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Cbe Cbatbam "Record. H. A. LONDON i EDITOa AND PROPRIETOR. RATES OF ADVERTISING: 755 Vf rf J. TT tlbe Cbatbam Kecore. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: SI -50 Per Year STRICTLY IN ADVANCE y VOL. XXXIII. tTTTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 191C. NO. 4. Oo Square, one laertlM......f 1.4 One Squat-, two Insert loas,... t.j One Square, one moath. ....... . For Lfirger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will bo mado. THE COTTON CRO? ; IS BELOW AVERAGE Outlook Is Brighter Tiian This Time Last . Year. E CONDITIO!! iS 70.7 Journal c! Cesser o Reports Show Much. Better Condition cf the Crop TnU Year Than a. Year Ago, New York City. The Journal of Commerce gays: rr Replies from :1,S00 special corre sponednts of the Journal of Com merce and Commercial Bulletin, of an average data August 24, make the condition of cotton 70.7 . per cent., again 74.9 last month, a .deteriora tion of 4.2 points. This "compares with a condition of Go per" cent, a year ago. 78.1 in 1SC3, 73.9 in 1907, 77.G in 1906 and 72.4 in lt05.: "According to the reports cf this paper, the ten-year av erage is 74.7 per ccnt., with a condi tion cf 4.7 points better than a year ago, and an estimated increase of 2.S per coct. in acreage. The present outlook is considerably - brigater than last year. The situation in Texas is serious, where a decline cf -16.9 points occurred, owiug almost entirely to severe drouth and.' high temperatures. Louisiana descended frori the - al ready lev condition of C0.3 per cont. last month to 57.0 per cent, a decline Df S.7 points. Alabama Most only 2 per cent. AH ether important states liiowed advances from; 2 to nearly per cent. The condition by states compared with last month. follows: v- Sept. Aug. North Carolina . . . .79.0 74.3 South Carolina . ... .71.0 71.2 Georgia . . . 71.0 CS.4 Florida .G3.G 6G.2 Alabama . . : 72.2 72.4 Mississippi 71.0 C9.2 Louisiana 57.6 6G.3 Texas 64.0 E0.S Arkansas 75.3 74.5 Tennessee - . . .75.9 73.7 Missouri 72.9 73.2 Oklahoma . .87.7 S7.7 Average ... . . . .70.7 74.9 Favoratle weather was general in practically all states except Texas, where drought and high temperatures have caused heavy deterioration. Pre mature opening will soon be univer sal uniess the much-needed rain ap pears. Growth has progressed satis factorily in other states, the plan, though small, being fruited. Fields are well cultivated, complaints of scarcity of labor are comparatively rare and the crop is unusually tree from insect, except for the boll wee vil in Louisiana and Texas. In the former state they have swept nearly everything before them in many sec tions, so that little more than half a crop is expected, fa. Texas the drought and heat have prevented the spread of the weevil and damage Is slight; shedding has been general, but not more than usual for this time of year. The great danger to the crop lies In an early frost, since the season is fully two to three weeks backward, except in Texas and Oklahoma. On the other hand, a late frost Would ma terially improve prospects and prob ably insure an average crop. Oklaho ma promises a better crop than for years past. ASKEV1LLE FLOODED. North Carolina City Visited by a De strictlve' Flood. Asheville, N. C. Asheville was vis ited by a destructive flood. The French Broad was higer than during the flood of 1901.' The Transylvania Murphy and AsheviUe-Spartanburg lines of the Southern railway are out of commis sion. The Southern worked to keep the line from Knoxville to Salisbury open, but trains cn this line were operated under difficulties. The flood backed water Into the auxiliary plant of the Asheville Elec tric company, cutting off all power. There were no lights and no street car service. The newspaper plants were with out power and they issued handbills by the old method. LEPROSY CURE DISCOVERED. Surgeons of the U. S. Hospital Corps, Who Are on Leper Island, Flash Mews of Achievement. Washington. Leprosy, the uncon querei scourge of the aees. is makine what is believed to be its la3t stand against science. From Molokai, the i. oral Island prison for the Dlasrue stricken, in the Hawaiian cronti. a few words have been flashed half-way arpund the world to Washington tell ing of an achievement accounted sec ond only to the discovery of the leper oacuu by Hansen in 1879, Three surgeons of the United States public health and marine hospital ser vice have grown leper bacilli in purd culture outside the human body, and m tiny thin glass tubes in the labo ratory the loathsome germs are now slowing in their third generation. -Four times the scientists have taken the infection of the body of a leper and artificially propagated the bacillus on beef troth, egg or the amoeba of the intestines of a guinea pier. The work cf Dr. Moses T. Clegg, who de clared less than a year ago at Ma uila, that he had found that the bac illus could be cultivated outside the human tody, is verified and extend ed. Br. Ciegg has been rushed from Manila scientific station to Molokai to assist in the experiments. This achievement of the scientists at the government's leprosy investiga tion fetation is the first step in the pro duction of a vaccine or a eerum for the cure or prevention of leprosy. Pre cissly the same ground has been cov ered by the men who evolved the diph ther.ti antitoxin and the serum for te tanus. In ouch, of these cases the growing of the germ in pure culture has been the stepping stone to the cure. Dr. Donald II. Currie, director of the sta tion; Dr. Walter H. Brinkerhoff, and Dr. II. T. Ilollman, are the men who have grown the cultures. After four months' careful work In which they had labored to grow the lepra bacillus in the amoeba of pond water, guinea pig intestines and other ow forms cf animal life, they were alv:ut to give up, defeated. Some ol the tubes containing the specimens were about to be destroyed when on6 cf the men determined to make a last inspection of the culture in a forlorn hope. To his astonishment he found the germ living. The discovery spur red the investigators to new efforts and back over the blazed trail they had covered so often, they worked again with ultimate success. Aside from the hopes of evolving a serum or a vaccine for a prevention cr a cure for the scourge, scientists aope the investigators may find a len- rosine, which, like tubercullne, would detect the disease In its first stages. EMERGENCY MONEY RULING. In Case cf Financial Stringency Banks May Issue $500,000,000. Washington. Secretary MacVeagh's ruling on the term "commercial pa per," in the Treasury Department's interpretation cf the emergency cur rency law, became known in its full import-here. Business men and banks throughout the country have been anxiously waiting for It. The Chica go banks, which raised the question, and banks all through the west felt that if it were adverse they would be unable tp form effective currency as sociations, The way now is made clear for the banks of the United States to put into circulation ?500,000, 000 in emergency money at the. first sign of a financial stringency. The law provides that commercial paper upon which emergency curren cy may be issued shall include only notes representing actual commercial transactions, which shall bear the names of at least two responsible per sons and have not more than four months to run., A large proportion of the banks hold the notes of reputable individuals and corporations which they haye bought from note-brokers. These nptes bear only the name of the maker. Secre tary MacVeagh has decided that the endorsement of the holding bank upon such notes will constitute the second endorsement which the law calls for. Mr. MacVeagh also holds that notes issued by reputable person? for -the carrying cn of bona fide business and which they discounted at banks rep resent actual commercial transactions and are distinct from what is known as accommodation paper. The latter Is strictly barred from being used as. the basis of an issue of emergency currency. Cloakmakcrs Strike Settled. New York City. The cloakmakers' strike, one of the most stupendous in dustrial disturbances in the history of American labor, has just been settled. The industrial loss to employers and employees has run high into the mil lions. In loss of wages alone the to tal has been estimated at more than 110,000, while the loss to manufac turers, jobbers and retailers the coun try over has been computed at ten times that amount. Seventy thousand employees returned to work when the new agreement was signed. 10,609,668 Bales of Cotton Sold. Atlanta. Secretary Hester of . the New Orleans cotton exchange an nounced that the commercial crop for the year ending August 31, 1910, amounted to 10,609,668 bales, a de crease under last year of 3,215,789, a decrease under year before last of 986,298, and a decrease under 1907-08 of 2,901,324. The consumption of the Southern mills is 218,570 bales behind last year. Last year the consumption of cotton was the largest ever record ed, while in 1907-08 the business of the mills was restricted by the panic. 20-Cent Cotton Pleased Savannah. Savannah, Ga. When cotton went to 20 cents a pound there were scenes of wild hilarity on the floor of the Savannah Cotton exchange. This was the highest price most of the mem bers of the exchange had ever seen the staple reach, and they proceeded to celebrate the event by throwing up their hats and cheering to their hearts' content. It was the highest price reached in Savannah since 1868. The only trouble with the 20-cent cot ton Is that there 13 so little of the Staple hero to be delivered. Naval Stores Trade Prosperous. Savannah, Ga. The year just end ed has been the most prosperous in the recent history of the naval stores trade. This prosperity is in the face of a " steady decrease in supply, not only in the year just ended, but in the preceding year, and Is due to the high price of turpentine and rosin. For these higher prices there are two causes the small production and the general apprehension that the ten dency of naval stores production henceforth will" be to decrease. Sur plus stocks have been much depleted. RACE SUICIDE EVIDENT BY CENSUS RETURNS Natural Increase for Decade Only Six Per Cent, TS LOCATE IN CIIIES Census figures stow AUrmirg Condition to Exist, Although Immigration is Still Heavy. . Washington. Startling conclusions spring from an examination of the returns of the census of 1910, as far as the returns have come in, when compared with statistics of national growth in former decades. The' com ing race suicide casts its shadow be fore, for the natural increase of the native-torn American is falling off to an alarming extent and another dec ade would put us In the class with France whose decreasing population has been the burning question of the government. With all our national resources and all state and national aid to encourage an increase keeping step with former -.years, the signs point to a dropping away of 50 per cent." in internal .increase of popula tion from the 're cords of former dec ades. , The increase of our whole popula tion, including immigrants, from 1820 to 1900, was an average-- of 28 per cent', for each decade, varying from 35 per cent, in 1JS5U-1EG0 to 23 per cent, in lfcOO-1300. The average in crease, exclusive of immigrants, dur ing that period was about 21 per cent In the decade of 1890-1900 this in crease was a trifle over 20 per cent., there being about 53,000,000 other than immigrants In the former and about 72,000,000 in the latter census. This was an Internal increase of about 14, 000.C0 inhabitants. Now the best experts, Including those in the census bureau, place the total, as will be shown by the census of 1910, at 90,000,000. But from this must be deducted the extraordinary influx of immigrants in the past ten years which, according to the returns of the bureau of immigration up to last month show that within a few thousand of 9,000,000 have come in since 1900. As the total gross popula tion of 1900 was 7G.000.000, this means that the estimate places the total In crease at 14,000,000. Deducting from this the 9,000,000 immigrants, there remains only 5,000,000 natural In crease for 1900-1910 as against 14, 000.000 for 1S90-190O, which is about 6 per cent, natural increase as against the former decade average of 21 per cent. In addition to this is to be consid ered the marvelous growth of the cit ies so far reported. Not to mention the smaller ones; a score of those of more than 50,000 show an Increase running well over 50 per cent. Atlan ta has 72 per cent,, East St. Louis 97 per cent, Akron 62 per cent., while Detroit forges up with 63 per cent. The other smaller cities will average well up to 50 per cent, The only conclusions to be reached from these figures are: First, that our home increase in population i3 rapid ly falling away. Second: That the cities are absorbing not only the im migrant population, but drawing very heavily from the rural districts. That at the present rapid decline In internal increase, it will be but another decade before, except with the aid of immigration, we will show a positive decrease In population. COTTON ULTIMATUM, British Action May Seriously Curtail Shipments This Fall, Washington.- With the prospect that American cotton shipments to England may be curtailed seriously this year because of the hitch with English bankers over guarantees of American bills of lading, a committee ol New York bankers will go to Lon don for conferences with the English financiers. The British banks have issued an ultimatum that, after November 1, they will not receive cotton bills of lading from this country unless they are guaranteed by American banks. BILL OF LADING POLICY Southern Railway Announces- Method of Hand ling Cotton Bills. Washingtpn,President Finley of the Southern Railway company,- being asked about the policy of .. that com pany relative tp the validation pf or der notify bills pf lading for export cotton, said: "The management of the Southern Railway company recognizei the great commercial importance of this subject and will do all that it properly can to promote confidence in the markets of the world in its bills of lading. It is believed that the effective enforce ment cf certain business precautions will go far to satisfy;, any doubt which now exists as a result of certain al leged manipulation by shippers of or der notify bills, of lading for export cotton last season, for which the rail ways were in no way responsible. "The sj-steni. of issuing such bills of lading was the subject of a spe cial conference between the carriers and bankers. As a result of this con ference, the Southern Railway com pany will arrange, .beginning on Sep tember 1, 1910, to make effective the safeguards surrounding the issue of order notify bills of lading which were then agreed upon. Among other things agreed upon tending to improve the system of issuing order notify bills of lading for export cotton, these regulations provide for a 'bill of lad ing' signature certificate which will be signed ard attached, on behalf of the railway company by a validation officer, to each order notify bills of lading tor export cotton issued by agents of the company authorized to issue such bills of lading. Each val idation certificate will set forth that the agent who has signed, the bill of lading is the regularly appointed agent of the company, and, as such, is au thorized to sign bills of lading in ac cordance with the regulations of the company, and that the signature on the attached order notify bill of lad ing Is his signature. The certificate will be irremcvably attached to the bill of lading covered by it, and, as an additional safeguard, the bill of lading, in addition to its own num ber, will bear the number of the cer tificate issued in connection with it. Agents will be instructed not to sign bills of lading until the cotton is in the possession of the railway com pany. SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTION. Neither Side Won In Carolina Election. Columbia, S. C With about 40,000 votes from thirty-one counties heard from it is evident that C. C. Feather- stone and Cole - L. Blease will be In the second race for governor. Thom as G. McLeod Is running a fair third. Mr. Featherstone is a prohibitionist. while Messrs. Blease and McLeod are advocates of local option. For lieutenant governor, C. A. Smith, prohibitionist, has a good lead over E. W. Duvall, local optionlst. J. Fraser Lyon, attorney general, candidate for re-election, is leading his opponent, B. B. Evans, by a ma jority of 17,000 out of 38,000 votes. His re-election Js assured. In the race fpr governor and lieu tenant governor the prohibitionists and lpcal optionists sp far are prac tically at a stand-off. The local-option candidates Messrs, Blease and McLeod polled a majority of " the vote, while that cast for the prohibi tion candidates Featherstone, Hyatt and Richards was lighter than ex pected. Mr. Featherstone's vote was good, but the other two fell off badly from estimates. On the other hand, the prohibition candidate for lieuten ant governor has made a great race and is almost certain of election. While a majority of the members of the house of representative's chosen in the election is conceded to the pro hibitionists, the complexion of the state senate is in doubt, In that body in the next session of the legislature the vote on a state-wide prohibition bill undoubtedly will be close, neither side at present, claiming a majority of more than 8 or 4 votes. ". Whiaky Advances. -Cincinnati. Announcement was made at the chamber " of commerce that the price of spirits has been ad vanced 3 cents on the gallon, making the basis price for the future $1.33. The new price will affect other whis key markets where distillers' finished goods are handled. Barbers' Convention. Pittsburg, Pa. A clean towel and wash rag for each patron, the elimina tion cf the" sponge and the enactment of laws to bring about these reforms, are among the demands made at the gathering of the National League of Barbers, which held a three-day con vention here. Delegates numbering over 200 were in attendance. The organization is composed of master barbers, owners of shops, who are pledged to carry their demands to their various state legislatures . " Maine to Be Raised, Eeverly, Mass. If plans which Pres ident Taft regards favorably are adopt ed the battleship Maine, sunk in Ha vana harbor twelve years ago, which since then has" concealed the secret of the disaster which overwhelmed her, may be sailing homeward on or be fore Christmas, bearing a long-delayed verdict to the nation. John . F. O'Rourke7 of New York submitted the plans to President Taft. The plan provides for raising the Maine by the means of pneumatic caissons and steel cables. Atlanta's Cotton Receipts. Atlanta. Atlanta's cottqn receipts for the season endin'g August 31," 1910, amounted to 140,666 bales, some 4,000 bales less than the previous season. The decrease is due to last year's short crop. " ' , The price paid, however, made up for the decrease in receipts, the aver age being about 14 l-4c, bringing the value of the 140.G66 bales up to $9, 5G0.0C0. . " The season opened with the price quoted at 12c, and ended with a sale of a few bales at 19.S0. ......... Illicit Distilleries Increase. Atlanta. The government began the trial during the fiscal year that ended June 30 of almost twice - as many cases In which the internal rev enue laws had been violated as it did in the fiscal year of 1907. The pro hibition law was enacted in 1907 and became effective in 1908. Figures show v that there has been a steady and pronounced. Increase in' violations of - the internal revenue laws; which prohibit the illicit distil-, lery of liquor, since the Georgia pro hibition law became effective IS NOW 4,766,883 Census Bureau. Makes Report on American Metropolis, SlCQND LARGEST CITY EN WORLD LendonJUone Outranks Great American City in Number of Inhabitants Increase 38.7 Per Cent Shown. Washington. Greater New York krv a population of 4,766,883 under the thirteenth decennial census, ac cording to figures issued by Director cf the Census Durand. This makes ;ew York the second largest city In (he world, .and as large as any . two foreign cities, excepting London. Since 1900 the population of the me tropolis has increased by .1,329,681, or J58.7 per cent., as compared with 3,437. 1.02 under the lact census. The borough of Bronx showed the greatest increase in the greater city, tiueens, Brooklyn, Richmond and Man hattan following next in order. The fgurec for these borough, together with the increases, are as follows : Bronx, 430,980, an increase of 230,473, cr 114.9 per cent.; Queens, 284,041, an increase of 130,042, or 85.6 per cent; Brooklyn, 1,634,351, an. increase of 67,7C9, or 41 per cent.; Richmond borough, 5,969, an increase of 18, 48, or 2S.3 per cent.; Manhattan bor ough, 2,331,442, an increase of 481J449, cr 26 per cent. The census of 1909 showed Greater London's population to be 7,429,740, rgain 6,581,372 in 1901. That New York is slowly catching London is rhown by the fact that in eight years London's increase was 848,368 while that of New York for ten years was 1,329,681. . Paris, according to the census of 1906, was the third largest city in the world, with a population of 2,763, C33, while Tokio, under the census of 1908, was fourth, with 2,186,079. Ber lin in 1905 had a population of 2,040, 14S. New York City contains only 164, C48 fewer people than the combined fourteen cities of more than 200,000, the population of which already has been announced, namely: Pitt3burg, St. Louis, Detroit, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Newark, Milwaukee, Washington, In dianapolis, Jersey City, Kansas City, Providence, St. Paul and Denver. The aggregate -population of the cities named is given as . 4,731,532. The city of New York, as consti tuted prior to the act of consolidation, effective January 1, 1S98, had a pop ulation in 1890 of 1,515,301, as com pared with 3,437,202 in 1900, showing an apparent increase of 1,921,901, or 126.3 per cent for the greater city. The population of Brooklyn,- N. Y is 1,634,351, an increase of 467,769, or 40.1 per cent, as compared with 1,166, 52 in 1900, SOCIALISTS CONVENTION Socialists Want Compulsory Law Against Unemployment, Copenhagen, Denmark. The inter national social congress adopted a resolution demanding the establish ment of a system ' of universal and compulsory laws against unemploy ment, the cost of which is to be borne by the owners of the means of pro duction. Among other thing the resolution sets forth that the condition of un employment is inseparable from the present capitalistic mode pf produc tion, and that as long as capitalism holds gway 'pply palliative measures are possible pf success, The resolution on unemployment was carried despite the refusal of the American, French and British dele gates to vote. Cotton Crop Damaged. Shreveport, La. Local experts an nounced that the cotton crop in this section had been at least 25 per cent, damaged during the last three weeks, due to the boll weevil and shedding as the result of the heavy rains. The production Will be no greater than last season. Cotton Reaching Maccn. Macon, Ga. September is bringing the opening of cotton business in Ma con in such manner as to please the cotton merchants. Most of them be b'eve that the season means a great deal to the cotton merchants here. The summer has been devoted to a thorough and systematic arrange ment for handling a great portion of tiie cotton of central Georgia. The new staple is now coming In and will rapidly increase, although the season is already two or three weeks behind. - Crusade Against Hobble Skirts. Newark, N. J. A crusade against the hoble- skirt has been started by the Rev. Peter Henry, pastor of the First Reformed church of Greenville. Among other things he has issued an edict that no. woman wearing such a dress shall be admitted to his church. He declares that 'any woman 'who would so debase herself and sex as to wear such a sartorial travesty should be spanked." Mr. Henry character izes the women wearing hobble skirts as "walking balloons," "lunatics," and "godless" ones." NORTH CAROLINA EVENTS Life in the Lend of the Long Leaf Pine Successful Meeting of Farmers, Thg clashing featurg pf interest pame ;n ibe -State farmgrs opnven tioiv, -sfc Raleigh at thg first days' session, when A. L. French of ltpck Ingham county, in discoursinsr on "Twentieth- Century Farming,'1 charged that the newspapers of the State neglect and ignore efforts of young farmers and unduly exploit young lawyers and other professional men, making farming less attractive for the ambitious young man. C. C. Moore of Mecklenburg excepted to this charge and defended the news papers insisting, that he knew this charge could certainly not apply to the newspapers published in Mecklen burg county. Representatives of the local .press repudiated the charge from their viewpoint and Mr. French stated that he meant principally the weekly newspapers. This brought a protest from Col. II. E. Dockery, of The Post, Rockingham, who believes the country weeklies are rendering great service in encouraging' advance ment in agriculture. J. G. Frazier and J. G. Ross were among those who stood by Mr. French in his charge. President Thomas "W. Blount, in his annual addres3, declared that while wonderful advancement has been made among North Carolina farmers it amounts to scarcely more fhan a bare start. He insisted that farmers must have a lively interest in matters 'all about them, the pro blems of rural advantages, and the adaptation of moclejrn conveniences to farm houses. He said that a svs tem of tile drainage for many sec tions of eastern Carolina would more than double the crop production The State, farmers' convention elected th'i following offieersr Frank Shields of Halifax'county was ehosen president; Dr. A. SI Wheeier of Bilt more estate, vice president, and Prof. I. C. Schaub, secretary. Resolutions were adopted including a request that the excess in the. re venue from the illuminating oil in spection act, which promises to be considerable, be turned over to the State Department of Agriculture; that provision be made for county agricultural schools through State aid; expression of appreciation for the work of the Federal authorities in eliminating the cattle tick, and urging that all counties that have not now the "no fence" law adopt it at once to aid in eliminating the cattle tick; asking that county fire wardens be provided by the Legislature under the direction of the State geological department; regretting the country newspapers do not give more attention to the efforts of young farmers in ap plying advanced methods as compar ed with special effort by young men in the professions and asking that this be not the case in the future. Strange Bird With Human Face. Mr. N. P. Plummer, of Moores ville. ha3 a strange freak dn ithe shape of a bird with a human face. It was evidently of the owl species but unlike any that has ever been captured in these parts. For several years along the back creek bottom's in" this neighborhood Mr. Plummer says, people working in the fields were often startled by a cry like a human voice, giving signals of distress, but upon in vestigation nothing could be found. The bird was captured last Saturday, having been discovered by Mr. Plum mer while crying like an infant, he having slipped upon it unawares. The bird would not eat, and while ex hibiting the fowl on the streets, the human-like, thing died, in his arms, crying "Go-go." Its voice wa3 dear and it could talk plainer than the ordinary parrot Fatal Joy Bide at Richmond. As the result 'of a joy ride af ter a very late dinner Thursday night at the Hotel Rueger, Richmond, Va., H. M. Deputy, of Philadelphia, represen tative of the Lucas Paint Company, is dead, J. G. Hollingsworth, a promin ent merchant of Fayetteville, N. C, is probably fatally injured, and Dr. R. H. Talbott of West Virginia, has a fractured arm and severe bruises. The injured are at the Willis John son hospital, Richmond. Bear3 in Ta3iuotank. Several prominent citizens of the upper section of Ncwland township of Pasquotank county were in Eliza beth City displaying a handful- of bear's tusks. The tusks were very large and sharp, and were highly polished. The size and general ap pearance of the teeth of the wild beast would -indicate that anything coming in contact with them would suffer greatly. The bears are killing hogs by the wholesale. Hunting par ties are after the bears. Godwin and Ciark Off I Chairman James R. Young cf the special committee from the State Democratic executive committee to settle the sixth district muddle through the voting fprimary ordered for September 15 says only the two candidates, H. Ii Godwin and O. L. Clark, claimants of the nomination for Congress in the first sensational convention, have entered, so that the contest is between them. They have signed their pledges to abide by. the result and paid in their money foi the expense of the primary The gallant Soldier LItlle-Boy etrodo forth Into tbe day. Beneath the visor of hla cap his eye sought for the fray. From out hla belt he drew full swift hla trusty sword of lath And bade defiance to the foes that waited in his path. The skirmishers of grass that crept be fore him In the breeze He sabered as they fled, the while the bugles of the bees Were sounding thrilling summonses to all the stretch of - bloom ?To take its rank lest by the flank he charge It to Its doom. The darin? Soldier Little-Boy charged on the flower bed And all the path about him ran with crimson petals red; He gave the rose a thousand blows, he stood amid the phlox And one! And two! And through and through he pierced the hollyhocks. ' The candytuft was white with fear, the poppies red with shame That none of them could parry him, 80 subtle was his aim. The goldenglow stood all arow and each died at its pest. The marigold was brave and bold, but fell a valiant host. Then gallant Soldier Little-Boy marched out with colors high The daisy raised a flag of truce and so he passed It by. And then there came the gentle corps of trusty wind and rain , To blot the traces of the war and gather up the slain. Crass. 1 Grass grows upon the face of the earth much as whiskers grow upon the face of a man. However, grass Is always green, and no" one ever wears green whiskers except a slapstick' comedian. However, again, there is red grass and gray grass and brown grass and yellow grass and blue grass, which proves there are exceptions to all rules- ' For all that, however, grass does not grow galway style, nor a la burnslde, nor In a mustache and goatee. Grass is eaten by cows. When cut and baled it is called baled bay and U fed to condensed milk eowi. Grass is removed from the lawn by means of the neighbors children or a lawn mower. Lawn mowers are pushed by young men who are study ing for the ministry. No otbef men have the sturdy moral nature to run a lawn mower. Immediately after cut ting the grass these young men col lect for it. Taking collection is part of ministerial training. Grass la also very profitable to sign painters, as it enables them to dispose of placards ordering people to keep off Pf Jt. How Could Her "Finally, my friends," said the lec turer who had been urging his hear, era to addnt the higher life, "let ua put heart in our work. No work of man can be at its best unless it has heart in it; any work without heart in It Is apt to be classed with his worst." "I can't nut heart in my work," In terrupted a red faced listener. "O, my friend, you can if you only will." "No, sir, mine has to be the other kind you mentioned. I am a manu facturer of liverwurst." The Obliging Clerk. "O, pshaw, I can't find the book f want," complained the young woman in the library. "Shaw?" ' politely Inquired the at tendant. "One minute, Miss." And he handed her "Man and Superman." "Shoot!" she o.'aculated. . "You don't understand me." "I beg your pardon. Pid you say Shute?" " And when be brought ber "The Real Diary of a Real Doy," sho was eo taken aback that she accepted the book with a murmur of thanks for his kindness. Old-Fashloned. "He's such an old-fashioned man," they say. "He does not sem to be," we reply. "But be Is. He married a girl for love, takes her with him on his vaca tions, stays at home of evenings, tnd doesn't flirt with other women!" i.
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