)
THB PRINCESS IN THE CITY.
V Me mti and think of quiet hills
Anil many woods and waters, all asleep.
All dreaming In the silver of the
night;
f silent empty woods, of waters deep
And grassy meadows full of resting
sheep,
And over them the moon with stead
fast light.
Bs father has a emtio In the North
And from the battlements 1 saw the
hills,
Bare and tree-covered, white with
fallen snows,
Jreen with the waking spring and brown
and gold
When with her melnnchnly Autumn fills
Men's hearts, and touches everything
that grows.
1. listen to the never-ceaslnir feet
. And hear men's voices raised In rage
or fear
All through the night May It not
chance again
I shall fto North and from my tower-
. room
Look out and see the hills and only hear
The passing of the winds, the voice of
rain?
1 loved the city. Once her many lights
Were Jewels shining on the hidden
throat
Of some divined enchantress. Now,
alas,
Let me ko North, far North again, and
find
. My father's castle, cross the guarded
1 moat,
' And from Its safety watch the last
years pass.
! Westminster Review,
A
Happy Friendship
The Prettjr Siory of How "Alice in
Wonderland" Cams to Bo Written.
Helen Marshall Pratt In St. Nicholas.
Can you imagine a time when "Alice
In Wonderland" had not been heard
f? When no one knew the story of
the While Rabbit and the Cheshire
Cat, of the March Hare and the Mad
Tea party? When "You are old, Fath
er William," and "How doth the little
busy bee" read only one way, and when
there was no Mock Turtle's story, no
lobster Cltiadi-llle, and the Red Queen
and the Duchess and Tweedledum and
Tweedledee had not yet been made to
live for the pleasure of children, largo
fid small?
I fancy that every one who loves the
Alice books must pity those unfortu
nate children who lived before they
were written, and who thus missed so
much that makes the reading hours ot
childhood bright today.
In the great quadrangle or court of
Christ Church college, in Oxford, Eng
land, many a stirring event has taken
place, and many a distinguished man
has lived and died. Of all these, no
vent is of great interest to Amerl
jeva. children than the writing of "Alice
In Wonderland," and no person of
greater interest than its author, the
Rev. Charles Dodgson, whom we know
better under his pen-name, "Lewis Car
nil." In the same quadrangle, which
very one In Oxford calls the "Tom
Quad" from the bell named Great Tom
which hands in the Gateway tower,
lived the real Alice, a sweet, merry lit
tle Oxford girl, one of Lewis Carroll's
earliest and best child friends.
Nothing in the dignified appearance
f the quadrangle suggests the gro
tesque creations and the merry fancies
of these wonderful nonsense books.
All doorways open into homes of grave
srofessors and students. In the north
west angle the author of Alice found
Ills home in 1862, a few years after hn
bad graduated from Christ Church, and
bad come to be a lecturer oa mathe
matics In the college.
He seems to have been a very quiet,
orderly, reserved young man, fond of
long walks off in the country by him
self; fond of books and study; shy and
retiring with grown people, except
those that he knew very well; but hap
py and free and merry with all chil
dren, whom he tenderly loved. He was
she oldest In' a big family of eleven
children of whom ho was very fond
as they were of him. He made friends
with children as long as he lived, and
was never too tired or too busy to en
tertain them.
a little Oxford girl but Bhe Is now
lady, and you can see the roof of
Iter beautiful home in the quadranglo
-who was one of Lewis Carroll's best
friends, and whom he called "Dear
Bee," says: "If you went to see Mr.
Dodgson in the morning you would
find him, pen in hand, hard at work
en seat packets carefully arranged
around him on the table; but the pen
would be instantly laid aside, and the
most cheerful of smiles would wel
come you In for a chat as long as you
liked to stay."
I suppose that no children ever had
a more delightful playfellow than did
these little friends. A story is told of
a famous general who went to call at
a house in the Quad and was ushered
Into a room where no one seemed to
fee present, but a great commotion wad
going on under the table. The gen
eral, who loved a romp with his own
children, got on all fours and rushed
wnder the table, where he found to "his
great surprise the Rev. Charles Dodg
son surrounded by the children of the
family.
But of all the little friends whom
Lewis Carroll loved, none were dearer
than the daughters of Dean Llddell;
Lorlna, Alice and Edith. They lived
on the same side of the quadrangle
wttk- him, but at the opposite corner;
that is, they lived at the east end of
Borth walk and he lived at the west
and, so that they could run along the
Sags and visit him and have a cozy
time, even on a rainy day. Their fath
er was dean of the cathedral, and one
ejf the authors ot the great Greek, dic
tionary which your older ' brother
knows very well, no doubt The dean
ery is a beautiful old home with Ivy
ad trees and a One garden at the
back, and this was the home of Alice.
She was not the oldest, but the sec
end daughter, and in the verses at the
beginning of the Wonderland1 book she
Is called "Becunda" (Second) ; Lorina,
U eldest, is called "Prima" (First),
and little Edith, the youngest, Is called
'Tertia" (Third). For these three
dear children, Lewis Carroll had a
never-ending fund of stories which
he told them at all sorts of times In
his Btudy, in the garden, while walking
In the counliry or rowing on the river
which runs at the foot ot the college
ground. And one of the greatest
treats that the sisters could possibly
have was to go boating up the river
to Nuneham or Qodstow with Lewis
Carroll, have tea on the banks and
come home leisurely in the early even
ing, to Christ Church, their host en
tertaining them all the way with de
lightful fairy stories.
"Alice in Wonderland," was one of
these stories, begun as they rowed
along the river on a Fourth of July
and In the year 1862, when our couu
try was in the midst of the great civil
war. Lewis Carroll himself did not
seem to think the story a wonderful
one. In his diary for that day he
wrote:
"I made an expedition up the river
to Godstow with the three Liddells; we
had tea on the banks there and did
not reach Christ church till half past
eight" Later on, he added to this:
"On which occasion I toldi them tha
fairy tale of 'Alice's Adventures Un
derground,' which I undertook to write
out for Alice."
You can imagine how eagerly the
children listened while the adven
tures of the White Rabbit, the story
of the Mouse and the Lory, The Cau
cusrace and all the rest of the tale
were told In the gentle, quiet fashion
in which Mr. Dodgson always spoke,
and rather slowly, perhaps, because of
a tendency to stammering. Sometimes
the party was Increased1 to a fifth
member, a gentleman who was then a
student at Trinity College, and a great
friend of Mr. Dodgson, but who is now
a grave canon of Westminster Abbey,
where you may have heard him preach
when you have been In London. He
says that the "Alice" stories, some of
them at least, were told over bis
shoulders.
The, entdre story was not told on a
Blngle occasion, as you may well be
lleve, but on many occasions the ad
ventures were resumed, and a chapter
narrated, now on the river, now in
the stiudy, now in the garden, now af
ter tea in the meadows or in the cosy
drawing room facing the street One
can imagine how impatient the chil
dren would be for the "next time" to
come and how unwilling to have the
story teller's voice stop, even though
the breath grew too weak "to stir the
tiniest feather." And how eagerly
they would welcome a sight of the
grave young man in his college cap
and gown who represented' to them a
treasure house of delight.
THE PHOTOGRAPH ER'8 TE8T.
By Which He Discovers That In Some
Ways the Whole World is Kin.
"You note," said the photographer,
"that In pictures taken anywhere, In
any part of the globe, the humans face
the camera as If they wanted to be
taken. It may be curiosity that
prompts them or it may be vanity,
but they all seem to like to get into
the picture.
"Take a group picture made any
where, say among our own tribe. Note
the people in the rear with necks
craned to get their heads out from be
hind blanketing people in front, so that
their faces will1 show. Shyness or
modesty may keep some who are in the
background from doing this, but unless
the photographer has personally posed
every member of the group bo that he
will show you will always find in such
pictures some figures ot persons who
would otherwise have been more or
lees obscured but who have so dis
posed themselves as to make sure that
their faces show.
"So ot any set group, and the same
would be true of any sort of picture in
which many persons were taken, as at
a banquet or a wedding, and it would
be true of some of the onlookers In a
picture taken of a funeral. People like
to get into the picture.
"Just how true this is appears In
many ways in all sorts ot pictures; in
pictures in which people are not the
main but only Incidental or subordin
ate features, as of accidents, or ruins,
or scenes of a great variety of sorts.
In such pictures where the presence
of the camera was known you will al
ways find some persons facing or turn
ing toward the photographer, with an
evident desire to get Into the picture,
and It is easy to Imagine that the
gratification ot seeing themselves there
may give them pleasure.
"Look at pictures taken ot semi
savage or Bemi-olvlllzed people in re
motest countries, where perhaps they
had never seen a mirror or heard of
a camera, but you may be sure that
human vanity exists as it does with
us, and you may see somebody trying
to get into the picture or smiling vo
look well in it.
"Seriously, this pleases me as no
other one minor thing that I know of
does. It brings the whole world closer
together, for it shows that however,
far apart in land and tongue and cus
toms the races of the wide world may
be, yet In some at least of man's un
derlying human traits we are all kin."
New York Sun.
The Distinction.
School Teacher Johnny, what is a
patriot?
Johnny A man that tries to benefit
his country. -
School Teacher And what is a poli
tician? Johnny A man that tries to have
his country benefit him. Judge.
An,. Englishman has invented a bicy
cle for the blind. In reality, it is a
multicycle, carrying twelve riders, led
by a soelng person, who does the
steering.
frTHE FARMEB'3 HOME AND'ACRES I
Dodder In the Clover.
A dodder infested stand of clover or
alfalfa may safely be allowed to pro
duce a crop of hay or be used tor
pasturage or for soiling provided the
crop Is removed before the dodder pro
duces seed. Plowing should follow
immediately after the removal of the
crop; otherwise mature dodder seeds
will be burled and possibly prove trou
blesome on again being brought to the
surface. Weekly Witness.
Feeding Salt.
Salt that remains In the barrel ot
meat that Is clean and wholesome is
In no way Infected with germ life that
will injure stock to which it is fed
any more, than other salt. Animals
are sometimes poisoned on salt, but
It is by reason of their being so hun
gry for it that they overeat of it. Thus
if a person were to dump the contents
of a meat barrel on the ground and
cattle, horses or sheep that were hun
gry for salt got to it they likely would
eat it to their injury. Weekly Wit
ness. Preparing Market Poultry.
In preparing fowls for market, re
member that they should not bo al
lowed any food for at least twenty
four hours before killing, but give
them all tho water they will drink.
They will dress much better, look
fresher, and retain their natural color
much loTlger If this is done. If you
dress fowls with full crops they are
apt to turn dark and will sour quickly,
especially if the weather happens to
turn warm. Begin picking before the
fowl gets cold the sooner after it Is
dead tho better and in packing, fill
the box so snugly that the contents
cannot shuffle around. Do not be
gin to pack until all the animal heat
has escaped. Farmer's Home Journal.
' Care of the Horse.
For kidney trouble give two ounces
night and morning of tea made by
steeping buchu leaves In soft water.
This will correct irritation of the
kidneys or urinary tract much better
and more safely than strong drugs,
says the Farm Journal.
It is no economy to feed poor, musty
hay or grain to horses, and be sure
also that horses do not eat dirty and
musty bedding.
Do not stuff the road horses with
hay. A horse cannot travel easily with
a stomach full of bay crowding his
lungs.
Give a small forkful at night, when
the horse has time to digest It.
A good handful of cut hay should
be mixed with the grain to compel
perfect mastlflcatlon.
Irregular feeding tends to make
horses bolt their grain. Guard against
It Bolting food causes indigestion
and consequently loss of health.
Advice on Eggs. '
I get more eggs in winter than any
other season. As you are too late now
to get the extreme high prices of late
fall and winter eggs, get ready for
ext winter. How? Dreed from vigor
ous winter layers, that have that trait
bred into them and begin right now.
Borne people may' get what they think
are' beet results from April, May and
June hatched chicks, font give me the
February, March and early April
chicks and I will get the high prices
for eggs, when strictly froah eggs are
Scarce.
And to get them you must give the
chicks and growing stock the best of
care, never neglecting for a moment.
It takes grit, and a lot of It on the part
of tho poultryman to fund properly,
during the present high price of
grains, but the returns are bound to
come If you carry out your part. Keep
the chicks 'growing, growing, growing,
and they will make your bank account
grow later. You must have the right
kind of stock to begin with, but by
this I do not mean, only my favorites,
white wyandottes, but any breed you
may choose. In making your choice be
sure they have been bred right for tho
purpose you want them.
You must get the right strain of
yvur bred.
If buying stock, get that which
have eggs In them to lay, either early
hatched pullets that mature before
cold weather sets in, or hens which
have not laid themselves out during
the summer and fall. Any advice as
to feeding and methods of housing, are
destined to failure If this first consid
eration is not taken into account. It
buying eggs, be sure you are getting
them from stock that have the breed
ing' back of them to produce the win
ter layers. B. A, Hastings in the
Farmers' Home Journal.
Holding Drift Land.
The drifting sands of the Cape Cod
region in Massachusetts are a serious
problem for the farm owners nearby.
The coarse sand is gradually moved
along by the wind and Is encroaching
upon the fertile cultivated spots. Ex
cept where there is protection of pine
trees or other forest growth, the sand
bills make gains from year to year,
and nothing could prevent them from
covering houses and towns as well as
fields.
The Forestry Department has been
making .suite a study ot such condi
tions, which prevail in certain other
arts of the country as well as on
Cape Cod, Forest fires often increase
the trouble by destroying the growth
that has long protected the cultivated
sections from the approach of the
sand. Besides prevention ot forest
fires some other methods are recom
mended. Planting of trees is, ot
course, desirable, Including rows on
the sides of the roads and along the
borders of fields as shelter belts, also
belts of trees on the windward side of
light lands that have been cleared of
trees, these belts serving to protect
agalust severe winds as well as keep
ing off the sand.
It is found that fields left even after
plowing drift badly, while there is but
little drifting on uneven fields. Run
ning the harrow on fields stops drift
ing at once where the soil is stirred.
Another means of preventing drifting
Is to cultivate sandy fields in long
narrow strips not more than fifteen
or twenty rods wide and alternating
with similar strips of grass, preser
ably clover. On these narrow strips
serious drifting cannot occur. The ro
tation should aim to always have in
the spring a field of grass to west
ot tha land to be sowed to grain and
seeded- to clover. Such a rotation is
secured by always planting potatoes or
corn on clover sod'. The clover plant
ed in Bprlng on grain serves as a pro
tection while grain is getting started
and at the same time furnishes a
green manure to plow In to increase
the vegetable matter In those soils
which arc naturally deficient In some
matter. Plowing under green crops
helps increase the water-holding pow
er of the soil, the lack of which is
the main cause of Its drifting. Ameri
can Cultivator.
Poultry Notes.
Have regular hours for feeding your
poultry. Irregular feeding often
causes a derangement of the digestive
organs, and this means impaired
health and fewer eggs.
Do not allow the fowls outdoors
unless the runs are clear of snow.
Poultry that are compelled to eat
snow to quench their thirst are apt
to suffer from bowel disorder.
'Cleanliness Is an Important factor
in winter egg production. Filthy quar
ters mean lice, and lousy hens will
not produce eggs. The comfortable
bird is the one that pays a profit
If tho bride could look ahead and
see herself working hard, early and
late, getting only her board and olothes
and not much of either, and helping
earn a home for tho second wife, she
would fling off the veil and go to rais
ing chickens.
When the litter on the floor of the
poultry house becomes damp and dirty
throw It out and put in some fresh.
The hens will enjoy it and they will
be healthier, and besides on the farm,
straw, hay and chaff are cheap and
easily obtained.'
If there is any bad weather coming
to us, It generally makes its appear
ance during February. The wise poul
tryman Is the one who has already
prepared for that emergency, and his
hens are not only comfortable, but
are laying egg's in large quantities.
Can a hen lay or not, as sho wills?
It certainly does look that way. All
know that if we move hens from one
yard to another there will be a great
falling off in eggs. A change of fix
tures in the hen-house will work the
same result. Whether the cessation
is voluntary or not, it pays to disturb
tho layers as little as possible. Farm
ers' Home Journal.
MERELY A DUCK 8TORY.
Nothing About It Suggests Fish Ex
cept Its Size.
Dick is the name this time not of a
man nor ot a dog but of a duck, a big
drake mallard living on Mud Lake in
Arkansas and there acting In the ca
pacity of live decoy to his fellow web
footers and of friend to duck hunters.
"Just as soon as you got In a boat
to go after ducks Dick appears," de
clares the Nashville Banner on the au
thority of Brodle Flnley, a local sports
man. "He'll sit up there with you and
look as wise as anybody until he sees
a drove of ducks 'way off in the distance.
Then he'll Jump off of the boat into the
lake, get in a good feeding pocket and
raise a terrible fuss, quacking and
flapping his wings.
"The ducks will decoy right in to
him and it's easy to get several out of
every drove. If they don't decoy.
Dick Just gets right up out of the water
and goes away. You think he's got
disgusted and gone off with the wild
ducks and quit tho decoy business, but
I tell you you don't know Dick. He
goes oft with the ducks and pretty soon
he's ahead of the lead duck and leading
the drove himself.
"They go on out of sight. You say
to yourself, 'Good-by, Dick, but just
wait. The first thing you know here
comes that big drove of ducks right In
to the lake from another direction, and
the lead duok is Dick.
"He's circled 'way 'round with the
bunch and brought them back to the
lake. Before they get in good shooting
distance Dicta heads them over us end
then he drops out of, the drove. Just
as bood. as you kill fifty, the limit, Dick
will get out of the water, sit on the
seat by you and won't decoy another
duok. That bird beats anything you
ever saw."
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Unstable as water thou shalt not staj
en the wagon.
The most hopeless thing Is to try b
realize on hope.
The reason there are so few great,
men is how many think they are.
The thing that worries a man about
being rich Is now he can get richer.
The redder a girl's hair is the safer
it is to tell her that It is sllkey sun
shine. Tho things that a woman can't be
lieve are only those that she doesn't
want to.
Unhapplness is a Joy to a woman It
she can only find an excuse for call
ing it romantic.
One thing that helps a man to be a
good husband is not caring whether he
enjoys life or not.
Quarrelsome people can get just as
mad with you for agreeing with them
as for differing from them.
People think they know how to
raise children when they don't even
know enough to raise vegetables.
It's just like human nature for the
ice man to think the coal man is a
fool in summer and a genius In win
ter. The reason every man wants to
marry a pretty girl Is everybody else
thinks he ought to marry a sensible
one.
There Is no surer way to convince
a girl you are making love to her
than to try to make her think you
aren't
The water wagon is way up like an
airship when you climb on, but as
close to the ground as the grass when
you fall off.
Next to his beard a certain type of
man seems to think the kind of neck
ties he wears Is the surest sign how
smart he is.
Maybe the reason a widow seems so
willing to get another husband Is she
knows from experience what a disap
pointment It will be.
Most people's idea ot being high
class Is having a horror of doing what
ordinary folk do unles you call it by
some superior name.
If a man could ever get enough mon
ey to support his family in all they
want It would be just his luck to have
another one to support.
One of the most useful traits a man
can have is not to think he knows
how to do half a dozen things so well
that he needn't do any of them. From
"Reflections of a Bachelor" in the
New York Press.
KNEW THE BRONTES.
A Visit to the Parsonage Shyness of
the 8lsters The Father's Temper.
It will probably surprise a good many
people to learn that one of the curates
whom Charlotte Bronte Immortalized
in "Shirley" is still alive and well. The
Rev. James Chesterton Bradley, now
living at Richmond at the age of 90,
was the original of the "Rev. David
Sweeting1' in the novel referred to.
"The parish where I went to my first
curacy, Oakworth, bordered on the
Bronte parish of Haworth," he says,
"so I frequently saw all the sisters and
their father and brother and had many
talks with them."
Mr. Bradley used often to go to Ha
worth parsonage, "for the change and
company," and there he met the other
curates which Charlotte Bronte has so
well described. Concerning the sisters
he says:
"All the three sisters were very shy,
but perhaps Emily and Annie were
worse than Charlotte in that respect
The latter as I remember her, was a
lively talker when once drawn out, a
girl of about the ordinary stature or
perhaps below it, with features neither
very dark or fair, but with striking, ex
pressive eyes and mouth. She had a
particular way of suddenly lifting her
eyes and looking straight at you with
a quick, searching glance while you
spoke to her."
Charlotte Brontee always struck Mr.
Bradley as "a young lady with deep
prejudices and of strong will."
Mr. Bradley describes the Rev. Pat
rick Bronte as "not at all a bad sort
in most things. But for temper! 1
really think he had the vilest temper
I've ever seen in a man." He repeats
the pistol story, which we believe the
latest biographer of Charlotte ridicules
and adds: "I have known him so wild
with anger at the merest thing that
ran counter to his wish that he would
take up the rug from before the fire
and throw it on the flames."
The son he describes as "dreadful"
"a good hearted fellow when sober and
right, but too often drinking and wrong
to be of any use to those girls in
that lonely parsonage." From Great
Thoughts.
His Sole Limitation!.
"Do you know what I'd lalk to be?"
asked Rastus of the commercial trav
eler, who was stopping at the way&lde
hotel.
"No," said the commercial traveler.
"What? A millionaire?"
"No, sah," said Rastus.
"A lawyer?"
"Oh, no, sah. Not dat"
"A doctor?"
"No, sah."
"What, then?" asked the commercial
traveler.
"I'd latk to be a preacher, sah," Ras
tus said.
"Well, then, why don't you?" asked
the commercial traveler.
"i can't sab," replied Rastus, "be
cause I ain't got no frock coat." New
York Press.
In London more fires occur on Sat
urday than on any other day ot the
week, and more in August and De
cember, than in any other month.
"MEMOIH8 OF PAH BIOS," fX3
CLOWN OF OUB BADDIES
At Last, There la on Bale a Book
Brimful of American Humor.
Any bookseller will tell you that
the constant quest of his customers
Is- for "a book which will make me
laugh. The bookman Is compelled
to reply that the race of Americas
bnmorlsts has run out and oomlo lit
erature 11 scarcer than funny plays.
A wide sals is therefore predicted for
the "Memoirs ot Dan Rice," tht
Clown pf Our Daddies, written by
Maria Ward Brown, a book guar,
anteed to make you roar with laugh
ter. The author presents to the pub
lie a volume ot the great jester's
most pungent Jokes, comic harangues,
caustlo hits upon men and manners,
lectures, anecdotes, sketches ot ad
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These "Memoirs" also contain a series
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scenes and thrilling events; the rec
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day. The book abounds in anecdotes,
humorous and otherwise; and it af
fords a clearer view of the Inside
mysteries of show life than any ac
count heretofore published. Old Dan
Rice, as the proprietor of the famous
"One Horse Show," was more of a
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humor which made the nation laugh
even while the great Civil War raged.
This fascinating book of 600 pages,
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Poorly Put.
Sympathizing Friend Kate, I am
sorry to hear that your husband has
gone to heaven.
Kate Well, where did you want
him to go?
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SallycuresinltoSdays. Its action ia remark
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16
Simplicity In Living.
If one advances confidently in the1
direction of his dreams, and endeavors
to live the life which he has imagin
ed, he will meet with a success un
expected In common hours. He will
put some things behind, will pass an
Invisible boundary; new, universal,
and more liberal laws will begin to
establish themselves around and with
in him; or the old laws be expanded,
and Interpreted in his favor in a more
liberal sense, and he will live with
the license of a higher order of be
ings, in proportion as he simplifies
his life, the laws of the universe will
appear less complex, and solitude will
not be solitude nor poverty poverty
nor weakness, weakness. Thoreau.
London's Death Rate.
The annual death rate in areas of
congested population like the great
cities of the world, may well be con
sidered under ordinary conditions one
of the most accurate measures ot the
benefits of modern civilization. To
so conduct affairs whether of the
home life, business or government
as to best insure the prolongation of
life Is perhaps the finest achievement
possible for organized society. It is
remarkable that the largest city of
the world should stand in front of all
others in respect to its small aggre
gate of deaths to population. The
death rate in London for 1908 was
only 14 per 1,000. Philadelphia Rec
ord. No Fault of His.
"See here," exclaimed the angry
man as he entered the walking-stick
emporium, "I bought this cane here
last week."
"Yes, I believe you did," rejoined
the proprietor, calmly. "What's wrong
with It?"
"You said the handle was genuine
Ivory and I find It Is artificial," said
the irate party.
"That may be true," replied the
dealer, "but it is no fault of mine. I
import all my Ivory from Africa and
the only explanation I can give Is
that the. elephant may have had falso
tusks." Chicago Neys.
SICK DOCTOR
rroper Food Put Him Right.
The food experience of a physician
In bis own case when worn and weak
from sickness and when needing;
nourishment the worst way Is valu
able: "An attack ot grip, so severe It
came near making an end ot me, left
my stomach in such condition I could
not retain any ordinary food. I knew
of course that I must have food nour
ishment or I could never recover.
"X began to take tour teaspoonfuli
of Grape-Nuts and cream three times
& day and for weeks this was al
most my only food; It tasted so de
licious that I enjoyed It immensely
and my stomach handled it perfectly
from the first mouthful. It was so
nourishing I was quickly built back
to normal health and strength.
"Grape-Nuts Is of great value as
food to sustain life during sellout
attacks In which the stomach Is so de
ranged It cannot digest and assimi
late other foods.
"I am convinced that were Grape
Nuts more widely used by physicians,
It would save many lives that are)
otherwise lost from laek of nourish
ment." Absolutely the most perfect food
In the world. Trial of G. ape-Nuts 10
days proves, "There's a Reason."
Look In pkg. for the little book,
The Road to Wellvtlle."
Ever read the above letter? A aew
ne appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, aad full ot hussse
Interest.