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C. most POST PAID f.o.b 10% i hers LU, 12.6 TABLE TALK AT ITS BEST Excellent Recommendations Those Who Were Recognized as Highly Proficient in the Art, "Table talk,” says Leigh perfect should be ry, differing ith di grave, always deep points, dw able ones, and | and be heard.” Frenchman at fasts who liste Jess A talker waiting his chance, f ened his eyes on Macaulay and muttered, “S'll tousse, {1 est perdu.” In regard to the part of anecdotes In table talk, 1 quote two “He stored his memory with slight a dotes, private incldents and personal peculiarities, § John- son, “seldom falls t ind his audience favorable.” “Of all claimed De Quincey, “v his folly hesitates to har in its mysterious wi propagate his species, ferable is the teller of Exchange. * Sincere © scord rm uching on season- y speak bresak- end- another nol , 'Q neq Ai i | eloquence, ar opinions, Or. ned accor: Up to Date. Marcella-—Is Bennie still painting houses for a | Waverly—Yes, but ®t that now. Marcella— What Waverly-—Camoufla ~-Youngstown Tels loes he call it? residences, Her Pet Name. “Isn't you husband devoted to the mces?’ “Just about eall him my better haif.” Crazy them. Some men's littleness Is by biggest part of them. Nobody ever he fig thing. teaches food conservation. Saves FUEL SUGAR TIME WHEAT AND WASTE SOLD BY GROCERS. Horseshoes for Luck By HILDA MORRIS Copyright, 1918, Western Newspaper Union.) Cissy street when It Iny !n the almost she was doing, Cissy pleked it find hot HON they husy horseshoe, feet, what and was waiting to found gutter at Cross n the her alized she very ined before she re SLOOP ol not often but does the city, had come are frequently to be found Moreover, up. ne wshoes in “hack from, in the who up. Other where (Clssy roads, one horseshoe should plek it good luck. befall, stout Indy in eo seplskin cont 3 looked scorn the girl who stopped te pick but Cissy the bundles she ome from market ar hut bringing » evil may Fhe ho stood besi fully at con up horseshoes, hastily it Was ried Arong reathless the findi an event « even been keeping -— or al Looked Scornfully at the Girl. which made CClssy's lonely days en- durable. It seemed now that they were taken from her, and the future looked suddenly as blank and dun- colored as the walls which hemmed She had not heard from him for months—he must have been writing to the other girl, As Clssy reviewed the days of her friendship with Arnold Black she told het sternly that, after all, there sme raelf hind been nothing In {t which gave her n right to hope, They had been friends, good frienfls. And yet perhaps there had been something more befween them, She had felt It; evidently he had not. If only she could forget, if there were something else to fill her dnys—some other man, “Yet deép in her heart knew that there would never Be any other man who eould take Arnold's Black's place, She saw herself living through a dreary length of years with a secret anche in her a pala which she could confide she heart, to no one. - Cissy wns roused from her dreary hy a sudden sharp thud, and horgeghoe, which she had put hastily down the couch with her bundles, lay at her feet, Classy looked at it resentfally. For bitterness, But the horseshoe Inay there as though it were a facet not to be denied, n checrfol fact, In spite of the girl's reverie the on " nek ™ she murmured with the of that to suggest hope and itles for fortune, po inherited a superstition regarding felt that she wus bound to respect this one, It was the only pleasant thing that had happened to her that day: 1t might omen of some unknown, approaching good. resolved to hang it up. The tenants horseshoe infinite Cissy sight seemed possibli good horseshoes, she be an of apartments do thelr is no reason decided de tuke It chalr city shoes ahove but, after all, there they should not. that it would not do to put it outsl the hall: the down, So she nailed her the door, in the hall not noticed it. doors : why Cissy in Janitor might climbed find firmly inside, It , and Uncle Josiah, to never fact upon a and into place aba anove was quite dark was who given looking Yet the there seemed t little, Shi ut it every time up, even mere of its being Clssy's skies n up furtively passed and ne sting, and Uncle to buy n new R but orseshoe sort, mir wiah and received they stood beneath the nted door to say good Cissy pointed up at the horse “1 foun« and I th sring me luck. Only of anything like horseshoe “Look !" she sald i t id that Just ¢ other day, ought it would H I never dreamed this! Let's always over our front door shall we, shall,” ave n 18 long as we live, “We certainly ently. he agreed fer Little Danger 4 in Cartridge Factory. One of the largest cartridge factories in the country, with a dally output of more than 1.500000 cartridges, takes every precaution possible to prevent an explosion with the powder used in its cartridges, The supply of powder is kept at a point two miles from the plant and is conveyed in a specially constructed wagon, the powder being put up in two-pound jars, to a smaller has mere than 200 pounds of powder on hand. connects this powder house with the department, and when a request is made for powder a two-pound jar is put in a rubber messenger and sent to the department In need of the powder, Thus eth section of the loading de partment never has more than a few pounds of powder on hand, minimizing the possible damage In case of an ac cident.—~Wall Street Journal, » — Flood Lighting and German Prisoners. The extensive use now being made of flood lighting In the United States for protecting Industrial plants, ship- yards, wharves, warehouses, bridges, rallrond yards and coal piles, has evi dently made a deep impression on our British allies, Owing to the number of escapes this year of German pris oners from English prison enmps the use of flood lighting In this connee- tion Is now being agitated In several quarters, No doubt the suggestion is excellent ; for most of the escapes are carried ont at night, when the guards are handicapped by having little, if | any, light