jlAID BY THE YOUNGSTERS ! )6ome Bright Remarks Worth Pr serving, That Have Fallen From Childish Lips. i A little girl, after listening to the hymn, "In heaven there stands an lever open door,' remarked that there (must be two heavens, '"cause grand- hia'd never have any open door where he Is." And a dear little country Saddle, visiting a city Sunday school land hearing about the "many man- flons" of the better land, later ex lalned that they had been "studying all about 'Paradise Flats.' " Ecclesiastical modes and matters frequently are puzzling to the little pnes. A small Chicago citizen was ta Jten to a fine church, where the music, windows, furnishings and all acces sories were as impressive as the build ing. The minister, living up to his enviable reputation as an orator, In dulged in a brilliant rhetorical flight. "I know," he declared, "who gildi jthe sun and silvers the stars and paints the flowers and tints the sky and lends to the rivers their beauty, to the ocean its glory, to the skies their perfect light" and so on through Jong and effective periods. Finally Ipame the interrogatory climax: "Who Is it, my friends, who performs all these wonders? Who is It? Who?'' j From the front pfcw where the baby listener had been all eager attention jcame a shrill, disappointed pipe: "You said you knew!" WASTED A FORTUNE ON SKIN TROUBLE "I began to have an Itching over my tybole body about seven years ago and pis settled In my limbs, from the knee o the toes. I went to see a great many physicians, a matter which cost me a fortune, and after I noticed that I did B' ot get any relief that way, I went for iree years to the hospital. But they jftere unable to help me there, I used all the medicines that I could see but became worse and worse. I had an inflammation which made me almost Crazy with. pain. When I showed my root to my friends they would get teally frightened. I did not know what to do. I waB so sick and had be- Some so nervous that I positively lost 11 hope. "I had seen the advertisement ot the Cutlcura Remedies a great many times, but could not make up my mind to buy them, for I had already used so (nany medicines. Finally I did decide to use the Cutlcura Remedies and I tell you that I was never so pleased as When I noticed that, after having used two sets of Cutlcura Soap, Cutlcura Ointment and Cutlcura Pills, the en' tire Inflammation had gone. I was 'completely cured. I should be only too glad If people with similar disease Would come to me and find out the truth. I would only recommend them to use Cutlcura. Mrs. Bertha Sachs, i621 Second Ave., New York, N. Y, Aug. 20, 1909." "Mrs. Bertha Sachs Is my sister-in-law and I know well how she suffered id was cured by Cutlcura Reme es after many other treatments failed. Morris Sachs, 321 B. 89th St, New York, N. Y., Secretary ot bentsch-Ostrowoer, Unt-Vereln, Kemp bar Hebrew Benevolent Society, eta" SOLAR PLEXUS BLOW. ' Cbolly Soft May I-rw-have Just one. aw-good-nlght kiss? Miss Wise Why, certainly, yof poor, dear boyt How you must miss from nurse when you are away from home I Childish Reasoning. "Look at the brownies, papa!" ex claimed a little. miss as she gazed up ward at a Wall street skyscraper. "They are not brownies, doarle," replied papa. "They are big men, like me, but they look bo tiny because they are so high." "If they were twice as high, would they look twice as small?" she asked, showing the mathematical turn not unnatural In the offspring of a sue eessfnl broker. . Papa answered "Yes." . She made a quick calculation and remarked: "They won't amount to much when they get to heaven, will they?" A Good Job. i Jacob H. Sohlff, at a dinner on the t Ramona, condemned a concern at bad gone tip. Straight business methods are the ones," he said. "There la a moral tin the receiver story. I "A man, you know, said on day to little boy: "Well, Tommy, what are yo go- jlni g to be when yon grow upT " 'A receiver, air,' Tommy answered promptly. "Ever since pa's been a re E Diver we've had champagne tor din er and two automobiles.' " JL careless philosopher says a man jaerer knows wbo hi friends are un til he nasal any In the Old Mill By DONALD ALLEN Copyright, ioio, by Associated Literary Press On entering the village postofflce that afternoon Miss Kitty Havens be held a stranger. She knew it was a stranger because he didn't look a bit like Deacon Thompson or Elder Steb blns. She judged his age to be twen-ty-flve. She Judged he was five-feet-something tall. She was going to judge whether he was good looking or not when he turned his back to her and walked out. "An ill bred man!" said Miss Kitty to herself. The next thing was a conversation between two small boys. They spoke of the ice going out of the river, and one of them asserted that the suck ers were running "to beat the band." Any one could catch a barrel ot them in half an hour. Miss Kitty decided to go fishing the very next afternoon. Down by the old sawmill was the place, and she wouldn't have to take any boy with her to bait her hook. Miss Kitty Havens was an orphan who had been "brought up" by her Uncle1 Elijah and Aunt Mary. Nine teen years old, fair looking, and most of the villagers would look after her as she walked along the streets and say something about somebody being "smarter'n a whip." That was the highest of praise. They couldn't have got off anything better after thinking over it for a week. "Uncle 'Lije, the suckers are run ning," announced the girl when she reached home. "Well, let 'em run," was the quaint reply. "But I'm going Ashing tomorrow," "Well, don't fall in and get drownded." "But there's a stranger In town. I saw him at the postofflce." "Ye-es. I heard he was down at the old mill fishing. He's stopping at the tavern, and he won't tell Mr. Stevens where he comes from or any thing about himself. He just said he'd take the best room In the house and didn't care for expense. I hear that Constable Baker thinks he's a suspicious character." "He must be," said Aunt Mary. "A man who won't answer questions Is bound to be a pirate In disguise. Miss Kitty Walked Right Up to the Stranger. Elijah, you want to see that the kitch en door is fastened every night until he leaves town." "Well, I know one thing," added Miss Kitty, In a very determined way, "There's only one good place at the old mill to sit and fish. I'm going to have that place. If this person gets there first he's just got to take him self off. Strangers mustn't think they can come here and crowd girls out of their fishing places." Unci 'Llje hunted up pole and line and dug bait, and next afternoon at two o'clock Miss Kitty was at the mill. On the way down she passed a boy with a string of fourteen suck ers, and he halted long enough to say: "They are thicker than fleas down there, and you orter see that fellow haulln' them out! He don't even have to spit on his bait!" "What fellow?" was asked. "Why, the feller who's stoppln' at the tavern. He's got the best place', and he's hangln' right to It like a hog!" So the stranger was there, was he? And he's got the best place and was sticking to it? Well, he would get a Jar. She wouldn't speak to him, of course, but there are other ways of jarring a man. A fixed look and a toss of the head has done it times out of mind. - Yes; be was there. He sat on the beam, and he was using a patent pole and reel That alone will provoke ire in any villager's breaBt. The way to haul up a flBh is to haul him, Instead of turning the handle of a coffee mill for fifteen minutes. Miss Kitty walked right up to the stranger. He didn't even turn his head. On the contrary, he caught an other sucker. She coughed lightly. Another sucker. She got ready her pole and line. A third sucker! She telt like striking the man over the shoulders with the pole, but walked bit up stream. He bad the deep hoi. and there was no use fishing In the ripples.. "If I can't flsh, then he Bhan't!" was the determination arrived at, and presently a log came drifting down to spin around In an eddy. Then came a board, a beam and a slab. He knew the girl was throwing them in from the other end of the mill, but he didn't look her way. He simply suspended his fishing and sat looking over the river. Nothing could be done with a man like that, and after an hour MIbs Kitty went home. When she hnd told her story, which she did almost With tears In her eyes, Uncle Elijah drawled: "Well, thar's folks as is nigh-sighted, and thar's folks as Is deaf. Mebbe he didn't see nor hear you." "Didn't see nor hear a girl!" "And a girl like her!" added Aunt Mary. "I'll make him see and hear tomor row if I have to hit him with a club! If he's in my place again I'll throw all the old mill Into the water to both er him!" The morrow came and the stranger was there.. The girl had come halt an hour earlier, but so .had he. He was pulling out the suckers the same old way. ( No wooden Indian could have been more heedless of her pres ence. She walked to the far end of the mill, gathered all the drift wood In sight and heaved it Into the water. The deep hole soon became tin fish able. She was rejoicing when there came a flash of lightning and a rum ble of thunder. A sudden spring storm wag at hand. . Almost before she could seek the shelter of the mill It grew dark and the rain began to fall heavily. A thunder storm was tha one thing Miss Kitty Havens was afraid of. She sat down on a beam and cowered. It seemed as It night had set In for good. The lightning was fierce and the thunder awesome. In two minutes the stranger was for gotten. "I shall surely be struck dead!" moaned the girl, "and I know 1 shouldn't have been so mean to that man. He didn't know that be had my place. He ought to have seen a girl when Bhe stood bo near htm, but per haps he's almost blind." A tree on the other side of the river was struck by a thunderbolt, and the old mill shook and trembled. The girl screamed out, and the next moment she felt a hand on hers. It must be the stranger's. "Say, it was mean of me!" she said as the thuuder died away. No answer, but he' held the hand with firmer pressure. "You had my fishing place, you know, and I was mnd about It. Girls do get mad sometimes, you know. That is, I do. I stood and stood and stood, and you wouldn't notice me, Hadn't I a right to be mad?" No answer. "But I'm going to be killed, and 1 don't want anybody to be glad of It, I threw all that stuff Into the river to spite you. I just hated you. If you were a girl would you do like that?" ,"H'm! H'm!" was the reply. "What? Can't you talk?" "I guess so, If I try." "And can you see and hear?" "Both." "Will will the lightning hit the mill?" "I don't think bo. The worst seems to be over. Yes, I can see clear sky." "Then, sir," said Miss Kitty, as she pulled her hand away and reached her feet, "If I am not to be struck and killed I want to know why you didn't speak to me?" "Oh, I saw at once that you were snippy and conceited and needed tak ing down a peg. I am Mr. Charles Earle, of Boston, and I believe you are Miss Kitty Havens." . "No, sir, I am Miss Snippy Havens, and you please to remember It! You can return to your fishing!" "But, Miss Havens " "And I, sir, am going home!" "But during the storm " "But the storm has passed and I am snippy! Fish, sir flsh!" And two years later, when they finally became engaged, the snippy girl eaid to tho artist: "If you hadn't tried to take me down a peg we might have been married a whole year ago. That is, we might If there had been a thunder storm and a preacher together!" Finally- Opened Safe. -i They have a new fireproof and bur glar-proof room for department records at fire headquarters In New York. Com missioner Waldo wanted a certain record the other day and sent a clerk for It, relates the Sun. The clerk couldn't open the steel door, and the lock had got out ot commission. He tinkered at it for an hour, while the head of the department waited. "Send down to the Yorkville court and get a burglar," a visitor suggested. A locksmith was sent for Instead. He worked at it for two hours, but could not open It Then he did as a bur glar might do. He drilled holes around the lock and got the door open. Extravagances. "I'm afraid you were very foolish to write those poetic love letter's," said one New Yorker. "Maybe o," repned the other. "But when It comes to expressing ardent af fection .writing verse isn't as foolish as signing deeds to real tstate." .ernes '49ers Going Into CHICAGO. The '49ers of Califor nia gold' fever fame are pass ing Into history. The epoch of which they are survivors is closed and the last of them are becom ing too feeble to come to the an nual reunion which has ben held in Chicago on "admission day" each year for the last twenty years. A notice reluctantly admitting these facts was issued recently by Secre tary Ceorge W. Hotchklss, the young est of the Cnllfornta gold hunters, who at the age of seventy-nine is In too feeble health to take charge of a convention. The entire executive committee of the . organization ap pointed last year is either dead or under a temporary disability prevent ing them from serving, and half of the fourteen pioneers who attended lust year's meeting have since died. A heroic effort to get trace of all suriving pioneers in the middle west resulted In the return "not found" of half of the hundred letters sent out by Mr. Hotchklss, and, while he hopes to find a few '49ers for a meeting on "discovery day," January 18, the secretary said sadly that in ten years they would all be gone and nothing but printed pages could tell of a movement whose like the world can never see again. "It was a picked lot of young men Puzzle to Trace YUH LITTLE IMP ALWAYS v.. PHILADELPHIA. What becomes of tlve vast volume of copper pennies tlvat are turned out each year by the government? They are never called In and redeemed like some kinds of enrrency and coins, but they seem to dlsappenr as fast as they are stamped and put in circulation.. It is unusual If the date on any of the pennies In a man's purse at the end of the day is over ten years back, yet the Philadelphia mint, which coins all the copper pennies, sends out in some years as many as $1,000,000 worth of them to the trado centers- 100,000,000, one-cent pieces. If laid flat, edge to edge, In a row they would reach more than one thousand miles. And Btlll there are some sections of the country where the penny Is little known. In many of the mountain districts ot the south the "York shilling," 124 Circus Lemonade TOPEKA, Kan. Dr. S. J. Crumblne, secretary of the Kansas board of health, has put his official foot into the mixture always present . at cir cuses, fairs. Fourth of July celebra tions, picnics and other gatherings of a like nature. This mixture Is known as lemonade according to the barker who spiels before the refreshment stands. Generally it Is something that looks a little like lemonade because there is a lemon peel in the tub, but U hasn't the taste of the refreshing beverage mother makes. Since the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, the one chief de light of the small boy and girl and the big boy and his sweetheart has been to drink circus lemonade at the circus fair or picnic. No one knows who invented the The Lid Put on JjT5 A COLD SELFISH WOILD NEW YORK. Spurred on by Acting Mayor John Purroy Mitchell, Po lice Commissioner William A. Baker has caused several raids to be made on the gambling joints ot this city, and the lid has been Jammed on so tightly that $1,000,000 of oapital in vested in Buch places is idle Just now, while the owners are wondering "what next?" Impatient over the vexing de lay, Acting Mayor Mltchel In a letter, following several raids, has put square ly up to Commissioner Baker all re sponsibility for the non-enforcement of laws against gambling and vice. He charges the pollce'with being grossly derelict in their duties, and declares that the situation his secret service men report could not exist without police connivance. There is panic in pLri i-ns pap ?l4t-v'yF itsJ Iff History, Unwept who reached California in those days," he declared. "Only those wbo had the grit to spend months at sea or across Indian-infested plains and mountains succeeded in getting there. The people of today do not know how much their country owes to the '49 ers. They did more toward the de velopment of the United States than the men who fought In the revolution or any other single group of men. Most of them were very young. The man among them who was over twenty-five was rare. And they did not get rich. The men who came after ward on the railways, with capital and Improved mining methods, or who went Into real estate were the ones who reaped fortunes. The pioneer who got enough for his railway fare and $1,000 more with which to buy a farm considered him self lucky. Those who came after ward on the railway we do not con sider real pioneers. They are not eligible to our society. "We were privileged to take part in an epoch of history unlike any thing that had ever gone before, and It Is something whose like can never be Been again. There may be other countries still to be developed, but there is no place left in the world where such a spreading of civiliza tion over an enormous wilderness can take place in so few decades as it did In the western United States. The '49ers, as they went west -in their prairie schooners, saw miles upon miles of fertile country whose existence had been scarcely known, and they were the most Important factor In developing the entire west." the Lost Pennies cents. Is still spoken of in trade, but no one ever hears the one-cent piece mentioned. In many towns In the south and west the tradesmen offer nothing for a penny, a flve-cent pur chase is the smallest that can be made. But of late there have been more demnnds for pennies from the west, and the government experts have ileclnred that this is a sign of Increased frugality. In the enst, the chief use of the pennr, outside of filling the child's bank and buying the dally paper, Is for the purchase of chewing gum and one-cent candles. The increase in the number of penny-ln-the-slot phono graphs and moving picture machines in the last few years shows another way to which the public has taken to get rid of Its pennies. Uncle Ssm takes In many pennies for stamps and post cards, and many of them flow Into the contribution box In the churches and religious societies. But all these ways In which the penny Is put to use does not explain where they eventually go or what makes them disappear In such vast quantities every year. Even the government coinage experts do not give a satisfac tory answer to the problem. Tabooed in Kansas glad refrain of the lemonade stand barker, who In stentorian tones, calls: "Lemo, lemo, lemonade, Mode In the shade, Stirred with a spade Five cents a big glass!" These things have been among the sights and sounds of all picnics, cele brations and fairs and circuses since Kansas became a state. But no more will one hear these sounds or drink the "lemonade" about Kansas unless the dispenser has real lemonade to) sell. The state board of health has put a damper on the noise of the barker because the board of health has ruled that a tub of water, m which is pnt some tartaric acid and sacchar ine and the peel of a lemon Is not lem onade, but the Imitation article, and cannot be sold as the real thing. In Kansas all lemonade offered for sale must be made from the Juice of lemons, water and sugar only. Imita tion lemonade can only be made from citric acid and sugar and water. The use of the most common materials for making fake lemonade, tartaric acid and saccharine, Is absolutely prohibit ed In this elate. Tight in New York the ranks of the gamblers as well as with the police. Since the shooting of Mayor Gaynor placed him at the head of affairs Act ing Mayor Mltchel has received many complaints. Some were appeals from mothers who declared that their eons were losing money in gambling places, and many were specific In their char acter. Men from the office of the commis sioners of accounts, the secret service department of the city government, found for Mr. Mltchel the violations of the law. The raids began and keys were soon In the doors ot 40 gambling places along the Great White Way be tween Thirty-second and Sixty-ninth streets, and $1,000,000 of Invested cap ital went out of business. The mana gers who were not crating their rou lette wheels, their faro layouts and their Klondyke sets In preparation for the exoduB, were mournfully parading the streets in the vicinity of their houses, warning away prospective cus tomers. It was the saddest day the gamblers have known since the Ag-new-Hart racing bills went Into fore. DON'T NEGLECT YOUR KIDNEYS. Little kidney troubles gradually grow more serious and pave the way to dropsy, diabetes and fatal Brlgbt's disease. Begin using Doan's Kid ney Pills at the first sign ot trouble. , They cure all kid- n ney ills. Mrs. F. L. Stew art, Walnut Grove St., Princeton, Ky., says: "Doctors said. I had gravel and gave my case up as hopeless. I grad ually grew worse and death seemed near. Finally I be gan with Doan's Kidney Pills and soon received relief. In six weeks I was completely cured." Remember the name Doan's. For sate by all dealers. 60 cents a box. Foater-MIIbtirn Co., Buffalo, N. Y Prize Fighting and Prayer. The little son of Kelsost T. Vender of Seattle has been trained by his fa ther to box. He is only six years ot age. His father puts the gloves on with him and usually, after a few rounds, holds him down on the floor until he counts him out In the regular fashion of: "One two threo " One night the youngster knelt down at bis mother's knee to say his pray ers and he began: "Oh, Lord, one two three fetur five " Then he remembered himself and said quickly: " 'Scuse me, God. I thought I was being counted out," Popular Maga zine. Sample Expedient. An American student at a German university tells of a professor who was reading aloud In a classroom pa pers on a celebrated living German novelist, wbo had been written by the members of the class. After read ing one he commented upon its ex cellence. "You show an exact com prehension of the matter," he. said, addressing the student who had writ ten the paper; "tell us what method you used." "Oh," replied the Btudent, "I fusj wrote to X , stating what I wanted to know, and that was what he sent back." The Privilege of Man. B. F. Yoakum, chairman ot the exe cutive board of the Frisco system ot railroads, on one occasion took to taste a young man In his employ who had announced his Intention of marrying. The youth In question was drawing a small salary, and Yoakum remon strated with him on the ground that be could not afford to marry and that his wife would have to suffer great privations. "Oh," said the young man, "I guess I've got as much right to starve a wo man to death as any other man has." Popular Magazine. She Has Changed Her Opinion. "I hear your maiden annt Is visiting you." "Yes. Came yesterday. "How long does she expect to stay?" "Oh, I dont know probably for some time." "I feel sorry for your wife. I be-' lleve I heard her say not long ago that Bhe despised the old lady." "She used to, but she has changed her opinion In fact, has great re spect for her now. Aunt Hetty brought three trunks, two of them filled f,rtls things she smuggled In from Europe." Indications. , "I might know this conservatory be- longed to a baseball enthusiast." "Why?" "Because it has so many pitcher plants." Cheerfulness should be the gift of the sunlight, the air should suffice for Inspiration, anl radiance of wisdom in the lonely waeee ot the pine woods, makmg us danoe and run about hap pily like children. Emerson. DAM& NATURE HINTS When the Food Is Not 8ulted. wnen Nature gives ner signal tnat something la wrong It Is generally with the food. The old Dame is al ways faithful and one should act at once. To put off the change Is to risk that which may be irreparable. An Arizona man says: "For years I could not safely eat any breakfast. I tried various kinds of breakfast food, but they were all sqft. starchy messes which gave me dis tressing headaches. I drank strong coffee, too, which appeared to benefit me at the time, but added to the head- aches afterwards. Toast and coffee were no better, for I found the totfst very constipating. "A friend persuaded mo to quit the old coffee and the starehy breakfast foods, and use Postum and Grape-Nuts Instead. I shall never regret taking his advice. I began using them three months ago. - "The change they have worked In me Is wonderful. I now have no more of the distressing sensations In my stomach after eating, and I never have headaches. I have gained 12 pounds In weight aad feel better in every way. "Grape-Nuts make a delicious as well as a nutritious dlsb, and I fled that Postum is easily digested and never produces dyspepsia symptoms," "There's a Reason." Get the little book, "The Road to Wellvilla," In pkgs. Ever read tka above letter? A nw on apsMara tram tlsaa ta tlsaa. Thar ara Baalne, trwe, aad fall at fcsuaaa lataraat,
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