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FOR EVERY FAMILY
MEDICINE CHEST

To the head Of every family tho
health Of its different members IL
most important, and the value Of an
agreeable laxative that is certain In
its effect Is appreciated. One of the
most popular remedies In the family
medicine chest is a combination Of
simple laxative harbs with pepsin that
IL known to druggists and physicians
as DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. This
preparation is mild and gentle I'm It's
action on the bowels, yet positive IN
its effect. A dose Of Syrup Pepsdn at
night means relief next morning.
while Its tonic properties tone Up and
strengthen the muscles Of stomach.
liver and bowels so that these organs
are able In a short time to again per-
form their natural functions without
help.
Druggists everywhere self DR.. Cald-
wells Syrup Pepsin In Soc and $1.0e
bottles. If you have never tried this
simple, inexpensive, yet effective
remedy, write to DR.. w. B. Caldwell.
201 Washington st.. Monticello, Ill,
and ask for a sample bottle. DR.. Cald.
we'll will be glad to send it without
any expense to you whatever.
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VEST POCKET ESSA VS.
by George Fitch.
Abraham Lincoln ,nu.sra.ion. b william steven.

Abraham Lincoln, Americas tallest,
aomeliest and greatest statesman. was
in Kentucky 1913 years ago today.
He was an Illinois man, but owing to
he remarkably poor facilities for get
Ing born In Illinois In 1909. he was
compelled to choose Kentucky for a
Eiativc state. Later On he fingered In
5air OK pants and came to Illinois a
'ew years later, When navigation had
opened on the prairie roads.
Lincoln resolved to become great
when a mere boy, and as his parents
we're very poor he had nothing to draw
lis attention from his task. He was
lot pestered by society, did not have
= perfect himself in baseball, pool. Gig
ret rolling and taste in neckties, and
as IN general free from the burdens
4 the unfortunate sons OF the rich.
BY a singular good fortune the only
cooks he was able to Borrow were use
III ones. Consequently he arrived at
lanhood with an unlittered brain and
KS able to become speaker of the IL
iiois Legislature at an age hen the
Iscated youth OF today Is still pain
lily paying off his college clothing
ills In fnstallments.
Lincoln was 6 feet 4 inches tall, very
anky, and was 81 homely that he final
y grew a beard as a rebuke to his face.
Ie early attracted attention by his
cBesty and as soon as the people
ound that this was a habit, and not q
olicy. they repeatedly elected him to
ny office which happened to be handy.
lie was a great philosopher and under
tcod the political questions of the day
o thoroughly that he was able to IL
ustrate them by funny stories which
you'd make him more money on the
'audeyille stage today, than he ever
made out OF politics. In his youth.
lie was a champion railsplitter and this
kill afterward enabled him to split
he democratic party with such sue
;ess that ne became president In 1861.
Lincoln had always been opposed to
lavery and made a practice of allud-
ng to this fact even in sections where
tboiitionism was more unhealthy than
Malaria. When he was elected the
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Enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is to a mar what gaso-
Inc Is to q motor. Fill a a with en-
.thusiasm, touch Kim off and he will
revolve about an idea for years without
stopping.
enthusiasm keeps more cranks in
twice al much work out Of q man as
ambition can. Ambition will make
. man burn midnight oil in his study,
but enthusiasm will make a man fill
q torch with 1t and carry 1t for IA
miles In a new suit or q cold Oc-
|tober night. Enterprises are con-
|auesed by brains. money and work *,
enthusiasm. There is always q Wild
eyed enthusiast ready to help every
new scheme into the world and an
other to sit beside 1t and try to fan
It into life long after 1t is dead.
An enthusiast is q concentrated OPP
timist. He can sit down on the Geld
est day In January and raise 1,100
bushels of potatoes on a SAM plot in
Idaho. He a take a personal friend
by the arm on q cold, windy corner
and talk to him about a new airship
line OF an invention for tying shoe
strings until hat friends climbs q
telephone pole to get away. II it
were not for enthusiasts very few
fnaternal societies or subscription
campaigns, or patent furnaces would
have a chance for life in this cruel
world. No matter how unpromising
a plan may be, IL is slrc to ignite at
least enc enthusiast who win get up
meetings and head subscriptions. If
a project to put a red, white and blue
sash around Washington's monument
wero to be launched it would find
several supporters who would stop
work for a week and come down town
nights to attend mass meetings in Its
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New Jersey.

New Jersey Is q $500 square mile col
lection OF cities, summer resorts and
rue gardens, situated just east of
philadelphia and half a century west
OF New York. from which place 1t can
easily be reached by hiring q guide
and taking a ferry boat.
From its size, New Jersey Is a
good deal OF a state. 1t has over
1900, 900 people and suburbanites.
About $4,000 OF its population are In
the summer resort business, but the
rest make aR honest living, weaving
SILK, making sewing machines. rails
lng cabbages and cranberries and
New York numbers on their hind
axles. The north part of the state is
me a ccagulation of cities and towns
Ind Is an overflow meeting from New
York city. from whose politics II is for
aver protected by the Hudson river.
Nothing makes a Tammany chieftain
30 utterly down hearted as to stand
IN the banks OF the Hudson and gaze
across ut Thousands of perfectly good
democratic votes going utterly to
waste on Woodrow Wilson.
New Jersey II NJ Of the charter
members of the United States and
was first settled by the Swedes, who
n1isto0k the mosquitoes in Its marshes
Tor reindeer. It took an important
part In the revolutions Of 1776 and 1910.
Il q recently become quite prominent.
having produced not only q champion
football team, but q presidential can
1idate. New Jersey has never sent
! SON to the White House, but has
had great influence Owe the lives Of
some p~restdents. George Washington
got his start by emigrating to New Jer-
sey in an open boat, and Graduating
! bunch Of imported lighters N the rev.
3lution. Grover Cleveland lived In the
state many years with great success
and James A. Garfield nearly succeed
ed In Aving In 1t.
Newark 10 the metropolis Of New
Jersey. It IL 10 miles from New
York, and can be reached by street
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Among the illustrlous patriots of his
tory no name shines with greater lus-
ter than that of Abd-el-Kader, an Arab
and a Mohammedan. His life was n
long series OF magnificent struggles
and crushing defeats. His chosen
work was to reform the political and
social system OF his native country,
Algiers, but his hopes were cruelty
frustrated. For Is years. at the head
Of the little Algerian army, he fought
heroically against Frsnoe, N Of the
great military powers Of the world. He
yielded only when every possible de-
tense had failed. and was held a cap
tive four years. Through 1t all he pre-
served an exalted character, and set q
fine example for the Christian world.
His closing years were spent at Da-
mascus,. in study and good works. In
1860, when q terrible Moslem outbreak
occurred in that city, he helped to re-
press the uprising. and saved the lives
Of thousands OF Christians. For this,
and in honor of his exalted character,
France conferred upon him the order
OF the Cross Of the Legion OF Honor;
Russia, that Of the White Eagle; Prus-
STA, that OF the Black Eagle: and
Greece, that Of the Savior. England
sent him a magnificent gun, iniaid with
gold; and the United States, a fine
brace Of pistols. with like adornments.
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Boyhood.

f. P. Dunno in the Metropolitan.
No man, young or old. knows what
Is in a boys mind. Once he knew.
Once he was familiar with the ritual.
free of the fellowship, understood the
degrees and administered them to 9TH
ers. Suddenly he was expelled and he
has never been able to get back in
again. His mind, ruthlessly deprived
of the aenory of passwords and grips
and o~bservances, Seeks in vain to re-
call them. Though he beat forever on
the door, it never will be opened to
him. Nothing is more remote from the
mind of the grown-up person than the
apparently simple matter of the dIei-
sion of the boys year. Philosophers
have studied and guessed, but they
never have been able to explain why
at one time boys play marbles, at an
other time spin tops and at still an
other time fly kites, n why in every
part Of the world they abandon one
pastime in a body and take up an
other.
The boys know. They all know. But
he rigorous freenasons won't teal. Are
they bound by some frightful oath not
to reveal the secrets of their caste3
Do traitors and informers among them
suffer dreadful penalties? Is 1t posi-
BILE that the sad little bsys who are
sometimes seen gloomfiy treading their
way through the winter streets. wear
ing low socks and French berets or the
velvet clothes OF little Lord Fanntle-
roys with curls hanging down their
lace c~ollaTs-is 1t possible that these
are the Mergans of this freemansonry.
that this is their fate because they
have communicated the secrets Of their
order? 1t must be true, for no mother
i'm her right min would so punish her
offspring. He wears the uniform of
the outcast. Every boys hand is raised
against him. But IL it is a punish
ment the punishment Is excessive Nc
boy could If ne would communicate
these secrets to the mature
1t would be more difficult for a boy
of 10 to explain what he knows and
thinks to a man Of 40 than it would
be for a Tibetan priest to elucidate In
his own language the mysteries of ESQ
teric Buddhism. to a Wall street broker
at a quick-lunch counter.
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On pulls"

There ere some prizes In this coun-
try which are not gotten by push"
These are obtained by pulls"
A "pull' 10 q mysterious. natural
t0rce which takes the place of muscle,
brains. industry or ability and produces
sQAaily satisfactory results to the pos
SCISSOR. It Is the best utility player in
the political game and bats over 800
In business, the drama and society.
Having q pull means having q
friend IN power who Is willing to act
Is 4 steam windlas& FOR you. When q
man with q spull" desires anything.
from an once 70 Z divorce, he attaches
himself to the object aud his powerful
|friend hooks on. and pulls until the
prlse ID 0islodged. = pull : haul .
rnan over mere talented candidates intC
governments posiuc0. II can secure
him 4 city CONTRACT en- the highest bid.
VI can ret him out ~ the police station
without : nne. after he has run his
Rutomobile through 4 lock Of school
Ech1l0ren - full spe@d II can get Z
si1p canal 81 his district, although
shtpn would have "a come many miles
% wh4ols to play IN III; and it Will get
! heautifua lady ! Job - star In = the
[atxlcal company 1e6cre she has harmed
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cuss who is sure to come around ana
cut the rope, just as the pull Is being
exerted. Reformers are death on pulls"
as to biseot a pull, just at the critical
point, and to watch the indignant woe
OF the fly sized pullee who was just
about to be hauled into an eagle sized
Job.
A spull" is a wonderful thing. but
there are some feats which 1t cannot
perform. 1t cannot get a mar on he
worlds series team 1t cannot get
poetry read after 1t is 100 years old.
1t cannot cure dyspepsia. and 1T cam
not induce an Icy sidewalk to lie quiet
and docile, while an important person.
age is passing yer 1t. A big pull
will haul a man higher up than a
little push, but the altitude isn't half
SO permanent. for the pullee never
knows when the man at the other end
of the rope is going to let go to spit
on his hands.
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Girls.

This essay will treat Of iris before
they have put down their dolls, and put
up their hair, and have become naughty
young princesses who prefer men to
sidewalks for walking purposes.
Little girls are not as exciting as lit
tie boys, nor as fatal to. furniture or
cats. A little girl with two pig tails
and her dresses still ending at her
Anees Is nicer to- have around the house
than a pianola. Compared with a lit
tie boy a little girl is a wax statue in
the midst of a riot, or an evening hymn
in an early Kansas cyclone.
Little girls do not black each others
eyes. or start bonfires in the attic, or
let the wind out of stray automobiles.
or pour water in the graphaphone, or
put frogs in the bread box, or fall off
the porch roof and den the nice new
cement walk, or shoot holes ir other
peoples windows, or dig o mines in
the garden, or peel willow twigs with
a razor, or tie roller skates to the
Scotch collie's feet, or spend three
hours and a half in bringing home a
loaf Of bread for breakfast, or play
football in new trousers, or seine for
minnows with their straw hats, or
come to dinner with yesterdays dirt on
their faces. or explode fire crackers
in the washing machine, or raise garter
snakes in the cellar and pigeons in the
attic.
Perhaps you may think this essay is
devoted too much to the things that
little girls do not do. But this is their
most lovable trait. The little girl il
adorable because of the things she
doesn't do, but would have done IL she
had been a boy. Fathers OF little girls
are distinguished by their smiling faces
and smoothly ironed brows.
What little girls do do is neither i'm
portant nor exciting. They raise large
families Of dolls, and learn many use-
full household tricks which most OF
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OUR PULLING TONGUE.
snaas . Foreigner Strikes in Trying
to Master EnQlish.

In spite Of certain undeniable dis
advantages the English language
steadily makes Roadway. There are
few tongues SO hard to master. One
foreigner who has had his troubles. but
has won his way to q perfect command
of the language. has presented In the
Bookman some of the humors and
some Of the difficulties which belong
to this richest of living LANGUAGES.
As a boy / heard a fantastic Turkish
legend which to may mind aptiy Illus
trates the actual facts concerning the
origin and formation Of modern Eng
fish.
After creating the first parents of
each of the races, the story runs, Allan
took a large piece of meat and. cut
ting it into slices, distributed them
among all the people to serve them IS
tongues. For some reason the English
man was absent when the others re-
ceived their share. At last lie came
into the presence of his Maker and
in mute humility begged him to put a
tongue into his mouth. But nothing
was left of the meat. So Allah was
obliged to cut a little piece from the
tongues of all the others, and, joining
these pieces. he fashioned a tongue for
the Englishman.
The photography of the English Ian
guage does not by any means contain
~ III " - ga -
the most p~erplexing characteristics OF
the English tongue is the fact that. as
a rule. the same word has different
meanings. My dictionary gives to the
verbs see. lead. hold and draw IA, Is,
10 and 80 meaning, respectively. Now,
for a foreigner to be able to distinguish
ell these various meanings is a tremen-
dous task. The words which have
only n or two meanings are com
p~aratively few. Is it surprising that a
foreigner is often puzzled by the nu-
merous and sometimes opposite mean
ings Of many an English word?, lust
as an Illustration, consider the perplex-
ity of a ~persevering Frenchman over
the meaning of the word fast"
"Zis horse, sair. no 81 queek. What
you say?"
Yes: he is a fast horse"
"Ah, pardon, monsieur, BAIT you
friend say he make fast his horse and
he tie him to a post SO he not go at
ALL"
Very true; he is made fast by being
tied"
"Ah, Eat cannot be. He cannot go.
fast. But what you call a man that
keeps fast?"
ooh. he is a good man that does not
eat on fast days"
But I have seen one bon vivant.
who eat and drink and ride and do
everything. lie people say he k a bad
mamie is very fast"
True. that is called living a fast
life"
"Ah. certainement. Zen all re days
of his life must be fast days"
mo, of course"
"Eh bien. Does he eat every day? 2"
Certainly he does"
Zen how can he keep fast?"
why, he keeps going. to be sure."
"Vy. you tell me to stand fast when
you want me to keep still and go fast
when you want me to run How can
7 understands"
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south seeded and for four years Linz
coin piloted his country through the
greatest civil war OF history. There
were In front of him: copper
heads" behind him and advisers on
all sides of him, but he bore up against
all these perils with such firmness and
bravery and Kindness and patriotism
and tact and 0mnlon sense n humor
la the world tool off its nat to him
n has never put it back. When, he
was assassinated In 1865, he was go
well beloved that men called him beau
tiful when they looked at him.
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the octopus, which is a dreaded ami
NAL, which makes its home in the Of
on the rest Of the shuddering country
Most states despise the octopus, and
hunt It felentlessly with quo war
rantos," injunctions and mandamuses:
but New Jersey loves the beast and
stables him as carefully and tenderly
as II he were a race horse. For tins
reason, New Jersey Is not madly
loved throughout the country, and
there il q general opinion that Pater-
son and its mosquitoes serve 1t right
The Wagner leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-1912, 1912-02-23

Some men require Is years. of school
ing to become wise. Lincoln's wisdom
was home made and the pattern has
never been duplicated. He showed the
world how to become an orator in 200
words, which is still $500 below the
average record; moreover, he proved
that 1t is as easv to be wise In short
stories and jokes as 1t Is in 14-sylla-
bled words. Like a great mountain
peak he looms higher as he recedes
from us n today republicans and
democrats alike quarrel over the pos-
session Of his policies.
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such as pushing over the piano, or
standing on his hind legs and licking
the clocks face. A small barn makes
a very nice kennel for a medium-sized
specimen. Some people keep a st.
Bernard and others keep an automobile,
while captains of industry and owners
of corner lots on Fifth avenue, New
York are able to support both.
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car, canal, aeroplane,, or by jumping
from a through train. New Jersey is
crossed at high speed by hundreds Of
trains daily, but very few people have
solved the problem of getting off of
them safely before reaching New York.
New Jersey is famed for good roads,
cranbcrries, ~seabeaches, Princeton coll
lege, Woodrow Wilson, Hoboken,
Thomas A. Edison and his vast light
ming cannery at East Orange and for
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into the general store Of a town Up
= New York state there recently came
! hi good natured Irish woman, who
wanted y be weighed. She stepped
N the scalcs almost Is soon as she
"a atepped i.
~Shurc. these scales ID nc gocd."
Wan her disguised comment. They
only weigh ~ to wan hundred, an !
weigh something loike wan hundred
md nofnty pounds"
saris easily discouraged We are. Mrs
Casey." raid : friend. lust step onto
diem tWkct, me dear. and let Mickey
here ~ The sum for ye."
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Some men not only have cnthusi-
asn, but are subject to 1t on the
slightest ~provocation. They are in a
continual state of enthusiasm, but not
on the same subject. These men are
interesting, but not useful. Tell one
of these men that you a W a project
and he will cry "Hurrah for it-what
is lit" Then he will leap to your aid
n take your plan, d to 1t, em-
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remedies without relief, l was COM
pletely cured by Doan's Kidney Pills.
In view Of my advanced age, my cure
seems remarkable"
when Your Back Is Lame, Remem-
Der the Name-DOAN'S. SOC. all stores.
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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bellish it, put balconies and wings on
it. transform it into a project to re-
build the universe and then forget all
about 1t, because he has become in
terested In electing Hans Wagner
president.
Enthusiasm is as useful as the
horse-but only when it Is harnessed
and has learned what whoa, means.
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RESTORED TO HEALTH.

After 0uffsrIng with Kidney Disorders
for Many Years.
Mrs. John 8. Way, zoe 8. 9Th St. In.
dependence, Kans., says: For q num-
Der Of years I was q victim OF dtsor-
dered kidneys. My back ached con-
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He will max q resolution
And he'll make it good and strong;
He will promise restitution;
He win shun the paths of wrong,
On the New Year he Is wary,
Every fault he means to end.
But along In February
Comes the motion to amend.
Though he drew It up so neatly.
With a sense OF moral pride.
Temptation whispers swoetly
That It should be modiied.
Here and there his plans have fAlterad.
He discovers In the end
It's effects are wholly altered
BY the motions to amend.
-W4shingt0n 0tAr.
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STYLES In

well here I am" announced the
fashionable physician in his breezy
way. "And now what do you think
is the matter with your"
Doctor, I hardly know" replied the
fashionable patient. What is new?"
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stantly, the passage
of the kidney secre-
lions was irregular
and my feet and an
kles badly swollen.
Spots appeared be-
fore my eyes and I
was very nervous.
After using numerous
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Alas!

Wigg-Young Sillicus says his
heart is lacerated.
Wagg-Who's the lass?-Philadel
phia Record. ;
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The average man would 20 through
anything Tor the wosnan he loves 60
pecialy her fortune
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One way to not please a woman Is
to let her do as she pieases.
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A recen discovery in ireland indi-
Gates the presence OF . large ares rich
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mnn nG16om worries about his
ehatactsr a - rspufation q good.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-01-27
Popular Couple Welded.

Tuesday at 6 a. M. at the Holy Name
church, Assinins. Miss Bertha G. Creb-
ASA became the bride of Patrick j.
McAndrews, Rt. Rev. Monsignor Faust
officiating at the wedding ceremony.
The maid of honor was Miss Louise
Peters, while Gus Peters acted as
best man. Only relatives and intimate
friends were present at the wedding.
The bride has always been resident
of Baraga and is popular in social cir
cles. Mr.. McAndrews is man of
sterling qualities. He has resided here
a few years, being employed as super
intendent of the Baraga Lumber Com
pany.
A luncheon was served at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Sterk after the
wedding, the happy couple leaving at
noon for a visit in Detroit and Trow-
bridge. They will make their future
home in Baraga, being at home after
March LIST.