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: iio. average man will give n lawyer
$300 to $500, together with a life-time's
praise, to keep him out of the peniten-
tiary for from two to ten years, and at
the name time he will raise a phos-
phorescent glow and a kick that can
he heard around the world if a doctor
charges him $50 to $100 to keep him
out of hell for a lifetime. We are the
only people under God's ethereal tent
to-day who keep open shop 24 hours
each day and 365 days in each year.
We are also the only laborers to keep
on working for people who do not pay.
1 can carry my part of charity with
as good a grace as most men. I can
«o through rain, snow or mud and do
my best, provided the case is one of
worthy need, but to reward coutinually
downright rascality, willful drunken-
ness and wanton laziness Is getting
out of my line.—Texas State Journal
of Medicine.
nib UttVIO NCWd.
By FAY L. CROSSETT.
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be less wear and tear of the goods,
and it will be a positive pleasure to
use a Starch taat does not stick to the
iron.
Increase in Cost of Living.
France stands alarmed by an
crease of something like ten per cent,
in four years in the cost of food,
clothing and other necessary supplies.
Milk is 13 per cent, higher, meat 27
per cent., cheese 1G per cent., oil 25
per cent. The price of rice has
doubled. Rents follow the upward
trend.—X. Y. World.
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Before attempting to get what yon
want lind out what you want.
Surely Coming.
The prediction that the railroads
will ultimately come to the electric
method of propulsion as a matter of
economy, safety, convenience and ne«
cessity is no longer regarded with the
skepticism once prevalent. The ex-
traordinary extent to which many big
corporations are using electrical mo-
tive power, especially at terminals,
shows that great advancement has
been made. At a meeting of the West-
em Society of Electricians in Chicago
F. A. Sager, a prominent member and
agent for an important company, made
this statement : "The railroads will
have to spend approximately $5,000,-
000,000 within a few years to keep up
with the increase of traffic. By elec-
trification at a cost of $4,000,000,000
they would increase their capacity to
such an extent that no new trackage
| would be needed." This conclusion
was reached after a careful review by
Mr. Sager of what has been done or
is in the way of accomplishment by
the New York Central, the Baltimore
& Ohio, the Erie and other railroad
companies east and west, and the fig-
ures adduced in the way of analysis
seemed to leave no loubt as to the
economic and other advantages de-
rived from the change from steam to
electricity.
A Brilliant Coincidence
^
By ANNIE RANKIN OSBORNE
(Copyright, by giiurtstory l'ub. Co.)
The sun cannot always remain be-
hind a cloud. There is bound to come
a day, even in the dullest climes, when
the clouds will have exhausted their
powers to weep, and cannot help but
let the light of heaven through.
Mrs. Montgomery Spranglin was
just emerging into the sunlight of life
after the dark days of first widow-
hood. She was attractive and had lost
none of her heaven-born joyous na-
ture, despite the submergence. Fur-
thermore, she was pretty enough to
win admiration for herself alone, re-
gardless of what the Spranglin estate
might stand for.
To the credit of Mr. Jonas Beverly
be it said, he knew nothing of the
estate, and loved Mrs. Spranglin with-
out question.
They were going out to a musical
at the home of a friend. She had not
yet drawn on her gloves, and at a turn
of the stairway she threw back her
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Beauty, a Woman's Birthright.
A vast majority of women are fall-
ing in love in the good old fashion,
writes Anna McClure Shol! in Apple-
ton's. marrying and rearing families,
and some of them will be able to pre-
paro their boys for college when the
time comes, on the strength of their
own academic degrees. But whether
college bred, or bred in that sweetest
of all schools for a girl, her own home,
this majority is keeping alive the old
traditions of chivalry which are
founded not on an ancient feudal sys-
tem, nor on the ideals of an aristo-
cratic society, adoring the great dame
and scorning the peasant woman as a
clod of the field, but on the instinct of
strength to protect weakness, to wor-
ship beauty, to yield to the sway of
mystery; and beauty and mystery are
represented in this world chiefly by
women. Beauty is their birthright, and
mystery is a part of their very consti-
tution, being, as they are, nearer than
men to the spiritual side of life—the
hidden procreative force which peo-
ples both heaven and earth.
Public sentiment will "emphatically
sustain the declaration of the presi-
dent of Bryn Mawr college that hazing
is a survival of savagery which ought
to be stamped out or men's colleges,
but in women students is a social
crime without even the excuse of stu-
pid traditions for its being, declares
the Baltimore American. The inher-
ent brutality of hazing, its suggestions
of force and roughness and its ungen-
erous nature are all directly opposed
to the cultivation of the essentially
feminine qualities and that gentleness
which, a grace and charm in all wom-
en, is essentially so in young ones.
Anything prejudicial to its develop-
ment is out of place in the higher edu-
cation of women.
Absolutely
Harml
It is the universal testimony of
American street-car men that a large
portion of the women passengers get
off the car facing backward, and many
accidents are due to the practice. No
amount of warning or remonstrance
having cured the habit, a car barn su-
perintendent in Chicago has equipped
40 cars with a new form of door han-
dle, co placed that it is difficult for
anyone to alight in the wrong way
who uses the handle as a support; and
all other supports are removed. Some
of the women who have used the new
cars are said to regard them as very
inconvenient, and to be Indignant at
the loss of a time-honored privilege.
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It is difficult for western people to
understand Islam or unravel the mys-
teries of its politics. Iiut we can ap-
preciate the romantic side of an event
celebrated this month on the birthday
of the Turkish sultan; namely, the
opening of the railroad from Damascus
to Medina. The road will ultimately
connect the holy city of Mecca with
Constantinople.
After spending money, sorrow and
humiliation for it, Lady Yarmouth has
discarded her title as worthless. Rut
some value will still be extracted from
her sorry purchase if it only Berves as
a warning example to other American
women who see glamor in a title and
stake a life's happiness to win its
empty glitter.
Thanks to Sven Hedin, Central Asia
is now in the sam > class that Central
Africa was after Mr. Stanley had pene-
trated it. What will future exulorers
do when they sigh for new dark coa-
tinents to open on the map? It looks
very much as if they might have to
look afar to the planets.
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It cannot be denied that President
Diaz has done enough hard work for
his republic to entitle him to lay off
and ta«te a lion-hunting trip if he feels
so disposed.
Just to prove that Mr. Rockefeller
wrote his autobiography himself the
magazine prints a photograph of his
handwriting. That ought to convince
the skeptics.
Great Britain's railroad octopus was
left arm to gather her skirts, and
struck her hand forcibly on the stair-
rail.
"Oh!" she gasped, "how I hurt my
hand!"
He caught the fingers, kissed them,
and they passed out, laughing. Seated
in the carriage, she put on her gloves
as she chatted, and the offending hand
was thought of no more.
Two hours later, as they stood be-
fore the low fire in her own drawing-
room discussing the evening's enter-
tainment, as men and women do, she
suddenly held out her hand, exclaim-
ing in dismay: "See! the stone from
my ring is gone!"
He took her gloves, examined the
fingers, helped her shake out the folds
of her gown, searched the carpet
about their feet, and then said:
"I know! You loosened the stoue
when you struck your hand against
the railing, and it is in the hall.*'
The hall was inspected and minute-
ly gone over, inch by inch, to 110 avail.
"And yet it must have fallen just j
here," he said, disconsolately. Seeing
Mrs. Spranglin on the verge of tears,
he seized his hat, saying: "I'll find
the cab. Perhaps it's there."
On the morrow, Mr. Beverly was
early at the house with the sad report
of no success, but the reassuring con-
viction that the loss occurred in the
hall and that sooner or later the stone
would be restored.
It seemed that no one had coine
through the hall during their absence,
although there was mud on the carpet,
and the front door was left unlatched.
Other members of the family were
in the house, but all had been occu-
pied that particular evening in their
rooms and were sure no one had en-
tered.
"Does it matter so very much?"
asked Mr. Beverly, toying with the
dismantled ring as he held her hand
a moment. "I know it was a hand-
some stone—"
"It was my engagement ring," she
said with lowered eyes and sadly.
He hesitated a moment and then
cried, impulsively: "May I not re-
place it? Wil\ you not value another
as you did this?"
She drew her hand hastily away
and answere'd with frightened eyes:
"There is ill luck in such a loss. I
can never accept another until this
is found. Oh. it isn't the value of
the diamond; of course the ring could
be reset, but there's something so hor-
rible about losing one's engagement
ring. No, no, it must be found or I
shall never be quite happy, and surely
I shall never allow it to be replaced."
She did not intend to be dramatic.
The superstitious terror which pos-
sessed her was depicted 011 her face,
while another sentiment struggled for
freedom and showed itself vaguely to
him. She held out her hand sorrow-
fully.
"Isn't it strange?" said he. "This is
the second time I have registered a
vow to find a missing diamond—a lost
wedding ring! Some years ago my
mother had the ring my father gave
her at the altar stolen. I have spent
every endeavor and many dollars trac-
ing that stone—unsuccessfully. I shall
not rest until I find yours."
He was gone, and Mrs. Spranglin
was left to reflect on the circum-
stance, and dimly imagine another
ring on the third finger of her left
hand.
She did not see Mr. Beverly for sev-
eral days. Then there came a little
note, type-written and evidently dic-
tated—perhaps by telephone, because
it was unsigned except by the letters
"J. B." in type.
"I do not dare to see you. I am
nursing a poor boy with fever. May
be malignant."
Now a wonderful thing happened to
Mrs. Spranglin. The old misery of the
missing ring fell away as a senseless
garment. Here was an unconscious
antidote—a human sorrow and a wom-
anly sympathy. She forgot all else
save the poor suffering boy and the
brave man who was doing what per-
haps no one else would do. There
was work in the world for her. There
was a need. Superstition plays no
part in the real things of life.
Her first efforts at locating Mr.
Beverly were frustrated, but by and
by she found him in a tumble-down
shanty on the river front. The boy
was better—was out of danger—the
mother said, and Mr. Beverly was
sleeping on a cot in the next room.
She must not come in. But Mrs.
Spranglin quietly took her place by
the woman's side, doing what she
could.
"I will tidy the room a bit," apolo
gized the weary mother. "Here are
Johnnie's shoes in the corner, all
muddy, just as he took they off that
night he was taken so violent." She
gathered up the shoes, together with
a few stray garments, and went out
into the other room. As she did so, a
great flake of dried mud fell from the
"Mr. Beverly! See here! Isn't this
my stone?" cried Mrs. Spranglin in
suppressed tones.
"Or mine," he said, tartly, taking
her by the shoulder and leading her
Into the open air. "How dare you
come into this in.fected place? I will
investigate the diamond. Hurry home
and take every precaution for your
health. My God, Martha, this is yel-
low fever!"
She hurried away as she was bid,
not daring do otherwise than obey that
stern voice of command. Wonder at
her marvelous find was dimmed by an
awful anxiety for him in that dread-
ful place, and an unconscious exulta-
tion born of the sound of her name on
his lips.
She went direct to her physician,
not for herself, but to secure atten-
tion for Mr. Beverly and the boy.
From time to time stye learned that
all was well, that the boy had recov-
ered and that Mr. Beverly was taking
a much-needed rest under careful
medical attention in quarantine. In
due time he came.
"Mrs. Spranglin—Martha—I have a
strange tale to tell. I have your stone
and my mother's. That poor woman
in whose house you found me was my
laundress. I had never seen her and
knew nothing of her circumstances.
Her son, the boy whom you saw lying
sick, always came for my clothes and
returned them. On the night you lost
your diamond, her child, a little girl,
was dying and she sent to me for aid
in the way of advance in money. Ho
learned at my rooms that I was hero
and, while we were out, he came into
the hall—he is ignorant, in such mat-
ters—and knocked. Receiving no an-
he went away home and, him-
self, became violently ill. The next
day, after I left you, I found that the
woman had again sent to me. I went
not made In Germany or In the United Eole o( one of thfi atl0(,
States, but it is guaranteed to be Just
as good.
That man who memorized 40,000
dates would have found it cheaper
in the end to buy an encyclopaedia.
and Mrs.
Spranglin caught the glint of some-
thing shining. At that moment Mr.
Beverly, aroused by the woman pass-
ing about, cautiously entered the sick-
room.
jsf/t m
m/s jnr^57tt&?' '
to the address left with my servant,
and found what you know—awful dis-
tress and no one to bring relief. I
stayed with her and nursed her boy
back to life. You found the diamond
in the mud from his shoes—that is ex-
plained. Well, to-day I took the stone
to Wilson's to have it examined and,
if possible, identified. I have the his-
tory of this brilliant trouble-creator as
learned from his books. He unquali-
fiedly identifies it as the very rare
steel-blue diamond which he reset in
Its old-fashioned frame of beaten gold,
when it became loosened at one time,
for Mrs. James Beverly—my mother
He showed me the date. There is an-
other date, which perhaps you may bo
able to corroborate, upon which this
same stone was taken from the old
setting and placed In a new one, by
order of Mr. Montgomery Spranglin—•
a date just before your marriage, 1
think. That your husband acquired
the ring honestly there can be
doubt. It had been sold to a dealer.
Wilson did not know this at the time.
The beauty of the stone attracted the
admiration of Mr. Spranglin, and he
purchased it for you."
"Yes," she replied in open-eyed as-
tonishment. "The date is the same,
and he told mo the stone was taken
from an old setting."
Jonas Beverly picked up the stone
turning the beautiful bit so that it
would catch the light, he said:
"It is indeed a gem among gems. I
have taken It to my mother, Martha.
She klased It and sends it to you." He
opened the palm of the hand he held
and placed the stone there.
Martha lifted it reverently to hei
lips ami laid it back in hiu hand with
a little smile.
"Shall I have it set again for you,
and dedicated anew?" he whispered.
"Yes," she answered, "in an old-
fashioned setting. I will wear it for
you and for her. And, Jo, remember
the Spranglin estate goes where
there's the greatest need for poor
boys."
NEW DISTRICTS AND
NEW RAILWAYS
WESTERN CANADA AFFORDS BET-
TER CONDITIONS THAN EVER
FOR SETTLEMENT.
To the Editor — Sir:—Doubtless
many of your readers will be pleased
to have some word from tho grain
fields of Western Canada, where such
a large number of Americans have
made their home during the past few
years. It Is pleasing to be able to re-
port that generally the wheat yield
has been good; it will average about
20 bushels to the acre. There will
be many cases where the yield will go
35 bushels to the acre, and others
where 50 bushels to the acre has
been recorded. The oat and barley
crop has been splendid. The prices
of all grains will bring to the farmers
a magnificent return for their labors.
An instance has baen brought to my
notice of a farmer in the Pincher
Creek (Southern Alberta) district—
where winter wheat is grown—who
made a net profit of $19.55 por acre, or
little less than the selling price of his
land. .10, 40, and 50 bushel yields are
recorded there. The beauty about the
lands in Western Canada is that they
are so well adapted to grain-raising,
while the luxuriant grasses that grow
everywhere In abundance make the
best possible feed for fattening cattle
or for those used for dairying pur-
poses.
The new homestead regulations
which went into force September, 1908,
attracted thousands of new settlers. It
is now possible to secure 160 acres in
addition to the 160 acres as a free
grant, by paying $3.00 an acre for it.
Particulars as to how to do this and
as to the railway rates can be se-
cured from tho Canadian Government
Agents.
"The development throughout West-
ern Canada during the next ten years
will probably exceed that of any other
country in the world's history," is not
the statement of an optimistic Cana-
dian from the banks of the Saskatche-
wan, hut of Mr. Leslie M. Shaw of
New York, ex-Secretary of the United
States Treasury under tho late Presi-
dent McKinley and President Roose-
velt, and considered one of the ablest
financiers of the Uniled States. "Our
railway companies sold a good deal
of their land at from three to five dol-
lars an acre, and now the owners are
selling the same land at from fifty to
seventy-five dollars, and buying more
up in Canada at from ten to fifteen."
The editor of the Monticello (Iowa)
Express made a trip through Western
Canada last August, and was greatly
impressed. He says: "One cannot
cross Western Canada to the moun-
tains without being impressed with its
immensity of territory and its future
prospects. Where I expected to find
frontier villages there were substan-
tially built cities and towns with every
modern convenience. It was former-
ly supposed that the climate was too
severe for it to bo thought of as an
agricultural country, but its wheat-
raising possibilities have been amply
tested. We drew from Ontario many
of our best farmers and most progres-
sive citizens. Now the Americans are
emigrating in greater numbers to
Western Canada. Seventy-five per
cent, of the settlers in that good coun-
try located southeast of Moose Jaw
and Regina are Americans. Canada
is well pleased with them and is ready
to welcome thousands more."
Protection in Great Britain
There Is an apparent cnange in sen-
timent toward a protective policy for
Great Britain. In its adoption it
would seom that flour from the Unit-
ed States, and possibly wheat and
corn nlso, would be discriminated
against In favor of similar products
from Great Britain's colonies, in
such an event we would have to face
the wheat of Canada, whose capacity
at preesnt is to grow 10,000,000 bush-
els of surplus wheat, and whose acre-
age in wheat is increasing ten to
twenty per cent per annum. Her mil-
ling Industry, now boasting some of
the largest mills in the world, has
grown by leaps and bounds the past
six years.
Oklahoma Directory.
A Tireless Statesman
The late Marquis di Rudinl, the
Italian statesman, led the strenuous
life. At 22 he was one of Garibaldi'*
lieutenants in wresting Sicily from
the Bourbons, having in the mean-
time succeeded in evading a capital
sentence which the Neapolitan mon-
arch had launched against him. Be-1
fore he was 30, as mayor of Palermo, |
he put down brigandage, suppressed
the Mafia and impressed the Sicilians!
with tho conviction that killing po-J
licemcu was the same thing as mur-
der. Throughout his life, which has
just ended at three score and ton, he
was an exemplar of that tireless en-
ergy which we are too apt to think
is monopolized by the Teutonic
stock.—Boston Transcript.
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Had Slipped His Memory
"Before I answer your question,"
said the great alienist, "permit me to
refresh my memory." Hereupon he
consulted a notebook. "May I ask,"
resumed the lawyer, "why you found
It necessary to consult some memor-
andum before answering a simple
hypothetical question of only a few
thousand words?" "The fact is," re-
plied the aitenist suavely, "that I old
that to get the point of view. I'd for
gotten which side I'd been retained on
in this particular case. Kindly spring
your conundrum again."
Strange Exception
A Staffordshire, England, watering
place has been advertised in the
newspapers: "Idea place 01 picnics.
Strictly temperance. Sunday except-
ed."
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The only iron foundry in Colombia,
South America, is at Bogota. It is
known as La Paradera and is operated
on a small scale, native ores being
smelted, the iron being subsequently
remelted for casting purposes. There
are several commercial iron deposits
in the interior of the country, and one
ore body situated near the coast of
the Caribbean sea is now being drilled
by American engineers.
Attention to detail Is the secret of
success in every sphere of life; and
little kindnesses, little acts of consid-
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confidences, are all that most of us
are called on to perform, and they are
all that are needed to keep fr.endship
sweet. Such thoughtfulness keeps our
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"Good Bye;" Kills Self
SPRINGFIELD, 111.: While seated
at-home with his family. Hansom P.
Stowe, civil war veteran, aged 65,
drew a revolver from his pocket, turn-
ed to his wife, sad, "Good Bye; I'm
gons now," and blew out his brains.
Gasoline Speeder Run Down
GOWRIE, la.: Two were killed, one
fatally injured, two seriously and two
Ha6 An Arm Torn Off
MOUNTAIN VIEW: While cleaning
a gin stand in the plant of the Wash-
ita Union Gin company, Felix Grtibb
had his arm caught in the saws and
the member was torn off to the shoub
der. He probably will recover.
Six Doctors Attend
Six doctors for one
a Dog
dog! Mrs.
slightly hurt, when a gasoline speed- Wade, a leader of Boston society,
er dashed into a freight car on the engaged six doctors to perform an op-
Newton and Northwestern railroad eration on her favorite dog, whicJi
four miles northwest of here. The was threatened with blindness. Dor-
dead are: Johns Shiver and Ed Quinn ing the operation she had two train.
both of Rinard.
COOL REQUEST.
Telegraph Clerk—Well, what
you want, my lad?
Boy—Please, sir, I want ray kite.
It's got tangled up in your telegraph
wires.
IN WESTERN CANADA
WILL MAKE YOU RICH
Fifty bushels per
acre have been
grown. General
average greater than
in any other part of
the continent. Under
new regulations it is
possible to secure a homestead of 160 acres
iree, and additional 160 acres at $3 per acre.
"The development of the country hns made
marvellous strides It is a revelation, a rec-
ord of conquest by settlement that is remark-
nble."—tuir ci from corresoondeno- of j Njtioru.
tuiror. n>bo wsited cahjja in Auaust Ust
The grain crop of 1908 will net many
farmers $20.00 to $25.00 per acre. Grain-
raising, mixed farming and dairying are
the principal industries. Climate is excel-
lent: social conditions the best; railway ad-
vantages unequalled: schoo's, churches and
markets close at hand. Land may aiso be
purchased from railway and land companies.
Por Last Best West" pamphlets, mapa and
information as to how to secure lowest rail-
way rates, apply to
Superintendent of Immigration
Ottawa Canada
or to the authorlred Canadian Gov't Agent:
i. S. CBAVP0RD,
Ho. 129 W. Ninth Street, laotaa City, Nlstonri
Won Mob to His Side
When Voltaire was sojourning
ed nurses in attendance.
Cat Characteristics
Cats, rather than belong to a new
Various "Schools" of Painters.
The Munich Jugend has discovered
five signs by which to dotect tho
school to which a painter belongs:
(1) If he paints the sky gray and the
grass black, he belongs to the good
old classical school. (2) If he paints
the sky blue and the grass green, he
is a realist. (3) If he paints the sky
green and the grass blue, he is an im-
pressionist. (4) If he paints the sky
yellow and the grass purple, he is a
colorist. (5) If he paints the sky
black an e grass red, he shows pos-
session 01 -,reat decorative talent.
A Sudden Transition.
Little Willie Jones, while picking
blackberries, was stung on the calf
c. his log by a poisonous insect. By
bedtime his leg was so swollen that
his mother began to bo very much
worried, so the first thing the next
morning she went to his room to find
out if the swelling had gone down.
"How is your leg, sou?" she in-
quired.
"Come, look—it's swelled 'way up,"
he auswered proudly. "My calf has
got big as a heifer since last night.—
Lippiucott's.
London a crowd gathered to mob him master, will cling in grief to the old
as he passed along the street. Por walls and refuse to be taken aw<iy
what reason? Because he was a from them. But if they can follow
Frenchman. Boldly confronting the their master they will go with him te
mob he mounted a stone and address- the end of the world. One must not
ed them. "Brave Englishmen!" he forget that they are extraordlarlly
cried, "am I not sufficiently unhappy nervous and timid, and from timidity
in not having been born among you?" easily lose their heads and run away.
This speech was so effective that they themselves know not whither<
the crowd carried him 011 tneir sh.iul* They must be well protected and
ders to his lodgings.—John Bull Mag made to feel that they are guarded
azine. and cared for. We must not, however,
expect a cat *0 obey like a dog,
Second Great Canad an Road ! whites Carmen Sylva In the Centnry.
„ It Is a free and independent little
For the first decade of the twen- beast_n cousin of the Hon-a tropi-
tieth century one of Canada's greatest cal on|ma, whlch neoda grea( warmth
accomplishments will be the complo- order to bocome most beautltul anfl
tlon of the dominion's second trans- a8 ,arg<! as its nat„rc pcrmltg_
continental raiway. The Grand Trunk
has finished Its prairie Becnon from,
Winnipeg to Kdmonton. From imI- j ^*'ve Cheaply In British Cities
monton to the coast, 700 mles.' The cool of llvins In British dtlei
through the mountains, three years ver>' little over half the correspon.
more will be required. The work Is ding cost In American cities, and th*
exceedingly difficult nnd expensive. , wages are proportionately lower.
Smallest Railroad Chartered j Entitled to a Day Off
Gov. Stuart, or Pennsylvania, has Experlenoe has proved that aftei
approved the application for a char- 120,000 miles have been reeled off a
ter for the Carrlck and Baldwin street locomotive Is entitled to a layoff and
railway company, a line which Is the t0 hospital treatment. Steel will not
smallest to be chartered this year. It stand the thunderous Jar and vlbrft.
Is said to be just 35 100 of n mile in tion that shakes tho 194 tons dead
length. The capital Is $6,000, with weight of a locomotive making 60 to
these officers : F. K. Martin. Pitts- 70 mllea nn hour. Figured at «{|
burg, president; J. C. Hilly. F. K. Mar- miles an hour, even a locomotive
tin, J. G. Evans, S. T. Tone and VV. m„st be 2,000 hours running to com'
B. Carson, directors. Tile roud will plete the mileage stunt. Then, no
run between the borough of Carrlck, matter how clean her record of be-
Allegheny county. Into a point in havlor. Bhe must go In for an over-
Baldwin township. hauling generally.
Truly a Forgetful Man
The most forgetful man has
Would Mend the Manners
Mrs. Miriam N. Loomls, at a meet-
found. He lives In a Utile town In Ing of the Home Economics confer-
the upper part of York county. He ence at Chautauqua, said that girls
fell 111 with symptoms Indicating ap- In some of the leading colleges throw
pendlcllls. To their great surprlso and bread and cake at one another at th«
embarrassment the surgeons found table uud some of the hotels require
that the appendix had already beeu a fee before Ihey will serve students
removed. The patient afforded the because of bad manners. She thought
necessary explanation when he ro- the table should be the center of the
covered from the ether by stating that social life of the school aB It |g |n
he remembered then, "come to think the home. Why should It be necea-
of It." that he had been through a nary for young men and women to
similar operation two years ago. j apologize for college manners?
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