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?mmorou; gfpartmrat. And He Got It. "Gentleman," said the drummer of druggists' sundries, as he looked around on the half dozen men who were asking him for the latest story, "I believe I have felt about 400 different feelings in my life, and the balmiest one of all was the feeling that I had something coming to me, and would get it if I stayed on the road long enough." "And have you got it?" was asked. "I have. I got it five days ago when I was coming into Chicago. I was very 1 comfortable in my Pullman when a young man came along and told me a | pitiful story and wanted me to buy his j diamond ring. The game is older than ' the hills, and I was on in a minute. , Bogus story and bogus diamond. Will- ( ing to sell me a 1200 ring ror $30. 1 ? asked him where the green spot was j in my eye, and while I was pluming , myself the man in the other part of the , section pulled out three tens and ( pocketed the ring. Did I look down upon him with pity and contempt? Did j I smile? Did I grin? Did I ask him j where his guardian was? Oh, yes?oh, j yes, and he speaks up and claims that t the stones were diamonds and the ring , well worth 200 plunks. It nettled me t to see the ass so cock-sure and to hear ( him say that of course I was no judge , of diamonds, and I put up $50 that he'd { been done for. The conductor held the j money, and when we got into town we made for a Jewelry store. We took in j four of 'em before I laid down. Same j story in each place?ring worth $200." t "And you lost your $50?" c "Slick as slick." j "And there was a game in It?" t "Of course, you camel Seller and s - * rviVih- _ buyer were conieueniieo aim iUV/ |/?vv ^ ably worked the scheme six days a week. If I'd sot ready to buy, some excuse would have been made to head me off. Yes, gents that's what was coming to me, and now that I've got It I feel relieved, and If any of you think you can push pool balls about just lead the way and I'll show you that It's all a pipe dream." Wise William. When Justice Buffum opened court In a small town In southern Georgia, one morning last week, he called loudly, "Jones against Johnson!" A dignified gentleman came to the bar and said: "I am Doctor Jones, your honor, the complaining witness. My chickens were stolen and found In the possession of?" "One moment, doctor," the judge interrupted. "We must have the defendant at the bar. Jones against Johnson! Jones against Johnson! Is the defendant present? Is William Johnson in court?" A tall and shambling negro shuffled ?-?- ' -? ~..ll aA hla to the bar, aucicea nis nwu, pvuw ...? woolly forelock in token of respect, and grinned a propitiatory grin. "Ah's Wlllyum Johns'n, please suh, Jedge," he said. "Ah doan' know nuffln' 'bout no 'fendant, suh. Ah'm Jes' de man wot took de chlck'ns." "Don't talk like that," the court warned William. "You ought to have a lawyer to speak for you. Where's your lawyer?" "Ah aln' got no lawyer, jedge?" "Very well, then," said his honor. 'Til assign a lawyer to defend you." 1 "Oh, no, suh; no, suh! Ple-e-ease 1 don' do dat!" William begged. 1 "Why not?" asked the judge. "It won't co3t you anything. Why don't ' you wan't a lawyer?" 1 "Well, ah'U tell yo', suh," said Wil- I Ham, waving his tattered old hat con- 1 fldentlally. "Hit's Jes' dls-a-way?ah ( wan' tuh enjoy dem chlck'n mase'f."? Harper's Weekly. Retreat, Never!?In an Irish garrison town a theatrical company was giving performances, and some soldiers from the local barracks were engaged to act as supers. Their duties included the waging of a fierce fight in which, after a stirring struggle, one army was defeated on a given signal from th prompter. For a few nights all went well, but on the Friday evening t. special performance of the piece was to be given under the patronage of the colonel and other officers of the garrison. The two armies met as usual at the end of the second act, when they fought and fought and kept on fighting, regardless of the agonized glare ( in the eye of their (actor) general, , who hoarsely ordered the proper army j to "Retreat, confound you!" But the ^ fight still went on, and soon the hor- ( rifled manager saw the wrong army , being driven slowly off the stage, still j fighting desperately. Down came the , curtain amid roars of laughter, and the ( fuming manager hastened to ask the , delinquents why they had failed to re- , treat on hearing the signal. , "Retraite," roared a burly fusilier, ( whose visage had been badly battered, , "and is it retraite ye'd have us, wid ( the colonel and all the officers in the | boxes?"?Tit Bits. I ? ? ? i Funeral Baked Meats.?John Sharp < Williams, at the end of his recent de- < bate with Gov. Vardaman at Meridian, : Miss., according to the Washington Star, talked about pride. "There is a decent and noble pride," said Mr. Williams, "and there is a pride that is mean and ludicrous. An aged citizen of Yazoo tells of an old woman whose pride was of the latter sort. "This old woman lived in Yorkshire. There was a funeral one day in the next village. She did not attend it, our a neighbor of hers was there. That night she called on the neighbor and said: " 'Well, Nancy, I hear you wor at t" funeral.' " 'Yes, I wor,' Nancy replied. " 'What kind of a funeral wor it?" "Nancy sniffed. " 'Why, it wor a wery mean affair,' she said. 'There wor nobbut a few biscuit an' sich.' " 'Ah,' said the other old woman, 'them's the sort of ways I don't hold to. I've lost five, but, thank 'evins, I've burled 'em all with 'am.'" Spectacular.?"Horw'dy, Brutus?'' greeted the tall thespian as they met on Clark street. "They tell me you are about to start out on the road with a real sensation?" "I should say so," laughed the mooncheeked manager with the big cane and the headlight diamond, "I've got the real thing. It is an up-to-date 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.'" "Oh, pshaw; I've heard of up-to-date 'Uncle Tom s Cabin's before." "Yes, but this is the real goods, old chap. Listen! Liza crosses the river 1 in a motor boat; Legree chases her in < a 50-horse power automobile and Lit- ' tie Eva goes to Paradise In an air ship. < Can you beat that?"?Chicago Daily < News. | Home Course Ii j Mod I XVIII.?The Busine; ? By C. V. C Agricultural Division, I Copyright, 1908, by Ami Farming on high priced land must 3e conducted on business principles if che greatest profits are to be realized. The farmer's work is by no means done when he has raised a large crop of corn >r successfully fattened a carload of iteers. He must be able to market his produce at a profit and must also know whether the steers were fed at a profit >r a loss and what it costs to produce sach crop of grain. It is a fact that the only way to know lust what you are doing and just what jarts of your farm are bringing in a jroflt and what ones are being run at l loss Is to "keep books." This does lot necessarily mean a complicated lystem that will require half your time :o keep in shape. By a little care the nethod of keeping accounts can be so lystematized as to amount to only a ew moments a week. The first and most Important book s the check book. The "check book labit" will often save a great deal of noney and trouble. If you lose your :heck book or have it stolen, you still lave your money left. You do not have o waste time trying to make change, ilnce the check can be always made >ut for exactly the right amount. When rou give a man a check in payment for vhat you owe him, he must sign that :heck before he can draw the money >n it. At the end of every month the >ank returns these signed checks to tou, and you thus have receipts for ill the money you paid out during the nonth. For general accounts any good sized tiontr Wlr will nnawer. There are a mmber of specially made farmers' acsount books, but a blank book which fou can rule to suit yourself will be lust as good or better. The first page ihould be devoted to an inventory of :he stock, grain and machinery, together with their value. Following his should he a map of the farm. Next to this should come the cash iccount. A convenient and simple way rnmnrln? this is as follows: " ? " I MONEY P Dale. From Whom. Jan. 10 John Jones 40 h Jan. 15 E. W. Smith 8 br MONEY P Date. To Whom. Jan. 18 Bank Dep Jan. 80 Brown & Co. Gro In order to know what crops are Hinging In a profit and what ones. If iny, are unprofitable It is necessary to ceep some sort of an account of them. This account must be simple and easly kept, for if it takes too much tint* t is sure to be neglected. The following uu?p hefldincra show a convenient nethod of keeping account of the field :rops: FIELD CROP ACCO Field No. L F Rent Preparation 8eed fhwUny Cultivating Harvesting Thrashing Marketing Total 1 I ! This gives an estimate that is accu*ate enough to give a very good Idea >f what it costs to produce each particular crop. In figuring the cost of labor enough should be added to pay tor the use of the machinery. The cost >f seed will include cleaning, testing md other preparation. Perhaps the nest way to figure the value of the manure applied is to include it in the rent jf the land. / This the corn crop which receives the first benefit from the manure, can be charged a higher rent on this account. The amount charged to the oat crop will be less, while the clover crop, which really adds to the fertility of the land, will pay the lowest rent of all. Where the grain is fed on the farm there will of course be n a /-?V? r? *hta frvr morlrjaflncr TVio onot r\t :lover seed, which Is sown with the :>ats, should be charged to the next pear's clover crop. Following the expense account should :ome a profit and loss page: I s MM i Ml 1 >* M M M M 2 ! i i i i i : i f C 1 :!!!:::! < :::::::: rr 6 I I I I I I I I 8 * \ 2 l > I : I ! i ! I I 0 2 . :::::::: H A ?l tE 1 MM MM ? Id : : : : I i I : i : tt 5 :::::::: 0, (I Q ^ ? . C j # j j ; | ; ; ; Z ^ J ' ^ &4 ^ I I V ^ I o 1 ; ; ; ;?;?Hr-ji ; ' r ? c : ; 6. . *5 :::::::: o o ? :::::::: ? 5". ^ *o : : : : i : : : : O 3 ^ :::::::: j s* s :::::::: k < :::::::: U. :?:?:?: : :?:?r ? ; ; | > ; ; ; ! s ! 2 2 i ' ? t* a i " : - ? - ? c4 _ ce X G x -i?# e I * E s c T. 7. ~ ?- ; u: SL. _5 A glance at this page will show which crops are the most profitable jnes. In case a certain crop does not ?how the profit that it should, another ;rop should be substituted for it or Ilfferent methods of culture adopted. Similar pages should be arranged for 11 f era Agriculture. j ss Side of Farming. ^ iregory, j Iowa State College. J :rlcan Press Association. the different classes of live stock. The following will serve as a sample: |l| | | |l| I I I 2 I i -?JL ,7" 1 ! If w a a * E I JL_ M ^ ji ^ < II 1 f 1 " * a I s J d 1 1 - 1 I 1 GO - I I |~1 j -j; Once a year these two pages can be balanced, and you can see Just where you stand in the hog business. In addition to the expense and Income pages for the dilTerent classes of stock there should be pages for keeping track of "changing works" at thrashing time, for breeding records, for butter and cream, for poultry and for any other special line in which you are interested. Lining up and arranging the pages will make a good rainy day's job for some of the children, and after that the time required to keep the accounts in . ? 1 DECEIVED. For What. Amount. osbela corn @ 52c. * $20 80 ood bows & $20. - 40 00 AID OUT. For What. Amount. osit C00.80 ceriea 12.30 shape will be too small to be noticed. Business methods In marketing: are also necessarV If the best results are to be obtained. A daily market paper is Indispensable in keeping: posted on the stock and grain markets and will pay for itself several times over in the course of a year. A telephone Is also valuable for obtaining' up to the minute market reports on special occa , UNT8 - EXPENSES. leld No. 2. Field No. 8. Field No. L sions. In keeping In touch with the local butter, egg and poultry markets the telephone Is especially valuable. Ta In monv nth^r 11 IS iXIBKJ a IIIIIC Ott t VI 111 WV..V. ways, so much so that the up to date business farmer cannot afford to be without one. THE END. LAST OF HIS KIND. Fashions In Millinery Have Made the White Heron Extinct. High above the mashy wastes which border the Klamath lakes in southern Oregon, a lone white heron winged his desolate flight a month ago, his beady telescopic eyes turned now right, now left, while from his needle-pointed beak dismal and discordant cries sounded a requiem for the departed members of his kind, for he was. alone in the world, says the Technical World Magazine, the sole survivor of. a once proud family. On broad pinions the snowy survivor of a former legion floated to the east and then to the west; the far-seeing eyes searching vainly each stretch of lake, land or sedgy waste for a familiar patch of white which would betoken the presence of father, mother, mate, chick or friend, but he saw none for President Roosevelt had been too late in setting aside the Klamath district as a national bird reserve and the delay has sealed the fate of the white heron family. But one is left, according1 to the officials of the United States land office and of the National Association of Audubon societies; just one white sample remaining of myriad thousands of one of the most beautiful of all native birds; the cruel decree of fashion having brought about so savage a butchery and so persistent a hunt for white plumage that biological historians will in future works, record the melancholy fact that in the year A. D. 1908 the white heron followed the great auk over the dismal trail that stretches backward to the ages that are gone. If President Roosevelt had only sign ed that executive order one year ago? or even six months?the heron would have been saved, but he signed it in September. MT "Would you have the trusts, your honor, placed at the mercy of the government?" exclaimed the attorney for the biggest of the bunch. "Strikes me that would be a simple reversal of present conditions," remarked the attorney for the other side and calmly watched the case go to the jury. ?RteattiMfou0 Reading. MAXIM SILENCERS. Thorough Tests Soon to Be Made by War Department. The war department of the United States is to make complete and thorough tests of the Maxim gun silencing device. Hiram Percy Maxim has returned from Washington, where he had an Interview with Brigadier General William Crozier, chief of ordnance, and was much pleased to be able to announce that this country would make a thorough Investigation of the device. Wo Quid tn n Hnptfnrd fnnrnnt rp porter. "It is very gratifying to me that this country has taken hold of this invention and that no foreign government will have an advantage over us. I have kept the war department informed as to the gunsilencer through the officials at the Springfield armory up to the time of my call on the president, when General Crozler and other army and navy officials were present, and the chief of ordnance had the opportunity of seeing himself what the silencer would do. The result was my trip to Washington on Monday, wnen I had a conference with the chief of ordnance and his assistant as to the making of demonstrations of the device undi.-r regular army conditions and on a scale much larger than heretofore has been possible. "A considerable number of silencers will be shipped with which tests will be made and they will be tried under all sorts of service conditions. I am confident that the silencer will have a complete demonstration and a fair show, and the result of these tests will be the adoption of the silencer for the United States army, Its complete rejection as worthless for army purposes or Its partial adoption for certain uses In the army. "I should have been very sorry to have seen the device turned down by this government without a complete and fair test, as great interest is being shown In it by foreign governments. The attaches of a number of, countries have already bought silencers and sent them to the home offices. These Include representatives of such countries aa TTntrlanS VmnPB RllSslA RcrmftJIV and Italy." Mr. Maxim was asked what he had to say about the threat of the chief of police of Pittsburg, Pa., that he would arrest any one found possessing a silencer and clap him In jail, and he said: "I am sorry to see any one, especially the head of a police department, talking about something he evidently knows little or nothing about. The chief of police of Pittsburg, if quoted correctly, tells how easily and without detection one man wun a suencer revolver could kill another, Evidently he has not even read the papers, for It has been stated very plainly time and time again that no silencer has been or could very well be, fitted to a revolver. The construction of a revolver with Its chambers open at both ends prevents Its equipment with a silencer. Only rifles are thus equipped, and murderers do not go armed with rifles. "Then, again, as has been very carefully explained, the noise of discharge of a silenced rifle would be loud enough to betray the man who fired unless a gun of small calibre and low velocity were used. It has been demonstrated that where a bullet travels at the rate of 1,200 feet or over per second it makes a crack as it tears through the air thai is perceptible for 200 or 300 yards. By means of the silencer the explosive noise is aone away wun, dui ine ounei noise remains. "I see no reason for any agltatior against the silencing device by eithei municipal or state authorities and dc not believe any serious attempt will b< made to annul a very useful invention Surely no such attempts could be successful. If, later, any regulations as tc the sale of silencers are regarded ai desirable to safeguard their use thai would very properly be a matter foi consideration, but no edict forbidding the manufacture or possession of it is to be thought of for a moment Suet a dictum is nonsensical." QUICK WIT SAVED HIM. The Way a Criminal Fooled a Parii Police Chief. in me ' .Memories ui m. uiauue chief of police during the reign of Napoleon III., there is much that is fascinating to lovers of detective stories One of M. Claude's experiences wai that in which he was outwitted by 8 clever criminal who saw in the polic< chiefs resemblance to Beranger wher the poet was at the height of his popularity a means of escape from capture. The criminal had returned tc Paris and was living as a rich student in the Latin quarter, then in the height of its Bohemian splendor. Claude thought to make an e8is> capture of his man by attending a certain famous ballroom at the hour wher dancing was at its height. He tells the story: "I had no difficulty in discovering him suited nmone a swarm of Drettv girls and bewitching danseuses. "Convinced there were but two ways of getting the better of a cunning enemy?surprise and audacity?I walkec straight up to where my rascal was seated. I walked slowly, with steady steps, my eyes on the eyes of my man He was a dark skinned, handsome fellow, with a face as brazen as it was cynical. I saw by on lmpcrceptibh sign that he recognized me. He turned pale?he was mine! "I was almost near enough to capture him when I saw him bend to th( ear of one of his companions. Instantly all the girls surrounded me and stood in a feverish, excited, ardent phalanx before me. They formed ar impenetrable barrier, behind which m> rascal escaped, while the women pressed eagerly upon me, crying out: "'Beransrer! It is Beranger!' "The magic name presented upor the youthful spirits there the effect of an electric spark. All the dancers of the establishment stopped dancing and surrounded me with acclamations The students and young girls rushed up to me, some bearing bouquets, others glass in hand. I was literally covered with flowers, while the whole place rang with shouts, a hundred times repeated, of "Vive Beranger! Vive Beranger!' "I was aghast, and yet I understood the trick. On the point of being collared by me, the man I had market! down had recourse to this shrewd game, which must have succeeded even better than he expected. I certainly had some points of resemblance to the illustrious song maker or the whole world of students and grisettes in the Latin Quarter would not have fallen so readily into his trap. I was as bald as the poet at that time, and at all times I have had a certain good natured, IV sympathetic benevolence in my appearance such as the portraits of Beranger show to this day. n "Well, if the youth of Paris counter- n signed the intentional error of my clev- e er scamp I owed it to my resemblance s to the poet. Though I was tricked, I Ii was well tricked. It was not for me b to own to these giddypates that I was Ii not Beranger, but Claude, the police- s man, the agent of all the prosecutors, c Judges and lawyers who under the a restoration had done so much harm to ii their idol. I escaped from the ovation, h which was becoming delirious under a n? otmlonnHo c\t flnwora " b | m | ' u HE OBEYED ORDER8. u A Young Recruit's Rapid Rise to Title ^ g and Power. o One day a young recruit was stand- n ing guard before the door of the en- a trance of Peter the Great's private b chambers in the palace of St Peters- v burg. He had received orders to ad- h mlt no one. tl As he was passing slowly up and E down before the door Prince Menschl- ft koff, the favorite minister of the czar, o approached and attempted to enter. t< He was stopped by the recruit P The prince, who had the fullest lib- tl erty of calling upon his master at any tl time, sought to push the guard and n pass him. Yet the young man would s not move, but ordered his highness to stand back. a "You Idiot!" shouted the prince, b "Don't you know me? You'll be pun- h Ished for this!" h The recruit smiled and said: 8 "Very well, your highness, but my P orders are peremptory to let nobody a pass." b The prince, exasperated at the fel- u low's Impudence, struck him a blow P In the face with his riding whip. *1 "Strike away, your highness," said 8 the soldier, "but I cannot let you go In." fotor in the rnnm hearlnar the noise- ^ outside, opened the door and Inquired a what it meant, and the prince told t! him. c The czar appeared amused, but said * nothing at the time. tl In the evening, however, he sent for e the prince and the soldier. As they both appeared Peter gave his own cane to the soldier, saying: "That man struck you In the morn- |\ 1 lng. Now you must return the blow to that fellow with my stick." The prince was amazed. "Your maj- j esty," he said, "this common soldier j( is to strike me?" I] "I make him a captain," said Peter. I "But Pm an officer of your majes- f ty's household," objected the prince. t "I make him a colonel of my life t guards and an officer of the house- d hold," said Peter again. "My rank, your majesty knows Is \ that of general," again protested Men- a schlkoff. - >i "Then I make him a general, so that t i the beating you get may come from a t man of your rank." The prince got a sound thrashing In r ' the presence of the czar, and the re- t cruit, who was next day commissioned f a general with a title, was the founder v > of a powerful family whose descend- t i ants are still high In the Imperial *seri vice of Russia. 0 , , , I I I I Dust! Dust! Dust! s i A woman, essaying work In certain d ; rooms In certain cordage factories, has, I r for Initiation, an attack of "mill fever," 1 s says a writer In Everybody's. It Is j t a cold, a temperature, a loss of voice, e a lassitude. It keeps the patient in i her house for a few days. Passing off, g it yields in time to a hoarseness, an ] , asthmatic habit, enfeebling, chronic, c ? in many cases. c These facts, long familiar to older ? . countries, were substantiated for this > country in 1905 through an extraordl- t j narily painstaking Investigation con- r Hnr?tp^ bv Miss Mabel Parton on behalf t of the Woman's Educational and In- 1 f dustrial Union of Boston and the Fed- c j eratlon of Women's Clubs of Massa- s , chusetts. Eleven of sixteen doctors elaborately Interviewed by Miss Parton started, from wide experience among cordage factory operatives, that chron- < lc asthma, chronic catarrh and chronic f bronchitis were unduly prevalent among them. ( This Is certainly bad. But Is It be- 1 cause of something inherent, something 1 irremovable, in_ the making of cords, ' ropes, twines? Not precisely. Pre- 1 clsely, it Is because of dust, extremely r removable dust. When we see men metal polishers dy- 1 Ing by the hundred of throat and lung 1 1 diseases, because of the dust whicn rises Into their nostrils when they press metal objects against whirling 1 > wheels of emery, corundum, carborun- J t dum, we do not say, "Industry Is bad ? t for men." We say, "Dust Is bad for e men." So, sometimes, we put hoods r over the whirling wheels and attach f ' pipes to the hoods and place suction j i fans In the pipes. ' On top of one of the buildings of a | big manufacturing company In Chlca- a f go there Is a pipe througw which, thick i ' as cinders from a smokestack, come 1 y hurled, swirled, scattering, pattering, t 1 fine metal particles, drawn up trom 6 the rooms beneath, sifted to rifted 1 ' drifts all over the roof by the wind, * i lying there a heavy, hell-hued snow- r ' storm of lead, Iron, brans. It was all c of It in the air of the rooms beneath, j" breathed by the men, two years ago. g A suction fan can carry metal. It r ! can carry flax fibre. Neither men nor t women really need breathe a harmful [ quantity of any kind of dust, metallic t or vegetable. c fNEfc ; j JKaAz/ 81] It is economy to us* H It saves labor, health and ||f Where the best foe baking powder or leavei place or do the work ol ALIEN CRIMINAL8. lany of Them Manage to Land on American Soil. On every vessel sailing from Palermo or Naples are a dozen or more lembers of the Camorra or the Mafia, mployed as sailors, coal heavers and tewards, says Everybody's Magazine, t is their fraternal duty to aid their rethren to evade the passport law. t there are six or more members of a hip's compAny earnestly desirous of onceallng a stowaway, the thing can lways be done. There are recorded istances where a stowaway has been unted for three hours by twenty men, fter all the officers and crew have een sent ashore, and ,has remained ndiscovered?because he was sewed p in a mattress in a bunk. When the steamship has tied up at er berth in an American port, the fu itive puts on the uniform of overalls f one of his confederates and easily lakes his way off the pier. And thus, seasoned and hardened criminal, his lood-stained hands against all the rorld as the world's hands are against im, he is turned loose in the land of he free and the home of the brave. Ivery steamship man concerned in the ledlterranean trade knows something f the system; one of them has admlted these facts. It is the theory of the rofessional policeman of America that he Italian criminal comes to us hrough France and Canada. That is onsense; he has neither the intellience nor the means. The ex-convict has the New York ddrpss of nnp or morn formpr mem. era of his society In Italy. He makes Is way to this address as quickly as e may. He Is without work and In a trange country. It may be that hapy chance will find honest work for him t once. But usually It Is not so. He ' ecomes, more likely, a willing and seful tool of the Black Hand, a deendent on the generosity of more horoughly acclimated criminals. The tealthy delivery of blackmailing letera, the stabblngs, the bomb plantngs, and even the murders of the Hack Hand type are done by men who re so Ignorant and so helpless that hey face starvation If they do not arry out the orders of the Black Hand Kll (TO wKa kmiOA AM/4 #n?/1 Ikom n ft iiugo uiiv uvuoc a nu iv.cu mem anci heir surreptitious entry Into the Unltd States. ISLAND HELLO QIRL8. 4any Come From the Best Families In the Philippines. Victor F. Ward, a civil engineer of lanlla, who Is visiting this country on save of absence, speaking of the Fllplno "hello" girls to a Washington lerald reporter, said that they come rom the best families of the islands ake their work more seriously than heir fair-skinned sister of the Occllent. "She has her servant," said Mr. Vard. "who Is also her nhansron. to .ccompany her to the office, carrying ter lunch, and who calls to take her iack to the security of her home when he gong rings on her day's work. "The Spanish custom of never pernitting an unmarried woman above he age of 12 to leave the portals of ter casa unaccompanied still prevails vith both Spaniards and Filipinos of he better class. "The fact that the field of labor, iside from domestic service, for the Filipino girl is so limited, makes em>loyment in this line especially desirible and much sought after by the laughters of the well-to-do Filipinos, lence to be a 'hello* girl in the Phllpplnes is an honor, carrying with it irestige ana entry into me Desi soci(ty. "To serve as 'central' In Manila a rirl must speak and understand Engish, Spanish and Tagalog, and some if them possess a working knowledge >f Chinese, Japanese and other Oriintal tongues. "As the word hurry is unknown in he Far East, so likewise is it often lecessary for an impatient subscriber o curb his temper when telephoning. 3ut the tones of the dulcet voiced perator, 'dhe lyne ees beesee, senor,' loothes him to patience. NATIONAL HOLOCAUST. Jur Fires Cost Millions More Than Germany's Army. We hear much in this peaceful :ountry, says a writer in Everybody's, ibout Germany's burden of militarsm. Well, our national bonfire would jay for the Kaiser's whole army nalntenance and leave a surplus anlually of $20,000,000 for a fireworks und wherewith to appease our pyronaniac appetite. If Germany is apleased by wars and rumors of wars, low much more sorely is the United states oppressed by fire and the evils hat attend it! And the worst of it s that his loss, in great part, Is leedless and superfluous; incredibly ind idiotically stupid and short-sightid. Europe proves so much. No nation here but would be appalled at such a Ire bill as ours. In the forty-nine >rinclpal cities of Europe there is ess than one fire annually (86, to be xact) to every thousand inhabitants, n this country we maintain a gener il average of four and a half flres >er thousand persons. The per capita oss by flames in Italy is 12 cents early; in Germany, 49 cents; in hirty of the largest European cities, I 11 cents, and in 252 American cities he per capita destruction averages 13.10. Boston, in many respects the nost scientifically administered and j nunicipally progressive city in this ountry, has a yearly bill of a million ind a half dollars from loss by burn- < ng. The European city of equal size ;ets along with one-tenth of that saciflce. Oilr debit side of the fire led;er sums up a heavier total than the :ombined losses of any other six civllzed nations in the world. Nothing his side of the sun equals us for ombustion. S, from their most health- |j| operties, give ROYAL its ',||j and principal ingredient WUr I iff Powder I 'atelfPure I ? Royal Baking Powder. I 1 money. >d is required no other H ling agent can take the i Royal Baking Powder. B| tDish-V when you pi dish-water, cleaned like plates^and ps La] it the simplest D \ \ V\ ^nown' Wool \ \ | V do not fade. |i \ \ , J Jw work easy w< H |\ J jlirk package will | Of Interest to Free Masons and Their Friends The firm of Chas. M. Stleff and their Southern Manager have donated a magnificent world renowned Stieff Piano to the Masonic Bazaar to be held in the Charlotte Auditorium April 12, 13, 14, 15. 16, 1909, Charlotte, N. C. The money derived from this Bazaar will be used In the erection of a Masonic Temple, a building that will be a pride to every Mason in the Carollnas. Don't you want this artistic Piano for your lodge, your home or your friend's home? Visit Charlotte during The Bazaar. Reduced rates on all Railroads. ADDRESS C. H. WILMOTH Ch. Music Committee Masonic Bazaar. Chas. M. Stieff Manufacturer of the Artistic Stieff Shaw and Stieff Selfplayer Pianos SOUTHERN WAREROOM: Charlotte, - - - N. C. 5 W. Trade St. C. H. WILMOTH, Manager. Mention this paper. LTJIMIBEiR Wo make a specialty of LUMBER, LUMBER PRODUCTS and BUILDING SUPPLIES. We study these because they are the ground work and the roof of our business. We know what good lumber Is, where to get It, what It is worth, etc. When we make a price to a customer it is with the one idea in view of giving that customer absolute satisfaction in quality and in price. We want to do business with him again. We sell Rough Lumber of all kinds, Dressed Lumber, including Flooring, Celling, Weatherboarding, Framing, Door and Window Frames, Doors, Blinds, Sash, Mantels, and everything else in Lumber that goes into a house. We also sell Lime, Cement, Brick, Hair, Laths, Shingles, Nails and all kinds of Builders' Hardware. When you are in the market for anything we sell, Let Us Make You a Price. Our experience may save you money. J. J. KELLER <fc CO. W Bring Your Logs to Our Saw Mill?Prompt Service?Fair Prices. FOR MEALS OR LURCHES GO to the City Restaurant, in the Rose Building. Regular Meals at 26 cents. Lunches at varying prices, according to orders. Quick and satisfactory service. Your patronage is solicited. D. M. HAWKINS, 3 f 3m Proprietor. i TT% Tr 1 irr>vvrvi SUPPL] ST/ RIBBONS, CARBC FOLD PAPER, N ERS, PAPER F Everything in We are carrying in stock < BONS (for different machines) WRITER PAPERS of various ki the same as desired, In different & in any quantity. We also handle TYPEWR1 desired in XEW OR REBUILT L. M. GRK /ashing Doesn't ?| + rn Like Work | it a little LAVADURA in the ||| China and glassware are Wjfc magic, grease disappears from |f|| ins, milk bottles are thoroughly |l|' I so easily. |p radural oftens the Water" l . best, most harmless cleanser ever i>pj I and flannel goods washed in Lava- . mj& shrink nor harden?colored goods k8 makes washing and all cleaning . wt Tro It anil aM A S ftnt ^ >rove its value. $$1 m it at Grocers and Druggwta emat and 10 cant package* ^ A little Lavadura Is "rf your bath makes you T| leei glad you used it rjffc J \ UVAOURA CHEMICAL CO. |g W. Brown Wylie, John E. Carroll, President 8eo. A Trea* IORKYILLE 10MOMEMT WORKS > YORKVILLE, 8. C. REMEMBER THE DEAD-- + We are prepared to furnish, on short notice, MARBLE or GRANITE HEADSTONES and MONUMENTS, URNS, VASES, GRANITE CURBING and IRON FENCING for cemeteries. We Guarantee Our Workmanship I OUU Jiaicrmi iv 0c w mw _ and Our Prices are Reasonable. I You are cordially invited to visit W our yard, Inspect our stock and make N your selection. If inconvenient for you to come, let us know, and one of our salesmen will call on- you. YORKVTLLE MONUMENT WORKS. 4 ,W We Pay YOU to SATE. A "Bank Book" M Speaks volumes with a mer- j chant If you need credit It I means you are frugal and thus responsible. If not familiar v with the advantages of our \ savings department ^ step In and we will explain How One Dollar Will Start an Account BANK OP HICKORY GROVE j LODGE EMBLEM CARDS THE JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT OP THE ENQUIRER OFFICE IS PREPARED TO FURNISH ON SHORT NOTICE EMBLEM ADDRESS CARDS FOR ALL LODGES AND SOCIETIES. The Cards are of rood quality of r stock and the design or emblem of In annvAnHalA M, , colors and sold. The Price for 100 1 Cards, including Printing of Name J and Names and Numbers of Lodges, J ! is $1.50. Hail Orders will receive I prompt attention. | We can furnish Emblem Cards for & ) the following Fraternal Orders: J| Blue Lodge, F. and A. M. Royal Arch Masons. F. & A. M. and R. A. M. combined. Knights Templar. Shrine and Shrine combinations. K. T., R. A. M., and F. ft A. M. Woodmen of the World. L O. O. F. Order Railway Conductors. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engl* ? neers, Firemen and Trainmen. Jr. O. U. A. M. If you are a member of a Secret Order you should have Cards giving your name and the lodges to which you belong. Cards are especially desirable when traveling, and make good souvenirs of good times. Address L. M. GRIST'S SONS JOB PRINTING DEPT. YORKVILLE ? ? ? S. C. ^ rER I [ES AND I * mONERY | )N PAPER, MANI- * [ANUSCRIPT COVASTENERS. ::::: Rpliahlp Goods. A%VAA?ilVAV V w w mm mm w COLUMBIA TYPEWRITER RIBAND CARBONS, and TYPEnds and weights, and can furnish ilzes, PRINTED OR UNPRINTED ITERS, and can furnish anything LACHINES on short notice. iT'S SONS J M. KJ K/ Vf *. 1 ? | jp