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w. ACK had Joined a little boys club and. was very proud of It
~ Hi why can't little girls have clubs?1 Evelyn had asked obviously. /.
M 'They can IL they wish, daddy had answered, SIN fact, one OF the
- most fouishtng clubs Iknow isa little girls club.
II suppose / really ought not to cali the members little. girls, for they
would not like it. Even Ruthie, who Is seven and the youngest member, thinks
she is quite a grownup person. '4.s...e#@5 .a9.# $H S#8&#@
Hannah, who Is president. Of the club, is q model of good behavior i
wish L could say as much for Ruthie who. by the way. is Hannahhs sister.
It is Sc hard to sit still and be quiet in club meetings when one lis only seveni
And then It is such fun 70 tease. the older girls. Ruthfe has been behaving
beautifully since the club made her sergeantatarms, tits the duty OF a
segeantatarns, you know, to make every he else be quiet,
vi every week the little girls meet at the house OF a iRerent member.
sometimes they read stories, sometimes they talk, sometimes they make doll
clothes or have little tea parties.
w. 1.-THE little girls pay a membership fee Of 2 pennies a week. ELSA, who is
secretary and treasurer, takes ARE OF the moRsy5 mail they have enough for
some kind of a treat f. %E@@## #"@ "##@N@"#".# Z%
Last week they had a picnic In Bronx park. OF course IT. little girls
showed, them how useful 1t is to have an honorary member, Hannah and
Ruthless papa is an honorary member OF the club. 1t is only when he comes
to the meetings that the sergeantatarns has aAythsr to do There are
times when he does cut up a lot s# $
When the picnic at Bronx park was first talked OF the little girls won.
dered who would take them. Then Ruthie thought Of her papa. So the pr@L
dent named Ruthte and another little girl a committee to ask him to 60 with
them. +%a%s S..t %s@E# @#> #
"Ruthies papa said Of course he would go with them #M
$50 it was all settled, and on the FIRST holiday lie had they went to the
park to spend the whole day instead of the afternoon
They took their luncheon with them, and out OF the club fund they had
spending money and enough for a ride in the park boat There were games
played on the grass, and when he went back to his office the next day Ruthless
papa told the people there all about it. So you cn understand how daddy
was fortunate enough to learn about It." %4&$%E
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n u HUNTERS.

- Il
Oh, they chase the vary skeeter to
And they slay him by the million then
n there,
And the chigger and the gnat
And the young domestic rat,
Well, they just exterminate 'em every
where.
Oh, they fill the stagnant marshes full
of Oil!
And the peace of the tarantula they
spoil,
And they go around and make
Life unpleasant for the snake
Who so often in our boudoirs used to
And they enter in the natives humble
cot
And they scrub and fumigate him on
the spot,
For though picturesque, perhaps,
AS are other native chaps,
Is the Spiggoty hygienic-he is not!
Yes, the sanitary people lead a life
Which is ifty-nine varieties of strife,
For they deal with white and brown,
In the jungle and the town
with Mistah Cullud Person-and
his wife!
SO we boost for Colonel Gorgas and
his crew
Who have blotted yellow fever out of
view,
Who have changed a deadly port
To a blooming health resort,
Which is something people said they
couldn't do!
Sanitary Division, Berton Bradley
in The Popular Magazine.
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Feelings Of an Old Graduate
on His Return After Is Years

! both in their lives. recreations. hopes.
fears and death"
/ strolled at length-heing hungry
and stated with sightseeing-into a
teashop. The floor of the place was
full, every one of the small tables
crowded with young men; but I found
a seat and a narrow table upstairs in a
gallery. There was just room for one.
The space had been pinched to accom-
modate a grand piano, with some mus
&c stands and cases Of stringed instru-
ments. The waitress had no sooner
served me than some youths arrived,
took out these Instruments and began
to tune them amid the babel Of talk
that arose from the floor of the shop.
They were plainly undergraduates,
about to play (the waitress said) to
help the funds of the Addenbrooke's
famous hospital. st could leave my
coin at the door," They played. They
played well, too. though your superior
person would have carped at the
themes, which were. waltzes and frank
"ragtime' and joie de vivre-modern
catches as old as youth The boys be-
low took up the irresistible choruses.
table answering table At the lift Of
| the voices 1 am not ashamed to tell
that the middle-aged heart leapt and I
found my eyes full of tears. They were
none. OF your tears Idle tears.
/ dare say they We're manly, such as
may we'll spring to the eyes of a grown
man at the sight of an army returning
from war, of a tall ship under canvas,
or at the sound Of a grand chorus Of
Handeps Lachrimae rerum may be
proud and not sorrowful at all; and
what awoke mine was. sheer youth
n spectacle of 1t, the rush Of it, the
c~onquering joy of it, the sense of pride
and glory and power, of the triumph
ant renewal by which this mortal puts
immortality. THE men, who were
boys when I was a boy sat with me
for the small table had elongated it.
self-and gazed down as Gods from
Olympus. What was it but Joy that
Others are turning to men,
We to black earth?
Yet-for something of the old Adam
kicks in me-Camhridge shall not have
the last word! Destiny, sending me
here, kept something of me resident of
Oxford, hearing its part among under
graduates of this present generation. I
went back the other day to see how
this part of me might be COMFORTING
! itself.
The morning was a sunny one. and
py and by aroun the head of st. AL
u1tSo SWuuS tAS mead OF q column
the O. U. Q. T. c.. artillery, returning
from a morning parade out by Rand
ley. They swung by Carfax into the
high and came down that street Of
memories, taking charge for the
moment. You felt that for the moment
all Oxford, all her past everything
even the morning sunshine-belonged
to them. For, trotting down, behind
them they drew the British guns.
That part Of me which / lease in
herewith SO much of memory-to
Oxford deigned me a nod az it went
by. There, too. youth had taken charge
Of the city. and ! could only, be proud.
But my heart, in its exaltation, cried
out after the guns-"If 1t must be,
well. Yet. not In our time, O Lsord!"
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THURSDAY, JULY 81, 1918.
AT PANAMA..

So rapidly has the work on the
tpIetion, that all but eleven Of the fifty
miles of the canal are under water.
and all but three of the eleven yet
dry, are completed, so far as the TAX
ing out of material is concerned.
Every preparation is now being made
to turn the water into Culebra cut in
October. Big pipe lines are being
laid through which the dredges will
pump the remaining material far out
into the jungle rivers.
Now that the opening of the canal
to traffic is only a few short months
away, Colonel Cocktails is particularly
anxious that the work of perfecting a
permanent organization shall be taken
up and completed. One by one the best
men on the isthmus are leaving, to
enter private employment.
With no permanent head to assure
them of positions under the permanent
organization, there is nothing left for
them to do but to go when opportunity
presents itself. The result is that the
force, gradually is d~isintegrating as
the work move on to completion and
the men are laid off here and there.
The canal army is now composed
of the cream Of a ten year process of
elimination. 1t has proved it's qualifca-
lions to carry out a mighty task with
efficiency and dispatch and it should
be preserved for other big tasks that
conf Mt Uncle Sam.
The mighty foods which have be-
come almost of annual occurrence
along the Mississippi n it's tribu-
~taries, should be curbed. This should
he undertaken at once by the federal
government and carried through as
promptly as has been the4work on the
canal.
The Mississippi and these same
tributaries should be deepened and
made into the natural highways of
traffic that they might become. These
and other projects are jobs worthy of
that gallant little band that has &C.
complished such wonders on the
isthmus and Uncle Sam should not
lose the organization that has been
welded together there.
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sion exercises no policing function. 1T
mas no power under the law to seize
MIX or TO prosecute milk dealers. Its
work. ls purely educational. This 4divi-
sion issues many educational bulletins
based upon its experiments in the
economical production of clean milk.
It supplies farmers with these bulle-
tins and also sends men into the field
W milk producers how to- make
raise the quality OF their milk ana
also increase their profits. These
demonstrators have helped milk pro-
.ducers to- supply over 200 cities. In
each city, these demonstrators CO.
operated with the local health authori-
ties, moi to help them secure evidence
or bring prosecutions. but to improve
the local system OF inspection where
oy the inspectors can aid the milk
producers OF h territory to bring
their milk up to the city's own stand
ard without being called upon to make
excessive expenditures.
With the inspectors, the demon
strators visit the dairy farms ali
friends OF the farmer. They may show
him that certain cows In his herd do
not yield enough milk to pay for their.
tsed, pr the demonstrators may point
cut certain changes la feeding which.
will greatly increase the yield. They
help the farmer build an Inexpensive
milk house, and show him how a win
dow or two or a waterproof floor Tor.
his barn, or alittle whitewash or more
frequent. cleaning will actually in
grease his. profits. Where desired, they
explain methods of REORGANIZATION and
shipping and handling Of milk.
Through this bureau, the department
supplies tuperculin Tor testing herds.
These demonstrators have no power Ut
compel the farmer to follow their ad-
vice--the,y merely try to show him!
thai. these measures are5for his own
sGnnfl&s Fhsv ~ not and can not RS
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THE GOVERNMENTS MILK POLICY

Washington, D. c., July 31.--The
department Of agriculture has issued
the following statement outlining its
policy in dealing with the milk situa-
ton in the United States:
s.It is e~rroneously supposed that the
department Of agriculture has estab-
lished absolute standards and bacterial
counts to whitehall milk coming under
its jurisdiction in interstate commerce
must comply. The department has
established no absolute standards. Tt
certainly has not and will not estab-
lish any rule declaring that milk con-
tanning less than a certain number Of
bacteria per cubic centimeter is good
milk. Under such a standard, milk
containing less than a certain number
of typhoid or tubercle bacilli would
automatically be passed, as coming up
to the standard. Al simple count OF
the bacteria is not In itself sufficient
to determine absolutely it's safety. The
nature OF the bacteria as well as their
number also must liz possible be on
isidered. The presence of only q few
disease producing bacteria might make
the milk dangerous, while several
thousand harmless bacteria could be
present without necessarily indicat-
ing that the milk was unsafe. The
presence of even q few colon bacilli
lis presumptive evidence that COW
manure has been allowed to3 get into
the milk between the 81 and the CON
sumner Similarly, a high count OF the.
kinds of bacteria that normally are
present In milk indicates that the milk
lis dirty, or that II has not been held at.
low temperature sor that 1t lis old.
1.-THE department In its milk actiyi-A
ties is carrying on an extensive
campaign of education To help dairy
men produce and market good clean:
milk. This work Is carried on prin-
cipally BY the dairy division Of the.
bureau of animal irad,lstrr This s5ivA,
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Sir Arthur Quillen-Coach in Lon
don Mail: A wise Oxford tutor con-
fessed to me the other day that what /
hazarded of my observation he had
found experimentally true-the under
graduate up there is a better fellow
than he was twenty-five years ago.
There could be no two words about
it, said the Oxford tutor. #
Wise dons at Cambridge tell a sim
liar tale: and l don't doubt it to be
equally true-though here l have no
memories to set up a comparison. 1t
is the likelier to be- true because old
men tell it and it run ounter to their
habit of belittling the present &
Lastly, l am sure it is true because
observation tells me that the public
school boy, too, is a better fellow than
he used to be. The blessed cause of
it all may lie in the private prepara-
tory sohools-the "t'others"-which
in these twenty-five years have i'm
proved out of knowledge.
My business, however, is neither to
praise the undergraduate of this pass
ing day nor to criticize him, but to
record, If 1 can, what it feels like when
a man. after owing long allegiance in
memory to one university, is sent
somewhat past the midway of life-to
renew his youth in. another-shall
say in tho other?ssThe experience, If
not singular, must be unusual, and
therefore nay be interesting.
Well, to begin with, the experience
started clean-curiously clean-of SEN
tinlent. Had fate sent me back, after
long absence to reinhabit Oxford there
would have been ghosts to, reckon with,
old friendships walking the streets, a
tug on the heart at any chance cor
ner. . t
Was it a hand, then, cbapped my
shoulder? @e "
Only the wind by the chapel wall!
I had a sense, curious and haunting,
Of a total disembodiment. / walked
the streets in a gown that did not be-
long to me and remembered with an eff
fort that l was what it clothed. I could
have talked with Pythagoras, and in
structively; but he was not to be dis
cerned among. the plenty of people
about, and T am shy of accosting
strangers. Also there was a mighty
deal going on, all of which I seemed
to understand with surprising clear
ness; but / had neither part nor lot
in it. G1 u
: Young men hurtled by on motorcy-
lcles. I understood these youths, too,
and how difficult must find it, If
he rides on a machine of that kind. to
come with clean hands to his dinner.
He goes SO fast that he has nc time, of
course. / sat In the chapel of my new
college, not-as Wotton when he revis-
tied Notwithstanding the very
place where 7 sat when 4 was a boy,
and remembering "those very thoughts
of my youth which then possessed me:
sweet thoughts, indeed, that promised
my growing years numerous pleasures,
without mixtures of cares; and those
to be enjoyed when time-which I
therefore thought s~low-paeed - had
changed my youth into manhood. But
Nevertheless. I saw there a success
sion OF boys using the same recrea-
itions and possessed with the same
thoughts which then possessed me.
Thus one generation succeeds another.
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ELLIS MOUND DISAPPEARING.
Prehistoric Ruryina Ground in Cali.
fornia Ia Beinn Torn Au,, 5

fornla Is Being Torn Away.
Richmond, CAL, Correspondent in
New York sun: When the work of
filing and bulk heading Ellis landing,
at the foot Of Tenth street, is COM
pleted. one,of the greatest archaeolog-
zeal features of the state OF California
Will disappear forever.
There Is situated on this property Al
the foot of Twelfth street a shell
mound known to the entire s%cienti1n
world as Ellis mound The, research
conducted in this mound, under the
immediate direction Of Prof. John d.
Merriam, lby Prof. N. C. Nelson OF the
University OF California, was a mart
OF the regular investigation of the
Problems Of Prehistoric Man in Cal
ifornta. carried on by the department
OF anthropologys OF the university
through the generosity Of Mrs. Phoebe
a.. Hearst.
During the investigation Of Ellis
mound In 1906. 1907 and 1908, LAG skei-
etons We're obtained, and 1t was esti-
mated by Professor Nelson in hts booE
entitled Ellis Landing Mound, that
more than 1000 skeletons and possibly
as many as 10000 skeletons were con-
tanned In the mound, showing that it
was the oHicial burying place OF pre-
historic man for ages.
More than $40 specimens of inlple,-
ments, weapons and ornaments were
found in the mound by excavation.
consisting of spear points, pottery.
charm stones, shell jewelry, rnortars
n pestles, bowls, needles, and SINH
lar articles made OF stone. bone, she'll.
and baked clay. Also curious whis-
ties Were discovered made OF tubular
bird bone.
The conclusion OF the scientists was
the prehistoric races which built
the mound were possessed OF both
knowledge and dexterity and a very
material culture;
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BILL a

There is at least one member of
congress who wants to take Mexico by
the scruff of the neck and shake some
sense into her. This bellicose person
is the famous Alfalfa Bill Murray.
who represents a district in Oklahoma.
Mr.. Murray has acquired the vigorous
verbiage of the cowboy by ten years of
ranch life and uncorked a redhot sam
pie Of it in the house the other day i n
the shape of a demand for an imme-
date move by the army and navy
against Huerta and his myrmidons.
The doughty Bill" sees the over
throw of the Monroe doctrine in the
way the Mexican question is being
treated by u government, and to
avert this he insists that warning be
given the greaser to behave them
selves and respect the lives and prop
erty of foreigners on penalty of being
wiped off the map.
Alfalfa Bill" does not mince words
in telling what he thinks is the situa-
ton on the other side of the Rio
Grande. He declared thai there ex-
lists neither law nor government
neither the i~nalienable rights Of man
nor peace nor order within the boun-
DIARIES formerly embracing and known
as the republic Of Mexico. Revolution
liberated that the republic through the
guiding genius of Francisco I. Madero,
its last president and rightful ruler.
Having thus set the stage he brings
the chief villain on with a blare Of
trumpets and rattle of drums after
this fashion:
Through duplicity. treachery and
murder, Huerta. the usurping maraud-
er now proclaiming himself the right
Tul ruler of Mexico. has nullified it's
constitution. destroyed all lawful
authority government and has
committed upon the person of he
president and his family a black
handed murder, paralleled in all his
tory onlygby the p~usillanimous cruelty
OF the dark ages, with all it's supersti-
tlous fanaticism n dastardly deeds
OF rapine and murder. There remain
neither rights of government nor of
belligerent powers such as could be
respected Or recognized in internation-
al law; but the rule Of Huerta has be-
come a ~contending mass of brute force.
Q banditti of incendiarism, rapine and
murder, which should no longer be
tolerated at our door.
This is the preliminary whoop to de-
nland that the president put the entire
army and navy on the job at once. If
the Huerta regime and all other mill
tary leaders or banditti' down there
persist in ~misbehaving and annoying
Americans and other foreigners, the
land n naval forces of the United
States would be used to emphasize the
uItimatum and to chase the leaders ito
the utter ends Of the earth if neces-
sary to capture and punish them.
We haven't a bit of doubt that
among the very first to cross the bor-
der and start the fighting will be .tA1-
9a1fa Bill. He is a product of the west
and has been through all the vicissi-
tudes and meanderings of that section
In its formative stage. Ranchnan,
farm Iaborer. briekmaker. politician
he has run the garnut, and is as ready
to- fight as he is to demand the nation
to- do SO. But for the sake OF the 9TH
III ss.9s9,.s9s people OF this country Ii
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SUBSTITUTE FOR DAYLIGHT.
Another Scientist Invents Apparatus
Emitting Rays Equal to Sunshine.

Another Scientist lnvents Apparatus
Emitting Rays Equal to Sunshine.
Philadelphia Cor. New York Sun:
DR.. Herbert E. Ives, a prominent
scientist of this city. claims to have in
vented a substitute for daylight. He
has been at work for twelve years at
the research laboratories uf the city's
gas plant and finally has produced, he
says, a light which has passed the, test
and is in every way equal to sunshine
and the light of day.
He has designed a powerful mean
descent lamp with a special mantle
which is SO placed in the top of a spe-
cially@ made cabinet that it's rays are
Immediately beneath a reflector. This
is made of metal and the light is fore
ed downward through a series of deli
cately colored screens.
In telling Of his discovery, Dr.. Ives
said today:
my recent invention has a field Of
usefulness in certain industries, such
as textile manufacturing. dyeing, COL
or printing and similar arts. In coolr
printing the presses can be run only
so long as the ink put in by daylight
lasts. With the aid of my invention
the presses car be run every hour of
the twenty-four.
LII Lie SUI Ll1S OIL cigars LlelT color
cannot be told by artificial light. In
dental work the color Of artificial teeth
cannot be told at night. In paper man
%ufacture and the manufacture of flour
they cannot tell the different grades.
With the aid Of this machine they can
tell the grades all the time.
Thread manufacturers will use it to
test the color of threads. Even IN the
daytime they cannot match threads
exactly, whereas with this invention
they will be able to tell the color of
each thread at any time.
Diamond buyers will only deal in
the daylight. Now they will be able
to make deals at any time. Surgery is
another field Of usefulness. The color
Of tissues cannot be detected by artif-
cial light. Surgeons depend upon the
color of tissues to tell whether they are
diseased or not, and as a consequence
major surgical operations can now be
performed at night"
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"keep in the Middle of the Stream

>~ikb
George A. Gordon, in the Atlantic:
Keep in the middle of the stream
is the refrain Of an old negro melody.
The negro toiling on the banks of the
Mississippi had observed that in the
mightiest of American rivers there
were shadows, eddies, counter cur
rents n all sorts of water pranks.
Hence his warning to the navigator,
Keep in the middle of the stream. The
negroes observation became a meta
phor significant for the adventure of
his soul. In the religion of his u
try there are shadows, whirlpools, all
sorts of eddies and oddities. There
is, however, a vast central movement.
Whoever would live religiously must
keep in that great current: Whoever
would. understand American religion
must watch the middle Of the stream.
Otherwise, while the observer may
write about the religion of America
with general humor, obvious charm;
kindly sarcasm, telling epigram and
artistic ecclesiastical purpose. he
must write without insight into@,the
spiritual life of Americans, and. how
eve much he may protest against it,
the picture drawn will be a "chimera,
the monster" of the writer's imagina-
ton. .1.. g .
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where necessary, and incidentally the
removal TO a site about 150 yards In
the rear OF the suburban railway ters-
minus known as Pont Limoun. III
addition, the existing streets, which
are IN most INSTANCES ridiculously mar
row, are to BIZ considerably Widenedi
at certain points and the open spaces
at the foot OF the citadel hill, which.
owing TO- their filthy condition have
peen an eyesore for years, are To be
transformed into public gardens some
of the older mosques, which viii, as a.
result of this scheme, emerge into the
strengthened.
The work has already been started,
= WILL IT is hoped. be complete bv
Septefllber. Most of it lis being exc
cuted by the government departments
and II ~ estimated that the total
pbeednse VIII notsfali much short OF $780,