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The fflcHenry Plaindealer Published by F. a 8CHREINKR. McHENRY, ILLINOIS The auto can beat the old Qreen chaise. Gretna French experiments with an aero nail service may result in a drop In postage. Still, there is no pity for the poor baseball players, who are bought and •old like so many tubs of butter. PANIC IS HALTED THE REASON WHY '• r CANADIAN LIBERAL MINISTRY AND RECIPROCITY ARE BAD­ LY BEATEN AT ELECTION. BORDEN WILL BE PREMIER Opposition Will Have a Majority of More Than 50 in New Parliament-- Seven Members of Privy Council Are Ousted. Perhaps the champion idiot and criminal combined is the person who •houts "Fire!" in a crowde.d theater. What if the beef prices are N going op? The doctors tell us that we have been eating too much of it. anyway. A New York young woman killed an­ other with a hatpin, but the death was due to carrying concealed liq­ uids. A Newark fan dreamed he was slid­ ing for home--he bumped his head on the floor hard, and found he was borne. A French scientist declares that the body rests more quickly after fast work, but even this is no excuse for the Joy rider Too many babies are killed by their pushing out loose window screens. It seems like a foolish waste of perfect­ ly good babies. A Kentucky minister has figured out that heaven is a structure 792,000 stor­ ies high. Let us hope that it has ade­ quate elevator service. Science, it is asserted, has solved the mystery of the Sphynx. but hard ly anybody can solve the mystery of a boiled egg until after breaking 1L A Chicago pastor Bays: "Wait until you are burning with an idea before putting pen to paper." Yes, and then call out the fire department instead. The bobolinks are flying toward the rice fields of Louisiana. This may mean an early fall and again it may alsnply mean that the birds are hun- fry- Laundrymen prefer Pittsburg as the scene of their convention in 1912. There are reasons why laundrymen should have an affection for Pitts­ burg. "Is a chicken an animal?" must be decided by a judge at Port Chester, N. Y. The half-dollar table d'hote chicken Is suspected of being a min­ eral. In due time there will be angry farmers watching with shotguns to keep some trans-continental flier from •lighting in their cornfields with his aeroplane. • Rochester girl refused a young man twelve times because he smoked cigarettes, but not more than one.girl In twelve would refuse a man once for that reason. One nice thing about an aeroplane race is that you can see the racers occasionally even if a tall man or a tat woman happens to be directly in front ot you. The Frenchman who has succeeded In "photographing thought" has per­ haps pointed the way to getting the truth from witnesses who find it con­ venient to forget A college professor comes to the front to announce that vacations are dangerous If he got among a crowd of enraged vacationists he would find them even more so. A man in Atlantic City has adver­ tised that he is lost. Why should be go to that trouble, when, according to some ministers, most of the people there are in the same condition? Up in Wisconsin a man dived into the water and caught a 22-pound ^nuskellunge. Down in Texas they are killing mountain lions with jack- knives. We need a frost "Drop in and dine any day" will not be a fashionable invitation much longer if aviators take up the custom of dropping in through the roof as the one in Atlantic City did. The announcement that from 1,750,- 000 to 8,000,000,000 bacteria are con­ tained in a cubic centimeter of ice cream must go unchallenged on our part for lack of time in verifying the figures. A Boston girl of seventeen years old haB become the bride of a China­ man. Perhaps she wants to be sure that it will never be necessary tor her to do the family laundry work herself. Montreal.--Sir Wilfrid Laurler, the Liberal Government and reciprocity with the United States suffered a most disastrous defeat at the polls through­ out the Dominion of Canada. With reciprocity the paramount issue of the campaign the voting turned a Liberal majority '6f 42 into a Conservative majority of more than 50. Seven cabinet ministers who had served with Premier Laurier were among the defeated candidates. The Liberals lost ground in prac­ tically every province of the Dominion Where they won. their majorities were small. Where the Conservatives wot: their majorities were tremendous. Ontario, the leadiag province of Can­ ada, declared almost unanimously against the administration and reci­ procity. Robert L. Borden, leader of the Conservative party, will shortly be­ come the prime minister of Canada. He will be supported in parliament by a working majorfty of members far more than ample for his purposes. The government defeat means that the Fielding-Knox reciprocity agree­ ment, ratified by the American con gress in extra session, will not be in troduced when the twelfth parliament assemblies next month, and that a re­ vised basis of trade with the United States looking to closer commercial relatio#s will not be possible in the immediate future. The Conservatives are committed to a policy of trade expansion within the empire and a closed door against the United States. Although re-elected in two constitu­ encies in Quebec, the defeat of the Liberal party also means the retire­ ment from public life of Sir Wilfrid Laurler, who for nearly two decades has directed the destinies of the Do­ minion. Several times during the bit­ ter campaign which preceded tj>e election the venerable premier said defeat of his party at the polls meant the end of his career: that he never would consent to lead a minority in opposition to a Conservative govern­ ment. A Liberal membership of 53 from Quebec was cut down to 36. which, taken alone, seriously threatened the supremacy of the party. But it was in Ontario that the Con­ servatives won their greatest vic­ tories. Spurred on by appeals to patriotism and the cry that reciproc­ ity wae the entering wedge for an­ nexation, the Conservatives swept nearly everything before them. That province, which in the last parliament was represented by 35 Liberals and 51 Conservatives, will send a delegation to the next composed of 13 Liberals afid 75 Conservatives. A notable fea­ ture of the defeat was the opposition's capture of two hitherto Liberal seat* in Saskatchewan The returns show an opposition ma­ jority of 50, as follows: Opposition members elected, 131; Liberal mem­ bers elected, 81 This is practically complete, accounting for 212 out of 221 members. The result comes as an unexpected disaster in the face of the confident hopes of the government that it would be sustained on the paramount issue it had made of reciprocity be­ tween Canada and the United States. Seven members of the Laurier min­ istry were among the defeated mem­ bers reported, with otuer Liberal min­ isters still in doubt and the current strong againBt them. Sir Wilfrid Laurier is elected in Quebec East, as the seat had not been contested. ^ Minister of Finance Fielding and Minister of Customs Paterson, who made the reciprocity bargain with the United States, failed to win; Sir Fred­ erick Borden, minister of militia; Mac- Kenzie King, minister of labor; Syd­ ney Fisher, minister of agriculture; George P Graham, minister of rail­ ways, and William Templtman, min­ ister of inland revenues, also went down to defeat. The province of Que­ bec rejected one minister, British Co­ lumbia one. Nova Scotia two and On­ tario three. Quebec province complete, except for two deferred electious, gives the op­ position 26 seats and the government 37. The division in the last parliament wai: Opposition, 12; government, 63 Kalamazoo, Mich.--President Taft heard the news of the defeat of reci­ procity in the Canadian election while at a banquet here. The intelligence cast uloom over the presidential party and caused the president Intense dis­ appointment. "I am greatly disap­ pointed over the result of the reciproc­ ity election so far as the returns have Indicated." said the president •ANKING INTERESTS THROW •UPPORT TO WALL 8TREE|g 8tee1 Stecks Slump and Worst Up* heave! In Ten Years Is Wlfr npssed on Exchange. New York.--The stock market was overwhelmed b^ a wild* outburst of selling, which for a time resulted in demoralization and swift depreciation in market values. Alarm at the re­ ports of approaching dissolution of the United States Steel corporation resulted in an enormous volume of selling by holders of the corporation's stock in ail parts of the country and in Europe. The defeat of reciprocity in the Ca­ nadian election^ contributed to the unsettlement of the market. Not since the panic which grew out of the Northern Pacific "corner" ten years ago has such a convulsion of the stock market occurred. Wall street was in utter confusion. Officials of the Steel corporation main­ tained their silence, and the situation remained virtually unchanged. The only fact which stood out from the confused rumors and opinions was a definite statement from Attorney General Wickersham that no arrange­ ments for the dissolution of the corpo­ ration had been made, and that no such action had been proposed by the department of Justice. This put an end to the widely circulated reports that the corporation had proposed a plan of dissolution to the department of justice, with the idea of averting a dissolution suit ITALY NEAR WAR WITH TURKS Ottomans Said to have Captured Ital- Ian Liner as Result of Dispute Over Tripoli. Port Said, Sept. 25.--The crisis be­ tween Italy and Turkey over the pro­ posal of the former nation to establish a protectorate over Tripoli has reached its climax, according to reports re­ ceived here, and a conflict between the natibns seems inevitable. The Turks, according to reports re­ ceived here from apparently reliable authority, have captured the Italian liner Regina Margherita at Mersina, in Asia Minor. The steamer is one of the fleet of the Navlgazione Generale Ital- iana of Genoa. By way of Paris another report has been received that the Italians have landed troops at three points on the coast of Tripoli. As the Italians have been prepared for some time to take immediate ac­ tion should the Ottoman government refuse to agree to the protectorate it is thought that action in seizing the Italian liner will precipitate trouble between the countries at once. Up to the present time Italy, in all negotia­ tions carried on, has exhibited a de­ sire to avoid extreme measures, even offering to leave Tripoli under the sov­ ereignty of the sultan in case the as­ surance is given of Italy's future pre­ ponderance of power in Tripoli. Germany and Austria are said to have agreed to this plan, and France and Italy have signified a willingness to indemnify Turkey in case it is adopted. The attitude of Turkey, however, has been one of defiance, and should it be triable to offer a good excuse for the capturing of the liner, war may be ex­ pected. The Italian fleet is now at Taranto, under orders to be ready to sail at a moment's notice. M/M The 8ugar Trust, after squaring up with the government for its custom house scales steals, and getting on an honest basis once more, rose to so high a moral plane that It raised the price of sugar. 0GR0FF TO HANG THIRTEEN MERRYMAKER8 ARE KILLED AND NINE INJURED IN CRASH. BODIES ARE JBADLY MANGLED Signboard and Fog Obstructs View and Engine Plunges Into Vehicle Carrying Thirty-One Young People at Neenah, Wis. FOUR HELD FOR LYNCHING! Chief of Police, His Subordinate and Two Residents of Coatesville Are Arrested. Coatesville, Pa.--Chief of Police Charles E. Unsted, Policeman 8taniey Hqw6 Richard Tucker, an issursncs agent, and Wallace Markward, all reiidents of this city, were arrested as the result of indictments returned by a grand jury that investigated the burning to death of Zack Walker, a negro murderer, on August 13. Unsted and Howe are charged with involuntary manslaughter, and Tucker and Markward with murder. The policemen were admitted to bail of J2.000 each. Tucker and Mark- ward were sent to prison without balL CELEBRATE TAKING OF ROME There has been a revolution in Ecu­ ador, but we have not been able to find out whether it was necessary or Just indulged in because the revolu­ tionists felt the need of practice. Several cases have occurred of eye­ sight threatened or lost by the inordi­ nately long hatpin point . Unless worn en realize them selves that this ia a constant and serious menace and re­ strict the length of the sharp pin, some steps will have to be taken to protect the general public from this dangerous nuisance. Gardner Is Maine Senator. Portland, Me.--Obediah Gardner of Rockland was appointed United States senator to succeed the late Senator William P. Frye. Mr. Gardner was Democratic candidate for governor of Maine in 1908. A Chicago man has been bequeathed a million dollars on condition that he will not drink or gamble until he is sixty. Pretty tough, to have to„«tart such a pace at that time of life. 112 Years Old; Dies a Pauper. West Stockbridge, Mass.--Mary Mc­ Carthy, believed to have been the old­ est person in Massachusetts, died here, agt-d one hundred and twelve years. For mare than fifty years she was a town charge. This has been a summer of intense beat and violent storms. Rarely has lightning struck so often with such dire results, and heavy downpours of rain have played havoc with crops in many parts of the country. Losses to \ farmers have been enormous, and in I many ways Um season has been ab- ^:.^'4^orm*L • /'* -i Robbers Get $35,000 Gold. Seattle, Wash.--A dispatch from Kaltag, Alaska, says masked men held u\> a car on the Idatarod Flat tramwuy, one and a ha'f miles from Flat City, and stole a strong box con­ taining $35,000 in gold dust, the prop­ erty of Friend, Lawson & James. Parade Features Anniversary of Fall of Temporal Power of Papacy- Many Denominations Present. Rome. -- The forty-flrst annivers­ ary of the taking of Rome by the Italian troops and the mil of the temporal power of the papacy was celebrated here One of the features was a great parade participated in by hundreds of societies, most prominent being the Free Masons; many for­ eign delegations were present. Many Methodist delegates to the European conference now in'session here also took part In the celebration. Neenah, Wis.--Twelve persons were killed outright, one injured so badly he died within an hour, and nine others were seriously Injured, four probably fatally, all members of a hay­ rack party, when a north-bound North­ western passenger crashed into the vehicle at the Commercial street crossing here. Nine occupants of the wagon, in­ cluding the driver, escaped with alight injuries. Two of the victims were Chicagoans, the remainder of the party being residents of Menasha. The victims of the crash were re­ turning from the Peter Hanson farm, three miles outside of Neenah, where they had gone ten hours previous to attend the celebration of a wedding i anniversary and dance. I Armless, legless and headless bodies j covered the tracks as the train, nine coaches in length, was brought to a ' stop 800 feet from the scene of the I crash. Several of the bodies were so badly mutilated that identification was possible only by fragments of clothing that clung to the several parts. Six of the victims, all dead, were piled on the engine pilot, where they lay until removed by members of the train crew and passengers wbo vol­ unteered their services. Two others were hurled through a flagman's shanty alongside of «the fa­ tal crossing, the force of the contact practically upending the little struc­ ture. Another of the victims who was in­ stantly killed and whose body was not found until half an hour after the crash, was hurled over a barn fifty feet from the railway right of way | Nearly every bone in his body was broken. The Northwestern right of way at Commercial street runs diagonally across the highway, and a big bill­ board at the side of the right of way in a measure obscures the view of pedestrians and drivers. Mist and fog filled the atmosphere, adding to the difficulty of seeing the approaching rain. Driver Hanson declares he made ev­ ery effort to look in both directions along the track, but did not observe the on-rushing train until his team had reached the track. He whipped up his horses, but managed to get the wagon only half way acrops the tracks. The train was running at a high rate of speed, being nearly a half hour behind schedule. Practically every person on the wagon was an employe of the Me­ nasha Wooden ware company and all were Invited to the Hanson farm to attend the wedding anniversary of one of their fellow employes. ASSASSIN OF STOLYPIN IS TRIED BY A COURT-MARTIAL. Young Revolutionist Hears Death Sen­ tence Pronounced Flinching. Without General Reyes Out of Race. Mexico City.--General Reyes an­ nounced his withdrawal from the presidential race in a public state­ ment in which he declared that his legal election would be impossible, be­ cause de la Barra supports Madero. Reyes denies that be is planning a new revolution. Kills Son and Self. Kent. N. Y.--Frank W. Waterstreet and his son Fred are dead, the father a suicide and the murderer of hla son. Rochester Gets Pennant. Rochester, N. Y.-Rochester has broken another Eastern league record Although they have two mor? games with Toronto they have won the pen- aant, as the Orioles can't win. Eastern Tailors End 8trlke., New York--The strike of the ladies' tailors and dressmakers which has been in progress here for a week will be settled by arbitration. The strikers have returned to work pending the decision of the arbitrators. Veteran of Navy (s III. New York.--Rear Admiral Benjamin 1 sherwood, retired, who was chief en­ gineer of the United States navy from 1861 to 1869, and who is now in his ninetieth year, is dangerously ill at his home here. Kiev.--The court-martial which tried Dmitry Bogroff for slaying Pre­ mier Stolypln sentenced him to death on the gallows. Bogroff heard hla doom without a tremor. The court-martial was attended by 20 officials, six of them having been" witnesses of the shooting, among them Minister of Justice ChicheglovitoS. In view of Borgroff's pjea of guilty, hoi*- evt-r, none of them was called to the stand and only Colonel Kuliabko, chief of the secret police, was examined. It was through the instrumentality of Kuliabko that Bogroff gained admit- 4ance to the theater to assassinate M. Stolypin. Bogroff declined counsel. Every one was amazed at his calmness and the firmness of his voice as he related the history of his life. Hp also describe^ how he had deceived the police in' get­ ting the opportunity to assassinate the premier, but did not betray any of his accomplices. The sentence must be confirmed by the commander of the military district before Bogroff can be hanged. The funeral of Premier Solypin was held in the Pechersky monastery and was the occasion for universal mourn­ ing. Deputations came to Kiev from all parts of the empire to attend the ceremony and laid over 200 wreaths on the catafalque. RICH MAN KILLED IN PLUNGE Charles P. Allen of Kenosha Dies In a 8trange Fall Into Chleago Hotel Court. Chicago.--A 50-foot plunge from an upper window of the Palmer house in­ to a court caused the instant death of Charles W. Allen of Kenosha, a capi­ talist and possessor of a $10,000,000 estate. Allen 1b a brother of Nathan Allen, indicted in New York for the alleged smuggling of jewels into the United States Whether the fatal fall was the re­ sult of accident or intent h4s not been established. Death was instant. His neck- was broken and arms and legB were broken in several places. COUNCIL OF MASONS CLOSES Amos L. Petti bone of Chleago Re- Elected Grand Minister of 8tate of Scottish Ritq. Little Child Poisons Baby. Benton Harbor, Mich.--Left alone by her mother, three-year-old Thelma Davis fousd a package of corrosive sublimate tablets, and when her little seven-month-old brother cried Bhe ted him the poison. The child died. Saratoga, N. Y. = The ninety- ninth annual session of the supreme council. Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masons, for the northern Jurisdic­ tion of the United States, closed after a three days' session. Leon M. Abbott of Boston was elect­ ed first lieutenant commander and Amos L. Pettibone of Chicago grand minister of state, to succeed them­ selves. The term of Barton Smith of Toledo, O., sovereign grand comman­ der, will continue until the next meet­ ing in Boston in 1912, when new of­ ficers will be elected. Big Warship Is Floated. Camden, N. J.--Ranking as one of '.he largest war ships ever constructed lor any government in the world, the 4rgentlne battleship Moreno was launched from the yard of the New fork Shipbuilding company. Odd Fellows Bar Hotel Men. Indianapolis, Ind.--Hotel keepers licensed to sell intoxicating liquors will hereafter be barred from admis­ sion to the Odd Fellows order. This was the decision of the sovereign grand lodge, which adopted an amend­ ment to the constitution to this effect by a vote of 189 to 15. Typhoons Kill Many. Victoria, B. C.--Much loss of life md property was caused by typhoons In Formosa, accordirfg to advices brought by the steamer Panama Mara. Nine Die In Lisbon Theater. Lisbon, Portugal. -- Nine persons were killed and forty Injured seriously when the gallery of the Ponte Vedra theater collapsed. There were more than 1,000 persons in the gallery and it was vastly overcrowded. Bury Ashes In Westminster. London.--For the first time in its history the ashes of a cremated per­ son were placed in Westminster ab­ bey." The ashes were those of Rev. Robinson Duckworth, canon and sub- dean of Westminster. , Twenty Dead. In Hurricane. Naples.--A hurricane swept over the province of Naples, killing twenty persons and doing enormous damage to property. Hundreds are missing and it Is believed that the list of dead will be .greatly increased. France Launches Sea Fighter. Brest.--The new French super- dreadnaughi, Jean Bart, was launched here, ffbe new Bea fighter Is one of six battleships projected last year. She is expected to have a speed of 20 knots an hour. TIRE IN MAGAZINE OP FRENCH* BATTLESHIP LIBERTE CAU8E8 EXPLOSION. , SINKS IN TOULON HARBOR Many Seamen Jump Overboard and Are Drowned--Some of Crew Die in Sleep---Vessel One df Finest. Toulon.--A stunning clir^ax to the long series of disasters which have followed the operations of the French navy came when the battleship Li- berte caught fire, fell apart after a succession of terilflc explosions, and went down in forty feet of water, carrying to death 400 or more of the crew, which had worked so gallantly to sflvp the ship and its freight of hu­ man life. i he precise cause of the fire and ex­ plosion is still a matter of speculation. The Liberie was anchored in the road­ stead, where she had lain since the re­ view of the fleet by President Fai- ileres on September 4. Around her and not far away were her companion ships, all of which by the very force of the explosion added from their own crews to the list of the Liberte's dead. The Verite was the nearest at hand, and the flying fragments and bursting shells played havoc with the panic-stricken sailors helplessly watch­ ing the fire from the decks. It was 5 o'clock in the morning when the fire was discovered, and many of the Liberte's crew Were asleep. The alarm was sounded and the order given to flood the hold, a useless effort in tfte quick rush of the flames. The surrounding vessels sent pinnaces with fire apparatus to assist la checking the flames, but long be> fore the Llberte could be reached the fire had gained enormous headway, and cries of "Save yourself; the fire Is near the magazines," halted their advance. Almost Immediately a series of deaf­ ening explosions fell upon the air. The Llberte shook from one end to the other, great holes opened in its armor and the terrified sailors, realis­ ing their peril at last, would have jumped frantically into the sea. They were too late. Already the work of destruction was oomplete. One final and ^rfui explosion Infinitely more terrifying than those preceding rent the great snip in two. The huge frag­ ments shuddered, and a moment Later the-Libefte was at the bottom of the sea. It was discipline, strangely enough, that caused such a frightful loss of life. Most of the sailors were asleep at the time of the alarm. At the first explosion, for only a small squad had bene called to fight the fire, they tum­ bled from their berths and were about to jump overboard when a sharp order recalled them to their postB. These met death when the ship went down, and after the final explosion, out of the floating bodies that mingled with the debris on the surface of the water, only a few were saved by the cruising boats, launched too late to rescue the Injured and the drowning. It was a pathetic incident that with seemingly plenty of aid almost at hand 1| was Impossible for such aid to be given, so short was the time be­ tween the first alarm of fire and the quick destruction of the Llberte. The fire spread with the most amaz­ ing rapidity, and it is now a lamenta­ ble conclusion that In the general ex­ citement no order was given to flood the magazines, a step which might have saved many lives. Men and of-" fleers worked with the utmost desper­ ation, but after the first explosion the interior of the ship became a veritable volcano, sweeping back the sailors "who time and again risked their lives to carry the projectiles from the gun­ rooms. BUY SHEEP LAMBb wuw • But Don't Be a Sheep. A COMMON EXPERIENCE. MADISON EULOGIZED BY TAFT President Pays Tribute to Dead Con­ gressman at Kansas 8emi-Cerv- tennial Celebration. Hutchinson, Kan.--The celebration here of the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the state of Kansas was made notable by the presence of President Taft. He delivered an address at the fair grounds and was heard by an im­ mense throng of people, thousands coming from the surrounding .towns and country. In opening, Mr. Taft paid a grace­ ful tribute to the memory of the late Representative E. H. Madison, through whom had come his Invitation to speak at Hutchinson. He said: "ms death was a great shock to me, as I doubt not it was to his fel-. low citizens. I had not known him long nor can I say that I knew him intimately, but I knew him well enough to know the strong qualitiea of his mind and heart, his judicial In­ stinct, his intense desire to be fair, and his clear perceptions of the law as a jurist, and his level-headednesa as a legislator." Hang Slayer of Stolypln. Kiev, Russia.--Dmitry Bogroff, the assassin of Premier Stolypin, who was condemned to death by court-martial, was hanged here. Before his execu­ tion he asked that he might see a rabbi, but refused this consolation when informed that the interview must be in the presence of officials. Dutch Statesman Is Coming. Liverpool.--The Dutch minister of foreign affairs, Jenkheer de Mareea Van Swlnderen, sailed for New York on the steamer Mauritania. . Nip Plot to Kidnap Baby. Scranton, Pa.--A plot to kidnap the Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nar thanlel Cowdrey, members of a wealthy Pennsylvania family, was frus­ trated by the arrest here of Anna Bun­ dok, alias Winnlfred Davis, a nine- teetwy ear-old English girl. She con­ fessed. Amateur Aviator Killed. 'New York.--Dr. F. P. Clark, ama­ teur aviator, flying in the Nassau boulevard meet, fell 200 feet and WM Instantly killed. Dont Follow the Crowd. In chasing the market for profit, the fdllowp who blindly follow the crowd v are generally the ones who get left. The successful man buys when he has the least competition, at the lowest prices and with tile greatest margin for profit, which usually brings his selling time during a period of com­ parative scarcity at market, and he therefore gets higher prices and mos* always makes a good profit in his dealings. Here's a Chance for Gain. The present very low market val­ ues of feeding sheep and lambs, being less than the cost of production, <3f- fers such an opportunity to those~who are prepared to properly care for them. Feeders Are 8elilng Cheap. Well-bred, thin but thrifty lambs of tijp growing kind can now be bought on the Chicago market for $5.26 to $5.50 per 100 pounds; wethers of sim­ ilar description, $3.40 to $3.75; year­ ling wethers, $4.25 to $4.50; yearling breeding ewes, $4.00 to $4.60, and good feeding ewes at $2.50 to $2.85. Thess prices are about $1.75 lower than a year ago for feeder lambs, and the lowest since 1904. Feeder sheep prices also are unusually low. Now Is the Time to Buy. In view of the fact that prices ot feeder sheep and lambs are now be­ low the cost of production, and that present prices of lamb and mntton are out of line with all other meats and must therefore soon rise because ot 'the Increased consumption invited thereby, the conclusion is inevitable that now Is the best time to buy feed­ er sheep and lambs for all those who are ready to prepare them for market during th$ early part of next year. A leading sheep owner e.nd dealer says: "Fat is made pretty cheap oa the Fall feed that otherwise would be wasted, and the sheep and lamb feeding proposition from the SlSuu" point of fertility is worthy of most careful consideration." HI8 EXPERIENCES. "Were you ever In lave?" "No. But I've known heaps of nu that were." Red Cross Christmas 8eals. The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis will this year for the first time be na­ tional agent for the American Red Cross In handling the sale of Red Cross seals. A new national- office has been opened in Washington and ao initial order has been placed for 50.000,000 seals, although it Is expect­ ed that double that number will'be sold. The charge to local agents for the seals will be 12% per cent, of the gross proceeds, the national agent, fur nlsbing the seals and advertising ma­ terial, and taking back all unsold seal* at the end of the season. Postmaster Genera! Hitchcock has approved o? the design of the seal. Owing to the fact that many people last year use* Red Cross seals for postage, the pos, office department has given order* that letters or packages bearing seaii on the face will not be carried through the malls. Of Course He Cried. "Jimmy! what on earth are crying about now? "Tofnmy Jones dreamed last night that he had a whole pie to eat an' J didn't. Didnt Break* It Around Her. Ella--Our friend, the pitcher, has » "glass arm." Stella--I didn't notice it called on me last evening. when he Sunshine is worth more than gold, when it is real sunshine and not fas- fire. * FOOD AGAIN A Mighty Important Subject to Every­ one, • Boston lady talks entertainingly of food and the changes that can be made in health by some knowledge oo that line. She says: m "An injury to my spine in early wom­ anhood left me subject to severe siefc headaches which would last three or four days at a time, and a violent course of drugging brought on consti­ pation with all the ills that follow. "My appetite was always light and uncertain and many kinds of food dis­ tressed me. "I began to eat Orape-Nuts food two or three years ago, because I liked the- taste of It, and I kept on because 1 soon found it was doinf* me good. "I eat it regularly at breakfast, fre­ quently at luncfieon, and again before going to bed--and have no troub'-s In 'sleeping on it.' It ha$ relieved my con­ stipation, my headaches have practi­ cally ceased, and I am in better physi­ cal condition at the age of 63 than I was at 40. "I give Grape-Nuts credit for restor­ ing my health, if not saving my life, and you can make no claim for it too- strong for me to endorse." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek Mich. Rend the little book, "The Hoad to Wellvllle," in pkgs. "There's a reason." Ever rend the above letter? m new me appear* (r*M to time. They •re NeanlM, UU, u4 IkU »t