Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 33, Ligonier, Noble County, 5 November 1908 — Page 6

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HAPPENINGS O h WEEY

PERSONAL. William Montgomery, ex-cashier of the Allegheny National bank, was for the second time found guilty in Pittsburg of embezzlemen and abstraction of funds. Prince Henry of Prussia spent several hours in the air as the guest of Count Zeppelin, who made an ascension in his remodeled airship. Not only did the prince thoroughly enjoy his experience, but he sat at the steering wheel for many miles of the flight. Dr. C. S. Mack, coroner of Laporte county, Indiana, resigned to become pastor of a Swedenborgian church in Toledo, O. Countess Szchenyi, formerly Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, gave birth to a daughter. Will H. Pettis, former county treasuwrer, pleaded guilty at Sac City, la., to embezzling $27,000 of the funds of the county and was sentenced to ten wvears in the penitentiary. Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens of Portland, Maine, was unanimously reelected president of the National Women’'s Christian Temperance union. Edward English, a wealthy lumberman of Mount Vernon, Wash., was kidnaped and forced to write home for $5.000 ransom, but later escaped. Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the liberal government won by a substantial though perhaps somewhat reduced plurality in the Canadian general and parliamentary elections. - President Roosevelt celebrated the 50th anniversary of his birth by working as usual. : William Monigomery, former cashjer of the defunct Allegheny National bank, who was placed on trial on two indictments charging the embezzlement and abstraction of $469,000, was found guilty by a jury in the United States district court at Pittsburg. Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, well known. as an author, announced at Toledo that he would resign the rectorship of the Trinity Episcopal church in that city and accept a call to Kansas City because the Trinity church is incorporated under the state law and so places the rector in an unusual position. Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst of New York has resigned the presidency of the Society for the Prevention of crime, an office which he has held for 17 vears. i

Miss Neeloo Garner, who sued Arthur B. Buzzell, a bank employe of Dixon, 111, for $lO,OOO, alleging breach of promise, was awarded 4 verdict for $9OO by a jury. ; Setting up the plea of the “unwritten law,”. Mrs. Nancy Murrill was acquitted of)a charge of murdering Miss Mary Terry, in the circuit court at Jackson, Ky. Richard La Gallienne, the journalist and author, is seriously ill in a private sanitarium at New York, suffering from double pneumonia and jaundice. For bravery in rescuing two wound/ed comrades in Philippine service, ‘Sergt. Seth T. Weld; now stationed at Camp Atascadero, Cal, has been appointed second lieutenant of the Philippine scouts. ¢

GENERAL NEWS.

With Gov. Curtis Guild, Jr., making an eloquent plea for religious toleration in its broadest and kindest sense, which brought thousands of Catholics to their feet in wild .applause, a:j prominent Catholics delivering - dresses, the opening day of the fivedavs’ observance of the centennial anmniversary of the founding of the diocese of Boston came to a close. The day opened with a pontifical mass in the Holy Cross cathedral, celebrated by the papal delegate to the United States, Most Rev. Diomede Falconio.

Tennessee militia were sent to the wicinity of Obion with orders to shoot on sight any masked men discovered. At Camp Nemo it was belleved the ringleaders and many members of the night riders were among those arrested. Confessions were obtained from several prisoners. Two suffragettes created a scene in the jhouse of commons by chaining themselves to the grille of the ladies’ Zallery and shouting for votes. E. B. Knox, formerly of Knoxville, I, went insane at Phoenix, Ariz, killed his wife and attempted suicide. The Atlantic fleet sailed from Yokohama, one squadron heading for Mamnila and the other for Amoy, where preparations for its entertainment were made. J. Edward Swanson, a mine owner .of LaFayette, Col., was instantly killed fn a coal mine at Buxton, by a fall of siate. ; - g

Troops arrested more than 50 alJjeged night riders at Reelfoot Lake, Tenn., where Capt. Quentin Rankin was murdered. -Lon Seeley, a cowboy in a wild west show, and a policeman killed each other at Gulfport, Miss. Albert V. Wesner, foreman in charge of pipe fillers at the Standard ©Oil plant in Sugar Creek, Mo., was arrested on a capias for buying votes at the August primaries. nqa.mmm Rudolph Donnerstas, alieged counterfeiters, broke juil -Stilas C. McFarland of Jowa, consul-

Rev. Dr. M. W, Stryker, president ot Hamilton college, was dangerously injured in a runaway accident. .

J. W. Hutchinson of Harrison county, Kentucky, a widower with two children, was married to Mrs. Nannie C. Swinford of Cynthiana‘ and killed himself.

INDIANA

Alfred H. Curtis, former president of the National Bank of North America, testified that Charles W. Morse was to blame for the illegal banking transactions of which they are both accused. -

‘Erick Els was decapitated at the American Steel & Wire{ Company mills at Cleveland, 0., by a red-hot wire which coiled about his neck.

The arrest of three youths has cleared up the mystery of the robbery of a bank in Chihuahua, Mexico, of $185,000 last March. Most of the money was recovered. ~ M. W. Bayliss of Washington was elected sovereign grand commander of the supreme council of the Scottish Rite Masons.

A Chicago jury awarded Hugh Crabbe $416.66 back salary from Joe Leiter’s Zeigler Coal Company. - M. Sergueieff, Russian minister to Servia, was detained at the frontier by Austro-Hungarian police, ' and roughly handled. . Nicholas Tschaikovsky, the Russian patriot who has been imprisoned in St. Petersburg for nearly a year, ‘was released on bail. i Private Mike Beneham of the First cavalry, who ran amuck at Manila and killed four of his comrades, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Forty Yaquis .were killed in a battle with Papago Indiang in Sonora, Mexico. . j : Mrs. J. 1. Petrie of New York was robbed of $1,700 worth of jewelry on a San Francisco street car.

‘“Ted”Burton, under arrest at Reelfoot Lake, Tenn., confessed that information he gave led to the murder of Capt. Quentin Rankin and implicated many persons in the night rider outrages there.. A. H. Curtis, co-defendant with Charles W. Morse, the New York financier accused of violating the national banking laws, took the stand in his own defense, promising to reveal everything. Edward Cook & Co., soap-makers, obtained a libel judgment of $115,000 against certain English newspapers owned by L()rd Northceliffe, which charged that the company was attempting to form a trust. B The Bulgarian government decided ro agree t(*&:y compensation to Turkey and dis®arged 60,000 reservists.

T. G. Jones, a prominent merchant of Holland, Va., was shot from ambush and killed.

Henry Bennett filed suit for $lOO,OOO damages in Louisville, Ky., for night rider abuses, naming a large number of well-known persons as defendants. Denny Hazel, convicted of murder, escaped from jail at Eureka, Cal, leaving his jailer ldcked in the ceil. Official dispatches give the losses in the typhoon and floods in Caygan province, Philippine Islands, as 800 lives and $1,000,000 in property. ‘

The Fidelity Funding Company of New York, which was organized in 1898 to lend money on the property of Catholic institutions throughout the United States, went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $3,941,027 and assets of $3,579,315.. - The pope has decided on a special consistory for the nomination of three cardinals for the United States.

Four mén were arrested at Laporte, Ind., for jury bribing in connection with the suit for alienation of affect'iyqpsbrought by Stephen Jaunovitsch, a gypsy. i

Fire at Salisbury Beach, Mass., destroyed the New Era hotel and many summer cottages. ) ] As the result of failure of juries in Springfield, 111.,, which have tried race riot cases to tonvict, a sweeping decision was rendered by Judge James A. Creighton in, the; Sangamon county circuit court, quashing the petit jury panel, purging the jury -box and. rendering the county juryless. The supreme court of Illinois declared the new loan shark law invalid.

Foul play is suspected in the mysterious death at Lima, 0., of 0. Warren Smith, aged 76, Prohibition candidate for probate judge in Allen county. :

Temporary insanity will be the defense of Capt. Peter C. Hains, Jr., U. S. A, who killed William E. Annis at the Bay Side Yacht club landing last August. - Ethel Hart Jackson Zimmerman of New York, the well-known actress and singer, was married in Philadelphia to Benoni Lockwood; Jr., also of New York. : B

The First State bank of Fallis, Okla., was robbed of $3,500 in currency and gold.. George Schmake, the bookkeeper, was arrested qn suspicion of knowing something about the robbery. Lugo and Nobledo, leaders of the Mexican revolutionists who raided the town of Viescas in Mexico last June, have been sentenced to be shot. Secretary Root refused to issue a warrant of extradition sought for by Russia in the case of Jan Janoff Pouren, a political refugee. ; The wholesale grocery house of R. A. Bartley in Toledo, 0., was burned, the loss being $300,000. ¢ . The Y. M. C. A. building at South Bend, Ind., erected by Studebaker Brothers’ Manufacturing Company at a cost of $250,000, was dedicated and formally given over to the association. Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks made the principal address. ; . A dispatch to the London Daily News from Belgrade says the Servian government has called out all the first reserves and has ordered khaki for thé troops, 300 Maxim guns and 400 military’ automobiles. : Miss Katherine C. Harley of the Fall River (Mass.) Golf club won the woman’s national golf championship ‘at the Chevy Chase tournament. After ‘a quarrel with his wife Charles Smith, an aged farmer of Poseyville, Mich., shot and killed William Duchan, a neighbor, at whose home Mrs. Smith had taken refuge, tnu then committed suicide.

Charged with fomenting a revolution on United States soil against a friendly nation, Precillano G. Silva and Lecantio Trevino were found gullity by a jury in the United States court at Bl Paso, Tex.

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Atami! The name calls up one of the strangest and loveliest. spots in Japan, a place where the orange trees seam to be in perpetual fruit, where warm winds ‘blow almost-all the year round, yet where the sea rolls in with unceasing thunderings, loud as on any Atlantic coast, to be drowned in their turn by the terrific roar of the geyser, which bursts forth thrice in the 24 hours, clouding the air with its fierce white steam. On either side of the smooth curves of the bay the rocks run far out into the * sea—black, forbidding - rocgs, honey-combed with deep caves, where you can row through arched waterways, rough and crested by the everlasting breakers beyond, and come out into the sunshine again accompanied by huge sea-birds startled from their eyries by.the passage of your boat. Your boatman must steer carefully, for the depths are spiky with submerged crags running up to the daylight, here and there, in island spires, where scarlet lilies have taken root and are waving their flaming banners in the midday sun. That is in high summer; but if it be winter, the land may be clothed in snow, the sea is one stretch of frosty diamond and sapphire, softened in the foreground by clouds of surf that breaks over the rocks in pearly spray, bluish in the shade and rosy gold where it leaps high against the sun. And behind you, through the foot-hills, one road to the outer world runs low between groves of greenest trees covered with the tiny fiery globes c¢. the Mandarin orange, which will cnly grow in warm and sheltered spots. Directly behind the town the other road winds through the rice fields, up to the ruined temple in whose grove stands the oldest tree in Japan, the great camphor tree, reputed to have lived for a thousand years. Still it flings out tent above tent of radiant verdure, though its base is so worn and bollow that a little chapel has been made in the trunk, with a seat where travelers can rest and meditate on the superfority of trees to men. No wonder that earth clothes gratefully the venerable roots of this patriarch tree! Agas ago, the local wise men say, when the geyser tore its way up from the heart of the world, it belched its boliling flood into. Atami bay and killed «ll the fish, so that the peorle were desperate, seeing their livelihood destroyed before their eyes. Then the good priest of the temple, praying earnestly for his flock, threw a branch of the sacred tree on the sea, commanding the boiling spring to return to earth and do no more damage. Instantly it obeyed; and 1 am sure that the priest, like a practical Japanese, took advantage of its submission to set reasonable hours for its bubblings up, for, since the memory of man, it returns every eight hours, filling the hundreds of water-pipes that are laid to carry it away and provide hot water for the inhabitants of Atami. ~ Dropping from here and wandering

Wellesley Grows Mammoth Squash. A squash weighing 656 pounds and big enough to furnish the substance for a pie of sufficient size to feed a goodly number of persons is an agricultural curiosity that. was. grown without special care by Frank G. Murphy of Cedar street, Wellesley, says the Boston Globe. : Five times the size of an ordinary squash, the mammoth vegetable is attracting a great deal of -curiosity among the skilled farmers of Wellesley. Mr. Murphy planted his squash patch in June. The patch had ordinary care during the summer, but no special pains were taken to raise vegetables of more than ordinary size or excellence. Like Topsy in the old and familiar melodrama, the mammoth squash “just growed,” along with nearly a dozen others which fell short of weighing 656 pounds by a matter of 20 to 30 pounds apiece.

I Johnny's Lamb, < Johnny had a little lamb, His fleece was black as night; ; And he could butt to beat the band. For he was built to fight, - - w=Chicago Daily News.

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through a hundred aspects of the evervarying Japanese scenery, there is a footpath to Miyanoshita; but one must leave Atami at daybreak to reach that little warm-bath paradise before dark, and then one will be very health. ily tired! The Atami fishermen are rough, rather saturnine fellows, accustomed to the hardest work and the most constant risks. They have to beat out a considerable distance for their catch, and the sea round those coasts is as capricious as a spoilt child, smiling at one moment and going intb rages at the next. The boats keep pretty close together, and run to harbor (with an alacrity that is instructive as to the strength of the storms) at the first symptoms of a squall. So many have never come home at all!

Although Atami is but a short distance down the coast from Tokyo, change and progress have made but little way there. 7The old beliefs hold tenaciously, perhaps because they are really the oldest beliefs of all, and the men who wrest a living from the sea are those who come closest to the untamed elements in nature, and, therefore, have more of the primeval man in their composition than any inland folk can retain. What can representative government and higher education do for the toilers of the sea? Their business is with an element that laws cannot bind nor armies terrorize, that will smile or frown at its own mysterious will, as it has smiled and frowned since the world began. So they let the new instruction preach to those who lead easier lives than theirs, and they cling to the old observances which give them Yope, and incidentally bring some gaiety into their own hard lives. '

Very different from. the deep-sea | fisherman'’s life is that of the river and : canal boatman. With its one sail set l to catch the softly constant breeze, his little craft winds in and out of the endless waterways that are mnever rufled by off-shore storms, and draws into snug shelter when the steady Japanese rain pours down. The in-‘ land boatman sees, perhaps, more of the country than any of his fellow-in-habitants, and he has less trouble than most of them in providing for his wants. The river fish are rather poor ‘ in flavor compared with those of the® great “Black Salt,” as the local gulf stream is called; but they are readily caught and furnish many a good meal. The Japanese are all fond of fishing; it suits their patient, philosophic temperaments. I have heard prim, elderly court ladies acknowledge that it was the one relaxation which gave them real pleasure. I am sure they envied, as I often did, the life of the river boatman, who, never hurried in the delivery of his cargo of rice or straw, stones or earthenware, can cast his netted stone down for an anchor under the shade of a spreading tree, throw a line and wait for the gladdening nibble that is sure to come in time. : ‘

Novelties in Hatpins.

Hatpins have come to be such an important feature of the modern chapeau that she who can make them for herself and have pins to harmonize with every hat is indeed fortunate. Sealing wax can be used with charming effect by those who have the requisite skill in the manufacture of hatpins, and apparently to meet this demand the wax of the markets has taken on the most artistic colors. There are rumors also of a preparation in which real flowers /can be dipped, coming out all silvered or golden or coppered, as the case may be, the finished product being used tc head a hatpin. :

The Mightiness of Truth.

“Truth is mighty,” said the moral ist. , ;

“Yes,” rejoined the demoralizer, “ft is mighty scarce.”—Chicago Daily News. {

Strange. : - When debts pile up, 'Tis then we know, -~ ; Although it's strange, = That down we go. e ~Detroit Free Presa

David Grieves for Absalom

‘Sunday School Lesson for Nov. 8, 1908 Specially Arranged for This Paper

- LESSON TEXT.—2 Samuel 18:24-33. Memory verse, 33. ; GOLDEN TEXT.—*“A foolish son is o grief to his father.”’—Prov. 17:25. : TlME.—Three months after our last lesson. . PLACE.—Jerusalem and Mahanaim, a fortified town east of the Jordan, near the Jabbok, memorable for Jacob’s wrestling in prayer. Half way between the Dead sea and the Sea of Galilee. The battlefield was in the Wood of Ephraim in Gilead, east of the Jordan, within one day of Mahanaim. Comment and Suggestive Thought. The day that David left saw Absalom taking possession of the throne. Rejecting the shrewd advice of Ahithophel, he waited till he could gather a great army with which to attack and overcome his father. i This was fatal. David and his two generals, the greatest in all Israel, planned and organized their forces for defense only, so far as David was concerned. .

Absalom reigned three months, and during that time not one good thing is recorded concerning him. He was as great a failure as a king as he was as a man; and for the same reason—he was selfish. He wanted to be king for his own pleasure. He had no kingly aims or ideals. Apparently self-conceit was the reason why he followed Hushai’s advice, for that wily enemy of his put before him «a picture of himself at the head of an immense army, like a world-con-queror, and all the nations, as it were, singing ‘“Hail to the Chief.” Among many other significant de‘'vices, some beyond the seas have a picture of a man, with a full-blown bladder on his - shoulders, another standing by and pricking the bladder with a pin; the motto: “How suddenly!” hinting thereby the sudden downfall - of all worldly greatness. — Spencer. ¥

A man selfish in his inmost soul can never attain true success. Selfishness ruins health, ruins conscience, ruins judgment. : . “Amidst the scattered fight Absalom was separated from his men, and as he fled from a party of the enemy, the mule on which he rode carried him beneath the low branches of a spreading terebinth and left him hanging by the head, probably in a forked bough. Perhaps, also, his long, thick hair got entangled, but there is nothing to support the common idea that he was suspended merely by the hair.” Josephus says distinctly that Absalom’s hair was entangled. “The first soldier who came up spared his life because of the king’s command, and went to tell Joab. The_unscrupulous chief hurried to the spot and thrust three javelins into Absalom’s heart. There was probably a true regard for the king and kingdorgein this act of Joab. He knew that Absalom could not with safety be suffered to live, and that it would be difficult to rid the state of so foul a member at any other time than now, when a just right to slay him had been earned in open battle.”— Kitto. Absalom’s body -was cast into a great pit, and a great heap of stones was cast upon him, either in detestation of his memory or as a monument to distinguish the place. V. 33. “Went up to the chamber.” To be alone in his sorrow. The deepest sorrow “treads the wine-press alone.” “And wept.” “Tears are the safety-valves of the heart.” “O my son Absalom!” “There is not in the whole of the Old Testament aspassage of deeper pathos than this. The simple beauty of the narrative is exquisite; we are irresistibly reminded of him who, while he beheld the rebellious city of Jerusalem and thought of the destruction it was bringing upon itself, wept over it (Luke 19:41).”— Cook. “Would God I had died for thee.” “So Moses (Ex. 32:32), and so St. Paul (Rom. 9:3), would have ‘sacrificed themselves, had it been possible, to save others. His wish to die in Absalom’s stead was no mere extrav.gance of grief.” e

A Comtrast.—We have before ug in this lesson the last days of {two marked men; both have sinned gr?ﬁ-. 1y; one was young, the other old; they had different points of view; they looked at their sin in a different light; they acted differently in view of it; their characters were different, and the close of their careers ¢iffered. oz

Absalom and His Sin.—He was young; he sinned with his whole nature; he kept on sinning to the eng, with no hint of repentance, with no alleviation of character.. He did not repent even as much as Esau, who regretted the consequences of his action with strong crying and tears.

David’s sin was an incident—a very terrible incident—in a very great and useful life. It was a dangerous eddy, like the whirlpool below the Niagara falls; but it was brief, it was not the main current of his life. ‘He repented, and all his after life showed sinners the way of repentance, the possibilities of repentance and restoration. It has been a sermon for almost 3,000 years on the tender mercies and forglving love of aqur Father in heaven. Absalom from out the far-off past is still pointing our modern youth 'to certain great lessons his career teaches us:

() “The way of transgressors is hard”

(2) The success of the wicked is short, ahd then he is like chaff which the wind bloweth away. “Not considering that the successes of the foolish and wicked form the first rod of their chastisement.” - (3 Sin is sometimes attractive at first, but at last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. (4) The way to true success is not through disobedienee to parents, (5) No failure is so terrible as the failure of a life; no ruin like the ruin of a soul. i

(6) The death of the wicked I{s lighted by no ray of hope. ‘ (7)) They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind. L

s”mi’ Not Always a Virtue, There is a time when silence is an excellent quality and a noble virtue, and there is a time when It shows a lack of moral courage and great cow: ardice.—H. Lee. 4

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. Of all the products derived .from wild animals, furs are the most gseful and valuable. Indispensable to primitive man, they are scarcely less important to the most civilized, for in warmth, beauty and durability- no manufactured fabrics excel them. But expanding civilization is steadily diminishing the supply of furs, both by increasing the demand and by encroaching upon the territory in which they are produced. Many furs, like ivory, whalebone, and other natural commodities, already are so scarce that the demand for them is met largely by the substitution of inferior products. Activity in the pursuit of furbearing animals and development of system in handling and marketing the furs have reached a degree scarcely to be surpassed. Therefore the growing and world-wide demand for furs of high quality can be met only by increasing the number of the animals producing them. This at once suggests that fur bearers may be propagated in confinement, and that by this means an important industry may be, developed. The idea is not new, for the domestications of fur-bearing animals has been the subject of considerable thought and experiment in the past. Most of the early enterprises were devoted to the smaller and less valuable animals, as skunks and minks, and seldom advanced beyond theoretical or experimental stages; but results of considerable importance have been obtained recently with the blue fox in Alaska and with the silver fox in eastern North America.

The biological survey as yet has not investigated the Alaska blue fox industry, but a study of silver fox raising has been” made, in the course of which a number of persons engaged in the business were visited and their methods examined. From this study it appears that although many experiments have failed, a few have suc-

ceeded to an extent indicating important possibilities for the future. It may be stated, however, that success is not due to following any set. of rules, since. much depends upon the personal fithess of the one conducting the undertaking. It is to be remembered also that as a business fox raising is still in the experimental stage, and that even the most successful breeders are subject to a percentage of failure. : ‘The name ‘silver fox,” as commonly used by furriers, includes the dark phases of the ordinary red fox, variously called silver,:silver-gray, silverblack, or black. The animal is the common fox (vulpes fulvus), of northern North America, . the- crafty Reynard of the books, closely allied to the European fox. It should not be confused with the gray fox, or tree fox, of the southern part of the United States, a very different animal’ the fur of which has comparatively; little value. Naturalists distinguish several speéies and subspecies, the characters of which are not important in Qe present connection. The color of the red fox of the northeastern states and of its allies of the colder parts of North America varies from red to black, and

WINDOW DECORATING

The head waiter spoke severely. “Why did you give that country couple a window table?” he said. “They took it, sir,” the waiter answered. : : “Took it? Why did you let them take it? Couldn’t you have told them it was engaged?” : . Then, all bows and smiles, the head waiter made the country couple change to a secluded table behind a post, and five minutes later he gave the window table they had occupied to a young millionaire in London and a chorus girl in Paris clothes. “We dress our windows,” the head waiter explained to a guest. “We put our best gocds in the windows, as shopkeepers do. That attracts a good line of trade to us—the line that drinks champagne and smokes halfdollar cigars. But if we allowed any one to grab our window tables the public passing by would put us down as cheap, and a cheap clientele would coiie in and order steak and fried potatos, -\ e

these extremes, with the gradations between them, form four more or less distinct phases, respectively known as red, cross (or patch), silver, and black. In the red phase the animal is entirely rich fulvous, except restricted black markings on the feet and ears, a white area at the end of the tail, and certain white-tipped hairs on the back and rump. From this phase to the next the black increases in extent until, in the typical cross fox, the black predominates on the ‘feet, legs, and underparts, while the = fulvons overlaying black covers most of the head, shoulders, and back. A gradual increase of the black and eliminaticn of the fulvous or its replacement by white brings us to the next phase, the 'silver (or silver-gray), in which no fulvous appears, the entire pelage beiqg dark at the base and heavily er lightly overlain with grayish white. Silver foxes vary from those in' which the color is entirely grizzled to those in which it is entirely black, except a few white-tipped hairs on the back and rump. Finally, inghe black phase, the white is absent from all parts except the fip of the tail, which is white in all phases. The red phase is much more abundant than the others, but the three interbreed freely _and ‘wherever one occurs occasional examples of the others also may be expected. In general the cross fox is fairly common, the silver-gray is comparatively scarce, and the pure black is excessively rare. :

Foxes, especially red foxes, have been kept alive in zoological collections and by private individuals since early . historic times. Owing ‘to the value of its fur, however, the silver fox seldom has been confined longer than necessary for it to attain marketable condition. The persons most likely to obtain the live animals have been farmers and woodsmen, to whom immediate returns were of such importance that few cared to risk experimentation for the sake of future profits. Only in recent yvears and in most cases' only after experience with the less valuable red foxes have serious attempts been made to raise silver foxes. Of some 20 parties known to have engaged in breeding them, one began'ls years ago and another eight years ago, while all the others undertook the business within the last five years. Those who have persevered in spite of early failures have in the end attained considerable success. Some have become discouraged and have discontinued after a few years, while others are now just beginning and their experience is too slight to be of much value in determining the practicability .of the business. Most of them are men of small means living in sparsely settled regions. Their original stock has been obtained chiefiy by taking the young from the dens of wild foxes. In some cases small stock companies have been formed and considerable sums of money invested in land, equipment, and breeding stock.

Sometimes a young man _thinks he has lost his heart, when he has only lost his head. =

“Yes, we dress our windows. Sometimes we lunch pretty artresses for nothing. They make such good bait.” Useless Wedding Presents. There is a certain fascination in watching the wedding presents that overwhelm Winston Churchill. They have come, butter dishes, clocks, cigarette cases, books, tables, ash ‘trays and all manner of superfluities, by the crateful. Kindness without imagination, one would suspect. For it is not to be supposed that Mr, Churchill wants more butter dishes than the Savoy or more cigarette cases than he can carry. A dreadful lack of imagination runs through the wedding gifts to Mr, Churchill, and it is always hard to hit the thing two people embarking on a new life would welcome. —London Chronicle. 5 ol RN The rose that she wore in her hair : ‘May wither and fade, but I'm sure, ~Muc e to enduye.. . - .

Ine of the : & ' of the happy homes of to-day is » vass fund of information as to the best m=ihods right living and knowledge of the worlds best ucts. : . Prod of actusl excellence’ =nd asonable claims truthfully presented and which have attained to world-%ide accep through the approval of the Well-Informed of the World; not of individuals |only, but of the many who hawve the happy faculty of selecting and obtaining the/best the world affords. ~ One of the products of that class, of known component parts, an Bthicsl remedy, approved by physicians and commended by the Well-Informed of the World asa valuable and wholesome family: laxative is the well-known Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine, manafact by the California Fig Syrup Co, only, and for sale by all leading druggists. . BY WAY OF COMPARISON. 5 | £ Youngster’s First Efforts in the’ Realm of Natural History. ; Fouriyear-old Clyde was a precocious youngster—very talkative :nd,'a close observer. He and his father were strolling through the meadows’ one momiE when Clyde observed, for the first time, some tadpoles in a pond. He waded in and cried out in delight: “Oh, father, what are they?” 3 . ‘Tadpoles, son,” thevta;ber repliad. “Please, father, let’s take them all bome with us, then come back =and find the mamma and papa, #ad well have t?:e #whole family in our pond at home.’

The | father explained how impossible this would be, and as he walked on a few |steps a large ugly frog hopped across their path. Clyde’s father said: “Look, son, perhaps there is the papa™ Clyde was very thoughtful He looked at the frog, then at his father, then at himself and exclaimed: “Well, father, was there ever so much difference between me and you?” : i , EXPERT. o e ) w— FEaNs . & f A -' ,—" ‘: | &l SB, %ﬁf/, | l / / ;,f,' . forwm | Vs > "/ A s L“ s H - Doc Ahem—You seem to cough -with considerable difficulty this moreing. : Patient—That’s very strange. I've been | practicing all night! : - The Still Alarm. ;A ﬁk:urist in an outof-the-way region of England put up one night at am amiable old lady’s cottage, the village ian being full | , Now, the tourist was very desal which fact he took pains to imgress upon| the old lady, together with imstructions to wake Jhim at a particulsr hour|in the morning. . . : On waking a great deal later tham the time appointed, he found that the amiable old lady, with a commendable regard for propriety, had slipped umder his door a slip of paper on which was |written:

“Sir, it is half-past eight!"—Harper's Weekly. . L

What the Rod Was For.

Mose Fowler was cbserved by his pastor with a long fishing rod in his hand . ! ~ “My goodness, Mose Fowler!™ exclaimed the minister, “is vo’ goin® fishin’ at yo’ age?” : “No, I ain’t goin® fishin’. suh.” protested Fowler. “I know it aint seemly, suh, but yo' sermon las’ Sunday on sparin’ de rod made sich an impression on me, suh, gt I done borrer dis rod off Dick ins, an’ I'se goin” T stan’ mah whole thuteen chillen in a row, |[subh, an’ jés’ make one good job outer it, so’s they won't spifé; an’ den 1 return de rod wif a 2 cl'ar conscience, suh.” . ' 2

- ASTONISHED THE DOCTOR Old Lady Got Well with Change of ‘ : Food. ¢ | T A ﬁ‘reat scientist has said ‘we-can pat off “old age” if we can only nourish the body ‘ properly. ! : To \do this the right kind of food. of course, is necessary. The body manmfactures poisons in the stomach and intestines from certain kinds of food . stuffs and unless sufficient of the right kind js used, the injurious elements -overcome the good. . : : : “My\ grandmother, 71 years old” writes a N. Y. lady, “had been am in“valid for 18 years from what was called \consum;mm of the stomach and t bowels. The doctor had given her up to die. | ~ “I saw so much about Grape Nuts that I persuaded Grandmother/'to try ° * it." She could not keep anvthing on her stomach for more than a few minutes. . “She began Grape-Nuts with only = her and as she could retain it, she took a little more until she could take all of 4 teaspoonfuls at a meal “Then she began to gain and grow ' strong and her trouble in the stomach was gone entirely. She got to enjoy good health for one so old and we knov‘rG‘Nmuﬂlulp, : - “The doctor was astonished that instead of dying she got well, and with_out a drop of medicine after she began the Grape-Nuts.” “There's a 2 Reason™ _are genuine, true, and full of humas