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I'* ' # Anking Tea in the the Worl \! 1 I II' \ rwHiB t 11 m HI ^HK&I ?v V;/ ~ v^X*9I^m^HMNHpII IRS. DANIEL MANNING. PRESIE H MANAGERS, IN ' lea Ceremony at the Japanese Reservation. j -? ?O?o?O?O By t?he Countless de MonLaigu. The "tea ceremouy" is a unique and Hgolj ceremonious function only to seen in the Louses of aristocratic Hfrsonages. It Is a survival of the Vurtly etiquette of old Japan, and is ll practiced. Even At the public tea Buses in Japan it is unknown, except H_the favored few, being too elaborate d expensive for an everyday thing. Brhe Tokio Tea Palace, at the World's rir, the Governmental institution for He exploitation - of the products of Hpan, is presided over by Mr. K. Sano, renowned authority on tea, and also H well-known antiquarian. Mr. Sano bls employ a young lady from )kio, who lms a' seiiooi ior young ilea in that city. Here the daughrs of wealthy and high born perbages are instructed In the intricacies the "tea ceremony," for the daughr of the house usually acts as hostess i such occasions. rhe etiquette of Japan is as severe that of the court of Spain and even &re so. . Prompted by .curiosity I requested bo initiated into the mysteries of U^pretty ceremony. On entering an iper room in the tea house I found te rather flat cushions placed in a mlcircle in the middle of the door, ceordlng to immemorial usage, the ests must not exceed five. Miss ine Abe, the Toklo young lady, was ready;.* kneeling before the lacquered a ta^le, looking like an animated panese doll. Each guest on entering nk down on her knees upon a cushn, saluting the hostess by spreading r hands flat on the floor in front her and bowing almost to the oun^, Miss Abe returning the salutloni The guest of honor was altted the first seat, and to the one who rived last was delegated the serving the tea. The position to an American is most Hying, as ail uirouguuui me tcic- | Bony, which occupies at least an hour, He guests are, as it were, kneeling < Hd resting on their heels. One cannot Bip-wondering whether the Japanese ^ftatomy is not different from ours, as them this attitude seems entirely Miss Abe was attired in the picturHque garb of. her native land. She Hore a flowing kimono of some soft Jepy material sprigged with cherry Hossoms, Drancnes of the sallte H0W(?P ^ orning her elaborate coiffure, and ^Bout her waist was an obi or wide Hsh embroidered in swallows. Hotter the usual compliments had Hen exchanged, Miss Abe proceeded to Hake the tea. She took the beautiful ^Btsijma bowl, the little wooden ladle, the bamboo whisk, washing them M?HB?II l' I <4t?.' Japanese Pavilion at' d's Fair I kn\*m An rrrTP T>rv A T)T^ HI? T, A D V IJi.> i ur inij Vi- ? THE CENTRE. .???. carefully In a brass pan, wiping on a j crimson fushama (or 'kerchief), which | 6he folded in a certain fashion before ! tucking in her belt. When all of the utensils were in a state of immaculate j cleanliness the hostess proceeded to j make the tea. From a vase of costly, | cloisonne she extracted a fine greenish j powder, throwing two teaspoonsful | into the bowl reposing on the floor be- | side her; lifting the lid of the spout- ! less kettle, she peered into its depths in order to see if the water was bubbling. Then with a peculiar and studied movement of the hands she took a ladle full of the water and poured it on the tea powder, whisking it briskly with a little bamboo implement much resembling an egg beater; when a froth as light as sea foam rises to the top the beverage is ready. The last guest wriggled from her seat, traversing the distance which separated her from the tea table upon her knees and without rising offered the fragrant liquid to the guest of honor, the bowl resting upon a scarlet fushama. It is etiquette for the person served to receive the bowl, holding It daintily with the right hand clasped about it, the bottom resting In the palm of the left hand. She would stamp herself as uniearnea in the code of manners did Bhe sip her tea as 'we Western barbarians are wont to do. It must be swallowed in exactly three gulps and a half, then the spot touching the lips should be wiped with a fushnm.i which is returned to the breast of the kimono, and the bowl carefully set down in front of her. But one person is served at a tlipe, which accounts for the length of the "tea ceremony," the same minute ceremonial with not the slightest variation of gesture being omitted, being repeated each time. With the tea dainty and crisp little rice cakes are eaten. Everything is set upon the floor, the tea bowl and the paper napkin which holds the cakes. TOBOGGAN PLANE. The toboggan plane shown in the ac companying cut is so-cmieu uecnuoe ui i its resemblance in shape to the tobog- j gan, being turned up at both ends In j the same manner as the real toboggan | TOBOGGAN* PLANE. Is at the front. The tool may be either used as a bench or smoothing plane and can be held in one hand as a block plane. It Is said to be exceptionably durable ana iree irom uamaye m umu. use. ? The Allan steamship Victorian, which is to be launched at Belfast j next month, will be the first turbine j steamship to take part in the Atlantic i passenger trade. JBLIC EYE. | ' Ave YVIDSON, ARCHBISHOP OF CANDRY. tion of the Episcopal Church of the > at Boston. :A SERMON FOE SUNDAY I! I . j ttN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED 1 ( 'THE VALUE OF OBEDIENCE." i Preached by the Rev. Joseph Dunn liurrell, of Brooklyn, N. W?The Way to Power Shown by Convincing Arguments?Christ Our Great Pattern. i Brooklyn, N. Y.?In the Classon Ave nue Presbyterian Churcli the pastor, the T*ev. Joseph Dunn Burrell, preached Sun day morning on"Tlie Value of Obedience." |The text was from Philippians, ii:8, 9: ."He humbled Himself and beeamo obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above every name." Mr. Burrell said: From this passage we learn that, through obedience, our Lord Jesus Christ attained His surpassing glory. He won His exaltation not by exploiting His own will, but by submitting to the will of God. On this point He is representative of humanity. For all men everywhere to obey is the way to rule. "Whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant." Obedience thus becomes a most essential part of education, whether in the home or ,--^1 'PKavn io cnmofliin(y disrennta- I LUC SIUUU1. JL iivi. v ia sv*u???..n ? , ble about the household where the children do not mind, or the lecture hall, where the instructor has no control. It is a healthy discipline for us to have to submit our wili to another's. Such is the Biblical conception of home training. Such was the method of Christ's bringing up. Professor Huxley had great influence upon current ideas of education and, perhaps, the most eloquent words he ever wrote were those in which he set forth this idea, that the gist of education is to learn how to obey. "That man," he says, "has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of, whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in 6mooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers, as well as forge the anchors of the mind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of nature or of art,- to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself. Such an one and no other. I conceive, has had a liberal education, for he is, as completely as a man can be. in harmony with nature. Tie will make the best of her, and she of him. They will get on together rarely; she as his ever-beneficent mother; he as her mouthpiece, her conscious self, her minister and interpreter." ( But it is not enough to learn obedience theoretically in one period of education; we must perpetuate it as a habit all through our years, for it is the only way to success in life. Obedience is not lor its own sai;e, but in order that through it we maj come to be our best selves. We accept law as the predetermined condition of life, surrender ourselves to it, and by yielding win true liberty. Agesilaus of Sparta knew how to govern because he had first learned how to obey, according to the old saying. The present Emperor of Germany and King of Italy, brilliant examples of successful monarchs, were trained with a severity that some of our boys would think cruel. There was once a hard worked employe of the New York street car system; he is now it's head. There was once a private soldier who had to submit to all the narrow restrictions of the mo:t subordinate rank in the army; he is now our commander in the Philippines, i We take away harmful things from our children that later on they may know enough to deprive themselves of them. They are made to take care of their bodies that they may keep the laws of health when they need it for life's work. They are given good books to read that they may prefer such when they are free to read what they will. They are shielded lrom bad associations and thrown into the company of clean, true, honorable boys and girls so that when they are out in the world fighting their own battles they may choose the friendship of the good and shun that of the base. ! Some parents are afraid to have their children arrive at the age of self control. Yet what is the good of education. "The aim of your discipline," said Herbert Spencer, "should be to produce a self-governing being; not to produce a being to be governed by others." It is a joy to have obedient children, but it ought to be a greater joy when they are becomc truenearted men and women, end are out in the world carrying on the business of life. Then the object of education is secured and the condition of success is satisfied. On the other hand, moral failure is due to not having learned how to obey, and so not knowing how to rule. When a girl says to herself, "When I have a home of my own you will see how differently I shall do things." When a boy thinks, Must wait until I am twenty-one nnd I will see life for myself;" you may know that the seed of the Dead Sea fruit is already sown. A woman whose family were in want was given $25 by a friend, instead of purchasing necessities with this providential present she used it in having the photographs i.1 J.:? u?Tl,n,.n v JL l/iic dime nuuacuvjv* lunvii. a.h.*v .i an example of one who did not deserve to be grown up. She did not know how to control her own life. She had never learned that the only way to live worthily is to obey the great principles of duty. She merely followed her Avhims. . I heard this summer of a young mamvho a year ago was flying around Long Island in his automobile, dazzling the natives with his reckless expenditure ox a newly acquired fortune. To-day he is said to be clerking in a store, lie did not know how to be rich; he had not learned self-control. Quite rightly lie has been set back again in liis proper place. Oscar Wilde was a young scholar of extraordinary brilliance. His essay on "The Dccay of Lying," for example, was marvellously suggestive. But he never learned to obey, to control himself, to love the right; on the contrary, by following his own will and seeking pleasure without regard to duty he made of himself a social outcast and died a beggar's death in Paris. It makes no difference what ability, position or opportunity one has. if he does not know how to obey lie is on the road to ruin. Moreover, this condition of obedience is the permanent law of life. Neither in this nor any other world is it abolished. The mother warns her baby not to touch the stove. The little one disobeys and is burned. He crows to be a man. He emerges from his mother's control. No one advises him now to keep away from the stove. He can put his finger on it if he will. But if he does he will be burned again. So it is in the moral life. As children we were restricted by others from wrong if ?*n in cAolririrr tf\ fin. I UUIIlg, aim 11 ?<- pusiovvui ? ? v.complish it we suffered. Now we are grown and no one hinders us. We can sin if we choose. But if we do we shall have to bear the consequences now as then. The choice given us is not whether wc shall be under God's law or not, but only whether we shall obey them or not, in either case receiving the results of our decision. For "whatsoever a laan soweth, ' that shall he also reap." The man who abandons himself to the indulgence of appetite, violating the laws of nature, shortens his life. His indulgence 1 defeats itself. While he obeys God's laws finds them his servants,ministers of health, prosperity and usefulness. Nor is this state of things different in heaven. There it in said "His servants shall serve Him." There the law of God is perfectly fulfilled. There the heavenly host sing forever, according to Dante's dream, "In His will is our delight." So forever and forever obedience remains the law of life. William Tyndale, who translated the Bible into English, wrote a book entitled "The Obedience of a Christian Man." The i eist of it is this: That the Bible reveals i 'the way of salvation through Jesus Christ, and also the way in which a saved man ought to live. Few books have had a wider influence. One martyr at least is known to have gone to the stake carrying a copy cf it in his hand. For it appealed to the con- i science of man, it showed Christian believ. 1 ;rs that the salvation of Christ, instead o! releasing from moral obligations, is on th< contrary, precisely an enduement of powei to perform it. Instead of abolishing tin law Christ fulfills it, and if there is an] pne in the world who ought to he the shin ing examplar of obedience to the will o God, it is the Christian man. Christ Himself is our great pattern ii this regard. He was an obedient Son. I wTas His meat and drink. He said, to d< His Father's will. But He is more thai our pattern. He is our Saviour, nd a such enables us to reproduce the pattern He presents an ideal and also the dynamii for its realization. This is why there is J place for Him in every heart. This is wh; we all need Him. If we live in fellowshi| with Christ, trusting Him in utter faith the law of God instead of being somethini hostile to our spirit is our very life, am we come to be able to say with Him, " delight to do Thy will, 0, my God." The Religion That Makes One Faithful. The railway superintendent came dowi to his office on Monday morning, sat dowi at his desk and began to open his mail The first letter was from the wife of discharged conductor, which said: "I take this opportunity to write whil my husband is at church. He has beei going regularly the last three Sundays He lias been to see the minister, an the minister gave him good advice an <4w?vir un n n1pr)crf> ntwl he sicrned it. an every morning and night lie asks God t help him keep it. I am sure he will neve drink again. We have only seven dollar in the house. I am doing my own worl though I am not strong enough to do il The oaby is sick, and I do not know ho' we are to live when the little money w now have is gone. For God's sake, pit us and give my husband his train agaii and I am sure he will never drink anothc drop!" Tne superintendent read the letter an handed it across the desk to a friend wh had entered. "Bead that," said he, "an tell me what to do." "What has been his record?" asked th friend. "This is the third time he has bee found drunk on duty. Each time I warne him, and the second time I suspended hin This time I discharged him for good, can't place human lives in the care of man who can't be trusted. If I take hit back it won't be three weeks before I: is drinking a little on the sly, and withi three years he will wreck a train, as sut as the sun rises to-morrow." "Have you another place where you coul use him,* some place involving less 11 sponsibility?" "No, he is physically unable to do liar work, and there is no other kind at whic I can put a man of that sort. I don dare sec mm even wmciuuk u cimainx. * fact, there is no position on a railroad f< a man who can t be trusted to do h duty." Later in the day the conductor himse came in. The superintendent* receive him kindly, but with no encouragement : his manner. "I knew you would come," he sai< "and 1 must be frank and say that should have thought more of you had yc stayed at home and helped your wife wit the housework, instead of going to ct^urc so that she could write me about it." "But," said the conductor, "she wantt me to go, and I did not know about tt letter until she told me afterward, ap really, I am sure I shall never fall agaii I have asked God to help me. Trust ir once more and have pity for my family." The superintendent shook his head sai ly. "You want me to pity your family he said, "but you didn't pity them you self, and you never thought pbout askir God to help you, except to help you 01 of a scrape. You have got. your religic too late so far as this ofhee is concerns It will help vou to forgiveness to yoi 1 T I --.Ml l.? ? sins-, ana 1 nope will mane a UEI.K1 of you, but it is too late for a job of rui ning a train. That kind of religion th; we have to insist on in this office isn't <1 kinds that helps a man to get a job bad it is the kind that makes him keep it. believe in religion, and wish every man i the company's employ was a religious mai but the kind of religion this coinpar needs is the kind that makes men faitnfi to their work." The discharged man went out and tl superintendent's stern face relaxed. ' am sorry for that wife and the sick baby, he said, "but I can't trust human Jivi to a man who gets his religion so late." The true faith is the faith which mak< faithful. It is never too late to look 1 God for forgiveness, but penitence som times comes too late to restore a lost 0] portunity.?Youth's Companion. God Speaking to the Sonl, It lids been remarked that "the subjei n( first chanter of uenesis is not tl creation, but the Creator; what it gives i is, not a world, hut a God." Let those who will search the Scripturi for the light they shed on past conce| tions of science and upon the history of unique race in the annals of the worli Let them study their literary developmen and seek thus a keener appreciation of tl inen who wrote them. Ihey cannot fa to be enlightened and interested. But tl sincere Christian approaches the Scri] tures with a different interest and purpos He passes over the historical, the literal and the scientific features of the Bib with small attention to his passional search for that which the Scriptures ai designed to reveal?namely, the persoi will and work of God, and the nature an relationships of man. From Genesis t Revelation?in history, in law, in psali and prophecy, in parable and epistle an Apocalypse, on every page, God speaks 1 the human soul.?Rev. George E. Bates. God's Best Gift. We have hut a narrow and unworth conception of prayer if our only though of it is making requests of God. In hunia friendship it would be very strange there were never fellowship save whe there jvere favors to ask the one of th other. Love's sweetest hours arc those i which two hearts commune on theme dear to both, but in which neither has an request to make. The truest, loftiest prayer is one of con munion when we speak to God and H speaks to us. The deepest answer wc ca have to our praying is not God's gift.1 however precious these may be. but Go Himself, His love, His grace. The praye that rises highest and is divinest is tha " - '1-J ?|Uam P.n in which we Jose ourseu in vjou, wuni Himself is all about us, filling us, inspii ing our dull life with His own infinit blessedness.?J. K. Miller. Sunday School Workers "WantedTo be courageous like Joshua. To be self-reliant like Xehemiah. To be obedient like Abraham. To be persevering like Jacob. To be decisive like Moses. To be administrative like Solomon. To be above reproach like Daniel fo be long-suffering like Paul. To be self-disciplined like David. To be prayerful like Elijah. To be masters of passions like Joseph. To be bold like Peter. The PeMlatenco of Unbelief, After God had made so many visibl manifestations of His power and willing ness to deliver and provide for His people vet many of them "believed not in God' itnd "limited the Holy One of Israel.' Many to-day. after enjoying blessing afte blessing from His hand, are doing the Ver same tiling as did God's ancient Israel.L'hurcli Advocate and Holiness Banner. Heart Power. In some respects our present age is seel? ing to lay the stress and in some cases thi balance of emphasis upon interpretatioi and not life. To make men all intellec with little or no heart is the idea of som< mechanical minds. But .Jesus' greates power was His heart power which infuaej His entire intellectual being. The Saving of the Soul. Every provision in the divine plan of sal ration is to protect and increase the high est life in man, and that life is the spirit ual life. This is what is meant by the pri ority of life. This is what is meant by th< saving of the souL True Hitpplneftft. Happiness increases on the path of lift f it is always advancing toward the perfect jIlss.?Arkansas Methodist. I f Bcriavert. - A Scottish fisherman was drowned H close to the shore and his body was ]r not recovered until the following evening. When it was taken from the wa* ter a collection of very large crabs t clung to the clothing, and these the t minister detached and sold to help the > I widow, who appeared to be inconsol* able. When the money was being handed to the woman, the giver asked e how she wished the body to be disx posed of. "D'ye no think." she said, . "we could do waur than just set him i, again?" pc | Death For Incurables. * A professor in the French Medical Academy advocates painless death | for incurable victims. The Paris cor| respondent for the Chicago Tribune j says: "Dr. Guermonprez, professor I. I of the medical faculty in Lille, is about a to niiblish nn pl.ilinrnto -u-nrlr ontitlprf '.Medical Death and Protection For ? Ilumau Life.' The book, an elaborate i. work, Vill advocate an international 'I understanding between physicians and 'j authorities, allowing the first to help 0 | persons stricken with incurable disr ?ase to make dn end of their pains and 3 of themselves. I' "In excuse of. this demand, the pro,v fessor cites a law proposed during*the ? Fren'cii Revolution, of which the conJ vent did or did not approve. It provided that 'virtuous and feeling citizens should be allowed to give incura? hies a quick but painless death.' The ? | professor thinks the convent passed I the law, yet it was never but into exee I cution. ! In 1903 the First Chamber of the (I I Kingdom of Saxony, denied a petition j. | to the same effect, namely, that phyJ j sicians should be allowed to kill pa? ! tients if the latter asked them to do :e i so in writing. n " 'The late Crispi,' says the professor, "e 'favored my plan to establish death d cells in every hospital where incurs ables may hide, at their pleasure, to , seek relief from their pains by death, I, deatli to be produced by gases.'" 't n No III Effects. >r Dr. Edward Everett Hale tells a 13 story of a New York clergyman who If had received a call to a fashionable d suburb of Boston. A gentleman, who n had in his employ two English grooms, j accidentally overheard the following i conversation between the two serai vants: ;jj It appears that the first groom, who had for some time been endeavoring to :d get the second groom to attend services at the church presided over by ^ the New York clergyman, said: ie "Didn't you like the sermon?" "Very much," replied the other, "very aiuch. even hif 'e is a bit 'Igli Church 'p. and Hi a Methodist. Hi thinks as 'ow ig I'll prob-ly hatter 1 the haaftennoon service, too." U* "Hi just knew you'd change your u mind." remarked the first groom, trim umphantly. "As Hi told yer, I've 'eard rt: 1m twist an' what 'arm 'as it done j ae?"?Collier's Weekly. | i A Wonderful Powder. in j There is working in the University ^ I of Tokio, in Japan, a quiet little man, who, if be is almost ignored outside his own country, is fully recognized in Japan as a national benefactor. ?. This man is Professor Shimose, inventor of the new Shimose powder, the most powerful explosive known. The secret of its composition Is rigidly e. guarded. Though there is no secret as p* to its terrific power, no foreigner knew anything about it before the present war began. This powder forms the bursting charge of the Japanese army :t and navy shell. The armor piercing ie shell is rent into thousands of small fragments, which are hurled through ?s the air with such force thut they tear P" through the sides of an iron ship. A * shell bursting with a charge of gunt) cotton is broken into very few pieces. but the Shimose explosive scatters the "i projectile into 3000 or more fragments, p. which are driven in every direction e. with equal force, tbe result being, a? 7 one expert says, that "nothing in the viciuity can live." :e n The Tallest Occupied liiilhllng. d The rark Row Building, in New ? York, is the tallest inhabited building (\ in the -world. It covers 15,000 square ;o feet of ground and is thirty stories high. The distance from the curbing to the cornice is .300 feet; to the top of the towers 390 feet; to the top of ? the-flagstaff 447 feet; the depth ot' the ln foundations below curbing Ls seventyif five feet, making a total distance from n the foundations to the top of the flagJ staff 552 feet. y SAFEST FOOD ' In Any Time of Trouble is Grape-XuU. I- ? '? Food to rebuild the strength and tbat " ' is pre digested must be selected when d one is convalescent. At this time there :r is nothing so valuable as Grape-Nuts for the reason that this food is aU U ? r- nourishment and is also all digestible 0 nourishment. A woman who used it says: "Some time ago I was very ill with typhoid fever, so ill everyone thought Z would die, even myself. It left me so weak I could not properly digest food of any kind and I also had much bowel trouble which left me a weak, helpless wreck. "I needed nourishment as badly as I anyone could, but none of the tonics helped me until I finally tried GrapeNuts food morn.Mig auil evening. Tills j not only supplied food that I thought e delicious as could he but it also made me perfectly wcii and strong again so ? I ean do all my housework, sleep well, ? ean eat anything without any trace of r bowel trouble and for that reason alone f Grape-Nuts food is worth its weight in " gold." Name given by I'ostuui Co., Battle Creek, .Mich. Typhoid fever like some other dis eases attacks the bowelsand frequently s sets up bleeding and makes them for J months incapable of digesting the e starches and therefore pre digested t Grape-Nuts is invaluable for the well 1 known reason that in Gra(.)e-Nuts all the starches have been transformed into grape sugar. This means that the first stage of digestion has been me. ehanically accomplished in Grape-Nuts - food at the factories and therefore any" one, no matter how weak the stomach, can handle it and grow strong, for all the nourishment is still there. There's a sound reason and 10 days \ trial proves. ' * * -r ? ? liirls nnd Lizards. Birds, it may come as a surprise to learn, are nearest related to lizards of S any other families of living creatures, e There is a South American bird, the a hoetzln, of which the young are pro- > vided with lizard-like claws on their t wings; they also possess a very rep- t tilian appearance for their short life, j T t llow a Lainb is Shorn. f H-osy hopes. li U-nexpected reverses. t I owe U. I N-othing left. ? 7 \ *'S ' *** I Mrs. Haskell, Worthy pendent Order Good Lake, Mass., tells of h Lydia E. Pinkham's ^ " Dkaji Mbs. Pbtkhuc : Four years nation and ulceration. .1 endured daily to me. I had used medicines and was! made up my mind that there was no rel friend, 1 noticed a bottle of Lydia E. P My friend endorsed it highly and I deck help me. It took patience andperseTeri used Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetab] before ? was cured, but what a chanj misery to the delightful exhilarating' fe not change back for a thousand dollars grand medicine. " I wish every sick woman would 1 ILlakill, Silver Lake, Mass. Worthy Good Templars. When a medicine h&s been an cases, is it justice to yourself to s believe it would help me " ? Surely you cannot wish to w courage d, exhausted with each derangement of the feminine org Vegetable Compound will help yo . TU^ cost all letters addressed to her b just the knowledge that will help costs nothing. Too Many Telephones. "This custom of having two telephones in the office has its disadvan tages, too," said the business man. "We've got a new office boy, and one of his duties is to answer the telephone. The other dny lie heard the bell ring, j and, coming to me, said: 'You're want- { ed at the 'phone by a lady.' " 'Which one?' I inquired, thinking | of the 'phones, of course. " 'Please, sir,' stammered the boy, ! 'I?I?I think it's your wife.' "-Port- | land Express. The Rome newspapers comment favorably on the scheme for the erection in that city of a monument to Shakespeare. N. Y.?43 FITS permanently cured. No fltsornervous- J ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great c NerveRestorer,Atrial bottleand treatise free Dr. R. H. Kline,Ltd., 931 Arch St., Pliila., Pa. ^ In Quito every one uncovers to a flash of ' lightning. jj IamsurePiso'sCure forConsumptlonsaved ? rny life three years ago.?31ns. Thomas Uobeiks, JIaple St., Norwich, N.V., Feb. 17,1903 "j The life of a bicycle, if regularly used, is JJ four years. y Whe St. Jaco The old monk cure, strong Hurts, Spraii The muscles flex, the J the soreness dies out. I : - - } ' ' *" X&zL v^^U^-:4^-V -' -. iA>r.? -,iJ ' :^.i3iti^i'?4lSM^ ?*.. -. . ' . : - ' 4,-. ==^= Amusing Incident*. An incident related by Admiral ichley in Lis new volume of reinlnisences contains a dreadful warning to 11 who write an illegible hand. At Nicaragua, in 1SG4, be was surprised o find a man of the American Minlser's tastes and talents assigned to a iost so little to his liking. The Mini* er explained how it was. "I wrote my riend, Mr. Lincoln," he said, "askini lim for the position of marshal of Neiraska, but I wrote such a horribly lad hand that he read it 'Minister to ..i aragua.' So liere I ana." Jji Vice Templar, I nde- *' Templars, of Silver i er rnre hv the use of /egetable Compound. ago I was nearly dead with! inflam- . v untold agony, and life was a burden hes internally and externally until X ief for me. Calling at the home of a inkliam's Vegetable Compound. led to give it a trial to see if it would snce for I was in bad condition, and I le Compound for nearly five months fe; from despair to happiness, from eling health always brings. I would i, ana your Vegetable Compound is ft try it and be convinced." ? Mrs. Ida Vice Templar, Independent Order of r- M ccessful in more than a million ay, without trying it, "I do not' smain weak, and sick and disday*s work. Ton have 10m# anlsm, and Lydia E. Pinkham's u just as surely as it has others. irimore, N. D., says: Mrs, Pntmu: I might have been ly months of suffering' andpain if I l of the efficacy of ZLivdia E. Pink* f table Compound a few months tried man j remedies without find* 1 g which helped me before I tried tha Compound. I dreaded the approach :nstrual period every month, as it h suffering and pain. 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