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hear more Of them. But the clergy
were furious. Luther was charged
with heresy and ordered to report at
once in person to the pope. He re.
fused and continued to preach his be.
liefs. He declared the Bible should
be free to all men to read and inter.
pref as they chose, and that its pre-.
cepts should not be doled out to them.
The controversy waxed holly, Luth-
er ever gaining new adherents. At
last, in 1920, the pope accommodated
him and ordered his books publicly
burned. Luther retorted by burning
the writ of accommodation. Mean
time all Germany was rent asunder
over the quarrel, and the emperor,
Charles ", thought best to interfere.
He summonded Luther to appear be-
fore him at the city of Worms in the
presence Of the diet (counciD to an
swer charges of heresy Knowing
how many adherents Luther had, the
emperor promised him safe conduct.
Yet the accused mans friends, know
ing how uncertain was the promise of
sovereign, urged him not to put his
head in the lions mouth by obeying
the command. Luther replied: Even
If there were as many devils in
Worms as there are chimneys on the
houses I would go!"
And he went. Fearlessly he con.
fronted the terrible emperor, hurting
defiance at him, expounding his doc
trines and refusing to retract. His
Enters the Lions friend 8 hurried
Mouth. him away just in
time to escape the imperial wrath
and forced him to stay in hiding for
a year. He spent his retirement in
beginning translation OF the Bible
into German, so that even the poorest
might read it. His is the Bible in use
in Germany to-day. The emperor pro.
claimed him an outlaw threatening dire
penalties to all who should befriend
him. Nevertheless, Luther went fear
lessly abroad and preached through
out Germany denouncing corruption
and begging men to lead better lives.
So deeply had the common people
and many of the mobiles become at.
tached to the reformer that even the
emperor dared not modest him.
But his later years were embittered
by religious quarrels among his own
followers and by perils and discour-
agements of every kind. In 1916, at
the age of 60, he died, soon after writ.
ing to friend the ensuing letter
which showed how thoroughly he had
paid the price of misery which is the
lot of all progress-makers:
81 am old, worn out, weary. My
spirit is broken. I am blind of one
eye. long for little rest and quiet.
Yet as much work remains to be done
as ever. / am so weary of the world
and the world is so weary of me that
the parting will be as easy as that of
a guest leaving an inn"
(Copyrighted)
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In a letter from New York about
Fifth avenue a correspondent tells in
the Berliner Tageblatt many things
which would surprise residents OF that
thoroughfare. In the Introductory
sentence the writer says that the New
Yorker has so little time that he u.s.
ually speaks of the street as the
Fifth" never as Fifth avenue. The
young women, according to the writer,
parade up and down Fifth avenue un-
chaperoned, while some, also unat-
tended, drive. The fathers, GRANDPA
theirs, brothers and uncles are too
busy hunting dollars. The women,
he says, are pretty, but without fig
ure. After paying high tribute to
the fine appearance Of young girls in
Fifth avenue the correspondent de-
clares that the impression made by
them on a stranger is not favorable,
because of their actions, and one is
usually surprised to learn that they
are the daughters of respectable par
ents. He adds: "Woe to him who
marries one of the flowers of the
FIFTH He will have valuable orna.
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From New York comes a story
about little girl which might have
come from one of Mr.. Barrie's stories.
The little girl, whose age is about r.,
wanted for long time baby broth.
er or sister. When she told her ia.
Their of her wish, he said: You had
better keep your eyes open, and some
day perhaps you can steal one" Web
the 12-year-old miss took him at his
word. She kept very alert eye on
all the babies she fell in with, and
one day last week she saw one in a
baby carriage outside some small New
York shop. She took the baby and
ran away with 1t, but her possession
of her prize soon came to an end, for
the babys mother, finding an empty
carriage when she left the store, ap
pealed to the police, and the police
were equal to the task of restorins
the baby to its parent
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None of these teams is regarded as
"one-man team" Yet one man on
each has been almost entirely respon-
sible for the success of each.
Krause, generally regarded as the
find of the year, comes from st. Mary's
college of California. Out there he
was regarded as great pitcher in
the college class, but few Of his
friends ever dreamed that he would
soar to the height he has attained this
season-and the year only half gone.
1t has been claimed that Krause
owes much of his present position to
the fact that Hal Chase, premier first
baseman of the New York Highland
ers, while coach at the Catholic in
stitution on the coast, took special in
terest in the young fellow and showed
him lot of tricks. Later in the Cal
ifornia State league Krause got some
experience and is being polished of
nicely now under the guidance of that
sleek old baseball general, Cornelius
McGillicuddy, popularity known as
Connie Mack.
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CHILD HAD SIXTY BOILS.
And Suffered Annually with a Red
ScaId-Like Humor on Her Head.
Troubles Cured by cuticura.

when my little Vivian was about
six months old her head broke out in
boils. She had about sixty in all and
I used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment which cured her entirely.
Some time later humor broke out be.
hind her ears and spread up on to
her head until it was nearly half COW
cred. The humor looked like scald,
very red with sticky, clear fluid COM
Ing from it. This occurred every
spring. always used Cuticura Soap
and Ointment which never failed to
heal it up. The last time it broke
out it became so bad that I was dis
couraged. But continued the use of
Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resell
vent until she was we'll and has never
been troubled in the last two years.
Mrs. M. A. Schwerin, 674 Spring Wells
Ave-, Detroit, Mich, Feb. "a, 1905"
Potter Dr, & Chem. Corp, Sole Props. Boston.
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ON FOOD
The Right Foundation Of Health.

Proper food is the foundation of
health. People can eat improper food
for time until there is sudden COL
lapse of the digestive organs, then all
kinds Of trouble follows.
The proper way out of the difficulty
is to shift to the pure, scientific food,
Grape-Nuts, for it rebuilds from the
foundation up. A New Hampshire
woman says:
Last summer was suddenly taken
with indigestion and severe stomach
trouble and could not eat food with
out great pain, my stomach was SO
sore could hardly move about. This
kept up until was so miserable life
was not worth living.
Then a friend finally, after much
argument, induced me to quit my for
mer diet and try Grape-Nuts.
Although I had but little faith I
commenced to use it, and great was
my surprise to find that I could eat
1t without the usual pain and distress
in my stomach.
$50 kept on using Grape-Nuts and
soon a marked improvement was
shown, for my stomach was perform
ing its regular work in normal way
without pain or distress.
Very soon the yellow coating disap-
peared from my tongue, the dull,
heavy feeling in my head disappeared,
and my mind felt light and clear; the
languid, tired feeling left, and alto
gether felt as if I had been rebuilt.
Strength and weight came back rapid
ly and I went back to my work with
renewed ambition.
To-day am a new woman in mind
as well as body, and I owe it all to
this natural food, Grape-Nuts."
There's Reason"
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, "The Road to MELVILLE"
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full OF human
interest.
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MARTIN LUTHER 80 The Peasant
Who Conquered an Emperor

Two men were riding through q
German forest. One of them was
John Tetzel, monk, who had been
sent by Pope Leo X. to peddle 'Indul-
gences" through Germany. The other
was a stranger Tetzel had met on the
road few hours before. The monk
was explaining to him how to pay for
rebuilding st. Peters cathedral in
Rome the pope was selling at graded
rates tickets or parchments which abb
solved the purchaser from guilt for
his various sins. These parchments
were known as "Indulgences."
II wish to commit a robbery" OBJ
served the stranger. "Will you sell
me an indulgence, and for what
price?"
The sale was quickly made. At it's
conclusion the stranger proceeded to
overpower Tetzel and rob him Of
every valuable he possessed Then he
rode away safe and happy in the
knowledge that his sin was forgiven
in advance.
This incident raised a laugh all over
Germany. But two men did not
laugh. One was Tetzel and the other
was young peasant who had been
educated for a lawyer and who, to
the disgust of his family, had become
priest. This peasant-priest was
Martin Luther. father of freedom of
thought and founder Of the Reforma-
ton.
Religion had during the fifteenth
century become far degraded from
the pure principles of the Catholic
church of to-day and from the original
E,ooar,a.o. holy precepts of
- that church. The
Sor'"P''o"' evils chronicled in
this article have no reference to true
Catholicism, but to its abuses by un-
scrupulous men in the Dark Ages.
Luther, shortly before this affair of
Tetzels, had gone on a pious pilgrim
age to Rome. What he saw there had
Mortified him and set him to thinking.
Then came the public sale of indul-
gences This was the last straw.
w u0u lCIZ6l Cdlu0 " WlItCuUCl6
Luther shocked and amazed the whole
world by mailing on the door of the
church where the monk was to preach
a paper which declared the following
truths:
That such indulgences as Tetzel
sold were worse than useless; that
God alone can forgive sin and no NOR
tai has the power to peddle divine
pardon; that true repentance alone
can wash away guilt; that indulgences
were money-making schemes, and that
no one can buy his way into the king
dom of heaven.
Europe was aghast at such new,
strange theories. The plain people
read them and began to think for
themselves. When once a People be-
gin to think, Tyranny's course is run.
The mobiles, too, espoused the peas
ants teachings and were eager to
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Queen Elizabeth and her courtiers
were duly amazed by certain miracu-
lols tricks performed by the court
physician, DR.. William Gilbert, though
many of the graver or more supersti-
tious mobiles declared his feats worth
fer of conjurer or sorcerer than a
dignif1ed medical man. Gilbert bal
anced a light steel needle on pivot.
Then he rubbed amber against some
rough surface and placed it near the
needle. The bit of steel promptly
swung toward the amber, impelled by
force no one could understand.
Other observation-disclosures sap
ph.res, opals and amethysts, for in
stance-attracted the needle when
rubbed even as did the amber, while
emeralds. coral and jasper did not.
Gilbert had studied the phenome-
non and had discovered that some
unknown force, which he called mag
nesism, was generated in certain sub
stances by friction. He did not know
what this force was, but he carried on
his experiments until he proved the
whole earth is one vast magnet, with
north and south poles" and that this
fact accounts for the dipping and
shifting of the compass needle. Going
on this theory, he invented an instru-
ment for showing sailors their lati-
tude without help from sun or stars.
Gilbert may justly be termed the IA
thor of electricity. He it was who
frat called sciences attention to this
subtle power, and strove to solve it's
mysteries. In reward he was regarded
as quack and magician.
Robert Boyle, an Englishman, who
lived few years later, added to Gill
bert's information the discovery
that amber would attract a hanging
needle even after the effects of the
friction had worn off. Also, that both
heat and friction added to the power
of magnetic attraction. Otto Won
Guericke. German, who lived during
the same period of the seventeenth
century, went a step further and
found that by mounting ball of sui
First eImmerinss pm pnur on on are rev ,,lr
Light. bo.S i'll. 80
sound of sort could be produced.
This was the first rude forecast of the
present electric light" To it an Eng
lishman named Hawksbee in 1705 con-
tributed the discovery that light could
be produced by placing mercury in an
exhausted receiver and forcing COM
mon air through it. Light rays were
given off by the globules of mercury
this displaced.
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Three pitchers in the American
league this year are doing what Ed.
Walsh did last year-keeping team
In the running for a pennant.
These three are Krause, the won
derful southpaw of the Philadelphia
Athletics, who up to the present has
won ten games and lost but two, Null
lin of the Tigers, with a record of Is
won and four lost and Joss of Cleve-
land with IL won and three lost.
Remarkable what one man can do
for ball team. These three men,
the three leading pitchers of the
junior major organization, have prac-
dcally put and held their teams in
the running.
Had Mulling showed the form he
displayed last year where would
Hughey Jennings and his Tigers be-?
Had not Krause, a youngster with
less than a years big league expert
ence, not shattered all predictions,
where would the Athletics be?
And If Joss had not displayed such
grand form, where would the Maps be?
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winning the honor were under dis.
cussion.
WELL" said Mr.. Rogers, eff had
been as long around Yale college as
Prof. So and So I'd be president"
mo, Henry" retorted Mr.. Whitney,
"you would probably own the ground
and the buildings, but you would not
be president"
Mr.. Rogers always told that story
with a chuckle.
"fou can print that, some time" ha
said to reporter to whom he told n
some months before his death,
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new PLAN TO SETTLE THE
WORLDS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Idea Is to Substitute InterIeague Series
for Present Method-WouId
Increase Interest in Game.

The National and American leagues.
the controlling forces of organized
baseball and the major leagues of the
country, are contemplating q change
OF schedule and new plan which. it
is said. will revolutionize baseball.
The idea, which has met with in
slant approval in all directions. is to
abandon forever the worlds cham
pionship" contests between the win
ners OF the two major leagues and sub
stitute a general engagement between
the teams of the National and Ameri.
can leagues in a grand championship
series to follow shortened season fot
the two leagues.
The proposed change almost has
been forced upon the major leagues be-
cause of conditions arising from the
keen fight for pennants, which give the
victorious teams in each league the
right to engage in post-season series.
Further, the cry of such a prize has
brought the club owners and the men
who control baseball to realize that the
honesty of baseball itself is threatened.
and to avert this danger they are
evolving a new scheme to decide the
championship-and one which seems
to solve the problem.
1t is proposed, and the two leagues
probably will be called upon to in.
dorse the proposal, that the National
and American league clubs arrange a
schedule of los games, each of the
eight clubs in the two leagues playing
Is games against each of the other
clubs.
The magnates of the two leagues are
somewhat loath to discuss the scheme,
although most of them admit that the
new scheme looks satisfactory.
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DIAMOND GOSSIP.

Cincinnati has acquired three young
sters in Pitcher Ashley of Enid, Pitch
er Brennan of Wichita, and Outfielder
Patterson of Guthrie, Okla.
The sale of Tommy Atkins, south
paw, has been announced by Manager
Smith Of Atlanta to the Philade-p hia
Americans, the pitcher to report at
the close of the present season. It
Is understood Philadelphia will give
Atlanta a player and considerable
money To boot.
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The remarkable achievements of
our sister American republics in IT.
rigation and reclamation demonstrate
forcibly the Importance and progress
of these nations. Their far-reaching
work, both past and present, in this
line of material development OF their
vast areas and limitless resources as
tonishes the average man and is little
appreciated throughout the United
States.
What they have done, are doing
and intend to do rival the most am
bilious schemes of this country and
make us admire their enterprise and
energy. If the irrigation expert OF
the United States were to visit and
inspect the principal reclamation
works between Mexico on the north
and Argentina on the far south, he
would return not only with new and
valuable impressions which would be
helpful in extending the work here,
but with an enthusiasm for the posi-
bilities of our Latin American neigh
bors that would do much to foster
comfy, said John Barrett, director of
the International Bureau of the Amer
lean Republics, in an address before
the National Irrigation congress at
Albuquerque. N. M.
Irrigation in Latin America is no
new problem. In fact, there are to
be found to-day evidences of great
irrigating canals and systems built
by the Aztecs of Mexico and the In
cas- Of Peru long before the Spanish
conquest and even the discovery Of
America. A few facts illustrative Of
what they had accomplished in the
line of irrigation before Europe in
vaded the New World may be of inter-
est The student of the problem Of
irrigation will find abundant material
in Mexico, Peru and the Argentine
Republic to prove the beneficial work
done by these early peoples.
Let us look for moment at Peru.
The Incas, the Peruvian aborigines,
were thorough agriculturists, and, al
though much of the country along the
seacoast suffered from want of water,
places were capable of being re-
claimed, and indeed needed only to
be properly irrigated to be suscep-
tible of extraordinary production. To
these spots water was conveyed by
means of canals and subterraneous
aqueducts, executed on a noble scale
They consisted of large slabs Of free
cement and discharged volume of
water sufficient, by means of latent
ducts or sluices, to moisten the
lands in the lower level through
which they passed.
Some of these aqueducts were of
great length. One, that traversed the
district of Condesuvo, measured be-
tween four and five hundred miles.
They were brought from some ele-
waited lake or natural reservoir in the
heart of the mountains and were fed
at intervals by other basins which
lay in their route along the slope Of
the Sierras. In this descent a pas
sage was sometimes to be opened
through rocks without the aid Of
iron tools), impracticable mountains
were to be turned, rivers and marshes
to be crossed; in short, the same
obstacles were to be encountered as
in the construction of their mighty
roads. Near Caxamarca a tunnel is
still visible which they excavated in
the mountains to give an outlet to
the waters of lake.
Most of these beneficent works of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-08-13

While several papers have been
claiming that the Cleveland club has
secured first baseman Hugh Bradley,
of the Worcester team of the New
England league, Manager Fred Lake
has closed a deal for this player and
he reports to the Red Sox at the end
of the New England playing season.
Jim MCGUIRE, veteran scout, thinks
he has found gem in Pitcher Boiles
Of Shreveport. He thinks he Is even
better than Harmon, recently grabbed
by st. Louis and who beat the Giants
Q few days ago.
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the Incas were suffered to go to de.
cay by their Spanish conquerors. In
some spots the waters are still left
to flow in their silent subterraneous
channels, whose windings and whose
sources have been alike unexplored.
Others, though partially dilapidated
and closed up with rubbish, still be-
tray their course. Such remains are
found in the Valley of Nasca, where
the ancient water courses of the In
cas-, measuring four or five feet in
depth by three in width, and formed
of large blocks of uncemented ma
sonry, are conducted from an un-
known source.
Coming to the northern continent,
we find again marvellous evidences of
reclamation work. The Aztecs had
most complete and well-arranged sys
tenn of irrigation. They used water
from the mountain streams and had
knowledge of dixie building; they
surrounded their fields with hedges
of stone, and directed canals through
them. They showed also good judg.
ment in the management of their
ground. When it was exhausted it
IRENE dryness was relieved by canals
with which the land was irrigated
Around the City of Mexico the dis
trict was checkered with patches of
Indian corn and plantations Of cacao
which required constant irrigation.
But what is Latin America doing
to-day to solve this great problem
which is attracting the attention of
the entire world? Surely it Is max.
ing great strides in this as in all
other directions. Some of the re-
publics are so fortunately situated
that the problem of irrigation is not
yet a necessary one, because their
areas are we'll blessed with abundant
streams and sufficient rainfall. For
the present their needs are fully met
by the natural water supply Of the
cultivated fields. The questions of
great, costly irrigating schemes have
not come Immediately before them
The rapid progress these countries
are making, however, and the steady
increase in population, will undoubt-
eddy necessitate the same considera.
ton of this problem which we are to-
day giving it in the United States.
The great majority of our sister ma
tons are reaching practical solutions
of the demands of the agriculturists.
Other countries, like Uruguay and
Paraguay, are so we'll watered that
there has been no great call for arti.
fetal irrigation. In the mountain
countries, however, the rainfall may
be great, but the valleys sometimes
need water during the dry season.
and consequently the problem of IT.
rigation becomes practical one.
In Ecuador, the minister Of the in
terror and public works is very active
in encouraging all plans for the ex-
tension of modern agricultural meth
DDS wherever applicable. The water
supply of the cities, at present vital
problem, is receiving particular atten-
ton, but hand in hand with this goes
the use of water for irrigation pur-
poses, and careful study Is given to
the latter as we'll as to the former.
Near Quito new drain and irrigation
pipes have been laid at considerable
expense, and in the province Of eel
Orc" noticeable progress has been
made on the rivers Caluburo, Buena-
vista and Pital.
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n. n. Rogers Humer.

One of the characteristics of H. H.
Rogers was his love of joke, even
at his own expense. This was one of
bis favorite stories:
He, William c. Whitney, and several
other friends were discussing the sue
cession of the presidency of Yale,
then vacant before the election of
Prof. Hadley, who then held the chair
of economics. Another professor Ion
ger at the university than DR.. Hadley
vas q candidate. and his chances Of
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Strictlv After Nature

A public building was in course of
erection in one of the western towns
Of Scotland, in front of which a bust
of The Bruce was being carved. A
well-known bailie halted opposite the
sculptor one day and called out:
II say, sculptor, dye no think We
haze that beard inclining a wee thing
to the left?"
Man, bailie," said the sculptor,
dye no see the wins blawin' up the
street the noo?"-Tid-Bits.