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ONE HUNDRED YEARS Anniversary of the American Savings Banks System. "December 2 of the present year is the one hundredth anniversary of the inauguration of savings banking in the United States," says The World's Work. "On that day of the year IS 16 the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, a voluntary association that was chartered by the State in 1819, began to receive deposits. Eleven days later, on December 13, 1S16, the Provident Institution for Savings in the town of Boston received its charter from Massachusetts and opened its doors for business. In March, ISIS, the oavmgs tianK 01 Baltimore uegan operations. And on July 3, 1S19, a fourth institution, the Bank for Savin the City of New York, welcomed its first depositors." 60,00T^t)<5lHBusheIs of Grain Seized. London, Dec. lTXr-Adolph von Batocki, president of the German food regulation board, has arrived at Budapest to attend the Austro-Hungarian food conference, says a dispatch from Copenhagen to the Exchange Telegraph company. Herr von Batocki is quoted as declaring that the Austro-Germans seized 60,000,000 bushels of grain and maize in Rumania, insuring to the Central Powers sufficient supplies until the next harvest. The Life of Bill Bluster, Liar. Perhaps, after all, Bill was not altogether to blame. He entered life with a certain handicap?a handicap of inherited views, a metal outlook, that he came by as honestly as he did his large ears and backwardsloping chin. His mother, no doubt a well-meaning soul, to the last looked on being "in style" as of far greater importance than a full meal K barrel; his dad, poor fellow, never got over his earlier impressions that bis standing with the boys was the r L tneasure of his success in life. 1 So this twig of the Bluster tree was bent early in the wrong direction, and the passing years saw it still farther inclined. As a boy, Bill tremendously admired the dash his father cut; as a youth, he began to cut a few himself; as a man, his highest ambition lay in the direction of sporty clothes, a swagger, a cigar j or cigarette in his mouth, and the aroma of booze. Now Bill's whole trouble lay in his distorted mental viewpoint. It seemed to him smart and manly to smoke a cigarette; a whiskey-drinking carouse to him was the acme of all things desirable. However nar row and painful a shoe-to? might be, it never pained him unless it was out of style; however dirty or contemptible a thing might be, it was all right if the boys said so. Bluster had* such a veritable passion for seeming something he was not that early in life he actually got to believing the lies he told himself. Appearances, "a front," meant everything; the sound realities of life,?truth, honor, justice?nothing. His favorite boast was of his wealth; but the court house records revealed that long ago what little he possessed had, because of insistent creditors, gone into his wife's name. Beginning life as a liar, his whole life was a colossal falsehood. Chronically fated to see things in a false light, the beauties of truth were to him wholly unknown. "Bill will tell a lie when there is not even an apparent necessity for it," said an acquaintance, and the statement was literally true. Starting on a false basis, with a false viewpoint, lying to him was second nature. But all his lies, all his swagger and bluster, fooled nobody. Even his associates knew him for what he was. Not long ago poor Bill passed on his soul to the Giver of Truth. All "U _ J ^ 1 ~ ii? leiu cue wuuu ?as <t ics>5>un. dui can we not, this Christmas time, well meditate on this lesson his shallow, unreal life has given us? Can we not, out of this human wreck, draw the unfailing moral that Truth, truth to ourselves and to the world, is one of the most priceless of all gifts? If so, then even Bill Bluster has not lived in vain.?Progressive Farmer. ? Penniless Man Now Morgan's Partner v* New York, Dec. 17.?Thomas Cochran, president of the Liberty National Bank, of this city, who came to New York from St. Paul virtually penniless sixteen years ago, will become a partner in the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., on January 1, it was announced tonight. in searcu tor promising \uung men," Henry H. Davidson "discovered" Cochran and selected him to aid him in a plan to reorganize the Astor Trust company. His rise in financial circles was rapid after that. Every little while some one dishes up an article on "The Passing of the Rube." And the rube has been out of date for so many years no one even remembers what he looked like. > 1 WILL SOME ONE PAGE DIOGENES? Theatrical Manager Pays Stranded Actors 7 Years After Failure. After he had quit the theatrical business and remained away from New York nearly seven years, Henry Jessop, formerly producing manager of "The Innocent Boy" company, returned to Broadway recently and paid $1,0S0 in salaries he owed to actors and actresses who were stranded in Willimantic, Conn., in 1909. In the fall of that year Jessop took out a company of nine players, but | business was poor and the tour came to an abrupt end in about 15 weeks. Jessop promised to make good some day. but actors do not attach much importance to such promises. He went to Salem, Mass., started in the electrical business and has since been very successful. Returning to New York the first time since his disastrous venture as the manager of a road show, Jessop ran into Paul Abbott, who was comedian of "The Innocent Boy" troupe. Instead of trying to dodge, Jessop shook hands with a sturdy grip, and said: "I still owe you and the others, and if you can round them up I'll settle in full any minute." He took out a little vest pocket account book and showed Abbott that he owed him $117. Going into the Hotel Astor, Jessop drew forth a bank roll and paid the comedian, giving him an extra $5 as interest with which to purchase a new derby hat. Ahhntt snpcppdpd in findiner six other members of the company, who received payment. Jessop told the members of the company that if they should learn the whereabouts of the two who are missing out of the nine?Allen Conklin and Miss Lottie Foxwell?they should write to him at his home in Davenport, Miss.?New York Telegraph. RAPIERS ROUT CARDS. Chicago Society Women Substitute Fencing for Bridge. The fencing foil and handball are ' going to replace bridge whist and tea 1 dansants among the society matrons and debutantes of the North Side. For the women, becoming tired of the sedentary life of the social world, have turned to athletics in its most g active branches. Two hundred of them living in the fashionable Sheridan road district and the North Shore attended the formal opening of the Edgewater Atlantic association which is to be maintained exclusively for women de siring athletic training. The club will be conducted under the direction of Mrs. Antoinette Voss, assisted by a r board of advisers selected from the f membership. The club will embrace all of the features embodied in the most exc elusive downtown clubs, dressing, reading and lounging rooms will oc- c cupy the lower floor and the upper * floors will be converted into a modern gymnasium where athletic instrucs tion will be given under the direction s of experts.?Chicago Post. ^ C PERSEVERANCE. a t How He Earned His Night's Lodg- f ing. t There is an article in the Decern- t ber American Magazine in which the t man who tells his personal experi- j ences says: i "It struck me that right here was t a chance for me to earn enough to a pay for my night's lodging. I went ??r\ 4 a n?h a ho/1 o lororo OOrFinf up LU a iauv n uu uau a. iaig^ vui ^/vt g bag and, lifting ray hat, asked to > carry her bag. Among other things c taught me by my German friends was ^ that politeness costs nothing and is -] often very valuable. When I had r placed her bag on the car at the top j of the hill she gave me a quarter. v Ten cents was as much as I had c hoped for. I returned to the station, ^ and soon after another train came in. g Two men who were together handed f me their luggage to carry, and one c of them gave me 25 cents to pay for both. I had now more than enough * to pay for my bed and supper. "The next morning I went back to * the station, and by evening I had made 90 cents. The next day the hoodlums tried to run me away from the station, but the station police- r man threatened to arrest them if c they interfered with me again. He 6 was much interested in my story and r in my determination to get an edu- 8 cation. It was through him that the s station agent let me sit in the waiting room where it was warm, a priv- * ilege not granted any of the other c i ooys." f When Mrs. Mary E. Peters, age 66, \ of Millville. N. J., became the bride t of James McNeal, age 6S, the bride s was given in marriage by her mother. ( Mrs. Jane Facemire, age 99. The I maid of honor was Miss Blanche Hughes, granddaughter of the bride, and the bride's grandson, Harvey W. c Hughes, was best man. t ^wvwwvwwwwwwwvw^i f STANDARD ^?JjHg ? EQUIPMENT J^|j3||g X Eleetrie LightS "FOUR-r A And "The Product c Y Starter T H*. 1 tT\ f PRICE +? F. O. B. F T f Lowest Price Electrically E The Model "FOUR-NINETY" with electric it lights and electric starter included in its regular <? equipment is the lowest priced electrically equip ped car in the world. Y The electric lighting and starting equipment of Y the "FOUR-NINETY" is not added after the car Y is built. It is actually built into the car and guar J. a ? ? ~1.1 ;_ i _ ^ am, ecu as pan ui tut? car. imj car is complete ur Y up-to-date without this equipment, and it cannot Y he added satisfactorily to a car after it is built and ^ completed. <|t Its electrical equipment is the two-unit AutoTHOMAS ft <? TELEPHONE 41-J FASHIONS OF FIFTY YEARS AGO. I ITNTII FII Mien Caps and Aprons Were Worn | W4 J1 * w With Milady's House Dresses. Fifty years or more ago the apron j ind the breakfast cap were the pride i md joy of every matron, for they j vere her sign and symbol. The cap j fl fl >f that time was as elaborate and j fl fl 11 lainty an affair as the boudoir cap I 111 I fl .III gill >f today; it was worn with the house \Mmmm Iress, and often, much trimmed, hroughout the afternoon and eveling. Aprons, evidently an imporant feature of every woman's wardlobe in those days, were decidedly ancy, and usefulness was not a itrong point in their construction. According to an old copy of Goley's Lady's Book, aprons were made >f such materials as black silk and atin, and were trimmed with lace md velvet, with graduated ruffles of he silk; often these ruffles were scalloped. They were also cut in | itrange shapes, and a final touch was BL^ ^1^^ idded.by sewing on lace pockets and ^^B Wf jH i few bows. The same old-fashioned H BIB >ook, in "Chitchat on the Fashions BB ?B ilk ^B or November," says: "Aprons, or simulated aprons, are he folly of the day. They are likely Rar o have as popular a reign as in the ime of Queen Charlotte, when Beau Urummel deposed them from their ligh estate by deliberately, before all he people assembled, taking off the ipron of a duchess and flinging it >ehind one of the settees at a ball jiven at the assembly rooms at Bath. ^ / Aprons were made then, as now, of / :ostliest lace, and enormous sums # vere spent upon this article of dress. Jf"T "IVO rhe latest novelty is a depth of silk * lot more than 12 inches, to which "til? s added a flounce of lace equally flf SMEB . vide, but narrowed at the sides. Of /ra^gSilji.'PlP Jwh OVy :ourse, this style will in time give 8^ ^ vay to large aprons. 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