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Hays City Free Press
HAY8 CITY,
KANSAS.
For Better Roads.
Many Americans who live In or near
large cities would be surprised to hear
it stated that the United States has
the oorest roads of any civilized
country In the world. Nevertheless,
the statement is declared by all who
have had opportunity to learn by ex
perience to be unquestionably true,
when the roads of the whole country
are considered. Lately there has been
much criticism of the automobile as
being destructive of good roads. The
damage is eo great that in France the
government has been forced to take
up the matter, and is even now study
ing preventive plans. In the United
States, however, it may be that the
automobile will yet prove a powerful
influence in better roadw. The Ameri
can Automobile association has re
cently held a two days' good roads
convention in Buffalo, at which pro
vision was made for practical demon
strations of the best methods of road
building and repairing, and for experi
ments looking toward the discovery of
a binding material for surfacing roads
which will not be sucked out by the
pneumatic tires. There are signs, too,
says Youth's Companion, that the old
policy of throwing upon the towns the
burden of building the roads and keep
ing them in repair is to be superseded
by the more sensible plan of having
the state do it. The towns will, of
course-, care for their own streets, but
the main highways should be built and
cared for by the state, as they are in
France, Germany and Switzerland.
The national government has decided
to send the director of the department
af roads to Vie international good
roads convention which will open in
Franco in October, and at which the
problem of the automobile and the
roads will receive especial attention.
That readiness in an emergency
which made the New Englanders the
wonder of the world has not been en
tirely lost in these latter days. A
Connecticut farmer has recently ex
hibited it. The man found four boys
stealing his early apples, and gave
chase to them. He was handicapped,
however, by the loss of a leg he left
it on the battlefield at Antietam and
had to get along with a wooden sub
stitute. When he was about to reach
out and seize one of the running boys
by the shoulder his wooden leg went
down a hole in the ground and broke
in two. The boys stopped to jeer
him; but he took a string from his
pocket and spliced the broken leg so
quickly that he was up again and at
them before they realized what had
happened. He caught the boy he was
after, and the others surrendered.
There are several morals to this tale,
but the most obvious one is that men
with wooden legs ought always to
carry string in their pockets to be
provided against accidents.
Light in the Dark Continent.
There is a new ray of light for
Africa. Belgium has decided to take
under national control the region of
the Congo. Not since the days when
Great Britain was aroused to a white
heat by Armenian massacres has there
been so much international indigna
tion as in recent years over reported
atrocities in the valley of the Congo.
To be sure, there have been pro and
coa, and the controversy has been
general, says the Boston Herald, that
the exploitation tC the resources of
the Congo has given much more atten
tion to the size of the product than to
the life and happiness of the natives.
Perhaps the fittest and most hopeful
comment is the fact that Belgium it
self has taken this African dependen
cy from the personal control of the
sovereign. King Leopold, and has
made national the government and
the responsibility therefor.
Are foreign-born American citizens
more patriotic than the native-born?
An ex-mayor of Detroit thinks that
some of them, at least, are. In speak
ing of the matter to a friend recently,
ho recalled a visit from a delegation
of Poles a few days before December
14, 1899. They asked what program
the city had arranged for the day. The
mayor told them that he had heard of
none, and asked why they supposed
there would be any. "Why," said the
spokesman, "have you forgotten that
It is tho centennial of the death of
Washington?" The mayor had for
gotten, but he attended the meeting
which the Poles themselves held, and
'listened to an intelligent and deeply
reverential address on the life of
Washington.
The residents of a town in Massa
chusetts whose water has been bad
were stunned by the knowledge im
parted to them of the reason -thereof
by the state board of- health. They
were informed that the cause was due
to "Aphanizoraenon, one of the cyano
phyceae." To this was added the
simple advice: "Get rid of them."
Such water as that is certainly
enough to drive any brain not under
the direct Intellectual Influence of
Boston to drink.
What good news! An alarm bell for
motors which rings automatically
when speed Is raised beyond the law
ful limit, has been invented. But stay!
won't the noise crusaders object to
this increase of nerve-tearing sounds?
Nearly every automobile will then go
ringing, as well as whizzing.,
Airship invention may make suffi
cient progress in this country to make
It a matter of Indifference to Capt,
Hobson whether there is an old-fashioned
fie it In the Pacific cr not.
ICEA FOR BREAKFAST ROOM.
Better to Keep Separate from the
Main Dining Chamber.
A breakfast bay breaking out from
one side is a favorite treatment for
the newer dining-rooms. These bays
have a slight elevation, and heavy
curtains conceal them from the dining
room proper, making a cozy and se
cluded breakfast room for a family of
three or four. Mullioned windows are
attractive, and casement sashes are
good form, especially if English or
colonial designs are used in the dining
room. A side door from the bay to the
butler's pantry is most convenient,
and. if paneling is used, a concealed
door is easily arranged. A small table,
the desired number of chairs, and
simple curtains admitting the sun
light are all the furnishings a bay
should receive. When a larger family
must be accommodated, a breakfast
room is arranged conveniently oppo
site the main dining-room. This, of
course, gives freedom of treatment of
a separate room. These separate
breakfast rooms are especially satis
factory decorated in blue. One can
here introduce a pretty Dutch scheme,
when it might not be appropriate else
where in the house.
PEAS IN THE POD.
Old Way of Shelling Them Is Alto
gether Unnecessary.
At last the season of the succulent
green pea need not be regarded with
horror by the cook. No more need
she stay out for hours and hours on
the porch shelling them in endless
numbers, while the rest of the dinner
waits until it is almost too late to
complete it for that day. No more
need mother stay home from picnics
and ether parties because the peas
must be prepared for lunch or dinner.
All that is necessary is to throw
them, pods and all. into the not. Cook
them the usual length of time. When
j they are done, the pods will break and
rise to the surface, while the peas may
be found at the bottom of the kettle.
What a change this will make in the
time it requires to cook a meal. What
a comfort it will be to feel that no
more afternoons need be spent in
shelling peas, and what a joy it is to
know that peas when cooked this way
are better than when hours are spent
upon their preparation.
Mint Jelly.
Many persons dislike anything of a
'ood variety containing gelatine, and
he usual meat jellies contain such,
jut a splendid jelly to serve with cold
r warm meat is a mint jelly, the bulk
nade with apples. Cook the apples
he same as for apple jelly, strain the
nice and add a handful of crushed
nint. Boil until the flavor is ex
tracted, strain twice, and add the
ame amount of sugar and boil until
i thick jelly Is formed. Grape juice
:an be flavored in the same manner,
ind also cranberry juice, which is
eally delicious when flavored with
fresh mint.
Binding Pies.
How many housewives feel like
shedding tears when they see theii
nice juicy pies leaking all over the
oven. To prevent this calamity and
produce a presentable exhibit of culin
ary art take a strip of bleached do
mestic, a little longer than the circum
ference of the pie and from one and a
half to two inches wide, depending on
the thickness of the crust; moisten
well with water and fold neatly ovei
the edge of the pie. See that it ad
heres snugly. After the pie is baked
the binding can be peeled off and lo!
your juice is where you want it.
A Dash of Molasses.
Whenever it comes to pies, New
England must take the credit. This
is natural, where a certain dish be
comes a three-times-a-day meal. They
ought to make it good when they eat
it for breakfast.
Summer boarders along the New
England coast have often wondered
why the blackberry and huckleberry
pies were better there than anywhere
else.
The secret is out the dash of mo
lasses is put in.
Cream Cheese.
Allow a pinch of salt and a teaspoon
of un flavored rennet to every quart
of milk and when you have a solid
curd turn into a bag and let it drip.
It may have to hang for a day before
the whey ceases to drip from it, but
when this stage is reached take the
?urd out, chop it fine, put into a cheese
box and press two hours. Wrap in
tissue paper or In tinfoil. Change bag
at end of 12 hours should the curd
take that length of time to drip.
Lady Fingers.
Six eggs, their weight in sugar and
naif their weight in flour. Beat the
yolks light, whip in sugar, half the
grated peel and all the juice of a
lemon, the flour and last the whites.
Turn into the little molds that come
for lady fingers; bake steadily, cover
ing them with paper until they aro
risen.
Crisp Waffles.
One scant teacup lard and butter. A
little sugar and a pinch of salt, two
eggs, one teaspoon baking powder,
one pint milk and a little water. Mix
lard, butter, sugar, salt, yolk of egg
and add flour and baking powder.
Make as stiff as for cake dough. Never
grease waffle irons except when new.
Tomato Catsup.
Cut tomatoes, boil tender, put
:h rough sieve, cook as thick as de
iired. Use about the same ingredi
ent as for chili sauce. Be careful
lbout spice, as it destroys the tomato
jolor. Air tight. When done add one
jill of brandy.
"Divinity Fudge.
Two cups granulated sugar, half cup
orn syrup, half cup water. Boil until
brittle when dropped in cold water
and beat slowly into the frosted
whites of two eggs. Add one cup nut
meats and pour on plate to harden.
Preserving Unused Lemon.
If, when using lemon for flavoring,
you need only half a one. put the other
half on a plate and cover with a glass
tumbler. This excludes the air and
prevents it from drying up or getting
moldy.
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Fragments of an
Interrupted Courtsh
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(Copyright, by Shortstory Pub. Co.)
The ragged pines of old, Virginia
nad hardly settled themselves firmly
in the soil of the confederacy to
which the secession of the old fogy
state had transplanted them, when, in
the shadows of an antiquated library,
a young apostle of the new doctrine
wrote:
Confederate States of America.
Richmond, Va., Apr. 20, ISCt.
Dr. Schuyler Vansittart.
My Dear Sir: You will observe that
:without. believe me, a tremor or the
straining: of a single heart tendon) I have
changed my nationality and my country.
Instead of the "stars and stripes," the
"stars and bars" float to the breeze (ex
ruse extreme originality of expression),
and our brand new ship of state dars,
alone, the storms of war. You and I may
never meet again nothing would Isduce
me to marry a horrid Yankee so try to
forget me, as the very remembrance of
you is ignored. With three cheers for
Uixie. Yours in oblivion,
ELIZABETH PONSONKT.
War opened, hostile armies con
fronted each other between Richmond
and the Potomac; Mason and Dixon's
line was accentuated by fixed bayo
nets and enforced by the booming
cannon; sword thrusts gave point to
geographical boundaries, while the
long roll of the drum warned off all
intruders.
Letters flew north from the blue
uniforms on the Potomac, and traveled
south from the gay coats at Manassas,
but never crossed, save by flag or
truce, the sharp wall made by picket
ed muskets. Terrible orders from
irascible old generals, who had out
grown romance and outlived senti
ment, sternly directed all letters to be
read before passing under the white
folds of these same peaceful banners.
So every word was weighed, and dic
tionaries became the popular litera
ture of the day to those that wrote to
"the other side," in order that a
phrase might be found capable of ex
pressing everything to some particu
lar person, but betraying nothing to
the flag-of-truce-letter-reading depart
ment. No one must suspect that the
loving inquiries about Aunt Jane's
neuralgia, or the intense anxiety con
cerning Uncle John's rheumatism
meant an altogether different query to
those that wrote so guardedly. So
personals In the leading newspapers,
north and south, were resorted to,
and many a line held a bleeding heart,
while a single word often carried joy
to an entire household, or that most
awful of all personals, initials and a
date, followed by the one word
"killed," embodied too frequently the
history of a broken life. But no such
tragic announcements were for Eliza
beth. A calm, dignified, eminently
proper personal in the H
SCHUYLER hopes little sister's fever
s abating. Grandpa sends love. Rich
mond E please copy.
was all. Back by rapid transit trav
eled the answer (he could almost see
the nervous fingers fiy over the pa
per) :
ELIZABETH no better. Grandma
evei liked blue. II please copy.
One dismal morning Mrs. Ponsonby
was sewing diligently on a soldier's
haversack, one of an immense pile, in
Sewing Diligently on a Soldier's Ha
versack. such haste to finish her task that she
wasted no time in fastening stitches
or in strengthening straps. Thus,
without the eye of the prophet, one
might see, in future weary marches,
many a poor fellow's scanty rations
slipping through the gaps in this
same haversack made by fingers more
enthusiastic in effort than proficient
in accomplishment, and hear. Instead
of the blessings the old lady expected
to be poured on her industrious hands
and self-sacrificing heart, the echo of
an assortment of ejaculations, made
possible only by confederate whisky,
flung at the careless fingers of the
maker.
"Mighty po'-Iookin sojer want to
see you. Mis' Clementine, said effi
cient though ungrammatical Judy, nod
ding her turbanned head to Mrs. Pon
sonby through a diminutive opening
in the doer. "Say, he aln' horngry,
'cause I dun as him dat fus thing;
look monsus poly, do' fus sojer I see
In a niont' o moons whar ain horn
gry." "On the nineteenth of May, said
the limping wearer of a ragged gray
coat, as he stood in Mrs. Ponsonby's
presence, with the crown of a hat sur
rounded by a broken halo of brim in
his hand, "our regiment held a posi
tion on the right of the Tenth Ala
bama, the attacking force. Behind an
old house, set at just the right angle,
as it seemed to us, to hide an ambus
cade, a party of sharpshooters was
carefully and all too accurately pick
Ins oS our men. Suddenly an aim
m
i n rA
I i L! c
was unerringly taken our flag trem
bled and fell "
And so it went on, the famliiar but
ever moving tale of a flag-bearer
killed, a soldier the narrator of the
story springing to the rescue of his
standard, himself to be laid senseless
by a bullet. From this oblivion he
had been wakened from a drenching
cold waterbath to hear the verdict,
"Poor fellow; leg badly shattered!"
pronounced over him by a voice with
a slight nasal twang. A voice, it
chanced, that he was destined to hear
daily during his tedious illness,, for
the man who had picked him up on
the field was also the assistant in the
hospital, and quite a friendship grew
up between the young doctor and his
patient, through their many conver
sations. So it was that on the day
of the narrator's discharge, the sur
geon, along with congratulations on
the other's recovery and approaching
exchange, gave a confidence and asked
a favor, as he said, "while your ardor
is yet at white heat."
"Three years ago," the doctor con
tinued, "before this hateful war was
ever dreamed of, and while I was a
student in Philadelphia, I became ac
quainted with a young lady from Rich
mond. The circumstances were ro
mantic well, never mind them it's
a long story tell you some other time,
yerhaps," he added, dubiously, "five
years after a treaty of peace, as the
confederate bills say.
"Well, without going through the
various stages of the affair, from rap
ture to despair, and from despair back,
through faint glimmerings of hope, to
ecstasy again, the decision was finally
reached that we were, well, after a
fashion, engaged; quite, I assure you,
on the order of poor Harry and the
well-nigh forgotten Flora of Madison
Square fame. Just then, with abom
inable inopportuneness, I felt, Mr. Lin
coln asked Virginia (mind you, when
the day was, after many delays, actu
ally fixed) for her quota of troops.
Poor old Virginia had, with her usual
deliberateness, been slow to move,
but this call moved her out of the
union leaving me, as Miss Elizabeth
thought, on the wrong side.
"One day, it must have been by the
last through -mail, I received a most
astounding letter from the young lady
herself; terrific headlines, shocking
sentiments, 'Southern confederacy,'
and all the rest of it. Quite a doubling
up of fists all 'round, a regular 'one
souther ner-can-w hi p-five-Yankees' epis
tle. She said 'ending everything,' I
said 'Never, with a capital N. Well,
to come to the pith of the affair, we
hear through personals of each other
awfully cut and dried way of writing
love letters though, you know; so I
ask you, as man to man, to get a let
ter to Elizabeth for me. Of course
you can't carry a written communica
tion. I don't care to treat the camp
to a specimen of my ability as a mili
tary Romeo, so I am going to read
the epistle which you, once safe in
Richmond after your exchange, are
to write out in my name and hand to
her in person. Now will you do this,
without altering jot or tittle, except
to throw into it all the fervor you can
convey on paper; and will you remem
ber that under no circumstances are
you to give this precious document in
to any hands save those of the terri
ble little rebel who wrote the wonder
ful letter of 1861; or, if impossible to
see her, then into those of her moth
er?" To that question the letter that now
passed from the hands of the "raggedy
man" to the feminine fingers that
dropped the unfinished haversack to
receive it, was the silent and sufficient
answer.
The smoke still lingered over the
smoldering chimneys of Richmond
when Judy, ignorant of the Interstate
episode in her mistress' love affairs,
entered one morning to announce a
visitor.
"Gemmen in de parlor, Mis' 'LIz
beth, an' clar to goodness, you'll hev'
to' 'scuse me, but he mos' sholy do
look powerful like one o dem Yankees
whar cum in wid de union."
And after the end at Appomattox,
when the guns were stacked for all
time by the tired hands of the starved
men who wept as they laid them aside.
Surgeon Vansittart and Elizabeth
But what need to go over the old
story? Patriotic fervor gave place to
cosmopolitan love was it ever other
wise? Cupid is blind, so gray and blue
are alike to him. And ought we not
to dwell together in "love and peace?"
Passing the Time.
From an eastern city comes a sad
story of a pawnbroker. He was en
joying a beauty sleep when a furious
knocking at the street door brought
him to the window with a jerk.
"What's the matter?" he shouted.
"Come down," demanded the knock
er. "But "
"Come down!"
The man of many nephews hastened
downstairs and peeped around the
door.
"Now; sir?" he demanded, "I wan'sb
know the time," said the reveler.
"Do you mean to say you knocked
me up for that? How dare you?"
The midnight visitor looked Injured.
"Well, you've got my watch," he said.
ArogonauL
Olive oil Culture.
Owing to the strict government in
spection, practically all Italian export
olive oil is jmre on leaving Italy. Foi
home consumption there is hardly a
sufficiency, from year to year, -necessi
tating large imports of cotton-seed oil
from America; and this has Induced
the government to take special action
toward the improvement of clive cul
ture. .;
CT
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT
REUNITED
' command
war was made major general of the
burg.
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Among the diplomatic positions held by Gen. Sickles are those of secre
tary of legation at London, ambassador to Spain and special commissioner to
couth America. He was also appointed
Ico, but declined both appointments.
The first Mrs. Sickles -was a beautiful.. Italian girl, and it was when she
confessed to an alliance with Philip
uistrict of Columbia and son of the
mat bicKles, then a congressman, shot Key down on the street. He was ac
quitted by a jury and then astonished the country by forgiving his young
wire and taking her back into his affections. To the bitter protests of his
friends Gen. Sickles responded with the publication of a formal statement
that is an eloquent and touching defense of his position and of the wronged
but repentant woman. Mrs. Sickles died a few years after, and later, while
amoassador to Spam, Sickles was married to a young woman of a prominent
Castiliau family. She returned with him to America, but after a few years
ene went back to her own land, declaring herself unwilling to stand the rigor
ous winter of the new world, while
her husband were all in his own country. A daughter is the wife of a promi
nent British diplomat, while a son is
Athens, Greece. Gen. Sickles will be
DOING REMARKABLE WORK
Dr.
agent of
attention
made
of the
ingly no
of his
icebergs
But Dr. Jackson is nothing if not an enthu
siast in his work, and he soon became convinced that no field at hand would
pay better returns on the work and worry expended. He declares that the
Alaskans are susceptible of an exceptionally high degree of education, that
they are much the superiors intellectually and mentally of the American In--
dian. "
Seventy teachers are now at work in Alaska, and these teach nearly 3,000
pupils of all ages. The coming of the schools has been warmly welcomed
by the natives, and they crowd the little buildings and lavish much affection
jpon their instructors.
Dr. Jackson, who has brought the system up to its present point, was a
Presbyterian minister who began his missionary work with the Choctaw In
iians before the civil war. After the war he began the work of spreading
v.he religious spirit through the border states, and he was instrumental in es
.ablishing the regular organizations of his own sect in nearly a dozen western
states. During the period of his service in Alaska he established the
first canoe mail service there in 18S3, secured the first district government
for the territory a year later and then introduced the crude school system
Ahich he has since developed so remarkably.
SAYS PLANTS
rather startling nature of some of his deductions
not less than for the convincing fashion in which he defended his theories.
It is far from certain that many of the striking new statements of the son
upon the subject of the development of plant life are not really the follow
ing out of ideas which were settled upon and given the light by the senior
Darwin in his lifetime.
He is by no means a stranger to America, either as a matter of reputation
or in personal contact. For he came across to attend the celebration of the
bicentenary anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, under the auspices
of the American Philosophical society of Philadelphia, a year or so ago.
Among the discoveries which will make his name most notable in the list
of scientists, however, are his studies upon the subject of tides. Probably
no other authority of the time is so well versed in the real "why" of the tides
as he, and his writings and lectures on the subject are pretty near classics.
Sir George is a professor in Trinity college, Cambridge.
VICTIM OF
United
He was not successful, and tried again in 1S03.
when be won. It is asserted by his political enemies that he spent I49.G00,
while the railroads, with whom-he is said to have been allied, spent $114,000
more to elect him. Wesley L. Jones, the victorious candidate, is a poor man,
a lawyer, and has a good reputation in public life.
Senator Ankeny was born in Missouri and started his fortune In the
transportation business to and from ' the Oregon mines. He was the first
mayor of Lewiston, Idaho., and later an alderman In Walla Walla, Wash.,
which city Is his present home. He was married in 1867 to the daughter of
United States Senator Nesmith of Oregon, the union following an accidental
meeting on a train at which the young people fell in love at sight.
Would Sell Galileo's Letters.
The rumor that a Roman prince in
;ends to sell abroad a quantity of Gali
leo's letters has raised a storm of pro
test in the scientific world and in the
local press, says a Rome, correspond
ent of the London Globe." The corre-'
spondence In Question b? of great in
terest, both historically and from a
scientific aspect, for In these letters
the celebrated astronomer Informed
his friends of his work and its results
in the way of discovery. In facL- the
Italians regard these letters as a na
Ucnal treasure, and it is Loped that-
WITH WIFE
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, war hero, diplomat,
first notable exponent of the "unwritten law,"
has become reunited to the Spanish wife who
has for the past 27 years resided with her own
family in. Madrid, Spain.
Gen. Sickles is one of the most popular of
the remaining civil war commanders and is af
fectionately known as the "hero of Gettysburg."
He has always been active in politics as a Demo
crat, and was a congressman before the civil
war. At that time he raised a brigade in New
York and tendered it to President Lincoln, but
declined to accept its command on account of
his own politics. The president, however, swept
away . the objection and appointed Sickles to
command his men. He was advanced to the
of a division, and at the close of the
regular army. He lost a leg at Gettys
minister to Holland and later to Mex
Barton Key, district attorney, for the
author of the "Star Spangled Banner,
the sentimental and other interests of
attached to the American legation at
S4 years old in a few weeks.
Sheldon Jackson, Uunted States genera)
education in Alaska, is attracting the
of the world by the progress he has
in his work. The educational standing
frigid territory was practically nil when
Dr. Jackson took up his work there in 1885.
The population was naturally scattered, and
communication was difficult. There was seem
demand for education, so far as the
major portion of the populace was concerned,
and the trip of the intendant teacher to the field
labors meant a long journey among the
by boat and then a cross-country move
ment by dog train. Consequently the demand
for positions as teachers in that country was
modest.
HAVE SENSES
Sir George Howard Darwin, president of the
World's Association of Science, has astonished
the scientific and lay worlds by his positive dec
laration, based upon long study, that plants
can see, think and remember. The proofs he
produces are such that the scientific gathering
to whom his remarks were addressed were com
pelled to admit the probability that plant life
is not devoid of a certain low order of instinct
akin in a far-off way to that' possessed by ani
mals. And it may be safely said that Sir George
has given the scientific contingent a profitable
field for investigation for some time to come.
Sir George is the second son of the late
Charles Darwin, even more famous as a scien
tist than the son and as well known for the
VENDETTA"
States Senator Levi Ankeny of Wash
ington, is the latest of the "vendetta list" of
"senate undesirables" to be defeated for renom
ination at the primaries. Reports as thus far re
ceived and tabulated show that Congressman
Wesley L. Jones is ahead from 1,500 to 3.000
votes, while Judge Snell is a bad third. Aiike
ney is one of the men listed by Senator La Fol
lette for defeat.
Ankeny has been one of the unique char
acters in the senate. From the start It has been
charged by his enemies that he bought his way
Into that body, and as he is more than a million
aire and had some precedent in his favor In nen
ate history, the charge did not excite his fellow
members'. He first tried for the senate in 195.
the Italian government will not allow
Italy to lose them.
Second Thoughts.
And now the season of the yar
has come when the small boy unrafel3
the ancient stocking to secure j inn
with which to make a cricket ball.
And when he has the ball made, he
cuts the top off one of his father's
boots to make a cover; and when the
parent discovers the liberties ta ren
with his boot, the small boy whiles
he had used it as a lining for his
trousers. Royal ?..ff7.ina.
TESTING PAINT,
Property owners should" know . how
to prove the purity and quality of"
white lead, the most important paint
ingredient, before paying for it. To-
All vhn writo Kotlnnnl T CO A ri-k tka
largest manufacturers of pure white
lead, send a free outfit .with which to
make a simple and sure test' of white '
lead, and also a free book about paint.
Their address is Woodbridge Bids.,.
New York City.
NO BATHTUB FOR HER.
"New-Fangled Contrivance Emphatic
ally Failed to Win Approval.
The French abhorrence of the bath
a la nature is shared by. many people,
particularly one old woman up in an
east Tennessee town. The town had
just had a water system installed and
the natives were "pinting with pride"
at their bathrooms and equipment"
where one could perform his ablutions
at will without waiting- and longing:
for Saturday night.
This old woman was an exception to
the rule. She made her home- with
her son, and his wife, according to the
mother-in-law, was "alius a-hankerin'
after somepin newfangled."
A neighbor, who had been in to in
spect the improvements' In the house,,
remarked to the old woman:
"Well, Mrs. X . this will be a
pleasure for you bath any time, night
or day. You will certainly enjoy it "
"That I won't," said the old woman.
tnrflv "I hppn a mpmhpr nf tnl1
church 50 year an' always lived hon
est an' upright. Git inter one er them
tubs? Me? Why. Sary Ellen, them
things ain't decent!"
AWFUL GRAVEL ATTACKS.
Cured by Doan's Kidney Pills After
Years of Suffering.
F. A. Rippy, Depot Ave., Gallatin
Tenn., says: "Fifteen years ago kid
ney disease attacked
me. The pain in nty
back was so agoniz
ing I finally had to
give up work. Then
came terrible attacks
of gravel with acute
pain and passages-of
blood. In all I passed
25 stones, seme as
large as a bean
Nine years of this ran me down to a
state of continual weakness and I
thought I never would be better until
I began using Doan's Kidney Pills.
The improvement was rapid, and since
using four boxes I am cured and have
never had any return of the trouble."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Scramble for Wealth.
If there is a sad thing in the world,
it is the spectacle of the men and
women who, In their mad scramble
for wealth, have crushed out of their
lives sentiment and the love of all
that is beautiful and sublime. The
very process by which they seek to
win the means of enjoyment kills the
faculties by which they can enjoy
When tho average man wins his
wealth he finds himself without th
power of enjoyment, for the enjoying
side of his nature Is dead. He finds
to his sorrow that the straining, striv
ing life is also a starving one.
TO UK1VK OVT MALARIA
A.M ltt'lLU t'l" THE SYSTEM.
Tako tho Old Standard UKOVt.S TASTELKSt?
CHIJ-Xi TONIC. Yon know M liatyou are taking
'i'liii loruiula is plainly printed on every bottlx.
showing it is Kimply Quinine and Iron in a tamelcA
form, and tho most effectual form. Kor growr
people and children. EOc.
The doing of evil to avoid another
evil cannot be good. Coleridge.
Smokers have to call for Lewis Single
Binder cigar' to net it. Your dealer or
Lewis' Factory, Peoria. 111.
Consciousness of ignorance is no
small part of knowledge. Jerome.
Clenr white clothes arc a sign that tae
housekeeper uses Red Cross Ball Blue.
Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents.
If you don't get the best of it, maks
the best of it
MY OWN FAMILY USE
PE-RU-NA.
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HON. GEORGE W. HONEY.
non. Georg-e W. Honev. National
Chaplain U. V. TJ., ex-Chaplain Fourth
Wisconsin Cavalry, ex-Treasurer State
of Wisconsin, and ex-Quartermaster.
General State of Texas G. A. R., writes
from 1700 First St., N. E., Washington,
D. C, as follows:
"I cannot too highly recommend yc-nr
preparation for the relief of catarrhal
trouble in their various forms. Some
members of my own family have used
it with most gTaiifyinjr results. When
other remedies failed, Peruna proved
most efficacious and I cheerfully certi
fy to its curative excellence."
Mr. Fred L. Ilebard, for nine years a
leading photographer of Kansas City.
Mo., loc&tcd at the northeast corner of
12th and Grand Aves., cheerfully gives
the following testimony: "It is a proven
fact that Peruna will cure catarrh and
la grippe, a nd as a tonic it has no equal,
Druggists have tried to make me take
something else just as good, but Peru
na is good enough for me."
Pe-ru-oa io Tablet form.
For two years Dr. Hartman and his
assistants have incessantly labored to
create Peruna in tablet form, and their
strenuous labors have just been crowned
with success. People who object to
liquid medicines ean now secure Peru
na. tablets, which represent the solid
n.edicinal ingredients of P errs a.
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