Walkerton Independent, Volume 33, Number 42, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 April 1908 — Page 2

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PARIS. Not all our girls who marry titles are unhappy. We hear of the shipwrecks, wasted millions and a lone girl drifting westward on a gilded craft; but the mass of the contented, doing vast good to America and Europe, pass unnoticed, declares a writer in the Washington Evening Star. As to Fiance, I know these girls are missionaries of the great American idea. Some get love; some fill empty hearts with worldly satisfactions, and . *ll merlt admiration. France’s share of their $300,000,000 may have heeled old families; but the breezy rush, the

bright initiative, independence, energy' and judgment with which they invigorate a sleepy aristocracy are equaled only by the splendid prestige they have given the United States abroad. There are two ducal families, for example, the Rochefoucaulds and Uzes, called, respectively, “the premier dukes” and "premier barons” of the old regime. Is it a small thing that Miss Shonts becomes the sister-in-law of one, while Miss Mattie Elizabeth Mitchel is the duchess of the other? One True Love Match. Miss Mitchell may have brought the Duc de la Rochefoucauld but $200,000. The duke—who, in old days, would have been nearest royalty like the Norfolks in England—could have

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married any heiress of his class. Instead, he chose Miss Mitchell, with her modest dot —a true love match. For trade, he is captain of hussars. His private life is most passed at Montmirail, his seat, where his lovely American duchess wields queenly influence. She is the friend of all girls who want to marry their true love; of the country nobility; rich farmers’ •daughters; middle-class girls cursed t with ambitious parents; peasant girls discouraged by small cash. ' She has opened French eyes to American agricultural machinery; made known hygienic plumbing, the check system, social mixing, farmers’ trolleys, Indian corn, bath tubs, out"door life for girls above the peasant •class. How can a high-hearted Oregon girl, become chief personage of several counties, not spread the idea of go ahead and trust to your strong arm? She taught the duke to take his place. He was easy-going, lovable and army-locoed; for some years they held aloof from high Parisian society, but now they have a son, aged three; they take their preponderating place in the set of the Dowager Duchess d'Uzes, hunting the red deer with dogs and horses and the melancholy horn, like Francis de la Roche, his ancestor, godfather of Francis 1., and consulting with five other seignieurs to change the director of the Paris grand opera by mere force of social influence. Place for Duchesse de Chaulnes. Miss Shonts, as Duchesse de Chaulnes, has her place like this waiting for her in the Uzes set. Much depends on the woman. The emuiumeuis > are often worth the money. Indeed, there are American girls who have so valued the emoluments that they held to them after they divorced the man — and no hard feelings. Such is the happy case of Miss Curtis of New York, first wife of the present Duc de Dino. The whole French aristocratic family mourned her when she quit. “You are still of us!’’ they insisted. She still calls herself the marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord. Her noble daughter married a Roman Ruspoli, title princess of Piggio-Suasa. ; her four sons are bona fide Gotha no- ; bility; and she has always been extremely happy. When her divorced husband found lie could not live without an American ! woman on the premises, his good old \ father kind of abdicated, so that, as .

MATTER EASILY GOT AROUND. A man with a waistcoat and diamond shirt stud that fairly screamed “Prosperity!” at all within seeing distance blew into the public stenographer's office in a New York hotel. "F.ay,” he demanded, "can you write a letter to my goil? ’ The stenographer assured him that . she could. “Well,” declared the sport, after giving the name and address t( 11 her I've connected with a barrel of money

the Duc de Dino, he could make Mrs. Fiederic Livingston (nee Sampson) a real Almanach de Gotha duchess. She is very happy, too, though separated from him; and I never shall forget the fiank American decision ol character with which I once saw her jerk him from the Monte Carlo trente et-quar-ante table, saying: “You have blown enough of my money; cut it!” Two More Happy Marriages. Two Misses Singer of the sewing machine trade, brought $2,000,000 apiece into the Almanach de Gotha—and never regretted it. Isabel married the great social high priest, the Duc Decazes, who really caused the death of poor old Haritoff two years aeo

TJ • x «« J X-0.1 O Hantoff, who formerly had his own lacing stable and could point out in I the Avenue of the Bois, three mansions he presented to three ladies in his prime, lived hard broke of late years; but everyone felt pitying and friendly to him. At Monte Carlo Decazes, with a lively party on his yacht, invited Haritoff to dinner. After coffee, talking old times with a mature lady of the thea- | ter, poor Haritoff explained he had a system to beat roulette. With a 1,000franc note he could attain to fortune. “Here’s one,” said the lady; but as days passed, after, and she saw no more of Haritoff, she sought him out and asked her money back. “The system broke,” said the unhappy- man; ‘ the 1,000 francs are gone; please

wait a few days more;” but the indignant lady told Decazes; and Decazes ostentatiously kicked Haritoff in the posterior before the great public of the atrium of the Casino. Everyone called it a savage act. Friends represented to Decazes it was his fault to have left Haritoff alone with anyone who had 1,000 francs; his weakness and necessities were known. Therefore the duke, kindly at heart, consented to meet Haritoff in a duel, where no one was hurt; but his old friend never recovered from the disgrace, and died a few months after. Prince Polignac, who married Winnaretta Singer—and in time left her a happy widow, with his noble family all devoted to her. Even their old mother, after Isaac Singer died, went into the nobility byway of the duke of CampoSelice. There are dukes and dukes. In the old kingdoms of Naples and Sicily three acres and a cow constituted a principality or dukedom. American Girls in Demand. All is not one-sided. It has been observed that when French families get a taste for our girls they go in for them quite wholesale. Thus Miss Hooper of Cincinnati was brought up in Paris, where her mother entertained so lavishly in one of the 12 mansions around the Arc de Triomphe. Well, Comte Horace de Choiseul saw that his elder brother, the Duc de Choiseul-Praslin, was so happy with Miss Forbes of New York for such a long time, that he espoused Miss Hooper. Both these Choiseul-Praslin wives are absolutely happy, quite assimilated to French life, while keeping hold of all that is best in their patrimony of America; and it is known that their steady influence is part of that mysterious something that is putting new push into the French aristocracy. The de Choiseul-Praslins, for example, have yet a third nice American girl among them. Miss Coudert, the heiress of the New York-Paris law firm, also married into it; and yet more. Wait. There is, indeed, a fourth! ' In the days of the kings who gave I these titles, a king could have quickly decided w b ^her the Prince de Bearn et de Ch dais is a real de ChoiseulPraslin. The courts of the French republic could not. Therefore, to this day, we do not know if Miss Winans of Baltimore married into this old family of the minister of Louis XIV.

” vy ly "b^b —By iy -wqyon the ponies and that I'm goin’ to Narragansett Pier for two weeks. ■|see?” For a few seconds the typist’s fin- ■ gers flew. Suddenly she stopped. I ‘ I can’t for the life of me remember," she explained in a puzzled voice, ■ "how to spell Narragansett.’ ” The man behind the waistcoat ■ tossed his cigar and scratched his head. “N-a-r-nar-r-e-r-rerr—oh, the dick- • ens; cut it out. I’ll go to New- ■ I oort!” i

or not, but it does not prevent her from being glad she did it. There is no kick coming from the Princesse de Bearn et de Chalais. Romance of Caroline Fraser. j All but two of the American women I have mentioned are the happy mothers of young nobles of proud lineage. Could you find a more romantic case than that of Caroline Fraser and her issue? When the princely x mats history makers— took refuge in Bordentown. N. J„ Caroline was governess in the family. The heir married her— and stuck tight to her always. She is dead several years since; but her children, keeping her blue eyes and corn-yellow hair, have married everywhere.

The most romantic of these Ameri- • can-mothered Murat men espoused the i utterly romantic Circassian Princess Daien, Zephita by name, lovely beyond i words, daughter and sole heir of the sovereign house of Mingrelia—which land you can hunt in southern Russia He is there, a king to-day, the boy from Bordentown! Os all the French counts, none stand higher in history or society than the Chambruns. When Louis XV. erected all those marquisates, a Comte de

Chambrun get one of the first, and the Chambyuns always have had They kept much of their land through the revolution; they had shifted a good lot of liquid cash ot England and at the restoration they were among the first to get a whack at the $132,000,000 voted as compensation to the martyred nobility. Chambrun’s Good Sense. To prove that horse sense has not left the family, the Marquis de Chambrun snapped up an American girl, of the Rives-Nichols family of Virginia when he was attache at Washington. Good. It worked. The family liked the innovation. “Go ahead.” they said to the Comte de Chambrun, when he was old enough to marry; “find another like her!” What he found was Miss Longworth, Alice Roosevelt’s sis-ter-in-law. The Chambruns are playing a most I prominent part in the great effort to I improve the social situation of the I French working classes. At hon*. in ; their three chatteaux, they are patri- 1

archal masters of land as far as the eye can see. There are no wretched poor in their villages. Their farmers are the proud and prosperous masters of blood stock, newest agriculturaJ machinery, silos, distilleries, grain mills, canning factories—and what do I know? The American girls who came to the Chambruns showed the way to the men, who profited Lntelli- I gentlv and thankfully. No Chambrun has wasted a dollar of American money. Founder of Musee Sociale. In Paris the head of the family who divided his time between the

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magnificent chateau of I’Empery Carrieres and the Musee Sociale —was a great personage in several lights. He died a few years since. Socially a Paris leader, he found time to himself to make the Musee Sociale, where many American students have been welcomed to learn everything done in France in the line of university settlements, model houses, pure milk and all that sort of thing. The funds of the Musee Sociale—in part American girls’ money—have permitted several French sociologists to visit the United States to study what we do in the same lines. Its director, Leopold Mabilleau, appointed by De Chambrun, gave one of tne French lecture courses at Harvard. 1 could thus go on for pages. For each American girl who has wasted love and fortune in undignified European title-buying, I can name you 15 others who, in France at least, have made love matches, reasonable bargains, settlements in life continuing happily and usefully. ♦ Why belittle our girls who come here and marry, making the name of American a thing to be proud of, by their fortunes, by their adaptability? Became French Social Leader. Shall I speak of the Marquise de Ganay, who was a Miss Ridgeway of Philadelphia? She is now a grandmother, with children and grandchildren married into great French families, a portentous, awful social leader! Or shall I mention the Baronette »

- '»■ v nF » m —v - nF L * PIRATE’S SENSE OF CHIVALRY. That even a Chinese pirate may have a strong idea of chivalry is proved by the following excerpt from an item In the North" China Daily News: “The launch at once stopped when ordered to do so. The leader of the pirates was then heard to order his men that they were not to molest anyone on board who voluntarily handed over his or her valuables. Among the passengers, however, were i a father and son. the latter of whom,

■ Louis de La Gt - i tesse Jean de I C ‘ the daughters o’ ‘8 Carroll i of Carrollton. 1 . ... inheriting $20,00 * children, Bretenn l y< arqulse de Breteuil, who w Louis? Suppose . .. ' marquis $4,000,1 7 ~ ' n afford it. Do jou want th One of her ln x rrU Leon 'on Moltke, who i , k iu Paris, and his )} it was good and fair, Bona . Fdi h °r ' sister ’ Edith Garner ordoQ Cum . mings, made tl w of E land s scanesroah . _ .

1 . iccarat affair of years ago. | The Marquis De never had a good hour when * h his wUe Miss von Hoff York. James Gordon Bennet ^ ta BeU no . toriously madt . Count paul dAramon-hin 4 half an aS ' * bad been a Miss Fisher. \ d a patriarchal life. The lady iOsL £ dollar of her money. ° n ’ is rich enough °.., et ^ er dau ' ry where they 1- England niinne to build

—'inons to uunu — —H^-litXJitestige Cf-rrou-clads, i men-of-war, cr line-of-ba*44e j ships. If wt . ,cans prefer to , make a smarter, ) elier kind of repu- ' tation for our lar |a. nd folk, W hy. i et our girls come yshow Europe howto live! They < Whoop! JUST CLEX i the WAY. After All, What' ne Tooth, More C. w »? —- The late Ednmnt Clarence Sted- j man.’ said a Chic* lublisher, 'u ^d to entertain his ff! ^s with amusing memories of count journalism. He once edited, you kif w, a little paper in Connecticut. At a dentists' banquet in New Aork, where he pb nan original poem, he told a storj- abo it an amateur Connecticut dentist, on i ot his oldest sub- ' scribers. "This man’s nan * was Jake. Jake was at work in a tom field one day

when a neighbor!® e farmer came to him. holding his ja r. The farmer had the toothache, and to save a trip to I t’lnated and a dentist's fee he wantr U Jake to pull tht । aching tooth. I „ ■ Jake led him tc t the barn, seated him on a saw-hors- jind took from the harness room a j i,r of very large. I rusty pincers. Here goes.' he u iid. and bracing himself extracted fhuge tooth. The farmer el jped his hand to his jaw. He poin e i reproachfully to the large white to< in the pincers. " Why, Jake/ I » said, ’that s the

wrong one.’ “'I know,’ said . lake > bracing himself again: ’but no - A can at tke other handier.' ” “The Morr ,in 9 Tub -’’ A few years age ’ a sister ot ‘ mine called in to see an old lad - v who lived I in a little cottage i 1 Lincolnshire, and in the course of co versation happened i to mention that st । bad a cold sponge- , down every mornin | g - “Law, miss!” sai< I i ^be old lady, and does your mother k now ? “Yes, certainly; and s be quite ap- । proves.” “Well,” said the • P ld la ^- “ a washes me faace ivvery dat ■ an a washes mi ; neck once a ween, bu<- ave nivver bin washed al ower sin ce a was a babbj. | This good old la lived to the ri P e ' old age of 93. —Le ter to the London Daily News. PropeTTiTc .rimination. A party of Nev Yorkers who go down to Virginia e; lck Y ear i° r an extended fishing trip were one day discussing the merits °i tbe various fish in the streams of be Old Dominion, when one of them t nally turned to the old darky who sery I e< i tbe party as guide and boatman, and said: “Zeke, don't you think yellow perch is altogether the bes fish in tnis vicinity?” “Yessah,” prompt responded Zeke, “yaller perch ar 11 . de bes fish heah, always excusi n de white shad. 1 —lllustrated Sunda; Magazine.

it seemed, was a little too slow in obeying the pirate’ 3 order t 0 hand over his money, wi ^h the result that he was shot. Upor ' h earin S the shot the pirate chief, w ho was 011 deck ’ came down into th< cabin and seeing the father of the m youu 8 man lamenting over his son s death, addressed the old n lan and condoled with him on his son ’ s unfortunate and ‘undeserved’ death. The chief finally brought out of his- - P° cket a roll of SSO and handed th « sum tc the man as a solatium.’

ffll HE BLASTS TERRIBLE DISASTER IN A COAL SHAFT IN WYOMING. VICTIMS MAY NUMBER 70 First Explosion Snuffs Out 18 Lives and in Second a Big. Party of Rescuers Perishes. Cheyenne, Wyo.—Between 55 and 70 men lost their lives in two explosions in coal mine No. 1. owned by the Union Pacific Coal company at Hanna, Saturday. The explosions 'were caused by gases and coal dust and each was followed by fire. The first explosion occurred at three o'clock, when 18 mine workers, includ-

ing a superintendent and three bosses, were killed. The second occurred at 10:30 o’clock at night, snuffing out the ; lives of from 40 to 50 members of a rescue party, including State Mine Inspector D. M. Elias. The wildest excitement prevailed i Sunday in Hnnnn and at the mine, । where hundreds congregated, includ- ; ing widows, children and other rela- ; tives of the victims. When the second ' explosion occurred additional appeals I were telegraphed to all surrounding I towns for assistance. One train was i rushed west from Omaha, carrying ofI ficials of the Union Pacific railroad and the Union Pacific Coal company. The bodies of four of the IS men who lost their lives in the first exploi sion were located Saturday night, but owing to the increasing volume of gas. which threatened to explode at any | m ment. no effort was made to remove them to the surface. Fire . rarted in the colliery last Sun--1 day. sinct which time attempts at regi ular intervals have been made to extinguish it. Saturday it was deemed • unsafe to send the miners down into I the workings and they were notified not to report for duty. Superintendent Briggs, with a team of picked men. the best and most experienced hands in the camp, went into the mine to fight the fire, but at two o’chx-k the flames had got beyond their control and at three (.'clock the fire connected with the walled-off gas and a terrific explosion followed. The victims are all below the tenth level and it is likely i that the flames consumed the corpses. A second explosion occurred at 10:30 at night in the east shaft, where a gang of 50 relief workers under State Mine Inspector Elias were about 1 to remove four of the victims of the first explosion. The shaft was filled with debris and all air currents cut off. The second explosion was more severe than the first, being felt in all parts of the town, and it is feared that 50 or 60 names have been added to the death list. Miners and citizens rushed to the east shaft, where they were joined by the relief workers who : were driven from the west shaft, which was also caved in by the exploaP ** >; jat-igork to dig out. -hort Ti/stance the rescuers"came"up??u > James Case, who was lying unconi scions in the level. He could tell nothing about what happened inside, as he was badly injured. It is feared that all the miners were 1 either killed outright or smothered by : the after-damp. As all were volunteers , and their names were not taken when j they entered, a list of the victims of i the second horror will not be available ' until a house-to-house canvass of the । camp is made. Additional men were summoned from neighboring coal camps and all ! available laborers in section and i grading gangs along the railroad are hurrying to Hanna. A miner named Jones, rescued late ’ Saturday night, expressed th? belief that 75 men were buried in the east shaft by the second explosion. He was carrying one of the men killed in the first explosion, and just ahead of him i two other men were carrying corpses and two others following immediately behind were equally burdened. He declares that those who were following him did not get out. Only three bodies have been recovered. TROOPS REACH TREADWELL. Their Arrival Is Unexpected—No Dis 1 - order Among Strikers. | Juneau. Alaska.—At four o’clock Sunday morning Company F. Tenth infantry. arrived at Treadwell on the army steamer Peterson, with orders from Gen. Brush at Vancouver to aid ; the local marshals. The arrival of the troops was unex- । pected. There is no disorder here. A j number of arrests of miners for carry- ' ing concealed weapons have been । made. A peace committee of the I union is keeping a strict patrol of the town, and there is little if any drunki that ten cases of p-owder were stolen | from the Treadwell mine. This is dei nied by the union leaders. Kinzie ad- : mltted that as yet there has been no trouble. Troops have been brought as a preventative measure. Says North Pole Is Shifting. Victoria. B. C.—That the north pole is shifting and the climate is changing, making the northern territories of this continent warmer and northern Vsia colder is the theory to support which Mose B. Colworth of York. England, has been gathering evidence in Alaska, from where he has returned on his way to England. A curi«us effect of this change it is said may be a number of boundary difficulties between Canada and the United States, especially in the eastern portion. The boundary is fixed by latitude. Riot to Purchase Stocks. New York. —Scenes approaching riot were witnessed on the Broad street curb market Saturday. It resulted from the offering for sale for the first time of shares in a widely advertised mining property. Five minutes before the usual opening hour more than 500 brokers and messengers who had gathered in the street made a wild rush for the agents to whom the distribution of the new shares bad been intrusted. Ninety per cent, of the brokers are said to have had buying orders for this stock.

Jesus the Good Shepherd f Sunday School Uison for April 5, 1908 9 Specially Prepared for This Paper I LESSON TEXT.—John 10:1-IS. Memory verse. 3. ■ GOLDEN TEXT—"The good shepherd ■ giveth his life for the sheep.”—John 10:11 TlME.—September. A. D. 29. at the feast of tabernacles (John 7:2). Some commentators, however, consider that John 9:1-10: 21 took place at the feast of dedication (John 10:22) in November. The latter part of the third year of Jesus’ public ministry. PEACE.—Jerusalem. On the second supposition as to time, the exact place was Solomon’s porch, on the east side of the temple. “Jesus with His audience might have seen the shepherds gathering their scattered flocks if they grazed out from the courts of the temple over the neighboring hills.”—Public Commentary. PERSONS.—Probably the blind man whom Christ had just healed, some of Christ’s disciples, and some of the Phari-

sees. Comment and Suggestive Thought. The Twofold Parable: the Fold, the Shepherd.—Vs. 1-6. First let us try to put ourselves back among the ■ sheepfolds of Christ's time. How were they arranged? “The fold was a walled enclosure open to the sky, with a solid door, which was closely barred • at night by the doorkeeper, and opened ( bj r him in the morning, when the shep- ’ I herds came to claim their sheep, I which they’ had left in the fold the ■ previous evening, in order to lead out , to pasture.”—Centurj' Bible. The door- ‘ keeper, or "porter," would know that ’ anyone found climbing in over the i wall was “a thief” (a sneak thief), | or "a robber” (a more violent rascal.) . The Twofold Interpretation of the Parabie. —Vs. 7-42. What double anal- j ogy did Christ draw from the parable? He was the Door (v. 7) and the Shep- , herd (v. 11). Why did he run the risk of confusing his hearers? Because truth is so many-sided, and Christ means so much to men, that many comparisons are needed to picture it all. First Analogy: Christ, the Door ! • (vs. 7-9). How is Christ like the door of a fold? Through him alone can men enter into the peace and safety that a fold implies—safety from the ravening beasts of sin. peace in the consciousness cf safety. Through the door. too. they go out (v. 9) into the : "pasture.” "What am a doo' fo', anyhow? .les' to shet yo’ out, jes’ to shet yo’ In’ or to let yo' thro'. Jesus am de Doo', de way into de Kingdom; an’ he am de Doo', de way out into life. He sho’ did say, ’lf yo’ enters in by me, yo’ shall be saved' —no evil can git by de Doo' Jesus. ‘An’ yo’ shall go out an’ in!’ Honey, dat am de freedom what he am all de time promisin ’An' yo' shall find pasture.’ Dat am de fullness of life what he am all de time fellin' ’bout. When yo’ passes out an’ when yo' passes in, yo’ sho’ nus has to pass right by de Mastah, and look him plum squar’ in de eyes.”—J. V. Lawrance. “Go in and out” was a phrase familiar to the Jews. See Deut. 28: 6; Psa. 121: 8; Jer. 37: 4. Why did Christ say he was the JBBBBBBll^BteL?imra'’ier than “of the his ’ndividual followi^’^mg^B~ rather than of the fold, his church. ; He is the door of both. Who were those that came before; Christ, the thieves and robbers, whom i the sheep did not hear? Not the j prophets, who humbly pointed forward ; to Christ, but the Jewish leaders of ’ the time just before Christ, and especially the Pharisees. They had laid many heavy burdens upon the people, who had been compelled to obey the I severe requirements of formal religion, but their hearts never yielded to these false leaders, “the sheep did not hear them.” Second Analogy: Christ, the Shep- I herd (vs. 10-18, 22-30.) As opposed to I the Pharisees’ wrong waj- of enter- । Ing the Kingdom. Christ was the 1 Door; but as opposed to the charac- j . ter cf the Pharisees, he was the Shep- ! herd. "As mediator between God and i man. he is the Door: as prophet or ■ teacher, he is the Good Shepherd.”— 1 Janies M. Macdonald. D. D. This is a ■ frequent metaphor of the Oki Testa- j ment. applied to God and to God’s I honored servants (Num. 27: 15-21; Psa. 23; 80: 1; Isa. 40: 11; Jer. 23: 1-4; Ezek. 34: 11-16; Zech. 11: 4-17.) Homer often speaks of his kings and ; leaders as shepherds; see aiso Plato’s Republic, Book I. "The figure has . impressed itself deeply on the mind j of Christendom, and is conspicuous : in the art and literature of the I churches. It is still the emblem of the | Christian ministry, from the office of the bishop, with his pastoral staff, to that of the village preacher, who Is I known as pastor.” —Century Bible. : "This is the favorite and most touching figure in the Catacombs. It seems to inspire the early Christian painters with delightful skill. How was Christ like a shepherd? In (1) his care of men (vs. 10-13). tn , (2) his knowledge of men (vs. 14, 15), 1 fn (S) the breadth of Ills love fer men (v. 16), in (4) the eagerness of men’s love for him (v. 27), in (5) his divine commission to care for men (vs. 15, 17, 18. 25, 29.) Two Kinds of Hearers (vs. 19-21. 31-42.) Christ’s words, like a twoedged sword, always divided his hear- : ers into two classes: those that mocked at him or raged against him. ! and those that went away thoughtful l and impressed if not convinced. If : the last halt' of the chapter is to be j i referred to the same occasion as the ' first half (see "Time"), the first set ; of hearers even tried to stone Christ : ! for his claim of unity with God. This ’ stoning for blasphemy was prescribed : in Lev. 24: 16, and the Jews had at- I tempted it only two months before. ; In which class of hearers are you? j Curious Cyclone in Japan. In a bulletin printed in Japan Prof Omori reports a regular phenomenon . which attended the passage of a cy- ; clone near Tokio. There was a tilting of the earth's surface in one direction | as the storm approached and in the; other direction after it had gone. Both movements, registered at the professor's seismological o: -'watery, indicated a sinking of the earth where , the atmospheric pressure was lowest. : The expert accounts for it by sup- i posing that suction at the storm cen- i ter raised the level of the adjacent ■ sea, and thus imposed an abnormal I ' burden on the bottom of the ocean. ‘

■ SIS AH ACRE REALIZED OR CROP IK WESTERN CAHADL ANOTHER FARMER REALIZES $22.50 PER ACRE FROM HIS WHEAT CROP LAST YEAR. Charles McCormick of Renville, ' Manitoba, writes: “During the season of 1907, I had 100 acres in erop on the S. W. quart ^r of section ly, township 35, range 27 west of the Principal Meridian, Western Canada, yielded as follows: “80 acres at 22 bushels per a^re, which I sold for 90 cents per bushel; and 20 acres oats yielding 60 bushels per acre I sold for 35 cents per bushel so that mj' total crop realized $2,004 - 00. From this I deducted for expenses of threshing, hired help, etc., $4“ .0< ; . leaving me a net profit on this year’s i crop ot over $1,600.” j Thomas Sawatzky of Herbert, Sas-

katchewan. says: “The value of my crop per acre of wheat is $22.50. I threshed 1,750 ' bushels of wheat from 70 acres, and ' was offered 90 cents a bushel for it. Oats, 15 acres, 500 bushels; and barley. 5 acres, 80 bushels. I i do not know if I have been doing the best in this district, but 1 k. i if all the farmers were doing as well. : XV estern Canada would have no kick coming as far as grain growing is ■ concerned; and I further say that if j you want to put this in one of your ad- , vertisements, this is true and I can i put my name to it.” | BUT WAS IT THE SAME MELON: I Paper Carried by Darky Amounted Almost to Perpetual Permit. “A negro just loves a watermelon," said Representative Johnson of South Carolina. “Strange, too, that when a policeman sees a negro with a melon at an unreasonable hour he has it right down that the darky has stolen that watermelon. I heard a story about ' a policeman who met a negro in the I early hours of the morning, and he had a big melon on his shoulder. “‘I see you have a melon there’.’ “ ‘Yes. sah.’ answered the darky. j Tse got er melon: but I'se fixed fer I you. sah,’ and pulling out a paper he handed it to the officer, who read: ‘This bearer of this is O. K. He paid me ten cents for the melon, and he is a pillar in the church. James Elder.’ “ ‘You are fixed,’ said the officer. “ Dat’s what I ’lowed.’ answered the negro, and he moved on.”—Washington Herald. PRESCRIBED CUTICURA After Other Treatment Failed—Raw Eczema on Baby's Face Had Lasted Three Months—At Last Doctor Found Cure. , “Our baby boy broke out with eczema on his face when one month old. , One place on the side of his face the , size of a nickel was raw like beefsteak , for three w—hn and h* 3 wrmld cry ^Bt^ed the parts That were | three months’ treatment from a good j doctor, but at the end of that time the j child was no better. Then my doctor i recommended Cuticura. After using ' a cake of Cuticura Soap, a third of a I box of Cuticura Ointment, and half a bottle of Cuticura Resolvent he was well and his face was as smooth as any baby’s. He is now two years and a i half old and no eczema has reappeared. Mrs. M. L. Harris, Alton, Kan.. May 14 and June 12, 1907.” CLASSIFIED. I JJ LJL ii _j Printer—Where shall I put th? an nouncement of Aiderman Dodger's retirement? Editor — Under "Public Improva- | ments." How Her Life Was Saved When Bitten Sy a Large Snake. How few people there are who are ' not afraid of snakes. Not long ago a 1 harmless little garter snake fell on j the wheel of an automobile which was , being driven by a woman. The woman i promptly fainted and the car, left to ! its own resources, ran into a stone wall and caused a serious accident. The bite of a poisonous snake needs prompt attention. Mrs. K. M. Fishel. Route No. 1, Box 40, Dillsburg, Pa., tells how she saved her life when bitten by a larg~ snake. "On August 29, 1906, I WAS Jlilten on the hand twice by a large copperhead snake. Being a distance from any medical aid. as a last resort I used Sloan's Liniment, and to my astonishment found it killed all pain and was the means of saving my life. I I am the mother of four children ant 1 ' am never without your Liniment.” Woman’s Rule. It is becoming more and more evi ‘ dent that women mean to have and j will sooner or later, gain the suf- : frage. which all thoughtful persons ' of both sexes are coming to see is I only a reasonable claim, but one could | wish that men vould accede to it ir. ' a more generous spirit, and that womI en would pit ad for it in womanly fashion, and without treating man as if j he w *v the sole possessor of ull the l vio -—Lady's Pictorial. Deafness Cannot Be Cured ’ cal applications, as ': -y ec . t reach ■d * I ea«ed portion of the ear. I's-e l» ■ niy one ..ay to ' Ovatnesa la caj-. lly an Inflamed coudlv. nos the : leucons lining of - ::e Eu-iaehtan I’ube. When tbs I perfect bearing, and wncn it t< entirely closed. Pea: take: :: :::■ l th- : t ’ - 1 ti n. hearing ■ . ■ •.edr IL- <- ■ but an inti .me : ' •iu -' - - 'face- ■ De ('■: : ' .: -.p r ■ J ired i d < iibSEV iCu'.'. i’o.edo. O. . Trollope's Earnings as an Author. As an author Anthony T; -I! v reJ ceived $500,e00 during his 1..