IS YOUR HEALTH ""
GRADUALLY SUPPING?
Interesting Experience of a Texas Lady Who Declares That if More
Women Knew About Cardni They Would Be Spared
Much Sickness and Worry.
Navasota, Texas.—Mrs. W. M. Peden,
of this place, relates the following interest
ing account of how she recovered her
strength, 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 certainly sit
up and take notice. That is what 1 did
some time ago when I found myself in a
very nervous, run-down condition of
health. I was so tired and felt so lifeless
1 could hardly go at all.
"I was Just no account for 1
would get a bucket of water and would
(eel so weak I would have to set it down
before I felt like I could lift it to the shelf.
In this condition, of course, to do even
my housework was a task almost im
possible to accomplish.
•'1 was . . . nervous and easily upset.
HIS WAGES ONE CENT A YEAR
£arly Carrier of Mail» Certainly Not
In the Business for Purpoes of
Making Money.
Maurice Proctor, a man of weaitn,
was so anxious for his coach to bear
. the distinguishing "U. S. Mall"
of the postui service that he made ab
solutely certain, when a service line
wus established between Mineral Point i
(where he lived) and Dodgevllle, la.,
be would be the lucky one allotted tl>e
honor.
There were 20 competitors and each
turned sick with disgust when they
henrd of the bid of tho wealthier •mu,
guys an early volume of the Strand
Magazine. It was tho custom then to
ask prospective employees to bid for
the Job, as contractors bid now. Proc
tor bid 1 cent. Which Is to say, be vol
unteered to do the Job for a remunera
tion of 1 cent a year In wages.
livery day, rain or shine, he twice
carried the mall between the two cities,
proud of the "U. S. Mall" on the side
of his coach. At the end of the year
his enthusiasm had not worn olt, so he
renewed his contract, agreeing to do
the work at the same rate for four
more years—ln all, for 4 cents. The
'government considered him flnnnclally
responsible for this amount, and gave
•llm the Job. The 4 cents were paid to
him In four annual Installments.
His pay for the first year came In
the form of a postal warrant signal
by the secretary of the treasury and
made out to the order of the currier,
Maurice Proctor. It was In payment
for his services, and the amount was
1 cent. Needless to say, It was con
sidered as a grea{ curiosity, so the
carrier sold It ut once for S3O.
BUNGALOWS BUILT BY BIRDS
Are Not Used as Nests, but Seemingly
Only Constructed as a Matter
of Decoration.
' Arbor-like bungalows are built by
Australian bower birds. These bunga
lows ore decorated by the birds with
flowers and other bright objects.
Sometimes one bird will move a
flower placed In position by a fellow.
The result Is > free light, for none of
the birds will tolerute Interference or
criticism. \
There are several different kinds of
bungalows, an f each Is built by a va
; rlety of the bower bird. These struc
tures have nothing whatever to do
with the birds' nests. There If a gar
den In front of the bungalow, and
great attention Is paid to keeping this
. fresh. Some of the birds prefer
shells as a garden decoration; others
use gaily-colored beetles and other In-
E sects, while one bird lays" out a lawn
f jkf moss, which It decorates with all
i f nds of odds and ends. As soon as
I fcy part of the garden becomes faded,
J lie moss, leaves, or flowers are car
jjtal to a rubbish heap behlnfl-the bun
f' grffow.
Dancing displays are given on the
lawns, especially at courting time,
"when the males adopt all kinds of
Queer attitudes and sing songs to at
tract the attention of the opposite
sex.
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Cultured Blovaklan People.
The inn at Turclansky Sv. Martin
In northern central Slovakia is a real
•. social center. Here the Inhabitants
?■ of this cultural center of Slovakia as
semble for song and gossip. In spite
f of the untlqulty of their get-up, the
peasants of the region are among the
most cultured people In Europe; their
little town Is a center of the printing
Industry and boasts a most Inter
, estlng museum. The women of Slo
vakia, although the difficulty In ob
taining linens and colored thread with
which ta make their embroideries la
* now great, still work with the same
k ( -sre and reverence for traditional
craftsmanship as formerly. Indeed
the peasant woman of Detva, Slo
vakia, both In the work upon which
she Is engaged and the beautiful
clothes she wears, would seem to be
• living model for her sisters In the
neighboring villages. It is In their
fc gardens that these women work, sur
rounded by their children.
I couldn't rest well at night and was . ..
just lifeless.
"I heard of Cardui and after reading I
decided i had 6ome female trouble that
I was pulling me down. I seat for Cardui
' and began it . . *
"In a very short while after I began the
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 1 easily did my
house work.
"Later 1 took a bottle of Cardui as a
tonic. I can recommend Cardui and glad
ly do so, for if 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 Is
worth trying. All druggists sell it
CAKE SUFFICIENT FOR ARMY
Monster Confection That William I of
Prussia Bet Before Thirty Thousand
Fighting Men.
When William 1 of Prussia gave his
army a reKulqJn 17110 he let them feast
on vegetables and roast beef, and then
wash It down with lots of beer and ale,
according to William 8. Walsh, who
has u taste for compiling curious In
formation. When the thirty thousand
guest* had almost irnlslied their meal
they saw their deiu-ert coming on a
dray drawn by eight horses. The dray
bore a gigantic cake —said to have been
tlie largest cake ever baked. It was
twenty-four feet squure and a foot and
a half thick.
Mixed In the cake were products
which would have fed a small village.
More than thirty-six bushels of flour
were mixed In It; 20U gallons of milk
had been used; one ton of butter had
made It rich, and one. ton of yeast had
made It rise; 0,000 eggs bad been pa
tiently broken and beaten Into the bat
ter. Tlie result, baked under extreme
difficulties, was the big cake, contain
ing over 860 cubic feet of the goody.
But the thirty thousand guests had
filled themselves on roast beef and
vegetables and it was Impossible for
them to eat all the cake, although It
Would have been possible for them to
do so had they all been hungry. Obvi
ously, so much cake could not be al
lowed to go to waste. So the remain
der of It was cut up and distributed in
nearby villages to the various needy
families, who made short work of It
Mourning Chevrons on "Bear" Suits.
When the Princeton seniors up
peared in their "beer" suits last year,
with a black mourning brassard on
the left sleeve, the Idea was considered
very nifty. Hut they've beaten It this
spring. The beer suits were broken oul
out early this week, and they have
three small black chevrohs on the left
cuff, each Indicating, six months ol
prohibition. The beer suit custom li
indigenous to Princeton. Before th«
days of Volsteadlsm the suits—plain
white "Jumpers" and pantaloons—
peared, simultaneously with the hock
beer signs, and gnve unique dlstlne
lion to the seniors, passing their Inst
spring In scholastic trammels. Also,
there were some Jolly parties In cer
tain cozy corners In the classic sbadei
of the collegiate town. And mnyb«
there are now—but In corners tlint arc
surreptitious pa well as cosy.—Cincin
nati Tlnyy^Star.
Those Old-Tims Workers.
"When I was a boy," said Mr. Curo
rox, "I worked 14- hours s day."
"No, you didn't," replied Mr. Cas
siux Cbex, "My father was keeping
the store you worked In. You Just
hung around 14 hours a dny because It
was n « arm, comfortable place to loaf."
HAVE HAIR LIKE "20"
It's never too late to get rid of
gray in the hair. Thousands have
benefitted by this scientific diccov
ery. Why dont youT
Gray, faded, bedrabbled hair can
be changed to a uniform, lustrous,
beautiful, dark color, so uatur.il in
appeurnce by applying Q-ban Hair
Color Restorer. Safe, siraplo gu
aranteed harmless—all ready to
use—soc a large bottle. Sjlu by
Hayes Drug Company and all gooa
drug Stores. Try Q-ban Hair Topic,
?-ban Liquid sharrtfloo, Q-ban
oiiet Soap, Q-ban Depilatorv.
Cfom
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children
In Us* ForOv«r3oY*ars
> Always bears
ARNOLD BENNETT ON WORDS
Repetition Better Than the Use of
Bad English, Ik the Contention
of Noted Writer.
*> ' j " ~
Arnold Bennett hutea half-meanings,
and especially he hates Inexact words.
He quotes from a London daily ami
holds up to ridicule "Tlie King and
queen were present at a llrst night In
a London theater last evening for the
Initial time In their reign." Ills com
ments are Instructive, Malcolm Cowley
writes In the Literary Bevlew:
"It Is quite a first-rate example
of had English. The culprit, whose
name Is well known to myself and
other members of the London literary
police force, evideutly thought that It
would be Inelegant to use the same
word twice In two lines; v so he sub
stituted 'lnitial' for 'first' In the second
line. • • • Perhaps he had never re
flected that words express Ideas, and
that therefore If a precise Idea re
curs, the precise word for that Idea
ought to recur. Uhe Idea expressed
by the word 'first' Is precise enough,
and no other English word means what
first' means. Certainly 'initial' does
not mean 'first.' Stlfl, the man meant
well. His misfortune was that, hav
ing picked up "a good notion without'
examining It, he imagined that repe
tition was Inelegant In- Itself. Ite|>e
tltlon Is only wrong when It Is uninten
tional, and when, being horrid to the
ear, it Is reasonably and honestly
avoidable. On the other hand, repe
tition, used with tact nnd courage, may
achieve not merely elegance but posi
tive brilliance."
Here Is Bennett's style both In
theory and practice, and the practice
agrees with the theory. The passage
Is not merely clear, but It Is brilliantly
repetitive. The trouble Is that Bennett
often goes out of his way to repeat
himself.
HEARTS AFFECTED BY FEAR
Armenian Children Slow.ln Recover
ing From Terrors to Which They
Were Long Subjected.
According to Dr. Mabel Elliott, head
of the American Woman's Hospitals,
who Is now serving with the Near
East Itellef at Isnild, Turkey, a large
number of the Armenian children
under her care are suffering from en- ]
larged hearts or other forms of heart
disease, due to tlie constant fear to
which they have been prey during the
past few years.
Belief workers In tlie Near East
have long been familiar with the men
tal petrifaction due to the terrible ex
perience through which these children
have passed, most of them having for
gotten everything of their past, their
names, their homes and their language
Included, but this is the first Instance
that has been recorded of the effect of
fear on their hearts.
The cure which Dr. Elliott Is' prac
ticing with these children Is a com
bination of mental and medical. First
of all, they are made to realise that
they are entirely out of danger and
among friends. Then they are put on
a special diet of nourishing foods and
certain exercises are prescribed. The
results so far have been remarkably
successful.
Roses for Every Bsctlon.
The Department of Agriculture In
a rose eone map shows how frosts lim
it rose culture In eertalu sections. Tea
roses by tills mnp can be grovrti
throughout the South and In California,
or wherever the frosts are over In
March. Hybrid tea roses are safe far
ther north to southern Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Illinois, lowa, Nebraska, New-
Mexico and Ariiona, where the frosts
are over In April. Hybrid perpetuals
and some hardy specimens can be
grown In the northern states where
the last frost Is In May, but where
frosts occur during tlie summer, as
In parts of the northwest, success with
outdoor roses Is difficult.
This schedule Is based on the suppo
sition that roses In tlie districts as
signed to them as safe will need no
special care In the winter. With win
ter coverings of earth, straw and bur
lap, many roses will resist frost and
cold. Some hybrid tea roses, for ex
ample, can be grown In Minnesota and
Massachusetts.
There are thousands of varieties of
roses, and several hundred new ones
are produced each year, so that there
are roses adaptable to practically ev
ery part of the country.
All Trus.
' The guest was a smirking, sly sort
of man. He hoped to make good with
his boat by winning the affectlou of
his children. But for some reason
seven-year-old Mary did not like htm.
Still he persisted and one evening
when he entered the house and saw
her all bedecked In a new dress, he
said meaningly, "Fine feathers make
tine birds, I see," and smiled at her
father.
Mary turned and looked at him and
noticed the fur collar on his overcoat.
And then a Utile giggle escaped her.
"Oh. fine fur makes foxes, too," she
returned.
But she didn't know why the guest
colony.
Paraguay's Advanced Ideas.
Students In the Paraguayan Institute
are to be taught wrestling and fencing.
Gymnastics will be given by a corps of
professors In the schools and collefes
of the republic of Paragvay. The In
struction of the greatest number of In
habitant | possible In physical exercises
will be encouraged by local champion
ships, national and International
garat.i. «ud by propaaa"d* In favor
of physical development through lM>
tans and sporting publication*
THE ALAMAHOE GLEANER, GRAHAM, H. 0.
I MORE THAN MERE BUSINESS
Mextern Railroading Ha« Been Lifted
to a Sphere Llttlo Short of tho
Miraculous. %
• A cycle of railroad hlatory has re
volved before our very eyes. Three
golden spikes (at least) have
been hammered In by (at least) three
gilded sledges—and rfll within t* span
of a little more than half a. century.
What Is probably to be the last great
"trunk
being built by the United States in
Alaska. This "government railway"
bad Its first spike, a gold one, sledged
on April 29, 1917, by Martha White.
Another gold spike was driven on
that momentous day, May 10, 1860,
near Ogden, Utah, when the transcon
tinental Union Pacific line was com
pleted, uniting beyond question of
chance the fortunes of the Atlantic
and Pacific sides of the republic. -
The gold spike custom (or habit as
It came to be with the Irrepressible
builders of the continent) began In
1852 to assume significance. For upon
Christmas eve, not only the nation's
but the world's first "trunk line" was
completed at a little forgotten, hamlet
near Wheeling, W. Va., Boseby'a Rpck.
The romance of railroads! Who
that lies him down to slumber In New
York Intending and expecting to arise
refreshed In Chicago, can dare affirm
that railroading 1b a business, a com
mercial enterprise I It Is, rather, a
miracle an Alladlnlc phantasy!—
Christian Science Monitor.
LIKE PAGES FROM HISTORY
Deeds of Mod«rn Greek* Similar to
Those of Their Ancestor* of Many
Centuries Ago.
Greeks are reported to be cosslng
over into Asia Minor to resist the
forces of Mustapha Kemai's army and
take possession of the territory given
them by the trenty of Sevres, un expe
dition whl''h recalls the memorable
crossing of this people 3,000 years
ago, the subsequent siege of Troy, and
the story of the wanderings of Aene
as, the historic founder of the eurly
Roman race*
About an hour from the sea, near
the Dardanelles, the ruins of the an
cient city of Troy stand npon an emi
nence looking out over the plains
where her Immortal sons fell In her
defense. At Its foot the Scamander
winds to the sea, says a bulletin from
, the Washington headquarters of the
National Geographic society.
Excavations on the site have re
vealed nine cities, built one upon the
top of the other in times past The
sixth from the bottom of these Is the
Troy of which Homer and Virgil sang.
* Today there stands little to tell of the
might of the former Priam and Paris
and the splendor which the beautiful
Helen caused to be tumbled Into dust.
Saccharin Discovered by Aocldent.
Saccharin, 500 times as sweet as
sugar, and much in demand during
the war, was discovered, according to
the Basler Nachrichten, by an In
structor In Johns Hopkins university.
The story runs as follows:
In the summer of 1878 the discov
erer, C. Fahlberg by name, was try
ing to restore certain organic bodies.
At the dinner table at the close of a
busy day he noticed that a piece of
bread tasted uncommonly sweet. It
occurred to him at once that the
sweetness came * from his hands,
though he had carefully washed them
before sitting down to eat He hur
ried back to his laboratory and tasted
all the glasses he had used In his ex
periments. One of them he found
exceptionally sweet. He analyzed the
remaining drops and found that they
were a derivative of benzol. In 1884
he set up an experimental factory for
the manufacturing of "saccharin In
New York.
Polio* File Baby's Picture.
Kidnapers are going to have a hard
time If they bother Paul Everltt Col
lins, three years old, of Denver.
He climbed upon the sto6l In front
of the camera at the central police
station the other day aad was photo
graphed. Then be thrust bis fingers
Into the recording Ink and impressed
his finger prints for the Bertlllon rec
ords.
lint be Is not a crinflnal. Mr. and
Mrs. P. E. Collins, who recently
adapted him, were with him, and they
asked that these records be made to
Insure him against kidnaping. Doth
said they feared some one might at«
tempt at some time to take him away
from them. The records will be filed
with the police at the county record
er's office, they said. —Rocky Mountain
News.
Increase In Elk Hard.
A good increase from the survivors
of the southern Yellowstone or Jack
soo Hole elk herd is looked for this year
by ofilclals of the bureau of biological
survey of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, In view of the
unusually favorable winter Just past
Last year's ruins, it Is said, produced
a plentiful growth of feed on the
ranges, and as a result the elk are
reported to be In excellent condition,
with the prospect of only normal
death rate Instead of a repetition of
the mortality of the winter of 1919-20,
due to lack at forage and a severe
winter.
Record for Brown Unlv»rs«ty.
Charles E Hughes Is the fourth
graduate of Brown university to be
come secretary of state of the United
Staten. His predecessors, who were
Brown men, vera William L. Marty,
Kktera Olney and John Hay.
SHORN HEADS PLACATED GODS
Sea Captain Employed an Ancient
Practice and the Threatening x
Gale Ceased to Blow.
The women prayed, the second mat*
cussed and Alex Jacob sen, "the alba
tross," swallowed a pint of vodka
straight Still the gale blew furious
ly. By the Beaufort scale the wind
was eleven force, and this In English
means a hurricane.
All this happened March 10, when
the Norwegian-American liner Ber
gensfjord was steaming westward on
her run from Bergen, says the New
Vork Tribune.
Ole Bull Is a young navigator, with
hard common sense, who worked his
way to the captaincy of the steamship
Bergensfjord. He had been in storms
before, but the one that came up sud
denly March 15 was more than a prac
tical man could handle.
At last an ancient superstition of the
sea came to the mind of Captain Bull,
and he sent forthwith for the ship's
barber.
"Hendrlk," he said, "how many
shears aud clippers have you Btowed
below V
"twenty," said the barber.
"Bring them up and cut the hair of
all my men, beginning here on me.
There la a superstition, Hendrlk, which
my father used to tell me of. When
storms refuse to yield to man 14
pleases much the gods If sallormen
part with their shaggy locks. Delilah
conquered Samson with the shears and
we must use them now."
Hendrik brought his clippers forth
pnd soon the heads of all the staff
were shorn. With the shearing of the
hundredth sallorman the wind began
to ease. When every man had parted
with his lialr the barber called a stew
ardess to his chair, but just before Ills
clippers touched her head the furidus
hurricane went dead. The Bergens
fjord arrived here with almost a hair
less crew.
LATIN IS FOUNDATION t)F ALL
Although a Dead Language, Oregon
Prcfeaaor Asserta You Find It
Wherever You Turn.
"Latin Is a living force in dally life
and all other studies are In over
whelming debt to it," says Prof. F. S.
Dunn, dead of the department of
Latin in the University of Oregon, in
a bulletin which he has written for
the Latin teachers In the high schools
and colleges of Oregon.
"The teacher," he says, "must read
English from out the Latin apd Latin
from out the English ; must see geome
try, biology and physics In Caesar;
must conjure legal phrases and doc
tor's prescriptions from Cicero's ora
tions ; must flash the 'ldyls of the
King' and 'Paradise Ixst' and The
Faery Queen' across the pages of Vir
gil ; must brand every paragraph with
the Romance languages and Latin
America aud the Philippines; must
see Rome In the clock dial, in the
10-cent piece, In a decimal fraction, in
the almanac, in the days of the week,
in the Sunduy liturgy, In Oregon's
seal. In the omnibus bill, In the ulti
matum to Turkey, In un aeronaut or a
submarine; in Montana or In Ari
zona; in Cincinnati or In Olympla; in
Lucy or In Gus; In patrimony or mat
rimony or alimony, It matters not
which, for it is all Latin, anyway, and
everywhere you turn."
Canada to Dovolop Muaael.
Canada Is about to make capital
out of a substitute for the oyster
which Is found along the Atlantic
coast, chiefly in New Brunswick. It
is a mussel which Is by no means a
new article of diet to the people of
Canada. Its delicacy of flavor and
high food* value have been much ad
vertised since the establishment of
government ■ Investigation and experi
ment. A survey of the mussel beds of
the St. Croix river, which constitutes
the boundary between New Bruns
wick and Maine, has occupied the at
tention of a scientist of the council
for three years, and It is expected
that this year will see the satisfac
tory conclusion of the research. The
sea mussel cannot be produced in
fresh water, so that there Is no pos
sibility of developing an industry in
the Great Lakes. It is believed that
there are possibilities, however, of the
development of fresji-water clams
there In the near future.
Inner Tubes as Ice-Bags.
Ice-bags relieve the feverish patient,
but they are not large enough to cool
his entire body. An old inner tube will
do a much better job, says the Popu
lar Science Monthly.
JTou cut the tube at the place where
the valve Is, remove the valve, tie one
end of the tube tightly and fill the
tube with Ice. Then tie the other end
and you will have .a loog narrow ice
bag that may be placed at the side of
the patient or eren wrapped around
him.
Busy Bible Circulators.
The 1010 Issues of the American
Bible society were 3,752,309 volumes.
The sun never sets on the representa
tives of this society, which asserts
that some one is busy every hour of
the day and every day of the year cir
culating the Scriptures. This total
means that seven volumes were Issued
every minute of every hour of every
day of the year.
Why They're Alike.
"Why sre a grasshopper and a grass
widow alike?"
Diitso."
"Both Juasp at the flat flu—
Mem 1M Evening Wart*.
•Jlhe You Have Alirays Bo tight,' and which ha* been
in use for oyer over 30 yean, baa borne the signature of
jp - and has been made under his per
/^j-y/y: A ~/ a ~ ' sonal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good" are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants *« i Children— against Experiment.
_What is 'CASTOR IA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its
age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency*
"Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aid#
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep*
The Children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend.'
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
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Mr. Boyd Harden will
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agement.
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