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WHEN
When a little child fies In your arms
' ' nt night,
What do you euro for enre?
When hor lips sing In tho ovcnllght,
, And hor littlo arms clasp you
' thero;
Whon a little lid lies in your arms
at rest.
'And tho sun goes down in tho
, purpling west,
What do you caro for tho toil and the
stream,
i Whon- a littlo child'-lies, iir your
arms.to dream r
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When a' littlo child stands at the
door and sings,
r What do you caro for care?
t When' into your arms in the dusk she
springs;
And away to tho rocking chair;
Whon a little child tells of the day's
ovonts,
Its laughtor and lilt and its sacra
ments,
j What do you caro for the pain and
, tho ache,
When a littlo child loves you for
lovo's sweet sako?
When a littlo child slumbers In
sleep's sweet fold,
What do you care for care?
Hugging her closo in your arms' en
fold And smoothing her silken hair;
When a little child drifts 'neath the
lullaby
To tho dreamland sweet of tho
dreamland sky,
What do you caro for tho struggle
and strife
With love at the end" of it sweeter
than life?
Baltlnioro Sun.
STORIES ABOUT CHILDREN
Stanley had contracted the habit
of using bad language, and his moth
er was conducting an earnest cam
paign against this fault.
"Stanley," she remarked, hearing
an impatient ejaculation follow a
misdirected blow of the hammer,
"what have I told you about swear
ing?" "I wasn't swearing," the boy de
fended himself. "Truly, I wasn't
mamma. All I said was, 'O Lord!'
and that isn't swear; it's prayer! The
minister says it in church."
A littlo girl receiving her first re-
Will
. THE MIDWEST LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF LINCOLN, NE
BRASKA, is planning to-extend the field of its operations into Kansas
early in 1915. This company was organized in 1906 in Lincoln, Nebraska,
where its Home Office is located. The management has felt it was incum-
bent upon it to successfully develop the company in its home state before
entering any other state. They feltthat the company should have about
'$5,000,000 of insurance on its books on which two or more annual, pre
miums had been paid, in order that there might be a normal and steady
income from its persistent policyholders. This goal has now been attained.
.The natural plan of extension would be into adjoining states.
THE MIDWEST LIFE issues only non-participating policies! The
distinction between participating and non-participating insurance is a sim
ple one." A company selling participating insurance charges more than the
insurance is worth and agrees to refund thfs overcharge either at the end
' of each year or at the end of Ave, ten, fifteen or twenty years. No other
business is conducted on this principle, Men do not buy clothing, groceries,
land or furniture in any such way. A company which sells non-participating
insurance chargos a premium based upon what the insurance costs
There 4s no estimate as to, the cost, either in the first, second, fifth," tenth
or any other year on a policy issued by a non-participating company.
J
THE MIDWEST LIFE has only one Agent's Contract. The first, pr
initial commission is based upon the volume of insurance written each
year. The renewal commissions are based upon the volume of premium
paying insurance an agent has in force at any given time. In entering
Kansas, it goes without saying that the company would like to contract
with a number of high grade men now located 'in Kansas. For any addi
tional information,- write
The Midwest Life
n. 2, SNEIX, President
A NEBRASKA STOCK COMPANY
SELLING NON-PARTICIPATING LIFE INSURANCE ONI Y
FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING. LINCOLN.
ligious .teaching was much impressed
by tho unique character and omnipo
tence of the Almighty. Saying-her
prayers at night, she added a -peculiar
and earnest petition:
"And, oh, Lord, please take good
caro of Yourself, for if anything hap
pens to You, oh, Lord, what are the
rest of us going to do?"
Through a moving day accident
little Tim had been left all day in a
locked d"nd lonely house.
"Weren't you scared?" he was ask
ed, when his. absence from the re
united family had effected his rescue.
"Didn't it frighten, you to stay thero
so long all alone?"
"I was awful scared at first," was
Tim's naive confession, "but this af
ternoon I was just sort o' sleepy.- I
guess I got so scared this morning
that it scared the scape' right out of
my bones." f
"What's tho matter, Patrick ?' a
good-natured hostess asked of her
boyish visitor, seeing the pie plate
vainly offered. "Don't you want an
other piece of pie?" " .
"Yessuin, I want it," replied the
unconscious verbal purist,' "but' I
can't eat it. My mouth's awful hun
gry, but my -stomach's awful full."
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Solomon in Difflcultien
A Georgia magistrate was perplex
ed by the conflicting -claims of two
negro women for a baby, each con
tending that she was the mother. The
judge remembered Solomon, and
drawing a bowie knife from his boot,
declared that he would give half to
each. The women were shocked, but
had no doubt of the authority and
purpose of the judge to make the
proposed compromise. "Don't do
that, boss," they both screamed in
unison, "You can keep it yourself."
Case and Comment.
tain young man in Philadelnhin
found himself one evening not long
ago. He had been "calling now and
then" on a- charming young -girl of '
Germantown, and this night, as ho
sat down in the drawing room wait
ing for her to come down, her moth
or onterod the room instead, and
Tory gravely asked, him what his in!
tentions were.
The -young man blushed and was
about to stammer some incoherent
reply when suddenly the young wo
man called down from the head of
tho stairs:
"Mother, mother, that's not the
one.! " Philadelphia Telegraph.
Mother's Cooking
My pa's dyspeptic, but ma's a fino
cook ;
She works' with great ease and no
bother.
The reason, you see, why she is so
smooth.
Is 'cause she ,lia-j practiced on
father. Kansas City Star.
. Basis for Excliango ,
He had a drove of dispirited steeds
.and paused to give them a much
needed rest. The .storekeeper came
out and looked them oyer casually.
, "Want a horse?"
"Guess not."
"I'll take it out in goods'," said the
stranger. "111 take it out in tobacco,
in fact."
"Might do some business along
those lines," responded ,the store
keeper, "if we kin agree on a basis "
"What's your basis?"
"Well, I'll trade with you, plug
for plug." Judge. .
The Boys Good Advice
Lord Cheylesmore is telling an
amusing story just now. He went
down to one of the big schools to
distribute prizes on breaking un
school, and he says that before the
ceremony one of the school boys gave
him some good advice. .
ni7f?ou're goIng t0 make speech,"
said the youngster, "don't be too
long. Remembe:- that every minute
you spend in talking you are taking
something off my holiday!' Pear
son's Weekly. y -ear
Exact
On one occasion a census clerk in
scanning one of the forms to see if
it had been properly filled up, no
ticed the figures 120 and 112 under
the headings, "Age of father, if iiv!
ing" and "Age of Mother, if living
"But yo pal,ents We never so
eddcllrk. they?" aSlCGd th0 "tonu
"No," was the renlv '"hm-
Just in Time
Luck in Gambling
One of the most noteworthy char
acteristics of the Jewish race, which
disproves Carlylo's assertion that
Jews are lacking in a sense of humor,
4s their capacity for enjoying a joke
at their own expense, says the Car
penter. Indeed, they are the invent
ors of most "Jew" stories and the
best audience for them.
The other evening a Jewish friend,
with whom I was playing bridge, told
me a story of a co-religionist who
was exceedingly lucky at cards, but
'very unfortunate on the turf. His
wife wondered and complained.
' "Why is it you- always win at
poker," she asked, "and always lose
.when you back horses?"
"Well, my dear," came the genial
reply, "I don't shuffle the horses."
Lotfdon Express... ... 1 j x .
Ho Learned His' Value
t
A tourist in Scotland came to a
wide ferry. It w 1 stormy and the
wind was' constantly increasing. The
Scotch ferryman agreed to take the
tourist across, but told him to wait
until he had first taken a cow across.
When he returned and started
across with-the-traveler, the latter
became curious.
1 "Will you tell me why you took the
cow across and made me wait?" he
asked.
"Weel, now," explained the ferry
man, "you sae the coo wur valuable,
and I feared th' wind wud increase
so th' boat might upset on th' second
trip!" Youth's Companion.
Distorted Vegetarianism
"So long as you find the cost of
living high," said the friendly ad
viser, "why don't you, and your hus
band become vegetarians?"
"What do you mean?" asked the
worried-looking woman.
'"Why, eat only vegetable prod
ucts." "Couldn't think of it. What I'm
tryin' to do no vr is to persuade John
to take to beefsteak and quit tryin'
to live on liquor and tobacco."
Washington Star.
His Definition
"Papa, what is an escutcheon?"
"Why?" 1
"This story says there was a blot
on his escutcheon."
"Oh, yes! An escutcheon is a light
colored vest. He haa probably been
carrying a Zountain pen."- Sacred
Heart Review
Two of a Kind
A tourist in the mountains of Ten
nessee had dinner with a querulous
old mountaineer who yawned about
hard times 15 minutes at a stretch.
"Why, man," said the' tourist, yoa
k