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‘. THE CZAR IN PROVERB. His Power and His Limitations. His Luck, In a recent number of The Paris Figaro were found collated some characteristic Russian proverbs that regard the Czar and his position, and find much current application: "When the Czar spits into a dish, it breaks into pieces for very pride.” "The crown does not protect the Czar from headache.” "Even the lungs of the Czar can- not blow out the sun.” “The Czar’s back, too, would bleed if it were gashed with the knout.”~ “The Czar even covered with boils is declared to be in good health.” .“When the Czar rides behind a tired horse every step is charged as a league.” “The Czar may be a. cousin of _God, but His brother he is not.” “The Czar’s .arm is long, but it cannot reach to heaven.” “Neither can the Czar’s vinegar make anything SWeet.” “The hand of the Czar, too, only, five fingers.” "The voice of the Czar has an echo even when there are no mounâ€" tains in the vicinity.” "The troika (team of three horses abreast) of the Czar leave a. deep trace behind it.” “It is no more difficult for Death to carry a fat Czar than to carry a lean beggar.” ' “The tear in the eye of the Czar costs his country many, many a handkerchief.” "When_ the Czar writes versesâ€"woe he to the poet!” . ' “When the Czar plays, his minis- ters have only one eye and the coun- trymen are blind.” “What the Czar cannot accomplish time can do." “Even the Czar's cow cannot bring anything else into the world but a calf." "When the Czar has the smallpox his country bears the scars.” +___._ It will take a lot of nerve for some Christians to stand up and look over their lives at last and hear the judge say: ‘fWell done, good and faithful servant!” TI-IE TRICKS. Coffee Plays on Some. .._.__ has It hardly pays to laugh before you are certain of facts, for.it is someâ€" times humiliating to think of after- wards. “When I was a young girl I was a lover of coffee, but was sick so much the doctor told me to quit, and I did, but after my marriage my husband begged me to drink it again, as he did not think it was the coffee caused the troubles. “So I commenced it again and continued about six months until my stomach commenced acting bad and choking as if I had sWalloWed something the size of an egg. One doctor, said it was neuralgia and indigestion , "'One (lay I took a drive with my husband three miles in the country, and I drank a cup of coffee for dinâ€"- her. I thought sure I would die before I got back to town to a doc- tor. I was drawn double in the bugâ€" gy, and when my husband hitched the horse to get me out into the doctor's office, misery came up in my throat and seemed to shut - my breath off entirely, then left all in a flash and went to my heart. The doctor pronounced it nervous heart trouble, and when I so weak I could not sit up. "My husband brought my supper to my bedside with a nice cup. of hot coffee, but I said: ‘Take that back, dear, I will, neVer drink an- other cup of coffee if you gave me everything you are worth, for it is just killing me.’ He and the others laughed at me and said: “ ‘The idea of coffee killing body! “ ‘Well.’ I said, ‘it is nothing else but coffee that is doing it.’ “In the grocery one day my hus- band was persuaded to buy a. box of Postum, which he brought home, and I made it for dinner, and we both thought how good it was, but said nothing to the hired men and they thought they had drank coffee until we laughed and told them. Well we 'kept on with Postum and it was not .long before the color came back to a nyâ€" .«my cheeks, and I got stout and felt ,as good as I ever did in my life. I have no more stomach trouble, and I ‘know I owa it all to Postum in place of coffee. "My husband has gained good ‘nealth on l‘ostum, as Well as baby and T, and we all think nothing is too good to say about it." Name given bv Postum (70., Battle Creek, M i ':h . leading an open-air life. got home I was. THIE OPENâ€"AIR TREATMENT. The advantages of the open-air treatment for consumptiv’es may be thus briefly summarized: The patient exposed continuously to fresh air gains in appetite, assimilates his food better, sleeps more soundly and . awakens more refreshed, writes Dr. H. W. G. Mackenzie. Free exposure to air is the best autipyretic. Sweat- ing at night, formerly so common a symptom, usually ceases. Colds are practically unknown among patients Secondary infection, on account of the comparaâ€" tive freedom of the air from micro- organisms, is much less likely to oc- cur. Tolerance of outside air is very quickly established, and no one who has tried the open~air life will wil- lineg go back to the former condi- tions of stufliness. I have never seen any one made worse by-cxposure to fresh air. Even during a thick London fog patients .get on better lying in bed on a balcony or in rooms with windows wide open and a good fire burning than when at- tempts are made to shut out the fog by keeping the windows shut. + THE POSTMASTER TELLS ms SECRET HIS HEALTH MAINLY DUE TO THE USE OF DODD’S KIDNEY PILLS. ‘ Postmaster Lee Looks Ten Years Younger :Than His Seventy-Six Years and He Gives the Credit to the Great Canadian Kidney Remedy. Tabucintac, Cumberland 00., N13,, March 13-â€"(Special).-â€"â€"Horatio J. Lee, postmaster here, is now in his seventyâ€"sixth year, but so bright and healthy does he look and so encr- getic is he in his movements that he would easily pass for ten years younger. “How do I keep young looking,” the postmaster says. “Well I atâ€" tribute it largely to my good health and my health is mainly due to the use of Dodd’s Kidney l’ills. “I first learned the value of this Kidney Remedy some years ago. I was then suffering from Kidney 'Dis- ease. My feet and legs swelled and I had to rise eight cr ten times in the night because of urinary trouâ€" blr-s. Six boxes of Dodd’s 'Kidney Pills restored my health at that time and I have used them at intervals since. "To anyone afflicted, with Kidney Trouble I say ‘Dodd’s Kidney -Pills are all right.’ Try them and you will be sure to find a benefit.” + SENTENCE SERMONS . joy unshared is always 'A short lived. Peace on earth waits for the peace from heaven. There will be good will in all when God’s will is over all. You cannot touch men as long as you think of them as masses. The man who suspects everybody is surely a suspicious character. 'Ihmning in old ruts may be risle than blazing new trails. The man who sows nothing always reaps something a good deal worse. You can’t expect a, nickle's worth of religion to last you over Monday. more en are the transplanted sorrows of earth. It is easy to preach on the benefits wagon. deor. There’s something wrong to profanity. ter is on him. your best corn. often only our richest treasure train. ._.......___+.._.__.._.. GIVING HIS NAME. At an auction recently, when an article was knocked down to the highest bidder, the clerk called out, “What name, please?” And a small man with a small voice answered, “It’s me." ' “I know it’s you, but will you clerk. The same answer came back in the same apologizing tones, “It’s me.” Getting angry, the young man with the book shouted, ‘:Supposing you are a foundling, surely in a Christi- an country they called you some- thingâ€"Street, Brown, Jon-es, Robin- sonlâ€"We can't waitâ€"hurry up!" Still the Weak voice replied. "It’s me.” ‘ . ~ I r ' . At last the auctioneer remonslratâ€" ed: “Are you (leaf or mad, my good man? If you can't give us your name the article you bought must be put up again.” “Hard luck,” was the meek reply, “just because my father Wasn’t callâ€" ed Jones I must lose a table. I’ll spell my name; maybe it is a bit misleading and personalâ€"Nee. Me.” And the laugh was turned against the smart auctioneer and his impaâ€" tient clerk. "‘:;:-.â€".-vâ€"-â€"â€"e»â€"-»~.->n.-.. -. ~- m ‘- ~- blessed Wyldâ€"“It get! ’ ’ The flowers on the streets of heav- of walking when you are in the band They who really pray for the poor find themselves saying 'Amen at their u about a man's piety when it provokes others When a man thinks he has a. cinch. on sin he is apt to find that the hal- You never know how much'religion you have until some one treads on Our biggest, blackest troubles are the locomotive drawing oblige me with your name?” ,said the ‘ vent croup, and bring natural sleep. Results from common soaps:- eczema, coarse hands, ragged clothes, shrunken flannels. Ask to? the Octagon Bur Higb'eeâ€"“Do you consider it more to give than to receive?" depends on, what you Mug FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS. 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