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THE DEMOCRAT
CEL1NA
OHIO
CHILDREN IN FICTION.
Among mule novelist Pickens
lakes tlit' lord us a delineator of chil
dren. All Mints and rondUlons of
thorn flock through Ma huoka. llfl de
picted llfo as l.o mw It and wherever
ho looked there were children, there
fore children hud a natural and In
evitable pluee In Ida pages, aaya the
Indianapolis Star. From the Kat Hoy
f Pickwick I'uiwra to Tiny Tliu the
procession la long and Includes a
notable Hat David Cop.K-rneld,
Oliver Twist, Little Nell, Florence
Dombey and her brother, Poor Jo,
;h little Kenwigses, Toddles and
nuny more. If they are not children
jxmlly na readers of this day see
;l;cm they nro children as he saw
:)icm and he pictures them with h
rlvldness that um them a lnstine
place In the reader's mind. Thev
tand forth more clearly on "mem
sry'B wall" than the real personage,
of history. Several of Thackeray's
characters are Introduced In their
childhood, as Henry Esmond. Tendon
nls and Ilecky Sharp, uud are brought
long to maturity, hut this Is merely
by way of accounting for their later
peculiarities and the child portraits
leave no Bieclal Impression. Toe
never wrote of children. Huwthorne
ild, but of dream children rather than
those of real life. Later male novel
ists for the most part Ignore the
roting of thler nice. Henry James
seldom realizes that children are on
earth. There la "Malzie," to bo sure,
but Malzie Is not a real child. Thomas
Hardy Is aware of them and Intro
duces Judo as a boy, Cut dwells light
ly on this early llfo oX his hero.
Tbo city clerk of New York has
received a letter from a gentleman In
St. Petersburg, Russia, who describes
himself as a Prince, gives a string
of glittering titles and says he Is
fifty-seven years of age aud without
fortune, but "desires to marry a per
son who Is very rich." Full directions
bow to reach the Impecunious but
hopeful nobleman are supplied, and
any wealth American lady seeking
such a chance probably will be able
to get the high-sounding title on rea
sonable, not to Bay bargain counter
tPis. The fact that a man who bears
"i!io title was serving when last heard
of as a hotel waiter of course would
be no bar to such an alliance or ex
plain why the nobleman is seeking to
make an arrangement of the sort pro
l'osed. When a mischievous boy takes
snuff Bometlmes a great many others
sneeze. At least this is what hap
pened on a New York subway train.
The boy, a youth of seventeen, as
serts that he had a cold, for which he
took the Bnuff, and that In doing bo
fcome of the stuff was spilled, and
thus others were set to sneezing. But
Irate passengers assert that the lad
deliberately threw the Bnuff about the
car, creating such a paroxysm of
sneezing that the train was almost
shaken from the rails. At any rate
the boy was arrested and taken be
fore a police magistrate, who lec
tured the prisoner as "one of the
worst rowdies brought here" and gave
liim five days In the workhouse.
Which shows that New York laws
are not to be sneezed at.
The lawyer abbreviates perhaps
laore than any writer in hia attempt
to keep pace with the redundant
phraseology of legal documents. And
printed books of precedents, such ns
the indispensable Key and Elph in
stone, teach Mm the recognized con
tractions. For instance, "e.xs," "ads,"
trees" and "ass" do duty for execu
tors, administrators, trustees and as
signs, while daughter is written
"daur," and a solicitor Is referred to
ns a "solor." In fact, every word on
a draft of a deed or will capable of
contraction Is cut down to the utmost
limit, only, of course, to be extended
when the document itself is engross
ed. The population of Iowa has do
ireased during the past, ten years.
Some of the people of France mighl
reciprocate by worrying a little about
race suicide iD this country.
Alexander the Great's route to India
has been discovered, but the road ia
so badly In need of repairs that other
conquerors will not use It for some
time yet
Even the hobble skirt has Its value
A "lady" accused of kicking anothei
"lady" In New York proved that she
was wearing a hobble skirt at th
time. Although the magistrate wae
no Solomon he Immediately dls
charged the defendant.
Modern Inventions are causing trou
ble. The long distance phone Inter
feres with the work of the Minnesota
coeds, and it has been taken away
from them.
One million pounds of hair wa Im
ported to this country from Japan last
year. If the Chinamen are to be com
pelled to give up their queues there
ought to be a decline In the price of
hair.
The man who insists on having
bacon for breakfast every morning
will be under suspicion of havi
found a substitute for the automo
bile In the function of making a dls
play of his enormous wealth.
LAST HI.1 10LSI0
Says War Against Capital Pun
ishment Needs No Forcing.
final Article Entitled "Effective
Meant," and Was Written by the
Count In Optlna Monastery,
November II.
St Petersburg From Vladimir
fHcliertkoIT, literary agent of Count
Tolstoi, the last Article written by
Tolstoi bus been received. It Is en
titled "Effective Moans," and was
written by Tolstoi in the Optlna
luuiiiuitei y, November 11, shortly aft
er be began bis Bulf Impound exile
from home, The article was given
Out by M. Tschertkoff at the express
wish of Count TolHtoy for dissemina
tion to mankind. It says:
"I am naturally anxious to do all I
ran against evil, which tortures the
best spirits of our time.
"I think the present effective war
against capital punishment does uot
need forcing; there Is no need for an
expression of IndlgnHtlon against Its
Immorality, cruelty uml absurdity
every sincere thinking person, every
body knowing from youth the sixth
commandment, needs no explanation
of Its absurdity and Immorality;
there is no need for descriptions of
the horrors of executions, as they
only affect hangmen, so men will
more unwillingly become execution
ers and governments will be obliged
to compensate them more dearly for
their service.
"Therefore, I think that neither the
expression of Indignation against the
murder of our fcllowmen nor the sug
gestion of Its horror Is mainly need
ed, but something totally different.
"As Kant w ell says, there nro delu
sions which cannot be disproved and
wo must communicate to the deluded
mind the knowledge which will en
lighten and then the delusions will
banish by themselves.
"What knowledgo need we commu
nicate to the deluded human mind re
garding the Indispensableness, useful
ness or justice of capital punishment
In order that said delusions may de
stroy Itself?
RUINING OUR WOMEN
John W. Alexander Adds His Tes
timony to Dr. Sargent's.
American Woman's Figure Is Becom
ing More Masculine In Line Every
Day Outdoor Exercises and
Life Blamed.
New York. If the American woman
persists in her undue athletic sports,
there will scon be little difference be
tween the masculine and the feminine
figure.
So says John W. Alexander, presi
dent of the National Academy of De
sign. In this he agrees with Dr. Dud
ley Sargent of Harvard, who said
about the name thing. Mr. Alexan
der, one of America's foremost por
trait painters has had ample oppor
tunity to study women of every coun
try and clime. In his home, at 116
West Sixty-fifth street, Mr. Alexander
declared that the American woman's
figure is becoming more masculine in
line every day.
"Just where the beauty of such un
natural development comes in, I don't
see," said the painter. "I don't see
why any woman should be proud of
losing that which constitutes her
greatest charm, ber womanly bearing
and flgur. But that Is Just what the
American womes oC aX classes seem
determined to do.
"In no other country in the world
do you see such mftscullnellke figures
ae the American women have. In
France the woman is the personifica
tion of grace. In Germany the woman
1b not so graceful, perhaps, bat fiiQ
has that motherly bearing which gives
ber a lovableness that Is not often,
found among our women. In England
the stateliness and dignities of the
women dissipate the slightest sugges
tion of the masculine.
"It has only been in the last few
years that this change has been so de
cidedly marked among our women.
"If she continues her violent exer
cises and outdoor life, in a few years
she will be so manlike in figure that
she will look ridiculous in woman's
attire.
"Up to a certain point this outdoor
life and development is excellent. It
gives the girl all that women of this
country have been dintinguished for
abroad a free, easy carriage, and an
Independence in movement and action
that at once Inspires confidence in
her ability to meet a crlsds. But this
point has been overstepped and she ia
becoming anything but interesting.
"Take for instance, a woman who
plays golf to the extreme. She has
Cost of a Year at Oxford
Student at English College Said to Re
quire a Minimum of $1,000
for Expenses.
London. Lord Curzon's scheme for
i poor man's Oxford will send back the
minds of many Oxford men to their
terms' bills. It is often said that a man
requires a minimum of $1,000 to get
through an Oxford year without con
esslng to exceptional poverty. Cecil
Rhodes, who inquired not a little into
Oxford expenses, allotted the Rhodes
scholars $1,500 a year. In this sum
vacation expenses were reckoned. The
1,000 covers a period of rather less
than half the year.
There are besides capital expenses,
nfterward returned. The freshman Is
allotted a room, with the first glimpse
of which he Is probably charmed. To
the poorer the charm vanishes a little
when he finds on tho table a valuation
of $850 or so; that Is paid on entering
for the furniture. At every turn ex
penses that were not expected appear.
REVIVING THE PAPYRU3 INDUSTRY
E. 'A - - hk ' - . Mil
FlfiNTS ThJtee OLD
JOYED by the warnings of the exp
ill a paper famine consequent on the
number of capitalists have undertak
cultivation of the papyrus reed of K
The task was entrust) d to J. Suiedl
explorer, and very satisfactory prog
near Alexandria has been sown and
paper mill In England where it was
quality which already has been util
success. A Held of papyrus will yield
according to the experts, nearly one
"Such knowledge, In my opinion. Is
this:
"The knowledge of what Is man,
what his surrounding world, what his
destiny hence, what man can and
must do and principally what he can
not and must not do.
"Therefore we should oppose cap
ital punishment by inculcating this
knowledge to all men, and especially
to the hangman's managers and sym
pathizers who wrongfully think they
are maintaining their position, thanks
only to capital punishment.
"I know this is not an easy task.
The employers and approvers of
hangmen with the Instinct of self
preservation feel that this knowledge
will make impossible the maintenance
developed a large, muscular waist and
a large, heavy arm.
"It is not an even training of all
the muscles that the women are get
ting today, but an overdevelopment of
some one Bet which will, in time,
make them look more or less do
formed. "Athletic work is making women
flat chested, large waisted, small
hipped. This Is the figure of a man,
and that is one reason why many
artists doing work along classical
lines fmd It difficult to secure
model."
Doctor Sargent's views, which
brought out Mr. Alexander's are to
the efl&ct that the feminine type Is
fast becoming masculine. The
change, Doctor Sargent said, has come
in the last twenty years. Women in
the savage state, he added, were so
like men in form that It was well-nigh
Impossible to tell them apart Then,
as civilization progressed, their espe
cial feminine characteristics devel
oped. Now the tendency ia back to
the savage type.
Meals Will Cost One Cent
Miss Margaret McMillan, London So
ciologist, Tells of Feeding Needy
Pupils at Bradford, England.
Chicago. The beneficial Influence
derived from furnishing substantial
food ta the school children of England
was demonstrated by Miss Margaret
MacMillan, a prominent sociologist of
I.ondou, who Is in America investigat
ing social conditions. Her talk was
given before the Woman's City club.
"Education, valuable, of course, in
all departments of life," Bhe said,
"pays the most in the kitchen. The
proper distribution In diet of protelds,
glutens, nitrogen, sugars, etc., can only
he determined by expert physicists,
and their influence on the brain ca
pacity is most marked. In Bradford,
England, we are daily giving two
meals a day to over 9,000 school chil
dren. "Everything utilized at the nine dif
ferent dining halls, variously distrib
uted throughout the city, which has a
population of 200,000, is prepared In
one kitchen, and sent to the different
places by wagons.
"The cost Is a little more than two
cents per head per day, and It is a
crime not to supply children, who oth
erwise would be without it, with nour
ishing foods to prepare them for their
life's work. The children of today are
the mainstay of our governments In
The scout must have a minimum of $5
a term and tho scout's boy $2.50.
All meals are the more expensive for
the perquisites of the scouts. His bat
tels or weekly bills for food are with
difficulty kept below $10 a week. What
with rent for rooms, tutor's fees and
the rest, a term's bill very rapidly ap
proaches $150 and may easily exceed
it by a considerable sum. This sum
does not, of course, include very large
items In the general dally outlay.
It Is unquestionable that Cambridge
is on the whole very much less dear
than Oxford. It would be Interesting
to see comparative tables of a year's
expenditure at Oxford and Cambridge
aud at any good Scotch university.
Nearer the Ground.
Edwin, aged seven, noticed grandpa
trying to stoop to pick up something
which had fallen to the ground, sud
denly said: "O, wait, grandpa, let me
pick It up for you. I haven't so far
to stoop."
f ,
i
erts regarding the near approach of
demolition of the world's forests,
en the resuBcltatlun of the ancient
gypt and Its manufacture Into paper.
y Norton, a well-known traveler and
ress Is being made. A plantation
reaped and the produce shipped to a
manufactured Into paper of excellent
Ized In the printing press with every
three crops annually and can furnish,
hundred tons to th acre.
of the position which they occupy,
hence not only will they themselrcs
not adopt It, but by all means In
their power by violence, deceit Hcs
and cruelty they will try to hide
from the pooplo tills knowledge, dis
torting It and exposing Its dissemina
tors to all kinds of privations and
suffering.
"Therefore if we readily wish to de
stroy the delusion of capital punish
ment and If wo pohscbb the knowl
edge which destroys UtiB delusion let
us, In spite of all menaces, depriva
tions and sufferings, teach the people
this knowlrdge, because it is solely
the effective means In the fight.
"LEO TOLSTOI,
"Optlna Monastery. November 1L"
WOULD MARRY A "REAL MAN"
Yankee Girl Writes Governor of Texas,
Stating There Is No Suitable Can
didate in Jersey.
Austin, Tex. "I would like to cor
respond with a nice young man,"
writes Miss Lillian Allen of R. F. D.
No. 2, Millville. N. J., to Governor
Campbell. "I urn a northern girl and
am unable to find what I ca.ll a real
man here. JI was informed that Texas
is a state that has real mem, so I have
taken the liberty to write.
"I am a music teacher and a gradu
ate of the Millville school. Hoping
you will understand this and pass It
to some young man who is worthy of
its acceptance, I am, yours truly."
Miss Allen Is one of the several who
have advised the governor recently
that they understand "real men" exist
in Texas and that they would go to
Texas if assured of a home and eLx
foot protector.
Not a Man's Excuse.
There may be several good re
sons why a man doesn't want to be
vaccinated, but because they re afraid
that the scar will show when they're
at a party Isn't one of them.
the future, and it is their right to be
given every advantage to make them
competent to take up the vast works
which we will soon leave off."
The older children in the Bradford
are taught to wait, upon the smaller
children, teaching them table eti
quette, etc. According to Miss Mac
Millan, the proper handling of a
knife and fork at table are as much
manual training as being able proper
ly to wield an ax.
Youngster Travels Far Alone.
Columbus, Mo.Lewls Moscow, fif
teen years old, arrived in Columbia
the other night, completing the en
tire journey from his home in Mace
donia alone.
Attached to his coat was a card
which read: "Please, Mr., direct this
little boy to the following address,
Columbia, Mo., U. S. A. He cannot
speak a word of English."
Shortest Name In the World.
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard has
been Inveigled Into the short name
contest. Aab, a special student of the
university, hailing from Bangkok,
Slam, is out with a challenge, open to
the world, that says his is the short
est of names. Aab is a nomen, not a
cognomen, for It is his first, last and
middle name, all in one. Aab is satis
fied with his name.
"The Matrimonial Egg."
London. A new weekly paper
which has made its appearance In
London recently and which is ex
clusively devoted to the interests of
women has started a novel feature in
English journalism. On one page, en
titled "The Matrimonial Egg," It re
cords society engagements (the
white) marriages (the yolk) and di
vorces (the shell). In Its first num
ber there are seven of the first, six
of the second and four of the third
category not a bad percentage to be
gin with.
$10,000 to His Sixth Wife.
San Bernardino, Cal. Holding a
wedding gift of $10,000 in one hand
and leading his bride, who was his
sixth, with the other, Edward Hick
lein, eighty-one years old, advanced
briskly to the altar and married his
stepbrother's widow, Mrs. Bettie Hick
leln, aged fifty-five years, who arrived
an hour before from Texas.
C. L. Thomas, Justice of the peace,
made the couple husband and wlf. It
was his five hundredth wedding.
St
Her Hired Suitor
By T. S.
Cupynuht, 1U1U, by AkhociuIoiI l-Uurary i'rt.
Cranlolgh Hume swung himself
into the Manayunk car, thrust his
:humb and forefinger Into his waist
:ont pocket after the small change he
isually kept there, and found noth
ing. "Ilurrup!" growled the conductor,
(lancing at the waiting line behind
Ihe trim young fellow. Tho boy's
Snger's rummaged nervously through
ther pockets.
"Ah, here," snarled the bluecoat,
'trying to beat your way for a few
blocks!" Ho jerked th' bell violent
ly for a stop.
"I have nothing but this bill."
Hume thrust Into an Inside pocket.
and drew forth a twenty dollar note.
Tho car came to a grumbling stop.
The conductor was angry. "No, you
don't. You know I can't change a
imililo X. Don't have to. Oct off."
Tho young fellow hesitated, a flush
crept up his face Into his closely
clipped hair. Two or three passen
eera were BtnillnE at his, dilemma.
He turned on bis heel and stepped
Into tho night.
At the same moment a fat, whlte
balred, red-faced old gentleman
stepped from tho crowd on the car
platform. Tho car rushed away with
Its usual ascending whine. Cran
lolgh found himself and companion
dropped in the midst of a row of
dwellings of uncompromising re
pectabllity. The yoiiiig man stood for a mo
ment under an arc light, wondering
vaguely into which house the old
gentleman would turn when, to his
surprise, he spoke.
"Pretty rotten company, that."
"Itather," returned Hume cautious
ly, looking up and down the street
for the light of a drug store where
he could get his bill changed.
"Don't bother," said the old man;
"I have some small change. We'll
go out Manayunk way together."
Hume glanced suspiciously for a
moment, but the broad comfortable
face and prosperous clothes were re
assuring. "Then why did you get
off?"
The old gentleman nodded em
phatically. "Ilecaus"? you did. Bov
eril's my name. Llzlver Boveiil,
Mil 1 'l'1-
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"Cuddle Up a Little Closer."
owner of the Boverll cotton mills of
Manayunk. You may have beard of
me."
Hume coughed apologetically. "You
will excuse me, Mr. Boverll, but
Manayunk has so many millionaire0
that er Hume Is my name, i
Manayunk man myself."
"Good. I size a man up quickly.
Mr. Hume, that's the reason I'm now
where I am. I want to employ
you
"Hut I have a profession."
"This is an odd job, in a way.
Won't take up your professional time.
I have a daughter, Mr. Hume you
don't know what a daughter Is, Mr.
Hume." The old gentleman's business-like
tone trailed off into a sigh.
"I've seen them," remurked the
young man.
"Oh, I mean to own one, bring her
up, let her get to the fool stnge and
run you crazy."
"I don't know, what that is," ad
mitted Hume.
"Well, my daughter Bella thinks
Bhe's in love with a drug clerk In
Roxborough. It's ridiculous. I asked
her what she admired i.bout him any
way. She said she thought it was tho
dare-devil way he .'lung her sodas.
She's bo young! I told her she
couldn't marry him. She said she
would. I've had her mother and
aunt tell her she shouldn't, but
I believe she will. Then I hit on my
scheme, anu there a where you come
hi."
Hume looked at the old fellow
Chauffeurs
A person making application as
driver of a motor vehicle in Germany
must present his birth certificate, an
unmounted photograph of himself, a
doctor's certificate as to his physical
eondltion, especially with reference
to his Bight and hearing, and evi
dence that he has finished a course
with some person or at some Institu
tion officially qualified to teach t'
driving of motor vehicles.
If the application is otherwise ac
ceptable the party is referred to an
expert especially designated to ex
amine such applicants. The examina
tion Is oral and the applicant must
also give a practical demonstration
3t his ability to drive a motor ve
hicle. The fees for the first examina
tion, if held at the residence or of
fice of the expert, are 10 marks
($2.38) for the driver of a motorcycle
and 15 marks ($3.57) for the driver
Df an automobile; if held elsewhere
the fees are 15 and 20 marks ($3.rr
and $4.76) respectively. The fees 1
lubBequent examinations of toe same
STRIBLING
flushed face under the arc light, after
this burst of confidence.
"What am I to do?"
"Well, when she told me a sods
sllnger looked dare-devil I decided
right then to tight a dare-devil with
fire. I looked you over. I like your
cut and twill, Hume. I want you
to pitch In now and make thut drug
clerk as dead an lssm as free silver
or abolition. Can you sing play a
guitar?"
"A little bit."
"All right, I fancy if drawing sodas
looks dare-devil, a guitar and a moon
light song ought to be a regular wild
west show, and a 'ew words wills
IH'rcd in window lattice. 'a charge
up San Juan hill. Are you on sal
ary twenty-five per week till the drug
clerk fades?"
"Tw enty-five per," Inngherl ' Humo
In amazement, "to court a girl?"
"Money's no object, Mr. Hume; I
want tho work done. I wouldn't
quarrel about a lawyer's foe when he
writes my will. '1 Is is like that.
Yonder comes our car. We can't tall:
this inside. Is It a go?"
"Sure tiling."
Tie two men boarded the car and
were flying on their way to Mana
yunk. They sat side by side, and Mr.
Boverll handed the blue coat a dime,
lifting two fingers. It takes some
think like three-quarters of an hour
to ride from the heart of Philadel
phia to Manayunk. Hume could not
forbear Bmlllng at this whimsical ad
venture upon which, he was engaged.
Suddenly a thought struck him. He
leaned over to the hectic ear of his
companion.
"Suppose I should supose "
Mr. Boverll turned and gave him a
steady look. "I'd get somebody to
head you off."
"She mu3t be young"
"Too young to marry."
"What age?"
"Eighteen."
The car fled on up past Falrmount
park.
"A fine night for It," suggested
Hume, his heart warming to his task.
Mr. IJoveril nodded, pulled out a
fat gold watch. "Nearly eleven. That's
not very late. You might borrow a
guitar from somewhere. I'll listen
to you a little bit to see how you
perform. After tonight let me know
when you're coming around to sing,
and I'll stay away at the club I'm
not much on music."
"Pure," replied Hume easily; "neith
er am I. I used to sing in my board
':ig house until the gentleman below
a me up one night and offered to
throw me out. You understand, he
list took a fancy to do something for
lie, just as you did. I stopped, how
:ver, not wanting to put him to any
'rouble."
.Mr. Boveril smiled. "We get off at
the next corner," he said.
The Boverll mansion was located on
a hillside in Manayunk over toward
Roxborough. It stood white and
stately in the soft light on a terraced
lawn, up which clambered many
(lights of marble steps. Hume caught
a breath of admiration at the pile,
which was not wasted on the owner.
" 'Tis pretty, isn't it?" he said, "and
to think that wasted on a drug clerk
she's my only child." The old fel
low's voice Ehook a little. "I wish I
could buy her half a dozen drug
clerks until she got tired of 'em."
As they walked through the streets
of the suburb Hume visited many of
the despised drug stores until he hit
upon a guitar that could be had
rmed with this the two plotters
proached the mansion.
When they had climbed the thlrfi
terrace, Mr. Boveril took a sent op an
Iron settee, and looked at the summer
moon while his accomplice stole
around to the designated window for
his work.
Presently Mr. Boveril heard a
thrum of chords and then a rather
pleasant tenor voice singing "Cuddle
I'p a Little Closer," an air then run
ning in a popular musical comedy.
"What a night," murmured Mr.
Boverll, "and his voice isn't bad,
though it seems to me I've heard It
before somewhere."
Within the heavy window frame a
girl's head appeared with the first
notes, "Oh, Cranlelgh," she whisper
ed, "you must go away, darling. I'm
expecting Pop home any minute "
But Cranlelgh's arms were about
her shoulders. "He's already here,
down on the third terrace, listening
to me sing."
"What, Cranlolgh," she whispered
In astonishment. "How did you get
away from tho drug store?"
Cranlelgh explained, struck bis
guitar again, and once more Mr.
Boveril heard the lilt, "Cuddle up a
Mttlo closer, lovey mine, lovey mine "
This time it was In duet, and J
overll wondered.
In Germany
applicant for vehicles of a different
class or different kind of motive pow
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Paid Up.
"Were you ever confronted by a
robber?"
"Sure."
"And did you play the part of
hero?"
"No, Indeed; you can't throttle a,
gas meter."
Even So.
"It's only a hollow pumpkin and a
candle, son."
"But It frightened me, uncle."
"Never mind, child. Many a protnl-,
nent statesman has been skeored by
less."
A Fine Prescription.
"And how long, doctor, should I
;tlck to this plain diet which you re
jmmend?"
"Why er until my bill la paid "
ONE REDEEMING FEATURE
When Prpa Hiiara It He Urges Onlj ,
(Ion to Grab Girl
Quick.
The only eon had Just announced to
the family bis ongagemout.
"What that girl!" remarked his
mother. "Whr, tho squints."
"She hog absolutely no stylo," com
mented his sister.
"Redhended. Isn't. she?" asked
auntie.
"I'm afraid she's flighty," was grand
ma's opinion.
"She hasn't any money," said uncle, t
"And she doesn't look strong,"
chimed In the first cousin.
"She's stuck up, In my opinion," as
lervatod the second cousin.
"She's extravagant," was the opin
ion given by the third cousin.
"Well, she's got one redeeming fea
ture, at any rate," remarked the only
on, thoughtfully.
"What's that?" chorused the char
itable band.
"She hasn't a relative on earth."
Papa had not yet spoken, but how
He did.
"Grab her, my boy," grab her," he
ild.
HIRAM CARPENTER'S WONDER
FUL CURE OF PSORIASIS.
"I have been offllcted for twenty
j ears with an obstinate skin disease,
railed by some M. O.'b. psoriasis, and
others leprosy, commencing on my
fcalp; and la splto (if all I could do,
with the help of the most skilful doc
tors, It slowly but suiely extended un
til a yoar ego this winter It covered
my entire person In the form of dry
scales. For the last '.hiee years I have
been unable to d? any labor, and
suffering intensely r41 the time. Every j
morning mere woui-i no neuny a oust
panful of scales tak'en from the sheet
an my bed, Bonis of them half as large
as the envelope con'nlning this letter.
In the latter part tft winter my skin
commenced cracking open. I tried
everything, p.lmost, that could h
thought of,, without eny relief. Ths
12th of June I started West, In hopes
I could reach the Hot Springs. I
reached Detroit and was so low I
thought I should have to go to ths
hospital, but finally got as far as Lan
sing, Mich., where I had a sister liv
ing. One Dr. treated me about
two weeks, but did me no good. All
thought I bad but a short time to live.
I earnestly prayed to die. Cracked
through the skin at over my back,
across my ribs, arnfs, hands, limbs;
teet badly swollen; toe-nails came off;
finger-nails dead and hard as a bone;
bair dead, dry and lifeless as old
straw. O my God! how I did suffer.
'My sister wouldn't give up; said.
We will try Cutlcura. Some was ap
plied to one hand and arm. Eurekal
there was relief; stepped the terrible
burning sensation from the word go.
They Immediately got Cutlcura Re
solvent, Ointment and Soap. I com
menced by taking Cutlcura Resolvent
three time a day after meals; had a
bath once a day, water about blood
heat; used Cutlcura Soap freely; ap
plied Cutlcura Ointment morning and
evening. Result: returned to my
home In Just six we-eks from the time
I left, and my skin as smooth as this
sheet of paper. H'ram E. Carpenter,
Henderson, N. Y."
The above remarkable testimonial
was written January 19, 1880, and Is
republished because of the perman
ency of the cure. Under date of April
22, 1910, Mr. Carpenter wrote from his
present home, 61,0 Walnut St, So.,
Lansing, Mich.: "I have never suf
fered a return of the psoriasis and al
though many years have passed I have
not forgotten thu terrible suffering I
endured before using the Cutlcura
Remedies."
Breaking It by Degrees.
Edmund Yats used to tell this an-
eodote of a physician who was a per
sonal friend. As the story went, Yuti
once saw the doctor operate upon a
man afflicted with blood poisoning,
when he amp mted the patient's leg.
'Do you UMnk he'll recover, now?
asked Yates, after the operation was
over.
"Recover!" exclaimed the physi
cian. "Whr, he never had a chancs
to get well."
"Then wly in the world did you
ampuate that leg?"
"Why," raid the surgeon, calmly.
"you musi not tell a patient the
truth all ft once, you know; you must
first amure him a little."
Walts a Long Engagement
'Do you believe !n long engage
ments?" he asked fatter che had ccn
sented t) be his.
'Yes, Nearest," she replied. "I hare
always fbought It was such a mlctsis
for two people to rush into matrlraqxiy
before fiey learned to really kna-w
each otlTBr."
"Well about how long would you
wish ths engagement to be?"
'Let roe see. Would you thins it
was too long if we did not get mar
ried until a week from next Thars
day?" Not Wrut He Asked For.
a smtill boir hurried Into the cor
ner butcher shop and told the propri
etor his mother wanted a nloe. ten
der turkey f6r Thanksgiving; and she
wanted It dressed, 'i ne nuicMr , se
lected Just such a bird from the lot
the window, and said, with sausiao-
tlon:
"Here's a dandy, my boy Just what
your mother wants!"
"No, It ain't!" returned ths youw.
"That turkey hasn't any clothes on."
-Judge.
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