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Cautious Prisoner The following conversation betweei i prosecuting attorney and a prisonei vas heard in a courtroom far up ir he mountains of West Virginia: “Prisoner, do you know this man?’ “I’ve seen him.” “Did you maliciously assault him?’ “I hit him.” “Did you use a dangerous weapon?' “No, I had a club.” “Did you knock him down?” “He fell.” “Did you hurt him?” The prisoner smiled for the flrsl time. “Ask him,” he replied.—Youth’s Companion. No Harm in That Doctor—I forbid all brain work. Patient—But I am a poet. Doctor—You can go on with that. Permanent roads are a good investment The —not an expense I High Cost of Postponing Permanent Highway Building Poor motor roads stifle industry and agriculture; waste huge sums annu j ally in high maintenance costs, and greatly increase gasoline, tire «nd repair bills. There is not a state, not a county, not a commu- j nity, that isn’t paying a heavy price for having too few permanent roads. There are still many sections of the country—even whole states—that are trying to operate twentieth century traffic over nineteenth century roads. This is costing millions of dol lars every year, and will keep on costing millions until we have well developed permanent high way systems everywhere. Even what we often call the \ more progressive communities are far behind the demands of modern highway traffic with its , 16,000,000 motor vehicles. From the Atlantic to the Pa- f cific, and from Canada to Mex ico, we need moreConcrete roads —the roads for twentieth cen tury traffic. Your highway offidala want to be of the greatest possible service to you. Get behind them with ways and means that will * provide more Concrete roads and streets. Such an investment will pay you big dividends year after year. PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION til West Washington Street CHICAGO o4 National Oreaniration to Improve and Extend the Utet of Concrete Offices in 29 Cities ^OUX CITY PTQ. CO., NO. 60-1®2 West* minister Gazette. The women of the last generation were, as Miss Mayor, that observant novelist points out, "incapable of discussion. They were as inartic ulate as the uneducated, though often almost erudite.” Certainly those women were better read than most girls are nowadays; they knew several modern languages, painted tolerably in water-colors, played Beethoven, and read their Robert Browning. But the mass of upper middle-class women did not talk well. They bored their partners at din ner. The late Sir Victor Horsly used to declare to young women that only *s the twentieth century dawned did he begin to enjoy dining out. Before that time it was considered "not quite nice” for women to air their opinions at the dinner table. Like children, they were there to be seen, not heard. How many of us can remember a mother in pink silk flounces who ac cused some feminine guest at a dinner party of having "talked for effect?” To talk for effect was as much a crime in later Victorian so ciety as to “dress for effect.” Neither was in the best taste. "My dear, eat your dinner and do not talk so much" was the parting advice handed out, later on, when the daughters took their mother’s place at London dinner parties. How odd it would sound now, when most of the talk issues from feminine flips, and the men sit round, amused and listening! The chief drawback of conversing with the young nowadays is that they all talk at once and seldom listen for a reply. It Is something of an achievement to get a word in edgeways, and even then you may be proud if it is taken up and argued about before it is dismissed for good. The Voluntary System. From the London Times. The figures on the Income and ex penditure of British hospitals situ ated outside of London as ascer tained by Dr. Kay Menzies, acting on behalf of the Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the British Red Cross society, deserve the close attention of the public. They are re markable both in their magnitude and in their relationship to each other. Thus income exceeded expen diture last year by the amount of £213,694, while a sum of more than £7,000,000 was actually obtained from voluntary subscriptions. This large volume of support has flowed not from a few wealthy men or women, but from the whole people, rich and poor alike. It represents a national impulse to serve the weak and the disabled which, without doubt, is as strong as it Is inspiring. In face of this expression of good will, statements to the effect that the "voluntary system” has failed or outlived its usefuless lose their point The voluntary system, as these re turns clearly indicate, has given to a whole people the means of ex pressing continuously its kindest and most unselfish feelings. It has organized the spirit of service on be half not only of the sick, but also of humanity; and the greatest gain is to the givers. Indeed It Is no exag geration to say that, as a people, we owe a great debt to all those who, by Inviting help for the hospitals, have made vast numbers of their feilowcitizens partners In the noblest of enterprises. The advocates of med ical socialism overlook this aspect. At a heavy charge on the National Exchequer they may promise larger institutions equipped with more cost ly apparatus—though it Is possible that even this promise may not be fulfilled. But it is hard to see what they can give to compensate for the lost of that sense of comradeship In misfortune which is the most pre cious of ail the elements of a free will offering. Oup Debt to Children. By Norman Hapgood, in Hearst’s International. Better teachers, fuller school equip ments, it matters not what they cost We owe them to our children. And we owe them more. We owe them our own example. What we do, and the lives they live with us, will affect them most. Give them a chance to be careful in their childhood, to prac tice thorny, to do for themselves. If the greatest men have usually been born In the country and later gone to the city, there Is a reason. Hux ley warns us not to let a child’s schooling interfere with Its education. It ought to have the best schooling our brains and our purses can pro cure. But its deepest education Is In the hands of Its parents. The National Association of Railroad Ticket Agents has elected W. F. Polen »f Steubenville, Ohio, president A Fly In ths Ointment. From ths Ohio Stats Journal. The election resulted in so few republican lams ducks that ws hardly know how ths appointive offloss of great trust and responsibility ars go lng to bs filled. * After making seven round tripe from CHy. Ore., to New Tftrk—total ot 44,268 miles—to take ship for Ger many to visit her mother, and each time returning to her western horns be cause of homesickness, Mrs. Martha Bauer finally started for Hamburg. Even this time she bad her passage canceled the day before she sailed. Later the deoided to sail, and after waiting at the pier an hour before go ing aboard, walked up tbs gang-plank at ths last minute. | Chief Figures m the News of the Day j&Bave: GI/OLZ1A SVANStJKT^ J®? M3NTA AR£U2K&e> £eU*}. 'ZA.GJ/TJHJ/ 12A9KA.J GENERA^ AW/EMBY rremicr Zaghloul Pasha, of Egypt, has handed to General Allen by, British High Commissioner, the reply to the 24-hour ultimatum. Egypt also has paid Indemnity for the murder of Gen. Sir Lee Stack. Gloria Swanson, American movie actress, is seriously ill In Paris, where she has been making a picture. Mrs. Mlnta Arbuckle has gone to Paris for a divorce from “Fatty" Arbuckle, former motion pic ture star comedian. Her petition for divorce was filed in Providence. Ft. I., last January, but was withdrawn when her legal residence in Rhode Island was questioned. BLAZE CAUSES A IVY LOSS Masonic Temple and Hard ware Building at Worth ington, Minn., Burn Worthington, Minn., Dec. 7. (Spec ial)—A spectacular fire, discovered shortly after midnight Sunday morn ing, destroyed the Masonic Temple and the building occupied by the Rickbeil Hardware company, caus ing a Joss estimated at $46,500 and , insurance of but $31,700. The fire was discovered in the Rickbeil store, where explosives, am munitions and oils were stored. A large quantity of dynamite was removed from the basement, before the fire had progressed far, but explosions of oil containers and of ammunition shells frequently sent flames high in to the air and caused much excite ment. The loss to this establishment was estimated at $18,000. There was $13,000 insurance. The Masonic lodge lost Its building and paraphernalia, valued, at a low estimate, at $20,000. It carried but $15,700 in insurance. The Eicholt Meat market, on the first floor of the Masonic building had a total loss of stock and fixtures valued at $8,500. There was but $3,000 i insurance on this establishment. Two families living over the Rick beil store escaped and managed to save most of their furniture. Their losses and insurance are not known. Tho fire was prevented from spreading further Into the block by the fire wall which separated the Rickbeil store and the Geyerman Ladles’ Ready to Wear establish ment which had some loss from fire and water. -- ♦ -- One Killed, One Hurt In Effort to Aid Girl ' i Battle Fatal to Chicago Offi cer — Eight Persons Arrested Chicago, Dec. 7.—A battle in Tess ville8 “lovers lane" Sunday cost one police officer his life and resulted in serious injuries to a special offlcei when they came to the aid of a girl whom they believed In danger of kid naping. The girl and seven men are in custody. The slain officer was Albert M. Burgeson, and his companion was Ed ward Engelkraut, a member of the Illinois constabulary. According to Engelkraut they heard the screams of Mr*. Betty Van Gei sen, a pretty divorcee and owner of a modiste shop, who was struggling with two men in an automobile Id front of a road house. Her compan ion* who were taken after a search Of *everal hours, charged Putriclt Keefe, owner of the roadhouse with slugging the two officers, who, they Intimated, sought to “shake down" the party of merrymakers. MITCHELL’8 ORDINANCES TO BE REWRITTTEN Mitchell, S. D., Dec. 4 (Special)— Mitchell’s city ordinances are to b« coded for the first time in the history of the city. Heretofore, whenever it ha* been necessary to have the ordi nances re-printed It has been lo * technical form When the Duchess ef Atholl entered the House of Commona with a fan Just before the close of the last session, friends said that It was the first fan to appear there, so had It sent to the PsrMhir* Museum for preservation. AERIAL HAIL ON TOTTERY BASIS New York Solon Introduces Bill to Assure Future Of Service Universal Service. Washington, Dec. 7.—Despite its splendid record, the United States air mall service Is, technically, but a temporary organization, living a hand to mouth existence, and could be put out of business at a moment’s notice without the consent of congress, Rep resentative F. H. La Guardia of New York said Sunday. La Guardia is In charge of a bill, due for action in the House Wednes day, which proposes to give the post master general definite statutory authority to transport the mails by airplane. Just as he now has authority by law to employ the railroads. "This may not seem Important at first glance,” La Guardia said, "but as a matter of fact it Is vital. Un less that authority is granted an un sympathetic postmaster general could stop the air mail at his will and pleasure. “The air mall service needs this definite guarantee of permanency to remove forever the feeling of enter talnty that now exists. "The air mall is no longer a ven ture. The trans-continental service has Justified itself. They are flying by night with 96 per cent, efficiency. We are developing first class avia tors who will be trained and ready for any call that may come for na tional defense." v» _ _ — . Temperance Women Cop Another Trophy “Schooner” From Famous Saloon. of “Hinky Dink” Presented to Organization Universal Service Evanston, 111., Dec. 7.—The Wom en’s Christian Temperance Union brought home another trophy of vic tory Sunday. It is a rare antique, a "schooner” If you please, which is now stranded high and dry on the mantel at Rest Cottage, national headquarters of the W. C. T. U. here. The schooner was presented to Miss Anna A. Gordon, president of the temperance union, by former Aider man Micheal Kenna, familiarly known as “Hinky Dink.” As owrier and manager of the famous Hinky Dink beer garden of pre-Volstead days, Kenna supervised the safe passage of many such schooners over the bar. The one presented to Miss Gordon was the last of its race. BANDITS GET $6,800 New Orleans, La.,- Dec. 6. (I. N. S.) —Two young and well dressed ban dits held up two payroll messengers today and escaped with $6,800 In currency. TWO HOLSTEIN COWS HAVE NEW RECORDS Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 4.—Nebraska has two new champion Holstein but ter producing cows, according to g report received from the Holstetn Frleslan association headquarters here. Both made their records in the University of Nebraska sub-sta tion herd at North Platte. N. P. Re-Beeky Segis Hcngerveld la the new state leader for one year’s production as a senior 2-year-old with a record of 19,410.7 pounds of milk and 704.78 pounds butterfat—> i equal to 880.9 pound* of butter. r^L.%ast Foam A/fnth pyc F Y°ur children do not possess IVlUwlvla very keen appetite for baker’s bread, try home-made bread and note the sudden increase in the youngsters’ bread consumption.’" _| —Dr. Philip B. Hawk. Send for free booklet "The Art of Baking Bread” Northwestern Yeast Co. * • 1730 North Ashland Ave* Chicago, 111, ’ > Study Decay of Stone Granite and marble and the other kinds of stone used In buildings an* not nearly so eternal as most people imagine. The surface gradually de cays and cracks off. On many old buildings in England this has already become a serious danger. Now the United States bureau of standards is studying this problem on buildings in New York in the hope of finding some way to protect the stone before the damage becomes serious. The decay is believed to be due to the action of gases and moisture of the air. Doing His Honeymoon Well Friend—Handy, ain't yo’ ’spiclous 'bout yo’ husband cpiittln’ work soon as he done married you? Handy—Yo’ jes' keep yo’ Jealous nose outa mnh business, Sally John son! Hah husban’ um merely tukin’ his honeymoon. Little things are not to be despised; at least, they make one feed happy in his frivolous moments. She Wouldn't Come An Indianapolis youth recently was visiting relatives in the country. Ho was asked one evening to go after a cow in a nearby pasture. After soma time elapsed he returned empty handed. “What’s the matter?” he was asked; “couldn’t you ilnd her?” “Yes, I found her," lie replied, “but she wouldn’t come.” No Bureau of Information Wife (disappointedly)—Tom, you never seem to be aide to answer my questions. Hub—Well, instead of marrying me you should have bought an encyclope dia. In Hie Line She—No sane person can under stand tills map. He—Let me see It. Which do you like best—to bo slapped on the back or whispered to In tlie ear? Children Cry FOR MOTHER:- Fletcher’s Castoria is especially pre pared to relieve Infants in arms and Children all ages of Constipation, Flatulency, wind Colic and Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness arising there from, and, by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. 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