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Fowl

In the case of a crane n result
is claimed for broken leg. It's slender
limb is no thicker than a lead pencil.
Instead of destroying the poor bird,
an English expert decided to try to
save leg and life. Linen bandages
dipped in gum were put on. These
set satisfactorily and weighed little
or nothing. After this the intelligent
bird kept to itself and needed no fur
Their attention for a few weeks. When
the bandage was cut away the leg
worked as we'll as ever, slightly de-
formed. Some naturalists say that
birds breaking their legs set them
themselves, using a sticky mud and
weeds or grass for bandage. Tip can
see how by accident a broken-legged
bird might get its limb enwrapped In
weeds and mud and then not peck 1t
off because of pain Of pecking at it.
A bird will try to peck everything of
it's leg that is put on, and the band
age and knots must be ingenious in
deed that cannot be unwound or un-
tied. Tip has seen chickens work for
hours and unite half a dozen ordinary
tight knots to get bose.-New York
Press.
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Danger in Stiff Collars.

The high, stiff collars which some
women are so fond Of wearing are
not only ~unbecoming, but dangerous.
From time to time cases of persons
asphyxiated by their collars are re-
ported. One such recently occurred
IN London, the victim being a young
woman employed in the %postofice,
anc the physician who attended her IS
quoted as saying that in nine cases
out of ten the same result would have
followed a fainting fit, as the sharp
edge of the collar cut into the throat
and pressed upon the windpipe. The
supporters worn with transparent col
lars are not so bad as a collar stiff
all around, it seems, but these, too.
are considered dangerous, as they
press the side of the throat.-New
York Tribune.
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What Happened to James.

A very subdued-looking boy of
about thirteen years, with a long
scratch on his nose and an air of gen.
eral detection, came to his teacher in
one Of the Boston public schools. and
handed her a note before taking his
seat. The note was as follows:
Miss B.-Please excuse James not
being thare yesterday. He played
trooant, but I guess you don't need
to lick him for 1t, as the boy he
played trooant with an him fell out,
an the boy licked him, an a man they
passed caught him an licked him, an
the driver of a sled they hung on to
licked him also. I had to give him
another one for sassing me for telling
his pa, so you need not lick him till
next time. I guess he thinks he bet
ter keep in school hereafter. Lip
%pincott's.
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Tiny Baby's Pitiful Case.

Our baby when two months old
was suffering with terrible eczema
from head to foot, all over her body.
The baby looked just like a skinned
rabbit. We were unable to put clothes
on her. At first it seemed to be a few
mattered pimples. They would break
the skin and peel off, leaving the un-
derneath skin red as though it were
scalds. Then a few more pimples
would appear and spread all over the
body, leaving the baby all raw with
out skin from head to foot. On top
of her head there appeared a heavy
scab a quarter Of an inch thick. II
was awful to see so small a baby look
as she did. Imagine! The doctor
was afraid to put his hands to the
child. We tried several doctors rem
ed,es but all failed.
Then we decided to try Cuticura.
By using the Cuticura Ointment we
softened the scab and it came off. I'm
der this, where The real matter was,
by washing with the Cuticura Soap
and applying the Cuticura Ointment,
a new skin soon appeared. We also
gave baby four drops of the C~uticura
Resolvent three times daily. After
three days you could see the baby
gaining a little skin which would peel
off and heal underneath. Now the
baby is four months old. She is a fine
picture of a fat little baby and all Is
we'll. We only used one cake Of Cuti-
cusa Soap, two boxes Of Cuticura
Ointment and one bottle of C%uticura
Resolvent. If people would know
what Cuticura is there would be few
suffering with eczema. Mrs. Joseph
Kossmann, 7 St. Johns Place, Ridge
wood Heights, l.. l., N. Y, Apr. 80
and May 4, 1909"
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Selfish, as Usual.

1--WE got some news for you, dar'
ling" said Mr.. Newliwed. as he faced
his better half at dinner.
"Well, what is it," said Madame.
eve been spending some money!
he answered playfully.
"9That is no news" coldly replied
Mrs. Newliwed.
"I'll tell you, precious" beamed
her husband, "and I know you'll be
pleased. I insured my life to-day
But her pretty face clouded, and al
ominous silence reigned. "You don,
seem pleased" he queried.
PLEASED? Indeed, no." said she in
~reproving tones. ut is another strik'
ing proof of how inconsiderate and
utterly selfish men always are! You
can think of yourself and insure your
own life, but it never occurred to you
to insure mine," says Home Notes.
And it took him quite an hour to
convince her that he was not so selfst
after all.
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answer to his wife's suit, he has "con-
Quoted himself as a gentleman and
has been bred to treat women with
courtesy and respect" True, diff
culties have arisen, "but they were
only such as occur in every well regu-
lated family, even to the mother-in-
law"
Mrs. Farkas charged cruel treat
ment in her complaint. Farkas, she
alleged, used to stay out late at night,
and when she reproved him explained
that he had been organizing political
clubs and hoped to become a leader.
According to Farkas, the cause Of
all the trouble was that his bachelor
dreams had not been realized. He
had led a bachelor life many years,
eating his meals anywhere, for it
made little difference to him. He
yearned for homemade meals. So
when he met his present wife and she
promised to maintain a home for him
and devote herself to it he thought
he saw his dream realized. They
were married in December, 1908.
But, according to Farkas, he Is still
eating out, the only difference being
that his wife eats out with him. In
stead Of keeping the house, says the
defendant, his wife gives music les
sons, but the sweet strains are else
whore while the Farkas home is
dreary. Mrs. Farkas does not have
to work, says Farkas, for he supplies
her with sufficient money.
Farkas' request for homemade
meals, he says, is answered thus by
his mother-in-laW:
IF you want a clean home, get SER
wants; if you want meals prepared.
get a cook. Your wife is not your
servant. IF the home is good enough
for her it is good enough for you
New York Tribune.
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Landlady and Sausages.

A good story of a specimen Of the
ordinary theatrical landlady is told
by J. l.. Shine. One Saturday even
ing he and a fellow actor purchased
a pound of sausages for their Sun
days breakfast. There were eight to
the pound, but when they arrived at
table there were only five. Thereup-
on the landlady was called in to &C.
count for the missing links. Mad
am" said Mr.. Shine, severely, 81 gave
you eight sausages last night; here
are only FIVE. What has become OF
the other three" The lady of the
house smiled an innocent smile min
gled with pity. and replied, "Well,
YOU see, sir, sausages always do
shrink in cooking" Which informa-
ton had to sufice.-Dundee Adver-
tiser.
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Mixed On His Ologicals.

A small boy in Yonlters recently
became the proud possessor of a don
key-not so handsome or so young
as it might have been. However, il
answered the purpose Of its acquisi'
ton. which was to afford back rides
One day the urchin was enjoying
ride when the minister of the parish
met him.
"Hullo. sonny" greeted the min
lister. quite 4 are beast you have
there"
yes" replied the boy, "but / sup
pose there are a great many of 'em
in the theological "-Lippin
colts.
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0ReTTT&.
!ETNlNGs 20
TO NEAR ~

Many a gown will have the skirt
made up of a series of rufles of vary
ing length.
Dresses of colored embroidery on
white will be among the unusual
gowns.
Large handbags are now out Of
style: The newest are small, and
made of undressed kid.
Handwork more elaborate than
ever before is shown to advantage on
coats and gowns of wash materials.
Not only are nets, gauzes and gren-
adines sown with beads, but also the
velvets, satins and brocades.
In a handsome pair of beaded suede
| slippers the %openwork design is par.
TALLY filled in with the beads.
Some Of the theatre bags are OF
gold or silver net work with a great
raised flower on furnished metal.
Hip yokes with pleated skirts be-
low them are very much in evidence
in the newest gowns.
One of the most stunning OF the
| evening hats is an immense tricorne
or natural colored straw trimmed
with a huge white bird.
Net p%etticoats are of satin merveil'
leux finished with a fringe Of silk
braid a quarter of a yard deep headed
with netted silk.
Such is the rage for tinsel that the
| dressmakers are employing furniture
galloon and fringe as a trimming fol-
gowns and cloakS.
A new yet simple lingerie blouse Is
made of eyelet embroidery, with seal.
lops turned upward toward the yoke
and overlapping it.
For afternoon and theatre veal
the popular hat is the one with a silk
or velvet stretched crown, and a brim.
| either rolling or fiat.
There is an arrangement of ribbon
and lace on the silk lining of transpar'
ent blouses which has the appearance
Of a lingerie corset cover.
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silken-clad foot. you'll have to
carry me-" dimpling mischievously.
Something David read in her eyes
made him step forward; then, con-
trolling himself, he asked d~oubtingly:
What does that look mean, Natica?
I swear it was never there before, for
me-"
Nor for any other man, David"
answered the girl, with sweet serious
ness.
Tell me-" he commanded sternly,
still u~nbelieving.
whatever you choose, David" she
replied, meekly, while vivid waves of
color flashed from throat to brow.
Then the man of stone melted, and
caresses fast, but tender, met her
willing lips.
The coquette was a woman:
They were aroused from tEeir de-
lirium of happiness by a shout from
the top of the cliff, and David and
Natica, hand in hand, appeared before
the astonished gaze of Uncle.
"Bless my soul, what, what?" he
sputtered, gazing at Natica as If she
were a ghost.
We'll tell you all about-every-
thing, when we get up there, sir"
shouted David.-Boston Post.
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His English.

In a Northwestern L train an even
ing or two ago two young gentlemen,
whose conversation indicated that
they were preparing for college, stood
near the front entrance, owing to the
fact that it was impossible for them
to force their way more than a foot or,
two into the aisle, and outlined their
plans. .. 4.
when I get down to YALE" said
one Of them, "I'm goin' to cut out
the booze-that's right! Nix on any
kind Of dope for me-"
81 heard you talking" replied the
other.
"say, I heard Pinkey's goin' to
Harvard. Is that right"
eyes, pa says Yale's no place for
him. He has one weak lung. How're
you comm on? Do you expect to
pull through"
"Sure thing. It's a cinch. Only
thing I'm havin' any. trouble about't
my trigonometry."
ct heard your English was bum"
"Gee, it's fierce, but I guess TIL
buck through all right. I done a
good deal better 30 far this year than
I done on it last year."-0hicago
Record-Herald.
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Nlnc Divorce Under Old Law.

Judge Martin, of Norfolk, Va, de-
cided the hotly-contested divorce &C.
ton of Mrs. Jennie E. Haynor, now o.
Allentown, Pa, against Thomas H,
Haynor, a prominent Norfolk bust"
ness man, by granting the wife's petit
ton, with permanent alimony of SIS
per month.
This is just such a cas that pro-
posed divorce legislation now being
fought in the Virginia Legislature
would Directly affect. Under the pres
ent law it is optional with the plain
tiff only whether after three years,
application shall be made for per
manent divorce with privilege Of re-
marriage. Proposed changes would
give the defendant similar rights.
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WHAT'S THE USE
Sticking to a Habit When 1t Means
Discomfort?

Old King Coffee knocks subjects
out tolerably fiat at times, and there is
no possible doubt of what did it. A
Mich. woman gives her experience:
II used to have liver trouble near
ly all of the time and took medicine
which relieved me only for a little
while. Then every once in a while I
would be suddenly doubled up with
an awful agony in my stomach. 1t
seemed as though every time took a
breath l would die. No one could
suffer any more and live.
Finally I got down so sick with
catarrh Of the stomach that 1 could
not turn over in bed, and my stomach
did not digest even milk. The doctor
finally told me that if I did not give
up drinking coffee I would surely die,
but I felt 1 could not give it up.
However, Husband brought home
a package of Postum and it was made
strictly according to directions. 1t
was the only thing that would stay on
my stomach, and l soon got so 1 liked
1t very much.
"Gradually I began to get better.
and week by week gained in strength
and health. Now I am in perfect con-
dition, and I am convinced that the
whole cause of my trouble was coffee
drinking, and my getting better was
due to leaving off coffee and taking
Postum.
"a short time ago I tasted some
coffee and found, to my establishment,
that 1 did not care anything about it.
I never have to take medicine any
more. hope you will use this letter
for the benefit Of those suffering from
the poisonous effects of coffee"
Read the little book, "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. There's a Rea-
SON."
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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new gown for the first occasion. 1t
was very fine white batiste. Instead
of wearing it she laid it aside. Yel-
low was the color for a chrysanthe-
mum wedding in November. She
bought cheap yellow silk for a priu-
cess slip to wear under it, and match
ing accessories and a great sheaf Of
yellow NUNS" attended as maid at
a quiet home affair. .
The next wedding was a mauve one.
and she sent her white gown to the
dyer's. This she wore over a white
slip. 1t took a slightly paler tint
than was desired, and in consequence
was less satisfactory. The next we'd
ding was on the rainbow" order, tho
bride wearing white, the four maids
being gowned in pale pink, nile green,
lemon yellow, and mauve. With vio-
let's, a violet wreathed hat which she
made for herself, and the previously
worn accessories she made the once
white gown do duty again. The ex-
pense Of the four functions was to
her nearly $40 after all her ingenuity.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
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The Sermon on the Mount.
BY j. G. PYLE.

Three times at least, in ages many
centuries past, the policy laid down
in Christ's Sermon on the Mount has
encountered life with great literal
ness.
The Christians of the first century
after Christ, and in great measure
of the next two centuries, did accept
and act upon the Sermon on the
Mount as a rule of daily conduct.
They followed its precepts literally
and unto death. Were they over
whelmed by demands which were
much more destructive of both the
individual and the association in that
age than they could possibly be in
this? On the contrary, their example
proved both SO contagious and SO
conquering that 1t beat down the
mightiest power on earth. The es-
tablished social order saved itself
from being swept away by the inno-
walton and lost in 1t, only by accept
ing 1t nominally. It professed the
doctrine in order that 1t might not be
compelled to adopt the practice.
For the second time, in the Middle
Ages, arose those who would restore
the Sermon on the Mount to the
place where Jesus enthroned 1t. The
monastic system, in it's purity, was
not a separation Of the religious and
contemplative mind from the worlds
activities. It was a deliberate at
tempt to reinstate in life the prac-
tees as we'll as the virtues to which
beatitudes had been attached. At
their best, the members Of these Or
ders were not exoterically with
drawn from the world. They worked,
they taught, they healed, they re-
lieved distress by physical minstra-
ton as we'll as by spiritual consola-
ton. They also made such Roadway
that even supreme pontifcial author
ity, hostile as it was, dared not deny
recognition to Francis Of Assist. The
monastic system fell not because it
was unequal to contact with practical
life, but because the World again
conquered the Spirit.
In our own times, under the COM
petitive and individualistic system,
the experiment was tried. No think
er and no critic should be ignorant
Of the history of the Society of
Friends, commonly called Quakers.
They lived in modern society, under
modern conditions, accepted persecu-
ton cheerfully and stood upon their
hazard that the words of Jesus meant
what they said. That they matured
noole types in personal character and
sustained an admirable conduct Of
morals, is indisputable. They have
Jared i'll and lost ground precisely
in so far as they yielded to casuistry,
and moderated the stern simplicity
of their doctrine to suit the desire for
wealth, for conformity, for the very
thing which, in their own language,
they call 'the World - utnam's
Magazine.
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Two Kinds Of Oil.

He was anxious to purchase a
birthday gift for his wife, and as he
liked pictures and as the walls were
rather bare he soon hit upon the
form which his present should take.
"Where shall I find something
really nice in oils for the dining
ROOM" he asked of an assistant at
the cooperative stores.
con the third floor" began the as
sistant; then he paused and looked
doubtfully at the inquirer. Did you
mean a painting or something in the
sardine line?" he asked.-Tit-Bits.
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How to Read.
BY, n. N. ALDEN.

heading is not a lost art to the
same degree that conversation is, but
it has in most cases an arrested de"
velopment through so much reading
that makes no demand upon aesthetic
sensibility, so that one Is apt to bring
to a fine story full Of delicate shades
of thought and feeling the same mind
which he yields to a newspaper, put
ting a blunt interrogation as to its
meaning as conveyed in the terms. OF
a rational proposition, and the
writer's charm is wholly lost upon
him. While the readers surrender
to the author must be complete, his
attitude should not be passive. but
that of active responsiveness and
Observation-Disclosures Magazine.
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A Food BOYCOTT.

In 1886, time of Edward I'LL, Par
lament enacted a food boycott. No
man, noble or peasant, was allowed
to have more than two courses at a
meal or elsewhere. and leach mess of
two sorts of victuals at the utmost,
be il .1esh or fish, with the common
sorts Of pottage, without sauce or any
other sort of victuals." Any one, how
ever, could substitute a sauce for a
mess, but it must not have in it more
than two sorts Of fish or flesh.
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STORIES OF ANDREW JOHNSON
A Good Tailor-His Education
Views Of His Opponents.

We've VI IllS OPpohChtSs
about a year before the Civil
War Judge Pepper, who had been a
| blacksmith before he became a law.
yer, sent Andrew Johnson a set OF
| fire irons which he had made himself
Johnson, then the Governor, present,
ly sent the Judge a coat which he
had made for him. When he told
my mother of the incident" says a
writer in Harper's, "she said:
"'Did you really make that coat.
GOVERNOR
"'I put some stitches in it, he
said. Pepper shouldn't get ahead
of me with the people. When I was
a tailor I was a good one
"He refused an invitation once to
dine with A. V. Brown, leader Of the
Democratic party in Tennessee and
afterward Buchanan's Postmaster
General, although all of the guests
were to be fellow Democrats, and let
them know that on that day he had
dined with his washerwoman off ba-
con and cabbage.
HE made no secret of his inlet
tered youth, and once brought my
mother a magazine containing a
sketch of his life in which it was
stated that his wife, Flora McCardle,
had taught him to read after they
we're married when he was twenty
one years Of age. He said the state
ment was inaccurate but substantially
true; that when they were married
his wife brought her school books to
their new home and his study Of them
aided his education materially.
after he rose to prominence his
admirers used to point out that he
made few mistakes in grammar and
that his English was pure, but he
never learned to divide his words
correctly in writing and sometimes
made ludicrous mistakes in quota
tons. Once in a public speech he
spoke of the Lays of Ancient Rome
as having been translated in Mac
auley; and in another speech he
quoted: And the stern joy that war
riors feel in foemen worthy Of their
STEEL as Shakespeare says.
president Johnson seemed to be-
1ieve that those who opposed him
politically would harm him in every
possible way. About 1857 his arm
was broken in a railway accident ard
was so badly set by a country doctor
that DR.. Paul F. Eve, then considered
to be the best surgeon in Nashville,
who was called in later, decided that
it must be broken again and reset.
"The operation was performed in
a bedroom in a hotel on Cedar street
in Nashville, where Johnson boarded,
the arm being pulled around a bed
post. and the first bedpost selected
for the purpose was fluted or grooved.
After Johnson had nearly tainted
from the pain he asked whether a
square bedpost could not be used,
and the breaking was completed with
the aid Of a square post. MI. John
son when he told my mother of this
incident said that DR.. Eve had pur-
posely used the grooved post in order
to torture him because he was a Dem
ocrat and Eve was a Whig."
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Jewish Colonies i'm HOLY Land.

From time to time various colonies
of Jews have actually returned to the
Holy Land. There are records Of
Jewish settlements there as early as
ITO, and in the sixteenth century
the city Of Tiberias, where only Jews
we're to dwell" was rebuilt.
But it was not until comparatively
modern times that the founding Of
regular colonies began. In 1878 the
ideas OF Laurence Oliphant and the
Earl Of Shaftesbury took definite
shape in the purchase Of 700 acres Of
lard by the Jews of Jerusalem. and
the foundation Of the colony Of Petah
Tikwah. After the Russian persecu-
ton of 1881 large numbers Of Jews
emigrated and ut the end of 1898
there we're about 5000 Jewish colon
lists in Palestine.-London Chronicle.
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hard to believe the leaders Of English
society will hold her to blame for the
unhappiness that came to her in her
married life. But King Edward, once
liberal enough in his views on ma
riage, divorce and all kindred ques-
tons, has become a rigid Puritan OF
recent years, and he has issued abso-
lutte orders that no divorces are 10
be received at court. Though it is
beyond doubt that scores of sma:t
people will flock to Mrs. Astor's re-
ceptions and dinners, those who are
in closest touch with social affairs IN
London say confidently the doors Ut
the Kings set will be barred against
her, at least for a year or two.-New
York Press.