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It ia not the foreigner who requires attention so much as it is the native bom. In the disinclination to vote, Mr. Bell sees the same danger signal that appears to all thoughtful Americans. It is the first sign of weakening of the national fabric. He locates the ;rouhle definitely: "The greatest menace to American Institutions is the so-called intelligent citizen with his entire lack of a realization of his personal responsibilities as a citizen.” • * * Sober thought is focalizing on this point, and the Indictment is being driven home with force. One Pi the agencies is the Professional Men’s club, which Has come into existence within the last year, and of which more will likely be heard. At the first International conference of these groups, held at Des Moines a few weeks ago, Thomas R. Kimball of Omaha outlined the objects of the organization. Mr. Kimball served as provisional president during the formative period, and was elected president by the delegates at Des Moines. He puts the purpose of the Professional Men’s club in these sentences: "To discover how to liberate the professions from the domination of selfish Interest, both within and without the professions, to devise ways and means of better utilizing the professional heritage of knowledge and skill for the benefit of society, and to create relations between the professions leading to this end.” While the professional men are thus reacting on :heir class, the greater need is set out by the fur ;her argument of Mr. Bell: -riut unless and until all such persons come to a realization that it is their personal influence and example which really count, the movement as a movement will amount to little. When they are willing to place themselves side by side with their fellow citizens, rubbing shoulder to shoulder In the solution of common problems, even as their names are pluced on the voting list side by side, without title or rank, we can hope for success In what is now an abortive attempt to teach a definite group of citizens what citizenship means." * * * f Plainly the duty of the trained mind is here shown, just as it is challenged to the service. Socie ty has a claim on every professional man. On the great majority of them because they have benefited through the public schools maintained at the public charge. Some return for the cost of this education other than professional services may rightly be not only expected but exacted. Indeed, it should be a pleasure to the professional man who has received only part of his training in a state-supported school to discharge a portion of his obligation by trying to elevate the general standard of citizenship. It is to the educated to whom the uneducated turns for leadership. And it is dearly up to the trained men and women of America to meet the appeal with such response as will be good for all. WHEAT FROM OLD RAMESES’ TOMB. I Farmers who have learned about Bohemian oats, Siberian wheat, and a host of similar seed swindles, will smile when they read a story that comes down from Spokane. It is to the effect that a farmer up there has just reaped a crop of wheat averaging 48.6 bushels per acre, the seed for which came from an Egyptian tomb. What tomb is not known. Perhaps this is true. Scientists say that none of the wheat found in Egyptian tombs has ever germinated, although many efforts have been made to reproduce it by planting. The life of the grain is dead, its vital spark having fled during the long years it lay in the tomb. This is not to be wondered at. It would be marvelous if the germ had retained any part of its virility during so long n time. The Spokane story will be accepted at its face value, but careful inquiry will probably be made be fore the Egyptian grain displaces the well known Turkey red, or any of the other varieties that really do produce^crops when given even slight encourage ment. Meantime it will do no harm to ponder over the possibility of eating the same sort of food as was served in the valley of the Nile when the con tactors were still putting up the Pyramids. MARS A CHILLY PROPOSITION. Have you any notion of migrating to Mars? flight as well look into what the astronomers are Ending out about the climate, if you do. The sub ject baa been one of fascinating poisibilitie* ever aface the Harvard professor sprung the thought that Mars might be inhabited. Many a tale has been spun concerning what manner of creatures exist there. Imaginations have been strained to visunlize them. Scientists have taken both side of the ques tion. Some have argued with vehemence that there ll no life on the planet. Others with equal ardor Insist there 1«. A majority decline to commit thrm ■ilves positively on the point. However, a few weeks ago Mars just missed col ling with the Earth, only a trifling matter of some a, ,000,000 miles separating them. Observers took •advantage of this neighborly call to pry into aome of the Martian secrets. A few of these are now being disclosed. From the observatory at Mount Wilson we get a weather bulletin that will interest Mr. Robins. Tests disclose the fact that the tropi cal heat of Mars runs as high as 42 degrees Fahren heit, or just above what is considered frost line in Nebraska. Around the planet’s south pole Stefans son and his merry crew of blubber eaters would feel at home, the average temperature there being minus 95. Looking over last winter’s coal bills, and facing the prospect for another similar season, the Ameri can householder will prefer to keep the ills he has rather than fly to Mars. As a matter of fact, when one gets accustomed to the climate and the ways of the people, this isn’t such a bad old world, after all. ADVENTURE NOT A BUSINESS. Raold Amundsen has just been admitted to the bankruptcy court at Copenhagen. His affairs are so hopelessly involved that it is likely when he emerges from the court he will not only be penni less, but many creditors will have sustained substan tial losses. Primarily, his plight is ascribed to the failure of his Polar expedition last year, and to his efforts to get the enterprise under way again this season. The incident will, serve to show how different exploring adventures are nowadays from those of old. Marco Polo ventured into China because his uncle had found a profit in the eastern trade. Co lumbus drew a very careful bargain as to what re ward he was to have if his quest returned a profit. Spain subsequently derived some billions from the result, but Columbus got little. Da Gama had a good contract with Dom Manoel when he started from Lisbon for Calcutta. Magellan, the Cabots, and others of the time knew what recompense was i to be theirs before they set sail. On the other hand, Raleigh, Drfcke, Frobisher and their kind went roaming very much "on their own.” Encounter with a Spanish treasure convoy al ways was a paying proposition. Since their time, the great dives into the unknown have almost invari ably been government-supported and undertaken in the name of science. No one has thought of mak ing money out of an exploring expedition, and what profit has come has been incidental, rather than di rect. Henry M. Stanley, who went from Omaha to the Britjsh parliament, moving by way of Central Africa, is a notable example of how adventure was j turned into cash. His books still rank among the best sellers. Yet Stanley set out to find Livingston, not to make money. Exploration, whether it be to climb Mount Ever est, retrieve eggs left by careless dinosaurs, chart the great Greenland ice cap, circumnavigate the globe, or find out what lies between Point Barrow and the pole, is not a business. Great capital is required, and skill and experience in management, but dividends are not expected. When Amundsen ,rets ready to go again, he will find backers, because wen with money are more attracted by the pursuit low than ever, even when the hope of great gain simulated the imagination and led to contribution, i _ __ I ETERNAL, HAPPY YOUTH. Bishop Hughes of the Methodist Episcopal church has sound judgment on certain matters. At least the sober thinkers will endorse what he has to say about the boys and girls of today: "We criticize their hair, their skin, their stock ings, their shoes, skirts, cosmetics and manners. I suppose when you middle aged people were young, to hear some of you talk, you thought you were gentle little angels sitting around on sofas with your hands folded on your laps." And there you have it. History does not pre serve the facts, but it is not difficult to imagine what they were. Finding that grownups are much the same now as in any period of the past, it is reason able to conjecture that boys and girls are also changed only in degree and not in nature. The lit tle scamps who shouted at that prophet, “Go up, Baldhead!” would as derisively treat him today, and without incurring the penalty of being devoured by bears. Sometimes we think that story was just put in to scare somebody. It is not impressive, ex cept as showing the nature of the Hebrew children. Excavations in Egypt and Assyria have disclosed playthings that are much like those in vogue today, at least having similar purposes. Games have come down from antiquity so remote that their origin is lost. And so it is. Youth, happy youth, is eternal. Individuals pass through it, but the stage remains, unchanged and unchanging. Peter Pan embodies something that exists in every human being. And how many times do we realize the poignancy of Leila McIntyre’s song: “Toyland, Joyland—Little Clirl and Bo.vland— Once you’ve passed Its borders, you can ne'er return again!" Bishop Hughes is right. Boys and girls today the just what their fathers and mothers were. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS. Bankers attending the session of the American Bankers’ association at Chicago are told that the cost tif crime in the United States has reached the re spectable sum of $3,600,000,000. Half a billion dol lars more than the president has fixed ns the cost of running the federal government for the current year. Criminologists agree thnt the principal cause of crime is ignorance. More than hnlf the parents in the United States have only a sixth-grade educntlon or less. School statistics show very little prospect for improvement. In the year 1919-20, according to the United States census bureau, a total of $1,166,506,640 was expended for all purposes on public education in the United States. More thnn $100,000,000 of this sum went for debt service, leaving hut $1,036,151, 209 to be spent in support of the schools. Less than one-third the cost of crime for n sin gle year. Another fnct that may interest. We spend twice ns much on schools ns we do on churches. So the crime bill for a single year was more than six times as great as the amount spent on religion. Of the national domestic income, % of 1 per rent goes to the church; 1*4 per rent goes to educa tion; 4*4 per cent to government; 8 ti per rent to crime; 14 per cent to waste, and 22 per cent to luxuries. How long can this ratio of expenditure continue without irreparable damage to our civilization? A South Dnkota man lighted a match to see If there was any gns in the lank. When he gets out of the hospital he may look around for a new car. “Pat" Harrison has trained his mud gun on the president again. He has not had much lurk so far. An earthquake has joggled Maine, hut thnt wifi not change a vote. Score in Philadelphia: Butler, first; gang, no where. * ______—— Liberty Preserved by Law _ -j By T. W. BLACKBURN Our government is a system ot i checks and balances with three dls I tlnet and Independent departments. The president represents the execu tive branch and neither the legisla tive nor the judicial department can deprive him of certain powers granted him by the constitution. He nego tiates for treaties. He may veto any measure" passed by congress. He is commander-in-chief of the army and the navy. He may pardon any fed eral convict. The senate may refuse to confirm a treaty and congress may override a veto under special pro visions of the constitution, but the senate cannot negotiate a treaty or select a cabinet officer, or compel ex ecutive action upon any matter within his constitutional powers. The two houses of congress consti tute the legislative department of our government. They are independent. No power exists to compel the enact ment, revision or repeal of any law. The president may suggest and recom mend, but congress may and often does ignore his recommendations. The judicial department Is the su preme court of the United States. It cannot be coerced by either of the other departments of the government. It has no authority to suggest, amend or repeal any law. There is no proc ess possible out of the supreme court which can be construed.as a direction to congress to act or refrain from acting. Neither congress nor the president are amenable to any form of process issuing from the greatest of all tribunals. They are Independent of each other and of the court and the court is likewise independent of president and congress. * * • But all these departments of gov ernment derive lheir powers and their authority from the constitution of the United States. Their limitations are fixed by that wonderful instrument. In all the 130 yearB of our history the rights of these three co-ordinate de partments have been maintained and the balance wheel of the governmental system is the supreme court. It can not legislate, but It can say to con gress, "Your proposed act Is null and void because It violates the constitu tion.” The supreme court cannot di rect the president in any manner whatsoever, but It can Interpret a treaty which the president has nego tiated, and it can say to the presi dent, "You may not direct the ex penditure of any money from the treasury unless congress has by a specific act authorized the expendi ture. These are simple illustrations in tended to show the co ordination and at the same time the independence of our three great departments of gov ernment. Congress has attempted to enact laws not authorized and laws pro hibited by the constitution. The su preme court has very properly de clared such laws null and void. The supreme court has also held some laws passed by state legislatures to be void because they were In viola tion of some provision of the funda mental law of the nation. But of 45,000 laws enacted by con gress in the last 130 years, just 61 have been held unconstitutional. While in the same period, of the many thousands of state enactments, only 350 state laws were declared void by the supreme tribunal. * • • Toward the close of the civil war and thereafter, congress passed many acts penalizing those who followed the confederate flag. One provided that no person should practice before a federal court unless he should first take oath that he had not aided the confederate cause. Hon. A. H. Gar land. afterwards a senator and attor ney general of the United States, had been admitted to practice before the outbreak of the war. lie was a con federate officer and fought for the confederacy four years. Subsequently he received a full pardon from the president. The act was held uncon -M stltutional because (1) It excluded Mr. Garland from one of the ordinary vo cations of life on account of past con duct In assisting the confederacy and Imposed a punishment by declaration of congress and was equivalent to a bill of attainder, which congress was prohibited to pass; (2) It deprived him of the right to practice his profession as a penalty for aiding the confeder ate cause, which penalty was not in force when the act was committed and, therefore, it was an ex-post facto law and prohibited by the constitu tion; (3) The constitution gives the president power to grant pardons for offenses against the i'nited States and he had pardoned General Garland. The act was, therefore, void in so far as it attempted to prevent a man from practicing law on account of an offense for which he had already been pardoned by the president. Kx parte Garland 4 Wall. 333. For this decision radical republican reconstructionists assailed the su preme court bitterly, but the supreme court stood between many individual southerners and the violence, malice and wrath of a partisan majority de termined to wreak vengeance upon the defeated people of the states lately composing the southern confederacy Most of the decisions holding state statutes unconstitutional in the ear lier years were so held because the states sought to pass laws impairing the obligations of contracts or at tempted to infringe upon the exclusive power of congress over commerce be tween the states. Other laws violat ing other provisions of the national constitution were such as emitting bill of credit, bill of* attainder, ex post facto laws, laying duties on ton nage of imports or exports or failing to give full faith and credit to public acts or judicial proceedings of other states. The fourteenth and fifteenth j amendments also gave rise to some ! efforts at unconstitutional laws. i It may be worth while to note In passing that the courts of the several states declared more than 300 so called labor laws unconstitutional— though the supreme court of the United States has declared only five of this class unconstitutional. • • • As an illustration of a state statute declared void because contrary to the fundamental law of the land, the Ne braska language law is a striking ex ample. This act was an aftermath of the world war. It was extremely of fensive to many good citizens of Ne braska. There was never any good reason for its enactment. However If the supreme court of the United States did not have power to deter mine the constltunonality of state and congressional acts, the minority! in Nebraska and everywhere elsd would be at the mercy of the ma jority. Senator La Follette puts first in his program the emasculation of the suI preme court. He would take awal l from the Judicial department of thfc United States its Independence and would make the supreme court sub servient to congress. This is dangerous. It is revolu tionary. It takes away from minori-! ties the only protection they have. | * * * Know nothingism” swept certain ; communities in the 50s. A. P. A.ism j was strong in Nebraska and other | states in the 00s. Ku Klux Klanlsm has demonstrated strength in a dozen I states this year. War bitterness is j responsible for a lot of unseemly con-! duct and the enactment of a number j of laws which succeeding generations will denounce. The supreme courts of state and nation have saved many j good people who could not grow en thusiastic over war and war work. J The constitution stood between them and much misery and that same grand old instrument saved Robert M. La I Follette and Burton K. Wheeler from Incarceration for utterances which many patriotic people are even yet unwilling to forgive. I-a Follette descended from French ancestors and Wheeler, leader of the I. W. W.s, cannot draw the Ameri cans of German extraction into their socialistic and revolutionary party. Steady minded men came from the fatherland and they are steady mind j ed Americans, proud of their adopted land, in spite of some unhappy Inci dents d^e to the world war. They \ want no radical changes, they do not trust radical leaders. For Navy Day I ■ - ■ ■■■— ■ ■ '' More than a million Americana lo cated In all parts of the United States will take part In the third annual celebration of Navy day. which will be observed all over the country Mon day. October 27. Parades and celebra tions will be held in all of the large seacoast cities. There will be meet ings of chapters of the Nevy league and other organizations In nearly every city and town throughout the land. Lectures and speechea dealing with the navy will be given and local services held, commemorative of the deeds of American heroeB of all pe riods of our country’s history. Endorsed by the president and the secretary of the navy, Navy day has obtained the support and active co operation of a very large number of social, business and patriotic bodies which form so large a part of Amdl can life. In addition to the Navy league, the American Legion, the Vet erans of Foreign Wars, many Cham bers of Commerce, Rotary, Kiwanls and other groups have promised all possible aid, while among the wo men's societies, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Daugh ters of 1812 will take an active part in observing the celebration. • • • The observance of Navy day orlgl tutted In 1922, when It was decided that a day should be set apart for the ' nmnicmoratlon of the deeds of Amer ican sailors In ths World War and In our country's other struggles, and also for bringing hefors the attention of the public the value of the navy to the nation In peace and In war. Sup ported by the Navy league and other patriotic societies, and aided by the cooperation and assistance of the Navy department and the, officers and men of the navy, the celebration proved successful from the start and has become a recognized event In the calendar year. In addition to parades and memnr tal ceremonies, every effort is made on Navy day to familiarize the public throughout the rountry with the ships nd men of the navy. The battle fleets on both coasts are divided among the principal seaports and ' ther naval vessels ere distributed as widely as possible so that every sea port is visited by one or more ships During the day "open house" is held at which the navy officers and men act as hosts to all who care to visit the ships and explain In detail the ,-V I The Banqueting House ^/ (Th* following v*r***, *n Interpretation >‘t what th* church *ny* of t’hrl*t, *r cordfnif to Solomon * ftonff of Song*, w** ( mad by th* »uthor, Alt* Wranwlrk ! lirown < Mr* Walter Brown i *t th* da- | votionai »*rvlc* of th* woman * m**tlng on .September 26 of the South was* *rn I aptlat hmoi latloa, Flr*t Baptist church. Shenandoah, la.) To the banqueting house He brings me, 'Neath HI* banner of boundless love. Where HI* pear* wait* the war worn pilgrim Aa home-cote wait* the *torm spent dove. From the Flagon of T.lfe He quencher All my flerlly burning thirst As. of apples of comfort eating, My soul Is In feast Immersed, lie sits with me at His table: Mv nard fumes devoutly atlr, Piercing our house beam's cedar, Reaching II* rafter's flr. I For the winter 1* done. Kxultant, Sun Inspired Is the song of bird. And fair flowers emit Joy's savor, And the turtle* glad voice is heard. My Divine Ho»t'* anointed Person Cast In grace of th* fleet young roe— Pear* ttie radiant banquet garment I Of roseate dayspring'* glow. Ills linen la Kgvpt a byssua— Idk# softest caress Its fold— Delicate fineness—fabric Worth twice It a weight In gold Rows of Jewels HI* cheeks emblazon Chins of gold- round Ills nerk en twined— Match the border* with studs of silver A* twin e.\es match our love com bined. 0 an amaranth 'mid the thorn hedgi I* His love mid th# ones like me! With chaste kisses, and 111* arc sweeter Than new wine of Galilee, We |x»rt, and I then behold Him— Rnrnpt, how my bosom thrills' 1 raping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills! When aside by rnmpsnlnns turning. From the Holy of Holies' spell. From the flg iree that put* forth green flg*. And the tender grnpe vine's good smell; When no longer among the lilies He regale* me, do foxes come To desisdl my fnretnste of Heaven My spirit's Klyalttm? No! Foxes, the little foxes, Such glory can never dim: Fot In Ills secret Presence Col I hsve dined with Him! •-Alt* Wren wrick Brown. i working of machinery and gun* with which they are equipped. This fea ture has proved of the greatest In terest In past years, and in many In stances visitors have come from hun dreds of miles Inland to Improve the opportunity to be guests of the navy on Navy day. • • • In anticipation of the present year's celebration, committees have been formed by the Navy league and other patriotic organizations for carrying on the work throughout tlje United States. Governors of slates, members of the senate and house of repre sentatives and leaders In both the business and social world of the na tion have accepted memhershlp on the national committee In general charge of the work. The chairman of this committee snd In charge of the general plans of the Navy day cele brations Is Commander Marlon Epp ley, United States naval reserve force. Working under the guidance of the rational committee are state commit tees, each of Which In turn hag the supervision of local committees In towns snd cities. Heads of the state committees are; California—Capt. Trank H. Alns worth, San Francisco. Colorado—Morton M. David, Den ver. Delaware—Dare O. Hopkins. Wil mington. Florida—Lieut. Col. Harry C. Cul breath, Tampa. (Georgia — Langdon Thomas, Au gusta. Illinois—George M. Welchelt, Chi cago. Iowa—N. M. Hubbard. Des Moines. Kansas—Frank E. Samuel, Topeka I-oulslana — Benjamin T. Waldo, New Orleans. Maryland—Gan. Charles F. Mackltn. Minnesota—yon. George E. Leach, mayor of Minneapolis. Montana—Eugene Carroll, Butte Nebraska—Col. John G. Maher. Lincoln. Nevada—Hon. Charles B. Hender son. North Carolina—Stewart M. Cram (r. Cramerton. New Jersey—W. Parker Runyon, Perth Amboy. New York—Rear Admiral Trouts M. Josephthal, New York City. Oklahoma — Gen. Roy Hoffman. Oklahoma City. Oregon—Judge Wallace McCam ant, Portland. Pennsylvania — Hon. William C. Sproul, Philadelphia. South Carolina—Hon. H. S. McEI wee. Charleston. South Dakota—Lewis W. Blcknell. Texas—Dr. W. E. Hubhert, Dallas. Utah—if.n. Charles R. Mabey, Salt Lake City. Virginia—Homer L. Ferguson, New port News. West Virginia—David C. Howard, Charleston. Wisconsin — James H. McGlllan, Green Bay. • • e In the celebration of 195.1 more than 1,200 localities arranged Navy day programs and the present celebration promises to exceed this. Preparations are l>etng made for exercises of spe cial significance tn Washington. New York city, Boston, Philadelphia, I’hsrleston • $■ Hake Comfort, nor forget ■ QhatSunrise ne\/erfailed _ J ---1 1 On the Whig In Wisconsin, Oct. Wisconsin politics Is a ! funny thing Everybody up here admits that I*a Follette will carry the state, but so far as we have been able to ascertain nobody is going to vote for him. At least we haven t a sTngle m?n of woman who will admit it. and we have talked to scores of them. If Milwaukee Is dry then Rhode Island I" the ,ar«rMt state in the Union. Inquiry revealed the fact thattWe are at least a thousand places where one may get anything from beer to whisky, aged in the wood, at a slight advance over preAolstead prices. We have made no personal Investigation, but on an sides the information Is proffered, and several times by men who gave visible evidence that they knew what they were talking about. Nebraska overlooked a bet by not having an-agricultural exhibit here. Only three or four states have exhibits, ana Idaho easily takes the lead. This exhibit was collected and displace* by Louis Vonier of the Union Pacific agricultural de partment. Omaha. Louis has been doing this kind of work tor years and he Is an artist. He is responsible for the collection and arrangement of the great exhibit in the headquarters build . lng at Omaha. To tell the plain and honest truth, Nebraska excursionists are going to feel better when they get on the Burlington rails at Chicago. They have been having a wonderful time, but they are tired. And when they get on the Burlington rails they will feel like they are almost home. And Isn’t that a grand and glorious feeling after one has been roaming around until weary and homesick? One of the greatest delights we have had on this trip is to listen in while some stranger is expatiating on the wonderful resources of his state, and then horn In on the conversation and quote him a few statistics about Nebraska. If Nebraskans only knew it, they have the greatest state in the union agri culturally. Outside of the dairy development. Wisconsin Isn't in the same class with Nebraska. Why. these Wisconsin dairy men have to get about one-half their alfalfa from our state, and the eorn they raise here Isn’t a marker to ours. But there te on# striking difference. In 'Wisconsin they utilize all of the corn, while !■ Nebraska we burn the etalks. We are of those who are enthusiastic about the development of the dairy In I dustry in Nebraska, but for energy expended the average Ne braska farmer gets more returns than the Wisconsin farmer or dairyman. Without dairying Wisconsin would be out of the running. With dairying they have replenished a worn-ont soil, and it is that work of maintaining and replenishing soil fertility that Nebraska needs, and dairy development will do It. Old Nebraska Is going to look mighty good to all of us. * And every one of the 10* Nebraskans on the trip are now enthusiastic for dairy development. Without exception they say that the trip was worth more than it cost, many times over. WILL M. MAUPIN. /-- ' Super-Literary Malady V--* From th« St. Louts Post-D!sp»tcb To a person of average culture, one of the advantages of living In a city such as St. Loula is the absence of what may he described as a super literary set. So far as we have been able to ascertain through travel and reading. New York and Chicago are the only American cities so afflicted. Kach of these unfortunate places has a self selected circle of males and fe males of the species who arrogate to themselves a superior Intellectuality. An acute obeerver recognizes the symptoms quite readily. These symp toms are indicated in this brief ex 'erpt from an article by a Londoner n the current number of The Book man, and it is evident that London Jlso suffers: i have seen great numbers of high browed, small-nosed women, who •peak as if they had piums in their mouths, who have all given me the Impresssion of being rather conceited about their Intellects. They insist upon talking in a sort of esthetic jar gon about ‘art’ and 'fawm’ and Wal ter de !a Mare. . . and they dis tress me more by their assurance than by their limitation. I know there are men who also talk about art’ and fawm.' and I regret equally >he existence of these men. who are » menace to any person who really ires about either art or form—and who therefore speak reluctantly about Either." Super llteraryism is a disease due chiefly to mental lopsidedness Its victims lack the happy rotundity of -1 -- intellect which includes, as necessary rounding-out ingredients, common sense and a sense of humor. This being the diagnosis, what then la the prognosis? Alas! common senge and the sense of humor are born, r.' t made. The "art" and "fawm” folk are chronic cases They themselves cannot be cured, but those who come In contact with them can avoid in haling the infection by exhaling a hearty laughter. Garden Centuries Old. A little tract of 1 and In one of th* crowded sections of the city of Lon don Is thought to have been in con tlnuous cultivation longer than any other In the world, although it is possible that there are small fields or gardens In China with even longer records In this London garden, vegetables and fruits are grown with good re sults. The spot has never been built over, nor had pipes laid beneath It. t ‘ It has been a garden for at least 1,50 ) years. The gardener still occasional ly dig* up bit* of Roman pct'ery and bricks and relics of even earlier age'. Agriculture Review. Going Some. Friend—What’s the big box on the front of your machine? Automobilist—That s a camera for taking moving pictures. You see. I go so fast, I don't have time to look at the ecenery. and »o I photograph h as I go along.—LYTlustration, Paris. The Ananias Club. "I wish,” said the father, “you children would not pore over yo..t r.ig