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DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH
The More Monty In the Hands of tha
Mass of the People the Greater Will
Be the Demand For Products—Or
ganized Labor Has Done Much to
Speed the Progress of Civilization.
It's a late day to be arguing about
the good the labor unions have done
for the American commonwealth.
If our civilization has merit it is be
cause it is bringing to the many the
advantages that once belonged only to
a few.
A state is neither civilized nor pros
perous when all the wealth and ma
terial comforts belong to a small aris
tocracy, while the mass of the people
are prostrate in poverty. As civiliza
tion advances the possessions of the
common man increase. As these in
crease the state becomes .stronger.
HIGHER WAGES FOR WORKERS MEAN INCREASE IN INDUSTRY
Neither gold nor coal is of value un
less it can be used.
The problem of civilization has been
to provide avenues through which
wealth can change hands, in buying
and selling, and through which the re
sources of the earth can be made of
service to mankind.
Before a sale can be made there must
be a buyer. Before a man can becoiuc
a buyer he must have the money with
which to buy.
Unless he has this money the coal
and iron must remain uumined, the cot
ton and silks unwoven into cloth be
cause there is no demand for them.
So the manufacturers of goods and
the sellers of goods are confronted
with the necessity of placing more
money in the hands of the common
man, who is the buyer, in order that
they themselves may prosper.
As a part of civilization they have
been working blindly, often unwilling
ly and with many blunders, at the task
of providing more buyers in the world.
But while this slow process has been
in motion a new great force has made
itself felt.
This is the demaud of the commou
man himself for the means to buy the
products of the manufacturer and the
goods of the retailer in order that ho
and his family may live in comfort.
The worker came to realize thu ha
himself had a thing of value to sell
a thing of such value that the coal and
Iron in the earth, the silk in the cocoon
the cotton in I he boll, were worthless
without it. This thing of vnlr.e was
his labor.
So the workers joined together in
unions and bartered their labor as thu
merchant bartered his goods. Labor
before that, had l»een the only thing
in the world on which the buyer a I
ways fixed the price. The shoe mer
chant named the price at which his
shoes should sell, the steel manufa
turer named the price at which his
rails should sell, but the worker, offer
Ing his labor in the market, always
had to take the price the buyer named
With the coming of the unions, labor
began to find its place with other com
modities of value in the world, and the
workers were aMe to bargain over the
price at which it should be sold, just
as the retailer bargains with the manu
facturer. and the manufacturer wit]
the producer of raw material.
The result of this was that labor
brought a higher price. Tle workers
had more money to spend.
Higher wages for the worker meant
that hundreds of thousands of yards
of woolens and millions of pounds of
manufactured foods and countless tons
of building materials were being sold
for which there was no demand until
the worker got the money to buy them
This meant an increase in industry
throughout the land. When a few are
rich and the rest of mankind is near
starvation the manufacturer and the
retailer are in a hard way because the
amount of their product that a few
can use is very limited. When a vast
number of men and women are able
to buy comforts and luxuries then de
mend Is high and prosperity reigns.
In the organization of our social and
industrial system the producer of raw
material—the miner and the grower of
crops, the manufacturer, the whole
saler, the retailer and the buyer are
welded firmly together in a mighty
chain of trade.
A chain is just as strong as its weak
est link and no stronger. The strength
en ing of the weaker links means the
strengthening of the whole chain.
It is in strengthening these weaker
links that the labor unions have
brought material benefit not only to
the worker, but to the manufacturer
and merchant and miner, whose prod
uct the worker buys.
As the worker increases in prosperity
the whole nation increases In prosper
ity because the wealth of the land
which otherwise would lie idle be
cause of lack of demand is brought
into usefulness.
Just so far as the labor unions stic
ceed in raising the level of all work
«rs the level of welfare of all industry
will be raised.
The more wealth that Is In the hands
of the mass of the people the greater
Will be the demand for the products
it the earth, and the less wheat and
torn and iron and coal and wood will
Ite unused and unsold in our land.—
Ban Francisco Daily New*.
JAPANESE STRATEGY.
The Clever Way a Wily Old Warrior
Deceived the Enemy.
Many a man has failed to guess an
easy riddle because the simple solution
looked like a trap to him. Here is an
Instance in which this trait of human
nature was cleverly played upon by a
Japanese nobleman.
The old lord had been forced to flee
with only 300 men before an enemy
with 10,000 and barely had time to
reach his castle ahead of his foes.
There were no re-enforcements near at
hand, and he knew that if an attempt
was made to storm his defenses he
and his men would be dead before help
could come.
The enemy's forces advanced rapid
ly, and scouts rode up near the castle
to recommiter. To their amazement,
they found the gates, doors and win
dows open and all the appearance of
a holiday celebration. They rode hasti
ly back to inform their master that the
foe was dancing and that bands were
playing music in the castle.
The powerful enemy wis too wise a
man to put his head into any such trap
as that. The defenders of the castle
must have some plan to slaughter his
forces by wholesale or they would
never invite him in that way. He
drew back to a safe distance and en
camped to await developments.
Soon the re-enl'orcements for the cas
tie came up behind, attacked him sud
denly and defeated him, while the gar
rison, which had risked all on its strat
agem, charged him on the oiher side.
HER HUSBAND'S CLOSET.
And What the Grateful Wife Said and
Did When She Saw It.
There was once a husband who
dreamed of having a closet all his own.
He dreamed of a place where he could
go at night and find things just the
same as they were in the morning. He
dreamed of a pla- e in which he did not
occupy with his timid little two suits
a remote hook, while all the rest of the
circumambient space was filled with
well, what every husband knows. He
dreamed, and he said. "1 will take ad
vantage of my wife's absence and hire
a carpenter and a locksmith and fix
that closet up to suit myself and put
on it an impregnable lock and key, and
then 1 shall laugh softly and say, 'At
last the great day h-- .me
And he did it.
And when that tiuiit his u i.e cairn
home and saw 111-- w tk lim lie l: oi
done, she said
"Where is that
And the husband, tumbling for he
was no Bluebeard jio,!wed it forth
with. And when --i.e -w i!ie ample
space within she i I neck and
said*
"My darling 'a.- t'».,r i.ew i v.k 1
have bought ih.s d.i\. ai-i i i-i de
chine party wiup,
i i i
1
Mother Hubbard, mi.! i
thougbtfulness has provided for."
And the man went out in the garage
and hanged his dress suit there -as b«
had been wout to do and sighed
himself, saying,
"(Jood
night!"--Life
Pronunciation In Ireland.
Many persons seem lo see. or to hear,
rather, something to be amused at in
the soft Irish brogue. As a matter of
fact, most of the words of tlie Irish
"dialect" are not Irish at all. but the
purest of English--English a trilie an
tiquated, it is true, but nevertheless the
real thing The ears of Milton, Dry
den, Spenser and Chaucer would not
have been surprised to hear an Irish
man speak of "a rough say" or "a clane
shirt." At the court of good Queen
Bess the cultured Englishman careful
ly garnished his conversation with
"goolde" rings and brave ''swoordes'
and bored his friends with accounts of
the smart sayings of the "cbildre" at
"Loom." This was the English origi
nally imported into Ireland by the cul
tured Irish, and the Irish have found
It good enough to preserve.—Chicago
Tribune.
Chinese Names.
"We may all be pardoned for giving
up the puzzle of Chinese names," says
a writer, "and yet this little vocabu
lary may help the uewspaper reader
through dispatches that come from
China King means metropolis Fu,
provincial capital Chu. a second class
dty Kien, a third class city Kiang, a
river Ho, a stream Hai, a lake or sea
Tao, island Chan, a mountain Ling,
a pass Ta, big Siao, little Kouan.
fortress Wei, camp Men, carrier Pel
north Nan, south Si, west Chang, up
per Pal, white Hei, black Yang, blue
Nanking therefore is southern metropo
lis Peking northern metropolis.
He Passed.
During the impaneling of a Jury in
Philadelphia the following colloquy en
sued between the judge and a tales
man:
"You are a property holder?"
"Yes, sir."
"Married or single?"
"Married three years last March."
"Have you formed or expressed any
opinion?"
"Not for three years, jour honor
New York Tlpiea.
BEWITCHED HIS HEARERS.
Whan am
*s Whitcomb Riley Reoit«d
One of His Poems.
In his "platform career," during
those years when he went about the
couutry reading his poems, James
Whitcomb Uiley saw with his eyes and
heard with his ears what people
thought of him. Never any other man
stood night after night on the stage or
platform to receive such solid roars of
applause for the "reading" of poems—
and for himself.
He did not "read" his poems he did
not "recite" them, either. He took his
whole body into his hands, as it were,
and by his wizard mastery of sugges
tion left no James Whitcomb Riley at
all upon the stage. Instead the au
dience saw and heard whatever the
Incomparable comedian wished them
to see and hear. He held a literally
unmatched power over them for riot
ous laughter or for actual copious tears,
and no one who ever saw an exhibi
tion of that power will forget it—or
forget him.
There he stood, alone upon the stage,
a blond, shortish, whimsical man in
evening clothes—a figure with "a whole
lot of style." and ii whole lot of its
own style too! He offered a deferen
tial prefatory sentence or so, then sud
denly face and figure altered, seemed
to merge completely Into those of a
person altogether different from the
poet, and not Mr. Uiley. but a Hoosier
farm hand, perhaps, or a thin little girl
stood before you. "done to the life."
Then the voice came, "done to the
life," too done to the last half audi
ble breath at the end of husky chuckle
or wistful sigh Theie was no visible
effort on tbe part of the magician. The
audience did not strain or worry for
him as audiences so often do for those
who "entertain' them, because his
craft lay not in contortion, but in a
glamouring -ugL-.estion that held spec
tators rapt and magnetized
Nat Goodwin s opinions upon the
production of realistic pathos in com
edy may be accepted as academic. Mr
Goodwin said: "I used to recite 'Good
by, Jim*-until I heard Riley do it
Then I asked the Lord to forgive me
and never tried it again!"—Booth Tar
Uington in Collier's Weekly
LIGHTING A CATHEDRAL.
Simple
Y e
Spectacular Method at St.
Isaac's, In Petrograd.
in an article in the Atlantic Monthly
describing a midnight mass on Easter
eve in St. 1-sa entiledr:i!. petroimid.
Warrington I .i son sa:
"A sudden blaze of innumerable can
dies, hanging high overhead in great
chandeliers tore away the gloom and
told us that ihe ceremon.v was to be
gin At tLic
I
takievA
s k i
Sobor
match did what a switch or button does
elsewhere, save that here the opera
tion was as ingenious and initiative
as could be devised, instead of being
a machine made contrivance scattered
by millions over the world.
"A waxed string, an end of which
hung down within easy reach from the
marble paving, ran from one wick to
another, then from group to group
from chandelier to chandelier, until
ail the candles in the cathedral were
connected. The match was applied to
that string. A spark spitting tiny flame
raced up to the first candle and so
Bped on its way. an earnest, busy little
lamplighter, quick as the snap of a
finger, adroit as a monkey and almost
unfailing in its success
"Among the hundreds 1 saw It reach
I counted very few which did not blaze
at the touch, and most of these flared
an instant and sputtered out, showing
that the string's work at least had
been done. The general effect, indeed,
was as if each wick had been an elec
tric bulb, but the whole, instead of
lighting when one switch was turned,
depended upon a band swept over suc
cessive buttons."
The Kitchen Floor.
A practical way of dealing with the
kitchen floor and at the same time
economizing labor, is to cover it with a
plain, dark colored linoleum, such as
red, blue, green or black, and to polish
It A shiny surface is easy to sweep
up and keep clean, and if polished once
a week on the other days it need only
be run over with a mop. If treated in
this way it will always look nice and
will save at least twenty minutes' work
a day.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Fogs of Peru.
Peru has hundreds of square miles
along its coast of rainless country. In
this tract rain is never known to fall.
Yet the region is not entirely barren of
vegetation. Some parts of it, indeed,
are comparatively fertile. This is due
to the extraordinary fogs known as
"garuas." They prevail every night
from May to October after a summer
that is sultry and extend up to a level
of 1,200 feet above the sea Above
1,200 feet rain falls.
An Eye to Business.
"This play is the worst ever I am
going to demand my money back
"Walt until after the next act. old
man. Ten years elapse between acts 1
and 2, and you can demand interest on
your money for that length of time
Boston Transcript.
Mean Thingl
May
belle—See the beautiful engage
ment ring Jack gave me last night
Estelle—Gracious! Has that Just got
wound to you?
Chinese Language.
The Chinese language is reckoned to
be the most unwieldy and intricate In
eTlstepo*
TILE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS.
VOIa. XVI. NO 44 HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1917. $1.00 PER YEAR
A Military Honor Instituted by a
King of France.
THE TITLE AN ANCIENT ONE.
It Was First Conferred by Philip Au
gustus In 1191, at the Time of the
Third Crusade—The Baton Is Its Dis
tinctive Badge of Office.
It is only in France that the military
dignity of marshal is a very ancient
one. It was King Philip Augustus
who first instituted it as a military
office In 1191, at the time of the third
crusade. St. Louis invested two of his
commanders with the rank on the eve
of his 111 fated expedition to northern
Africa. Francis I. created three, and
by the time that Louis XIV. had com
pleted his long reign there were no less
than twenty of them.
Tbe office was abolished by the first
republic, but restored by Napoleon
I. when he proclaimed himself em
peror. He limited the number to six
teen. They were known as marshals
of the empire. The Bourbon monarchy
on its restoration in 1^15 maintained
them in office, but changed their title
back to that of marshals of France.
By the law of 1839, bearing the sign
manual of King Louis Philippe, their
number was limited to six in time of
peace and twelve in time of war.
The baton, as provided for by exist
ing military regulations in i rance, con
sists of a staff about f.\o feet long,
an inch and a half in diameter, cover
ed with dark blue velvet, flecked with
gold stars and tipped at either end
with silver gilt, on borders of
which are engraM'.l tin- I.ntin words,
"Terror belli, deeus paeis." It is car
ried in the right hand at all irreat mili
tary or state functions and is used In
lieu of the for saluting. The
baton of tic !i.?ld marshal of Great
Britain Is tipped at either end with
crowns and lions: those of Germany.
Austria and Russia with single headed
or double headed
In England (he i "y of n. id mar
shal was unknown until the reign of
George II.. who in bestowed It
upon the second Duke of Argyll, one
of the greatest commanders and states
men of his day and of whom Pope
wrote:
Argyll, the state's v. hoU' thunder bora to
wield
And shake alike the senate and the field.
The first Duke of Marlborough, the
victor of Blenheim, of Ramillies and
of Malplaquet, bore the title of captain
general to indicate his rank as gener
alissimo, a title undoubtedly originat
ing in Spain, where it is still retained.
It Is regarded there as the equivalent
of the grade of field marshal In other
countries.
There are no field marshals at pres
ent in Russia. The last two command
ers to hold that rauk were the late
Field Marshal Gourko, governor gen
eral of Poland, and the late Grand
Duke Michael Xicholaivltch, who
when he died was the patriarch of the
Imperial house of Romanoff.
In Austria-Hungary there is but one
field marshal-namely, Archduke Fred
erick. He is a brother of the queen
mother of Spain and heir to all the
colossal fortune «»r bis uncle, the late
Archduke Albert ho had won his
marshal's baton i. he battlefield of
Custozza.
The full genemK in Austria bear the
title of "feldzeu^uu iSter"' (master of
the ordnance) when they belong to the
artillery, while all lieutenant generals
are known as "feldmarshal lieuten
ant," a title which is being continually
mistranslated h* that of field
marshal.
In Italy, s.aii»i i!.ai:t. Belgium ami
Holland nnd in the armies of the Bal
kan states the rank of field marshal is
unknown, although the late Kin
Charles of Roumauia had received
batons from Czar Nicholas II. and
from the kaiser. Portugal, too. has
dispensed with field marshals.
It Is in Germany, however, that fleW
marshals flourish, but only since the
present kaiser lias beeu on the throne
Just prior to the death of old Emperor
William In 1888 there were but two
field marshals in the entire German
army—namely, the then Crown Prince
(afterward Frederick III.) and Count
Moltke, both of whom had received
their batons at the close of the Franco
German war of 1S70. As soon as the
present emperor came to the throne he
began to confer the dignity with such
liberality that there are now fully a
score of them, including Duke Bern
hard of Saxe-Meiningen, the Grand
Duke of Baden, Prince Henry of Prus
sla and Baron von Plessen. Besides
these there are about a dozen more
with the rank of "general oberst," or
colonel general, whose rank Is assim
llated to that of field marshal and who
are above the full gen oral.—F. Cun
liffe-Owen in New York Sun.
8topped the Buzzing.
Alice (with newspaper)-It says here
flhat yawning will remove that annoy
ing buzzing in one's ears. Edith
That's true! Last night when Mr. Stay
iate had been talking steadily to me
for three hours I yawned twice, and he
wet home.—Boston Transcript.
Figure It Out.
Mrs. Snobbery—Yon know that my
husband is a retired gentleman farmer?
Mrs. Morningeall—Yes. I heard he had
retired from something, and 1 knew
l'.e was still farming.—New York Globe.
The heart gets
w eary,
old.—Shenstone.
but never gets
FOOT RULES IN OUR ARMY.
Advise Which May Be of Value to the
General Public.
No better advice to the public can bo
given In reference to the care of their
feet than is embodied in our Army Man
ual of Military Hygiene, which, of
course, is not in general circulation.
The points particularly emphasized
may be paraphrased as follows:
Wear a shoe wide enough and
straight enough on the inner margin to
give the toes space for their proper po
sition.
The best treatment of bunions will
be found in removing the pressure over
the affected joint. This can only be
done by supplying a properly fitted
shoe.
To relieve ingrowing nails they should
be cut squarely across and not round
ed. Scrape the nail thin on the top and
Insert a pledget of cotton under the
edge.
For corns use properly fitted shoes.
Remove corns or callouses only when
they are a source of pain and Irrita
tion.
Have at least two pairs of well fitted
shoes for constant use and smooth
stO' kings as free from holes and darn
ings as possible.
After a long walk wash the feet, dust
with foot powder and put on clean
stockings and shoes, but do not soak
tbe feet in cold water.
Foot powder shaken into the socks or
dusted over tbe feet will help prevent
blisters.
Woolen stockings will absorb perspi
ration. Those who are on their feet
very much should harden them by ap
plying foot powder and bathing the
feet frequently in cold water.
The correction of flat foot may re
quire a long period and can be aided
by furnishing a broad and well shaped
shoe, taking care that the foot Is
strengthened by proper exercises and
not overloaded.
Do not "toe out," but walk with the
Inner margins of the feet parallel so
that the weight of the body will be
thrown on the outer or stronger part of
the foot.—Kathleen Hills in Leslie's.
RUSSIA'S GREAT CLOWN.
Durev Had a Biting Tongue, and He
Dearly Loved Pigs.
The famous Russian clown, Anatole
Durov, held that, whatever your voca
tion, the only thing that brings you suc
cess is work. Accordingly he became
the most industrious, successful and
beloved clown in Russia and probably
the richest clown in the world, too, for
wheu he died he left a fortune of $1,
OOu.OOO and a collection of trained ani
mals that: brought visitors to his home
from all over the world.
Born of an ancient and noble family
he was a pupil of the renowned cadet
corps, but before his graduation lie ran
away and joined a circus.
But he had no ambition to be an or
dinary clown. He kept in touch with
politics, with everything hat took place
in Russia, and applied to it his wit.
Soon he became an unlicensed censor
of Russian society in motley. Evil he
rebuked by jest and gibe. No man was
In too high a place for his tongue, and
furious officials once brought about his
exile. Russia loved him too well for
that, however, and soon he was back
in the ring. To show that he meant to
be more discreet he appeared with a
padlock attached to his mouth.
He was a very famous animal trainer.
The pig was his favorite pupil, and It
is said that his pigs could do almost
everything that human beings can do
except talk
A team «t trained pi~s drew him
about tiie streets, and so did he love
them that a pig's head with a "D" to
the left was the device upon his seal.
He used to enjoy telling how, when
he was on tour in Germany, one of his
pigs ran away and came finally to a
farm not far from Berlin. The farmer,
who was a kind man. gave the tired
looking beast food and drink. To his
consternation, tbe visitor solemnly
mounted an upturned barrel, looked
gratefully at his host and stood on its
head as* a token of appreciation
Youth's companion.
A Giant Emperor.
Maxlminus, the giant Roman em
peror, could twist coins into cork
screws, powder hard rocks between
bis Augers and do other seemingly im
possible things. When angered be
often broke the jaw of a horse or the
skull of an ox with his fist. His wife's
bracelet served him for a ring, and
every day he ate, besides other food,
sixty pounds of meat and drank an
amphora of wine.
How the Days Go By.
Frank looked up thoughtfully from
his engine aud cars game of railroad
ing, played on the prfmitive plan of a
five-year-old boy.
"Mamma, isn't it funny how the days
go by, one after the other, just like a
train of cars with Sunday for the en
gine."—Ha per' s.
Cruel.
Wife—1 dreamed last night that I
was in heaven.
Husband—Did you see me there?
Wife—I did: then I knew I was
dreaming.—Town Topics.
A Continuous Performance.
"Our baby gives us considerable trou
ble. Yells unless he has his own way."
"Ours yells anyhow. You don't know
what trouble is."—Washington Herald.
Base Libel.
Woman—How did you get to be a
tramp? Tramper—By degrees, mum.
I begun as a golf player.—New York
Qlobe.
Fortitude Is tbe guard and support
•f the other virtues. Locke.
DEWEY'S IRON NERVE.
Mew, When a Young Officer, He 8ub«
dued an Ugly Mutineer.
In Admiral lewey's autobiography,
written for Hearst's Magazine, is the
following story, which shows that as
a young lieutenant commander the
hero of Manila bay already possessed
tbe Iron nerve that characterized his
later life:
'Commodore H. K. Thatcher, in com
mand of the Colorado, welcomed me on
board heartily, notwithstanding my
youth He said the ship was in a bad
state and gave me full authority in the
government of the crew of 700 men.
'Gradually I was able to identify the
worst characters. They were the ones
I had to tame. The ringleader was a
giant red beaded Englishman named
Webster. Many of his mates were in
bodily fear of this great brute. The
prison being full, I had him put down
in the hold in irons.
"One day I heard a breaking of
glass, and the orderly told me that
Webster had broken free of his irous,
had driven the sentry out of the hold
and, in a blind rage, was breaking up
stone bottles of soda and ale that were
stored there.
"I sent the master-at-arms to arrest
him, and the master-at-arms came
back to report that Webster had sworn
he would kill the first man that tried
to come down the ladder into the hold.
"Such a situation was Pot to be en
dured. I took my revolver and start
ed for the hold. When I came to the
ladder Webster yelled up the threa
which had made the others hesitate
in view of his known ferocity. Of
course, any one going down the ladder
would expose his whole body to an at
tack before his head was below the
deck level and he could see his adver
sary. But any temporarizing with the
fellow meant a bad effect on the whole
ship's company
"'Webster, thi -utive offi
cer, Mr. Dewe i to him. '1
am coming Webster, you
may be sure ot ,-:i rni«e a fin
ger again- .s,: uu
"I Step! .pii«-kly,
to see W ii Aith a stone
ale bottle .. ly to throw.
But he iii i :uid submit te.!
to am-*' .-i1.
WEDDED SIXTY-FOUR YEARS,
And e
Cuss Word Has Never Passed
Between This Couple.
In a day of hasty when
minds are turning i-. ways in
which married coup es u .t i e hap
pily. credit is due to Mr. and Mrs
Charles Bodlne of Philadelphia, who
have been married sixty-four years.
Tbe fact that they have lived together
that long is Interesting in itself, but
The
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Spare is the name. Spare is our aim
All Suits and Pants made to your
Individual order in a
their chief claTin' to puimc u»
their statement that they have never
quarreled or even exchanged a cross
word.
Tbe wife ascribes her happiness to
these causes:
"Because I think there Is no one like
'father.'
"Because I am always willing to
humor his little ways.
"Because 1 will do anything in the
world to please him.
"Beeuuse 1 have always given him
plenty of good food.
"Because 1 have always praised him
when he deserved it"
The husband's viewpoint of the mari
tal partnership and the reasons which
bo finds for the unmarred felicity of
himself and his wife are contained In
the following:
"Because I think my wife is the finest
woman in the world.
"Because I never have a vacation un
less she goes too.
"Because I have always been ready
to listen to what she has to say.
"Because I have never wanted any
body else but 'mother.'
The fact is that this couple continued
courtship after marriage and each con
tributed to the union love, respect and
willingness to make sacrifices, each for
tbe other, in the little as well as the big
things. Most marital unbapplnesa Is
based on selfishness.—Exchange.
Twelve Was a Mystic Number.
Why should a jury number twelve?
Blackstone attributes the fixing of the
number to the Normans, who, like ail
their Scandinavian ancestors, held
twelve in veneration as a mystic num
ber. Stephen, in his "Commentaries,"
supports this idea and gives Instances
of the regard paid to twelve in early
Teutonic laws and finds distinct evi
dence that twelve men were required
among the Anglo-Saxons to form an
Inquisition.—Loudon Standard.
Beauty In Business.
Looks are a means of judging a
girl's possibilities of early marriage,
which Is a negative element of her
value with some firms, as they do not
wish to waste money on training girls
who will leave them soon. 1 have
known one superintendent to choose
the plainest girls possible to work at a
machine with a mail so as to discour
age lovemaking.—W. F. Kemble, In In
dustrial Management.
Style In Emotion.
"Now some scientific sharp says
there are styles in emotions."
"I believe it I know some women
who always wear their dignity ruf
fled."—Kansas City Journal.
Union Shop
The SquareTailors
106 HIGH STREET
Cruel.
"Doesn it annoy you to hear a wo
man tnlking slang?"
"Why mention siantr especially?"—
tlolbrocV Bros.
Reliable Dealers in
Dry Goods, Carpets, Cloaks, Queensware
Millinery. House Furnishings
Voss-Holbrock Stamps with
all Cash Purchases.
Meet him at
4 ft $ *4 i 1
Cor. Front and Hisli Sts.
Merchants' Dinner Lunch
Served every Day
Lunch Counter Connected
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