ONE THING AT A TIME.
Z'-IT
"Have you noticed that the baroness
never talks about, other women?"
“How could she? She is all the
time talking about herself.”
SKIN ERUPTION CURED.
Was So Sore, Irritating and Painful
That Little Sufferer Could Not Sleep
—Scratched Constantly.
Cuticura’s Efficacy Clearly Proven.
“When about two and a half years
old my daughter broke out on her hips
and the upper parts of her legs with a
very irritating and painful eruption. It
began in October; the first I noticed
was a little red surface and a constant
desire on her part to scratch her limbs.
She could not sleep and the eruptions
got sore, and yellow water came out
of them. I had two doctors treat her,
but she grew worse under their treat
ment. Then I bought the Cuticura
Remedies and only used them two
weeks when she was entirely well.
This was in February. She has never
had another rough place on her skin,
and she is now fourteen years old.
Mrs. R. R. Whitaker, Winchester,
Tenn., Sept. 22, 1908.”
Potter Drug & Chern. Corp., Sole Props., Boston.
Too Much for His Mind.
"My first impulses,” wailed the Sad
Eyed Individual, "are invariably good.
In fact, 1 think that I may venture,
without fear of undue exaggeration, to
say that they are very good. But I
never act on them! I always act on
second thoughts. This trait in my char
acter has ruined my career, because
my second thoughts are always bad!
In fact, I think I may say, without fear
of misrepresentation, that they’re
punk.”
“Well,” suggested he who was lis
tening, “why don't you wait until
third thoughts, an;’ act on them?”
Mournfully, despondently, the Sad
Eved Individual shook his head.
“My dear sir,” he groaned, “I never
had three successive thoughts about
anything in my life!”
At His Own Risk.
Caller (on crutches and with a band
age over one eye)—I have come, sir,
to make application for the amount
due on my accident insurance policy.
I fell down a long flight of stairs the
other evening and sustained damages
that will disable me for a month to
come.
Manager of Company—Young man,
I have taken the trouble to investigate
your case, and I find you are not en
titled to anything. It could not be
called an accident. You certainly
knew the young lady’s father was at
home.—Stray Stories.
For the Public Taste.
The following makes a very popular
dish, the usual name given it being
"funny paper.” Take three mothers
ln-law, two Irishmen, one German
one or two tough kids and a coon;
mix and stir well. A jag is considered
to add flavor. Sprinkle in a little
spice and ginger, and garnish with
drawings. The addition of a pinch of
hardsense is advisable, though not es
sential. Chestnuts are used for stuff
ing. The dish is usually roasted,
though poaching is not uncommon.—
The Bellman.
Oldest Iron Ship.
In a paper read before the Society
of Naval Architects and Marine en
gineers Henry Penton states that the
oldest iron ship in the world is the
United States warship Michigan, the
material for whose construction was
"dragged across the mountains from
Pittsburg to Bake Erie," where the
ship was built, as long as 66 years
ago.
Jack's Faux Pas.
Maud—I noticed that you had Jack
Clubberly to church with you Sun
day.
Bell—Yes. and the poor heathen is
so unused to going that he wanted the
usher to check his hat and coat.
JOY WORK
And the Other Kind.
Did you ever stand on a prominent
corner at an early morning hour and
■watch the throngs of people on their
way to work? Noting the number who
were forcing themselves along be
cause it meant their daily bread, and
the others cheerfully and eagerly pur
suing their way because of love of
their work.
It is a fact that one's food has much
to do with it. As an example:
If an engine has poor oil, or a boiler
is fired with poor coal, a bad result is
certain, isn't it?
Treating your stomach right is the
keystone that sustains the arch of
health’s temple and you will find
"Grape-Nuts” as a daily food is the
most nourishing and beneficial you can
use.
We have thousands of testimonials,
real genuine little heart throbs, from
people who simply tried Grape-Nuts
out of curiosity—as a last resort—with
the result that prompted the testimo
nial.
If you have never tried Grape-Nuts
it’s worth while to give it a fair impar
tial trial. Remember there are mil
lions eating Grape-Nuts every day—
they know, and we know if you will
use Grape-Nuts every morning your
work is more likely to be joy-w-ork, be
cause you can keep well, and with the
brain well nourished work is a joy.
Read the "Road to Wellville” in every
<**-ckatre—"There’s a Reason.”
I
OME, ITALY. — For 20
R| years 1 have been an
I American correspondent
* in this city, but until the
disaster which befell Cala
bria and Sicily, when, on
the morning of December
1908, the worst earthquake or other
which the world has ever
scores of thousands, it
lot to even shudder
28
disaster
known killed
had never been my
THERE WERE SCENES OF INDESCRIBABLE HORROR
over a calamity. Hardened as 1 was to catastro
phes, the piteous sights which met my gaze at
Messina. Reggio and other cities more than once
drew tears to my eyes.
It was my good fortune to be one of the mem
bers of the party of King Victor Emmanuel and
Queen Helena, when the ruler visited the stricken
district, and many times both the monarch and
his consort broke down completely upon viewing
the awful sights which followed the earthquakes,
fires and tidal wave.
Survivors were raving maniacs and they roved
the brick-strewn streets, in many instances nude.
The stories told by unfortunate refugees who
retained their senses were almost unbelievable.
A soldier named Emilio de Castro was in the ”
military hospital. He was awakened by a tre
mendous roaring sound. He felt himself falling
and thought he was in the grip of a nightmare.
It seemed to him that he had awakened in hell,
for the air was filled with terrifying shrieks. He
soon realized, however, what was happening. His
bed struck the floor below, and he was still on it.
It paused a moment ai^d was again precipitated.
He struck the next flftor but this gave way at
once, and thus the nittn and bed came down from
the fifth floor of the hospital to the ground. The
soldier was not injured.
A druggist named Pulco relates that at 25
minutes past five Monday morning he was on a
ferryboat in the port of Messina going to Reggio.
Suddenly a gale of wind arose, bringing a heavy
sea with it. Then a great chasm seemed to open
in the water and the boat went down and struck
the bottom. But the waters closed in again and
the ferryboat floated safely on top of the suc
ceeding wave. Most of the people on board,
however, were swept off and drowned. The boat
was badly wrecked but it floated ashore. Pulco
was still on board. After the first panic he landed
and found Reggio like a city of the dead. No
body was moving in tlie streets, and the silence
was broken only by the moans and groans and
shrieks of the wounded. Pulco and several com
panions tried to extricate some wounded from the
wreckage, but this was almost impossible be
cause of the crumbling ruins. In one of the
squares Pulco found a group of people all com
pletely naked. One old man was carrying a little
girl in his arms. The child was covered with
biood. "Is that your child?" he was asked. "No,"
he replied. “Yesterday I found her on the pave
ment in Messina. I picked her up and cared for
her. No one claimed her and I could not abandon
her. I have had her in my arms ever since."
With this touching explanation'the old man be
came oblivious to his questioner and everything
around him.
The Serapin brought into the port of Naples rec
ords of numberless tragedies. Families separated;
mothers moaning and crying for their dead chil
dren; husbands and wives lost to cacti other, or
a sole survivor wishing that he had not been
spared. There was one girl on board the steamer,
her. clothing tattered and torn, who had saved a
canary bird. She was a music hall singer, and
had clung to her pet throughout the terrible
scenes of devastation. The bird was the only
happy thing on board the vessel.
One of the Messina doctors was sleeping in a
room on the third floor when the first shock came,
and saved himself by gripping the roof of a
neighboring house.
A ferryboat moored at one of the docks seemed
suddenly to be thrown high into the air. it landed
on top of the dock safely.
The nerves of the unfortunates were in such a
condition that at fhe least noise they were prone
to rush screaming from their rooms, seeking the
open straits. Signor Birot, the mayor of Brescia,
iii Lombardy, was stop
ping at the Hotel Trina
cria. in Messina, and
was buried under the
ruins of the building for
five hours. Finally sev
eral persons approached
the place where he lay,
but at that moment a
fresh shock put them to
flight. Eventually a body
of sailors extricated him
unconscious and took
him aboard a ship.
A young doctor named
Rossa at Messina, gives
a vivid account of his
experiences. "Suddenly
the profound silence was
broken by an extraordi
nary noise like the burst
ing of a thousand
bombs," he says. “This
was followed by a rush
ing and torrential rain.
Then I heard a sinister
whistling sound that I
can liken to a thousand
red hot iron rods hiss
ing in water. Suddenly
there cante violent rhyth
mic movements of the
earth and the crashing
down of nearby walls
made me realize the aw
ful fact of the earth
quake. Falling ..glass,
bursting roofs and a
thick cloud of dust add
ed to the horror of the
situation, while the ex
traordinary double move
ment, rising and falling
at the same time, crumb
my life. I rushed into th
er and sister were and
tunately 1 had with me,
them. 1 was also success
house a number of other
themselves up for lost. '
and helped me, and tog
several women and chib
walls of a half destroyed
seconds later this buildin;
There were scenes of
the streets and squares
made its way. We
country.”
Another survivor of M
"The first thing 1 kne
bed. Then the floor of
I fell into the apartim
found a distracted wonts
ter and son. whom she fo
in the ruins for 24 hours
foot! or diink. We made ;
to keep the rain off. Out
the cries and moans o
sounds abated sontewha
Still no one came to ot
as in a tomb, with the
dren beside us. We cou
time sounds were heart
would come an outburst i
from the injured hidden
wreckage."
This refugee lost his t
in Rome half clad and
burns. His wife was cl
an old counterpane.
\
f7 FELL INTO THE APARTMENT UNDER HE.
7>
led walls and imperiled
e room where my moth
with a rope, which for
1 succeeded in rescuing
ful in getting out of the
persons who had given
'hen some soldiers came
ether we dragged forth
Iren from the tottering
palace near by. A few
; was entirely destroyed,
indescribable horror in
hrough which my party
finally gained the open
essina said:
v 1 was thrown out of
my room collapsed and
lit under me. Here I
n searching for her sis
und dead. We remained
, entirely alone, without
. rough shelter of boards
■ ears were assailed with
f the wounded. These
during Monday night,
r assistance. We were
dead bodies of our chil
d see no one, but every
from the street there
)f piercing cries for help
and pinned down in the
vo children. He arrived
covered with dust and
jthed in little else than
The station master at Reggio sa»ys that imme>
tliately after the first shock a chasm SO feet wido
was opened in the earth. From this there gushed
forth a flood of boiling water, some jets rising
to the height of an ordinary house. Many injured
persons who were in this vicinity were horribly
scalded by the flowing stream.
Paolo Rizo, the mayor of Capriolo, was in Messi
na on a pleasure trip that fateful Monday morn
ing. He was awakened by the fearful roar of the
first shock. The floor of his room fell, an.f, half
unconscious, he was precipitated into a mass of
rubbish. His body lodged in a niche in a wall,
and he was pinned down"’by a heavy beam, his
face being covered by a carpet that threatened to
suffocate him. He managed to move the carpet
with his teeth until he made an opening in the
folds through which he could breathe. The man
lay in this position for five hours, expecting death,
at any moment. Had it been possible, lie says, he
would have committed suicide.
The Marquis Vincenzo Genoese of Palmi was
awakened by a tremendous roar and a se>er<
shock. It seemed as though the house was whirling
round, like the wings of a windmill.
At Messina a frightful scene occurred amid the
ruins of the customs house. The first 'of the search
ers who were successful were attacked by others
with revolvers and knives, and were obliged tc
defend their finds liteTally with their lives. The
struggle was fierce. The famished men threw
themselves upon each other like wolves and several
fell disemboweled in defending a handful of dry
beans or a few ounces of flour. One of the uufor
tunates was pinned to a plank l># a knife, whilt
clinging to his hand was his little child, for whom
*’* l— •* 'ought food.
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BRIGHT SIDE TO BUSINESS
Occasional Flash of Humor Emn
Chase After Dollar.
It is supposed that, business I®,
are deficient in humor. Still >
have been exceptions, and the i,
sent by a member of the well-bj
wholesale soap-making firm of (;=,
say) Cake <fc Son, is one of flie5
brilliant. A retail dealer in a ;5
way had sent for a consignmes
their goodsf “Gentlemen (he v-.j
“wherefor you have not sent ntd
sope? Is it bekawse you thie.;
money is not so good os nobody ei
Dam you. Cake <fe Soul w her for i
you not sent the sope? Pleases
sope at once, and oblige yours resp
fully, Richard Jones. P. S.—i
writing the above my wife has
the sope under the counter."
RHEUMATISM PRESCRiPTIOH
The increased use of “Tort's'
rheumatism is causing consider
discussion among the medical tras
nity. It is an almost infallible e
when mixed with certain other it®
dients and takeii properly. The I
lowing formula is effective: “Ton
half pint of good whiskey adds
ounce of Toris Compound and a
ounce of Syrup Sarsaparilla Compm
Take in tablespoonful doses M
each meal and before retiring.”
Toris compound is a product ol
laboratories of the Globe Phan
ceutical Co., Chicago, but it as wel
the other ingredients can be had!
any good druggist.
HIS FATE.
Mr. Dude—I was thinking how a
I resemble your carpet—always
your feet, you know.
Miss Sly—Yes, very much like
carpet. I’m going to shake it s
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PINK EY K. anu the like .1 l»
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Any good druggist can supply you, or
to infrs. 50 cents and $1.00 a bottle. -M
wanted. Free book. Spohn Medical
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Where There's a Will—
Helen's mother passed her tlie <
and when the little one went to 1
across the plate for the largest [
her mother said: "Always take
piece nearest to you, dear.
"Well, then, turn the plate arcs
■was the answer.—Delineator.
Strong drug cathartics simply agyiri
the condition—the true remedy for co
nation and liver trouble is found 111
field Tea, tlie mild Herb laxative.
Many a man lives a regular cab
dog life, lie purrs in the parlor
harks in the kitchen.
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