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I say tliat the federal gov- || Xe*r
ernnient is obliged to II
waSe persistent and ag- ttl
CZSXtB gressive war against the ?'
^ predatory animals In de
life of national park and
national forest and of
JL the herds of the cattle- T ^ jT ^
k man and sheepman. More V
than 150,000 wolves, coy- 1916. The total killed
otes,'bobcats, lynxes, mountain lions including animals pois
and "killer" bears have been killed in 32,008. Utah comes se
the six years since this warfare began. 712; Texas, third, with
Yet the beasts of prey persist, in fourth, with 10.018; On
spite of the fact that the hand of every 12.524. and Washingtt
man is against them night and day, 10,015.
yeur in and year out. The coyote is Texas lends the sis
even increasing in numbers and is number of wolves dispi
widening his range. Nobody knows tal being 1,500 during tl
just why the coyote howls at night. As
good a guess as any is that it is his
way of notifying civilized man that he HELEN KEL
Is still on the job and intends to stay, _
In spite of rifle, trap and poison. And i *
everyone who has heard the coyote
give voice at night knows that a large TWTADISON, WIS.?H
part of the weird performance strik- ville, Wisconsin, t
lngly resembles mocking laughter. States, have met, retolc
Government hunters in the last six achievements. Miss Ki
years have killed with trap and gun she was nearly, two ye
150.150 wild animals that roamed the fever. She has been ed
Western ranges and preyed on live was taught to speak bj
stock. The campaign against these ani- vocal chords.
tin la ivnc honir hv flip cnvprninpnt 111 WilettU HUCCinS. tl
1915 nnd now aU the states except old. Two years ago sin
Arkansas, Oklahoma and South Dtf- j
kota, are co-operating.
The list Includes 406 bears, 17.S42
hohcats and lynxes. 133.604 coyotes, 068
mountain lions and 3.630 wolves. The
total shows the number of scalps
taken; it does not include the large :
number of animals killed by poison.
The figures would be greatly increased
if those animals, too, were in the list.
Many poisoned animals are never jj?& Sfrh-^wi
Their Destructiveness.
In the fiscal year 1921 tne total num- j'
ber of predatory animals killed was ^
27,637, classified as follows: SO bears, \
2.408 bobcats nnd lynxes, 1M.25S coy- j
otes, 128 mountain lions and 594 1 4
The average destruction by these
animals is estimated to have been
each wolf nnd mountain lion, about 1
$1,000 worth of live stock; each coyote ^
and bobcat, $50 worth, and each stockkilling
bear. $500 worth. In view of
these estimates an idea is obtained of I *1''
the tremendous damage averted by the ^||
government s sKiueu muueo. mi-stfigures
are averages; In some oases,
much higher figures. The Custer wolf ' &*--*was
estimated to have killed at least time she has learned to
$2">,000 worth of cattle before it was her hands on the heat
disposed of not long ago. j gj,e tells all colors thro
The figures given represent the gov- Miss Keller looks i
ernment's activities along this line In of the things which slit
Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colora- Miss Keller was so pit
do. Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mex- coinpllshments of Miss
lco. North Dakota. Oklahoma, Oregon, j Had I all the hu
South Dakota, Texas. Utah, Washing-' t could not see
ton and Wyoming. During the six-year j -lore deary Lli
campaign more predatory animals were "I am delighted ihi
killed In Nevada than in nny other developed, and I look
stute, largely because that stnte was do If they work long e
the first to conduct a co-operative cum- things in the world, hi
palgn with the government, starting In | being."
NATURAL EYE CLEANER I SJSZfJLT
| pecially well develope
Many automobile windshields are In man It Is a functh
provided with a "cleaner," which, I In the Inner corner o
when not In use, rests at one side of have lost ull muscular
the glass, but In stormy weather may ! and It serves no good
be drawn quickly across the wind- , than possibly to point 1
shield from side to side, clearing it of { over which we came.?
raindrops or snow or dust. Many Dispatch.
groups of animals have exactly this
sort of "cleuner." or third eyelid. Bird Helples
which may be drawn from the inner Eminent naturalists Y
corner of the eye across the eyeball that certain of natur<
TIME TO THINK i p- l* L n
? English Coast
The time required for the human |
mind to conceive n single thought has it is not commonly fc
been estimated at a twelfth of a sec- era! varieties of sma
ond. Poser. This figure was arrived found around English
at from experiments, proving that it Is ure mostly discovered In
impossible for a man to obtain more low water mark, though
than ten contractions of the muscles resemblance to the s
each second. If the will cannot obtain merce. Growing spong
more contractions It Is because the act \ Is carried on off the < <
of will requires a certain time and the The seed sponges are
successive volitions cannot follow one pieces and attached by
another at too close intervals. | lar or triangular cenu
^ Killers?
?. ' . ;. v ' * A
pulgn, or more tban 10 per cent of the
H?^r \\\ total number of wolves killed In ull
^SjW sixteen states. Wyoming ranks second
ijtrap I in number of wolves killed, with 480;
J/ tnna, fourth, with 339; Arizona, fifth,
/// with 183, and Utah, sixth, with 170.
*n nuiu^er coyotes whose scalps
r Hkl) have been taken by government hunt?i
ers and in co-operative campaigns, Ne0
r vada leads with 27,173; Utah is sec^
ond with 18,707; Texas third with
in Nevada, not 14.S30; Idaho fourth with 14,454: Oreoned.
Is put at gon fifth with 10,351, und Wasnlngton
cond, with 21,- sixth with 9,031.
i 18,002; Idaho, Arizona and New Mexico account for
?gon, fifth, with nearly two-thirds of the total number
>n, sixth, with of mountain lions killed, their totals
being 255 and 170, respectively. In
:teen states in Utah 71 mountain Hons were killed;
tised of, the to- in Oregon 43, Colorado 30, California
ip siv.vpnr p?m- 29 and Nevada 24.
LER AND WILETTA HUGGINS
Blind and Deaf Women Conversing.
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elen Keller of New York find Wlletta Huggins of Janeshe
two most famous deaf and blind women of the United
1 tlieir troubles and complimented each other upon their
filer (at the right) Is forty-one years of age and since
ars old has been deaf and blind as a result of scarlet
lucated, however, graduating from Radellffe college. She
r a teacher who. had Miss Keller pla'ce her hands on her
ie marvel child of Janesville, Wisconsin, is sixteen years
s became blind and a few months later deaf. Since that
' ' -\^"''" -:>'.'V- ' 'it: "y
talk with other people through her finger tips by placing
1 or on the bony structure of the chest of the person.
iugh the sense of smell.
jpon Wlletta Huggins as far In advance of her In many
; has accomplished. At the close of an hour's Interview,
*ased with ull she had learned and delighted at the acHuggins
that she wrote these lines:
n that shines Nor star-guided, sail
More surely toward
le's enterprises, The Islands of my dreams.
lit the power and gift of her spirit has been mnrvelously
forward to her helping others to realize what they can
nough." said Miss Keller. "There ure many marvelous
it nothing so wonderful as the adaptability of a human
r8 in all verte- creatures show strange helplessness
man, hut Is es- under certain conditions. Place a vuld
in the birds, ture in u pen six or eight feet square
>nless rudiment entirely open at the top and the bird
f the eye. We will be absolutely u prisoner as if it
control over It were hermetically sealed in the lnpurpose,
other closure. This is due to the fact that
>ack to the way vultures never begin u flight from the
-St. Louis Post- ground without starting on n run of
three or four yurds. If they cannot
have that preliminary run they either
sness. cannot or will not attempt to fly,
luve pointed out and so a vulture will remain a prisoner
i's most uctlve | for life in a Jail with no top.
Q nn no | l?w<*ro(l to the ocean bottom. In
oponges ; about two years they reach a size suit!
able for commercial purposes, wheremown
that sev- upon they are removed and new seed
II sponges are cuttings are attached. The period ol
shores. They growth for an ordinary bath sponge
etween high and j measuring about a foot in diameter is
they bear little j ten years. For this reason sponge beds
ponge of com- are seldom worked incessantly. An
;es from "seed" exhausted bed may tie made profitable
iast of Florida, to work after four years, during which
cut into small time the sponges not worth gathering
wires to eireu- at the cessation have grown to a re;ut
blocks, and ! spectable size.
IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
Sunday School
' LessonT
(By KLv. p. B. FiTZU ATtU. D. D..
Teacher of English Bible in the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago.)
Copyright, 1922, Western Newspaper Union.
LESSON FOR MARCH 19
THE DOWNFALL OF ISRAEL
LESSON TEXT?II Xings 17:1-18.
GOLDEN TEXT? Righteousness exalteth
a nation; but sin is a reproach to any
people.?Prov. 14:34.
REFERENCE MATERIAL?Hosea 7.
Ames 2:6-16.
! PRIMARY TOPIC?What Came of
Wrong Doing.
JUNIOR TOPIC?Israel's Punishment
for Disobedience.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
?Results of Disobedience to God.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
?How National Sins Are Punished.
1. Israel Taken Into Captivity
<vv. 1-0).
TJ'.is wns the fulfillment of that
which Amos had predicted In the days
of Jeroboam II, at n time when the
nation was at the height of Its prosperity.
The northern kingdom was
ruled by It) kings, all of whom were
wicked. Their wickedness wns net because
of lack of information or opportunity,
but in sliite of It. God
promised* the first king Ills blessing
[ If be would lie loyal to Him. Jeroboam
departed from God and the
apostasy thus begun continued downward
to the end. In the reign of
Hosheo, the last king, the king of
Assyria came and besieged Samaria
and carried the children of Israel captive
to Assyria, from which they never
returned.
II. The Sins Which Caused Their
Dcom (vv. 7-18).
1. Conformed to the ways of the
heathen (vv. 7-0). God had commanded
them not to follow in the
ways of the heathen, hut these
Israelites, instead of maintaining lives
of separation, secretly did that which
wns <lisnlp:i?infT to God. Secret sins
Just as surely as open sins bring ruin
for all things are naked and open to
Him with whom we have to do. One
may maintain his reputation before
men while practicing sins, but ruin
will sooner or later overtake him.
Even though God had cast out the
heathen for practicing these sins, the
Israelites followed in their ways. God
demands separation (II Cor. 6:17).
2. Served idols (vv. 10-12). They not
only compromised by "walking in the
statutes of the heathen," but worshiped
their gods. It was not a long step
from following in the statutes of the
heathen to worsklplng their gods.
Before they worshiped idols they cast
off the true God. Idolatry came In
because the race did not wish to retain
God In Its affection'(Horn. 1:2123).
People today are worshiping
Idols because they have first cast off
the authority of the living God. Man
is a worshipful being. When he
censes to worship the true God. he
worships other gods. Neutral ground
: is impossible.
| 3. They were rebellious (vv. 13*
1.1). God by his prophet knd said
unto them "Turn ye from your evil
ways land keep my commandments."
but they stubbornly refused His
testimony, even rejected His statutes.
! God. in love, tried to save them. He
I sent some of the noblest and best
nrnnliets who ever spoke to man to
persuade tliem to turn from their |
sins, such ns Ell.1nh and Elishn, hut
they hardened their neeks and plunged
deeper into wickedness.
4. Caused their sons and daughters
to pass through the fire (v. 17). Tills
was the dreadful Moloch worship?the
most cruel rite of heathen worship.
It was done by kindling a fire in a
hollow metal image until its arms were
red hot and placing live children
therein to he burned to death.
5. Resorted to magical practices
(v. 17). When faith In the true God
wanes, men always turn to the magical
arts. In this wnv they sold themselves
to evil In the sight of the Lord
| to provoke Him to anger.
III. Judgment Falls (v. 18).
At this stage of the drama the curtain
falls. God could not be inactive
longer.
1. God was very angry. God's anger
Is not raving fury, hut the revulsion
of His holy nature against sin. Sin
cannot exist in His presence. His
wrath must strike. Though He waits
long, the debt must he paid and always
with compound Interest. There Is only
one way to escape God's wrath; that
Is, to turn from sin.
2. Removed tnem out of His sight.
The land of Palestine is regarded as
Vie land of God's sight; that Is. the
place of His manifested presence.
Their national Identity was hlotted
out forever. These people are still
scattered nmong the nations, nnd as a
separate nation doubtless they will
never return to their land. The Judgment
was severe, hut not more so
than the sins merited. God hnd waited
long. The despising of His grace
must eventually work ruin. W^int
judgment must fnll upon the people
today who reject His grace and tuercy!
¬her Lesson.
Who. If he is honest towards himself.
could say that the religion of his
manhood was the same as that of his
childhood, or the religion of his old
nge the same as the religion of his
manhood? It Is easy to deceive ourselves
and to say that the most perfect
faith Is a childlike faith. Hut hefore
we can learn that we have first
to learn another lesson, namely, to put
away childish things. There Is the
same glow about the setting sun ns
there Is ahout the rising sun ; hut there
lies between the two a whole world, a
Journey through the whole sky. and
over the whole earth.?Max Muller.
Meditate.
Meditate ns much while on this
Journey as If you were shut tip in a
hermitage or in your cell, for whatever
we are, wherever we go. we
carry our cell with us; Hrofher Body
is our cell, and the soul is the hermit
who dwells In It. there to pray to the
Lord and to meditate.?.St. Francis of
Assist
Ilf Daddy's
L^Evei\ii\g
Fairy Tale
ayt\ARY GRAHAM BONNER
twumi II VUIIIN Fimhfli union ' ?
LIZARDS
"It's so nice," said the Australian
Monitor, "to sound rather Important
at first. I believe
- they have monltors
in schools
and that they are
girls or boys who j
tilings that are Ira- ;
p o r t n n t and
trusted and all of
"But while they
mn,V tl>ink | soun(*
HL^ they may not he
M disappointed when
they find out I'm
a curious creature
i even If I'm not
41 Important In any
"A Curious Crsa- school way.
ture." "I've never been
to school. No one
ever asked me to po, and no one ever
sent me. They didn't care if I didn't
po to school and by 'they' I mean my
family.
"For an Australian Monitor learns
all he has to learn out of school Just as
well as he would in school. Perhaps
he learns his lessons out of school bet- ;
ter and what he should do and eat and
so forth.
"An Australian Monitor mlpht he in
school fillinp Ink-wells when he could
be making himself a stronger and a
better animal or reptile by being out
of doors and catching a small rubbit
or something like that.
"An Australian Monitor, or course, |
is a lizard?and a good strong lizard,
too. We can eat small animals whole.
We are very large and very big and
grow to be eight feet long.
"We can run very fast and we live
In the dark jungles. We are fond of
meats in the way of food, or rather,
we don't care about vegetables.
"We are from India and we have
relatives in Africa and in Australia.
"Hut one of the most Important
things about us Is that we can eat
eggs whole and that the sells dissolve
themselves Just like capsules or pills
do.
"Yes, eggshells are alright for us,
and I'll tell you the reason.
"We have fine digestions. We don't
have our tummies getting upset the
way so many creatures do.
"Gracious, we don't have to go to
bed and take bad medicines and say:
" 'Oh dear, oh dear, why did T eat
that!'
"Yes, we have superior digestions
and they are Important."
"We are beautiful," said the Green
Lizard. "And our family came over
front Europe. That is, we didn't come
of our own accord. You know what I
mean."
"We didn't go down to the pier with
our luggage and put our names on the
passenger list and then come across
in cabins on the big boat or anything
like that.
"But we were brought over.
"And when you speak about digestions
we agree with you.
"It is most important and very
pleasant to have a good digestion. It
makes a creature feel better and happier
and all of such things. I always
enjoy my meals and I always feel
hafipy. I feel so pleased with myself
that I show off and folks coming to the
zoo quite enjoy seeing, me."
"And I," said the Chameleon, "have
been brought over here to Join the
Heard family, for I have such a lot of
interesting colors which I show at different
times."
"I am a curious creature," said the
Gila Monstef, "and I am really stupid.
I came from the desert nnd I move
slowly and awkwardly along, for my
body is fat and brown.
"I look as though I were covered
with black and brown and tan and
yellow beads, but I'm not. It's Just because
of the kind of a suit I wear that
I look that way.
"I give a good hard bite and I make
anyone suffer whom I bite, tut I don't
kill them. No, I'm
not mean enough T" j ~~jjTy
i s fl e d to make
them suffer, that's i
a word to say, or
a hiss to make.
I'm really a lizard
and should talk -yCtr
with all of you, jS
though I look so
much like a snake
that creatures call
me a snake by
mistake very
often and my "Really a Lizard."
n u m e, as you
know, Is Glass Snake.
"I'm a real lizard, but I look like a
snake. That's pretty interesting. Now
that* Is more than any child I ever saw.
could do. I've seen a lot of them at
the zoo, too.
"I'm sure none could look like pussy
cats and yet be children, or could
be pussy cats and look like children.
I'm an interesting creature, 1 am!"
Perhaps, Indeed!
A Brooklyn man is being sued for
divorce because he objected when his
wife had her hair bobbed. Don't be
too quick to denounce him. Perhaps
her ears are bigger than he supj>osed
them to he.
"We Must Hang Together," Etc.
Benjamin Franklin is the author of
the quotation: "We must all hang together
or assuredly we shall all hang
separately." lie said it at the signing
of the Declaration of Independence
July -1, 1770.
0DOYS
saxrrs
(Conducted by National Council of tha Boy
Scouts of America.)
A FRIEND OF BOY SCOUTS
"Old Charley Tiffany" Is dead; died
in a poorhouse at that, and penniless.
Was lie u failure? Not if you accept
the verdict of the boy scouts of Bridgeport,
Coun., who declare lie was the
best of good scouts and followed him
to his grave on New Year's eve with
reverence and tears. "Old Charley"
was once rich and prosperous, a famous
landscape architect. But misfortune
caine. His fortune vanished.
His family life went shipwrecked. Only
ins sou, uueiei, rt'iiiitiiit'u iu mm uun
the two ciime to Hridgeport to begin
life anew, on six acres of land purchased
on the Installment plan. Things
were just beginning to look a bit
brighter when the war came. Goelet
went "across." The old man worked
alone. Presently the word came that
the boy would never come back. He
slept under a white cross In poppyland.
The old man gave away his six
acres to the hoy scouts. He loved all
boys for Goelet's sake and he wanted
his friends, the scouts, to have their
needed camp. He became an odd-Job
workman for anyone who would hire
him. living obscurely In a mean little
rooming house, interested in nothing
but scout activities. When he died
they\ found that when he gave, the
scouts the farm he did not own it.
All the installments were not paid on
the purchase price. '
He didn't tell them anything about
thut, because he did not want anyone
to think the gift had a string to it.
And there wasn't any string, either,
For often, without sufficient food and
clothes for himself, frequently without
a place whereon to lay his head, the
old man, dollar by dollar, cleared off
the last cent of debt on "Camp Tif
fany" before he went to the {lill&ld?
home, a county charge, to die.
BOY SCOUTS IN THE WOODS
Ice and Snow Have No Terrors foi
the Boy Scouts?They Have at
Good Times in the Winter as in thi
Summer.
HELPING THE RED CROSS
Logansport (Ind.) scouts dlstrlbutet
over 500 window posters for the Rer
Cross, and on n certain Sunday tw<
uniformed scouts were stationed a
every church In the city, dlstrlbutinj
Red Cross literature.
At Tarentum, Pa., scouts hav<
been helpful in gathering in bundle!
of old clothing for the use of the pooi
at the request of the local chapter o
the Red Cross. Nearly everybody li
willing, even anxious, to contrlhutt
cnst-otY apparel where it can be o;
use, but when it comes to getting tlx
bundles delivered to the receiving sta
lions?there's the rub. The fact thnt r
courteous and businesslike young niar
in khaki called for the contrlbutior
and relieved the donor of all furthei
' responsibility probably doubled th<
grist.
THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE
An English scoutmaster tells the
following story: After a long day,
visiting the battle area around Metz
wood with a group of his scouts, tlie
scoutmaster sat down on a boulder
and made a sign to a p<orly-clad
French boy who was hoverlig near,
that he would like a shell case. The
* J ? -~4 ~ " l " <-A"' II L? rt (1
ooy UllUerSlUUU UlIU V?U3 l/n li??c a
shot, returning in five minute* with a
shell case, which he presented with a
beaming smile. The scoutmaster offered
him a frnnc. The boy shook his
head and walked away. After a moment
lie came hack and trade the
scout salute. It was his explanation
of the reason why he had relused the
money when obviously It would not
huve been umlss. He was a scout
und a scout does not accept tuoney for
a good turn.
DOINGS OF BO.Y SCOUTS
San Francisco boy scouts removed
all election placards and pther outdated
posters as one of their community
good turns undertaken at the request
of Chief ot Police, Daniel
O'Brien.
Chief Wnrnock of the Swampscoit
(Mass.) tire department has requested
the boy scouts of the city to collect
as many old brooms as possible to be
used by the department In lighting
forest and grass lires.
Knoxville, Tenn., has one of tlie
longest records in scouting of any city
of the South, Troops 2 an i 4 having
been in good ytanding and continuously
active for more than ten years.
Martin Gerard of Berkeley, Cul., a
relative of former Ambassador James
W. Gernrd, was presented with a
bronze medal for life saving at the
latest session of the Court of Honor.
The medal was awarded by the National
Court of Honor in recognition of
young Gerard's heroism In saving the
life of another lad who wau in danger
of drowning.
JBomeloaii
TBetosY
WELL CALLED "MODEL TOWN"
Industrial Community in Massachusetts
Approaches the Ideal as a
Place of Residence.
Of the town of North Billerica,
Mass., a correspondent of the Boston
Transcript writes:
As one walks about town he is pleasantly
surprised by the appearance of
cottages and gardens. They represent
various types and periods of construction
and evidence of individuality In
taste, but their charm lies mafnly in
their gardens. Here one discovers the
feminine touch In delicate vines,,
trained over roof, porch, fence and
wall, or In a charming porcn nox nueu
with color, hiirmony.and grace.
The more nmbltlous macullne effort
Is detected In spacious gardens, showing
evidence of muscle and determination.
Everything, however, reveals
the hand of the landscape designer
who, by his advice and supervision,
has helped to create and maintain the
desired effect, being careful not to destroy
the Individuality that is so important
a part In any garden, and
thus the yearly competition feeds the
very natural element of ambition.
"Do you feel that you secure a material
advantage by employing a land- ,
scape designer to beautify the grounds
about your plant and help your tenants
In making and maintaining their gari
dens?" I asked Frederic S. Clark,
president of the Talbot mills.
"It Is impossible to state from a *
i dollars and cents standpoint the effect
of the landscape work, or of any of
the other features which we have ln[
troduced outside our purely business
relations with our employees," he re|
plied. "I am glad, however, to say
r that our relations In every way are
of a very friendly character. We have
, had but one strike of any moment,
and that was about 25 years ago. Our
labor turnover Is comparatively small,
which Is an Indication of satisfactory
employment conditions."
SHOULD BE WELL LAID OUT
! '
Importance of Proper Planning of
Town's Future Is a Matter Too
Apt to Be Overlooked.
v Speaking at the session of the conference,
the Rev. Howard S. Chlldley
Of Winchester pointed out that town
planning Is an ancient art. applied by
the Romans in England and exceJlently
Instanced by the planning of
the town common at Oxford. England,
fn Its application, he said, European
cities and towns are far ahead of the
United States and American cities and
towns show today of what value planning
would have been at their Inception.
' To obtain this development now.
Doctor Chlldley urged, education of
the community to the economic value
of the work, and then the enlistment
of Individual Interest In co-operation
1 must be attained.
As the representative of the Commonwealth,
Mr. Yoflng declared that?
despite eight years of encouragement
by law, the need of town and city
planning Is not widely enough realized.
1 He asserted that the time has coma
1 for the state to provide more appro)
prlntlon for this work and to aid Ir?
t creating public Interest. Pointing to
? the development of municipal forests
abroad, he urged the Importance of
> snch reservations to a community
5 with the lapse of a half century.
r ?
f When a City Is Disfigured.
s When any pffrt of the city Is dls?
figured by billboards or when any resf
Idence neighborhood .Is ruined by the
' unnecessary intrusion of business the
. whole city suffers. People don't enjoy
i passing ugly or Ill-kept property In goi
Ing to their homes. It weakens the Ini
centlve for a family to own Its home If
there Is danger that the property may
> be hurt at any time by the erection of
a business bouse next door.
A city cannot permit itself to be
disfigured in spots. It cannclf acqul
| esce in n policy or ugly neignnornooas
here and there. If It does. It subjects
Itself to unnecessary handleups. It retards
Its growth.
A city is a unit. 'Damage to one
part Is damage to the city?Kansas
City Star.
A Railroad Monopolist.
"Pa." suid Johnny on the afternoon
of Christmas.
"Well, my son?"
"Why didn't you ask Santa Clans
to bring you one of those electric
trains If you like to play with It so
much?"?Boston Transcript.
Rural Community Best.
Civilization, culture and development
of rural people are to be found
In conjunction with town and small
city, and not apnrt.?Oalpln.
. fi
Companionship.
"Don't you feel sorry for the poor >
animal that was skinned for the furs
you bought for your wife?"
"Why should I feel sorry for the
quadruped? It's true he was skinned
for those furs. But so was I."
Among the Tired Business Men.
"You no longer embellish your
speeches with humorous anecdotes."
"I had to quit It," replied Senator
Sorghum. "Audiences got to calling
for funny stories instead of paying attention
to my serious arguments."
No Oil From the Banana.
The bureau of chemistry says that
there is no oil manufactured from the
banana Itself. There is a preparation
known as isoamyl acetate, which Is
used for gilding, etc. It has the odor
of the banana and Is often termed banana
oil.
True Friendship.
We do not like our friends the
worse because they sometimes give
us an opportunity to rail at them
leartily. Their faults reconcile us to
heir virtues.?Ilazlltt.
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