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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-13
CHAPTER XYIII.

Lady w!mberley is offering R5OoO re-
ward" said Lord Arthur Meriet. You
had better have the bills made out at
once-with portrait OF the boy-and full
description"
Five thousand pounds. sir2" said the
inspector. That's big sum-"
Yes, and you'd better try and earn It.
I suppose you have no news2"
Nothing fresh, sir; but now the mat
ters has got into the papers and they're
taking 1t up. so to speak, expect all Eng
land will be on the lookout for him. Some
bit of news is bound to turn up
"Oh. yes. 1 know the sort OF thing
thousands of letters saying the boy has
been SEEN"
Tho Inspector smiled and looked out OF
tho library window across the lawns of
Monksilver. A week had passed since Guy
Wimberley had disappeared, and nothing
whatever had been heard OF him. Ver-
tigan and Dick Meriet had been shad-
owed, but they had behaved like per-
fectly innocent people. ana nothing In
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-13
PRIZES OFFERED DAILY

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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-13
Clever Idea.

II you arc caught in shower and
your hat gets wet. take 1t on and turn
it upside down to dry. The trimming
will not be so apt to sag.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-13
Your Creased Gown

Dresses that have been laid away in
drawers for some time often become
very creased. Hang them in front Of
tho fire for a while. and the creaHes
will disappear.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-13

The Editor readers Of the EVENING LEDGE
o, dau ,zes for original suggestions These
deal ,th ann subject and include
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-13

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The daily Alaskan., 1915-04-27
REINDEER HERDS
 BECOME IAIMi!&Si3

The following is q summary Ji the statistics of the reindeer B. dustry maintained by the bureau ui education in the northwest district, which covers the region from Not- ton bay to Point barrow, says the Nome Nugget.
 In this district there are %1 herds, 24 of which are on the Sc ward Peninsula.
 The total number Of reindeer ih the northwest district number B. 326, of which 17,O0V are on tae Seward peninsula. These are dis tributed as follows: Seven hun dred and twenty-five natives own 25,9OO reindeer, and the goVernmcn missions and Lapps own 6,426. The number of marketable male deer now number 4,20O. The years bearing fawns, is 72 per cent.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-04-27
WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME

At best, the bachelor is q pathetic object. Imagine forty of nim, alone in the wild5 Of British C,l- umbia, unpatched, buttonless, cCoN- less, housekeeperless. and utterly forlorn. Forty freLluI bachelors, marooned by femmtnity in the beau- titul valley of the FrazeF river their "heart-searching appeal" came finally to the New York Ev- en!ng Post, and thence to the front page of the paper. It follows, ye.- batim:
 Mir Editor
 Dear Sir
 Would you Kindly Allow me spa:e for Those few Lines there are About 40 of Us Americans Settled along the Frazer River in this Belu~ tiful valley & we are mostly All Ratchelors 6 for that Reason we take This opportunity with your Kindness to try To form all Ac- qraintarce with Some young La dies maids or windows that Really Wishes to Get married 6 as OFT ages vareys from 2C to 40 yrs there will Be A Chance for all of them & If there are any Working Girls maids or widows that would Like to Correspond with US Address Mike Drobot Box S2 Mcbride, British Columbia Canada X they will find out That it is not So hard to Get A Good Husband As We All want to get Married & thero are no wemon out here yet As It is A new CoVn- try Hoping you will Give this notc your Kindest Consideration & wish ing All unclesams Children Good Luck We Remain
 Resp yours
 A LonIy Bunch of Batchelo!s
The daily Alaskan., 1915-04-27
DANCE TONIGHT!

You will enjoy dancing tonight and every night if "PUROLA" Floor Wax Is used. It is granular, sifts and produces no dust. A good floor doubles the pleasure of dancing and makes the feet light. Try 1t today 25c and soc cans Specify "PUR- OLAF" Sold by Keller Bros. Drug Co.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-04-27
THE LAW UPHELD

The manufacturers of the "PURD OLA' line of Household Remedies and Toilet Preparations are in full accord with the PurS Food Laws. Besides this their preparations ara sold under an iron-clad guarantee Once used, you will use nc other. Your druggist will supply you. Spect fy "PUROLA!" Sold by Keller Bros. Drug Co.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-04-27

Wanted salesmen to sell cigars cigarettes, and tobacco to dealers Experience unnecessary. Weekly sal ary and S5 a day travel'ng eZpens- es. EASTERN TOBACCO CO.,, Bos- ton. Mass.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-04-27
KODAK YEAR BOOK FREE

All kodakers are invited to call at Keller Bros. and receive the new kodak year book. 4-21-3t.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-04-27

FOR SALE-Two incubators. Ap- ply at Portland House. 4-20-1w.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-05

OF course nobody would be sur
prised to hear that Tommy Title
mouse had a fright-he was al
ways getting frights! If the laundress
house cat meowed by the cellar stairs,
if the big dog growled unexpectedly,
Tiff anything happened Tommy Tit
tle-mouse was frightened!
But this particular fright was a bit
different. For one thing, it was his
first fright after he decided to move
out to the garden to live. Then, too,
it was the first fright he ever had that
turned out pleasantly and taught him
something So you see, it was fright
quite worth hearing about.
After his talk with his attic cousin
and his decision to move into the gar
den where there was better prospect of
food than in the cellar, he lost no time
moving. In fact his moving wasn't
very complicated. He simply hunted
up his little mate (who by the way
was more timid than Tommy; ex-
planned to her what he meant to do;
and together they went slyly up the
outside cellar stairs.
But finding just the safest place to
call their home was no such easy mat
ter. The garden was quite unlike the
cellar, TommyTittle- mouse discov-
cred; and, while he liked what he saw
very much, he hardly knew where to
suggested to his mate, I'VE might
hide there IN that tall grass. Then
we can look around in quiet and safe
ty and determine where we should go
and what we should do
Mrs. Tittle-mouse thought that
good idea, SO together they slipped
hastily over TO the tall grass and snug
gled down tight to the ground.
Hardly had they got their breath
from their quick run, when there was
a loud call over their heads. Did
Did! Did She did." the voice said.
Dear me- exclaimed Tommy in
great distress, what have you been
doing now?"
Up" asked Mrs. Tommy. 81 haven't
done a thing!
Did. Did! Did, repeated the voice,
''she-didi"
You must have done something"
whispered Tommy, his knees shaking
with fright, you must have done
something DREADFUL
But 1 didn't do one thingi' ex
claimed poor little Mrs. Tommy, shak-
ingly. Il never do,' And indeed that
was true; she was so timid that Tom
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-05
EU ening Chat
A Coward's Weapon.
BY RUTH CAMERON.


It is as easy to laugh as to cry, says
the optimist cheerfully. Quite true.
And sometimes it's easier, nay more,
sometimes it's altogether too easy.
Ridicule is a weapon which not one
person in hundred knows how to
handle fairly, wisely and with proper
restraint. And yet it lies ready to the
hand Of the most unjust, the most
prejudiced, the most uncontrolled.
If it were as easy to make people
think as it is to make them laugh
the millennium would be about a mil
lion years nearer.
Not long ago I attended mass
meeting in favor of a certain reform
with a woman who does not believe
in the cause. She has a rather caus-
tic wit and she turned it against every
speaker and every incident of the
evening. She soon had the people
about her in the mood for seeing the
ridiculous i'm the most commonplace
thing. The serious side of the meet
ing was entirely forgotten, a spirit of
mockery and ridicule crowded it out
I do not call that fair or just. The
woman is clever but she could find a
better use for her cleverness than
that. Hadn't she perfect right to
see the funny side of the thing, you
may ask. Yes. a right in one sense.
what Phillips Brooks said. I'VE don't
have a right to all our rights" The
right to try to make a sane serious
movement seem ridiculous is emphati-
cally one of the rights we don't have
a right to.
Ridicule is all too often the weapon
of cowardice and injustice.
If 1 were absolutely INSCRIPTIONS
and l wanted to fight some good man
or some high cause 1 would not try
to blacken the mans character or
prove the cause wrong. I'd just try
to make the man or the cause ridicu-
lous. That would be a much safer
and surer way of accomplishing my
purpose. If the truth were known,
think we should find that ridicule
makes more backsliders in any great
cause than persecution. 1t is easier to
be martyr than a laughing stock.
One reason why people like to join
in ridiculing anything is simply that
they like to laugh. Another quite as
potent is that the attitude of derision
gives them a false sense of superiority.
that you are any cleverer, any wiser,
any wittier than he. 1t probably proves
that he is in earnest about something
and you aren't.
1t is the American habit to exaH
the sense of humor. That's all right
But remember, a sense of humor and
the habit of ridicule are not the same
thing. A sense of humor that gives
us the grace to see our own absurdi-
ties and the funny side of our daily
annoyances and to laugh with tolerant
tender mirth at the foibles of our
friends is one thing; habit of ridicule
that makes US always ready with
derisive sheer is quite another.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-05
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

1From the Philadelphia Record.1
When fellow is short we are apt
to say, so long"
Lovers quarrels and crazy quilts
are generally patched up.
Some men are celebrated and 9TH
ers never get beyond celebrating.
Second thoughts are best; but does
that make them second best thoughts?
Some people can't even play on our
sympathfes without striking a dis
cordant note.
A man can sometimes gain his point
almost as easily with logic as a wo-
man can with tears.
The cloak model must have a good
shape, but even she isn't always en-
gagged at her own figure.
There is more than the mere differ
ence of one letter between running up
a hill and running up bill.
What a cinch it would be for the
oculist if he could have as patients all
faults.
He-"You are the sunshine Of my
life" Shelves? % He-'You reign in
this, a proposal or a weather report?"
Discretion is the better part of
valor," quoted the Wise Guy. II sup
pose that is why some people prefer
to do their fighting over the tele-
phone" suggested the Simple Mug.
Tommy-"Pop, what is the differ
ence between liberty and license ?"
Tommy's Pop-'Don't ask me, my
son. Ask man who has taken out
his marriage license at a more recent
date than L got mine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-05
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCEIsoN GLOBE.

A boys notion of disgrace is to be
mistaken for girl.
Probably the man to be most pitied
is he who talks in his sleep.
Every man can be in line for pro-
motion in this country If he wants to
be.
If woman hasn't good grounds
for a divorce she can soon study up
some.
There may not be a black sheep in
your family, but there probably Is a
bonehead.
Live in any town thirty years and
you recall when all its rich people
were poor.
One may judge many a town man
by the manner in which his grass
goes to seed.
1t is well to be careful, but If you
argue too much about a penny you
will lose a dollar.
A real man is polite. agreeable and
on the square, but won't apologize
for every little thing.
Time probably will never solve this
question: Which is the worst, a sore
head or a swell head?
Enthusiasm for exercise depends
largely upon whether you are
handling a ball bat or a lawn mower.
1t is the notion of a henpecked man
that intensive agriculture in this
country is largely devoted to raising a
fern.
One of the problems in the Lone
some Land of boyhood is how a boy
manages to avert starvation on three
meals a day.
We admire the bully to this extent:
He doesn't go about trying to con-
vince the public that someone else
started the row.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-05
POINTED PARAGRAPH
From the Chicago News. ]


Every man is a hero-in his mind.
1t is easy for a man to be popular if
he is easy.
bluff is usually more of a neces-
sity than luxury.
The man who really knows himself
doesn't tell all he knows
The bouquets you throw at yourself
may turn into boomerangs.
People who suffer in silence always
like to boast about it later.
Life is mostly a joke to the girl
with dimples and perfect teeth.
Did any one else ever tell you that
your troubles were of any consequence :?
How we do love an idle person who
comes along and bothers us when we
are busy?
Some men are such clever liars that
they can even explain to the satisfac-
ton of their wives where they have
been.
To an engaged couple welded life
appears to be all sunshine-but to. a
husband and wife it looks suspiciously
like moonshine at times.
The average wife can discount an
experienced lawyer when it comes to
cross-questioning her husband when
he returns home about p m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-05

Wayland came to the steps to greet
the slender girl in gray. She held the
gloved hands of June Rose and
scanned her with round, inquiring
eyes.
For PHYS sake, June, what have
you done to yourself?" she gasped.
You are a perfect fright
Thanks" murmured June, and in
an aside she Missed at the giggling
Daisy, You little beast
Archer Wayland wandered off to
his hammock and book and pipe. But
the hammock had lost its charm, the
book was dull and his pipe would not
draw.
'Drat the womenv' he muttered
L believe I'll send myself a telegram
to come back to town. But her eyes
were certainly good. But a girl with
red hair must have some temper"
So at o'clock Archer was over
1oyed totake advantage of a special
oeHVery letter that OPPORTUNITY came
TO MIN and went up to town without
again meeting Miss June Rose.
A week later he went back to West
lawn, firm in the belief that the dis
agreeable young woman had depart
eo. his arrival was greeted with de-
light by Mrs Wayland.
DO go and find Daisy she urged.
Sne is picking roses for the dinner
table; she will have a basketful and
she map need help
Archer went whistling down the
path to the rose garden, which was
secluded within a high privet hedge.
mere was no sign of Daisy's boyish
form and golden head, but the rose
garden was not untenanted
young woman was sitting on a
marble bench drying her hair in the
warmth of the June sunshine. Archer
couId not see her face, for her back
was turned to him, but he knew that
the ripping glory of tawny hair did
not belong to his niece.
suddenly pair of white dimpled hands
A pebble crunched under Archer's foot
ana the woman turned her face to him
heart .shaped face of creamy white
1 hi5n a rem dark brows and jet black
ed wide in startled wonderment Scarlet
ups with d1mples at the corners and flash
ing whlte teeth that disappeared as the
ened into the prim lines of Miss Jnne
Roses mouth. Ao
Its no use" said Archer deliberately.
I've seen how you can look-and you
heednt masquerade any longer"
Framed in the waving meshes of her hair
ner race was 1ndescribably lovely. Wave
after wave of pink flushed the white skin
ana ner wonderful eyes grew almost black
- 1T was al Daisys doing." she murmur-
''Oh, Daisy doesn't matter" said Daisy,s
uncle cruelty: Il ran away from you, for
no matter what reason, and 1 came back
because l simply knew that a girl named
month-and may we begin our acquaint-
ance all over again ~
June flushed under his ardent glance
Why begin over again?" she asked de-
murely. Il think we've made a very good
beginning "'-(Copyright, 1915, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-05
SPIRIT OF THE PAN-AMERICAN
CONGRESS

1t was not expected that in four or
five days these delegates from Latin
America and the United States could
consider all the questions presented,
solve them and outline a definite plan
of procedure, writes Arthur Wallace
Dunn in an article in the American
Review of Reviews for June, entitled
'Pan-American Financial Congress-"
The conference did show, however,
desire and determination to bring
about closer commercial relations and
the establishment of facilities which
will make such a result possible. The
interest the delegates showed, and the
earnestness of their purpose, promise
conference.
delegates to different cities in the
eastern part of the United States gave
them an opportunity to see a portion
of the country, the character and size
of our cities, large manufa curing
plants. and, what was more important
they could learn from personal con-
tact and conversat ion that our people
have a real interest in our neighbors
on this continent.
As the European war, interrupting
commerce and finance. made = move
ment such as the financial conference
necessary, so that same war has
drawn the peoples of all America into
closer relations, made them feel a de-
tendency upon each other in COM
mercial and international relation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-05

lack of popular support for the peace
movement in this country. There is a
well-grounded suspicion that it has
been over-ca pitalized, and that it is
being over-argued. In spite of its able
promoters and it's eloquent advocates,
it has not greatly stirred the popular
heart. 1t has yet to enter the
straight gate" and the narrow way"
through which all the great reform
movements of history have passed
When the nations are willing to make
sacrifices for peace in any degree
commensurate with those which are
made for war, we shall have peace. Is
it reasonable to suppose that we shall
have it on easier conditions? But this
means at least the readjustment OF
many existing rights concessions in
respect to trade and commerce, the re-
straint of racial pride,-in a word, 1t
means sacrifice. Disarmament would
be futile if the occasions and IN
centives of war were to remain in
force.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-05
Jayhawker lots

Among those present at Lyons is a
man with the unusual surname of
Boop.
1t is said, repeats the Atchison
Weekly Globe, that an Atchison man is
so Stingy that he once paid penny
for infant cucumber on a vine and
then asked the gardeners permission
to leave the cucumber on the vine for
three weeks.
A Great Bend girl was making the
assertion that she would like to live
by herself and never be bothered by
anyone, tells the Great Bend Tribune,
when a railroad mans wife told her
how to have her wish come true.
''Just marry a railroad man." she
said.
Traction engines seem to be all the
go now, reports the Morton County
Pioneer. There were six in town one
day last week, and there are probably
a dozen, large and small operating in
different parts of the county, running
day and night, and blowing from Is
to 40 acres a day.
A funny thing comes from Leaven-
worn, says the Lawrence Gazette. They
are kicking up there on their water
supply. Does this prove that Mr..
Brewster has accomplished what he
started out to do, and that there is
nothing left in Leavenworth that can
be used as a beverage but water?
The towns in our state today that
are prosperous, rightly says the Hor-
ton Headlight, are the ones that have
donated literally to enterprises which
employ labor. Thus it is and always
will be that the liberal and broad
gagged town will thrive while the
tight-fisted ones are struggling for the
necessities of life.
Related by the Pratt Union: A son
of Erin once described his first days
shooting in the following way: The
first bird I ever shot was a squirrel,
and the first time I hit him L miss
ed him altogether, and the next time I
hit him 1 nit him in the same place.
After that took a stone and dropped
him from the tree, and he fell into the
water and was drowned, and that was
the first bird ever shot!"
Monday there were a variety of
styles to be seen on the streets, writes
a contributor to the columns of the
Pratt Union. Two men were talking
and one wore an overcoat and cap,
while the other was in his shirt sleeves
and the sleeves rolled up. Two ladies
walking together, one wore a jacket
and hat, the other bare-headed and
her garments so thin and scarce that
well, the sun was shining.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-05
PRETTY SEVERE PUNISHMENT.

1t would appear to approach pretty
serious business for the school author
tiles to nullify a full semester's work
of four high school boys as punish
ment for their participation in SEEM
ingly innocent prank, and one that as
suredly would have been without harm
to anyone had a janitor not assumed
the offensive. And since when has it
been the function of a school janitor
to discharge the role of disciplinarian?
Rowdyism on the part of school boys
should not be tolerated, of course. 1t
is true, also, that school boys forget
themselves and transcend the proprie-
ties. But there is a considerable gulf
between rowdyiSm and fun-making,
and the reins should not be drawn on
the boys too tightly. Youth will be
served. Moreover, one of the rules OF
life is that the d-blooded playboy,
the mischievous lad, if you please, is
usually of the more wholesome, the
more substantial variety. He general
ly reaches the high places in the years
that follow the school days. And it
will probably strike most folk that the
disgrace of expulsion from school with
the consequent loss of a whole semes-
ter'S credits is an unnecessarily severe
penalty to impose on the high school
boys who loosened some toy balloons,
of their class colors, at the senior class
days exercises, and whose act would
have resulted in nothing but little
chagrin for the members of the rival
class, if the diminutive gas bags had
been permitted to ascend in peace, and
without janitorial interference.