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" CCI.INA t - OHIO- FARM1NO IN JAPAN. Thou who despise the power of the apniifrt people htumlil correct their tHtlnmti-s ty a study of the agrlcue turul prodliileii of thU most capable race, uy Niw Yolk American. In ar th it fimt victory rests with the oiutnl.hHry, mid th last objective of II military operations U tho com omnJ oi the lj-iit fields or tho rice St liln. Nation lire Htron not In pro portion to tin Ir natural resources, but In proportion to their anility to make much of what they liavo. Now, Japan ill .t-s Its farming In a way l hut to, from a military point of view, slm ply formidable. It supports u poptila Hon of CI, oho, (mo on uu area of ura ble laud that could bo contained In t circle with a radliiH of 73 miles con- iderably lens than thu distance from New York to riilladelpliin. Thero are more farms that are called "worn am" In New Kngland and tho middle State than would equal thu whole of tho tillable Mirlaie of tho Japanese U-lands. Our lands are "worn out," Of course, merely because our scant kill and fickle path-nco are exhaust ed, and not because tney do not con tain under their hidebound sods the tnuklng of the food of millions. The tee ml iik little farm of present day Japan were cropped a thousand years fccfon- the Pilgrims landed on the Ply mouth tauds. DIFFICULTY OF INVASION. Whenever war Is discussed invasion U sure to ho treated as a matter to Co considered anxiously. Yet suc cessful Invasion has always been the exception, rather than the rule. Eng land has had a lit of the bhlvcrs every (cw years for centuries at the thought ft invasion, and yet It has actually been penturies since she has suffered from in invasion, says Manchester Union. In the last war with England thero was a great deal of talk about inva ilon, both of this country and of Can ada, yet nothing came of it all except the taking of York, now Toronto, by Pike, and the capture of Washington tiy Ross, neither of which had any permanent results or even any impor tant influence on tho course of tho war Now and then (something Is nid in the newspapers and In military circles about the invasion of the L'nited States by tho army of some Hostile nation. It is well enough to provide suitable coast defenses, for it Would be disagreeable and expensive tor some one of our seacoast towns to be levied upon for a heavy tribute Oy a hostile fleet, but as to an Inva ilon which would reach anywhere into ;he interior, it is not for a moment to be seriously entertained. The latest public school develop ment is the proposed establishment jf classes at Montclair, X. J., for in uruction in the prevention of tuber culosis. A census of the .Montclaii tchools shows that there are about Hi ii'jpihi who are predisposed to tuber culosis, and to save these children ami others the authorities propose io establish outdoor classes in each of Mu schools. Jt would be good policy jo make Instruction in wanare against Uilierculosis general so that the pu Oils may guard themselves against in jection, and avoid inclusion in the jutdoor classes. The open air school t becoming quite general. New Kork has openeu one and the bchool luthoritles o; Chicago are preparing do likewis". A woman In New York obtained t20,000 damages from a railroad company-because she was so badly burned n a collision with her automobile iat the scars preclude her from ever bearing decollete gowns. The fa l.ous decision is yet remembered of i New Jersey judge- who decided Uiat jurenta of children killed in an acci lent could not recover any but nom nal damages, as the children had no uoney value. The vagaries of the law ire certainly hard lor the lay mind io understand. Every now and then one hears of a 'remarkably good counterfeit $50 Sill" in circulation. Remarkably ood or remarkably bad, as you look it it, since the excellence of its iicita Jon only increases Its moral turpi tude. But a large share of society la not afraid of being deceived by bad 50 bills. The country Is getting ahnout 4ry as the weather bureau. A Newark man who admits he wants to get married, but dreads tc propose, is probably about to experi ence the busiest time of his life. Rome Is preparing for its big exposi tion by raising rents. That may be one way to attract visitors, but it is hardly a good way. Champagne is likely to be more ex pensive and great suffering is antici pated on Broadway. A hint for weary parents is con tained In the news that a Brooklyn woman has asked the court to give her an Injunction to stop her neigh tor's baby crying. Aviators have this advantage: they can iaaue rain checks that nobody 'will ever use. Montreal stock exchange has a rule isgainst gum chewing. Jealousy on the pwrt of the rag. THE DEMOCR 118 CLOUDS !!l EIGHT COLONEL QCORCE HARVEY SAYS COUNTRY ALL RIGHT. THE WRITER SEES NO CLOUD Btrlklng Article In North American Review Thit le Attracting Wide j Attention. The attention of business and pro fessional men In all portions of the country hue been attracted to a Btrlk lng I jr at rone article by Col. George Harvey In the September Issue of the North American Review In which the writer takea a view of the greatest hopefulness for the future of America and Americana. The article la en titled "A Plea for the Oouaervatlon of Common Sense," and It ta meeting with the cordial approval of business tnen of all shades of political opinion throughout the entire couutry. Io part. Colonel Harvey aaya: "Vnquestlotiubiy a ipfrlt of unrest dominates the land. Hut, If It be true that fundamentally the conditio of the couutry Is sound, must we necessarily succumb to despondency, abandon tffort looking to retrlevnl nd cringe like cravens before clouds that only threaten? Rather ought we not to analyze conditions, search for causes, find the root of the dis tress, which even now exists only In metis minds, and then, after the American fashion, apply such rem edies as seems most likely to produce beneficent results? Capital and Labor Not Antagonistic. "The Link that connecta labor with capital is not broken but we may not deny that it is less cohesive than it should be or than conditions war rant. Financially, tho country Is stronger than ever before In lta his tory. Recovery from a panic so ; severe as that of three years ago was . never before so prompt and compara tively complete. The masses are ', practically free from debt. Money la held by the banks In abundance and : rates are low. "Why, then, does capital paure upon the threshold of Investment? The answer, we believe, to be plain. It awaits adjustment of the relations of government to business. Tho , sole problem consists of determining how government can maintain an even balance between aggregations oi interests, on the one hand, and the whole people, on the other, protect ing the latter against extortion and saving the former from mad assaults. "The solution Is not easy to find ; for the simple reason that the situ ation Is without precedent, nut Is not progress being made along sane , ; and cautious lines? i Conserve Common Sense. ! I "Is not the present, aa we have ! seen, exceptionally secure? What, then, of preparations for the future? Patriotism is tho basis of our Insti tutions. And patriotism in the minds : of our youth is no longer linked solely j with fireworks and deeds of daring, it i Is taught In our schools. A new coun" has been added a course In loyalty. Methodically, our children learn how to vote, how to conduct primaries, conventions and elections, bow to discriminate between qualifica tions of candidates and, finally, how to govern as well as serve. They are taught to despise bribery and all forms of corruption and fraud as treason. Their creed, which they are made to know by heart, is not com plex. It is simple, but comprehen sive, no less beautiful In diction than lofty In aspiration. These are the pledges which are graven upon their memories: "As it is cowardly for a soldier to run away from battle, so it is coward ly for any citizen not to contribute his share to the well-being of his country. America Is my own dear land; she nourishes me, and I will love her and do my duty to her, whose child, servant and civil soldier I am. "As the health and happiness of my body depend upon each muscle and nerve and drop of blood doing its work In its place, so the health and happiness of my country depend upon each citizen doing his work in his place. "These young citizens are our hostages to fortune. Can we not safely assume that the principles ani mating their llve3 augur well for the permanency of the Republic? When before have the foundation stones of continuance been laid with such care and promise of durability? "The future, then, Is bright. And the present? But one thing is need ful. Xo present movement is more laudablo than that which looks to conservation of natural resources. But let us never forget that the great est Inherent resource of the Amer ican people is Common Sense. Let that be conserved and applied with out cessation, arid soon it will be found that all the ills of which we complain but know not of are only such as attend upon the growing pains of a great and blessed country. He Knows the Game. According to the Metropolitan Meg azlne, Fire Chief John Conway of Jer sey City, h solved the baseball ex cuse question by the posting of the following printed notice on his desk at fire headquarters: "All requests for leave of absence owing to grandmothers' funerals, lame back, house cleaning, moving, sore throat, headache, brainstorm, cousins' wedding, general Indisposition, etc., must bo handed to the chief not later than ten o'clock on the morning of the fame." Duty Smears. "How can you go around," demand ed bis wife," with tobacco Juice all oyer your face?" "This isn't tobacco Juice," respond ed the candidate, mildly. "It's mo lasses. I've been kissing babies." Pretending. "See the boys." "Pretending to be soldiers, eh?" "Yes; kids get lots of fun preter 1 tag." "And grcwn-ups, too. I put m ;ny vacation pretending I was rich." PD 15 CUD Hundreds Daily Shuffle Through Streets Without Money or Friends. Young Hoosler Lad Leaves Small Town to Answer Advertisement of Employment Agency Is Duped and Robbed of Coin. In Chicago penniless and without a friend. Were you ever In such circum stances? Probably not, but every day sees hundreds of your fellows who are. The other day Walter Summers, a lad of only 17 years, good looking and ap parently fairly well educated, shuffled Into the Desplalues street police sta tion. The lad, tired and broken In spirit, sat down in a chair. "Say," the boy asked timidly, "how far Is It to Wubnsh avenue?" "About a mile," was the reply. Ho smiled half heartedly. "About a mile, eh? C.eo. I wish I had a dollar for every mile I've walk ed today. I could buy some regular food nnd have enough left to get cleaned up and pay my railroad fare homo." "Where Is your home?" was asked. "Evansvlllo.' "Indiana?" "Yep." And then the tired boy told his 6tory. "I hod a Job In West Salem, Wis.," he said, "and I was getting along pret ty well. I had a few dollars saved up and thought I was satisfied. I saw an advertisement in a pamphlet up there, telling how easy It was to make Money in Chicago. The 'ad' was sign ed by an employment agency. All you had to do was to givo the agency $2 and It would ship you to Chicago, where a job would be waiting you. It sounded fine, so I thought I'd try it. "I gave my $' to the agency nnd took the rest of my money with me. I was shipped with about fifteen other fellows. "When I got to Chicago I went to tho place where tho agency had told me I could land a Job. The address which they had given me I found was a swamp out that way somewhere," and the boy pointed toward the south west side. "Then I saw that I had been 'bun koed.' The agency. I guess, was a fake, or else they had given me the INDIAN IS GOOD COOK Woman Wastes More Than She Uses, Says Prof. Barnard. Specialist In Household Economy Says American Man, Because of Wife's Culinary Inefficiency, Not as Well Nourished as Euro pean. New York. Go to tho squaw, thou housewife, consider her ways and do likewise. At least such is the advice of Prof. Charles Barnard, specialist In house hold economy, and one of the foremost figures at the household show recently held in Madison Square garden, says a writer In the New York World. What Professor Harnard is not tell ing eager inquirers at the garden of '.he superior housekeeping methods of our great great-grandmother, Minne haha, ho is busy with the "housekeep experiment station," which he "intains at Uarien, Conn., for test- ; under the most simple housekeep ing conditions all new materials, meth ods, utensils and appliances which may prove useful in the home. "The American housekeeper, com pared with tho housewives of France nnd Germany, is an unlettered child," declared Professor Barnard to me yes terday. "The American man, because of his wife's culinary Inefficiency, is not so well nourished as the European mak ing half tho income. At least 20 per cent, of the money spent on the Amer ican table is absolute waste." Professor Barnard, mild of votce and eye, spoke with an earnestness that belled his manner. "The American woman," he added, "does not know as much about cook ing as the Indian squaw." "Cooking, though it is part of the profession of wifehood, does not In terest her. She 'can't be bothered,' she says. The merchant's wife vies with the millionaire's wife in buying only the most expensive cuts of meat. Steak, chops; steak, chops! swings tho unvarying pendulum of the week's bill of fare. "Now, only 24 per cent, of a beef, for instance, can provide the expen sive porterhouse steaks, Delmonico STUDY SOUTH POLE WEATHER Douglas Mawson of Sydney to Find Out Reasons for Australia's Queer Conditions. Melbourne. To find out why Aus tralia has queer spasms of weather r-t times Douglas Mawson of Sydney 'ruts to run an Australian expedition the regions round the south pole, a dash to the pole itself, it should borne in mind, but a long residence , i Antarctic quarters to study the magnetic and meteorological condi tions that reflect their influence on the climate experienced by those liv ing under the Southern Cross. The curse of Australian agricultur ists Is drought. Some summers all seems set for a banner harvest, when suddenly cyclonlo depression shifts and the rains that would have been a boon are wasted on the ocean. Other tint?" hurlcanes sweep whole prov w'ichu, leaving a track of destruction -ch ua the fringe of the Mexican gu'r aslonally experiences. These co- ;o-.a R'rsen'. wad tUe veathor condi THE FIRST WIRELESS TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENT EVER USED ON AN AEROPLANE ; p 7 VHl i. XV" 4 y sT ' - V ' T Vt U ' V .'II irrty v 1 '. , i ' n F.O - -.,v-.-l. f 1 V: V ,-?V 4 fa :. T;'J . H This photograph, the first of its kind, shows the tiny wireless telegraph apparatus designed by II. N. Horton and placed on Glenn H. Curllss' Aero plane for sending messages while In flight. Dr. C. K. Everitt of the sig nal corps, N. Y. National Guard is seen sending a message. wrong address by mlstako. I thought, though, that I could get a Job next day, so I gave a dollar for the room I slept In that night. I hunted around for two days, tring to find a Job. Twice I was told to call next weeK, but that Is as close as I've come, so far. "It was Tuesday when I came to Chicago. The following Sunday night I slept on the dock, down there by the river. Thero were lots of other fel lows there, too. I spread out foiuo papers and lay down on them. When I woke up In the morning I found that some fellow had taken my last $10." The boy paused a minute, looked at bis lone auditor nnd smiled. "Say, honest now, ain't I the 'fall guy'? I guess I need a guardian," be said, and in spite of the fact that he was hungry nnd without money, ho actually laughed. "Kver t-ince that night I have had to beg what food I have had. And I haven't had a shave, either, not since 1 came to this town." "Yesterday I gave up. 1 went in the station down there," pointing west again, "and the 'copper' at the desk gave me a postal card and a nickel. Then I wrote to my mother and told roasts, etc. The other 7C per cent. Is made up of the cheaper cuts chuck, rump, round, shank, navel, brisket, etc. "This meat If properly cooked, that Is, slowly cooked. Is more nutritious and has a better flavor than te:.derloln. But the poor man's wife won't take tho trouble to cook It. Her husband may say, 'We'll have to economize. Let's buy a little cheaper meat.' But when she gets to the butcher's and sees another woman buying something more expensive she feels ashamed of what she intended to order or else says to herself, 'What's good enough for her is none too good for me,' and buys a porterhouse steak instead. "There's another type of woman that would rather spend her husband's money than her own time. She 'can't be bothered' cooking. But" here Pro fessor Barnard brightened up percep tibly "a solution has been found even for her. It is fireless cooking. Have you ever tried it?" I confessed that my education had been neglected In that respect. "That's a trick tho Indian squaw has taught us," Professor Barnard continued. "There are 15 or 20 differ ent fireless cookers on tho market, so you see I'm not booming anybody in talking about them." WEARING TWO X- Double Protection Against Dust and Sun Is Forced In English So ciety Circles. London. Woman Is in future to wear two veils, so that she may sug gest more and more the rainbow shrouded in a fine mist by her many colored garments veiled wita transpar ent materials. The fashion of the combination of colorings in veiling one over the other, which has become such a pro nounced vogue in both evening and afternoon dresses, has spread to the veil itself. Motor veils of different tints worn over each other to produce a Bhot ef fect lead the way to the same style of veiling for wear with the promenade hat. Fair women are soon to be myBterl msly hidden behind folds of mauve :ver blue, mole over pink, dark blues tions remaining normal, Australia has bumper crops and record clips of wool; squatter millionaires are turtled out by the back blocks and boom times set in for town and country. THOUGHT "TEDDY" A TITLE Cheyenne Waitress Causes Former President to Laugh Heartily at Error. Denver, Col. While Colonel Roose velt was In Cheyenne he stopped at the Inter Ocean hcitel. His meals were served to him in his rooms, and as servitor he had a Swedish girl who had been in this country but a short time. Whenever he asked the girl ques tion, she answered: "No, Teddy," or "Yes, Teddy," to tho amuse mailt of the colonel. Her manner was so ingenuous, how vr, thft he decided that she was ln occiit cf Intentional dlwesoect her whore I was and that I was 'broke.' I expect to hear from her to morrow and then I am going home, An' say," he went on, "lor nil the three years which I have been away, I haven't written to my mother. She didn't know but what I was dead. I had an argument with her one day,' he admitted reluctantly, and I ran away. I got along all right up in West Snlem, but Chicago Is a fierce place. Tho boy got up to go. A plain clothes detective who had come out during the latter part of the boy's story gave him CO cents. "Here, lad," he said, "you're too young to be In this town without money." Tho reporter added his mite to the boy's fortune, then turned to go into the station. "Well, much obliged," murmured tha runaway, "so long" and he was off. Order French War Planes. Paris. The ministry of war has ordered tho purchase of ton military monoplanes and twenty biplanes with in the next three months. This will give the French army an aerial flotilla of sixty by the end of the year. i Sea Lion Is Life Saver. I Toledo, O. The sea lion which re i cently won much publicity by its si j journ in the Maune e, c-sraped again I some time early the other morning. ! Police Lieutenant Conway sent lojr officers to pursue the animal Coroner Charles J. Henzlcr says they ought to let tho sea Hon stay in the river and make no attempt to catch him. "They should not have taken it out when It was in the river before," he says. Why, as long as It was in the river there was not a single case of drowning. Kids were alrald to go In swimming, and people were afraid to commit suicide by jumping into the water. Praise for American Girls. New York. "American girls do not go abroad to have a good time by drinking wine, smoking cigarettes and following other European customs. Those who say they do libel them." Thus said Lady Francis Cook (Ten nessee Clafiin), herself an American girl, who arrived the other day from Europe. "American girls have revolutionized Europe," she continued. "Continental streets, which were regarded as tin safe for women after dark, now are as safe as our own avenues. It Is the American girl who has worked this change." VEILS LATEST shading rose and pale blues. A lining of pink under black lace or white has been recognized for a long time as very becoming. It will require a decided artistic taste in the ordinary woman who chooses her veiling apart from her hat to know exactly what tones to blend and which will also suit hei complexion. "A combination of colors is the fash ion for motor veils," a representative of a West end firm said, "and very fine gauzes and chiffons are sold for theii construction. "The several layers of veiling are effective as well as picturesque, as they protect the face from the dust better than a single veil. "In the same way bright colored hats are covered tightly with a veil of chiffon, and many varieties of the veiled hat will be seen in the autumn modes." Finally he mado inquiries and the mystery was solved. The girl thought that "Teddy" which she had heard so frequently, was "some sort of a title, such as king." He laughed heartily when he heard the explanation. Talking Motion Pictures. New York. With the announce ment by Thomas A. Edison the other day that he has almost reached the solution of the problem of making moving pictures that talk, the future of the moving picture promises a revo lution. Mr. Edison has obtained satis factory results with a device for re cording the words as well as the ac tions of actors and actresses. Protect Lyre Bird. Sydney. So great has been the de struction wrought upon the beautiful lyre Mrd of Queensland that the state has protected the bird till the middle of 1916; a $25 penalty Is attached to Its capture, or injury, or taking it eggs. It is the extraordinary lyro form development of the tail featheri which tempt the cantor. OTICS Greater New York's Increased Needs "My TOWN 84 ,jL' CROWN SOE Qfrtty V.UV-' ALL RICHT J A.'.'VlVk:Vl York y government has, In some ways at least, kept pnro with the city's growth as shown In tho census re turns Is manifest from a budget study nompiled by the city statisticians. The census returns show an Increase In the population of 38.7 per cent. In tho same ten-year period tho city budget has grown Irom ;i0,778,972 to $IG3, 030,270 an Increase of over 74 per cent. Tho figures estimated for tho expenditure of the actual city, as apart from tho county, were for 1900 $79,201,70-1, and for lit 10 $158,775,145, or 94 per cent Increase. Tho increased cost In tho city gov ernment Is partly accounted for, ac cording to the budget officials, by the widened scope of municipal enterprise. For example, ten years ago the domes tic relations courts In Manhattan and Brooklyn, tho special schools for de fective children or tuberculosis pa tients nnd the establishment of play grounds were entirely outside the gen eral conception of what the city gov ernment should do. The expense of maintaining tho city's police force has Increased more than a third in tho decade. The board of education now requires twice as much ns in 1900-$2S, 500,000, instead Souvenir Postal Saves Heir $20,000 iX J?:&JrL. GET A "t'tjj THIS t7 Z ft J TIME CHICAGO. Mn unusual story of a lost heir to a $3,000,000 estate, whoso chance mailing of a souvenir post card will bring him $20,000, was revealed in the probate court the other day. The man is Corne 'lus Carney, now a resident of Okla homa City, who was thought to have perished In the San Francisco earth quake and fire in April, lfJOtJ. The story he told in court ran like this: He was born 30 years ago in Troy, N. Y., a member of a large imily whose head, John Carney, was for more noted for his convivial hab- ts than for his thrift and industry. Consequently the little Carneys found ife in Williams street alley a strug gle in which dirt and want were dally actors. After being very bad for a ong time the condition of the Carney family became worse, and Cornelius was sent to a children's asylum. There wasn't much in life in Wil liams street alley but liberty there was plenty of that and the compara tive comfort of the asylum couldn't Ants Are Driving Kansans From Home - 11 ) s w CHITA, Kan. G rasshoppers, hlnch bugs and Hessian flies, ami a few other such pests, have visit ed Kansas In bygone days, eaten the crops, trimmed the leaves off the trees and driven more or less hardy pio neers back to their wives' folks In tho East, but never until this year have ants in sufficient numbers been no ticed to cause people to desire to leave their once happy homes in the Sun flower State. From several towns come reports of ants in such numbers as to cause ac tual worry by the inhabitants. The people are not unaccustomed to the little black ant and the red ant which visit tho sugar bowl occasionally, but they can't account for the swarms of all sorts and breeds of ants which aro Hog Raising a Social Eccentricity LONDON. Women of title, Jaded by the fatigues of tho season, are be ing offered unique opportunities for calming their overwrought nerves. Lady Wolseley, head of the Ladies' Park club, has conceived the happy idea of enabling the blue-blooded mem bers to live as farm hands. The re treat that has been provided for them is far from the madding crowd, in an antique country house in Middlesex county. Duchesses tired of the social whirl go there to commune with nature and to enjoy the delightful luxury of plain fare. Life on the farm will be almost Bevere, for the spoiled darlings of so ciety. They are not allowed to play So Far and Yet So Near. He (to his fiancee, Jealously)- -Why did you let that man kiss you? She "He is a distant relative." Pie "Distant? He was too mighty close to suit me." London Ideas. Superiority. "Why do you consider women su perior to men in intelligence?" "A bald-headed man buys hair re storer by the quart, doesn't he?" "Eer-yes." "Well, a woman doesn't waste time on a hair restorer; she buys hair." A A of $14,000,000. The street-cleaning de partment spends 00 per cent more $7,500,000. Instead of $5,000,000. The health department's appropriation has grown 125 per cent from $1,050,000 to $2,750,000. Tho fire department costs 80 per cent more $8,150,000. in place of $4,850,000. Figures for church membership In Greater New York compiled by local organizations bIiow that the number of church members for tho five nor the new population figures. In 1900 oughs 1b 1,310,421, or 37.2 per cent of there were 1,233,677 members of Christian churches. This was 35.9 per cent of the population. The figures seem to show that the growth In church membership Is 1.3 per cent ahead of tho population growth. This growth, it Is estimat ed, is divided about evenly between Protestants and Honuin Catholics. At present it is calculated that there are 4l0,7S:i Protestants to SC9,C48 Homan Catholic. A remarkable fact In the religious work of the city has been tho growth of the Lutheran church, its additional churchej since 1SG5 having been 22 per cent of those built in Greater New York. Next to it comes the Protes tant Episcopal church, which has built ninety-three churches to the Luther ana' 113. There nre at least 6(5 separate Chris tian bodies at work In New York, of which the four which obtain the larg est tax exemptions on account of prop erty are the Itonian Catholic, the Protestant Episcopal, the Presbyterian and tho Jewish. compensate Cornelius for the loss of his freedom, so when he was old enough to care for himself 13 years old, to be exact Cornelius ran away and started out to see the world. After several years of wandering, Charley en listed in the United States marine corps. He served for six years, and in that time visited every port you ever heard of and more besides. Early In 1906 Carney was In China and w rote home that he was sailing 60on for San Francisco. That was tho last his relatives heard of him In years. In 1908 Mrs. Anna F. Baker, who was Mrs.. Carney's sister, died in Chi cago, leaving an estate of $3,000,000, of which a considerable part went to tho Carney children, who had grown up and prospered In Troy. To set tle up the estate it was necessary to find Cornelius alive or prove him dead, and one was about as hard a task as the other. Finally the courts decided Cornelius was dead although he was married and living in Okla homa. Within a short time Cornelius' share in his aunt's estate would have gone to Cook county, but Just in tho nick of time Cornelius sent a souvenir post card to his sister, Mrs. Lizzie Pratt of Troy, who at once wroto him that he was an heir to his aunt's estate. In court Carney proved his heirship and will get the $20,000 before long. now in evidence. Kiowa and other towns in Harper county tell of the visits of the ants. Almost the entire residence portion of Kiowa, a town of more than one thousand inhabitants, is in the grasp of untold millions of ants. At first the earth seemed literally to be alive with them. There were big ants, lit tle ants, red ants, blond ants and brunette ants. They all seemed to be hungry and they got Into the houses. Not content with the food in the pan tries, they infested carpets, beds, chewed clothing to pieces and caused a great deal of havoc. Openwork stockings nnd porous un derwear had to bo abandoned fof close-knit clothing by the residents, be cause the ants didn't remain on tha floor or in tho beds, but swarmed ovei human beings. In certain sections of the town fam ilies actually moved out to get away from the ants, thinking It was cheapei to move than to lose their household goods. Others are devoting their tlmt to fighting the pests by fumigating th houses and Inundating the floors. bridge or to smoke cigarettes within tho charmed w,alls of the farmhouse Hut there is nothing to prevent a countess from sneaking away to en Joy a whiff in the cow shed. Titled farm hands may also dls port themselves among the poultry, and carry feed to hungry hogs. Ex ports are on tho premises to teach bee keeping, bread making, how to rui a poultry farm and how to spin. H Isn't compulsory for countesses to kill fowls for the market, though way ward fancy may lead them' to en liven their week-ends by waiting oi tho pigs. Spinning is included in the cate gory of Interests, because spinning li held to be such a restful and poetii occupation. Spinning wheels hav been imported from Scotland and leo Boris are given at $1.50 by a profl cient instructress. The role of shep herdess at the farm is popular, bul the most amused people on the prem ises are the rustics who do tho real work., Frigid Task. The bold drummer had Just kissed the Boston maid. . "Oh, sir," she cried in a horrified tone, "no man ever kissed me be fore!" "Well," rejoined the b. d., "I sup; pose somebody had to break the Ice. Politic. Cora Do you think that Reggie means business, dear?" Estelle Oh, yes, love. Why, ' laughed for nearly five minutes at o; of the dad's Jokes last night. mm