A Modern Parable.
‘A dreamer and a man of action
loved a woman, The dreamer said:
#I shall write verses in her praise;
they will touch her vanity, and she
will love me for them.” But the
man of action said: ‘‘How old fash-
foned! I shall corner the stock mar-
ket, and that will bring her.” So
the dreamer wrote verses, and he in-
‘duced a friend of his who ran a mag-
azine to print them. And the man
of action cornered something or oth-
er, and became a billionaire.
In the meantime the girl married
a man who inherited his money, and
they lived happy ever after. But
the dreamer was .so proud of his
verses that he didn’t care; and the
man of action was so busy that he
didn’t care. The only one to suffer
was the man she married.—Scottish
American.
Seasonable Waists.
Waist forms all demand trininess
at the waist itself and fulness of
trimming above the waist line, even
‘where the material is not actually
full. The new models are conspicu-
ous for showing the complete disap-
péarance of the puffed out corsage
which has battled royally, in some
instances, for an extension of life,
The definition of round waist
line is positive.
All the new waists have fitted gir-
dles or belts, draped or plain; but a
concession is made to those to whom
the long front is really becoming by
the introduction of long vests, of
plastrons of lace, of bands of lace and
silk, or of long jabots which descend
from the collar to the waist line and
ornament the front of the corsage
without bulgy trimming.—From the
special fashion number of Harper's
Bazar.
the
ii The Will of a Gentle Patriot.
Dying in New York, where she had
been a teacher of French to three
generations, Mlle. Louise Henriette
Leclere has left the larger share of
her fortune to institutions of her na-
tive land. Her object, she explains,
ig ‘“‘to raise France from her present
low moral state, and thus prevent her
from doing so much harm to this
country, in which she exerts so po-
tent an influence.”
The humor of this bequest is ap-
parent. Long before this writng the
comedian of statistics .will have
figured out the per capita moral pow-
er of $40,000 left to a nation of-40,-
000,000 people. The brave little
mademoiselle and her last will and
testament afforded last night beyond
doubt many a good dinner table jest.
But how many people saw the pa-
thos of that modest bequest to a
motherland? How many read be-
tween lines the story of a woman's
loyalty, divided yet all one?
It is not likely that France is so
wicked as this devisor has feared. It
{s not probable that the French exam-
ple has been potently pernicious.
These apprehensions, as expressed in
the will, are not theimportant things.
It is the devoted thought that is be-
hind the deed that is vital.
Mlle. Leclere has enrolled herself
among the gentle patriots of two re-
publics.—Editorial in the New York
World.
3 Woman’s Versatility.
In view of the versatility of wom-
ankind in general, it seems strange
that her ingenuity should not have
sought an outlet in the inventive
field. It is a fact, proven by the
statistics by the patent offices of all
countries, that not only a’ very small
percentage of either applications or
patents are made or issued in the
name of women.
It seems strange when it is re-
called that woman armed with a hair
pin can perform mechanical marvels.
Picking locks with a piece of jap-
anned wire is a mere trifle to the
Rverage woman; to button shoes with
the same instrument is her second
nature; and when it comes to draw-
ing a tape through a skirtband half
the size of the tape, not even an Edi-
son or a Bell, or any other man,
could accomplish what uninventive
~woman does. It is all the more re-
markable, for woman is highly imag-
inative as is shown by her success in
that portion of literature known as
fiction. She can invent characters
and plots and even excuses, but she
seems utterly devoid of the mechani-
cal sense so common in the sterner
Sex. :
Still, it will not do for men to crow
too soon, for Mme. Currie, the discov-
erer of radium, has demonstrated
that in scientific research woman is
every bit as thorough and as reason-
ing as man. And when woman does
start to invent, she will invent things
that will probably be of greater bene-
fit to humanity than the Gatling gun
or the submarine boat.—The Ameri-
tan Inventor.
Nightcaps in Vogue Again.
Fashionable women have revived
the use of the nightcap, writes the
London correspondent of the New
York Sun. It was discarded at least
half a century ago, except by grand-
mothers and elderly spinsters, but
now, according to the Drapers’ Re-
cord, it has again become an indis-
pensable part of woman’s outfit and
is included in all trousseaux.
The nightcap of 1907 is a dainty
combination of canibriec, lace and
frills, beautified by colored ribbon ro-
settes. The revival is partly ascribed
to the doctors. Their incessant ad-
vocacy of well ventilated bedrooms
has, in the absence of over door tran-
soms in English houses, resulted in
bedroom windows being opened at
night, and women who are not robust
found the wintry draughts too try-
ing.
Another and more distressing cause
is alleged by hairdressers. These say
that elaborate coiffures are being de-
sired. These are helped by stylish
transformations, which are detached
at night. To facilitate this arrange-
ment it is said that many ladies have
their hair cropped, rendering a night-
cap necessary. Their grandmothers
practiced the same folly.
Moreover, the new fnanner of
dressing the hair, which introduces
an exceptionally careful process of
undulation and is submitted to by
many women three times a week,
calls for.the use of the protecting! messages convince.
nightcap to preserve the freshness of
the coiffure.
meee
A Man’s Mother.
An Tllinois friend says that Abra-
ham Lincoln was ‘‘all Hanks’ and
“inherited all that was useful or
characteristic from her.” TI. am of
the opinion that much the same
thing could be said of many young
men to-day—whose fathers point to
them with pride as “a chip of the old
block.” Mother shaped the chip and
gave it the character which makes it
superior to other chips. Lincoln
knew what he owed to his mother.
Two portraits in this little book
“Nancy Hanks'’ show in a striking
manner how much Lincoln resem-
bled the Hanks family. It is said
that the first letter that Lincoln ever
wrote was, when a boy of ten, he
asked Parson David Elkins to come
and “preach a memorial service for
my mother.” In after years he said:
“All that I am or hope to be I owe
to my angel mother. Blessings on
her memory!’ I will venture to say
that you never knew a man who |
amounted to anything who had what
we call an inferior mother. By ‘‘in-
ferior” I mean lacking in strong,
moral character. Unless the child
can obtain his early ideals from his
mother, or in the event of her death
or absence, from some woman that
he loves, such ideals will never
humanely true.
high compliment to men to say that
a pound of their precept or example
is worth less for character building
than an ounce of real mother. love.
We work for the home and are will-
ing to fight for the country, and yet,
after all, the future is really ‘made
by the hopeful women who, in home
and in schoolrocm, reach our chil-
dren as we never can. I have stopped
be
t is not perhaps a :
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SERMON *
oY THE REV~
[RAW FENDERS?
Subject: The Man Jesus.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the
Irving Square Presbyterian Church
on the theme, “The Man Jesus,” the
pastor, the Rev. Ira Wemmell Hen-
derson, took as his text John 12:21,
“Sir, we would see Jesus.” He said:
Let us go with these certain Greeks
of whom John bears us record and
see Jesus. Down the long perspect-
ive of the ages let us look at Christ,
the man.
A study of the career of the Sa-
vior will indicate two central and
crucial elements in His character as
a man. Jesus was a man of parts;
He was also a man of power. The
| Lord was not a negative being. He
! had definite ability and the energy to
put His gifts
ments.
The Christ was a man of parts. As
a philosopher He is peerless; as a
into direct achieve-
i teacher He can teach us all the way
to teach; a preacher to mankind His
His ministry is a
present and a constant joy to the
! weary and a sweet remembrance to
heart and soul alike.
{ ness
in my little notes on the West to try |
to bring these things out. 1 do not
wish to brag about what New Eng-
land people have done, but in a way
the northeastern part of this country
is the mother of the great West, giv-
ing to it the best and noblest that
the old world could furnish. We
shall see, I think, how this spirit
has influenced and is still influenc-
ing the West, If Western men can
show that they have improved both
the spirit and the body we shall be
glad of it.—Rural New Yorker.
The fashionable homespuns
gray in color.
There is to be no more fashionable
color than tan.
For runabout wear
toques are very smart.
The jumper suits are finding their
place, which is properly for morning
wear.
Even the pond lily buds and blos-
soms are imitated for millinery pur-
poses.
Long shoulders and large armholes
may be fashionable but they are not
always becoming. : .
The yoke and sleeves of a charm-
ing crepe de chine negligee are of
Irish crochet lace.
The China silks have enough body
this season to make them as desir-
able as foulards.
The dark brown shoes that are be-
ing shown with the tans are quiet
and refined looking.
Even the skirt of crepe de chine
must fit the figure closely about the
hips and lie very full about the feet.
There are a good many ‘Tam’
crowns seen on the new straw hats,
and a few silk ones which are very
soft and effective in the browns. -
The poke shaped hat with brim
narrowest at the front and rising
high at the back where all the trim-
ming is placed, is decidedly Frenchy.
The fashion for light colored suits
is going to make a heavy demand on
the pocketbook, for there must be
lots of light gloves and hats to ac-
company. .
A fan-like section of the dress ma-
terial, with the V at the arm’s-eye,
connects the sleeve cap with the body
of the waist. It is quite a novel idea.
When the arm is at the side it is not
noticeable, but when the arm is lifted
it appears as a pretty feature,
are
the airship
. side the king's highway.
Jesus was a man of power. His
spirituality is - unsurpassed. His
goodness is the godly kind that we
admire. His sincerity makes the
heart sure; His commanding positive-
is refreshing. His constancy
was sublime.
Jesus was a man of parts. In His
clear and comprehensive statements
of eternal truths He stamped Himself
a philosopher without an equal. To
Him God was the first great cause—
the personal, spiritual giver and
ruler of all life. For Him union with
the will of God in a holy, godly life
is the highest good for men and for
society. In the mind of Christ sin is
disobedience to the will of the Father
and its wages is deliberate separation
from Him—that is to say, death.
The things that are spiritual are the
only things that last unto eternity,
and it was to the attainment of eter-
nal graces as the end of human exist-
ence that Christ turned the attention
of mankind. A glance into the depths
and ranges and reaches of human
thought and experience
many messages touch will convince
any man, however skeptical he may
be, of His predominant position
among this world’s philosophers.
Jesus is markedly a teacher as He
unfolds and explains the mysteries of
divine verities. With the simplest
language and the most charming par-
ables Jesus sent home changeless
truths. Does He desire to show the
uselessness of trust in riches He piec-
tures to us the rich man with his
barns and his bank and the wreck
thereof. Under His touch the leaven
in the loaf reveals to us the men and
the women we should be. He lights
a candle for us, and we strive to
spread His truth throughout the
globe. The supper of the mighty
lord sends us out into the highways
and the byways to bid men lay fast
hold upon salvation, free, rich, suffi-
cient. As a teacher Christ is master-
ful. He takes a mustard seed and
we see the coming of the kingdom.
A man hides a talent in a napkin and
stands forever as a danger signal be-
The foolish
virgins are a lesson to us to be ready
for the coming of the Master. These
and the rest of the parables of Jesus
are full of suggestion and of implica- |
tion, weighty with concentrated prin-
ciple.
Jesus taught spiritual and moral
principles. He was not foolish
enough to endeavor to give to us a
set of rules which should be for us a
sort of guide book or directory. He
gave no set of statutes. Realizing
that we are men and not automatons
our Lord suggests the principles and
then leaves the individual to work
out for himself under the guidance
of the Spirit of God the application
of the principle of his own life. Christ
didn’t worry about the geographical
situation of Judea or over the ques-
tion as to whether the world is flat or
round. Those points at issue were
quite beyond His province. His mis-
sion was to teach spiritual and moral
truth, and He had neither time nor
taste for anything else. Why should
He worry over secondary and tran-
sient matters when the souls of men
were in dire need of that primal
truth which is necessary unto eternal
life?
Jesus also taught with authority.
He knew that the truth was in Him
and He let no man contradict Him
with success.
He spake, and to those men—be-
lieving and unbelieving—it came as
the voice of God. The honest heart-
ed helieved unto salvation; those
who didn’t want to accept His truth
sent Him away in scorn and crucified
Him at the last. The Jews sent
Jesus to His death not because they
did not realize the force of His words
but very largely because He spake
too much truth to suit them. Some
one has said that there is no more
hazardous task than that of carrying
the torch of truth into those hidden
recesses where the light has never
shown. Jesus found this to be true.
Christ’s application of His theories
to the needs of every day and His
positive insistance upon the legiti-
macy of the demands of godliness
and ultimate truth upon the lives of
all men are the secrets of His mar-
velous power are a preacher. He not
only preached abstract theory but
also showed how these ideas could
become factors for uplift in the busy
lives of men. The duty to love God
and to serve the truth was not with
Him a mental problem, but a fact of
life. Christ never minced words.
He knew that which He was after,
and He never failed to make His
hearers see what He meant. Vivid,
direct, without a waver, Christ sent
home the iruth. And it was this
that gained Him both friends and
enemies, as it will any man who dares
to state the truth men either cannot
see or will not hear. What a pro-
phet He was and oh, what a need
there is to-day for men who can see
and feel, for men with insight and
prevision, men who dare to probe
the present and the past and to pre-
. dict the future, fearlessly, inspiring-
that His-
‘| ly, with God-given wisdom and divine
geal. How sick we all are of that
popular preaching of the day, which
is aimed nowhere and hits nothing—
whose main and prevailing character-
istic is that it is inconsequential and
flabby, effeminate and devoid of the
power men should show.
The winsomeness of the ministry
of Jesus is a fact that merits our at-
tention. The love that flowed from
His heart, the tenderness of His
voice, the sympathy that rushed with-
out ceasing from His soul, the heal-
ing virtue of His hand, all these
stamp Him as a minister who can
teach us how to aid men best.
The Lord was a man of power.
Power is to ability what electricity is
to a dynamo. A man of parts must
become a man of action before he is
of much use. The world is full of
geniuses who are impotent. They
cut no figure in the life of their day
simply because they lack energy and
force. Jesus was a man of many
powers. ;
His spirituality is unsurpassed.
He had a right basis for His philoso-
phy and His life. He had the right
point of view, and thus of necessity
saw things in their right relations.
His spiritual philosophy colored all
His mission, messages and ministry,
and gave individuality and peculiar
meaning to His words and deeds.
Christ began right. He put God at
the centre of His system of life and
of course all went well with Him,
The insight of Christ and His spirit-
ual sense are our need.
Jesus was a good man, and good-
ness is greatness and power. Christ
was no sickly sentimentalist, but a
good man in the best sense of the
word; that is to say, He was a godly
man. He was a clean minded, pure
hearted, noble acting man, and no
matter what may be the mental-or
material abilities of any man, if he
be not good he cannot hope to be
most of use. Godliness must be a
characteristic of any man who would
mold a lasting and revered memory.
Christ was not mawkish. You know
how He dealt with the problems of
the shew bread, the ears of corn, the
man who waited to be healed. He
was straightforward and more than
conscientious. He was constructive-
ly, progressively, cumulatively right-
eous. He moved ahead. He was
kind, true, pure, noble — that is to
say, good. Meanness was beneath
Him. The truth was His glory.
Cleanness of life was the sign of His
inward grace. He was a gentleman,
a true nobleman. He was an aristo-
cratic democrat, who showed His
birth and His breeding in His man-
ner.
Jesus was sincere. He was not a
patch work, but a whole pattern. He
leveled to any plumb. He met speci-
fications to the letter. There were no
weak spots, no faulty places in His
life glazed over with pretended char-
acter. Jesus was a whole, whole-
some, well rounded man, without de-
fect whatsoever. His sincerity in-
spired trust, for He lived the sort of
life He asked other men to enter.
Every one knew and knows just
where Jesus stood—with the right
always.
Jesus was positive. He didn’t
suppose or guess or just think. He
knew and was sure. His knowledge
was from. personal experience and it
was power. Because Christ is dead
certain of what Ile speaks about we
hail Him Lord. Aud do we wish to
lead other men to Him we must also
speak with conviction out of personal
knowledge.
But constancy was not the least of
the Savior’s powers. Jesus was no
quitter. He was not a prey to dis-
couragement. He had faith-—and to
last. He stood squarely with the is-
sue and the cause He represented at
all times and in all seasons, through
thick and through thin, through
sood and evil report. Christianity
needs more of such Christlike con-
stancy. Constancy means pluck, en-
durance; courage against and in the
face of odds. Inconstancy is the
child of lack of faith and it breeds
failure.
Jesus was a man of parts and of
power. His facility for various work
needed a man of power. Jesus was a
genius and a hard laborer. He had
inherent ability and a fund of force-
fulness. The world is full of gen-
iuses without power. The list of un.
known saviors is large. Jesus ha
talent and the real, vital spiritua;
power that could make talents pro
ductive. He had the right kind o
energy and enough of it. He got Hi
dynamic from God. That is where
we should apply for ours.
Little Sins.
The little faults, the little sins, so-
called, which may seem so inconse-
quential, may, nevertheless, hide
from us the vision of the Eternal.
You need not break the glasses of a
telescope, or coat them over with
paint, in order to prevent you from
seeing through them. Just breathe
upon them, and the dew of your
breath will shut out all the stars. So
it does not require great crimes to
hide the light of God’s countenance.
Little faults can do it just as well.
Take a shield and cast a spear
upon it, and it will leave on it one
great dent. Prick it all over with a
million little needle shafts and they
will take thé polish from it more than
the piercing of the spear. So it is
not so much the great sins which take
the freshness from our conscience, as
the numberless petty faults which we
are all the time committing.
The Only True Religion.
Men talk much about ‘practical re-
ligion,” but differ greatly as to what
it comprises. Many limit it to benev-
olent gifts and kindly ministries, or
to public religious services. But it
is more. It includes a personal faith
in Christ, holy communion with God
and a pure life. There can be no real
and abiding practice of Christianity
without a renovated nature and a
sanctified heart.—Presbyterian.
True Peace.
To know that God is near, to feel
that you are acting toward Him as
a reverential and affectionate child,
and that He is feeling toward you as
a gracious and compassionate Father
— this, this is peace.—Hamilton.
No Danger There.
“Put your whole soul into the
Christian life. No® one ever was
guilty of backsliding who was press-
ing with all his might toward Jesus.”
—Philadelphia Methodist.
. Grady
KEYSTORE STATE COLLINGS
LOBBYISTS SHUT OUT
Representative of .Anti-Vaccination
League Makes Himself Too Of-
ficious on Floor of House.
The House took summary action
in driving lobbyists from the floor.
It adopted a resolution offered by
Mr. Martin, of Mercer, declaring that
lobbyists were attempting to con:
trol legislation and directing that
they be notified to leave. The ac-
tion was aimed directly at Porter F.
Cope, of Philadelphia, Secretary oft
Fhe Antyvaccination league. The
sergeant-at-arms started towards Mr.
Cope, but the latter did not wait to
be thrown out.
The Pfaff anti-vaccination bill was
finally defeated on second reading.
The House defeated the McAdoo
bill requiring persons coming into the
State to be vaccinated within one
month after their arrival, and the
vaccination of all children before
they reach the age of 4 years. A some-
what similar bill by Weddell of
Westmoreland was also defeated.
Governor - Stuart vetoed the House
bill regulating charges by cab driv-
ers in cities of the first, second and
third classes.
The bill
libel
unanimously.
repealing the
law passed the
Salus-
Senate
COL. BARNETT QUITS GUARD.
Officer of the Tenth Regiment For-
wards His Resignation
General Stewart.
James E. Barnett, of Washington,
resigned his commission as Colonel
of the Tenth Regiment, N. G. P. He
forwarded his resignation to Adjutant
General Stewart. Colonel Barnett has
has 23 years’ continous service in the
State militia. In the Morewood coke
strike in 1888 he served as First Lieu-
tenant of Company - H —and in the
Homestead strike in 1892 as Captain
in that company. Shortly after he
was elected Major and in 1896 Lieu-
tenant Colonel. In the latter capac-
ity he served with the regiment in
the Philippines campaign = and suc-
ceeded Colonel A. L. Hawkins as
commander of the regiment on the
latter's death on the journey home.
He was elected Colonel in 1900.
to
Depositors Get 50 Per Cent.
David Jameson, Cashier of the Cit-
izens National Bank: Samuel Foltz,
Cashier of the First National Bank,
and Attorney E. N. Baer, a director
of the l.awrence Savings and Trust
Company , have been appointed
praisers of the closed New Castle
Savings and Trust Company. le-
ceiver Painter expects to make a 50
per cent distribution to depositors
within a short time.
Organizing Against Black Hand.
To protect themselves and their
families from the Black Hand society.
prominent Italians of New Castle met
at St. Vitus’ Italian Catholic Church
and took preliminary steps toward
forming an organization to fight the
society. This will be followed by
another meeting next Sunday after-
noon, when officers will be elected
and the campaign begun.
Ex-Judge Stevenson Badly Hurt.
Former Judge Maxwell Stevenson
was held up, robbed and brutally beat-
en by two colored men in front of
his home, 23514 Spruce street, Phila-
delphia. IHe was cut about the head
and face and left lying on the pave-
ment by the highwaymen, who rifled
his pockets, taking a gold watch and
a sum of money. His condition is
said to be serious.
Good Roards Require $20,000,000.
A meeting of road supervisors of
Western Pennsylvania was held at
Warren. State Highway Commissioner
Joseph W. Hunter made an address.
He said it will require $20,000,000 to
build the roads asked for. A com-
mittee for the advancement of good
roads was appointed.
William Wallace Brown, of Penn-
sylvania, recently appointed Assist-
ant Attorney General, will be assign-
ed to defend suits before the Spanish
Treaty Claims Commission, succeed-
ing Assistant Attorney General Ful-
ler who has resigned. Mr. Brown
formerly was Auditor for the Navy
Department, to which position Ralph
W. Tyler, a negro of Columbus, was
appointed.
Bank Examiner James M. Cover,
who was temporary receiver of the
New Castle Savings & Trust Com-
pany, was arrested upon a charge of
divulging information of the state
banking department, without author-
ity. Edward F. Connelly, a real es-
tate man, made the information be-
fore Alderman Ranney.
Tipped the Scales at 310 Pounds.
Charles Edmonds, the heaviest man
in Fayette county, died at Uniontown.
He was a colored chef, 42 years old,
and when in good health weighed 365
pounds. He was below the average
fn stature, and his height was three
inches less than the measurement
around his waist.
Civil Service Examinations.
Civil = Service examinations for
clerks and carriers will be held at
Vandergrift, Punxsutawney and Johns-
town on April 20 to fill vacancies in-
the postoffices at these places.
Two Run Down by Train.
Otto Silverman, totally blind, and
his 5-year-old son were struck by a
train on the Erie Railroad at Mead-
ville.
cut off
bruised.
and the father painfully
The Superior Court refused the ap-
peal of William S. Walker, of Pitts-
burg, convicted of enticing Margaret
Kim, a 14-year-old girl, and who was
sentenced a year to jail. Unless an-
other appeal is taken to the Supreme
Court and allowed by the latter Walk-
er will have to serve his sentence.
One of the child's legs was
The Evolution of
Household Remedies.
The modern patent medicine bush
ness is the natural outgrowth of the
old-time household remedies.
In the early history of this country
EVERY FAMILY HAD ITS HOME.
MADE MEDICINES. Herb teas, bite
ters, laxatives and tonics, were to be
found in almost every house, come
pounded by the housewife, sometimes
assisted by the apothecary or the fam.
ily doctor. Such remedies as picra,
which was aloes. and quassia, dis-
solved in apple brandy. Sometimes a
hop tonic, made of whiskey, hops and
bitter barks. A score or more of pop-
ular, home-made rcmedies were thus
compounded, the formuiae for which
were passed along from house te
house, sometimes written, sometimes
verbally communicated.
The patent medicine business is a
natural outgrowth from this whole-
some, old-time custom. In the begin=
ning some enterprising doctor, ime
pressed by the usefulness of one of
these home - made remedies, would
take it up, improve it in many ways,
manufacture it on a large scale, ad-
vertise it mainly through almanacs
for the home, and thus it would be-
come used over a large area. EAT-
TERLY THE HOUSEHOLD REMEDY
BUSINESS TOOK A MORE EXACT
AND SCIENTIFIC FORM.
Peruna was originally one of these
old-time remedies. It was used by
the Mennonites, of Pennsylvania, be-
fore it was offered to. the public for
sale. Dr. Hartman, THE ORIGINAL
COMPOUNDER OF PERUNA, is of
Mennonite origin. First, he pre-
scribed it for his necighbors and his
patients. The sale of it increased,
and at last he established a manufae-
tory and furnished it to the general
drug trade.
Peruna is useful in a great many
climatic ailments, such as coughs,
colds, sore throat, bronchitis and ca-
tarrhal diseases generally. THOU-
SANDS OF FAMILIES HAVE
LEARNED THE USE OF PERUNA
and its value in thetreatment of these
ailments. They have learned to trust
and believe in Dr. Hartman's judg-
ment, and to rely on his remedy, Pe-
runa.
George Compere has returned from
China with a = parasite that will
speedily destroy the red scale that
has been such a pest to the citrus
groves of California.
FITS, St. Vitus'Dance: Nervous Diseases pers
manently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve
Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free,
Dr. H. R. Kline, L.d.,931 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
City Names on Stamps.
The idea of impressing the names
of cities on the postage stamps, as
wiil soon be done in this country, is
not a new one, for it has been fol-
lowed in Mexico and other countries,
but it has never been done to the ex-
tent to which it is proposed by the
United States government. It - will
involve considerable additional work
in the printing and i ing of the
stamps, but will be a safeguard which
will result in an enormous saving and,
in a great measure, prevent thieving.
Six thousand cities of this country
will be supplied with these special
stamps. Twenty-six of these cities
will be honored to the extent of hav-
ing their respective names woven in-
to the design of thes tamp, while in
the other instances the mame will be
printed across the face of the stamp
in ink.
is
Frog With Habits.
South America has a frog of pe-
culiar habits. Dwelling in the virgin
forest, at the tops of the highest trees,
it chooses as the site of its nursery
some hollow stump and then proceeds
to line it with rosin procured from
trees in the neighborhood, says the
New York “Tribune.” This lining
serves to catch and hold the rain-water
with which it quickly becomes filled.
As soon as this takes place the eggs
are laid therein, and here they under-
go development into tadpoles. How
the rosin is collected is a mystery, nor
is it yet known how the separate
pieces become welded to form the
watertight basin necessary to insure
the safety of the treasures deposited
therein.
APPENBICITIS
Not at all Necessary to Operate in
Many Cases.
Automobiles and Appendicitis scare
some people before they are hit.
_ Appendicitis is often caused by too
much starch, in the bowels. Starch
is hard to digest and clogs up the di-
gestive machinery—also tends to
form cakes in the cecum. (That's the
blind- pouch at entrance to the ap-
pendix).
A N. H. girl had appendicitis, but
lived on mil» forawhile—then Grape-
Nuts and got well without an opera-
tion.
She says: ‘Five years ago while
at school, I suffered terribly with
constipation and indigestion.” (Too
much starch, white bread, potatoes,
etc., which she did not digest.)
“Soon after I left school I had an
attack of appendicitis and for thirteen
weeks lived on milk and water.
When I recovered enough to eat solid
food there was nothing that would
agree with me, until a friend recom-
mended Grape-Nuts.
“When I began to eat Grape-Nuts
I weighed 98 1bs., but I soon grew to
115 lbs. The distress after eating
left me entirely and now I am like a
new person.”
(A little Grape-Nuts dissolved in
hot water or milk would have been
much better for this case than milk
alone, for th~ starchy part of the
wheat and barley is changed into a
form of digestible sugar in making
Grape-Nuts.) Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the
little book, “The Road to Wellville,”
-in pkgs. “There's a reason.”