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PLAN. TOUR If It’s a tie we lose, we are handicapped on the next lap of hfe s relay. Bu if we beat our FOOLISH SPENDING, wc start the next lap ahead of the game. If we keep up our saving pace, we dis tance the Wolf. HOW LARGE SUMS CAN ; BE SAVED ON SERVICE 1 Most People Fail to Consider What Help In Home Really Costa in the Long Run. In any plan for national economy' British specialists think that the hou .thold rather than the family should be taken aS a unit. Under household consumption they include <1) services rendered maintaining the house and Its inmates, (2) the goods con. utned or acquired by the Inmates, <3t the general charges of cleaning, decorating, offsetting deterioration, etc. As a start in a saving program the Util,sit Commission has pointed out that services should be valued even mute highly than goods, as each per sou doing unnecessary and unproduc tive work not only consumes w.taout producing, but is also depriving the c-'Unify of possible productive power. Translated into terms of American saving, this service idea would mean. •Do not hire any one to do what you can do for yourself in span ate un less you find it d'rectly profitable.” Ft. w Americans are really honest ih themselves as to the cost of ser vices. Not one family in a hundred realty knows what a servant actually costs. Most of them place the cost of her wages and fail to count in her food light and otner things he con sumes. Most of them, moreover, have no way of figuring correctly the extra •waste of food or extra breakage or wear and tear due to the fact that the servant does not have the interest of ownership for making things go as far as possible. Pew families know at the end of the year the important total that the "odd jobs” man or hedge cutler or grass trimmer has cost them for service that might as well have been rendered as recreation or need ed outdoor exercise by the man or boys of the family. This, of course, does not mean that no service should be purchased. Where a housewife's time is worth more in money or other contribution to family well-being than the cost of < si i vant she makes a profit by employ lug some one who frees her to do bet ter paid work than household tasks In many cases physical or personal reasons make It essential to the wel fare of the family to have help, but in ma- y cases the time saved to the members of the household by ser vunt-i is not utilized profitably in a nine tary way or even in away to mak for real happiness or advance ment, >S "irgs on service will give many pen pi- Important sums to lend to their got nment and save for themsc Ives thr uah War Savings Stamps. In the cas ef children work is not only a pracMcal means of earning and sav ing, lint in itself is a valuable discip pine for life. THE CAVE MAN Took What He Wanted. He didn’t say; * “By Your Leave.” He Just helped himself. • • • 1 The Civilized Man and Woman Cet What They Want with Money. • * • In Order to Have Money You Must Save. Save First, Spend Afterward. Nearly Every American Saved During 191 R Keep Up the Habit Through 1919 And Don’t Stop. • • • War Savings Stamps Form The Nucleus of a COY FORT ABLE INCOME. BUY THEM! KEEP THEM! SAVE NOW! I vest your surplus money In War; S:t' r gs Stamps and watch It grow. 1 o._ No Problem at All. A small hoy was sent to the local drug store for an empty bottle, and after waiting his turn the assistant allotted him and said: “Well, little mini, what can I do for you?” “Oh. I want an empty medicine hot- 1 tic,” the boy replied. | “I can’t let you have one without, tfom* thing in It,” said the assistant, m T* w hich the little hopeful shyly ewervd: “l suppose It is merely red tape, so shove us a cork In.” BANKS ENTER FIGHT j AGALiST BOND SHARK Plan Is Devised Whereby Person Muat tell Will Be Given Square Deal. Ban’ters In all parts of this d!s trict hj.ve b. eu ashed to take part m the war wh ch has been declared gala tv t.K bond shark. The cam pa gn 1 lo protect wie small holdei of Liberty apd Victory Bonds. Many of th i se people are being preyed upon by profiteers in government seettri ties and by salesmen of so called wild oat stocks. (JJ tvernment which arc the best security In th* wot Id. have been traded for worthless, stock certificates which never havv and never will pay one cent In dlvl denejs, Wirle every holder of Liberty and Victory bonds is rtre-d not to sdl the fact Is rec igtUzcd that some per sons bought b yond their buying powei and they now find that for one reasor or another —good reasons no doubt— they must • 11. Bond sharks have, taken shameful advantage of some ol these people, according to reports re c. ivod, and (lie hunks are now lining up to put an end to their activities If a man finds that he must sell hip bond hr should take it to the neares' bank where he will be given Its ful marked value or if for any reason th* hank prefer not to pay the cash th< bond hclder will be directed to a rep utable broker. The Federal Reserve Bank of Rich mond hits tent at. official common! cation to everv bank and trust com pany In this district urging their co operation. The po ! nt Is made that m criticism Is aimed at th repufabli broker who is leg't'mitely huv'rs and selling bonds and other sfnndar securities, bui a determined effort wd be made, and Indeed Is now helm made, to block the activities of thoet persons who by misrepresentation an ■nrev'rg upon the inexperenced bonf ■hold* rs. BUDGETING CHILDREN Budgeting chi'dren will teach them the value of money and often mak them more careful of their clothes a-d shoes It will also hying out cer tain traits of character that nothing else w’ll disclose and enable parenti to correct faults before they heroin* fixed habits. Any child old enough '< be ent’-nsted *“ith money is old ettougl to be given asp -rifled amou t t( spend each week, and to be told th* value of saving a part of It. Of course very 'oung children mas not be allowed to choose their owr clothes, but training along th s lim may begin very early and a sense ot values and sultab ll** may be In stilled. Three grown girls In a certain fam lly were given the same all wance foi clothes, books, amusements, enter talnment of friends, etc At the end ;of the first month May had spent al of her allowance and stag'd that sh* had nothing to show for It. Jane had saved one-half of hers and depositee it In the batik She had del led her self some badly needed clothing a"f bought a few showy articles with t!u ••.mount spent She had accept* -I en ((•rtainment from friends hut wa tot •tingy with her own money to enter tain In return. Sarah produced an account hook and showed that she had bought all the necessary articles ol j clothing, enjoyed several well chos-r entertainments, and had purchased two War Savings Stamns. paying fout par cent compound interest. These age typical, and the informa (ion gathered from the first month enabled the father and mother to show May the folly of wasteful and careless expenditure, Jane the impor ; tance of providing necessities Sand the virtue of generosity, and to I commend Sarah for her umrntal bus! ness ability and sense of thrift. “Women” Vs. “Ladles.” The nuances of the English language seem to lie as well understood by the person who advertised for “An aged woman to care for an elderly lady," 3ns by the southern darkey who. pre eeuting himself at the door of a line mansion, announced; “I’s lookin’ fo jJde cnllud lady what works fo’ de white 3 woman at dls bouse.” —Springfield Union. ALASI FOR HUMAN FRAILTY City Editor Wat First Victim of Hi* Own Stern Warning Against the “Booze." ' Speaking of booze: A few years ago. when Colorado was as wet as the great Sahara Is not. the city editor of a Denver dally was having no Inconsid erable trouble In getting out a news paper the day following each pay night. Finally, In desperation, he Is sued the following mimeographed let ter for distribution to members .of the staff: "Any member of this staff who Is found under the Influence of liquor, or with any Indication of having been drinking during working hours, will he: Fined for the first misdemeanor; suspended for the second: fired un conditionally for, the third." These mimeographed letters were placed on the copy boy's desk with In structions to distribute them as soon as the staff appeared for work the nexl afternoon. On the following afternoon there was heard a snort front (he office of the society editor, and a usually meek little red-haired beauty came dashing out of her room, waving a piece of paper Ip her hand. “Where's the city editor?” she demanded. “I’ll see wfiy I have to be insulted like this." The assistant city editor IfM tP calm her. Hut nothing would do but that she see the city editor filmself. "Well," said the A. C, E„ "It can't lie (|o||e, Me was stewed end we fiutl to send him home." Needless to say, there was a new city editor the next afternoon, and the stall glpailpgly drank its wgy to tip* days of prohibition. —Horry A- Jacobs, the Dallas Dispatch, In "Hep,” OPERA SUCCEEDS BULL FIGHT Famous Arena In Mexico City Will N* Longer Be Scene of Brutal Slaughter. The T‘*atro cl Toro In Mexico City, once one of the most pretentious of bull light arenas, |s now the home of grand opera as a result of Hcesldcpt Carranza's decree that hull fights should cease. Interspersing grand opera, dancers and concert artists have appeared in the arena, and It is stated that these various forms of amusement will be offered until some definite action Is taken us to the fu ture of bull tight lug. It was in this arena that what Is said to be one of the most remarkable spectacles in the history of the sport was staged. A bull, FI HotiTto, known as one of tin* fiercest fighters, on being brought Into the arena charged anil killed three horses and Injured as many men without being touched by the estoque of any matador. As the bull stood bellowing deft mice and with no one apparently will ing to attack hint, Miguel Hallo, a picador who was a spectator ih one of the boxes, leaped unarmed Into the Inclosure. In his outstretched hand he carried two Itopps of sugar, which he r,. acini I, (titty i Tered to the hull. The animal sue lei,-y gc::.-. d its hellow'ng i 'id fit a fmv moment < docilely II -ked lie ■ ;: & ar iroat i.aiio's ham)- ‘i he latter returned unharmed lo his box amid the plaudits of the spectators. Anglo-Irish Tunnel, Not only Is It thought that the long falked-of tin.m l between Fngland and France will he constructed at no re mote date, hut Ifiere Is also talk of n tunnel between Flight nil and Ireland. This would restore to a slight extent the geographical union that existed be tween the two countries In one geologi cal age thousands and thousands of years ago. tJrent Hrltaln and Ireland were then separated only by a great Willey. It Is proposed to carry the tunnel from some point on the coast of Lan cashire to the nearest point in Antrim of down on the Irish coast, a subma rine length of 24 miles. One of the great benefits of the tunnel would he that it would shorten the transatlantic Journey by at least 4S hours. It would also help the Irish cattle trade and the shipping of perishable goods, especial ly fish, to English markets. Estimates i of the cost of the proposed tunnel vary | from $35,000,000 to SSO.IHN.()OO. __ I % He Had One Better. One of our honest old farmers came home and found a sewing-machine man j In the house demonstrating to the women what fine work It would do. The agent asked the farmer to bring In a shingle, and said: “I will show you that the Wonder Worker machine will do heavy work, for I will stitch right across the tip of the shingle where It is at least one-sixteenth of on Inch thick.” "Not Interested,” said the farmer. ( “Over Vrost here 'hoyt three miles j northeast a young man hnllt a house I last summer, and I’ll he durned If his wife didn’t take her Mechanical Mar vel sewin’ machine and stitch on ev’ry blame course of clapboards, from gable to eaves, clean down to the sills.” As the agent slammed his machine Into his light truck and chugged away, the farmer turned to his wife and said: “Well, Hlta, I sewed that agent up all right, didn’t 1? Now let’s have supper.”—Bangor News. Knew She Would Be Asked. TlHie was leaving to go over to hei little chum’s house, when she sudden ly turned In the door and called to hot mother, "Mamma, has baby brothei i got any teeth yet?” When asked why she wished to know, she replied, “So I cap tell Mabel’s mother. She al ways asks me if he has any teeth yej I When I goes over to piny with MabeJ.' Got Fat on Poor Food, A recruit at one of the southern camps wrote a long letter home, which [ he started by telling how rotten the food was, and that he didn’t gel i enougn to eat. Near the end of the j letter, about page fifteen, he told the i folks how fat he was getting, having j gained ten pounds in about a month. TRAVELED DEVIOUS WAYS Cot respondent Experienced Acute Di comfort While on a Journey Through the Holy Land. Tt Is eight or nine miles, as I estl ma it, from the Euphrates to Constan tinople, if one follows the course of the Bagdad railroad, whose track ts lain a part of the way where the feer of the “ten thousand” had marched, where St. i'aul had tramped In his I first and second missionary Journeys, and where Godfrey of Bouillon, Tan- i creil, Baldwin, Raymond and Bohe- I inond had passed, and Frederick the j First had perished. In my anabasis (If I may give my lonely expedition a name so ambitious and yet so contemned by many a youth) from the Euphrates toward Constantinople I had to make a tlr- , callous Journey, as did St. Paul from Damascus, writes John H. Finley In ! July Scribner’s. I went first from , Ah ppo to Damascus, then to Jeru salem, tlien to Haifa (near old , Caesarea where St. Paul took ship), and then by sea to Beirut and llerina, on the coast of Asia Minor, a few i miles from St. Paul’s “home town” Tarsus, which was also the same town ! as that toward which Jonah sailed from Jaffa, whep evading the call to Nineveh. But the. reader would, i fear, find this an uncomfortable and perhaps g tiresome trip, even to read of. for I< traveled most of the way ip freight cars (of the type known to pur , soldiers ip France, accommodating “forty-five homines or eight chevaux") oil g trawler (which was absolutely the most uncomfortable means of transportation that I bad ever en dured) and on a British “destroyer” whlf|i pilgld very fitly have borne St. Paul's name before he changed It, In ihe days when he was “breathing out thm>tenings nnd slaughter." There |m n shorter and less Indirect way. for. speaking generally, there Is no direct way from one place to an other In that part of the world. This Is probably the reason why the street In Damascus called “Straight" got Its . distinguishing name, SUFFERED FOR J HE,R FAITH French Huguenots Driven Into Exile by the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The Huguenots were the Puritans of France In the sixteenth nnd seven teenth centuries. The name was first used about 1560; Its origin is un known. The Huguenots suffered se verely In the reigns of Francis 1 and bis Immediate successors, and after 1 , r io2 were frequently Involved In war, under the leadership of spcl) men as Admiral Collgny and King Henry of Navarre, afterwards Henry IV of France. Collgny and from 20,000 to :to,ot)0 others fell in the massacre of St. Bartholomew, August 24, 1572. It Is disputed in history whether this was suddenly caused by the discov ery of Huguenot plots or had been premeditated. In spjfe pf all this, they continued numerous and power d i ml the edict of Nantes, Issued In . ‘!is py Henry IV gave them full po ll-1.. I and civil rights. Their power was broken after the surrender of La Rochelle and the revocation of the edict of Nantes by Louis xiy iq 1685, and hundreds of thousands of Hugue nots went Into exile, going to Prus sia. Holland. Switzerland, England, Scotland and America. Chinese Curb Tobacco Users, China’s ministry of the Interior has telegraphed the following circular In structions to the Shenchungs and Tu nings all over the country, according to the Peking Dally News: “It has been noticed that almost everybody In the country has Indulged In the use of cigars or cigarettes, which will become a worse curse to the nation than opium In former days unless some restrictions are Imposed. It is hereby decided that before taking up any measure for the total prohibi tion of jts pse. the following restric tions shall he Imposed: First, no boy or girl under eighteen years of age shall be allowed to smoke cigars or cigarettes; second, any military or na val man usipg it shall be punished; third, the use of cigars gm) j'igareftpH In all government schools and colleges shall be strictly prohibited."—l’ar Eastern Bureau Bulletin. Legislators Must Work. A novel method of forc'ag attend ance In the chamber of deputies of the Republic of Argentina has been sug gested by a member who Is out of pa tience with those who draw their sala ries from the public purse but full to fulfill their constitutional obligation of regular attendance. The suggestion Is In the form of a hill providing for payment per day to deputies Instead of a lump sum every month. Failure to answer the roll call Is equivalent to ■absence, and Hie measure provides that no deputy shalj receive his pay for days when he Is absent from the regular sessions. Land for National Forests. The national forest reservation com mission has Just approved for pur chase 48.581 acres of land for national forests In the White mountains. South ern Appalachians and Arkansas. The largest tracts are In the White mountains, where 51.022 acres In Car roll and Grafton counties. New llantp shire, and 1.220 acres In Oxford coun ty, Maine, were approved for purchase at at average price of $7.15 per acre. These lands Include the scenic peaks of Mount Chocorua and Mount Pau gus, much visited by tourists nnd made accessible by trails maintained by the ,Chocorua club. pne at a Time. We attended a country wedding nnd at t)ie conclusion of the ceremony were astonished to see the bride start on the honeymoon alone. When asked (he reason the bridegroom explained that both couldn’t be away at the same time n* there would lie no one te feed the stock and he would take hie trip down the -elver shooting ducks when the bride came back.—Chicago Tribune. | COST HIM MORE THAN FIFTY Mr. Travers Had Not Properly Esti mated His Looses on That Lit .Is Fistic En ounttr. “I can’t afford to lose s.‘o on a 1 prize fight. ’’ mourn-, d Gelatine Tniv- j ers an hour or so after the shock he received over the wires that fatal i Friday afternoon. "Ibn you have lost It. haven't you?" we-asked, and lie i i nodded disconsolately ns he climbed j : a hoard a homehotind car. He mu-d have felt a premonition ns he | I mourned, for It is unlike Mr. Travers ! to regret ifct -losses; and when he tie 1 | rived home he broke the news to Mrs. | Travers, along with tfte Implied sag- | gestlon Hint a little economy for me 1 next fc.. weeks would not eome In i amiss. Mrs. Travers said nothing In her most sympathetic manner, and the I ' evening's conversation covered topi-s I wholly foreign to prize fights. At the breakfast table next morning Mr. | ' Trovers hnd no taste for anything the , mowing paper might have to say, and ' 1 Mrs. Travers gained possession of It I without the usual contest. Glancing i tbrutish the paper rapidly Mrs. Tra- | 1 vers tore out a square section from page 2, and another from page 11. Then at ope of those unexpected mo nients every woman knows breakfast j Is replete with, said; “So you could I lose SSO on a firize fight. Well. well. Here Is a sale I have been awaiting | for a long time. And strange to say, here Is another Just across the street | ' —-mte is on suits and the other on 1 gowns. And the strangest of nil, we happen to have accounts at both (hove ; stores. Fifty dollars, you say. you I lost? Was It an even fifty?” And so It was that the breakfast dishes at tfie Travers’ h<me went unwashed I Saturday morning because Mrs. Tra vers was obliged to catch an early Jit ney downtown and commence opera- i thins, —Kansas City Star. WILLING TO BE PUT WISE j I * ( Private Ready to Absorb Any Infer mation Brigadier General Was Able to Impart. In all the armies in the war disci- \ pllne was lax in the air service. Army : men are at a loss to account for It, lint without exception laxity was evl ; dent In all the air camps. The Sau Francisco Chronicle tells the following experience told by Brig. Gen. Benjamin Alvord when Hit l latter ntis adjutant general of the A. E. F. j The general bad been sent by General Pershing to make an inspection about Cololllbey let*-Belles. He walked around without getting the attention the doughboys would show an officer of bis rank. No one sainted film and no one noticed b'm. | Once In a while a captain or a major i would snap a salute, but not the en- j listed men. It rather riled Hie general. ; who always scrupulously followed I army regulations himself. Finally I when a private passed him with a cigar In his mouth, and, although look- I lag right at him. failed to salijtn, the general ibought It was time to call a halt. “Come here, young fellow." he called. “Say, what do you do in this camp when a general officer shows up?” "All right. I’ll bite, what is It. old top?” parried the private. STEEL PROPELLER FOR USE ON AIRPLANES Prof. Morgan Brooks of Unlver- j sity of Illinois Develops New Device. Morgan Brooks, professor of eleo | trlcnl engineering at the University of Illinois, has developed a practically i noiseless, high-speed, steel airplano propeller. Intended for direct conuec- 1 tlon with the highest speed gasoline engine, according to announcement at Urbamt, 111. A considerable loss of power is now endured in the reduction speed gear I ust*d in till but the smallest airplanes, as airplane engines have a normal speed greater than the two-blade wooden propeller cun stand. This was of special interest to Brig. Gen. L. E. O. Charlton, air attache to the British embassy at Washington, who saw the models tested fit the j university recently. “The laws of air dynamics are suf ficiently well known to make a test of a model almost conclusive ns to the revolts to bo expected from a fttll sized propeller,” Professor Brooks said. "At the same speed the thrust or pull of a propeller varies with the I fourth power of a dimension, there- | fore the pull of five pounds found on test of an 18-Inch model Indicates a 1 pull of 80 pounds of a propeller of 36 Inches In diameter. The test was j made below standard speed, so a nor- j ntal thrust would be obtained for a I practice plane with only 36 Incites dl- j nnieter, ns compered to the 8-foot , spread of the plan •;< list'd In Clnmuto i field, Rnntoul. III.” The particular advantage of a small \ diameter would be the lifting of the landing wheels to a position much nearer the center of gravity axis, thus milking a poor landing much saf er from avoidance of headers, not un common with the present type of planes. Professor Brooks said. Girl Struck by Lightning. Harrington, Kan. —Miss Mary Har ness was struck by lightning the other evening while helping her brother, John Harness, in an alfalfa field in I an attempt to save some hay from an ■ approaching storm. Her clothing and shoes were torn from her body and she i was painfully burned, (ndian Village Unearthed. A hurled Indian village site, be lieved to have been occupied 500 years | pgo, was discovered by M. A. Cramer, ) Auburn clly forester. In digging after a woodchuck In the town of Cato, Cayuga county. New York. The site contained skeletons and many hone Im plements believed of Iroquois origin,— Nysck Evening Journal, 1 rggaa——i— i-‘is .'. .■..~iiir.ni ' |'M| Mothers Know That 111 h^ u m Genuine Castoria I §Ett-.Vi ! :n ALCOHOL-3 PER CENT. M s*Sg - AvertablePrcparationforAs AIWaVS i * *c°:| J M . \ i {S|| tingthe Stomachsandßgwclsrf_ -p XWT W j j|i|l ■ Bears tlie / ij 5|M Signature/ Jp.lr Cheerfulness and RcstContaite /(\A tf i ,ffiSBSSS of /WiVr JteiptafWdDrSAMltllKUM ■ B vs 3 Pumpkin Seed V *\g V •Ur - AtxSrnna I I * ■ PochrUt SaUs I I lit w CCo tl (ii MitrSerd I %£ K %sAs* / I iv T\% In uC>tC Worm Sud I |\ I II I 111 lianfM Sugar I II 111 ! Wmtrrgrrro [ L/ | I A helpful Remedy Jor JPk I II Q Q so:f Constipation ami Diarrhoea- f\| iy* UO U | j 220 i and Feverishness and VI IT VJr Pnr Over facsimile Signature 0 * ” UVbl 1 Iff i; Thirty Years Sill ' Exact Copy of Wrapper* TMt CCNT aun company, new vobr city Pipe Built Like a Cornet. A tobacco pipe of uiiii'iii:il <!<•<!cm 5 lims be ii Invented by Warren Miimiy i PaocPlel of Hagerstown. Mil. Every i pipe smoker knows Hint the longer Hie i stem of bis |iipe Hie eooler will lie the | smoke. Pipes with stilus n few feet , hum halve been in use in different j countries for ii'imy years, but their ! awkward IctcMli preelnded Hie'f use | outside of the house. Th • >n\ ntor of ; the pipe eireiinivented the •I■ I'.t<• 11 !t y by | colling the stem of the pipe like the | tube of met or signal horn. The coils are connected at tledr lower end to fi no n dr;pp" nk > linmher for reeei* I !nvr tin* saHva whieh accumulates in | the st in. Knell end Inis an hi lepetid ] ent opening Into the dripping ehtrnber 1 and a screw cap at (he bottom give ; aeei ss to p for the removal of the | neeui ~Minted salivtt. The smoke, in pass'iie through the colls of the stem. Is drained several times of saliva and nicotine. Prelude to Adventure. ‘‘l have placed my will in my safety deposit hox." grimly said .1. Ktilier (ilooni. "My pockets tire lilled with condensed and desieeated foods. 1 shall littticll (he end of this stout cord to a convenient projection. Held a candle and enter, erawline carefully among the stalactites and stalagmites, paying out the cord as I go. and —" “I;rent heavens. Mr (Shaun !” ejacu- luted an avtim ’niance. “Are you eon tomplatinu luring some vtisi and dba.ml eawniV" "Vi s. 1 am going into our Katt-a t’ily post office for the purpose of hav lug weiglt d. purchasing -lamps for, and me 'ta; this panel-post package." I —Kansas City Star. Liquid Accident. Secretary Kimer Th.impson of the I A' totuobiie Cluli of America said In Nev. Vork the olher day : “Tie- atllomohile gels the bhltue for . ever' huig. A man lay in Ihe middle | of Hi road one evening, surrounded , by a large crowd. An old lady push, d ; hr" ay into Hie crov,d and said : •poor fellow! Po if young fellow! I suppose an allium ildle mu into him.' •• ‘No, ma'am ' sa'd it policeman, 'll wasn't an atilomoliile that ran ini.* him this time,' “•What was it, then?" said the old i lady. ■•‘lt was a keg. or maybe a keg and a half of hcer.' said the policeman.” No Flrttery Intended. "Is that a portrait of your grand mother when site was young?" asked the awkward visitor. “How it resem- I hies you. Miss Ughflon !“ “Now vott only say that to flatter ' me. Orandma was tpiite a beauty, I and everybody knows that I—ahe1 —ahem — I I make no pretensions of that kind.” "I assure you, .Miss I'gleton,” ex j claimed the A. V.. “flattery Is far I from my thoughts. The family re semlilnnee Is striking. I've often I%no'. n eases like that. There were two sisters I knew when I was a boy. They were wonderfully alike, like that portrait's like you, mid yet one 1 of them was as beautiful as a poet's dream, and the other was dreadful — that is. I mean, she wasn’t at all —or, rather, she was lacking in Unit —that attractive quality, you know, that con stitutes —what a lovely frame this por trait has. eh?" —Kdinhtirgh Scotsman. India Again Importing. AH restrictions on the importation Into India of any American manufac tures or products, with the exception of gold and silver coin or bullion and roc: in >, have been removed. Impor tation of cocaine and allied drugs is forbidden at all times except under j a license granted hy the chief cus toms officer at the place of import The Importation of gold and silver coin and bullion is restricted in that the government of India reserves the right to parcha.se till Importath ns of same. Neglecting Opportunities. “They say the peach crop is unu sually fine this year." “Then what are so many follows d> lug marrying over there lu France? CLAIMS HONOR FOR GEORGIAN Savannah Newspaper Asserts That E las Howe Was Not Inventor • of the Sewing Machine. < The centenary of the birth of Kilns Howe, the modest Yankee who invent ed the sewing machine, took place on June It. Tl re was no extended of servance of the day, observes Hart ford Cotifant. \et it was Howe who took a good doal of the drudgery out of the lives of millions of American women, lie al-o inereasod the power of his f, How men to produce garments and other material that formerly needed the patient handwork of indi viduals. Min it is interesting to observe. In connection with the anniversary, that the Savannah News undertakes the rather hopeless task of trying to con vince its readers that it was not Howe, hut '"orgian. Francis It. (building, who (•< meted and operated the flr-’t sewing maeltine. This paper says that Hds inn.:, a Presbyterian preach er living in Liberty county, married a Savannah girl and then began work on a sewing machine in order that he might save his fair wife much hard work. Alleging this was long before Howe patented las machine-, and also that (building never patented his, they try to show Ids motives were purely altruistic and mu < ommerclal. It all 5,,0 ,Is ■ d. hut it will ttike consul* ruble “sj ee" in the (leorgin 1 newspapers t > eenvlnce the world that Colliding takes tin prize. MON'EY Cim CALLED MYTH —— Recent Travelers in South America Explain Pr-t -h> Or run of Story Once Implicitly Bobeved. An Inter* t 1 ti • - art Me ay Prof. K. \V. Cadger, in a recent issue of Natural History, deals with the time-honored story on which most of us were I brought up tli.it South American mon j keys arc in t!*■ habit of crossing itlliga | tor-infosted streams by linking their i tails ami legs to form a living bridge. | Pi*-terrs of Hds feat once figured ex- I tensively in till* school geographies. ■ and Professor Cudger reproduced such a picture from a Fourth reader pub lished as Into a M-'.'T. The story was first told, so far as known, hy the Jes j ult priest Padre Jose Acosta in a | work published in ITS!). Several litter j writers have repealed Hie tale. The j first person to di-qui'e its veracity was P.nron Humboldt. Keecnlly explor ers of South America, when they men | tbui the st uy at all, express skepli- I cism. Finally, Messrs. I.eo E, Miller i and Ceorge K. t’herrie of Iho Aiimrl i can .Museum of Natural History, who i have done so much traveling and col lecting in Smith America, have sug gested to ITof ssor Cadger a plausi ble origin for stmii tales. They think that the stun ef tii" “monkey bridge" lots come about through observation of n process *, n ,u monkeys crossing a ravine or s) remit f; it tt pendent liana, ■•“ Scientific American. Why ‘American• Lost Contract. “Speaking of t'l ims. railroads re minds im* of tin a lure of an Amer ican niitiui fact a ■•* a to ohlain a con tract for locomotives because his Eu ropcan competitors intnle a more care ful study of fit nose peculiarities," writes l.ynu \V. Meekins itt the Scien tific American. "One locomotive was ordered from each of the competing companies. In every respect save one the American product was unmistak ably superior. However, it bad been painted black before shipment from the works, and on Hi way across the Pacific it became more or less rusted. “Its appearance, therefore, wjs far less attractive than that of the Euro pean locomotives, which were painted in accordance with Chinese preference, and had hccu touched up hy the manu facturers’ agents after arriving in China. Don't get your colors mixed if you want lu se!l goods to the Chi- Childxen Cry FOR FLETCHER’S i CASTO R I A