TIIK IlKK: OMAHA, SATURDAY, XOYKMBKR fi, 1015. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE roCNDKD BT EDWARD KOSEWATKR. VICTOR ROSBWATKR. EDITOR. Th Bee Publishing Company. Proprietor. EKB BUILD1NO, FARNAM AND fTEVrKTriCNTH? Entered at Pmih potofflea aa second-class matter. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Py carrier Py mail ,, . . par month. pr year. rnr and Bundar o :.... Daily without Hunflar....' v-o n livening and ftiinrtav 4e 1 1 Fvenlng without Bunday Ko ...... .oo under Pee only toe i ff) Fend notl of change of address or nomplalnts of Irregularity In delivery to Omaha Ie, Circulation Department , . REMITTANCE, remit by draft, express or postal order. Only two ent stamps WcflvH In payment of am all eo rounta. Personal check, except on Omaha and eastern exchaneX not eoapud. OF" PICKS. Omaha Tho Pee Building, fouth Omaha Ull N street. CounHl Ulufra 14 North Main street. Lincoln Little Building. Chlcego Ml Hearst Hiil'dlng New York Boom 11. 2h Klfth avenue. Ft. Ionls-Md New Hank of Commerce. Washington 725 Fourteenth Bt., N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Address communication relating to new and edi torial matter to Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. OCTOnKU CJRCVLATIOJr 54,744 State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, : Dwlght Williams, circulation manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly awom, aays that the rage circulation for the month of October, 1U, wag 64,744. DWIGHT WILUAVS, Circulation Manager. Subscribed In mv presence and sworn to before Be, this Id day of November, Wl. HOHEBT HUNTER, Notary Public. Subscriber Ira ring the city temporarily should hare The Bee mulled to them. Ad dreae will he changed a often m requested. sTrvember Thought for tht Day Se7cff by A. K. Borne "Xel wjwwr ear robber nor murderer. The ars dinner from etlJioul, p'ty danger. Let u$ (tar ovritlvt. Prejudice ere t ra( robber; trfoe or th reel murdtrtr. Tt frtat dangrr lit within ourfo. What an al ter fl teltat tart atfts wr need r eur pur 1M H UmJs cWy f that which tAreakn our kmU."- Victor Huge Come again, teacher! Omaha like your company. 1 However, the automobile affords Increasing relief from a railroad holdup. If you "buy-it-ln-Omaha," you can return It if It la not exactly a represented. Chlneee voters are apt pupils. Early returns on the monarchy Issue indicate a majority for the administration and the pie counter. Tea, but what about that Dodge Street via . duet now which the United States supreme court entered the Missouri Pacific to build months ego? Daring skill abides in the medical profession, Where other masterful men failed, the doctors succeeded In performing an operation on Banker Morgan. The old reliable motto, "Never send a boy to the mill," in its latest interpretation means, "Send a eripplod railroad to the courts and get a rate Increase." The Serbs are retreating before overwhelm ,lng numbers and superior arms, but the names of Serb towns defy the gunners and prostrate the proofreaders. Deferring that big democratic dinner for two months was a shrewd move. Sixty days Is none ,too long for complete recovery from Tuesday's alarming knockdown. ) L ! After that stirring between-the-floors ' episode, William Dean Howells' "The Elevator" should be at once placed on the current teach ers' reading course list for Nebraska. ' While the spectacle lacks the magnetism of a movie shew, the fact that packers in Wash Ingtoa have something to kick about sends thrills of comfort to Innocent consumers. Nebraska "dry" will try to keep out of em- barrasslsg entanglements with political parties ; in -lilr. coming campaign. The "drys" are j learning by iperlanoe as well as the rest. I Fewer bull moose votes are recorded In .Massachusetts this year than in Nebraska last ,year. Under the circumstances the bull moosers 'here must have little Incentive to play a lone ,baaL- Hesve a sigh of relief! It Is authoritatively sated that the war will not shrink the supply 'of diamonds and other precious stones available for the American market. ' Any woman who 'wants a diamond tiara may still have It if only (th price Is forthcoming. it-si infU -J--H The swell event . of the season was the reception Siren by Mr. and Mae. Frank Colpetser on Twenty- , fifth and Douglas streets, to which over 400 Invita tion war issued, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Cowtn entertained at the Paxton In honor of Senator and Mrs. Manderaon. the . other guests being: Mrs. Brown, Judge and Mrs. Savage, Mrs. Dundy. Mr. and Mr. Herman Kountse, Mr. and Mr. ITitchett. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Bennett. Robert Patrick. Mrs. J. N. H. Patrick. Oeneral and Mr. Dandy and Mr.' and Mrs, Henry Tetea. Marshall Field, Chicago's great merchant, stopped off la Omaha ia the Rock Island director's special car. With him was bis brother, J. N. Field of Eaglaad. who formerly resided la Bloux City. They ware driven over the city, and entertained by their old time friend. Eira Miliar Jim Btepbengon reports that hi Omaha Cab com Psy is a uocesful venture. Tty are chr1n; It seats per passenger for twelve blocks or II per hour, and ar running tea cab with three etiangee of horeee each day. Rev. J. B. Max welt, president of the Netiraaka Ceetral college at Cvntral City, is visiting in Omaha George P. Bends U home from a protracted western and southern tiip. ' Tbe Misses" Martaret Boyd and B. S. Joslyn have me te Gfelsevurs. UL, U visit eid friend at Kaoa oUege. Knocking- Out the Two-Cent Tare.' U seems to be aa hard for tbe railroad man airers to acquire common sense as for the proverbial camel to crawl through the eye of the nee31e. The railroad have had their tioublcs from time to time, but most of them they have brought on themselves by their short- sighted and granplcg dealings with the public. end their reckless disregard and defiance of all attempts to regulate their operations. The rail roads of Nebraska refuaed to pay their taxes, suuttlng up schools and clogging the wheels of government until compelled to pay up by order cf the United States supreme court. It was given out that they had turned over a new leaf and had adopted a policy of cultivating public favor, but the present onslaught on the 2-cent-fare law after that law has been unchallenged tn the statute books for eight years, looks like a new Invitation to raise tbe railroad issue again True, tbe hole now punched in the law is ortcnnlbly for the sole benefit of the Missouri Pacific as the weskest line of them all. But the ruRplclon lurks that the breach is sought as a means of eventually undermining the law as a vhole and bringing passenger fares In Nebraska back to the 3-cent scale, for it goes without rsylng that no road can charge more than an chor between competitive points and hold Its share of the business. So far as concerns the reimbursement bond against overcharge should the t-cent law be later upheld, that, of course, smounts to nothing, because not half the pas sengers compelled to pay a 60 per cent increase will be here to put In their claims after tbe final adjudication. The officials who represent the common people who foot all the bills will do well to be on tbe alert. Wilton on National Preparedness. President Wilson has taken the occasion of the Manhattan club's semi-centennial to develop Ms ideas on national preparedness. Tbe president and democrats In general are urging the new policy with all the proverbial seal of fresh converts and are advocating plans more ambitious and extensive than have ever been seriously urged upon congress In the past. It does not require a long memory, however, to recall the charges which democrats made, par ticularly following the Spanish-American war, denouncing the republican administration and congress as Imperialists and asserting that the only use this country had for an army or navy was one of aggression or oppression either e gainst our own people or others. The votes of democratic congressmen have alwsys held down the appropriations for both the army and navy and has been tbe accepted democratic policy to within a few months, tbe last exhibition being In the session of congress which adjourned last aprlng when the naval building program was cut to the minimum. Nothing has really transpired since congress adjourned to render an extensive naval building program more urgent or politic now than it was then. Tbe threatening complications with for eign nations are no more acute and the probabil ity of this nation being Involved In the great war Is negligible. With these facts so plain, the r resident's sudden teal for placing the United Slates in a state of preparedness is a confession that all these, years the democratic party has been wrong and that the republicans have been right tn standing for tn adequate navy and an army at least sufficient for a nucleus of the needs of war times. It Is not to be presumed, however, that thinking and observing democrats In congress have not known and realized this all the time any other conclusion would be an insult to their intelligence yet they have post poned again and 'again the act of preparation until conditions have brought the situation home to the people so forcibly that sophistry and buncombe will no longer deceive, The chief ttouble the president will meet will be to undo vlthln his own party the damage the democrats finve already committed by their chronlo opposi tion to every preparedness measure. Rural Education. It is an encouraging sign that tbe leading educators of the country are beginning to devote attention to the problems of the rural school. The general educational board of the National Teachers' association has taken up the problem and at Its outset has discovered that as a rule all the schools for the education of teachers In their calling have devoted their energies to fit ting teachers to meet the conditions that will confront them In city and village schools and tuere has been little training for the rural school teacher and tbe problems Involved have been tieated as a negligible quantity In the field of educational effort. Only a few weeks ago a meeting was held In Chicago, called by the state superintendent of Illinois, to take up this question, and plans for mulated for a better means of preparation for the rural teacher. The complaint is that the urban normal schools Instils urban Ideas Into the prospective teacher and if, perchance, a qualified teacher Is employed In the country, it is but a makeshift until a position can be ob tained in the city or village. The general board Is urging consolidated rural schools to provide better facilities and pay which will attract capa ble teachers, snd that the normal schools de vote more time and energy to fitting teachers for Instructors Jn suS schools. Even where this has been attempted. It Is pointed oat. the In struction in household economics, agriculture and subjects pertinent to the farm, have too cftcn been along lines adaptable only to the city home or the so-called agriculturist as distin guished from the farmer. When the rural school problem is solved one of the biggest propositions involved in the drift of population, from the fwra to the city win )o be solved, It Is confidently believed, and it U encouraging that the beat minds In the educa tional field have turned attention to its solution. jjddoj pui 11 It Is a matter of common knowledge that tht war is creating an abnormal demand for cop per, hut few realise its extent A trade paper, re cently started an investigation, which developed that those beat able to judge art of the opinion that from 750.000.000 lo 1.000,000,000 pounds per year of American copper are being devoted to European war purpose and that practically half of tbe world's production of the metal is being used In war material of one kind or an other. It is such figures as thee that give on a clearer conception of the magnitude of this great struggle and the extent to which tbe vorld's material resources are being diverted to the uses of destruction and what tremendous readjustment ia industrial affairs must com with the end of the war. The Story of Fire TO APPRiXrlATR the true value of fire to the world. Is is neceeeary to Imagine aa existence without fire, and light and heat. Us accompany ing features, as well as the Industries, arts, and srlenera dependent thereon. We would at once drop hack to the stone age In our dally occupations and aorial life; our houses would be unlit at nlgtit, ear food uncooked, our communication with the rest of the world would be broken, and only by foot or on the back of domesticated animals could we Journey abroad. Not only thla, but we would be unaWe to renew our existing stock of tools, apparatus, (upplles. and everything made or fosuloned by the assistance of heat, and thus we would bs carried back to the early days of the world by the loss of fire alone. No one really knows Just how primitive man came to diecowr fire, and utilise it: but at some far dis tant period, he certainly fouad that fire existed In nature, derived from the volcano, lightning, or Mo tion, though he seem to hare, made no use of it for a long time. He may have come to know that It could be transported or transferred through having seen red hot volcanic rock Ignite dry grass, leaves, or wood, or poealbly by having seen the lightning strike snd snt fire to a tree. He may even have secured a light, a It were, from one of these sources. snd carefully preeerved It for years, by keeping some thing constantly burning. It became Invaluable to him, slnoo It cooked his food, and kept him warm, as well aa gave Mm I1"ht at night. But It was at least a long time before lie realised that he could himself create or make fire by rubbing two dry sticks to gether. Once discovered, this process atone was used for centuries, before It was found that by knocking flint snd pyrites together, sparks capable of igniting tinder might be struck. Somewhat later. In the Iron age, flint and sleet were substituted, a common method employed In fire making until late la the seventeenth century. A little later there came chemical Invention which eventually gave way to matches. The use of fire also marks the beginning Of arti ficial Illumination, developed successively through the bonfire, torch, lamps and candles, to the gas and slectric lights of today. To fire as well, the begin nings of metallurgy, ceramics, and other arts which have attained a high degree of perfection In thl cen tury, owe their origin. The specimen exhibited at the Panama exposition by the I'nlted H tales Notional Museum show the Im plements used In mnking fire by the friction of wood, percussion of minerals, compression of air, focusing the sun's rays, and through chemistry, and terminate with the elootrlo lighter. The series Itself I preceded by three drawings: the first Illustrating volcanic action, the hot lava setting fire to a forest l the second shows a forest fire Ignited by the lightning; while the third Illustrates the primitive camp-fire and the method of conveying fire from one camp to another, the first two being presumptive natnral sources from which man may have obtained) fire before be knew a manner for kindling it himself. The progressive step of man' acquaintance with fir are three i The knowledge of fire, th mean of utilising It, and the mean of preserving It. The last step, which is one of the most Important In the history of man's development, is fully Illustrated by the serlea of different apparatus and material. Many Improve ment have followed the first step In man' progress, and each method ha been subject to various modi fications by different peoples. What was probably the first method, that of rubbing two sticks together with the hands, wss improved by reciprocating motion ef fects; the twirling of one stick held vertically between the palm and resting on a second lying horlsontally en the ground, then by the addition of a bow and socket, followod by the weighted stick a in the pump drill, snd finally the machine with eog wheel and crank a employed in Soudan. The Indian of the two America, Alno. Somalia, Kaffir Veddah and Aus tralians, were generally exponents of the simple two stick method. The four-piece apparatus was used by the Eskimo, Hindoos, Dyaks, and soma Athapascan tribes, and the weighted drill was employed by th Iroquois and the Ohukchl. The cond method I that of sewing, and th ap paratus comprised a thin strip of bamboo which waa drawn edgewise serosa a section of the same wood la which a corresponding groove had been cut across the grain, the sparks created falling through th groove upon soma Inflammable substano lying beneath the large section. This was also accomplished by drawing a thong of rattan across a stick In which a longi tudinal dot had been out partway through, th perk Igniting some tinder placed In the slot. Thee method were used by the Malays and Burmese, as well gs some other raoes. Fire was also made by plowing, that l. a thla piece of wood was forced along a narrow slot Out lengthwise In a larger piece until the Motion Ignited th tinder. This system wss evolved by the Polynes ians, the Australians, and the Fsjniana. Another, and more advanced system, of striking fire was by percussion, first employed through th us of flint and iron pyrites, or stoa containing Iron, by th Eskimo and northern Indiana, and later super seded by flint and steel, a custom which became quite general.' and remained popular for many year. Twice Told Tales A Mare Detail. Th man had been haled before the' ma (is brat on some trivial Charge. "Iet me eee," enld th Judge. "I know you. Are not you the man who was married in a oag of man eating lions?" "Te. your honor," replied the culprit. Tm th man." "Exciting, wasn't It t ' continued the Justice. "Weil," said the roan Judicially, "it was then; It wouldn't be now." Indies' Home Journal. Tke Oaly TklaaT Left. A British army examiner had before him a atupld candidate. Th man proving, apparently, unable to answer the most simple questions, the examiner finally grew Impatient, and In a burst of sarcasm demanded: "Now, let us suppose, sir, that you were a cap tain In command of Infantry; that In your rear was an lmpaaeabl abyss; that on both aide of you there rose perpendicular rocks of tremendous height; that la front of you lay the enemy, outnumbering you ten te one. What, sir, in such an emergency would you dot "Well, sir, replied the applicant for military dis tinction. "I should resign, sir." New Tork Times. People and Events A third eup of coffee Is a mere starter for Mrs. A. N. Pag of Seattle. During a recent coffee drink ing contest Mrs. Page drank twenty -one cups, equal to a gallon and a quarter of the beverage, and waa able to walk away with the prise, a three-pound oan of coffee beans. A woodsa leg shewed Its Inefficiency as a war club at Hellwood, Ind. The owner swung It oa a deputy sheriff, and won the first round easily. In th second round the legless one, unsteady on a single pin, failed In getting the range and lost consciousness and the battle. Mrs. James Reeve of Meriden, Miss., contribute a speed record to th novelties of th times. She presented her husband with triplets last month, mak ing as even dosen children, nine of whom were born singly. Mr. Reeve wa married at 14. She is mow M, and has five grandchildren. Is spite of the activities of Mars along th line, romance stick to th Job tn EX Paso. , A Cora-Cobb wedding stretch a broad grta around th social cir cle and the participants are smiling soma. Mis Mar garet Cora became Mr. Stanley Duncan Cobb, al though th Ucaa clerk, tea ring a practical Joke, held up tbe permit until Xba shelled out for a round of juice, Tke Cat ta tbe Arch Calprit. OMAHA, Hot. 1 To th Editor of The Pee: Now that people are condemning the friendly little squirrel, let's call at tention to the action of that a rah -conspirator against song birds, th common house oat. Before going any further, X wish to say that I hold no brief for the squirrel. If he is guilty, as some say. of whole slaughter of harmless song birds. However, rry bird authority in the country (many of them cat lover) admit that th common house cat Is th birds' worst enemy. The eat Is a meat eater by nature, and 1 equipped with the necessary skill and cunning to catoh great numbers of song birds. It Is im possible to teach a eat not to kill bird, and I hare never seen a cat, or ven a little kitten, which would not stalk birds whenever it had a chance. On numerous occasion I have seen cats eating young robbins. thrushee and other highly prised song birds. In the day time, and no one has any Idea how many of these ong bird are slaughtered, defenseless, at night, which Is the cat's chief hunting time. One authority claims, that, aocordlng to his observa tion, a number of cat on which he kept ae close track as possible, averaged about five old and young bird per month during th spring and summer season of th year. H had no way of knowing how many bird were caught at night, nor bow many eggs were de stroyed, or were left unhatched on no count of the death of the parent, nor how many little birds starved to death for the earns reason. His figure were based on what he actually saw th cats do. There I no excuse for th ownership of eats. With rar exception th cat la a highly selfish creature, a comfort lover at someone's else coat, a rowdy, a surreptltlou and coward'y thief, a Carrier of contagion, a blood-thirsty carnivorous creature, with more of the primordial wild instinct than any other animal I know of. I don't know what the other fellow's remedy I against eats, but mine la a .89-30 bullet between th eyes, or Just back of th ear. One need fell no hesi tation about deetroying cats, because a eat, as far as birds are concerned is an evil creature, and dead eat catch no song birds. Tours for a city-wide anti-cat cam paign, using fair means or fonl to get rid of this peat. DRAKE COLE. Cripples' Welfare Society, NEJW TORK CITY, Nov. S.-To the Editor of The Bee: We are sure you will appreciate the magnitude of this work. The society, chartered in 191J, thua far has had but little desirable publicity. I think you will admit that of all the eleemosynary and philanthropic move ment of thla country, there is none more deserving and more neglected. Thus far, we have been able to obtain but little financial response, by our constant ap peals. Zt Is hoped in time through the efforts ef this society, to obtain appro priate national and state legislation for cripples unable. In a measure, to care for themselves, of which there are 600,000 In America, . Aa matters now stand, they are per haps th meat neglected unfortunate in th world, and, eurioua aa It may seem, up te the foundation of this society, there , has been none other In existence to make known their wants. There are societies for crippled children, for the Infirm, aged and helpless, but th cripple who can sometime work and who can be pulled eut ef the mire Is perhaps the most neg lected Individual In th world. It Is hoped through thl mother society that branches will spring In your and ortfer cities, all ever the world and coun try, Just a ha been th case with the Society for th Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Thl Is the Inltlatlv work, so you will appreciate th Importance of publicity, and It 1 through ueh broad- minded paper of SUOh fin policy yours that we oan obtain the doe I red publicity. OSORGD W. RTDER, secretary. Editorial Sittings Cleveland Plain Dealer! Ours Is still th land of golden promts. Anna Held I here and Oaby Des Ly I coming. Pittsburgh Dispatch l Th president Is aid to be weary of all thl talk about th wedding. But wasn't h always trong for pitiless publicity? Washington Posti AU doubts ef Porter Chariton's present sanity are removed by his expressed Intention of starting promptly for th United ' State. St. Louis Republic: A Bt Louis lawyer arranged things so nicely that he got a decree of divorce for himself in fif teen minutes. Couldn't th lawyers man. age te extend this celerity outside of the profession T Brooklyn Eagist "The Blind Bom'' of Rhode Island. Oeneral Brayton. got $10,000 of New Haven's money, but that was pure philanthropy. Being sightless, he cannot have been wanted to "see" th members of th legislature. Nw Tork World: It would be an easier Job te warm up th west to the Angle-French loan if that section had not already disposed of most of its old and sprained horse to th allies at tM) apiece and got spot cash for them. Chicago Herald i Th decision to use the former frontier forts tor training camp for volunteer merely Illustrates the fact that there is a use for every thing if you keep It long enough even for a frontier fort which has survived the frontier. Indiana polls News: Returning pros perity has evidently found anolhsr open ing. Th net Income of the steel trust for the third quarter of Uli was !,04CTt a compared with 30,tiUU4 for the pre ceding quarter. It seems as if the profit taking business will hare te spread sooner or later. Republican Ledgeri It is said of th Tungua, a people In the Arctlo regions of Siberia recently vlalted by Inquiring anthropologists, that they have little knowledge of the outside world and no desire to gala any. Considering tbe con dition la which a more advanoed d va luation now find Itself, this attitude 1 perfectly Intelligible. Baltimore Amerlcaat Just aa hrhan ated dtisena have declared war upon Preadent Wilson for his neutrality policy, citizens of foreign parentage and dtrtk are organising e campaign against the hyphen In Its object of treasonable dual nationality. Evidently the attempt to force this country Into being prac tically a colony of any European power has dlaguated all with a real appreciation of American atttsenahip, and Is awlng ta start a reectloa ta favor ef tbe latter. Here and There Topeka women have inaugurated a cam paign to shoo away the door bell peat. As a preliminary warning, doors are dee orated with card reading: "I want ab solutely nothing every wish supplied by a loving husband." If th card doesn't do th business. It is up te th husband to make good. A tlO.V banquet at $ a plate was stewed away under the vests of members of the American Meat Paokers associa tion assembled at St Louis last week. While some Irritation was manifested over British greed In the matter of cargoes, the trifling tieup of ttf.000.000 did not disturb th appetite of tb feaater. Metuohen, N. J., must b a center not only of educational activity, but of pers picacious cltlsenshlp, Som of th latter constitute th Board of Education. Blng somewhat pressed for a music teacher the board turned away from tiresome ex amination papers, picked up the photo of a young woman applicant and err the witchery of the picture faded h was elected at an Increased salary. "Is she competent to teach music r Inquired a hesitant member. "Bur," responded the board' Interpreter of faces; "observe the ripple ef song on th lip and the witchery of melody In th ye." That settled It The vote waa unanimous. A St. Louis maid of Immature years and more churchly seal than discretion listened to the advice ef a distinguished theologian on the choosing of a pastor for a vacant pulpit Sh waa charmed by hi dignity, learning and pleasing man ner ef speech, and concluded he wa the right man for th place. At th close of the address the enthusiastic maid Jumped to br feet, exolalming: "Just nam your prlo. doetor, nam your price. Whatever It la w will pay it for you to com to our church to stay." Deacon of that church ar seriously thinking ef framing th aatl-suff words of St Paul and hanging It on th wall. AUTUMN. Not long ago a poet wrote, "The melancholy daya have com;" HI message strikes a mournful note And puts the glad heart on the bum. To m hi message is a fare, Not giving nature a square deal; I turn my eyes toward field and gorss, And I'm reminded, "Lit I real"' You did not hear the reaper's song. As homeward bound hi path he wended ? Vjpon the ground by arms strong Th hay Ilea stacked tbe labor ended. October with her chilly nights Gives us a taste ef Winter's seal The cricket lies with shattered lights. And, dying, murmurs, "Ausgsspleltl" O, gracious month of hasy skies And amber sunsets, fair and sear; You give us gold and crimson dyes This Is the best time of th year. The fruits of honest toll are stored. And with your hand you gently beckon The worker to his Just reward, But vou'll pass up we poets, I reckon! Omaha. c. H. LINES TO A LAUGH. "What did de white folks put Bniddct Pmtie-e In 1a'l for. eah?" "Trigonometry. h. He dine naJ three wives." Judge. , "Why did Nero fiddle while Rome wa-. burning?" "I guess he thought ft was a good time to do It while the critics' mind were on something else." Baltimore American. "I told my girl the other n'rht that if she dldn t marry me I'd hang my self In front of ths house." "What did she aay?" "She said: 'Oh. don't do It You know that father doesn't want you hanrlng around here.' " Philadelphia Ledger. "Look here!" said an excited man to a druggist. "Ycu gave m morphine for q:u!no this morning!" "Is that so?" replied the drupgist. "Then you owe me 25 cents." Chr.stian Register. "It appears to be your record, Mary Moeelle, said the magistrate, "that you have been thirty-five times con victed of teallng." "I guess, your honor," replied Mary, "that ia right. No woman is perfect" Ladles' Home Journal. "Are you sure you thoroughly under stand that question you attempted to decider- "No,"' replied Senator Sorghum; "biit I fancy I expressed myself in terras sufficiently obscure to prevent anybody also from taking enough Interest to call me down." Washington Star. They had lust come in from Ni Wot to eee the old-fashioned show. "Gracious, Hlraml" said the old lsdv. "Them awful society women dress like they wss goln' swlmmln'!" "O course, Jerusha. Hain't you heard that In the social swim ths women try to outstrip each other?" Field and Farm. Little Edna Why wouldn't It do to pra for our bread once a week or once a month? Why must we ask very day for our dally bread? Older 8ister So as to have it fresh, goosey. Boston Transcript "I suppose you have made up your mind what to do about woman suffrage," suggested one of Congressman Hamm fatt's retainers. "Yes, indeed." replied the eminent statesman suavely; "I have made up my mind to leave that Issue severely alone." Richmond Times-Dispatch. SatfeTnUfc Infants and Invalids HO RUCK'S THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK Th Food-Drink for all rucn mux, malted grain, in powder torm. For infants, invalids si growing children. Pure nutrition, upbuilding lot whole body. invigorates nursing mothers tad the aged. Mot healthful than tea or coffee. Unlet you may "HORLIOICS" you ntmy not t muhatltutom SHORTEST LINE TO Follow the Flag. ST. 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