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We f.ons of of fun benefit A osed to len. fortune he shor¥ and edi- ym their 1 a story, | ‘hen he that the 1 actors ited, be- isers in e of the pprietor, ial rela- yorter ig clines to a great his own and its to grafi 4 0, some their re- y news: ain sum In their elves ag ring all tors fre expense, known w om trou r, to cut ler com- Under ly to pe | Vea of that t if they on their ally dis » Cosmo- e. 1 case of wealthy ainst his going te reas the ‘u ain bhim- use. 11 in the g before ls to his ce. To had: him- | school, vired hig von’t see ld man’s ollowing stance.” mn to Tos d man.—~ 4k pi -aumber of lodge men wanting teeth is Battons. They're In favor. Small ones are first. Metal ones stand high. Crochet buttons are very smart. Buttons are covered with silk or sil- ver. Bone buttons, if carefully chosen, are very smart. Profession of Society. Society, after all, is the most ardu- ous profession a woman can adopt, laments the Ladles’ r'le!d, since it ab- sorbs the greater part of her nights as well as her entire days, and allows of no repose save that periodically snaiched in a “rest cura.” Itallan Women Pack Heavy Loads. In Italy the people take it for grant- ed that women should carry heavy loads. Horses and wagons are scarce, and it is common for women to carry heavy loads of wood from the dock to the market place. Often they are so heavy the women look as if they would stagger underneath, They carry this wood all day for less than fifty cents, though the lumber is disposed of in the market at a good price. Embroidered Albums. The postcard album has reached the fancy work stage, and that means it is very popular indeed. Square albums, with plain stiff board covers, are bought, to be recovered with silk or linen and needlework. Some of the bandsomest are of silk, with the words “Postcard Album” embroidered in solid work, and a floral Jesign—forget-me- nots are naturally the most appropriate —is done in ribbon embroidery. Brains on Tap For Beauty. If you live in Boston and “have the price,” advice as to just what to buy when you go shopping may be yours. A young woman in that tow, says the New York Press, who recently was thrown on her own resources, decided that her unfailing eye for color har- monies and ‘aste in dress was a mar- ketable commodity, and opened an office, where for a small sum she tells women -vhat they ought to wear. Should her enterprise prove a success, doubtless many women in the same cir- cumstances will talze the shoppers in tow. Empire Coats, Three-quarter length cloaks in the Empire shape are seen among the wraps as much as they were in the winter fashions. A model with straight €ront, double-breasted, with yoke be- ginning at the side and continuing across the back, the lower part of the coat being cut slightly flared below, is to be in favor. Other models, declares Harper’s Bazar, have this same front panel and yoke, with the lower part of the coat pleated. Short, square box coats, coming only to the hips, are made of covert cloth and also of cloth to match the skirt of the gown. There are very smart little covert cloth coats of the usual single-breasted variety, with long seam from the shoulder to the hem, as well as those “vith many gores and strapped seams. Sewing Tables Become the Vogue. Sewing tables are quite a fad among many belles, and the girl who has not a mahogany receptacle for clothes in need of repairs is no longer up to date. The favorite style is of dark brown mahogany, with glass or brass knobs, as one pleases, and with strips of brass along the edges. It mnust have a deep basket-like appendage lined with silk which harmonizes with the shade of one’s room. These pretty trifles cost anything one may wish to pay, but the least expeisive cost about $25. There are sewing tables in cherry, but antique mahogany is the thing. Many tables have wonderful accessories in the shape of gold-handled scissors and gold thimbles. One girl is the fortun- ate possessor of a half dozen gold cases €or spools of cotton.—New York Press. Indian Girl’s Dancing Robe. An Indian girl, daughter of Howling Crane, once the head of the Cheyenne Indians, recently sold her “party gown” to a syndicate of territorial cu- rio gatherers for $1000. The garb was old and worn, moth- eaten and ragged, yet the price was cheerfully paid—incidentally, the pur- chase was a good investment. The dress was decorated with 728 elk teeth, all very valuable fcr lodge jewelry, and the transfer from the original purchas- er to an Eastern jewelry manufactur- er was made in advance of the securing of the teeth at a price that was almost double the amount the girl, Nannie Howling Crane, received, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. As years go by the number of elk teeth is becoming smaller, while the growing larger, and the result is that the laws of supply and demand boost the price. Almost any genuine elk tooth will sell for $2, while the choice The top price is usually paid for a tooth that is turning green with age. An elk of the male sex produces only two good teeth, and the robe, there- fore, represented 364 elk. Miss Howling Crane is a rich girl, and could afford all sorts of fine gowns, but she rather liked the one she sold; still, adverse circumstances had stricken her father, and rather than dispose of his ponie: to meet onli- gations and to feed himself and family, he carried his daughter’s “party gown,” or, more properly expressing it, her varieties sell for as Ligh as $50 each. dancing robe, to the curio collectors When Old Crow, chief of the Chey- ennes, heard of the sale he was broken hearted, and immediately set out to get it back, but he was too late—the robe had been forwarded to the East by express. The Cheyennes are land rich, yet of- ten suffer from extreme hunger. When that way they will sell their all, regard- less of the value. When they get in this shape the curio hunter invades their homes, and the tinkle of silver ofttimes robs them of articles they would rather give their lives than bar- ter away. Modern Hair Dressing. The very newest way of arranging the hair is to weave it prettily, draw it up on top of the head, with side locks, out soft and fluffy, but not over the eyes at all, the entire arrangement be- ing topped off with a crownlike braid. Simplicity is the present rule in hair dressing. The big, horrible pompadour is left to chorus girls, and its place is not off the stage. There was never anything more truly hideous than the pompadour ratted up by an amateur hair dresser. The straight lines brought out every defect of the complexion, says the Phil- adelphia Press. Just how you should dress your hair is a question that you must settie for yourself. Your neighbor may look very pretty with her hair done a certain way but the style may not be acceptable for you. Experiment until you find the secret. If you can afford it go to a hair dresser and let her give you ideas, The expense of such an experiment is track. The clever woman who discovers a becoming way of doing her hair seldom changes her style, but cottons to it as long as she can. The girl with a high forehead must bring her hair down a little. The girl with fine temples and a lovely forehead should arrange her hair so that these beauties are displayed. Beautifying is but bringing out the good points and glossing over the poor ones. An invisible net will keep all the fly. ing shreds of hirsute decorations with the rest of the hair. By brushing them the way they should go they will soon take the hint. Back combs have been the salvation of the woman who always tagged around with a fringe of hair hanging down the back of her neck. If modern beautifying has done no more than teach women to pin up those shaggy ends it has certainly been worth while, Hard Working Americans. The moment a singer, virtuoso or conductor returns to Europe from a first visit to America it is the custom nowadays to interview them as to their Boston Transcript. Miss Marie Hall, the violinist, gave hers with the ner- vous eagerness that is in all that she does, and she heaped fiery coals on our Bostonian heads by paying us compli- ments in return for our indifference to her. *“I was sometimes in doubt whether there were any Americans ex- cept in Boston and thereabout. In New York, for instance, I fancy no- body is quite a real American yet. It I asked anybody I met, ‘Are you an American? the answer was always, ‘Well, yes, but not exactly, quite, alto. gether American all the same’—and the explanation was that he or she, or the father or mother, was born in Germany, or Ireland, or somewhere, not in America. All the American men are in such a hurry to become Ameri- cans that they make themselves per- fect slaves, they work so hard. No- where have I seen men have so uni. versal a passion for making money, and so universal a content in seeing their wives spend it. I am sure it is true that America is run by its women, at any rate, if the men do run it, they do so only for the women's sake. Thd men go about shabbiiy dressed and work from early morning till late at night, even though they are million. aires. To live in America you must either be an American, or be buoyed up with a sustaining, glorious hope of be- coming one. No one, otherwise, could live there for long without being cut off in his bloom by premature old age. I calculated one night that I should run through my span and pass out a centenarian in about two years.” trifling and it may set you on the right | impressions of their tour, observes the | THE DUTY OF LAWYERS, Cortlandt Parker's Advice to the New x Jersey Bar, Under the heading “Some Whole some Advice to Lawyers,” the Liclen- tific American notes that Ne.» Jersey's lawyers recently paid a deserved trib. ute to heir most distinguished asso ciate, the one who has becn longest in practice in the State and who, tarough- out its boundaries, 18 recognized as the dean of the profession—Cortlandt Par'cs er, of Newark. In the course of nis address mr, Parker delivered a few words of ade vice to his young friends. He said: “Stick to the profession—seek tc ele- vate it. Do uot seek by it (0 make money, Doing that mals it a trade not a profession. Be fair in charges, Help the poor, with advice and with professional aid. If ic o:curs to vou, as 1. should, to lock out for old ave, believing that Webster was right when he said that the fate of a lawyer was to work Lard, live wall and die poor, use economy, and as ou acouire some- thing to lay up, buy in some growing town or city a buildiag, a business one, if you can, even if it involves a mort- gage for part; rent wi'' 'eep down interest and pay taxes and the proj rty one day will enrich you. You will have hard work to get weil off by sire ply saving, and the community will ex- pect you to live comf.rtably. I’o not speculate. Be known in Christian work, and in charity, public and pri. vate, scecrding to your means. Study law and history in all spare time, and | manifest it by your ction in tue | courts. Do not be a politician. But always vot> and do the duty of a citi- zen. Be member of a party, but inde- | pendent—a slave to no one. Deserve honors and office. If they come, as if you deserve them they should, do honor *o them. If they do not, never mind. There i5 one who seeth not as man seeth, whose ‘well aone, good and faithful’ is worth all the dignities of all the world.” Hung on to the Plow, An old English gentleman, a school teacher, who some years ago resided in one of the small towns of Ohio, was an agreeabie teller of stories, but deemed it beyond his reputation as a racontear to tell one that did not sur- pass any that had preceded it. A farmer having come to the village remarked in the presence of his friends that he had been plowing all the week with four horses, breaking up new ground, and dwelt upon it as being a very big thing. | “Pshaw!” said the old Englishman, | “that's nothing. I have seen in Eng- | land fifty yoke of oxen hitched to one | plow.” The remark seemed to occasion gen- eral surprise. “And,” continued he, “the funniest part of the whole thing was that while the plow was og the top «f another hill the leading yoke of oxen was on top of another hill, and the jorty-aine be- tween the plow anu the leaders were suspended between the two hills. And there was another matter connected with it rather strange. In the course of the day the plowmsn, becoming rather careless about driving his team, ran into and split a big oak stump. The plow passed safely throush the ‘split, but before the plowman got entirely through it closed and caught him by the coattail.” “Did it tear his coat?” asked a per- son of inquiring turn. “Not a bit of it,” replied our vera- | etous narrator; “he hung to the plow handles and pulled out the stump.”— Buffalo Times. i | London Birds’ Friend. An interesting spectacle for city dwellers to whom common country scenes are rareties, may be observed in St. James’ Park. Walking from the Horse Guards Pa- rade to the Duke of York's column, one may see on the lower branch of the second tree on the right-hand side of the roadway a wood pigeon’s nest in course of construction. These birds be- jong to the class of wood pigeons which are now becoming as much acclimat- ized in the metropolis as the numerous so-called “tame pigeons.” A correspondent, eighty-four years old, to whom London parks have been places of interest and observation for over seventy years, writes concerning the St. James’ Park nest: “My attention was first drawn to this nest building by seeing a wood pigeon walking about beneath the trees looking, as I thought, for food, but in reality searching for suitable small sticks. When it had found one it flew up into a tree adjoining that in which the nest was. I pretended to walk on as if I had not seen it, and the bird flew into the next tree, where it soon deposited the twig in its cor- rect position. “As there seemed a scarcity of twigs, I set about collecting some and strewed New Colorings, The art of dyeing is rapidly being | acquired in America. Anything more | charming than the colors of the sea- | son's silks can hardly be imagined, and the American products are not behind | the imported. The rajahs and burling: | hams come in fifty or more shades, and the colors are finely graded, that any | complexion may be suited. Purples | range from deep dahlia tones to ame- | thyst, violet and mauve. The delicate | tone called orchid is especially lovely. | In reds the variety is much greater. | From darkest claret, through erimson, | cherry, raspberry, which the importers | call ‘“framboise’” and strawberry, | which is also supposed to sound better | in French, “fraise,” coral, salmon and | several shades of pink. One can have | a dozen blues, of which Alice, bluet, delft, “campanule,” or harebell, and all! the pastel shades are fashionable, | There are several good browns, two or | three grays, of which London smoke is the latest, and three or four very! good greens, including myrtle and two “resedas,” which, of course, is mignon- | and sold it. ette in English.— New York Post. | votes to making a sale. them about under the tree so that the bird might gather them more readily.” ~London Daily Mail. - The Commercial Time«Saver. These are strenuous days in the busi. ness world. The greater the degree of national prosperity the more are buye ers and sellers cramped for time, Whatever saves their time enables them to save its equivalent—money. Publicity is the great mercantile time- saver. It spreads out the tradesman’s wares so that the customer can see | them all at a glance; it tells him ex- actly where to find the precise article that he wants; it spares him the labor and inconvenience of rummaging. This means a great deal to a hurried buyer, By as much as it reduces the time the customer must spend in selection it minimizes the time the merchant de- Nelped by Autoists, ing throughout the country to a greater extent than has ever been noticed, and a large part of this ac. tivity is directly due to the individual and committee efforts of automobilists, The Good Roads Committee of the American Automobile Association is ‘co-operating with local authorities in a number of States for the purpose of improving the more frequented sec- tions of the highway. The recent run made by Asa Goddard from Boston to New York was taken with the object of studying the roads at an unfavor- able period of the year when their bad spots would be more apparent and it would be easier to suggest definite places for improvement. A detailed report on these conditions is being pre- pared by Mr. Goddard, and the Ameri- can Automobile Association will en- deavor to get the clubs in Massachu- setts and Connecticut to assist in car- rying out the needed improvements. Asa Goddard is now engaged in the good roads movement in Ohio, He has accepted the appointment as assistant secretary to the Cleveland Automobile Club, the office being created chiefly for the purpose of bringing influence to bear throughout the State for better highways. Mr. Goddard is one of the most practical and best posted men on automobile affairs in the country. He is a practical road builder, having had charge of the construction of some of the best roads in New England. For two years he has been a director of the American Automobile Association, rep- resenting the Worcester Automobile Club. The projected plans for the Glidden tour this year have directed closer at- tention than ever before to the condi- tion of roads in the West. Singular as i it may seen. to those who know little of the true conditions, the roads in Canada above Detroit and Toledo are immeasurably superior to those in Michigan and Ohio. In fact, better au- tomobile travel will be found by way of Canada from Detroit to Buffalo than through our own country. It is almost impossible to travel from Detroit to To- ledo by automobile, and it has long been a standing joke among the mem- bers of the Detroit Automobile Club that tle cnly safe way to take a motor car between the two cities is by boat. In view of the enormous output of automobiles from Michigan it is but natural that the good roads subject should be agitated there, and an amendmenxt to the Constitution has re- cently been adopted by popular vote authorizing State aid to road building somewhat on the principle that wag adopted in New Ycrk a year ago. The Michigan Highway Commissioner and the autoists are now endeavoring to co- operate with the proper officials in Ohio toward the building of a firm, broad highway from Detroit to Toledo. In Pennsylvania active steps have been taken to secure a proper automo- bile route from Philadelphia to Pitts- burg. The Germantown Automobile Club has taken the initiative. A mac- adamized road has just been author- ized at an expense of $90,000 from Bal- timore to Washington. A bill to this effect has been signed by the Governor. Plans are being made in New Hamp- shire to improve the roads leading to the White Mountains. In New Jersey last year nearly sixty-eight miles of road were built at a cost of nearly $165,000. Plans are being made for the improvement of several stretches of road in the upper part of New York. Even in the Far West the good roads question is assuming greater impor- tance than in former years, California and Washington having taken steps to improve their State highways. — New York Times. | NTEREST in good roads is spread: I The Cumberland Pike. A bill for the restoration of the Na- tional highway commonly known as the Cumberland Pike, passing through Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, was introduced into the House recently, The bill makes it pos- sible for State authorities to borrow money for the purpose from the Gov- ernment without interest, provided that not more than $10,000 per mile is used in the improvement of the road. This movement if successful will be of interest and value to our citizens liv< ing in the sections through which this famous road passes. “Alpine’’ Plants in America. The Alpine plants worth growing in America are chiefly hardy perennial herbs that make tufts or rosettes, or carpet the ground with a continuous sheet of flowers. Examples are the famous gentians, pinks and primroses of Switzerland. These plants are not confined to the European Alps, but come from all high mountains and, therefore, in horticultural literature, the word “alpine” has become so gen- eralized that it is no longer capitalized. Unfortunately some of the choicest alpines can be grown only in a special rockery, where they can have cool air, plenty of light, but without shade, with constant moisture but perfect drainage. Yet there are plenty that can be grown in the ordinary border which are able to withstand the alter- nate freezing and thawing of American winters.—Garden Magazine. Advertising owes {its power to the fact that it showers its benefits with an even hand upon those who pay for it and those | who read it.—Philadelphia Record. Consoling. . Even the hurricanes of life split the trees to kindling wood, and save us lots of trouble.—Atianta Constitu- tion. Household Delicious Mustard Dressing, Delicious mustard is made by first slicing an onion in a bowl and covering it with vinegar. Let this stand forty- eight hours, when pour off the vinegar into another bowl, add a little red pepper, salt, sugar, and enough dry mustard to thicken to a cream. The proportions should be a teaspoonful of the pepper and salt and twice that of sugar, but tastes differ somewhat as to the quantity of sweet used. How to Cook Flash. Mrs. Rorer, in the course of a lee- ture, gave the following directions for cooking fish: Fish like meat must be put either Into a hot oven or into boiling water to coagulate the juices on the out: side and keep the flavoring in. A fish may be planked wholly on the board. The time of cooking does not depend upon the weight of the fish. A roast greater the time of cooking. A fish takes its weight in length rather than in thickness, so we do not increase ma- terially the time of cooking. Cold cooked fish may be made into a num- ber of dainty entrees, like cutlets, cusk a la creme, croquettes, scalloped fish, or mixed with mashed potatoes and made into cakes. Secret of Frozen Sweeta, he making and moulding of ice fream, according to Mrs. Rover, is as follows: it is wise to scald half the cream and | allow it to get perfectly old before freezing. Iruit ice cream may have a portion of the sugar added to the fruit and a portion added to the hot cream. A good rule is to scald half the cream and add to it the sugar. When this is cold «dd the remaining half of the cream, allowing seven ounces of sugar to each quart of cream. “The fruit should be added after the cream is froz:n, and if the ic2 cream ig to stand any length of time the fruitd must be thoroughly mashed or you will find little ‘rozen Dulles throughout | the creanl. I'ruit juices freeze at a higher temperature than sweetened cream. In making friut ice cream al low to eaci quart of cream eight ounces of sugar and a pint of mashed fruit. Scald the sugar and half the cream; when cold add the remaining cream; freeze, and when frozan stir in the fruit: repack and stand aside tc ripen. If you are to mould tne ice cream, after the fruit is stirpdd in is a very good time for moulding. The moulds must be dipped in cold water. You must have th» salt end ice fot repacking ready at hand. The seams of the moulls—that is, where the lid is placed o. the mould—should be covered with strips of muslin dipped in paraffin. The moment the muslin touches the cold mould it harden and so covers the seam that i: prevents the salt water from entering the cream.” Railroad Pudding — One cup sweet milk, one cup molasses, one cup chopped suet, one cup chopped raisins, one great spoon vinegar, one teaspoon salt, one teaspoon soda. Steam three hours and serve with sweet sauce. Macaroni and Eggs—Cook macaroni until tender and place in a small bak- ing dish. Beat together two eggs and half a cupful of milk, add salt and pepper and pour over the macaroni. Bake in the oven until the tap is nicely browned. Chocolate Sauce—Put one-half cup each of sugar and butter in a sauce- pin and cook five minutes. Add four squares of chocolate broken up and when melted add one-half teaspoon of vanilla. Add one-half cup of thin cream and serve. For Lemon Sauce—Mix two level tablespoons of cornstarch with three- quarter cup of sugar and a pinch of salt and turn into two cups of boiling water. Cook ten minutes, add one level tablespoon of butter and a teaspoon of lemon juice. If the sauce is now too thick add a little boiling water. Sweet Potato Fritters—A pint of hot mashed sweet potatoes, two eggs, a cupful of flour, into which has been gifted a teaspoonful of baking powder, salt, and enough milk to make a bat- ter. Drop the batter, a tablespoonful at a time, in deep fat, smoking hot, and cook to a light brown. Tomato sauce may be served with the fritters. Tomato Cheese — Stir together one pound of soft grated cheese and a cup- ful f strained tomato juice. The best way of “grating” soft cheese is to pase it through a potato ricer or press it through a coarse sieve. Season the mixture with one teaspoonful of salt, and sprinkling of paprika and & cup of soft breadcrumbs. Pour the mixture into a saucepan and stir rapidly until smooth and creamy. Serve on toasted crackers. Carrot Soup—Scrape and cut into small pieces six carrots, add an onion, sliced, two or three stalks of celery, and a leat of parsley. Cover with boil. ing water and cook until the carrots can be rubbed through a sieve. Add a pint of ho: milk and thicken with a tablespoonful each of flour and butter creamed together. Season with sali and red pepper and tho least bit of nutmeg. Serve over cube: of frief «Matters of beef, for instance, the heavier—the | “To make perfect ice cream | _ All blood in a man's body passes through his Leart once every two min- utes. White pine lumber costs to-day five time as much in this country as it cost in 1863, Most of the houses and offices in Manila have tiny window panes made of transparent oyster shells instead of glass. The Japanese lover, instevd of an en- gagement ring, may give his future bride a piecc of beautiful silk to be worn as a sash. A wedding celebration in Cairo lasts for three days. There is feasting dur- ing all the time and the house and streets are liberally decorated with flags and lanterns. Six sailors in the San Francisco Ma- rine Hospital refused to go to bed, the other night, because they deeraed the hour too early. The nurse in charge puiled a pistol and the sailors went to bed. One of the familiar and picturesque sights of Paris is the postage stamp market, which meets, both in summer and winter, under the trees of the Champs Elysees. Here stamp colleet- ors meet, buy and sell, and discuss prices. At Braybrooke Church, England, is still to be seen a monster trumpet, sixty-six inches long, which was used in the early part of the last century to summon the people to church in- stead of church bells. It was also formerly used by the choir leader dur- ing service. Siberia has the biggest forest area of any country on earth, yet the timber for the construction of the eastern-end of the Trans-Siberian Railway all came from the United Sta.ec. It was brought from Oregon, being shipped across to Vladivostok, thence transported by rail to the banks of a tributary of the Amur and loaded into barges to be towed 0 its destinations. The Chinese do not take to horse racing, but ‘hey have mildly exciting sports of their own on which to wager and lose their cash. There are the cricket figh.s at Hong Kong, for in- stance. Many thousands of people journey from Canton to Hong Kong to see this sport. The crickets themselves are valued by their owners at enor- mous prices, a viccorious insect fetch- ing sometimes hundreds of dollars. KEEPING COAL UNDER WATER. Experiments by British Government Show That Exposure to Air Hurts It. Important experiments are being car- ried on by the Eritish naval authorities at Portsmouth to ascertain the extent of the steaming properties of Welsh coal which has been improved by stor- age in the sea. Eighteen months ago iron crates, each containing two tons of coal, were sunk in a big basin in the dock yard. At the same time a similar quantity of coal was carefully stored in the open air at a coaling point and sheltered by tarpaulins. At intervals of six months two ton sam- ples of each storage have been taken carefully and burned. The results have siiown conclusively that by the sub- marine storage of coal its calorific value steadily increases, while by stor- age in the open air a decided decrease is shown. At naval coaling stations in the tropics the decrease in calorific value is very great, the heat of the sun extracting the light, volatile oils. The Admiralty is satisfied with the physical and financial advantages of submarine storage and has now di- rected that experiments be made to ascertain its practicability on a large scale. The difficulty is that submerged coal must be dried before it is used or otherwise the superficial moisture would soon cause spontaneous combus- tion. Close confinement in the bunk- ers of warships is the only method of drying heretofore attempted. Spread- ing quantities of thousands of tons in the open air has not been feasible.— New York Sun. Deer Plays With Dog. 3 A deer which had been badly injured in a wire fence at the farm of Edward Pidcoe has been nursed back to health and is now quite tame. The animal was chased by dogs near Loyalsochville and plunged into the barbed wire fence, where it was found. Mr. Pidcoe placed it in his barn, where it has since occupied a horse stall. An intimate companionship has grown up between the injured doe and Pidcoe’s house dog, and at present the two are almost inseparable. The dog upon entering the stall will lick the nose of the deer by way of greeting. They have even become bedfellows and sleep side by side in the barn at night. 4 Dr. Jacob Kalbfus, secretary of the State Game Commission, said in a let- ter that those who were inconvenienc- ing themselves on the deer's account would be reimbursed for their expense and trouble.—Williamsport (Pa.) Spe- cial to Philadelphia Record. Rural Mail Routes Still Increasing. Thirty-two thousand rural routes are in operation in the United States, ac- ° cording to a statement made at the Postoffice Department recently. About 4000 petitions for the new service await action. Rural! delivery now costs bread, and dash paprika over all jug | before sending to the table. | the Government about $25,000000 a year.
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