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About The Columbia register. (Houlton, Columbia County, Or.) 1904-1906 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1905)
Topics of the Times tt was the bllTa that mad Irt Ar- thur conie so ILih. The year 1(V4. lt appears. wa not noted for Its frenzied matrimony. Radium ha a, sluce Ma 1. fallen In price $1,000,000 a pouud. It must bi mad of cotton. Glrla who suereMed In geUirt mar ried In 1004 mill alway have sojie tbing to explain. The boy who ate twen'y-nlne ban anas to win a 11 prize probably really seeded the money. lira. Chad let Is nuking a heroic fight against the fallacy that a woman cannot keep a secret It la all right to spend a little time looking over the record of UXH, but the matter of most concern relates to the year 1903 . Two frenchmen fought a dnel the ether day. In which both were s T.re.y wounded. Accidents will happen etren tn French duel. By court martial.ng and shooting eighty-fire sailors of the Ualbc 8 a fleet Russia has sated some powder for the Japanese. It doesn't mitigate one bit the grief of a man who breaks a leg by falllug on the Ice to read about the workman who tumbled 135 feet without serious discomfort The price of diamonds has gone up. Terhaps this is merely a strategic move to make the poor people believe they are not the only ones whoso money the greedy magnate want Dr. Chadwlck says the public has misunderstood his wife. Irl Reynolds may have misunderstood her when he thought she said that package of brown paper was worth 115,000,000. The pneumatic rubber tire to be worn in the trouser legs to Improve the shape of men's lower limbs may be well enough for some, but most men's legs are tired enough already now. Dr. Spltzka says the brains of crimi nals are in no seuse abnormal. If the whole truth were known it would probably appear that a majority of the criminals are merely too lazy to work. A professor says no woman should marry until she is able to suppo.t her husband. lie does not go so far, bow t ever, as to insist that it must be ac cording to the style In which bis moth er supported him. If there are 600.000,000 practically eyeless silver dollars piled up In Un -ted States vault there would seem to be 600,000,000 good reasons for coin ing them over Into the fractional cur rency for which the business Interests f the country are bowling so lustily. A man who never subscribed to a newspaper in his life went to an ed itor the other day and asked him to let the pnbltc know through the paper that be had a sewing machine to trade for two hogs. lie wanted the "ad" free. The editor looked at the man a moment and then replied: "I can't see what you want the hogs for as long as you are around home so much your self." A few decades ago the position of a United States Senator was looked upon as so dignified and exalted that it pro tected the Incumbent even from re proach. Many Senators have shown political bias and bad judgment but the number who have been Impugned for personal dishonesty has been very small. In recent years, however, the Senate seems to be falling somewhat In the estimation of the people. A man is no longer considered great and honorable merely because he Is a Sen ator. His position simply gives him a fine opportunity to prove himself as such, and in some cases the most has not been made of this opportunity. The total vote for President In the late election was 13.508,401$. This was 400,078 less than the vote in 1000, not withstanding an estimated increase of nearly 7,000,000 In population and of 1,400,000 In eligible voters. What should the total vote have been In No vember had the interest of citizens in the result been profound and their preference between the candidates sharply defined? The fullest vote in proportion to population ever cast in a presidential election was in 1S0G, when the ratio was 1 to 5. By this ratio the vote In November would have been 10, 000.000. The vote actually polled was 8,092,000 short of this. Professor Trlggs' plan of arranging congenial pursuits for every sort of person would soon drive most people to distraction. Inquiry was made of twenty clergymen whether or not they would choose the ministry if they could live their lives over again. Nine replied in the negative. The same question was put to eleven experi enced teachers, with the result that ' only one stood out In favor of the pro fession. If these are specimens of the "sentiments of scholarly men who ought to know their own mind what would be the status of things among eeople of lesser stability who have lit tle Idea of what they wtsh to do and still less purpose of staying In arty i line cf work when once work begin' to be Irksome? Professor Trlsgsj means well wnen ne plans nis ito;ns, but he Is sadly Iguorant of humau na ture and the real means of regenera tion. The church survives only as a trs d'tion; the real pulpit of tduy la tUj newspajer." So soy a prunlh.ut lawyer. Hut be is might ly tutstnken. Had he said that the powr of the church has becoaie such that tt dom inates even the socul ir newspapers he would hare spoken tLe exact truth. The newspaper leprcseht ih? puUle thought and feeling and act on. It is a mirror that reCt.ts mankind as It Is. The world may look lu It and sej itself. The bad is th.-re as U as the good, and more bad than go b.caiwe MW Thw a uw t-UQ In the cities and a truth rvqulres i it If moial sent uicnt crowhlf m.bllity on the part of the fanners to meet the V? w,mo?1 ever-increasing demanda for their products, of the public demands it lie p-e, , Th, AuierllM0 Agriculturist has prepared a compare greslve newspaper I'tlve table of farm values, acreage, production and selling -.1th pullle moral, thoujh It d not of tU fof t aeries of years. The three create them. It must note and reflect rearj tUea for , comptri,oa tn 1004 1W, .Ut, and appeal to mans Inerea-mg loyo l!aw. mi utta t, , , , 1!?I(, M t ,ow for man. which other agencies than It a If, however, have promoted. The ....1.1, ..Ml - I - . . ,L . L . l-uuu .uu i-in-.i, iu uio wnose Ideal Is perfect morality. It steadily elevates that Ideal and cultivates thuslasm and actvlty In making the ideal applicable In the ; "errday ye, of those who accept It This is the leaven In the human loaf. TI.e news- if . its prime numose. Itut it Is neverth. . . i . . t ,h?lri ",,T"tB,V that the pulpit .cannot directly reach Z-SL,,rrtei ! ul M inS rnn.V.a ,? .h"C,S JlZ ! i. K . 1 ' E thi Hf.Th. the press aves on the mountain tops carries through the valleys a'id thr ifts I iten if ,h h h' f tT!'n ft. M T ' may be said that the press gives mrnl press gives mrnl light to the wor d; but It does not sup- ply the torch It does not take the place of the pulpit. It Is true that the newspaper may Inculcate moral prin ciples without direct relation to re lig'on. just as an infidel may lend a clean life: but It mnst be remembered that It is all due to the Iniuences of a religious civilization that has bee:i promoted and Is being promoted now. more than ever before, by the pulpit The newspaper Is one of the .most matter-of-fact Institutions lu the world. (5ood people are prone to com plain against it sometimes because it noes not preacn more and portray less. They mistake its mission and misunderstnnd Its conditions. The newspaper is a ceaKel ss series of Ilr- lug pictures of the punishments that follow crime, of the suicides that fol- ,ure 'he theater has an adrantage. It advertises thorough low sins, of the want and despair ,T anJ uccefully. A large percentage of Its earnings go that come of improvidem-e or nnjnst 11,10 mderu advertising. Seldom doe the, church speud conditions, of the successes that come iMT tor advertising; or If it does spend a little money of right endeavors, of the joys that 11 Injudiciously spent sre linked with honest loves and of ' the sweet and serene old age that ripens with right living. Hut the II- lumlnation, the clear vision and the sense of discrimination between right and wrong come through the pulpit DUDE OF THE PEERAGE. Earl of Beaachamp the Moat Talk ative Mao In Britain's ArUtocracy. Though he Is only 32 years old, the Earl of Beauchamp is said to possess the distinction of having made more speeches than any other living Eng lishman. It is cer tain that be is the most loquacious memler of the aristocracy. When be was 23 years old a conservative government ship- ped him off to New ! u,r of 30,000.000 of people and 1.000. South Wales as qoo square miles of the richest terri- UovemOr Cf that tnrr In tlio wnrl.l Onlfo aa niarvott... eabl beacchamp. colony. The an- tipodeans, who have much less respect for hereditary titles than English folk, aia noi tane very Kinuiy 10 mm. it was long supposed that be would never marry, because, according to tra ditions, a curse had been laid 011 the family. It was directed against the eldest son of an eldest son. and de clared that such an one would never inherit the wealth of the family be- cause it had been derived from the spoils of the church The Earl U an eldest son, but in 1902 he decided to risk the curse, so far as any future heir might be Involved, by marrying Lady Lettice Grosvenor, a daughter of the late Larl Grosneror and a sister of the second Duke of Westminster. It was what Is cal ed a brilliant match. In IS I a rntitiffn" vs ha varnai aaAn Hln.l " j '-um'i--u as the dude of the peerage, and Is still considered the best dressed mnn in the House of Lords. The Debts of Millet. The father of M. Caslmlr-Perier call ed on Corot one day and found.hlm In the act of finishing a picture. "A masterpiece!" exclaimed the visitor. "I must have lt." "It is yours," promptly replied Corot, "if you will agree to pay the butcher and baker bills of my illus trious but poor friend, Jean Francois Millet." "Agreed," said the patron, well pleased. The bills were presented to S0,. ftfl?oantd vt0r De"rI $0,000, neither butcher nor baker hav ing been paid for twelve years, Suffering from a Painfal Error. Christian Science MotherEleanor, nrtiat fa tha maftaf4 "Oh. mamma. I got a terrible error of mind In my stomach." Life. Honeymoons are often eclipsed by ed with terrible destruction of the na flnancial stringency. tlve peoples and with a cynical disre feEMTMMALS) OPiNlONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Cacx to the farm. A: N Important change Is quietly comlug about In the Industrial situation In this coun try. For years the tendency of ambitious young men has been from the farms to the cities, lured by tae hiber wage and greater opportunities. The steady migration has resulted tn a decided effect both upon the city wages and upou the value of farm products. Wages ar at a atari, larlll- firm nm.ltirta in atamitll rtnlnr In and 1904 as the most prosperous year that American agri culture has ever known. Th(. .,. ,v. f, . th. 'cm, ic u ..i,raiv en-Vin n kvvi ti ... .k. U almost double that of the l.SlKt yield, ou, of , proportIon t0 tn ,norfse , m Ml. V. " wh,K .... . are the only crop which are less in quantity than In ISXt, but hay. rje. wheat, corn and flaxseed almost the same amount Tb. only large ......... .. .. . . r oucuou is in couon. wnere we crop is almost a hair larger than in 18V Potatoe. and oat. show Increase, but not mxlc ,n no fe , ,to d , h , ,n prod,K"t,on " "Pl-trt the Increase In Pa'on. The Increase In farm value, ha. come not fr,m ,ncrewJ Production, but fro.n Increased demand and wnu'nt bigher price. The comparison of bushel farm two.thlrj. n,or.. h.. fftP , thlr(, iAr- The remarkable conclusion of this thnt ,n ten ,her b h crMS ,n the """'J of ,taP" crops irt,n r, . .i,,,! .i cott.m. pr , ,i, , hop ,nJ cranl)errie, ,he anH year Is almost exactly the same as the production of ten years ago. The meaning of all this ! that laws above human control are hound to turn the tlile'of migration back from the cities to the farms. Indianapolis Sun. Churches and Theaters. E VERT little while some preacher believes to be the fact that the theaters are more successful In securing audiences than the church. Is it true? It may be doubted if In any given city more persons attend the theater than go to the churches. And all things considered It may be said that the churches suc ceed better than the theaters. The theater has these advantage: It chances Its ,to" and Its performances frequently. ntlng something new. The church has the same message ,nd the same man In the pulpit from Sunday to Sunday And Tet the churches are fliled. In another Important fea- And 7" the church draws. There must be a reason, There Is a reason. The church ministers to a great human neea - u PPcals to what Is highest "re,t cuum requires to be filled. A n to tisfled. Men aud women realize that they are threefold beings and that to cultivate body Is only two-thirds of culture. The man la atrophied msy not feel this, but the This Is the church's opportunity and xlstence. The church makes a mistake when ROYAL RUBBER MERCHANT. King; of Belgium Owns Territory Rich In Prod net. The King of Belgium to-day, accord ing to the statement of M. Vander velde, a socialist leader In the Belgian parliament. Is the greatest rubber mer chant In the world, says the Boston Transcript The story of how the king gained that proud position Is the story of how he made hlmstdf absolute mas- j lu way M Stanley's discovery of the great Kongo basin is the story of King Leopold's conquest of central Af- rica more marvelous In some respects, since the king has accomplished this great enterprise by the mere strategy of a diplomat without ever setting foot upon the soil of Africa. Stanley dreamed of founding a great international atnto In tho -nt.r r.t w. r,CSi but lt DeveP to Lin to op a kingdom of bis own there, and make hlmHel( abgoIute monarch flf h wLoIe va8t rej?lon to wbch M eoverles would seem to have made him ,f anv one tbe natura, be,r g knew the weaItn of the K nnd iaw tbt.re a great future for tbe t prl8e and trade of Kuropean nations, but ,t never ot.curre(i to him to trea ... tliut wuole vast territory and Its In habitants as his personal property, con vertjng.the country Into a plantation, and making tho natives serfs. This has been the Bpeclal mission of the royal rubber merchant of Belgium and he has accomplished it by the sim plest possible of political devices. By the decree of 1883 he dispossessed the natives of all the land except the lit tle strips of tilled oil about the vil lages, making It In theory as It bns since become in practice, a crime for natives to gather rubber or Ivory In the forests and for the traders to buy lt of them. As it was by playing off the powers one against another that the king obtained bis first foothold In central Africa, so it has been by plt- ting the savage tribes of the Interior against each other, arming one tribe and employing it as a policeman for the others, that he has been able with a handful of white men to subjugate ttt cmn "Slla 8taU ,Iftver7 d enforce the jibber,.tAX. True, this has only been accomplish- but Irresistibly uicnev THERE Is a well that there was slsteirt law bren and positive) ar Mien, n.m ., . m-on.w. i... . .... work. Thrv have an lucr luc ' rease lu value luctlon. Apples were produced In increase In pro- .... crop compilation la an, appreciable In prcHluci except In ., . I w .... ... ,Uffd , . does the same; nor Is It necessary to enumerate the dozen of other vice practiced for the seeming purpose of achlev- deplores what he luivuraa. vuicago It Is always pre- rangemenrs for catering to the "race for risk." ..... ti. ueninnu irom anomer section of the public, where more irmperaie ami saner ideas prevail, that something should be done by legislation. If necessary, to limit these exhibi tions of human daring within the bounds of something like a decent regard for safety. Possibly, If the only per sons who engaged In these performances and risked their limbs and lives, either for the mere "fun of th ih!..." or for business purposes, were adults, or men or women of the professional class, no protective measures would be necessary; nut since giddy youth of both and best In life, a great lonirlnr clam- dangerous sports, to be maimed for life or killed outright It seems Imperative that the law shall step In snd draw the line beyond which these schemes for Imperiling human life shsll not go. There still exists, we are sorry to believe a considerable fraction of people, even In this enlightened land, who are but little above the level of the Romans of ancient days In their taste for vulgar and bruUI shows f Aai 1 1 k m U'ai.LI- and mind alnn whose spiritual life normal man does the reason for Its It falls to advertise. avrssilfT CCbJJ. gard of every pledge that was made to the European powers at the time tho Kongo government was first establish ed. This Is precisely the source of these complaints of traders and mis sionaries that come to us from the Kongo, lt Is the meaning of tbe Inter national movement now on foot to com pel fulfillment of these earlier pledges. In International affairs It Is not Jus tice but "the accomplished fact" not what should be but what Is to which we Invariably bow. In the relations of the great powers we seem to have as yet little more than the mere play of natural forces. But sooner or later tbe civilized world must unite In set ting a limit to the ruthless exploitation of native peoples that Is now going on over the whole earth. Economical In terests demand It, and nothing but In ternational jealousies and the lack of an Informed International opinion can prevent It. Why should the powers not make a beginning here In what at in ception was called "an International colony," the "Kongo Free State? CAWS OF HcREDITY. Three Generations to Make a Gentle man," la Fact, Not Fancy. Prof. Karl Pearson, F. It. S., who has taken a lending part In founding the doctrine of evolution on a statisti cal basis, explained to 0 deeply Inter ested audience nt the Koynl Institu tion some of. the results which have been arrived at. Two of these are of special Importance, snys the London Telegraph. It is shown by examina tion of large numbers of persons that "mental and moral as well as physical qualities are Inherited, and to the same extent. Taking school children and ex amining them minutely with respect to curllness and color of the hair, length, breadth and height of the head, color of the eyes, the cephalic index, and health, on the one hand; and, on tbe other, testing them for Intelligence, vivacity, conscientiousness, popularity, temper, self-consciousness, shyness and handwriting, the degree of Inheritance In the two categories came numerically as close as 521 to 522. Secondly, it Is proved that two or three generations- will suince to crente 11 new stock, sta tistics of large numbers show that there Is more than is often supposed in the saying, "It tikes three generations to make a gentleman," and In tbe ex pression, "Visiting tbe sins of tbe fath ers upon the children to the third and It hsa the beat thing In the world. The demand Is already created. Tbre can be no iubntltutlon. It has a monop oly. Therefore It should sdvertlse. Tht church also makes a mUtake when It penults It ministers to whins about church atteuJance and call attention to tit success of the theater and other "worldly' entertainments. You never catch a theater manager deploring a small house, lis never whines In public. Us talks big houses. And works for them. And gets them. The church Is doing very1 well. Indeed when one con siders Its meth Kls It does surprisingly well. If with Its tre mendous advantage It would adapt Itself somewhat to the plane of the age It would achieve the greatest success It has ever known Kansas City World. the Obj ct of Crlmo. eil founded theory-a uioug criminologists a never an habitual criminal or a per breaker who did not have a deep-rooted ntlpatby for any and every kind of reversed the ol.l nnii.m thai i.ii.i.. i. the main cause of a criminal state of mind and they will advance many strong arguments to prove that there Is something potential for evil Innate In the Individual who has a constitutional ambition to loaf. It has been shown In carefully made statistics of crime and criminal that If all of the men and women who de vote a year to the dishonest acquisition of money had spent tho same period working at such honest pursuits as they might be fitted for. they would have acquired n aggre gate sum nearly double the total of their peculations. This seems to argue that "easy times" rather than Measy money" waa the ultimate purpose In view. Nor I the vice of Idleness routined wholly to the dls honest. A little reflection will convince one that In many other Instances Indolence Is the end ruther than the mentis of sin. snd that many men and women commit their worst and most frequent transgressions for the deliberate purpose of experiencing the sodden Joys of doing nothing. The mental and physical torpor which follows the use of cocaine, morphine, opium and other drugs is classed by many physloh-glsts a the very ecstasy of Indolence, and In this sense It Is apparent that indoleuce Is the object and not the mean of trausgresslon. The glutton feeds himself Into a state of semi torpor whleh he has come to regard as dellBlitfui- t. Journal. The Rage for Risk. WITH the Increase of such popular amusements as are afforded by "loop- the loop" contrlvan.es, evolutions on parachutes, animal show exhibi tions, aud yet newer and more Inuetilau ar. innocent children of tender sge and sexes are beguiled Into iha a.m. fourth generation." Pedigree In hu manity, as In the lower animals, Is a vital factor. Thus a family or a na tion will certainly progress or degen erate as the Issue of heredity. It needs but to repress the numbers of the better and bigher and to multiply the numbers of the lower and less lit for two or three generations to make national degeneration terribly renl. Prof. Pearson's tabular results showed the universality of the laws of Inherit ance, not only In animals like horses and dogs, but In lowly Insects, aud even In plants. Growing Use of Spectacles. "Spectacles," said at ophthalmolo gist, according to tbe Philadelphia Record, "ore as old ss wagons, I sup pose, or as oaothes. Wasn't a pair found recently In a mummy case that dated back to something like .100 years before Christ? But tbe spectacles of the ancients were merely magnifying glasses, and the modern sorts the prismatic, the spherical, the conenve, the convex and tho cylindrical, which correct double vision, refraction, my opia, hyper-inetropla, astigmatism, etc. are comparatively modern Inven tions. They arc made of rock crystal, and they have done more good than anything else In modern medicine, ex cept perhaps, anesthetics. Medical records show that there Is now 40 per cent less of blindness thun there used to be in the world, end this Improve ment Is due entirely to tho use of spec tacles, which hnve kept weak eyes from succumbing, us braces keep weak limbs from succumbing. There. Is also much less of headache than there was. A great deal of that came, you know, from the eyes, and that sort of head ache spectacles have banished en tirely." ' Russians and Gambling. Tbe gambling propensities of the Russians are indicated In the fact thn more than $1,500,000 Is spent In Rus sia -for playing cards. The Tsnrltsa Maria charitable Institutions have a monopoly of the manufacture, and they moke a large profit, as the pro duction costs only about $250,000. Beyond Words. lie It Is wonderful. Prof. Jones and his wife speak both at least six languages. She And yet they don't soem to un derstand each othtr In a single one. Brooklyn Life. FOLLOW ONE LINE IN CRIME. Lawbreakera ftaldotit Branch Out lata r fritUia, t.irt hay a, "Criminal seeui to be tho strongest kind of fatalists." remarked Judge Neff, of Pittsburg, recently. JmUe Nrff It'wIdrljTkuowu a su authority on criminology, and his long experi ence a prtHMVtitor, Jude aud lawyer lis given hi 111 unusual opportunity of (tidying ai'leiitirlclally the cuuse and chaniftcrlatii's of crime. "I have noticed that when a crim inal la arrested after finishing one sentence, tho second charge Is gen erally tbe result of a crime a. moat ex actly the snma as the one which first got hltn Into trouble. It seem like a strange kind of fatality. I've known Instaiicre where one criminal Iia been arrested aud punished five or six time ou charges exactly the same, "What make them do It! I'm not sure I can explalu It satisfactorily, but I know It to b the esse. It ha oc curred to me, snd possibly this Is th simplest explanation, that the reason for a rrlmtual adhering strictly to ou line of work Is the same as the fascina tion which hold a gambler to a table, although luck Is against him. "Each failure or loss show the vic tim a point which be ha hitherto been Ignorant of, and It I easy to rouvlnc himself that next time he will eacup that mistake. "And so It goe. Ever the next time. Just one more chance, aud then anoth er, ever confident that the luck must change and that each turn of the wheel leave him Just (hat much better equipped and that much more likely to win, finally. Then there I the des peration, the unconscious at d gritty de termination to make a success of the thing. "If he fall, and I arrested, convicted aud punished, tbe process of the law Imply goes to show wherein his first Job was bungllngly and poorly carried out. The first feeling of resignation that follow the bitterness of punish ment when he tell himself that uext time ho will not repeat the error which hd to hi detection on the present oc casion. No ner I he out of th penitentiary than he assay agnln to try hi luck, this time carefully nrold lug the mistake which first brought him to grief. "It Is a well-known fact that 110 criminal, no'uiatter how expert or boxy daring, can cover up all hi track. The very best of them will leave at least one loophole, will commit at Icnst one error which eventually fastens tht guilt on him. The poorer criminals leave clew according to their skill or experience. Ko our Imaginary crook, the second time he plans a Job, whll he carefully avoid a repetition of his first error, la almost sure to make some . other one. And so on, each aticeeod Ing crime and detection pointing out to him the line of his weakness, so that he Is Irresistibly led onward to his destruction." The haruasilo Caltmsn. The whip fllcslug hero of Ibis story bad driven an irascible old fellow a good three mile journey. When the fsre climbed stiffly out and slowly pro duced a big pocketbook cabby drew a deep breath and nrepared to be ureas tic. A watchful constable standing nesr prevented all thought of hi re lieving bis feeling by the use of pic turesque terms. a Cabby watched his fare make a lengthy mental calculation of the dis tance he had been driven, select the exact legal fare, count It twice over and then proffer It to him, with an ex pression on his face plainly Indicative of "Now, then, you dare dispute It and I'll take your number." But cabby didn't dispute It Instead he promptly accepted It; but slipping his hand Into another ixx-kot. he pro duced a farthing, which he handed to the fare. "What's this for?" demanded Uie old fellow. "One farden, currint coin of the rel lum, sir," said cabby, gathering up his reins. "I druv yer Jest the exact dis tance represented by arf of that there shekel under the three mile you reck oned. I ain't got no arf arden about me, but It don't matter. You can keen- the change. I ain't mean. Goodby, sir. and (Sod bless you. weeup, orir' Ixmdoii Standard. A Ureadett QjuUi. Queen Victoria was an expert and Indefatigable knitter. During tho pgyptlan campaign she and the ladles of tho household employed themselves. In knitting quilts, which at the end of the war were sent to Netley Hos pital for the use of tho wounded. One of these, mado entirely by her Majesty mid bearing an elulKtratc V. It. In the center, was the coverlet par excellence of the Institution and In universal de mand for a time. In assessing tho claims of the candidates for tho honor of sleeping upon lt (hn medical staff naturally gave the precedeneo to the most severely wounded, and as the most severely wounded was the ono most likely to die very g0on, alas, an evil omen attached Itself to the distinc tion, the climax of which was reached one night when a poor soldier, feeling something touching his bedclothes, woke np with perspiration pouring down his face and cried out "Oh, sir, do anything you llkewlth me, but for God's sake don't give me the quilt!" Pensions Tor Anil Kalis n Orphan. Every child In Australia not sup ported by pureuts receives a govern ment pension for support until he la 14 years old, hence there are no orphan, asylums. The average woman Is as touchy about the unreliability of the family clock as she Is about tbe rickety family piano. One Isn't necessarily wealthy bo cause he has more money than brains.
