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s V. I a Hoyf^iHluJLIvW as Compared With Flfty^Yejit* Ago. he (arming life of to-day, ' as con­ trasted with that of fifty years ago, Is a paradise of comfort and con­ venience. The lonely loghouse, remote from mar­ ket and devoid of advantages thit a half cycle of time has made poslsjble, would scarcely ap­ peal to the pres-~- ent day farmer. The twentieth- 7H0UCH NOBLE BKONZB O* TfftY fOV*t> MAP* WHEKB Tug SlLCNT STAY, POND MBMOKY WTH *<?* FLOWS* PZMEieCRS At K TO OAY. MAY 30 /,905 & to> r*e Mssness, hum* y/hc roo r#, GOV* TUB aevetENTHCAD- TP GAY OLD KtNDtr T/MB *CMBrtBC*3 SLL THE VA/iiSHEQ OS AO. SONGS THAT REACHED MEN'S HEARTS 'The Blue and the Gray." Writtert by Francis Miles Finch as a Tribute to Generous Act--^"Sherman's March to the Sea." Great events always set the poets to rhyming. They tune up their hearts'! and lyres, and couplets, sonnets, bal- ! lads--every form of poetic expression i Is made to lend itself to the pen of the j rhymester. Some of these poems in­ spired by great public events are very good and some very bad when subject-, ed to the highest literary test. Some of the worst outlive the best. The most jingling rhymes often catch the popular fancy, while the lofty note struck by the really great singer,is un­ heeded or soon forgotten, says a writ­ er in the Boston Herald. Of all the 1 songs born- of our great civil war, none have appealed alike to the North and the South as have poems written when the smoke of bat­ tle had died away, the dead had been buried, the conflict ended and good men jtnd womep were trying to unite the triumphant North and the defeat­ ed South. The fires of hatred had not ceased to burn when the camp fires" died out. Men and, women in both the North and the South were count­ ing the cost of the four years' strug­ gle, and that cost included so many graves that it was hard for either party t8 forgive and forget. A little band of women in Colum­ bus, Miss., did not know tifaT-tljey were pouring a few drops of oil on the troubled waters when in the spring of 1867 they decorated the graves of the boys who had worn the blue and the .boys who had worn the gray lying in the cemetery near the town. The New York Tribune the next day contained this dispatch: "The women of Columbus, Miss.i ani­ mated by nobler sentiments than are many of their sisters, have sho^n themselves impartial in their offerings to the memory of the dead. They strewed flowers alike on the graves of the Confederate and the Federal sol­ diers." K , 'The Blue and the Gray." It is not to be wondered at that this beautiful incident suggested a poem to one in whom there was the spirit of true poetry. Francis Miles Finch, whose home was in Ithaca, N. Y., read the dispatch and was impressed by the fact that the incident indicated that the South was holding out a friendly hand, and that there should' be Bomc response to it. His beautiful poem. 'The Blue and the Gray,"-was his own personal response to this friendly overture. The poem became the subject of newsp£fe«: gditorials. and there was a good deal of scathing criticism that might never have arisen had the cir­ cumstance giving rise to the writing of the poem been generally known. In­ deed, the editor of the Atlantic wrote to Mr. Finch before publishing the poem and asked him if he could not incorporate the Tribune dispatch into the poem and make it form the first stanza*- Mr. Firch tried to do this, but the result yas unsatisfactory, and the poem was published as originally written. We are able to give tfce first stanza: "By the flow of the Inland river. When the Heets of iionhave fled. Where the blades of the. grrave-grass quiver. Asl.-vp aii- the tanks 'of the dead}; .Uiid'-i the sod and the dew. Vailing the judgment day; Vnrter the one. the Blue. Under the other, the Gray." "Sherman's March to the Sea." A war song once heard much otten- er than it has been heard In -recent years was "Sherman's March to the Sea." Thi= stirring son? was written by S. H. M. Byers, a.J native* of Penn­ sylvania, but now a resident of Des Moifles, la. We have from his own pen the following account of how he happened to write this song: "It was the middle of November, 18&4. Sherman's great army, after months of fighting, had captured the city of Atlanta in Georgia. One morn­ ing the news was sent about the North that Atlanta had been blown up, and that Sherman, with 65.000 sol­ diers and many cannon, had cut loose from his base and was marching, no­ body knew where. His soldiers had. in fact, started on that wonderful campaign toward the ocean which had for its object the cutting in two of the southern confederacy. President Lin­ coln even did not know at what point by the sea his 'bluecoats' would come out, but he had many ships of war sailing up and down the coast watch­ ing for them, ready to help them and to give them supplies. These ships fired cannon every daV^and sent up rockets at night to let Sherman's sol­ diers know thev were waiting for them. In the North many thought Sherman's army was lost in the for­ ests and swamps of Georgia. Not one word of news came from them for weeks. But all tl.is time they were successfully fighting their way through tore?ts. across plantations and rivers anJ marching toward the ocean. Great, consternation set in throughout the South, lor no one know what town or city would be naxt to fall. "It so happened that the town of Columbia, the capital of South Caro­ lina, many prisoners of war from the North were fastened up inside a high- walled prison pen^The prisoners were all officers and 800 in number. "A vivid picture of the marvelous march formed itself in my mind one Right wlille I was walking up and down the prison pen trying to keep from freezing. The idea to celebrate it with a poem came to me; it all seemed so romantic, so picturesque, so heroic. When daylight come my two comrades went out beside a little fire to prepare out scanty breakfast. I remained in the tent on our little pile of straw, with my old army blanket over me, and wrote the,, song called 'Sherman's, March to the Sea.' Short­ ly I took it out to my comrades, by the fire, and read it -to them. A stranger prisoner standing by the fire asked me to let him take it to his^ quarters to copy. I gave it to him and in a day or so forgot all about it. "It happened there was a splendid glee club among the prisoners; they also had violins and flutes They were allowed to sing every afternoon on the steps of the little prison hospital. They made delightful music for us prisoners, and hundreds of the citi­ zens besides, crowded on top of the walls to hear the Yankees sing. VPfcat was my surprise one afternoon to hear Major Isett. the" leader of the club, tell the assembled crowd they were to sing a song about Sherman! Greater still my surprise when the words of my own poem were being cheered by a thousand voices. The stranger offi­ cer, who had borrowed the poem mat morning, turned out to be Lieut. Rock­ well. He was a musician and a mem­ ber of the club, and had, without my knowledge, written music to my ,verses. • "How they were cheered that after­ noon! and how their unknown author*, spite of himself, was dragged up on to the platform, and all of a sudden transformed into a prison hero! The song was now sung daily by everjv body in thp prison. One day Lieut. Tower, an officer with an artificial leg, was exchanged, and in the hoi low of his wooden limb he carried my song to the Union artny. There, too. j it became the rage, and by the time | the war was over simply millions, of j copies had been printed. Thirteen |.music houses issued it, all but one i without authority, and that one munif- j icently rewarded me by sending me a $5 greenback. „ "Shortly I escaped from the prison. Sherman's army later came to Colum­ bia, and when the city fell I was se­ creted there in a negro cabin. Gen. Sherman himself sent for me and showed his appreciation of the song by giving me a position on his staff.. Later he sent me through the lines to Grant and the. President, to carry to them and to the country the first news of his great success in the Carolina?. "This song has the enduring fame of having given its name for all time to the most, romantic and brilliant campaifn of the civil war--"Sher­ man March to the Sea.'" j "Our camp fires shone bright on the mountain!) That f:owned on the river below: While we stood by our guns In the morn­ ing. And eagerly watched for the foe. When a rider fame out from the dark­ ness That hung over mountain and tree. And shouted. 'Boys up. and be readv. For Sherman will march to the the modern comforts. His mail is de­ livered daily. He has telephonic con­ nection with the buying and selling world, affording the best opportunities for marketing to advantage. His home is of recent architecture^ con­ structed of wood, brick ors&tak-e, and well furnished. He has modern plumb­ ing and modern heating, and with the advent of acetylene gas, he has mod' ern lighting. At night his home is as attractively illuminated as that of his city brother, for it is a suggestive fact that "acetylene for country homes" has so appealed to the farmer, that of the 80,000 users of acetylene gas in the United States, the farmer is one of the largest of all classes. Ever seeking the best, he has not "hesitated in availing himself of this new light. The continued growth and progress of this great country, ever a cause of wonderment, has no greater exempli­ fication than evolution on the farm. Already the farmer is becoming t!»e most envied of m&p--tho freest, th# healthiest, the happiest! » - / * , RAILROADS AND PROGRESS. DEATH IN TRAILING SKIRT Danger That Lurks in Present Day Obedienc# to Fashion'# Whim The following short story from the Woman's Journal is very timely in the warning given against trailing skirts: Only a littl§ dust, almost impercep­ tible dust, caught on the rug on the floor of'the handsome hall. ** It was a Turkish rug, tying on thp perfectly waxed, hardwood floor, in a kail where neatness seemed to reigjj -•along with all the appointmtfiits of Jwealth. \ „ • "In 1 /*But there was that almost imper- century soil tiller.has .practical* ahj^ibie dust How did it come there? If you had ears that could hear its voices it would tell you. It would k The old soldier, veteran of the civil war, is a "living epistle, kno#h and read ot all men." His presence among us is a reminder of the war, an inspiration to duty, a living ex­ ponent and illustration of patriotism. The Grand Army of the Republic is made up of the honorably dis­ charged Union soldiers. None othefs are eligible to membership in it. It Is a non-secfarian and non-partisan, politically, organization, and yet its fundamental principle is loyalty to the government. It is a bulwark against treason, and everything else that menaces the .welfare, prosperity and safety of the nation. The creation of an intelligent citi­ zenship and the establishment of in­ stitutions necessary to the preserva­ tion and perpetuation of our republic­ an form of government lie in the de­ velopment and extension of our public schools. - - (&J Social order, exalted views of lif« and appreciation of our privileges, and the promise of our future as a nation, are secured by an intelligent and care­ ful use of our opportunities. These things the Grand Army of the jRepublic seeks to secure and foster. No greater service can be rendered to our country than to promote and, es­ tablish her interests in the welfare, intelligence, and high moral quality of her people. In. his testimony before the senate" committee on interstate commerce at Washington on May 4, Prof. Hugo R. MeyePof the -Chicago university, an expert on railroad management, mad6 this statement: "Let us "look at what might have, happened if we had heeded the pro tests of the farmers of New York and Ohio and Pennsylvania (in the 70's, when grain from the west began pour­ ing «to the Atlantic seaboard). and , acted upon the do^rine which the in­ terstate commerce commission has enunciated time and again, that no man may be deprived of the ad­ vantages accruing to him by virtue of his geographical position. We could not have we£t of the Mississippi a population'of millions of people who are prospert^s and are great con­ sumers. We never should have seen the years when we built 10,000 and 12.000 miles of railway, for there would have been no farmers west -of the Mississippi river who could haVfe used (the land that would have been opened up by the building ot those railways. And if we had not seen the years when we could build 10,000 and 12,000 miles of railway a year, we should not have to-day east of the Mississippi a steel and iron-produc­ ing center, which is at once the mar­ vel and the despair of Europe, because we could not have built up a steel and iron industry if *£tjere had been ,v no market for its product.! We could not- have in New England a great boot wnd shoe industry; we could not have in New England a great cotton milling industry; we could not have spread throughout New York and Pennsylvania and Ohio man­ ufacturing Industries of the most di­ versified kinds,"because those Indus tries vwould have no market among the farmers west of the Mississippi river. , ' . And while the progress of this country, while the development of the agricultural west "of this country, did mean the -impairment of the ag­ ricultural value east of the Mississippi riter, that ran up into hundreds of millions of dollars, it meant Incident­ ally the building up of great manu­ facturing industries that added to the value of this land by thousands of millipns of dollars. And, gentlemen, those things were not foreseen in the '70's. The statesmen and the public men of this country did not see*what, part the agricultural development of the west was going to play in the In­ dustrial, development of the east. And you may read the decisions of the Interstate commerce commission from the first to the last, and what is one of the greatest characteristics of those decisions? The continued inability to see the question /In this large way. The interstate f^Otfimerce commis­ sion never can se^. anything more twin that the farm land of some farm­ er is decreasing in value, or that some man who has a flour mill with a pro­ duction of fifty barrels a day is be­ ing crowded out. It- never can see that the destruction or impairment of farm values in this place means the building up of farm values In that place, and that that shifting of values Is a necessary Incident «to the Indus; trial and manufacturing development of this country. And if we shall give to the interstate commerce commis­ sion power to regulatfe'rates, we shall no longer have our rates regulated on the statesmanlike basis on which they have,been regulated in the past by the railway men, who really have been great statesmen, who really have been great bullders^of empires, who have had an Imagination that rivals the imagination of the greatest poet and of the greatest inventor, and who have operated with ajcourage and dar­ ing that rivals the courage and dar­ ing of the greatest military general. But we shall have our rates rregulated by a body of civil servants; bureau­ crats, whose besetting Bin the world over is tha^t"they"never can grasp a situation io a large way aiad with the grasp of the statesman; that they never can see the fact that they are confronted with a small evil; that that evil is relatively small, and that It cannot be corrected except by the creation of evils (and abuses which are infinitely greater than the one that is to be corrected.'" The proper Word. Clara--I was tempted to give her a piece of my mind, only I didn't want to make a scene. Minnie--You mean, dear, you gldn't want to make a production. / That's the proper-word nowadays. J < say that it had clutched a fold on the beautiful lady's gown and come: in from the street. v 1 It was a beautiful gown as well as a beautiful"" lady--a tailor-made gown, and its fashionable bias flounce trailed stylishly on the ground. . -- Everything -was stylish about the lady, from her fair face,1 with rather deep circles below the eyes, to [her slender and handsome walking shoes. She walked trailing her gown properly, dust or no dust. Indeed, she Ignored the dust of the street ; but will the dust ignore her? .Let us listen, if she will not, for' this almost imperceptible dust moves and acts with fearful force, and if we listen possibly we may understand its language. » Soon after coming in on" the beauti­ ful fady's gown, other steps followed and other gowns helped to move the dusrt alortg^farthgr into the house; but it had' a fanfcy for the beautiful lady. Hfer frailness Attracted it and it fol­ lowed her to the Bed chamber. Her feet had never trod th§ loathsome precincts whence it came, but it came to her on her gown. * Soon there came, to the chamber a little child, a |W££tr-rosy cherub. In its romping it stirred the dust about. Then the dust began to be sepa­ rated, being formed of many particles, and these talked among themselves. As they talked they danced back and forth,, waltzing, swirling, capering, with every motion of the child and its mamma, the beautiful lady. •:< A scientist could have understood them If he had caught some of them under his microscope. He would have called them "g«ms." With what alarm he would have recognized the diphtheritic, and with what dismay would he have seen the tuberculous germ approaching the frail lady. Back and forth, dancing, capering, waltzing, the germs kept time while baby, in its mother's arms, said, as thousands of other little ones were saying-- ' ' "Now I lay me' down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul "to take." , This~baby was saying it for the last time. When night came again, thousands of little voices sent up the baby pray­ ers, but this one was gilsping out its little life on mamma's bosom--de­ stroyed by a germ. A yellow card at the front door warned all comers against diphtheria. The beautiful lady vainly sought health for a year or more, then found rest "beyond"the sorrow and the part­ ing." ' "Broken hearted," it was said. "Found ' death in the dust of the §ffreet," said3the microscope. tim of the long skirt. - to clean. M the cloud of dust arising from the brush the fatal bacillus lurks. The girl, already jveakened from too long hours iiraoors, suc­ cumbs. '"few weeks l>ter she is forced to stop work and waste away in hopeless "dependence on her over­ burdened famUjTor at public expense. Another gin Is easly obtained and the carele^siymistress never suspects any connection between her fooish 'fashion afi<T .the doomed ̂ domestic's sad fate. Expectoration on the streets can never be stopped. The streets cannot be kept cle^lir But this can be done--• every wom|m should wear sensible skirts entirely: clearing the ground. This will entirely eliminate this great avenue" of tuberculosis invasion. A Vegetarian Dinner. Pour,} . . ': .••• . « Vegetable. ' * . ' Entree - • •poast Imperial. • Vegetables Scalloped Potatoes. Chopped Cabbage. Macaroni with Tomato Sauce. Stewed Vegetable Oysters. Lreads • " « Graham Bread. Cream Crisps. • • • JDcjssort • • \ ' ' '• Steamed Fig Puddine with Lemon Sauce. vic- Fashion and Consumption. fti all American cities and most of the larger towns, promiscuous expec­ toration is prohibited. There are or­ dinances and rules against spitting in public conveyances, on the floors of assembly halls and on the sidewalks. Of necessity, however, this cannot be prevented in the gutters and on the pavements. By educating the tuberculosis pa­ tient himself in regard to his duty to his fellow citizen much more can be done. A careful consumptive is a good \citizen; a careless consumptive is an enemy to society and the state. Even with the civil and self-imposed precautions, the dust of the highway and crossings is teeming with various disease germs. It is practically im­ possible to eliminate these beds of filth. In the cleanest stre«9& such col­ onies of germs are present. The use of long, dragging skirts on the average highway is the height of folly. It is worse. It is absolutely dangerous. The sweeping cloth picks up dust and dampened particles car­ rying tubercular germs.. They are thus transplanted into the very house­ hold. In this simply yet satfly effec­ tive way, the children, so carefully guarded, are exposed to the dreaded plaguifc. The entire family, satisfied with tfeelr fancied security, are stunned when tuberculosis claims one of .their loved ones. It may not strike the family circles. The household servants may' be af­ fected. Many of the deaths of domes­ tics have their explanation. The mis­ tress, after a shopping tour; leaves her mud-borderfld skirt for the maid Not Permanently Disqualified. One of the southern senators re­ counts a conversation that once took place between a friend of his--a busi­ ness man in Mobile--and a colored man who had made application for work. "Well," said the business man, after the recital had been made of the dar­ ky's qualifications, "I should like to1', give XJ?U the place, but I'm afraid I can't do so, for I understand you are married. For special reasons, I desire for this place a single man." An expression of the deepest disap­ pointment came to the dusky counte­ nance of the applicant. Finally, after a short silence, during which he mum­ bled to himself by way of reflection, he asked, hopeKilIy and eagerly: "Well, boss, ^f-dat's de only trou­ ble, 1 think I kin arrange a divorce all right."--Harper's Weekly. f The American Heart. I, We have heard much about the American stomach and the American nerves, but we are just awakening to a discovery that there is being rapidly developed a form of heart disease which, if not peculiar to America, may at least besjsaid to be more prevalent in this country than in any other part of the world. The heart-weakness re­ sulting from the use of tobacco and alcohol and from a sedentary' life on the one hand, and extremely violent exertion on the other hand,, is no long­ er a rare condition, but has come to be one o^ the imost common affectiohs with which the physician has to deal. A large proportion of the men reject­ ed in the army examinations are re­ fused on account of heart weakness, A large proportion of the public men who die suddenly die as a result; of the failure of the heart. The same may be said also of many of the cases in which the cause of death Is reported to be pneumonia, typhoid fe­ ver and other affections in which spe­ cial strain is brought to bear upon the heart, and Hi which the failure of the organ to meet the emergency is one of the most common causes of death. The cigar, the gigarette and the pipe are probably the most common cause of this growing frequency of cardiac af­ fections; but the negject of physical exercise, overeating, the use of condi­ ments and excesses of all sorts are also to a large degree responsible for the rapid inciease of this grave mal­ ady. ' 80ME WHOLESOME RECIPES. Vege"tab|e Soup.--Simmer together slowly for three or four hourg, in five quarts of water, a quart of split peas, a slice of carrot, a slice of. white tur­ nip, one cup of canned tomatoes and two stalks' of celery cut into small bits. When done, rub through a col­ ander, add milk to make, of proper con­ sistency, reheat, season with salt and cream, and serve. Roast Imperial.--Mix together one- half cup o£ lentil pulp (prepared by rubbing well-cooked lentils through ,,a colander),, one-half cup of pease pulp, one-half cup of English walnuts, and season to taste with sage and salt Line an oiled baking dish one^half inch deep vwith- the mixture. Pack in loosely a dressing made from the fol­ lowing ingredients: Four ^ices of zwieback, steamed until softened, one- half cup of hot cream, sage and salt to taste, and one weil-beate~n egg. Mix together lightly with a fork. Cover closely with peas, lentil and nut mix­ ture. Spread over the top tbiek cream, bake in a moderate oven until firm enough to cut into slices. Serve with cranberry sauce or fruit jelly. Scalloped Potatoes.--Pare the pota­ toes and slice thin; put them in lay­ ers in an earthen pudding dish, dredg­ ing each layer lightly with flour, add salt, and pour oVer all enough good, rich milkfto cover well. Cover, and bake rather slowly till tender, remov­ ing the cover just long enough before the potatoes are done, to brown nice­ ly. If preferred, a little less milk may be used,-and-arettp of thin cream add­ ed when the potatoes are nearly done. Mjtcaroni With Tomato Sauce.'-- Break macaroni--Ihto inch lengths, enough to make one cup, and drop into boilinaTWat'1'^ perfectly reader prepare the V^auce by rubbing a pint of stewed enr canned tomatoes\hrough a colander „TO remove allseeds and fragments. Heat to: boiling, thickeh with a little flour; a tablespoonful to _the pint wiil be about the requisite proportion. Add a half cup of very thin sweet cream and one teaspoonful of salt. Dish the macaroni in Indi­ vidual dishes, and serve with a small quantity of thfe sauce poured over each dish. Hedgehog's^ Frown. . A hedgehog ..curls itself up by a frown--rthat is, by muscles like those which produce a frown--and it frowns severely or gently according to cir­ cumstances: If it. »is poked hard, it "sighs" itself tighrer. If really hurt, it frowns into a tight ball. The prickles can be erected in a measures-, though as they point all ways this is not needed. They are as sharp as, needles. We have only "known one dog, a large black and-'lvhite setter, which would deliberately bite ^ hedge hog till it killed-it. But this dbg was quite mad and shared some of the. anaesthesia common to certain luna­ tics.--London Spectator. aterj ,iaet it boll untif In- the" meantime, Prayen Book Too Stately. Dean Lefroy, speaking at Norwich, England, said he yielded to no man in his loyalty* to the Book of Common Prayer, but it was not always adapt­ ed to the people. It was too stateljr. HEES STIFF, HANDS HELPLESS, RHEUMATISM NEAR HEART. JQhinese Coins. One of Ae great barriers to trade in China is the monetary system, which is crude, confusing and in every way unsatisfactory, except to the Chinese themselves. The-most commonly cir­ culated coin is the copper cash, equal to about one-tenth of a cent. For large sums the tael is the unit; this, however, is not a coin, hut a weight of sliver. Kra. Tan Seoy Experience* Daaftron After-Effecta from Gri p and tearai Value of a Blood Remedy. The grip leaves behind it weakened vital powers, thin blood, impaired di­ gestion and over-sensitive nerves--a condition that makes the system an easy prey to pneumonia, bronchitis, rheuma­ tism, nervous prostration, and even con­ sumption. e The story told by scores of victims of the grip is substantially the same. One was tortured by terrible pains at the base of the skull; another was left tired, faint and iu every way wretched from anaemia or scantiness of blood; another had horrible headaches, was nervous aud couldn't sleep; another was .left witdi weak lungs, difficulty iu breathing auid acute neuralgia. In every case relief - was sought in vain until the great blood- builder and nerve-tonic, Dr. Williams* Pink Pills, was used. For quickness and thoroughness of action nothing is known that will approach it. , " Mrs. Van Scoy makes a statemenf that supports this claim. She says : "I had a severe attack of grip and, be­ fore I had fully recovered, rheumatism set in and tormented me for three months. I was in a badly run-down state. Soon after it began I was so lame for a week that I could hardly walk. It kept growing steadily worse aud at last I had to give up completely and for three weeks I was obliged to keep my bed. My knees were so stiff I couldn't bend them, and my hands were perfectly helpless. Then the pains began to threaten my heart and thoroughly alarmed me. ^ " While I was suffering in this way ! chanced to run across a little book that told about the merits of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. The statements in it im­ pressed me and led me to buy a box. These pills proved the very thing I needed. Improvement set in as soon as I began to take them, and it was very marked by the time I had finished the first box. Four boxes made me a well woman.'* Mrs. Laura M. Van Scoy lives at No. 20 Thorpe street, Danbury, Conn. Dr. William^' Piuk Pills are equally well adapted for any other of the diseases that follow iu the train of grip. They are sold by all druggists. Reading for tlje Czar. While the Russian citizen is forced to be content with his foreign papers blacked out by the censor, the czar, until the commencement of the Jap­ anese war.'was supplied with news of the outside world only through the medium of a daily paper printed for him by a special . department of the foreign office. This contained? clip­ pings and translation^ from all the European papers and was printed up­ on fine paper from special type. All items which might be supposed to be disquieting to the czar were eliminat-. ed by the editors and the freshly print­ ed sheet contained news designed to please the one subscriber. Since the commencement of the war the czar has insisted also upon being supplied with "unblacked" copies of certain English papers, and these ha<ye been sent with no good grace by the cen­ sors, .who in times past have resorted to odd devices to ~keep certain publi­ cations from their imperial master, counterfeits sometimes s being printed. The President's Salute. The president's salute consists of twenty-one guns-and why this particur lar number was hit upon has been the cause of much speculation. One solu- tiori, more clever than probable, is that when the revolution took place the» nation was considered able to shiftr for itself, hence, twenty-one. Another is that figures of the year of the Dec­ laration of Independence, 1776, when added together make of total of 21.' The royal salute in England is also twenty-one guns, having been origin­ ally seven, which number fired three times for the three political divisionr makes the total.( * ," GREAT CHANGE From Change in Food. The brain depends much more on the stomach than we are apt to sup­ pose until we take thought in the mat­ ter. Feed the stomach on proper food easy to digest and containing the proper amjpunt of phosphates and the healthy brain will respond to all (Je- mands. A notable housewife In Buf­ falo writes: "The doctor diagnosed my trouble as a 'nervous affection, of the stom­ ach:' I was actually so nervous that 1 could not sit still for five minutes , to read the newspaper, and to attend to my household duties was simply impossible. I doctored all the time with remedies, but medicine did no good. "My physician put me ott all torts of diet, and I tried many kinds of cereal foods, but none of them agreed with me. I was almost discouraged, and when I tried Grape-Nuts I did so - with many misgivings--I had no faith that it would succeed where every­ thing else had failed. "But it did succeed, and you don't • know how glad I am that I , tried it I feel like a new person. I have gain­ ed in weight and I don't have that terrible-burning sensation In my stom­ ach any more. I feel so strgng again that I api surprised at myself. The street noises that used to irritate me so, I never notice now, and my 5mlnd Is so clear that my household duties are .a real pleasure." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Now why was this great changed made In this woman? The stomach and the brain had not been Supplied with the right kind of food to rebuild and strengthen "the • nerve centers in these organs. It is absolute folly to try to do this with medicine. There is but one sure way and that is to quit the old food that has failed and take on Grape-Nuts food which is more than half digested in the process of manufacture and is rich in the phosphate of potash con­ tained in the natural (grain, which unites with albumen,and water--the only three substances that will make up the soft gray filling in the thou­ sands of delicate nerve centres in the brain and body. Grape-Nuts food Is • , sure toad back to health in all such cases. .-ft .