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INSON,
en, Conn.
—
The Ultimate. 2
He—Do you know what I am going
¢o say to you? Drop it!
Nju—Drop what? :
He—Everything—happiness and love
and work and God knows what else!
It is all so provincial. Even our dreams,
Jet thém be what they will, are provin-
cial—yes, even our sufferings.
Nju—And what is there that isn’t
provincial? :
He—What! Art and death? No; art
§s too! Only death.
Nju—Yes; I understand.
*® * # * * - *
He—You don’t love me, Nju.
Nju—I love your very much. Really
I do love you, only there is something
that is more than love—something still
higher.
He—What’s that—life?
Nju—I don’t know.
He—Or—or death?
Nju—No; there is something still
higher. ~
He—Than life, death and love?
Nju—Than all combined. There must
surely be something; otherwise the
whole thing would be so meaningless.
— From the Russian Play “Nju.”
Grass on the Lawn.
Grass seeds germinate in from four-
teen to eighteen days. A quart of secds
js sufficient to cover 300 square feet—
15 by 20 feet. Five to Six bushels are
required per acre.
Do not sow grass seeds in hot, dry
weather, particularly in July or Au-
gust.
Poa trivalis is good for shady lawns
under trees.
Festuca rubra is most suitable for
hard wear and for dry or sandy soils.
Sharp sea sand applied lightly over
lawns in the autumn—that is, over
Jawns on clay or loam—encourages the
growth of fine grasses.
Lawns that are frequently watered
need more fertilizers than those that
are not, as the water washes away
much plant food.—New York Sun.
Glengarry's “Treason.”
How startling was the difference in
the customs of the English and the
Scots even less than a century ago is
shown in the story of the way in which
the famous highland chief, Alastir
Macdonell, of Glengarry frightened
George IV. out of his wits, In 1822
Glengarry was one of a party of Scot-
tish nobles and gentlemen who ban-
queted “the first gentleman of Europe”
in Holyrood palace. Colonel Macdonell
was the last chief to wear the full
highland costume, and when the com-
pany sat down to dinner he, according
to custom, placed a brace of loaded
pistols by his plate. The king started
up in alarm and was persuaded to re-
main in the room only on the assurance
that Glengarry meant no treason.—Lon-
don Spectator. :
Stevenson's Wife.
A half caste sailor onc sald, “Mr.
Stevenson is good to me, like my fa-
ther; and his wife is ‘the same kind of
man” a i 51
King Tembinoke said of Mrs. Steven-
son, “She good; look pretty plenty
” (sepse). i
ein thes Doth meant What ne
Edm Go ] express
tn he ts RE fot a ing ‘so
ark d rich hearted, like some won:
{11 wine-red jewel.”
“But the best tribute in Mrs. Steven-
son’s praise came from the pen of ber
husband.—Critic.
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+1 0dr Coal Supply ©
The United States coal supply is near.
ly one-half that of the entire world.
Estimates put the available coal supply
of the United States at 3,538,5600,000,000
tons out of a world total estimated at gion of health, for the reason tl
7,397,538,000,000 tons. China ranks next
to the United States in available sup-
ply, estimated at 1,500,000,000,000 tons:
Great Britain, 180, ,000
000; Ger-
many, 164,000, ,000, and Canada,
100,000,000,000 tons.
Too Pushing.
“1 had an idea I'd grow up and own
ghis business some day,” said the dis-
| office boy.
«That's just why you were fired,”
gaid the boss. «Ever since you started
to work here you've been acting as if
you already owned the business.” —
Birmingham Age Herald
er
Forgiveness.
Waiter—Beg pardon, gir, but-—-ahem—
the gents here remember my
‘services. Guest (pocketing all the
change)—Do they? They ought to be
more charitable and forget them!
Clever Sheep Shearsre, |
~ Averaging everything, from young
wethers, which are hard, to old ewes,
‘which “are éasy, experts in Australia
will shéar about 90 or 100 sheep a day.
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BOILED THEM TO DEATH.
How Poisoners Were Punished In the
3 Good Old Days. .
Our forefathers deemed hanging too |
good for people who went about delib-
erately poisoning other people. They
substituted for that punishment boil-
ing to death, the first to suffer this
penalty being Richard Rosse, cook to
the bishop of Rochester in the reign of
Henry VIII
In medieval times in Europe poison-
ers when detected were usually broken
alive upon the wheel after having first
i been given a taste of the rack while in
prison awaiting execution as a sort of
gentle reminder of what they had pres-
ently got to go through.
For wholesale poisoners, however,
even ,this dreadful death was not
deemed sufficiently painful, and new
and special modes of punishment were
invented. Thus Louise Mabre, a Pari-
sian baby farmer, who in 1763 was
proved to have done to death no fewer
than sixty-two infants by administer-
ing to them carefully graduated doses
of white arsenic mingled with pow-
dered glass, was sentenced to be shut
up in an iron cage with sixteen wild i
cats and suspended over a slow fire.
This was done, with the result that
when the cats became infuriated with
heat and pain they turned their rage :
upon her “and after thirty-five min- |
utes of the most horrible sufferings put
{an end to her existence, the whole of
|
the cats dying at the same time or
within a few minutes after.”’—London
Mail.
SHIPPING DAY OLD CHICKS. |
As They Need No Water Nor Food For
Sixty Hours It Is Easy.
When little chicks come from the
shell they need neither water nor food
for sixty hours. That fact has given
rise to a new business. Day old chicks
are sold and shipped by people who
operate incubators. Those who buy are
relieved of the trouble, of the incon-
venience, and to some extent of the
uncertainty of hatching, Only a small
percentage of day old chicks perish
while on the way from skipper to cus-
tomer. People are thus enabled to get
the little chicks and begin the poultry
business without the necessity of pur-
chasing an incubator.
Special boxes of pasteboard are made
for shipping purposes. Some have a
capacity of twenty-five chicks, some of
fifty and some of 100. It is doubtless
best that mo more than twenty-five
shall in any case occupy a single com-
partment. The walls of the boxes are
moderately thick, and some soft ma-
terial as grass is put in the bottom.
Otherwise there are no especial provi-
glons against cold weather. However,
the chicks themselves may be depended
upon to cluster together and in this
way keep one another warm. 8,
. The boxes are not to be opened en
route nor are the chicks to be given
food or water. Successful shipments
have bee: vag for 2,000 miles.—Popu-
lar Science Monthly.
Tanned Skin.
In the majority of cases tanned skin
is an indication of eaith. It isa con-
dition ting from the actign
rays of the sun o
skin, Tan may be produced also by
exposure .to the 88g A AIRETCUEY
lamp or it may be caused electrically.
But in these cases it is no indication
of the tate of health. It does not
mean the there. hs been a wmtipl
cation ‘of ted corpuscles in the blood,
such as follows healthful exercise in
the open air. The tan acquired by the
skin at sea or ashore as a result of life
and exercise in the open air is always
t it
is sccompanied by general conditions
that do not obtain in the case of elec-
tric tan.—New York Times.
Early American Theatricals.
The earliest attempt to introduce
theatrical performances in this coun-
try was made about 1686 in New Eng-
and, but Increase Mather wrote and
spoke so forcibly in opposition to the
project that it was speedily abandoned.
The first theatrical performance in
New York city of which there is any
clear record was given March 5, 1750.
The theater was on Nassau street, be-
tween John street and Maiden lane,
and the play was “Richard III.,” Thom-
as Kean, the junior manager of the
company, enacting the part of Richard.
—New York World.
3 A Live Flagstaff. . :
A tree of the eucalyptus family that
is apparently as slender as a reed rises
to the height of sixty-five feet in the
center of Los Angeles, Cal, and carries
at the top, just beneath its tuft of foli-
age, an American flag. This natura’.
flagstaff is as smooth as & planed and
painted pole and is less than a foot in
diameter at the base.—Tree Talk.
A Thorough Test.
“Inspector, -that woman 1 said was
always listening on my party line must
have quit.”
“What makes you think so?”
“Why, my wife has been listening for
three weeks and hasn't caught her yet.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Sensible Start.
“My wife has joined the reform
movement.”
‘lungs. Most people,
“What does she propose to do first?”
“Get some reliable woman to take
care of baby.”—Pittsburgh Post.
Thankful.
Mrs. Nexdore—That girl across the
way has a singular voice. Mr. Nex-
dore—Thanks be it’s not plural. —Phil-
adelphia Ledger.
The one time a man’s credit is al-
ways good is when he sets out to bor- {
row trouble.—Chicago News.
io
Why Not Give Her Some Attention as
Well as the Boy?
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THE FARM. -
THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA,
HUMOR ON THE STAGE ©
Making Fun ls a Serious Business, Says
Charlie Chaplin.
In recent years the problem of keep- “Making fun is serious business,”
ing the “boy on the farm
‘thought serious enough to arouse con-
siderable discussion.
The farmer has been told that he
ought to provide the most modern agri-
‘cultural machinery in order to obviate
the hard labor of farming and Keep
the ‘boys interested; that he should
send his boys to a good school of sci-
entific agriculture; that he should set
aside a certain portion of the farm for
the boy and permit him to keep the
profit from his operation, and he has
been told many other things, in all of
which the importance of the boy to the
farm was emphasized and plans sug-
gested to make his lot a little easier
and more promising. The county agent
has interested himself in the problem
by orginizing boys’ corn growing and
other agricultural contests.
But how about keeping the girl on
the farm? The girl does not ordinarily
do the heavy field work, but her serv-
ices in hamekedning. cooking and mend-
ing as well as in buttermaking, milk-
ing, caring for garden and chickens,
which tasks usuaily fall to her lot, are
surely valuable enough to warrant the
greatest consideration. And yet dis-
cussion of the problem of keeping the
! girl on the farm is Infrequent.—Indian-
apolis News.
OTHER PEOPLE'S AFFAIRS.
Unless You Have Real Tact Don’t Try
to Be the Third Party.’
over the house.
i know why.
has been ' says Charlie Chaplin in the Woman's
“Home Companion.
“It calls for deep
study and concentrated observaton.
Fun that causes some people to laugh
makes others frown. That can’t be
helped. What matters is—to make
most of the people laugh most of the
time. How to do this is the problem.
“The principal thing you've got to do
to keep an audience in good humor is
to make them think they are superior
to you in intelligence. You've got to be
he clown.
«pride comes before a fall, we are
told. Well, there is nothing so funny
as upset dignity. Visualize a bloated
capitalist with Dundreary whiskers,
light trousers, spats, frock coat, silk
bat, all the insignia of a million dol-
Iars more or less.
“Now, when the capitalist’s whiskers
are pulled by an abandoned funny man
the audience is convulsed. There is
fun in striking contrast. One minute
t&ere is a picture of pride and dignity,
austere, exclusive, apart from common
humapity. If I reach out casually and
hook that chap with the crook of my
cane, drag him almost off his feet, pull
his Dundrearys and step casually on
his silk hat, a wave of mirth surges
But I do. It is because
| they never in all their lives believed
| anybody would have the effrontery to
pull a millionaire’'s whiskers or step
Have you a reputation. of being a !
third party where two persons are
vainly trying to manage their own af-
fairs? It is only the most tactful sort :
of persons who can successfully play =~
the role of third party without doing
more harm than good.
Don’t. try to fix things up between
quarreling lovers unless you are abso-
lutely sure that you can trust your tact
and intuition to do the right and only
thing. Don’t intervene in the affairs of
a newly established bousehold. Let the
young people work things out for them-
selves. Don’t try to bring up other
people's children. They won't thank
you. Nobody thanks the meddler, no
matter how well intentioned she may be.
Now, to the humane soul who hates
to see things go wrong when a word
or two will apparently set them right,
this withholding of interest seems most
selfish. But it really isn’t. It is the
most considerate thing you can do
sometimes to shut your eyes and let
things take their natural course. They
will right themselves in time, and you
will not jeopardize your friendship by
good natured meddling.
It is better to stand aside than to
get mixed up as a, third party in other
‘people’s troubles. | Nobody loves a med-
dler.—Pittsburgh Press.
Animals Attack the Lungs.
Watch any flesh eating animal when
it is attacking its prey or watch two
animals having a fight to the death.
You will “notice one remarkable fact,
and that is that they strike for the
of course, are
‘well aware where their own lungs are,
but they haven't the slightest idea
about any other lungs. Animals in-
stinctively know, however, the position
of the lungs of almost every other ani-
mal. When a tiger or a lion attacks a
man it does its est to get just below
the shoulder blades. If it strikes with-
out warning you will always find that
its powerful paws have torn right
through to the lungs. A cat has just the
same instinct. Watch it stalls a spar-
row and you will see how cleverly it
maneuyers 80 a8. 1g the un-
fortunate bird and pounce on its back,
where the lungs are.—London Graphic.
Russian Folk Songs. ~~
Concerning the folk songs of Russia,
Cesar Cul wrote in his “La M sigue en
Rusgsie:” “Russian, folk zongs are usual-
ly written within®a’ ‘very ‘restricted
compass and only rarely move beyond
the interval of a fifth or a sixth. The
older the song the narrower is the
range of its compass. The theme 8l-
ways is short, sometimes extending no
farther than two measures, but these
two are repeated as often as the exi-
gencies of the text demand. The folk
songs are sung either by a single voice
or by a chorus. In the latter case a
single voice leads off with the subject,
and. then the chorus takes it up.”
Care of Birds.
In an English treatise on the “Hy-
glene of Bird Keeping” attention is
called to the thoughtless practice ‘of
hanging birds in cages just above the
level of the sashes of windows and to
the ‘mistaken kindness of hanging a
cage in a corner of a sitting room or 8
kitchen near the ceiling. In the ome
| case the bird is subjected jo drafts and
will in.all probability develop cata
‘| and bronchitis, and in the other it lives
in a vitiated atmosphere.
Not Fussy. ;
«where's one thing I'll say for them,
they're not a nervous family.”
“How do you know?” :
“Every picture on their wails is tiit-
ed off the straight line, and they don't
seem to mind it a bit."—Detroit Free
Press.
True.
“Charity begins at home.”
«That's true, and it would be a hap-
pier world if extravagance began there,
too, instead of downtown with the good
fellows in a barroom.”—Detroit Free
Press.
Preparedness.
Mother— Tom, dear, you'd better not
go to the dance this wet night. Your
rubbers leak. Tom—That's all right,
mother; I’ve got pumps inside of 'em.—
Boston Transcript.
-
i
on his hat.”
ELECTRIC HEATING.
The Way Sweden Used Nature to Solve
the Fuel Problem.
Stockholm, up on the Baltic side of
i Sweden, is a cold proposition for many
months. Not only its far north lati-
tude, but its insular situation conduces
to cold climatic conditions, for Stock-
holm is built mostly on islands and is
called the Venice of the Baltic.
But the people keep warm during
the long winters and do so through
electrical heating arrangements. Fuel
for individual families was an im-
mense item, but in the last few years
the electricians of the country have
bent their energies to the development
| of the natural water power to the end
that electricity has become the chief
fuel.
Hot water tanks in buildings are
heated by electricity from a nearby
power plant, and the hot water is sent
through the houses much as it goes
through similarly heated houses in our
cities. The electricity that heats the
water is turned on at night when the
family retires, and by morning the
tank is so hot that the water, pumped
automatically through the house pipes.
gives the inhabitants all the comforts
of steam heat and lasts the whole day.
~ $¥e build coal fires in our furnaces
and have smoke and ashes to contend
with. The Swedes press a button that
connects the house tank wire with the
power plant, and the work is done,
with no aftermath of cleaning up.—
Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Counting the Salmon. :
The Wood river in Alaska has been
closed to fishing for many years and
iss resorted to for breeding purposes Ly
red salmon escaping the nets in Nusha-
gak bay. The counting of the salmon
was first undertaken in 1908 and has
been continued annually since that
time except in 1914. J
The counting is made possible by
throwing a rack across the stream and
compelling the fish to pass through a
narrow gate, where they are easily vis-
ible to persons immediately above.
Agents of the fisheries bureau in relays
are kept on duty day and night for the
entire period of the run, and the tally
is kept by an automatic counting de-
vice manipulated by hand.
The highest count for any one day in
recent years was 25564.—New York
San. ;
Flowers and Blood.
A superstition dating from olden
times exists, to the effect that roses and
flowers generally attain greater beauty
in soil fertilized by blood, especially by
human blood, than elsewhere. Persons
who have visited Newmarket, England,
know of the so called “bloo! flower of
Newmarket,” which is found nowhere
else than in the old moat, now filled
up and in which, according - to tradi-
tion, a very large quantity of, man re-
mains is interred. These flo 8 blogm
in June and July and by the oodlike
hue of thelr blossoms suggest the name
which has been given to them.
5 Doubtful Assistance.
Bditor—George Bump, the merchant,
is dead, and 1 want you to write up an
obituary telling what a fine fellow and
what a successful business man che
wag, New Assistant—Sure; I'll boost
his game, but 1 don’t see what good it's
going to do.—Puck.
: Value of Forests.
It has been estimated that if the for-
ests of the earth were completely
stocked and scientifically worked they
would yield annually the full equiva-
lent of 120 times the present consump-
tion of coal.
Two Factors.
Willis—I've got to cut out this high
life while my wife is away. Gillis—
What's the trouble now? Willis—The
pace and the neighbors are beginning
to tell.—Exchange.
No Chance.
Belle—If 1 were you, Percy, 1 should
tell him just what I think of him.
Percy—How can I? The cad has no
telephone.—Philadelphia Bulletin.
Opportunity doesn’t always present
| an engraved calling cards
Perhaps people don’t |
“A MIRAGE IN THE CLOUDS.
i The Specter That Gave an Aviator the
Scare of His Life.
An extraordinary story of a mirage
in the clouds is
{ told by a young flying
corps officer in the British service:
«T had ofien wondered what it would
feel like to see a machine coming
! straight for one and to know that a
collision was inevitable. I had the ex:
perience one afternoon, only the col-
lision did not take place. I was on
patrol with five other machines over
the lines and had just gone into a
cloud bank. Just before going in I saw
the bus on my right turning to cross in
front of me. All of a sudden I saw a
machine just the same as my own ap-
pear out of the cloud about fifty feet
away, making straight for me. In-
stinctively I jammed my nose hard
down and went as near a nose dive as
possible. The other bus did the same.
I turned! The other turned into me.
I was in a cold perspiration all over by
this time, so I thought, ‘Here goes; if
I am going to crash it might as well
be complete.) So straight for it I went.
We got closer and closer, and, bit, m7
machine and—its mirage in tue clouds
met!
“It seemed like a hideous nightmare,
| and I can still see that machine doing
its utmost to crash into me. I think I
can say I have had the full horrors of
a collision in the air without its actual-
| ly taking place.” —London Telegraph.
| INDIA’S ARMY ELEPHANTS.
tn, ——————
| Their Skill In Moving Big Guns That
i Have Become Stalled.
| In India elephants are used in many
ways in the army, especially in mov-
| ing artillery. Of their work in this line
a British writer says:
“When a gun comes to grief the ele-
phant marches up with the important
air of an experienced engineer and de-
liberately inspects the state of affairs.
Thrusting his trunk around the spoke
of a wheel, he gives it a lift as if to
ascertain the depth and tenacity of the
mud and then quietly walks around
and does the same by the other. wheel,
dropping it again with a funny twin-
kle of the eye as if he said to himself.
‘All right; I can start her, I think.’
“Phen he deliberates for a few min-
utes, gives a slight push here and a
slight push there, when, having at last
made up his mind as to the best mode
of procedure, he probably applies his
forehead—which has been padded for
the purpose—to the muzzle of the gun
and, uttering a shrill, trumpet-like
sound as a signal for the gun bullocks
to pull together, pushes against it with
all his weight, while the bullocks obey
the signal and pull away too.
«his generally starts the gun. But
if the bullocks are sulky an fuse to
obey the signal the elephant gets per-
fectly furious and rushes at them.
prandishing his trunk with such fero-
city as usually compels obedience.”
How Roots Penetrate Hard Ground.
The extreme tips of a delicate root
are protected by a sheath set with
minute scales, which as it is worn
away by friction against the soll is as
constantly replaced, so that ft acts as a
wedge and the root thread is carried
down uninjured. Another aid to pene-
tration lies in the provision whereby
the root as it pushes downward in
search of nourishment exercises a
slightly spiral, screwlike motion which
worms its tip into the ground. Another
important agent is the acid cell sap,
| which exudes on to and dissolves to
| some extent the rock or hard soil. This
may be tested by placing a small piece
of polished marble in a pot in which a
‘plait is #ét and covering it with earth.
After some weeks the marble will be
found to bave been corroded by the
continuous action of this acid.
iol ‘Rambler Roses. )
One of the loved roses of summer is
the Fambler rose, which rambles about
| scattering its joyous sei’ among ‘hun:
dreds of people in addition to those
who grow it. Clambering over houses,
both of rich and poor, it gladdens the
eye of the tourist, dnd in great arm
loads it wanders from its home vine to
the rose loving, but not rose possess-
ing; to the sick, to the weary, to the
tired business folk, to whom it brings
of June, which rambles all over to the
joy of every one—here’s to the insect
less health of the rambler rose, wheth-
er Dorothy Perkins, Pillar or whatever
brand. —Newark News.
ity, JF
: Upon the recent death of 8 politician
+who at one time served his country in
a very high legislative place a num-
ber of newspaper men were collaborat-
ing in an obituary notice. .
“What shall we say of the former
senator?” asked one of the men. bs
“Qh, just put down that he was al-
ways faithful to his trust.”
“And,” queried a cynical member of
the group, “shall we mention the name
of the trust?’'—Puck.
it Does Happen.
«1 don’t think the truth of that Cin-
derella story ever came out.”
“No?”
«J think she took off her slipper be-
cause it hurt her. I've seen ladies do
that in restaurants many & time.” —
Kansas City Journal
Observes a Medical Maxim.
A variation of 100 degrees of tem-
perature between Manitoba and the
gulf goes to show that Uncle Sam ob-
gerves the medical maxim, “Keep your
head cool snd your feet warm.”—
Omaha Bee.
The energy which makes a child hard
to manage is often the energy which
makes him a manager of life—H. W.
| Beecher.
a bit of relaxation. The rambling rose.
————————————
He Lacksd Conweniration. |
Speaking of it TEas to WHR A fatinre
because Of his Ic. . l.ceesrsitand]
and his inability to know Lis own mind
five minutes al a tine. tt Copied vin.
dustry said he reminded him of a hunt.
ing dog he cnce owned: Ed
«At sunrise the dog would start out
on his own hook after deer. He would
jump a buck and run him for miles.
When the buck was on the point of ex-
haustion the hounds nostrils would |
catch the taint in the air where a fox |
had crossed tho trail, and he would in-
stantly decide that, after all, fox was
what he had come for, and he would
turn aside to pursue the Tox. Perhaps
an hour lat#®, when the chase was
growing warmer every minute, his keen
nose would detect the presence of a
rabbit, and he would go after the cot-'
tontail, with the inevitable result that,
| by 4 o'clock in the afternoon that]
hound would be thirty or forty miles
away from home in a swamp with al
chipmunk treed !”—Saturday Evening,
Post, =~ :
—_—
Cecrne and His Legs.
Bit by bit the historical grubbers aré
digzing out the truth about our im-
mortal George. We have heretofore
been told that he wore false teeth
and: that at Valley Forge he unblush-
ingly deceived his ragged and despond-
ent troops with the arrival of ample
supplies of ammunition, which consist
ed of powder barrels filled with sand,
and now a correspondent of the New
York Sun declares that in the full
length portraits of Washington by
Stuart, of which there is one in the
New York public library, the legs were
not his own. “I have seen the letter
from Stuart thanking the true owner
for his kindness in providing a sym-
metrical foundation for the bust of the
great president and presenting one of
the smaller portraits f= *»p=~ °° )
kindness.”
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An old negro woman had lived with
a certain family in the south for many |
years. One day her mistress had occa-
sion to reprimand her quite sharply for
something that had gone wrong. The
negress said nothing at the time, but
a little later her voice could be heard
in the kitchen in shrill vituperation of
everything and everybody, with a rat-
tling accompaniment of pans and Ket-
tles. So loud became the clamor and
so vindictive the exclamations that
Mrs. C. went hurriedly down to the
kitchen.
“Why, Liza,” she began in amaze-
ment, “who on earth are you talking
to?’ 4
«I ain't talkin’ to nobody,” the old
negress replied, “but I don’t keer who
in dis house hyars me.”—Harper’s Mag-
azine.
Misprints and Maxim Guns.
The late Sir Hiram Maxim says in
his autobiography that when he organ-
ized the United Btates Electric Light-
ing company the printer sent home its
stationery with the heading, “The
United States Electric Lightning com-
pany.” When be established his new
gun company in England he told of
this mistake in order to emphasize the
importance of getting the stationery
printed correctly. whon the first
sheets were brought to Lim. however,
he found that the English printers had
made his concern appear as “The Max-
im Gum company.”
Easy CGencrcsity.
Mother (to smail ron)—Bobby. dear.
I ho) you weuld be unselfish enough
to give little sister the .... ow. coven 1d
candy. Why, see, even our old hen
gives all the nice big dainties to the
little chicks and only keeps an occa-
sional tiny one for herself. :
Bobby thoughtfully watched the hen
and thickens for a time and then said,
“Well, mamma, I would, too, if it was
worms.”’—Rochesgter Times.
Gemaralion.
In the long lived pa rehial age a
generation seems to have been com:
puted at 100 years. (Genesis xv, 1).
“Subsequently the reckoning was the
same that has been more recently
adppted—that is, from thirty to forty
years (Job xiii, 16).
incongruous. .
Little Alick—What is an incongruity,
uncle? Uncle Willjam—An incongruity,
child, is a divorce lawyer humming a
wedding march. :
Vegetation In Polar Regions.
The rapid grow vegetation fn
the polar regions is attributed to the
electric currents in the atmosphere.
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Neuritis means inflammation of
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golie is steady and sticks closely
to the affected nerve. If the
nerve could be taken out and ex-
amined we could find nothing
abnormal in the case of neural-
gia. In neuritis the nerve would
be found to be inflamed. The
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symptom, not a disease. Some-
times malaria is the underlying
cause. Other times it may be
due to alcoholism, diabetes, lead
poisoning, gout, rheumatism or
Bright's disease. A diseased
tooth or a diseased ovary may
be responsible. In every case
treatment must include treat
ment of the underlying cause.
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