,,WHEN my mother tucked
me m.
Nfver quite so fond a kiss,
Never such t sweet good-night,
Never heaven so near to thin
Old world, as when her bright
Brown eves looked into mine,
'And with hand that seemed divine.
My mother tucked me in.
vening prayers nf course were said,
Drowsily I must admit,
'As I tumbled into bed.
Glad to hare me rid of it!
Then upon the stairs her tread,
Soft and gentle in the gloom,
Spoke of love that comforted,
As her presence filled the room,
And mother tucked me in.
'And in after rears a is an,
Went to bed at home again;
Prayed perhaps with better plan
Than he did in those days, when
Be was ignorant of sin;
Then he called her to his side .
And could not be satined
Till bis mother tucked him in.
G. A .Warburton.
"He's all togged out, what?" Bald
.Uncle Bishop, nodding toward the or
namental young man who had just
passed up the board walk.'
"Don't look as if he had to work
very hard," Grandfather Lane com
mented, straining his eyes for a final
urvey of the tall hat and the gloves.
Abner Mitchell, the storekeeper,
cent a gleeful chuckle after the re
treating figure.
"Philly's specialty is workln' what
he calls his brain," the storekeeper
answered. "He never went In for
the kinds o' labor that get ye all
dirty and het up. Likely you don't
Know Philly as well as I do, beln's
you live over 't the East End, tut I've
kept an eye on him these seven years,
since he was twenty or thereabouts,
and I'm free to say that if he ever
does get muscle-bound, it'll be round
the jaw.
"He was full-grown and big as any
twdy when he was twenty, and I
cal'late by that time he'd read more'n
grown person's share of these '
newspaper yarns that tell how smart
men start out with a lead nickel and
luy marble palaces and steam-yachts
- or somethln' to that effect Philly
. figured that the whole trick was in
keepln' all your money in Bight, and
keepln It moving so fast that other
folks would be kind o' dazed, and
see double. Of course, if ypu had
two dollars, and people thought' you
bad four, you could trade, four dol
lars' worth, or maybe six, under
stand? ...-.a, WWWV MW V UIU II IU . T. 1 II ,
' that's Peter, started in easy and mod
est in the hen business, Philly got
job cierkln' over at the country
town. I guess there was no great
margin betwixt his salary and his
koard bill. What there was, he put
'Won 'hntlt fha ttma fila ,!
U By WALTER LEON SAWYER.
fault with that, mind ye, for a young
man in a shop ought to look as if the
.world was usln' him well. But he
didn't seem to get anything to branch
out on, as ye might say, till his Great
. Uncle Butler died and left him and
Peter a hundred and fifty dollars
piece.
"Peter knew what he wanted to do
with his, and he bought an incubator
and brooder and some fancy hens
anL some wire fencing. Philly didn't
have quite enough capital to carry
out his plans, so he borrowed fifty
dollars at cutthroat interest from old
Squire Lazenby and then what yon
s'pose he did with that two hundred?
He plunked it right into the bank
over there, jest so's he could get a
check-book.
"Mind ye, I'm not denying, nuth
er, that a check-book's a good invest
ment, always allowin' you don't over
work it. Pay a bill with your own
check, and the man that gets it ht
doesn't know how much you've got
, In the bank; whether it's ten thou
sand dollars or seven dollars and a
half; and if you look pretty pros
perous he's most likely to lean to
wards ten thousand.
"But until you get used to the
check-book, sort o' brldle-wlse, you're
likely to rare and jump and throw
yourself round amazin'. Just writin'
a few words on a piece of paper
doesn't seem, somehow, like handin'
out real money. And besides that, it
- tickles ye to see how glad people
are to get taera pieces of paper; and
since they're bo easy to make, and
you feel so rich while you're makin'
'em, you're likely to be generous
with 'em."
The storekeeper paused a moment,
gulped as if swallowing 'hard, and
cowled at the hitchlng-post across
the street. But he did not wish to
cherlBh such an unpleasant recollec
tion as this evidently was, and a mo
ment later he was once more em
barked upon his tale:
"Well, folks that was placed so
they could keep posted tell me that
Pbllly never really got used to his
bank-account, for all he was so
neighborly with it. 'Bout as often
- as Peter raised another chicken; they
say, Pbilly'd put out a check. He
paid his board that way. He dished
'em out to people that wanted to
end money by mall and didn't want
to squander their substance on regis
tering the letters. Ask Philly to lend
ye a dollar and he'd give ye a check
for it Cal'late the clerks in the
bank had to hump themselves to
keep up with him but their work
. didn't put any money in Philly's
pockets.
"Mind ye, Philly hadi 't any bad
nabljan3t fr toTih u nis &0
J "TWfumodaUa' father folks would let
mm, he tried.,11 eeP P ut two
hundred he j;''tel out with. , Every
Bat'da soesCe'a carry hia seven
dollars' salary to the bank and damp
her In, and every tew days he'd b
cartln" over some little borrowing
that somebody had paid back. But
Squire Lazenby's interest was eatln'
in all the time, and Philly he bought
more or less truck he didn't really
need, jest because, as I told ye a
minute ago, it's so terrible easy to
make out one o' them little slips "
The storekeeper stopped abruptly
and scowled into more vacancy.
"Yes?" Uncle Bishop uuggested.
"I bate ye!" the storekeeper re
sponded, feelingly. For a few sec
onds there was silence.
"And all thlB time, you want to
remember, Peter's hens and incuba
tors were a-hatchln' out chickens,"
the storekeeper said, all at once. That
seemed to mark a change in the cur
rent of his thoughts, and with more
cheerfulness he proceeded:
"There was more'n one way that
things didn't work out with Philly
as they do in the newspaper stories.
Maybe in a big city he could have
carried it through slicker, but in
smaller places most everybody known
how much there actchllly is behind
anybody else. So, when capitalists
came in from outside and brought a
new business scheme, or there was
something promls:. planned right
here in town then, when Philly be
gan to swell around, and show kind
of accidentally that he had a check-
nook, and wait to be asked inside
the scheme, there was always some
body to get off a Joke about the two
hundred dollar checks, and Philly'd
be dished.
"Then he had a desperate spell
cal'late Saulre Lazenbv mnv hava
been squeezing him and he thought
he'd get rich quick, too, lending
money at big Interest. Them went
a few weeks when folks over that
way that never did have much of
anything before were llvlne hls-h. T
s'pose Philly thought he'd protect
nimseir, but, my king! a man might
give me a stack of promissory notes
as tall as the meetin' house steenie.
but the only real security ye have,
auer an, is wnetner he means to pay
his debts. And as near's t can mnkn
out, halt of Philly's customers weren't
any more responsible than than
them chickens of Peter's.
"Well, to make a lone storv nhnrt.
it was more'n three years that the
bank put up with Philly, while he
was pushln' his little handful n' An.
lars back and forth and tryln' to be
a millionaire by his own say-so. His
salary didn't grow, the way a healthy
salary ought to do, because his mind
was mostly on schemes -outside the
shop. His money didn't grow, be
cause he hadn't put it in the saving,
bank or in some little business like
Peters hen farm where he could
sort o' work with tt. And last I
heard, he didn't have anv rhonV.tinnfc
and he'd paid Squire Lazenby seven
ty-five dollars' interest on that bor
rowed fifty, and owed him slxtv dol
lars yet."
"About that 'ere hen farm"
UBele Bishop began. ,
But the Btorekeener hushed him
with a gesture, and leaned forward
to hall a venerable citizen whose an
cient horse was rambling rheumatic-
ally down, the road.
"Hey, Ammi!" the storekeenor
called. "I see Philly Appleton's
home. Ain't this a queer time o'
year to take a vacation?"
The venerable citizen checker! him
horse and pondered a minute.
"What's that? Oh. Phillv?" he
answered, at last. "Peter's elv htm
a Job, ye know. He's como back to
do .the letter-wrltin' and bookkeenin'
about Peter's chickens." Youth's
Companion.
Our First "Comic Paper."
An excemt from the Phllnrlplnhlo
Ledger in your last nlcht's issue sav
that John Donkey was the first comic
stieet published in the United States.
In this instance, and maybe only this
instance, Philadelphia la a Hula ton
previous. In the year 1842 I wasn't
alive then, but the record shows it
a comic paper with the name of the
Pictorial Wag was published in New
xorK city, whereas John Donkey did
not see the light till 1848. The pro
prietor of the Pictorial Wae was nnA
R. H. Elton, a manufacturer of val
entines, the editor being Thomas
Nichols. The publication didn't last
long, Elton finding that the manufac
ture 01 valentines was a trifle more
profitable. He afterward built un
Morrlsania. and gave his name tn tho
adjacent village of Eltonia.
If is a curious thing that, though
we have the reputation of beinit a
witty nation, the history of our comic
papers is being marked by no less
than half a hundred tombstones. La
Touche Hancock, in the New York
Evening Sun.
The Earth's Innards.
Professor Wiechert, at a recent
meeting of the Selsmological Associa
tion at The Hague, asserted that his
studies of the varying velocity of
earthquake tremors passlng'thrbugh
the interior of the globe lead to the
conclusion that the earth consists of
a central core of Iron or steel, about
6580 miles in diameter, surrounded
by a stony shell 930 miles in thick
ness. Between the outer solid rind
and the inner layer of rock, covering
the metallic core, he thinks there is a
layer of liquid or plastic material,
lying a little less than twenty miles
below the surface ot the earth.
Youth's Companion.
Newspaper Advertising the Best.
The newspaper is the best adver
tising medium, and the more we em
ploy that ud boycott the other the
better tor the community. Advertis
ing devices and the bill-board are ut
terly hideous. Pofessor Zuebliu, la
a Lecture at Boston,
DECIDES TO BDST AFFINITY TRUST.
GOVERNMENT AFTER SOUL MATE SWINDLERS.
CHICAGO HEADQUARTERS 0Fv CLUBS WHICH GULLED THE
LOYELORK WITH PICTURES.
Uncle Sam has found some hard
nuts to crack Blnce he began smash
ing the trustB, but he never set for
himself a more peculiar task than
when he undertook to crush the "af
finity trust."
It was a comparatively easy prob
lem to follow tie trail ot petroleum
from a hole in the ground in Ohio to
the tin can from which the world's
farmer fills his kerosene lamp. It is
a long Jump, however, from freight
rates on oil shipments to tariffs On
love missives; from a prosecution in
which there were rebates to blaze the
way to one wherein nobody except the
trust ever got anything at all, except
now and then a homely wife or a hus
band with a wart on his nose.
In the beginning ot what shall con
stitute some day the, history ot the
Government's war on the "affinity
trust" there was no inkling of the or
ganization of such a monopqly. Chi
cago clergymen, to be sure, had re
ported a constant diminution of mar
riages effected through the ordinary
channels, but this condition was as
cribed to young men's growing aver
sion to contracting additional respon
sibilities in dayswhen salaries Beemed
out of proportion to the cost ot liv
ing. Nobody suspected that the old
fashioned method of courting hold
ing hands on the settee of an Ingle
nook or cooing in a hammock on the
front porch, when there was one
had been superseded to a large extent
by a trust system.
The Searchlight ' Club was the
means of awakening the Government
to the destruction of competition and
oldtime rivalry In love making. In
the course of a long court contest
Uncle Bam learned through this
"club" that It was only one of hun
dreds of the same kind In various
cities and towns, that all were allied
to a central headquarters in Chicago,
and that all would guarantee to dis
cover the affinity,' the genuine soul
mate, ot any person who would, pay
their tees. A marriage was also guar
anteed. Thei Soul Mate Provider.
The pretty town ot Elgin, 111., hug
ging the. banks ot the Fox River and
famous as being the focus of the
Watch Trust, was the home of the
Searchlight Club. The president of
this organization, which was no or
ganization at all except as It formed
a part of the "affinity trust," was Miss
Marlon Grey, dashing, handBome, ap
parently possessed of a great deal of
money and for a long time a mystery.
It she had confined her operations to
finding soul mates for the thousands
of girls in the watch factories of the
town she might have amassed a for
tune. But she sought fame as an
affinity joiner in a larger field. Using
the United States mails led a Post
office Inspector to her richly furnished
suite of offices after she had taken in
about $3000 in three months.
The postal Inspector pretended to
be in search of an affinity. He did
not make a misrepresentation. He
was hunting for the "beautiful young
widow, possessed of 133,000," vhes
Miss Grey had selected as the affinity
of William Grabell, a lank farmer ot
Dearborn, Mo. The Mlssourlan ac
cepted and married the woman to
whom Miss Grey had Introduced him
by mall, but he said she was homely,
penniless and misrepresented. He
had wooed a beauty by mail, but
wedded a plain affinity at the altar.
This Mlssourlan had paid the
Searchlight Club $5 to "discover his
affinity." After he married her he
complained to the Government that
he had been swindled. He wanted
Miss Grey punished. He took his
wife to Chicago during Miss Grey's
trial. Although It was shown that
hundreds of others had paid Miss
Grey $5 each without even being in
troduced to a possible affinity, it was
on the specific complaint of the Mis
souri man who wedded the one she
provided that Miss Grey was found
guilty by a jury and sentenced to
prison.
Miss Grey's offices were raided and
she was arrested when the postal in
spector failed to get a clew to the
Identity of the "Wealthy and beauti
ful young woman, unincumbered,"
who bad been promised to the Mis
souri farmer. Thousands of letters
were seized in her offices. She had
kept several stenographers busy.
Miss Grey confessed that she had
sent the photographs of a Mrs. Cline,
of Omaha, to 1000 men who sought
wives, hat none of them was able to
win the "beautiful, rich widow."
This Affinity a Paralytic.
Scores of men and women were
taken to Chicago as witnesses for the
Government. Among them was Will
iam Griffith, sixty-three years old,
who lives at Amsterdam, Pa. Miss
Grey had sent him a picture of bta
affinity and promised to bring about a
marriage, be testified, and he was so
tickled -with the prospect that he at
once mailed Miss Grey her $5 tee, but
he . heard from ber no more. Miss
Catherine Bolen, of Bellevlew, Ohio,
had seen her soul mate In a picture ot
John A. Logan, ot Carml, III., sup
plied by Miss Grey. She corresponded
wld him several months. She saw
him tor the first time in the court
room, and learned then that be was
a helpless cripple, both his legs being
paralyzed. Miss Bolen was a yJjsV
clous, handsome girl, but she could
not be induced to believe that her
natural affinity was a young man who
could not move without crutches, al
though she believed in the theory of
opposltes.
Miss Grey was convicted of operat
ing a confidence game, but was treed
on ball pending argument tor a new
trial.
Assistant United States District At
torney Strirer, of Chicago, was then
assigned to the special task of de
stroying this octopus. In Memphis
the Federal Secret Bervlce got a clew
that led to the house of Mrs. Jennie
Scott, No. 2 14. Eighty-second street,
Chicago. She was arrested as the
operator 'of "Glinn's International
Corresponding Association.". She was
only a boarding house keeper, but
under the name of this association
and the names of Mrs. E. L. Gllnn,
Mrs. Jennie Call, Mrs. A. M. Harvey
and Mrs. E. L. Glynn, she had re
ceived thousands of letters at her
boarding house and also at No. 2208
Wabash avenue, where she had a mall
box. The letters were all from men
and women who Bought her aid in
seeking wives and husbands.
It was discovered that the litera
ture sent to "affinity seekers" by Mrs.
Scott was almost identical with that
sent out by Marlon Grey. Apparent
ly it had been revised after her con
viction, but in every instance the
"marriageable person" was represent
ed to be worth from 11000 to .$5000.
Used Mrs. Tod Sloan's Picture.
Miss Orey had represented her
patrons to have amounts running
from $500 up to $26,000 and $4
000. Mrs. Scott thought a smaller
sum was sufficient to induce anybody
who wanted a "soul mate" to start
a-woolng. Among the photographs
vhiih Mrs. Scott sent out to men
patrons was one of Miss Julia San
derson, the actress, wife of Tod Sloan.
When this picture was sent to a lone
man who wished a wife it was sure to
bring a $2 or a $1 fee, Mrs. Scott's
charge for an Introduction by mall,
especially If It was accompanied by
"description like the following, taken
at random from - tne many found
among Mrs. Scott's papers:
"Thirty-four years old, 120 pounds,
light hair, blue eyes, fair complexion,
American and Protestant, income
$64,000 a year, good looking and does
Bot care for society."
- The capture of Mrs. Scott brought
ber daughter Into the limelight. It
was learned that she had been em
ployed by Harry Hart. The Govern
ment's spies had heard of him as be
ing the organizer and directing head
tf the whole affinity trust, owning the
headquarters and at least a dozen ot
the branches. The search for Hart
led to No. 351 Wabash avenue, Chi
cago, and a raid on the sumptuous
offices there ot the Leanian Club.
Isadore Meyers was the manager of
the club. When arrested he said he
had conducted the club for Hart and
his chief associate in the trust, Hugo
Morris.
The Government's agents learned
that Meyers had contracted with a
Chicago photographer for 50,000
photographs of three actresses and
three actors. Whenever a man or
woman answered the advertisement
ot the Leaman Club Meyers mailed
one of these photographs to the
writer, and represented that tho orig
inal of the picture was "heart whole
and fancy free" aud that an introduc
tion could be arranged If the writer
would Join the club and pay a fee
ol $g. If the $5 was sent later the
wife or husband seeker would re
ceive in reply a letter like this:.
"The original of the photo which
you received is now corresponding
wish other members of our club, and
has requested us not to send any new
names Just at present. We there
fore recommend the inclosed desir
able member's name."
Many Branches in West.
But how could anybody be induced
to write to this "desirable member?"
The club had already selected the
original ot the photograph as the
lovelorn 'b heaven born soul mate; to
think of accepting any other was sac
rilege; so he or she plodded on in
single blessedness and charged the $5
fee to profit and loss, while the Lea
man Club's safe was bulging with
mcney thus gathered.
The authorities uncovered fifty or
more of these "clubs" in Chicago
alone, all operating under the same
plan and with Identical lures, except
that each bad its own pictures. Hart
and Morris fled. Their principal tools
are under bond awaiting trjal. Mean
time the . Government is Beeking to
discover and suppress the branches
In cities other than Chicago. One of
these ts said to be the New York Cor
respondence League, Toledo, Ohio.
Another, which advertised, "Join our
(-affinity club; we will find your other
haff;" gives its address as Lock Box
106, Lestershire, N. Y. Another has
Its mall sent to Lock Box 586, Vassar,
Micb. T?he Select Club, ot Tekonsha,
Mich., tinder the title, "Special Selec
tions, D XX," offers any man a bar
gain in wives in inducements like
tb.'s:
"14 Me. Here I am, boys; have
$lt,t6 and will Inherit $20,000;
Handsome blonde ot thirty-eight sum
mers, golden hair and bine eyes, fair
tv&pJei&D, graceful form, mild dis
position, good education, can play
piano and violin." .
What appears to the authorities as
most extraordinary is that so many
men and women patronize these mat
rimonial snares. Questions relating
to this point elicited unexpected an
swers. "Are moBt of your patrons giddy
boys and girls?" was asked ot Mrs.
Scott.
"This Is undoubtedly true In some
Instances," she replied, "but I'll tell
you many would be shocked to know
the high class people who are anxious
to win soul mates. Why, there's one
good fat check among my effects that
I'd like to keep; It's a fee for getting
a wealthy railroad man a pretty
young wife."
These revelations, showing the
great number of swindlers preying
on gullible people through their heart
strings, aroused Chicago's Aldermen
to frame an ordinance that should
prohibit the existence of any form of
matrimonial agency or affinity organ
ization within the city limits. The
law is now ready for passage. New
York Tribune.
AMAZING MEDICAL
TEST BY EDITOR BOK
Of 9000 Prescriptions Written by
Eminent Philadelphia Doctor 47
PerCent. Called For "Proprietary
Medicines."
Edward Bok, editor of the Ladies'
Home Journal, which was first In the
field in attacks on "patent" medi
cines, and who paid one manufactur
er .more than $17,000 damages and
costs for false statements concerning
a well-known remedy, recently ap
peared before the Philadelphia
branch ot the American Pharmaceu
tical Association. In a discussion
Mr. Bok stated that, on a basis ot
5000 prescriptions examined, many
of them written by eminent doctors,
forty-seven per cent, called for "pro
prietary medicines oT unknown com
position." This Is pretty conclusive
evidence that practically one-half of
the prescriptions. written by eminent
physicians In Mr. Jok's own town
are for "patent" medicines, which
could just as well have been pur
chased by the user without paying
from $1 to $5 for a Latin prescrip
tion for them, but which are pre
scribed for the reason that they are
the best remedies known to medical
science. Mr. Bok did not state how
many of the fifty-three per cent, that
were not for "patent" medicines
called for such drugs as quinine and
Epsom salts.
WISE WORDS.
A duck of a girl can make a goose
out of any man.
A contented heart is a cash register
full of gold coin.
When extremes meet they don't
always recognize each other.
Ever notice how many friends you
have when you don't need them?
There are three kinds of lies
white lies, black lies and society lies.
Because Llfo hands- you a lemon,
don't try to corner the Vinegar Trust.
A literary editor knows that the
whole world is trying to do "fancy
work."
Typewriters tell no tales, but an
uncommunicative stenographer would
be a curiosity.
With summer coming in such
strides, spring poetry will soon be
too pithy to print.
The famous shot he'.rd round the
world is a toy pistoi compared to
the modern chorus gl'l's kiss.
A man who has money to throw at
the birds can hardly see the sky for
the flocks that hover over him.
If lots of people were portioned
out the kind of cake they deserve
life would give them sponge cake.
Opportunity, like repartee, hath a
feminine way ot ringing her bells
when she turns the corner out ot
sight
Beauty may be only skin deep, but
the ugly, old world is appreciative
enough to adore even attractive ve
neering. A woman when she puts her money
In a bank has the same feeling as
when she leaves her best friend in
the graveyard.
Consider the ways ot the diligent
man, my son; he standeth in the
presence of princes. Observe the
methods of the diplomat; he Bits
right along up beside the"-: From
"Epigrams," in the Pittsburg Dig
patch. ' i
The Ostrich in Africa.
. The French Government in West
ern Africa has undertaken to or
ganize the breeding of ostriches Ml the
territory under Its control. Ostriches
are found wild in many parts of West
ern Africa. Along the River Niger
they avoid the neighborhood ot man,
but on some of the Islands in that and
other rivers the' natives have estab
lished, rude ostrich farms. Dr. De-
corse, who was appointed by the Gov
ernment to study the subject, says
that the methods of the ostrich farm
ers ot the Cape cannot be fully car
ried out in the French territory. It
will be necessary to leave the os
triches in a partially nomadic state,
They migrate more or less with the
seasons. When it becomes too dry
in the south they go northward. The
Youth's Companion.
Worth Remembering.
In escaping from a fire crawl along
the floor. Smoke ascends and there is
always a current ot air along, the
floor.
Hsavy Decrease In Births.
The vital - statistics for the year
1907 show a further marked decrease
In the birth rate for France which,
In a century, has fallen from 1,007,000
to 774,000 a year. The reduction in
the number ot births last year was
33,000, as against an average decrease
of 12,000 for the last seven years. The
deaths in France in 1907 totalled
793.000, 19,000 more than the total ot
births.
Saved From Fleing a Cripple
. . For Life.
"Almost bIx or seven weeks agoi'I
became paralyzed all at once with
rheumatism," writes Mrs. Louis Mo
Key, 913 Seventh street Oakland, Cal.
"It struck me in the back and extend
ed from the hip ot my right leg down
to my foot The attack was so severe
that I could not move in bed and was
- ' 1 .1 t - V. .... 1 .1 - I 1
Biiaiu uiai e Buumu ua a wiipiiiw pur
life.
"About twelve years ago I received
a samnle bottle of your Liniment' but r
never had occasion to use it as I have
always oeen wen, dux someming low
me that Sloan's Liniment would help
me, so I tried It. After the second ap-
I -1 , J . . . . I. 1
VVUfW. f WW w. WWW,
in three days could walk, and now feel
well and entirely free from pain.
"My friends were very much sur
prised at my rapid recovery and I was '
only too glad to tell them that Sloan's
Liniment was the only medicine I
used."
Chinese Protect Forests.
The Chinese have undertaken to
nurse their forests, and the officials
of the Celestial government have en
gaged a Japanese expert from Toklo
to act as head master for the proposed
school of forests at Mukden for a term
of four years, with two Chinese as his
assistants.
22-
NO SKIN WAS LEFT ON BODY.
Baby was Expected to Die with Ec-
rema Blood Oozed Out All Over
t Her Body Now Well Doctor
Bald to Use Catlcnra.
Six months after birth my little girt
broke out with ecsema ind I had two doe
tors in attendance. There was not a particle
of skin left on iier body, the blood oosed
out just anywhere, and we had to wrap her
in silk and carry" her on a pillow tor ten
weeks. Sh was the most terrible tight I
ever saw, and for six months I looked for
her to die. -1 used every known remedy to
alleviate her suffering, for it was terrible
to witness. Dr. C gave her up. Dr.
13 reoommanded the Cuticura Remedies. '
She will soon be three years old and has
never bad a sign of the dread trouble since.
We used about eight calces . 6f - Cuticura
Boap and three boxes of Cuticura Oint
ment. James J. Smith, Dumid. Vs., Oct.
11 and 22. 1909."
' The Ape's Philosophy.
Prof, Gersung, the well known
Vienna surgeon, In his book, "Sedi
mentation of Lite," has a parable con
cerning what the ape thought of the
doctrine of evolution. When news of
Darwin's theory reached Simian land
the wise ones proved at once that he
had got hold of the wrong end of the
fact, It was the ape that had evolved
from man though bearing a similarity
to the monkey is every way his In
ferior. The man is naked; he has only
two hands; his undeveloped extreme
ties are fitted only for walking on the
ground; he still eats flesh; he kills
bis own kind and other animals; he
lacks Intelligence, as shown by the
fact that he does not enjoy life; be
dwarfs and shortens life by working
and worrying to make money which,
when he has made it, he Is unfit to en
Joy. He lives. It Is true, in herds,
but in perpetual competition and con
flict. The ape, on the other hand, has
a warm garment; he dwells above the
ground, has four hands adapted to
every work and for moving rapidly
from branch to branch. He feeds upon
only fruits and nuta, and lives peace
ably In great unions. He is, bodily
and mentally, the crown of ereatlon.
Certainly, in regard to enjoying
Tlfe, man is behind the ape. Having
accepted as a cardinal truth, that
man's business in the world is to
make money, he does not, in his eager
pursuit of the dollar, take time to live.
Work keeps every energy of body
and mind at the highest tension. As
a result, the zest of life is lost; the
man Is old in face and heart, while
young In years. When he has made
his wealth he has no longer capacity
to be happy. The ape is wiser. Mary
E. Bryan In Uncle Remus.
DR. TALKS OF FOOD
Pres. of Board of Health.
wnai snau i eaii is me uaiiy in
quiry the physician is met with. I
do not hesitate to say that In my
Judgment a large percentage ot dis
ease Is caused by poorly selected and
Improperly prepared food. My per
sonal experience with the fully-cooked
food, known as Grape-Nuts, enables
me to speak freely of its merits.
"From overwork I suffered several
years with malnutrition, palpitation
of the heart and loss of sleep. Last
summer, I was led to experiment per
sonally with the new food, which I
nsed In conjunction with good rich
cow's milk. In a short time after I
commenced Its use the disagreeable
symptoms disappeared, my heart's ac
tion became steady and normal, the .
functions of the stomach were prop
erly carried out, and I again slept as
soundly and as well as hi my youth.
"I look upon Grape-Nuts as a per
fect food, and no one can gainsay but
that it has a most prominent place in
a rational, scientific system of feed
ing. Any one who uses this food will
soon be convinced ot the soundness
Of the principle upon which It ts man
ufactured and may thereby know the
facts as to Its true worth." Read
"The Road to Wellvllle." In pkgs.
"There's a Reason."
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true and full of human
Interest,
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