The Wingham Times, 1915-12-02, Page 3December 2nd, 1915
THE WINGHAM TIMES
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JOHN'S COMPLIMENT.
" Jobn", said Mrs. Harkins, "I heard
a nice compliment for you to -day,"
M Harkins puthispaper doav
Mr, Ha k na pap -ai,
twisted up the ends of his moustaches,
looked pleased, and said:
"Well, that's nothing so remarkable
-I receive compliments nearly every
day.,,
AMrs. Harkins went on sipping her
V and her husband waited for her to
resume. Finally, he said:
"Well, why don't you tel me what
it was? Who was it that complimented
me?"
"Oh, you couldn't guese in a week."
"Mrs. Deering?" he ventured
"No,"
"Not Bessie Fallington?" he rather
eagerly suggested.
"Oh, well, of course if there's any
secret about it, I don't care to hear
eik.ahat it was or who said it."
\._"'i'here isn't any secret about it,"
Mrs. Harkins sweetly replied. "Mr.
Hannaford told me every time he and I
met, he became more thoroughly con-
vinced that you were a man of most
excellent taste."
John Harkins then shoved his hands
down in his pockets. and walked out-
side to think it over.
GOOD VENTILATION.
• The lovely weather of this Fall may
have induced many stockmen , o re-
frain from stabling their cattle to a
later date than usual, and if feeding in
addition to the pastures has been
practiced the animals may have taken
no harm, but the later the changes
from out to indoor is left, the more is it
sure to be felt, and the more necessary
becomes the proper provision for ade-
quate ventilation in the barns. Animals
used to the full pure air of the fields
can easily be put off their feed if cooped
up all at once in a stable where they
are forced to breathe the stale breath
of their fellows. No system of ventila-
tion is absolutely automatic, but the
use of some forethoughtin constructing
the buildings will lessen the labor need-
ed to provide good pure air at a com-
fortable temperature. Cold air is not
necessarily pure air, but the fact that
tliittKtiitside air in Winter is usually very
Awe . leads many people to neglect
supplying sufficient warmth in the
stable. The efficiency of a,ventilating
aystem is often judged by the appear-
ance of the walls of the stable, and if
Wattle moisture appears thereon, the bla eis
laid on the insufi'icieutly .of the intake
or outlets for air, while the real cause
may be the poor construction of the
walls themselves. To ensure dry walls
a dead air space most he provided, and
since even with the best construction
the heat of the stable depends largely
on the body heat of the animals, the
stable must be in proportion to the
number of animals to be kept in it; 600
to 800 cubic feet per cow is a proper
allowance. Inlets and outlets for air
should be capable of control so that a
temperature, best suited to the health
of the animals may be maintained. and
these ventilators should be so placed
that direct draughts cannot play on the
stock. The faster the circulation of the
air the better it is for the inmates, up
to a reasonable rate, but as outdoor
temperature governs the possibility of
allowing free circulation, the cutting
down of the supply of iiresh air is the
only means of maintaining warmth in
cold weather. unless artifice! heat is
introduced.
The exact degree of temperature
best suited to cattle cannot be arbi-
trarily decided, as conditions of prac-
tice and the taste of the owner have
much to do with the matter. For cows
that are being fed for big milk produc-
tion and being regularly groomed and
possibly washed there would be need of
more heat than for dry cattle, or beef
animals, which ran affordto put on a
heavy coat of hair or sperifice some of
the ration to maintain there own heat,
provided the owner is willing to sacri-
fice feed for this purpose.
One of the causes of the expense of
Wintering cattle is this need of sup.
plying extra warmth, and the compara-
tive economy of providing warm build-
ings or extra feed for this purpose most
be decided by the man who runs the
business. One thing with regard to
stabling seems evident, cattle kept for
different purposes or rather cattle that
are to be differently treated should have
different barns, the heavy milking cow
that ie best kept indoors all Winter
should not be tied up with an animal
that is expected to run out at the
straw stack for part of its time, the
abrupt changes of temperature would
not be beneficial to either.
Among the things that are spmetimes
too good to bo true are good intentions:
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THE FAMILY
A RUTHLESS CZAR
PHYSICIANN Peter the Great Was a Savage,
but He Made His Country.
"Fruit-a4ives" is the Standby
in This Ontario Moine
Scotism, Ont., Aug, 25th, 19],3.
"My wife was martyr to Cortstij'aHon .
We tried everything on the calendar
without satisfaction, and spent large
sums of money, until we happpped on
'Fruit -a -tires'. We have used it in the
family for about two years, and we
would not use anything else as long as
we can get "Fruit-a-tives."
J, W. IIAMMOND.
"FRUIT-A-TI1Tl S" is made from
fruit juices and tonics -is mild in
action -and pleasant in taste.
50e. a box, 6 for $2.60, trial size 25c.
At dealers er sent on receipt of price
by Fruit-ar;-tires Limited, Ottawa.
BiRTH OF MODERN RUSSIA.
It Began With a Rested Reform In
Which the Monarch Himself Acted as
Hair Cutter For Hix Nobles -Tri-
umphs of the Giant Barbarian.
The chief nobles of Russia, summon-
ed from all quarters of the empire an
AprlI 20, 1098, sat around a table in
the czar's palace at Moscow. They
were a rough looking lot with their
shaggy beards and unkempt hair and
with their dirt, incrusted bodies swath-
ed in gold embroidered oriental robes.
At the table's head stood a thick set
young man whose 111 fitting European
robes sat oddly on his giant body. He
was rugged of face and' was the only
beardless member of the conference,
In one unwashed band be wielded a
pair of barber shears.
''°*"-n-1— The nun was Peter 1„ czar of all the
SELECTION OF POTATOES
As a general rule when people are
going to plant potatoes they make no
attempt to select them, being content
to pick up what are vaguely termed
"seed" at random. If everybody did
that we would soon find our tubers de-
teriorating until they would become fit
food for pigs and not suitable for table
use.
But apart altogether from the pro-
duction of stated varieties the man
who takes care to plant the best seed
is sure to reap a best crop, given. soil
and the usual treatment necessary for
successful growing. The quality of a
potato is largely affected by conditions
of soil, and probably by locality also.
The requirements of a good potato
may be set out as follows:
In the first place it should possess
good quality, which is to say, it should
not be too wet or waxy, but mealy an
dry. It should have an agreeable nut-
ty flavor; it should be a good cropper,
it shoutd have an even shape and form
free from unsightly nobs and deeply
sunken eyes. Color is not of much
consequence when not imparted to the
flesh.
As regards varieties, as there are
somewhat about 400 different kinds of,
potatoes known to growers, the grower
has an ample list to make a selection
from. Probably there are not more
than twenty which are welt known and
recommended. which narrows the list
somewhat, It is idle attempting to
name one variety as better than another
as a lot depe.uls on the soil and the loc-
ality in which they are to be planted,
but with potatoes as with many other
things it pays a man to make experi-
ments.
He should procure seed from half a
dozen recommended varieties and try
them for himself under proper growing
conditions, when he will soon find out
which suit his district best.
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ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot: be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
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acting directly upon the blood and mu-
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monials sent free. Price 75 cents per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Take Hall's Family Pills for con-
stipation.
POULTRY SELLING DON'TS.
Now that the poultry season is open,
Horace Waller offers a few "don'ts"'
for shippers. Here they are
Don't let your chicks have crops
when they are dressed.
Don't forget to bleed them and pick
clean to wing tips.
Don't ship half finished poultry and
expect to get the top price.
Don't ship in too large package, as
poultry becomes squeezed out of shape.
Don't forget to label each and every
package.
,Don't ship too late in the Week.
Don't crate to fatten too long, as they
go back after once finished. Twenty-
one to twenty-eight days is the proper
time.
Don't hold poultry vehen Once ready
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for market. If it is good it will always
bring top prices. Experience has
taught us that poultry is generally
cheaper before holidays than ordinary
times.
Don't forget the weatber is the
greatest factor for governing prices.
Cold weather is good for prices.
Don't ship in mild weather, if pos-
sible.
If shippers adhere to these simple
rules they cannot help getting good
retttrna.
Children. Cry
�e,
FOR FLETCHER'S 1 /a.
A.
C A T O '"- i
Russias, father of modern Russia and
known to time las Peter the Great. He
had just returned from a tour of Eu-
rope, and the journey had taught him
a lesson. It had taught him, he. said
to the nobles, that he ruled a barbaric
and primitive realm that was about a
thousand years behind the times; that
Russia bad slumbered while all the
rest of the world had pressed forward.
Ile announced that he was going to
Pen a new era for his country; to civ-
ilize and modernize it and make it as
up to date as the nations which were
laughing at it. He further informed
the assemblage that 'the reform was
going to begin then and there. Modena
folk. be told them, did not wear enor-
mous shaggy beards and long robes.
European dress must henceforth be
worn by the Russians, and beards
must go.
To show he was in earnest Peter
went slowly around the table and with
his own hand cut off the beard of
every man there. To a seventeenth
century Russian the beard was as
sacred as Is a pigtail to a Chinaman,
and nothing but Peter's iron authority,
backed by his army's loyalty, prevent-
ed a wholesale revolution. Until Pe-
ter's time it had been the custom to
GERMANS WILL COLLAPSE A YEAR
FROM NOW
2'ha' the war will end by Gertner., e
n9ui1l1elrl.al. 7b, yatnd etbhagiCntgdaofanide Rwei.,' 'r
t.v reason 1,f the extent of their teed,
I will be the chief henefieiari•s of rhe
renaissance of progrees ar.d t.tosperite
to follow, were the encoursaint° i re-
Idictions of Mr. C. W. Barron, President
of '1'tie Wall Street Joutnal, who
,addressed the Canadian t•luh in Threes/I
laic week, Mr F. 11. D. icon presided,
and at the guest table were: Hun. T.
W. McGarry, Provincial Treasurer;
Hon 1 B. Lucas, Attorney -General;
Mr. Justice Riddell; Mr. Peleg How-
land, President of the Imperial hank;
Mr. J, W. Woods, President of the
Board of Trade; Mr, R. W. Estop, Dr.
Herbert Bruce, Sir Edmund Walker,'
Mr, Z. A, Lash, Sir John Willison, Mr.
Victor Ross, Mr. J. E, Atkinson and
others.
Mr. Barron
s oke upon the effect of
P
• the war on the commerce and finance;
of this continent He made a profound
impression on the large gathering.
Time and again he was interrupted
with cheering outbursts. In opening
he feelingly referred to his visit to the
first. Canadian overseas forces at
1 Salisbury, and the heroic fate which
had befallen so many of the gallant men
in khaki. "It seems almost a sacrilege,"
said he, 'tin this city of many mourning
homes to discuss the war from this
Istandpoint. But this is a man's war;
it is a war for humanity, and man must
pay the price."
As an Anglo-Saxon, Mr. Barron re-
joiced in the difference in sentimerit
which he had witnessed in Britain and
in Germany. There was no song of
hate in Britain, Nowhere in the
motherland had he found any hate to
ward the German people. The German
people were not responsible. 'fhe war
was a necessity in the development of
humanity. Two systems of government
were battling for supremacy; the Ger->
man system, wherein it was taught
that happiness was found in power and
not in usefulness, that the State had
no morals and that the people were the
servants of the Crown; and the Anglo-
Saxon system, which regarded the
wear the coatsleeves at least a foot Government as the servant of the
longer than the arms. These sleeves people and true democracy as the ideal:
he ordered cut off to conform with En- Mr. Barron ascribed to the commer-
ropean fashions. As it was, the clothes tial treaties which placed Russia under
and beard reform stirred up a dozen the cominercial domination of Germany
hot little rebellions. and Austria large responsibity for the
And thus modern Russia was born.
Nor did Peter rest until he had made
his formerly despised country a world
power. He was a strange man, this
czar, who undertook to awaken a
sleeping nation to life and activity.
Voltaire paints perhaps the best pic-
ture of the czar's many sided charac-
ter in the words:
"He gave a polish to his people and
was himself a savage. He taught them
the art of war, of which he himself
was ignorant. From the sight of a
small boat on the river Moskwa he
erected a powerful fleet, made himself
an expert and active shipwright, sailor,
pilot and commander. He changed the
manners, customs and laws of the Rus-
sians, and he lives in their memory as
the father of his country."
One change followed another. Edu-
cation, mechanics, the arts, were intro.
duced into Russia. armies of practical
teachers being imported. Then came
wars which won some long needed sea-
ports for the awakened land and new
territory as web.
Peter decided that Moscow was
wrongly built and in a bad location for
his newborn country's capital. And
against an avalanche of opposition he
picked out a tract of ground in the
midst of a swamp for a new capital.
Here with his own hands he built a
wooden hut and summoned every ar-
tisan he could get hold of to help him
erect a monster city, to be known, in
his honor, as St, Petersburg.
He superintended the work of dredg-
ing,
redging, digging and building, doing much
of the labor in person, working side by
aide with his /underpaid day laborers.
In 1703 the city was begun. In 1711
Peter laid the foundation of his own
brick palace there. (And 203 years
later one of.Lis successors renamed the
capital Petrograd, to get rid of the Ger-
man word "burg" in its title.) In 1713
the sent of government was moved
hither from Moscow. •
Peter the Great died in 1725. Mod-
ern Ruayia is his true monument and
epitaph. • He found his country semi -
savage, and he, a savage at heart, left
it civilized and progressive. He added
six mighty provinces to the empire,
and he made it a leading political, com-
mercial and naval power, respected
by the very' nations that had so lately
derided it, hated and feared by most of
them.
All through the work of one giant
barbarian Who had begun his miracu-
lous task twenty-seven years earlier by
acting as barber for his own nobles: -
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Mary's Revised Grammar.
"Tire sentence, 'My father had mon-
ea)`,' le in the past tense," explained the
teacher. "Now, Mary, what tensa
would you be speaking in if you said,
'91:y father has money?' "
"Oh, that would be pretense," replied
Mary soberly. -Youth's Companion.
His Preference,
Partner's Wife -Yes, 1 suppose I can
let you hate a cup of coffee. How do
you take It? Frayed Philip -With
lareakf:tst,
please.---lloston Transcript
tt l'n••A•nces a wise matt to try negotite
11111)5 before sums.-Tercnee.
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L,AHIuL
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year, Since this drinking has been
abolished'° the increase in the savings
deposits of the people had been more
than $300,000,000, After that, war
Russia would have outlets through the
Dardanelles and the Kiel Canal, which
would be free to the wbole world, aid a
great era of peace and development
was assured.
Asked as to how tong Britain could
go onspaying $25,000,000 a day for the
expenses of war, Mr, Barron retorted:
"As long as you and I back it up."
When be was in England recently, be
had been discussing with a nobleman
the great increase in income tax, and
the latter had stated: "It is not be-
grudged. They can have everything
but our bread and butter." Aa to
Britain's ability to pay the bilis "there
will be no diminution in that cruise of
oil," he declared amid cheers. "So
long as Britain's name on a scrap of
paper is made good by her blood and
treasure before the world you can put
no commercial value or limit on Great
Britain,"
PL.IDHT OF A
°.a,t
His Vivid ims► dado
to 4f4e N
Got Coleridge to Trr ubt
1•ry mh1s early youth Coleridge iR1.
M
in a world of books and dramas, yet
his favorite watlk Seems to have Imo
the Strand, the last place in the warld
for a poet to Imp Wessell' In reverie.
1 As he strolled down the street be Urte
righted himself swimming the Halle*
Pont. the feat of which other poets
had written and which the poet ;yrw
was to accomplish later. Once while.
the mind of Coleridge was tbus far
from the busy Strand be nbaentlat
thrust his hands before him iu tela
manner of one ew•twming. Suddenly,
one hand came In eontaet with a gen;
tleuran's pocket.
The gentleman. thinking to eoptut
a thief. seized the hand and exelalrned;
"What'. So young and so wiekedl"
He aeeused the poor. poetic buy of a*
attempt at pucket piekha:;•
With some fright and a few team
the boy explained, and we can imag-
ine that .words did not fall him who
was to become the most btllitaut alike
er of Itis age. The gentleman was de-
lighted with Coleridge's imagination,
which could tura the Strand into the
Hellespont. The tntelligeur'e of the
young Leander made the stranger In -
1 quire into Coler ge's tastes. and wtsen
he found the boy liked books he Open-
ed for him a subscription at the circu-
lating library In Cheapside.-Westmntn-
ster Gazette.
Twenty-seven carloads of salmon are
en route from the Pacific. The ship-
ment is the largest ever carried and
weighs 2,200,000 pounds.
Documents containing details of the
vessel's cargo and the ports for which
she is bound are called the ship's
manifest.
Ten carloads of carrots have been.
shipped from St. Catharines to Belle-
ville to be evaporated and forwarded to
the soldiers at the front.
Although no definite announcement
shas been made, it is understood that
between 200 and 300 licenses in the
province will he cut off at the com-
mencement of the next license yea.,
as the result of the provincial tour of
the license board, Toronto is not
likely to be affected to any appreciable
degree. The decisions of the com-
mission will be mad; known shortly
after the new year.
war. Germany recognized that upon
their termination in 1917 she would be
unable to renew them except by force
of arms. She also believed France to
be in financial turmoil, and that she
could deal with them without interven-
tion from Britain by reason of reports
that India was about to -secede, that
South Africa would desert the Empire.
that there would be rebellion in Ireland
and that Canada would "go seeking.
Uncle Sam." From the German
standpoint, the killing of the Austrian
heir was merely the excuse for the war
for which she was looking.
German diplomacy had proved the
worst in the world. "And why not?"
asked Mr. Barron. "Diplomacy is
international politeness, the due regard
for the position of the other fellow."
The war was having a different effect
upon the allies from that Teuton
anticipation. France was coming into
a new life such as had never been
dreamed of before. She was showing
the soul of fraternity. Little Belgium
had become in spirit "the biggest
country in the world." Britain was
realizing the national spirit of admini-
strative justice. Russia and Canada
would realize the greatest of progress
and prosperity, as "all wealth comes
from the sunshine, the soil and labor,
and the nations with the soil have the
future."
It might well be asked, said Mr.
Barron, where the United States
stood. "The man who hasn't arms
when burglars are at the front door
better stand still," he commented amid
laughter. But the United States was
getting arms. She was building them
for the British Empire, too. She had
never before floated a loan for half a
billion dollars, but she had done so for
the allies, "and this is only the
beginning."
"Such financial brains as I have tell
me that Germany cannot go through
another winter of war after this," said
Dir. Barron, in dealing with the pros-
pective length of the struggle. "I put
the question to Germans of highest
authority as to what they expected.
They replied that they looked for a
draw with Britain in it. I told them
they would never get it. (Cheers.)
With Britain in this righteous fight for
principles there could be no compromise,
no draw."
Three factors would cause the col-
lapse of Germany. These were short-
age of meta -the Teutons had lost 1.-
000,000 killed and 4,000,000 in casualties;
shortage of food -women and children
at home were now starving in Germany;
and failure to finance -nations sending
supplies to Germany were now demand-
ing cash with the order, "and cash
means gold."
In response to a question by Mr. J.
W. Woods. the speaker stated that the
banishment of vodka in Russia had
given wonderful results. The drink hill
of that country had been $300,000,000 a
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pings in the thro..t and permanent.
y cures Catarrh and Hay Fit' rl.
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QUEER LEGAL FICTION.
It Makes Stepney, In London, the,
Parish of Every British Seaman.
Every sailor, from the admiral to the
newest joined seaman. on board British
warships is regarded as belonging to
the parish of Stepney, in Lohdon- It
doesn't matter in the slightest where
the ship is, the sailors who man It all
come from the same parish -Stepney.
This queer legal fiction dates back
to the time of Charles IL In those
days every workingman had to live in
the parish where he was born, and he
could not leave it without finding two
responsible sureties to vouch for his
honesty.
This, of course. became ratherpuz-
zling in the ease of people born at sea.
For they had no parish. To get over
the difficulty the authorities stated that
all born at sea would be regarded as
being born in the parish of Stepney,
though why they should choose that
parish and no abet is lost in the dust
of official records.
To this day the bishop of Stepney is
godfather of all children born at sea.
while all marriages solemnized oa the
ocean are recorded as though they had
taken place in Stepney.-Imadon An-
swers
A Remarkable Dinner Service.
The remarkable dinner secvlee made
by Josiah Wedgwood for the Rumba
empress, Catherine IL, in 1774 consists
of 962 pieces, and on each piece
painted a different view. The body is
of a pale brimstone eolor. and the
'views are painted in a rich mulberry
purple. As the service was intended
to be used at the palace of La Gr+e-
nouilliere (meaning marshy piece the
of frogs). each piece also bears a
green frog within a shield on the rim.
The views represent British ruined
castles. abbeys, parks, bridges, towers.
etc, Several pieces are decorated with
views of Hampstead. end there are:
custard cups with views of Richmond.
and sauce boats with the scenery of
Windsor park. In many caste the
views are the only pictorial records
left of the old buildings, Altogether
there are 1,282 views painted on the
0112 piece.
CASTO R IA
ORDER OF THE BATH.
It Was a Realistic Ceremony in the
Time of Charles 11,
The last Knights of the hath made
according to the ancient forms were at
the coronation of Charles 11., when
various rites and ceremonies. one of
which was bathing, were enforced,
According to Froissart. the court bar•
ber prepared a bath, and the candidate
for membership in the order, baying
been undressed by his esquires, was
thereupon placed in the bath. his cloth.
es and collars being the perquisites
of the barber, He was then removed
from the water to the words "May this
be an honorable bath to you" and was
placed in a plain bed quite wet and
naked to dry.
As soon as he was quite dry he was
removed from the bed, dressed in new
and rich apparel and conducted by
his sponsors to the chapel. where be
offered a taper to the honor of God and
a penny 'piece to the honor of the king.
Then he went to the monarch and,
kneeling before him. received from the
royal sword a tap on the shoulder, the
king exclaiming. "Arise, Sir —," and
then embraced him. saying, "Be thou
a good knight and true "-London
Strand Magazine,
For infants and Children
In Us* For Over SIO Years
Always bears
the
Signatt:ra o.$'('4;7!:.7.1777
"Choir,"
Churchgoers who follow the service
in their prayer books would certainly
miss the "dear old phrase" concerning
"quires and places where they sing,"
and in time the old fashioned "quires"
may be made new fashioned again by
the coming of rationalized spelling.
"Choir" was a most unnecessary onto
rage upon the language. The old Eng-
lish "quer" or "quere" became quite
naturally "quyer" or "quire," and so
it remained until the end of the seven-
teenth century, when somebody seems
to have introduced "choir" because it
looked more like the French "choeur,"
as if that were a valid reason. There
could have been no danger of confuse
ing a church "quire" and a "quire" of
paper, which is a different word, the
French "cattier,' probably from Latin
"quaternarium," a collection of fear
Leaves. -London Standard.
Seventeenth Century Sheep.
"The best and biggest sheep," says
Fuller in his famous "Worthies of
England," publisbed In the year 1662,
"are those of the vale of A.ylesbnry, In
Bucicinghainshire, where it fs nothing
to give £10 or mare for a breed rag.
So that should a foreigner hear '?of tel
price thereof he would guess that rail
rather to be some Norman engine et
battery than the creature commonly as
called. Foreigners," he adds. "muck
admire our English sheep because they;
do not, as those beyond the seas, fol,'
low 'their shepherds like a pack of
dogs, but wander wide abroad-"
Locating the Laughs.
Once upon a time De Wolf tioppet
was required to play Falstaff in a spe.
tial performance of "The Merry Wive*
0t Windsor." He sought the help of
William H. Crane, a famous Falstait
twenty-five years ago. "1 will help
you;' Mr. Crane said. "I will lend yes
my wig, my beard, my costume and
ray pad. and 1 will go page by page
theough the text svitb you. pointing
out es I go just where the laughs are
not." --Indianapolis News.
They Came Back.
"Boer's lists. peon? Yesterday yotl
cleaned up the back yard nicely. but
today it looks Wor=se than ever."
"It's not my fault, dadL fired every.
thing aver the fence. but last night the
kit next door slammed 'em back:." --•St,
Louts Post -Dispatch.
Last Resort,
"Well, we have exhausted reason,
logic. common sense and justice, What
more eau we do?"
"1 guess tve'it simply have to go to
law." -•Life.
A Lover of Music.
Ha -I took Maud to a musical evese
ing last night. She -Was It good? lis
-1 don't know. 1 didn't hear tnnrh of
It. Maud was telling the how"rond she
is of made.
What do we live for if not to make)
t'fs tsr4o ilitf-`talt to each ethec7--Gvarpi
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