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URGE NEW CRUSADE
ON WHITE PLAGUE
Cry for Further Preventive Meas
ures Comes in Unison from
the Pulpits
TO MAKE BIG FIGHT IN L A.
Pastors Join in Support of Plans
of National Tuberculosis
Board
War on the white plague was waged
from the pulpits of the country yester
day in response to the request of the
National 'Association for the Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis of New
York city. This association has enlist
ed the power of the pulpit and the |
press in order to further its work in en
deavoring to stamp out tuberculosis,
the great white plague of the twentieth
century.
Yesterday before almost every de
nomination and church in Los Ange
les at least mention was made of the
work of the society. In some cases the
sermons were devoted principally to
that subject, while in others reference
was made to it, while in still others the
work of the society, its cause and its
needs were spoken of in preludes pre
ceding the usual sermons.
The fight against the ravages of
tuberculosis is particularly strong in
Los Angeles and throughout Southern
California, where hundreds afflicted
with that disease come every year—
»nany to be cured in this climate, but
many too late to receive benefit.
The clergy have striking proof of the
necessity for strong measures in fight
ing the disease, and many strong ser
mons were delivered in behalf of the
society from local pulpits yesterday.
The call to the ministers was entirely
undenominational, and in every de
nomination yesterday heed was given
as the result of the necessity realized
by many of the clergy.
Dr. George H. Kress, secretary of the
California association, had distributed
literature treating on the subject
among the clergymen, and in many
other ways was instrumental In having
the day generally observed.
GOODBYE KISSES ON
FRENCH ROADS BARRED
Called Dilatory Practice Tending
to Result In Injury to
Passengers
PARIS, April 24.—The state has pro- |
hibited kissing on railways, the follow
ing notice having been posted up in all
stations:
"It is strictly forbidden to exchange
kisses on the platforms or In the wait
ing rooms or on the steps of the car
riages of the State railways, owing to
the delays frequently occasioned by the
prevalence of this dilatory practice,
which is calculated to disturb the
proper running of the traffic upon the
system lev retarding the departure of
trains and which is thus fraught with
inconvenience and even danger to the
public, as the first condition of safe
traveling is punctuality. Persons dis
covered kissing will be liable to prose
cution."
Every train on every state railway
in France has always been late, and
the delay is attributed to kissing.
POLICE STILL HUNTING
STEINHEIL MURDERER
PARIS, April 24.—The police are still
busy looking for the three men in
gaberdines and the red-haired woman
who murdered M. Steinheil and Mad
ame Stelnhell's mother, and have not
yet lost all hope of discovering the
criminals. M. Hamard, head of the de
tective department, from the first be
lieved them to belong to the lowest
l.iass and holds that opinion still.
The search for clews among Apaches
and their women folk Is extraordinarily
difficult, as they are "a world apart in
the midst of society." But the police
recall a case in which the murderer
was traced by a jacket. The garment
-was taken ail over the world by de
tectives, who at last discovered, In
Buenos Ayres, the original owner of
the coat. Through him the murderer
was unearthed in a Belgian prison.
Patient search and luck may eventual
ly give the clew which will lead to
the discovery of the authors of the
Steinheil murders.
ITALIAN SIGNORA WOULD
DIVORCE PIANIST HUSBAND
MILAN, April Another tragic
chapter has begun in the history of the
former Princess Louisa of Saxony, aft
edward Countess Montignoso and lat
terly Slgnora Toselll of Florence. Her
romantic married life with the obscure
pianist of that name is now, after a
protracted period of bitter dissension,
definitely broken off, the ex-princess
having made up her mind to run away.
She told her husband that she would
■go and take a sea-air cure at Rapallo,
on the Genoese Riviera. Accompanied
by her baby boy, a governess and a
maid, the ex-princess, on the advice of
an intimate friend, pursued her journey
to the Palace hotel, Montreux, Switzer-
nd, where another intimate friend, a
Tuscan lawyer, was awaitng her. Sig
nora Toselll has begun proceedings for
divorce.
FINED $3.75 A CARD FOR
SMUGGLING ONE PACK
VIENNA, April 24.— An old woman,
living near the Bohemian-Saxon
frontier, has been condemned *'> a fine
of $210 or two months' Imprisonment
for bringing into Austria an old pack
of cards which had been given to her
for her grandchildren to play with,
and which she failed to declare at the
Austrian customs house.
The duty would have been '.', cents,
but the judge fixed the flne .it $3.75
mi every card In the pack, or over
6000 times the duty. As the old woman,
who keeps herself by collecting herbs,
is unable to pay the flne and would
probably not survive Imprisonment,
she has sent in a petition to the em
peror, asking for a free pardon, which
his majesty will doubtless grant.
Wasn't Good for Anything, So
They Sent Him to Legislature
He thought It a cinch to play the llddle. lm t the dancers protested and wouldn't stand
for tils playing.
/{T' HIRED him, but he ain't no ac-
I count," said Old Man Somarln
-*- dyk, speaking of his farm assist
ant. "Jest as soon as I kin git a man
that's worth his salt, I'll bounce him.
All he's good for is to plow an' SOW
an' feed the stock, plague him'"
"If he's good for that, he's good for a
right smart," observed the storekeeper.
"What did you want him tor—to play
the inner an' make b'loon .ascen
sions?"
"No, sir. I didn't," replied ('id Man
Somarindyk, with some acrimony, "an'
I didn't want him to mix navy beans
with Rio coffee or to water flne cut
terbacker till it dripped when you
pulled it outen the pail."
"That there line cut come to me jest
the way 1 sold it to you," declared the
storekeeper. "I done tol' you that
oncet, an' if once tellin' hain't enough
Washington Hancock interposed.
"What was the matter with the feller. (
Uncle?" he inquired.
"Well, it was thls-a-way," the old,
man answered. "I gin him a pot o'
yaller paint an' a brush, an' tol' him to
give the summer kitchen a coat while I
he' was a-restin' an' he wouldn't do it.
'I ain't no painter,' he says. '1 never |
done no paintln', •_ an' if 1 tried I'd
prob'ly slop it all over, an" maybe I'd
git painter's colic. It's suthln' that
ain't in my line,' lie says, 'an' I don't
aim to tackle a job I don't know noth
in' about.' "
"I reckon if he' bust a uieecliin' bed
wait to git a harnessmaker to mend
it," commented the storekeeper, am
icably.
"He jest didn't want to take no
risks," said Hancock. "Some fellers is
like that, an' then there's fellers like
my cousin, Philander, that's wlllln' to
tackle anythin' as long as it's honest.
Philander wouldn't never have hung
back from paintln' a summer kitchen.
He'd have made a stagger at the battle
o' Gettysburg panerammer or a liver
pill sign.
"Philander b'lleved in tryin . If he
didn't know how to do anythin' he al
lowed he cd go at it some way, an' if
lt wasn't the right way he'd lind it out
an' try some other. I've seen him
a-sharpenln' a pick on a grindstun an'
shavln' the bristles off'n a hawg with
hie daddy's razor. One time he went
to Perry Spencer an' struck him for a
Job on the paper.
'' 'Kin you stick type?' Perry ast him.
" 'I reckon I can,' says Philander. 'I
hain't never tried it, but I've watched
you-all doln' it, an' it seems right easy.'
"Another time he undertook to flgger
on the lumber for an by-ten hen
house an" made It WOO foot 'stld o' 600,
an' got it all hauled from the sawmill
afore he found out his mistake. Then
he went to work, an' by the ttme he'd
got the hen house up lie had to go to
the mill after a couple o' hundred foot
more to make up for the miscues in
cuttin'. Aunt 'Lizbeth got enough,
K3&StSESESS*n
He had failed at everything else, so his, friends sent him to the legislature to help make
the laws.
A DAY IN THE STOCKS
A record on file in the library of
congress contains an account of the
adventures of a certain Hubbard, who
was sentenced In Boston to the stocks
for having indulged in an unwar
rantable fit of ill temper. When he
had taken his seat for the day there
came along a drove of swine, which
seemed to cast upon him those leering
looks that only a fat pig can bestow.
A dog followed, sniffing at the pris
oner's feet and making feints—un
pleasantly approaching reality—»f bit
ing him. Then a cock, mounting to the
very top of the stocks, crowed his de
rision upon the victim below; and
presently a rough fellow, after in
dulging in ugly taunts, threw at him
fetid toadstools and a dead snake.
Then an Indian appeared, who, in a
drunken rage, stimulated by some
fancied injury, rushed at Hubbard
with a tomahwk, probably intending
nothing worse, however, than to give
him a severe fright, which he certainly
succeeded in doing.
Help came from an unexpected quar
ter, for at that moment an old bull
came tearing down the road. His at
tention was attracted by the stocks,
and with a roar he prepared for a
charge.
Alarmed in his turn, the svage dart
ed off. The bull made a dash at the
stocks and carried away the corner
post, but without even grazing the
object of his apparent wrath. Whether
he was disgusted by the little he had
accomplished or his animosity was thus
satisfied, he started off, bellowing and
shaking his head, much to the relief of
the said Hubbard.
And then the unfortunate man was
left in comparative peace to his own
meditation and the cutting sleet of a
November day.— Harper's Weekly,
A SATISFACTION
"A wise man never burns his
bridges."
"No," said Mr. Crosslots, "and yet I
got a great deal of satisfaction from
something like that. I went down cel
lar one chilly spring morning and
broke up the snow shovel for kindling
wood."—Washington Star.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1910.
kindlin' wood outen that bill o' lum
ber to run her two years.
"One time there was a dance over to
Gus Dudney's, time his daughter got ,
married, an' Franklin Cody, who was
to play the fiddle, got as drunk as a
b'iled owl an' couldn't set up straight
lev the time he got to the house. Cose
the young folks was a-feelln' turrlble
bad about It, but Philander he steps up
as chipper as you please. 'Gimme that
fiddle,' says he. 'I'll play for you.'
" 'Kin you play the fiddle?' they all
ast him.
" 'I reckon so.' says Philander, 'I kin
try,* anyway. All you've got to do so
far's as I see is to rub the bow. up an'
down on the strings. That's all Frank
lin dee.'.-.' '
"Well, they handed him the fiddle an'
he scraped on it until they stopped him
an' took it away from him again.
" 'Daggone It!' says Philander, 'I
don't seem to get the hang of the
cussed tiling somehow. Le'me take an'
! try it the other end to.'
I "But that wasn't as bad as the time
I he went to Tnritio with a drove o'
hawga an' got the money for 'em an'
then went over to the Eagle house to
! get his dinner. Whilst he was a-settln'
there he got to talkin' with a couple
' of drummers from St.. Joe, an' pritty
j soon they asked him would he Join
them in a little game o' poker.
" 'What kine of a game is that?' says
Philander,
"That tickled the two fellers an' they
laffed lit to kill. Then they called in i
Dave Pendleton from the livery to fill i
out, but as soon, as Dave seen Philan- |
der he says, 'Why, that feller can't
play.*
" 'I'd like to know why I cain't,' says
Philander. 'You-all jest tell me how an' j
I'll show you.'
"So they explained it to him an' he
started right in to play an' Inside of |
three or four hours they divided up
that hawg money between the three of j
'em an' Philander went home to ex- j
plain to the old man. '
"Fin'ly Philander went into the drug i
business an' done right well for a I
while. Then one day Lem Ticer came '
in from Duck ("reek with a prescrip- j
tion he wanted filled for his old woman |
whilst Philander*! druggist was out to
his dinner.
" 'I'm in a hurry,' says Lem. 'Can't
you fix that up yourself?'
Philander took the prescription an'
looked at It. "Well, I reckon I could,'
he says. 'I kin try, anyway.'
"So he done his best with it an' Lem's
woman ought to ben thankful, 'cause
she dies a mighty easy death. But It
put Philander out of the drug busi
ness."
"What's he a-doin' now'" asked the
storekeeper, as the narrator rose and
brushed the whittiings from his lap.
"He's a-doln' mighty well," replied
Hancock. "He's in the legislature
a-makln' our laws for us. That's one
thing it hain't ness'ry to know any
thin' about afore you tackle lt."
AN EASY CASE
William P. Sheridan, the "detective
with the camera eye," was discussing
Insurance frauds in New York.
"A very easy case," said Mr. Sheri
dan, smiling, "grew out of a conversa
tion overheard by a friend of mine on
a train.
"Two elderly business men sat side
by side in front of my friends. Sud
denly the first put down his paper,
winked and said:
" 'By the way, how did you make
out about that fire of yours last Sun
day?'
" 'Shut up, you fool!" the other mut
tered. 'It's next Sunday."
A WISE LITTLE GIRL
Miss Mary Garden, at a tea in Phila
delphia, praised the skill of the modern
corset maker.
"It is really wonderful," said Miss
Garden, "what this artist can do. I
have seen fat old women who, from
certain aspects, looked like supple girls.
It was the corset maker.
"And that reminds me of an answer
that I heard in Sunday school when I
was a little child.
" 'What is it,' our superintendent
asked, 'that binds us together and
makes us better than we are by na
ture?'
" 'Our corsets, sir,' piped a wise little
girl of 8."
GOT HER OWN MAN'S PAY
Mrs. Kelly—Are you takin" much
stock in this attlmpt that a lot Iv the
wlmmen are makin' to get a vote for
us, Mrs. Rafferty?
Mrs. Rafferty—l ain't botherin' me
head about such things. I'm satisfied
to let Dlnny and the boys do all the
votin' for my family. But 1 do think
a woman should get man's pay.
Mrs. Kelly—Well, I can assure you,
Mrs. Rafferty, that I get one man's
pay, or know the reason why, ivery
Saturday night."
INSULT TO INJURY
Burglar Bill (to wealthy grocer)—
Now, then, out of it, and do this little
lot up Into a parcel. I never was no
hand at that kind of thing.—Comic
Cuts.
THE KING IS DEAD;
LONG LIVE THE KING
One Special Prize Period Closes.
Another Bigger and
Better Opens
FINE PIANO GOES THIS TIME
Some Enterprising Candidate Will
Get $600 Piano for Two
Weeks' Hustling
Developments in The Herald's $25,000
voting contest during the past forty
eight hours have created no end of ex
citement. . The close of the second spe
cial prize period at 10 o'clock Saturday
night saw the first evidences of excite
ment, and balloting was carried on dur
ing the day in a manner that promises
; some interesting announcements as
I soon as a complete and careful count
and check can be made. Another con
tributing cause for interest was the
third special prize announcement, ef
fective April 24-May 7 inclusive. This
offer Is by far the most generous yet,
and inasmuch as it provides for two
winners in each of the four districts —
the two candidates showing the greatest
increases in each district in the .time
given— there is every reason for every
candidate campaigning to the best of
his or her ability.
HUSTLE, Tim THINO
And because the prizes are all such
splendid and attractive awards, each
worth much more effort than will be
required to get it, all candidates are
going to push their vote-getting cam
paigns to the best of their ability dur
ing the next two weeks. What more
generous award can be Imagined than
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PREMO CAMERAS.SPECIAL PRIZES
Two, with Supplies, Go May 7
a $600 upright Steger piano? Think of
It— this goes for two weeks' effort only!
But before going Into a detailed de
scription of this particular special prize,
the contest department wishes to call
all readers' attention to the complete
list of special prizes ready for distribu
tion May 7. Here it is:
First—s6oo Steger upright piano, pur
chased from the Fitzgerald Music com
pany.
Second— building lot in West
moreland, Imperial valley, Cal.
Third—sloo scholarship in the Inter
national Correspondence school.
Fifth—One round trip ticket from Los
Angeles to Lake Tahoe.
Sixth—One round trip ticket from Los
Angeles to Lake Tahoe.
Seventh— One Premo kodak and sup
plies, value $33.
Eighth—One Premo Kodak and sup
plies; value $33.
METHOD OF AWARDING
These eight prizes will be divided
among the two candidates who cast
the greatest number of votes in each
district between April 24 and May 7
Inclusive. There will be eight winners,
two in each district, as follows: Two In
district C and two in district D. These
prizes will be given to the two candi
dates in each district who show the
greatest Increases during this period.
Therefore, two prizes are bound to go
to each district, and each district can
win only two prizes. The prizes will be
awarded in rotation, from one to eight,
to the eight candidates showing the
greatest increases. Every contestant is
on an equal foothlng for these special
prizes. Four prizes will go to the city
Of Los Angeles and four to the outside
territory.
ABOUT THE PIANO
The Steger & Sons upright is a per
fect instrument, combining perfection
of tone with exquisite finish, and, by
many, would be preferred even to a
grand. It Is a magnificent Instrument
of the largest and most massive style
that the Steger & Sons company man
ufacture, and one of the handsomest
upright pianos to be found in the stock
of the Fitzgerald Music company.
Everybody, whether candidates or
not, are invited to visit the Fitzgerald
Music company's store, 523 South
Broadway, and Inspect The Herald's
special prize Steger. Attaches of the
Fitzgerald Music company will show
visitors who ask to see The Herald's
Steger every courtesy and show why
The Herald selected the Steger. And
while at Fitzgerald's visitors should
also inspect the $750 Lindemann grand
piano to be awarded as the fourth cap
ita! prize at the close of the contest
and the $250 Columbia graphanola, the
seventh grand prize. All readers, can
didates and all others should watch the
daily Herald for Important contest
news. Don't miss an issue. And, above
all things, candidates should be getting
votes now as never before. Interest in
The Herald's contest is growing daily
and the candidates who are active dur
ing the next two weeks are the candi
dates who are going to get the votes of
thousands of interested newspaper
readers throughout Southern Califor
nia. Now is the time to put your name
among leaders if you would have it
there June 30. See page 9 for additional
contest news.
A STRANGE CUSTOM OF ALASKA
Perhaps the most Interesting archeo
logical discovery made on the north
coast of Alaska has a relation to the
present methods of personal decoration
now used by the natives of Alaska, the
most significant feature of which Is the
wearing of lip buttons, or labrets, by
the men. The present custom is that
when a boy is 14 or 16 years of age,
holes are pierced in his lower lip, one
below each corner of the mouth. A
small wooden plug is at first inserted
to keep the hole from growing to
gether, and month by month a bigger
and bigger plug is used, till finally the
openings are half an inch in diameter.
At this point the young man begins to
wear stone or ivory plugs. These orna
ments are put in from the inside ordi
narily, as one might insert a button
Into a shirt front. Usually, the two
buttons worn are each of a different
sort, while sometimes ohly one of the
holes is filled, and in summer men are
occasionally met with who wear no
buttons at all. When a visitor is seen
approaching, however, the ornaments
are always Inserted, for one does not
feel dressed without them. In pre
paring for sleep they are usually re
moved.— Magazine.
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3VAS BARC'KXA, YUMA, ARIZ.
This is Joan Barcena, a newsboy of Yuma,
who is the pride and sole support of his
widowed mother, Juan haa built up a nice
little business among Uie best known resi
dents of his home city and it was by these
friends that he was nominated ln The Her
ald's $23,000 voting contest. Juan is hope
ful of winning one of the very highest
prizes, but lie figures a double trip to the
orient would be Just the very thing tor his
mother and himself. With this Idea lie I*
selling papers and putting away the pennies
and getting subscribers to The Herald, and
running up the votes. Voles, he knows, are
what will win a trip, and the pennies, made
up Into dimes, will mm In handy while
over In China and Japan. The residents of
Yuma like Juan and tills manly little fel
low's vote total will bear watching during
the next few weeks.
DETECTIVE'S QUEER ERROR
An incident which proved humiliating
to a Russian detective occurred in one
of the principal squares of Copenhagen,
says the London Daily Mall. A dis
tinguished looking foreigner went up
to a policeman, and pointing to a man
who was crossing the square, said:
"Kindly arrest that man. I am a Rus
sian detective and I have tracked him
from St. Petersburg. He :s a murder
er, and I have a warrant for his arrest
in my pocket." The policeman took
both men to the police station, despite
the protests of the second man.
There it was ascertained that he,
too, was a Russian detective, who was
in Copenhagen for the purpose' of
watching over the safety of the Em
press Marie. Before catching his col
league the first detective, who had been
thrown on the wrong track In an un
explained fashion', had traced him from
Helsingfors to Stockholm and thence to
Denmark.
A PROMISE
"Pa?"
"What is it, my child?"
"When Sis marries that lord, will I
nave to call her 'your ladyship'?"
"It will not be necessary for you to
do so, but it will be very nice If you
care t»"
"All right. Mebby 1 won't always
do It, but I'll promise not to call her
'punkin face' any more, anyhow."
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AUSTRALIA BARS
MARRIED TOILERS
Immigrants Practically Forced to
Race Suicide by the
V Land Owners
NO CHILDREN ON RANCHES
Commonwealth Seeks to Retain
Purity of the Race by
,* Strange Methods
! LONDON, April 24.—New South
Wales does not want .married couples
with young children among her Immi
grants. Farmers and squatters will
not give employment to parents who
are not past chlldbearlng. While the
determination to exclude colored races
has probably ' impeded the industrial
and economic development of Austra
lia, it is the ambition of the common
wealth to preserve the tradition of a
white Australia.
The government of Australia spends
large sums of money' and uses every
effort to attract white immigrants, but
squatters and other large employers
of labor in the country insist on condi
tions that tend directly to encourage
that race suicide which is one of the
gravest problems of the day. The em
bargo on married people with children
is a danger to the whole country. It
leads to congestion in the cities and
deprives the country of the real sources
of wealth, and must end by crippling
the development of Australia as well
as robbing her of those means of de
fense which become more urgent every
day.
The scandal Is exposed by the Aus
tralian correspondent of the Times,
who sends two striking letters with
comments thereon. One of these, let
ters follows;
ASKS FOR rASSAUK
"As the prospects of my obtaining
employment do not seem very hopeful,
1 am writing to ask if you could see
your way to pay our passages to an
other state, where work may be more
readily got. 1 fully realise the' diffi
culty there Is for married people In
securing situations if they have what
is known out here as encumbrances.
For during the past nineteen days I
have called myself at many places in
search of work, but invariably have
been told that with two children there
is no chance for us."
The second letter reads:
"Mr. and Mrs. were both thor
oughly satisfied with our capabilities
and references, and I quite thought
that at last we were about to start
work; but I am very sorry to have to
tell you that ! our little - boy • has
proved an obstacle. While Mr. 7—- —-
appeared to sympathize, Mrs.. —•
would not for a moment entertain the
idea of engaging married people. with
an encumbrance. It would * seem " that:
as long as we have our child With.us j
there Is not much chance of our getting,
a situation. Could you . assist us by
getting our child taken care 'of for a
few months in order that we may he i
free to earn some money?"
The writer of the first letter Is an
ex-British soldier, a good, all-round
farm hand; his wile is a good cook
and laundress. There is plenty of em
ployment awaiting him and his wife—
if thoy go.alone—at $350 a year and
keep. If they do not get rid of their,
children thero is nono. The writer of
the second letter is a good farm hand,
who can also drive and repair motor
cars; his i wife is a good cook and;
laundress.
MUST FORSAKE CHttD
Their only chance of getting employ
ment Is to leave their child with
someone else.
The best registry offices ln the stato
have been offered a bonus of $15 to find
these people employment; their answer
Is: "If you gave us $50 we could not
do It." The state immigration bureau,
when applied to, simply says: "We
told you so; we cannot place married
couples with child!'.' and therefore wo
,1,, not assist them to come out." ,
A third case may be mentioned. A
married couple with one child came to
New South Wales some months ago.
After great difficulties they were placed
on a station nearly 300 miles from Syd
ney, an.l their new employers expressed
thorough satisfaction with them. A
few months passed, and then the em
ployer's wit. discovered that another
child was likely to bo born—not im
mediately, by any means. The family!
was at once dismissed and sent back
to Sydney by rail. If they had been
allowed to stay six months the em
ployer (by agreement) would have had
to pay their return fare; dismissed
when they were, they had to pay It,
and the employer simply got them a
ticket and handed over the small bal
ance of their wages. They arrived In
Sydney penniless.
Friends tried to get employment for
the man and a home for the woman.
After much searching the only place
for her was the "Home of Hope," a
refuge for fallen women, in which the
diet provided, even for women before
childbirth, is bread and treacle, and
the work is perpetual laundry work.
I am glad to say that when the charac
ter of the work and food became
known to the friends who were interest
ing themselves the wife was at once
removed to less degrading quarters.
DISINFECTED
This chap moved Into a dilapidated
cottage near the beach, and set to
work at once to whitewash it inside
and out. While he was swinging the
wet brush on the exterior a passerby
said approvingly:
"I'm glad to see you making this
old place so neat and smart. It's been
an eyesore to the neighborhood for
years."
"It ain't nothin' to me about eye-,
sores," was the reply. "The reason]
why I'm whitewashing is because the^
last couple wot lived here had twins
once. I understand lime's a good dis
infectant. Ye see, we've got ten chil
dren already."