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REFERS TO PRESIDENT ZELLAYA
OF NICARAGUA-
Deals With Civil Pensions, Ship Sub
sidy, Postal Savings Banks and
Other Matters of General Import
ance. - -
Washington, 1. ('.. Special. Presi
dent Tail's U is! annual message to
the Congress, is in part, as follows:
To the Senate and the House of Rep
resentatives :
The relations of the United States
with all foreign governments have
continued upon the normal basis of
amity and good understanding and
are very generally satisfactory.
Pursuant to the provisions of the
general treaty of arbitration conclud
ed between the United States and
Great Britain. April 4, 1908, a special
agreement was i ered into between
the two coiintn. on Jan. 27, 1909,
for the submission of questions re
lating to the fisheries on the north
Atlantic coast to a tribunal to be
formed from members of the per
manent court of arbitration at The
Hague.
The treaty between the United
States and (Ireat Britain concerning
the Canadian international boundary,
concluded April 11, 1908. authorizes
the appointment of two eommssioners
to define and mark accurately the in
ternational boundary line between the
United States and the Dominion of
Canadia in the waters of the Pas
aamaquoddy bay and provides for the
exchange of briefs within the period
of six months. Conditions have not
been effected and it has now become
necessary to resort to arbitration.
The regulation with regard to the
international fisheries commission
will be presented to Congress with a
view to beinir made effectual.
Great Britain has not yet ratified
the provisions of the convention to
adjust diflerneces with nard to the
boundary line between the United
States and Canada.
Negotiations for an international
oonefrence to consider and reach an
arrangement providing for the preser
vation and protection of the fur seals
in the north Pacific are in progress
with the governments of Great Brit
ain, Japan and Russia.
London Conference of 1908 and 1909.
A conference was held at London
from Dec. 2, 1908, to Feb. 2. 1909, in
which the following powers partici
pated: The United States, Ausria
Hungary. France, Germany. Great
Britain, Italy, Japan, the Nether
lands, Russia and Spain. The con
ference resulted in the declaration of
Ixndon, unanimously agreed to and
signed by the participating powers,
concerning, among other matters, the
highly important subjects of block
ade, contraband, the destruction of
neutral prizes and continuous voy
ages. Two new projects of conventions
which have not heretofore been con
sidered in a diplomatic conference
namely, one concerning the limitation
of the responsibility of shipowners
and the other concerning marine
mortgages and privileges have been
submitted by the conference to the
different governments.
I recommend that the United
States accept the invitation of Bel
gum to participate in the world's
fair at Brussels in 1910.
Questions arising out of the Bel
gian annexation of the State of
Congo has assumed a more hopeful
etage.
A treaty with Germany has been
completed by which American paten
tees shall enjoy the same privileges
as the Germans.
The commissioners to Liberia were
well recived and their report is be
ing considered.
Questions have arisen over condi
tions in the island of Spitzberger
and a conference will be held early in
1910. The United States has been
invited by Norway to participate.
Trade Sbocld Be Looked After.
Turkey and Persia have adopted
constitutional governments largely
by the influence of the United States
as an example. We should seek
trade relations with them.
Conditions which threatened war
between Pen and Boliva have been
amicably adjusted.
Yon are asked to make a liberal
appropriation for our participation in
the Pan-Ameriean conference at
Buenas Aires next July.
The Argentine Republic will Jsnld
an international agrrciiftuTal exhibi
tion at Buenas Aire in 1010 to which
we have been invited to attend.
Today more than ever before Amer
ican capital is sekin? investment in
foreign countries, and American pro
ducts ars more and more Generally
seeking foreign markets. Tbe pan
American policy of this government
has long been fixpd in its principles
nd remains unchanged. With th
circumstances of the United States
and of the republics to the south of
us. most of which have great naturiri
resources, stable government and pro
gressive ideals, the apprehension
which gave rise to the Monroe doct
rine may be said to have nearly dis
appeared, and neither the doctrine as
it exisists nor any other doctrine of
American policy shotild be permitted
to operate for the perpetuation of
irresponsible government, the escape
of just obligations or the insidious
allegation of dominating ambitions on
the part of the United States.
My meeting with President Diaz,
and I hope it will bind together th
cordial relations between tbe tw
republics.
All but one ot the vexing questions
with Venezuela have been adjusted
and that is to be referred to the
lla'rue tribunal.
The government of Panama has
agred to indemnify relatives ot Aiuer
ican officers and sailors brutally treat'
ed by the Panama police and a re
currence will be assiduously guarded
against.
Our Relations With Cuba.
The sanitary improvements and
public works undertaken in Cuba
prior to the present administration ot
that government, in the success of
which the United States is interest
ed under the treaty, ar reported to be
making good progress, and diplomatic
relations promise to be promoted
thereby.
The receivership for the Dominican
Republic has demonstrated its ability,
even under unfavorable economic and
political conditions, to do the work
for which it was inteded.
This government was obliged to in
tervene diplomatically to bring about
arbitration or settlement of the claim
of the Emery company against Nica
ragua, which it had long before been
agreed should be arbitrated. A settle
ment of this troublesome case was
recalled bv tbe signature of a protocol
on Sept. i8. 1909.
Many years ago dilomatic interven
tion became necessary to the protec
tion of the interests in the American
claim of Alsop & Co. against the
government of Chile. The matter
will be arbitrated by King F.dward.
Since the Washington conventions
of 1907 were communicated to the
government of the United States as a
consulting and advising party this
government has been almost continu
ously called upon by one or another
and in turn by all of the five Central
American republics to exrt itself for
the maintenance of the conventions.
Nearly every complaint has been
against the Zelaya government of
Nicaragua, which has kept Central
America in constant tension or tur
moil. Two American citizens, officers
in the insurgent army, were barbar- I
ously treated and executed by order '
ot Zelaya. According to the modern
enlightened practice of civilized na
tions, they were entitled to be dealt
with as prisoners of war. This gov
ernment has severed diplomatic re
lations with the Zelayan government.
International Board of American Re
publics Good Work.
The international bureau of Amer
ican republics has carried on an im
portant and increasing work during
the last year. In the exercise of its
peculiar functions as an international
agency, maintained by all the Ameri
can republics for the development of
pan-American commerce and friend
ship, it has accomplished a great
practical good which could be done in
the same way by no individual de
partment or bureau of one govern
ment and is therefore deserving of
your liberal support.
It is gratifying that Americans will
by treaty take their share in Chinese
extension of the great highways of
trade and to believe that such activ
ities will give a real impetus to our
commerce and wil prove a practical
corollary to our historic policy in the
far east. A considerable number of
Chinese students are attending our
schools and the influences will doubt
less be beneficial to both nations. The
Chinese government is making con
siderable progress in the restriction
upon opium and I recommend that its
sale and use as far as possible be re
stricted in this government.
China and Japan disavow the idea
that an equal chance in mining in
Manchuria is Withheld from Ameri
cans by any kind of monopoly.
The treaty formed with Siam made
in 1856 is largely out of date and
the department of State is consider
ing its revision.
I earnestly recommend to Congress
the plan to have divisions of Latin
American and far eastern affairs and
to institute a certain snecilization in
business with Europe and the near
east. It should be remembered that
such facilities exist in the foreign of
Gces of all the leading commercial
nations and that to deny them to the
secretary of rtate would be to place
this government at a great disadvan
tage in the rivalry of commercial
competition.
The consular serviee has been
greatly improved under the law of
April 5, 1906, and the executive or
der of June 27, 1906, and I tommend
to your consideration the question of
embodying in a statute the principles
of the present executive order upon
which the .efficiency of our consular
serviee is wholly dependent.
Abaci ths Tariff.
I have appointed three official to
assist the officers of the government
in collecting information necessary to
a wise administration of the tariff
act of August 5, 1009. It is hoped
thus to co-ordinate and bring to bear
upon this most important subject all
the agencies of the government which
can contribute anything ' to its effi
cient handling. As a consequent of
section 2 of tbe tariff art of Aug. 5,
1909 ,it becomes the duty of the sec
retary of state to conduct as diplo
matic business all tbe negotiations
necessary to place bim in a position
to advise, me aa to whether or not a
particular country unduly discrinri
nates against the United States in the
sense of the statute referred to.
Estimated Deficit $73,075,600,
The report of the secretary shows
that the ordinary expenditures for
the current fiscal year ending June 30
1910, will exceed the estimated re
ceipts by $34,075,620. If to this de
ficit are added the sum to be disburs
ed for the Panama canal, amounting
to $38,000,000, and $1,000,000 to be
paid on the public debt, the deficit of
ordinary receipts and expenditures
will be increased to a total deficit of
$73,075,620. This deficit the secretary
proposes to meet by the proceeds of
bonds issued to pay the cost ot con
structing the 1'anama canal. 1 ap
prove this proposal.
The Panama canal is now half done
The inerased cost of engineering, and
labor and enlarging of Culebra cut
widening the canal an denlarging of
locks, etc., will make the total cost
much larger than the first estimates
making the total according to esti
mates $375,201,000.
Estimates for the next vear, made
by the Secretary of the Treasury is
$55,603,000 and for the following year
he estimates that expenditures will
be less than receipts.
The classification of government
employes by bureaus would make it
possible to economize.
An investigation ordered by my
predecessor resulted in the recommen
dation that the civil service be re
classified according to the kind of
work, so that the work requiring most
application and knowledge and ability
shall receive most compensation. I
believe such a change would be fairer
to the whole force and would per
manently improve the personnel of
the service.
Civil Service Pensions.
I am aware that there is a strong
feeling in both houses of congress and
possibly in the country against the
establishment of civil pensions and
that this has naturally grown out of
the heavy burden of military pensions
which it has always been the policy
of our government to assume, but I
am strongly convinced that no other
practical solution of the dithculties
presented by the superannuation of
civil servants can be found than that
of a system of civil pensions.
The business and expenditures of
the government have expended enor
mously since the Spanish yvar, but the
revenues have increased in nearly the
same proportion as the expenditures,
We cannot, in view of the advancing
prices of living, hope to save money
bv a reduction in the standard of
salaries paid. Indeed, if any change
is made in that regard an increase
rather than a decrease will be neces
sary, and the only means of econ
omy will be in reducing the number of
employees and in obtaining a greater
average of efficiency from those re
tained in the srevice. I note with much
aatisfaction the organization in the
senate of a committee on public ex
penditures, charged with the duty of
conducting such an investigation, and
I tender to that committee all the as
sistance which the executive branch
of the government can possibly ren
der. It is to be rgretted that extensive
frauds have been practiced in the
custom house at New York, but much
has been recovered and prosecutions
re in progress. It would seem to me
that an investigation of the frauds!
by congress at present, pending the
probing by tbe treasury department
and the department of justice, as pro
posed, might by giving immunity and
otherwise prove an embarrassment in
securing conviction of the guilty par
ties. The President is charged with the
duty of placing a 25 per cent ad
valorum tariff on imports from coun
tries discriminating unduly against
the United States. Pear has been
sxpressed that this power conferred
anil duty imposed on the executive
are likely to lead to a tariff war. I
beg to express the hope and belief
that no such result need be antitei
patcd. Tbe utmost precautions will be tak
en to avoid the necessity of a revision
of the tariff as nothing halts business
so much.
In the interests of economy $45,
000,000 is cut from the expenses of
the war department. It is done large
ly by stopping all projects and neg
lecting to recruit tbe army to the
limit. This can only be a temporary
expedient to decrease the deficiency of
revenue.
The scretary of war calls atten
tion to a number of needed changes
in the army, in all of which I concur
but the point upon which I place most
emphasis is the need for an elimina-H
tion bill providing a method by
which the merits of officers shall have
some effect upon their advancement
and by which the advancement of all
may be accelerated by the effective
elimination of a definite proportion
of the least efficient.
The coast defenses of the United
States proper are generally all that
rould be desired, and in some respects
they are rather more elaborate than
under present conditions are needed
to slop an enemy's fleet from entering
the harbors defended. There is, how
ever, one place where additional de
fense is badly needed, and that is at
the moatb of Chesapeake bay, where
it is, proposed to make an artificial
island for a fort which shall prevent !
an enemy '8 fleet from entering this
most important strategical base of
operations on fw whole Atlantic and
em If coasts. I hope that appropriate
legislation will be adopted to- securo
the construction of this defense.
The naval board recommend the es
tablishment of a naval base in the
Philippines be not made bat that it
he established at Pearl Harbor near
Honolulu.
Tbe return of tbe battleships from
a cruise around the world in better
condition than when they left is grati
fying and gives ns prestige before the
world.
Department of Justice Expedition in
Legal Procedure.
The deplorable delays in the admin
istration of civil and criminal law
have recived the attention of commit
tees of the American Bar association
and of many state bar associations,
as well as the considered thought of
judges and jurists. In my judgment,
a change in judicial procedure, with a
view to reducing its expense to pri
vate litigants in civil cases and facili
tating the dispatch of business and
final decision in both civil and crim
inal cases, constitutes the greatest
need in our American institutions.
Will treat the Sherman antitrust
law later in special message.
The D. C. jail and work house are
in deplorable condition and should bo
improved.
Postoffice Department Second Class
Mail Matter.
The deficit every year in the post
office department is largely caused by
the low rate of postage of 1 cent a
pound charged on second class mail
matter, which includes not only news
papers, but magazines and miscella
neous periodicals. The actual loss
growing out of the transmission of
this second class mail matter at 1
cent a pound amounts to about $63,
000,000 a year. The average cost of
the transportation of this matter is
more than 9 cents a pound.
A great saving might be made.
amounting to much more than half
f the loss, by imposing upon maza
rines and periodicals a higher rate
(it postage. 1 hey are much heavier
than newspapers and contain a much
higher proportion of advertisinsr to
reading matter, and the average dis
tance of their transportation is three
and a half times as great.
1 commend the whole subject to
congress, not unmindful of the spread
of intelligence which a low charge for
arrying newspapers and neriodicals
issists. I very much doubt, however,
i he wisdom of a policy which consti
tutes so large a subsidy and reauires
additional taxation to meet it.
Postal Savings Banks.
The second subject worthy of men
ion in the postoffice department is
the real necessity and entire practica
bility of establishing postal savings
banks. The successful party at the
last election declared in favor of pos-
al savings banks, and, although the
proposition finds opponehts in many
parts of the country, I am convinced
hat the people desire such banks and
am sure that when the banks are fur
nished they will be pdocuctive of the
utmost good. The postal savings
banks arc not constituted for the pur
pose of creating competition with oth
er banks. The rate of interest upon
deposits to which they would be limit
ed would be so small as to prevent
their drawing deposits away from
other banks.
I believe them to be necessary in
order to offer a proper inducement to
thrift and saving to a great many
people of small means who do not
now have the banking facilities and
to whom such a system would offer an
opportunity for the accumulation of
capital.
Ship Subsidy.
I earnestly recommend to congress
the consideration and passage of a
ship subsidy bill looking to the estab
lishment of lines between our Atlantic
seaboard and the eastern coast of
South American as well as lines from
the west coast of the United' States
to South America, China, Japan and
the Philippines. A bill of this char
acter has once passed the house and
more than once passed the senate, and
I hope that at this session a bill
framed on the same lines and with
the same purpose may become a law.
New Mexico and Arizona.
I recommend that legislation ap
propriate looking to the admission of
New Mexico and Arizona as separate
states be taken, but care should be
exercised in the preparation of the
legislation affecting each territory.
With respect to the territory of
Alaska, I recommend legislation
which shall provide for tbe appoint
ment by the presidentof a governor
and also of an executive council, the
members of whieh shall during their
term of office reside in the territory
and which shall have legislative pow
ers sufficient to enable it to give to
the territory local laws adapted to
ft 8 present growth.
Conservation of Natural Kesourcss.
In sveral departments there is pre
sented tbe necessity for' legislation
looking to the further conservation of
our national resources, and the sub
feet is one of such importance as to
require a more detailed and extended
discusion than can be entered upon
in this communication. For that rea
son I shall take an early opportunity
to send a special message to congress
on tbe subject of the improvement of
our waterways, upon the reclamation
and irrigation of arid, somiarid and
swamp lands, upon the presrevation
of oar forests and the reforesting of
suitable areas.
Department of Agriculture.
I commend to your careful consid
eration the report of the secretary of
agrici ult lire as showing the immense
sphere of usefulness which that de
partment now fills and tbe wonderful
additin'to the wealth of the nation
made by the farmers of this country
in the crops of the currant year.
Consolidation of Bureaus.
I request congressional authority
to enable the secretary of commerce
and labor to unite the bureaus of
manufactures and statistics. This waa
recommended by a competent commit
tee appointed in the pervious admin
istration for the purpose of suggest
ing changes in the interest of econ
omy and efficiency and is requested
by the secretary.
The White Slave Trade.
I greatly regret to have to say thai
las investigations maae in un
of immigration and other sources of
information lead to the view that
there is urgent necessity for additon
al legislation and greater executive
activity to suppress the recruiting of
the ranks of prostitutes from the
streams ot immigration into this
country an evil which, for want of a
better same, has been called "the
white slave trade." I believe it to
be constitutional to forbid under pen
alty the transportation of persons
for purposes of prostitution across
national and state lines, and by'ap
propriating a fund of $50,000 to be
used by the secretary of commerce and
labor for the employment of special
inspectors it will be possible to bring
those responsible for the trade to in
dictment and conviction under a fed
eral law.
Bureau of Health.
For a very considerable period a
movement has been gathering
strength, especially among the mem
bers of the medical profession, in fa
vor of a concentration of the instru
ments of the national government
which have to do with the promotion
of public health. In the nature of
things the medical department of the
army and the medical department of
the navy must be kept separate. But
there scorns to be no reason why all
the other bureaus and offices in the
general government which have to do
with the public health or subjects
akin thereto should not be united in a
burau to be called the "bureau of
public health." This would necessi
tate the transfer of the marine hos
pital service to such a bureau. I am
aware that there is a wide field in re
spect to the public health committed
to the states in which the federal gov
ernment cannot exercise jurisdiction,
but we have seen in the agricultural
department the expansion into widest
usefulness of a department giving at
tention to agriculture when that sub
ject is plainly one over which the
states properly exercise direct juris
diction. The opportunities offered for
useful research and the spread of use
ful information in regard to the cul
tivation of the soil and the breeding
of stock and the solution of many ot
the intricate problems in progressive
agriculture have demonstrated the
wisdom of establishing that depart
ment. Political Contributions.
I urgently recommend to congress
that a law be passed requiring that
candidates in elections of members of
the house of representatives and com
mittees in charge of their candidacy
and campaign file in a proper office of
the United States government a state
ment of the contributions received
and of the expenditures incurred in
the campaign for suoh elections and
that similar legislation be enacted in
respect to all other elections which
are constitutionally within the control
of congress.
Semicentennial of Negro Freedom.
The year 1913 will mark the fiftieth
anniversary of the issuance Of the
emancipation proclamation granting
freedom to the negroes. It seems fit
ting that this event should be proper
ly celebrated. Already a movement
has- been started by prominent ne
groes, encouraged by prominent white
people and the' press. The south es
pecially ia manifesting its interest in
this movement
It is suggested that a proper form
of celebration would be an exposi
tion to show the progress the negroes
have made, not only during their pe
riod of freedom, but also from the
time of their coming to this country.
I heartily indorse this proposal and
request that the executive be author
ized to appoint a preliminary com
mission of not more than seven per
sons to consider carefully whether or
not it is wise to hold such an exposi
tion, and if so to outline a plan for
the enterprise. I further recommend
that such preliminary commission
serve without salary, except as to
their actual expenses, and that an ap
propriation be made to meet such ex
pense. Conclusion.
I have thus, in a message compress
ed as much as the subjects will per
mit, referred to many of the legis
lative needs of the country. Speak
ing generally, the country is in a high
state of prosperity. There is every
reason to believe that we are on the
eve of a substantial business expan
soin, and we have just garnered a
harvest unexempled in the market
value of our agricultural products.
The high prices which such products
bring mean great prosperity for the
farming community ; but, on the other
hand they mean a very considerably
increased burden upon thoae classes
in the community whose yearly com
pensation does not expand witj'i the
improvement in business and the gen
eral prosperity. The increase in
population and the more expensive
mode of living of the people, which
have not been accompanied by a pro
portionate increase in acreage pro
duction, may furnish a further rea
son, It is well to note . that the in
crease in the cost of living is not eon
fined to this country, but prevails the
world over, and that thoae who would
charge increases in prices to the ex
isting protective tariff must meet the
fact that the rise in prices" has taken
plaee almost wholly in those products
of the factory and far min respect to
which there has been either no in
crease in the tariff or in many instan
ces a very considerable reduction.
WILLIAM H. TAFT.
Surely "the Wor:d do move.'' Here's
Chicago putting rubber soles on its
noisy milk peddlers who clatter up
back stairs at 2 a. m., to toe rout
of Morpheus and fhe discomfort of
tenants. Now, suggests the New York
Tribune, tf somebody wilt invent
noiseless milk - wagons, nonrattling
cans and a few more things ot the
kind, a dozen quiet loving and sleep
needing home suburbs of Now York
trill gladly baild hist a monument
PROF. MUM ; VOX'S PHTLANTUROPT
Giving to the Nation a Prize That
Money Cannot Boy.
" would rather preterm the health of a
nation than to be its ruler." Munyon.
This motto, written by Prof. Munyon
about sixteen yean ago, was tbe real cor
nerstone of bis medicine business. He felt
that tbe people of the nation were neglect
ing their health owing to lack of money.
With the oae thought in view of helping
humanity,, be started in the medicine busi
ness, paying large sums of money to emi
nent specialists for known and tried for
mulas that were known to have been suc
cessful in curing diseases. After carefully
compounding these formulas and putting
them up in a marketable condition, he
offered them to tbe public for a few pen
nies, easily within the reach of the poorest
family, lis hired eminent specialists at
large salaries and offered their services ab
solutely free to tbe public to diagnose their
eases and advise them what remedies to
take. After giving tbe public all these
benefits b was still unsatisfied and offered
further to thoae who were not in reach of
the offices which he established throughout
the country; he advertised, asking them to
write to his specialists for free medical ez
anunation, and to-day Prof. Mum-on .till
following out this policy, and whenever he
hears of a new drug or s new formula that
is more effective than those that he is at
the time compounding, be purchases them
retard less of cost.
Prof. Munyon puts up a separate cure for
almost every ill, snd these remedies can be
had at all druggists, mostly 25 cents a bot
tle. In taking these remedies, von are tak
ing what might be called a sure thine, for
he guarantees them to produce satisfactory
results or he will refund our money. Thi
is a remarkable man and a remnrkable in
stitution, manifestly fair ta all. and a arm
well recommended.
Prof. Mud. ron ' address is 63rd and Jef
ferson Sts.. Philadelphia. Pa.
Neutrals think to tread on egg
and break none. German.
AGONIZING 'TCHING.
Eczema For a Year Got No Ifelief
Kven at Skin Hospital In Despair
Until CuUcar Cured Him.
"I was troubled by a severe itching ami
dry, scurfy skin on my ankles, feet, anus
and scalp. Scratching made it worse.
Thousands of small red pimples forms
and these caused intense itching. 1 waa
advised to so to the hospital for diseases
of the skin. 1 did so, the chief surgeon,
saying: 'I never saw such a bad case of
masse Bat I go. little or no relief.
Then 1 tried many so-called remedies, bat
I became so bed tart I almost gave op m
despair. After luffnirg atonies for twelve
months, I wee relieved w tbe almost un
bearable itching after twe or three applica
tions of Ctttieura Ointment. I continued
its use, combined with Cuticura Soap and
Pills, and I was completely cured. Henry
Searle, Cross St., Little Rock, Ark., Oct.
8 and It, 1907."
Pottsr Drag 4 Chem. Corp., Sole Props,
ef Cuticura Remedies. Bbsten. Mass.
One honest word is better than two
oaths. Turkish.
Rheumatism and Neuralgia never could
get along with, Ham I ins Wizard Oil. Wiz
ard Oil always drives them away from the
premises ia short order.
Wonderful French Clocks.
The clock of Lyons Cathedral is a
wonderful piece of mechanism, and
the legend describing it is as follows:
The cock crows, the bell sounds the
hours, the little bells the Sancte Spir
itus, the angel opens the gate to sa
lute the Virgin Mary. The two
heads of the lions move tbe eyes and
tongue. The astrolabe shows the
hours in its degree and the movement
of the moon. Moreover, the perpet
ual calendar shows all the days of
the year, the fest days and the bissex
tile. The hours at whieh the chimes
are complete are 5 and 6 o'clock n
Ilia mnrain miAAav anA 1 And i
o clock hi the afternoon.
Complicated indeed is the clock of
Beauvals Cathedral. It issaid to be
composed of 92,000 separate pieces on
the fifty-two dial plates, the hour, the
day, the week and the month; the
rising and setting of the sun, phases
of the moon, the tides, the time in the
principal capitals of the world, to
gether with a series of terrestrail and
astronomical evolutions. The frame
work is of carved oak, 8 metres by a
metres, or 26 by 16 1-4 feet.
When the clock strikes all the "edi
fice" seems in movement. The de
signer wished to depict the "Last
Judgment." This wonderful work
recalls the work of Strasburst, and is
of modern construction. So.-51-0B.
HABIT'S CHAIN
Certain Habits Unconsciously Formed
and Hard to Break.
Aa Ingenious philosopher estimates
that the amount of will power necea-
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If it could be transformed, lift a
weight of many tons.
It sometimes requires a higher de
gree of heroism to break the chains
of a pernicious habit than to lead a
forlorn hope in a bloody battle. A.
lady writes from an Indiana town :
"From my f-arft'st childhood 1 was
a lover of coffc. Before I waa out
of my teens I was s miserable dyspep
tic, suffering terribly at times with
my stomach.
"I was convinced that It was coffee
tbat was causing the trouble and yet
I could not deny myself a cup for
breakfast. At the age ot 36 I was In
very poor health. Indeed. My sister
told me I was In danger of becoming
a coffee drunkard.
"Bat I never could give up drink
ing coffee for breakfast, although it
kept me constantly ill, until I tried
Postum. - I learned to make It prop
erly according to directions, and now
wo ean hardly do without Postum for
breakfast, and care nothing at all for
coffee.
"I am no longer troubled with dys
pepsia, do not have spells of suffer
ing with my stomach that used to
trouble me so when I drank coffee." :
Look in pkgs. for tbe little book.
"The Road ta WeUvllle," "There's a
Reason."
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