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USE IN ADVERSITY ~*"~T Generally a Working Out 6t the Law of Compensation. Undoubted Fact That Opposition or Hardship Tend* to Briny Out the t*Mt l here Is In Man's Composition. MJ wish I COlihl slide ulong In busi ness a* fit hi I y HH QetH'H** XeMgrttVS," hhIU John NcIhoii, hh he joined his father In the library after, dinner. "What's up now?" asked IiIh father. "(>h, nothing," replied the son, "only George h 11 k just Uoen appointed asslst ?ut general manager of his father's flrnT. It doesn't scout rigid for a fellow to have an tul vantage like that given to him, while fellows like me have to dig for everything (hoy get," "Jtut that seems to he the way the world Ik iiiude, John, and tUe more 1 moo of It the more I'm convinced II'h u capital arrangement. I used to feel as you do, hut I've lived long enough to see a great many things adjust themselves. There Is a law of com pensation ut work, my hoy, and no class has alt the advantages. It would be a very poor world If we all slid along as easily as George docs.'" "What do you mean by that?" asked the sou. "J Hst this: It takes opposition or hardship, or whatever you please to call it, to bring out the best In us and make us, good for anything. You know tjie old saying, 'It's three gener ations from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves.' A man goes out In his shirt sleeves and gets Ids living, hut he de cides that his <1dldren shall have more opportunity than he, so he gives them an education. The sons make money by tjiolr educational advantages, and they pass It on to their sons, who have never known the struggle of acquisi tion. The sons' sons go through It. And so the -shirt -sleeve , process begins again. It doesn't always happen so, but It happens with sntticent regularity to form the basis of a proverb. The ex ception proves the rule." "Yes, but It needn't be so," replied the boy. "I know that," replied the father, "but there Is chough truth in it to prove what I want to say. ftven (Sod himself put the Jews through the proc ess of adversity to whip them Into shape. It was only about four hundred miles in a bee Hue across the* wilder ness. Hnt (Sod made the Jews take forty years to gel to Canaan, because be wanted to toughen them and mnko tliom ready for the conquest, when he got them there. The Bible says ho 'led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that ?vas near.'. They would have got there too quickly to stand the hardship. And If they had defeated the Philistines, they would have been unprepared for ? still \forse enemy; I mean the opu 'rnce and plenty of Canaan.. "Men' are defeated by easy victories ti i) < I cheap miecesses more than by nd r-ersltles. Disraeli was hissed, down In ;be British parlhinicnt when he made Ills maiden speech. Hut that only toughened his fibre and stiffened bis resolve. ( Jrant's reverses were the ichool In which he learned how to win his Init-r victories. It makes all the ilfTerence whether a closed door Is i final rebuff or mi invltatlou to battle through. I'm more afraid of a cheap *nd easy success for you than I am of M niggle. If you struggle before you achieve, you will have character to hold you steady when success arrives. The trouble with many persons Is that they have no character to go with their icqiiisitlons. It Is a case of diamonds on dirty fingers. "lla\e you never seen an engine pounding itself to pieces on a slippery r:iil In winter? What It needed was ?and. <>|qiosil ion. Friction spelled pro gress ft veil m kite est n't rise wlih the wind. It most M-.?'Md stirsiinvt it. !>on't spend votir 1 1 1 1 it - qiuirreling with the order nf (lungs nr fretting :tt?out some ? lie else's ea > \ s-iiviws Art < > : t K grows III ihe opeti, torllll'ed t>\ ;i thousand ' s t o i ? 1 1 1 > . The h ? ? 1 1 1" ' i *-e plsuit never I knows the ;;lor\ of the -k\ " Youth's ( '?>in| ui? >n. Russian Bison Exterminated. \\h:it li.iv ih iI. illicitly tlic wnr. I to tin* !< herds ,,f (Vtiirni Knrope? ' I I" i I ? \ .1 ? Mx : t of 1 lie <*/.!! I" | A ! c \ :i l : ' !i t. t ? i ? 1 1 < Mill e\is|e?| In ' |>t* i \ :i 1 1 ? |>;irKs >>l I '< ?1 : i n < I : 1 1 1 ? S I ,i 1 )i 1 1 : i n i:i . | the l:t<t i>i ilii ir Km. I iii lit: i* i >) ? ? ? . ( 'mint 1 '( 'I .'s I u '( i ! \\;|v u ? ? J ? t ill :i!i I n I II I * *1 1 St 1 I'll rk. .it! t ? i r .-.He. friiir v\;.s J I r, . t . ? . ? r ?-< I l>> 'he ? nvsii.'k.s ..f the I i. > 1 1 1 *. 1 1 1 lie . I _ . ||. ? !i u M ? . T ; 1 1 ? I f * ! i ' '? K <!? .! ? I., their 1 1 1 ? ? , ? I ? 1 ' ? ! 7 ' I ? ? ? I . . I ?. 1 1 1 ? \ U i t 1 I ? ? 1 1 1 I ?> ill I ! !.? III.- (:.?{-?] in tll.'ir J ? ? ? 1 1 ? ? \ nf . V . lr I I'll . ' 1 1 S '?i ui i < ! 1 1 1 it I >?? ? . v\ j . l I ? v . ? \ ?> r\ 1 >od v, t lll'lif. t ! I . ? \ in:- !>.? . . \ v ; . . . | ) . \ ||,). I'.xly, !i I i ? i so, in It;.1 L'> fi.l.il . ;itui ; vsilj, the f:itn<tus herd ? I ? ^ . 1 1 ? | >i Magpie Pet of Public. III.* tnntrjiio In Kensington _:irdens has 1 1 . ; 1 1 1 \ friends who ;i!t.'i..J his ? In ; J y JeVee. I Hie uf M> lender II hr.il't (hut she .?i.tirffilx chicken boi.es n. her IililfT f<>r his delight U?s t.il.l H.:, f nn offering of menl wurins u.nild ; . r. > \ ?? irreslst Ible She so)-!. I "lis . |c! i ('ii r , I . ? j r . ? n I v to learn tluif it Im now un<iti?a!n:ible For menl-worms, us nn artlele .if bird fare. enine froin Ocnniiny Must of iim will hear with e'jimnlmlty the disappearance of this strange** of Ilnnnlah trades. Tu the authorities of the Zoological i*a rdens, however, the rvob'<?m of iiionl wonii production sr. i<I to he a weighty hip still un gOJred. ? London Chronicle. TURNED TO COMMERCIAL USE Hlator c Mansion In Mexico City Re modiled and Mad* Into Jyplcal American Drug Store. The conversion of the "House of Til ?a" In the Ofty of Mexico Into a typ ical Ajuerlcan drujf store marks (In* passing of one of the moat palatial and unique structure* ever erected In that c|t^ of interesting buildings. Many person* In the United States remember the housi* as t h<> "Jockey club." the most exclusive and aristocratic place of Its kind In the republic, hut for tho past few years It has stood on a prom I incut downtown corner, a bleak, de crepit structure, whose shiny and gaudy exterior of tile Rave evidence of Its former glory. Moon It will open for business as a dm# store. The date when the building's jfoun* datloiiH were lahl Is lost in obscurity, but It Is thought that It was started about 1T>JM1, hater It came Into the possession of Don Louis de Hi vet o, a man of varied career, who was re sponsible for Its exterior coat of tiles. These latter are of blue, yellow and white, Moorish In design, and were made by artisans brought from Taln vera, Spain, by the Dominican friars In the sixteenth cmtury. They were modeled In a special ceramic factory at I'uebla, abfuit 75 miles distant, and the completion of this decoration was the occasion for a public celebration. The family of Don Luis de ltlvero, who later became the count of Ori zaba, remained in potfseaslou of the house until the time of tho Ill-fated Kmperor Maximilian. Its last occu pant was u alster of the then Count de Orizaba, upon whom the emperor conferred the title of mnrquesn de < 'Ida. Later the structure was taken over by the Jockey club and converted in to a sumptuous club house. Stories of fabulous sums won and lost at Its gaming tables persist to this day. Stirring revolutionary times caused its abandonment, and for several years tlx' building was vacant until t !??? present lessees secured It for a period of twenty years. Indicative perhaps of an intention by the government to restore It later Is the fact that before renovation started photographs were taken of all Interesting portions of the building, in cluding tin* huge carved door. Freakish Costumes. In the reign of Henry VIII of ling land the sleeve was- generally a sepa rate article of dress, and In Stubbes' time sleeves hung down to the skirts, "trayllng on the ground and cast over . the shoulders Mice a cow's tayle." j Ylollet-le-Duc gave cuffs whit* IT ttun.**" down 14 Inches longer than the hand. j thus proying that the wearer never j worked. In the time of James I some ? times three pairs of gloves were worn, one over another. A curious custom I n rose about 1704 of hat-wearing within I doors. The I'adnung youiig women pCit J metal collars around their necks when they were young children till they numbered between 'JO and 30 and the necks of the wearers were stretched out in the most grotesque and uncom fortable fashion. African, belles wear great copper rings on their limbs, which get so hot in the sun that an I "attendant has to carry water with i which occasionally to cool them down, j Dressed Beef. Some soldiers at camp spied a cow in a nearby Held and after capturing her with the intention of having a drink of milk on the owner they dis covered to their disgust that she was dry. A disappointed doughboy leveled his pun at her, saying: "She'd look better to me as dressed beef." "("Jive you $;"> If you turn the trick," said another. "It's a g^." said the tlrst one. "I'll turn her into dressed beef before morning and claim that $f?." . None of us thought he meant it, but | In the morning he elaimcd the money. | saving the Cow was now dressed beef. We had to be shown, so were taken to | the field, atld there, sure etmngh. the row was dressed. She was eareeriug nbout the Meld in a eomplete outfit of ! j the kitchen pollee.- K\I ?hanue. Avenues of Communication. Still ;i i j ? * w of lotnniunirat i?'t) , hits been ? 1 ? ? \ i ! Nn Illicit N 111:111 1 (.? I ??? dependent "ii the ; 1 i r for the r :? piil ! r:i 1 ! **m 1 s*?i on 'J ine?sa yes ; for. a tn?\\ i n \ ? > 1 1 1 i i > 1 1 in? ??!??!?*? 1 :i l'l ? ?;? t >1 barge in S:iii I 'Irgo t>;iy. ( 'a li f ? ? r r 1 i :i ha- 1 1 ui ? I ?? |io?*ible lite "ending of iiicv siloes through n't' ;")'l xv j? T ??r. And a pi <r? I ely en?uch. t ! 1 ? ? le?.t of |?r"Mf I'liinc when flu* I *11 it oil Siiiti'N Nits 1 ? (i?'l >a rt 1 1 1 r?it t v?'iit m I r? ? 1 1 1 \nnapoti*. Mini l;?n<l. to tin* I'.iii.nIi A dmi ra ! 1 y. tel'iiii:. in tin- < ? f ill.- :? r i" i \ 1 of the It '! I In Ainenra. . Ito'd !,< I \ . ? 1 1 ! u rer 1 1 :i > 1 eonipiered the .nr. i 1 1 ? 1 ????<! . but not !"ii? ?r*? an other group. le*- <pe. 1:1. ? 1 1 :i r ?. h.ir !less?'d till' S?';l illlil lllllll ! 1 1 their OW 11 I '}< rt iculit r reipii re men < s. Keep Children in School. "Children ? h o 1 1 1 d j?tay in ?? iiM,<! h< !h|)l' as possible he?-;u]Se education t:.ians I ? 1 ? 1 1 ?"? r Jobs," r h federal chil dren'* bureau urires. "Ilo\s an<l u'iri? who cm to work a( the enri nf cmniiniir s. tiMMl rarely get pood >>b.s. The uopk : tlii'V find to do is usually unskilled; it offers little traininc "r rhanre for I :.?!% a u?*e!n#*nt. When lhey n re older they find they nre ?t||| untrnlne?l for skilled work that offers ? future Rdu j ration means higher wage* M rt n y i boys and girls when they leave s< hool find work that offers ? hich wnce for a beginner. Hut the*p wages sol. lorn I frow beeaune the work requires no tmlnlnft. A position with n future and iteadlly Increasing ^a^rs requir** ?ohool trninlng." DEATH RECALLS FAMOUS DUEL Qrana ion of "Dan" O'Connelt Uacd to Till? of "Liberator'*" Mooting With D'Eatorro. Mr. O'Connell, grandson of the "Liberator," died h few days ago at 1 > I h t'rsiitf/x'r, Darrynane abbey, Wi terVlHe, Ireland, In his eighty-fourth year. lie wax a magistrate and dep uty lieutenant for County Kerry, and nerved tin* office of high sheriff in IHflO. A Dublin gentleman has hi) Interest* 111# picture of the late Mr. O'Connell holding the pistol which his grandfa t her used In a famous duel. The fol lowing description of the encounter la taken from IiIk own description : In a speech at h Catholic meeting on January 24. 181ft. the 'Liberator* re ferred to the f >rango corporation of Dublin as a 'beggarly corporation.* f >'Ksterre, a meinber of the corpora* (Ion imd a well known shot with pis tols, demanded an explanation, which was refused. "After consulting Ida friends, D'Ks terre paraded the streets for two days with the avowed intention of horse whipping O'Connell. The two, howev er, did not meet, and finally D'Ksterre sent Sir Kdward Stanley with a mes ?nge demanding an explanation. O'Connell referred Sir Kdward to Ma jor MaeNamarra, a Protestant gentle inan of County Clare, who refused to give any explanation, whereupon . Sir Kdward Stanley delivered a challenge, which was accepted, and half-past three that afternoon, at Bishop's court, OOuilty Klldare, four or flVe mites from Naaa, on the road to Dublin, was fixed for the meeting. . s> ' /*. "They inet accordingly and fired to gether, by signal. D'Ksterre's bullet went wide. O'Connell aimed low, In tending to hit D'Ksterre in the leg, but actually did so In the groin. The bul let went through, penetrating the blad der, and came out at the back, inflict ing a mortal wound. D'Ksterre lived for two (lays only. "The pistols used by the 'Liberator' were given him by an Knglish officer, quartered In Dublin, to whom he had done a kindness, and who, when giving them, said, as a proof of their good ness, that they had. already killed ten men. They are a pair of 'Itlgby's Par ticulars,' and Mr. O'Connell often shot at a mark with them, and found them to b< very good and accurate. "D'Kstcrre's daughter married Lieu tpnitnt Roberts of the British royal navy, who eommnndotKJhe Sirlus, the first vessel to go from Cork to Amer ica (Boston) under her own steam, and subsequently the President, which was lost with, all on board, on the way from ,Ww York to Liverpool." Way of "Parior Socialist." When Philadelphia shall have com pleted lis great underground and ele vated railway system and also paid fur i In- immense Delaware front Im provements, the city debt per person will be around $100. But in some German cUles like Frankfort nnd Munich, where social istic ideas ruled before .the. war, the municipal debts were over six times that amount, writes "Cilrard" in the Philadelphia Press. . The parlor socialist Is a great chap for devising ways to take money out of other people's pockets, but a dead failure at suggesting a method of put ting money in your pocket. One who worked with and knew him well tells me a favorite remark of MaJ. Luther Bent was this: "My board of directors is a board that I direct." Were the veteran major alive today and operating a hi# plant he would dis cover that some sort of a commission rooted In politics would really direct Ills directors as well a?j himself. Pay of British Flyers Raised. Particulars the now scale of pay for officers holding permanent or short service commissions in the reconsti tuted Hritlsh air force have been made known hy the air ministry. A uniform ! system of rates for all branches (with l t he" except Ion of certain specialist serv ices) has been adopted, the pay rang ing from the shillings per day, for a i endet, to ?7 for a general. The rail's, it Is explained, have been fixed with reference to the present j high cost of living, and It has been de cided that 20 per cent of the pay nnd I retired pay will be considered as due thereto, it n> 1 will be subject, after five years, to change, either upward or downward, according as the cost of ' living rises or falls. Subsequently re ! \isinti>. will be made at three yearly intervals on the ba>is of board of trade food prices. The H. C. of L. in Mexico. In the past nine years the cost of living in M?-\ico has shown an average Increase of 'J 1 per cent, according to figures recently made public by the department of Industry, labor and : commerce, st ii Associated Press dis patch from Mexico City says. Several staples have greatly increased. I.ard has advanced .VJ.". per cent in price; sugar, 2."W per cent, and eggs, 260 per cent 1 Woolen fabrics now cost 471 per cent I more than In 1010 ; cotton goods .TOO per cent more and shoes 106 per cent ' more. House rents have Increased 140 j per cent, trolley fares 66 per cent and J railroad fares 'jn j>*?r cent. Natives' shoes cost *4.r?0 a pair In 1010. Today they are $12 a pair. Taken for Beggar. One <UiY I was walking through the park nnd I stopped and asked h man ? for tho rime, lie put his hand In his' ! pocket "and pulled out a dime. That t eerth'.n'? did mnke m?> feel like two j cents. I looker! nr him nnd snld : "I ' wanted the tiling, please." ? Kxchanga. #* '* ? , ' ?>- r ?H.wvy ' V'""' V f . ' Mack Sennett s Latest and Funniest Production "Yankee Doodle in Berlin" In Conjunction with Mack Sennett's APPEARING AT EVERY PERFORMANCE IN PERSON Extra Addded Attraction Dixieland Own Jazz Band ? ' - * ? * ? * ? ' In Jazz Harmony and Syncopation i . ! Original Show Direct from Broadway Theatre, N. Y. SHOWN IN CAMDEN ONE DAY ONLY At Majestic Theatre, Saturday, Oct. 18 Admission $1.00, ^Children 50c ? Performance: 2:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:30 P.M. Monument to Moll Weevil. Over at Enterprise, Ala., a fund of has been publicly subscribed and this money will be used toverect a monument (in one of the principal streets ..f that town. The monument will bo raised not as a mark of respect to a war hero,' nor yet to coaramunorate the mtMiiory of some civic patriot. It will 1m* to no person. but it will be ejected as novel as the whole thing sounds, to a pest. This unique monument in this Alabama city will be raised in appre ciation of the boll weevil and what the weevil lias done for the public good im that section of the country. Doubtless, when a few short years ago the first of the weevil, long dread ed, were found in the cotton fields in the vicinity of Enterprise, the invasion was regarded with the same anxiety that farmers in the lower part of South Caro lina felt last year when the cotton pe*t lirst appeared in numbers in this State, and which is at present shared by farm ers and others in u wider territory as the infested area broadens. Probably they thought ruin stared them in the face, these Alabama farmers long ac customed to growing cotton and depend ing upon cotton to the exclusion of prac tically everything else, and wondered what they would do siuce the post had conic to make cotton growing unprofit able. It is not difficult to imagine their state of mind. Hnt today, these same farmers and their friends in the little Alabama city Ofe about to raise a monument to the boll weevil Wo read in connection with this unusual plan *tliat those Alabam ians are moved to thin action for the reason that in former times, before the boll weevil came, crops in Coffee county were worth yearly one ami one half million dollars as compared with present crops of today worth four and one-half millions. In addition, corn, hogs and cattle are raised in larger numbers to day than ever before. Coffee county farmers, it is further .stated, were for merly borrowers. Today they have mon ey in the banks and some of them are lending money. Therefore* in apprecia tion of what the boll weevil has done for thorn they will eroct a shaft in honor of the pest. ? If the boll weevil has proven a bless t 4ft _ ing in Alabama there la no reason i the cotton peat, emancipating the So Carolina fanner from eottou slan should not work the some transformat in thin state. It is all in adapting oi self to the new -conditions, as a mil orf course. Had the farmers of Oo A ? ? County, Alabama, attempted to keep growing cotton in spite of the I weevil they would have fared badly i there would have been another story tfll. Hut when it becomes impossible depend any longer upon cotton they tennined to beat the boll weevil by gn ing something that the pest .could thrive on, and turning to food crops l livestock they have, it would app( found the high road to agricultural dependence and prosperity. The invasion of South Carolina the boll weevil 1 is assuredly no c* for pessimism. With the coming of pest come new conditions These m be met,- but in adopting tbeanseU|| these new conditions South Carolina I mers are only driven by Providence do what they would have profited voluntarily doing years ago. ? AI Standard. THE NORTHERN STAGES HAVE ADOPTED THE 56* AUTO TRACK WAGON Which Wagon? The One that Fits the Road ? or the One that Rides the Ridge Recommended by the Government. The standardized wagon fits the pre vailing track made by automobiles and is the wagon you will want to buy. Wagon is Out of Date. This 60" wide track wagon no longer fits the roads when they are muddy and soft WOULDN' T you rather buy the style of wagon recommended by your Governmen , especially when it is designed to pull easier, ride smoother, and last longer wagon that fits the roads and does not ride the ridge? , The Standardized Columbus "Auto-track" Wagon saves wear on itsolt. ot er wagons, automobiles, and rubber tires. I he Columbus fifth-wheel and swivel-coupling wagon is either sold at a much too low or moil other wagons aio sold at pricc? much too high, quality conaidered. Compare; anr your own conclusion#. ^ ^ im 000 I o Hate the leading wagon manufacturers of America have sold at the moat conservative estimate ? ^ standardized nuto. track wagons. From this introduction it is but a step to universal umt of this type o Wouldn't you rather be identified with progress and recognized as ah up-to-date farmer by doing your with such ? wagon than to be classed as an un progressive ** back number " by buying a 60- men wi e wagon, thereby helping some manufacturer and dealer to "unload" an obsolete type ? Think it over ? an come and see us about a standardized auto-track Columbus. Rhame Brothers, w 1 n pi ? (A M m * 2 (A w > m w X > < > o 0 * -I 0 -1 s ffl S > c H 0 A * > n * 1 l THE SOUTHERN STATES HAVE ADOPTED THE M' AUTO TRACK WAGOW