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PAST GOING FOR TWO YEARS AI This Lady Thinks She Would Iave Become Helpless, but for Cardui, The Woman's Tonic. Waldron, Ark.-MIsa Gertrude Hous. .z of this place, authorizes the fol owing for publicaton: "I want to tl all -ladles who suffer from any kind of womanly trouble, among them, :aknes, headache, backache, hurting sides, pains every month, nervous ases, etc, to try Cardui, the woman's o nic. Get It at once, as 'it is what ,A need.,. After you use one bottlei -su will never regret your start. I was just about past going fpr over Vo years,.-with the above ailments, and had It not been for Cardul, I ould have been helpless, no doubt. I took one bottle, and my health began to Imkove, and before the bot toe was gone, I was almost wel. Now, my health Is perfectly all right. So, lady friends, If you want a medi cine that will do you real good, take Cardul, the woman's tonIc." If you are .weak and ailing, think Nhat it would mean to recover as rap dly and sqrely as did Miss Houston. .n ti6e past 50 years, this strength building remedy has been used by more than a million ladies, who found :t of untold value in relieving woman- 4 y pain: and ailments. If you are a woman; tierefore try ;CardL., You will appreciate its tonid, building effect an the womanly consti tutli. .Begin today. 14.BMahgen ~db Chafta. MMt awole for -006* M P~ Trenan Courting an Heiress. "The duke Is fearfully jealous," re- I marked the heIress.. 1 "Worries him to 'see you look at an- I other man, eh?". - "No; but it gives him the shudders 4 ;'very time I spend any of my money." SAGE TEA DARKENS GRAY HAIR TO ANY SHADE. TRY 1TM K(ep Your Locks Youthful, Dark, Glossy and Thick With Common Garden Sage and Sulphur. When you darken your hair with BageTea and Sulphur, no one can telU bese it's done so naturally, so evenly. Preparing this mixture, though, at home Is mussy and trouble nom. For 50 cents you can buy at y drug store the ready-to-use tonic caled "Wyeth's Sage and- Sulphur HAIr Remedy." You just dampen a sponge or, soft brush with It and draw this through your hair, taking -one smal strand at a time. By morn Ing all gray hair disappears, and, after another application or two, your hair becomes beautifully darkened, glossy and luxuriant. You will also dis cover dandruff Is gone and hair has stopped falingt Gray, faded hair, though no dis grace, is..a sign of old age, and as we all desire a youthful and attra~ctive sap pearance, get husy at once iwith Wy-t eth's sage and Sulphur and look years younger.-Adv. Blaming -tho Woman. "What's the matter with McGrouch? ~ He Is more bitter against women than ever." "He had four ~qqeens beaten last night.' Iosportant to Mothers . Exmine carefully every -bottle of '3 CASTORIA,a safe and sure remedy for I infanta. and children, and se that It Bearathe -- Signature-of In Use f'or Over 30 - C Childreu Cry for Fletcher's Castoria t An Old Hymn. - ( I'ye heard .the music that ~takes .1 wings from pipe and horn and trem- I bling strings. I've marveled at the i 4 : glorious art whose mystery thrills I ~the human headrt ButlIendeavor all( in vain to recollect some ~splendid. A strain. Instead comes echoing sweet c and lo,w a simple song of long -ago. I I'Tis but a dear, old-fashioned hymn. I With memory mists my eyes grow t am faeAnd, as I listen, thery appears a aewith tenderest smiles or tears. 1 It is no song by genius wrought, all C cunningly devised and taught. A mother-song it soothes my ear with z love unselfish and sincere. T've read E some poets who amaze with splendid I thought .and dazzling phrase. I've t read philosophers and feared their z wisdom as they subtly sneered. Suchi c words, though wondrous they may be, t have small significanice to me corn- 1 pared to that old hymn so sweet tha.t c -ktold of mother love complete-Philan- t der Johnson ?n Kansas City Star. i I The Two Kinds. x *Dr. Talcott Williams, the brilliantc head of the Columbia School of Jour- I nalism, said at a recent luncheon: z "The sensational type of ,newspaper r is happilytgoing out. The exponents z of this type used to defend themselves I with the assertion that their scandal- i ous articles were a natural response z to a natural curiosity.a "But to this a great editor once r,- I "'There are two kinds of curiosity. s Into one kind we stick our brain; into t the other only our nose.' " Many a good sailor has been C wrecked on the sea of matrimony. I WANTED TO KNOW - The Truth About Grape-Nuts Food. S a It doesn't matter so much what you 1 sear about a thing, it's what you know' that counts. And correct knowledge , Is moat likely to come from personal experience. "About a year ago," writes a N. Y. 1.. man,. "I was bothered by Indigestion, especially during the forenoon. I tried several remedies without any perma nent improvement.e "My breakfast usually consisted of e oatm~I steak or chops,' bread, coffee and s me fruit. "Hearing so much about Grape-Nuts, t I concluded to give it a trial and find "So I began with Grape-Nuts and cream, soft boiled eggs, toast, a cup ofh Postum and some fruit. Before the - end of the first week I was rid of the , acidity of the stomach and felt much relieved.j "By the end of the second week all Ia traces of indigestion had disappeared n and I was In first rate health onceim more. Before beginning this course of p] Mlet. never had any appetite for se lunch, ut now I can enjoy the meal of at noon me." q -Name 'ven by Postum Co.. Battle in Creek, MI Read "The Road to of Wellvile," kgs. "There's a Rea- t Uet re leftt? A new a sPeSUS time to time. Ther (3y courtesy of senator Cunningham o Modest Home of the Secreta Co-Opera Products How It Is Done in Ei in America to S Farmer an By MATTHEN (Copyright. 1914. W4 WfERICAN BANKER HA Berlin, Germany.-"Some of u -ubes are laughing a little at the ankers." said a successful farmer tc is before we left the states. "W( Lave actually farmed successfully fo] rears, have studied farming in agri :utural colleges. We think we kno"' mr business fairly well. It's certain y funny to read speeches by bank rs telling us how to farm. I hav ome to the conclusion that the bank is know so little abput farm loan' hat they would do better to stud] md discuss their own business thar o try to teach us ours." And wi tave concluded that there Is som orce In what the farnier says. The . American Bankers' assocla Ion and thirty state bank associa ons are actively promoting agricul ural advancement. The work under aken by them includes soil surveys xperiments with fertilizers, hiring ex erts to make practical demonstratior pou the farm, education in road mat ers, and so on indefinitely. The bank rrs are duplicating what the federa gricultural department is doing rhat every agricultural college Is do 2g, and what every farmer's institut i doing. They are going into the eld of production which is importani ut which after all is one in whicb te farmer remarked, "one Is led tc 6iLnk that the bankers of the country ave unanimously concluded that they now their own business so thor nghly that their elevating educa tonal Instincts can get opportunity >r expression only by doing mission ry work among us lowly farmers and levating this Ignorant class to thei wn high plane of intelligence." Worst Banking for Farmers. We have. been. going through Emr pe. accompanied by agricultural ex erts. We have talked with leader! i agriculture in several countries Ye have read bulletins and books ga ,re on agricultural -methods abroad. Ye consulted government specialists. Ye have seen and heard and Studied ,bout all the most. scientific up-to :ate farming methods. But neither he experts with us nor we ourselves ave been able to recall a single Idea >n agricultural production that Is not sing more or less widely worked out n America by these lowly farmer! rhom the bankers are so benevolent v and condescendinly instructing. )n the .other hand so far as we can Iscover the United States is the only ountry in the civilized world where ankring methods have not been Is ny degree adjusted to the needs of he farmer. Sometimes over here In ~urope the joint,-stock bank does the rork.~. More often it is a co-operative redit bank 'that loans to farmers. But some bank stands ready tc ieet the farmers' needs everywhere, icept in the United States. In merca, as nowhere else, the banker akes the terms calculated to accom 2odate the city merchant and finan lers and inflicts them upon the pro esting farmer. Sixty and ninety day yans are just what are needed in the ty, but they are of no possible use te he farmer. A merchant or commis' ion man gets his returns promptly nd can meet ninety day paper at iaturity. But the farmer cannot buy ilves or pigs and fatten them, mar :et them, and get returns short of a such longer period. The rural bor ower who invests the borrowed oney In seeds or fertilizers cannot ope to realize upon his investment hort of six or eight months. It Is ot so much a question of -interest s of~ terms and methods. In many calties interest rates are fair. In ome places interest on farm loans Is oo high. But it is true everywhere s America that the bankers stub ornly refuse to the farmer the sort f loans which he needs. And the anker who sits behind the cashier's esk writing speeches about better arming drops his facile pen long nough to crowd down the throat of ame farmer patron who should have n eight months loan, a three months ~an, which is as apt to cripple as abeln him. EXTRAORDII Mrs. Dan Crauford, whose book. 'hinking Black," has created consid -able controversy, mentioned some araordinary Central African "dishes" tthe course of a recent lecture. bese included stewed elephant's unk, roast rhinoceros foot, boiled ppo tongue (stewed 48 hours to ake it tender), roast wild donkey. ewed monkey, roast water rat. uad, tail and all, and the luscious Who Was Daffy-Down-Dilly? Mother Goose, like all world poets, ~ver told half she knew. Poetess ureate of the English-speaking trsery, her most complete achieve ents in rhyme are yet of an incom eteness that insures us against tiety. In those shreds and patches verse, those isolated couplets and atrains suggesting so much and say g so little, we perceive the promise that perfected art foreshadowed in e unfinished talesi of a Dickens and '~7j '4'. r Ohio.) -y-Treasurer of a Reliffeson Bank. tive Farm Marketing trope and May Be Done he Profit of Both d Consumer V & DUDGEON. stern Newspaper Union.) 5 SOMETHING TO LEARN How the man on the farm can bor row money advantageously and eco nomieally is an important question. It may not be so important as good marketing but it is Important enough. His loan should be on terms which meet his occppation and his financial resources. If he cannot get these terms from his banker he will naturally try to get them 'elsewhere. The question is will the banker force him to seek loans elsewhere, or will he meet the needs of the farmer. There is little doubt that the banker could give longer time on safe per sonal .paper. There Is little doubt that he could arrange for long time real estate mortgages. When a farmer borrows to hay a farm and gives a mortgage for the loan there is no rea son why it should not be a long time amortization mortgage permitting re payment In annual or semi-annual payments extending over ten, twelve or twenty years. Gilt Edge Security. A good first mortgage on real estate running for a considerable period of time is recognized the world over as a gilt edged loan. Financiers are ac customed to advise it as the safest in vestment for trustees, widows and others who are not able to pass upon the character of miscellaneous invest ments. The president of one of the great life insurance companies makes the statement that his company in its his tory of forty-six years has loaned $133,838,549.44 to 75,102 farmers, se cured by mortgage on 11,462,363 acres, the average loan being $1,782. The net loss after paying all costs, fees, assessments -and penalty interest rates was fourteen-hundredths of one per cent. This is substantially the history of all properly organized farm land mortgage business. Some $600, 000,000 In farm mortgages are carried by our life Insurance companies-an amount equal to 35 per cent. of the total farm mortgagee shown by the census. If a farm loan for three years Is a good loan, one for ten or fifteen or twenty years Is good,i too, but no American bank makes these long loans. Why? We have never been able to get any adequate answer to this qnestion. The general response Is an unsatisfactory one, "It Isn't good banking to make such long farm loans," which is another way of say ing what we have said before, that the city banker will. not meet the needs of the farmer borrower. There seems to be thierefore no rea son why this fact thai a -long time farm loan is a gilt edged loan should not be taken into account In1 fixing the Interest. It Is not possible that the interest on these loans should be near the rate which Is received upon bonds, either municipal or industrial. The city banker will Investigate fully the Integrity and earning capacity of every factory th'at wants a loan- Is there any reason why the American banker should not put himself in a position to investigate the honesty and earning capadity of the- farmer who needs money, thus permitting him to capitalize his character as do bankers abroad? On the whole after looking over the situation at home and abroad It Is not surprising that the farmer sometimes suggests. that bankers might well study their own activities rather than to be butting in upon the farmer's business. Over here in Germany the bankers were formerly as slow as those of America are now to meet this demand for rural credit. So co-operative credit came and It came to stay. It does the work and it does It well. The question that Is up in America Is simply a question as to whether or not the American banker Is going to Insist that the American farmer solve his own difficulties or whethel- he, the banker is going to solve it for him and be his financial backer. Mortgage Loans In Germany. A co-operative loan on long mort gages Is no new experiment. One hundred and forty years ago the Landschaftew were organized in Prus VARY DISHES morsel, which a chief provided as a state delicacy, of a mess of thou sands of white ants, frizzled in their own fat, like a sort of Central Afri can whitebait. Also there was a spe cial dish, much favored, of starchy boiled grass, "'green and glutinous." Mrs. Crauford also told of the Cen tral African' ~'knuts." The young bridegroom wore a necklace of teeth and hairs of the elephant's tail, and erately fashioning metrical fragments for preludes to his Indian tales, struck a note seldom, sustained in his com pleted compositions. Who was Dafy-down-Dilly, and what did she do wh.en she came to town? Was Jumpin Joan flesh, fairy or symbol? W id we laugh or cry did we understa d the fantastic appari tion of Ban ury Cross? Why did Margery Daw eli her bed and lie upon straw, and w there not something behind the app arance of her purely SLa. A war like period entmlMting tn the Seven Years' War had reduced the greater part 'of Prussia to a piti able state of devastation. The own era of large estates which had borne the brunt of the war charges were poverty stricken. Hence in 1769 Frederick II issued a royal decree en abling these owners of large landed estates to secure capital necessary to revive their agricultural interests by joining together in securing a co-OP erative loan. While at first these loans were granted to only the own ers of the large estate this system was afterwards adapted so that the smaller land owner could profit by it. The owner who wishes to secure a loan gives a mortgage to the associa tion. He is required to pay interest at the rate of from three and a half to four per cent. and may borrow up to two-thirds of the value of his farm. This valuation Is arrived at by capitalizing the income which he can get off from it. It Is characteristic of European finance that the farm values are fixed largely by consideration of the actual earning capacity of each farm. Appar ently the price which a neighboring farm may bring has little to do with the value which Is placed upon any particular farm. The theory is and It seems to be sound, that the value of the farm is not so much where It lies as it Is what will It earn. When the association has a group of these mortgages it pledges them by a trust deed, and issues a series of bonds secured by the pledge of the niprtgages. These bonds are then sold and usually bear an interest of from three to three and one-half per cent. The association not only pledges the association itself so that in a sense every member. of the associa tion Is back of the bonds. These bonds have always brought a good price even In the most difficult times financially. The mortgage given by the land owner is mot due at the end of a cer tain number of years, at which time the entire principal must be paid as are American farm mortgages. In stead they run for from twenty to sixty years with an agreement incor porated Into the mortgage that each year the farmer shall pay a certain sum of money which shall include in terest and a small installment upon the principal. In this way the mort gagor gradually pays off his mortgage paying little more than the amount which would in America be required as interest alone. The chief advantage to the farmer is in this fact that he is allowed to pay off the loan by mak ing small annual or semi-annual pay ments. Other advantagesare that' he will never have to renew the mort- I gage which will continue to run until the payments have. cleared the farm of the debt; he will never be com pelled to pay any renewal commis sion, and will never have to go to the expense of bringing down his title or having it examined every two years, as is done under our American sys tem. Reliffeson and Schulze-Delltzsch. The Reiffeson and Schulze-Delitssch banks are smaller community Institu tions, organized upon the co-operative plan, and are not operated for profit to the Investor. Reiffeson banks op erate more particularly in the coun try while the Schulze-Delitzsch banks operate largely In urban communities. The Reiffeson Is the most purely co operative. While the Reiffeson banks loan money for a long period of time they do not generally loan for so long a period of time as do the Land schaften. They receive deposits from their members, paying them Interest as do savings banks. The one at Cassel, Germany, which can be taken as a fair representative of Its typeI charges 6% per cent, on short time1 loans. They pay 4% pei- cent. on de posits, which are left with them for an agreed long period of time, and 4 per cent. on deposits lefE for a shorter time. It Is found, however. that the rate of Interest varies in dif ferent places. Since these banks must meet the competition of the joint stock and savings banks In each com munity. They generally are able to compete successfully for the reason their .expenses are very light, their officers usually serving without salary and since they do not wish to make any large profits to 'pay off any In vestors as do the other banks. Go Slow. The best rural credit system In the world, If actually In operation would not prove a cure-all for our present rural ailments. It would not get you anywhere. The farmer who has ne gotiated a loan upon the 'most favor abld terms has made no actual ad vance. He is just where he was be fore. If I am running a losing busi ness the more money I borrow the worse off I am. If I am not produc ing a good product which I can mar ket readily and profitably, the less I put into my business the better. Rural credit without good farming and good marketing is a delusion and a snare. Easily obtained loans are no substi tutes for brains and business sense and a marketing system. Rural credit can do just one thing. It can enable a man to get possession of a farm and the equipment with which to farm. If .the farming busi ness into which the loan launches him is not a paying business the loan has simply Injured him by getting him into a losing venture. I said a loan will enable him to get possession of a farm and equipment. This posses sion Is temporary and will be of no permanent advantage unless he makes the land and equipment his own by re paying the loan and of his honest and hard won earning. After all It Is rural earnings which spell success and good marketing conditions whether co-op erative or otherwise are an absolute essential. a fur boa, which any West end lady would envy, of squirrel skins, gray and white, the toilet being completed pos sibly--for all European garments were fashionable-by one of Mrs. Dan Crauford's skirts specially lent for the occasion. Underworld Assurance. "We have a number of blue laws In this town," said the police officer, warningly. "Blue!" exclaimed the elegant crook. "My favorite color!" Returned to Life in Coffin. To be buried alive in the cemetery of Hiochiwald, in the canton of Soleure, was the fate of an elderly Swiss lady. After the burial ceremony the grave diggers were about to fill in the grave when they heard knocking in the cof fin. Instead of rendering immediate help they fled in terror to inform tbL doctor and the priest- When the doc,. tor arrived at the grave the coffin was opened and it was found that the woman, who had turned over. ha4 ENDS -DYSPEPSIA INDIGESTION. GAS "Pape's, Diapepsin" cures sick, sour stomachs in five minutes -Time It! "Really does" put bad stomachs in order-"really does" overcome indiges tion, dyspepsia, gas, heartburn and sourness in five minutes-that-just that-makes Pape's Diapepsin the lar gest selling stomach regulator in the world. . if what you eat ferments into stubborn lumps, you belch gas and ernctate sour, undigested food and acid; head is dizzy and aches; breath foul; tongue coated; your insides filled with bile and indigestible waste, re member the moment "Pape's Diapep sin" comes in contact with the stomach all such distress vanishes. It's truly astonishing-almost marvelous, and the joy is its harmlessness. A large fifty-cent case of Pape's Dis pepsin will give you a hundred dollars' worth of satisfaction. It's worth its weight in gold to men and women who can't get their stom achs regulated. It belongs in your home-should always be kept handy in case of a sick, sour, upset stomach during the day or at night. It's the quickest, surest and most harmless stomach d6dtor in the world.-Adv. The Retort Spiteful. "I'd have you now, madam, that my family has a clean record." "If it hasn't, my dear Mrs. Climber, it ought to have, since I understand your grandmother was a laundress." IF BACK HURTS CLEAN KIDNEYS WITH SALTS Drink Lots of Water and Stop Eating Meat for a While If the Bladder Bothers Ycu. Meat forms uric acid which excites and overworks the kidneys in their efforts to filter It from the system. Regular eaters of meat must flush the kidneys occasionally. You must re lieve them like you relieve your bow els; removing all the acids, waste and poison, else you feel a dull misery in the kidney region, sharp pains in the back or sick headache, dizziness, your stomach sours, tongue is coated and when the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy, full of sediment; the channels often get irritated, obliging you to get up two or three times during the ight. To neutralize these irritating acids and flush off the body's urinous waste get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any pharmacy; take a table spoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kid neys will then act fine and bladder disorders disappear. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to cleau and stimulate sluggish kidneys and stop bladder Irritation. JTad Salts is inexpensive; harmless and makes a delightful effervescent lithia-water drink which migons of men and women take now and then, thus avoId ing serious kidney and bladder dis eases.-Adv. ,Just Hungry. "I've tried all kinds of health foods, but none of them seem to fit my case." "What Is it you are troubled with?" "Ani appetite."-Minneapolis Jour naL Calomel Is an Injurious Drug and is being displaced in a. great many sections of the South by Dr. G. B. Williams' Liver and Kidney Pills. These pills stimulate the Liver and Bowels without that weakening after effect which Calomel causes. Sold by dealers 26c. bottle. Sample mailed free on request. The G. B. Williams Co., Quitman, Ga.-Adv. Sure Enough. Bill-I see a distinct advance over finger-print identification is the arrest of an alleged crook through the Im prinit of his teeth in a'free lunch sand wich. Jill-But suppose a man wasn't eat ing with his own teeth? Dr. Pierce's Pleasatit Pellets regulate and invigorate stomachi, liver and bowels. Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take. Do not gripe. Adv. The fool-killer doesn't exist. If he did there would be no tomorrow's wall flowers. Only One "BROMO QUININE" To get the genuine, call for full name. LAXA TIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for signature of E. W. GRoVa. Cures a Cold in One Day. 25c. When a woman rides horseback man fashion she ought to know enough not to get off a street car backwards. MOTHERS DUTY! Is Your Daughter in Good Health? The responsibility for the perfect wife and mother of TOMORROW rests with the mother of TODAY. How are'YOU rearing your daughter? Are you fitting her for the responsibilities that are sure to come to her? Are you endowing her with a sound body, robust health and a clear, forceful mind? Or, are you, by neglect, condemning her to a life cf suffering invalidism? Argue as you will, plead as you will, YOU CANNOT DODGE THE RESPONSI BILITY-your daughter will be just what you make her. STELLA-VITAE is the happy comnbina tion of harmless but wonderfully effective natural remedies that give to the budding girl that assistance so necessary to pass her successfully from girlhood to womanhood. Are you availing yourself of Its remarkable virtues to give your daughter the assist ance she needs so much? Or are you allowing prejudice or reluctance to try a remedy you have never tried be fore, rob your daughter of-her right to re ceive every help you can give her? If it is prejudice, dismiss it as utterly unworthy of you. If it is because YOU have never tried STELLA-VITAE, rememoer that untold thousands of women today bless the hand that pointed them to health tnrough the use of this greatest of remiedaes for women. It is GUARANTEED TO BENEFIT-I it don't you get your money badk. All to gin and nothing to lose. Do YOUR duty. TRY STELLA-VITAE. You don't need to buy a second bottle if the first bottle fails to benefit. emedy i i.00 bttlend Se him TODAY Lo n delay the start to good health. Thacher Medicine Company Chattanooga Tennessee aBet cugh syrup. Taae Good- 1e by-na roiDm - .~ [RIUMPH OF GENIUS Famous Geometrical Staircase Object of Great Interest. ir Christopher Wren's Great Incep tion in St. Paul's Cathedral In Lon don One of the Things Always Shown to Visitors. New York.-Vsitors to St. Paul') :thedral in London are shown th4 ;eometrical staircase in the Soutl ower, one of the triumphs of Si: ,hristopher Wren's genius, says Popu lar Mechanics. It is a circular ascen 5 feet in diameter, with stone step 2early six feet broad at their outel end. At one end the. steps are im edded in the wan, at the other the: *at upon the edge of the next lowel Itep, without other support from be low. Early English stairs usually coD sisted of flights with landings, takinj p much room, restricting their use tA broad halls. The women of the castl )bjecting to sharing these outer stairi with the rough men-at-arms, interio stairs were constructed, connectini with the living rdoms, by the simpl, expedient of leaving out some stonei when constructing interior walls, an in the wells thus made, placing bricks short stones or even timbers to for, a rude ladder. These crude stair necessarily took a circular flight, ano as improvements were made, thi stops became 'more regular, longe: stones being used, until at last - ircular stairway was formed, eac tep of which depended entirely upoi the support afforded by the walls, an, Independent of the others. The next move was the consolids on shown in the Wren creation, thl Perpendicular View of the Geometrica Staircase In St. Paul's Cathedral London. o-called "geometrical" staircw where each step rests upon the nex Lower, the thrust from the outer en4 being carried Into the wall at a lowe evel. Another interesting specime1 of the geometrical staircase is- foun' In Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, bull st a later date and probably inspire< by St. Paul's. BIG GRAY RAT LURES TO TRAI Very Cleverly Shows Other Rats Fa* cination of RevolvIng .Wheel. St. Louls.-A real pied piper c Hamelin, in the person of a big gra rat, is boasted by John Wottawa c Belleville, who declared the rat hal led seven others into a trap in hi store within 24 hours. He, caught th rat several days ago in one of thos traps that have a small Ferris whee arrangement on It like a squirrel cage He fed the rodent and tamed it so I no longer feared him. Then he tied a tiny silver toned be] to his neck and released It. The be] awakened the curiosity of the othe rats and turned them into the cag( where the "bell rat" displaye'd hi skill at' spinning the whirling cylinde by running madly inside of it. ,,Wo1 tawa says he thinks the systern wi] rid his store of rats eventually. THOUGHT CARP WAS A 104 Winter Night Story cf an Ohio Ic Cutter's Mistake-Severe Ducking Results. Ashtabula, 0.-Charles Williami who lives down East Orwell way, wa putting up ice for D. ML. Clapp, one < the prosperous townsmen of Eat Orwell, when he suffered a sever ducking and lost a nice fish. Mr. Williams, who was working o the river, stepped on what he sul posed was a big log. He balance himself on It for a short time an after making sure of his foundatlo started to poke ice cakes towar shore. All at once the "log" went ur der with a swish. It was a carp seve feet long. Later the fish was caugh Competent witnesses say It weighe 88 pounds. Mayor on Salary Strike. Mendota, Ill.-Municipal business < this place Is at a standstill becaus Mayor Charles Rogers, whose salar is $6 a year, refused to do any mor work for the city until he is voted $30 a year. Gives Birth to Five at One Time. Taylorsville, Ky.-Five childre were born at one time to Mrs. Berth Drury, wife of a farmer near heri The two girls died, but the three boy appeared to have good chances to su: Girls Become internes. New York.-Mlss Helen Pallise and Miss Anna Tjohnlands, Corne medical students, have passed the e: amination which makes them ful fledged internes. Thirteenth Baby Arrives. St. Louis.-Mrs. Jacob Voellinge gave birth to her thirteenth child, boy, on Friday, February 13. Th baby looks healthy enough to resia the hoodoo. His Knowledge. "I forgot to sign my examinatio: paper with statement that I neithe gave nor received help," said the Yal student to the professor in mathi matics. "Not necessary," answere the professor. "'I have just been 1l011 ing over your paper." Always a Harsdy Weapon. Dad used to say that a sense o humor was like a shillalah-"an il11 gant thing to have around handy, es pecally when the joke's onA. you.'.' "'OASCARETS" FOR LIVER; BOWEL, No sick headache, biliousnes bad taste or constipation by morning. Get a 10-cent box. Are you keeping your bowels, live and stomach clean, pure and frei with Cascarets, or merely forcing passageway every few days wit Salts, Cathartic Pills, Castor Oil < Purgative Waters? Stop having a bowel wash-day. IA Cascarets thoroughly cleanse and re, ulate the stomach, remove the sot and fermenting fQod and foul gase take the excess bile from the HivE and carry out of the system all tb constipated waste matter and poisor in the bowels. A Cascaret to-night will make ye feel great by morning. They wor while you sleep-never gripe, sicke or cause any inconvenience, and 'coi only 10 cents a box from yolir stor< Millions of men and women take Cascaret now and then and, nevi have Headach, Biliousness, Coate Tongue, Indigestion, Sour Stomacli I Constipation. Adv. FELL BACK ON PLAIN ARTICL Bewildered Young Housekeeper Fe She Could Not Be Very Wrong in Asking for That. L Her wedded days had not yet r into months, and her ambition wi I to become a model housekeeper, i though she was so young and so vel inexperienced. Her husband had ha occasion to criticize the butter sei em by their grocer; therefore, dete ed to remedy this fault, sl started, brave and eager, to discov< some of the better quality. So, "What is the price of your bt ter?" she asked severely of *the mE whose store she had briskly entere "Butterine, 30 cents; dairy, 35," ra tied off the storekeeper; "fancy, 31 ,creamery, 40, and table, 45-" She gasped, gazipg blankly at -t1 row of tubs, to each of which he hi pointed in turn. "Haven't. you any plain churn4 butter?".she inquired helplessly, " I might say, churnery butter," s added, her old spirit reasserting Itse -Woman's Home Companion. - ECZEMA ITCHED AND .BURNE Falmouth, Ky.-"Two years ago was troubled with skin and sea troubles. I would- have pimples th would break out and form sores < my face and head, with terrible ite ing. The eczema. on my face ai head itched and burned and when scratched it,. it made sores And was very disfigured for the time t t ing. My head became so sore Icou n ot touch it with acomb; ltibecaz ra mass of sores. My hair 'fell- a gradually. t "I wasafflicted about ayear befa I used Cuticura Soap and Olntme Iand after using them three weeks was getting better and in less 'tha three months, after using eight cak Sof Cuticura Soap and five boxes Cuticura Ointment, I was -complete curbed of eczema." (Signed) Fral Vastine, Dec. 12, 19(2. Cuticura Soap and Ointment so throughout the world. Sample of es free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address poi card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston."-M Hard to Forget. Teacher-And can you rememb faces, Tommie? Tommie-We l, I can remember t Sfone that Muggs boy made at me y Sterday. LGood deeds never die, but lots them seem to go into a trance. 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