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NO! 31
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'Money Loaned on Farm Lands.
The first Turkish bath in London
under municipal control was opened
recently. The cost of a bath is fifty
cents.
GALVESTON'S SEA WALL
makes life cow as safe in that city a.
on the higher upland. E, W. Goodloe.
who resides on Dutton St., in Waco,
Tex , needs no sea wall far safety. He
writes : "I have us?d Dr. King's New
Discovery for Consumption the past
fne years and it keeps me well and
8fe. Before that time I had a cough
which for years had been growing
worse. Now it's gone." Cures chronic
Coughs, LaGrippe, Croup, Whooping
Cough and prevents - Pneumonia
Pleasant to take. Every botlle guar
anteed at E. T. Whitehead fe Co.'s
drug store. Price 50,3 and $100. Trial
bottle free.
"I am very fond of muiic."
"Would you like to have me play
for you?" "
"I said I was fond of music."
Old maids would be scarce and bard to
find,
Could they be made to see,
How grace and beauty 'a combined
By using Rocky Mountain Tea.
E. T. Whitehead dVCo.
An expert manicurist Rays that the
manicure habit will cure children of
the stubborn habit of biting their
nails.
Scrub yourself daily, you're not
clean inside. Clean insides means
clean stomach, bowels, blood, liver,
clean, healthy tissue In every organ.
Moral : Take Hullister's Rocky Moun
tain Tea. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets.
E. T. Whitehead & Co.
DITOr'S JEISURE JJoUiS,
OBSERVATIONS OF
The world just some how has regard to the words and maxims of one
who lives a long time, learns a great deal or accumulates much money.
Russell Sago's Vacation
come eyen mora engaging than if he had been noted for only one of the
others. Buch a man was the late Russell Sage. He lived to be about
ninety years o'd, wa3 in many things a wise man, and we believe he has
be3n called the largest money lender In the wor'.d. One of his ideas about
work and business was that love of one's work and an oven temper about it
Is all the vacation needed. He began work when he was quite a young
boy and there is no record, so tar as we know, that he rested until he was
quite bid. He was accustomed to think and say that an employer ought
not to have to give bis employe two weeks time to rest, with full pay,
every year In order to keep him. He asked what would the employe
think if his employer should say," You must work two weeks for nothing
or I can't give you a job next year." The rule, he thought, ought to work
both ways. And so perhaps many who clamor for a vacation would do just
as well without it If they could leatn to love thoir work and do it without
worry, as the great master financier did.
tut.'
It becomes more and more certain that the medica 1 and scientific world
lay great stress on the fact that typhoid fever is largely a result of infected
The llousd Fly and Milk
sible for most people to keep it pure and clean ; but the house-fly who can
dodge? He creeps and climbs into all kinds of places and at once pays a visit
to your face, confining his perambulations to your nose and mouth so that
you may get the benefit of his loathsome infection. Into the kitchen they
swarm where they can spread their infection into all the food that' is being
prepared for the family, and the cook seems powerless to keep thtm out.
One of the most effective means of keeping the 11 from the trays, dishes,
pots and baking pans, and from the food after It has baen placed upon the
dining table, is a good strong screen in each door to such room. And yet
the average cook does not take to screens. They are inconvenient and
troublesome, and while there Is no case of fever in the hous3 or immediate
neighborhood there seems no yery great necessity for keeping the screen
door closed. Too much care can not be taken against these means of
spreading typhoid fever, for few diseases are more to be dreaded. Perhaps
after so long a time there will b9 some way found to manage the
hoim-fly against typhoid fever as the" mosquito "is now hedged against
carrying yellow fever.
The Mandfacckeks' Record, published in Baltimore, reosntly printed
a number of letters from Initling mills throughout the South concerning
General Labor Con
part of such laborers. The response from the Weldou Manufacturing Com
pany w as as follows : "The industry is feeling severely-the scarcity of
labor, and cannot increase to appreciable extent until there is more labor
available. Our plant would surely haye been double its size but for this
lack of help." The reply of the Enfield Knitting Mills said : "The great
est problem of this industry to-day is the want of good steady and reliable
labor. The labor of the South will not work steady. What we need Is a
good class of Immigrants," And these conditions are not peculiar to knit
ting mill labor. It is true of almost all krfids of labor. There seems to
be a restlessness and an unreliablenes3 In labor that is a postive hendrance
to almost any kind of industry that men engage in here. You cannot
count on the constant, year-Iu and year-out service of laborers unless you
have them under binding contract to that effect. Many a m inufacturing
enterprise Is crlpplod because the laborers are unreliable and will not stick
to their jobs. Many a farmer loses a part of his crop because some laborer
takes a notion to leave him in the nick of time. It is indeed a vexed ques
tion, .and thus far no one has arnen who can lead the employing world out
o! the difficulty.
tut
The efltor of the Windsor Ledger has rccantly visited New England,
and gives some interesting impressions of that section and its energetic
people.
there are
and fewer
University Graduates
in Overalls.
thought, S3V8 our ne'ghbor editor, aud young men do( not think that an
education exempts them from toil aud labor. He says that he visited a
duck farm conducted by two graduate?, one from Harvard and the other
from Princeton. These duck farmer graduates from the University dfd
not do their work from the parlor or the office or in the latest cut, creased
trousers, but were in overalls themselves hard at work making money. He
saw another young man, the valedictorian and honor man of his class, who
went to work on the first Monday after his arrival from college driving a
baker's cart around the city. We are glad that the editor of the Ledger
made these observations and has given them to his readers as he has. It
goetf'to emphasize what a great many people in the South do not appreci
ate ; namely, that too many young people spurn work just because it is
- work. Many a young man and young woman will make great exertion in
bodily exercise in fun and frolic who spurn the same amount of exercise at
any kind of labor, simply because it Is labor. We do not wish to be un
derstood as saying anything again .t frolic and fun they ara natural out-
- lets for the spirits of ihe young; but what we refer to is the inconsistency
In som9 who would really be ashamed to be found at real work. There is
a danger with many young people of thinking too much of pleasure an!
too lightly of the real important interests of life. But the" examples of the
Harvard and Princeton graduates at wort In overalls is- one worthy tha
emulation of many other young men of the -country. '
When applied and covered with a
hot cloth Pinesalve acts like a poultice.
Best for burns, bruises, -boile, eczema,
skin diseases, etc.
E. T. Whitehead & Co., Scotland Neck
Leggett's drug store, Hobgood. -
PASSING EVENTS.
And when one individual attains unto all three
his life's principles of thought and action be
milk or disease germS carried by the common
house fly. "As o the milk it would 83em pos
the labor conditions which prevail with that in
dustry. The letters show an unsettled condi
tion of labor and a restless disposition on the
He says everybody np there works
no idlers and no illiterates, few fools
lazy people. Education is the first
Any one suffering from Kid: py
pains, backache, bladder trouble (r
rheumatism who will take a dose of
Pine-ules upon retiring at night will
be relieved before morning.
"tiSSIT Early Elisors
;r The famou little pills.
RUSSIA IS A RIVAL.
COMPETITOR OF AMERICA. IN
INDIA OIL FIELDS.
Advantage Lies with Our Producers
in Advanced Methods of Re
finement, Transpor
tation, Etc.
The illuminating oil trade of British
India is at present almost exclusively
controlled by Russia. Of the 22,500,000
gallons of kerosene oil imported into
Bombay during the fiscal year 1904-05
the czar's empire was credited with
more than 17,000,000 gallons, valued at
nearly 2,000,000. This oil, however, is
not the highest quality, of illuminating
fluid, states the New - York Tribune.
Russia has never been able to meet the
United States in competition for the
higher grades of oil, but for ome years
she has practically controlled the mar
ket of British Indian in low grade and
low priced oils. .
For these oils, however, other com
petitors haVe appeared in the market,
which threaten to take away ultimate
ly her preseht supremacy. Dutch Bor
neo has within the last three years in
creased the volume of her export of
kerosene to Bombay from 500,000 to 3,
500,000 gallons.
Burma oil also shows a remarkable
advance, and its first shipment to Bom
bay was recorded last year. Being a
part of British India, politically, Bur
ma imports her oil into Bombay duty
free, which, of course, gh her a great
advantage over the RussUn producer. "
The American producers of kerosene
have lately been devoting considerable
attention to the importation of Russian
oil into Bombay. It is i-lieved that
with advanced methods of refinement,
system of bulk transportation and im
mense installations the United States
will be able to meet successfully the
competition, not only of Russia, but of
Borneo and Burma, in the kerosene
markets of India.
Tiie Russian oil sent to India Is pro
duced near Baku, on the western shore
of the Caspian sea. From there it is
carried across Trans-Caucasia, some
500 miles, to the port of Batoum, on
the Black Sea, on tank cars, holding
ten tons each, like those which were
used in the Pennsylvania oil fields over
30 years ago. The cost of railway
freight is 56.50 a ton.
At Batoum the oil is loaded on oil
steamers, which transport it across the
Black sea, through the Bosporus and
Dardenelles, down the Aegean sea,
across the Mediterranean," through the
Suez canal, through the Red sea and
the Arabian sea to Bombay, the dis
tance traversed being some 6,000 miles,
although Bombay is only about 2,000
miles in a straight line from Baku, the
point of departure.
It is thought by the producers of the
United States that in their facilities
for transportation they have an ad
vantage which will enable them easily
to wrest from Russia the predominance
which she has held in the oil trade of
British India. Russia, herself, how
ever, is doing a good deal to lessen the"
costs of transportation, and this must
be taken Into account in forming plans
of action In the contest.
A pipe line to unite the wells at
Baku with the port of Batoum has
been completed, and this cannot fail to
have an important and far reaching
e"ect on the Russian oil industry. The
length of the line Is 570 miles. It
crosses the watershed of the province,
and will carry crude oil from Baku to
be distilled and shipped at Batoum.
The total capacity of the tanks and
pipes of the line is, roughly speaking,
112,507 tons. The saving in freight by
the pipe line is estimated to be equal
to one-half of the old car freight,
which will prove an important factor
in the competition to hold the oil mar
kets of British India.
The Increase of exports is estimated
to amount to more than 500,000 tons a
year, and it is calculated that as the
result of the construction of the new
pipe line a lessening of the cost of oil
to the consumer can be made of about
two cents a gallon. The American
producers must . be able to meet this
reduction, and, possibly, increase it, if
it is to secure the rigch field now being
worked by Russia.
Shipments of American Tea.
This year 12,000 pounds of choice tea
will be shipped from what is at present
the only tea farm in the western hemis
phere. The farm Is at Somerville, S. C.
In the face of difficulties that at times
seemed insurmountable, but, on the
other hand, with the kindly assistance
of the United States government, the
Somerville tea farm has grown to a
point where it can offer serious com
petition with the best grades of tea
shipped from China, India, Formosa or
Java. But, above all, it has been dem
onstrated that, barring the question of
labor, the finest tea can be successfully
grown at home, and there is nothing that
gladdens the heart of an American more
than the . discovery that he can enter
into competition in a field hitherto de
nied him. Technical World. -
There Are Others.
"Why do you always" tell that story
about how you used to drive the cows to
pasture whenever we have company
to dinner? I don't want people to
know that I got the pails ready for
you!" said Mrs. Wouldbeswell.
"Oh, what -do you care?" said . her
husband. "In these days of rubber
gloves you can't tell who's doing her
own dish washing." Detroit Free Press.
Wrong Place. ;
Pa Twaddles Why are you spanking
Tommy?
Ma Twaddles He needs a lesson, and
I'm Impressing it on his mind.
"Well, you've got a queer idea as to
where the lad's mind is situated." Chi
cago Journal. - T.
Waiting works wonders ll you work
while youwan, ; ; , ; -.."
SCIENCE AND THE MEDIUMS
Facts Once Held to Be Miracles, But
Conceded by Modern
Thought.
Spiritualism is the successor of the
mediaeval occultism and of the older
magic. To-day science, without accept
ing its manifestations, studies them;
and in these troubled waters almost all
the facts upon which the new meta
physics is founded have been fished up.
Like magnetism, says Vance Thomp
son In Everybody's, it has drawn the
attention of physicians to the phenom
ena of induced sleep and has given
many of the date for the study Of
hypnosis and suggestion. The mediums,
who bcliave, like the ancient pytho
nesses, that they are possessed by
foreign spirits, have served for the
study of the change of personality and
telepathy. And it has shown that the
prodielos, diabolic and divine, record
ed in all early religions were not so
fabulous '&b the critical fancied.
At nil events science" admits that
there is a ' force call it psychic as
Crookes does, neuric with Baretz, vital
with Baraduc, or the odic force of
Rekhenbrach a force which can be
measured and described, which leaves
Its mark on the photographic plats,
which emanates from every living be
ing, which acts at a distance, which
save3 or destroys. Plato knew It.
Great wizards like Cardan made use
of It. The charitans like Cagliostro
blundered upon it. The scientists have
the last word.
What definite facts has science ac
quired? The change of personality;
that is classic now. The evidence for
telepathy Is Indubitable. That may
eem a bold statement; it is a com
monplace for those who are in touch
with the latest experiments of the
metaphysic clinics. Only a few years
ago before Pasteur came it would
have been deemed sheer idiocy to talk
af studying typhoid fever or cholera or
erysipelas In a laboratory. Telepathy
is an acquired certainty as much as
Harvey's theory of the circulation of
the blood, which three acedemies of
physicians declared impossible.
And the explanation of the strange
phenomena: Are they hints and in
stigations from another world the in
tervention of spirits of the dead.,, of
angels xr demons? This is the opin
ion held by almost all the sects of the
Dccult, those who worship in the hun
dred and one little religions of mysti
cism. Science does not go quite so far.
It declares:
1. There exist In nature certain un
known forces capable of acting on
matter. -
(This covers all the objective phe
nomena of metaphysics, such as the
transport of bodies from one place to
another, luminosity, etc.)
2. We possess other means of know
ing than those of reason or the senses.
(This applies to the subjective phe
nomena of metaphysics, including tele
pathy, second sight, clairvoyance.)
GENESIS OF SALLY LUNN.
This Was a Toothsome Delitfacy
Popular a Century or
More Ago.
How many of our readers know the
excellences of a Sally Lunn? The
world whirls round so fast t,hat it is
possible not one in a hundred could tell
what a Sally Lunn is, says London
Modern Society. The genesis of this
toothsome delicacy is to be found in
Edinburgh society a hundred years
ago. It was before railways had made
London the capital of Britain. in the
days when Scotch peers and gentlemen
had their town houses in Edinburgh
and when Edinburgh could offer soci
ety second to none in distinction and
chic.
It was when the new regiment of
Fencibles, raised by Lord Breadalbane
at the end of tha eighteenth century,
was turning the heads of Edinburgh
belles that the custom of giving tea
parties became the fashion. Prince
Leopold, widower of Princess Char
lotte of Wales, loitered in Edinburgh
on his way south from a visit to Tay
mouth castle, and many of the princi
pal hostesses of the city fought for the
honor of entertaining him to tea. Miss
Sarah Lowndes, "a lady of 'the first
fashion," then Invented tho cake called
afterward by her name, "Sally
Lowndes," a name which slipped easily
into the "Sally Lunn" known to this
day to north country pastry cooks.
Soon afterward Miss Sally married and
a daughter of hers became the wife of
Maj. Dallas-Yorke of Walmsgate, York
shire, the mother of the present duch
ess of Portland. We have never in
quired if the ducal tea tables at Wel
beck or at Grosvenor square are fur
nished with the excellent and fluffy
dainty so nearly linked with the an
cestress of her grace.
Busy Young King.
Alfonso, the young king of Spain,
leads a busy life, made up of work,
and study, and sport such a life as
any young man might lead. And this
is what has endeared him to his peo
ple. In no monarchy was the king's
majesty more hedged about with cere
mony. The young king has broken it
all down. His ancestors gloomed behind
the curtained windows of the palace.
He has gone to . the people. He la
part of the national life. And his
frank and boyish good fellowship has
done more to make the monarchy safe
than "all the king' horses and all the
king's men." -
Notorious Name.
In the early part of the last century
a firm of contractors named Jerry Bros,
carried on business in Liverpool, and
earned an .unpleasant notoriety by
putting up rapidly-built, showy but ill
constructed houses, so that their name,
eventually became general for such
builders and such work in all parts of
the world.
Law rules the
law unto Itself,
woild but love is a
PRESERVING POLES.
MEANS OF SEASONING TELE
GRAPH WIRE SUPPORTS.
Economy in tho Use of a Product
Which Is in Great Demand
and Rapidly Run
ning Out.
With the life of telephone and tele
graph poles at its present limit, the
800,000 miles of existing lines, requir
ing 32,000,000 poles, must be renewed
approximately four times before trees
suitable to take their place can grow.
A pole lasts in service about 12 years,
on the average, but is made from a
tree about CO years old. In other
words, to maintain a continuous sup
ply five times as many trees must be
growing in the forest as there are
poles n use, The severity of this
drain upon forest resources by the
telephone an di telegraph companies is
obvious enough. Just as in the case
of railroad ties, the question of pole
supply has thrust itself into promi
nence. To lengthen the life of poles,
and in this way to moderate demand
and conserve future supplies," has" be
come an important matter, affecting
the public as well as private Interests.
Since 1902 the forest service has been
making a thorough study of the pres
ervation treatment of poles and of the
value of the seasoning in relation to
treatment. In this work its first ob
ject has been, as in its studies of cross
ties and construction timbers, to make
the timber last as long as possible, so
as to check the annual demand for re
newal and thus lessen so far as pos
sible the drain upon the forest. Cooperating-
with telephone and tele
graph companies, railroads, lumber
companies, and individuals, it has
urged forward a series of experiments
covering all phases of the problem,
from the question of the best season
for cutting, through subsequent stages
of handling, to the final setting of the
pole. Some of the most important re
sults obtained deal with the seasoning
process.
Seasoning was studied in the ur3t
place to determine the rate at which
poles become air dry, that Is, lose as
much moisture as they will part with
through evaporation in the open air.
The time of cutting was also carefully
considered. Experiment proved that
poles cut in winter dry more regularly
than those cut at other seasons, and
also show a greater loss in moisture at
the end of six months' seasoning. The
advantages of winter cutting are,
therefore, even drying, with a mini
mum liability to check, and light
weight an obvious advantage for
shipment by freight. Spring or sum
mer cutting secures a more rapid loss
of moisture at first, owing to the tem
perature, but only for three of four
months. At the end of from six to
eight months spring and summer cat
poles are found to have dried only
three-quarters as much ' as winter-cut
poles. Spring and summer cutting,
however, would result in saving In
freight and increased durability if the
poles are to be shipped and used with
in three or four mouths after cutting.
The second point to be determined
was the degree of shrinkage In cir
cumference during air seasoning. This
was found to be very Blight, averaging
but little over 0.5 per cent, at the butt
and 0.6 per cent, at the top. The rap
id shrinkage of wood does not begin
until the percentage of moisture Is re
duced lower than is possible in the
case of telephone and telegraph poles
in out-of-door seasoning.
The effect of soaking in water upon
the rate of seasoning wa3 the third of
the problems dealt with. The experi
ments 'substantiate the common opin
ion that poles soaked from two to four
weeks subsequently season at a ma
terially Increased rate.
Finally, it was found that checking
in the course of seasoning is not seri
ous when poles have been carefully
cut. Rapid-grown timber, however,
when so carelessly cut as to leave jag
ged ends, was found to split badly at
the butt and at the top. This is doubt
less merely the widening of cracks
started when the stick partially broke
off instead of being cut clear through.
Just how much thorough seasoning
will add to the life of poles can not be
told until the actual tests are made In
service. The poles upon which the
tests are being made have been set In
a line where their behavior can be
compared with that of unseasoned
poles, and will be closely watched. Up
on a large number of the seasoned
poles a test was also made to show the
value of various preservative treat
ments, "which is expected to throw ad
ditional light on the subject of dur
ability. Cook's Perquisites.
E. Z. Grossr the mayor of Harrisburg,
was condemning the fees and unfair
perquisites which swell unduly the sala
ries of many unimportant officeholders,
"Fees and perquisites,"he said, "tend
to cause unjust dealings. Even In the
kitchen this is so.
"A butcher told me the other day that
a young woman, the cook in a prominent
family hereabouts, came into his shop
and said:
" 'Gimme a fine large roast o' beef
with plenty o' bones.'
',' 'Plenty of bones?' said the butcher
in amazement.
" 'Yes,' answered the young woman.
'Bones is my perquisite.' " Milwaukee
Sentinel. .
. Muscular. .
"Yes, Harker married a physical cul
ture girl."
"Did eh? Is she a better. housekeeper
than other girls?"
"I should say so. She can take the
toughest steak and pound on It until it Is
as tender as quail." Chicago Tribune.
No man 1? as good or m had s he
is said to be. ',
THE BOY AND THE JUDGE
Typical Instance of a Denver Ju
dicial Celebrity's Treatment 1
of Youth.
Seven years ago, before there was
such a thing as a Juvenile court, a boy
of nine was arrested in Denver for
burglary. He was brought into tho
criminal court, tried as a burglar, and
sent to Jail. He served a term of year3.
during which he learned thoroughly tho
trade which he had been accused of ply
ing. When he was released, write
Frances Maule Bjorkman, in the Amer
ican Monthly Review of Reviews, ha
began to practice in earnest. He wa
rearrested, recommitted, and, after u
second term, turned loose again, a moro
accomplished burglar thani before. A
few months ago he was shot at by tho
Denver police in an attempt to escape a
third arrest. He was captured and
brought Into the Juvenile court, still a
mere child that ought to have been go
ing to school.
i - Judge "Ben" B. LIndsey, who presides
over the tribunal, was confronted by a.
bold, hardened and unnaturally sharp
young expert in crime who had mysti
fied the police by. telling half a dozen
different stories. Judge LIndsey began
by telling the boy that he didn't believe
him to be half as "tough a kid" as the
police had made him out, and that h
would not be "sent up" If he was "6quar
with the court" and made a clean breast
of his trouble with the "cops."
This new treatment got from the boy
his real story. He had been led into his
first offense by a desire for a knife with
which to make a kite. His father' re
fused to get him one, and he broke into
a barber shop and took a razor. Ac
cording to the letter of the criminal law,
the boy had committed a burglary. As
there was no "juvenile" law at Ihe tim?,
he was dealt with as a professional
housebreaker. Asked about his first
trial, he said to Judge LIndsey:
"Aw, de guy wld de whiskers, wot sat
up on de high bench locked over at do
'cop,' and de 'cop,' iie cays: 'DIs is ;i
very bad kid; he broke into SniltHV
barber shop and took a rr ?or, and he ad
mits it, yer honor. Den de gny on do
high bench sends mo up widout glvln
me a chanct to say a wold." -
Thus, the boy was well started on a
criminal career before he was ten years
old. Fortunately, he fell into the hands
of the Denver juvenile court, which had
been established in the Interval between
his second and third arrest, while he
was still able to "pull up." Instead of
telling him that he was a bad boy and
sending him to Jail Rgain. Judge LInd
sey told him that he was a "bully fel
low" and set him free no probation
To-day that boy is still going uphill as
fast as he was going downhill before.
NOT. A REAL SAFE PLACE.
There Appeared to Be Too Many Op
portunities for Getting In
to Trouble.
When Mr. Trent decided to buy al
home In the south In which he and his
family could spend the spring months
during which they had found New
England winds and weather to be try
ing, he took a Journey of investigation,
relates Youth's Companion.
Mr. Trent was accustomed to be
treated as if his society were eminent
ly desirable, and It was therefore with
a friendly and engaging smile that ho
addressed a melancholy person who
was lounging on the piazza of the ho
tel at his first southern stopping place.
"I'm thinking of buying a place down
here," snld Mr. Trent, In a half-confidential
tone. "Now what part "of the
country would you particularly recom
mend? The landlord tells mo you've
lived south for many years."
"Yes,, I've lived south a long Biiell,"
admitted the melancholy man", "though
I was raised north, and I'm willing to
say right here and now that you
couldn't find a more favorable nor ai
lovelier spot in this whole state, sir,
than this very town. I have lived here
for five years, and if I'd had anything
like a fair show I should have enjoyed
every minute of the time."
"You haven't had a fair show?"
asked the New Englander.
"No," said the melancholy one. "This
Is a lovely spot, and If I'd had a fair
show I'd have enjoyed It; but the first
year I had fever and ague, and the next
year I was bit by a shark, and the
third year I had an awful fight with a
snake, that shook up my nerves, and
last year"
"I doubt If I should like this locall
ty, ' said the New Englander, briskly.
The melancholy man looked at him
Vith mild astonishment.
"Why, you know it's pretty danger
ous living anywhere, stranger," ha
said, slowly, "if that's what you're
thinking about."
What She Left Off.
A teacher in a certain Episcopal Sun
day school had been impressing on her
girls the need of making some persons!
sacrifice during Lent. Accordingly, on
the first Sunday of that penitential rea
son, which happened to be a w.irm
spring day, she took occasion to ask
each of the class in turn what she had
given up for the sake of her religion.
Everything went well and the answers
were proving highly satisfactory until
she came to the youngest member.
"Well, Mary," inquired the teacher,
"what have you left off for Lent?"
"Please, ma'am," stammered the
child, somewhat confused, "I I've left
off my leggins." Lippincott's.
Fortune in Sight.
The Heiress And haven't you any,
financial prospects, George; dear?
George Why, yes. I'm figuring on
a sure thing that ought to net me half
a million at least. .
"What is the sure thing, Ceorge,
dear?"
"You." Cleveland Plain Dealer. J
AH that glitters can't e ihoh- d
th golden rule.