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THE NEW ERA
WALDEN, .... COLORADO.
Big Birds on Small Wings.
In the attempt to discover some
vnivens&l law of bird flight, scientists
have disclosed concerning a number
of species a most puzzling paradox,
perhaps the most mysterious of the
enigmas that the subject presents,
aays a writer in Everybody’s Maga
zine. It is that In a number of birds
and Insects the size of the wings de
creases in proportion to the increase
in size of the body of the flying crea
ture. The Australian crane, for in
stance, weighs over 300 times more
than the sparrow, but in proportion
has only one-seventh the wing area
of the smaller bird. This curious fact
is equally striking if we compare birds
with insects. If the gnat were in
creased in size until it was as large as
the Australian crane and if the wings
of the insect were enlarged to main
tain the proportion they now bear to
Its body, they would be about 150
times larger than the crane’s. It re
quires 3.62 square feet of wing area
per pound to float the bank-swallow,
but to sustain the tawny vulture, a
monster bird in comparison, requires
only .68 of a square foot of wing sur
face per pound of body. The albatross,
weighing 18 pounds, has a spread of
wing of 11 feet and 6 Inches, while the
trumpeter swan, weighing 28 pounds,
has a spread of wing of only eight
feet. The stork weighs eight times
more than the pigeon, but in propor
tion has only half as much wing sur
face.
Theodore Shonts reaches up Into
some mysterious store of universal in
formation and, having grabbed off a
handful of more or less canned wis
dom, lays down a few qualities that a
man should have before a girl should
think of marrying him, says Chicago
News. Briefly, the description of the
only man fitted for wedlock is this:
He should be perfect mentally, mor
ally and physically and also be some
pumpkin financially. Mr. Shonts may
be rigb* but as there are only 4 a few
for that kind of man would first take
nial bargain great major
ity of the girls will have to accept hus
bands with a few flaws or go single.
Of course the girl who was waiting
fo rthat kind of man would first take
the trouble to be perfect herself, but
that might be a simple matter for
her. Even then she might be happy
with a man having imperfections pro
vided ahe was too polite to notice
them. The sensible girl figures it out
that the best she can get is the aver
age man and makes up her mind to
be happy with him if he will let
her.
The Simple Life.
Wellington was one of the earliest
exponents of the simple life. His
sleeping chamber was plainness and
simplicity Itself. He always slept
on a small camp-bed, was ever temper
ate and careless In his diet, and fre
quently stated that he believed his
good health was due to the three
years he spent under canvas In India,
when he ate little but rice and drank
scarcely any wine, says the New York
Weekly. He continued to eat rice to
the day of,his death. He ate it with
meat and almost with everything, and
his intimate friends took care always
to place a dish of rice on the table
when he dined with them. He scarce
ly knew one wine from another, and
could not discern bad butter from
good. His indifference in the matter
of food was proverbial, a contrast to
the present day, when diet forms one
of the principal subjects of conversa
tions.
Shipping men of both sides of the
Aalantic have been much gratified by
the announcement that the treasury
department is asking for bids for the
derelict destroyer which was author
ised by the latest congress. This ves
sel. which is to be stationed on the
North Atlantic, will embody the latest
Improvements in craft of her kind,
and will be capable of cruising for
6,000 miles without replenishing her
bunkers. She will be furnished, the
Scientific American says, with power
ful searchlights and a wireless tele
graph equipment, the latter to enable
bar to receive and give Information as
to the location of derelicts.
A 64-foot residence lot in New
Tork is described by a local paper as
"tremendously large.” That may be
a good sized frontage for little old
New York, but it would be cramped
quarters in the west, where people
really live.
An accommodating scientist has
evolved a tablet which will enable
every one to be his own brewer. But
there Is one serious trouble with this
tabloid beer. It has to be kept on
Ice, and few people are able to take
their ice wagon around with them.
Since it has been discovered that
a lady burglar was doing a very active
line of business until she was halted
by the police will timid bachelors feel
obliged to look under the bed even
Bight before turning InT
GREELEY'S BIGGEST DAY.
Harvest Festival Draws Immense
Crowd and Everybody Happy.
Greeley, Colo. —One of the greatest
crowds that ever gathered in Greeley
was here to witness the annual har
vest festival parade. It is estimated
that not less than 6,000 people were
on the streets along the line of march.
The parade this year was fully up to
the expectations and was one of the
best ever seen here.
There were over 200 floats, vehicles
or exhibits in line. Five bands and
several drum corps supplied music.
The parade itself was fully two miles
long and the line of march was about
four miles through the principal busi
ness and residence streets. Special
trains were run from Denver, Chey
enne and from points on the Colorado
& Southern, each train bringiug hun
dreds of visitors. Practically every
store in the city has windows dec
orated with products of the soil, while
the rest of the town is decorated
gayly in bunting of white and yellow,
the festival colors.
Over $500 was paid out in cash
prizes to exhibitors in the parade.
Scott Bullard was the heaviest prize
winner, taking a second prize for the
best single driver, first prize for the
best single decorated carriage and the
special prize offered by the Cheyenne
frontier day committee for the best
turnout. This is a handsome silver
loving cup.
Other prize winners were: J. S.
Gale, for best single driver; Mrs. J.
Wylie, second, best decorated single
carriage; J. C. Harris, third, best in
the same class. The Woodmen of the
World won first prize in lodge floats.
The Elks won second and the Japa
nese Labor society the third. F. H.
Badger won the first automobile prize,
and the Clayton Lumber Company won
the first prize in the business men’s
floats.
Bomb Throwers Kill Two.
Madrid. —The explosion of a bomb ai
Lisbon, which killed two persons and
fatally injured two others, brought tc
l.ght a plot hatched by Republican con
spirators to assassinate King Charles
and Premier Franco and to seize the ,
government of Portugal.
The police allege that the head of ,
the conspiracy is Jesse Bettencourt, a ,
medical student. In his apartments {
they found a number of letters and pa
pers which resulted in the arrest of ,
thirty Republican leaders. They have (
been placed on ships, and are heavily
guarded.
Bettencourt lives in the tenement ,
district of the city, and his rooms have '
been headquarters for Republican agi
tutors and conspirators. The explosior .
occurred in Bettencourt’s room and the ,
men killed and those injured were con
spirators against the King and govern !
ment.
The noise of the explosion was ter
rifle, and when the police rushed in |
they found the room a wreck. They |
made a search and found many docu
ments telling of the conspiracy againsi
the King and premier, and other con
spiracies. Wholesale arrests are ex
pected.
Those arrested will be tried in se
cret and either executed or exiled foi
life. The revolutionary movement has
been growing in Portugal ever since
the King refused to abdicate. Had not
the bomb accidentally exploded the
King would certainly have been assas
sinated, is the opinion of the police.
Love Has Found a Way.
Cheyenne, Wyo.—When Robert W
Miskimmins, a pioneer ranchman ol
LaGrange, Wyo., and Mrs. Dalla Green
of Napa, Calif., were married in this
city recently, a remarkable romance
found its culmination.
Mr. Miskimmins met his new wife
nearly fifty years ago and fell in love
with her. She rejected him then anc
later he married her sister. He reared
a family of five boys and four girls, al
of whom are now married.
About eight years ago his first wife
died and he began a correspondence
with Mrs. Green, his dead wife’s sis
ter, who had also married los‘
her husband. As a result of"*this cor
respondence Mrs. Green arrived here
from Napa and the coupple met agair.
for the first time in thirty years.
The couple will make their home at
Mr. Miskimmins’ ranch at La Grange
Mr. Miskimmins is about 70 years ol
age. His bride is several years
younger.
Killed by a Grizzly Bear.
Evanston, Wyo.—James Chapman,
a Union Pacific engineer, was killed
by- a monster grizzly bear in the vi
cinity of -Big Piney, north of here,
while hunting with two companions.
Chapman became separated from
his companions and came upon the
lair of a big grizzly in which were two
cubs. He laid down his rifle in ordei
to capture the cubs, when the old beat
suddenly came upon the scene. The
ground in the vicinity of where Chap
man’s mangled body was found by his
companions shows that Chapman un
doubtedly put up a desperate fight, but
was literally torn, clawed and cheweo
to death by the ferocious animal.
Chapman has resided in Evanstor
for several years and leaves a family
A Herculean Task.
Denver. —Miss Katherine L. Craig,
state superintendent of public instruc
tion, who is ex-offleio the state li
brarian, has undertaken the herculean
task of replacing a large number ot
territorial reports and records in the
state library. Reports for the terri
torial days of Colorado have been mis
placed. destroyed or were never in the
library, and Miss Craig will appeal tc
the pioneers of the state to donate tc
the library any such old report they
may have.
Ask for More Pay.
Victor, Colo.—A petition for an in
crease of wages of 60 cents a day will
be presented to General Manager J
Kurie of the Portland mine by the
eighty miners employed as timbermen
and timber helpers on that properts -
The men are now getting $3.50 and $?
a day. The reason for the petition ic
the re-eatablishment of the card system
at tho Portland mine.
FLEET MOVES
TOWARD HOME
UNCLE SAM’S FIGHTING CRAFT
ASSEMBLING FOR GENERAL
MOBILIZATION.
COMETO PACIFIC COASI
THE HEAVY FIGHTERS WILL BE
IN READINESS SHOULD JAPAN
INTERFERE.
Washington.—ln accordance witl
the Navy Department’s plan of mobi
.‘lzing this fall on the Pacific coast, the
bulk of the cruisers now stationed in
the Pacific, the armored cruisers West
Virginia, Colorado, Maryland and
Pennsylvania, will steam from the
Philippines for Yolcohoma, Japan and
from there they will come to home wa
ters. The necessary repairs on the ar
mored cruisers Tennessee and Wash
ington, now at Hampton Roads and
Newport, respectively, will be com
pleted by September 28th, and Imme
diately after that will proceed to the
Pacific.
These details are the most recent de
velopments of the change of naval poi
icy, the most significant feature of
which has the President’s decision to
send the Atlantic fleet of sixteen bat
tleships to the Pacific. The importance
of the battleship cruise which will be
gin in the late fall or in the early win
ter, has rather overshadowed the plans
for the mobilization of the cruisers on
the Pacific coast.
Plans Are All Changed.
Prior to President Roosevelt’s dec!
non that the highest consideration of
national interests required a shifting
of sea power to the Pacific, the scheme
of naval distribution placed the Pacific
on a cruiser and the Atlantic on a bat
tleship basis. Most of the cruisers in
the Pacific had their stations in the
far East. Upon the advent of Victor
N. Metcalf of California as secretary of
the navy, the naval representation of
the Pacific coast was strengthened.
When the mobilization has been ac
complished, which will be some time
about January 1, 1908, the Pacific fleet
will be composed of these ships:
Armored cruisers—Tennessee, Wash
ington. California. South Dakota, West
Virginia, Colorado, Maryland, Penn
sylvania.
Cruiser Denver Among Them.
Protected Cruisers Chattanooga.
Galveston, Denver, Cleveland, Albany
Cincinnati, Raleigh. Charleston, Mil
waukee, St. Louis. Chicago.
Gunboats, Yorktown, Concord, He!
ena, Wilmington.
To this should be added a division
of nine small gunboats captured in the
Philippines from Spain; the coast de
fense monitors, Monadnock and Mon
terey, which are respectively in ro
serve at Subig bay and Cavite. Philip
pine Islands, in the first torpedo flo
tilla, under Lieutenant F. R. McCrary
now stationed at Cavite, and the fourtt
torpedo flotilla, consisting of the Perry
and Preble, now’ at Puget sound, to
gether with various auxiliaries.
“Denver Police Horrid,” So There.
Denver.—While enjoying his honey
moon in Denver, D. R. Rankin ol
Brighton, Colorado, was Thursday
night arrested charged with passing
worthless checks.
When Detective Timothy Connors
took him into custody the young wife
ol two weeks was overcome and had
to be driven to the home of the
groom’s sister, Miss May Rankin, ol
1938 Lincoln avenue. She said Denver
policemen were horrid.
Rankin owns a large farm at Brigh
ton and is the son of D. S. Rankin,
one of the county commissioners of
Arapahoe county, before the consoli
dation of Denver city and county. As
a young and progressive farmer he has
a reputation through this entire sec
tion of Colorado.
He married In his native town two
weeks ago. The honeymoon itinerary
included all of scenic Colorado, and
one week in Denver. It appears that
he had overdrawn his bank account
before coming to this city, but con
tlnued to pay in check all the bills
that he and his bride contracted.
While attempting to pay a livery
man at Twentieth and Curtis streets
Thursday night he came in contact
with Detective Connors, who ex
plained that the checks were worth
less and* the young man was placed
under arrest. Detective Connors says
that he has passed bad checks In Den
ver to the amount of S2OO.
Rankin stated in the city jail that
stubs in his check book only indicate
an overdraft of SBS, which, he claimed
he would be in a position to replace
as soon as released. Rankin said that
he was wholly unconscious of the fact
that he had gone beyond his means.
Fort Collins Finds Gas.
Fort Collins, Colo.—While a deep
well was being driven on the 40-acre
farm of L. Horsley, three miles west
of Fort Collins, W. D. Wood, who is
superintending the work, was aston
ished by a very strong odor of gas
coming from the six-inch case pipe.
The water which had ‘been poured into
the pipe to soften the soil was bubbling
furiously. Upon investigation it was
discovered that an excellent body of
natural gas had been struck. Mr.
Wood applied a match to the stream
and the Bix-inch blaze that followed
went three feet into the air. The dis
covery has caused much excitement.
Farmer Rafferty Dies.
Denver.—Though possessed of won
derful vitality, Thomas Rafferty, th€
aged farmer who lay for three days
and nights with two broken legs, In the
open air, after he had fallen from a
sixty-foot windmill died at St. An
thony’s hospital. His body was shipped
to Fort Morgan for burial.
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS
Every day brings new enterprises to
Colorado.
Colorado’s crop of tourists this year
' 1b more abundant than ever.
A Denver tramway car, carrying
, thirty people, was wrecked recently
and many passengers injured.
Miss Emma Gabel of Milwaukee died
at Fort Collins recently from an at
tack of appendicitis. She was prac
tically among strangers, but kind
hands administered to her.
Edward Kyle, aged 21, accidentally
discharged a revolver and killed John
Conrad, a government sheep inspector,
whose home was at Olney, Colorado.
The shooting occurred at Denver.
The structural steel for the new ho
tel at Boulder, receipt of which was
delayed because of the switchmen’s
strike, has reached Boulder, and work
on the hotel has begun anew, but now
there Is a scarcity of brick.
The first carload of early Greeley po
tatoes to leave for market was shipped
by J. Gervin of La Salle to Denver.
They brought $1.50 a hundredweight
and were of superior quality, the car
bringing between $450 and SSOO.
Raymond, son of Eli Jeffreys, paying
teller of the First National bank at
’lrinidad, was thrown from a horse on
his father’s ranch and sustained a
broken leg, besides many other bruises.
The boy was brought home and will re
cover.
At the Country club a dinner-dance
was given by Miss Evelyn Walsh of
Denver and was attended by about
fifty guests, among them being the
elite of Colorado Springs and Denver
society. The function, though informal,
was one of the most brilliant of the
present season.
The ice famine at Fort Morgan has
caused the forming of a company to
Immediately build an ice plant and
work on the structure was started at
once. The building will be 50 by 150
feet and cost about $20,000. L. Otter,
J. E. Williams and E. I. Cook are the
projectors and expect to supply local
consumers this summer.
The first car of the Fort Collins
street railway has arrived from Den
ver and is being fitted for use on the
West Mountain avenue line. It is
brand new, having Just been turned out
of the shops in Denver expressly for
service. It is attracting a great deal
of attention. Another car, a duplicate
of this one, Is expected in a day or
two.
During a severe electrical storm at
Trinidad lightning struck the home of
Mr. Howard, at Jansen, three miles
west of there. Mrs. Howard was par
tially paralyzed by the shock, and her
recovery is doubtful. The bolt struck
a clothes line by which it was con
ducted to the house and the latter
would have been destroyed by fire had
.t not been for the prompt action of
the neighbors.
Michael O’Grady of Evans has
brought suit to foreclose a mortgage
on a large amount of Evans property
valued {it many thousands of dollars,
against the helrs-in-law of E. M. Per
kins. The Perkins mortgage was or
iginally given to 8. R. Huffsraith and
covers an undivided one-half interest
in several blocks of Evans property
and wao assigned to O'Grady, who
owns the other half interest of the
property.
Suit for divorce, on the grounds of
extreme cruelty, has been brought in
the county court at Cripple Creek by
Violet Bragunier, wife of David *Bra
gunier. They were married in Chey
enne about three months ago. Last
February Bragunier’s first wife, whom
he married in public at the Elks’ car
nival about three years ago, secured a
divorce upon similar grounds. Two
divorce cases inside of six months is
a recjrd in Teller oounty.
The El Paso County Cattle Growers'
Association will hold another meeting
to take further action with rega.-d to
the cattle quarantine in this county.
State Veterinary Surgeon Land has
notified the executive committee that
the quarantine has been placed on the
cattle by the government as ? precau
tion against mange. This disease, it
is claimed, is not prevalent here, and
vigorous action will be instituted in an
effort to relieve the «mbargo.
In a race war between Greek and
Italians at Bucktown, near Lcadville
Joseph Mufago received a slight scalp
wound, but is not seriously hurt. Sam
uel Terquillo has been arrested,
charged with inflicting the wound. The
shooting, it is said, grew out of a ruar
rel over the affections of a woman.
Friends of both men took up the flgat
and more than a dozen shots were
fired. Mufago was the only man in
jured. Sheriff Dan Bonner stopped the
fight.
The body of George Walkenshaw,
the young boilermarker v/ho was swept
to his death while fishing in the Grand
river near Grand Junction, was recov
ered. Two small boys, who were fish
ing in the stream, discovered the body
floating on the riffle in an elbow of
the river. They secured a boat,
brought the body to shore and it was
taken to an undertaking establishment.
The remains were sent to Salt Lake
for burial. A reward of SSO offered
for the recovery of the corpso will be
paid to the boys.
Mrs. Frank Winters was robbed of
a purse containing S2O while attending
the mission services at the Catholic
church in Georgetown. A strange wo
man entered the church and took a
seat by the side of Mrs. Winters After
i remaining for a few minutes, she
snatched the purse and made for tne
1 door. An alarm was given and the
woman was overtaken before she could
leave the church. Tho money was re
turned and the guilty party allowed to
depart. She refused to divulge her
name or where she came from.
Arrangements for Pumpkin Pie day
at Longmont are being made, and the
following committee has been ap
pointed : R. S. Coffin, C. B. Webb,
Major Small, Fred Spencer, C. C. Cal
kins, George W. Brown and Charles
Gregg. A better and larger parad? is
expected this year than last, and J. M.
Bolding has been appointed to look
after it. Pumpkin Pie day comes but
once.a year, and Longmont heretofore
has made much of it, but this year she
will outdo herself in every woy to
make the 12th day of September one of
ths biggest days in northern Colorado
WILL PLEAD
NOT GUITY
REEVES AND KISER, BOULDER
SUSPECT 3, WILL REPUDIATE
CONFESSION, IT IS SAID.
TOOECLAREINNOCENCE
ATTORNEYB RETAINED, AND
STATE WILL BE COMPELLED
TO BUBMIT EVIDENCE.
Boulder, Colo.—J. W. Reeves and
Frank Kiser will plead not guilty to
the charge of murder, and, in all prob
ability, to the charge of arson, when
their preliminary hearing and trial arc
held, and they will repudiate their al
leged confession and compel the state
to submit evidence at the trial, accord
ing to W. G. Houston, one of the attor
neys for Reeves and Kiser.
The two men are still in solitary con
finement in the Boulder county jail,
where they have been incarcerated
since Tuesday night. Aside from the
officers no one has seen either of them
with the exception of their attorney,
W. G. Houston, Mrs. Nellie Kiser and
Constable Joe Bailey. Thursday morn
ing the latter served a process on Ki
ser, in which he attached for a local
merchandise firm the wages due Kiser
from the Colorado & Northwestern
railroad. The claim was for $33. Bailey
was allowed to hold no communication
with the men aside from the business
on hand, Kiser telling him that his
mother would settle the bill.
Attorney W. G. Houston of Boulder
Is representing both men, and made
the following statement:
“Both men will plead not guilty to
the charge of murder, but so far have
not said that they won’t plead guilty to
the charge of arson. I think, however,
that they will not plead Tgullty to either,
and that the alleged confessions will
be repudiated. I saw Reeves and Ki
ser for the first time Wednesday after
noon. Kiser had engaged Tom Her
rington of Denver, and Mrs. Kiser, hli
mother, has engaged me, while Reeves
has engaged Oscar Johnson of Boulder
and myself. So far as I know no other
attorneys have been engaged or will be
secured. Kiser engaged Mr. Herring
ton in Denver, thinking at that time
that the trial would be held there.”
Mrs. Kiser, who is now back in Boul
der, having returned from Denver to
be near her son, is quite composed af
ter having talked with him, and thinks
that even if Frank is alleged to have
confessed to have committed the deed
that he could not have been in his
right mind at the time the alleged act
was committed. She believes that he
told some things in the alleged confes
sion that are not as straight as they
might have been, and which will be
straightened out at the trial. She fur
ther believes that if the alleged con
fession was made It was done in order
to get rid of further questions.
Houston said further: “Reeves told
me that he would not plead guilty to
the charge of murder, and that he
would stand on the proof.
“When Reeves saw me he said: ‘1
made no confession until the fourth
day after my arrest, and then only af
ter constant sweating and when I
found I couldn’t get any assistance
from outside.
“Reeves referred me to some friends
of his in Denver, where he lived off and
on for four years, and all stated that
the man’s habits were good aside from
his one failing of drink."
Bumper Wheat Crop.
Fort Collins, Colo.—This year’s yield
of wheat Is the best Larimer county
has ever produced. The general aver
age to the acre is better than fifty
bushels. J. A. Edwards, living five
miles east of Fort Collins, has just
thrashed a field of wheat which has
produced over seventy bushels an
acre, and it tested sixty pounds to the
bushel.
Charles Hottel of the Hottel mill
stated last night that the mill had been
purchasing considerable wheat al
ready and that it generally tested be
tween fifty-nine and sixty pounds.
Some wheat, he says, has been brought
to the mill which tested as high as six
ty-two.
While the yields of this county are
as good as anywhere in the state, and
even better than in the majority of
places, it is reported here that prices
are not as high as at other places. At
Greeley 70 cents a bushel ’is the pres
ent average market price. The local
prices are $1.15 a hundred for the De
fiance wheat, $1.20 for Turkey and $1
for Macaroni. This is a little less than
70 cents a bushel.
Will Bcale High Peak.
Pinedale, Wyo.—T. M. Bannon of
the United States geological survey,
who last year discovered a peak in the
Wind River mountains higher than
Mount Fremont, formerly considered
the highest mountain in the state, will
attempt to make the ascent of this
peak next month. Last year he reached
a point 300 feet from the summit, but
had to stop when the draw he was fol
lowing ended in a precipice.
The new peak has been named Gan
nett and Is 13,775 feet high.
Mr. Bannon has also mapped the
only two living glaciers in the United
States, south of the Canadian borders.
One lies at the north base of Fremont
peak and the other northeast of the
big snow dome near the head of Green
river.
Swallows Arsenic for Epsom Salts.
Steamboat Springs, Colo.—Walter
Nero, a young man of Clark; twenty
miles from Steamboat Springs, swal
lowed a teaspoonful of arsenic, think
ing he was taking epsom salts. His
friends were advised over the tele
phone by a local physician to admin
ister an emetic. Nero is now out of
danger.
CAME PRETTY FAST FOR PAT
At That, He Had Had Only What tha
Doctor Ordered.
A Philadelphia physician says that
not long ago he was called to see an
Irishman, and among other directions
I told him to take an ounce of whisky
three times a day. A day or so later
he made another visit and found the
man, while not so sick, undeniably
drunk.
“How did thlß happen?” the physl*
clan demanded of Pat’s wife, who wa» •
hovering about solicitously.
“Sure, dochter, an’ *tis Just what
you ordered, an’ no more, that he
, had,” she protested.
“I said one ounce of whisky three
times a day; that could not make him
drunk,” the physician said. “He has
had much more than that.”
“Divil a drop more, dochter, dear,”
she declared. “Sure an’ oi didn’t
know just how much an ounce was so
oi wlnt to the drug store an’ asked,
an’ the lad —he’s a broth of a boy,
too —told me that an ounce was 16
drams and Pat has had thlm regular,
an’ no more!” —Harper’s Weekly.
The Manchester canal was bulltA*
a cost of $75,000,000 to reduce
rates for a distance of 35 miles, and,
while it did not prove a good inter
est bearing investment on such a
large expenditure, its indirect and
more permanent benefits are said to
have warranted It.
Germany has 3,000 miles of canal,
carefully maintained, besides 7,000
miles of other waterway. France,
with an area less than we would con
sider a large state, has 3,000 miles of
canal; and in the northern part,
where the canals are most numerous,
the railways are more prosperous.
England, Germany, France, Holland
and Belgium are all contemplating
further extension and improvement of
their canal systems.—Century Maga
zine.
Her Secret Sorrow.
“That woman over there has some
hidden sorrow,” declared the sym
pathetic one, as she came in and took
her seat at a table not far away. “I
have often noticed her. See. Her
companion orders everything she
could possibly want, and yet she sits
there silent with a face like a mask.
I am awfully sorry for her.”
“Don’t you worry,” advised her pes
simistic friend. “That’s her husband
with her. She’s bored, that’s all.”
A Big Loser.
Mrs. Myles—l see the 24-year-o!d
3on of a London dry goods man is a
bankrupt, having managed to get rid
of $2,100,000 since he came of age.
Mrs. Styles—Oh, well, boys will bo
boys!
Mrs. Myles—Well, this lookß as if
a boy had an ambition to be
bridge whist player.
Never Touched Him.
“I have brought back the lawn
mower I bought of you last week,”
said the man with the side whiskers.
"You said you would return my money
if It wasn’t satisfactory.”
"Yes, that’s what I said,” replied the
dealer, “but I assure you the money
was perfectly satisfactory in every
respect.”
Left Army for Pork Trade.
Aladar Stolinckl, an aristocratic
lieutenant of a Hungarian hussar reg
iment, has resigned his commission to
become an apprentice to a pork butch
er in Budapest. He says he can not
live on his pay—s4oo a year—and that
he considers a man of intelligence and
energy can do well in the pork trade.
FOOD
FACTS
Grape-Nuts
FOOD
A Body Balance
People hesitate at the statement that
the famous food, Grape-Nuts, yields as
much nourishment from one pound as
can be absorbed by the system from
ten pounds of meat, bread, wheat or
oats. Ten pounds of meat might con
tain more nourishment than one pound
of Grape-Nuts, but not in shape that
the system will absorb as large a pro
portion of, as the body can take up
from one pound of Grape-Nuts.
This food contains the selected parts
of wheat and barley which are pre
pared and by natural means predi- !
gested, transformed Into a form of
sugar, ready for Immediate assimila
tion. People in all parts of the world
testify to the value of Grape-Nuts.
A Mo. man says: “I have gained ten
pounds on Grape-Nuts food. I can
truly recommend it to thin people."
He had been eating meat, bread, etc.,
right along, but there was no ten
pounds of added flesh until Grape-Nuts
food was used.
One curious feature regarding true
health food is that Its use will reduce
the weight of a corpulent person with :
unhealthy flesh, and will add to tho j
weight of a thin person not properly
nourished. There is abundance of
evidence to prove this.
Grape-Nuts balances the body In a
condition of true health. Scientific se
lection of food elements makes Grape-
Nuts good and valuable. Its delicious
flavor and powerful nourishing prop
erties have made friends that in
turn have made Grape-Nuts
‘There’s a Reason.” Read “The Road
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