i savage sperns ail ne has. and th* be-
| ginning of civilization was when the
A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER savage commenced to save. Nowadays
the ’’tightwad’’ Is taboo, and the un-
ESTING ITEMS
lovellness of the saving man Is cele
r«m m rH ta
aud
I r i ll « * l a m a
H aa«4
brated in novel and play. But Is the
I p « in t h e 11 it i-|-«-u I n a « o ( ( h e l ) a j
spender so beautiful to look upon? Are
— l l l a l o r l c a l m id N e w a S a ta a .
his virtues conspicuous, or Is not his
It Is almost too good to be true, but degeneration apparent? By which way
the Irish really seem now In a lair does the Individual develop—by curb
way to get home rule.
ing hts appetites or indulging them,
by self-denial, or self-coddling?
Dr. Wiley says fudge makes girls
fat. The doctor's opinion ought to be
Plscator, that gentle “ brother of the
Interesting to the slim girls.
Angle,” through whose conversation
old Izaak Walton expounded his un
It would be a grand sight to see pretentious philosophy, speaks some
King Edward stand up and tell some where with pity of “ men condemned to
of his advisers where to get off.
be rich.” The quaint phrase sounds
strangely In the ears of a generation
The treasurer of a Pittsburg church ambitious of wealth, which finds its
recently emliezzled $28.000.
Nobody heroes often among Its multimillion
seems to be immune In Pittsburg.
aires.
Under such condemnation,
which of us would not cheerfully
Boston has not joined in the meat fall? Yet It Is a shameful conception
boycott with any enthusiasm, for it of wealth which regards it only as a
must have pork to go with the beans. •means to ease and luxurious living.
The ease It brings Is, or should be,
China Is advancing toward consti only the reward for the heavy responsi
tutional government. But when China bilities It Imposes. The man who is
advances she does not break any speed rich by reason of the great business
laws.
interests he has built up is accountable
A New York man Is busy trying to to the community for the honesty and
breed a tailless cat. We suppose he is usefulness of his service, to his hun
busy at it because he has nothing else dreds or thousands of employes for
such a conduct of the business as will
to do.
assure them of their means of liveli
It has Just been discovered that the hood, to his own conscience for la
earth has existed only 60 , 000,000 years. borious and unremitting attention to
And this country is just beginning to the wearisome details of business man
agement. Too often the loss of leisure,
realize its full possibilities.
health and happiness are the penalty
President Taft’s aunt says he doesn’t he pays for the luxuries he enjoys. The
eat enough. She has a right to her man who Inherits wealth may, indeed,
opinion, though aunts are Inclined to escape these burdens, but he must bat
tle with subtle temptations to selfish
be prejudiced in such matters.
and Ignoble living, and learn with anx
A Los Angeles woman lost $1.160 ious care how to spend his money wise
through a hole In the stocking. She ly and helpfully. If he is able to ac
probably realizes now that a stitch in quit himself honorably, he must often
time sometimes saves more than nine. have the pain of seeing his wealth the
means of the degeneration and ruin of
Speaker Cannon says his dearest his children. If riches be Idly and
wish is to be of use to mankind He viciously employed, what condemna
reserves the right, however, to put his tion can be more bitter? Commodore
own interpretation upon the word Vanderbilt once replied to one who
envied him his wealth, “ I get my board
“use."
and lodging as you do. and that Is all."
Mr. Roosevelt came out of the Afri A plentiful board and luxurious lodg
can jungle with such a long, heavy ing. no doubt, but accompanied by an
beard that It Is doubtful if a male noyances, cares and anxieties from
factor of great wealth would have rec which poorer men were free. Not that
ognized him.
actual indigence Is ever a desirable
thing. The wisdom of the ages is in
One of Billy Sunday's new converts the words of Agur, “Give me neither
stole the revivalist’s overshoes the poverty nor riches.” We speak of be
other night. Probably the revivalist ing "condemned to poverty," and the
believes that this blackslider will need words are apt. Why not also, “ con
asbestos boots later on.
demned to be rich?”
r » •>■■» w h e a t F a k e .
The “Alaska wheat " fake, which has
been pretty thoroughly exposed In the
west, In now attracting attention In
the east. Commenting on the result
of some experiments made by a New
Jersey farmer with this cereal “gold
brick,” the Boston Transcript re
marks: "If the wheat of Alaska can
reclothe our old but still responsive
acres with harvests of the golden
grain. It will be an obligation of no
mean magnitude to be added to what '
we already owe her tor past and po
T h e !■: k p e r I m e n t a l P l o t .
Every farmer should have, and easi- tential yields of gold and copper, lum
small experimental plot ber and coal." Unfortunately for the
testing the soil and dif responsive acres which are awaiting
ferent crops.
No farmer can ever the coming of Alaska wheat, that fa
know the highest capacity of his soil mous cereal has been repeatedly ex
j till he has fertilized a small portion posed as a fraud. Its latest previous
of his land very heavily with a com- appearance in the limelight was in
Idaho, and the Saturday Evening
P ie t s balanced mixture of fertilizers,
CHINA SHOWING HEB TEETH.
It Is of little use to preach economy to those who can
planted the very best of seed, and Post, by giving It a page of praise,
HE military awakening in Cbtua is already afford the cost of high living. It is noticeable that the
having its effect in a stiffening of the millionaires who condemn extravagance do not give up | given the crop, or crops, extra good brought It to the attention of scien
Many farmers hear or tists and agricultural experts, with the
Chinese national vertebrae. China has in their trips to Europe, or their automobiles, or their j cultivation.
read of 100 bushels of corn to the result that the government issued a
the railroad matter a disposition to defy clubs, or their elegant munslons. If they would devote
acre, or several hundred dollars an fraud order which prohibited the Ida
both Japan and Russia, and Ruasiun diplo their capital to promoting agriculture and cattle breed
acre made in growing special crops, ho promoters circulating any liter*
mats are expressing more concern for fu ing and to aiding willing workers to start gardening
ture possibilities of war with China than and small farming, they would do more in a year to | and do not believe that It is possible. ture regarding It.
They do not believe It because they
with Japan. One of the latest and most significant in reduce the cost of food than they could do In a lifetime
T o P r e v e n t F e e d H o ttin g .
have never done half so well on their
dications of this awakening Is the recent invasion of of talk.—Farmers' Tribune.
So many horses,
especially nervy
own land, but they never put half the
Thibet by a fully equipped modern army of 25,000 men,
amount of fertilizers, nor half as good drivers, get In the habit of gulping
sent by the Chinese government to assert the absolute
THE PRIZE CORN GROWER.
In great mouthfuls.
j seed, nor half as good cultivation, to their feed down
sovereignty of China over the land ruled by the Lamas.
HO was it said, “Shoemaker, stick to your | the crops they grew. Try an acre, or
Here is a device
The army has taken possession of Lhassa, and the
last?” Well, anyhow, this is along that
that I have found
even a half aero, of ground on your
Dalai Lama has fled to India for refuge, and has been
line. John R. Overstreet of Franklin coun
very convenient
own farm 'his coming season and see
given an official residence by the British, where he is
ty, Indiana, has stuck to growing corn all
and effective In
what results can be had from It. Be
being treated with great outward respect as the head
his life. Some years ago he realized that
preventing f e e d
gin now to fertilize and do not stop
of the Buddhist religion.
bolting. The feed
he was growing the best corn in his State.
till the piece of land Is as fertile as
Only a few years ago, had China made such a move,
Is put into a hop
it can well be made with at least
That was merely a spark to the fuel of his
following such an expedition as the British sent into
per ( b ) outside
three different kinds of fertilizing mat
Thibet, she would have been quickly called to account, ambition. Why not grow the best corn In the country,
the manger, and
ter. Prepare the land In the very best
but times have changed. The day for jumping upon in the world? Three or four years ago the National Corn
Is allowed to run
manner, use the best seed, and give a
China for every little thing has passed. In time China Association was organized. They held the first national
dozen cultivations. You will surprise into the manger box (a) In a thin
will do a little Jumping herself. If civilized nations do corn exposition in Chicago. An Indiana farmer got first
yourself with results.—Journal of strea-m. The size of this stream is reg
not busy themselves to see that she awakes without prize. Mr. Overstreet waxed wroth. So he studied and
Agriculture.
ulated by the slide (c ), and It Is Im
dreams of conquest stimulated by religious hostility.— worked, Improved his seed and planted the best kernels.
possible for the horse to get more feed
This year he grew the best ten ears of corn ever raised
» r a n M ash.
St. Louis Star.
in the world. The Indiana Corn Growers' Association
Can you make a bran mash? Like in his mouth at one time than he can
A CONDITION AND NOT A THEORY.
coffee, mashed potatoes and a few of easily masticate.—Farm and Home.
gave him a $1,000 silver cup. “ Shoemaker, stick to your
the everyday things, the average fur-
HE boycott of meats and other high-priced last!” Mr. Overstreet Is a farmer. He says so. He
T h e W h e a t S itu a tio n .
foods which started with such a blare of lives a quiet life on his farm, Is a man of considerable [ nlshed Is not of good quality. To
Th© high prices which our farmer«
make a bran mash, take a clean
trumpets early in the year, seems to have culture and will never, he says, exchange his rustic life
bucket, well scalded out, and put In have run up for wheat iiave stimulat
completely collapsed. Meats are higher, for the cliff-dwelling, money-grubbing of urban resi
j the measure of bran. Then pour Into ed the cultivation of the grain
In some localities, than ever. Butter and dence.—Leslie’s Weekly.
j the center, stirring all the time, scald- wherever It is possible to raise it.
eggs, which fell temporarily in price with
[ ing water enough to make It moist. Last year Chile produced 19,000„000
the turning loose of the cold storage ac
THE
LONG
HATPIN
NO
JOKE.
| Cover It closely while hot with a blan bushels, and was encouraged by the
cumulations, are soaring again. Grains have undergone
ket. and let It stand three or four results to sow many more acres this
some fluctuations, but the tendency seems to be toward
OME of the women who wear projecting
hours, until cold. There are many year. Experimental stations of the
hatpins doubtless still consider the agita
a higher range. Many standard articles of food are
times when a cow or horse Is sick Chilean government are distributing
tion against them is a joke. Albert Pub
really no higher than they have been for years, but
and weak, and needs a bran mash. The the best varieties of seeds among the
nam, a street railway conductor in Spring-
the boycott or talk of boycott, seems not to have bad
field. Mass., doesn't think it a joke. While
the slightest effect upon fheir selling price. It is to be
THREE-HORSE HITCH.
he was collecting fares a woman passenger
presumed that thousands of people did stop eating meat
turned her head quickly and drove the
for a while, and that many other thousands reduced
their daily consumption. Indeed, many are compelled point of her eighteen-inch pin cleun through his ear.
to do so, regardless of sentiment, because their Incomes One woman at least In Chicago has had an eye put out
do not fit the meat prices. But the trouble seems to by such a pin under just such circumstances. A sud
H - , ; 4 . * ~ " R ...............~ ,
be that the available supplies are Inadequate to meet the den movement of the wearer of the pin, a sudden jerk
I
of the street car or elevator and the damage is done.
demand, much as the demand may have fallen off.
MURDERERS GO SCOT FREE.
People take greater risks every day of their lives
The outcome of the so-called food boycott shows how
g .......... 11
Inadequate all such demonstrations are to meet the sit from other things than hatpins. But that isn't the
ft
S t a r t lln jf S h o w in g o f C r im e
th e
point.
The
hatpin
risk
is
stupid,
needless
and
reckless.
uation when It is a condition and not a theory that
3
I 'n l t e d S t a t e « .
£
It
imperils
eyes,
and
one
single
human
eye
is
worth
confronts us. It Is a case that requires not talk so
An Indictment against the police in
This
arrangement
enables
one
horse
to
walk
in
the
furrow
when
more
than
all
the
dagger
hatpins
in
the
world.
No
much as hard work and careful planning. People will
efficiency of general America, so sweep
ploughing and two on the unploughed land. The length is marked on each
eat. and eat what they like, when they can get. it. The woman with any regard for other .people's rights would
ing and stinging as to be almost
of the parts. The draught chain must be set well toward the left of the
only way to make food cheaper Is to raise more of it. wear one. No woman who does wear one Is entitled to
breathtaking, is made by Hugh C.
As a rule, competition will serve to keep down the cost any complaint If the city finds a good legal means of
head of the plough.
Weir in the World To-Day. His sum
of production and distribution within reasonable limits. stopping her.—Chicago Record-Herald.
mary of statistics of American crime la
usual proceeding Is to use any old farmers. If American farmers keep
a revelation. While the sources of his
bucket and some hot water. A hand- down their production to hold up
an accident insurance policy,” said Mr.
Information are not given, they are
WORLD IS CHANGEFUL.
j ful of bran Is stirred Into a slop, and, prices they may find they had such a
Halloran, breathing heavily. “ I towld
evidently reliable, and the Inference at
you and him both you might call In E v e n th e S t a t e l y C o lo n 1« J o s t le d scalding hot. Is put under the sick good thing that they tempted all the
least is that they are official. It will
O u t o f i l l » n i i c h t f u i P la c e .
animal's nose, only to be rejected. It world into It and broke up the snap.
again, and he come flrrst, day befoor
startle the casual reader, familiarized
In the days when the masters of j should be cool, or cold, and only moist —New York Press.
yistherday, and I Insured wid bis com
as he may be with criminal reports, to
stateliness and noble style were still j enough to hold together when pressed
pany.
learn that ten thousand people are
M a k ln ir G o o d B u tt e r .
“That very night I met up wid Bar respected, the colon was a power In ! In the hand. Then add a little salt,
murdered In the United States every
The best butter Is made from cream
ney Casey on the way home, which was the land. To-day we know him not, and It Is relished by the sufferer,
year, and that of the murderers but
collected about the same time. Mixing
Tea Is more beneficial if made with what I was expecting wud happen,” save rarely, says the New York Even California Cultivator.
two in every hundred are punished,
cream from three or four days' sklm-
-------------
continued Mr. Halloran, raising him ing Post, and then not in his rightful '■
the other ninety-eight escaping scot hard water.
mlngs Is what makes tbe texture of
Electric cables with hemp cores to self by grasping the arms of his chair service. True, he may be found in ; H o w to F a » t e a M a lle t H a n d le a .
free. Compare this showing with oth-
The old method of fastening mallets butter uneven and the flavor poor.
er ’‘civilized countries” and note our j »ab® up the strain more evenly are a with two capable although scarred conjunction with the dash: but the
position:
¡Swedish Invention.
hands, “and whin we'd finished wid dash is a supine rascal, indeterminate to handles by boring a hole through Keep the different sklmmings sepa
hesitating, and not fit company for :he head and Inserting a wedge from rate, and churn them separately, as
Percentage of | Electric power Is used on 3,286 miles one another I was like this!
“ Yistherday morning 1 sent for the one who was wont to be a very pillar the outside may be superseded by a far as possible. This requires some
Convictions, of street railways in Great Britain to
United States ................................... 2 148 operated by other means.
Insurance chap, and says 1 to him, for strength In the temple of letters new way that makes the tool much more work, but it makes better but
ter. If several skimmings are mixed,
England ............................................... 50
According to official estimates, the ! ^-°ok at me. I says, 'and istimate the There Is something deeply pathetic
stir the mixture well when cream is
in the silent passing of this grand old
France .................................................. 61 value of the diamonds yet in the damages and pay them.’
Italy
added.
"He squirmed right out o’ the door, fellow, after all his noble record. But
Spain
!ss ground In German South Africa Is
All cream should be frequently
the world has changed: and the colon
saying 'twas no accident I'd had.
Germany ..............................................95 J $250,000,000.
stirred when ripening In order to
"Now If meeting wid Barney Casey, has passed with the minuet. It Is
Though backed by so eminent an au- j Mrs. Amanda \V. Reed, of Portland,
make the ripening progress evenly
afther keeping out o’ his way for six the age of the scrawling comma or
thority, this statement seems incred- ! Or e - bequeathed $2,000,000 to establish
through tbe mass. Always skim milk
months, is no accident. I'm done wtd hurried dash; or, If we do rise to the
ible, but Mr. Weir declares It is proved a college in Portland, to be known as
before it becomes coagulated.
| Insurance companies, and the sooner height of the semicolon, that is but
|
by criminal statistics, and adds that the Reed Institute.
you l’ave this house the betther 'twill half a colon, after all, and not to be
in Georgia only one murderer in one
A shovel with high sharp sides and plaze me."
S t r a w In M a n u r e .
compared with the fine old figure which
hundred is punished, though the rec- with a hinged blade that lifts away
Owing to Its abundance, straw Is
served to buttress the great phrases ol
ords show that that State has pro- from the front, has been patented by
added to barnyard manure, but It ran
the masters. In the average book ol
duced forty-five annual homicides, or a New Jersey resident to cut and lift
the present one will not find a single neater and one tr.at conceals the be made more serviceable If made fine
more than the whole British Empire.
sods
colon used for Its original and chlel wedge and eliminates all possibility of with the feed cutter before being used.
This Is appalling to contemplate. But
purpose. Either the curt period breaks the head flying eff as the wedge can While straw may soon rot after being
Apples are greater luxuries in New
to bring It still nearer borne to our York than oranges.
In. or the limp comma makes Its In not come out. This new way Is to mixed with manure, yet In a fine con
While single
bore a hole the size of the handle and dition It is a much better absorbent
sensibilities. Mr. Weir submits statis oranges of the finest variety can be
Was It not Pomona of "Rudder effectual protest against aimless per
three-fourths the distance through the and can be forked Into the manure
tics of cost and a comparison which Is bought for 5 cents, the best apples
Grange” who was surprised to learn petulty. One can fancy our gallant
bead, then cut a slot In th» handle with advantage. When loading and
as new as It is effective. He says we are being sold for 12 cents each.
that British peers do not wear their old colon fleeing from the tumult ol
pay annually for crime—that Is, In
The proposal Is once more made that coronets In the street as other people linotype and multiple press. He must ind Insert a wedge as shown In figure spreading manure there Is a saving of
property stolen and destroyed, and In the Bank of England shall issue £1 wear hats? One cannot even be sure have gazed regretfully at the coming 1. Put the wedge end Into the hole labor when handling that which Is
the eost of police, courts, jails and notes, and among financiers there Is that a member of the nobility will of all these strange, awkward crea bored In the head and drive It In. fine, and the manure will be more val
Hts When the wedge touches the bottom uable because the loss of ammonia
penal Institutions—the enormous total likely to arise keen controversy as to wear
fashionable
and
expensive tures to the composing room.
of $1.373,000.000. This Is made more the probable effects of such an issue. clothes. The aclual appearance of a was the day of small clothes, lace and nf the hole (Fig. 2) it will be driven will be arrested by the use of suitable
absorbent materials.
appreciable by the comparison:
The catch of fish In Canadian waters lord is sometimes disappointing. Says snuffbox. He lingered, indeed. In com Into the split of the handle, thus forc
Cost of crim e .................... $1,373.000.000 by Canadian fishermen, including seals a London correspondent of Town and pany with the splendid makers ol ing the sides out and making a tight
T l m o t h r a n d B lu e G ra »».
English In the middle of the nineteenth fit.— Popular Mechanics.
National debt .................... 964,000,000 and all fish products, in 1908, was Country:
While the meadow fescue or Eng
Wheat crop, 1908 ............. 755,000,000 valued at $25.451,085. The Industry
I stood In the crowd In Hyde Park century: but having done that, he
F a r m e r « a n d A a to a .
Coal mined, 1908 ............
350.000.000
could do no more. And now he is
lish blue grass Is largely a Kansas
Wool crop, 1908 ..............
298,000,000 required a fishing fleet of 14,114 ves last Sunday with one of the wild-men almost forgotten by his erstwhile asso
The number of automobiles owned product, where the seed often goes
sels.
peers who had come to town to vote
by farmers Is growing rapidly. Out twenty bushels to the acre, a great
That crime and wickedness are on, m
...
,,
.
.
against the budget. This peer was an elates In the printer’s case.
the Increase Is shown by the fact that I Thoush the accldents
»>e "fe e ls
of 10,000 autor In Iowa, 5,000 are deal of timothy Is grown In Idaho and
Irishman.
He
had
not
been
in
London
S o m e D o o m in g ; T o w n « .
owned by farmers. Kansas farmers some of the middle western states,
‘there are four and a half times as j of New York are increasing in num for many years, but had lived a bucol
If we are to take the growth of cities spent $3,200,000 for automobiles dur like Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and
many murders for every million of our ber. the proportion of fatalities is ic existence in the Interior of Galway.
population to-day as there were twen growing less. Out of the last seven He had allowed the fashions to pass and towns in the Dominion of Canada ing 1909, and $2,750,000 in 1908. In Iowa, the southeast corner of the lat
ty years ago.” We undoubtedly lead teen thousand accidents, 1,200 were him by unnoticed, and he looked like represented by the provinces of Mani one Nebraska town of 800 population, ter state being especially productive
classified as serious.
toba, Alberta and Saskatchewan there forty autos were sold last year to
the world In crime as in other things.
It Is harvested about the middle ol
There are only half as many opium a country tradesman up for a holiday. Is a wonderful fulure tor some of farmers near the town. Careful esti
Without suggesting an efficient rem
July and thrashed with a common sep
He
was
interested
In
the
vociferous
dens
in
China
as
there
were
eighteen
them.
Winnipeg,
the
largest
city.
In
mate
0f
the
number
of
automobiles
edy. otherwise than tnferentially, Mr,
arator.
talk of a wild-eyed man who was de-
Weir attributes the startling condition mon,h" n*° «
now dlmcult t0 b,ly I claiming, almost frothing at the eight years has Increased from 42.00« owned by farmers In the entire United
D lv e r iH I r d F a r m in g S p r r a -lln g .
to
140,000.
States
is
76,000.
to general police Inefficiency. More °Ptum' exi pPt by lt,en8P' wh,rh Ppr- ' mouth, against the wicked lords.
Other places for the past eight years
----------
Diversified farming Is fast redeem
than half of hi. stirring paper Is de- "',,s “ 8 ™°k
<
L
r
*
,?
y
“*
T
Vi"
I!
We
stood
near
the
front
row.
The
Deep plowing.
ing agriculture. Even the Western
voted to a scathing denunciation of po drams. Each license costs 10 cents speaker grew louder and louder, ges show this expansion: Calgary, from
4.900 to 29,300; Edmonton, fronj 2.600
Results of experiments at the Kan-
lice methods, including the more or and is good for three months.
ticulating furiously, and pointing oy to 25,000; Regina, from 2.200 to 13.- sae station show that deep plowing (8 people are finding out that crop rota*
Historic pageantry In England has
tlon Is more remunerative than the
less mysterious and mythical “ third de
accident at the peer.
500; Branden. from 5,600 to 13.000; to 10 Inches) tends to Increase the
gree." He holds political influence to not yet outworn Its novelty and Mr.
“ Down with the House of Lord«! Saskatoon, from 113 to 12.200; Moose number of soil bacteria In both sandy one-crop method of (arming. Diversi
Lascelles,
master
of
the
pageants
at
fied farming and stock raising will re
a measure of responsibility and as
Down with the tyrants!
They are
serts that "75 per cent of the crim Oxford and Bath and the tercentenary enemies of the country! They are Jaw. from 1,600 to 12,000; Lethbridge, and silt soils. Deep plowing tends to deem the West as It has the prosper»
from 2.100 to 10,000: Prince Albert. Increase bacterial activity. More am ous part of the East.
celebrations
at
Quebec,
Is
now
organiz
inals arrested • • • In the red-light dis
doomed! ”
from 1.800 to 7.000; Portage la Prairie, monta is produced.
Deep plowing
tricts of New York are freed by the ing a London pageant to take place \ These choice epithets, intended to
from 4.000 to 7,000; Fernie, from 1,900 tends to decrease denltrlncation of the
from
May
to
July,
of
this
year,
at
the
j
O b je c t o f S o il C o l l a r « .
ward politicians.”
apply
generally
to
the
House
of
Lords,
to 5.300; Medicine Hat, from 1.600 to reduction of nitrate and the liberation
Cultivation of the soli 1s not merely
And at least inferentlally he lays Crystal palace. In which 15,000 araa were taken by cny Irish friend to ap
5,000.
of free nitrogen.
done to kill weeds, but It Is a moisture
much of th. blame at the door, of tpu"
U? i .
Z ™ 8 array ? [
amateurs Is divided Into groups. At ply to him, and being an Irishman, ne
In these places $47.000.000 has been
conservator; makes the soil more por
Intemperance. Out of 786.000 arrests
resented It.
W h e r e P fk o ltry P a y « .
the first rehearsals he trains one to
Invested
In
new
buildings
In
the
last
in this country last year, mors than
"It’s a liar you are,” he replied, "and
The poultry raiser* of Petaluma. ous, so that the plant roots more eas
be the leader of each group, crowd or
three
years,
and
In
five
years
their
350,000 were for drunkenness, and his
If you'll come down from that box I’ll taxable values have been Increased Cal • received over $ 2,000 000 for the ily penetrate In search of plant food.
body of soldiers, and then at the final
conclusion Is natural that If the police full rehearsals on the pageant ground smash your face! I’m a peer of the
products of their hens last year. The In time of protracted drought the cul
could have been devoted to the pre the ’’ multitude” Just follows those realm, and I'll not let any man Insult from an aggregate of nearly $57,000.000 cash receipts averaged more than tivator should ba kept going whether
to
about
$220.000.000.
vention of crime and the protection of leaders, the pageant master directing my order!”
there are weeds or not.
$5.000 per day for the entire year.
There was a terrific shont from the
property rather than to the arresting
from the top of thr grand
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crowd, and the orator said, looking In
of i inebriates,
we n would
have o saved
“What do you understand ÿy ‘mag
stand by means of telephone and meg
P r e s e r v in g F lo o r .
Eleven white Wyandotte pullets and
credulously at the countryman, "That's netism' as so often applied to an
correspondingly In crime and Its cost.
aphone.
A new method of preserving flour one hen owned by C. F. Oelhach, Dun-
all right, matey. If you want to make actor's personality?"
This conclusion, however, does not fit
has recently been adopted with suc
a speech, do It somewhere else. But
A p la a p p n ln lc fl M a n .
perfectly Into his theory of general po
“Magnetism.” replied the manager. cess In England. It Is done by means cannon, Pa., laid 615 eggs between
lice Incompetency and Inefficiency.
Mr. Halloran surveyed the insurance you can't pull our legs. You are no "Is the force that draws dollars tc of compression. With hydraulic appar- October 1 and January 31. The best
month was In December, when they
agent with a dark and hostile counte more a peer than 1 am.”
the box __________
office.”—Washington Star.
atus the flour Is squeesed Into the laid 190 eggs.
M a r h ln e llm n o r .
nance. The fact that one eye was con
There isn’t anything In the theory
"What are you doing there?”
lo d ir id o o iir lo .lc o ia e o n t .
t o r m s o f » » ric k s , a n d t h e p r e s s u r e d e-
cealed by a somewhat grimy bandage that children will grow up to be grate
I a r m » , la F a rm I T o r in .
“Tinkering up some old automobile
Mrs. Newlywed—Notice how small •tr03rs a11 form* of lftrvml llfe- thu*
did not add to the attractiveness of his ful for the whippings they get: this
Government reports show that farm
all my bills are. dear?
preserving the flour from the ravages
jokes,” explained the press humorist,,
•tn;ln_g to make ’em look Ilka 1910
you made up yonr mlnd Is a fairly healthful country, but peo
Mr. Newlywed—Indeed I do. dar- of Insects, while It Is equally secure horses have Increased In number from
ple don't live long enough for that.
ling! How do you manage?
from mold. Three hundred pound» of 11,000,004 to 20.000,000 since 1900. and
yat to Insure with us?" Inquired the
Mr». Newlywed—I buy our things at compressed flour occupy the same In value from $44.61 to $95.64 each.
Occasionally a man has conceit so
If there are party guests at a house, agent. "You told me I might call
“ 1(M> P °"n<u “
ordl“ ry Illinois has mors farm horses th»»
well developed hs Is convinced his a lot of different stores.-Yonkers »P*®*
the man of the house Isn't the host: again In a few Asya"
■any other Stats In tbs Unto»
stair
Statesman.
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was
two
of
you
at
me
to
get
teeth
ache
harder
than
anyone
elaa's.
Hs Is onty the husband of the hostess.
TOPICS OF THK TIMES
President Underwood of the Erie
says that Americans are bad losers.
He must have attended a ball game
where the home team was defeated be
cause of a questionable decision by the
umpire.
A man who married three women
and was arrested for trigonometry
pleads that be could not help it. He
will soon learn that Inability to help
It, like Ignorance of the wording of the
statute, does not go with those high
brows on the bench.
Kecent calculations at the United
States Naval Observatory have demon
strated that for half the year the dis
tinction can be claimed for the Ameri
tan flag which was formerly the un
disputed possession of the British flag.
From March 22 to September 22 the
sun sets on Balabac Island, the most
western point of the Philippines, at
exactly the same time that it rises in
Porto Rico, the most eastern of the
United States' possessions.
In this practical age there is no
other land which takes art so serious
ly as Italy does. The cities of Rome
and Milan have recently been con
tending in the courts for the posses
sion of an ancient statue of Niobe,
which was exhumed a short time ago;
and so Intense was the feeling aroused
Mint the mayor of Rome was almost
mobbed during a visit to Milan. On
(his return to Rome there was a great
public demonstration in recognition of
Mis zeal In pressing the claims of
Rome for the statue.
A very Interesting statement allow
ing the growth of deposits In Missouri
banks during recent years, has been
made by State Bank Commissioner
John E. Swanger. According to the
figures furnished by Commissioner
Swanger, there Is now enough money
on deposit In Missouri banking Institu
tions to give to each man. woman and
child In the state a New Year gift of
$140 In cash. This Is the highest per
capita deposit ever made In the state.
Of the $429,962,000 now on deposit in
the entire slate. $177,740,000 la depos
ited In the banks and trust companies
of St. Louis, Kansas City and St. Jo
seph, the three largest cities In Mis
souri. The remalner. or $252,222,000.
Is deposited In the rural communities
or smaller towns of the state, showing
that a large majority of our ready
cash Is owned by farmers and those
who deal directly with them.
The
greatest source of Income In Missouri
Is from agricultural pursuits.
Prof. Zueblln characterizes thrift as
a vice, and he seriously advises all
his auditors to spend freely in order
that the standard of living may be
raised. As If In this era of high liv
ing In America there were necessity
to raise still higher the standard of
living! To treat thrift as a vice Is
to reverse all previous ethics, also all
notiona of political economy, and like
wise every common sense conclusion
of practical life. But Zueblln usually
prefers to be preposterous, and In this
age, In which every known standard Is
questioned, mere Impertinence Is often
considered originality. But such orig
inality Is unsocial and unethical, and
Zueblln. being both, should be classed
na a moral anarchist and enemy of so
ciety.
Ferrero, the historian, has
shown how Rome became exhausted by
spending more than she had, and he
warns us that despite modern multipli
cation of resources we may easily come
to withdraw more than is supplied.
Zueblln may vaporize as much as he
pleases; but Zueblln Is no match for
mathematics. Arithmetic It Invinci
ble, and never has succeesfully been
controverted. Thrift remains the car
dinal economic virtue. What la capi
tal but th# savings of society? Thrift
tea lifted men from savagery. Th#
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