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Or send to John A. Salxer Seed Co., Box 700, La Crosse, Wls., twenty cents and receive both above collec tions and their big catalog. It Pleased Him. "You never know what a child will do next,” remarked a mother last week. "Recently, for Instance, I bought some tooth powder highly fla vored with wintorgreen and gave It to my eldest boy, Charlie, who is ten. I’ve been having trouble In getting Charlie to clear, his teeth properly and thought the new powder, because of Its Intense flavor, might encourage him. "A couple of weeks later I noticed that a lot of the new tooth powder was gone. Feeling much pleased, I said to Charlie; ’How Is the new powder doing? Is It keeping your teeth nice and clean" " ‘I don’t know,’ was the reply. ‘ 'Don’t know—haven’t you been cleaning your teeth every day with It? Most of It’s gone.' " ‘Sure It's gone. I’ve beet, eating It. It's fine.’” Same Then as Now. Apollo had proposed taking Venus to the Olympian games. “How long will It take you to get •ready?” he asked. "About ten minutes," Venus an swered. "By thunder!” muttered Apollo, after waiting half an hour. "When she has only to twist up her nair!”— Judge Seven by the Average. Xnicker—How old Is your boy? llocker—He takes a ten-year-old suit and a four-year-old car seat. He aver ages seven. You can’t alwayB judge a man's worth by the taxes he pays. | “JIM” POEMS HIS FAVORITES | Apart From That, There Was a Spe cial Reason Why Whitcomb Riley Liked That One. Janies Whitcomb Riley and Joel Chandler Harris appear in a story bj a writer in the New York Sun. They had sought rest and recuperation in a hotel among the southern mountains and wished to avoid the attempts ol the other guests to lionize them. Much against their wills, however, they were constrained to appear at a “reading" from their own works, after having been routed from a secluded spot in the woods to which they had retired. A young elocutionist had the center of the stage when they got to the ho tel. She led off by announcing a poem by Mr. Riley. She recited it. It was about somebody named Jim. Riley looked impressed. “Would you mind,” he said when she had finished, "reciting that again?” She did not mind, and went at it. Riley wiped a tear away as she fin ished. Then he said, "Please recite it again, if you will.” She did it the third time, and Riley was even more affected. “Do you know,” he said, after she had ended, “I like that. poem. It’s a Jim poem. I always like Jim poems. My own name is Jim. I always read Jim poems. I have written several Jim poems myself. But do you know • why I like this Jim poem better than any other?” The young woman eagerly asked why. The assembled guests leaned forward breathlessly to hear the an swer. “I like it,” said Riley, "because it always reminds me of my dear old friend, Eugene Field. Eugene Field is the man who wrote that poem, you know!”—Youth’s Companion. Didn't Know Her Sister. A woman from a small town, in the city to do some Christmas shopping, stepped up to a clerk at the hosiery counter in one of the department stores. “Say,” she said, “I want to get two pairs of stockings like my sister bought here last August.” “I don’t know your sister, and I probably would not remember what she bought, even if I was acquainted with her,” explained the clerk. "You must remember my sister,” insisted the customer. “She is a lit tle heavy-set woman.” When the clerk still insisted she did not remember the sister or what she bought the customer had to ex plain juBt what kind of stockings she desired. Commercial Courtesies. "So you think the sytem of taxa tion is unbusinesslike?” "Absolutely,” replied Mr. Dustin Stax. “The idea of the government’s refusing to give a big nfinential cus tomer like me a liberal discount for cash.” Another Luxury. Payton—We hear a great deal lately about the high cost of living, and lov ing. Parker—Yes, and the high cost of loafing ought not to be sneezed at, either,—Life. The Cause. “How did you lose your hair?" “Worry. I was in constant fear that I was going to lose it.” MADE A NEW CLASSIFICATION Montana Waiter Announced Lobstcri as the Only "Game” on the Menu That Night. The man from Montana was eating lobster Newburg the other night in a Rroadway restaurant. "Lobsters are common enough tc you people here on the seacoast,” he remarked to a New Yorker, "but when one gets well inland the fresh lobstei becomes a bit more of a novelty. Nol that we don’t get plenty of lobsters in Montana, but, naturally, there they’re not as numerous as down here, and they are regarded as more of a luxury “This fact was brought to my atten tion one night recently in a hotel in Rutte. I got in on a rather late train and went into a restaurant about nine o'clock in the evening for dinner. 1 happened to feel like eating a grouse or a duck or something of that sort. I glanced at the menu and failed tc see any birds. “ ‘Haven’t you got any grouse oi other game?’ I asked the waiter. “ ‘We ain’t got any grouse,’ was the reply. 'The only game we havo is lob sters.’ ” Not Tooth Powder. They were having a clearing house on domestic subjects. “What kind of tooth powder is that In the bathroom cabinet?” the head of the house asked his wife. “Tooth powder?” “Yes, that stuff in a tube. It makes my teeth black and it tastes like asa fetida.” "Why, that’s not tooth powder. That is rheumatism paste we use on moth er’s back.” Women as Inventors. It is probably not generally known that a woman invented the paper bag. Away back in 1870 a patent was grant- | ed Miss Margaret Knight, who die<| only a short time ago at the age ot . seventy-five. There are said to be 310 woman owners of incorporated estab lishments in St. Louis, who, besides managing the business, can do the actual manual labor required. Good Advice. Bacon—I see it said that many per sons are apt to remain too long in a cold bath, and care should be taken to avoid this mistake, which has a debilitating effect if indulged in often. Egbert—If you happen to break through the ice this winter, remem ber that. Don’t stay in too long. He Was Right. Father—I read today that three va rieties of the dog never bark—the Australian dog, the Egyptian shep herd dog and the “lion-headed” dog of I Tibet. Son—There Is one other kind of dog that doesn’t bark, pop—a dead dog. Let’s Hope So. Bill—This paper cays the invention of an Englishman is a machine to per mit a singer to hear his own voice just as an audience hears it. Jill—Do you suppose that will make certain people who sing more merci ful? Not Greedy. Passenger—I'd give you a tip, only I’ve nothing but a ten-dollar bill. Porter—Oh, that’ll be enough, sir. |l ■ • * • I Money for Money— Pound for Pound —there’s no food that equals Grape-Nuts in concentrated food-strength. A pretty big claim, but listen— “All-wheat food” sounds good to most people, but Grape-Nuts goes one better. It not only contains the en tire nutriment of wheat, but also the rich nourishment of barley. ;; ■ i * Morel Grape-Nuts is long baked and digests quickly. Most wheat foods—bread for instance and some so-called breakfast foods—require 2 lA to 3 hours for digestion. Grape-Nuts food digests generally in about one hour. | Being highly concentrated, there’s more actual food value, weight for weight, in Grape-Nuts than in some other foods sold in bigger packages. Grape-Nuts contains the vital bone, muscle and nerve making phosphates necessary for health and life, but lack ing in most wheat foods—white bread especially. A daily ration of Grape-Nuts readily makes up for this lack. Ready to eat from the package, appetizing, nourishing, economical— “There’s a Reason’’ for • I Grape-Nuts —sold by Grocers everywhere. ______ \ TO KILL A GERMAN IS WOMAN'S AMBITION Vengeance For Destruction of Her Whole World Is All She Lives For. 3y Herbert Corey In Kansas City Star. Vllssingen, Holland, (by mail).—At the hotel in Flushing where by great luck I found a shelter under the roof, were two Belgians. One was a tall, erect, soldierly looking man of 78. His wife was eight years younger. Once she must have been uncommonly pret ty. One fancies she was a bit of a flirt. At 70 she was a very charming, elderly woman. Her hands were slen der and very white. A diamond or two were lustrous upon them. "Wo ll'ved outside of Antwerp," said she. “We did not know that the Bosches were coming until one night we heard a banging at the door. Ger man soldiers were cutting it down with axes. They drove my husband and myself into the street in our night clothes. We had no time even to pick up a coat.” As they stood there in the street, bewildered, frightened by the soldiers who pressed about them, dazzled by the torches, their home roared up in flames. They had lived there all their married life. It was filled with the in timate associations brought by life and birth and death. The village street burst into fire behind them. With the other villagers they were driven into the open country—crowding, crying, a half dressed, shivering, shouldering mob—as though they were so many cattle. They were never able to return. “My husband had been a general in the Belgian army,” said she. “Some years ago he retired. He had enough money to live comfortably. Today we have nothing. We have not heard from our two sons. My husband-” She need not finish her sentence. The old man's vacant smile as he sat contentedly in the sun told his story. And then the old woman completed her own. Mind you, all her life she had been sheltered from harsh contact with the world. She had been gently reared. Her years had been spent in good works and little, pretty vanities. “I only wish for one thing now,” said she. “I want to kill a German with my own hand.” REINDEERS HAVE HELPED TO CIVILIZE ALASKANS "In 20 years the reindeer Industry has made the Eskimos of Alaska civilized and thrifty men," says the United States bureau of education In a bulle tin just issued. The reindeer Industry began in Al aska in 1892 when the bureau of edu cation imported from Siberia 171 rein deer. The object of the Importation, according to the bulletin, was to fur nish a source of supply for food and clothing to the Eskimos In the vicinity of Bering strait. This importation was continued until 1902, and a total of 1,280 reindeer were brought from Siberia. There are now 47,266 rein deer distributed among 62 herds, and 30,532 of these are owned by the na tives. This industry has given to the Alas kan Eskimos not only food and cloth ing, but a means of transportation su perior to dog teams. Instead of being nomadic hunters eking out a precariour existance on the vast untimbered lands of the Arctic coast region “the Eskimos” according to the bureau’s bulletin "now have assured support and opportunity to acquire wealth by the sale of meal and skins to the white men.” The reindeer industry is carefully guarded. "No native is permitted to Bell or otherwise dispose of a female reindeer to any person other than a native Alaskan.” This is done, the bulletin states, "lest white men deprive the natives of their reindeer and de stroy this great native industry which the bureau of education has in the last 20 years built up and fostered." The reindeer service is an integral part of the educational system of the bureau of education for northern and western Alaska. The district superin tendents of schools are also superin tendents of the reindeer service. Promising and ambitious young na tives are selected by superintendents is apprentices in the reindeer service, receiving, six, eight or 10 reindeer at ihe close of the first, second and third years, respectively, and 10 more at the close of the fourth year. Upon the sat isfactory termination of his apprentice ship, the native becomes a herder and assumes entire charge of a herd. Blessed Are the Peacemaker Presidents Josephus Daniels in the World Outlook. The heart of the American people is for peace. In the last half century the three presidents most beloved by their country men were the three who strove most to prevent war or did most to mitigate its horrors. Lincoln hoped, up to the shot at Fort Sumter, that the conflict might be averted, and never by word nor act added fuel to the flumes, but strove steadfastly for peace. When unable to prevent the un happy fratricidal struggle, he assuaged the war tempest in every possible way, and died with the love of the American people, nrtfth and south. McKinley, a brave soldier, knew the horrors of war, and exerted his most earn est effort to prevent war with Spain, though virulently assailed by men whom the war spirit dominated. The people of America have forgotten those who criti cised his peace policies, but have immor talized William McKinley. President Wilson, like his two peace-lov ing predecessors, has exerted every influ ence of his great office to prevent a hos tile outbreak between this and other coun tries. His Influence has averted war, and the passage of the peace treaties renders war with any one of 26 nations difficult. The American people take Lincoln, Mc Klnlely and Wilson as their models rather than those who would supplant our en lightened policy of peace with a crushing militarism. _ _ Stay In Your Own Back Yard. Lilacs blooming In the corner by the gar den gate. Mammy In her little cabin door; Curly headed pickaninny coming home sa late. Crying kase his little heart is sore. All the children playing round have skin so white and fair, None of them with him will ever play. So mammy In her lap takes the little weeping chap, And says In her kind old way: CHORUS. “Now honey, you stay In your own back yahd. Don't mind what dem white chile do, What show you 'spose dey's agwlne to git A poor little coon like you? So stay on dls side ob de high boad fence, And honey don't you cry so hahd. Go out and-a play just as much as yot please But stay In your own back yahd." Every day the children as they pass old mammy’s place, Romping home front school at night 01 noon, Peering through the fence would see thli eager little face. Such a wistful looking little coon. But one day the little faco had gone foi evermore, God had called the dusky little elf. But mammy In the door sat and rocked ai oft before. And crooned to her own black self. [BERLIN IS CITY OF ~ HEART BROKEN WOMEN War Puts Them to Supreme Test But They Are Meet ing It Bravely. Zoo Beckley, In the New York Mall. Berlin Is a city of saddened women. They make change on the buses and tram cars in place of the men gone tb war. They keep the shops. They sweep the streets. Actresses, singers, store managers—all the higher paid workers are living in fair comfort on what they have saved. Others are buying 10 pfen nig dinners which the government pro vides. Those who have not the 10 pfennigs, but do have appetites, eat what their kind hearted rich sisters cook and distribute for them at stations around the city. For the rest—well, there are many too heartsick to eat. These are the war widows, who wero given 10 minutes at many mobilization centers in which to marry their soldier sweethearts if they choose thus to in sure their little pension .money. Edith Donnerberg Dunaew, who would bo famed as a beauty if she were not as a writer, and failing both, would deserve honors for being “the happiest married woman in the world,” has just arrived from the stricken city of Berlin, where she was taking a uni versity course in philosophy. Impressions Confused. "I am feeling too nightmarish yet,” she laughed, “to talk Intelligently. My mind is one confused jumble of impres sions—women's tears, mutilated sold iers, hungry babies, artillery rattling on country roads, girls knitting stock ing as they take kaffee kiatsch in pub lic cafes, women collecting hospital supplies, old men and children doing strong men's work. Oh, this war, which is rending Germany and which I be lieve will go on until her last soldier falls!” “Before I escaped from Berlin," went on Mme. Dunaew, “I saw sights that will stay In my heart forever. “The city is lull of girls and women who force their lips to a patriotism their souls reject. A mother utters the words, ‘My sons died for their coun try; I am glad.’ But her heart withers as she says it. “In Berlin I worked for the Red Cross. Everybody helped who was able to hold a needle or make a soup. “I have seen scores of girls who mar ried their soldier sweethearts 10 min utes after the first call to war, and found their names in the list of killed within a week thereafter. Many Marry In Haste. “That is the way to marry, though. The woman who falters and questions and wants time to prepare is not the woman who truly loves. She who knows real love knows it Instantly, and should trust her heart. “But—we were talking of Berlin and its little war widows! Something sad der still Is when the soldier-sweetheart husband comes back from the battle field maimed and crushed. Limbs gone, eyes put out, reason shattered. Oh, these are the terrible tests! “I have watched hospital scenes dra matic enough, tragic enough, to build a hundred plays upon. I have seen girls rush out, bring back a priest and go through the marriage ceremony light there while the poor, shattered creature on the cot wept half in protest at the sweetheart’s sacrifice, half in grateful joy. “And I have seen the other side; when the girl coludn't accept her cruel fate; when her spirit crumpled under the test; when she turned away from tho maimed form, unable to endure what fae required of her. “War is woman’s supremest test in everyway. I pray the women of Amer ica may never be called upon to en dure such anguish as their sisters in Germany are bearing today.” •4 4 4 THE GERMAN ATTITUDE 4 4 TOWARD THE ENGLISH 4 MMHIMMUUIMUtHU t From the National Magazine. And this hatred of England Is a legacy from Bismarck. By every law they should have been friends. The reigning house of England today is German, for it was the duke of Han over who was made Kin# George I of England, of which the present George is the sixth in descent. George I never bould speak English, or at best very brokenly. The mother of the present emperor was a daughter of Queen Victoria, one of the most beautiful and accomplished women of her age. Front the first, Bismarck made war on her and his persecution of her forms one of the most disgraceful chapters In German history. The humanitation ideas which she brought over the channel were always most irritating to the man of “Blut und Eisen.” This hatred was well augmented by his dis ciple Treitzschke. who said in 1884: "We have reckoned with France, Aus tria and Russia: the reckoning with England has still to come; it will be the longest and the most difficult." Through the press a constant education of hatred of England was kept up by Bismarck, and since then by others, un til it is certainly true that the military circles and diplomatic circles of Ger many hated England more than the Slav. Whether such a hatred of Ger many has been at all prevalent in Eng land I doubt, but that there has been a growing and constant fear of Ger many in the islands 1 do know. 4 BUYERS TO HAVE CLUB 4 4 IN NEW YORK CITY 4 * From the New York Evening Sun. A 13-story buyers’ buiding, to house the New York offices of all the prin cipal department stores of the country, with a sufficient number of individual rooms for rent to buyers who visit the city only at intervals, is the project now in the mind of the National Retal Dry Goods association. It will be sub mtted to the organization at the annual convention to be held here in February. The plan includes provision for a res taurant. library and other club ac companiments, so that congeniality and business may both be promoted. For a long time many lines of trade in New York have segregated them selves into very clearly defined dis tricts by natural gravitation to the con venience of out-of-town buyers, and this process logically suggests even a more specific center of trade. The so cial side has been centralized already to some extent with headquarters for the various associations, but the cora btnatlo noffice and club building is a more comprehensive development. 44444444444444444444444444 4 A LOVING HEART. 4 4 4 4 Whittier. 4 i 4 A loving heart carries with It, ♦ 4 under every parallel of latitude, 4 4 the warmth and light of the trop- 4 • 4 les. It plants Its Eden in the wild- 4 4 erncss and solitary place, and sows 4 4 with ltowers the gray desolation of 4 i 4 rocks and. mosses. 4 4 4 ^4444444444444444444444444 TALK ON WESTERN