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GETTING A LIGHT.
Advance From Days of Rubbing to Days cf
Striking. :
By J. L.::;BOUR.’
We hold many of the conveniences
of life so cheaply that we give lmle‘
thought to what it would be to go
back to the primitive customs of our
forabears In their everyday life.
When we take a match and with a
gingle scrateh strike a light we do
not put any particular value on any
thing so common as a match, ;slo*
even the codorless little spitfire of a
“parlor match” commands our appre- 1
ciation to any great extent, l
The fire on the hearthstones of our |
forebears was guarded with as much
jealous care as the vestal virgins |
guarded it on the aniclent altar of |
the temple of Vesta. The fire was
never allowed to die out entirely on
the hearthstones in the days before
matehes were invented. The red
coals were buried under the ashes so
that they could be uncovered and
fanned into a flame when more fire
was needed.
The procesg of rubbing two sticks
of wood together until they produced
a flame is a very ancient one, It is
one of the most primitive ways of ob
taining fire, 1t is said that this pro
cess obtained in the days of ancient
Greecé and Rome, when the priests
of Jupiter had to kindle a fire, and
all the American Indian tribes used
it when they wanted fire, The inven
tive mind of man began to improve
on this method long before the idea
of such a thing as a match was ever
concelved.” One writer who has writ
ten exhaustively on the subject of
fire says: “Labor was saved, as well
as greater rapidity obtained, by using
a bow, with one turn of its string
twigted around the vertical stick,
which we may call the ‘drill,” so that
by moving it back and forth the drill
revolved with great rapidity in the
lower piece of wood, which is techni
cally called the ‘heasth.” A further
advance was made. Man has only
two hands, and he found that a third
point of resistance would be an ad
vantage. This Le cou¥d get when he
had a companion, but not when he
was alone. 8o he began to use his
mouth to steady the drill, while one
hand imparted the motion with the
bow and the other held the hearth,
Hence we get the mouth drill, the ad
ditional part of the apparatus being a
mouthptece of hard wood, bone or
stone, with a hole in it to receive the
head of the drill. Soon it was discov
ered that weight tells, and a weight
-was therefore added to the drill, giv
ing greater impetus, greater speed
and greater friction and, consequent
-Iy, greater heat, In this way the Iro
quois ‘pump drill’ was developed.”
One of the first matches was made
by cutting very thin strips of highly
resinous or dry pinewood, about six
inches long, with pointed ends dipped
in melted sulphur; thus prepared,
the sulphur points easily ignited
‘when applied to a spark obtained by
HOW HE FOUND BIG NUGGET.
Miner's Success in a Long Abandoned
My Placer Mine,
" Johnny Kearn, who has spent many
years in the placer mines of the old
Highland district, was in Butte yes
terday. Mr. Kearn achieved con
siderable distinction last winter when
he discovered the largest nugge! ever
found in the Highland districr, it
netting him SI2BB when it was sold
in the assay office in Helena.
“T will tell you how I found it,”
he said to reporter for the Standard.
*I took up some ground of my own
on the head of Poodle Dog Guleh,
where no one had a claim. I went u)
close to a big slide and began work
ing where placer miners had worked
forty years ago and again twenty
years ago. :
“1 left the cabin pretty early and
built a fire on a place where it looked
like there used to be a side ditch.
You could trace it although it is
grass grown. I thawed the grouna
out and then 1 began digging.
Pretty soon I got down to the ground,
through the black dirt to the gravel.
I had not shovelled for more than
ten minutes before 1 found him. My
shovel struck something that seemed
hard and 1 locked close and saw it
was yellow, His nose was pointed
right toward me and you bet 1 got
busy with my shovel, and in a little
while I had him in my hands. I saw |
it was a nugget weighing pounds—
he weighed five of them—and 1
knocked off work and came to town.
I took him to Mr. Johnston of the
Clark Bank and he put him in the
window, where people looked at him
for six weeks and then Lhe was sold
to the assay office.
“Where 1 found the nugget men
had worked forty® years agoa and
twenty years ago. The last work
was done by some Chinamen and
they were within three or four feet
of the big nugget when they quit
work. If they had found him they
would have torn up the entire moun
tain side looking for more like him.'’
—Anaconda Standard.
No Keys For Barrooms.
According to a decision by the
State's attorney and the counsel to
the Police Board of Baltimore, the
hotelkeepers of that ¢ity, under tha
liquor law passed by the last Legis
lature, will have little -use for the
keys to their barrooms. They can
sl liquor at almost any time.
striking fire into tinder from a flint
and steel, These matches were 4
common use for many vears. Then
some one invented the “instantaneous
light box.”” This congisted of a small
tin box containing a bottle, in which
was placed some sulphuric acid, with
enough fibrous asbestos to soak it up
and prevent its spllling out of the
bottle, and a supply of properly pre
pared maiches. These primitive
matches consisied of small splints of
wood about two inches long, one end
of which 'was coated with a chemical
mixture, prepared by micing chlorate
of potash, six parts; powdered loaf
sugar, two parts; powdered gum ara
bie, one part; the whole colored with
a little wermillion and mixed with
water until it became a thin paste.
The splints were first dipped into
meited sulphur and then into the pre
pared paste. They were really made
to burn by dipping the prepared ends
into sulphuric acid. We would sure
ly regard this as a pretty bothersome
kind of a match, and one with which
it would not be easy to strike a light
if one wanted to light the gas in one’s
house in the dark. One would need a
light in order to strike a light with
‘matches of this kind. A common
‘name for matches of this kind was
“‘spunks.”’
It was not until about the year
1833 that the friction method of ob
taining a light began 'to be devel
oped, and friction matches came into
use, There are many persons still
living who have a distinct recollection
of the first friction matches they ever
saw, and these matches were looked
upon with some distrust at first be
cause of the ease with which they
“went off.”” Some feared'that they
might ‘‘go off’” of their own accord
and burn people out of house and
home, lln the year 1823 a peculiar
match was introduced. Phosphorus
and sulphur were carefully mixed in
a glags tube tightly corked. A splin
ter of wood was slipped into the tube,
a small portion of the mixture was
drawn out, and when this was exposed
to the air it ignited and set fire to the
wood. But this was not a very “han
dy” mateh, after all, and people
clamored for something still simpler
and more effective. John Walker, a
druggist in England, invented the
first really practical friction matches,
giving to them the name of ‘Con
greves.” They were of thin strips
of wood, or cardboard, ecoated and
dipped with sulphur and tipped with
a mixture of sulphide of antimony,
ichlorate of potash and mucilage. But
they were expensive and beyond the
reach of the common people, costing
twenty-five cents for seven dozen of
‘them, Take it ‘“‘by and 'large” it
‘would be difiicult to mention an in
vention of greater utility to mankind
as a genuine convenience and neces
sity than the common match that we
buy and hold so cheaply.
' CHOICE OF A BRIAR PIPE.
Get One Which is Smooth Inside the
Bowl, Says Smoker.
A collegian who prides himself on
the sweetness and color of his briar
wood pipes and pretends to know a
lot more than any ordinary smoker,
spent half an hour making an addi
tion to his already large collection.
Some pipes he discarded because
of the grain of the wood; there was
too much stripe or too much birds
eve, he remarked. When he found
one which suited him he put it aside
until he had gathered three or four
which apparently were all right, and
then came his final test to pick out
the best of them all.
He held each with the bowl toward
the light, then slowly rubbed his
little finger inside. Two he discard
ed, then repeated the operation with
the others until only one remained
out of the discard. That one he
bought,
“Want 'em smooth inside,”” he ex
plained. ‘‘A briar pipe roughly fin
ished inside the bowl!l isn't worth
bothering with. I would not take
one for a gift; wouldn't take the
trouble to try to break.it in, for it
will never be any good. It won't
cake up right and it'll never be nice
and sweet.
“I've got a theory that when the
inside of the bowl! is rough all the
little edges and points of the wood
char and burnn the first time you
smoke it, and a burnt pipe is no good.
That’'s why I always take a pipe that
has a bowl as smooth on the inside
as on the out.
“Then it doesn't char but cakes
up evenly and gets good in a little
time. Maybe ihe theory is wrong,
but it has worked out well in my own
experience, and some of my f{riends
who have tried it agree with me."'—
New York Sun,
Russian Wins Honor. .
This year's “‘senior wranglership”
at the University of Cambridge, Eng
land, gave great honors to a young
Russian Jew, The result of the
“mathematical tripos” shows that Se
lig Brodetsky, whose father had
sought an asylum in England from
Russian oppression, had been brack
eted with Mr, Ibbotson, scholar of
Pembroke, for the coveted British
blue riband of mathematics.
There is a lot of poverty on Man
hattan Island, but the assessment
rolls give S2BOO in taxable property
|to each inhabitant.
THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. M, L. EURTON, PH. D.
Theme: Jesus as Prophet,
Brooklyn, N. Y. -— For the union
services of the churches on the
Heights, the preacher Minday was the
Rev. Marion Lergy Burton, Ph.D.,
pastor-elect of the Church of the Pil
grims. His subject was *“Jesus tho
Prophet.” He selected his text from
Matthew 21:10-11: “And when He
Wwas come into Jerusalem, all the city
was moved, saying, Who is this? And
the multitude said, This 18 Jesus the
Prophet of Nuzareth of Galilea.” Dr.
Burton zald in substance:
The central question of all this in
Christian life is, how does Jesus save
us; how are we to profit by Christ's
life? It is impossible in this shert
time to answer but one phase of the
three which our Saviour lived, as
Prophet, Priegt and King. Yet each
conveys its part of truth upen a pro
per concept of His holy life.' How
ever, it is well to concentrata upon
the prophet side of His life, not to im
ply at all any sens> of separateness
between them. We cannot give at
tention now to the kingly aspect, but
to that of prophet, wiich Jesus lived
for our salvation. What was it that
caused the multitude to' follow Him,
and, as St. Matthew tells ws, take
Him for a prophet? 1t was He who
proclaimed the truth and in this light
we can see how. Jesus is related to
our life. |
Without going into the quéstions
and different divisions which natnr
ally arise on all sides, let us consider
how He lived as a prophet. In'what
sense does He stand as our prophet?
In the first place, we know that He is
a prophet in regard to God. He has
revealed how God is taking us be
neath His forgiveness and patience
and ever watchful care — how we
cease to exist without Him. Let us
note, in the first place, Jesusg’ revela
tion of God’s attitude toward sinful
ness. There are those who declare
sin is underestimated, but if we are
wise, we can understand Jesus' true
attitude in regard to sin. It is shown
in His denunciations, in His opinions
of the leaders of the day, in the Ser
mon on the Mount, all of which show
His conception of sin. Not only the
man who is the adulterer, but he who
lives in conditions of lust; not only
the murderer, but he who inspires the
act and remains silent; not alone the
perjurer, but he who fails to be truth
ful by keeping silent. These are
“likewise” sinners.
But God's attitude toward sin con-‘
cerns not alone our outward acts, for '
the inner being ‘is brought into ac
countability.and cannot escape. Jesnus
has called upon us not only to do
something that makes for onr salva
tion, but also to have in mind that we
should he something. It is of the in
ner self that the victory over sin has
to be;won. We should have a life not
of action alone, but also of being.
Jesus has taught the world the terri
ble consequences which are to follow
our wrongdoing, that the man who
sins will condone it by suffering. He
has told of the penalties of sinddle
who deceives the little one had better
tie a millstone about his neck and
perish in the sea. What awful penal
ties that follow the sinner! But not
alone has Jesus revealed to us God's
attitude toward sin. but in the second
instance He has revealed Ged,through
Himself, and has shown His manifold
purposes of our destiny. .
Let us study the character and life
of Jesus and we shall see that He has
revealed God to us and shown His
clemency and patience. Why was it
the multitude followed Him? Be
cause they took Him for a prophet?
It is not that alone, but because of
His magnetic personality, which at
tracted all to Him and made Him be
loved of all men. No wonder the
twelve disciples came at His call and
served Him with true love and faith.
It was not confined to this inner cir
cle, however, that Jesus attracted |
men about Him by His wonderful per
sonage. Nicodemus came to Jesus.
The centurion was wont to seek Him
out for counsel. The multitude list
ened to His words of wisdom. He
was a friend of the publican and sin
ner. At the day of the feast the
Greeks camgjpnd said, “We would see
Jesus.”” He spoke in infinite love and
drew all to Him. He sought to lead
them through the paths of His truth
and to teach them quietly, sincerely,
of life and their salvation. How mar
velous and how perfectthat He should
lead men toward the truth and a bet
ter and less sinful life. Witness Him
teaching the multitude to the path
ways of truth and see Him carry them
to His Word. He knew that much of
His teachings fell on barren soil and
took no root, but He was patient with
His people. Oh, the beauty and pa
thos of the parting with His disei
ples! It passes all understanding.
It was a crisis in the life of Jesus.
He taught them the truth, and He led
them out in vital existence. '
Teaching the people, Jesus was pa
tient at all times, Rven the same
twelve men who gathered at His call
to preach the Gospel to the world Of
ten forgot His teaching of the Weard.
On the way to the Last Supper they
quarreled among themsalves as to
who was the greatest among them.
But He was patientand forgave them.
Did not the priests take before Him
an adulteress, and when the accusers
had fled, did He not say, “Where are
those who condemn thee? Neither
do I condemn thee. Go and sin no
more.” O, the infinite love and for
giveness of the Master! Then Jesus
tells of the Prodigal Son and shows
that forgiveness with the Father is
possible. Peter sinned three times, |
and Jesus forgave him. And not
alone has He forgiven the sinners,
but the marvelous basis for our won
der is that He suffered to save them.
Jesus was willing to suffer for His
truth, so that His attitude toward
God and men might be recognized as
the true way. |
These characteristics of the life of
our Master reveal God's attitude to
ward us and His purpose in infinite
love., Jesus has said that God is only
satisfied to save men. He would have
us know the eternal verities of life.
Did Jesus forgive? Then, it is in
God’s will that He forgive the repent
ant. Did Jesus love? 'Then, God
loves His servants and has patience
with them. Did Jesus suffer? Then,
in God is the heart of suffering
Jesus is all that God is in infinite
leve. Who hath seen Jesus hath seen
God. Oh, the glogious wisdom of
Him who hath seen God!
J®sus was a prophet not only in
telling ns of God’s attitude toward
lsin, with clear positivensss, but He
alsu was a prophet in regard to our
selves. He tells us what God is in all
His glory and He tells us what man
is, what we are ourselves. Jesus is
. the ideal type. The critics pass Him
|by. In His almighty wisdom, we sce
IH‘.ow ignorant we are. In His holi
‘nezg, with its overpowering glory, we
iohserve how sinful, how mean, how
ilow we are. Study Jesus’ life and
| draw out from vou as you know your
!selves to ba. How small, infinitesi
]mally small, do you seem! He has
| been a prophet, for He las shown how
| small we are. Two sides, the dark
,and the light, Jesus bas shown us,
{bul He has not alone given us view
to the dark side by showing us our
smallness. He has also brought up
the light side and with full hopeful
ness not only tells us how small we
are, but shows us our largeness. He
tells us of the power and potentiali
lties within us. “Ye, therefore, shall
be perfect in love.” You are a sin
'ner, but you may be a son of God.
Jesus is glorious as a prophet of God,
lfm' He tells us how it may be if we
live as He lived.
Not only a prophet of God and
men, Jesus sougit to expand the rev
elation of Cod, and beneath it all,
with prophetic note, gave the ideal re
lationship of life, that of father and
son. Did time permit we could con
sider the many lights between God
and man. .Jesus came and in His ear
lier years lived in simple communion
'wlth His Father, before He gathered
about Him His twelve disciples. He
prayed in the mountains and prayed
for the forgiveness of the sins of the
world. He got the right relation be
tween Son and the Father-—a per
sonal relationship. He never lost
‘hope in all His sufferine, but trusted
in His Father. In His life He would
tell us that the infinite relation is that
of Father and Son.
Not only would Jesus teach us the
fdeal relationship between God and
men, but He lived the life between
man and man. Should we follow the
precepts of Jesus. this relation of
man to man would be one of sacred
example. Follow the teachings of
Jesus and get all the power and po
tentiality that is in you. Develop self
by developing others. TFind life by
losing it. It will be a victory for self,
the inner self. By the Word of God
we are one, or non-existent. Jesus
tells us of God’s relationship.
How can any one ask, knowing
thess things and God’s relationship to
man, how He effects our salvation?
Can any one be convinced and sav,
“Can Jesus save Me?” He demands
of us our love. He demands that we
follow Jesus and do what He did. He |
demands that we follow Him as Jesus
did and secure salvation by His for
giveness. We know that the penal
ties of sin are awful, for Jesus has so
taught us. The truth that I am
small He has impressed upon me, but
that I am to become larger through
hope and forziveness T know through
His word. Jesus calls upon us to be |
prophets in His name. We can take |
His teachings throughont life, but we |
do not follow them. That is not rec- |
oznition of the word. He has done |
His part and we should do ours. He
cannot make us or we would not be
personalities. |
Jesus said to the multitude, Chris- |
tians, follow Me, and as the apostles, |
they left and followed Him. Jesus
calls us up from onr worship of gold ;
and the money gods which we serve.
He called to the people, love Me more, |
and they worshiped Him. He calls to
us. love Me more. By Thy mercy we
will hear Thy call and will serve Thee
by love and service best of all.
Not Common People.
‘““The common people heard Him |
gladl;.” That phrase may be mis- |
leading. What Mark says is not that
the ‘‘common peopie,”” but that the
“‘much people heard Him gladly.”
He does not mean to refer to a low
er class of people. The Bible never
calls this sort of people ‘‘common,”
and it was not the lower class of
people that came to Christ in the
crowds. There was the Pharisee, the
Sadducee, the ruler, the publican,
the poor man—all classes were
drawn to Him. Where He came caste
straightway melted away. When He
came into Simon’s house, the poor
harlot, who had never crossed the
threshold before, went right in and
came to His side.
For this reason Jesus can no more
be the head of a labor church than
of a capitalist club. He has nothing
to do with men in sections. He deals
with man as man, and when He
looked out upon the crowds He did
not see a Pharisee or a publican;
He saw a man, u soh of God by crea
‘tion. He saw as God saw.—Rev.
G. Campbell Morgan. ,
Notes For Workers.
Here are some good suggestions for
League workers: |
“Find your work where Christ has
put you."
“Seek to make at least one spot of |
the earth brighter by a deed of
yours."” |
y‘ *When you begin to worry, do not
forget that God still has control of
evervthing.”
*Christ has redeemed and lifted
. you up, that you, in turn, may lift up
others.” |
. "It you truly love God, your heart
will be filled with His Spirit, and you 1
will be obedient to His commands.” |
“The true Christian is like the sun,
which pursues his noiseless track, and
everywhere leaves the effect of his
beams in blessings on all.” |
“On 2 has well said that our chief
concern should be, not to obtain
higher places, but to fill well the
(places we already hold. Better fill a
humble position well than occupy one
‘nbove our ability."—DPittsburg Chris
‘tlan Advocate,
Get a Future.
There are those who want to get
away from all their past; who if they
could, would fain begin al. over
again. Their life seems one long
failure. But you must learn, you
must let God teach ‘ou, that the oniy
way to get rid of your past is to get a
future out of it.—Phillips Brooks.
Ly Poor Tools.
. The Lord does lots of good work
with very poor tools.
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Not the Heavenly Maid.
| *And have you music at the church?”
fl’ 7 askel the rural squire.
“Wal!, no.” said he; ‘*‘cen’t say "we hev;
| ‘Jest singin' by the caoir.”
--The News.
; Conclusive Evidence.
' Bessie—*‘“Were Clara and Mr. Smit
| kins sittinz very close to each other?”
i Ethel—“ Well, Clara had her hat
i off.”'—Harper's Weekly.
: Misusage of Words,
{ *“SVhat are you'doing?”
“Grafting trees at $2.50 a day.”
! ‘““That ain’t grafting. That’s works
ing.”'—Kansas City Journal.
| The Cause of It.
Stella—‘“What bankrupted him?"’
Bella—‘‘His wife dressed so peonle
| wouldn’t think he was becoming
| bankrupt.”—New York Sup
| The Wherefore.
| “Why doesn’t wealth bring more
' happiness?”
| “Because true pleasure lies in do
| ing things we can’t afford.”—XKansas
f City Journal.
| ——
| Our System.
~ “How do vou manage to keep your
- health this hot weather?”
‘I neither do nor eat anvthing that
- seems pleasant or agreeable.”’—XKan
sas City Journal.
The Society Novel.
‘“When does real love begin?”
murmured the heroine.
‘‘That’s easy,”” answered the hero.
“When the author runs out of epi
grams.”’—Louisville Courier-Journal.
Must Have Lost.
“Great Heavens, man! Where did
yon get that hat?”’
“On a bet.”
“That's tough. How long do you
have to wear it?"”—Cleveland Lead
€er.
The Real Cause.
Doctor—"*What's your trouble?”
Patient—*“Writer’s cramp.”
Doctor—‘“Ah, I see; you have too
much to write.”
Patient—'‘No; I don’t have enough
to eat.”’—Louisville Herald.
Delay.
‘‘Are you waiting for me, dear?”
she said, coming down stairs fixing
her hat.
“*Waiting?'’ exclaimed the impa
tient man. ‘No; not waiting—so
journing.”’—Yonkers Statesman.
Not Taking a Flyer.
“Why don’t you marry. your star?
I know she is in love with you.”
**Not for mine,” veplied the stage
beauty’s press agent. “I'll stick to
a steady job."'—-Philadelphia Led
ger.
So Different.
““Life ain’t like the plays.”
“How now?"
“When I go ealling no housemaid
ever tells me the family history
whilst making vasses at the furaiture
with a feather duster.”—Washington
Herald.
Would Look Bad.
“This gas bill is only for ten
cents.”
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*““Can’t you add £4? I've been writ
ing my wife that I'm svending my
evenings at home.”—-Louisville Ccur
ier-Journal.
What It Was.
‘“‘Oh, John!” she exclaimed, ‘‘now
that you've seen my new bonnei you
simply ean’t regret that I got it. Isn’t
it just a poem?”’
“Well, if it is,” replied Joan, “I
~guess a proper title for it would be
,‘Owed to a Milliner." "—Philadelphia
' Press.
Seemed Foolhardy.
“Look here!” said the official,
‘“there’ll be trouble if your wife dis
regards us when we persistently tell
her she must not pick the flowers.”
*“Then,” replied Mr. H. Peck—for
it was no other wary—'"why ever do
‘i you persist?”’—Judge.
| ~ Satisfaction,
} ““Are you willing to give this man
You ran over any satisfaction?” asked
the court.
““Satisfaction!’ exclaimed the auto
salesman. “Didn’t he have the sat.
isfaction of Dbeing hit by our 1909
- model, the lightest running and most
[ durable car on the road? What's he
iwant, anyhow ?"”—Philadelphia ILed.
.ger,
| Sl
| He Would Return.
~ “Fifty dollars is the price,” said
the magistrate. “And I hope, sir,
' never to see you here again.”
~ “Never to see me here again? Wi
- you're not resigning. are you?" '
. And with a nonchalant laugh Toos
ing Karr threw a crisp fitty dollar
bill to the clerk, entered his waiting
ninety h. p. racer and set out to break
another speed law. — Philadelphia
Bulletin, : A
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The
~ General Demand
- of the Well-Informed of the World has
~ always been for a simple, pleasant and
efficient liquid laxative remedy of known
~ value; a laxative which physicians could
" sanction for family use because its com
- ponent parts are known to them to be
- wholesome and truly beneficial in effect,
~ acceptable to the system and gentle, yet
prompt, in action.
In supplying that demand with its ex
~ cellent combination of Syrup of Figs and
Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup
- Co. proceeds along cthical lines and relies
on the merits of the laxative for its remark
able success.
- That is one of many reasons why
- Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given
‘the preference by the Weil-Informed,
- To get its beneficial effects always buy
f the genuine—manufactured by the Cali
j fornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for- sale
by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents
' per bottle.
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ICLASBIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
S
O mAVNESS AND CATARKH CURE.
' INHALENI' CATARRHAL JELLY Cures
' Deafness and Catarrh. Trialtreatment by
~ The man who never gets angry is a
dead one.
~ Hicks' Oapudine Cures Headache,
~ Whether from Cold, Heat, Stemach, op
~ Mental Strain. No Acetanilid or dangeroug
drugs. It’s L};gé"d‘ Effects immediately,
-10 e., 25c., and 50c., at drug stores
The pawnbroker acts as timekeeper
for many a man who figl}!itgg_rd luck.
Mrs. Winslow’s Seothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion.allays pain, cures wind colic, 25¢ a bottle
Two bronze tablets in memory ot
President MoKinley are soon to be
placed in Brandywine Park driveway
in Wilmingten, Del.
24 SIOO Reward, SIOO.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there 18 at least one dreaded dis
¢ase that science has been able to cure in all
its stages,and thatis Catarrh. Hail’s Catarrh
Cure is the only poritive cure now known to
“the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con
stitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cureistaken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu
cous surfaces of the stysterh, therehy destroy
ing the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the con
stitution and assisting nature in dom% its
work. The proprietors have so much faith
in its curative powers that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it tails to
cure, Send for list of testimonials. Address
F. J. CHEREY & Co., Toledo, U.
Sold hv Druggists. 75c. ;
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
Clever Women Then and Now.
“Believe me,” said the Woman Who
Thinks, “I'm a little weary of rhanso
dies over the supposedly superior in
telligence of the women of bygone
days. Why don’t those so generous
of praise give modern women a
chance? It is a sort of mental fash
ion to assume that George Eliot and
George Sand and Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu and Lady Blessington and
others like them were peculiar ‘to
themselves and their periods; that no
woman of today can held a candle
to them in any particular. I wonder
if that's true. Seems to me there
are dozens of women in New York
alone who are every bit as clever
as those heroines of the past. Lady
Montague wrote delightful letters,
but the art of correspondence has
not passed from earth, anq surely
the cultured woman of today can be
as sprightly. As for novelists and
essayists, they flourish in abundance
in this enlightened age. And when
it comes to social knowledge, almost
any Fifth avenue hostess is far ahead
of those of yore. Let's bring our
commendation up to date.”—New
York Press.
A POSSIBLE RESULT.
“Suppose women should vote. What
would be the result?”
“Oh, T don't know,” answered Mr.
Sirius Barker, petulantly. “Perhaps
we'd have hand-painted ballots.’—
Washington Star.,
NOT A MIRACLE
Just Plain Cause and Effect,
There are some quite remarkable
things happening every day, which
seem almost miraculous.
Some persons would not believe
that a man could suffer trom coffee
drinking so severely as to cause spells
of unconsciousness. And to find com
plete relief in changing from coffee
to Postum is well worth recording.
"l used to be a great coffee drini
er, so much so that it was killing me
by inches. My heart became so weak
I would fall and lie unconscious for
an hour at a time. The spells caught
me sometimes two or three times a
day.
“My friends, and even the doctor,
told me it was drinking cotfee that
caused the trouble. 1 would not be
lieve it, and still drank coffee until I
could not leave my room.
“Then my doctor, who drinks. Pos
tum himself, persuaded me to stop
coffee and try Postum. After much
hesitation 1 concluded to try it. ‘That
Wwas eight months ago. Since then I
have had but few of those spells,
none for more than four months.
"1 feel better, sleep better and am
better every way. I now drink noth
ing but Postum and -touch no coffee,
and as I am seventy years of age all
my friends think the improvement
quite remarkable.”
“There’s a Reason.” ;
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to
Wellviile,” in pkgs,
Ever read theabove letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of hunian
interest.
