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I He Had the Idea. A Chinaman who had been robbed y a woman on the Bowery was trying ) describe her at the police station. "Can't you remember how she was ressed?" asked the lieutenant at the esk. "What sort of a hat did she ear?" For a moment John seemed puzled. Then his face brightened. ""He dead?she glad." he confident^announced. And now the police are looking for woman with a Merry Widow hat.? I Everybody's Magazine. Scared the Fish. j Argyll fishermen protest against orpedo practice being carried on in he Firth of Cylde and the Kilbran- '< lan sound by warships. 1 They contend that it scares the fish '< rom the firth and that the herring Ishing is being gradually ruined. At , mass meeting at Campbelltown it iras declared that not a box of her- 1 ings has been landed since the fleet ame, whereas the weekly average iefore was ?300.?London Graphic. ' IN AGONY WITH ECZEMA. J IlkVhole Body a Mass of Raw, Bleeding. I Torturing Humor ? Hoped Death a! Would End Fearful Suffering? ! In Despair: Cured by Cuticura. I "Words cannot describe the terrible eckema I suffered with. It broke out on my head and kept spreading until it covered |my whole body. I was almost a solid mass ?f sores from head to foot. I looked more like a piece of raw beef than a human teing. The pain and agony 1 endured seemed more than I could bear. Blood and pus oozed pom the great sore on my scalp, from under my finger nails, and nearly all over my ?ody. My ears were so crusted and swollen 1 was afraid they would break off. Every i hair in my bead fell cut. I could not sit , down, for my clothes would Btick to the ^ raw and bleeding flesh, making me ciy out from the pain. My family doctor did all ! he could, but I got worse and worse. My ' condition was awful. I did not think i , could live, and wanted death to come and \ I lend my frightful sufferings. . "In this condition my mother-in-law ' begged me to try the Cuticura Remedies. I said I would, but had no hope of recov- ' ery. But oh, what blessed relief I experi- 1 raced after applying Cuticura Ointment. It ] cooled the bleeding and itching flesh and ] drought me the first real sleep I bad had in ; , weeks. It was as grateful as ice to a burning tongue. I would bathe with warm water and Cuticura Soap, then apply the < Ointment freely. 1 also took Cuticura Re- 1 olvent for the blood. In a short time the i ores stopped running, the flesh began to j heai, and I knew I was to get well again. Then the hair on my head began to grow, rod in a short time 1 was completely cured, j ^ I wish 1 could tell everybody who has ec- j eeraa to use Cuticura. Mrs. Wm. Hunt, 135 Thomas St., Newark, N. J., Sept. 28, 1908." i Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props. ' >f Cuticura Remedies, Boston, Mass. i I By way of expediting the transmission of letters, the Belgium postal authorities have recommended that all letters Intended for Brussels should be enclosed in red envelopes, j those fo? other Belgium points in j yellow, and foreign letters in green j envelopes. "MEMOIRS OF DAN RICE," THE CLOWN OF OUR DADDIES. Dan Rice in His "Memoirs" Tells In- ? side Mysteries of Show Life. j Any bookseller will tell you that i t.he constant quest of his customers i is for "a book which will make me i laugh." The bookman is compelled to reply that the race of American i humorists has run out and comic lit- ( erature is scarcer than funny plays. 1 A wide sale is therefore predicted for 3 ' " * '? - * T-V-- Dlno the me jvaemoirs ui i/nu . Clown of Our Daddies, written by ; Maria Ward Brown, a book guaran- j teed to make you roar with laughter. 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MAS* | ' Blue For Walking Gowns. j In Paris, cither for walking, for * visiting or for the races, women of c taste always return after a time to 1 dark blue for their trotteur costumes, 1 and with a smart hat and sunshade and well cut boots or shoes they al- T ways appear elegant. ^ This fact was particularly notice- 1 able at Chantillv, writes the Paris s correspondent of the Gentlewoman, ? and it was amusing to note how every 1 woman introduced her personal taste * In the selection of her cloche and om- 1 brelle to relieve the severe classical * cut of her gown. 1 Comtesse d'Hautpoul wore fancy 1 braiding matching her blue costume 2 find a coarse straw hat of the same blue. Princesse Ferdinand de Lu- ! -infP w?r also in blue, with a hat and 1 feather to match: likewise Baronne Merlin, her blue hat being trimmed with buttercups. Comtesse de SaintSauveur favored Sevres blue Tussore md a white aigrette in her black hat; Princesse de La Tour d'Auvergne in blue serge had a black hat and a cluster of dark red feathers, and the Marquisse de Noailles was in navy blue Tussore, with revers of printed Indian linen on the jacket. Copying the Eftglish Garden. There is one good result of all this Invasion of English society by American women. One of the finest things In the land of Shakespeare and the suffragette is the characteristic English garden, and the American women who have wandered across the Atlantic in search of social excitement have ido^ted the English garden as their awn. Mrs. John Jacob Astor has set s tier mind upon a typical garden for E tier Newport home, and Mrs. warry Payne Whitney and Mrs. John R. * Drexel are among others who have ' the same plan in view. The change t will be welcome, especially as It will s irive out the hard Italian gardens ? with their out-of-place statuary, and :he Japanese gardens with their foolsh stone decorations. It is not ;trange that the garden as it grows i n England has caught the fancy of a American women,1 for it is just what t P je ) Raspberry Jelly With ( .S" g pint of loaf sugar into a O oa ji water and the thinly par a> n. i; water come to a boil and tl ? ' until all the juice has been t/3 / through a fine hair sieve. i? 1 rv^nnnrtinn r?f half an nunc Q 3 ( V- ? ? ? ( see if it requires any mon *tji = ) Put a cup of milk into a d< f ^ ? ( fuls of sugar and the thin! ^ ? { the stove until the sugar 1 3 ro j Whip a cup of cream, sti: C3 < cooked milk and freeze. S i garden means, with its bursting j I jlory everywhere, its trim box hedges. ? ts rose ramblers, its sweet peas and y its honeysuckle, its flower beds, its s shrubs and its narrow white graveled valks. May Van Alen and her father, t Tames J. Van Alen, together laid out f in English garden in Newport half a ^ iozen years ago, but Miss Van Alen s Tied in vain then to induce other c rftung women to follow her example. ?New York Press. f t Her Figure Saved. ? Age begins to tell after sixty. One i: hust dress to meet it. There is no t eason for the figure to lose its .traightness or its good lines. These o leplorable conditions are always due I - T timrr on TCill toll ;0 lIIQUltliUC. ua<c<j n uuivu ??*** *ou they are due to sickness; but the c eal reason lies in lack of endeavor v ird the will to keep one's self erect, t rbe present-day women, who are be:ween seventy and eighty years old, ii ind were trained in a school of de- o jortment that compelled them to t .valk, stand and sit correctly, are as r straight and shapely as many of our a rounger women. It was the interme- c Hate generation that went to pieces, c Women of this age should never o >hink of wearing any colors but a ivhite, black shades of violet and soft a jrav. They should avoid anything s R-ith tones of blue, brown, red and s ?reen. They should cling to white i for every hour that it is possible to t ivear it. p Stiff linens are not for them, nor heavy cotton, but soft iiuslin in all I Its forms. Embroidery of every kind r ;an be worn as well as lace, but age * must never tamper with inferior T aualitv of either. i If her neck has the fullness that s age often gives she can well adapt r the present-day collars of soft fine i lingerie that roll back from the neck- <3 band and are fastened with a brooch * it a slight point in the front. s The old-fashioned way of cutting t a blouse to a V in front and edging s It with ruching is still one of the general fashions. The empire gowns s with long full skirts make the best 1 models for clothes. Elbow sleeves c are always pretty when a woman has 1 a nice arm. 1 As for headgear, that must remain 1 a woman's own choice. The old- * fashioned bonnet is quite out of style, s but in its place there is a small hat ? of soft Neapolitan straw or horsehair r trimmed with flowers. s A woman may add soft strings of * satin to tie unaer xne cmn, dul as a rule this is not done.?New Haven ? Register. 1 \ To Walk Gracefully. 1 The modern girl is at her worst s ti-he>n walks. Her feet are 3 dressed in low shoes with high heels I and her stride is out of all proportion ~ to her height. Her right arm is swung vigorously back and forth, while the left one clutches a handbag and holds it at the waist line a with elbow aggressive. Her chest is depressed and her head, with its marrelous adornment, is thrust forward. The present fashion in shoes is partly responsible for the awkward- t ness of our girls, declares a writer in t Vogue. Shoes with high heels tip the foot down, preventing the beautiful spring of the instep arch. If such ihoes could be reserved for the house i L ' ' . frAllfcrA ind girls wear well shaped walking >oots out of doors they would not >nly be more graceful but would find nore pleasure in walking?whioli as in exercise has much to comment it. Three suggestions will help any one vho wishes to walk gracefully and vith the alertness which is characterstic of youth; the forward foot ihould point practically straight (the itrongest position in supporting veight); the back foot should push he body forward; the chest should >e high and forward. As long as we ive we must hold ourselves up by nuscular effort, and when we have earned the right way it soon becomes i matter of habit. When a girl walks heavily she Is ilways walking incorrectly and is lever graceful. Girls are not altogether to blame for this, as they are old from childhood to "throw their shoulders back," which has a tend:ncy to put the weight in the heels, i strain on the back and to throw the lead forward. Instead the young ihould be told to throw the cnest xorvard and the head and shoulders will ake their right position. Relaxation is the second thing nec;ssary for grace, as well as for the lerves. But relaxation does not nean merely collapsing in a lackalaisical sort of way and being "wilowy." It means having the power o control the muscles?letting those est which are not needed for the mmediate work. Motion, of course, s at the joints, and the muscles movng them may be made to act rythmcally by a little practice. The body >eing constructed for movement re;ponds quickly to the pendulum-like wing of the leg from the hip and the larmonious yet very slight swing of he arm. A woman's arms are stiff jecause her Bhoulders are usually ense. When the chest is active the ihoulders will drop in place, and the trms should hang at the sides. The Sensitive Girl. 1 ' J V, one iius a. utuu cuuugu uuic, juuuiess knows, even among her family ind friends, for her feelings are alvays being hurt by some of them. >eam Ice.?Put half a pound or a stewpan with half a pint of cold ed rind of two lemons. Let the aen simmer for ten minutes.- Stew drawn from them. Pass the juice Then measure and re-heat in the :e to each pint of liquid. Taste to ? sugar and strain it into a basin, juble boiler with eight tablespoonly pared rind of a lemon. Stir on las dissolved and leave until cold, r it into the basin containing the erve together with raspber/y jelly. 3ut when she goes Into the business rorld it will seem to fairly bristle vith thorns, so many will be the lights she will apparently receive. Most of the wounds of the sensiive girl are self-afflicted, only unortunately, she doesn't know it Vhen she gains this knowledge her uffering and her tears will sood ease. It is wisdom that is slow in coming, or you can't make the sensitive girl lelieve that the slights directed hei ray are not intended. She is so sure a her mind that her gievance is just hat argument is hopeless. Indeed, argument is hopeless most f the time with the sensitive girl, f you number such a one among our friends or in your family, try to hange her way of looking at the orld, instead of arguing with her hat her grievances are groundless. Try to get her to see that the world 9 too big and people too busy to be ccupied in thinking up ways to hurt ler feelings, and that in the main leople are too kind to do such things nyway. The idea that people are ontinually shooting arrows her way omes frequently from an overdeveliped ego. She believes other people je thinking as much about hersell s she is, and their words and actions ne miBCousirueB as airecxea 10 nerelf, when the probability is thej tever had her in mind at all noi hought of such a construction being iut upon their conduct. This is particularly true in business Jusiness people are entirely toe ushed to mince words or to consider iow people may take what they say ?he sensitive girl is extremely foolsh to think every unkind word, everj lur about poorly done work or slowless is directed at her. Rest assured f her work doesn't suit, she will hear [irectly from her employer. He won't ieat around the bush about it. And he needn't torture herself with the hought that, he is whipping her over omebody else's shoulders. Common sense and a philosophical pirit are good cures for sensitivetess. But these are the very qualifi:ations the sensitive ,girl is apt to ack. The best thing to help her is to nix with the world and with people, o get a big, broad view of life wheren she will see how extremely small the and her affairs are. This will gradually give her a saner and more ational viewpoint and her extreme ensitiveness will disappear. She will jecome much happier, much more :ompanionable. The sensitive girl ihould endeavor to get this view of ife, for she is making herself vretched over things which in the nain do not exist, for most of the ilights and wounds to her feelings ire imaginary, not real. And it is a my 10 spoil me witn imaginary ills. ?New York Times. A Reminder. "Your wife's mouth reminds me at i cherry." "Indeed?" "Doesn't it you?" "No, it reminds me or other things --empty coal scuttles, the pan under he icebox, the lawn mower and such hings."?Houston Post. Science and Imagination. Science does not know its debt to magination.?Emerson. THE HALO?WHAT IS IT? ] A Psycliic Explanation of an Old Phe? noraenon. Vance Thompson has for many years been investigating the many thousands of psychical theories of Paris, and in a remarkable article in Hampton's Magazine he has quite a number of amazing, yet authentic, statements. For instance, he speaks of the halo: I was pummoned one day to the Saltpetriere, in Paris, to see a woman who lay in a bed in the dark. She was a woman whose body, nerves, brain had been teased and tortured for years in psychic and occult experiment. What mental perturbation was racking that brain I did not know; and the physicians at her bedside did not know. With clenched hands and teeth and eyes open wide the woman lay there; her breathing was irregular and not deep. What we saw was this: a luminous halo of a vague orange hue that circled her head, even as in the old pictures of martyred saints you see the heads mooned with faded gold. This halo was fluctant. It came and went; it was a light that flickered, grew, faded, formed Itself anew. A miracle, this aureoled head? If want to call it that. Words are not of great importance. It was a miracle when it glowed around the neaa or a martyr tortured in me i arena, so tortured by pain and fear that his disassociated psychic centres produced the phenomena of the exteriorization of luminous energy. Perhaps it were better to call it at once a miracle and a prescientiflc fact, a fact that is, whieh is occult, but is in the way'of becoming known. I asked Dr. Fere what he thought of this miracle. "I have often seen It," he said. The field of hig experiments was the madhouse at Bicetre. There many neuropathic patients abide; and often in cases of severe headache, or of religious ecstasy, he has seen these : fluctuant aureoles around the head. "The rays are often twenty centimeters in extent, quite regular, forming a perfect aureole," he explained. TV 4 r? + V? An n f f Ar> /-?v? XUC1C ID, IUCU, a 1UILU Ul CilCi?,.y, endowed with luminous, properties, emanating from the human body, under certain, conditions. A Wedding Hint, The tall girl smiled in some embarrassment. "Haven't you any second-hand Bhoes?" she said to the shoe clerk. "But, miss?" he remonstrated. "No, no, you misunderstand," said she. "I don't mean to wear. I just mean old shoes, too worn for use, that customers have left with you. Fou see, there's a wedding up at our house to-morrow, and we want something to throw at the bride and bridegroom." "I see," said the clerk. He rummaged in a black shoe hole and drew forth an armful of dilapiJ dated fpotwear. The girl selected Bome threes, twos and ones. "These will do. Thanks ever so i much," she said, and so departed. "Big-footed people are always i forking that on us," said the clerk I afterward. "That girl wears eights. ! She couldn't very well throw such I mudscows at the bride, so she chose (ome little and dainty shoes here? Dnes and twos. Oh, yes, it's an old trick with the bie-footed."?Los An geles Times. The Voice of Paris. "The ringing of hells enters largely into the orchestral composition of ! the Paris noises," writes Rowland J Strong in Harper's Weekly. "Then 1 the drivers of the tramways sound a ' ; gong, or blow a whistle, the note of j which varies with the different lines, i and the tramway conductors have a J little brass horn which they sound as a signal for smarting or stopping j . . . The hawker of cherries still . sanctifies the spring afternoons with ! his 'La douce cerise . . *. la douce,' on a long-drawn-out wail. A more vitalizing, because a more peremptory, cry is that of the musselman. In addition to blowing his horn, the chair-mender, and the itin- J erant cobbler, give vent to savage roars." Speaking Well of the Dead. Dennis was doing his best to speak , respectfully of the dead. | "Yes," he said, "Mike was a. foine ! mon. Honest, straightforward, hard| workin', ginerous?" "Ginerous?" questioned Barney ! rather doubtfully. "Did ye evei ' know of his treatln' any one in all his I lolfe?" "Well, he nearly treated me once." "Nearly treated?" "Yis. I remember once he ! dhropped into Cassidy's when th' j I boys were all there. 'Wei, lads,' he j j sez, 'that'll we have?'?wid a wave | ! of his hand toward the bar. 'Wbat'll i we have??rain or snow?" "?Every- j body's Magazine. Pronunciation of Hiawatha. I Sir?Why does Clinton Lloyd pronounce Hiawatha with the long "i,' when the long "e" pronunciation is taught in the schools? TEACHER. Because the former pronunciation is as nearly like the Indian pronun ciation as is possible in the English j language. The probable reason for , the other pronunciation being taught in the public schools is that when a j publishing company was getting out | a new reader and appealed to Misf i Longfellow, daughter of the author of the poem "Hiawatha," for the correct pronunciation of the word she explained that she followed her father's pronunciation and used the i long "e."?Editor Indianapolis News An Acre of Rain. There are 6,272,640 square inches in one acre. The -cubical contents oi I one inch of rainfall over one acre o! ground would be 3630 cubic feet One cubic foot of rain water weighs 62.5 pounds. Therefore the weight of one inct of rainfall over one acre of ground would be 226,875 pounds. Concrete Prom iMill Refuse. Concrete is made from the refus? of a soap mill at Calcutta. ( IT If ousehold g 8 S I ....Matters! A "Pilot Boat Fry." The pilots have every facility for securing the freshest of salt water fish, and one of them says the only way to fry fish ic to have pork fat I enough to submerge the fish, and fry I the pieces as you would doughnuts. They must not be allowed to stick to the frying pan and be broken up. In other words, the slices are to be boiled in very hot pork fat until a nice brown. To Keep Flowers Fresh. Often when we go out in the country to see friends they unselfishly bestow upon us some of the beauties Df their garden. But the thought of how they will on .the way home 'fade" frequently makes us decline the flowers. If you are of such a oaind, the next time some are offered to you?don't do it. Instead ask four friend to wrap a "damp" cloth iround the stems?it will keep them is fresh as can he as long as the :loth remains moistened.?Philadelphia Press. Use For Old Sheets. A very good use to put old sheets to is the following: Tear them in half ind tack up behind the best gown in your closet, against the wall. The Dther half sew small brass curtain rings to and hang over the gowns. In this way they are protected in the front and back from dust, and they will also keep from fading by being exposed to the light if the colors are delicate shades. Old sheets are very good when packing to cover the different trays of the trunk, and so pro tect clothes from dust which oftentimes will slip into trunks.?Newark Call. Massaging Cups. If you cannot go to a professional masseuse, it is well to own one of the massaging cups that can be bought for a small sum and do much to stir up a free circulation and to give exercise to muscles. These are small glass cups with a rubber top. The latter is worked gently, and the suction is quickly felt on the flesh. These cups can be profitably used after the face has beeen well washed and grease rubbed in. Be careful to work it in an upward and outward motion, as otherwise wrinkles will result.?New York Times. The Spare Room Pitcher. Every housekeeper knows how impossible it is to replace pieces of handsome washstand china when one piece is broken?and usually it is the most important piece of all, the the pitcher, which meets with the accident. A solution of the problem is the purchasing, not of a fancy-colored toilet set, but of a bowl and pitcher of clear glassware. The smaller pieces may be easily provided in glass, and the whole set looks daintily white and clean on the washstand. These crystal bowl and pitcher sets are not at all expensive, a very gracefully .shaped set costing but $2 or $3.? Washington Star. Health Bread. Take two pints of lukewarm water, three tablespoonfuls of olive oil, three tablespoonfuls of molasses, two teaspoonfuls of salt, one-half teaspoonful of chopped walnuts, two yeast cakes dissolved in a cup of slightly warnhed water, with three teaspoonfuls of sugar, three cupfuls of white flour, two quarts unsifted graham flour, being careful to add the flour slowly, so as not to get in too mufch. Let rise until light, then knead down, let rise again, mould in three loaves, let rise and bake in moderate heated oven three-quarters ol an hour, being careful not to have the oven too hot, as graham burns much easier than white flour.?New York World. Cleaning Wickenvork. Do not scrub your unpainted wicker furniture with soap and water, as it will turn it yellow and ruin its looks. Instead try scrubbing it with a strong solution of salt water. If you have pieccs that are so shabby that they must either be painted or thrown away, try the salt water treatment first. Scrub well and put in the sun and air to dry quickly. ... If you must pairat wicker furniture, see that you buy a paint that is well mixed and thinned t.o the proper consistency. If too thick it gets lumpy and the paint is apt to rub off on clothes. Porch chairs that are exposed to weather should be finished with a coat of enr.inel to mnke them 1 * rxP {a ictSL 1 lie VUr.u ui cuatuc; jo also more easily dusted.?New York Times. Turkish Chair Cover. In the perfectly appointed modern bathroom all that is not nickel plated is white enamelled, and while all of the sanitary requirements are thus met. considerable of the old-fashioned comfort is left out. A resourceful bother cf little children, who objected to this cold comfort after the bath, has made, a pair of slip covers for the white-enamelled chair. They are of absorbent Turkish toweling in white, perfectly washable-, and the maker avers that each week sees one of thera sent to the laundry. They do not extend as far as the floor, but form a liberal cover, cut to fit the back and the seat, over which they slip, and reaching six inchec below the edge of the seat.?. Boston Post. Woman Journeyman Goldsmith. Fraulein Thusnelaa Heyberger, of Ulm, has the distinction of being the first woman to pass the examination as a journeyman goldsmith in Wurtemburg. She received her first instruction from her father, who is a sculptor snd a teacher of mechanics. Then she worked at the bench just p.s any boy would and finally came up for examination r<z to her ability in '.he goldsmith's art. Iler masterpiece, cvhir.h was submitted to the guild, received the highest recommendation. / V \ " MTTNYON'S EMINENT DOCTORS AT YOUR SERVICE FREE. | Not a Penny to Pay For the Fullest Medical Examination. If you are In doubt as to the cause of your disease mail us a postal re- i , ; questing a medical examination blank, , ; which you will fill out and return to ' us. Our doctors will carefully dlag- j , i nose your case, and If you can be , cured you will be told so; if you cannot be cured you will be told so. You , are not obligated to us in any way, for this advice Is absolutely free; you are | at liberty to take our advice or not as you see fit. Send to-day for a medical examination blank, fill out and return to us as promptly as possible, and our eminent doctors will diagnose your case thoroughly absolutely free. Munyon's, 53d and JefTerson Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. I A Tall Corn Story. This is the tallest corn story of the season, and is being told among the / traveling men over the State. It is I said to have beea in a letter written home by an Eastern visitor: "Most of the Kansas streets are paved, grains of corn being used for cobble- i stones, while the cobs are hollowed out for sewer pipe. The husk, when taken \ off whole and'stood on end, makes a nice tent for the children to play in. It sounds queer to hear the i feed man tell the driver to take a dozen grains of horse feed over to 1 Jackson's livery stable. If^lt were not for soft, deep soil here I don't Bee how they would ever harvest the corn, as the stalks would grow up as high in the air as the Methodist church Bteeple. However, when the ears get too heavy, their weight presses the stalk down in the ground on an average of ninety-two feet, and thus brings the ear near enough to the ground to be chopped ofE with an axe."?Kansas City Journal. Chicks Do I If Not, Learn Why Pr Less Than the Value ( Whether yon raise ChickenB for fun or get the best results.' The way to do this is 1 offer a book telling all you need to know < who made his living for 25 years in Raising to experiment and spend Iftuch money to lea t"- fVio email mm r\f 5S (TRNTS in nostaee st | Disease, how to Feed for> EggB, ancl also for ine Purposes, and indeed about everything ; success. SENT POSTPAID ON RECEIPT BOOK PUBLISHING HOUSE. AN IMITATION 1 | PATTERN THE ! | There was never an imitatfc J | tators always counterfeit the ge i \ what you ask for, because genuine 11 Imitations are not advertised, but j [ ability of the dealer to sell you so j | good" when you ask for the genuli )' on the Imltatlpn. Why accept imlt < [ nine by insisting? [ REFUSE DflTA1! How Animals Learn. Dr. T. Zell, a German naturalist, has collected many Instances to prove 1 that animals learn by experience, and 1 tnus Decome wiser ma.u men uuw- . structed parents. Game animals of < all kinds, he avers, have learned the 1 range of modern rifles. Grayhounds ] quickly learn to let rabbits alone, and 1 foxhounds pay no attention to either 1 rabbits or hares. Killer whales and i pulls follow whaling vessels, just as t vultures follow an army. Crows be- ' gin to accompany the chamois hunter j \b soon as they have seen the result ] of his first successful shot, and rough- < legged buzzards follow the sportsman ' after winged game. The number; of < birds that kill or injure themselves < by flying against telegraph wires is < much smaller than it used to be. ' Doctor Zell also refers to the fact ] that birds and quadrupeds have < learned to disregard passing railway trains, as horses quickly cease to be ' frightened by automobiles. His in- < stances of the intelligent selection ex- 1 ercised by sheep dogs are familiar to < all.?Youth's Companion. * < An Edited Personal. I The kind of personals the women I send In; "Miss Jeanette Alice-Marie i . Evans, of Topeka, and Miss Kather- < ine Catherwood Lane Jones, of St. < Joe, are visiting Miss Louise Hyde- ] Brownfleld Peats, at No. 734 Lin- < etrppt." The way it aDDears In < the paper: "Misses Jenie Evans, of < Topeka, and Kate Jones, of St. Joe, 1 are visiting Miss Lou Peats."?At- < chison Globe. N.Y.?34 1 Ready Cook< I The crisp, brown flake! Post To as j Come to the breakfast table rh l the package?no bother; no del They have body too; these to give you a delicious substanti; away. "The Taste Linge Sold by C Made by POSTUM CEK BATTLE CREEF Marvelous Coincidence. While trying an old woman on charge of stealing fagots a Judge who had acquired the habit of thinking aloud unconsciously exclaimed: l "Why, one fagot is as like another fagot as one egg Is like another ^egg." The counsel defending the case heard the observation and, repeated It to the jury, whereupon the Judge cried: "Stop; it is an intervention of Providence. Thlir was the very thought that passed through my mind. Gentlemen (addressing the jury), acquit the prisoner."?London News. Nature's Most Valuable Cathartic. Heretofore castor oil, the most valuable cathartic known, has been ex- \ eluded from universal use by its nauseous odor, disagreeable flavor and sickening after taste, so that inferior medicines have been in demand. Now, however, childhood's bugbear has been banished by the benefactor who compounded Palatal, a purgative specific, fn which all the virtues of this oil are retained, from which all its vices are eliminated. It Is not a substitute for castor oil, but it is that remedy without unpleasant taste and Btomach irritants. T+ In nolotohlo hnrmlflfla flnrt rifppfl. tlble, because the ninety-three per cent, of chemically pure cold pressed cream of castor oil 4s combined with seven per cent, of wholesome flavorings?anise, coriander and caraway. This is why children lick the spoon. 4s a laxative or purgative for babies and pregnant women Palatal,,C4n be taken with comfort end without danger of any sort. ^It is easily ad- s ministered and agrees with the most sensitive stomach. An overdose Is impossible, asi the excess simply passes through the bowels unchanged and lubricates the intestines, producing easy movements, without the uncomfortable strkinlng "gripes" noticed when other cathartics are used. ' liner Wc>ll ? ' V om a Book Costing of One Chicken........* profit, yon want to do it intelligently and to profit by the experience of 'others. .We >n the subject?a book written by a man Poultry, and in that time necessarily had jrn the best way to conduct the business?' amps. It tells you how to Detect and Cure ' Market, which Fowls to Save for Breed* pou must know on the subject to make a OF 25 CENTS IN STAMPS. 134 Leonard St.. N. Y. City. rAKES TOR ITS V REAL ARTICLE ] . >n made of an Imitation. Imi- 2 nuine article. The genuine Is v articles are the advertised ones. 2 depend for their business on the ? ; methlng claimed to be "Just as X .> le, because he makes more profit 4 ations when you can get the gen- jf TAMO -gk what you i iuwo" ASK for! j [XCCCX^CCCCCCCCCCCCOCiCC^ -- V {. The Follow-Up. A custom has grown up during the last few years among commercial arms In England, Dorrowea, we dclieve, from the United States, th? ilassic land of business enterprise, o? writing pne letter after "another to persons who have asked for-a catalog or something of the kind and y importuning thejp to .buy. Even some of the good firms do It, probably with the idea that If you only worry the customer enough, he will give a largeri order. Our own lm-pulse, we freely admit, is to cease or- f Jering forever from the firm- that worries us. One may know well ' \ snough that its goods are excellent Dne may enjoy using the stamps en :losed to frank one's orders through the post for the quite unjustifiable purpose of writing to somebody else. ^ Dne may even believe that "our Mr* Abracadabra Gushpoods, who represents us in your county," *nd who offers to call on us about once a week for orders, is a most estimable and iisinterested young man, who books 3ur order because it saves us trouble, ind not at all because.he is paid i week and ten per cent, commission. 3o green we may be. There are limts even to greenness; 2nd that limit jomes when we are informed that an * - > in jraer is Qesireu, nut uevausc ,iv to ?rofitable,J)ut to insure a recomm?nlation to our friends. It Is flattering ;o be assured that a recommendation* lan do so much with one's friends; v Dut it is a nuisance nevertheless. We ioubt if the follow-up^system fa real- , y good business.?London Globe. _____ ' ? . ' V .,r ' ' & ''v? ' *i *" ' ? 'i'V !i ed. , 5 Of . A v > > if;" ' " tres jht, and exactly right from ay. Post Toasties are firm enough al mouthful before they melt rs." Jrocers. ?EAL CO., LIMITED, l. MICHIGAN. ? > iL> ij.