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A. Beck, Jennie Clawson, Miss
Helen Falcon, Miss Esther Glass,
Mrs. Mollie A. Griffith, Miss Effie
Henry, Mrs. Annie Jendrel, Mr.
Ross Johnston, Miss Flossie La
mr, Mrs. Annie Long, Mr. Bil
lie Miller, Miss Edna Miller, Mr.
W. E. Moore, Mrs. W. F. Swartz,
Mr. A. T. Winaks.
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Harry W. Fee, P. M.
I Largest~Agricultural Warehouse.
i New Orleans has the largest agricul
tural warehouse in the world. It has
a capacity of 2,000,000 bales of cot
ton, and Is adapted to the storage of
fell other packed commodities such as
feugar and coffee. It was built at a
cost of $3,500,000 by the state of
Louisiana and is said to reduce the
cost of handling any agricultural
'commodity 40 per cent. There are 23
acres of ground under roof, while the
Entire plant occupies 150 acres — Na
tional Geographic Magazine.
' YOUR WORK.
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It is no man's business if he
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has genius or not. Work he
must, whatever he is, but quiet
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ly and steadily, and the natural
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and enforced results of such 1
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work will always be the thing
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that God meant him to do and
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will be his best. If he be a
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great man the things he does 1
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1 will be great things, but always,
if thus peacefully done, they
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will be good and right.—Ruskin.
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The Talipot Palm of Ceylon.
The talipot palm of Ceylon has gigan
tic fanlike leaves, which when fully
expanded form a nearly complete circle
thirteen feet in diameter. Large fans
made of them are carried before people
of rank among the Cingalese. They
are also commonly used as umbrellas,
and tents are made by neatly joining
them together. They are used as a
substitute for paper, being written
upon with a stylus. Some of the sacred
books of the Cingalese are composed of
strips of them.'
The Untidy Horse Chestnut.
Those who have experienced the diffi
culty of keeping a lawn clean where
horse chestnut trees are growing will
appreciate the following composition
by a ten-year-old boy, which appeared
in the New York Tribune:
"The horse chestnut tree is a great
shade tree. But it is rather a nuisance
because of the blossoms dropping all
over the grass, next the little green
chestnuts fall all over the ground,
next the big horse chestnuts fall with
the burrs, next the great large leaves
fall and dry up, and it takes time to
rake them all up, and they won't burn
like other leaves. So if I were plant
ing trees I would plant a maple tree."
Sha S«nt It Back.
There have always been a lot of give
and take in American women's social
adventures In England. But American
women have spirit, and if they have
taken a good deal they have given
back still more.
An Englishwoman some years ago
called on an American countess In BeL
gravla.
"Oh, I thought you were out! That's
why I called," the Englishwoman said
in her sweet, clear, insolent English
voice.
"Well, do you know, I thought I was
out, too," the American replied. "My
stupid man must have mistaken you
for some one else."
GiHa Will Be GIHa.
Tm afraid I can't get the girls to
take politics seriously. I called a meet
ing at my home and had some speech
es by a popular candidate which we
were trying on the graphophone."
"Well?"
"I was called out of the room for a
few minutes, and when I came back I
found they had put on a dance rec
ord."—Louisville Courier-Journal.
Natural Expectation.
"Where's your aeroplane, Mr. Smith?
I looked out in the front street and
in our back yard, but I couldnt see
none."
"Why, I have no aeroplane, my boy.
What made you think I had?"
"Didn't you tell pa you came here
to see him on a flying visit?"— Balt
imore American.
Liked the Air Fresh.
"I thought you were a fresh air
fiend," said the visitor.
"So I am."
"Then why are all the windows
closed?"
"Because one of my neighbors is Just
now playing an air on his phonograph
that is anything but fresh."—Birming
ham Age-Herald.
Making Time Money.
Clerk —I should like a small increase
in my salary, sir, please.
Merchant—l don't see my way clear
to do that, but I can do the same tiling
in another way. You are aware, of
course, that time is money.
"Yes, sir."
"Well, hereafter you can work untii
6 instead of leaving at 5."
Hie Sage Method.
"Since I have given my best thought
to the problem I have not found it es
pecially difficult to take care of my
sister-in-law's two-year-old baby while
she goes shopping," said the bachelor
brother-in-law. "For a time, until I
mastered the subject, I must confess
that it had me considerably obfuseat
ed. But now I merely put the dear lit
tle fellow under a tub, weighted down
so that by no possibility can he over
set it, and then go out to the barn and
read and amoke in peac^."—Judge.
An Authority.
Peter McArthur, the writer, was once
talking with a friend when he quoted
another man as a financial authority.
His friend disputed the right of the
person quoted to be considered an ex
pert. Mr. McArthur insisted that the
man had a right t*> speak like an ora
cle.
"What is your definition of an au
thority?" asked his friend.
"My idea of an authority," retorted
Mr. McArthur, "is a person who bluffs
beyond my limit."
The Bahamae.
Bahamas make up their 4,466
square miles with 29 islands, 661 cays
and 2,387 rocks. They have the dis
tinction of being the first point of land
in the western hemisphere discovered
by Columbus, who sighted Cat island
on Oct 12, 1492, and christened it San
Salvador in acknowledgment of his
preservation. The islands were taken
possession of by Sir Humphrey Gilbert
in 1578, but no settlement was made
till 1629. After changing hands once
or twice the islands finally became
British in 1783.—Westminster Gazette.
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COURAGE.
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All work of man ia as the
< swimmer's. A waste ocean
I L threatens to devour him. If he
front it not bravely it will keep
its word. By inceesant wise
defiance of it, luety rebuke and
< buffet of it, behold how loyally
it eupports him—bears him aa
its conqueror along. Thomas
Carlyie.
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PAWN ALL KINDS OF ARTICLES
Men and Women Who Patronize Their
"Uncle" Find Him Willing to
Take Any Chance.
There is scarcely anything in this
fride world that a person up against it
financially can't pawn, for the pawn
broker is a gambler, whose instincts
either are acquired or born In him, and
tie will take a chance on anything pro
vided the article is not falling to pieces^
Women, according to the pawn
broker, work their own ruin frequently
by liquor and drug addiction, but in a.
great many cases it is derelict hus
bands who cause the women to patron
ize the pawnshop. And the woman
makes the sacrifice to protect her chil
dren.
"A woman who la struggling to save
her children." the pawnbroker said,
"will begin by pawning household
things. The alarm clock or another
kind of clock will go first Then she
will sacrifice a few dishes. Maybe
some of the furniture will go next Her
clothes will remain for the last be
cause she needs clothes In her quest
for work. The best clothes will be
saved, if at all possible, but I have
known hundreds of cases where they
have pawned corsets to keep the fam
ily supplied with a bite of food in.
times of want"
In things offered for pawn the three
ball man says that razors lead by a
wide margin, while alarm clocks,
strange as it nfty seem, come second.
Umbrellas, too, are a common article
to be pawned. And only about thirty
per cent of these articles eventually
are redeemed.
SAW EVIL IN USE OF COFFEE
Beverage Was Once Looked Upon by
Orthodox Mohammedans as Insidi
ous to Public Morals.
For one who has ever walked the
streets of a Turkish town it is almost
Impossible to Imagine them without
coffee houses. Yet, those resorts are
of comparative recency among the
Turks, and they were not acclimatized
without bitter opposition.
While the properties of the coffee
berry are supposed to have been dis
covered or rediscovered by an Arab
dervish in the thirteenth century, they
were unknown in Constantinople until
300 years later. The first coffee house
was opened there in 1554 by one
Shemsi, a native of Aleppo. The bev
erage so quickly appreciated was as
quickly looked upon by the orthodox
as Insidious to the public morals.
It was variously denounced as one
of the four elements of the world of
pleasure, one of the four pillars of the
tent of lubricity, one of the four cush
ions oL the. .couch of_vpluptuous_neas»
aid" one of the fouf mlnlrfFertTor tne
devil—the other three being tobacco,
opium and wine. "Kahveh," whence
our coffee, is a slight modification of
an Arabic word —literally meaning
,l that which takes away the appetite.**
—H. G. Dwight in Scribner's Maga
zine.
Ail Began With a Dime.
"Last spring a year ago," says Farm
and Fireside, "a ten-year-old neighbor
boy was given ten cents by his grand
mother. He purchased a packet of
good cucumber seed with his money
and grew a nice patch of cucumbers
for the local village market His crop
of cucumbers brought him a little
over $6 in money, all of which hia
mother allowed him to keep and spend
as he pleased.
"With $1 of his money this boy pur
chased a few little things for himself,
and with the other $5 he purchased a
ewe lamb. By this spring his ewe
lamb had grown into a mature mother
sheep, and she gave birth to twin
lambs. So now the boy has three
sheep from his investment The moth
er sheep is now worth $lO, and the
lambs are worth $5 each, making a
total value of $2O he has earned with
his ten cents in a year and a half. Be
sides, he sold wool this spring from
the mother sheep for $2,45, which he
has placed in the savings bank as the
beginning of a bank account of hia
own."
Joffre Goes Fishing.
An American writer who saw Gen
eral Joffre at the front says he often
goes fishing. Military plans for 3.000,-
000 troops are evolved in this way.
The head of* the grand army of
France resembles Oyama and Grant,
remarks "Glrard" in the Philadelphia
Ledger. "In the war with Russia the
supreme commander of the Japanese
often went off in solitude to fish. His
■ subordinates interpreted that as a good
sign.
Gen. Horace Porter, who was on
Grant's staff during the last year ,of
the Civil war, said that the Union
chieftain did a lot of whittling in the
Wilderness campaign. When he whit
tled he was thinking.
Bismarck said he could tell in 1870
when all was well with the German
army by watching Von Moltke. If the
chief of staff accepted the first cigar
offered him things were serious, but if
he carefully selected one he knew that
Von Moltke's mind was free.
Not That Bhe Needed Aid.
"See that man over there? He is a
bombastic mutt, a windjammer nonen
tity, a false alarm and an encumberer
of the earth!"
"Would you mind writing all thai
down for me?"
"Why In the world"—
"He's my husband, and I should Uk»>
toUge it on him some time • ggpSEfr
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