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LITTLE HINTS.

A tulle ruche and U,ht little
wreath of roses trim the mushroom:
hat
Amethyst is a color that is seen
more frequently as the season ad
vances
There is new net inlet with horizon.
tai stripes of lace. which makes lovely
evening gowns
The luxurious evening coat is lined
throughout with ruffes OF narrow va.
lenciennes.
Blouses OF satiny leather in white
or colors are the modish shirt waists
for motoring or driving.
When one wishes to appear particu.
larry well, the becoming picture hat
remains the favorite.
Many women have their gowns made
up with two skirts. one short and &c.
we're, the other long and trimmed.
Belts Of gold braid are fetching and
will brighten up the dark shirt-waist
suit to be so much worn this winter.
Such pretty opera bag for the
woman in black is OF black Irish
crochet over silk The mounting is
gun metal.
The streets will he a gay riot OF
color this winter if all the rainbow.
hued suits one sees i'm The shops are to
find purchasers.
In one shop is shown a gown with
little creatures like ermine sprawled
all over it. It would make a lovely
woman look Ike an awful barbarian.
Velvet is quite the thing for street
gown this winter The tailored gown
Of black velvet. made severely and
worn with handsome furs. is Hrst
choice
Children's coats are charmingIv
tricked on with bit OF fur al collar
and wrists. Angora. caracul. ermine
and Persian lamb are all used for
this. White goatskin makes delight.
full entire coats for the youngsters. II
looks like caracul. but is much less
expensive and cleans Chicago
Daily News.
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PASSING PERSONALS.

Thomas Garfield, the only brother
OF the martyred president. lives on
little farm about five miles from Hud-
sonville. Mich. He Is SO years of age,
and a typical farmer
Miss Ellen Pollock has the distinc-
ton OF being the only woman polit-
zeal registration agent in the United
Kingdom. She is secretary of the
Strand Liberal and Radical associa-
ton and is agent for the party in the
borough of Strand
Former Vice President Levi p. Nor
ton has given to Rhinecliff, N Y, near
which his home, Ellerslie. IL situated
an Industrial home and reading room
to cost $4,000. The new building
will have a gymnasium baths. read
ing-rooms. library and assembly hail
Judge Bond. OF Brownsville. candl-
date for Democratic nomination as
governor OF Tennessee. is an old fash
Toned citizen wEo refuses to wear
either crava; or nC"k:ie Fashionable
young men OF the larger cities in
Tennessee are making some din over
the judges idiosyncrasy, but ne pays
no attention to the clamor.
Emil TerkowitZ. formerly Austrian
commissioner TO the st. Louis expo
sitiOH and now permanent CONNER
cial commissioner for the Austrian
government in this country. nas
named his infant son George Wash
ington Zerkowitz The commissioner
explains that he gave tn. child the
name because OF h,s love for the
Unitsd States.
Chester Day. Cf Colt0n. ~ 7. the
Oldest guide in the Adirondacks has
passed the century mark by one or
two years. he is moi sure which Any
how, he thinks 1T is about time for
him TO retire from active duty and Ee
will do so at the end OF the year.
Twelve months ago his health began
TO fail The old man has a strain nt
Indian blood in Ills veins and has
spent all his life in the wilderness
OF Lawrence. FrSiJlin and Hamilton
counties.
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TOMMY'S JOKE WAS cruel
Practicing Upon His Fathers Words
He Panied Miss
Passee.

One evening Miss Passee stayed TO
dinner and Tommy, as a great favorite
was allowed to have dinner with the
company. Growing restless at dessert,
he was sent out of the room. but in a
few seconds he returned with a little
dresden clock from the sitting-room
mantelpiece, relates the Tattler.
Gracious, child" exclaimed the
mother, what mischief are you up to
now?"
Coin to try a experiment." replied
Tommy, with importance.
Miss Passee Uttered. The dear lit
tie fellow is going to try an expert
ment," she gushed. How clever OF
him"
While Miss Passee was speaking
Tommy had carefully placed the clock
on the table in front of her. With a
mysterious gesture he laid his finger
on his lips and enjoined silence. No
one stirred.
After about two minutes Tommys
strained expression relaxed anG he
clapped his hands In exultation "It
goes" he cried, triumphantIy: .It
goes! You were wrong. papa" Tom
my's father said nothing. but looked
apprehensive
"of course it goes, child" laughed
Miss Passee. What made your father
think it Wouldn't"
Well replied the little follow. sim.
ply. "he said your face would stop
clock
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| The next night IL was Humpty te
| the Pullman.
| had q catechism OF a time seeing
Mister Rogers, but about 3 In the
afternoon / was squirted into his Office
by a Morgue-face Nut what must have
had Paris-green Prunes for lunch.
Bleeding Biscuits! but Rogers has
got great Face on HIM. II makes me
swallow hard when think OF it in the
dark. I o3ct saw a oil picture OF a
white battIeship shooting at a black
torpedo boat in night storm. That's
Him. all right.
He took me letter and told me 10 sit
down.
He looked at the bottom of II. then
at me. He read abort half OF IL anh
slipped a Naughty Grin like business
man telling his wife she don't under
stand Politics. Then he ct up the rest
of 1t; and, Great Bumps. | could just
see the sailors inside of him bringing
up shot for the guns
| was getting set to soak him in the
watch chain with me head If he come
for me when the door opened and in
comes the Original Human Church.
His Steeples was as bald as Fly's
Heaven. III / was a mosquito I'd be
ashamed to take the money. Rogers
give swift. private-code look into the
Cathedral Windows. and sed:
Mister ROCKEFELLER, read that
Curish Dastard's latest insult"
His Steeples took me letter cool as
prayer book and read it through
twict without Bark. Next he takes
OF his glasses, as slow as IL it was
Sunday Afternoon and forty miles
from church. Then he looks up, slow
ly opens his Talk Factory, and SEE:
Mister Rogers. won't you kindly
step into the mex room?"
They went out, looking like a
Marble Monument and Sea Serpent
going to drown their Mother-in-laws.
and closed the door behind them, but
the wall was only dinky glass and I
could hear them fine as phono-
graph.
Rogers touched on his cannon
first, and seq:
Il have kept Mum as long as l am
going to. That Brass-beaked vulture
has reviled me till Every String in
me Harp Kisses with Hellish Pains.
The time has come to go after him
with all our guns. The public are
amazed at our Tabbycat Silence and
think us prison-guilty of the charge.
AS evidence, consider those doings
in Kansas and the bunch of search
me Investigations recently ordered
That stuff of Donohue's won't melt
the peoples ear-wax. Nothing short
of Real Thing Reply, hot from my
own Personal Gas Range, will satisfy
them, and stem the dirty tide which
this Boston Boaster has started
humping. I'll admit that Ice House
Silence is dignified, bat when it is
had at the price of public confidence
1t is too much of a Luxury for me
palate. You must release me from
my promise not to talk
He spelled like a actor and
marked down in me nut every IA:
word he sed, so 1 could hand it to the
Boss right.
CTO BE CONTINUED
Copyright. 1905. by G. W. Dillingham; Co }
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ME- AND
LAWSON
By RICHARD WEBB
Illustrated by W. W. Denslow
and NJ. Aleshire.
IN SIX SECTIONS
,copyright, 1905, by O. ". Dillingham; Co.
SECTION III.
Scrambled Oil.


The first day | wore the Lawson col
lar put patent leather shine on the
Tonneau of me Pants setting outside
of his private Scheming Vault, looking
wise.
l must have made hit with him
from the jump. because he kept me
sticking plaster close all the time.
did me best to catch his pitching and
railroad the guys he didn't want to
Diouth-organ with.
There were a couple OF Roof-garden
Robbies in his Off e Chorus what |
called the White-spat Sisters, because
they dressed in tandem and rushed the
same Acterine. The word Leaksky was
printed all over their Face Plates and
put 'em on the Slippery Elm Card
from the start.
j. wasn't long before / caught them
pulling the bung out of the Boss's Sc
crec-keg and it was Me TO the Pinker-
ton solo.
swan into the Boss, just as he was
having a careless picture of Himself
took for the magazine, and after
breathing heavy through both barrels
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ONLY Importsnt ouee,ion

Two men were disputing over their
respective churches. Finally one called
a neighbor who was passing and asked
his opinion as to which was the only
church in which to be saved. Wen :"
said he, my son and T have hauled
wheat 90 the same mill nigh on 10 40
years. Now. there are two roads that
lead from our place TO the mill-one's
the valley road, t'otber takes over the
hill. And never yet. friends. has the
miller asked me which road took
but he always asks: Is your wheat
EooJ7'
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Waste of Farm Machinery.

4 WASTE VI 4 dIui mdCnlnery.
The eastern farmer who travels
-ough the west for the first time is
'ly To be astonished upon observing
usefulness OF western methods.
said that the average European
rur-A family could subsist for an Ell.
tire yqer upon the amount which the
american farmer wastes in the same
tin1. And the wastefulness of western
metnods e exemplified in no way more
clearly than in the treatment accorded
lDy the agriculturist to his machinery.
MANY fence corner. which might be
used to better purpose. is the resting
place during IL months of the year for
some expensive piece of machinery
which is doomed to early dissolution
Through neglect. No more significant
change is taking place in American
agriculture than the extent TO which
-dinerent kinds OF motive power are
taxing the place Of animals and men.
Ihe use of the traction engine and the
automobile in the place of the horse
on country roads, the employment of
gasoline, steam. wind and electric pow.
er to operate mowers, threshers. plows.
1000 cutters, corn huskers and dairy
machines are illustrations OF epoch.
making changes that are now under
way on the modern-American farm. On
one ranch in California there is $50 OOC
worth of farm machinery operated by
some other power than animals OF man.
For want OF proper information these
changes are involving farmers in seri
Gus mistakes and large losses. They
buy motors not suited to their require
mehts, or which they do not know how
10 operate. They buy machinery not
adapted to conditions and cause its
rapid destruction by not knowing how
10 care for it. The department of agri-
culture reports that there is made ard
sold in this country each year about
$lOO,OOO,OOO worth of farm machinery
1ully one-half of which goes into the
hands OF men who do not know how 10
select wisely or keep it in proper con-
dltlon. In order to alter this condition
for the better, many agricultural col.
leges and experiment stations have in.
sututed courses of instruction and have
begun systematic experimentation for
the purpose Of bringing about a gen.
eral diffusion of intelligence about This
feature of farm work.
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OF me smeller, like fly cop. sed
fussing me face in the place where the
Black Moustache ought 10 be-
Mister Lawson, you need a Word
Plumber. There's a Leak in your
catch basin. Give me the go-ahead
bell and I'll put you wise"
Then | told him the whole story.
he give his cigar a couple OF mad
dog bites and then he takes me by the
shoulders and SEE, swift but kind as
missionary:
Humpty, you're a good boy. BY
CAD. you're worth any two men I
know. You can play Croquet in my
Cemetery Lot any time you want to. :"
Then he hands me Ten Spot. right
of the roll in his overalls, and tells
me to come back in three hours.
l went out on the street looking for
a Bank to do me Private Business
with. and swelled up so Mud-rich that
l couldn't feel the sidewalk. nor tell
the Apple Woman from Little Eva.
/ was Johnny on-the-spot when the
three hours had went down into the
cellar OF the clock to take a Rip Van
Wrinkle, but the Boss was at the home
plate with the bat in his mits when I
sailed in.
He looked Absent Bug for a minute
like travelling man wondering if he
can trust the chambermaid with the
watch he left under his pillow. and
sed:
"Humpty, they say it's wrong TO
send boy on a mans errand but
don't know man | can trust, so here
goes. ! want you to go over TO New
York tomorrow night and take let
ter to Mister Rogers. The job must
be done. Secretly. II anyone should
get wise TO your trip, or if you fall
down on any part OF me instructions
IL will hurt me more than can make
you understand You must deliver the
letter to the Main Squeeze himself.
and talk to no one but him. DO Won
think you can do it,"
Sure as Roosevelt" sen 1. fire
away"
1T will be necessary" sez he. for
you to be next TO the contents OF the
letter, so listen Hard:
Il think 1t would be worth a lot OF
money to Mister Rogers TO have me
Stop doing something that I'm doing
and ] am sure we can Both make more
money by playing the Game together
/ will write the letter so TO make him
Wise to this fact and all you have to
do is bring back his answer. II will
be Yes or No. and IL it's Yes he will
tell you a day hour. and place where
we can meet. II he should WEIGH on
Me and print the letter you must no
ready TO tell the Boston newspaper re-
pOrters that q man what I will tell
you how TO describe come to your
house at 10 o'clock at night. give
you the letter and instructions and
told you would phone yci at the I'm.
perial hotel In New York at in the
morning, which. Of course. won't do .,
| inhaled all that the Boss handed
me and blew out of me Cigarette Chin
ney what was Chop sIey to NE Rea.
son Works.
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GOOD SALT RISING BREAD.
Explicit Directions for Making This
Bread Famous in the Day CT
Our Grandmothers.

One pint of new milk. half pint Of
water. teaspoonful of salt. one of
sugar and cooking soda the size of
a large pea. This should be heated
10 temperature of about 90 degrees
Fahrenheit; stir into this one table
spoonful of corn meal and flour
enough to make stiff batter; stir
well. Any vessel holding about a
gallon may be used. but one of stone,
china or porcelain is best. Place the
vessel containing this mixture in a
Kettle of hot-not scalding-water,
so that the vessel will barely rest
on the bottom of the kettle. but not
turn over. Cover closely. and leave
where the kettle of water will keep
quite warm. but not scalding, for sew
eral hours. This should be done at
night. III your room will keep quite
warm all night. the rising" should
be set late, but If the room gets cold
during the night, il should be set
earlier in the evening. or. at worst
II may be set in the morning 1t will
probably be up" in the morning,
IL set at night; or It may be only
III not risen satisfactorily, add tea
spoonful of warmed flour, stir well,
warm the water in the kettle again
and replace the vessel and keep warm
until it rises. which should be in
three or four hours. Have ready two
or three quarts of sfted, warm flour
in the bread tray; make a hole in the
center of it, put in a teaspoonful of
salt, teacupful of very hot water,
one pint of milk, and stir very thor
ougnly into smooth batter. To this
add he ferment Cor emptyings) when
light and frothy, and again stir thor
oughly. There will be a rim of flour
all about the batter, and it should be
drawn from all sides over the top of
1t, covering the batter with flour
Cover this closely. and let set in a
warm mot hoD place until the frothy
batter breaks through the flour on top
of it abundantly. which should not be
longer than an hour. With the hand
work the rest of the flour into the
sponge, knead until the dough is per-
fectly smooth and elastic; mold into
loavas put into well CREASED pans and
set IN warm place TO rise. The tops
of the loaves should be smeared with
melted butter. and wnen it is nearly
level with the top of the pans, put
into an oven which should be hot
enough to lightly scar the top of the
loaf N five minutes, but should not
begin to brown. or harden them for
20 minutes. The oven should gradu-
ally cool after the first 20 minutes, so
the inside of the loaf may cook, with
out burning the crust.
After the bread is done, do not
leave in the pan to sweat, but turn
out IT once; a perfectly clean hard
wood table Is good place to lay
the ioaves on. When nearly cold
wrap in nice, clean cloth and put
into closed tin box or stone jar-
The Con.moner.
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UNCONSCIOUS POISONING.
How 1t often Happens from Coffee.

81 had no idea" writes a Duluth
man. that it was the coffee had boon
drinking all ny life that was rcspon
sible for the headaches which were
growing upon me, for the dyspepsia
that no medicines would relieve. ana
for the acute nervousness which un.
fitted me nc. oriy for work but also
for the most ordinary social functions.
But at last tie truth dawned upon
me and ] forthwith bAde the harmful
beverage a pro'1pt farewell. ordered
in some Postum. and began to use il.
The good effects OF the new food
drink were apparent within a very
few days. My headaches grew less
frequent. and decreased I'm violence
my stomach grow strong and able to-
digest my food withoul distress OF
any kind. my nervousness has gone.
and am able to enjoy life with my
neighbOrs and sleep soundly o'nights.
NY physical strength ana nerve pow.
er have increased so much that
can do double the work / used 20 do.
and feel no undue fatigue afterwards.
This improvement set in just as
soon as the old coffee poison had so
worked ont Of my system as to allow
the food clements i'm the Postum to
get hold 10 build me up again. 1
chCeriui'y testify that IL was Postum.
and Postum alone that did all this.
for when ] began 90 drink it threw
Dhysic to the dogs" Name given by
Postum Co, Battle Creek. Mich
There's reason. Read the famous
little book The Road to WeliyiHs'
IN piGs.
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Average Humanity

"hat do we mean by good man or
Dad one, good woman or a bad one9
Most people, like the young man in the
song, are mot very good, nor yet very
bad. We move about the pastures Of
lie In huge herds, and all do the same
things at the same times and for the
same reasons. Forty feeding like
one. Are we mean? Well, we have
done some mean things in our time
Are we generous? Occasionally we
are. Were we good sons or dutiful
daughters? We have both honored
and dishonored our parents, who in
their turn have done the same by
theirs. Do we melt at the sight OF mis-.
cry? Indeed we do. Do we forget all
bout it when we have turned the cor.
~? Frequently that is so. Do we
2ect to be put to open shame at the
Feat day of judgment? We should
be terribly frightened at this did we
not cling to the hope that amid the
shocking revelations then for the first
time made public our little affairs may
fail to attract much notice. Judged
Foy the standards Of humanity. says
augustine Birrell, in his Essays. few
people are either good or bad. II
have not been a great sinner" said
Fhe dying Nelson, nor had he-he had
zpnly been made great fool of by a
woman. Mankind is all tarred with
fhe same brush, though some who
ssRance to be operated upon when the
sh is fresh from the barrel get
re than their share OF the tar. The
graphy of a celebrated man usually
binds me Of the outside of a coast.
4iardsman's cottage-all tar and white.
wash.
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Ungenerors aueatinn

The first slice OF goose had been cut
and the minister of the Zion church
looked ct IT with as Keen anticipation
as was displayed I'm the faces around
him.
OATS as fine a goose as ever saw
Brudder Williams" he said 10 his host
Where did you get such fine one?"
Well. now, Mistah Rawley," said the
carver Of the goose. with sudden ac.
cess Of dignity. when you preach a
special good sermon. ! neber axes you
where you got IL. Seems TO me dat's a
trivial matter. anyway. Youths Com.
panion.
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Pattern No. 5322.-With or without
yoke. A mode that has become very
popular for general wear is shown in
this design for a Norfolk jacket 1t
Is stylishly developed in covert cloth.
and is shaped by unuer-arm. shoulder
seams and also by side seams running
up to the shoulder Applied box pleats
are attached to the back and fronts
and the yoke may be used or not, as
desired. a rolling collar and lapels
finish the neck. The coat sleeve is An
ished by machine stitching. and belt
OF the material or one of leather may
be used. Kersey. cheviot. tweed or
broadclOth are all suitable TO the de-
velopment, finished by braid or ma
chine stitching. The medium size re-
quires three and hve-cighths yards OF
44-inch material. Sizes for 81. "a. &C.
SO. 40 and AZ inch bust measure
This pattern will be sent TO You on
receipt of 10 cents Address all orders
tothe Pattern Department OF thispapSr.
he sure to give size and number Of pat
tern wanted. For convenience, write
your order on the following coupon:
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Sweet Potatoes a ia Creole

Peel five large sweet potatoes and
cut in halves the long way. Put in a
deep baking dish. cover with milk. add
half teaspoon of salt and table
spoon each of butter and broken sugar.
Wet half cup OF bread crumbs with
a beaten egg. cover the potatoes with
this and bake in a moderate oven
about one hour
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All for Himself

"Of course" said the political re.
former, you believe in the greatest
good TO the greatest number"
Oh. sure" replied the politician.
"and witt me the greatest number is
always number One."-P Philadelphia
Press
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Walnut Sandwiches.

Shell English walputs Blanch and
chop and to every tablespoonful Of
nuts allow good half teaspoonful of
cream cheese. Rub well together and
spread on thin slices OF crustless Wifi,
or grated bread.
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Shoe Drops; Dies or Friebt

A sleeping woman in Canton. O..
was awakened by shoe dropped by
some one in the room above, and so
startled that she died Of fright gis
able shoe that.
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Splendid CLIMATE low taxes, railways conveu.
lieut.; schools aud churches close hand.
Write for ''rNvrntieth Century Canads " and
low rail way rates to SUPERTNTESDEST OF I.N-
GRAFTON, or 10 authorized Canadian Agents:
II NJ. WILLIAMS. Law building. Toledo. y.
Mention this paper.
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Mrs. Fannie Griscom Parsons is 10
be the first person to fill the Office Of
director Of farm colonies in New York
city, just created, according TO report.
for her by the board of estimate and
apportionment. For the last two years
Mrs Griscom has conducted nature
study at Dewitt Clinton Park gardens
for the public school pupils of Brook.
iyn. Many Of these pupils had never
before seen such a thing as a vegeta-
bic garden. Mrs. GTjsoom will receive
a salary OF $500. She has worked
hitherto without compensation. she
at first got leave to use vacant lots.
which the children cultivated under
her direction. The farm colonies have
raised all sorts Of vegetables. besides
keeping the children out OF mischief.
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Nv 1922.


Knieker-lt must be awful to be
caught with the goods on you
Subbubs-Its worse to be caught
with the goods on you; forgot three
Of my wife's errands yesterday. Puck.