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RUIN SPREAD FUR AND WIDE By EXPLOSION Plant of Du Pont Powder Company Blows Up at Fontanet, Ind. SHOCK WAS FELT 200 MILES Throe States Tremble to the Detonation of a Giant Magazine's Crash ?Victims limned to Crisp? I Over (>00 Injured. Fontanel, Ind.?Upward of fifty i persons were killed, the majority being blown to pieces: 600 persons out of a total population of 1000 were injured, and every building in this town was razed in a series of explosions in the Du Pont Powder Plant, which culminated in the biowiug up of the magazine, containing 40,000 barrels of blasting powder. The force of this crowning blast was sc terrific that the earth trembled and buildings were blown down four miles distant. A school house in Coal Bluff, two miles away, was thrown over and smashed. The teacher and forty pupils were buried in the wreck. A passenger train, traveling forty miles an hour on the line of the Big Four Railroad, four miles distant, was al most thrown from the tracks. Every window in the train was shattered. Reports from other points show that there was widespread terror of an earthquake. The last and greatest explosion was heard at points fifty miles from here, and it appears that the greater part of the State and large sections of Ohio and Illinois were shaken. In Terre Haute, twenty miles as the crow flies, windows were shattered and ceilings were shaken down. In Crawfordsville, thirty-five miles away, walls were cracked and in one large building of recent construction the tiled floor sank more than an inch. Great damage was done fifteen miles distant in Brazil. There was a general flight from the houses, in the belief of an earthquake, until at the end of a minute there came the distinct roar of the explosion. In many places the explosion was taken as- thunder. Nothing remains of thi3 town to mark it for what it was. Even the sidewalks have been obliterated. Not h tree stands for two miles around. Hedges, stone aitcnes, wire iences, all have gone. There are great fissures In the earth, as if one of the giants of the ancients had turned a tremendous furrow. Here and there are great holes like dents in the ground, and over all the field of desolation Is strewn the wreckage of homes. Doors, rafters, window frames, bricks, mortar, all are scattered flat, with not a foot of wall' protruding anywhere. And with this wreckage of bare wails and floors are strewn the furnishings of 400 families. Pianos, beds, tables, chairs, pictures, clocks, are scattered on all sides, not an article intact, all broken and cast with a direction as if a mysterious hand had brushed over the town and blotted it out. There were four explosions. To the devotion of the townsfolk to the men caught in the mills was due the heavy loss of life and the appalling list of injured. With fire spreading rapidly and threatening the magazine, not a man, woman or child deserted the town. Instead, all gathered around the plant ready to sacrifice their lives to rescue those dead and dying in the wreck of the mills, and the work was in progress, injured men being carried out by the score, wnen me magazine uiew up. , It was said by survivors that there was a flash, and then it seemed there was a moment's suspense, followed by a crash that struck every person within a radius of a mile either dying or senseless. Those who escaped death bled from ears, noses and mouths, and the ear drums of scores were shattered. Farmers were the first to invade the stricken area. They found the surviving hundreds beginning to regain their :enses. All communication by telegraph and telephone was cut off, but fortunately the train which so narrowly escaped disaster carried the news to the station, from which it was telephoned to Terre Haute and Brazil. Relief trains were dispatched within an hour, from those cities, and as quickly asj the injured were picked up they were carried on stretchers to the trains. Four specials bore them to Terre Haute. The hospitals there were un? at!e to accommodate all, and two schools were impressed as temporary hospitals. WALKER'S STEALINGS REPAID. vua? vihivii, Prays For the Absconder. Putnam, Conn.?At the Connecticut Baptist convention the stealings :>f William F. Walker, of N'ew Britain, the former treasurer cf the convention, who disappeared early last winter, with more than $55,000 of the convention's funds and also with $665,000 belonging to the Savings Bank of New Britain, were discussed. Walker has never been found. ' It was reported that the entire loss of the convention has been made good. A prayer was offered for Walker, who was one of the most prominent Baptists in the State. \ Maine Sardines Scarce. Among the features in canned goods was a scarcity of sardine fish at Maine packing points. Beet Sugar Crop. The Sugar Trade Journal estimates the American crop of sugar beets this season as likely to yield 4 00,000 to 425,000 tons of sugar, against 433,010 tons last season. vk Copper Price Declined. Copper went down to fourteen and one-half cents. Crisis in Auto Industry. The automobile industry abroad is believed to be facing a crisis. About Noted People. Hon. Austin L. Crothtrs. or Maryland, was a farm boy in his youth, and later taught school. Ferdinand P. Earle, the artist who left his wife for his "affinity," will go to Europe to see his little son. Professor A. L. Kroeber, of the' University of California, is the leading expert in this country on Indian 1 languages. A Mexican newspaper gave Secretary Root credit for wresting the "big stick" from President Roosevelt's hand and substituting for it the flag of neace. EXPRESS KILLS HO PART* Reading Train Smashes Machine tc Pieces in Pottstown. Five Occupants Tossed Iligh in tlie Air and Hurled Fifty Feet From Track?. Poltstowu, Fa.?Four persons from Kimberton, a village near Phoenixville, were killed and another was fatally hurt when the Reading express fro.m Philadelphia to Pottsville, passing through this city at great speed, ground an automobile to splinters at the Keim street crossing, not far from the Pottstown station. The dead are: Mrs. A. Wayne Emery and her baby girl. Velva; Jacob Reese, her brother, and Mrs. Reese. A. Wayne Emery, owner of the machine, forty-five, has a broken thigh and fatal internal injuries. The party visited Mr. Emery's sister, Mrs. Joseph March, of this place. They left for Kimberton shortly before 5 o'clock p. m. and were speeding at a lively rate down Keim street to cross the Reading tracks when the accident occurred. Train No. 7 reached the crossing simultaneously with the party and struck the machine fairly rn the side. The two men were hurled high into the air and dropped at the bottom of one embankment along the tracks at i the place, fifty feet away. The little girl, torn from her mother's arms, landed near them. The women were carried on the cowcatcher until the train was stopped, three or four blocks away. Workmen from adjoining plants, many of whom had seen the collision, hurried out, but all the victims were past aid except Mr. Emery and the little girl. They were taken to the ruiiQiutvu nuspnai. ivn juiuci j icmained conscious most of the time, but could not talk coherently. The bodies were placed on the train and brought into town. The automobile was destroyed. The Keim street crossing, a grade affair, has proved a deathtrap many times. It is approached by a slight rise, preceded by a long, heavy down grade, and the only protection is a gong rung mechanically by a passing train. The supposition is that Mr. Emery had been running too fast, the crossing being a constant temptation to autoists to speed down grade. IMPROVEMENTS HALTED. Pennsylvania Railroad Acts Because of Stringency in Money Market. Pittsburg. ? President James McCrea, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, accompanied by a number of the members of the Board of Directors, left Pittsburg for an extended trip of inspection over the western part of the road. According to President McCrea, the Pennsylvania will not go ahead with the extensive improvements planned some time ago for the lines west, on account of the present money stringency. Asked about trie Intended improvements, which were to cost over $3,000,000, he said: "There is 110 program for that. For some reason investors feel such a lack of confidence in the situation that they appear unwilling to supply capital for developing railroads or Other industries." CRUSHED BY NEW AUTO. Ohio Merchant Killed and Wife and Son Seriously Injured. Morenci, Mich.?Arthur Onweller, a merchant of Lyons, Ohio, was killed In an automobile accident five miles east of this city. He had bought a new automobile and was taking his first ride 111 it. Eis wife and two children were with him. - While driving at fair speed he lost control of the machine in some way. and it ran into a deep ditch, turning turtle and crushing him to death beneath it. Mrs. Onweller and one of the children, a boy, were seriously injured. The boy was internally injured and his arm was broken. AIRSHIP TEST A SUCCESS. Charles Oscar Jones Gives Demon ;ir:stion in Presence of Scientists. Bath, N. Y.?Charles Oscar .Tones, an exponent of the heavier-than-air theory type of flying machines, made four successful demonstrations of his theory at Hammondsport. .Tones' machine depends upon faushaped sails or wings for stability. It is propelled by a gasoline motor, and Is said to have attained a speed of fifty miles an hour. The demonstration was witnessed by twenty scientific men, including members of cha New York Aero Club. Liquidation Was a Sham. An examination by the Government's counsel of books furnished by the Standard Oil Company proved that the pretended liquidation m tS92-9 was a sham. Remarriages Forbidden. The House of Bishops of il.e Episcopal General Convention, at Richmond, Ya., voted against making a stringent provision against officiating at the remarriage of divorced persons*. He Padded Payrolls. At Springfield, Ohio. George I71. N'iuffer, former member of the Board of Public Service, was sentenced 1o one year in the penitentiary for jia;'.ding payrolls. J. H. Oliphant & Co. Robbed. George H. Brouwer, confidential manager of the New York Stock Exchange firm of James H. Oliphant & Co., was charged with grand larceny and held in $30,000 bail. It is alleged he took $100,000 and los". u in Wall Street speculation. Railway Stops Work. President Ripley, of the Alc'.ii.nn roaa, 111 HIS auuuai icpui i vi?.v it b<i all improvements have been : :!idonerl until the unfriendly alii- .1 do tjf ('.! d public changes. With the Workers. The union men of every city in Canada are forming Asiatic exclusion leagues. About 500 'longshoremen and teamsters have gone on a strike at New Orleans. A new district council of cabinet makers has been formed, embracing t the Minneapolis and St. Paul ! locals. I The American Federation of Labor is taking an active interest in the organization of the carriage and wagonmakers throughout the United States. FOOTBALL NO "Tl ; /# ?Week's Cleveres NLW WRINKLI Postmaster-General Meyer cause It Will Help the Coi Simple Postal Note Machines Boston.?If the recommei ter-General Meyer are adopted some remarkable changes In outline of some of the most in the next session of Congress vi Postmasters' Convention here. These include the further an extent far beyond its pres savings banks, the issuance of one cent to $2.50, and the inst; stamp vending machines. Th' machines, however, will depenc made with a device of this kini Probably the most import tions which the Postmaster-Ge ing the extension of the parce the system as at present estab that the maximum rate for al cents per pound, that the limit tour to eleven pounds; that 1( automobiles be established in vails, and that a special parcel for service be established in cc ANSWERS TH "Two interests are oppoi country?the express companii Mr. Meyer. "The latter fear t efit to their own disadvantage, merchants that I desire to spe establishment of a parcels pos1 tions of the small storekeepers "This will be a boon to o so the latter can receive his o desired merchandise by the ru hitching up his horse and losin ing his crops, and it will enab meet the requirements of mode "If my recommendations z f?r the mail-order house to sei any city postoffice, while for rural route, or if mailed by a patron on the same route, or charge will be but five cents fo ditional pound up to eleven ] weighing eleven pounds. "I am also considering th eels post delivery at city free such a system it will be necessj I |;i laiiuu uu av-4uu g au The object of my recommend! ment of rates and weights that parcels sent by post to other c< rate from skteen to twelve cer Umit from four to eleven poun POSTA] "Another matter of great the consideration of Congress to encourage among our people savings banks to give them ev The policy will not be to comj lather to encourage the habit c hidden money to light, to inst: :hannels of trade, for the mutu \o the prosperity throughout tt "I find that there is a gre fcnd it is the purpose of the d nominations of ten, twenty, tv ?ightyt ninety cents. $1, and uj notes payable to the party des iime will be saved, as no advi< *ents, the notes will be made p "Tests of stamp-vending Ihe machines are satisfactory lonvenient to the public in faci Of rural delivery Mr. Mey lent in many parts of the coui an unnecessary arain upou me plished in the last ten years pi Dut that where the first rural *nd $15,000 was expended du $11,500,000, while for the fisi lures for rural delivery were ! showed a decrease as compared "The expense is enormous and the benefits to our people c Isolation which existed in man Medical men have said that all Is having its effect upon the : because of it insanity is on the "GRAVEN FARM" REC! Eccentric Genius Sper in His Rome, N. Y.?After having rarving tne races 01 tne worm boulders on his farm, Jacob W. 'uiles from this city. Since he life to transforming large ston landiwork has been viewed b; ais fifty-seven-acre farm and i familiar faces in stone which c were impressed by the allegori ;he solid rock by the eccentric < The Boody farm is in One ley, and from it glimpses ma climbing is the curious tourist Boody worked year in and ye? stone. There is scarcely a roc] of his handiwork with hammer Even the border of his p? sach of which the face of a d lawn is studded with immense old man. Among those who 1 Ington, Franklin, Lincoln, Gr Roosevelt, Garfield, Susan B. J aontas. Even Carrie Nation ha left rocks bearing the likeness* slain in the Deerfield massacre contains the faces of Benjamin Cooper and George Washington ural rocky couch on which is i five tons, and ten horses were wanted it placed. Another, "T are traced, weighs ten tons. E lawn. Boody was a Bible student for making melody were ston wheel he succeeded in playing many curiosities. In early life Boody was a natural history, taxidermy and farm he spent almost all his tin of health. Once, when ho was scesa developed. It was both 1 surgeon he locked himself in himself. The operation was a Filipinos Greet Taft. Secretary William H. Taft ws ?n a great demonstration of we ;o the old capital of Manila, where he long ruled as Govern inormous crowds. W IN THE SPOT-LIGHT. !KE THCY CpMCP1 t Carlo an, by Triggs. in the New York Press. L5 IN POSTOFFICLS Favors Parcels Post on Rural Routes Be< intry Merchant--Postal Savings Banks, ts and Automatic Stamp Vending on His Programme. idations which are to be made by Postmasby Congress the immediate future will bring postal facilities in the United States. Ae iportant recommendations to be made before as given by Mr. Meyer in his address at the development of the parcels post system tc ent limitations, the establishment of postal postal notes in denominations ranging from illation throughout the country of automatic e recommendation as to the stamp vending 1 upon the success of experiments now being i. ;ant and drastic of any of the recommendaneral proposes to make will be that regard:1s post. Not only will he recommend that lished be greatly increased in efficiency, but 1 parcels be reduced from sixteen to twelve of weight for such parcels be increased from Deal parcels posts equipped with wagons oi cities where the free delivery system pres post system with an extremely low charge n?nection with the rural free delivery, E COUNTRY MERCHANT. sing the extension of parcels post in this 3S and the country retail merchants," said hat the mail-order houses will derive a benIt is in connection with the country retail ak especially. I propose to recommend the t in rural routes which will meet the objecand retailers. >ur rural population and to the storekeeper, rders by mail or telephone and dispatch the ral carrier. The farmer will be saved from ig the time he needs for planting or harvestle the storekeeper to increase his sales and ;rn trade. ire adopted it will cost twelve cents a pound id parcels to the rural delivery patron from delivery from the distributing office of the patron of any rural route for delivery to a at the distributing office of said route, the >r the first pound and two cents for each ad< pounds, or twenty-five cents for a package e advisability of recommendiug a local pardelivery postoffices, but in order to install ary to obtain from Congress a special approid automobiles to do the required hauling, ition to Congress will be to get an ad justwill meet the rates and weights charged for auntries. This will mean a reduction in the its per pound, and an increase in the weight ds. L SAVINGS BANK. public interest which I shall recommend for is a postal savings bank system. We desire economy and thrift and by the use of postal ery opportunity to husband theiv resources. >ete in any way with the savings banks, but >f depositing savings. Our object is to bring ill life into it, and to lead it again into the lal benefit of labor and capital, and thus add le land. at demand from the public for postal notes, epartment to recommend such paper in defenty-five, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, 3 to $2.50. It is the intention to have these lignated. A small fee will be charged, but ces are to be sent. From one cent to nine ayable to bearer, and no fee will be charged. machines will be begun this month, and II they will be adopted, as they should prove litating the sale of stamps." er said that, while there is a feeling prevaatry that this service is an extravagant and i department, he believes the results accom ove this feeling to be baseless. He pointed route was established in the fall of 1896, ring that fiscal year, the postal deficit was :al year ended June 30, 1907. the expendif27,000,000 and the estimated postal deficit [ with 1897 of about $4,500,000. ," he said, "yet it has increased the receipts, :annot be measured in dollars and cents. The ty parts of'the country has been overcome, ready the establishment of the rural service mentality of our country patrons, and that decrease." LUSE DEAD,.'MIDST MONUMENTS it Years Carving Huge Boulders Remote Retreat. lived as a recluse and spent, many years in 's prominent men and women on the many Boody is dead in his mountain home, fifteen retired to his farm and began devoting his es into likenesses of great persons Boody's y thousands. Tourists have climbed up to wandered about it, wondering at the many onfronted them in all directions. They also cal figures which had been sculptured from )ld farmer who lived there with his old wife. ?ida County. It overlooks the Mohawk Valy be seen of Lake Oneida. Only by hard it- r\r\ fVtic rnoV.cfnHrJarl trflrt auic tu i tam it. vii kuio lucu wwuuuvx. ?>?v. ir out, carving the faces of his favorites in k on the place that does not show the result and chisel. irlor floor is composed of cobble stones on istinguislied man or woman appears. The boulders carved with skill by the eccentric lave been honored by his chisel are Washant, Cleveland, Mrs. Cleveland, Harrison, Anthony, Sigsbee, Dewey, Hobson and Pocais not been forgotten. The old sculptor also ?s of the Rev. and Mrs. Williams, who were "The Rock of Fame," as Boody called it, Franklin. John Howard, John Wesley, Isaac i. One of the features of the place is a natengraved "Rest for the Weary." It weighs used to get the immense rock where Boody he Mysterious Rock," in which many figures lighteen horses liaulea it 10 us piace on me and also a lover of music. His instruments es. By pressing them against a revolving many tunes. His home also is filled with traveling phrenologist. He albO dabbled in history. But after he finally settled on the ao at sculpture. Usually he enjoyed the best injured in the side by a plow handle, an abarge and dangerous. Instead of calling in a his room, took a razor and operated upon success. | Thayer Declined Candidacy. ls giv-1 John A. Thayer, of Worcester, Icome Mass., declined to be a candidate for P. I., Lieutenant-Governor on the ticket or, by headed by General Charles W, Bart| letU The Ethics of Suicide. ? By KATE UPSON CLARK. v If fifty of our wisest contemporaries should be asked? "What Is the touchstone of civilization?" it Is likely that more than half of them would q answer: 'The value which is placed upon human life." One of the most beautiful and sig- t aificant of the Scripture characteriza- ' tions of the millennium Is that then a man shall be "more precious than " fine gold; even a man than the gold- J1 en wedge of Ophlr." The belief In immortality, which ? has been one of the most beneflcient !' fruits of Christianity, so thoroughly ? permeates all ranks of society that it has done much to bring about this 1 millennial view. During these later ^ years, even science has condescended E to give to this belief almost the sup- c port of what it calls "the exact proof." It seems to be admitted by scientists ? that since evolution has brought hu- : man beings up to so advanced a * stage, therefore we may reasonably * conclude that there are still higher conditions awaiting him. This is a c ) great concession. It ought to help on 3 the faith in immortality. c The shocking prevalence of sui cide during the past two years has given pause to the world's confidence r in its progress upward. Is it because c the fear of future punishment has } been lessened by the new gospel of 1 love, that men have rushed so mad- * ly to self-destruction? Or has our j wonderful prosperity, with Its ac- E ' companying growth in luxury, so like 1 , the splendor of old Rome, led to the c j vice of old Rome? ' We call Rome pagan. Its greatest c i sect was the Stoic, and all of the 8 I Stoic writers glorified suicide. We i think of suicide as belonging distinct- c J. ly to a by^?ne time and a creed out; worn. It has nothing in common 1 ' with the spirit of Christianity or the 1 earnest, brave preaching and teach- 8 . lug of our foremost ethicists; yet : here it is, carrying off before our (! ; faces not one nor a dozen, but scores 1 ! of our educated men and women, i Not long ago, a college graduate ; was arguing in a thoughtful company J In faunr nt Hfi insisted that ^ It was the best course for a large proportion of the unhappy and the unsuccessful. Not one of the seven 1 or eight others present upheld him, 1 and this was encouraging?but that c he should dare deliberately to cham- c i pion such a cause was in itself dis- s . quieting. The existence of "suicide a clubs" is another shocking sign of s , degeneracy. There are plenty of t ! other indications that Christian men c and women may well fortify them- I selves and raise their voices clearly e against any further license or ladty e in the matter. r No doubt there are thousands of 1 heavy-hearted ones among us who a would be glad to join beloved friends e who have departed. There are few f of the afflicted who have not had t 1 moods of bitter longing to go hence, t and have prayed for release. But a such moods pass, with a brave and v noble soul, and the prayer becomes c Shouts A Doctor of Divinity, now Editor ef 1 a well-known Religious paper, has < written regarding the controversy between Collier's Weekly and the Re- ? Hgious Press of the Country and oth- c ers, including ourselves. Also re- t garding suits for libel brought by 1 Collier's against ub for commenting I upon its methods. t These are. his sentiments, witfe c some very emphatic words left out. i "The religious Press owes you a s debt of gratitude for your courage in showing up Collier's Weekly as the c "Yell-Oh Man." Would you care to c use the inclosed article on the "Boo i Hoo Baby" as the "Yell-Oh Man's" I successor?" \ "A contemporary remarks that Col- a ller's has finally run against a solid [ hickory "Post" and been damaged in f 1 its own estimation to the tune of \ $750,000.00." I "Here Is a publication which has, t in utmost disregard of trie racts, c spread broadcast damaging state- I ments about the Religious Press and e others and has suffered those false t ' statements to go uncontradicted, until, not satisfied after finding the Re- e ligious Press too quiet, and peaceful, t to resent the insults, it makes the a mistake of wandering into a fresh a field and butts its rattled head r against this Post and all the World r laughs. Even Christians smile, as 1 the Post suddenly turns and gives r it back a dose of its own medicine." t "It is a mistake to say all the r World laughs. No cheery laugh a comes from Collier's, but it cries and boo hoos like a spanked baby and f I tt.anfc? nrtfl flfl tn Rnnfhf> its tpn- l! I der, lacerated feelings." li | "Thank Heaven it has at last e struck a man with "back bone" enough to call a spade a "spade" and b who believes in telling the whole f truth without fear or favor." g Perhaps Collier's with its "utmost o disregard for the facts," may say no k such letter exists. Nevertheless it Is Y on file In our office and is only one of f a mass of letters and other data, h newspaper comments, etc., denounc- b ing the "yellow" methods of Collier's, t This volume is so large that a man cofrld not well go thru it under half a a day's steady work. The letters a ?K>me from various parts of America, e Usually a "private controversy is f< not interesting to the public, but this is a public controversy. u Collier's has been using the "yel- n low" methods to attract attention to g itself, but, jumping in the air, crack- t! lng heels together and yelling "Look c at me" wouldn't suffice, so It started c out on a "Holier Than Thou" attack d on the Religious Press and on medicines. v We leavo It to the public not?, as t we did when we first resented Col-' lier's attacks, to say whether, In a c craving for sensation and circulation, t its attacks do not amount to a sys- c tematlc mercenary hounding. We s likewise leave it to the public to say p whether Collier's, by its own policy and methods, has not made itself u ne for endurance until the end, and Dr courage to take up the Master's rork, wherever it may He. The cowardice of suicide should lone be enoueh to deter from it any ne with a spark of pride or selfespect. To admit so cravenly thai ne is defeated, is the most humiliting thing that one can do. Then hink of the friends left behind? heir shame, their bewilderment. II rime is at the root of the matter, his horrible act doubles it. If it h aerely the sorrow which is commor 0 all mankind, one feels that the lesons of life have indeed been poorlj earned. Whatever the motive, th< egacy of disgrace left behind is { lard and bitter one for every rela ive and friend, especially for son: ind daughters. The crass selfish less, the brutal cowardice, of the sul ide are monstrous. It is undoubtedly true that the lov< if life is stronger in some natun han in others and in some races thai n others. It is characteristic of thi Lealtbier and stronger peoples tha hey cling most to life; and It i: ounted a mark of degeneracy tha 1 general tendency to suicide shoult levelop. "Love not thy life," says the poet ^laudio's contemptible clinging to hi epresents the one extreme; the sui :ide, the other. Life is but a too vhich has been given us for a pur >ose. We have no right to love i >vermuch. Neither have we a rlgh o lay It down, until He who gave i 10 blda us. The command to "com nit no murder" applies as fully ti >ne's own life as to that of others JVe may lay our lives on the altar o mr country; we may sacrifice them ti ;ave others; but we may not thro^i hem idly aside, because we are tired ir sick, or unhappy. The usual excuse when this is don< s that the man is beside himself? herefore irresponsible. It is a dan serous plea. Let no one even for an instant en lure the contemplation of suicide. I s the duty of every Christian to de lounce and condemn it. It is a re -ersion to paganism, and an insul o our pure and noble religion.?Thi christian Herald. Motor Omnibuses in London. The motor omnibuses in operatioi n London., have not proved a flnan :ial success, according to the repor >f the auditor of the company, wh< ;ays: "The company has never mad my profits; nothing but a consider tble loss from the first; * * ' he actual loss on running has beei >ver $60,000. It has cost over Is. 6d ;thirty-sic cents) per car mile ti sarn 14d. (twenty-two cents), am very car mile run in the recent pe iod of working has made a dea< oss of 7d. (fourteen cents)." Effort ire being made to come to some gen ral agreement for Increasing th< ? or?fl AnrlnovArlni tires, diiU lUYCIHUlO CM W Vyu\i\>u ? vy 4 * *-*; o produce some appliance which wil ie productive of more steady runnini ind will lessen the heavy repair bill vhich confront the owners of moto imnibuses.?New York Times. DO-MC a Spanke nore ridiculous than any comment o >urs could make It. Does Collier's expect to regain an; self-inflicted loss of prestige by dem mstrating thru suits for damages hat It can be more artful In evadlni lability for libels than the humbl )ut resentful victims of Its defama ion, or does It hope by starting i :ampaign of libel suits to silence th >opular indignation, reproach and re lentment which it has aroused. Collier's can not dodge this publi :ontroversy by private law suits. I :an not postpone the public judg nent against it. That great jury, th 'ublir.. will hardly blame us for no vaiting until we get a petit jury ii l court room, before denouncing thi >rodigal detractor of institution; ounded and fostered either by indi iduals or by the public, itself. No announcements during our en ire business career were ever madi :lairaing "medicinaleffects" for eithe Postum or Grape-Nuts. Medicina iffects are results obtained from th< ise of medicines. Thousands of visitors go thru ou: .ntire works each month and see fo; hemselves that Grape-Nuts contain: .bsolutely nothing but wheat, barlej .nd a little salt; Postum absolutel: lothing but wheat and about ter lercent of New Orleans molasses "he art of preparing these simple ele nents in a scientific manner to ob ain the best food value and flavour equired some work and experience t( cquire. Now, when any publication goes ar enough out of its way to attacP :s because our advertising is "med' sal," it simply offers a remarkable xhibition of ignorance, or worse. We do not claim physiological 01 odily results of favorable charactei ollowing the adoption of our sugestions regarding the discontinuance f coffee and foods which may not be eeping the individual in good health. Ve have no advice to offer the perectly healthful person. His or hei ealth is evidence in itself that the everages and foods used exactly flt hat person. Therefore, why change? But to the man or woman who Is iling, we have something to say as result of an unusually wide experinee in food and the result of proper eedlng. In the palpably ignorant attack on s in Collier's, appeared this statelent,?"One widely circulated pararaph labors to induce the impression hat Grape-Nuts will obviate the neesslty of an operation in appendiitis. This is lying and potentially eadly lying." In reply to this exhibition of ,'ell let the reader name it, the Posum Co., says: Let it be understood that appendlitis results from long continued disurbance in the intestines, caused priioriiv liv iinrHerest.pd starnhv food, uch as white bread, potatoes, rice, artly cooked cereals and such. Starchy food 13 not digested In the iw?er stomach but passes on into the - v -&&esmg Circus Families Dying Oat. , 1 In this country the circus families are i!ast dying out. The reasons are 1 mauy. Primarily, circus parents, In' stead of bringing up their children to * become performers, encourage them ; to adopt some other calling, because the opportunities for success are 1 greater in business or the professions, and the danger i3 less. For In most ' of the acts a circus performer 13 con> stantly risking life and llmv More5 over, salaries are not commensurate 1 with the long years of preparation, * the hard work, and the brevity of a r performer's active life. Furthermore, i the big circuses, with more than one 1 ring, do not tend to develop really " finished performers, since no act has v 3 the undivided attention of the ac" tators. All these influences ure dl" verting circus people from their hereditary employment. 3 So we go to Europa for the big J acts. There, a child may be appren1 ticed at six; and there is still a high J str.adard for the fine points, since 1 thoy have but one ring. Also, and . 3 this Is highly Important, the rule is t to give only one afternoon perform * ance a week, thus allowing the per- .; formers the whole day for practice.?< C "The Aristocracy of the Circus,"'in 3 Everybody's. ' Cigarettes In India. t A special correspondent of the Lont don Telegraph writes from India: It t is not many years since the cigarette _ began to make headway among the ^ 111 <4- 4 f liAM KAAAmA ?A *>Antl]fl? rj nanyco, uui it uao ucwuuc ov pvputut , as to rouse the alarm of those who { are interested in the physical wella being of the people. A circular just v issued by the director of public ini struction in the United Provinces remarks that "inquiries made as to the e prevalence of cigarette smoking among schoolboys have established _ the fact that the habit is becoming common among ?hem and that in not . a few cases it is t>elng indulged in at ^ t an early age." Mr. de la Fosse ac_ cordingly directs that "in view of the . permanent injury to the constitution t that may result from acquiring the e habit of tobacco smoking in childhood, every effort should be made to put a stop to the practice. Headmasters should punish severely boyr who after warning are found smoking at a any time or place, and should in" struct the teachers to be vigilant in seeing that the order forbidding 0 smoking is strictly obeyed; they e should also take steps to prevent the ~ sale of cigarettes to scholars upon a the school premises." ^ D The Misjudged Turk. ;* 1 The rural Turk at home, when not - goaded into violence by his corrupt i rulers, is the very antipodes of the s monster of popular imagination in - this country. His domestic virtues e are at least equal to those of any A 1 - XI TT? (M * western pupuiauuu. ne ia iiuacoi, 111I dustrlous, patient, gentle and of fine ; natural manners.?London Times. : r The United States Patent Office if months behind in its work. _???. _ " : | >0" d Baby. 'A '' .-'I f doudenum, or lower stomach and intestines, where, in a healthy indl7 vidual, the transformation of the , r starch into a form of sugar is com- . i, pleted and then the food absorbed by S the blood. e But if the rowers of digestion are weakened, a part of the starchy food a will lie in the warmth and moisture e of the body and decay, generating s - gases and irritating the mucous sur* faces until under such conditions the c whole lower part of the alimentary t canal, including the colon and the - appendix, becomes involved. Disease e sets up and at times takes the form t known as appendicitis. l When tho symptoms of the trouble 3 make their appearance, would it not 3 ut) guuu, practical, cuiuiuuu seuac, lv - discontinue tho starchy food which la causing the troublo and take a food - in which the starch lias been transa formed into a form of sugar In the r process of manufacture? 1 This is identically the same form 3 of sugar found iu the human body ' after starch has been perfectly dl* r gested. r Now, human food is made up very 3 largely of starch and is required by j the body for energy and warmth. f Naturally, therefore, its use should i be continued, if possible, and for the ? . reasons given above it is. made possi. ble in the manufacture of Grape. Nuts. , In connection with this change of ) food to bring relief from physical disturbances, we have suggested 5 washing out the intestines to get rid [ of tbe immediate cause of the dis. turbance. ; Naturally, there are cases where the disease has lain dormant and the abuse continued too long, until ap parently only the knife will avail. . But it is a well-established fact . among the best physicians who are j acquainted with the details above recited, that preventative measures are . far and away the best. Are we to be condemned for sug> gesting a way to prevent disease by ; following natural methods and for perfecting a food that contains no [ "medicine" and produces no ,,medlci inal effects" but which has guided lit. erally thousands of persons from sickness to health? We have received during the years pact upwards of 25,i 000 letters from people who have . been either helped or made cnlirely " . well by following our suggestions, ! and they are simple. . j If coffee disagrees and causes any . of the ailments common to some > coffce users quit it and take on Postum. If white bread, potatoes, ilce and . other starch foods make trouble, quit and use Grape-Nuts food wliLch is largely predigested and will digest. nourish and strengthen, wbcn other forms of food do not. It's Jost plain .a old common sense. "There's a Reasonfor Postum and ) Grape-Nuts. ! Poatum Cereal C0.t l*ld.