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The Germ TheOrV-Is II Truel

II you really desire to know whetr-
er the germ theory as at present hei'
by the profession. embracing as IL
does all imaginable dangers from flies
dust. sputum. etc. is true, all you
need do is just pinch yourself and
see If you are alive! II you are. that
settles it for otherwise you would not
only have been dead long ago. but you
never would have been born; your d..
rents, grandparents. and all other reIa-
tives for many generations back would
never have existed. The race would
long ago have persisted from the face
of the earth.
On the other hand. If you find you
are dead. it does not follow that your
misfortune arose from the so-calIed
germs. but which are the direct re-
verse Of what this name implies; they
are Natures scavenging aids in the
cure Of whatever disease they accom-
pany, and YOU died in spite of their
help.-Life.
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Not the Kings Fault.

The principle that the king can do
no wrong has been extended by Mr..
Balfour to the realm Of philology.
Hardened as the unionist leader is 10
kings species. he was forced TO con
Tess that the kings speech which op-
ened the present parliament was an
amazing piece of English. He spoke
of the antiquities lurking in that re-
markable speeiment of our mother ton
que, and concerning one passage he
doubted whether il had any meaning
at all, inasmuch as 1t appeared tC
embody two quite different policies
which had no connection whatever ex-
cept that ii had been possible to force
them into the framework of one I'M
grammatical sentence" Mr. Balfour.
however. referre dto the unkind per
son who said that the kings speech
is always more stupid than the most
stupid man in the ministry. and won
dered whether it could not be said
that the grammar of it is sometimes
worse Il an that of the most illiterate
man in the cabinet. But just when
Mr. Baltour seemed to have subjected
himself TO the charge Of high treason
and the peine forte et dure, he re-
called that ii was the ministers and
not his majesty that are responsible
under the constitution. Mr.. Asduith
thus has one more sin to answer for
y. y. Post.
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Shonning for WHEY.

Thirty minutes after alighting from
a train in union station Monday night,
John DrOun, Of Manhattan, Kansas,
reported to PatrOlman Kucera that
his valise, which he had left near the
bureau of information, had been sto-
len.
Anything valuable in it?" asked
Kucera
Sure there was" said Droun. "a
pair of red slippers"
What"
"A green sofa pillow with forget
me-nOt' embroidered on top of it, four
pink shirt waists, a pair of socks and
a union suit"
What kind of union suit?" asked
the officer with growing curiosity.
"A baby blue union suit" answered
Droun guilelessly.
Say, you don't want to know the
size of the collar I had on that grip,
or the make of the make OF the
clothes brush. do you? Can't a fellow
go on a little shopping tour for his
wife and lose his grip without, with
OUT"
oh" said Kucera. as he went Off
or kslitless search for the missing
yalise, While Droun. who is something
of a poet back home, penned off his
verses to commemorate his dilemma
st. Louis Republic.
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Autos for BVerTbsAv.

The country physician buys an an
tomobile because IL increases the size
OF the territory he may reach, and be-
cause a car takes him to bis patients
quickly and in comfort
The carry-all which gathers up the
farmers children to take them to
school had better be an automobile.
AS in the case of the doctor. speed
means that greater territory may
be covered. The greater the territory
the larger the school may be. the great
er the enrolment. and the aIrger the
school funds. That means a better
teacher, closer competition between
rdmls and one more improvement in
he social life of rural communities.
The mail carrier on a rural route
buys car if he can afford it-or per-
haps motorcycle - because il in
creases his efficiency and leaves him
more time for home life. The bus
line from town to town where there
are no interurban electric lives or
railways had better be an susomobile
line X roads will permit - travel
ing men. usually the princlpsl patrons.
all are wiling TO pay more fare to
| shorten weary distances TH- livery
man, too, find a mOtorcar raore in de-
nand tina nthe best OF HIS horses and
rubber-tired rigs" and for this same
leason-that his best patrons are will
! Ing to pay more for swift ard com
fortahle transportation ShGa fer q Dug
| sy ride. "-Leslie'G
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POOR MAN HAS a
..1sa HIS AUTOMOBILE
Trip by Trolley from Syracuse to Chi
eagO Filled With Incidents.

An adventurous traveller has made
the trip by trolley from Syracuse to
Chicago, a distance OF 1,070 miles by
the route he took, In 40 hours. II
he is all right again after a weeks
recuperatlon, he will start on the sec
ond stage of his journey, to st. Louis.
which will mean 1850 miles In all
II he makes 1t as planned.
This modern Flying Dutchman rides
on the trolley, called by him "the
poor mans automobile" not with any
visionary idea OF saving time or mon
ey-for necessarily he must have plen-
ty of both to carry out such al ex-
periment-but because he prefers it
to the plutocratic motor car. His spe-
cific reason for this preference is that
recently he trolleyed from Manhattan
to some country place up in Westches-
ter county, while his friends started
at the same time for the same desti-
nation by automobile, and he got there
first, having the laugh on the Joy
riders, who were stranded three miles
this side of Mamaroneck with a burst
ed tire.
Mr.. Mans notebook and record have
not yet been sent to Copenhagen for
verification, but they sum up approxi-
mately as follows:
Paid fare Oh times, or at almost
every crossing on the suburban lines.
Asked for transfers 400 times. Got
them nine times, but missed connec-
tions.
Cash in hand plugged quarters and
pewter or Canadian dimes. which the
conductors hand out in change, though
refusing to take them), $495
Got a seat eleven times Had to
give IL up ten times-a1d wished l
had done so the eleventh. as a woman
whose husband had pumped into the
only place vacant when they entered
stood and glared at me uatiI 3 or 4
miles out of Skaneateles.
All out; take car ahead" 80 times.
Wrong side of crossing. car wouIdn Z
stop, 316 times.
Car heated % times this was on
milo summer-lilSe day when the at
mosphere inside was suffocating).
In favorable comparison with the
automobile, the trolley car never
turned turtle. was not held up for
speeding. did not kill pigs or MAIN
agriculturists, and emitted none of the
dlsheartening blue smoke which ply
sicians declare is developing a new
and fashionable motoring disease -
On the other hand. the trolley trav-
eler had his toes stepped on and his
rockets picked. caught contagious in
fuenza and was joited off the car plat
form in rounding a curve.
Take for all in all. honors are about
even between the poor mans auto
mobile" and the one affected by the
wealthy and fashionable One touch
of travel makes the whole world kin
so may the two shake hands and call
the result of the rivalry a draw.-New
York Evening World.
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VAULT IS |
net OF WIRES
Device for Protecting Treasure i'm n
New York Bank.

A landau with four men inside and an
extra man on the box drove up Sixth
avenue at a rapid rate on Saturday
morning. Two of the men were Off
GERS of the Union Dime Savings Bank,
and the carriage carried more than
$225,000 in currency and securities to
the banks new building at Forty first
street and Sixth avenue.
This ride was made before the bank
was opened in the morning, and the
treasure was stored in the great
vault in time to have begun work on
Saturday had the bank officers desired
Today will see the bank in full opera
ton in the new building. Since the
day after Christmas, 1876, the bank
has been at Broadway and Sixth ave-
nue. and Thirty-second street.
The new home of this institution is
to possess certain characteristics that
adapt it more thoroughly for the pur-
pose than any other recent structure
of it's kind.
The vault, rising behind the banking
screen, is the notable point in the in
terror. 1t is structurally quite indie
pendent Of the building. 1t stands on
its own foundation and cannot be en-
tered from below. The vault is IL
by % feet and has electric protection
on the top, sides, and bottom. This
protection is under coating of bronze
and marble.
First in the electric protection
comes a layer of wood so thickly filled
with electric wires that the insertion
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the family cuisine
Is grandmothers of the pres

le grandmothers of the present
eration may have thought they
Ere happy. but most OF them were
tsievopsly overworked. The task OF
providing everything fro mthe family
candles TO the family stockings main
ly fell to those remarkable women.
Fortunately, there has come emanci-
patton for the modern housewife, so
far as many OF the former services
are concerned. What she now has to
do she can find time to do right. In
large part this result comes from the
better methods of doing things and
the better appliances which she has to
assist her I'm doing them.
If this time of high prices serves to
increase the tendency to bring scien-
tific housekeeping into the homes II
will prove, after all, q fortunate time
to many households. Therefore, LET
the fashion of giving lectures on cook
ing be cultivated aSsiduously by socie
". even at the expense of such du-
bious joys as bridge parties and mu
sical comedy matinees.-Chicago News
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OBLIGATION The
Fl U. S. OWES ITALY
OUR INTERESTS WITH RnAT
COUNTRY REQUIRE REPRE-
SENTATION AT EXPOSITION.

II scope, variety, and general i'm
porance the Italian international ex-
position of 1911 seems entirely likely to
ne he greatest event of it's kind wit
neSsd in Europe since Paris exhibition
OF ZOO and quite worthy to rank with
the st. Louis exposition OF 1903. The
ltalEn exposition will be a novelty
amofg such enterprises for the reason
Chattt is to be duel affair, or rather
Two iseparate fairs, one devoted to in
dustT and commerce, to be assembled
In hrin, and the other to art, in
Rome =
The United States should, and we
may afely assume, will be Alternately
represented in both branches of the
Italian project. But while our gov
ernmet has been invited to participate
and While the time within which ac-
ceptaIte should be made in order to
secure ample reservations of space ex-
pres february 10. no action has been
taken ~ our national authorities. This
lndinef nee is not only most unbecom-
ing, bu is ineXplicable when consid-
cred 10 view Of the fact that both
houses 81 Congress have standing COM
mittees,Dn expositiOns, either of which
could taSe the initiative toward a for
mai acceptance OF Italy's courteous in
Vitation.
Nationil selfinterest and interna-
tional colrtesy both require prompt ac-
ton on f1e part of the government at
Washington. Our relations. CONNER.
cial and otherwise. with Italy are in
every way satisfactory Our exports to
Italian markets have increased so per
cent. in tho last five years; they have
doubled IN the last tea, and quad
rupIed In che lass twenty. Those facts
alone should urge Congress to make a
prompt ant liberal provision for Amer
lean representation ct the Ttx1sun ex-
posihen- -&ew York Mnkz.
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DISCOVER new CURE
FOR TOOTHACHE
Start an Awfully Strenuous Argument
ment with Someone and Presto

few days ago l dropped into a so
called dental parlor. Most places of
torture are now called parlors. even
TO the barberies. Mine was not to be
social call, merely to while a few
idle moments, but was a business call.
purely and simply. l had been re-
ceiving the call TO go for several days.
and at last l could thrust it aside no
longer; had a genuine case of old
fashioned toothache. 1t is a pity there
is not a more aesthetic name for
toothache, it would help some but
there isn't, so we have to get along
as best we can with the commonplace
and inharmonious term
had a third-degree grip on my lef,
jaw as L entered the slaughter
mean the dental parlor. wouldn';
open my mouth for fear | would take
more pain In, so | pointed. Let me
see IT.. said the dentist, who is never
afraid TO look somebody else's pain
square in the eye. Don't YOU want
1t flled?' he asked, casting a glitter
ing look at his steam drill. "FilIed?"
| groaned mo, | want Il emptied:
it's so full now | can't stand it," will
you take something's" Queried the den
fist. in a most natural tone Of voice.
NO, no." | almost screamed. Il want
you to take it," He stopped and look
ed at me. II never use it," he re-
piled. quietly.
| Strengthened up. Say" | asked.
tartly. ARE you a dentist or a kidder?
DO you want to extract this tooth or
don't you? You don't have to. YOU
know" All right" he replied, here
are the tools; do II yourself" All this
time | was getting hotter under my
celluloid. and, strange to say, the pain
was letting go. Say" snapped sar-
castically, ARE you running a bust
ness for fun, or what are you doing?"
We'll" he drawled. Il get more fun
out of II than anything else My great
est pleasure in life is in yanking peo-
pie all round this ROOM"
We'll, confOund you. you can't yank
me round this ROOM" / cried. Jump
ing from the chair. / was so worked
up that the pain had entirely disap-
peared. and, seiziI < my hat, ! made
Tor the door. Il N much Obliged to
You for the treatment" said l. You're
welcome. he replied. when you get
ready TO have it filled. call round.
would rather give you 50 than pull
mat tooth. anyway. Good-day"
don't know how long the treatment
will last, but the next time the tooth
aches I'm going 20 try the getting-mad
process, If l can find anybody to take
the experimentation Herald.
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SENATOR NELSON
Did NOT KNOW
Hearing Furnishes Strs.g Prsof IN
Retaliation of Popular Ss.aders.

The progress OF the nation-vid~
campaign against racetrack rambling
- summarized IN a report OF a hearlo1
neld last December before n suhooyrro
mittee fthe United States senato's
judiciary Committee on Senator Rnr-
ketts bill ito prevent the nulificatIen
OF state antt-gambling laws by inter
national or interstate transmission Of
race-gambling bets or OF racing odds I.
In egreat bulk OF expert testimony
was presented by Mr.. Henry BroIaski.
real estate business after twenty-ona
years as "a gambler, poolroom pro-
prletor, bookmaker, upon race tracks
ana hand- book maker" in the course
oI wnicn busy career he had booker
In st. Louis, Chicago, Worth, Rohy.
Auanta, Charleston, New Orleans
San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles.
Latonia, Louisville, and Benning.
mere were members or thu Senate
committee who evidently found Mr..
broIaskfs remarks instructive, as well
as entertaining:
Senator NeIson-Tbere is ono +b,,,
that is not very clear to me: that IS
about the bookmakers. Assuming Mr.
Brolaski, that 1 am a bookmaker a "a
1 want TO bet, now what is til modus
Operandi? -oN'O0
Mr.. Brolaski-You pick out the
morse you want to bet on
Senator Nelson-Yes.
Mr.. Brolaski-You hand me the
money you want to bet And suppose
there are five horses in the race.
senator Nelson-And you and I two
oettors; betting against you and Won
against me, and we pick our horse?
AIR. Brolaski-YOu pick your horse.
/ | no
| nlng Tor me except the horse You
desire TO bet on.
Senate rNelson-Suppose there arc
SIX horses, and you are a bookmaksr:
bet?
Mr.. Brolaski-Yes?
senator Nelson-Now, how do vow
work IT to beat me on that betf
| Qaughter)
Mr.. Brolaski-A hundred different
ways. II you wanted to bet on. saw.
Lady Trina, and the odds were 2 to /.
l would give you ticket which said
~ 10 on Lady Trina 10 win.
Senator Nelson-What doss that
mean?
Senator Brolaski-That means II
Mr.. Brolaski-That means x she
wins. you get the winninsz-elo aud
your 50 that you bet. making you -
ceive SIS.
Senator NelsOn-But SUPPOSE | lose.
what then?
Mr.. Brolaski-Then all yea have Is
the ticket as souvenir. (kaughter.
senator Nelson's reputatiOa and that
OF the much-beslandersG legislative
body TO which he belongs. win surely
| suffer no harm from the revelation or
such astounding ignorance regarding
things about which the very babes in
the street knowingly pratsie-New
York Evening Post.
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WORKING OF TRUST
UP IN CANADA
In Dominion Effects Of High Duties
Are Provided Against.

1t is the fashion of our protective
tariff statesmen to contend that ex-
cesslve duties on imports have moth
ing to DO with the formation of trusts
ana combines in spite of the obvious
iacts;, but lin Canada that effect on
Ol&A dd{ies is recognized in the tariff
-aN fSSlt and provided against A
III -3s 5Ist been introduced in the
>CminlUn Parliament by the govern
ment TO make this provision more
eHective. Under. the present Field
ing tariff the governor general in
council may grant relief by a reduc-
iiCn or remOvalNof duties when il is
shown by judicial procedure that q
combination in restraint of trade ex-
lists and enhances prices on account OF
protection against foreign competition
Complaint has been made that this
is ineffective On account of the diff
Guilty and cost of the judicial ~ -eed-
ngs necessary 20 obtain =, The
proposed bill provides a .cs.
expensive method. Any persons
may present their grievance before q
high court judge. and if they make out
prlna facie case, an investigation
VIII be ordered by the court TO be
made by board. consisting of one
- - teSNNifN vi the COH DldIH2nTS.
me OF the alleged combination. and a
third chosen by those two. If either
party fails TO act, the matter will be
acted upon by the minister of labor.
so Iar as necessary in constituting the
board. The board is to have the DOW
RS OF court of record, and it's find
ngs are to be published in the official
gazette and furnished to the public
press. The relief will be afforded bv
a reduction or removal of duties if
an enhancement of prices is found 10
be caused by a combination i'm re
straint OF trade. due to protection from
foreign competition
In addition to the loss of protection
penalty is provided for a confirm
a4ce OF the combination or "trust "
after the expiration of ten DAYS from
the publication of an adverse finding
IN the Canada Gazette, in the shane
or a fine Of $1,000 for every day that
1t is continued. If this amendment
should be adopted, as it is altogether
likely to be, as a government measure
70 strengthen the tariff act there will
De prompt and effective way Of deal
Ing with trusts formed to raise prices
puder the shelfer Of protection against
foreign competition. So long as do
nestle competition is left free, the
benefit OF protection may be enjoyed.
but when 1T is put under restraint by
combination the protection may be
taken away.-New York Journal of
Commerce.
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THINK OF WORLD
WITHOUT Time
The Glorious Planet Venus Is Thus
EnVeIOped in Incertitude.

There is one remarkable fact about
the magnificent planet which is now
so brilliantly in evidence in the even
ing heavens, the earth's twin sister"
Venus, to which. as far as | know, at
tentiOn has never been called
If astronomers are right in ascrib-
ing the wonderful brightness of Venus
to the existence of an atmospheric con-
tinually filled with clouds, then she
must be a world without time-at
least there can be no measurement of
time such as we have here
1t is because we can see the sun
and the stars that we are able to
traverse the oceans and run railroad
trains across the continents
Surround our earth with an unbrok-
en- shell of clouds, and what would
become Of all our clocks and chro-
nometers? Not a ship could safely
cross the sea; not a railroad would
be able 10 run it's trains without a
series Of frightful wrecks. In a few
weeks e;erv clock and watch would
be hopeiessly wrong, and all exact
timekeeping would cease.
Probably there are few who stoD to
think of the way in which our every
day life depends upon astronomical
observations. Our great primary time
Keeper is the earth rotating on its ak
is. III we could not see the sun and
stars because fthe clouds, we should
not know that the earth rotates, and
there would be no standard to which
we could correct them. In fact we
would probably have no timepieces.
There could be no hours and min
utes, for they are exact divisions Of
an ideal day, based upon celestial OBJ
servations, which would be impossible
to use.
They could not be based upon
clocks, or other mechanical devices
because the most exquisite chronom-
eter that can be constructed will not
keep time indefinitely, and must be
continually corrected by means of
observations of the stars made in the
observatories.
There could BE- no accurate mans
Of countries or charts Of seas. for
such maps and charts can onlv he
made by the aid OF astronomical OBJ
servations.
There could be M parallels of Iati-
tude or meridians lOf longitude. for
they, too, are basedt on celestial OH
servations which would be impossible
to us.
We should not kn4w. with aay Ger
tAinty, where we WE'RE upon the earth
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OF q zEzf1sblade 40 wood az any
point would causeN$e alarm to ring.
Under this wood SGme the walls OF
concrete, 1-2 feet thick and ribbed
with interlaced iron bars. and finally
the shell chrome steel iron. This Is
3 inches thick.
There are two doors OF steel and
iron Weighing thirteen tons, but so
carefully adjusted that they may be
moved with one hand. There are
three time locks. A thin layer OF steel
divides the vault into two parts. One
Is for currency and the other for scr
curities- The wall may easily be cut
through in case one OF the doors
should. through any cause, refuse to
operate.
The electric communication with the
vault leads out of the building through
secret joint, but should the wire be
! discovered and cut it would still con-
tinue to ring, just a telephone does
when the receiver has been removed.
So anybody trying to get away with
any of the $4,000 more or less cash
that will be usually deposited i'm the
bank, or the securities, which may be
still more valuable, is not going to
find it an easy job.
The two doors of the vault are in
the eastern and northern walls, and
one is entered from the treasurer's
Office, while the other gives directly
on the space back of the banking coun-
ter. Mindful of a bank robbery that
! took place several years ago, when
the robbers watched through a win
dow for the minute the treasurer was
alone and then broke into his office,
there are three doors to the Office of
the treasurer in this new bank, and
the door leading Immediately to the
Office cannot be opened except when
the treasurer touches the button on
his desk.-New York Sun.