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Little Bobbie’s Pa By WILLIAM F. KIRK H USBAND, sed ma, did you reed that peace in the palper the other day wlch sed that a prominent sientist red that baseball wav the curse of the United States? No, I dident see that artikel, sed Pa. but th*» way it sounds I bet it was in a Sunday paiper. How offen have I toald you. sed Pa, that you mussent be’eeve everything you see ;n the Sunday paipers? I guess I will have to stop bringing the Sun day paipers hoam, sed Pa. All you read in them is freek stories like the one you was Jest telling about or else th*' ads After you reed the freek stories you talk about them A think about them all the week, A after you reed the ads you cry all the afternoon A say you cud be per- feckly happy if you Jest had a few thousand dollars to go shopping with. That Isent so. sed Ma. You know It isent so. All I sed I wanted to go shopping with was a few hundred not a few thouMand. A beesides. thi3 artikel about baseball was the truth, heekaus 1 happen to know the great •dentist wlch galv the interview to tlx palper. He A Ills wife is eum- ming up to the house to dinner to- nite. You will have a ehanst to meet him He Is a reely grate man. Ma sed. heekaus eoven his wife thinks so. Another Scientist. Oh deer, sed Pa. A so we have got to feed another sientist I ha vent for got yet, ped Pa. the sientist. wlch cairn to see us last fall, the one wlch was ir.ving to prove that fishes breethed :hru than scales A not thru thare gills. He didn’t talk anything else - xoept fish, & we ihad fish for dinner that day, too. 1 saw flsh In my sleep that nlte. sed Pa. Oh, this sientist h* different, sed Ma. He i> interested In man. not flsh. tie beleeves that every man shud have the flzeck of a old Roman gladitor A wud have it if he observed the proper rules of hy-geen. That is why he tlvinks that baseball is the curse of the United States. Ht^will explain it all to you wen he cums tonlte. Well, that nite the sientist A his wife cairn to dinner. He was a llttel hit of a man A his wife was a fine big woman. She looked as if she cud have been a White Hope if she didn’t happen to be a woman insted of a man. Her husband squeeked like a mouse wen he talked. A his hands was thin like birds feet. If I was a man I wud like to marry 'his wife, but if I was a lady I wuddent like to marry the sientist. The sientist dident talk about sience during the dinner. 1 thought from what Ma sed about hy-gcon that he wud be vary' careful about what ne ate. but he wasent. 1 newer seen a man cet so much. I guess the way his wife looked at him he had forgot what she toald him about over-eeting heefoar thay left hoam to cum to our house But after dinner Pa started rite in on him. 1 was to the ball gaini to-day, sed Pa. I was sorry' old Matty had to los* that gaim. He pitched one of the grandest galms of his career He Detested It. I detent baseball, sed the sientist. It Is the curse of the country. Jest think of it, sum days thare are maybe twenty thousand men watching a* gaim of ball wen thay ought to be exercising themselfs insted of watch ing 18 men that ar? doing the exer cising. If they were all out exercis ing themse’fs. thay mite be trained athleets too. Do you exercise? wer Pa. Indeed T do, sed the sientist, thret hours a day. What kind of a trained athleet are you? sed Pa. That is neether here nor thare, sed the sientist. He saw his wife laf- flng A ihe was gitting mad. I newer exercise much, sed Pa. A j 1 newer mis a ball gaim wen my bizness will let me git away, but I I feel a« flne as silk A I guess I cud | give Ham Langford quite a fite as long aa my wind lasted. Baseball is not the curse of the United States, sed Pa. with all due deference to yure opinyun. Baseball is the grand est gaim that was ewer Invented. It Is loved by oaver a milyun men A hoys A is getting grater evvery year. Undies can go to ball gaims A fergit thare shopping. Pa *ald, A men can go A fergit thare creditor- Long live baseball, sed Pa, A three cheers for McGraw. I think Pa is rite, but he is a raw person sumtimes THE PROBLEM OF THE RED MAN An Interesting Discussion of a Vigorous Article on the American Indian in Hearst’s Magazine for May How to Tell the Bite of a Venomous Snake I F you should be so unfortunate as to be bitten by a snake and were not quite certain what aort of a snake it h?*, whether poisonous or of the so- called harmless variety, look at the In jury. If there are four punctures, or even three, the chances are that it was not a venomous snake; but if there are only two punctures it is probable that you have been bitten by an extremely poi sonous snake. While this does not always hold good, ar a non-potsonous snake may have had opportunity to make only tko Incisions with his four biting teeth, it is best to take no chances at all. 'Hie poisonous snake’s deadly fangs are but two generally in the upper jaw But, no matter what sort of a snake bites you. the head of that snake should, whenever possible, be kept for identi fication. If. as generally the case, the bite is on nn extremllv. tie one or more bands above the Injury. Incise deeply, cut ting across the puncture for at least one ’nch and well beyond the depth reached by the fang Next, wash in running water, manipulating the part to pro mote free bleeding If running water is not available, suck the wound, then rinse the mouth thoroughly with a solution of potassium permanganate. Now. wash the wound well, and use In and around It the potassium permanganate solu tion; or inject a 1 to 100 solution of chromic acid, being careful to infiltrate completely, not only the wound, but also the surrounding tissues. 1 »o not give ammonia. Stimulate with small doses of whisky, if indicated, but do not overdose, as more persons have been killed by taking large quan tities of whisky than by snake bite. When positively certain that the poi son has been removed from the wound, loosen cautiously the ligatures, that nearest the. heart first, but do not re move them, so they may be again tight ened if symptoms recur. In all cases the victim must have the best surgical care, and the wound should be kept open by packing with wet antiseptic gauge, as sepsis and local gangrene often follow a snake bite. What more can we do to convince you that you positively can find perfect health and relief from your suffering by using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound? All the world know s of the wonderful cures which have been made by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, yet some wo men do not yet realize that all that is claimed for it is true. If suffering women could be made to believe that this grand old medicine will do all that is claimed for it, how quickly their suffering would end! We have published in the newspapers of the United States more genuine testimonial letters than have ever been pub lished in the interest of any other medicine for women in the world— and every year we publish many new' testimo nials, all genuine and true. Read What These Women Say! By GARRETT P. SERVISS W E do not see ourselves ns others see us, and that is as true of nations as of individuals. To our eyes the red man has prac tically sunk out of sight. To Euro pean eyes he Is still the most pic turesque figure in the Western world. If you doubt that statement, then, the next time you are in Europe fall Into conversation with any Intelli gent Frenchman, German or other na tive of the Old World, about life In America, and you will be likely to dis cover that he is much more deeply interested In Indians than In fifty- story buildings. Even the wonders of the Panama Canal appeal to him with far less force than do the history and the fate of those unique tribes which owned this continent in fee simple for centuries before our ancestor*’ landed upon its shores. If you have imbued yourself with the notion that “the only good Indian is a dead Indian,” you may be a little vexed to find that our contemporaries abroad, with their hlrd’s-eye view' of things on this side of the water, pre- slst in regarding the American r*d man as a personage quite as inter esting to the philosophical observer as the American white man, and in finitely more romantic. In Hearst’s Magazine. Then you might with advantage turn to an article in this month’s number of Hearts's Magazine, where Mr. Francis E. Leupp, recently Indian Commissioner, explains*, his ideas about the way we have here tofore treated the red men and the way we ought to treat him. A great-brained European once said to me: T am a friend of your coun try and an enthusiastic admirer of Its ideals, but I most respectfully pro tect against the manner in which you have dealt with one of the most in teresting races that ever existed on this earth. Pardon me for saying that I think you have done very wrong. You might have kept him and made a good citizen of him, in stead of driving him into extinction, or, what is even worse, into racial | abasement.” A Similar View. i Mr - Leupp appears to take a sim ilar view. He has ideas about the | capacity of the Indian for civilfza- I tion, and about the best way to de- i velop that capacity, which ough; to j command the attention of a liberty- ; loving and falr-denling people. The sole idea of our Government ! seems to have been to make a farmer j every Indian. “Give him a farm and make him work it.’’ has been the ! slogan. And when the poor Indian. | ignorant of the white man's* science and the white man’s methods, fails to become a successful farmer in a | single generation or less he is con demned as good for nothing and treated with contempt and with re newed injustice. Disregarding the fact that he lias neither the capital to develop his farm nor the experience to enable him to compete in agriculture with men of European origin, whose an cestors were trained in that kind of industry long before America was dis- | covered, the red man is required to devote himself exclusively to work for which, in many cases, lie is ra cially and constitutionally unfitted, or j else to become a drunkard and a pau- | per. Some Indians make good farmers. Home of them have the gift and the ancestral tendency. Every reader of our history knows what the Iroquois Indians did in the, fertile valleys of | Central and Western New York. When General Sullivan mercilessly raided the lake region of New York I he destroyed farms and stores of grain, of which any industrious Eu- topean agricultural community might I have been proud. That was a war 1 measure and. as such, perhaps, excus- j able at the time. But suppose that an I enlightened government had taken pain* to develop the skill of the In dians In cultivation after peace had 1-een established. It may be replied that the Indians ran away and refused to be civilized True, In part; but at last they could no longer run beyond the white man’s reach. As Bed Jacket once eloquently expressed it, “We are become a small island In the bosom of the great wa ters. We are encircled; we are en compassed. The waters rise; they press upon us; and the waves dnee settled over us, we disappear for ever!” Made Him a Brute. Taking advantage of the terrible effect that “fire-water”—whisky! — had upon the unlmmunixed red man his white enemies pressed it upon him, as they press it upon him still, until he became a brute In spite of himself. The Indian has many useful ca pacities which he would develop if he had a proper opportunity, but the op portunity is refused to him. Read what Mr. Leupp has to say about the multitude of red men who take nat urally to mechanic arts And to va rious trades, and the hopelessness of their struggle against th* immense agricultural milts that his white com petitors, with comparatively unlim ited capital, are developing around him, and you may be led to exert your Influence to have the doors of opportunity opened wider to this long- cheated race. We may consistently keep out Jap anese, but the Indian was here be fore we were, and the principles of eternal justice demand that he shall not have the door shut in hip fare. Are Children a Duty? By VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE WATER A Babe of the Apaches. (These pictures are reproduced by permission from Hearst’s Magazine f>i M ay. I T was all over. They were in the the carriage at last, man and wife, driving back to the wedding breakfast. But suddenly, without warning, the youthful bride burst in to heartrending sobs. “Oh-o!” she cried. “Oh-o! Oh-o!” “My dearest dear!” breathed the new-made hubby. Why does my pet weep so on her wedding day? Tell her hubsie-wubsie all about it, then!” And, with her head on his-*shoulder, the little wife faltered out at last: “Marmaduke, I’ve hidden something from you. I’ve not told you all. Alas! What shall I do?” Marmaduke’s heart stood still for what seemed to him a century, bu* was*, in reality, a second; then; 'Tell me”—and his voice was hoarse—‘‘tell me what you mean at once! I can pot bear this suspense!" “1 c-can not c-ook!” sobbed the little wife. “Oh, lovey, is that all?” the young man cried, as his heart beats slowed to normal tiiyie. “You frightened >t. I am a poet, precious me! But and there cook!” worry i will 'be Fhe '‘Breach of Promise” Suit, Its Use and Abuse Bluffton, Ohio. — “I wish to thank you for the good I derived from Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta ble Compound sometime ago. I suffered each month such agony that I could scarcely endure, and after taking three Itottles of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound I was entirely cured. "Then I had an attackof organic inflammation and took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and I am cured. I thank you for what your remedies have done for me and should anything bother me again, I shall use it again, for I have great faith in your reme dies. You may use my testimo nial and welcome. I tell every one what your remedies have done for me.”—Mrs Kiioda Win gate, Box 395, Bluffton, Ohio. Pentwater, Mich.—“A year ago I was very weak and the doctor said I had a serious displacement. I had backache and bearing down pains so bad that I could not sit in a chair or walk across the floor and 1 was in severe pain all the time. I felt discouraged as I had taken everything I could think of and was no better. I began tak ing Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta ble Compound and now 1 am strong and healthy.’’—Mrs. Alice Darling, R. F. D. No. 2, Box 77, Pentwater, Mich. For 30 years Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedyfor fe male ills. No one sick with woman's ailments does justice to herself if she does not try this fa mous medicine made from roots and herbs, it lias restored so many sufferingwomentohealth. r SUSP" W rite to LYDIA E.PINKHAM MEDICINECO. 1 ON EIDENT1AL) LYNN, MASS., for advice. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence. By DOROTHY DIX I N a recent article in this column T expressed the opinion that a man • is just as much entitled to a change of mind ami a change of heart in matters of the affections as a wom an is, and that if a man found out ' before marriage that he was tired of the woman to whom he was engaged, and no longer wanted her for a wife, he had a perfect right to break the engagement and withdraw from a bar gain that would bankrupt his life. These sentiments have brought a howl of protest from a large number of my feminine readers, who accuse me of being a traitor to my sex. and berate me for encouraging perfidious man to trifle with the tender affections of trust ing maidens 1 confess that I don’t quite catch the point of view of my correspondents, nor do 1 grasp thelt* ideal of nmtrimonay. I if their theory of marriage is the sor did one of marrying for a home and a meal ticket, and that it is easier for a woman to work a husband than it is to work a typewriter or u sewing ma chine, or stand behind a counter, then l can see why the> think that a man should be compelled to carry out a mat timonial engagement, no matter how loathsome it had become to him. nor how he dreaded the prospect of having | to spend the balance of his life with a woman who had lost her every vestige of charm for him. This argument would have been a good one in the old da> s. when no gainful occupations were open to worn- jen. and the only way a lady had of get ting a home was to marry it; but we I have changed ail of that Any able- bodied and intelligent girl can support ! herself qilite as well as a husband is |llkel\ to do it. and in consequence niar- ! riage has become a sentimental luxury ..nd rot p bread-*avi-liuUaT ueceaait} . as 1 , i 1 . . V,.. U t.S be. If you should suggest to the average high-spirited and independent girl of to-day that she should coerce an unwill ing and protesting man into marching to the altar with her she would over whelm you with her scorn. She would say that in her opinion the woman who married for a living earned it in the hardest way on earth, and that she thanked God she didn't have to make hers that way She would also remark that she was not a confidence woman who ran a skin game on any sentimental Tommy, nor was she a Lady Shvlock who would exact the last drop of blood in a man’s heart in payment of a little indiscreet love-making. Further, she w r ould add, as did one girl that l knew, that if any man could get tired of a love affair sooner than she did and change ^iis mind quicker he would certainly he a marvel of rapid action. Admitting that few young women in this day are willing to marry a man just solely for the sake of the loaves and fishes that he can provide, on w hat ground can my correspondents advocate ihe holding of an unwilling man to a matrimonial engagement he has made? Certainly no one who knows any thing of life can hope that such a mar riage will bring any happiness to the woman, or result in anything but misery for both parties Malignity itself could devise r.o more cruel fate than the long-drawn-out years of torture that are the portion of an unloved and undesired wife She drinks the very dregs of the cun of humiliation. Even in the ordinary marriage, where the swain is romantically and passion ately in love, and when he counts im patiently the hours to the wedding day. the ardor of the man cools off soon enough It is not long before lie ceases to take any Interest In holding his wife's hand, and when he govs to sleep of an evening when she tries to talk to him. and begins to have business that keeps luiu downtown of evenings. You could count on the fingers of one hand every husband you know who is still a lover after five years of married life. What prospects of domestic felicity has a woman, then, if she forces a man to marry her who does not want to, who Is not in love with her. and who is al ready tired of her before the long mat rimonial journey begins? To say that he will fall in love with her after mar riage. and that she will win his heart by her devotion and her goodness, is 1,0 talk idiotic nonsense. The whole tend ency of matrimony is to disillusion. It thrusts people together in a relation ship where their personalities clash, and where they strike fire out of each oth er's temper and temperament. Brings Out Faults. Matrimony brings out every fault in a woman as exaggerated as if it were under a magnifying glass, and the woman who could not win a man, nor hold him, when she had all the allure of distance, of always being primped up, and on her best behavior, can never do it in close quarters of domesticity, where her husband sees her in her everyday clothes and surrounded with an aura of bills and boiled dinners. Canaries have been bred in cages so many generations that they are perfect ly satisfied to live in cages. Women have been bred for so many centuries to put up with whatever domestic lot they draw in lire that they endure an unhappy marriage with stoic fortitude, and many of them put up a pretty good bluff at loving a husband they actually hate. But men have no such finesse, no such patience no such amiable hy pocrisy. When a man is married to a woman of whom he has grown tired, and who bores him. he frankly neglects her. If he is fenced to marry a woman after he has ceased to care for her he makes her pay for it by his brutalities to her. so it is incomprehensible why any one B EFORE beginning these three short plain talks It may be well to warn the Idealist who allows sentimental tradition to preclude honest and Inde pendent thought to read no further lest he or she be shocked—possibly scandal ized. Yet one should bear In mind also the fact that there Is a sentimen tality sometimes degenerating Into a selfishness that amounts almost to cruel ty Such cruelty unpremeditated and unrecognized. Bearing this truth in mind one may almost dare to reply in the negative to the question asked above. For that question is not. Are children a joy, a comfort, a privilege? but. Are they a duty? Race Would Die Out. Doubt comes often to one's mind in reading the opinions of certain writers who discourse on the sin of childless ness, the evils of race suicide, the sel fishness of unfruitful marriages. Right rfere one may pause to acknowledge that the arguments in favor of child-bear ing to perpetuate the race are irrefuta ble. One cannot erect a building with out material, and the race would die out were there no children born. So, fob the purpose of continuing the spe cies, children are certainly essential. But of those who inveigh against the iniquity of childlessness only a few look at the matter from the standpoint of the good of their kind. I think I am safe in asserting that not one parent in one thousand has sons or daughters for the express purpose of perpetuating the race. So we will leave that aspect of the question out of consideration. Some expressions become so com mon that w'e take them at their face value without analyzing them. Some opinions have been voiced for so long that their very age confers upon them a seeming stability which we seldom hing of disputing. “I am glad to see that you are one of the women who fulfills her mission j in life,” was said to a mother of eight ! children. ‘‘You have been conscientious ly doing your duty in having a goodly number of sons and daughters.” i “Yes,” assented the pale-faced moth- | er. “through all privations and self- ; denials 1 have had the comforting as- ! surance that I was doing my duty.” Surely Not Herself. To whom? Surely not to herself, for she is a semi-invalid whose frequent attacks of illness are a menace to her ! life and to the happiness of husband and children: certainly not to the hus band who works in a poorly-lighted, ill- j ventilated office all day and burns the 'midnight oil in the effort to.make both ends meet, and is always conscious that they never do; assuredly not to the children, the oldest of wrom—a bright ; iad of sixteen —has bad to surrender all hopes of a college education, as his earn ings in a shop are required to help support the little brothers and sisters, and to pay the bills of the doctor needed with appalling frequency by the deli cate mother. To whom then was the duty performed? Recently 1 beard a heated alterca tion between a mother and her modern and irreverent daughter. At last the mother, losing all patience, hurst forth with: “You girls of the present day do not appreciate all that your mothers did for you! You seem to forget that you owe a debt of gratitude to me, the woman who braved death itself to bring you into the world!” The twentieth century girl shrugged her broad shoulders. ‘‘I consider it no debt,” she declared. ‘‘I did not ask to come. Then why should I thank you for bearing me?” A coarse and vulgar way of stating a truth. Mothers seldom consider whether their children will find the gift of life itself a positive blessing. And alter we have brought our children here the least we can do for them Is to give them as good an education and as cul tivated an environment as possible wn that they may start even with their as sociates. This is one of the few way* in which we can “make up” to them for their having been born. Some of Us Are Happy. Does this sound like pessimism? rt is not that. Some of us who are glad that we are alive and to whom life has meant much that is joyful and good would not care to live It over again if we had to learn the same lesson*, make the same mistakes, suffer the same penalties that we 'iave already known. Now that we are here we love life and want to say as long as we can. Some of us are very happy, others v*ry necessary, others have a natural curi osity to see how It Is all going to turn out. But as one cannot miss that which one has never had, we would have missed npne of these things had we never been born. Put the question to any one as to whether he would care to go back and begin life once more as a tiny child, and In ninety-nine cases out of n hun dred the reply will be: “Perhaps I would,” or “Yes,” always coupled with the proviso—“If I could remember the mistakes I have made and profit by them.” But, unfortunately for our children, they will not or cannot profit by the mistakes of their parents. Each one must fight the battle for himself, and win out or fail for himself. 4 4 |T is about time,” said the farmer 1 to the hostler, as the two stood passing the time of day, “for these sportsmen to act more sportsman like. They ought to quit shooting cat tle. “Nearly all the farms are posted in our part of the county, and we ar* going to forbid shooting along roads and waterways also. “I tell you, there is entirely too much cattle shooting. “A fellow starts out for a week-end hunt. He takes along about forty rounds of ammunition, which get? heavier and heavier during the day Seeing nothing else to shoot, he shoot? a cow, simply to get rid of a shell thai costs five cents and weighs a pound. “I suppose, too, he wants to see the cow jump and run. That is fun for the hunter, but not fpr the cow nor for the farmers, either. We hate tc have a cow come lumbering into the house and crawl under the bed wher we _ »re discussing the crop reports. ‘Nor is it any fun to get up out oi a warm bed and take the broom and jab under a bed or a sofa to chase out a cow that has been shot at and scared. It isn’t a bit of fun. “When it comes to milking that cow t is no easy job. She thinks that every one who comes along has a shootinjs iron and that she is going to get stung again. Poor, patient animal. She never lid any harm except for an occasions thinness in her product. ‘Cows, I admit, do not look as grace ful and dainty as minuet dancers wher they exhibit speed mania character istics, but there are so many other funny things nowadays that it is ur sportsmanlike to shoot cows in orde - to get this kind of entertainment “The cow has a perfect right U graze in her owner’s pasture unmoleslet except at milking time, which comer often enough. Besides the responsi bilities of the diry she has flies anc lots of other things to worry her. “A man who would shoot a cow or even shoot at her would .welcome cam paign contributions from any sourer and root for the opposing learn in «■ world’s series.” • should think it better for a woman to compel a man to marry her when he doesn’t want to than to be jilted. In reality such a marriage is the sub stitution of a gnawing agony that never ends for a scratch that hurts for a moment and then heals. A woman may not even collect a debt of honor from the man who has compromised her without being far worse off than if she had wiped the slate clean and blotted out his score against her. MORE NUTRITIOUS FOOD AT A LOWER PRICE. Most people eat too much meat. It is the one big item in otn- high cost of living. We go to this meat excess under the mistaken belief that it is neces sary to nourish our bodies. You can get food more nutri tious at one-tenth the cost by buying Faust Macaroni. 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