V Equal to It
J Husband (at office telephone)—Hel
lo! Is this you, Henrietta?
Wife (at home telephone)—It is.
“You know that matter we were talk
ing about this morning at breakfastV"
“I do.”
"Well, there's a lot to be said on that
subject, i find."
"Well, come on home and let me say
it.”
Malaria on Decline.
Malaria is much less widely pre
valent in tlie United States now than
formerly.
India’s 1017 cotton crop- is 22 per
cent larger than that of If)Hi.
FARMERS ARE WORKING HARDER
Ami using their feet more than ever before.
For all these workers the frequent use of
Allen's Foot-Ease, the antiseptic powder to
be shaken into the shoes and sprinkled in the
foot-bath, increases their efficiency and in
sures needed physical comfort. It takes the
Friction from the Shoe, freshens the feet,
and prevents tired, aching and blistered feet.
Women everywhere are cobstant users of
Allen’s Foot—Ease. Don’t get foot sore, get
Allen's Foot-Ease. Sold by dealers every
where, 25c.—Adv.
Florida is to have a chain of tour
ist hotels, to cost $35,000,000, backed
by Eastern capital.
India will this year produce 34.079,
000 tons of rice.
What is Castoria
CASTORIA is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither
Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guar
antee. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief
of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverish
ness arising therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels,
aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over
SO years, has borne the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher, and has been made under
his personal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and‘*Just-as-Good” are but Experiments that
trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and
Children—Experience against Experiment.
Genuine Castoria always bears the signature of
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One-Sided Recognition.
They passed on the street without
speaking—but their eyes held mutual
recognition and challenge. She was
accompanied by a female friend, and
he had a male companion. When they
had passed, the girl said:
“That was poor Jack Jurgens. He
didn't speak, but you noticed his look,
didn’t you? Poor boy—it hurts me to
think lievv he has never got over my
refusal to marry him. Of course, he
was all broken up at the'time, but I
thought he would soon get over it. He’s
thinner, isn’t he? I do hope that lie
hasn’t plunged into dissipation. He
couldn’t trust himself to speak, could
lie? Oh. dear!”
And the man was saying:
“Did you see how that dame gave me
tlie eye? I suppose I should have
spoken to her, because I can’t help
thinking I’ve met her somewhere—her
face is familiar, but I can’t place.her.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Overhead Charges.
‘‘What did that new hut cost?”
“Five dollars. That’s ilie initial
cost.”
■ “Yes?”
“1 expect to spend three times that
much checking it this summer.”
Don’t trust your future happiness
with a woman who has no sense of
humor.
One of Fixtures.
I Ie—Your brother is one of the fix
tures in ilie gas works, I suppose?
She—I guess so—anyhow they’re go
t ing to turn him off.—Judge.
Russia lias 0,500,000 rubles of
paper currency In circulation.
i
CZAR’S ANSWER TO PEOPLE
"Forget Your Senseless Dreams,” Wat
Reply to Modest Request for
Chamber of Representatives.
An incident which occurred at the
very beginning of Nicholas Il.’a relgB
is very characteristic of the attitude
of the former emperor toward any
share of the people in the government
of Russia, writes A. N. Sakhnovsky, in
World’s Work.
A deputation of the foremost repre
sentatives of the Russian nobility was
sent to bring congratulations to the
new emperor. Very bright hopes were
connected with the ascendance to the
throne of the young monarch, after a
period of gloomy reaction during tbe
reign of liis father, Alexander Ilf,
and in consequence, it was decided to
present to him through a delegation of
the nobles an extremely modest sup
plication in favor of an embryo cham
ber of representatives, the only pro
posed right of which was the "right”
to be consulted by the emperor when
ever it pleased him.
The delegation, composed of highly
respected and venerable elderly gen
tlemen, numbering several hundred,
was lined in the big hall of the Win
ter palace in I’etrograd and kept stand
ing in a military order and in complete
silence for more than two hours.
At last n detachment of dismount
ed horseguards in top-boots and with
huge swords, lwurriedly entered the
hall with a terrific noise and placed
itself in front of the awe-stricken dele
gation.
Then the tiny emperor, in wild ex
citement, rushed in and, pacing up
and down the hall in the midst of the
giant soldiers and shouting at the ven
erable gentlemen, delivered a brief but
very definite speech, the gist of which
consisted of the following expression;
“Forget your senseless dreams!”
Versed in That Direction.
“Economical social functions are now
the thing.”
“Uni. Some women I know will at
last get a chance to shine,” was the
other lady’s remark.
A piece of colored glass looks beau
tiful in a church window, but it doesn’t
show up well in a finger ring.
(fpen-Air Exercise and
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For Constipation
If you caa’t get all the exercise you should have, its all
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other tried-and-true remedy for a tor
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freely and naturally.
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Rise Up! Rise Up, Crusaders!
By Edward S. Van Zine, in the New York Times
NEVER ill all the scarlet past
Since God first placed the suns, _
Not when the Goths drank deep of blood,
And women feared the linns,
Not when the hordes of Attila
Made toys of flame and shame,
Came call so clear
For them to hear
Who’d fight in Freedom’s name.
Rise up ! Rise up. crusaders, to meet the hosts of Hell!
They prate of Art and Science but they give us shot, and shell;
They call on God, blaspheming, as they plunge their hands in gore;
They’ve butchered millions, millions, and they’d butcher millions more.
What hold they dear who dare the race
To meet the might they wield?
The smile upon a baby’s face?
The maid who would not yield?
The faith that men and nations keep
When sacred vows are made?
Why, then, should Europe’s women weep?
Why preach we our crusade?
Rise up! Rise up, ye stalwart, to save a world from woe!
The Hun is growing boastful. We must give him blow for blow.
Where Goths and Vandals wake again
From sleep that’s ages long
There’s madness in the souls of men,
And murder in their song.
They are not men as men are known
To human hearts alone;
Their music is a woman’s wail,
Or dying hero’s groan.
They crave a world’s dominion.
And they come, a wanton flood,
To drown the hopes that God gives man
In seas of human blood.
Rise up! Rise up. crusaders!
Send forth a clarion cry!
The race shall not be slaves to Huns
Though you and l must die.
A world al war?
A billion men who arm and tight and slay?
What ate our blaring bugles fur?
Is Man insane today .'
Not we to whom the ca|! lias come.
Not we, the unafraid.
Now arming, God be with us, for the last, the great Crusade;
Nor they who fight our light with us.
Across the surging sea,
Where men are fgeing madmen
That all peoples may be free.
\
High Heels and the Future of the Race.
From the Omaha Bee. ,
Illinois solons have tackled the prob
lem of life at the very bottom. A legisla
ive committee at Springfield has presented
a bill designed to limit the height of the
shoe heel, setting one and one-naif inches
as the maximum altitude to be permitted.
Defending the measure in advance, that
committee sets up the possible detriment
to future generations from the present day
fashions. It doesn’t, suggest the trans
mission from mother to child oi the tip
tilted tootsies nowadays shown to all who
car6 to look, but gives some vague hints
as to what might occur in the way of
pedal deformity.
A better reason for opposing the liigh
heeled shoe rests on its influence on the
wearer. Tattle reason exists to appre
hend a future race of crooked toed men
and women, coming through heredity, but
the immediate effect is undeniable. Like
many others of the extreme fashions of
the day, it is open to question as to
whether it enhances the appearance, while
it surely does not conduce to comfort. The
proposed law might have some effect, but
this is doubtful. Lawmakers as far back
as Moses, and even beyond him, have tried
to tell lovely woman what she may or may
not wear, while she has adopted or dis
carded apparel to suit her own fancy,
whim or convenience. If she wants to
wear high heeled shoes, she’ll do it, and
let posterity take its chances.
Edison’s Example.
From the Ottawa Citizen.
Invited by the president to come to
Washington to meet the members oi the
Franco-British mission, Thomas Edison
replied that he was too busy. Urged to
go again by the statement that the dele
gates were very anxious to meet him,
Edison retorted that he was too busy. The
secretary of war wired Edison asking him
to come as a personal favor. The inventor
replied that he was too busy. This is re
freshing. At least one man knows enough
to stick to the job in band and forgo
pleasantries. And an additional signifi
cance is given to the refusal of Edison to
leave his work even for a day by the
statement that the inventor has finally
got his hands on a solution of the under
sea boat menace. If this should prove
to be true, the civilized world will hail
the famous American as the inventive
genius of the century. The incident has
a moral side, too. Anything worth while
is accomplished only by sticking to it.
And Edison has taught the country a les
son in another way. He has shown it the
this is the time for work by those in posi
tion to do something to help the nation
and its allies. Talk is perhaps importan*
by those whose business it is to exhort
and point the way, hut the worker win
knows what is required of hint has ;
excuse for lingering to listen to the c\
change of eicher amenities or congraiuL
tions.
Cooperative Landowners.
From the Atlanta Couptitution.
Indicating a spirit of enterprise and pre
gressi venesa that really commends itseii
to rural interests of the south, .somethin.
more than l.OOO.oiO acres ot land is no a
represented in the membership of the
y C -«* La-.viv Vi ■
better still, this crerlitable showing .has
keen tin result of only 90 Jays’ nggres
si\*' campaigning for membership. How
ever. according to the promoters of this
worthy organization, the membership to
date is compose*! in the main of men
whose land holdings range from 40 acres
up to 5,000 acres, with only a few of the
more extensive landowners having signed
the roll. In "other words, the compara
tively “little” man is putting his shoulder
to the wheel of progress and affiliating
with an organization whose purpose is to
benefit the state at large, while the “big”
fellow—the man owning perhaps upwards
of 50,000 acres—is holding back, content
either to let the world stand still or else
figuring to benefit along with the rest by
what the rest accomplish through a co
operation of interests. That is not fair,
nor is it progressive. If this movement
is good for the “little” landowners, it is
better for the “big” fellows. Especially
in this day of national peril, when the
national authorities are pleading with the
owners of the soil to intensify cron pro
duction and make every foot of land bear
its just portion of the Ration’s food prob
lem burden, it is almost unpatriotic for
any landowner to refuse to help, simply
by the weight of his acreage, any move
ment by whicli to help meet the national
and worldwide need.
Importance of Petroleum.
“It has required this war to awaken
England to the importance of the petro
leum industry to any and every civilized
country,” declared Prof. Charles Green
way, president of the Institution of Pe
troleum Technologists.
"The importance of the petroleum in
dustry to the civilized world develops
with the course of years, but in this
country it is so far only in its infancy.
It is only now, as a lesson of this terrible
war, that we are awakened to the fact
that petroleum, and the securing of our
own sources of supply of this valuable
commodity, are a national necessity, not
only for the great economic struggle
which will certainly tune place between
the chief commercial nations after the
conclusion of this war, but as a safe
guard against this country ever again be
ing drawn into such a barbarous and de
structive conflict as that in which wc are
now engaged.
‘‘Until within the past few years petro
leum was only regarded as being of value
for the production of artificial light, lu
bricating oils and wax, but later develop
ments have shown that its greater value
lies in what were formerly regarded as
merely its Wy-products- - benzine and fuel
for motive power, solvents for a host of
chemical and allied processes, rlrystufl’s in
various manufacturers, unguents in phar
macy. jellies and aromatic hydrocarbons
for high explosives. It i.s I think, no ex
aggeration to say , that the demand for
; ue.se so-called by-products, and the uses
U> which they will be pul us time on
»re practically illimitable-”
Anxicu3.
From Tit-Hits.
Crewe---“Good heavens, how rt rains! i
feel awI'sullv anxiou ■ about m> wife. She’s
gone out without an umbrella.”
Jfrew—“Oh, y]he’,! !»«• air right. She'll
take shelter in some snop.”
Crew« -**E\n i’y. That r what make,*
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Salted Fish Popular Food.
How to conserve the llsh supply 's
one of the subjects receiving careful
attention by the British hoard of trade ■
In conjunction with the board of agri
culture. One of the met hods which j
will probably be adopted is the drying
or salting of a much larger proportion
of tbi' daily catch than ut present, so
ns to prevent waste b.V the tish getting
out of condition. Halted haddock are
already being placed on the market in
considerable quantities ns an experi
ment. They sell at about 1- cents a
pound retail, and are very palatable.
One method of preparing is to boil the
fish, throw away the water, and boil
up again, but if It is washed to get rid
of practically all the stilt the haddock
should also be soaked in cold water for
114 bonus before cooking.
WOMEN! IT IS MAGIC!
LIFT OUT ANY CORN !
- ! I
I Apply a few drops then lift |
corns or calluses off with
j fingers—no pain. * :
Just think! You can lift
1 off any corn or callus
• without pain or soreness.
A Cincinnati man discov
ered this ether compound
and named it freezone. Any
druggist will sell a tiny hot- 1
tie of freezone, like here
shown, for very little cost.
You apply a few drops di
rectly upon a tender corn
or callus. Instantly the 1
isoreness disappears, then
shortly you will fiyd the
corn or callus so loose that
you can lift It right off.
Freezone Is wonderful. It
dries instantly. It doesn’t
eat away the corn or cal
lus, but shrivels it up with
out even irritating the sur
rounding skin.
imra, soil or corns do- i
tween the toes, ns well as
painful calluses, lift right
off. There is no pain be
fore or afterwards. If your druggist
i hasn’t freezone, tell him to order a
| small bottle for you from his whole-i
sole drug house.—adv.
The New Provocation.
‘‘A man told me he was in favor of
peace at any price,” remarked Mr. Do
lan.
"And then what happened?” replied
Mr. Katferty.
j “I never answered him. I knew hu*
j was only trytn' to start a row at™
make It look like 1 was to blame.”
Orders Courtesy to Public.
The New York postmaster hits or
dered clerks to bo courteous to the
public.
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Soldiers Clad in Steel.
Getting Its Inspiration from the val
uable service already performed by the
steel helmet, La Nature of Paris sug
gests that the soldier’s entire body
should be cased In armor. II proposes,
says Popular Science Monthly, that
the sides of the head, neck and upper
part of the chest be covered with a
gorget, a kind of eollor. and the loins
with a kind of skirt, like the lower
part of a habergean, both in chain,
mall. A cuirass, or breastplate, of mov
able plates of steel would protect the
chest and buck, and binged steel elbow
pieces and knee pieces would cover the
joints. A face mask and goggles would
complete the suit. The armor would
be light enough to afford perfect free
dum of action.
But the Question Returns.
As the stage coach careened toward
the edge of the cliff the timid tourist
gazed anxiously down at (he bawling
stream 300 feet below.
“Do people fall over the precipice
often?” she asked.
The driver chuckled to bis bronchos.
"No, ma’am,” he returned placidly;
“never but once.”—Christian Herald.
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