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are liable to soon own ,or run every thing. Last week I boarded a street car and observed a maiden disputing vociferously with the conductor about her transfer; a regular Eva Tanguay performance. I could not help smiling. She said to me: "Keep your face straight, you dirty, old bum." I was once in a crowded elevator. Just before reaching my destination I was told by an imaginative female that "if I didn't know how to hehave in an elevator where there were fe males I ought to go up in the freight elevator." The women in their strength should be a little moife thoughtful and considerate or their value might drop. D. F. Sweetland. PROHIBITION AND HIGH LI CENSE. The prohibitionists tell us that liquor is injurious to the" human system, even if taken in a moderate way; they tell us that a saloon is a breeding place for all kinds of sick ness; they say "put the saloon out of business and you will improve the health of the people." Now the functions of a drug store are namely to supply a community with drugs and medicines. Who is it that uses drugs and medicines? The sick, of course. Then it should be reasonable to assume that when you do away with the saloon you have, a healthier community. If that is true, then you would have fewer drug stores. The plain truth is that when you vote out the saloon you have a big increase in drug stores. I work ed in a town in Missouri seven years ago. It is the county seat of a dry county. It required six drug stores to supply 1,800 people with drugs and medicine? And it required that many medicine wagons to go through the county to keep the farmers welL( What they were really domg was selling rotten booze in the drug stores and jthe wagons were supply ing the farmers with various kinds of patent dope containing a large percentage of alcohol. No, prohibi tion does not stop the sale of liquor and improve the health of the peo ple of a community, it only takes it away from where everyone knows it is sold and where you can get a pure drink to where only certain ones know it is for sale and where you get poison that sets you crazy. The same holds good with high li cense. It will not reduce crime. There are more crimes committed in Chicago now than when the license fee was half of what it is now. Chi cago has bad a record for the last ten years of more than nine murders out of every 100,000 people, while in Mil waukee, where the saloons are open day and night all the time, and the license fee only $500, the average murders committed were a little over two out of every 100,000. If Mayor Thompson really wants to reduce crime it would be better to advocate a reduction of the license fee instead of an increase. ' Let the officeholders cut out graft and they will have money enough to run the city without increasing the1 license fee. Watch out, Mr. Citizen! This license and prohibition question is only chloroform to put you to sleep while they rob you of something much more valuable. There is some thing being pulled off that they don't want the average worker to know. I am yours for the fullest freedom in the pursuance of happiness.' Clarence A. Diehl. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ALICE? Here are my measure ments: Height, 5 ft, 5 in.; neck, 13 in.; waist, 28 in.; hips 39 in.; should ers, 39 in.; upper arm, liy2 in-I fore arm, 9 in.; foot length, 9 in.; chest normal, 34 in.; chest expand ed, 38 in.; thigh, 25 in.; calf, J.4 in.; ankle, 8 in. Miss Alice M. o o Philadelphia. The Chieftan, $85, 000 houseboat built for L. H. and A. W. Armour of Chicago, launched (at Camden. Will be used in Florida r W