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the services o f High
Representative in each town. No
■iaac, soliciting or selling; refer-
experience unnecessary. Guaran-
seome to right party. Dept, g 628
"W hat to t h s t r
“ Why. you (eel as though you really
ought to bay another not quite so good
to save your beat one.”— Puck.
Even the Children.
. \
"A n embuaque In French, a slacker
In England, means a man who shirks
the dangerous duties of war. ant
among the warring nations the pur*
suit o f embusquea and slackers goes
on relentlessly.“
The speaker was Edna Wallace Hop
per, who has Just returned from
Prance. She continued:
“ Even the little children take their
small part In this relentless pursuit
They tell a story about a little girl in
Paris whose mother said to her In the
Boise:
“ ‘Look—In that big automobile—
that to Oen. Joffre.*
“ The little girl looked at the vener-
able commander-in-chief and frowned.
“ ‘Mamma,’ she Bald severely, ‘why
Isn’t he in the trenches V "
‘Baby has a pew tooth.” came faint-
over the wire. The mother laughed,
e added ttomethlng, but the girl
rk did not understand. The phone
I not work well.
Baby has a new tooth." The news
nt round the office. All the clerks
pped to listen. They, too, laughed,
llaby has a now tooth," announce« l
lOUTlEDIEKED&FUNUlCO.
and most of them were la terms of
dollars and cents.
He wasn't growing old In fact he
was In the prime of lif t —Just "old
enough to mix sober Judgment with
youthful energy and do things to count
In a hustling, bustling world o f rapid
changes and big achievements—he fslt
that hts opportunity had come and
that he was going to. be a success.
But a streak of gray showed In hts
FEDERAL TIRES AND TUBES
huir lit« wife had commented on It
only that morning—and there was so
- T H g HOirSM o r SAM VICK.
much to do. far more, he knew now, - MOTOR OAR SUPPLY OQ-
tban his youth had reckoned. He U B roadw ay No.
PortUr
looked out a window. The wind was
blowing; ho noticed that a WeaCber-
vane pointed northwest.
“ Baby has a new tooth." With a
shock It came back to him; It was
his first born. He thought o f the
Monamobile Oils and Greases
EURS a n d 1
W RITE US.
HAWTHORNE AUTO SCHOOL
to allow the trees to burgeon. Ice to
being supplied to several growers by
•s toear producer to encourage the test
with a few trees. Although a consid
erable expenditure would be repre
sented were the scheme carried out
on a really large scale, it might not
prove excessive if successful In pre
venting crop losses. Late frosts are
a source of much spxiety to growers
of early fruits, not alone In the South,
Hanford’s Balsam,
large sixes. Adv.
6006 MONEY tor BUTTERFAT
A Cartoon Jab From India.
«• Hopeless Remedies-
T. f*. Morgan said at a dinner In New
York;
‘‘The German financial position is
desperate. Tbe remedies proposed for
it reminds me of the horae-thlef.
“ Two men were sentenced by a vigi
lance committee to be banged for
*-------—
. and the
horse stealing,
and rope was
swung from a bridge over a river.
“ But tbe first horse-thief got off.
Tbe noose slipped, he fell into the
water and swam down stream to safe
ty.
“ When they came to deal With the
second horse-thief, 1m said anxiously,
as they tied the rope 'found his neck;
“ ‘Make sure o’ that noose this time,
won’t you, gents? I can’t swim.’ ”
Better than a plaster—Hsnford’i
Balsam when thoroughly applied. Adv.
Many nations have expressed their
t
Fair Enough.
tte rn e ss against Uncle Sam for'
“Look
here,
Hiram,” said Si, “ wken
— H ug money out o f the war.” We
be you goin‘ / to pay me them 98 for
rve been held up to ridicule impar-
pasturin’ your heifer? I’ve had her
illy by England, Germany, Greece,
Otnoe, Italy and Japan. Now India now for about 10 weeks.”
“ Why, St, ther critter ain’t worth
mor’n 910.”
“ Well, s’posln’ I keep her fer what
Raced by Cartoons Magazine, Uncle you owe m e?"
~
M ud and Japan are seen, each with
“ Not by a jugful! Tell you what
large money bags under his arms. The
I’ll do; keep her two weeks more and
BBptlon reads “ Make Hay While the you can have her.”
Bon Shines,” and underneath we read:
Jap: *Tm filling my bag with In-
Man stiver while the Austrians and
Germans are busy with the war. And
Yankee: “ Ditto, ditto. And some-
SRfag more. I’m filling mine with the
M id of the allies, besides.”
W elsh Product.
M, O. Grace, president of the Bethle-
HB Steel company, aald in Washing-
“ Though we can get any price we
it for our munition products from
urope, R e haven’t increased our price
i the American government one cent.
-Y e t there are people who, in the
e e o f this, accuse us of overcharging
n d e Sam. These people are as ludi-
ously ignorant as the schoolboy who
'W hat do we get from Wales?*
‘Jonahs,’ the schoolboy answered.
Von J.sgow as a Cartoon IsL
"Like bis distinguished superior
Emperor Wilhelm," says Cartoons
Magazine, “ Herr Gottlieb von Jagow,
German secretary for foreign affairs,
is a cartoonist and designer. When
not engaged In writing notes to Secre
tary Lansing he is busy with his pen
cil. As you enter his office you will
observe a large clean blotter on his
desk, and this, as he talks, he gradual
ly covers with sketches. His servant
brings him a new blotter for every vis
itor.”
Willing to Change.
"There Is a very excellent reason
why a girl shouldn’t smoke.”
"W hat?” she demanded.
“ Makes her less agreeable to kiss.”
“ Well, I’ll wait till somebody wants
to kiss me,” she said, "when they do
I’ll give up cigarets—and take to a
pipe.”— Woman’s Home Companion.
A Fireside Grouch.
-Charley, dear,” said young Mrs.
Gorkins, "you can never complain that
I am a frivolous society woman.”
“ Ne. Your Idea o f a pleasant even-
lDg to to sit down and ask me to ex
plain all about preparedness, the bal
For Cash.
ance of trade, orders in council, and
M s submarine controversy all In two
“ The Clymers are determined to
Boors and a half.”—Washington Star. get into society, no matter bow mnch
It costs.”
He Knew.
"W hat have they done now?”
“ Last year they bought a coat of
-D id you ever know that there to a
S mt symbol is in connected with a arms and a family tree for them
selves, and now they’re trying tft buy
tek o f cards? Hearts, for Instance, a pedigree for their dog.”
g n ify love.’1
“ Yea. I know. Last night I held a
The Growler.
flush against four aces and I
Bacon—Your
dog?
id to dig.”
Egbert—No, my wife’s.
"Did the dog growl when yon had
N ever Mlxee ’Em.
f- J >
e • •
to muzzle him?”
ave you studied political econ-
"No, but m y wife did.”— Yonkers
”*
Statesman.
o, sir. Economy to all right In
laoe. I’m one of those who be-
keeplng business cat o f politics.”
Oeullete «od Paralelaos used Murine B r«
ishlngton Star.
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Domealle Bpe M adide«. Murine la SHU Com
pounded bp Our Phpelelaae and guaranteed
bp ta e a ne n Reliable Relief for Epee that Bead
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on th e
P l a in o r t r o t
ANNON awskenlng the echoes
over Ilium's plains, where the
allies have been trying to
pound their way beyond the
Dardanelles, stir many legen
dary memories of this historic battle
region and, bring to mind the oddest
Here, where now mod
contrasts.
e m ordnance to hurling lta messen
gers o f destruction, Homer’s heroes-
waged their spectacular, single-handed
armies
combats.
while admiring
grouped themselves around to watch.
It to a far cry from the romantic siege
o f Troy to the terribly Impersonal bat-
Yet the old walls of
tie qf today.
Troy must bring some sort o f inspira
tion to the.M idlers fighting in their
shadows, soldiers o f the. allies or of
the Turks.
Excavated Ilium, near
one o f the present war’s ¿rest bat
tlefields, is described In a communi
cation to the National Geographic so
ciety by Jacob E. Conner.
The Trojan walls are still In evi
dence; those same walla that defied
tbe onslaught o f Agamemnon and
Menelaus. o f Ajax, Nestor. Dlomed,
C
W AN TE D- A m t « . >!»• isem, !■ ■»■
U m lla la Only D n rh «h tK «> Tmtor
try. No cunpeUOan.
Hend I I 10 lav ta«U r and e ip le e a le r p
gmi buay in your w i i k l o r l i a J .
A A
length, ends abruptly like a promon
tory projecting Into -the- sea. above
which It rises about 30 feqt
The
Many. Are Four-Flushing.
ridge to the so-called “ HU1 of Ilium,"
the sea Is the flood plain of the Slmoto , There's many a Broadwaytte posing
and the Scamander, historically known as ready money who only has two
aa the plain of Troy, and the promon changes o f raiment—on and off. Yet
tory. with Its crown of ruins, to Troy the tailors h<fro decree that a man
itself.
You walk around the ruins must spend 95,000 per annum for sar
and make the surprising discovery torial effects If he must pose as a gen
that If the walking were good you tleman. First bo must have a cereal
could easily do It In ten minutes. Suit o f brocaded silk or velvet to
Astonishing! Is this all there was o f wear In the morning when be eats
Troy, and did this little stronghold his roasted sawdust.
And then be
by stratagem.
They remain as a withstand a nine years' siege and still should have's suit for every occasion
ruined and abandoned stage minus remain unconquered by force? Im after that. Here’s the* dope for the
Its paraphernalia, whereon was played possible! The Whole hill of Ilium may swell dresser—twelve sack suits, cot-
so many centuries ago an Insignificant have been fortified and to some ex- awaya, full evening clothes, dinner
little drama compared with modern tent populated otherwlse bow was coats, • six or seven overcoats, attire
events, but It was a drama so big with the garrison provisioned? Unpoetlc for riding, polo, yachting, golf, tennis,
human Interest divinely told that the details like these never troubled Ho a dokon or so fancy vesta, in fact, a
mer, so why bother about them?
world has never known Its equal.
suit or two or six or eight for each
Within sight, almost, of Tenedos. and every occasion must be Included
Wars In these crowded times are
for gain, but In the youth of the world. the Island base of the attacking allied in the wardrobe, and It can all be
If we take the Iliad literally, men armies, and within sound and reach done for tbe trifling sum o f 96,000 •
could afford to fight for. an Ideal. of the big guns, tbe old ruins are year, or 9100 a week. IPs very sim
Hence the Homeric warfare was a watching over the present fighting, a ple when one knows the system, the
beautiful, a poetic pastime, seriously greeting from the days of the .first
molders of fashion say. Some 'o f the
resulting to some happy few, who great western siege to the greatest
were thenceforth rewarded with Im siege o f modern times.
In the week, and that to the ^be they
mortality in song.
are wearing, are thinking o f establish
8ounds
of
Desolation.
Troy Well Worth a V isit
You proceed a little farther In Ar ing credit with their tailors and go to
As the theater o f the world’s great
it. The tailors then may altar the
est epic poem, Troy deserves a visit ras tq a large circular place, once im aforementioned decree.—New York
posing.
Every
house
In
It
presents
any year, every year, In the thoughts
Times.
and emotions it revives and stimulates the same blighted aspect. There 1s no
urban
stir!
but
In
the
brief
Interval*
In tbe aroused sense of Indebtedness
Astronomlcal Observatories. >
o f all subsequent literature and art It o f the deafening cannonade can be
Plans are on foot to erect an as
beard
one
sound—blinds
and
curtains
richly repays a visit
The classical
tronomical observatory on Volkollen,
student will leave It In a daze of fluttering against empty window
one o f the highest mountain summits
meditation upon things more real to
In Scandinavia. A citizen of Duluth,
him than the actual things he has
Minn., Mr. J. H. Darling, has under
seen and touched.
taken
to erect an observatory on one
On the site where the German sa
of the public playgrounds In that city,
vant, Schliemann, unearthed Homer's
Troy, nine layers o f old-time cities thieves—like desecratora. Impiously and to equip It with a nine-inch equa
torial refractor. Plans have been
were found, one above the other. pryhig . . .
Continually came the hollow sound
They were bullied, destroyed, and
forgotten here during the more o f things falling and slipping within
than 5,000 years that civilization has the smashed Interiors behind the fa
lived upon the products o f the fertile cades. And then came the sound of a
valley. The topmost layer contained baby crying—for this city to not, after
all, uninhabited.
a woman
coming out of her house and carefully
locking the door behind her. Was she
Christian era.
The sixth city from 1
the bottom was identified as Homer’s *
Troy. The bottom layers contained;,,
the remains o f prehistoric settlements,
A Large OrtierJ
'He shared his umbrella with her
unimportant villages 'that have es-
caped every memory except these few, on a rainy day and now they are mar
uncovered, decaying stones.
In the ried.”
second, or burnt city, probably 800
“ That’s the way It goes,” replied the
years before the time o f Troy, was cynic. ” 1 have no doubt he started
found a considerable mass of buried out merely with the Idea o f keeping
treasure, silver Jars, gold daggers, and her dry fpr a few minutes a
n d ___
and
now
wbnderfully wrought diadems o f gold. he’ll probably have to keep a roof
Describing the country around Troy, over her head for the rest o f his life.*
Mr. Conner «xmtlnues:
Yonder is the summit o f Mt. Ida,
When Death Supervenes.
wherq the gods In solemn conclave so
Indicating that the old and the
often sat, wheye “ cloud-compelled young are most subject to the call of
Zeus” ’ sometimes “ thought two ways death, the Springfield (111.) survey of
to hto mind at once, or else ended all the Russell Sage Foundation shows
debate with a nod that shook high that In 1910 in that d ty 146 infants
Olympus and caused the neavens to died to each 1,000 infants less than
reverberate and glow with the flash one year old, «7 died to each 1,000
o f hto thunderbolt.
more than sixty-five years old and
Famous Rivers Only Creeks.
only seven died to each 1,000 from
Away over yonder, skirting the ridge twenty-five to forty-four /ears of age
o f Illam, to S tools’ stream, or should
be; but the bridge across It shows
Glad Tidings.
upon our approach that modem S tools
“ It must have been a glorious mo
to no more tban a creek. Worse than ment for Isaac Newton-when the ap
that; following Its attenuated course, ple hit him on the head as he sat
less than a mile downstream, we dis under the tree.”
cover that It ends to a morass Instead
"Yes,” replied Farmer Coratossel
o f the Scamander as o f yore.
And "H e not only discovered the law of
thé latter stream to scarcely less dis gravitation, bnt he found convincing
appointing, for it to no more dignified evidence that the fruit crop for thaf
ta sise or appearance. In fa ct their year waa not a failure.”
sluggish currents united can scarcely
boast of banks except at occasional
New Zealand has only one town
intervals, for both streams are now with a population o f mors than 100/
only broad swales merging with the 000.
i
Bafety First.
They were welching the boys coast
ing down the snow-covered streets
on their sleds.
“ Ah," said tbe elder of (he two men.
“ that's the sporti Doeesn't It make
log an accldept policy. I happen to
have 'an application blank In my
pocket You'd bettor sign It now be
fore It’s too tots."
Cleanaes the Wound«.
For Injuries from rusty nails or any
other external hurt«, apply Hanford's
Balaam. It should kill any germa,
cleanse the wound and remove sore-
nees. Then quick healing will follow.
Adv.
Tender, Also True.
Ed y the— Did the duke say be loved
-Pall Mall Gazette.
Vary Interesting.
'That emotional actress says she
>not descend to anything like gross
itness details.''
'Humph! She’s Interested enough
the gross receipts.”— Baltimore
but was ffccorded a magnificent fu
neral In Westminster abbey. Other
literary anniversaries are those of
Charlotte Bronte, who was bom In
1819, and Thomas Oray, the poet, who
first saw the light a century earlier.
And N*v#p Will.
This year also witnesses the hun-
T*iere «<*>■ old Tightwad, the mil
dredth anniversary o f the birth of lionaire. They say he landed in this
Philip Jamea Riley, a poet who has town IB years ago with Just «7 cento
always met with far greater venefg- *» his pockets.”
“ Tss, and he hasn’t spent It yeL”
tion In the United States than in
his native country —London Tlt-Blta,
Tim# to Beware.
‘
A man dot shows off too much
Dog Caused Baby’s Death.
smartness,”
said Uncle
Unoie Eton,
Eben, “ ’“ ‘gete
gets
: : — ----- J» •Eld
The death o f a ten-months-old child so he enjoys about Y as
aa rnubh
much confl
confl-
at Birmingham, England, caused by a u ì ! “ * ■u lÜ?t ? ' hand man to a
chained dog, was Investigated by the Poker game.
Washington Star.
coroner a few days ago. The two com
panions were left alone for a time, tbs
baby secured In a chair and the dog
chained to the door close by. When
the baby’s mother returned she found