LEFT TO A WORSE FATE
RHEUMATISM
Dynamiter, Himself a Married Man,
Knew What Awaited Forgetful
Husband.
The business man was sitting In hit
office, thinking of starting for home,
when a suspicious looking person
came In with a leather bag In his
hand.
"If you don't give me $25," Bald the
Visitor, coining at once to the point,
"I will drop this on the floor."
The business man was cool. "What
Is In It?" he asked.
"Dynamite," was the brief reply.
"What will it do If you drop ltr
"Blow you up."
"Drop it!" was the Instant com
mand. "My wife toM me when I left
borne this morning to be sure and
send up a bag of flour, and I forgot
it. I guess it will take just about as
much dynamite as you have there to
prepare me for the blowing up I'll get
when she sees me!"
He threw himself back in his chair
and waited for the explosion, but It
did not come.
"I'm a married man myself," said
the dynamiter, and quietly slipped out.
Illustrated Bits.
HIS HANDS CRACKED OPEN
"I am a, man seventy years old. My
hands were very sore and cracked
open on the lnsldes for over a year
with large sores. They would crack
open and bleed, Itch, burn and ache
so that I could not sleep and could do
but little work. They were so bad
that I could not dress myself In the
morning. They would bleed and the
blood dropped on the floor. I called
on two doctors, but they did me no
good. I could get nothing to do any
good till I got the Cutlcura Soap and
Outlcura Ointment About a year
ago my daughter got a cake ef Cuti
tura Soap and one box of Cutlcura
Ointment and In one week from the
time I began to use them my hands
were all healed up and they have not
been a mite sore since. I would not
be without the Cutlcura Remedies.
"They also cured a bad sore on the
hand of one of my neighbor's children,
and they think very highly of the Cutl
cura Remedies. John W. Hasty, So. Ef
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May 8ell 100,000,000 Red Crocs 8eals.
Twenty-five million Red Cross
Christmas Seals have been printed
and are being distributed by the Ames
ican Red Cross, and arrangements
have been made to print 100,000,000
If necessary. It is expected that this
number will be needed. While the
ticker Is perforated like those used
last year, It is intended for use ottly
as a seal on the back of letters. The
seal Is one Inch square with the con
ventional Red Cross in the center
and the words, "Merry Christmas.
Happy New Year. American Red
Cross" In a circle about it The col
ors are red and green. The design is
by Mrs. Oulon Thompson of Water
bury. Conn., who received $100 as a
prize for her sketch.
'Thank You's."
The man who is not thankkful for
the lessons he learned In adversity
didn't learn any.
There must be plenty of thankful
ness in the world if those who have
loved and lost could know Just what
they have lost.
"Why are you giving thanks? They
took $10,000 from you in Wall street
a little while ago, didn't they?"
"Yes; but I got out with $20 they
didn't know I had." Judge.
Still a Woman.
Hewitt She is a man In her enjoy
ment of baseball.
Jewett But she showed that she Is
still a woman by refusing to sit
through the thirteenth Inning.
Some men expect others to agree
with them even when they don't agree
with themselves.
War Is awful, but It's the one besi
settler.
COFFEE WAS IT.
People Slowly Learn the Facts.
"AH my life I have been Such a
.slave to coffee that the very aroma
of It was enough to set my nerves
quivering. I kept gradually losing my
health but I used to say 'Nonsense, it
don't hurt me.' '
"Slowly I was forced to admit the
truth and the final result was that my
whole nervous force was shattered.
"My heart became weak and uncer
tain in its action and that frightened
me. Finally my physician told me,
about a year ago, that I must stop
drinking coffee or 1 could never ex
pect to be well again.
"I was in despair, for the very
thought of the medicines I bad tried
so many limes nauseated me. 1
thought of Postum but could hardly
bring myself to give up the coffee.
"Finally I concluded that I owed It
to myself to give Postum a trial. So I
got a package and carefully followed
the directions, and what a delicious,
nourishing, rich drink it wasl Do you
know I found It very easy to shift
from coffee to Postum and not mind
the change at all?
. "AlmoBt Immediately after I made
the change I found myself better, and
as the days went by I kept on Improv
ing. My nerves grew sound and
steady, I slept well and felt strong
and well-balanced all the time.
"Now I am completely cured, with
the old nervousness and siokness all
gone. In every way I am well once
more." '
It pays to give up the drink that
aots on soma like a poison, for health
is the greatest fortune on can hare.
Read the little book. "The Road to
"WtllYtlU," la pkgs. Thare's Re
moet Interesting periods In NvS$&s. 4y " -s
the history of lawn tennis in M T)j v ?X
C America for the reason that VsTX yZIW siiJmJh if
A , it is believed to mark the xV "
fjL passing of the men who have NS, MfW s'Sy' V V
ffift rWlV f, .an,. vr nast held all SS..' S iS SVVN- A
he maces oi "pre-eminence WJ ' ) .
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HE PRESENT is one of the
moet Interesting periods in
the history of lawn tennis in
America for the reason that
it Is believed to mark the
passing of the men who have
for some years past held all
the plaoeB of pre-eminence
in the Yankee tennis world
and the advent of a coterie
of younger players compar
ative newcomers in the game who will be
the champions of tomorrow. When William
A. Lamed in the annnal tournament at New
port this autumn won, for the sixth time,
the coveted title of champion of America
the prediction was made by his friends that
it would be his last
defense of the post
of honor he has suc
cessfully held against
all comers for more
than half a decade.
If Lamed does decide
next year voluntar
ily to hand over the
championship to the
man who in the pre
liminary contests
wins the right to
challenge him, he will
but be following in
the footsteps of one
or two of his famous
predecessors who re
tired unbeaten after
attaining the highest
position in the game.
That Lamed Bhould
think of retiring is by
no means strange. In
deed, the wonder is
that he has been able
to defend his title,
successfully against
the young blood that
has appeared in the
game, for, be it
known, the redoubt
able Larned Is more
than forty years of
age and has been
Playing tennis steadily for
more than twenty years.
That Larned at the age
of two score years is yet
America's best player, and
quite possibly the best
player in the world, is the
more notable when It is
taken, into consideration
that tennlB, for all that It
"looks easy" to the uniniti
ated, is in literal truth one
of the most strenuous
games in the whole cate
gory -of outdoor athletics.
Moreover, it is an all-around,
game. Not only does It call
Into play every muscle In
the body to an extent un
equaled by any other exer
cise, unless It be mwin
but It requires the nimblest
. ve.leran American player who stands
uumim earned In Rbin .j t. .. 1.1.
skill and who ranks with him
as affording evidence Hint VMh try . 4 V. j KAfltll.
n i that " ,a ,n tner BPrt8 ta
Beals Wright, former national champion. As long
ago as 1901 Wright had the national champion-,
snip almost in his grasp and in 1905 he captured
the coveted title. Latterly he has been in a
sense eclipsed by Larned, but is yet a splendid
and spectacular player. Only a few months ago
Wright went abroad and worsted all the best
players of Europe and Great Britain, only meet
ing defeat at the hands of A. F. Wilding, tho Aus
tralian player, and that in a contest that cannot
bo- regarded as wholly conclusive.
For all the splendid achievements, however,
of the older tennis players experts who are yet
very mucn in tne game, there is ample evidence
that tho time is almost at hand when they must
step aside for the group of younger men who
have been forging ahead of late in a most deter
mined manner. Oddly enough, almost all of
these new stars of the tennis firmament are west
erners. Very much in the public eyo Just at pres
ent is Bundy, the whirlwind player from Cali
fornia, who this year defeated "all comers'' and
only met his Waterloo when he faced Larned.
Even at that the outcome might have been dif
ferent had the lad from the Golden Gate state iro
been exhausted by a long series of contests.
Even more Interesting Is the future of Maurice
E. McLaughlin, the "boy wonder" from Califor
nia, whom Larned has lately taken up as his pro
tege and upon whose shoulders it Is rumored he
proposes to let fall the mantle of the champion.
McLaughlin, who is yet In his teens, is a dash
ing player, with terrific strength behind his
strokes and with a deadly "serve" that is calcu
lated to disconcert any player in the world. It
Is now the hope of all American tennis enthusi
asts that Larned, - Wright and McLaughlin can
be Induced to form a team that will go to Aus
tralia and attempt to recover the Davis cup the
great luternatlonal blue ribbon trophy of the
tennis' world which was won by Australian play
ers some years ago and wbloh neither American
nor English players have ever been able to wrest
from their grasp.
The game of lawn tennis resembles in some
respects the ancient game of tennis, which In its .
earliest form aeems to have been played In the
open air. The modern vport seems to have origi-
nated almost simultaneously In the United States
and England. Major Wlngfleld reduced it to a
definite form In England In the year 1(74, giving
It the hopelessly classical
name of "Sphalrlstlke." Un
der the auspices of the Ma
rylebone club rules were for
mulated the following year
for what was then definitely
known as' tennis. The "hour
glass" court was retained,
with the net five feet high
at the posts and four feet
In the center, and the serv
ice lines 25 feet from the
net. The ball used was cov
ered, weighed 1 ounces
and was 2H Inches In diam
eter. The earliest form of
tennis was replaced in 1870
by a rectangular court.
In 1879,- when volleying
was introduced by the Renshaw brothers, the
service line was brought one foot nearer the
center and the height of the line was raised
again to three feet six inches, making the ad
vantages of the different styles of play more
equal.
Eight years later the English National Lawn
Tennis association was formed. Ever since then
it has' been tho governing body for England and
the surrounding countries, in which the game
has since spread. The courts of all countries
have the same dimensions. The following is the
official description of the American court: The
court Is 78 feet long and 27 feet wide. It is di
vided across the middle by a net, the ends of
which are attached to two posts, standing three
feet outside of the court on either side. The
height of the net is three feet six Inches at the
.post and three feet In the middle half way be
tween the side lines and parallel with them Is
drawn the court line, dividing the space on each
side of the net into two equal parts, the right
and left courts. On each side of the net, at a
distance of 21 feet from it are drawn the Bervlce
lines. Two kinds of game are played, "singles"
and "doubles," two partners on each tiifle. The
choice of sides of the court and the right to
serve first are decided by the toss of a coin. The
players stand on opposite sides of the net, the
player who first delivers the ball being called the
server and the other the striker-out. At the end
of the flrBt game the striker-out becomes the
server, and so on alternately. The server dellv-v
ers the ball, or service, from the right to the
left courts. It must drop between the service
line, half court line and side line of the court,
diagonally opposite to that which is being
served.
The system of scoring is framed on a basis
of 15 for each stroke won; but 'the third stroke
is called 40 Instead of 45. If both players win
three strokes, the score is called "deuce" Instead
of "forty all." The winner of the next stroke
scores "advantage," and if he also scores the fol
lowing stroke, he wins the game. If the stroke
falls to the opposite side the score goes back to
"deuce." Similarly the player who first sdfres
six games wins the set, unless both should have
won five, when a player must win two consecu
tive games to score the set. If ho falls to do this
the score Is once more called "games all," and
the same conditions prevail at every set. The
players change sides at the end of every set
AU championship matches have since . 1886
been determined by the winning of three aots out
of five; but since 1897 the English system of
handicapping occastosally has been employed, but
without the use of dif
ferential tables. Brief
ly, a player is benefited
by giving or owing
strokes or giving
bisques. A bisque is
one point which can
be taken by the re
ceiver of the odds at
any time In the set, ex
cept after, a service Is
delivered or by. the
server after a fault
The game was
played in America
within a year of its
adoption In England, at
Nahant, near Boston.
The next year a court
was laid out at New
port, R. I, which has
since been the Ameri
can headquarters of
the game, although it
has grown to such an
extent that, in addition
to tbe national cham
pionships there are
held every year 26
or more champion
ship contests by single
states or groups of
states. The first open
championship game
was held on the
grounds of the Staten
Island Cricket club in
1880. Tbe next year
the United States Na
tional Lawn Tennis association was formed, and
rules adopted, which have, however, been modi
fled and altered from time to time, and since then
the national championships have always been
played at Newport, R. I. A number of English
players have frequently taken part in these
championship games, with marked success at
first, which gradually diminished as the Ameri
can play developed along national lines. These
may be summed up under these heads: The screw
service, whereby the ball Is made to curve in Its
downward flight, like the "out drop" of a base
ball pitcher, Imparting a double and most baf
fling motion; the practise of volleying from a
position so close to the net that these strokes
can kill the ball; the development of the "stop"
volley, whereby the ball Is simply stopped with
a loosely held racket and falls over the net
"dead;" lobbing very high with a slight cut that
gives the ball a back twist. The American asso
ciation has recently modified one of the two im
portant differences between the rules of play In
England and America by limiting the rests to
which players were entitled between sets, to one
rest after the third set and no more. The other
difference, the foot-fault rule, remains.
Professional Eaters
Many striking customs of their past are still
preserved by the Indians of the northwest, and
of these none is more interesting than a peculiar
practise yet followed by the Sioux of the Devils
Lake reservation.
It appears, on competent authority, that from
time immemorial these Sioux have adhered to
an etiquette whereby It 14 the bounden duty of
the host to supply his guest with all the food e
may deBlre, and as a rule the apportionment set
before the visiting Indian is in excess of the ca
pacity of a single man.
On the other hand, by the same custom, the
guest is obliged to eat all that Is placed before
him, else he grossly insults his entertainer. Now,
It was found that this practise would work a
hardship, but Instead of dispensing with the cus
tom the Indian method of reasoning was applied
and what is known as the professional eater was
brought to the front
While the guest is supposed to eat all that Is
placed before him, it serves the same purpose
if his neighbor assists in devouring the bounti
ful repast, the main object being to. have the
plate clean when tho meal shall be finished.
It Is not always practicable to depend upon
a neighbor at table to assist In getting away with
a large dinner, and in order to Insure the final
consumption of the allotted portion visiting Indi
ans call upon these professional eaters, whose
duty It Ib to sit beside them through a meal and
eat what the guest eats.
The professional eaters are never looked upon
in the light of guests but more as traveling com
panions with a particular duty to perform.
These eaters receive from $1 to $2 and even
$3 for each meal where they assist It is stated
that one of the professional eaters was known
to have disposed of some seven pounds of beef
at a sitting. New York Herald.
yJL f 3i H It fails
C'Ur
Munyon.
MUNYON'S RHEUMATISM CORE
Old Educational Institution.
The University of Santo Tomas, Ma
nila, is the oldest educational Institu
tion under the American flag.
Br. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar
coated, eay to take as candy, regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bow
li. Do not gripe.
Tired Out.
"Is the first edition of your novel
exhnusted yet?"
"No. Why?"
"I thought it might be from stand
ing so long on the counters."
TRY MURINE EYE REMEDY
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Aseptic Tubes, 25c, $1.00. Eye Books
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To love nobly, profoundly; to love at once with
the mind and with tho heart; to dedicate to an
other oar sympathies, our reverence, and our
trust, la the highest and the deepest Interest of
existence. Quintan.
More to Be Pitied.
Tramp (to lonely spinster) Come
Missus, arst yer 'usband It 'e ain't got
a pair o' trousers to give away.
Spinster (anxious not to expose her
solitude) Sorry, my good man, he
eh never wears such things. Punch.
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Just Guessed.
"Mrs. Wadsworth, I am very glad.
Indeed, to meet you. But, haven't I
had the honor of being Introduced to
you before? What was your nam
formerly, If I may ask?"
"My maiden name?"
"No; your name before you were
divorced."
"How did you know I bad been di
vorced?" . "Why, hasn't everybody?"
Like the Other Kind.
It was In a "down east" village that
the young man met his sweetheart, a
cuarming country beauty. When he
returned to the city he sent her a j&r I
of cold cream to keep her cheeks as
fresh as the budding rose. .
On his next visit he asked her how
she liked bis little gift
"The taste was very nice," she
said, with a rather sickly smile, "but
I think that I like the other kind of
cream best, dear." Llpptncott's.
Tit for Tat.
Lloyd C. Griscom, In an Interview
In New York, said of party dissen
sions: "They are animated by a nasty spir
it a tit-for-tat spirit; and they go
from bad to worse.
' "It's like the case of the engaged
couple at the seaside dance. The
young man, a little Jealous, said cold
ly to his fiancee at supper: "
"Let me see was it you I kissed
In the conservatory?"
" 'About what time?' the young girl
answered, with a little laugh."
He Knew.
A small boy brought up by a fire
eating father to hate anything con
nected with England or the English
was consigned recently to eat dinner
with the nurse while the family enter
tained a genuine English lord la the
dining room. The grown-ups' meal had
come to that "twenty minutes past"
stage where conversation halts direct
ly, when a childish treble fell upon
tho dumb-waiter shaft from th4
kitchen. This is what the astonished I
nobleman heard:
"Fe, fl. fo, fum,
"I smell tbe blood of an English
mun." Wasp.
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