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WHY HE LIKED TIGHT SHOES
Little Remark That Threw Gnal
Light on the Home Conditions
of Ames Do re.
"We always wondered a little how
Amos Dore and his wife got along—
really," "Aunt Em" Macomber said,
frankly. "Some In the neighborhood
said they'd never overheard a single
loud or cross word on either side, but
Llje Daniels always stuck to It that
Amos was as mis'able at home as a
man could be.
He never spoke right out till Amos
died and Mis' Dore went back up
country to her folks. Then he let
out."
"What?" queried Aunt Em's visitog
"Well, Amos worked logging along*
side of Llje every winter, and sum*
mere they hayed together most al­
ways, and It seems," said Aunt Em, in
presslvely, "that Amos complained o!
his shoes hurting him about all the
time. Finally Llje asked why he wore
tight shoes.
"'Why don't you get a pair big
enough?' says Llje, one day.
'Well, I'll tell you,' Amos says.
'When I wear tight shoes I forget all
my other troubles.'"—Youth's Com­
panion.
A PROUD PAIR.
"What makes that peasant so proud
to-day?"
"Oh, he has the biggest rooster in
town—and his wife the biggest hat.'*
—Fliegende Blaetter.
Tuberculosis Afflicts Japanese.
Consumption among Japanese labon
ers is increasing to such a degree thM
the figures are becoming a source of
anxiety to Japanese merchants and of­
ficials. A large percentage of labor­
ers who are sent back to Japan by
the Japanese charity associations are
consumptives. It is claimed by the
Japanese newspapers comenting on
this matter that through the lack ol
hospital accommodations in the Jap­
anese labor camps tuberculosis in­
creases at an alarming rate. They
suggest that a new system be em­
ployed in dealing with the sick in
these camps, as the Japanese are
quite ignorant of even the most sim­
ple health safeguards.
Not Lacking In Dignity.
There was once upon a time a coun­
try lawyer who was noted for his se­
date manners and his judicial bearing.
In the course of time he was elevated
to the bench, where he conducted him­
self and the court with becoming de­
meanor, and where he won a reputa­
tion for sagacity based nearly alto­
gether upon his solemn accents and
his corrugated brow.
One who knew him well was asked
by a stranger who saw the judge pass
upon the street whether he was really
an efficient arbiter.
'Weil," said the acquaintance slow­
ly, "I think 1 may say that John pre­
sides with more dignity and lees abil­
ity than anyone else I ever knew."—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Youngster's Fellow Feeling.
A small boy, about five years old,
was taken to an entertainment by his
mother the other evening. It was
10:30 o'clock when they reached
home and the little fellow was very
tired and sleepy. He undressed quick­
ly and hopped into bed. "George,"
said his mother sternly, "I'm sur­
prised at you." "Why, mamma?" he
asked. "You didn't say your prayers.
Get right out of that bed and say
them." "Aw mamma," came from the
tired youngster, "what's the use of
wakin' the Lord up at this time of
night to hear me pray?"
Flies.
God bless the man who first invent­
ed screens, and God pity the man who
is too indolent or indifferent to place
them between his family and the
spreaders of deadly disease. There is
absolutely no excuse for the man or
woman whose place of habitation
swarms with flies and whines with
the voices of mosquitoes. They can
be kept out, and 25 cents spent in
keeping them out is equivalent to
keeping out a doctor who would cost
$25, or possibly to keeping out a much
less welcome visitor.
WON'T MIX
Bad Food and Good Health Won't Mix,
The human stomach stands much
abuse but it won't return good health
if you give it bad food.
If you feed right you will feel right,
for proper food and a good mind is tho
sure road to health.
"A year ago I became much alarmed
about my health for I began to suffer
after each meal no matter how little I
ate," says a Denver woman.
"I lost my appetite and the very
thought of food grew distasteful, with
the result that I was not nourished
and got weak and thin.
"My home cares were very heavy, for
besides a large family of my own I
have also to look out for my aged
mother. There was no one to shoul­
der my household burdens, and come
what might, I must bear them, and
this thought nearly drove mo frantic
when I realized that my health was
breaking down.
"I read an article In the paper about
some one with trouble just like mine be­
ing cured on Grape-Nuts food and act­
ing on this suggestion I gave Grape
Nuts a trial. The first dish of this
delicious food proved that I had struck
the right thing.
"My uncomfortable feelings in stom­
ach and brain disappeared as if by
magic and in an incredibly short space
of time I was myself again. Since
then I have gained 12 pounds in
weight through a summer of hard
work and realize I am a very different
woman, all due to the splendid food,
Grape-Nuts."
"There's a Reason." Trial will prove.
Read the famous little book, "The
Road to Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A
n*m
ome appear* from time to time. They
are seaulae, trs*, aad fall of taMSS
btenM.
HOW TO MAKE A LETTER SHORT,
YET 8TRONQ.
There Is a wide Impression on tho
part of business men that letters must
be very short if they are to be read
Instead of thrown in the wastebasket
and as a consequence they are often
made so short that the reader does
not know what they are about, and
the important points .that should be
impressed on his mind are not ma^e
at all. The short letter may be read
more widely, but still it may convince
fewer in the end than a long letter
that is read by only a very few, but
really convinces them
The secret of making a letter short,
yet strong, lies in selecting
repre^
sentative points—one point that will
give the effect of half a dozen. It is
a matter of judgment as to what will
have most effect, what is really typi­
cal and representative of the case.
The man who knows his business thor­
oughly has a mass of facts from
which he must select. He should take
those which are simplest, most direct,
and most closely related to the or­
dinary habit of thought of the person
who is to read the letter or adver­
tisement.
For example, a man came into my
office the other day with a baking pow­
der which he .wished to make com­
pete in his own immediate vicinity
with a well-known brand. I asked
him if he had any unique features in
the manufacture which he thought
made his powder better than the
other. He mentioned half a dozen
minor technical points in the manufac­
ture, and finally said: "Of course we
deliver baking powder fresh every
day, while the other is made six
months in advance." We immediate­
ly recognized a simple point which
every one would see, and which would
be sufficient as far as manufacture
was concerned. More would be accom­
plished by emphasizing this point
strongly and letting the others go than
trying to cover all. Stating one typi­
cal point and then referring briefly
to "scores of others," is the right way
to produce conviction. But the one
point must be a good one. Some­
times two, three, or even four points
may be stated. In general, there
should be one point for each feature
or phase of the case.
HOW FAR APART IN TIME SHOULD
LETTERS GO?
The time between follow-up letters
is very important. Lists of names will
not stand indefinite continuous work­
ing. They wear out and time must be
allowed to lapse before another letter
will pull properly. When time has
passed, letters will begin to pull
again.
At the same time, when a first at­
tempt is being made, letters should
usually be very close together, so as
to concentrate the blows and try to
get some advantage from the succes­
sion, and from taking advantage of in­
terest while it is aroused. It often hap­
pens that two or three letters coming
right on top of each other will accom­
plish what no one letter alone would
accomplish, but in that case the let­
ters should be very close together, not
over a week apart, and sometimes
only three or four days apart.
In other cases more time should be
allowed to elapse, a month being a
common period, and then three
months, or even four months. In the
end one letter a year may be all that
will pay.
Usually this is about the proper ar­
rangement:
A large list made up from Dun or
Bradstreet's is taken up to be worked
for inquiries. A postal card inquiry
comes back, and the inquiries are fol­
lowed up closely with long, hard let­
ters.
The answer to the inquiry will be as
full a letter as can be written. It
should be a long and strong letter.
Within a week the inquiry should have
a second letter, and ten days later a
third, perhaps, with a fourth a month
later, and then follow-up letters at in­
tervals of two or three months. Others
require six or eight letters one after
the other in quick succession.
As the inquiries are cleaned up
through getting some answer they are
checked off, and there will be a cer­
tain residuum of names from which it
is impossible to get anything at all.
They are usually dead ones and should
be thrown out altogether.
Those that replied and show they
are alive may be put in a special list
by themselves and given a special
follow-up from time to time indefinite­
ly. But everything depends on the re­
turns.
FOLLOW-UP LETTERS.
There is a sort of fetich attached to
the term "follow-up letters" by many
persons, who have an impression
there is something magic about them.
Others think you will get orders if
you keep after people long enough
A fighting army of rats assailed the
men of Truck 20 last night in the
moldy shack of a junkman down in
the dark of East One Hundred and
Eighteenth street, near First avenue,
the New York Sun says. The fire that
was there was little, but the rats were
large and many, and it was upon them
that the firemen turned the water.
When the truck company, with the
engine, pulled up before the door of
the dingy junk shop a murky red was
showing through the windows and
smoke was seeping through the cracks.
Battalion Chief Howe.ordered his men
to break down the door, and with them
he ran in the lines of hose.
Hardly had he stepped inside when
the rotten boards of the floor broke
with his weight and he fell through.
There was a sudden pin-point shriek
and something with shining dots for
ayes ran up the chiefs legs. The chief
The Right Way to Write Letters
By $herwin. Cody
Author of the Cody System of How to Write Letters That
and hard enough, just as the book
agent gets orders froikt people who:
pay to get rid of the agent
Letters cannot be used to worry
anybody into anything. It is too easy
to throw the letter in the wastebas­
ket. The only possible hope is to ex­
cite interest.
The idea that you will get an or­
der if you keep at it long enough is,
therefore, also/^llaciojjg. ...The first
letter may not close an order, if the
amount ,involved is large. One letter
will not sell a piano or. a threshing
machine. But the flrqt letter is most
likely to excite interest and get a re­
ply. If the first letter does not de­
velop interest* one can. safely con­
clude that something is the patter
with the letter and a better one must
be found. If the first letter does
not do something, none of the ordi­
nary follow-up letters are likely to.
It happens, however, that the. first
letter usually gets some favorable re­
sult if the business .amounts to any­
thing in itself. The case is stated
fully and fairly in that first letter,'
and those who are interested re­
spond.
In planning letters to follow up a
good first letter, the first thing that
the average man does is to ask if thej
first letter has been received and tq
express surprise that nothing has re-,
suited.
Nothing could be more foolish. As
I said at. the beginning, people can-*
not be worried into doing business
through nagging letters.
The only fair way is simply to con­
clude that the first letter made no
impression, and was thrown away and
forgotten. Make the following letter
as complete a soliciting letter as the
first one. Try all over again, restat­
ing the entire case, sending circular,
and the like. The second letter should
attack a customer from a new point
of view, that is all. There should be
no direct reference whatever (in most
cases) to any preceding letter. If a
catalogue has been sent, inclose a
small circular in the second letter,
and offer to send another copy of the
catalogue if the first one sent is not
on hand. Never worry or imagine
the first letter has been carefully
laid away. Start fresh each time.
HOW TO FOLLOW UP BY LETTER.
The correct principle for arranging
follow-up letters is to consider that
a certain letter in a certain vein, from
a certain point of view, will interest a
certain percentage of the entire list,
and make very little or no impression
on the rest of the list.
The first follow-up letter should be
made to appeal to another class, and
be arranged from a different point
of view, but otherwise should cover
the same ground substantially as the
first letter. All the important ele­
ments of a sales letter should be pres­
ent in this follow up
The main thing is to keep all the
elements well in hand in every letter
instead of considering that the cus­
tomer will have in mind what you
wrote before. He will either have
forgotten it, or he never paid any
attention to it, or it remains so
vague in his mind you do not get your
complete effect unless you restate all
the salient principles.
Yet of course the follow-up letter
must be really a fresh one. If a man
looks it over and says: "Why, I saw
that before!" he is likely to throw it
in the wastebasket without reading it.
If it is fresh he may take interest in
seeing what more you have to say,
but it is more the new manner of say­
ing it than the substance that af­
fects him. Driving the old points
home is not objectionable to a man
if the manner is fresh.
When circumstances are such that
the previous letters must be referred
to, this should be done as briefly as
possible and wholly without worrying
the customer or seeming to find fault
with him for not having responded.
RATS WORRIED THE FIREMEN
Or
Hose Turned on Them in Burning
New York Store Drowns Them
by the Dozen.
There should always, if possible.be
"But, of course, it happens with
everyone that the brain is sluggish
sometimes, and I have invented a lit­
tle spur for such occasions. Will you
just help yourself to that square of
cardboard on that chair over there
—that's it.
"You see, I have two dials set side
by side. On one of them is printed,
in round robin form, a list of sub­
jects for paintings: Windmill, old
church, hay meadows, stone steps at
Capri, Alhambra, Coney Island, Notre
Dame, and so forth. On the other
dial is printed a list of weather or
time conditions, like moonlight, sun­
rise, haze, snowstorm, windy day, June
clouds, and so forth. You'll notice that
batted at it with his hand just as it
was climbing his coat, squeaking hor­
ribly.
Then the men saw others, hun­
dreds, they say. In the light of the
fire, which was feeding on the heaps
of rags, bones and ancient junk in the
rear of the shop, the firemen Baw
them, squirming up through holes in
the floor, scuttering through the smoke
along the rafters, tumbling in suffoca­
tion down the piles of smoldering rags.
The rats climbed up the firemen's
boots and worried a way 'under their
coats. Some dropped from the ceiling
on their helmets.
"Ugh!. Let the fire burn and give
the stream to 'em, boys," yelled the
chief, and after that the water plowed
the length of the floor and searched
the walls, carrying with it the bodies
of the drowning rats by the dozen.
Some of the streams carried through
the rotten roof and rats began: to drop,
with the watec ,, on the h^ads of the
Italians that had massed themselves
in front of the burning building. They
Prill:
some fresh circular mat|er to-go with
each new letter, and when practicable
the stationery and wording on .the
letterhead should be changed so as
to make the outer appearance as at­
tractive as possible, and as fresh
looking.
The essential thought should be their
same, but the dress should be fresh.
The old arguments should be put in
in new form. That is the important
element.
HOW TO ADVERTI8E A SPECIALTY
5
There are probably very few husil
ness men who do not at, some tlmp or
other have some little thing of their
own invention or conception, or some*
thing that somebody else has invented!
or conceived, which they would like to
advertise if they knew how.
A certain druggist I know. has a
tasteless castor oil. Everybody would
rather castor oil didn't taste so bitter
when it has to be taken but how shall
the news be distributed? A farmer has
an improved pick, or an ax handle.
Each and all dream of a fortune if they
can get their discovery upon the mar­
ket, and usually they look as far away
from home as possible. They think of
a small advertisement in a big maga­
zine, inquiries by mail, or sales to
large dealers through clever letters set­
ting forth the merits of the article.
Those who succeed with these spe­
cialties, and there are many who do
succeed and make small fortunes,
nearly always begin very near at homo.
The man with the improved pick goes
to every contractor in his immediate
neighborhood and tries to interest him.
If he can't interest a man he can see
and talk to, he can't interest those far
away, to whom he can only write.
When he has got a lot of his neighbors
to using his pick, he finds he is begin­
ning to make a little profit out of his
sales, though the article is not known
50 miles away and the big country has
never been touched. But the enthusi­
astic indorsement of his near-by friends
he puts into a neatly printed circular,
and writes a strong, enthusiastic per­
sonal letter to those who are so far
away he can't go to see them. He gets
only three orders from a hundred let­
ters, but that is enough to show a
profit on the first sales, and he knows
that future sales will pay him hand­
somely. And so the enthusiasm of his
first customer grows until it reaches
far and big interests take him up and
help him to carry the good news every­
where, in return for a liberal share in
the profits.
The druggist first tells his own pat­
rons about his tasteless castor oil.
They are so much pleased that he
writes to a number of druggist friends
in other towns, and because they are
his friends they try his discovery. Thfe
merits of the thing create enthusiasm
in each of these points, testimonials
come in of their own accord, and the
spontaneous enthusiasm of those who
are pleased is little by little spread
farther and farther. He doesn't bank­
rupt himself by trying to do too much,
he feels his way step by step and letter
by letter. He tries over and over
again to tell his story till he has found
the best way, and after a while the
volume of orders coming in every day
shows a fine profit.
On Their Minds.
"I've got something on my mind
that I've got to get rid of," said the
author, bursting in and seizing a pad
and pencil. "And when you have got­
ten rid of it and have received a
check for it, there is something down
in the milliner's window that I want
to get on my mind," said the au­
thor's wife, picking up his hat, coat
and umbrella.
HOW ARTIST GETS SUBJECTS
Unpatented Device That Noted Writer
Suggested Might Be Useful
to Authors.
The Young Idea.
"Ma," said a newspaper man's son,
"I know why editors call themselves
'we, Why?" "So's the man that
doesn't like the article will think there
are too many people for him tp
tackle."—Christian Work and Evan­
gelist.
only one subject at a time is shown
through the little slit that I have cut
in the paper that covers my dials.
Now turn the left-hand dial."
I turned it and came on "Oxford."
"Now spin the other one for the
atmospheric conditions."
This brought me "June clouds."
"You see Oxford, in June. Very
easy to paint Magdalen gardens un­
der June clouds—and so it goes. But
I seldom have to use my machine,
as my mind is full of places I have
seen."
Wonderful man! If men had never
humored their laziness we would have
had no great inventions. Why could
not authors have a plot dial and a
character dial? It might change the
style of stories now current—Charles
Battell Loomis, in Success Magazine.
broke In panic and
homes.
fled for their
Remained a Major.
A newspaper man once asked the
late J. K. Hudson whether he should
call him "major" or "general." Hud­
son was a major in the civil war and
was made a brigadier general in. the
Spanish war, but in the latter conflict
he did not get into active service.
"Call me major," said Hudson in reply
to the question. "I was vaccinated for
'general,' but it .didn't take."
Wedding Month In Germany.
In Germany the month of April is
the chosen time for weddings. One
must, however, be careful to select a
lucky day for the event The lucky
days, so say those who know, are the
second, fourth twelfth and twenty*
second. The unlucky days are the
seventh eighth, tenth, sixteenth and
twenty-first
just Shopping.
"Here's one proposition that holds
"What's that?"
"Two can shop as cheaply as ons."
Cousin Orone McDooble—
3yElliS PQ
Author of~Pigs
ILLUSTRATED
By
N
rmni
Just as he got half-way there and
was passing under the apple tree at
full trot, a great big serpent swung
doUrn out of the tree and darted at
him. It missed his face by an inch,
but its long cold body struck him
across the cheek, and Cousin Orone
McDooble fell like a shot.
The next morning he found that it
was only the rubber garden hose,
which his wife had draped over the
limb to dry, but he didn't have the
slightest suspicion of it as he lay un­
der the tree, and he had a right to
be scared. Anybody would be scared
to have a slithy garden hose swinging
just above his head that way, ready
any minute to drop down and bite.
Nothing ig so venomous as the bite
of a garden-hose at one o'clock in the
morning.
Then suddeiUy a cold chill passed
over him. He realized that the gar­
den-hose was trying to fascinate him
with its glittering eye, as serpents al­
ways fascinate birds they mean to de­
vour in a minute or two. He tried to
take his eyes away, and he couldn't
and he tried to flutter his wings, and
he couldn't and so he just uttered a
couple of mournful little chirps and
peeps and kept gazing at the cruel noz­
zle of the garden-hose, and hoped death
would be painless when the garden
hose swallowed him. But he couldn't
bear it. It got on his nerves. He
wept when he thought that he was
nothing but a poor little sparrow so
near his doom, and when he saw he
didn't have the slightest chance against
the wily serpent he thought he'd bet­
ter be an ostrich, rather than a spar­
row, for he would have a better chance
in a fight for life. So he squawked
as near like an ostrich as he could,
and stuck his head in a water pail
that was handy, as ostriches always
hide their heads when danger threat­
ens. Every little while he peeked out
to see if the serpent had gone away,
but it hadn't. There it hung with its
glittering eye on him every time.
If it hada't been for Cousin Orone
McDooble'* knowledge of natural his­
tory he would have been devoured by
the garden-hose long before that but
knowing about ostriches, and turning
into one, had postponed his death, be­
cause a gaTden-hose has to swell up
considerably before it can swallow an
ostrich. And just then was when
Cousin McDooble's natural history
knowledge came to his aid, for the
memory of the East Indian mongoose
returned to his mind. He knew that
the mongoose is kept as a pet by many
Hindoos to Kill serpents, andthat very
minute he decided that the best thing
he could do was to be a mongoose. So
he did.
The only thing that troubled him
was that he didn't know what a mon­
goose looked like or how it acted or
what kind' of a noise it made. He
couldn't to save his. life remember
whether it was a Dirt or a beast, but
he was pretty sure it wasn't a'fish.
NEWELk
&
And All at Once He Jumped Up and Bit the Garden Hose in the Neckl
My Cousin Orone McDooble of Betz
ville had a narrow escape from death
last Wednesday night, and he might
be dead now, if it hadn't been for his
quickness of mind, and his knowledge
of natural history. My Cousin Orone
had been spending a few hours at Slug
Wilson's Palace bar in this village, and
about one o'clock in the morning he
started for home, and something in
the sort of sinuous way he was wan­
dering up the street made him think of
snakes. Perhaps he had had snakes in
mind before that I don't know. Any­
way, when he reached home he had
his mind pretty full of snakes and eels
and lizards and reptiles and serpents
generally, and was feeling mighty wor­
ried about them, and thinking that
something ought to be done about it
for the good of the public, and just
then he heard his chickens squawking
in the hen house, and it came to his
mind that there might be a boa-con­
strictor or a python eating his best
poultry that very minute. So he start­
ed down the side path to his hen house
on a run.
ter Newell
A fish wouldn't be much good at run­
ning around a house chasing snakes.
But Cousin Orone McDooble did the
best he could, and it worked pretty
well, for a garden-hose isn't particu­
lar what kind of noise an imitation
mongoose makes, just so it makes
a good loud noise. So Cousin Orone
McDooble got down on his hands and
knees and made a noise like a mon­
goose. It was something like a dog
and something like a hyena. And every
three yelps he snarled and showed his
teeth and jumped at the garden-hose.
The garden-hose just hung there as
silentiand still as the grave and glared
him in the eye! And the mors it
glared the madder Cousin Mongoose
McDooble got. He fairly bounced
around under the garden-hose oa UVs
hands and knees, snarling and snap­
ping, and all at once he jumped right
up and bit the garden-hose in tlw
neck! And the garden-hose bit
back!
That almost settled Cousin Orone
Mongoose, for all at once he remem­
bered something he had forgot, which
was that the mongoose, before fear­
lessly attacking a serpent, neutralizes
the poison by eating the Ophiorhiza
Mungos, and he had forgotten to
eat any! So he dashed away and lt
a piece off a rhubarb plant, ami th?a
dashed back and bit the gard^a-hoaa,
and he kept it up ufitil on oae round
trip the spigot of the nozzle caught in
his pockec and as he ran the garden
hose leaped out of the tree and went
leaping after him. My, but Cousin
Orone McDooble was scared! He
jumped right into the rhubarb patch
and ate three whole plants before he
was sure he had eaten enough poison
antidote, but once he was sure he was
no more afraid of that garden hose
than I would be. He lay right down
flat and seized it by the nozzle, and
wrapped his legs around it, aai
chewed it, growling like a pup with a
slippery bone.
It was a struggle for life or death,
and Cousin Orone McDooble chewed
18 feet of that rubber garden-hose be­
fore he was sure it wag dead, but when
he was sure it was dead he was the
happiest mongoose that ever killed a
garden-hose. He got up on his hairfs
and knees and capered around the
yard uttering short, sharp barks of joy,
and then, not feeling sure that all the
serpents in Betzville were dead, and
that he ought to protect his poultry at
all hazards, he went into the hen house
and went to sleep.
And the next morning he couldi't
remember for the life of him whether
he was a rooster or a mongoose, and
he might never have had the heart to
come out of the hen house if he hadn't
thought of compromising. So he
barked like a mongoose three times
and crowed twice, and let it go at that.
(Copyright, 1809, by W. G. Chapman.)
Duties of Royal Bodyguard.
To stand in a ring around the king
of England, should he go out upon
the battlefield, and protect him with
formidable battle axes, was the origi­
nal duty of the honorable corps of
gentlemen-at-arms, which has cele­
brated its four hundredth anniversary.
The ancient bodyguard, however,
still has duties when the king is in
London. At levees in St James' pal*
ace they are required to be in attend­
ance, standing solemnly in quaint
scarlet coats and with white-plumed
helmets, officially •. keeping clear: a
passage to the royal presence. It is
their duty also to be present when
there is a court at Buckingham pal­
ace and when the king opens parlia­
ment.
Their battle axes date far back to
the days of the Spanish armada. They
were actually brought over on the ill
fated Spanish galleons, and, filling
into the hands of the English, were
given to the king's bodyguard.
White Blossoms the Mist Frafrant
As a rule white blossoms are the
most fragrant
WERE BOTH OF MIXED BLOOD
Points of Resemblance Between In*
lishman andCowboy, ss tho
Latter Understood It.
"The countess de Pourtales was
New York LorUjard," aaid a ifejr York
tobacconist *so on" both Sides, of
course, she has blue blood. Yet she is
withoutfalse pride.
1
"At a retent ^tobacco* men'sconvdh-'
tftfc director told me' of a remark
th# 66uftteii made In- Blarrit* to as
arrogant Englishman. .c
i^This fellow boasted of his ancestry*
The oountess ..said, that sort,.of,. talk
wouldn't be understood in the wil£
west ..jBhfr said 4a, JSng^shman said
to,a Texas cowoy once:
Tudor1 bi&bd in toy velnis
on the maternal side and thrixUghmy
father's family I am a Plantaganet'
*s that *or said the cowboy,
trtghteningf with keen interest *My
blood's a leetle Hrixed, too.
If
7 grand­
father was a Jersey tenderfoot and my
grandmother a Digger Indian squaw.
We're both half-breeds, stranger.
Come and liquor up!' "—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
SORE EYES CURED.
Eye-Balls and Lids Became Terribly
Inflamed—Was Unable to Go About
—All Other Treatments Failed, But
Cuticura Proved Successful.
"About two years ago my eyes got
In such a condition that I was unable
to go about. They were terribly in­
flamed, both the balls and lids. I
tried home remedies without relief.
Then I decided to go to our family
physician, but he didn't help them.
Then. I tried two more of our most
prominent physicians, but my eyes
grew continually worse. At this time
a friend of mine advised pie to try
Cuticura Ointment, and after using it
about one week my eyes were con­
siderably Improved, and in two weeks
they were almost well. They have
never given me any trouble since and
I am now sixty-five years old. I shall
always praise Cuticura. G. B. Halsey,
Mouth of Wilson, Va., Apr. 4, 1908."
Potter Drag Cbem. Corp., Sola Props., BoaUm.
ACCENT ON THE "PU8."
~~•&
Teacher—Now, Jimmy Green, can
you tell me what an octopus is?
Jimmy Green—Yes, sir it's an
eight-sided cat.
Forestalled.
"Well, Mrs. Dennis, what are yon
going to give Pat for Christmas this
year?" inquired the recipient of Mrs.
Dennis' regular washday vlsts, one
day at the beginning of the festal
season.
"'Deed thin, ma'am, I don't know,"
replied Mrs. Dennis, raising herself
from the washtub and setting her
dripping arms akimbo. "I did be
thinkin' I'd give him a pair of pants,
but, Lord bless ye, ma'am, only last
night didn't he come home wid a
pair on."—Success Magazine.
The Novel Type.
In a late magazine story a perfectly
lovely girl is described as follows:
"She was very small and dark, and
very active, with hair like the color ol
eight o'clock—daylight and darkness
and lamplight all snared up together,
and lips like all crude scarlet and
eyes as absurdly big and round as a
child's good-by kiss."
How do you like it? Would a girl
who answered that description be
worth shucks in everyday expert
ences?—Atchison Globe.
A Reflection.
"To my annoyance," she said, "1
found he had a lock of my hair. How
he got it I can't imagine."
The older girl smiled oddly.
"When you were out of the room,
perhaps?" she hazarded.
THIRD
OPERATION
PREVENTED
By Lydia E.Pinkham'sVeg*
etableCompound
Chicago. HL "I want to tell yon
what Lydia E. Pinkham's [Vegetable
Compound did for me. I was so sick
that two of the best doctors in Chicago
said I would die if I did not have an
operation. I had
already had two
operations, and
they wanted me to
go through a third
one. I suffered day
and night from in­
flammation and
email tumor, and
never thought of
seeing a well day
again. A friena
told me how Lydia
£. Finkham'sVeg
etable Compound had helped her, and
I tried it and after the third bottle
was cured."—Mrs.AXVENA SPEBLIKG*
II Langdon Street, Chicago, Ili
If yon ate ill do not drag along aft
home or in your place of employment
until an operation is necessary, but
build up the feminine system, and re­
move the cause of those distrei
For i.
daril remedy fo? female ills, andhas
positively restored the health of thoo
sandsof women who haye been troubled
with displacements, Inflammation, ul»
ceration, fibroidtumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, bearing-down
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