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4 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1913. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered. at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. JAMES R. GRAY, President and Editor. a'JASCRAPTION PRICE Twelvp months 7oc Six Months 40 c Three months 25c The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our_office. It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every, postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Writ-' R. R. BRAD- LKY. Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are .1. A. Bryan, R. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle. L. H. Kim brough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only for money paid t*. the above named traveling repre sentatives. The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old, as well as your new address. If on a route please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this de partment to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta,. Ga. 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. i ! 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. _ \ -r r-j ^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.