The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

»t'p. "**' ." •' 1 K T - ' < ' ' \ - , ; -w«' 't%&> " p'.W: * ••"ir^:-.%w "f ' -fo?^ ^ lie JftcHenry Piaindealer :,,vr • • Published by P. a 8CHREINER. ILLINOIS. 1 :^|®McHBNRY. " ^ 1 ' '•' '" ' ' •• ^ Many an old man In year* is a V > foung man In mental activity. An Insane man was found*wander!im In Wall street. Bays an exchange. Only one? m- \ London proposes to build a liner that contains everything bat an avia­ tion field. Chicago women are about to start a department store, which will have six bargain days a week. A New York state man killed a deer With his automobile. Some men are deadly shots with their autos. Princess Eulalle m&y merely be pre­ paring to come over and show us what she can do in vaudeville. A lecturer down east says that "woman should be more conspicuous than her clothes." Sometimes in the ball room she is. A Chicago man committed suicide after a card party. The ordinary man, however, is satisfied with being mere­ ly bored to death. Fire destroyed 26 automobiles in a New York garage. Yet when they are led out they do not rush back Into the flames. _ An X-ray examination of a Michigan man discloses the fact that his vital organs are on the wrong side. Rail­ road train or football? We refuse to become excited over the fact that Sir Walter Raleigh's pipe is for sale. Our old reliable corncob is good enough for us. "A man of 20 is worth $6,230," says a statistician. This will be good news to a great many men of twenty who are looking for meal tickets. It may be easy to fly across the At­ lantic as Willis Moore says, but if any­ body contemplates trying it we advise him to take along a bathing suit Maeterlinck says that it will be easy to die in the future. Evidently he has come to the conclusion that no im­ provement in vaudeville is to be look­ ed for. Citizen of Ohio wants a divorce be­ cause his spouse smokes cigars. If she goes through his pockets at night, and confiscates his best ropes, me sym­ pathize with mm, You can't bold the women down; •oon they'll be Invading the realm of high finance. A New York woman has been spending $21,000 yearly on an in­ come of $18,000. Several Cincinnati schoolgirls have succeeded in living on seven cents a day. It is hard to tell whether they did it In the interests of selence or merely to catch husbands. Dispatches from the east tell-us th«t a ton of oil recently was taken from the tongue of a whale. We have not been able to learn the details, but we have a hunch that it was a lady whale. A farm Journal Bays the result of the experiment of mixing wine with feed for chickens was to increase the yield of eggs by 100 per cent Prob­ ably the hens were unable to count straight If the European picture thieves will come over here and give their atten­ tion to the studios of some of the art­ ists who get out covers for the maga­ zines they will meet with a hospitable welcome. There Is a birth every four minutes In New York. Even at that. New Yorkers are oftea hard pressed to take care of the money constantly handed them by outsiders. A man in New Jersey estimates that In the last thirty years he has walked 25,000 miles between his home and church. This may be defined as real­ ly taking steps to be saved. In France the bicycle has become the most popular of all vehicles, while the craze for the motorcycle Is begin­ ning to abate. You never can tell what the French are going to do. Word comes from Chicago that two burglars bound and gagged a woman as she played the piano. Never hav­ ing heard the iady play, we find It Im­ possible to Judge whether they were burglars or simply neighbors. A man and a woman who had a lovers' quarrel thirty-five years ago have Just been married In Ohio. If it Is going to take them that long In each case to make up they are not likely to have many family quarrels. A woman get-rlch-qulck promoter has been arrested. She may have the credit of proving that In swindling fields hitherto regarded as exclusively man's province the female of the spe­ cies gathers victims as slickly as the A Judge in Seattle has ruled that a dog has a legal right to bite a man who treads on his tail. It may be add­ ed for the benefit of those whom It may concern that few dogs are likely In the emergency cited, to wait for their legal right to be tested. ff§T •ksm.m. * . There ought to be a hush in the matr ter of Jeering at women for being un­ able to bit any aim. A Kansas farmer recently shot at rabbits and struck six young women sitting on his porch. When Kansas City footpads hold up a victim they rob him or tola raj^ teeth, if he has any. Different cities bave different customs. No typical Chicago highwayman would take a man's false teeth away rrom him. ir not satisfied with what he finds in his pockets, he merely beats the tar pur •«f fcbs and proceeds on bit w&W- H APPROVES OF ACTION ROOSEVELT SANCTION® RU38 TRIATY ABROGATION--FEAJ=t8 HYPOCRISY BY U.ft, i ' : i t GIVES A HAGUE COURT DINT Former President In Editorial Says Ratification of Arbitration Pacts Would Expose Nation to Ridicule of Other Nations. New York.--in an editorial In the current Issue of the Outlook, with the caption of 'The Russian Treaty. Arbi­ tration and Hypocrisy," Theodore Roosevelt has this to say: "r cordially approve the action ta­ ken by congress in abrogating the Russian treaty, because men must vote and act on the situation as it actually confronts them; and in the actual event congressmen had only two al­ ternatives, namely, to abrogate the treaty or to submit to the continuance of conditions which have become in­ tolerable to our national self-respect and which represent a continuing wrong, especially to American citi­ zens of Jewish faith. "I stil! believe that in so serious a matter it would have been well first to endeavor to secure a decision by The Hague court on thg interpretation of the existing treaty. I am confident that such a decision would, of neces­ sity, have been in our favor; and. If so, it would havfe enabled Russia to retire from an untenable position with good grace and no loss of self re­ spect--an object that should always be held in view In dealing with any foreign nation with which at any time we have difficulties. But no move­ ment had been made by either nation looking towards any other method of settling the matter than the one actu­ ally adopted. Congress was confront­ ed by the simple fact that, unless the treaty was abrogated, conditions would remain as they now are; and, under the circumstances, congress act­ ed wisely and properly in declaring for the abrogation. "But this action was taken while the universal arbitration treaties are pending in the senate. These trea­ ties are avowedly championed as be­ ing of the kind we are to enter Into with all nations, and as supplanting the existing arbitration treaties which we hagre with almost all nations, In­ cluding Russia as well as England and France. These treaties, if ratified by the senate unamended, will explicitly promise, will explicitly pledge the honor and good faith of the American nation to arbitrate precisely such questions as that which at this very moment we announce that we will not endeavor to arbitrate in the case of Russia. Under these circumstances to ratify the general arbitration trea­ ties would puf the American people in an attitude of peculiarly contempti­ ble hypocrisy and would rightly ex­ pose us to the derision of all thinking mankind, for we should put ourselves in the position of making sweeping and insincere promises impossible of performance at the very time when by our own actions we showed that we would certainly not keep such prom­ ises, nor translate them Into action. SUN HEADS CHINA REPUBLIC Is Elected President by Delegates of Eighteen Provinces at Nanking and Begins Activities. Shanghai.--Dr. Sun Yat Sen, China's first president, elected by the dele­ gates of the 18 provinces of China proper, In session at Nanking, took up the details of his administration and has formulated a program to deal with the present critical situation. It is stated on good authority that the president will first demand the withdrawal of the imperial troops from their strategical positions and then order the Manchus to lay down their arms or Join the republican forces. His next step will be to ex­ tend the existing armistice. Peking.--it is understood here that the abdication of the emperor and the empress dowager Is a matter of only a few days. Several of the Manchu princes have engaged residences with- in the foreign concessions at Tien­ tsin. The emperor and the empress dowager will probably seek refuge In the legation quarter of this city. GOLDEN CITY IS SCORCHED Pioneer Town of Porcupine Saved From D e s t r u c t i o n O n l y B y E l o w l n g Up of Buildings. Cobalt, C-nt.--Fire swept the busi­ ness district of Goldan City wiping out nearly all the buildings that sur­ vived the disastrous conflagration of last July. The rush of th( flames was stopped only by blowing up the Lyric theater and two adjoining build­ ings. The burned section Included about a dozen stores, a hotel and sev­ eral saloons Golden City is the pioneer town site of Porcupine. Admiral Dewey for Peace. Washington.--"I am for peace, but peace with four new battleships each year to assure It," said Admiral Dewey shortly after the general naval board of which he is the head recommended the building of that number of ves­ sels. 8avant Makes Forty-Yssr Trip. Boston. --After 40 years of historical studies in foreign countries, Prof. Ed­ ward Evans, formerly of the univer­ sity of Michigan, la back la the land of his birth. Blow Open 8afe; Get (1,000. Beaumont, Tex.--Robbers dynamited the safe In the station of the Santa Fe railroad at Saratoga. Tex., 20 miles north of Beaumont, and got $1,000 in currency. The building was partially wrecked. An attempt to enter a bank vault yras without result. |rtg Kills 13 Rhinoceroses. New VYork.--A Calcutta dispatch says th^ t he latest news from King George ,sV hooting camp In Nepal Is hia J»e»ty ha^shot thirty tigsrs -- 13 rhillBCerosei^ .. SLAY IvQPQ PERSIANS . '• • ^ ^ •- TURCOMAN8 MASSACRE VILLAG­ ERS IN RUSSIAN SHIPS' LIOHT.' v'-„' > Report That Great Britain Has Sent Note of Protest to Czar's s Government. Washington.--Barbarous Turcoman troops attached to the Russian army drove more than 1,000 Per­ sians from their homes in fifty vil­ lages and slaughtered them as the search lights of Russian warships un­ covered their hiding places in the Bandarijaz swamps along the Caspian sea. First word of this hitherto sup­ pressed and unparalleled atrocity reached Washington from the central Persian committee at Constantinople. The report is current in diplomatic circles In Washington that, shocked by the barbaric cruelties of her ally, Great Britain has sent a note of pro­ test and disapproval to St. Petersburg. It was explained that, although this butchery was the first to mark the gory trail of Russia into Persia, so complete was the censorship of the czar that until now no word of It has reached enlightened Europe or Amer­ ica. Bandarijaz is a small seaport town in the province of Mazinderan, in the northwest corner of Persia. To the east and southeast were between 50 and 60 small villages, now villages no more. On tin northern side of the interna­ tional border 2,000 Turcomans, even more barbarous and undisciplined than Cossacks, had been concentrated by the Russian authorities. Without provocation or warning, these assassins were unleashed upon the helpless villagers. . - v - v f , * • . . J * 1 AIM TO BAR OUT U. S. JEWS Duma Bill Want* Russia to Raise Custom Duties 100 Per Cent*-- 8lap at America. St. Petersburg.--AH American Jews will be forbidden entrance to Russia if a bill introduced in the duma by the Nationalists becomes law. Not only this, but further retaliation for the abrogation of the treaty of 1832 by the United States is provided. Custom duties ar« to be raised 100 per cent, unless the Russian normal schedule Is lower than the American. In that case a duty equaling the American duty will be collected. The author of the bill states that the last provision of the bill Is neces­ sary In order to deal with the Im­ portation of American agricultural machinery. The remaining points of the proposed bill correspond In virtu­ ally every particular with the bill in­ troduced December 22 by ex-President Guchkoff, providing for tariff sched­ ules applicable to the United States at the expiration of the Russo-Amerl- can commerce and navigation treaty of 1832. CR0KERS SUED FOR DAMAGES John J. Breen Alleges That Former Tammany Chief and Sons Alien­ ated Wife's Affections. New York.--The romance of Ethel Croker Breen, daughter of the former Tammany chieftain, and John J. Breen, the handsome riding master of a New York riding academy, took a new angle when Breen filed suit In the supreme court against Richard Croker and his two sonB, -Richard Jr., and Howard, for |100,000, accusing them with "wrongfully contriving to injure him and deprive him of the affections of his wife." SHAKE, (Ml I HAVE ft PRE(10- EHTIM, CAMFMCft £QJ1W£.Wto,F ; J««V.»r-SflV Aim muz \ MGNTtygg fag ****** sfcH "V wMi'ii to RKCORO-HERALBb PACT IS EXPOSED PACKERS ATTORNEY PRODUCES CONTRACT FOR LOAN WHICH HELPED FORM TRUST. FIFTY DIE IN POISON PLOT Scores Are Dead and Dying in Berlin Municipal Shelter House Mystery. Berlin.--Scores of homeless men are dead as the result of poison re­ ceived in the municipal shelter house December 26. Ptomaine poison to which the deaths were at first at­ tributed is doubted and it is believed that the men were victims of a plot. Fifteen more of the destitute male fnmates have died, bringing the total of fatalities up to more than fifty. Sixty or seventy others are seriously ill at hospitals In the city. The superintendent of the asylum expresses the opinion, based on one of the post-mortem examinations, that the deaths have not been due to Im­ pure food, but to deliberate poisoning. C. W. MORSE IS HEARTBROKEN Former Banker Had Counted on Selng Released From Prison on Christ- mai Day. Atlanta, Ga.--Charles W. Morse was heartbroken by the news that his pardon had been refused. Those fa­ miliar with the physician's report are astounded, as it is positively known that the three experts were unani­ mous in reporting Morse suffering from three distinct Incurable diseases. Vice-Consul to Chicago Dies. Queenstown, Ireland. -- Thomas Rroadwood, the recently appointed British vice-consul for Chicago, died at the Queens hotel here. He was taken ill while he was on board the American line steamer New York on the way to America and disem­ barked here. WITNESS NAMES E. H. GARY Noted New York Financiers Are Men­ tioned in Court as Backers of Pro­ posed Gigantic Merger of Chicago Meat Firms. Chicago.--P. A. Valentine, former treasurer for Armour & Zo., and E. H. Gary, chairman or the board of the United States Steel corporation, fig­ ured conspicuously In the trial of the ten indicted Chicago packers charged with violating the Sherman anti-trust act. The names of the two financiers came out when Pierce Butler, assist­ ant to the attorney general, ques­ tioned Albert H. Veeder, former coun­ sel for Swift & Co.. regarding con­ tract No. 7, which provided for a loan of 115,000,000 In the formation of the National Packing company. The reading of the agreement showed that Mr. Gary was. to take over all the assets of the packers In consideration for the loan. Mr. Val­ entine signed the agreement In be­ half of J. Ogden Armour. The old pool of packers, It devel­ oped, was known only as "P. Q. Box 247." Mr. Veeder testified that he knew of for the association, but it wE^JSaid that 'P. O. Bbx 247" was the mysterious name under which the pool worked. The merger of the following plants by the Chicago packers, he said, be­ came known later as the National Packing company: United Dressed Beef company of New York, Fowler Packing company, Hammond Packing company, and St. Louis Dressed Beet and Provision company. Veeder was asked why the Chicago packers did not take over the firm of Rchwarzschild & Sulzberger bus! ness in November, 1902, as contem­ plated. Mr. Veeder explained that the $500,000,0()C| merger of the pack­ ers was In progress, but that the financial strain of 1903 prevented the promoters from securing a loan of $90,000,000 from New York bankers to carry the deal through. Kuhn, Loeb & Co., as managers or the syndicate, were to receive either one-fifth of the syndicate's profits or one per cefit. of its par value. After James Stlllman, Kuhn. Loeb & Co., and E. H. Harrlman failed to pro­ duce the 590,000.000, Mr. Veeder said a loan of $15,000,000 was made by the same financiers In July, 1903, for the formation of the National Packing company. RAP FOR MURDERERS GOMPER8 SEND8 LETTER TO LA­ BOR DENOUNCING M 'NAMARA8. American Federation Leaders Declare industrial Condition Responsible for Dynamite Outrages. Washington. -- That labor unions have no desire to condone the crimes of which the McNamara brothers re­ cently pleaded guilty at Los Angeles, is the declaration of Samuel Gomp- ers, president of the American Fed­ eration of Labor In a letter to unions of the United States. The statement is signed by the ways and means com­ mittee, which was named to raise the McNamara defense fund. Contained in the statement is the following criticism of the McNamaras: "Organized labor of America has no desire to condone the crimes of the McNamaras. It joins in the satisfac­ tion that the majesty of the law and ice flts their crime. ^ "It is cruelly unjust to hold the men of the labor movement either legally or morally responsible for the crime of an individual member. No such moral code or legal responsibil­ ity is placed upon any other associa­ tion of men in our country." Blame for conditions which produce such men as the McNamaras Is thrown upon employers. justice has been maintained and the culpms punished commensurately for SAYS "GRIZZLY" iS MODEST TO MARRY LILLIAN RUSSELL Pittsburgh Publisher to Become Fourth Husband of Actress-- Nat Goodwin to Wed. New York.--Lillian Russell, the actress, will be married to Alexander P. Moore, publisher of the Pittsburgh Leader, in May. It will be Miss Russell's fourth matrimonial venture. She has known Mr. Moore about ten years. Rumors that Nat C. Goodwin, actor and mining promoter, is preparing to enter matrimony again have been temporarily set at rest by a statement from Mr. Goodwin himself. "I Intend to try It again some tlm^," he said, "but I'm going to allow my­ self at least another year of freedom first." Report Franz Joseph Dying. Berlin.--Emperor Franz Joseph is dying, according to a report received at the German court, it is said there Is no hope for his recovery. Acquit Two of 147 Deaths. New York.--Isaac Harris and Blanck. Indicted for manslaughter la connection with the Triangle Shirt Waist company fire, were acquitted by a Jury here. One hundred and forty-seven lives were lost in ths fire. Merrltt Heirs Get $1,000,000. New York.--The will of the late Capt. Israel J. Merritt, ex-president of the Merritt-Chapman Wrecking company, who died a short time ago, divides among his wife and children an estate estimated at $1,000,000. Wind Causes Man's Desth. Boston.--Andrew Rowan of Boston was almost instantly killed when, blown off the sidewalk into the street by the heavy wind, he was knocked down and run over near Beverly by an automobile. Wright Lorimer Is Buried. Dana, Mass.--The funeral of Wright Lorimer, the actor who committed sui­ cide in New York, was held here In the Dana townhall, the building whsM he first attended British Steamer Looted. Hongkong.--The British steamship Seyap, while plying from Hongkong to Canton in the West river, was at­ tacked by sixty armed Chinese pirates* who overpowered the crew and loot­ ed the vessel of property valued at $20,000. 'Several minor piracies hay# occurred. $20,000 to Fight Meequlto. Montclair, N. J.--The boafd of health has included In Its budget for jiext year the sum of $20,000 to be spent la fighting the Jersey mosqatto. Helen Taft's Dancing Tutor Comss to Defense of "Turkey Trot" and Other Dances. Washington..--Egan Warwig, danc­ ing master to Washington's "400," who is teaching Miss Helen Taft, Postmaster General Hitchcock, John Barrett and other members of the "Playhouse Dancing Fifty" the "Boston Dip," "The Grizzly Bear" and "Turkey Trot" dances rushed out in defense of these dances. "While the exaggerated forms of 'Boston Dip,' 'The Grizzly Bear* and 'Turkey Trot' might possibly be offensive to some minds," said Mr. Warwig, "they can be made harmless and entertaining amusements. They are built upon the basic principle of the classic waits' and can be paade both graceful and modest." M0R0S FORCED TO YIELD Six Hundred Surrender to Americans Through Hunger After Their Supplies Cut Off. Manila.--The Moros. who several days ago retired to the top of Bud- dajo in the Island of Jolo. which they ha4 fortified, capitulated to the Amer­ ican troops. The Moros numbered 600, and defied an ultimatum issued by Brigadier General Pershing, or­ dering tftie disarmament of natives In the district. Their supplies were cut off, and they were surrounded in their stronghold by American Infan­ try. Finally they were forced to yield through hunger. AID TO CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Taft Issues Order Allowing Use of Non-Medical Methods in Panama Canal Zone. Washington.--President Taft, who makes the laws for the Panama canal zone, amended a recent executive or­ der regarding the practice of medi­ cine in the zone, so as to sanction explicitly the use of Christian Sci­ ence and other non-medical methods. Leprosy Found in Indiana. Indianapolis, Ind.--What Is declared to be a well-developed case of leprosy has been discovered In this city and the health board has called a meeting to decide what action shall be taken. The victim of the malady Is Mrs. La- vlna Blackwell, a negress. Gomez "Not a Revolutionist." S^n Antonio, Tex.--Emllio Vasques Gomez, who Is In this city as a self- styled refugee, denies that he hap planned or would plan a revolution1 against the Mexican government. Dentists Must Testify. New York.--Dental surgeons are Wo longer immune In the eyes of the lair from giving testimony in court regard­ ing patients whom they have served in a professional capacity, according to a decision handed down here by the Justices of th^ appellate term of ths supreme court Blind Tenor !• Dead. •» Rockford, 111.--William Heinrlch, the blind tenor, of world-wide note. It dead in Boeto*. He wj>« attire ol Rockford. "• -y>-m FIGHT ON INCREASE Higher Rates on Second-Class- Mail Opposed. BULLETIN FROM PUBLISHCRS Postal Committee of the A. N. P. A. Calls the Post Office a Badly Managed Business. Washington.--The protest of the publishers against the proposition to Increase second-class mail rates as the congressional post office commis­ sion desires is growing stronger dally. The Illinois Dally Newspaper Publish­ ers' association registered its objec­ tions recently, and now the American Newspaper Publishers' association's postal committee, of which the chair, man la Don C. Seitz of the New York World, has issued the following bul­ letin: "The extent to which the post office department does not carry sec­ ond-class matter Is well revealed in the following abstract of inquiry of publishers conducted by house com­ mittee on expenditures In the post office department (William A. Ash- brook, chairman) concerning the vol­ ume, weight and handling of the out­ put of publications entered as mail matter of the second-class for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911: " 'Inquiry was made of all publish­ ers, approximating thirty thousand, of which nearly seventeen thousand are weekly publications. "'More than ten thousand returns were received, embracing sixty-six: plus per cent of all tonnage of pub­ lications. " 'The publioations reporting repre­ sent an annual output of more than six and one-half billion copies, thu weight of which was one and thre< - quarter billion pounds. " 'These publications delivered by mail in such period weighed 633,012, 902 pounds. " 'They delivered by their own cat riers, newsboys, and news companies 840,466,574 pounds, of which an unas certained percentage was carried to destination by express and other rail shipments outside the mail. They de llvered by express, 202,729,510 pounds, and by other rail shipments 121,491,- 748 pounds. The rate by express and rail varies from % to 1 cent per pound, but the bulk of these ship­ ments went at a rate of % to % cent per pound. " 'The post office for the year end­ ing June 30, 1911, handled 951,001, 669, and excluding one-half million pounds free in county matter, It re­ ceived (me cent per pound.' "All this goes to add to the ab­ surdity of the proposed Hitchcock leg­ islation doubling the second-class rate from one to two cents per pound, and limiting the 'privilege' to publications that carry as much reading matter as they do advertising. "The proposition was stupid enough when the postal deficit reached $17,- 000.000 two years ago. It becomes preposterous in face of a surplus. "What business has a transports tion corporation, which is all the post office is, to prescribe how a business shall be conducted? "Newspapers cannot afford to ex­ pand their columns beyond the call of the day's news, nor can they be expected to control the requirements of their advertisers who have a right to reach the public as copiously as they care to. "It cannot be assumed that such legislation will ever get by congress But publishers are requested to fight the theory that the right to send their output by mall is a "privilege." The figures show it is not. "The post office Is a badly man aged business. That Is all. We should fight Its dictation, its censor­ ship and Its Inefficiency." A HEALTHY, HAPPY DID AGE May be promoted by those who Sently cleanse the system, now an J len, when in need of a laiatra# remedy, by taking a deseitspoonfij of the ever refreshing, wholesome and truly beneficial Syrup of Figp and Elixir erf Soma, which is ths only family laxative generally ap­ proved by the most eminent phy« ttcians, because it acts in a natural! •trengthening ̂way and warms and tones up the internal organs withoul weakening them. It is equally benefit ficial for the very young md itte irodk die aged, as it is always efficient ami free from all harmful ingredients* To its beneficial effects it is always necessary to buy the genuine? beas^ ing^the name of the Company - California Fig Syrup Co.--plainly printed on the front of eveiy package. .}iol, Inii.lliaVs! wirat •ta, Western gor- {com it, Wheat in MO Be ports lher d lstric(a In that, prov­ ince showed other excel­ lent results--such as l.- 000 bushelj of wheat f rum,120 a cres, or 33 l-.S bu. pe r ac re. 25.80 an<l iO bushel yields were num­ erous. As high as 153 bushels of oats to the acre wert'threshed from Alberta fields. In 1910. Ik Silver Gup at the recent Spokane Fair was awarded to the Alberta Government for M:5;o:ii»ibit of grains,grasses and Vegetables. Reports ol excellent yields for 1910 come also from Saskatchewan and Manitoba Id Western Canada. Fro® homesteads of 160 acres, and adjoining pre­ emptions of acres (at per acre) pre to be had ill {lio rliolrftMt districts. SchoolE5 fcmveiuent, cli­ mate ©xeeMont, soil the very best,.railways close at hand., i» u i) d 111 k lumber cheap, fnel easy tog-et and reasonable In price, water easily procured, mixed farming a success. Write as to best place for set­ tlement, settlors' low railway rates, descriptive Illustrated "Last, Best West" (sent free on application land other informa­ tion, to Sup't of Immigration, Ottawa, Can. ,orto the Canadian Government Agent. (8ti) <?. Brought®®, 41£9feKhMteli»SB ATrait fflMg.; Chicago, III. i Om. Alrd, 816 KflloB Terminal BMf., la4fBBipell«t £|«no. A. Bali, 136 34 St., •llwank**, WU. THE WEAK POINT. Squilbob--Don't know bow to court the girl? Well, my boy, you just tell her that you know she despises "jol­ lying" and Is the one woman in the world who can't be flattered. Squilligan--Well? "That sort of gulf will flatter her!" Brigand Also a Patriot. Gravely, solemnly, with enthusiasm and a large mixture, of national pride, the Turkish newspapers publish the following remarkable piece of feewe (says the London Globe). A brigand chief, one Salin, who has been carry­ ing on operations for some time in the mountains of Gambiek, in Bithy- nia, not a great distance from Con­ stantinople, and for whom the Turkish gendarmerie have for long sought in vain, alive or dead, has placed his talents and service* at the disposition of the Turkish authorities. The brig­ and's letfer is a curious document. He says it is against the wishes of his heart to give up his calling, but "the audacity of these Italian brigands"-- an expression which frequently occurs in the letter--in waging war upon the Ottoman empire and brutally seizing an Islamic province, impel him to offer his services, with those of his band, consisting of a . hundred men, to avenge the national honor and to chastise these infidel brigands. Altered the Caae. Mrs. jde Mover--"Good gracious! This Is the noisiest neighborhood 1 ever got into. Just hear those children screech!" Maid--"They're your own childers, mum." Mrs. de Mover--"Are they? How the little darling *re en­ joying themselves!"--Tit-Bits. Called. "I asked the audience to len<k me their ears," said the verbose speaker. "But in three-quarters of an hour they were dozing." "I •••." replied the financier. "They called the loan." To Him Who Learne. Perennial youth and health of mind and body is only for him whose mind Is growing dally through the absorp­ tion of those thoughts that quicken every faculty and 'thrill every feeling with a sense of unlimited life.--Walter De Foe. Method In Her Madtws. A woman withdrew her divorce suit against her husband and bought him an aeroplane. Evidently undertak­ ers are cheaper than lawyers In her ton.--Baltimore Sun. !«»<§# 1 The Backterlologlst. A Richmond darky chanced to meet on the street a friend who complain­ ed of much "mis'ry." Indeed, the af­ flicted one was in despair, so "tuck­ ered out" was he. "Wot seems to be de matter?" ask­ ed the first negro. "Jim," said the other with a moan and a gesture indicating the portion of his anatomy that was giving him so much trouble, "I'se got sech awful pain in mah back heah!" Jim assumed an air of great solem­ nity and wisdom. "In that case," said he, "dere'S only one thing fo' yo to do. s' yo' put vo'se'f in de hands o' dat Doctah Blank. I hears dat he's de finest backteriologist in de whole BOuf" •U TIED DOWN. 20 Years' Slavery--How She Qot Free­ dom. A dyspepsia veteran who writes from one of England's charming rural homes to tell how she won victory in her 20 years' fight, naturally exults in her triumph over the tea and coffee habit: "I feel it a duty to tell you," she says, "how much good Postum has done me. I am grateful, but also de>' sire to let others who may be suffering as I did, know of the delightful meth­ od by which I was relieved. "I had suffered for 20 years from dyspepsia, and the giddiness that usu­ ally accompanies that painful ailment, and which frequently prostrated me. 1 never drank much coffee, and COCQ& and even milk did not agree with my Impaired digestion, so I used tea, ex­ clusively, till about a year ago, when I found in a package of Grape-Nuts the little book, 'The Road to- Wellvllle.' "After a careful reading of the book­ let I was curfous to try Postum and sent for a package. I enjoyed It from the first, and at once gave up tea In Its favor. "I began to feel better very soon. My giddiness lert me after the first few days' use of Postum, and my stom­ ach became stronger so rapidly that It was not long till I was able (as I still am) to take milk and many other ar­ ticles of food of which I was formerly compelled to deny myself. I have proved the troth of your statement that Postum 'makee good, red blood.' "I have become very enthusiastic over the merits of my new table beverage, and during; the past few months, have conducted a Postum propaganda among my neighbors which has brought bene­ fit to many, end I shall continue to tell my friends of the 'better way' In which I rejoice." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the Httle book, "The Rbad to Wellvllle," in pkgs. "There's *• r'mm- son." Ever reed th* «)>«•« letter? A •»« appear* from tUae to time, •ft gtaalM, tnra, •«< tall of I latere*!.