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ITAO^ OF CIVIL WAR. ada of Soldier« Contractai Kidney Trouble While 'a the Service. * Ckr y of Co. E, P nttTriY 1 ?^ Capt ' John L ' Ely ' East Second 8 (rJ. t ' n ° w llvln K at 508 ' Newton, Kansas, lùte r*st the thou wm a sand» a, _ h „ „„ T veterans who came the Civil w from Hr K «ffer ney complaint. Capt. Eiysays: "I contracted kidney trouble dur ing tortures wttn M Ing the Civil War, and the occasional attacks finally de veloped into » chronic case. At one time I had to use a crutch and cane to get about. My back was lame and weak, and besides the aching, there was a distressing retention of the kidney secretions. I was in a bad way when I began using Doan's Kid ney Pills in 1901, but the cured me, and I have been well ever •ince." remedy Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box, Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. Objects which are usually the ob jects of our travels by land and by ■e« are often overlooked and neg lected if they lie under our eye.—■ Pliny the Younger. To Wash Velveteen. Velveteen may be washed by shaking it •bout in warm Ivory Soap suds; then rinse thoroughly and let it drip dry. On BO account squeeze or wring it. Be care ful to hang it straight on the line, foi otherwise it will be crooked when dry. ELEANOR R. BARKER. Nicotine in Tobacco, A «dentist writes; "The essential quality for which tobacco is smoked or chewed lies not really In the leaves themselves, but is contained in thou sands of hollow-knobbed hairs which cover their surface. The vital nicotine Is garnered in these pearlike balls, but as it is impossible to shave off these hairs, and would be a scarcely com mendable achievement if it could be undertaken, it becomes necessary to preserve the whole foliage for com mercial purposes." j Preach from Automobile«. A novel method of preaching the gospel was recently tried In France with striking success. Pastor Delat tre from Roame (Reformed church), In company with Pastor Sainton, of the Baptist church, in Paris, visited with an automobile the departments of Loire, Rhone, Aller, Saône et Loire, within a radius of about 90 miles. Pastor Delattre writes; "During near ly two months, from our automobile, have been able to preach the gospel on market places, from fair to fair, distributing thousands of tracts and selling no less than 2,600 copies of the New Testament." v, e He Hit the Bookmaker. Patrick Murphy had an afternoon off. so he thought he would go out to see the horse races. Pat had heard about the fortunes made at the race track, so he thought he would try his luck. He went down stairs before every race, hut didn't find any odds that suited him until the last race, horse. but it suited Pat all right, for it had It was a large gray I don't remember its name. 50-1 after It. Pat put up his dollar and went up His horse won stairs to see the race. Pat hurried down-stairs by a neck, with a lively step to cash in his j check. It was the last race of the day and the bookmaker was anxious to get rid of his silver, therefore Pat was paid with silver dollars. Pat stood there a few minutes fum bling over his handful of silver dol lars, when the bookmaker hollered: "What's the matter, Irish? Don't you think they are good?" Pat said: "They look all right, but I am Just trying to see if I can find the bad one I gave you among them." AN OLD TIMER. Has Had Experiences. A woman who has used Postum Food Coffee since it came upon the market 8 years ago knows from ex perience the necessity of using Pos tum in place of coffee if one values health and a steady brain. She says: "At the time Postum was first put on the market I was suffer ing from nervous dyspepsia and my physician had repeatedly told me not to use tea or coffee. Finally I de cided to take his advice and try Postum, and got a sample and had U carefully prepared, finding It deli cious to the taste. So I continued Its use and very soon its beneficial ef fects convinced me of its value, foi I got well of my nervousness and dys pepsia. "My husband had been drinking cof fee all his life until it had affected his nerves terribly. I persuaded him to shift to Postum and it was easy tc get him to make the change for the Postum is delicious« It certainly worked wonders for him. "We soon liyxrned that Postum does not exhilarate or depress and does not stimulate ,JKnt steadily and honestly Tn3 the nerves and the stom I make a long story short our piily have now used Postum C years with completely sat »ult«, as shown in our line I' health and we have no Hither unexpected improve brain and ivta by Postum Co., I ach. j entire J for eiJ IsfvinJ < OlMtiuj Heed ] nerve po^er.' nient m N ame 1 Creek, ÿ • au ways fo* ow I t * le usa Rostu sometimes in ♦-tie 1 d rain and nerve powkral in Piace m K tnarke<i t r Look jJP WellviluA -, a v*ry aimer. ttkgs. for "The Road REMARKS BY THE POSTMAS' r BY HAYDEN CHURCH. 1'i' Moses Briggs. postmaster at Scotts ville, stood in the back room of the post office sorting mail, a tali man, and u thin angular whose clothes did not fit hltn is Briggs was one. ill He > •hat •t et looked wretchedly shabby as he stood there in his shirt-sleeves, with his ta<\ vl Rrora row 0{ initial waistcoats unbuttoned. where he stood, behind tilt ; otgeonholes, each with Its .. le tter. Briggs could look roug Into f vo>l mom beyond It originally ka(l beon fltte(1 , n a general shop-, bnt were cpvered with the cloth draperies ed the dry goods on the hung moth-eaten and in now the showcases a thick dn«t. and which had shield side shelves tatters. "shop" now !t The ft replay. was filled with rubbish, and all that remained to show where a social cir cle of men had once Joked and told stories was one rickety chair, with a broken leg. The place had gone to seed. No his one ever came into the except to get his mail. is pausing only occasionally to puzzle over the superscription of a letter, i 3 Soon there was only one lett In his hand, and as he read Its he ■To the ! is read Moses Briggs was sort Ing the after noon mail. He worked mechanically, gave a start of surprise. Postmaster at Scottsville," he aloud; then walked slowly Into the j j back part of the room and sat down In at a table, with his letter in front of i him. As he sat there the light from a , window at the side of the room shone j to full upon his face. His forehead was furrowed with deep wrinkles, his eyes were bloodshot and had no luster In them. His nose was sharp and red, and on each side of It were tell-tale j patches of tiny pink, veins. The postmaster picked up the let ter and tore It open slowly, using his long forefinger as a paper-knife, side were a return envelope, stamped; a typewritten letter, and a printed slip with blank spaces, was addressed: The letter "To the Postmaster," In and it was signed, Briggs noticed, by The Golconda Life Insurance Com pany," of New York. "Dear Sir,"- It began. "Mat we re quest you to favor us by amwering J the few questions on the Inclosed ! Inquiry sheet and returning It to us? a The person named has just proposed | to us for a policy of Insurance, and 7/. M ! ■/) m w :\ lil!. ■ -uri, . i . :V ® 1 1 Vi ; - Si urn rtf ^1 j I j "Used to Drink Hard. Postmaster." Has Reformed. as he lives in your neighborhood we think that you may be both able and willing to oblige us with the data re quired in such cases." It was simply tne i ordinary in quiry which most Ins» ranee compa nies make regarding applicants who are unknown to them. Briggs had answered many such, so It was with out any surprise that he opened the accompanying form to see which of his townsmen had been fortifying against adversity. As his eye fell on the name, however, he laughed aloud, In his high, cracked voice. The per son Inquired about was "Moses Briggs, 40 years of age; occupation, shopkeeper; Scottsville; proposing Tor $ 1 , 000 ." Briggs knew how It had happened. He remembered now signing a pro posal for $1,000 in the "Golconda," but he had no idea of taking a policy. The local agent of the company had asked him to ap ply, explaining that, though his sig nature bound him to nothing, his pro posal would swell the agency's record of business for the year. The agent had bought Briggs a drink that day, and then proposed his signing as a pergonal favor—mentioning that it would be better not to give his oc cupation as that of postmaster. So Briggs had signed, and again accepted the agent's courtesy, and the result was this set of questions. To Briggs' mind there was some thing grimly humorous l i the idea of writing about himself, and so he de cided to answer the questions. Pull ing the sheet toward himself, he dipped his pen into the muddy ink. The first question was; "Does this person appear to be In good health?" Still keeping up the jest, the post master rose, stepped over to where a Jugged piece of looking-glass stood on a shelf, and examined his appearance therein critically. When he sat down again, his face was more sober, and, picking up his pen, he wrote: "Is he a man of temperate habits?" asked the sheet. The reader winced ' the veriest trifle, but again wrote plainly, "No." : ' Has he always been temperate? If not, «täte particulars in 'Remarks.'" U tc "No."]—w ■ in The irostniABter smiled rather sadlj is he read the question. ' Seems as hough they were bound to have ill out," he muttered aloud. > elp me, they shall, too!" He thought •hat he would make a •t what he was going to write, an i et about it In a it "an . rough draft scrawling, shaky land, irunkard , ,. :!l "is a plain This man,'' he wrote, He has bei n a'drunkard He began well >r the las; five years. lie married a nice girl here, ind started in keeping shop. He had hree Utile children —a boy and two iris but -might, and !t no longer she left him. She iB now position here, lose soon, and that him didn't soon he got to abusing his wife; and when she couldn't stand keep they supporting herself and the children while he Is des tired by»' veryone. No one ill do business )viih him now, except such have to, and his trade is all gone. He has n government which he will probably ill be the end ot him. He Is a wreck, and couldn't pay the first premium on a policy If it was no more than sixpence. His wife i 3 getting old before her time, hut People respect her. and pity her chil 'Iren for having such a father. That is the kind of man Moses Briggs is." and slowly read over what he had put In his rough draft, The postmaster laid down his pdi "That's what I'll write under 'Re marks,'" he said, "just the plain truth. Then we'll see if they'll wan.* to issue any policy." He rose from his chair again, and, walking over to the window, looked out. The post office was built on a bluff, overlooking a river. The sun was just setting, and the sky, behind the distant tree-tops was rose pink, j In the blue above one early star twin kled feebly. The man stood there, drinking in the scene—the water flashing in the last dying sunbeams, the grassy slope, and, over all, the single star. Then suddenly his frame grew erect, his arms eye flashed, and he threw both out straight from the shoulders, his fists clenched. "It'll be true," he muttered, "for 1 J mean it, and It can't do anybody any ! hurt if I say so. I couldn't take out a policy anyway. | though I'd like to see it written down that way." An', seems as He sat again, and pulled the Inquiry sheet toward him, as he dipped hts pen Into the ink. with "No" offensive now. wrote with a firm hand: "Used to drink hard, formed. The two questions after them seemed less Under 'Remarks' he Has rs "Postmaster." (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) WATCH THE MONEY SIDE. Practical Affairs of Life One of the Things of Importance in Making Happiness. No matter what your vocation may be, you must be a business man first or you will always he placed at a great disadvantage in the practical affairs of life. We cannot entirely Ignore the money side of existence any more than we can the food side, and the very foundation of a practical, suc cessful life Is the ability to know bow to manage the money Side effectively. It is infinitely harder to save money and to Invest it wisely than to make It, and if even the most practical men who have had a long training in scien tific business methods, find it a diffi cult thing to hold on to money after they make It, what is likely to happen to people who have had practically no training in business methods? If every child In America had a thorough business training tens of thousands of promoters, long-headed, cunning schemers, who have thriven on the people's ignorance, would be j out of an occupation. I I believe that the business colleges are among the greatest blessings In American civilization to-day, because they have saved thousands of homes from being wrecked, and have made happy and comfortable tens of thou sands of people, who might otherwise be living in poverty and wretchedness. —Success Magazine. a a ' An Observation, He that giveth good advice to all : most liberally is he who most resent ith receiving the same from his vbw I tin»«.—Jeremiah of Joppa. Exceptional Case. On a train coming Into New York q day or two ago was a young man In the khaki dress of a regular soldier returning home after three years' serv ice in the Philippines. Just outside the city he had a violent chill, and the passengers could hear his teeth chat ter above the roar of the train. An old man In clerical garb held a few ram utes' conversation with the soldier and then, turning to the passengers, he i said: "Ladies and gentlemen, here Is a young man just home from the Phil ippins, unaccllmated and suffering from one of the worst chills I have ever seen. Now, ladles and gentlemen, often have I preached strong sermons against the use of liquor In any form but this time I pray you for it. Has anyone a flask of brandy?" About 20 flasks of all sites, from men and women alike, were at once thrust at him, and not long after th« soldier had recovered from his chill "No."]—w y. Press. ■ Lier 30 year« Lis persÄ All Connu and endan _jiii « ■•■l l lU l il.H T . ' li. - IvJ ..... ^Vegetable Prcparalionfor As similating the Food andReg da ting the S tomachs and Dowels of lM AN 1 S/( HI 1.1)KI N Promotes Digestion.Cheerful nessandRest.Contalns neither Opium .Morphine nor Mineral. not Narcotic. ■ j; Jktyx af(MdDrSAMUEUmmm Pumpkin Smd" jKx.SmnM * JMtlUSJtt jtùtSmd < Jk tt m t m nt - Bi ûvi mti i Jait * Apcrfect Remedy forConsÜpa Uon. Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature of r NEW YORK. Alfa months <>l»l UNIS I t EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. jMtÀ Grocer Was Getting Even. "That was tit for tat with a ven geance," said Walter Christie, the au tomobilist, apropos of a quarrel be tween two French chauffeurs. "It re minds me of a grocer I used to know in Paint Rock. This grocer went over to the jeweler's one day to get a new crystal put on his watch. The latter as he fitted and cleaned the crystal j suddenly flushed. He bit his lip and j frowned. His hand trembled so that he could hardly go on with his task. Finally, handing the watch to the gro- J cer, the jeweler said In a restrained voice: 'Beg pardon, but didn't 1 just see you put a couple of rings and a scarfpin in your pocket?" " Sure you did,' said the grocer, boldly. 'When you come to my place aren't you always putting things In your mouth?'" World's Cotton Consumption. The consumption of cotton from 1893 to 1898 averaged only 9,000,000 bales annually in the whole world, but from 1898 to 1903 the average was 10,-' 684,146 bales annually, and the aver age price was three cents per pound greater than for the previous period. If the consumption increases at the same ratio during the next five year period the average will he nearly 13,- i 000,000 bales annually, and the prices j will be much higher than in iWe-.pr^j vious period. This indicates a/fcajfl porous future (or the cotton vrj }/ and manufacturer, as well as f jtjÊ I export trade. f I /M M A constable who aresied ft, on a country road m other day tor cam« Img tool thl^fl «Strate the men «>ed curds walked m.mg, romping to dcj^H no a of be In all vbw q In the old he i a Phil have Has from once hot I m th« SIL in uuqurj kcL ni out injrl at any J your tl m CAR b| Ol on Dr.' ■tandaj have el ■ j; Dr. has mcrl^H years, an^| What can^H Dr. Edw^B recommendlH invariably pn Dr. N. B.1T patent medic]) them, but I ki CENUI r The Kin< I I! In ven au be re over new j and j that task. gro- J just a place In from but 10,-' aver the year 13,- i j I M BJ SNO 1 A Is a Quick Rheum; Neurali Buniq*| MusdflH FrJ Pi