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Try to Be Sweet.
Do try to be as sweet and charm-
ing at home as you strive to be else-
where, says the New York Herald,
speaking to girls. Get up and go to
bed good natured. Speak to the
members of your family as courteous-
ly as you would to Mrs. Modish. It
will charm the ear of your mother
and gratify her. And keep a careful
watch of your voice as well as your
words at home, for one of the great.
est -attractions one can have is a
speaking voice of sweet, modulated
tones.
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Take Warning, Girls.
Cupid is always painted with wings,
perhaps to show how easily he can
fly away. Many women forget this
once they are married, and the man
who fell in love with his wife, be-
cause, before marriage, she always
looked so dainty and well groomed, is
sometimes woefully disappointed to
find how little care she takes over
her appearance for ordinary, every-
day occasions afterward.
It isn’t fair to any husband to let
oneself go in this way. If you do,
and find that very soon Cupid flies out
at the window, you will have only
yourself to blame.—Home Chat,
Goes Into Detail.
It is cause for a man to go along
the streets calling to people to look
out for their horses: A Woman Who
Goes Into Details is visiting in town.
She recently bought a spool of thread
at a store, and told a busy clerk why.
she preferred forty to fifty, what she
was making, how fast she was sewing
and in just what corner of the room
she kept her sewing machine. A man
who was walking to work overtook
her the other morning and was com-
pelled to walk with her. He said it
was a fine morning, and in reply she
told him her grandmother's last
words, and why her great -grand-
father always wore something with a
touch of blue in it. Five minutes af-
ter the man had leit her he was found
in an alley having a fit. It would be
proper and show consideration for the
for years.
certainly be classed under that head.
Parenthetically it may be remarked
that real brothers are not given to
embracing their sisters, not even
when ‘they are marrying and leaving
the home.
Punch’s advice of “don’t” might
well be given to girls who ask if it is
all right to let their men friends kiss
them when they have known the men
A man kisses the girl to
whom he is engaged, and his own sis-
ter at times, but not some other man’s
sister—not if she has real sense. She
merely cheapens—herself should she
permit it, and the man who wishes to
is not apt to be of a kind worth her
knowing. There are, of course, mo-
ments—at a dance, for instance—
when the glamor of the conservatory
overcomes good sense, or in won-
drous moonlight, wherein responsi-
This being the case the
bility ceases.
situations are among those to be
avoided, for not even the most lenierit
chaperone may approve, and not even
then is it proper for a man to kiss a
girl.—New York Telegram.
Aired Her Knowledge.
She was a Vassar graduate and
didn’t know a little bit about house-
keeping when she married her last
beau -and settled down to domestic
life.
Her first order at the grocer’s was
a crusher, but that good man was
used to all sorts of people and could
interpret Vassar as easily as plain
English.
“I want ten pounds of paralyzed
sugar,” she said, with a business air.
“Yes'm. Anything else?”
“Two cans of condemned milk.”
“Yes'm.”’
sug,” “condensed milk.”
“Anything more, ma'am?”
“A bag of fresh salt—be sure that
it is fresh.”
*“Yes’m. What next?”
“A pound of desecrated codfish.”
“Yes’'m.’’
cated cod.”
“Nothing more, ma'am?
some nice horseradish just in.”
“No,” she said, with a sad wabble
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THE PULPIT.
"& BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
GIPSY SMITH.
Theme: Prevailing Prayer.
New York City.—Gipsy Smith is
conducting a mission in this city, and
Sunday he preached in the Fifth Ave-
nue Presbyterian Church.
Gipsy Smith said: You will find the
text in Mark 9, beginning at the
twenty-eighth verse, “And when
Jesus was come into the house His
disciples asked Him privately, why
could not we cast the devil out? Jesus
said unto them, this kind can come
forth by nothing but by prayer’—
prayer! This is only one picture out
of the life of Jesus, just a little view
of what was going on all the time
with Him. You who are students of
this book, remember that He had just
been upon the Mount of Transfigura-
tion; that He had taken with Him
Peter, James and John; that He was
transfigured before them. We are
told that while He prayed up there
on the mountain the fashion of His
countenance was changed, and all
ccuntenances change as “men pray.
While He prayed His face was
changed. The glory from within and
the glory from without met. That
happened always, I believe, when
Jesus prayed, but this was the first
time that the disciples had been al-
lewed to see Him communing with
His Father. They were allowed, for
certain reasons, to see what happened
when He talked to His Father. While
He prayed there appeared Moses and
Elijah. Moses representing the law
and Elijah the prophets, and Jesus,
the fulfillment of both, in the midst.
And the apostles had a wonderful ex-
perience to equip them forever to go
forth and evangelize the world. The
scene was soon over, and Jesus and
the disciples came down from the
mountain. Down in the valley was
another group, the other disciples,
who had been left down there to go
oa with the work while Jesus was ab-
sent. When the people sze Jesus and
the three disciples coming, they run
to meet them, and one of them, a
father, outstrips the rest apd runs te
Jesus with his child, who is possessed
with a devil, an unclean spirit, and
says: “Master, I have brought to Thee
my son. He has a dumb spirit. I
trought him to Thy disciples down
here that they might cast the devil
out of him, and they could not.”
Please remember that; they could
not. Jesus made no excuse for His
disciples’ failure. He never doses
when they ought to succeed. He di
not excuse them, :
He said: ‘“O, faithless generation;
how long shall I be with you? How
long shall I suffer you? How long
shall I suffer because of you?” I
want to say this: If Jesus said that of
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eggs during the cooking. Remove
eggs with a small skimmer to a hot platter, and surround
people if a warning were passed from
door to door upon the approach of A
Woman Who Goes Into Details in or-
der that storekeepers might lock their
doors and hide.—Atchison Globe.
Love's Labor Lost Indeed.
It was misdirected zeal and pa-
tience that moved Mrs. Lena Wilson,
of Brazil, Ind., to write a sentence of
eight words 1716 times on one side
of an ordinary postal card. In all
Mrs. Wilson wrote 18,728 words, or
68,640 letters; an average of five let-
ters to a word. The writing was done
with a blue steel pen, and every word
shows clearly under a magnifying
glass. It has been estimated the
woman spent eight full weeks, or
1344 hours, or 80,640 minutes on
the work. The result certainly does
not justify the outlay. Two solid
months mean six months, working
eight hours a day, and for that Mrs.
Wilson has a single postal card,
which is merely a curiosity and of no
artistic value. With an equal amount
of patient labor, Mrs. Wilson might
have produced enough fancy work
to decorate her home, or gained a
working knowledge of a language, or
perhaps written a play.—New York
Press. .
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When Kissing Girls is Not Improper.
The matter of when it is proper for’
a man to kiss a girl is undoubtedly
an important one. .And while on cer-
tain occasions it would be manifestly
indecorous, at others it is quite to be
expected and there are even times
when a man must brace himself for
the inevitable, and give, or accept, a
caress when he fain would not.
Promiscuous kissing is, however,
not to be indulged in; not even at
weddings, where the bridegroom ex-
pects to be martyred by girl friends
and relatives, or the bride finds her-
self being embraced by casual ac-
quaintances. This custom is not good
form. Only the close friends of the
bridal couple should congratulate
them in such manner, and the man
who takes advantage of the bride's
good nature at the moment and kisses
her, though he knows her but for-
mally, can only be called impertinent.
1i he has been on informal terms
with her for a long time, and really
likes her, it may then be permissible,
although the act may be questioned.
It is better always to err on the side
of being over reserved rather than
too familiar.
It is not good form for a girl to be
kigsed by the men she knows, not
even though she regards them as
brothers. They may call themselves
that, if they like, and she may treat
them informally, but it is always well
to draw a line and kissing should be
the deciding point. No gir rer kept
by allowi them to
no use, as we don’t keep a horse.”
the cake.—Indiana Farmer.
peared.
petbag.
ent fashions.
variety, long and big.
tachable fur linings.
in Empire styles.
in style for coiffure adornment.
sidered necessary, but is optional.
weaves.
white border.
Long-trailing and
evening functions.
one, and her skirt must be long, too.
lar.
smoke.
used on the hat.
are in growing favor.
and Valenciennes laces.
There is something not only smar
umbrella, but it is exceedingly con
venient to carry.
destined to have as great a vogue a
last season, and black cloth gown
designed for wear with black fur o
est of all the new models.
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ren y order thee
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to her flexible voice, ‘it would be of
Then the grocer sat down on a kit
of mackerel and faned himself with a
patent washboard. Vassar had taken
Risave puffs have entirely disap-
The new handbag is almost a car-
Gold is a conspicuous note in pres-
The newest muff is of the bolster. jjoyeth.”
Many of the best coats have de-
Brides are selecting wedding gowns
Filagree silver butterflies are quite
The bride’s veil is no longer con-
The popularity of satin has brought
in its train many new and exquisite
Smartest colored handkerchiefs for
women are of a solid color with a
tight-fitting
gowns are prominent for elaborate
A long coat is always more becom-
ing to a stout woman than a short
While black is highly fashionable
tor grown-ups, children -are dressed
in delicate shades, and white is popu-
Deep shades are modish, the favor-
ites being old rose, mole, mushroom
and a curious cinder tone that rivals
It is a fad to tie around the centre
and even around the ends of the muff
the same color ribbon velvet that is
White cotton French crepe waists
They are
trimmed with Irish crochet, torchon
in the appearance of the very long
Directoire handle of the up-to-date
Black for general wear is evidently
velvet jackets are among the smart-
but to work, | the W
a few fishermen, who had only been
with Him for two and a half years,
because they failed once to bring
a poor lad cut of darkness into light,
out of the thralldom of the devil into
the liberty of the people of God, what
do you think he would say to some of
you here who have been professing
Christ for ten, fifteen, twenty and
even forty years, and you do not know
a soul in this city whom you have
brought to Jesus Christ? Hear me!
Your religion stands or falls by what
it does for the next man. Your relig-
ion is tested by what it does for hu-
manity. Does it get into your life?
Does it make you pity with a divine
pity, love with a divine love, spend
yourself with a divine prodigality?
It made Jesus empty Himself. He
took upon Himself the form of a ser-
vant and humbled Himself, even to
the death of the cross—‘‘even Christ
pleased not Himself.” Listen: The
unanswerable argument for your re-
ligion is the healed man. What the
world is waiting for is a bit of hu-
manity out of whom the church has
cast a devil. It waits for that. God
help us to be able to product it! No,
Jesus did not excuse these men, and
He does not excuse us, either. You
know what happened. Jesus said to
the man: “If thou canst believe, all
things are possible to him that be-
And the man cried out,
with tears, ‘Lord, I believe, help Thou
mine uabelief;”” and Jesus said,
“Bring him (the child) to Me,” and
then Jesus spake the word that did
the work. The disciples did not for-
get the rebuke, and they went to
Jesus—and I want you Christian peo-
ple to remember this — and said,
“Master, why could not we cast him
out?” and Jesus said, ‘“‘This kind can
cone forth by nothing but by prayer.”
They were not praying; they were
discussing with the scribes and Phari-
sees, doing anything else but praying.
And that is the weak part of the
church to-day—the prayer meeting.
Have you tried to do anything in
ihe way of helping anybody up who is
down? Have you spoken to anybody
lately about Jesus and Hislove? Your
boy, for whom you have to sit up late
sometimes? You do not tell anybody,
but your tears can tell volumes you
never put into words. You know
what it is to sit up for an unsteady
step, and you are bearing that trag-
edy alone. Have you prayed with
that boy? If I came to your house,
could you show me the place where
-| you kneel to pray? Has your boy
ever seen you pray? Have you ever
put your arms around him and said,
“My boy, Jesus can break the power
of the sin that is binding you?’ Have
you ever prayed him into living con-
tact with Christ? That is what Jesus
means. All about us are men and
women, paralyzed bysin,half damned
by sin, and we are doing nothing to
deliver them—and we profess to be
Christians! = And. Jesus is looking at
us, and, from a broken, disappointed
heart, He is saying: “How long am I
to suffer because of you?”
How often do you ladies get into
t | your carriage or automobile and set
out for an afternoon’s calling to pray
with people? I know that would
_| mean a good deal, but that is what
Jesus wants you to do, and that is
what you will have to do if you are to
carry out the mission Jesus wants you
s | to carry out. How often do you busi-
s| ness men go home earlier to spend
r | an hour with somebody that the devil
has got hold of and try to liberate
that soul from the thralidom of sin
and Satan? Why, if all the people in
than a week. ‘This kind can come
forth by nothing but prayer.” Do
not thiak you are going to have it
done because you have sent for a
stranger. The stranger cannot do it.
He is no magician, he is no conjurer,
no trickster, no quack. He.is only a
man; an old-fashioned preacher of
Christ’s gospel. I do not believe in
getting up a revival. I believe in
praying one down. If it comes down
it will be right. These things come
to pass as we pray, and what is need-
ed in our work for Christ is more
prayer. .
Will you begin to pray? We ‘“‘haye
not because we ask not, or because we
ask amiss.” I wonder how many of
you knelt down to-day just to talk to
God. One of my friends in the old
country, a woman, the mother of six
boys, with her husband, came to one
of my services in the city of Lincoln.
It was the first service of the mission,
and as they left she said to her hus-
band: “Holt, what do you think “of
that man?” He said, “I don’t know
what I think of him, but I will tell
vou what I think of myself. He
made me see myself; I am all wrong.”
When they got home and sat at the
English tea table she looked at him
and said, ‘“Are you going to hear him
to-night?’ “No,” he said (he was a
signalman on the Great Ncrthern
Railway), “I could not go unless I
went in my uniform, for I have to go
on duty. You can go and take one
cf the boys.” They came, the mother
.and her boy, and before the meeting
was over both of them entered the in-
quiry rocm and gave themselves to
Jesus. When you looked at the wom-
an her face showed that a change had
taken place. The light of the morn-
ing was there, a little bit of the light
that breaks over the tops of the cliffs
of eternity, and made it beautiful.
She had been praying, and the fash-
ion of her countenance was changed.
On the Saturday night following, at
the prayer meeting, this woman got
up and said: “God has done great
things for me this week. Last Sun-
day He saved me, and since five of
my boys have been converted. And
now I am praying for my husband.
He is a wicked man and drinks and
swears. But he is the father of my
boys and I am praying for him and
my first born. . I have been praying
for them all this week, night and day.
“They will both be converted to-
morrow. If God does not save them,
that book (holding the Bible up in
her hand) is not true.” I cannot tell
you the thrill that swept through the
room as that woman made that state-
ment. Sunday morning broke crisp
and clear, for it was a January morn-
ning, and that man left his signal box
ard started for his little cottage.
When he reached it his wife was still
up stairs. It was her custom to be
up and waiting for him, but she was
so exercised about her husband and
had worn herself out praying for him,
that she had fallen asleep and over-
slept. “Not down yet?” he shouted
up to her. “I am sorry,” she replied.
“I will be down directly.” When she
got down he said: “Let me have my
breakfast. I will get what sleep I
can this morning. I am going to
hear that man this afternoon and to-
night.””” ‘“That’s right,” she said, “we
have been praying for you.” ‘Pray-
ing for me? You prayed?” he asked.
“Yes,” said the wife, ‘I have not had
a chance to tell you, but God saved
me last Sunday, and five of our chil-
dren are converted, and we have been
praying for you, all of us.” ‘For
me?” “Yes, and Gipsy Smith prayed
for you last night.’ “For me?”
“Yes, and everybody in the church
said ‘Amen.’ ”’ “What time was it?”
the husband asked. ‘As near as I
can tell, it was half-past eight.”” The
tears ran down the man’s cheeks like
bubbles on a mountain stream, and
for a few minutes he could not find
words, but when he did he said: “At
half-past eight the line was clear, and
I had nothing to do but think. I was
left alone with my conscience, and I
thought of you and the boys and what
a wicked life I have lived, a Christless
life, and I threw myself on the cabin
floor and cried ‘God be merciful to
me, a sinner.” He heard me, and at
half-past eight, while you were pray-
ing for me, He answered your prayer
aad saved my soul.” That woman
gripped God and her husband with
mighty, prevailing prayer, and you
and IT may do the same thing if we
only have faith in God. The Lord
teach us how to pray!
Don’t you think there is great need
for scmething to be done in this great
city? Something needs to come to
pass to make the people of New York
City stop in their mad rush for money
and pleasure and their selfishness and
think about God and better things.
Listen! That will come to pass if
you and I will pray. The Lord help
us to pray! Jesus prayed, and He
asked His disciples to pray. And
Jesus prayed “the Lord of the har-
vest’ to “‘send forth laborers into His
harvest.” Will you, for His dear
sake, get beneath the weight of this
city and lift it a little nearer to God?
Lift it in your arms of faith, in your
heart of pity, in your believing and
prevailing prayer, nearer to God. We
must allspray, you, me, and pray all
the time.
The Light of Faith.
Taith is truly a light in the soul,
but it is a light which only shines
upon duties, and not upon results or
events. It tells us what is now to be
done, but it does not tell us what is
to follow, and accordingly it guides
us but a single step at a time, and
when we take that step under. the
guidance of faith, we advance directly
into a land of surrounding shadows
and darkness. Like the patriarch
Abraham, we go, not knowing wither
we go, but only that God is with us.
In m#e’s darkness we¢ nevertheless
walk and live'in God’s light. A way
of living blessed and glorious, how=-
ever mysterious it may be to human
vision. For “the Lord God will en-
lighten our darkness.”
Missing Life's Melody.
There’s no music in a “rest” that
I know of, but there’s the making of
music in it. And people are always
missing that part of the life melody,
always talking of perseverance and
courage and fortitude; but patience
is the finest and worthiest part of
fortitude and the rarest, too.—
Ruskin.
Confidence.
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM-
MENTS FOR JANUARY 24,
Subject: The Lame Man Healed, Acts
3:1-26—Golden Text, Acts 3:16
—Commit Verses 9, 10—Expo-
sition of the Lesson.
TIME.—A. D. 30. PLACE.~—Jeru-
salem. The Temple, Door Beautiful.
EXPOSITION.—I. "The Lame Beg-
gar, 1-8. Peter and John were men
of prayer, and at the regular Jewish
hour of prayer we see them wending
their way to the temple (cf. Ps. 5:
5,17; Dan. 6:10; 9:21). The ninth
hour was the hour of prayer because
it was the hour of sacrifice (Ex. 29:
39; 1 K. 18:36), and all approach to
God in prayer must be on the ground
of shed blood. It was the very hour
at which Jesus died and opened up
for us a way into the holiest of all
(cf. Luke 23:44, 46; Heb. 10:19,
29). The man had been there often
before and was expecting nothing un-
usual that day. But something very
unusual was to occur simply because
two men who really knew God were
to pass that way. All he expected
from Peter and John was some small
coin, but he was to get vastly more
than he expected.
II. The Man of God, 4-7a. Peter
first took a good look at the man and
then demanded his attention. Here
are two good points for any one who
would bring Christ's power into the
life of another. Peter did not give
the man what he asked for, he did
not have it to give. His pockets were
empty, but he was full of power.
Peter had had an excellent opportu-
nity to get silver and gold (ch. 2:45;
4:37). As a rule it has been the men
without silver or gold who have done
the most for the world’s highest good
(1 Cor. 4:11). Itis an utterance full
of meaning that fell from Peter's
lips, “What I have, that give 1
Every Christian ought to be able to
say that. (1 Pet. 4:10, 11). Peter
bade the. man do the very thing he
couldn’t do. But that which is nat-
urally impossible is possible “in the
name of Jesus Christ.” The power
that there was in that mighty name
came into that man’s impotent feet
the ‘moment he believed and sought
to obey (v. 7;«cf. v. 16). 3
III. The Man Made Whole, 7a-10.
Luke’s training as a physician comes
out in his details about feet and an-
klé bones. It was the gladdest mo-
ment of the man’s life; he leaped up,
stood a moment in wonder, began to
walk and then began to leap and
praise God. No wonder. He walked
to a good place with his new strength
—-God’s own house. He couldn’t do
much but praise God. There was no
guesswork about this miracle. The
man was well known to all the ob-
servers, and the reality of the cure
wag evident and unmistakable. It
was utterly different from the cases
of many to-day who proclaim that
they have been healed, when to all
appearances they are as sick as ever.
The people who witnessed the change
were filled with wonder and amaze-
ment, and many were converted.
IV. Jesus, the Holy and Righteous
One, the Prince of Life, 11-16. The
healed man held fast on to Peter and
John. He was afraid they might get
away from him. He had not yet
learned to lean directly on Jesus and
not on the ‘instrument He uses. The
miracle drew a great crowd (cf. ch.
2:6). Peter immediately turned at-
tention away from himself to his
Lord. = How unlike many modern
claimants to healing power. Peter
was not at all puffed up by the won-
der that had been wrought through
his instrumentality, nor did he fancy
for a moment that it was due to any
peculiar power or godliness of his
own (cf. ch. 14:11-15; Gen. 40:8; 2
Cor. 3:5; contrast Num. 20:10). He
wished them to get their eyes on the
Lord, not upon him. With an almost
distressed earnestness he cries, “Why
look ye so earnestly on us?” In the
original there is strong emphasis on
“us.” He used that name of God
which would show the Jews that it
was not some new God that he
preached, but the God of their fath-
ers. The one doctrine that he em-
phasized was that of the resurrection
of Jesus (cf. 1:22; 2:24, 32; 3:15,
26: 4:33; 10:40, 41; 13:30, 34; 17;
81). The sin he especially pointed
out was the sin of rejecting and de-
nying the One whom God had so ex-
alted (ef. 2:72, 23, 30; 4:10; 5.30;
7:52). There are four counts in Pet-
er’s terrible indictment of his hear-
ers: (1) Ye delivered up God's serv-
ant Jesus. (2) Ye denied the Holy
One and the Just. (3) Ye .desired a
murderer instead of Him. (4) Ye
killed the Prince of Life. He used
four very significant titles for Jesus:
God’s Servant (R. V.), the Holy One,
the Righteous One, the Prince of Life.
And this was the one they had deliv-
ered up, denied and killed. And this
is the one men reject, deny and tram-
ple under foot to-day. But while the
Jews had thus misused Jesus, God
had glorified Him. He had raised
Him from the dead and exalted Him
to His own right hand (cf. Jno. 17:5;
Matt. 28:18; Jno. 13:3; Eph. 1:20-
23; Phil 2:9-11).
The Worth of a Single Life.
Dr. Torrey tells of a well which
was being dug in an American town-
ship by two men, one working at the
bottom filling a bucket, and the other
at the top drawing it up by a wind-
lass. Presently quicksand was
struck, which began to pour in upon
the bottom man; but, sheltering his
head under a plank which was there,
he was able to breathe. News of his
danger spread in the township, and
the whole township turned out to dig
that man out, and worked for many
hours till he was saved.
Was it worth it for the whole
township to go to work to save one
man? Was it right?
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victim of the liquor traffic in your
townshi Will it be worth it for the
whole vote the liquor
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Operating on a Lioness.
One of the rarest surgical opera-
tions ever attempted upon an animal
was recently performed at the Cincin-
nati Zoological Garden in the remov-
al of a 25-pound tumor from a lion.
ess. Three surgeons, assisted by a
half-dozen of the attendants, perform-
ed the operation. Popular Mechanics
describes the means by which the
wild beast was kept In subjection
during the operation. A pound can
of ether was used. :
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Rheumatism Prescription.
Considerable discussion is being
caused among the medical fraternity
by the increased use of whiskey for
rheumatism. It is an almost infalli-
ble cure when mixed with certain
other ingredients and taken proper-
ly. The following is the formula:
“One ounce of Toris compound and
one ounce of syrup Sarsaparilla com-
pound. Add one-half pint of good
whiskey. Takeintablespoonful doses
before each meal and before retir-
ing.” °
This is said to produce almost im-
mediate results. A
Seward’s Prophetic Words.
“The Pacific ocean, its shores and
its islands and the vast region be-
yond, will become the chief theater
of events in the world’s hereafter.”
This prediction by Seward, more than
half a century ago, is on the way to-
ward reaization. The understanding
which has been given formal expres-
sion by the statement drawn up by
Secretary Root and Ambassador Tak-
ahira will do much toward hastening
that day. China has 400,000,000 of
people, who wants, in the way of
commodities which we have to sell,
will increase many fold as these peo-
ple rise in the scale of civilization,
as we understand that term. Thus
its trade a few decades hence will
probably reach proportion of Amer-
icans. . When we consider that Asia
holds half of the 1,600,000,000 people
of the entire globe, this Root-Taka-
hira declaration assumes especial im-
portance. With England in alliance
with Japan, and with both Japan and
England on terms of the greatest cor-
diality with the United States, peace
in the Pacific and the orient is assur-
ed.—Leslie’s Weekly
Difficult Fact.
The fact that the impact of a bullet
from a pistol shot in fun is similar
to that of a bullet loosed in a spirit
of hostility is uncertainly grasped by
a certain order of intelligence—Phil-
adelphia Public Ledger.
Overlooking an Opportunity.
France, with savings of $1,000,000,
000 in a year, makes the question per-
tinent whether the Paris stock ex-
change is alive to its opportunities.—
New York World.
HER MOTHER-IN-LAW
Proved a Wise, Good Friend.
A young woman out in Ia. found a
wise, good friend in her mother-in-
law, jokes notwithstanding.
writes:
“It is two years since we began
using Postum in our house. I was
greatly troubled with my stomach,
complexion was blotchy and yellow.
After meals I often suffered sharp
pains and would have to lie down.
My mother often told me it was the
coffee I drank at meals. But when
I'd quit coffee I'd have a severe head-
ache.
“While visiting my mother-in-law
I remarked that shealways made such
good coffee, and asked her to tell me
how. She laughed and told me it was
easy to make good ‘coffee’ when you
use Postum.
“I began to use Postum as soon as
I got home, and now we have the
game good ‘coffee’ (Postum) every
day, and I have no more trouble. In-
digestion is a thing of the past, and
my complexion has cleared up beau-
tifully.
“My grandmother suffered a great
deal with her stomach. Her doctor
told her to leave off coffee. She then
took tea, but that was just as bad.
“She finally was induced to try
Postum, which she has used for over
a year. She traveled during the win-
ter over the greater part of Iowa, vis-
fting, something she had not been
able to do for years. She says she
owes her present good health to Pos-
tum.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, “The Road to
Wellville,”” in pkgs. ‘‘There’s a Rea-
son.”
Ever read the above letter?
one appears from time to time.
are genuine,
interest.
A new
They
true, and full of human
Shes”