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The citizen who sneers at his own
town
The citizen who helittles local en
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The citizen who scoffs at home im
provements
The citizen who buys liis household
goods by mail
The citizen who gets his job print
ing done outside
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TEMPERANCE COLUMN
Conducted by the McCook W C T U
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Fathering
It is said that the world needs mother
ing It needs to be taken within the
strong and tender arms of the mother
love which will soothe its querulousness
heal its wounds and kiss away its tears
It needs that beyond a doubt Not for
a long while yet will there be too much
mothering too much sympathy and
comforting and kindly ministry But
there is too little of something else For
lack of this something else motherhood
has to nurse a million unnecessary
wounds and sooth a million uncalled for
sorrows and the world goes bumping
crashing at cost of nerve and health
and life ov r rucks which uu i
be in the way at all The i i n
human love and pity are one shun a
the bird of blessing that should hi
healing in her wings describes inste
of the straight course to happiness hi
health she ought to follow a hureessit
of vicious circles of non advance or
best a slow spiral cf ascent that is hear
breaking to a lover of his rncp
ETKRNAL MOTHERHOOD
That needed thing is fathering The
motherhood of God is theoretically a
late discwry of humanity As a mat
ter of fact the motherhood of God has
through all the ages been finding its ex
pression in human life its highest vis
ible expression far more than has His
fatherhood Every human mother who
is what a mother ought to be is an in
carnate throb of the mother heart of
the Eternal Life presents us with in
numerable noble specimens of every
grade of motherhood from the uncon
Bcious insect mother who will never see
her multitudinous brood and would not
know them through all the stages up to
the Christian mother whose love is as
broad as the universedeeper than hell
high as the heights of heaven and far
sighted as the angels of God
We must acknowledge that the evo
lution of the father too often lags far in
the rear of the evolution of the mother
The world gets more genuine mothering
more mothering that approaches its
ideal twice over than it gets of father
ing of the same high grade The char
acteristics and demand of our civilization
partly account for this and partly the
fact that mothering comes by instinct
implanted in the very flesh and blood
and frame work of the woman while
the other must be reacned by slower
processes of reasoning and conscience
and religion Whatever accounts for it
it is true President Philip Wendell
Crannell
To avoid serious results take Foleys I
Kidney Remedy at the first sign of kid
ney or bladder disorder such as back
ache urinary irregularities exhaustion
and you will soon be well Commenc
taking Foleys Kidney Remedy today
Your complexion as well
as your temper is rendered
miserable by a disordered
liver By taking Chamber
lains Stomach and Liver
Tablets you can improve
both They cleanse and in
vigorate the stomach and
improve the digestion
Daring Betting
During the close of the eighteenth
century the craze for gambling in Eng
land rose to an extreme At curtain
notorious clubs every Incident was
made the subject of u wager and thou
sands changed hands over the veriest
trllle A certain Mr Blake made him
self notorious by betting 1500 that a
man could live twelve hours under
water He hired u during fellow and
purchasing an old ship they wen
sunk together by way of settling the
bet Neither ship nor man reappeared
so Mr Blake had to pay up The fa
mous Earl of Carlisle once staked
3000 on a single curd at faro On
one occasion at Brooks another noted
gambling club Lord Robert Spencer
lost the last shilling of the fortune
which he had obtained from his broth
er the Duke of Marlborough and
General Fltzpatrick was In the same
condition The twain combined and
borrowing a sum of money they open
ed a faro hank They had a run of
luck and Lord Spencers share of the
proceeds came to 100000 He pock
eted this cash and never gambled
again London Tatler
One Block of Sightseeing
It was on East Elceifth street that
the sightseeing wagon started Anx
ious mothers placed their very small
children in it then stood anxiously
watching the youngsters for fear they
would fall out in spite of the fact
that the wagon was very low and
drawn by a little white pony who
went along in a walk A man walked
beside the wagon A small boy on the
front seat drove holding the reins in
a slack way and chatting with a small
child by his side
now much do you charge them for
a ride asked a woman on the side
walk
One cent said the man
And how far do you go she asked
Just up and down the block said
the man Afraid to go any further
afraid Ill lose them
The woman counted the children
sixteen Sixteen cents for going up
and down the block
There are a lot of little ways of
earning a living on the east side she
said New York Press
The Boatswains Judgment
It was somewhere in this wide wide
world just where has slipped my
mind and they were about to buy beef
on hoof for the ships So the officer
whose duty it is to make the purchase
took ashore with him the bosn as
representing the crew to look over the
animals and either object or not They
approached the first animal
How will that do asked the offi
cer
The bosn cautiously approached the
beast bent down and gingerly ran his
thumb and forefinger down first one
shank and then the other until the
whole four shanks had been examined
Straightening up he said
Hell do all right sir
The officer flabbergasted cried
But dash it all you cant tell the
good points of a bullock by the
shanks
Perhaps not sir but theyre the
only parts we ever gets sir was the
reply Pall Mall Gazette
A German Holiday
At Haslacli in the Kinzig valley in
Germany Feb 22 is a holiday and has
been observed as one for hundreds of
years Once upon a time the story
teller who explains its origin begins
Haslach was overrun with snakes and
no one knew how to drive them out
One day a great flock of storks ap
peared and they were the saviors of
the place In recognition of this de
liverance from the pest which oc
curred on Feb 22 the day has been
kept sacred and is known as stork
day An appointed official known as
the stork father parades the streets
followed by as many children as care
to join the procession He wears his
Sunday clothes and a high hat deco
rated with two stuffed storks Stops
are made by this procession at houses
along the line and the children re
ceive gifts of sweets and small coins
every householder feeling pleased to
show his gratitude to the stork
Nest Eggs
Take a nice fresh egg and separate
the white and the yolk so that the yolk
will not be broken Put the white into
a bowl add a pinch of salt and beat
it until it is very stiff Have ready
some little bowl that is pretty enough
to put on the table but that will not
break in the oven Pour into this the
stiff beaten white and make a little
hole in the middle of it with a spoon
In this little hollow place the yolk
still unbnken Set the dish in a ho
oven and cook for three or four min
utes or until the white has brownei
a little and the yolk is linn Then
must be a separate dish for each eg
that you cook in tii way Servi
right away Delineator
The Echo
A little boy was annisinu himself I
hallooing then listening for the ecln
What is the echo mamma he askei
His mother attempted to explain fee
ing all the while how inadequate he
explanation was The little fellow
trotted along at her side silent fo
some minutes Then his eyes fel
upon his shadow
Oh I know what echo is he ex
claimed joyfully Its the shadow of
our voices Los Angeles Times
A Palpable Hit
Now sir demanded counsel for
the defendant tell us what time this
alleged robbery took place
You had better ask your client re
torted the plaintiff He had my
watch
He dwells nowhere who dwells j
y where Mar tfal
For Social
Betterment
Tlie National Conference of Charities and
Corrections to Bo Held at Buffalo
Scope of the Proceedings and Far
reaching Effects of the Work
past year has been an un
usually Important and fruitful
one in the work of the char
itable and philanthropic socie
ties throughout the country and the
progress toward more effective and
scientific treatment of the causes of
poverty and crime has been notable
For these reasons exceptional interest
attaches to the forthcoming national
conference of charities and corrections
at Buffalo from June 1 to 10 inclusive
It is now thirty six years since the
first of these conferences was held Al
though the plan of the conference has
resulted in the adoption of very sys
tematic methods for the conduct of the
proceedings there has never been a
written constitution and the confer
ence really consists of a rather in
formal meeting of seven or eight large
bodies of men and women engaged in
as many different lines of social and
philanthropic work in the United
States and Canada They come to
gether in what is as the name implies
a national conference rather than a
convention and owing to the freedom
of action permitted more practical re
sults are often attained
The president of the conference this
year is Ernest P Bicknell director of
the American National Red Cross in
Washington Mr Bicknell is one of
the foremost men In the philanthropic
world in America ne is a graduate
of the University of Indiana and was
for a number of years a reporter on
the Indianapolis News He left news
paper work to become the secretary of
the state board of charities of Indi
ana and during his administration
very many of the plans and laws
which have placed that state In the
fore rank of those states which most
nearly meet their responsibility to the
dependent defective and delinquent
classes were laid In 1S9S he resigned
this position to become general super
intendent of the Chicago bureau of
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COIYRlGKT 9QS BY HARRIS EWIN5
EHNEST P BICKKKLXi
charities which lie held until about a
year ago At the time of the San
Francisco disaster Mr Bicknell was
called from Chicago to the stricken
city to help straighten out the tangles
in the relief work there His efficiency
and diplomacy won for him national
recognition and he was soon after
called to Washington to become the
executive head of the American Na
tional Red Cross Since that time he
has supervised the work of relief in
the forest fire region of the northwest
in the southern flood region and most
recently in the earthquake zone in
Italy He has just returned from the
latter field of activity and his presi
dential address to the conference in
Buffalo will deal with Problems of
Relief Growing Out of Great Disas
ters The year has been one in which
especial attention has been given
among students of social problems and
workers in the tenement districts to
reforms pertaining to caring for de
pendent children to the betterment of
conditions in congested districts and to
the opportunities for educating the
public along sociological lines by use
of the press The conference at the
White House on the subject of treat
ment of dependent children called by
Mr Roosevelt resulted in bringing to
light many new ideas on this theme
The committee of the conference on
Families and Neighborhoods of
which Robert A Woods of South End
House Boston is the chairman is
comprised of charity organization
workers of the country together with
people engaged in social settlements
and allied activities This section as
its name indicates deals with prob
lems of social service as they affect
the family and the neighborhood
One of the interesting developments
n social work in the United States in
recent years has been the application
of the methods of organized charity to
work for social betterment in country
communities This matter will be dis
cussed by Professor L H Bailey of
Cornell university who was chairman of
the Roosevelt country life commission
There will be an important discus
sion as to use of the press in forward
ing social betterment and the talk on
this line will be started by an address
by Dr Albert Shaw editor of the Re
view of Reviews on The Opportunity
of the Publicist in Relation to Efforts
For Social Betterment
The Model Army of ihe World
What army was the Mrongest of Its
time Judging by results the Roman
army was so from the fifth century
B C onward until the division of the
empire Its fighting organization was
as complete as and possibly more prac
tical than that of any army of today
It was based on a territorial system
which maintained the comradeship of
locality without bringing It Into an
tagonism with that of the corps for
each of the thirty five Roman tribes
was required to furnish to each legion
four centuries of 120 men each of
which worked together as a local unit
The legion was divided Into five co
horts or battalions of which three
were troops of the line two were a
kind of militia and the fifth was a de
pot battalion For almost eight centu
ries the army thus constituted not only
conquered the then known world but
acted as explorers beyond Its limits
and at the same time made and un
made kings and emperors in Home it
self Pearsons Weekly
Too Well Done
Mrs Ellphalet Howe of Centervllle
had never encountered Hamlet ci
ther In the pursuit of literature or on
the stage up to the time of her first
visit to her Boston niece On that oc
casion she was taken by the niece and
her husband to see a performance of
the play
How did you like It Aunt Jane
asked her nephew-in-law as he piloted
the old lady up the aisle by her elbow
when the performance was over
If thats what you call a play I
call it hard work said Aunt Jane in
dignantly How you and Nettie can
sit calm in your seats and see such
heartless doings is beyond me Why
that Hamlet man looked so sick I
shouldnt have been surprised if ho
hadnt lived to finish out his talking
And by the expression of those other
folks Ill venture to say they felt the
same I had my smelling salts all
ready in case o need from the first
minute he came on to the platform
The Finicky Humor of Leschetizky
Some amusing stories are told of
Leschetizky the great piano teacher
whose comic spirit is one of the pre
dominating features of his character
It is well known that he Is a man of
strong likes and dislikes When an
American pianist a dozen or so years
ago went to Vienna to study with him
he wore his hair long a habit much
affected at that time by the aspirins
young artist So greatly did his gen
eral appearance annoy the professor
that at the end of the first lesson the
student received instructions to go and
have his hair cut short Although
loath to part with his locks the young
pianist nevertheless obeyed and turned
up at the next lesson with his hair cut
in the conventional way Still Lesche
tizky was not satisfied There is
something about you that I dont like
cried the professor Your ears are too
Ions nave them cut off and let your
hair grow again Smiths Magazine
Electrical Discharges From Plants
The atmosphere surrounding our
earth is known to he electrified and its
charges are bound to play an impor
tant part in many phenomena Atmos
pheric electrification thus is responsi
ble for the formation of rain and hail
and while fine weather generally is
characterized by the presence of posi
tive electricity a change in the weath
er is generally accompanied by a
change in the sign of atmospheric elec
tricity That the electrification of the
air does exert some influence on plant
growth Is inferred from the fact that
electrified plants under the influence
of sunshine can give off electricity
from the leaves and as the air is nat
urally electrified relatively to the soil
all plants are bound to be in a constant
state of slow electrical discharge which
is made active on the rising of the sun
Technical World Magazine
Helped Out
A grocery clerk in a small town had
been considerably bored one day by
solicitors for church fairs raffles char
ity and other purposes and was get
ting disgusted when a small red hair
ed urchin came in and asked him if he
could help him out with a baseball
glove
Got the glove with you 5 asked the
impatient clerk
Er no answered the urchin
Then said the irritable clerk as he
caught him by the neck and trousers
Ill help you out without it Judge
In a Dilemma
A necklace of diamonds has been
stolen from me said Mrs Cumrox
Arent you going to notify the po
lice
I dont know what to do It does
seem rather classy to be robbed of
jewelry and yet I hate to have people
think that Id ever miss a little thing
like a necklace Washington Star
Exclusive
Where do the Hottentots live
Mary a schoolteacher asked one of
her pupils
I dont know m said Mary prim
ly Ma wont let me visit any of the
people in this neghborhood
The Exceptions
Binks has a line new apartment
Everything stationary in it I sup
pose
Absolutely everj thing except his
wife and the cook Harpers Bazar
Cynical
Sillicus Do you think it Is possible
for one woman to make another wom
an perfectly happy Cynicus Oh yes
simply by envying
Record
Ton cannot dream yourself into a
character you must hammer and
Jorge yourself one Thomas Carljje
TALKS ON ADVERTISING
V Getting New Customers
And Holding Them
By Henry Herbert Huff
COPYRIGHT 1009 BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
Mr Business Man it costs just so much for running ex
penses rent light fuel clerk hire whether you sell ten or a
hundred dollars worth of goods per day does it not You call
them fixed expenses Now the only way to lower fixed expenses
is to increaso sales Up to a certain point all excess business
brings you an added profit It pays to lay hold on all you possibly
can Advertising offers the best means for increasing trade
New customers are attracted by leaders merchandise at unusu
ally low prices An instance is told of an old lady who came nine
miles to get a spool of cotton thread for 3 cents but she purchased
several dollars worth of goods before leaving the store The ad
has accomplished its mission when it gets a prospective patron
within the doors That is the most difficult part It is then up
to the merchant to make the most Of the Opportunity and win
him for a permanent customer
The merchant who utilizes newspaper publicity has the whole
world to draw trade from Lie is confined to no particular neigh
borhood He knows no barriers Wherever he can send his ad
vertising there he can solicit business Some of the more ambi
tious country merchants are drawing business from the big towns
The advertisers opportunities are unlimited Through the news
paper he can reach people he never saw or who perhaps never
heard of his store
But how about holding them
That depends quite as much upon the merchant as the adver
tising If customers receive satisfaction they will continue to
come But nothing HOLDS them like continued bargain offers
Have a few new specials every Saturday Keep the farmers guess
ing wlmt will come next
What advice can you give to the dealer starting in business
What more at variance with good judgment could be imagined
than for a merchant to come to town rent a store fill the shelves
and counters with new goods arrange attractive displays in the
windows put competent salesmen behind the counters and then
WAIT for business WAIT for people to come in and buy WAIT
for them to find out what he has to sell WAIT for the public to
learn of his very existence And yet it is not uncommon for one
to do this Advertising would have carried all such information to
prospective buyers He spares no expense to have stock and fix
tures the finest and yet neglects the greatest essential of all Should
you inquire why he spends nothing for publicity he would probably
say that pleased patrons and his window displays are sufficient ad
vertising Word of mouth publicity is the best but it is too slow
Gossip has wings but favorable news travels slowly And as to the
window a newspaper announcement is often necessary to call at
tention to it
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The Seattle Exposition invites you The Pacific Coast country
in the development of its marvelous civilization solicits you to
journey through that land The melting snow of the mountains is
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cultural wizards those mighty forests are the last of their kind left
standing in this country there are no such orchards orange groves
or floral landscapes in the world nor have there ever been On a
tour of the Coast you pass through an empire where the romance
of the Spanish past has been merged with the human activities of
the new West
See your own country see the West with its fast growing wealth
population and incomparable cities and learn what a future it may
offer to your sons this five thousand mile journey is a broad educa
tion 1909 offers much to tempt you
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