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FIRE FIGHTING, PO LICE AND PRISONS IN JAPAN The Fanny Hiin|i One Sees Smiling Round the World MARSHALL P. WILDER (Copyright, by .Joseph B. Bowles.) One evening while going through a street In a Japanese town. Yokohama, I heard a clanking ,sound at regular in­ tervals, and found it was made by a man who as he walked along was striking a sort of sword on the ground. At the concussion two plates of bronze or brass were driven together, making a metallic clE^ng. I was told that he was a watchman, paid by con­ tributions of a few sen a month from the households along the way. As he goee about, clanging his sword, It is a- comfortable assurance to these peo­ ple that all is well. This watchmaa 1s for flre chiefly. &B the houses of the Japanese town are mostly all of wood, and a *flre once started means widespread de­ struction before it can be got under control. On a little cart are also carried two folding screens of asbestos, about five feet high, with which the men pro­ tect themselves when facing the fire. To anyone familiar with the American fire departments the whole outfit seems like a toy. * • • • • The police department will much better bear comparison with those of other countries than the fire depart­ ment. I was told that about 125 police be­ long to each station house. Their names are written on little blocks of wood, in red on one side, and black on the other. The men are on duty in the station house for two hours, and outside for two hours, and the little blocks are turned as they come in or go out, the red or black showing the superintendent at a glance just where the men are. We were shown the cells, which were about ten feet square, fairly light, very airj. and immaculately they clutched each other and strain­ ing and struggling each strove to dis­ lodge the other's feet from the floor. All at once one of the men made a quick move, which it would be impos­ sible for me to explain, and his antag­ onist was hurled backwards over his shoulder, landing on the mats with a terrific thud. This performance was gone through with a number of times with infinite variety In tactics and methods of bringing about the fall, the moat mar­ velous skill and training being dis­ played. In addition to the male wrestlers of Japan there is one band--and one only--of women wrestlers--Amazons of enormous strength, who travel about giving exhibitions. Their physical beauty and development aw • UJ. ana tney create the greatest en­ thusiasm and admiration wherever they appear. Every man on the Japanese police force is required to become proficient in the jiu-jitzu. Every day there la practice, with the best teachers, from eight a. m. until noon. About 20 at a time take part in this practice, wrestling with the masters or each other, so that each man's turn in the school comes about 'one© a week. Fencing is also a part of their edu­ cation, not for practical use, but mere­ ly to make them quick and supple. They practice ^rith long bamboo swords, wearing wadded hoods and gloves. There did not seem to fce any exact skill about it, the men simply rushing at each other, striking and slashing, holding tho sword in libth hands, the principal object seeming to be which one could yell the loudest. After the regular modern jiu-jutzu, two young men gave an exhibition for my edification of the ancient form of the art. It was not so easy nor so fin­ ished as the modern method, and was performed with such ardor that arms and elbows were cut rather bad­ ly on the sharp edges of the mats. The principal feature of their enter­ tainment was the fiendish shouts with which they inaugurated each clutch. With all this splendid training in quickness, adroitness and the wonder­ ful muscular power it develops a crim­ inal has no chance at all with a Jap­ anese policeman. One of my party re­ marked that he should like to see the Broadway squad try to do the things we were looking at. I am very much afraid a member of that august body would be like a man of straw in the hands of one of Japan's quick, cat-like policemen. At the Sugamo prison in Tokio I found many features that to an Ameri­ can were unusual. Yt HERE WAS THE SCHOOL FOR THE FAMOUS JIU-JITZU. clean. There were but five prisoners at the station house, all detained for petty offenses--rickshaw men over­ charging, and similar arraignments. Their names were on little wooden tags hung outside the door. These were turned inside, however, and upon no consideration to be looked at ex­ cept by the proper authority. The side that is clear has only the date of incarceration, and length of sentence printed on it. The guard opened a couple of occu­ pied cells, showing the prisoners, one man alone in one cell, while three together were in the other . They looked very comfortable, kneeling on straw mats, which are also their beds. • * • • • • While on our tour Jf inspection the most frightful cries came at intervals from one part of the main building. As they continued I began to be assailed toy a nervous apprehension that I might be called upon to witness some horrible torture, for I felt sure that nothing short of that could call forth such unearthly yells. When I was conducted Into a large room, where about 20 men in very ab­ breviated white linen suits were squat- Ni DEADLIEST GUN YET #- WtAPON THAT THROWS 2,000,000 BULLETS HOURLY. Inventor Has Asked United States Government to Give His Ma­ chine Gun a Test--- What He Claims for It. A machine gun which will discharge 2,000,000 bullets an hour and not get heated is a weapon which it would be well for any nation to investigate, and if the claims which Inventor Banger- ter makes for his device nrnvo me united States will not be slow in securing complete control of It. The machine, which, because of its de- structiveness, is expected to prevent war, is not fired by powder. It makes no noise, no smoke, no flash, no odor nor fumes. No crank has to be turn< ! by hand. j Compressed air is not the fore - * used, so that there is not even a hissing sound produced. No dyna­ mite, guncotton, nitro-glycerine nor other chemical or explosive is em­ ployed to send the Niagara of bullets hurtling a mile through space at the rate of 600 a second, 30,009 a minute when the gun Is worked at ordinary speed, and 2,000,000 an hour if pushed to its maximum capacity. The velocity of the projectiles is from 1,500 to 3,000 feet a second, ac­ cording to the will of the operator. There is no recoil, the gun never gets heated, it cannot explode and two men can operate it. The cost of firing 1,000,000 bullets half an inch in diameter would be about ten dollars. The expense of fir­ ing 1,000,000 bullets requiring powder and shells is more than $20,000. The plan of the inventor is to mount the new gun on a truck similar to an automobile, to be run by a hundred- horse power motor, which would give the carriage a speed of 60 miles an hour. The outfit ready for action would weigh about 5,000 pounds. There are to be two clutches on the auto--one to start and stop the car­ riage, the other to operate the gun. The same motor that runs the car­ riage furnishes the power to fire the gun, which can be worked while the automobile is in motion as well as when it is standing still. The gun works on a swivel, and can be swung around so as to sweep an are of 75 degrees. The muzzles of the five barrels can be elevated or de­ pressed, so that the operator can del­ uge with bullets any spot he may select. No application has been made to patent the deadly machine, and none will be, for Mr. Bangerter says that he has had experience in that line. He asserts that he does not propose to have any more of his ideas stolen. He says that if he does not make his fortune out of the gun nobody else shall. The attention of President Roose­ velt having been called to the Ban­ gerter gun, a corespondence has been opened between the war department and the inventor with a view to hav­ ing a demonstration made in the pres­ ence of representatives of the govern­ ment. This might lead to further ne­ gotiations. The French government has also written to Mr. Bangerter requesting information about the gun. When asked how much money he expects for his secret. Mr. Bangerter ronii»H that lie thought about $5,000,- OUR COUNTRY 77 YEARS AGO. 000 would be a reasonable sum for a government to pay for what he had to offer. The working model used by Mr. Bangerter for purposes of demonstra­ tion carries a round ball 9.32 of an inch in diameter. Placed at a dis­ tance of 100 feet from the weapon is a target of eight thicknesses of heavy paper--not pasted together, but hanging so that the sheets touch each other. Six inches from the paper is a backstop made of pine boards. One object of the paper is t;o prevent bullets from rebounding after strik­ ing the boards and possibly injuring spectators. The projectiles used in demonstrations are solid steel, and, therefore, are so much lighter than lead that they do not bury themselves in the wooden target after having gone through the paper screen. They enter the backstop to a depth equal to about one-third of their diameter, and, rebounding as far as permitted by the paper screen, fall to the floor, where they can be collected for UBe again. Unchanged by Time ITALIAN TOWN STILL AS IT WAS IN MIDDLE AGES. Only the People of Viterbo Appear Medern--Santa Rosa, Patron Saint of Town, Honored In Unique Way. A Japanese Policeman. ting about the edge, the shouts were explained. Here was the school for the famius jiu-jitzu, which is acknowl­ edged to be the most effective and 4Mkdly form of wrestling. We were given seats on the edge of platform, and two muscular Japs •prang onto the mats in the middle Of the room. First they bowed, by Squatting down, leaning their left hand SB the floor, and bowing their heads. Then standing erect, first one, and then' the other gave vent to one of the blood curdling cries I had heard. This is the challenge, Intended to in­ timidate the antagonist. Suddenly The corridors of cells were arranged like the spokes of a wheel, one war­ den sitting on a platform that was the hub. Labor is saved in this way, for one man can watch five corridors of 28 cells each, making in all 140. There are two of these wheels built In the inner court of the prison, so that 280 cells are watched by two men, who sifr on revolving stools and, by turning, can take in at a glance the five cor­ ridors Intrusted to their vigilance. A* head warden sits between the two wheels and maintains a general super­ vision, so that practically the entire number of prisoners are watched by but three men. There is another inclo3ure where there are cells for punishment. The most severe form Is the dark cell, where ^prisoners are punished for In­ subordination. They cannot be eon» fined in this cell for more than 11 days at a time. The cell for the next less severs punishment has a little light; so, in gradation, there are several cells tot varying degrees of punishment The prisoners all work in different shops at basket-weaving, making mats, iron utensils and all sorts of things fo» which there is a ready market. They work from 6:30 a. m. until 11. when they have their midday meal. This is principally rice, and quickly eaten. Until 12 they rest (sitting comfortably on straw mats). Advantage is taken of this time far one of the four resident chaplains to give the prisoners a talk. The day 1 visited the prison it was during this midday rest, and the men In two large work-rooms were sitting quietly listen­ ing to a Buddhist priest. -Standing be­ fore a small altar, that looked like a reading desk, he was placed in a pas­ sageway between the two rooms, thus enabling the men in both rooms to hear him. He was talking earnestly, probably pointing out the error of their ways and exhorting them to lead better lives in the future. At 3:30 the work of the prisoners is, finished, so it may seem they lead a life of comparative ease. It struck me as rather an induce­ ment to crime, for they live better than, and do not work nearly as hard as, the average Japanese laborer. Every man is credited with a certain amount of wages for the work he does, and the money given to him when he Is discharged, so that he does not leave the prison penniless. Every method seemed most humane and the prisoners treated with kind­ ness in every way. The same consid­ eration in regard to revealing their Identity Is practiced here, as in the police stations. Outside of each man's cell is a wooden sign with his name, age, crime and the length of his sen­ tence printed en it. But a little extra tag comes down and hides his name. After my inspection I came away with the idea that to be sent to prison In Japan was not the worst thing 1>jr any means that could befall a man. Everything changes except Viterbo, one would be prone to exclaim if he were to visit the Italian town which bears the stamp of the middle ages still upon buildings and streets and customs, for the city retains in this day of push and progress all Its me­ dieval characterlsts and modern progress and influence have practical­ ly failed to change its aspect. Viterbo is moreover the birthplace of Santa Rosa, who obtained her position as patroness of the city rather through politics than piety. Her feast, which is celebrated on September 4, Is one of the most characteristic in Italy. Santa Rosa was not a professed nun but only a Franciscan tertiary. She was born in the beginning of the thir­ teenth century when Viterbo was un­ der the oppressive domination of Fred­ erick II. of Germany. At the age of ten, clad in the habit of the Third Order of St. Francis, she preached in the public streets against the crimes of the monarch. The emperor banished not only the girl but the entire family. Still the work she had undertaken survived hel departure and the people of Viterbo rose as one man against their foreign oppressor and drove him from the town. When the empei'or died she returned triumphantly to her native city, and a few years after her death (May 8, 1261) she was canonized by the pope she had served and invoked by the party she had advocated. Pope Alexander IV., instructed by a vision for three nights in succession, went in procession to Viterbo fol­ lowed by all the cardinals and ex­ humed the body of the saint and trans- where It rested for several centuries. One night, a legend says, she rose from her grave when the chapel was on flre, rang the bell of warning for the people and quietly returned to her resting place. The people of Viterbo of to-day show as much devotion to the town's patron saint as their forefathers. The fes­ tivities In her honor last three days. A huge, heavy shrine, representing the saint, her miracles and the incidents from her life, is carried in procession by 50 of the strongest men of the town. The "Macchina of Santa Rosa," as the shrine is called, Is the most won­ derful contrivance of its kind, and as it winds through the narrow streets of Viterbo it overtops the houses and gives one the impression of a moving tower. Besides the procession, the feast of Santa Rosa is celebrated for its races, run through the narrow winding streets the same as in the middle ages. Perhaps Viterbo affords the only in­ stance in Italy in which the monu­ ments of the past are not In ruins and crumbling into dust, but are still serv­ ing the purpose for which originally they were intended. Thus, for ex­ ample, the papal palace is inhabited by the bishop and the conclave hall Is never empty, as here assemble at the noon hour the recipients of the bish­ op's charity Just as they used to do in the time of the Pope John XXI., who Is accused of lowering the dignity of the pontificate by conversing in a familiar way with people of humble origin. The knights and nobles have disap­ peared and only their houses remain, yet these are inhabited as of yore, and one has the illusion that the modern inhabitants of Viterbo are using them only provisionally until their original owners come back. One imagines that the town did not look different when it was emptied on the occasion of wars or the Crusades. It was empty then as now, its streets were silent and its ferred it to a newly built church, houses dull and dreary. DISCOVERED AT LAST. "I cannot marry you!" This highly original, but eminently conclusive, Baying was uttered by the young and strikingly handsome and fabulously wealthy heiress. "You cannot marry me!" exclaimed the suddenly disappointed lover, who, having nothing left but an automobile and an extra set of tires, had been courting her all these months with the utmost confidence of success. "Sure­ ly, darling, you cannot mean it. Why, you've been encouraging me right along. What is the reason?" "Reason enough. My ride with you yesterday through the streets of New York settled the matter." She drew herself up haughtily. "Wait!" he cried. "Did I not drive slowly? Was I not careful?" "Ah, yes! But you puffed smoke from your old machine into the faces of everyone. Now, any man who Is so inconsiderate of others, I feel quite certain, would make the worst of hus- j bands." Burying hig face in his hands, he osssed put (O meet his creditors "What's the use?" he guttered, bit­ terly. "She has found me out."--Life. A Curious Fact. Mrs. Vokes--Mrs. Crummer has a terrible cold just now. Mrs. Gilleland--How did she get it? Mrs. Vokes--By wearing a lined jacket. Mrs. Gilleland--Impossible! Mrs. Vokes--Not at all. She had to wear it open so that people could see the lining. Encouragement. "The enormous Bums you have ex­ pended on pictures must be a great encouragement to artists." "No," answered Mr. Cumrox. "Most of the artists concerned are no longer alive. But I have done much to cheer up the picture dealers."--Washington Star. The Trip. The world goes swiftly spinning on through space And, 'mongwt the passengers, the lucky chaps Ctet comfortable seats, each to his place; ""*• most of us are hanging to the Two Generations Have Seen. America Rise from Primitive Rurality^ In 1831 the American people were free, but they held in their hands the land-tools of slaves. They had to la­ bor and sweat in the fields with the crude Implements that had been pro­ duced by ages of slavery. For two generations the sickles, flails and wooden plows with which they had tried to build up a prosperous repub­ lic had held back agricultural progress. Let us try to reconstruct mentally the America of those days. Enterprise was not then a national characteristic. The few men who dared to suggest improvements were persecuted as enemies of society. The first iron plows were said to poison the soil. The first railroad was torn up. The first sewing machine was smashed. And the first man who sold coal in Philadelphia was chased from the state as a swindler. Even the railway was a dangerous toy. The telegraph was still a dream in the brain of Morse. John Deere had not invented his steel plow, nor Howe his sewing machine, nor Hoe his printing press. There were no stoves, nor matches nor oil lamps. Petroleum was peddled as a medicine at one dollar a bottle. Iron was $75 a ton. Money was about as reliable as mining stocks tc-day; and all the savings in all the banks would hot now buy the chickens in Iowa. The total exports amounted to no more than we paid last year for dia­ monds and champagne. Chicago was a 12-family village. There was no west nor middle west. Not one grain of wheat had been grown in Minne­ sota, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Colo­ rado, Kansas, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Oklahoma or Texas.--Everybody's. IS MUCH MONEY BEING RAISED FOR CHELSEA SUFFERERS. LOSS PUT AT $5,575,000 City Authorities Decide to Rebuild tha, Flame-Swept Area--(Compara­ tively Little Suffering Experienced. One on the Purser. Prosperity smiled on a certain man of Marthas Vineyard. Like all men, he Is in pursuit of happiness. So he hied him away to a neighboring city and purchased a fine automobile. Of course it had to be shipped to the island on the steamer. A few days after the arrival of the machine a friend of the proud owner went to Boston on business. When this friend arrived In New Bedford to take the steamer for the Vineyard somebody told the purser that the gentleman in question had brought down an automobile from Boston and asked him, the purser, if they had room on the steamer for the machine. "Ah," said the genial purser, "he has got an auto, eh? Well, well! When one of those two fellows gets anything the other fellow thinks he must have one too. We're pretty well filled up with freight," said he, "but I suppose we'll have to take it aboard." With that he gave orders to clear away the forward deck and make room for an automobile. A few moments after the above con­ versation Mr. appeared down the gang-plank with a toy automobile un­ der his arm, which he had purchased for his little boy who lives in Vine­ yard Haven.--Vineyard Gazette. Boston.--From the embers of Sun­ day's conflagration in Chelsea there arose Monday a well-organized move­ ment for aid and relief of the 10,000 homeless, a counting of the cost by In­ surance companies, whose representa­ tives placed their losses at three mil­ lions and a half, and a determination by the city authorities to rebuild the 350 acres swept by the flames where stood, before the flre, property valued at nearly $6,000,000. Jo further deaths were reported, of the injured persons taken to the various hospitals only two were believed to be in a critical condition. The three bodies which were taken to the morgue in Boston Sunday night remained unidentified. Revised figures Indicated that the losses were divided, according to the various classes of property destroyed, as follows: Churches and schools... 525^000 Public buildings 475,000 Factories, business blocks and jcontents 825,000 Dwelling houses 3,750,000 Total $5,575,000 The insurance of $3,500,000 is di­ vided among about 80 companies. There was comparatively little suf­ fering reported among the flre victims. So prompt and efficient was the relief "work that practically no one was with­ out shelter during the night. Monday the relief work was taken up by those who handled the Massachusetts fund for San Francisco sufferers. Early in the day Mayor Beck issued an appeal to the country, but after a conference with Acting Gov. Eben S. Draper, the appeal was amended so as to Include only the state. Announce­ ment was made that $39,238 had been raised by subscription in Boston be­ fore night. In addition, the city of Chelsea appropriated $10,000, and a resolve for $100,000 from the state was Introduced in the house of representa­ tives. Many nearby cities announced the starting of subscription papers. ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN. Ties Piled on Lackawanna Track Near Lowman, N. Y. The Moon and Mount Hood. Perching itself for a few moments on the very top of Mount Hood, the big, new moon illuminated that ma­ jestic peak so clearly that its mantle of glistening white, toned to a soft, yel­ low hue, could be distinguished plain­ ly from Portland and vicinity. Never before, say old-time Oregonians, has the moon been observed to scale the summit so fairly and with such perfect balance. The big, yellow disk appar­ ently could not have been more ac­ curately adjusted to the top of the mountain. And' as it passed on up­ ward the top of the mellow circle buried itself in a big black cloud, so that no great stretch of the imagina­ tion was required to fill in the pic­ ture of an eruption from the peaceful old mountain. From an artistic standpoint the spectacle was one tdPbe hoarded in the fond memory, and those who saw it may regard themselves as having been peculiarly fortunate. Every year the moon pays a visit to the big peak, but possibly not once in centuries would it climb to the precise central point on the summit and present a picture so perfect.--Portland Oregonian. But straps. --Wanhtngton 8taa The Modern Chef. The best calling for which youths can be trained is that of chef, asserts the Dundee Advertiser. Not only is it a well paid profession--£2,000 a year Is by no means uncommon In London hotels--but the gentlemen are permit­ ted to take pupils, and these pupils pay as much as £300 premium. This raises the gross salary to quite a rea­ sonable amount. Nor is the modern chef quite the figure our fancy paints, in cap and apron. On the contrary, he Is rather an administrative officer, who gives general instructions, looks after policy and big affairs on the larger scale. He may taste a flavoring, but he does not touch pastry, nor does he ever soil his hands by actual con­ tact with dishes. He is as far re­ moved from the menial side of his craft as a chief constable is from locking up a prisoner or the postmas­ ter general from the actual delivery of letters. It is 6ls business to study the science of the palate and, having done so, to see that others toll for the tickling. When the Little Turk Is Sick. If anything ails a Turkish child It is thought to be the "evil eye," and some old woman is called to breathe on it. If this remedy fails, the most celebrated sheik that can be found is sent for, and he breathes on it, at the same time placing on the child a charm made of garlic, alum and a verse of the Koran sewed up in little triangles of blue cloth, together with odd trinkets, such as small horse­ shoes, miniature hands, and so on. If all these wonderful things fail to cure, and if the child dies, the easy-going parents dry their tears, say it is kis­ met, and go on with their every-day duties as if nothing had happened. By kismet they mean what we call fate. "Whatever is to be will be," they say, and there's no use mourning about It. Her Trouble. Adam--What are you worrying about? Eve--I'm afraid these new fig leaves aren't going to wear walk Elmira, N. Y.--A desperate attempt was made Monday night to wreck a west-bound passenger train on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad near Lowman, seven miles east, by piling ties on the track. The train was running 60 miles an hour. The obstruction was on a curve and close to the river. The locomotive ground one of the ties to pieces and shoved the others along on the rails. When the train was stopped a similar obstruction was found on the east- bound tracks, where a freight train was due. Chattanooga, Tenn. -- Incendiaries set flre to the Southern railway bridge at Costanaula, Ga., about >20 miles be­ low Dalton Sunday, and but for the timely discovery on the part of a farmer, passengers on the early train might have been dashed to death. TO PRESERVE STREAM RIGHTS. President Sends in Veto Message on Power Privileges. Washington.--In a special message Monday vetoing a dam bill, President Roosevelt warned congress that there are pending in this session bills which propose to give away without price stream-rights capable of developing 1,300,000 horse-power whose produc­ tion would cost annually 25,000^000 tons of coal; urged In vigorous terms the establishment of a policy, such as the filibustering minority In the house demands, which would safeguard the granting of bridge and dam privileges and require the grantees to pay for them, and definitely announced a fu­ ture policy on his part with regard to prompt utilization of construction privileges, by refusing his signature to a bill giving an additional three years to the Rainy River Improve­ ment company within which te build a.dam in the Rainy river. Confess to Fake Robbery. Chilllcothe, Mo.--George Doel, night operator at the Milwaukee railroad station in Braymer, who was found bound and gagged in his office Friday morning and who reported that two robbers had thus secured hhn before robbing the company's cash drawer of $250, Monday confessed that he and a confederate had committed the rob­ bery The confederate, Charles Mi­ chaels, bound and gagged Doel after the robbery. Michaels also confessed and both are in Jail at Kingston. Historic Berlin thurch Burns. Berlin. -- The historic garrison church in the Neue Friedrichstrasse, dating from 1703, was completely burned out Monday night, together with numerous ancient regimental shot-torn flags carried in various wars, which decorated the central aisle of the church. Only one of these Dags was saved. Crown Prince Fred­ erick William, the commandant of the Berlin garrison, and the leading mili­ tary officers were in the enormeus crowd of spectators which witnessed the fire. # v Revolutionary 'Relics Burned. White Plains, N. Y.--The old Van Wart mansion at Youngs Corners was destroyed by flre Monday. The old mansion, the scene of a skirmish in the revolutionary war, contained many revolutionary relics and all of them were lost. Minister Merry'a Wife Dies. Stonington, Conn.--Mrs. Alethea Blanche Merry, wife of W. L. Merry. American minister to Costa Rica, died Monday at the home of her daughter of heart failure* Truth and m-i 'I*""' - ' ,'«V*V ~Qtta.tr . . . . . v ; - : , appeal to the Well-Informed la etwy walk of life and are essential to permanent success and creditable standing. Accor- ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figr ana Elixir of Senna is the only remedy of known value^ but one of many reasons why it is the best of personal and family laxatives is the fact that it cleanses, sweetens and relieves the internal organs on which it acts without any debilitating after effects and without having to increase the quantity from time to time. It acts pleasantly and naturally and truly as a laxative, and its component parts are known to and approved by physicians, as it is free from all objection­ able substances. To get its beneflcial effects always purchase the genuine- manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug­ gists. ' - "D® Gusti bus--" "Some men think that a good din­ ner is the only thing to be desired." "Yes, and there are some other men who think of a dinner as merely some­ thing to have a good smoke after." Important to Wothera. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy tor Infants and children, and see that It Bears the Signature of< In Use For Over 3Q Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought, His Great Fault. "Yes," said the would-be author, *Tye taken a home in the country, but It will be necessary for me to engage a gardener. There's quite a plot of ground around the house; too much for me'to handle." "Yes," replied Crlttlck, "you never could handle a plot, could you?"-- Catholic Standard and Times. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot rveea the seat ef tha disease. Catarrh In a blood or consti­ tutional disease, and In order to cure It you must internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken In­ ternally, and acts directly on the blood and mucoas surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cum Is not a quaefe medi­ cine. It was prescribed by one of the besi physician* In this country for years and Is a regular prescription. V5 COMPNS(,D of the best tonics known, combined With the best blood purifiers, acting directly on tbe mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients Is what produces such wonderful T»> •ults In curing catarrh. Send for testimonials, ftee. F.J. CHENEY & CO., Propi,. Toltds, Oi Sold by Druggists, price 75c. ' Take HaU'a Fimtiy pnis for ssasUfaUon. A Counter Stroke. A stylishly-dressed woman entered a Chinese laundry and paid for a laundered shirt "Why do you wear those 'rats,* I think you call them, in your hair?" in­ quired the Chinaman, who had an in» quisitive turn of mind. "Tush, Mr. John," replied his cuih tomer. "I always thought it was Chi­ nese etiquette not to talk about the things they like best." "The Oriental blinked his eyas aa tha lady passed out. Recommended His Wife. Irvin Cobb, humorist of New York, was recommended to a lecture man­ agement. The latter sought an Intro­ duction through a friend, Mr. McVeigh. "Come here, Irvin, I want you to meet a friend of mine," said McVeigh. After a few minutes' conversation, the lecture man broached the subject of lecturing as follows: was Just wondering, Mr. Cobb, what you would think of a proposition to do some lecture work next sea­ son?" Cobb looked at his questioner for just a moment in blank amazement. Evidently such a thought had never entered his head before. Then reach­ ing out his hand confidentially, he said: "I've got it. My wife Will do it. She Is the best one I know."--Lyceum and Talent. REPARTEE. ft Younger--I wonder if I shall lose my looks, too, when I am your age? • Elder--You'll be lucky if you do. LOST $300. Buying Medicine When Right Food Waa Needed. Money spent for "tonics" and "bracK ers" to relieve indigestion, while the poor old stomach is loaded with pasr try and pork, is worse than losing a pocketbook containing the money. If the money only is lost it's bad enough, but with lost health from wrong eating, it is hard to make the money back. A Mich, young lady lost money oa drugs but is thankful she found a way to get back her health by prop* food. She writes: "I had been a victim of nervous dye- pepsia for six years and spent three hundred dollars for treatment in the attempt to get well. None of it did me any good. "Finally I tried Grape-Nuts food, and the results were such that, if it cost a dollar a package, I would not be without It. My ^rouble had been caused by eating rich food such aa pastry and pork. "The most wonderful thing that ever happened to me, I am sure, waa the change in my condition after I began to eat Grape-Nuts. I began to Improve at once and the first week gained four pounds. "I feel that I cannot express my­ self in terms that are worthy of the benefit Grape-Nuts has brought tc me, and you are perfectly free t* publish this letter if it will send soma poor sufferer relief, such aa has come to me." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road to Watt- •ille," ir pkgs. "There's a Reason.* ' v.*