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lie McHenry Plaindealer by F. <L 8CHREINER. MoHENRT. . ILLINOIS. Pushing a lawn mower Is the oppo­ site extreme from Joy riding. BasebaU slang in Japanese must bfe something weird and appalling. Herewith approaches the joyous sea­ son when a man's keys rust In his pockets. No mail is a hero to his valet, and no *natinee idol is a hero to the leach ing lady. A violoncellist was dismissed from a New York show because she would not kiss a man--in public. 0!AZ FLEES MEXICO FEEBLE FROM ILLNES8 FORMER RULER OF REPUBLIC BE­ COMES A FUGITIVE. SPAIN IS TO BE HIS HAVEN Accompanied by Few Friends Fallen Chief Creeps Secretly from Palace and Starts for Vera Cruz--Madero Resigns Provisional Presidency. The Russian scientist who says rabies can be cured by eating beetles fails to announce a cure for eating beetles. "An Ithaca (N. Y.) doctor wishes to have placed in every public school the statue of a perfect man." Married or Bingle? A bottle containing a one dollar bill was carried 300 miles by sea. But it didn't get within reaching distance of New York. Reserve a few swats for the mos­ quitoes that are coming, although all well-directed ones should be applied to house flies. A Missouri judge rules that it is lawful for a man to spank his wife. So, also, is it lawful for him to thaw out dynamite. An Ohio, couple have parted because the wife likes Paris, while the hus­ band prefers Cincinnati. And again the eagle screams. A California man who has lived for eight years on nothing but milk has gone insane. Some milk would have doneVthe job in half that time. The directors of the Panama exposi­ tion are offering a prize of $1,000 for a rose. Now, then, you amateur gar­ deners, here's a chance. Get busy. A $100,000 chair is to be endowed In a western university for the study of psychic phenomena. This ought to give the spirits a ghost of a chance. Now some one has started an Idea 1n England that all meii should wear •hlskers because the king sets the fashion. Still he isn't so handsome. A Brooklyn woman who sued a man lor kissing her has secured damages In the amount of six cents. The man 4*ho got the kiss ^aust feel pretty cheap. Another aviator has come to an un­ timely end, but there will be twenty foolhardy young men ready to take his place. Aviation, in spite of its fatal­ ities, has come to stay. The latest fashion prevailing among the women of the Berlin aristocracy is tto have their portraits painted while they sleep. A rare opportunity to catch the lips in repose. It Is hinted that several of the an­ tique books sold at the Hoe sale were not genuine. We have no doubt, how­ ever, that they will make just as good reading as the originals. A western nature wizard has been graft ̂ ig alfalfa roots on strawberry plants. Now( the blame laid on the early imported strawberry can be placed where it belongs. Mexico City.--Porfirio Dial, for whom during thirty years all Mexico has stood to one side, hat in hand, stole from the capital with the great­ est of secrecy and. with a few de­ voted friends whom he dared trust, started for Vera Cruz. The blood poison and the fever that had kept Diaz a prisoner in the na­ tional palace are not abated. But there Is torture more pungent than that of the body. Diaz, still president and still hoping against hope that he would be able to resist the demand for his resignation, could not be con­ quered by mere physical pain. But Diaz desposed is Diaz broken in spir- j it, unable to witness the triumph of his enemies. So on the day following his resigna­ tion, with the cheers for his succes­ sors De la Barra and Madero, the former just taking the oath as pro­ visional president ringing through the streets, he crept like a badger evicted from his hole, out Into the country, slowly, sorrowfully away. Only Senora Diaz and a few of the ultra-faithful accompany the former president. As understood here the party will go to Vera Cruz and em­ bark there as exiles for Spain. Diaz had hoped, at least to end his days in Mexico. Madero declared with Diaz in the country permanent pei.ee would not be possible. So he is gone from a wondering people never to return. In Mexico City the feeling is one of relief tinged with Just a bit of sorrow. The country is free--free as it never has been before in all its history. But with all his tyranny, even the most radical patriot is compelled to admit, now he is gone, that Diaz accom­ plished a great work in Mexico. El Paso, Mex.--Francisco I. Madero, lnsurrecto president of Mexico, re­ signed following the resignation of Porfirio Diaz as president of Mex­ ico. He issued a manifesto renounc­ ing the title of president of the pro­ visional govenment and explaining the peace terms reached between himself and the federals. He ex­ presses the utmost confidence In Francisco de la Barra while he holds the office of temporary president, and says the lnsurrecto troops are at the disposal of De la Barra in enforcing peace. Madero said he did not enforce all demands that he and his party de­ clared for at San Luis Potosi last November, when he said all governors must be swept aside because he had a chance now to get peace by accept­ ing more than half the governorships and he considered this agreeable, and especially since the resignations of Diaz and Corral have been tendered and new elections were assured. Asked If he would announce his candidacy for the presidency of Mex­ ico Madero said that he would not; that such a thing was not considered proper in -his country, but his friends would advance his name at the proper time. The inauguration of De la Barra as provisional president was a brief af­ fair, occupying only ten minutes. DENY PARDON. PLEAS TAFT REFUSE8*TO FREE WALSH AND MORSE FROM PRISON. AFTER THE WEATHER MAN *, / GRANT GUILTY OF HERESY A woman's stocking rips and nhs loses $2 ,000 worth of diamonds. After reading, or, rather, viewing the "ads" In the popular magazines the occur­ rence would seem impossible. A Philadelphia cook on being dis­ charged is said to have tried to poison the whole family. She might have had 4s deadly revenge by staying on and continuing to cook for them. Presbyterian Pastor is Ordered Abandon Ministry Until He Corrects His Errors. to Most women fall in love with dare­ devil men, declares a western college professor. That's the reason why men •who are not afraid to be seen pushing a baby carriage on the street are mar­ ried. A Philadelphia woman threw a veil over a marble Cupid the other day •and threatened to prosecute the own- -er. We have no doubt that the lady was modest enough to utter veiled •threats. Three discoveries of April 26, 1911, are the cure of rheumatism by re- •moval of the tonsils, the prevention of hydrophobia by eating a beetle and the restoration of speech and hearing by being hit by an automobile. All are practical. The frequency of explosions in a ^ quarry flanking a larmyard near Tar- rytown led the ducks to save their hearing by covering their ears with their webbed feet. The mule was the most pronounced failure among the Imitators, Atlantic City, N. J--Rev. Dr. Wil­ liam D. Grant of Northumberland, Pa., has been found guilty of heresy ' y the commission which heard the charges made against him. The commission reported its find­ ings to the Presbyterian General As­ sembly. The commission found ttiat Doctor Grant "taught doctrines contrary to the word of God in the Bible and the Presbyterian confession of faith." He is held to be guilty under the rules of the Presbyterian book of discipline and the commission recommends that he be suspended from exercising the functions of a mlnifter until such time as "he can convince his own presby­ tery--that of Northumberland--that he has renounced the errors he has been found to hold and to satisfy the presbytery of his purpose no longer to teach them." A motion to adopt the report and confirm the Judgment *>f the commis­ sion was put to a vote in the assem­ bly and was carried overwhelmingly without debate. There were only a few scattered "noes." A Cincinnati veteran has been lay­ ing away a dime a month ever since Lincoln died, and this month he will spend the accumulation, nearly $250, in entertaining the members of his old regiment on the 50th anniversary of their enlistment. This will be one of the odd celebrations of the semi-cen­ tennial of the war' The word has gone f o r t h that the hobble skirt is doomed and that fash- Ion will forsake the straight and nar­ row path. Big Meteor Rocks Earth. Doyle, Cal.--The fall of a giant meteor caused consternation through­ out Lassen county. When the missile struck Tule mountain the shock was felt for thirty miles, causing the earth to tremble as if from a quake. Declare* Men Guilty of "Breach of Trust Must Be Punished Under the National Banking Act. Washington.--The petitions for par­ dons of John R. Walsh and Charkes V. Morse of New York,, both serving sentences in the federal prison for violating the banking laws, were de­ nied by President Taft. Walsh is now confined in the peni­ tentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. On January 19, 1910, he began serving a five-year sentence and, under the pro­ visions of the new parole law, he will be eligible for freedom in the middle of September of this year. The decisions were hajided down by the president and followed a lengthy conference with Attorney General Wlckersham. In both cases he fol­ lowed the'recommendati^hs of th<^ at­ torney general. * President Taft's action in the Walsh case was based strictly on a close analysis of the facts contained in the records. Declaring that a man who uses the funds of a bank to promote his private interests in such a manner that he is guilty of a fraudulent breach of trust must be punished un­ der the national banking act, the president swept aside the reasons ad­ vanced by Walsh and the thousands who petitioned for his pardon. In denying the application of Charles V. Morse, who is now serving a sentence of 15 years in the peniten­ tiary at Atlanta, Ga., where he was sent on January 3, 1910, the president characterizes his request as prema­ ture, and accordingly he gives the New York banker the privilege -of re­ newing it after January 1, 1913. The president denies Morse's appli­ cation for the same reason given in the Walsh case, after declaring that "the methods taken by Morse tend to show that more keenly than Walsh did he realize the evil of what he was doing." HINES IN GENERAL DENIAL Tells Lumbermen's Association He Is Not Guilty of Charges Made in Lorimer Case. Chicago.--"I absolutely and unquali­ fiedly deny these chargss. I have no apology to make for my conduct At the proper time and in the proper procedure I shall vindicate myself and confound my traducers." In those words Edward Hlnes, mil­ lionaire lumberman, made a voluntary defense against the charges that he "put Lorimer over" at a cost of $100,- 000. He spoke as he opened the ninth annual convention of the National Lumber Manufacturers' association In the Congress hotel. Of the 200 or more lumbermen pres­ ent more than half applauded vigor­ ously when the president made his statement, which was not a part of the set annual address he had prepared. Mr. Hlnes said thrt at some time in the future he would insit1 on a full and thorough in restlgation before' a tribunal that "will not be a mere tool of politics and a grotesque travesty on Justice and on law." NEW BATTLESHIP IS AFLOAT Dreadnought Wyoming Is Launched at Philadelphia and Is Christened by Miss Dorothy Knight. Philadelphia. -- The United States battleship Wyoming, unsurpassed by any fighting vessel in the world, was launched at the Cramp shipyards, and a6 she slid down the ways into the water Mlsa Dorothy Knight, daughter of former Supreme Court Judge Jesse Knight of Wyom­ ing, hurled a magnum of Champagne at the bow and cried: "Go, brave ship: I christen thee Wyoming." Standing with Miss Knight were dig­ nitaries ^from Washington, a scatter­ ing of society folk from Washington and Philadelphia, and representatives of the state of Wyoming and other states in the Union. KIDNAPERS SENT TO PRISON Men Who Stole Rogers Baby In Las Vegas, N. M., Are Given Heavy Penalties. Las Vegas, N. M.--Judge J. C. Roberts of the district court pro­ nounced sentence on Will Rogers and Joe Wiggins, confessed kidnapers of Baby Waldo Rogers on March 29 last. Rogers received five to twelve years in the penitentiary and Wiggins seven to twelve years. Senate After OH Heads. Washington.--Information as to what steps had been taken for the criminal prosecution of the officers of the Standard Oil company under the recent decision of the Supreme court was demanded of the attorney general by the senate, which adopted without debate a resolution of inquiry of­ fered by Senator Pomerene. Digs for the Gold of Captain Kldd. Boston ^-Under the gray walls of Fort Independent on Castle island, now one of Boston's most popular parks, a treasure hunting expedition, by permission of the park commis­ sioners, is seeking Captain Kidd's gold. The small Spanish town which has proclaimed a republic evidently has the courage of its convictions to a remarkable degree. It has caught 4aome of the Yankee spirit which Euro- ' pean nations so fear, if it Is prepared to stand up and whip the rest of the v nation. It sounds like an impudent 4 black-and-tan defying with a shtfU * his bulldog. Theater Man Guilty. St. Louis.--William Garen, former manager of Havlin's theater, pleaded guilty to embezzling $22,000 of the theater's funds, and was sentenced to serve five years in the penitentiary, but was paroled. Mother and Son Lynched. Ohema, Okla.--Laura Nelson, ne- gress, and her son, sixteen years old, •were lynched here. They shot Deputy Sheriff George H. Loney, who tried to search their shanty for stolen goods. » Von Phul Verdict Found. Denver, Colo.--After examining five witnesses the coroner's Jury in the Inquest Into the death of the late S. L. ("Tony") Von Phul, the balloonist of 8t. Louis, returned a verdict that Von Phul cape to his death from "gun­ shot wounds inflicted by Harold 8. Henwood, with felonious intent." Retired Officer Dies. San Antonio, Tex.--Brig. 6en. John L. Bullls, U. S. A., retired, died at the post hospital at Fort Sam Houston following a stfoke of apoplexy. a i'm \ J Wfswsii, Britons Beat Belgian Crew. Ghent, Belgium.--The eight-oared race between the Ghent Rowing club and >esus college, Cambridge, on the Terneuzen canal, resulted in a victory for the Englishmen. The distance was one mile and 555 yards. Wills Liquors to 8on. Boston.--Mrs. Grace R. Shaw, a prominent Boston woman, in a will filed for probate here, bequeaths her stock of wines and other liquors and her clothes to her son, and 9&&.000 to Harvard university. The house of representatives has appointed a committee of seven mem­ bers from, various states to investigate the weather bureau of the Depart- ment of Agriculture. It is said that the farmers are complaining of the re­ ports of the Weather Man as "faulty, inaccurate and otherwise objection­ able." They even intimate that wet" predictions are usually followed by dry weather and vice versa, and that the "fair" weather promised is apt te turn out stormy.--Washington News Item. ' SAYS COLLEAGUES ON SUPREME COURT TELL STANDARD IT MAY MAKE NEW PACT. PREDICTS MUCH LITIGATION Formal Dissenting Ruling Declares Business May Be Brought Near Chaos--Censures Tribunal for Per­ mitting New'Arguments. Washington. -- Associate Justice John M. Harlan, in his formal dissenting opinion, filed here, charac­ terized the assenting opinion given in the Standard Oil case as "a blow at the Integrity of our government sys­ tem that in the end will prove most dangerous to all." "The disposition of the case under consideration, according to the views of the defendants, will, it is claimed, quiet and give rest to .'the business of the country.' On the contrary, I have a strong conviction that It will throw the business of the country into con­ fusion and invite widely extended and harrassing litigation, the injurious effects of which will be felt for many years to come. When congress pro­ hibited every contract, combination or monopoly restraint of commerce It prescribed a simple, definite rule that all could understand and could be eas­ ily applied by everyone wishing to obey the law and not to conduct their business in violation of law. "But now It is to be feared we are to have, in cases without number, the constantly recurring Inquiry--difficult to Bolve by proofs--whether the par­ ticular contract, combination or trust involved in each case is or Is not an 'unreasonable' or 'undue' restraint of trade." "There are some who say that it la a part of one's liberty to conduct com­ merce among the states without being subject to governmental authority. But that would not be liberty, regula­ ted by law, and liberty which cannot be regulated by law is not to be de­ sired. The supreme law of the land, which is blmling alike upon all--upon presidents, congress, the courts and people--gives to congress, and to con­ gress alone, authority to regulate in­ terstate commerce, and when con­ gress forbids any restraint of such commerce in any form all must obey Its mandate. To overreach the action of congress merely by judicial con­ struction, that is, by indirection, is a blow at the Integrity of our govern­ mental system, and in the end will prove most dangerous to all." Name 50 More Depositories. Washington. -- Fifty additional postal depositories were desig­ nated by Postmaster General Hitch­ cock, making the total number an­ nounced to this date 276. The de­ positories designated today, all second class, will begin operations on June 25, 1911. Among them are Kewanee, 111.; St. Charles, 111.; Harlan, la.; Wy­ andotte, Mich.; Negaunee, Mich.; Clo- quet, Minn.; Stoughton, Wis.; Antlgo, Wis.; Merrill, Wis. Editor Bound Over. Columbus, O.--Editor E. E. Cook and Attorney Charles J. Pretzman were bound over to the grand jury In the sum of $500, charged with refus­ ing to testify before the committee In the senatorial bribery charges. WISCONSIN A MODEL ROOSEVELT 8AYS STATE 18 OB­ JECT LESSON FOR UNION. Colonel Lauds Work Accomplished In Social Economics and Govern­ mental Affairs. New York. -- "Wisconsin; An Object Lesson for the Rest of the Union," is the caption of an article in the Outlook from the pen of ex-Presi­ dent Theodore Roosevelt. Among other things, the colonel says: "I doubt whether American students of social economics fully realize the extraordinary work accomplished dur­ ing the last decade, and now being ac- ccmplished in the state of Wisconsin under the lead of Senator La Follette and the group of entirely practical and at the same time zealously en­ thusiastic workers who have come into active control of the state mainly or largely because of the lead he has given them. t "We can now, at least in many caBes, look for leadership to Wiscon­ sin when we desire to try to soltfe the great social and industrial problems of the present and the future, instead of being forced always to look abroad. It is noteworthy that in Wisconsin when one speaks of sach leadership it is possible to include therein the stu­ dent as well as the political leader. In no other state in the Union has any university done the same work for the community that has been done in Wisconsin by the University of Wis­ consin. "It is only in Wisconsin, so far as I know, that a really serious and thor­ ough effort Is making to find out how to frame measures which shall give the people effective control over the big corporations without going Into wild extravagances, and in this effort politician and student have joined hands. Again, i found the legislators grappling with the question of work- ingmen's compensation. . . . They were engaged in considering the in­ troduction into the state political sys­ tem of the initiative, referendum and recall,. . . . "What they were considering in each case were the probable practical results of the measure, what It would do for good, what it would do for evil, and how in actual pr&ctice it should be guarded and so applied as to make 'it likely that It would secure the maxi­ mum of good at the cost of the mini­ mum of evil. "After my visit I felt like congratu­ lating Wisconsin upon what It had done and was doing, and I felt much more like congratulating the country as a whole because It has in the state of Wisconsin a pioneer blazing the way along which we Americdns must make our civic and Industrial advance during the next few decades." Steamer Sinks; 100 Saved. Panama.--Late advices state that all of the 100 passengers of the steam­ ship Taboga, wrecked off Punta Cam- butal, were saved. The * vessel be­ longed to the National Navigation company and was bound for Panama from a coastwise trip. Boy Toller 8aves 8wimmer. Webb City, Mo.--Luther Burns, nina years old, was drowned, but Edward Helm, eight years old, was saved from like fate by *•' heroism of Johnny Simpson, thirteen years old, in a mill pond at Prosperity. 8ubmits New Trust Bill. Washington.--A bill declaring "ev­ ery contract, conspiracy or combina­ tion In restraint of trade" illegal and imposing heavy penalties on officers connected with them and branding violations as felonies has been intro­ duced by Representative Smith of Illinois. $100,000 to Children. Paris.--The will of Georges Eugene Bertin, who died at Tunis December 22 last, bequeaths $100,000 to the Chil­ dren's Seashore house of New Jersey. Reinstates Expelled Students. Ada, O.--Four of the nine students who were expelled from the Ohio Northern university because of a prize fight, were reinstated by President A. E. Smith, following a strike of 800 students. He announced that the other five would not be reinstated. Direct Vote on June 12. Washington.--By unanimous con­ sent, Senator Borah got the consent of the senate to have a final vote on the resolution for the direct election of United States senators on June 12. TRUST SECRLTS OUT IN81DE HISTORY OF 8. STEEL CORPORATION TOLD BY J. W. GATES. BARES FORMING OF COMBINE Organized Because Morgan Feared That Carnegie Would Invade Rail> road Field and to Throttle Competition. MP ̂ Sliced ̂* Dried Beef Old Hickory Sm#ftt*d IMk fti/lhosrt- fm*mm fM |\ In mUibB Jan at your meets A*k far Uhhis'* JmsSs. Mrs. Love Wins Divorce. White Plains, N. Y.--Mrs. Marjorie Burnes Love was granted an inter­ locutory decree of divorce from her husband, Sidney C. Love, a former New Tork and Chicago broker, by Supreme Court Justice Martin J. Keosch fn chambers here. The testi­ mony will not be made public. Blast Kills Four in Mine. Hlbbing, Minn.--Four men were blown th pieces in the Sellers, an open pit mire. The head of one man was hurled fifty feet up on the bank. Washington.--John W. Gates gave to the house "steel trust" investigat­ ing committee the history of 'the United States Steel corporation. Present at the birth of the greatest Steel manufacturing concern in ' the world, he described how it was the natural outcome of what he described as the refusal of Andrew Carnegie to be bound by the "gentlemen's agree­ ments" that marked the early days of open competition in the steel business. He told also of millions lost and created almost in h breath; how the Carnegie mills, appraised at $150,000,- 000, were recognized as worth $320,- 000,000 almost within the time re­ quired to make the transfer to the cor­ poration; the grim clash in the fori^i- tive days when John D. Rockefeller was dissuaded from joining in the formation of the corporation and the manner in which others were pre­ vented from engaging in the steel trade. Relating how Carnegie had been forced to abandon plans for extending his steel business, Mr. Gates frankly admitted that the gigantic industrial combination was formed to throttle competition, and he surprised the com­ mittee with the further information that when John D. Rockefeller had saught to enter the steel business a deal had been put through by which the Standard Oil magnate was forced to sell out for 40 cents on the dollar. Characterizing Mr. Carnegie as "a bull in a china shop," Mr. Gates told of a ihidnlght conference between himself, Charles M. Schwab and J. Plerpont Morgan, at which the steel corporation was conceived, and how it resulted In Carnegie getting $320,- 000,000 in the corporation's securities for his steel Interests, which he pre­ viously had offered for $160,000,000 In cash. , Mr. Gates also told the committee of the taking over of the Tennesseee Coal and Iron company by the United States Steel corporation during the panic of 1907, a deal In which he was Interested as a stockholder of the Tennessee company. This, he de­ clared, was a forced transaction car­ ried out by Mr. Morgan and other financial leaders to savAfrom ruin the Trust Company of America, threatened In the financial upheaval, because it had loaned too much money on stock of the Tennessee company. < Plans made by Mr. Carnegie in 1899 and 1900 to circle his steel interests with a railroad of his own and to com­ pete with the National Tube company Just organized by Mr. Morgan by the erection of tube works at Ashtabula, O., were the factors that led to the birth of the steel combine. The story of the negotiations which led up to the combination was entertainingly told by Mr. Gates. He revealed how Mr. Morgan, alarmed by Mr. Carnegie's plans, had sought the advice of hiniself and James J. Hill; how Mr. Schwab, who he said was the only man who had in­ fluence with Mr. Carnegie, was called in to suggest a way to "stop Carnegie" and how the latter was curbed in his purpose, though greatly to his finan­ cial gain. He explained that the steel busi­ ness was threatened with several demoralizing forces when Carnegie's plans became known and that Mr. Morgan and others became alarmed, fearing Carnegie would demoralize both railroad interests and steel prices. This was the situation as described by Mr. Gates When Mr. Morgan sent word to him through James J. Hill seeking a copference to determine what could be done. Mr. Gates said he told Morgan that Mr. Schwab was the one man who could influence Mr. Carnegie. Out of that came an all- night conference at Mr. Morgan's New York home, the outcome of which was the United States Steel corporation. John D. Rockefeller's name came up In the hearing when Mr. Gates was describing Mr. Carnegie's desire to branch out after the organization of the National Tube company. "John D. Rockefeller," he said, "once started a steel mill and threat­ ened to put us out of business. That did not last long. A deal was made whereby Rockefeller's steel interests were bought out at 40 cents on the dollar." Mr. Gates answered with candor nearly every question put to him by the members of the committee, but stirred them somewhat when he de­ clined to state what he thought was the value of the common stock of the steel corporation. America Honors Tom Moore. Washington.--A bust of Thomas Moore, the great Irish poet, was un­ veiled in the Corcoran art gallery In honor of the one hundred and thirty- second anniversary of his birth. Champ Clark and Bourke Cockran de­ livered addresses. Kills Wife Who Left Him. Peoria, 111.--Because his wife re­ fused to live with him George Lash went to the house where she was re­ siding and shot Mrs. Lash through the heart, killing her. He then escaped. Army to Use Woolen. Washington.--To save $500,000 year­ ly the war department has decided to clothe the army in woolen instead of worsted uniform. The woolen manu­ facturers have been invited to send samples of olive drab cloths. 8eventeen-Year Locusts Arriving. Washington.--Seventeen-year locusts •re said to be due to ravage vegeta­ tion in the eastern states this sum­ mer. The vanguard of the invaders to reported to have appeared in Alex* andria county, Virginia. WWW FBIWK 1 ABOUT THE Hi© GRANDE VALLEY Mercedes and San Benito, Tolas, are located In one of the most prosperous and rl(ilicst farming ooun- tries of the United States. Fl nest irsigatloh systems in the State, where larmere mako3 cropsa year8ont- tings of alfalfa, 2 crops of corn and potato©* where frost is very rare, oranges, grape fruit and all yan- eties of California fruits grow, and in a country where poultry raising is a success. For furtherin- formation, booklets and views writethe Valley Land Company, OIBCBOTM farmers JTEHIK "an Benito, Tax. office at Mercedes, Tex**, fSsmiM or tc"gH-h B& I r^OCRHAjPiir®# .fcib, a good • llfcilii It will bring yon mere money. Send lor Catalog. P. K. DEDERICK'S SONS 100 Tivoli St, Albany, N. Y. DRAWING HIM ON. Edith--What would you do If I at­ tempted to run away and leave you here-in the parlor alone? Ernest--Why, I--er--would try to catch and hold you. Edith--Well, get ready then, I'm going to attempt It. The Passing of the Wife. We have known for some time that the wife Would have to go. We have held off as long as possible the in­ evitable moment, but it might Just as well be over with at once. The wife was a very desirable sr- ticle while she lasted. She mended the hose and did the housework when necessary and sat up patiently and walte^. for hubby's return. A useful person certainly--one to love, to hon­ or and obey. Now the suffragette age is upon us and the wife Is rapidly becoming ex­ tinct, says Life. In a few more years she will be ex­ hibited in museums. Adieu, madam! We respect your memory! MENTAL ACCURACY Greatly Improved by Leaving OfTCoffM The manager of an extensive cream­ ery in Wis. states that while a regu­ lar coffee drinker, he found it injuri­ ous to his health and a hindrance to the performance of his business du­ ties. "It impaired my digestion, gave me a distressing sense of fullness In the region of the stomach, causing a most painful and disquieting palpitation of the heart, and what is worse, it mud­ dled my mental faculties so as to seri­ ously injure my business efficiency. "I finally concluded that something would have to be done. I quit the use of coffee, short off, and began to drink Postum. The cook didn't make It rfght at first. She didn't boll It long enough, and I did not find it palatable and quit using it and went back to cof­ fee and to the stomach trouble again. "Then my wife took the matter in hand, and by following the directions on the box, faithfully, she had me drinking Postum for several days be- for I knew 1L "When I happened to remark that I was feeling much better than I had for a long time, she told me that I had been drinking Postum, and that accounted for it. Now we have n% coffee on our table. "My digestion has been restored, and with this Improvement has^ome relief from the oppressive sense of fullness and palpitation of the heart that used to bother me so. I note such ft gain In mental strength and acute- ness that I can attend to my office work with ease and pleasure and with­ out making the mistakes that were so annoying to tne while I was using soffee. "Postum Is the greatest table drink of the times. In my humble estima­ tion." Name given by Postum Co* Battle Creek, Mich./ Read the little book, "The Road t» Wellville," In pkgs "There's a reason." Ei er rend the above letter? A Me appears from time to tlM !*•> are gmulie, true, «•< fall *f kuMS «!?• f irf'