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"How did your daughter pass
her examination 1" asked one mo-
ther of another. "Pass !" was the
answer: "She didn't pass at all.
Perhaps you wouldn't believe it,
but they asked that girl about
things that happened long before
Idle was born!"
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pupil nurses in City Hospital,
Cleveland, to fill vacan`oies caused
by graduation. Unusual variety of
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lie mere waste, caused by coins
rubbing one. agalnetanother, the
civilized world, it is said, loses 1,14,
ton$ of gold arid 88 tens of ailver
annually.
Most Remarkable Photograph Ever Taken at Sea.
This wonderful pitcure of the United States battleship Vermont being tossed about in a heavy storm
while en route to Europe was -snapped by one of the crew of the battleship Wyoming.
OF BEAUTY AICD BANALITY
CURIOUS MIXTURE IS SEEN IN
MEXICAN HOUSES.
Ancient European Furniture and Then
Comes a Modern
Pianola.
From some church tower --steeples
are rare in Mexico you will gat the
lie of the city, and, whichever city
it may be, the view will be curiously
the same—an inner clump of two -
storied houses on asphalt atreeta and
long suburban vistas of squat houses
of one floor alone.
Occasionally there will be an Am-
erican colony, where there are other
types of houses standing in gardens,
but the typical house in Mexico is
built of thick adobe walls, pierced by
windows which are carefully grated,
and shuttered off from the world by
doors of heavy oak, behind which there
is always a gate of iron bars.
If it be your excellent fortune to be
invited within one of these old-fashion-
ed houses, you will find, writes a Lon-
don correspondent, it strangely a
mixture of the old with the new. The
metallic filament lamps swing from
wooden beams that were carved in
Spanish days; the phonograph plays
you the Merry Widow across a foun-
tain that through age no longer holds
a drop of water; the sewing machine
tats its quick stitches to the pedal-
ling of a crone of 70, who is a re-
tainer of the house since the days
of the grandfather; the telephone
rests on its bracket beneath an
ancient sword, relic of
The War of Independence.
You are standing at the door of iron
bars, having pressed the button of an
electric bell, and a brown -faced Indian
maid admits you with an enormous
key to the patio, the most natural and
beautiful feature of the house, for in
the patio you are almost in a garden.
Symmetrical lines of gigantic flower
pots, mounted on pedestals of the
same brown, glazed ware, spread a
riot of colors and a very passion of
tropia scent, so that you look and
gasp at once, doubting if this email
heaven truly can exist within these
thick and uninviting walls. Birds 4n
cages twitter in the shadow of the
colonnade.
Yon are recalled to your proper
senses by the sight of a rug spread
upon the glazed tiling of the floor.
It is a rug of sixteen colors, all talk-
ing loudly, and it is very sad to see'
it there. Looking farther, you observe
a hatrack of enseeming mederr}1ty
and two rocking chairs from Austria
known commonly as bentwood, flank-
ing a stiff settee of the same hideous
device.
On the walls of the colonnade around
the patio you discover that there are
painted pictures, done on the walls'
themselves so as to form panels. They
do not bear inspection without grief,
for one will be of Mary feeding her
lamb, if conjecture be a guide in such
matters, while the next will represent
a full-rigged steamship carrying all
sail and much smoke across a very
angry looking sea of a purple shade,
while another looks something like
a lost green box on a railroad plat-
form, but
Represents a Mountain.
On every side there are tall doors,
always opening In the middle and
fitting badly, for the rains play havoc
with all woodwork.
If the house beon the corner of a
street, then the rooms on the two sides
of it will possess windows, but if it
be in the centre of the street, then
these doors into the patio are all the ,
way there is for sun and air to enter,
save et. the front of the mansion,
Every room, communicates with
every other room, so that one could
make a complete circuit of the house
without ever entering the patio. For
this curious feature there seems to
be no explanation, but it Is universal,
lust as tiro lack of flreplacos is uni-
Swollen Hands and Feet
mean Kidney Trouble, Liniments sad
blood purifiers are useless. What you
must do i$ to sure the kidneys, fake
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versal. It will be explained to you dl MURDERS 1N THE WJ1ST.
that fireplaces are unhealthy, for tires
use up the air, and there is too little
oxygen at high altitudes to waste it
thus, when all of It is needed for
breathing.
The ceiling of the bedroom you
enter seems exceptionally lofty, and
this is customary. lis the older houses
or those of people of the older school,
Result of Slight Provocation In
Majority of Cases.
That crimes of violence are on
the increase in the West, and often
result from very slight provocation
says a report by the Comptroller of
the walls are guiltless of papering, the Royal North-West Mounted
being simply washed with green, white Police. In the 44 charges of mur-
or lightish yellow distemper. Perhaps der 13 were the direct result of
this niay bo better than some of the
wallpapers, which outrage all the
canons of even the vilest taste,
The dressing table is of quarter -
sawed golden oak from Grand Rapids,
but the wardrobe was obviously
brought from France in the old days
of the French Dominion. The very
typical corner table is also French and
of black oak. One of the ubiquitous
Austrian bentwood rockers has wan-
dered into the room, The washhand
stand is of metal, provided with en-
ameled iron fittings of a simple and
barrenly hideous design. The extra-
ordinary solidity of the brass bed calls
your attention to the fact that your
host is
A Wealthy Man,
and it is by the splendor of the brass
beds that people are judged In Mexico,
The bed has a knitted woolen cover
done in stripes of yellow and green.
At the head of it there is a sham,
while the long and uncomfortable -
looking pillows, stuffed hard with
ticking, reside at its foot for no other
reason but that this is customary.
You find no knack -knacks, no photo-
graphs, none of the little oddments
that make hone. The room 1s as
barren as that of an hotel.
All the time you note that legions
of servants are to be seen doing no-
thing at all. The cook earns ten
pesos per month; the housemaids get
eight pesos; the mono has his fifteen
pesos, whloh, taken altogether in a
lump equals about the wage that a
Swedish gIr1•ot•all-work makes with
her single bare arm.
i The Mexican servant is a kindly
soul, infinitely gifted with the love of
pilfering, but dishonestly attached to
his master, who generally puts up with
a vast deal more than masters in
other parts of the world would permit.
In fact, the patriarchal system plays
a large part in the economy of the
Mexican household, and old retainers
are kindly housed and fed long after
their years of actual usefulness have
Passed.
(It is when you put foot within the
sale, or drawing -room, that your
breath forsakes you. It is like being
plumped into the middle of last
century, The room has noble pro-
portions, but the walls, as in all the
other rooms, are slightly and 'quite
noticeably askew, $o that they do not
parallel each other; thus one corner
will be obtuse and another acute.
At each end of the room the chain
of chairs is broken by settees to match
flanked by two rocking chairs and two
chairs with arms. These are
The High Seats of Honor,
and the place for the guest is the
settee, if etiquette is properly ob-
served. If the furniture should hap -
excessive drinking, 5 for purposes
of gain, 3 by insane persons, 3 in-
fanticide, and the remainder were
due to jealousy, lust, or for re-
venge. A total of 15,443 cases were
entered and convictions secured in
12,989, 1,500 More than last year.
The comptroller thinks the amend-
ment to the Criminal Code passed
last session with regard to the car-
rying of firearms ought to strength-
en the hands of the police greatly.
The force has been iner.eased by
1.09, and now comprises 55 officers
and 708 non-commissioned Officers
and constables.
The report is replete with stories
from the lonely trails of the far
North, showing the great difficul-
ties often experienced in locating
and apprehending criminals and
bringing them out to civilization
for trial.
Drunkenness among the Indiana
in some of the districts is reported
to be increasing.
Murder from slight provocation
results in many instances. In one
case an Italian killed a countryman
in a dispute over the relative fight-
ing abilities of the Greeks and
Turks.
In another a Hungarian) girl pick-
ing up a. dead prairie chicken hit
her female companion in the eye
with it. She wan murdered on the
spot with a shovel. In a third case
an irate stepmother, after severely
whipping a 12 -year-old boy, shot
]tint through the head.
"I have recently brought to the
notice of the immigration authori-
ties," Bays the comptroller, "the
fact that newly arrived immigrants
aro found in possession of high
power automatic pistols, and sug-
gested that all sua weapons should
be confiscated at the port of entry."
Stop Sneezing,
Quit Sniffeling,
Cure Your Cold
The
Soothing: Vapors of Catarrho-
zone Bring Instantaneous
Relief.
Thoueande of Testimonials prove that
Catarrhozone cures permanently.
pen .to be other than bgnt wood, it When germs attack the linin of the
will most probably take the form of g
green plush upholstered upon lament- nose, make you aneeee and gag,—when
ably springless and squat. frameworks, later on they infest the bronchial
Very formally, down the center at tubes,—how can you follow them with
spaced distances, there isa line of a cough syrup?
thin -looking and rickety tables, upon You can't do it—that's alt. Cough
which the eye cannot avoid seeing syrups go to the stomach—that's why
ornaments which would better have they fall.
been concealed. On a mat of bead-
work rests a plinth of dark wood
supporting a group of wax fruit, very
thoughtfully protected from confiding
insects by a glass dome.
On an old-fashioned sampler, which
is a truly beautiful specimen, there is
a brown china dog couehant and so
dreary looking that you know he will
forever persist in his stony attitude;
beside hint stands a long wine -colored
glass containing a plume of pampas relieved at once and eared me thor•
grass, On another table, which lacks oughly. It is invaluable in golds sore
Et leg, but still takes the perpendlerilar throat and bronchial trouble," Not
on three by aid of a strut of woad, difficult for Catarrhozone to euro, be-
lles the family album and another' 08 canes it contains the essences of pine
picture, postcards.balsams and oilier antiseptics that
The most solid looking table of all simply mean death to catarrh, Large
But Catarrhozone goes everywhere
—gets right after the germs—kills
then—heals the soreness—cures the
inflammation—makes Catarrh disap-
pear.
"Nothing I have ever used gives the
warm, soothing sensation of Catarrho-
zone," writes Isabel Fry, ,of Seguin
Pails, Ont:. "1 wag in a frightful way
with catarrh of the nose and throat—
bad droppings, hard breathing, bad,
breath and indigestion,, Catarrbosoue
sustains photographs of gilt, wooden size costs $1.00, and contains two
and plain glass frames, chiefly of menthe treatment) smaller sires 26c.,
brides and grooms, alt earehrliy wear. and 600., all drugglets and store-
ing expresslone le enutterably sad keepere or The Catarrhozone Co.,
that one is sorry also, On the wall Buffalo, N.Y,, and Kingston, Canada.
Why Not!
Teacher: "Professor Newton is
going to give a lecture on the sung
and I wanted all of my pupils to be
there," 'themes Tai -dye "I don't
think I con go, Mies Hoyer."
Teacher: "Why, not, Thome 1''
Theinas "['ard,y t "'Cause ray nlntlre.t
won't let mego so far:, -away from
there is an immense gilt -frame mirror,
which does not hang quite straight.
A chandelier, snuffled in green bagging,
depends from the ceillrig, beteg the
repoadtory tor Countless myriads of
dead flies.
The pianola has almost been rote
gotten, possibly because It seethe so
grotesquely out of place; it and the
grareophcne and the brew bode are
the proper signs or tipulsnce.
You come out of the berme very
tired, though your kin,lly hosts have
been t,harmieg in you. bottle,"
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Dr, Friedmann Again.
A. report comes from Germany to the
effect that the iriedmann treatment bee
been planed at the disposal of the medical
profession 1 and that utwat it hes
e a res
received a new and more favorable hoar -
Ing, Professor Kraus says that it is evi-
dent that something surprising' is be.
fore the medical world and that in the
case of experiments alreadymade there
wee 'an unusually rapid dcline" of the
symptoms. Ito has "never aeon such re,
mita .with tuberculin," and much more to
the same effect, Other testimony is that
of Dr. Simon Barnoh of Now York, .who
says that "German physioiane seem to
have withdrawn their opposition." and
adde that if Friedmann had not acted in
so eccentric a manner while to America
be would have made a morn favorable
impression, This all sounds rather curl
ous eine, 1t was underetood at the thee
that full teats had been made of the Fried-
mann remedy and that it was found to be
ineffective. in fact it woe said to be
peeltively harmful. Now it seems that
German physicians are amazed at the
successful results of this same treatment.
Was the Investigation too oonservntive?
What Remains to be Settled?
Major Stewart L. Murray of the Gordon
Highlanders and ono of the bast -known
British authorities on the coonomice of
war make the British public to realize for
themselves the moaning of a conflict with
Germany. He says that even with the
British fleet in command of the seas the
price of food would. bo at the famine
notch. Thos, who could afford to pay that
pricewouldget food and those who could
not afford to pay that price would get no
food. The latter obese will inolude about
10,000,000 people, and they "will not starve
Quietly." Here aro ten million people
who, aeeording, to Major Murray, will
starve under even the most favorable
conditions of war, and there are probably
another ten million people In Germany
who also would starve In about a week
after a declaration of war. It seems that
the drawing together of Germany and
England is very necessary to the happi-
ness of both peoples. What remains to
be settled? In it on sea or on land? Is
it a question of changing a polioyf The
interest of both peopled fa towards pones
—what then leads to wart Is 0 such in.
oldents ae have 000urred at Zabern which
indicate the real policy of Germany?
Agrloulture Is the Foundation.
Prosperity built upon artificial inflation
la woree than preoarious. Prosperity built
on the development of productive enter-
prises not only endures but presides the
assurance of still greater development.
That is the lesson which BTr George Paieh
has been impressing on the people of Can•
oda when he said that British money
must be devoted to the encouragement of
land eettlement. Agriculture is, and must
be, the foundation on whloh the fabric of
the Dominion tests. No endeavor is too
great which has for ale objeot the promo•
than of land'produotion and cheap and
easy distribution.
The simple foot is that Canadians have
ptrasn to hard
providedtransportation mhinymuch
in excess of their immediate requirements.
What they have now to do is to inoresee
the volume of legitim ate busiuose. No one
who knows the natural recourses of the
Dominion doubts that this can be done
to an extent far beyond existing limits.
But to do it means much less of the pare-
sltical element in the community and
many more real workers and producers.
Lt meane too that parliament and the
logislatul's ghouid concern themselves not
so much with the game of politics as with
the encouragement and expansion of pt'o-
ductive- effort.
Temperature Ahead.
We closed the year 1913 with 600 degrees
of temperature to pay back. That ie, dor.
ing the year the thermometer showed 600
degrees above the normal. Now, if it la
paid back in January and Pebruary we
will not have very much winter. But it.
will likely work the other way, and we will
probably pay for that boat, and if we do
before opting dawn we will have a cold
time of it. Thu, far there has been little
demand either way.
If the weather kind does not demand his
600 degrees of heat and replace it with the
same amount of cold we shall fear there
has been some comical commotion some.
where -the sun bas become sultry or the
earth has twitched about a little on ate
axis. Bub in the meantime we have been
treated royally and have been favored
with weather that has made the heart
glad and the appetite leapfor joy,
Franc, Will Limit Saloons.
Once again the opponents of alcoholism
in Prance are making an effort to re•
strict, the sale of spirits by placing a
limit on the number of saloons. Por
years! bills have been introduced regn•
burly into the Senate, passed and sent
down to the Chamber of Deputies. But to
the latter body be vested interests have
always been' able to muster a majority,
wbioh hoe promptly shelved the measure,
with the result that saloons have Morena -
ed at an alarming rate,
At the present time there le no effective
way of limiting the number of saloons.
Aocording to the most reliable 'figures
there are now about 480,000 such placee to
Prance. Thie works out as one for every
82 inhabitants, equivalent to 0110 for
every 25 adults. In Germany there is only
one public- house for every 246 inhabit
ants, one for every 360 In the United
Btstce, ono for every 430 in Iingiand, while
In Norway 9,000 people on an average have
to depend upon every saloon. In Parte
alone there aro 33,000-esbabliohmente
*here spiritsare sold for consumption on
the premises, or ono for every 34 yarde.
In, the department of Soine Inferieure
there ie doe ealomr for every 20 adults,
and in tt,s (lure ono for every three or
four.
The present bill, which hasn't much.
chance of S+sasteg the Ohaniber, opposed
ae it k by Deputy Berry, who successfully
led
the opposition to last year',' measure,
provides that henceforth thenumber of
saloons ehall be limited to One for every
200 hlhabitante. No fresh licenses are to
be lamed until . the number of eslodns
falls to this average. Existing interests
are not to be disturbed, but are to become
extinct upon the death of theholders,
]3e generous—but never give your
'
friends away.
Any girl would rabher bo loved
than be in lova.
A stingy man is not popular, bub
he usually pias the pries,
The felt -made man should never
forget to make himself agreeable,
Once in a while a bachelor has as
many troubles, as to married man -
ENI) OF P1111 WORLD.
Catastrophe Predicted Often Since
Fourth Century.
'Predictions of the end of the
world hu$ o been a amine of terror
to many peoples through many cen-
turies. S t Augustine,
z S.A us a inthefourth
g ,
century, conceded only a few years
of respite to the human species be-
fore the end of time, says the In-
dianapolis News, In the ninth
century, in several countries• of
continental Europe, the people be-
gan to make preparation for the
destruction of the world, then pro-
phesied to be near at hand. They
abandoned their fields and their
workshops and threw themselves at
the foot of the altar; they gave
their goods to the churches and
monasteries. The end was to come
with the beginning of tate thou-
sandth year of the Christian era.
The fatal day came. But the sun
continued to shine in the vault of
the heaven, the stars remained in
their places, and the people return-
ed to their customary pursuits. But
the prophets were not discouraged,
and Arnault de Villeneuve, a
Frenchman, fixed the date for the
finish in 1388, and again a mistake,
had been made in the direful horos-
cope, Next came Johann Stoffer, a
German astrologer, 'who announced
that the world would bo over-
whelmed by a deluge in 1521, and a
worthy theologian of Toulouse con-
structed an ark.
In 1599 the end of the world was'
announced in Trance, and the wild-
est terror prevailed. Henry IV.,
who had not been any too good a
Protestant and was no better as a
Catholic, laughed at this predic-
tion. Then he -became serious and
issued an edict forbidding his sub-
jects to talk about anti-Ohrist and
the last judgment. The latest pro-
phet of any note was an Italian, a
snonk of Padua, who died at the
ago of 90, a day or two after the
exaltation of Pope Leo XIII. He
left a prophecy giving a list of
the Popes, ton in number, who
should reign before the end of the
world should come. And these are
the names: First, the present
Pope, Pius X., then will come Paul
VI., Pius XL, .Gregory XVI., and
so on, concluding with Peter II.,
who will occupy the Papal chair
when the end comes. As Popes
reign an average of 12 years each,
the grim prophet only allows a cen-
tury more of the world and then all
will be over. This prophecy, how-
ever, has never been accepted with
anything like the seriousness with
which it. was given.
FRRIEND.LY `PIP.
Restored Hope and Confidence.
.After several years of indigestion
and its attendant evil influence on
the mind, it is not very surpl'ieing
that one finally loses faith in things
generally, .
An :Eastern woman writes an in-
teresting letter. She says:
Three years ago I suffered from
an attack of peritonitis which left
me in a most miserable condition.
For over two years I suffered from
nervousness, weak heart, shortness
of breath, could not sleep, etc.
"My appetite was ravenous but
I felt starved all the tinio. I had
plenty of food but it did not seem to
help. I got dieoouraged, stopped
medicine and did not care much
whether I lived or died,
"One day a. friend asked me why
I didn't try Grape -Nuts food, ,stop
drinking coffee and use l:'ostum. I
had lost faith in everything, but eo
please my friend I began to Ilse
both, and soon became very fond
of diem,
"It wasn't very long before I got
some strength, felt a decided
change in my system, hope sprang
up in my heart and slowly but
surely I got better. I could sleep
very well, the constant craving for
food ceased and " I have better
health now than before the attaole
of peritonitis,
"My Husband and I are still
using-Girepo-Nuts and Postum,"
Name given by Canadian Postern
Co,, Windsor' Ont, Read, "The
/toad to Wellville.," in 'Age,
t"Phero'e a Tteatien."
'Ever refold the a bee letter? A near
One appear* from lime to time, They
0FrOIrtin., tt'ad, and full of hitmem'mer
FRIENO ANO PHILOSOPHER
S01a111 ANO1ENT1IODIIRN
PRO YE11U1S.
World of Wiodoln alai Advice Givou
to Wcotlth,y anal Overfed.
Patients.
Many proverbs, bath ancient and
tnoclern, deal with health and long
o.
There la, fur instance, aha well-
known ono: "After dinner rest
w}lilo ; after supper walls a niio,,R
Titer's fur the masculinu sex. To
women the advice of Dritumunt and
Fletcher, tiro Elizabethan drama-
tists, fs: ""`Vomeu should talk an
Hour after supper;their exec•
cisc,']3u10 thi,t advice, of course,
0113 not given in the days of rho
athletic woman.
Supper, by the10 aaverely
dealt with by proverb -makers of
many nationalities,
Supper and Sorrow.
The. Spaniards have a proverb
chi a • ' ' 1 r o kills more
chs3s,'1Jesrppr
ishan Avicenna euros"--Avi.cenna
being a famous physician of ancient
times.
In Denmark they say "More peo-
ple are killed by supper than by the
sword,"
""From a groat supper comes a
great pain; that you may 01007
lightly, sup lightly," is the i.•rens-
lation of a mediaeval Latin Pro-
verb.
Against these condemnations of
supper may be set "Who 011715 well •
sloops well," and "'Who goes sup-
perless to bed all night tumbles and
tosses."
"`Well," however, in the first
proverb probably means "`wisely,"
while the second saying merely
states the truth, and that if you go
to heel after a lung fast you will be
,wakeful.
"Eat tin you're cold,
And you'll live to grow old.
Eat till you're hot,
And you'll die on the spot,"
may at first sight be a little puzzl-
ing. What it means is that the
normal and easy digestion of a light
meal withdraws the blood from the
skin, whereas the indigestion due
to eating too much causes the skin
to flush. Another saying: "Cold
after eating is a sign of long life,"
expresses the same idea.
There is a world of wisdom in the
advice given to wealthy and over-
fed patients by that blunt and fam-
ous physioisn Dr. John Abernethy.
To them he used to stay; or rather,
shout: "Live on sixpence a day,
and earn it t"
Butcher v. Doctor.
Doctors come in for same shrewd
slaps from. the proverb makers.
"Bettor pay the butcher than the
doctor" is one saying, but against
this may bo put "Much meat, many
maladies."
"The poor man's physic lies in his
garden" is first-rate advice, Par
too many of us fly to drugs, and
neglect the natural medicines of
fruit and vegetables,
Sir Philip Sidney said: "The
rules of health and long life are
moderate diet, open air, easy la-
bor, free from care." We may nob
be able to command the last three
essentials, bub we can the first.
Is it good to be lively at meals
Well, there are the proverbs "A
cheerful look makes a dish a feast,".
and "It is good to be merry at
meat." On• the other hand, "A lit-
tle with quiet is the only diet," and
"Cease your chatter and mind your
platter," plead for quietness at
meals.
The truth is that lively, cheerflr -
but not noisy or excited conversa-
tion, helps digestion; while cliw-
putes, political arguments, . and
anger are fatal ;to it. This is well
expressed in "Better is a dish of
herbs where love is, than a stalled
ox and hatred therewith," and
"]letter is a dry morsel and quiet-
ness therewith, titan an house full
of feasting with strife,"
Their Late 'Breakfast.
There is another recipe for long
life : "To rise -at six and dine at
ten, to sup at six anti go tobed at
ton, will make a man live ten times
ten," Provincial Frenchmen of to •
-
day .follow this advioc pretty close-
ly. ' T.hey Hee early and, save for
coffee and rolls, have nothing .1111
about 11 o'clock, when they have a
bi:oakEast which is practically adin-
ner, and they have their next• meal
about, six.
In conclusion, More are same ran-
dom examples: "Leave elf with. an
appetite" (French); "Everything in
exaesa is inimical to Nature" (Hil�-
pocrates); "Phe glutton digs his
grave with his teeth" ; "ll"eastings
aro ,physicians' harvest=s"; "Sine
faits'slrty 'main than the sword"
(Scottish); and"Ite who eats but of
one dish never wants (i.e., never
lacks) At physician" (Thomas Bawe).
•
Coat wag first need at,Nlewcrtstle-
oii-Tyne about the year 1280; and
heoarne ae at.•tiele of trade between
that fawn and London ono fifty
years later,
as