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Heart to Heart
Talks
By JAMES A. EDGERTON
AI WAYS ROOM FOR REAL MEN.
Tlio recent dwith of the Rev. Robert
Col Iyer calls attention to a career that
should be an inspiration to every poor
boy and to every real man.
Robert Collyer was known as the
"blacksmith preacher."
lie was born in England of a very
poor family. There were many cliil
dren and an Income pitifully meager.
Robert when a small child was com
pelled to go to work in the mills with
his brothers and sisters. lie worked
fourteen hours every day. Thus he had
no chance for an education.
lie came to America to belter his
condition. While still a young man ho
was a blacksmith in Pennsylvania. At
the same time he prea.ched for little or
nothing on Sunday.
With muscular strength he h:id gain
ed mental Independence. He had
learned to think for himself. He came
to doubt some of the dogmas of his
denomination and hnd the courage to
say so. He therefore-severed his con
nection with that church.
The same mental courage made his
career. He again cut loose, this time
from his livelihood, went to Chicago
and started in a small church. Being
vigorous and honest and having some
thing to say, he drew other men to
him." He became one of the most popu
lar preachers in Chicago He was a
friend of Abraham Lincoln, who had
as little education and as much mental
independence as himself.
Later Robert Collyer preached in dhe
of the leading churches of New York
city. He was the author of many books
and was known and loved in most civ
Hized lands. At last he died full of
years and honors.
One secret of his power was that he
was always mentally honest with him
self. Another was that he educated
himself, making the world his univer
sity.
There are those who whine In our
day that the avenues of advancement
are being closed to the young men.
Rubbish!
A young man like Robert Collyer
would win in auy age.
There never was a greater call than
now for young men who can think,
who find new and better ways of do
ing things, who have a real message.
This is true in industry, in business,
in literature, in politics and in religion.
The world always has an open door
for real men.
THE PATH TO SUCCESS.
A New York minister wrote to seven
prominent men a series of questions as
to their rules for success in life.
lie incorporated the replies in a ser
mon. and. although this man is an elo
quent preacher, this was one of the
best discourses ever heard from his
pulpit.
Among the secrets of success men
tioned were honesty, loyalty, absorp
tion in one's work, dependability, in
vention. earnestness, euthusiasm. tenac
ity of purpose ami hard woik.
As to whether it is hard work or wor
ry that breaks men down, all agreed
that hard work would not endanger
any one's physical or mental health,
and two said that hard work is a tonic
Among the causes of failure were
mentioned intemperauce. immorality,
untruthfulness. cigarette smoking,
making a drudge of oueself and getting
into debt
A majority ugreed that a college edu-,
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though it might help (he right sort of
man. If not the right sort it might
prove a detriment
All agreed that religion is an asset,
but one added that it must be "real
and not lip cant or hypocrisy."
All these ideas are old. you say?
Yes. but the beauty in these men's I
cases is that they have tried their mot-j
toes out in actual life and have every
one succeeded, some of them in an emi
nent degree.
They have proved their words.
The men that have won have told
us how they won. almost from the be
ginning of history. There have been |
thousands of testimonials, and they!
have all sounded much like these.
The universality of the testimony is |
a proof of its truth.
Thus the winners have planted tuide
posts all along the road to success, sc
that the wayfaring man. even though
a fool, need not miss the directions.
There are many roads leading from 1
this main highway.
One is called intemperance. Beware ;
of that
Another is laziness Shun it as you i
would a pestilence.
A third is untruthfulness. Do not
let your feet stray this way.
A fourth is named debt You will
find pitfalls In this path.
Avoid the byways. They lead no
where.
Keep Id the middle of the road.
PUBLIC MANNERS.
Men do in crowds what they would
not think of doing as individuals.
We had numberless examples of it
during the late presidential 'campaign.'
The candidates for our highest office
were almost mobbed by the crowds,
were jammed and rushed, called by
their first names or nicknames and
generally treated in a way that show
ed public l>.nl manners.
Yet most of the men making up
these mobs probably puss as well bred.
In their personal relations they are
Parental Problems.
Where a whipping may Improve
one boy it will create a grudge and a
thirst for revenge In another. Parents
have several problems besides making
a living.?Atchison Globe.
Some Encouragement,
f "That girl has rejected me three
times," cor*5ded the disconsolate
youth. "Well," replied Miss Cayenne,
"you should feel encouraged. A girl
who will listen to three proposals
from the same man must think some
thing of him."
COST OF APPAREL
GIVES EUGENIE SHOCK.
| Former Empress Never Paid More
Than $125 For Gown.
Loud complaints are heard because
of the huge advance in the prices ,
! charged for women's apparel In Lon
! Thoro ie nA rtmilifr thnfr in tho
I last twenty years there has been au
enormous increase In the charges not1
only for very elaborate toilets, but for,
: 6imple tailor made costumes, and as
' for hats and millinery generally they
have now reached a price that verges
: on the ridiculous.
One hundred dollars to $125 Is gen- [
erally asUcd for a taUor made costume,
although it Is a well known fact that
a few years ago an ordinary talior
made yachting costume could be ob
tained for half that sum at the very
1 best shops. j
Not long ago, it Is said, the ex-Em
press Eugenie expressed herself as
horrified at these present day prices
and declared that she herself had
never paid more than .$125 for her:
most magnificent toilets. It is quite
i certain that this sum would not buy
: an elaborate toilet that could be worn
1 nnw.Kliivs at the court or state balls,
; or even at the Ascot meeting. Five '
hundred doilars, $750 and even more 1
is not Infrequently paid for court
; dresses, and many of the beautifully '
draped toilets that created a sensa
tion at Ascot this year are known to
have cost $250 to $300.
THE PACE THAT KILLS.
Railroad Heads Under the Strain of
Doing "Big Things."
j Two railroad men of long service.
President James juccrea or tne i euu-1
! sylvanla Railroad company ?ind M. B. >
I Ingalls, chairman of the Big Four,
have resigned with the explanation
j that tliey must give up work of such
I rigor and responsibility to conserve
their health. President McCrea haa
been in harness for forty-eight years,
: and Chairman Ingalls for more than
forty. Both began at the foot of the
ladder as rodmen, and as they rose
their labors made greater and greater ;
demands upon them until the top was
reached, and then their hours of work
were limited only by their endurance
and the responsibility they shouldered
was often near breaking them down.
Men in ordinary pursuits envy such
executive giants the handsome salaries
they receive, but they are always earn
ed, often at the cost of physical wel
fare and the enjoyments of home life.
There are no greater bondtaen In in
rinstrv than executive railroad officers.
It is voluntary servitude, but of a
kind that allows thera little rest, scant
time for change and recreation, and
almost never a vacation.
The general manager no less than the J
president must devote himself body'
and soul to his duties, and only sick-,
ness excuses him. There must, of
course be a fascination about such a
calling, and it Is the fascination of do
ing big things in a big way,- but it
takes heavy toll of vitality. The col
lapse sometimes comes when the vic
tim believes he is still in the prime of
life.
NURSERY IN THEATER.
London Opera House Rented by Vaude
ville Man With Ideas.
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to which will be attached a nursery,
where- parents can deposit their off
spring. secure In the knowledge thai
I while they are watching the stage their
babies are being competently watched.
The nursery will be one of tnany
novelties which Fernand Akoun is to
. Introduce at the London Opera House.
Mr. Akoun is the chief of a syndicate
which has secured a lease of the house
from Oscar Hammersteln for somf
years to come, and intends to create
a family atmosphere about It, hence
his decision to make provision, fot
babies.
Mr. Akoun proposes to initiate the
I venture at Christmas. He says "It
was a pure accident which led to the
; selection of the London Opera House
: for my purpose. I was in London < '
few days ago on a rather sad business, [
the funeral of an old friend famous in !
the entertainment world, and, happen
ing to pass along Kingsway, I saw the(
theater empty. Within forty-eight,
hours the scheme was .formulated and
a syndicate rormea reaay ro support
me. It was not long after that that I
secured the lease."
WHISKY'S FIRE TEST.
By It Indians Detected Dilution Made
by Traders.
When the Fludson's Bay Trading'
company began Its trading among the
Indians It was found that by selling
the Indians liquor they could more
easily be Induced to trade their peltries. !
The first whisky or intoxicant of in
ferior quality was distilled in Eng-j
land and brought to America in large
barrels, but in transporting it overlaud
it was found more convenient to divide j
it into small kegs. The traders soon
became aware of the fact that by di j
luting the whisky with water mor?
furs could be obtained. This was prac j
ticed for some time, but the Indians
learned that good whisky poured on a
fire would cause it to flame up, but |
had the whisky been diluted the Are
would be quenched.
It was by this simple experiment]
that the term "firewater" became a
common word among Indians. A chief
who lind experienced the had effects
of whhjky among his people said It wag,'
certainly distilled from the hearts ofj
wildcats and the tongues of women
from the effects it produced.
That Occasional Chord.
Theje are chords in the human
heart, slrange, varying things, which
' are only struck by accident; whicb
will remain mute and senseless to ap
peals the most passionate and earnest,'
and respond at last to the slightest
casual touch. In the most insensible
or chiJdlsh minds there is some train
of reflection which art can seldom
f lead, or skill assist, but which will re
veal itself, as great truths have done,
by chance, and when the discoverer
has the plainest and simplest end in
jlew.?Charles Dickeons.
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o ply means dividing it among the ?
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o ed congressmen with a pull. It ?
o is the old rivers and harbors o
o plan, which has wasted more o j
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o from Detroit to New Orleans ?i
? and feeop it in repair for twenty o |
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? out a grassy boulevard strip and o
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o anything bigger than a tug or ?
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P. 0. DEPARTMENT
AND GOOD ROADS.
It Directs Co-operation Witn Autnori
ties For Improvement.
Good ronds movements throughout
the country are to have substantial
support from the postoffice department
First Assistant Postmaster General
Roper has notified officially postmas
ters of all classes that "It is the desire
of the department that they co-operate
with state nnd county authorities in the
endeavor to improve the condition of
the public roads.
"The department's attention," con
tinues Mr. Roper, "has been attracted
to proclamations issued from time to
time by the governors of states desig
nating certain days aa good roads
days, and postmasters, as representa
tives in their communities of the na
tional government, are expected to j
manifest as active an interest in tliiaj
movement as is consistent with the
proper performance of their official du
ties."
COST OF DRAGGING ROADS.
C. F. Chase of North Dakota Agricul
tural College Gives Estimates.
At the home farm in southeastern
Nebraska, writes Professor. Chase,
there is a stretc h of road a half mile in
length thnt we have dragged for seven
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DRAGGING A COUNTBY KOAD.
years. Only ouce during this period
has this road been worked with any
thing but the drug. Two years ago the
side ditches were cleaned with the
common road grader.
A careful record of the time taken to
keep this road dragged has been kept,
and for the first five years it runs as
follows:
Two trips for one man and one
team requiring one hour's time for one
dragging is the basis taken. The first
year we dragged it fifteen times, the
second thirteen, the third seventeen,
the fourth twelve and the fifth four
teen times, or seventy-one draggings of
one hour's time during five years.
This at 30 cents an hour for man and
team is $4.2G n year for the half mile.
For a mile it would be $S.52 annual
cost of maintenance. Another road in
the immediate vicinity cost less than
$10 per mile annually. The soil is not
quite as heavy as Red river soil, but
the rainfall is a little more than thirty
inches. A case is noted in Public
Roads Bulletin 48. United States de
partment of agriculture, where the
cost of similar maintenance of roads
in Arkansas was $11 per mile. State
Engineer Gerhart of Kansas puts the
range of cost for dragging at from $4
to $10.
The cost for North Dakota should
not be over $10 per mile, while In most
cases it would be much less, the cost
depending upon the character of the
soil, the rainfall, traffic and grade. As
an average for all dirt roads I would
place the annual cost of maintenance
at $7.50 per mile or $4(50.740 to drag In
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North Dakota one year.
The total expenditure on public [
roads of Worth Dakota outside of
tOT/ns in 1011 was $091,540. If prop
erly organized and if the people were
educated we could properly nik'ntain
our earth road with present road fund
and have $230.S00 left for bridges, new
construction, etc.
Getting the Best of It.
The wisest man would make a good
barfeain if he could trade off what he
knows for what he doesn't know.
Anticipation.
Mrs. Justwed?Ju^t think of It, dear
est one! Twenty-five years from day
before yesterday will be our silver an- !
nlverBary! ?Judge.
New Roofing Material.
A new roofing material is steel coat
ed with lead.
FEWER WORKING OVERTIME.
Better Hours For Employees, Making
Trains Safer.
Washington.?"Violations of the law
limiting the service of train employees
on American railroads to sixteen con
secutive hours go to the very heart of
the efficiency and safety of train oper
ation," said Charles C. McCliord, com
missioner, commenting upon a state
ment issued by the interstate com
merce commission analyzing the month
ly reports of Interstate railroads on
hours of service In the fiscal year end
ed June 30, 1913.
M^sirlv 300 000 violations of the six
teen hour limit were reported by 209
railroads in the year. It must be re
membered, however, that 251,111 men
were employed in handling trains.
"As a result of the prosecutions in
stituted by the commission," the anal
ysis points out, "the number of in
stances of excess service reported dur
ing the last six months, as compared
with the corresponding figures for pre
ceding years, has shown a marked re
duction."
THRUST INTO HAY FATAL
Royalist Hidden In Cart la Killed by
Frontier Guard.
Paris.?A grim incident of the rising
in Portugal was recently narrated by
a French sculptor.
A peasant's cart filled with hay drew
' up at the Spanish-Portuguese frontier.
The officials glanced into it One, to
satisfy himself, thrust bis sword sev
eral times among the bundles. "Pass
on," he said carelessly. An instant
later he uttered an exclamation of
horror. Blood was trickling from the
straw.
The driver sprang from the cart and
fled, followed by revolver shots from
the customs officials. Overturning the
cart, the officials found beneath the
straw a dead man. The sword had
passed through his heart as he lay
hidden. lie was a royalist leader try
ing to smuggle himself Into Portugal.
BITTEN BY BUG, BEGS tiALM.
Passenger Asks $10,000 For Incident In
Sleeping Car.
Milwaukee, Wis. ? Samuel Cohn of
Milwaukee, who arrived from the west
recently, has sued for $10,000 because
he was bitten by an Insect in a rail
road sleeper. The defendant in the
suit is the Chicago, Milwaukee and St
Paul road, and the case will be tried
In Montana, where the "offense" is al
leged to have been committed.
When Cohn arrived in Milwaukee he
carried one arnj in a sling, and he
claimed in making his complaint to the
company that he had been made so ill
that his business was interfered with
and that the mental and physical an
guish resultant was worth $10,000.
HEROISM AS A BOY
FREES LIFE CONVICT
Friend Whnsfi I iff) Was TwiCfl
Saved Pays Debt.
Bloom ington, 111.?After serving ten
years for murder Herbert C. Galle
hugb of Chenoa, this county, Is a free
man.
Gallehugh Is the only son of Dr. and
Mrs. Gallehugb. He left that place
sixteen years ago and in Minnesota
worked on a railroad.
-One day, while on the road, bis wife
was insulted by a negro. Upon his re
turn, aroused by the sneering manner
of the negro, he shot him dead.
Gallehugh was arrested and charged
with murder. He made a strong plea
of self defense, but was sentenced to
the prison at Stillwater, Minn., for
life.
The sentence was a shock to his
family and friends. His parents, wife
and friends have always accepted the
plea of self defense and believed that
be did what any other self respecting
man would have done.
Among those active in his behalf
was YV. B. Clooney, passenger agent
ior me uaicaso unci .tuum iu Diuuuimg
ton. The two had been playmates to
gether. Gallebugh twice saved the
life of Clooney.
When the case reached the board,
comprising the governor, attorney gen
eral and chief justice of Minnesota,'
they unanimously voted to release
Gallehugh. He was granted an un
conditional pardon.
LAMP SHEDS PINK GLOW.
Neon Gas Appliance Is Suitable For
Milady's Dainty Boudoir.
London.?Much discussion is going
on concerning the new neon lamp,
which gives out a beautiful rose-pink
color peculiarly suitable for boudoirs
and tea rooms.
Neon, which is an atmospheric gas,
was discovered by the English scien
tist, Sir William Ramsay. It Is said to
possess the property of allowing an
electric current to traverse it under 1
certain conditions of pressure and tem
perature and of turning a large propor
tion of it into the rose-pink light
Tooth a Foot Long.
Seattle.?The skeleton of a mam
moth was uncovered by workmen 1
sluicing the excavation for the munic- |
ipnl stadium at West Seattle. The
bones were found 150 feet below the
top of the hill imbedded in a clay bank.
One tooth measured twelve Inches 1
long, eight inches wide at the base,
six Inches wide at the top and three '
Inches thick.
Mpono Sur.r.flllfl.
Success, generally speaking, Is the
Bclenoe of leaving just as little as pos
sible to chance.?Puck.
Extremes.
She?What an awfully tall man Lord
Lofty is! He?They say he's painful
ly short.
Prosperity ana Adversity.
Prosperity is not without many
fears and distastes, and adversity not ?
without comforts and hopes- -Bacoii. ?
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LAWS FOR LABOR
Real Service He Rendered to
New Jersey Workers.
FOUGHT BY INSURANCE MEN,
They Threatened to Raise All Their
Rates :f Employers' Liability Law
Were Passed, but Became Quist at
Hint of State Offering Indemnity.
[Sacramento (Cal.) Union.J
"When Woodrow Wilson became gov
ernor of New Jersey he found that
wealthy employers had boon given the
laws they desired regardless of the
welfare of the thousands of men, wo
men and children on their payrolls.
He found that in the factories of the
Gtate scores had been killed or maim
ed for life and that there was abso
lutely no provision for the protection
of the families of those workingmen
engaged In hazardous occupations. He
found that,the bosses had been carry
ing out tHe wishes of the interests,
from which they had obtained cam
paign contributions.
That was the situation In corrupt
New Jersey, where the conditions of
labor had been notoriously oppressive
and seemingly hopeless for a genera
tion. But Governor Wilson determin
ed to change it and with his custom
ary vigor tackled the problem.
Employers' Liability Law.
One of the reforms pe effected was
the enactment of a strong employers'
liability law. But for this he had to
fight with the same grim and un
swerving purpose that had obtained
the Geran primary election law. After
the bill had been introduced In the leg
islature and became known as one of
the governor's measures the insurance
companies sent representatives to the
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reprisal. "Tf you enact such a law
we'll raise the rates on all insurance
throughout the state. We'll pile them
up on everybody," they said. But the
bluff didn't work.
"Very well, gentlemen, hs you
please," replied Governor Wilson, "but
remember that if you try anything of
that kind it may be necessary for us
to establish a system of state insur
ance." After that the Insurance com
panies decided that silence was the
better part of wisdom.
The employers' liability law was
passed, and an apparently fair statute
It is, essentially fair to the employer
as well as to the employee, for Wood
row Wilson is not a demagogue who
plays for labor's support He merely
believes in justice to the whole people
within the authority of his office.
Prevents Long Litigation.
The law prescribes the liability of as
employer to make compensation for in
juries sustained by an employee in the
course of employment It establishes
an elective schedule of payment and
strictly regulates the procedure for de
termining the liability and compensa
tion. It relieves an employee who is
injured of the necessity of instituting
suit to obtain damages by providing
a definite schedule covering the differ
ent classes, of Injuries and fixing the
employer's liability for each.
Employers now regard the law a9
fair because under it they can calcu
late with reasonable certainty what
their maximum liability for any one
year will be instead of leaving this to
be determined by Jurors. Employees
are greatly benefited by it because in
case of accident it secures to them
without delay u fixed income at a time
when money is most needed and be
cause it avoids long drawn out litiga
tion, with Its attendant expense and
suffering.
Real Service to Labor.
Governor Wilson meant It for both.
He supplemented it shortly with a law
compelling the erection of fire escapes
on all factories and buildings housing
a number of employees?not one or two
6pider ladders, but equipment suffi
cient to prevent a recurrence in .New
Jersey of the horrors that had shocked
the people of the New England manu
facturing cities.
Such laws are worth something to
labor. They reflect the opinion of a
man who believes in the honesty of la
bor's purpose to the extent that he
holds labor above seeking selfish or
undue advantage. As they were en
acted they represented steps in Wil
son's restoration of New Jersey's gov
ernment to the people. They wrote
genuine reforms into the statute books.
Lakewood (N. M.) Progress: "It is a
significant fact that about three
fourths of the small Democratic and
progressive newspapers of the country
are for Woodrow Wilson, and all of
the Republican papers are doing every
thing in their power to defeat his nom
ination for the presidency. This goes
to show who the Democrats want and
whom the Republicans fear."
Huntsville (Ala.) Times: "Woodrow
Wilson can beat any man the Repub
licans choose to nominate against him.
Present indications point favorably to
the nomination of Mr. Taft by the Re
publicans, in which event Mr. Wilson
will have a walkover."
New Brunswick (N. J.) News: "Sen
ator O'Gorman of New York names
Governor Wilson first in his list of
available candidates Coming 1'rom
nhlnof nf Tnmmnnu mon rhic
somewhat significant."
Quits So.
"I beg your pardon, sang out the
jonvict as the governoi passed his
jell.
Politics.
By placing the proper number of
;oins in the slot tho political machine
aay be operated.
First Bear Dance.
What, though I am obliged to dance
i bear, a raau may bo a gentleman
or all that?She Stoops to Conquer.
Skillful Anclsnt Cook?.
The cooks of the ancients were art
ists in their way and were so skillful
ihat they could serve a whole pig boll
id on one side and roasted on the
nther.
Softening Granite Slabs.
It has been observe*! that, under
certain conditions which have not
been explained, granite will warp like
wood. A slab set in a wall has been
; under observation in Switzerland, and
a perceptible distortion has made it
self apparent.?Harper's Weekly.
Plaint of Old Age.
Washington Irving didn't enjoy old
age more than the other fellow. He
sighed one day: "What a pity it la
that when we have grown old we
j can't turn around and grow young
again, and die of cutting our teethl"
Be*tar Days Coming.
"This is the tenth time you have
been up before me," said the Cleve
land judge severely. "Is It possible,
your honor?" replied the prisoner.
"Well! well! Ain't it wonderful how
long some judges hold office under the
old system? But I promise it won't
happen again?not after we get the
recall to workin'." ,
Floating Cannery.
A new phase of scientific manage
ment has been put into operation out
on our progressive Pacific coast by
the conversion of the good old ship
Glory of the Seas Into a floating can
aery of salmon. There is the whole
proceedings right on one floating spot
?catching, cleaning, cooking, can
ning, boxing and then, when the hold
Is full of the season's pack of cases,
a tow of the factory into port and the
market
No Escape From Them.
Even when the expected happens
there are people who will Insist on
saying "I told you so."
Coming Events.
Brink President?"What's the mat
ter?" Bank Vice-President?"I was
Just thinking. I sat next to our cash
ier in church yesterday, and I don't
quite like tho way he sings 'Will they
miss me when I'm gone.'".
Sublime Thoughts.
For all our penny wisdom, for all
our . . . slavery to habit, It Is
not to be doubted that all men have
sublime thoughts.?Emerson.
English Humor. .
He who laughs last Is an English
nan.?Princeton Tiger.
His Part In the Affair.
"Your son-in-law has a title." "Yes,"
replied the patient father; "but I am
the one who is furnishing the expen
sive binding material and the gilt dec
oration."?Buffalo Commercial.
Right Word.
Elderly Aunt?My dear, I have Just
put you down In my will for $10,000.
Her Niece?Oh, auntie, what can I say
to thank you? How are you feeling
today??Life.
Who Is She?
"We are willing to admit that chrys
anthemums were never more beauti
ful than now. Even a head of cabbage
Would be beautiful if a pretty girl
wore It for a bouquet.?Philadelphia
^Telegraph.
Knowledge.
There Is no wealth like unto knowl
edge, for thieves cannot steal it
Burmese Proverb.
f Classified,
' "My precious lamb," said the new
parson to the little girl, *1 fear me
your father is ODe of those wayward
eheep, long strayed from the fold."
"Dad's not a sheep," smiled the little
girl. "He's a Bull Boose!"?Judge.
Reasonable Stipulation.
"Shall we admit Wombat to our Sub?
llmated Order of the Kibosh? He al?
ready belongs to seven secret socle* i
lies." "I'm in favor of admitting him
if there's enough of him left to work
our ritual on."?Kansas City. JpurnaL
Leeson From Flowers.
There is dew in one flower and not
in another, because one opens its cup
and takes it in, while the other closes
Itself and the drop runs off.?Beecher.
Impossible. _
"A person should think twice bo
fore speaking." "Perhaps so, but If
some people were to think twice be
fore speaking they would be so ex
hausted they couldn't speak."?Bir
mingham Age-Herald
Substitute for Cotton.
Nettle stems are being used sa a
substitute for cotton.
Passing Worry Along.
The niau who doesn't borrow trou
ble borrows money from his friends
and lets them do It.?Washington
Post
Great Writer's Foible.
Byron, whose vanity was as great
as bis genius, used to have his hair
ione up In curl papers at night.
Woman.
To think of a part one little woman
t?'n pby in the life of a man, so that
to renounce her may be a very good
imitutlan of heroism, and fo win her
mj.y bo a discipline!?George Eliot
Fish's Strange Method.
The fish Paratilapia multicolor
hatchos her eggs in pockets in her <
mouth."
Spoon Steais Heat.
Never have a metal spoon In a
saucepan if you wish the contents to
boil quickly, for the spoon is the j
means of carrying off a great deal of '
heat.
Great Convenience.
"Ton find that an automobile
you to keep yoor engagement?"
does better than that," replied 3?n?.i
Chugglns. 'If you don't want to keep
them, it enables you to explain evw,
er'ythlng by saying yon broke dowtt.*.^
?M ? ??^4*1 \ a'
In the Cyclone Belt
"I tell you what," said Gothalfi,
tertalnlng his western cousin, "every*
thing's so high here It's almost lmpoft*
sible to keep a house going." "WeH.'*;
replied the Kansan, "the winds are
high out our way It's almost lmponfc
ujo to Keep a uouse rrom gomg,tv
Catholic Standard and Times. ~t
Past and Future.
"She Is a /woman with a past;" s&M
the Suspicious Neighbor, with 8Hp*:.
pressed horror. 'Well," said the OW
Neighbor, "she's better off than thar;
rest of us, If that's all. Tm afrati
most of us have something coming td:
us." And it was so. You unhappefli
your past, but what's coming you maj;
sidestep.
Cavo Dweller* Abroad. %
Southern Tunis boasts of a hnnatf i
less town having a population of &,00dj
people. They are troglodytes, whowt
fathers before them lived In similar
oares. ? X't?i
;? ?
_ Pleasant for Papa. '
"So," said the Indulgent father, ;
"young Mr. Nervey wants to take yott
away from me." "0! yes," replied ;
the dear girl, "but he says tell brine
me back after the wedding Journey* .
He has decided that we shall board ^
with you."?Cathollo Standard aaC |
Times. jr
. - I 1
Cultivate Sense of Humoft ?p
A sense of humor is certainly t&0j
salt oMife, eitLor of the marrlad raw M
riety or the plain, single exlsteaoai~fl
It certainly helps a wife to laugh offlj 1
many a little bruise that otherwise
would grow Into a festering bot%
eee "the funny side of many of
trivial annoyances of Ilfe at. tb/% "
they hajppeii certainly **
tlOXL
\
Professions Taught Free of Charge
There Is Just one country fa
world where the highest education
free and that country, surprising as,
may seem to those who read this,
Chill There every profession
taught In the most modern met
hy the best authorities with no
whatever to natives.
_ - 1
Of Doubtful Statu*. ?'
"Have you much of a frlend?Mj>;3
with Wombat? I see yon going homo.;!
with him occasionally." "The stataML
of our friendship Is a puzzle to tassm
He never takes me to his house exoqj^
when he has been drinking."?LouiiK J
vllle Courier Journal. <
Georgia Syntax.
On account of not being able-to
power and the copy for grand
presentments was also late in
Ing us, is the cause of us getting
paper put late this week.
?~ #'
Nautical. .
Ancient nartner (at the first footi* .
ball game)?Where's the tackle w?( i
hear so much about? Smart Land*
lubber?Don't you see the lines aH
over the groundT-^udgo. --
? -
Increase of Dope FlondA 1*
Drug taking is greatly cn the ffii
crease in London. Somebody recent
ly Introduced, "hasheesh" Into
great .city,, and so popular has It
4ome that two hasheesh chambers
now in full swing not a hundred
from Piccadilly. ...
m
, As One Who Knows.
Figg? Does your grocer sell his ap*
pies by the barrel? Fogs?Well, the*!
come in barrels, but what he sella,
them by is the top layer.
Three Kinds of Men.
There are three kinds of men In the
world?those (the best) who make
Jokes, those who can enjoy Jokes,
those (the worst kind) who attempt ta
explain jokes.?G. K. Chesterton, ii|
London Daily News.
iaoa mnsnoH?axei j jj lAi\
pe^so imn euo ^ub Zixwa-pi, jeaT
?J9M. eq j] nima rio/i dtuom^ j
?lUBa ?4) 9j6;oq tjinp
=? k' J
I ' * \
Happies* Home. '* *
But the happiest home Is bufll
when the twain together ^meet thaj
trials and catastrophes that comfli
from the outside world with the goo4
health, the oommon sense, the humorv
the patience and courage that wll|
rout them. It should not be neoesmrjj.
for these qualities to be used by thai
one to combat the faults of the other*
?Barbara Boyd.
Course NoV _
"Did he kiss you when hi pro*
posed? "Certainly; I wouldn't con?j
3ider any but sealed proposals."
Cheerful Philosopher. .:
Fontenelle, the French writer, w&*
always cheerful, and this is perhaps
why he lived to be one hundred years
old. He used to say: "Without
cheerfulness, what is philosophy
worth?" When about to die, he said:}
"I do not suffer, my friend; I
feel a certain difficulty In living, -m
"Who Eats?Paysl" v x
No Indoor worker can continue td
eat meat thrice, or even twice dally;
after middle life?and middle lifej
mark you, begins with the thirty-flfthf
year?without paying' the penalty lrf
an attack of gout, rheumatisn^
Brignt's or an allied disease, a re^
years later. This "few years" may, la'
special cases, stretch itself to a sooro
?but, Inevitably, "who eats, pays!**-*
Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette. "
Quick, Watao, the Hook.
No man likes'to be oalled a pnta%
a lemon or an unripe persimmon, but
there are few who have any objeo*
tlona to being named a# a oandltjj
data.?Denver Newi. ..."