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a greater demand for country places and summer homes just outside the cities than has ever been known. This of course, is largely among those quite well-to-do, and it is not only sentiment but good sense that ment in keeping with the purpose to secure part, at least, of the simple life, which is well interpreted as meaning sane, rational life. This is brought to our attention daily by people of culture, of refinement and of good taste. They say, We want an gaudy display, we do not want so many rooms to care for, nor so much detail of finish. Make a few good sized rooms, we'll opened together, d liberal fireplace, good substantial con- struction, but plain, plain, plain.
 The cottage home" was never as popular as at the present time, and the demand is rapidly on the in- crease There are two principal req sons for this condition. The first and the one most common and always in the mind of the average American is to obtain the comfort and conven fence of home with small outlay of money; and the second reason is the desire for such comforts without the responsibility and great amount of housework and annoyances and ex- pense of a retinue of servants that is necessary for the care of large and costly residence with it's elaborate finish and furnishings. This desire to be freed from such burdens has be- come very common even among peo- pie who have abundant means, who are weary of the routine and mani fold household cares, and really want a home in the true meaning of the word.
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COTTAGE HOMES POPULAR People Bent on Getting Back to
 the Simple Life.

In this day of progress we are learning that many of the old time customs were better than the present ways. In those old "Colonial' days there was a love and reverence for home that was beautiful to look back to and ever an inspiration to truer and better home life, says a writer in the Home Magazine.
 Some of these old fashioned homes can still be found and how restful is the atmosphere when one enters through the vine-covered porch. The sitting room is large, the ceiling low, the windows plentiful in number, but small in size; the floor clean and white and often sanded with a fine. white beach sand, or covered with the woven or braided rag carpet, moth CTS handiwork. At the further end is a broad, open fireplace where a goodly sized log is kept burning through the long, cold winter days.
 We of the present generation know nothing of the ways and manners of living in those days, except as we have read of it, or in the evening twi- light have listened to stories of by gone days at the knees of our grand parents. Some of us can recall many such an enjoyment ill boyhood days, listening, never tiring, to grandfather telling of the old fashioned days and sometimes permitted to laNk with something of a feeling of aye and reverence, at the documene signed and sealed with the great : 35e seal, which commissioned hiN q officer in the war of 1872
 Why is it that our r.tayys urn to these old-fashioned hoa.rs9 It must be that ill the process Of time, and ill the change and so-called progress, We have missed something of the value in the simplicity, not to say, crudeness of those former days, and we will stop awhile and think
 Man made the city, but God made the country" is an old, time-worn sentiment, but the truth of the saying is more apparent every day. There is apparent on every hand a movement toward getting the best there is in the great outdoors. and a desire for the more simple and plain modes of liv- ing. This has been emphasized dur ing the summer season of this year by
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TO OPEN CANADIAN MINT.

Ottawa, Ont, Sept. 6.-With the Canadian branch of the royal mint now almost completed, it is expected that the establishment will be in op- eration within month. The building and plant has cost $500,00O, and the annual salary ist will aggregate $100,000. Thirty-five men will be en- ployed, their pay ranging from 8 to s a day.
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woman loves a clear, rosy com plexion. Burdock Blood Bitters puri- fes the blood, clears the skin, re- sores ruddy, sound health.
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HAD MISSED GOOD THING.
Patrlck's Joy Dimmed by Thought Of
Wasted Opportunities.

Patrick, recently arrived and I'M
used to the ways of this country. was
accosted one day by a member of the
sporting frasernity, who offered to inn
part to him, for modest considera-
ton, a marvellous way to make money
without toiling for it. All one needed,
he said, was a small amount to bet
on a certain horse that couldn't pos
sibly lose. "And yez say Oh can get
that money without working for it?"
asked the bewildered Irishman, when
the other was through explaining.
"Sure thing. All the work you got to
do is to count the mazuma." I'll thry
it." said Pat. So they hied them to a
racecourse, where the sporty-looking
gentleman placed Pats money at odds
of five to one. And the horse won!
Pats joy was unbounded when he was
handed large roll of yellow-backed
bills. Calling his new-found friend tC
one side, he asked in voice that
trembled with excitement: "Oi say
how long has this thing been goin'
on?"
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FIVE FALL INTO GRAVE.
Remarkable Incident That Disturbed
Solemnity of Funeral.

Instead Of the accustomed quiet
which prevails at the burial of the
dead, great excitement and fear at
tended the burial the other day of
Michael Serene, prominent merchant
Of Westport, when by the collapsing
of a grave the coffin and several per-
sons attending the services were
hurled into a small pit
The final prayer had been said by
the preacher and the assistant to the
undertaken stepped to the foot of the
coffin to arrange the rope for letting
the coffin into the grave. At that mo-
ment one of the pallbearers acct
dentally kicked out the crosspiece
that supported the coffin. The coffin
quickly descended into the grave, the
body going feet first. The assistant
FASTENED its descent by tumbling on
1t. Several persons rushed to the
edge Of the grave, causing the soil to
yield, and in few seconds five per-
sons were lying in the pit half covered
with dirt.
They were pulled out, the coffin was
dug out and laid fiat, and after the
grave had been redug the burial was
cOmpleted.-N. Y. Press.
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chine such description reads, as,
IAN engine, portable in ones pocket,
which may be carried and fastened
on the inside of the greatest ship,
tanquam aliud agens, and at any ap-
pointed minute, though a week after,
either of day or night, it shall irrevo-
cably sink that ship"
But while he tried to perfect meth
DDS of destruction, he also knew how
to prevent and safeguard any ship
from such an attempt by day or
night" Steam navigation, after all,
is only of the last century, but the
marquis had ga way to make boat
work itself against wind and tide
evidently using steam as in others of
his schemes, such as raising water.
In fact, he was a man who lived in
an age wherein his inventiveness was
misunderstood. Had he lived later no
doubt many of his devices would have
been practically and commercially
developed. 1t is comparatively easy
to get the merits of an improvement
understood, but it is very difficult to
get anyone to consider something
which is said to be an entirely new de-
parture.-Contract Journal.
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WONDERS OF oLDEN TIMES.
Works of 18th Century Inventor Too
New to be Considered Practical.

The Marquis of Worcester, who
wrote concerning many things about
1850 to 1860, had a knowledge and
grasp of mechanical problems that
would give him high position in the
ranks of workers even at the pres
ent day.
In aerial navigation, he tells us of
perfected inventions: How to make
an artificial bird to fly which way and
as long as one pleaseth, by or against
the wind" Again, How to make a
man fly, which," he says, Il have tried
with a little boy of ten years old in
a barn from one end to the other on
a haymow." In these days of wireless
telegraphy we take little note of Wis
ual signalling, but in those days it
was a great departure to have devised
methods of signalling at a distance,
such methods being available both
by day and night.
OF instruments of destruction he
had plenty. How like an internal ma
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to fit himself for some other form of
labor. What are his chances to regain
a foothold?
Some few corporations retain on the
payroll those employees who may have
been injured in their service, but the
number of such is small A few pro-
vide pensions, and even fewer have
instituted some form of benefit that
will be a real help in case of disable.
ment.
But the great mass Of injured per-
sons must readjust themselves as best
they can.
Preiudiced Employers.
The chief reason why they fail to do
this and start on the long tortuous
road to semi-pauperism and finally the
almshouse is the open prejudice of
employers against hiring cripple, or
a failure on their part to recognize
the fact that he still possesses an
economic value, as he usually does.
This remorseless prejudice against
which many an honest and capable
man has been forced to contend has
driven valuable material to the waste
heap of humanity, if not to a self
made grave.
There are many positions filed by
boys and girls who should be in school
which could be better filled by older
men and women unable to command
higher wages because of physical dis
ability. To supplant the incumbents
of such positions would be to raise
the standards of education and of liv-
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"Goinq Some"

Two of our colored brethren were
engaged in heated argument. The
"retort courteous" without the quail.
flying adjective, had been passed and
returned.
Suddenly the larger of the two
moved up aggressively. '|Yuh nygah
youh! If All hit yuh, Aim a-goin' to
knock yuh so fab dat der amt no rail.
road train kin bring yuh back!"
The other looked at him a moment
speculatively. Then: "Niggah you
self yuh brack map O. Africa! If AL
hit yuh, Aim goin' to knock you SO
fab dat it'll cos eight dollars to SEN
yoh a postal card!"
Whereupon the tall one, realizing
that the limit had been reached
passed his "chaw," and peace reigned
again.-Judge.
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Good for Eishermen,s "Rait."

The remarkable Notwithstanding eff
feet of a vacuum is strikingly brought
out in the claims made for a new
sportsman's bottle. The vessel has
double walls, being really one bottle
within another, with a sealed-up in
tervening space from which the air
has been withdrawn. 1t is asserted
that liquids in this bottle can be kept
hot 48 hours in the coolest weather,
and that inced beverages will retain
their delicious GOODNESS for weeks in
the hottest summer.
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ing, for If the children were not avail
able their disabled seniors would take
their places at higher rate of wages
though at less than current standards.
This would do much to remove the
stigma of a present national disgrace
by which 1.267,32 boys and girls be-
tween the ages of IA and 16 years are
allowed to dwarf their young lives in
our shops, factories and mills. The
handicapped man would supplant chill
dren only where distinct economic
and educational advantage is to be
gained. He is fully competent to COM
pete with the able bodied for many
positions. 1t is not favoritism that he
needs or asks; only an opportunity to
demonstrate his fitness. The trouble
is, he is rarely given that opportunity.
Great Need of the Day.
A crying need of the day is an
awakening of the national conscience
regarding the needless loss of human
life and the resulting economic waste.
In our reckless haste to make money
we forget that in so doing, the I'M
the fierce struggle for existence are
producing an increasing host of de-
pendent citizens, who have been worn
out as part of machine and are
then thrown on the industrial scrap
heap
The hours of labor are being slight
ly reduced and wages slightly in
ID,14 h. fnors an
man and machine has been nearly
doubled.
Many men, each one a unit of labor,
valuable to the employer And to So
ciety, drop out crippled by accident or
with their health undermined. Unless
the employees are speedily able to re-
adjust themselves in gainful occupa-
tions, they become public charges.
Each man added to the list of the
states dependents makes an added
burden of taxes on the wealth produc-
ing citizens.
The employer, who is the exponent
of the industrial system is account
able for this waste of productive pow
er, though not the originator of it, is
himself one of the first victims to feel
the extra burden of taxation. Doubt
less he is also appealed to, and SUBJ
scribes literally for private charitable
schemes. which are themselves large
ly neceSs ary evils. Hence the waste
full system of industry, in which the
waste CT labor is lost sight of in the
mad attempt to save cost of produc-
ton, reacts ON itself; and the hard
pressed employer becomes victim to
the very system that is slowly but GER
tainly adding to the cost of main
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Centuries ParaIIeIed.

In former times vassals, serfs and
slaves gave up their lives blindly to
their feudal chiefs; fighting their bat
ties, tilling their soil, selling their own
birth rights for a pot of miserable
porridge.
AS the fourteenth century vassal
sold his service and life for food and
shelter so the twentieth century ar
tisan sells his labor and life for money
with which to buy the necessaries of
life. If his wages are greater than his
living expenses and he is fortunate
enough to escape bodily harm, he may,
under extremely favorable conditions,
be able to provide for an Independent
old age. But if shifting economic con-
ditions condemn him to only a pre-
carious living and if he is disabled by
the machinery of industry, only one
fate can be his-the acceptance of
aims sooner or later from friends or
the state. He has not shed his blood
as the vassals of old in the service of
a master. He has sacrificed himself
on the altar of industrial progress,
whose masters are practically uncon-
cerned for his future.-From the N. Y.
Journal and American.
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A Prophecy as TO Wheat.

Unquestionably those now living
may see the time when in some years
the United States will import wheat
il surplus can be found anywhere.
AS a rule, however, we may expect
to continue to export grain forever.
The oldest and most densely popu-
lated countries of the world continue
to export grain, and while the world
endures there will always be ex-
changes of SURPRISES. AS to our pro-
duction we are probably nearing our
maximum under present methods of
cultivation. 1t is, however, easily pos
sible to double our output by better
methods of agriculture which we shall
gradually adopt as increasing prices
caused by the pressure of population
warrant the increased outlay in pro-
duction.
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TWO SISTERS HAD ECZEMA.
Cuticura Cured Scalp Troubles of
Two Illinois GirIs-Another Sis
ter Took Cuticura Pills.

IT must give much praise to all the
Cuticura Remedies. l used but one
cake of Cuticura Soap and one box of
Cuticura Ointment, as that was all that
was required to cure my disease. l
was very much troubled with eczema
of the head, and friend of mine told
me to use the Cuticura Remedies,
which 1 did, and am glad to say that
they cured my eczema entirely. My
sister was also cured of eczema of the
head by using the Cuticura Remedies.
Another sister has used Cuticura Re-
solvent and Pills and thinks they are
a splendid tonic. Miss Edith Hammer,
r. F. d. No. 6, Morrison, ILL.,, Oct. 3, '06."
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In the huge, smoky workshop called
Pittsburg. one human life is sacrificed
for every $4,000 tons of coal that are
shipped out of the city. For each
1900 tons of steel products one of the
manipulators, somewhere in the pro-
cess of manufacture. lays down his
life: and for each 10000 tons of steel
rails another laborer makes the last
sacrifice.
Of the 1850 deaths reported in
Pittsburg in 1906, 919 were due to ac-
cidents in mills, mines and on rail
roads The number of accidents was
not computed, but it was undoubtedly
in the thousands.
Causes of Fatalities.
How does it all happen, you ask? If
a huge ladle of white hot steel is up
set, the molten stream burns alive it's
writhing victim. 1t may be that a
man or woman is whirled to a horrible
death in mill machinery; or a miner
is blown to eternity in an explosion
of damp in mine.
Publicity is given to accidents on
railroads, but little is, heard of the
thousands annually killed and manned
in manufacturing and building and in
some of the more obscure trades. 1t
has been shown that 425,000 are an
nuaIly disabled in factories and con-
struction work But we have no
means of knowing how many are in
dustrially displaced by inhaling the
poisonous fumes in working over bat
teries, or the large numbers that are
afflicted with mercurial poisoning and
other ailments in the hat industry
and allied trades. Neither do we
know how many succumb to painters
collie, or blood poison by working with
brass and copper.
The victims of tuberculosis among
sweatshop workers, grain trimmers,
longshoremen, coal hands and others
are shown to be numerous by the
board of health reports, but the exact
numbers have never been gathered
into statistical form.
Tributary Evils.
This loss of life and limb in times
of peace would be suffi GENTLY appal-
ling in itself were there no tributary
evils. But the situation is rendered
even more serious by the fact that
only about Is per cent. of the indus
trial accidents result in the death of
the victims, while IS per cent, or 445,-
900, are doomed to a one-sided battle
for existence.
When a man loses a limb or the use
IF it, is rendered partially blind by
an accident, or in countless ways is
incapacitated for his regular work, the
first great question confronting him is
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New York.-More than 100000 men
and women are injured or killed in
the industries annually in the United
States, or one person every minute.
This industrial carnage costs the
people of the country, directly and in
directly, over two and half billions
of dollars-a sum larger than the
national debt.
Such are the death tolls of indus
trial progress, which shows such a
smiling face to those whose occupa-
tions involve no danger, but turns a
CHASTITY countenance on those who
work in peril of their lives.
Whoever doubts these figures need
only read the grim statistics to be
convinced that modern industry is
more fateful than war.
In the Japanese-Russian war total
of 333, 7S6 men were killed and wound
ed on both sides, not counting the
losses in naval battles.
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LOVE LETTERS SUCCESSOR.
The Telephone Operator Thinks That
the 'Phone Calls the Thing.

TT just fairly surprises me lately,
the number of men that call up their
sweethearts and wives on the long
distance phone" said the telephone
operator at one of the local hotels.
THE girl that gets love letter from
a fellow these days has to live so far
away from him that it'll take too mucn
out of his weeks pay to call her up.
Honest, it seems to me all do here
some evenings is to call up girls for
fellows. Then there are a good many
men that call their wives. One man
told me that he hasn't written to his
wife more than dozen times in the
last year and he's been away from
home most of the time. I guess he
calls her up every night when he
amt too far from home, or three or
four times a week anyhow. He seemed
like such a nice gentleman.
81 don't believe men write many
love letters to girls any more. It'd
seem foolish to write letter TO girl
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Have Trouble
with Your Food !?
Try
|Grape-Nuts
Perfectly Cooked,
Ready to Serve.
Delicious and Healthful
Delicious and Healthful

1.-THE ordinary breakfast cereal
cooked few minutes in half-hearted
way will in time weaken the stomach
Of anything short of an or.
ANY preparation of wheat or oats
put into water that is below the boil
ing point and cooked as mush is uSu-
ally served, remains pasty, indi-
gestible mass. The cells are tough
and unopened. In addition, the stom-
ach of a person sensitively constituted
refuses to do anything with the pasty
mass. 1t is sent into the second stom-
ach, the Duodenum, where in conse-
Quence of the long time of the first
process of digestion, is fermented and
soured. AS an eminent medical man
pertinently states, the stomachs of half
the people going about the streets are
egar barrel.
Intestinal dyspepsia is the direct
consequence of such feeding"
knowledge of these facts and wide
experience in the preparation and use
of cereals brought out the product
known as Grape-Nuts, manufactured
with special reference to having the
heterogeneous and starchy parts of the
grains, of which the food is composed,
perfectly and scientifically cooked at
the factory, ready for immediate use
and therefore not subject to the ma
nipulations of any cook, good or bad.
The starch of the grains, changed to
grape-sugar, can be seen glistening on
the little granules, and gives forth a
delicate sweetish taste, very palatable.
Children and adults obtain fine re-
suits from the use of Grape-Nuts food.
1t is so perfectly adapted to the wants
of the human body and so easily di'
gested that many cases are on record
of nursing babes being fed very sue.
cessfully on it. There's Reason"
Made at the pure food factories OF
the Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read The Road to Wellyille," in pkgs.
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just after you'd been talking to her
and l know lots of young men that
call their girls every night. They
call after six o'clock, because the night
rate is only about half as much as the
day rate. What I started to say was
that these fellows that call every
night, surely don't write to girls too.
1t would be just like writing to her
just after he had gone home from
calm on her.
How long do they talk? oh, any
where from three minutes to IL min
utes. Of course some talk longer than
that, but IA minutes is abore the
average for the longer conversations.
tive heard girls say they like to
be called up better than to gel let
ter, only it's fun to have the letters to
show to other girls. They like to have
the letters to read over again to theyu-
selves, too. I think it's swell though
to have man call you up from away
off in some other state. Then l think
a married man that'll spend his money
that way just to talk to his wife is a
peach. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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were spells Of dizziness and faintness,
the kidney secretions were like blood
and passed with intense pain. I had
lost 80 pounds when l began using
Doan's Kidney Pills, and was dread
fully nervous. In one week I felt bet
ter and to-day / am a well woman and
have been for long time"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, n. Y.
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ZION OF LQ6 DIdu-
der and the trou-
BILE had gone SO
far in five years
that my physicians
said nothing but
an operation would
cure me. Awful
b e arin g do w n
pains, backaches
and headaches tor
tured me, there