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Make Home a Happy Place.

We spend much of u time at
nome, or at least we should do so.
Let it be III aim, then, to make 1t
as delightful a place as possible. says
a writer in The Lutheran. It need
not be a grand place, nor be furnished
with extravaganza; it is the spirit
that pervades, and the harmony and
happiness found there, and the COM
mon interests, that make home a
happy place. :.
How memory clings to home scenes
and home experience! Let us prepare
pleasure and pastimes for the little
ones. Let us give them happy hours
around the parental hearth. They
will never forget these things. Let
us make our homes so dear to all con-
cerned that our boys and girls will
not be in haste to get away into the
world.-Detroit News-Tribune.
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The Deserter.

"Do you desire to have 1t under
stood?" asked the Judge, addressing
the lady who wanted the divorce,
that your husband deserted your
Yes, sir"
please tell the court as concisely
as you can how he deserted you
Two months after we had COM
pleted our wedding trip he scolded
me because he thought I was extrav-
agant in the matter of. getting clothes,
and I went home to my people"
Eyes. Proceed"
"Well, I waited and waited and
waited for him to come and beg me
to return to him, and he never die"
Chicago Record-Herald.
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The new jacket is somewhat on the
Louis LVi. style, but is much smarter.
Tafeta silk is back again after
many months of enforced retirement.
Among the new shell hairpins, one
Of the favorite styles is a broad triple
loop.
Designers are now doing their best
to get away from the familiar jumper
effect.
Vital contrasts do not exist, except
when black and colors are put to-
gether.
Lace will be more than rivalled in
popularity by embroidery and braid
trimming.
The latest collar is of chiffon, the
color of the bodice, surmounting a
white yoke.
Chemisettes of fine batiste are
worked deliberately On soutache, with
sleeves to match.
Linens are either very heavy, al.
most like Russian crash, or they are
very thin and fine.
Most of the embroidered designs
are large and sprawly, and are done
in the same color as the material.
The prevailing long lines call into
being a great many panels, and these
are variously finished at the edges.
A novelty is a little bunch of fruit
! worn in front of the jacket and
matching the fruit worn on the hat.
A little piece of real lace introduced
| upon the high-necked evening bodice
is characteristic of the coming mode
Long sleeves will be worn on all
tailored waists, but the soft, fluffy
afternoon frocks may have elbow
sleeves.
The correct silhoutte Is attained
where all the lines of the frock sug.
gest ease and looseness without full.
ness.
Often the pockets of the new
pongee suits have the monogram OF
the wearer embroidered in a contrast
ing color.
Not all coats are lined with neutral
colors, but the coat lining is made a
feature of the costume, and Is OF
some beautiful but of curse harmon.
izing color.
Color embroidery on white, black,
cream and ecru will be much used,
as we'll as white on color. Most of
| the embroidery seen now in the shops
is machine made.
An ivory white satin may have sew
; eral tunics in various pale shades of
gauzc, or in silver or gold tissues.
which will give to it the appearance
of an entirely different gown.
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BY DAVID HUNTER.
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I fancy that when a %celebrant had
manfully made his way through the
courses Of an old-fashioned indie
pendence Day dinner, he felt it was
most fortunate the event was annual.
When 1912 zane we celebrated In
dependence Day by taking up cudgels
against the British again and soon
after sinking six Of the enemy's yes
sells without loss to ourselves. There
was nothing secert about this celebra-
ton, for the NEUROLOGICAL eagles
wings had grown, and his scream was
heard throughout the civilized world.
When peace was declared, or rather
as late as 1918, the Nation really be-
gan to celebrate it's birthday in some
thing the same fashion as to-day, al
though the methods have altered with
conditions.
All this time the Stars and Stripes
had played a growing part in indie
pendence Day events. They were
first hoisted in the form of a flag
made Of scraps of a blue jacket, a
white shirt and red flannel, during
the siege Of the American garrison of
Fort Stanwix, afterward Rome, New
York, August 6, 1777. The first dis
play meant that the flag designed by
General Washington and made by
Mrs. Betsy Ross in her little Philadel-
phiaE home s~ignalized the humbling
of one great nation and the birth Of
another destined to become great.
Nowadays, the display ear that
eighty millions Of people rejoice at
the marvellous results of the action
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Miss Longman's Task.

A great firm of seedsmen in Read
ing, England, which is endeavoring to
establish a strain Of potatoes healthy
enough to resist the attacks of the
fungus which produces. the dry rot
in these tubers, is employing a WON
an botanist, Miss Sybil Longman, to
conduct the Investigations. Miss
Longman has won a reputation for
research work, and not long ago gave
the results of her study of the potato
fungus before the Linnaean Society,
which has a good many well known
women in its ranks. So far, however,
Miss Longman has not discovered how
to protect the potato from this fatal
tungus.-New York Tribune. .
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Village Ruled by Women.

In the village of Froissy, near
Paris, nearly all the important posts
are filled by women. Passengers
alighting at the railway station are
met by a woman, who is stationmas-
ter, while her husband is only a
guard.
A barber shop bears the notice that
Mile. Jeanne" will -henceforth shave
her customers only on Tuesday and
Fridays, as she has undertaken other
work" At the postofice the local
telegraph messenger and postman,
Mile. Lesobre," is met. She walks
on an average twenty miles a day.
The municipal drummer is a woman,
IN her ninetieth year.-London Stand
ard.
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Both Were Surprised.

A mission worker in New Orleans
was visiting a reformatory near that
city not long ago, when she observed
among the inmates an old &C.
ouaintance, a negro lad long thought
to be a model of integrity.
"Jim!n exclaimed the mission
worker. as it possib,D I find you
here?" :....
"Yassum," blithely responded the
backslider. as charged with steal
in a barrel O. sweet pertaters."
The visitor sighed.
you, Jim!" she repeated. Il am
surprised"
"Yassum," said Jim. $50 was I,
or [ wouldn't be here!"-San Fran
cisco Argonaut.
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The very first name signed to the
Declaration Of Independence, which
gave independence Day its name, was
home-loving John Hancock, whom
the English tried to have sent to
England to be tried for alleged
treason. The people who knew him
so we'll in Massachusetts counte-
nanced nothing of the sort. "All you
have to do" they said, us to visit
the Governors home to find out what
a fine man he is" In one of his adj
dresses Governor Hancock declared
the colonists were mot only fighting
for their liberty, but for their very
homes" This great American, whose
name is to-day a synonym for a fine,
bold signature, had no hesitation in
giving the home the prominence it
deserved in the contest that resulted
in American independence. 1t IS a
great pity the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture refused to purchase the old Han
cock home on Beacon Hill, in Boston,
and that it's destruction followed such
refusal.
When 1888 came and with it the
end Of the war, the poor, feeble little
Nation hurrahed with all the strength
it had, and celebrated. the next In
dependence Day with just as much
pomp and satisfaction as formerly
distinguished the militia training
days" 1t is just as well to remember,
by the way, that the professions of
soldiers we sometimes see July 4 are
the outgrowth Of those same train
ing days when the Colonial militia
was seen in all it's glory. 1t was one
of these days the author Of Yankee
Doodle had in mind when he wrote:
can there was Gen'rl Washington,
With Gentlefolks about him.
They say he's got so tarnal proud
He will not ride without 'em."
Withal there were home celebra-
lions in plenty everywhere, but they
took on a little of the nature of
Thanksgiving, for there were dinners
such as the old c~olonials thought de-
lightful, although their food capacity
and digestive powers must have ex-
.celled ours of to-day by considerable.
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WHAT NEWSPAPER MEN MUST
j., CONTEND WITH.
Some Questions and Suggestions BY
Those Who !"Know the Business"

Some Questions and Suggestions BY
Those Who know the Business"
Things People Say to Defenseless'
Newspaper Men" was the heading 70
the following list of remarks re
printed from an exchange in the
Washington Star recently:
1--WE got a good SCOOP for you.
our clubs going to give a: picnic"
"You want to go easy on that; I'm
a friend of yonr boss"
"Who writes the items for you
after you bring them in?"
IF I was you I'd be going to some
show every night" r.
"I don't see how you can make up
SO many lies"
BE sure and send back this photo;
it's the only one of me I have"
"Put in your paper that I've gone
to New York. I amt going, but 1
want a certain girl to see it."
"Say, get me q pass to the ball
game, will you?"
I'm going to Europe this summer.
Would your paper pay my expenses IL
T was to send letters every now and
then telling about my trip?"
"I wish you'd put a knock IN your
paper on a fellow 1 know"
Don't you have to vote the way
your editor does?"
What does the Sunday editor do
on week days?'
eff you print anything about this
I'll quit taking your sheet"
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Homework undirected by brains
spells drudgery.
The housewife with brains knows
the value of system, of disregardins
traditions If they NEAR a waste of
higher powers, of making life more
simple if following the fashion means
cramped nerves and strained parse.
The brain shows the futility of
scrubbing, stitching and busting as
home making qualities; while the
other half will never let culture run
rampant while stockings are I'm.
darned and meals are heller SHELTER.
J. A woman Was once asked to define
her ideal housekeeping. ut is that,
she said, where the woman keeps
the house and not the house the
woman" Houses having a way of
not only Keeping, the woman, but
binding her with chains impossible
to break unless brains form more
than half the mixture used in that
houses running. Haven Reg
lister. ..:.
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of the little company that met in In
la-o-la-nA HILL i..nE 4 o D .n n-o

of the little company that met in In
dependence Hall, just 1873 years ago.
Great changes have taken place,
while all the events noted were hap
pening, in the American home These
may be largely attributed to altered
methods of living. While from the
first settlement up to 1900 there was
a considerable difference, it is since
1900 that the homes nav changed
most.
At that time there were no large
cities. Philadelphia had a popula-
ton of $4,000. Next came New York
with $4,000. Then Boston with 49,
900, and Baltimore with $4,000. The
places named had not lost a rural
appearance. In Boston, for example,
the streets were unpaved, and the
sidewalks unfagged. The better
houses were usually built Of brick,
with little flower gardens in front,
or lawns dotted with %shrubbery. Fur
niture, silver and china were mostly
imported from England, although we
bore small love for the mother coun-
try.
There was no heating by furnaces
| or steam pipes, but there were large
freplaces with brass andirons holding
stout logs of wood. A tall clock u.s.
ually stood in the corner, and fairly
good pictures, including portraits by
Copley and historic scenes by Trum-
bull, hung upon the walls. OF books
there were very few by American
authors. Milton and Bunyan, Pope
and Young, the Spectator, the Letters
of Junius and Rollins Ancient His
tory were the books most often seen
lying about.
Most everyone dressed exactly as
did the men and women of England,
if they sought to be fashionable, a
fashion that has not altogether died
out in some American homes of to-
day. Social life consisted largely in
dinners and teas and churchgoing.
Instead of the modern piano there
were spinets and harpsichords-smal
instruments something like a piano,
with thin metallic tones. Theatres
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Fame.

Scotland has a great reputation for
learning in the United States, and a
lady who came owe from Boston re-
Gently expected to find the proverbial
shepherd quoting Virgil and the lab
orer who had Burns by heart. She
was disillusioned in Edinburgh. Ac-
costing a policeman, she inquired as
to the whereabouts of Carlyle's house.
Which Carlyle?" he asked.
Thomas Carlyle" said the lady.
What does he do?"
He was a writer7-but he's dead,
she faltered.
well, madam" the big Scot in
formed her, eff the man is dead over
five years there's .ittle chance of find
ing out anything about him in a big
city like this. "-.Glasgow News.
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pie are! We look at their rosy faces
and bright eyes and stlfle our envy
in our affection for them. Do we
love them because they are sensible?
Maybe so. Maybe 1t is sensible to
take responsibility lightly, to trust
the future and to look with passionate
eagerness for whatever treasure Of
Joy the present holds. Yet the young
are not methodical, nor dutiful, nor
grave and quiet, nor any of the things
we popularity call sensible" Is it
not possible that some women make
the same mistake with the word
sensible" that other women make
regarding the word '"good?" .
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Organized Charity Work.

Miss Mary E. Richmond, general
secretary of the Society for Organized
Charity in Philadelphia, has been
elected secretary of the Russell Sage
Foundation for the Improvement of
Social and. Living Conditions. She
will write, teach and organize along
the lines of social science, in which
she has been successful in Philadel-
ohia during the last twenty years.
She will have charge of all the work
IF the Foundation relating to the ex-
tensions of charity organizations
New York Sun.
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Miss Wright TO Teach.

Miss Katherine Wright, sister OF
the two famous brothers who are re-
puted to be making fortunes in SELL
Ing rights for. the use of their aero
plane, will not give up teaching
school. She was given leave of alb
from the high school of Day
ton, O., at the beginning of the year
to visit her brothers in France. 1t
was thought after the success of Will
bur and Orville that Miss Wright
would give up teaching, but she has
just notified the Board of Education
that she will be ready to resume her
duties.
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shippy has approved the appointment
of a Washers squad" for'State street
and the loop district.
No more will the girls let the mas
culine firt line up by the Office or
store door and ogle them as they pass,
making comments on their beauty.
Club women have been asked by the
shop girls to aid them in freeing the
streets of Washers" and have prom
ised assistance.
Several arrests have been made.
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Old Fort Now Used as a Barn.

Fort Latham, built near Greeley,
Col, in the early SOS for defense
against the Indians, was not destroyed
years ago, as has been supposed. but
Is still used as a barn on the ranch
Of O. A. Gordan. 1t is built of sod
and is still in good condition.
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Chin Off the Old Block.

"Say. paw" said little Sammy
Short, "Mr. Sllverton told me to-day
that I was a second edition of you"
That was nice Of him." rejoined
old man Short. How did he como
to say it,"
Il struck him for a quarter" an
swered short, Jr.-Chicago News.
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Savory Liver-If you don't care to fry all the liver you
have on hand, put the bits into a stew pan, pour over the
Z ! boiling water and boil until tender, perhaps half an hour.
) Allow the liver to cool, and then put it through the grinder"
or mince very fine. Cut a small onion in tiny bits and fry
brown in butter; add tae minced liver, salt and pepper, and
a little water, if it seems too dry. Cook two minutes and
serve on squares of toast. - .L., . 4,
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A Little Too Much.

The last Socialistic candidate 1or
Governor of Ohio thinks the doctrine
is being carried too far when his wife
handed him a few wallops for scorch-
ing the coffee. He is Socialist enough
to get up and make the fires, but
when it comes to taking a licking for
not doing the cooking to the queens
taste he wants a MISUNDERSTANDING
ton Times.
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Society"

Washers" are. to be banished from
State street, Chicago. The shop girls
have organized the "Anti-Mashers'
Association" and they will wage var
on the street corner youth. Chief
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A Good Mixture.

AZ 3. recipe for a happy home there
is none better than brains and good
housekeeping. The more a woman
knows the more early she achieves
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The latest japanese bank notes
are printed in English as we'll as Jap
anese characters.
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The total seating capacity Of the
theaters. and music halls of London
is $4,000.
One-seventh of the foreign COM
MERGE of Great Britain passes
through the Suez canal.
Berlin is said, to have more trees
on the streets than any other city in
the world.
Burmah is to have a Pasteur Insti-
tute.
Germany's medical students num- &
Der, 7345.
Says the North China Daily News:
"The (Chinese) government has an
nounced to the Chinese residents
abroad that their SONS will be granted
free tuition If they are sent back to
China to government schools for edu-
cation" ,-,1' 80 = s.,
%. - HE Ok ~ HI
In it's mercantile marine Japan has
1913 steamships, of 1,15 3;340 aggre- (
gate tonnage; 4515 sailing vessels, Of
e372,3 19 aggregate tonnage, and $780,
japanese "ships Of the old style" .of.
511,452 aggregate tonnage; in albs
1923 ships. of 2,027,111f aggregate
tonnage. o. 50
The operating cost of the, Brook 4
Ign bridge sAfound to be as high as
$360,000 a year, according to an in
vestigation made by the controller
of New York City. This figure is the
average Of. ten years. maintenance
and operating costs, beginning with
1898. tx
Battleship maintenance cost dur
ing the past year, found by averaging
the cost of current repairs on seven
teen United States battleships during
1908, amounts to $4,000 per year
per ship. This does not include the
more extensive repairs or overhaul
ing.
The consumption Of gold coins for
industrial purposes in Germany is
estimated at about l00,000,800
marks annually.
The recent sale of-Mrs. Piozzi's
diary in London for s10,25of must be
nearly q record price, for diaries,
though last year Sheiley's notebooks
brought $4,000. The great interest
in Mrs. Piozzi's diary lies, Of course,
in Its record of conversations, with
DR.. johnson. ~ *
New. Workers. are now moving fast
er in the direction Of owning their
own homes than ever before. install
ment buyers are now paying on con-
tracts calling for $25o,o9o,000
All of the immigrants who come
to New York are not Storage pas
sengers. The cabins brought 142,-
120 last year. .5n5
|. A man has been sentenced In
Prague, Bohemia; to six months i'm
prisonment for Harvesting his wife
and dog to his vegetable cart. The
woman pleaded that she herself had
suggested It, as she. liked the work;
but this did not alter the decision of
the magistrate. a 6
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Says the North China Daily News:
"The (Chinese) government has an
nounced to the Chinese residents
abroad that their sons will be granted
free tuition If they are sent back to
China to government schools for edu-
cation" .,-,1H 81 50,
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Berlin is said, to have more trees
on the streets than any other city In
the world.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-06-30

Germany's medical students num-
Der 7345.
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One-seventh of the foreign COM
merce of Great Britain passes
through the Suez canal. 81:
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!. A man has been sentenced in
Prague, Bohemia, to six months i'm
prisonment for Harvesting his wife
and dog to his vegetable cart. The
woman pleaded that she herself had
suggested It, as she liked the work;
but this did not alter the decision of
the magistrate.
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Burmah is to have a Pasteur Insti-
tute. T,
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In it's mercantile marine Japan has,
1913 steamships, Of 1,153,340 aggre-
gate tonnage; 4515 sailing vessels, Of
e372,319 aggregate tonnage, and 1890,
Japanese ships of, the old STYLE" OF
511,452t aggregate tonnage; in ALI.
1923 ships. Of 2.027,l11~' aggregate
tonnage. )st ,,sG
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The operating cost of the, Brook
Ign bridge isAfound to be as highrjas
s36O,OOO a year. according TO- an In
vestigation made by the controller
of New York City. This figure is the
average Of. ten years maintenance
and operating costs. beginning with
1898. .
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Battleship maintenance cost dur
ing the past year, found by averaging
the cost OF current repairs on seven
teen United States b~attleships during
1908, amounts to s110;000 per year
per ship. This does not include the
more extensive repairs or overhaul
ing.
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All of the immigrants who come
to New York are not steerage pas
sengers. The cabins brought 142,-
120 last year.
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The total seating capacity of the
theaters, and music halls Of London
is $4,000.
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New Workers. are now moving fast1
er in the direction OF owning their
own homes than aver before. install
ment buyers are now paying on CON
tracts calling for $250,000,000.
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The consumption Of gold coins for
industrial purposes in Germany is
estimated at about 100000
marks annually.