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The JKcHenry Plaindealer J»ubtlsft*d by F. Q. SCHREINER. lifeHFTNRT. ILLINOia Good beet root yields an average ©1 IS per cent of sugar. Goosebone prophets who foretold a long, cold winter are getting anxiouser and anxlouser about their reputations. As a health restorative a French medical expert recommends a ten to fifteen days' diet of fruit alone, twice • yew. Abnizzi may still be a great man 111 his own country, but over here he has dropped entirely out of the prominent citizen class. DEATH IN DfXIE LAND SWCOT BY -^FIERCE WINDS. ' S:-. LOSS REACHES MILLIONS Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas and Ala­ bama In Path of Cyclone--Tel#. , graph Communication Is h Cut Off. :+-4 It is reported that a German pro­ fessor has concussion of the ^ brain. Probably caused by a collision be­ tween two trains of thought. It Is noticeable that the German papers have made no outcry over the fact that King Edward hasperson­ ally written to Andrew Carnegie. There is a bank cterk in Elyrla,' 0„ who never hag any difficulty In strik­ ing a balance. His father was a •lack-rope walker, and his mother was a trick bicycle rider. Were the Mrs. Gilman brand of *o otology to come into vogue there would soon be no society for sociology to operate upon and the exuders of gaff would be among the unemployed. Miss Ross Becker has been appoint­ ed a claim agent and United States pension attorney at Missouri. She has been known for years as one of the most successful women in St. Louis, being a notary public and an Insurance agent. Massachusetts has a law to prevent recklessness and speeding in automo­ biles, which law may be rendered Hdiculous by its wrong punctuation, as It forbids driving over roads "laid out tinder the authority of the law reck­ lessly or while under the influence of liquor.** Boston, in consequence, la in rhetorical spasms. The secretary of the Colorado state j. ' 'Ttotreau of child protection believes that a bad child gets its start from an i t ill-ordered home or from parents who possess evil traits of character, and wants a law passed making parents 3; responsible for the misdoings of their f minor children. But as bad traits of character are often inherited, what . would the secretary do in case of an ;^>V-'ij|opted. child? " In a fire panic in a New York cheap theater, a so-called exit was found to be a veritable trap, barring in the flee­ ing crowd instead of letting them find a way to safety. One would naturally •Oppose that the holocaust in Chicago would have prevented this dangerous practice for all time; but the lessons of catastrophes are quickly lost, espe­ cially when they are followed by no fftributory measures. There will naturally be much fem­ inine sympathy for the New Jersey woman who has appeared in court to oomplain about her husband's cruel treatment, relates the Washington Star, and who says: "I am a grad­ uate of a cooking school. I make biscuits, pies, cake and all sorts of dainties to please him, and he calls It. all indigestion fodder!'" The Judge adivsed the woman to cook cprned beef and cabbage occasionally, aad she said she would. • '? .-A Minneapolis woman is suing the 'Astern Union Telegraph Company for damages because when she tele­ graphed to her brother that "Pat," her husband, was drinking, and "to come at once,the message was made to read "Pat Is dying," and a horde of iffctlyes, notified by her brother, came from far and near to attend the wake, and she had the expenses to pay. If Pat had had anything to say tai the matter he would probably have permitted Lliem to pay their own ex- Unset. Said an anxious mother to the fam­ ily doctor; "What shall I do with my daughter Mary? She is simply candy ^srszy -sd, of ccsrss, s&tlng nutliing Substantial makes her pale, if not downright yellow." Said the wise phy- felcian to the anxious mother: "Put Mary into a sweet shop, and she'll •oon abhor the stuff! It is heroic treatment, but it will cure her appe­ tite for candy." Poor Mary! says the Indianapolis Star, how much pleasure she is going to lose for lack of « little self-denial- Louisville, Ky.--Death for- nearly a score of people, losses of hun­ dreds of thousands of dollars in prop­ erty and the crippling of many tele­ graph wires resulted between noon and dusk Friday from a series of small cyclones and tornadoes which swept Dixie from the Tennessee line to the Texas panhandle. The storms were accompanied in most cases by hail, darkness and terrific lightning flashes and sheets of rain. Most of the towns where the losses of life occurred are off the beaten track, so that news from them has been coming in but slowly. Known deaths thus far, however, are: Stuttgart, Ark.--Mrs. Garfield and a' child of Will Story, while Mrs. Story 13 reported fatally injured, Sulphur Springs, Tes.--Mrs. James Ardis and Mrs. C. Caldwell. Booth, Miss.--Six unidentified per­ sons. Rolling Fork, Miss.--JV>ur unidenti­ fied persons. Cullman, Ala.--Seven unidentified persons. Vicinity of Montgomery, Ala.--Two unidentified persons. From other towns, such as Ennlsand Waxahachie, Tex., and Boscoe, La., many dwellings were said to have been demolished by the force of the Wind. Rice Fields Destroyed. Arkansas and upper Louisftffia 'rice fields were injured to the extent of many thousands of dollars, while the larger cities had rains and darkness illuminated by lightning bolts that made the atmosphere quiver. About dusk Chattanooga was lost on the wire running south from Louisville via Nashville and has to be picked up from Memphis. The local operators heard the faint words: "Terrific storm here--black as night--hail falling," and then the sounders ceased to record. Knoxville was lost similarly shortly after that, but later- both towns were looped in when conditions there ceased in violence. In Louisville the entire day was dark and rainy, but there was no inti­ mation of cyclone or of heavy wind. More Deaths Reported. Birmingham, Ala.--Reports received Friday night state that several persons were killed by a cyclone at Cullman, Ala., in the afternoon. Texas Feels 6torm. Fort Worth, Tex.--A heavy Train and wind storm of tornado pro­ portions, which swept over north Texas and southern Oklahoma Fri­ day, resulted in considerable damage in several localities. At Ennis, Tex., a dozen residences were blown down. No loss of life has been reported. Wax­ ahachie was also damaged by the tor­ nado. At Sulphur Springs the storm wrecked eight dwellings, and Mrs. James Ardls was seriously injured by flying glass. The total damage from the storm In northern Texas will be about $100,000. Wrecks Many Buildings. Monroe, La.--A small cyclone at Boscoe, 16 miles south of Monroe, wrecked the public school building, blew down a house and wrecked heavy damage in other ways. At Monroe the rain was torrential and the wind vio­ lent. TIFT SAILS FROM PANARM SAYS PROGRESS OF CANAL WORK IS SATISFACTORY. Refuses to DlsCui* the Result Of HMl Inspection Trip, But Expresses > Satisfaction with Work. >"1^ibn.--President-elect William H. 1*aft and party left here Sunday eve­ ning at six o'clock on board the United States cruiser North Carolina for New Orleans, acompanied by the cruiser Montana. Just previous to embarking Mr. Taft gave out the following: "1 am not prepared now to make a statement as to the results of the trip to the isthmus, except to say that wd have found the work progressing in a most satisfactory way; the organisa­ tion better than ever; the esprit de corps excellent and the determination of all, even the humbleBt laborer, di­ rected to the building of the canal. I am sure this has Impressed itself upon every one of the board of visiting en­ gineers as it has upon me. "With reference to the type of the canal and the continuance of the pres­ ent plans, the engineers promise that they will be able to band me their re­ port by the time we land at New Or­ leans. ' Mr. Taft and party reached Colon from Panama at 3:15 In the afternoon. Gov. Melendez and a large gathering of the Panama railroad and the isth­ mian canal commission employes were present at the dock to bid the presi­ dent-elect farewell. Lieut. Col. Goe- thals, chief engineer Of the canal, ac­ companied Mr. Taft . on the North Carolina. He will proceed to Wash­ ington to discuss the matter of appro­ priations necessary for the completion of the work. As the tug which transferred the visitors to the cruiser moved away the crowd cheered lustily. Mr. Taft, look­ ing the picture of health, bowed and called out, laughing: "Keep your eye on that subterranean lake at Gatun." During his visit heft, which lasted ten days, Mr. Taft, accompanied on many occasions by the special en­ gineers who came to the isthmus with him, visited every section of the canal. His influence was exerted also in bringing about a better feeling be­ tween various factions that have been opposing each> other* since the last election. Accuse Discharged Official. St. Louis.--Clarence N. Jones, presi­ dent of the Commonwealth Feed Com­ pany and a brother of Police Commis­ sioner George P.1) Jones, was shot and killed in a quarrel in his mill at Sec­ ond and De Soto streets here Wednes­ day. Herman A. Kretschmar, a dis­ charged official of the company* was arrested and charged with the shoot­ ing He asserts that he shot in self- defense. Jones died in the city hos­ pital a few minutes after the shooting. DEFENDS USE OF SLEUTHSl. President Says 8ecret Service Is-Nec­ essary to Punish Criminals. Washington.--Declaring: that "it the government is to act with full ef­ ficiency against criminals, it must have some force of secret service agents who can act against criminals Any­ where," President .Roosevelt in a statement made public from the White House emphatically reiterated his opposition to restricting the field of usefulness of the secret service. "The position of the administration is," said the president, "that It is against sound public P9licy to dis­ criminate in favor of criminals by dis­ criminating against the us$ of the secret service to . detect and punish them." The statement was called forth by "misleading statements appearing in some of the afternoon papers" to the effect that the work of the secret serv­ ice has not been hampered and that the investigation of cases outside the detection of counterfeiters and the protection of the president has not been circumscribed by restrictive leg­ islation at the last session of con­ gress. IS MODERN JEAN VALJEAN. An extraordinary demand has arisen £a the eastern counties of England for •econd-hand Bibles--the older and .dirtier the better. Copies which for­ merly realized four pence are now readily bought for half a crown. They •re being used to manufacture evi­ dence of age in the case of old-age pensions. A woman who produced a Bible to prove her age as 76 from an / frntry on the flyleaf had, unfortunately, emitted to tear out the title page, #hlch showed that the Bible was trinted in 1895. Wants Premium for Mothers. lies Moines, la.--One dollar to the mother of every baby born in Iowa. Representative Fulliam Friday intro­ duced such a bill as a substitute to the tax on babies measure. It provides that the mother of a new born baby shall be paid one dollar by the county treasurer upon receipt of a certificate signed by the mother and the attend­ ing physician. p* ^ American musicians have com- i' •' plained to the president that lm- Ported musicians get the Jobs. As the auestion turns on whether these lat- a for are artists or contract laborers, . and the Americans are determined to f, % \ protect their jobs, Anyway, there Is plainly going to be some music in the -M'- \ t #*• # "Death Valley Scotty," who gave :%way money when he could not get rid •f it fast enough by spending it, wants How to become a marine. He would ly, ^ ./ inake a good one for the wise ones to tell their troubles to. I' / v* A Paris journal suggests that in or* f# ifller to rid the world of rats the vari- Girls Hold Up a Railroad. New York.--Armed with a six-shoot­ er, Miss Winifred Noone of Shady Side, N. J., Is holding up the Erie rail­ road. Day and night she and her niece,. May Morgan, guard their little home. Twice single-handed they have driven the railroad employes off the premises when they attempted to lay rails. Illlnolsan Caught After 21 Years' Free­ dom from Prison. Marion, 111. -- Another "Jean Val- jean" case, with its sorrowful de­ tails of a respected citizen being brought low and a home broken by a crime thought long forgotten, has oc­ curred near here. Jack D. Ish&m, who for the last 16 years has been a prosperous find high­ ly respected farmer, and who owns many broad acres about eight miles east of here, is the man. Yesterday when returning from church he was arrested. He escapod from the Ten­ nessee penitentiary in 1888. The shock of his arrest was so great that he fainted. After being placed in jail here he confessed, abandoned hope of regaining freedom, sent word to his family to sell his farm and other prop­ erty and leave. He told how he es­ caped from the state's prison and roamed around the country before set­ tling down on the farm. Fleet Past Cape St. Vincent. Cape St. Vincent, Portugal.--The American battleship fleet, under com­ mand of Rear Admiral Sperry, home­ ward bound, passed this point Sunday morning. The flagship signaled "All well." , ©us governments should offer a re­ ward of one penny for each rat killed. s#»'W"r • 7$Mmmark, it appears, has already Bet c y ^ itbe example. There, since a law was . rf'X ? '^4 passed giving a halrpenny a head for £ead rats> t*1® schoolboys of Copen- jfcagen devote their playtime to hunt* ing the rodent. l|,i !j**x When it eomes to investigating the V £4' manners, customs and, especially, •.! " 1 * movements of mice, one see how it is <L"'T* that science has so few feminine ad< ,'Jf CM Religious Convention In Chicago. Chicago.--Chicago will be host this week to the Religious Education asso­ ciation, an organization which was brought into being through the initia­ tive of the late William Rainey Har- "Frats" Suspended from School. Council Bluffs, la.--Seventeen boys of the ©mega' Eta Tau fraternity and 14 girls, of the Theta-Sigma Phi so­ ciety were suspended from the high school Thursday for refusing to sign affidavits resigning membership in the seqret societies. Oklahoma Governor Indicted. Muskogee, Okla.--As a result of the Investigation by the grand jury of the alleged frauds in connection with the scheduling of town lots in this city seven indictments were returned Wednesday night. The charge against the defendants is conspiracy to de­ fraud the government. Those indicted are: ^ / Gov. Charles N. Haskell, F. B. Sev­ ers, A. Z. English, C. W. Turner, W. T. Hutchings, Jesse W. Hill and Walter R. Eaton. Receiver for $6,000,000 Concern. Birmingham, Ala.--The Birmingham Coal & Iron Company was thrown into the hands of receivers Friday after­ noon. The company has properties in this district valued at over $6,000,- 000. SOAK NEVADA: STOPS THE JAP LEGISLATION. SPOILS ON COUNTRY1 LIFE SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM WHlTe HOU8E TO CONGRESS. ONE KIDNEY. GONE •ays: PresidentSuggests Socisl and • pusl- vness improvements' for 'the .Seiii- , fits of t^e Dweller in Agri- cultural Communities. , PRESIDENT SENDS CENSUS BltL VETO TO CONGRESS. Seea Attempt to Grab People's quisitea--Rap at the Poll- ticians. Per- Washington.--"The evil effects of the spoils system and of the custom of treating appointments to the public service as personal perquisites of pro­ fessional politicians are peculiarly evi­ dent in the case of a great public work like the taking of the census, a work which should emphatically be done for the whole people and with an eye sin­ gle to their interest." In these words President Roosevelt Friday summed up a message to the house of representatives returning with­ out his approval the bill providing for the taking of the next census, be­ cause of the provision prescribing that appointments shall be made on the basis of non-competitive examinations Instead of through the civil service commission. As passed by congress the bill permitted members and sena­ tors to designate persons for positions after th.ey had undergone a simple ex­ amination. Incidentally the president referred to the provision authorizing the print­ ing of census reports by private con­ cerns and laid stress on the point that where work was so allotted the eight-hour law should be "applied in effective fashion." Outside of those matters, the presi­ dent said that on the whole the bill was satisfactory to him and repre­ sented an improvement upon previous legislation on the subject. The house adjourned without action on the mes­ sage. NEW MICHIGAN BANK LAW. Meaaure Said to Have Approval of Officials and Financiers. Detroit, Mich.--The outline of a pro­ posed new banking law for the state of Michigan was made public Friday night by Hal H. Smitl\, attorney for the Michigan Bankers' associations. It is issued in the form of a report of a special committee of the association as amended and adopted by the asso­ ciation's executive council. It has also been approved by State Banking Commissioner H. M. Zimmerman. The bill makes it a felony punish­ able by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding five years to make or use false statements to ob­ tain credit. The making or circulat­ ing of false rumors derogatory to a bank is also made a felony. The sal­ ary of the commissioners of banking Is raised from $2,500 per year to $5,000 and the deputy commissioner is given $3,000 per year. Examiners are required to pass an examination as to their competency and are to receive $1,500 the first year and an increase of $250 per year up to a maximum of $2,500. When the stock of a solvent bank is impaired the banking commis­ sioner is authorized to assess the stockholders proportionately to their holdings,- - Bryan Still 8ees Chance. Tampa, tfla.--Speaking to an im­ mense throng of people from the grand stand at the race track Thursday afternoon, William J. Bryan said he brought to the Democrats of the south a message of good cheer--that there is a steadily Increasing sentiment that makes for the growth of the Demo­ cratic party in the United States.- Castro Declared Cured.* Berlin.--Cipriano Castro, former president of Venezuela, who has been under the care of Dr. Israel for1 a month following an operation left the sanitarium Thursday cured. * Death in Strike Riot. New York.--One man was killed and three others injured in a riot of gar­ ment makers who descended upon the tailoring establishment uf Jacob Greenfield In East Second street Fri­ day. Transport in War Paint. San Francisco.--The naval trans­ port Buffalo arrived here Thursday from Hpnolulu, painted lead color, in accordance with recent general order of the department received when the vessel was in the island port. ' ' Deny Use of Chemical#. J Louisville, Ky.--Denial that chemi­ cals are used In the goods put up by any member of the National Canners* association was entered by that body at the adjournment of their seoond atv ' Carrie Nation Is Fined, London.--Carrie Nation became ac­ quainted with the London police courts Thursday afternoon, when she was fined $7.50 for thrusting her umbrella through a window of a car in the un­ derground railway upon which a ciga­ rette advertisement was 'v.: Will Debate on Prohibition, Milwaukee.--Mayor David S. Rose Saturday night Issued a formal let­ ter accepting a challenge to debate the prohibition question with Rev. Samuel Dickey, president of Albion college, Albion, Mich. Mayor Rose will take the negative side. Miners' Convention Closes. Indianapolis, Ind.--After selecting Indianapolis as the place for holding the convention next year the conven­ tion of the United Mine Workers of America adjourned Saturday. t i Daytcn Has Another Mufihffi, Dayton, O.--Late Friday after­ noon the body of a young wom­ an Was dragged out of a cistern In the rear of a vacant house. Her brother, whom she was visiting, has Identified her as Lizzie Fulhart, 18 'years old, of Vandalia, O. New Orleans Has Big Fire. J&tefr Orleans.--Sparks from a donkey engine set fire to the wharf at the $3,000,000 Chalmette plant of the American sugar refinery Friday. -The l loas is $200,00*, • Speaker's Appeal and Governor'* Mes­ sage Postpone California's Action. Sacramento, Cal.--Speaker Phillip A. Stanton-took the floor Friday and secured, by a strong personal appeal, unanimous consent of the assembly to postpone further action on the Japar nese school segregation hill until next Wednesday. He declared he had information, which he could not reveal, that proved the assembly was treading upon dan­ gerous ground in passing the imti- Japanese bill. At the conclusion of the speaker's address, Grove L. Johnson, author of the measure, asked that the matter of reconsideration of Thursday's vote be put over until Wednesday, and his: mo- tioi carried without dissent. Gov. Gillett sent a speciad mes­ sage to the house raising the point of the bill's constitutionality, and this was the subject of a long debate, dur­ ing which it was suggested by lead­ ers on both sides that the measure be referred to the committee on- judi­ ciary and submitted to the attorney general for an opinion as to its le­ gality. . Senator; A. C. Mlnetti introduced the Japanese school bill in the sen&tBr TARIFF TO BE DISCUSSED. Convention at Indianapolis to Be tended by 2)000 Delegates. At- New York.--Announcement vittip made Sunday that the convention of the national tariff commission, which will be held in Indianapolis on Feb­ ruary 16, in an endeavor bring about the establishment of a perma­ nent bi-partisan tariff commission, will be attended by more than 2,000 delegates, including representatives of manufacturing concerns, many con­ gressmen and financial interests. The speakers will Include: Oscar S. Straus, secretary of commerce and la­ bor; Senators Beveridge of Indiana, and Cummfns of Iowa, Thomas R. Mar­ shall, governor of Indiana; Congress-/ man Bourke Cockran, Henry R. Towne, president of the Merchants' association of New York, and John M. Stahl, president Farmers' National congress. ^ !' BAD FIRE AT CHARLOtTC^VILLE. Losa of $220,000 Sustained by Blase In Virginia City. Charlottesville, Va.--The most dis­ astrous fire here in 24 yearB Friday destroyed property valued at $220,000. The blaze originated in the building of the Charlottesville Hardware Company on East Main street. The People's National bank building had a narrow escape from destruction, the two upper stories being gutted. The fronts of five stores on the north side of Main stret also were burned. The fire was gotten under control. Aid was summoned from Lynchburg and Staunton, but the fire companies were stdpped before reach­ ing Charlottesville. < Attack Forest Service. Washington.--The forest service got Its usual a,nnual drubbing Thursday, the criticisms against it coming prin­ cipally from Mr. Smith (Cal.), Mr. Cook (Col.) and Mr. Mondell (Wyo.), all of whom charged extravagance in administration and the extortion of money from miners, farmers and even the owners of bee hives, Mr. Cook attributed to Mr. Plnchot, the chief forester, the ulterior motive of schem­ ing for Secretary Wilson's seat in the cabinet Rules Life Begins at Blrtfcv St. Louis.--Circuit court Judge Wil­ liams in a decision which was put on record Saturday held that a child's life begins at birth and not before. •y- <: v\ ^ i A. T* •' . / ,.w ' Incendiary Fire Destroys Factory. Carlisle, Pa.--An incendiary fire de­ stroyed the E. J. Gardner axle and ma­ chine works Sunday. The loss will reach $75,000. An attempt was made shortly before on the big Carlisle Man­ ufacturing Company's plant. Cat In Well Poisons 4?amlljp^ <<i . Danville, 111.--Robert Johnson and wife and family of three children were poisoned by drinking water from a well in which a dead cat had fallen. Two of the children are said to be 'near death. \ 1 1 ' ' " Candy Maker Has Leprosy,. Los Angeles.--Samuel Bernick, a Russian candy vender who for a year or more has been stationed near the school, dispensing candy to the chil­ dren and passers-by on the street, has been found to be a leper. «• . (v:,' v Attempt to 8eil Girl Charg|||" Pittsburg,. Pa.--Raffalo de Biasi, a grocer of this city, was arrested Fri­ day on complaint of Antonla Gentile, aged 17, who alleges that de Biasi, who Is married, tried to pell a girl jbo hiaa lo* liM. «^ _ -iv * • Washington.--Accompanying the re^ port of the country life commission8 the president sent a special message to congress, substantially as follows: To the Senate and House of Represent­ atives: I transmit herewith the report , 0t the commission on country life. At the outset I desire to ppint out that not a dollar of the public money has been paid to any commissioner for his work on the commission. > The report shows the general condition of farming life in. the open country, and points out its larger problems; It indi­ cates ways in which the government, na­ tional and state, may show the people how to solve some1 of these problems; and It suggests a continuance of the work Which the commission began, . Those engaged in all ot-hfer industrial and commercial callings have found It necessary, under modern economic con­ ditions. to organize themselves for mu­ tual advantage and for the protection of their own particular interests in rela­ tion to other Interests. Now, whatever the state may do to­ ward improving the practice of agri­ culture, it is not within the sphere of; any government to reorganize the farm­ ers' business or reconstruct the 'social life of farming comrhunlties. It is, how­ ever, quite within its power" to .use its influence and th$ machinery of publicity; which It can control for calling public at­ tention to the needs of the facts. For ex­ ample, it is the obvious duty of the gov­ ernment to call the attention of farmers to the growing monopolization of water power. The farmers, above all, should have that power, on reasonable terms, for cheap transportation, for lighting their hemeB, and for innumerable uses in the daily tasks of the farm. ,:i - Necessity for Co-Operation. The co-operatiws plan i» the best plan of organization wherever men have the right spirit to carry it out. Under thia plan any business undertaking is man-; aged by a committee; every man has one vote, and only one vote; and every one gets profits according to' what he •ells or buys or supplies. It develops in­ dividual responsibility and has a moral as well as a financial value pver any other plan. I desire only to take xiounsei with the farmers as fellow-citisens. It is not the problem of the farmers alone that I am discussing with them, but a ^problem which affects every city; as well 'as every farm in the country. From all that has been done and learned three great general and immedi­ ate needs of country life stand out: First, effective co-operation among farmers, to put them on a level with the organized Interests with which they do business. Second, a new kind of schools in the country, which shall teach the children as much outdoors as Indoors and -per­ haps more, so that they will prepare for country life, and not aa at present* main­ ly for life in town. Third, better means of communication. Including good roads and a parcels post, which the country people are everywhere, and rightly, unanimous in demanding. To these may well be added better san­ itation; for easily preventable diseases hold several million country people in the •lavery of continuous ill health. , To Develop Country Community. To improve our system of agriculture seems to me the most urgent of the tasks which lie before us. • But it cannot, in my judgment, be effected by measures which touch only the material and tech­ nical side of the subject; the whole busi­ ness and life of the farmer must also be taken , into account. Such considera­ tions led me to appoint the commission on country life. Our object should be to help develop in the country commu­ nity the great ideals of the community life as well as of personal character. One of the moat important adjuncts to this end must .be the country church, and I invite your attention to what the com­ mission says of the country church and Of tho iioeu of an extension of such work as that of the Young Men's Christian as­ sociation in country communities. Let me lay special emphasis upon what the commission says at the very end of its report on personal ideas and local leader­ ship. Everything resolves Itself in the end into the question of personality. Neither society nor government can do much for country life unless there Is vol­ untary response in the personal Ideals of the men and women who live in the country. In the development of charac­ ter, the home should be more important than the school, or than society at large. When'once the basic material needs have been met, high ideals may be quite in­ dependent of income; but they cannot be realized without sufficient income to pro­ vide adequate foundation; and where the community at large is not financially prosperous it 1» impossible to develop a high average personal and • community ideal. In short, the fundamental facts of human nature apply to men and wom­ en who live in the country just as they apply to men and women 'who live In the towns. Given a sufficient foundation of material well being, the influence of th§ farmers' wives on their children be­ comes the factor of first importance in determining the attitude of the next gen­ eration toward farm life. The farmer should realize that the person who most needs consideration on the farm is his wife. I do not in the least mean that she should purchase ease at the expense of duty. Neither man nor woman is really happy or really useful save on condition of doing his or her duty. If the wom­ an shirks her duty as housewife, as home keeper, as the mother whose prime function is to bear and rear a sufficient number of healthy children, then she is not entitled to our regard. But if she does her duty she is more entitled "to our regard even than the man who_ does his duty; and the man should show spe­ cial consideration for her needs. Welfare of Nation at Stake. I warn my countrymen that the great recent progress made in city life is not a full measure of our civilization; for our civilization rests on the wholesomeness, the attractiveness, and the completeness, as well as the prosperity, of life in the country. The men and women on the farms stand for what is fundamentally best and most needed in our American , We. THEODORE ROOSEVKLT. The White House, February 9, IMS. An Elixir of Life. "An annuity is the best elixir of life I know of," said the examining physician of an Insurance company. "It sometimes seems as if annuitants never die. We have lots on our books who top 80, 90 and even 95 years. "I have passed many a sickly and decrepit old fellow as a good annuity risk--the sicklier tjley are, you know, the better risk they make--and the next year he has turned up to collect his annuity rejuvenated, ropy, spry as a boy. "The secret? The secret is that financial worry, fear of the poorhouae, ages and kills off more people than all the deadly diseases combined. Re- aSSSO MU Cld Sau, uj SjcauS Ol SS nulty, from all this worry, and he throws off his years and walks erect Ifyppy and fearlessly ypung; "it :• A Possible Reason. ^"wonder why all the cold waVfci seem to lose their Intensity as soon as they strike the east?" "I guess it is because they come in contact with some of the hot air But Cttred After Doctors 9a*d T%««» • y\ Was N% Hope. ^ *- - ,; us o. ,Ven-m, 10IM, 'Ok. ; V five ye&s ago a bad injury j V paralyzed me and J*?- affected my kid- V neys. My back hurt i ?; me N terribly, and * ft, tile urine was bad- >• - a'; ly disordered. Doc- v - tors said my right kidney was practi- cally dead. They ,said I cduld never ^ , walk again. I read , , of Doan's Kidney Pills and began us- ^ ing them. One box made me stronger and freer from pain. I kept on using . „ i them and in three months was able to / get out on crutches, and the kidneys were acting better. I improved rap- /.> Idly, discarded the crutches and to ..„;. the wonder of my friends -was soon completely cured"." - Sold by all dealers. 50 cen£s a boac. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Iff INAPPROPRIATE. "I am glad that Washington's birthday is a holiday; it gives me chance to lie in bed in the- morning." "George wouldn't like to have you celebrate his birthday by lylrig." CHILD HAD SIXTY BOILS, And Suffered Annually with a Red j. Bcald-LIke Humor on Her Head. v v Troubles Cured by Cutlcura. "When my little Vivian was about tix months old her head broke out In bolls. She had about sixty in all and I used Cuticura Soap and Cutlcura. Ointment which cured her entirely. Some time later a humor broke out be­ hind her ears and spread up on to her head until it was nearly half cov­ ered. The humor looked like a scald, very red with a sticky, clear fluid com­ ing from it. This occurred every spring. I always used Cuticura Soap and Ointment which never failed to heal it up. The last time it broke out It became so bad that I was dis­ couraged. But I continued the use of Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resol­ vent until she was well and has never been troubled in the last two years. Mrs. M. A. Schwerin, 674 Spring Wells Ave., Detroit, Mich., Feb. 24, 1908.'" Potter Drug ft Chem. Corp., Sole Props* Boston. Not Afraid of a Ghost. In a village In England, a month or so ago, a man came running into an inn at nine o'clock at night and cried out that there was a ghost in his back yard. There were 14 men in the inn,, and not one of them dared to go home with the man and investigate. There was a person who dared, however, and that was the landlord's daughter, a girl of 14. Some of the men followed her at a distance, and she went into the yard and up to the ghoist flapping it» arms about, and discovered--what? That it was no more nor less thah a man's whit© shirt flapping on tfce clothes line in a strong breeze. That'# about the way all ghosts turn out. Criminality of Waste, If I wanted to train a child to be thrifty I should teach him to abhor waste. I do not mean waste of money; that cures itself, because very soon there is no money to waste--but waste of material, waste of something: that is useful but that you cannot rep resent In money value to the waster- There is waste of water, waste of ga» and things of that kind. If you would wish your children to be thrifty I would beg to impress upon them the criminality of waste.--Lord Rosebery* In an Edinburgh Address. > Looking Forward. Mr. Wiggins, being in a frivolous mood, was giving a burlesque imita­ tion of palmistry--pretending to- read his wife's fortune in her palm. Six-year-old Ruth .was listening with intense seriousness, but neither of them was noticing her. "And, finally," he concluded, after the usual recitals about a dark man, * light man, a journey, and a large for­ tune, "you will live to a great age." "Thank God!" broke In Ruth, clap­ ping her hands ecstatically. "Then my children will have a grandmother!" NO MEDICINE^, « But a Change of Food Gave Relief. Many persons are learning that drugs are not the thing to rebuild worn out nerrves, but proper food la required. There is a certain element in the cereals, wheat, barley, etc., which i® grown there by nature for food to brain and nerve tissue. This is the phos­ phate of potash, of which Grape-Nut® food contains a large proportion. In making this food all the food ele-.. ments in the two cereals, wheat and barley, are retained. That is why so 1 many heretofore nervous and run down people find in Grape-Nuts a true nerve and brain food. i "I can say that Grape-Nuts food has done much for me as a nerve renew- er," writes a Wis. bride. "A few years ago, before my mar­ riage, I was a bookkeeper in a large firm. I became so nervous toward the end of each week that it seemed I must give up my position, which I could not afford to do. "Mother purchased some Grape-Nuts and we found it not only delicious but I noticed from day to day that I was improving until I finally realised I waa not nervous any more. "I have- recommended It to friend® as a brain and nerve food, never hav­ ing found its equal. I owe much to Grape-Nuts as it saved me from a nervous collapse, and enabled me to retain my position." Name given by Postum Co., Battle • Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well- ' vijle," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Jjp Ever read the above letterf A mw one itr» from tine to time. They •" are K«-nulie, tnw, aad tall ef kaww. from Wwhlngton.M^e»p[Wtt«A Arnert- • < _ . . < " . . . \ * \ » . . . <