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"Yes, lt'B quite true, Dick1 she's
m lovely girl and as charming In
manner as In feature. I can't de
scribe her to you she's beyond de
scription! But she's a horrid little
flirt! If I were youI wouldn't go
near the place! You take my tip,
old man."
Jack looked at his companion, a
tall, slim young man, with jet" black
hair, and a handsome mustache of
the same color; then he cast a glance
In the mirror opposite, and beheld
'himself; his companion was much
the handsomer mnn of the two, for
Jack barely reached the middle
height, he had light hair ond a very
noor apology for a mustache, and,
.worst of all, it was straw colored!
Then his eyes were bluey gray, and
looked quite ordinary compared with
his frleud's fine dark orbs.
"Miss Harley mirely couldn't have
resisted your charms?" he Bald, smil
ing. "I tell you she has broken the
heart of a -dozen fellows already
and mine among them," said the oth
cf, trying to look melancholy.
- "Well, I shall go and still hope to
return heart free in spite of thiB si
ren'B charms," laughed Jack.
, But his companion shook his head
at him sadly as he left the room.
Mabel Harley was indeed all that
Jack's friend had Bald of her; her
beautifully molded figure, her trust
ful brown eyes, and her wavy golden
hair all combined to give her that
peculiarly attractive appearance that
had led to the fascination and subse
quent downfall of bo many would-be
lovers.
"Who Is that blond young man op
posite, who keeps looking this way?"
Mabel asked of the lady who sat next
her, feeling in her wicked little
heart that she had already made an
other conquest.
"Oh, that's Jack Ordry, studying,
I believe, for the Bar. He is over
for a yUlt at his uncle's," replied the
lady addressed.
"By Jove!" muttered Jack, under
his breath. "The fellow didn't ex
aggerate in the least she's simply
charming!"
After dinner Jack received a formal
Introduction to Mary Harley. Ho in
vited her to dance, and Mabel com
plied with a smile which was the
more dangerous on account of its
8eeming innocence.
After the dance the two strolled
away together, and took a seat al
most hidden from view by the spread
ing leaves of a palm.
"Are you fond of society, Mr. 1"
Mabel queried, fixing her lovely eyes
on him.
"Call mo Jack, if you please, it is
easier to remember, and sounds so
much nicer from your lips," Jack
responded with one of his most slav
ish looks.
Mablo smiled wlnningly; so she
had made another conquest nlready.
She wished that fellows wouldn't lose
their hearts quite so readily it spoilt
the fun.
"With regard to society, I think it
depends to a great extent upon the
people one meets there. Sometimes
I feel awfully bored, but I am en
Joying myself to-night Immensely."
He cast at her another loving
glance as he spoke.
"Oh, for shame, Jack!" she cried,
lapping him playfully on the back.
"And now " she continued with
pretended gravity, "I am going to
concede a point and allow you to call
me Mabel."
His answer was a surprise to her.
"How delightful! Especially as there'
will be no danger!"
"Danger of what?" she responded
quickly.
"Of us falling In love or any of
that sort of nonsense. We shall be
Just like brother and sister togeth
er." Then her conquest was not so com
plete after all, and Mabel answered
In momentary pique: "There cer
tainly will be no danger as far as I
am concerned!"
Jack answered with wonderful
frankness: "Nor as far as I am con
cerned, either. I think thirty la quite
young enough for that sort of thing,
and how pleasant it will be to be
able to talk naturally to each other
.without being misunderstood
"What a horrid fellow!" Mabel
cried, stamping her foot Impatiently
on the carpeted floor of her room.
"The very Idea of talking to me like
that! But I'll punish him I'll make
him fall in love with me, and then
just tell him what I think of him
"So the duel has begun," Jack so
liloquized.
So Jack waited two days before he
paid the Harleys a visit. Mrs. Har
ley compelled him to take afternoon
tea with them, and Jack confined bis
attentions almost entirely to the old
couple; they were simply delighted
with him, while Mabel thought his
Inattention to herself was positively
rude.
However, Mabel schemed to get a
few moments alone with Jack In the
garden after tea, and then she com'
mencea ner pre-rormea plan or re
venge with her utmost ability. For
a time she thought she was succeed'
Jng pretty well In her wicked plot,
and at last felt emboldened to put
the question
"TJnvft vmi nrvpr hpon in lnvfl?"
she asked.
Jack treated this as some huge
Joke. "Good
, laughed.
gracious, no!" he
If Mabel felt mortified at his an
Bwers Bhe covered her confusion ably
enough, and her laughter never
sounded merrier nor more unaffected
than as she led the way back to hl-r
parents.
"A very successful evening, Jacit
commented, as he threw himself
down on the bed.
"Positively detestable!" cried Ma
bel, "I hate him! and I Know no
does care for me he couiun t neip
it!" '
Jack's visits were frequent after
this; he Bald there was nothing ne
liked better than a conversation with
Mr. Harley, and one of Mrs. Harley's
cups of tea.
Mabel's conduct toward Jack
changed and Bite became more "stand
offish." Under these new tatlcs she
felt sure she should draw him on.
"I have It!" she cried, after hnv-
Ing lain awake for two whole hours
plotting; "I'll make him Jealous!"
Then she rolled over and went to
Bleep in less than five minutes.
Now there was in the neighbor
hood a certain Colonel who showed
undisguised admiration for Mabel.
She went walks with the Colonel
and generally contrived to drop
across Jack; that young gentleman,
however, contrary to expectations,
showed the utmost unconcern; he
raised his hat and positively smiled
when he first met them to Mabel's
great disgust.
A week later the neighborhood was
surprised by the announcement that
Miss Harley and the Colonel were
engaged to be married. "Now we
Bhall see!" Mabel said to herself tri
umphantly.
The .next day Jack dropped In for
tea; Mabel met him with a smiling
countenance.
"I suppose you have heard the
news?"
"Yes," he replied, cheerfully, "and
have taken this early opportunity of
calling to congratulate you." He
spoke so calmly, could it be possi
ble that he didn't care after all.
"The Colonel Is a splendid fellow!
So handsome! Everybody is fond
of him and though you perhaps
could have done better well, It's
best to choose the one that we real
ly love."
Then Jack took his seat at the
table, and talked away to the older
couple, but the worst of It was he
seemed unable to speak to Mabel
without bringing the Colonel's name
in every time; he seemed a good deal
more pleased about the arrangements
than Mabel herself. Why couldn't he
let the subject drop?
"And when is the marriage to tako
place, Mabel?"
"I don't know!" She answered 80
shortly that both Mr. and Mrs. Har
ley turned to look at her.
Only Jack didn't notice, and went
on innocently:
"Anyway, you'll invite mo to the
wedding I shall be back In town by
then, I expect, but you must write
and let mo know."
Jack returned home moody nnd
dissatisfied. He was not at all sure
of his ground, but ho consoled him
self by the thought that if he had
betrayed his love, she would only
have treated him the same ns the
rest of them better that she should
never know.
The engagement with the Colonel
only lasted a fortnight, then the re
port was circulated over the town
that the match was broken off. That
afternoon Jack made another call.
"And how's the Colonel?" he
queried.
They were standing alone in the
garden together.
"I don't know," she replied sul
lenly. "Haven't you heard that the
engagement has been broken oft?"
"I am extremely sorry," cried
Jack. "Could I do anything to ex
plain the misunderstanding for I
am sure It Is only a misunderstand
ing?" "No; It Is quite irrevocable I find
that I do not care for him I love
another."
There was- a look in her eyes that
conquered Jack all In a moment. He
knew that he was a fool. He had
been forewarned what would happen
he went into the snare with his
eyes open simply because he could
n't help It.
"Mabel," he gasped, "dare I hope
that I am the one?"
She looked at him unmoved, that
fickle smile still upon her lips. "But,
you know, you did not Intend to be
married until you were at least thir
ty?" Bhe cried, wickedly.
"Mabel," be cried, passionately, "I
have loved you all along!" And he
was pouring into her ear the tale of
burning love.
So she had conquered, at last her
revenge was consummated!
Perhaps Jack saw something of tri
umph in her eyes, for he broke off In
the midst of his appeal and cried
fiercely:
"I know that I am a fool to let yon
know! I was told that you had no
heart you cannot love" nor know
what love Is! Well, you have heard
my tale and added another conquest
to your list! And now farewell for
ever!" He turned abruptly and left
her standing there.
"Jack Jack! Come back to me
I do love you!"
And Jack turned to see her little
hands stretched out toward him,
while her wonderful beauty was en
hanced ten-fold by the soft light of
love that shone from her eyes.
"Ah!" she sighed, her lovely head
resting on bis shoulder, and her arms
encircling bis neck, "I did not know
what it was to be in love then had
I known I would never have led oth
ers on!"
Then she put her arm through his
and, they walked back very slowly
toward the houss. New York News.
MANKIND NOT
APT TO STARVE
SUCH A "DISASTER" HAS
BEEN PREDICTED.
The Modern Prophet is Singu
larly Unreliable, and in His
Latest Theory He Has Not
Taken, Into Account
Methods of Scientific .
Farming.
Universal and overwhelming disas
ters have been predicted so often and
with such exultant confidence, and
have so invariably failed to come oft,
at least In modern times, that man
kind should be rather Immune from
panic on this account, writes the
Washington correspondent of the
Now York Post. Perhaps the Del
uge Is the Bingle instance in which an
expected cataclysm or general wind
up has been realized "as advertised."
; There have been ingenious calcu
lations .as to the end of the world,
based on Biblical chronology and
prophecies which were affirmed to be
the result of direct inspiration; and
in both caseB the prophets and their
trusting followers have given away or
old their Bubstance, put. on their as
cension robes, and, like Darius Green
with his flying machine, climbed to
the roof for a good start toward the
skies; but only to be disappointed.
The calculations were demonstrably
correct, and the prophets were in no
way to blame for the failure.
Long-tailed comets have been a
frequent source of widespread alarm
and even despair. Not all the sa
vants of the French Academy could
convince the people of France, In
cluding many of tho clergy, that an
especially brilliant comet in the early
part of tho present century would not
strike the earth and smash It Into
bits, i
Not even the solemn persons who
are addicted to science are all above
doing a little in the fortune telling
line. No less a personngo In that
realm than Professor ' Plnzzl Smith,
astronomer royal of Scotland, fore
cast to a day the world's end, basing
his prediction on Incontestlble meas
urements of the pyramids. His read
ings were far more ingenious and
convincing than were those of Igna
tius Donnelly on the Shakespeare
Bacon puzzle.
Why tho Astronomer Was Wrong,
Like those of Mr. Pancks in "Lit
tle Dorrit," the figures of the astron
omer were right. It was clear that
the world had to end at the time be
noted. Only some change which con
corned the earth's enduranco can ac
count for the existence of the pres
ent generation of men, so long after
depopulation and general destruction
should have taken place. Another
person of science in Europe was as
sured that a great tidal wave would
engulf New York and Hoboken soon
after tho explosion of Mont Pclee. It
did not.
More scientific and far more seri
ous was tho prophecy of Sir William
Crooks, president of the British As
sociation for the Advancement of
Science, who was backed by the great
body of men versed in the ologles. He
declared that at a not distant period
and In the course of a single genera
tion the entire human race would
perish by 'starvation... He held this
to be the inevitable result of the rap
id exhaustion of nitrogen, the vital
element of the soil. This served the
novelist, H: G. Wells, as matter for a
characteristic tale. He fancied that
such a calamity, as stupendous as the
great flood, should have its Noah
its wise man of foresight, who would
construct a huge steel building with
a reserve of nitrogen which would al
low him to raise food enough to pre
serve himself and family from the
general fate.
Nobody challenged the melancholy
conclusion of the eminent Sir Will
lam. Nitrogen is produced in nature
by processes infinitely Blow, while
multiplying and every hungry man
consumes it in raising foodstuffs with
steadily increasing rapidity. Until
lately he has not thought of restoring
it by any adequate means. It could
be figured with some approach to
accuracy how long the productiveness
01 the soil would be such as to main
tain the life of the growing race. In
the laboratory the chemist was at
work on the problem of the artificial
production of nitrogen, and happily
he solved it. It can be done by the
use of electricity, and with a few falls
like those of Niagara it would be
practicable to obtain an Incalculable
supply of that agent at a low orice.
So the fear of universal starvation
became less distressing.
Then it was discovered that nature
has laboratories by which nitrogen Is
drawn from the air to enrich the soil.
The agency in this case Is beneficent
bacteria. Alfalfa, red clover, the nea.
bean and other legumes are such la
boratories and to their roots the jac
terla attach themselves. One of the
most Interesting and important de
velopments of scientific agriculture Is
that It Is practicable to Inoculate the
legumes with bacteria and transfer
them to poor and exhausted soils.
Progress in Scientific Fanning.
The latest prophecy of Sir William
Crooks does not seem to take account
of the progress of scientific farming
in America. He affirmed that within
the near future the world would be
faced by a grevlous shortage In the
wheat Bupply. Ho quoted Hyde, tho
American statistician, to. the effect
that by the year 1931 this country,
with a population of 130,000,009,
would not be able to spare a bushel
of wheat, corn, oats nor a ton of hay,
for export. Domestic consumption
would demand all cotton and wool,
fruit and vegetables, dairy and poul
try products. The growth of acreage
to population was already decreasing
and the" statistician could determine
when no further acreage could be
gained.
To meet these contentions there
are diversified crops, irrigation, the
introduction of new products, and,
especially, scientific farming. A
paper recently issued by Karl F. Kel
lerraan, physiologist In charge of
soil bacteriology, contains some ct
the results of legume Inoculation.
Of about 8000 farmers who were
supplied with cultures more than
one-half have made reports. Success
ful Inoculation Is indicated by the
growth of nodules on the roots, from
which the nitrogen drawn from the
air is fed to the plant and to 'the
surrounding soil. The effect is not
only-to increase the crop of legumes
ond in every way Improve It, but
also to enrich the land for subse
quent crops of different natures.
Perhaps few facts could show more
Impressively the revolution that Is
taking place In practical farming
than this process of Inoculation.
A better idea of the value of Inocu
lation can be obtained from the re
ports of the farmers. Thus one who
used alfalfa writes: "The inoculated
crop did fine, while the unlnoculated
was a failure and always has been bo
for." Another, using red clover,
says: "Inoculated crop strong and
healthy. All the seed of the unln
oculated died In forty to sixty days,
as did every unlnoculated clover field
in the vicinity." One who planted
the cowpea says: "In the Inoculated
field the Increase of peas over the un
lnoculated was fully three to one.
As to hay, about two and a half tons
to the acre In favor of the inocu
lated." Still another writes: "Three
tons of hay from an acre of inocu
lated seed, one-halt ton on land not
Inoculated."
Scientific farming may prevent the
realization of Sir William's doleful
propftecy. It obviously means an
enormous Increase in the products of
the land and probably Insures a
greater proportionate Increase of
breadstuffs than of population.
Crusade Against the Billboard
By II, O. II. TAI5R.
Some years ago I made a mental
resolve not to buy any commodity
whatever or patronize any enterprise
that was advertised upon a billboard,
fence, barn or rock In the open coun
try. I have Just read an article in
The Craftsman for January headed
"To Boycott the Billboard." The
author gives a number of suggestions
such as organizing societies with
members pledged to this object, and
tells us of movements In Great Brit
ain and here having this in view. All
of which has not so far and will never
amount to a hill of beans. The rea
son of this Is that not enough people
are sufficiently interested to take the
trouble to attend meetings of an or
ganized society, to Bay nothing of or
ganizing and going about soliciting
members.
You can't reach this crime against
nature through legislation as a man's
land is his own, as his house is his
castle, and a law preventing his ex
hibiting or permitting the exhibition
of an unobjectionable sign thereby
would surely be unconstitutional.
So far as I know I have flocked
alone In this heroic resolve, all the
time trying to devise some plan
whereby I can get r.n organized sup
port without an organization. It has
now occurred to me that the follow
ing would be practicable, and if prop
erly launched could be made effective
and would put out of business every
fence, billboard and rock artist in the
country.
At the first newspaper editors' con
vention (I understand they have an
association in every State) let them
be resolved that all shall Insert in
their columns a form of pledge which
their readers are to be Invited to sign,
cut out and return to the paper.
This will inspire editorial articles
which will tend to shame the farmer
and make it more difficult for the bill
board man to hire the privilege. .
The action of one State association,
I venture to say, will be followed by
a similar movement all over the
country. Of course it will be met
with the objection that newspapers
could not afford valuable space in
continued issues, for to be effective it
must be kept up. The answer to this
is that while doing a great good they
are diverting a large amount of mon
ey spent In advertising into a legiti
mate channel, the columns of a news
paper..
Possibly in some cases the influ
ence of the large advertiser would be
too great, but I have observed that
the billboard man seldom does much
newspaper advertising, so while
sweeping from God's green country
the soap, castor oil and baking pow
der ads isn't It possible the newspaper
man may be doing a very good stroke
of business?-
Nuisance to Editors.
. One of the modern nuisances of
editorial work nowadays is the volun
teer Information bureau, which out of
pure love sends news of one sort or
another to be published without
charge, declares the Hartford Cour
ant. Nine times out of ten this Is
easily perceived to be the work of
some hired press agent, whose pur
pose is to steer "public opinion;" the
tenth time you can guess the same
thing. Why all this trouble, unless
it Is to effect some' end which the
guileless editor cannot suspect?.
SUGGESTS NATIONAL
BOARD OF HEALTH.
W. J. Lampton Says Dlioasei
Would Be Largely Preventable
by Federal Aid.
Isn't It about time that we were
having a national' Board of Health
of Importance equal to that of any
other department of the government?
According to a statement of the
American Medical Society, "during
last year 1,500,000 persons died in
this country and there were 4,200,
000 sick, Involving the comfort and
material prosperity of 6,000,000
homes and 26,000,000 people."
It we had a population of four or
five hundred millions these figures,
would .not mean so much, but we have
not. On the contrary, we have no
more than will show that more than
one-quarter of our people are threat
ened In their material comfort and
prosperity every year by disease.
Medical men believe that at leaBt one
third of this Is preventable by knowl
edge already In hand and tho percent
age might be largely reduced if fed
eral aid were extended and all the
powers of the government available
in such good work were put Into ef
fect. Certainly no sickly nation can he
strong, and as certainly public health
is of more Importance than any other
one necessity of proper existence. Tho
government looks after the health of
cattle and sheep and hogs and other
animals of commercial value, but are
not the people, who constitute the
government, of more significance?
And what has the government done,
broadly speaking, for the people at
large? When the yellow fever, chol
era or plague manifests Itself the
government becomes active enough,
but what government aid is expended
for the development of knowledge of
the various preventable and prevail
ing diseases that carry off so many
useful people every year?
Our physicians are making tremen
dous progress, and they are doing so
out of their own means and the means
of those rich men who see more clear
ly than the government Itself what
is needed and what should be done.
But so important a matter as the
maintenance of public health, the ac
quisition of medical knowledge and
the dissemination of information of
vital benefit to all the people should
be In the hands of the government,
with men-nnd means sufficient to pur
sue disease to its source and throttle
It at Its beginning. We cannot final
ly conquer Death, but we can stand
him oft until our time is up if we
only know how, and the government
is the one to find out how and to In
form us. W. J. Lampton, In the New
York Herald.
A Strip of Territory Added to Alaska.
It is reported in Ottawa that a
strip of territory a furlong wide and
some fifty miles long, will be added
to Alaska, owing to the work that
has just been completed positively
locating the. 141st meridian. There
was no dispute as to the location of
the boundary to the north of Mount
St. Ellas, since it was agreed a num
ber of years ago that the line should
follow the 141st meridian from that
mountain northward to the Arctic
Ocean. The line, however, had never
been actually marked. Of late years
the extensive mining operations in
the White River country have led
many prospectors to stake out claims
which may or may not be In the
United States territory. By means
of the telegraph, the most accurate
method known,, the old determina
tion made by the lunar method was
checked up,, placing the meridian
about COO feet farther east than it
had hitherto been supposed to exist.
Scientific American. ,
A Movement For Clean Bread.
A movement is on foot in Wash
ington to safeguard the bread supply
of the public by wrapping It in paper
as soon as it has been baked. Some
opposition having been offered by the
bakers, who objected that the wrap
ping would impair its palatabillty and
digestibility, the Health Department
experimented with various kinds of
paper and discovered that the effect
of the protective covering was to pre
serve the freshness of the bread,
which was superior after twenty-four
hours to that which had not been
wrapped. Another advantage of the
proposed method is that the union
label, which Is now affixed directly to
the loaf a plan objectionable to
many consumers could, with the
adoption of this method, be used to
seal the wrappers. Some restaurants
in New York have already taken to
the use of similar wrappers for the
rolls which they serve to their pat
rons. Leslie's.
The Household.
.What Is a household?
A household Is a place where ba
bies and dust are raised, bills are con
tracted, coal Is burned, food is eaten
and occasionally auctions are held.
As a rule, a household consists of
two heads and one foot. One head is
the cook, the other the man's wife.
Every day every household Is vis
ited by all the trusts.
At regular Intervals it Is visited by
sickness, health, taxes and clergymen.
Nothing happens that the house
hold doesn't get Its share of.
It's a partner in epidemics, panics,
elections, wars, tidal waves. An
earthquake on the Pacific Coast will
be reflected in every household In
New York.
The stock market quotations are
written on the walls and celling and
floors of every household.
Nothing succeeds (or fails) like a
household. Life.
Savings banks are established in
228 schools in Scotland. There are
35,712 depositors, with $18,990 to
tholr credit.
VmmU A .... .1 H f .l I I T.Hnnn
sor Orlmbert recently stated that the
central pharmacy, which dispenses
supplies to the public Institutions in
T. 1 - .. .1 I, T . ... . V. .
rni ib uuu tilt, uvai iuiciil vi iuq
Seine, annually furnished 12,000 '
leeches for use In the hospitals. t
3. Pierpont Morgan has presented
to the Wadsworth Athenaeum, at
Hartford, In memory of his father,
fourteen volumes descriptive of his
art collections In London and New.
York. Each volume is valued at
1000.
Amateur photographers are not
happy In Russia. They have to se
cure licenses, and If they chance to
take a. snap-shot of a view near a
fortress they are liable to be whirled
to Siberia as spies.
Horticulturists have discovered
that roses and mignonette cannot live
tntrathav Tf tho iwn flnvera nra
placed together In a vase both wither
within half an hour.
Laconians, whose chief city was
Sparta, were famous In ancient
Greece not only for their success in
war, but for their scorn of luxuries
and their brevity of speech. When
King Philip of Macedonia, father of
Alexander the Great, threatened
them, saying, "If I enter Laconia I
will level your city to the dust," they,
sent back the reply, "If! " Their short
answers give to the English language
the word "laconic."
New York City has 113 publlo
parks, varying in size from a few
square yards In the angle at 'the
crossing of streets, up to Pelham Bay.
Park, containing 1756 acres.
A New Jersey commuter, fond of
figures, estimates that during the six
coldest days of this winter, when the
rivers were filled with ice, the delays
in ferry transportation to persons go
ing to and from their work in Man
hattan amounted to forty-two years
of working days for one man. ,
An American syndicate has pur-'
chased the Port Coloso Railway and
nitrate fields of Chile, as well as
nitrate fields in Tarapaca and Anto
fagasta for $12,000,000.
Mr. Richard Carter, of South Po
land, is probably the tallest man in
Maine. His height is six feet eight
inches, and he is as straight as nn
arrow. His shoulders are very broad,
ama tiniianallv Iflnff find hnTv Ti'OlJ.
proporuoueu. no weigus ouiy ivv
pounds.
Homo Taper tlio Best Advertisement.
The best advertising medium of a
town is its home paper, provided tho
paper be properly sustained, says tho
Richmond Times-Dispatch. A good
home paper, well edited, well printed,
well filled with local advertisements,
having the smile of prosperity on its
countenance, nnd well circulated. Is
in Itself an index to the thrift and en
terprise of the community it repre
sents and an expression of the enter
prising spirit of the people. It has
now become an axiom of trade tha,
every community is judged by It
newspaper. If the newspaper Is dull
and poverty-stricken, the outsider
who sees it will conclude that it rep
resents dull and thriftless commu
nity. If, on -the other hand, it Is live
in all its departments, and shows that
It Is well sustained, the outsider will
judge Its constituency accordingly?
And usually It is a fair basis of e.ti--
mate. Nine times out of ten the )1 -J
newspaper is a curreci yuuiugi apu uv
the town in which it is published and
from which it derives its support.
This Is a matter which the people
of every town should seriously con
sider. They should bear In mind that
every copy of the home paper goes
out as a courier, with a message to
the outside world. It is for the peo
ple to say what sort of a courier it
shall be,- and what sort of message
It shall carry. If the people proclaim
to the world that they will not sustain
a home paper, how can they expect the
world to believe that they will sustain -V
any other nome enterprise mat mignt
move In?
The money spent on the home pa
per should be expended in subscrip
tions and individual advertisements,
for, as we have said, the paper should
be an advertisement In Itself of the
community. But the local paper is
necessarily limited In Its reach, and
In addition to local support the town
should appropriate a liberal fund for
general advertising In medjums
which have a wider circulation'
town is too large to advertise abroad.
The largest cities In the United States
are the largest advertisers, and If the
cities find It necessary to adverMp.
how much more necessary Is it for tie
towns, which are not so well known
to do so!
The German Way.
In Germany the adulteration of
wine and beer is prohibited for home
consumption, but permitted for ex
portation. It is an open secret that
wine from Vienna and beer from
Munich are doctored bofbre slJ,;ing
to the United States. New Vork
Press.