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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. g 3, YR g ~ L‘;g:‘ ey € R }o@‘;}:__, F‘T}\.fifi‘s & ;') , Tl e | 4;!.‘;“\__{{ My L 4 AN /A | o el 4,*.\7 W) Pl (B ity et 2 14 é\ “Ajfiifi;;\o% ! TAT "kl s Ti (D 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.” y o VR, w 72 *““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 i R 3 4O 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. B 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.