SEARCHING FOR SUN
!Boy Vanished From Seattle,
Wash., About Year Ago.
lAdmlral John A. Rodger Going to
.' Alaska In Effort to Locate Lad
Letter From Far North Telia
of Mysterloua Young Man.
I Seattle, Wash.--Hear Admiral John
A. Rodgers, In command of the navy
yard, Puget Sound, will soon go to
Alaeka In search of his lost son, Alex
ander Rodgers, who was last heard of
a year ago when he was planning to go
down the Tanana river on a raft. Ad
miral Rodgers Is Impelled to make the
trip north himself by a letter from
Bethel, Alaska, which has just come to
hand. It is written by I!ob Hunter to
a friend in Ilremerton, whose name the
admiral does not wish to reveal. Ac
cording to the letter Hunter was build
ing n power boat at Bethel last month
for a trip to the Iditarod. A young
man applied to him with the proposi
tion that he should earn a trip up the
river by helping build the boat. Hunter
goes on to say that the young fellow
worked hard, but adds that privations
which he suffered had apparently nf
Jected his mind.
For days he would not say a word,
and would then talk disconnectedly of
a father In the south who had 2,000
men working for him. All of his name
that Hunter hnd discovered was Alex
ander. Hunter goes on to say that he
to tnWlne the stranger along with him
to the new diggings because he Is such
good worker and is going to give nun
.the Ilremerton man's kit, which Hun
ter was keeping in Hethel. Hunter
closes with an urgent request o his
Bremerton friend to join him In the
north, heeause he is not sure tnai ai
mniW will nrovo a good working
mariner.
That Admiral Rodgera believes Hob
Hunter's companion is his son is
shown by hU vUlt to the schooner V.
J. Abler, which will soon sail for the
Kuskokwlm. Admiral Rodgera handed
to Capt E. B. Hoffman, skipper of the
Abler, 60 letters addressed to Boh
Wnntpr: which are to be distributed
throughout Kuskokwlm district, In the
hopes that one of them may come Into
he hnnda of the rlgnt party.
They describe Alexander Rodgers as
wntv-two years old, 6 feet 8'4 Inches
high, weight 160 pounds, blue eyeB,
hlonde hair, fair complexion, near
sighted, wearing glasses when he left
home. The letters, which are signed
fcy the admiral, request Mr. Hunter to
iwlre any information from the nearest
office. Admiral Rodgers was accompa-
iort nn hl visit to the Abler by uem,
John Rodgers, an older brother of the
missing man, who nas receuuj
turned from a fruitless search In Alas
ka A long consultation was held in
ho rahln of the P. J. Abler between
4ho two naval officera and A. J. Born
owner of the Abler, and Captain Hoff
tn the methods of the searcn
When the Abler stopped at Bethel
on June 17 there was no such person
Bnh Hunter there. Bethel is a m
' ;tle Indian, village and all the white
people know one another by name,
The letter was dated June 27, and Hun
4er states that he Is handing it to Cap
)taln Johnson. Johnson Is known as the
skipper of a small sloop which runs
Wwppn Nome and uetnei.
; The Bremerton . man received the
' better in Cordova and brought it down
Jrom Alaska. Mr. Born cannot account
th shortness of time Detween
Hethel and Cordova. The only explana-
lUon is some mistake in the date lino
of Hunter's letter,
WAIST MEASURE IS 15 INCHES
' Woman at Everett, Mass., Puts Mile
; Polalre, Noted Parisian Danseuse
I . in Shade.
1 Boston. Mile. Polalre, the Parisian
who boasts "the smallest
waist of any woman in the world,
must suffer in comparison to Mrs. Kit
tie Nyman of 20 Devens street, Ever
jett, whose normal waist barely reaches
16 Inches, as compared to mho. i 01
hire's 15.
Mrs. Nyman Is a little more than 5
Ifeet tall, weighs about 125 pounds
-with bust and hips measuring 36 and
i8 Inches, respectively. She says her
-waist Is not the result of lacing, an
that she never wore a corset until she
was nineteen.
, Mile. Polalre Is anything but beau
tlful. She is described as having un
Icouth features, protruding lips, large
. feet. Mrs. Nyman possesses good
jlooks to no mean degree and in spite
iof thirty-three years could easily pass
lor a girl half that age.
i
1 . Old Man Rides Far.
I Greeley, Col. Roos Magnus,
years old, rode Into town the other
day from West Virginta, navtng cov
cred the distance on horseback.
..- He came west to locate a farm on
government land. In the United
States land office he displayed $5,000
In bills which he had carried In his
jbootl'eg..
i "I feel like a boy," he said at the
lend ot his three months' ride.
Twin Come Three Times.
Wins ted, Conn. For the third time
(Mrs. Elof Peterson has presented her
husband with twins. They are boys
(this time, weighing six and one-half
pounds and seven and one-half pounds.
Mr. and Mrs. Peterson are 39 years
old and have had 11 children during
ghelr 18 years of married life. Seven
f them, six boys and one girl, are
llTing. i
PAY OF FRENCH PRESIDENTS
Receives $240,000 Yearly, Half j Sal
ary, Half as Expenses, No Ex
tras for Hospitality.
London. The voting of the Eng
lish king's civil list has led Mrs.
Crawford,' the Paris correspondent of
Truth, to tell how French presidents
fare In the matter of expenses. A
French president receives $240,000 a
year, half as salary and half as ex
penses, no extra allowance for hospl
pltality being made except on excep
tional occasions. He has no pension.
Ho profits by few minor perquisites
outside his salary, such as vegetables,
from whnt were formerly the royal
irdcns at Versailles, fruits from Fon-
talnebleau, game from those state for
ests where he has shooting, and hay
for his horses from the presidential
seat at Ramboulllet. The state pays
for his men servants In the stables
only, but allows for the coachman,
though not for a chauffeur or secre
taries. His military and naval staffs
are maintained by the war and ma
rine ministries.
Felix Faure, when president,- ob
tained from the parliament money for
building and keeping up a palace
train. Railway companies, when the
president gotB into the provinces of
ficially, are glad to give It and any
extra cars he may want the freedom
of their lines for the sake of the ex-
urslon business this brings. This en
ables the president to reserve the
$40,000 allowed for traveling ex
penses for tips to railway servants,
servants at prefecture, and for char
Hies.
The French president never gives
less than $100 to the railway em
ployes. Ills contributions to charity
funds at the hospitals he visits and
donations to mnyorB for the poor are
heavy. He also Is expected to sub
scribe to relief funds for victims of
fires, floods and other disasters. Yet
a French president always contrives
to save money.
REVIVE BERING TUNNEL PLAN
PariB Corporation Formed to Connect
Asia and America by Rail
Scheme Feasible,
Paris. The project of tunneling
Bering strait and connecting Asia and
America by rail Is attracting renewed
attention on this side of the water,
Several Frenchmen wltS important
governmental relations are reported to
be committed to the plan, among
the more conspicuous being Francois
Delonclo, formerly in the diplomatic
service and now deputy representative
of the colony Cochin China.
A corporation formed for the con-
Btruction of the tunnel plans to utilize
two small Islands in Bering strait as
ventilation towers, so to speak, thus
dividing the tunnel into three sections,
averaging In length about ten miles
each.
J. Delobcl, one of the capitalists In
terested in the project, visited Lon
don recently with the object of enlist
ing in It Eome prominent American
railway men who then were there
One of them, a retired railway presi
dent ot vast experience who now Is in
France, had been asked some years
ago to become a director In a Bering
strait tunnel company.
An American who has lust arrived
in Paris from 'London says the Invita
tion to this railway magnate was re
peated last week, but It is not at all
probable that he will accept He has
for the present positively forbidden
the use of his name in connection
with the project. At the time his
friends say he is far from regarding it
as chimerical, but on the contrary
would probably enter into it personally
If he were younger. Careful Inquiries
are being made in Paris regarding the
character and responsibility - of the
Frenchmen who are promoting the
scheme and it is said these Inquiries
are in the Interest of American cap
italists. OMAHA HAS A FROG FAMINE
Dry Weather Causes Dearth In Mar
ketable Denizens of Mlllponds,
Creeks and Swamps.
"Omaha, Neb. There iaa" bull "mar
ket here on frogs, due to the unusual
dryness of the season. Places where
heretofore frogs have hatched by the
millions and grown to full size this
season are frogless. The swamps and
low lands have become as dry as a
turnpike and In them not a frog Is to
be found. -
Ordinarily, at this season of the year
frogs large enough to serve In the ho
tels and restaurants may be bought ot
the frog catchers and fishermen at 40
to 60 cents per dozen, but this year
they have Jumped to 80 cents per doz
en, and even at those prices are hard
to get. ,
"Blondy" Clark, who for the last fif
teen years haa run a froggery on the
shores of Florence lake, and annually
has sold from 300 to 500 dozen of
frogs, finds himself now without a frog
except the old stock carried over for
breeding purposes.
Electric Fan for Cow.
Columbia, Mo. An electric fan has
been put up' in the Btall of Missouri
Chief Josephine, the Holsteln dairy
cow owned by the agricultural college
of the University of Missouri, which la
being sent after the world's record for
milk and butter production. Josephine
made a new mark for the first 120
days ot her test and is now giving an
average of fifty quarts of milk per
day on about sixty-five cents' worth
ot food.
BANISHES ALL PETS
Dogs and Cats Should Be Elim
inated From All Cities,
Health Commissioner Evana of Chi
cago 8ays Animals Spread Con-
taglon and Are Responsible
for Great Many Deaths,
Chicago. Health Commissioner
Evans put a ban on cats, dogs and
other pets.
He declared that they were a means
of spreading contagion, and undoubt
edly were responsible for many deaths
a year.
'There is no question In my mind,"
he said, "but that dogs and cats, es
pecially the latter, should not be per
mitted in cities.
"Without doubt they carry con
tagion and are responsible for many
deaths anuually just how many no
man can surmise. , ,
"We quarantine a iiousd where
there Is scarlet fever for instance. It
has been established that contagion
iB spread principally through con
tact. We say: 'No one inside the
house shall come out, no one outside
shall come in.' But there Is a fam
ily cat. It Is constantly In contact
with infected things. If not actually
stroked by the Bufferer.
The cat runs in and out, through
doors and windows. It roams about
the neighborhood. It is stroked and
petted by the neighbors' children.
Much contagion certainly is carried in
this manner. Parents should guard
against a cat from Infected premises
ns carefully as against children from
the same premises.
"But the cat Is not nearly as easily
guarded against.
"The dog to a minor degree spreada
contagion, in a minor degree because
a dog as a' rule sticks closer to his
master's house.
"Dogs, though, are a general nuis
ance, and they spread the deadly
rabies. Not all cases are of local
origin, many persons being brought
to Chicago for treatment. . .
"It is In the spread of contagion
though, that cats and dogs offer the
greatest menace. Of what avail 1b It
to quarantine a house when cats are
going in and out and mingling with
the neighbor's children?
"When we drew up our bakery
ordinance we had occasion to Investi
gate the matter of cats In bakeries,
Chief Sanltarv Inspector- Ball col
lected considerable data. The pres
ence of the cat was defended on the
score that it kept down the rats and
mice. Mr. Ball In his investigation
found that in fact cats aid little in
keeping down rats and mice, and that
the harm they did far more than on-
set the little good they were sup
Dosed to do. It was demonstrated
that they were a nuisance and
menace in bakeries.
'There iB much on this subject
which cornea under the head of rea-
spnftble surmise and the indictment
Is severe against family pets, wnen
it comes to incontrovertible facts,
though, the case is not so clear, but
there is no question that family pets
are a menace In large cities.
'I might add that it is significant
that in certain sections of Chicago,
where there is a dog practically in
every house, we have had much trou-
ble through epidemics of contagious
diseases diphtheria in one particular
ward which I have in mind."
PUT BAN ON ADONIS SHAPES
Coney Island Officials Are Tired of
Men Strutting Around In One
Piece Suits.
New York. Capt. Galvln, at Coney
Island, has ordered that men who pose
In tightly fitting bathing suits on the
beaches must go. Hereafter modesty
will be the watchword from Seagate
to Manhattan Beach.
"We have been receiving so many
complaints lately," said Capt. Galvln
"that I have instructed the men to ar
rest every man who wears one
those tight fitting suits or a one-piece
suit. I'm tired of those Adonises who
nut on their suits and pose. I've look
ed them over myself and some of the
suits I've seen are Indecent.
"It might not be so bad If these
fellows would go In the water, but
most of them are so vain that they
just strut around, pulling out their
chests, trying to make a hit with the
girls. I don't mind a woman posing
on the beach it adds to the land
scape but it's most too much when
man starts that sort of game."
Guns Destroy Air Craft.
Reugenealde, Prussia: Men behind
field guns demonstrated their ability
to destroy swiftly moving balloons the
other day. Several batteries of field
artillery were trained against aerial
craft towed by a cruiser.
The results from the standpoint of
the marksmen were brilliant. In every
instance the shells reached the bal
loons, tearing them to pieces, and fre
quently the gas bags -exploded and
were burned in midair.
Major Gross, the aeronautical repre
sentative of Krupps, directed the prac
tise. Goes Haymaking at 106.
London. Mrs. Rebecca Clark of
Wood Green, who recently celebrated
her one hundred ana sixth birthday,
went haymaking the other day In
field at Green Lanes. She wai pro
vided with a new fork, and turned
over the hay with surprising vigor.
BETTERING FARM LIFE
IS ROOSEVELT'S TOPIC
Former President
His Way West and Addresses Big
Gathering of Agriculturists on
Subject in Which He Is
Much Interested,
Utica, N. Y., Aug. 23. At Summit I
Park, ten miles from the city, a large
gathering of the farmers of Herkimer
and Oneida counties heard Col. The
odore Roosevelt talk on a subject that
has been made prominent by him and
In which he Is deeply Interested the
bettering of the conditions of life on
the farms of America.
Utica gave the ex-presldent a warm
welcome when he arrived In his spe
cial car Republic, but he did not tarry
here, going to Orlskany by trolloy, and
from there to the park. This is the
first stop and speech made by Mr.
Roosevelt on his trip to the west.
Talking to the farmers, he said:
There are no 'two nubtlo questions of
more vltnl Importance to the future of
this country than the problem of conser
vation and the problem of the betterment
of rurnl life. Moreover, these two proD
iems are really Interdependent, for nei
ther of them can be successfully solved
save on condition that there Is at least
measurable success In the effort to
solve the other. In any ureal country
the nrlme physical asset the physical as
set more valuable than any other Is the
fertility of the soil. Alt our Industrie
and commercial welfare, all our material
development of every kind, depends In
the last resort upon our preserving and
increasing the fertility of the soli. This
of course, means the conservation of the
soil as the great natural resource: and
equally, of course, It furthermore Implies
the development or country lire, ror mere
cannot be a permanent Improvement of
the soil If the life of those who live on
it. and make their living out of It, la
suffered to starve and languish, to be
come stunted and weasened and Inferior
to the type of life lived elsewhere, we
are now trying to preserve, not for ex
ploitation by Individuals, but for the per
manent benefit of the whole people, the
waters and the forests, and we are do
ing this primarily as a means of adding
to the fertility of the Soli; although in
each case there Is a great secondary use
both of the water and of the forests Tor
commercial and Industrial purposes. In
the same way tt la essential for the rarm
ers themselves tn try to broaden the life
of the man who lives In the open country:
to make It more attractive: to give It
every adjunct and am to aeveiopmem
which has been given to the life of the
man of the cities. Therefore, friends, the
conservation and rural life policies are
really two sides of the same policy: ana
down at bottom this policy rests upon
the fundamental law that neither man
nor nation can prosper unless. In dealing
with the present, tie steadily take tnougni
for the future.
Problem of Cities' Growth.
In one sense this problem with which
we have to deal Is very, very old. Wher
ever civilisations have hitherto sprung up
they have always tended tn go through
certain stages and then to fall. No nation
can develop a real civilisation without
cities. Up to a certain point the city
movement Is thoroughly healthy; yet It la
a strango and lamentable fact that al
ways hitherto after this point has been
reached the city has tended to develop
at the expense of the country by draining
the country of what la best In It, and
making an Insignificant return for this
best. In consequence, In the past, every
civilization tn Its later stages has tend
ed really tn witness those conditions un
der which '"the cities prosper and the
men aecay. mere are ugiy signs mm
these tendencies are at work In this na
tion of ours. But very fortunately we
see now what never 'before was seen In
anv civilisation an aroused and alert
puhllo Interest In the problem, a recog
nition of Its gravity and a desire to at
tempt Its solution.
The human side of the rural life prob
lem Is to make the career of the farmer
and the career of the farm laborers as at
tractive and as remunerative as corre
snondlng careers In the city. Now. I an-
well aware that the farmer must himself
take the lead In bringing this about. A
century and a quarter ago the wise Eng
llsh farmer, Arthur Young, wrote of the
efforts to Improve French wool: "A culti
vator at the head of a sheep farm of 8,000
or 4,0P0 acres would In a few years do
more for their wools than all the aca
demlclans and philosophers will effect in
ten centuries." It Is absurd to think that
any man who has studied the subject on
ly theoretically Is fit to direct those who
practically work at the matter. Hut
friends. I wish to Insist to you here to
you practical men, who own and work
your fnrms that It Is an equally perni
cious absurdity for the practical man to
refuse to benefit by the work of the stu
dent. The English farmer I have quoted,
Young, was a practical farmer, but he
was also a scientific farmer. One renson
why the great business men of today
the great industrial leaders have gone
ahead, while the farmer has tended to
sag behind others, is that they are far
more willing, ana Indeed eager, to profit
by expert and technical knowledge the
KnnwiiuHti uini i:au uiii.r ituiiib as n re
sult of the highest education. From
railways to factories no great Industrial
concern can nowadays be carried on
save by the aid of a swarm of men who
have received a high technical educa
tion In chemistry, In engineering, in elec
trlclty, In one or more of scores of spe
clal subjects. The big business man. the
big ratlway man, does not ask college
trained experts to tell him how to run
his business; but he does ask numbers of
thm each to give him expert advice and
aid on seme one point indispensable to
his business. He finds this man usually
tn some graduate of a technical school or
college In which he has-been trained for
hla life work. ..
Farmer Needs Technical Advice,
In Just the same way the farmers
should benefit by the advice of the tech
nlcal men who have been trained
in
phases of the very work the farmer does.
I am not now speaking .of. the man who
has had an ordinary general training,
whether In school or college. While there
should undoubtedly be such a training as
a foundation (the extent differing accord
lng to the kind of work each boy intends
to do as a man), It Is nevertheless true
that our educational system should more
and more be turned In the direction of
educating men towards, and not .away
from, the farm and the shop. During
the last half-century we have begun to
develop a system of agricultural educa
tion at once practical and scientific, an
we must go on developing it. But, after
developing ft, tt must be used The rich
man who spends a fortune upon a fancy
farm, with entire indifference to cost,
loss not do much good to farming; fyxt,
Stops at Utica on
on the other hand, just as little Is done
by the working farmer who stolidly re
fuses to profit by the knowledge of the
day; who treats any effort at Improve
ment as absurd on its face, refuses to
countenance whnt he regards as new-
fnngled ideas and contrivances, and Jeers
at all "book fnrmlng.'1 I wish I could
take representatives of this type of fnrm-
er down to Long Island, whero I live, to
ave them see what lias been done, not
ns philanthropy but as a plain business
proposition, by men connected with the
Ixng Islnnd railroad, who believe It pays
to encourage the development of farms
along the line of that rallwny. They have
put practlcnl men In charge of experi
mental fnrms, cultivating them Intensive
ly, and using the best modern methods,
not only In raising crops, but In securing
the best market for the crops when
raised. The growth has been astounding,
and land onlyflfty miles from New York,
which during our entire National lifetime
has been treated as worthless, has within
the last three or four years been proved
to possess a really high value.
The farmer, however, must not only
make his land pay, but he must make
country life Interesting for himself and
for his wife and his sons and daughters.
Farmers should learn how to combine
effectively, as has been done In Industry.
I am particularly glad to speak to the
Grange, for I heartily believe In farmers'
organizations: and we should all welcome
every step taken towards an Increasing
co-operation among farmers. The Impor
tance of such movements cannot be over
estimated: and through such Intelligent
Joint action It will be possible to Improve
the market Just as much as the farm.
Country life should be s attractive
as city life, and the country people
should Insist upon having their full
representation when It comes to deal
ing with all great public questions. In
other words, country folks should de
mand that they work on equal terms
Ith city folks in all such matters.
They should have their share in the
memberships of commissions and coun
cils; in short, of all the organized bod
ies for laying plans for great enter
prises affecting all the people. I am
glad to see on such bodies the names
that represent financial Interests, but
those Interests should not have the
right-of-way, and in all enterprises
and movements tn which the social
condition of the country Is involved,
the agricultural country the open
country should bo as well represented
as the city. The man of the open
country la apt to have certain qualities
which the city man has lost. These
qualities offset those which the city
man has and ha himself has not. The
two should be put on equal terms, and
the country talent be given the same
opportunity as the city talent to ex
press itself and to contribute to the
welfare of the world In which we live.
The country church should be made
a true social centre, alive to every need
of the community, standing for a broad
Individual outlook and development,
taking the lead In work and In recrea
tion, caring more for conduct than for
dogma, more for ethical, spiritual.
practical betterment than for merely
formal piety. The country fnlr offers
fur greater possibilities for continuous
and healthy usefulness than It at pres
ent affords. The country school should
be made a vital center for economic.
social, and educational co-operation; it
naturally fitted to be such a center
for those engaged In commercial farm
ing, 'and still more for those engaged
n domestic farming, for those who live
on and by the small farms they them
selves own. The problem of the farm
s really the problem of the family that
lives on the farm. On an tnese ques
tions there is need of Intelligent study,
such as marks the books of Professor
Bailey, of Cornell, and of Sir Horace
Plunkett's book on the "Rural Life
Problems of the United States."
Conditions of Farm Life.
One feature of the problem should
be recognized by the farmer at once,
and an effort made to deal with It. ' It
Is our duty and our business to con
slder the farm laborer exactly as we
consider the farmer. No oountry life
can be satisfactory when the owners of
fnrms tend, for whatever reason, to
go away to live In cities Instead of
working their farms; and, moreover,
it cannot be really satisfactory when
the labor system is so managed that
there Is for part of the year a demand
for lnbor which cannot be met and
during anothor part of the year no de
mand for labor at all. so that the farm
ers tend to rely on migratory laborers
who come out to work in the country
with no permanent Interest In It and
with no prospect of steady employ
ment It Is exceedingly difficult to
make a good citizen out of a man who
can't count upon some steadiness and
continuity in the work which means
to him his livelihood. Economic con
ditions on the farm In variety and
kind of crop-growing, especially as
distributed in time, and In housing for
the men must be so shaped as to ren
der It possible for the man who labors
for the farmer to be steadily employed
under conditions which foster his self
respect and tend for his development
Above all. the conditions of farm
life must always be shaped with
view to .the welfare of the farmer's
wife and the form laborer's wife, quite
aa much as to the welfare of the farm
er and the farm laborer. To have the
woman a mere drudge Is at least as
bad as to have the man a mere drudge.
It Is every whit as Important to Intro
duce new machines to economize her
labor within the house, as It is to In
troduce machinery to Increase the ef
fectiveness of his labor outside the
house. I haven't the slightest sympa
thy with any movement which looks
to excusing men and women for the
non-performance of duty and fixes at
tention only on rights and not on du
ties. The woman who shirks her duty
as housewife, as mother. Is a con
temptible creature; Just as the corre
sponding man Is a contemptible crea
ture. But the welfare of the woman is
even more important than the welfare
of the man; for the mother Is the .real
Atlas, who bears aloft In her strong
and tender arms the destiny of the
world. She deserves honor and con
sideration such as no man should re
ceive. She forfeits all claim to this
honor and cbnslderation If she shirks
her duties. But the average American
woman does not shirk them; Md It is
a matter of the highest obligation for
us to see that they are performed un
der conditions whloh make for her
welfare and happiness and for the wet
fare and happiness of the children she
brings Into the world.
THE IMPORTANCE OF HEALTHY
KIDNEY8.
Weak kidneys fall to remove poV
sons from the blood, and they are the
cause of backache, headache, urin
ary troubles and dizzy
spells. To Insure good
health keep the kid
neys well. Doan'e
Kidney pills remove
alt kidney ills.
Mrs. Sophia ilult
qulst, 10 W. 16th St.,
"Jamestown, .N. Y.,
says: "Doctor Bald I
could not live six
months. I was bloat
ed to twice normal
size and friends could
not recognize me. I
was perfectly helpless and wished for
death. Rapid Improvement took
place after I began using Doan's Kid
ney Pills, and in six weeks I was
cured.
Remember the name Doan's. For
sale by all dealers. 60 cents a box.
Foster-MUburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Sign of Recovery.
"If when the devil la sick a monk
he will be," said Hose Stahl sagely,
then the devil gels well In double
quick time. Witness that young 'divil
with the ladles,' my kid cousin. Last
winter he was ill, so 111 he didn't have
any sense of humor left nor any sense
either. I was staying at the same ho
tel, and when I went In to look after
him he virtuously remarked that bla
room was no place for a 'Chorus Lady'
and promptly shooed me out. (A few
years ago I spanked that kid.) Then
he got scared and sent for a doctor
and the doctor sent for a, trained
nurse. For several days I got bulle
tins of his progress from the cham
bermaid. The fourth morning she set
my mind completetly at rest.
" 'Sure, ma'am,' said Maggie, 'an I
think he do be gettln' alone very weH.
The nurse was sittln' on his lap this
morninT"
He Had No Eye for Color.
There came to the home of a negro
In Tennessee an addition to the fam
ily In the shape of triplets. The proud
father hailed the first man who came
along the road and asked him tn to
see them. The man, who was an Irish
man, seemed greatly interested In the
Infants as he looked them over, lying
In a row before him.
"What does yo' think?" asked the
parent.
"Waul" pointing to the one In the
middle "I think I'd save that one."
Everybody's Magazine.
Faults In American Character.
In an address on botanical educa
tion In America, Prof. W. F. Ganong
remarks that "disregard of particulars
and a tendency to easy 'generalities
are fundamental faults In American
character," and he Insists upon the
necessity of laboratory and experi
mental wonk in all scientific study.
Books "ease the wits," bnt Independ
ent observation Is the source ot sound
knowledge In science.
Bores Barred.
' A reporter asked Mr. Roosevelt at
the Outlook office how he got through
so much work, and at the same time
saw so many people. "I shun bores,"'
was the reply. - "I don't waste a min
ute of my time on bores. Do you per
ceive that I have only just one chair
in this room? You see, my hunting
experiences have shown me that great
bores are always of small caliber."
Deduction In a Street Car.
The Heavyweight Pardon me, did
I step on your foot, sir?
Coogan If yez didn't, begorry, then
the roof must hov fell on It. Puck.
The trouble with the man who
knows nothing Is that he Is always
the last to find it out.
The entire nature - of man Is the
garden which is given him to culti
vate. W. E. Gladstone.
Cut Out
Breakfast
Cooking
Easy to start the day
cool and comfortable if
Post
Toasties
are in the pantry ready
to serve right from the
package. No cooking
required; just add some
cream and a little sugar.
Especially pleasing
these summer mornings
with berries or fresh
fruit.
One can feel cool in
hot weather on proper
food.
"The Memory Lingers"
POSTUM OERIAL CO., Lt
Battle Creek. Mies.