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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-08-07

Loose Leaf System-For mercantile
and all othar uses. Stock forms made
to order. There's a big advantage in
buying loose leaf goods at home.
Register Publishing Co.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27
p-to-the-Minute Jokes

At a church conference a speaker
began a TRADE against the universe
ties and education, expressing thank
fulness that he had never been cor
rupted by contact with a college.
After proceeding for a few minutes
the bishop who was in the chair, in
;errupted with the question:
DO ] understand that Mr.. Y is
thankful for mis- ignorance"
We'll, yes" was the answer: you
can put it that way If you like"
We'll. all I have TO say" said
the prelate in sweet and musical
tones" all l have to say is that MI
y has much to be thankful for"
The evening callers were chatting
with the hosts when there came
patter Of little feet along the hall.
Hush" whispered the hostess
raising her hand. The children are
coming with their good might mes
sage. II always gives me a feeling Of
reverence TO hear them. They speah
from the fullness Of their hearts never
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27

ties Then her companion remarked
| that they looked like two nice look
| ing young men they had seen eating
cheese sandwiches in an Owl wagon.
/ never saw anybody yet who could
look good and eat a cheese sandwich
at the same time"
Some people amt got no idea of
beauty" said the Head Waitress. u
seen a lovely young girl the other day
gushing all over a high CollaTed blOke
with a thousand logger on his upper
lip. / never could stand for no man
with one of them eye-b brow mus
taches, and ! cant see no beauty in il,
at all"
In the old days every man had a
mustache and beard" replied the
Steady Customer.
That was because there wasn't no
safety razors and no BARRIERS" said
the Head Waitress. i've got a
brOther-in-law with a face full of
fringes, and every time he kisses me
I feel like lost babe in the woods
Wells here's your check Maybe II
you smile sweetly at Marie she'll
speak to you. but l doubt it,"
How do you do, Marie" remarked
the Steady Customer pleasantly. as
he approached the cashiers desk.
I'm sorry if ! hurt your feelings"
There's your change said Marie.
please move along, you're keeping
others waiting on the line"
"Br-r-r-r but the weather has
changed cold" said the Steady Gus
toner as he went out.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27

more than he denies the girl. for he
is denying himself the pleasure of her
company IS riskiug her disapprobation
and knows II. and realizes that the com
parisou made between him and young
men who are more reckless with their
savings is not to his credit
For the Future.
lie is saving up for future bread and
cheese, and when one is young. and
amusemeuts Of all kinds assume a mag
uited value, This denial is most unusual
and commendable. The girl who is
loved by a man Of this kind is not the
piuable object that her young friends
at first sight declare
Worried" writes me. 81 am keep
ing company with a boy of IS. am
OF the same age. 7 allow him to hug
and kiss me every night before part
ing, though ! do not approve have
been told that he was in the reforma-
tory for one term. and my parents dis
approve OF him, though they do not
know all that is going ON between US d"
Plainly they are the kind Of parents
who do not know what a daughter is
doing until the world has discovered it
first And the world is merciless and
unforglving
Precocity i'm love is always deplora-
bic, ana i'm this case it is more-it Is
dangerous. Gunpowder ana tow are
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27

50 freely as when the dark has come.
Listeul"
There was a moments pause. and
then the message came in a shriI
whisper:
Mamma" it ran. Willie found a
coCkroach in the bath"
\ man remarked that he came from
a very large family.
How many are there of you?" he
was asked.
Well there were ten of US bows"
he said, and each Of US had a sister q"
Good gracious!" exclaimed the
other Then there We're twenty Of
you?"
NO" said the boastfuI man.
Mrs. Whimper-John. if should
die. would you marry again?
MISUNDERSTANDING. If the tran
was set differently.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27

r" HE serpent probably acquired h's
reputation for wisdom by get
Il ting here before there were any
widows
The reason a widow succeeds better
than a girl is that the girl depends
upon love. while a widow puts her
faith in schemes.
4 diwower uses his children as an
excuse for marrying again the same as
he uses them for going to the circus
The times have changed. Men do not
look for second wives as industriously
as they once did.
Shortly after a woman dies her friends
who are too good to gossip sigh and
say piously that is a very good thing
the dead don't know what is going on
in this world
When a woman is fatally i'll reflections
Of the next world are not as disquiet-
ing as thoughts of the pretty widow in
the next block.
1t often happens when a man is left
a widower that instead OF his children
making trouble for him he gets to it
first
The second summer is as hard on a
widow as on a baby.
The only time it is excusable for n
man to be neglectful OF his personal
appearance is when he is fresh
widower. and then it is really com
mendable.
( \ widows love affairs are Cupid's
duh reading. but a widowers are his
funny papers.
For few weeks after his wife's
death a widower looks at women with
1 the indifference that characterizes
sick man, but oh, how soon he gets
over it!
| 1t is a wonder that it is not demand
ed Of the bereft that they put up new
monuments every time the styles
change
There are not enough men to go
around. which accounts for the change
of sentiment regarding widowers
Formerly it was an outrage when they
married again; now it is a duty.
When some men marry the second
I time. everyone is reminded of a boy
who has to learn his lesson over again.
1t often happens that a man retain
I ed to the last reputation for good
sense because his wife outlived him.
and he never had a chance as a wild
over to show how big a fool he could
/ be
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27

and married men. Such a tax. it is
estimated, would produce about S10O.-
100000 "A year.
Ebony IS always soaked in water
for from six to eighteen months as
soon as cut II comes chiefly from
Nautilus and the East Indies
Heather viii last longer out Of
water than almost any other flower
The stem transmits very little water
10 the flower.
Sydney Lighthouse has the most
powerful electric light on any light
house-1So.000 Candlepower.
Until the year 1921 the word don
key was only seen in slang diction-
aries
The pulgat, Burmese measure. is
the only foreign measure exactly cor
responding to our inch
\ steel rail lasts with average wear.
about eighteen years.
London uses 2oOOo.0oo tons of coal
d year,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27

this testimonial for the benefit Of
other suffering women."-Mrs. Anna
Bender. st. James. Missouri
Another Case,
Dixon, Iowa. have been taking
Lydia 2. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound for some time and it has done
me much good. My back troubled
me very much. It seemed weak. I
had much pain and l was not as reg
ular as I should have been. The
Compound has cured these troubles
and recommend 1t to all my friends"
Mrs. Bertha Dierksen, Box 1O2, Dix
on. Iowa
If you have the slightest doubt that
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound will help you, write to Lydia
{. PInkhar1 Medicine Co. (confiden-
tad, Lynn, Mass, for advice. Your
letter will be opened, read and an
swered by woman, and held in strict
confidence.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27
The Head Waitress
NJ
By HANK.

GEN n ARTE is sure mad at you"
vi said the Head Waitress to
the Steady Customer as he
grabbed handful of paper napkins
in the Cafe dEnfant she says she
won't ever speak to you again for
spreading that story about her being
stuck on a mounted cop"
Il didn't spread the story" asserted
the Steady Customer Il just heard L
and kidded her about it. Some people
can't stand a little kidding"
That's true said the Head Wait
ress, but then Marie is a very sensi-
tive girl All blondes are sensitive
I've got a blonde sister and she's so
sensitive that she almost broke up the
moving picture show the other night
by weeping out loud at all the sad
pictures"
u went TO a moving picture show
at New Rochelle last night" said the
Steady Customer, zone Of those shows
where they have imitation vaudeville
between pictures. Two banjo players
came on the stage. one OF them
looked like a bartender and the other
needed a shave so badly that his face
cast a shadow on his dress shirt front.
| heard some people behind me talk
ing about them. One woman declared
they were fine looking fellows and had
good features. | couldn't understand
that. because the features Of one of
them was all covered over with bris-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27
CHAPTER XIII.

vary FLETCHER had been a
Nj widow for year before she
heard again from Gordon Craig
Meanwhile she had secured a position in
an uptown office in which her con-
scientious work and keen interest In her
duties were soon recognized Il was
not untn after her husbands death that
she knew that. years before, Bert had
had his life insured in his mother $
favor for a thousand dollars lie wished
10 let this lapse after his marriage, but
his mother had kept up the payments
on il saying nothing about it TO her
daughter in-law
This sum enabled the two women 60
move from the tenement In which they
we're living and take as small fiat
and one almost as cheap In nelghhor-
hood where there was less squalor and
more pure air Here the little boy -four
shed under his grandmother's judi
cious care
Then at the end OF this first year Of
her widow hood. she met Gordon craig
again upon the street tie glanced in
ouiringly at the black dress which Mary
had donned-not because of grief for her
husband. bat because she felt that
black was a safe and proper garh for
a woman situated as she was. She told
herself that in her heart she was
mourning for the happiness she had lost
and for the wrong she had done I'm
marrying where she did not love. Craig
asked for her address, but she gave il
only when he begged that he might
bring his little girl 10 see her
"NIy mother has her here on a visit
10 me" he explained. and ! want YOU
TO know my small daughter
The second time that Craig called
with his child Mrs Fletcher senior. and
The boy We're out, FOR It was lovely
Sunday afternoon. Mary was tired and
preferred, she said, TO stay at home
She did not mention that Craig had
sent a line 10 her al her Office saying
that he would call this afternoon. As
Mary lifted his woman child 20 her lar
she felt a throb OF mother love for the
little girl that made her gather her
closely in her arms and kiss her The
child smiled and chung To her Craig
watching the pair, spoke quickly
MARY" he pleaded See how my
little girl loves YOU. And dear ! love
you, too
But she checked him 10y d gesture
Please don't Gordon she begged
An that kind Of thing is over for us
forever"
He was not 20 be SO easily silenoed
Dear" he said. won't YOU believe
that, after all We have both gone
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27

TAD the young man who wrote the
ri following letter searched the
language from \ to Il he could
not have found tour words more eX-
pressive of desolation. abandonment and
grief than those he uses as his sigma
ture. Broken hearted Foreign Lover"
\ hopeless and lonely wanderer in the
Kingdom Of Love he is also an alien in
a strange land, AVA from home and
friends lie writes me.
q am deeply in love with a young girl
two years my junior She says she loves
me very much, but she says she doesn't
think 1t advisable TO keep company with
me until | earn more. / am getting $40
a week with TO prospects of soon get
ting more l love her very much and
would not like TO lose her"
And l do not want him to lose her, for
when a man or woman loses the one he
or She loves. something sacred and sweet
is gone out Of life that is never replaced.
But neither do I want him TO win her
with only SIG a week 10 live on, Tor then
something win come into his life that IS
sordid and that will grind and Cypress,
and make OF Love milestone instead
OF an inspiration
Their love might survive the hsrdships
| that accompany SIG a week for two, but
It is too priceless 70 be risked In his
Fatherlaud, where bread and cheese cost
less it might even flourish, hut here it
would die OF deprivation and despair.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27
Little Facts.

There's more danger in getting
stung by a busybody than by a busy
bee.
or course, matches are made in
heaven; they're not needed In the
other place.
The same man who wouldn't hunt
more than three minutes for a screw
driver with which to put on a screen
door will tear around two hours hunt
ing for a corksCrew.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27

month, headache
and c on S t a n t
baCkache. | took
Lydia f. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound an d
used the Sana -
tive Wash and /
am relieved of all
my troubles and
am In perfect
health. | shall
recommend your
medicine to all
my friends and
van 49, AWs-T
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27
A Hope.

hope he will he too manly to bind the
girl TO a long engagement, always so
unfair to the one who plays the woman's
part of waiting / hope he viii put
thoughts OF love aside and 20 To work,
faithfully and iutelllEently, trusting TO
the little god who is always kind TO
those who hold love tcnderiy TO keep her
heart for him tin he is in position to
claim II.
"Margle writes me:
81 am a young woman - years OF age.
have been keeping company with a
young student for the past Sin months,
and all he spends ON me Is the evening
was satisfied because he is going to
college ana needs an the little money he
has. until I learned that he was putting
50 a month IN the bank. and that made
ME cross Don't you think he might
spend some OF it in giving me a good
umee"
OF course he might, and. looking at it
from The standpoint of youth, he should.
But on the other hand, it is L we'll
established fact that no one can eat
his pie ana keep il too lie is saving
for the future, and undoubtedly he never
puts that precious little nest -egE away
without a dream that it is for our
future The butterflies always had The
greatest contempt for the thrift uc the
ants. ana ! am afraid chat Margie.
though -. Us stlu q great deal Of but.
teruy
The men who command positions of
trust. have money sf a p
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27

EARY FLETCHER had been a
MI widow for a year before she
heard again from Gordon Craig
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27
The Ways of
the Bereft
By FRANCES L. GARSIDE.

" HE serpent probably acquired his
reputation for wisdom by get
Il ting here before there were anv
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27

\ diwower uses his children as an
excuse for marrying again the same as
he uses them for going to the circus
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27

Shortly after a woman dies her friends
who are too GOOD to gossip sigh and
say piously that is a very good thing
the dead don't know what is going on
in this world
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27

The reason a widow succeeds better
than a girl is that the girl depends
upon love. while a widow puts her
faith in schemes
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27

look for second wives as industriously
as they once did.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27

When a woman is fatally i'll reflections
Of the next world are not as disduiet-
ing as thoughts of the pretty widow in
the next block
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-10
She Knew the Symptoms.

There is a certain bright English
actress who comes over here every
year or two to play an engagement,
says the Saturday Evening Post.
Among her admirers on this side is q
middle aged theatrical man of a serf
Gus turn of mind. He is courtly, but
has been called tiresome in conversa-
ton. One afternoon at her suit in E
New York hotel the sprightly lady was
brewing a dish of tea for a couple or
newspaper men. The telephone bed
rang. and the hostess answered the
call.
"Yes," she said. this is Miss Blank.
Who? oh. Mr.. Blink calling. is it9s
Then. in tone of weary resignation,
Every well, send him right up" She
hung up the receiver and turned to the
newspaper men.
Boys" she said, "youll have to tod,
die away. My sick headache is com
ing on
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-10
The Gold Lions of Picking.

Fronting the imperial palace at Pc
king are two beautifully carved lions
of enormous size which, if we are to be-
lieye the mandarins, are of solid gold
and have been there since time i'm
memorial. When the combined armies
OF England and France advanced on
Picking in 1860 the Chinese painted
these statues gray in order to make
the Europeans believe that they were
of bronze and therefore to insure
against their being melted. Later, dur
ing the Japanese war, these lions dis
appeared for a time. but at the con
clusion of peace they reappeared in
their original position. The value OF
these relics Isl said to be incalculable
and they are in native eyes a symbo'
of the unity of the empire.-Harper'S
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-10
stevenson,s Criticism.

Robert Louis Stevenson once went
to hear Charles Halle play the piano
at the Queens hall After the per
Torrance Stevenson, in his black
shirt. walked in silence out Regent
street to Oxford circus. He stopped
at Oxford circus and, in a slow,
n1editative voice. pronounced this
excellent criticism on the English
musician he had heard: THE man
ner of the elderly statesman at the
piano was somewhat austere and
chilling"
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-10
No Duplicates Here.

II In this month Of weddings all the
brides-to-be copied the little brides Of
Holland they would not have so many
duplicate gifts. The practical folk of
the Netherlands consult the bride as
TO what she needs, and she has a list
from which each article IS checked
off as it is taken by prospective
donor. This list is kept as an heir
loom, so that every generation knows
what has been given to its grand
mothers. Incidentally, the list has al
most the value of an inventory.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-10
Algebra.

The science of algebra is said to
of Buziana about $50 A. d. The sci.
ence was introduced into Spain by the
Moors. The first treaties on the subject
in any European language is believed
to have been that by Luca Pacoli in
1894. The first English algebra was
written by Robert Recordk. teacher OF
mathematics at Cambridge, about 1857
He was the first to use the sign OF
equality.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-10
important Question Of Dress.

Lord Chesterfield says: Il would
rather have a young fellow too much
than too little dressed; the excess on
that side will wear off with a little
age and reflection" To be as well
dressed for all occasions as a mans
means will permit shows self respect
and not conceit as ignorant people
sometimes imagine. Society In
variably looks on young men with a
partial eye, but it likes to see them
well dressed.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-10
HIGHLY col oRED FUN.


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lnuia ana was invited % remain over
1or the IesuvaL
early IN the morning went to the
club. where l FOUND many OF the
guesu. VINO were taxing part IN the
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-10

a eontented spirit is the sweetness
Of existence.-.D Dickens.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-10
KilIina Tima.

Perhaps the busiest time of the year
In old colonial days was November,
called killing time" When the chosen
day arrived oxen. cows and swine
which had been fattened for the win
ter's stock We're slaughtered early in
the morning that the meat might be
hard and cold before being put in the
pickle. Sausages, rollches and head
cheese We're made. lard tried out and
tallow saved.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-10

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The lesson. of faith was that they
should loot forward n coming Mes
siah-.a pr;nco anf, . Savior,.
vor,ou. woro tba;r honos rosnoctino
Messiah T,be nro,,;sas xvaro scanned
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rrbro,,gh the nrorbats Cod foretolf, thar
Messiah wa 70 he the ntttvna of both
Doyid ana Solo,non Of Aaron and Moi
obizo5ek-vorv oroat nc was -, raion
from sea to sea. psalm 72:S.l
Israel looked forward with pride to
the day when Messiah would eXalt
them very highly in the earth. and as
sociate them with Himself IN blessing
all people These good hopes nave heid
them together as no other people nave
ever Deeh helu- 1hey are sui warning
though uisconcertea oy 1ne evidences
that Others are III solle respect lhore
favored tnah tney'
Messiah and the Jubilee at Hand.
At last Israers Star of Hope is ris
ing! At last the prophecies tell that
her morning of joy is about to dawn
and that 1.-The desire of all nations shall
come" Not merely are Jews claiming
; that Messiah's Day is nigh; but Chris
tan blpie students see the same. Mo
n na.' a'0o 'iason'
nc .,, .s.., - pc.
tn, ,,,.,,,,,a, s,,os1i. -
van,ions 90 tho lost haif oon.,nS -
. sraoL .ho NJ D,snonsat,oa Is ~,
900 t,ons ~ - - .n'
~ tna Inororro+,or "a po,,.r -,
Inauguration Scene OF Our Text.
Leading In the grand procession pic
ture Is the Son or Man, foilowin.
y wnom are all the holy messengers: bu
. win him upon bis throne VIII be Hi
Bride CASA sanity few. Thus it i
:, written. when Christ shall ap
. pear. then shall We also appear wit
Him in gIory."-Col. ga; Rev. 3:21.
Grand as nave been the Inaugural
: ceremonies OF the past week. the,
were as nothing. contrasted with tn
J glorious crowning Day for which cart
has waited six thousand years. Har
: py as were the faces which greeted tn
President. the picture was tame. con
: pared with the joy of mankind whe
they realize what God has wrought!
= Wherein Did the Jews Fail7
The Jews did not fail All Cod
- nromises IN them AFRO still tba;rs II