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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1916)
DETECTIVE DORIS By JANE 08BORN, "Sometlmei, do you know, you witch me as If you were a dotoctlve," tuld Doris Jones, si ibe was crossing tbe campus of Dudley collage wttb bor classmate, Lawrence Smith. Doris was unusually young to be a senior, and Lawronce, who had entered Dudley on advanced standing only at the be ginning of tbe last year, was unusually old. That Is, he was at loast twenty six years of age, and In bis care-lined face, his occaslonul nervous gestures, no less than in the way be wore bis businesslike clothes, he looked more like a successful young lawyer or broker than a college student. "Honestly, you do look at me In the funniest way, sometimes," Doris per sisted, although apparently Lawrence did not ca.'e to discuss the nmttor. "And I have soon you look at other people that very same way. You must be Interested In human nature?" "Yes, probably It that." Law rence seemed annoyed or at least a little disturbed. Later, after they bad walked almost to the girls' dormitory where he loft Doris, be said, "Some time I shall tell you why 1 am so 'in terested in human nature,' as you call It. You will be surprised, I am sure." And then, lowering his voice "In the meantime, litt'e girl, don't even for fun say anything to anyone about that 'strange' expression of mine." There were several things about Lawrence Smith that seemed to make him stand out from the otber men of bis class at college In spite of his ob vious effort to uilngle with the men. In the frst place, even the professors wondored why Lawrence was doing undergraduate work at all there Is no postgraduate department at Dud ley. For in almost all bis classes be seemed, with no apparent effort what ever, to surpass the other men in bis 'class not so much through actual studlousness, but because of bis great er maturity. Another thing that puzzled his class mates was this: Apparently, from bis manner and habit, Lawrence Smltb was never without money, still, from bis first day In college, he accepted work that only tht poorest students usually would have considered worth while. For Instance, he acted as cash ier during the lute afternoon tea hour at the "Cozy Corner," a tea room where thi girls of the college, and occasion ally tbe men, dropped In for refresh ments. He got merely a pittance for this work. . But these peculiarities were no stumbling block In the way of Smith's popularity. In fact, he was oi.e of the most active officehi Id .-s of his class. He had been elected treasurer al the first class meeting of the year and treasurer of the athletic association, Dough be had been put up for vice president of that organization. That was strange, .00, that he should have asked for tbe losBcr honor when he bad actually been elected to fill the vice president's cbalr. His excuse was that he liked to keep books and that he didn't know the first thing about preslulng. Wsll, anyway, he made a good accountant and never bad the books of any college class or any oth er year's athletic aasocia-.lc been bet ter kept. ' It was the evening of one of the first class dances of tbe season and DorlB Jones and ..awrence Smith were "sitting out" one ol the several dances that Lawrence had been permitted to mark on Doris order. Doris sighed deeply. "I do wish y " would tol' me now all about yourself," she uald. "Of course I like you yes, you know I love you but It is ..nd ret knowing all abott you. Do you know, 1 some times feel as It 1 didn't know your name." She Btopped suddenly and turned away from him. "Suppose we finish out this dance." He tried to be at ease, but clearly be was not "Walt a minute," putting out a small hand which she closed around bis wrist "Lawrence, In that book of Stevenson's that you lent me I found the Initlalr 'J. T.' I really do some times wonder whether your name Is Lawrence Smith." "Can't you trust me enough to know that It Is all right anyway?" "Yes, yeB, 1 can. Promise that you will trust me, too." There was no spe cial significance In the words. In fact, It was the very next day that Doris passed Lawrence coming out of the office of the president of the college, the latter following the young man to the door with a degree of deference that was not usually ex tended to mere students. "I shall co-operate with you In every way," she heard him say. "I understand your reason for not tak ing me Into your confidence before." When Doris passed Lawrence he started with a peculiar palued expres sion that she had never seen before. But he merely bowed cordially enough and passed on. That evening, after dinner, he called at tbe girl's dormi tory and asked to talk with her In one of the small private reception rooms. Usually they chose a country walk In the afternoon for their confi dential talks. These little reception rooms were especially unattractive to Doris. "A few days ago," he began, "you promised to have confidence In me, and at tbe time 1 promised to have confidence In you. Doris, it would take a good deal to shatter that con fidence. You know I love you and I always shall." Doris first blushed and then turned pale. She was distinctly 111 at ease and more so because she could see that Lawrence was scrutinizing her intently. ! "I wish you would tell me a little about yoursolf, Doris. Be sure that I shall never reveal anything of It Let me repeat, first, what I have already learned from you. You were born and brought up In that little lumber com munity you told me about. You went to the t.earost high school five miles away. Your father was poor he fia(j lost considerable In California oil mines. I believe you told me. He still Jlvsa simply in the old place. Now la that ail true, Doris?" Yes, It Is, and some time yon will go back with me. I want you to know and like my futhor," Lawrence frowned fcllghtly. "I hope tbe meeting will be a pleasant one. You won't be hurt If I ask you anoth er question. Is your father paying for your education?" Suddenly Doris blushed and for the first time showed real annoyance. "Yes," she said. "That Is no; be Is not!" "From whom do you rocelve It?" Doris refused to answer. Lawrence pleadod with her In vain, but no more would she say. "This Is very hard for me," said Lawrence at Iongth. "But since you won't help mo by tolling all you know about It I am obliged to make a thor ough soarch of your room. The prool dent of the college authorized it. Let me do It Informally this way and then I shall be able to help you out of what may bo a very rorlous matter. I had hoped that you would clear the t attor without this but you nave ap parently some reason why you don't want to toll me the truth. Bo sure that I will do everything, even to tbe limit, to get you out of this." "More thun ever ou talk like 3 de tective," Doris fl nr. g at him. "I am, a detective In the employ of the federal gove. ament. It Is a coun terfeiting cane" je was still sturty Irg her face, but she showbd no add ed embarrassment. "My real name Is James Titus. We traced these coun terfeit bills to this town, then to the college and I entered college to work it down. Ii was aboil, four years ago that the bills began to circulate, but wo didn't get around tu looking the matter up till last summer. A similar Issue of counterfeits had sudrtmlf stopped about eight years ' before. I've watched every bill that has Lsen paid Into the class treasury, tiie ath letic association, th tea room and the drug store That s how I traced It to you. I have suspecte you for only a wstk." Trembling -.nd with a '.ace now pale, now crimson, Dori led James Tltut to her oora In the lormltory. She opened her wardrobi md silent ly brought out a suit care, ,flch sho opened r.nd fron whl'h she drew out a heavy metal box which she unlocked with a key she wore about her necb on a long 'ocket chain. James drew from the box a roll ol bills and examined t'.iem carefully with a pol.ol magnifying glass. A ltok of satisfaction at "tvlng achieved the object of his quest first showed on bis face, tnd then a look of pain as he looked it the deje iei. figure at bis side. "My father didn't send them. I wanted to go to college, no one knowi how much. But then father lost hla money and he couldn't send me. That was the summer before 1 was ready to come. Then one day when I wa working out in one of the shantlei about two miles from borne In some woodland that fatber owned I found a trapdoor. I went down and there 1 found these. It wi" twelve hundred dollars enough to take me through college, Of course, I couldn't tell thai they wore not real. All I ..new wai that the cabin had been occupied by a queer old sort of hermit who had died without leaving any heirs. I know that for the few pieces of silver he left In his house we could find no claim ant. I suppose it was very wrong ol me, but I thought because I found that money It was mine. I am so sor ry. Shall I have to be in prison all my life?" The detective drew the frightened girl toward him as if she had been s child making a confession. "No one but you an.. I and the kind-hearted president of the college shall know That can be arranged easily. When I make a confidential report of this to the authorities I am sure there will be no further Invest! gatlon. In the meantime finish out your year here and then the verj first day you are through you must become Mrs. James Titus." (Copyright, 1910, by McClure Newpa per Syndicate.) Alarming Symptoms. "ABphodolia Twobble says she hat found herself at last." "Umph! 1 presume she talks about her Btarved soul, her mission In llf and all that sort of thing." "Why, yes." "We must get up a dance at once Asphodella Is thinking too much." Profitable. "Your daughter's musical education must have cost you a pretty penny.' "Yes, but It was worth It. I bought the bouses on either side of us for halt their value." Kind to Him. Wife The dressmaker says she won't make me another gown until you pay her bill. Hub (with relief) That Is very good of her. I'll sond her a note of thanks. Always the Same. The City Man How are your neigh bors In the new suburb? The Suburbanite Just like city folks. All the poor people knock the rich, and the rich knock the poor. 8avlng for a Rainy Day. Jake Pentlcoff was a unique charac ter. He had a large family and al though he was reasonably diligent In the use of saw and ax on the vllluge woodpiles, he frequently came to seek aid from the city fathers. "1 gotta naff a sack of Hour," said Jake on one occasion. "I'm all out, and my fain Uy Iss starfln'." "All right, Jake," said the official. "It you need the sack of flour and have no money to buy It with, we'll get you a sack Hut see here, Jake, there's a circus coming to town In a few days, and it we get you a sack of flour are you sure that you will not sell It and take your family to the circus?" "Oh, no," said Jake, "I already got tat Bated up. Yes, 1 got money to go to circus." Youth's Companion. Modern Version. Tommy had been learning the story of creation for his Sunday school teacher, but she found him not quits word perfect "What did God say," she asked, "after ha bad made the heavens and the earth?" "lis said, 'Let there be light,' and and be push ed the button!" Harpers Magazlue. Hi ahn Jl f 'e .f. ''.'. -it .. .a ..I t t,.,j m Modern Water systems in the: Cities ONE MIGHT easily have made himself believe he was on Fifth avenue, bad It not been for the crowds nf brown- faced, sailor-hatted, white-clad neonle about. A hurdy-gurdy was erlndlna out the latest tunes. The streets were brilliantly lighted, and the ereat news paper building In front of which we stooa was ablaze with hundreds of electric lights, writes F. Herron Smith In the Christian Herald. Even as wa looked a gigantic sign in a strange language flashed before our faces. Our eyes wandered to the right to behold one of the most beautiful Illuminations imaginable; the venerable and pic turesque South Gate of Seoul outlined with hundreds of Incandescent lights. To our left was another treat eatn delineated in electricity against a dark mountain, and clustered about it and In front dozens of glittering towers un tne tallest, another searchlight was located; and above, a Zeppelin-shaped captive balloon, gay with colored lights, proclaimed the merits of a pop ular brand of tooth powder and cos metics. At every station In JaDan and even on the steamers we had seen the gor geous posters of a Korean dancing girl advertising the Chosen Industrial ex hibition, celebrating the fifth anniver sary of the annexation, and we needed no guide to tell us that we were In the midst of It. It Is five years since oiq Korea died and Japan as coroner took charge of the remains. Japan Is unique. Most countries would have cremated the corpse and gotten what they could from the ashes. Janan da- elded on resuscitation, and a veritable resurrection is taking place. Only the other day Dr. Robert E. Speer, at a luncheon given In his honor by the governor general, Count Terauchl, said that Japan's policy toward Korea was unique In two respects. What Japan Is Doing for Korea. Japan Is the only country that Is sub sidizing Its colonleB to any extent (from four to six millions, told. a. year), and Japan is the only strong ana virile nation that has offered and is trying to assimilate a weak nation over which It has secured control. Doc- IN A STRECT The Industrious Toad. The toad lives from ten to forty yoars, and it can lay over 1,000 eggs a year. It has lived two years without food, but cannot live long under wa ter. It nevor takes dead or motionless food. It captures and devours wasps, yellow-Jackets, ants, beetles, worms, spiders, snails, bugs, grasshoppers, crickets, weevils, caterpillars, moths, etc. In twenty-four hours the toad consumes enough food to fill its stom ach four times. A single toad will In three months devour over 10,000 In sects. If every ten of these would have done one cent damage, the toad has saved $100. Evidently the toad la a valuable friend to the farmer, gar dener and fruit grower, and can be made especially useful In the green house, garden and berry patch. In diana Farmer. Using Old Bottles. A bottle may be cut off by wrapping a cord saturated In coal oil around It several times, then setting fire to the cord, and Just when It has finished burning plunging the bottle Into cold water aad tapping the end you wish Over oreans l!llll!illlii;illlllilllllllll!ll TRAFFIC OOOM3 Ancient GATEWAY t3$ Vt f- 1 LJ; " tor Speer was filled with amazement at the changes that bad taken place In the eighteen years since he bad visited Korea, and even we who live In Chosen are amazed at the miracles that are constantly taking place before our very eyes. The great X of the railroad Is constantly being extended till It now totals more tban 1,000 miles, and the upper right hand Is rap Idly stretching toward Vladivostok. Were It not for the railroad the expo sition would be an Impossibility, but with its aid some 20,000 people each day are viewing their modernized capi tal and tbe exhibits showing what has been accomplished in the past few years. People Well Treated and Contented. General Terauchl takes more pride in what the Koreans have accom plished than In what Is done by the Japanese. He looks on them as his children and has Instilled Into the Japanese the feeling that they must treat the Koreans as younger brothers and sisters. Where a few years ago It was not unusual to see a Japanese beating or kicking a Korean, nowadays one can travel 'from one end of the country to the other, as the writer does, without seeing a single case of cruel treatment It Is a fact that while there may still be apprehension In the hearts of some, the only Koreans who are great ly dissatisfied with present conditions are the officials whose graft has been stopped once and forever, and a small number of really patriotic young men who are grieving that their country has disappeared from among the na tions and who would rather be citi zens of a mean and Insignificant but independent Korea than part of a great Japanese empire. The Prince YI house hold, as the former imperial family Is called, receives 1,500,000 yen a year from the government. At the time of the annexation an imperial donation of 30,000,000 yen was made from Japan to Korea, of which 13,000,000 yen went as a solatium to the nobles, ministers and other officials of the former re gime, and 17,000,000 was made a foundation fund for giving work to Koreans, spreading education and re lieving people in distress. Or TRAU to break off. Oddly shaped or prettily colored bottles make good vases. The top of a large bottle having a small neck makes a good funnel. Large, round bottles make good Jelly glasses. Influence of Goodness. The virtues and Joys that spring up in the hearts of our associates when the shadow of our benignant person ality falls upon them are communi cated by them to others. Thus the Influence of all the goodness we have practiced finds its way through count less channels into innumerable lines, and endures when our earthly exis tence has ended and our names have been forgotten. The Modern Spirit The modern spirit Is not the Bplrlt "which always denies," delighting only In destruction; still less Is It that which builds castles In the air rather tban not construct; it is that spirit which works and will work, "without basts and without rest," gathering harvest after harvest of truth Into Its barns and devouring error with rs ouenchable fire. J AT HE FOOD 5 HI By JANE 08BORN. The conversation bad begun about the weather. Thence it had drifted to wind storms. Miss Tucker shook her pretty head and said she Just couldn't stand wind and, my, how It did blow last Sunday! And speaking of Sunday brought the conversation around to the new minister and the new minister suggostod the minister's wlfo and her firoloss cooker, and tireless cookers suggested the food show, and, having brought things around to the food show, Tom Wilbur folt Inwardly much rejoiced because he had come to call on Madge Tucker that evonlng, for he was particularly anxious to ask her to go to the food show with him. The fates had been kind, tor some times Just because the conversation didn't bend around as he wantod it to, he left unsaid the very things for which he bad made his call. He had tried for three whole evenings to get the conversatloa around to circuses the week that the three-ring show came to town, but In vain. So the tickets he had bought for himself and Madge Just went unused. And how many times he had tried to no purpose to bend the conversation In the direc tion of the subject that was always up permost in his mind when he called on Madge! He sometimes got It as far as the Jewelry store when he bad planned to lead up to engagement rings, and there it would stick or else glance off from Jewelry stores to the tea store next door and so off again at a tangent. Then sometimes when he thought of leading to It by way of men tioning the fact that he had enough laid aside to build a nice little farm house It would get as far as the bank where his savings were kept, and again It would digress. But on this particular evening when Tom Wilbur, robust young farmer of Timlow's Corners, was calling on Madge Tucker, the pretty district school teacher, who boarded with Tom's nearest neighbor, matters pro gressed as Tom had hoped. "I guess they have got quite a few of those tireless cookers over at the food show in Mapleton," he said. "D'you ever go to a food show? Kind 0' Inter esting to go, don't you think so?" Here he was desperately afraid the fates would spoil It all and Madge would change the subject before he could stammer out his Invitation. "I see by the paper how they are letting the girls with red hair In for nothing. Sort of boost the show, I suppose. And the red-haired girls and their escorts have free samples of everything at the show. If you'd care to go some after noon this week after school I guess I can make the trip in my little car In about half an hour. Would you care to go, MIbs Madge?" Yes, he had actu ally asked her. He paused, breathless, for her answer. ' "You asked me, I suppose," said Madge, "because I'm the only girl you know that hat red hair." And then she laughed in a way that at the same time tantalized and delighted her rustic ad mirer. "Well, now, I don't know as I'd say that you had real red hair," he parried, and again Madge laughed delightfully. "You needn't hesitate about saying so," Madge assured him, "for nowa days red hair Is very fashionable and no girl objects In the least to having It. In fact, In the big cities the girls actually color it red on purpose." "Yes, but let's talk about that food show," Tom insisted. "Say we go to morrow afternoon. Oh, well, if you can't go tomorrow we might go the next day Saturday. That is to be the grand finale and everyone will be there. I guess we can start out a little earlier since you'll have no school that day." "I haven't read the papers lately," Tom was saying as they sped in his small roadster over the country high ways In the direction of Mapleton, "but I guess they are still on the look out for glr'.s with red hair all right. I expect we'll see a good many of the hoys and girls I used to know. It's only at times like this that I see the old c.-owd I went to school with." "1 should think" Madge had a note of coaxing in her voice that Tom did not dream was Intentional "I should think that you would go and Bee the girls you used to know oftener, al though I suppose most of the boys and girls you went to school with are married now." For one fleeting second Tom thought ho saw the way to bend the conversa tion abruptly to the engagement ring or the bank account or the little new farmhouse he was planning, but the vision of such an achievement was dis pelled as soon as it had come. Instead he only gripped the wheel of hiB car more Intently and stared ahead of him in confusion. As Tom had foreseen, there were many of his old acquaintances at the convention hall, where the food show was in progress and Beveral curious eyes were turned upon him as he ap peared at the door with the pretty dis trict school teacher at his side. 'Tickets, twenty-five cents apiece," said the man at the door, and Madge cast a challenging glance at her es cort's face, a glance that stopped him as he put his hand in his pocket for the requisite coin. "The lady with me says," Tom tx plalned to the ticket seller with an em barrassed laugh, "that that we ought to go in free." "Here ye are," grinned back the ticket seller, eyeing them curiously, as he pushed out two passes. "She sure ought to know If anyone does. Make yourselves at home and have a good time, and Just bo as the folks at the booths will know that you are among the guests of honor today I'll ask the lady to pin this little white bow on her coat somewhere. There you are, ma'am." "Well, he certainly was nice about It" said Madge, making her way at Tom's side Into the busy hall that teemed with the mingled sounds and scents of a food show In progress. "I never knew that red hair was such a distinction as that, did you?" "I'd a bit rather have paid our way," commented Tom, "but I suppose It Is Just part of the game. Why, here's my old school friend, Fred. My, but he certainly does look tickled to see us! Hello, Fred!" And before Tom had had time to present his old chum to the young woman at his side another school friend, whom Tom addressed simply as Bill, had Joined them. "This surely Is a surprise," grinned 1)111, and the two young men expressed the rest of their pleasure In the meet ing In a sorles of pump-handle hand shakes. In a halting manner Tom did manage to make the proper presenta tions, and went on his way with the pretty schoolmistress. "They suroly soera glad to see us," Torn remarkod later, after he had mot and boon greeted by soveral of his other old-time frlonds. "I tell you a fellow never knows what It is to be popular with the other boys till he's escorting a a" Here he stammered, for pretty speeches were not easy for him and it was almost in a whisper that he finished "a pretty girl." In the meantime, Tom and Madge had been greeted cordially by the dem onstrators at every booth. At one they were presented with a full-size package of various kinds of popular breakfast foods not the small sample packages that were given to the usual run of visitors. At another they re ceived a wooden rolling pin with a package of plo-crust mixture. Among their other booty were small flutlrons, dish towels, vegetable cutters, nutmeg graters, flavoring extract and various kinds of soaps, crackers, tea, coffee and canned goods all in large pack ages. "That's what a fellow gets for being with a young lady with red hair," Tom said as he was helping Made Into his automobile with the various gifts tucked in at her feet In the first floor of the car. "We've got enough here to go housekeeping with." He sudden ly stopped short in embarrassment. Quite Inadvertently he had actually bent the conversation up to the point where it would be most natural to make the long-dreamed-of proposal. But words failed him. He tried as one tries in vain to speak In a nightmare. There was no use. , After they had sped over several miles of country road In the half light of approaching evening Madge quite out of a clear sky began to laugh one of those provocative, contagious laughs of hers that made Tom more than ever her devotee. "Wasn't It funny?" she asked coax lngly. "YeB, wasn't it?" agreed Tom, watch ing her face eagerly and then, after she had stopped laughing, "Wasn't what funny, Madge?" "About you thinking that it was still red-haired girls' day and asking to be admitted free without know ing" "Without knowing what, Madge?" Again Madge laughed, this time softly. "Don't you know? Don't you know what they thought, and why they gave us all those things? Didn't you really see the paper and see that on the last day of the show It was to be tree day not for red-haired girls or yellow haired girls or girls with black hair as it had been on other days, but special day for folks that were were going to be married? That's why your old friends looked so tickled and why they congratulated us and why the people at all the booths gave us presents. I knew all the time." Fate had been indulgent to the limit and even Tom had to take the cue. "I'm blessed," he said at first and then, "What's the use of disappointing the boys? Say, Madge, you know what I want to say but I'm a duffer when it comes to things like this. But you know what I'm getting at." And ap parently Madge did. (Copyright, 1916, by the McClure Newspa per Syndicate.) t Activities of Women. The drink habit among women In this country is alleged to be growing. Women are now employed In the money order departments of the Turk ish post offices. English women engaged In munition work receive the same rates as men on piece work. Ethel Barrymore will receive $40,000 a picture for four pictures a year for three years from a prominent moving picture concern. Of the 3,914 women recently Inter viewed by the state factory inspector in Iowa, 39.7 per cent were found to be earning less than $6 per week. Fifteen hundred friends of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superintendent of Chi cago's public schools, recently gave a large dinner to celebrate her comple tion of 50 years' service in the public schools. Not Wanted. "Buy this set of books and your success in life Is assured," said the persuasive agent. "Hum! What Is the title of the work?" asked the busy man. " 'A Compendium of Useful Knowl edge.' " "Anything in there about how ta get rid of persistent callers?" "Wy er no." "Then I don't want it. Good day. Watch your step." Johnny on the Spot. "Excuse me, sir, but I want a Job and I'm in a hurry." "You do, eh?" said the merchant. "And why are you In such a hurry?" "Got to hurry," replied the young ster. "Left school yesterday and haven't struck anything yet. 1 can't waste time and If you've got nothing I'll be moving on. The only place I can stop long is where they pay me for it." "When can you come?" asked the surprised boss. "Don't have to come," was the quick reply. "I'm here now and would have been to work before this If you'd said so." Russia Nearly Always at War. According to data collected by Woods and Baltzley, covering several centuries, Austria has been engaged In warfare 81 per cent of the time, Denmark 60 per cent, England E2 per cent and France 60 per cent Prussia stands closely with England, and Bus ria baa bad almost continuous war-far. REFORM SURGERY Matter of Slow Growth Through out the Centuries. Practitioners Were 8low to Abandon, the Barbarous Methods Which Had Been 80 Long In Use 8ome Queer Remedies. In 1530 a great reform In the treat ment of gunshot wounds was made by Ambrolse Pare, the father of French surgery. For some Inscrutable reason such wounds had previously been re garded as Infected and therefore in need of cauterization with boiling oil or water. Once, in the absence of those antiseptics, Pare simply dressed some wounds without cauterizing thorn, and on the following day he was agreeably surprised to find them In better conditions than wounds that had been treated with boiling oil. Thenceforth he abandoned and op posed the barbarous practice. Soon afterwards be devised the ligature of arteries as a substitute for cauteriza tion after the amputation of limbs. Bold and successful methods of treating wounds of tbe head and brain lesions were adopted by Berengor de Carpi a little later. The advancement of the healing art, however, was slow, and many queer remedies were employed, such as broths made of vipers and frogs, which are mentioned In a medical trea tise published In 1778. General Marbot has described the heroic treatment applied to his foot, In which gangrene bad developed after it had been frozon on the battle field of Eylau. He was held by four men while the surgeon cut out the gangrened parts as If he were remov ing decayed portions of an apple. The surgeon then mounted a chair, satu rated a sponge with hot, sweetened wine and let the liquid fall, drop by drop, into the hole which he had ex cavated. The pain was excruciating, and the general had to endure It every morning and night for a week, but his leg was saved. In the Crimean war 75,000 of the French army of 300,000 men died of anthrax, scurvy, typhus and hospital infection Death followed 91 per cent of amputations of the thigh and 55 per cent of amputations of the arm. The physicians and surgeons did their best, but they were too few, and the organization and equipment were de fective. In May, 1855, there were only 78 ambulance and field hospital sur geons for an army of 108,000 men. Similar conditions prevailed In the Italian campaign (1859-1860). At Ma genta each ambulance surgeon bad 175 wounded men to care for. At Sol ferlno each surgeon had 500 patients, so that even if be were able to work 20 hours continuously, be could not give three minutes to each patient. The Crimean and Italian campaigns proved the necessity of a radical change In military surgery. This transformation has gradually been ac complished, both In the administrative and in the medical and surgical fields. Cauterizing Implements Used by Pare. The railway and the automobile have facilitated the transport of the wound ed and ameliorated its attendant con ditions. Antiseptic methods have greatly diminished mortality and has tened cure. In large armies, however, the wounded may still, at times, be too numerous to be properly treated. Important progress has been made during the present war, but still fur ther improvement is required. The ratio of dead to wounded has been reduced from one-third to one-fifth. A soldier represents a capital, a value, a force. His death or illness is a loss fdr the whole nation. For these as well as for humanitarian rea sons it is Imperative to neglect no means of restoring to health the citi zen who has risked his life in defense of his country, Business and Pleasure. "We want to keep business out of politics," said the reformer. "Well," replied Senator Sorghum, "you've taken all the pleasure out of it If you take all the business out of It, too, I don't see what's going to be left." Taking No Chances. "What would you call a policewom an? A 'coppess' or a 'copette?' " "I wouldn't risk calling one any thing. A chap called one 'dearie' the other day and she arrested him for flirting." Real Situation. Count I can't live without you. Miss Monne. Miss Monne Don't you mean, count, that you cunnot live as you'd like to without me? Had an Unpleasant Sound. Daughter Father, can I take a post-graduate course in biology? Her Dad Dubiously I don't know, daughter. I'm afraid you'U be rant lug to buy too many things. A Peace Disturber. Mrs. DIggs I feel so sorry for poor Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Wlggs Because why? Mrs. Dlggs Her husband thinks hi knows bow to cook.