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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-29
January Clearing
Sale of Flannels

Plain color outing flannel,
27-inch, in white, pink, light
blue, red, navy and tan, per
yard-9c-
Outing Flannel, 27-inch,
good weight, hite, JInuary
Clearing Price, yard Sc.
Outing 81. mel, 36-inch,
bleached. = vard-1Oc.
Outing y, unbleached,
27-inCh, ary Clearing
Price, per &c.
Outing FL eel, unbleached,
30-inch, ext-a heavy weight,
per yard-11c.
Canton Flannels, good quail
tiles al the prices, special in
this sale, bleached. "a in, per
yard-41ac.
27-inch, bleachei-9c and
12lac.
Unbleached, 24-inch-6c.
Unbleached, 27-inch, per
yd., 71ac and Slac.
Outing Flannels, great as
Sortment of new checks, plaidS
and stripes, in light and dark
colorS, 27-inch, sale price, per
yd.-Sc.
Eiderdown, white, gray and
blue, per yd.-39c.
New and handsome floral
patterns in best KimonO Flan-
nelS. light and dark colorS, per
yard-14c.
Dress Ginghams, many
styles, foc grade, per yd.-Sc.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-29
at $14.75

In this lot We show the wild
est assortment OF STYLES. You'll
find it comparatively easy 10
buy a coat for there are lovely
new velourS, brOajclOth. cord
urOyS, chinchillaS, plush, finest
mixtures and other materials
in all the wanted shades. every
new and novel idea is 10 be
seen. Some with fur collar
trimmings and cuffs an1 fancy
satin iningS.
Any Coat in the Store.
S14.75.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-29
JANUARY CLEARING SALE CHINAWARE

Salad Dishes, good aSSort-
ment, various decorations,
regular 4oc kind-3Sc.
Mixing Bowls, brown and
white lined, freproOf pottery;
o, ! and s inch, set 81 3 for
29c.
8-inch JardiniereS-3Oc.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-29
Steering Sleds

Just received a shipment of
those we'll made, easy running
SledS, same kind that proved
so popular before Xmas, all
sizes. al our same low prices,
79c, csc, S1.49, S2.49
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-29

Berry Sets, neat decoration,
7-piece set, regular 69c value
Handsome Vases, various
shapes and decorations in art
pottery, regular CSC values
49c.
Regular Sf.25 SteinS-63c.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-29

ANY Coat in the Store up 10
$500 Values
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-04-08
A Successful hoax.

One of the most successful hoaxes
of history was the mechanical chess
player with which Baron K~empeIen
Of Hungary astonished Europe
about the year 1869. This "a APP
psrently a figure controlled by me
chanical devices and which was able,
Notwithstanding the fact that ap-
parently no intelligence was con
cerned in its movements and de-
cisions, generally to beat its human
antagonists. The cabinet connected
with the automaton appeared en-
tirely too small to contain a hidden
operator. And yet it did conceal q
man, a Polish patriot, who had lost
both of his legs. This man, Wo-
ronsky by name, was an expert play
er. With him hidden in the cabinet
the rest of the scheme was easy.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-04-08
The Count at Home.

EYES," remarked the returned
tourist, with a reminiscent smile, 81
was continually humping into old
friends and acquaintance while
abroad. Went into a fashionable
barber shop in the Rue de st. Ge-
rard, in Paris, and whom do you
suppose l met there?"
ooh, I'm no good at guessing"
said his friend. "Who was it?"
"The Count of Pompadour, who
cut such a swell at Newport a year
OF so ago."
"Let's see-you and the count
didn't mix very well at Newport.
Did he condescend to speak,"
"He certainly did. The moment
| entered the tonsorial p%arlors he
smiled and said, Monsieur il
aeItp"-Judge.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-04-08
A BUDGET OF PUNS.
Some Glover Repartee In the Form of
Plays on Words.

Although puns from the begin
ming of time have been in bad odor
among the elite of mirth makers,
some of the cleyerest repartee, new
ertheless, has been in the form of
puns.
Here ire two puns made by chill
dren with a quickness quite remark
able. A small boy, who had a sister
engaged TO a Mr.. Tatum, wished
one evening to ask a service of her.
Its no use, though" he said; "she
just spends all her time tete-a-Ta-
tum."
He vas no quicker than a girl Of
the same age, a sister of the late
Smith Romans. He, as a lad home
from boarding school, offended her
taste in some small way, and she
demonstrated. ''They all do it in
school," he answered, "and when
you're in Rome you must do as the
Romans do" Eyes" she answered
like a fash, "but when you're at
home you must do as the Romans
do"
AS quick was the man who was
invited to take a dip into the ocean
because the water was as "fne as
silk" and replied, "You can't make
"A silk purse out Of a souse here"
Still another was a man of New
jersey, who was trying to take a
sleigh ride through melting snow
that was chiefly red Jersey mud,
and murmured sadly, "At last | un-
derstand Fmerson's cryptic line,
When the red slayer thinks he
Stays"
A trife less spontaneous was the
man who said that the modern Ital-
ian version of the old Latin tempus
fugit should read 'The day)goes."
But there was no premeditation
in the woman who, when she was
asked how she liked the New York
public library, answered at once,
"You must read between the lines"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-04-08

(liOns).
Some men like Horne Tooke will
joke at the point of death. \ man
so i'll that his doctor kept him fiat
on his back and allowed him only
the nourishment that could be TAX
en- through a glass tube, kept his
humor. II might be called a victim
of tubercular consumption" he
whispered to his nurse. He got
well.
No recitation of wit in pun form
could be complete without the two
that are world known-one by an
Englishman who promised a pun on
any subject offered him. He was
given the Latin gerund, and i'm
msdiately wrote:
When Dido found
That Aeneas didn't come,
She wept in silence
And was Di do DUN.
Apt as is this verse, the second is
quite as good. 1t was, | think, a
woman who was given Henry Ward
Beecher as a subject for a pun. Her
poem read:
\ very iIlustrious preacher
Called the hen a wonderful creature.
The hen, upon that,
Laid An egg in his hat,
And thus did the hen reward Beecher.
New York Tribune.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-04-08
POSTAL SAVINGS BANK.
Now Uncle Sam Handles the Deposits
and Pays Interest.

1t is a strange and perfectly usual
experience that the postal savings
stations have had in this country.
They have drawn from hosrders
many millions of d~ollars. most Of
which had never seer a bank before.
and this because the government
stands behind the postal savings.
Now, the government doesn't
store the money of the postal de-
posltors III a strong vault. If it
did the 2 per cent interest paid
couldn't he earned. In place of
storing the postal depositor's none
the government deposits it in APP
proved banks-a great number of
them-which pay the government
interest at the rate of pa per cent.
1t turns out that the government
thinks better of the banks than
most savings depositOrs do.
Now, in what way does the gov
eminent protect the deposits Of its
patrons? This is its plan; The gov
eminent requires the banks that
take deposits of postal savings to
deposit with the United States
treasury approved bonds to secure
the deposits. For each $1,000 gov
eminent bond deposited the bank
may receive $1,000 in savings de-
posts, and for each $1,000 munich
pal bond approved by the govern
ment the bank may receive $3.50 Of
savings deposits.
So the banks buy bonds which
yield from 2.21 10 $50 on their cost.
These they put up to secure postal
savings on which they pay the gov
eminent interest at the rate of pa
per cent. Suppose a bank buys a
certain approved bond yielding )
per cent on par for $3.50, its actual
yield while the bank holds it is $50
per cent. The bank deposits the
bond and receives $3.50 of postal de
posts. Suppose the bank lends tins
$3.50 to its regular business 50 that
it brings a profit of ) per cent a
year. 1t must pay the government
2h per cent a year only. How does
the bank come out?
Its investment is $3.50. Its net
income is 5 per cent on the face
value of the $1,000 bond, plus 81
per cent interest earned on the $50
above what is paid to the govern
ment. That's $50 plus $lS.;5, a
total of $685.. On the Investment
of $3.50 the bank makes nearly ~
per cent. OF course, if the bank
prefers to buy government bonds,
which have a reader market and
pay a lower return of interest. it,
profit will be proportionately re-
duced.
It is easy to see why the banks
don't oppose postal savings.-John
NJ. Oskison in Chicago News.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-04-08
A Soft Snap.

A Philadelphia was talking about
Lsfcadio Hearn, the brilliant Amer
lean writer who turned japanese,
"Hearn lived a quantity simple
life in Japan" the Philadelphian
said. "His servants adored him.
They did as they pleased in his
household. He, no matter what he
saw, made no complaint. Once he
inquired about a long absent cooks
helper.
"'Does he never Gomez he ask
ed. Does he never come any more
to draw his pay:
"EIt is sent to him, SIR was the
reply"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-04-08
Deserved Something Else.

"Pa, will you get me a new catch
er's outfit if | prove to you that g
dog has ten tails"
eyes, my son."
"Well, to begin, one dog has one
more tail than no dog, hasn't he:"
eyes, he has"
"Well, no dog has nine tails, and
if one dog has one more tail than
no dog, then one dog must have ten
tails"
He got the outft.-Detroit Ere,
Press.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-04-08
Scotch Reels.

There is no dance like a Scotch
one Reels form the best and most
natural method of dancing now in
existence. To see reels and eight
somes splendidly done by charming
women and by fine men in kits to
the tune of the pipes in a great
peneled hall in a highland castle is
to obtain one Of the most exhilarat-
ing of spectacles.-Lverpool Post.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-03-20
THE IDEAL COUNTRY SCHOOL.

High ideals in sanitary requirements
for rural schools are proposed In q
bulletin that is distributed through the
United States bureau of education.
The general ideal proposed is that "the
country school should be as sanitary
and wholesome in essential particulars
as the best home In the community"
The school should be located In q
healthful place. Noise should be elimi-
mated and children should not be oblig.
ed to walk farther than two miles or
ride more than six; Fairgrounds should
be ample and we'll drained; and the
school ground should include a real
garden or experimental farm, with
trees and plants grouped artistically.
The schoolhouse should be as nearly
freproof as possible. Doors should open
outward. A small room for consulta-
tons and emergency purposes, and
others for workshop, instruction In
cooking and preparing refreshments,
should be provided.
Fresh air should be provided through
window board ventiIators except where
the furnace or jacketed stove is used
in which case adequate inlets and out
lets should be provided. Every school
should have thermometer and tenn.
perature in cold weather should be be-
tween Sc and 6S degrees Fahrenheit.
Light should be abundant. The best
arrangement is to have the light come
only from the left side Of the pupil and
from the long wall of the classroom.
The schoolroom should receive direct
sunlight some time during the day, but
the main windows should not fact di.
rectly south. East or west facing Is
desirable In providing shades for
windows dark ones should be used at
the top Of windows to control light on
bright days.
There should be no dry sweeping or
busting. Floors and furniture should
be cleaned with damp sweepers and
oily cloths. Scrubbing, summing, and
airing are better than any form OF
fumigation.
Copies of the full set of require
ments may be had free by writing to
the commissioner of education, Wash.
ington, D. c. County superintendent
of schools and county boards OF educa.
ton may obtain a sufficient number to
supply all their teachers and school
committeeman.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-03-20
OBJECT LESSON TO COTTON
GROWERS.
(Farmerville Gazette.)

(FdrmerVllle GaZette.)
The farmers about Ruston planted
2,265 acres in peanuts last year, and,
as the average yield was IS bushels to
the acre they made 1925 bushels. Az
the price was IS cents per bushel last
fall, you can figure for yourself just
how much ready cash was put in circu.
lation around Ruston during that fall.
Right here in Farmerville one buyer
bought and shipped several car loads
of peanuts, paying out about 100000
for them. These peanuts were nearly
all bought from farmers living south
of the Bayou D'Arbonne. Suppose
every farmer who trades in Farmer.
Vile had had few bushels of peanuts
to sell, this $4,000, which went into the
pockets of these farmers when their
cotton was drug on the market and
could not be sold at any price, at that
time, would have been multiplied sew
eral times over.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-03-20
COTTON GROWING.

Cotton In one-crop system Of farm
ing has never been satisfactory or
sound from an economic or business
standpoint In view Of the present re-
duced margin of profit in the growing
OF this CROP 1t should only be consid.
cred after enough other things have
been done to make the farm self.
sustaining.
| Cotton has been and always will be
one of Louisiana's chief cash crops,
but as such crop we should pay more
attention to the cost Of its production
which depends to large extent upon
the amount produced per acre. This
production will depend upon the appli.
cation of certain fundamental princi.
pies Of good farming. The young plant
as all other living things, needs special
preparation looking to It's care In the
earlier stage Of its existence or good
seed bed This means land well broken,
thoroughly pulverized and we'll drained.
The variety of cotton should be one
that has been tried out under the local
conditions. Generally speaking, the
small-boll, small.leaf cotton are better
for the rich alluvial lands, whereas the
large boil, large-leaf varieties do better
in the hill section. Moisture, plant
food and sunlight are the principal
limiting factors in cotton production.
Therefore, proper spacing is of prime
Importance. Too many stalks not only
reduce the plant growth and amount
of fruit, but keep out the sunlight
which is 80 necessary in the fight
against the boil weevil.
While most Of the elements of plant
food are generally present in our soil.
still very often 1t is necessary to buy
nitrogen and phosphoric acid and very,
very seldom, potash. The subject OF
commercial fertilizer is one that can
well and profitably be studied by the
majority of our farmers, not only In
the way of balancing the fertilizers
that we wish to apply, but great many
farmers in Louisiana buy each year,
potash which not one in hundred
needs.
Cultivation is not only to kill weeds
and grass, but to retain moisture and
soil condition. 1t should be shallow
and intensive.
Cotton as surplus cash crop can be
produced at small profit even with
the boil weevil and present prices.
However, the fundamental principles
of good farming must be followed close
ly and consistently to succeed.-Maso
Snowden, State Agent in Farm De.
monstration Work, Louisiana State
University.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-03-20
THE COST OF ADMINISTRATION.
Uake Charles American Press


During the closing hours of it's SEES
sion in New Orleans the state probe
commission struck a lead" which, II
followed up, may save the people OF
Louisiana enough to justify the whole
expense of the commissions peregri.
nations.
Some years ago an attempt was
made in New Orleans to interdict Mrs.
Madeline Pons, an aged wealthy lady,
and to put the custody of her property
in the hands of curator. The case is
still pending in the supreme court. In
the meantime an administrator was
appointed to take charge of her prop
erty until the case was decided.
Testimony ELECTED by the commits.
sion showed that two men were award.
ed $500 apiece by the court for making
an appraisal of the estate, which took,
according to witnesses, about one days
time. The order was afterward revok-
ed On protest by the administrator. A
firm of lawyers put In claim of So, 900
for Services" The administrator OBJ
jected and the order was vacated, but
shortly after the same firm raised it's
claim to $500, and the court COM
PEELED the administrator to pay it. A
physician who attended Mrs. Pons DUR
ing an illness into which the proceed
ings plunged her, presented a bill for
$4,000. Expert physicians summoned
to testify in her behalf were never put
on the stand but claimed $4,000. AL
together out of an estate appraised at
$685. 900, over $4,000 has been spent
in the Introduction proceedings and
more claims are pending.
1t is outrageous that the State of
Louisiana should stand by and see the
estate of defenseless old woman
swallowed up in court costs, In an at
tempt to wrest her property from her
control. The New Orleans newspapers
laid much stress upon the fact that
one of the $500-a-day appraisers is
son of the presiding Judge of the civil
district court. We regard this as a
minor incident The appraiser, in pro-
portion to the others, seemed to be
getting only fair share of the swag.
The outstanding fact is that the law OF
Louisiana iegalizes such outrageous
and excessive charges.
Further inquiry into the court charges
in succession cases, complaint about
which has been general, might lead to
the rectifying of great wrongs perpe.
trated in the handling of estates. In a
letter to the commission New Orleans
woman complained that she had been
trying to have the succession Of her
late husband closed-one might say,
her remote" husband, as he has been
dead for twenty years. Forty-four diff
ferent lawyers have been employed,
and the State of Louisiana is still col.
lecting fees.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-03-20

A certain millionaire did not approve
Of foreign missions. One Sunday at
church, when the collection was being
taken up for these missions the col.
lector approached the millionaire and
held out the collection box. The mil.
lionaire shook his head.
Fl never give to Missions he whis-
pered.
"Then take something out of the box,
sir" whispered the collector. 1.-THE
money is for the heather" -Pittsburg
hronicle-Telegraph.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-03-20

Exports through New Orleans for
February, 1915, broke all preceding
February records, and imports for last
five years, according to statistics by
the Office of the collector of the port.
Cotton came back into its own as the
leading article of export, the number
of bales passing out of this port being
266,640, and their value being $11,O50,-
$50. This is an increase of s241, 109
over the value of the cotton exported
during the same time In 1914.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-03-20

Continued on page four.)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-06
Churchwell's

big sale to save you
money. We want
you to come and
bring your friend.
Make our store
your headquarters.
The Washington times., 1915-01-16
At ONCE! STOPS
STOMACH MISERY
AND INDIGESTION
"Pape's Diapepsin" makes
sick, sour, gassy Stom-
achs feel fine.

Do some foods you eat hit back
taste good. but work badly; ferment
into stubborn Jumps and cause q sick,
sour eassy stomach? Now, Mr.. or
Mrs. Dyspcptic. jot this down: Pape's
Diapepsin digests everything, leaving
nothing to sour and upset you. There
never was anything SO safely quick, 80
certainly effective. No difference how
badly your stomach is disordercd yoA
will get happy relief In five minutes. but
what pleases you most is that It
strengthens and regulates your stomach
SO you can eat your favorlte foods
without fear.
Most remedies give you relief some.
times-they are slow, but not sure.
''Pape's Diapepsin' is quick positive
and puts your stomach in q healthy
condition go the misery won't come
back.
You feel different as soon as "Papes
Diapepsin" comes in contact with the
stomach-distress just vanishes-your
stomach gets sweet, no gases. no belch-
ing. no eructations of undigested food
your head clears and you feel hne.
Go now, make the best investment
you ever made. by getting large fifty
cent case of Pape's Diapepsin from any
drug store. You realize in five min
utes how needless II is to suffer from
Indigestion. dyspepsia or anv stomach
disorder.-Advt.
The Washington times., 1915-01-16

That chap Is killing himself" DR..
Wilson remarked. Roddenbury died y
month later; heart failure"
Should BE Big City.
OF course. a general retort to what
I've been saying would be that 1t is
as desirable that city members should
know the country as that country
members should know the city. True.
Fortunately they do city people who
can afford to travel much more than
SO l shall not conceal from my read
ers longer the precise point I'm driv.
ing at. The National Capital should
be one of the nations great cities:
Any Of those I've mentioned would
do. Our Federal lawmakers should
which comes from contact with great
multitudes of all sorts. from the va
riety of interests n big city forces
upon consideration.
1t would be hopeless to urge this IL
those their fellows sent to Congress
material. easy able to shed their pre-;
JUDGES and false preconceptions
they were rubbed a bit the right way
I have my doubt IL Lloyd-George
would have developed in Washington
as nc has in London. His Welsh
bound and dropped. There are many
Lloyd -Georges in Congress. no doubt
and Just so soon as lay my hand or
my Alnddin's lamp I shall give II g
| rub and. presto! the magic carpet
will have carried away the. Capitol
! White House. Monument. and~-no. fc
leave the other buildings there. turr
the District back to Maryland. anf
| let that State IL 1t wanted to, move
in its caLital there.
The Washington times., 1915-01-16
WANT HOUR TO PARK CARS.

granted to civil employees at other Inili-
tary institutions or the army posts.
thus depriving the merchants OF Wash
ington' Of trade, led to the appointment
of Mr. Columbus as O committee to
make an Investigation. =,
Communications asking the associa :
ton to take united stand against
the refunding Of money in cases of
dissatisfaction on the part Of GUS
turned promptly, were referred to the
several sections of the association.
May Hold Dinner.
A postal card canvass will be made
of the membership to determine the
attitude Of the members on the Wash
ington Birthday holiday, and to ascer-
tain their wishes with regard to q
"get-together' dinner.
The following new members were
elected: Tho Globe Wernicke Com.
pany. Ralph W; Lee. H; s. Omohun'
ans ana the the Roys MrS ssxelFy Company
Mr.. Andrews appointed as members
Of the board of governors for the
year:
r. p. Andrews. ]. NJ. Bird. z. D.
Blackstone. J. NJ. Burrell. F. c. Choir
ley, o. ]. DeMoll. George 8. DeNeale
Jacob Eisenmann, Isaac Cans, Z. C.
Graham. George e. Hebbard. J. Philip
1snge er A s1seS Lsese Ndrisxa1 mSpis
James r. Oyster. A.. D. prince. Ellie
stott. Anton Stephan. Joseph Stras.
burger. George Topham. Sidney West
Alfred Mayer, and Mrs. M. Brooks.