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ON THE TRAIL OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY By WILLIAM T. SLL33 TWa OWh*UMI American JoamtHtt I* Tr»Telinir Around the World for tin PurpoM of Inre«t»«atin* tk* Amariew Forai|a MWoMnr from a Purely Disinterested, Secular and Non-Sectarian Standpoint. Illustrated with Drawings and from Photograph*. New Religious Movement Brings Men to the Fore LIFE OF A MAIL BAG WHERE UNCLE 8AM GETS HI8 IM- , MENSE SUPPLY. Common Pouches Made by One Man in New York State, and tha Registered Pouches by a New Jersey Concern. P lphia. -- Within the past nine months there has arisen a new movement in the Protestant churches of the United States and Canada which is bound to arrest the world's attention by its significance. This is the organization of men by men, for the purpose of putting the missionary enterprise on a basis com­ mensurate with its importance; for this foreign missionary business rep­ resents an annual expenditure of $21,- 000,000, which is equivalent to, six I>er cent, on a capital of $350,000,000. The magnitude of this long despised mis­ sionary enterprise seems to have at last penetrated the understanding of the men who are responsible for it. The new organization is not engi­ neered by the preachers or by board secretaries, or by young and visionary enthusiasts. It had its origin with successful business men, and it has swung along to its conspicuous suc­ cess, independent of ecclesiastical promotion. The officials of the de­ nominations are interested and ap­ prove, but they are not in the saddle; and they are not by any means cer­ tain of the lengths to. which the move­ ment will go. A complete revolution In missionary finances is assured, and doubtless also, many changes in methods. For the first time during the whole Christian era, there seems to be a reasonable prospect that the entire "heathen" world will be made acquainted with the Christian teach­ ing, within a generation. Millionaires and Missions. Before showing how these plans are to be accomplished, the identity of the men behind the movement should be made known. t The idea of the lay­ men's missionary movement took form in connection with the Hay­ stack Centennial celebration in New York last November. That meeting, which was really the anniversary of the American board of foreign mis­ sions was marked by a prayer meet­ ing, quite in contrast with the little gathering of impecunious college stu­ dents under a haystack 100 years be­ fore. For this gathering comprised 60 business men, of whom a score were millionaires. At this meeting, announcement was made that the laymen were resolved to take hold, systematically, and en­ ergetically of this missionary busi­ ness. They made three definite prop­ ositions, which are the basis of the present movement, to the secretaries of the missionary boards of all the denominations in the United States and Canada. These propositions were as follows: 1. To project a campaign to secure intelligent and generous interest in missions among laymen to be con­ ducted by groups of laymen under the direction of the various boards. 2. To devise a comprehensive plan (in conjunction with said board sec­ retaries) looking towards the evan­ gelization of the world in this genera­ tion. 3. To endeavor to form, through the various boards, a centennial commis­ sion of laymen, 50 or more in num­ ber, to visit as early as possible the mission fields and report their find­ ings to the church at home. With respect to the last proposition, by a curious coincidence, I had my­ self undertaken, si* months previous­ ly, such an investigation, of which the articles In these columns have been the outcome. Already a large num­ ber of business men have gone to the foreign field, and some are now there. The men who constitute the central organization of this laymen's mis­ sionary movement are the following, some of whom will be recognized as national figures: Samuel B. Capen, Boston; Harry Wade Hicks, Boston; Edward H. Haskell, Boston; W. N. Hartshorn, Boston; William Shaw, Boston; John L. Bates, Boston; H. P. Andersen, New York; Seymour M. Ballard, New York; S. W. Bowne, New York; Wil­ liam L. Brower, New York; J. Cleve­ land Cady, New York; John S. Huy- ler, New York; Cleveland H. Dodge, New York; J. Edgar Leaycraft, New York; David McConaughy, New York; Alfred E. Marling, New York; C. C. Michener, New York; John R. Mott, New York; William D. Murray, New York; Eben E. Olcott, New York; William J. Schieffelin, New York; Robert E. Speer, New York; James M. Speers, New York; F. P. Turner, New York; Dr. Lucien C. Warner, New York; Mornay Williams, New York; John W. Wood, New York; Admiral A. T. Mahan, New York; Silas McBee, New York; WTilliam Dulles, New York; James G. Cannon, New York; E. M. Bulkley, New York; Luther D. Wishard, New York; Robert C. Ogden, New York; J. Campbell White, New Yo,rk; Chester A. Holcombe, Roches­ ter; D. W. McWilliams, Brooklyn; Dr. W. W. Kteen, Philadelphia; John Wanamaker, Philadelphia; John H. Converse, Philadelphia; William C. Stoever, Philadelphia; C. G. Trum­ bull, Philadelphia; E. B. Sturges, Pittsburg; WTilliam Albert Harbison, Pittsburg; Joshua Levering, Balti­ more; Dr. Howard A, Kelly. Balti­ more; John W Foster, Washington; Henry B. F. Macfarland, Washington; John B. Sleman, Jr.. Washington; S. W. "Woodward. Washington; George W. F. Swartzell, Washington; Andrew Stevenson. Chicago; E. H. Pitkin, Chi­ cago; Hanford Crawford, St. Louis; A. W. Benedict, St. Louis; L. H. Sev­ erance, Cleveland; President' John Willis Baer, Los Angeles;. E. A. K. Hackett, Fort Wayne; Gen. Charles Bird, Wilmington, Del ; Charles A. Rowland, Athens, Ga.; W. J. Northen, Atlanta; Dr. Marion McHenry Hull, Atlanta; E. P. Peabody, Waycross, Ga.; Robert H. Gardiner, Gardiner, Me.; .David Percy Jores, Minneapolis; E. J. B. Pense, Kingston, Ont.; N. W. Hoyles, Toronto; H. H. Fudger, To­ ronto ; S. J. Moore, Toronto; J. N. Shenstone, Toronto; John Mac- kay, Toronto; C. McD. Hay, Toronto; George R. Crowe, Winnipeg; N. W. RowelJs, Toronto; W. M. Birks, Montreal; A. O. Dawson. Montreal; Henry H. Bridgman, Norfolk, Conn.; Ezra H. Stevens, Hartford, Conn,; E. P. Metcalf, Providence; George C. Whitney, Worcester, Mass.; John Meigs, Ph. D., Pottstown, Pa.; E. K. Warren, Three Oaks, Mich. A Sign of the Times. The men who keep posted upon the trend of current events in all spheres have noticed that of late years the emphasis in religious affairs has been laid upon the masculine element. Succeeding the powerful young peo­ ple's movement, as represented by Christian Endeavor and kindred or­ ganizations, came the brotherhood idea, as most prominently expressed in the Protestant Episcopal church. It Is a common sight "down town" to see business men of the best sort wearing a modest little button bearing a St. Andrew's cross. These are Mem­ bers of the Protestant Episcopal Brotherhood of St. Andrew, a men's society which has wrought notable results in identifying first-class busi­ ness men with active religious work. Nobody could ever accuse this St. Andrew's Brotherhood crowd with be­ ing weaklings or sentimentalists. Older, but less aggressive, although widely pervasive is the. Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip, which began in the Reformed church in the United States and quiokly spread to other de­ nominations. Last year the Presby­ terian church, which has a conspicu­ ous array of public men in her mem­ bership, held a great men's conven­ tion in Indianapolis, and formally launched the Presbyterian Brother­ hood, William J. Bryarf being one of the promoters and speakers. The Southern Presbyterian church fol­ lowed suit, and it is to hold its first laymen's convention this fall. The Methodists are now pushing the brotherhood idea; and, altogether, it is manifest that the most marked present-day development of Christian­ ity is among the laymen. The visible connecting link between these denominational men's organiza­ tions and the present laymen's mis­ sionary movement is to be found in the United Presbyterian church. This body, more than a year ago, held a business men's convention In Pitts­ burg, which attracted attention in church circles everywhere, because of its enthusiasm for missions, and foi its determination to put the church's missionary work on a business basis. The prime figure in this meeting was J. Campbell White, a brilliant young layman who has spent ten years in Calcutta, where he had established the Young Men's Christian Associa­ tion. Mr. White has been made the general secretary of the laymen's missionary movement. Going After Heathen Businesswise. Every reader of the funny papers, as well as every one familiar with church life, knows that the backbone of the missionary work of the past century has been the women and the children. But it is the men who have the money. Only the man with the pocketbook could be equal to the big spending which an adequate prosecu­ tion of the missionary enterprise en­ tails. The present outgo of $21,000,- 000 a year, enormous as it is, com­ prises only a fraction of the expendi­ ture which is necessary, ft the job is to be done thoroughly. So, naturally, as soon as the lay­ men really took hold, they began to do some figuring. To put the work which has heretofore been large­ ly sustained by impulse and senti ment, on a business basis, they first divided up the "heathen" population of the world among the Christian countries and churches. Here is the interesting way they go about it. There are approximately 1,000,000,- 000 "heathen" in the world. On the basis of one missionary to every 25,- 000 of these, the present force of 13,000 missionaries accounts for 325,- 000,000 of heathen. Or this same re­ sult may be reached by allowing two dollars a head as the cost of evan­ gelizing each "heathen," for so the thing has been- figured out by these men who want a working basis for their undertaking. It becomes a mere matter of subtraction </> show that 675,000,000 of people are at pres­ ent unprovided for by the present missionary arrangement. Therefore, the laymen say that the missionary bodies should have $80,000,000 a year and 27,000 more missionaries, for 25 years, in order really to do the job. This sort of figuring would probably have made William Carey or Robert Morrison, pioneer missionaries, gasp with astonishment, but it is the mod­ ern way. All this is not the speculative figur­ ing of dreamers. The laymen are after results; so they put the prop­ osition up to every denomination by showing just how many heathen each church Is responsible for and tbte amount of money it will have to give. And this plan of confronting a de­ nomination definitely with its share of the gigantic scheme of world-wide evangelization has been received seri­ ously by the various bodies. The United Presbyterians were first to ac­ cept the challenge, and they are ask­ ing of every member an average gift of eight dollars a year for their mis­ sionary work. ThiB Presbyterians fol­ lowed, a great men's missionary con­ vention having been held in Omaha in February, and the idea later ap­ proved by the general assembly, the Southern Presbyterians did likewise. The Canadian Presbyterians and Southern Baptists have also joined in the movement. The Congregation- alists and Northern Baptists will take u'ffc. the subject early in the fall. The Episcopalians have not yet had opportunity officially to adopt a basis but its laymen are in the forefront of the new movement. Stirring a Continent. So remarkable has been the re sponse, up to date, on the part ol business men of Protestantism, where this proposition has been definitely put up to them, that the leaders are sanguine of enlisting the entire body of the laity of the churches jof the United States and Canada. To this end, a series of laymen's dinners, cov­ ering the big cities of the continent are projected for this winter, on the line of those successfully held last winter in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Toronto, Washing­ ton and elsewhere. These are not conventional missionary meetings, but gatherings of the strongest Christian business men In each place, managed and addressed by laymen. The busi­ ness men who are behind the move­ ment plan a systematic propaganda that shall reach every man in anywise' connected with the churches, even to the remotest cross-roads congregation. Already the movement is formid­ able; the most important news of the. year in religious circles. Its conse­ quences will doubtless be far-reach­ ing. Men of foresight are already predicting certain unplanned for re­ sults. One of these, they say, will be the elimination of all independent missionary work, on the foreign field. The latter are a serious drain on the resources of Christendom, and, say the laymen, who have already re­ turned from their tour of investiga­ tion, they do not come up to the rep­ resentations made by their eloquent representatives in this country. The laymen's movement stands squarely behind the denominational boards. Nevertheless, it is predicted, the lay­ men will hold the boards strictly to account, that their missions be manned only by competent workers and that they be conducted on the broadest, most effective and most economical lines. Great Britain in Line. A deputation from the laymen's missionary movement has just re­ turned from the other side of the wa­ ter, where it went to introduce the project to the laity of the British churches. The report brought back is remarkable. The deputation was welcomed and feted everywhere by archbishops, church leaders and busi­ ness men. They ate enough compli­ mentary dinners to give them all dyspepsia. The serious outcome ol their labors was the definite organi zatlon, with unexpected enthusiasm, of the laymen's missionary movement in England and Scotland. The most striking feature of Great Britain's acceptance of the project is the fact that the high church party of the Church of England has en­ tered into alliance with other re­ ligious bodies in this undertaking. This is unprecedented. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the famous fligh Church Missionary or­ ganization, has indorsed the new movement, and its representatives are working side by side with men from the nonconformist bodies. Great Britain, with less than half the popu­ lation of the United States and Can­ ada, already gives $8,973,000 a -year to foreign missions, a little less than is given by the North American con­ tinent. The balance needed to make up the world's total $3,327,000 being given by all other countries. It is expected that the gifts of Great Brit­ ain will be stimulated in proprotion to those on this side. In any case, even Wall street will have to take notice of the flow of money into foreign mis­ sion channels. (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) For the thousands upon thousands qf tons of mail matter passing to and fro through the country Uncle Sam needs hundreds of thousands of pouches with which to handle this Im­ mense business, and the matter of keeping the government supplied with these bags is no small matter. There are two sources of supply, the common mail pouches being turned out by a big establishment at Lyons, N. Y., and the registry pouches being manu­ factured by another firm at Trenton; N. J. The cotton duck of which the bags are made comes from a mill in North Carolina, and It is woven so tightly as to be practically waterproof. In the weave there are 13 stripes of blue. If you don't find the 13 stripes in a mail bag, you may know that it doesnx belong to Uncle Sam. As. soon as young Mail Bag Is de­ clared ready for his travels he is turned over to the post office depart­ ment and is taken in charge by the equipment division. If there is no im­ mediate use for him he is sent to one of the "depositories," where he may be found when wanted. There are seven of these mail bags depositories in the country--at New York, Boston, Cincinnati, St. Louis, St. Paul, Chi­ cago and S^n Francisco--and as soon as a maii bag in any part of the coun try is emptied and is not immediate­ ly needed by the office which holds it at the time, it is sent to,the nearest one of these cities. New York needs more mail bags than any half dozen other cities in the country; and all the year round, on an average, there are in transit two car­ loads of pouches from the St. Louis depository to iJotham. Sometimes when St. Louis cannot supply the bags as fast as they are needed other depositories are called upon; for great, big, hungry New York must be kept supplied or the postal business of the country will go to smash. In the course of a year more than 8,000,- 000 domestic mail bags are received at ahd shipped from New York. As there are fewer than 2,000,000 In ac­ tual use, you may imagine that they are kept busily moving in order to meet the requirements of the service. There are 28 different kinds of mall bags In use, and they range in cost from 22 cents to $2,156 each. The or­ dinary cotton and leather bags, with ordinary use, will last ten years, but the "catcher poucji" that is thrown on- and off fast flying mall cars goes to pieces within 18 months. There are mail pouches for almost every con­ ceivable use, but the oddest one made is probably the "bee bag," which was uuiii for the international transport of honey bees. "Before we adopted the bee bag the bees shipped from abroad or to for­ eign countries from the United States generally arrived dead," said Thomas. P. Graham, chief of the bureau of equipment; "but since its adoption there has not been a complaint. The bag is large enough to hold an or­ dinary hive. It is so arranged that the bees are given an ample supply ot fresh air, and there is a receptacle for sugar or other food that they m»r need In transit. We have mail bags for pneumatic tubes, made of a coca- Girls Sewing on Mail Bags Lyons Factory. the position called 'leatheroid;' mall bags for the use of horsemen, and mail bags for use in the island dependencies. We are just now getting out a special bag for use in the islands. It has dark­ er stripes than those used in the States." It would be impossible to estimate the distance traveled, by a United States mail bag in the course of the ten or twelve years of its life. A mall bag may make 20 round trips between New York and Washington, and then, filled with mail for our soldiers, may be dispatched direct to the Philip­ pines. There it may spend years in the interisland service before it Is shunted back acroiss the Pacific with letters or papers for San Francisco. Again, a bag may travel for years, making indiscriminate round trips be­ tween New York and Boston, New York and Chicago, or between other big cities to which mail is pouched di­ rect, and then it may be filled with papers for dispatch to some distant Alaskan post office, to reach which it may be carried for miles on a dog sled. SMALL NA VY BOA TS Both Presbyterians. In the Missouri state prison at Jef­ ferson City are 1,761 prisoners. Ac­ cording to an article in the North American 395 of them are Baptists, 301 Methodists, six Jews and one Christian Scientist. This calls to mind a story about the late Rev. Dr. John Hall. The good doctor was once walking home from preaching at a Sunday night meeting out in the country. In the moonlight he saw a man lying drunk In the gut­ ter, and going up to him, gave him a shake. "Here," he said, "It is a shame for a nice, respectable-looking man like you to be lying in the gutter." The man opened his tipsy eyes and saw the long, black coat. "Are you a minister?" he a^ked. "Yes," said Dr. Hal!; "come, get up." "Presbyterian?" queried the Inebri­ ate. "Yes," was the answer, scraewfea* impatiently, "I am." "Then." said the other, "help me up, I'm a Presbyterian myself." It takes a good many small boats-- gigs, launches, cutters, etc.--to supply the needs of the big boats of the Uni­ ted States navy, and it is at the Charlestown navy yard where most of this small craft are built. The yard is also one of the largest storage de­ pots in the country for small boats of the navy. To-day at the yard, in a new modern fireproof boat storage building, a big $250,000 brick structure that forms the boundary of the yard at Chelsea bridge, Is probably the largest number of small boats--so called, for some of them are not very small--ever seen in the vicinity. The beauty and fine lines of the navy's small boats can be appreciated by a view of the lot. All are built to the most minute specifications, and represent the best attainable stock and the highest boat building skill. Almost 200 boats, representing a total expenditure of more than $100,- 000 in labor and material, are on the great storage floors, arranged sys­ tematically in regular lots and rows of streets, or piled in tiers three and four high. K There are all kinds of launches, both steam and electric, from the smaller, natty, speedy and more mag­ nificently finished ones for admirals and commanding officers to the great 40-feet-long service launches of tre­ mendous power, especially adapted for towing the ships' sailing launches and cutters for landing men, and the rapid-fire field artillery and shore guns carried on every ship. There are plain, cheap, tiny little dinghies for use in working around the sides of a ship, and side by side with them are a couple of the magnifi­ cent 12-oared mahogany rowing barges of rear admirals. This is the barge of the highest state, used practically only for the most ceremonial occasions, and for of­ ficial visits in foreign parts. The hand­ some carved eagles, U S seals, and stars on the stretchers of these craft are works of art, and represent a con­ siderable outlay in themselves. There are here also massive, heavy, sturdy 40-foot-long sailing launches, that can conveniently land 100 men and a couple of small cannon. They are equipped with gun circles and standards for using their guns in boat attacks. The great rowing barges are of the same size and almost the same type, and of equal capacity. These also are rigged for sails, if sail propulsion is desired, but like the saUing launches are generally towed b^steam launches in ordinary landing work nowadays. Both are fitted with towing bitts and gear. But the worth of the boats as sailing launches have agal^i and again been demonstrated in the navy, and rec­ ords of more than 2,000 miles in one enforced voyage for succor have been made. It was in such a type of boat that men from the famed Kearsarge made a 1,500-mile journey after her wreck in the Caribbean. Each of these boats, while variously designated sailing launches and row­ ing barges, are equipped for ten and twelvg oars on either side, and with each oar double banked, as they in­ variably are, they can be driven through the water with tremendous speed by the muscular strength.of the 40 or 48 men who can bend on the oars. There are in the collection gigs and cutters, whaleboats and whaleboat gigs, and every other service type of boat. In addition there are a half- dozen of the trim regulation 12-oared racing cutters of the navy. In these days every ship has a special regula­ tion racing cutter for the encourage­ ment of boat efficiency among the men. The boat-building shop, in an adja­ cent building, generally has from 30 to 40 steam. Bailing or rowing launches and boats set up along the long floor under construction, and probably a half-dozen more boats under repair. Easy Way-tb Return Favors. "If you owe somebody a dinner Or something, or an entertainment," re­ marked the careful man, "the best way I know to return it is to send them complimentary concert tickets somebody has giv*n you. I know a pair of such tickets that did duty six times in the way of returning obliga­ tions. I started them, they passed on to five other people, and by jingo! if they Anally didn't get back to me." HI8 FIGHTING LIST. Mike sat busily engaged in copying the names of the male population ot the immediate vicinity. His good wife, noting the apparent industry of her lord, asked what he was doing. "Begorra, an' it'sf wroitin' the names o' the min phwat Oi kin lick, so Oi am!" he exclaimed. • A few minutes later the woman put op her shawl and went to Pat O'Leary's humble home, where she.in­ formed Pat that she saw his name was on the list. * Without waiting to don his coat, O'Leary sallied forth in search of Mi'ie, who was found still engaged at the list. "Moike," said Pat, in a tone that sounded like the thunders of heaven, "they say as how yez air makin' a lisht o' the felleys yez kin lick an' thot tae name's on it." " "An' so 'tis," retorted Mike. "But, rist yer sowl," exclaimed Pat, shaking his fist close to Mike's probos­ cis, "yez can't do it!" "Thin Oi'll scratch yer name off," said Mike, feebly, and he continued adding to the list, gram. -Democratic Tele- NEWS OP ILLINOIS HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM ALL-OVER THE STATE. FORMER G. A. R. HEAD Noted Soldier, Postmaster at Rock- ford, Succumbs--Had a Famous War Record. Rockford.--Col. Thomas G. Lawler, 64 years old, former commander-in- chief of the G. A. R., died at his home. His health had been failing for several months. Col. Lawler was postmaster of Rockford. He had served as com­ mander of Nevius post No. 1 of the Grand Army of the Republic continu­ ously since 1872. He was eommar-^r Col. T. G. Lawler. of the Illinois department of the O. A. R. in 1881, and in 1894, at Pittsburg, Pa., was elected commander. Col. Lawler served in the civil war as pri­ vate in Company E, Nineteenth Illi­ nois regiment, in which he continued as a member throughout the war. His name appears in the roll of honor, es­ tablished by Gen. Rosencranz, of sol­ diers who had distinguished them­ selves by bravery and soldierly con­ duct. He was colonel Of the Third regiment, Illinois National guard, for six years. AH the business houses in Rockford were closed for the funeral of Col. Thomas G. Lawler. Services were held at the Centennial Methodist Episcopal church. The schools of the city were closed. Voted; Not a Citizen. Decatur.--Although he has been voting for 30 years Christian Peterson Frfls of this city is not a legal citizen because he had not been in the United States five years when his natauraHza- tlon papers were granted. The mis­ take was not discovered until he wished to visit relatives in Sweden and applied for a passport. The court has set aside his old papers and new ones may be Issued him next October. "Dry" Town; Will Quit. Mattoon.--In the event that prohi­ bition carries in Mattoon township at the coming spring election, and in consequence thereof dramshops forced to close their doors in this city, Mayor Lewis L. Lehman will resign his of­ fice. The mayor, according to reports, will not attempt to watch the city's needs with decreased revenues and will let some prohibitionist shoulder the burden. Aged Washerwoman Falls Heir. Windsor.--After a life of hardship, during which she washed and did other menial toil to support herself and her invalid husband, Mrs. Stone, in her seventy-sixth year, has just re­ ceived word that she has "fallen heir to a half share in an estate of 125 aereB of land left by a bachelor brother. Savage Bull Dog Attacks Boy. Mount Carmel.--The 12-year-old son of Charles McClellan of Mount Cat mel was attacked and bitten by a bull dog. The boy was crossing "a field near his home when the animal sprane at him, knocked him down and bit him several times about the legs be­ fore it was beaten off. Travels Far for Adieu. Bloomington.--Olaf Olsen Bertweit of Chicago arrived here en route on foot to Houston, Tex., to bid his son i good-by. The latter has enlisted In [ the United States army and leaves ! March 1 for the Philippines. His f t he r i s too poor t o buy a t i cke t t o Houston. Accused of Cruelty. Clinton.--Charges of cruelty have been brought against Mr. and Mr Charles Warren, of Parnell by Mau Rucker, their 17-year-old niece, th£ probably will be investigated by the authorities. He "Followed. Copy." Mrs. Marble, after the death of Iteir husband, went to Mr. Stone (a dealer in headstones) and consulted him in reference to an inscription. She said: "Put on it: 'To my dearest husband," and if there be any room left, 'we shall meet in heaven.'" Entering the cemetery and going to her husband's grave, she noticed the headstone, and quickly rushed to see how he had engraved it. The poor old widow's heart beat with pala when she read the following on the. headstone: "To my dearest husband, and if there he any room left, we shall meet in heaven."--Port Chester Record. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle ot CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of{ In Use For Over JJO Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Might Have Been Quicker. "Yes," Gussie was saving, "it was th® first time I had met him ami he actual­ ly called me a fool. Hadn't/Wen talk­ ing to him five minutes, either. Say, what kind of a fellow is be. anyway?* "Well," replied Knox, quietly, "he'a awfully slow, for one thing." OVER NINE MIIiljION (9.SOO,OOd) SOU) THIS YEAR. Sales Lewis' Single Binder cigars for year 1907 more thin 9.»00,04>0 Sales for 1906 ...8*00,000 Gain T00,000 Quality brings the business. The Ruling Passion. The young man asked the banker For his fair and only child: The banker nodded gravely, And then he grimly smiled. Amazed, the young man heard 1 Reply tn business phrase: "I'll have to file your notice-- Come back irf sixty days." By following the directions, whicli are plainly printed on each package of Defiance stsrch, xisn's Coilsrs Cuffs can be made just as stiff as de­ sired, with either gloss or domestic finish. Try it, 16 ox. for 10c. sold by all good grocers. An Unlucky Answer. Wealthy Aunt--Oh, I know you aie all just waiting for my death. Niece--Why, aunt, what an idea! It's a matter of perfect indifference to me.--Illustrated Magazine. Easy Money for men and women wh:> will give whole or spare time selling our Family Health Tablets, Liniment and Salve. No experience necessary. Big profits. Exclusive territory. Vosena Company, 1170 15th St., Washington, D. C. True life should be ft perpetual climbing upward. We should put our faults under our feet, and make them steps on which to lift ourselves daily a little higher.--J. R. Miller. The very wisest advice: take Garfield Tea whenever a laxative is indicated! Pleasant to th« taste, simple, pure, mild, potent and health-giving. Made of Herbs --not drugs. If a rich girl has fiery red hair It's a sign that all her acquaintances will tell her it is golden. ONIT ONE "BROMO QCIKINE" Ttaat Is LAXATIVE BHOMO OUININH. took ft* the &ttcnalure of B. W. GKOVB. Used Ike WolM oral to Cure a Cold In One Oar. Sc. The fox may lose his hair, bat not his cunning.--Dutch. Mrs. Window's 800thin* 87111 p. For children teething, soften* fh« gnrns, reduces In- OnranaUoa, pain, cures wind oollc. 3Sca bottle. A man's Ideal woman 1b one kind of pipe dream. Falls on Pavement. (3ranite City.--James Gribben, 57 years old, slipped and fell on the icy pavement and sustained a double frac­ ture of the right hip, which, owing to his age, may prove fatal. The General Outlook. Head of the Hades Highways Bu­ reau--I am sorry, your majesty, but I am afraid the cost of the annual paving will be considerably raised this year. His Satanic Majesty--What is the matter with the usual free contribu­ tion to our paving? Bureau Head--'A good many of the states have gone dry this year, and people residing therein will have to keep their New Year's resolutions.-- Baltimore American. A Visible Proof. Young Wife--Am I very dear to you, darling? Young Husband--Yes, lovey; just look at these receipted bills.--Balti­ more American. Spends Forty Years in Priesthood. Sterling.--Rev. H. M. Fegers, pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart, celebrated his fortieth year in the priesthood. Taylorville Woman Wants Divorce. Taylorville.--Hattie M. Shreve insti­ tuted divorce proceedings against Francis Shreve. The couple were married December 22, 1906. at De­ catur, and lived together ten days. Mrsf Shreve says her husband tried to poison her December 25, three days after their marriage. Grants Interurban Franchise. Decatur.--The city council gave the Oeci^tur. Sullivan and Mattoon Transit company a franchise for a term of 5® years, datfng from 1904. 8till in the Family. Flimsey--What has become or all your fine diamonds? They are still in the family, I hope? Hardup--Oh, yes, my uncle has them. Operated on 85 Times. P^ori".--Mrs. Martha Aha Davis, 60 yea** vid, died after an illness of dropsy During this time Mrs. Davis had been operated on 85 times and 2.000 pounds of water drawn off at dif­ ferent operations. Physicians declare the case to be one of the most peculiar of its kind in the history of the prac­ tice of medicine. «• Pana Man Asks Separation. Taylorville.--Frank A. 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