, ‘he’s no authority.’ ” Japan’s Paper Industry. Next to cotton spinning, the production of paper is Japan’s greatest industry. The country produces over 118,000,000 worth of paper annually. The justly famous hand-made Japanese paper is produced largely by farmers, in the intervals of their regular work. There aiie no less than 60,000 families engaged in the industry. You are wrong in thinking that paper manufacture originated in Japan. It Was in Egypt that the first paper was made. From Egypt the art passed on to China. Japan and thence to Europe through Central Asia by the Arabs. Christmas Punch. ‘The late Ida Lewis, keeper of the Lime Rock Light at Newport, saved many sailors from drowning, and saved many, too, from drunkenness. Ida Lewis once rebuked a half-dozen sailors who were preparing to brew a Christmas punch. “It will get you into trouble,” she “ said. “These strpng Christmas punches always do. A fine young sailor—but he’s filling a drunkard’s grave today—once offered me a glass of Christmas punch, saying: .“‘Drink it, ma’am. It's food and drink in one/ “ ‘Yes.’ said I, ‘and a night’s lodging as well if you take enough of it.’ ” Different Birds. Hilary K. Adair,.the western detec. tive, was congratulated by a Duluth reporter on the arrest of a notorious Christmas swindler. “With his absurd Christmas lottery scheme,” said Mr. Adair, “the man took in S7OO a day in money orders.” The detective smiled bitterly. “Elijah,” he said, “was fed by ravens; and nowadays, if‘ you will only turn crook, you’ll be fed by gulls.” Suggesting Improvements. “Does your boy, Josh, take an interest in the farm?” “He’s beginnin’ to,” replied Mr. Corntossel. “He’s been showin’ me where we coujd have some dandy golf links an’ how easy it would be to turn the barn into a garaget.” t Blessed Are the Employer—See here! Do you think you know more about this business than I do? New Office Boy—No, sir! Honest! I ain’t no magazine vrriter!"—Puck.

MOB—MII — »'■■■ IfT ■■■ w 1111 — ■■ ■ _ . - - T~'"; ; ; ~ ~ NEW NEWS of YESTERDAY I "==l By E. J. EDWARDS I | .w, ■■■■ ■ ..ii imin it— raim. !■■■■. i i I u i in i- J

First Standard Oil Probe

New York Sun’s Inquiries In 1878 Were Met With Courtesy but Silence, but the Information Was Obtained Elsewhere. In the early fall of 1878 I was sent for by the late Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, and when I answered the summons I found him reading a communication from a correspondent in Pennsylvania. The letter was very brief; it suggested to Mr. Dana that he cause an investigation to be made into the history and methods of the Standard Oil company of Cleveland, 0.. which about that time had come to be looked upon as a trust, by the oil world especially. As he handed me this letter Mr. Dana said: “You go out there and make an investigation: make it thorough no matter how long it takes ” I first went to the oil regions of western Pennsylvania" and was there about three weeks. The oil producers gave me every facility for getting such information as was to be had in the oil regions. .They also called my attention to certain litigation which had then been begun in Pensyivania with intent to break up the Standard Oil company in So far as it operated in that state. Having completed the Investigation at Titusville and Oil City, I went to Cleveland, presuming that the officers of the Standard Oil company would be willing, if not anxious, to furnish, me with information which would serve to explain some of the more grievous charges made against it and its methods by the oil producers. Furthermore, I had no doubt the Standard Oil company would be glad of an opportunity to gain the public ear and to explain the economic principles which had led to the organization of the so-called trust. When I called at the main offices of the Standard Oil company, after an annoying amount of red tape had been unraveled I was received by a very pleasant-faced and graciousmannered young man. He listened wlth anparent earnestness and sincerity as I stated that it was Mr. Dana’s desire that an absolutely impartial and perfectly fair report, based upon investigations into the rise and growth of the Standard Oil company, be printed In the New York Sun. “Have you ever been to Cleveland before?” he asked with utmost politeness, as I 'finished. “Only to pass through by train," I replied. “It is a beautiful city,” he said; “ydu should not return to New York without seeing ft.” “I cannot return to New York.” I replied, "until I have learned, from the point of view of your organization. something of its history and growth, and have obtained from you. If possible, some answer to the serious accusations that are made against your company by the oil producers of Pennsylvania.” The young man continued to smile blandly. But not the slightest indication did he show of a desire in any way to serve me. “Can I see Mr. John D. Rockefeller?” I asked. A' flitting but intense expression of

Old Coat That Made a Success

- Garment That Ned Sothern Wore as Lord Dundreary in “Our American Cousin” Was Borrowed From John Brougham. When Lester Wallack knew that his - day had passed as a great jactor and : theatrical manager, he and the late A. j M. Palmer, then coming into prominence As successful theatrical mana- ■ ger, and later the succesor of Lester Wallack in the management of Wallack’s theater, in New York, used to make the trip together betwen the metropolis and Stamford, Conn., where each had his summer home. It was during one of these trips 'Wallack told Palmer the story of the old coat that made a great histrionic hit. “It waq In 1858 that Laura Keene produced ‘Our American Cousin,’ with Joseph Jefferson as Asa Trenchard and Ned Sothern as Lord Dundreary,” laid Mr. Wallack. “I know that in a general way it has passed into tradition that Sothern at first refused to play the part of Lord Dundreary, because he thought the part was beneath him, and that he only consented to play it when Miss Keene told him that she was in despair and after she had consented that Sothern should ‘gag’ the part But while all this is true up to a certain point, that from the moment Sothern read the part of Lord Dundreary he saw the possibilities that were in it for a delicate, humorous satire of certain of the nobility of England, and felt sure that this satire would not offiend, but would amuse the upper classes of Great Britain, if ever he were permitted to play the part as be would like to play it before English auiiences “Well, Sothern made up his mind ;bat it would be necessary to dress

« surprise and reproach passed over the young man’s countenance. Then he resumed his bland smile, simply saying: “Nobody sees Mr. Rockefeller these days.” - “Could I see Col. Oliver Payne?” I asked. ■* “Colonel Payne Is a very busy man; I would not care to ask him to make i au appointment with you.” I “Who, then, is there, with whom I ; may talk and who can furnish me : with the information I require?” “I don’t think there is any information; there is nothing to say.” “Have you been instructed •to tell me this?” I asked. With the most affable smile imaginable and the utmost courtesy and deference of manner the young man replied: “It was not necessary to instruct me. Have you been to the theater?” I understand' that Robson and Crane are playing in a very funny farce called ‘Our Boarding House' at a local

Million That Might Have Been ■ At :

Commodore Alfred Vari Santvoord’s Regret Because He Didn’t Make a Turn In St. Paul Stock During Panic of 1301. , The late Commodore Alfred Van Santvoord, who owed his title to his prominence in the Hudson river steamboat businefes, (when he died in 1901 he wq£ the.largest owner of river steamboats in America), but who was also a very able railroad man, having been a director in several big railroad companies, coinbined a large amiount of caution with a very strong spirit of enterprise. He accumulated in the course of his long and honorable business career a large fortune by constructive work in the transportation business and by wise investment. He was worth seven or eight million dollars when he died. But although he had won success and fortune ample enough to satisfy the am-bitions-of most men, his last years, as his friends believed, were made somewhat unhappy by a single thought—the thought of the million that might have been his. Commodore Van Sanvoord was a man of large frame and feature, with smooth shaven face and clear, keen gray eyes, a man of great dignity and composure, yet most affable and genial. It was very seldom. Indeed, that his customary composure and affability were affected by circumstances. But at the time of the famous Northern Pacific corner "In 1901 —when Hill and Harriman were fighting for the control of that system, and the value of Northern Pacific, and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul shares rose several hundred points in a few days, causing one of the worst bear panics on record—Commodore Van Santvoord was observed by his friends to be somewhat restless and distraught. He hung ovqr the ticker in the New York broker’s office where he usually went when he wanted to buy or sell stocks, but at this time he

the part with elongated black sidewhiskers, which were, in the late fifties, and early sixties, the fashionable way, at least in France, ot>wearing the beard. He also decided that it was essential in the first act, which was a drawing room scene, for him to wear a long-tailed frock coat with very voluminous tails. But it slipped Lis mind that he should obtain a coat of that sort from costumer, or have one made, and because of this slip he was in despair at the time of the dress rehearsal of the play. “John Brougham, the playwright was upon the stage at the time, and he told Sothern that he had in his dressing room a long-tailed coat, very full in its folds, which had been used by me in a play in which I had appeared some months earlier. ‘lt’s just ‘the frock for you, Ned,’ said Brougham. “ ‘Produce it, John,’ returned Sothern. “A moment later Brougham brought the long-tailed coat to Sothern’s dressing room. It didn’t flt very well upon the shoulders, but the tails were long enough and' expansive enough to suit Sothern perfectly, and he said he would wear it until he could have a coat made. And so in a ,coat which I had worn in an earlier play and had lent to John Brougham—an emergency coat, Sothern appeared for the first time upon any stage as Lord Dundreary, and the coat was a success.” “By the way,” said Mr Palmer, “Wallack also told me that Sothern predicted that the play would greatly amuse th« British aristocracy It did. It ran for an entire season, with fashionable audiences, and the manager made nearly $200,000 out of It In that single season.” (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reasrvad.)

theater. I should be glad to send you a ticket” “Then this is the answer that I am to make to Mr. Dana?” I replied—: “that the Standard Oil company has no information to give?” “As you please," he said. a “Well,” I replied, “you may say to your superior officers that if 1 can’t get the information at .first hand I will get it at second hand.” “That, also, is as you please." he said, politely. If the smiling young man read the Sun he must have discovered about two weeks later, in an article covering a page and a half, that much <>f , the Information I had sought from him I had obtained elsewhere. That was, I believe, the first investigaticn into the history and growth cf tin Standard Oil company which was i ever made. In later years some o [ the officers of that company confessed that it might have been the better part had they taken the public into their confidence in the beginning of the trust’s career. (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. Al! i Rights Reserved.)

seemed to be neither buying or sell- ' ing. His friends felt sure that he was not caught in the squeeze, and that ; he was not threatened with any loss. His operations were always too conservative for that to be likely. Yet it was evident that something was weighing on his mind, and that the stock market situation was absorbing his attention. The panic was as short as it was ; severe. The conflicting Hill and Harriman irfterests were adjusted » and stocks dropped back to their normal level far more rapidly than they had riven to their sensational high figure. Commodore Van Santvoord, when the calm came, recovered his composure and affability, but those who kne’w him well detected an unwonted solemnity in his expression. “Is any thing the matter? Aren’t you feeling well today, Commodore?’ 1 one of his friends asked him, in some concern. , “Oh, I’m feeling all right—that Is, my health is good,” he replied. "But, I’m feeling rather chagrined. As a matter of fact. I feel as though I were out a million dollars by this panic.” “How Is that? Do you mean that you have actually lost a miUJon?” I “No, I haven’t actually lost a dollar. But I own quite a block of Chicago, Milwaukee & St.yPaul stock. I could have sold it a few days ago at a very high figure, bought it back today at a very low figure, and made a million by the transaction. And I didn’t sell it?’ “Well, Commodore, what do you want another million for?” his friend asked “A man always bates to miss a chance to make a million dollars,” be replied, w r ith a laugh that yet had a tinge of sadness in it. And it was said truly, probably, that he never ceased to regret that he ; missed this chance. (Copyright, 1911. by E. J. Edwards. Al! ■ Rights Reserved.) Great Salmon Traps. For catching Puget soufid salmon in traps there is a t “pot," a large net about forty-feet square, fastened to piles driven into the ground about half a mile from the shore in water 50 feet or so deep. Running to the shore Is a “lead.” a long single row of piles ten or fifteen feet apart, with wire netting hung In and held down x by weights. The “lead” reaches almost to the “pot,” but between the “pot” and the "lead” are two opposite rows of piling hung with wire netting and called “hearts,” being so set that schools of fish follow the "lead.” enter the “heart,” and are turned into the mouth of the net. alongside of which Is a smaller pot connecting with the first pot. Once in the second pot the fated salmon jump and cavort until they are dipped out wagon load I at a time by great nets run by steam. , Now and Later. Infant mortality Is a heavy drain on the whole race, and especially on th« women In Chicago recently the subject was discussed by experts The milk supply was one of the most im portant subjects considered, end one of the easiest to remedy. Housing flies and ventilation are also matters in which vast improvement can be made at once by mere energy and in telligence. As an example of improvements that must by 7 their nature be more slow in coming may be mention ed the conquest of the alcohol habit the diffusion of intelligent ideas re' garding sex and the introduction ol eugenic standards in marriage Some of the improvements discussed at Chi cago may be rapid, some slow Al! must come. —Collier’s Weekly Something in That. Chorus Lady—Why should 1 mart you. Jim? You haven’t got a Jo!'a> your name’ The Nervy One —No; but thmi the advertising you’d get—bei chorus-girl marries a scene sto u - Puck

feeding the urn Uncle Sam’s Sailors Are Best Fed in the World. Even Without Chicken, Which Has Disappeared From the Menu, the Food Given Jackies Is Fit for an Epicure. Chicken has disappeared from the menu of the forecastle in the American navy, and Uncle Sam thus saves more than $50,04)0 a year. With what is left, however, the American sailorman repalns by far the best fed of all seamen afloat. “S,alt horse and hardtack” have long been meaningless j terms in the navy of the United States. Those long gone cruises in j the old sailing ships across the Pacific, through the Mediterranean and round the Horn, sometimes meant i three months between ports, in modI ern swift steam driven craft a naval ■ cruise seldom means so much as three weeks between ports. Even the ; eggs of the wardroom and the cap- ! tain’s cabin were a fearsome thing at i eight in the morning, after a ship had been six or eight weeks out, and the old Bowery tale of the solicitous coiored waiter, who said to the guest demanding poached eggs, “Boss, you bettab hab dem aigs scrambled; dem i aigs look a heap bettah scrambled; I fac’. is, boss, dem aigs ain’t ve’y 1 fresh," had its humorous appeal to the officer of iorty years ago or titty : years ago, and even in more recent times. A good deal of the food that had i to be accepted in the wardroom ot I the old navy would be promptly re- , jected in the forecastle of the new. i According to the theory and practice i of the navy today the sailor is quite : as much the ward of the nation as | the Indian ever was. Strict regulaI tiohs prescribe his diet, and the exI ecutive officer and his subalterns live :up .to such regulations with conscien- ; tious cars. All holidays and Sundays are occasions for feasts in the foreI castle, and any complaint as to the quality or quantity of the food re- ' ceives prompt and considerate attention. Scientific specialists in conjunction with practically experienced offitfers of the navy have studied the question of the sailor’s diet with minutest care. It is known just what loods, may safely be taken aboard in hermetically sealed containers, and how long they may be expected to remain in wholesome condition. The proper proportions of meat to vegetables and of various kinds of each been carefully studied, and the navy ' 1.3 still watching the effect of new combinations upon the health and efficiency of the sailor. Inspection of the sailor’s food is a thing of daily routine. When the waiter from the cook’s gallery comes on deck at early morning with a platter containing ar I sample cf the breakfast about to be served to the men, the officer of the deck tastes something of each article, and if he feels a bit peckish after his lonely tour of duty, he sometimes makes a? full meal of the sample, and sends his compliments to the cook with the certificate that the food is what it should be. If he finds anything to criticise he does it without hesitation, and should the defect be serious he would order a substitute breakfast for the men. As a matter of fact the breakfast thus provided is , good enough for anybody and far betI ter than most folk ashore are accus- ' tomed to eat. Admiral Edward Vernon, popularly | known as Old Grog, because of his i grogram breeches, or possibly his foul weather cloak of grogram, was the patron saint not only of the British I tar, but of the American,£pr he it was who introduced into the British navy about 1745 the grog ration ot spirits and water. Lawrence Washington, who served under Admiral Vernon in tWe unsuccessful attack upon the Spanish-American city of Cartagena n 1741, returned home to call his patrimony on the Potomac Mount xVernon in honor of the man who invented grog. The United States navy, m forswearing Great Britain and all 'her works, made an exception in favor of grog, and it was regularly served to the American sailor from a tub in front of the mast within the memory of men still living. There were two water groa and three water grog, so named for the proportion of the dilut- , ing fluid, which was sometimes a ! more dangerous liquid than that it | was intended to mollify, m due course i the grog rations in the American navy was commuted for Increased pay, and now no hard liquor is served to the forecastle except upon the surgeon’s prescription, and the man caught smuggling spirits aboard ship is sent to the dungeon and placed upon exceedingly low diet. Tobacco for smoking and chewing Is provided for the sailors of the navy in vast quantities. The government buys tobacco of excellent quality at the lowest possible rate. So excellent is the sailors’ tobacco that a good many officers buy it tor their own use. PUBLIC STUDYING AGRICULTURE. Rapid development of public interest in the broader phases of agricultural education is noted by Dr. A C. True, director,of the office of experiment stations cf the department of agriculture, in bis annual report, made to Secretary Wilsou. There is evidence, says Dr. True, that the right solution of the problems of country life and agricultural production will depend very largely on n effective system of practical edu-

cation, which will reach r ne masses ot men, women and children on the farms.” Owing to the Immensity ot the task, he declares, the work of his bureau has “been entirely inadequate to meet the situation,” He recommends that at least $10,4)00 be added for the next fiscal year to the appropriation for the agricultural education work of his office. Recent state legislation and the appropriations made for such education Indicate rather clearly, he finds, that this country is committed definitely to the development and support of agricultural education in all Its different phases and from the elementary grades up through the college and the graduate school. Owing to the rapidly decreasing number of wild fowl in this country, Dr. Henry W. Henshaw, chief of the biological survey, expresses the opinion in his annual report to Secretary of Agriculture Wilson that there should be “increasingly stringent laws shortening the open season, a prohibition of spring shooting and a decrease of the bag limit” He says there should be set apart in various states suitable lakes and ponds for bird refuges, where migrating water fowl may resort safely. “It Is becoming apparent,” says Dr. Henshaw, “that, even should all the markets be closed and the sale of game prevented, depletion must continue to follow the rapid conversion of the wilderness. The question ot preserves for game and for birds therefore is becoming increasingly apparent. “In this country it is gratifying to note that game preserves, both public and private, have increased greatly in numbers, while here and there tracts are beginning to be devoted <o nongame birds.” TAFT GREATEST TRAVELER. When President Taft hurried over to the White House on the first day his arrival home from his “sweep around the circle,” there were statisticians on hand to verify tSiefr estimates on hi§ travel record. They Insisted that fifteen thousand miles had been covered by the president on this trip. Since he entered the government service in 1900 as Philippine commissioner, President Taft has traveled nearly three hundred thousand miles. This includes only the mileage of steamship and railroad travel and not the thousands of miles covered by side trips. One cannot travel long w’ith President Taft with- ! out being convinced that here, at , least, is one man whq really enjoys ! the annihilation of space. He does not look back with horror on the j five hundred and fifty-six nights he has spent in sleeping cars and on shipboard. Even in the staid and sedate Congressional Directory may be read be- , tween the lines the buoyancy with which the president refers to his dashes to the Philippines, Panama, : Rome, Mexico and other little whirls i about the globe. Up to the time tixatt j President McKinley appointed him as,i president of the Philippine commls- I sion Mr. Taft had done very little i general traveling, and now laughing- ! ly refers to his inoculation with the ; “travel microbe” at tha' time. He comes very near to exhausting the i twenty-five thousand dollars allowed by congress for presidential travel, since the passage of the law prohibiting railroad passes. The table that has been prepared giving the mileage of the president on ! his various trips has established his record as the champion traveler of all republican and monarchial executives on earth. POSTAL DEFICIT GONE. "For the first time since 1883 the annual financial statement of the postoffice department shows a surplus instead of a deficit.” This is the burden of the annual j report of Postmaster General Hitchcock. He indicated that the placing of the postal service upon a selt-sus’ i taining basis meant an improvement and extension of facilities and at no ■ distant day one-cent letter postage. At the beginning of the present administration in 1909, Mr. Hitchcock : pointed out, the department showed ' a deficit of $17,479,770, the largest op record. In two years this deficit has been changed into a surplus of $219,- . 118. Extensions made in the service j include 744 new postoffices, delivery i of mail by carriers in 186 additional cities, 2,516 new rural mail routes aggregating 60,679 miles and 8.000 additional postal employes, with ths salary roll greater by $14,000,000 than it was two years ago. Preparations are being made to es tablish postal savings banks in about 40,000 fourth class offices that do a money order business. In eleven months’ operation deposits in existing postal banks aggregated sll, 000,000. In view »of the successful operation of the postal banks, Mr. Hitchcock strongly recommended the establishment by congress of an Adequate parcels post. The postmaster general reiterated that the second class postage rate should be two cents instead of one cent a pound. He also urged that by readjustment of the pay of railroads for transporting the mails, based on actual cost to the railroads, an annual saving to the government of at least $9,000,000 could be effected. He predicted mail carrying by aeroplane in the near future. Apparently. “Well. Quigley, what do you know?” “Too much, I guess; Fve been rejected as a Juror six times in succession.”

VERDICT A FAVORABLE ONE i Small Girl’s Pretty Answer to Stupid Question cf Inquisitive . ‘ . Busybody. She was a pretty little tot, and everybody who knew her took pleasure In pausing to ask her some kind of a question, merely to show an interest and for the pleasure of hearing the musical cadence of her voice. Some of the questions were what might be termed leading, but for all she invariably had some kind of an answer. Among these-latter Inquiries was one from an intrusive busybody who was old enough to know bettei', but who i belonged to a class ol’ persons who never learn. Knowing that the little : girl had only recently become the posI sessor of a young and attractive step- [ mother, with a curiosity inborn sh<j ■ asked her very frankly.: “Well, how do you lik« . your stepmother?” The child raisbd her blue eyes i gravely, and with her face glowing I with happiness .replied: “Oh, very much, indeed, Mrs. Ski!I lington. We fit very nicely, consider- ( Ing that she got us ready made." — i Judge. PITIFUL SIGHT WITH ECZEMA “A few days after birth we noticed j an inflamed spot on our baby’s hip : which soon began spreading until J baby was completely covered even in - his eyes, ears and scalp. For eight weeks he was” bandaged from head to foot. He could not have a stitch of I clothing on. Our regular physician i pronounced it chronic eczema. He is i a very able physician and ran .s with i the best in this local ty, nevertheless, the disease began spreading until : baby was completely covered. He ! was losing flesh so rapidly that we became alarmed and decided to try Cuti- ' edra Soap and Ointment. j “Not until I commeneed.jising Cuti- | cura Soap and Ointment could we tell I what he looked like, as we dared not i wash him, and I had jbeen- putting one I application after another on him. On : removing the scale from his head the hair camp off, and left him entirely { bald, but since we have been using j Guticura Soap and- Ointment he has ;as much hair as ever. Four weeks j after we began to use the Cuticura . Soap and Ointment be was entirely i cured. I don’t believe anyone could ' have eczema worse than our baby. “Before we used the Cuticura RemI edies we could .hardly look at him, he ! was such a pitiful sight. He would - fuss until I would treat him, they ■; semed to relieve him so much. Cuti- ! cura Soap and Ointment stand by i themselves and the result they quick- : ly and surely bring is their qwn reci ommendation.” (Signed) Mrs. T. B. i Rosser, Mill Hall, Pa.. Feb. 20, 1911. Although Cuticura Soap and Ointment are sold by druggists and deal- - ers everywhere, a sample of each, ' with 32-page book, will be mailed free ion application to “Cuticura,” Dept j 29 K, Boston. Uncle Sam’s Representative. I . Senator John Sharp Williams tells of a negro lad in a southern town who I was not the least zealous of Uncle Sam’s servants. One day when the i mail bag for that town was thrown from the train the pouch was caugM up by this diminutive courier, who started off, as was his wont, on a brisk trot to the post office. ' As he was rounding a corner of the ' station-be encountered a larger boy, with the result that the little courier was upset. When the latter got up and readjusted himself he turned upon the other exclaiming: “Look heah! Yo’ wants to be keen ful ’bout dis chile! When yo’ jars me yo’ jars de gov’ment of de United States. I carries de mail!” THE TRUTH ABOUT BLUING. Talk No- 5Avoid liquid bluing. In every city i there is an accumulation of junk hoti ties which are gathered up and filled I with a weak solution called bluing. Don’t buy water for bluing. Buy RED CROSS BALL BLUE; a | 5-cent package equals 20 cents’ worth j of liquid blue. Makes clothes whiter I than snow’. AT ALL GOOD GRO- | CERS. . Misleading Sneezes. “How did you come on with you? study of the Russian language?" “Not well.. While 1 was trying to pronounce a few words our family physician came along and forced me to take all kinds of medicine to break up a cold.” important to Mothers t Examine carefully every bottle ot CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it

Bears the Signature of

In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria A man knows more at twenty-one than he may be able to forget at fifty. You will sneeze; perhaps fefel chilly. You think you are catching cold. Don’t wait until you know it. Take a dose of Hamlins Wizard Oil and you just cant catch cold. ' Some women never take anything seriously, not even their husbands. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets first put up 40 years ago. They regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugarcoated tiny granules. If you can’t marry the one you love, try to love the one you marry. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 Your druggist will reiund money il 1 AZ.O OiNT Mr.NT faals to cure any cum? of Jtemng. Bleeding or Protruding Piles in b to 14 days. .We. If you would be a leader you muat ■et the pace.