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4 1 I AN CHIZZLY WEATHER EDITORIAL BY JIM MANEE Well, fair reader, you are cornered at last that is, you'll have tn ac knowledge you are cornered if you live, up to that "FAIR reader." In the first place we will all agree that it is mighty disagreeable to have icicles hanging from your eye-lashes. And now for the old saying "Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you'll freeze your tears." So "you've got to laugh. And as, long as that is the case, go to it good and strong. Don't snicker; roar out loud. You never can tell, some one may hear you and the people do say that laughing is catching. Wouldn't you rather your face would be.in a laughing attitude than with a scowl if it were to freeze. Some faces themselves would do the freezing keep out of that class. ' , That one old saying reminds me of another "Nobody loves a fat man." That's all bunk, especially in the winter time. Here's proof; when riding down to work in a street car in the morning when the temperature in the car is hovering around 40 degrees, what more could a person want than to squeeze in between a couple of fat men? Winter brings out numerous humorous happenings; for instance: A person may slip and fall on the walk, You laugh and laugh 'till he raises. But if you should slip and somebody laughed, 'Twould make you sorer than blazes. Anyway, it is an ill wind that blows nobody good. It's that same wind that has been freezing the skating pond 'round town. That means that the kids are profiting. If you are one of the "old folks" and don't skate, any way you can feel good for the kids' sake. If you can't squeeze a laugh out of your system over one of the good things that come with winter why something seems to tell me you are a dern grouch. . I believe that the man who wrote, "Your a Good Old World, After All Is. Said and Done," knew what he was talking about. o o ,WELL, MAYBE THEY'LL ALL GO THE OTHER WAY IN, 1914 Washington, Feb. 16. Retail prices advanced in varying degrees from 1 to 42 per cent on 13 staple articles of food during 1913, and de clined in but two instances, accord ing to a report made by the bureau of labor statistics. The percentage of advance was: Potatoe 42.3; eggs, 14.2; round steak, 12.9; ham, 10.6; rib roast, 8.8; sirloin, 8.3; bacon, 8.2; hens, 7.5; pork chops, 6.3; butter, 3.7 ; milk, 2.7; corn meal, 1.7; lard, 1. Sugar declined 8.8 per cent and flour declined 2.6 per cent. Retail prices last year were 70.9 per cent above the average for the ten-year period from 1890 to 1899. They 'were 7.9 per cent above the 1912 average and 16.9 per cent above the 1911 average. CAR MEN AFTERCOUNCILMEN Defeat of all aldermen who voted against higher wages and shorter workday for street car conductors and motormen is aimed at by the or ganizations of those workers. The Union Leader, their official paper, calls the roll on the alderman this week. The 40 who were against the car men are named and the 26 who were for them. "Support your friends and defeat your enemies" is the slogan.