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The betrothal of Miss Gladys Van derbilt, daughter of Mrs. Cornelius . VenderWlt, Sr., and the voting Count Laszio Szechcnyi of Budapest, Hun CtUo marriage to take place on December 4), had the dash of an An thony Hope romance about it. What’s more, the young people, knowing all the facts cf the case, must be laugh ing in their sleeves at the sensation caused by the vague rumors from Newport that found their way into print. From what Austrian officials in this country say, the so-called sensation wan quite a cut-and-dried affair. One of the richest of American girls had imen formally betrothed in a Hun garian castle weeks before, and on that occasion the details of the •American betrothal in October” had been arranged. Then a young Hun garian nobleman had dropped quietly into Newport to play his part in the formalities. , first surprise over, every one \ asked: jj'ho is Count Laszio Ssechenyi?” Therein lies the romance of the story. Only the last chapter properly belongs to the Anthony Hope school. Che- first of it might lie a short story by William Dean Howells. On the other hand, the real romance is wor thy of Gibbon or Sienkiewicz. In it are the raids of a savage Asiatic peo Ate upon the nomads of the Russian steppes, the primeval forests of the Danube and the wild defiles of the Alps. There is also the pageantry of primitive warr the* strains* of wild music of Slavonic harmonies em broidered in a web of national trag edy—music hardly suggested by the Hungarian orchastras of the cafes, but mirrored by Liszt and Paderewski, :ind visualized a few years ago in tb#. latter’s opera, “Manru.” Then there are the green fez, the flowing white robes of the Turk, the brown habit of the Christian mission ary, the splendor of a Hapsburg court, and tyrannies that led a proud people a rebellion that echoed around the world. And all finally cads in a basket phaeton on the Cliff Itrive at Newport, with a young Hun garian and an American heiresss ac knowledging to their friends that they are about to marry. « An Object of Interest. • New Yorkers have been watching Mies Vanderbilt with more than cus tomary interest in the last three years. She is the youngest daughter of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, anu the only one of her children unmarried. Her sister is Mrs. Harry Payne Whit ney: her brothers, Cornelius, Jr.; Al fred Gwynne and Reginald Vander bilt. She Is, too, one of the richest girls of her age in America, having come into a fortune of 112,500,000 on her twenty-first birthday last August. Miss Vanderbilt was introduced to society three years ago at a dance given by her mother in the great Van derbilt house at Fifth avenue and Fifty-seventh street. It was one of the events of the season. The house had not been opened for five years. The chat of the drawing rooms con * uectcd Miss Vanderbilt's name again and( again with those of young men who might be considered her suitors. Sometimes these reached the news papers. sometimes not. One of the young men was Robert Walton Goelet. Another mentioned more recently was one of the younger generation in the Gerard family. When any of tuese re ports crept into print they were posi tively denied. Then there were rumors that Miss Vanderbilt’s trip abroad last summer had back of it a desire to put as many miles as possible of sea and railroad between herself and one of the more persistent 3U'.tcrs. Be that as it may, Mrs. Vanderbilt and Miss Gladys went to California early last spring with Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard, then came east and sailed for Europe in April. From time to time reports drifted to ‘—erica of their summer pilgrimage. They were entertained iu Loudon by Ambassador and Mrs. White-law Rcfi, then visited the ambassador at his country place, Wrest Park. Later they were said to be at Carlsbad for the seas-.n. Then the messages had them, cruising r.n European waters. This wont an until nearly the end of: August. Miss Gladys was 21 on the 24th of that month. Mrs. Vanderbilt cabled an order to open The Break ers, her Newport home, and she and her daughter started f& New York, ar riving on Sept. 25. When Mrs. Vanderbilt and Miss Gladys reappeared at Newport, their presence 3eemed to crystalize vague rumors that had been coming from Europe. The gist of these was that Miss Vanderbilt had fallen in love, in the goad old way, with a foreign noble man, and that, Vanderbi!t-Iike, she would brook no opposition when she had decided to have her own way. Nothing was to be learned of the nobleman’s identity. There was not an inkling of what had actually hap •ptned to Miss Vanderbilt during her trip to Europe. Certain Austrian of ficials in thfs country are authority for the story. They say Miss yander bllt met Count Laszlo Szechenyi—they called it Sa-she-nye—in Salsburg, a contincntial watering place, and that they had fallen In love with each other in short order. The count’s relatives were told of it and Miss Vanderbilt was Invited to come in the mid-sum mer to the home of the Szechenyi fam ily, in the district of Horpreck’s, Hun gary. At a family gathering there, so the story runs, the young American heir ess was formally bethrothed under the laws of Austro-Hungary. Then Miss Vanderbilt resumed her journey. Count Szechcnyi’s appearance in Newport sta.rted the rumors of Miss Vanderbilt’s romance again with fev erish persistency. In the ycung nobleman who was Mrs. Vanderbilt’s guest at The Break ers, Miss Gladys Vanderbilt’s friends saw a quiet, affable young man of 28, whose dark complexion suggested a Magyar origin. Many even thought he looked like young Robert Walton Goe let, with whom Miss Vanderbilt’s name had already been associated. The chief difference was that the count wore a small black mustache with the ends turned up like the Em peror William’s. The engagement announced, everj one is repeating: “Who is Count Szechenyi?” His full name is Ladisiaus Szeche nyi von Sarvar und Felso-Videk. His family is one of the oldest in Austria-1 Hungary. Although a count by right. | | the title does not mean more than an honor conferred on all men of his class, just as all tUb sons of. the Sze j chenyi family are chamberlains in the imperial court of Austria-Hungary by birth, and the senior member holds a seat III the upper branch of the Hun garian parliament. So far as lineage goes, probably none of the titled foreigners who have married American women can boast of a longer line of ancestors than count Szechenyi. Besides hi9 family tree, that of the duke of Marlborough, who married Miss Consuelo Vander ‘ bilt, is the veriest sapling. Count de Castellane, former husband of Miss Anna Gould, might compare with the czechenyis In piide of birth, for bis family is one of the oldest In Prance and their castle of Castellane has been In the family for many centuries. Tbe Szechenyi name, however, goes back fully 1,000 years. The story of the young man who is to marry Miss Vanderbifc began not later than 955. He comes of the Magyars—wild ad venturers decendants of the ancient Scythians, who invaded Europe from Central Asia in the ninth century and overran Hungary and Transylvania. The men of the Szechenyi family have borne the title of count for more than 300 years. Among the most cele brated of them was Count Nicholas Szechenyi, companion in arms of the famous Hungarian general, Zrlnyl, who in the sixteenth century stood like a battlement between the en croachments of the Turks on the south and east and the kingdoms of western Europe. Few episodes of mediaeval history are more romantic than the story of Zrinyi's defense of Sziget, a fortress on the Danube, withstanding for a month, and with 2,500 men, the on slaughts of the Sultan Solyman and 65,000 Turks, ifrinyi’s fate has been made the theme of one of Theodore Koerner’s most famous tragedies. Another of the Szechenyis, holding the rank of archbishop, was the me diator in bringing about the peace be tween Emperor Ferdinand and Roko czy, by which the latter was recog nized as legitimate prince of Transyl vania. Like their ancestors the wealth of the family lies in the ownership of land. The young count’s father owned thousands of acres divided into scores of farms and forest preserves. As did their forefathers, the Szechenyis drew from these domains tribute of wheat, Turkish pepper, tobacco, hemp and grapes, and next to Frahce, Hun gary is the greatest wine-producing country in the world. According to Hungarian standards the Szechenyis are very rich and powerful. When Miss Vanderbilt goes as a bride to Au3tro-Hungary she may well believe herself in that Ruritania which Anthony Hope has made the scene of so many adventured. Her new do mains, now broken by the Carpathian mountains a$d the Alps, now reaching out toward the rivers in great grain fields or vineyards, will be a land of quaint customs, of traditional romance and of old world aristocracy in pres ent-day surroundings. The great houses of Vienna and the Imperial court will be open to her, and Vienna is one of the gayest of European cities. Budapest will offer her a social pres tige little less alluring. A LOST LUNCH. Alderman, Station Agent, Merchant and Poor Family Made Happy. Mr. and Mrs. George S. Jenkins, old tv-residents of Bloomfield, enjoyed the U best dinner recently they have had ia many months—since Thanksgiving, in fact—while Thomas C. Dancer, the Glen wood avenue newsdealer, and his clerk, for whom the dinner was in tended, had to be satisfied with free lunch. It all happened because of a .Sunday school excursion, too. The Methodist Episcopal church, the Watsessing Methodist church, and the first Baptist church, all of Bloom ' field, held a union outing recently at Cranberry lake. Among the excursionists was Mrs. Dancer. Believing that her first duty . lay in preparing for her husband's *wints, she cooked a fine luncheon. | There was roast chicken, bread and ’ tatter, stewed corn, potatoes au gra ’ tin. dill pickles, olives, coffee and a 'generous amount of blackberry pie, •i tor "Tom," she thought, “just loves - s blackberry pie. Far be it from me to go to gallivantin’ about on church pic nics." She took the basket down to the station, where Mr. Dancer met heV. He put the basket on a bench in the station waiting room while he assisted his wife up the high steps. He then returned to his place of business and never thought or the basket again un til lunch time. “Abe” Doremus, the station agent, saw the basket, and decided that some one of the excursionists had forgotten her lunch. Alderman Frank N. Unangst came along. Doremus told the alderman of his find and asked what he had better do with it. “Give it to Eiome poor family,” said the alderman, “and they can, return the dishes to you. The contents might spoil before night.” Calling a porter. Doremus said: “Take this over to Mr. and Mrs. Jenk ins. Tell them to eat the contents and return the dishes.” Two hours after Mrs. Jenkins re turned the dishes, cleanly washed, and thanked the station agent for his kindness. it . ' " ■ “How did you enjoy It?” asked the latter. “It was fine,” answered Mrs. Jenk ins, “and we used the silver knives and forks to eat it with, too. My, but that chicken was good!” Just one hour after the return of the dishes Mr/ Dancer ran into the station looking for his basket. The station agent explained matters. “Wasn’t very hungry, anyway, to day,” he said. “Anyhow, I’m glad I didn’t get it, ’cause I know it must er tasted mighty good to the Jenkinses. Oh, my wife’s a good cook Abe!” “Bet the Jenkinses think so,” he called back. “That's what made the station agent, newajealer and alderman so happy to-day,” said Mrs. Dancer when she came home.—Washington Post Making a Monkey of Him. Reggy Sapp—Yeas, the young lady from Boston said I reminded her of • beautiful flower. We&Uy, don't you think I resemble a pansy? V - Miss Tabasco—Yes, a chimpanzee. ^-Chicago News. - WEALTH BY BILLIONS VALUE OF FARM PRODUCTS FOR THE YEAR 1907. -- — y.— WHAT THE EARTH PRODUCES Agriculturalists Have It in Their Power to Curtail the Operation of Trusts and Prevent Unequal Distribution of Money. • Farms of the United States in 1907 will produce more wealth than all the gold mines of the world have produc ed in 20 years. Conservative estimates place the value of all farm products at approximately $7,000,000,000, or about 1 $200,000,000 more than their value in 1906. The farmer is the magician, the alchemist, that makes use ,of nature to enrich the world. The farmers’ corn crops alone average a billion dollars a year, and ^11 the other cereals an other billion, with cotton, tcbacc^ feay and flax worth another biiiion, &Efl the fruits, garden truck and animals a few billions more. Thus it can be seen that the fanner, produces wealth greater than taken from it by the miners for its precious gems and minerals. There is no other foundation for the wealth and business of the world other than the land. Men cannot eat gold; the coal is only useful to him as a means of utilising what the earth grows; there is nothing In the mineral world that will sustain life, or anything that is necessary unless mortals eat, drink and wear clothes. When there is abundance of agricultural productions, there are prosperous times, and a fam ine when the opposite occmrs. The whole financial fabric, the entire com mercial system, is dependent upon the farmer, and his work. <pne pillion aonars is an amount <j*; yond the comprehension of the aver age man. The life of an individual is not sufficiently long to count it cent by cent should he work ten hours a day, from his tenth year until death. This is the average value of the corn crop alone that the farmers of the United States produce yearly. One Would believe that if only a small portion of the vast wealth, which the farmers produce could be only retained in the agricultural com munities, there would be a class of rich men greater than in any commer cial community. Yet statistics show that for the amount of wealth yearly produced, the farmers are retainers of Only a small portion of it. The tend ency is toward concentration 'of wealth In great financial centers. It Is in these places, and by the control of this great wealth, that trusts are built up, aud the machinery put in opera tion that systematically draws from the agricultural sections the great wealth produced. Farmers can, if they will, bring about a change by a sim ple adhereiye to the home trade prin ciple; by patronage of local business institutions instead of the concerns in the large cities. D. M. CARR. FOR THi HOME TOWN. Be a “booster” for your home town. By patronizing other than local insti tutions you are using a boomerang that is likely to fly back and do you injury when you least expect It. No one can be an Ideal citizen and talk and work against the interests of his home town. So long as you are a resi dent of a community, do your part towards assisting It to greater progress. Those who are opposed to the evils of capital concentration, the building up of trusts that work against the in terests of the masses, should consider the fact that any and every system of business that depletes a section of the country of the wealth it produces strengthens the system of business and financial concentration. One of the most baneful systems that at the present is working against the inter ests of the smaller cities and towns, and is the greatest medium of drain ing wealth from agricultural communi ties, is the mail-order plan of doing business. From some rural towns from 40 to 50 per cent, of the trade goes to foreign concerns. If this trade were confined to the home town, its business would be doubled, employ ment given to twice as many people; the profits accruing from mercantile business would seek local investment, and within a few years the population of the town would be more than dou bled, and all living within the dlstri^J would be benefited. Every kind and class of goods have a real value, and this value 13 based upon the cost of the raw material, the price of the labor In producing it, and the cost of distribution. Whenever there are big bargains offered in any line, and goods offered “below value,” be careful and see that you are not getting an inferior article. While the farmer may receive a dozen papers from the large cities, he invariably reads his local paper. It Is to the interest of the farmer as well as the merchant that the latter use its columns freely to tell of the latest prices, goods freshly received, etc. The farmer wants to buy, and the merchants want to sell, and the farm er will buy when and where he can save money. The m«v*chant who lets business go away from his town through lack of advertising rightly is not a very enterprising business man. It is well to be on guard when deal ing with Itinerant agents, sellers of groceries, carriages, machinery, pat ent rights, etc. It is a pretty good idea to never take grab-bag chance when you wish to buy an article. See what you are purchasing before paying for it —— ■ .. POOR GOODS, CHEAP PREMIUM8. How Money Is Sometimes Squandered In Patronizing Prize-Package Concerns. The economical housewife is a blessing. She who will watch the pennies and dimes can greatly assist her husband in accumulating money for use during Says of adversity. Quite often women through their anx iety to assist in saving, and not having a training along business lines, make foolish expenditures. How often do we find women in the country towns and districts engaged in buying soaps, spices, teas and coffees from some club-order concern with a view of get ting cheap premiums that are offer ed vmh each lot of goods'? There is no economy in this method. Women as well as men should remember that there is never anything of value given without an equitable compensation, and when purchased on the club plan the profits paid are generally enor mous, You car.net get loniftbing for nothing. I* }ou desire to purchase $10 or $20 worth of groceries, the best place to buy them is at some re sponsible grocery establishment in your -own town. You can see what you are getting, and you know that the goods must be good or you can re turn them. When you get a premium with a lot of Boaps or spices or ex tracts, you will find that while the goods may appear all right, there Is a great chance of fraud that you little look for. The bars of soap will he of light weight, poorly dried, made of cheaper materials, and would be dear at your home store at half the price that you are compelled to pay for them. The spices will be half ground bark, and the extracts synthetic, never made from fruit flavors, but out of the dlrty-looking coal-tar, a by-product p{. gas-manufacturing, and even the teas and coffees will bq of the poorest kind and doctored up to look well. Then how about the premiums? You will find that they, too, are of the cheapest class, and could be purchased at the local store for half what they are represented to be worth. Women are only doing their duty in trying to as sist their husbands, but top oftejt they waste money by patronizing premium and club concerns that operate from distant cities in small towns and ru ral communities. CRIES OF THE SIREN, Alluring Promise Made In Exaggerat-, ed Advertisements to Gain Trade. ' _“Don’t be robbed ” .“Save the profits' that yoilf storekeeper makes,” and many like catch phrases is the princi pal advertising stock of the concerns who claim to sell at “wholesale” prices direct to consumers. Their ar guments appeal to women and men who have Jlttle knowledge of commer cial methods. It is the appeal of self ishness that wins fer the concerns who seek business among the resi dents of farming districts rather thau any merit that the arguments present I ed may have. ' There can be little doubt as to tL» mail-order way of doing business be- ^ ‘ log a permanent fixture in the mercan- ! tile world. The fact cannot be dis puted that in certain lines of goods which are offered as “leaders” lower prices are quoted than like goods are generally sold at in local Btores. But the average price on all lines cannot be lower, character and quality con sidered, than the same goods could be sold at by the local merchant. The business of the big mail-order concerns has been gained by extensive advertising and continuous aggressive work. It has been the apathy of the merchants in the country towns that has allowed these concerns to take trade from “under their very noses.” Conditions that allow the steady drain of money from the agricultural dis tricts and small towns to the Mg cities are to be deplored. There cannot be doubt as to the evils of the mail-order systems as a factor in the concentra tion of wealth in the great financial centers, and the resultant building up of trusts. For the past quarter of a century the trust evil has been con stantly developing and keeping pace with it, is the mail-order system. Much like the leprosy, Its progress Is such that the evil has a firm foothold ere serious attention is paid to It. The cry of “Save the dealers’ profits” is synonymous with “Kill the industries of your own town; help us bind the trust ties firmer about your own hands.” Don’t be a traitor to your home town, even though there is a promise of a small saving In cents and dollars. Do your part to head off the business concentration evil. • FREE TREATMENT. A Method That Should Cure People of the Habit of Patronizing Quack Doctors. It matters little how widespread through the press is the information as to frauds being operated in the country, there is always a field for the people who live by petty graft. One of the latest plans to defraud has re cently been worked in a number of western states. Strangers, purporting to be agents of a free hospital, would : approach a farmer, inquire as to bis health, and promise him free treat ment should he be ailing, claiming that the state medical department would furnish the medicine free. A lengthy statement of his complaint would be written and. His signature secured. I few weeks later a note duly signed by the farmer would be presented to him by his home bank. This appears to be a filmy scheme,' but nevertheless more than a score of farmers in one Minnesota county were caught for from $50 to $200 each. Don’t sign any contract or statement unless you are positive of its character. The Child’s Skin. ' The chief peculiarity about the treatment of skin disease in children is that the reaction to the remedies applied is more prompt than in adults, says a writer in the London Hospital. Moreover, since the risk of absorption is by no means inconsiderable, oint ments and lotions containing power ful poisons, suca as carbolic add or mercury, should not be employed, un less well diluted, orer large surfaces of the body. Certain cutaneous lesions also are transient, so that one is left with their results, notably the scratch mark and the scab. The history of the mode of onset of an eruption, as given By an intelligent mother or nurse, is, therefore, of greater value - than the statement of the patient him self, who might even be unaware of the existence of anything wrong with his skin. Blonde ladies am always under sus picion natll they have proved their innocence. CAPTAIN C. DE P CHANOL-ETR AND c/.C /ff CQV* 1 /yV 77//T BASKET JUJT BEFORE. THE M&*olON The big European nations have set the pace and the United States is fol lowing. Aeronautics are occupying'a large place in military operations - in Germany, France and England, and regular balloon corps have been added to the armies of those countries and hundreds of thousands of dollars ex pended in securing dirigible balloons Si the most approved type. With such advances being made in that direction it behoved Uncle Sam uel to stir himself and provide equally effective means of protecting his land and his people, and so it ha3 come to pass that a balloon corps has been added to our nl?Utary equipment, and although we are somewhat behind European nations in tackling -the prC** lem of military aeronautics, our army is now working overtime in the effort to excel in this, the most mod ern branch of warfare. At the time the navy department is letting con tracts for submarines, the war depart ment is deep in the problem of select ing the best types of balloons. While the special army and navy board is discussing behind closed doors the use of balloons as a part of our coast de fense system, actual ascensions are being made daily from various points in and around'Washington by Capt. Charles De F. Chandler of the bal loon division of the signal corps. His first ascension several days ago was witnessed by gaping thousands; sub sequent ascensions were seen by un diminished crowds, but their gapes are fast disappearing. The novelty Is wearing off. Military aeronautics is gradually taking its place In this coun try as a recognized and necessary branch of military science. Congress will be called upon at the coming session to increase the appro priations for the purchase of balloons, and the chief signal office of the army is now considering plans for a dirigi ble balloon, to cost in the neighbor hood of $100,000, with a capacity of 50,000 cubic feet, equipped with two 120-horse power engines of foreign de sign, and a contract speed of 35 miles an hour under favorable atmospheric conditions. The hope is expressed, however, that this announcement will not move the unknown number of bal loon cranks in this country to swamp the war department with descriptions of their contrivances. If it were left to the army to decide, the statistics would show that the number of bal loon crauks in this country far ex ceeds any other class of cranks. There are about a half-dozen bal loons, all captive, now In the posses sion of the signal corps. The largest of these, which was recently purch ased, is what is known as a “complete military captive balloon,” with all ap purtenances. It has a capacity of 300 cubic meters. An ordinary spherical balloon, with a capacity of 2,200 cubic meters, has also been bought recently, it will be filled with coal gas and used for preliminary instruction of officers and enlisted men of the signal corps in the elementary principles of aero nautics. On its trial trip this balloon made a successful journey from Wash ington to Harrisburg, a distance of 104 miles, in four and one-half hours. Balloon headquarters for the army will be at Fort Omaha, but Instruction in military aeronautics will also be jiven at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., the course here being adapted to the respective needs of the three service schools. For the protection of the Paclflo coast balloon headquarters are % be established on Angel island, and the selection of an advantageous site on the Atlantic coast is now under consideration. In case the dirigible balloon of the trype which the authori ties are now considering is contracted for, it will, when completed, be ,sent to East Omaha and there tested. The oiticers of the signal corps are unwill ing to give detai’s regarding its main characteristics until it is completed; they are guarding them with all the care that the navy attempts to guard its battleship designs. Put it Is not, unlikely that, before congress apprO priates very much money for balloons its members will call for "persons and papers,” and then the cat will tie out of the bag. Then? is no disposition to go to6 rapidly in the purchase of a dirigible balloon, for the reason that Capt.. Chandler, who is to become one of the chief instructors in military aero nautics, is just now taking his first lessons in actual "ballooning.” Army officers who ftre interested In the development of the balloon as an agent of warfare have encountered an obstacle in the disposition of the pub lic to question the practicability of military aeronautics. This is prob-' ably because the American really knows very little about balloons. When it is remembered that as long ago as the siege of Paris the inhabi tants of the French capital were en abled by means of balloons to com municate with the forces outside the walls, doubts about the utility of the balloon in time of war should vanish. More than 70 balloons during that memorable siege carried dozens of passengers, tons of mail and hundreds of carrier pigeons from the city to the troops outside, and in due time were returned to the besieged people with valuable Information about the movements of the enemy. In a recent communication to the war department from Europe, where he has been gathering valuable infor mation on the subject of military aero nautics as practiced in continental armies, Lieut. Lahm sounds a note of warning: "W’e should not fail to ap preciate the necessity of preparedness for war above the earth as well as on the earth, and when our next war comes we should not be found want ing in this particular branch of mili tary science.” Germany Is at the present time conducting very elaborate expert ments in the use of balloons for mili tary purposes, and this branch of mili tary science has received attention in the annual manoeuvers of the French army for the last six years. In the course to be given at Fort Omaha it is proposed to instruct the balloon division not only in the art of making ascensions, but in the quickest methods of inflating, of un packing the balloon from the wagon, and of towing it, once it is inflated, until the opportune time for making the ascension arrives. In short, it will be the effort of Capt. Chandler, of Lieut. Lahm, and our other military aeronauts, to develop a regular form of balloon drills, .and in time a drill book giving the various manoeuvers of i’ Jation, how to prepare for ascen sions, how to handle the delicate ap purtenances that make up the com plete balloon outfit. No great deeds are done without the doing of many little details. Didn’t Roost with the Chickens. The homely forms of speech used by the country people with whom lit tle Edith and her mother boarded this summer were frequently very puzsling to the child. One evening the farmer’s wife, in talking for a few minutes with Edith’s mother, remarked that, as she was rery tired that night, she behoved she would “go to roost with the chick ms.” When Edith’s bedtime arrived a lit tle later the youngster was nowhere .o be found. After considerable search she was discovered sitting on - large stone near the chicken house lietly watching the fowl as they came in one >y one. “Edith!” called her mother; “what ire you doing there! I’ve been look ing for you everywhere; it’s time to 50 to bed.” “I know, mother," was the reply; but they're nearly all in now, so she’ll he. here soon, I guess.” “Who are in and who will be there? What on earth are you talk ing about, child?" asked the mystified mother. “Why.” explained Edith, rather Im patiently. “you know Mrs. - said she was going to roost with the chick ens to-night and I’m waiting to see how she does it.” Living Up to Regulations. A number of small North Delaware street girls had opened a lemonade stand at the edge of the curb. The drink was in a large glass pitcher, with Bliced lemons floating appetizing ly at the top. One small girl, with a red crayon, had lettered the word “artificial” and leaned it against the pitcher. “What’s that for?” inquired a pass es by. “Pure food law,” said the girls in chorus. “But why should you label it? Are not the water, the lemons, and the sugar pure?” “Yes.” .’ - “Well, what’s artificial about it?" “The Ice.”—Indianapolis News. City and Country Air. City air contains 14 times as many microbes as that of the country.