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- * f CHECKED UP , ^ By ALVAH J. GARTH I f (Cnpjrrlckt, 1120. Wcstara Nawapnpor Union.) "Why, this won't do at all!" ejacu- ^ *ted Hiram Smith, pursing up hla rj " lips and furrowing his brow In a stern, B esmplalning way as he read a business f card In the corner of the envelope of l a letter he had Just received. 1 $ "What is the trouble, Hiram?" In- g quired hls^better half. c "Look and see. 'Sraythe 4 Co., jj Brokers.' That's false colors Norman seems to be sailing under. Plain t 'Smith' Isn't good enough for him. It i r seems, so he has to spread-eagle un- f riar annthar nnmo" t "Well," rejoined Mrs. Smith placid- j |( ly, "Smith Is, in fact, a plain, common ; ], lame, and maybe the city way It to ] change it." 1 v "Change It!" cried Hiram, Hire la , t hi# eye. "Say! if all the Smith# left ! a the world tomorraw it would feel th# i i, lack of them! I won't have this, and Tm going to give Norman a good, a sound piece of my mind. Why," as h# ! | opened the envelope. "Its Isn't from j Norman at all, and Hiram proceeded t te read the lnclosure. j i "Humph!" he observed finally, c "Here's something to consider. Just c listen, Martha. This letter Is from o v Norman's stenographer, a Miss Ava . Brown, and It says that Norman Is la t ft trouble, is away from the city for a t day or two, and. because she IS inter- f ested in him and the business, she t asks me to come on at once sod have s consultation with her. Tali you. I'm c! worried and disappointed! T car# n Norman $10,000 to make his way in b the world, and here's a break." p It was no mystery at all. Uncle Hiram found, when he entered the office I d of Smythe A Co. two mornings later. r He looked savage as he noted that t name blazoned In gilt on the plate glass windows, hut he quieted down c as he introduced himself to the pretty c and sensible looking young lady In charge. "I like your looks." he announced i bluntly, "and your eyee tell me yon ! t are a girl In the habit.of speaking the * truth. Now, then, tell me all about ? it" o The recital that followed, serious P and anxious, sobered Uncle Hiram not o a little. It appeared that some bad t advisers had induced Norman to make ' "a splurge." That of the name waa 5 a part of it, plunging outside of ethl- C ral securities was a second. 9 "If Mr. Smith had only kept on '1 steadily with safe securities he would c not have had any trouble." declared ( the young lady. "He was influenced. however, by a set of reckless specula- * tors, and has lost nearly all his cap- c . Ital. He is proud, and wanted to r m make money too fast. He has been c \ a good friend to me, Mr. Smith, giv- E ing me employment when I was out e L nt If tori T i d Oi WVI ft, VI llic pi vopvvv vo Vf ??" ? like him?and something more than ' that," and the speaker flushed. B "And he likes yon?and something r more than that. Is that it?" insinuated ? Hiram bluntly. * "I hope so," assented Miss Brown . frankly. "At all events, I wish to help him and save him, with yoar assistance, of course." "You put it straightforward aofl businesslike," said Hiram, and Til : think it over," which he did. Then he resumed: "Now, then, Miss Brown, 0 I've decided what I will do. Ft rat " thing, we'll go over the hooks and clear up all the debts. Next. t? more | ailiy fads like using the Smythe name. ' Then Norman has got to cut out his ; expensive clubs, and two-hour luncheons, and training with a sot of young * ^ fellows who play with bank accounts I ? '8 and don't care whose they are. We'll { take that name off those windows and . make It 'Smith A Co.,' as it ought to i f I he Heht awav." I ' "it Hiram actually enjoyed the next twe f days. Miss Brown was a plrl to like r more and more the better one became t acquainted with her. The loyalty, i ( truthfulness, and honest business sens# she displayed completely won Hiram r over. It was the third mornlnp after f his arrival that his nephew eotared t the office. t "Who chanped those slpos on the , windows?" he bepan stormlly. When Ava silenced him with the prompt 1 warninp reply: "Your uncle, who Is In the next ; room." i , Norman Smith became meek as a < lamb as he confronted the latter, who j was stern and dipnified as he said: 1 \ "Sit down. I want to have a talk j with you. No. don't close the door, j < Miss Brown is a better business peniur i j than you are, and has ray confidence. ' | Now, then?" I , /You talk wisdom. Uncle Hiram." | he conceded, "and I'll he plad to turn ] over a new leaf." : , "AH ripht." spoke his uncle. "You'll f And lots of eneourapement and help, < r? If you do. HI he your hacker in a ] reasonable way. and Miss Brown, who i , . doesn't spell her name wl?b an >' tapped onto It or any such fol-de-rol. is j a safe balance wheel. If yoo like her , ?ana somerning iiiort* wmu 'nm. duded the old mnn. slyly. "ten her fin that." acceded Norman will^Vingl.v. and he went into the next room. | ^ "Miss Brown?Ava." he added "niy uncle chides tne for my folly In chang- i inj* my name, hut ' don't think he nii? object if 1 aak yon to change yours." and. chucklinr serenely. Fnc'e Firam felicitated himsf^*' with the supreme i belief mat he ha smoothed out the i wrinkle* in the live* of all of tfcaa. , tUNS ON RAILS OF WOOD llatkan Transport Systsm tuppll? It Milts tf Territory and Oast la> cellsnt Work. 0. P. Gaustad of Fairbanks, Alaska, s owner and operator of one of the farthest north" railways in the world, lis raiftoad "system" consists of 15 oiles of wooden rails that stretch bewten the head of navigation on the ?olovana river to the rich placer nines above, some 75 miles overland rom Fairbanks. The motive power of lis railroad is a motor car. ami it has lone heroic work for the. Inst two snorts in Imitating a genuine steam ! > omotlve. Mr. Gntistnd went to Ala* a in the hig rush of 'OS "I ha e a sawmill hn 1 f way between he Tolovnna pincers nr.d flie head of iHvige'ion <?n the r'ver." h?? said reently in l.ns Angeles. "For two years have operat"d ' e railroad to haul ogs to my mill and t'nmi there to mill the saued lumber to the mines. IMie rmeh is Ifi miles long and is of voorieti rails. The motor car Is. of ours.-, equipped with flanged wheels, in<l until* a little train of three cars eliind it. "In this fashion 1 have hauled loads 18 high as six tons. In addition to the umber 1 haul all supplies from the lead of navigation on the river to the nines, and get $60 a ton for transportng them. Sometimes I make eight ot line trips a day. and this year the cat overed over 6,000 miles in the course t the season. "The war brought great hardship to he gold miners of Alaska, for, awing o the depreciated valne of the dollar, heir gold Is worth but little more than laif what it was five years ago. Conequently many of the mines are shnl lown, for the producers figure it is lot worth while to pay excessive laor costs to mine gold worth only hall irice. "Few people realise the Irotnenst listances In Alaska. From ray raiload, for example, it is 1,600 miles to Idewater, by way of the Yukon river "The gasoline T burn in my car costs ne 85 cents a gallon."?From the Pa Iflc Commercial Advertiser. . Queer War Money. Seme very odd kinds of money were rought Into circulation daring the rar, owing to the scarcity of copper nd nickel. Germany Issued hundreds f millions of five-pfennig and tenifenntg Iron coins, the latter output f these pieces being coated with zinc o prevent rust. Iron coins were likevise minted by the governments of Iweden. Norway and Denmark. The lermans Issued one-pfennig pieces of lumlnum, and In Algeria also alumnum coins of fire centimes and ten entimes made their appearance In dr ulatlnn. Germany Issued muslin notes, nd the local governments In that counry and. In Austria printed paper money f the smallest value ever known, repesentlng one-fifth of a eent. Even aore curious was the pasteboard aoney Issued In some of the eneray ccupled cities In France. It was In lenomlnatlon8 up to five frafies, apd ras of different colors and shapes? quare, round, octagonal, oval and dlaaond shaped. This "card money" was luaranteed by the local municipality, ind was good only for use In transacion with merchants of the town where t was Issued. Ma Rirthdav Anniversary. It Is possible for a baby born this rear never again to have a birthday, ''or this Is leap year, and a baby born m the right spot at the right time will ilmost certainly have no birthdays to :eep. This has actually happened to i baby who was born during the voyige from Yokohama to San Francisco in the last day of February, 1904. It Is well known that In order to nake the actual number of sunrises md sunsets experienced during a voyige round the world correspond with he calendar an extra day must be Inercalated or "thrown overboard," acordlng to the direction traveled. This idjustment Is made at the moment of 1? nna hnndrpri and elehtleth i usc9ius ulc wiiv w nerldlan. which runs to the west of he midway point between Japan and California. And a baby born on February 30 nust be content to do without birthlays. unless he or she should happen o be on a similar spot at the same Ime in some future leap year, which a-onld be a rather wild Improbability. ?Manchester Guardian. Donkey Gave MHa-Ha." I was strolling along a shady lane -vlth the girl of my choice. On the >ther side of the fence was a donkey n a pasture. I hardly noticed him, 'or I was trying to frame a proper proposal. Just then an automobile load >f our acquaintances sped nlong the ilghwav a short distance from us. and knowing they must have noticed my endearing manner towarn my cumpauon, I became embarrassed. However, [ managed to blurt out a proposal of Tiarrlage; whereupon the donkey, landing there so dejectedly, suddenly svoke up enough to lift his head and Jray, to the amusement of ^>ur friends, wrho were still near enough to hear It. To cap the climax, the girl also gave ne the ha-ha.?Exchange. Began to Battle in April, 1918. American combat divisions were In battle In Europe for 200 days, from the twenty-fifth of April. 1918. when the first regular division, after long training In cjnlot sectors, entered an active sector on the Picardy front, until the signing of the armistice. During these L'oO days they were engaged In IS major operations, of which 11 were jolnl enrrrp*f-es with the French. British and Italians, and two were dlatlnctlj American. GROUND UNDER HEAVY r.A^i People In Bible Times Compiet.-'v at J Mercy of Extortionate Extractors of Tribute. People in the film's were r \ heavily. They were on a siraigli' | not ha set I on incomes m excess pr,.tn>. : Payment was compelled asiri no excuse* ' made, nor were there any ex< utn'mns J to married uien or heads of fnm!l es, j Although there were no army or navyi establishments and no airplane pn*gram, the people paid their assess-1 ments in both gold and silver. King Solomon compelled the fa- ' nanltes who were left in the conn- ( i try to pay him tribute. The rebellion ; of Jeroboam on account of the heavy I taxes levied by Solomon, afieri ward growing Into ibe revolt of j the Ten Tribes, was the most pre- ; j tentious kirk against the levy of tht ' powers in Bible times. Jeroboam was | at first compelled to take refuge In | Egypt, and It was on account of the | taxes and levies laid by Solomon that, ; the Israelites sjld to Rehoboam, the j son of Solomon, upon the latter's; 1 death: "Thy father made our yokes grievous ; now therefore make thou the i grievous service of thy father and , i his heavy yokes which he put upon 1 us lighter and we will serve thee." j When Caesar Augustus was In ; power and Qulrlnus was governor of ( Syria, after having Just been elected , for a third terra because he had kept the Syrians out of war, the first named j i Issued a proclamation signed by bis 1 secretary of state that the whole world ! should be taxed. And all the people I went to their own city to be taxed, j The later editions of the Bible speak | of the act as the people being "enj rolled." | HISTORY MERELY A LESSON i Paints Pictures Only That THfcy May Be an Inspiration to Future Generations. History does not relate for the sake of relating; it does not paint for the sake of painting; it relates and paints the past that it may be a living lesson of the future. It proposes-to instruct new generations by the experience of those who have gone before them, by exhibiting to them a faithful picture A# or** a* o nH Imnnrtonf Arosto ml tK i vi gicai auu iui^vi laui ctcnia mui thqlr causes and their effects, with general designs and particular passions, with the faults and virtues that are found commingled In human things. It teaches the excellence of prudence, courage, and great thoughts profoundly rtedltated, constantly pursued, and executed with moderation and force. It shows the vanity of immoderate pretensions, the power of ' ; wisdom" and virtue, the Impotence of folly and crime. Thucydldes, Polybius, ' and Tacitus undertake anything rather than procuring new emotions for an Idle curiosity or a worn threadbare imagination. They doubtless desire to interest and attract, but more to | instruct; they are the avowed masters of statesmen and the preceptors of mankind.?Victor Cousin. For a Headache. ! , correspondent recommends the following simple remedy for headache ?sick headache particularly. Cut a ' lemon In half and sqneexe the julee Into a tumbler. Add a few?a very few grains of sugar, and fill the glass nearly three-quarters full of cold watS er. Now stir In half an eggspoonful of ordinary baking soda. This will flu op. of coarse, and the draught mast be swallowed during effervescence. If one does falls to relieve headache, repeat It three hours after. Taken fasting, the first thing in the morning. It will do much to settle the stomach after the sick headache, and probably prevent Its recurrence for some time to Come. This kitchen physic ha9 prevailed when pbenacetln and other nerve-quleters have signally failed to do so. Teach Child Courtesy. Good manners in children as well as ! grown people are the expression of an Innate consideration for the rights, privileges and opinions of other peo-; pie. Yehrs of experience have crystallized this feeling into certain conventional forms of expression, which every child should be taught. The little habits of courtesy, which should be a part of every day life, are really the "outward and visible sign of an ( ! Inward grace." Few acquisitions are i , more valuable to anyone than that | charm of manner which wins the im-! meniare reiRira or everyone wmi wiiuuj they come into contact. | i One at a Time. : I One Sarnrday afternoon two girl] I friends and I boarded a crowded street1 car. We managed to get to the front: of the car. As we didn't care to hang, | to the straps, we held to each other's I arms. I was standing next to a seat which was occupied by a man and a ! woman. 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