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**% WHY NOT RA<3E MORE .LIVE STOCK? THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER IN POLK COUNTY the polk county itemizer With cowboy and his lariat rapidly disappearing from the western plains and the steer market at Chicago rising steadily, Admitted as Second Class Mail Matter. I with the prospects of a general European war to increase the de- i mand for beef, is it not timely that the fanners of this and other Oregon communities should recognize the fact that there is much THURSDAY. AUG UST J3 1914 I money to be made In growing live stock fop market? Since the high cost of living became such a vital topic for discussion and BOYO & BLOOM, Lessees. the price of beef one of the items showing the largest per cent in J. E. BLOOM, Bus. Manager M. L. BOYD, Editor crease in price, the Chicago packers have been maintaining that In de year in advance...........................................I 1 50 the law of supply and demand has been the sole cause. ( Itcinixer.one Ite 'S Wi itb Weekly Oregonian or Semi-weeiny Journal............ 2 00] fense of their statements the packers point out that no longer BDBWaiPTION Goat Magazine........................................................ 1 50 ( Witb Wi are the western plains the grazing grounds for thousands of heads o f cattle, which, as soon as fattened, were shipped to Chicago, Office, 1. Office: Kansas City or some other packing center. They say that recla 'PHONES: Residence, 762 No. 506 Main St. mation projects and the cutting of the prairie states into small tracts for farming have driven the cowboy and his lariat out of a Patronize One Another for the Upbuilding of Town and County. job, and that the beef of the future must be grown by the soil tiller and not the cattle baron, who is rapidly passing away. Whether the packers are right or not in the diagnosis of the high cost of living, what they say of beef for future consumption is true. Even Texas, the once great home of the long-horned steer and the cowboy, is undergoing such a transformation that Some delvers into the mysteries of the evolution of man now the old-time “ cow-puncher” would not recognire it. The small claim that the human race originally began life in the form of farm is doing away with the round-up in the Lone Star state, and what is true in Texas is also true of several of the northern states. trees. There are enough “ sticks” left to bear out the theory. Every live stock expert will say that the under-production of cattle is to blame for the high standard o f living costs. Agricul The St. Paul man who started on a 40-day fast in an attempt tural college experts recognize that the packers are presenting to prove that his mind was superior to his body lost out. A man facts and are urging the farmers of the middle west and west to who would attempt such an experiment hasn’t any mind to start buy more feeders and go into the cattle raising business on a witb. larger scale. It is said the average farmer markets not more than one or two steers a year, when he could just as easily feed a dozen Of course Uncle Sam must pause long enough to say that he’s or so and make as much money as in any other way of disposing strictly neutral, but he’s too busy harvesting his crops right now of the crops he raises. One of the best posted live stock growers to give very much attention to the excitement over there except in the west recently said: "The production of live stock is going during the brief period between supper and bedtime. to grow, instead of going back, as the last few years have shown, because the farmer and the small ranchman finally have realized If they all get into the fight they must ull be fed, and it looks the profit there is in raising livestock— especially as contrasted pretty much like that is just what is going to happen. This will against truck farming. The generous price paid for stock in the leave United States the one big world’s commissary from which open market, combined with the work of the agricultural colleges to draw the army bacon and hardtack, and if our supply doesn’t toward this end, have helped convince the farmer he would better change his tactics and reap the profit in the field of growing more grow popular in demand it will be a very strange thing. live stock.” What this expert says is a mighty good tip to the farmers of this There is no use of any one complaining these days about not community. Grow more live stock and you will make more being able to get work. There is more work than there are men m o n e y . _______________________________________ —and wages are high. One hundred and fifty men were shipped attendance o f 00 per cent. A good de out of Portland Saturday on railroad work, and several hundred gree team Is also a feature. are wanted who cannot be gotten. The railroads have distributed Little Beaver grange, locuted at Enon circulars saying that a total of 27,740 men are wanted in the Valley, purchased a church building harvest fields of North Dakota and Minnesota. More than that with over two sen's of ground attach Conducted by number are wanted in other sections to harvest the crop. When ed for 6003. the alterations on each cost J. W. DARKOW, Chatham, N. Y.. ing $50. The tncmbeiishlp list Includes Editor of the New York ¡State G ra n ge you hear a man complaining about not being able to get work, lltvie 10 155, und everybody Is much alive. Just set it down that that man wouldn’t work if he had the chance. THE GRANGE LIVE WESTERN GRANGE. With the present war clouding nearly all o f Europe, the policy of President Wilson and Secretary of State Bryan to do all pos sible, with honor, to avoid any such lamentable consequences for this country, comes out in a different light before the Ameri can people, especially so when their products are so likely to be in extraordinary demand at unlimited prices. It is always best to let the other fellow do the fighting, whether it be by words or deeds. The United States now has the chance to take her right ful place as the first nation of the world, both on sea and on land, commercially and industrially, and if carping, disloyal citizens will let the head of our government alone, these conditions will be utilized and the prestigage gained. Voters will do well to bear in mind that the Dunniway now at tacking Judge Webster Holmes is the same Dunniway who for so long held up the Portland bridge bonds, keeping that city out of a needed improvement and putting it to many thousands of dollars of needless expense. Judge Holmes took one share of stock in the Tillamook Hotel Company, the concern over which controversary has been waging, as any loyal citizen would to help along a needed public enterprise, and disposed of that share as soon as he could find some one to take it off his hands. If that can designate him as an interested party, we fail to see it. lie surely was not interested to the extent o f financial gain for him- Belf, as was probably Dunniway In the bridge matter. Its Committee Establishes Publio Free MarkeL In the discussions o f the advan tages of marketing direct to the con turner, In order to reduce the high cost of living and to give the farmer a little better price for his produce, only rarely do we And granges or other farmers' organizations that combine talk with notion. In Washington state there Is a Pomona grange that Is dif ferent In this respect At a meeting of that grange It was decided that something should be done about estab lishing a grange free market A com mittee was appointed In the forenoon, and while the rest were eating their lunch, presumably, tills committee went out and reuted a vacant lot In the central part of the city and re ported to the grange. On the follow ing Saturday six fanners’ teams ap peared at that market placo with loads of fresh garden stuff, eggs, butter, etc. They offered their goods for aboHt 23 tier cent less than the merchants were getting. For a long tlmo the mer chants tried to combat tile fnrmers' market by reducing their prices for the mnrket days. But this did not last long. The fnrmers kept at It. and when fall came they leased an old building In the center of the city, as the city would not build n suitable innrket building, and In It construct«! seventeen stalls or booths, and this structure was by no means large enough. Another mnrket will be es j tabllshed If it has not been already. The scheme has been a notable suc cess. Two mnrket days a week were established, and there many house keepers o f the city go with their market baskets mid replenish their larders, for nliout everything can there be found that Is raised on tlio farm. There are hundreds of small cities where the same Idea can lie worked out just os successfully, and there are granges that can do It If only they go about I t It Is a simple matter to eolvo this problem o f eliminating the middleman. In numerous Instances, when It Is gone about In the right way. The only way to do some things Is to do them. In spite of the criticisms continually hurled at Senator Chamber lain in an endeavor to defeat him, notice that when some public improvement is needed, Chamberlain Is the one requested to se cure it. Why are not the services of Hepresentative Hawley asked for once in awhile? Simply for the good and sufficient rea son that Chamberlain is known as a man who will deliver the gooils, if it is possible for any one to do so, while it is also well known that Hawley has no influence and cannot bring anything o f a public good to a successful issue for the benefit of those in terested. The greatest folly that our section could commit Just now would be to send an inexperienced, untrained and unac quainted man to take George Chamberlain’s place in Washington. He is recognized as one of Oregon's most prominent men; he has made for himself a national fame and has achieved for Oregon and the northwest more than any other one senator. For the work he has done he has been honored exceptionally by the senate, by national bodies and by many big eastern states and civic societies. In justice for what he has done for us, he should be returned by and overwhelming majority, showing that Oregon recognizes and appreciates good work well done and is not blind and dominated by party ride to such an extent as to refuse to A GOOD PROGRAM. further profit by the same. With Chamberlain once more a senator and a good, pushing man in Hawley’s seat, Oregon will An Outline For Papers and Diecue* profit by the chunges to be made in our national plans In the near eions on "The Soil.1* future. FlrsL—ltomauces of the soil. Its hi» Hemlock grange, at Buck Hun, Co lumbia county, reorganized last No vember with sixty members, has bought a lot. upon which It is erecting a two story hall with busement under neath. W. !•'. Hill, a past master of the state grange, has announced his can didacy fur senatorial nomination In the Blair Huntington district At a meeting of the executive com mittee held In Harrisburg the commit tee after considering the places pro posed for bolding the next state grange meeting decided to hold It In the city of Meadvllle, Crawford county, at the regular time In December next In connection with the Meadvllle meeting there will he a big exhibit of labor saving machinery and devices for the housekeepers. North Ghent grange, Ulster, Pa., has a debating team composed o f Miss Edna Panel, Veru Struble and Ira Hol comb. The Lockport (N. Y.) grange Institut ed a membership contest last year, of fering n trip to-Ithaca with expenses paid for farmers' week. During the year the membership was more than doubled. Lorkport grange is only a two-year-old. hut It has won first prize at the Niagara county fair both years at Its entry. THE GRANGE Conducted by J. W. DARROW. Chatham, N. Y.. Editor of the New York State Grange R e v it* BAY STATE GRANGES. Massachusetts Patrons Arrange For Bird Field C ’ y and Confsrsncs. The lecturer o f the Massachusetts state grange, Mrs. George S. Ladd, has announced a bird field day for July 28 at the farm of J. H. Noble. Pitts field, Mass. The State Audubon so ciety and the state ornithologist will co-operate with the state grange lec turer In the program for this meeting. All kinds of bin) houses will l>e on ex hibition. aud there will be, either at tills meeting or one to be held In Wor cester or possibly both, a bird pageant Si'cakera for the day will tell ninny things about the birds that every mein- lier of the grange and others ss well should know. In July there will tie held st the Msssucliilsetta Agricultural college a New Kuglam) lecturers’ con ference. when It Is exp«'ted that the tory and wbat it rneuua to man. —— — ----------- -7 - Secoml.—Plant food in the soil; wbat national lecturer. Hon. George W. F. MBS. WOODROW WILSON. It Is; how it becomes available; mak Gaunt o f New Jersey, aud Miss Jennie ing It eatable for tlie plant Warmth, Buell, lecturer o f the Michigan state The mother is gone. Her gentle spirit has departed, her tired sunshine, moisture, chemical actiua grange, will be present. All suberdl- nate and Pomona lecturers of New body is at reat. The pain-wrinkled face is smoothed with (he What we mean by unlocking anil ter England will be Invited to be St the Ullty. touch o f death, the delicate hands are folded over the stilled Third.—IIow can nrnllnble plant food cobfereuci' ns well ns the state lectur heart and the stiffened form has been lowered to its last r°|K)se. In tlie soil be moat cheaply provided ers from the New England states. The conference will be held on July She is gone, but to those who called her mother her memorjvis re for use of crop? Belatlre Importance 30; July 31 will be known ss borne- vivified by a thousand tender recollections. Her heavenly mission of Ullage and fertilizers lu making makers' day. and Aug. I will be a state is being perpetuated on earth where bereaved hearts heat painfully plant food available. Conserving mois grange field day. On May 20 a degree and huniua and saving homemude rally took place at Faueull ball, Bos In their desolution, where her influence for good is the antithesis ture manures from waste and loss. ton, when four states and sixty-eight of the sorrow that prevails because of iter laying down the burden Fourth.—To wbat are our different granges were represented. Tw o de of mortality and taking up the robes of Immortality. I noils heat adapted, and what. In view grees were exemplified by a men’ll de ! of markets. can be moet profitably gree staff o f Waltham. Mass., and one She was a womanly woman. She was a motherly mother, a , grown, aud why? by the ladles' degree staff of Shrew, wifely wife and a burden bearer for those she loved. There There was was _____ I ___________ Fifth.—Nuture and treatment of onr bury grange, comprising fifty-one peo- no sacrifice so great she would not make that her family might clays, aanda and ion ms (Ue, all the degrees being Illustrated by be comfortable and happy. She was the "first lady of the land ” 1 Sixth.—How should each he tilled In appropriate tableaux. The subordinate order to secure beat crops aud preserve granges of Massachusetts are many of but she was a mother in all that the term Implies, she was a and Improve the fertility? When and them entering heurtlly Into the comps- woman in every sense of the word. how p low «l and prepared for a crop. i tltlon for prlxee offered by the state She was sympathetic In her life and Godlike in her mlnlstra- How treated while the crop grows. grange tor beet community service dur What are your most efficient aud im ing the year. Much vslnsble construc tlons. She had no ambitions but to promote the happiness and portant tools for toll working? tive work Is being done this see win by well-being of her husband and daughters, and the less fortunate Seventh.—Chemical, mechanical and the Bay Suta granges under the lead In Ufe. She was for the home first and society afterward. She bacterial agencies In the soil. ership of the efficient state lecturer. believed that society was safe-guarded in the home, and not the' home in society. . . . . . . ... ... HMSl P e n n s y lv a n ia G r a n g e N o te*. Oxford grange la very much site* It recently initiated a class of eighteen * nd ■ building which wui She is gone in the body, but her spirit will ever dwell and abide in the hearts of those she loved an d cherished. No higher tribute can be paid her than by saying that she was only a mother__only, ** Conv*r,od 10,0 * «range home. a w om an "l Lawsvllla grange. Susquehanna coun ty. with 1U members, has an avrngs t Prayer Beads. Judging from tlie number o f strings of orieutal prayer heeds seen In the dis plays there Is a decided vogue for them. They are gorgeous affairs, with beads o f translucent rich colors sad a gay silk tassel OuUh LINED GOWNS. Mad« With Stripes Running In Many Different Directions. C h ild re n Cry for Fletcher’s Good form MOKNIJCO DRESS. Fourth of July Entertaining. For reasons seasonable as well as patriotic Independence day is the holi day par excellence of the ceuntry house and the one to which the summer time hostess brings her very heat effort The weather may be too warm for active sports, hut plenty of charming ones o f the quieter sort may be In augurated to make the occasion all It should be, with cooling temperance beverages, flowers In abundance, and the stars and stripes everywhere In evidence. Dinner will probably he enjoyed at a specially decorated table, and for this feast the military suggestion Is well worth thinking about. The centerpiece might be a toy cannon arranged upon a bed o f red, white and blue flowers, having bostdo It u little heap of spe cially prepared cannon balls which con tain glfta for the diners. Or secure a small toy drum, paint on each drumhead the date of our out break for liberty's cause and place the drum In the center of the table on Its side, allowing the drumheads to show. From the top rise three or four pretty silk flags. The favors are little baskets containing candy firecrackers, the han dle of each basket decorated with very tiny flags. Now all nlong the edge of the table, whether square or round. Just below the line marked by the fall o f the cloth, sew a border of flags ei ther o f silk, paper or cotton, as desired, and on every alternating one of these write the name o f the guest who will occupy that particular seat. Dress designers have a remarkable penchant for muktug the lines o f the fabric diverge at eccentric angles. The j little morning costume pictured here Includes a hemstitched batiste blouse and skirt of white pique. The skirt bus two tunics, with the lines running Agreeing With Everybody. In opposite directions, while on the Many people have nowadays the skirt they take still a third direction. habit of agreeing with everything one says. I t doesn't matter on what yon give an opinion, a book, a play, an MONOGRAMMED TOWELS. event o f current interest, they appear to agree with you In everything. Prob Those of Turkish Toweling Conven ably when somebody else gives a quite ient For tho Fastidious Bather. opposite opinion they affect to agret Bath towels adorned with the mono with them too. gram of the owner and with a wash It may be politeness on their part. rag to match are shown In the shops. I but one hates to meet people who seem They are of Turkish toweling, and | to have no minds o f their own. And they are convenient for use at the sea It mnkes sane. Intelligent conversa shore, where the towels found In the tion next door to Impossible. People who frankly differ from one. who, without being bumptious or argu mentative, have opinions of their own about things and are not nfraid to say so, are much more interesting. It Is so much more stimulating to meet them, and one can enjoy a talk with them so much better than with people who are too ready to agree. M O N O O RAAIU ED TO W E LS. Tlie Kind Yuu Have Always Bought, and which has been lu use iur over HO years, has borne the signature of _/? - and has been made under his per- /W sonal supervision since Its Infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. A ll C o u n t e r f e i t s , Imitations and “ .lust-us-good ” are but Experiments t h a t trille with and emlunger the health of J niants and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTO RIA Castorla is a harmless substitute for Castor OU, P a re» gorlc, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It Is pleuaunt. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narco tie substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms nml allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years it lias been In constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic, uU Teething Troubles and Diarrhoea. It regulates the Htomaeh and Bowels, assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural (deep. The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend, GENUINE CASTORIA ( ALWAYS J Bears the S ig n a tu re o f The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For O ver THI U E e C NTAU m COMP ANY 30 Years NSW YOBK CITV. H BATISTE FROCK. Quaint Design Suitable For ths Small Girl's Summer Wardrobe. The Pnrialennes are wearing these high combs Instead of giant aigrettes or ospreys. They arrange them co- quettisbly at the side o f the head. Jut ting out beyoud the colls of hair, aud In some eases the carved designs are outlined with delicate silver filigree Apropos of evening headdress natural hair Is once more coming into fashion. Powder und (latches may continue to be worn, but only by the less conserv ative women. How to Eat Asparagus. How to eat asparagus. This Is • problem as tremendous as bow to eat an orange. Ivan Heald In tbe London Express, gives some advice on the point •Beat one elbow,” he says, “on the cloth and wrap one leg around tbe leg of tbe table so as to prevent overbal ancing. Grip the asparagus and rub Its neck In tbe melted butter. Before It has time to make up Its mind which way It will wobble swing tho asparagus off Its feet and wuggle It In the air to test Its pliability. Then open your mouth and make a feint at biting your stalk In the small uf the back. “Ten to one the asparagus will try to dodge by doubling up. You get him as his head cou.es down, nnd there you are. “ Never In the excitement o f the strug gle be tempted Into biting tbe aspsra- gus below the belt. It's not playing tbe game, and. besides. It gives the stalk a fine opportunity to whip around with a left hook to the eur." Managing a Surprise Party. A young correspondent wants sugges tions for a surprise party. Often sur prises are far from welcome, but If some one of the family Is taken Into confidence the affair can generally be managed with satisfaction to all. I.et each girl prepare a basket or box of luncheon for twu. Just as dulntlly as possible. On arriving pile their boxes lu one place. After tlie surprise Is over try some good games, then blind fold one boy at a time and let him select a basket or box and stand In line with his trensure unopened. After all are supplied each one Is to hnve three guesses to determine which girl prepared the refreshment. When part ners are found go to the dining room, where doubtless some willing member o f tbe family will have arranged a pretty table. ordinary bathhouses are Dot to be con That Girlish Hat. sidered by fastidious women. The Re sure that your clothes salt not monograms are stumiied on one end of only your style, but your age. Seeing the towel. Embroidered monograms a stout, florkl and elderly materfamll- are out of place on Turkish toweling, las, quite oblivious of the fitness of and a stenciled monogram may be sub things, wearing one of those girlish stituted by the woman who likes to Watteau bats liberally decked with decorate her own towels. pink roses, a man who was engaged In mending the streets along which she The Age Test. was passing paused—It was doubtless All sorts of tests are given for de one o f the many pauses that go to termining the age and quality of a make up tbe day’s work—and after re fowl. Dark looking birds are not garding her flx «lly drew n fellow toil apt to be freshly killed ones. Freshly er’s attention to the entrancing vision k ill«! poultry has full, bright eyes and with the words, “ W ot oh, Bill” —be moist, pliable fe e t I f the eyes are really didn’ t mean to make n pun— dry and sunken and the feet and legs “ wot price Is mutton dressed as lamb are stiff It Is evidence that the fowl this spring, eh?” is not so fresh as It might be. The neck Is the first part of the fowl to A Homemade Toy. discolor. A young fowl will have pin Did you ever see boys walk on stilts? feathers, and the eud o f tlie breast bone will bend when pressed with tbs It looks like dangerous sport, but it Is Anger. Old fowls have long hairs and not after you have a little practice. In a bard breastbone. The skin on the fact, you can take rapid strides with legs will he scaly aud thick und tough. them, as do the shepherds In the des Old fowls are suitable only for ert o f Laudes. In the south o f France. boiling. The cold meat from the boil They can run. Jump, hop and dance on ed fowl may be made up Into many them with ease and security. When tempUng forms. Tbe ancient bird. It they stand on the stilts they can watch tbelr flock, their feet being protected subjected to the boiling process fot from the water during the winter nnd awhile before It is put Into the oven, tbe hot sands In summer. In addition may often be roasted with fairly satg to the stilts, they use a long staff, fnctory results. which they carry In their hands. This forms the third leg when they require New York Grange News. rest Rev. Charles A. Pusey addressed a To make stilts procure two poles large meeting of grangers at Canandai about six or seven feet long and nail gua ou “The Modern llural Communi on a strap of leather about one-third ty and Its Development’ from the bottom of eech. Into these Degrees were conferred on a class ad • the feet are placed, the poles being sixty six on May 10 at Victor grange kept In a proper position by the bands by the degree teem of Newark, consist and moved forward by the action of ing o f twenty-six members. An Inter the legs. Some Amerlcnn boys nnll on esting exhibition drill was also given wooden supports for tlie feet to rest by tbe team. upon Instead of the leather straps. The Wyoming grange has started an agricultural, poultry and flower con Growing Things. test among Its young people, with B. Oh. I am a child of the country, and 1 love D. Jones, district superintendent of not the cities srlm! schools, as chairman o f tbe committee M y h e e rt la s k in to th e wild th in gs and th e w o o d lan d s v a s t and dim. In charge. th e w inde and th e brook m a k e m u Eureka grange, at Lyons, celebrated W h e re ele and. fa in t fro m hla cool retreat. Its fortieth tnnlverasry on Jane 3. Com ee the v o ice o f th e th ru sh at even In a m ad rig al w ild and s w e e t Cohocton grange hie remodeled Its ball. On tbe eecood floor ta tbe aseem Oh. I am a child o f th e co u n try , and th e My room, and tbe lower floor Is fitted o rch ard kn o w s m y tread tor entertainments, baring stage room W hen th e h o u gh s shine w h ite w ith b lo s som s end th e buds lie pink an d red! and other equipment. And hand In hand In th e m oonlight go m y Webster grange celebrated Its thirty- so u l's beloved and I. ton rtb anniversary recently. 460 people A nd w e need no w ords to question, no attending. w ord s 10 m ak e reply Tbe members o f Lyndon vine grange O k. I am a ch ild o f th e co u n try, t a ) I lo r e have purchased 123 tona of fertiliser th e fields a t morn. this spring. W h e re th e a ir com es fresh and fr a g r a n t s o d th e )oy o f th e d a / Is horn. Tbe next state grange meeting will carola th e ch eerfu l robin Is th e lin be held In Oswego In tbe month of Feb- Leud net o v e r th e w ay. reery, 101 & And th e tr o w in g thin gs and the birds and 1 wwlcom s tb s d aw n o f d ay Examinations for tho state grange N leb etas -B t Nicholas. scholarships take place June 20 l < B A T IS T E FROCK. Quaint and old fashioned are the Hues of the frock In figured batiste. Valenciennes and net footing whlcB la Illustrated here. Such a gown would be charming for church and for occa sional Informal parties. There Is no reason why the small girl should not have many replicas o f It In printed crape or voile and In sheer flowered muslins or linens, for It Is easily made. Just a kimono cut upper portion. In cluding bell elbow sleeves banded with Valenciennes nnd edged with footing. Tbe square neck is defined with two bands o f lace Insertion, and so Is the footing edged high waist line simula tion. She wears socks, bows on her sandals, and loops of ribbon hold back her locks above the brow. Care, how ever, must be tuken not to have the loops too large for the face below them. VOGUE FOR COLORS. Rainbow Tints Combined In Necklaces of tho Season. All the colors o f tbe rainbow are to be found In beads nowadays — ptnk, purple, green, yellow, lavender, red, orange and bine. A quaint conceit In necklaces Is the “tango.” which Is a combination o f satin ribbon and bend a Tbe ribbon, about half an Inch In width, la '.ong enough to be drawn around the collar, tied In a small bow with long ends hanging. These ends are festooned In harmonizing or contrasting glass beads The effect Is very chic, and still an other recommendation Is that tbe tie ts very cheap. Most o f the pearls seen nowadays are very excellent Imitations of tbe real thing, so excellent that only an expert can tell tbe difference. Shops which make a specialty of these gems hare so perfected tbelr work that many women who can well afford real pearls prefer to purchase a string of these Imitation Jewels so that they may wear them every day without fear of forfeiting a small fortune should tbs pearls become lost His Majesty’s Fault. In tlie reign of Francis I. o f France quickness of wit was often more promptly rewarded than actual m erit The monk. Regnier Mnlnus. did not lack m erit hut he owed hla first ad vancement nevertheless to a clever re tort Francis, who was very fond of the game o f tennis, wus playing a match one dny with Mnlnus The monk Dual ly ended tbe hard fought game with a brilliant stroke. Tlie king wus somewhat out o f hu mor on account o f his d efeat “ Re markable." be exclaim «! sarcastically, “ to think that such a stroke should be made by a mere monk!” “ But sire,” replied the monk, who wag as quick with bis wtt as be was with his racket “ It ts your majesty's own fault thnt tbe stroke was Dot made by an abbot” A week later Malnus received his ap pointment as abbot o f Bean lieu. — Youth's Companion. Rais and ths Telsphons. While Bell Invented tbe telephone and Edison, Berliner, Marconi and many others have Improved I t tbs true Inventor aDd discoverer of ths principles of telephony was a German sciential to whom too little cradlt has been glven -Ph lllp ReU. In 1901 Rela exhibited a partially articulate electric telegraph at Frankfort and showed that variations In an electric current caused by a vibrating membrane could reproduce tbs necessary vibrations. ReU trarsmltted musical sounds sod even words. ElUht Gray, whose ap plication for s patent on tbs telephone was Died In Washington only a fair hours after Professor Bed's applica tion. Improved ReU’ telephone, hot It U said that neither ReU nor Gray, reaped say financial reward from their inventions-N ew York World. Mount Etna Gives lea as Wail as Firs. Mount Etna can be kind aa well CTO* I eL For half tbe year the great mountain U covered with snow, and supplies of coolness are drawn from thU source In summer by tbe half baked Inhabitants of tbs plains below. A curious dis covery arUlng out o f tbe extreme boat! of 1829 was mads In that yaar. A search being made on the slopes o f the mountain for an additional supply o f snow. It was found that s bugs Held of Ice had been blanketed by lara ta some remote age and thus prevented from melting. It was so greeted by an Spanish Combs. eminent geologist o f ths time that the We have SpsnLsh capes and SpanUb Ice had been formed from a mass o t toques; now * e find tbe high Spanish drift snow, afterward coveted by aa comb the most fashionable hair orna enormous thickness o f Uva, the beat ment of tbe season. Three big combs 1 of which was kept from the snow by ar t wonderfully decoratlv» ____ aa Intervening layer o f mlcaatc hand.
