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1 h* P* fkti Thats tfie kind—Lib by's— There isn't an other sliced dried beef like it. Good? It's the inside cut of the finest beef sliced to wafer thin ness. stands supreme. The tasty dishes one can make with it are almost numberless. Let's see! There's creamed dried beef, and—but just try it. Then you'll know I Always Insist on Libby's Don't accept "ajast as good." Prom relish to roast, from condiment to conserve, the quality of Libby's Ready-to-Serve Foods is always superior. And they don't c6st one whit more than the ordinary kinds. Alt up in iterilized glass or tin container* At Every Grocers Libby, M-Neill & Libby Chicago HOSIERY FOR THE "HOLE DARN" FAMILY Men, women and children, at manufacturers' prices. Bend 26 cts. for beautiful pair pare Bilk hose, or one dollar for four pairs prepaid. Black, tan, narr and fro J. Agent* wanted. DiakCTTOTOU *11X8, Trjim, i.e. PATENTS^ Uea E. CoIenianlWastv JD.D.C. Books free. Hl|b hhndiim. Bast naultt And some people never forgive as long as their memories are in work Ing order. If testimonials received from those using Garfield Tea are of any value, Garfield Tee does what we claim for it. Enough said. The Proper Course. "Is there a powder trust?" "I don't know, but if there Is, somebody should go gunning for It" Poor Father. Mayor Turnbull of Canton was talking about a statement, made all unconsciously by a Titanic officer, that had been a terrible black eye tor the Titanic administration. "This statement," he said, "reminds me of a little Canton boy. 'Tommy, why are you so unkind to your nurse? Why don't you love tier?' his mother once asked him. 'Because I don't,' the enfant terri ble replied. 'I Just hate her! I could pinch her cheeks like papa does!"' Willing to Do Square Thing. Brand Whitlock, who doubles as mayor of Toledo and as a literary man, had a Chicago career. He was a reporter on the old Herald when Pete Dunne and Charley Seymour were his side-kicks. Charley Chapln was one of his city editors. Chapin is now city editor of the Hew York Evening World, and this •story was told to Whitlock lately by a correspondent who had him under Interviewing fire: A new reporter had been hired on the Evening World, and he went to work on a Wednesday. The pay day on the paper is Thursday. In the course of a week, when the recruit re ceived his first envelope, he found that he was a day short. He went to Chapln and complained, only to get this: "Oh, well, never mind. When I lire pou, I'll fire you a day earlier and that will make it come out even." OUTDOOR LIFE. Will Not Offset the III Effects of Coffee and Tea When One Cannot Digest Them. A farmer says: "For ten years or more I suffered from dyspepsia and stomach trouble, caused by the use of coffee (Tea con tains caffeine, the same drug found In coffee), until I got so bad I had to give up coffee entirely and almost give op eating. There were times when I could eat only boiled milk and bread and when I went to the field to work I had to take some bread and butter along to give me strength. "I doctored steady and took almost everything I could get for my stomach In the way of medicine, but If I got any better it only lasted a little while. I was almost a walking skeleton. "One day I read an ad for Postum and told my wife I would try it, and as to the following facts I will make affi davit before any Judge: "I quit coffee entirely and used Pos tum in its place. I have regained my health entirely and can eat anything that is cooked to eat. I have increased 1n weight until now I weigh more than I ever did. I have not taken any medi cine for my stomach since I began using Postum. "My family would stick to coffee at first, but they saw the effects It had on me and when they were feeling !ad they began to use Postum, one at a time, until now we al! use Postum." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Ten days' trial of Postum In place of coffee proves the truth, an easy and pleasant way. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," In pkgs. "There's a rea son." •w «Ww letter* A am l|ian trmm thmm Mm. Thn •rejreeeiee, trae, ui humm N the early days of May, 1775, more than two score gentlemen wearing powdered pigtails, silk stockings, and wide-skirted coats, wended their way on horseback or in cum bersome, comfortless coaches from all sections of the country toward the city of Philadelphia. They were members of the Second Con tinental Congress, and they had a right to their grave faces, for Lexington and Con cord had Just been fought, and all of them knew the disgusting details of the old British law of treason. Among those men were two whose fates from that time forward were to be linked in strange fashion. One of them rode down from the north, the other up from the south. The northerner was a somewhat sour-visaged man, nearing the age of forty, whose big wig and the legalistic turn of his talk betrayed the fact that he was a disciple of the then living Blackstone. Some what inclined to be irascible, censorious and vain, he was yet a man of high public charac ter and pure private morals—a diluted Puritan, viewing the world through the Puritan's sus picious and somewhtit jaundiced vision. It was the second time that he had ridden down to Philadelphia, for he had been a member of the First Continental Congress, in which his knowledge of affairs, patriotic convictions, high courage and keen legal mind had given him an honorable place. The man who rode up from the south was younger by seven years, slender of frame, with freckled skin, curly red hair and hazel gray eyes that betrayed a kindly yet withal a de termined spirit. Though a Virginia gentleman of large means, he displayed a disposition to ward what in later days was called "demo cratic simplicity.** He brought with him a reputation, for science, literature and a happy talent for composition. It was whispered that, In addition to the classics, he understood Spanish, French, Italian, was learning German and contemplated studying Gaelic that he knew how to calculate an eclipse, plan a build ing, set a broken bone, try a lawsuit, and danoe the minuet. Those of his fellow-mem bers who came to know him Intimately dis covered that he was, in addition, a most agree able and considerate companion, that he was passionately fond of playing the violin, and that occasionally he wrote poetry. These men were John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. They speedily became friends. Adams wrote of his fellow-member: "He was so prompt, frank, explicit and decisive upon committees and in conversation that he soon won my heart." A year passed, and the revolt that was be gun to preserve our fights as Englishmen ripened into revolution. The time came when a separation that already existed in fact must be formally recognized In name also. And upon the roll of the committee of five named to prepare the declaration of that fact to the world stood the names of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Jefferson wrote the Immortal document, but the task of defending it before the Congress fell chiefly upon the doughty Adams. And well did he perform it. "He was our Colossus on the floor," wrote Jefferson in grateful acknowl edgement. Unlike as Jefferson and Adams were in tem perament, training, and political Ideals, those anxious days of association in a noble work created a bond of sympathy that time nor all the bitterness of party strife could not de stroy. For some years, however, their paths lay In different places. It was not until they rep resented their infant country at two European courts that they were again thrown into close association. When the Adamses visited Paris In 1785 they were frequently entertained by Jefferson, and the relations between the two families were so friendly that Abigail Adams wrote: "I shall really regret to leave Mr. Jefferson he is one of the choice ones of earth." Subsequently, in describing the diffi culties of her husband's position at an un friendly court, she said: "In Mr. Jefferson he has a firm and faithful friend with whom he can consult and advise They have un limited confidence in each other." Our twain were next brought into close association In the administration of Washing ton—Adams as vice-president and Jefferson as secretary of state. And then began an unfor tunate "rift within the lute." Adams, though of rather plebeian birth, in clined to aristocracy he believed that the rich, the well-born and the able" ought to rule. Shabbily as he had been treated while minister at the court of St. James, he sympa thised with monarchical Britain in her strug- gle with republican France. Jefferson, though of axlstocratlc lineage, was not an aristocrat. "Equal rights to all, special privileges for none'*—a longer name for "the square deal"— was his political creed. Not for the sake of "It is one of the tricks of memory that, while we recall with vividness those who preceded us in college, those who followed do not stand forth in sharp outline against the receding past," said Senator Lodge. "The old «r men come out clearly defined upon Lodge's Memory of Millett Tribute of the Massachusetts Sen ator to Artist for W.hom the World Is Mourning. W But time works great changes, Jefferson's administration, especially during the first few years, proved so successful that most Federal ists turned Republicans. Though he had bit ter enemies who even plotted the formation of a "Northeastern Confederacy," they were not numerous enough to figure largely In the elec tion returns. After all, Adams hated Hamilton and his satellites far more than he hated Jef ferson. His son, John Qulncy Adams, unable to swallow such British outrages as that com mitted by the "Leopard" on the "Chesapeake," severed his relations with the feeble remnant of the pro-British Federalists and became a Republican. When Timothy Pickering pub lished a pamphlet arraigning the administra tion, John Adams replied to it, thus appearing as a supporter of Jefferson's policy. In 1804, Jefferson lost his "ever dear daugh ter," Mary. "I, of my want," he wrote sadly, "have lost even the half of all I had. My evening prospects now hang on the slender thread of a single life." The news proved too much for great-hearted Abigail Adams. Without her husband's knowl edge, she wrote Jefferson a letter of con dolence, In which kind feeling, goodness of heart and a proud, unforgiving spirit were curiously commingled. Jefferson's reply was that of a noble man to a noble woman. After thanking her In suitable language, he made an earnest effort to revive the perishing friendship between the two families. Several letters were ex changed, but the wounds the Adamses believed they had received still smarted, and cordial relations were not then restored. In 1811 Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia expressed to Jefferson a desire to bring about a reconciliation, and Jefferson gladly em braced It. In a letter to Rush he said many complimentary things of Adams, and added that in the preceding summer two of his Vir ginia neighbors. had visited Balntree and that Adams had said to them: "I always loved Jefferson, and still love him." "This," wrote Jefferson, "is enough for me. I only needed this knowledge to revive toward him all the affections of the most cordial moments of our the heights, distinct, Olympian. The younger seem like a great army from which the leaders and those we know gradually and Increasingly detach themselves, and yet even with difficul ty tell the year of their graduation. "Millet preceded me in Harvard by two years. I remember 1dm well. He had served, although a mere boy at the tlnie, In the Civil war and was i. "xoTrrrczizo"— mgaoitz of moz-as setting up aristocracies and monarchies had our forefathers emigrated to America, subdued the wilderness and won Independence. "Born free and equal" was a phrase that must have concrete reality. Against the aristocratic tendencies that he saw about him Jefferson set himself to fight wiUi a quiet but grim earnestness. For a time, however, the Adams-Hamilton party tri umphed. Adams was elected president to suc ceed Washington Jefferson was forced to be content with the vice-presidency. Then came the quasi-war with France, and with It a de cided reaction against Jeffersonian republican ism. But In the pride of their might the Fed eralists overreached themselves in the fatal alien and sedition acts, while Adams bravely refused to be pushed Into an unnecessary war with France by the reckless Hamiltonlans. By so doing he wrecked his party, but rendered his country the greatest service of his career. Years later he said: 'I desire no other Inscrip tion over my gravestone than this: "Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the re sponsibility of the peace with France In the year 1800." During these years the friends frequently reminded each other that there was nothing personal In their political conflicts. But per sonal pique inevitably crept In, and neither was always able to refrain from attacking the other. His defeat In the election of 1800 was a great blow to Adams. Deprived of the cov eted second term, he behaved with a pettiness that was out of keeping with his real great ness. After putting Federalists In every va cancy on which he could lay his hands, he shook the dust of the capital off his feet, and on the early morning of March 4, 1801, before his triumphant enemies were astir, drove off northward without waiting to see his succes sor Installed In office. It was seemingly a final sad ending to a friendship between two men who, each in his own way, were as sterling patriots as ever lived. -*4* trod story or FOURTH or JULY AND TWO SFEATMBN In this way, as In others, a marked man at college. In his kind fashion he insisted in later days that he re membered me at Harvard, but I have always suspected that the kind ness of heart was stronger than the memory, for the gulf which divided the freshman from the Junior was both deep and wide. "In due time we went forth into the world and took our y# lives." Thus encouraged, Rush addressed to the two fellow-laborers in the cause of free dom an eloquent appeal to bedew their "let ters of reconciliation with tears of affection and jpy." The hopes of the peacemaker were realized. Although Adams answered the appeal in a facetious and somewhat deprecatory letter, he ended with a half promise to comply with Rush's wishes. Taking as an excuse' the send ing of some specimens of New England home spun, he wrote a friendly letter to his old com rade and rival. The joy with which Jefferson received this overture is visible in every line of his happily worded reply. Without even waiting for the arrival of the homespun, he hastened to write an answer that in part was as follows: "A letter from you calls up recollections very dear to my mind. It carries me back to the times when, beset with difficulties and dangers, we were fellow-laborers In the same cause, struggling for what is most valuable to man, his right of self-government. Labor ing always at the same oar, with some wave ever ahead threatening to overwhelm us, and yet passing harmless under our bark, we knew not how, we rode through the storm with heart and hand, and made a happy port. "Of the signers ef the Declaration of Inde pendence, I see now living not more than half a dozen on your side of the Potomac, and, on this side, myself alone. "You and I have been wonderfully spared, and myself with remarkable health, and a con siderable activity of body and mind. I am on horseback three or four hours of every day visit three or four times a year a possession I have ninety miles distant, performing the winter journey on horseback. I walk little, however, a single mile being too much for me and I live In the midst of my grandchildren, one of whom has lately promoted me to be a great-grandfather. I have heard with pleasure that you also retain good health, and a greater power of exercise in walking than I do. But I would rather have heard this from yourself, and that, writing a letter of mine, full of ego tisms and of details of your health, your hab its, occupations and enjoyments, I should hare the pleasure of knowing that in the race of Hfd you do not keep, in its physical decline, the same distance ahead of me which you have done in political honors and achievements." Thenceforward no cloud was ever allowed to come between them. Both had wrongs to for give and forget, but they did It nobly. Though they never again saw each other in the flesh, they wrote long and frequent letters, telling of their dally lives and discussing politics, reli gion, philosophy and other topics. In one of Jefferson's letters occurred what seems almost a prophecy of something strange to come. "The simultaneous movements In our correspondence," he wrote, "have been re markable on several occasions. It would seem as If the state of the air, or the state of the times, or some other unknown cause, produced a sympathetic effect on our mutual recollec tions." Could It be that between these two great minds there existed a sort of mental telepathy? At all events, a more touching In timacy of patriotic souls was never beheld. In the fulness of years and of honors, did these two venerable patriarchs, once friends, then enemies, and now again friends, march In con cord down the path of time toward a day that was to link their names yet closer in a glorious immortality. Eight years passed. Jefferson was eighty three and Adams ninety, yet both retained the full enjoyment of their faculties. It was the year 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the na tion's birth. Throughout the land great prepa rations were making to observe the national holiday. Party feeling was sunk In common love of country, and the attention of the pub lic was universally turned toward these ven erable patriots who, with Chas. Carroll of Car rollton, were the sole survivors of the "Sign ers." Both men were in the feeblest of health, and were aware that their end drew near, but both desired to behold the glorious day and life, like a flittering taper, prolonged itself in severfel ways. The currents of life carried us off in, dif ferent directions. The® suddenly," I heard oC him at Ute^Jm# of gte Ru»- slan-Turkish War In 1877, when his brilliant and adventurous work as a correspondent made' him known to the world. Then I heard of him as an artist and at last, In 1893, I saw him once more when he was a leading spirit at the Chicago exposition, and there began that great public work for the advancement of art and of art education among the people of the United States to which his last 20 years were so Jargely and generously devoted."—an address.,at the la .Washington *CFS% Jl obedience to wills that had not flinched before the wrath of kings. On the thirtieth of June, the orator for the celebration at Quincy called upon Adams in his home and asked for a toast. "I give you," said the feeble patriarch, "Independence for ever!" Asked if he desired to add anything to the sentiment, the old hero replied: "Net a word." The great day dawned and John Adams still lived. But the candle had burned to its socket and could give but a feeble flicker. 'Tls a great day! 'Tis a good day!" he said to the anxious relatives who surrounded his bed. Rea son wavered, but the fluttering mind in its last earthly moments recalled the friend of Monti* cello—the old comrade who had stood with him shoulder to shoulder in the fight for free dom. "Thomas Jefferson still survives," he murmured in a voicg so feeble that the last syl lables were scarcely distinguishable. Those were his last words. His spirit departed with the descending sun. He dle3 In error. Thomas Jefferson did not survive. For days the good Democrat had felt the approach of death and had prepared for it, desiring only that he might live until the Fourth. On the third the stupor into which he had fallen became almost continuous. 'Ah, doctor," he said, awakening in the night, "are you still there Is it is Fourth?" "It soon will be," answered the physician. As midnight ap proached those watching noted anxiously the passing of the minutes, hoping and praying that the feeble thread might hold and death be hallowed by the great anniversary. The wish was granted. Not until fifty minutes past the meridian did the soul of the great com moner exchange immortalities. It was before the days of telegraphs and railroads. The news spread slowly. Five days elapsed ere the denizens of Baltimore and Washington learned of what had happened at Braintree. Meantime the inhabitants of Vir ginia and neighboring states mourned the death of Jefferson, marveling greatly over the strange coincidence that one who had been the author of the Declaration should die upon the fiftieth anniversary of its adoption. Then came the news from the north, and men realized that not one but two patriarchs of liberty had departed on the day when hearts were bounding with Joy over blessings which sires of a former age had handed down—that almost simultaneously these two had been translated in the midst of the acclamations of millions to the Judgment of their God. Hpd steeds and chariots of fire descended to f&ke up these partners In earthly fame and coheirs of eternity It might perhaps have been more wonderful but not more glorious. As the news spread over the land to the vil lages and the hamlets, "it raised everywhere a thrill of emotion, such as has never been caused by any public event. It was not the wail of grief, such as is drawn forth by the sense of privation by the loss of valuable lives. The advanced age of the persons, if nothing else, neutralized that. It was the offspring of the mixture of feelings, the chief, of which was the surprise at the strangeness of the oc currence, veneration for the men themselves, and delight in the splendor which it would re flect upon a page of the national annals. Cer tainly the fabulous passing away of the first Roman king, nearly on the same anniversary, in the midst of elementary chaos, does not compare with it In grandeur. Men loved to meet each other and to dwell on the most minute particulars, as they were sedulously laid before the public by the newspapers, and to read the comments raised to unusual elo quence by the tone of the general mind." "Never has it fallen to the lot of any com mander," wrote the adjutant general, "to an nounce to an army such an event as now calls forth the mingled grief and astonishment of the republic. Never since history first wrote the first record of time has one day thus min gled every triumph with every tender emotion, and consecrated a nation's Joy by blending 11 with the most sacred of sorrows." For weeks the newspapers contained little else but descriptions of the lives and deaths ef the departed patriots. In every city in the land memorial meetings searched sacred and profane history for a parallel. Of the hun dreds of such orations one at least will sur vive, Webster's classic on "Adams and Jeffer son." In his message to Congress, the noble son of a noble father, in calling attention to the country's loss, reverently announced that "the time, the manner, the coincidence are vis ible and palpable marks of Divine favor, for which I would humble myself in grateful and silent adoration before the Ruler of the Uni verse." Nor was such language extravagant. The passing of the two patriots formed not only the strangest coincidence in the annals oi mankind, but it marked the end of an era—of the heroic age of American -history. World's 8upreme Messenger. Can there be any other way to culti vate the home field thoroughly which can approach the messenger of the day—the newspaper? It stands stf preme In power to cultivate trade lo cally and if you do not recognize the fact you are not awake to your own best Interests.—Daily Clnb. His Worry. "My poor wife! Buried on a VMday, too! I hope it wont .-t' *. ft *4$ s: A DISEASE OF THE The Treatment Wbtchls Moat Successful Is Directed ward Bunding Up and\s Purifying the Vital Fluid.' That rhenmatism is a disease of tib* blood is shown by the fact that it is hereditary in certain families, and that there is a marked thinning of the blood immediately following its attack. In the following brief statement are described symptoms which every patient will recognize and the means by which j?. A"8 rheumatism with loss of ffesh and strength, andthinning of the blood, the remedy that was so effective here do* serves a thorough trial. "About fifteen years ago," says Mrs. Rhoda Pettit, of Louisville, Neb., "after exposure to dampness and wet and being in arun-down condition from overwork, I began to suffer from inflammatory rheumatism. Both my father ana mother were sufferers from the same disease. My right side was afflicted and had I no use of my right limb. The cords of the limbseemed to be drawn up. Often the pains would shift from one part of the Dody to another and. while they were worse in my right limb, they were very severe through the small of my back. There was a sensation asthougn and feet were swollen so that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all druggists, or sent, postpaid, on re ceipt ofprice, 50 cents per box six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company. Schenectady, N. Y. The genuine are sold only in packages bearing the full trade-mark. Just to Accommodate. Hungry Girl (one of a party of tour* (sts who have arrived late at a coun try inn)—No fresh eggs? But you've got hens, haven't you? Innkeeper's Wiffe—Yes, but they're jril asleep. Hungry Girl—Well, but cant yoi wake them?—Fllegende Blaetter. THE PEEVISH CHILD NEEDS TREATMENT When a child sulks drowsily, or 1* fretful, It is usually due to some slight disorder of the digestive organs, and a mild laxative Is very often all that Is necessary to restore cheerfulness and buoyancy of spirits. In cases where the use of a gentle, effective laxative stimulant Is Indi cated, manyof the best physicians are now prescribing Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. This preparation Is admitted ly the perfect laxative, being mild, yet positive In its action on the bowels, and far preferable to violent cathart* Ics and purgative waters. It Is very pleasant to the taste and Is an Ideal remedy to regulate and strengthen the stomach, liver and bowels. Its easy, natural action makes It especially de sirable In the case of children, a dose at bed-time being sure to have the de sired result next morning, with no at tendant unpleasantness or discomfort. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is sold by druggists everywhere In 50c and $1.00 bottles. If you have never tried this splendid remedy, write to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 201 Washington St., Mon tlcello. 111., for a sample. He will be very glad to send a trial bottle with out any expense to yon whatever. Sunday Is the day of rest, but did you ever know a man who felt test ed on Monday morning? For regulation of the stomach and bow«ls jrou will find Garfield Tea very beneficial. The wagon wheel usually has that tired feeling, but It never complains. RECORD OF GREAT MEDICINE Doctors Could Not Help Mfs. empleton—Regained Health through LydiaE* Pinkham'i Compound* ?t3 it&- To- 01186 Nebraska.—"I amvery glad to tell howLydia E.Finkham's Vegetable Compound has helped me. For five yean I suffered from female troubles so I was scarcely able to dfrmy work. I took doc tors' medicines end used local treatments but was not helped. I had such awful bearing down pains and my bade was so weak I could hardly walk and could not ride. I often had to ait up nights to sleep and my friends thought I could not live long, At my request my fansband got me a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg etable Compound audi to take it By the time iS&tS I had taken the seventh bottle my health had returned andlbegandoingmy washing and was a wellwoman. Atone time for threeweeka I did all die work for eighteen boarder* with no signs of my old trouble return ing. Many have taken your 'A after seeing what It did forme. I would not take flOOO and be where I waa. Yon --v have my permission to use my nam* if It will aid anyone."—Mrs. SOflB TDK* HI -5 kron Hooper, Mebradn. t- Vj ThePmkhamncoiriisaproadandpeait*^: less one. Itis arecotdof eoostant vie- thatdealoctdespair. It is an estabKAed fact Oat Lydia £L Pinkhain'sVegeta HeCompoiadbaan^ stondheeltiitottoo sandsof soehsofferH "Vs, ii d*1" •^4 I could not put on my shoes. I suffered in tense agony ail of the time and when the attacks were severe I was confined to bed for weeks. My stomach was in bad shape. I was troubled with heart burn and gas. I lost weight end my strength was all gone. "I took medicine from a doctor and tried several other remedies and lini ments but nothing helped me until I tried Dr. William^ Pink Pills. 1 had taken them only a short time before I could feel the new blood and after a fair trial I was able to walk. The pais made me a strong, healthy woman and I am entirely cured of the rheumatism. I know I would not be living today if I had not tried Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." 5»: mil