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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-08-28
Pe-ru-na Brought Health and Happl
ness.

Miss Nellie South. late or Manchester,
England writes from Sc Prince Arthur
street Montreal Can, as follows:
"Peruna has made wonderful
change in my life. 1t has brought me
health and happiness. Since my seven
teenth year with female complaint and
Irregularities my general health suf,
fered. ! had pains in my back and
lower limbs, my eyes were dim, and |
became morose and unreasonable.
Mother sought the advice of our family
physician, who prescribed for me, but
| grew no better under his treatment.
| then read of Peruna and procured a
bottle. That one bottle was worth
more than all the doctors medicine |
had previously taken. felt so much
better and kept on taking it for six
weeks with marked improvement in
my health. | cannot express my graf
itude. Peruna has been a great bless
ing to me.'-Mss Nellie South.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-08-28
Pe-ru-na Cures catarrh of the Bladder.

Mrs b. c. Appleget, Royal Center Ind,
writes:
Last winter I was troubled with ca
tarrh of the bladder. l tried several diff
ferent remedies and also went to a ply
stefan, who said | would have to go
through an operation. But l objected to
that, so my husband got me a bottle Of
Peruna to try 1t did me SO much good
that | got two more, and by the time |
had taken three bottles l was well. think
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-08-28
A r1OTHER'S LOVE.

A mothers love is so divine that the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13
THE RESOURCES OF WOMEN.

What a Writer in "Good Housekeep-
ing" Thinks of Them.
What if some good man had wanted
to marry you during these past years;
would you have dared go to him, hav-
ing conscience, all unprepared, as
you have been, to make his home a
comfortable haven, his worlds Snug
harbor?" I tell you, in this age there
would be propriety in a clergyman de-
handing of women at the altar: Can
you cook a potato, make soup, a
loaf of bread, prepare piece OF meat,
and keep a house tidy?" Can you
make dollar buy it's worth?"
Who can say what lifetime will
bring in this way of experiences!
Take up your morning paper and see
If you do not find a doleful little para.
graph somewhere, telling of some one
born to great wealth dying neglected.
alone, in abject poverty. Do you mil
lion cruelty mistaken mothers think
that money can secure happy life, a
comfortable hope, or true independ-
ence for your daughters? Before
heaven, their only independence is
the resources within themselves.
Their only title to happiness, comfort,
secure love and respect through life,
hangs upon their knowledge, and will
ingness to create happiness for others,
to inspire love and respect for them
selves.
In the long run, we get of pain and
pleasure, of ease and hardships, OF
JOY and sorrow, of failure and success
Just what we earn.
1t is the worlds justice-Good
Housekeeping.
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GROWING CASSAVA ON NORTH AMERICAN SOIL

Florida prior to the war on small
scale, and added its quota to the COM
missary of the Confederates in the
field. It was not until 1898 that cas-
sava starch became an article OF
trade. The freeze-ups of 1894-95 des-
troyed so many Florida orange groves
that the distracted planters turned to
cassava as prop for their substituted
industry of raising live stock. Cassava
soon spreads like prairie fire, max
ing stock growing profitable on the
one side and the commercial profits
of cassava profitable on the other
Cassava grows in light, rich, sandy
loan, usually underlaid with hard pan,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13
Root of Brazilian Plant Found
Valuable as Fodder for
Cattle in Gulf States.

plete separation of cream from milk
than other fodder, and a more com.
plete separation of butter from the
cream in churning. When mixed with
cotton seed meal it produces firmer
butter, very important point in a
climate Of long hot summers having
no cold springs of water. 1t is great
stock fattener, bullock being made
to gain up to 276 pounds of flesh at
cost of less than one cent per pound
of meat added.
1t fattens a hog or pig up to the e1
act condition demanded by markets
the pork bringing in consequence the
highest prices. Where the roots al
consumed by factories for starch the
waste is sold at SO and $12 ton fol-
feeding cattle, hogs, horses, ETC., and
the demand exceeds the supply. So
far Florida factories manufacture only
starch from cassava. the while starch
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13

forms of printed matter. The most
striking are the large cards.
''They were to stick up in places
where profanity is heard" said DIR.
Sawyer. Groceries, where men and
boys sit around in the evenings to
talk; shops and factories, towns
where we have been able to get ordi-
nances passed against swearing and
school yards, where little boys swear.
They have been found useful in all
sorts of places
1t was in March, 1902, that the first
anti-profanity league was formed in
Hanson, with the founder as secretary.
The organization was made just close
enough to hang together and just
loose enough to assure d peaceful ex.
istence.
There was instant call for leagues
in neighboring towns, and the work
has grown in two years until there are
now twelve thousand members who
have signed pledges in forty states,
two territories, Canada, Scotland, Eng
land, Ireland Switzerland and South
Africa, and an auxiliary society in
London.
President Roosevelt has given ap
prevail to the work. The Rev. John L.
Withrow is president of the league.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13
By HELEN FARE HUNTER
copyrighted by TAs Authors F6lishng Company

The star was late. The manager
stormed and swore softly under his
breath with all the sang froid and
ease of a rapid-fring gun,
Her maid, Annette, was apprehen-
sfve. The first act was on. The muir
muir of disapproval which followed the
exit of the gentlemanly villain reached
the back of the stage and echoed in
the wings.
Then she appeared-the star, non
chalant, self-poised, Indifferent; with
that indescribable air of hauteur, re-
serve, frankness and warmth, which
made her the despair of those who
courted her and envy of those who
disliked her. She swept into her
dressing-room, threw aside her hat
and wrap, and began her makeup"
With swift, deft fingers her maid dis
robed her, and assisted her to dress.
Marvelously beautiful she looked,
when a few moments later she glided
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13

Al VIM mademoiseIle please hurry:
we arc very late. Burton II on" With
a start she was back again In the mar.
row dressfng-room.
The next day at i've she was in her
parlor at the hotel waiting for him.
When the boy brought up his card,
she b1ushed like q schoolgirl. Then
she drew herself up to her stately five
feet seven and q half inches, and said
indifferently. ooh. please tell him to
come up"
Three minutes later he knocked at
the door but received no response.
The door stood ajar; he pushed it open
and walked into the room. No Mil
dredi Had he made a mistake? No,
this was the number. There was her
photograph on the table, and
well, John?" a meek, little voice
said behind him.
He turned and caught her in his
arms. I've come for my answer, Mil
dred."
"Oh! John. you've got it," she said.
as she hid her face on his shoulder
and put her arms about his neck.
You know it didn't pay"
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There

know, to clap their hands. There!
the curtain was down at last.
They called her before it. She
gracefully acknowledged their ap-
plause. Back again in her dressing
room, she threw herself into a chair
and look straight before her, at the
reflection of her face in the mirror.
Annette came in with her arms full
of flowers, costly dollhouse roses, all
with a card or note attached. She
looked at them indifferently.
care they not beautiful, Mademois-
elle?"
Eyes, very beautiful, Annette, but
1 am SO tired of them, they all look
alike. All, what is that?"
Her quick eye had noticed a small
bunch of old-fashioned flowers, half
hidden by an immense bouquet of La
France roses
Quick, Annettei Give them to me;
Why, there's no card, not even line
she added in a disappointed tone, as
she took them, and smelled them, and
looked them over. 'Mignonette, rose
geranium, wall flowers, fox-glove. OH
those dear little blue gentians. And,
Annette, see! Here is a little 1ady's-
slipper, way down here in the middle.
Lavender, lemon verbena-oh! all the
dear, old-fashioned flowers I love.
Why! I can almost fancy 1 am back
in grandma's prim, little garden at
home once more. How sweet they
SMELL Who could have sent them?
1 didn't know there was a florist in
New York who could furnish such
flowers as these
Perhaps" Annette suggested, IT
mademoiselle would unite them
ooh, yes, how stupid; but run and
get some water for them, like a good
girl: hurry, they are fading fast. They
can't stand this heat and glare, poor
| things
Annette looked in surprise at her
stately mistress. She had never seen
her like this before. Her eyes were
sparkling, and an eager, expectant
| smile played about the corners of her
mouth. But she was we'll trained,
| and returned no remark; gathering up
| the discarded roses, she quietly left
| the room.
AS the door closed upon her, the star
sat down in a heap upon the floor, just
! as a child with a new toy would do,
and began eagerly untying the ribbon
| that held the flowers Out dropped a
small folded slip of paper. On it in
| a masculine hand, was written: HAS
| it paid? Ill call for my answer at
| five tomorrow"
For a moment she stared at the slip
of white paper, then she buried her
| face in her hands, and sat very still.
In the next room the soubrette quar-
relied with someone. The shrill treble
voice came through the thin partition.
| Outside, the scene-shifter and stage
carpenters were busy setting up the
scene. The hum, hustle and excite
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ticular organization, it was evident
that somebody was interested in it.
1t comes out now that it is the west
ern movement in a crusade started by
the Rev. Roland D. Sawyer of Massa
chusetts, who is distributing don't
swear" cards to the utmost corners of
the earth, in the hope that he will
raise the morals of mankind by abol-
fishing swearing
Mr.. Sawyer was born in Kensing.
ton, N. H, and inherited the lot of the
average New England country boy. He
worked, went to the common schools
of the town, and later to the high
school at Exeter, walking to and from
school each daylight miles, He left
school to work on the farm, and in
the shoe shop he did his share, and
was probably no worse than his town
mates.
In the summer of 1894 there came
to town a young preacher, and the
boy was converted to religion. When
he cast about in his mind to see what
the onus of sin was which had sud-
denly been removed he could find
nothing but profanity.
81 had been with older boys" says
Mr.. Sawyer, land they got me to
swearing OF course, it was simply
village ''smartness.''
But the conversion was genuine.
He entered the so-called LAY college, %
at Revere Bech, Mass. to study for
the ministry. He graduated with his
class in 1889 and was at once called
to be associate pastor of the South
Congregationalist Church in Brock
ton.
One of Mr. Sawyer's best marked
characteristics is personal initiative.
He went home to Kensington and
found an old church out of use. He
persuaded the trustees to allow him to
hold meetings there.
1t may have been remembrance OF
his own sin, but the first thing he did
was to formulate a simple pledge not
to use profanity, and he got several
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13

out of the narrow dreSSing-rOOm, onto
the stage-beautiful, even in her
makeup" and the glare of the cal
cium lights. The CLINT of gold was in
her dark hair, catching and holding
the light. Her white neck and arms
cleaned. She was, indeed, a radiant
creature, all archness, coquetry, and
grace.
The vast theater, crowded to the
last rows in the gallery, hung upon her
words. She held it n the subtle
grasp of her winsome personality,
swayed it with every motion of her
graceful body, played upon it with
every breath she drew. The dark,
shapeless mass of humanity on the
other side of the foothghts, that sea
of white, eager faces, all turned to
her How many times in her early
struggles for its favor she had trem-
bled before its immovable starei To-
night it was kind-oneN mighty heart
that throbbed with hers, one gigantic
pulse which beat with her own. Her
triumph had come. She felt it, knew
it. She had conquered. What she
had worked for. prayed for. had come
at last. She had won the public.
The curtain fell on the first act
amid a GREATNESS stiffness. Then q
tumu1t of applause followed.
She took the curtain-cal1 with the
others. She wondered, as she stood
in the center of the stage and held
the picture" why the tears came into
her eyes, and why she shivered.. She
certainly ought to be happy, but she
wasn't. She was looking straight into
the eyes of the leading man; his
arm was about her waist. She felt
that she positively detested him.
What horrid old crow's-feet he had
around his eyes-blase at thirty three.
She couldn't see how the matinee
girls could adore him. Oh! would they
never put that curtain down? She
certainly would make face at him
If they didn't And that stupid, little
soubrette standing over there. with her
hands in the pockets OF her apron.
smiling in that inane. absolutely ri
diculous mannerI Why in the world
did the manager keep her? She ought
to be in vaudeville house.
What sham it all wasl Artificial
scenes, artificial emotions, grease
paint, dust and hard work. All for
what? Just this-a red curtain to
rise and fall, and lot of people whom
you didn't know, and never would
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ATlELoOFCA3dAXA UhDcRdznE11zoA
ATHAXACtE.F1E RE0

forms of tapioca are made, and it is
the principal starch or bread substi-
tute of tropical countries There are
two general forms of cassava, the bit
ter and the sweet. Cassava is bushy
shrub, growing from four to ten feet
high. the branches forking repeatedly.
The leaves divide into three to eleven
divisions from slender petioles, six
to twelve inches long. The seeds are
about as large as the castor bean and
grow in globular pods The roots
grow in clusters from an end of the
seed canes planted. The clusters OF
roots range from five to thirty pounds
in weight
The sweet, or non-poisonous, variety
is the only one cultivated in the south
ern states, the bitter forms maturing
too late in this country. There are
now four sweet varieties cultivated in
the Gulf states, as against forty kinds
n Brazil. The plant was cultivated in
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and the best yields are secured In
soils too dry for corn and other crops
The hard pan is useful in compelling
the roots to spread so they can De
readily hauled out The plant is not
a soil exhauster and is easily fertu-
lied.
Cassava root. cut in slices, is now
the stock food for southern cattle 1t
gives a rich color to milk, without
Affecting the flavor of it or the butter.
1t increases the amount of butter per
gallon of milk 1t causes more COM
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13
Alarmed Herself.

The resemblance between an alarm
clock and a conscience is SO obvious
that it has often been remarked.
man would hardly like to look himself
IN the face If he were without either,
while the monitions Of both meet with
the same amiable or impatient disre
gard One usually maintains each of
them in considerable privacy, but an
old woman in Kansas City put the
clock the other day to new and
public use. She went to railroad
station with an alarm clock suspend
ed from her neck with a rope She
was asked about it by polite stran-
ger, and said that her son had set the
to go of at $3.50. which would be a
signal for her to go out on the plat
form and get her train. which left at
e:45- She did not want to take any
chances of losing it--Nev York Tri-
bune.
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THE RESULT OF ACCIDENT.
Unexpected Discoveries from Which
Wealth Was Made.

unexpected discoveries IFOIn WHICH
Wealth Was Made.
1t often happens that an ignorant
man will stumble upon an invention
which clever men have been working
over for years. At one time all the
gum used in England was made from
gum arabic and cost no end of money.
1t happened one night that a big
starch factory on the banks of the
Liffey, near Dublin, took fire and
great puddles of starch and water
were found outside.
Some calico printers who had been
making an evening of it came by, and,
being very tipsy, one of them tum-
bled into the sticky mess. Next morn
ing, when he tried to dress, all his
clothes were stuck tight together as
if they had been dipped in glue, and
the wretched man was obliged to stay
in bed till his wife had soaked them
in clean water.
The man, from his trade, knew how
valuable this gum was, and taking the
rest of the party into his confidence
they experimental by scorching
starch on fire shovel. They found it
made excellent gum when mixed with
water, and it was this invention which
enabled postage stamps to be pro-
duced in an adhesive form.
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product going to cotton manufactures
where it is used for making sizing for
various classes of goods. For laundry
purposes cassava makes the best of
starches, productive of a smoother
surface and finer gloss
All varieties of cassava, bitter and
sweet, are being cultivated at the
United States experiment station at
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, to determine
which kinds will be most profitable
for the inhabitants of that island
New York Herald.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13
Plant Furnishes Starch for
Laundries and Sizing for
Cotton Mills.

Both the New York Botanical Gar
den and the Department of Agricul-
ture are developing special attention
at present to the cultivation OF cas-
sava, the newest agricultural venture.
Cassava is a plant native to Brazil,
which is cultivated for it's glutinous
products There are more than
dozen varieties raised in Brazil, differ
ing in celebration and time of maturity.
From the root of cassava nearly all
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Dizziness of Court Life.

Thomas Creevey, who lived in the
early part of the nineteenth century,
has presented some queer pictures
of English court life. During the
reign of King William w. Creevey
wrote: THE Greys had just come
from Windsor castle. Lady Grey, in
her own distressed manner, said she
was really more dead than alive. She
said all the boring she had ever en-
dured before was literally nothing
compared with her misery Of the two
preceding nights. She hoped she
never should see a mahogany table
again, she was so tired with the one
that the king and the queen, the Ouch
ess OF Gloucester, Princess Augusta,
Nine. Lieven and herself had sat
around for hours, the queen knitting
or netting a purse, the king sleeping
and occasionally waking for the pur-
pose of saying. Exactly SO, ma'am,
and then sleeping again The queen
was cold as ice to Lady Grey till the
moment she came away, when she
could afford to be little civil at get
ting quit of her."
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oun g folks In
Kensington to sign
these. The form
of the original is
Int e r e s t ing. 1t
reads:
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The Oldest Inscriptions.

Archaeologists maintain that Ger.
tain inscriptions discovered in Babylo.
MIA date back more than 5000 years.
That, however, is question of opin.
ion. If it is true they are the Oldest
Of human record.
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One Town in Massachusetts Has Anti-Profanity
Ordinance-Presdent Indorses Movement Which
Has Spread to Foreign Lands

Signs warning against profanity be-
gan to appear in Chicago street cars
and public places several weeks ago.
Their origin was unknown, and, while
the campaign against swearing was
not apparently carried on by any par
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I, the undersigned

do hereby
resolve to use no
more profane Ian ~ NntMkl
guage of any kind. f-SW%NMSlazl
May the Lord helm SSH S.xrM
me to keep my re- s'7Ss.W
solve WSNES
Signed. \EH 4yVS; 3
Witnessed by Roll
and Douglas Sawyer.
The young preacher received call
to Hanson and accepted it, because it
was small church and would give
him the time to carry on his crusade
and also study at Boston University
two years.
Mr.. Sawyer resolved to initiate the
methods used by Mortified evangei
lists. They had discovered that the
ordinary man fights shy of the conven-
tional tract, and had printed the brief.
est appeals on celored cards.
Mr.. Sawyer got out similar cards.
He handed them to men who swore
on the street. He got out stickers, and
when he read a newspaper on a train
put on his sticker as he finished and
passed the paper to the engine driver
or fireman as he passed in the station.
He put cards into papers for the hos
pitfalls.
Friends were interested and helped
pass them out, and bought them at the
rate of 81 thousand. The cards
were neither offensive nor priggish.
They laid stress on the uselessness of
profanity and on the discourtesy to
persons who heard and whose feelings
might be wounded.
81 have known of but two in
Stances said DR.. Sawyer lately,
where profane recipients of cards
have shown anything like resentment.
Usually they apologize for having
sworn, or else stink out of sight in
short order"
The movement was no sooner under
way than there was a demand for
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Don't Swear" Campaign Of Bay
State Preacher Now International

more striking literature. Then began
an amazing activity for DIR. Sawyer.
His little study in Hanson is heaped
with various forms of tracts. cards.
pledges and stickers. Yet they are
only samples: there are hundreds OF
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the room.
ment of stage life were all about her.
But she did not hear. She was miles
away. back in the old garden at home,
gathering just such flowers as she
held in her lap, and the voice of the
man she loved was saying: Mildred,
it won't pay; with your earnest nature,
you will never be content with the
empty praise of the public 1 offer
you an honest mans honest love.
Won't you take it?'
~Mademoiselle. here Is the water.