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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1913.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
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The Duty of the United States
In the Mexican Situation.
Unless Mexico is visited by some miracle of
peace the policy of forbearance which the United
States has- maintained toward that turbulent
country will cease to be a virtue and intervention,
however much it may be regretted, will become a
necessity. Not only in behalf of its own citizens
whose property and lives are in peril but also in be
half of civilization, our Government, e the .dom
inant and responsible Power of the western world
will be morally bount’ to put an end to the anarchy
that is raging just across its border.
The United States has wisely abstained from in
terfering in the domestic affairs of the Latin repub
lics, except when conditions reached a stage that
compelled it to do so. No selfish or jingoish motives
should ever tempt us to abandon that politic and
liberal course. Practical interests as well as honor
and fair play prompt, us to cultivate in every way
possible the good will and the confidence of these
neighbors. Certainly, it would be unfortunate and
imprudent, if we eve, exchanged this poPcy for one
of aggrandizement.
But the United States cannot afford to tolerate a
continuance of such conditions as now prevail at the
Mexican capital and which threaten to spread
throughout the country. The present state of affairs
-is pfrliucgii rejaiution but a savage riot. Its
purpose is not that of a people seeking liberty and
good government but that of reckless adventurers
-bent upon pillage and unrestrained by the rules or
ideals of civilization.
The revolution led by Madero could be justified,
out the present outbreak is without merit or defense.
The terrible lawlessness and bloodshed that are
rampant is becoming intolerable. Its duty to the
family of nations and to its self will force the United
States to intervene, unless Mexico soon sets its
house id order. The Government’s measures of vig
orous preparation are to be commended; it should -
ready at any moment to take the next needed step.
The End of Turkey.
The Ottoman government's request that the Eu
ropean Powers intervene to end the Balkan war may
be variously interpreted. It may signify that the
Turks, recognizing their defeat, have decided to
accept any terms of settlement that can be secured;
or it may mean that they are again parrying for
delay and are seeking through diplomacy some loop
hole of escape from the full consequence of their
losses in battle. In any event, it seems that the
day of the Turk in Europe is virtually over. The
Balkan Allies hav e won so clear a victory that its
fruits can scarcely be denied them in any confer
ences that may ensue.
When the Turks, through their refusal to cede
Adrianople, broke off the recent peace negotiations
in London, they assumed, willingly or not, the re
sponsibility for whatever might follow. The moment
was one of high excitement and of a certain des
perate hardihood at the Porte. The Young Turks
had seized control of the Government; they vow'ed
to “save the national honor,” though they should
perish in the endeavor, and they appeared fairly to
welcome the renewal of the fighting.
But their position, far from having been strength
ened or improved by th e campaign of the’past few
weeks, has grown more and more precarious. The
Allies have steadily pressed the advantage they en
joyed when the truce was Declared last December.
They have all but forced the surrender of Adrianople,
the chief prize in the struggle, and they, are now
menacing the outposts of Constantinople itself. Tur
key has nothing to gain but everything to lose by
a continuance of tne war; naturally she has appealed
to the Powers for intervention.
This course, the Ottoman government probably
considers more dignified or graceful than direct ne
gotiations witli the oalkan States would be; and,
too, it doubtless hopes that in a conference of the
Powers common jealousies and distrust may prove
rather favorable to the Turkish cause. But the
Allies will hardly be content with less than de
manded a month ago and, if they remain united, as
doubtless they will, the Powers can scarcely grant
them less. Turkey has played an adroit but a hollow
game; the time has apparently come when the place
in Europe which she long ago forfeited is at length
to be taken "from her.
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! Georgia’s Urgent Need ,
01 a Highway Commission. !
There is perhaps no State in all the Union where ;
popular interest in the cause of good roads is keener
than in Georgia or where more energy in this im
portant field of endeavor is being put forth. The ,
average citizen realizes that public money spent on
the extension or improvement of highways is a wise
investment. A great majority of the counties are j
appropriating substantial funds to this purpose, and
some of them are voting libera) bond issues. The
State government has allotted its entire force of
a
convicts to road construction. In so far as labor
and money and enthusiasm are concerned, Georgia
is doing admirably well.
Yet, in few States which make any pretense to
highway development is there a more grievous lack
of unity and system in these undertakings. The
counties are striving manfully as individuals, but
there is no State agency under which they can all
co-operate toward a common end and to which they
can look for guidance Until the Leigslature estab
lishes a central bureau or commission of highways
neither the State as a whole r.or the separate coun
ties will receive due credit or reap due results from
the work that is being done.
Inqifiries for definite information as to the road
enterprises and accomplishments of Georgia are
continually reaching the Capitol from various parts
of the country. But the officials are unable to fur
nish satisfactory answers simply because they have
no complete or authentic records to which they can
refer. In the Good Roads Year Book of 1912, pub
lished by the American Association for Highw'ay
Improvement, there are full reports from many
States, showing the amount of money spent by each
of them during the twelvemonth, the miles of road
constructed or improved, the funds available for
such tasks and other interesting helpful facts. But
the report from Georgia is pitiably meager and even
such information as is given was obtained for the
most part, it seems, from the federal office of public
roads.
This is but one instance among many which show
the disadvantage to the State of being without any
burden where. official statistics may be compiled.
The fact is the people of Georgia themselves have
no adequate means of learning what is being done
in the good roads movement in their own State. If
we are to be given due credit abroad and are to
know our record at home, a bureau of road statistics
must he established.
There is another and a more vital need lor suen
an agency. However hard and ably a particular
county may work for the development of its high
ways, it will be handicapped unless the other coun
ties are also active and far-sighted The ultimate
value of any road must depend upon its relation to
a general system of roads; and suen a system can
be perfected in Georgia only through the aid and the
supervision of the State government.
A central high way cbmmission could render va
ried and invaluable service to every county. It
would be a source of information not only with re
gard to statistics, but 1 also with regard to the prac
tical problems of road buliding and conservation. It
would stand ever ready to advise and help the
county authorities, just as the department of agri
culture, the State entomologist and the State Col
lege of Agriculture helps the farmer. .And, what is
perhaps most important of all, such a .commission
would bring organized effort, and therefore greater
efficiency and more businesslike results, into the
now earnest but rather incoherent campaign of road
building in Georgia. It is to be hoped that at the
next session of the Legislature a State Highway
Commission will be provided.
Two Battleships a Year.
The House committee on naval affairs has done
well to recommend appropriations for two new bat
tleships this year; it is to be hoped that Congress
will concur in so discreet and patriotic a program.
Thoygh the sentiment of the American people is
opposed to extravagant or belligerent policies in mil
itary affairs, their judgment tells them that the na
tional defense should be adequate. The building of
two battleships a year is, for the present at least, a
prudent and really economical course.
The maintenance of a great standing army would
be unnecessary and unwise. In this matter, expert
opinion seems agreed that there should be a com
paratively small, though thoroughly developed, army
supplemented by a strong reserve force composed
of the National Guard. The importance of the Na
tional Guard is becoming more and more clearly
recognized; and, if this organization of citizen sol
diery is given due encouragement by Congress, it
will develop into a reserve force capable of support
ing the regular army in any probable emergency.
To this end, it is urged that the Go.e
a reasonable compensation for the officers and men
of the Guard. That policy would be far cheaper
than any considerable increase in the regular army
and it would well suffice the nation’s needs.
Of chief importance, however, is the' upbuilding
of the navy, not in any spirit of jingoism but as a
matter of sane preparedness. The -United States has
been singularly fortunate in avoiding foreign entan
glements and it is devoutly to be wished that its
future in this repsect will be as happy as its past.
But there are certain facts and conditions which
cannot safely be ignored.
This country has some twenty-one thousand miles
of seacoast to protect. It has more harbors with
large cities and a larger number of strategic points
than, perhaps, any other country on the earth. It
has coaling stations remote from the mainland, and
these must be duly looked to. It has Porto Rico and
Hawaii and, for the present, it has the Philippines.
Most important of all, it has the Panama Canal and
the divers responsibilities which that vast enterprise
entails.
Furthermore, as the Navy League points out,
there ar e vital American policies which depend ulti
mately upon, a sufficient navy. The Monroe doctrine,
bearing particularly upon the West Indies and “the
lands north of the Amazon,” the neutrality of the
Panama canal, the rights of American commerce and
American citizens in distant lands—these and other
policies which our station among world powers com
pels us to safeguard all demand that the navy be up
built and conserved. f
For the sake of th e nation's peace as well as its
rights and its welfare, Congress can well afford to
deal liberally, though of course not extravagantly,
in its naval program; and the plan of two battleships
a year, for the immediate future at least, seems
thoroughly reasonable.
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^OUAITRY
Nsmjc " timely
IjOME topics
dwpOCTED Br.mS.ViHJT.L'TUl
I
AIDIN’ ON THE TRAIN.
A feller sees some tunny things while ridin' on the
train,
Some things he never saw before, and never may
again.
For human nature's at its worst when it's away
from home.
You don't know any feller's’ traits until he starts
to roam.
There's always some fat gentleman who snores an
awful pile.
And sleeps all night with his sock feet a hangin’ in
the aisle.
The spinster with the hat box sits quite primly up
in front;
She has a parrot who pulls off a shrill nerve-racking
stunt.
The gabby actress person shrieks her troubles and
her woes
And peeves the tired passengers who vainly seek
repose;
The usual train joJ<er is on hand to spring his guff,
And sometimes there's a punk quartet that pulls some
awfui stuff.
The brakeman throws the portal wide, lets in the
cold and snow,
And yells a lot of railroad 'Greek that no one else
could know.
The crying kid hits up .his song in tones bespeaking
pain;
A feller gets a dandy rest while ridin' on the train.
—Exchange.
This lively refrain is true to the life and much
more .might be said in the same connection. There
is no better place to discover the quality of those
you see, especially as to gentiemanline^s and courtesy
among women, than a train ride affords you.
Sometimes there are well-dressed people who evi
dence their lack of either manners or good breeding
at home. It is an exceptional place-to pick out snobs
and also to encounter rare courtesy among the very
plainly-dressed travelers.
Sometimes you run upon very surly trainmen, who
are not accommodating or even considerate in their
attitude to passengers. Then again you find the
manners of a Chesterfield in the railroad's uniform.
If I was a foreigner and had come to this coun
try to measure up the average, real American, as he
really is. I do not suppose I could find a better place
to see the natives than "Ridin’ on th$ Train."
HAS REACHED THE LIMIT.
The story goes that a Columbus. Ohio, preacher
took a text on fashionable follies, and among some
of the numerous things he said, he is accredited with
th e following doggerel lines:
“Little girl, you look so small!
Don’t you wear any clothes at all?
Don’t you wear a flannel shirt?
Don’t you wear a pretty skirt?
.lust your corset and your hose—
Are these all your underclothes?
After a while, I do believe,
You will dress like Mother Eve."
Admitting that, the dressing of the modern society
women has gone over the line of demarcation of
sober decency, is it not also true that the pulpit was
lowered down to something below the vaudeville
stage by this Ohio pulpiteer?.
■ Some days ago, a brilliant society woman, herself
a grandmother, told me of an experience .with her.
Atlanta dressmaker. She wore the usual tight skirt
that has prevailed for some time, and hinted to the
mantlemaker that she would like something less
close-fitting on her lower limbs for her new dress.
“My dear madam," replied the dressmaker, "it
must-be closer than that skirt you are wearing, or
I’ll not be responsible for .he style of your dress.”
"All right,” said the nelpless visitor, "give me a
date, as I must have the dress by a certain day. and
1 cannot wait.”
When she went to the "try-on" she took off all
her winter underwear but the pants and a silk skirt.
"Take that skirt off.” said the imperious madame.
“I cannot give you a smooth fit unless you give me
leave to fit you."
"Imagine my dismay when I had to stand up like
some danseuse in tights to get my silk front fitted!"
said my acquaintance.
With my age and long acquaintance with the ups
and downs of fashionable clothing, I feel sure we have
reached the limit.
“WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, THERE WILL
YOUR HEART BE ALSO.”
If you were living in the United States for only
a few months, and you knew for certain that you
would go to Europe to spend the rest of your life,
in which country would you take most interest?
Need 1 ask so careless a question? Wouldn't you
keep your mind in a state of preparation, and be all
the time stowing away in a close and compact trav
eling case the few things that you wished to carry
along with you, with due regard to the fact that you
could purchase over there more than you needed for
your comfort and pleasure?
Just so, we should feel as toward this world and
the eternity of the inevitable hereafter. It is more
than certain that we must go over, shortly, never to
come back again. We have seen so many of these
departures. We know our loved ones never come
back .again, that they have gone to a land where we
must also go, before very long, and the going away
is made interesting to us' by reason of the satisfac
tion that we shall be welcomed by those we fondly
remember and hope to meet again where there shall
be no death, no sighing or tears, where the wicked
cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.
How strange it is w e cling so fondly here to the
things we cannot take with us, and actually decline
to dwell upon the things that are promised to those
who shall be faithful and confidently expectant of
the glories of a better world!
We cling to the dross and glitter of a short
earthly existence, and fail to reflect upon what we
really need to make a safe and welcome trip into
the great hereafter.
The Fate of Captain Scott.
The fate of Captain Robert F. Scott and his
brave band of scientists and sailors is one of the
most moving episodes in the world's annals of ex
ploration.
Had he and his comrades been mere adventurers
with nothing to commend them but native hardi
hood and courage, their taking-off would still have
stirred all men to pity. But they were explorers in
the truest sense of that really noble term. They
were seeking—and they had reached—a goal which
though it might not make the world materially
richer would nevertheless advance man’s conquest
of the unknown and would bring new fame to the
nation whose sons achieved it.
Commerce has taken no direct interest in polar
expeditions, but science has been keenly concerned.
Captain Scott was seeking not simply a point on
the earth’s surface; he was in quest of first-hand
knowledge that would mean much to geography and
to other branches of science. That he should have
accomplished his splendid purpose, should have
braved all the dangers and hardships of the dis
covery and then should have perished on the path
to his triumphant return is truly tragic.
Kee
p Young
By
Dr. Frank
Crane
FROSTS AND FRUIT
By Frederic J. Haskin
It is right to be fearful of growing old. Nobody
should grow old. We should all be happier if we
would remain young.
And the beauty of it is. one
van be young • as ' long as he
pleases. For youth is not a mat
ter of ruddy cheeks and nimble
legs, but of the spirit. A grand
mother. with wrinkled cheeks
and white hair can be as young
as a girl of fifteen.
Thei things that age the spirit
can be fouglit off by the will.
Fear is ageing. It dries tlie
blood, unstrings the nerves, pal
sies the thought. Courage keeps
the soul young.
Convention makes one old.
Constantly locking about us to
see what others are doing, and
gauging our feelings. opinions,
and habits by what “they say,"
gradually takes the sap out of
life. A certain amount of conformity is necessary,
but we should be careful to keep the reserves of
personality free. It is very easy to become smothered
and senile under the pressure of fashion.
Want of faith speedily kills the youthfulness in ’us.
The v€ry freshness of the fountain of youth is belief.
When you feel you have no more confidence in your
self, no more trust in other®, no more credence in
the great moral forces of good in the world, it npeans
that your spiritual teeth are loose and dropping, your
spiritual hands weak and shaky, and your spiritual
legs rheumatic.
To retain youth you must cultivate and preserve
your power to enjoy simple things. As our forms of
pleasure become complex and expensive the soul be
comes stiff-and cramped. To love simple food and'
drink, simple methods of play, simple speech, and
above all the manifest simplicities of nature, makes
red blood.
Resist the inroads of pessimism. It means the
twilight of the soul, and the empty night.
Whoever lias ceased to wonder has become old. it
may be'said of him as of Ephriam, "Gray hairs are
here and there upon him and he knoweth it not."
There can be no youth fulness without awe. and rev
erence. The knowing person-, the sophisticated per
son. is simply the prematurely aged.
It is mystery and the unknown that constitute
th c fountain of eternal youth. It is the sky and
stars, the ocean and mountain, and the unplumbed
depths of thought that lie around our little island 01
knowledge, it is this circumambient infinite that feeds
youth into the soul.
Says Robert S. Service in his recent "Prelude";
. . . Yet brine I in my work an eager joy,
A lusty love of life and all things human;
Still in me leaps the wonder cf *he boy,
A pride in man, a deathless faith in woman.
Still red blood calls, still rings the valiant fray;
Adventure beacons through the summer gloaming:
Oh, long and long and long will be the day
Ere I come homing.
FRANTIC FABLES:
I By
Heury
Futile Freddy
| Horsecollar
Little Frederic Firkin learned to use his arms be
fore he learned to use his legs. At the age of two
his father began to suspect that little Frederic would
grow up to sit
at his desk with
his hands on the
floor, signing
checks with his
toes.
It pained his
father to think
what a figure
Frederic would
cut leading a co
tillion in this at
titude, or playing
on the piano. It
grieved him most
of all when he
thought of Fred
eric sitting upside down on a sofa beside a lady, and
holding her hands with ^iis feet.
Although it may seem absurd to say so, his
father's fears were exaggerated. The most baneful
thing Frederic did with his arms was to show an
aptitude for art. Father was a master plumber, and
he had more respect for an Australian woodchopper
than he had for x an artist.
Father’s lack of sympathy encouraged Frederic,
for it made him feel like a martyr. If pa had been
wise he would have told his offspring to go in for
art—and his offspring would promptly have g*one in
for something else.
Anyhow. P’red soon dashed off a few things that
looked so much like nothing at all that they were
worthy of a place in the French salon.
But his work soon got so bad you could tell right
off what he was trying to draw, and his teacher
told him fhe never eoulft make good in High Art;
that lie had better try the newspapers.
So one fin e morning Frederic set out and got him
self a job on one of the daily prints. On the way to
the office he allowed his imagination to wander into
pleasant fields. He might be sent to draw a four-
alarm fire, or a suicide, or a murder, or he might be
sent to court to make pictures of a trial. On the
whole, he rather preferred ■* nice murder. He glanced
about unconsciously to see if the prospects of murder
were good that morning.
He had no sooner reacheu his desk when the art
manager sent for him. His hear pounded. There
were many older men in the room, but he had been
singled out from all the rest. Perhaps this was a
very important story.
"Here, bey." said the art manager, a few minutes
later, "make a copy of th's picture of a hair brush,
oox of hairpins and water bag, and get 'em done by
2 o'clock. They're for an advertisement."
It was not long before Frederic’ day came, how
ever. A big fire had drawn every man from the of
fice and he was alone. The managing editor called
him. "Son,” he said, "we’ve got to have a picture oC
the street commissioner, and he won't give up a
photo on his life. You go with a reporter to his
house, get a good look at him and see what yon
can do.”
And Frederic did.
Next morning he was up at 6. He bought a copy
of the paper and opened it with eager, trembling
hands.
Tljere it was! His own handiwork! It looked
even better than his drawing. He had shown them
the kind of stuff he was made cf. No more hair
brushes after this. After he ' had mailed a dozen
copies to the folks he set forth on a triumphal march
to the office. There were some water bottles on the
desk to copy, but be knew there must be a mistake.
The reporter who had taken him ‘i the commission
er’s came in.
"Fred," he said enthusiastically, "you certainly
did the trick last night all right.”
"I. knew it was in me," said Frederic.
"Yes," went on the reporter, "when .they handed
me that drawing of yours last night I got a flash
idea. I put it in my pocket and hiked back to the
commissioner's and got him out of bed. ‘Commis
sioner,’ I said, ‘if you can’t give us a photograph,
we’ve got to run this,’ and I showed him your draw
ing. The commissioner yelled ‘Holy mackerel,’ tore
out the only picture he had from the family album
and gave It to me.” ....
"Hey. Fred, got those water bottles done yet?"
called the art manager.
The recent great freeze in the citrus fruit disj
tricts of California, whereby some three-fourth* o!
all the oranges were so badly frozen as to warrant
their exclusion from interstate!
commerce under the pure food
laws. came in spite of thef
practice which now obtains in
many quarters of smudging'
orchards to prevent frost. The)
test which will determine the
fitness of California oranges i<$
go upon the market this year
will be the cutting into halved
of' oranges selected at ran-*
dom from each lot, and it
they reveal more than one-fifttn
of each orange to be pulpy and
without juice, they cannot b$
sold. This law will hit Call*
fornia very heavily this yeaf*
since the orange is the back
bone of the citrus fruit indus
try, as the fruit industry is
the backbone of California’s
crop yields. If all the orange*
trees of the state were to be planted in one grove*
with ninety trees to the acre, it would make a great
grove a mile wide and 225 miles long. California
has more than 50,000,000 fruit and nut trees, three-
fourths of them in bearing. In addition to these it
has 125,000.000 gr^p e vines. There are 9,000,000 bear*
ing and 4/ 00,000 growing orange trees in the statl*
with 3,000,000 lemon trees besides. Last year’s citrus
fruit yield exceeded 9,000,000 boxes, and brought
nearly $18,000,000 wholesale.
• *• •
Most orchardists and growers of semi-tropical
products hav e learned that it is a cheap investment
to take precautions to save their crops from killing
frosts. Traveling through the Ozark region of Mis
souri. one may pass thousands of acres of fruit trees;
and every one of them will be protected in frostsf
weather by crude oil burning in smudge pots ancl '
spreading a heavy pall of smoke over the orchards*
The son of one of the leading statesmen of the
eighties and 'nineties, a man who came close to be4
coming the nominee of his party for president, had a
yery large orchard. One year there was a cold wave* *
At an outlay of some $*6,000 for smudging, he saved
his crop of apples, and he sold it for $85,000, whild
his neighbors, who used no smudges, had no apples.
After that he had plenty of imitators.
* * *
But there was one thing In which they could not
imitate him. During his father’s service in congress
he accumulated a lot of worthless documents, most
of them Congressional Records, and the son found
them occupying all the storage room in the family
residence. So he decided that he would use thcnl
for wicks in his smudge pots; and, furthermore, he
found that congressional “hot air” combined with thd
smoke of crude petroleum made a most excellent pre
ventive of frost.
The principle upon which frost prevention by
smudging is based is that of air drainage. Cold ail*
seeks the low ground just as water seeks the ocean,
and anything that will help to drive it out and fored
it to mix with other strata of air tends to reduce th®
possibility of frost. In order to overcome frosts three
methods have been tried out—explosions, smudging*
and heating. Explosives were first used in France to
protect the grape crop. Later Albert Stiger, art Aus
trian burgomaster, who owned extensive vineyards 1®
the lower slopes of the Bacher mountains, was much
troubled with hailstorms. He decided to drive the
clouds away by the us e of explosives. He established
a series of six mortar stations on as many of the
surrounding mountains, each built of wood and shel
tering ten heavy mortars, each of them loaded with
a charge of four and, a half ounces of powder. Ht*
manned these stations with volunteers made ufk 'from
the small vineyard owners around him. and as soon
as a storm came into sight all hands repaired to their
respective posts and fired the mortars simultaneously*
until the cloud was scattered or blown away. Thai
experiment is declared to have 1 een a success.
* * *
The greatest damage done by frost to fruit buds
is not, in reality, th e work of the frost itself, but off
the sun the morning after. That is why the smudge
comes in so well. it not only has a tendency lr»
prevent radiation and, therefore, like the clouds, to
prevent frost, but more important, it prevents thd
sun’s rays in the early morning after from striking
the buds while the frost is upon them. Some of thd
early attempts to make smudges consisted of heaps
of sawdust and like inflammable materials burnt atj
sunrise on frosty mornings. Another plan was to
make steam enough to cover an orchard like a fog.
but that did not work.
When the lemon growers of California started m
to grow lemons they planted their trees down in Urn
valleys. The result was that whenever there was
still, cold, clear morning, the snow-breath of the
mountain peaks slipped down into the valley and nip
ped the buds. Then someone thought that if the
groves were planted along the higher plateaus, the
cold air would not be able to stop en route to the
valleys below 1 and the lemons would therefore be
immune from attack. And so it proved, and that -hs
why California fruit fares so well.
Another method of preventing damage by frost
consists of heating an orchard. One man patented
a wile basket which held some kindling and coal.
These were used, about twenty-five to the acre. An
other invented a briquet composed of. sawdust, oil'
refinery refuse, and low-grade oil. In California. o!l
heaters are used. One type consists of a sort of
bucket affair with a central draft tube. It weighs,
with the covering, less than two pounds, but holds
seven quarts of oil, enough to burn ten hours.
The lazy man finds it easier to say than do.
It isn’t the first crisis Mexico has had.
Cold weather at this period will do much toward
discouraging the killer of the fruit crop.
There is something more than mere rumors of
war.
MIRTHRAKING
The prisoner was but a slight man. and yet he
struggled with almost superhuman strength. The Ber-
tillon experts had bound him hand and foot, but he
contorted himself to such a degree
that it was impossible to get him
in front of the camera.
Finally, one of the plain clothes
bruisers handed him a jolt hard
enough to make him sit still a min
ute. "We ain’t a-goin’ to murder
youse,” explained this minion of the
Jaw, "set still an’ be mugged."
"But what do you want my pic
ture for?" gasped the prisoner.
"Fer de rogues' gallery.”
"Oh. pardon me for resisting,” said the poor
wretch, relaxing immediately and assuming a $6-a-
dozen smile. "I thought it was for a newspaper!"—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The benevolent citizen while walking along Park
place spied a little tot weeping. So he walked up to
it and said; "Now be a good boy and stop your
crying."
Thc child replied: "I can’t/*
“But why can’t you?”
"I can’t.’’
"Well, here's a cent; tell mi why
you can’t be a good boy and stop
crying."
" ’Cause I’m a girl.”*—Newark
Morning Star.