The LeRoy Comment from LeRoy, Kansas • 2

Making a 8ure Thing It THE COMMENT. "the Published Somi-Monthly By J. 8. HARRV COVERT. I i KANS.

LE ROY, A Cleveland doctor fired upon and eeriously wounded a burglar, whom he was afterward called upon to treat professionally. He got him the second time. Wealthy New York Churches. A New York church that keeps silence respecting its wealth is the Dutch collegiate, which is reputed to have an income from investments of $400,000 a year. Trinity church has an income from its investments of over $1,000,000 per annum.

Rock Sand won the Kngllsh. Derby. His American jockey also had plenty of grit. With regard to great heat; the best authorities on tropical diseases speak strongly of the hurtfulness of alcohol, and it seems certain that not only is It is easier to get married than divorced. That is one reason why there are more marriages.

heat less well borne, but that heatstroke is predisposed to by the use ot alcohol. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is a constitutional cure. Price, 75c. Mr. Thompkins turned to the blackboard and worked five minutes, drawing with colored chalk while the class whistl ad and threw paper wads.

As to severe bodily work, we know The shipbuilding trust seems to have run on the rocks, although it drew a great deal of water. that athletes when underging traili "Dear me," said Mrs. Thompkins, "I know the poor children mean no harm and that they act the way they do because of their home training, but sometimes they are dreadfully trying." "Tut. tut." said Mr. Thompkins.

"A Grandfather's Telescope. "lie Is laying up for tho poorhouse now, I can see it plain as day, If the Jail don't catch him before he's old," My grandfather used to say, When he saw a boy with a short cigar And' an air like a circus clown, Stand oft before the swinging door Of the beat saloon In town. You're laying up for the poorhouse now If you never eare to try To do your work in a manly way; When you let your evenings fly In mischief mean, when you oft are seen With the roughest chaps there are, Who won't take proof that the poorhouse roof Grows out of the licensed bar. There's many a way to the poorhouse, boys, But the surest, straightest road Is the idler's path through the near sa- Innn ng give up the use of alcohol, which "Thsre." said Mr. Thompkins finally, is sufficient proof that according to as he waved his hand at the board, common experience men do better Mr.

Chamberlain seems to have come out of the mixup with his monocle on straight, at all events. "there is the way to make a Maltese cross. work and more easily without stimulants. Records of work done by armies on active service point to the fact "Naw it tain't," said the big boy "You null its tail; that's the way." Automobilists are protesting against critics running down sport. But the public also has that rundown that although exposed to cold and wet and making long and arduous "Such levity should have no place here," said Thompkins, turning marches, soldiers enjoy the best health when cut off from alcohol in any form.

It would be easy to multi ply instances proving this. To pay compliments is much easier than to pay debts. Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold Laxative Bronio Quinine Tablets. Price25o, An honest man would rather be underrated than overrated. No cbromos or cheap premiums, but a better quality and one-third more of Defiance Starch for the same price of other starches.

Love has made many a young man too near-sighted for military service. riTC prmnently cured. KofltiornerTOOinewaftW 1 1 Brut dM-'i use of Dr. Kltn' Great Nerr Helton r. Bend tor tfRRE SH.00 trial bottle.

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PhUadelphU, It seems easier to imitate a vice than a virtue. DO TOCB CLOTHES LOOK lEIAOWT If so, use Red Cross Boll Blue. It will maks them white as snow. 2 oz. package 6 cents.

Some wives are so jealous they won'l even allow their husbands to hug a One New York bank has paid a dividend of 125 per cent. This must make the average loan shark green with envy. I have so far only mentioned the Where the wild-oat fields are sowed. These grow, a harvest of pain and woe, Of poverty, sin and shame, In spite of the fun and free lunch bun And the spirit they sport as game. Have a clean design for your life-plan, boys; Live out in the light of day, And thank the Lord for the honest toil That is piled along your way.

It is grand to pledge yourself to Right, Go bind yourself to tread With the sturdy few who are always true, Who supply the poorhouse bread. selfish grounds that you are likely to enjoy better health and live longer if you are an abstainer from the use of woman makes a mountain out of every little molehill. It's the easiest thing in the world to handle children. All that is requisite is a little tact and patience. Look here.

You let me teach that mission class of yours. I'll have them so that by the time I get through with 'em they'll come up and eat out of your hand. You are an estimable woman, Mrs. Thompkins, but you lack the qualifications absolutely essential for a mission teacher. To-night at the school I wish you to sit in the background and observe how a mission class should be handled." Mr.

Thompkins put on his hat and walked with his wife over to the school, which was already in session. She pointed out her class to Mr. Thompkins, and then disappeared behind a convenient pillar in the room, while her liege advanced cautiously upon the class. As Mr. Thompkins greeted the class he was received with tumultuous shouts of "Hello, whiskers," "Wee-ee ee," "Gee, but I'll bet the wind likes A Richmond newspaper suggests that the name be changed to slaugh-tomobile.

What's the matter with autogoslower? pink. "Is there any other question, and this time I should like a sensible query." Mr. Thompkins paused while he dug a paper wad out of his ear. He endeavored to suppress his rising wrath, and when he was sure he was quite calm he said: "I will now tell you an interesting story. I know boys like stories, and I expect that you will pay careful attention." The class grew quiet, and Mr.

Thompkins, rejoicing at his little stroke of diplomacy, Degan his story: "You know, boys, that the highest position to which the American youth can aspire is that of President of the United States" "Ah I'd sooner be a alderman, said the big boy. "De alderman in ou. intoxicants; and now I can only mention the greatest and best of all reasons for being a total abstainer the great altruistic truth that "none of us liveth to himself." Are you laying up on the poorhouse plan, Til irn vol inf.ii-l (if p-nlil? Each oatli a wound in a conscience seared And paralvzed with Each drink a receipt for a pauper bed! Reading the news from Servia, the Sultan of Turkey is suddenly reminded of something he has for years been trying to forget. 4 For that reason let "no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way," and let him Each year a thousand miles fin a hurrvinfi' cav from the luring bar To the place where the poorhouse smiles? Youth's Temperance Banner. remember that "it is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any The Real Saloon Substitute Hetty Green has had her permit to carry a revolver renewed.

She is still as firmly determined as ever not to give up any of it. The Rev Charles Stelzele. who has ward's got a snap and he owns tree been commIssioned by the United to see you." thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak." "For' meat destroy not the work of God;" so, "if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." W. Grimshaw Bigger, M. R.

C. S. saloons." States Presbyterian board of home shall ask you to preserve quiet, to fintcr UDOn a campaign in Mr. Thompkins sat down in the teacher's chair and waved his hand in Speaking of Boston and Emerson, we never could understand how so heavy a diet as beans is conducive to transcendentalism. resumed Mr.

Thompkins. "There was home missjon churches of Western nnnfi a noor bov that lived on a farm lfiQC, ao nnrimsA nf arousing a an impressive manner. "Dear little children," he began. "Gee, I was on a larm oncet," said deepe'r interest in the problem of the the smallest Doy. uey nau workingman, pointing out the tempta tions of saloon life, declares; "In the good old summer time" drink Dr.

Pepper. It leaves a pleasant farewell and a gracious call-back. At All Soda Fountains 5c per glass. Short-sighted people seem to think athers should look through their glasses. Thirteen year ago 1 was afflicted with Sciatic" Rheumatism.

The physicians had given me up and could do nothing for me. I was confined to my bed suffering untold agonies. One of my neighbors recommended my trying Crippen's Compound for Rheumatism, which I did, and two bottles cured me and 1 have never had Rheumatism since. THOS. F.

PHILLIPS, P. 0. Box 102. Kingfisher, 0. T.

As your Druggist's or mailed on re eeipt, of One Dollar. THE CRIPPEN MEDICINE Wichita, Kaunas. Occasionally you know a man you can't help admiring, but who is such a fool that you want to beat him to death. Atchison Globe. "I believe the best substitute for the Alcohol and Cold.

Miss Bright, in explaining to hei boys and girls how it is that persons feel colder after taking alcoholic saloon is the home. That may sound commonplace, and seem like begging what giv DuttermnK. "This boy I am speaking of," resumed Mr. Thompkins, "was determined to become great, and he hewed rails and worked with his big, honest hands until he became the greatest man in the country. Do you know who he was?" the question.

But it is said with tne drinks, used a novel illustration. said: fullest sympathy with those who are trying through other substitutes to Suppose 1 take a dumpling out of "Ah, cut out de 'dear kid' bizness," put in one of the class. "W'ere's de nice loidy wot teaches ns. We don't want no members of the Gote club comin' round runnin' us." "I am to be your teacher to-night," said Mr. Thompkins.

"My wife wishes me to teach you this evening." "Not fer my money," said the biggest of the boys. "I'm going to strike. We're union in dis class an' we don't stand fer no scabs breakin' in." "But," expostulated Mr. Thompkins, "I am not going to take the class for all time. I am merely to teach you Max O'Rell's disinclination to exchange his hat for a halo is one that is shared by a grea.

many people much more religious, ostensibly, than he was. boiling hot water, and put it on a plate reach the workingmen. It may seem before me. After letting it stand a short time I find the outside is quite cool. I take a glass rod, and plunging once?" demanded Mr.

Tnompiuns. a "Chase yerself," replied the big boy, a longer time than to inaugurate a onase ye be, i scheme which seems to be-perfect, it through the middle of the dumpling, stir it up well inside; now the dump-line; feels warmer. Does that mean pUllLCiJ t- i cnn onir mortals on VOU. The botanist who has discovered a new kind of rubber makes his announcement in the nick of time. The old kind is about played out, even as a joke.

uuu i D-D Rnr that the glass rod has put any extra heat into the dumpling? By no means. What does it mean? Just this although the dumpling felt cool there That alliance of South American republics will do a grand work if it can evolve a "Monroe doctrine" that will keep out the South American Mr Thompkins jumped up ana i.u.. seized the big boy by the collar and til we can make the man really see started for the door. Immediately the and feel that his duty as well as h.s rat of the Smb landed on him. diversion is in the place which he There was a scuffle and a heavy fall, has provided for, and to which he has and the mission school was thrown in- invited the woman whom he promised to disorder by seeing the banner class to love and cherish, our hope tor the niling on top of a tall man with whls- solution of the question will be vain, kers who was on the floor, wildly But we should do what we can to help bawline- "Take 'em off; take 'em off.

him improve the conditions in that They'vf 'stabbed me." home, physical as well as spiritual. I a 0t mtAr the class had hur- his wife and daughters can be taught for to-night. I am not a regular teacher in mission schools." The big boy said something to the class and all the boys immediately began singing. "Tfe don't belong to th' regerlers, He's only a vollunteer." "That will do, young gentlemen," said Mr. Thompkins, with dignity, and at the same time glancing apprehensively at the pillar behind which his wife was seated.

"I wish to teach you this evening. I do not believe that you are being properly trained, and I was a good deal of heat shut up inside, and the glass rod distributed that heat and drove some of it through the skin of the dumpling, thus making it feel warmer on the outside for a few minutes. But in these circumstances warmer outside means colder inside, and taking the dumpling altogether, inside and outside, is it warmer or colder? Colder, of course, and the verv fact of the outside getting A newspaper epigrammatist says: "Every wife is the architect of her own husband." Then she shouldn't be too severe on the edifice when she botches the job. riedly jumped back to their seats. Mrs.

the values and properties of food and, Thompkins had appeared. more important still, how to cook it, hnv nnnlosetical- we shall have taKen a long step Giant Babe The Berlin newspapers tell of a wonderful baby giant which was recently brought by his parents before the medical faculty of that city for examination. He is the son of a baker at Drlevers, and, although only eighteen months old, stands three and a half feet high. He measures thirty-six inches round the chest Six Sturdy Brothers. -Six Shaffer brothers, sons of Jotaa Shaffer ot Highland county, Ohio, were photographed in a group at Hlll3borough, Ohio, a few days ago.

The oldest is eighty-six years of age and the youngest seventy-four. Their united ages amount to 480 years. Their father's children numbered thirteen and the children of these six borthers number, respectively, eleven, eight, nine, thirteen, twelve and five, giving the list in the order of the fathers' ages. Wanted Calumny Denied. A statement was printed in the Tc-peka Capital that William Allen White, editor of the Emporia Gazette and author of the celebrated "Boy- i winprl nff his face, "we're sor- toward success.

Ignorance as ry mum, that we got inter trouble and household economics has more to do diraeed the class, but we couldn't with the power of the saloon than is The six girls who rushed at Kocian, the violinist, just before his steamer sailed from New York, and lavished kisses on him, did not faze the violinist. He assisted. warmer is only a sign that heat is escaping. You see, then, a body may be made to feel warmer for a few minutes by the very thing that is mak-inK it colder. This explains the action stand fer that guy fer a minute.

He's generally supposed. The average sa loon is a very attractive place to the man whose occupation during the day has been monotonous and confining, of alcohol in the body of every living creature. It at once begins to drive will make your lesson this evening one of true value and one which you will long remember." "You'll have to show us," said the big boy, sitting down. "Git bissy." "Now, young gentlemen, before taking up the regular work of the evening let us have a little round table and discuss subjects of general interest. If any of you should like some subject explained you will please state it.

Think of something which you would like to have delineated." The big boy bobbed up. "How do you make a Maltese cross?" he asked. out the heat; hence the brightening a bum teacher, he is. You're all rite and de gang's wid you, but no geeser like dat can butt in on us." Mrs. Thompkins smiled grimly as she restored order, and Mr.

Thompkins stood out in the hall and pulled pins out of his legs and wondered if he and whose home has few conveniences an nn luxuries. Badly ventilated eve and flushed cheek of the drinker; Stojan Protics is Servia's new minister of" the interior. The supposition that he was a new kind of breakfast food appears, therefore, to have been entirely erroneous. half a and the shouting ot hence the deceitful glow all over the rooms dozen children are not conductive to body." ought to swear out warrants the relaxation, and it is an easy matter to The best way to warm "the house we live in our bodies is to eat good cot into the habit ot caning at young ruffians who had upset his theor saloon after supper, where the bar ies on how to teach a mission ciass. ville" stories, wore a plug hat at the It is estimated by experts that John W.

Gates is worth only $25,000,000. This will come as a complete surprise to the public. It was generally supposed that Gates was rich. foods. Those containing sugar ana mi are the best heat producers, and we must not put inside intoxicating drinks.

Youth's Temperance Banner. dinner given to President Roosevelt tender is dressed in a clean white pnit, the free lunch is daintily and temptingly arranged, and where he is cordially welcomed with a shout of good cheer." Montreal Herald. in Topeka. Soon after Mr. White returned to Emporia he sent this dis-natch to the Capital: "Deny story that Story I wore plug hat.

Mob forming around office. Sheriff refuses protection. Wife Of his own recent illness Mark Twain blithely says: "Oh, that was a nleasant adventure, a sort of vacation, consulting sn attorney, seeking divorce. Printers threatening strike." that gave me a legitimate excuse for spending five weeks in bed." One Drunkard Saved. One day when a rich and talented young lady of Richmond, was out driving, she came upon a young man who lay beside the road, drunk.

Moved by pity, she alighted from her carriage and placed her handkerchief over the young man's face, then continued her ride. BABY WEATHER. The Safest Course. Looking at the question in a thoroughly scientific spirit, there are many considerations which convince me that it is both a right and a wise thing to be a total abstainer. My first point is the extreme insid-iousness with which the fatal habit of intemperance steals upon one un The Los Angeles Times feels hurt because the navy department has giv Little Fellows Don't Like tne Mot at being caught in the trap.

Days. Mothers should know exactly what "The next fellow was alive, and en the name California "to a mere cruiser." And California has more than a thousand miles of coast line, too. food to give babies in hot weather. got up early, put the trap In my over With the broiling hot days in July coat nocket and sneaked down to Riv- awares. it Is so easy tor one wno is a i.rinkrr a- unconsciously in- and August the mother of a baby li oraiMo Park where I turned him loose, mouer.ur gome Jays later the young man called to see her and said: "I am ashamed to look you in the face.

I am the man you so kindly cared for the other day. I found your name on the handkerchief, and have come to thank you for your kindness. I have signed the pledge. With my hand on my mother's Bible, I have sworn, God rease the quantity he takes till the Then I went back, feeling distinctly of safety passed. boon a of safety passed.

limit hed when the foolish. delicate always anxious for the health ol ner little one and is then particularly careful in feeding. Milk sours quickly and other food is uncertain. Even in spite of caution, sickness sometimes creeps The trap is empty this morning, Andy Carnegie has denied that he is a member of the "smart set." Well, we don't know. Andy was smart enough to get $300,000,000 worth of gold-plated steel bonds.

That wasn't so slow. I explained to my wife, letting tne structures of the nervous system are damaged, and the highest faculties mf tional and intellectual present tense serve to preserve my hphipr. that I will never "Talk about the cruelty of a cat playing with a mouse!" exclaimed a householder when that familiar simile was mentioned in his hearing. "Everybody knows that a cat, especially a half-grown kitten, will occasionally sport with a captive, and show as much pleasure as does the human hunter who pursues the fox, but in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of a thousand there is a pounce, and the whole thing is over. If you want to know about cruelty, fiendish, unspeakable cruelty, I will commend the study of the mousetrap.

"When we moved into the apartment we now occupy we were hardly settled until we made the discovery that the place was swarming with in and then the right food is more nec truthfulness. another drop of Intoxicating essary than ever. I don't believe I would bother to liquor." set it again," she suggested a nine anxiously. He kept his pledge. His rescuer became his wife.

He was a young man of rare talents, and it. was not 'I don't believe I I responded heartily, and nothing further was said. lone betore ne oecame wiuij That day I confided the situation to a friend. as an orator and as a brilliant writer. His name was William Wirt.

He be-iame the attorney general of the According to Prof. Fitzsimmons, the accomplished connoisseur in slat-hitting, the greatest strike of the year will he that which will take place when Jeffries connects with Corbett in the near future. When Gov. Bailey Bays that he never read the 1.500 letters addressed to him by women all over the country, proposing marriage, he taxes the Credulity of inquisitive people away beyond the limit. 'Oh, you'll get used to it, he said; I was the same way once, but I went United States, and was once nominat un.urgo a stea 'y degradation, till the men or women who would have been most indignant had you suggested the possibi.ity ol such a fall in their case, nrc left j.ryplcal, moral and spiritual wrecks.

Owing 'o Us :ieger.erate a tion of all tissues, alcohol predisposes to disease, ard those nu.Iuted to drink bear operations and injuries very badly, and the power of resisting disease is much diminished. The inhibiting and narcotizing influence of alcohol on the highest functions of the brain appears in the loss of control, the blunting and effacement of all the higher affections and aspirations, and the deadening of all the ed for the presidency. ahead and killed them, and now i can kill chickens, drown puppies or do This little act gave to America one mice. My wife suggested that we get a cat, but I could not forget that cruelty which I firmly believed was part of a cat's nature. I bought a trap, baited it with clieese, and next morning I had a problem on my hands.

of her greatest lawyers. Christian Inquirer. Beainninq, and the End. Mousie cowered in the box, complete anything in that "That settled it. I had no desire to be a complacent killer.

When I went home I splintered the trap and wrote an order for a cat. She killed several mice the first week we had her, and then the mice learned that there was danger in our apartments, and trans- If vou drink five glasses of whisky ly at my mercy. I was master of his everv dav for a year, what do you life or death. The absolutely power "Our baby boy two years old began In August to have attacks of terrible stomach and bowel trouble. The physician said his digestion was very had and that if it had been earlier in the summer and hotter weather would surely have lost him.

"Finally we gave baby Grape-NuU food, feeding it several times the first day and the next morning he seemed better and brighter than he had been for many days. There waa a great change in the condition of oil bowels and In three days they were entirely normal. He Is now well and getting very strong and fleshy and we know that Grape-Nuts saved his life, for he was a very, very ill baby. Grape-Nuts food must have wonderful properties to effect such cures as this. grown-ups In our family all use Grape-N'uts and also Postum in place of coffee with the result that we never any of us have any coffee ills, but are well and strong." Name given by Postum Battle Creek, Mich.

The reason Grape-NuU food relieves bowel trouble in babies or adults to because the starch of tho giain is pre digested and does not tax the bowels, nor ferment like white bread, potatoes and other forms starchy food. Send for particulars by at extension of time oi the $7,500.00 cook gain? If vou are dishonest and take ad I had gained didn't make me feel very proud, or yet very comfortable. I kept moral sense, ol wnicn tne uumam 'oat do ferred their attentions to our neigh- visib)e sjgns are the squalid homes, vantage of your employer, vmi pain? bors who had traps. In the four years the crowded workhouses, prisons, etc A Utica, N. man has gone crazy because a report that he was heir to a fortune proves to have been false.

It is always well to refrain from getting worked up over such stories until one can put his hands on the money. The scientists are right. This is the time of year to be specially careful what the children have to eat and drink. Their elders, of course, will continue the customary diet of beei and frankfurters Philadelphia remembering certain lines of Robert Burns, and a kind of lump came into my throat as I made ready for the execution. At the last moment a hap- If you return home at 2 o'clock in the morninc.

how do you ieei If your friends do not recognize nv thoueht occurred to me. I called and the poverty and degradation see around ns, and which are all too familiar. It is quite an exploded idea that alcohol is of any assistance in difficult n.nrv nr nr.rier snecial strain; in fact, what rlo vou do to my wife. is the anniversary, of our If you feel all broken up, look care worn and seedy, whose fault is it? I said, 'and in honor of the occasion I am going to set this little If you have spent all your money and see the torments of bell before it is proved by experience that better n.r-i.-' done when alcoh61 is not that followed there have not been half a dozen mice in our apartments, while our neighbors drown one of the little creatures every morning and still suffer continual annoyance from them. "The mouse trap not only inflicts terrible and unnecessary cruelty upon the little animals, but It teaches children to harden their hearts and kllL Take away the barbarous trap and install the harmless, necessary cat, whose very presence will in most cases prevent the disease for which the trap la an attempted and 1365606-ive cure.

beggar vmi what do vou think "'That will be said, clapping her hands; 'now I shall be If you die surrounded by heart-hrok-nn family, it is the end of an nn- used. This is the unanimous opinion of observers with regard to exposure to great cold, as evidecctd by the tes- a mimonmii; eiTllofers in able to eat breakfast. Announcement is made that Olga i'ethersole will star as an "independent" actress nxt season, which will cause some to wonder wtat new i. conventionality or whatever it fftrtunata father, a heartbroken wife "The next morning I found the trap sprung, but th.e mouse was dead. He Arctic and Antarctic region; but I and unhappy little children must not specify more ia detail no-v.

Wfcy ie It? He had died in tne I contest for TH Bjocey prate may be he tae now discovered thS was r-ot hart fceer agony of Irisht acd dee Deration she may Uraore it.