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IK OH (MICH. Camden, S. C. However, ibe niooti can com?'back <t)l right every time. I The problem of making it rain la ?if no mure vexatious than that of mak* lug It sUfp. "It la art author'* privilege to be In accurate," say* a noted writer. Privl . lege? It'a a bablt. After tho surgeons take a man and make hi in over (my regard him aa worth talking ?b?ut. I Ohio man killed while on hla way to return it borrowed umbrella. Prob ably insane, anyhow. Tbe femiulne airship ban material ised. It may be depended upon to luvo iiu wlnga on straigbt. 1 A woman doctor advises polygamy au a cure for our social evils. !? the /ady married, may we ask? ( Paris will have fo train Its river to ftUy out In the country if it insists on acting so foolishly in town. According to a Harvard professor, It Is not o cat's nature to kill ? niou8o. Unnatural brutes, cats! The sky pilot Is no longer a theory, but a visible fact; visible, at least, until he vanishes In the blue dome. A Chicago young man has spent over 1300,000 In two years. This high-flying record, however, was made without a barograph. ' As Illustrating the dangers' of get ting up too early in the morning, a New York man was nm over by a milk wagon. i Yt Is true that a roan has flown from the deck of a ship to the shore, but the day of the aeroplane lifeboat Is not yet In sight. 1 The horse ma.y have to go in order to satisfy a school of prophets, but the hay and oats crop are still large and In good demand. - Aviators, llko other experimenters, are lnnrnlng by their mistakes, but In their case the trouble Is the .mistakes are such costly ones. Chioagoans are threatened with a coal shortage. Not to bo able to buy fuel will be a highly unsatisfactory way of saving money. - Columbus did after all bring upon thlB onco' happy country the peach basket hat. Ho led up to It. He mode it possible here. A sea-going ship went to the rescue of an airship, and It Is now the turn of an airship to r?pay the effort Turn about 1b fair play. 1 An Austrian specialist has found a torm of Idiocy that Is Infections. You n ny have noticed yourBelf how Infec tious is the pun-malting habit. The typewriting championship has y^-ietl in New York again. This Is the whbt time It has been de cided slnco da* before yesterday. i ????? ? ? 1 Silly to get an injunction to keep a woman from going to a ball. Keeping tier dress from getting home In time would be Infinitely more effective. j The prophets were right. Two ninths ago they predicted that the hobble skirt would not hold favor in the shape It had then. It 1b now grow tug worse. That an insane asylum inmate who won a prlio for magasino poetry should not occasion surprise or even considering mo?t mags sine-pet '" aviation fashions will probably soon appear. The public may be do voutly thankful If feminine admirers of the bird men do not take to wear ing biplanes and Antoinettes for head? gear. . ' A New York husband has asked tho Supreme Court to affirm the binding nature of tho wife's marriage promise to "obey." This is a dangerous prece dent, for a wife may retaliate by ask ing a legal enforcement of the hus band's promise to "endow with all his worldly goods." Stealing a red-hot stove bat long figured as "the limit" of predatory daring, If not an Impossible feat But something closely akin to It la report ed from Hoboken, N. J., where a man ta under arrest charged with having carried off. a stove In which a fire was burning. And to make the affair seem bolder the stove was taken from a police station. Ib discussing the relative merits of new style and old style cooking those who cling to tho latter should remember that they formed their opinion of it when they woro^ blessed with old-style appetites. A New Tork minister declares that drinking is decreasing among men, but increasing among women. This latter charge, periodically breaks out. but Its Injustice to women as a gen eral thing has too firm a hold on the illo mind for the charge to bo se ?? jrofltfy entertained. ?1 " l&LV.a BWCTV woman has hoUt the most bird* the flying machines. But >?n always have been cred it public opinion at ft possessing wings ready " 2" Francisco y"V. ??SEL - s ?. :: % . ( Bu tDXfbuv Wmmk Th? And And Jk? tr? wm *11 a-twinkU with it* c??41m K?r? and tlur? witk a m?rry tinkla awayad tk? gift# it kad to b?ar, ?11 w?# now completed for tk? morrow tkat ikould la JVV^th joyous welcome greeted ky tki children round tke tr??, } VA..-I may have dreamed it to, | But tka grace of loaf ago |?? through the buck of midnight and tided there witk me. I JigkJd, ii do^? a ?lcepcr wken dr?em? kold tke kaart of kimt Tie ?pailow* griw tka J?p?r till tki tri? w?i blurred and dim?* T^i?n /marvaloualy* glowing aa of ail tka iliri and tuni ill/ a beauty p??t all knowing. witk tka majaaty that itun#. Stood ft croei of jawal-flama Wkick from Out tkft akadowa cami ? ?oftly cam* a ckantingj\ "To tkc?c, the little oa<?!" Strange glory keld tke tYiflea tnat kung vpon tke treat rv^ling that ?tifle/. all apeeck laid Hold on met tpulia oldan tkftt lad the atoricd kinga :rea*ure* golden and offeringa it gray Ckrii intfcuriea agone. troVked witk mujic ana. keat. of anget wtngi. kn?w that I waj dream)!<itf?tut th^re rob * gloru?u? cliim# AnUvthV^mohiing ?Ur? w?r*v^l?amiag m\tk? Afield oi rfpace ?nd time; ?wly vapiili^d qutt?\w?y, tray Liiilo Hg F nick On I l)if Wilbur D * Noslni \ called mo to her day foe foro yestorday and aed she. wanted mo to help her do something. She had n peec6of pen cil In her hand that was about a Inch dona and (uoKoa as u ?ne naa cnewed it to harpeu It, and she had a lot of. notos made on the back of n bill from the dressmaker. Henry,' she said, I nm puzzled to deth to kno what to give your pa and jrour Unkel Wlllyum for Chrismus. 1 lo wish you would kind of pump them and boo what they would like to hav, and then tell me. without giving it away to them what you are trying to Ond out. All right, ma, i told hor, aiul tried to get a peek at her list to boo if alio had me down for the maggiozlno ro rolvor i want. But she folded up the paper and put It away. Bo that ni?ht when pa and Unkol BUI was sitting In the ltbrarey talkiu about the way Benator Tillman had better look out or he will bo playing In a drama that has a press agent, or else he will be crackln a black snake whip around in Unkel Todib Cabben, I aat pa what ho thot was the right kind of a Chrismus present. You otto be satlBflde with what you get, my young man, ho sod, without coming around and 'blntln. THE CALL OF CHRISTMAT Inspiration of Time Should Bring Us ^Deeper 8en?e of Personal Re sponsibility. It Is Christmas time, and at this moment the call Is to lift up our hearts iuid welcome the Light of the World, to rest for a while in the glory of that light; not. indeed, forgetting the lessons he would have us learn, nor those great servant# of his who taught us to know and love and work, and have passed away; but In thank fulness and adoration ooeldikf^o learn more and more how he would have us serve him. The Inspiration ot this blessed time should bring us a deeper ueQfte of personal responsibility, and of our dttt?"to ear neighbor in regard to questiona touching the general wel fare; and, beyond all, a deeper faith? that faith by which mountains can be removed?and * truer love, a devotion :ihat can hear even the reproach of the cross. If pormlsHlon may but be grant ed to share in bearing a part of that HA JakL i I iitnt hlntlu, 1 told him. I just won dered what your ldeo would be about one for yourself. (Jrato Scott! he Bed. 1 las It come to this? It 1h had euuff to hafto fork ovor for the fool things yure ma buyB for me without havln to pay for some thing you get for me. 1 dont want to get you anything. 1 Bed. I JiiHt want to get yure Idee about what you want. Unkel Hill npoke up and sed most men could tell what they wanted bet* tor by tellln what they dont want. What wbuld you like to hav, unkel IU11? 1 nut him. Well, now, lio Bed, thare te lota of things t would bo glad to nee In ray otockln on ChrlBtraus morning. If I was a woman of courae 1 would yern for dlmund bracelets and neoklaces and rings and gold wotches that 1 could pin on mo somewhare whare a pickpocket could get them without plckln my pocket. Thare never was a pickpocket that could pick a wom an's pocket, xcept ono that lived In | Noo York, and he had been marrld forty times, and ho confessed that | the reeson he got marrld so menny times was just becos he wanted to ! lurn whare a woman keeps her pook ' ot. It was a matter of profeshnul ? pride with him, becos he sed thare 1 was no profit In plckln a womans i pocket when all you got was a bunch of samples and a button hook and a j powder rag and betwene thirty and ' forty Bont?. Hut 1 dont seo what plckln pockets , has to do with Chrlsmus presentB, 1 sod.. You wate till you got marrld, pa i spoke up reel quick. Flnelly pa and Unkle Hill thay got ; me to tell them about ma astln me to I find out what they wanted, and then ! they laffed and laffed, and Unkel Hill I Bed It was a refreahln Indication of ors to Ood nnd man. It 1b therefore not for vis to question whether others are kind to us. ns whether there Is love, gentleness, meekness, sympathy and helpfulness In our own lives, or not. With this spirit of the season reflected and perpetuated In the life, Christmas giving will resolve Itself Into Chrlst-llke giving every day from Chrlstmastlde to Chrlstraaatlde of ev ery year of grace. Christ came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, to suffer, and to die for other*, oven his enemies. Rising far above the lower aim of getting and gaining solely for self, the grateful heart will lilt: "Wh*t--can"i~gtre -to-my -Redeemer who gave himself for me, Md what can I do for others, for Ms sake, and the gospel's ?" That is the reincarna tion, of the Christ spirit, and exalts him who said: "And I, if I.be lifted up. will draw all-m*n unto me?* ? If the average man >?M his way be would only work on the days when he did not have to. Oja those days a always feels that he can do his the change that was takln place when a woman even thought of thlnkln about what you wanted- He sed they usually went ahed and got what they wanted you to want. You tell your ina, pa Bed, that as neor as you can lern what 1 want Is more lialr on my hed, my wlsdum tooth filled, and rockkin chares that 1 wont bump Into with my legs when i get up In the mornln. And If she asts you what I want, unkel Dill aed, you tell her that 1 am noncommittal to a degree, but that you think f would prefer a tobacko pouch that has sashay powder Inside the lining, a collar aud cuff box with pink Batin Inside of It, a cigar cutter that i can hang on my watch nhane whenever 1 want to feel pertickerly ashamed of myaelf, a silver handled UenBil that she can borrow frum me the day after Chrismus and never glv back to me, and a smokin set made out of hammered brass that I can sell to somebuddy for finger bowls. That's rite, pa sed. Rut the best Chrlsmus present for a man, unkel Bill sed, Is to pick out a fifty dollar present for him, that he would hafto pay for when tho bill comes In, and then not get It. (Copyright, 1910, W. D. Neablt.) DARK OUTLOOK DEFOREHAND. "Mamma," asks the little boy, "how I can Santa Claus got Into our Sat, I when wo haven't any chimney?noth ; ing but a Bteam radiator?" "Ho will probably slip fn by the j basement door, darling." "It's all off then," says the lad, With a surprising vigor in the use of slang "That Janitor will put him out of busi ness before he can unpack his sack." Cbt Real Culprit A mistletoe berry Had caught in her hair I She wasn't to blame, She had not put it there, That mistletoe berry Ariitt in befhair. \ * Up* red As a cherry, 7 It hardly was fhir,? Yet he wasn't to blame, For it's clear that the same Was the fault of the beny That caught in her hair.?| "? v *. ? ? SECRETARY BALUNCER EXONERATED III mi APTC* CLKVEN MONTH# 1NVMTI QATION COMMITTCK MAKKS 19 FINAL REPORT. G. 0. P. REPORT 18 ADOPTED 4 ?' a ?. . \ 7?* '* ':,'t v ! Republican Member? of Probing Com mlttee day Cabinet Officer Hae ??on Persecuted. Waahlngtou.?The Ballinger<Plncbot investigating committee, after eleven moptbs of work, made IU final re port to both houses of cougress. In tbe opinion of seven llepublloan mem bers, a majority of the committee, Secretary tialllnger "honeatly and faithfully performed the dutlea of bla high office with an eye alngle to foe public interest." In the opinion of the four Demo crats Mr. Ualllnger *haa not been true to tbe truat reposed In him aa secre tary, of the Interior and should be re-, quested by tbe proper authorities to' resign bis office." Doth , reports, together with the In* dependent report of Representative Madison (Rep.), also adverse to Mr Halllnger, were offered in the senate RICHARD A. BALLINQER Secretary of the Interior* by Senator Nelson and in the house by Representative, McCall. Their pre sentation followed a meeting of the full committee. Tho reports were accepted in both bouses without comment. Th* plan of action to be followed by the Demo crats has not been determined upon, but it is understood a resolution will be presented to carry out the recom mendation made for the socretary'e removal. After stating that the evidence pre sented related in the main to charges of various kinds against Mr. Balllnger, and that these came chiefly from two sources ? L. K. Giavis and Gifford Finchot ? the majority announced the following conclusion: "The evidence has wholly -failed to make out a case. Neither any fact proved nor all the facts put together exhibit Mr. Ballinger as being any thing but a competent and honorable gentleman, honestly and faithfully performing the duties of his high office with an eye single to the public Interest." COST OF RECENT CAMPAIGN. Democrats Spont ' Leas Money Than the Republicans^? Washington.?The . Republican con? gresslonal committee received 177,461 and disbursed $74,373, while the Dem ocratic congressional committee re ceived $27,790 and disbursed $27,771 during the recent campaign, accord ing to reports filed with the clerk of the house of representatlvsi. These reports were made In accord ance with the act of June 25, 1010, pro viding for publlolty of contributions. The Republican report showa many large expenditures in comparison with Democratic disbursement?. The print* ing bills wer4 far larger and tho same was true of Uems for rent, telegraph and telephone service and balarles. In twelve districts tho Republicans expended $1,000 cash, losing six dis tricts and winning bIx. More Hookworm Experts, Mobile, Ala.?It ie announced that by January 1 two more field workers will be placed in Alabama by the Rockefeller commission to combal the jookworm. The workers already In the field are meeting with success. Alabama Masons Issue Bonds. Montgomery, Ala.?A bond Issue of $50,000 was authorized by the- Ala bama Masonic Grand Lodge to sup plcment $60,000 in hand for tho erec tion of a home in Montgombry for Masonic widows and orphans. Deposed Sultan Loses $4,50Q,000. Lelpsic, Germany.?The suit instl ~Ttmra~1>y Teprtese*rtaHves~?twthe. Turk ish government against the Retch hank, to compel that institution to surrender $4,500,000, which it hsia on ?lepoelt to the credit of the deposed jultan, Abdul Hftmld, came before Ihe supreme court. Abdul Hamtd had exacted a solemn agreement that the unds should not b? withdrawn ex :opt on presentation of an order on its hand and seal. The supreme leclded the bank must pay the money 0 the government. Lynchburg Votes for Saloons. Lynchbqrf, Va.?Lfljohburg turned from tha no-lloense policy/which h?JT prevailed also# March. 1908, and fa vored the roturn of the saloon by a majority of SB In a total vote votes. The result was a surprise to tha '4ry#," for they wore of victory, tfhs '*w?ta>' are over their victory. League will oharglnt la that make WBm The Human Heart The heart U ? woailrittl double pump, through the . Mtkn of whtob the Wood ilrwua is kept swcepm* r?w4 m4 r?ua4 through ll?'b?d y it tkc rate oI ??*?? milee m hour. " R?n?ab?r this, that our bodies . wilt aot itud the itrtia of over-work without good, ' pure blood ur aor? tk?u the engine caa rua smooth ly without oil." After nuy years oI ?tu4y in the eotive practice of medieioe, Dr. It. V. Pierce lound that whoa tho itooae^ waa out of order, tha blood impure aod there ware symptom* of general break down, a toole made of tho glyoerie extract of certain roote waa tha boat corrective. Thia ha called Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery ?Mlaallac* lb* ton) . D'?oov?it" h?l|>. lb* ?turnach M ?UM<Ud with ?WMlvo liMur'ti*o*peci?,,y?d?ptcdt?di?^M bvn, (or thla-MoodJ? .i."? l <HHJ,v*le*eenc? from v-rlou. Dr. Pferc*'. flT lhoM wbo ?!*?*? 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Louis Wlaria, the Newark artist, wore a gloomy look on hia usually cheerful face. "It has just struck me," he aald to Charles Stasse, "that my shoes don't cost me as much aa ray youngster's." "Then what are you complaining about?" aaked Stasae, Progress In Railroading. "Yea," says the lady whose dress case is covered with strange foreign labels, "the way railroads are run nowadays is a great improvement over what they were 50 years ago." "But surely you had no experience as a traveler 60 years ago/' says her friend. "I don't mean that. But nowadays, don't you notice, when there iu a wreck it ie always had at some point convenient to a dusted of farm hotflfcs where the viotlmg can go for coffee and to get warm?" Tribute to Painter's Skill. Otto of the still life paintings by Jan van Huysen In the muieum at The Hague was recently Injured, but it ia believed the perpetrator was neither vandal nor thfef. The picture represents a basket of fruit on which a number of Insects have gathered. On a pale yellow ap ple, which Is the centerpiece In the duster of fruit, is a large fir, painted so true to nature, so say the officials of the gallery, that the canvas was injured by some one who endeavored to "shoo" It and brought his cane or hand too close to the canvas. "A tribute to the painter's genius," says Ihe letter recording the fact, "for which the work had to suffer." EAGER TO WORK. Health Regained by Right Food. The average healthy man or woman la usually eager to be busy at some usefuV taak or employment. But let dyspepsia or Indigestion get hold of one, and all endeavor becomes a burden. ^"Ayear agO.aftarrecovering from an operation," wrltee a Michigan lady, "my stomach and nerves began to give me much trouble. "At times my appetite waa vora cious, but when Indulged, indigestion followed. Other times I had no appe tite whatever. The food I took did not nourish me and I grew weaker than over. ? v.-'" y "I lost Interest in everything and wanted to be alone. 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