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Ooping the Baby. "At the first sign of an attempt to standardize and sterilize the babies," says Ellis Parker Butler in Success Magazne, "1 organized the Fond Fa thersF Oop-da-baby Association ot 'America. For thousands of years fa thers have been permitted to oop-de baby unrestrained, and this right was one of the first rights attacked by the advocates of the automatic baby. I considered it a double blow at the baby and at the father and resented it as such. If a father may not oop his own baby. what is the world coming to? Ooping a baby is a father's great eat pleasure. It Is the act of grasping the baby under the arms, tossing the baby Into the air and catching it on its down trip, while the words "Oop-de baby!" are repeated at each toss. This is repeated until the baby Is hysterical or drops on the Door by accident. It Is then handed to Its mother." Bones Stronger Than Oak. The wonderful power of bone strue ture has been tested scientifically to show how that hollow bone bears strain. A very small bone, only one square mMimeter (.0155 square Inch) in diameter, will hold thirty-three pounds in suspension without break ing, while a piece of the best oak of the same thicliess will bold up only twenty-two pounds. The bone is therefore half again as strong as the sold oak, thus showing that nature Is economical in the weight given to bones, making them hollow and at the Same time makes them stronger than if they were solid and much heavier. This principle has been recognized In mechanics, engineers using hollow pteel tubes instead of solid to meet great strain.-New York World. Tobacco In Vienna, "ahy have a way of asking a stranger when he comes to Vienna," says a letter from that city, "'Who Is the largest the most reliable, the smalest, the best'and the worst dealer in cigars and cigarettes in Vienna? Of course the stranger does not know I the answer, and the native tells him triumphantly, "The government? The government has the monopoly, and every person employed In a tobacco shop-they call them 'trafk-Is a gov enment employe" Presence of Mind. He-Our love is opposed and we are destined to be unhappy all our lives, Let's commit suicide and die together.' She-All right, darling. I couldn't live without you. He-How shell we dot? She-Don't you think Ice cream ptomaines would be about the quick .est wafy?-Brlington News. The Thing to Get At. Chief Counsel-The frst thing to do is to get at the root of this trouble. Associate -Counsel-The root of the trouble Is the late Mr. BIgwad's for tune. Chief Counsel-Exactly, and we must get at it-New York Tribune, On accou: account of the themselves of TO We would t will be among 1 Remember, chaser to a han Room Furnitur4 This Sale is avail themselv4 with the preset ial and unusua misrepresent a clean, fresh anc This Sale w ELEi Sung by PAUL GILMORE, star "THE WHEE Andante. I I --e mf x. Gee, but I'm feel - ing awf' - ly queer, 2. If she don't like the life out here, Aa a tempo. wheel of my love seems out of gear, Pd e - ven leave you, Tex - as, dear, a tempo. Dream - ing of her all night while I sleep, Come to your win - dow, dear lit - tle girl, "T1 p6_ _ _ _ T1 -_-_W______tI_ Copyright, mc3vii, by P] Published by MURRAY MUSIC Co., by per. THE TREBUHc 1416 Broadway, New York. Publishers E at of the extremely present depressed our SPECIAL SA trge the trading pubi those who get the ch< we have promised t .dsome Premium, and for the purpose of su: as of an opportunity t Lt prices of the farm [ offerings. Remembi nything. Our Stock< L goes with our reput LIl continue all throul LNOR ing in GEO. V. HOBARTS plap L OF LOVE" Words and Music by EDWARD LA Ped. Nev - er felt so be - fore............ I'll go back East with her,............ r-i. Since I met E - lea - nor;. All for my E - lea - nor . And then a - gain by day. So anx - ious - ly I wait,. ATT Publishing Co. PUB. Co., (Inc.) EDWARD LASKA, General Manage of all Shubert Musical Attractions. Yo. $ XTE low prices of < condition, a goo LE, therefore, wv4 ic to take a dvant >ice of our large s' hat with every pl a privilege for th pplying the needs o buy these thinge products of this er, we are not end >f Goods, which co ation for honest rh the month of ]S - - -IF i r 'azom UOL OA01 I .......Oito SI Theaedcd tocn BE R 30 ao iapIIwu A *P 7.u aji q -9 no ........ A. * .u .rchase.ofwgoo am U p p 'no unot o1 eotGrnandi cottoh seed, dfmanyofaour whcuhsom e aven decideod ohelf-i nsists of neral eMerh:a nwhichare hdoshod nA ad o g t u mw L uo ?m eu no~ neti Sale or - II l SM. jo~Ta&O IiI no r~ 0, 19 lie. sit f a magnificieru~ to promptgs, ~ s to mako ng i th mrat le nCeand igingte -I LisS. ing~~= to$5-t2il n ditpfamanfce ~~en ~ p liealt swt I Ske JqIn DAVI SIU lsP u ' Air Sacs of Pigeons. The air sacs of the pigeon constitute a system of Interstices, the value 'of which lies in their absence of weight and resistance. Flying Is possible only to a body of high mechanical efficiency divested of all superfluous material. The original reptiles, which by evolution became birds, were divested of superfluous ma. terlal, and the body- spaces -thus ob tained were filled with air-sacs. The - body wall, adapting itself to the me chanlal requirements, became a hollow cylinder serving as a support for the organs of movement, the mobility of whose parts was assured by the sur rounding air-sacs. The air cavities in the bones of other birds are similrly explained.-Harper's Weekly. Lake In a Volcanic Ring. On the island of Ninafow, halfway between FiJI and Samoa, is a volcanic. ring inclosing a crater containing a.. lake two miles In diameter. Toward the sea the ring is bordered with walls of black cliffs 200 to 300 feet in height An eruption in 1888 formed a penin sula on the eastern side of the lake. While the ocean outside Is trembling and thundering under a heavy wind the lake remains smooth or Is simply wrinkled with ripples or wavelets. Bad For Herbert. "So," said the sminitten girl, whose father had been talking seriously to her, "you dislike Herbert and you will not recognize him?" "That's it," he replied. "If he doesn't keep away from here I won't recognize him, and neither will hIs own mother."-London Answers Pleasant For Him. His Better Half-I think ifs time w got Lizzie married and settld down. Alfred. She will be twenty-eiglit next week, you know. Her Lesser-Half Oh, don't hurry, my dear: Better wait till the right sort of man comes along His Better Half-But why wait? didn't.-Exchange. Bracelets and Lunatics. Bracelets have been worn from time Immemdrlal, but few wearers of the golden bands of the present day knov that they were once used to disti guish the Insane. Before lunatics were onfined to asylums they wore an7 armlet for distinction.-Argouaut. Odious Compaison Drill Sergeant-I say,. Smith haved you any Idea 'how slow and sted you are? Private Smith-I don know. Drill Sergeant-Of course-eo lon't, but let me tell you that an - t1an mummy is frisky compared with Fou.-London Tit-Bits. , Kokomo. Kokomo, In the language of the In lians who at one time Inhiti that - iection of rIdinn signifies "a young ;randmother. act tat on ibeto avail 1-1. so that they itle the pur it Set of Bed 1 a chance to immeasurate e these spec-K we trigto line, is goo , your friends TATIO1 L-~