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debts tbat are charged up to loss of sa­loon license money, as a matter of fact date back to the days when the open saloons existed here. It was during the "rule of the saloon" as one wet advocate unwittingly puts It in an In­terview in the Mollne paper, that the city piled up the debts that are now worrying the administration.

thus takes for his own pocket the tax-!can situation is an Interesting affair In payero' money that could be used to' more tban one way. It's like a cloth-give steady employment to one more man.

WORKING STATE PRISONERS. It is the intention of the state high

way commission to again use prison ers from the Iowa penitentiaries thlBja great game.

Abolishing the saloon has lifted Ot-tumwa far above the moral levels of the Illinois cities.

A FOOL'S PLEA.

JA8. P. POWELL ;Pu whined a young man in a western city R- D. MAC MAXUS. .Managing Edito , wjjen jje wa8 sentenced to the penl-

Dally Courier, 7year, by mall $8.00 I tentiary for the commission of an atro-Tri-Weekly Courier, 1 year 1.50;cicua crime, while as he claimed, un-

— ! 1 der the influence of ltfluor. Office: 117-119 East Second Street; it, is the threadbare defense of the Telephone, Bell (editorial or business; j jip the vicious, the weak and the

year in the Improvement of roads. Several counties now have under con­sideration plans for using convicts.

Warden C. C. McClaughry of the re­formatory at Anainosa has reported he

I never had a chance to make good" ^as men which he will be glad to send out on road work this year.

This number will be divided Into at least three camps and the parties will

ing advertisement—"Satisfaction guar­anteed." First the federals declare tbat Villa has been repulsed with great Iosb. Then the gentleman with the name like an Italian house, counters with the news of a huge victory. It's

Place your money while the little ball rolls.

Waterloo Courier: One explanation of tbe long-winded debate that is pro­ceeding at Washington with reference to the repeal of the exemption clause of the Panama canal tolls act is the fact that several of the congressmen have got to return home soon to fight

be sent into different counties. If there i for retention of their seats. Their ar

office) No. 44. New telephone, business office, 44;

new phone editorial office, 167. Address the Courier Printing Com­

pany, Ottumwa, Iowa.

Entered as second class matter October 17, 1903, at the postoffice, Ot­tumwa, Iowa, under the Act of Con­gress of March 3, 1879.

criminal when they are tripped up by the protruding foot of fate, says Cur­rent Thought.

Is demand for more men. Warden J. C. Sanders of Fort Madison prison may be asked to send out men.

Tbe prisoners will receive pay rang­ing from $2 to $2.50 a day, according to their skill. As at Ames last year

It is the feeble extenuation of fail- they will ^ Provided with camps and tire predicated upon lack of ability. * ,?f ^rd

no°nf con-

lack of self-respect, lack of every de-|tro1 wlU be in charge of the men.

Figures compiled by the American j

Foreign representatives: Cone. Lor-•ngen & Woodman, Mailers Building,; eain his bread by never ending

cent impulse that animates men to at­tempt worth while effort.

It Is the justification of the indolent creature who permits his mother to

toil

gument in the senate and house will not change a vote, but it will be fine material to make the eagle scream when they appear before the home folks.

Chicago; 225 Fifth Ave., New York City; Qumbel Bldg., Kansas City, Mo

"Thrift, to become a fixed habit muit be practised with regularity and be given an opportunity for exerolee over an appreciable length of time. And unless It be­comes fixed as a habit it is of comparatively little value.. Spas­modic saving followed by spas­modic extravagance makes for ruin as surely as does habitual improvidence."^—Frank C. Mortim­er, Berkeley, California.

'Thrift Is the one Investment that always yields returns."—Isaac F. Marcosson.

while he wastes his time, and the brutal lazy husband who feels no sense of humiliation when he eats the food provided by an Industrious wife.

We witness every day what is being ! accomplished by men and women who j are achieving a full measure of suc-cesp while striving under tremendous

j handicaps, and when we contrast j these brave souls with the miserable hulks who imagine that the world

I owes them a living without any effort j on their part, and who grayitate Into dissolute habits when it is not forth*

j coming, we are filled with disgust and loathing.

The man who declares that he never had a chance to live an honest, re­spectable life is lying. The opportunity and prosperity, we have only may not

LIQUOR INTEREST DIGGING ITS have come to him, but he had, we may OWN QRAVE. ' '!)e certain, plenty of opportunities to

\ The people of Mollne, Rock Island j do something useful to leave the 1 and Bast Mollne, 111., should not be i world better for his having been born

misled by certain special write ups of into it the city of Ottumwa which are appear ing in the Mollne Mail, a newspaper owned by a Rock Island brewery which controls a large per cent of the two hundred saloons in Rock Island county. A youthful reporter from the Btaff of the Mollne Mail spent several days in this city hunting for material to be used by the wets in the local option fight now raging in the Illinois towns and quite naturally he colored local conditions to make his stories meet the demand of his employers. Needless to say the young reporter

*«ecnred big information from liquor ad-ivocates whose efforts to restore the fsaloon to this city have failed.

The liquor interests have painted Ot­tumwa in mottled colors but at that fthe story does not begin to approach jthat which could be told of any of the jthree Illinois oities in which it is seeking to influence the vote. Condi­tions In Ottumwa are not all that they might be; It Is true there are a num­ber of "Mind piss"-and some vice, but

HOW TO BE POOR. Until we get so rich that our wealth

is a bore, it is very easy to be poor— comparatively poor, of course, for that is the way we do It. As long as we are a little poorer thau somebody we know, and as long as there are things that we can not afford we are poor because we think we are. If you make $10 a month you may have to use a base burner. Surely it is a poor man who can not afford a furnace. If you make $200 a month you may not bo able to live in a $60 apartment, and it Is a poor man who has to take care of his own furnace. If you make $400 af" month you may forget about furnaces, but may still run your own car, and of course, it is a poor man who has only onr car. Beyond that estimate we should have to begin to theorize, but you can probably go a long way be­yond that and still be poor. Being poor;

Grundy Republican: The state board of education has hired three presidents for the state educational institutions in about as many years, then has quarreled with the men chos-

museum of safety show that upwards | en and has ended up by telling the of twelve million school children in i people of the state that the men were the United States have defective teeth. | incompetent. From this distance It In many schools this represents ap­proximately fifty per cent of the pu­pils, but In some schools the number runs as high as ninety-eight per cent.

The Chicago election commissioners have been seriously embarrassed by a demand that "immoral women" be bar­red from the polls at next ween s elec­tion. Just how immoral women can be barred without also barring immoral men is a puzzle.

One of the richest soda deposits In the world Is Lake Magadi in British East Africa. Its area Is over two miles and the soda contained in It is estimat­ed at 200,000,000 tons. Almost as soon as the soda is removed another pup-ply naturally forms.

begins to look like the board of edu­cation was more incompetent than the men they selected and it is about time to get a new board along with a new head for the state university.

Seven girls in a private school In the east have been sued by another for damages due to Injuries growing out of a hazing episode. Evidently the girls are suffragettes and want to show they are men's equals—hence the hazing.

An English engineer proposes to de­fend his country in event of war by suspending bombs from balloons, which could be exploded from the ground when approached by a hostile dirigible or aeroplane.

Yesterday's news dispatches said John Lind is coming home for a rest. Must be tired of saying and doing nothing.

. is the easiest thiqg we dp. We do not < need the high cost of living to help us.

when Ottumwa Is placed alongside of All we need is to think about the things Rock Island, Mollne or Bast Mollne, this city's morals shine out in pure white by comparison.

The liquor Interests have made a mistake in holding Ottumwa up as the "horrible example" of what abolishing the open saloon results In. They have the open saloon in Rock Island. What is the result. Rock Island has more crime every day than Ottumwa has in

Meek, yes, we can go further and e it a month. Rock Island coun-circuit court has had a murder or

* manslaughter trial and sometfmes unore than one at practically every ,Tterm of court. Ottumwa has had one {nurder trial in the last five years and one manslaughter case In the last year. Rock Island county's criminal docket is piled higher at every session of the grand Jury and hundreds of cases are certified to the county court where prisoners are allowed to plead guilty to minor offenses in order that he circuit court criminal docket may e kept down to working limits. Two

years ago this spring the crazed gamb-ing and liquor element started a

/series of riots which resulted in the ! calling out of* the national guard and a \declaration of martial law in the city (at the request of the authorities who \found themselves unable to handle t£e wild blood craving mob. Rock Is­land has dens of vice and houses of

•, crime that give its "liberal" element (the opportunity to proclaim it the . "livest Bmall town in the country" and

we can not afford Instead of about the things we can afford.

Of course, it is difficult not to be poor, but it Is possible. Nobody wants to eat rice and canned salmon all the time, but mush is good, and soup bones are still attainable. If we are deter­mined not to be poor we must not only stop thinking of the things we eat and wear, but we must stop thinking of the things our friends eat and wear. Moreover, we must not care what the neighbors think about what we eat and wear, and we must be willing to offer our friends canned salmon and rice and mush. The high cost of living has threatened American hospitality. We can save it by feeding our guests mush and milk. Most of us have been poor long enough. Why not forget about the things we can not afford and so be rich again?—Indianapolis News.

WHO B008TED THE TAXES? The claim of certain members of the

state administration that the taxing bodies of the various counties are re­sponsible for the great Increase in taxes this year, has not gone unchal-, lenged by any means. Among others who have denied the allegation, the Liucus county correspondent of The Courier comes out with the following:

"The tax books of Lucas county show that we pay 46 per cent more taxes for state purposes alone in 1914 than we did in 1913; that we pay 48

. . . . p e r c e n t m o r e f o r s t a t e p u r p o s e s i n 'the spirit of liveness there is not one ^ than we did in 1912; that we pay ifor other cities to hanker after. The1 • community is a headquarters for crooks, burglars, sneak thieves, white

.slavers, and barterers in womanhood, f Assaults upon women are of almost 'weekly occurrence. There are hun­dreds of prostitutes. There are numer-oqs well known gambling dens. And on top of it all and with the $60,000 revenue that the saloons of Rock Is­land pay each year for the privilege

' of doing business, the city administra­tion right now and for years past is j'hard np" and constantly forced to the (extreme of borrowing money from the /banks of the city to meet current ex­penses until taxes are paid over by the collectors. | What is true of Rock Island is true to a great extent in Mollne and in East Moline. The latter two places add to this partial list of "open saloon ad­vantages" a large number of bootleg-

i ging joints for even the open and li­censed saloon does not satisfy the en-

\ tire demand. Arrests for bootlegging tin both Mollne and East Moline are 3iot uncommon. 'i TWb is the condition that the Moline Mail wants continued in the Illinois pities and Ottumwa is held up as a warning of what will come with a change In policy and the abolishing of the saloon.

The specific charges against Ottum­wa are that the city is impoverished | by the loss of saloon revenue and

that "blind pigs" enable boys to secure liquor which it is alleged they could not do in a licensed saloon. The last charge needs no answer for everyone knows it is untrue. Boys can and do get liquor where there are open sa­loons easier than they can otherwise. Look up police records in Rock Island if you would be convinced. The other charge that the city is in financial

62 per cent more taxes for state pur­poses alone in 1914 than we did in 1911.

"Why? "The valuation of the C. B. & Q.

railroad in Lucas county is 25 per cent lower for 1914 taxes, than it was in 1918; that the total valuation of the railroads in Lucas county as fixed by the executive council, of which the governor is chairman, is $36,038 less for 1914 taxes than for 1913, notwith­standing the fact that the Rock Island railroad has been added this year.

"Why is this? "The executive council increased the

assessed valuation of farm lands in Lucas county 28 per cent and the value of town property 19 per cent above the valuation as returned by the county board.

"Why? "Why did the executive council in­

crease the farm and town property valuations in Lucas county, while at the same time making a radical de­crease In the railroad valuations for taxation purposes?"

RAISED HIS OWN SALARY. While giving out interviews to a

Moline paper that is owned by the liquor interests, derogatory to the city and designed to put Ottumwa in a bad light. Mayor Pat Leeny should not for­get that he is responsible in a measure for what he complains of. He says we need more policemen. We could have added a man to the force had not the mayor voted himself an increase in salary that is almost in itself to pay for

If Mrs. Belle Guinness is really alive she ought to hike to Chicago and get a legal acquittal by a competent jury which is the best advice any compe­tent lawyer could hand her.

The Mexican situation gets no bet­ter very fast—but do you know what to do with it?

Give your Instructions as simply and tersely as you can, so that they can­not be misunderstood.

Do not kill the birds because they help kill the bugs and flies and mos­quitoes.

Lots of rain is needed to make big hay crop.

Do not forget to paint up and clean up your property.

Press Comment Des Moines Capital: Floods in the

east and heavy rains in the far west. Iowa continues to stand out conspic­uously on the weather map as the happy medium state.

Kansas City Journal: "U doesn't take as much sense to be president as it does to be a congressman," says Champ Clark. So Wood row needn't put on any official airs around the speaker. Champ has his number.

Waterloo Times-Tribune: All right, Des Moines, Sioux City and others! You may come and play, If you wish and we'll let you use the building. But what was that you whispered behind your hands about a Waterloo bluff?

Waterloo Courier: That Posture so­ciety just organized in New York state not only hopes to cause people to sit up and take notice, but those who take notice of the society's teachings will sit up and stand up straight. All strength and power to the society's backbone.

By Martha McCullough-Williams.

(Copyright, 1912, by the Associated Literary Press.)

Cloud mountains in the west, mar­gined with fiery gold, flung long aerial shadows athwart the sky. There was the smell of new rain, though the turf under foot was dust-dry. A shower had come within sight across the meadows, then veered away southerly. Amy was glad it had veered. Her white frock, crisp and sheer, would have wilted in the damp of it. The rain had been too slight to do more than freshen the air — it still came, warm to the cheek, but without the sting that had marked mid-day breezes.

At 6 o'clock of a mid-summer after­noon, roses droop on the stalk, but rose-cheeks are at their fairest. Amy proved the fact — she knew she had never looked better — therefore she was gay and proud. The Carlyns, mother and son, were coming to an early tea. It was their first approach to sociability. Ever since they moved into the old Earle place they had held themselves distantly toward tbe coun­tryside.

That had not suited Amy, yet she had given no sign of her dissatisfac­tion. She was born ambitious—Lenox Carlyn was just the sort of man she wanted to marry, well bred, well to do, above all rather distinguished. She had no mere vulgar greed for money, in spite of having had it in plenty all her/life. But she did yearn to reach social pinnacles — the rare heights where the exalted had their being. Her people, the Watsons, were wholly undistinguished, not­withstanding they were each and sev­eral, patterns of thrift, sobriety and the moral virtues.

Secretly Amy had always envied Leslie May, her college mate, not­withstanding Leslie had had few and plain clothes, little money to spend, and never a box from home. She was an orphan, bound to work for her living — the college course was provided through the will of an elderly relative' who had left a million to missions. But she was also a gov­ernor's granddaughter, and • entitled to use a crest— when she could afford it. Amy would have given her string of pearls for a crest. She was bent on having one. if ever she got away from the neighborhood, where folk, knowing her pedigree, would only laugh at it.

She was glad and sorry to have Leslie as a guest; glad because her presence gave a reasonable excuse for the mild festivity: sorry in that she felt herself, to a degree, hampered by hospitality —it would not do to eclipse; Leslie, either in clothes or charms.

•traits, is not without truth, but the,officer would.be obtained, ^he mayor / Cedar Rapids Gazette:;..sThis Mexi- Hence the white frock, fine and lacy

Boone News Republican: It is al­ways something "free" that causes a split in the democratic party. First it was free trade, then it was free sli­ver. Now it is free tolls. That word "free' has alawsy Deen a hoodoo to the democratic brethren.

Burlington Gazette: The United States should have no abiding place for such characters as Tannenbaum, the Industrial Worker of the World. He should be returned to the alien land whence he came nine years ago.

Sioux City Journal: Kaiser Wllhelm is the most recent convert to the "Don't dig your . grave with your teeth" society and has issued an order cutting the length of state dinners down to 45 minutes. Sooner or later they will all come around to a bowl of bread and milk diet.

Iowa City Citizen: The movement for the consolidation of rural schools is slowly spreading over the state. A good many local considerations enter into the plans in various districts, and It takes much time for the ad­justment of these. But a consider­able number of districts will be form­ed as the result of school elections this month In various counties of the state, and once the movement Is well started in Iowa it will increase with each succeeding year.

The fundamental consideration is for the welfare of the boy and girl In the rural community. H the rural telephone, daily mail delivery and bet­ter roads can be added the advantages of a good graded school in a modern school building the boy and the girl on the farm will find farm life the most attractive of all.

There are some things to be said against consolidated schools but there are many things more to be said for them.

EDDYVILLE.

Miss Laura Lee is spending the week in Batavla visiting her friend, Mrs. Jennie Jager.

Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Foster and daughter Gertrude were business call­ers in FWrfleld Thursday.

Miss Emma Nye and Miss Bridget Simmons went to Burlington Thurs­day to attend the teachere' convention.

Mrs. F. E. Vance, Mrs. Laura Dlble, Mrs. E. Kuemeyer, Jennie Shields and Eda Hargerscheimer were Ottumwa passengers Thursday.

Mr. and Mrs. N. McKim and daugh­ters of Charlton are guests this week at the William Longcoe home.

Harry Miller left Thursday for Cedar Rapids and Waterloo on a business trip.

The Reliable society of the Christian church was entertained on Thursday at the church. The hostesses were Pearl Moore, Mrs. William Lewis and Mrs. John Poenlck. An Interesting program was given after which re­freshments were served.

Mrs. Bud Willy of Davenport is visit­ing this week at the parental Milt Clark home.

Evening Story AT THE SWING

trv be sure; , hence, also, the con­spicuous absence of the pearls. Leslie had begged her to put them on, say­ing:

"You set them off so It's a shame to leave them in their case,"

Instead of them Amy had only a little gold chaip, twin to that about Leslie's neck. Otherwise there was no likeness between them. Leslie'! limp organdie was palpably faded, her slippers a bit scuffed, her rib­bons crumpled. Further, she had done her hair in the usual sever* fashion. There the rain had helped a bit, bringing tbe loose ends of it into curl, and so framing her mobile face in tendrilly wisps. She really looked her best. Amy's hair, yellow as wheat, was smooth, and beautifully dressed, modishly dressed, to be sure, yet not in such wise as to deform her fine small head.

"Make haste and marry a duke — this head deserves strawberry leaves at least," Leslie had said, touching the golden softness admiringly.

Amy had smiled—she did not aspire to dukes, but it was pleasant to hear she deserved them. After all, Leslie was a good sort. When she herself was safely married, she would set about helping her friend to a like happy estate. Just now such a thing was out of the question. So she had asked young Danforth by way of bal­ancing Leslie. - He was her stand by— they had grown up together upon ad­joining farms, and though gossip had been matching them since he put on long trousers, she had never thought of him as a lover.

Leslie might do worse, from a wordly point. Danforth, if not rich, was comfortably off, withal energetic. But Leslie would never in the world look at him — he bored her. Amy knew it, though Leslie had been al­ways too courteous to say so. Some­what willful, also high-headed, was Leslie. She might have had half the mission million, if only she had agreed to give her life to the cause. Yet now she stood laughing and talk­ing with Danforth, as if he were the one ct-eature In the world she cared to entertain.

Amy stared at her, frowning faintly —then her brow clearing magioally, she said mentally:

"It is coming out beautifully — Lenox Carlyn will think they are sweethearts, if not engaged."

Lenox might have thought so, but for certain prior happenings — the fact that 9 year ago Leslie had been his bethothed. But since she gave no sign of recognition, he accepted the role of new acquaintance with what grace he might. Clearly, he could not say to a wholly new acquaintance: "I was a jealous idiot! Forgive, O forgive me,"

Lenox said it in hln heart over and over throughout the high tea. More than ever he said it when, after the meal, they went in the twilight again out on the lawn.

It was wide and level, richly turfed and set sparsely with giant trees, remnant from the primeval woods. There was a swing in the biggest of them — a tall oak, but branohy. It rtood apart from all the rest, the big boughs spreading many yards on each side. From the stoutest of tbe boughs big hempen cables dangled. The seat was broad enough for two—Afciy and Leslie, side by side, were tossed up many times through wide arcs of dusk. But they were considerate — tossing them was hard play for mid­summer, no matter how gallant the tossers.

.When the swing dangled empty Danforth stepped into it and began to swing himself with a pumping mo­tion. slowly at first, but quickening, quickening, all the while strengthen­ing. until tbe cables stood taut and straight at the check, the circle of motion bounded only by their length.

Any exhibition of strength fascinat­ed Leslie. The full moon rising round and red, showed her heart In the eyes that watched Danforth. Leftox Carlyn, watching her, set his teeth. This bumpkin should not win by mere brute force. As Danforth stepped down Carlyn flung off his coat and

Little, Talks On Babyology

BY ANNA STEESE RICHARDSON

Director of the Better Babies Bureau of the Woman's Home Companion.

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This nurse starts baby's career by washing out his eyes very gently with a piece of gauze, dipped in a weak solution of boric acid, directly she has applied the sterilized dressing to the cord. Then she rubs baby from head to foot with the oil mentioned before, rolls it up in the soft, warm blanket, lays It on its right side and turns her attention to the mother, feeling sure that baby's eyes are safe from Infec­tion.

Later she gives the baby its first sponge bath of warm water and pure spap, taking Infinite care not to dis­turb the dressing of the cord. After the bath she washes out baby's mouth with gauze and a weak solution of boric acid, and throws this piece of gauze away. With a second piece of gauze and more of the acid solution, she then gives baby's eyes a second washing, drevses him, feeds him and tucks him away for his first sleep in perfect cleanliness and perfect com­fort. At firat she uses sterilized gauze for all wash purposes, with old, soft llneh or toweling for drying. Tho gauze is then burned, each towel washed and dried before it is used again. Later baby, when a year old, has a soft wash rag and towels of his own, which no one else is permitted to use, and these are washed and dried as scrupulously as his clothing.

For a week, only the sponge bath is given, baby lying on a bath blanket on the nurse's lap. After that if he is well and strong, he may be bathed in a tub. In households where there is the regulation bathroom this is a simple matter. In other homes, a spe­cial tub is the best, and it must not be used for any purpose except the baby's baths. If the family tub is used, it must be cleaned scrupulously before baby is put into the water. The skin of the newborn baby is very tender and infection Is always at hand. At the Better Babies Contests I heard more than one physioian trace an eruption on « baby's skin to careles3 bathing or care of the tub. Doctors say that bad cases of boils can be traced to an infected tub. In fact, there are women who love theii* babies, yet so thoughtless as to leave diapers soaking in the bath tub, where, after a superficial rinsing off with warm water, baby is bathed. Diapers, all of baby's clothing, in fact, should be soaked and washed in

separate utensils, never In the bath tub.

The bathing of the baby each morn­ing should be a systematic process, never done hastily or carelessly. There should be a thermometer for the room and one for the bath itself. The room thermometer should register from 76 to 80 degrees, Farenbelt. For the first eight weeks of the baby's life, the bath thermometer should show that the water is 100 degrees, F. From two months to six, the temperature should be 98 degrees, F. From six months to twenty-four, it should register from 86 to 80 degrees, F.

The mother who desires to insure her baby good health should not "guess" at the temperature of the water, nor neglect the bath on "busy" days. Baby needs this thorough cleans­ing as much at one year as at one month Hud from that time on he is formi \'iablts and feelings which de­mand i .enrnliness. There is such a thing aB educating a child to endure dirt, from Bheer carelessness.

A baby should not be laid into the tub and hastily sponged off. The operation starts with baby laid com­fortably on a warm blanket, spread on mother's knee. First the face and head are washed with clean gauze and dried. If there Is a tendency to scruff or scales on the head, rub the head every night with sweet-odl, vaseline or oold cream, wash off gently In the morning, and after drying, apply witch hazel or alcohol and water In equal parts. Never use a fine tooth comb to remove these scales. When there is a tendency to persistent growth of scales or milk crust, it may be necessary to sfop washing the head and cleanse it only with oil or cold cream.

Next, the eyes, nose, ears and genitals are washed with a piece of absorbent cotton, wet with a solution of boracic acid and water, a teaapoon-ful of the add to a pint of warm water. This absorbent cotton is then burned or thrown away, never used again.

Now baby is thoroughly soaped, and laid in the tub. Its head firmly sup­ported so that the water does not run into the eyes or ears. A fresh piece of absorbent cotton is used to rinse off tbe soap, the baby is lifted from the water, dried quickly with an old soft towel and powdered. The drying should be done by patting, not by hard rub­bing, and the creases be dried before the talcum powder is applied. . .

(To Be Continued.)

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Kansas City Journal, There are some persons so ungallant as to in­timate that because Mme. Caillaux took a pistol with her and pumped five bullets into Calmette her disavow­al of any purpose to do him injury is not plausible. But the majority of Parisians are more chivalrous.

Cedar Rapids Republican: In Des Moines they defeated the water works issue, also the automatic telephone franchise. They did not want a sec­ond telephone system which is a wise

sufficient1 decision for any city to come to and the addi- as for the water works they were

tional officer. By taking the $600 per j afraid that a two and a half million year tbat Leeny added to the amount j dollar investment might be mlsman-he agreed to accept as mayor of Ot-1 aged by the politicians who might get tumwa, and adding a few dollars each control of it month, the year's salary for another

Rheumatic Twinges

yield immediately to Sloan's Lin­iment. It relieves aching and swollen parts instantly. Reduces inflammation and quietsthat agon­izing pain. Don't rub—it pene­trates.

SLOANS LINIMENT

Kills Pain fives quick relief from chest and hroat affections. Have rou tried

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"My mother baa used one 60c. bottle of Sloan's Liniment, and although she is over 83 years of aire, ahe has ob­tained great relief from,her rbeama-

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I skraped my foot awn the floar while I was going to bed last nite and gave a fearse yell and pop and ma cairn running up, pop saying, Helo, wy yure alive, dont you no noboddy yells like that exsept dying men.

For goodniss sakes its a wundir you woodent friten the life out of a persin, g^ci mg.

I got a splintir in my foot, I Bed. Is that awl, sed pop, I thawt you

Bwallered a telegraff pole at the verry leest

It herts, I sed. Heer, sit awn the edge of the bed

and I'll take it out for you, ma sed. Wich I did, sticking my foot up, and

ma touched the. place and it hert sum-thing fearse and I yelled like enny-thing.

Hay, cut out that rackit, do you no i£s late, sed pop. ,

Goodniss, I havent even touched It yet, sed ma.

Yes you did to, I sed, it herts. Well If you keep quiet jest a sekind

it will be awl ovir, sed ma. I thawt you were a soldier, sed pop. It herts, I sed. So you remarked, sed pop. Now hold still, sed ma. And she

toutched it agen and I yelled werse than the ferst time.

Izent this orfll, sed ma. Im ashamed of him, sed pop, it an

orflll expeerlents to think that yure ony son is a soldier and then diskuvvir hees nuthing but a yeller.

It herts, I aed. Jest to prove that you dont haff to

karry awn like a house afire, sed pop, I heerby awffir a reword of 2 cents for the next boy in this house who has a splintir removed without making a sownd.

G. awl rite, I Bed. And I held out my foot and ma touched the plase agen and I dident make a sownd, and ma sed Well for goodniss sake, thares abslloot-ly nuthing heer, look yourself and see.

Wich I did, and heer thare was ony a red plase without eny splintir at awl.

Nuthing doing awn the reward, sed pop.

And him and ma went down starea agen and I went to bed. '

A big packidge caim for pop yestid-day aftirnoon and ma opened it and wat was in it but a noo bath robe with brown and wlte stripes running awl the way down, and ma held it up, say­ing, Horrers, I dident think even yure farthir wood buy eny thing kwite as ugly as this.

G, ma, it looks like a big salt wattir taffy, I sed. Wich it did, and wen pop caim hoam the ferst thing'he sed was, Mothir, did a packidge kum for me today.

No, O yes, wun did, to, but it was a mistake, sed ma.

Wat do you meen, a mistake, sed pop.

Kum up heer and take a look at it and youll haff to laff sed ma.

And pop caim up Btares and ma showed him tbe brown and wite bath robe saying, its funy how they cood of made sutch a mistake.

How do you meen, a mistake, sed pop.

Wy, you dont think Id suppope for an instint that youd reely buy sutch a hoamly thing, do you, sed ma.

O, no, of korae not, sed pop, I see, you meen they sent hoam the rong wun.

Of korse, sed ma, I nevvir saw sutch a reedickllss thing as this in my life.

It is rather odd looking, izent it, sed pop.

Wy, its posertlvely funy, sed ma, hee hee.

Ha ha, sed pop. , > Hee hee, sed ma. r . ^ % Ha ha, sed pop, it is Bort of funny,

ha ha. I cant imagine how they ewir made

sutch a mistake, sed ma, wat kuller was the wun you reely ordired, sum solid kuller, I sippose.

O yes, sed pop, sura solid kuller. Wat, brown, sed ma. Yes, solid brown, sed pop, I gess Id

bettir take this thing down with me in the moarnlng and get the wun ,1 ordired.

And wen he calm hoam today ha had anuthir packidge and wat was la It but a brown bath robe, looking awl rite.

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leaped into the swaying seat, saying beside him, making to lift his head ^ jl >,<<, ntimiMer "T could do that in her arms. He stirred, moaninx ^ ̂ M over his shoulder, "I could do that

a long time ago — wonder if i have forgotten the trick?"

"Do you forget things easily?" Les­lie asked merrily.

Still over his shoulder he answered, "Depends on what they are—and how much I want to remember." Then ne set the swing in motion as deftly as Danforth had done.

Back and forth, back and forth, he sent it, crouching, swinging up­ward. the arc of motion ever and

in her arms. . He stirred, moaning faint—the others ran to him.

"Call bis mother," Leslie said clearly. "But — tell her, please he is only hurt."

As Lenox groaned again, Bhe laid his head back upon the turf, but left her arm. underneath it. Amy, whltefaced betwixt fright and anger, had hard work not to scream.

"Lenox! Say only you forgive me " Leslie whispered — but Am7 heard. So did the inert man, spent

swiftly widening. He had not for-'and breathless. J'l—love—you." he gotten—the old-time aptitudes came murmured faintly* "It—is—yours — back to him. But they could not to forgive." bring with them boyhood's absolute nervelessness. His, higher, higher, he went — the swooping was like the flight of some great bird. Then he felt himself suddenly dizzy — blind. sick—his muscles grew flacid. With a last desperate rally, he clung trembling to the cables, but on the

Then he lapsed into unconscious­ness. It took weeks to come out of it. Only by a miracle had he es­caped death. Leslie did not leave him — his mother would not hear to It. even If her own heart had not prompted her to stay. When at last h e k n e w t h e m , t h e y b r o k e d v

downBweep his hands unlocked them-1 weeping together tears of the purest selves — he toppled to earth, and lay joy. And the very next day he mar-a crumpled heap on the turf. I ried Leslie—to the disgust and con-

"Lenox! O! You are dead:" founding of Mrs, Amy Danforth, Leslie cried, flinging herself wildly {born Watson. •

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