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Dr. Marden's Uplift Talks j! By ORISON SWETT MARDEN. Jj; Copyright by McCluro Newspaper Syndicate THE PRICE OF ONE CIGAR A DAY. "How can you afford all these books?" asked a young man, calling upon a friend; "I can't seem to find spare change for even the leading magazines." *4OV? V> r* * liKr-n r-vr { fl rtnlr 'mV on O cigar a day,'" was the reply. "What do you mean?" inquired the visitor. "Mean? Just this: when you ad vised me to indulge in an occasional cigar, several years ago, I had been reading about a young fellow who bought books with money that others would have burned in cigars, and I thought I would try to do the same. You may remember that I said I should allow myself one cigar a day?" "Yes, I recall the conversation, but don't quite see the connection." "Well, I never smoked, but I put by | the price of a five-cent cigar every day; and, as the money accumulated, I bought books?the very books you 1 aee." "You don't mean to say that your books cost no more than that! Why, J there are dollars' worth of them." V An T lrrtTTT V? r? rn T V? O cIy ' i CO, X ZXJUUW tucio CXI C. A UUU D*A years more of my apprenticeship to serve when you advised me 'to be a man.' I put by the money, which, at five cents a day, amounted to $18.25 a year, or $109.50 in six years. I keep those books by themselves, as a result of my apprenticeship cigar money; and, if you'd done as I did, you would by this time have saved many, many more dollars than I have, and would have been better off in every way and own a library besides." Surround yourself with good books. There is something in the very at mosphere of books which ib helpful and inspiring. One seems to absorb culture from the presence of books and contact with them. The mind changes; our ideals enlarge when we are surrounded by good books. One can learn to love books, and derive much pleasure from them, too, by con stantly being in their presence and get ting acquainted w.th them. Good books at a lengthening and brightening the Lves of a multitude of people. How many a wretched one, poor and forsaken perhaps by the world, has found iiolace in his poverty and a refuge from his want and woe, a pleasant substitute for his gloomy thoughts, as he his delved like a prince in some great dook: _ We hear a great deal about the in creased cost of living, hut never in history could poor people get so much of life's essentials, and even the things that were luxuries a short time ago, for so little money as today. The products of the greatest minds that have ever lived were never so cheap. Copies of the great masterpieces of literature, which a century ago were only within the reach of the rich, are V now often found In the poorest homes and can be bought for the price of a cigar. Many of our choicest friends live between the leaves of our favorite books. We become more intimate with -V. . them than with any living characters. We are not afraid to open our hearts to one of them without reserve. There need be no clash of opinion. Our com munion is heart to heart. People are often ashamed to be seen with some persons with whom they rlociro tr? neonrintp and thpv fLPfi often secretive about some of their friend- x ships, but they are frank in choosing f friends in books. Hence, the volun- t tary selection of book companions is , very important, and we can quicKly ( estimate a man's character by his. choice. They indicate the depree of his culture, his good taste and refine ment or his coarseness and vulgarity. * The books we collect are confessions of what we like and of what we are. IC you are anxious to improve your self read books which tend to elevate , your being to some purpose. Read books which make you resolve to do , and be a little better; to try a little , harder to be somebody and to do something in the world. "WHY CAN'T I DO IT?" THE AN SWER. Spartan mothers, in order to stimu late their ambition, used to take their boys to the Pantheon in Athens, where their young imaginations would be fired by the sight of the statues of the nation's gods and heroes. Standing before one of thoje heroic marble figures, the mother would tell the story of the original, while boyfsh hearts would sparkle with awakened ambition under the in spiration of her words. Many a young mind was thus fired to emulate the hero that particularly appealed to \ him. * *' No other one thing is of such pre cious help to a youth as to be con stantly stimulated along the line of his career, and nothing else will give him such inspiration, nothing else is so ambition-rousing as the life-stories r** tiineo whn have accomDlished things under great difficulties. Emerson says: "I cannot even hear of personal vigor of- any kind, great power of performances, without fresh resolution. . . . This Is the moral of biography." Great inspiring life-stories of those -who have won and pushed their way The Neglected Pecan. The tree is nature's real engine of production. Wild trees producing bar rels and barrels of fruit are not un common. We have failed to develop a tree agriculture long ago because nobody happened to think of it. For a hundred years the white man has been chopping down pecan trees in the Mis sissippi valley. Yet the meat in the nu.s of these trees is more nutritious t!;an the meat of pigs. A single pecan t/ee at times produces more meat than does th? squealing quadruped. Still i to the front against all sorts of ob stacles have proved the turning-point in tens of thousands of careers. They have encouraged the disheartened to hold on when they were ready to let go; they have induced them to perse vere when they had decided to turn back. They have given them fresh hope and renewed confidence in them selves when those dearest to them even had predicted failure and had told them that to continue would be to waste their time. Smiles' "Self-Help" was a wonder ful stimulus to me and I believe it has proved the turning point in the careers of tens of thousands of youths. Nothing else Is more fascinat ing than the romance of achievement under difficulties. The youth full of hope, bubbling over with enthusiasm, reads the life-stories of men and wom en who have succeeded under difficul ties, and he says to hijpself: "Why can't I do it?" To which something within him replies: "I can and I will!"' Ambition requires a great deal and a great variety of food to keep it vig orous. An ambition must be backed by a robust will power, stern resolve, physical energy, powers of endurance, to be effective. The fact that you have an almost uncontrollable impulse, a great ab sorbing ambition to do a thing which meets with the approval of your judg ment and your better self, 1b a notice served -upon you tnai you can ao uio thing, and should do it at once. There are tens of thousands of day laborers 1a this country?common workmen?putting their lives into drudgery, who, if they had only b^n aroused to their possibilities, would have been employers themselves? would have been men of force, of standing in their community?but they have been held down by their ignorance of their own power. They have never discovered themselves, md so they must be "hewers of* wood and drawers of water." We see them everywhere?splendid men and women, who impress us as giants in possibility, but who are totally ig norant of the great forces that are sleeping within them. Why not take an inventory of your self at the beginning of this new rear? If you are dissatisfied with what you are doing and think you jught to do better, try to discover, 10 matter how long it takes you, lust where your trouble lies. Find jut the things that keep you back. Make long searching tours of dis :overy in your own consciousness. Bay to yourself over and over again: 'Why can others do such remarka Die things while I do ordinary, com mon things? ' Constantly ask your self: "If others can do them, why :annot I?" You may find some great nuggets )f gold In these tours of self-discov 3ry which you never dreamed you possessed?great possibilities of pow ir which you never uncovered before, ind which may, If developed, revolu :lonize your life. Stars Enough for All of Us. When Emerson advised everybody .0 hitch his wagon to a star, it was bought the advice was impracticable ?that there were not stars enough to jo around. At that time there were >nly three or four thousand stars vis ble, which number was far short of he demand. But when maps of the ikies were made with the assistance >f the telescope and camera, it was ound there were 55,000,000 stars?not ret quite enough for all. These stars vere below the seventeenth magnl ;ude, which was as far as the optical nstrumentB would reach, but since hen the twenty-fourth magnitude itars have been brought to view, and low the number of stars is estimated it 1,600,000,000. So there will need be 10 trouble about it. There 1b a star or every wagon, and a few left for inborn generations. So hitch your vagon to a star, and don't delay. The imes demand it.?Ohio State Journal. The Bauer of Austria. The most interesting of Austrian ypes and the backbone of the dual nonarchy, is the "bauer." In social ank he occupies somewhat the same position as the old English yeoman, 'arming his own land, and in many jases enjoying a far more substantial !ortune than the nobility. The "bauer" las a strict social code of his own, mixing neither with the laborers on jne hand nor the aristocracy on the jther, is apparently quite content with tiis lot, and takes pride in his ability to provide almost all the necessaries of life from the productions of his own land, even, in many cases, growiag the flax from which his womenfolk weave all the household clothing. Volcanoes Good Fertilizer Plants. A Swiss scientist haB discovered that the ashes which etill largely cover the buried cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii contain large quantities of potash and clay, from which an excel lent agricultural fertilizer can be ob tained. The whole region is very rich <ti TvrtfoaVi a n H it fa aafri tho Ttollori iu ^vwaoa, wu *? wm*v? government is seriously intending to organize the exploitation of 'Tesu* vian Mines." In the Age of Movies. An amateur photographer stopped one morning at a Kansas farmhouse and inquired for the farmer. "I want to trespass on your prem ises," he said, "long enough to take a picture of that cornfield. It's the most magnificent one I ever saw." "That's all right," responded the farmer. "But you'll have to take it instantaneous?it's growing s.o fast."? Oldport Herald. we have let the tree stand unheeded or cut it down. Not in one hundred years have we turned it into a com belt?Harper's Weekly. Betrayed by Her Sister. The advanced maiden was out row ing with a possible suitor and had taken her little sister along, who wad exhibiting much fear at the waves. "Why, Martha, if you are so nervous now, what will ynu be at my age.?' "Thirty-nine, I supposa," meekly re plied little sister. The Popular F rHERE are so many varieties in the development of the redingote dress that the idea prevails in gowns for all sorts of wear. Here is a clever new adaptation for the street that Is a sort Df compromise between the one-piece garment and a coat suit. It is an ex cellent design for between-eeasons' wear, without an outside coat, and, for tified with a heavy outer garment, is all that is desirable for the coming winter. It consists of a semifltting basque finished with scallops at the bottom. The scallops are bound with braid and the basque as long ^8 the average coat in a coat suit. A box-plaited tunic is 3et into the basque, stitched by ma* Dhine along the line of the scallops. The tunic is finished with a plain hem less than two inches in width, and is eery long. It is worn over a plain, 3traight-line underskirt of either,-the 3ame material as the dress or of satin. This underskirt, which is short, ie not much in evidence. It is narrow, and when made of the same goods as the tunic is often slashed in three or four places to admit of a free stride. When slashed in this way it has the effect of trousers worn under a long skirt, and we must concede that it looks attrac :ive and would seem a startling innova :ion except mat we are aireaay accus tomed to slashes in walking skirts. Redingote models, like or similar to ! . Oliver Twist Suit a FOR small boys, the Oliver Twist Buits seem to suit the little ones and to appeal to the mothers who are always looking about for something new and practical for their restless youngsters. These are two-piece suits combining plain and striped materials or plain material in contrastingrcolors. In a blouse and pants. They are made up In several different models, the sim plest of them consisting of a plain blouse like that shown in the picture, to which a pair of straight pants is j buttoned. The blouses are made of striped per ;ale or in plaid ginghams or of equally durable plain materials of other kinds. When the blouse is plain the pants often are made of a narrow stripe, or If the blouse Is striped the pants are plain. Plain pants, with striped blouse having round collar and turnback cuffs of the Dlain material, make the best looking of the Oliver Twist suits. In the better grades of these suits the blouses are box plaited, made with round collars and turnback cuffs. The plaits make the waist a little more dressy and add to its strength. In the cheaper suits the blouse is cut without plaits and the sleeves finished with narrow band of contrasting ma terial like that in the collar. A small patch pocket on the blouse is finished with a narrow band at the top also. In all the suits the pants are straight. These suits are made for very tiny A New Gray. Sphinx is the name given a new gray which may be likened to gun metal, or even moleskin, as It has a luster which tones charmingly with the metallic trimmings with which it was designed to blend. In velvet and the softer material, it takes the lights and shades of real skin. A similar shade sometimes confused with sphinx is called cetrole, as it is the exact shade or petroleum, and like that fluid is dull and lusterless. However, <phinx as a smart shade is pre-eml ledingote Dress the one pictured here, are often wqrn over straight underskirts faced. up with Roman-striped satin. In this case the collar and vestee and separate cuffs are made of the same satin. This makes a showier and dressier costume, and one may manage this dress by having two underskirts (one of the goods and one of the satin) and two sets of collar and vestee with separate cuffs. One of them is to be of white cotton or linen and the other of satin like that in the underskirt facing. In this way the same dress will furnish a costume for many occasions and a re freshing .variety, at least. With the oncoming of cold weather and the high military collars of outer garments, new vestee and collar com binations have been designed with closed throat and high turnover col lars. The sleeves in this particular gown are the plain coat-sleeve type finished with a soft, flaring cuff. When sepa rate cuffs are to be adjusted an en tirely plain sleeve is preferable. Either of the hats pictured is appro priate with this gown, and it Is a wise thing to own both a small and a large hat. But If only one is to be cho3en let it be the larger one. For brims are widening and the large hat is more effective for occasions where one wishes to look somewhat "dressed up." nd Slip-Over Dress boys; little fellows of two years only are put into them, much to their own delight. But they are worn by boys up to ten years, and are thoroughly practical. Clever designers have adapted the Oliver Twist suits to girls, substituting a skirt for pants. Very pretty ones are made with plaid skiHs buttoned to plain blouses, the latter having cuffs and collars of the plaid material. These dresses are provided with patch pockets on each side of the skirt, and are made up in serge and other woolen goods for school wear, as well as in wash goods. A little slip-over dress for a tiny girl is shown in the picture. It is of plain blue gingham with a straight ?i?n ? t j ji. _o UCMIUW UUA pirt.IL UUWI1 U1C III lull lc OL the front and back. It Is decorated with short bands of white embroidery placed on the plait near the top and bottom and with small pearl buttons and simulated buttonholes. The sleeres are long, with turn-back cuffs. The neck is plain and bound with a bias strip of the material. A small separate round collar is to be worn when the little dress needs to do other duty than to provide an easily laundered romping outfit for the lit tlest girl. Both these garments are cut with reference to the fact that they must be washed and ironed often, and with that in view they are made easy to iron. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. nent for gowns and suits, and in the new teberrlne cloth is remarkably likp real moleskin. Points Everywhere. The fashion for points is in full swing. The new note in some of the autumn skirts is a point, back and front. The trains of evening frocks are long and pointed. Many evening frocks have drapery on the skirt or bodice which t'all3 in long points. There are pointed scallops, too, od some afternoon frock tunica WINNERS IN BABY CONTEST The Scoring Committee at Last Com pletes Its Arduous Tasks and An nounces Winners. Columbia.?The scoring committee of the better babies' contest and con ference held during fair week under the auspices of the South Carolina Federation, of Women's Clubs and Winthorp college a few days ago com pleted the computation of scores and | made the following anouncements of prize.winning babies: Division 1 (6 to 12 Months)./ . Female?Nancy Thayer Mauldin; score, 98.4; daughter of Mrs. G. S. Mauldin, 914 First street, Elmwood avenue, Columbia. Male?John Thaddeus Dreher; score, 99.5; son of Mrs. A. A. Dreher, Irmo. Division 2 (13 to 24 Months). Female?Edith May Derrick; score, . 97.1; daughter of Mrs. George Der rick, 617 Richland street, Columbia. Male?Julius C. Dreher, Jr.; score, 97.3; son of Mrs. J. C. Dreher, 2301 . Main street, Columbia. Division 3 (25 to 36 Months). Femaie-^Elinor C. Rogers; score 97.8; daughter of Mrs. W. B. Rogers, 1206 1-2 Main street. Male?John Asbury Zeigler; score, , 98.6; son of Mrs. John A. Zeigler, 1501 Washington street, Columbia. . Division 4 (37 to 60 Months). Female?Dorothy L. Rhear; score, 96.5; daughter of Mrs. Sam Rhea, 1520 Laurel Street, Columbia. ! Male?G. Hertford farKs; score, 96.8; son of Mrs. G. H. Parka, 1815 j Pendleton street, Columbia. Each of these little prize winner* wills receive a gold medal donated bj Sylvan Bros. The babies were scored according to the standard score card issued by the American Medical Association, and the scoring committee consisted of the following women: Mrs. Howard Caldwell, Mrs. T. I. Weston, MJss Car oline D. Southard, Miss Anna Finn strom, Mrs. W. B. Burney and Mr?. W. C. Carthcart. South Carolina Death Rate. South Carolina's death rate from consumption is 13.5 per cent as 1 against a rate for the country of but ] 10 per cent. Such is the indication . from a questionnaire made among I churches in the state by the National I Anti-Tuberculosis association. The 1 figures of South Carolina are not a* 1 accurate as in other feiates, becaus? 1 there are as yet no vital statistics foi < South Carolina. 1 Big Fire at Andrews. Andrews.?A very destructive fire , visited Andrews and destroyed a largo ] cotton gin. AH the small houses with in reach of the raging flames were also consumed. The cotton which had been baled was all saved. There were three or four wagons loaded with seed cotton under the sheds, all of which has burned or damaged save one wogan load which was pulled out into the street. Big Barn Burned. Chester.?The big barn of Malone Young, a prosperous farmer near Fort Lawn, was completely destroyed by fire recently. A large supply of grain and other feed were destroyed. The stock was in the field. The fire was of an unascertained origin. PALMETTO NEWS NOTES. Florence is going to have a "Debt Paying Day," which will be Decem ber 1. The death rate in Spartanburg de creased 9 per cent, per 1,000, last year. The North Carolina Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist church will convene in Rock Hill December 1. A. A. Richardson, chief game war den, has called attention to the fact that the hunting season In South Car olina does not open until Novem ber 15. Fire recently destroyed the oU mill \ and ginning plant of the Fork Town- | ship Oil Mill Company. The loss is i about $38,000, with $21,000 insurance. ( James A. Hayne, M. D., state health } officer, F. Asbury Coward, M. D., bac- 1 teriologist, state board of health, and W. A. Boyd, M. D., Columbia health officer, went to Richmond, where they attended the convention of the Ameri can Medical association. Drs. Hayne and Coward read papers. i Reports issued by A. W. Jones, j comptroller general, show a marked increase in the value of all property in South Carolina for taxation. i Farmers of Jasper county are hold ing cotton for a better price. The negroes of York county held a creditable fair at Rock Hill. Many Confederate veterans attend ed the Orangeburg fair. C. F. Hampton, a Florence mer chant, took his own life recently. The Union county farmers are sow- , ing a large amount of vetch, clover, rye, etc. Mullins has awarded the contract \ for installing her $80,000 water works system. Citizens of Greenwood county are getting interested in live stock. The flre which completely destroy ed the car barns of the Columbia Elec tric Railway Company recently caus ed a loss of $110,000. , G. H. Neely who killed himself and wife in St. Louis was a native of York county. Two Greenwood college graduates , wore cotton dresses oosting less than 50 cents each. j Charleston county taxable property | increased $207,792 during the past j year. j Mrs. M. T Coleman of Abbeville, is , state vice president of the Southern States Woman Suffrage organization. , J. E. Swearingen, state superintend ent of education, has been spending a few days in Newberry county. Hubert Lamar Strickland, aged 20, ; of Columbia, died in Macon, Ga., re- i cently of ptomaine poison. < The value of Richland county tax- t able property has increased $8,S53,527 | during the past year. About 20 bales of cotton were burn- , ed on the cotton platform at Woodruff ] recently. < The Florence Baptist association ] has just closed its annual session at 1 Florence. The 1915 meeting will be > at Ebenezer. ( RELIEF COMMITTEE NAMES AGENT IN EACH COUNTY FOR BELGIUM RELIEF WORK. A LETTER OF INSTRUCTION bounty Agents Will Collect Dona tions and Forward to State Head / quarter* List of Agents. Columbia.?One man in practically ;very county in the state was appoint ed by the Belgian relief committee )f the Qolumbia chamber of commerce ;o assist in collecting foodstuffs and lonatioris of all kinds. In a letter of instruction, sent to ;ach a-ipointee, there is an explana :ion of the aims and projected scope >f the movement. It is expected of ;hose apointed that they shall collect ill contributions from ' citizens of :heir respective counties, sending cash :o the chairman or treasurer, Bruce CValker Ravenel and R. W. Holcombe, espectively, and holding donations of foodstuffs or clothes until further In fractions from the committee.. The following are the appointees )f the Belgian relief committee of Co umbia for the counties of the state, vith the exception of Berkeley, Char eston and Richland counties: Abbeville, F. E. Harrison; Aiken, VIr. Dibble; Anderson, Lee G. Holler nan; Bamberg, H. A. Folk; Barnwell, S. D. Calhoun; Beaufort, W. J. Thom is; Calhoun, J. Skottowe Wannama ter; uneroicee, u. u. noss; uiiesier, r. L. Glenn; Chesterfield, Wm. God 'rey; Clarendon, J. A. Weinberg; Col eton, J. E. Peurifoy; Darlington, Bright Williamson; Dillon, W. T. Bethea; Dorchester, F. E. Himjant; Edgefield, John C. Sheppard; "Fair leld, W. R. Robb; Florence, J. W. VIcCown: Georgetown, H. B. Springs; Greenville, J. W. Norwood; Green ville. S. H. McGhee; Hampton, W. C. Mauldin; Horry, R. B. Scarborough; Tasper, J. B. Bostick; ^ershaw, C. J. Shannon, Jr.; Lancaster, Leroy Springs; Laurens, H. K. Allen; Lee, W. A. Jones; Lexington. S. B. George; Marion, W. H. Cross Marlboro, D. D. VlcColl; Newberry, B. C. Matthews; Dconee, E. C. Doyle; Orangeburg, B. H. Moss; Pickens, McD. Bruce; Sa luda; B. W. Crouch; Spartanburg, John W. Simpson; Supater, R. I. Man ning; Union, Emslie Nicholson; Wil liamsburg, E. C. Epps; York, W. J. Roddey. No Exhibit at Frisco Fair. Columbia.?Movement for a Sou/th L/tliUima UUIIUIX15 au mo m cmauinv. ? nflc exposition has been abandoned, according to an announcement by Ed win W. Robertson, chairman of the :ommittee. The following statement was issued: "In view of the unprecedented con lition of affairs in South Carolina, we find it out of the question to raise sufficient money to put a South Caro ina building at the Panama-Pacific jxpositlon. "Your committee has used every ?ffort to sell the medals and the mov ng picture company has done its best :o get subscriptions without sufficient success to Justify further efforts. We ire, therefore, of necessity forced to ibandon the movement." South Carolina will not be repre rented a>t the exposition unless pro vision is made by the next general issembly. The appropriation pro posed in 1914 was voted down In the Jtate senate. $60,000 Fire at Darlington. Darlington.?The large plant of the Southern Cotton Oil company located tiere was completely destroyed by flje a. few days ago. Every building in the plant with the exception of the ?innery, with all of the stock on hand and some unginned cotton at the gin nery has been completely wiped out. The cause of the fire is not known. The loss is about'$60,000. Baptist W. M. U. Meeting. Newberry.?The session of the Bap cist Woman's Missionary union, In session here and attended by 400 dele gates, was mostly routine business, very Interesting to the delegates and visitors, but consisting chiefly of de tailed reports and recommendations. Tobacco Warehouse For Cotton. Lake City.?John L. McLaurln, state warehouse commissioner, passed through here en route to Pamplico, where he took over the two tobacco warehouses owned by the Pamplico Warehouse company. These he will operate for the storage of cotton as provided under the warehouse act passed by legislature during their spe cial session. These two warehouses will take care of approximately 4,000 bales and there is every indication that they will be filled within the next month. Fort Mill to Rebuild. Fort Mill.?The merchants who suffered in the fire recently are taking hold of the problems caused by the fire with enterprise and vigor. The a? -? a ruin is moving its Ill III Ui Uicnuib w stock to the store building of W. L. Hall, located at No. 34 Trade street, recently vacated by the Harris Furni ture company. L. J. Massey will re place his burned building as soon as posible and for the present is located at No. 3 Trade street. In all probab ility the building occupied by the Mills & Young Co. will be restored. Association of Colleges. Columbia. ? The Association of South Carolina colleges will meet in Columbia, with the University of South Carolina, November 21. The sessions will be held in Flinn hall, the university Y. M. C. A. building. At the same time an association of college presidents of this state is to 3e formed. For several years the As sociation of South Carolina colleges las not been in active existence. The ast meeting was held about five years igo. It is planned to revive the asso ciation and to operate it vigorously. T^HE choicest and mildest of tobaccos?a whole someness most ac ceptable! FATIMA the T urkish-blend cigarette. "Distinctively Individual" If you cannot secure Fathna Cigarettes from your dealer, we vHU. be pleased to send yois three packages postpaid on receipt of 50c. Address Fitima DepU 212 Fifth Are^ New YoriuN.Y. WANTED: STUDENTS to learn Cotton grading and general cotton business, big opportunity for high salaried positions. We also teach Telegraphy by experts and guarantee position*. Charlotte Cotton&TelecraphrSchoola, Charlotte. AC. PI ADiniC farm land In melon and caiman ILUKIUA bor belt. Prices low. terms easy; titles guaranteed. Write P.?. EUUiia, flit, HLA. The owner of a_ barking dog is Id was the first to complain about the 7 noise made by the neighbor's children. If you can't get Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh write: (J. C. Hanford Mfgr Co., Syracuse, N. Y. Two sizes: 60c 11.00. Adv. Farmers to Help. Yonkers, N. Y., has a Housewives' league that has started ah' lnvestlga- . tioa of the high prices being charged by the local dealers. Mrs. H. M. Crow der, at the head of the league, cau tioned the members against laying: in too large supplier and urged them to buy more economically than 'ever. The farmers will be asked to co-operate with the league and keep the mem bers supplied. Important to mothers Examine carefully every bottle oi CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy lot infanta and children, and see that it In Use For Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria Warning to Brethren in the Flock.. "And now, brudders," solemnly said good old Parson Bagster, during a re cent Sabbath morning's sermon, "havin' renounced de sistahs for-de-, frivolity o' delr ways, I alms to say a word to yo'. Yo' dat has been pes terin' 'bout how yo' gwine to pull yo' robes on over yo' wings when yo' ] gets to heaven better be spuriatla' 'boat how yo' gwine to wear yo' haU on yo* hawns when yo* lands in de yudder place. Hur-raump!"?Kansas City Star. Defective Classes. Insanity is rapidly increasing in this country. In 1890 the number of insane in the United States was 106,* 485; in 1906 the insane in hospitals alone numbered 150,151. In 1910 the figures exceeded 200,000. In 13 years ?from 1890 to 1908?the number of" insane hospitals increased from 162 to 328. The number of "feeble-mind* ed" in the country is about two hun dred and twenty-five thousand. Awful Naughty. "Bobby, I suppose you say your prayers every night." "Yes'm." "And what are the things you pray for?" . "Mostly that pop won't find out what I've been doin* through the day." __ It Is often better to say nothing than to say the wrong thing.?Pittsburgh Sun. Superior? "Surpassing others in great* ness, goodness, extent or value of any quality."? Century DicHorurj. That's the definition, and that's why Post Toasties -> are called the Superior Corn Flakes ?the surpassing, delicate Indian Corn flavour being sealed in by skillful toast ing with sugar and salt Pnsf Toasties are made in clean, airy, modern factories?cooked, seasoned, rolled and toast ed to crisp golden flakes? Ready to serve direct from the package. To secure the Superior Com Flakes, ask for Post Toasties ?told by Grocers.