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RICHES IN AMAZON VALLEY Rubber Planters Have Learned Need of Producing Their Own Supplies, and Prosperity Has Followed. "It will be u long time before the supply of rubber in the Amazon valley has been exhausted, notwithstanding the cry of prophets that ^he days of rubber prosperity have ended forever,'' declared U. \Y. Hardy of Valparaiso, Chile, at Washington. "In February of this "year, us coinpared with the preceding month, the shipments increased by nearly 4,500,000 pounds, or 60 per cent. The rejuvenvation of the industry injtrazil is assured ; also in the eastern provinces of l'eru. Some months ago a man named La Toree established u rubber plantation of HO,000 trees, 30,000 of which were fourteen years old. This is not the only plantation, however, that has been established. There are scores of them scattered through ltrazil. The longcontinued depression in the rubber murket, far from disheartening rubber producers, taught 4hem the much-needed lesson of not only producing rubber, but enough addilional products to supply them with food and some reserve crops. "In other words, the Aina/.on valley has been taught economy. The experts had said that Amazon rubber could not possibly be produced under a certain minimum price, uud the highest factor in their calculations was the heavy cost of supplies iu u region where all supplies wero imported from markets miles distant. This factor has now. been eliminated. The Amazon valley is growing its own supplies in one of the most beneficent climates on the fuce of the earth." SHE KNEW. F1 ci Kidder?lirugger doesn't underestimate any oT his own qualities. Kutherinc?Yes, he does. Kidder?Which one? Kutherine?llis stupidity. THE GARDEN VARIETY. A slim chicken, who was so thin thut she nicked the counter where she leaned against it, trickled up to the hosiery department of a Sixteenth street store and said: "('awn you give me a pair of hose that won't bag at the knees?" Maine shifted her chicle against her buck molars, ozzed a wise slant over the customer and replied listlessly : "Not unless yuh take ganlen hose!" ?J udge. THE LIMIT. "Ain't it orful," observed Weary Waggles, "bow little sense some guys has got ?" *T inhuh," assented Dusty Hhondes. "( 'an youse imagine a bloke as stupid us dem rieh New Yorkers, what has t' go t' a school of philanthropy t' learn how t' give money away?"? Puck. OVER THE TELEPHONE WIRE3. Kxeituble Party (at telephone) ? Hello! Who is this? Who is this, I say! Man at Other Knd?Haven't got time to guess riddles. Tell me yourself who you are. ITS KIND. "Did you see where a man bet he could use his safety razor while in midair in his aeroplane?" "I'll het that was a close shave." GOOD AND BAD ART. A ? "Did that militant sutTragette damage your picture?" "It depends on which one. sha slashed. Maybe she improved it." EXPLAINED. "Why is there so much howling . over the decline of the drama?" L "I suppose it iu because they will TWO WORDS SAOLY ABUSED "Fate" and "Failura" Should Have LIV tie Meaning for the Pereon With Determination. Fate and failure, words beginning ' I with tlie same letter oj. the alphabet, are both sadly abused. There is no j such thing as fate, and, if we only knew it, there is no such thing as . l i u 11 u re. What we call fate i3 merely a condition created by ourselves, and what we call failure is one of the results ; of that condition. . Christian civilization, turning its gaze from the setting to the rising sun, repudiated the oriental idea of j Kismet. Cnder the new dispensation every man is the arbiter of his own state, the captain of his own soul. But there are too many women and men nowadays who give up too readily, too willingly, and accuse fate for tlu ir n\vn failing. I.aziness of l?ody or of mind casts j the shadow that many call fate. Most of the ills that women sutfer are due I to this laziness. I.nck of proper attention to mind and hody is too often the wall that intervenes l>ctweeii success and failure. It isn't fate. Don't deceive yourself bv thinking so. You are j fate to yourself. Study your weakj nesses instead of yielding to them. > ! Train vour strenszih to nvprenmo I your weaknesses, make yourself the i ruler of your moods, and you will , laugh at fate and he the controller'1 . : of your own destiny.?Exchange. HIS IDEA The Millionaire?ltiches, my man, | do not hring happiness. The l.al>orer?Mavl>e not, hut it would he a heap of satisfaction to have a lot of money and he aide to talk like that to a chap that hatm't got any. STRANGE BRAZILIAN FRUIT- j Take a railway train in Brazil, and ; instead of the familiar ery of apples and poaches you will be greeted by venders with huge baskets of the j iinbu. This fruit grows on the drv lands of the Brazilian interior. The ! average Brazilian's capacity for this I fruit is a cons'.ant surprise to visitors. The fruit is sold in large basinlike baskets containing a quarter of a peck or more, and a Brazilian can make his way through a basket of these as easily as an American would eat a single orange. The imbn is egg-sized and eggshaped. It fias an aromatic flavor and lias a greenish yellow color. THE SPLIT. | "Why does Jinx hate you so vini dictively?" "Because I did just exactly what he asked me to do." "What in the world could that have been ?" "He told me to be honest with him and tell him just what his faulta were, and I did." SUN IN GRAVE DANGER. Maud?Oh, doctor, how low the sun is this evening! M. I).?Yes, I fear he will not survive the night. WORLDLY WISE. He?Would you have loved me had I been poor? She?Yes, dear; hut 1 would have kept you in ignorance of the fact. AN UNEXPECTED END. * Fate plava some queer tricks." "Yea?" "I've just been reading about an aviator who died of indigestion." A THIN GARMENT. "A torn ailk kimono was recently introduced in court." "I'd hate to convict anybody on such flimsy aval?oa." ABSINTHE SEEN AS EVIL Pious Old Moor Even Goes So Far as to Describe It as an Invention of Satan. "Xbsinthe is an invenlion of the evil one," earnestly reolared an old Moor to whom "a trader tried to explain the tyrannous nature of (General Lynutey'a order forbidding the sale of absinthe in Morocco. "On its roots he pours the blood of a peacock; then, when the leaves begin to grow, he sprinkles them with the blood of a monkey; then he dips the stalks in the blood of a bear; lastly he mingles with the juice of the plant the blood of a pig. "So that when the faithful drinks absinthe, at the first glass his appetite awakes, and he arises, proud as a peacock ; at the second glass he becomes excited and gesticulates like a mousey; ni 1I1C IlllVU lie IHVOI1H* quarrelsome and spiteful, like a bear; at the fourth he becomes he^ 7 sotted and falls to the earth and rolls like a hog in the mire. "May Allah protect us, Sidi I.vautoy is right.*' In that connection it is depressing to note that the saddest state of affairs prevails in Belgium, where absinthe Jias become practically the national beverage. It has often been assarted that the physique and morals of Belgians make them the least attractive people in Europe.?Exchange. OLD SHOE FOILS PICKPOCKET Philadelphia Girl, Wedding Guest, ' With "Good Luck Emblem,'* Balks Thief. Only the quick eye and ready arm of Miss Catharine Cec, a young and charming wedding guest, saved William Zeidler, just married, from having his pocket picked as he led his bride from her home, KOti North Eighth street, where they bad just been married, to the automobile which was to whisk the pair away on their honeymoon. Miss I.ye, with other guests, stood outside the door Hfter the wedding, forming a gantlet through which the bridal couple passed in a shower of rice. She bad a shoe in her band, winch she intended to throw for good The Ladies in over Harmony Hair the lmir lustrous, s< ami we sell ahout al where near comes u Ask any one ol she'll tell you she "l< to us and get some HA HAIF Is just what its nnr beautiful.?.lust to muk gracefully into the wavy It leaves a delight fr Will not change or (larki liair sticky or stripgv. brushing it. But first, mi Har ?A liquid shnn?po<< Jr. 1 an instantaneous, tieh. I scalp. It is washed off moments. It lewcs m* / cleanliness.?Just a daiii ?Botli in odd-shuped or 11... a i Bifiriminjf IMUir / ;iro |- The; Th re is no l.iss nf women i tln- n mure lieauliful than ui eiithurfL-tst it-ally praise |?>lli KTHKI. It ARRYMORK iitur in "T.\ule," Knijiire Th KLSIE FKRGI'SON* Star in ".V Sltran?o \Vunu i ork. I.OFISK DIIESSER S-'t ir iu "I'utaali a nl IVrliiu. Titralrr, Nrw I ?>rk. SoiJ wtily at Uia mora thai) ) ! 4 * luck. A8 she was bracing heraelT for the throw she saw a stranger deftly slip his hand into the bridegroom's hip pocket. She brought the shoe down upon the stranger's face with a shout of ''Thief 1" which caused the would-be pickpocket to flee, with forty or mote guests tn pursuit. After a chase of several blocks tbe man was caught. ? Philadelphia North American. WORSHIP STRANGE GODS. A land where strange native goda are still worshiped is the Eket district of southern Rhodesia, "the l.nnd of the Ihibios." In the Kwa I ho ostuarv. where the perfect sand is strewn with gleaming shells, come at. low tide Eket and Iheno maids who, easting off their robes, kneel on the edge of the foam to pray to the sea goddess, I'man Ibeno, to send them husbands. Men, too, come to plead, with arms outsrctched, her help in unexpected difficulties or dagger. To all who seek her aid the goddess ordains a sacrifice of white cocks and hens, varying in number according to the riches of the petitioner. V THAT'S IT. Church?What is rhetoric? ( odium? Why, I believe it is something a man hus to use when proposing marriage to a iioston school teacher. QUITE DIFFERENT. "Are you going to rusticate tlua summer?" v "No; just going to have a <piiet time in the country." HIS FACULTIES. "Ilow could that singer utter forged notes?" "1 suppose because his voice was thorough bass." Too Good an Excuker. A young man. bavin? broker, an ap polntnient wltli Doctor Franklin, canu to him the following ilay ami made : very liaudsome apology for Ills ah sence. He was proceeding when tin doctor stopped liim with: "My goou boy, say no more; you have said toe much already: for tlie man who is good at making an excuse is seldom good at anything else."?Life. I*'I'llll' this Town are Simply Bcantifier. And no wonder, 1 >ft. mid silky we believe there' I I he various hair preparations p to Ilannony Hair Beautitier till* many women in this to\ >ves" it. Just look at her hair, yourself. RMCM t BEAUTIF no implies.?Just to make the hair gl e if easier to dress, and more natun linos ami folds of the coiffure, it fresh and o<>ol effect, and a.lingcrin ait he color. Contains no oil; thereto Simply sprinkle a little on your ha ike sure that your hair and scalp are eh mony Shampc liecp the hair clean, soft, smooth and onming lather, penetrating to every j ju<t. as quickly, the entire operatioi a hi ps or stick in ens.?Just a refreshing ty, pleasant and clean fragrance, namentnl bottles, with sprinkler tops. icaiit'Jier, $1.(M). Harmon]! SI larnnlccd l<? please you, or your iiioue se otago Beauties Endorse Them ? vlio know kettcr how to.discriminate in the us I re-ws. Among I lie many (vlrliratcd slage l>< Iluruiony Hair ltt-uutificr and Harmony Shan J.ACRKTTE TAYLOR rater, New York. Star in "Pen o' My Henri York. in," t.yeeum, New NATALIK ALT Star in "Aiiole," Imnracr HOKE COGHLAN itier," tl. M. Cohan Star in "Kino Feathers," u Stairs. ruOO 1?atL Stores. Ours is the Vwatt Ardrey's 1 r'--. HAD THE LAOGH ON "COPPER" ! Small Girl Felt Herself Immune From Arreat and Took Advantage of the Fagt. -i Six small girls running through Conirnl park, were making the most of thrir freedom. "She's too fat to catch us right away,'' oriel the smallest child, looking hack at a hurrying figure in the distance. ."Let's pick sonic tiowors.*' "You dassent," protested an older child. "You ain't allowed to pick those Mowers." "I dast," said the youngest child. Reaching up to a flowering shrub, she hroke otT a long spray and held it up triumphantly. "Stop that," bellowed a grui;' voice. A large policeinan, who had apparently sprung from the earth, grasped the little girl Uv the arm. "Don't you know that you're breaking the law?" he qucslioni'd her sternly. "Don't you know I can arrest you for that? 1 think I will arrest you as an example. You're old enough to know better." The smallest child wriggled from his grasp. "Ah. go on!" she remarked contemptuously. "You can't pinch inc. Why, I'm pinched already. We was all pinched over a year ago. We come from the reform school."? New York Times. WHY NOT INTENSIVE SLEEP? Writer States Argument as to How the Houra of Slumber May Profitably Be Curtailed. There seems to be such a thing as intensive sleeping, just as we lurfcintensive gardening and farming, writes Frederick Peterson in Atlantic. It has been shown experimentally that r.epose is deepest during the first hour or two, ami that sleep becomes more shallow, more superficial, thereafter; and it is conceivable that by sleeping intensively for two or*three hours we might secure as much actual rest as we now obtain by dissipating it over seven or eight hours. It would be interesting tf? Wnnw iiinrn tlmn ? .? .!.? .>1 parative sleep in the various animals. The authorities state that hirds, despite their enormous aetiviGoing Wild because to make and you'll come iy m ier m ossv, lustrous, more Tl to fall easily and K ?re uocxii i leave i lie ir each time liefore ' V an, hv using ,A SS^ >o - msmm beautiful. It gh'? ;?art of the hair ami i taking only a few sense of cool, sweet M$wuimjtoo, 50c. , Store in ttib Town Drug Store s- * r ' y .- *'1.. * ' *' ^ ^ i = = ties and more intense niofiholisin, sleep very little. The dog, wl'.ieh appears lo sleep so much. is said to he the nio<t uakahh of animals. Man is regarded us the soundest sleeper and the least v> Amble among alb wen lures. It has I >n suggested that this ep-Tebt'Pn between dog and man. <?> panh a- from pro-glueinl days. wh.:< h i ;s . :> so conducive to their mutual rv i ion. is another xnu.ple < > ,1 u do pv\ kind of iil'e that \vo ? . il s, nd . sis. CHATTELS. The word "chat i~ of French origin and tneans , f ,uiv kind. I'hatteU wore ot ina'.v divide.) into real and personal * hatteU. t 'hat h Is r< al v. re ;o ?perty annexed to or con. in.o ; ic.il estate, as a h as. for years for l.iii I. IVrsonal chattels were, - h things us wi ro iu?. . ' o, a.- " ,k-. j -wclry, grain, machitu ry, goods and property of like kind. t 1 ..ici mortgages were not in use a- t iy a - real ? tato nor! os. ;ii 1 the reason is that at lirst all prop, r e of value was in the laud. The first us., of personal property as m < urit \ for the p ?vm> oi of a .telit w ;i-: I'\ pill in-.1 I he | i-iij \ up as :i pledge, ill wliirli ease I lie eretlitor hel l ihe property and returned tl to th e owner when the money was paid. HER POST. Marfan t How does your friend Mrs. leewii stand on the suffrage tpiesi ion ? - Anna Site's doing pi. hot duty. Margaret- Doing picket duty ? what, for sud"rage? \nna Oh. no she's on the fence. ?Christian Register. HIS REc.RLTS, "i lew .hi i . t \ ui g lady's e\eei|l ion oil t he p 11 "I a mi i v :'? ! eie 10 she is III II t< lfl'1 II ITS LOCALITY. "l'op. 1 want 1. ' now nniethili<J.M "Well, .1 i n 1111 \ . ' "U the w a-! lill;- of the W a\\ i done on the seaboard?" I MMMMMI: a* '??c e -?. if. ill ; - 4|s| i f I ' * % 4^