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' A 7 f A;* I (U 4 4 Smm SE" aqe <> iti, k* waitn'ss $4 pt*r week, the eham- . .Tinaitl !f4 per week. That means that each one of the household servants re ceives, usually, wages running any- ,vhere from ^17 to $25 per month. That is more than many of the well 'dressed floorwalkers in the large city stores get. That is more than the average typewriter receives, for she has to pay rent and board, which the domestic servant gets free. That is as much as a farm hand or a private sol dier in the United States army receives. “Oh, no,” some one answers, “that is not true. A floorwalker will get $12 per week. There is many a typewriter , receiving $10 per week, or about $40 per month." But, my brother, when you estimate the salary of the down town clerks you must at the same time estimate their expenses. As I remark ed, the servant girl receives a greater ly be regarded as one of honor and lu- net return, 1 not gross, than any other ^rative reward. The text is Matthew olass of labor requiring equal mental xx, 27. “Whosoever will be chief among nnd physical equipment. Dy Rev. FRANK DE WiTT TALMAGE, D.D.. Pastor of Jefferson Park Prcsby- teri&.n Church, ChiczLgo July 26.—In these days of domestic struggle ( the prob- ^^^■RjCvVnily help is rapidly becoming* ouK veJP importance In our great cities. Dr. Talmage's sermon shows that domestic service, far from being a vocation to be despised, should right- you, let him be your servant.” Startling theme! Apparently a con tradiction in terms, but really a pro found truth proved by reason and ex perience. The men most honored in the world today and the men of the past, whose names history will never for get, are the men who have rendered the world the best service. Eminence and lasting fame are won not by riches or titles, but by doing something that ben efits others. That is a sound general principle which applies not only to the 1 highest walks of life, but to the humblest. It may correct our views of a station which it is now the fashion to hold in small esteem if we see how it Is affected by this principle. I speak of the girls who, in performing the humble duties of domestic service, con tribute so much to tlie comfort and happiness of a family. The tremendous opportunities of use fulness open to a consecrated domestic is the subject. No position today ac cessible to a woman of ordinary men tal and physical capabilities will bring greater returns, financially and spirit dally, than that offered to the average servant girl. The gods were supposed to have allowed the beautiful queen of Cyprus to bless her little kingdom in a wonderful way. Every place of the rocky island which her foot might touch would instantly be covered with brilliantly colored flora or with rich green verdure. Not so does God endow any human being; but in a better way does the fable come true. The humble domestic servant, be she cook in the kitchen, or a guardian in the nursery, or a waitress in the dining room, or simply a chambermaid, may live a life which will carry fragrance wherever it goes. Two ( Ihnnpn of ServnntB. But this sermonic theme has its dark side as well as its bright. It is shad owed either by avoidance or by sloth- fulness—by avoidance because in de spising it and seeking other occupa tions inconveniences and social diffi culties are entailed on others; by sloth- fulness because no one can tin a duty badly or carelessly without deteriorat ing in character. The kitchen or the nursery may be a throne room, with a consecrated domestic servant as a queen, or it may be a den of miserable drudgery and the scene of constant bickering and discontent. In olden times there were two classes of serv ants, both male and female. The one was that consecrated band of workers which clearly realized that true serv ice, no matter how humble, implied honor and usefulness. Thus Joshua, great man that he was, gladly and willingly became the servant of Moses, and Elisha was the servant of the great Elijah, and Eliezer was the serv ant of Abraham and Samuel of Eli. These men knew that they, in their humble sphere, were working for the advancement of the world ns truly us were their masters in their more con spicuous sphere. The second class of servants was composed of the sullen slaves captured in war. Th^g were, for the most part, disgruntled and rebellious servitors. They felt that the tyranny of fate had placed the captives’ manacles upon their wrists, and as soon as possible they would flee when chance for es cape offered. So there are women to day serving in the kitchen and in the nursery who act as if they believe that thov are captured slaves. They are grumbling against their work and meager pay. They are spending one half of their time in finding fault with their mistresses and the other half in trying to find out a way of es cape into some other occupation where they can have more liberty and In creased emoluments. As we frould praise the grand work of the conse crated domestic, so we would denounce the evil behavior of the “wicked aud slothful servant.” We would try to show that the servant girl who buries her one talent in a napkin and refuses to do her legitimate work is Just as reprehensible in God’s sight as the king or queen who deliberately squan ders a life’s capital of ten talents. Di vine rewards and punishments are not dependent upon the amount of returns accomplished by God’s children, but upon the faithfulness and consecra tion with which we perform the tasks he has given us to do. ConcerninK the Word “Royal.” The word “royal” is not restricted to station. It is legitimately applied to any woman whose conduct in her own sphere is noble and faithful—conduct “which Is becoming or fitting to a queen.” Nor is the financial compen sation for her service inadequate. Her remuneration is as large as any other wage earner In proportion to the phys ical labor and mental training which are required of her. Prove it? I will. Compare today the net financial re turns of the average servant a'hd those of the unskilled worker In any other departments of life. In our large cities the nurse girl receives at least $3.50 to $4 and $5 per week, the good cook from $4 to $7. even to $10, per week, A merchant never considers the gross returns of his business, but the net. He says to himself: “These goods were sold for so much. Now I must find out my expenses—so much for store rent, so much for night watchman, so much for expressage, so much for commercial travelers, so much for advertising, so much for taxes, so much for this and so much for that and the other thing.” Then that merchant subtracts the ex penses from the gross receipts, and he says, “I make so much net.” No ad vantage in buying goods in a foreign market if the tariff laws eat up all the profits or in raising potatoes and apples in the Dakotas or Montana if the rail road freight to bring the fruit to the market costs more than the goods are worth. No financial advantage in be ing a downtown clerk and receiving $S or $10 a week if the expenses of room rent and car fare and the lunch counter and board and laundry bill and extra clothes absorb all the salary. And so when you place the net income of an average servant girl against that of an average clerk you find her salary is mostly gain, while his, at the end of the week, after his legitimate ex penses have been met, is absolutely nothing or about nothing. Income of Servant Girl*. 1 am talking about the princely net income of an average servant girl. But If you are going to judge the condition of each class of laborer by the standard of money then the servant girl is not only better paid, but she receives steadier service all the year round. She is not laid oil like the masons or car penters or the lake sailors or like the many employees who, though during the busy seasons they receive high wages; are idle during certain months of the year. The royal domestic can have perpetual employment. Thus, from a financial standpoint, l would commend to our sisters and daughters this noble work of the kitchen and the nursery. I commend the occupation to you because the financial returps are princely in comparison with the mental equipment which many of you are able to consecrate to this service. But there is still another advan tageous aspect of the question which should not be overlooked. Eliezer, the servant, was the chief man in Abra ham's household. In how many Amer ican households, think you, is the cook the principal functionary, upon whose skill and proficiency the physical, and to a very large extent also the moral, condition of the family depends? There are, 1 will venture to affirm, hundreds of thousands of homes in our large cities, to* say nothing of as many more lu the towns and villages, where the defection or incapacity of the cook or housekeeper would mean confusion ami misery. A good, honest, intelligent cook is a conservator of health and happiness. Brillat Savarin once said that he who invented a new sauce was a benefactor to mankind. So the cook who brightens your table with a well ordered dinner and whose culinary skill gives zest to appetite is a bene factor to the home. There are chefs, many of them, who by reason of their skill command salaries reaching up in to the thousands of dollars. They un derstand the chemistry of the kitchen; they have made a study of dietetics, and their experience is quite as valu able to their employers as that of the skilled physician. There is abundant scope for ambition in the kitchen. AdvantHse of Domestic Service. Another advantage offered by do mestic service is that its surroundings are purer. The royal domestic is sub jected to less temptations than are her sisters who are earning their livelihood in other walks of life. Queen Victoria in Windsor castle for over fifty years refused knowingly to give audience to any man or woman of Impure and wicked life. A royal servant girl, if she enters a Christian home, can, as a queen, choose.her own associates. She can go with good people if she will. The choice rests with her and with her alone. This statement is not always true in reference to women who have to work for their living outside of the four walls of a home. Without they are often compelled, even against their wills, to inhale the vitiating atmos phere of sin. They are aften com pelled to see sights which their eyes ought never to behold and to hear say ings which ought never to be heard and to stand shoulder to shoulder with moral lepers, whose sins, if not con tagious, by too much association may become fatally infections. Here, for Instance, is a young girl Just arrived from the country. She decides to enter a factory and become a day wage earner. That factory has scores of girls whom she would never dare in troduce to her old Christian mother. That young girl within four weeks’ service in that factory has seen and heard more wickedness than she has ever known l>efore. Then this young girl goes from her factory to her board ing house. Upon her small salary she cannot afford to pay a very big board Mil. The result is that she lives in a boarding bn sc near her daily work. That boarding house in all probability has young girls in it whose lives are not what they ( light to be. Seeing sin by day and necessarily sealing and hearing about sin by night has a hard ening in'. ;. rH“ u; >n the young girl’s soul. Of course, the Divine Protector can and will preserve that young coun try girl true and pure and noble if she keeps diming to the omnipotent arm, but without that superhuman aid the moral tendency for the female worker in the factory ks downward. The life there is in some respects the same as that upon the theatrical stage, about which a noted actor once wrote, “The saddest fact about my profession is that the constant seeing of what one ought not to see has a tendency to blunt the moral sensitiveness and blind one’s eyes to his moral duty and to right.” Temptation Avoided. Then consider the besetting tempta tions ready to greet the young girl who applies for a position as clerk in a large downtown store. Parents, it Is high time that you fully realize there are among the owners of large down- 1 town dry goods stores some who do hot expect their clerks to live upon their salaries. There are hundreds and thou sands of those young girls whose cost ly dress proves that they are not living upon their weekly wages. Everywhere in those downtown stores sin stands around with outstretched arms crying; “Come! Come and wear fine clothes! Come and bo respected as you cannot i be in the kitchen or the nursery! Come iind have your nights to yourself! Come and see the brightest part of city life through the undimmed eyes of youth.” And the young girls from the country, by the hundreds and thou sands, an* turning their backs upon the refined employment of a domestic life and flinging themselves into the whirl ing. brain destroying, heart crushing maelstrom of temptation, where so many have boon destroyed forever. The royal domestic should be among the most honored of all women. It largely depends on her readiness to perform her duties and her efficiency in her service whether or no this country is to he a nation of homes. "God set- teth the solitary in families,” or as you could read it in the Bible margin, “God settotli the solitary in a house.” What does that mean? Simply tills: Every ideal unit of society should he a home. What is an ideal home? A father and a mother for the heads of the table, children for the nursery, servants to help provide for the domestic wants. While the husband is off to business the wife must be doing her work in the house. But there Is a limit to a wife’s physical and mental capacities. No av erage mother can perform her domestic work without help. She cannot be nurse and dressmaker and cook and chambermaid and waitress and mar keter all in one. She must have female assistance. She must have a servant or servants to aid her, or else she must give up housekeeping. As a strange and unaccountable prejudice has gone abroad against our daughters and sis ters going to work as servants in the kitchen, one by one the homes of America are being closed. The husbands and wives, with their children, are going to live in hoarding houses and hotels. If you ask the average wife why sin gives up housekeeping, she will answer: “I could no longer endure the unreasonableness of servants. The ‘servant girl question’ simply racked my nerves until I was in torture. One day 1 would seem to be getting along all right. But if the washing was a little larger than usual, or I complained about my servant being out too late at night, or I had some extra company for dinner, suddenly I would find myself servantless, with all the work to do In the kitchen. I could not stand the strain.” When the servant girl goes out of the American home, then the front door of that American home is barred aud locked. A Vital I nut It u t Ion. “But,” says some one to me, “is the responsibility of the American girl who will not become a domestic servant so great? Cannot men and women wbo live in boarding houses and hotels be just ns good as those husbands aud wives who have their own homes?” No, my brother, I do not think so. I believe the Christian home is the most vital institution for good in all Amer ica. I believe it is the foundntiou stone not only of the altar of Christ, hut also of the temple of neighborly love and also of our nutioual legisla tive hall. If a man is not anchored in a locality by a home, that Implies he has, as a rule, no individual church connection. He is not living under the shadow of the church spire where his father lived and where his children were born. The home is the foundation stone of the temple of patriotism. It has been well said by a great writer, “The surest way to destroy anarchy is to bring about a social condition where every man can own a home.” When a man sits upon his own doorstep he truly feels he Is an American citizen. He will then, If necessary, be more willing to die for that country of which his home Is a part. And one of the great est curses blasting our large cities to day is not that their people are bad, but that they are becoming a people without homes. They are living for the most part in boarding houses and in rented rooms, from which they can move out at a couple of weeks’ notice. Oh, women of America whom God is calling to the service of a domestic, I plead and beg of you to take up your noble wotk. I plead and beg of you In the name of Christ that you help save the homes, the Christian homes. No throne of usefulness, I care not how high it may be, can ever overtop that which makes it possible for the little children to gather around their own fireside. The royal domestic is a queen. The It is, not nat- the gutter or kitchen and the nursery are the places whore God expects a woman naturally to serve. I have uo use for those mas culine cynics who would debar women from the different vocations of life. Some men, no matter what the genius of a woman may be, would slam the door of all useful means of earning an honest UvelilK d in their sisters’ faces. They say "a v «man should not be a lawyer, a docUn, a minister, a mer chant, an artist, a writer or anything else but a wife and a mother.” But this is what I do affirm: All t! lugs be ing equal, a woman ought to seek those vocations which arc naturally hers and let the men fill t! se positions which naturally belong ’ > them. It is not natural for a worn:: to be a soldier, a fireman, a policeman, ural for her to dig in work as a day laborer in the fields, as she is compelled t j do in foreign lands. It is not natrral for her to slave in a factory or to . 11 many of the clerical posliions ?he is filling today. While, on the otic hand, it is natural for her to be a ir se, a dressmaker, a cook, a chamber laid, a waitress, a school teacher and lady’s companion, and hue ! ds of other positions we might ea h mention. Now, when a woman deserts the po sitions for which God lias specially equipped her, what is the inevitable re sult? Her work is not only left un done, but she becomes a competitor against her father and brothers for theirs. What is again the inevitable result? By the law of supply and de mand she not only underbids her brother for his position, but by that bidding the whole system of wages goes down. She is the sufferer. He is the sufferer. The mischief is far reaching. It is the result of her turning aside from her natural employment in which there is pressing need of her service and in which she could find constant occupation at remunerative wages. She leaves a place unfilled and forces her way into a walk of life already overcrowded and In which her compe tition is injurious to other workers. “Oh,” some one says to me, “that is the old argument of a jealous man. Ton do not like to feel that your sister Is just as smart as you are and per haps a little smarter and can take away your Job and do it better for less money.” No, my friend. I can conscientiously say 1 have not one jealous hair in my head. The more other people succeed the more I glory in their success, and to me there is no more beautiful sight than to see a young girl whose father and brothers are dead go forth and seek a position which her talent gives her a right to fill and bring money home and throw it in the lap of her widowed mother. But this is the social condition against which 1 do protest: I protest against our daughters and sisters pushing their fathers and brothers out of work, so that the girls have to support the male members of the family, while the fa thers and brothers are idle because their places have been taken by wom en. I have known scores and hundreds of men over lift}’ years of age who were physically able to do work, but could not get work merely because their daughters, who at that time should have been at school, were fill ing the positions which their fathers and brothers ought to have filled. The C'hriNtiuii DonicKtic. Now, women of America whom God has called to be consecrated domestics, I plead with you to enter the kitchen and the nursery and the home because that is one of your natural spheres— that is a place where God wants you to work. The Christian domestic should be honored both on earth aud in heav en because sh# is not only able to do her own work, but also to impress her consecrated life indelibly upon others. I fid she not do it with the emperor of all the Uussias? When,the old nurse of Emperor Alexander died did he not, as well as all his brothers, who were grand dukes, follow that sacred body co the family tomb? They not only followed It afoot, but walked for three long miles through a blinding Russian snowstorm. Did not a humble Chris tian nurse start forth Lord Shaftes bury upon ids great mission of life? When the famous English philanthro pist’s hair had been silvered by the rav ages of many winters he testified In public meeting, “All that I have been able to do for Christ and my fellow men is due to the gospel teachings of my old Christian nurse.” As the little Jewish maiden, who was a servant girl, sent the warrior Naaman down to the river Jordan to be cured of leprosy, has there not been in our past lives some consecrated Christian domestic who was able to help send us to the waters of life to be cured of our lep rosy of sin? Oh, my sister, never un derestimate the opportunities of use fulness of the honorable position of a noble Christian girl serving Christ as a domestic In some humble home. Tims, in closing, I would speak an earnest word to those women who are about to consecrate their lives to this line of service. God has opened for you mighty possibilities for good. Fit yourself for that work as the Lord Jesus Christ would have you. Make the Bible the chief textbook of your life. Urny, and unceasingly pray, that the Holy Spirit will Inspire you to speak the right word In the right way. Above all, whatsoever your station In life may he, let me urge you to enter the service of Jesus Christ. Not even the subject of your life's occupation can compare in Importance with the crucial question whether you are a servant of our'Lord. Make that your first, your chief business, that you are accepted of him and that you are obeying his commands. Ixiok not for your rewards from man, hut so live that In the great day of Judgment you may hear the liest of all encomiums: “Well done! Thou art one of my queens! Thou hast been chief of all women! Thou hast been a faithful servant!” [Copyright, 1903, by Louis Klopsch.] MAN WITH HOE WINNING. WrrMtliiK I'Vrtile Texn* Lnndn From Cowboy*. Snys « Cattleman. “The man with the hoe is slowly but surely conquering Texas, and the acre age held by the cattlemen is steadily growing less,” recently said R. II. Ix>- gan, a cattleman from Abilene, Tex., to a reporter of the Kansas City Star at the Coates House. Mr. Logan, who left Missouri when lie was a boy, says the farmers of Tex as are beginning to raise a variety of crops, and cotton no longer is king. Under the varied crop system the farm ers are getting rich. "Cotton is late in Texas this season,” said Mr. Ixigan. “but there will be a big crop. The most serious question that confront? the cotton raisers of Texas is the boll weevil, a small insect that attacks and dest^bvs the cotton blooms. Nothing’has yet been discov ered that will exterminate the boll weevils or cheek their ravages. They came into Texas from the south, and it Is said they travel northward at the rate of about seventy miles a year. They constitute a serious menace to cotton growing in Texas, but it has re sulted that their presence is not an un mixed evil. The Texans had planted cotton year after year, and they strug gled along to make both ends meet. When their cotton crops began to be destroyed they were compelled to turn to other crops, and they began planting corn, various cereals and to go into truck farming. Now they raise water melons, tomatoes and so on. They are getting rich. Texas farmers were nev er sr well off as now—many are really getting rich.” Mr. Logan says that the “glory” of the old time Texas is all gone. “The picturesque cowboy, with his sombrero, liis buckskin leggings, his six shooters, has practically disappearod. The cow boys no longer go to town to ‘shoot it up.’ Texans don’t even go armed. Prob ably,” continued Mr. liOgan, “many of the citizens of this town go armed, but in Texas we have dropped all that—of most of it, anyway.” CHINA WANTS OUR MEN. It* Anny Ofllrinl* Offering CunimlM- • ionn to Soldier* In Philippine*. The reduction of the army in the Philippines will be welcome news in the Chinese empire, says a Washington special to the New York World. It will enable the military men in China to get what they are looking for—a lot of good drillmasters. They have learned there are many men in the army In the Philippines who feel that they will never see any more active service If they remain under the stars and stripes. Chinese officials have been sending agents into the archipelago offering subalterns commissions in the vice regal and imperial armies. They have been offering sergeants’ commissions. Their offers have been accepted by, it is estimated, several dozen y.oungsters who would rather continue the free and easy life of the orient than return to the United States and settle down to the humdrum of civil life. These Americans are wanted chiefly for the purpose of drilling the Chinamen under enlistment in the various armies. INDIANS TO HUNT BUFFALO. Novel Contest to lit* Hold on an Oklahoma Ranch. Perhaps the very last big hunt which the Indians of the territories will ever have will be held on the famous “101” ranch near Bliss, Okla., next fall, says the Kansas City Journal. The plan Is to secure a number of buffaloes, give them a mile start of at least fifty In dians, who, armed with bows and ar rows and stripped the same as they were in the days when they roamed the plains, will hunt the buffaloes. The Indian bringing In the first buffalo tongue is to get a big prize, and it is being so arranged that the contest will be one possible to lie witnessed by thousands of visitors. Already the animals have been se- cunsl and are being prepared for the race. And Invitations have been sent to the Poncas, Cheyennes, Otoes, Kaws and other tribes. DYING CHILD’S KINDNESS. tinminoned Playmate* to Bedside and Divided Her Toy* Amona; Them. Swathed in bandages and dying from terrible burns, little Johanna Johnson, twelve years old, recently gathered her playmates about her bedside in the South Chicago hospital and distributed her toys among them—“Just to remem ber me by,” she said. She gave to the little group all her possessions, while her mother, heartbroken, clung to her hand and wept, says the New York Press. Her playmates had gone to the hos pital not suspecting that she was dy ing. The child seemed pleased when they entered. Then, as she lay talking to her little friends, the last terrible agony that preceded death seized her. “Ask them to sing,” whispered the child and fell hack on her pillow dead. “I would cough nearly all night long,” writes Mrs. Chas. Applegate, of Alexandria, Jnd., “and could hardly get any sleep. I had consumption so bad that if I walked a block I would , cough frightfully and spit blood but when all other medicines failed, three $1.00 bottles of Dr. King’s New Dis* | eovery wholly cured me and I gained pounds.” It’s absolutolv guaran teed to cure Coughs. Colds, La Gr ippe. Bronchitis and all Throat and Lung i Troubles. Price 50c and $100. Trial bottles free at Cherokee Drug Go. No man can see the marrow until i’.ho bene is broken—so with the future events in the marrow of eter nity. f A Surgical Operation is always dangerous—uo not submit to the surgeon’s knife until you have tried DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It will cure when everything else fails —it has done this in thousands of ; cases Here is one of them : I suffered irom bleeding and protruding piles for j twenty years. Was treated by differ ent specialists aud used many reme dies, but obtained no relief until I used. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. 1 wo boxes of this salve cured me eighteen months ago and I have not ( had a touch of tne piles since —H. A. Tisdale, Summerton, S. C. For Blind, Bleeding, Itching and Protruding Piles no remedy equals DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Sold by Chero kee Drug Co. If the results were the same, most any man would prefer praying for his daily bread than to raising the corn and wheat. Maitland, Fla. The Hancock Liquid Sulphur Oc., Baltimore, Md. Gentlemen :—I have had eczema over thirty years, have tried many remedies prescribed by various physi cians, but to nothing has the disease yielded so quickly as to Liquid Sul phur. I think if used properly it is undoubtedly a specific for eczema. I have prescribed it for others with most satisfactory results. I consider it the best remedy for cutaheous affections I have ever known, and re gard it as the greatest medical dis covery of the age. Respectfully yours, W. A. Heard, M. D. For sale by the Cherokee Drug Co Extravagance is a sin that soon leads to the greater crimes of plunder and corruption, even though a saint or a millionaire indulges in it. Treat A our KitlnttyM for Klieuniutiimi. VV hen you are suffering from rheu matism, the kidneys must be attend ed to at once so that they will elimi nate the uric acid from'the blood. Foley’s Kidney (jure it the most ef fective remedy for this purpose. R. T. Hopkins, of Polar, Wis., says, “After unsuccessfully doctoring three years for rheumatism with the best doctors, I tried Foley’s Kidney Cure and it cured me. I cannot speak too highly of this great medicine.” Cherokee Drug Co. Millionaires have too much thrift in their philantbropby—they steal a dollar and give back a dime. Hancocks’s Liquor Sulphur will give you immediate relief and per- manetly cure all such diseases as Eczema, Pimples, Tetter, Herpes, Ringworm, Dandruff, Diphtheria, Sore Throat, Cuts, Burns, Open Sores, and all blood and skin troubles. Hun dreds of cases of skin diseases have been permanently cured by the use of Hancock’s Liquid Sulphur after all other remedies failed. For sale by the Cherokee Drug Co. The young man wbo wears a white vest to please his girl may be obliged to wear a dirty shirt in the future for she same purpose. Hronchttl* Fur Twenty Year*. Mrs. Minerva Smith, Danville, III., writes: “I had bronchitis for twenty years and never got relief until I used Foley’s Honey and Tar which is a sure cure.” Cherokee Drug Co. The wise man is not always wise, and more than the average voter is always a fool. To Cure a Cold lu One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s sig nature is on each box. 25c. Towels and eggs can never be too fresh. By taking a thorough course of Rheumacide you rid your system of the poisons that cause rheumatism. A permanent cure ie the result. It is the standard rheumatic remedy, laxative and tonic. At Druggists. The average politician isn’t a gram marian ; he can’t even decline an office. |. A New Kind of Crooke* Tube. Dr. J. Mount Bleyer of New York writes to the Medical Record to de scribe a form of Crookes tube with which he is experimenting for thera peutic purpos-'s. He seeks to obtain from this o!ij<*et the violet and ultra violet radhvv > ordinarily obtained with a pov > e-e light. The out ward form of T ’r. Eieypr’s bulb is the same as that of .'ny other X ray tube, ami It may he e.xei'ed by either a static machine or an Induction coll. The only novelties in the construction re late to the degree of vacuum and the placing of the poles or terminals In side. The color of the light given off differs from that of an ordinary Ront- gen tube in being dark purple Instead of green. v- . VW-, , r -. —. A. R. Bass, of Morgantown, Ind., had to get up ten or twelve times in the night, and bad a severe backache and pains in the kidneys Was cured by Foley’s Kidney Cure. Cherokee Drug Co. The sayings I hoped to have live after I am gon* died at, their birth. Foley’s Kidoey Cure purifies the blood by straining out impurities and tones up the whole system. Cures k'dney and bladder troubles. Chero kee Drug Co. Men do not reach a higher level in life through faith and prayer, but through work and sweet. Sound kidneys are safeguards of life. Make the kidneys healthy with Foley’s Kidney Cure. Cherokee Drug | Co.