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BY EDGAR ILIFF. . . While the history of clubi In earlier England is interesting it lacks the fascination -of the annals of the English coffee houses. In the reign of Queen Anne coffee house history be- ' comes a great sweeping river, carrying upon its bosom the manners and morals of the people., When we slide into club life we seem to have become -moored in- a little quiet nook while the great rushing waterB have passed us by. Ben Franklin, besides being about everything else, was an ideal club

man. When he lived in lxraaon ne visited" frequently the Royal Society Club. He also had a club of his own which met every Thursday evening at a coffee "house In St. Paul s churcnyard. Here he ' met clergymen and mon t ldonr and his eenial soul must have been truly at home. His delightful letters home abound with wit and anecdote. ' He always referred to the Junto Club, founded by himaeif in PhiladelDhia. with great affec tion". There are a few bright spots in the coffee bouse days, but yet they ( were dark and troublous times. I never open the pages of history of the time but I shudder, just as one does i.over the lurid lineB of Juvenal and Suetonius. " Describes Bad Features. There was crime that was brutal, ivice that was disgusting, women deI based and' frivolous, and amusements Ircoarse and , Inhuman. There were prisons, etocks, pillories, witches, ghosts, goblins, drunkards, thieves, robbers,- highwaymen, rakes, black-o-imrria miackB. There were great schemes for rapid wealth,' gambling mnA l Tiiibiio'i distaste tor slow ana Uteady aln. There was in cities one sin ihon to verv ten nouses, signs hung at tavern doors, "Drunk for a penny, dead drunk for two pence, ana tr&w for nothing." In tavern cellars they kept dirty straw litters to cast drunken beasts upon until they soDered up. In . one year 14,000 persons did in Tendon from gin drinking. i There were ' no homes as we now ! have them. There were the gallows always groaning, .the . death cart forever creaking; rows of white-faced women awaiting death by hanging for stealing bread for famishing children; little children working, workingdreadful sights in a heathen world; women doing pack-horse work; toilers going it sixteen hours a day and no more rights in .law than horses; there I were discontent, poverty, privilege, ! profligacy; shrieks of wretched wornen flogged; groan and piercing tries .of animals tortured in public amusements; the clergy drunken and indifr ferent; and over all a church preacbiing the gospel of despair. : No wonder !that Sydney Smith said: "What a pity that we have no amusements in ' England except vice and religion." John Wesley Arose. I love to think that from that sea of ;woe and misery there arose one John ! Wesley, who threw to the winds all the ancient and putrid ideas of higher and lower classes, and declared that ithe church was for the people. T Invn in think that from that seathing social caldron there came up a most remarkable people, called in derision, "Quakers," beginning with the name "Friends" a people of whom not one good word is uttered in all the literature of Queen Anne's reign; a people who, nevertheless, discovered and preached the essential democracy of the gospels;-a people who through the most barbarous religious persecution in history held steadfastly to the doctrine of man's equality; a people who effected a revolution without shedding a brop of blood or striking One blow in retaliation. Democratic institutions and representative governments owe much to the steady and unswerving example of the early Quakers perhaps as much as to the literature of Socrates and Plato or the philosophies of Descartes and Leibnitz. They are the only religious sect calling . forth praise from Paine and Voltaire. England was visited by Voltaire for the sole purpose of going to see English Quakers and he was well received. Voltaire also contemplated migrating to Pennsylvania to live In a Quaker settlement. Give Labor Dignity. A body of people who gave dignity to labor" by laboring themselves, and who denied the value of all learning except that which the world appropriates by its own intelligence, had in Its grasp a lever to move the world; and its teaching of equality and the high worth of all useful labor must yet rule society or else our ideals are phantoms. It is a dream of the time, yet far away, where man shall be erect, unbiassed, scepterless, crownless, swordless, gunless, king over himself; just, gentle, mild the dream of all philosophers from Plato to us. i The sentiments of Thomas Paine on the equality of man are the inheritances he received from his mother, who was an English Quakeress. It must be said in the face of all the slurs heaped upon the memory of this patriot, that when he arose in the AN OLD-FASHIONED MAN. Hs Tour father said lie " wouli never consent to our marriage until J went to work! . She (sadly) Father is so oracticaJ

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French Assembly and begged for the lives of the King and -Marie Antoinette, and denounced . capital punishment as murder, the .bloody Murat pointed a finger of scorn at Paine; and screamed: "That man ' is a Quaker, and the principles of his religion are-too-narrow for him to sit in judgment on Kings." ; - ; ( Principles Were Broad. His principles were not narrow-, but broad as heaven and earth, and they were the blood of mercy and compassion drawn from his mrther's. tender heart. Is it not a matter for rejoicing that we have seen' great things done that from a. church of inhumanity and despair, we have come to a great, broad, free and civilized church ; from drunken parsons and chaplains less honored and more reviled than the fools - of Kings we have arisen to a body of clergymen who "plant not their faith in blood, who play not the tyrant, but stoop to polish, succor and redress and build their grandeur on the public good?" - ., , Clean Literature Comes. . From a literature debased and defiled we have come to the glorious heritage of England and America, the clean and broadly human literature of Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, LongI fellow. Holmes, Whlttier and Emerson. These men never .stopped to conquer. And besides, from a system of education intended only for the sons of lords, we have come to schools where the blackest child of the blackest man can go; and from a time when to Copyright 1916, by the McClure Bennie Dog saw Tcmmle Cat coming down the road with a pole over his shoulder and carrying a basket. "Where are you going?'' asked Bennie Dog. "1 am going fishing; v.anC to come alons?" said Toinmie Cat. - "Oh, I can catch them if I want to." said Bennie Dog. 1 "I know a lot about fishing. I caught a whale once." Bennie Dog tvaa so pleased to think Tommie Cat envied him that he began to believe he really had caught a whale, when the truth was Bennie Dog had never been fishing in all his life. "Oh! I'll show you how to fish," said Bennie Dpg, looking very important and trotted along with Tommie Cat; "but of course you know whales cannot be caught .every day, and it takes a long time sometimes to get even a bite." "What kind of bait do you use to catch a whale, Bennie Dog?" "Bait?" asked Bennie Dog, looking very wise. "Let me think; it was so long ago that I have almost forgotten ; what do you use for fist?" "I use worms. I have some here in this can," said Tommie Cat. "Oh! I guess worms will do as well as anything." said Bennie Dog; whales are not very particular about bait." v So Tommie Cat baited the hook and threw it into the water, and then he said, "I guess you had better take the pole, Bennie Dog. because you know more about whale fishing than I do. I never caught anything bigger than a three-pound fish." "Is that so?" said Bennie Dog, taking the pole and looking very important. "Oh, my! , I have seen whales that weighed six pounds, and I have heard of them weighing twelve pounds." "A whale, twelve pounds?" said Tomime Cat, looking very hard at Bennie Dog. "Why. all the pictures I ever saw of whales looked as big as a house." "Did you ever see a live whale?" asked Bennie Dog, looking into the water intensely. "No, I have only seen pictures,"" confessed Tommie Cat. "I don't think whales are biting today," said Bennie Dog, after a while, hoping Tommie Cat would say they would come tomorrow; and then he would see to it that Tommie Cat did not find him, and so get out of having to confess he never saw . a whale or caught one; but just then Bennie Dog felt the pole pull, and when he tried to pull it out of the water, he found it was too beavy. Bennie Dog tugged at the pole, and Tommie Cat watched him with wideopen eyes. . v "I guess you will have to help with this whale; it must be one of the big ones," said Bennie Dog. Tommie Cat grabbed the end or the pole, and both looked at the end In the water, with bulging eyes, Timmie Cat expecting to see a whale come out of the water, and Bennie Dog not knowing what to expect, but he was ready to run if.it was anything very terrible, and so was Tommie Cat, for the thought of a real live whale did not seem very safe for him. They pulled and pulled, and then, all of a sudden,' something gave way and over went Tommie Cat and Bennie Dog on top jof him; and some-,

teach was a confession of direct poverty, when knowledge hung her head as fashion and titles passed, we have seen the- sehool master occupying the highest places. . Again,, we know that from a little news sheet, whose editor was hung and quartered for telling the truth, there has sprung up the vast newspapers of today, "the tongue of the world." Instead of spiking editor's heads before the city gates we send them as ambassadors to foreign nations: -; Morality Now Counts, v From a drunken age. with no one to cry, out against it, we have arrived at a 'point where morality, religion, intelligence, science and every good agency man or woman can marshal are pointing' the finger of scorn and shame at intemperance. From a social condition where the laborer, worked far into the night for pitiful pay, with no protection or rights, we have come to a day when no political .party dare go before the people without paying Its respects to the dignity and sacredness of all usefull toil. We have . arisen from a debased social system, where woman was cut off from every higher and better way, to a place where every .avenue of learning, -every path of employment and every field of honor is thrown open to her. It is no longer a disgrace for woman to know anything. It is no longer an honor to her to be a dependent, feeble creature like Jane Austen's characters. The world is ber's for the asking if she remembers that she is a woman. Newspaper Syndicate, New York, thipg black went flying over their heads on the end of the line. Neither of them stopped to look at what they had caught; they scrambled to their feet in a jiffy, and away they ran as fast as if the whole whale family were after them, never stopping until they were safe behind a fence in a field. Both of them felt very "Silly, and did not speak for a minute or so; then Tommy Cat said: "What did "you run for? He'll get away." "Why did you run?" said Bennie Dog. - "You caught that whale as much as I did; you better go back and take him off the hook. I don't like fish anyway." "I don't want a whale to eat," said Tomie Cat. "I only wanted to- catch one; you take him off the hook; you know more about them than I do. "I'll go back with you," said Bennie Dog; "but it is your whale, so you must unhook him." Back they went and very cautiously approached the place where the pole was lying on the ground. They did not see anything at first, and when Benine Dog and Tommie Cat looked at the end of the line and looked at each other in a very silly way. for on the end of the line was an old coat, and not a whale at all. "Well, that is the way to catch a whale, anyway," said Bennie Dog. You can fish for one now by your self, Tommie Cat. I have showed you how it is done." Tomorrow's story Why "Elephants Fear Mice." WEDS ON DEATHBED COLUMBUS, Ind., May 9. Harry Schoolcraft, who was married on what physicians said was his deathbed, to Miss Tot Burnett, is now said to be recovering. HER ACTIONS. Were her actions precipitous? Yes, she put up a great bluit Natives of Algeria bury with their dead all the medicine used in their last illness. '

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which promptly and surely relieve constipation indigestion, biliousness ana sick headache. They are compounded from drugs of vegetable A Great Aid to Health . Directions of apecUl vmlae to women with every box " -Sold by druggist throughout the world. la boxes, lOe, 25c." "

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- -jt yjswjta - INSIGNIA G'VCN HUiJS WBMDEB SoZ.HC.S Unstinted praise of ' the spirit of wounded British soldiers i& givn by Miss Mildred Elsie Graves of West Roxburv. who has iuat -returned from the English hospital at Wimereux, ranee, sue was a member of the second Harvard - unit of nnrses. and the youngest nurse in the hospital. HELEN and WARREN Warren.i with his unerring instinct ! for location, made the shortest cut for the main street St. Joseph. Small shops with- French names on the windows and foreign -looking goods; a few bakery lunch rooms but no cafes or restaurants. "Well, I'll be blamed if I can spot the chophouses here." Knowing his aversipn for making inquiries, Helen stopped to buy sorne souvenir post cards. As the man made change she asked about the restaurants., "You won't find many in Quebec. The liquor law's very strict here. Oily the hotels can get a license so that cuts out the restaurants. Valiquit's, two blocks down, is about the best but it's in a bakery." "A bakery lunch!" snorted Warren, as they went but. "And .1. thought Quebec would he full of quaint inns and chophouses,"' bemoaned Helen; ''Look at that gabled roof doesn't that look like an old English tavern?" "Happens to be a plumber's," scoffed Warren, when they drew nearer the quaint, low-browed shop with it's small-paned windows. "There's Valikquit's over there. - Well, we've got to eat somewnere. A large, ornately-frosted cake was the center attraction of Valiquit's window. Inside they made their way past glass counters filled with rolls and French pastries to the restaurant in the rear. , Though the food was not bad, it was a cheerless, colorless dinner. Warren lapsed into his grumpy silence and Helen was too discouraged to talk. ' Even the fact that the check was absurdly small did- not cheer her. When they came out it was raining. Warren Taised ' the umbrella and scowled down the wet, gleaming street. "Well, we can't trudge around in this. Here, let's take that car and see what's doing: Ought to strike some theatres farther on." Through the rain-blurred windows they gazed out On narrow, foreignlooking streets. There were no theatres. The sheps grew smaller and cheaper, and soon they turned off into a residence street, dismally dark, for only faint streaks of " light shone through the closed shutters. "Well, this don't look very promising," muttered Warren. Half a mile further out the car turned, and finally brought them back to St. Anne's Square, within a block of their room. "Might as well go back and write some letters. No use bumping around this Godforsaken place no restaurants, no theatres not even a movie!" "Dear, that isn't fair we haven't begun to see Quebec. It's just because it's raining, and we don't know our way about." When they reached their lodging, the whole . house was . dark. Stumblingly they groped their way through the black, unfamiliar hall. More Tomorrow. Competition of American linoleum factories is every year decreasing Scotland's export to this country.

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66 Jl wo 'How swell she looked, and yet: how simple her clothes were! , "What were you thinking about? asked Somerdyke, and she started from her muslngsat the sound of his voice. "I have been watching you for fully three minutes, and you Have not looked in my direction once. What were you thinking of?" -" ."I was thinking,' she declared bluntly, "of how I love all the. fine things that rich people can enjoy and especially - how - much I do love pretty clothes, and I was wishing I - could have all of them that I would like to have!" There came into his eyes a look she did not understand a mingling of cynicism and speculation. ' At noon of the day on which Caryl Marvin lunched with Harry Somerdyke, Julia Marvin turned with a wan smile to. a fellow saleswoman as the lace counter. . "Don't you want to go to lunch now. Miss McEjpnough?" she queried. "The rush, will be less for the next hour or so, and you must be tired. 1 know I am." "Gee!" ejaculated Laura McDonough, rolling her eyes dramatically and smoothing the wrinkles in her skirt down from . an over-slim waist, "t's been something fierce today. I suppose the early fall shoppin's begun. The last old hen that was here -was the limit, turning over the whole darned stock and then deciding that she didn't want anything. How you ever was so polite to her gets me!" "She was hard to please," Julia admitted, with a sigh. "Poor old soul! She comes from away out in New Jersey, and she told me that she gets into the city only once a year. She was looking for lace for her daughter's wedding gown. 'Emmie's going to marry one of the finest young gentlemen in or near Wortendyke,' she said." "Well. I don't see how you do it," declared Laura McDonougb, half enviously, half scornfully. "Do what?" "Learn so much about the terrible looking frumps that blow in here. They bore me to extinction." she lisped with an intimation of what she considered ladylike languor. "They interest me," smiled Julia. "That's the 'how' to it. They don't bore me a bit. Now run along and get your iiiiili mmmmmm$mm DIPLOMACY. "Where did you sret the apples?" "A nice man gave 'em to me." "Did he. give you oneforme?" An agricultural census of Uraguay has been postponed because of the losses occasioned by an invasion of locustus. Stomach Trouble. "I suffered with stomach trouble Cor years and tried everything I heard, of, but the only relief I got was temporary until last spring I saw Chamberlain's Tablets advertised and procured a bottle of them at our drug store. I got immediate relief, from thi dreadful heaviness after eating and from pain in tie stomach," writes Mrs. Linda Harrod. Fort Wayne, Ind. Obtainable everywhere. Adv. Why are so Uany People Losing Their Hair? That is a simple question to answer. How can you expect a. hair to grow through a hair cell if the hair cell is completely stopped up f Would you expect a plant to grow in a flower pot if the top of the pot was sealed upT Your head, everybody's head, has approximately 175,000 hair cells. If one half or two thirds of these cells are stopped up, how can you expect a luxuriant growth of hairf EVERY WEEK ANTI-SEPTIC OIL SHAMPOO opens these hair cells. It dissolves the dandruff, (dry or oily) and promotes the gTowth of the hair. It -leathers freely and thoroughly cleanses, the bair and scalp. To keep the hair in best condition, men and children should have an oil shampoo every week, women, ' every ther week. ' ., . Every Week Anti-feptie Oil Shamoo is sold for 50c per bottle by Thistlethwaite's drug store: asltmjjtonourl Open May 15,1916. 18th and Main. USE COOPER'S BLEND (Coffee COOPER'S GROCERY

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59 bisters i,,. . u-w mi i.rj in. n lunch. 5 I'm; going next.' and I ' may starve if you don't hurry." v "111 be back in half an hour," promised the girl, as she hastened away. ' Baird'S' store is ope in which the comfort and "welfare of employes receive -some consideration, so there were, here and there, chairs behind the various counters, and " a -saleswoman was allowed - to sit down when there were no ; customers at her counter. Julia sank. into a chair and closed her eyes. It had been a . hard morning, and would-be buyers had ?been; it seemed to her, more exacting than usual. Her head ached; her back was tired; her feet were swollen with much standing. She was so fagged that she felt as if she could go to sleep here and now. She aroused herself with a start and looked down the length of the lace littered counter. Three other girls in her department were grouped togeth er chatting and giggling. Ignoring th disordered condition of the stock. With a stifled sigh Julia arose and set to work to straighten out the tumbled finery. So occupied was she in her FATAL. "Baseball is a great game for thi imerican boy." ' "Yes, but It's a terrible game foi he American truididtii " llll

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By x Virginia Terhune Van de Water n .... uti i. m, v ht, j, mBtmini task that she did not see a man who, -passing down the. aisle, stopped short with a smothered exclamation. He stood in front of her for a half minute before, lifting her head, she saw hini-. "What can I do for you, sir?" she asked automatically, coming forwardThe man hesitated. 'I I beg your pardon," he said, "but surely . I must be mistaken,-yet excuse me, but aren't you Miss Julia Marvin?" . "Yes." answered Julia, amazed. . "I am. but you have the advantage of me. I do not know you." i "But what are you doing here?" he blurted out impetuously. The question did not sound impertinent, coming from. him, for he was evidently embarrassed, and even in her surprise the girl took note of his courteous bearing and indefinable air of good breeding. - - - , "Perhaps," she said gravely, "if you will tell me who you are it will be easier to explain matters." - "My name Is Kelley Delaine," b'f told her. "Your 6ister 1 think is in my employ as stenographer.' I have also had the pleasure of seeing you onoe before, but possibly you may not remember." "I don't remember your face," the girl confessed frankly, "but I do remember that I am under a debt of gratitude to you, Mr. Delaine. My sister told me yesterday that you were the man who saved her life the night she was nearly run over." "But what, persisted the author, "are you doing in this place? Are you trying to get local color or what?" ' "I am working here," Julia replied simply. "Of course, I can see that," persisted the man, "but why?" (More Tomorrow) "Homes That are Different" 18th and Maim RQTHER5 PHONE 2328 2201. 504 Main. MODERN DENTISTRY A. . - 1 ..'J. - . . . . K ana we ra&Ke tneir possession possible. All our work is practically painless. . - U4 trVta ilmAA Plafaa tlftfl t. titMA' Best . Gold Crowns ......... .$3.00 to $4.00 ' Best Bridge Work ......... $3.00 to $4.00" Best Gold Fillings ... . . . ....... . .$1.00 up. Best Silver Fillings .............. 50c un.' W Extract Teeth Painlessly. f,. new turn, ienwu rarior Over Union National Bank, Eighth and" Main streets. Elevator entrance on South Eighth street Sair entrance on Main ' street ,.

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