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THURSDAY, JUN* 24. 1915.
WEATHER FORECAST
Fair Thursday and Friday.
Scientific salesmanship Is defined
as "coining a dresa ault to a man who
went Into the store to buy a celluloid
collar."
o
Tbs Spanish Cabinet resigned Tues
day. Since the British Cabinet wan
reorganised, the Portuguese Cabinet
resigned and the Cabinet of the Unit
ed States Jost a member, we surmise
cabinet timber will be In demand all
around before long.
When the Italians, Greeks, Serbs
and Mont?n?grine get through carry
ing Albania, there won't be any need
for the powers to hunt up another
wobbly Prince William of Wied to gov
ern it. It will be very thoroughly
governed, all right
In view of the dismissal of Dr. Scott
Nearing by the trustees of the Uni-'
vi-1 si ty of Pennsylvania, apparently as
a punishment for expressing opinion
hostile to child labor and allied forms
of Industrial wrong, tho suggestion is
made th af. Pennsylvania's famous Lib
erty Bell be hung tor a while in the
main building of tho state .university.
-o
Every nation has friends and apolo
gists except Austria. Every nation
has credit except Austria. Every na
tion bas Ita own dependable military
establishment except Austria. Tho
only standing that the distressed Dual
Kingdom now has, moral or financial,
sesma due to Germany. And lt is pos
sible that, whatever ia left of Austria
after tho war wUl be lncorpotated in
the sew German empire..
? ? ? o " -
Breathes there a mah with soul ap
dead- who.never to himself hath said,
-That editor has quite a head. I'm
glad I take hts paper'. He's got a raft
of grit and sand; ho prints the news
nt al) the land; he boosts tho town to
beat the band, and that's the proper
ifter in the
HEALTH MOA Kl) AFTER ALCOHOL.
Alcohol is being attacked from a
new angie in New York city. Health
Commissioner Coldwater hun decided
that as the custodian of the people's
health, he is under obligation to fight
the drink evil just aa definitely as be
fights tuberculosis or smallpox. He
has, therefore, entered upon an of
ficial publicity campaign, to bring
home to all classes of citizen? the risks
they assume hy indulging in any kind
of alcoholic liquor. He baa appointed
an advisory committee of 17G mem
bers to plan the campaign and pre
pare ammunition. The summer will
be devoted to preparation, and the big
"drive" against the Demon Rum will
begin in the fall. The commissioner
will make use of every available means
or putting his temperance propaganda
before tho public. The city ls to be
deluged with lectures, newspaper ar
ticles, free panphlets, etc. It is to
be as systematic and thorough aa any
anti-tuberculosis or swat-the-fly cam
paign. Some of the pamphlets have
already appeared, There are two sets,
one for "bglbbrows" and the tohcr,
written in pictureesque slang-dialogue,
for "lowbrows."
"Tbls is In no sense a prohibition
movement, and has nothing whatever
to do with legislation," says Dr. Gold
water. "A diminution in the consump
tion of nicohol by the community
..ould mean lesB tuberculosis, less
poverty, less dependency, less pres
sure on our hospitals, asylums and
Jails. The drinking of parents affects
the vitality of children. Drinking
mothers lose twice as roany babies as
do sober mothers. More alcoholism
ls found in the parents of feeble-mind
ed children than in the parents of nor
mal children.
"The children of drinkers develop
mqre slowly and do poorer school
work than do the children of total
abstainers. Alcohol Impairs the tone
of the muscles and lessens the product
of laborers; it depreciates the skill
and endurance pf artisans. It Impairs
memory, multiplies industrial acci
dents, causes chronic disease of the
heart, liver .stomach and kidneys, in
creases thc death rate from pneu
monia, lessens' natural Immunity to
Infectious diseases. These are mat
ters of scientific fact, and It is the
duty of the department of health to
lay these facts before the people..
New Crises in Torn Mexico.-Head
line. They live 'em down there.
KENTUCKY'S MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS
Other times, other manners. Ken
tucky, long known for ita moonshine
whiskey, is Alli fond of moonlight
nights, but lt ia using them now not
in making the stuff which destroys
bodies, but the stuff which builds
minds and souls.
In other words, Kentucky ls uslni
its fine moonlight nights for encour
aging the spread of education among
the rural population. "No illiteracy
in Kentucky by 1920," is the slogan of
the band of educators who are busy
wita this great work.
Special committees are now being
named by county superintendents of
schools. The members of these com
mittees. will take the work ot thia
year's organisation In hand. .
"The ablest speakers of the state,**
says the Owensboro Messenger,
"have been selected io gc cut into
districts not their >own and address
the people on this important subject,
and incidentally they will advocate
the cause of popular education gen
erally and other good progressive
ideas will be voiced by them. The
time Is opportune.
The more ono studlea the ovlls and
discomforts under which moat human
beings labor, the more one realize?
how large a part of t.\o burden ia duo
to Ignorance, Ia undertaking to see
that every man, woman and child
within its confines Is able to read and
write before the next Ave yean have
gone by, Kentucky ia setting a noble
oxample to the nation.
The process Ik first to send theso
organisera and speakers ont among
the people In remoto districts to
arouse interest, and U> follow this
with the "moonlight schools.* Peo
ple wno will walk eight milea at night
after hard days to go to school want
to learn. They and their children^
will profit by the fra that they have
learned, no matter hofw Httle. One lit
tle break In the dam which contains
the,stream of knowledge, and it will
Core* its own \yay through. Th? day ot
KRiftial labor pure and simple ia past,
nftsfflj ?TW**T 'need? trained minds, to
HHM??J^sjpB probloms. Tho fu
BBSSBS^BBBWMB^^" ?> ?>tt*try de
^HH^fl^^^HHHftttality of those
?rl^^H^nsj^HS^^H^H^HK^' Kentucky,
THE GROW
(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
Our great South, after emergence
from the dire poverty following the
War lietween the Sections, the mis
eries of Reconstruction and the long
period of doubt before her splendid
efforts at rehabilitation gave brilliant
success, has naen also from the brief
discouragement of financia), conditions
produced by foreign war?. lu testi
mony of this wo have the voices, liter
ally, of the wheelB of progress in all
thone states, telling of constant growth
In manufactures.
At Asheville, S. C., this week will
occur the meeting of the Southern
Textile association, a special feature
of which will be award of cash prizes,
offered '"by Southern cotton manufac
turers, for thc finest cotton gurments
worn by the members and their
ladies. Many member? will appcur in
Hillls made from cotton woven at their
own mills.
From trade journals it is learned
that:
The company operating six consider
able mills at Spray and vicinity,
North Carolina, will erect a new cen
tral steum power plant of 3,000 horse
power, a new weaving mill and one to
produce wide sheeting, at an estimated
cont of $500,000.
At Titusvlle, Fla., a company has
been capitalized at $1,000,900 for erect
ing works und operating mills for
bagging and for twine from fibre of
pnlmet o leaves. Here are invention
and enterprise to help supply the great
twine market. We have read thc story j
of thc recent movement to obtain sisal
from Mexico.
Memphis, Tenn., proposes new cot
ton mills and a modern textile plant,
through a company with a capital of
$500,000, and Johnson City, that
state, plana for a cotton mill -nd two
knitting milla. A company at Chat
tanooga, In connection with one at
Piedmont, Ala., will make improveme
ments to bring their equipment up to
40,000 spindles.
Long Shoals, N. C., will have a
plant of 3.264 spinning and 1,600 twist
ing spindles for cotton pams, and .at
Valdese, that state, there will be an
investment of $126,000 in a mill for |
producing embroideries, laces and in
sertion.
At Sllurla ind Sylacauga, Ala., mills
HELPING I
(Chicago '
A suggestive glimpse of the poss!
offered by the news of tho inaugurate
I amelioration of the condition of Jews t
It ls the belief," explains the repo
establishing the civil and polttioal rigl
be settled for all time through the li
negotiation of peace terms at the code
A more significant hint that the da;
given us. It the United States is to b
the powers which rearrange the world
is to undertake to shape the internal al
ot alien Jews, why will it not be bound
the Finns in Russia, the Poles In Genni
anian, Roumanians, Croats, etc., etc., in ?
have representatives in America?
And if the United States speaks for
j what shall be our commitments in ei
I to wlnT
Unquestionably we, cannot Involve
loma ot Europe without paying a price
conditions of all oppressed. It might t
meantime .what lt is willing to pay fi
and whether we have not problems enc
Perhaps foreign opinion will be re
I arrives, but atibe present moment we
accepted as guide, philosopher, andarlo
PRESS CC
Britain and Mexico.
(Charleston Post.)
The British government has follow
ed the lead ot the United States In In
structions, to its cltlccns to keep out
of Mexico. Slr Edward Grey baa is
sued a warning to that effect, d eclaring
that In view ot tho oxlstlng state of af
fairs In Mexico Britons should not i
visit the country unless absolutely
obliged to. That may .moan little or
much, aii it applies. At tho present !
time Groat Britain ls In no position
to take on a foreign problem aside
from the one great question to which
all the onergies of the empire are' de- j
voted, and the simplest treatment of]
the Mexican situation and British In
terests there ls an avlodance of any
thing that might bring up large ques
tions. At the same time, lt ls not to {:
be supposed that the British govern- ll
ment, were lt not greatly preoccupied, ]
would,not insist on protection of ital
eitisena and their property ta Mexicos]
British interests in the southern re-l
publie are very great, especially tit]
the oil regions. By its present wara?
lng to Britons the government cal I a at
tention to tha anarchy prevailing; in
Mexico. whicU. by Implication, may be
charged to tho failure of the Hotted
States to assert the authority to which
the Monroe doctrine may be held to
bind lt, cud lt serves, mu.-...vcr, to
make note of the fact that Great Brit
ain la still interested in Mexican af
fairs. It ls a safe conclusion that
when the great war U over, Britain
wi"?? have rz-zzti moro to sajr a?mut
what shouiii be the state of affairs in
[Mexico, if tho mesa tn that republic ls
i hot by then cleared up, than abe ln
[cHncs to nt present.
Number sf Drag .
(Journal American Met
Since the passage
?narcotic law namer
have appeared in i
Heal journals rc
addicts I
f these s
no accurate,
base any
the
writers
Scientific
ING SOUTH
with 1.200 looms and C6.000 spindlo? |
will change from ?team to electric
power, secured from Birmingham. |
Wost Point, Ga., will have another new
otton duck mill of 500 loom? and I
25,000 spindles. Rossville, in that
state, is working night and duy and
shipping hosiery to Australia, England.
KiiHsIa, France, Canada, South Amer
ican states, Italy and points in Af
rica.
Ame g other places reporting new
mills or Improvements and additions
aro Columbus, Griffin, Korsythe,
GuincBville and Home, in Georgiu;
Granito Falls, Coates, Kockville
Asheville and Albemarle, N. C., and
Newport, Tenn.
In rallrads considerable Improve
ments arc in progress in the South.
There is extension of the Carolna,
Greenville and orthern (electric),
from Kingsport, Tenn., southwest to
Nowport, that state, 75 miles, with
live steel bridges; also, projected ex
ensiotiH from Kingsport east to Bristol
and from Newport west to Knoxville.
There mny come also extension of tho
Kanawha Valley traction, 25 miles
from Chnrlestion. W. Va., southeast to
Montgomery. There is contemplated
North Carolina traction inc from
High Point, that state, via Winston
Salem, to Chambersburg, Va., 137
miles. This will have traffic In to
bacco, timber and coal The WnycroBfl
& Western company is considering an
extension from Milltown, Ga., to Ray's
Mill, to connect with the Georgia &
Florida.
In Florida the East and West Coast
Line , from Bradentown to Arcadia,
52 milos, has been recently completed
ami is in full operation. This road
connects two great lines of Florida,
the Seaboard Air Line at Bradentown
and' the Atlantic Coast Line at Ar
cadia, and opens up a great fruit, gar
den truck and timber country. Already
there ls talk of continuing it across
the state to connect at Miami with the
Florida East Coast.
Texas has in contemplation a line
from Dallas northwest to Wichita
Falls. Plans are under way for an
electric line of 35 miles between Fay
ette, W. Vs., on the Chesapeake &
Ohio, and tha town of Beckley.
The South is not only holding its
own, but is going ahead all the time.
N EUROPE,-J
Tribune.) ' I
blllties of our intert?atioJM figure is
n of a nation-wide mov?ant fir tho
hroughout the world,
rt, "that the question o?jsrmanently
ts of Jews throughout n world can
ifluence of the United gSateg at tho
luslon of the European Kir."
/ of our isloation is pasfjias not been
e represented at the ccgycU table of
after tho war, and j{ Mps seated lt
ratrs of European stated jfcr th? relief
Lo speak for the Irish1 Io$9r%at BrltaSt^'
iny and KuBsla, Giei?btl?fcBtoi
Vustrlh-Hungary, and whatever peoples
all these, how will It bfmricelved and
changer for the coaceaMfe wa hope
ourselves tn the most Silicate prob
for the privilege of aaHloratlag the]
e well for America to wMsidet in the
>r this role) of univers?! monitorshlp
.ugh to solve within oui hwn borders,
versed as to our -vfcrjfckt Jberoro p.
believe we should not pel unanimously
From-figures derived fr< m tho opera
tion ot the food and droj taws bf Ten
nessee Commissioner Br wn estimate?
that there: ara appro: imateiy 6,400
drug addicts in that st tte. As Ten
nessee comprises about . 1*3 Per cent
of *ho'entire, population ot the coun
try, this would indldati that t here
are about 215.000 drug addicts in the
Unlt?.?tS^ss. "
"But," says Mr, Brow i, ^renneaaee,
being an agricultural m no and there
fore decidedly more twWram such ad
dicts than those state?|?te;re the pres
sure of no modern'uB:is harder, we
Hiiould add 10 per oea?k-lexHt to thia
untaber on the assutfHUoVt that the
drug addicts throughflK thc country
will leverage' 10 per ?Mat higher In
than, ta Tennessee, {Rfiog in round
numbers 247.000 druggletlms for the
entire country." Ott msc figures he
concludes that 250,00?* a maximum
oetimato and that the insicts annually
uso . about $6,500,000 "worth ot drugs
unnecessarily. Th?sefS?orea, aa Mr.,
Brown says, am bad tjfe&ugb, but they
aro different from JM 3,000,000 qr
?(.eO.OOO drug addinF.which have
been claimed ' by rjme censational
?writers. - m > .
The "Tigers* oi
State!
law be not
of Charleston
people oot
gufotead at j
bas boen
Nthrea years,
tO fiod bili> ;
Fnnlsbmeht
?ho criminal
pt proceo?
intanctioriB
of the con
(Th?
If the whiskey
?enforced by the
it must be enforced i
side of the city or
ill.
* Tho same old qt
before the State iwi
The grand Juries
gainst "blind tige*
of *.offenders again?
codo by bringing
Inga again violator
ta contrary to the
tl tut lon.
Sending constablef<5iWP)^^BBjL_
the hundred to barry- the "tlgerV* TsH
another method. It the State gov
ernment can command a sufficient'
number of coostabVca and find the
?tnoaey to pay them and keep on using
PJtbem and paying them lt can enforce
? Ifcw m Chaeieatoc.
Governor Manning wilt exbauM
legitimate resonrco to suppress
unlawful sale ot ??quota la Char*
make the laws,
a oi see that law
ta the face
Editors and Na
(Chicago Tribune.)
from The Tribune giving Admiral
Fiske's criticism ?/ !>ur naval appro
priation and a long editorial from the
Des Moines Register and Leader quot- j
?asfj? copiously from Secretary Daniels.
He asks, "How is. the uninitiated to]
know what to believe when authorities [
differ so widely?" ?
Authorities do not differ so widely. I
Secretary Daniels ls not an authority
on the navy* Ho. ls tho editor of &
ern newspaper who holds a po- '
job for political reasons, and his I
ent on naval affairs, in the little j
that a man of bia training and j
mental caliber can be said to havel
judgment on naval problems, is per
verted by the ostrich optimism which
be aliares witt* his admired former as
sociate. Mr. Bryan.
* Admiral Fiske, on the other, hand, is
an authority lc every sense . ot the |
? word and one of tho ablest officers in
tlie ser vico. Mora than that, bai-SS-a?'
exceptionally courageous and high
minded citizen who is courting offi
cial disfavor by refusing to hold his]
?peace wh?m department regulation Is;
mussling the men who know, willie the
editor and politician who si secretary
of the navy is free to sow bia glitter
ing generalities and showy irrelevan-j
?rat without check.
. The. letter quoted In the Register I
arid Leader's editorial ' and the edito- j
rial itself are political documenta.
Net thur meets nor apparently ts based |
on an attempt to understand the spe
cific criticisms brought bf the Navy)
league and toher critics of our eon
rty it is immaterial whether the Wil
son administration hos done more for
preparedness than its predecessors.
These critics know no politics in their
propaganda; they realise better than
most politicians that there has boen nu
partisan distinction in tho neglect and
mishandling ot on? navy and army
affairs. The Republican party, in fact,
has moro tr answer for on thia score
than the Democratic because it bas
bad more years ot power and opport
tunly.
. But there ia' no excuse at this stage j
ot tho public discussion on national
defense for an utterance in a responsi
ble ne wepaper, a? .loose in its allega
tion of fact and in ita reasoning as inj
the Register and Leader editorial. The
first misstatement is gross, and it is
in the opening paragraph, which as
serts that "In view of the fact that
more thaw half of the total revenues
ot tho country are used,fcr'the army
and navy and things Incidental tn the
maintenance of a military es?abUsh
! merit, lt should go without saying that1
thep must bo someiblng to. ahofw for
?ore th AB $600,000,000 a year Ameri
ca? money."
Th?, total appropriation for the nary
In Isis-IS was less thun ?ME?000.Co0;
theijor the army. Including fcriltl
oatfons. was leas than $l0.?.?J0,O0O, a
total ot-less than $2^,060.000 instead
ot the *eGO,OOO,O00 charged. If the
Rgelater and Leader propases to add
the pension appropriation or $r> :
i, th? strm even thea' woulff tall
(5,000.000 short, but charging the
salon br?4en.io the army and navy
1 had
Ixe In
miscomprehension o? the defense prob
lem, knocking down straw msn and
sotting up non sequitur? to take their
place. The fact that we are spending
"an enourmous aiv-onnt of money or
>.ae navy ?Ad on rAilltary equipment
ls no an* wer to thu charge by author'
tative critics that, our defenses* are In
adequate. On the contrary, these crit
ics constantly emphasis? thia fact, and
th? relevant argument bsaed on tho
fact 1* that wa-ought to get m?re than
we do tor the money we s&cnd. We
.You understand what]
it isn't a promise that
takes nor defects in
service.
If you guarantee an a<
doesn't mean that you
it; but if he doesn't yoi
Jhat's our guarantee ;|
nor our goods.
Sometimes a cause of
appear 'till after the t(
antee covers that.
We watch qualities ai
continuously; but if
after the test of wear,
a liberal make-good
ever heard of.
Palm Beach Suits $1
Priestley's Mohairs
Tropicloth and Silkll
TU
val Authorities
an get this more by taking a course
tir opposite to that of the Reg
nnd 'Leader-by listening ?Tex"
tarts and not to political eu ito rs in
ut of office. Bragging about our I
readnaughts which MO me criticizes !
oes not suppy deficiencies existing in !
the navy any more than muxzllng Com
mander Yates Sterling prevented tho
loss of a submarine in Honolulu har
bor or tho mishaps suffered by others
Bn the recent naval maneuvers which
frightened our ebullient Mr. Daniels j
BptO appointing Capt. Grant to reor
gan'ze that branch of the service.
Our navy is too small for our re
sponsibilities; in two oceans. Its make
Hap., ia defective, lacking destroyer?,
submarines, aeroplanes and battle
bruisers. Its personnel ls weak. Tho
higher officers do not reach high
command until they are ready for re
tirement and there are fewer trained
officers in proportion to men than in
Hmy navy, and we have virtually no re
scrve, a fatal lack after war losses
begin.
I The ba?V defect in our defense pol
icy is congressional meddling with ex
pert m Itters. The greatest navy In
the wor uki not hold ita place live |
rears u : such a plan. Parliament
spprop rees. It is the British naval
expert tnat Bpends. We need a coun
rfl of national defense to develop abd
m a tain a comprehensive and harmo
alons pvograjn of and and sea defuse,
ibis council to combine representatives
sf the legislature, or appropriating
x>wer, and of the executive, or spend
ing power.
An editorial which shows In very
tement its ignorance ot facts and
principles and Its want of common
e thought on the subject ot na-;
Ional defense naturally does not hesi
te throw off tho claim that "tho
nation ia better prepared for war than
wer in the nearly 160 years of its ex
istence." If thlB, wore conceded lt j
would rasan next to nothing, since our [
history Shows that we always havel
seen- wastefully and pitifully unpre
pared for war before our wars began.
Bal those who give thought to condi
tions know that relatively we are tar
less pr?parer! than ever because the
war equipment of great powers han
Tar outstripped our very slight recent
tdvance In efficiency. Our rcsponsl
allltles end our chances ot dangerous
mtanglemenls are many times grenier 1
than they hive been in tue past. That f
aught to be obvious.
Finally, we advise our Inquiring!
Iowa reader to get in touch withrtho!
patriotic and well Informed men who!
in the Navy leagu and tho Army league
sro trying to combat tha traditional
gnomss?j^a unsafe and unbalanced
mtimism which express themselves lo !
the "we kia lick all creation" brag!
md In such criminal twaddle as the!
laceration ot our late secretary ot j
?tate that at the president's call a
Billion asen in arms would rally to j
Lo country's defense before set ot
nome Ihftrge Onions.
E. T. Jones, colored, brought td tie;
item office P numb?? of big pearl par
loO.i rateed lu his garden ip the city,
lone* stated that he ned qu?te a Horn
ier elthem and they ar* probably th*
largest, ever rateadi jhore, oom nt
ftr9HP^iWVM^|^MfMMRXB9S9SjnvSBSaasi
pounds. He sold ?18 worth from a
garden plot 30x30 feet and had all be
could use himself.-Sumter Item.
Police Chief Butfy.
We douH' claim to have the hand
somest and most artistically dressed
Miicf of pollco in tho world, but whan
it comes to killing mad-dogv he haa
the oioat of them backed off of tho
block-he has kitted some doge re
gally.-The Jeffersonian.
"guafantee" means:
here shall be no mi;
our merchandise
. . v.'
Mp* , f.-j?.
count, for adriena it
fromise that he'll?>ay
will.
we're not infa/?ible*
issatisf action doesn't
st of weajj, our guar
.
carefully as we can
lou are not satisfied
|ome back; you'll find
spirit-the best you
1 ?
to $10
8.50 to $12.50 ..v
like $5 and $ 10 \?
Pt_?CA ? Xu**?*
WIT AND HUMOR.
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An Intelligent-Cigar.
. "Have yon a ^mn'tcliT
chronic bore, who had di
Hie busy man's office for a chat,
cigar has gone but."
'lt seems to .have the advantage of
you," remarked the busy mau.
"How's that?" queried.the chronic
bore.
'It knows what it ought to do," re
I plied the busy man.
His Salary.
. Mr. Xrr-- a Jawyer, was much ac
customed to the habit of lecturing
kia clerks, his office boy coming In tor
au unusual amount of admonition
? whenever occasion called for fl, and
sometimes, tpben it did not. That his
v.-ords were appreciated was, made
quite evident to Mr. X- one day
when a conversation between his and
another office boy -on the same 'loor
waa repeated to him.
'I get $10,000 a year." said Mr. X-'s
lad.
"I donvt think !" ejaculated the oth
er boy, derisively.
"Honest I. do." said, Tommy, $5
a week In cash and the rest in legal
advice. "
Not tn Da? Farsa.
An old soldier, after leaving the
British army? wrote tc his colonel In
the'following terms: "Sir-Attar all
I'v"o suffered, tell the army to go to
Hades." A week or so later he re
ceived a reply iu the usual official
manner: "Slr-Ahy suggestions or In
quiries as to the movement ot troops
mpst bo entered on Army Form 19$, a
copy ot which is inclosed."
* ABOUT THE STATE. *
Aa Easy Winner.
The lady entered the. crowded oar
and glanced around. Choosing a
meek-looking roan, sh epoicd herself
in front of him and waited. ..
But the man did not more. She wait
ed longer. Then he looked up and
said :
"Madame, ? am sorry that I can not
offer you my seat, ss I am a member,
ot the Sit SU11 Club."
The lady smiled sweetly.
"That's quite ail Haht," she said;
"but i hupp yoe will ?orsive me look
ing at you. I am'a member ot the
Stand-and-Stare club, you know."
The car weat on. He sat alUI, and
she stood and stared. .
At last he could aland lt no longer.
Rising from his scat, ho said cou rte
oufilr *
"Ps-ay take my scat, madame I stn,
going to resign from my club and ivlvt
yours."
Ha ??amt lt.
The sweet young thing was lost in
a bllxsfal reverie, while her movher
t&?.near, darn*^?r tho family stock
means.
Mother blt of? h?r wool savagely as,
she started OB an extra had hole.
"George m?a-3e business I hop*,"
sba said sternly.
Bat Tab Oas Larger.
Mr. F. M. Brlckman haa on exhl
. ton in one of the show windows ot
the Phoenix Furniture company Ava
white onion or the White Pearl va
riety, which weigh seven and one
ha?f Kovmdfl, the largest of tba flvo