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Y., has a Housewives’ league that has started an investiga tion of the high prices being charged by tho local dealers. Mrs. H. M. Crow dor, at tho head of the league, cau tioned tho members against laying In too largo supplies and urged them to Wy more economically than ever. The farmers will be asked to co-operate with the league and keep the mem bers supplied. tom own DRrunisT to, tkt.i, yoi; PI Mart*. Byo iL-mmiy for Red, Weak, Water, Pina ud Sbuiulateil Hjrellda; No Bnmrtln* HU Sr. Cot*fort. Write for Book of Ui. Hj. •r aul Dim, Murln. Br« 1‘nmody Co.. CMcaga More Valuable. “Money has no value In Europe «ow.“ “No; I heard at Monte Carlo they •wore staking ham sandwiches." Activities of Women. The duchess of Sutherland, who 1* acting as a Hod Cross nurse, was un der lire during the bombardment of Namur by tho Germans. Of the 600,000 women workers em ployed by tho trades In London over forty-five thousand are out of work, while some two hundred thousand are on half time. Mrs. George W. Goothals, wife of the governor of the Panama canal zone, Is known os the “first lady of the land" in that territory. Over one million women signed the appeal presented to President Wilson asking him to lead a movement for peace among the warring nations abroad. Pertinent Suggestion. A Wealthy but miserly merchant was ■celebrated for having a magnificently decorated dining room, whilst his vtarnts were very few. A celebrated wtt was Invited to dine on a certain occasion, and tho host asked him If he 4td*t think the room elegant. "Yea." was the reply. “But it Is not quite to my taste.” “And what change would you DMAtet“ asked the host. “Well,” answered the wit, “if this were my house, you know, I would b**e“—-looking at the celling—“less gtMtag a«d”—here he glanced furtive ly at the dining table—“more carving.” j DANCE CRAZE IS FIRST APPEARANCE OF SOCIAL HYSTERIA IN CENTURIES From Cottrell's Magazine. This present epidemic of dancing— which began with the turkey trot, ther changed to the bunny hug, Texas tommy, fishworn wriggle, Frisco glkk and finally the tango—is the first vio lent appearance of social neurastheniE or hysteria since the Fifteenth century The dancing mania of the Mlddk Ages did not assume the proportions of a social disease until July, 1374 when a frenzy swept through the towr of Aix-la-Chapelle and whole mobs ol men and women danced in the streets screaming and foaming at the mouth This was kept up until they fell from exhaustion, and a great many of tht dancers finished by beating their heads against walls until they heard tht overture In the clouds. Th dancing mania had its groatesl run in the German cities, but mildei off-shoots reached out liko caravans and extended Into all parts of Europe. Italy was hardest struck with this plague in the town of Taranto. It be camo known as tarantism, and was diagnosed by the physicians of that time as a contagious malady started by tho bite of the tarantula spider. The Italian doctors tried many ways of curing patients who had the dancing mania. They invented a very fast dance known as tho tarantella, to the accompaniment of castanets anil tam bourines. The idea probably was to let the disease feed on Itself, on the same principle that a certain dose of arsenic will kill, but an overdose will not. It took 200 years for tarantism to run its course in the hot Italian blood, and historians recorded that the most ef fective plan discovered for curing dan cing mania was to liury the patients in the ground up to their necks. Dancing 8,000 Years Ago. Dancing is the most ancient of the arts. Confucius mentioned it and it was recorded In that part of the Hindu Vedas written nearly 8,000 years ago. It Is found in three forms: warlike, religious and social. The first dancing probably came as natural as breathing; in springtime, youth became Intoxicated with the Joy of life and danced much as we see colts frisking about in pastures. Warlike dancing began when the victors In battle leaped and shouted to express their satisfaction. There is no primitive tribe where we do not find dancing of some sort to the rhythmic pounding on hollow logs or ground-drums, or the beating to gether of Bticks. When they haven't musical Instruments, they clap their hands liko darkeys at a breakdown. Dancing Is a pretty expression of the people of a nation—warlike, sen suous, poetic or religious. The Greek priests were shrewd enough to make it a part of the na tional religion. Waltz Is Oldest. The waltz Is the oldest of modern dances. It has been in vogue con tinuously since 1555 when, known as La Volta, it cropped out at Fontaine bleau where Henry II was holding court. In 1810 there came a great revival of dancing In England. Raikes in his Journal recorded that the sports of that day ceased lounging of mornings and practiced new dances, prancing about with n chair when a partner was not at hand. Twenty-six years later, a dance known as the lancers swept into popu larity. Four society girls picked it up In Turkey and inoculated London. Queen Victoria was n lancers fiend and ordered it included in the dance pro gram at Buckingham palace—where it still is retained. Then came the polka epidemic In 1844, beside which the present tangc craze is mild. The polka wan an old peasant dance, handed down with folk-lore. Joset Neruda saw a girl dance it in the Elbeleinitz market place. He showed it to some friends in Prague. From there it spread to Vienna and Paris. The Greatest Dancing Master. Then Cellarlue, a Frenchman, prob ably the greatest dancing master who ever lived, took the polka to London and cleaned up several fortunes with It. The newspapers said that he was kept busy giving lessons that the one hour between 2 and 3 a. m. was the only time he had in which to sleep. None of the freak dances of that time lasted. They wefe given names like ragtime musie. Up Tails All, Lumps of Pudding, The Bath, The Ladies’ Misfortune, Rub Her Down With otraw, and there was one dance called An Old Man’s a Bagful o' Bones. Here in America we have originated only one international dance: tho two step. Most of our other dances were de vised by plantation darkeys—cake walks, reels, clogs and breakdowns— nnd never “took’ abroad, except on the stage. The roller skating obseRslon of the early ’80s put dancing in the back ground and when roller skates got common during the ’00s dancing did not. come back—bicycles came In. Then bicycles got so common that when they went by boys yelled "Ice,” and for a timo it looked good for danc ing. But along cnme automobiles, and it was not until tho novelty of riding in an automobile began to wear off that the recent revival of dancing be gan. Tango Is Japanese. The tango did not originate In Ar gentine. It came from Tango, Japan, a dis trict on the southern shore of Wasaka bay down on the west coast, where It originated some 300 years ago in the city of Hashidate. Hashidate, Matsushima and Miyas hima are the Japanese pleasure resorts corresponding to our Newport, Atlan tic. City and Tuxedo. The music for the Japanese tango was strummed on an instrument known as the stamisen. When Argen tine borrowed the dance from Japan and gave it plenty of advertising, they discarded the stamisen and hired brass bands. They also modified the dance Just as a composer makes ragtime out of classical music by eliminating notes in regtflar combinations to get a synco pated, choppy, snappy effect. Tango itself is an oriental word; the name of the Chinese dynasty that ruled from 018 to 905, A. D. Nearly all sensuous dances originate in' tho hot countries, and Japan has been a rising point for rivers of danc ing that sent out branches all over the world. The famous side show hulu-hulu dance of the Hawaiian islands was adapted from the Japanese sacred hulu dance. Wo have all been reading of the great awakening of China, how the Chinese are striving to eclipse* the Japs. The success of the Japanese tango evidently made China Jealous, for about the time tho new tariff bill passed the Senate, they exported a Chinese dance known as the tao-tao, which already is eclipsing the tango here in America. “Hop light, ladles, your cake’s all dough.” THE AMERICAN WOMAN'S IMPORTED GOWNS. Ida M. Tarbell. In the Woman’s Home Companion. What Is the label on which we American women pride ourselves? Do we boast that the silk In our gowns came from Massachusetts, the cloth tn our coats from Rhode Island, that our lint was designed in Chicago and our house furnishings in Grand Rapids? Not we! There is scarcely a woman of us between the Atlantic and the Pa cific that does not love the feel of the word “Imported" on her tongue. What were the frantic bedraggled, moneyless American women who fled from Europe in early August hugging to their breasts? Paris hats and Belgian laces, French silks and Swiss embroid eries, Viennese gowns and German hoisery. Of all the tens of thousands of American women who crowded Europe when war seized her, there was scarcely one that was not planning to tiring home all hor income allowed ot finery. It is so every year. And what sums they leave behind. And. more import ant, what stimulus to art and ingen uity they leave behind though it is only by money we can measure it. What that is. look at their invoices and see. I have examined scores of them which called for from $5,000 to $30,000 in duties. And tills did not include what was not declared—diamonds in the heel of a slipper, lace tn a double walled trunk, lingerie in a laundry bag! These personal importations are but a bagatelle beside ttiose rf merchants, which In many lines run into the tens of millions annually. Hats and bon nets and feathers and flowers come into ibis country to the tune of at least $20, 000,000 a year; jewelry between $10, 000.000 and $50,000,000; silks made up and in the piece nearly $100,000 000. And so one might go on through the be wildering assortment of articles which make for our elegance. Why do we do It? “Because"— any woman of taste and knowledge will tell you this—“I can get in European products more beauty of design, more snap’ in style, more cunning in details more durability in material." And why? Are American manufacturers and designers incapable of this superior craftsmanship and art? No, the truth is that American women have never given them a fair opportunity to prove what they can do. Consider for a mo ment what It would moan to our manu facturers and designers if annually their factories and workrooms were visited by hundreds of women examin ing their stock, suggesting designs, en ■ eouraglng experiments, giving liberal orders. It is to Europe we give this stimulus. Moreover, if these women had the opportunity to choose between two equally good pieces of work, domestic and foreign, they would every time take the foreign. That is the fact of the relation of the woman in the United States, who can influence these things to her country’s industry. She has little sense of responsibility, little loyalty or pride In this matter. And what are the results of industry? Can our manufacturers do anything else than become makers of cheap goods? Would they do otherwise if they could? I It has teen my busmess to go much In the last few years among American manufacturers. One of the things which has Impressed me deepest has been the men who wanted to make good things; who apologized for cheap wares. I remember a Massachusetts woolen manufacturer showing me three differ ent pieces of exquisitely woven stuffs. They wero oases in cords of cotton worsteds. "I make these," ho told me, "for the pleasure of making a good thing. Bradford can do nothing better; but there isn’t an American woman alive who wouldn’t prefer to say that Brad ford made the cloth In her suit, rather than Massachusetts," I have had spread before me as beau tiful designs for summer cottons as were ever made, and heard the manu facturer say. with longing in his voice: ‘■t*’ we could but put these into fine, soft fabrics! but the American woman will not buy expensive domestic goods. She demands the foreign mark." As pliable, durable and beautifully finished silks as there are In the world can be made here In quantities. But where Is the American woman who boasts that sho wears American silks’’ The day has come for the American woman to wake up to her dtttv to the industries of this country. What Is Greatness? Ah. gentle, tender lady mine! The winter wind blows cold and shrill Come, till me one more glass of wine ’ And glvo the silly fools their will. ’ And what care we for war or wrack How kings and heroes rise and fall? Look yonder,* In his coffin black There lies the greatest of them all. To pluck him down, and keep him up. Died many million human souls— 'Tis twelve o’clock and time to sap Bid Mary heap the fire with coals. ’ He captured many thousand guns' We wrote "The Great" before his name; And dying, only left his sons The recollection of his shame. Though more than half the world was his He died without a road his own; And borrowed from his enemies Six foot of ground to lie upon. He fought a thousand glorious wars. And more thnn half the world was his; And somewhere now, In yonder stars. Can tell, mayhap, what greatness Is. —William Makepeace Thackeray. •Written at Parts at the time of the sec ond funeral of Napoleon. Doos Foucrht With Soldiers. The Belgian newspaper Patriote give* the following story: "A battery of Belgian mitrailleuses was surrounded when the ammunition was ex hausted, but the men determined to make a dash with clubbed rifles, using their bayonets as daggers. As everybody famil iar with Belgium knows, dogs are every where used for light draft, and mitrail leuse batteries are mostly drawn by tiese tine animals. Seeing tlielr masters rongh ly treated In a hand to hand fight, the clogs joined in so effectively us to enable the gunners to break through, while the dogs covered their retreat "A soldier carried one ot these heroic beasts In his arms, for It had a bullet through the paw. But It did not whine just kept licking the hand of its rescuer.” The personnel of the navy of th* United States la more than 68.000, 4 4 4 “DO NOCLE THINGS— 4 1 4 NOT DREAM THEM 4 4 ♦ 4 Annie Wlnsor Allen In the Atlantic. 4 4 To each man. by an illusion of 4 4 Interior optics, his own real life 4 4 appears to be, not what we see 4 4 him doing, hut what lie feels 4 4 himself feeling—his own lnvis- 4 4 lble sensations, emotions, aspl- 4 4 rations and satisfactions. He 4 4 is to himself the center of a 4 4 web-like universe, and every 4 4 least nerve message that comes 4 4 to him Is. by a necessity of his 4 4 soul's unity, equally interesting 4 4 and exciting to him. But this 4 4 subjectiveness is not life; it is 4 4 existence. Life is conduct; it is 4 4 growth and betterment: it is 4 4 what follows the emotion and 4 4 desire; it is effert and achieve- 4 4 ment or failure. Unless we do 4 4 the things, we cannot get be- 4 4 yond to seek further things. As 4 4 far hack as man began he has 4 I 4 thought and felt delicately. The 4 j 4 Mid-Victorians sot out to dell- 4 i 4 ratoly. It is this doing the 4 There Is But One Morality. From the Chicago Herald. In Ills Labor day speech at Platt3burg, N. Y., Samuel Gompers uttered this pat riotic wish: "May our country prove to the world that there Is such a thing as an Inter national morality, and may she help the warring nations back to a plane of peace and Justice! ' May site do even more! May she not only show that there is an international morality, but a morality In the mutual relations of all divisions of our popula ting! May no aggregation of men within the nation, however numerous, get the idea that mere numbers alter In any way the moral obligation! May no man who la a member of any aggregation labor under the delusion that It Is right to do things to promote the success of that organization that are not right to promote the success of an indi vidual! We have outcroppings of this mistaken Idea from time to time. We see the fa miliar tendency of bigness and numbers to Imagine that they are in some way released from the moral rules that apply to Individuals. This is all wrong. There Is only one morality, and that applies to every nation, race, tribe or organization and individual. What's right Is not a question to be de cided by numbers or size. This country will not have performed Its duty to the world and to Itself until It has proved not only that there Is an International hut also an "inter-every tliing” morality. Britain Mothered Germany’s Navy. From Answers, London. Strange though the assertion may sound, it is nevertheless literally and absolutely true that the German navy is the child of the British navy. There are people still living in Ports mouth who can recall seeing a little boy in a sailor suit, who, moro than 40 years ago. used to wander about the dockyard, looking at the ships there with eager curiosity and asking all sorts of questions concerning them. This little boy was none other than the present German emperor, who in those days was a frequent visitor to his grandmother. Queen Victoria, at Os borne. The then newly created Ger man empire had at that time prac tically no fleet, and the child, old be yond his years, was frequently heard to lament this fact. "When I grow up I will have ships built like these,” he was once heard to remark, indicating with a wave of Ids hand the stately ironclads moving in and out of Spitliead. Meanwhile, as he himself told us, he talked ships by day and dreamt ships by night, while at home In Germany his favorite recrea tion was to sail a beautiful 20-ton model of a British frigato on the Havel lakes near Potsdam. Food Price Advance Not Justified. From tlie Saturday Evening Post. Commodity prices in the United States have advanced to the highest level ever recorded on a gold basis—much above tlie level of five and six years ago, when discussing and denouncing the high cost of living was a national occupation Taking the many staple articles that en ter into Bradstreet's index number, the advance in a fortnight after war was de clared amounted to 13 per cent. Generally speaking, this advance was quite unjustifiable. There was not the slightest reason, for example, to suppose that war in Europe would at nil affect either the demand or the supply of poultry and vegetables In this country but In a fortnight poultry and vegetables moved up from 20 to 40 per cent. Even In rural districts, where local supply meets local demand, such advances took place. There was no conspiracy about It, and the causes are beyond the reach of the most puissant attorney general Everybody was excited about war; and through long habit war and food are asso ciated in the public mind. A culinary panic occurred. People with food to sell marked up tlie price and people who had to buy food paid it. There might reasonably have been some advance in sugar, but the price doubled in 10 days—incidentally, accord ing to Wall street's calculation, netting tho sugar trust a profit of ¥8,000,000. That was merely panic, for width the sugar trust was no more particularly to blame than anybody els*. The only feasible remedy lies In the hands of consumers. If they will cut down consumption of articles that have unreasonably advanced the price will fall, wheat and sugar are the only staple food articles the distribution of which seems likely to be affected In a permanent wav by the war. Probably the demand for the former will be increased, because each belligerent, with the possible exception of Russia, will wish to store up as large a stool, of the cereal as possible. And th« available supply of sugar will doubtless bo decreased. As to most articles, consumers are war ranted in resenting an advance in price: lint the resentment will not bo effectual except as it expresses itself in a refusa to buy. Never Got That High. Speaking of the new French dresses now on exhibition in tlie large depart ment stores throughout the country, Eleanor Gates said in Boston: "I am glad to see that the slit skirt Is abolished. The slit was too immod est. especially' when it was a shocking ly long slit How those long silts drew all eyes! "A Philadelphia debutante, provided with a beautiful wardrobe in which the slit skirt in Its most exaggerated form figured extensively, spent the winter at Palm Beach. "One morning, in her white serge gown from Callot. slit almost to the knee, she was Leaving her hotel for the beach when her sister called her back and said: “ 'Oh, Mary, you’ve got a big black srnulge on your nose!’ "With an indifferent toss of her head the debutante answered: “ 'What difference does that make! Nobody ever looks at my face when I've got a slit skirt on.’ ’’ 4 4 4 VILLAINS AND HEROES. 4 4 4 4 One murder m^de a villain, 4 4 Millions a hero—princes were 4 4 privileged 4 4 To kill, and numbers sanctified 4 4 the crime. 4 4 Ah! why will kings forget that 4 4 they’ are men. 4 4 And men that they are breth- 4 4 ren? 4 4 —Bishop Porteus. 4 4 4 ♦444-4444444444444444444-44* WINCHES rTH E BRAND T8AP* MARK MO. IM U. I. PAT. OPT. REVOLVER AND PISTOL CARTRIDGES. Winchester Revolver and Pistol cart ridges in all calibers prove their sup eriority by the targets they make. Shoot them and you’ll find they are i ACCURATE, CLEAN, SURE Mi_ ™_ _ DEFENDS POPULAR REMEDIED Speaker Says Newspapers Should In vestigate Merits of Medicines Be fore Barring Advertisements. That an organized attempt has heel I made to blacken the reputation of tin popular family remedies of this coun try, and to mislead the newspapei publishers into rejecting the adver tising of such medicines, was th< charge made by Carl J. Balliett, o! , Buffalo, N. Y., at the convention of the i Advertising Affiliation at Detroit. I Mr. Balliett is a director of the Pro prietary Association of America, whict ( includes in its membership two hun ' dred firms which make the populai | prepared medicines of America. Mr. Balliett pointed out that it is I tlle duty of the newspaper publishei ! refuse the advertising of any fake or fraudulent medicine, just as it is his duty to refuse any fake or fraudu , lent advertising, but it is not right to shut down on ali medical advertising because there have been some fakers, any more than it would be right to refuse to publish all department store advertising because certain stores have made a practice of lying about uargain sales. Disease and death are mysteries. People who are perfectly well are skeptical. They laugh at the time worn patent medicine joke, just they laugh again and again over the many variations of the operation joke —“The operation was a success but the patient died.” This so-called hu mor has perhaps hurt the medicine business with well people, but when the hitherto healthy man feels a se vere pain or illness, he immediately wants medicine, and will bless the cure whether it be at the hands of a regular doctor, a homeopath, an osteo path, a Christian Scientist or patent medicine. There is nothing more deadly than disease; nothing more honorable than to cure it. Mr. Balliett refuted the Idea sought to be spread about that pav.-nt medi cines are unpopular by showing that from 1900 to 1912 the amount of pre pared medicines consumed in America increased from $100,000,000 to $1G0, 000,000 annually. He showed that, al though the American Medical Associ ation is trying as an organization to exterminate so-called patent medi cines, the family doctor, individually, is not fighting them but prescribing them. He estimated that 40% of the prescriptions written by doctors today include proprietary medicines. The writings of Dr. Harvey W. Wi ley, he said, have also aimed to de stroy confidence in proprietary medi cines; but that Dr. Wiley’s ideas are not infallible is shown by cases where his analyses were entirely wrong. Mr. Balliett mentioned a case where, with all the power of the Government, he fought a pieparation as being danger ous to health, and was ingloriously walloped. There has been spread the idea that a clever faker can mix a few useless ingredients and, by smart advertising, sell tons of it and win sudden wealth; whereas, as a matter of tact, the medi cine business is notoriously difficult, and, where there has been one success at it, there have been a hundred fail ures. Any medicine which has no merit cannot live, because persons who are duped into buying it once will not buy it again, and the profit from advertising a medicine can only come from repeat sales to the same, satis fied people. Therefore, any medicine which has been on the market for a number of years, and is still adver tised, must have merit behind it to ac count for its success. In conclusion Mr. Balliett declared that no newspaper is doing justice to 4Sf fag Jk O^y son — any industrious American who is nj l", ®i anxious to establish for himself a happy 1 ^|i| ^ge^nfi fS home and prosperity. Canada’s hearty in K wfcwsfSS gT4_5.®S vitat*on this year is more attractive than rnftfir fl ever. Wheat is higher but her farm land just as cheap and in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta | 180 Acre Homesteads are Actually Free to Setters and Other Laud at From $15 to $20 per Acra The people of European countries as well as the American continent must be fed - -thus an even greater demand for Canadian Wheat will keep | up the price. Any farmer who can buy land at $15.00 to $30 00 per acre % —get a dollar for wheat and raise 20 to 45 bushels to the acre is bound to make money—that's what you can expect in Western Canada. Wonder- f :j ful yields also of Oats, Barley and Flax. Mixed Farming is fully as prof- , itable an industry as grain raising. The excellent grasses, full of nutrition,MHHH|^^M are the only food required either for beef or dairy purposes. Good schools,H® Jtfjgjfflg! markets convenient, climate excellent. |j; JRfuppi Mi it.try service is n t compulsory in Canaria but there is an unusual dom mil for f irm Jjfl ’ labor to replace the many young men who have volunteered for service in the war. W Write for literature and particulars as to reduced railway rates to Superintendent rlMlillMfc . ^ Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to JB- |jf J M. Maclsehl n. Drawer 197, Watertown, S. D.; MB w. V. Bennett,220-17th St, Room 4, Bee Bldg, Omaha, j^p ■nb., and & A. Garrett, 311 Jackson St,St. Pad Mm jf Bp Canadian Goverr'.e^Amynt3^JjJBp > j its readers in the matter of medical or other advertising, unless it investi- ** . r'U i, not only the wording of the ad verisement offered for publication, but the merits of the article adver tised. He pointed out that the few , newspapers who have been deluded . foto the policy of barring out medical . advertising have adopted this general . policy, rather than to form an inves* tigation bureau of this kind which could, in a constructive and useful ef fort, investigate and decide what is a good product and what is a fraud, in not only the medicine business, but in every other business which adver tises its wrares to the public. The audience seemed to agree with Mr. Ilalliett’s ideas on the subject and the chairman decided the question at issue in his favor. Shadowing a Shadow. A very stout old lady, going through the park on a very hot day, became aware that she was being followed by a tramp. “What do you mean by following me in this manner?” she indignantly demanded. The tramp slunk back a w little, but when the stout lady re- v sumed her walk he again took up his position directly behind her. “See here!” she exclaimed, angrily, “if you don’t go away I shall call a policeman.” “For heaven’s sake, kind lady,” urged the tramp, looking at her ap pealingly, “have mercy and don't call a policeman. You’re the only shady spot in the whole park.”—Harper's Magazine. Hard Job for Agent. Some years ago the owner of a small vaudeville house out West, who had spent some time in the clothing store he had formerly owned than he had in school, found the receipts of the theater dropping off, and decided to cut expenses. A few days later his vaudeville agent called him up and said he was sending him a quar tet for the next week's bill. “How many in a quartet?" asked the manager. “Four,” answered the agent, nat urally a bit surprised at the question. “Nothing doing,” came back the manager. “You’ll have to cut it to a quartet of two.” Alsace and Lorraine. The area of Alsace is 3,344 square miles; of Lorraine, 2,309 square miles. Population of Alsace-Lorraine, 1,800, 000, of mixed German, French and Celt stock. Incorporated with the German empire in the tenth century, Alsace Lorraine had been practically French since the treaty of Westphalia, in 1648, until it was taken by Germany in 1S71 as one of the spoils of the Franco Prussian war. Roll of British Soldier Dead. A beautifully illuminated book, con taining 22,000 names, a roll of the dead in the South African war, is on view at the Royal United Service in stitution at London. It will be placed in Cape Town cathedral as part of a memorial. Had No Objection. Callow Youth—Can I have this dance? Proud Beauty—Why, certainly. I don’t want it. Rather Inquisitive. “One ticket to Lemont.” “Single?” “None of your business.”—Life. It's a homely girl that a photogra pher cannot pose to look pretty.—Des eret News.