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A BOY'S VACATION TIME. “Waal, it’s enough to say ‘twas a Marketing ’otnto Crops.
Hail, that long awaited day
When, the school books laid away,
'All the thoughts of merry youngsters turn
from pages back to play!
Done with lesson and with rule
Done with teacher and vith school,
Stray the vagrant hearts of childhood to
the tempting wood and pooll
"Who will tell in rune and rhyme *
Of the glory and the grime -
In the dusty lanes and byways of a bey’s
vacation time? i
Hark, the whistle and the ery 7
That is piping shrill and high :
From the chorus of glad youngsters. trpop-
ing riotously by!
‘
Say, did sun e’er brightly shine
‘As when, with his rod and line. .
Tramps tne barefoot lad a’fishing.
water clear and fine!
Sweet. the murmur of the trees,
‘And what glory now he sees =
In the. clatter of the wild birds" aud the
buzz of bumble bees!
Hear the green woods cry and call,
Through the summer tw the fall,
“We are avaiting, waiting, waiting, with a
welcome for you all!” <
Hear the lads take up the cry,
With an echo. shrill and high;
“We are coming, coming, coming, for vaca-
tion time is nigh!”
How the skies are blue and fair,
How the clover scents the air
With a witchery of fragrance that is deli-
cate and rare!
How the blossoms bud and blow,
And the great waves flood and flow
In the ocean of boy-happiness, like billows,
to and fro!
Ah, my heart goes back and sighs
When the piping calls and cries
From the hearts of merry youngsters like
o . £ } 1
And 1 would that rune and rayme
Might be splendid and sublimé
In my heart to tell the story of a boy's
vacation time! :
—J. W. Foley, in the New York Times.
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SERRE RERERLR
203%. URING a visit in Denver,
of some months ago. my at-
o D ¥ tention was attracted one
or”
chamber window. The next moment
Bessie Leveret’'s face gleamed in upon
me as she eagerly exclaimed:
“Come down, please do. He's here,
and there'll be such exciting talk!”
Descending, I found my three young
cousins gathered about the queerest,
jolliest-looking man it has ever been
my good fortune to behold. A glance
showed me that he was the famous
Rocky Mountaineer, whose praises had
been rung into my ears ever since my
arrival at "the beautiful city which
guarded the entrance to the eternal
hills.
“Cousin,” Bessie said, with charm-
ing dignity, “allow me to introduce to
you our particular friend, Deerskin
Bill.”
Repressing a smile at the deferential
manner with which Bessie uttered the
suggestive title, I advanced and bowed
to the distinguished mountaineer.
Doffing his fur cap with awkward
courtesy, Deerskin Bill responded:
“Sarvice, ma'am. I hope’s the snow-
storm up in the mountains hes not dis-
commoded ye in pertic'lar wise. Do
ye mind the pecooliar glistenin’ white-
ness thet lays down around old Bald?
Ef ther hain’t fell five foot 0’ snow
up ther since yisterday morn I'll never
shoot a mountain sheep ag’in.”
We turned our eyes toward the
snowy range, stretching white and
grand above the misty blue enshroud-
ing the lower hills. The soft Septem-
ber sunshine sifted through the clear,
thin air about us, suggesting scarcely a
hint of the eternal winter reigning just
above. In’ the distance Pike's Peak,
the highest summit of the rocky moun-
tains, touched the sky in lonely
grandeur.
“Pive years ago I saw the sunrise
up ther on Pike's Peak on New Year's
morn, and ‘twas wuth rememberin’.
I was huntin’ a black-tailed deer up
ther, but when the sun riz I forgot the
deer, and bless me ef I've remembered
him to this day.”
This speech was greeted by a burst of
laughter from the children.
“Well, Jack,” Dick Leveret said,
“let's see if you can remember what
happened to you one time while you
were driving stage to Pike's Peak ever
so many years ago.”
‘Happened ?—there was s0 many
things thet I must stop and think,”
returned Deerskin Bill, forgetfully.
“Do ye mean when the avalanche slid
down on me, or the hosses broke loose
and percipitated the stage into the
gulch, or the big bar planted himself
across the road in front o’ me, or the
Rocky Mountain ghost came down the
canyon—"
morning by a sound of
lively greeting on the
piazza just below my
“No, no,” interrupted Dick, with
something like contempt, “all those
will do for commonplace adventures,
hut we want cousin to hear the real
hair-raising Indian story—how they
burned, you and Willie at the stake,
you know.”
The children had heard the
many times before, but an expression
of resolute endurance closely re-
sembling torture crept into their young
faces as they prepared to listen again
to Deerskin Bill’s adventure with the
Indians.
“Ye see ‘twas vears before the Kan-
sas Pacific Railroad stretched through
the ‘Golden Belt, which means the
finest wheat country in the world.
Western Kansas was a howlin’ wilder-
ness, and Denver was nothin’ but a
tradin’ post when I used to come and
git pervisions and sich, and I'm sorry
to say, whisky, which the miners round
Pike's Peak hed ordered, and it seemed
to be my dooty to transport. I used to
drive four mules and four hosses, and
when the road was dangerous the
mules went ahead and picked the way,
but when ‘twas even ground and I
story
hosses the lead, and neater-
ters it hes never been my
the ribbins over.
“Waal, as I was abe
yYoutie one mornin’ w
o’ pervisions and whisky,
passen y iner
me :
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mournful kind o’ smile.
Jike's Peak to search for father, who
came out here two yearbs ago and hes
‘Am goin’ to
not been heard from only onct.
Mother's pinin’ away with grief and
suspense, so I'm goin’ to try to find out
somethin’ sartint.’
“Thet was the boy’s meanin,” but the
bootiful soft voice and nice smooth
words ’twon’t be expected of Deerskin
Bill to imitate.
“Waal, 1 learnt while we was on the
jog thet the missin’ father of the purty
boy was one 0 them knowin’ fellows
wat spends his life a-huntin’ bugs,
and stones, and other curious things.”
“A naturalist,” I said, seeing the
mountaineer hesitate for an appropri-
ate word with which to express his
meaning.
“Kerzactly. He‘d come out to make
collections for his curiosity shelf, but,
as nigh as I could jedge, he’d been col-
lected up onto the shelf his=elf, without
no lovin’ friend to drop a tear above
his cold remainds. Howsumever, I
didn’t tell Willie my fears—I hed found
out his name was William, and natur-
ally shortened it down into the pet
name—but chirruped up his courage
till we reached Lone Gulch, wher the
Injuns come upon us with less warnin’
then I bev given you in tellin’ of it.
“I'd got kinder careless like from
makin’ so many trips and bein’ unmo-
lested, and when the red demons
swarmed upon us like a pack 0’ blood-
thirsty wolves, I was taken by sur-
prise and hedn't time to pint my
shootin’-iron afore they hed us in ther
clutches.
“Aside from the thought he naterally
hes about leapin’ off into eternity so
suddint like, it makes a man feel sort
o sheepish to be tied hand and foot
straight up agin’ a tree without the
power to move a muscle, when lLe’s
been used to roamin’ to the very pinna-
cle 0’ God's mountaneous univarse.
“The Injuns dressed themselves in
red shirts—of which my wagin held a
good supply—and piled the brushwcod
round us till we stood waist-deep in
fagots.
« ‘Willie, my boy, sez 1, ‘tis all over
—
with us. . Ther ain't no, chances left
for us.”
“Tell us how Willie loooked,” said
Bessie. breathless with suspense.
“willie? Waal, ef ever the sperrit
of a hero looked out o' two heavenly
blue eyes, ‘twas out o lLis’n thet
minute. Straight, and slim and booti-
ful. he stood agin’ the fir tree, wher
they bound him facin’ me, lookin’ up
beyond the hills, as if expectin® forti-
toode to come down on iim from the
skies.
“Ef I had only found out what had
become © father, Willie said, ‘and ef
it wasn't for mother watchin’
weepin’ si
“Oh, Bill,
the whisky?”
at
and
isn’t it time to bring in
interrupted little Grace,
who could not endure the torture
longer.
“put, tut, sweetheart, ye mustnt
break the plot too suddint.,” responded
Bill, with mild reproof. ‘‘Howsumever,
it was jest at this crisis thet one of
the savages diskivered the demijohns
o’ firewater, which he wasn't long in
communicatin’ to the remainder o’ the
Injins. They began to drink and
dance, and drink and dance agin, till
their fiendish leaps got tw
boozy staggers, and at last they
dropped onto the ground as dead as
wheelspokes for the time bein’. When
the last one was fairly down 1 sez to
Willie:
+ ‘Could ye by eny means break loose
from yer bands?
“He struggled desperately. but they
would not give way, and then
When death
his cour-
age deserted him. had
stared him in the ft Lhe had been
resoloot, but when life I seemed
about to interfere with tl m inon-
ster in the boy’s behalf, and then hed
ked out ag’in, Willie couldu’t be
{ blamed fer takin’ on a bit.
«J ean’t break ‘em, he said, with
sob and wail t
his had riz
‘I am bound as fast
thet has stood uj
side fer ages.
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hopes
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seeing tl
in
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erp
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Bessie
tough job, but 1 wan't q
be roasted, and mother
waitin’ him back beyond the
prairies, so’ parsevered till the bands
gove way, and when my hands was
free 1 didn’t lose no time in gettin’
out my knife, which the Imjins had
forgot to rob me of, and cuttin’ off the
rest 0’ my fetters. Then I walked over
to Willie and set him free.
“And now comes the most techin’
part o’ the'hull story. The boy dropped
upon his knees, and sich a sublime out
pourin’-o’ pure thankfulness I never
ite ready to
Willie had a
for
heard. Twas enough to hist one right
up into glory. But I was obliged to
say:
** ‘Come, Willie, ye kin finish up yer
isin’ when we git safe under old
Pike's pertectin’ ribs; ’‘tain’t best to
stop here eny longer.
“So we hitched up the mules and
horses, and started on our way.”
“You've skipped the best part: how
you fixed the rascals before yom left
them,” Dick said, with boyish anticipa-
tion of a tragedy.
“I don't know about puttin’ that in
1 every. time} returned Deerskin Bill,
reflectively. ‘'Tain’'t best to indulge
a killin’ sperit when ther’s a way o
gettin’ "off without it. Tis ‘enough to
say~1 had a good revolver. and they
never -know’d what hurt em. Waal,
“ast Iiwas géin’ to say, we started on
our way, apd reached the mines in
safety.” \-- py.
“Now please tell cousin whether
Willie, ever found his father,” Bessie
said, “drawing -a long breath of relief
as Bill finished his story.
“No;~he found out from some oid
miners thet his father had died o’ camp
fever. shortly ;after writin’ home the
first-time. He dropped off suddint like,
and. no. one~knowed wher to direct a
letterto his “family. Willie went back
to his mother with the first wagin train
thet crossed the plains fer home.”
“Did you ever hear anything more of
him?’ 1. asked, having felt a deep in-
terest:in the story of the boy's devoted
pilgrimage in search of his absent
father, P
“Yes: he was out this way two years
ago with a¥lot o’ college boys. He
came in a palace car over the Kansas
Pacific Railroad. A fine contrast to
the way he traveled the fust time,
Willie told me. He is now a perfesser
in the same line his father tracked
aforé him, ‘but he hasn't lost his in
nercent-lookin’ face and heavenly-blue
eyes, not yit.”—New York Weekly.
The Tombstone Censor. *
A tombstone censor is employed by
most large cemeteries. It is the duty
of this man. tc see that nothing un-
seemly in the way of a tombstone is
put. up.
A young engineer in a Norristown
mill was killed by the explosion of a
JDeoiler, and” the family of this young
man, believing that the mill owners
had known all along that the boiler
was defective, actually had carved on
the tombstone the sentence, “Murdered
by’ his masters.” The tombstcne cen-
sQr4of course, refused to sanction such’
an’epitaph.’
.On the death of a certain noted prize-
fighter, the surviving orother of the
man wanted to put in a glass case be-
side the grave a championship belt,
four medals, a pair of gloves and other
trophies of the ring. But the censor’s
negative was firm. _
A widow who believed that the phy-
sician was responsible for her hus-
band’s death wished to put on the
tomb, “Hevemployed a cheap doctor,”
but the tombstone censor showed her
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{Wills that shocking
us what you did,” said
that such an inscription would lay her
open-to.heavy damages for libel
Atheists sometimes direct in their
blasphemies be
carved on their monuments. The cen-
sor, however, sees to it that these blas-
phemies do not disfizure the cemeterv
| — Philadelphia Bulletin.
One Fault in Settlement Worl,
“1 think we need a change in the
ideals of our settlement work,” said
Miss A. L. Fairfield, who has been con-
nected with settlement work for sev.
era! vears in New York.
“Our aim has been to introduce the
children to American ideas and ideals
just as rapidly as possible. The result
has been to create a veritable chasm
in many cases Detween the children
and their parents. What we want we
attain to a greater ov less degree. For
example, the East Side girls who have
under settlement influence for
some years bave wanted pretty clothes,
ladylike manners and education. And
th ve attained them, to a surpris-
| ine degree often, considering the dif-
ficulfies in their way. But it all dis
con
i conneets ‘them more and more with
their.home life. Instead of drawing
their home life along with them, they
ave it behind and find alk their in-
ts outside the home. I think the
should include the homo
life among ite
To Prolong Youth.
Sarah Bernhardt, who recently cele
ated her sixtieth birthda thus ex:
| plains her eternal youth: “Rise early.
| zo to bed late, sleep very little in the
daytime; I take two months’ vacation
the summer and enjoy life at my
country residence at Belleisle-sur-Mer
untine, shooting and fishii ire my
pastimes. I atiribute my
and v to the moderation 1
ve in all personal habits. Fruit
favorite article of diet.”
is my
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The
DOCTORS.
Have confidence in doctors,
Whatever you may do;
Though you may be at death’s door,
Fhey’ll surely pull you through.
—Town and Country-
LASTING EFFECTS.
Howell—“A good deal depends on the
formation of early habits.”
Powell—“I know it;'when I was a
baby my mother hired 'a woman to
wheel me .about.;and.I have: been
pushed for :money.ever since.”—Town
Topics. .. Ba 8X HOY
AN SO "THE MODE..isin
Waiter—“Did you order beef a la
mode, sir?” !
Whitty (who has been waiting half
an hour)—“Yes. What's the matter?
Have you been waiting for the styles
to change ?’—@atholic ‘Standard and
Times. ks
GREATEST OF THE GREAT.
She (at the piano)—Who,.in your es-*
timation, is the greatest living com-
poser ?”’
He—*“I can’t recall his name just
now, but he manufactures a popular
brand of soothing. syrup.” — Chicago
News. ARN "
‘AN IMPROVING. INFLUENCE.
“Say, wot's de matter wit’ Chimmy?
Dis mornin’ he got a crack wit’ a golf
ball, an’ he says ‘Oh gracious! my,
goodness! oh, me! oh, my! oh, sugar!—
wot’s de matter wit’ im?” '
“Aw, he's caddyin’ fer de bishop wot
just joined dé club:”’—Browning’s Mag-
nzine, :
THE POET'S TRIALS,
“Don’t yousometimeshave thoughts,”
asked the soulful young thing, “that
are absolutely unutterable?’.:
“I do, miss,” answered the old poet.
“And sometimes, when I am digging
for a rhyme that won't come, I have
thoughts that are absolutely unprint
able.”—Chicago Journal. . ’
HIS MISTAKE.
gruv +4 Cosy
’, . aT - ped we
Young Wife—“Before we were mar-.
ried you said you loved the ground I.
walked on.” : SVETENT §
Hubby—*I didn’t know there was a
mortgage on your father’s farm.’ —
Boston Globe. : write A
UNDERDONE REALISM.
Naggsby—I notice that Bleuhardt
failed in his theatrical venture. Must
have overdone that realism that was
always his hobby? sv.» bo ¢
Waggsby— “On the contrary, he un-
derdid it. He didn’t make the real-
jem extend to the box office receipts.”
—Baltimore American.
HIS ONLY WORRY.
“It's de important queshtions uv de
day wot worries me,” said the hobo.
“Important questions of the day?”
echoed the well-fed citizen.
“Dat’s wot I sed,” continued the un-
paced globe trotter, ‘“‘meanin’ where’ll
I git sumthin’ ter eat ar’ where'll T
sleep. See?’—Chicago News.
QUALIFIED TO SAY.
“To settle a bet,” said the visitor to
the sanctum, “how long cap a man go
without eating?” J
“Ask that long-haired man over
there,” replied the funny editor.
“Is he the ‘Amswers to Correspond-
ents” man?’
“No. He's a poet’—Philadelphia
Ledger. ae es
DISAPPOINTED.
“Luck never manages things just
right,” said the irritable man who dis-
likes music. “It might just as well
have. been tlie other way round, but
it wasn’t.” 3
“What is the trouble now
“My daughter, who plays the piano,
has a sore throat, and the one whe
sings has a sore finger.”—Washington
Star.
7”
WHY SHE WEPT.
“But, my dear,” protests the young
husband, “you have paid $56 for this
Taster bonnet, when I asked you not
to exceed ¥
“Yes, love,” she explains; “but don’t
vou see, the $56 one was marked down
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the $25 ones
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from $72, and
ked down saved $1
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“pOOR” SOIL FRUITFUL.
‘Do. not be deterred from having a
small fruit garden because your soil is
not just what the books recommended.: |:
A. lot of nonsense. has been written
and passed aiopg concerning the criti-
cal wastes, about the soil they grow in,
of. different fruits and * vegetables.
Fruits do have preférences, but they
are fot nearly so particular in this re-
spect as many. persons=would try to
make us believe. They have a com-
fortable* way. of adapting themselves
to almost dny kind of soil, provided it
is*not very rocky, nor yery shallow,
nor very wet. If you ‘do not have sat-
isfactory results with small fruits, it
| is, much more likely to be your ‘fault
than the faulkt'of the soil. 1 wo
HOLLYHOCKS,
Everybody. knows that-a- “hardy per-
ennial” is ‘a plant’ tat dies down *to.
the ground every ;winter: like a Peony
and contes up'again in the spring for
an ingefinite mumber .of years, and
mest. people know that there is a be-
wildering assortment of them,.ranging
in height:from two inches to three or
four feet. It is a surprising fact that
there are barely a dozen first-class per-
ennials that normally grow as high as
| a man and are suitable for the back of
a border of hardy shrubs. The best.of §
these ‘gre single hollyhocks.: They
have by far the greatest range of color.
of any tall,-hardy herbs and are hard-’
ier and more permanent than’ double
hollyhpocks. They are biennial and
bloom the second year,:and-sow them-
‘Selves year after year all over the gar-
den.
BOX OR BARREL PACKAGE.
The question whether the box or the
. barrel makes the best package for ap-:
ples and pears came again to a free;
discussion at the meeting of the West-
erp New York - Horticultutal “Society
and the New York State Fruit Grow-
ers’ Association. It was ‘generally
conceded that for ordinary fruit the
barrel is as yet the almost indispensa-
‘ble ‘and only package, while for choice,
or faney apples or pears the box is of-
ten found very profitable. Mr. Wil
lard stated that even so inconspicuous
a fruit as the Winter Nelis pear, con-
mens, all carefully wrapped in paper,
has netted him, in boxes, at the rate
of $11.50 per bushel in the English
market.” He‘also shipped Wealthy ap-
-ples to England in boxes and got good
returns, - The Winter Nelis. was
praised both by Mr. Willard and Mr.
William -C. Barry, as a fine winter!
pear, especially for family use. It is
easily grown. Nobody would ‘be lia®
ble to steal it from the tree, but it de-
velops fine qualities -when it matures
after being shipped. It is then.of.fine
texture, melting and delicious.—Okla-
‘homa Farmer. Lo ou .
BARRELS OR BOXES FOR APPLES
‘Would not consumption be doubled
if apples were put up in small pack-
ages like other fruits so the consum-
er could get them in the original pack-
age? If the a@vance in ‘the pricé of
barrels is due, as many think it is, te
a pool or trust, “and I will say there
are reasons for this belief,” and there
is plenty of timber, the remedy lies-in
the: apple growers of the country
through the Nafional Apple Growers’
-Gongress or some organization to put
machinery in operation cutting it into
cooperage. We are not assuming that
there is any trust, but we notice each
recurring year that barrels can be had
if we pay the advance in price. It is
‘g question, however, if we could se-
. cure barrels at twenty-five cents each
Again, whether it is the package we
should use. We are of the opinion that
the extended distribution in a retail
way necessary for the consumption of
our large apple crops cannot be
reached by the use of the barrel. It
may be said that for storage and ex-
port trade we will have to use barrels.
If only barrels are used for this it
would relieve the barrel situation that
much. , Still would not a case holding
half a barrel in use be more satisfac-
tory for storage and export?—G, T.
Tippin, in National Fruit Grower.
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REAL, MAPLE SUGAR.
The ‘Department of Agriculture’s
Bureau of Forestry is trying to revive
and extend the production of maple
sugar. As persons of middle age can
remember, maple sugar ‘was formerly
obtained from the sap of maple trees.
Now it is usually compounded of glu-
cose, brown ‘cade sugar, extract of
hickory bark and other substances ca-
pable of more or less plausible disguise,
The Bureau of Forestry considers it a
moderate statement to say that seven-
eights of all the maple sugar and syrup
on the market are counterfeit. It
thinks that the production of the genu-
jne article: ean he made profitable
throughout the Northern States and
down as far as the mountains of East:
ern Tennessee and Western North Cai-
olina. Its investigations show that a
farmer can easily clear $3 per acre,
and usually more, from a sugar grove
on land that would be useless for any
other purpose. ‘At'the same time this
industry would help to preserve forest
conditions, The bureau believes that
the producers can push pure goods in-
to the market at a little higher price
han is now paid for adulterated arti-
ssociations,
were only |
ou cought te {
cles by forming a adopting
ered trade-mar
antees of-quality a
ng direct to
middlen
present
“normal rates and -prices there -would
sisting of course of well grown speci- ,
In Line with the classic case of the
ovster shippers, cited hy President
Hadley of Yale University in his book
on Railroad Transportation, is the case
of the Aroostook potato growers
brought by President Tuttle of the
Boston & Maine Railroad before the
Senate Committee on Interstate Com-
merce. Nothing could better show how
a railroad works for the interest of
the localities which it serves. GE
CA main dependence of the farmers of
the Aroostook region is the potato
crop. aggregating annually eight to
ten million bushels which find a mar-
ket ~vgely in Boston and the adjacent
thickly setiled regions of Néw® Eng $
ladd: >The competition of cheap water
trapsportation from -Maine.to all points
along the New England coast keeps
railroad freight rates on these pota-
toes always at a very low level.
Potatoes are also a considerabie out-
put of the truck farms of ‘Michigan,
their nozmal market being obtained in
and through, Detroit and Chicdgo and
other communities of that region.
Not many years ago favoring sun and
rains brought a tremendous yield of
potatoes from the Michigan fields. At
hive been a glut of the customary mar-
kefs and thespotatoes would have rot-
ted on the farms... To help. tife potato
growers the railroads from ‘Michigan
made unprecedentedly low rates+, on
potatoes to every reachable market,
even carrying them in large quantities
"fo a place so remote as Boston. The
FX #60stook growers 'had to reduce the oF
price on ftieir potatoes and even then
could mot dispose of them unléss the ==
Boston &:Maine: Railroad reduced its
already loav . rate, which it did. By
means of these low rates, making pos-
sible -low. prices, the potato crops of
both Michigan and Maine ‘were finally,
marketed. Everybody eats potatoes,
potatoes Le wanted. :
While the Michigan railroads made
the railroads, had they been applied to
the movement of all potatoes at all,
times, to all places, they helped their
‘patrons. to find markets for them. The
Boston & Maine Railroad suffered a de-
“erase intits ‘revenue from potatoes,
to market’ their crop and thereby to
obtain money which they spent for
the “varied supplies which the rail-
roads brought to them. If the making
of rates were subject to Governmental
action could never have been taken,
because it is well-established that if'a
rate be once:reduced by a railroad:
company it cannot be restored through 2
ure. If the Michigan railroads and the
Boston & ‘Maine, -Railroad. had been
subjected to. Governmental limitation.
they would have’ felt obliged to keep
up their rates as do the railroads of
Trance and England and Germany un-
der Governmentdl imitation dnd “let:
the potatoes rot.-—Xxchange.
3 Gloves and Microbes. : .
It was noticed in Paris when King
Edward was thére that hie always ap-
peared, in public with the right hand
gloved, but not his left. "As it is'a
glove loose and net the left, much
' speculation has been excited- by the
king’s: reversal of this custom. One
learned writer suggests that it is due
to a sound perceptidn of hygienic pro-
priety. - The object of a ‘glove, :he:
says, is. not to adorn but to protect :
the hand. Which hand has the more
constant employment and is therefore
Brought into closer contact with mi-
crobes? Why, the right hand. It
follows that in keeping that hand
gloved the King shows his unfailing,
sense. Vive le Roi!—London Chren-
jele, ’
UNSIGHTLY BALD SPOT :
Caused by Sores on Neck—DMerciless Itchs
ing For Two Years Made Him Wild"
~—~Another ‘Citre by Cuticura. 2
“For two years my neck was covered
with sores, the humor spreading to my
hair, which fell out, leaving an unsightly
bald spot, and the soreness, inflammation
and merciless itching made me wild.
Friends advised Cuticura Soap and Oint-
ment, and after a few applications the tor-
ment subsided, to my great joy. The sores
soon disappeared, and my hair grew again,
as thick ,and healthy as ever. I shall al-
wa recommend Cuticura. (Signed) H.
J. Spalding, 104 W. 104th St. Y, City,”
Associated Press Censorship.
Seven hundred newspapers, repre-
“senting every conceivable view of
every public question, sit in judgment
upon the Associated Press dispatches.
A representative of , each «of these
papers has a vote in the election of
the management. Bvery . editor .is
jealously watching every line of. the
report. It must he obvious that any :
gerious?départure: from an ‘honegt and °
impartial. service would arouse: a -
storm of indignation ‘which. would
overwhelm any administration.—Cent-
ury-
LASTING RELIEF.
J. W: Walls, Super-
intendent of. Streets,
off Lebanon, Ky.,
says:
“My nightly rest was broken, owing
to irregular action of the kidmeys. I
was suffering intensely’ from severe
pains in the small of my back and
through the kidneys and annoyed by
painful passages of abnormal secre-
tions. No amount of doctoring relieved
this condition. took Doan’s Kidney
Pills and experienced quick and lasting
relief. :
Doan’s Kidney:Pills will prove
ing to all
sufferers. from Kidney
wl ~311 i
v1 wi sive then air
who will give them a fair
ATI ¢ ly
Milt Buffalo, N'’'Y.
Co.;
rates that would have been ruinous to. |
but’ it enabled the Aroostook farmers“ -
adjustment such radical and prompt
a
common practice to carry the right
and that year everybody had ‘all the © *
’
the red tape of Governmental-proced- 2
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