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SOMETHING TO THINK ON. If you have an old mother be good to her. Tell her that you love her. Kiss her faded old lips. Hold in yours the work-knotted hands. Scatter a few of the foyers of tenderness and appreciation in her pathway while she is alive and can be made happy by them. Don't \vait to put all your affection and gratitude and reverence for her into a ton of marble inscribed: "Mother" Don't wait to throw all your bouquets on her grave. It is mighty doubtful whether an angel in heaven takes any interest in cemeteries, or gets any satis faction from revisiting earth, and con templating a flattering tombstone but it is utterly, certainly certain, that you can make your old mother's heart sing for joy by showing her while she is alive just one tithe of love and appreciation that you would heap upon her when she is dead. Duty to one's mother is not enough. A little example to more fully bring this out. A certain man, middle aged and prosperous, is married and has a lovely home. He is a good man, highly respected and he hasn't an idea but what he is doing his full duty by his mother, who lives in his home and whom he supports. He supplies her wants. She eats at his table, is sheltered by his roof, is decently clothed by his care but that is all. He neglects her. He never says a word of affection to her. He never pays her any little attentions. When ever she ventures an opinion he cuts her short with curt contempt. When she tells her garulous old stones as old people will, he does not even try to conceal how much he is bored. In a thousand unintentional ways the old mother is made to feel that she is a cumberer of the ground, an im pediment of the household, an old fashioned and useless piece of furniture, which every one will be glad to get rid of. Under this coldness and neglect the poor old mother's heart is breaking. If I could only say to such a man: "Give love as well as duty to your mother. Give her the wine of life as well as the bread. Don't forget the one who never forgets you." Of course this man, as many others will say, is busy, overworked, care-burdened that he has the claims of wife and children upon him. This may be so. But your mother's life has not been easy. She worked not the eight or ten-hour day of the union, but the twenty-four hour day of the mother. She cooked, cleaned, scrubbed, patched and nursed from dawn until bed-time, and in the night was up and down, getting drinks for thirsty lips, covering restless little sleepers, listening for croupy coughs. She had time to listen to your stories of fun and triumph She had time to say the little things that spurred our ambition on. She never forgot to cook the little dishes you liked. She did without the dress she needed, that you need not be ashamed of your dress. Stop and think what life would have been to you if you had been treated in your childhood days as you are treating your mother in her old age? Ifeljz^&^^sr Suppose there had been no sofc breast on which you could weep out your childish sorrow, no clinging arms to enfold you and comfort you when the things your little world went wrong? Would it not take away the memory of that which is best and sweetest in life? The most forlorn figure I have ever seen is the old mother, who is un loved by the children raised, and who is doomed to the last years of her life in a glacial atmosphere of neglect her de votion, her labors, her sacrifice for gotten. Remember then, now while there is yet time while she is living, to pay back to her in love and tenderness something on your account, this very day. Go home, if you can, and put your arms around her, kiss with a real love, instead of a peck on the cheek. Tell her that she is the best mother that could ever live. It will cause her very soul to leap with joy, and make the world a place of circling joy—if she doesn't drop dead with surprise. The best that is in us we owe to our mother. Our dads may have been all right in fact, as men go, most of them were. But they didn't cuddle us or kiss our bruises or pillow us on loving hearts to sob away the grief of the day or make us forget the fears of the stormy nights. When it comes to the fundamental love, the kind one looks for when in trouble or distress, it will never be found after we have laid away our mother. We may turn to our helpmate for solace as long as our troubles are only of a superficial nature and our longings will be answered. But let us become engulfed in anything serious the chances are she will turn her back on us, and more than likely, appeal to the courts for relief so that she will not even have to be connected with the affair. Who ever heard of a mother doing any such thing? A good mother is the only loyal friend one has and it behooves us to be as kind "r and thoughtful regarding her as possible. i- ~f We all know that we will never come near being as thoughtful of her as she is of us, for a mother's mind is never off if her child, especially if he is in trouble.— Exchange. «-'i I f^l Mrs. R. M. Pfaender went to St. Paul |||j last Wednesday to visit relatives and friends. She returned Monday. MM* -,'iiRta. »*V gUi *ir"' A PLEASANT HOUR WITH THIS BOOK. "The Seamless Robe" is a little book of poems sent us by the author, Gustav Melby, of Granite Falls, Minnesota. Mr. Melby's book is published by Richard C. Badger, Boston. The chief poem of the book furnishes the title wording and its lesson is of the "oneness of all things and their divinity." The various manifestations of life and activity are shown to be but apart of the Great Plan of creation. "Great seems the gulf, and fixed, be tween the low And flexuous fronds of life within the sea And man, whose splendid ocean liners go Across the main with proud security, Yet, by the torch which science kindly holds O'er the abyss, he may the darkness probe, And link on link he sees until unfolds Itself to him creation's seamless robe." There are also a number of narrative poems, poems of the seasons and a group of miscellaneous verses of which the following "Lines on an Old Tree" is one. We do not pretend to be a critic of Peotry but we find much that is enjoyable in the little book. Thou swarthy giant, stretched upon the ground, And partly hidden by the graceful ferns, The moss and lichen circling thee around And richer growing, as thy body turns Into decay, the home for busy ants, The silken nest of spiders and cocoons, And where the brown thrush ofttimes sits and chants His wondrous song in summer afternoons. I wonder how long since the thund'ring crash Of thy great fall resounded through this wood, How long since thou, beneath the light nings flash, A crowned monarch of the forest stood Long since, I ween, but still more strange it seems To think of all the years of thy long life, Thy hundred summers with their mystic dreams, Thy hundred winters with their storms and strife. With thee familiar was the red man's gaze, And in thy shade strange lullabies were crooned To Indian babes, while fathers sought the chase, And arrow-stricken deer in thickets swooned OhJcouldst thou speak, what stones of the wild, What scenes of peace and war couldst thou relate, To please the sage or fancy of the child! Like thee all things must have their day and die, The mighty as the weak return to dust, Great nations with each other sought to vie In pow'r and glory, oft by means unjust, And one by one decayed, then came the fall, And earth reclaimed what she had lent a while "Oh, vanity of all things," says some soul, But on the tree the evening sun doth fall. C. O. Weilandt was taken ill with ap pendicitis last week and it was thought advisable to perform an operation, which was done at the Union Hospital Sunday. At this writing the patient is doing well. MARKET REPORT. CORRECTED Sept. 14, 1915 NewWheatNo.l 89 'J No.2 No. 3 Flour, Compass, 100 lb Patent 2 Family Bakers Graham Rye 1 86 82 75—3 05 60—2 90 50—2 80 10—2 40 30—2 75 50—2 75 20 15 Shorts Bran_ 4 Oats Barley Rye Flax Corn Chickenfeed 70 Potatoes 60 Butterperlb 30—38 Eggs, per dozen 17 Cows and Heifers 100 lb. .. 4 00—5 00 Steers 5 00—6 00 Calves 7 00—7 25 Sheep 3 00—4 00 Lambs 4 50—5 00 5 90—6 90 O 48—58 78 1 50 65 IBOMSHhTfrFlWISH From the wheat fields to the home, everystep in the making-of DANIEL WEBSTER FLOUR to under the most scrnpnloua care. We take precautions others would not eren think of. Costs little more, but the greater value kmore than offsets this. UCIE ROLLE Mill CO. MssrUlm,«|ia. LIVING TORPEDO. That Odd Pish, the Elootrio Ray, a Terror la Kia Own Way. These to a queer flan, bearing the name torpedo, that in its own peculiar way to a good deal of a terror. This to the torpedo, or electric ray, a dweller in the southern seas, which grows to a large stae, Hnmgttmea weighing seventy or eighty pounds. This peculiar fish has a nearly circular body, a short tail and a very small mouth. The back is brownish ooftor, and the underneath parts are white. The torpedo obtains its name from its power of giving a violent shock, similar to an electric shock, to any thing with which it comes to contact Whenever an enemy approaches the I fish emits from its body a kind of eiec trictty. which ineapacitates the attack er immediately. In capturing its food the torpedo finds this power of use. Being very inactive, it cannot pursue the small fish which form its diet so it lies in wait until they swim close by and then throws out its powerful shock, which instantly renders them helpless. If a person touches this strange fish he is attacked by cramp, which affects the stomach, producing a kind of con vulsion. For this reason the torpedo is sometimes known as the "cramp fish."—London Answers. THE YELLOW FLAG. A Ruse That Once Saved a British Ship From Capture. An effective ruse de guerre in the way of flag flying was that practiced in the Mediterranean at the beginning of the last century by Lord Dundonald while cruising in the British ship Speedy. This little brig had captured so many of the enemy's merchantmen that a Spanish frigate was specially fitted out disguised as a merchantman, to bring her to book. Dundonald, in order to deceive the merchant craft of the enemy, adopted similar tactics and disguised the Spee dy as a Danish merchant brig. The two disguised boats soon sighted each other. Dundonald at onoe gave chase and dlseovered his mistake when the Spaniacd suddenly revealed her true nature and started lowering a boat to examine the Speedy's papers. But Dundonald was equal to the oc casion. He hoisted the yellow flag signal of sickness. And when the Spanish boat was within hall an Eng lish officer in Danish uniform shouted that they were only two days out of Algiers. As the plague was raging in Algiers, the ruse was completely suc cessful.—London Chronicle. Oldest Chess Problem. The oldest chess problem on record is thought to be that contained in an ancient Persian manuscript attributed to Caliph Kalifen Mutasin Billah. who reigned in Bagdad A. D. 833 to 842. But the reader would have to learn the old rules before it was intelligible. For example, the queen could make a move of only one square at a time and that on a diagonal but a queen promoted from a pawn was allowed to make a move of two squares diagonally. The bishop had no power over any square except the third from which it stood on its own diagonal line, but it was allowed to vault over any piece that happened to be between. In short, it was a totally different game. Chess In the precise form in which we know it and play it today is a comparatively modern game.—London Strand Maga zine. Misnomers of Chemistry. One of the strangest features of chemistry is the fact that many of tie chemical names are misleading and do not describe the articles. Here are a few examples: Oil of vitriol is no oiL neither are oils of turpentine and kero sene. Copperas Js an iron compound and contains no coppex. Salts of lemon is the exceedingly poisonous oxalic acid. Carbolic acid is not an acid, but an alcohol. Cobalt contains none of that metal, but arsenic. Soda water has no trace of soda, nor has sulphuric acid of sul phur. Sugar of lead has no sugar, cream of tartar has nothing of cream, nor milk of lime any milk. German silver has no silver and black lead no lead. Mosaic gold is only a sulpiride of tin.—Philadelphia Inquires. Stopping the IcHe Talk. ••Pardon my interrupting you, old chap, but really you're wasting your time." "What's the matter? Aren't you In terested in what I'm saying?" "Not particularly. Besides, it won't accomplish anything." "I don't understand you.*' "Ifs no use telling me how your boss ought to run his business. Tell it to him or keep still about if—Detroit Free Press. What He Wished to Know. "Here's an article in this magazine entitled 'How to Meet Trouble.'" said Mrs. Wedderly. "Shall I read it to you?" "No. thank you," replied his wife's husband. "How to dodge trouble is the brand of information I'm looking foe" —Chicago News. Going Down. Redd—He started out with a $8,000 automobile. iJ-J*^. Greene—And what car Is he uetng now? "A street car."—Yonkers Statesmen. A Definition. Banooe*-A social function at which one endures a poor meal for the «w1cfr of the speaking which is to follow and then endures poor speaking for the sake of poUtenesa.—Llfe. gg| DOES PRESS AID THIEVES? Editor* Ream* Werner* Demand The* Society Newe Be Omitted. Montctoir, N. i—The dectaxottan ot Mrs. Charles E. Van Vleck that the goings and comings of the socially prominent ahoold not be chronicled in the local newspapers on the ground that the announcements serve to at tract thieves has set the whole town talking. There is much speculation as whether Mrs. Van Vleckto dictum will be accepted. Mrs. Van Week states that the pres ent practice of society should be stop ped and that the Information be given to the police instead. Mrs. Van Vleck explains that sho was moved to her suggestion because the local police found copies of the local newspapers in houses that hod been entered. Op posite the item telling about the de parture of the householders a mark had been placed. The police favor Mrs. Van Tleck's Idea. Inasmuch as the society news is the mainstay of the local newspapers, their editors are Indignant. The whole town is talking. LETTER LOST 23 YEARS. Found Hi Attio, Demanded Immediate Reply. Detroit, Mkh.—On Oct 10, 1892, a mail sack left in the waiting room of the Northern Pacific station was slit open and a valuable package of bank mall taken out Nothing was found of the thief nor of the package until a few days ago, when J. I. Peterson found a package of mall matter under the eaves In the attie of his house- On investigation it was found to be the missing package stolen twenty three years ago. It was delivered to the local postmaster and by him sent to the dead letter office. One of the letters in the stolen package was opened. It was from a young man of the town to his fiancee, demanding that she let him know by return mail whether she would marry him or not as he would not be put off any longer. SCHOOL ENROLLMENT TWENTY-TWO MILLIONS United States Report Snows Small College Attendance. Washington.—The enrollment in col leges and universities in the United States is only 216,000, or less than 1 per cent of a total of 22,000,000 in all the educational institutions of the country, according to the annual re port issued by the United States com missioner of education. More than 19,000,000 were enrolled in the elemen tary schools, while 1,374,000 were in secondary schools, both public and pri vate. Nearly 100,000 were in normal schools preparing to be teachers, 67,000 were in professional schools, while the rest were divided among other types of institutions. These students got instruction from 700,000 teachers, of whom 566,000 were in the public schools. In point of rapid growth the public high school still pre sents the most impressive figures be cause the enrollment for the last year was more than 84,000 in excess of the preceding one. The cost of education in 1914, ac cording to the estimate of the commis sioner of education, was $750,000,000. He adds in his report: "This three-quarters of a billion dol lars is a relatively small amount com pared with other items in the public expense. It is less by $300,000 than the oost of running the federal govern ment It is less than one-third the nation's expenditure for alcoholic liquors. It Is only a little more than three times the estimated cost of ad mission to motion picture theaters in the United States for the same year. Measured in terms of products of the soQ. the United States spent somewhat more for education in 1914 than the value of a cotton crop, and less than the value of the wheat crop, and less than half the value of the annual harvest of corn, which the nation's bill for education was less by nearly $100,000,000 than the value of the ex ports from the harbor of New York in the calendar year just past FOR WORLD HOBO UNION. Founder of Hotel de Gink Plane Or ganization. New York.—Jeff Davis, founder of the Hotel de Gink, hopes to establish a worldwide union of hoboes with a membership of 5,000,000. He recently made known his plans, and all that prevents him from starting at once, he said, was a paper from President Wil son which will enable him to enter the waraone. The world trip, Davis insists, is to be made upon the yacht of his friend. George E. Crater, Jr.. and will include China and India, whose 1)063 will be Invited to make themselves at home In the headquarters Davis plans. The leader believes there are 20,000,000 'boee at liberty throughout the world, and he thinks one-fourth of these will hearken to his plea to Join his union. Suitor, Sevcnty-ftve, Drops Deed. .Wlnsted. Conn.—John Blakeslee, sev enty-five years old, a sea captain of Stuart Ffau. who came to Colebrook to wed an old acquaintance, Mrs. Abbie Smith, a widow, dropped dead from heart failure In that town. ±y* Adotttittd in Ltadmg Mngmhm llOWS!Je,lft• Canad a is Callings* "-—She extends toAmericansa hearty invitation toeetflpa* her FREE Homestead lands of 1 6 0 acre* each or1 some of the low priced lands in Manitoba, I and Alberta. This year wheat la hltfher bat Canadian land Jan* cheap, sotheopportunity ismore attractivethanever. Cm wants you to help to feed the world by tilling sotneef 1 soil—land similar to that which during many yearn 1 averaged 2 0 to 45 bushels of wheat to the acre, what yon can make with wheat around S I a I and land so easy to get Wonderful yields also of Barley and Flax. Mixed farming is fully as profltaMfc an industry aa grain growing. tteGofMnment thisyaw ukfoe tarmer. to pat increased scMSift, nto grain. 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