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MAKE THESE RESOLUTIONS. I will take good care of my body. I will have house cleaning io the house I live lu. I will not procrastinate in In BtltUtlng preparedness against disease. I will keep clean Inside und out. 1 will avoid dirt. I will cultivate good cheer. I will avoid anger, hate and moroseness. 6? lzola forrester (Copyright.) T was a supremo test nf friendship, vlsi tl nt the Del-j m a r s on N e w Year's. Wrapped to ! lier ears in fur, with tl cap meeting ; her collar, Wini fred stood on the bleak little platform at Byers' Cor ners timi looked through the snowfall | for anything that so m.cd to be a con veyance. She had left Boston at 5:43-plenty of time to reach Wlndyheath In good time, Anne had written her. "It's Just a nice little rue over from Providence on the Providence and Wll llmnntlc line. We'll meet you nt Pyers' Corners. The trains only stop there on signal or to let off visitors, and the only visitors that ever como are ours. If Rolf or I can't come over I'll send a wonderful substitute" Evidently Rolf, Aone and the sub stitute had been overcome by the storm. Trains had been delayed from Hosten to Providence nnd on the little local line Uiey had waited again and again along the way. There hud been no real need of any signal to let her off when Tyers' Corners carno In view. The dillis were so high that it took thc train 20 minutes to get out of "Byers' Corners, let alone getting lu. Rut again Anne had written: "Don't feel discouraged getting to us. We live In tho quaintest little village perched on the top of a hill, bnt lt ls wonderful when you get here, nud we're piling on big logs for you Stood on the Bl;ak Little Platform. and the lutchs'.ring dangles, so be sure and come. Also, I have your-1 romance! He bas como true, Win, at last, and be's all that anyone who loves you could wish for you." It certainly was stimulating, if noth ing else, both the lure of tho letter nnd the trip Itself. Winifred went around tho ht her side of the tiny sta tion and beard voices. A man was arguing about some way of reaching the Delma rs, nnd the stocky driver of a two horse sleigh demurred evasively. "lt's nine miles ordinarily up there and we'd have to go roundhout by Putts' bridge tonight 'cause the roads ain't been broke through t'other way, and then like enough we'd never make it. It's worth live dollars to drive over .there, every cent of lt." "I'll pay you five." said the stranger. "Hurry up." "I can't guarantee to get you there, but I'll do my best. This here's thc only tenir, In town you could get to night. There's n dunce over at Pom fredt Oreen and everybody's gone. I meant to go, but I had to tnke some folks down to this train, so I don't mind making a little going since I lind to earn some coming." "Oh, could I go with you, please?' Winifred broke In. "I'd pay half, don't you know, and there's plenty of room. I'm going to the Delmara, too." It seemed too good to be true when she found herself safely tucked away on tho back seat, with buffalo robes around her und the two horses taking up the road splendidly, their hoofs throwing back n spiny of light snow. Ho wns Oregory Ramsden, he told her, writer and globe trotter. Ile had Just gol back from u year ut the front in Europe and lie said Connecticut hills looked better to him than a?- the I old world put together. Even In tho durkness the pine trees stood out, their branches heavy with soow, nud before them here and there In the fields were clumps of white birch and red oak, with dry leaves still clinging to their boughs. The stars shone famously up in tho winter sky. Gregory half turned In his seat and talked. They hud many friends In com mon. He had known Rolf since they were boys hack In Denver. Neither of them noticed after five miles had been covered that the horses were walk ing, breasting the drifts and literally wading through, until they came to a dead halt and the driver Jumped out. Tliey couldn't go on, he sahl. The snow I was up to the top of tho fences us far as ono could see. He could turu around and get them up to the old Annabelle Smith place, where there was a telephone, and they could call up Wlndyheath. "It's only nine-thirty," Gregory said reassuringly. "And we don't get an adventure every day. Let's go." The Smith place was dark when they reached lt, but the driver knocked lustily and finally Hiere was a faint, frightened voice from the inner side of the front door asking who it was nt that time of night. Gregory explained, with the driver's help, and they wero admitted. "Hut you can't get word through to night. The wires don't work. They never do after a big storm on these here party lines," SJild Miss Smith, holding up a big oil lamp. "Just step right out Into the kitchen and you stir up the lire, Ira. Make yourselves to home, folksos. Ira can drive back and maybe telephone from the village up there." Winifred never forgot that New Year's eve. After Ira bad gone, they j sat out in the cheery old kitchen, drinking tea, eating nuts und apples and mince pie. and getting fearfully well acquainted, ns Miss Smith put it laughingly. Gregory carried in wood and split kindlings for morning, and tocked up for the night. While Miss Smith went up to look after her old bedridden father, they sat together by the fire, and somehow talk died awny. The old clock vip on the chimney man tel softly struck twelve in the silence. Winifred looked np and smiled, her head leaning back on Hie cushioned top of the old black rocker. "Happy New Year !" she said. "Isn't it the queerest thing, our being way up hero miles from everyone we know, and not knowing each other even, and starting off the new year together?" "It's great," Gregory clasped his hands around one knee, seated on the woodbox under the big Dutch oven. "I'm not superstitious, but after ramb ling for a year over there this seems nwfully much worth while. You know I'd almost begun to think, if you won't mind my snylng so, that there wasn't anyone like you In the world." Miss Smith hurried through the en try way. "Ira's back with a bigger team and he's going to take you through ull right, he says. He drove over that bad spot In the roads and broke lt for you. And be's telephoned to Mrs. Del mar that you're coming." It uns marly two when they reach ed Wlndyheath. All of the windows of the big country house were lighted up. and Anne herself, wrapped In a wonderful velvet and fur housegown, ran down the steps to meet them. "Oh, my dear, my dear!" she cried when she had Winifred safely upstairs In her room. "You poor child !" "I'm not poor," Winifred said ra diantly. "I've had the most beautiful adventure of my whole life, and I'm in love. I agree with you and fate this time." "Hut it isn't Gregory I want you to meet," faltered Anne. "You haven't gone nnd fallen In love with dear old Greg?" "I have," Winifred laughed happily. "Doth of us have. I never believed in love nt first sight before, or anything like lt, but I've made some wonderful resolutions for the new year this ?time." "Now listen to mo and the whole comedy. Anne curled up on tho bed confidentially. "The man you were to marry ls right down smoking with Rolf this minute. He's Madison Forbes, with money, position, everything, my dear. Rut he didn't think you'd try to make tho trip such a night, so I've been 'phoning madly everywhere to lind out if you had arrived and where. Then I would have tried to get to you. We sent out a car and lt couldn't get through, and the horses couldn't ei ther." "Don't worry," Winifred smiled at her reflection in the triple mirror nt the dressing table. "I don't give a rap about the money or position or any thing, Anna. We've been right out in to tho primitive world together, lost In the snow, and I'd go with bini te the ends of the world If thL? blessed Old world bud any ends. He said, Just as we were driving in here, lt was tho most promising New Year's he had ever known."' Treat thc Eyes When Rom. Minnesota's regulation providing that the eyes of all babies born in that State shall be bathed In a solu tion of silver nitrate became effective December 15, despite the objections flied by Christian Scientists and ot luis. Objectors argued that the solution in the hands of ignorant or Incompetent persons might do much harm. More than one thousand electric ranges were sold to the housekeepers in staid old Reston. Mass., during the year "tided Ot lober .Mst. ATLANTA'S WEALTHY MAYOR. Asa Q. Candler Will Devote 111K Full Tlino to th? Ofllce. For the small salary of $4,000 a year, the City of Atlanta, Ca., has en gaged the services of Dixie's richest inuit' 'millionaire to occupy the chair . tr in.?vor for two years, and Asa G. Candler has promised to devote his entiie lime to municipal affairs when ito gov8 in oillce, which will he on .la ii II a ry 1st. Twenty-live years ago Mr. Candler swapped a corner drug store for a soft drink formula which has made him the richest man in tho Southern States, and his gifts lo education, re '.gion and charity have kept pace with the g atv, th of his fortune. in appearance Mr. Candler is a ...hort, stockily built man, with white hair, gold-rimmed glasses and a, iiuick and somewhat nervous manner. He thinks, talks and transacts bu si ess with lightning rapidity. He is i ludest to a marked degree, and is ill leiisely democratic. Occupants of offices in the Candler building, which he built and owns, and in which his ellice is localed, say they never s.w him enter an elevator without bow ing and speaking to every person in ii, incluu." x the elevator man. While hld interests extend to many part;-, of tho country, and .minde . ein ral pro'ci ty in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and lither large <ities worth millions of dollars. Mr. Candler is primarily a believer in nonie institutions and homo luvet*, moil ts. More thin once he has held up Atlanta's real estate market by buying large pronertics at boom jirices in time of depression. Air. Candler is the controlling in lluence In two of Atlanta'.-: largest banks: recently erected In Atlanta tho second largest cotton warehouse in i ?ic* world; owns more central real estate than tiny other tax-payer; is a director in the Southern States Life Insurance Association, of which his friend, W. L. Moore, is president, and has large and varied interests in other lines. Mr. Candler's gift of $1.000,000 to Emory College, of which his brother. Bishop Warren A. Candler, is chan cellor, was the largest single gift ever made by a Southern man to any tauso; and he has given hundreds of thousands ol dollars to enterprises of education, religion and charity. Moore Will Ask $(10,000 for Militia. The necessity for more appropria tions from the State to enable South Carolina to comply with the require ments of the national defense act of last .lune is stressed by W. W. Moore, \djuLint General, in a 'otter lu me a i em be i's of the Legislature. den. Mooro points out that the Federal government requires the State to provide armories, storing places for all piopci'ty, and to kee)) up tho lllO hilixa'.ir.n camp site and tho rille r.ingi ?. Sent h Carolina must recruit ano ther regiment of infantry between now and next .lune under the terms of Hie national defense act. The Stale has at present two regiments of in fantry, (ive companies of coast artil lery, one company of cavalry, one to m |ia ll y of engineers and one field hospital company. The national de fense act says thal in the first year the State must increase this by ">0 lier cent, which means an additional l.L'ui) men. Within live years from last June, South Carolina must raise T.'JMII men for the National Guard, ii total of SOO for every Congressman mid Senator from the State. Electric .'eyes." according to an Lu eli sh dispatch, ITO popular with pertest ri a ii s on the dimly lighted streets of London. Men use them in Im'.ton holes and cuff links. Women use thom for ? yes In animal furs and Barry the batteries in a muff. HER NEW YEAR RESOLVE m cJAPAN ty I Now Year's day lins conic to rank as one of the most popular of the Flowery Kingdom's holidays. As In America it ls a day of feasting and good cheer, though oddly tempered by religious ob servances. '1 he above picture shows three Japanese belles on their way to the temple for prayers before starting on a round of New Year's calls. Not So Knsy ns it Seemed. Twelve persons decided to lunch together every day and agreed not to sit twice in the same order. One of the number, a mathematician, sur prised his associates by informing bom that their decision meant that mo and one. third million years must da|>so before they would again be ;oatod in the original order. Two men ?an sit together only lu two different vays; throe in six ways; four in 21; ive in 120; six in 720; seven in ?.0 I"; eight in 10,330; nine in 162,SSS; ten in 3,028,800; eleven Surest Thing, You Know. ( Xew York Tribune.) A couple of Kentuckians, meeting in a feud distrii t. according to an ex change, one asked the other; "Look hore, Hill, What shoot at nie for? I ain't quarrel with you.'' "You had a feud with Hen Walli er. didn't you ?" " lint Hen's dead." "Well I'm his executor." did got you no in 39,010.SOO, and twelve in 47??, I 00,600, .j, STRIKING A BALA NOK. ?> ll .?. ?|? .?? ?J? .J? ?J- . J? ??? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J* di% (Southern Rurallst. ) There is no phrase used to-day more than "the high cost ot* living," and no condition more common than the realization of the truth of the phrase. The necessities of lifo are most con spicuously affected and food is tho $ chief of all necessities. The farmer hoing the chief producer ol' food. X is perhaps hut natural that mar/ people suppose that the farmer mu-, have become tho chief beneficiary of the higher prices for those necessi ties, y ? Tho National ('range at its recent <v ^ annual session, recognized this pre vailing misconception by appointing a special committee lo present lt - real facts. The result was the issi.-?, of a "proclamation," from which wa herewith present several statements > worthy of careful consideration. The most important and gener.ii conclusion is that the farmer is nor. receiving either an unjust share OC an exhorbilant return for bis labor. As a matter of fad the increased cost of the materials entering Into ' ^ (J the produtclon of many agricultural products is proportionately greater than the increased cost ol' the pro duce lo tho consumer. Dairy pro ducts made from present high-priced feed stuffs is a good illustration of thc fact. :J| fl( The assertion in this grange "proc lamation" that on the ten-year aver age of prices "tho producer is uer. getting tl living price" is well illus trated In the ? ase of the great COttOU crop of the South. We hear mucll of wealth brought to the cotton g grower through the 20-cent price fe, . Jj . his present crop. We forget that two years ugo cotton which cost 9 V4 cents to grow was selling at less than 7 V: cents, lt is not the ups or downs of a single season which tell the fina!, tale, lt is the average which counts. ? ^ ^ The lean and the fat years must bota be counted before we can strike a correct balance. "In many countries with cheap la bor and high-priced lands the yield lier acre exceeds that of the United States. The American farmer with cheap lands and high-priced labor * J produces many times as much per man as does the farmer of any coun try in the world. "It must be borne in mind that tbe high prices have struck the farmer in whatever he buys, as much as they ?v have the city consumer. Farm labor is scarcer and higher than ever be fore in this country. Everything the farmer buys, whether machinery, fer tilizer, fencing, clot liing, ' or the nee essaries of life, has increased in price by leaps and bounds. This ls also / true of taxation, the increase being ~J in many sections ?ifl per cent or moro, during tho last live years "The fact that nearly one-half of the civilized world has left the field of production ?ind entered upon the. work of destruction has increased the demand for all kinds of producta ;/J and goods. We believe that prices will be high for several years, espe- : dally tor manufactured goods. An lo the products of the tarni the fix ing of prices is mainly by the law of supply and demand in the markets of the world. The farmer competes willi the cheapest paid labor on earth. When he sells some of his products, as he did only a few years i ago, at less than cost, he gets no re dress, no reduction in taxes nor in anything lie buys, and lt would be very unfair, when he is getting a fair price for some of his products, to pince an embargo on what he pro duces to lower tho price and ulti mately reduce tho supply. So that, an embargo on wheat and other ce reals would in the long run mean decreased acreage. ( Hut if embar goes are to be placed to help the sit- M nation, it should be on manufactured goods, particularly munitions of war. This would give the farmer more la borers and reduce the prices of what he buys. "We believe that in some instances production Iras boon restricted by v* trusts and monopolies. This is par ticular!.*, true of the meat situation, as tuanv of tho villages, towns and cities in many sections are not per mitted to kill their own meats be cause of Ibo unfair competition from the packing interests. * "We further believe that while the crops have been short, yet there is plenty for all in this country and some to sell. But at the same time economy should be practiced along all lines. The high price of potatoes and vegetables this year does not ??) moan that the same price will pre vail next year. Hy taking a ten-year average tho producer is not getting a living price, and under present condi tions we are only getting a fair price." - > Who Arc We, Anyhow ? i1 Speaking of America, the Milan, Haly, Gazette, observes: "We all know the italians discov ered it. "Tho Irish rule it. t "The .lews Improved it. . "The Yankees run it. "Tho gasoline men own it - "So, where is your Americanism?" "ti