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TTIE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 1910. ifflflKE'S) TOMI; MOIIME PAGE1 TV). Dottie Dialogues We Talk Through My Things You Want to Know The Mexican tannlat. On Hat This Time. .01?, BY WALTER A. SINCLAIR. "Hang! Bung!" exclaimed Dottle, point ing an Imaginary revolver. "Your bang are nice, but t thought that style of coiffure was passay." I rejoined. "I was aiming at the straw roof,"' she ex plained. "Well, girls are notoriously poor aimers," 1 parried. "Your name Isn't Amy." "Shoot it!" she commanded, determinedly. "Hold! I bave a reprieve from the Gov mor," I cried. "And I thought they said the lid was of." he mourned. "Not so fast, woman; not no fast. I have until the l&th before the Society for ITeven tlon of Cruelty to Hats puts the straw kadleH to the gun," I asserted. "Who, touches a hat on your bonehead, dyes her hair blond. Marvh on, he paid," she declaimed. "I thought It had b"eti de creed by vote that they perished the first week of September." "Oh, no, It Isn't until a fr w weeks be fore election that they take a-etraw vote," J corrected. "Don't you think that the hat cleaning man lined peroxide?" she Inquired, point edly. "No, but I suspect his wife did; she was a chemistry blonde," I replied. Go ahead and let me put It out of Its misery.." she urged. "I might have worn one of those second atorjr hats," I mused. "Are you a second story worker?" she In terrogated, Innocently. "No, I haven't even landed my first story yet. The editors" I began. "Tom were saying" ahe reminded. "Oh, It makes do never mind," I assured Indifferently. "But you were saying that If you had a second story hat" she persisted. "Ah, but that la another story, as Kip ling once said one or several times," I responded. "However, I had In mind these new hats for women,, "Dear me, ha your mind that much un fented space?" she cried. "Where they take off the top layer, re vealing a suj-ond layer" "Oh, a ohantncler hat with two hens on It," she Interrupted. "And I was thinking," I continued. Ignor tosr bar frils. "that I might have made a tdt if I bad worn my straw hat over a riots, cap." "Tea mean a nightcap or don't you take that with a straw?" she asked. r Daughters of A r" :. s -: ,- f 4 7 t .Vv. Miss Kinily Wakeman, the American I actress who in private life Is the wife of Randolph Hartley, the author and dramatist, is the daughter of Prof. Thnrt deus Burr Wakeman, sociologist, philos opher, etiayl.sl. educator and for fifty years a prominent nuniber of the New Tork bar. During the olvil war Prof. Wakeman, In association with his brother, A brum Wake man, postmaster of New Tork, had much to do with the Inside workings of national politics, but after the struggle he retired from practical affairs to devote himself to scholarly pursuits. He was one of the founders of the Nineteenth Century club, said has been president of the IJbersJ uni versity, vloe president of the Goethe club, president of the Liberal club of New Tork, smd president of the Thomas Paine Me morial absociatlon. Miss Wakeman acquired her education under the direction of her father, and In herits her keen Intellectual qualities from him. Her career on the stage covers a dosen years, and during that period she has been seen In a number of Important New Tork productions, many of them the playc of the late Clyde Kltch. She has won an enviable reputation as a character actress of rare insight and technical skill. The playing of those roles In the drama that are technically called character parts requires a quallt) of mind quite unlike that of the other actors and actresses In NEW. DETECTIVE METHOU M "I can't tell Higgina from bij brother with the wooden leg.' 'Neither can L In tact, J have to kick him in the thins, to find But which odc I'm talking' to." t d sk A mil "RANG! BANG!" "Well, I thought If I wore a cap" "And came tip with cap and bells on you'd be appropriately attired for the part," she concluded. "Why not a derby?" "Then you don't consider any handy cap equal to a derby?" I countered. "Not even the suburban?" I ndded with a sneer. That struck sparks. She doesn't like mention of the rural location of her domicile. "I frequently have dared to want a felt hat," I observed. "A Jong felt want?" she queried, feebly. "Hut in honor of this call, I had pur chased a very classy, new black derby. The hat store man tried to Bell me a very sub dued blue plush hat and a blond derby with a black ribbon, Dut I succeeded in convincing him that I wanted what I wanted and not what he wanted, after which he sold It td me, but reserved his opinion of me. I had It sent around and there was the box waiting for me this eve when I reached home. But when I opened It I found there had been a mistake and they had sent out somebody's old straw." "Which broke your back, but who'd be a camel?" she Inquired. "That hat store clerk had taken his re venge, methinks. Maybe my choice made him mad. Maybe he was mad as a hatter anyway." "Let us pass the bat, conversationally," she suggested. "I pan. What do you make It?" I asked. "Hearts," she answered. And blushed. (Copyrighted. 1319, by the N. T. Herald Co.) Famous Men j the cast. The business of the leading men and leading women is to understand thor ouKhly the sentimental emotions, as It Is me lHiKlne.ss of the lliccnue to retain the puiut of view of young girlhood and of the comedian to look upon life from the angle or humor. The character actor, however, la not limited to any one set of emotions. Iln la the one clay oomlc. in anothnr tragic- now a person of exquisite refinement and eduoar tlon, next an uncouth yokel. Therefore, tne Player of character nana munt n eclectic mind and of broad understanding ana sympathy. In the case of Miss Wake man this grafting of science uunn art i. matter of heredity. (Copyright. W10. by the N. T. Herald Co.) Diplomatic. "No. I can never be your wife." "What? Am I never to be known as the husband of the beautiful Mrs. timith?" She succumbed. September IJpplnoott'a. Bun a.xsr. We ail know the bores who, of every man living, bay. ' i.o's a good fella a regular sport," VVe oil know tne creatures who tiwii axe giving Us sun about jobs they once held (by rcpurtj. but um of the clan that I hereby Indict are The ones who declare, with a throb from the heart, "Thai a jciiHO over there the Illustrious 1 SaVH hull hla atat-t ' X-' 'I The chars who, whenever you mention au actress, . Have always some scandal to darken her name; The rellows who gloat over each blonde or black tress They find on your shoulder, to put you to shame. Are miid-uiannered folk to the man who would fell you By crying: "That's Blnks-Ge! but he is a snob! lie's a richer painter now, but I'd Just ss soon tell you: I got him his Job." We're used to the persons who slander their betters With: "This Is In confidence 'tween you and me." And the burglars who brag of their credit the debtors Who move every two months, change friends every three; But let us rebel, In united self-pity. 'Gal net him who exclaims: "Look! The tieer King, Jim Pupp. He wsa driving a hears out in Idaho City When I picked him up." Since I became rich writing poems In pas sion (Fale modesty holds no position In Art), I am simply amaxed at the oodles and lashlns Of charming young fellows who gave me ny start! I never would hint the frank tribute In tended As pay f"r those debts they still owe me ahem! But the men who went backward, the wrecked, the unmetided Say, who started thorr.T September Mpplncotfa. hdre 8CEW TM PRcDiteU. SOW 'TU.L Side Or IT. GoS TUl, BEsfT TJCK. Txe TMtry, HAve Sonft 'rrTTTED V X" ALL IM' lreH!TATrlER..SPEk MOT J TM6K WAR.SX to You. Boy- "tsft. 8R.OU6KT "YOU BrtCK JJOTTU6 OP t. rikj Tic-r t fnn tm' iv p i-jj 1-nn.rt ' cwrnioNT. tsoe, w i i L'sTl . I The Boss of the Establishment BT AMERE MAN. "System is the secret of good housekeep ing," the Boss of the Establishment began, prompously. "The hand-to-mouth buying of the average American household is re sponsible for shameful waste. Supplies should be purohased In large quantities, and Idle women should not do their market ing over the telephone. It has been said that the average American family throws away food enough for a French family. I believe-'' But here his wife, who had been gaxlng across the breakfast table with startled eyes, could keep still no longer. "Why don't you send it to the Ladies' Home Journal?" she asked bitlngly. A deep frown gathered on the Boss' brow. "That's Just itl" he exclaimed. "Tou women won't take anything seriously. You sneer at your most saored responsi bilities!" "I'm afraid I can't see anything sacred In ordering a beefsteak or a lamb stew," the lady replied with some heat. "But, of course, that's due to my frivolous. Irre sponsible nature. " "Now you're going into personalities," the Boss expostulated In a milder tone. "And you misunderstood .me, or else you purposely distort my words.' The Boss' wife smiled cynically at the familiar phase. It was one the Boss al ways employed to avert her wrath. Hla admission that he was "misunderstood" might be taken as a quasi apology, but If she didn't oare for It, It turned Into an acousatlon that she was trying to pick a quarrel with a long suffering and Innocent man. The Boss contrued the smile as a restor ation of the domestic entente. "I was Just thinking," he said, "that now that we are about to move to the country and keep house on a much larger scale we should give the matter of econ omy In purchasing supplies more serious attention. I don't mean you any more than I mean myself. I want to help you in every way. In fact, I have thought of suggesting that I relieve you of the diffi cult business of buying altogether. Now there's meat, for Instance. I know when It's good as you can't know it. Tou see, I was a country boy on a farm while you Items of Apart from the crude economic question, the things that moat women mean when they speak of "happiness." that la, love and children and the little republic of the home, depend upon the favor of men. and the qualities that win this favor are not In general those that are most useful for other purposes. A girl should not be too intelligent or too good or too highly differ entiated In any direction. Like a ready-made garment, sue should be designed to fit the average man, says the Atlantic. She should have "Just about as much religion as my William likes." The age-long oper ation of this rule, by which the least strongly Individualised women are the moat likely to have a chance to transmit their qualities, has given It the air of a natural law. Though the lady has gener ally yielded It unquestioning obedience, she often dreams of a land like that of the Amasons, where she might be Judged on her merits Instead of on her charms. See ing that In the world a woman's social po sition, her dally food, her chance of chil dren, depend on her exerting sufficient Z'n 'KeU-O.XrtD! THE TO Ci.r nc ke rtntR cvenwq telemam (new york He ACKOSS A BC5T HE SMlLtD Athis wire, were dragging around Europe being edu cated." This time the lady's smile was real and radiant She was not without a funny little pride In her cosmopolitan Infancy and a reference to it was so sure to put her In a good humor that, as the Boss often thought, a less conscientious hus band would have taken advantage of It. He, of course, would not think of such a thing. "That's lovely of you," his wife replied, with a new cordiality. "Of course you know more about those things than I do. Suppose, Just to see how the new plan Is going to work, you do the buying for the house this week." The Boss agreed enthusiastically and his wife handed him a list of household ne cessities, which hs stuffed hastily Into his pocket. "Roast beef, corn, baking powder, vine gar, and be sure not to forget the vanilla bean," were the parting words of the lady. At 8 o'clock the roast arrived. The Boss' wife, owing, possibly, to her continental education, was unable to determine whether her lord had purchased half an ox or only a quarter section of ons. But she caught sight of the kitchen scales and decided to weigh the Boss' pur chase. Fourteen pounds nd ten ounces! ii 11 " t SLUA-C TlTlV I I 5oST Af-tW 3K-0?3 Of" FtrMAN JE T6 I 5PR.IMKItD HITHER AM" V CR.At.'Y ' J . THITHtR. AM' fOU UOMT ) ' -t STpjr VjZ-F-KEr 1 '. ( rvsiwpY -re was ) Mir IIH sa J . "ZJk WMIW. Interest for the Women Folks charm to Induce some man to assume the responsibility and expense of maintaining her for life, and that the qualities on which this charm depends are sometimes alto gether unattainable by a given woman, It la not surprising that exceptional women are willing to eliminate from their lives the whole question of marriage and mother hood for the sake of free development Irrespective of Its bearing on the other sex. Many of the new fall waists display the short knife pleated frill down the closing. The shorter length from neck to bust Is more generally becoming, especially when the width graduates to nothing at all at the lower end. It will be noticed tha. thej short frill in more graceful looking when trimming a waist that closes a little to the left side farther than down the entire front To meat the demand for suitable bed covering for cool nights In warm weather, thin summer blankets they are called woollen sheets are available. They are extremely light in weight but warm, and lTomJ JUST ) rlNt,r.KB hehau - cox u fUgriu ktmtl. 3 Gives His Wife a Lesson Economical Housekeeping She giggled helplessly at the mammoth roast and then, with a wise smile straight ening her curly mouth, she ordered the maid to cook it all and to start f once so that it might be ready for the Boss' dinner. At 4 o'clock twelve cans of baking pow der arrived. "I think I'll start a grocery!" exclaimed the lady. "Or a hotel," she added, remem bering the fourteen pounds of beef. By 6 o'clock everything had arrived ex cept the vanilla bean. The passing of an other hour brought n unusually pleased and atrutty Boss. "Things come?" he asked pleasantly. "Everything but the vanlllla bean," hla Wife answered. "But you won't mind It there's no dessert, will you?" "Of course not," said the Boss heartily. "It's a funny thing about that. I made my only miscalculation when I asked for It. I told the clerk what I wanted and he asked me how muoh. I said a pound." " 'It's 120 a pound,' said the clerk, smil ing a funny little smile. But he didn't get my goat. I said, 'All right; send me a dollar's worth,' and walked out Did the baking powder come? I thought I'd get you enough to last a month, and it was cheaper by the dozen cans, Just as I thought." "Yes," agreed his wife. "It came. It's a little more than we'll need In a lifetime, but I've found a way to make It useful. After I'm cremated I'll have It sprinkled in my ashes to be sure I'll resurrect on time." The Boss did not smile at this remark. It pained him, but the timely announce ment of dinner diverted hla attention. Across a mountainous roast he smiled at his wife. "I'm a pretty good shopper, don't you think?" he asked, hopefully. "Fine! Splendid!" she agreed. And then by the merest afterthought she added: "By the way, how much did It all cost you?" "Only $16," replied the Boss enthusiasti cally, "though I realise now I bought rather more than enough. And yet It was all so cheap. -That's the funny part" "Tea," said the lady, slowly and signi ficantly, "that is the funny part" (Copyright, 1910, by the N. T. Herald Co.) J come in attractively striped borders of pink or blue. They measure seventy-two by eighty-four inches and cost $3.76 per pair. Another line meeting summer needs is the gause wool blanket. Though sold In pairs, each blanket is bound singly. In the single bed size they cost 1X76 per pair. To fit a double bed 15 is the price asked. One sees pretty flat decorations made from raffia, and as many girls know a little about the work they will like to try making trimmings either for the new fall hat or for renovating the summer mil linery. Most fascinating motifs, cabu chons, wings, buckles, etc, are seen fash ioned from raffia, combined sometimes with knotted cord or -the wooden beada This combination is very striking end les sens the time of labor, for fine rarfla work is tedious if at all nicely dona Among the new hats for fall many display raffia as a decoration. Mousaellre gowns of two tones, one show ing through another, are much worn. Tomorrow President lorflrlo Diss ot Mexico and President William Howard Taft of the United States will celebrate their birthdays. General Diaz will then be come an octegenarlan, while President Tatt will attain to his fifty-third year. It is a singular coincidence that General Dlax, who has done so mucn to perpetuate tne no erty of Mexico, should have been born on the very eve of the Mexican Fourth ol July. He was born on tlie day preceding the passing of the second decade of Mexi can Independence, for it was on the six teenth of September, 1S10, that General Hidalgo took steps that were destined to become the equivalent of the American Declaration of Independence. Although for eleven years the heads of Hidalgo and three of his fellow patriots remained af fixed on the spikes and exposed above the walls of the fortress at Ouanajuata, the spirit that led them to proclaim Mexico s freedom from the Castllian yoke remained with their followers unUl tho Torktown of Mexico waa fought In 1621, nine years before the birth of General Diaz. The celebrations In Mexico City will cover practically the entire month of Sep tember, but their climax will come on Fri day, when every Mexican will Join In the fiesta of Centennial day. When the Mexi cans have a holiday they do things up to the queen's taste, for they are an experi enced people In the matter of holiday giv ing. There are 131 holidays In the Mexican calendar, including Sundays, and it usu ally takes one day to get sobered down for business after each holiday. The United States will be represented by 'special embassy at the Centennial day celebra tions, and thousands of Americans will be In Mexico City for that occasion. The people of the United States well may feel a deep Interest In the affairs of our sister republic below the Rio Grande, slnco It Is there that American trade reaches It high-water mark of supremacy. The Mexi cans set 66 per cent of all their Imports from the United States, and send SO per cent of their exports to this country. Eng land and Germany both have come to realise that American Interests are su preme in Mexican trade circles, and prac tically are conceding that field to the United States. That the United States is taking advantage of this concession Is shown by the fact that nearly 11,000,000,000 of American capital Is Invested In Mexi can enterprises. The rod of wealth from north of the" Rio Grande is smiting the rock of undeveloped resources in Mexico and making a stream of golden treasure to flow from it. There are more than 30,000 Americans in Mexico today, and the Mexican government seeing that they are doing so much toward making that country a land of present opportunity, is extending them a hearty welcome. Few people realize that nearly one-half of the entire territory of Mexico lies north of tho southernmost point of the UnlTCd States, and fewer still know, that practi cally half of this territory Is on table lands so high that the climate is as oool as the most temperate part of the United States. The country has a coast line almost as long as that of the United States, al though ITs area Is only one-third as great Its population amounts to approximately 16,000,000, and although education Is begin ning to become general, more than 8,000,000 of Its people can neither read nor write. Longevity is a characteristic of the Mexi can, the last census showing that there were 8,000 who were over 80 years of age, and 700 who were more than 100. In reli gion there are 12,000,000 Roman Catholics, under the pastoral care of 8,000 priests. Nine per cent of the population Is white, 46 per cent mixed, and 88 per cent Indians. No race Is American today represents such an admixture of blood as the Mexican, In whose, veins flows Iberian, Semite, Hamite, Gothic, Vandal, Roman and Celtio blood, to say nothing of the parent stock of native Indian and its Axteo and Toltac origin. It is the wish of General Dias that the present centennial year should witness a great revival of education in his country. To that end he has recommended that every state and municipality In the country signalise the year by establishing schools and other Institutions for the enlightening of the masses of the people. We are prone to forget that Mexico was tha very cradle of American civilisation, that the first uni versity in the new world was founded In Mexico almost 100 years before the Fil grims landed at Cape Cod, and three-quarters of a century before Jamestown was settled. That unlveralty had an unbroken existence of three centuries, lacking two years, and is to be reopened during the present centennial year. The first college on new world soil was a venerable institu tion when Harvard and William and Mary were founded. A full 1.000 years have passed since Mexico's first cities were built, and it had towns and villages and white- Proper Kind of Brush Because I think a complexion brush la a valuable agent in obtaining or retaining a good complexion, I am going to say some thing of what it should be and how It should be used. if too stiff, it will be Injurious by Irrita ting the skin. It cannot be too soft, for no matter how the bristles may give they will' still act as cleansers and will go more thoroughly Into the surface than can a cloth, which does not begin to remove dust thoroughly from the pores. A brush will, and In these days constant motor ing It becomes more than ever necessary to keep the pores free unless blackheads are to exist A hair brush of the kind first used for a baby makes an excellent brush for the com plexion; a shaving brush Is also good, al though Its bristles are a little too long. A chain MimnUiinn hrilah 1 not desirable, for it has a harshness that never wears off and Is Irritating to the surface. Using the brush Is simple. Occasionally soap may be put on it but more frequently only plain water, precisely as a cloth is wet The brush Is dipped Into the basin and then the face Is scrubbed, using the sams motion as with a face cloth. Naturally the brush Is frequently to be dipped In anew during the operation so that dirt-it attracts shall be rinsed out. Once a week, not oftener, unless black heads are present liquid green soap may be applied. This Is bought from any drug shop and may be thinned with water, as required. The brush is then dipped Into the liquid, and the skin Is rubbed, ss ususl. I bsve bad aa unusual frequency lately walled temples before the Norsemen skirt d the shores of Newfoundland and Massa chusetts. General Dias la in thorough ac cord with the American belief In universal education, and declares that 'It Is our foremost Interest. We regard It as th. foundation of our prosperity and tha basis of our Very existence." There Is nothing that makes the Americans who have Inter ests there more hopeful of Mexico's future than this awakening spirit of universal education. No other nation on earth has such a wide range of Interest for the traveler as the Republlo of Mexico. With its moun tains, reaching to the realms of perpetual sr.ow, and Its lowlands, lying In the region of greatest heat In the torrid sone, one may at one view behold all the diversity of climate he would find In going from the equator to tha north pole, and all the range of vegetation from polar to tropic seas. There are fifty-two varltise of mam mal quadrupeds In the republic, t"3 kinds of fowls, fifty speoles of humming birds. 353 ether kinds of birds, 77,000 varieties nf Insects, forty-three species of reptiles, and a variety of plant life so great that the scientists have not yet catalogued them all. There are now about 80,000 miles of rail road In Mexico, a large portion of which was built by capital from the United States. The mineral wealth of the republlo Is esti mated to run far Into the billions, and nearly every important mineral known to the mlnerologlst la to be found In quanti ties that will meet the demand of the miner for centuries to come. As yet the problem of conservation Is not engaging the attention' of the Mexican authorities. It 1r still a question of pioneering s.nd unlock ing the great store houses of treasure that remain all but unopened. It would be unsafe for anyone to be carried away by the literature of promo tion concerning Mexican rubber plantations and other agricultural opportunities, as very few of them that are advertised are likely to be productive of dlvldenta in the near future. Yet for the pioneer In the farm ing regions of Mexico, there Is abundant opportunity. The tablelands offer a climate that for uniformity and dellghtfulness is excelled nowhere, and there are millions of fertile acres that are available for culti vation. It has been shown that oranges may be grown In Mexico and sent to New Tork reaching there two full months ahead of the California crop, and that lemons flourish the whole year round. It will be recalled that at the end of the Boer war, Mexico offered the Boers a great stretch of territory In the state of Chihuahua. Many accepted the offer, and the Boer colony In Chihuahua Is now one of the most Interesting farming communi ties of the whole republlo. Among those who came over was General Vtljoen, and a sturdy race of VllJoens Is growing up. Only lately Senor Eprtque Creel, late am bassador to the United States, stood god father for the latest arrival In the Vlljoen family. One of the Influences retarding Mexican growth Is the peon and his pitiable condi tion. He lives In dirt squalor and Ignor ance, but Is as ready to assist a friend as he Is to resent a wrong or avenge an Insult He works like a Trojan if encouraged, but shirks like a Hottentot If bullied. He has no ambition to be rich, or to climb the ladder of Intelligence. As long as he has his tortillas well baked and plenty of pulque to drink he cares little for progress or the betterment of his own condition. Pulque Is the national drink of the Mexi can. It Is made from a plant known as the American aloe, or sometimes as the cen tury plant, from the fact that it blooms so rarely. The pulque plant Is a species of the maguey plant, which supplies the Mexi can with his paper, his vinegar, his mo lasses, his rope, his house-roof and his drink, to say nothing of the fat worms that are extracted from the stock and eaten by the Indians as ths piece de resistance of their metis When the old pulque plant withers a multitude of suckers spring up. These are set out and In from seven to ten years reach the blooming stage. The large blooming stock is cut off and a hollow formed In the stem, from which Is gathered from ten to fifteen pints of unfermented Juice every day for two or three months. This Juice Is mixed with mother pulque to hasten fermentation, after which It Is ready for drinking. As It is neither pleas ing to the smell nor to the taste, and is prepared under conditions that are as far from sanitary as anything well can be, few Americans drink it. No land In the new world offers greater attractions for ths tourist better advan tages for the health seeker, safer condi tions for the Intelligent Investor, or more promise for a rich future than Mexico. The greatest feeling of International comity exists between It and our own republic, and In celebrating Its cetennlal year it la the hope of the government at Washington that together they may so direct the trend of International events in Pan-America that by the time of the second Mexican centennial the new world may load the old In all lines of human progress. BT raXDXJUO J. XJJIKXaT. Tomorrow President Tart's lrthdsy. Helps to Promote Good Complcxtion of letters announcing ths constant use of castlle soap on the face, and complaints that the skin is Irritated. Castile soap agrees with few complexions, Its action being to overdry. It may suit the skin of the body perfectly, while Injuring the face. To use during the Interval when liquid green soap Is put on, I like shaving cream. It is softening to ths skin and cleansing, and I have not found that it stimulated the growth of superfluous hair. It may be bought as shaving cream, pure and sim ple, at drug stores, or any of the patient sticks one prefers may be chosen. r MARGARET MIXTER. Work for the Felice. Few people In Smoke Ridge had ever seen an automobile, so when one Of those "red devils" stopped for a few minutes In the isolated village, the curious Inhabi tants gased at the snorting demon with a mixture of fear and awe. The owner, who had entered a store to make a purchase, heard ons rustic remark: "I'll bet It Is a man-killer." "O" course It Is," assured the other. "Look at that number on the back of the car. That shows bow many people It's run over. That's accordln' to law. Now, If that feller was to run over anybody here In Brsjoke Ridge, It would be our duty to telegraph that n umber U84 -to the next town ahead." "And what would they do?" asked the auditors. "Why the per lice would stop him and change his number to Us." September Lipplncott'a