Walkerton Independent, Volume 33, Number 39, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 March 1908 — Page 4

BALKAN CRISIS PROVOKED BY POWERS’ GREED NATIONS NOT IN ACCORD Alliance to Press Reforms Upon the Porte Crippled by Inability of Christian Governments to Agree —Quarrel Among Themselves Over Loot and Self-Interest —Peace of the World Imperiled.

Marquis of Argenson, Louis XV.'s great minister, wrote: "The first great change that will take place in Europe will probably be the conquest of Turkey. This empire grows weaker because of its bad government, and because it is impossible that this government should become better, and quite sure that it will grow worse. They are rising in the Ottoman empire. Every day a feather falls from the wings of the Turkish eagle." So it seemed to this far-sighted man several centuries ago, but to-day there is only one fact of the Balkan sttuaagree, and that is the growing strength of the Turkish military resources. writes Stephen Bonsai in the Philadelphia Ledger. That is a formidable body of trained and fanatical men, some 300,000 strong, that tramples the Christian peasants of Macedonia under foot, and, after looking the situation over, the intervening powers of Christianity have not fallen on this rugged host, but have fallen out among themselves on a question of railway concessions. Thirst for Advantage. The czar of holy Russia and Emperor Joseph, who was called to rule the holy Roman empire, are exchanging letters, which, while the diplomat-

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ic forms are still observed, recall the wordy wars of railway kings. The alliance or entente between the powers which was to press reforms upon the porte that would make it possible for the Christian subjects of the porte to live in peace and yet live Christian lives, has been disrupted by the greed j □f gain and the thirst for political advantage experienced by the powers, ■ which have in the last decade plumed themselves upon exercising a mandate , in Macedonia which they had received from outraged humanity. It. is a pitiful end of the reform decade, and the best that can be said of the situation is that to-daj- the Christian peasants are not much worse i off than they were before, and that those who have survived their hard 1 experiences are probably much wiser than they were when they began their political schooling under such august; patronage. Taking the optimistic I view, the Turkish soldier is not always a brute and the Turkish effendi not always a thief. Looking backward now, the more than decimated peasantry of the Macedonian highlands doubtless recall the pleasant days of before the uprising, the days when they had not heard of a. Pan-Slav or a Pan-Hellenic propaganda, when they didn’t know whether they were Servians, Roumanians, Bulgarians or Greeks, and didn't much care. The Railway Row. The railway row is clearly a pretext for and not the cause of the split in I the joint Macedonian policy of Russia i and Austria. Russia has not even the I remotest intention of building a rail- j way from the Danube to the Adriatic, and if she had the intention, she has not the money. This road would cost myHnno, apd goes through a difficult and what railway men call a very J “lean” country. It would never pay; ; that is, not within the ken of the ! present generation, and could only j serve a political purpose which Russia will be unable to pursue for many years to come. £££ <e i BEFORE AND AFTER MARRIAGE. Wife Found Dainty Handkerchiefs a Thing of the Past. You can't always tell what sort of a husband a man will make by the presents he sends a girl while he is courting her. Here is a story that will point this i moral: A certain very charming lady who ; has a family of nearly grown children i tells a funny tale of the difference ; a year of married life, with its practical demands, will make in a man's । way of locking at. things. Before they ; were married her husband had a I great p> neham for pretty handker-] chiefs; any bit of dainty embroidery; or lace w< n 1 appt to him as exactly the right thine pt'-sent to his ; dainty inamorata. V iw time he) gave her two beaut;- , .oting him live dollars apiece; ;•./ Amo sho । received three at the -j. price. I Then half a dozen for whi i h p .id 515. She had visions of i. Romer spending his future emt:. . ping the | dainties of life to her.

On the other hand, Austria has the right to build her railway, or rather the gaps in the present system. It is a right that was granted by an article of the Berlin treaty, and it has not lapsed simply because the Austrian government has allowed the matter to lie in abeyance for so many years. The other rumored Austrian project of building a road from her BosnianHerzegovina system to the Adriatic, and then down the coast to Montenegro, and ultimately to Greece, is a sound idea, and one that would pay for Itself handsonmlv.^atJeasjL-sd—fef-rrs GatMro, and probably there is no idea of pushing the road much further in the Immediate future. Ready for Roads. Under the fostering care of Herr von Kallay, the provinces of Bosnia, of Herzegovina, and in a measure, too, Dalmatia have flourished under Austrian rule and development. They are ready for railways, and many more of I hem. Ten years ago the complaint of little Servia and the veto of Russia would, of course, have brought these projects to an untimely end, but today’ the balance of power in the near east has changed as greatly as it has in the far east, and the - protests are more likely to fall to the ground than are the projected railways.

The story of the so-called reforms in Macedonia is a sad and a sordid one. Officially, at least, all Christendom “with a long pull and a pull altogether,” has been unequal to the task of making the “sick man of Europe" sit [ up, or of bringing the “unspeakable Turk” to book. In England alone of ; all the great powers interested, and. I indeed, morally responsible for the horrors of daily and hourly occurrence in the luckless vilayets, is there any j appreciation of the dreadful situation. ! Almost weekly the Macedonian comj mittee, of which Lord Newton and Mr. Gurney are the most active members, publish statistics setting forth as plainly as cold figures can make them, , that the present laissez faire policy | of the powers has only served to reproduce a tableau of what in the iron age the world must have been. England Hampered. The English humanitarians are ham- | pered in their -work by the undeniable fact that through the action of the • earl of Beaconsfield and Lord Salis- I bury at the Berlin congress, when they । thwarted Ignatieff's plan of a greater j Bulgaria, including a free Macedonia, ! England is primarily responsible tor the present status of affairs. They are further hampered by the presence in Constantinople of an incompetent ; ambassador, who has given undeniable ■ proofs of his want of capacity in such ! important posts as he has occupied in , । Sofia, in Pekin and in St. Petersburg. I The first whisper of reform—in ! 1 what we call Macedonia —came in virj tue of the accord of 1879 between Austria and Russia, and their recognition by other European states as the powers most directly concerned. The advice of the powers was accepted ’ graceruity—it tl | tan, and with the purpose of forestalling any possible drastic action the ! sultan himself drew up a program of reforms, and appointed that adroit diplomatist and profound student of human nature, Hussein Hilmi Pasha, Then they were married. About a year after she had accepted the steady job of brightening his home for him. the dainty handkerchiefs having gone the way of all perishable things, she found it necessary to lay in a new supply. “Will,” she said. “I need some hand- । kerchiefs, and I don’t feel like making ; a trip down town just for them. If you ! are near any of the shops stop in and send me up a few.” “Will” did happen to be near the I shopping district, and late <hat after- ! noon the delivery wagon of one of the real b rgainy” stores stopped at her j door. Will had sent up a dozen three- | cen handk rchiefs. A Nation's Greatness. Tl >- < minence, the nobleness of a ; ; depends on its capability of I b int: tirred by memories, ami of ! striving for what we call spiritual! i end- ends which consist not in immediate material possession, but tn tlm mtisfaction of a gieat feeling that animates the collective body as with i I one soul. —George Eliot.

ector general of the disturbed! P Inces. Tiie moment Hilmi Pasha arrived at ' Salonlca to assume his herculean task ! the late Count Lamsdorff. the Russian ! minister for foreign affairs, set out I for a visit to the capitals of the Balkan 1 peninsula. He visited Sofia and Belgrade, and advised lire Servians as well as the Bulgarians to cultivate the more peaceful and above all more lawabiding methods in their MaceIdonian propaganda. Count Lamsdorff then proceeded to lenna, where he had many conferences with Count Goluchowski. the Austro-Hungarian minister of foreign affairs. Together they drew up another program of reforms, which was, of course, Immediately accepted by the porte in February, 1903. The details of the proposed reforms are unimportant here and now. They never passed beyond the paper stage. The integrity of the sultan’s dominions and his unimpaired sovereignty were safeguarded by them, and in their proposals the powers remained well within the limits of policy defined by that important article 23 of the treaty of Berlin. A Bloody Insurrection. The result of the application of these paper reforms did not remain in doubt for more than a week. Instead of the pacification and a peace approaching that_owhich-Hftr “bureaucratic Russian count prophesied would descend upon the blooddrenched land, came the most bloody and formidable Insurrection that the rebellion-ridden count ry had ever seen. It required 300,000 of the best troops of the Ottoman forces to uphold Turkish authority, and even with this tremendous display of force, the Turks made but little headway against the insurrection until the fall, when many of the Bulgarian bands, yielding rather before the onset of winter than of the Turks, withdrew across the frontier. To bolster up their shattered prestige in the Balkans, in consequence of the summer's bloody work, the czar of Russia and the emperor of j Austria met at Muerzsteg in October. ' As a result of this imperial conference j the intervention of Europe in Macedonian affairs became for the first time direct, but the results of the new course fell far short of expecta- ' tions, in the first place because of the wonderful ability of Hilmi Pasha to I checkmate every move made by the agents of the powers, and in the second because of the well-nigh insuperable difficulty that was experienced in I i

II" -'-^i WI mJ j World-Wide Distribution of the Mostem Faith, At the present moment there is a great revival of Pan-Tslamlc feeling, which ii the cause of many new and difficult problems whenv r east and west come into contact. Moslems throughout the world followed the Russo-Japanese war with tho greatest interest, and they are keenly alive to the problem of Turkey. A writer ■ in the Times has pointed out that it is a mistake to believe that the awakening is due to a movement on the part of the Yildiz Kiosk. Its causes lie deeper, and | Mohammedans are anxious to shake off the reproach that their religion is only for ; degenerate or conquered races. The distribution ot Islamism is shown in black.

bringing the agents of the powers to act with unanimity or even in good faith. However, at least, the Muerzsteg program created two organs of control, :or buffers between the Turkish authorities and the Christian peasants j of Macedonia. Two civil agents, one i Mons. Demerik, a Russian, and the other Herr von Muller, an Austrian, were authorized to and expected to control the action of the Turkish authorities. They were expected to shadow the inspector general, to indicate to him the reforms which they i thought would prove helpful, and to j I listen attentively to the complaints jof the Christian inhabitants. They i were ordered and authorized to investigate all complaints that were brought to their attention, but unfortunately the investigation had always to be held in the presence of a Turkish functionary—in other words under circumstances where no Christian peasant, after COO years of Turkish supremacy,would da re to tell the truth. Something more than moral support was required to make the slave of centuries stand up and defend himself. In addition to the restraint of the civil agents, there were appointed a AS THEY SAY IN BOSTON. Old Sayings Clothed in the Language of the Modern Athens. Ancient history tells of a Boston spinster whose modesty forced her to speak of her dog’s “trousers,” not his “pants.” The city annals also hold record of a school miss whose verbal i nicety brought forth the proverb: “Impart to your grand-maternal relative elementary instruction in the art of extracting nutriment from the ovlary deposit of the common or garden : fowl.” But both of these more or less historic: instances are far outdone (even assuming their genuineness) by j the latest bit of literary intelligence i from the Massachusetts metropolis, j which gravely announces that “A simj pie paraphrase” of the good old “Gin । a body meet a body," runs thusly. “Assuming the contingency of one inI dividual encountering another cf the opposite sex, in the act of traversing a field of secale cereale, and assuming further, though merely for the । sake of argument, that the individual I first mentioned greets the individual

। “ large number of foreign officers to serve with the Turkish constabulary. \n Italian genera) was placed in command of the constabulary reorganiza- : tion scheme, and to him were attached many of the foreign officers. The । scheme proved ineffectual from the beginning. Instead of commanding the gendarmerie in the field, the sultan held, and imposed his view upon the powers, that the foreign officers were ' merely to act as instructors in schools for aspirant constables. Six months, a delay of tragic Importance to the hunted Christian peasantry of the Macedonian highlands, was spent in discussing the question whether the European officers should wear Christian caps or the Turkish fez. In the meanwhile the wily sultan was more than friendly. Those of the foreign officers who could be reached in that way were loaded with rich presents. Some of these presents were undeniably of a kind that could be easily converted into cash. Others were given brilliant decorations and honeyed speeches. 'lt was quite noticeable that many pf the foreign officers soon began to (exhibit very little Interest in the peejp^e whom they were sent to protect. "A verminstricken, mangy lot.” is the way one , of the officers was reported to have described the Christian peasants at a concert in Yildiz Kiosk, and shortly afterward his wife appeared with a diJUQPad —lid Hi, —sJiMv Pera - averred she had tie vat been seen to wear before. ? As it has well beet said, every one of the powers wishes to modify the present situation, bui, unhappily, it would appear that nth one wished to modify it for its personal advantage, and, alas, profit In a word the i news from Macedonia is that the I champions of Christendom have, come to blows, not with the assassins of the sultan, who are seeking to destroy the remnants of the congregation that St. Paul loved, but among themselves over a sordid question of political loot. World’s Peace Imperiled. However, the statements made in the British parliament recently by government officials in regard to tho Macedonian question go to show that there was something in the reports , telegraphed some days ago about tho ; possible disruption of the concert of ' the European powers and subsequent ' trouble in the near east. The secre- i tary for foreign affairs said emphat- ; ically that if Macedonia continued to be neglected a catastrophe would ' follow. It is. indeed, time that effective reform measures should be put in force

in Macedonia for the good of the Christian inhabitants of the province. A foreign general officer has been in charge of the Macedonian gendarmerie with other foreign officers under him, but supreme control has remained in the hands of Turkish officials. As long as that is the case real reform is out of the question. The British government, recognizing that, raises the question whether the time has not come for the appointment of a Christian governor for Macedonia. The sultan may be expected to resist such an appointment, : for he would see in it the prelude to the loss of the province. Turkish history has taught him that. The secretary for foreign affairs says the concert of powers must either justify or stultify it ■. That is, it must eithert^^gr^nd trther concessions of shall do the latter^henW Bey will be obdurate and the peace |f Europe may be imperiled once nyre. Whether any power is .Jiropar^&r-t.^ side with Turkey and block rArm in Macedonia remains to be stK. There have been rumors that oil or another power would do this, It as yet nothing is certain. ■ thus accidentally enccwmtered with osculatory tenderness, ns there then any insuperable duty imposed on the latter individual, or the klssee, to indulge in a lachrymose exhibition of grief?” That’s all.—Los Angele.’ Times. Superstitious Pickpockets. The pickpocket is superstitious. Ha will rarely rob a person who squints, this being considered a certain sign of diaster, and if it happens that tho purse he steals contains foreign money, it is believed to augur that ho will travel a good deal in the future, but whether in the company of a couple of police officers or not there is nothing to show. Gained Their f^oint. The girl students in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine (Arts have ha 1 a concession granted and may now smoke cigarettes in a Bittle room es- I pecially dedicated to 'that purpose. They had been ordered not to smoke in the corridors, so “fought it out” with the directors, gaining what they call a “moral victory.”

rp-_... American I Home Wm.A.Radford r - Editor

Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST' on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is. without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 194 Fifth Ave.. Chicago, 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. A neat little affair, just big enough for two, may be built on this plan for about S9OO, and it is well worth the money. Very small houses nowadays must have bathrooms. People are cleaner than they used to be, and I believe they are getting more particular all the time. At any rate 1 notice that houses without improvements go ai begging, while modern conveniences will sell or rent a house even when the location is not especially desirable. Hot running water in a house has -conie to be a necessity, but it Is also a luxury; something more we have to thank science for that our great-grand-parents knew nothing about. Thirty years ago houses supplied with hot water were known only to the rich, but now anyone who has ambition enough to want to be clean may have । hot running water and a porcelain J bath to turn it into. The porcelain I bathtub also is a recent invention. A< ! late as ten years ago a zine-lined ; wooden box was considered desirable i and sufficiently up-to-date, but now all j

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bathroom furniture must be of porce ; lain or porcelain lined, as hard and smooth as glass, so they may be easily cleaned. Recent improvements in plumbing supplies have reduced the cost of hot and cold water fittings in houses by cutting oft' corner;; in different diree- । tions. All fittings anti connections arc now cut bj machinery to standard I sizes, and attachments to washstands, j , < losets and bathtubs are manutac- ' tured by the million, so that the only thing necessary is to put in the proper washers to prevent leaks and to screw them fast and connect with the water ' ; supply and the sewer. It makes the ‘ plumber's job an easy one ami quickly ■ : done. The kitchen in this little plan is j ; made large, because it is also the din- I ing room. A hundred years ago the , i very best Americans were not too i ; proud to cook and eat in the same ; room, but lumber was cheap and the i ! next generation found out how to 1 i build larger houses. Some of the i j women killed themselves taking care of them, but while they lived they had f^Vti fl \ W ATP 1 P ZAO> a -.-j I /.z -« .x /□ o * laßßsnf z/ 1 \pCLS7-/CL H a different room for several social functions and after they died they didn’t need them Th- large Souse habit has followed down pretty well to the present time, but a change is coming in our kitchen arrangements and the gas range is largely responsible for it. There is very little heat from a gas stove and some of the better ones are very nicely designed with : high ovAns and warm cupboards. When women commenced to cook ; with gas they were afraid of it and ! they never could keep things hot until ! ready to serve, and these were two ; very serious objections, but these ! troubles have been righted by degrees ! until the gas stove now has more ' friends than the upright piano. With , a neat two-story gas range in a good i kitchen like this a small family can ' manage very nicely without a dining I room. They can imagine themselves j living in the last century if they want i to, but the fact is a good many houses ; are being built at the nreesnt time in i which the cooking and eating must be i done in one and the same room. This also aelps to solve the cottage । or bungalow question. A great many j city women are accustomed to living in fiats. They have learned to like the \ plan of having all the rooms on one ■ floor. It saves climbing up and down : stairs, but the difficulty has always ; been to get rooms enough. You can- i not. spread out. very far in a flat and ; you cannot spread a cottage house • very wide without running into con- ■ siderabie expense. This is what led 1

architects to turn back about a hundred years to first principles and reinstate the combination dining room and kitchen. This plan as drawn does not provide for a cellar, but there is no objection to having a good cellar put under this little house at any time, for the house is well worth it. The little front vestibule should be furnished with a good-sized hat rack. There is room for it on the side opposite the front stair and it will be found very useful for hanging overcoats. There should be an underneath part to hold extra articles of clothing, such as overshoes, leggings, gloves and a whole lot of things that you haven’* room for in a little house like this, unless you provide something of this kind. There are many ways to manage in close quarters that people living in large houses nevey-+W-H<-ArhuTirr Orrv of the first lessons to learn is that you do not need as much as your neigh bors have got in their large houses. DROPPED IN TO SEE SPEAKER. Little One’s Visit Temporarily Stopped Legislative Wheels. The official business of the speaker of the house of representatives was • suspended for 15 minutes recently, and anxious statesmen had to cool i their heels in the hall while “Uncle

Joe" entertained little Miss Pauline Douthitt, eight years old, of Springfield. 111. The speaker was busy st his desk about two o'clock in the afternoon, and Neyle, the messenger, was asleep at the switch when the door of lin it Joe s private sanctum opened and a petite young lady entered the room. Dignified and important lawmakers have to send in their cards, but Miss Pauline did not observe that J formality. Mr. Cannon looked up in astonishment. Are you Uncle Joe?” asked the ’ little girl. "That's what some of the boys call i me." said the speaker. “Well,” continued Miss Pauline, “I want to see you—l want to see what I you look like. My mamma and papa would not bring me down here, so I fooled them and ran away. I am I from Springfield.” “Great goodness, child, you did not 1 come all the way from Illinois to see me, did,you? Why, your daddy will be scared to death if you have run away from home.” “Oh, they are at the Raleigh hotel. I will get back by the time they miss me. I just could not help coming to see you.” Speaker Cannon blushed and looked as pleased as a boy with a new sled. He put Miss Pauline in the chair of honor and found her as bright and sharp as a pin. She told him she wanted him to be president, and talked politics like a real congressman. By jingo, exclaimed the speaker, “you the the brightest little girl I ever say. Busby, hand me one of my photographs—one of the big ones.” And then the speaker wrote at the bottom of the picture: “From ‘Uncle Joe' to his Valentine.” Miss Pauline tied up the transaction of business for a quarter of an hour and the committee on rules bad to wait. Then a messenger escorted her back to the hotel.—Boston Herald. A Promising Fruit. The persimmon has been a neglected fruit in the northern states, from a supposition that it is not hardy, says the Agriculturist. 1 found the opposite to be true some 30 years ago, and have a tree at Clinton, N. Y„ grown from Missouri seed, that never shows , the slightest sign of disliking zero I weather. It has stood 40 degrees be- , low zero. Blossoming profusely every I year, it remained entirely barren. I | sent to the horticultural societies of l Missouri and Indiana and Virginia for I scions. That grand old worker. Mr. i Miller of Missouri, sent me four named . varieties. The scions took admirably well, and I have tested the four sorts, i ripening from September until Decem- | ber. My tree is invariably loaded with ! golden balls, which are very beautiful ■ after the foliage falls. The fruit is । exceedingly palatable, if properly I ripened. Cynical Rumination. "Buying a marriage license,” says the i Philosopher of Folly, "is like getting ; a set of de Luxe French books from an agent. You only pay one dollar down, and it seems cheap. Rut von go on paying big installments the rest of your life.” Recipe for Happiness. Mental ami emotional culture are. as valuable as physical culture. Train you mind to think, your heart to respond, and your body to keep in health, all under self-control that i makes the self least important.

JUDGING 3Y THE RESULTS. Villager’s Conversion Had Not Been of Great Avail. "In our business we get many- doubtful compliments." said Col. John F. Bishop, deputy surveyor of the port, the other day, "but I do not think I ever received a compliment such as my grandfather got dovm in my native state of Tennessee. My grandfather was a minister and 1 was a very small boy when we both strolled down the road one day. One of our fellow villagers came along toward us. “ ‘Good morning,’ said the villager, who apparently had looked upon the cup. T-sh conver—hie—ted, parson,’ he stammered with difficulty. ‘Antwashyou—hie—that con—hie—converted—hie—me.’ “ ‘That must be so,’ replied my grandfather, ‘for it’s certain the Almighty had nothing to do with your |conversion.”’ —New York Evening' I Telegram. THREE CURES OF ECZEMA. Woman Tells of Her Brother’s Terribla Suffering—Two Babies Also Cured —Cuticura Invaluable. ‘‘My brother had eczema three di ferent summers. Each summer it can - out between his shoulders and down his back, and he said his suffering was terrible. When it came on the I third summer, he bought a box of [ Cuticura Ointment and gave it a faithful trial. Soon he began to feel better i and he cured himself entirely of eczema with Cuticura. A lady in In* . diana heard of how my daughter, Mrs. Miller, had cured her little son : of terrible eczema by the Cuticura Remedies. This lady’s little one had the eczema so badly’ that they thought, they would lose it. She used Cuticura Remedies and they cured her child entirely, and the disease never came back. Mrs. Sarah E. Lusk, Cold water, Mich., Aug. 15 and Sept. 2, 1907.’* MORE THAN LIKELY. kv A A W w j “Z 2 V■) i Os W. Willie—l see automobiles have been introduced in Borneo. T. T. M. —What do you think will ba the result? W. Willie—An increase in the number of wild men. What Did He Mean? For a number of years a bitter feud had existed hetwen tho Browns —asd Perkinses, next door neighbors. The trouble had originated through the depredations of Brown’s cat, and had grown so fixed an affair that neither party ever dreamt of "making up.” One day, how’ever, Brown sent his servant next door with a peace-making . note for Mr. Perkins, which read: “Mr. Brown sends his compliments to Mr. Perkins, and begs to say that ■ his old cat died this morning.” Perkins' written reply was bitter: "Mr. Perkins is sorry’ to hear of Mr. Brown’s trouble, but he had not | heard that Mrs. Brown was ill.”— ' Harper's Weekly. Chivalrous Man. 1 A father and mother, -with six children, spent a holiday at the seaside. Immediately on arrival they set about looking for cheap lodgings. At length they came to a notice of I a "furnished room to let” and made I inquiries. “Oh, yes,” said the landlady in answer to the father’s question: "it’s here the room is to let, but there’s only’ one bed in it.” "Oh, that's all right,” replied the fa- ' | ther; "we're used to roughing it. The 1 j wife and bairns will sleep on the : floor.” —The Tatler. Perfectly Plain. ■ j With all the impartiality of the par- . ; tisan, Prof. Price set forth the contentions of both political parties regarding the tariff. . At the close of his talk he was surrounded by the fair members of the i Woman's Current Events club. t "O Prof. Price,” cooed the fairest, [ "thank you so much for your perfectly [ lovely talk' I understand all about the tariff now. It's just like a lover’s । comparisons—the free-traders are the j other girls!”—Sunday Magazine. THE DOCTOR’S GIFT. Food Worth Its Weight in Gold. — We usually’ expect the doctor to put ; I us on some kind of penance and give , us bitter medicines. A Penn, doctor brought a patient something entirely different and the results are truly interesting. "Two years ago,” writes this patient, “I was a frequent victim of > acute indigestion and biliousness, bei ing allowed to eat very few things. । One day’ our family doctor brought me I a small package, saying he had found • something for me to eat. at last. "He said it was a food called Grape- ; Nuts, and even as its golden color I might suggest, it was worth its weight (in gold. I was sick and tired, trying | one thing after another to no avail, , but at last consented to try this new | food. "Well! it surpassed my doctor's j fondest anticipation and every’ day I since then I have blessed the good I doctor ami the inventor of Grape- | Nuts. ' 1 nt' ■ i improvement at once and in a monf; s time my former spells of indigesion had disap; .'.red. In two months I b'lt like a r w man. My brain was much cl ai r ■ : ! keener, my body took on the vitality ot youth, and this condition ha: continued "There's a Reason.” Name given by i Postuni Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read . "The Read to Wellville/’ in pk^-.