HALL. PA.
A QUARREL
JS IPPIE
Locust
f message
hopper” that
around them,
“That message for ‘Mr. Grasshopper’
is certainly meant for me,”
sisted “You
have objected
name of
last night
Freddie Firefly
“And you
quarreled loudly
marked “For Mr.
they drew a
NO
(irass
soon
how
being called by
Why,
Stop
after you.”
the
know
to
‘Grasshopper.’
yon refused to
shouted it
cried Leaper
yourself you
the
Promise You That | Shall
Trouble for You.”
Make
“you
Lust -
Chirpy ¢
the moos:
‘How-ds
in your
open promise
rou thut for you
if vou do
bout
You
sant Val
tthowed
throng
of it,
1.ocust
CTHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
By H. IRVING NG
KI
AN ITCHING NOSE
HE ide iat an itehing
coming
is now
mmon an w
But it was
was a
announced the coming
mn stranger, not {
but by
olfactory
in the da
Scientists
idespread supers
not alway
the
time when
by itel
[ge
which {it
ys of our primitive ancestors.
tell us that p
of smell were
acuteness and
that his
if not
possessed today
lower animals remarkable for thelr
gift of scent. Many tribes of savages
retain to this day extraordinary pow-
ers in this respect. Mr. Caveman was,
In all probability, a rather high-
scented ereature and when he went
with a party of friends to visit the
dwelling of Mr. Clifdweller, if
wind was right, that gentleman could
smell him coming a long way off, just
as many of the lower animals today
“snuff the tainted gale” and
aware of the approach of their ene-
mies they can them. Civil
Hzation has caused the sense of smell
modern man
but though the has lost Its
power it has retained its reputation
by means of a popular superstition,
(@ by MeClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
il Pormminamions
GIRLIGAG.S
the exer
powers possessed
rimitive
well
kept
man's organs
developed in
gharp by constant use,
tory powers were equal,
rior, those
sO
supe
to by the
become
hefore “ee
to become atrophied In
nose
by The Balt Syndicate Ine)
“Being a man of convictions 14 noth.
ing to brag about” says pertinent
Polly, “the rogues galleys is full of
then,
that the stranger
had traveled a
had a
back, Furthermore,
like Kiddie and
cousin of either
noticed
long
distance. he
slung
was
And
his
enouch
ier to be a
malil-pouch
over
Leap
one of
A person couldn't see his horns,
account of the hat that he wore,
When this traveler asked about
dispute, everybody hastened to
the quarrel to him.
Hstened carefully, and when
on
the
ex-
plain
He he
he said:
“This you know
I'o you know who has It
“No!” Leaper the
while Kiddie Katydid echoed
“Ah! I thought not!
or, “I thought not,
have it in this
that
message—do
now?"
Locust
the word
sald the
because 1
And
zled n
stran
mail-bag
I'm
know which
And he pul
imself
fanning hi
must confess puz ivself ;
for I don't one ft
for."
nded
}
and began
led off
hat
it.
It was
that
to
perplexed
perfectly plain everyon
Locust
ust was not
The
There was
stran
' Jhe Hotel Srmoguapher
9 Roe Fulkerson.
Hamu
House
A I do not like
Hotel
young
Henry
wl ars o>
explained tl
nond’s
thie wtectl
swered the Sten
ing after a
given her
no use for a
is somebody's son
of
ROE
hoy who
because he
A lot of
around Peaco
veral of them
turn
SONS : ' loaf
ck Alley here in this ho
tried
all down
tel and se to
make me, |
promptly
“1 play
fathers [| never of
them were hod carriers and some
were preachers; of them
small-town and some
| of them were farmers. 1 never care
IAve
them
whose
of
of
lot
heard
with a of boys
Some
{ them sSOme
were merchants
i ancestry.
its papa and mama registered
and had been In show
the dog I like and nobody can plck ont
their ancestors, anyway
“A lot of boys think they can get
i by In the world because of what thelr
papas did, They may be able to get
their money that way, but they can't
get me,
“1 would rather know a
had taken a half-nelson on the world
dnd twisted a living out of it for him-
gelf. When I am with him I may have
i to ride in a filyver but with g
| everywhere a flivver Is good enough.
{1 may have to go to the ‘movies’ In
| stead of having orc hestra chairs In a
| swell theater but the ‘movies’
| often better than the theater, anyway.
| I wonder what certain rich boys would
| have done if they had gone to publie
| se hool and had a paper route? Would
they spend so freely If they knew how
hard a dollar Is to get? Every boy
| I play with Is a possible husband and
{I always wonder what father's son
| would do to make a living If papa’s
| money ran out and I was married to
him. Nix! Give me a boy with a
| union card and a good trade
| (Copyright by the McNaught Syndicate, Ino.)
wnssanmall, Jon
Cause and
When Eddie Laemmle making
| “Spook Ranch” It was natural
| that the boys got to telling ghost sto-
ries. Finally some one asked a darkey
who worked In the cast if he had ever
stayed in a haunted house,
“Ah sure has,” admitted the black
man,
were
un bench
hoy who
rod roads
Effect
was
only
“But never again!
“Why, what happened 7”
“Well, sub, long ‘bout two In de
mawnin' Ah wakes. up, an’ dar comes
Mistah Ghost right through de wall,
jes’ like dat wall wasn't dar.”
“And what did you do?”
“Me? Ah went through de other
wall de same way."
EE
PAUL PANZER
referee ferferfonforfenfenfenforferfonfenfoteffeelfe eee
This well-known “movie” actor at-
an officer in a Ger-
then a coffee salesman
then a comedy
German, he became
He has enacted
roles in a num-
{ ground, He was
man regiment,
{ in Brazil,
actor. Born a
American citizen
brilliant
musical
an
character
ber of well-known productions.
WHEN I WAS
TWENTY-ONE
A Joss RAYE
At Twenty-one Senator Edge of New
Jersey Was a Journal Clerk.
A’ THE
vhotit
’
Told by
Irvin S. Cobb
AN ECHO FROM 1865
J ZATHER guess they have 1}
telling thi ne over since the
% «i ver ir i
hetweet
I know
hack as
Puni¢
really
glory never
ties goes into re
tirement for a season or a decade
or
a century and rises up again when
occasion suits with with miracu-
its ¥¢
lously restored
Now may of
Any age but to the best of
my personal knowledge and belief It
belongs to our own Civil war period
I know 1 first heard it years ago
from an old gentleman who had
served In a Texas regiment from
1861 to 1865 } had almost forgotten
it when here the other day a friend
wrote me telling the same yarn and
he had it from his father
The narrative runs that In the last
days of the war a rag wornout,
{ hungry. haif- dead Confederate
| gler was limping along a
{ highway striving to eateh
command, Where there
dle in the he
his brulsed and
ant at the roadside dabbl
{ len the water a Union skir
| misher, fed and lusty, stepped
{ from hehind a tree with his musket
| raised to his shoulder and yelled out
| exultantly :
“Now [ got you!” !
“Yas,” drawled the Southerner,
{a h-1 of a git yon got!”
© by the Cantral Press Association.)
this present story he
you plea Se,
saving that
ged,
strag
Virginia
up with his
pud
stopped bathe
foot As he
ing his swol
Was 2
ruts to
bleeding
toes in
well
"
an
(&
(0) by MeCiure Ne Waar Tyndicate.)
LEAN MIXTURE IS
CAUSE OF FIRES
Carburetor Gets Out of Ad-
justment and Then Mis-
chief Is Done.
fire™ “1
back at
car take
ward It pop
sad suddenly
ite” “What made
ay
out be
“How did your
don't know, 1 hg
the carburetm
ered that it w
ft backfire Ir
don't
(digcoy
ne on
carburetor?”
can't find
a total loss.”
He
know We
the car Is
This Is no Imaginary fon
because cars have burned in the past
and will again in the future
backfiring in the carburetor,
CRluse
conversal
due
Cause Is Lean Mixtuse.
The most frequent
mixture, This
mixture than
gets of adjun SOME WAY
and the mischief is done A
ixture Is slow-burning It
cause is a lean
air In
carburetor
means more
The
tment in
usual
out
lean
all
during
mm
opens,
hurns
g the
power
back
un
Sticker on Windshields
One Cause of Accidents
Windshield
object of the
by the pecident
ment of the ChieaZo
stickers made the
are
iatest campaign conduct
fon depart-
Motor club
ns
in
nll
the result
ed prevent
“Chambers of commerce
especially In the West,
tourists stickers
over their windshields with
that visibility 18 decreased and
driver is likely to an accident,
‘he collecting of stickers from vari-
a fad, and
Orga
m of advertising should
for the sake of safety.”
and trail
sociations,
duce to plaster
the
Cause
ous sources has become
should be discouraged
naing this for
discontinue it
The bulletin also
of stickers
reason that
the drivers following, and because
obstructed rear vision is needed by the
driver in backing
condenms the
¢
on rear windows, for
these stickers
ee
the
disconcert
un
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Hammock for Baby %
The Walsh
county, #8 found
problem that
other
a
county agent in
North Dakota
for un
perplexed
whut to with the
the family is
mobile ride
n solution
has many a un
do baby when
auto
his
taking
He de
follows
an
»
o
ox
ciibes
dpparntus us
“Take
eighth-inch
enough to re
bow
to
of
rope, enc
uch from
back of
Into these
two pieces three
aroun
other
short
about a foot
the
the
two to make
wide
car
pleces
and
body
of rope at
to the
tangie
nearly as
is wide,
the four
four bows on the top.
“Over this rectengle
denim basket about two
long This will make a
satisfactory hammock and
that can be used at any time of
the year. The irried In
it will be happler than In the
ther's and the mother
long
Lenve ends
corners
us
to tle
fit a
feet
very
one
baby «4
lap
will have a pleasant tr
:
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A
Rests Driver of Motor
drivers
Most
rest the
for
Long
Driver
Cistance
Les
sens Strain of Driv
ing.
and
Cause of Much Trouble
1L.oose Ye
lot of tire
fually
come loose
and 1}
whole train u
~
©
1
Furthermore, those we oft
ges are
This end
“wobbly
down
motorists
with
rm or on
en tightened up unevenly
in
tire and
maturely At
pound both the
to
t
what is referred to as a
tread is w
other ti
rim
get
orm
mes,
the pre
the tire
oft
doesn't
and
#8 hammer the
pounding of the rim do
particular harm, unless it bends
but every blow on the tire
canse a fabric break, and that is
serious
rims are dangerous, because
make it hard to
es result In
ns should be
may
very
lusty
they
change
corrode tubes,
and sometin
the tire. Ri
east once every six months
paint on
tires
ing on
cleaned at!
Ordinary sometimes placed
good practice, inasmuch as the
paint and the tire sticks to the rim.
bringing with them their 7
motor car. It is claimed
LIVES ON FARM
IN OKLAHOMA
Happy Woman Praises Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
In a &
herd of &
i
it it the thin
woman in the
che
sighed as
at them
blue
cked apron
she looked
She was
, tired
tedious work
dairy “he
tired of cook-
for a houseful
of boarders, be-
sides caring for her
own family The
burdens of life seemed too heavy for
ber failing health. She had lost con-
fidence in herself,
One day she began taking Ly
Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound
her general Beith began to improve.
Bhe took it faithfully. Now she can do
her work without any troub
well and is no longer blue
This woman, Mrs Cora El
8, Box 296, Oklahoma
writes '! veryhbody now
Short,
1 welgl
{OOK
bottles
tired of cows
of her
in the
rdia E.
on
and
and
road to be
through the faithful 1
Pinkham’'s Vegetable
Cow pound.
Ask your neighbor,
Have
a
lovely =
Goin
mu can make and kee
a TES
Little at mation t y
Hl a
Haneock Fwiphur (Comps a
it -— for une wilh
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6 BeELLANS
| Hot water
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An idler a watch that ants
Builds up
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‘After what ir did
for me, Tanlac has
my unlimited praise
and endorsement. 3
years of mervous in
digestion had ruined
my health and shat-
fered my nerves.
Tamloc gave me
Serfect health
again.” Mrs. Ed
Graff, 232 Neo, th
, Scranton, Pa.
From Mother Nature's storehouse
we have gathered the roots, barks
and herbs which are compounded,
under the famous Tanlac formula,
to make Tanlac.
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ogee
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