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Do It Now! When you’ve pot a job to do. Do it now! U tt*a one you wish was through. Do it now! If you’re 6ure the Job’s your own. Don't hem and haw and groan— Do it now! Don’t put off a bit of work. Do it now! It doesn’t pay to shirk. Do it now: If you want to fill a place And be useful to the race. Just get up and take a brace. Do it now! Don’t linger by the way. Do it now! Tou'll lose if you delay, Do it now! If the other fellows wait. Or postpone until it’s late, Tou hit up a faster gait— Do it new! —Frank Farrington. Thought Reading by a Watch. A most puzzling trick is “thought reading by a watch.” Place a watch on a table, ask some one to think ot m certain hour, and then to consider that he has counted up to that num ber. Tell him you will point at vari ous hours on the watch, and that he vr^st add the number of times you point to the number of the hour of which he thought. Instruct him that when he reaches No. 20 he must tell yon to stop pointing, and you will then be pointing at the hour he se lected. For example: Say he thinks of 7 o'clock. When you have pointed 13 times he must stop you, because he has then counted to 20. Now it does not matter of what hour he thought; at the 20th count you will have ar rived at the correct hour if you re member always to let your eighth pointing be to 12 o’clock, and from there to follow the hours around backward, i. e., frcm 12 to 11, and ■o on till you are told to stop. Home-Made Switch. Get a piece of board 4x5x^z in thick mesa. a piece of copper and some screws and wire; now we are ready to start. The switch E is made of a piece of copper % inch wide. It is pivoted at F with a screw. To the end of E is fastened a cop per wire (No. 25). which leads to the upper binding post. This switch has six contact points. These consist of brass screws and copper or tin washers. Having F as a center, draw the arc of circle that has a radius of 4 inches. Place the contact screws along this arc and about % inch apart, center to center: the last screw foims a part of binding post A. This switch can be also used as a speed regulator for small motors or Anmmo&. Mystifying Card Trick. A simple and mystifying card trick Is the will power trick. You let any one shuffle the card3, then take them Into your own hand and ask another person to cut them. Now throw them on a table, but as you do so get a glimpse of the bottom card, which is, we will say, the nine of hearts. Scat ter the cards a little, but carefully note the position of the nine of hearts. Now say that you have the power to will that a person shall, unknown to himself, select the card you want. You can call for the nine of hearts. Some one hands you a card without looking at its face. “Thank you,” you say. “Quite right—nine of hearts.” Really, however, it is the jack of spades; so you now ask for the Jack of spades, and get, let us say, seven of diamonds. You then say that you will pick a card from the table your self—the seven of diamonds. You take the card, however, which you know to be the nine of hearts. You then show the three cards, which are, ■*1 course, the three you named, so knot it appears that you actually have -nade your spectators pick out the «S7da you wanted. Holland Customs Unchanged. Almost every fishing village in Hol land has its special d?ess and its own quaint customs. One can *ee from old Dutch pictures that these y.'ave not varied for the last 200 ya&rs. One most Interesting place is the island of Marken, a tongue of land on the margin of the Zuyder Zee, which can well be inspected in a couple of hours. It la so little above the sea level that the clusters of houses, or tiny villages, are built on mounds connected by bridges, and nearly every little house has its own little moat and its own Httle boat—everything, except the people, is on a diminutive scale in Holland—moored near the door, so as tu be handy in case of flood. The houses, with the exception of the church and the clergyman’s house, are built of wood on high piles. They are none of them very old, as the place has often been flooded and burnt; in Vinter Marken is often under water and the inhabitants use boats to pass from one village to another. The cot tages, which are painted blue, green or black, with pointed gables, and roofed with red tiles, are all exactly alike and possess only a ground door built on high piles. Fudge Recipe. A recipe for fudge, the ever fasrtn atiag candy which girls love to make, fs sent in as follows: Two cups of white sugar, three ta blespoonfuls of cocoa (mix, wcil), about two-thirds cup of, milk, a piece of butter about the size of a small egg. Cook until it gets stringy, or else sugars around the edges. Just before taking off the stove add one balf teaspoonful of flavoring. When taken off the stove beat it fer a min ute or two, or until it gets just hard enough to turn into buttered pans without hardening. This Is flne with nuts in. When almost cool cut in squares. Circle Puzzle. These are the three equal squares, each containing five of the small cir cles. Simple Experiments. A very interesting branch of study Is vibration. A vibration you know, is defined as an impulse, but if a series or num ber of impulses are produced singly and at irregular intervals, very little effect upon anything can be produced. If the reverse is true, however, results often astounding will be noticed. And that, by the way, teaches an im portant lesson. You cannot do any thing of any account by means of a single effort. You must “keep at it,” regularly and constantly. Did you ever, with a playmate, cross a stream walking over a plank, keep ing step the while? What happened? Why, the plank be gan to jump and bounce until you both came near falling Into the water. Your regular footfalls set up vibra tion, and the plank was obedient to its law. Probably you know that as a rule soldiers are obliged to break step when crossing a bridge. If they con tinued marching such vibration would be set up that the bridge would prob ably fall. In going over a great many railroad bridges the speed of lo comotives must be slackened, because the regular swing of the pistons re sults in the same manner. Stubborn Paper Wad. Did you ever see a paper wad that is so stubborn that it will fly in the face of one who tries to compei it to go into the neck of a bottle? The more you try to blow It In the more it leaves the bottle. You can try this with any large bot tle, and a paper wad or cork small enough to fit very loosely in its neck. Holding the bottle so that it points directly at your mouth, and placing the cork in the neck, the harder you blow on the cork for the purpose of driving It Into the bottle the more forcibly will the cork rush from its place in the neck. Try this stunt and see if you can tell what causes the peculiar action of the paper wad. A Tangle Party. A tangle party is a jolly idea for parents. Lengths of ribbon or colored twine are twisted all over the house, and the children are told that if they can find the end of the thread they can have whatever they will find at the end of it. The ribbons begin in one room and end in another. They are passed through keyholes, twisted around balusters, and perhaps one end is in the garret or in the kitchen. If presents cannot be bought for all the children two handsome prizes can be purchased instead, one for a girl and one for a boy, and secured to the end of a blue ribbon and red rib bon, respectively. But a little present each is more pleasing, on the whole, as children like to carry home some little souvenir of a party, if it is only a tiny toy or a pretty red notebook or a nice little box of sweets. Riddles and Answers. P-scribe the wise man’s head (col loquially) In five letters? Level. Something worn by baby in three letters? Bib. A palindrome for the neck in six I letters? Tippit. A man’s name in abbreviated form, three letters? Bob. A word meaning before in three letters? Ere. A sharp, sudden noise, three letters? Pop. One who resuscitates in seven let ters? Reviver. . A feminine name occurring in the Bible in four letters? Anna. A diminutive form of the preceding ia three letters? Nan. A form of address for a lady in five letters? Madam. The tramp’s way of saying the above? Mum. Part of a ship in four letters? Poop. The small boy’s way of saying it in three letters? Mam. How Biddy, just over, would say it in three letters? Mim. A powerful scent in four letters? Otto. Floating Triangle—A Trick. Here is an interesting experiment, boys and girls: Take a wet lead pencil point and draw on thick paper a triangle (which need not be mathematically perfect). Take a basin of water and lay this paper on the surface of the water, with the drawing up. Very carefully fill the space inside the lines with water. (The water will not fiow be yond the lines which you drew with your wet lead pencil point). Next take a needle or pin, afp the point of it into the wet triangle near one of the angles. But don’t let it touch the paper. Now an odd thing will happen; the paper will be sure to move on the water until the center of area cornea directly under the point. You should previously have found where the center of area is by draw ing lines from any two angles to the centers of the opposite sides. (See the picture.) The point where the two lines cross will be the center of area. Try this interesting experiment. LIVING PICTURES. To make living pictures provide yourself with a sheet of stiff white cardboard and a spool, one end of which you cut off squarely. Stick the spool on a piece of strong wire, and bend the wire in such a way that the longer end serves as a handle, while the other end keeps the spool from sliding off (see B). Now take your compass and draw a circle seven inches in diameter on the cardboard. Cut the circle out carefully. Draw fit over the end of the spool which is cut off squarely. Now to make the living pictures. We out out circles six inches in di ameter and copy C and D as they ap pear in the drawing. Fig. E shows a circle with a design pf living pictures attached to the large circle with the little windows. D is a wheel with seven spokes. We attach the circle to the large cir cle on the spool with the help of a little wax and stand before a large B c a second circle three-eighths of an inch from the edge of the first circle and divide it with a pen into eight parts, which you connect with the center of the circle by lines. A third circle which you draw is seven eighths of an inch from the edge. Between the twro inside circles, at . each of the divisions, cut out square windows, as shown in A. Cut out a squire at the center of the circle to mirror, turning the front of the cir cle toward the glass. Now wre give thr circle a quick turn with the hand, looking through the little windows at the same time. The wheel^will appear to have all its eight spokes instead of seven and will turn in the opposite direction from the circle we hold in our hand. Pig. C will show the pen dulum of a clock in mofton. Fig. E a ball flying through a ring. USED BY JAPANESE CENSOR. Peculiar Double Envelope in Which Letters Are Inclosed. Inclosed In a peculiar double en velope, typically Japanese, every let ter received in Louisville from Miss Frederica Straeffer, who is doing mis sionary work in Korea, bears the murks of the Japanese press censor, and shows how carefully the Japanese are protecting their information and throwing every safeguard around the inside facts which might tend to as sist the Russians. It is really two envelopes skillfully fastened into one, both sealed so that it is hard to get into it. The inner en velope is made of rice paper, and on this account cannot be written on with ink. The outer envelope is of a different grade of paper, thicker and stiffer, and on this is the address. The Louisville missionary is near Seoul, and her letters are sent through that city. They are received by the censor, are opened and read, and then sealed again in the envelopes of the Japanese government. If there is nothing in the letter to which the Japanese could object, it is marked by the censor with a number of letters which mean nothing to the American, but which show the postal authorities of Korea that the letter has been officially passed by the cen 8or. After this preliminary it is allowed to come on its way across the w'aters, arriving about two months after it was posted. Miss Straeffer writes that for sev eral months just before the war be tween Russia and Japan broke out she did not receive any letters, even from her relatives at home. She then made complaint to the j American minister, who took it up ; with the representatives of the Japa- j nese government, and in a few days a boat landed at her station and a large bundle of letters was brought to her. All of them had been read by the censor.—Louisville Courier Journal. “The Legend of the Onions.” A strange ceremony is always cele brated in the Abbruzzo—one of the gayest regions of Italy—when the onions have reached maturity. Onions form the staple product of this part of the country, and the legend runs that long ago a hermit planted in a soil that was absolutely sterile some of these vegetables, which, by the blessing of God, grew' and multiplied, and that those who ate of them re mained immune from the plague which was then ravaging the country. So every jear an old villager, nude to the waist, personifies the ancient hermit and lectures his hearers on the old legend, after which they gather some seeds and take them home to plant them, in order to insure a good crop for the coming year—London Graphic. Proctor’s Sense of Honor. United States Senator Redfield Proctor'*! strict regard for the laws, even those of minor fmpcrtance, is well known. An illustration of this happened recently. The Senator and his son, Redfield Proctor, Jr., were hunting rabbits in the mountains east of Rutland a few months ago. Tho younger man. who had become separ ated from his father, shot a large rac coon. and when he next met the Sena* tor he proudly exhibited his prize. ‘‘My son,” said the Senator, sternly, “the open season for coon hunting has not yet begun. Come with me.” The Senator thereupon marched the young man off to the residence of a justice of the peace, where he ap peared against him, and the boy was fined for the offense, the money being advanced by the senator himself. The Earth Stopper. Through soaking Helds and gateways deep He plods, this toller of the night. That luckier others now asleep. Where he has sown the seed, may reap Their full delight. The air is damp and chills hts bones; Across the moon a black cloud flees; The wind, unresting, sobs and moans. Swishing, with dismal, ghostly tones. Among the trees. An5 sounds, unnoticed In the day. Come echoing clearly through the gloom. A farm dog's bark, a horse's neigh. A sheep’s hard cough, and far away A church clock's boom. But In the covert silence sits Enthroned in solitude complete. Save when a brown owl past him flits. Or when a dead branch snaps to bits Beneath his feet. Tet on he goes with fearless stride. To work when foxes hunt his rule Through brushwood thick, o'er ditches Until at length he stands beside The still, dark pool. And there above the water’s rim, Where in the spring the bulrush crows. His lantern's light, snbdued and dim. Peopling the glade with shadows gTim, The great earth shows. —R. G. T. Cochrane. The Freak Seasbn Opens. Remarkably late season has retard ed the approach of the sea serpent to our shores, but Stony Run. Md.. has come gallantly to the front with a bit of news in the freak line in the shape of a wild man. clad in yellow canvas overalls, whose specialty is kneeling in an attitude of supplication on a large bowlder near a dismantled ice house. Glad to hear from other sec tions. Largest Stone-Arch Bridge. The largest stone-arch bridge in the world is now in course of erection at Plauen, Saxony. This bridge will have a span of 295 feet, exceeding by 20 feet the famous Luxembourg bridge opened last year, and by still more the Morbegno bridge in Lombardy and the Cabin John bridge near 7/ashing ton, D. C.. which have held in turn the record as the longest stone-arch bridges. Oil and Coal in California. The recent report of Dr. C. T. Deane that the total output of the California oil wells last year amounted to over 23,000,000 barrels only partially repre sents the important influence and value of the industry. Its true signifi cance is pointed out by J, W. Harri son, a prominent local coal dealer, who says it practically displaces 6,000,000 tons of coal as fuel. Increase in Cotton Mills. The number of cotton spindles in use in the United States increased last year from 15,500,000 to 20,000,000, owing principally to new factories in the cotton belt. POULTRY Ponds and Rape for Ducks. Last year was the first season that we ever used a pond in connection with the raising of ducks, and the result was so satisfactory that we will give an account of it for the benefit of the readers of your paper, began the season with seven Rouen ducks and two drakes for breeding stock. Back of the barn there is quite a good sized pond, and, as we did not need the water for the stock, we allowed the ducks to enjoy it. They spent their days in it and very profit able days they proved. They found ail the corn they wanted at a crib near the pond, and all the care they re ceived was that they were brought up to the duck house near tho house at night and were fed a bran mash each morning. More often than not we found seven eggs each morning. We sold a good many eggs and raised ove. 110 ducklings. So much for the utility of a pond for breeding stock. We were a little afraid of turtles in the pond, so kept the ducklings away from it until five or six weeks old. They were kept in a yard near the house and the well, so the work of feeding, watering and caring for them was as light as possible. Dur ing this time they were at first fed four times, afterwards three times a day, and were given lettuce, onion or beet tops, endive or cabbage leaves from the garden for green food. What a jubilee there was when we first drove about fifty of these fellows to the pond. Such darting about, diving and splashing. Only those who have watched the antics of ducks in water can imagine the scene. After that they were fed every morning with enough drinking water to wash the food down so they could eat a good breakfast, then were driven to the pond, which soon became an easy task. By feeding time in the evening they were anxious to be turned back, so they could come to the house for supper and to their house to sleep. Our neighbors laughed at us driving our ducks to water. There was a lit tle yard containing some blue grass and more weeds near the pond that was disced early in the spring and sown with Essex Rape. The ducklings needed no teaching as to the useful ness of this plant, but freely helped themselves as had the old ducks all spring. When tt was not convenient to leave them for an hour or so in the rare patch, the rape was mowed and car ried to them. They were as anxious for it as for a feed of corn or mash. We never had ducklings grow faster or seem hardier. If our yards had been so arranged that the ducks could have gone freely to the rape patch and the pond, without being let through the gates, it would have been less trouble and no doubt have been better, but there was other stock In the yards, making it necessary to keep them closed. One thing absolutely necessary to success in raising ducks is that they must all, young and old alike, have a clean, dry sleeping place. It does not need to be warm, but it must be dry. A littlo carelessness in the matter of supplying plenty of dry bedding when ever flfis needed, and the little fellows have cramp, or with either young or old, rheumatism, and then we have dead ducks. This is about the only disease from which ducks suffer, and with reasonable care can be avoided. Danger from sudden storms at eight, also from marauding animals, can be in a great measure avoided by yarding the ducklings so they cannot wander far from their house at night Now a few words for the Rouen ducks. What is more beautiful? The drake, witn his bright green head, claret breast, ash-gray body feathers, the black of the back and tail, the blue ribbon band of the wing; then the pleasing contrast of tha beautifully penciled brown of the female, make them birds to be admired by all who see them. Then they do not pull their feathers before picking time. They are hardy, will sit on their own eggs if allowed and make good mothers. They are good eating ana sell well on the market J. H. Howarth & Son, Appanoose Co., Iowa. Bad Eggs Have Good Uses. The career of the egg may not be romantic, but frequently it is Inter esting. The full and perfect career is without doubt to develop into a lusty young chick. But the full and perfect career is as rare among eggs as among human beings, for many things intervene to cut it short, and its usefulness is di verted into channels of which few housewives and poultry-raisers dream, says an exchange. It may be that the egg is broken on its way to market or its shell is checked sa that it will not sell. Then it is broken with countless others into five gallon cans and frozen. The ru mor is that these frozen eggs are sold to bakers in the larger cities to be used in winter. Should the egg survive until it pass es the zenith of its existence and en ters into a decline it may be sent to some of the Tkrge coffee roasters of the east and be used to glaze coffee. Even should the egg survive the first period of decline and enter into the last stage it is not without value. It is used commercially for tanning kid gloves and other fine leathers. The usefulness of the egg is not «x haused when it has met with one of these several fates. The shells, where large quantities of eggs are used are carefully gathered and the portion which it not used for hen food is ground and forms a common adulter ant for spices. The shell can be roast ed to the desired shade, is absolutely harmless and is very difficult for any but the chemist to detect. Vermin attack hogs in the places where they find the greatest protec tion and whore the skin is most sus ceptible to puncture. They are com monly found around the ears, inside the legs and in the folds of the skin on the jowl, sides and flanks. LIVESTOCK Locating the Sheep Pen. John Campbell, speaking to an audi ence of Canadian farmers, said: In building a suitable pen, as In other successful farm operations, notice should be taken of the preference of sheep for resting on dry roads as compared with grassy plots. This characteristic demonstrates that the building site of a sheep house cannot be too high and dry for the best com fort of the stock, for if there is one thing more than another that sheep do not like it is dampness; and to en sure perfect dryness in a pen it must be well lighted. Another character istic of sheep to remember when building a house is that they require a lot of exercise during their whole lives. Notice how well lambs grow on the roadside, where they have to fol low the dams over considerable dis tances. Especially do pregnant ewes require exercise. These are points to bear in mind in selecting a site for buildirfg. The house itself can then be built of the desired material, but wooden walls are to be preferred. The place must not be made too warm, and must be well ventilated, else the sheep will show their disapproval of arrangements by sleeping out in the yards. The feed racks may vary, ac cording to the variety of stock kept With the short wooled sheep the side of the rack from which the sheep feed should be perpendicular, to prevent the chaff getting into the wool. Be neath this rack there should be a trough for feeding grain and roots Mangels should never be fed to preg nant ewes, and never more than two pdunds of turnips per day to the small er breeds, nor four or five to the larger breeds, gradually accustoming them to this amount Always look well to the water supply, in order to pre vent the sheep acquiring an appetite for snow'. Clean the pen out fre quently, if roots and other succulent foods are fed. Strength of Formaldehyde. A report from North Dakota shows that much of the formaldehyde sold in that state has been under strength and that the farmers have in the last few years lost many thousands of dollars in the way of paying for what they did not get. Formalin is supposed to exist in formaldehyde to the extent of 40 per cent, the rest being water. When the strength falls below this, the treatment of the various grains with it for the prevention of smut is not effective and the losses from the continuance of the smut in the fields are very great. The state experiment station has taken up the matter and has made some analyses which showed that some of the formaldehyde sold contained only about 26 per cent ot pure formalin. WThat is true in North Dakota is doubtless true in other states and the matter should be looked into by our other experiment stations. As they are recommending the forma lin treatment for the prevention of smut, it is to the interest of the recommenders to know that the for malin is in proper abundance to do the work. If a large amount of the formaldehyde sold is too weak to be effective, the farmers will declare that the professors did not know what they were talking about when they recommended the formalin treatment for the prevention of smut There is another phase of this matter that will bear looking into in all the states and that is the giving of short measure by the druggists. One Dakota druggist declares that in many instances only ten ounces of formaldehyde are sold for a pound, but as the liquid is in a bottle the farmers do not find it out and do not reweigh it. This further reduces the chance of the treatment with formaldehyde being effective. Cactus for Stock Feed. Recently the city daily papers have been printing long articles cn the use of cactus as stock food, representing this to be a new idea. The fact is, the cactus has been used quite exten sively as stock food for at least ten years and perhaps longer. In the Southwest the variety principally used is the Nopal. The spines have to be singed off with fire or the cactus boiled till the spines can be rubbed off. Within the last few years exten sive experiments have been made in Australia in the feeding of cactus, the boiling process being most used, in preparing the cactus. Several years ago the Farmers’ Review expressed the hope that the government would undertake the breeding of cactus, with the object of getting some varie ties without spines. The government stations have not yet taken up this work so far as we are aware, but we believe it will be done in the not far distant future. A eood-sized spineless cactus of the variety liked by stock would prove of unestimable value on our western plains, where the rainfall is insufficient to clothe the plains with grass. The time may come when those same plains will be clothed with miles of spineless nutritious cactus. American Horses in Germany. Germany is at the present time im porting more than 100,000 horses a year, but few of them come from the United States. It was hoped a few years ago that we would catch a great deal of the German horse trade, but that hope has not materialized. In stead of gaining, we are losing. The latest figures we have are for the year 1902, but there has been little or no improvement since that time. In 1899 we sent Germany 4,343 horses; in 1901 we sent 553 horses, and in 1902 only 137 horses. This is near the vanishing point. Germany’s sources of supply and numbers of horses im ported from each country in 1902 were as follows: Belgium, 20,963; Denmark, 21,691; Russia, 35,131; Austria-Hun gary, 14,485; Netherlands, 10,785; France, 6,213; Great “Britain, 1,020; Switzerland, 840; United States, 137; all other countries, 402; total, 111,667. American consuls in Germany are told that the reason American horses are not being extensively Imported Into Germany is not the price, but the quality or lack of quality in the draft horses that can be picked up on Amer ican farms. A Gambler Worth $5,000.90?. For the next two years at least there will be little done in the gam bling business in New York that is. there will be few, if any, large houses maintained. Since t=ie Jerome wit ness bill was passed and signed in New York state it has become a very dangerous bvisiness. Richard Can field is not to run a house there while Jerome is in power. He has sold a piece of property for $125,000 that he would not have taken $200,000 for six months ago. It is understood that Canfield is to part with all his real estate in New York and expatriate himself. Canfield is said to be worth $5,000,000, and the least figure placed on his fortune is $3,000,000. Since he has never been engaged in any in dustrial or commercial business the inference is that he made all his money in speculating on the turn ol cards—he supplying the cards. He Spoke Too Soon. In a magazine article on Max Yen Pettenkofer, who has been callc i the founder of scientific hygiene and. next to Humboldt the most popu.ar of all German naturalists, Max Gru ber tells a story of the profe.s. >r i absent-mindedness. He lost a f r tune in umbrellas, seldom brin- ,■ back that which he had taken away Once, however, he made a trip a~ far as England and was very proud of having actually succeeded in bring ing back bus umbrella to German} At Augsburg he stopped on busim but sent a telegram reading: “At *i o’clock I return with my umbrella He did return at 6 o’clock, but as . o entered his house in Munich he saw to his dismay that he had no timbre a. He had left it at the telegraph sta --on. Mr. Albee’s Opinion. Alpine, Cal.. June 6.— Mr. T. M. Al* bee, our postmaster, has expressed an opinion based on his own experience which will no doubt be of interest to many. Mr. Albee is a man of few words, but his well known truthful ness and uprightness of character adds much weight to any statement he makes. He says: "The first box of Dodd's Kidney Pills that I used convinced me of their good qualities and I used altogether four boxes with the very best results. I can heartily recommend this rem edy.” This voluntary expression of opin ion will doubtless find an echo in many homes in California for Dodd’* Kidney Pills have been making some miraculous cures in this state. From the evidence already publish ed it seems safe to conclude that tt * medicine will be found to be a per fect cure for rheumatism, urinary trouble, backache and any and every form or symptom of kidney compiaint. — Won “By a Close Shave.” Archbishop Ryan's telegram of congratulation to Arckbiahop Glen non of St. Louis was read at an ec clesiastical dinner recently. When the see at St. Louis became vacant the names of two auxiliary bishops were sent to Rome on the slate of the clergy and prelates. The two were Lishop Dunn of Dallas, Tex., and Bishop Nessmer of Green Bay, ooth o* w’hom, contrary to the general custom of Roman Catholic prelates, wear beards. Neither of the candi dates pleased Rome and Archbishop Ryan was consulted. The Philadel phian’s choice was Auxiliary Bishop Glennon of St. Louis, who has been called the polio of the American hi erarchy. Archbishop Ryans telegram of congratulation read: “You won it by a close shave.” A Future Mikado. Perhaps the'most interesting small boy in the world is the little Prince Micchi, grandson of the Japanese mi kado and destined himself to be a mi kado some day. He will be 4 years old next month. The heir presump tive to the great eastern throne has the distinction of being the first baby of the royal house of Jimmu Tenno wuo has been allowed to grow his hair like an English baby. Both his father and the mikado, when babies, had their heads shaved daily by their nurses. Russian Papers’ Scare Heads. The present war has produced the first heading containing more than a tingle line ever published in a Rus sian newspaper. Previously the most important news had never been so honored and the death of Queen Vic toria was announced without any heading. One secret act of generosity, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings, passionate prayers, in which some people indulge' them selves. Always say your prayers before g> ing to bed—if it’s a folding bed. Any man who gets married a sec ond time didn’t deserve to lose hla first wife. Willing “They say Smith treated that man like a brother.’’ Billing_ “la what way?” Willling—“Kicked him out of the house.” Nature has wisely arranged matters so that a man can neither kick him self nor pat his own back. The man who uses religion as a cloak will sooner or later be warm enough without it. A man who has no time for charity In this world, will have time to burn Vn the next. It is better to start right at the be ginning than to go kack and do it all over again. Jimmy—“What would you say if I kissed you? Mabel—“You are only pasting time by asking.” Don’t judge a man by his tomb stone. for he did not write the e\>I taph on it. Your dearest friend is naturally the one that costs you the mos3 money . Why is it that the lightweight al ways accuses the scales of being wrong? 6