Du Pont Ind. /# J1

RUIN SPREAD FUR ANDWIDE By EXPLOSION

Plant of Du Pont Powder CompanyBlows Up at Fontanet, Ind.

SHOCK WAS FELT 200 MILES

Throe States Tremble to the Detonationof a Giant Magazine's Crash.Victims limned to Crisp.Over (>00 Injured.

Fontanel, Ind..Upward of fiftypersons were killed, the majority beingblown to pieces: 600 persons outof a total population of 1000 were injured,and every building in thistown was razed in a series of explosionsin the Du Pont Powder Plant,which culminated in the biowiug upof the magazine, containing 40,000barrels of blasting powder. Theforce of this crowning blast was sc

terrific that the earth trembled andbuildings were blown down four milesdistant. A school house in Coal Bluff,two miles away, was thrown over

and smashed. The teacher and fortypupils were buried in the wreck. Apassenger train, traveling forty milesan hour on the line of the Big FourRailroad, four miles distant, was al-most thrown from the tracks. Everywindow in the train was shattered.

Reports from other points showthat there was widespread terror ofan earthquake. The last and greatestexplosion was heard at points fiftymiles from here, and it appears thatthe greater part of the State andlarge sections of Ohio and Illinoiswere shaken. In Terre Haute, twentymiles as the crow flies, windowswere shattered and ceilings wereshaken down. In Crawfordsville,thirty-five miles away, walls werecracked and in one large building ofrecent construction the tiled floorsank more than an inch. Great damagewas done fifteen miles distant inBrazil. There was a general flightfrom the houses, in the belief of an

earthquake, until at the end of a minutethere came the distinct roar of theexplosion. In many places the explosionwas taken as- thunder.

Nothing remains of thi3 town tomark it for what it was. Even thesidewalks have been obliterated. Noth tree stands for two miles around.Hedges, stone aitcnes, wire iences,all have gone. There are greatfissures In the earth, as if one of thegiants of the ancients had turned atremendous furrow. Here and thereare great holes like dents in theground, and over all the field of desolationIs strewn the wreckage ofhomes. Doors, rafters, windowframes, bricks, mortar, all are scatteredflat, with not a foot of wall'protruding anywhere. And with thiswreckage of bare wails and floors arestrewn the furnishings of 400 families.Pianos, beds, tables, chairs,pictures, clocks, are scattered on allsides, not an article intact, all brokenand cast with a direction as if amysterious hand had brushed overthe town and blotted it out.

There were four explosions. Tothe devotion of the townsfolk to themen caught in the mills was due theheavy loss of life and the appallinglist of injured. With fire spreadingrapidly and threatening the magazine,not a man, woman or child desertedthe town. Instead, all gatheredaround the plant ready to sacrificetheir lives to rescue those dead anddying in the wreck of the mills, andthe work was in progress, injuredmen being carried out by the score,wnen me magazine uiew up. ,

It was said by survivors that therewas a flash, and then it seemed therewas a moment's suspense, followedby a crash that struck every personwithin a radius of a mile eitherdying or senseless. Those who escapeddeath bled from ears, nosesand mouths, and the ear drums ofscores were shattered. Farmers werethe first to invade the stricken area.They found the surviving hundredsbeginning to regain their :enses. Allcommunication by telegraph and telephonewas cut off, but fortunately thetrain which so narrowly escaped disastercarried the news to the station,from which it was telephoned toTerre Haute and Brazil. Relieftrains were dispatched within an hour,from those cities, and as quickly asjthe injured were picked up they werecarried on stretchers to the trains.Four specials bore them to TerreHaute. The hospitals there were un«at!e to accommodate all, and twoschools were impressed as temporaryhospitals.

WALKER'S STEALINGS REPAID.

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Prays For the Absconder.Putnam, Conn..At the ConnecticutBaptist convention the stealings

:>f William F. Walker, of N'ew Britain,the former treasurer cf the convention,who disappeared early lastwinter, with more than $55,000 ofthe convention's funds and also with$665,000 belonging to the SavingsBank of New Britain, were discussed.Walker has never been found.' It was reported that the entire loss

of the convention has been madegood.A prayer was offered for Walker,

who was one of the most prominentBaptists in the State. \

Maine Sardines Scarce.Among the features in canned

goods was a scarcity of sardine fishat Maine packing points.

Beet Sugar Crop.The Sugar Trade Journal estimates

the American crop of sugar beets thisseason as likely to yield 4 00,000 to425,000 tons of sugar, against 433,010tons last season. vk

Copper Price Declined.Copper went down to fourteen and

one-half cents.

Crisis in Auto Industry.The automobile industry abroad is

believed to be facing a crisis.

About Noted People.Hon. Austin L. Crothtrs. or Maryland,was a farm boy in his youth,

and later taught school.Ferdinand P. Earle, the artist who

left his wife for his "affinity," will goto Europe to see his little son.

Professor A. L. Kroeber, of the'University of California, is the leadingexpert in this country on Indianlanguages.A Mexican newspaper gave SecretaryRoot credit for wresting the

"big stick" from President Roosevelt'shand and substituting for it theflag of neace.

EXPRESS KILLS HO PART*Reading Train Smashes Machine

tc Pieces in Pottstown.

Five Occupants Tossed Iligh in tlieAir and Hurled Fifty Feet

From Track?.

Poltstowu, Fa..Four persons fromKimberton, a village near Phoenixville,were killed and another was

fatally hurt when the Reading expressfro.m Philadelphia to Pottsville,passing through this city at greatspeed, ground an automobile to splintersat the Keim street crossing, notfar from the Pottstown station.The dead are: Mrs. A. Wayne

Emery and her baby girl. Velva;Jacob Reese, her brother, and Mrs.Reese. A. Wayne Emery, owner ofthe machine, forty-five, has a brokenthigh and fatal internal injuries.The party visited Mr. Emery's sister,Mrs. Joseph March, of this place.

They left for Kimberton shortly before5 o'clock p. m. and were speedingat a lively rate down Keim street tocross the Reading tracks when theaccident occurred.

Train No. 7 reached the crossingsimultaneously with the party andstruck the machine fairly rn the side.The two men were hurled high intothe air and dropped at the bottom ofone embankment along the tracks atthe place, fifty feet away. The littlegirl, torn from her mother's arms,landed near them. The women werecarried on the cowcatcher until thetrain was stopped, three or fourblocks away.Workmen from adjoining plants,

many of whom had seen the collision,hurried out, but all the victims werepast aid except Mr. Emery and thelittle girl. They were taken to theruiiQiutvu nuspnai. ivn juiuci j icmainedconscious most of the time,but could not talk coherently. Thebodies were placed on the train andbrought into town. The automobilewas destroyed.

The Keim street crossing, a gradeaffair, has proved a deathtrap manytimes. It is approached by a slightrise, preceded by a long, heavy downgrade, and the only protection is a

gong rung mechanically by a passingtrain. The supposition is that Mr.Emery had been running too fast, thecrossing being a constant temptationto autoists to speed down grade.

IMPROVEMENTS HALTED.

Pennsylvania Railroad Acts Becauseof Stringency in Money Market.

Pittsburg. . President James McCrea,of the Pennsylvania Railroad,accompanied by a number of themembers of the Board of Directors,left Pittsburg for an extended trip ofinspection over the western part ofthe road. According to PresidentMcCrea, the Pennsylvania will not goahead with the extensive improvementsplanned some time ago for thelines west, on account of the presentmoney stringency. Asked about trieIntended improvements, which wereto cost over $3,000,000, he said:

"There is 110 program for that. Forsome reason investors feel such alack of confidence in the situationthat they appear unwilling to supplycapital for developing railroads orOther industries."

CRUSHED BY NEW AUTO.

Ohio Merchant Killed and Wife andSon Seriously Injured.

Morenci, Mich..Arthur Onweller,a merchant of Lyons, Ohio, was killedIn an automobile accident five mileseast of this city. He had bought anew automobile and was taking hisfirst ride 111 it. Eis wife and twochildren were with him.- While driving at fair speed he lostcontrol of the machine in some way.and it ran into a deep ditch, turningturtle and crushing him to death beneathit. Mrs. Onweller and one ofthe children, a boy, were seriously injured.The boy was internally injuredand his arm was broken.

AIRSHIP TEST A SUCCESS.

Charles Oscar Jones Gives Demon ;ir:stionin Presence of Scientists.

Bath, N. Y..Charles Oscar .Tones,an exponent of the heavier-than-airtheory type of flying machines, madefour successful demonstrations of histheory at Hammondsport.

.Tones' machine depends upon faushapedsails or wings for stability. Itis propelled by a gasoline motor, andIs said to have attained a speed offifty miles an hour. The demonstrationwas witnessed by twenty scientificmen, including members of chaNew York Aero Club.

Liquidation Was a Sham.An examination by the Government'scounsel of books furnished by

the Standard Oil Company provedthat the pretended liquidation m

tS92-9 was a sham.

Remarriages Forbidden.The House of Bishops of il.e EpiscopalGeneral Convention, at Richmond,Ya., voted against making a

stringent provision against officiatingat the remarriage of divorced persons*.

He Padded Payrolls.At Springfield, Ohio. George I71.

N'iuffer, former member of the Boardof Public Service, was sentenced 1oone year in the penitentiary for jia;'.dingpayrolls.

J. H. Oliphant & Co. Robbed.George H. Brouwer, confidential

manager of the New York Stock Exchangefirm of James H. Oliphant &Co., was charged with grand larcenyand held in $30,000 bail. It is allegedhe took $100,000 and los". u inWall Street speculation.

Railway Stops Work.President Ripley, of the Alc'.ii.nn

roaa, 111 HIS auuuai icpui i vi».v it b<i

all improvements have been : :!idonerluntil the unfriendly alii- .1 dotjf ('.! d public changes.

With the Workers.The union men of every city in

Canada are forming Asiatic exclusionleagues.

About 500 'longshoremen andteamsters have gone on a strike atNew Orleans.A new district council of cabinet

makers has been formed, embracingthe Minneapolis and St. Paullocals.

The American Federation of Laboris taking an active interest in the organizationof the carriage and wagonmakersthroughout the United States.

FOOTBALL NO

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.Week's Cleveres

NLW WRINKLIPostmaster-General Meyer

cause It Will Help the CoiSimple Postal Note

Machines

Boston..If the recommeiter-General Meyer are adoptedsome remarkable changes Inoutline of some of the most inthe next session of Congress vi

Postmasters' Convention here.These include the further

an extent far beyond its pressavings banks, the issuance ofone cent to $2.50, and the inst;stamp vending machines. Th'machines, however, will depencmade with a device of this kini

Probably the most importtions which the Postmaster-Geing the extension of the parcethe system as at present estabthat the maximum rate for alcents per pound, that the limittour to eleven pounds; that 1(automobiles be established invails, and that a special parcelfor service be established in cc

ANSWERS TH"Two interests are oppoi

country.the express companiiMr. Meyer. "The latter fear tefit to their own disadvantage,merchants that I desire to speestablishment of a parcels pos1tions of the small storekeepers

"This will be a boon to oso the latter can receive his odesired merchandise by the ru

hitching up his horse and losining his crops, and it will enabmeet the requirements of mode

"If my recommendations zf«r the mail-order house to sei

any city postoffice, while forrural route, or if mailed by a

patron on the same route, orcharge will be but five cents foditional pound up to eleven ]weighing eleven pounds.

"I am also considering theels post delivery at city freesuch a system it will be necessj|;i laiiuu uu av-4uu gau

The object of my recommend!ment of rates and weights thatparcels sent by post to other c<rate from skteen to twelve cerUmit from four to eleven poun

POSTA]"Another matter of great

the consideration of Congressto encourage among our peoplesavings banks to give them evThe policy will not be to comjlather to encourage the habit chidden money to light, to inst::hannels of trade, for the mutu\o the prosperity throughout tt

"I find that there is a grefcnd it is the purpose of the dnominations of ten, twenty, tv?ightyt ninety cents. $1, and ujnotes payable to the party desiime will be saved, as no advi<*ents, the notes will be made p

"Tests of stamp-vendingIhe machines are satisfactorylonvenient to the public in faci

Of rural delivery Mr. Meylent in many parts of the couian unnecessary arain upou me

plished in the last ten years piDut that where the first rural*nd $15,000 was expended du$11,500,000, while for the fisilures for rural delivery were !showed a decrease as compared

"The expense is enormousand the benefits to our people cIsolation which existed in man

Medical men have said that allIs having its effect upon thebecause of it insanity is on the

"GRAVEN FARM" REC!Eccentric Genius Sper

in His

Rome, N. Y..After havingrarving tne races 01 tne wormboulders on his farm, Jacob W.'uiles from this city. Since helife to transforming large stonlandiwork has been viewed b;ais fifty-seven-acre farm and ifamiliar faces in stone which cwere impressed by the allegori;he solid rock by the eccentric <

The Boody farm is in Oneley, and from it glimpses ma

climbing is the curious touristBoody worked year in and ye£stone. There is scarcely a roc]of his handiwork with hammer

Even the border of his p£sach of which the face of a dlawn is studded with immenseold man. Among those who 1Ington, Franklin, Lincoln, GrRoosevelt, Garfield, Susan B. Jaontas. Even Carrie Nation haleft rocks bearing the likeness*slain in the Deerfield massacrecontains the faces of BenjaminCooper and George Washingtonural rocky couch on which isfive tons, and ten horses werewanted it placed. Another, "Tare traced, weighs ten tons. Elawn.

Boody was a Bible studentfor making melody were stonwheel he succeeded in playingmany curiosities.

In early life Boody was anatural history, taxidermy andfarm he spent almost all his tinof health. Once, when ho wasscesa developed. It was both 1surgeon he locked himself inhimself. The operation was a

Filipinos Greet Taft.Secretary William H. Taft ws

»n a great demonstration of we

;o the old capital of Manila,where he long ruled as Governinormous crowds.

W IN THE SPOT-LIGHT.

!KE THCY CpMCP1t Carlo an, by Triggs. in the New York Press.

L5 IN POSTOFFICLSFavors Parcels Post on Rural Routes Be<

intry Merchant--Postal Savings Banks,ts and Automatic Stamp Vendingon His Programme.

idations which are to be made by PostmasbyCongress the immediate future will bringpostal facilities in the United States. Aeiportant recommendations to be made beforeas given by Mr. Meyer in his address at the

development of the parcels post system tcent limitations, the establishment of postalpostal notes in denominations ranging fromillation throughout the country of automatice recommendation as to the stamp vending1 upon the success of experiments now beingi.;ant and drastic of any of the recommendaneralproposes to make will be that regard:1spost. Not only will he recommend thatlished be greatly increased in efficiency, but1 parcels be reduced from sixteen to twelveof weight for such parcels be increased fromDeal parcels posts equipped with wagons oi

cities where the free delivery system prespost system with an extremely low chargen»nection with the rural free delivery,E COUNTRY MERCHANT.sing the extension of parcels post in this3S and the country retail merchants," saidhat the mail-order houses will derive a benItis in connection with the country retailak especially. I propose to recommend thet in rural routes which will meet the objecandretailers.>ur rural population and to the storekeeper,rders by mail or telephone and dispatch theral carrier. The farmer will be saved fromig the time he needs for planting or harvestlethe storekeeper to increase his sales and;rn trade.ire adopted it will cost twelve cents a poundid parcels to the rural delivery patron fromdelivery from the distributing office of thepatron of any rural route for delivery to aat the distributing office of said route, the

>r the first pound and two cents for each ad<pounds, or twenty-five cents for a package

e advisability of recommendiug a local pardeliverypostoffices, but in order to installary to obtain from Congress a special approidautomobiles to do the required hauling,ition to Congress will be to get an adjustwillmeet the rates and weights charged forauntries. This will mean a reduction in theits per pound, and an increase in the weightds.L SAVINGS BANK.public interest which I shall recommend foris a postal savings bank system. We desireeconomy and thrift and by the use of postalery opportunity to husband theiv resources.>ete in any way with the savings banks, but>f depositing savings. Our object is to bringill life into it, and to lead it again into thelal benefit of labor and capital, and thus addle land.at demand from the public for postal notes,epartment to recommend such paper in defenty-five,thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy,3 to $2.50. It is the intention to have theselignated. A small fee will be charged, butces are to be sent. From one cent to nineayable to bearer, and no fee will be charged.machines will be begun this month, and IIthey will be adopted, as they should provelitating the sale of stamps."er said that, while there is a feeling prevaatrythat this service is an extravagant anddepartment, he believes the results accom

ovethis feeling to be baseless. He pointedroute was established in the fall of 1896,

ring that fiscal year, the postal deficit was

:al year ended June 30, 1907. the expendif27,000,000and the estimated postal deficitwith 1897 of about $4,500,000.

," he said, "yet it has increased the receipts,:annot be measured in dollars and cents. Thety parts of'the country has been overcome,ready the establishment of the rural servicementality of our country patrons, and thatdecrease."

LUSE DEAD,.'MIDST MONUMENTSit Years Carving Huge BouldersRemote Retreat.

lived as a recluse and spent, many years in's prominent men and women on the manyBoody is dead in his mountain home, fifteenretired to his farm and began devoting hises into likenesses of great persons Boody'sy thousands. Tourists have climbed up towandered about it, wondering at the manyonfronted them in all directions. They alsocal figures which had been sculptured from)ld farmer who lived there with his old wife.?ida County. It overlooks the Mohawk Valybe seen of Lake Oneida. Only by hard

it- r\r\ fVtic rnoV.cfnHrJarl trflrtauic tu i tam it. vii kuio lucu wwuuuvx. «>»v.

ir out, carving the faces of his favorites ink on the place that does not show the resultand chisel.irlor floor is composed of cobble stones on

istinguislied man or woman appears. Theboulders carved with skill by the eccentriclave been honored by his chisel are Washant,Cleveland, Mrs. Cleveland, Harrison,Anthony, Sigsbee, Dewey, Hobson and Pocaisnot been forgotten. The old sculptor also»s of the Rev. and Mrs. Williams, who were

"The Rock of Fame," as Boody called it,Franklin. John Howard, John Wesley, Isaac

i. One of the features of the place is a natengraved"Rest for the Weary." It weighsused to get the immense rock where Boodyhe Mysterious Rock," in which many figureslighteen horses liaulea it 10 us piace on me

and also a lover of music. His instrumentses. By pressing them against a revolvingmany tunes. His home also is filled with

traveling phrenologist. He albO dabbled inhistory. But after he finally settled on theao at sculpture. Usually he enjoyed the bestinjured in the side by a plow handle, an abargeand dangerous. Instead of calling in a

his room, took a razor and operated uponsuccess.

| Thayer Declined Candidacy.ls giv-1 John A. Thayer, of Worcester,Icome Mass., declined to be a candidate forP. I., Lieutenant-Governor on the ticketor, by headed by General Charles W, Bart|letU

The Ethics of Suicide. °

By KATE UPSON CLARK. v

If fifty of our wisest contemporariesshould be asked? "What Is thetouchstone of civilization?" it Is likelythat more than half of them would

qanswer: 'The value which is placedupon human life."One of the most beautiful and sig- t

aificant of the Scripture characteriza-tions of the millennium Is that thena man shall be "more precious than "

fine gold; even a man than the gold- J1en wedge of Ophlr."The belief In immortality, which ®

has been one of the most beneflcient !'fruits of Christianity, so thoroughly £permeates all ranks of society that ithas done much to bring about this 1

millennial view. During these later ^

years, even science has condescended E

to give to this belief almost the sup-c

port of what it calls "the exact proof."It seems to be admitted by scientists °

that since evolution has brought hu- :man beings up to so advanced a

*

stage, therefore we may reasonably *

conclude that there are still higherconditions awaiting him. This is a

c

) great concession. It ought to help on 3

the faith in immortality. c

The shocking prevalence of suicide during the past two years hasgiven pause to the world's confidence r

in its progress upward. Is it because c

the fear of future punishment has }

been lessened by the new gospel of 1

love, that men have rushed so mad- *

ly to self-destruction? Or has our

j wonderful prosperity, with Its ac- E

companying growth in luxury, so like 1

, the splendor of old Rome, led to the c

j vice of old Rome? '

We call Rome pagan. Its greatest c

sect was the Stoic, and all of the 8

Stoic writers glorified suicide. Wei think of suicide as belonging distinct- c

J. ly to a by^»ne time and a creed out;worn. It has nothing in common 1

with the spirit of Christianity or the 1

earnest, brave preaching and teach- 8

. lug of our foremost ethicists; yet: here it is, carrying off before our (!

faces not one nor a dozen, but scores 1

! of our educated men and women,Not long ago, a college graduate ;

was arguing in a thoughtful company JIn faunr nt Hfi insisted that ^

It was the best course for a largeproportion of the unhappy and theunsuccessful. Not one of the seven

1 or eight others present upheld him, 1and this was encouraging.but that c

he should dare deliberately to cham- c

pion such a cause was in itself dis- s

quieting. The existence of "suicide a

clubs" is another shocking sign of s

degeneracy. There are plenty of tother indications that Christian men c

and women may well fortify them- Iselves and raise their voices clearly e

against any further license or ladty e

in the matter. r

No doubt there are thousands of 1heavy-hearted ones among us who a

would be glad to join beloved friends e

who have departed. There are few fof the afflicted who have not had tmoods of bitter longing to go hence, tand have prayed for release. But a

such moods pass, with a brave and v

noble soul, and the prayer becomes c

ShoutsA Doctor of Divinity, now Editor ef 1

a well-known Religious paper, has <

written regarding the controversy betweenCollier's Weekly and the Re- £

Hgious Press of the Country and oth- c

ers, including ourselves. Also re- t

garding suits for libel brought by 1Collier's against ub for commenting I

upon its methods. tThese are. his sentiments, witfe c

some very emphatic words left out. i

"The religious Press owes you a s

debt of gratitude for your courage in

showing up Collier's Weekly as the c

"Yell-Oh Man." Would you care to c

use the inclosed article on the "Boo i

Hoo Baby" as the "Yell-Oh Man's" Isuccessor?" \

"A contemporary remarks that Col- a

ller's has finally run against a solid [

hickory "Post" and been damaged in f

its own estimation to the tune of \

$750,000.00."I "Here Is a publication which has, t

in utmost disregard of trie racts, c

spread broadcast damaging state- I

ments about the Religious Press and e

others and has suffered those false t

statements to go uncontradicted, until,not satisfied after finding the Re- e

ligious Press too quiet, and peaceful, t

to resent the insults, it makes the a

mistake of wandering into a fresh a

field and butts its rattled head r

against this Post and all the World rlaughs. Even Christians smile, as 1the Post suddenly turns and gives r

it back a dose of its own medicine." t"It is a mistake to say all the r

World laughs. No cheery laugh a

comes from Collier's, but it cries andboo hoos like a spanked baby and ftt.anfc? nrtfl flfl tn Rnnfhf> its tpn- l!

der, lacerated feelings." li

| "Thank Heaven it has at last e

struck a man with "back bone"enough to call a spade a "spade" and bwho believes in telling the whole ftruth without fear or favor."g

Perhaps Collier's with its "utmost o

disregard for the facts," may say no ksuch letter exists. Nevertheless it Is Yon file In our office and is only one of fa mass of letters and other data, hnewspaper comments, etc., denounc- bing the "yellow" methods of Collier's, tThis volume is so large that a man

cofrld not well go thru it under half a

a day's steady work. The letters a

«K>me from various parts of America, e

Usually a "private controversy is f<not interesting to the public, but thisis a public controversy. u

Collier's has been using the "yel- n

low" methods to attract attention to gitself, but, jumping in the air, crack- t!lng heels together and yelling "Look c

at me" wouldn't suffice, so It started c

out on a "Holier Than Thou" attack don the Religious Press and on medicines.v

We leavo It to the public not?, as twe did when we first resented Col-'lier's attacks, to say whether, In a c

craving for sensation and circulation, tits attacks do not amount to a sys- c

tematlc mercenary hounding. We s

likewise leave it to the public to say pwhether Collier's, by its own policyand methods, has not made itself u

ne for endurance until the end, andDr courage to take up the Master'srork, wherever it may He.The cowardice of suicide should

lone be enoueh to deter from it anyne with a spark of pride or selfespect.To admit so cravenly thaine is defeated, is the most humilitingthing that one can do. Thenhink of the friends left behind.heir shame, their bewilderment. IIrime is at the root of the matter,his horrible act doubles it. If it haerely the sorrow which is commor0 all mankind, one feels that the lesonsof life have indeed been poorljearned. Whatever the motive, th<egacy of disgrace left behind is {lard and bitter one for every relaive and friend, especially for son:

ind daughters. The crass selfishless, the brutal cowardice, of the sulide are monstrous.It is undoubtedly true that the lov<

if life is stronger in some natunhan in others and in some races thain others. It is characteristic of thiLealtbier and stronger peoples thahey cling most to life; and It i:ounted a mark of degeneracy tha1 general tendency to suicide shoultlevelop."Love not thy life," says the poet

^laudio's contemptible clinging to hiepresents the one extreme; the sui:ide, the other. Life is but a toovhich has been given us for a pur>ose. We have no right to love i>vermuch. Neither have we a rlgho lay It down, until He who gave i10 blda us. The command to "comnit no murder" applies as fully ti>ne's own life as to that of othersJVe may lay our lives on the altar omr country; we may sacrifice them ti;ave others; but we may not thro^ihem idly aside, because we are tiredir sick, or unhappy.The usual excuse when this is don<

s that the man is beside himself.herefore irresponsible. It is a danserous plea.Let no one even for an instant en

lure the contemplation of suicide. Is the duty of every Christian to delounce and condemn it. It is a re

-ersion to paganism, and an insulo our pure and noble religion..Thichristian Herald.

Motor Omnibuses in London.The motor omnibuses in operatioi

n London., have not proved a flnan:ial success, according to the repor>f the auditor of the company, wh<;ays: "The company has never madmy profits; nothing but a considertble loss from the first; * *

he actual loss on running has beei>ver $60,000. It has cost over Is. 6d;thirty-sic cents) per car mile tisarn 14d. (twenty-two cents), am

very car mile run in the recent peiod of working has made a dea<oss of 7d. (fourteen cents)." Effortire being made to come to some genral agreement for Increasing th<

. or«fl AnrlnovArlnitires, diiU lUYCIHUlO CM W Vyu\i\>u » vy 4 * *-*;

o produce some appliance which wilie productive of more steady runniniind will lessen the heavy repair billvhich confront the owners of motoimnibuses..New York Times.

DO-MCa Spankenore ridiculous than any comment o

>urs could make It.Does Collier's expect to regain an;

self-inflicted loss of prestige by demmstrating thru suits for damageshat It can be more artful In evadlnilability for libels than the humbl)ut resentful victims of Its defamaion, or does It hope by starting:ampaign of libel suits to silence th>opular indignation, reproach and relentment which it has aroused.

Collier's can not dodge this publi:ontroversy by private law suits. I:an not postpone the public judgnent against it. That great jury, th'ublir.. will hardly blame us for no

vaiting until we get a petit jury iil court room, before denouncing thi>rodigal detractor of institution;ounded and fostered either by indiiduals or by the public, itself.No announcements during our en

ire business career were ever madi:lairaing "medicinaleffects" for eithePostum or Grape-Nuts. Medicinaiffects are results obtained from th<ise of medicines.Thousands of visitors go thru ou:

.ntire works each month and see fo;hemselves that Grape-Nuts contain:.bsolutely nothing but wheat, barlej.nd a little salt; Postum absolutel:lothing but wheat and about terlercent of New Orleans molasses"he art of preparing these simple elenents in a scientific manner to obain the best food value and flavourequired some work and experience t(

cquire.Now, when any publication goes

ar enough out of its way to attacP:s because our advertising is "med'sal," it simply offers a remarkablexhibition of ignorance, or worse.

We do not claim physiological 01

odily results of favorable characteiollowing the adoption of our sugestionsregarding the discontinuancef coffee and foods which may not beeeping the individual in good health.Ve have no advice to offer the perectlyhealthful person. His or heiealth is evidence in itself that theeverages and foods used exactly flthat person. Therefore, why change?But to the man or woman who Is

iling, we have something to say as

result of an unusually wide experineein food and the result of propereedlng.In the palpably ignorant attack on

s in Collier's, appeared this statelent,."Onewidely circulated pararaphlabors to induce the impressionhat Grape-Nuts will obviate the neessltyof an operation in appendiitis.This is lying and potentiallyeadly lying."In reply to this exhibition of

,'ell let the reader name it, the PosumCo., says:Let it be understood that appendlitisresults from long continued disurbancein the intestines, caused priioriivliv iinrHerest.pd starnhv food,

uch as white bread, potatoes, rice,artly cooked cereals and such.Starchy food 13 not digested In the

iw?er stomach but passes on into the

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Circus Families Dying Oat. ,

In this country the circus familiesare i!ast dying out. The reasons are

mauy. Primarily, circus parents, In'stead of bringing up their children to* become performers, encourage them; to adopt some other calling, because

the opportunities for success are1 greater in business or the professions,and the danger i3 less. For In most

' of the acts a circus performer 13 con>stantly risking life and llmv More5over, salaries are not commensurate1 with the long years of preparation,* the hard work, and the brevity of ar performer's active life. Furthermore,i the big circuses, with more than one1 ring, do not tend to develop really" finished performers, since no act has v3 the undivided attention of the ac"tators. All these influences ure dl"verting circus people from their hereditaryemployment.3 So we go to Europa for the bigJ acts. There, a child may be appren1ticed at six; and there is still a highJ str.adard for the fine points, since1 thoy have but one ring. Also, and

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3 this Is highly Important, the rule ist to give only one afternoon perform-* ance a week, thus allowing the per- .;

formers the whole day for practice..< C"The Aristocracy of the Circus,"'in

3 Everybody's.' Cigarettes In India.

t A special correspondent of the Lontdon Telegraph writes from India: Itt is not many years since the cigarette_ began to make headway among the ^

111 <4- 4 f liAM KAAAmA «A *>Antl]fl«rj nanyco, uui it uao ucwuuc ov pvputut

as to rouse the alarm of those who{ are interested in the physical wellabeing of the people. A circular justv issued by the director of public inistruction in the United Provinces remarksthat "inquiries made as to thee prevalence of cigarette smoking

among schoolboys have established_ the fact that the habit is becomingcommon among £hem and that in not

.a few cases it is t>elng indulged in at ^

t an early age." Mr. de la Fosse ac_cordingly directs that "in view of the. permanent injury to the constitutiont that may result from acquiring thee habit of tobacco smoking in childhood,every effort should be made to

put a stop to the practice. Headmastersshould punish severely boyr whoafter warning are found smoking at

aany time or place, and should in"struct the teachers to be vigilant inseeing that the order forbidding

0 smoking is strictly obeyed; theye should also take steps to prevent the

sale of cigarettes to scholars upon

athe school premises." ^

D The Misjudged Turk. ;*1 The rural Turk at home, when not

-goaded into violence by his corrupti rulers, is the very antipodes of thes monster of popular imagination in- this country. His domestic virtuese are at least equal to those of any

A 1 XI TT« (M* western pupuiauuu. ne ia iiuacoi, 111Idustrlous, patient, gentle and of fine; natural manners..London Times.

:r The United States Patent Office if

months behind in its work._....

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: |>0"d Baby. 'A

'' .-'If doudenum, or lower stomach and intestines,where, in a healthy indl7vidual, the transformation of the ,

r starch into a form of sugar is com- .

i, pleted and then the food absorbed byS the blood.e But if the rowers of digestion are

weakened, a part of the starchy fooda will lie in the warmth and moisturee of the body and decay, generating s

- gases and irritating the mucous sur*faces until under such conditions the

c whole lower part of the alimentaryt canal, including the colon and the- appendix, becomes involved. Diseasee sets up and at times takes the formt known as appendicitis.l When tho symptoms of the trouble3 make their appearance, would it not3 ut) guuu, practical, cuiuiuuu seuac, lv

- discontinue tho starchy food which lacausing the troublo and take a food

- in which the starch lias been transaformed into a form of sugar In ther process of manufacture?1 This is identically the same form3 of sugar found iu the human body

after starch has been perfectly dl*r gested.r Now, human food is made up very3 largely of starch and is required byj the body for energy and warmth.f Naturally, therefore, its use shouldi be continued, if possible, and for the .

. reasons given above it is. made possi.ble in the manufacture of Grape.Nuts.,

In connection with this change of) food to bring relief from physical

disturbances, we have suggested5 washing out the intestines to get rid[ of tbe immediate cause of the dis.turbance.; Naturally, there are cases where

the disease has lain dormant and theabuse continued too long, until apparently only the knife will avail.

. But it is a well-established fact

. among the best physicians who are

acquainted with the details above recited,that preventative measures are. far and away the best.

Are we to be condemned for sug>gesting a way to prevent disease by; following natural methods and for

perfecting a food that contains no"medicine" and produces no ,,medlciinal effects" but which has guided lit.erally thousands of persons fromsickness to health? We have receivedduring the years pact upwards of 25,i000 letters from people who havebeen either helped or made cnlirely "

well by following our suggestions,and they are simple.

If coffee disagrees and causes anyof the ailments common to somecoffce users quit it and take on

Postum.If white bread, potatoes, ilce and

other starch foods make trouble, quitand use Grape-Nuts food wliLch islargely predigested and will digest.nourish and strengthen, wbcn otherforms of food do not. It's Jost plain .a

old common sense.

"There's a Reasonfor Postum and) Grape-Nuts.

! Poatum Cereal C0.t l*ld.