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The Pioneer Press. THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGGES MAINTAIN, ENAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" A WHITE HOUSE DINNER. Dishes President Jefferson Served to His Guests In 1802. Manasseh Cutter, the founder of the Ohio colony and father of the ordinance of 1787, kept a diary all through his public life, and it is now in the possession of Charles G. Dawes. It contains an account of a dinner at the White House given by President Jefferson Feb. 6, 1802, to which Mr. Cutter and six members of the house were invited. Mr. Cutter wrote that there was "rice soup, round of beef, turkey, mutton, ham, loin of veal, cutlets of mutton or veal, fried eggs, fried beef, a pie called macaroni, which appears to be a rich crust filled with strillions of onions or shallots, which I took it to be; tasted very strong and not agreeable. "Mr. Lewis told me there were no onions in it; it was an Italian dish, and what appeared like onions was made of flour and butter with a particularly strong liquor mixed with them. Ice cream, very good; crust wholly dried, crumbled into thin flakes, a dish some what like pudding, inside white as milk or curd, very porous and light, covered with cream sauce; very fine. "Many other jimberacks, a great variety of fruit, plenty of wines and good, President social. We drank tea."—Columbus Distribute. Americans' Physical Development Americans Physical Development. While this country may excel in a competition of trained athletes or in certain kinds of mental ingenuity or shrewdness, it is certain that the average man is far from a model of perfect physical development. A casual inspection of the crowds on the streets of any one of our large cities will reveal pale, undernourished and poorly developed youths and pasty, flabby men in large numbers and will convince the open minded observer of the desirability for the individual of some form of regular physical training. That the country breed, moreover, are not greatly superior to those brought up in the city has been the experience of most military men who have had occasion to handle large numbers of troops.—New York Medical Record. Lieutenant General. Many of us are puzzled to know why a lieutenant general ranks higher than a major general. Perhaps the explanation is that the titles date back to the commonwealth, when the country was divided into military districts, the less important under the control of a sergeant major general, the rank beyond that of colonel, and the more important being governed by a lieutenant general, the captain general being Cromwell himself. The lapse of time has deleted the sergeant from the sergeant major general.—London Chronicle. Ocean Currents. There are twenty-seven permanent currents in the oceans of the world, and there are nearly as many more of the semi-permanent variety existing at one time. Several causes tend to originate and maintain these drifts. Uniformly directed winds have the greatest influence, and differences of temperatures, storms, polar ice and eddies have each some effect, creating usually the currents of semi-permanent variety. What Life Is Life is not made out of money, and friendship, and talents, and patronage, and family influences, and good chances, and good positions, and good health, and good nature. It is made out of faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, and brotherly kindness and love.—Iminger. The Real Reason Congressmen and legislators have not been lowered in grade during the last twenty years, but public understanding has moved up so much that it just seems that way. - Sioux City Tribune Wise and Unwise That is ever the difference between the wise and unwise-the latter wonders at what is unusual: the wise man wonders at the usual. -Emerson. Clotheslines. When the clothstime needs cleaning wrap it around the washboard and scrub it with a brush in soapbads. THE WORRY HABIT. It Not Only Kills Peace of Mind, but Is a Menace to Health. The protective instinct is present in the human mind and when properly directed is a great source of prosperity both to the individual and the nation. In order for man to store up and lay by, to gain advancement either in honor or material things, it is necessary that he take some forethought of the morrow, but just so soon as he carries this beyond the normal point the mental process becomes an exaggerated and abnormal one. The normal protective instinct is stimulated by a normal fear of those events which are reasonably sure to happen in the future unless means are adopted against them. The moment that this fear becomes abnormal or exaggerated it overstimulates this protective instinct, and to no good purpose because it results in worry. This worry continues long after the necessity for the normal stimulus of fear has passed, with the result that there is an impairment in mental power and a dissipation of the nervous forces. In fact, worry is an abnormal state. Not all worry is preventable, but for the most part it can be avoided. Most of our fears are never realized, and, as a rule, if we meet our troubles day by day as they come without worrying about them before they arrive or fretting over them after they have passed we will find that we have the strength to rise above them. Worry undermines the health to a certain extent, and every victim of the worry habit owes it to himself to crush it out of his life. - Bulletin of Public Health Service. DINED WITH THE DUKE. No Common Kitchen Would Do For This Soldier of the Guard. During the peonieslar war a strip of vineyards running between the two lines was a sort of neutral ground, where the men from both armies were in the habit of repairing for drinks and relaxation, in the course of which opposing forces often came across one another, but each passed their own way after courteous salutes. One day a British party had drunk somewhat freely and, happening upon a French sergeant of the guard, insisted upon making him a prisoner. The man was brought before the Duke of Wellington and lost no time in acquainting him with his plight. "All right," said the duke good maturely. "Of course you shall go, but you must have something to eat first." And, turning to an orderly, he said, "Have this man taken to the kitchen and given a good meal." The Frenchman saluted, but made no attempt to express his thanks. Noticing his looks, the duke said: "Well, what more do you want?" "General," replied the Frenchman, drawing himself up proudly, "a soldier of the guard is never asked to eat in the kitchen." "The duke bent his brow a moment as if resenting the man's aplomb, then, laughing, said: "Maybe you're right. Come and diar with me." - Pall Mall Gazette Lincoln as a Gallant. Although wanting in the language of gallantry, Lincoln was not incapable of turning a neat compliment. The artist Carpenter has told me of one that would have pressed Chesterfield third. An enthusiasm the lady gave the president an entirely superstitious bouquet. The situation was momentarily embarrassing, but "with no appearance of discomposure he stooped down, took the flowers and, looking from them into the sparkling eyes and radiant face of the lady, said, with a gallantry I was unprepared for, "thely, madam, if you give them to me and they are mine I think I cannot possibly make so good a use of them as to present them to you in return" - Helen Nicoday's "Personal Traits of the Magnum Lincoln." Unkind She—What do you suppose Harel meant by sending me these flowers? Also She—He probably meant to imply that you were a dead one—Jack o'Lantern. Paradoxical. "The truth lies somewhere." "Strange conjecture, that, for the truth."—Baltimore American. STRUCTURE OF THE EYE. Why We See Better In a Moderate Than In a Glaring Light. An observant chauffeur, passing an automobile with glaring headlights, noted that objects at the side of the road which had been distinctly visible dropped out of sight when the bright lights were thrown upon them. Since one can see better in a little light than in no light, he wondered, why can one not see better in bright light than in moderate light? The answer is, paradoxically, that the less light there is the better one sees, for the brighter the object the less efficient is the eyesight. If, after we have been in darkness, we suddenly turn on a bright light and look at our eyes in a mirror we can see the pupil of the eye rapidly growing smaller. If we reduce the light the pupil dilates again. What happens is the same as in the camera when we adjust the shutter to the intensity of the light. The colored iris of the eye corresponds to the shutter. It consists chiefly of a muscle which, as the light increases, is stimulated to contract, thus drawing the curtain and shutting out some of the superlimnos light. It usually takes a few seconds for this adjustment to take place. Thus when we emerge from darkness into light we are blinded until the iris can shut out some of the light from the eyes. BANKS "LOAN" MONEY. They Don't "Lend" It Because It Is a Business Transaction. Why is it loan-ling houses always "loan" their huge sums of money, never by any chance "lend" them? "loan" is the true verb, while "loan" was exclusively the noun. How came it about that "to loan" has uniformly supplanted "to lend"? The purists make a great fuss about this. They insist that the stupid and untaught financial world has foisted upon the language a substantive verb when he no verb was needed, when the ancient and established usage was fixed in the signification of "to lend." But prior to the modern development of business enterprise when money was lent it was bestowed upon the borrower either for temporary use without compensation, as a mark of favor or patronage, or by the professional money lender who, taking advantage of persons in extremities of need, demanded usurious interest. This Anglo-Saxen verb today retains its ancient connotation. When it was coined the productive powers of money were unknown and the wealth of rich men was locked up for safety and kept out of the channels of commerce. Newark, by devices of credit and rapid intercommunication, it is kept constantly working in productive enterprises. These loans are made, no longer to relieve the necessities and the impoverment, but to stimulate industry and to enable the borrower as well as the lender to reason profit in his transactions. Money is loosely in this sense, it is not banked. New York Times The People of India The population of India spends about 150 different languages and are divided into forty-two distinct nationalities. There are 2381 main castes besides a large number of subcastes. There are 238400001 Indian, 630000000 Malayan, while among the Indian there are 70000000 of designated people of no caste, whose touch or even shadow is supposed to cause pollution. Limited in number, but mighty in influence, are the Purposes, who hold the wealth of Burgey in the hollow of their homes and dwell in the lowest manhouses around the coast. They conform to European customs and live as much like Europeans as is possible for a colored race. 164 these people still worship the sun. The Seychelles Islands. The Sepulchre islands form an archipelago of 141 islands and are situated about 1,900 miles east of Aden and 1,000 miles from Zanzibar. They rise steeply out of the sea, culminating in the isle of Nitha, which is about 3,000 feet above the jewel of the ocean and is nearly the center of the group. All the islands are of coral growth. The houses are built of a species of mass sieve coral hewn into square blocks which glisten like white marble. FRUIT AS A FOOD. Only Figs, Dates and Maybe Bananas Are Really Nutritious. "Fruit of all kinds, whey mixture and frost, is beneficial for healthful digestion, good quality of blood and as a preventive of clogging of the liver, kidneys and skin and, last but not least, the brain. "It is a rustable, however," writes W. Howard James, M. D., in Good Health, "to look on fruit as a source of nourishment. It should not be taken with that idea. It should be looked on more as the lubriator which makes the nutritory work harmoniously and without destructive function. "Some fruits may certainly be ranked as food such as this, dates and perlaps bananas. Those in the tropics, who live largely on the banana, we are told, develop considerable abdominal distention on account of the quantity taking. With the exception of the dates and the banana, fruit should never be considered as a food. "The taking of fruit often does good by being among the amount of food taken. We are a population of dehydrites on a count of a excess of food, immediate of thirst and lack of proper supply of fruit and juice water." Codish Will Eat Anything. The cod has the reputation of being as connoisseurs as most, whose appetite for pelicans and owl tin cans is the rubble of neptunian jests. The varied nature of when the cod swallows is not more than kilte than the enormous quantity. A writer in the hot summer mail volumes as silver heath has, a cup kelves, books and rubber bulbs have been found in its stoma; but the tomentum of Aberdeen has a stone that weighs more than a pound taken from a cod that had swallowed it for the sea anemones with which it was covered. The same fish crumen has also found specimens of almost all the stalk eyed crustaceans that freewheel the northern coast of Scotland and of every kind of fish that a cod can mastest, including its own young. Cod have been known to swallow particles of swillenoids and hares. Dangerous Sport First Lady reading a newspaper-- This golf scene to be a very dangerous game. Did you see what happened to a man named Taylor? He went into a banker and was in two when he came out. Second Lady. How dreadful! "Yes, here are the words, 'Taylor getting out in two! Braid secured a half'" "Well, Tommy?" "Does it say what happened to the other half?" "No, but there was worse to follow. According to the report, Taylor then fell completely to pieces." Exchange Altering the Life Without War In a world where nations grew and decay, where forces change and populations become erupted, it is not possible or desirable to contain the vast supruque forever. If peace is to be preserved, nations must turn to accept unfavorable alteration of the map without feeling that they must first be defeated in war or that in yielding they incur a humiliation. Derrmann Russell in Atlantic Monthly. No Discrimination. "I'm afraid father-in-law doesn't care much about me," said the young man. "He finds fault with me on everything I do." "Noseense!" replied his wife. "You don't know his ways. He is treating you just like one of the family." Exchange. Ear of the Whale The offence of the whale's curse is severely perceptible, yet it is said that the whale's hearing is so acute that a ship crossing its tracks fails a mile distant will cause it to dive in difficulty. True Profession—Now, what was the cause of the decline of the Roman empire? Bright Student—I know. It was due to too much militarism on the part of outsiders. Believe me, it is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.—Ovid. Morality is a priceless heritage. VOL. 35. NO. 1. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS. The Large and Puzzling Part "Man Failure" Plays In Them. Close observers are not astounded by the statement made at a "safety" meeting that 10 per cent only of industrial accidents are due to machine failures, the remaining 30 per cent being wholly chargeable to "man failure." Students, however, will not be satisfied with the simple statement, but will want to know something more, especially as to conditions that contribute to this appallingly large percentage charged directly to man's share in the fault. It will not do to say that in each instance wanton carelessness is blameable. Psychologists are no longer content with that explanation, but are going deeper into the causation of accidents, seeking to determine just why the normal mental processes at times break and the interrupted coordination between brain and body ends in disaster. In the matter of interpreting railway signals, for example, it has been set up that registered impressions vary as to individuals, and that likewise individuals react in different ways to the impressions given. Emergencies invariably arise in the operations of modern industry similar to those in the transportation service, and, while the safety device may work with mechanical accuracy, the human factor cannot be depended upon. Omaha Bee SIX SIDED SNOW CRYSTALS That Is Nature's Law, but Why It Is So Science Cannot Explain. Snow, crystals obey an immutable law of six. They are six sided jewels or six pointed stars. They never answer to the law of four or five. Snow is crystallized water, and water always crystallizes in six sided forms. Why? No one ever will know. There is no more apparent reason for the sixness of crystallized water than there is for the monoclinic prisms of sugar crystals. Water and sugar and the complex minerals which make the granite rock all follow laws which are utterly unchangeable, but which are, as far as we can see, without any special reason. It is as profitable to speculate why the chlorophyll of vegetation is green and why the blood of animals is red. The whiteness of the snow is understandable. It is due to the fusion of prismic colors scintillating from the countless surfaces of minute crystals. Human science comprehends this. It also comprehends the fact that snow is a poor conductor of heat and thus prevents terrestrial radiation and keeps the earth and the things in the earth snug and warm under the white blanket which is sorter and finer than lamb's wool or ciderdown. Science knows why snow is white and why it is beneficent, but it cannot explain the law of six. It is well that snow cannot be altogether explained. It is one of the earth's most beautiful mysteries. It would lose something in beauty were it to lose all its mystery.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Trying to Oblige "What's your name, my poor man?" asked the kind hearted woman. "Lady," replied Flodding. Pete unblushingly, "the name is Lord Reginald Courtney Thorpe." "Are you sure that's your real name?" "No. I jest" thought it "it'd be a nice name fur you to use if you wanted to put de fact dat you had given me a sandwich an a cup of tea in de society news."—Washington Star. There Are Others. "It is very strange that no one has ever been able to find Captain Kidd's treasure." "Oh, well, Captain Kidd isn't the only man who has put his money into real estate and couldn't get it out."—St. Louis Post Distribute The Whole Period. "There is a period in a woman's life when she thinks of nothing but dress." "What period is that?" "From the cradle to the grave."—Puck. Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.—Mere. THE PIONEER PRESS Entered at Postoffice, Martinsburg, West Virginia as second-class matter. Subscription Rates: One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 75 Three Months ..... 50 Issued every Saturday by J. R. Clifford, Editor and Owner. Drawer 869.....Bell Phone 101J SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1917. An insignificant hill will sometimes hide completely a towering mountain behind it. A silver dollar held before the eye will blot out from view the noonday sun. And in the same way the pleasures of life will conceal the divine purpose rising behind them. Bah! that "Senators Stone, La Follette and others who have the sense, manhood and too much interest in the welfare and peaceful perpetuity of this country to put it in the hands of a vacillating executive whose Mexican folly made him a world-object of ridicule." If you are satisfied with mediocrity, you will always be mediocre. You will remain a menial so long as you have only a menial's vision. If you have no higher ambition than to be a porter, a waiter, or a servant, you will never rise any higher than a porter, a waiter or a servant. We never hit higher than we aim. The development of character does not depend upon what we have but what we are. This is one vital truth that needs to be emphasized for the help and guidance of the race. The final effect of our life, upon ourselves and upon our race is what we are, not what we have. Our real worth, in time as well as in eternity, is measured wholly by our character, not by our possessions. The editor appreciates very much a complimentary reference to him in the February issue of the Berryville, (Va..) Peoples Journal, and readily reciprocates the same to Editor G. L. D. Harris, who has labored long, faithfully and hard that the lot of the colored brother in Berryville and Clarke County might be made easier, and he a real asset to that section of the country. The buckwheat or double-faced person is of all persons the most despicable. Especially the double-faced christian, who wears two faces, who can look with one face upon the christian life with great delight, and give his subscription to the church; but who looks with the other face upon the blind pig, or the indecent dance, or the immodest dress, or the illicit love, and give his time and money to them. Such a person is despicable; running up a bill with the devil all his life, and then sneaking behind the church when pay day comes. Thousands are failures in life because they do not go far enough. They stop just this side of success. The patent office in Washington is full of contrivances that are almost successes. If the inventors had only gone a little farther and not stopped, they would have won success and a name and died rich instead of poor. Many of us start out to do our duty. But we lie down each night with duties only half done. We close the day with plans partly carried out and obligations partially met. We get tired and we stop. Our resolutions got as far as noonday and then they withered up. Wonderful! The $25,000 store proposition in this city to be supported by the laboring element has already begun to knock the bottom out of starvation prices. Eggs can be gotten for 28 cents and butter for 30. On with the store—it will force rascally merchants and farmers back to the days when eggs and butter were considered high at 12 cents. Fifty cents for corn, potatoes and onions, and a dollar for wheat is a plenty for the producer to get and the consumer to pay. Hogs and cattle on foot at 6 cents is a plenty and never should be more. The high-price game has taught all a lesson—that it will go on just as long as the consumers allow it, and stop just as soon as they unite against it. Church bells—are they needed? If one wanted money badly and by going to a certain place at a certain time he could get it, would it be necessary that a bell should ring to start him; or if a young man were in love with a fine, beautiful girl, and they had a meeting place, would they want a bell to call them together? No! and no again? If our souls were on fire and we were to work for the master's pay, instead of being on time, we would always be ahead of time. It's a sign of religious negligence, and ought to be relegated. The late Judge John J. Jackson wouldn't have the court bell rung—"the public knows I am here." So christians should know and feel God is in the church waiting for them. So much now is being said in condemnation of unpreparedness for war. Taking soberer thought over the matter, would not an honest preparedness for brotherhood be by far better? Suppose our great leaders were men like Rodger Williams, William Penn, Charles Sumner and others, would it require a standing army of trained men to defend and protect America? Rest assured when and where there is a cause to fight for, lovers of a country are ready. Who did the best work on the bloody battlefields of the war that John Brown hurried on? Two hundred thousand ignorant blacks, taken from the huts and cabins of slavery—people whose laws made them criminals if found trying to learn to read and write. They had a right to fight and God gave them wisdom and power—the world's best preparedness. The dying words of two of America's greatest men, should cling to and tug at the hearts of all reasonable Americans now and forevermore. Thomas Jefferson's last words were: "Tell the committee to be on the alert. Tell the committee to be on the alert." It meant and means justice, and equality for all. The other was Charles Sumner, who whispered: "The Bill! Take care of the Bill. Take care of the Bill," then closed his eyes in death. It was the Civil Rights Bill that clung to his heart with the last breath he breathed. Both men advocated the same thing, and it is coming to stay. Such things such men die for must live, rule and reign. For Thomas Jefferson to look into the future of this country—before and now, made him "Tremble," and the late Charles James Faulkner whose speech in 1833, came within one vote of beeing the slaves; declared that unless it was done ere the third of a 'century, slavery would drench this country in human blood, and it did. Every man of us is the architect of his own fortune, every woman the master of her own destiny. We cannot hide our failures—whether moral or spiritual or material; whether individual or of race—behind the lame excuse of prejudice or discrimination. Then why choose to root and did in the fifth beaps of earth? Why not lift high the head and looking out upon the great universe say, "all this is mine. Knowledge is a broad ocean; the ship of my mind shall sail to its farthest shore. Power is the gift of the spirit; I will subdue my body and obtain it. Above all other ambitions, I will stand for a man, real man; I will stand for a woman, a noble woman, and will make the best of my life." Once take that position, and you will soon learn that there is no limit to the possibility of what you can accomplish as an individual; there are no bounds to what we can achieve as a race. The intellectual, civilized church members of today think themselves far above idol worship; "for" they say, "we no longer make gods of wood and stone." No; but they make them out of their own desires an! worship them. Deep down in their hearts, the professed christian don't want a God who is holy and ready to sanctify the sinful heart of man. They prefer an idol god who never rebukes or punishes, who is no axacting judge. So the gods of the church are merely the passions deified. Money, that's one of the gods worshipped. To be rich is the thing. The harlot with money is more respected than the virgin who out money. Money! It is should in the market, on the health and the alter. The merchant measures his success by it. Dome the interests are subverted to it. Even the ministry has come under the spell of it; for a parish is no longer valued by its spiritual opportunities, but by the salary paid and the chance for graft. Society is another of the gods worshipped. Its followers are not going to the devil—they have gone. A body of hypocrites who bow in mocking worship to the Trinity above, but serve far more the trinity below—the world, the flesh and the devil. A flirtable, danceable, small-talkable crowd whose god is their belly and whose glory is their shame. Their temple, a dance hall; their congregation, so many women ready to be sold to the highest bidder, and so many men ready to do the bidding; their order of service, when they have no more to say, eat or drink; when there is no more to eat or drink, dance; and when they are through with the dance, go out and peddle the gossip and scandal they have heard. Truly idol worship has taken the place of divine worship. His Color. Little Ben (to gentleman caller)— You aren't black, are you? Mr. Mooney—Black, child? Why, no! I should hope not! What made you think I was? Little Ben—Oh nothing! Only pa said you were awfully niggardly.—London Telegraph. Hard Lines. "In financial trouble? What is it?" "Oh, I promised to pay Brown $40 today, and I've got it, and he knows I've got it, and he knows I know he knows I've got it."—Puck. Friends may be affronted in fun and lost in sober carnest. FIND YOUR COURSE Tread the Road Leading to the Goal "a Life Well Lived!" There is only one best conduct of life for you, and that is the one that is best for you. Those who wander almightly in quiet of the single right formula for existence prove in a maze through which they must thread their way endlessly in search of the center which does not exist. There is no one recipe which will serve for all mankind. Each must learn not his neighbor's but his own best way of living. To one it may be the routine task, the daily round, to curb the wandering will and bring content. To another it may be the fortitude to escape the sheltering care of habit or the lassitude of sloth. To one it should be the abandonment of philosophy or introspection to rub eibows with his fellow men; to another, the willingness to let the soul awaken and breathe amid the sky rimmed prarie and under the deathless stars; to one, hearthstone and slippers; to another, the seven seas, the aurora borealis and the Southern Cross; to one, society; to another, solitude; to one, the quiet which stills the passions; to another, the eternal restlessness which brings achievement. The best rounded life contains something of each and all. There are but two attitudes to avoid—the level line of least resistance and the rigidity of self distrust which denies every impulse simply because it is impulse. Somewhere between the two lies your course. Many are the thickets to be hewed down, many the crags to be scaled. But beyond stands the Inn in the Clearing, where faithful travelers may find the refreshment, the rest and the kindly words of welcome which form the goal and reward of life well lived.—Collier's Weekly. UNIQUE AMONG ANIMALS Raccoons Have a Curious Habit of Washing Their Food. Few American wild animals are more widely known or excite more popular interest than the raccoon, which occupies most of the wooded parts of North America from the southern border of Canada to Panama, with the exception of the higher mountain ranges. Its diet is extraordinarily varied and includes fresh water clams, crawfish, frogs, turtles, birds and their eggs, poultry, nuts, fruits and green corn. When near water raccoons have a curious and unique habit of washing their food before eating it. Their fondness for green corn leads them into frequent danger, for when bottom land contempts them away from their usual habitat raccoons hunting with dogs an adult beetles can especially fascinate sports, green corn may extinguish their ability to hide and unite into eating and drinking pets. The, beena to figure in our frontier literature at an early date. Coonskin caps, with the ringed tails hanging like plumes, made the favorite headgear of many pioneer hunters, and coonskins were recognized articles of barter at country stores. Now that the increasing occupation of the country is crowding out more and more of our wild life it is a pleasure to note the persistence with which these characteristic and interesting animals continue to hold their own in so much of their original range.—National Geographic Magazine. Learn to Be Thrifty. Thriftlessness seldom if ever is able to seize and detain opportunity or to drive advantageous bargains. What men call luck generally is a combination of foresight, industry, pluck and thrift in the lucky man. To save is to have, to own is to possess power. Property speaks loudly and largely sways the commonwealth. The thrifty contribute most to the welfare of the state. The purchaser on credit pays not only for the property, but for the time it takes to complete the purchase. It seldom is the thrifty way to finance deals. The extra expenditure is equivalent to the loss of so much interest on one's principal. A Bird Joker A most surprising Australian for the kookoooburra, or laughing ja lass. All at once in the quiet bush come loud peals of uproarious, mocking laughter. One is not inclined to join in the merriment—it all seems as foolish and weird as if an idiot boy were disturbing a congregation in church. When the source of the laughter is located it turns out to be a silly looking bird, with clumsy, square body and open mouth, sitting unconcernedly on a stump. — National Geographic Magazine. Getting Bald. "Mr. Sorrell proposed to me, mother." "And you accepted him, I hope." "No, mother, I could never love a man with sad hair." "Girl, my dear girl, you should consider the love that he has very little of it."—Chicago Herald THEATRE AUDIENCES. A Sermon For Those Who Arrive Late and Depart Early. It is one of our most hallowed national customs not to go into a theater until the curtain has risen. If by some stupid blunder we have arrived punctually we smoke a cigarette in the lobby. So the cunning playwright takes care not to start his story-until at least five minutes later. He occupies these five minutes with a colorless scene of some kind just to keep the groundlings amused. In some cases he will begin each act in the same way. It depends on how fashionable his audience is and how thirsty. For a converse reason he must finish his play five minutes before the final curtain falls. Another of our national customs is to leave the theater the moment Edwin has embraced Angela, although the author may have reserved a quaint comedy touch or a dramatic surprise for the actual end. It is no use altering the hour of performance. Begin at midnight if you like; we shall not come until five minutes after. Leave off at 10; we shall go out five minutes before. It is in the blood. The idea that an audience owes any consideration to authors or actors is entirely foreign to us. The very suggestion of it is almost an impertinence.—Louis N. Parker in New York Times. IN AN ANDEAN CAPITAL They Have Queer Ideas About Bathing Places In Colombia. Iague, capital of the Colombian province of Tolima, claims 2,300 souls, but the count takes much for granted. It is a square cornered town of almost wholly thatched one story buildings, its wide streets atrociously cobbled and its few sidewalks worn perilously slippery and barely wide enough for two feet at once. A stream of crystal clear water gurgles down every street through cobbled gutters, hulling the travel weary to sleep and furnishing a convenient means of washing photographic films. We drank less often, however, after we had strolled up to the end of the mountain and found three none too handsome ladies bathing in the reservoir. It is a peaceful, roomy place where every one has unlimited space on the grassy, gentle slope to put up his little chalky, straw roofed cottage, yet all toe the street line as if fearful of missing anything that might unexpectedly pass. Foreigners seem to be a great novelty, and I could find no satisfactory reason why so many Ibaguemos were blind unless they had overindulged themselves in the national game of staring.—Harry A. Franck in Century Magazine. Red Foxes Mate For Life Since the days of Aesop's fables tales of foxes and their doings have had their place in literature as well as in the folk lore of the countryside. Many of their amazing swiles to outwit pursuers or to capture their prey give evidence of extraordinary mental powers. Their bill of fare includes many items, such as mice, birds, reptiles, insects, many kinds of fruits and on rare occasions a chicken. Red foxes apparently pair for life, and occupy dens dug by themselves in a secluded knoll or among rocks. These dens, which sometimes are occupied for years in succession, always have two or more entrances opening in opposite directions, so that an enemy entering on one side may be eluded readily. The young, numbering up to eight or nine, are tenderly cared for by both parents.—National Geographic Magazine. Courses and Dishes. Three courses seem to have been the customary menu in medieval times for a state banquet, less ceremonial feasts comprising only two and no private dinner more than one. But each course might comprise from eight to a dozen different dishes. Thus at the wedding banquet of Henry V. there were only three courses yet over thirty different dishes recorded in the records. Beverages and wines.—London Chronicle. Reverse Methods "An heiress has to take measures opposed to anybody else's when she wants to save her money." "In what way?" "The last thing she should do is to husband her resources." - Baltimore American. Real Nice. Bobbie—That Mrs. Smith said something nice about you. Mrs. Brown (purring)—What was it. Bobbie? Bobbie—She said you didn't show your age. London Tiegraph. He Gets In Early "Do you sit up for your husband?" "No: I am an early riser and am all ways up in time to greet him." the troit Free Presg --- Last Chance! 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Mr. "Bub" Green, who was struck by a stone in the Washington Building and Lime Stone Quarries, Woodville, Ohio, is in the Toledo Hospital, and is mending rapidly. The charter members of Berkeley Fountain 2218 United Order of True Reformers do hereby give notice to all persons holding said property of this order that same will be called for. Rev. S. H. Brown, Cumberland District Superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held his fourth and last Quarterly Conference at Mount Zion Church on Wednesday night last. A Mock Conference was held at Mount Zion M. E. Church on last Thursday night. Mrs. Canary Cheairs was the "presiding ishop" and it is said of her that she fulfilled her various duties in manner that would do credit to the average prelate. 一 Rev. S. H. Norwood, pastor of Mount Zion M. E. Church, will preach his farewell sermon on next Sunday night, and it goes without saying that a large crowd will be in attendance to hear him. He leaves for Baltimore, where the Washington Conference, of which he has been the Secretary for fifteen consecutive years, meets on March 14. Having had a very successful year it is quite probable that he will return. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION PROHIBITION BAD FOR U.S. OUCH "DESPOT,SM" GOOD FOR POLITICIANS. SAYS COL. WATTERSON RAPS W. J. BRYAN RAPS W. J. BRYAN Most Famous Democratic Editor Criticizes Commoner's Stand For "Dry" Cause"—It's An Appeal From God to Fanaticism" Declares Kentucky Leader The greatest editor in the Democratic party—Henry Watterson, of the Louisville Courier Journal—stands unalterably opposed to William J. Bryan, the always-wrong, erstwhile champion of free-silver and other benighted doctrines, in his attempts to lead the clan of Jefferson. Watterson is fighting shoulder to shoulder with President Wilson. In an interview given to the New York World, at Miami (Fla.) where he is wintering, Colonel Watterson declares: "It's a good thing for the politicians and a bad thing for the country when a great moral question can be made a leading party issue," said Henry Watterson, in commenting on Bryan's statement that Prohibition will be the issue in the next Presidential campaign. An Appeal To Fanaticism. "It is an appeal from God to fanaticism. The fanatic knows no relenting, neither does he make any discriminations. He is a monomaniac. He would, by act of Assembly or constitutional amendment, suddenly change the human species from mortals into angels. "Thus he becomes an asset to the politicians. For half or three-fourths of the 2,000 years since Christ, the priests and prelates, in the name of religion, steeped the world in woe. Are they to be succeeded by a race, a class of professional politicians, who, in the name of liberty and the people, would steep it in despotism? 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Gore - Foreign Countries All Reimburse Victims of Prohibition, Only America Confiscates Declaring that prohibition, in establishing the principle that the property of the liquor man can be confiscated without compensation, is establishing the same rule with respect to any other industry that Puritanism may select for destruction, Edward A. Core, influential member of the Chicago Association of Cotmanite, took occasion to give his views on compensating the liquor man. "The treatment accorded the liquor man is unjust and un-American," he declared. "Once let the principle become established that property in one line of business may be destroyed, that the owner may be despoiled of his property, and the same rule will be held good with respect to other property that those who are overcharged with Paritanism may select for destruction," said Gore. A Challenge To Liberty. "We have long held ourselves up to be citizens of a country which invites the oppressed of every land to come to its shores and here find freedom of opportunity, here find the protection of laws guaranteeing equality of all. In the light of the treatment the liquor men have met with, I am afraid that proud boast of America must be challenged. Freedom has been ours, but there seems to be an element of Puritanism in our country which would treat freedom dawn and erect in its stead something masquerading in its habitiments which even the old Puritan would have repudiated as representing what must be the principles of this country. We need to stop and take note of the fact that if this thing is to continue, the liberties of which we have boasted will all melt away; and the man who claims to be a free man in America is making a claim that he can not sustain. "You are familiar, no doubt, with the legislation that transported in Switzerland when it was proposed to destroy the abusive industry; you are doubt recall that when that matter was pending in the legislature." that compensation was used to cause in the United States compensation was not provided when bitton provailed; and from every side of the law, the sentence three years was applied effect that no matter who State had or had done the five body of Switzerland would no law that had about it not picture of dishonesty? the measure finally allowed for compensation to the person raised the absurd act the players, to the distiller who distracted his employees, to the dealer, worked it and his employees. Getting the Air. I have known city men, hundreds of them, who had a firm conviction that one of the greatest obstacles in their way to becoming healthly live in the fact that one ally has lost a child or than the air quality or at the time of birth. True, the air down that ally would not assay as ally to ozone as that in the weakly penetrating, but the difference ozoneility is so硕 that it isn't worth putting unhonor - L. R. Welzmuller in Woodford, West. Homo sapiens Certain lipids are good adapting to adapt the horse chestnut to the horse dietary. The nuts are triangular starch and sweet with pear and fat, and are nutritious food value of the elements on the carbonation of the bitter elements and the first tating sapod n-live glucosides. DEATH RATE DECREASES AS Saturday Evening Post Contradicts Claim of Hobson, and Other Prohibition Orators. That "Alcohol" Destroys 2.000 Lives Each DayAmerica's Mortality Rate Lowest In History ```markdown ``` The Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia, editorial page, issue of October 21, 1816, gives some very interesting information which ought to be read by Mr. Hobson and other prohibition regulators who would have us believe "alcohol" destroys two thousand lives each day! We quote from the item mentioned: "The death rate in the United States out of year was the lowest ever reported in children and a half for each thousand infants. In ten years, also it was seventeen and a half; so we may say that about four hundred thousand more people would have died in this country last year but for the better care we take of our health—mainly by public sanitation. This ratio, of course, is for the "registration area," which embraced only two-thirds of the population. Probably the remaining third faced in about the same way, though the fact that it is not enough interested in the matter to make a proper report or vital statistics raises a presumption against it." Accepting the names of the Saturday Evening Post, the year now approaching its end shows the host record of any as to the nation's death rate. Use of Liquor Increases. The figures of the Internal Revenue Department in Washington for the same period show a steady increase in internal Revenue receipts. The books of every distiller, brewer, wine dealer and wholesale liquor dealer in the country show increased withdrawals from bond and increased sales to dealers and consumers for the same period of time. Were our prohibition friends capable of learning anything, these facts and figures should be highly discouraging to their unsupported claims as to the accomplishments of prohibition. On the one hand we have in enormously diminished death rate and on the other a largely increased safe and consumption of wine, beer and whisky. The prohibition agitators will meet these facts and figures with their usual evasion and misrepresentation, but facts, and especially evasion, of the figures, are stubborn things to deal with. Sane people who go to work with themselves will draw the conclusion that the nation is going along under AT ALL GOOD DEALERS 504 UP STYLE 19323 QUCR INCREASES contradicts Claim of Hobson, and Other that "Alcohol" Destroys 2,000 Lives Mortality Rate Lowest In History Phila constantly improving conditions of sanitation and sobriety, and while using liquors more freely, it is using but not abusing. In almost every city the colored death rate is substantially higher than the white. In a number of cities, including Northern as well as Southern towns, it is double that of the whites, and in a few places much more than double. For all registration cities in which the colored population formed the one or more of the total, the colored death rate in 1914—was twenty-six per thousand, against fifteen for whites. is to the higher death rate among the colored population, to which the Saturday Evening Post draws attention, it is due now as it always has been, to the wretched habitations in which they live. This is especially true of the cities where they are unfortunately crowded into the districts not deemed desirable by whites. That contains about the whole story of a falling death rate, for undoubtedly the colored population of cities lives under less sanitary conditions than the white. Liquor Didn't Kill Those. Of the million and a third persons—roughly—who died in the United States last year, about one-quarter were under five years of age, and over one-third were under one year. It is there, probably, that attacks upon the death rate can be most successfully made; for there is no doubt that an important part of the infant deaths is preventable. Importance, not alcohol, is accountable for the large percentage of infantile and juvenile mortality. The falling death rate is a result of social action, a strictly co-operative product. This has been most vigorously applied in cities; so the city death rate is lower than the rural. And yet, it is in the cities that litters, especially among the unsanitary, are the more freely used. Every statement and all the figures of the Post's item tend to refute the prohibition asseveration that the increased use of liquor is the cause of its instability. The Post's record shows just the contrary—greatly increased use of liquor and enormously diminished morality.—National Bulletin. Beautiful Bust and Shoulders are possible if you will wear a scientifically constructed Elen Jolie Brassiere. 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