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The Cliolc- of Pnlnt. Fifty years ago a well-paiuted house was a rare sight: to-day an unpainted Jiouse is rarer. If people knew the real value of paiut a house in need of paint would be "scarcer than lien's teeth." There was some excuse for our forefathers. Man} of them !ived in bouses hardly worth preserving; they knew nothing about paint, except that it was pretty; and to get a house painted was a serious and costly job. The difference between their case and ours is i t that when they wanted paiut it had to j be made for them; whereas when we need paint we can go to the nearest j good store aud buy it, in any color or ! quality ready for use. We know, or ?ught to know by this time, that to let a house stand unpainted is most costly, while a good coat of paint, applied in season, is the best of Investments. If we put off the brief visit of the painter we shall in due time have the carpenter coming to pay us a long visit at our expense. Lumber is con- i stantly getting scarcer, dearer and , poorer, while prepared paints are getting plentier, better and less expensive. It is a short-sighted plan to let the valuable lumber of our houses go to pieces tor tfte want or paiut. For the man that needs paint there nre twp forms from which to choose; oue is the old form, still favored by certain uuprogressive painters who have not yet caught up with the times?lead and oil; the other is the ready-for-use paint found in every up-to-date store. The first must be mixed with oil. driers, turpeutine and colors before it Is rear.y for use; the ether need only be stirred up in the enn and it is ready to go on. To buy leitd and oil, colors, etc., and mix them into a paint by hand is, in this twentieth century, about the same as refusing to ride in a trofley car oecause one's grandfather had to walk or ride on horseback when be wanted to go anywhere. Prepared paints have been on the market less than fifty years, but they have proved on the whole so inexpensive, so convenient and so good that the consumption to-day is something over sixty million gallons a year and still growing. Unless they had been in the malu satisfactory, it stauds to reason there would have been no such steady growth in their use. Mixed Daints are necessarily cheaper | than paint of the hand-mixed kind, because they are made in a large way l>y machinery from materials bought in large quantities by tbe manufacturer. They are necessarily better than paints mixed by band, because they are more finely ground and more thoroughly mixed and because there is less chance of the raw materials in them being adulterated. No painter, however careful he may be, can ever be sure that the materials be buys are not adulterated, but the large paint manufacturer does know in every case, because everything he buys goes through the chemist's hands before he accepts it. Of course there are poor paints on the market (which are geuerally cheap j paints). So there is poor flour, poor cloth, poor soap; but because of that do we go back to the hand-mill, the hand-loom and the soap-kettle of the ! backwoods? No, we use our common I sense in choosing goods. We find out j the reputation of the different brands I of flour, cloth and soap; we take ac- | count of the standing of the dealer tliat j handles them, we ask our ueighbors. i So with paint: if the manufacturer has j a pood reputation, if the dealer is re- i sponsible, if our neighbors have had j satisfaction with it, that ought to be j pretty good evidence that the paiut is all right. "Many men of many minds"? Many paints of many kinds; but while prepared paints may differ considerably in composition, the better grades of them all agree pretty closely in results. "All roads lead to Ilome," and the paint manufacturers, starting by different paths, have all the same object?to make the best paint possible to sell for the least money aud so capture and keep the trade. There is scarcely any other article of general nse on the market to-day that can be bought with anything like the assurance of getting your money's worth as the established brands of prepared paint. The paint you buy to-day may uut u? iii\e a 1'enuiu (jiiicm uit-uicine, "the same as you have always bought," but if not. it will be because the manufacturer has found a way of giving you a better article for your money, and so making sure of your next order. P. U. Good Advico to Luwy?m. Some very wholesome counsel was given to young lawyers by Cortlandt Parker, o* Newark, N. J., who is looked up to as tne most eminent lawyer in that State, on the occasion of a memorial banquet reeertl.- given in his honor. He took high, conservative ground r.s to what constitutes euccess, and said in part: "To lay young friends a word of ad- j vice: Stick to the profession?seek to elevate It. Do not seek by it to make money. Doing that mak-;; it a trade? ' not a i rofessiou. Be fair in charges. H*elp the poo:-, Willi advice and witb professional aid. Do not speculate. Be known in Christian work and in charity, public aud private, according to your means. Study law and his' tory in all spare time, and manifest it 1 by your action in the courts. Do not I be a politician. But always vote and do the duty of a citizen. Be member 1 of a party, but independent?a slave to no one. Deserve honors and office. II they come, as if you deserve them they should, do honor to them. It i , they do not, never mind. There is j < One who seeth not as man seeth, whose ; 'weTl done, good and faithful' is worth all the dignities of all the world." Office Cat For Kebate. A fertile-minded agent, now one of the widest known life insurance officers in the country, was trying to sell a client a policy on which tbe agent's sbare of the first premium was $1500, says the World's Work. The client desired the policy, but he wanted a rebate of $1000, and this tbe agent was willing to give. The agent was cast- 1 ing about in his mind for some method of hiding the rebate, when tbe office cat?they were in. the client's officecbanced to rub purringly against his ! leg. He looked down at the cat and his method was ready. "What a beautiful Angora cat!" he exclaimed gravely. "My wife loves ! oats. She'd be tickled to death to / have that one. I'll give you $1000 for it." The client assented, and the policy > was taken. Receipts were exchanged. , the cat was caged in the waste basket aud wrapped up, and the agent went away with Tabby under his arm?and 110 rebate law could touch hiin. Not Patented. An old French woman, exasperated ! by the continual boasting of a daughter-in-law who considered that her own children were the finest and best the } Bon Dieu ever made, exclaimed one j day to a friend: "Really one would thiuk that Angele had invented mater- ] nity."?Lippincott's Magazlffe. 1 < THE PULPIT. Is Ui AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON B/ ?'1( REV. DR. A. H. GOODENOUCH. ' fo: \ Subject : Material Prosperity. ? T be pr Bristol, Conn.?Tlie Rev. Dr. Arthur ca H. Goodenough, long a Brooklyn pas- W tor, now of the Prospect M. E. Church 'a here, preached Sunday a strong ser- n?j mon on "Is Our Nation Drunk With wj National Prosperity;" The text was from Exodus xx. 2 and 3: "I am the J0' Lord thy God, which have brought thee j* out of the land of Egypt, out of the |in house of bondage. Thou shalt have no f? other rods before Me." Dr. Goode- da nough said: The text is taken from the Decalogue. The Ten Commandments were Israel's national constitution. The nc Decalogue was given as the rule of conduct of the people of Israel. The ?r' story of Israel's deliverance and salva- Pe tion and the birth of the nation as recorded in the Pentateuch reads like fiction. It is a wonderful story. It is J' not tictiou, however?it is history. God ' 5 fhiimnn Dfl is always anu lurctci tiguiuni. .. slavery. God is a just God; God loved the poor and suffering and hopeless ,s people down in Egypt. It was His P? purpose to deliver them. He did de- ?* liver them. And as many of them as Wl infinite mercy .could save finally P? reached the promised land. I suppose j}r God has a right to have favorites, as well as anybody else. To make a. law that nobody should have favorites would be the legislation of lunatics. That would be contrary to the law of life. The law of life is the law of w God, and you cannot go back of that. ar God had a special regard for Israel. Wl Why not? He certainly had a right to. because He was kind and merciful and good to everybody else. But the of favored people frequently forgot God. Cft They turned away from following af- ?r ter Him and sought out ways of their own. And sometimes they preferred 'n garlic and onions in Egypt rather than *ri the discipline of the?journey, which jj* would ultimately bring them to the _ land of milk and honey. Very often !'e God had to say to them the words which we have read as our text: "I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." 101 It has often been said that America T1 is God's second Israel. God has surely been good to this natiou. He has mor\TT mor/iioe PT A Tins 2>UU W11 uo iuuiij uivtvivw- ? ~ , abundantly poured into our laps the | c wealth of the prairie and mine. And jle the most valuable crop of all with which God has enriched us is in the tl( galaxy of great and good men, by whose life and labor we are all blessed. . Our republic, in a little over a hundred jl* years, has worked its way to the fore. And now, by sheer skill and industry, A! by mental power and the kindly heart, .. she has made herself the foremost na- Li: tion in the family of nations. Other 7 nations tell us that we are a great peopie, and we are inclined to believe :. them. The late Archdeacon Farrar, that much beloved and widely known Englishman, has said, "America was ? Godis destined heritage; not for tyranny, not for aristocracy, not for priv- ? , ilege? but for progress, and for liberty, and for the development of a great J? and noble type of righteousf fearless ^ and independent manhood." That is the world's estimate of us. ? God forbid that we should ever fail ^ in one jot or tittle of what is expected i of us! Our mission is to make the world better. The ways and means ? are nere; me iiuiiuj iw use mem jo u?ov here. God grant that what is in our 1. lieads and in our hands and in our f banks and in our barns, may all be f laid upon the altar?consecrated to the J: advance and uplift of all the people . * who look 10 us for guidance and bless- t?( ing. In order to accomplish that we "' must, ourselves, keep right in thought and pure in heart, and walk in the upward path that ?eads to more light and to the summit of human perfec- . tion. . For some years past there has come to us an unbroken stream ot prosperity. * This is due to two things: First?the .. blessings of heaven, in rain and dew and sunshine upon a rich and fertile P soil. Second?the industry and skill of man in making the best and most of what is within reach. . Our Secretary of Agriculture has ' given to the world a report that makes CJ the heart of every American dance for joy. The whole wtirld has. stood f before it in surprise and delight. Not 7 only has it beaten all previous reports fl in our own land, but it has surpassed ... anything that any nation has ever been able to render. The value of the year's . farm products, that actually came into the pockets of the farmers, was $o,- . ' 415,000,000. That sum would more than pay the national debt of France .. or Russia. According to the editor of L Current Literature, it would purchase _ all the gold produced in the world in ? , the last twenty years. Three farm products have yielded enormous sums. ,. Corn, $1,216,000,000; milk and butter, "J ?065,000,000, and hay, $605,000,000. " Secretary Wilson tells us that the ag- t gregate value of all our farms has in- . creased in five years $6,133,000,000. ^ What does this mean? It means QU many things. It means, first of all, H that there is plenty of money. When the farmer does well, everybody else does well. All our wealth comes out of the soil. And in the rich harvest there is more of God than of man. ag When the harvests are plentiful, the hi: mills, the shops, the factories, are all sa busy. There is work for everybody. let And when this is the case, the poor mi man grows rich and the rich man lai grows richer. To all of which we have mi no objections. fiv Lots of money, however, is not an of unmixed good. Most men love money, tw It is a noble ambition to desire money, sif *? *r* f n /iAmr\Afn? onr? f O iu nuia iui 11 ? (UJU ivi c* surplus, to fall back on, in the rainy ve day, or when old ag;e comes on. as nu surely it will, if death do not overtake ex us sooner. But some men have an thi insatiable thirst for gold. Get money lis is their shibboleth. It seems easy for an some folk to persuade themselves that any method is justified if you only get qu what you want. Many people, there- if foro, in our time, have become enor- ha mously rich. Some of them have gotten suddenly rich. Be sure and tag the man -who becomes suddenly ric-li. Theie hangs a story. We are i not saying that getting rich is a sin. We would all get rich if we could. That is, if wealth legitimately came .. our way, we should not object. We have been hearing, and reading. much of late about graft, and crooked methods of conducting business. Dr. , Lyman Abbott has been addressing . some college students. He has told A the young men in college to avoid the prevailing methods of doing business. He assures them that honesty is the only safe way to permanent success. 1 Here is a symptonv . diagnosis, and a we remedy?the ren;eu/ will work a per- lie feet cure if vigorously applied. th< There have """n some recent ex- lnj iiosures of bus.uess methods, which wt iiave brought t.* e blush to the cheek of us ;very honesf American. These ex- T. ' " v .. .. . f . sures have also astounded and stag* red the whole business world, lited States Senators have been conned of crime, and others are blister* ? under grave and general suspicion, lis is a dark picture. We canuot rget it. But we must linger 011 it, few of our own people have said: te are a nation of grafters." It has en said "That we are drunk with osperity. We have become intoxited of money. Money is our god, e have forgotten the ways of th( thers. We have gone astray. It was ver so before." And so on. all ol Liich is only one side of the story. What are the facts? These: Tilt re of money is no stronger now thai has been in the centuries past. Golc s always bad a fascination for som( Ik. Wasn't it so in Washington's y? Oh, those were good old days ere they? Oh, yes! Do you forgel e bold land speculators at the na >nal capital? Money came in abund ice into the treasury of the younj .{ion. And there the grafters gath ed for their prey. People were ik in 4ha ffinnfr flnvs of t_he renub ; than they are now. Again we ask, What are the facts' lese: Let me here repeat the text am the Lord thy God. Thou shall ive no other gods before Me." Tlu >d of Israel, the God of our fathers the God of the vast majority of th( ople ef this continent. The people the United States are not crazy foi ealth, they are not drunk with pros rity. Honest men abound. Rogue.' e rare. Sooner or later they ar( und out. Then they reap the rewarc their doings. Our people are s!on wake up. It takes them a Jong ne to see villainy in their neigh rs. But when they do wake up, anc hen they are sure that there is sir id fraud and theft, they go for th< rong doers and mete out to them tli< inishment due to their crime. [n proof of this, I wish to remind yoi certain tendencies of our time. W< n also point to some 'things whlcl e happening and which have reallj ippened. In the realm of politics, oi the sphere of government, tlx ickster, the deceiver of the people e low politician, the traitor have hnc eir day. They are relegated to tn< ar. They are out of the race. Healtt catching as well as disease. A althy moral contagion is sweepinj er tbe land. Tbe cry of the people if r honest men in the legislative balls the country. And the people in th< ng run will get what they want ley are getting it now. They wil it stop to-morrow, nor the next day ie new era in American politics has me. The boss is retired and ma Ines are going out of date. Th< ople are choosing their own leaders ar prosperity is God's gift to tbe na >n. It was not given for the enrich ent of the greedy and grasping few ie nation's wealth belongs to the peo e. They have made up their mind! at they will claim their share of it ley are right. And they will win. Reform has set in? The people are ii Next must follow regeneration hether the church* may go iuto poli :s or not, her influence is strong!} ere. And the tendency is to selec e legislators from the ranks of ho: embership. The most remnrknbli ection ever held in England has jus ien held. A large number of tin ccessful candidates are earnest work s in the Protestant churches. Thi volution has been wrought mainl; r the clergy of the free churches. Thi jsire over there is that the peopl all be considered. They have rights id their rights are to be respected tie day of the select few in good ol< ngland- is past. And shall we, in thi lendid republic, fall back to seconi ace? I trow not. Let political lead s take notice. The old regime is over ;ie kingdom of God includes the hall legislation. The Christ demand ir play. The spirit of Jesus is tnkinj >ld of the people, and they are m nger to be fooled. No, noj The na >11 is not drunk witti money. tu ition is, and is becomiug more am ore serious, sane, sober. The peopl e growing intelligent, thoughtful verent. The kingdom of God is win ng glorious victories. The goldeu da; coining. Last of all I point you to what thi lurch has done and is doing in proo at our nation is not drunk with pros irity. The church, like science, thi indmaid of religion, is adapting her If to the needs and work of the hour ae church is more than an evangel il force. She is a mental stimulan id a moral regenerator. To preacl irist crucified is but a part of he: eat mission. She must stand square and firmly in the pathway of evi ?ers. She must permeate by her in lence all phases and conditions o e. She must mak it hard to. d< ronff, and easy to do right. And shi doing it. Jesus Christ died on the cross fo iman sin. Thank God for that. Thi oss is our hope. But He did mor< an that. He preached to the poor e healed the sick. He showed mei id -women the way of love, or hon 7, of kindness, of brotherliness. Th< cial, the political, the moral, the re rious life of the people. He touche( d quickened and saved. My friends ke heart. The country is not goinj limbo. The devil hasn't all of tb< nerican people in his grasp. Grea ings are taking place in the name o] r Lord and Saviour. Let us look t< im, follow Him and victory is sure. The Perfect Trait A learned minister, attending at ed Christian in humble life when ir s last illness, remarked that the pas ge in Hebrews 13.5, "I will uevei ive thee, nor forsake thee," wai nch more emphatic in the origina figuage than in our translation, inas ach as it contained no fewer thai e negatives in proof of the validity the divine promise, and not merely o, as it appears iu the English ver >n. By this remark he intended to con v to him that, in consequence of th( mber of negatives, the promise was pressed witb much greater force ii e original language than in the Eng h. The man's reply was very simplf d striking: "I have no doubt, sir, that you ar< ite right, but I can assure you thai God had only spoken once. I should ve believed Him just the same." What Shall Wo Do ? 3ebazi and Elijah looked on the self? me scene. The one thought he was rrouuded by adversaries, and cried, fhat shall we do?" The other saw ? mountains filled with the chariots d horsemen of the Lord of Hosts. ie panic of Gehazi! The poise of ijab! Depend upon it, our days will full of panics if we have not that arer vision of faith, *ae eyesight of i soul.?Dr. Woelfkin. A Plan For Cn. fes, things are hard sometimes. And > must live on and bear God's will, cause He makes a plan for us, and ?re will be always something comWe cannot tell, day by day, lat may be. only He never forgets or leaves anything out.?Mrs. A. D. Whitney. . . TJIli GKEAT DESTKOZE ^OME STARTLING FACTS ABOl TH; VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Horn Than a Third of the Pnpn tion of Thc?e United State* A Lirliicr Contentedly Under JL.it Prohibiting the Liquor Trude. It is estimated th.-t fully 30,000,C paople are living in the United Stnl under prohibition, either by State if or by loca 1 option. This is more tb a third of the entire population of t republic. The following counti have in the varioUo States enacted p: hibition laws: Alabama?In fifty out of Severn five counties. Arkansas?In fifty out of seveni five counties. California?In 175 cities and towi Colorado?In fifty cities and towi Connecticut?In seventy-five out 125 towns. ' Delaware?In fully half of the Sta Florida?In thirty out of forty-fi towns. Georgia?The whole of the Sts except four cities. Illinois?In G50 cities and towns. Indiana?In 140 towns. [ Iowa?The whole of the State ( ; cept twenty-five cities. ^ Kansas?The whole of the State. Kentucky?In ninety out of 1 , counties. ; Louisiana?In twenty out of fift r nine counties. r Maine?The whole of the State. ^ Maryland?In fifteen out of twenl four counties. Massachusetts?In 203 out of 3 cities and towns. Michigan?In 400 cities and towns. Minnesota?In 4(00 cities and towi Mississippi?In seventy-one out seventy-five counties. Missouri?In eighty-four out of 1 counties. Montana?In a few counties. Nebraska?In 250 cities and towi New Hampshire?The whole of t State. New Jersey?In 200 cities and towi New York?In 700 cities and towi North Carolina?In sixty out L ninety counties. ' North Dakota?The whole of t J State. [ Ohio?In 500 cities and towns. i Oregon?In the great Indian res< rations. 1 Pennsylvania ? In 600 cities a towns and twenty counties. } Rhode Island ? In 200 cities a " towus. J South Carolina?The whole of t * State except ten cities. South Dakota ? The whole of t " State except a few cities. Tennessee?In seventy out of nine * six counties. 3 Texas?In 120 out of 240 counties. Vermont?The whole of the State. Virginia ?In fifty-five out of I 1 cities. Washington ? In fifty cities a " tjflwus. 7 West Virginia?In forty out of fif t four counties. r Wisconsin?In 300 cities and towi ? -Philadelphia Ledger. e A Hopeleat Care. e A lady walking westward on Ma 7 son street, Chicago, saw a drunk e man in charge of police?staggering e guided with much leniency by t kindly guardian of the public peai 1. Passing, she remarked to a woini 1 carrying lier baby in her arms, "T1 9 makes me indignant! Instead of 1 resting this drunkard, why not arn the saloonkeeper who sold him t drink?" 8 "That Is my husband," remarked 1 s woman with tlie baby in .her arr ? "The policeman is taking him to t 0 Washington Home, Madison and < den, that I may get his money fr< a him. He has all the money we ha 1 If he goes on he will spend all he hi e Won't you pray for him?" I. "Pray for him! No! I would rati pray that the churches may get rif 7 on the temperance question." The drunken man was guided to t e Home, his money taken from him?i f his, but theirs; as much his wife's ' his. i His history was learned. A man t rible when drunk?guilty of gross c elty.. But the wife, who,'With her ba in herarms, badpleadedwiththe salo< t keeper not, for God's sake, t,o sell h i whisky, refused to put her case in 1 r hands of a society organized to prot women against drunken husban 1 Afraid of publicity. Unwilling to brl - her "husband" to trial. Unwilling f allow interference in the family affai 3 And. the cowardly "husband" thre 3 ening her life, crushing her heai hope to death?brutally determined r do wrong. Taken to the "Home" f< 3 times?but defiant to all appeal to i better nature. A man brutaliz . And the saloonkesper paid Cbicc l $500 per annum?and voted. ? N - York Voice. 3 j Why He Kutic a "Joint." , A Kansas jointkeeper has. told 1 I Omaha Republican how he happer ; to go into that business. Here is t story: "One day a man came in a C wanted some cheap socks. I show > Win some that were ten cents a p? He asked me if I did not have sor thing cheaper. I got down some tl were five cents a pair. He looked them some time, and insisted that ti 1 were too expensive, and walked out. 1 happened to step to the door and s him go into a saloon, and I follow r him out of curiosity. There were s oral persons in the saloon, and the n: I called them up and treated. He spi * eighty cents for booze. I conclm 1 when a man kicko'l on buying socks r live cents a pair and immediately sp? r eighty cents for booze that thr sale * business was the one I wanted to gage in, so I got Into it as soon as p ' sible." * Temperance Note*. Sir William Broadbent declared tl "olnnlinlm OTMSS W3S fillP Of the Drill pnl factors in the progress of consul] s tion." c Over the door of a sa'non in Pc I land, Ore., is the sign: "Drinks of kinds, ten cents. The best drink in 1 house is cold water." Nine assistant attorney-generals br been appointed by the Governor i Kansas to assist the local prosecuti attorneys in enforcing the State liqi Jaw. 1 The Pullman Palace Car Compa has promulgated a rule forbidding 1 sale of liquor to passengers not oc< pying seats in buffet cars. D. L. Arey, of Greenboro, S. C., wealthy Salisbury distiller, was rece ly sentenced to pay a tine of and serve three months in prison : defrauding the Government. A complete prohibition map of th< United States would surprise t friends of temperance as much as enemies. In twenty-five States of the Uni the people have the right to exclu saloons from the residential distrii through district local option. American Cotton. h England has been trying to get away from dependence on the American cotton crop. British mill owners fear pos^ eible years of failure and suffer from manipulations of the American cotton speculators. Much hope has centred upon the attempts to raise cotton in the British posessions in Africa. After Wl a thorough trial they have practically failed. The five colonies where cotton can be grown would not be caplable ea of producing more than 250,000 bales yearly even with financial assistance, an good roads, transportation facilities he and central buying and ginning staies tions.- And they have none of these l'?* advantages yet. The production of * 0,000 bales per year cannot be expected for eight years. As against the American crop of more than 12,000,000 bales, this Is inns. significant. It is apparent that Engas. land as well as all Europe must still of hnv its pnttrm in thA TTnitpri Stnfps. Th.it Is a good thing for this country, i *e* even If the speculators must share in ? se the advantages and continue to hurt ] lte vital national interests at home and < abroad.?Cleveland Leader. 1 Rise Liars, 19 I An 1, Ho, AU Ye F Of 7 15 is. li A g I A Younjc Girl said to a Cc is. One Statement as I of lie This burst of true American girl Indignation was caused by tue teacher Br. saying that Grape-Nuts, the popular pre-dlgested food, was made of stale nd bread shipped In and sweetened. n<l The teacher colored up and changed the subject p There is quite an assortment of travhe ellng and stay-at-home members of the tribe of Ananias who tell their falsety hoods for a variety of reasons. In the spring It 1s the custom on a cattle ranch to have a "round-up," and brand the cattle,' so we are going to nd have a "round-up," and brand these cattle and place them In their proper pastures. as. FIRST PASTURE. Cooking school teachers?this Inen dudes "teachers" who have applied v_ to us for a weekly pay If they would he say "something nice" about Grapece-' Nuts and Postum, and when we in; have declined to hire them to do in t ar_ this they get waspy and show their ?st true colors. he This also includes "demonstrake tors" and "lecturers" sent out by a ns certain Sanitarium to sell foods lie . made there, and these people In3r structed by the small-be-whiskered)ID doctor?the head of the Institution ve. ! as. ?to tell these prevarications (you can speak the stronger word if you ler like). This same little doctor con>kt ducts a small magazine In which there Is a department of "answers iot to correspondents," many of the as questions as well as the answers being written by the aforesaid doc -" I tor. l,y In tbls column some ume uyu up Du- peared the statement: "No, we can- I im not recommend the use of GrapeNuts, for it is nothing but bread ds. with glucose poured over it" Right ing then he showed his badge as a memto ber of the tribe of Ananias. He may have been a member for some .t-g" time before, and so be has caused to these "lecturers" to descend into >ur the ways of the tribe wherever they ed" lgQ When the young lady in New ew York put the "iron on" to this "teacher" and branded her right we sent $10.00 to the girl for her pluck and bravery. the led his nd : ;frd SECOND PASTURE. ne" Editors of "Trade" papers known 3flt at as grocers' papers. ieV Remember, we don't put the brand * on all, by any means. Only those -ed that require it. These members of ev- the tribe have demanded that we zot carry advertising in their papers ^4 and when we do not consider it adat visable they institute a campaign ent of vituperation and slander, printing )on from time to time manufactured ?n- I og. slurs on i'ostum or urape-nuis. When they go far enough we set our legal force at work and hale them to the judge to answer. If j.'it the pace has been hot enough to >oi- throw some of these "cattle" over on JP* their backs, feet tied and "bellow. lug," do you think we should be ajj blamed? They gambol around with ;he tails held high and jump stiff legged with a very "cocky" air while ive they have full range, but when the rope is thrown over them "it's diflor ferent" Should we untie them because ny they bleat soft and low? Or should :he we put the iron on, so that people L'u" will know the brand? 1 I Let's keep them in this pasture, anyhow. j for "Tt he its 2 Grape Mim An Army of Stray ?! . Along the seacoast, particularly at 1 lopular summer resorts, is a large and wb constantly increasing feline population, the lomelessand doomed to cruel suffering sta luring tlie winter months. The cats tha were forsaken by heartless summer ma cottagers. The cities are full of home- PO? !ess creatures. The American Society dei for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- tor mals mercifully put out of misery 53,- Fii )38 cats during the first nine months C(" sf 1905 in New York City alone, while a8* its figures for nine years up to 1903 "sc ire 465,065, according to Bird Lore.? we Good Housekeeping. zin Anolber Comet. Another comet is reported. It has J Deen detected by Professor Wolff, of be< aeiaeiDerg UDservaiory, wxjo reports n vm is near star Burthe, constellation Vlr- ful ;o, and apparently tending towards off Regulus, in tbe constellation Leo. The ha< :omet appears to be about 10 or 11 mo legrees of magnitude. Calculations the cvill not be completed for some days wt jufficiently to enable a definite opin- tat on to be formed as to whether the jes ;omet is approaching to or receding ly from the earth. pa! d Salute Yc aithful Follower tolling School Teacher in Nei ralse as That, AU Yon have s is Absolutely Unreliable.'? i _ ca: THIRD PASTURE. ?' "Wi Now we come to a frisky lot, the pr< "Labor Union" editors. You* know 'OI qu down In Texas a weed called "Loco* an Is sometimes eaten by a steer and 1 produces a derangement of the ?|t brain that makes the steer "batty" or crazy. Many of these editors are "Locoed" from hate of anyone fe< who will not Instantly obey the thi "demands" of a labor union, and it is the universal habit of such writ- an ers to go straight into a system of fo< personal vilification, manufacturing any sort of falsehood through which ug to vent their spleen. We assert that an the common citizen has a right to se< live and breathe air without asking col permission of the labor trust, and this has brought down on us the an, hate of these editors. When they pr go far enough with their libels, is it pi< harsh for us to get judgment against ri\ them and have our lawyers watch *01 for a chance to attach money due I them from others? (For they are ce nciinllc irresnonsible). mi Keep jour eye out for the "Lo- ^ coed" editor. ta] - ap fri Now let al] these choice specimens br take notice: no We will deposit one thousand or In/ fifty thousand dollars to be covered by co; a like amount from them, or'any one of ur them, and if there was ever one ounce pe of old bread or any other ingredient 15 different than our selected wheat and et< barley with a little salt and yeast used ca in the making of Grape-Nuts, we will ce: lose the money. th Our pure food factories are open at all times to visitors, and thousands so pass through each month, inspecting every department and every process. nc Our factories are so clean that one br; could, with good relish, eat a meal m) from tbe floors. sh The work people, both men and wo- on men, are of the highest grade in the 0f State of Michigan, and according to the an State labor reports, are the highest paid 8ji in the State for similar work. Let us tell you exactly what you will q(' see when you inspect the manufacture ? of Grape-Nuts. You will find tremen- J?1 dous elevators containing the choicest wheat and Parley possible to buy. j"1 These grains are carried through long conveyers to grinding mills, and there otj converted into flour. Then the machines make selection of the proper eT quantities of this flour in the proper a1^ proportion and these parts are blended into a general flour which passes over tb * ' L!- *v>tvSnfrmn/)h!nAfi t horo up CO I lie Ulg UUUgUUUlu^Uiuvu.uv., water, salt and a little yeast are added ^ and the dough kneaded the proper length of time. P1} Remember that previous to the barley having been ground it was passed through about one hundred hours of nlj soaking in water, then placed on warm doors and slightly sprouted, developing the diastnse in the barley, which eit changes the "tareh in the grain into a of t'ortn of sugar. Pr Now after we have passed it into sa lough and it has been kneaded lonj; enough, it is moulded by machinei-y wl iuto loaves about 18 inches long and 5 or 0 inches in diameter. It is put into this shape for convenience in secoud ( cooking. These great loaves are sliced by ma- tel chinery and the slices placed on wire Pr< trays, these trays, in turn, placed on vf great steel trucks, and rolled into the secondary ovens, each perhaps 75 or SO 1 r'eet long. There the food is subjected en to a long, low heat and the starch ?? which has not been heretofore transformed, is turned into a form of sugar e generally known as Post Sugar. It can sta be seen glistening ou the granules of 801 Grape-Nuts if held toward the light, J and this sugar is not poured over or put on the food as these prevaricators f.ra ignorantly assert. On the contrary the sugar exudes from the interior of each little granule during the process of tiH manufacture, and reminds one of the , little white particles of sugar that come ca out on the end of a hickory log after pu it has been sawed off and allowed to an< " "".I for n ipnffth of time. |1111 auiuu -.v. %. ----o This Post Sugar is tbe most digpsti- Vj ble food known for human use. It is jf t so perfect in its adaptability that moth- bra ers with very young infants will pour ly a little warm milk over two or three E spoonfuls of Grape-Nuts, thus washing "m the sugar off from the granules and rui lere's a Reason'* fc NutS and P Logic*!. I IVhen a small boy recently asfced VijM at was meant by tbe Darwlnhun^ cry, he was greatly shocked by the : I temeni that many people believed it monkeys were the ancestors of r-qfl n. "But that cannot be,"- be re- | 9 ited, many tlmea In dismay. evft? ltly starching for a more satisfac- I y answer to Ibis startling theory* lally his face lighted up at the die- I ery of a conclusive argument, rinst it. "Don't you see,'" he said, v fl ?me day we shall be ancestors, and 're not monkeys!"?Harper's ^ Spoke Disrespectfully of KiImt. pfl| i Berlin butcher namod Eisker has i1 in sentenced to six months' imprie- Jgfl ment for having spoken disreepedh jS ly of the Kaiser. The fast that the ense was .'ommittcd ti ree years ago >/?8M 1 no weight with the jtodge. Infer- 5 1 ition was given to the police against > butcher by a former friend, with ' torn he had quarreled. The Kaisear J ces a more lenient view of lese ma- : fl te than his judges, and has frequent- fl annulled sentences which they have ;>a| ssed on his subjects for this ofTense. fl fl >ur Queen ] rs of Ananias I n York: "If Yon make ;1 aid about Foods 1 rrying it with the,mils to the bottom I the dish. Then this milk charged };rM th Post Sugar Is fed to the lnfanflBffl t )ducing the most satisfactory resol^ p | the baby has food that it can digest -.1 ickly and will go off to sleep well fed^M 1 d contented. i JY'hen baby gets two or three montb* I It is the custom of some mothers to 11 ow the Grape-Nuts to soak In thfi.^JB Ik a little longer and become mtuhj; -' , 1 hereupon a little of the food can b? >;M 1 in addition to the milk containing i washed off sugar. 1 * mAona monnfoMnPiuV fhfi l> 10 IJ J JJV LUVUUO UiUUUtUVkU* w%a m ?W .. by food, bat these facts are stated at illustration of a perfectly digestiblo :t furnishes the energy and strength I : the great athletes. It Is in common 1 e by physicians in their own familie*'"; | d among their patients, and can be ,AI en on the table of every first-chief /"Jil liege in the land. I tVe quote from the London Lancet & 8 alysis as follows: 1 'The basis of nomenclature of thw^H eparatJon is evidently an American , '3 ?asantry, since 'Grape-Nuts' is de? ed solely from cereals. The pr#para- ja -y process undoubtedly converts I 3d constituents Info a much more dfc|jra 1 stible condition than in the raw ,:>'w real. This is evident from the r? J| irkable solubility of the preparation* less than one-half of It being soluble :-W cold water. The soluble part con? wS ins chiefly dextrin and no starch. In ''1 pearance 'Grape-Nuts' resemble* iM I ed bread-crumbs. The grains are <9 own and crisp, with a pleasant tastirraM t unlike slightly burnt malt Accord- 1 z to our analysis the following is the.y? mposition of 'Grape-Nuts:' Moist^^l e, 6.02 per cent.; mineral matter, 2.0l >^9| r cent.; fat, 1.60 per cent; proteids. 1 .uu per cent.; soiuuie curyuuyuraiew. 49.40 per cent.; and unaltered V|1 rbobydrates (insoluble), 25.97 per 1 nt. The features -worthy of note in I Is analysis are the excellent propor- I in of proteid, mineral matters, and luble carbohydrates per cent. The -1 neral matter was rich In phosphoric /JH id. 'Grape-Nuts' is described as ft' Bin and nerve food, whatever that ,|| iy be. Our analysis, at any rate, J ows that it is a nutritive of a bi^jgjl I 3er, since it contains the constituents a complete food in very satisfactory d rich proportion and in an easily asnilnble state." I \n analysis made by the Canadian^! )vernment some time ago shows thatT^B ape-Nuts contains nearly ten 'imes I e digestible elements contained iu or* .-IjS aary careals, and foods, and nearly I ice the amount contained In any I ber food analyzed. 1 rbe analysis is familiar to practically '< 3ja ery successful physician in America JH d London. 5Ve print tills cJatement In order tftat .$ e public may know the exact fact* Js on which we stake our honor ObA'^J 11 back it with any amount of money .{g ot any person or corporation wWVg it up. SVe propose to follow some of the^l oice specimens of the tribe of An*/; .: is. ' '-j. When you hear a cooking school icher or ary other person assert that ' her Postum or Grape-Nuts are mad# J any other ingredients than those inted on the packages ^nd as *y0 y they are wade, send us the nam* ^ d address, also name of two or thre# tnesses, and If the evidence is deaf ough to get a judgment we will right $ at wrong quickly. Dur business has always been con? 1| cted on as high a grade of human in* J ligence as we are capable of. and we i' opose to clear the deck of these pr^ ricators and liurs whenever and lerever they can be fouud. attention is again called to the gen- ' il and broad invitation to visitors to through our works, where they will shown the most minute process an<& rice in order that they "jiay under* , ind how pure and clean and Whole* jie Grape-Nuts and Postum are. rhere is an old saying among bnsl* ss men that there is some chance to in a fool, but there is no room for & r, for you never can tell where yon ?, and we hereby serve noticc on all i members of this ancient tribe ot I anias that they may follow thett ling in other lines, but when thef 1 t forth their lies about Grape-Nuti 3 Postum, we propose to give them opportunity to auswer to the proper tborities. .'lie New York girl wisely said that i person would lie about one item, it mds tbe whole discourse as absolute* unreliable. ^eep your iron ready and brand the$# avericks" -whenever you find them miug loose. 1 >r | . ostuir- 1 I