Walkerton Independent, Volume 53, Number 42, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 March 1928 — Page 3

Sylvia of the Minute

STORY FROM THE START Handsome, fastidious and wealthy—young- St. Croix Creighton awaits his sweetheart at their trysting place. She is late, this ordinary little Pennsylvania Dutch girl, Meely Schwenckton. Despite her seeming innocence and ignorance, she succeeds in keeping him at a distance, to his chagrin. Meely, in the Schwenckton home, where she is boarding, is altogether unlike the girl who meets St. Croix clandestinely. She is the teacher In the neighborhood school, -of which Marvin Creighton, St. Croix’ brother, is superintendent. Meely learns that Marvin was to have married his cousin, a titled English lady, but, believing she was attracted by the Creighton, wealth, had refused the alliance. It is the rumor that St. Croix is to take Marvin's place and marry the English girl. St. Croix’ jealousy is aroused by.Meely’s report of an aged suitor for her hand. The girl cleverly decoys him into admitting he has no intention of marrying her. Marvin visits school in his official capacity as superintendent. CHAPTER IV—Continued —9— “But, you see, we modern teachers, we normal school graduates, do not believe in co-uh-cion and fawce. In my government of this school, for Instance, I try to have all co-urr-sion come from within, not from without.” “Fine; if you can work it; can you? And this idea of yours—teaching children ‘what Is for their immediate use’ (and ‘pleasure,’ I believe you added?) is it for their physical or mental growth that you are striving?—for what I saw as I came in here appeared to be violent gymnastics or an execution of the charlestonl" “I was acting out a play for them — Barrie’s ‘A Kiss for Cinderella.’ I was at the ball —” “Um-mm,” he murmured. “Acting?” “Trying to.” “But you’ll have these sectarian parents on your back ! The ‘plain’ people, you know, are horrified at the word ‘acting.’ ” “But I act everything I teach —history, spelling, grammar—it’s the only way I can teach.” “Now, do you know I would like to see you act spelling!" “Well, you won’t get a chance to!” “Look here! Don’t you know what * county superintendent is?” “Oh, don’t 1? ‘To you your superintendent should be as a god; one to whom you are but as form in wax. Within his pow-er to leave the figure or disfigure it,’ ” she dramatically recited a passage from “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” slightly adapted. “Very well, then, how dare you cheek me and say you won’t when I tell you to do a thing?” “Because I’d rather lose my job than have you sit there and laugh at me!” “It’s not for a mere superintendent,” he shook his head humbly, "to laugh at a normal school graduate !—though I’m sure. Miss Schwenckton, that the normal school course does not include histrionics! I do know that much about normal schools! However, I congratulate you.” “On my—intelligent ideas about teaching?” “On your excellent acting.” She stiffened with alarm. “But —- but you’ve not seen it!” she objected. “You’re sure? By the way—what role were you going to play when 1 passed you on the road the other day dolled up like a comic valentine?” She caught her breath. “But—but you never looked at me! Do you see with your left ear?” He laughed, rose abruptly, and held out his hand. “Good-by, Miss”—his eyes bored into hers like gimlets—’’Schwenckton; I won’t torture yon any longer with my unwelcome presence !” “Good-by,” she sighed with deep relief. “But —a few questions before I go. If you don’t mind.” He took out a pencil and notebook. “Your class at Kutztown normal?” She could not answer that question offhand, apparently. “Wait a minute.” She opened a drawer of her desk, took out her diploma and handed it to him. She had been prudently keeping this diploma at hand to be ready at need when he should call. “Um-mm,” he said thoughtfully, “two years ago. You didn’t teach last year?” “No-no.” “Why not?” “Well —I was going to be married—but, strange as it may seem to you, I got jilted.” He caught his lower lip between his teeth and stared at her. Then, with an abrupt nod, turned away and left the schoolroom. “My G—d!” she thought, her hand pressed to her heart, “how much does he suspect?” It was, of course, her accent that betrayed her. She could perfectly disguise it when she adopted the extreme Pennsylvania Dutch dialect, hut nothing short of that could hide the foreign touch of her speech. She could only hope that her possession of this Kutztown normal diploma would throw him off the scent. • •••«»• All the Schwencktons, except the ailing wife and baby, were very tired of Aunt Rosy and longed for Susie's recovery not only for her own sake, but because it would rid them of the older woman’s unpleasant company. Meely and Mr. Schwenckton botlU loathed her uncleanliness; Meely feared her spying upon her; Sammy hated and resented her; Lizzie was afraid of her cold-blooded spite for the humiliating defeat the child had caused her; and Mr. Schwenckton was impatient to be rid of her so that he could bring home his daughter Nettie. And at last, in spite of unsanitary conditions, and through the occasional conniving of Meely and the doctor to outwit Aunt Rosy and Mr. Schwenckton and air the house, Susie began to rally and the baby to pick up; and a week after they were brought down from the stuffy bedroom to the less

4 By < HELEN R. MARTIN Copyright by Dodd. Mead & Co. WNU Service confined atmosphere of the kitchen, Susie was almost as strong and blooming as she had ever been and the baby began to get fat. Aunt Rosy was so reluctant to leave that Meely would have suspected her of having purposely prolonged Susie’s convalescence by her bad care of her had it not been manifest that these two sisters were really very fond of each other. It was a peculiar attachment, for Susie seemed phlegmatically indifferent to everyone else, even to her baby, and certainly to her elderly husband. Meely thought she had never met anyone so stolid; so incapable of being stirred by anything. This stolidity seemed more marked than ever in contrast with the adolescent vividness of her stepdaughter, Nettie, who, on the very day of Aunt Rosy’s departure, was brought homefrom her grandmother’s by her father; a young girl in her early teens, with a dklW Wlpt?! Ltd I ■ rm IJ/fa * “But Nettie,” Meely Felt Urged to Warn the Child, “a Man in Mr. Creighton's Position Would Never Marry a Girl in Your—in Our Place in Life.” pretty, though plebeian face, whose awakening nature was making her avidly curious about life. She worried Susie with questions to such an extent that the older woman, not accustomed to using her brains, found the girl’s challenging curiosity exhausting to the point of pain. One evening Mr. Schwenckton's absence from home (he had gone on a business trip to town) gave Nettie an unwonted opportunity, for her father s presence was a check upon the intimate questions she loved to ask. Lizzie and Sammy had gone to bed; Meely, in a bathrobe, with her hair in a heavy braid down her back, was sitting at the kitchen table writing letters; Susie was rocking her baby before the kitchen stove; and Nettie was stretched at full length on the settee facing her pretty and ridiculously young stepmother. “Say Susie, why did you marry Pop?” asked Nettie. “Ach —because.” “But why? Tell me! G’on.” “Ach, well, because I did.” “Ach, Susie, you must o’ had some reason.” “Ach, well, a body has to marry somebody.”

First “Topical Song” Sung by Frenchman

What purports to have been the centennial of American vaudeville was celebrated recently, and although much was said about the origin of this form of amusement, Olivier, “the fuller,” a Frenchman, was left out of the picture. When Olivier was born, nobody knows, but in 1418 his booming voice went to the choir celestial on the cherubim circuit. Olivier was a poet as well as a fuller, and composed songs which he sang at his work. His songs were just frivol, yet they caught the public fancy. They were filled with hits on the foibles of the day, topical songs we would call them now. These then nc% lyrics, named in derision from the harplet where Olivier lived in the valley of the River Vire, in Normandy, were called Valdevires, or Vauxdevires, and later Vaudevilles. Just as one might say today, sing us a Hicksville ballad, so fastidious Paris branded the songs What She Wanted “Sylvia looks very sweet tonight, don’t you think?” asked the fairhaired girl at the dance. "Positively stunning!” declared her partner, and then realized what he had done. “Os course,” he added, "she looks prettier at times than others.” The fair one melted slightly. "The real test of beauty,” she said, “is to look pretty always.” “You do.” declared her partner. “How perfectly sweet of you to say so. But Sylvia is pretty.” “You are prettier,” declared her partner. “Don't be absurd,” said the fairhaired girl; “Irfit it’s perfectly sweet of you to say so.” Need Law’s Restraint What a cage is to the wild beast, Jaw is to the selfish man. Restraint is for the savage, the rapacious, the violent; not for the just, the gentle,, the benevolent. All necessity for external force implies a morbid state. — Herbert Spencer.

« . ’ “Why must you marry somebody?" “Well —if you don’t want to be an old maid.” “Wouldn’t you sooner be an old maid than married to Pop? I would! You couldn’t o’ been in love with Pop,” said Nettie reflectively. “Nettie Schwenckton, I do believe you think love is like in them movies! My sakes! That’s only in them movies, Nettie. It ain’t no such a thing for really!” “But it is, too. I felt it myself a’ready!” “Ach, you just think you felt It because you seen so many of them movies whiles you was in town there with your gramma. But it ain't no such a| thing for really. You only gotta look around you a little to see for yourself it ain't no such a thing.” “I w*on't get married,” exclaimed Nettie, , "unlest I can meet up with such a fellah like Rudolph Valentino or Tom Mix or whoever! I wisht,” she sighed longingly, “I could run into Mr. St. Croix Creighton—” Meely looked up from her letters and watched the girl's childish, pretty face whose commonness was almost obliterated by the soft, dreamy ecstasy that lit up her vivid youth. "I seen Mr. St. Croix Creighton oncet or twicet or so. Gee, he's some swell dresser! And ain’t he a good looker^. I wisht I could meet up with him!” Though this longing of Nettle’s seemed'as far as possible from immediate realization, that very night was to see It fulfilled. “Say, Meely," Nettie appealed to the teacher, “did you ever see Mr. St. Croix Creighton?” “I—l think I did.” “You’d know it if you did! Gee. . he's got the style to him! That.” affirmed Nettie, “is the only kind of fellah can have me!” Susie sniffed. “You bate yourself— I don't think! What makes you s’pose a high-stepper like him would take up with you yet? Good lands!” "They do in the movies sometimes — when they fall good In love." “Yes, in them movies.” Susie scoffed. “But, Nettie,” Meely felt urged to warn the child, "a man In Mr. Creighton's position would never marry a girl in your—ln offr —place injife. Mo that your 'meeting up with him' would only mean unhappiness for you—especially if he fell in love with you.” “But in them movies—" “Ach, them movies!” Susie Interpolated. “All right, then I" retorted Nettie with sudden passion, “I'd sooner live three weeks with a swell gen'leman that I could admar, than be respect- | able all my life with a old man like Pop! Ami I’d think more of myself for doin’ it, too!" “Well, Nettie Schwenckton, if you aint!” said Susie, only mildly scandal- i ized; nothing could ever really rouse her to any show of feeling. “Nettie.” Meely experimentally re marked, "you know there’s Mr. Marvin Creighton over nt Absalom Puntz’ — there'd be some chance of your meeting him—and none nt nil. I should think, of your running Into St.—Mr. St. Croix Creighton—” “Ach, that there county superintend ent, he’s a stiff! 1 often seen Ulm a’ready and he didn't gimme no romantic feelings. Ho ain't nothin' like them movie actors—-" The sound of stops on the kitchen porch Interrupted her. “Pop’s back a’ready," she said, with a glance at the clock whose hands pointed to ten. “He won’t like it we re up so late.” She rose, yawned, and stretching wide her arms, revealed a beautifully developing young figure. Meely, looking at hor, wondered whether, in case the girl’s longing to meet St. Croix were ever realized, he would not find her even more Irresistible than lie was finding “Meely Schwenckton." (TO HE CONTINUED.)

of Olivier Basselin. as of lowly provincial origin. Yet for 500 years the name has stuck, and is now consid- i ered more elegant than the American term, “variety.”—John Walker Harrington, in the Smokers Companion ■ Magazine. Left Fatherland Behind Marie Antoinette’s eventful life in France began at Strasbourg, or rather : upon a small island in the Rhine in | front of the Alsatian capital. There. | in a pavilion decorated with Gobe- ■ lin tapestries, she paused on her way ) to become the wife of the dauphin, afterward Louis XVI. She entered by a door on the east side. After a com- i plete change of clothing, symbolic of her renunciation of ail connections with her native country, Austria, she emerged on the west or French side. Her Austrian escort remained behind, replaced by a guard sent by Louis XV. The chief magistrate of Strasbourg addressed her in German. “Don’t speak German,” she said, though she had just learned the new tongue she was henceforth to speak. “From today I understand only French.” —Kansas City Star. Periodic Health Survey “Every family should view the physician not as a last resort for cure but as medical counselor whose function is to make periodic surveys and to aid in maintaining a state of health,” Hygeia Magazine quotes from Henry S. Nollen, president of one of the large insurance companies. Regulation of diet and personal hygiene and proper direction of the use of leisure and wholesome recreation should be included in this advisory function. In such a regimen it seen the only hope of Improvement In the average ratio of premature deaths due to degenerative diseases. Calls for Cash Down You can’t get experience in thh world on the easy-payment plan.— Des Moines Register.

Parasites Kill Much Live Stock Deserve More Attention and More Money for Their Investigation. (Prepared by the United States Department ot Agriculture.) Ten per cent of all the newly born calves, pigs, lambs, colts, and chicks, as well as other repuesentatives of the domestic animal family, die each years as a result of the work of parasites, according to Dr. M. C. Hall, chief parasitologist of the United States Department of Agriculture. Losses from parasites, he says, run into hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Parasites Are Increasing. Our live stock, from horses and cows to chickens and pigeons, is attacked internally and externally by parasites representing hundreds of species, the horse alone having about 250 such enemies listed. The evidence indicates, says Doctor Hall, that for the most part these parasites are increasing in numbers and importance and are extending their distribution in the United States. Several reasons for this Increasing spread are cited by Doctor Hall, among which he emphasizes the change from range conditions to modern pasture practice thereby increasing tl»e density of stocking. Modern transportation facilities also ( aid In the distribution of parasites over a wide range of country. Economic Importance Not Recognized. The co-operative efforts of the parasitologists, veterinarians, and stocknien are controlling or defeating a small number of parasite species, says Doctor Hall, but we are losing ground to all the others. The basic research on which control measures must be based has not even been attempted for most of these parasites. The economic importance of animal parasites it not generally recognized, and for that reason too little attention has been given to their study. From both the economic nnd scientific standpoint animal parasites are important and deserve more attention nnd more meu and money for their investigation. Skim Milk Unexcelled rs Protein Supplement Skim milk is unexcelled as a protein supplement for swine, but in most sections of the East it Is either impossible to get or prohibitive in price, ao in practically all rations fishmeal or tankage are used to balance up the corn or other high carbohydrate feeds Tankage Is a packing house by-prod uct. It Is made from fresh meat scraps, fat trimmings nnd scrap bones These nre cooked under high steam pressure, nnd then dried and ground fine after being passed over steel magnets to remove nny metallic ma terial present. This product runs from 40 to 00 per cent protein and 1 to 10 per cent of fat. Tlie variation in protein depends on the amount of bone present, nnd for this reason should always be bought on a guarantee of composition. It cun be obtained from your feed dealer or from the packing company. Fishmeal Is a product which has become very popular In the East as protein rupplement, nnd runs about the same as tankage in Us composition. Hens Appreciate Warm Water During Winter Since eggs are made up largely of water, it pays to keep plenty of clean water before hens at all times, and experience ha? shown that the hens appreciate warm water, or at least water that Is not ice cold. Electric or kerosene iieaters are used by some professional poultry men, and the thermosbottle type of drinking fountain has found favor on many farms. Packing the water pail with straw, newspapers or other material will do a fairly satisfactory job of keeping the water from getting too cold, in case other devices are not available. The bucket should t>e emptied and refilled with fresh, warm water each morning, noon and evening In cold weather. Greatest Return From Skim Milk Fed to Swine Numerous feeding trials have demonstrated the superior merit of skim milk as a supplement to cereal grains for feeding swine. In feeding this valuable supplement the proportion of It to grain fed Is of considerable importance in getting the greatest return for a given amount fed. Experimental evidence indicates that maximum returns are had when two to three pounds of skim milk are fed with each pound of grain. This applies only in dry-lot feeding and when skim milk Is the only supplement fed. If alfalfa hay is also put before pigs the amount of skim milk could well be reduced. Twin Calves When a bull and heifer calf are twins, the heifer sometimes will not reproduce. The bull, however, will practically always develop into a successful breeding animal and occasionally the heifer also. The only way you can tell whether the heifer will reproduce successfully or not will be to keep her until she reaches a breeding age, at which time, she could be . examined by a veterinarian, and he would be able to tell. | Short Farm Notes Sand or stones that have clay or dirt mixed with them will not make good concrete. * • • Two farm Inventories, taken a year apart, show whether a farm business Is getting ahead and how much • • • A concrete foundation wall eight to twelve inches thick is usually suitable for farm structures up to two stories in height.

Improved Uniform International Sunday School ' Lesson ’ (By REV. P B. FITZWATER. D D . Dean Moody Bible Institute of Chicaso.) (©. 1928 Western Newspaper Union.) —» Lesson for March 18 JESUS TEACHES SINCERITY LESSON TEXT—.Mark 7:1-23. GOLDEN TEXT—Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the Issues of life. PRIMARY TOPlC—Obeying God and Our Parents. JUNIOR TOPlC—Honoring God and Our Parents. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPlC—Sincerity in Religion. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC —Jesus Denounces Formalism. I. The Emptiness of Formal Worship (vv. 1-7). The tendency of the human heart Is to depart from the life and to choose the mere form which is calculated to j | express the life. The traditions and । customs adopted by net. for the temporary help of the spiritual life frequently nre crystallized into laws nnd j made to supersede the laws and insti- i tutions of God. 1. The charge ngainst Christ (v. 2) This was that Christ’s disciples ate I bread with unwashed hands. The ; charge was not on the basis of physl- | cal uncleanness, but Jieir disregard of ' custom which was to engage in the I thorough washing of the hands before ' eating, ns well as washing (lie p->ts I nnd vessels. 2. Examples of empty forms (vv j j 2 4). (1) Washing of the hands before, eating (v. 3). They not only washed I their hands often but diligently nnd ' Intensely. (2) Washing of cups, tables, pots nnd brazen vessels. The ceremonial ! washing applied to the vessels as well I ns the hands. 3. Explanation demanded hy the . Pharisees (v. 5). They asked Uhrist to explain why His disciples Ignored the tradition of the elders with reference to ceremonial cleansing. 4. Christ'S answer (vv. (I. 7). He declared that worship which centered i in forms was ns empty nnd meaning- i less ns was lip service where the < heart was away from God This He calls hypocrisy, even such as foretold hy Isaiah, the prophet. Men of his day made much of external ot>-erv ance nml of religious rites, while their ’ hearts remained unchanged 11. Making the Word cf Cod cf None Effect (vv s 13). 1. How it may be done (v S) It was done hy punctiliously observing the • precepts of man. such ns washing of the hands, pots, etc., while Ignoring J the commandments of God This Is being done by those who make much of the externalities of religion hut at the same time nre Indifferent to the moral requirements. 2. An Instance cited (vv 9 13) The law of God ns given hy Moees i sa'.d. "Honor thy fattier and thy moth | er. nnd whoso curseth father or moth t er. let him die the death; but ye say i if a man shall say to tils father or ' mother, it is Corhnn. that is to say. a I gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be ' profited by me. tie shall he free, mid ■ ye suffer film no more to do ought for j tils fattier or his mother." The law of ■ God demands of children that they i cere anti provide for parents in their I need. According to an accepted tradi I i tlon among the Jews, if a man should consecrate his goods or possessions to - the I.ord's service by pronouncing over I them the word “Kurban.” which means i “the gift." tiis goods would he thus I dedicated to Coil, nnd would not be I available for help to his parents. It ' was possible, therefore, for n man to ! be enjoying wealth while his parents were in destitution. 111. The Real Source of Defilement and Impurity (vv. 14-23). 1. Sin is moral and spiritual. » Un- i cleanness before God is not of the j body save as the body is directed by the soul. A man is not defiled by that which enters his mouth hut by that which springs out of his soul. 2. That which springs out ot the ' heart —the deliberate choice of the will—is the source of defilement (v. 20 3. A list of evils springing out of the heart (vv. 21. 22). The awful list is as follows: Evil thoughts, adulteries, fornica tlons, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an e vji eye. blasphemy, pride, foolishness, which all come from within This catalogue includes every possible form of evil. Every one of them originate in the heart and when they become acts of the will and life they defile the man. It is only when temptations and solicitations lead to indulgence by the deliberate act of the will that they corrupt a man. Take Time to Pray The great people of the wrth today are the people who pray—people who take time to pray. They have not time. It must be taken from something else. That something else is im- ! portant, very important and pressing. ■ but still less important ami pressing : than prayer. There are people who put prayer first and group the other items in life’s schedule around and after prayer These are the people today who are doing the most for God in winning souls, in solving problems, in awakening churches in supplying . men and money for mission posts, in , keeping fresh and strong their lives far off in sacrificial service on the foreign field, where the thickest fighting l is going on, and In keeping the old > earth sweet a little while longer.— S. D. Gordon. Must Believe We must believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has intrusted us with a force that moves the heavenly world and brings its power down to earth. —Andrew Murray. i A Verse From the Bible • Be not righteous over much, neither • make thyself over wise; why shoyj^ • est thou destroy thyself ?—Ecclesiastes 7:16.

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Says Too Many Girls Are Slovens at Home Many women of today have a "peasant walk"--the heavy tread of one who tramps in stiff shoes on rough roads —Temple Bailey, popular novelist. told Hildegarde Fillmore in an in- ; tervie for McCall’s. “Perhaps there is no place where a girl’s beauty means so much as in her home,” says Miss Bailey. “As <he grows up from childhood to young womanhood she feels that she must be i attractive, tiiat she must impress the world with her personality. Ami she ' should be encouraged to make tiersell i charming, not by artificial means alone but by learning all the arts which may । enhance her natural loveliness. Too often. I’m afraid, she thinks only of 1 her appearance in school, at business, on the street, or at parties. At home she slumps into slovenly habits. Her clothes are untidy, her hair carelessly dressed. Her family becomes critical; ! they nag and tease.” Process Declared to Stop Decay of Wood The practice of giving logs a "hyiHe dermic Injection” to preserve them, invented in Germany not long ago. has > spread to England, and a new tiail has been invented to do the work, we are told in Popular Science Monthly. We read: "The new scientific method is being used to inject Into telegraph poles a spreading paste that is said to keep fungi at bay. Many .ears are said to be added to the pole's life. Tt is treatment of wood is a step that may i lead eventually to complete arrest of decay. If that ideal is accomplished, buildings of wood can be erected rtmt will he as imperishable ns structures of stone, brick, or steel, while the cost will he much less. The effect will be that of transmuting wood into , rock.” Got Away From Pistol It turned out that a loaded pistol given to Frank Williams, a Philadelphia garage employee, to protect his employer's property delayed the protection. Williams placed the pistol mi a desk in the office with its muzzle | pointing nt the door Then he began j his duty of w ishing cars. There came a blast from the office. A stove had exploded. Running to the scene. Wil- i Hains was about to enter when his eye fell upon the pistol pointed directly at him. and with flames surrounding it. He ran the other way and called the tire department. Catty Remark Glenn—She has pretty hair, hasn't | she? Glenda —No. 1 think It's her own. You never can tell. When a man can't collect his own thoughts he I sometimes borrows other people’s. — A poet has discovered perpetual . motion. The magazine editors send him back as much as he sends them. Gossip Is a deadly gas that is often . fatal to friendship. Tt Is the keeping down of expenses that makes the upkeep of business.

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Mailman and Horses Engulfed in Fissure Volcanic activity within the Vatnajokull glacier, in southeastern Iceland, recently claimed the life of a native under dramatic circum lances. The overland mail follows a route through the volcanic district, and on this particular occasion the caravan consisted of two men and seven horses loaded with mail. Tlie weather was very rough and the men and horses were struggling their way over the mountain when an immense fissure opened immediattly before the leader. He and four horses disap|»eared into the chasm, while the other man had to gather all his wits to save himself and the rernainirp three horses. He turned back to the inhabited districts, utterly exhausted. A rescue party rushed to the scene of the tragedy, but found no traces of the unfortunate mailman. Urges War on Weevil A "yellow peril” among insect jiests is taking the place of a “native American” nuisance, according to (J. E. Gookins, of Ottawa, Kan., in an address before the meeting at Omaha of the American Association of Cereal Chemists. The once troublesome grain weevil, he said, is becoming extinct, but its decline is accompanied hy the increase of the rice weevil. The two insects look very much alike, hut the rice weevil can easily he distinguished because it can fly. Mr. Gookins recommended granary fumigation as a cheap and sure method of finishing off r the granary weevil for good, and for combating the hordes of the rice weevil. Spitz Good Sheep Tender The Pomeranian sheep dog. better known as the Spitz dog. is ored In •' most countries as a Mouse i>et. small •• and useless. But in its own home on rhe shores of the Baltic this dog Is the t«wal sheep tender. He has a foxlike face and very long hair. In color he ranges over a wide scale, but black or white is most common, and the average weight is about eight pounds. The Spitz stands cold weather much better than warm. Strong Defense Peck—My wife has a will of Iron. Heck—Be a man of mettle and steel yourself against her. —Boston Tran- ' script. Maligned ”1 hear that the crowd hooted yon Iwiien you ap]>eared on the stage." “False, my boy, false! There wai no crowd." —Boston Post. Fruit of the Family Tree He—Oli. you mustn't blame me for my ancestors. She —I don't. I blame them for you. A reservoir to carry a supplemental I ink supply is inclosed in the cap of a fountain pen that two New Jersey inventors have patented. Many an ultra-careful man puts all j his property in his wife's name, even including his happiness. So long as we love, we are contented.