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TOBACCO AS A MEDICINE.
An OctOgenarinn Who DisIilkes the Weed,
but Chews 20 Keep Alive.

An OctOgenarinn Who DisIIIkes the Weed,
but Chews TO Keep Alive.
Chicago News.l
Peter Coulter, of Russiaville, Ind, de-
clares that he has been kept alive for 20
years by the constant use of tobacco. He is
now "a years of age. says a Globe Democrat
correspondent, and commenced smoking and
chewing when boy of IA, although then,
as now, he detested both the taste
and smell of it. He would gladly
quit using the noxious weed, but
fears that he would probably not long sur
vive its discontinuance When a bow.
about the age above mentioned, he was sud
denly taken i'll with fever, and the disease
left very dangerous sore on his left side,
that grew quite large and annoyed him
with constant and increasing pains.
was but one remedy, "use tobacco" or
he must die. To this he at first
objected, but finally began smoking.
For four years the smoking made
him sick, and did not seem to decrease
the size of the sore, though the pain was
much lessened. The doctor then recon-
mended him to chew tobacco instead of
smoking. He did so and the sore at once
began to show an improvement and the pain
ceased aItogetner. But whenever he ceases
chewing for any considerable length of
time the sore returns and increases in size.
and he states that to desist from chewing
for month would be at the risk of his life.
He is one of the most aged pioneers of
this vicinity and his ancestors were noted
for having lived to a wonderful age, his
grandmother on his fathers side attaining
the almost unprecedented longevity of 133
years, while his two grandfathers and the
other grandmother lived to be more than
100 each. His mothers age was also very
remarkable. She died at Ames station, Ia,
two years ago, at 119, retaining all her senses
up to the last moment. At the age of III she
visited her son Peter at his home with the
expectation of making her home with
him the remainder of her life. But she soon
became discontented and returned to Iowa,
where she died. Peter has lived in this
vicinity since 1912, and claims to have
hauled from Cincinnati the first steam boiler
and engine that were brought into the State
of Indiana, the machinery being delivered
in Wayne county. He can neither read nor
write, but his eYesight is still excellent,
and he is tall and straight. His first vote
was cast for John @. Adams. and one of his
trite sayings is peculiar. ST never put more
on my heels than can,kick of. /" He was
born in Delaware in 1905 and came 10 the
State of Indiana in 1928.
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CHAPTER X

Joshua had now to hasten if he was to
overtake the Hebrews in time, for the fur
ther they had got on their way the more
difficult it might be to persuade Moses and
the heads of the tribes to return and accent
the terms offered them.
The events of this morning were to him so
marvellous that he regarded the issue as a
dispensation of the God he had found once
more; also he remembered the name of
Joshua, that is to say, "holpen of the Lord, I"
which had been laid upon him BY Miriam's
message, whereas he had hitherto been called
Hosea. He was willing to bear it, although
he felt it hard to deny the sovereign who had
raised him to honor. Many of his fellow
warriors had assumed similar names. and
his had proved itself nobly true. Never had
the help of God been more clearly with him
than 1t had been this day. He had gone
into Pharaoh's palace in the expectation OF
losing his freedom or being handed over to
the execuuoner as soon as be declared his
wish to follow his people; and how easily
had the ties been severed which bound him
10 Egypt. And he had been charged with
a task in his eyes SO great and noble that he
could not forbear believing that the God of
his fathers had called him to fulfill it.
lie loved Egypt. 1t was glorious land.
Where could his people find a iairer dwell
ing place? The conditions only under which
they had dwelt there had been intolerable
Better days we're now before them. The
Hebrews were to be permitted to return to
Goshen or to settle in the lake land west of
the Nile, district whose fertility was well
known to him. No one henceforth might
compel them to serfdom, and If they laid
their hands to labor for the State Hebrews
only were to be their taskmasters, and not
the hard and cruel stranger. That his peo-
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SUNDAY THOUGHTS
on
MORALS MANNERS
lwRrrrru FoR rHr prsPlrcE.I.
BY A CLERGYMAN.

/ WRITTEN FOR THE DTsPAfcH.1-
The secret Of successful work today Is or.
ganization. Look at business. See how It
is organized down to the minutest detail.
Look at politics. See how the great parties
study to perfect their organization and maks
it include the loneliest house Of the remotest
school district. That man succeeds best In
business who saves the most. That party
carries the day which gets out all its
voters.
Here is lesson for the ehurch-the local
church. 1t ought to organize the parish,
and have a function for all, and see to it
that each fulflls his function. This would
insure success. The power Of the Titles il
the greatest power. The Mississippi river
the ocean itself, is composed of drops.
Guizot said che did not believe in the
sovereign power Of machinery" True
enough. But if the machinery is driven bv
intelligence and will what can it not 40.
eomplish? Mere organization is q delusion
and snare. But If it is operated by consecra-
ton 1t may work miracles Good intentions
alone are not enough. They must be stereos
practice.
Once on a time rustic swain and dan..l
lived near each other He became smitten
with her charms, but had not courage to ten
hislove. At length, finding she was becoming
an object of attraction to other swains and
snat ne was IN danger of losing her he was IN
duced 70 invite her to walk with him to 4 spos
where lovers are fond of ram bling-up a SHADY
lane. His heart was full, bur his lips were
closed; he could not bring his courage to tbo.
popping point; while she. poor thing cast down
her eyes, and was perfectly mute though she
understood for what purpose he had brought
her to that lonely spot. At length bird be9nn
70 sing on Johns side Of the road, and lucky
thought struck him.
"Bessy," said he, with . gentle squeeze Of
the arm, 'doSt hear yon birdP'
'.Ay lad" she answered
asked.
Il cannot tel, /" she said. "What does it seem
whist Bessy," cried he; sit seens 70 me To
sing, love thee! Hove theepD
Tney walked on in silence, until bird be1au
70 sing on the damsePs side Of the road.
Tommy" said she, 'doss hear that bfrdR0
Ay, lass" he answered.
Wei" she went on. what does It seem 70
thee to singF'
cannot tel, /" he said
what did thy bird singr' she asksd
ny, my bird sang" he said with apoehaF
genLle squeeze, ! love thee! I love theeP
sh:lh ~ said she, my bird sings, Show ftt
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A MAN may be religious and not be good
Dr.. Hodge.
II there is one fact or doctrine, or orcommand
or promise in the Bible which has produced no
practical effect on your temper, OF heart OF
conduct, be assured you do not truly believe
It-P0vson.
SEE there be no sermon without two RS N
IL: Repentance = RighssousnssA = Roulon6
HUI
TIE world proposes to rest By removing ne
burden. The Redeemer gives rest By diving
us the spirit and power 70 bear the burdsn.--
p. ". Roosrtson.
IN questions Of law OF Of fact conscisncs 4
often eonfoundsd With oplnion.-1a
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A startIInr Arrn1 I'D RIrn...-

In the November number Of the Forum an.
pears startling expose in which the owners Of
the United States are indicated.
we nave been in the habit Of saying with \
sneer that England, for example, was only a
pocket borough-that a couple OF hundred
thousand owned the kingdom, and illustrated
the cynical remark Of Carlyle that "the uopu-
lation OF England consists Of 5000, 900 persons
mostly fools"
Well, according to the keen, hard lawyer vbo
gathered the statistics for the RorttTn and
rom whom II would be as impossible to extract
senrlment as 70 extract sunbeams from a Gu
cumber, in the phrase of Dean Swift-we re-
publicans are worse on than those saafFataiB
monarchists. A form of government and =
pattern Of social and religious order Wbich
were reileo on % distribute privileges and re-
mold and betrayed us, instead-have rinistered
70 the very evils they were warranted To avert
In a succession Of surprising tables. the
magazine displays British incomes and Au,eri-
can incomes side BY side, showing the enor-
nous preponderance Of the latter. Next fe
flashes on the screen q table showing the dis
tr1outon otWealth In this country; from which
1t appears thar the disproporrion betWeen the
rich and the poor Is greater here than IN En-
gland, and 3 increasing hers while diminish
reached that ''the United states OF Ameriro
are practically owned by less than 10000 T,sr-
sons. constituting less than in 90 of its adnIr
male population, and that within 80 years the
United States Of America win be substanfiaIl7
owned by less than $1,000 persons, eonstiruffn1.
less than in 500 OF the adult male popuIzfionB u
The Church and the State have some hnrs
problems to solve The future requires both
falth and. courage The trend OF wealth, and
the resultant concentration Of privileges is
unrepublican and unehristian. How bY
whom, shall the Niagara rapids be dammsd and
the final plunge aVerted2
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THE INDIANS ARE INCREASING.
A Hint to Orators and NOvelIsts to Look
Up the Facts.

Hint to Orators and Novelists 70 Look
Up the Facts.
Boston ADVERTISER
The novelists, reporters and others who
write Indian speeches, beginning with the
words ''I am the last of my race, the red
man is vanishing before the white man as
the leaves" etc., had better look up the
facts. 1t now seems that any statement to
the effect that the number of Indian popu-
lation is slowly decreasing is not
in accord with the truth. The Indian
is not dying off and vanishing from
the earth any more than the Cau-
casian is. They have, for the most part,
adopted semi-civilized habits and live quiet
lives. They are increasing rather than
decreasing. In the quiet, orderly commu-
mites of the Indian Territory. in the reser-
vations of Dakota, and in the pueblos of
New Mexico and Arizona, the Indian is
encamped peacefully. and his children are
being educated. He is fairly prosperous,
provided the Indian Agent and the con-
tractor do not try to starve him, and he is
raising his family and increasing in the
land
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Ieh LIebe Sic.

The night comes down with quiet feet.
With dusky garments trailing.
And DER the fields of golden wheat
The southern breeze Is wailing.
The starry radiance of the skies
Falls Ger the dew-wet lea,
And gazing in thy tender eyes
say. "Ich liebe sie."
There is no charm can bind my heart
Away from thy begufling,
For Cupid pierced me with his dart,
And viewed my struggles smiling;
Then rest upon my heart, dear love,
Thy troth-plight pledge to me,
For while the heavens smile above,
My own, "Ich liebe sie."
The summer flower may fade and die,
The tempest darkly hover;
But at thy feet shall ever lie
The true heart Of thy lover.
Then lift thy tender eyes TO mine,
And let their answer be.
An echo Of the words divine,
my love. Tch llebe sieR
Glare Beatrice H. George n Inter Oceo
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The Evening Lnnmine.
The EVenInG JnBmInes
Thrill me, fill me with delight,
Sweet evangel of the night;

Thrill me, fill me with delight,
Sweet evangel Of the night;
Chains of heaviness had bound me,
Sorrows deepest sorrows crowned me,
When from out the darkness came
One glad spark of rosy fame,
Filled me,
Thrilled me
With such ecstacy of bliss.
Life were worth the living for this.
Whence the subtle incense drawn,
From loves darkness or its dawn,
I knew not nor cared-ft proved
Like the breath of one beloved,
To my homesick soul appealing
With welcome touch of healing,
Holds me,
Folds me,
Giving to each quickened sense
Loves own perfect recompense.
IT'S the evening jasmine's bloom.
Fair and faint It fills my room.
Bloom, dear flower of midnight still,
All my senses steep and thrill.
Press me,
Bless me
With invisible arms caress.
Souls have lost themselves for less.
Hrs. n L. Rdyps IN Detroit Free Press.
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CHAPTER XII.

The midnight sky, sown with innumer-
able stars, spread deeply and purely blue
over the broad level of the eastern delta and
the town of Succoth, which the Egyptians
called, from its presiding deity, Pittrom, or
the city Of Toom. The March night was
drawing to its close. White mists hoated
above the canal. a work of the Hebrew
bondsmen, which intersected the plain and
watered the pasture land and meadows
which lay on all sides as far as the eye could
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-10
Mako die Best of WIve,.

ChicaEo elobe.1
"YOur son has married and settled down,
understand"
eyes, and to the best and most submissive
little lady in the world"
"How came he to be 80 fortunate?"
'Oh, he married typewriter, one who
was used to being dictated to-"
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A Kansas Mans Notions Abouf the Proper
Diet FOR His Sick Wife.

UIeL LoT dI9 SICK WIIes
Time.1
Gould git a little snack o. something to
eat for my wife? She amt very strong, an
she's bin right puny Of late an sich vittles
as we've got in the wagon don't seem to sat
isfy her," said a mover out in Kansas, stop
ping at farm house to make the above re-
quest.
Certainly replied the kind-hearted
mistress, "what would she like?"
well, she's real fnicky an delikitin her
appytite, an she's been fussin' for two days
Ter little billed cabbage an salt pork, an
hot sody biskits, an some apple dumplin's,
an cup o. right strong coffee. If you've
anything o. that sort I'd like some. These
sick folks hez to be pampered in their appy-
tites, ye know"
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THE CLOCK WAS GOING.
A Street Car Register Mistaken by Passen-
gers for a TfmeDiece.


gers for TfmeDiece.
Detroit Free Press.I
''Is that clock going?" inquired a man
of the conductor of a Cass avenue car. The
clock was going. 1t went tickety-click all
over the car and the hour few around like a
revolving shaft. The man who asked the
question struck the hand just as it wobbled
to the hour of 10.
"I've got an engagement at $50. but I
guess I've missed it this time" and he
stepped off the car, and began to run up
Congress street.
There was an old lady in the corner, who
glanced up just in time to see the hand re-
Volve to II.
''La, say," she exclaimed, ''how time do
fly, conductor! Is that aire teown time or
stranded?"
The conductor said he thought it was
standard, and just then the hour hand
flew round to 6, and the impression grew
on the passengers that the car clock was
unreliable. ,
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At work by the Day.

Yankee Blade.I
She-Oh, see that scarecrow out there in
the feldl
He-That isn't a scarecrow.
SIT must be; see how motionless it is"
"That's the hired man at work."
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LOVE IN A COTTAGE.
A Pretty Picture Of a Loving Couple
in the Evening of Life
RESTING AFTER THE DAYS TOLL.
The Troubles Of the Wealthy Who Live in
Mansions.
HOW TO BUILD A GOOD HOUSE FOB $500
RESTING AFTER THE DAYS TOLL.
HOW TO BUILD A GOOD HOUSE FOB $500
rwRrrrEN roR rHE pIsPArtH.I

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArCHI
A correlative of the petition "give me
neither poverty nor riches" might read
give me not large mansion but q small
cottage in which to dwell
The mansion costs great sum, so great
indeed that good man may well be
disturbed sometimes while viewing his
superfuous luxuries by the reflection that
there are thousands of his fellow creatures
who are not provided with the barest neces-
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ACCO1TMODATIONs.

Observation-Disclosures.
All of the rooms are shown by the floor
plan. The attic Is hoored and is reached BY
step-ladder. No cellar is provided as this
cottage, built as described, is intended for
summer occupancy only. To fitit for winter
use cellar under the whole house should
be built at an additional cost of about $500;
and the interior walls of the cottage should
be plsstered at an additional cost OF SO.
Special features-The large bays may be
said to give character to the exterior of this
design as well as to provide attractive feat
ures within. With cushions provided for
the bay window seats the sitting room is
indeed comfortable place. The overhang-
ing roof gives an appearance of large size.
The chimneys Zone over the kitchen and
one over the sitting room) are simple and
inexpensive but substantial, built of terra
Gotta resting on the ceiling joists.
COst-In all localities where the prices for
labor and materials are about the same as
those of New York City, $500.
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A PRETTY PIcrURE.

A touching picture is seen, suggestive of
nobility of character, when an elderly
couple resume the simple cottage life Of
their early welded years. Their lives have
been too unselfsh to permit the ACQUISITION
of wealth. They educated their children
and started them in prosperous careers, and
now they have planned to be self-supporting
to the end. The sons and daughters, how
ever honored and prosperous, who do not
kiss the labor-browned hands of such parents
are not worthy of the name thev bear.
Following will be found brief descrip-
tion Of the design illustrating this article:
Size of structure: Width, % feet; depth,
Sc feet inches.
Materials for exterior-Foundations. posts
or piers; side walls and roof, shingles,
Height of story 10 feet.
Interior fnish-Smoothed and chamfered
studding and ceiling joists to be left ex-
posed. Walls between studding and ceiling
joists to be papered. Flooring and all trim
of windows and doors to be of white pine or
other soft wood. All doors and sashes of
manufactured stock sizes. The windows
that command fine views should be glazed
with plate glass; all other windows
with double thick glass. All interior wood
work to be vanished. showing natural col
ors.
Exterior colors-All side shingling, cream:
all trim, holdings and veranda rails, dark
red; veranda posts ana balusters, cream;
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> Ominous voices are heard In England A ven
as on the continent respecting socnalistic ten
denotes. Call not those who utter them fanafI.
cal; it is more probable that they are animated
by the spirit Of the prophets than BY that of
fanatics. II only they eonld arouse the church,
Rev. Father Barry in the Nineteenth Century
for August, says There have been times when
the handwriting on the wall was hard to RAD
But such is not the time in which we live
Is is an age Of confusion The social
organism as we have received it from our fash-
ers is deeply decayed and its spirit gone What
man is there put confesses in private that ereaf
and unknown changes are hanging over uef
The present state Of socierF Is doomed
by its inherent contradictions to pass awav
am convinced that society must UNDERGO 4
transformation OF perish And it Is on this -
count that every thoughtful observer mugt
wish religion would take mp the far-reachin9
problem Of the distribution Of wealth. ~
relation Of physical science to the prosnarirS
of the masses: the rights and wrongs of -n-,o-t
erty: the claims Of the individual to ba tr11r-1
for his place in life and recompoused bV a -
cure old age for the tolls Of his years OF srrenf
in short the whole question OF national cfvfiir-
ton on its human and socii1 side. Icannof -
too emphafically that 1t seems to me this thI-,r
has not been done it is yer withouc 4 DIace T.,
our books of theology. TO speak of, and reouir~1
doing in all manner OF ways To ind q Solution
will task the energy and make severe deman5-
on the good viii Of our best teachers. nor vim
they find it at all useless, while keeping one
eve on their books, to keep the other,on fhin0s
as Ehey are outside the books. For AN tfo
sciences are now fast resolving themselves into
one-the social science And all the problems
are resolving themselves even faster into one s.
the social problem"
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sities of life; the cottage is of low cost. leav-
ing the conscience clear and the heart merry.
The mansion involves the wearisome labor
of experimenting servants; the cottage inn
poses the easy tasks of simple housework.
The mansion requires workmen to make re-
pairs; the cottage may be easily watched and
promptly repaired-''a stitch in time''-by
the owner. The owner of a mansion must
have large income; the owner of a cottage
and a fertile acre OF two is practically inde-
pendent, the labor of his hands providing
fruit. vegetables, poultry, etc., sufficient for
his needs.
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outside blinds and doors, roof and chimneys,
dark red; ;underside Of roof overhang, cream;
porch floor and ceiling oiled, showing nat
ural color Of wood.
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An Are of camne,irinn-

This is an age Of competition. Life Is A hin
podrome. We are Attracting with another. ana
even with ourselves Therefore it Is nos
strangs that this should invade the house Of
God
How far is 1t to be given pIay7 What are the
hmits-we mean In che church?
Clearly, the service ought not to BE- hmm.
drum Let the singing be lively, and have
plenty Of it Let the building be inviting and
well ventilated (Vfhy do sections hate freah
air?l. Let the preacher study to brighten hi1
discourse with the charms Of decorous anec-
dotes, pat illustration and warm apDeal Ther.
is no sanctity in platitudes Sin Is not 10 -
taken out OF q man as Eve was taken ont of
Adam-by putting him to sleeD II Il fmpos-
sible TO make church too Attractive in ire mi
pit, its chair and its environment AN thiS 1a
well within the limits OF the legitimate
But when IL comes to the delfberata adortfo,.
OF sensational plan, then the boundarfra ~
the permissible are overleaped. Mfniseerr -.
set to preach the gospel Of Jesus Chrisf-r,ce
the gospel OF self display. What uust ~
thought Of topics like these syrbe TTv1v fT,,.-
Neighbor's UMBRELLA -PulI on Your r,-v-
Boot Strap p These are announcements a-e,,.i
ly made OF sermons actually preached. Thev
may raise the curiosity Of groWn-up Children
they disgust men and women. Thew renel in
the end the very class they are meant - A.
tract. For the church is not circus rims, nor
is Christian pastor OF right 4 clown iif ia
notlceaole that these sensation monrers soon
play to empty benches. For awhile thew nav
draw q congregation Of religious tram1a.s n
the end, the last state OF such church a worst
than the nrst. a strong and useful church car
and practicing the gospel
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PAMPERING HER APPETITE.

Copyright by Z. W. shoppeII.
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