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Interesting Experience of a Texas Lady Who Declares Tint i' ...uu
Women Knew About Cardui They Would Be Spsurci
Much Sickness and Worry.
Navasota, Texas.—Mrs. W. M. Peden,
of this place, relates the following interest
ing account of how she recovered her
having realized that she was
actually losing her health:
"Health is the greatest thing in the
world, and when you feel that gradually
slipping away from you, you certainty sit
up and take notice, TTiat is what I diJ
some time ago when I found myself in a
very nervous, run-down condition of
health. I was so tired and felt so lifeless
! could hardly go at all.
"1 was Just no account for work. 1
would get a bucket of water and would
feel so weak 1 would have to set it down i
- before 1 felt like I could lift it to the shelL
In this condition, of course, to do even
my housework was a task almost im
possible to accomplish.
"1 was . . . nervous and easily upset
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JOHNNIE RUNS A'WAY
OF COURSE, you know that the
Hook family is a very exclusive
bird family. They think a great deal
of their family tree, or trees, and will
not allow a young Rook to go away
from those trees.
Now, young Johnnie Rook thought
all this fuss about keeping with the
family very Silly, and one day he de
cided he would build a nest In a tree
close to a field where there were
plenty of grubs and also where he
could occasionally have a taste of
vegetables.
Johnnie Rook does not destroy very
much; he might help himself to a
potato or a little corn once In a while,
but he Is of enough value to the farm
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er destroying worms, so he can af
ford to give the Rooks a few vege
tables In payment , .
Of course, Johnnie Rook did not say
a word to any of his relatives about
moving away from,the family trees.
He Just quietly one morning went
away and at night time lie did not
return.
Old Grandfather Rook was the first
to discover Johnnie's absence when he
was counting noses before be weot to
sleep.
"Where Is Johnnie?" he asked.
"Watch him tomorrow when you see
him and find out where he Is," com
manded Grandfather Rook.
The next night at bedtime every
Book knew what had happensd; John
THOUGHT OUT BY JUVENILES
Examination Pspera In American Pub
lic Schools Art Raplata With
Unoonaclous Humor.
Every onca In awhlla aome school |
tencher reveals to the world aome of
the jinconsclous humor of her pupils
na shown In their nnswer to questions
In their school testa. One such an
swer sent by a schoolmnYm of Spring
field, 8. D., sounds like It might be a
criticism of much of the literature of
the duy. for the pupil remarks:
"Sentiment Is mostly of dost or oth
er Impurities that It may get and this
usually settles at the bottom."
Another answer seems to disclose •
serious disorder from which the moon
la Buffering, leading to the conjecture
that what psendo scientists have mis
taken for efforts to signal the earth
may be but frantic calls for the doe
tor. The pupil saya:
"The moon haa sort of blisters on It
some of them have busted and hnve
formed deep crusts."
"Hirers carry their load Is sqfttlon
and expansion," but qualifies this dis
concerting statement wkh another
which aaya: "Benefactors which Influ
ence the amount of runoff arc. If they
are streams In deserts, moat generally
they are always short"
Another young scientist explains tha
formation of snow by the statement
that It Is formed by the freeilng of
the atndsphere that la oo the air, and
another explaina the formation of rain
as the small particles of lea that get
so big they cannot stay In the air. and
so come down as rain. May 8 trans-
Chan La the Pittsburgh Dispatch
1 couldn't rest well at night and was. ..
just lifeless.
"I heard of Cardui atid after reading J
decided I had some female trouble that
was pulling me down. I sent for Cttu.:;
and began it. . .
"In a very sholt while after I begnn tU
Cardui Home Treatment 1 saw an im
provement and it wasn't long until 1 was
all right—good appetite, Splendid rest,
and much stronger so that I easily did my
housework. , v -"*-
"Later I took a bottle of Cardui as a
tonic. 1 can recommend Cardui and glad
ly do so, for it more women knew, it
would save a great deal of worry and
sickness."
The enthusiastic praise of thousands of
other women who have found Cardui
helpful should convince you that it li
worth trying. All druggists sell it
nie Rook had stolen away to another
tree and made a nest for himself.
"Let everyone be at that tree In the
early morning," said Grandfather
Rook, as he tucked his. head under his
wing. "Be up early, every one of you."
There was very little noise In the
trees the next morning and silently
Grandfather Rook led all of the fam
ily to the tree by the field where John
nie had made a new home.
But when they reached there they
were far from quiet; such a chattering
Johnnie never had heard before. He
poked his head out, but he did not
have a chance to get out of his new
home by himself—he was helped by a
dozen or more bills giving him sharp
digs.
"Sit on that branch," said Grand
father Hook in a cross voice, "and we
will hold a court; but, first, some of
you take care of ,that nest."
Poor trembling Johnnie had to
watch his nest pulled In pieces before
bis very eyes, but what they were to
do to him Interested him much more,
for the family looked very crmts.
Grandfather Rook first told Johnnie
jvhat a grave offense It tfas for a
young Rook not to respect bis family
trees and go away by himself, and
then every one began to chatter.
"Pick him hard." said some. "Beat
him with our wings," said others,
while others cried, "Death to the de
serter I"
Poor- Johnnie almost fell off the
limb where he sat with fright and bis
feathers shook with bis trembling.
'What would have happened to John
ntfc he never knew, for at that moment
Grandmother Rook spread her wings
and llew to a>braneh atrave the others.
"Give him one more chance," she
said; "he Is very young and I am sure
be did not know how terrible It is
for one of our family to go by him
self."
And so after a great deal of arguing
and chattering It was decided to give
Johnnie another chance, which you
may be sure he was very glad to have.
He flew back to the family trees, and
from that day there wus no more
loyal Rook in the family than Johnnie
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SOME LOGIC; LITTLE REASON
Examination papers Turned In by
Youngsters Proved They Gave
Thought to Quaatlona.
"Tall ma all yon know about ceo*
taurs."
The response of one -boy to thl*\
demand In a recent examination was
sa follows:
"A centaur was ancient cavalry and
archefy all In one niece. He could not
be knocked out of hla saddle because
he didn't have any, being the same
person aa his horse. ,If he needed a
stable be did not need a tent, I do
not know which, and If he needed for
age he did not Deed ratloryi, or if he
needed rations he did not * need for
age." ' •
Evidently the youngster who gave
that reply was of a military Inclination,
and had thought out for himself the
advantages of centaurs on the fighting i
line. It was funny, but not unin
telligent. Less original, with only one
little slip indeed to mar its accurscy,
is the version of the schoolboy of the
story of the Qorgons.
"The Oorgons," he began confident
ly, "were three sisters that lived In
the islands of the Hesperldes, some
where In the Indian ocean. They had
long snakes for hair, tusks for teeth
and claws for nails, and they looked
like women, only more horrible."
It was a little Boston girl whose
definition of the mlnotaur has long
been remembered by the eider pupils
In the school thst she attended:
"The mlnotaur was a Urge boll
which lived on tributes In a laby
rinth. He was mythical, carnivorous
and fond of young people."
FACTS ABOUT MILK AS FOOD
As an Artlcla of Diet There Are Many
Things That Are Not Properly
Understood.
The use of milk as a food has been
so extensively exploited by the milk
Interests that there exists a somewhat
erroneous Idea about It which a re
cent speaker, before the American Ped
iatric society, is endeavoring to cor
rect
these errors principally concern the
group of children between the ages of
1 and 0 years. These errors might be
classified under the headings: (1)
Prolonged use of milk as an exclusive
article of diet (2) -Increased quan
tities of milk given Wlong with other
foods.
Milk might not only be used too
long as an exclusive article of diet and
In excessive quantities with other
foods, but Its nutritional value might
be Injured by boiling.
The laity were taught and lightly
so, that milk was an Ideal breeding
place for germs, and that the growth
of these germs might be Inhibited by
keeping the milk on ice, or the milk
might be brought to a boll. The use
of boiled milk was becoming more
prevalent snd many Injuries-to nutri
tion occurred.
Phoenix Built on Ruins. J
By far the most Interesting remalmr
of the lost people of Arizona are their
network of canals whlcfi prevail
through all the valleys. The longest
Is the one tapping the 011 a river, and
which supplied with water the ancient
city, now marked with the one stand
ing building. This Is the Casa Grande,
about which so much has been;written,
and which has excited much Interest
among achaeologlsts in the last ten
years.
The volume of water taken out by
this canal must have been Immense,
for it supported millions of acres. In
most places the canal has been filled
with drifting sand, but Its course Is
easily traced. Engineers who located
the Merlcopa canal made use of the
old Aztec ditch, and today water runs
over Its pebbly bottom just as it did
two thousand or three thoussnd years
ego.
For miles and miles around mounds
tell the tale of houses destroyed by
the ravages of time Phoenix was
built on the rains of this ancient city,
and the rellcsofrequently are found of
this ancient civilization. Detroit
News.
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Celer and Light
To (et color and light Is the greet
thing. The difficulty Is to get them
both. Turner, in his Italian land
scapes, enhanced the color of his sky
by a dprk pine-tree In the foreground,
sacrificing the color of the tree for
the sake of accenting Its value and
warmth; and the old landscape
painter's device of a brown tree Is
used for the same end —to make the
blue of the sky and distance more
luminous and beautiful. This Is also
the reason for the dark-brown fore
ground usual In old landscapes; and
our eye Is not arrested by the tree or
the dark foreground, but goes pest It
to the point of the picture.—George
Ota used.
Two Pol eon Antidotes,
The old method of administering
an emetic In case of poisoning has
given way to a lavage of the stomsch
which Is claimed to have many ad
vantages over the older process. This
flushing of the stomsch most be thor
oughly dooe aad water must be taken
at doss Intervals until about 15 pints
have bean consumed, litis Is fol
lowed by a quantity of animal char-!
coal taken Into the stomach to Insure
the absorption of any poison which
may be left This takes the place ot
old antidotes, although there la noth
ing ts hinder one from adding some
at the aseal antldotea to the waMt
psade an eg Cor flushing purposes.
SATISFIED WITH THE TEST
i
After Somewhat Belated Proof of the
Purity of the Liquor, Brothers
Slept In Peace.
"•resting'' corn liquor Is one of the
most frequent preliminaries to con
viviality these daya, it Is rumored, ah
legedMndleated and otherwise noised
abroad. Llghtnln' that burns with a
white flame is supposed to be danger
ous, to contain wood alcohol, and to
otherwise be undesirable; shine that
burns blfte is supposed to be the hon
est effort of s master-maker of spirits.
Sometimes, however, zeal for drink
overcomes caution, even of this un
certain sort, with the result that the
following occurred a few nights aga
Two young brothers In mild Iniquity
secured themselves a pint They, be
ing fairly law-abiding in other re
spects, went to their room to drink it
I They drank It, at least, mest of it,
and became somewhat aifected by Its
presence with them. They undressed,
turnAl out the light snd retired. After
about 20 minutes, one aroused himself
and called to the other. 
"Say, wake up, we didn't test that
liquor!"
"Well, must do it," was the d«>wsy
reply, "won't do drink it 'thout testln*
1L"
They arose, turned on the light,
found the drop or two of liquor left
In the flask, poured It on a hand-mlr
ror, touched a match to It with due
solemnity and care, aaw the blue flame
and returned to their beds absolutely
satisfied.—Atlanta Constitution.
HE GOT THE "BUG LETTER"
Discovery That Made the Victim
Madder Than Before He Bent
In Original "Kick."
There is probably no easier way t»
get a laugh out of an average Amer
ican audience than to mention ikn
Englishman's sense of humor, and to
read what an American may have to
say about the British humor may be
exasperating to an Englishman, but
the reverse is not always true. An
Englishman, J. C. Squire, for instance,
may write about American Jokes and
not be the least bit irritating.. In ills
"Life and Letters" Mr. Squire's chap
ter, "Goaks and Humour," contains
several fine American Jokes, -and
among them Is one that concerns a
traveler on a,sleeping car who had
written a complaint to headquarters
about the presence of vermin in his
berth.
"He received back from the ad
ministrative head a letter of Immense
effusiveness. Never before had such
a complaint been lodged against this
scrupulously careful line, and the man
agement would have suffered any loss
rather than cause annoyance to so
distinguished a citizen as, etc., etc.
He was very delighted with this ab
ject apology. But as he was throw
ing away the envelope there fell out,
a slip of paper which had, apparent
ly, been Inclosed by mistake. On It
was a memorandum: 'Send this guy
pe bug letter.'"
Relle of Glacial Age.
Devil's Pulpit, located about twe
miles east of Batavla, N. Y., is a relic
of the glacial age. It Is a huge mass
of rock shaped like an hour glass,
and Is one of the most peculiar and
striking natural formations in the
whole stats. The base Is fully SO feet
across. It slopes upward to a nar
row rock, corresponding to the neck
through which the sands of an hour
glass sift, and then broadens out to
form what looks like the upper cham
ber of the glass. It Is composed of
limestone and stands 20 feet In height
The nearest bedrock like It Is five
miles away to the north, and ge
ologists believe this means that the
rock was torn loose from Its original
mother vein and dragged those five
miles by the big glacier that swept
down from the polar regions ages
•go. Natural erosion did the carving
that gives It the hour-glass contour.
N«w Timekeeper ©leek.
Boiling eggs, developing photographs,
or any other operation that require*
abort but accurate account of time*
may be allowed to -proceed without at
tention through the use of a novel
dock, described in Popular Mechanic*.
The four-Inch dial la at the top, and
In the lower part of the case la a
vertical scale, reading up to 90 min
utes In one-minute divisions, *and car
rying a small slide that la set by hand.
At the end of the period set, a four-
Inch gong on the back rings Until It
Is shut off. Though a valuable addi
tion to the home kitchen, the new time
keeping clock Is Intended especially as
a labor-saving accessory for hotel and
restaurant kitchens, photo
laboratories snd other places where
the measurement of minutes Is Deeded.
Snapping Movie NejMre.
Usually 190,000. to 200.000 feet are
run through the cameras to get a six
reel, or 6,000-foot motion picture. The
director stations three, four or Ave
cameras to take the same scene. He
has one camera close beside the strug
gling villain «nd heto, another grind
ing from fcn elevation\gtlll another at
this angle, one more at that angle.
When all of theee negatives are de
veloped. parts of each enter Into tbe
composition of the completed red.
Impossible.
"Theee short skirts—"
-Yesl"
"1 should think a girl's ankles would
get cold."
-Hew can her ankles get ceM when
she haa a fur neckpiecer—Loulavttla
Current Knowledge
Students repeatedly excuse their de
ficiency in current knowledge by Mm
statement: "Our college work keepa
us s* busy that we hare no time te
read the newspapers and magazines."
Which naturally Suggests a greater
emphasis on the college responsibility
of keeping the student Interest in such
phases of information thoroughly
aroused. These older boys and girls
are for the most part quite as human
as the rest of as, and so* manage to
gite attention enough to matters of
primary interest. Students ari being
(taught to snswer quite glibly academic
questions of a decidedly eruuite char
acter, while at the same time t..ey are
losing contact with the vital world
about them. Seriously, we ought to
know to what an extent this condition
"exists, and meet the issue sanely and
efficiently.—Paul V. West in the Atlan
tic Monthly.
A Bay of Water.
A soap bubble is merely a hollow
ball of water containing air. The
soap, partly dissolved, forms a very
thin Aim or skin over the air which
ia endeavoring to force Its way
through it. This air exerts an equal
pressure in all directions, and forces
the soap film ont at an equal distance
from the center of the compressed air,
tiros forming a perfect sphere or ball.
After the bubble has been floating
about for a few moments, the water
drips toward the bottom of the ball
and collects the# In drops. The
weight of these drops pulls the bub
ble out of shape and increases the
pressure of the air Inside to such an
extent that It breaks through the film
and the bubble bursts.
Quite Obvloos.
The class of backward children
being taught mental association of re
lated objects. The teacher distributed
a number of pictures and an equal
number of titles for the pictures. When
they had arranged the pictures and
titles to their own satisfaction, she
passed down the aisles and viewed
the results. One little chap had put
the title "Nutting" under a picture
showing a naked baby In a bath tub
enjoying the warm water. The teach
er failed to see any connection, but
when the lad was questioned concern
ing his disposition of titles, he an
swered, "Why, ma'm, the baby haa
nutting on." —Columbus Dispatch.
Llttla-Known Spot.
A few piles west from the east
branch of the Rosebud is the West
Rosebud canyon. A good trail con
nects the two and a visit of any time
to this area will be In the nature of a
camp trip, says the American For
estry Magazine in an article on "The
Land of the Beartooth." A passable
wagon road reaches Emerald lake en
West Rosebud. It is a lake which de
serves to be popular for here nature
made a placet which Is naturally at
tractive. The scenic values are excel
lent, the fishing' is good, and around
the lake luscious mountain huckleber
rles grow In profusion.
Must Undergo Teat. >'
It doesn't take much to set na back
from our acquired character to our
original nature. Sometimes a long
spell of sickness discovers to us what
we really are, as compared with the
fine creature we like- to pretend we
are. Starvation will bring old friends
to the point of clutching each others'
throats, and an excess of bodily fa
tigue may curdle the sweetest temper.
Let us not hear that any human being
has an angel character till he haa been
under some excruciating trial and haa
emerged with honor from the ordeal.-
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Bcored on Ingersolh
Robert O. Ingersoll had social qual
ities which won him many friends,
who, however, could not bat deeply
regret his published opinions. One
day while in Beecher'a study he saw
a globe which greatly pleased his
fancy. On Its surface were raised
figures of the heavenly bodies In very
delicate workmanship. "I admire
that," said Ingersoll, ''who made itt"
"Wlio made It, do you ask, colonel?"
repeated Beecher. "Who made this
globe? Why, nobody, of course—lt Just
happened."—Boston Transcript.
City and Country People.
The best and moat hopeful feature
In any people la undoubtedly the In
stinct that leada them to the country
to take root there, and not that which
aenda them flocking to the town and
Its distractions. The lighter the anew
the more it drifts; and the mors
frivolous the people, the more they
are blown, by one wind or another
Into towns and dtiea.—John Bur
roughs.
' Canada's First Farmer.
It waa a Frenchman and
Irishman who waa Canada'a first farm
er. His name waa Louis Hebert Ho
landed at Quebec In 161T with his
wife and children, and at ooce,started
to dear and cultivate the soil on what
Is now the site of the cathedral at
Quebec, the seminary, and part of the
Upper Town.
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jm and has been made under his pet
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Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children —Experience against Experiment.
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