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"I believe it Is -my duty to tell other sufferers of the wonderful re- lef I experienced Wonderful Relief but even (a religious touch) by t elves." "Pouting a letter," he, s, is "one of the few things left ; are entirely romantic"--for to be 2 t romantic a thing must be irrevocable. But: that is only cne side of the romance. The other and even mors appealing part of this romantic story is the faithful (often ingenious) bear- - ing to its destination and into the hands of millions (as if by a kind of ¢) what ic entrusted to the Un- it © States. The mailbox is but a door . the sanctuury. The post office is © ar institution of "everlasting energy," as Emerson called it (even before it tok on such mighty services as it per- forms today), guarded still by a "cer- tin religious sentim¢.¢ in mankind." "I. look, vpon it," raid the great Am- erican sage, "as a first measure of civilization." It is _o* a mere com- mercial enterprise. It is democraey's universal school of letters. It is invidious, or would be, tc make comparison with other departments of government, but I think that all will ugree with Charles Sumner: (with 'whom it was difficult to agree in all things) tha' it is the most universal i its beneficence: "There is nothing which is not helped by the post offize." Here is his support of the statement with my own interpolations: "Is business in question?" he asks. "The post office is at hand with its invaluable aid, quickening and multi- plying its activities." (And it has ex- panded beyond sny dream of his in 1851, when letter rates were reduced tc three cents but when the parcel post had not been thought of.) "Is it charity? The poct office is the Good Samaritan omnipresent in all the highways of the land." (And like the Good Samaritan it meets ary deficits at the inn.) 'Is it education? The pest office is schoolmaster, with school for all and scholars by the million." (We may now say by the ten millions, for all the literate as readers of the written and tle printed word are its scholars and by reason of the rural free delivery, no one, however isolate or remote, is beyond the reach of its free tuition) But. there is a runction still more piycious and fundamental than any of these or than all of them together --the exchanges between members of families, friends and lovers. These are golden threads which we weave into the daily fabric of our home life from our dear outsice relationships. One, writing a long time ago, called {friendship the great chain of human society and intercourse of letters one of the chiefest links of the chain. And though the air has given a new med- ium. for speech at a distance, it does rot take the place of the word which car. be read and re-read and perman- ently kept. It is a significant thing that, when the life ¢f a man of un- tuual attainments and influence is written, the letters which he has him- self written genarally offer the rich- est material. Seeing the carriers this early morn- ing in the streets with their burdens, I recalled a statement that was made at a service in memory of their com- rades a year or two ago to the effect that the living postmen were placed on earth "to carry burdens." But they are not ordinary burdens. They are the most precicus commerce of human exchange, whetter written by hand or printed. The distinction of this service would end the moment that its mem- bers ceased to regard &s inviolate the communications which they bear be- tween human minds in sharing ex- periences of joy and sorrow, in ex- preseing affection and sympathy, in ording the things that still help keepthis practical world a place of domayce, If, as Gilbert Chesterton said, the posting of letters is one of the few things left that are entirely romantic; another of these ntirely romantic things is the receiving of letters. We thank God for the United tates that mystically receives them, faithfully guards thea and religiously delivers them.--John H. Finley. eS The Cricket to October The long, pure light that brings To earth her perfect crown of bliss, Wanes .slow--the thoughtful droop- trunk and bough And the faint breath of the earth: lo things Say this, ft when the dews at night p the cool shadows, all in vain along the firefly lift her tender light Again 3 k From the thick-woven shade, Where, on the red-cupped moss a ray alit, the bluebird sends | melancholy note up the brown glade +--Anne Whitney, in "Poems. Er meadow's level dark | mm {rom taking Dr. 'Williams' Pink Pills for anaemia," writes Miss Mamie Kerton, Badjeros, Ont, "For three years I suffered from weakness, shivering and fainting spells, feeble pulse, poor appetite. 1 was nervous, restless and always pale. I was in for weeks at a time, until I put Dr. Willams' Pink Pills to the test. After taking three boxes I was restored to my normal health." Thousands of other young women have been benefitted as Miss Kerton was, Dr. Wiliams' Pink Pills rebuild health by actually creating an abund- ance of new blood and increasing the blood cells thereby restoring wasted tissues and revitalizing the exhausted nervous system. Growing girls are greatly helped by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Try them. 50c a package af your druggists. Fleet-of-foot men serve the ship, Mile slips by on rolling mile. 3 Overhead the bright blue dome to the water's rim; Rainbow-tinted in the dusk, Mystical, poetic, dim; Opalescent in the dawn, Palely brilliant at high noon; Star-sirewn in the velvet night, Cloud-wracks flying past the moon. All around the restless sea, . Foam-lace spreading in the wake; Fleeks of distant ships that pass; Where the magic kingdoms are; Fish that leap in silver arcs; Moon paths leading to a star. --Adele de Leeuw. : atu amma anything."--Sir Adaie Roche, Blown to fury . , , smooth as'glass; Seaweed gardens; purple depths i Do You Know? + That one of the oldest town clocks in North America is situated in Halifax, Nova Scotia? intervals for repairs it has been that date. It was erected in 1802 and except for a few giving the time continuously since @ Eat, disk, and be merry! No. need to. feel "sunk" next-day. Take » laxative dose of Phillips' Milk of Mognesia when you igo to bed; or with your breakdast orange. It rida stomach and bowels of all lingering poisons. No headaches. No nausea. Not even a coated tongue. Get the genuine Phillips' 'Milk of Magnesia; substitutes are nob the some. gs ve row pe Each tiny toto of genuine © Dr.Williams a BABYS OWN TABLETS A a Lisbon Traffic Wheeled traffic offers more variety in Lisbon than in smany other capi- tals of Europe. Modern traffic is very much in evidence; motorcars of all makes hoot their way through crowds of leisurely" pedestrians, electric trams, turning sharp corners with grinding sound of wheels, urge state- : ly coaches to give them free pas- "The world suffers a great deal from people who are uninieresting, because ' 588¢, by means of a nemphatic bell. they themselves are mot interested in| The coaches oblige, ard with more ex- pedition than do the pirate tram-.cars, already described. These coaches are a link with the past. They rumble rather heavily over the stone pave- ment, drawn by horses decked out in a brave lisplay of plaled harness. The coachman is generally a typical Portuguese servaat, with long side- whiskers, and he urges his steeds to high stepping rather than to .spbed. The horses are of the breed that figures in paintings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, having small heads and round rumps, wavy flowing tails, arched crests and waving manes, and so much action that pace has to suffer; but dignity is maintained. , . . Yet more primitive vehicles roll through the streets of Lisbon, plain box-like carts on solid wooden wheels, of a design unchanged since Roman times. These carts have a talent, far more pronounced than that of thes pirate tram, for getting in the way and impeding trafic; the drivers are as impervious to objurgation as the oxen that draw these obstructive con- veyances. These varied forms of vehicles make up the daily pageant of the stree's.--Captain B. Granville Baker, in "A Winter Holiday in Portugal" -- ro ANSWER TO LAST WIEK'S PUZZLE BD Adversity Sweet gre the uses of adv: rs'ty, which, like the toad, Ugly and venomous, yet wears a jewel in its head. --Shakespeare Horizontal 1--Negative 4--Urges 8--Operated 12--Anger 13--Uncanny 14--Personality 15--Jumped 17--Slang: energy 19--Astringent salt 21--Itallan River 22--To unité with 26--Wheel tooth 27--Mislald 81--Frequently 82--Astronomer ~ 34--Whether 85--Hawaiian wreath | 86--Grain 58--To sing 61--Boy 62--Foe 2--Mineral 37--Negative 38--Southern Indians 41--Drunkard - 42--Gallows 43--Sister 44--Jutting rocks 18--Dish 18--Arctic ~ There has been no sign given that the Ugly Men's Association of Perth, West Australia, is going to change titution. The full of a sort of perverse, boyish pride in the possession of their un- prepossessing exteriors, Of such in. stitulional detail one can speak but in whimsical suppesitions and fancies, one point, however, there remains no ques.fon, The record of this strange clup bears out "Handsome is that handsome does." This organization, which in 1919 raised £6000 to teach men carpentry, blacksmithing, and other pursuits, has lately purchased a farm for the training of boys in agriculture. Dur- ing the next 18 months, says a press dispa'ch, "the Uglies" hope to train 1000 boys. If this is the way ugly men com- fort themselves when they organize let us hope that they get together in increasing numbers. What the world needs, in other words, is more ugly men, and them organized, Like that famous ugly man of literaturre. Cyrano de Bergerac, the mambers of the Ugly Men's Association undoubt- edly carry thair adornments in less material molds,--The Christian Sei- ence Monitor. THREW AWAY STICK When Sciatica Yielded to Kruschen There can be no doubt that this man has finished walking with a stick, for it is now four years since he discarded it. He writes: --""For 18 months I suf- fered with chronic sciatica and rheu- matism, and was unable to walk with- out the aid of a stick. But after tak- ing Kruschen Salts for a short time, 1 was able to throw away the stick. It is now four years since this happened, and I have had no return of the com- plaint, and have not lost a day from work. 1 s!all never be without Krus- chen Salts, as they are worth their weight in gold. You can use this let- ter as you please, as 1 can honestly re- commend Kruschen Salts to any suf- ferer."--C. F. If tho eliminating organs become sluggish, they permit harmful uric acid to accumulate and deposit itgelf in the tissues, muscles and joints in the form of needle-pointed crystals, which, piercing the nerve sheaths, cause ex- cruciating pains of sciatica. The six ating organs to healthy, regular ac- tion. Mischievous uric acid is then given no chance to collect. ee fen Taken Literally A census taker, on asking a woman how old she was, received the follow- ing answer: "Do you know how cld the Hil girls next door are?" "Sure." "Well, I am as old as they." 45--To leave 47--To expand - 49--To attach H3--War instrument 57--Meadow 60--Affirmative 63--To obtain Vertical 1--Nothing 3--Beverage ° 4--To pare B--Lessening ¢ unction 7--To plunge 8--~To percolate 9--Corded cloth 10--Years old 11--Conjunction 20--Large bird The census taker wrote down, "As old as the hills."--Cungregationalist. -- OUR CROSS-WORD PUZZLE 22--Cross timber 28--Bid 24--Pronoun 26---Back stage apart. ment i 28--Wefght (abbr) 74 29--Title 30--Jogs 32--Japanese coin 3--Fuel 35--Vassal 39--Pronoun 40--To drag 41--To such extent 44--Two (Scotch) - 46--Formerly 48--8ole 49--The whole 50--Edible seed 51--Cushion 52--Tribe of Israel 54--To silence 55--To scrutinize 56--To soak 59---Note of scale for exact information is lacking, On? Viling to admit. 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