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Bellefonte, Pa., May 7, 1915.
“CLEAN UP AND PAINT UP.”
Do you find a bit of dust?
Clean it up! Clean it up!
Do you see a blight of rust?
Rub it up! Rub it up!
If the paint is getting old,
New and fresh is being sold,
For the town has now been told
In a slogan clear and bold
That she surely, must
Clean it up—Paint it up.
Are some buildins on the blink?
Clean ’em up—Paint em up!
Are the spoutings in a kink?
Slick ’em up—Spic ‘em up!
Are the ashes in a heap?
Do the pavingsneed a sweep?
Is the lawn the kind to keep?
If you really want to sleep
With a rusty, easy wink,
Clean em up—Paint ’em up!
Are the window glasses gray?
Wash em up—Wash ‘em up!
Has the rupbish gone astray?
Burn it up—Burn it up!
Buy a little spade and rake,
Give the muscles all a shake,
For the lawn and garden's sake,
Never mind the pain and ache,
And Our town will in a day
Be cleaned up to stay.
By Rev. A. E. Stockdale.
RETURNING FROM INDIA.
By One on Medical Duty in that Far Eastern
Country. Good-bye to India and a Visit to
the Island of Ceylon.
CoLomBO, CEYLON, FEBRUARY 12th, 1914
Y. W. C. A. House.
Dear Home Folk:
In Colombo and the moon is full—
could one ask for a more perfect setting
for a whole week of sight-seeing. I think
I left you at Madras, just before starting
to see wonderful temples hundreds of
years old. The way was long and tire-
some and I made my first stop at Tan-
jore and after going to bed for a little
sleep (the train was very rocky) I went
out to see the temple, said to be one of
the very best in South India. It was
but a short walk and is quite worth much
admiration.
These are curious affairs; first there
is an immensely high gateway since all
are surrounded by high walls. These
gateways, called “gophrums’” reach the
immensc height of 150 to 180 feet and
have most unusual shapes. They start
just straight up squarely and ought to
end in a peak but, instead, have a top al-
most like an exaggerated long roll pillow.
The sides are just one continuous mass
of figures, the lower-most ones, cut from
pure stone, are in, many places over six
feet in height and between are animals
or flowers, or branches, until it gives the
effect that the filigree does in jewelry.
(Would that I could really carry to you
some idea of the actual appearance of
these things.) After passing under these
you enter a long passage-way which gen-
erally has another gateway just like the
first, and so on through three or four,
and then you come into the square where
the truly temple is and here the carvings
‘are superb but neither at Tanjore or
Triclinopoly can an English person en-
ter; a sign read, “Mohammedans,
Europeans or christians of other caste
may not enter here.” 1 grinned, for I
was not a Mohammedan nor European,
and yet, to what caste did I belong?
Needless to say, I stayed out. Such
carvings as are seen on the outside of
these temples are so plentiful that you
can’t appreciate them at all.
I went on to Triclinopoly and spent
the night, after a most tiring day, for
there the temple is immense and the heat
is growing each day, then, too, the dust
is horrible. The temple is very like Tan-
jore’s, but on a much larger scale, and
the entrance ways are lined with stores
until it is a regular bazar. I had written
to a mission house, asking that I might
stay with them at Madura and Mrs. W.
met me at the station. She is a woman
from Connecticut, and it is the Congrega-
tional mission headquarters. First, the
people were delightful, and treated me so
charmingly; but later they took me
to the temple. It was open every
place and we walked here and there
looking at the carvings, watching
the worshippers at their devotions and,
to the end of my life, the memory of
that beauty wrought by ' man, only
through a God-given genius, and then
desecrated by the worship of the most
repellant gods human vileness can in-
vent, will remain with me. The stone
carvings, great life-sized horses with nien
riders, and smaller animals at their feet,
all from a single piece of stone; or gods,
heroic in size, carved until the surfaces
were like polished marble, are truly won-
derful. Columns, a thousand in a single
hallway, each individual in design, each
worth a long, beautiful, studying look,
would line the way to a little plain,
square door-way closed by an iron gate
and behind you would see another mag-
nificently carved idol of heroic size.
Tinsel, incense, flowers, fruit, butter,
flour, coloting, were some of the few
things seen. In one place an old woman
crouched before a great, beautifu.ly
wrought god, covered with a thick
coating of grease, flour and red pow-
der, was burning three tapers and had
many little brass trays of edibles, for
you see small-pox and cholera are
both there just now and that was
her offering for the gods favor to prevent
that disease. We came out into the sun-
shine and fresh air with relief and I am
so thankful that we may worship our
God in the big outside,
I stayed there two days; there are fif-
i ty Americans right there—bright, well-
| educated and interesting so that it was
. with regret I finally came on. I got to
{ Colombo without the least bother and
. came right to this house and here I am,
| very comfortable, so you see I am getting
along decently. Colombo is all that the
story-books speak of, so far as beauty is
concerned. But it is hot and sticky
even if I have been driving along the
most perfect beach, and watching the
sun go to rest in the almost too perfect
| settings; but to really admire it all you
| should go out early in the morning or
late in the afternoon, else you really
melt.
I have not had any letters for a couple
of weeks so can only hope you are all
well and happy. Now I am off to bed
since the woman who is sharing my room
is already there. Do hope you will not
have such a bad winter.
Two days later. ‘I am off to Kandy
tomorrow, a little journey of five hours,
to see the inner part of the island and
will try to tell you of it tomorrow night.
Yes, the trip to Kandy was ideal and
next week you shall hear of it; but I am
too lazy to write today, and these boats
won't wait.
(Continued next week.)
To the Business Men of Bellefonte.
Are you willing to help in making the
Municipal “Clean-up and Paint-up week
a success? Your help is needed.
Have you stopped to think that the
cleaner, healthier and more attractive
you make Bellefonte the more people
will wish to livein it, the more valuable
your property will be, and the more pros-
perous your business will become?
Every business man has a part to play
next week. Those who cannot give their
own labor or time could contribute mon-
ey, wheelbarrows, shovels or other im-
plements necessary for the thorough
cleaning and renovating of Bellefonte.
Are your public buildings clean and
sanitary? Are those appointed for this
purpose doing their part? If not, what
can you do about it?
Are your merchants keeping their side-
walks clean and attractive?
Are owners of stables, etc., disposing
of waste matter in a sanitary way? Rot-
ting manurg is a dangerous breeding
place for flies.
Are you solving the garbage and ashes
problem intelligently?
Are your streets clean? Are your shade
trees properly cared for?
Please bear in mind that there isa
profitable use for nearly every kind of
waste, and that all waste which has no
use should be destroyed and never allow-
ed to mar the beauty and order of your
town. Nobody should be more interest-
ed in Bellefonte’s cleanliness and welfare
than yourself.
Will you help?
To the Children of Bellefonte.
Some day the children of Bellefonte
will be American citizens. No one can
be a good American citizen without be-
ginning as a child. Every child in Belle-
fonte should join in the General Town-
Cleaning. Remember that on next week
you are to be of use to Bellefonte. It
should be a pleasure to you to give your
time and strength and[mind to assist the
the good citizens of Bellefonte on next
week.
What can a boy or girl do?
A boy orygirl can assist in the collec-
tion of waste matter; can rake neglect-
ed lots or collect other rubbish. Dig up
the ground and plant seeds.
Boys and girls can load wheelbrrrows,
carry baskets, run errands, and give
polite and helpful assistance to the grown
people who devote next week to making
Bellefonte a pleasanter, cleaner and hap-
pier place to live in.
Will you help?
A Hint to Buttermakers.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., May 5.—“As the
cattle are turned onto pasture, the ques-
tion of churning temperature should have
the attention of every buttermaker,” sug-
gests Professor C. W. Larson, head of
the department of dairy husbandry at
The Pennsplvania State College. = He
mentioned this matter because he said
high temperatures and spring conditions
have a tendency to increase the amount
of water that the butter contains, and an
excess of 16 per cent. water in butter is
illegal.
“When cattle are turned onto grass,”
explained Professor Larson, “they pro-
duce butter of a different composition
than when they are receiving dry feeds
in the stable, and a much lower temper-
ature is required to obtain a firm body
in the butter. When care is not taken in
the matter of temperature during the
spring, often butter is made that is soft
and weak in body, and is seriously ob-
jected to by the consumer. To avoid in-
corporating too much water in the but-
ter, regulate the churning temperature
in the spring.” §
“Iam truly grateful to you for what
you did for me last winter,” writes Mrs.
Edward Smith, of Jeddo, Orleans Co., N.
Y. “Your Invalids’ Hotel is truly a home
for the sick.” The Invalids’ Hotel and
Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., presid-
ed over by Dr. V. M. Pierce assisted by
nearly a score of specialists, is always
full of men and women seeking a cure of
chronic diseases. “But no Hotel or Insti-
tute would hold the great army of wom-
en who are under treatment by Dr.
Pierce and his staff from day to day.
Thousands of sick women are taking
advantage of Dr. Pierce’s offer of a free
consultation by letter. That offer is open
to you. Ail correspondence is strictly
private. Address Dr. V. M. Pierce, Buffa-
lo, N. Y. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip-
tion makes sick women well and weak
women strong.
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'40W THE “CLEAN-UP AND PAINT-
UP” MOVEMENT ORIGINATED.
tory of the National “Clean Up and Paint
Up” movement, launched in the spring of
1912, was that of 1914.
This movement to co-ordinate and sys-
tematize sporadic, “flash-in-the-pan,”
“clean up” work by a “National Clearing
House,” disseminating constructive and
solid ideas for permanent civic effort, was
started and is being carried on by a news-
paper man who believes in it—and at
considerable personal sacrifice of time
and money. Through the growing co:
operation of his fellows the movement is
rapidly broadening and becoming in-
creasingly effective in each. local com-
munity.
Owing to the immense national and
even international publicity which the
campaign secured through various chan-
towns and cities where thorough cam-
paigns later waged, came from news-
paper publishers, women’s clubs, mayors,
health departments and boards of trade.
It is absolutely out of the question to
incorporate in this summary the complete
“story of the 1914 campaign.” Such a
story, if written briefly and without
literary embellishment,
months for the writing. The files of the
Bureau contain an endless array of facts
and figures and local reports; they are
replete with tales of human interest, of
better now because of “Clean Up and
Paint Up” activity during the past year.
The “story of the campaign” which the
newspapers alone tell, in “Clean Up and
Paint Up” clippings snipped from thous-
ands of papers, would cover completely
a strip of paper a column wide and over
ten miles long. The immense flood of
correspondence, ranging from an appeal
by a village parson’s wife to the curt
engulfs the would-be historian of this
movement.
The Bureau's co-operation was extend-
per cent increase over the 19.3 ¢ ~oaign.
Thorough “Clean Up and Pa...c Up”
campaigns were not conducted in all of
these towns, because in some instances
where the spirit of the local committee
| was willing the backbone was weak. The
| active efforts of the Bureau were con-
| fined to the United States, but the cam-
paign itself spread to such widely sepa-
i It practically permeated Canada, and not
i a single State in the United States es-
i caped its influence. Most thorough and
definite local campaigns were conducted
in both the smallest villages and in the
largest cities.
A town where every citizen but one
painted his house, made repairs of the
premises, fixed up his lawn and arranged
flower and vegetable gardens was des-
cribed today by C. P. Chase, who visited
the past week. The town is Greenfield,
Ia., and the effect of “Clean Up and Paint
Up” week there is remarkable, says Mr.
Chase.
*Clean Up and Paint Up” week in
Greenfield went further than that pro-
posed for Clinton. Greenfield has 2,000
inhabitants and the propaganda for a
more beautiful city was started by a
newspaper, taken up by the Commercial
club and backed by the city officials.
Every house in the city with a single
exception was repainted. All porches,
windows, fences, sidewalks and other
things in disrepair were attended to.
Then refuse, ashes and other matter was
cleaned up. Attention was then turned
to lawns and gardens and the result is
one of the neatest and most attractive
towns in America.
Suggestions for Pruning Trees.
By Harry J. Mueller, City Forester, of Harris-
burg.
1. Preserve the natural habit and char-
acter of the tree. A well pruned tree
does not show where branches were re-
moved. Provide for the free circulation
of sunlight and air.
judiciously done—do not raise the
branches so high as to make the tree un-
sightly. Eight feet is the right height.
2. All cuts must be made as close and
parallel to the trunk as possible. This
allows nature to heal the wound more
expediently and the cut surface will
weather better.
3. Stubs, dead and dying wood, inter-
fering and fungous covered branches
must be removed.
4. All wounds over one inch (1) in
diameter must be coated with a heavy
bodied paint. The Department stand-
ard preservative. Be sure the Cambium
(growing circle) is well covered.
5. All heavy limbs must be roped to
prevent their falling on and damaging
adjoining property. Two cuts are neces-
sary on large limbs to prevent tearing
back the bark on the main stem.
6. The operator must not wear climb-
ing spurs of any description. Wounds
thus made open the living tissue to at-
tacks of destructive diseases, and in-
jurious insects.
7. After the leaves fall in autumn until
early spring is a good time to prune. It
may be done throughout the year except
from when the tree begins to bud until
it is in full leaf. »
8. Flowering shrubs should not be
pruned during resting season unless you
can sacrifice next year’s flowers. Trim
back after blooming period, and next
year’s bloom will be seton remaining
stems.
Why Milk Sours Quickly.
We are told by those who study the
ways and ravages of the mischievous
microbe that he is very fond of sugar,
and that he delights to gratify this liking
by turning the sugar in milk into an acid
‘which sours the milk. These microbes
are constantly in the air, alive, though
invisible, and ready to drop into the milk
when they can.
If it were possible to keep the milk
from the air after the cow is milked it
would not turn sour.
Warm milk is particularly inviting to
the microbe and favorable to his opera-
tions. He does not get along well under
chilling conditions, and that is why the
sweetness of milk can be preserved if it
is kept cold.
Boiling fresh milk changes the sugar
in such a way that the microbe cannot
feed upon it. >
———Howe’s Great London shows have
cancelled their trip through this section
of the State, owing to it conflicting with
the Barnum & Bailey tour.
The most successful season in the his- |
nels, the first inquiries from hundreds of |
would require ;
living and working conditions that are
note of rebuff from a large manufacturer, !
ed to approximately 2,200 towns and
cities during the past year: a hundred |
rated countries as France and Australia. |
All pruning must be sparingly and’
To the Mothers and Housekeepers of
Bellefonte.
up” week a success. Please help us.
No one desires a clean Bellefonte so | Worked out by both the children and
much as the mothers and housekeepers. ' adults, in their “clean up” campaign this
You do what you can inside of your ! SPring:
homes toward this end, but should you
stop there? If you join in the House-
Cleaning Day or Week, your town will
it is within, therefore a more wholesome
and attractive place to live in. Every
. half hour ycu can spare to assist in clean-
jing up the town serves to increase the
value and attractiveness of your own
home.
your back alley? How about your own
back yard? How about the street in
front of your curb? How about the
empty lot piled with rubbish within sight
of your back door? How about the un-
sanitary mud hole around the corner?
A thorough house-cleaning now will
decrease the number of flies in July and
August. They are dangerous carriers
of disease to young and old, especially to
infants. Mothers should be active in
ridding a town of them. If you do not
. interest yourself for the betterment of
your own neighborhood, nobody else will.
We count on your co-operation and help.
Will you give it?
After the War Prepare for More Immi-
grants.
In the current issue of Farm and Fire-
side, the national farm paper published
at Springfield, Ohio, appears a very in-
teresting article about immigrants, in
which the definite prediction is made
that after the present war immigration
to this country will greatly increase. The
article includes stories of remarkable
immigrant farmers, now in this country, |
and it also includes many highly inter-
esting facts about immigrants. For ex-
ample: in the three States—Wisconsin,
Minnesota, and North Dakota—188,000
farms out of 407,000 farms are owned,
operated, or managed by foreign-born
whites. Of these foreigners none are
more prosperous than the Norwegians.
In North Dakota alone, Norwegians own
8,000,000 acres of land, valued for taxa-
tion at $275,000,000. Following is an ex-
| tract taken from the article:
| “Here in the United States a greater
proportion of foreign-born farmers own
| their farm homes than do native-born
| farmers. At the time of the last census
81 out of every 100 immigrant farmers
owned their places, while only 66 out of
‘every 100 native-born farmers owned
| theirs.
| “When the men who are now fighting
"in Europe lay down their arms, it will be
i natural for them, gathering the remnant
! of their families about them, to take the
pittance left from their service pay and
| turn their faces westward to the land of
promise, where wars are few, where
| bor, and has a chance to get ahead in
the world.”
A “Worn-out” Building.
Doesn’t it make something in you ache
when. you pass a building, residence or
| business property, that looks like it had
| weathered the blasts and reflected the
i suns of fifty or more fleeting seasons?
There are splotches and blotches all over
it; the shingles or pieces of the roofing
; often curl up at the ends like a crank re-
| former’s hair; neglect seems to have cov-
ered it with a frayed and tattered man-
tle; the doors sag, and the windows wink
| at you with bleary indifference. And
| people live in and try to do business in
such structures. No one can live in
them; it is not living; it is existing, ,and
a very poor sort of existence at that. No
one can do business in such a place.
Such a building reminds one of a ragged
beggar seeking for a job. A little work,
a little energy, a little paint will trans-
form one of these places into a habita-
tion fit for human dwelling, or make the
former decrepitude and decay give place
to inviting brightness in the case of a
business room.
Clean up and paint up. Paint destroys
millions of germs that infest wood. Paint
is one of the enemies with whom the
doctor has to contend. Paint is the doc-
tor’s rival.
How Good Roads Increase Land Values.
The following editorial in the current
issue of Farm and Fireside explains how
good roads increase land values:
“The building of a great deal of fine
paved roads in Manatee County, Florida,
has shown how good roads affect land
values. From 1911 to 1912 land along
these roads increased on the average $20
an acre, while lands a mile from the road
increased only $10 an acre.
“Dinwiddie County, Virginia, is anoth-
er instructive case. The building of 125
miles of fine roads caused land adjacent
to the roads to increase in value from
$24.25 to $30 an acre, while lands ten
miles away increased an average of
$16.32 an acre.
“The State builds the road, and the
landowner sells it if he sells the land.
That would look queer to a man from
another planet. The man miles away is
taxed to build roads, and the people
along the pike get the selling value of
them. Rather queer, too, when one
thinks of it a few minutes.
“The figures are a powerful argument
for good roads, and also for a better way
of apportioning the burdens and benefits.”
There's a story af a despondent Sultan
of turkey whose seers told him he could
be cured if he would wear the shirt of
a perfectly happy man. His envoys
searched the world for the happy man,
and found him at last in Ire-
land. But when they seized on him to
get his shirt, he was shirtless. His hap-
piness was caused by perfect health. All
happiness has its basis in health. People
who “feel blue,” who are discouraged
and despondent will find their spirits rise
and their courage come back with the
use of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis-
covery. It removes the clogging impuri-
ties from the blood, strengthens the
stomach and removes diseases of the
organs of digestion and nutrition so that
the body becomes healthy through an in-
creased supply of pure blood and perfect
nourishment.
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What the Mothers and Housekeepers provement committee of Bellefonte,
can do to make the “Clean up and Pain- | Which should be adopted by the residents
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be as clean outside of your front door as ,
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CLEAN UP YOUR TOWN.
The pledge of the Junior Civic Im-
of every town in Centre county, to be
1 want to help make our town a better
place to live in, and to this end I
promise to comply with the following |
1. I will help clean up yards, streets
and alleys.
2. 1 will plant flower seeds, bulbs,
vines, shrubbery, etc.
3. I will help make garden, and keep
lawn in good condit.on. i
4. I promise not to deface fences or |
buildings, neither will I scatter paper or |
rubbish in public places. !
5. I will not spit upon the floor of any |
building or on the sidewalk. I
6. I will try to influence others to help
7. 1 will always protect birds and ani-
mals, and all property belonging to oth-
ers.
8. Ipromise to be a true, loyal citizen.
I may not be able to do all these
things, but will do as much as I can to
help our town and community. :
Ten Commandments for Clean-Up Week.
Love your neighbor’s lot as you do
your own; but be sure to love your own.
Don’t plant tomato cans and rubbish
on unused land; their fruits are withered
civic pride.
Don’t allow yourself or your city to
create dumps. Waste can be made to
pay for its own destruction at a profit.
Don’t allow tumbled-down buildings to
stand on valuable land; they are finan-
cially wasteful; they create filth, invite
vice and are a menace to life.
A fence that has ceased to be a fence |
and has become an offense, should be
repaired or destroyed.
Unregulated advertising on unused:
land pays for the maintenance of a pub- |
lic nuisance.
Two gardens may grow where one
dump has bloomed before. .
School gardens are valuable adjuncts |
to education and recreation. They can |
be cultivated on an open lot. ;
Let the children play on the unused
land, so they may become strong and
keep out of the hands of the law.
Let not an inch of land be kept in idle-
ness. It has a Divine right to bear fruit
and flowers and ever serve the highest
interests of man.
Trial List for May Term ot Court.
Following is the trial list for the May |
term of court which will begin on Mon- |
day, May 17th:
FIRST WEEK. |
Rand McNalley Co. vs. Jack Wallin, |
defendant. George Steele, guarantor.
Victor Strange vs. James Stott. i
S. B. Stine vs. Harry Gunther.
Mary M. Walker ys. Frank Reese. i
SECOND WEEK.
Clement Dale, use of Henrietta Dale, |
vs. John Spicer, George Spicer and Ida |
Poorman, Admrx. of etc, of Edward
Poorman. |
Oliver C. Witmer, James Witmer and |
Dec’d., vs.
Garner.
Wilbur H. Wining vs. Wilson G. Frantz. |
Peter Mendis vs. A. E. Schad.
Geo. C. Harvey vs. The P. R. R. Co.
W. H. Williams, sole acting adminis-
trator of Aaron Williams, Dec’d., vs.
Admrs. of C. M. Bower, Dec’d.
The W. T. Rawleigh Medical Co. vs.
Ray Allison.
John F. Kauffman vs. The Township
of Taylor.
Heirs of George B. Swiler vs. Susan
Cronover and William Cronover, her
husband.
Kate E. Hastings, as an individual, vs.
Kate E. Hastings, Admrx. of Enoch
Hastings et. al.
I. L. Marrow & Co. vs. S. D. Ray.
Oscar L. Rishe: vs. Farmer's Mutual
Fire Insurance Co., of Centre county.
Atherton & Barnes vs. George Stott.
J. F. Garner and Samuel |
Things to Remember if You are Lost in
the Woods.
A contributor to the current issue of
Farm and Fireside calls attention to the
following things which anybody lost in
the woods ought to know: :
“I thought every woodsman and guide
knew that by going down-hill you are
sure to come upon a stream of water
which will in turn lead to a settlement.
Furthermore, in our day nearly everybody
depends on a watch instead of ‘sighting
the sun.” When the hour hand points
toward the sun the point midway be-
tween the hour hand and twelve o’clock
will be due south.
“Another little woodcraft trick is that
of carrying a supply of matches in a
large-mouthed bottle. When fitted with
a tight cork the matches are sure to be
kept dry even though you have to swim
a stream with your clothes on.”
SEAM ROYER SENT TO PENITENTIARY.—
In the Clinton county court last Thurs-
day Judge Harry Alvan Hall sentenced
Seam Royer to not less than four years
nor more than six years in the western
penitentiary, while his alleged wife, Bes-
sie Royer, was sent to the Clinton county
jail for ninety days. The Royers were
formerly Millheim residents but after go-
ing to Mill Hall the man seems to have
made their living by burglary. Bessie
Royer his alleged wife, confessed in court
that they were not married but that she
had lived with him as man and wife for
three years, or since she was fifteen years
old. Royer was taken to the penitentiary
on Friday.
English Cheese Consumption.
The English, according to an ex-
change, are the greatest cheese eaters
in the world. They probably got the
habit from the Welsh.
Parns of Dressing.
“She dresses with great pains.”
"Yes, her shoes pinch, her corset is
too tight and she frequently scorches
herself with a curling iron.”
i er were visiting a friend.
| der?”
Best Household Gods.
The man of high descent may love
the halls and lands of his inheritance
as a part of himself, as trophies of his
birth and power; the poor man’s at-
tachment to the tenement he holds,
which strangers have held before and
may tomorrow occupy again, has a
worthier root, stuck deep into a
purer soil. His household gods are
of flesh and blood, with no alloy of sil-
ver, gold or precious stones.—Charles
Dickens. J
Delicate Hint.
Fred, four years old, and his moth.
Invariably
when they came the hostess would
have some cake and coffee for them.
This time she did not make anything.
Fred, after waiting some time, became
impatient and anxious. Wishing to
remind her as delicately as possible,
he said as he went into the other
room: ‘I'll play the piano. Call me
when the coffee’s ready.”
Cretinism Made Curable.
Study of the functions of the thy-
roid gland in animals has shown how
this class of idiots can be cured. For-
merly they were hopeless and re-
mained through life semi-imbeciles.
Now extract of cheep’s thyroid is
given to them and the perverted
growth and mental dullness are
checked and the children become nor-
mal,
Bad Habit to Cultivate,
The habit of dissipating every seri-
ous thought by a suggestion of agree-
able sensations is as fatal to happi-
ness as to virtue; for when amuse-
ment is uniformly substituted for ob-
jects of moral and mental interest,
we lose all that elevates our enjoy-
| ments above the scale of childish
pleasures.—Anna Maria Porter.
Where He Came In.
A witty barrister, says an English
paper, who did not object to a joke at
his own expense, was asked, on re-
: turning from circuit, how He had got
on. “Well,” was the reply, “I saved
the lives of two or three prisoners.”
“Then you defended them for mur-
“No,” was the rejoinder, “I
prosecuted them for it.”
Slap at Chicago Culture.
Miss Ritta—“Aren’t you fond of dia-
lect poetry, Mr. Drestbeeph?”’ Mr.
Drestbeeph (of the Chicago Browning
society)—‘ “Well, James Whitcomb
Riley and Eugene Field do very well;
but I came across some poems by a
| fellow named Chaucer the other day,
and he carried it too far.”—Life.
Charity.
Organized or unorganized, all char-
ity is good if it helps the deserving,
and in the general proposition prompt
giving is more desirable than profes-
sional machinery. All the time and
effort wasted in criticism might well
be used with larger comfort to those
who need food and clothes.
Many Uses for Cotton.
One hundred and eighty million
yards of cotton cloth carry cement
yearly to build the great office build-
ings, and the electrical industry of
the country yearly consumes four
hundred thousand pounds of cotton
in the insulation processes.
The Important Question.
It will not be fashionable to steal
umbrellas the coming season, says an
expert on fashions—or on umbrella
stealing, one forgets which. But will
it be fashionable to return some of
those stolen last season?
Are You One?
Anyone can begin a thing, most peo-
ple can finish one already begun, but
those who can always be depended
upon to go straight ahead from start
to finish are few and far between.
Avoid Despair.
If we are to escape the grip of de-
spair, wrote Amiel, we must believe
either that the whole of things at least
is good, or that grief is a fatherly
grace, a purifying ordeal.
When You Give Castor Oil.
Pour the oil into a pan over a mod-
erate fire, break an egg into it, and
stir it up. When thoroughly mixed,
flavor with a little salt, sugar or cur
rant jelly.
Following the Doctor’s Orders.
When an Atchison man was told to
take more exercise he commenced rolls
ing twice as many cigarettes.—Atchi
son Globe. re
Is World's Largest Statue.
The statue of Peter the Great in
St. Petersburg is the largest in exist
ence. It weighs one thousand tons.
Daily Thought.
What a man does for others, not
what they do for him, gives him ime
moriality.—Webster.
Plague’s Awful Death Roll.
In six months in the seventeenth
century 380,000 persons died in Naples
of a plague.
Wild Muscovy Duck.
The muscovy duck is found wild in
South America.