Show WHY THE BUBONIC SPREADS PLAGUE IN m MANCHURIA DRIVER Thought Their Barks Herbs That have great medicinal power art raised to their highest efficiency for puraa they ifying and enriching the blood are combined in Hood' Sarsaparilla 40366 testimonial received by actual Be sure to take ount in two years Hood’s Sarsaparilla Oet it today In usual liquid form chocolated tablets called Sarsataba 'I hfj? purifier CITBKIX IN e TO 14 OATS wilt refund money if PAZO OINT caue of Itohlng Blind HUNT folia to cure an PUm in to U4jfcf a EUeedlntf Protruding The saint who say he cannot sin may be an earnest man but It la wisest to trust some other man with the funds of the church Constipation causes many serious eases It is thoroughly cured by Dr Pierce’s Flearant Pellets One a laxative three for cathartic And in the Meanwhile Lady— Can’t you find workf one but every Tramp— Yessum wants a reference from my last employer Lady — And can’t you get one? he’s mum You see Tramp— No t been dead years — London Punch His Wish Gratified M Jean Roble the celebrated Belgian artist died at Brussels the other week aged 89 He was the son of a blacksmith who worked at his father’s forge early in life and afterwards deM Roble veloped a faste for painting was also famous as a horticulturist He and was an authority on roses used to say: "I want to die among my roses" and his wish was fulfilled How Pat Proved It An Irishman was once serving in a regiment In India Not liking the climate Pat tried to evolve a trick by which he could get home Accordingly he went to the doctor and told him his eyesight was bad The doctor looked at him for' a while and then said: "How can you prove to me that your eyesight Is bad?" Pat looked about the room and at last said: “Well doctor do ye see that nail on the wall?" "Yes” replied the doctor “Well then" replied Pat “I can’t” Tribune Granite of the 8outh When one speaks of granite the mind naturally reverts to Vermont It Is difficult to associate granite with any section of North America outside New England yet It must now be acto the credit of the south knowledged that Georgia North Carolina Maryland and Virginia are producing large of stone of good quality quantities which insures the south a place In the market at any rate The annual output is now worth about (3500000 and the industry Is growing It may be of comparative Interest to know that New England’s output is about $9000000 worth of stone anfiually Can 8e In Caeee The Influence of heredity cannot of but course be successfully disputed It can be minimized or entirely overcome In some cases by correct food and drink A Conn lady says: "For years while I was a coffee atdrinker I suffered from bilious tacks of great severity from which I used to emerge as white as a ghost and very weak Our family physl-gave me various prescriptions for Improving the digestion and stimulatI tried faithfully which liver the ing but without perceptible result ' "He was acquainted with my family history for several generations back and once when I visited him be said: ‘If you have inherited one of those torpid livers you may always suffer more or less from Its Inaction We can’t dodge our Inheritance you clan know’ ‘1 was not so Btrong a believer in heredity as he was however and beginning to think for myself I concludcoffee and see ed to b top drinking what effect that would have I feared It would be a severe trial to give it took Postum and had up but when It well made it completely filled my need for a hot beverage and I grew It fond of very “I have used Postum for three years During all that using no medicine time I have had absolutely none of the bilious attacks that I used to sufbeen entirely and from I have fer free from the pain and debilitating effects that used to result from them “The change is surely very great and I am compelled to 'give Postum ihe exclusive credit for it” Name given by Postum Co Battle Creek Mich in Read "The Road to Wellvllle” ‘There’s a Reason” pkgB Kver read the above letter? A nee one appeare from time to time The are ornoloe true and full of human fatereof u w’ v — U frJ ' A I J dvras ' ' x 'tmw mx-- BH o complexion-ta- ke PIIE9 four HEREDITY Overcome )' t ' or Reforms come slowly because we all would rather wield the ax than bear the knife —Chicago ' " a lot of "dead to bury Don’t worry about your Garfield Tea the blood DISGUSTED was picking O’Connor his disgruntled way through the rain the other day says the New York of the Cincinnati correspondent r He had hailed a street car from the pavement and sheltered under his umbrella made for the rear furniture when a platform van whirled on him drawn by three briskly trotting horses Magistrate O'Connor escaped demolition by a He called a brisk sidewise leap remonstrance to the driver As far had as he could see that personage hla head thrust around the corner of the furniture van while he called items to the magisback Interesting chased O’Connor trate Magistrate him In the street car caught him at a blockaded corner and bad him arrest ed The driver appeared before Magistrate O'Connor himself when the latter had gotten Into hla silk robe ol office “I could send you to the said the still angry magistrate "but I will let you off with a fine of $5 I intend this as a warning The driver to all reckless drivers” sulO'Connor looked at Magistrate and thrust his hand into his lenly ones and five off He peeled pocket started for the clerk’s desk to pay “Hold on there" said Magistrate O’Connor gathering up a bunch of his silk gown in nervous hands “Haven’t you anything to say for yourself?’’ "Yes" said the driver sourly "They ought to make you guys wear them Mother Hubbards on the street so's a feller could dodge yuh" Historic Tudor Place Magistrate v An undertaker know ones" that he is unable WAS Wear 8hould Magistrates Gowns on 8treet So They Could Bs Dodged ll - V iv J v j W Cosy 6URYYG A VCrAf OF Tf£ PJLAGVf ooo This photograph shows perhaps the chief reason why the bubonic plague Is working terrible havoc In Manchuria The natives of the district refuse to allow the bodies of the victims to be cremated on the ground that For the Bame reason they oppose their so doing would destroy the Identity of the dead In the life hereafter the burning of Infected houses in which are lying neglected and putrefied corpses Instead they prefer that the dead are burled in the trenches that the authorities have been compelled to prepare in consequence of the The result is that the earth and the air are reeking with the disease germs whole villages appalling mortality have been wiped out and the plague is spreading with fearful swiftness It Is of a very virulent type the recoveries being only about one per cent and death usually occurring within 48 hours HOMES FOR TOILERS with kitchens etc The Provided by Authorities in Vienna dwellings let at $60 a year two rooms at $100 and three rooms gt from $180 and Budapest to $220 Besides these houses barrack buildings have been fiats Halt In Building Operations Causes erected In which may be had for 80 or 88 cents a week Great Dearth In Houses of Less In some of the new buildings this Expensive Kind — Huge 8um price will he even lower about 60 to Be Expended cents a week At first all these new were let to municipal emt apartments Vienna — Exorbitant rents coupled ployees but now they are open to all with a growing scarcity of small One of the principal reasons for the apartments In the two capitals of lack of new houses In Vienna and' Vienna and Budapest have forced Is the enormously high taxboth the Austrian and Hungarian au- Budapest of property In no other city in ation thorities to come to the rescue of the Europe are taxes as high as In these The ministry In Vienna has two workers In Paris the taxes on capitals kronen voted 25000000 ($5000000) house property amount to eight per of Budapest and the municipality cent of the rents In Berlin to 15 per for the kronen ($19000000) cent and In Vienna to 41 per cent of workmen’s dwellings It Small wonder that erection capitalists prefer is expected that this action ylll not to seek other forms of Investment only supply the present urgent need The best classes of house property In for more small apartments but also Vienna yield the landlord a bare four rents In stop the persistent Increase per cent per annum on his outlay Vienna has for the past three which is hardly enough to tempt many years suffered from a veritable famto build ine in apartments especially In the persons And so it has become necessary for The city has been cheaper districts Austrian the government to raise a rate 40000 of at persons the growing to encourage local authorities a year and building operations have fund to erect worknot kept pace with this Increase High and building societies men’s dwellings so as to put an end prices of land high prices of building materials of all kinds and higher to the present house famine and provide living quarters at reasonable wages for labor all combined to stop rents for the rapidly growing popuThe landthe erection of new houses lation lords took advantage of these conditions to raise the rents especially of the cheaper flats and the wage earners have suffered greatly In Budapest the situation la even worse than In Vienna Since the union of the two cities of Ofen and Pest in 1872 the population of the Hungarian Trappers Compelled to Work Harder by leaps and capital has Increased Than Ever Before and Secure bounds completely outgrowing the Fewer Animate — Profits Big New buildhousing accommodation ings were erected only in a limited area and these were mostly Bangor Me — Trappers who spenjJ houses For the last ten years the winter In the Maine woods work a general commercial depression has much harder than they did 20 years Unable ago They get up earlier travel farther put a stop to building work to find proper house room the work- and take greater jalns In attending had to make shift their traps and earn about as much ing people have animals with Uie most limited quarters until as they did when no city In Europe has come to suffer were twice as abundant They bring and take greater pains so from as the capital in lighter loads overcrowding s In skinning and preparing the pelts of Hungary to the last housing staThey bring out muskrat and skunk According skins that formerly they did not contistics 528 per cent of all the dwellings consisted only of one room and sider worth hauling because with the In these 81627 apartments lived scarcity of minks otters and fisher persons almost half of the entire cats prices have doubled Profits however are very extensive The Increaspopulation of the city or ing scarcity of apartments brought a often amounting to 100 per cent for more on rare furs though prices Increase In rents corresponding ' raccoon and muskrat are nomskunk one is apartments— that and of New inal The pelts England room and kitchen— in good quarters ol the city were rented at $90 to $100 Canadian foxes are the finest thickest l year and in some Instances the best and most desirable found in America Ten years ago the office of the Maine lodgings of this Btze brought the landreported lord Such prices re- fish and game commissioners $250 or $300 sulted In overcrowding rooms to an that from 50000 to 70000 foxes were extent literally appalling captured every year more than half Fur buyers It produced also an entirely new de- of which were poisoned velopment In the renting business the here say the figures are too high that appearance of a middleman who rents not for more than 25 years have there of many been 10000 fox pelts sold in one seawhole buildings comprised flats and then fills them to the limit son Jn any Maine district In many of the old country towns with all sorts of occupantsherded tofox which keep are associations conditions gether under Indescrtble leaving no hole or corner from attic hounds to run foxes in a sportsmanto basement empty any desire for Rents are put at like manner without of known records best The or the highest possible figure profits payable are shown no these organizations is the Brunswick weekly and defaulters but are evicted without consideration Fur club although hounds are run in Pittsfield and Dexter in Bkowhegan any notice To remedy auch evils the city auuntil a few days ago in Bucksport Monroe and Frankfort thorities decided to build workmen’s of a fine fox pelt Since the price dwellings on a large scale and as a has advanced to $5 each many hunters beginning 1623 of these have already Another 1200 will be have saved the best for wives daughbeen finished An average pelt early In 1911 ters or sweethearts ready for occupation will bring 15 to 20 per cent jnore this They have from one to three rooms MISSED ONE OF THEIR BROOD New Jersey Couple Count Noses and Lost Boy Is Finally Located Asleep In Car Montclair N J — When Johnson Conboy of Great Notch his wife and eleven children got off a trolley car at Bloomfield avenue and Valley road Intending to change cars for the ValMrs scrutinized her ley Conboy brood and then began to count She counted ’em once and looked astonished She counted ’em a second time and looked even more astonished Then she beckoned to her “ Counted slowly — one two three four five There’s one gone sure” cried the mother Conboy kept on counting — six seven eight "You’re right” he said ’’It’s Jamie" Meantime the car with Jamie had vanished Herbert Keys asked the them act "so Conboys what made frantic like” They said the car had carried off one of their children Keys followed the car to the barn three blocks away and there found Jamie asleep and about to be ticketed and placed In the lost parcel room When the child was restored to his wondering parents they answered looks by saying they weren’t used to when and got so flustered traveling they got out to change cars they lost for the time being their Instinctive picture of their 12 children and had to resort to counting Fur Animals Scarce in Maine winter than a year ago while the Increase In rates on silver grays and blacks are even higher Raccoon and muskrat pelts are In better demand than formerly and the pelts of the despised bob cats are now worth $2 Loup cervier skins are going at $5 and are hard to get at that Mink otter fisher cats and price American sable are constantly becoming more rare and the prices are A big black bear in Maine advancing is becoming as rare as a moose with a perfect set of antlers Records of bears weighing 400 pounds or more are rare although cubs and many yearlings are found UNIQUE New WAY OF SAVING CANE” THE LATEST Thai of Clever Frenchman Invention Makes Man Temperate by Drinking for Him A French inventor has hit upon s th device for combating peculiar This is the “thirsty caner drink evil Because othei Why do men drink? men Insist on standing them drinks Many a big business deal Is done ovei a glass nowhere more so than It French cafes and drummers would lose half their custom If they refused to an appetizer offered by a customer whom they must of course stand another in return The cane maket them temperate by drinking for them Here is the inventor’s description ol It: "The cane is hollow The handle ii pierced with several holes and a rub The her tube inside forms a syphon air being expelled the liquid is suck The cane 1b emptied slm ed up Wow’ab and a valve the by turning sorbed can be poured into tl street on leaving the saloon” hold from The cane is warranted six to ten aperitif according to size It Is simple' to'use as the top neec intervals the at into liquid only be put when the other man is not looking The hollow cane reminds one of tht medieval England ‘‘yards of The yard was a glass measure thre At one end was a bulk feet long holding about half a pint at the oth er was a mouthpiece and the two were connected by a thin tube The task no easy one was tc drink the vessel dry without spilling a drop and at a single draught Get Useful Information "There’s no place like a pawnshot for picking up useful hints” said th man “Every time I hap Improvident pen Into one I glean some item of gen eral Information that almost reconciles me to the necessity for being there On my last visit h saw another mac redeeming ostrich feathers Our uncle brought them out tightly sealed in i glass jar " ‘What did you can them for? the man asked ’So they wouldn't spoil’ said the 'A glass Jar is the safest pawnbroker thing on earth to keep feathers In Moths and dust cannot get at them besides you can keep an eye on them easily and any trouble that might have been breeding when the feathers were and In can be discovered brought nipped In the hud’ “That hint I consider worth going tc looi The for a pawnshop way things now nobody belonging to me will evei have any ostrich plumes to take care of but if we ever do have any I shall know what to do with them” TIME Jersey Banker Buys Big Farm 8o He May Cut Short Road to Railway Station Trenton N J — It takes James M Donald eight minutes to get from his home to the nearest suburban railway station with fair consideration for New Jersey’s speed law and with reof his high gard for the mechanism powered auto Eight minutes is more time than Donald feels he can spare at the start of hls'daily trip to New York where he Is chairman of the Hanover National bank So to cut down the running time he has bought a farm that lies between his home and the staHe will cut a road through the tion own his at expense farm dedicate It to the public and reduce his running time by five minutes Heavy Railroad Improvements Omaha Neb — figures show that the railroads spent for improvements in Omaha during 1910 It Is estimated that more than $20000000 was paid out as wages here “THIRSTY True Consistency A prominent Chicggo Sunday school worker and club woman went Into one of the Michigan avenue china studios to make some purchases After examining different pieces on one table the customer turned to the artist and said: “I think I will take everything that Is on the table But what is this I never saw anything JuBt Jar for? like it before” pointing to one done In pearl lusters about four Inches high and having a fluted cover “That Is a potpourri Jar” answered the artist "Oh is it?" she queried then she turned to the artist and said in a decided manner “I will take everything hut that and I have always made a point never to buy or have a thing to do with anything pertaining to poker” con Family Hama of a Daseandantaf Martha Washington d? I UDOR PLACE the old home of Mra Beverly Kennon and her grand an children occupies entire city block In five and Georgetown bounded one half acre street by street P street and Q street Old residents of sometimes say that the Washington entire neighborhood was once known aa Tudor place and named in honor of the royal house of England The Tudor place of today has on It the old house built a century ago by Thomas Peter Mrs Beverly Kennon was born at Tudor place In January 1815 and practically all her life has been passed there She Is In the line of direct descent from Martha Washingfirst huston Martha Washington's was It will be remembered band When she marJohn Parke Custls ried George Washington she had one son also a John Custls who Is mento Washington tioned as at one period during the revolution This young man married Eleanor Calvert a descendant of the Lords Balti- - x more From there this marriage were four children one of whom wan Martha Custls who married Thomaa Peter It was Thomas Peter who built Tudor place and who was Mra Kennon’s father Her maiden name She married was Britannia Peter Kennon of the Commodore Beverly navy Thomas Peter built Tudor place of brick and covered good it over with plaster He made the halls wide the ceilings high the windows large and placed great columns In a little cluster on the south side Folks nowadays would say the house is a “rambling” one at any rate it runs east and west and Is wider than three ordinary city The plaster that covers the houses brick walls on the outside has hardened so that It looks to be sandstone Tudor and has of a Place It was laid on so "stayed put” during century Well the that It storms of Memcrles A Monument It Is not surprising that the house Is well built and that It stands as a veritable monument of American for all the skill of Dr Wilmemories was employed in its liam Thornton Doctor Thorndesign and building ton was the architect of the old the one that was burned and he also designed the Octagon house In It seems fitting that the Washington work of a man whose hand is seen In these other buildings of such close American with association history should also be seen in Tudor place for not only is It quaint and beautiful but Is full of the memories and even the household gods and belongings of the great Washington There are candlesticks from Mount Vernon and cut glass varying only a trifle from the design of modern ornaments of the same kind Two great glass shades surround them not from but from the Mount Vernon however table of the last royal governor of There is an engraving of Virginia the family at Mount Vernon also a little mahogany desk There are two engravings of Trumbull’s paintings of the death of Montgomery at Quebec and of the battle of Bunker Hill Both are from Mount Vernon A camp stool used by Washington is there It Is a massive affair much heavier than the camp very stool of today and covered with leather Washington used It throughout the revolution In the Eighteenth century America did not have as many silver ornaments and playthings as a single store has today and when jewelry wanted to present little Washington Columbia Peter Mrs Kennon’s oldest sister with a silver rattle of exquisite design tipped with red coral he had to send across the Atlantic for it It was many weeka In getting to America but it was a good one and had four little silver bells that tinkled throughout Columbia’s baby days and then was put away for good It Is at Tudor place now Much of the Washington silver Is there too The “O W” china and some of the “M W" china is in a cabinet together with an egg cup and a coffee cup sent to Washington by Louis Philippe of France Probably School Teacher — After he Sunday heard the people shouting “Saul has thousands slain his but David has The Spud State slain his tens of thousands!” what did The premier spuds of Colorado long Saul do then? ago established their claim as the finWillie (whose father "also ran")— est flavored In the world — Denver Ret suppose he got right up an’ hollered publican for a recount — Puck |