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“Gentlemen,” said the toas.masier at the
banquet, “we have listened to some excel
Of those corpuscles In your blood lent orators this evening and I am sura
that have been called “ Little we have enjoyed their efforts very much.
Soldiers,” Is to fight for you I have purposely kept one of our beet
against the disease germs that speakers for the last, and after you have
constantly endanger your health. beard him I know you will be glad to ga
These corpuscles are made home. Gentlemen. I have the honor to
healthy and strong by the use of present Mr. Ketchnm A. Cummin, who
will now sddres. you.”—Chicago Tribune.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
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Rural Telephones
Do you realize that rural telephones, more than
anything else, tend to increase the earning power
of every farm and farmer? Do you realize that
This medicine is a combination of
About lilabt.
more than 20 different remedial agents
A boy was naked to explain the dif
in proportions and by a process known
only to ourselves and it lias for thirty ference between auhnal instinct and
years been constantly proving its wort h. human intelligence. “If we had in
No substitute, none ‘‘just-as-good.” stinct,” he said, “we should know
everything we needed to know with
Her Objection.
out learning It; but we've got reason,
"I wish my dentist wasn't so realietle," and so we have to study ourselves
•sld Mrs. Jenner Lee Ondego. “He calls 'most blind, or be a fool.”—Universal
hit dental parlor bis drswing room.”
is t Leader.
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ALL of the-material needed to build the very best
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of wheat each?
Over 4,000,000 Western Electric Telephones
are in use in the United States to-day. We made the first telephones and we have made
the most—in fact, we have made more than all other manufacturers combined.
We have brought the rural telephone within the reach of every farmer, and with our Free
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Man with the Bulging Brow—Awful
sloppy, isn't it?
Man With the Bulbous Nose—It ain’t
half as sloppy for you as it is for me.
Happy Eng.Keme.t,
“It’s a good thing that man wants My overcoat’a in soak.
but little here below,” remarked the
home-grown philosopher.
“Because why?” queried tbe youth.
“Because that’s all there is left after
woman gets what she wautA” answered
the philosophy generator.
C1TC at. Vitos’ Danna ana ' rvona imwasae parms-
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I.troducin, Iler Reaolutloa.
“Johnny,” said Mrs. Impaling, putting
on her wraps, “I’ve been in the bouse all
day and I need the fresh air. If you’ll
mind baby a little while I’ll go and take
a preamble around the block.”
Cariosity
SObTfiERN OFFICES
GratiSed.
Former Customer (after a long ab
sence)—;What has become of the pretty
blonde that used to feed the hungry at
'i erminoiogy.
this lunch counter?
Dark Skinned Waiter Girl—I'm her.
Officious Salesman—Wouldn't you like
to look at some of our overcoatings or What you goin' to order, sir?
suitings?
Youthful Phlloaopher.
Dyspeptic Looking Customer—No, but
A five-year-old boy on hearing grace
If you will be kind enough to tell me
where the drug department is I’ll take a asked fot the first time at breakfast
look at your pillings and porous plaster grnvely letnarked: “I only say my
ings.”— Chicago Tribune.
prayers at night. That la the danger
Atlanta
Cin< tunad
Dallas
luuiauapulis
Storer. Send for FREE SI 00 trial bottle and treatiae.
Dr. K. H. Kline. 14., Ml Arch St.. Philadelphia. Pa.
A Grown Ip Raby.
ous time.”—Life.
Before Ripe Windom Cornea.
“You’d like to be in South America
There 1 b a dangerous stage in every
fluring • revolution, would you? What
one’s career when his friends are
for?”
“O, I’d like to see the wheels go afraid to tell him a compliment for
round.”
fear it will make hliu more conceited.
—Boston Globe.
It has been stated on British authority
that American immigrants into Canada
Bloorllev. Revolution.
•re taking fifty million dollars' worth ot
Reporter—But, Senator, in a govern
property into that country each year.
ment like ours, don't you believe in tbe
principle of rotation in office?
The following sign is displayed by a
Eminent Statesman—I certainly do,
firm of cycle and motor manufacturers at young man. That's why I have • revolv
Hornsey, England: "To aeronauts: Drop ing chair in my office.
here for netrol.”
Not Worth While.
Th« golden crest«! wren is the smallest
“Don't you think, Mr. Sply,” said the
•f British birds. It is three and a half boss, "you might as well take off your
Inches long and seventy-two of them hat?”
weigh one pound.
“What’s the use?” asked the new man,
who was filling a temporary vacancy in
The fact that no death from i hydro the clerical department. “I'm only going
phobia has been recorded in 1 England to hold this job two weeks.”
since 1902 is cited as an illustration of
More Humane.
ths preventive treatment of disease.
“They tell me, Mr. Smithers,’’ simpered
It is estimated that 113.000 persons in the fluffy young thing, “that you are quite
New York City make their living b.v a lady killer.”
“They do me an injustice, upon my
their wits, which means the lack of wit in
word, Miss Giggley,” responded the gal
others.
lant old beau, laying his hand on his heart
Shipbuilding in Japan mploys 10,000 and making a profound bow; "I catch 'em
men at Nagasaki. 8.000 at Kobe and 4,000 alive.”
at Osaka. All tbs Japanese yards are
Far Apart.
full of orders.
“Miss Easton,” said tbe hostess, "thia
The Grenoble district in France is 1* Mr. Weston.”
“Delighted to know you. Miss Easton,”
noted in the export trade of that country
for two very different products—walnuts said the young man. “Nominally, how
ever, we seem to be antipodes.”
and kid giovi«.
“Actually, too. perhaps, Mr. Weston,”
James Warren, a farm laborer, 82 years she answered, so distantly that he instant
eld, died recently at Edwortb, England, ly felt himself to be 12,500 miles away.
after having worked on ths same farm
Absent-Minded Aiderman.
for seventy-five years.
In reply to an advertisement for a
woman typist at a salary of $3.75 a week,
a London firm on March 4 received no
fewer than 397 replies.
New York City has more asylums,
homes, hospitals and organizations for
tbe relief of human suffering than any
other city in the world.
A Lynn (Muss.) alderman at a re-
cent alderumnic meeting inquired what
had become of an order he had intro-
duced some time before calling for an
arc light on Willow street. The city
clerk, after digging into his files, in
formed him that the order had come
before the board nearly a month pre
vious and that be bad voted agaluat it
Mast
At Rheims, France, portable bathtubs,
filled with hot water, are delivered to or-
der.
The folding envelope wai first used in
1839.
Be Hard Work.
In Russia there is a cheap reaping
machine which has a reel, but no au
tomatic rake. A man sits on the plat
form and rakes off the grain with a
pitchfork. Tbe name of this machine
is “lobogreika,” and since "lobo” means
“brow.” and “greika" is “a heater,”
tbe whole can be translated “brow
sweater.”
There are 50,000 vegetarians in Eng-
land.
There are tn lxmdon over 3O4.U00 per-
sons who live in one-room houses, aud
•ver 701.000 in two-room houses.
Untimely 1 n terroption.
Orlando .Spoons more bent over the fa!»
There la a daily average of one and
•ne-half deaths in New York City charge hand and respectfully kissed it.
able to injuries inflicted by other persons.
“Young man,” screeched the parrot in
the cage overhead, "is there anything the
In the last five years, in New York
City, 593,714 tenants have gone into new matter with my lips?”
flat houses.
Three-story bedsteads are now made for
•se in apartments, «ten mere, camps and
wherever floor «pace is limited.
Some of the saloons in Liverpool dis
play the sign: “l-adies can not be served
without their hats on."
Ix>st in the Australian bush, near Port
The secret of the glow-worm and firefly Darwin, for five days, engineer-commander
Is yet unsolved by science. Their light is E. S. Silk was found alive and well by a
•ntirelv unaccompanied bv heat.
black tracker.
Three hundred girls are employed In the
The average rent paid for New York
Harness trade in New York, and Kentucky City tenements and apartment housei
has a girl jockey.
built within five years amounts to $144
Manhattan's postoffice receipts amount annually for each person living in them.
to $54,370 daily.
The municipa ly of Copenhagen has
tpened war on rats, and will pay 1*4
Much of the fuel used In Italy is made -ents for every tail. The breeding of
sf the refuse of olives from which ths rats for their tails is a criminal offensa.
sil has been pressed.
me postmen ot Npain are unable to
Ixjrd Selbornc is the first British cab- read and write as a rule, and it is a com-
inet minister who has accepted an •P- mon saying that who treats the postman
pointment In rhe colonies.
best geta the most letters.
Luther Laflin Mills, noted Chicago
lawyer, died recently, the direct result
of a second stroke of apoplexy, the first
seizure having prostrated him eight
weeks before. * Mr. Mills was born at
North Adams. Mass., Sept. 3, 1848. Ills
father was Walter N. Mills, a pioneer
dry goods merchant of Chicago and an
Intimate friend of the late Marshall
Field, whom he had known in Massa
chusetts, After being graduated from
the University of Michigan, Mr. Mills
was admitted to the bar when 21 years
old. lie succeeded from the beginning,
He figured In many celebrated cases
and opposed at tile bar such legal
heavy weights as Emory A. Storrs,
John Lyle King, Wirt Dexter, , Fred
Mitchell and many others. He appear-
i
ed for the prost-eution In the first trial
of the Cronin ease and lu many other
suits of much importance. As an ora
tor Mr. Mills enjoyed wide fame. He
was Interested in many philanthropic
enterprises and was president of the
Boys’ club nnd other Institutions for
the welfare of the young.
GOOD LUCK TO SPARROWS.
Shoe Thrown at Departing; Bride
Now Home for Bird Family.
Suspended from the branches of a
tree In McDonough street, near Reid
avenue, Brooklyn, the New York Her
ald says, Is an old shoe which long ago
served its term of usefulness to hu
manity, but which now affords a com
fortable borne for Mr. and Mrs. Spar
row and their little brood of baby spar
rows, which are just about old enough
to fly.
For three years the old shoe, care
lessly thrown into the tree after serv
ing as a good-luck emblem at a wed
ding, has been swinging In the brandi
es, defying wind and weather. There
have been storms In the neighborhood
that have uprooted trees and broken
off their branches, but the tree in
which the old shoe has found a lodg-
went has withstood all weather sieges.
Not long ngo two sparrows came Into
tbe neighborhood nnd started house
keeping In the old shoe, which affords
them a shelter anil is sufficiently large
for the simple tastes of aerial flat
dwellers.
Whether or not the great nation of
birds is ruled by an ornithological
Roosevelt Is not known, but certain it
is that Mr. nnd Mrs. Sparrow are not
believers In race suicide, and since tak
ing up their abode hi the old shoe they
have raised a large brood.
The Sparrow family has many of
the comforts and conveniences of life.
The opening in the shoe serves all the
purposes of a vestibule, The tip not
only makes a fine piazza for tile whole
Sparrow family in fair weather, but
makes a fine swing for the Sparrow
children when the wind is gently blow
ing. Judging from the chirping, the
baby birds enjoy their fun Just as
much as human children might enjoy
an old orchard swing.
Residents of the neighborhood, eveD
the children, appreciate the situation
and every day one of the families
whose homes are near the tree leaves
out food so that the father and mother
bird need not send any of tbblr brood
to bed hungry.
Why They Wanted Geor*e.
Domestic Note.
Emily (playing ‘‘house’’)—Now. I'll
be mamma and you'll tie papa and Uttl«
Ben and Bessie will be our babies.
Willi* (after a moment anxiously)
—Ain't It about time to whip tbe chil
dren?—-Meggendorfer Blaetter.
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before the comtant hacking tear, the delicate membrane of throat and
lung«, exponng them Io the ravage« of deadly diaea«. Pi«o', Cure
goe« atraight Io the «eat of the tiouble, .tops the cough, «trengthen.
the lung«, and quickly relievea unhealthy condition*. Becaute of it»
pleasant ta«te and freedom from dangeroua ingredient, it i. the ideal
remedy for children.
At the furt lymptomt of a cou^h or cold in
the little one» you will «ave wsrrow and »uffering if yon
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“To mnke a long story short," said Un
cle Cbinner, “we collected the maple sap,
emptied it into a huge iron kettle, and
put it over a big wood fire to boil it
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down------ ”
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“To make your long story short, uncle,”
interrupted one of the listeners, "suppose
you boil that down, too.’’
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In a communication to the Royal So
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cords the discovery of one new genus
and seven new species of fish. Among
these are slender dog shark, Howe’s
needle fish, long-beaked garfish,
somber leather jacket nnd others.
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Editor (of Daily Thunderbolt)—Yoop-
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Reporter—I think I had—but it’s been
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Immortality,
“I don't see anything remarkable
in
your poem,” said the editor, handing it
back.
“You don’t?” howled the would-be con
tributor, pointing with a quivering finger
at the word "loathes” at the end of the
fourth stanza. “Did you ever see a poem
before that had a perfect rhyme for
‘clothes’?”—Chicago Tribune.
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Country Cousin—Are you sure I am
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Town Relative (who has had about
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gers, and they all say, "Yes,” so L
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The following is a never failing
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sarsaparilla and one ounce Toris com
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A good, honest remedy for Rheumatism,
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The young wife answered the phone.
“That’s another call for George," she
said 'to her mother. “Somebody wants
him to come somewhere and piny
bridge. It's the third invitation he’s
had this evening.”
“That would seem to Indicate,” said
Those who have wintered In Alaska say
A youth of seventeen, who hanged him-
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that ie the hardest thing to endure in the with green from bead to foot just bafan lar.”
The young wife sniffed.
North.
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“It unquestionably Indicates," sh*
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Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Regular Gold or Enamel fills ..................... $1.00
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