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THE CELINA DEMOCRAT, CELINA, OHIO HOlVTDm LAWSON RDSETO VEALTH Spectacular Career of Boston Fi nancier Who Has Been Much In Public Eye. IRAN AWAY FROM SCHOOL Waking and Losing of a Fortune Com mon Thing to Lawson Has Pie turetque Command of the Eng. Ilsh Language. New York. Of uo man lu American liistory can It so truly lie said Unit the ijiaklug mill losing of n fortune was a loinmon thing to tiliu than Thomas V awson. ' Tim Itoslon financier, who has been Die centor of the political stage In the last luonth, liy reason of his accusa tions regarding wrongful use of secret diplomatic information to gain mll- Bions in Wall street, has been a kind f llnuijoliil volcano, erupting fitfully but (Miwerfully, for 23 years. No one can say how many tens of thousands have made money nnd how many more thousands have lost by paying heed to his widely advertised ittock-mnrkct advice. He has been nttacked savagely time And again In the public prints, while Ms own onslaughts on "the system" (of which ho confesses he was once a Thomas W. Lawson. prominent member), the Standard Oil Interests, and the "money trust" are tuatters of recent history. Ills command of language both Slang and the king's English Is re Inarkable. lie has spent millions in promulgating his opinions through big advertisements in the newspapers. lie fcan't remember, he snys, how many (times he has been sued criminally and Civilly for libel yet he has won every case brought against him. A Boston newspaper once printed a aix-pnge attack of lurid character on jLawson. The financier got out an In- E unction, but the newspaper proprietor arred the door against the Injunction perver; the presses ground out the edi tion, and Boston read the story. The effect was slight. Lawson continued on his way serenely although whnt would be serene and ordinary for Thomas W. would be a trip through the Whirlpool ruplds of Niagara for an ordinary man. - Started Tempestuously. ' His career started tempestuously, for he ran away twice in a finally suc cessful effort to substitute business for school. Lawson Is a New Englander by birth and a Southerner by descent. Three of his uncles were Episcopal Clergymen. lie was born In Cambridge, Jlass., in 1850, and brought up by his mother after his father was killed on a battlefield of the Civil war. When he was twelve years old he skipped from school and got a place as an errand boy In the banking house of Stevens, Amory & Co., in Stat" Street, Boston. He was speedily ap prehended and returned to his books, only soon to make another break for the realms of trade. This time his guardians decided they had better let him stay at work and get sick of It. But he didn't get sick. Instead he had a meteoric rise If this simile was ever appropriate. At twenty-one he was an operator on the Boston "street." At twenty-four he was a man of great wealth, and sat around green tables with millionaires es a director In big corporations. At thirty he had become a man to be watched by the big financial inter ests, for he was "a speculative factor of Importance." Meantime he had turned out a large number of successful mechanical In ventions. When hardly more than a boy he put on the market a substitute for playing cards, which had quite a pun of success. He also wrote, printed and published a booklet on baseball, of which he Is nn enthusiastic devotee. The book was called "The Krank: Ills Language and What It Meant," and for the work he Invented a special paper, "blood parchment." He took a prominent part In the presidential campaign of 1888. In- 3" days lie compiled a campaign history Of political parties, with facsimile re productions of many letters from He publican party leaders expressing their plews. Of this about 300,000 copies ARCTIC SUPPLIES BY THE TON Amundsen, the Explorer, Adds 600 Pounds of Candy and Many , Delicacies. Chicago. Roald Amundsen, the ex plorer, ordered for his six-year trip In the Arctic COO pounds of candy and quantities of ripe olives, sweet pickles, pickled pigs feet, dried fruits, nuts and tipple butter. A ton of meat has been purchased for each of the ten men In the expedl- 1 1 fcrV- ' V M .. . w. . ........ v. MWMIIH were distributed by Republican cum pulgn committees. First Financial Undertaking. Ills first financial undertaking was the reorganisation of the Lawson Story Service company, lie lost a large amount just ufter this successful coup when he tried to rebuild the Rnnd Avary Publishing company. Hut he recouped quickly by operating In Weat liighouse Electric. He lost another fortune In southern land "booms," especially the (Irand Klver Land company. Then came his great lay Stale lias operations, which made him thousands of enemies and thousands of friends. Out of the mine of coulllctlng stories it Is impossible to determine Just how much Lawson had to do with what happened. Sulllee It to Ray that under Lawsou's master hand the stock of this company gy rated to giddy heights nnd then sank Into the ubyss, having today a nominal value of 12 cents a share. Lnwson's operations hnd now be come gigantic. He entered the "sys tem," as he himself explained, with the object of combining all the copper Interests of the country. Here one again becomes Involved In a mass of disputed details. Lawson sold Hutte and Boston Copper stock short from ?10 a share to 75 cents, cleaning up a fortune. Then he began to buy, and urged his friends to buy, saying he believed In the futureff the company. He paid $10 a share assess ment, acquired a majority of the stock, nnd soon was Invited to join the group, Including II. H. Rogers, John I. Rocke feller and others of the "Standard Oil crowd" In consolidating all the cop per companies of the United States. What happened Lawson describes nt length In "l'renzled Finance," but few of his statements regarding the mutter stand unchallenged. Made Great Fortune. At any rate, Lawson pulled out with a great fortune, and changed from a friendly to n hostile attitude toward the "Standard Oil crowd," whom he now vigorously denounced. He built up a great financial "fol lowing" of investors and snuiii specu lators, whom he influenced by spread- eagle newspaper advertisements In flamboyant style. Of late years his name Is not heard so often, nnd his financial Influence has declined. Besides finance, Lawson Is intensely Interested In flowers, paintings, bronzes, yachts and horses. And he has one other great hobby his six children. For his wife, who was Miss Good willle of Cambridge, he paid ?30,000 to get the famous flower now called the "Mrs. Thomas W. Lawson pink." He bought the yacht Dreamer and other craft nnd built a beautiful Mas sachusetts country mansion, Dream world. He bred famous thoroughbreds on his Massachusetts farm. He took ; Israelites Wer Kansas Woman, a Foreign Mis sionary, Makes an Important Discovery. CARRIED MANNA TO PEOPLE How Moses and the Children of Israel Were Fed During Flight From Egypt Is Explained by Mis Oldroyd. And when the dew that lay was gone up behold, upon the face of the wild erness there lay a small, round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. And the children of Israel saw It, and they said one to another, it is manna; for they wist not what it wag. And Moses said unto them, this bread which the Lord hath glyen you to eat. . . . But some of them left It until morning, and It bred worms. . . . and when the sun waxed hot. It melted. Exodus 16. Kansas City, Mo. It took a Uni versity of Kansas woman graduate. Miss Roxana Oldroyd, of Arkansas City, to prove that the Israelites were fed manna in the desert on their flight from Egypt by bugs ! Miss Oldroyd Is now a missionary, ner interesting discovery was pub lished to the world by I'rof. W. K. Robertson of the zoological depart ment of the university. First, trees mude the manna that was already well known In scientific circles. Then, second, the bugs that were thereabouts waxed industrious and served it. Cousins of Green Hopper. The bugs In the case are Indian cousins of the Americun green hop per. Their average length Is three quarters of an Inch the female being larger than the male. The bugs are a pale green. These Insects, Miss Oldroyd reports, have been observed to attack a tree in great numbers when hungry. The trees in question excrete through the- holes in their bark made by the insects, small par ticles of sap, which, after a short time, congeal In oblong formations on the outside of the bark. When Miss Oldroyd, on a vacation tramp through the northern hills In India, saw these small, round particles attached to the sap-bearing trees, sh3 tasted of them and found them palatable. A little probing soon con vinced her that here was munna and the manner of Its provision. In this she wus supported by scientists. tion. This Includes roast mutton, roast beef, oxtails, pork, stewed kidneys, ox tongue, lamb tongue, ham loaf, veal loaf, ox marrow and summer sausage. In all 50,000 cans of food will be car ried on the voyage. During the trip each of the ten explorers will consume 400 pounds of coffee, If he drinks his share. The ship will carry two tons of It and two" tons of sugar. Coat Thieves Are Busy. New York. New York city Is suffer ing from un epidemic of overcoat thefts his stable fa Karopa, and raced in many countries. No sketch of Lawson would be com plete without the story of how he built a city, was elected Its first mayor, and sold It charter, highways, city hall, police department, fir apparatus, wharves, public franchises awl all -for a goodly sum. In 181K) he became Interested In th rich coal ami Iron bearing region In the state of Kentucky along the banks of the Tennessee nnd Cumberland riv ers. He conceived the Idea of a city In that portion of Keutucky lying be tween the two rivers. By coincidence this lift of land was then also the center of itoiitilatlon of the nation. He named his city (Jrnnd Rivers, and hustled It Into being with no delay. He was a great sight rushing about his municipality in slouch hat, flannel Bhlrt and top boots. But life In Cirnnd Rivers soon Irked him. He sold out nnd came to New York for real action which took the form of a spectncular bear campalga lu (icucrnl Electric. Million In 8ugar. In Mnrch isofK Lnwson made a million dollars, lie admitted, by specu lation In sugar stock; but he said this was no more than he had lost In this sumo stock on previous occasions. How Lawson does things was shown In his purchase of the bny gelding Boralmn. In October. 1890, the finan cier paid n visit to Lexington, Ky., for the purpose of attending the running of the Kentucky Futurity. Uoraima. wiui iin,i Ktttinii the mile In 2 :0i), was pointed out to him as the probuble win ner. So he bought the horse for $17,000, on condition that Boralmn won the Fu turity. Then he entered the betting ring and put up $33,000 on his pur chase. Boralmn won. and Lawson not only got n fine horse, but much more than enough to pny for it In the midst of the Amalgamated Copper consolidation Lawson flashed Into the public eye by rldlug from Bos ton to New York In a special train at th3 rate of 00 miles an hour for the entire distance. He did It In four hours and fifteen minutes, while the fastest regular train takes five hours. He said Ttiifrs mill Rockefeller had tele phoned him they needed him lmmedl ately for important business. Lawson's ofllce in Boston looks more like an art museum than a broker'8 sanctum. Fine flowers, bronzes and rare books surround him and compete for room with the stock ticker. One of the great sorrows of Lawson's life was when he failed to secure the four famous bronzes by Julian exhibited In a French salon. Three or these, 30 Inches In height. look down on him in his private office. They are "Caesar Crossing the Rubi con" nnd two equestrian studies of Frederick the Great and George Wash-) ington. The fourth piece, isapoteon, was purchased by the municipality of Paris before Lawson could arrange to buy the quartet. He had to be satis fied with a replica of the Napoleon. e Fed by Bugs Until a later trip, however, the man ner in which the manna was carried to the neighborhood of the fleeing Is raelites was unknown. However, Miss Oldroyd observed pa tiently. She eventually surprised the Insects in the act of flying away with: i!;,0," "l0'.,." she found that the first thing a swarm of the Insects would do, If they were frightened or met something strange. In their path, would be to drop their manna. Plain to Scientists. It Is perfectly plain, now, say the learned scientists, supporting Profes sor Robertson, to whom Miss Oldroyd reported and sent two dead bugs and a sample of the manna they had been caught carrying away. A swarm of hoppers started from the forest with a load of manna, met the children of Israel and dropped their load. Moses was caught in the shower and called upon his followers to eat thereof.. The specimen of manna sent by Miss Oldroyd is four Inches long .and two Inches thick. It is sweet to the taste and has the same food properties as maple tree sap. Miss Oldroyd Is a member of the faculty of Henry Thoburn college, Cal cutta, India. f TRIES TO LIVE ON 10 CENTS A DAY 7 Dover, O. Davis Gartman, age sixty-three, worth $15,000, died as a result of being under nourished, according to physi cians who have been attending him. Gartman was a noted ex ponent of cheap living. On one occasion he won a valuable prize for the best article on "How to Live Cheaply." For a long time he Is said to have sub sisted on an allowance of 3 cents n day, but since the cost of living had Increased this sum was Increased to 10 cents a day. I Gave Life to Avert Wreck. loin, Kan. Richard Moore, a sec tion hnnd, recently sacrificed his life here to prevent the wrecking of a Mis souri, Kansas & Texas passenger train. Hearing the train, he remembered that lie had left some timbers stacked on the track and ran to remove them. As he cleared the rails he was stracis by the eujame. in restaurants. Two young men in Jail here confess they stole 45 overcoats of diners In downtown restaurants. With their npprehenslon the police hoped the thefts would stop, but they keep up nt about the usual rate. A 'special squad of detectives has been assigned to combat this particular form of de pravity. The "Watch Your Hat and Coat" sign crop is blooming. A British patent covers a series of tanks attached to a cable to permit a vessel to spread oil on hough water. CITE Some Queer Doings of I' York city magistrates la likely to result from dm case of allegw! oppres sion brought officially to the notice-of the bar association tho other day. The 20 JDDBfeg the mun charged with contempt, Buffered a similar fate. Tho magistrate then fined the confused and astonished witness $5 for contempt ami dismissed the case In which ho was the complainant, after trying It himself without counsel; ami deciding that there was-not evidence sufficient to Justify hlin In sending; it to a higher court. On the same day a policeman appeared before the magistrate to answer to a charge of disorderly conduct. Ho man, nt the magistrate's order, because ho refused to atop the traffic on Fifth avenue und let the magistrate pass on his way to court. The policemnn humbly apologized. He said that he didn't know be was speaking to the magistrate when he refused to stop explained that he felt he was Justified at that street crossing and a regular nnturully hesitated to Interfere- with upon to do so by an individual who appeared to be a mere private citizen. Upon receiving his explanation and upology, the magistrate permitted hlin to go under a suspended sentence. New York city magistrates receive are elected for terms of from seven to ten years.. Essentially, their Jurisdic tion Is so slight that the operation of their courts-Is of but petty Importance. Any really Important Issue never- comes before them. Even In the smaller cases, the magistrate merely nas the authority to conduct a preliminary hearing. Except In a contempt case, he cannot make a decision which Is not subject to appeal. Yet these petty officers take themselves with great serious ness. There was a good deal of astonishment und amusement when the magistrates held a meeting some years bench. But they have worn them ever Does Dr. Flint's Ghost Play Billiards in His Club? NEW YORK. Does the ghost or Dr. Austin Flint, who was an alienist or national reputation, pluy billiards at night In the sober clubrooms of the Century association In West Forty-third speculation as to how overcrowdod It would mnke billiard rooms if all ghosts of lovers of the sport should return to them, the facts ure these: The Century association's negro servitors (termed servants In less learned places) ure so positive that Doctor Flint's disembodied spirit visits the billiard room there that they are afraid to set It to rights In the late evening or early morning hour unless a clerk goes with them. Two of these negro servitors went Into the billiard room early one morning. It was lonely there. Even the electric lamps appeared to burn with an eerie light. One of the servitors heard a slight click In the private cue rack. Glancing at it, he was surprised to see thut the niche la which Doctor Flint had kept his favorite cue wns opened, the lock swung ajar. Then the other thought he saw a the famous alienist's favorite. Then or what he Is sure now was a tug. Right after that both men started table on which Doctor Flint was wont Ivory, when woof! Up went the cloth In the nlr, for all quick-tempered mun ,had snatched It. That ends the case for the affirmative so far as the question that Is .o be answered is concerned. Those servants visits the billiard room. "Perfect Man" Has Been MILWAUKEE. And now come the "perfect man." Much has been heard of the "perfect thirty-six" as- regards the fair sex. but ft remained for Milwaukee to. produce the first specimen the masculine "Venus:" Height, 5 feet normal, 34; expanded, 38 Inches; thigh, 13 inches ; forearm, 12 Inches ; neck, 16 Leap year has become only a memory, but, nevertheless, it is to be feared that young Liedtke, the "perfect," may ing mall, following this revelation. In order to become a "perfect man," Liedtke offers a few suggestions to those who would follow him in the This is what he advises: Take plenty of outdoor exercise. Go to bed early, get eight hours' sleep and rise early. Indulge in gymnasium exercises, such as Jumping the rope, punching the bag, shadow boxing and handball. Swimming, in season, develops muscles that otherwise are never called Into play. Portland Young Men Over PORTLAND, ORE. Are you "a young man over forty-five?" If yon are, you are eligible to Join Portland's newest club, the Forty-Five Efficiency club, which is organized for keeps. There are 70 charter members. It is expected that there will be 300 on the rolls. Dr. William Osier, by tne way, has been made an honorary member. There is really no foolishness about the new club. Although it is the baby in the big family of Portland clubs, it shows wonderful vigor nnd promises to outdo many of its bigger brothers when it gets its growth, for It Is to be filled with young blood, and youth, as everybody knows, recognizes no obstacles that can't be overcome. The underlying object of the club is to create a sentiment that will give five with men younger. It has often young man. Members of the club have felt this is an unjust ana armtrary ruling, that age is really not marked by figures on a dial, but that all who are vigorous in health, with purpose strong and abilities unimpaired, are fully as capable and even more so tnan many TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES SheeD that are used as -beasts of burden in northern India carry loads of 20 pounds. There is- enough salt in me oceans to cover the United States to a depth of 8,500 feet. A complete bed for infants has been Invented that can be folded flat for easy carrying. 1 -A German colliery has installed a canteen 500 feet below, ground to save its miners' time.. me New York City Magistrates magistrate ubruptly stopped the hear ing of a en so nnd ordered' the com plaining witness brought before hlin on the following day on a contempt charge because- tie was chewing gum In court. When, on tile following duy, the witness uppenred' to unHwer to the contempt charge, lil luwyer, ussertlng lila light to make an explanation' tot hi client, was ordered removed from thtr courtroom by a bailiff, A second lawyer, who volunteered to speak fin hud been arrested by another police the traffic. Also he rather naively In refusing because he wasn't on duty truffle policeman was. He said that he the regular traffic man when called salaries of $7,000 a year ouch, and ago, and decided to wear robes on the since. street? Carefully avoiding any movement of the chair that had been the first servitor felt a. tug at his arm to spread the cloth over the billiard to display his prowess with cue and the world as if the hand of a rather are sure- thut Doctor Flint's ghost Discovered m Milwaukee of perfect manhood as a standard of .perfection for ethers of his sex. Alfred R. Liedtke. twenty years old, 180 Keefe avenue. Is the posses sor of the physique perfect. His claims to physical perfection are not made by himself, for be is rather backward about things of so personal a nature. But C. S. MInter, physical director for the T. M. C. A, Is authority for the declaration that the masculine "perfect thirty-six" Is personified by the Keefe avenue youth. These are the measurements of 10 Inches; weight, 170 pounds; chest. 22 inches; calf, 15 inches; biceps, inches, and waist, 31 inches. find an unusual increase in his morn path of physical perfection. 45 Form Efficiency Club I MAY BE 45 OLD BUT. FEEL UKE A KID- nn equnl chance for the man of forty- been declared this is the age of the younger in actual yeurs. The South American blrd-eatlng spi der is as big as a mouse, and Its furred feet are so formed that it can walk up glass with practically no difficulty. Bohemian brewers have perfected a process that matures beer and makes It ready for use in from 8 to 12 days, Instead of the usual three months. A Minneapolis restaurant robbed the other night, was found next day to have suffered only in the bean sup ply, due probably to that commodity's high nrlce. , .-i i ii -4 II JvSjJl EFFORT TO ERADICATE RAT Government Officials Make Publle Report on thtf Work of Extermi nating Natlenal Plague. The- connection brtwen rats atwl plague kus led to the accumulation of Information regarding fhe frequency off their nssfl-tfntlon with Hainan habita tions as well as their dnslrucilveness. Studies have been made which throw light on the- question of tbe number vt parusltea which have been permit ted through cnrvlcHHiieHS to exist In the immediate nclgHborhood of math. Until them) compararlfijly recent Investiga tions scarcely anyone would hate be lieved how large a number of rodents find' a means of Hvcllhood for tttem selves lu our cltlne and towns, espe cially those which' have a series of docks nnd wharves. A special report of plague eradication work at New Orleans, made by the surgeon In chnrgw of the United Slates public health serv ice work at that point; contains rath er startling Illuminating fuels concern ing these- parasites, says the Journal of tho Americau Medical Association. "The totul number of rodents cap tured up to- November 13 of the last year runs up to 497.0S3," snys the writer. "Some Idea of the Immense la bor and the meticulous care required for thoroughness lu sanitary work may be gathered frmn the fact that over 300,000 of these rodents hnd !een ex amined up to the same dnte, and, though altogether only 205 cases of ro dent plague were discovered, It t easy to understand how much of a danger for the dissemination of the disease these animals were. Until the actual report, It would have been almost Im possible to believe that a city like New Orlenns, with Its 500,000 rodents, ac tually harbored a larger population of rats und mice than It did of human beings. '"Hew Orleans Is probably no worso In thls regard than 'most of the coast cities of the southern part of the coun try, at least, and It is probable that as careful a hunt foe the creatures would reveal their presence In proportionate numbers even In many of the towns of the Interior. "Coast cities like New Orleans, San Francisco, Seattle and some of the othv er towns on I'uget sound have been compelled to take up the problem' of obliteration of their rodent parnsltes by the occurrence of plngue. The Jour nal of. the American Medical associ ation' thinks, however, that It would be well worth while for health author ities In. other towns and cities to face this problem frankly before It becomes a source of actual immediate danger to heulth." Iron for the Future.. That Iron is the very basis of our In dustrial' civilization will be admitted, by- the thoughtful, aud many of our greatest supplies of Iron ore are be- ng rapidly depleted because of the In creased per capita consumption of Iron the world over, un Increase which- is destined to be greater in the futuce when the rnces in Asia and Africa In- rease their consumption of iron. These conditions of Increasing con sumption of nnd decreasing reserves have often In the past, particularly about the beginning of this century, suys J. K. Johnson In Metallurgical nd Chemical Engineering, been used to create a scare, on. the ground' that our supplies of usable ore were being so rapidly depleted that their exhaus tion would occur within two or three generations. This is a preposterous point of view, because as we-lower the percentage of Iron ore In the rook, which we cull "ore," the quantity of ueh ore Increases at a. rate out of all proportion to the decrease lm iroik content, and as we use leaner and teaner ores technical Improvement wlTI be made which will minimize any tendency to Increased cost of produc tion. The same thing has happened' In gold, silver, copper and other ores, and today copper ores are being worked with only 1.5 per cent of copper in them. Gulf Fish Killed by Gas. Reports received by the United States buriuu ! iuln :. show that there were two recent periods of heavy mortality among the fishes on the west coast of Florida,, between Naples nnd Sarasota for 15 or 20 miles off shore. Outbreaks of this phenomenon, which appears to be due to natural causes, occurred on October 3 and October 18, 1810. The beaches were lined with wind rows of dead fish. Persons living In the vicinity were affected with In flammation of the mncous membrane Induced by some gas, presumably sul phur dioxide, glTen off from the wa ters. There Is ground for the belief that the conditions are attributable to subterranean disturbances and the re lease of poisonous gases which rise and pollute the waters. All Outdoors. Denmark' Exports of Eggs. Denmark exports 40,000,000 eggs a yeaj. a number which puts her at the head of egg-exporting nations. The high reputation of the Danish egg is to be maintained by a further develop ment of the wide and close organiza tion wheh unites the producers. Cen tral collecting depots for eggs have been established in the smallest towns. As each farmer brings in his eggs they are stamped with his number und a letter standing for his particular branch. From there they go to larger stations, where they are candled, graded and sorted for size. Any stale, eggs that are detected can be traced to the producer by the letter and num ber. For a first offense the guilty furm er is fined! for a second one he is liable to expulsion from the associa tion. Heating Water by Electricity. Water In a kitchen tank may be heat ed in the summer time without start ing a fire In the range, provided there Is electricity in the house. A rod about nn inch and a quarter thjck and about fifty inches long filled with an Insulat ing, nonoxidixlng fluid In which a re sistance coll Is submerged is connect ed with electric wires and Inserted In the tank. When the current is turned on all the energy supplied to the rod is dissipated in the water tn the form of heat.. "CAW FOB i no nnii LIKLII For sick headache, bad breath, Sour Stomach and constipation. Get a 10-cent box now. No' odds how bad your liver, stomach or bwwels; how nroch your head' aches, bow miserable' and uncomfort able you are from constipation, Indiges tion, biliousness and etoeglsh bowels' you always get the dtaiired result with Cascarcts. Don't lot your stomach liver and1 bowels wake you miserable. Take' Cascarets tonight; put an end to the' headache, biliousness, dizziness, nerv-' ouhlcsk. sick, sour, gassy 'stomach,. backache and all other Jlstress; cleanse your liisldo organs of all the' bile, gases and constipated matter which Is producing, the misery. A 10-ccnt bor means health, happi ness and a clear head for months. No more days of gloom and dUtress If you will take a Cascaret novr and them All stores sell Cascarets. Don't forgwt the chllflreiT their little1 in sides need a cleansing, too. Adv. Plays Many Pieces Without Stopping. Application for patent rights has been reade for a' phonograph that Is capable of playing several disk records In succession without mi til ring the" at tention of an operator, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. The machine also will select special records and. render them, or reproduce u single one us ninny times ns desiretl. Small reg ulating knobs permit' an operator to emit, repent or stop any particular se lection. Furthermore, it is possible to set the machine to stop nutomuf Ically after playing any record. CARE FOR YOUR SKIN nd Keep It Clear by Daily Uee of Cuticiira Trial Free. A hot bath with Cuticra Soap fol lowed by a gentle anointing with Cutl cura Ointment clears the skin or scalp In most cases of eczemas, rashes and' itching of children nnd adults. Make Cutleura your every-day toilet prepara tions nnd prevent such troubles. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, CutlcuTO, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere. Adv. Ten Billions In Caal. The Nenana coal fields, Alaska, will be tributary to the government rull road now under construction from Seward to Fairbanks.. Though the coal lu this field' Is lignite, uud hence of low grade, yet It has-srent. value as a. source of fuel and power, for Fairbanks nd other Yukon placer enmps. The field Is about sixty miles south of Fairbanks. It Is estimated by the United States -geological survey, de partment of. the interior that the Ne nana field, oontains some ten billion' tons of lignlta. The Nenana coal field ties In what, is known, as the Bonnl field region, which also-contains some gold pincers-that have-been mined In. t small way for the last ten years. This district Is described In a report ntitled "The Bonnlfleld Region, Alas ka" (bulletini 501), which can be ob tained oh application i to the director of'' the geological survey, Washington. Drug, Store. Episode. "I canrt sell you whUky without a doctor's prescription." "Then why do you ndTertlse pickling: mnterlals?" demanded the Irate custo mer. " At the Inquinles Bureau. Excited Tourist Information glven out here?- Tired- Aibtondanfe It has. Yale Rec ord. I ' Doing Wie, Share. "Are you doing anything for the preservation of ova antiquities?" "You bet I am. I sell cosmetics." Probably Not. Will' the smoke inspector plesse ex plain, why so- much of the sct coal' soot settles on the whlte-halredl dog? Manufacturers of that country are planning to establish the first paper plant In Argentine. 1 - A Pleasant ' Healthful Habit A daily ration of 1 Grape-Nats - and cream is a splendid food for those who want vigor andenergy. Grape-Nuts is a concentrated health-food made from choice whole wheat and malted barley. It retains the vital min eral elements of the grain so essential to . ' thorough nourishment -of body and brain, but lacking in many other cereal foods. Every table should have its daily ration of Grape-Nuts. "There's a Reason" ffo chang in priet, quality cr 4ixm if pacKpg: ice UUULLU I