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BUY A REO Burn Distillate. Go two to three times as far for less money. The Reo Distillate Adapter prevents all carbon trouble it leaves you free from high priced gasoline. TESTED AND GUARANTEED. No Advance on Reos YET. $875 f. o. b. Factory. Northwest Auto Co. - F. W. VOGLER, Pres. C. M. MENZIES, Salesmanager Broadway at Couch St., Portland, Oregon. NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS; GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS I 'aint Now It's a Good INVESTMENT See Your Dealer NEW PERKINS HOTEL Fifth ind Washington 8t., Portland, Or. The homelike stopping place for those who appreciate the dollar's full worth. Room with Bath, . . Room with Detached Bath Breakfast and Luncheon Dinner .... 11.50 1.00 2Se 35c AGENT WANTED Business necessity every Mer chant buys on sight. Big profits. Exclusive territory. Free samples. Sells from $5 to $100. Write quick for territory. Sayers, 637 Railway Exchange, Portland, Ore. Double Tread, Puncture Proof Tires Made from your old onus. Lsat long tn Bran New Tlrei. WE ALSO BUY I OLD TIKES, We pay as high as 10c ' per lb. for such as we can use in Double Tread work, and the highest market for junk. Ship your Tires at once or write us, OREGON VULCANIZING CO., 550 WutunglM SL, Pwtlud, On. HAWTHORNE AUTO SCHOOL The only Automobile School on the Pa cific Giant maintaining a (Jui Tractor Dept. Using Holt Cutler pillar, C. L. Best Tracklayer and Wheel Tractors, both in the school and operating field, -445 Hawthorne Ave,, Portland, Or. The Panama Canal Defenses are powerful, but not as powerful an argu ment as our Cream Checks are in defense of our policy of more money for the man who milks the cow. Send us your next can. HAZELWOOD CO., PORTLAND, OR. HIDES, PELTS, CASCARA BARK We want all you have. Write for prices and shipping tags. THE H. f. NORTON CO. 5J North front M.. Portland, Ore. "America, I Love You," and "Yon'll Be 1 11 ' 1 2, js There" if we must go to war. Two big song hits for 25c and names and addresses of five musical friends. rwi AL, MUbiL iu uox 1073, Seattle, Wash. Portland Y.M. G. A. Auto School Day and night classes. Expert training In repairing, driving and machine work, including forge, lathe, shaper, drill press, tractors, etc. Time unlimited. COMPE TENT CHAUFFEURS AND MECHAN ICS SUPPLIED. WHITE US. ELECTRIC MOTORS Bought, Sold, Rented and Repaired WALKKK GLKUTttlU WORKS llurnaide, cor. lUth. Portland, Ore. High Stakes. "There, I Just knew you'd forget," aid the suburbanite's wife as she met her husband at tho door. "Why didn't you go to the employment agency, as I told you, and bring home a cook? You men can't be trusted to remember anything." "One moment, dear." Intorrunted hubby. "1 didn't forget. I went to the employment agency and picked out a cook a good one, too, if you can Judge by her references." "Hut whore Is she?" "I'm sorry, my dear, but I lost her." - "Lost her? Nonsense! How could Hint happen?" "I got Into a pinochle gnme on the way home In the train and Jim Brlggs won her away from me." Cool a burn with Hanford's Balsam, Adv. Cause for Delay. t- Paddy Dolan bought a watch from the local Jeweler with a guarantee to keep It in order for 12 months. About six months luter Paddy look it back because It had stopped. "You seem to have had an accident with It," said the Jeweler, "A small one, sure enough, sir. About two months ago I was feeding the pig and It fell into the trough." "But you should have brought it be fore," said the Jeweler. "Suro," replied I'addy, " I brought it as noon as I could; we only killed the pig yesterday." Chicago Herald. Discovered. "What nre you wrinkling your nose bout? Are you sniffing at this as semblage of ladies?" "Not at all. 1 was merely trying to determtno if I could locate the particu lar perfume that my wife affocts. Ah, here Bhu Is." Louisville Courier-Journal. KOVE RALLS Hdg, U.S. POL .Of f . Keep Kids Kleen The moat practical, healthful, playtim amenta ever invtalrd lordii iIi-m I B yean of age. Made in one piece will. rop back. Easily iiiOKl on or oA Laady wat hrd. No uilit tkttic band, to Mop emulation. Made in blur denim, ami blue and while htefcoty MritMM for all lht Mar rmmrl Al liktiitef weight, fait-coJoc material in Hark blue, cadet blue, tan Of dark i't for tummer wear, all appropriately Uiouned wiih (art color galatea. Made in Dulch neck with ettxtw sleeves and high seek and ion tteevea. 75c the suit If Walt rlMUnnMl .nniJa aim Wt will lend then, chafer. prepaid' jh rrcctpi or pnee, x each. A NeW PRFF U They rmitahW Look for Levi Stiwin & Co., San Francisco ""nurnia at tM P.P.I.E. r mm O. A. C. Commencement Week. Oregon Agricultural College. Corval- lis. Commencement at the Oregon Agricultural College, including the an nual Pageant, Alumni day, baccalaur eate, class day, and graduation exer cises, will begin Friday afternoon. June 2, and conclude Tuesday noon, June 6. 1 The pageant, which consists of The Seasons and Russian Fete Day, will occur Friday. Music for the occasion, furnished by the College Orchestra. directed by E. Hellier-Collens, will con sist chiefly of classics, which will be interpreted in the processionals and dances. On Friday evening, June 2, the senior play will be presented by cue class. Alumni day, Saturday. June 3. has been chosen with a view to accommo date both the alumni who are teach. lng and those who can spare only a week-end for the annual get-together. The usual noonday luncheon will be followed by the business meeting and by the class reunions, which are to be the big feature of alumni day this year. The 'lis, '06s, '01s, and so on are to hold special reunions, inaug urating a plan of five-year meets that promises to be a popular phase of these annual alumni events. In the evening the graduating class will be guests of the alumni at the annual ban. The baccalaureate service this year will be held in the afternoon, and the usual evening union meeting of the churches will not be held. This plan has been Inaugurated with a view to avoid any interference with regular church exercises on a day when the church-goers are especially interested to meet tneir outgoing student-mem- Ders. Monday, June 5, will be class day. In addition to the usual out-door fes tivities of the graduates, there will be a review of the cadet regiment In the afternoon, and the graduating recital of the school of music In the eveninir. The academic procession and gradu ating exercises will occur Tuesday morning at ten o'clock. Unusual interest attaches to the events of Commencement this year by reason of the fact that all regular Col lege students will be in attendance. STOP SCRATHING! RESINOL RELIEVES ITCHING INSTANTLY That itching, burning skin-trouble which keeps you scratching and dig ging, is a source of disgust to others, as well as of torment to you. Why don't you get rid of It by using Reslnol Ointment? Physicians have pres scrlbed it for over 20 years. In most cases, It stops itching inBtnntly and heals eruptions promptly. It is very oasy and economical to use. Sold by all druggists. Adv. Willing to Stop. A prisoner was in the dock on a serious charge of stealing, and the case having beon presented to the court by the prosecuting solicitor, he was ordered to stand up. "Have you a lawyer?" asked the court. "No, sir." "Are you able to employ one?" "No, sir." "Do you want a lawyer to defend you in the case?" "Not partlckler, sir." "Well, what do you propose to do about the case?" "Well," with a yawn, as if wear ied of the thing, "I'm wllllii' to drop the case, far's I'm concerned." For nail in the foot use Hanford's Balsam. Adv. P. N. U. No. IS, IBIS I ti thle paper. Worse Yet. "My daughter is taking singing les sons, and she keeps up such terrible yowling that I never go home except to eat and sleep." "You're In luck. My daughter is taking cooking lessons, and I don't even dare to eat at home." At the Dinner. Dashaway (nervously) Look here, old fellow, don't you think you'd bet ter leu mem not to call on me? Cleverton Don't be worried; they won't; I'm quite sure they have all heard you before. Judge. Learning Enough. "Don't you think every girl ought to be able to cook?" "I think every girl ought to be able to talk intelligently on the aubiect anyhow." Southeru Woman's Magazine. A Cheering Thought Miss Plain Ma -says I'm too young to marry. . . Miss Pert Well, you won't be by the time you get a proposal. Boston Transcript. Portland Wheat Bluestem, $1.05; fortyfold, 94e; club. 92c: red fife. 92c: rea nussian, vze. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy. J21 (Sjzz per ton; alfalfa, szu. Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $23 per ton; shorts, $25.50; rolled barley, Com Whole, $36 per ton; cracked, $37. " vegetaDies ArticnoKes, obftjBUc per dozen; tomatoes, $3.75 per crate; cab bage, $l.i!5(gjZ.Z5 per hundred; garlic, 10c per pound; peppers, 17J 20c; eggplant, 23 Jc per pound; horseradish, 8Jc per pound; cauliflower, $1.25 1.50; lettuce, $2.252.35 per crate; cucumbers, $1.251.60; spinach, 90c $1 per box; asparagus, 7 10c per pound; rhubarb, $1.252 per box; peas, 9l,0c per pound. Potatoes Oregon, buying prices, $1.60 f. o. b. shipping point. Green Fruit Strawberries, $4.766 per crate; apples, $11.60 per box; cranberries, $11 per barrel. ' ' Eggs Jobbing prices: . Oregon ranch, candled, 21c per dozen; un candled, 19J20e per dozen. Poultry Hens, 17c; stags, 13c; broilers, 2530c; turkeys, choice, 24 25; ducks, 15c; geese, 10c. Butter Prices from wholesaler to retailer: Portland city creamery prints, 60-pound case lots, standard grades, 34c; lower grades, 31c; Ore gon country creamery prints, 60-pound case lots, standard makes, 31 33; lower grades, 30 304c ; packed in cubes, 2c less. Prices paid by jobbers to producers: Cubes, extras, 2930c; firsts, 27 27jc; dairy butter, 14 184c: butterfat, No. 1, 33c; No. 2, 30c. Veal Fancy, 1010Je per pound. Pork Fancy, llllic per pound. Wool Eastern Oregon, 2030c; valley, 2728c; mohair, new clip, 30 3Zc. Cascara bark Old and new, 4c per pound. Cattle Steers, choice gram and pulp, $8.509; choice hay, $8.15 8.50; good, $7,75 8.15; medium, $7.507.76; cows, choice, $6.70 7.80; good, $6.50 6.76; medium, $6.256.60; heifers, $57.76; bulls, $2.756; stags, $35.25. Hogs Prime light, $9 ; good to prime, $8.25 9; rough heavy, $8 8.25; pigs and skips, $88.25. Sheep Yearlings, $810; wethers, $7.259; ewes, $6.258.26; lambs, $9.5010.50. New Potatoes Arrive. - Tacoma New potatoes of the best quality the local market has seen for years, according to commission men, rolled in Thursday for the first time this Beason. The new tubers, which are red, went out wholesale at 61 cents a pound in lug boxes and found an in stant market. Regular shipments will be received from now on and as re- ceipts increase prices will decline, say merchants. Celery is about through for the Bea son, it is reported. The vegetable is quoted at $5.75 a crate. Radishes, telephone peas, artichokes, asparagus and lettuce arrived by steamer and went out quickly. The demand for green stuff increases daily. Apples continue to sell good. Wine- saps are the most popular variety here, wholesaling from $1.25 to $1.65 a box. Meats and poultry are firmer. No Change in Butter Expected. Tacoma Butter is firm and dealers do not look for a decline for two weeks yet. The market of the Pacific Coast is reported to be unchanged. Receipts of butter are none too large. Eggs are arriving plentifully and the mar ket is steady. Cheese is unchanged and the demand is light. The fish market is well supplied with various kinds of fish with the ex ception of salmon. Since the season opened on salmon fairly good catches have been made by sportsmen on the Narrows and on Puget Sound. The fish, however, are not running in large enough Bchools to warrant fishing boats to go after them, according to dealers. Top-Notch Cattle Strong. Portland The cattle and sheep mar kets opened strong at the stockyards this week, but there was an easier un dertone in the hog market, and last week'B extreme top prices in this were not repeated. Several loads of grain and pulp-fed steers were sold at $9 and a number of other loads of steers brought $8.60 and $8.75.' Butcher cattle were strong, with a $7.80 mar ket for choice cows and a single head bringing $8. The hog market was off a nickel from last week. About 16 full loads were disposed of, one at $9.20. Sweet Potatoes Nearing End. Tacoma Sweet potatoes are about gone for the season. Those that are on hand are wholesaling at 4 cents a pound. The quality of the tubers, however, remains good, say commis sionmen. The sweets had an unusually good year, and both dealers and grow ers realized profits from their business. Commission men say that according to the incerase In the demand for seed Irish potatoes there will be many tubers this coming season. At first the seeds did not go out very good, owing to the bad weather. Demand for Eggs Is Active. Portland The egg market is steady and firm this week at prices un changed. The demand is sufficient to take care of all arrivals. Poultry arrivals were not heavy, but were large enough in view of the present high prices. More veal came in than could be worked off, but the market was steady. Pork was strong and unchanged. The butter market is reported eas ier, but the old prices prevail. Hops Taken at 12 Cents. The sale of the Piper lot of 100 bales of hops at Aurora, Ore., to Mo Clellan at 12 cents was reported. There is no demand for contracts in this state. California advices note the purchase by Richardson of a lot of mediums at 9 cents. Unsold California stocks are 13,275 balea of Sacramentos, 3829 bales of Memlocinos and 4334 bales of Sonomaa, total of 21,420 bailee. A Shortage In Paper. A commodity even so indirectly re lated to the demands of war as paper is showing the prevailing tendencies to such a degree as seriously to em barrass Publishers. The hii-hor nrinn of paper stock and the difficulty of obtaining It at all in England was a chief factor in the discontinuance in March of the London daily Standard, after a career of Bixty years, for a con siderable portion of which it was the most Important organ of the middle classes in England. In America the demand for paper has been increasing for six months as a result of general business activity. At the same time, supplies used in its manufacture have been decreased by war conditions, and in some cases have almost been shut off. The supply of old rags is affected by the cutting off of the importations from the European neanantrv nnrf hv the demand for the making of guncot ton. The chemicals used in bleaching iub paper proaucea Dy sulphuric acid and alum are being devoured by the manufacturers of explosives, while Im portations of Jute have fallen off until the price is doubled. -An embargo haa been placed on shipments of wood pulp from Norway and Sweden, while Canada stopped access to her vast re sources some time ago. The newspa per publisher is, indeed, hard hit bv war conditions in many other items of supplies besides the basic one of paper stock. Practically everything going into the manufacture of a daily newspaper has Increased in price from 10 to 60 per cent inks, owing to the advance in the cost of acids and dyes, from 300 to 3000 per cent; type, owing to the higher cost of lead, tin and an timonyeven the rubber and felt blankets wrapped around the press rollers add their quota to the increased cost-OHlving" of the metropolitan daily. From "The Progress of the World," in the American Review of Reviews for April, 1916. Treatment of Sores. Apply Hanford's Balsam lightly and you should find that gradually the sore will diminish in size. The older the case the longer it will take, but it will help the hard cases, after other remedies fail. Adv. Noblesse Oblige. "Mother," said little Mabel, "do mis sionaries to to heaven?" "Why, of" course, dear," her mother replied. "Do cannibals?" "No, I'm afraid they don't." "But, mother," the little girl insist ed, "if a, cannibal eats a missionary he'll have to go, won't he?" New York Evening Post. Gently Telling. "How did they break the news to the young wife of her rich .old hus band's death?" r "Oh, nothing could have been kinder or more tactful. Her best friend told her Bhe had some bad news, but it might have been worser for she would look simply stunning in widow's weeds." Baltimore American. Woman's Way. Patience: I understand Sheffield. England, employs women car conduc tors. Patrice: Well, some women always did like the opportunity of telling a man to "move up closer," you know. Yonkers Statesman. 4' How is Your Mouth? Are you wearing a temporary and insanitary rubber piste? Do you find your mouth in flamed and irritated? You should have a permanent, j viwttn, BHimary casi aluminum 3 plate. Let me make one for j-uu. umeusyou nro Deriecciy uj.:. w w '-i-mur - yuu, uiueus you are satisfied you will not have to pay for it DR. ELOF T. HEDLUND (Dr.. Hedlund, Loy and Skiff, Dentin.) 4EC-159 Morgan ElrJg., 41h Floor, Washington it Broadway PORTLAND, OREGON Work Guaranteed. Prices Reasonable. Phone Marshall 96 PORTLAND Y. M. C. A. wilt fit any ambitious young Man or Wom an for high-class position in Bookkeeping, Stenography! Salesmanship To men this Includes valuable athletic, aquatic and membership privileges, aU though tuition cost is less than elsewhere. Valuable courses can also be had in Grammar trrnilo and Cottage Preparatory Subjects WKITK FOU CATALOG. GERMANS IN MASS ATTACK ON VERDUN FRONT MOWED Paris Abandoning the new open formation and the lately established practice of night attack, the Germans Tuesday engaged two army, corps (80, 000 men) in dense masses against the French positions northwest of Verdun, between Avocourt and Cumieres. Forces numbering at least a division and a half (about 30,000 men) charged the line between Avocourt and Bethin court. They approached within 100 yards of the French trenches, and seemed insensible to the fact that hundreds of their men were falling by the way; but notwithstanding their courage and the weight of their masses they were stopped. There was & dead line beyond which they could not pass. When the attacking columns were thinned out by artillery and machine gun fire so that a reformation became necessary, the order to retire was given. twice they were obliged to fill up the gaps in their ranks, but none of "Saviour of Paris" Must Quit ill v They All Do It. "That actress is a perfect marvel. She must be 50 years old if she's a day, and yet she is able to play the part of a girl of 18 and make it abso lutely convincing." "That's nothing. You ought to see my grandmother when she's made up for a tango tea." GIRL COULD NOT WORK How She Was Relieved from Pain by Lydia E.Pinkham'i Vegetable Compound. Taunton, Mass. "I had pains In'joth ides and when my periods came I had to stay at home from work and suf fer a long time. One day a woman came to our house and asked my mother why I was suffering. Mother told her that I suf fered every month and Bhe said, 'Why don't you buy a bottle of Lvdia E. Pinkham't Vegetable Compound? ' My mother bought it and the .next month I was so well that I worked all the month without staying at home a day. I am In good health now and have told lots of girls about it" Miss Clarice Mown, 22 Russell Street, Taunton, Mass. Thousands of girls suffer in silence every month rather than consult a phy sician. If girls who are troubled with painful or irregular periods, backache, headache, dragging-down sensations, fainting spells or indigestion would take Lydia E. Finkham's Vegetable Com pound, a safe and pure remedy made from roots and herbs much suffering might be avoided. . -.-v Write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. (confidential) for free advice which will prove helpful General Michael Maunoury. General Michael Maunoury, who lea the army out of Paris which turned the right wing of General von Kluck on what seemed to be a victorious Ger man march to the city, has been com pelled to give up the military gover norship of Paris by ill heatlh. For this exploit he was hailed as the sa vior of Paris. While on a tour of in spection a year ago he was struck by a German Bhell which destroyed his left eye and broke his jaw. their three onslaughts shook the French line, which had been consider ably strengthened in the region of Bethincourt by the withdrawal of forces from the dangerously exposed salient to commanding positions b& bind the village. Two fresh divisions attacked Dead Man's Hill while the assault was in progress on the Bethincourt line, other forces at the same time trying to slip through the ravine near Cumieres. To aid the maneuver, an attack was simultaneously made on the east bank of the Meuse in the region of Champ-neuville-Vacherauville. The few hun dred men who had succeeded in pene trating the ravine were left on the field after the action proved unsuccess U. S. Troops Ordered to Cross Border. Washington, D. C. Such a marked improvement in conditions along the Mexican border has been reported by General Funston that the War depart ment is now considering drawing upon some of the troops stationed in Texas to strengthen the ever lengthening lines of communication of the expedi tion seeking Villa. Many alarming rumors have been disposed of, and the border situation generally is said to be quieter than heretofore, but the plan is not to disturb the garrisons or patrol in New Mexico or Arizona for the present. A part of the Twenty-fourth infantry, negroes, withdrawn from Del Rio, Tex., ' at the request of the local authorities after one of the soldiers had been killed by a ranger attempting to arrest him, already has been or dered into Mexico. Shells Beset Norwegian. New York The Brabloch, a Norwe gian sailing vessel, which arrived Tuesday from Kolding, Denmark, re ported escaping from a choice of de struction between floating mines and guns of a British cruiser when she was beating through the passage between the Orkney Islands and Scotland. When off the coast of Scotland the Brabloch encountered winds so heavy that she was driven into the Orkney passages, which, unknown to her cap tain, are mined and closed to all but naval vessels. Ordinary powders and dynamites waste much of their energy by shatter ing and pulverizing. 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Subsoil Blasting, and Ditch Blasting. Write today for the book in which you are interested, i our name on a post-card will bring it. THE GIANT POWDER CO., Con., , " Everything for Bleating" BRANCH OFFICES. Seattle, Spokane, Portland, Salt Lake Citr. Denver Our free book on Stump Blasting The Old and Reliable . or. Isaac Inompsons EYE WAYER ia both a remedy for weak, I nflamed erea and an ideal eye wanh. keep ran- ayes well and the, wdl help keep you. OCr ! all DraHU!. or sent br Mail opoa receipt of prica. WRITE FOR FUKK 1I00KLFJT JOHN L. THOMPSON SONS 4CO. 143 River St.. Troy, N. Y. , Easy Job; This little example of Irish wit was related at a recent dinner of the Wheel Club: A newly landed son of Erin was gaping along a New York street when he chanced to turn into the office of a lawyer, thinking it was a store. He was considerably impressed with the tine furnishings, and approaching the only occupant of the room, a man busy at a desk, asked : ""Could you be telling what you sell here in this fine place?" "Certainly," was the retort, uttered in rather an impatient tone. "We sell blockheads." The Irishman looked around and nodded in understanding. "Sure and you must have a fine trade, I'm thinking," he commented. "You have but one lift." , Metal Grain Bins i i ujSik' ft' -ft mm RAT PROOF RAIN PROOF REST PROOF WRITE FOR PRICES Agents Wanted Coast Culvert & Flume Co. PORTLAND, Kenton OREGON - Pain in the side? Rub on and rub in Hanford's Balsam thoroughly. Adv. His Limit. One of the freshmen at Yale imme diately applied to the proper officer or the university upon the day of his entrance into that institution for in formation touching his father's stay there before him. "I should like to see my father's record," said he. "He was in the class of 76." "I shall be glad to show yoa the record," said the officer, "but have you any special reason for consulting it?" - "Well," said the youth, "when I left home dad told me not to disgrace him and I wish to see just how far I can go." ... nave Healthy, Strong, Beautiful Ere, Oculists etud tnyalciaus user! Murine Eya Remedy many years before it was offered as a Domestic Eye Mediciue. Murine is Still Com pounded by Our Physicians and guaranteed by them as a Reliable Relief for Eyes that Need Care. Try it In your Eyes aud in Baby's Eyes No Smarting JuBt Eye Comfort. Buy Murlue of your Druggist accept no Substitute, and if tnterentcd write" for Boolr of the Eve Free. KUKIK4S KYIS KKHEUr CO., C11ICAUO Precautions. The Chinese have numerous tradi tions concerning their famous philoso pher Confucius. One day, they say, he was meditating in the fields outside the .city of Tientsin when he saw a woman weeping bitterly beside a fresh grave that she was fanning vigorously. He was touched by her evident grief and said: "O sorrowful one, what Is your trouble?" "Your honorable excellency, my hus band is dead." "No doubt you are to be pitied, for he was doubtless a good husband; but why nre you fanning his grave?" "Exalted one," replied the woman, and her voice choked with sobs, "my husband bade me not to marry again till his grave was dry." ; Interned Ships May Sail, London Any proposals put forward by neutral governments with the idea of obtaining immunity from capture for vessels owned in nations at war with Great Britain and placed in serv ice by neutrals will receive careful consideration from the British govern ment. Lord Robert Cecil made this statement in response to a question in the house of commons. He said the government considered the question of employment of vessels belonging to hostile nations in neutral porta was a matter for neutral governments. ' ; Lake Ports Ice-Bound. Cleveland, Ohio Backwardness in the opening of the navigation season, together with great increase in de mand, has caused congestion of freight in Lake ports amounting to 100,000,- 000 tons of iron ore and grain, accord ing to a statement issued by the Lake Carriers' association. The weather continues to hold the ice in Upper Lake porta and it probably will be May 1 before navigation really is under way. lays the statement. : - Thaw Expected. "As a result of their long daily glides over the ice they will be married in the spring," says a- report of a ro mance between a Chicago girl and her skating instructor. ... And in the spring .the ice will melt, after which points of uncongeniality may develop. Louisville Courier-Jour nal. What Was Heard. Father What did you and John talk about last night, dear? Daughter Oh, we talked about our kith and kin. Small Brother Yeth, pop, I heard 'em. He seth, "Kin I hev a kith?" and she seth, "Yith, you kin!" Yale Rec ord. ' : Question of What "A wise man may change his mind." "My boy," replied Senator Sorghum, "the greatest of all wisdom consists In knowing when to change your mind." Washington Star. , "What's the news from the spring training .camps?" . . . .. "As near as I can find out," eight teams are going to be tied for first : ylace in each of the leagues." . i His Grateful Nephew. A condescending uncle gave his nephew $1 on his "bicycle fund." The nephew took it without a word. "Now what do' you say?" the uncle asked. 1 ... "It ain't enough," the nephew re plied after some hesitation! Kansas City Star. Demonstrating It. Mrs. Binx I was lust reading about a man 70 years old who has been sent to the penitentiary for the fifth time for burglary. Mr. Binx Yes, old age steals on. Boston Globe. Be Reasonable With Your Stomach . .' Experienced. "Did you ever study French ?" "No, but I know this mucn: If you ever see anything printed in French on a bill of fare 10 to 1 it's some kind of a stew." Correct. - "What is an egotist, pa?" "An egotist, -my boy, is a man who insists upon talking about himself when you want to talk about yourself." Realistic "I sleep like a log." ' . -" ' "With the saw going through it" Boston Transcript Don't overload it when it is weak rather help it back to its normal condition and thus avoid a spell of Indigestion, Constipation, Biliousness and weakness. Try HOSTETTER'S Stomach Bitters You will find it of great as sistance. Get the genuine.