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THE SMOOTHEST INC CCO A. 'Bite" in tobacco comes either from poor leaf or wrong f ripening." We us? for VELVET only the finest Kentucky Burley. But we don't stop there. Wo put millions of pounds of this tobacco away every year, in wooden hogsheads, for Nature to patiently ripen and mellow. " ' t. There arm quicker ways, but they leave seme teeth in. , Tbe VELVET way makes the friendlier kind of to bacco. You can always go to it for comfort with out a "come-back." ? . >?' . .< ' " ; ' " Get chummy with VELVET todavA M Roila VELVET Cigarette .Vmrs mmtmm mg*4 Maktaf Aa I We jii| know the m-an who thluis^^ '??o "tet by with H" on * specious out ward stmblancr. The Most villainous of rofoes has learned how important H is to Mress the part??o* # viUaiay but <rf : inte^i it/ ?? ? t# far wouM^feoMai^he ? i-- _ * _ - L ^ feet for near mm! f?r ^ He can Me near and far with sane pair <nf iawfitf . And no one trimwrtf taoWH llWl Uiej arrr two-* glasse*, because tfcey are entirely free Wort tfcafa why they are M. H. HEYMAN . \ ? 7- ' ? ? -1 . v.. , . But sometimes tbe dissembler roujcrul/ utatcs himself too soon, ' He thinks he has fooled everybody with a show that has no substanec behind it He flatters himself that once more .fee has imposed upon the gullllhle majority. He has failed to reckon with the quiet, 111 Slighted merit, overlooked, hides its time in patience, knowing that the shod dy material must in time wear thin and the deception will be exposed. The apostle of a treat cause to which he fires all his powers, without thought of self, is marked by a passionate sin cerity. In his concentration on hit; sin* rupturing theme he Jose* stage-f right ; be M hot aware of lknWtion^ be tmmot keep his ej^n in mind, or pause to feed his vanity with tributes to Ms own im port h 7 r Tbc politician thinks of bi? own fu ture. at most, the advancement of his party furthering Us personal inter est The statesman thinks of his coun try?and in the greatness of that object as he contemplates it, his own compare* tive insignificance ia not to be deserib He who goes before the public with lirt " th/ii^ght; In frtw mind ?ave his Own consequence ia bound to find his audi ence cold to him. He Sslooking only for his own advantage. The tribute of admiration he, desires is Withheld,, for tbtre is nothing admirable in self-seek in g. : DeUtfbtfu), indeed, H is to see %a artless, unspoiled, innocent child come among; older persons modestly,1' easily, naturally and not aware of its own chain. ? AH hearts at once are drawn to this sweet uneophistication. But let the other sort of child come H> frs nesee, and how diferest U the ctfect! This uudesi ruble little ?riti*en is rude, forward and obnoxioun. He eravex notice and pettinf. He mwt hare wfcafc hi ft eye lights upon, and at once, or there wiU be a scene of unbridled patnlaooe. There may be fine traits of character in ihilvtinmunncrtr child, Sut. they are oil .objured b/.;tbe behavior, which In all th?r rftranger sees and koosira. As the outsider ha* had no chance to learn of the risen fial character, he must indite by the exterior. Ha la not to blame if bfe makes a onesided! appraisal fro? the only aide that is in evidence. If one anst choose between character and appearance, there need, be no falter ing; but when the face and the fact coincide there Ls eanse to rejoice.? Anonymous. ( AU\I8 LONOVaMOUB POIM' I v ' I'Thrw Nstlww Owe M?M Ctljr Which f}trmMWi Ww* Ho Hmr ta ??. KIim-o lUe tx'tfimiln# of the war < ^aVnfx lias been 111 object!!# of th# 1 German army. It in a familiar nhBM i to th?we who bare crossed the 'J8 miles | of nasly choppy water, thutf; Mw be tween ratals and (ho port of i Dover. '??- '??/? ' ? Fifty yeais ago Calais was regurd d i?n fortress of the first cIums. but f U would now probably not lw able to defend Itself many days against u?od era- artillery. In 1848, after tlitf bat tle of Cray. Calais was bealcged by the Nngllsh King Kdward III. holding ! out roHolrtloiy by the bravery of Jean : de Vienne. Ita Inhabitant* wero savad | from the cruel fato >ylth which Kkl 'ward menaced then* by the devotion ' of seven of Its chief cltlsens. who tQ i turn were themselves spared at tba I prayer of Queen Phllllpa, thla event having been commemorated In a wide ly kAown historical painting. Ohl||i remained to the hands of tba ! ; Kngllsh until 1568. when It was taken by the duke of Guilt. at the head eg 30,000 men, from an lll-provlded Mng llah garrison only 800 strong, after a siege of seven days. This loss led #6 the remark of an iQngttsh queen, who declared that when aba died the word "Calais" would be found Imprinted on her heart. Calais Was held tor the Spaniards from 180(1 to 1808, but wan restored to the French by treaty. On the chalk ctlfffe of Dover standi a gun, several centuries old, 00 which la engraved the doggerel: . * This was tlctio^ but modern aril!* lery could easily accompllah the feat ?5 ? 1 " ^ " 1 m ?& AS CHINAMAN SEES KAISER I ?? m ? ? Nat Hard to Sea That Thla 8tud?nt Has Sympathy .With the Hlghaat." ~vf? . ... ? \illcre are some comment* on tha kaiser from tfce~pea of a Chinese stu dent, an exchange says: "The German kaiser is not the su perior man as deciphered by the Chi nese literature; he la surely a mean fellow containing much fraudlsh can ning In his deceived heart. The supe rior man ft shown In Ma merits of excellent t*eart with much loving Kind ness to all peoples; the mean fellow la displsyed In the black heart of the vnregenerated devils of hell with much loving kindness only to himself. "In, the history of China was an em peror who burn the 1>ooks and slewed the scholars to extinct the civilisation of the peaceful Inhabitants; but he was not success in thla crafty tricks, for the civilisations could never ' be extinct by such dishonorable barbar ism means. Now the German kulser he also awfully wishing to slave tba people and extinct the civilizations of the universe; h**jtf so destroy the lit - emture books, and the arts, and the ships, t find mess the people of alltca nations. . . . But he will not suc cess*" Oldest LlVtnO We?t Pointer. General Horatio Gate* Olbson, the oldest living graduate of weat Foist; veteran of ibc Mextcjui cteU and In dian wan, has Joit celebrated bis Olat birthday in goad health and apirite. ?? AittBg tbf gsaata of the as hia birthday were * few surviving iriniti hii of the <<Aatec -'CBttk wildk waa fofmed by o^kjeva of the sepvica jiIAm a mI i ?*jL ^ ^AWii li* ^ M m iw Ctvjr CI n6^CO,iffttt|]^9<V6|m agoi- IPbere la only .'m-y^fU &':&B Stated Ttobt Mrt RilH ? V ' ; ? v . is , ;? ? _? ? ? .< < Lily May aged 10 y?a#H, died from injuries revived by bciii* run or*r - t, ~ r ? . v . , ? by y Kotd car it Or?*ttWoo4 T*tmrad*jr g mornine . r ~K ^rBPBPcfjr ?:pr-~ r S'Mm iippsi *. ssr^ss" w^wss-; ??... We would like to hav? you know what we mean by at phrase. Satisfaction in ctotites means to us ex |({S: ?: AH werchawHsemade and mm I fj 'M ?*?? pfiS|?o.>| : fallible ; we can't possibly guarantee merchandise, except that r ? T& i?, ,'*>$ ? ' " V * ' ' '.' ? I ? ? ?'. But what we can guarantee is that the clothes will satisfy, and if for any reason they dont ? we'll make good. ?* ? ? Naturally we have to be pretty careful about the goods we sell, or we couldn't keep on guaran teeing satisfaction on our goods. If anything doesn't satisfy you, We give your money back as much for your sake as for ours; we dont care to keep any money we don't give value KF. "Satisfaction guar simply