Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 18, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 16 October 1908 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT W. A. ENDLEY, Publisher WALKERTON. - INDIANA Chicago Record-Herald: Ambassador Hill will continue to arnbass. The czar is said to have a dozen crowns. His head lies uneasy enough with one. “All in favor of apple dumplings please rise,” says the Baltimore Sun. The ayes have it. Men wifi have to buy the dominion of the air with blood. That was how the land was won and the sea. And now comes the pigskin further to divert attention from the game of saving the country.—Boston Herald. No one objects to the directoire gown provided it does not look as If the lower part of it had caught on a nail. “No woman who wears a ‘rat’ shall become my wife,” says an Ohio college professor. Rough on rats, for sure. Esperanto, of course, is not a dead or even a dying language. Its “rattllng'in the throat” is an auricular illusion.

A Chicago princess who is stranded In Paris finds it is mighty little in the way of groceries that she can buy on her title. We are worried about where they are going to put the gasoline stations for these new air machines. —Atlantic Constitution. The Russian minister of commerce is named Shipoff. It is to be hoped for the trade of the country that he lives up to it. Keir Hardie advises Americans to “go into politics.” They do. But not like a flock of silly sheep with some agitator for bell-wether. “Rats no longer are worn in the hair,” says a woman's magazine. No, they seem to have been supplanted by those little rows of mice. It is hard to tell which tastes better, the first piece of flanky, juicy, spicy, raisiny mince pie in the fall, or the first cucumber in the spring. Probably that Milwaukee hermit who refused to wash for eight years was not a teetotaler and consequently did not want to encourage any undue intimacy. Os course plants are capable of feelings. Hasn’t the corn ears to hear and the potatoes eyes to see? Haven’t you heard the trees moan and seen the rose blush? An insurance man says there are 19,500 women in New York who are past 75 years of age. This is not surprising; there art lots of chorus girls in New York. Flowers may have memories, but as long as the corsage bouquet and the honeysuckle on the porch can tell no tales what_doea it mattgr ^Louisville Courier-Journal. A man in Des Moines buys his mo-ther-in-law five pounds of candy every week. The scheme should work and is safer than the slow poison plan.— Detroit Free Press. Now that the North cape’s cliffs have been desecrated by the brushes of the advertising painters we almost : wish that Peary would never give them a chance at the north pole. A perfectly good imitation of a Carnegie hero medal is offered to the man who has read all of the political plat- i forms, speeches of acceptance and campaign books.—Louisville CourierJournal. “Auto-suggestion” is receiving considerable attention from scientists. Did you ever catch the monologue of the man on his back in the dust trying to coax the machinery of one of the snorting go-devils?

An up-to-date farmer in Connecticut Insists on having a flying machine clause in his insurance policy, arguing that flying machines are quite as uncertain as tornadoes, for you never know what or when they are going to strike. A Philadelphia heiress alleges that she went through a mock marriage with an American for the purpose of keeping her parents from purchasing a foreigner with a title for her. We can hardly believe her story is true, because it is reported that her mother has forgiven her. The government is going to lay a molasses road in Massachusetts. That is, it will prepare a binder for macadam roads the basis of which will be the residue of sugar-cane manufacture, a by-product for which there is at present no known use. But isn’t there some danger that the small boys and girls will carry off the road for all-day suckers or some other terrible things? The dahlia is coming to a place of honor in the floral world. Last year a special display of this flower was made in Indianapolis and exhibitions are now in course of preparation in eastern cites. The. dahlia is a stiff, formal blossom, with no sentiment connected with it, but it has the beauty of rich coloring in a variety of shades. There are said to be 500 or more known varieties of the dahlia, and as it is easy to produce new specimens both professional and amateur florists are fond of experimenting with it. A dahlia fad is impending. Italy wants American moving pictures. The motto abroad about anything seems to be “When in doubt about, getting the best, bring it from the United States.” And yet we are not proud, but speak to every nation in as friendly away as ever. A runaway elephant in a New York zoo got into the snakehouse, which suggests that its keepers had more than the usual amount of human annoyance in having an elephant on their hands and seeing snakes at the same time.

BURSTS HIGH IN AIR BALLOON COLLAPSES IN THE INTERNATIONAL RACE. YANKEES IN DIRE PERIL Envelope Forms Parachute and Forbes and Post Escape Almost Un-hurt—Twenty-Three Airships Start. Berlin. —The international balloon race, which started Sunday from the suburb of Schmargendorf, was the occasion of a thrilling accident, two American aeronauts having a miraculous escape from death. The American balloon Conqueror, the only American built craft in the contest, having on board A. Holland Forbes and Augustus Post, less than two minutes after the start, burst at an altitude of 4,000 feet. For 2.000 feet it shot down like a bullet, and then the torn silk bag assumed the shape of a parachute, and the rapidity of the descent was checked. Coming close to the earth, however, the basket smashed into the roof of a house, but the two men escaped with but slight injuries. The race, in which 23 balloons participated, representing Great Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and Spain, started at three o’clock in the afternoon in the presence of at least 80,000 spectators. The second batch of eight balloons was led by Forbes in the Conquerer, which was started with some difficulty owing to a gusty wind and too much ballast. But eventually it shot up and reached a high altitude in an incredibly short period, the basket swaying violently. Then almost instantly a cry of horror arose from the crowd, who saw the silk collapse and shouted: “The balloon is ripping up.” Thousands who had gathered there stood for a moment petrified. Some turned away, fainting as they saw the balloon falling with lightning-like rapidity. “They are killed,” went in a hushed whisper through the crowd, but shortly the remainder of the envelope appeared to take first a triangular shape and then was transformed into a sort of parachute at the top of the net and the progress of the wrecked balloon was considerably arrested. It came down slower and slower, meanwhile being swept by the wind far to the southeast, and finally disappeared from view behind a block of houses. The suspense among the crowd was terrible. But a few minutes later a telephone message was received from Friedenau which announced that the men had landed and had not been seriously injured.

NEGRO SAVED FROM MOB. j Thousand People Fight State Troops in Spartanburg, S. C. Spartanburg, S. C. —In the heart of Spartanburg, a city of £O,OOO popalanumbering a thousand or । more persons at times fought Saturday with the military and civil authorities for the possesion of John Irby, a negro, alleged to have attempted to assault Miss Lillie Dempsey earlier in the day while the young woman was on her way here from Saxon Mill village, three miles away. Three mill operatives were wounded. Three companies of militia arrived about nightfall and Gov. Ansell him- j self hurried to the scene. The mob then dispersed and no further trouble is expected, though the troops will remain for a time. Several alleged mob I leaders were arrested Sunday. Found Dead In a Thicket. Warrenton, Va. —Ernest Robinson. 24 years old, a member of the Warren- ! ton Rifles, who with his brother Wal- ' ter disappeared from their home here j six weeks ago, was found dead Friday I in a thicket near the railroad tracks : at Casanova, a small station between Warrenton and Calverton. There is no clew to the whereabouts of the ■ other brother, who is two years older. Both the young men were well known i and owned the general store here. Killed by Canada Indians. Winnipeg, Man.—lt is reported here that James Oliver Curwood, the well- ! known author of Detroit, Mich., who j recently went into the Hudson Bay j wilds for a Detroit publishing firm, j has been killed by Indians in the Lac ; La Ronge country. Details are want- ■ ing, but the trader who brought in the report says that the Lac La Ronge Indians assert the white man began the trouble by shooting one of them.

Wounded in Sham Battle. Askabad, Turkestan.—During maneuvers of the Turkestan army corps Friday in the vicinity of Askabad, Gen. Mistchenko, who played a conspicuous part in the Russo-Japanese war and who is now governor general of Turkestan, was wounded in a sham battle. A revolutionist plot is suspected. Fatal Col'apse of Dwellings. Philadelphia.—An explosion that occurred in a near-by factory more than six years ago, it is declared, caused the collapse of two dwellings in the northern section of the city Sunday in which one person was killed and several injured. Football Player Is Killed. Cannonsburg, Pa. — William M. Potts, the football player who was injured in a game here on October 3, died Sunday after having been unconscious since last Monday. New Orleans Gets Mothers’ Congress. Washington.—At a meeting of the board of governors of the National Congress of Mothers in this city Friday it was decided to hold the next annual meeting of the congress in New Orleans in February next. Red D Liner in a Hurricane. San Juan, P. R. —The Red D line steamer Philadelphia, from New York, October 1, for this port, ran into a hurricane on Monday and was blown off her course. The steamer had to hetve to for 36 hours.

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SUPREME COURT AT WORK JUSTICES ALL PRESENT WHEN THE TERM IS OPENED. First Day Given to Formal Call on President—Calendar Is Unusually Large. Washington.—After a recess of more than tour months the supreme I court of the United States resumed business Monday and will continue in term until next June. All the nine jus- | tices have returned from their respective summer homes, so there was a full bench on the first day of the sitting. As has long been the court's custom, no business beyond making a formal call on the president was transacted Monday. This call is one i of the four most formal ceremonies occurring in Washington official life. Immediately after convening at noon : carriages were ordered and, accompanied by the clerk of the court and I its marshal, the court as a body pro- , ceeded to the White House, where all | the members met the chief executive lin a formal and official manner. The I ceremony concluded, they returned to the capitol and dispersed for the day. A large attendance of attorneys is expected on Tuesday and many motions and petitions will be presented. With these disposed of the court will proceed to the hearing of arguments In the casos Qn the (locket larger calendar than it has had at the beginning cf a term aince the passage of the court of appeals act. At the close of business Saturday there were 572 cases on the docket as against 480 cases at this time last year. A majority of the cases came over from last term, but the number docketed during the recess exceeded those docketed in the recess of 1907 by 18. This indicates a growth In the business of the court despite most earnest efforts on the part of its members to hold it down.

H. A. GARFIELD COLLEGE HEAD. Inducted Into the Office of President of Williams. Williamstown, Mass. —Harry Augustus Garfield of the class of ’BS, son of President James A. Garfield, was inducted Wednesday into the office of president of Williams college. Seven-ty-five college presidents had accepted invitations to be present and the ceremony of induction was witnessed by men prominent in civil and professional life. The state was represented by Gov. Guild. James Bryce, ambassador of Great Britain, was also present, as well as United States Senator Crane and President. Garfield's 'three brothers, Secretary of the Interior Garfield, Irvin McDowell Garfleid and Abram Garfield, all Williams men. E. H. Goss, Banker and Author, Dead. Melrose, Mass.—Elbridge Henry Goss, author and banker, died Friday of pneumonia. He was 78 years old. Mr. Goss had been treasurer of the Melrose Savings bank for 24 years and was the author of numerous historical works.

Big Lumberman Dead. Calumet, Mich.—John S. Morrison, aged 67 years, the largest timber jobber in the Copper country, died Saturday of a complication of diseases. He was a prominent Free Mason and very wealthy. Accused of Brutal Crime. Chicago.—Luman Mann, the son of Orville C. Mann, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Oak Park, was brought to Chicago Saturday night and locked up on the charge of being the murderer of Mrs. Fanny Thompson, who was found strangled and bound hand and foot with a clothesline in a rooming house at 1242 Michigan avenue on the afternoon of July 1. The youth’s family and their lawyer profess entire confidence in his innocence. He was arrested at PhillipsBurg, Pa., after a long search. Fatal Motor Car Accident. Auburn. Me. —Dr. Charles E. Williams of this city and Mrs. Williams were the victims of an automobile accident at Leeds Friday. Their machine was overturned, pinning them beneath. Mrs. Williams died and the condition of Mr. Williams is serious. Case of Cholera in a Theater. St. Petersburg.—A case of cholera was discovered during a performance at ‘ne Souvorin theater. There was a panic in the audience, but no one was hurt.

BIG El -EVATOR EXPLODES. Thirteen P ~ ersons Killed in Disaster । at Richford, Vt. Richford, ~ which shoo u ' ,nh a concussion grain elevi , Fe village ’ a large 500,000 bus ' . ’ baving a capacity of day, causia e ^ )lodcd late Wednesa woman. B the death of 12 and roof of th a ° ff ’ he entire bers in all e building, scattering timstantly flat directions, and almost in structure. out over the Ployed In t J Vum? 0 ”® ™ en Were em ' missing an of whom 11 are lived in Ri' d undoubtedly perished. All The elev J ° rd ' the Canad ar was owned jointly by Maine ralf Paclflc and Boston & the Quake WaS occu ^ ed by co The a 0 ,3 Company of Chicawas very T° Unt of graf ” contained are sunnt arge ' Tbe flames, which spontaneo / ha '’« been started by j ' . » combustion in the <irv

dust of t’ , 11,1 that the 1 \ * raia ' s b re a d quickly villace U d flre a PP ar atus of the , Su xt ” bing <-dd elevator t 1 ® nUre destruction of the The h< .? !?, T'""’ 3 near rhe . l a™ lo “ n, ’» r ^-'1 serher wit n 7’5“?',“1? ,he she<i - ! near it w ” " fre, K h t cars standing near it. u burQed Tho wr 1 tracks of ckage ami fire blocked the X cw. was nece- y f ° r many h Ol1 "’ so U detour b ^‘ ry f ° r ' ralns t 0 niake * — w ay of Sherbrooke. Que i The 'iota ib esTfmateiTat 1400,000 GEN* ’A C. ABBOTT DIES.

Former < e! *ctor of Internal Revenue . it Michigan Expires. v Washing: on.—Gen. Ira C. Abbott, formerly Cf Elector of internal revenue in Mlchiga n, and for several years clerk In the pension bureau, died at his home ht >re Friday after a protract ed illness. He was 84 years old. Gen Abbott was a native of Burns, N. Y was for som. ? years postmaster at Burr Oak, Mich., served throughout the civil war an d was brevetted brigadier general for 1 ils splendid record on the battlefields. He was president of the Michigan St ate association in this city and a mi imber of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Military Loyal Legion and Mher patriotic organizations.

Bad Fir e in Florida Town. Pensacola, Fla.—News of a disas trous fire whit th swept over Carrabelle Fla., a small town east of Pensacola was brought to this city Sunday by the steamer ’ Tarpon. Nine business houses, a res! dence and many thousands of feet of lumber were destroyed, entail: ng a loss estimated to be more than SIOO,OOO. Among the buildings desti oyed were the United States custom s house, post office freight and pas senger depots.

Alleged Mobe L eader Acquitted Again. Springfield, Il I.—After 16 hours' deliberation, the j ury in the case of Abe Raymer, allege 1 mob leader, charged with destructk nos property during the recent riot s, returned a verdict of not guilty Thursday afternoon. Raymer had pre ’iously been acquitted of murder in ( inection with the lynching of W. -. Donnegan, an aged negro. jht with Rifles. Sault Ste. r e , Mich.—A battle With rifles betw - American fishermen and Uanadit officials is said to have been foug' a Lake Superior opposite White I point.

New Record Wireless Work. San Francisco. A new record in wireless telegrap ’ j s claimed by the United Wireless ’ qjelegraph Company which from its stal Ton on Russian Hill in this city establii ted communication with the Kuhuku station on the Island of Oahu, 2,20' miles away. More Bank I :aminations. Washington.—Co ptroller of the Currency Murray !S decided to in crease the nuniß of national bank examinations ing any cases from twice to three or® r times a year. New Surgeon C . eral of I. N. G. Springfield. 111.-Viy virtue of an or der issued Friday «y Adjt. Gen. Scot; Dr. Charles Adamsß of Chicago is ap pointed surgeon gOneral of the Ulinois National Gua^^rd. He succeed' l Dr. Nicholas Senn, Chicago, deceased Trainmen Perisß, i n a Wreck. Spokane, Wash.—lK passenger train was wrecked near ■FoUer, Mont., on the Shelby Junctioft branch of the Great Northern railtWpad Friday. The engine went into the® river and a fin man and a watchma® were killed.

‘CZAR’ ENTERS SOFIA BULGARIAN CAPITAL WELCOMES PRINCE FERDINAND. diplomats take no part — I Turkish Warships on Their Way t< Samos — England Consents to General Discussion at Coming Conference.

Turkish Vessels on Way to Samos. baloniki. European Turkey.—The lurkish cruiser Meijidieh and three torpedo boats arrived here Monday and proceeded on their voyage to the Island of Samos. Samos lies about 40 miles southwest of Smyrna, which is in Asm Minor. It is the nearest Grecian island to the Turkish coast and pays an annual tribute to Turkey London.—M. Iswolsky, the Russian foreign minister, has succeeded in impressing upon Sir Edward Grey, the British secretary for foreign affairs rhe necessity that not only should a conlerence of the powers be held to settle the crisis in the near east, but that this conference should take under advisement other questions besides ’hose involved in the annexation by Austria of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the declaration of Bulgarian independence.

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! his change of front on the part of ■ tiat Britain, which has caused great surprise, was announced by the foreign office at the conclusion of a long conference between Sir Edward Grey and M. Iswolsky after a meeting of the cabinet in the morning, at which Sir -Award set forth the position he had taken am! explained the views of the Russian foreign minister.

SAYS SHE WAS SOLD FOR SIOO. Julia Madelin Has No Regrets for Killing Cruel Husband. New Brunswick. N. J.—That she was sold for SIOO and forced by her father to marry a man she did not love was the statement made Monday by 11 jear-old Julia Madelin. who last Saturday shot and killed Tony Madelin. to whom she was married four months ago. The girl said she had

no regret for ber act I was ill and lying on the bed when he came in Saturday night.” said she. He asked me why supper was not ready and 1 told him I was not well enough to get it. Then he ordered me to get up and close a window. I said I could not, and he struck me. He beat and kicked me and then, tak•ng out his knife, said he would kill me I ran around him and got the revolver and when he made as if he would stab me I killed him." DEADLY DUEL OVER WOMAN. Two Chicago Men Fight with Knives for Love.

Chicago.— A duel to the death over a young woman early Monday resulted in two men being taken, dying, to the county hospital, and the severe | bruising of seconds in jumping from a third-story window to evade arrest. I The men, who fought with knives for the affections of the unidentified woman, are George Kohick and George Sanieret. Their seconds, who tried to escape when the police arrived, are Alexander Pearcheck and Joseph । Busherman. The seconds later were , arrested. MIDSHIPMEN TO BE DROPPED. Twenty-Four Annapolis Students Fail to Pass Examinations. ■ ; ; M ashington.—As a result of the September examinations at the United ’ States Naval academy, 24 midship- 1 men will be dropped from the rolls. 1 At the regular examination in May 1 last 42 midshipmen were found deficient and were informed that they 8 would be re-examined in September t at the conclusion of the regular sum- ” mer cruise in order to give them an o opportunity to complete their studies. ’ All but the 24 were passed.

» , lowa Merchant a Suicide. Boone. la.—Charles G. Bard, a mer j chant of Pilotmound, committed sui- . cide Monday by taking carbolic acid. Financial troubles are said to be the cause for the act. Convicted of Attempted Extortion. Clinton. la.—Alfred Paul, a New Hampshire man, was convicted Monday of attempted extortion and sent to the penitentiary for an indeterminate term. The conviction followed Paul’s attempt to extort SSOO from A G. Smith, a Clinton banker. Murderer Gets Life Sentence. Appleton. Wis.—Judge Goodland Monday sentenced Paul Krause, found ; guilty on Saturday of murdering his ; divorced wife, Minnie Grunert, to life ! imprisonment at Waupun. Funeral of W. A. Rothwell. i Moberly. Mo.—The funeral of Wfb ■ liam A. Rothwell. Democratic national committeeman, took place Monday. Nearly all of the members of the committee appointed by Norman E. Mack, chairman of the national committee, were here. Batdon' Drops Libel Suit. St. Louis.—The libel suit of Col. Edwin Batdo.-f against former Gov. Lon V. Stephens for $40,000 was dismissed in the circuit court here Mondry for want of prosecution.

Bofia. Ferdinand, the “Czar of Bulgaria," made his entry into the cap ital Monday afternoon and was given a demonstrative reception by all classes. He entered the citv on horseback. accompanied by a brilliant staff, amid salutes from the artillery. He was welcomed by the municipal authorities at a triumphal arch erected at the end of the main boulevard. He later made his way to the cathedral where the metropolitan of Sofia and other high prelates officiated at a mass. The entire city is profusely decorated in honor of the visit, and crowded with people. After the mass the prince reviewed the local garrison None of the members of the diplomatic corps was present at any of the functions.

"^avTTs^Kindnes^^l Jonathan’s Son I Sunday School Le>son for Oct. 18, 1908 I ^^^eciallyArangi^ । ' ^SON TEXT,—2 Samuel 9 . GOLDEN TEXT i «„e one another.”—Eph. 4:32. “rgning bron Vt wi dunng Dav id’s reign at Hehalf wav the Jordan - Sea oflEr n the D " ad S “ a and the

il ^ u 99«tive Thought. 1 at ids Mind Reverts to Forgotten e sure^f - 7.° V y looked in tbe great pres--1 th t dut,es of ^fending and ord Them n? hIS klngdoni and building them up mto material and religious 1 prosperity. ^ogious I shuTwH?^ made a league of friends t Jonathan - Saul's son. which the -iff ^ Xtend to their children. All : unnn n thlS prince bad lavished - to P ° aV,d now cam e back in full tide tion of“t tO express bis appreciafamilv H 7 J n ? deeds t 0 some of the ‘ seR a had also loved s aul him- ! was a m lr 33 S&UI Was concer ned it as a noble example of doing good to Pro" 11 e or. a i C °’ ding to Ihe precept of Sm-l i’?" 1 ’ 22 and Rom - D-iv ,t ha ^ s ® veral times tried to kill . he had driven him into exile and hunted him from place to place.’ I wrnn " 38 , a 10ng ’ black ch anter of wrongs tn the past.

T F iuds Mephibosheth, Son of Jonathan.-Ziba. an office; of the a°son of S T aU1 ’ r P ° rted to David that a son of Jonathan was living in the not^ °f MaC ? ir iQ Lo de bar, a place not far front Mahanaim. * Meph,bosheth ’ whose name was or--1 rh y “ Lord Meri ” lid^T ; 34 ; 9:40) ’ was five y^ars d (. Sam. 4:4), when his father Jonathan and his grandfather Saul were slain on Mount Gilboa. When the news Zk e h of their death the bov ' s — took him and fled toward Jezreel. and u h er ba ste ]et him faU Hg n.iured that he was all his life lame in 2- 7 K Being five years old at - aul s death he must have been 12 kln?ov7 ar n °T ld When David becarae king over all Israel. When, therefore he came to court he must have been 0 J ear s old, was married, and had a Httle son (v. 12). Mephibosheth. as the representative nf Snni’c ___

had the precedence over Saul’s other . grandsons, and was Saul’s heir Other Accounts of Mephibosheth.— . 7 8: 34-40; 9:40-44; 2 Sam. 4 4, -1:<; 16:1-4; 19:24-30. -^Phibosheth’s Property Restored, and Himself Brought to the Palace.— i he oriental idea was that all the fam°mV IVal claimant the throne should be put to death, or removed rom all possibility of inciting an insurrection. His inheritance from Saul was restored to Mephibosheth. It must have been considerable. It was placed under Ziba, a steward, and the revenues were to be sent to his master at the court of David. Mephibosheth was invited to sit at the royal table as a part of David’s household. The Rvrinn b „ Syrian missionary, J ev William Ewing, says in the Sunday School Times: "When two men eat bread together, this is the desert sacrament, the sign and seal of a covenant of friendship, a league for mutual protection. This is so if they eat but once. Had David only on one occasion invited Mephibosheth to sit and eat with him, he would thenceforth have been known as the king’s friend to injure whom would be to provoke < the monarch s vengeance. But a 1 Place ‘continually’ at the royal table ’ declared a relationship of a deeper < and stronger kind. He who eats ‘con- I tinually at an Arab’s board has * passed the conditions of mere ‘guest’ * or ‘friend,’ and is acknowledged as s identified with the family in all its r manifold interests. David thus devised « right liberal things for the unfortu- 1 nate son of the beloved comrade of c other days.” T

Like David, we are not to wait till the needy’ come to us, but we are to search for any we can help; canvass our field, and find out who can be invited to eat the bread of life continually with us in osy class. We should organize and train our class to go into the highway and hedges if need be, and bring others in to enjoy the good things of the Bible with them.

No one should be too busy to do lets of kindness to individuals, and o pay by kindness the debts of love ‘Elevation to power is a God-given opportunity" for remembering those vho have been less successful.

A woman came to an oriental kine to have some wrong redressed, and he refused because he had not time "Then,” said she. “if you have not time to do justice, you have not time to be king.” A Violin Virtuoso. In a recently published biography ol Mischa Elman, the violinist, the writer Bays: “The boy came honestly by hit love for music, for his mother and his maternal grandfather were good vio linists. M hen he was four years old hf begged for a violin, and one was bought to please the child. Two days after he had received what his par ents gave him as a toy he ran to his father, who was a school teacher, ant said: ‘Listen. I can play your waltz. His father took him to the next meet ing of the village orchestra—it con sisted of six pieces—and the boy played the waltz and another like one who had had years of experience.” “De Natchel Way.” A rich northerner walking about it a southern negro settlement came upon a house around which several children were playing. Seeing that the family was destitute, he called the oldest negro boy and gave him a dollar. telling him to spend it for a Christmas turkey. As soon as the ' t>enerous man had gone, the negro woman called the boy to her and said. "Thomas, yo’ gimme dac dollah and ' go git dat turkey in the natchel way.” ‘

H PUTTING IT UP TO BILLIE. Logical Reason Why He Should Be the One to Ask Favor — I : The wagons of the “greatest show | jon earth” passed up the avenue at i daybreak. Their incessant rumble , soon awakened ten-year-old Billie and ■ hls five -year-old brother, Robert Their I ^^b^r feigned sleep as the two white■th i n SUre3 Crept past hl! r bed into the hall, on the way to investigate । Robert struggled manfullv with the unaccustomed task of putting on bis i c.othes. ‘ W ait for me, Billie,” his , mother heard him beg. “You’ll get i ahead of me. I “Get mother to help you,” counseled I Billie, who was having troubles of his own | Mother started to the rescue, and then paused as she heard the voice of hm younger, guarded but anxious and insistent: "You ask her, Billie You've known her longer than I have.”—Everybody’s I Magazine.

ALL HIS OWN. if'a I I E i; ■'' My! V»hat a big figure vou are getting!” “Well, what does that matter? f haven’t taken yours, have I?”

GIRL WAS DELIRIOUS ! With Fearful Eczema—Pain, Heat and Tingling Were Excruciatina— Cuticura Acted Like Magic. : “An eruption broke out on mv daughter’s chest. I took her to a doctor, and he pronounced it to be eczema of a very bad form. He treated her but the disease spread to her back and then the whole of her head was a J eCt ^’ and aII ber bair bad to be cut on- The pain she suffered was excruciating. and with that and the heat and tingling her life was almost unbearable. Occasionally she was delirious and she did not have a proper hour's sleep for many nights. The second ’iX° r 7% tried afford ed her just as httle relief as the first. Then I purchased Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills, and before the Ointment was three-quarters finished every trace of the disease was gone. It really seemed hke magic. Mrs. T. W. Hyde. Brentwood, Essex, England, Mar. 8. 1907.”

Worked Both Ways. John Kendrick Bangs bad been congratulated on the success of his last book. “Thank you." said Mr. Bangs, “and I am glad your congratulations don’t work both ways.” 'Mork both ways?” Yes. Like those that were one* offered to a man named Brownlow. A friend said to Brownlow: “ Let me congratulate you. I by the paper that your wife has presentcid you with twins.’ “Brownlow smiled. No, he said. ‘That is a mistake. The father’s name is John C. Brown low. I am John K. Brownlow.’ Ah, cried the other man, heartily^ then I do, indeed, congratulate you. ’ —Exchange.

The Allurements of the City. Mrs. Perkins and her daughter Manfl ’ from the country were in the : city vae day, and as they walked, along together they came to a window in which was displayed a variety of women's apparel. Mandy glanced wistiully at the different articles of clothing and started into the store. But a sign in the window which read: ' Clothing One-Half Off During This Sale.” caught Mrs. Perkins’ eye. She seized her daughter by the arm, hurried her along down the street, and exclaimed in a loud voice: “W’y, land's sake, Mandy, that ain't no decent place fer a girl to go!”—Judge’a Librarv.

Expression! of a Cynic. Walter Pater, an old man at 50. bald as a coot and grotesquely plain, regarded every woman much as did Dear Swift, who wrote: “A very little wB is valued in a woman, as we are pleased with few words spoken intel ligibly by a parrot." “You don’t approve of marriage?" a friend once observed to Pater. “No.” he replied, "nor would anybody else if he gave the matter proper consideration. Me» and women are always pulling dis ferent ways. Women won't pull our way. They are so perverse."

WANTED TO KNOW ’ The Truth About Grape-Nuts Food. It doesn’t matter so much what vok ■ hear about a thing, it’s what you know that counts. And correct knowledge j is most likely to come from personal j experience. "About a year ago,” writes a N. Y. । man, I was bothered by indigestion, j especially during the forenoon. I tried ^several remedies without any perman ent improvement. My breakfast usually consisted of j oatmeal, steak or chons, bread, coffee and some fruit. ; "Hearing so much about Grape-Nuts, I concluded to give it a trial and find out if all I had heard of it was true. So 1 began with Grape-Nuts and cream, 2 soft boiled eggs, toast, a cup i of Postum and some fruit. Before the end of the first week I was rid of the acidity o f the stomach and felt much relieved. By the end of the second week all traces of indigestion had disappeared and I was tn first rate health once more. Before beginning this course of diet. I never had any appetite for lunch, but now I can enjoy a hearty meal at noon time.” “There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Wellville." in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human Interest.