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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
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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.
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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.
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4 A LOVING HEART. 4
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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
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TALK ON WESTERN
<r
You Don’t Have to Lie About
Canada—The Simple Truth
Is Enough.
The natural resources of the coun
try are so vast that they cannot be
told in mere figures. Man can only
tell of what tiny portions have done.
He can only say, “I am more pros
perous than I ever expected to be.”
And yet if a farmer expects to suc
ceed on land that he has been forced
to pay $50 to $100 an acre for he ought
to feel assured of attaining prosperity
when he finds the richest prairie soil
at his disposal absolutely free. If ho
has a little capital, let him invest it
all in live stock and farm implements
—he will find himself ten years ahead
of the game. Some day such a chance
will not be found anywhere on the
face of the globe. But now the same
opportunities await you as awaited
the pioneer and not one hundredth
part of the difficulties he encountered
and overcame. Success in Canada is
made up of two things, natural re
sources and human labor. Canada
has the one and you the other. A
postal card stands between you and
the Canadian government agent. If
you don’t hold these two forces and
enjoy the fruits of the result it ie your
own fault.
Debt and Canada Will Not Stand
Hitched.
You want a cozy home, a free life,
and sufficient income. You want edu
cation for your children, and some
pleasure for your wife. You want in
dependence. Your burden has been
heavy, and your farm hasn’t paid.
Lou work hard and are discouraged.
You require a change. There is a
goal within sight, where your children
Will have advantages. You can get a
home in Western Canada, freedom,
where your ambitions can be fulfilled. •*.
If the Prairie Provinces of Canada are
Tull of Successful Farmers why should
jmu prove the exception? Haven't yon
!ot brains, experience, courage? Then
rove what these are capable of when
put on trial. It is encouraging to
know that there is one country in the
World where poverty Is no barrier to
Wealth; own your own car; own your
self; be somebody.
For facts -write to any Canadian
government agent. Advertisement
No Fortune Telling in Germany.
Fortune tellers now are forbidden
to practice in any part of the German
empire. Soon after the war broke
out, they began to do an enormous
business with relatives of soldiers in
the field, who wanted to know how
things were going with them. Visits
to the fortune tellers often had tragic
consequences, as many of the callers
were in a high state of nervous ten
sion. The uncertainty of relatives re
garding their men folk at the front
has been aggravated by an alleged
muddle of the field postal organiza
tion, which is being severely criti
cized by the newspapers.
No sick headache, sour stomach,
biliousness or constipation
by morning.
Get a 10-cent box now.
Turn the rascals out—the headache,
biliousness, indigestion, the sick, sour
stomach and foul gases—turn them
out to-night and keep them out with
Cascarets.
Millions of men and women take a
Cascaret now and then and never
know the misery caused by a lazy
liver, clogged bowels or an upset stom
ach.
Don’t put in another day of distress.
Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach;
remove the sour, fermenting food;
take the excess bile from your liver
and carry out all the constipated
waste matter and poison in the
bowels. Then j’ou wit feel great.
A Cascaret to-night straightens you
out by morning. They work while
you sleep. A 10-cent box from
any drug store means a clear bead,
sweet stomach and clean, healthy liver
and bowel action for months. Chil
dren love Cascarets because they
tiever gripe or sicken. Adv.
Preparing a Substitute.
"We are to have company lor din
ner and I don’t believe there is a
grapefruit to be had in town! What
in the world shall I do?”
“Got any oranges?”
“Plenty of them.”
"All right. You be splitting the
oranges and I’ll run down to the drug
store and get a pound of quinine to
dust them with.”
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
One Way Out.
”1 wish I knew how to get riu of
trouble.”
“I’ll help you out. I know a ft-ow
who’s always looking foi it!”—Judge
