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"Play cards with a man for an hour, and you will know him better than if you had met him in the drawing room every evening for a year," says a German writer. Stopped in Time. Congressman John T. Lenahan, of the Luzerne bar, was once engaged in a bribery case and was questioning a prominent witness. "Have you yourself ever refused a bribe?" he asked. "No, but?" "That's all!" thundered John. Later on Mr. Lenahan was asked why he dismissed the witness so soon. "Because," he replied, "I knew by the 'but' that he was going to tell me no one had ever attempted to bribehim."?The Philadelphia Record. Bricrht an n /j~k * A brigl constructi ! \ The be: MT f!! 1,1!IV111 U JW.'jPlI 1 '. . .. . , _ .... MYJNYON'S EMINENT DOCTORS AT i YOUR SERVICE FREE. Not a Penny to Pay For the Fullest Medical Examination. If you are in doubt as to the cause of your disease mail us a postal requesting amedical examination blank, which you will fill out and return to ! us. 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By George, I call it life! i ?Richard Wightman, in Success, Mag- ? azine. , , \ GABRIEL PERLEY, GUIDE, t; e ? ^ By PERSIS WHITE. Q i 9<^9^9<^0<^'Q9^>9^>9^y9^>9 , Gabriel Perley, guide, looked at my suitcase suspiciously. I looked at ] it, too, and shuddered. He was thin, 2 wiry and surly, with a mouth like a 2 muscalbnge. . > < "Ain't you leaving at a funny j time?" he quizzed. His accent was 1 that of a French Canadian halfbreed, 1 and such a mongrel he was. ? >(T oKnuM wolf 'f f rvr +V?of 1 ,x guwum'nun, ^ " w v tuuu j business." ? j "Day after to-morrow," he mused, fishily. , '; "Yes," I snapped, "I know when *] the season opens as well as yon do." c Gabriel replied only by taking some s pink gum from his mouth and wrap- j ping it in a dirty scrap of birch bark; i then he looked at the suitcase again, i My eyes, too, were magneted back I to it. "Look here," he whispered, draw- i ing too close and leering horribly; c "you know I'm a poor man. All the j snowshoes I made last winter only \ brought me in $80, and that's gone, i And, besides, you know I'm onto you i and your game." Here he stopped, c aware that the glint of his eyes was 1 more eloquent than words. "In half i an hour we 11 be at Greenville, and i then It will be up to you to take your c choice. You can eittter?" 1 Just at that instant my suitcase fell 1 on its side and I reeled. Gabriel laughed. J "Confound it!" I growled; "these i bathtub boats are all right enough, J but why do they need to play billiards ? with the landings like that?" \ Gabriel made no answer. The Katahdin was whiffing herself away from the wharf. I could make out Greeni ' ville now?a higgeldy-piggledy town, r in the heart of the great Maine forest.' r A noise startled me and I dlscov- * ered that my suitcase was in Gabriel 1 Perley's clutches. a "Put that down!" I stammered. a Gabriel merely glared. "Oh, come a on," I added, pulling out my pocket- * book; "you know just what I am. e There you go. It'll have to be enough, too." - f Gabriel looked about the empty a deck, then counted the money, while * I setvmy back against him. What a a pity, I thought, to come at this stage " of the game to blackmail and brib- F prv' " F The guide touched me ^on the c shoulder. His expression was aiito- ? gether changed; instead of wearing the bullying, big-chief air, he had a simmered down to a meek cigar-store t Indian. "Just once!" he was bickering, a pointing to the valise. "What do you suppose I paid you E for, you fool?" I said in a low voice, peering round the deck. \ "Think I'm 4 going to run the risk of?you know a what?for your sake?" % * Gabriel licked his chops. "Oh, let ^ her go, then. I thought if you * weren't so blamed stingy I'd tell you 4 a story that would fit your case like a 0 shell in a shotgun. But, anyhow, s there ain't no time to tell it proper; 0 we'll be tied ud at the Greenville ' wharf in ten minutes." I reflected. Apparently there was ? no one on deck. I pulled a flask of gin from my pocket and thrust it into his hands. ? "H'm! so you carry it round with * you, do you?" he whined, emptying it all at one gulp, much as one frog ? swallows another. Then he began: : "I used to be something of a smuggler myself once. It was up at the Little Fork camp. That's the biggest r log outfit in Aroostook, you know. ? How well I remember that night! All the lumbermen was a-cussing u Maine out for being a milk-and-ice- v water State, and fussing about prohibition. Say, that booze of yours is 5 strong, eh? "Well, I told 'em, I says, I could get 'em all the rum they wanted, from Canada, if they'd pay me proper, q They says they would, so I started. f 1? "It was an early season, and the ice f was just beginning to melt. ?-The riv- c ers at that time of the year, you- v know, ain't hiffh hut thev're linhle 0 to get high powerful sudden." a "Hurry up with your story," I o urged. "We're right at Greenville, t already." f The drunken guide squinted film- t ily at rue and went on: "Well, I got t the rum at St. Joseph. I knowed a s Frenchman there and I hired him and t his team and started to tote the spir- a Its. We crossed the American line, f and got to the northwest branch all 0 right?that's where I was a-going to 0 put in. I loaded the rum into a lum- t berman's scow and started down a alone. The river, as I say, wa'n't 1 high and the current wa'n't swift. e and the scow wa'n't loaded low, so I * knowed it was my chance to make s good time. But 1 was too slow; some c Indians told me there was a posse on c my trail in canoes. That settled the * scow business for me; I borrowed a c canoe from them and shifted my t duffle. That set her darn low in the ^ water, but I knowed she'd stand it P till I got to the Big Thunder Rips, and then I cal'lated to cache part of the liquor. Gee! that suitcase of P yours is all the time getting under o foot, ain't it?" t' "Hurry!" I begged. c Gabriel reeled, gesticulated and c hlcaoughed oh: "There was Lou Tafp. k staudln? up In his canoe! Yes, he 1 was 'way ahead of the rest of the posse. But I was a-galnlng still, for j the current was mighty swift. I'd , have killed him, but my last slug was gone. He was as mean a cuss?as I i ever see. Why?why do you know j what the fellow done to?" I shook Gabriel to his feet. "Brace ' up," I commanded. | "Yes, ye3. Lou, he hung to the ; tvest shore, but I couldn't see what i for, then. I kept a-midstream to catch the current, and you bet I was gaining?poling to save my life. Lou tvas 'way up behind me, dropping his lanoe down slow and easy like; he wa'n't even trying to catch me. i "Sudden I hears a roar! There's a I bend in the river there; It was the Big Thunder Rips! I slumps my pole I in quick, but she clinks in a crack and maps at the shoe. A barefooted pole tva'n't no use there, so I yanks out a paddle?course it was too late to make shore. Then I takes and throws )Ut some of them boxes. Gee, what a pity! Say, boss, if there's anything [ can't stand for it's to chuck away ;ood?" ' "For heaven's sake," I beseeched,, 'finish your story!" "Well, there was Lou! He was be- j ow me now. Yes, below me, I say, \ it the foot of the Rips; he had poled ' ilong the shore?and it was powerful luick poling, too. He was a-looking 1 it me, awful! He had his rifle in his | lands. I tried to keep her straight, I 3ut it wa'n't no use. The foam was , i-churnlng over her bows. There was liou! He was standing there and I jlaring at me, awful! awful!" "Yes, I see." "I was swimming, rhe Rips was a-pulling me under, rhere was Lou! He was paddling >ut to me, dreadful slow, and I wac I sinking. Ugh! He leans over the j junwale and gripples me round the , leek, like thi3. Then?then he starts I n a?a-strangling of me; and?and , 99 N '* ; * Gabriel Perley's body lunged j igainst mine. As he fell to the floor >f the Katahdin I rushed across* the gangplank and sneaked over the : vharf to the New York train. Onfe nside my stateroom I bolted the door md waited. When at last the train iid start, I threw the window up, and ooked out. We were trestling a j ;orge; i couia see tne rapias Dei,ow. i : opened my suitcase and threw it all )ut?both raw skins, the pair of ant- i ers and even the two tails.?Boston 'osl > i, > I ? A New Industry For 2 j ! the Farmer, S ? i ? Our Government has undertaken ] o teach the farmer how he may delve an additional profit from the by- : >roducts of his farm, and this is to be >rought about by converting into de- , latured alcohol of all refuse vegetible matter. Frozen potatoes, rotten ipples, stale watermelons, cornstalks md cobs?in fact, any vegetable that s unfit for consumption is yet good nough to yield alcohol. The Department of Agriculture has irected a model still, and has opened t school in Washington for instruc- | ion in the method of manufacture ' ma in uie\use oi aenaiurea aiconoi. 1 ?he distilling plant is the sinallest ' radical outfit which can be operated , irofitably, and it has a dally capacity i ?f twenty-flye bushels of corn which 1 iroduce seventy-five gallons of alco- ! loI ninety-five per cent. pure. Such : i plant would cost at least $2500? j oo great an investment for the ordilary farmer, but easily made possible ' ,nd profitable if erected jointly by a lumber of farmers living in one com- i aunlty. Comparatively few farmers are able o personally inspect the model still j ,t Washington, but the Agricultural j )epartment has planned to offset this disadvantage. The experimental sta- J ions in each State will send experts 1 o this alcohol school to become thorughly acquainted with the plant it-? elf, and to take a course of lectures . n the subject. When these men re- j urn to their respective States they | rill be fully qualified to teach the lo- j al farmers the best methods for pro- j ucing denatured alcohol. At the present time in France there i re 27,000 farmers who operate dis- j illeries for producing alcohol used ! a industrial purposes, and there is lo reason that the agriculturists in . bis country should not turn their at- i ention to this profitable business, j lany of our farmers use gasoline for j unning pumps, corn shellers, saws i nd other machinery, and there would j e a great saving were alcohol, man- j ifactured from the vegetable refuse | fhich ordinarily is wasted, to be sub- ! tituted for the expensive oil.?Har- 1 ier'a Weekly. Of Course, It's Time. A farmer had a mile of tile that luit working and he went to the ower end to investigate. He found it j ull of snakes of all kinds that had i rawled into the tile* and become j wedged there. Failing to pull them i >ut he got his team, and tying a rope J round them started to haul them j iiif A ff or o frr\n/1 Vi o vr? tmi 11 nr ftt'A 1 U>L. ALtci a feuuu, i9uai p pun ui tnu he team loosened them, when it was ound that the first ones had crawled ill they came to the end of the tile, hose that followed becoming hungry wallowed the one ahead, and was in urn swallowed by the one .that come iter. In this way they filled the tile ull. He pulled out over eighty rods f snakes, and as each had swallowed ne, that had also swallowed one, hat had also swallowed one, etc., and s each had been swallowed by one, hat had also been swallowed by one, tc., it was estimated that originally here must have been 238 miles of nakes in the tile. The first one was hasing a bullfrog, which luckily esaped by crawling through a hole In he side of the tile, but the snake ouldn't bend short enough to make he turn. It was a close call for the ullfrog, and the tile now works to erfection.?Britt (Iowa) Tribune. Turkey's government has just laced with a firm of cotton mill wners of Leeds, England, an order or about 1,500,000 yards of khaki loth for the Turkish army. The ontract is the largest placed, for ;haki since the Russo-Japaness.War. j THE ADVE8T15ER IS RESPONSIBLE. Under Law Can Be Held for All State* merits?About Frauds. Taking as his subject "The Legal Responsibility of the Advertiser," William H. Atwell, United States district attorney of Dallas, Tex., recently told the members of the Ad Men's Club of that city some interesting facts regarding the use of advertising for fraudulent purposes and of measures being taken to drive out the evil. In a way Mr. Atwell blamed the public for much of the crooked work and told how It might do its part in helping the government exterminate it. In the course of his remarks Mr Atwell said: Humanity is universally restless There is an ever present desire for change and an uncontrollably desir? to get it. The Whole world wants ta buy. All alike feed and make 01 break upon the insanity to swap dollars for something that is not money. The most approved and sane method of bringing about the exchange is to use the press and popular periodical There are many municipal nuisances, not the least of whom is the advertiser who litters the street with dodgers and handbills. Sdch sw advertiser deserves commercial failure. The legitimate method of advertising j is the great press family. The framers of the American Constitution recognized the sacredness nnd Importance of the press in that pmon/lmont ti?V>+V? o + i W.W-VMV4 1UVUV IT U<VU pi Vf 1UWU liiUt VUli' gress shall make no law abridging tha j freedom of the preBS. So zealously was this constitutional safeguard loved that even when the 1 morals of the people demanded the death of the lottery many courts and judges and Congresses refused to pro- 1 hibit the use of the press to the lottery men, and it was not until 1893 j that the American Coneress. for th* purpose of bringing about the greal moral movement, declared contraband such newspapers as contained lottery matter; and the question wa? not finally determined until the Supreme Court of the United States in the Jackson, Horner aand . Rapiei cases upheld the constitutionality, of the legislation. ' The man who places an advertisement in the paper makes a proposition to the public, the acceptance of which elves rise to a contract of sale, which is governed by the same laws and decisions that regulate and determine the efTect of all contracts. One who advertises a domestic to contain sixty-four thread- to the square inch,- and ships a shoddy article containing less than that number of threads, has practiced a fraud and is liable to the purchaser. There can be no sort of doubt that any representation made by an advertiser of the kind, quality and fineness of his wares becomes a part of his offer to sell or trade, as the case may be. If the purchaser views the arti cle, then he doubtless acts upon his ] own judgment; but if the defects be 1 latent, hidden or otherwise secreted from the detection of the purchaser 1 tnere is an implied warranty, upon 1 which the swindled purchaser may ' recover. If the purchaser expends time and ] car fare and trouble to inspect an advertised article, upon which inspection he finds the article to be of ] lesser grade than the advertisement * spoke, I have no doubt that he could 1 recover from the advertiser a suffl- j cient sum to pay for his time and i trouble and car fare in making the in- | j spection. I ] Its efficiency and the universality i < of its use render it a powerful engine for the use of the unscrupulous. ] There was passed sOme years age ] a criminal statute designed for the ? punishment of 'those who used thia great public utility fraudulently. Congress provided in one short line for the establishment of post offices and post roads. From this terse ! provision has sprung, by appropriate I Congressional action, the vast postal I system of this country, the daily bene- ! ficiaries of which are our ninety mil- | lions of people. i When one advertises an article and j represents its merits or quality or du. ! rabillty, and the purchaser, without viewing, relies upon the advertisement and buys, and the article proves to be worthless or defective, or oi less grade than as represented in the advertisement, there is no legal question of the right of the purchaser tc recover. Iai the last few years, howevert American ingenuity (which is not always benevolent and good) has made such immense use of the mails for defrauding that the penalities of the j ^tatute have come to be recognized i as decidedly inadequate to sufficient- | ly punish this class. , j Practically every newspaper in the 1 United States makes use of the mails. When an advertiser makes representations in his advertisement that are untrue, and such advertisement goes [ to the purchaser through the United j Stntfta mail Kftrinnss trnnhlo au/aHo a I I the advertiser. I 2 When he knowingly misrepresents ' t what he has to sell and makes such j misrepresentations in the press, \ j which he knows will be carried by* \ the postal service, he makes a prima'] j facie case against himself for having. c devised a scheme and artifice to de- x. fraud, to be effected by the use and I \ misuse of the United States mails. j t We must, however, be candi<| j enough to admit that the pickings 01 v these frauds would not be so golder t were it not for the desire of the public to get something for as nearlj nothing as possible. If every mar 1 A + + 1 .. m U/i I wuyuu icau/ic tuat vaiuo aiiuuiu ut j ^ given for value the life of the fraudu- ; ( lent advertiser would be short. c How the Mayor Worked It. ? 1 "This is a most delightful place," t said a tourist to an innkeeper in a r small town in the north of France, a "but it is certainly a strange idea a to pave the roads with such terribly a sharp flints." E "Ah, yes," replied the landlord, c "But what can you expect, monsieur? ! The mayor he is a shoemaker!"? | Tit-Bits. ! ( ' c There were 470 boiler explosions in f this country during 1908. There is ^ one greater record. The fatalities c numbered 2S1. n BULLDOG IN LOVE WITH TEDDY BEAR. Prize Boston Animal Causes a Sensation With His Pat.in New Orleans. A two-thousand-dollar Boston hulldog tenderly carrying a large Teddy bear by the nape of the neck and apparently trying to keep bruin from soiling his feet on the pavement was a sight that attracted the attention of pedestrians in Canal Street, New Orleans, a short time ago, and finally led a reporter to unearth ai\ interesting ctory. It is of a dog's pitiful and touching devotion to the toy. On account of the canine's unusual viciousness and the great number of battles hft has won, his mistress, Miss Phyllis Gllmore, gave him the name of Ferocious. As Miss Gilmore, Ferocious and the Teddy bear entered the lobby of a hotel, In an effort to escape the attention of the gathering crowd that had followed from Canal street, a score of the curious stood on the pavement and peered In to see what disposition Ferocious would make of his strange burden. They were soon rewarded by seeing the canine prize winner walk straightway to the most comfortable looking chair in the lobby and carefully place his pet thereon, in a sitting posture. He then backed away a few feet and, crouching upon his great haunches, gazed intently in the' glass eyes of his Teddy, all the while keeping up a low whining, as if trying to inquire why his pet did not romp with him. When asked for an. explanation of the dog's unusual .actions Miss Giltnore said: / "The truth of the matter Is that the affection that Ferocious shows his ready Is a really wonderful thing. It Is the case of a dog's remarkable iepth of devotion and still more remarkable memory. "When Ferocious was a pup and iardly able to waddle I owned a cub bear, in the same state of infancy. A.s the two grew up they became fast friends and would romp together all lay.. But about thirteen months ago :he little bear died and Ferocious has lot been the same dog until last week. "I had him out in Canal street for i walk when suddenly I saw him iart for a show window and try to lunge through it. He seemed wild with joy and I could not understand tiis antics until I saw that the winlow contained a Teddy bear about the same size and fcolor of his old playmate. I bought him the little stuffed animal and he has since regained his old spirit. "Do you knbw," continued Miss Silmore, "I really believe that Ferocious thinks he has found his puphood companion. When I feed him tie takes Teddy by the neck and pokes his nose Into his food, as if trying to make it share his meals. When I make him go to his box at night he will not sleep unless I let liim rest his head or paws upon his reddy." Vew York to Have a News Telephone ' Service. The Telephone Newspaper Company of America is the name of a firm lust incorporated linder the laws of the State of New York, with a capital of $100,000 to furnish all those tvho will subscribe to a service which [t will Inaugurate with general news is full as a daily newspaper now loes. The company is headed by Manly M. Gillam, advertising counsel of the \Tew York Herald, as president, and Associated with him are William H. Alexander and Cornelius Belassa. It s expected that everything will be in -eadiness to,start the service within i year. All news of general interest vill be covered, including political lappenings, baseball scores by innngs and a score of li^ie branches vill go right into the subscriber's lome by wire. While this will be the first attempt it conducting a telephone newspaper n this country, the plan has met with nore or less success in a number Of European cities, Paris, London, Vienla and Budapest among .them. The lines on which those in Europe lave beenA operated will be followed n this country under the direction of Hr. Belassa, who has been identified vith such ventures in Budapest and /ienna, and who owns the transmiting and receiving patents. The service, according to Mr. Gilam, besides supplying its subscribes with every branch of news, as an idded. inducement will furnish on the >venings of the grand opera season a special vocal and instrumental musi: :al service. Bloodhounds. So far as recorded, bloodhounds lave captured nothing since they alowed Eliza to get away across the loating ice. Indeed, Eliza's was ibout the closest call recorded. But he records, perhaps, are prejudiced. U any rate, the New York Central Railroad has invested in eight blood- j lounds. to be used in protecting: its property and trailing thieves. Of ourse, the dogs haven't caught anyhing, as yet, but the fact that they lave become the property of a va3t ransportation company should im>rove their standing in the canine vorld, and serve as vindication until hey do.?Atchison Globe. Two Million Miles by Rail. A locomotive of the London & Jnrf"Rflilroarl. nnnipri I Charles Dickens, has the distinction 1 if having traveled nearly (wo million i me hundred thousand miles in haul- I ug express trains, a feat, it is j bought, unique in the annals of rail- | oading. The Charles Dickens, built I ,t Crewe, was put into service Febru-1 ,ry 6, 1882, and until a year or two j .go was still one of the fastest loco- J notives on the road and in excellent j ondition.?New York Tribune. One of the leaders iu New York] Jity's business world, who is also a ' onspicuous philanthropist, vntes rom a vacation resort, where he /ent to rest: "There is no rest in the ountry for a man who receives nail." : A V t ,v;j WILL BE WELCOME. t She made her bed. She swept the noon, She hllpea the women With the chores. i She got the meals For eight-or ten. So she'll be asked To come again. f She does not flirt L ' Or carry on - ** ! With James or Fred ; > Or George or John.' . In fact, she quite ' k Ignored the men; \ So she'll be asked To come again. - - She did not seek To dodge the work; For sake of ease She did not shirk; She missed her summer's Fun, but then She will be asked * . To come again. ?Detroit Free Press. ..I V PITH AND POINT, "We attended church this morning." "Why, did your newspaper Doy miss you, too:?rues. t "Did opportunity knock at jour door?" "Yes, but the cook always maintained that it wasn't her' place to answer."?Puck. i "Yes, my husband and I quarrel incessantly." "Why don't you get a divorce?" "We can't bear to. Wha,t would become of Fido?"?Cleveland. Leader. She?"Your brother is a writer,7. Isn't he?" He?"Yes." She?"What does he write for?" He?"Goodness only knows. I guess it's a disease." ?Judge. "What gives that funny man across ' me street so strange a gaitr "He takea those crooked steps became' He took his whisky straight!" School Governess?"Why* Vera, your essay Is copied word for word from Macaulay." Vera?"Well, I thought I couldn't do a better one . myself."?Punch. She?"That'a . the Miss Brown whom Sargent has just painted. He ?"Really? You know I waa Just wondering if her beautiful coloring could be natural."?Life. The Electrified Undergtound--"Which fio you prefer, auntie?facing or back?" "Well, you see, there's, no engine on this train, so it doesn't: very much matter."?Punch. Mrs. Brooke?"Have you any faith <n life insurance?" Mrs. Lynne-^"Yes, indeed; I've realized $100,000 from two husbands, and they weren't j very good ones, either."?Judge. "So he refused to let you marry M his daughter?" "No; but he imposed H conditions that I cannot ?omply H with." "What are they?" "Said I'd have to go to work first."?Louisville H Courier-Journal. H Although he didn't get a bite S Upon his fishing trip, H| 'Twaa plain, when he got home at night,> H That he'd had many a nip. |M "Ton are consuming a great deal I of valuable time with your tariff ar- B gument." "Yes,"' answered Senator H Sorghum, "I find satisfaction in try-BB ing to demonstrate that here is ono H case where the consumer doesn't pay H the tax."?Washington Star. S| "The Hon. Thomas Roit is a very H busy man' isn't he?" "Ob, yes! He H views with alarm and alarms without H view, and points with pride and has pride without point; all of which so fully occupies his time that he finds fl| opportunity for little else."?Puck. Head Librarian ? "Our patrons H have reported several cases of dis- H courtcsy from the new clerk. They say that she has absolutely refused to show them the books, excusing her- H self by saying that she does not know H 1 ?ova " Aaolafonf?"T VflS ^BB W1H3H3 CilOj axg. afraid that her training would' spoil her for the job. You know she used '^H to work for a trust company in New York during the investigation."? Puck. 9 ' I AMERICAN GUNS. ; < S ??? H Less Ornamental Than Those of Enrope and Sold at Half the Price. H The weapons of continental Enrope, England and America are constructed on similar line*, of Identical H| quality of steel and wood, have the same systems of choking and boring and the character of workmanship is not essentially different. There are minor variations, of course, dictated by taste and habit. Hfi Europe tends to multiplicity of locking devices. America to simplicity.'^B fV,a r>no American' rotftrv bolt is I stronger and more lasting than the ' quintuple fastening of foreign arms. American and English guns ar? alike noted for their perfection of Ifl balance, beauty of outline and severe IH simplicity of scroll engraving. Contl- 19 . nental Europe tends to floridlty of ornamentation with the most artistic pictorial effects in engraving and .wood cutting. One thing the American manufac- H turer can and does do, says Outing, HI he can give you as much gun for $100 as Europe can for $200. Grade for grade it will be found on examination that there is very little to choose between an American gun costing $50 HI and an imported arm at $100. If money is no object then exercise your fancy in absolute confidence that a beautiful and satisfactory arm can be obtained either at home or abroad. Why, of Course. |9 Teacher?"Johnny, what are you laughing at?" H| Johnny?"What Jimmy told me." Teacher?"What did he tell you?" Johnny?"Aboui a baby that was Bl fed on elephant's milk aud gained H| ten pounds a day." / 9H Teacher?"Why. Johnny, you mustn't tell lies." 190 Johnny?"Well, it cid." Teacher?"Whose baby was It?" Johnny?"The elephant's."?New York Times. M Dr Neff, the director of the depart- |H ment of health of Philadelphia, has 'started a movement to eradicate HR adenoids in the school children of the Quaker City. 41! ^HS