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THERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S NIGHT MAINTAIN, UNAWKED BY INFLEANCE AND UNBRIBED BY LAWS The Pioneer ESTABLISHED 1882 Mining Timber. Beds of Prehistoric Trees Under the Earth's Surface. You know all about mining, or, at least, you know the sort of things that are obtained from the depths of the earth, such as gold, iron, coal, salt and precious stones. Did you ever hear of mining timber? The chances are that you did not, and yet there was a time when the mining of white cedar was one of the most important industries of New Jersey. Those who delved in the swampy earth in pursuit of the great and perfectly preserved logs were not compelled to dig deep pits, for the trunks of those prehistoric trees were seldom more than fifteen feet below the surface. Many of the logs were as much as six feet in diameter, and one was found with 1,080 annual rings. Beneath this tree, which had flourished in its native forest for more than a thousand years, there was dug up another tree of an even earlier forest with more than 500 rings. New Jersey is by no means the only state in the Union or the only part of the world where prehistoric trees are to be found so perfectly preserved that even their characteristic odor is retained. Near Salem, O., a large quantity of timber was dug up at a depth of forty feet, the trees incased in a thick layer of glacial mud, and it is nothing uncommon in eastern Michigan for the diggers of wells to encounter tree trunks sixty feet down in the soft earth. The wood thus obtained is the best wood to be had, especially for fine cabinet work. In Germany it has long been the custom to dredge the deep bed of the Rhine for ancient logs, out of which the cases of the finest toned planes are constructed.—Exchange ENGLISH SPELLING Consider, if You Please, the Words Victual and Tongue. Were you ever perplexed by English spelling? But what a foolish question! The rest of the world is agreed that the man who insists he is never at a loss for the correct spelling of a word is a prevaricator of the nth degree. But how did our speech happen to be thus encumbered? The French use countless silent letters, but there is such system about their literature that it can be mastered by the average mind. German is absolutely phonetic, as are most of the Romance tongues. Greek was pronounced as it was spelled, and Latin is simplicity itself for all that the classical scholars disagree as to the sounds of the vowels and a few of the consonants. Mme. Bernhardt when she was urged to present her plays in the speech of the American people declared, "English is not a language; it is violent exercise, and its spelling is impossible." Many a schoolboy and girl will agree with her. What justification is there for such a word as "victual," which must be pronounced just as it was in the days when it was spelled v-i-t-t-l-e? And, while we are on the subject of our native tongue, how shall we justify t-o-n-g-u-e, a spelling that is monstrous in the light of the language's development? Up to the beginning of the nineteenth century that word was t-u-n-g, with here and there a pedantle faddist who put on airs when he wrote t-o-n-g-u-e. Our accepted spelling is an imitation of the French "langue" just as victual is an imitation of the Latin "victualia," handed down by half baked scholars.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. Went Back on Hia Authority. Leslie Stephen's single meeting with Freeman, the historian, was in the nature of a collision. "I came in contact with him only once," he said. "He wrote a life of Alfred for the Dictionary of National Biography under my editorship, but declined to do more because we had a difference of opinion as to whether Athelstane should be spelled with an 'A.' That was, I confess, a question to which I was culpably indifferent, but I had taken competent advice, and my system (I forget what it was) had been elsewhere sanctioned by the great historian Stubbs. Now, as Freeman was never tired of asserting the infallibility of Stubbs, I innocently thought that I might take refuge behind so eminent an authority. Light and the Blind Light has use, even if men cannot or will not see it. Baring-Gould tells of an institution for the blind that was built in England without windows. "Why," argued the committee, "should we provide windows for those that cannot see out of them?" So scientific ventilation and heating were provided, but the walls were left unpericed by any pane of glass. But soon the poor inmates grew pale, und a great languor fell upon them. They were restless and dissatisfied. They fell sick, and one or two died. Then it was that the committee decided to open windows in the walls. In came the healing light, and the human plants responded to it at once in revived spirits, ruddy cheeks and restored health. Light is good, the light of the world is good, even for those who shut their eyes.—Christian Herald. Luck In Name Only Lutsk, or Luck, to give it the Polish name, is another of the towns of eastern Europe which can point to a checkered history. It is traditionally said to have been founded in the seventh century. Four hundred years later it had developed into the capital of an independent principality. After a further lapse of four centuries we find it a wealthy place and the seat of a bishopric. But evil times awaited it. During the Russo-Polish wars of the sixteenth century its 40,000 inhabitants were exterminated, and Lutsk lost its importance.—London Chronicle. Honest Praise. An honest compliment was that paid to M. de Vendome, who, while commanding the French army in Italy, dispatched a young nobleman to announce to his master the victory which he had gained at Suzzara. The latter while attempting to describe the battle became several times much confused in his narrative, when, although the king preserved his gravity, the Duchess of Burgundy, who was present, laughed so heartily that at last the young gentleman said, "Sire, it is easier for M. de Vendome to win a battle than for me to describe it." He Knew Her. She—Reggie, dear, there is something of the old time lovelight in your eyes tonight—something about you that reminds me of those sweet days of long ago. I hope you have— He—Yes, I have a little left. How much do you want this time? Household Minerals Gold, silver, copper, quicksilver or mercury, iron, nickel, tin, zinc, lead and aluminum are the ten minerals generally to be found in every house. A fool's heart is in his tongue, but a wise man's tongue is in his heart. Quarles. Appropriate. Little Johnny—Dad, there's a girl at our school whom we call Postscript. Dad—Postscript? What do you call her Postscript for? Little Johnny—Cos her name is Adeline Moore.—Exchange. Indoor Occupation "You must take an interest in outdoor sports," said the physician. "I do," replied the indolent citizen. "They provide my main reading every day."—Washington Star. The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their epoquence.—Macaulay. The man of brains sees difficulties, surmounts or avoids them. The fool knows no difficulties.—La Bruyere. Outlawed. "How about paying me for that suit I made for you two years ago?" asked the tailor. "You surely can't expect me to pay for that suit," said the impecunious young man. "Why, it's all out of style."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Scenewhere Around "I never see her with her husband. Has she lost him?" "I don't know. Some people seem to think she has merely misplaced him."—Louisville Courier-Journal. The Iron Maiden OLDEST DEPARTMENT STORE It Has Deen Doing Business In Tokyo Since the Year 1873. It is somewhat of an analogy that, while the department store is distinctly a product of the west and has reached its highest development in the United State, the oldest store of this character is to be found in the far east. Nearly three and a half centuries ago, or, to be critically accurate, in the year 1801, there was opened in Tokyo, the Japanese capital, a retail dry goods business, which went under the first name of Mitsui Japan. In the course of time the store came to be known as the Mitsui Dry Goods Store, which name was retained until 1901, when, with some changes in organization, it became the Mitsukoichi Company, Ltd. Timing about its long career the proprietorship of this store has been in the famous Mitsui family, where it still remains. The Mitsukoshi Company, Ltd., is not only the oldest, but is the largest department store in Japan today. It was the first of the Japanese establishments to introduce western methods of doing business and to adopt up to date appliances. In the beginning the store dealt exclusively in cotton and silk goods, but gradually increased its assortment of stock until today it carries every description of merchandise to meet the wants of all classes of people. VANISHING GOLD What Has Become of All That Precious Metal That Has Been Mined? What becomes of gold? Where is all of that yellow metal that has been mined? It is one of the oldest metals in human use. There are gold beads dating back to the stone age. It is an object of almost universal desire. It is proof against almost all the influences which destroy other metals, and it has been mined in enormous quantities. Yet today more than two-thirds of the gold in use has been dug since 1849. What becomes of the rest? Where is the gold that set Jason wandering into the Black sea, that filled the treasures of Croesus, that paid the terrific tribute which Persian kings assessed against the Punjab? What has happened to the yellow dust and "electrum"—an alloy of gold and silver—which negro traders brought down the Nile to Egypt for 4,000 or 5,000 years? Ancient gold, like that of modern times, was used for money and for ornaments, but both have disappeared. Where? The most enduring of metals and yet the most evanescent, perpetually sought and yet constantly escaping the hands of even the successful seeker—that is gold. What is the reason for its curious elusiveness?—Chicago Journal. Silk Culture In Italy. About 500 A. D. Persian monks first brought silkworm eggs concealed in the head of a hollow staff to Constantinople. Thence silk culture spread into Greece. A little later conquest carried it to Sicily. From there to Italy it was but a step. Soil, climate, people, suited it. The industry took root, grew, throve and continues to this day. The thrifty peasant manages to get silk and oil and wine from the same small holding. First he plants his mulberry trees, sixteen feet each way. Next he prunes the heads into a hollow cup and trains his vines all over them, and finally around the edge he sets a shelter of olive trees. So all seasons bring him labor and the reward of it.—London Standard. It is said that a former postmaster general of Guatemala was nicknamed "mata muertos," which is to say "knifer of dead persons." He is supposed to have stumbled the dead body of a murdered president as it lay in the street. - London Telegraph. When a Chinaman Laughs The Chinese laugh is not so expressive as the European; it is usually a litter rather than a genuine outburst of merriment—London Telegraph. Press. BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED DECEMBER 11, 1815 Gold is one of the group of metals solvable only in that mixture of nitride and hydroboric nobile known as naprotig. It is, however, found in small, however, that the presence of certain organic compounds renders gold soluble in hydro- dobene nobile, though in mixture of this solid and compound it found to be a soluble methyl alcohol and good alcohol and solver in the other mixtures which give to more chlorine and H₂ power of these metals. The solubility of these solu- ces in the aqueous medium and more quicken it on heating. "You take a theoretical view of life, I hope," recounted the contristastic person. "Not enough to notice," replied the individual with a croak. "You lost with me." "I said, 'Not enough to notice.' I sometimes took a more mindful, cheerful, but I don't believe that notice it incumbent on me to go out at wearing a faux smile and smiling. '90h, be joyful.'" Memilberth A. Houghton. "Oh, oh," exclaimed me from Mrs. Niggs. "I've bitten off the end of my tongue." "Well, I certainly feel sorry for myself," rejoined the heartless Niggs. "Hornerier there will be no end to your tongue." Venezuela received its name from the early explorers. It soon became visited by Colombia in 1819, and the following year the name Venezuela of the Venice's was given to an Indian village built on pilots seen by Obdu and Americo Isopeck. "Still, I don't need them occasionally. "They free them from shing and how?" "Love it, Charlie. Good journal." FUN AND THE DRAMA. Has the Public Turned Away From the Classics of the Theater? Wherever they come into competition in the American theater today, tragedy yields to comedy and popularism to farre. Given in the movie theater must have sway or the public complains. That once great public of the theater coers who sat through and published the woes and equations, the lives and rows and desperate situations of the heroes and hard lines of public theatre drama, who loved it that they own sake and harbored in the personal character of the great folk of obeyance seem now deemed that no theatre is not traction be good show made it whisper them a laugh. Real plays memorize and memorize by small theaters. Here the other is a few of the old theater directors, of the new theater and the new set of getting a few student of chapel theater, a little dead of the electric drawn from the millions of the highest cities like an old firefly of aristocrats who have so better days. But the process does not wander the literature, the art, the choices of the theories. "To stir the imagination, to touch the heart, to stimulate thirst, to put wield and throw into court with mankind up of these old and curious motives of the theater have passed or are put into the dire and dusty 'property room.'" To be invited, to be jolted out of all serious thought, to be disinterested from every hard street of life, that is what the show, like public of America wants now. That is what the store is new for. It is to laugh-Minneapolis Journal. The reason why I have meteforebeen able to sell my goods so muchlower than anybody else is that I ama bachelor and do not need to makea profit for the cost of money of a wifeand children. It is not my duty to inform the public that this advantagewill shorten the life we can from them,as I am about to be injured. Theywill therefore do well to make theirpurchases at once at the old rate.—Petrogoloski Solubility of Gold Dont eat anything. ```markdown ``` Microsoft Creat Relief "Law books are very dry." --- A. Durian Art She — who her ward bottles the baby so wetting the thermometer. That's what comes out of sitting up at night wetting for the to get home. —Philadelphia Letter. in iL k How can a just God endorse two!now the dramatic news isthaton|A TRIBUTE TO wititaM! Mine. L.C. Parrish 8 Pioneer Wress YoungMen’s Christian Associations |this spot the Armenian christians BRUCE BY ONE WHO ' Nair Cutiuring Devoted te the Meral, Religious and| divided because and only because |threatened with death and deporta- KNEW HIM. i Se: In Tt eee f Financial Development of Humanisy.|men’s color of hair and skin differ?|tion by the Moslems, made a re- cali. Treatment RATES OF SUBSGRIPTION: If the churches had done their re-|sourceful, brilliant and dauntless mr Scy 7 pee . mae A B Year sercssscsseseeeses-SLM® | quired duty, there would be no necd|defense that reads like a novel.| In the death of this man not on-| [yee oe, ee fo moniae civics: H® Tforthem. And since they fail tol After eighteen centuries Antioch ly his own people but all alike will| Ragas gantaatiie: "\ SSaeeas nee spate eee meet, mix and mingle for the pur-|Christianity proves true to type.|miss him. Bern aslave, with no ke Weise A ee g ed navanc= maless advertiaing a run by|POS€ Ofknowing one another bet-| Not the least interesting phase of|advantages except his own native He page ae Stee : yearly eoniract, tn which case the ad-|t¢r, they are absolute obstacles 1o]the story is the fact that the chris- ability to do that which he thought i i Hie Wine 5 ee aa vurtio pays every throe months. | the solid growth of real christianity. /tians were led by an American |was right, and that was always iene ae Eas aad aA Advectising 1 inch one time 76o. ly hae aan trained Armenian pastor. That al-|done with akind and generous hea t] Pgs gee Ed ip ote aA So ace sss lasaseenes7/ SS | | jean BEINGS 108 every. (evil) aud le saveiy tue peplediiad icaried dolsowandaatl (dt cake in entrant eS ie ree Retoved Rates 10 Glave: Wicked thing, and penalticsof sonie | Fossa wilte ia American mission | He was bora on Pattersoi:’s Creek} Pe Mie eae Bene | Set Bemple: Copies Kind must pay teidebt. A 1 pres schools; and that the democratic]at, or neur Williamsport, Weet, Va. | peas 2 eS Bae ee eee ate anctner | Dare in earnest to fight a prize fight, self-government with which they]in the year 1843 and was els ed :0! «Ege H Fe) arg, W. Vn. 13 Second Olass Matéer ti) running, jumping, punching ; ae eA )eE lier, ; ; bide es JW Chtord, Balter and Proprietor.| iiidergoing all kinda of bards met their great crisis was learned anold family oi bruce a, Were: ee. Pte i Deawer 69, and Bell "Fhonn (OR eee eee to shoot and {Om New England Congregational owned by the late Avtanun Van| (eee oe Mareinsburg, W. Va. Bhd onan ny oot and) missionaries, iends firther interest|Meter who at his dean. set i ot | (aaa eae iis KI, and manufacture or cause to to the story. iis color Ol m Largest Mail Order House of its kind in SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1918. | be manufactured all kinds of deadly} ay ge | FTES SOE ee Of course Chicago issu e of get- ting the convention that will nomi- nate the next President of the United States. Wonder what President Wilson thinks about Champ Clark’s state getting the Democratic National Convention. I,ooks like the Speak- er may get the nomination. Whenever the colored people come to the conclusion that the ownership of land, houses, stores and banks,— the sooner crops, edu- cation and better morals will ob- tain With the opening of Congress, the Woman’s Suffrage Convention and the approach of the President's wedding, Washington has been alive with interest this week outside of its mammoth suffrage parade. If the colored people are at sea without anchor overthe death of Booker T. Washington for a leader, the Pioneer Press can put them right. John Mitchell, Jr., editor of the Richmond Planet is one of the best men in the world for peo- ple of color to pattern after. Dr. J. Aspinall McCuaig, of New York, the noted social worker, was at Mount Zion M. E. Church on Thursday night, where he was lis- tened to with rapt attention. Dr. McCuaig is a forceful speaker, an authority on eugenics, and if the advice he gives is heeded nothing but good can result therefrom. We never have said or assumed to say that Doctor Booker T. Wash- ington hadn't a fine mentality, and it will not add to our strength to abuse him, or try to take from his prestige to have our people oppcse bim. What we have said, and do say, his standard for manhood rights so far as Negroes are con- cerned never met our approval. We are in receipt of a recent copy of the Charleston Post, in which teference is made toa lecture de- livered in that city by Rey. R. W. S. Thomas, District Superintend- ent of the Cumberland District, Washington Conference. The Doc- tor’s subject was ‘‘Play Ball,’’ and from what the Post says his re- marks were able, instructive and delivered in an almost inimitable manner. What has become of the recent petition filed with the West Virgin- ia Public Service Commission by Rev. E. P. Moon,of Charles Town, regarding the jimcrowing of colored people by the Norfolk & Western Railway in this State? This is a most important matter, and there should be no lagging on the part of the Reverend or any other race lov- ing men until the above named cor- poration treats us with the same consideration thatit does all other Americans, How can a just God endorse two YoungMen’s Christian Associations divided because and only because men’s color of hair and skin differ? If the churches had done their re- quired duty, there would be no need forthem. And since they fail to meet, mix and mingle for the pur- pose of knowing one another bet- ter, they are absolute obstacles to the solid growth of real christianity. Sin brings on every evil and wicked thing, and penalties of some kind must pay the debt. If I pre- pare in earnest to fight a prize fight, by running, jumping, punching and undergoing all kinds of hard- ships; or if I mean te shoot and kill, and manufacture or cause to be manufactured all kinds of deadly weapons, for that end, what is the fact in my nature? Evidently that my own well-fed devil rules me— this explains preparedness for war. There is entirely too much twad- dle abont opportunity making men great. Never did it and nevercan. It simply finds great men who fall in line with their plans and purposes and go on to- ward perfection. In proof of our contention, Franklin, Washington, Lincoln and Grant were great and got on thetrain of opportunity as it was passing and blessed the world. Get ready and it will do the same for you, because it loves all striving souls—lingering at sta- tions for oppressed ones longer that they may geton ‘Children get on board.'’ In the death of Mr. George S. Roush, Martinsburg loses one of its very bestmen. Free from preju- dice and loved to see all classes lift themselves up to the highest stand- ard of manhood. Nearly thirty years ago, he and his devoted wife to our own personal knowledge went to Frank Robinson’s house and stayed and worked with him all night. Frank was Mr. Roush’s colored employee. No worthy cause escaped his aid, and rich blessings in glory are now his. He was one of our most sympathetic and help- ful friends we hadin all our many persecutions. ON HISTORIC CHRISTIAN SOIL. The most thrilling story of the many-sided world war, a bare mention of which was made in ca- blegrams from Egypt several weeks ago, has now come to this country in detail; and for religious interest it parallels the heroic experience of the earlier martyr days of the church. It is the defense by more than 4000 Christian Armenian vil- lagers of the mountain top outside of old Antioch for 53 days against 3000 regular Turkish troops aided by an armed Moslem mob estimated at about 15,000 men. After their Tong siege, the christians were res- ‘cued by French and British war- | ships, and taken to Port Said, where ‘they are now encamped. It was a crossflag displayed on the mountain top, that attracted the first cruiser’s attention. The latest story of Christian heroism comes from the place where the church originally acquired the name ‘‘Christian.’’ The familiar ‘phrase from Acts xi, 26, will be recalled. ‘‘The disciples were called christians first in Antioch.” | Itwas to this ancient sea-port, which later became a notable center of the early church, and in the Mid- dle Ages a Crusader stronghold, that Barnabas and Paul were sent and from it they carried the gospel to the west and across the Dardan- elles. Any incidents connected with such a spot of sacred interest as An- tioch would be worth printing; but e Gavotte from “IL PAGLIACCI” ; e ° (‘THE MOUNTEBANKS ) Sung by ENRICO CARUSO at Metroplitan Opera House, N. Y. «| Tempo di Gavotte. - LEONCAVALLO | 24) ee Be eee ee | = Sa ogg * 2, oa So a Ma onl epee i = ~~ eae . Rea eee eee — 6 a eS SSeS 1s ££ = a f - Dib 2 — = - s = = ° I > ——.- a i ae re See 4 be lelie i sl ie i el 34 a ee SE £ is oe nee ier ee a om an vac = ee 7 i Tempo eres in we : x Sats or tS 5 4 Bae pe +o} Miele ee" b) = 2 ce —— Fa eS > — 3 ae Sa : f TS ; NG Sa 3 = | nf = Published by AMERICAN MELODY Co., New York now the dramatic news is that on this spot the Armenian christians threatened with death and deporta- tion by the Moslems, made a re- sourceful, brilliant and dauntless defense that reads like a novel. After eighteen centuries Antioch Christianity proves true to type. Not the least interesting phase of the story is the fact that the chris- tians were led by an American trained Armenian pastor. That al- most all the people had learned to read and write in American mission schools; and that the democratic self-government with which they met their great crisis was learned from New England Congregational missionaries, iends firther interest to the story. The decision to withstand the Turks, and the choice ofa commn- tee of defense, was made be balie ina community gathering. !’hi! delphia North Americau. LADY WANTED To introduce our new fall line of dress goods in Martinsburg. You simply take orders from the large line of samples which we sendto you. We ship you the orders, you deliver, collect and send us the money after taking out 1-4 of the amount collected which youkeep as your profit. The work is easy and pleasant and you can make $10.00 to $25.00 weekly. Our line of dress materi- als appeals especially to ladies in the smaller towns and you can make a nice income during your sparetime. Write at once fcr TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM BRUCE BY ONE WHO KNEW HIM. In the death of this man not on- ly his own people but all alike will misshim. 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Equalor and ruin are the present characteristics of ancient Lagdad, the once beautiful city of "The Arabian Nights." Of its famous hundred mosques only about thirty are now in use. Several are so dilapidated that their crumbling roofs and walls threaten the lives of the devout who still worship in them. The one splendid wall, built of the handsome Arabian brick and extending around the city a distance of five miles, still stands, but it is broken in many places. The four original gates remain, and the oldest and finest one, bearing the date of 1220, has not been opened since the middle of the seventeenth century. The famous river Tigris, a muddy stream flowing sluggishly during the greater part of the year, divides Bagdad into two parts, which are connected by a richly bridge of boats nearly 200 feet long. When the snow melts upon the Armenian mountains the Tigris rises, sometimes floods part of the city and often carries away the bridge. The bazaars of Bagdad exhibit rich merchandise of many kinds, including Turkish and European products, both modern and antique, and are the most attractive part of the city. New York Tribune. FATE OF A PIRATE CREW. Strange Case of the Nancy Brig and a Hungry Shark. In the museum at Kingston, Jamaica, there are some tattered ships' papers, brown with age and salt water, and a small tin canister. These articles attest the truth of the strangest pirate story ever told. In 1799 the crew of the Nancy brig were apparently honest traders, but did some piracy now and then on the side. One day they found it necessary to go into Kingston for supplies. Before doing so they naturally removed all traces of their buccaneering trade. Among other things they threw overboard this tin canister stuffed with papers taken from ships they had sunk, with comments written on the margin by the pirate captain. Later in the day a British frigate was becalmed near the spot, and the sailors spent their leisure catching sharks. Presently they hauled up a big fellow, cut him open and found the tin case with the papers inside. These were taken to the captain, who, as soon as a breeze sprang up, sailed into Kingston harbor, found the Nancy brig there and had the crew tried, convicted and hanged in chains at Port Royal. Beautiful Blue Lake. Perhaps the most striking instance to be seen in the whole world of the wonderful apparent coloring of bodies of water is the marvelously beautiful Blue lake in Switzerland. Encompassed on all sides by lofty mountains, their lower ranges luxuriantly clothed with verdure down to the edge of the water and adorned with many fine forest trees, while their higher activities are garbed in a mantle of eternal snow, the little lake, nestling in its deep hollow basin, is quite startling in its singular and strange beauty. The water, although really pure and colorless, appears to be of a most intense sky blue. And its transparency is so remarkable that a small coin dropped into the water in the center of the lake can be seen until it reaches the bottom, apparently more than a hundred feet beneath. Finger Nails Show Health. Our finger nails are made of a horny material that is in some ways like the material that makes our skin. But it is more like the material that makes our hair. It is after all different from either of these and is more like horn than any other part of our bodies. The special cells at the base of the nails form the material for our nails and therefore the health of our finger nails depends on these cells. If you are not in good health or if you do not take good care of your skin your finger nails will show that they are not healthy. If your blood is out of order the cells that make the finger nails will not do their work properly and then little white spots will appear on the nails. So you see those little white spots are a sign of bad health.--Kansas City Star. Why We Draw Back. Our human intercourse is constantly being thwarted by our consciousness of consequences. It is especially the case when we are young. Young people feel that they can hardly have an intimate conversation without its ending in a promise to correspond or an invitation to visit. If we keep this attitude as we grow older the consciousness that a moment's intimacy may entail so much makes us pause before taking the fateful plunge. How often do we draw back in a moment of expansion because we reflect, "Shall we feel the same way tomorrow or next month?" How many friendly impulses do we restrain because we are afraid something more will be expected of us! New York Telegram. NA FLOR'S HAIR DRESSING THE KING OF ALL HAIR DRESSINGS GROWS HAIR-REMOVES DANDRUFF AND TETTER. BUY IT-TRY IT-TEST IT. ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR IT- DEMAND IT! IF HE HAS NOT IT WE WILL SEND IT FOR 25 CTS. POSTPAID NA FLOR DRUG CO. 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