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SAMMY sAusAeE's BIRTHDAY.

Tomorrow Is my birthday" said
Sammy Sausage, land | hope all my
friends and relations will remember
the fact. Yes, that | hope ana
should think creatures would DC
ashamed of each other and themselves
and would I've afraid to look the whole
world in the face if they failed to
give me a birthday present"
81 don't see" said Master Pink Pig.
"why folks are always talking In this
way about being able to look the
whole world in the face if they have
done something fine. And, too. about
being ashamed OF looking the world
in the face when hey have done some
thing that isn't honest and isn't fine.
"''TTi. anole world never gathers all
its people together and then praises
up the honest soul or abuses the bad
one, does it?" asked Master Pink Pig.
THE whole world doesn't gather all
its people together and that isn't what
is meant by being able to look the
whole world straight in the face or
of not being able to look the whole
world in the face.
Il will explain 1t to you," said
Sammy Sausage.
pretty pleasant before your birth
day, humph," grunted May,er Pink
Pig.
Il will pay no attention to any rude
ness" said Sammy. Instead | will
explain to you what is meant when
we say someone can look the whole
world in the face or that someone else
can not look the whole world In the
face.
1.-THE whole world itself hasn't a
face. 1t means the faces of the differ
ent people belonging to the world.
1t doesn't mean that all the people
will gather in a row and will stare at
you.
But 1t means If you're fine and no
BILE and all of that all the people who
know you and who hear of you will
think well Of you and if you are the
opposite sort of creature they will
think the opposite Of you.
"And it means if you're honest you
will dare to look any one straight
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in the eyes. you won't look away-for
you won't have anything to hide and
your look can be very straight"
"Oh, yes" said Master Pink Pig.
IL see now. But ! don't know that
I care so much whether l can look
creatures straight in the face or not.
l don't care much what sort of pig
I am. like to be good pig, but not
a good anything else"
well. that's all right" said Sammy
Sausage. That's all pigs can ever
hope to be-"
But l mean | like to be a piggy
pig" said Master Pink Pig.
And to himself Sammy Sausage
grunted, $50 do l." but he thought
he had better not say such a thing
aloud until after the following day.
Again he went around squealing.
Don't forget, friends. tomorrow is my
birthday. Please bring me useful pres
ents-things l can eat.
Il don't want any useless things.
In these hard times we should be sen
sible.'
Well. the pigs talked to each other
and they wondered what they would
give Sammy Sausage on his birthday.
They all decided that they supposed
they had to give him something.
swell. many happy returns" squeal-
ed Grandfather Porky Pig, the next
day as they started to walk in a pro-
cession toward Sammy Sausage.
Sammy Sausage was sitting In
corner of the pen, busily eating some
thing.
He looked up and said in a high.
sauealing voice. "Your wishes are all
right. but hope your presents are
better"
Each pig had little scrap of food
for Sammy SauSage'S birthday pres
ent. They had each brought large
share of food and as they had brought
IT along they had decided that It was
too much to give and had been eating
all the way along until every Pig
present was now very small.
"Oh." said Brother Bacon. there
is such little bit of my present left
that will not give it to Sammy Sau-
sage. 1t would insult him to give him
such small present" So Brother
Bacon ate up his present and as ne
did so every pig followed his example.
"Well, you're lot of pigs. eating up
YOUR own presents" said Sammy Sau-
sage. when he saw what was happen
ing. He tried to stop few presents
from being eaten up. but he hadn't
much luck.
..Oh, WE'LL" he said Il. too, was a
big pig. for it's not my birthday ana
only said so to get presents II
could!"
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All of Which Is True Except the Names

leave them and she couldn't take care
of them alone.
One day not long ago Mavis found
an old friend, Jack Carlin. Jack had
sat behind her in the old white school
house. Mavis told him all about Dick
and the five children. Jack, who had
Just got out of a hospital for cOnva-
descent soldiers. asked her to be his
wife, He said he had been trying 10
find her ever since she disappeared
from Tennessee.
Mavis thought it over for several
weeks. Then she put it up to Dick.
Dick said he guessed it would be all
right He gave her money toward her
wedding clothes and wished her hap
pineSS. But he also filed Il petition to
ADOPT all five of the children. intending
TO send them to his mother in the
South.
When the case came up in court
counsel for the father contended that
the children were ilegtlnate. which
made the judge angry. He banged his
fist on the bench and shouteh
Then Carlin filed a petition, with
his wife, TO adopt the children. And
they all went to their new home.
All of which story is true. except the
names Of the three involved.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-06-26

JACKSONVILLE lLL.-IllinoiS' old
y est woman-Nlrs. Antoinette Smith,
aged one hundred ard eight years
wants to die. TO her life is a trial. On
the day before she celebrated her one
hundred and eighth birthday Mrs.
Smith said: God has forgotten I'm
here"
The wOman's story dates back to
1912. when she was born GIL the island
of Madeira. near Portugal. Mrs. Smith
Is a Portuguese. Before her marriage
her name was Alves. When a child
the family. through persecution, was
! forced into exile. Religion was the
cause Her mother was condemned to
die bur appeals were taken to Queen
Victoria of England by Interested
| friends at the time, and her sentence
was committed to fine, Queen Vic
| toria obtained the communication
through her friendship with Queen
| Donna Maria, the then ruling sovereign
of Portugal But Mrs. Smiths moth
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Can This Penitent Soldier Be Pardoned!

nTTTSBURGH.-T veterans of for
! eign wars and several prominent
men are seeking pardon for Walter a.
Dress. ex-Yank and voluntary prisoner.
Dress. then aged %, on February s.
1917, entered plea of guilty to charges
of burglary, and was sentenced to
serve two to three years in the peni-
Tertiary. He escaped from ROckview
prison the following August and en-
listed in the army under the name of
Walter o. Dorm.
While at Norfolk, England, in the
summer of 1913 ne met and married a
British girl, who then was manageress
of cafe in Norwich. His bride ac-
cOmpanied him to this country. Due
to her counsel on March 80 he ap-
peared at the Western penitentiary and
surrendered Recently the wife wrote
the attorney for the post:
81 trust that you will be successful
in obtaining pardon for my husband.
Life TO me is not worth living without
him. although would wait patiently
to the end of his sentence if it had to
be done
"After getting his discharge he
worked at several places. but could not
settle down and he then told me his
right name and what he had done be-
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'FWhat Will Do With All That Money!

TIAGERSTOWN, MD.-A gift Of
III several millions of dollars on his
forty-sixth wedding anniversary to
William Shipley, veteran lock tender
on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal.
brought this comment: "Rilly. what In
hi will I do with all that money!
But Rilly, his wife. whose full name
Is Margaret Catherine Urella Shipley,
has plars for its expenditure. Stand
ing on the rickety steps of the four
room tumbledown, facing the canal and
the Potomac at point few miles
above HagerStOwn. she SmOothed her
black and white calico wrapper and
told what she would do.
I'D want TO give TO the poor first
she smiled, her faded gray eyes light
ing as she talked Then I'd like a
house at Halfway. It's too quiet here"
Halfway is a village of perhaps half
dozen houses several miles nearer Ha-
gerStown.
Sixty-nne years ago. when William
Shiplev was ten years old. his uncle
ThonuS Mccoy. left for the West.
Nothiitr was heard from him and it
was supposed he had died or forgotten
anout his relatives back in Maryland.
Then one day Shipley's cousin. Chloe
.;..,a aintit "a letter she had got an
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END YOUNGER SET PARTIES
Parents Require Young People to Go
Home Early and Will Censor
Amusements and Clothes.

Kansas City. Moan organization
of mothers made up of society ma
irons in Kansas City is to be formed
10 nut an end to the wild ways OF
the young folk in that city.
The organization plans to have the
boys and girls sign pledge not to
stay out after curfew hour that is to
be agreed upon between the parents
and the young people. The blase man.
pers the young folk have assumed
and stories of erotic affairs held py
them led to the organized effort by
their parents Street and evening
clothes for young misses also are 10
he censored.
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tanned his freedom and then his prom
Use to take her for better or worse
Some four years ago Miss Fairchild.
then principal of a school in New
York city, decided to take up prison
welfare work as relief from the
routine of the schooIroom. She select
ed Sing Sing as the field for her OPP
erations. On her very first visit she
met Hoppe. She became interested
in his case and felt certain he would
make an excellent citizen, If he had II
chance. She went before Judge Rosal-
sky, who had sentenced Hoppe. and
then carried her plea to Governor
Whitman. Hoppe was paroled.
Three years have elapsed since Miss
Fairchild won freedom for Hoppe.
During that period the young man has
engaged in the confectionery bust
ness in New York city and has more
than demonstrated that the New York
schOOlteacher made no error In pick
ing him for her ideal.
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Illinois Oldest Woman Is Ready to Die

or could not pay the fine so she was
kept in prison for 23 months.
When released. the family fled to
Trinidad. After TWO years residence
there they emigrated to America
and landed at New York with band
Of other eXileS under the protection
of missionaries. Shortly after arriy-
tedious stages to Illinois, settling in
jacksonville. From then on Jackson
vile was the family home.
The AlveS family is noted for Ion
sevity. John Alves of Salt Lake City,
who is only eighty years Old, is the
baby" Manuel Alves, a farmer liv-
Ing near Jacksonville, is ninety-siX
wears old Mrs. J. Figueria of Brook
Ign, elchty-Seven; and j. J. Alves of
Farmi.lgdale. H.. eightythree. Mrs
Smith is the oldest member of the
family.
But the Smiths are vying with the
Alves for the longevity record Mrs
Smith has five living children, -
Grandchildren, 40 great grandchildren
and five great-great- grandchildren. Hei
oldest child is eighty-one years old
ano her youngest siXty-four. lhe tat
ter. incidentally, could easily pass fol
forty.
Last fall the "baby" of the Alves
family visited Springfield. 1t was the
first time in GO years that he had seer
his sister.
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6OIRAM TEACHER
MARRIES CONVICT
ron'Ic School Principal Finds Her
IDEAL in Sing Sing
Prison.

New fork.-Miss Mary Fairchild.
pi'n'ipai OF a public school on Long
ls'aho, and Henry Hoppe. released
from Sing Sing prison in 1917. have
'3'ii married, following an unusual ro-
nance In which CUPID again demon
Srated that "stone walls do not a
prison make nor iron bars a cage"
Hiss fairchild. according to the
STORY she relates, met Hoppe. a Ger
man immigrant. when he was a con
.ic' IN sing Sing prison. serving time
ior robbery and carrying concealed
and deadly weapons. she first OBJ
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HHICAGO.-MaviS Crandall was an
- orphan schoolgirl of fifteen, whose
head was full of dreams, when she first
met Dick Ballou. She lived in little
town near Knoxville, Tenn, and she
liked to go down to the station to see
the trains come in.
Dick drove a big locomotive. Re
was thirty-eight. He was picturesque.
And there wasn't anyone to tell her,
either, that there was a Mrs. Dick Bal
lou and two children in another south
ern city.
Mavis came to Chicago with the
handsome engineer, and he furnished
house for her. The years brought
knowledge. Mavis wanted to leave the
man, who would not marry her. But
the way was barred. There were the
habies-five Of them. She couldn't
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fore joining the army. | forgave him
for not telling me before we were mar
ried
$50 we talked 1t over, but his
thoughts were Of me. I promised him
that | would do the best | could, and
stay by him to the end, If he would
take what few dollars we had for train
fare and 90 back to finish what he had
tried 70 escape from. so that he might
have q contented mind. This he did.
We have no children
The petition for pardon states that
Dress can show the pardon board that
If would he to the best interests of So
ciety and himself that he should be
released. and that the moral battle won
over himself shows that he IS truly
repentant and is proper and tit per
son for leniency.
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nouncing that the heirs of Thomas Me
Coy had been left fortune of many
millions.
Mccoy, it seems, had struck gold rich
in California, but had never married,
and when he died the fortune devolyed
on William Shipley. sister living at
Williamsport and Mrs. Sallie Grone,
another sister. in Washington.
The Shipleys have six children, four
boys, who are farm hands and fisher
men. and two daughters. The only one
who seemed especially pleased by the
news was Jack. the twenty-one-year
old son. who came mp to the house
with a doleful expression to announce
the loss of the calf "wuth anyway fif-
teen dollars"
81 kin find plenty o. places to put
that money in" he declared.
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Compound and found It a wonderful
remedy. | commenced to pick up at
once and my suffering was relieved. /
have told others about your medicine
and know of some who have taken it.
am glad to help others all can. >
Mrs. r. E. DEMING, 437 W. Lafayette
Ave, Syracuse, N. Y.
While Change of Life is a most crit
ical period of woman's existence, the
annoying symptoms which accompany
it may be controlled, and normal health
restored h. me timely use of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Moreover this reliable remedy con-
tains no narcotics or harmful drugs and
owes its efficiency to the medicinal ex-
tractives of the native roots and herbs
which it contains.
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WriggIes Way Out of Jail
For 180th Time in Life

Roy DickersOn. charged with
aiding in the robbery Of bank
at Girard. Ala. made what is
said to have been his one hun
dred and eightieth escape from
iail when he used crude key
on his cell lock in the city prison
at Los Angeles, Cal. climbed up
a ventilatOr shaft and fed.
Dickerson'S wife, who was in
Jail with her husband, said he
formerly was vaudeville per-
former. making a speciality Of
freeing himself from handouts
and other restraints. She told
the police he had escaped $50
times and that he never had
been imprisoned successfully
longer than two months.
DickersOn's ceIl-mate was
found asleep after the escape.
He told the guards he had not
heard Dickerson's movements.
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5000, ooo PEOPLE IN CANADA
Secretary Sifton's Report SHOWS <'ooo'
600 Increase in the Dominion
Since 1911.

Ottawa. Ont.-The population oi
canada for 1920 is estimated at 9,OOo.-
600. as compared with 7.0Oo'Vo III
1911. in a report made public IN the
house of commons by Secretary OF
State SiftOn.
The estimated total revenue FOR ls-o
1. s9o5 A0O.OOO. Total revenue per cap
tia for 1920 II. estimated at $50. II anu
sx,enditures ber capita at S75.Ol.
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WORSE THAN APPENDICITIS

whats the matter. old top? You
look sick"
1--WE just undergone a serious opera
ton
appendicitis"
''Worse than that. l had my allow
ance cut Off"
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Acid-Stomach

EATONIC is the best remedy, it takes
the harmful acids and gases right our
of the body and, of course, you get
well. Tens of thousands wonderfully
benefited. Guaranteed to satisfy or
money refunded by your own drug
pist. Cost a trife. Please try it!
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One Flaw.

"She acts MS THOUGH size Thought
She w;,s the queen of Sheha."
"Oh no She would never think
abe was anybody Tho had TO go te
s.,iuehUdv eiSe for UiSdam.
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o. cns.

Hll-McShortr has sold q poem to
ScribhIers, entitled an lode to a Fair
Lady"
HullS-Has he? Well. lie Is more
competent to write verses entitled
"Owed to Landlady. "-London Tit
Bits,
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.i0u ~ app WV
had fainting spells
] suffered for two
or three years be-
fore | began taking
Lydia E. Pinkham 8
Y e ge ia bic Com
pound and the Live
Pills which l saw ad-
vertise d in the
papers and in your
little books | took
about twelve bottles
of your Vegetable
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Not Guilty.

Colonel Southerland-Well, Rastus,
did the judge find you guilty of steal
ing chickens?
Rastus-No. sub. colonel; l was re-
leased ON s'picion.
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Up in the Air.

The Observation-Disclosures the charge
against his man, officer?
The Air Cop-He was speeding in a
high-po ,er racing plane and ran down
childs goplane.
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His Guess,

Burrows-By the way, what was the
denomination of that bill you loaned
me?
Lenders-Episcopal / imagine
it keeps Lent so we'll
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Choice Of Abodes.

II gotta have place to live"
II understand" said the real estate
man, "and maybe l can fix you up.
Now, which would you prefer, port
able shed r a tent?"
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His Status.

Il knew man once who ate a
ten-pound turkey with trimmings on
a bet"
"He must have been a man of roD-
Stunning ambition"
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Cautious.

Post say old man, will you join
our Big Brother club?
Parker-Let's see the girl I'm to be
fraternal to first.-Judge.
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Professional Duty.

"Why did you leave the dentist you
have been going to SO long?"
81 found he was getting on my
nerves"
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The Menu.

"She certainly has way of talking
you down with cold sarcasm"
"Yes: course, of tongue. as 1t
were, served with chilly sauce"
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True.

Spa. what's scientific salesmanr'
"A scientific salesman is a fellow
who knows when to quit annoying
you"
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Little Use.

"He was much affected when made
him loan. When | looked at him
his face was working"
"Yes, that Is the way ne saves his
hands"
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Showing It.

"Bibbs is live wire"
81 know he u.s. He touched me
for ten dollars this morning and was
shocked"
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The impossible.

"Ir's such a nice place where you
moved. I hope you'll like your new
neighbors."
"Im just sure | won't. They all
own cheap ars"-Browning's Maya
Eine
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M1SANTHROPIC

M1SANTHROPIC.
when Brown is happy he tries to
sing"
Yes. Some Of Us don't care how
miserable we make others, so long
a. we're comfortable.
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PAINTING AND
DIZZY SPELLS
The Cause of such Symptoms
and Remedy Told in This
Letter.

Syracuse, N. Y" When I COM
menced the Change of Life was poorly,
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Cross.Exanination

Cross
The lawyer to the witness clings
With questions deftly wrought,
And makes him say lot of things
He never knew he thought.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-21
EMPLOYEES GIVE DANCE.

The second of the series of three
dances given under the auspices OF
the Mutual Relief Association of Lans-
burgh & Bro, was held Tuesday even
ing in the Arcade ballroom.
The affair was a masque, and many
beautiful as we'll as comical costumes
were worn. The prize given for the
most beautiful costume was won by
Miss r. CAN'T of the upholstery de-
partment, and the most comical was
won by a couple, Mrs. NJ. NJ. Means
Of the candy department and F. En-
dres of Tenleytown. who were dressed
in the characters of old southern
darkies.
Many surprises were featured
throughout the evening. including a
fortune-telling booth conducted by
Miss K. Jordan.
The committees in charge were B.
w. Holmes and n. Simon, general
chairmen; H. Estabrook, chairman of
floor committee: w. r. Schmucker.
chairman of music committee: Miss
j. Goodman. chairman of refreshment
committee: Miss M. Carruthers chair
man of publicity committee, and Mrs
B. Worthington, chairman of ticket
committee.
The judges who awarded the prizes
were Mrs. Stanley Lansburgh. Mrs
Charles Goldsmith and Mrs r. B. H.
Lyons. all members of the firm.