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4* >¥$' 5*^' *-% W. mm\ , , < f / ; lie McHenry Plaindealcr Publ!*hed by P. «. 8CHREINER. McHENRY. ILLINOIS- Water your horse® I What are the bot vtvei i&yisfT Animals Buffer as well as humanity. The fly less city ia an irrldeaoeat dream. What has become of the old fash­ ioned sea serpent? Alaskan Ice Is Just now more popu lar than Alaskan coaL Paris has declared against statues to frock coats. It may prefer pajamas 8ome think an electrtc light bulb til rows out more heat in summer than ttt winter. A Worcester boy killed 1.119,000 lea tn a content, but they wijl never • missed. What has become of the old-fash- toned man who carried a palm-leaf fail fa stammer? I>© not try to invent a new excuse Cm* going to the ball game. Any old excuse will do. Doctor Wiley says that men who Jfltaoke are liable to sunstrok'e. Do ftnr smoking at night. ;<V*'Jr' A New York woman who lost $1,000 ^ Joked about it. Evidently she didn't • have a husband to support. Aviators now fly across the English channel before breakfast an appe­ tiser. It is a humdrum trip. We are told that a dog in St. Lonls *»«q learned to smoke. He shows as much intelligence as his teacher. A hog out In Oregon ate its own- «r*s coat and $700 in real money and seemed to thrive on the rich diet- One of the dangers of being married to an aeroplane is that the first falling out Is likely to result disastrously. " Aylator Atwood is going to try to fly from New York to Chicago. It Is sincerely hoped that he may find the tyiai good. One way to keep cool in summer Is tn avoid summer resorts. One Is likely to be prostrated when one pon­ ders on the bill. A New York boy who walked away from home eight years ago to seek his fortune has spoiled a good story fegr walking back. An advertisement reads: "Wanted --A girl to paste labels on." No self- MBpecting girl would care to have labels pasted on her. A physician advises us to eat onions and become healthy. We know fitir personal experience that garlic la productive of great strength. A man In New Jersey killed his sweetheart with an "unloaded" pistol 8o history, unmindful of the tragedy of it, keeps on repeating itself. We have congealed winter In the form of Ice to temper the summer; now why not bottle up the heat and release it on a cold day next winter? A bullfrog may be a champion fly killer, but he is not what might be called an Ideal pet, especially if there am nervous women around the house A committee of Chicago teachers baa decided that stenographers should bo taught enough of English to en­ able them to correct the boss's blund­ ers. A French scientist has devised an Instrument to forecast thunder storms bat our amateur weather prophets to the old. reliable rheumatism. One man at least has felt the op­ pression of great wealth--the em­ ploye of the San Francisco mint who was burled under $9,000,000 in gold coins. An Omaha debating society has de­ cided that a horse is more desirable Chan an automobile Notwithstanding fiis we presume people will still go en mortgaging their homes for the lat­ ter. A Wisconsin judge has ruled that a must provide his»wlfe with false teeth If she wants them. This, how ever, is interesting only to the women who want them. An Ohio man boasts that he can rock the cradle with one hand and button bis wife's dress with the other. We presume alBo that the gentleman has learned to speak distinctly with a mouth full of pins. IELIS OF FRAUDS SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY REVEALS PLOT TO CHEAT U. S. CHICAGO FIRM GAVE CLEW Cabinet Members Makes Public Steno­ graphic Reports of Congressional Hearing--Declares Government Is Defrauded "Right and Left." Washington. -- Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh in a document made public tells some remarkable revelations made by his department in eradicating many gigantic frauds from the United States customs service and the assistance given him by business firms and citizens. The document is a stenographic record of a hearing in which Mr. MacVeagh testified before the house committee on expenditures in the treasury department. The tremendous cleaning up of frauds in the customs service which the secretary has accomplished was briefly sketched for the benefit of the committee. Most of these instances never became public. More than $500,000 in fines and penalties was collected from English woolen manu­ facturers and American importers. The Panama hat frauds were dis­ covered through information given Mr. MacVeagh by Marshall Field & Co. This firm imported its first lot of Panama hats a year and a half ago. They were passed through the Chicago customs house on the con­ sular Invoice. Shortly afterward the firm received a second invoice showing a 50 per cent, higher valuation. A cabled in­ quiry to Peru brought the information that the firm was to pay for the hats on the second Invoice, the first being for customs duty purposes solely, and the message added: "What every­ body does." The Chicago firm then presented the second inxoice at th e custom house and paid the full duty. The secretary said that hitherto not only sugar but every other kind of merchandise had been underweight- ed at New York and the "government heavily defrauded right and left." "There was a tremendous amount of corruption there," he said, "and on the passenger docks. That is the reason we had to take up the question of passenger baggage. I do not care much about passenger baggage--I got abused for !t all over the country. But the reel reason why we reformed the passenger baggage abuse was that if you should let the outrageous conditions on the passenger docks remain it would be hopeless to try to rehabilitate the rest of the service. "Of course, that passenger smug­ gling was the most conspicuous thing among the customs frauds. It was notoriously bad, dishonest, and cor­ rupt." BRITISH RAIL STRIKE ENDS English Government Aids Disputants --Union Claims Victory--Lloyd George Peace Factor. London.--The railway men through- rot the kingdom are returning to their work, and it is hoped within a few days to have the great transit system working under normal condi­ tions. The cabinet had been working night and day since the strike was threatened to arrange a compromise between the railway managers and their employes. Most of the credit for the ultimate success of their ef­ forts appears to rest upon the shoul­ ders of David Lloyd-George, chancel- tor of the exchequer, who, in his state­ ments to parliament and in an inter­ view with the managers and the men, worked fcr conciliation when all others of the interested parties seemed to have given it up. A joint committee of five members, composed of two representatives of the railway companies, two of the men and a non-partisan chairman, will be appointed Tuesday to inves­ tigate the workings of the concilia­ tion act of 1907, which the men claim is the root of all their grievances. Judging by the English, channel aviation will soon become as common as a ride on a lumber wagon in the country. Collector Loeb has seized 1130,000 worth of furs. No one, however, cares what becomes of furs in the present weather. We see by the papers that a Phila­ delphia woman 80 years old Is taking cornet lessons. Evidently she has de­ veloped a terlble grudge against Her neighbors. Decrease of Crop Values. Washington.--The average farm value of all field crops grown in 1910 in the United States was approxi­ mately $15.47 an acre, as just estimat­ ed by the department of agriculture. This is a decrease of 99 cents from the previous year. Law Hits Communion Cup. Kansas City, Mo.--Persons who at­ tend communion services in Kansas City's churches in the future may be required to have an individual cup. An ordinance abolishing all public drinking receptacles is before the city council. Louisville (Ky.) Gat 8trlke Ends. Louisville, Ky.--Striking employes of the Louisville Gas company will return to work in time to replenish the stock of gas, which had dwindled to a small amount. The workmen ob­ tained a ten-hour day with 25 emits Increase. Another minister has been jilted on the eve of his wedding. Another argu­ ment in favor of Increased pay for Clergymen. A Pennsylvania man married his Stepmother after his father had di­ vorced her. Following in father's |ootsUps. * ^ A roofer, while walking in his sleep. amid to have shingled his hous*. '• tbo firBt time we have ever P * '•eard of a sleep walker doing any- Sf- '• . v (IcAii • 'm. In Jail Flfty-8even Times. Hartford, Conn--A "Marathon" time server in the local Jail began a thirty days' sentence, his fifty-seventh since 1895. He is "Patsy" Flynn. Flynn's usual offense is drunkenness. BREAKS AIR RECORD BRINDLEY SOARS 11,786 FEET- SETS NEW WORLD'S MARK. "Jimmy" Ward Has Narrow Escape From Death--Volplanes to Safety. Grant Park Arlatlon Field, Chicago. --Borne by man made wings and sus­ tained by man made power, Oscar Brlndley, in a baby Wright biplane, explored a region hitherto denied to man. More than eleven thousand feet above the waters of Lake Michigan, he circled through clouds invisible from earth, flirted with death in its most horrible form and finally de­ scended safely--a new hero In the fast increasing list of those made by the new game, or science, or sport-"- aviation. Brindley registered 11,726 feet; Par- melee, 10,837. The world's record Is 11,332 feet, made eight or ten days ago by Captain Felix, a Frenchman, In a Farm an ma­ chine. Thrillers of another sort than the cloud chasing punctuated the day's events. James Ward's propeller went to piecfp during a fllght--one of the accidents most feared by airmen--and sent. splinters flying in a cloud. The aviator descended in safety, however. Earle Ovington was ^forced to alight in the lake during the cross-lake-and- country flight to the South Shore Country club at sundown. ADMIRAL TOGO IN WASHINGTON TAFT STARTS ON TRIP SEPT. 12 Leaders View Jaunt as Most Impor­ tant Politically He Has Mapped Out. Washington.--Plats for President Taft's coming trip through the west and to the Pacific coast practically are completed. The journey will be almost as ex­ tensive as that taken hy the president on his famous "swing around the cir­ cle" in 1909, when he traveled more than 13,000 miles and vfsited 33 states. He will break ground for the Panama canal exposition at St>.n Francisco, make many addresses and attempt to scale the 14,000 feet of Mount Rain- ier's precipitous slope. According to the present arrange­ ment the president will be gone six weekB. In that time it is expected that he will make close to 200 speech­ es from platform from th«? rear end of his private car and at otjie- places not on the regular schedule. Republican leaders look upon the trip as the most important politically the president has mapped out Bince he entered the White House. H® will go through all the states in th& west in which they recognize the domination of the progressive Republicans who are counted on to oppose his renoml- nation next year. The president probably will leave Beverly September 12, returning east about November 1. He will go west through lo'wa, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Nevada to the coast. Most of the big cities in these states, including Des Moines, Kansas City. Omaha, Denver and Salt Lake, will be visited, but the plans for the trip con­ template stops at scores of smaller places. From California the president wi{l go north to Portland and Seattle. Three days are to be spent in Wash­ ington state, and the route eastward will allow him to stop in Idaho. Mon­ tana, the Dakotaa and Minnesota. TAFI IS SUSTAINED EFFORTS TO FORCE THROUGH WOOL AND FREE LIST DE­ FEATED. SENATE PASSES STATEHOOD Efforts to Force Through Wool and 1 Free List Measures Are De­ feated--Adjournment Is in Sight. J. W. GATES LEFT $30,000,000 Financier's Affairs Were at High Water Mark When Death Overtook Him. New York. -- The will of the late John W. Gates, which will be pro­ bated at Port Arthur, Tex., as soon as the widow of Mr. Gates and the Bon, Charles G. Gates, arrive fiom Europe, will place all the Gates prop­ erties and securities in a trust, and this trust will not permit any of the property to be disposed of until after ten years have elapsed. It became known that Mr. Gates, at the time of his death, was wealthier than be had been at any other period in his life of somewhat fluctuating fortunes. The frequently announced estimate of $30,000,000 is considerably under what the total of the artate will be. MAY WED MISS FORCE AT SEA Colonel Astor Settles $2,000,000 on His Flnacee, After Which Yacht Cruise 8tarts. New York.--Col. John Jacob Astoi took his fiancee, Miss Madeline Tal mage Force, on a mysterious cruls« aboard his steam yacht Noma. The voyage's object, as officially nounced by Colonel Astor, was the health of Miss Force." "Her condition is BO serious thai we have brought a trained nurse along." The colonel, it is said, haf given Miss Force $2,000,000 as a marriage settlement. an fot U. 3. Sues Road for $3,000. Duluth, Minn.--A suit has been in­ stituted in the United States circuit court by order of Attorney General Wickersham against the Duluth. Missabe & Northern railway on a charge of breaking the federal law. The government demands damages of $3,000. Washington.--President Taft em­ erged victorious from the tariff and statehood struggles with con­ gress. An effort was made in the house of representatives to override his veto of the wool bill. It failed, 227 to 129. Immediately afterward the presi­ dent's veto of the farmers' free list bill was received from the White House, and after a forty minutes' de­ bate that measure alBo failed to pass over the executive disapproval by a vote of 226 to 127. It requires a two-thirds majority to pass a measure over a veto. While the house was having highly exciting times over the tariff issue in Its latest and most sensational phase the senate was disposing of the new joint statehood resolution, which makes the elimination of the judicial recall in the Arizona constitution a prerequisite to the admission of that territory Into the Union. The resolu­ tion was passed after four hours' de­ bate by a vote of 63 to 8. Concluding a day of momentous hsp- penings. the Democrats of the house ways and means committee decided in favor of accepting the senate addi­ tions to the cotton revision bill. The leading feature of the day was the unsuccessful attempt to pass the wool bill over President Taft's veto, and next to that the president's veto message in which he mercilessly re­ flected on the lawmakers for the sup- Bhod methods pursued in framing and passing the free-list measure. In vetoing the wool bill the presi- dent declared thst no sctlos should be taken until the tariff board had an opportunity to present its report. He said: "If these ever was a schedule that needed consideration and investiga­ tion and elaborate explanation by ex- perts before its amendment, it is schedule K. "But I have no sufficient data upon which I can judge how schedule K ought to be amended or how its rates ought to be reduced In order that the new bill shall furnish the proper measure of protection and no more Nor have I sources of information which satisfy me that that bill pre­ sented to me for signature will accom­ plish this result" DEFENDS HIS ACTS ROOSEVELT EXPLAINS HIS TES­ TIMONY BEFORE STATE PROBE. Declares Tennessee Deal Prevented Financial Panic--Did Not Concern Himself With Motives. New York.--In an article In the Outlook under the headline. "The Steel Corporation and the Panic of 1907," former President Roosevelt dis­ cusses his recent appearance befpre the congressional committee investi­ gating the steel corporation, repeating the written statement he then pre­ sented and after dealing with some of the lines of Inquiry and hlB re­ sponses he says: "Most of the questions dealt with matters not of sufficient moment to warrant allusion to them here. Many of them were as to what my belief was concerning the motives of the steel corporation people in acquiring the Tennessee Coal and Iron com­ pany's property; to which, of course, my answer w<Js that it was not my business, and neither was it in my power to seach the hidden domain of motive, and that my action was con­ ditioned. not upon what I believed to be the motives actuating the steel corporation, but upon the belief that the action which they proposed taking would be enormously to the benefit of the community at large at; that par­ ticular moment. TAFT SHIFTS MANY CONSULS Merchant Fleet Is Plan. San Francisco.--The Panama-Pa­ cific Exposition company pledged it­ self to lend its aid toward carrying out the New Orleans plan to send the first vessel through the Panama canal. Merchant Fleet Is Plan. San Francisco.--The Panama-Pa­ cific Exposition company pledged it­ self to lend its aid toward carrying out the New Orleans plan to send the first vessel through the Panama canal. Rostand Hurt by Auto. Paris.--Edmond Rostand, author of Cyrano de Bergerac and Chantecler, was Seriously but not fatally injured' when an automobile in which he was riding overturned near Cambo. M. Rostand's head was bruised and he was badly hurt In the abdominal re­ gion. Inaugurate Leeonte In Haiti. Port Au Prince.--General Leeonte was Inaugurated president In the presence 01 .0 .mjoea-e crowd. There] ho^"!u"thuTa» was much enthusiasm. 1 Artist De Llpman Is Dead. New York.--Word was received in this city of the death at Graz, Aus­ tria, of Max de Lipmon, the Il­ lustrator. Transatlantic Balloon Ready. Akron. O.--After several months' work the mamihoth dirigible balloon, in which Melvin Vanlman will at­ tempt to cross the Atlantic ocean, has been completed «at a local plant and will early next week be shipped to At­ lantic City, N. J. Martial Law at Juarez. Juarez, Mex.--With 200 men, Gener­ al PaBcual Orozco, who arrived here from Chihuahua, raided the gambling He has pro- 1 claimed martial law in Juarea. Quantrells In a Reunion. Blue Springs, Mo.--In a grove on the outskirts of this town the stead­ ily dwindling troop of survivors of the Quantrell band of guerrillas, the famous border fighters of Civil war days, held their annual reunion. Boy Shoots and Kills Sister. Jacksonville, 111.--While playing with a ,32-callber revolver, Frank Robertson, aged seven years, son of Mr and Mrs. Walter Robertson, acci­ dentally killed his sister Rinda, aged three years. Fifty-One Custom Houses Abolished. Washington.--If the treasury depart­ ment plans for redisricting the cus­ toms territory of the United States are approved by congress, the number of custom houses will be reduced from 124 to 78. George Horton, Formerly of Chicago, Named Consul General at Smyrna --Makes Many Nominations. Washington.--President Taft sent to the senate a large number of dip­ lomatic and consular nominations. George Horton. formerly of Chicago. Is made consul general at Smyrna, Turkey; Edwin D. Wlnslow of Illinois has been named connul general at Copenhagen: John F. Jewell and Milton B. Kirk of Illi­ nois are to be consuls, the former at Vladivostok, the latter at Mansanlllo, Mexico: Willing Spencer of Pennsylvania to be secretary of the embassy at Berlin; Arthur H. Frazler, Pennsylvania, to be eerond secretary of the embassy at Vi­ enna; George C. Harler. New York, to be nevreiary of the legation ai Montevideo, Roger S. Greene, Massachusetts, to be consul general at Hankow, China; John E. Kehl, Ohio, to be consul at Salonlkl, Turkey; William C. Magelssen. Minne­ sota, to be consul at Melbourne, Aus­ tralia; George B. McGoogan. Indiana, to be consul at Georgetown. Guiana; Albert W. Pontius. Minnesota, to be at Dalny. Manchuria: Alexander Helngart- ner, Ohio, to be consul at Liege, Belgium; Adolph A. Williamson. District of Co­ lumbia. to be consul at Antung, China. Law Hits Communion Cup. Kansas City, Mo --Persons who at­ tend communion services in Kansas Clty'B churches in the future may be required to have an individual cup. An ordinance abolishing all public drinking receptacles is before the city council. Log Drive Measures 55,000,000 Feet. Minneapolis, Minn.--Flfty-flve mil­ lion feet of logs are being driven down the Mississippi river. The drive will reach Minneapolis early in Sep­ tember. Log Drive Measures 55,000,000 Feet. Minneapolis, Minn--Fifty-five mil­ lion feet of logs are being driven down the Mississippi river. The drive will reach Minneapolis early In Sep­ tember. CONGRESS AT END WORK ACCOMPLISHED BY LEGIS­ LATORS IN SPECIAL SESSION CLOSES. SENATE CAUSE OF DELAYS Trouble In Putting Through Legisla­ tive Program BJartied on Upper House--Session Called to Consider Reciprocity Takes Up Other Issues. Pope Much Better. ^ Rome.--The physicians found the pope with a normal temperature and otherwise improved, and accordingly, for the first time since his illness be­ came serious, permitted a departure from a liquid diet They ordered rice and chicken. Hold German Officer as 8py. Plymouth, England.--Philip Max Schulz, a German army officer, was arested here charged with espionage. The prosecution Intimated the Ger­ man government was Involved in the Cholera in a Garrison? Paris.--The ParlB Midi Is authority for a report that sixty soldiers at the Marseilles garrison have been placed in the hospital as suspected cholera patients. Bury Ashes of General Nettleton. Washington.--The ashes of Brig. Gen. A. B. Nettleton of Chicago, who died here, were interred with mili­ tary honors In Arlington National cemetery. General Nettleton was at one time assistant secretary of the treasury. Troops Patrol Boundary. Washington.--Because of threat­ ened trouble is l ower California, a troop of ruitt,;ij. .S'ites cavalry will be ordeaH^Mljb order to patrol the border iflHkr: Washington.--The extra session of congress is ended. Although it was called by the president solely for the purpose of passing the Canadian reci­ procity bill, it was readily recognised at the outset that the legislation of congress would not be confined to that one item. A tabulation of the progress of legislation enacted by the extra session fully justifies all the predictions made last April to the ef­ fect that the danger to the entire leg­ islative program lay primarily in the senate. The progress of legislation through both houses of congress during the session plainly indicates *hat by far the greater portion Of the delays has been the fault of the senate The table of legislation <s. as fol­ lows : , Canadian reciprocity--Bill intro­ duced April 12, reported to the i uuse April 13, passed the house April 21. received by the senate and referred to the committee on finance April 24, reported to the senate July 13, passed by the senate July 22. Signed by the president July 26. 1 Wool revision bill--Introduced in the house June 2, reported to the house June 6, passed the house June 20, received by the senate and re­ ferred to the committee on finance June 21, reported to the senate with­ out hearings on motion of Senator Gore .June 22, passed the senate July 27, house conferees appointed August 1, senate conferees appointed August 2, conference report adopted by the house August 14, conference report adopted by the senate August 15, Ve­ toed by the president August 17. Free list bill--Introduced in the house April 12, reported to the house April 19, passed the house May 8, re­ ceived by the senate and referred to the senate committee on finance May 0, reported to the senate on motion or Senator Gore and without hearing June 22, passed the senate August 1, house conferees appointed August 3» senate -onferees appointed August 4, conference report adopted by the sen­ ate August 16, conference report adopt­ ed by the house August 17. Vetoed by the president August 18. Cotton revision bill--Introduced in the house July 26, reported to the house July 27, passed by the house August 3, received by the senate and referred to the committee on finance August 4, reported to the senate on motion August 10; passed the senate, with amendments adding iron, and steel schedule, reciprocal coal with Canada and chemicals and machinery used in the manufacture of cotton goods, August 17; senate bill agreed to by the house August 21. Vetoed by the president. Statehood bill (first)--Introduced In the house April 4, reported to the house May 12, passed the house May 23, received by the senate and referred to the committee on territories May 25, reported to the senate July 11, passed the senate August 9, (legislative day August 8), senate bill accepted in the chouse August 10. Vetoed by the pres­ ident August 15. Statehood bill (second)--Introduced in the senate August 16. reported to the senate by the house August 18, passed by the house August 19. Signed by the president August 21. Reapportionment--Introduced in the house April 10, reported to the houb» April 25, passed the house April 27, received by the senate and referred to the committee on census April 28, re­ ported to the senate July 6, passed the senate August 3, senate bill concurred in by the house August 4. Signed by the president August 8. Resolution providing for the direct • election of senators--Introduced In the house April 5, reported to the house April 12, passed the house April 13, received by the senate and referred to the committee on the judiciary April 17, reported to the senate May 1, passed the senate June 12, senate conferees appointed June 2T, house conferees appointed July 5. This reso­ lution is still In conference. Publicity of campaign funds--Intro­ duced in the house April 10, reported to the house April 14. passed by the house April 14, received by the senate and referred to the committee on privileges and elections April 15, re­ ported to the senate June 19, passed by the senate July 17, houBe conferees appointed August 1, senate conferees appointed August 2, conference report agreed to by the senate August 18, by the house August 17. Signed by the president August 19. The senate has not acted upon the arbitration treaties. . Married Fifth Time In Ntne Years. Kenosha. Wis--Vying with Grace Snell Coffin, the much married Chi­ cago womari,* Mrs. Bonnie M. Clark, also a Chicago woman, has out-coffined Mrs Coffin when she married In Ke­ nosha for the fifth time In nine years. Three husbands aro under the sod. Taft Declines Invitation. Washington.--President Taft de­ clined an invitation to dedicate Lin­ coln hall at the University of Illinois, at Urbana, on October p. Ministers Face Fines. Cincinnati --Figures show that in the past twenty-five years there have been 2,660 weddings in this city which have not been reported. Under the laws of Ohio, if a minister doesn't re­ port a marriage performed, he can be fined $50. Here the Boss Can't 8wear. Washington.--Col. George W. Goe- thals, chief engineer. Issued an order against the use of profanity or abusive language by foremen when address­ ing subordinates. LAUGHTER PLEASING TO GOD Nowher# In Biblical Lore Can There Be found Intimation of Any Other Idea. We misjudge and distort the nor­ mally human nature of the Saviour when we picture him going through life, as Dante did after he had writ­ ten his "Inferno," with the shadows of perdition on his brow. We may gravely question when it was that the cross began to darken our Lord's pathway; there is no hint of sucb a foreboding until we reach the mid­ dle of his ministry. From that on there are occasional tokens that he saw Calvary ahead of him, and was at times pressed down with a dread­ ful sense of the inevitable agony which awaited him at the end. But all this is very far from affording any reasonable'ground for the conclusion that he smiled sometimes, but never laughed. If God did not Intend us to laugh, on occasion, why did he endow us with the capacity to laugh, with a sense of the humorous, with the fao» nlty to see and enjoy wit, fun and the absurd side of life; and, further­ more, Why did he produce so many things and people to laugh at?-- Zion's Herald. MISUNDERSTOOD HER. Mr*. Reeder (making a call)--And does your husband interest himself in books? Mrs. Neuriche--No. Hiram keeps three bookkeepers. Absurd. Among the recent visitors to ft metropolitan museum was a woman from a rural district, who was much interested in the ancient pottery ex­ hibits. The attendant pointed out one col­ lection of beautiful old vaBes, say­ ing: "Those were dug up at Herculan- eum." k "What!" exclaimed the woman from the country. "Dug up?" "Yes, madam." "Out of the ground?" "Just as they are n6w. They wers cleaned up a bit, but they were found about as you see them." With an expressive toss of the head, the lady from the country turned to her companion and said: "He's a nice-looking young feller, but I don't believe what he says. They never dug up no ready-made pots out of the ground."--Lipplncott's Magazine. Character In the Eye. Beware of the man who does not look you clearly in the eye. He has possibilities of evil in his nature. There are eyes which are luminous, others which seem to be veiled be­ hind a curtain. Men and women of the world are accustomed to judge human nature by the expression of the eye. Many peo­ ple read character by the eyes, and can thus distinguish the false from the loyal, the frank from the deceitful, the hard from the tender, the energetic from the indolent, the sympathetic from the indifferent. The Young Idea. There are two kinds of joints, tho hinges and the ball-bearing. - Reflex action is the inside eye and ear. Reflex action controls things that we do not have to think about, as talking. Had we no skin,, our'clothes would cause us endless agony. The stomach Is the trunk of our body. The stomach contans the liver. The stomach is south of the lungs, west of the liver. It has three coats. Without the stomach we should die, therefore ®od chose the stomach to digest our food.--Woman's Home Com­ panion. GET POWER. The Supply Comes From Food. If we get power from food why not strive to get all the power we can. That is only possible by use of skil­ fully selected food that exactly fit* the requirements of the body. Poor fuel makes a poor fire and a poor fire Is not a good steam producer. "From not knowing how to select the right food to fit my needs, I suf­ fered grievously for a long time from stomach troubles," writes a lady from a little town In Missouri. "It seemed as if I would never bs able to find out the sort of food that was best for me hardly anything that I could eat would stay on my stomach. Every attempt gave me heartburn and filled my stomach with gas. I got thinner and thinner until I literally became a living skeleton, and in time was compelled to keep to my bed. A few months ago I was persuade^ to try Grape-Nuts food, and ^t had such good effect from the very beginning that I have kept np its use ever since. 1 was surprised at the ease with which 1 digested it. It proved to be just what I needed. "All my unpleasant symptoms, the heartburn, the Inflated feeling which gave me so much pain disappeared. My weight gradually increased from 98 to 116 pounds, my figure rounded out, my strength came back, and I am now able to do my housework and en­ joy it Grape-Nuts food did it," Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. A ten days' trial will show anyone some facts about food. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a reason." Bver read the akovc letterT A a«w appear* from Hm to tlae. Ttoy are twslMt U«i, aa* ~ "siaaaaife-