ting for a reversible ulster and
paper collar bazar. It must have been food for reflection for the Advent
preacher, as he picked up the empty beer bottle, shied at him from the
chariot that he supposed carried to earth the redeemer of man. He must
have wondered if some-Milwaukee brewer ad not gone to heaven and opened
a brewery.

Of course we who are intelligent, and who would know a balloon if we saw
it, would not have had any such thoughts, but we must remember that
this poor Advent preacher thought that the day had come that had been
promised so long, and that Christ was going to make a landing in a
strong Republican county. We may laugh at the Adventist's disappointment
that the balloon did not tie up to a stump and take him on board, but it
was a serious matter to him.

He had been waiting for the wagon, full of hope, and when it came, and
he saw the helmet on King's head and thought it was a crown of glory,
his heart beat with joy, and he plead in piteous accents not to be
passed by, and the confounded gas bag went on and landed in a cranberry
marsh, and the poor, foolish, weak, short-sighted man had to get in his
work mighty lively to dodge the sand bags, beer bottles, and rolls of
clothing store posters.

The Adventist would have been justified in renouncing his religion and
joining the Democratic party. It is sad, indeed.

THE CAUSE OF RHEUMATISM.

One of the most remarkable things in medical science is a discovery
recently made by a Philadelphia physician When so many hundreds of years
pass over without any new discovery being made, and when one _is_ made,
like vaccination, and they are not dead sure whether it amounts to
anything or not, a new discovery that the discoverer will swear by is
a big thing. This Philadelphia doctor has discovered that rheumatism is
the direct result of cold feet.

There is no discovery that has ever been made in the human anatomy that
stands to reason any more than this. Many thousands of men are going
around crippled and bent with rheumatism, and suffering untold agonies,
and they have never known what caused their bones to ache. Of course
they knew that their wives had cold feet, but they had no idea that
every time those No. 2 icicles were placed in the small of the back to
get warm that they were sowing the seeds of rheumatism.

We presume there is a hundred pounds of male rheumatism to every square
inch of cold female foot, and the Philadelphia doctor should be