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HOW THEY REFORMED. r jist peered that Elder Gray Gave his money all away! Been a miser, dost an’ hard Sence th’ big tree in our yard Wuz a saplin’—never went Nigh a soul or give a cent! Heered las’ night he jglve his wife All he saved up all his life! Sounds onreal, but ’tain’t no lie — I jist seen th’ hearse » I jist heered that Jimmy Green Quit his drinkin’—cut it clean! Been a sot sence Jones’s barn Wuz a woodshed—couldn’t ’arn Half his salt an’ starved his wife All her hopeless married life. Heered, las’ night, he got th’ grit Someway In his soul t’ quit! Sounds onreal, but ’tain’t no lie— I jist seen th* hearse go by! I jist heered that Liddy Wall Quit her scoldin’, good an’ all! Heered her husband’s restin’ well Fust time in a right smart spell! Liddy alius used t’ say She’d quit scoldin’ him some day, But she never quite could git Made up in her mind t’ quit! Sounds onreal, but ’tain’t no lie— I jist seen th’ hearse go by! I jist heered that Abner Sykes Found a place he rilly likes. Abner moved about until Nothin’ seemed t’ fill th’ bill! Everywheres he jwent to yet Wuz too dry or else too wet, Too much drouth or too much dew. But his movin’ days is through! Sounds onreal, but ’tain’t no lie— I just seen th’ hearse go by. —New York Times. GALLS. LET LOVERS ALONE. Don’t Make Game of or Tease Them —May Spoil a Romance. That “all the world loves a lover” Is an old and much-quoted saying, but if the saying be true the affection surely is manifested in singular fash ion. Indubitably all the world and his wife take a lively interest, which,, unfortunately, is often more officious than discreet in whatever they so much as suspect may, Can or will be a love affair, and consider lovers fair game for all manner of teasing, sur mises and sometimes impertinent in quiry. If Johnny Jones walks home from church with Susan Smith two Sundays in succession he immediately is sus pected of a more than friendly feel ing for that young woman, tongues began to clack, John Js rallied on his fancy for Susan, while she is ban tered on his attentions to her. If Ed win and Angelina meet half a dozen times and he shows the slightest dis position to talk to or dance with her ever so little more than with other girls, some, at least, of their mutual friends are certain to Imagine matri monial intent upon his part, and, still worse, to express the suspicion, more or less plainly to the persons con cerned. The probability Is that the young man has no serious purpose; his at tentions merely are the casual con sequence of a surface admiration for a pretty and entertaining girl. Human ity is gregarious and social intercourse with one’s fellows is a natural neces sity of all normal men and women. Nor is the want‘ so apt to be for a solitude a deux, with all which it Implies, as merely for companionship in the sense of company and amuse ment—a want which is satisfied with the many as well as with the one. It must be admitted that those who doubt the possibility of platonic affec tion between two people of opposite sex have good ground for their point of view, It is easy enough to begin • with friendship, but seldom is it that in the case of both parties thereto it remains as such to the end of the chapter. It may be the man who finds that, all unconsciously, it has come to pass that— Food for the Fat. “Better than I love myself Do I love my neighbor.” . / It is possible that the actual pro portion of overfat people in the gen The woman for whom he professes eral population is no greater now than it ever was, but to the observer a “platonic attachment” has become who has lived many years it seems as the one and only woman in all the if the number of persons one meets world for him. Or it may be the woman who finds who are noticeably overweight had in that what she has fondly imagined to creased greatly In recent years. Some large folk are content with be friendship pure and simple is the their lot—nearly all are jolly, yet strongest passion of her being, that there are many who would give much she is deeply and unmistakably in for every pound they could throw off love, while her comrade remains on There are a number of dietary sys the plain and prosaic highway of tems in vogue for reducing weight, friendship. almost all efficacious, if strictly fol “And, oh, it is a bitter pain lowed, but not all safe. The original To love and not be loved again!* “banting system,” for example. In which the person is restricted to little Undeniably the chances are that one more than a lean-meat diet, is not to be recommended, and one who prac or the other of the couple one day tices It, unless under constant medical will find that, though friendship may 1 supervision, may do himself irrepara be delightful, there is something want ble harm. No one system, indeed, is ing to the full cup of happiness, that applicable to all cases, for the cause what began as camaraderie has de is not always the same, and what may veloped into something stronger and be suitable' for one fat person may tenderer than any other love on earth. The ways of friendship and love lie not be at all what another needs. It is popularly believed that all fat too close, the boundary is too easily persons are gross feeders, but this is overstepped for platonics safely to be not true; indeed, the reverse Is often indulged in, at least by the young, In the case. Obesity may be a disease, whose veins the current of life and or rather a prominent symptom of one, love is strong and healthy, without the t' nuble being with the internal the risk that there some day will be chemistry of nutrition—a disease of an aching void, an unsatisfied longing metabolism, as it is called. It is com for “what might have been.” Of course, where both step hand parable to diabetes—nearly related i to It, in fact. In this disease sugar is in hand into the “primrose path,” all formed in excess in the sytem, even is well, and the two who gradually when very little is taken with the have, grown together become one in Yes, platonics al food; and s.o in obesity there is a ten happy harmony. dency to the formation of fat in the ways are dangerous; nevertheless, in body, even if little fat-forming food spite of the risk, for not a few men Is eaten. In most cases, however, and women they might be commend much can be done by a regulation of able and possible were, it not for tire meddlesome interference of other peo the diet The amount of meat should not be ple.—Chicago Tribune. increased, but the quantity of sugar An Optimistic Waiter» and starchy foods should be reduced, He was one of the very few commer- their place being taken by non- starchy vegetables, such as spinach, cial travelers who can not adapt them cauliflower and salads. The foods to selves to their surroundings, and as be avoided, or taken in great modera a chronic hotel grumbler he is known tion, are those which contain much from East to West. The waiter was ■starch, such as rice and potatoes, and possessed of an optimism unusual for all sweets—nies, puddings and candy. one weighted with the responsibilities Tea and coffee should be taken with of his position, and served the soup, out sugar, if taken at all, and choco fish and roast with equanimity and poise. At the dessert the traveling late should be Omitted entirely. Bread is fattening, but for most man waxed irritable and sarcastic. “Look here,” he said. “This pud persons it seems an indispensable ar ticle of diet. Its amount can, however, ding is on the bill of fare as ‘ice cream puddin’,’ and there isn’t any be limited, and It should be toasted. Fats are less harmful than sugar Ice, nor is there any cream in It.” The waiter, in a tone of great pa-v and starch, and may be allowed- in moderation in the form of butter and tience, replied: “That’s all right, sir. There’s noth salad oil. The belief that the drinking of ing in, names. If we serve you with. water makes fat is erroneous. If one Washington pie, it’s no sign there’s a eats juicy vegetables, and especially the picture of the capitol on every piece, less sweet fruits, such as apples and and when we bring you college fritters grape-fruit, and abandons the use of there isn’t a term’s tuition in advance sugar, there will be a natural reduc thrown in. Any cheese with your pie, tion In the amount of water taken, sir ?” _______ _________ but one should drink all that is need Coal and Railroads. ed to Quench thirst. The total coal production of the United States is now at the rate of Got the Number. 1,000,000 tons per day, and the con Police Captain—You say that an au sumption of coal by railroads is equal tomobile containing several persons to 40 per cent of this, or 400,000 tons sped along the street and struck down per day. The fuel bill of a railroad an old man? New Officer—Yis, sor. contributes about 10 per cent of the Police Captain—And that after chas total expense of operation and 30 to ing this auto for several blocks you 40 per cent of the total cost of run finally succeeded in getting the num ning the locomotives. A. locomotive ber? New Officer—Yis, sor. Police will consume on an average $5,000 Captain—Good! What was the num worth of coal per annum, and for a ber? New Officer—There wor just road having an equipment of 1,000 foive persons in th* car, sor!—Circle locomotives the coal bill is approx Magazine. imately $5,000,000.—Railway Age. Next tQ magazine art, the most hid Every woman thinks she ought to eous sight on earth is a skinny ath eat brain food occasionally, but she lete In a running suit. can’t explain why she thinks so. ¡'sc*'*’, o Ram’s Horn Soundi' a W.-crnlng; Not^ to the Unr edeen eil. The unaccountable allurement which the rushing waters of Niagara Falls hold for persons having suicidal Im clinations, has raised a controversy between the United States and Canada. Enough of these suicides take place every year to make the matter one that needs to be dealt with. A large number of those taking their own lives are identified by clothing or by letters, but the plunge is so great, the rocks so numerous and the churn ing, obliterating effect of the countless tons of water in motion at terrific speed so great, that in most cases it is very difficult to assure a true iden tification. It is a somewhat curious fact that the bodies of those who have per formed the act of combined bravery and cowardice follow a sort of beaten track. When the authorities learn of a suicide they first go to the land ing where the little boat, the Maid of the Mist, comes in and goes out on its trips, and in almost every case the battered, swollen body will be found there. Those which do not stop then go on through the rapids' and bring up further down the stream in the vortex of the whirlpool. Both o fthese points, the Maid of the Mist landing and the whirlpool, are o nthe Canadian side. Hence the Queen Victoria Park commission, which controls the river front all the way from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, has been in the habit of bringing these melancholy derelicts to the top o fthe bank at an expense to itself of $60 or $70 apiece and of interring them separately in Fairview Cemetery in a site that has been set apart for such cases. The Canadian officials have ad dressed a request to the American park commissioners to pay at least a proportionate share of the expense. There is one very good argument ad vanced in favor of this position. Most of the suicides take the plunge on the American side. It is only the action of the current that carries to the shores of the Dominion the legacy of death. The American park commissioners concede the justice of the Canadian A motor-driven sleigh, developed dur ing last winter, was propelled by a pair of legs resembling in their opera tion those of a grasshopper.“ An alloy of 70 per cent of cerium and 30 per cent of iron has the re markable property of giving off a shower of sparks when struck by steel. At the womah suffrage bazaar, re cently held at the Hotel Martha Wash ington, in New York City, the receipts for the two days and evenings were over $900. , French walnut growers in the neigh borhood of Grenoble have formed an association to maintain the reputation and guarantee the quality of the wal nuts commonly known as “Grenobles.” There are 157,000 models in the Pat ent Office which are about to be lodged in the National Museum. Many of them are of historic interest. They will be under the care of the Commissioner of Patents. Telephone companies are endeavor ing to collect part of the telegraph tolls where the messages are delivered by telephone. The telegraph companies claim that they are entitled to make this use of the instruments and resist payment. Consul Julean H. Arnold, of Amoy, reports that a native company at that port, capitalized at $800,000, is getting ready to operate coal and iron mines* which are said to be valuable, in the An Chli district, 100 miles from Amoy, for which it has held a concession for some years. Since there is no tide in the Medit erranean, the inhabitants of Marseilles were greatly astonished on June 15, when the water of the harbor began suddenly to oscillate, and continued in movement for a quarter of an hour. Some observers say that the first waves were about two and a half feet in height, but others put thedr height at half that amount. Many thought that the cause was an earthquake, but Mons. Louis Fabry, after a study of the phenom ena, ascribes it to a sudden Increase of the barometric pressure of the air on the surface of the sea in the neigh borhood of Marseilles. argument, but declare that without some' justification from Congress they have not the power to spend the money of the nation in this fashion, and in sist that the bodies ought to be buried wherever the yare found. As a result o fthe argument a great er effort is being »made to watch close ly those who make the visit to the falls. It has long been one of the charms of the manner in which the two nations have guarded Niagara that it is possible to get to the very elge of the falls, and standing within three or four feet of the edge to marvel at the onrushing floods as they take their descent for the 200-foot jump to the gully below. Although, it may possess the suicide mania for a small percentage of un fortunates, to the great majority Ni agara is lulling, it gives comfort, it is a temporary surcease from troubles that seem small when brought into the presence of this wdnderful work of nature. To put the average visitor farther away from the points where In jsorne homes the 3-ible on a c e n te r table meanj little more than s. horse shoe over ¡the door. You can do more! with a pop gun when using it right than you can ¡with a »mus- ket when using it /ronL 4 You can’t make truth fash by look ing it in the fact. Many a man praj s foi grace, when what he needs is gni it. Many a fine care er -taas been cut short by a long tonj gue. = 1 The devil is most like a lion when he looks most like ¡ 1 3 sheep. The bravest man is : tie one who is scared the worst ai. .d rans the least. There, is nothing in ¡heaven more beautiful than the Id fe Christ lived on earth. Don’t look at youi bankbook to find out how rich you ~’i lare; Look at the promises of God. We can never h ave right views about redemption a 3 loi>g as we have wrong views about sinj St. Paul never wa • oteja line to show any kind of a sinno \r tLat- he could be saved by his own i ;ood; werks. We need more of ithe kind of preach- Ing that will make 11 sinaer either quit his meanness or get outof the church. The man who talk.: S 'tie loudest ¿bout the hypocrites in 1 he church is' the one you ’ need to wa ,tch the closest in a horse trade. It is hard for the vbrld to believe that the sinner who irides in a carriage is made out of the Ba¿e kind of clay as the one who falls it the ditch. ¡ Have One Doctor No sense in running from one doctor to another. Select the best one, then stand by him. Do not delay, but consult him in time when you are sick. Ask his opinion of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for coughs and colds. Then use it or not, just as he says. publish, our formula« We banish alc'ohol from our: medicines We urge you to consult your- doetor Always keep a box of Ayer’s. Pills in the house. Just one pill at bedtime, now and then, will ward off many an attack «of biliousness, indigestion, sick headache. How many years has your doctor known these pills ? Ask him all about them. — Made by the J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Maa«. ■■ A Crazy .Clock. Visiting an old mate, who had the misfortune to be confined in a York- Bhire asylum, a collier noticed that the large clock in the reception hall was ten mintites slow. >• “That clock is not right,” he exc olaimed. “No, lad!” was the lunatic’s* reply. “That’s why it’s here/’—London Dally News. Case of Disappointment. “Did you ever know a girl; to die for love?” “Yes/’ “Did she just fade away arid die be- cause some man deserted her?” ' “No, she just took in Washing and worked herself to death because the man she loved married her.”—Houston Post. History as Corrected. “Why came you so)’late?”, asked Da HE WAS POLITE,;ANYWAY. mon. “In another moment I should have been executed!”. “I couldn’t find you!” gasped Pyth ias. “You failed to notify me that a Johnny, although'of;humble origin, new system of house numbering had could hardly be said to have “sprung gone into effect!”—Chicago Tribune. from the soil”—or if he did, the soil A Quick Finish. evidently sprang aftej* him. There “Have you finished enumerating th« were always traces i of lit on his coun things you want to do?” inquired Mrs; tenance by the time lie reached Sun Housekeeper. day school, although itj might be more The prospective cook admitted that or less surrounded by the soap-and- she had. water immaculateness; in which his “Then perhaps you’ll specify the mother had started him. things you can’t do. Then. I can tell ! Admonition, argument or discipline if we can get along together/’ had no power to separate Johnny from The prospective cook decided rig'ht . the accompanying dirt; All had proved there that they couldn’t.—Kansas City unavailing; and so one day his teach Journal. er determined to try an object lesson. Case of Fellow Feelin*. To keep the surprise arid delight of District Visitor—I’ve just had a let the class from, spoiling her effort, she from my son Arthur, saying he took the other members into her con ter has won a scholarship. I can’t tell NIAGARA FALLS. fidence. Johnny, wiho appeared in the you how pleased I arn. usual condition* wai therefore the only Rustiv Party—I can understand yer he can get the best view would be a one to be surprised wpien the teacher feelin’s, mum. I felt just the same removed her veil ar d displayed a large when our pig won the medal at the hardship. Uncle Sam and the Dominion of Can black smudge on one dde of her nose agricultural show.—Pearson’s Weekly. ada dwell too happily as neighbors to and a smaller one on the other. But The Professor. have any serious row over the ques Johnny, except for a startled look of The Doctor—I’ve stood for a good tion. But' it must be settled, for as sympathy, which he repressed imme many wild and reckless assertions on long as Niagara’s roar attracts and diately, gave no «vicfence of having your part, but you can’t make me be- lieve there is a tribe of Indians of Irish its dancing waters appeal, there will noticed anything unusual. , Presently, howevi jr, ’Jhe wily teacher descent. be suicides to dispose of. The Professor—That only show» gave a little shudi ¡er*] looked directly that you have never heard of the at johnny, and ptr; ole finger on her Allgone Quinns.—Chicago Tribune. question remains, What produced the face as if the spot pajned her. Characteristic«. sudden increase of barometric pres “I really feel as if; my face were sure? “ Those plums may be good,” said the dirty,” she said, tji a tone of well- At Koutchino, near 'Moscow, Russia simulated horror, ‘Johnny, is there man with the slouch hat; stopping to argue with the grocer’s boy, “but I’m possesses the most complete laboratory anything on my face?’ from Missouri.” for researches pertaining to aviation “Yes’m,” replied Jqanny. “Well, I’ll take ’em,” said thé man now in existence. The work is under ‘TJgh!” exclaime 1 the teacher. “1 just behind him, picking up the box; the direction of Mr. Riabouchinsky, knew it. I felt it. ' rlojrid, nasty black “I’m from Ohio.” and the money was furnished by a smudges! Have they been there all wealthy Muscovite. It has become the the hour?” center of much interest since the re “Yes’m,” said Jolbmpr. 21/ ’ “ / t tell me!” exclaim cent achievements in aerial navigation. “And you . dldn Here investigations are made of all ed the teacher, reproachfully. “I don’t “I tried all kinds of blood remedies questions relating to aerodynamics, and think that’s nice of yo>, Johnny. Now which failed to do me any . good, ¡but I some remarkable results have been ob I shall be unhappy al day because I have found the right thing at last. My tained, especially in regard to what is have sat here so loiig with a dirty face was full of pimples and black-heads. After taking Cascaréis they all left. I ahi called the “autorotation” of bodies of face. When you liavi a dirty face I continuing the use of thein and recóm* certain shapes when placed In currents always tell you as isoori as I notice it.” mending them to my f riends., I feel fine of air. It has already been made evi “Yes’m,” said Johnny again, “it’s all when I rise in the morning. Hope to dent that there are many phenomena tight for you to tell me when it’s my have a chance to recommend Cascarete.M of an unexpected character which, Face; but when iffu yotr face, I guess Fred C. Witten, 76 Rim St., Newark, N. J. when they have been thoroughly in i’m too polite.”—Youth’s Companion. Pleasant, Palatable, Potent, Taste Good. Do Good. Never Sicken, Weaken or Gripe. vestigated, may materially aid invent 10c, 25c, 50c. Never sold in bulk. The genn- Somethinfs Wanted. ine tablet stamped C C C. Guaranteed to ors and engineers in the construction cure or your money back. 922 A bachelor, old and hranky, was sit of more effective flying machines. ting alone in his loom His toes with the gout were aching, tnd his face was To Make Sheep Come, o’erspread with g] oonj, no little ones* If you cannot get to sleep try sponge bath thus: Into eight ounces shouts to disturb t im4-from noises the of alcohol put two of ammonia and bouse was free, in iact, from cellar two of camphor. Shake thoroughly, to attic ’twas as s 111 as still could be. To travel East is. -via the . and when well mixed add four ounces No medical aid was licking; his serv of sea salt and enough hot water to fill ants answered hl 3 ring, respectfully a quart battle. To apply It pour a answered his orders end supplied him little of the liquid in a shallow dish, with everything, But still there was .moisten the whole body a little at a something wanted, wMch he could not time by dipping a small sponge in it. Bommand-^the kindlj words of com Rub on only very little, then finish passion, the touch 0; a gentle hand, with a vigorous rubbing with a coarse knd he said, as h s trow grew darker crash towel. Get into bed, and we’ll and he rang for th( hireling nurse, insure the quick arrival of “Nature’s “Well, .marriage n ay be a failure, but quick restorer, balmy sleep.”—Family this is a jolly sight vorse/ ,, Doctor. Oregon-Washington Limited PIMPLES THE S AFE WAY Oregon Railroad & Navigation Companys NEW FAST TRAINS Poor D»lls. His Place in the Progrram. “Your boy Josh says he is going to be a wizard of Wall street.” “Yes,” answered Farmer Corntossel. “He thinks so. But the chances are that the regular wizards will use him as the subject of one of their mysteri ous disappearance acts;”—Washington Star. A Rural Scheme. “We’ve hired a red-whiskered con stable to lie in ambush for the auto* mobillsts.” “What’s the idea?" “We thought his red whiskers would kind of »match the fall foliage.”— Louisville Courier-Journal. A man is lucky not to have worse luck than he has. The puzzling aa> “Somebody has ilsovered the oldest Holl in the countrjr/ » “Sentimental ida, sn’t it?” “Not wltih me. ' hive to take a new Äoll home with m< evwy blessed week.' The dolle at our hone never have a chance to get oM ’’—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Some writer hai said that as a rule preachers are not wity. Perhaps this inay be due to the fait that brevity is lhe soul of wit. Always rememtir hat your neigh bors watch you obself, and that your Neighbors are veiy particular. Every man m kec a satisfactory iusband—for a fîev <^ys. Portland to Chicago Chicago-Portland Special Chicago, St. Louis, Etc. 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