I 5 4 ' W \ / °° - THE TANGLED DOTS. By Clifford Leon Sherman. "Here is a dot picture of my big brother." said Tom. "You can guess what ' ranch of the service he is in." "Ho looks a good deal like an aviator." said Mabel, "but aviators rton't wear miners* (170) l» responsible tor a great many, lion aires, including coal men/ lee men, summer resort proprietors and makers of sneeee cures and throat cooler*. But it also unmakes a great many. rich men. including circus Mr, J. P. Morgan was small potatoes beside the jveather, owners, peach growers and chicken raisers. Mr. J. P. Morgan was sup posed to boss a large part of crea* tion, but he was small potatoes be. side the weather, which exercises a controlling Influence over baseball, crops, the clothing business, parades, picnics, county fairs and summer parks. It also casts the deciding vote In many elections and can tie up a railroad system more thorough* ly than a dozen walking delegates. On the whole, weather must be an undesirable thing. We never hear ol the weather in heaven, while hell Is supposed to consist almost of climate. SHEEP CLUB BOY'S PROFITS Investment Paying 200 Per Cent In duced Farmers to Take Renewed Interest in Industry. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Late in the fall of 1917, George Ir win of Henry county, Indiana, and nine other boys in his neighborhood organized a sheep club. A few inter ested stockmen and the local bank made It possible for the club boys to secure one pure-bred ewe apiece. Each boy gave his note to the bank for the purchase price of his sheep. In the summer of 1018 George Irwin presented the following statement of his work and investment: Disbursements. ; Cost of 1 ewe $lB.OO ! Feed 6.25 * Interest on note 72 Total coat $24.97 Receipts. 1 ewe (inventory) $lB.OO 1 1 lamb (sold) 25.00 i 1 lamb (sold) 22.50 Wool (sold) 6.50 Total receipts $72.00 1 Total coat 24.97 Profit .'. $49.03 Investments paying 200 per cent were worth looking into decided the farmers who lived in the locality of ! this club, and Interest in sheep rais ing increased. Another boy in the Henry County i club has developed a flock of 30 ewes, and plans to have more. His father has become so interested in his son's work that, although the boy is rather young, he is allowed to go to sales and to do his own bidding on pros pects for his flock. Practically all the s >:-xS®:'a«Sk gxv'sj?'. W>wy ~ I - Sheep Club Members Exhibiting Their Animals. boys engaged In the sheep-club work are keeping their foundation animals and at the same time are adding to their stock. Previous to 1918 there were but few boys and girls organized into sheep | clubs under the supervision of the de partment of agriculture and the state agricultural colleges. With the high price of wool and mutton, the sheep i project, however, has become increas ingly popular. Last year 257 such clubs were organized with an enroll ment of 3,613 members. During the year 8.005 lambs were raised by these young people and 2,006 pounds of wool were marketed. The total value of | the flocks at the end of the year was $131,173.40; the initial cost of the sheep, together with the expense of feeding them, was $37,082.82; the total profit made by the boys and girls who were members of the sheep clubs and who continued the work throughout the year was $94,090.58. The results the boys have been getting have opened the eyes of their fathers. The boys and girls in the sheep clubs are demonstrating in every state that sheep are profitable if well handled. I LIVE STOCK NOTES | niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiFF A self-feeder assists in economical pork production because it prevents *Mte. • * • If there are no trees in the hog lots. It vrTTI be necessary to provide artifi cial shade. * * * There is no way we can make pork fasten than to turn the hogs out into a fie'd of clover. * * * A permanent, well-built dehorning chnte is much more satisfactory than a portable one. * * * When pigs are kept free from par asites it is not hard to get them to grow at weaning time. ♦ * * It would be a good idea for each farmer to raise a few calves and get the benefit of higher prices likely to j prevail. * * * Tobacco dust or stems chopped fine nnd placed where sheep and lambs can always have access to them will help prevent stomach worms. Profit by Acts of Criminals. One of the most striking results of the "Battle of Stepney," a year or two ago In London, England, was on the profits of gunsmiths. The auto matic pistols used by the besieged bandits in their desperate fight with the police and the guards were ex tensively described and illustrated In the press. Till then the automatic pistol had barely been heard of by the average Englishman. Since then, however, gunsmiths have sold as many automatic pistols in a week as they had previously sold in a year. A big successful safe robbery, curious as it may seem, does good, not harm, to the safe business. Firms which have to keep large stocks of cash or valu ables on the premises are apt to dis card their five or ten-year-old safes for the very newest types. The safe makers are always working a little ahead of even the most skilled of safe breakers, and the very newest of safes are known to be quite safe for a few years, until the scientific safe-breaker catches up. So safemakers chuckle after a big safe robbery. Cadet Life at West Point. Briefly; "At 3:45 p. m. the academic work is over for the day and drills for all classes occupy the hour from 4 to 5, followed by a dress parade at 5:25, excepting Wednesdays and Sat urdays. This is the schedule from Sept. 1 to Nov. 1 and from March 15 to June. On Saturdays academic work ends at 12:30 and with the ex ception of inspection at 1:50, the aft ernoon of the cadet is free until 6:25 supper call. His amusements are much like those of college students generally. Football Is perhaps the most popular organized sport. Games are played on the West Point grounds with teams from many colleges, and the season closes with the annual army-navy game, when the West Pointers meet the midshipmen from Annapolis on Franklin field, Philadel phia. Basketball follows during the winter months, many contests with teams from other schools occurring during the season, and then, in the spring, comes baseball, of course. — Popular Mechanics. Points of View. "You see, a Frenchman and an Eng lishman view marriage from entirely different angles. The Anglo-Saxon of honest instincts, attracted toward a pretty girl, at once thinks of the pos sibilities of marriage; if he finds them infinitely remote he makes romantic love to her In the solitude of his walks abroad or of his sleepless nights, and in her presence is as dumb and dismal as a freshly hooked trout. The equal ly honest Gaul does nothing of the kind. The attraction in itself is a stimulus to adventure. He makea love to her, just because it is the nature of a lusty son of Adam to make love to a pretty daughter of Eve. He lives in the present The rest does not mat ter. He leaves it to chance."—"The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol," by William J. Locke. Soft Answer. In a part of New York where the conductors on the street cars still come around to collect fares, George Cohan recently jumped on a car. The conductor collected fareß and went to the rear of the car. Mr. Cohan, wish i lng to be next the exit, left his seat and took another nearer the door. The conductor, meantime, on the lookout i for passengers, saw, as he thought, a new man taking a seat, and went to collect his fare. Mr. Cohan put his hand In hia pocket and offered the conductor a coin. "This is only one cent," said the conductor, handing i it back. "Yes," said George slowly. "I know that. I paid my fare when I was in the other seat. This time I supposed you were taking up a col lection." Apples Near and Yet So Far. No other product of the soil needs more reform in selling methods than apples. A certain western grower 1 traced a shipment to the consumer in order to find out what that worthy In dividual paid for his product. This" investigation brought to light the in teresting fact that the apples had passed through no less than five hands before reaching the consumer, and while the grower had received only 85 cents per bushel box for them they had been retailed to the con sumer at $4.50 per box. For this rea son we have, every season, apple or chards full of rotting fruit, while the cities are full of hungry people who would gladly buy this product if the price was right.—Farm and Fireside. Banker Not Financier. No euccessful banker was ever a great financier in the broad political sense of the term. Creative finance is always the work of the Hamiltons, the Gallatlns, the Chases, not the work of the money lenders. Neverthe less, technical banking experience is not to be despised in national affairs. One of the just complaints directed j against the new currency bill In Its administrative features is that only one member of the seven members of the feTOra? reserve board is to be a banker. This JG plainly a defect, and the bankers who call attention to it are performing a useful public serv ice.—New York World. "Wireless" an Obsolete Word. "Wireless"' has become an obsolete word in the United States navy. "Ra dio" has supplanted it. Messages are called "radiograms"' and "wireless telegraphy*' has been changed to "ra diocommunication," spelled as one word. That is an example of build ing up a word German fashion. There i is a tendency to call the operator "ra dioman" instead of "radio operator," as at present. Tne Oiaest (Newspaper. Benjamin Franklin contributed much to the development of Journalism in colonial days. An editor at the age of 16 and a prolific writer, he was Identified at some time or another in hTs life with many of the newspapers which flourished during this period. The oldest newspaper In the United States, which has been continued with out Interruption of issue or change of name, is the New Hampshire Gazette. It was first published in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1756. I ——————— | Place of Fat Men In History. Fat and fame have not very often been combined, perhaps because stout men are generally inclined to be easy going, and therefore lacking In that push which brings a man to the fore, says Loudon Answers. The only great statesman one can recall who was really a fat man was Charles James Fox, as cau be seen even by his effigy in the palace of Westminster, where he would make three of his great rival, Pitt the younger. Deservedly Valuable Pen. One of the best-known pens In the United States Is owned by Isaac R Reed of New York, who at one time refused to sell it for $750. Its value arises from the fact that, aside from having been used by both Lincoln and Grant, it was made from a carved box in which young George Washington kept parts of his surveying instru ments. The box itself was made from the lid of a desk that belonged to the captain of the Mayflower. - The Eyeglass Qllde. It was at a formal dancing party, i and I was dancing with a young man | who wore eyeglasses. I soon felt something cold slide down my back 1 and my friend said, "Pardon me; my glasses have fallen down your back." Needless to say I escaped to the dress ing room and had the glasses removed and returned to him. —Chicago Trib une. Age of the Bagpipe. It Is wrong to suppose that the bag pipe is associated only with Scotland for this Instrument Is centuries old and has always been known in Asia. People danced to the music of the bag pipe In the thirteenth century, the painter Raphael pictures a bagpiper, and didn't the Pied Piper of Hatnelin | play this same instrument? Eagle Is Threatened. The existence of the bird which is the emblem of America Is threatened. An Alaskan law places a bounty of 50 cents on every bald eagle killed. The result Is that In 19 months over 5,000 eagles have been killed. The bald eagle Is charged with destroying sal mon, young deer and game birds. Strength. Said the observing cuss: "The kid who was the despair of his parents be cause he couldn't carry a tune usually develops Into the kind of business man who raises the mortgage off the old home place as soon as he gets in the harness." A 200-Foot Dive. The greatest depth ever reached by a diver is said to be 204 feet. The greatest depth at which useful work has been done Is 182 feet. Sponge and pearl divers, working without armor, frequently descend to depths of about 150 feet. Christian Unity. He who takes hold of one end of the litter on which a hurt brother is prone must not pause to questlori the name and affiliation of the man who takes hold of the other end. —The Christian Herald. Each Works to Same End. The ease, the luxury, and the abund ance of the highest state of civiliza tion. are as productive of selfishness as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of the lowest. —Colton. Daily Thought. There is no man so pood, who, he to submit all his thoughts and ac tions to the law, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. —Mon- taigne. Hurt by Injudicious Friends. If a cause be good, the most vio lent attack of its enemies will not in jure It so much as an injudicious de fense of It by its friends. —Colton. The Bungler's Way. To do evil, that good may come of it, Is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. —William Penn. Lest You Didn't Know. A horse hide will make a dandy pair jf shoes, but banana skins are un ?qualed for slippers. So Wags the World. The class poet sometimes becomes a jutcher in after life. —Louisville Cou rier-Journal. Optimistic Thought. Popular sovereignty, when truly nn* derstood, is a fountain of power. Spasmodic Sermon. Mrny n fl ne nirrastle has been built •:'