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Mountain advocate., 1914-01-09
Died Young.

VIM the American Association for
the Study of Infant Mortality, in SEES
sion at Washington, take up the pa
thetic case Of the young Bull Moose
party Transcript
Mountain advocate., 1914-01-09

I'VE want you TO make a speech
at the banquet. Just talk lot of
nonsense, you know"
"0h, no; really, | couldn't"
Eyes. you can, | don't know any
fellow better qualified TO do II than
yourself"
Mountain advocate., 1914-01-09

Mrs wtnslow's soothing syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inhamma'
o0n. allays pain,eures wind coils e5c Dottle-As.
Mountain advocate., 1914-01-09
Usual Combination.

Young links. I'm afraid, is a bad
egg"
Yes, and he's a fresh one, too"
Mountain advocate., 1914-01-09

The Reformer-Money is the cause
of a great deal of corruption.
The Politician-Yes; it's pity we
can't all be millionaires and be be-
yond the reach of temptation.
Mountain advocate., 1914-01-09
Appropriate style.

How do YOU want the forestry pic
lures reproduced"
In WOOD cuts, stupid"
Mountain advocate., 1914-01-09

Putnam Fadeless Dyes color In cold
water. Adv.
Mountain advocate., 1914-01-09

Red Cross Ball Blue gives double value for
your money, goes twice A. far as any other.
Don't put your money into any other. ADV.
Mountain advocate., 1914-01-09
Late In Life.

Some men don't learn
True savolr-faire.
Until they've lost
Bout all their hair
Mountain advocate., 1914-01-09

There's no use In worryins-and
there Is no use In telling people there
u no use
Mountain advocate., 1914-01-09

Tom-She tells me she has a per-
feet trust in you.
Dick-Well, she has a perfect mo-
nopoly of me.
Mountain advocate., 1914-01-09
AAm ser,s.

Sens wan n lead In time OF mead.
And SOM Hfefer 70 follow,
some want toelimb and be sublims.
And soms prefer 70 wallow.
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Uncle Abncr.
QUAKER fluctuations.

tFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
1t doesn't take 1 dentist to put a dent
In a bank roll
The one thing a man can borrow with
out bothering about security Is trouble.
Many a man Is fired with his own en-
thusiasm who is. subsequently fired by
the boss.
Would you say Of the fellow who skins
over thin ice that he loses his bearings?
"A fool and his money are soon parted.
and very often without enough left for
alimony.
Some people carry their bargain hunt
ing proclivities even into the matrimonial
market.
No man is such pessimist as to refuse
to believe the good things he hears about
himself.
No, Maude. dear; it doesn't necessarily
follow that q girl n quite artless because
she never paints.
Reginald Rittenhouse -"Dr: squilis
sometimes cuts quite 2 s sw doesn't
operated on me for appendctts.'
Hcnpcckke-sYou coward: Do you
realize that you have struck q married
.nanr Singleton-"How does tnat MAKE
mo a coWard?" "A, Henpeckke-'Isnt e
60 hardly to hit q man when. he - down!
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Globe Sights
BIZ THE ArCHIsoar oxIoD1.

One Of the hardest tasks II to- foad =
newspaper. 1857
Your argument doesn't sound as con-
vincing to the opposition as to you. p"
This publication IL very sorry that
many people aren't as big as they talk.
1t is said Of an Atchison girl that her
fine figure IS personal achievement.
BY the time the average man can at
ford q motorcycle, he wants an auto
mobile.
Some Of the enduring verse. may be
so-called because It taxes the endur-
ance to read it. <=se-t 5>sr- i-s.a
A True Fan is one whosCan.t be lured
from the sporting page by war talk Ia
big letters. s-s- sssi 49,. ~ -:
In spite Of what happened 20 Cain.
a lot Of men insist they are not their
brothers keeper.
Alb Adkins describe his son-in-law as
the sort of man who regards q diploma
as an education.
Generally speaking. reporter has
trouble enough without having q GEN.
sor to kick his dog around.
Before the Cubists arrived. the coat
Of arms stood as the most horrible ex-
ample Of apt ILLUSTRATIONS. artful aid
Some men show loyAlt1 10 the old
home town by insisting its amateur
ball team really belongs in the big
league.
The days are growing shorter, AM
the chief engineer Of a rhrcshsne ma
chine must use a lantern in order tc
get in full time.
While you are standing behind
someone and laughing at their pecu-
liarities the chances are that someone
behind you 10 laughing at you.
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TUBERCULOSIS CENSUS,

A tuberculosis census Of Thousands
of churches in various parts Of the
country will be taken in September,
under the direction Of The National
Association for the Study and Proven
ton of Tuberculosis. The census will
be part of tho preparation for the
fifth annual tuberculosis day to be
observed during the week of Novem-
Der goth.
The ministers of several thousand
churches will be asked to report on
the number of deaths from tuberculo-
sis in the last year, the number of
living cases in their parishes on Sep
TENDER LIST, the number of deaths
from all causes. and the number of
members or communicate. These
figures will be made the basis Of an
educational campaign, which will cul-
inmate in the tuberculosis day move
ment, for which OCCASION sermon and
lecture outlines and other forms OF
tuberculosis literature will be distribu-
ted free to ministers.
Last year nearly $4,000 churches
schools. and other bodies took part In
the tuberculosis day observance. The
movement had the endorsement OF
leading church officials Of every de-
nomination. More than 1900 anti
| tuberculosis societies scattered all over
| the country will work this year te
make tuberculosis day q success.
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Hu,nor of the Day

Brown IL financially weak. isn't he!
.'He hasn't muchmoney but he gives en-
ployment to a great many men no
are they?'' 'Other peoples bill collect
ors"-Boston Transcript.
.'Henpeckke hasn't spoken to his wife
in over a year." Doesn't like to inter-
rupt her, eh?'-Judge.
Scott-"How long were you away on
your wedding tour?' Mott-'Too long: 1t
developed into lecture tour
Transcript.
Pennsyivanian-'sDo you people stand
In fear OF Statewide prohibitions! Della
warian-"No; yO0S zee our State y not
very Observation-Disclosures Age-Herald.
Rich Papa-.'You foolish girl. that Eng
lish noblelnan who's counting you, really
doesn't look on you ~ his equal" Wflful
Heiress-sT don't care for that. papa. n
long as he's my peer.'-Baltimore Amer
lean.
He-'Well. how do You like baseballg''
She Cat her first game)-'Its perfectly
lovely. But why do they have tho0e po-
hcemen about9 oh. know. Ms to pre-
vent the mem fBom stealing baeol-
Boston Zfan1cx1pe
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Kas,sds Co1,i,sissit
1s POSTCARD FAD DYING our.


70 POSTCARD FAD DYING OUT9
Every once In while one sees =
Newspaper note to the eject that the
ever there aro tourists this summer.
there seems to be the same old
throng Hike hies around the picture
card counter. Probably tho use Of
silly motto cards VIII prove to be but
. passing erase. Even people OF SUI
perficial intelligence get tired of re-
minding their friends by mail to DO It
now" and other equally sensible ex-
hortations. Some other equally ephem-
eral form of exchanging persifage
will be found. Also many Of the cards
verge ON the coarse and indecent The
exchange of this kind of pleasantly
Will In time seem tiresome even to
DUH minds. But the picture card IL
Illustrating scenery or points Of interest
u never likely to die out 1t has made
quite q little saving to tho trave1or
looking for souvenirs. Formerly you
had to buy photographs. to illustrate
vacation outing. for about rs cents
each. The next step was a book Of
pnotographic reproductions. that
might sell for IS to SO cents apiece.
The postcard erase has enabled peo-
pie to carry home p pretty Get of
souvenirs OF tnelr travels Tor q few
nlckels. Also tho picture cards an
peal to the modern inability to write
letters. No matter how much the 60
cial philosopher may deplore it, the
epistolary habit Il dying out A
friendship cannot be very vital IL the
only thing to keep 1t alive is q hall
dozen words Of greeting and the ex-
change Of summer resort scenery. But
the picture card habit gives q ready
relief from the labors of the pen and
the writing desk. and AZ such 1t II and
Will be popular. The postcard mes
sage seems like q pretty shabby SUBJ
stitute for the intimate story of life
lowering six or eight closely writer
pages, which your friends used to send
Iyou. Times have changed. people are
more on the move. The postcard mes
sages seem to f1t into the crevice0 Of
time left in our hurried days.-Win.
field Courier.
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they wore NO clothes at an. =
The masculine version Of today's cling
ing and petticoatless costumes Of ~
fair sex.
Az for women's fashions. tho claim
Is well sustained that certain ladies or
centuries before the Christian era
evolved everything from the Elisa
bethan run and pulled sleeves to the
eighteenth and nineteenth century
taflor-mades. xou4ve Jackets. and Tam
o. Shanter caps.
It seems evident that fashion has
no future, but only an intermittent
renaissance.
We may az yet see again on tho
streets tn frivolous symbolic hats
such az that Of a French admirafs
widow Of the late MISUNDERSTANDING.
on which billowy gauxe represented
conveyed the idea Of war fleet car
rytng a mourning flag.-New York
World.
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From Other Pens
THE LAW OF NEUTRALITY.

Under strict interpretations of the
obligations of neutrality no citizen Of
the United States can render assis-
tance to either party in a foreign bel
ligerency. 1t has been ruled In past
instances that the call Of q foreign
country for its reservists. or citixcns
liable for military duty. who may be
resident in this country without having
renowned their foreign fealty and
adopted American citizenship, is not
q violation Of the laws Of neutrality,
and that the actual recruiting and or
gantxation of such forces by the c~n-
sular or other representatives of the
foreign government are not to be in
terdicted. But the recruiting of nat
uralixed American citizens il beyond
the right Of q foreign power, and the
citizen who by en1isting il held 10 have
accepted commission from suck
power 10 also considered subject to
puntshment for violating the national
pledge of neutrality. This interrre-
tation of the law has not always been
strictly enforced. and Thousands OF
American citizens undoubtedly went
back to the Balkan war. formally en-
listing In this country In some in
stances and making no concealment Of
their purpose. But it IL reported from
Washington that the proclamation Of
neutrality, when it shall be issued. ID
likely to lay particular 0tresS on this
point. 1t has been estimated that
there are q million European reeer-
visits in the United States who have
not secured naturalization papers. with
whose course the United States cam
not interfere, while the naturalixcd
citizen whose blood still tingles with
native patriotism. may. IL he chooses.
go home and enlist. although IL he
takes such action he must forfeit all
claim upon the protection Of the
United States government as one OF
it's extraordinarily Bulletin.
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Jayhawker @Jots-

As the Lebo Star says: There are
more Of US who talk too much than
who do not talk enough.
A wise man at Jamestown gives his
wife q quarter every time she refuses
to buy of an agent. He figures tnat ne
saved $3.50 last week after the CONF
missions were paid.
One Of Fredonia's smokers has been
having hts cigars charged on the gro
Gerry account az potatoes. Recently his
wife busted herself with pencil and IA
/ per and figured out that since January
/ their family has consumed five car
loads Of potatoes.
Shafts, from Gridley Light: A mort
gage 10 an easy thing to carry. but
mighty hard to raise. Lucky -
the handsome girl who has never been
are SO busy killing time they don't get
much else done. Strange a. Il
may seem it II a lot easier to pick q
quarrel than to settle 1T. =. Some
men would 60 miles to hear poiitlcal
speech-yet would not walk a block to
Some new Slides shown by the LAnds-
borg News Vitascope: And then. per
haps, Eve thought that the apple would
be good for her complexion. And
then there ere lots of folks who try
to save for rainy day after Ga M 1t has 1 6so
tare remembering Lots wife AZ a horri-
BILE example don't forget few other
examples nearer home. -. Before
marriage a bride is the recipient Of
showers. After marriage It frequently
happens that she catches thunder.
| A Parsons colored' woman. ,accoEdine
to the Parsons Sum, Attended. funeral
| in Independence q few days ago and
when she returned she told q number
| OF her friends about her trip and the
services which were hold for the late
departed. Yes, 1t certainly was some
funeral It was the handsomest ever
went to and amt missed many since
I came to Parsons eleven years ago.
The services was beautiful. the flowers
was sublime and the preacher wore
dress suit. But the clfmaxes come aft
! er it was all over-that il, the buryin9
part. Sans wife-it was Sam that
died, you know-took' US back to the
house from the graveyard and maybe
she didn't serve q swell funeral din
ner! Never sat down to nothing finer
Yes'um, We had Chocolate ice cream
soda pop and fried chicken. And we
all said poor Sam would have sure had
fun IL he could have been at that feed
You know fried chicken always was
Sans long suit Poor Sam"
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PETER AND THE MOUNTAIN OF GoLD-PART l.
BY mrs AMLHER

timid when he realised he was q pris-
oner. but q bright light and q cherry
voice saying Come this way soon
ended his fear.
When Peter came nearer the light.
he saw 1t was lantern carried by a
little man In q funny little brown suit
with q long beard.
You were pretty hard to get here
said the little man. smiling, IT was
afraid we would have to try some 9TH
er way"
II suppose might have appeared
to be more interested" said Peter,
but you zee have to attend to nv
garden before anything, as I have to
keep it In good condition. Eu< why
asked. ~ = Come mere ne
You shall soon hear" said the 1T
tie brown man. ''but first cor:le ana
meet my br0thers.''
He led Peter along . path and
presently they came to a little village.
I say little because the housea ver,,
small. and the trees. ana Peter eaw
many little men like his con.par,ion
running toward them.
Peter wondered what all this meant
but he did not ask any more questions.
When the little men had gathered
around them Peters companion said
NOW. Peter, we have q proposi. ion ~
make to you. On the other size Of This
mountain lives q giant who sramnIe~
On ., a., III. the gardens every year and
cause just as soon ~ they get thar
vegetables growing well this xtsnt
comes down from the moun4afr ard
in single night. with his big feet he
help. o''>-
what we want ID that vou .b,ra.
80 to his cave and steal his boot. re
will not be able to walk witho,,f fhs,,,
and - there fs not enough leather In
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PAST "FUTURIST" FASHIONS
Present Sartorial Elexancies Merely
Renaissance Of Forgotten Freaks.

A cablegram from London describes
the so-called "futurist" dress which is
a rage of the hour among English
women.
One lady is described in a triple
TERED purple gown. with a tall velvet
hat like a bishops mitre. Another
wore what might have been an invert-
ed ''stovepipe" hat, with red, white.
and blue bands. young person with
a cone-shaped hat a foot high, tilted
to the back of her head. attracted at
tention. A fourth promenader sported
a hat like Christmas pudding. with
black. white. and red aigrets.
Withal f-enxied riot of shape and
color Is described. But why 'futurist.'
, when all such freakishness in dress IL
both men nd won--n followers Of fads
and fashions took part.
The steeplechase hat adorned the
Puritan heads of English common
wealth days. and cavaliers re. ,rted
with piumed and dropping hats. the ex-
IRENE having brims 80 wide that they
must be looped or rolled.
| In the time OF George II England's
dandies minced along in all the colors
OF the rainbow. and many OF them car
ried muffs of elaborate designs.
/ The bishop Of Ely in the fourteenth
in the year.
An ancient Earl Of Northumberland
boosted 60 cloth-of-gold suits.
In the time Of Chaucer men were
seen with one leg clothed in crimson
and the other In green. yellow. Of
other brilliant color.
/ A few years later came the swell II
bright green coat. with q hat scarce.
1y larger than a sixpence dottinG 4
swelling expanse of carefully curle<
hair.
i Sometimes. according to an Oh
lchronicle, the fashion leaders Of tn,
ltime-the men--'.Would wear clothes q
ltight to " skin that It might ~ vel
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EUening Chat
On Overvaluine Ones sen.
By RUTH CAMERON.

On Overvaluing Ones Self.
It has been said that the world takes
a. man at his own valuation. The OBJ
vtous moral il: tack on all the valua-
ton you think you can get away with.
That the world will sometimes take
you at your own valuation il quite
true. But 1t is equally true that over
valuation may prove a boomerang.
To pretend that we are accustomed
ue In the eyes of our acQuaintances, If
we can make them believe It to be
true. At the Same time it often has
another effect.
II should like to have had Mrs. 8.
stay a few days with US this summer
at the beach," 1 overheard a fried Of
mine say the other day. ''She has a
very nice home, I know, and she II
quite splendid in refusing to desert
her husband during the hot months
like a change. But she has everything
in her own home and we are quite
primitive here, so I'm afraid she
wouldn't be satisfied"
Now as a matter of fact. Mrs. s. is
at home retrenching this summer be-
cause her husbands business has fall
len off. She would have welcomed
ever SO gladly q chance to get away
to the seashore, and she would have
enjoyed every minute of It: For
SsA000u o1AS AAAC0 ~ "a OeGu0 uAlACE0uSe
ly, she hasn't SO much more than her
neighbors have.
To pretend that we are so impor-
tant In business that the firm we are
connected with pays W. a big salary
IL also apt to increase our value in
tho. eyes Of our acquaintances IL we
can make them believe 1t to be true.
Agadn this generalization may prove
as much OF a boomerang az 1t IL Of as
sistance.
know a young man who holda q
good position but who 10 very much
underpaid. Pride forbids him from
letting this fact be known. instead he
boasts Of the salary he says he ID get
ting. In the last year another con-
Germ was looking for an office man.
aEer at q salary he would have jumped
at. His name came up.
Hes just the man me want" said
the vice president, but T & CO.
is paying him q bigger salary than we
could possibly offer. You couldn't
touch him with ten-foot pole." So
somebody else got the job.
In both these instances q success
full attempt was made to increase ones
valuation in the eyes of the others.
And in both instances the deception
proved q boomerang.
So the moral Is not quite 10 obvious
after all.
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The late DIR. s. Weir Mitchell, during
his long years Of active work ~ .
physician and scientist and his 30
years or SO Of production a. . novelist
and poet. explored many fields. No
subject that he studied. either scien-
tific or social. is more curious than the
one he described in q little-known
paper entitled ':Of Ailurophobia and
the Power to he Conscious of the Cat
as Near, When Unseen and Unheard.''
In this paper DIR. Mitchell declares
that there are persons who have been
able to distinguish the presence Of q
cat by its smell. but cannot any longer
do so. and yet who retain ability to de-
tect unseen cats
1T is likely" he says. ''that the
cat emanations may affect the nervous
system through the nasal membrane,
although unreccgni4ed as odors. Why
these emanatiohs should. II plainly
perceived as due to cats. cause certain
symptoms in those who dread cats Il
readily understood.
The ultimate cause Of unreasonable
terror of cats cannot explain.
fury Magazine.
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PERCENTAGE IN SAVING.

One of the principal reasons why
most Americas are not thrifty is that
they haven't the habit Of reckoning
price differences and small expendi-
lures in terms OF percentage, writes
Arthur Lucas, In a bulletin issued by
the American Society for Thrift. In
the minds of most Of us our small
coins are only q nickel" 'only q
dime. "only q quarter" And OF the
saving that might be made with little
Inconvenience or extra effort on the
price Of the market unity OF any COM
modify. we think as ''only'' a few
cents.
Out Of the willingness Of Americans
to be frequently separated from small
amounts Of money. regardless Of the
necessity or he advisability Of the
expenditure, great fortunes have been
made.
Here are few simple facts that
should be carried in mind. "Only a
nickel is as much money as 1t takes
a dollar on deposit in a savings bank
paying four per cent interest, fifteen
months to earn.
"Only a dime" ID. the equivalent Of q
years savings bank interest on two
dollars and . half.
To accumulate interest equivalent to
"only a quarter" q dollar must re-
main in a savings bank six years and
three months.
A difference Of one cent on the price
of anything selling at between ten and
twenty cents IL q difference Of between
five and te,. per cent. Two cents moro
or less on the price Of an article or .
quantity selling around eighty cents
make q difference Of more than sir
per cent.
Most Of US would be glad to have
money earning six per cent for us q
whole year. But we never think OF
tho percentage OF our money that we
spend superiuously. day after day.
''It's only a few cents; what's the diff
ference?" il the careless thought. II
we think at all. In tho aggregate, per
year, the difference 10 much.
Much might be said on the great
saving that can be made through the
purchase Of various commodities in
bulk rather than ''packaged"; on the
possibility Of elimination Of the mid
dleman by individual buyers through
purchase from jobbers Of such small
units of larger quantities az are not
too large for ordinary families; on the
advisabiiity Of tuying clothing. ETC..
after the high-priced opening Of the
season, when many desirable articles
are offered at low prices because they
were marked too high In the hrst
place or because they remained on
hand in the ordinary course Of trade:
on the importanGe Of personal atteh-
ton to buying instead Of Transmission
of orders by telephone or an order
boy. People Of this country need
practical thrift teaching. They liter
ally don't care how they spend their
money" and they feel that they have
been somehow greatly wronged be-
cause they haven't a bank account, or
at least q full pocketbook. -