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(THE END.)
YEARS SUPPLY OF BABIES
Facts Compiled by Statistlclan wiz
Come to Many as Something of
a Surprise.

1t has been computed that about &c..
each year. The rate of production
is therefore about 20 per minute, or
more than one for every beat of the
clock
With the one-a-second calculation
every reader is familiar, but 1t is not
every one who stops to calculate what
this means when it comes to years
supply. II will, therefore, probably
startle a good many persons to find,
on the authority of well-known sta
tisticician, that, could the infants OF
a year be ranged in a line in cradles,
the cradles would extend around the
globe.
The same writer looks at the matter
In more picturesque light. He mag
in7s the babies being carried past a
given point in their mothers arms,
one by one, and the procession being
kept up night and day until the last
hour in the twelfth month had passed
by. A sufficiently liberal rate is al
lowed. but even In going past at the
rate of 20 a minute, 1,200 an hour,
during the entire year. the reviewer
at his post would have seen only the
sixth part of the infantile host
In other words, the babe that had
to be carried when the tramp began
would be able to walk when but a
mere fraction of its comrades had
reached the reviewers post. and when
the years supply Of babies was draw
ing to a cclose there would be a
rear guard, not of infants, but OF
romping six-year-old boys and girls
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es0Or1ETHING
/N,Wo
L,TTTLEONES
CHRISTMAS TREE FOR BIRDS
Object of Delight to Little Folks Deco
rated With Gifts of Food for
Members of Feathered Tribe.

Five members of a second reader
class in a South Dakota rural school
celebrated the first Christmas of the
Liberty Bell Bird club of the Farm
Journal, Philadelphia, by having real
Christmas tree for the birds near their
schoolhouse
The cedar tree which had been the
center of their own jolly Christmas
festival was taken out of the school
house by an older pupil while the little
folks made Christmas baskets to hang
on the tree. After this, whenever
they ate their dinners, the children
carefully placed all the crumbs left
In small baskets, which we're then
hung on the birds Christmas tree.
where the feathered guests eagerly
gathered to enjoy their feast.
This year the Christmas problem of
how TO remain sincere and cheerful
giver at this season of greatest de-
mands is to be solved By many mem
bers of the Farm Journal Liberty Bell
Bird club in a way to eliminate much
useless and unappreciated giving.
The Christmas tree which has de-
lighted the little folks in the home or
schoolhouse will not, as heretofore, be
thrown on the trash heap after it has
been stripped of it's glittering baubles.
After it has been carefully set up out
of doors in a safe and sheltered spot
the little hands which reached out so
eagerly for its gifts will now place
others upon it-garlands of bright ber-
ries, sheaves of golden grain, baskets
of suet and bread crumbs-for the little
feathered folks. A vessel of water,
free of ice, will be placed near by for
the bright-eyed visitors to drink or
battle in.
Where there is a suitable tree stand
ing near the home or school it can
easily be converted into a Christmas
tree for the birds by fastening gifts
of food to its branches.
Christmas must ever remain the cay
for the child, but instead of making
the little one selfish with surfeit of
costly toys, how much better to train
it to look upon this holiday as the spe-
cial season to give succor and protec-
ton to the helpless. At this time
every child old enough to understand
it's teachings should be enrolled as
member of the Liberty Bell Bird club
by signing the following pledge:
Il desire to become member of the
Liberty Bell Bird Club of the Farm
Journal, and l promise to study and
protect all song and insectivorous
birds and do what can for the club"
There is no cost to any child in join
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MILITARY TRAINING OF; BOYS
At the Age Of Twelve Australian Lad
Begins 70 Learn Warfare--Pen-
alties for Evasion.

Australian lads of twelve years be-
gin a more or less voluntary form of
military training. 1t Is an indulgent
happy go lucky sort of thing, designed
primarily to be of physical advantage.
writes Norman Duncan in Harpers
Magazine. When lads are fourteen
years old, limited military service is
severely compulsory, with penalties
for evasion, and fines laid upon en-
ployers and parents who interfere,
and thus continues, with physical ex-
ercises, drill parades and rifle prac-
tice, for four years, whereupon these
cadets are passed into the citizen
forces. Four whole day drills are re-
quired each year, and Il halliday
drills and "a night drills. A perfume
tory attendance upon these grave obi
gations-inapt, sullen, frivolous be-
havior-counts for nothing at all. If
the cadet fails to be marked efficient
by his battalion officers he must per-
form his service all over again In
Kalgoorlie OF western Australia
great duststorm blowing that night
we watched a column of these little
conscripts" march past with rifles and
bugles and drums; and they were
smart to see-brown uniforms, with
tricks of green, and wide-brimmed Aus
tralian hats caught up at the side in
the Australian way 1t is no farcical
affair. When we were in Brisbane of
Queensland, a score of truant young
sters were packed off to the military
barracks for ten days of close confne-
ment and drill; and away they went,
in big cape wagon, in charge of a
sergeant-major, and under escort of
some brilliant artillerymen--a melan-
choly little crew, these truants, then,
facing ten days of absence from home,
with six hours of drill on the hot pa
rade ground, under an officer who knew
how to improve the patriotism of small
culprits, and would do it with a switch.
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ELABORATE TOYS FOR CHILD
Interesting Article in Magazine on the
Medieval Boy-PIaythings Met
With Same Treatment.

In these days of elaborate toys for
children it is interesting 70 read in
Blackwood's Magazine, ia an article on
the Medieval Boy" by l.. F. CALI
mann, of present "of little gayly
painted cross-bow" to Alphonso, son
of Edward l.
"Alphonso's elder brother Henry"
continues the article, was given lit
tie cart, costing seven pence, to play
with, and also a model of a plow,
which cost four pence. Even allowing
for the difference in the value and
purchasing power of money at that
time, the four pence being equivalent
to something like five shillings, the
expense of the toys used in the royal
nursery compares favorably with the
cost OF those expected by the ordinary
modern child, as any Christmas-ridden
father or conscientious uncle will ad-
nit.
That the toys we're strongly made
we may assume, but it is clear that
they net with much the same treat
ment then as now, for it was not long
before Prince Henry's cart was broken
and required nending, at a cost of two
pence. His mug also had to be re-
paired and regilded"
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CHAPTER XXI.
"Our Beloved Brother

The services of the "Shoreville Her
add" however, were not required to
spread the news. The happiest and
proudest couple on Long Island saw
their names with the story of their
sudden accession to wealth in a great
New York daily the very next morn
ing.
tall, old gentleman with a real
BARRIERS hair cut" shining. new
high hat, a suit of "store clothes"
which fitted as if they had been made
for him, pair of fur gloves, and brand
new ten-dollar boots: and a remark
ably pretty, old lady in a violet bonnet,
long black velvet cape, with new
shoes as well as new kid gloves, and a
big silver-fox muff-this was the
couple that found the paper spread out
on the hall table at the Old Ladies
Home, with the sisters gathered
around it, peering at it, weeping over
it, laughing, both sorrowing and re-
5oicing.
This II be good-by ter Brother
Abe" Aunt Nancy had shifted when
the news came over the telephone the
day before; and though Miss Abigail
had assured her that she knew Abe
would come to see them real often. the
matriarch still failed to be consoled.
"Hain't you noticed, gals" she per-
sisted, that thar hain't been a death
in the house sence we took him in?
An missed my regular spell o. bron-
chitis last winter an this one tew-so
fur" she added dismally, and began to
cough and lay her hands against her
chest. THAT was allus the way when
was young'un," she continued after
a while; 81 never had a pet dog or cat
or even a tame chicken that it didn't
up an run erway sooner or later. This
here loss, gals. II be the death o. mel
Naow. mark my words!"
Then followed a consultation among
the younger sisters, the result of which
was that they met Abe in the morning
with unanimous petition. They could
neither ask nor expect him to remain:
that was impossible, but
Hip. hoorayi Hip. hip, hoorayl"
cried Abe, waving an imaginary flag
as he entered. "Saml dropped us at
the gate. Him an Blossy went on ter
see Holmes tew decker erbout buyin'
back the old place. Takes Blossy an
Sam1 tew dew business. They picked
out my clothes between them yist'day
afternoon deown ter Injun village, In
the Emporium. Hsow yew like EN-?
Splendid, Ell? See my yaller silk hand
kerchief, tew? We jest dropped in ter
git our things. We thought mebbe
yew'd want ter slick up the room an
git ready fer the new"
He was allowed to say no more. The
sisters. who had been kissing and hug
ging Angy one by one. now swooped
upon him. He was Rugged. too. with
warm. generous congratulation. his
hands were both shaken until they
ached. and his clothes and Angy's ST
lently admired. But no one said 6
word. for not one % the sisters was
able TO speak. Angy, thinking that
she OWNED touch o. jealousy. has
tened to throw of her wrap and dis
play the familiar old worn silk gown
beneath.
Il told Abe | jest wouldn't git q
new silk until voS each had one made
tew. Blossy sen for the samples
Blossy-"
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CHAPTER xx-continued.

His face lightened. The weight of
the shock passed. He threw of the
awe OF the glad news. He smiled the
smile Of happy child.
Naow, mother, we kin buy back
our old chair, the rocker with the red
roses onto it Seems ter me them
roses must "a knowed all the time
that this was a-goin' ter happen. They
was jest as pert an sassy that laot
day"
Angy laughed. She laughed softly
and with unutterable pride In her hus-
band
Why, father, don't yer see yew kin
buy back the old chair, an the old
place. too. an then have plenty ter
spare%
$50 we kin. mother. so we KIM" he
nodded his head, surprised He
plunged his hands into his pockets. as
II expecting to find them filed with
gold. Wonder eff Sami wouldn't lend
me a dollar or so In small change.
Ef / only had somethin' ter jingle.
mebbe / could git closer to this fac"
He drew her to him, and gave her
waist a jovial squeeze. "Hy-guy,
mother, we're rich! Haint 1t splen-
did?"
Their laughter rang out together
trembling. near-to-tears laughter. The
old place, the old chair, the old way,
Rnd-plenty! Plenty to mend the
shingles. Aye, plenty to rebuild the
house, IL they chose. Plenty with
which to win back the smiles of Angy's
garden. The dreadful dream of need,
and lack, and want, of feeding at the
hand of charity, was gone by.
Plenty! All, the goodness and great
ness Of God! Plenty! Abe wanted to
cry it out from the housetops. He
wanted all the world to hear He
wished that he might gather his wealth
together and drop it piece by piece
among the multitude. To give where
he had been given, to blossom with
with penury!
The little wife read his thoughts.
"We'll save jest enough fer ourselves
ter keep us in comfort the rest of our
lives an bury us decent"
They we're quiet long while, both
sitting with bowed heads as If in
prayer; but presently Angy raised her
face with an exclamation of dismay:
Don't it beat all. that it happened
Jest tew late ter git in this weeks
sShoreyiIle Herald"
"Tew late?" exclaimed the new
fiedged capitalist. Thar hain't nothin'
tew late fer a man with money Well
hire the editor tew git out another pa
per, fust thing termorrer!"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-01-12
PRESENT FOR LITTLE GIRLS
Make Dolls Blanket for Your Sister
or Notwithstanding to Keep
Little Misses Busy

How would you like to make dolls
blanket for your little sister, or for a
present to any little girl? This is the
way. You will need red and white
wool and pair of knitting needles.
Cast on AZ stitches, knit ten rows
plain, knitting with the white wool.
Join the red and knit four rows, then
with white knit four rows, four rows
red, four rows white, four rows red
again. Now knit the center of the
blanket as long as required, and finish
by knitting colored wool to match the
commencement. For the border one
double crochet into the blanket, using
the red wool, enc treble into the next
stitch but one of blanket, three chain,
one treble into the same place, three
chain, one treble into the same stitch,
three chain, one treble into the same
stitch, miss two stitches, and repeat
from the beginning. Repeat this lit
tie edge all round, at the corners put
six trebles with three chain between.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-01-12
IF HAIR Is TURNING
GRAY, USE SAGE TEA
Recipe to Darken and Beautlfy
Gray, Faded, Lifeless Hair.

Grandmother kept her hair beauti-
fully darkened, glossy and abundant
with brew of Sage Tea and Sulphur.
Whenever her hair fell out or took on
that dull, faded or streaked appear
ance, this simple mixture was applied
with wonderful effect. BY asking at
any drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and
Sulphur Hair Remedy" you will get g
large bottle of this old-time recipe.
ready to use, for about 80 cents. This
simple mixture can be depended upon
to restore natural color and beauty
to the hair and is splendid for dam
druff, dry, itchy scalp and falling hair.
A well-known druggist says every
body uses Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur,
because it darkens so naturally and
evenly that nobody can tell 1t has been
applied-it's so easy to use, too. You
simply dampen a comb or soft brush
and draw it through your hair, taking
one strand at time BY morning
the gray hair disappears; after am
other application or two. 1t is re-
stored to its natural. color and looks
glossy. soft and abundant. Adv.
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go into the watched
at
bar Five the
spot for such gathering
The half passed all
dd milling obbies their
They had left
politicians
casters for Missouri statesmen a generation
AS the general counsel his
Times certainly changedeVen
They Bareycorn still has his politicians
the visiting lists
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HOW SHE GOT HIM LANDED
As an Example of Really Clever Man
lpulation This Is Surely Hard
to Beat

OF course, when she stopped in front
of the jewelers. window. he had to
stop, too 1t would hardly have been
polite to walk on and leave her there.
20, see the tray full of lovely dia-
monds rings!" she crowed
YES" he admitted.
They're engagement ringsl"
Shouldn't be surprised" he replied.
But come on, we've seen them now.
you know"
They're the gorgeousest engage
ment rings!" she sighed "The dia-
monds look diamond colored now. but
when you put them on your finger
they're a bright pink"
"Peruke, l hardly believe that" he
rebuked.
They do! They do! Come and I'll
show you" And she dragged him In
to the shop and had the jeweler bring
the rings in out Of the window. Now
slip one on my finger and wen see,"
she pouted, and held out the danger
GUS finger of her left hand, and, with
considerable curiosity, he slipped a
ring on it.
"Sigourd!" she exclaimed happily.
This is so SUDDEN"
"Peruke!" he cried.-Detroit Free
Press.
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"All needs shroud." interrupted
Aunt Nancy grin ~.
Angy and Abe both stared at her.
She did look gray this morning. She
did seem feeble and her cough did
sound hollow. The other sisters
glanced also at Aunt Nancy, and Sarah
Jane took her hand, while she nudged
Mrs. Homan with her free elbow and
Mrs. Homan nudged Ruby Lee and
Ruby Lee glanced at Lazy Daisy
and Lazy Daisy drawled out mean
ingly:
Miss Abigail"
Then Miss Abigail, twisting the
edge of her apron nervously. spoke:
Much Obliged to you be in behalf
o all the sisters, Brother Abe an ter
Angy tew. We know yew'H treat US
right. We know that yew," resting
her eyes on Abe's face, will prove ter
be the angel unawares' that we been
entertainin', but we don't want yew ter
waste yer money on CARLOAD G silk
dresses. All we ask o. yew is Jest
enough tew allow US ter advertise fer
another brother member ter take yer
place"
Who could describe the expression
that mashed across Abe's face?-hurt
establishment, wounded pride. jealous
incomprehension.
Ter take my place!" he glanced
about the hall defiantly. Who dared
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to enter there and take his place ?-his
placel
This is old ladies' home" he pro-
tested. What right you got a-takin'
in a good-fer-nuthin' old man? Mebbe
he'd rob yew er kill yew! When men
git ter rampagin'. yew can't tell what
they might dew
Sarah Jane nodded her head know
ingly, as if to exclaim:
Il told yer sol"
But Miss Abigail hurriedly ex-
planned that it was man and wife
that they wanted She blushed as she
added that of course they would not
take a man without his wife.
No, indeed! That'd be highly i'm
proper" smirked Ruby Lee.
Then Abe went stamping to the
stairway, saying sullenly:
All right. I'll give yew all the
money yew want fer advertiser, an
yew kin say he'll be clothed an
dressed proper, tew, an supplied with
terbaccer an readin' matter besides;
but jest wait till the directors read
that advertisement! They had me
here sorter pertendin' ter be unbe-
knownst Come on. Angy. Let's go
upstairs an git our things. Let's"
Aunt Nancy half arose from her
chair, resting her two shaking hands
on the arms of it.
Brother Abe" she called quaver-
ingly after the couple, 81 guess yew
kin afford ter fix up any objections o.
the directors"
Angy pressed her husbands arm as
she Joined him in the upper hall
Don't you see, Abe. They don't
realize that that poor old gentleman.
whoever he may be, won't be yew.
They jest know that yew was yew; an
they want ter git another jest as near
like yew as they kin"
Abe grunted, yet nevertheless went
halfway down stairs again to call
more graciously to the sisters that he
would give them a reference any time
for knowing how to treat a man just
right.
That Teller II be lucky, gals" he
added in tremulous tones. 81 hope
he'll appreciate yew as 1 alters done"
Then Abe went to Join Angy in the
room which the sisters had given to
him that bitter day when the cry OF
his heart had been very like unto:
''Eloi, Eloi. lama sabachthanii"
After all. what was there of his and
Angy's here? Their garments they did
not need now. They would leave them
behind for the other old couple that
was TO come. There was nothing else
but some simple gifts. He took up q
pair of red wristlets that Mrs. Holman
had knit, and tucked them in his new
overcoat pocket He also took Abb
CALLS bottle of Jockey Club" which
he had despised so q few days ago, and
tucked that in his watch pocket When
he bought himself a watch. he would
buy a new clock flor the dining-room
down stairs, too-a clock with no such
asthmatic strike as the present one
possessed. All his personal belongings
every one of them gifts-he found
room for in his pockets Angy had
even less than ne. Yet they had corae
practically with nothing-and com.
pared with that nothing, what they
carried now seemed much. Angy hest
tated over the pillow-shams. Did they
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'CASCARETS' ACT
ON LIVER; BOWELS
No sick headache, biIiousness,
bad taste or constipation
by morning.
Get a 1o-cent box.

Are you keeping your bowels, liver.
and stomach clean, pure and fresh
with Cascarets, or merely forcing a
passageway every few days with
Salts. Cathartic Pills. Caster Oil or
Purgative Waters?
Stop having a bowel wash-day. Let
Cascarets thoroughly cleanse and reg
ulate the stomach, remove the sour
and fermenting food and foul gases,
take the excess bile from the liver
and carry out of the system all the
constipated waste matter and poisons
in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will make you
feel great by morning. They work
while you sleep-never grippe. sicken
or cause any inconvenience, and cost
only 10 cents box from your store.
Millions of men and women take a
Cascaret now and then and rover
have Headache, Biliousness, Coated
Tongue, Indigestion, Sour Stomach or
Constipation. Adv.
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The unhistoric Acts.

Her full nature. Ike the river OF
which Alexander broke the strength,
spent itself in channels which had no
great name on the earth. But the eff
feet of her being on those around
her was intellectually diffusive: for the
growing good OF the world is partly
dependent on unhistoric acts; and
that things are not so i'll with you and
me as they might have been, is half
owing to the number who lived faith
fully a hidden life, and rest in un-
visited tombs.-George Eliot.
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number Tech and Harvard
land Conservatory Music already attending counting
Mrs Jenness Give people a
believe
be fitting
I'VE have introduced
come to the chocolate gatherings bring a
courtship
number being original
Methodist
Street district
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scientific
he buys for his made with milk the best
nourshment
will him
400 children
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holds title to the west sidewalks by
consist of the loss of
The other morning
had just given his daily rke
streets The loss of the
Bonkys
FINLEY edged his through the swinging
wooden his
opportunity
Others aligned themselves
minutes
When the police arrived
artificial limbs roller
on his chest bearing the inscription m
nothin, n he said
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Bash Wish Renrstted.

Once when Strickland Gillian was
lecturing at the home Of "Tama Jim"
Wilson (Tama, la the afternoon was
dark in the big Chautauqua pavilion,
and the speaker was in almost total
eclipse.
"Taffy" Sears, a fellow-lecturer,
standing near the back of the build
ing, heard woman whisper:
My! l wish they'd turn on the foot
lights so we could see his facet"
Pretty soon the lights flashed up,
she caught a good look at the home
ly and expressionless mug of him, and
she exclaimed far more fervently:
My! l wish they'd turn out those
footlightsi Judge.
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AERIAL TOY QUITE AMUSING
Whirls Into Space When the Wire
Holder Is Rotated-Any Handy
Boy Can Construct One.

A simple aerial toy that any boy
can make for himself has been pat
ented by an Illinois man. Take a
piece of stout cardboard and cut out
of 1t propeller shaped like that In
the illustration. Bend the outward
end of the propeller In different direc-
lions, slightly. Not up or down from
its horizontal plant, but tip each
little to one side. Take piece of wire
and bend triangular portion at the
top. Cut slot through the center of
the propeller and thrust the point of
the triangle through the slot. Then
hold the lower end of the wire be-
tween the palms and cause it to rotate