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ALL SERENE. "De minister, he says dat at der last day every man will be judged by his works!" "Well, dat needn't worry us any. We sever worked!" A Question of Time. "How much does it cost to get mar ried?" asked the eager youth. "That depends entirely on how long you live." replied the sad-looking man. SOFT, WHITE HANDS May be Obtained in One Night. For preserving the bands as well ae for preventing redness, roughness. and chapping, and imparting that vel vety softness and whiteness much de sired by women Cuticura Soap, assist ed by Cutlcura Ointment, is believed to be superior to all other skin soaps. For those who work in corrosive liquids, or at occupations which tend to injure the hands, it is invaluable. Treatment-Bathe and soak the .hands on retiring in a strong, hot, creamy lather of Cuticura Soap. Dry and anoint freely with Cuticura Oint ment, and in severe cases spread the Cuticura Ointment on thin pieces of -old linen or cotton. Wear during the night old, loose gloves, or a light ban -dage of old cotton or linen to protect the clothing from stain. For red, rough, and chapped hands, dry, fis sured, itching, feverish palms, and shapeless nails with painful finger ends, this treatment is most effectiv-e. -Cuticura Remedies are sold through eat the world, Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., sole proprietors, Boston, Mass. `WOULDN'T MAKE ANY TROUBLE iMrs. Betsy Baxter a Type of Visitor Many of Us Have Been Called on to Entertain. "La, now, Miss Doolittle, don't you "o to a mite o' trouble on my account," said Mrs. Betsy Baxter when she ar rived unexpeetedly for dinner at the home of Mrs. Dorcas Doolittle. "You know that I'm a person for whom you can just lay down an extra plate an' set before me anything you happen to have in the house. If you just fry a chicken same as you would for your own folks, sa' make up a pan o' your tea biscuits that no one can beat, an' open a glass o' your red currant jelly, ac' have a dish oe yoer quince pre srves, an' some o' that pound cake you most allus have some pipin' hot asle fritters, with hot maple syrup to go with 'em, en' some o' your good copse an' any vegetables you happen to have In the hous. I like sweet po tahoes the way you bake 'em mightily, but, la, just have anything else you happen to have. Im one that expects s"r Is willie" to eat what's set before 4, an' no questions asked nor fault Soend when I- go vistion'. So don't 'e put yourself out a mite for me. If you have what rve mentioned an' wathlg else you want to have I'll be gatlsbed. I ain't one that cares very 4aeeh about what 3 eat, anyhow. As the snyin' is, 'any old thing' will do 1r me."-Puek. A Diagnosis. "How's yer 'usband after the acci. dent, Mrs. Oinnerty" "lkith, sometolmes he's bether an' smmetoimes he's worse, but from the way he yils an' takes on when he's ether, O0 thinak be's bether when he's wurse."-Kansas City Journal. That's the Question. 'Witfe-You were late last night. Hub-Beg pardon, my dear. As I -eame in the front door the clock struck 11. Wife-But what time did you arrive at the head of the stairs? WHEN DINNER COMES ene Ought to Have a Good Appetite A good appetite is the best sauce. It goes a long way toward helping in the digestlive proceos, and that is abso Lately essential to health and strength. Many persons have found that Grape Nuts lood is not only nourishing but s a great appetiser. Even children ikme the taste of it and grow strong roand Isy from its use. It is especially the food to make a wreak stomach strong and create an appetite for dinner. "I am 57 years old," writes a Tenn. grandmother. "and have had a weak .tomach from childhood. BIy great care au to my diet I enjoyed a reasonable degree of health, but never found any thing to equal Grape-Nuts as a standby. "When I have no appetite for break east and just eat to keep up my strength, I take 4 teaspoonfuls of Grape-Nuts with good rich milk and when dinner comes I am hungry. While if I go without any breakfast I meyer feel like eating dinner. Grape. Nuts for breakfast seems to make a healthy appetite for dinner. "My 13-months-old grandson had ieen very sick with stomach trouble during the puast summer, and fina:ly we put him on GrapeNuts. Now he is rrowing plump and well. When asked SI he wants his nurse or Grape-Nuts, he brightens up and points to the eupboard. He was no trouble to wean mt all--thanlks to GrapeNuts." Read tChe little book, "The Road to \Well wille," In pk "There's a Reason." Ihser weed the shee ettert A sew -m awaer. treem es.se time. Th Ie wmmdfal@ bse Wr Our Liver Are SGroudawy Sorter - .# KM A d~p. airip r, Cam' IW h0JaCj P wIgej zi~p.~vo -~ N view of all that has been said about the fall in the death rate, it seems strange to realize that we are not liv4 ing so long as our grandfathers and grandmothers did. More babies live to grow up now adays than formerly, but people 9O. ALC in later life die faster than they jarm~ r used. Once arrived at adult age, OP O' - the average man or woman has 0 0 fewer years of survival to expect, since their physical vigor and vitality are less able to throw off disease than would have been the case half a century ago. This seems, on the face of it, so surprising a statement that, in order to be accepted, it should be backed up by data authentic and indisputable. Such data are furnished by the figures of the in surance companies (which all agree on the point), but it is easier to refer to the government cen sus reports, which tell the tale in simple and convincing fashion. Not only are people living less long than they did half a century ago, but the decrease in longevity is progressive. Even during the last 15 years the death rate among all persons over 55 years of age, of both sexes, has risen very considerably. In Part I of the third volume of the United States census will be found a tabulated state ment which shows in a very striking way the rise i the death rate for all aees from 60 up. I have brought the figures up to date, with the help of fresh information from Washington-a matter of no little importance, inasmuch as the increase has been marked. Thus corrected for accuracy, the reckoning shows that there has been this in crease in the death rate for the entire United States: For people of ages from 60 to 64, seven per cent. For people of ages from 65 to 69, 6% per cent. For people of ages from 70 to 74. 16% per cent. For people of ages from 75 to 79, seven per cent. For people of ages from 80 to 84, 15 per cent. For people of ages from 85 to 89, 12 per cent. For people of ages from 90 to 94, 30% per cent. For people of 95 and up, 20% per cent. These figures tell the story more clearly than the most eloquent discourse on the subject. They show that. notwithstanding improved medical knowledge and the benefits of modern sanitation, we are dying earlier than our grandparents did. The reason why offers a topic for considerable discussion and is not to be summed up in a word, but one may discover it without much difficulty in the more complex and luxurious life that we lead. The lives of our forebears were compara tively simple and their constitutions, unweak ened by the luxury and intense nervous strain of an existence like that of to-day, were stronger , than ours and better able to withstand the ap proaches of disease. Plenty of proof of this fact may be found in the vital statistics of our population, especially in the cities, the figures showing that, while the death rate from diseases common'to children has enormously diminished, within the last few years, the mortality from maladies more properly be longing to later life, such as heart disease, apo plexy, cancer and ailments of the liver and kid neys, has risen to an alarming extent. Nay, more, it is still going up and seems likely to con tinue to increase. The average baby born today has a chance of reaching five years of age better by 50 per cent, than would have been the' case half a cen tury ago. Its prospect of escaping the diseases of childhood and growing up is vastly improved, as compared with earlier days. Now, it is very desirable to save the balpies and one of the greatest triumphs of our neker civilization is the successful rearing of three hu man infants for every two that survived half a century ago. But it is undeniable that the race as a whole suffers by the change, inasmuch as the weaklings, instead of being weeded out, are thus enabled to grow up. These weaklings not only propagate other weaklings, but, by reason of their inferior vigor of constitution, commonly fail to reach old age. In this fact, doubtless, is found one cause of the rise in the death rate in later life. Nothing surely could well be more strange than the spectacle presented to our view of a great and increasing acceleration of the sweep of the dread srythe among peopl beyond middle age, while multitudes of ckidle are constantly escaping who must formerly have succumbed. In both cuaes, too, it is our advanced and perfected civilization that futpshe the cue, rescuing the young hit mowing down the old. So far, indced, doe the harm netrallet the tat, -ot - srtandin an the aechtevemet of iodern hyIyea and medical dseove,. It tis doubtftal whether the average prospective life time of all is much greater than was the case for those living 50 years ago. Most of us do not re alize, perhaps, how much more complicated life is than it used to be. The typical success fui business man of to day crowds the work of 20 hours into 10 hours and only leaves his of ice to plunge into so cial dissipation of one kind or another, eating _ __ too much, drinking too Soo y -f much, smoking too much, going to bed too late, and keeping his nervous system continu ally on the rack until, all at once, it breaks down. Incidentally, his digestion becomes im paired, his vital organs suffer irritation, which is often the beginning of disease, and his circula tion is clogged, threatening apoplexy. No won der, then, that in many an instance he dies sud denly, while yet in the prime. of life. Sudden deaths are much more common than they used to be. The high pressure of modern life, with its keen competition and.' intense strain, is the chief cause. The busy merchant drives his body machine beyond its capacity and suddenly it collapses. Heart disease or apo plexy the attack may be, according to the phy sician's diagnosis, but it is really over-driving that is accountable for the mischief. The stren uous life is all very well, but it is liable in these days to be carried too far. I have known several tragic incidents of the kind within the last few years-one of them the case of a gentleman whom I had earnestly advised to lead a more simple life. "Nature," I said to him, "did not provide you with a machine capable of enduring such use. You have so many hours for sleep, so many for work and so many for recreation; you must arrange them accordingly." But he kept on at the same gait, and, not long ago, while speaking at a dinner on board a steam ship that was entering the harbor of New York, he dropped dead. A blood-vessel had given way. When the body-machine is weakened by over It cannot withstand the hostile germ life which It cannot withsttand the hostile germ life which it is obliged to encounter. In other words, its power of resistance is diminished,. And when the hours that should be devoted to healthful recreation are given up to the enervating dissi pations of club and social life there is a double drain upon the vitality. Many business men nowadays are kept under such continual ner vous strain that they resort to stimulants in working hours and it is this sort of abuse, com bined with constant and racking excitement, that has earned for paresis recognition as a brain disease to which stock brokers are pecul iarly liable--so much so, indeed, that it might be called broker's insanity. The conditions of luxury under which most of us live-for these are days when even the poor man enjoys comforts such as were unob tainable by the rich half a century ago-have a tendency to weaken our constitutions and impair our vitality. Our houses are overheated and even the vehicles in which we ride are Often warmed almost to suffocation. Thus we have become like hothouse plants and, if by chance exposed to a current of cool air, we catch cold, or perhaps contract bronchitis or pneumonia, a trifling change of temperature cutting our lives abshort in a twinkling. Or, again, it may be that a like cause will bring cOngestion of the kidneys, leading to disease of those organs proving even tually fatal. Not long ago, while traveling, I chanced to stop at a village on the river Rhine, where I found an uastonishing number of old people. There were dsen over 10 years of age and many from 80 years old up to the oeatpry mark; yet straight and vigoros. One ~ioma nearly a Shundred years old was earning her living by plckng opsg -hr gandehildwa were amttde aged. It was quite wonderta. But there wad no mystery about it; It was merely the dlect of o " a simple life spent largely in the fields, with plain diet, consisting of a by vegetables sad fruits, little meat, sad native beer and wine for beverages. Nothing can be more obvious than that the very complexity of our modern ivilization is shortening our lives. But of all the evils that aflict us the worst and most destructive are hurry and worry. Hurry drives the body ma chine beyond its capacity, while worry racks It Inwardly. Of the two worry is probably the worse. This might, indeed, be called the age of worry. Because of the intense nervous strain to which we are subjected we do vastly more weo rying than did our forebears. The average man of today is coantnually surrounded and pursued by phantom troubles, which, though few of them ever materialise into realities, haunt him coe tinually, ruining his peace of mind and injuring his health. Worry is not only distressing, but pesitively dangerous. It is the fruitful cause of many brain diseases and is often the beginning of di orders of the nervous system. Men worry about money matters, about business and about family afairs. It becomes a habit, growing by what it feeds on, so that the victim, with nothing on earth to bother him perhaps, looks around to d cover something to worry about. If there is nothing else to be found, he will worry about his own health, or about his salvation In the neat world. Worry is one of the meast important ne tors In the development of kidney troubles. It may be said in conelusion that the sat, shown by the census figures of 1900, that people in rural districts live longer than residents of the cities affords rather a striking illustratiek of the nfluence of the complex existence upon loa gevity. If we are "dying at the top," as Mee to be the case, the misfortune is unguestlonably attributable to Inherent detests In the civtilia Lion of which we are so proud. We have more amusements, travel faster, are more daintily fed, wear finer clothes and are surrounded by more comfort and luxury than any generation that has preceded us; but we pay for all these things literally with our lives, which, as If by the working out of some inexorable law of compe, nation, have been conslderably shortened already and eeemingly show a tendency to become pro gressively shorter and shorter still. A Noble Woman. GuOrdian-You say you are going to marry a man In order to reform him., That is very noble ofyou. May I ask who t l? Ward-It's Mr. Oofbyrd. Guardian-Indeed? I wasn't aware that he had any bad habits. Ward-Yes. His friends say that he is becom ing quite miserly.-Sketch. .All Kinds. "It takes all kinds of people to make a world." said the ready-made philosopher. "Certanly," answered the plain person. "look at erporers. Some of them excel with math tical tnstruments and some with typewraters and pltuore machines."-Wubhlangton 8tar. "That seems to be a eurioi name you have for yew maler" "Ys, sub, I calls ~im Climat, 'eavse de me: you shames him 4 me' lesarpeebie he sits," A 8000 COUGH MIXTURE. Simple Neme.Made anemiy That is Free from Oplates and Harm ful Drugs. An efoetlve remedy that will usn lly break up a cold in twenty-four hours, is eastly made by miting to. gether In a large bottle two ounces of Glycerine, a hal-ounce of Virgin Oil of Pine compound pure and eight ounces of pure Whisky. This mix ture will cure say cough that is cur able, and Is not epeaive as it makes enough to last the average family an entire year. Virgin Oil of Pine com pound pre is prepared only In the laboratories of the Leach Chemical Co, Cincanati, O. SMART MAN LEFT PONDERING For Once He Had Asked Question and Received Answer That Floored Him. He was a regular patron of the res taurant. Perhaps that is why he felt justlfed in making clever remarks to the waitresses, remarks which they were puzzled bow to answer. One day, however, the smallest and tiniest girl happened to be serving this Irri tating customer, and It fell to her to answer him in kind. "I'I have some steak," he said, com ing In late for dinner, "and some squash, and some-got some baked po tatoes, sne, brown, baked potatoes?" "Baked potatoes are all over," said the girl He leaned back It his chair and gazed at her quissically. "Baked potatoes all over, are they?" he repeated. "All over what?" "With," she replied, simply.-Youth's Companion. She Wants a Bennet. The manager of a departhent store eceived the following order from one of his out-of-town customers, who wanted a boanet: "Maure of head from ear to ear nver top of head 12 Inchen from ear to ear under my chin nine and one-half inches; from forehead to back hatr, seven Inches. I want a black lase bow net with strapmers sad rosette of red or Ualler stttag ribbop and would like a bedh of pink Rsts or a blue plume with a black et buerets If artilshels air stli the stile I want a bnch ofat grapes or a bird's'tale somewhere. I do not want sarthing to fansy, but if you thik a .wreath ofat panses would look good why pet se on. I have soam good pink ribbe here at home so yea need nom put on stringst"-I~peot's iTble," rm t I Cane, "is ot photngraph with my two French poodles. Tee recogite mae" " ak he," sa m mas soate. "Ton are the oe with the hat en, sue you Fir Neabehe Toy WeuUI Cap als ca tsh e O . 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