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BEST YEARS OF MANS LIFE
Depend on What Youth Was, Nature
Of His Work and Staying
Powers.

What are a mans best years" de-
ponds largely Of what his youth was
the time for laying the foundation. 1t
also depends upon the nature of his
work and something of his stamina or
staying powers; also, as to whether
he has mastered his environments or
allowed them to master him. Hugo
Munsterberg places the high water
mark at so years; Doctor Wiley thinks
a mans best work should be done
after he is sixty; while Doctor Osler
claims that little original and valu-
able work is done after the age of
forty. AS for my own humble opin-
ion, l am quite thoroughly convinced
that a man does not reach his prime
Of intellectual strength and lucidity
until he arrives at the halfway house
-threescore and ten.
The life problem is very much like
a marathon, and should be decided
accordingly. On the n hand, it is
not a question of years, but Of condi-
tion-mentally and physically. How
did he pass the SEVENTEEN milestone,
old and decrepit or vigorously? On
the other hand, it is not a question as
to the time he made, but what was his
condition? Did he collapse or did he
finish strong?-Los Angeles Times,
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IN TORTURE WITH ERUPTION

Watkins Park, Edgewater-on-the-
Hudson, N. about two years ago
/ had a terrible breaking out of hor-
ribly itching pimples all over the stom-
ach and upper part of my legs. l was
in torture and scratched till I bled
and could only sleep fitfully at
night and was so glad to see the
day dawn. l was feverish and thor
oughly miserable. The reddish pim-
pies had got a head on them like
smallpo~ c%orpuscles. 1 rubbed them
with a rough cloth, they itched so.
They blended together and made sores
about the size of a nickel and scabbed
over. My clothing irritated the sores
so that l put a damp handkerchief
next to them. Some said it was the
itch and others the hives.
Il was suffering for over six weeks
when I began with the Cuticura Soap
and Ointment. To my establishment
by the end of a week the whole trou-
BILE had disappeared and the old skin
brushed off. l have not had a sign Of
a spot on my body since" (Signed)
c. w. Charles, Nov. 9, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston."-Adv.
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Imnorfan% IN Mofheve

Examine carefully every bottle Of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
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WHY He KEPT RIGHT ON
Fell Into River, Had to Go to New
York Anyway, So He Floated
Across.

New York.-Carrying a wet cargo,
Robert Tisdale, negro laborer, floated
from Yonkers to Harlem early the
other day. He was locked in the Har.
lem river, at 138th street, by two pa
trolmen. who insisted on stopping his
voyage.
Street Cleaning Inspector Boyle
saw Tisdale first and called for help.
What are you yelling for?" came
from the "1oater."
Il want to rescue you" called back
the inspector.
go on back to bed" came the re-
ply.
Patrolmen Osterhaus and Sullivan
threw a rope to the negro and a few
minutes later hauled him ashore.
How did you get into the water?"
asked one of the policemen.
81 don't remember" replied Tis-
dale. 1.-THE last thing I recollect 1
was sitting on the stringpiece of a
dock in Yonkers, and then l found my
self in the water. l had to come down
town. anyway, this morning, so 1
kept right on"
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WITCHES WEIGH HOUSE GONE
Holland Town Loses Curious Relic Of
Middle Ages-Determined Wheth-
e. Witch or Wizard.

Amsterdam.-The little town of
Underwater, which is situated on the
River Yssel right off the beaten tour
LIST track, has lost by fire n of the
most remarkable relics of the middle
ages, the ~so-called Witches Weigh
House.
Early in the sixteenth century EN-
peror Charles ", who was born and
educated in Holland, granted the town
what is perhaps the most curious
privilege on record, that of a weigh
house which should be the only rec
ognized one to determine officially
whether a person was a wizard or a
witch.
At a time when witchcraft vas uni
versally believed in the weigh house
did a great business. 1t was the bur
gomaster of the town who determined
the weight. If an accused person bal
anced the scales or vas heavier he
or she went free, but if lighter a
prima facie case of witchcraft was
held to be made out, and the unfor'
tunate individual was in imminent
danger of losing life or chattels or
both.
There are records that witches
we're weighed in Underwater as late
as the first half of the eighteenth EN-
ury.
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REST HOUR MOST IMPORTANT
Az Preserver of Health and Beauty 1t
Must on No Account Be
Neglected.

If you are a wise woman and wish
TO preserve your beauty you will not
neglect to take a rest hour during the
day.
Go to your room, don a comfortable
negligee and stretch out on the bed
with the lightest and frothiest of nov
els guaranteed to induce slumber.
Or if by chance it doesn't why lie
still and relax in mind and body any
how, and you'll rise feeling years
Younger and ready for anything. But
somnolence is sure to come as soon
as you get in the habit of taking an
afternoon nap.
The best rest hour is in the after
noon just before dinner. You feel the
need of it most then, and there is
always dressing to follow. which will
asst aside the last trace Of heaviness
hat some people have for a short
ime after the unusual daytime nap.
Oatmeal made into a paste with
rose water and then smeared all
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HAVE AN OLD-FASHIONED AIR
Styles in Nantes Have Gone Back to
Those Popular With Our Grand
mothers.

The old world fabrics have aided in
producing the real old-fashioned air
in the prettily draped nantes of silks
and chiffons and fascinating nets,
with stiff little punches of flowers
scattered owe the filmy surface. A
thin China silk or chiffon, matching
in tone one of the flowers, may be
through the creamy yelling in a most
artistic m On some of the more
unusual nantes the designs are de-
veloped on a coarse net in crewels.
These nantes are very vague in
outline, being wound or wrapped
around the figure with the fullness
falling between the shoulders and the
knees. The sleeves-when there are
sleeves-are of kimono cut, or at least
are kimono at the top, with a hint
Of the bishop sleeve at the cuff. Quite
as often there are no sleeves, Sits in
the goods serving as an opening, or
drapings falling in such a way that the
arms may be released. Some of the
nantes are fastened at the waist
line, even lower at one side, and 9TH
ers are wound around the figure and
held up in the front in a seemingly
careless fashion. There is a certain
informally to this latter style which
seems to appeal, for the latest models
for winter are arranged in this way.
the fastening-if there is one-not be-
ing noticeable.
The feature Of the new nantes
which are heralding the styles for fall
is the collar, according to a New
York Tribune writer. There is nc at
tempt at fitting in the collar. After
the many, many years when the fit Of
the collar made or married the gar
ment, it is a bit startling to learn that
the collar would not fit. The bunchier,
thicker and clumsier the collar is, the
smarter the wrap becomes. Natural
ly, it gives a very thickset look to the
back of the neck. The effect can be
produced in fur very easily, and,
strange to relate, it does not look as
clumsy in the fur. One naturally ex-
poets a fur collar to be thickset. The
new fur collars are straight pieces Of
the fur which very often only cross
the back of the wrap. Occasionally
they roll toward the front and join
a band of fur that is used to outline
the edges.
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BLACK SNAKE SLIPPED SKIN
In That Way, According to PennsyIva-
MIA Story, Reptile Escaped
Being Captured.

Philadelphia weekly newspaper
in Newtown, Bucks county, printed
this story:
Alexander Dewsnap of Bristol saw
a blacksnake summing itself and made
an effort to catch the reptile alive.
Just as the snake glided into a hole
in the ground D%ewsnap clutched it by
the tail and drew it out again-as he
thought.
only the skin, however, was in his
hands, the blacksnake having sudden
ly Invested itself of its old clothes Cor
skim in order to escape.
"Dewsnap has had the skin pre-
served and is now using it as an UNI
brella cover"
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county Jail for a picture. He stared
wildly at the camera and then broke
away from Donahue and dashed to-
ward the hillside. He vas captured
after a short sprint, but protested vio-
lently by signs alone against being
returned to his cell.
Soon after his attempt at escape he
made signs indicating that he wished
to sit down on the court house lawn.
He was allowed to do so, when he i'm
mediately began tearing up grass and
dandelions by the roots and eating
them. He was allowed to do this, but
when he attempted to swallow several
small pebbles he was restrained.
DR.. Juser, county physician, and DR..
prisoner and they agreed that he was
sane, but neither could account for his
evident lapse of memory and his rev.
ersion to mankind's primal instincts.
In the hermit's hut, south of Camp
Taylor, officers even found a stock
certificate of an old mining company
issued on March IA, 1853, to "F.
Hirth." They also found a wallet con-
tanning a card on which was written
the name Anthony Benko."
No steps toward d%isposing of 1.-THE
Unknown" have been taken as yet, or
will they be until after further inquiry
has been made into his strange case.
Former United States District At
torney John L. McNab, as attorney for
the estate on which the hermit made
his home, filed the complaint on which
the wild man" was taken into Gus
tody.
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PLAN FOR MEMORABLE DAY
ti-TubercuIosis Society Has Set
Apart Sunday, Dec. 7, for a
Special Purpose.

Last year over $4,000 churches
preached ermon on the prevention of
consumption on tuberculosis day,
which will be held on December Z this
year. 1t is hoped this year to swell
the number of churches to loo, 900 and
20 urge similar action besides in a
large number of the se~4ools and other
societies. The tuberculosis day cam
paign will come this year during the
Red Cross Christmas seal sale. 1t is
planned to urge the churches of the
country to take a definite part in this
movement. The observance of Tuber-
culosis day was Endorsed last year by
President Taft, Cardinal Farley, Col
onel Roosevelt and many other promi-
nent churchmen and public officials.
Proclamations calling upon the people
to observe this day were issued by
governors of more than a dozen states
and by the mayors of a considerable
number of cities.
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ROMANCE KILLED AT LAST
Notograph, a New instrument, Invent
ed for Expressing Stupid Love
Letters.

Romance, poor dying you
have fought hard for your golden life
against the ever growing forces of
modernity, but they have killed you
with a hideous old continuance of met
al and lever, point and wheel, that
they, the selfish moderns, term the
photograph. Farewell, Romance; those
Of the future will think they have no
use for you.
Progress, they term it, these mod
erns. The age they live in they seek
to dignity with the ugly word "utili-
tartan" 1t has nothing in common
with the ages and starlit nights, of
scented love notes flung from the
f1ower-clad balcony as %throbbing
strains rose from the guitar beneath.
These moderns find a roof of steel and
glass better than your velvet skies; a
glazing blue-white arc electric light
more in keeping than your mellow sun
sets. And your scented letters of love,
the last of your attributes they have
stripped from you, they are replacing
by his barbarity, the photograph, a
thing that knows so little of you that
it will not ven hide the tender senti-
ments you were wont to inspire from
the ribald laughter of a vulgar crowd.
Love will go on" you murmur with
your dying breath, even the noto-
graph (the word comes hardly to your
soft, red lips), even the photograph can
not kill that" Girls and boys will
live and love, even though they SEND
their messages to one another through
the glazing publicity of the window of
an automatic machine. Perhaps, Ro-
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"OS 6itlS0S SotlNs
paper, and John Dear thus became
aware of the ~wareabouts of his long
lost brother.
Among other curiosities in the bank
library there is a bank note dated 18th
Xber, 1699," for G555. This is the
oldest bank note known to be in ex-
istence. In appearance and design
it is very similar to the present day
notes. Another interesting note is
one for $1,000 which Lord Cochrane
paid as a fine, imposed upon him for
his enormously supposed connection
with a fraud for raising the public
funds. 1t is Endorsed with these
words: My health having suffered
by long and close confinement, and
my %oppressors having resolved to de-
priye me of property and life, I submit
to robbery to protect myself from
murder, in the hope that l shall live
to bring the delinquents to Justice
Cochrane. Grated chamber. Kings
Bench prison, 3 July, 1915"
The greatest amount for which a
Bank of England note has been issued
is G1,000,000. There are only foul
Of these million pounds notes in exist
ence. One is preserved in the library
Of the bank, another is in the posses
sion Of the Rothschild family, a third
Is owned by Messrs. Coutts, the ia
nous bankers, and the forth is in the
hands of the descendants Of Samuel
Rogers, the poet.
The printing is done on the bank
premises The notes are printed in
pairs and come off the machines
pressed and dried. Stock notes of diff
ferent values from 95 to $1,000 are
kept in iron safes in one large oom
and the average value of the stock is
between 9S0,0O0,000 and $50, 900, 900.
Over $4,000 notes of various values
are paid into the bank every day. On
their return the notes are sorted, first
into their respective values, then &C
cording to their dates, and finally into
their numerical order. Every note
has a place of it's own in the bank
registers, and Immediately the notes
are sorted their return is registered.
Special examining clerks devote
their attention to detecting forgeries.
OF late. years there have not been
many cases of forged notes, but dur
ing the eighteenth and early part of
the nineteenth centuries the banks
suffered severe losses from counter
felt notes. The story of the first re-
corded forgery forms a unique chapter
in the book of romance. A certain
linen draper named Vaughan was pas
sionately in love with a fair maiden
whose father was a man of consid-
cradle wealth. The love sick swain
knew that the quickest way to win the
girl was to give some proof that he
was a man of means. To this end he
employed several men to engrave for
him a Bank of England note for $50.
When twelve Of the notes had been
worked off he presented them to his
lady fair. Unluckily the imposition
was soon discovered and poor Vaughn
was hanged.
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Suspicious Confirmed.

Little Laura was so quiet out in the
kitchen that her mother suspected the
child of some mischief.
What are you doing, dearie?' the
mother called.
Muffin" Laura answered.
But you must be doing something"
mo, l isn't"
Are you sure?'
Well, I isn't doin' much"
Tell me this instant what you are
doing or mamma will have to come
with the hairbrush.
After a moments silence the little
M replied:
I'm just dwivin' hairpins into the
soap wifi Marjorie's looking glass;"
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Perfect EadY.

One of the papers is running a con
test about What is a perfect gen
tleman?" There is a variety of opin-
ions as to that; but do you know what
a perfect lady is? A meat dealer in
the east end gave a definition the
other day which has been sem US by
a correspondent. Our friends wife
was doing her marketing, and in
quired about some new neighbors of
hers who traded at the same shop.
We'll, she's a perfect lady," said
the butcher. "She don't know one
cut of meat from another "-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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quated furniture. He advertised the
house as on view in the state it was
left by Newton, and many visitors from
the country and foreign parts were i'm
posed upon till the joke became too
stale. The circumstance is alluded to
by ]. IT. Smith in "An Antiquarian
Ramble of the Streets of London"
(1846) and by Rev. W. G. Humphry,
sometime vicar of st. Martin-in-the-
Fields, in a pamphlet published in
1857. He describes the house as being
now occupied by laborers and barge
men, and easily distinguished by a
small wooden erection on the roof"
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Fold the Curtain.

To iron sash or long scrim curtains
easily, fold the curtain lengthwise and
iron with the selvage to the right,
within about an inch Of the center,
being very careful to keep the selvage
straight. Unfold and iron without
stretching, the two inches in the cen
ter which were omitted when the cur
tain was folded. This will make the
curtain look like new. There will
be no fold in the center, and it will
hang perfectly.
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OLD HOME.
Or. Burney and Family Lived
There Twenty Years.
Observatory, With Its Windows Of
Small Panes of Glass and Leaden
Roof Remain as Sir Isaac
Left Them,

London.-Doctor Burney and his
family moved into Newton's old resi-
dence in 1774, remaining there 20
years. By common consent it was
called Newton house. Here his daugh-
ter Fanny afterwards Madame d'Arb-
lay) wrote the novel, "Evelina; or, A
Young Lady's Entrance Into the
World" published anonymously in
177S. The observatory, with its win
dows of small old-fashioned panes Of
glass and leaden roof, which sur
mounted the building, remained in the
same simple state in which it had been
left by Sir Isaac. 1t was priced by
his friends with enthusiasm. For
Fanny Burney it was my favorite sit
ting-place, where l can retire to read
or write any of my private fancies or
v~agaries." In Burney's day Newton
house was the rendezvous Of a literary,
musical and artistic coterie. Garrick
was a welcome visitor, and Sir Joshua
Reynolds was wont to come round
from his house hard by in Leicester
Fields. Doctor Johnson vas a caller.
A note of his, dated Bolt court, Novem-
Der II, 1884, says "Mr. Johnson, who
came home last night, sends his re
spects to dear Doctor Burney; and to
all the dear Burneys, little and great"
Several ~engravings of the house,
serving to illustrate its v~icissitudes,
are extant. In the European Magazine
for 1911 appears a picturesque repre-
s%entation by Lacy, after a drawing by
Meredith, with the title, "The Hotel in
St. Martins street, formerly the resi-
dence of Sir Isaac Newton" A placard
to that effect is seen across the facade.
In C. J. Smiths Historical and Lit
erary Curiosities' is an engraving
published 1856 showing the interior
Of the observatory; and another, of the
house itself published 1880, shows a
board outside with the legend Orange
Street Chapel Sunday and Infant
Schools" A colored Autograph depict
ing the building adjoining Newton's
dwelling was published in 1862, intend
ed to keep in remembrance, the jubilee
Of the Sunday schools.
A story got into print that Newton
house was at one time taken by a for
eigner, who built a little observatory
at the top and then filed it with some
old-fashioned instruments and anti
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extend down over the sleeve to give
the essential long line.
One extremely attractive blouse
shown among the small sketches was
of embroidered lace over maline trim
med with purple velvet. The collar
was sailor shaped at the back, crossed
over the shoulders and extended down
to the waist line at each side of the
front. The velvet gradually narrowed
from shoulders to waist line until at
the lower part there was but a line of
the velvet visible. There was a vest
OF maline ornamented by clusters Of
loops of narrow purple velvet ribbon.
MARY DEAN.
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BOWLED OVER BY A WOMAN
Then king of Tramps" Turns Pro-
notwithstanding Men
Could Not Do.

Corey, PA No. II commonly
called the king of tramps' and who
has travelled all over the United
States and over a half million miles as
a guest of American railroads is now
an ardent pro-suffragist. Mrs. a.
Bush who lives in Erie was out driv-
ing her motor a with three other
women and bowled the famous tramp
owe as he was crossing the street the
other day. In all his half million
miles, the hobo had never been so
much as scratched and he has travelled
in, under and atop every sort of rail-
way conveyance. A badly bruised
tramp picked himself up and an
%nounced that his hat was off to the
ladies for they had done what a reg
iment of railroad men could not do.
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BLOUSE HIGH IN FAVOR
DAME FASHION HAS SET HER
SANCTION ON GARMENT.
Variation In Garniture Adds Distinc-
ton to Most Comfortable Garment
That a Woman Can Adopt for
Ordinary Wear.

The woman who rejoices in a va
riety of separate blouses may revel to
her hearts content in her ~favorite sar-
torial fad this fall, for blouses are
again Smiled upon by Dame Fashion,
and no one can possess too many.
Blouses themselves are in fact SIM
ply backgrounds against which are
posed the more interesting details of
vests, collars, cuffs and sashes. The
sash is a paramount feature of the
new blouse, and effects a happy har-
mony between it and the accompany
ing skirt. Plaid and checked blouses
show broad crushed sashes of the ma
terial knotted at one side of the waist
and falling in short ends owe the
skirt, giving very pleasing length of
line to the figure and doing away with
the chopped off look that shortwaisted
women sometimes have in high-waist-
ed skirt worn over blouses of light ma
terial.
Another feature that gives length of
line to the figure is the coattail. This
coattail motif is used with excellent
effect on some dressy blouses design
ed for wear at the matiness or after
noon bridge, with tailored costumes of
velvet or broadcloth. A white char
meuse blouse, for example, has a pleat-
ed coattail attached at the back of
the waist under three satin colored
buttons, the sides and fronts of the
blouse being in cutaway bolero style,
opening over an under blouse and
short peplum of pleated white chiffon.
A sash of the white charmeuse is drap-
ed around the waist and fastens under
a rosette at one side, the cutaway
fronts of the bolero sloping downward
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Our Latln-American Trade.

Exports from the United States to
creased from SOS, 900, 900 in 1900 to
1921, 000. 900 in 1913, a gain of 1877 per
cent. Imports from them increased
III per cent. in the same period. Elk
ports to other parts of the world in
creased 81 per cent. The department
of commerce in a statement says:
"The most rapid gains in the exports
during this period occurred in the
trade with Argentina and Brazil. The
value of merchandise exported to
Argentina in 1900 was $11, 500, 900, and
in 1913 over $50, $780, 900; to Brazil, in
1900, $1,000, 900, and in 1913, s42, $685..
900. Cuba showed a marked gain"
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THANKSGIVING Novelties.

A dinner
For instance
All vegetables
That is, in appearance.
Even the guests represent them.
Vegetable decorations are not novel,
but carrots made of yellow cheese are.
A garden basket of spun sugar with
ice cream vegetables for dessert is an
other.
And women represent heads of let
tuce and radishes, with crinkly green
tissue paper leaves.
The men are lanky ears of corn
dressed in barred yellow paper and
they are also cucumbers and stalks of
celery.
It might be a lot of fun for a week
end party or some one looking for un-
usual features for entertaining.
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ENGLAND'S NOTED OLD BANK
Many Curiosities Are Owned by "Tne
Old Lady of T~hreadneedle
Street."

London.-The greatest bank in the
world-the Bank of England-is
known as the "Old Lady Of Thread
needle street" The bank has issued
millions of pounds in notes, and if
each could speak what tales of history
would be told. For instance, there
is preserved in the Bank of England
library a e5 note with these words
written upon it: IF this note gets in
to the hands of John Dear of Longhill,
near Carlisle, his brother Andrew is
q prisoner in Algiers." This notihca-
ton was copied into a Carlisle news