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4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL f ATKAjriA. OA., 5 MOR TH FOBSYTH ST. Entered at th«; Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of . » - the Second Class. • JAMES B. GBAT. President and Editor. SUESCBIPTIOM PRICE. Twelve months 76c Six months << ' c Three Months 25c The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tues day 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 depart ments of special value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Liberal com ’ uslsstqp allowed. Outfit free. Write R. K. BRAD LET. Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton.. C. C. Coyle. L. H. Kimbrough. Chas. H. ‘ Woodliff and L. J Farris. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above-named traveling representatives. \ I vonct TO SUBSCBIBEBS Tbs label used for addressing your paper shows the time yovr ■sbsertpttoc. expires By renewing at 1-ast two weeks be fore the date on this label, yon insure regular service. Is oadertng paper etianged. be sure to mention your old. as weU as yoer new address- If on a route, please giie tbs route irawber. We cannot enter subscription, to begin with back numbers. Remittance skould be sent by postal order or registered mail. address all jorders and notices for this Department to THE SEMI-W’EEKI.Y JOCRXAL. Atlanta. Ga. Tariff by Commission. That the tariff, often raised, often lowered —the anbject of never ending controversy between the two principal political parties—is about to enter a new phase is brought to mind by the recent appoint ment by President Wilson of Professor Frank W. Taussig, head of the department of economics at Harvard university, to the tariff commission created at the last session o( congress. Tariffs in the past have been raised too often at rhe dictation of the interests that the raise would most benefit without consideration of the consumer public. Tariffs in the past have been lowered too often without the exact knowledge of the conditions effected The tariff in other words seems to have been the football of partisan politics in its most partisan manifestations. One of the chief things about the new tariff commission is that it is to be nonpartisan and from a nonpartisan viewpoint will wtudy trade conditions and tendencies here and abroad, the cost of production and raw mate rials. in other words, the whole subject of manufac turing and marketing in its world aspects and out of this study and investigation will submit reports upon which tariff changes can be made with justice to producer and consumer alike. That the appointment of Professor Taussig, who will likely be chairman of the commission, is in ac cordance with this large purpose of the commission is evident from the comment of such influential in dependent dailies as the New York Evening Post and the Springfield Republican. "President Wilson is to be heartily congrat ulated,** says the Post, “on the auspicious start that will be given to the work of the newly created tariff commission through its chairmanship being filled by Professor* Taussig. His qualifications for that post are unique, but it seemed for a time doubtful that ®he could be induced to undertake its burdens. Pro igssor Taussig is not only the best equipped man in tftr country for this position in point of knowledge £hd training but the most extraordinarily judicial temper.of his mind will cause any judgments he pronounce on controverted questions to be ac cepted on all sides with a degree of confidence which those of no .other man that we can think of would be likely to command.” Os Professor Taussig’s qualification the Repub lican says: “He is Jf low tariff man bnt he is thoroughly scientific and moderate as his writings on the tariff will adequately demonstrate. His high, standing in the field of economics should at once avail to win prestige for the tariff com mission for no one can believe that Professor Taussig could be in the least controlled by po litical ’considerations.’’ It will be a long time yet before the tariff will be taken out of politics but ft fs at least gratifying that the v*ay has been cleared for the solution of this vexed question to be approached other than through extreme partisanship. Freeing the South's Live Stock Resources. Field workers and officials of the federal Bureau of Animal Husbandry are assembled in Atlanta for a conference that is of cardinal importance to Georgia and the entire South. The purpose of the meeting is to plan a campaign to eradicate the cettle £ick from four hundred and "nineteen thou sand square miles of territory now under quaran tina. This undertaking is deeply significant not only to persons directly engaged in cattle raising, but also to owners of land that is usable for stock farms or ranches. It is significant, indeed, to every mate rial interest of the State and the section, because in the development of live stock industries lies one of the main sources of the South’s enrichment and upbuilding. The eradication of the cattle tick will remove the last Serious obstacle to the extensive development of those industries in this region. 4 decade ago more than seven hundred and twenty-eight thousand square miles were under fed eral quarantine because of tick infection. Under such conditions, progress in cattle raising was well nigh impossible* But jlhrough the co-operative efforts of the National and State Departments of Agriculture, pome three hundred and nine thousand square miles of this territory has been freed en tirely and the task of freeing the remainder ren dered comparatively simple. It is a matter of record that within the past five years, after the work of combatting the tick was fully under wav, the South has made greater progress in the cattle industry than in all the fifty >ears preceding. Further, according to a recent bulletin from the federal Department of Agricul ture, there has been more progress in the South during past five years than in any other sec tion. .Evidently, then, when this pest is wiped out, as it certainly will be through continued co-opera tion, the South will become one of the world’s great centers of cattle raising. By every natural cir cumstance. it is ideally suited to animal husbandry. It's climate fs mild and Its pasturage abundant, so that the cost of housing and feeding stock is re duced to a minimum. There are hundreds of thou- THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1917. [ sands of acres of Southern land which are well sit j uated and well conditioned for stock raising and which, moreover, can be bought at prices far cheaper than Western lands. When the danger of tick infection is out of the way, there will be a re markable development in those now idle areas. Indeed, the development already has begun, on the assurance that all hindrances to the expansion of live stock interests in the South will lie over come in the course of anpther five or ten years. A notable enterprise ofithe kind was projected re cently by the Georgia Land and Livestock Company, of Savannah. This company has acquired in Mc- Intosh and Liberty counties a tract of one hundred and twenty-eight thousand acres on which it ex pects to graze twenty thousand head of cattle and ten thousand head of sheep, and to conduct kindred undertakings of large importance. When the cattle tick menace is a thing of the past, enterprises of this kind will be numbered by scores; vast areas of land now idle will be turned to productive uses: packing houses, already on the increase, will multiply more rapidly than ever; and the South will become the nation’s center of meat supply. The Shippers Meeting at Macon. The shippers of Georgia have been called to a conference at Macon on January 17 by W. C. Ve reen, president of the Georgia Shippers’ association. Not only are the members of the association wanted for this meeting but every one who sends or re ceives freight by rail in Georgia. The conference is for the purpose of drawing more specific plans for opposition to the hampering increases of intrastate freight rates proposed by the railroads of this State. By extensive and expert investigation, the ship pers have arrived at the figures which show the harmful effect the proposed rate idcreases will have on the business not only of industrial and commer cial enterprises but of individuals as well. These figures and the results that will flow from them will be presented to the meeting and effective means for preventing this unnecessary burden on the pro ducers of Georgia will be sought. The deeper the shippers go into the subject of the raises desired by the roads on freight transpor tation, within the borders of this state, the greater is their amazement that the roads should, in effect, purpose to put a throttling hand upon the rising movement for home enterprises and home products. The intrastate increases such as are intended by the roads constitute nothing other than an unwarranted tax on the business between Georgia citizens and be tween Georgia manufacturing enterprises and Georgia individuals and firms who would patron ize them and who in turn would be patronized by the manufacturies in the purchase of raw ma terials. The whole state through the work of public spirited men and organizations is aroused on the subject of Georgia products. Georgia capital and Georgia brains have brought packing houses and orchards and hundreds of other varied enterprises to an admirable degree of service and efficiency. Stock, and cattle raising has been encouraged. Many forms of diversified farming have shown the way to relief from the ancient one-crop system and have effected preparedness against the coming of the boll weevil. It is against having the way of this hard-won advance barred by excessive freight rates that the shippers of this state are now battling. • . In the light of these things the meeting at Macon assumes especial imiyirtance. It should have a large and representative attendance and its best brain an# energy should be devoted to an ad ditional strong showing before the state railroad commission against the proposed freight increases. The Land Show and Its Meaning. Land is rightly considered the essential source of all wealth. From it is evolved in some form food, raiment and shelter-—the three great requi sites of life. Everything else is but embellishment and enhancement of these. Man’s instinct for the land and love for it, therefore, come as the edict of nature. He finds health there, he finds wealth there, he finds happiness there. The desire to own land is never failing, and ownership brings with it a certain pride beyond that of other possessions. These facts account in large measure for the great interest already aroused by merely tLe pre liminary announcements of the Southeastern Land show to be held here at the Auditorium from Feb ruary 1 to 15. There may be shows of this and shows of that, which afford interest and even great interest to certain groups of individuals and asso ciations, but a land show with its unfailing human concern and the wide sweep of its possibilities draws the attention and fixes the interest of every one. The southeast teems with opportunities, indus trial, commercial, agricultural, but its greatest re cource still remains Its land, unused land waiting only the energizing touch of capital and labor to respond in hundredfold and add to the wealth of the owner and to the progress of the section. What is in the states comprising the southeast and what can be done here has not yet been ade quately told the world. Money and population have not flow’ed here commensurate with the resources of this great section and the reason is that they have been attracted away by the better advertising but not the better opportunities of other parts of the country. The state of California stands as an example of a state of wonderful attractions wonderfully pre sented to the world. And no small factor in this presentation have been the land shows held at San Francisco which for a period of thirty years have served as show windows for the greatness of California and the Pacific coast. And the world parsing by has seen and stopped and gazed and en tered and bought. Land shows with similar fruit ful results have been held for years in Chicago and other principal cities of the United States. • The Show here in February is held under the auspices of the Georgia Chamber of commerce and under the management of the Southeastern Land Show association. Its purposes are more partic ularly stated in the attractive folder announce ments issued by the association which are in part as follows: “The land show will be of the highest value , in educating the people of the southeast as to the productive possibilities of their section — what to grow and how to grow it and where and how to market what they grow. It will combine the features of a bazar, not only for the showing and sale of lands but for the ex- hibition and sale of the products of the farm, forest, the factory, the quarry and the mine. It means the. bringing into the southeast in vestors and settlers from afar; the winning of more people back to the soil; better roads and a better country; and a larger home-grown food supply for the south.” It will form an attractive feature of the stop over visits of winter tourists on their way to south ern resorts. It will constitute an open and easily read answer book to their queries of “What is the South, what does it possess, what does it yield, and where exactly are its varied activities and possibil ities located?” To the visitor from other parts of the country and to the visitor from this section itself, to both alike, it will reveal not with extrav agant boasting but with accurate map and chart and the exhibit of the actual product how Plenty smiles on southern soil under southern sun. The land show is an enterprise that bears so directly and fruitfully upon the progress of the southeast that it should have the whole-hearted support of every wide-awake citizen and organiza tion throughout the states comprising this section. Wasting Ten Billion a Year. That interesting economist, Prof. Rudolph Binder, calculates that the American people waste at least ten billion dollars a year. This means, as he says in the New York Sun. that “out of every dollar earned, forty cents counts for naught. It means, our population being reckoned at one hun dred million, that positive waste and lack of thrift together costs each of us one hundred dollars a year. It means that vast opportunities for national wealth and power are being neglected or flung away. No wonder eggs are almost a luxury, says Prof. Binder, because careless handling of them results in an annual loss which is figured conservatively at' forty million dollars, “and is probably nearer sixty millions at the present time.” Irish potatoes now cost at a rate which Hercules would have considered high for the apples of the Hesperides. This is not due wholly to a crop shortage, for it appears that’ some twenty-five million dollars’ worth of potatoes are lost each year through rot ting, which could be prevented easily by the adop tion of drying processes. The high cost of living is, in part at least, the high cost of carelessness. The destruction of crops by insect pests amounts to six hundred and fifty-nine million dol lars a year, and the loss of animal life in the same way two hundred and sixty-seven millions. Most of these pests can be reduced to a minimum, if not eradicated; science has shown the way. Failure to adopt available remedies and preventives is willful waste. Other sources of great waste as computed by Prof. Binder are: fires, $250,000,000 a year; floods, $238,000,000; industrial diseases, $772,- 000,000; preventable diseases and accidents, sl,- 500,000,000; the more obvious kinds of inefficiency, $702,000,000. The effect of these drains and losses is felt by individuals in a burdensome cost of living; even tually it will be felt by nation in an impairment of national strength. This larger aspect of the situa tion is stated well by the economist when he says: “Don’t let us forget that we are going to face the bitterest kind of commercial rivalry when peace is restored. The partly impover ished belligerent nations will be able to re habilitate themselves financially only through foreign trade. They are going to cultivate their alien markets and to widen their fields of com merce. In this great struggle, not inaptly called the war after the war, efficiency of pro duction and national economy are going to help potently in determining who shall be the victors. Productively the European nations now at war are going to be more efficient than ever before, and likewise accustomed to sac rifice and to more modest standards of living. In view of our extravagance, our inefficiency and our spirit of wastefulness, where are we going to stand when the day of battle comes?” While it is painfully evident that the American people have lacked the sense of thrift which is es sential to a nation’s endurance, there are hearten ing signs of a change to wiser ways. Our larger industrial and business concerns are becoming con tinually more efficient. The attitude of the public and of government toward the question of con serving the country’s natural resources has changed from indifference to solicitude. And there is rea son to believe that little by little the average in individual is learning what an .important and really admirable thing is thrift. Spring is on the way. Already the belligerents are preparing to make a subdivision of Europe. Buffalo Bill. The passing of William Frederick Cody at’ Denver, Colorado, removes an interesting and picturesque figure in American history. A link he® was between the West that is and the West that has gone to return no more. His life was full of action and color. Such a life always commands attention. It seems, indeed, particularly to en dear itself to the American mind. Colonel Cody’s hold upon the imagination of Americans, young and old. lay in the fact that he typified to them the endurance, the daring and the resourcefulness of the pioneer settlers of this country as they moved, slowly westward to the Pacific—the drama of our national life unmatched for thrills. In 1867 when the Kansas Pacific railway was being constructed across the western plains and buffaloes then were numerous, he entered into con tract to supply the laborers engaged in this great undertaking with buffalo meat. It is stated that within eighteen months he had killed for JJie road commissaries 4,280 of these animals. Hence the name “Buffalo Bill” by which he was known throughout his later life. Previous to this he had been a rider in the pony express of the West and in I the Civil war was a Federal cavalry scout. He played a prominent part in the battles with Indians after the sixties. One of hig most notable exploits was the killing of the Cheyenne chief. Yellow (land, in hand-to-hand encounter in the battle of Indian Creek. His wild West show, known throughout this country and Europe was organized in the late eighties. He is the author of a number of books dealing with life on the western plains. In his death is exemplified the fact that the “old order changeth, yielding place to new.” One cannot take farewell of the old but with a heart ache for that the new seems flat and stale in com parison, that it has none of the enchantment of the days of ride and rifle shot and game and gold. TAKE TIME TO READ —By H. Addington Bruce HERE are a good many foolish people in the world, few of whom have any idea how fool ish they are. Most of all, perhaps, is this T true of the foolish people who insist that they have no time to read. Many such people even speak with a kind of boastfulness of their non-reading habit. “Read!” they exclaim. “Why. no, I never read. It is all I can do to find time to glance through the newspaper. I have got to attend to business you know.” My pity goes out to these people. I can see them as I write—tense, strained, always on the go. inclined to irritability, their minds uneasy, the de mon of unrest perpetually harrying them. Listen, brother. Ours is proverbially a nervous age. Physicians and psychologists marvel at the increase of func tional nervous and mental disorders. All sorts of theories are advanced to account for this increase. For myself. I firmly believe that it is in large part due to the decline of the reading habit. Men need mental foods just as truly as they need material food. They can get it to some extent from newspapers—though- not by merely “glancing” through newspaper reading is not enough. There must also be magazine reading, and there must in especial be book reading. Brother, you who are rushing from home to office, from office to club, from club to home, from home to theater or dance hall or card game—stop and consider. You feel a lack somewhere. You know that things are not exactly as they ought to be. You feel that you are not master of yourself—that something is driving you to chase hither and yon, for what purpose you cannot’ tell. . TO UNDERSTAND—By Dr. Frank Crane Just to understand! What a world of wretchedness it would save us! It would spare us how many fears, chagrins, dis illusions, disappointments, heartaches, estrange ments! I think the real reason why we dislike anybody is that we do not understand him. I have a theory that every human being is lovable, if only under stood. And if we would try to understand our ene mies half as hard as we try to overcome them, they would cease to be enemies. There is the mother who lives in constant fric tion with her daughter. Their attitbde is one of constant hostility. The mother complains that the daughter is headstrong, secretive, wayward, in tractable. The daughter that the mother is hard, unsympathetic, always finding fault. IT both par ties only had imagination eneffigh to put them selves in each other’s place! If each would only seek to understand the other, instead of justifying, excusing, and pitying herself! Those who get along best with very small chil dren are those who most carefully study them, who try to get their viewpoint, who endeavor to understand, more thaij to compel, correct, or teach. In fact, the whole business of “getting along with folks” resolves itself into a matter of under standing folks, and there is no business in the | WAYS TO ECONOMIZE, v —Cutting Down Meat Bills. By Frederic J. Haskin ASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—A survey of all that government scientists have to say on the sub ject of economy in the use of meat shows that w all their suggestions may be grouped under a few heads. You may save money by careful buying, select ing your purchases with care, and watching market conditions. You may often buy meat to advantage in wholesale quantities and thus make a .substantial saving. Yon may, and probably should, eat less meat, and use more fish and other substitutes. The proper utilization of bone, fat and small bits of meat com monly trimmed off and thrown away is an excellent economy. The cheaper cuts of meat should be eaten more, although this is not always as great a saving as it appears. • • • With regard to your marketing, the most important thing is to do it in person, so that you may sfee what you are getting. An investigation made into the mar keting and cooking in a number of American families show-ed that meat was often bought by phone, or by a child or other ignorant person. Much may often be saved, too, by watching market conditions and buying the kind Os meat that is most abundant, and therefore cheapest, at a given time. You are also advised to purchase from several different shops, as this will give you a wider range of information about the state of the market and of prices. • • • If you have proper facilities, and a large family, you may often buy meat cheaper in large quantities and use it to good advantage. If you btfy a hind quarter of mutton, for example, the thin meat on the flank should be cooked first because it will be first to spoil. From the flank and rib bones a gallon of Scotch broth may be made, while the remainder of the quarter may be used for roasts and chops. • • • • Nearly all country folk kill their own hogs, and use the whole carcass, and the city housekeeper may make good use of a small animal in the same way. A pig six months old and weighing about a hundred pounds is a good investment. The* hams and thin strips of meat from the belly may be smoked or pickled, while the thicker pieces of meat from the belly, put up in jars with brine, are just the thing to cook with beans or other vegetables. The tenderloin will be roasted; the head and feet made into cheese or scrapple, while scraps of lean meat may be used for home-made sausage. In this way a variety of dishes may be prepared and every pound of food value gotten out of 'the purchase. The advantage of this method over the daily buying of expensive cuts is obvious; but it demands a thorough knowledge of cooking and keeping meats. In fact, with regard to meats, as with dbgard to all other foods, ignorance is the greatest cause of extravagance. The housewife who has learned how to buy, store and prepare foods is able to get a great deal more for her money than does the average housewife. • • • The most direct and obvious way to economize on the meat bill is to eat less of it; and this has been so generally urged by dieticians that repetition here is hardly necessary. Most American families eat meat two or three times a day, when once would be better; but to change habit in this regard is extremely difficult. However, if you can induce your family to-live on one meat meal a day, you may be sure that you are not only saving money, but improving the balance of the family diet. • • • The importance of fish as a substitute.for meat has also been strongly urged; and here agiin the inertia of habit stands in the way. One good tip for house holders who buy fish in the market at a distance from the sea has recently been given out by the storage expert of the department of agriculture, however. She says that frozen fish are kept in perfect condition and are perfectly wholesome; but that they should be cooked immediately after thawing. Now the average dealer, in order to make his wares look more attractive,, thaws out the fish before exposing them for sale, and they immediately begin to deteriorate. Insist, there fore. upon having fish that are still frozen if you live inland. Frozen halibut is now% shipped from Alaska to Boston, and from there reshipped* all over the country without deteriorating in the least as long as the fish remains in its thin envelope of ice. • • • The most valuable part of the meat commonly wasted is the fat. In many families little of this is eaten at the table and much of it is ultimately thrown away. Yet it forms from 6 to 8 per cent in lean beef to 32 per cent in pork chops of the whole cut, and is high in food value. Hence, if it is apt to be wasted at the table, the fat should be "tried out” before the meat is served, and used for cooking purposes. Small pieces of fat may be easily tried out in a double boiler. That something is your hungry mind. It longs to be fed with intellectual nourishment, just as your body longs to be fed with physical nourish ment. And, just as cooks can feed your body, au thors can feed your mind. » Get acquainted with books, good books Take time to read the great poets, novelist's, historians, essayists, scientists, philosophers. They will give your mind the food it craves. And they will tran quillize your mind. Even from the standpoint of business success, it will pay you to acquire the reading habit.* * ’No matter what your business, you can get from books —from all sorts of )>ooks—ideas that will prove “paying” ones to you. The song of a poet may mean to you something that you can turn into dollars and cents. Best of all. through books you will be able to live efficiently as well as to work efficiently. It is a great thing to know how to live—and the man who does not read is usually a man who does not know how to live. The restlessness the nervousness of the ncn-reader, is sufficient proof of this. You have lonely moments? Your books can make them happy ones. You have times of depres sion? Books can turn these into times of quiet, restful, nerve-invigorating contentment. Books are joy-bringers of almost miraculous power. Brother, takes this to heart. Don’t go on living without books. You are miss ing more than mj* feeble words can express—far more. Begin to read, begin to enjoy books, begin to draw from them the peace of mind, the strength of mind, that lies enwrapped in the world’s great literature, ready for your use, my use, everybody’s use. (Copyright, 1917, by the Associated Newspapers.) world that affects our peace of mind more pro foundly. ’An old saint once wrote: “I went away from God—to find God.” And surely you will find your- If test by going away from yourself. In* the Bhagavad Gita occurs this wisdom " This is the greatest enemy—the my-ness in me. This is the giant weed whose roots lie deep in the human heart.” I.<«vers, try to understand, and you will escape jealousies, slights, and all the poison of offenses that n.ar your delight in one another. Parents, try to understand and you will not lose youi children. Children, try' to understand your parents, ana ycu will find their case for you a pleasant garden, and not a walled prison. Neighbors, try to understand ,and your com munal life will be a joy, and not an irritation. Employers and employed, if you would try to each other you would both get more out of your relation than by fighting. Nations, try to understand each other. The time is past for despising and hating them that are of another blood and speech. Race-hate, rival ry, fear, contention, pride—do yon not see their result fr the cataclysm now in Europe? And God—the reason He forgives is because He understands. (Copyright, 1917, by Frank Crane.) All meat bones are good for soup, but much better use may be made of those that have a little meat left on them. The braised ribs of beef often served in high class restaurants are made from the bones cut from rib roasts. In fact, on the menus at restaurants and hotels may be found many palatable dishes made of materials that are thrown away in most households. A restaurant keeper who made do better use' of his materials than the majority of housewives would not; stay in the business long. • • • Spareribs, in like manner, are the trimmings from roast pork. Marrow bones are a dish seldom seen nowadays which have considerable nutritive value. The bones should be cut into convenient lengths, the ends covered with bits of dough, and floured cloth tied over them. The cloth and dough are removed after baking and the bones served on toast. Marrow bones may also be baked in a deep dish, or the marrow scraped out after cooking, seasoned and served on toast. • • • The use of the cheaper cuts of meat has been most commonly recommended as a means of economizing on this item in the bill-of-fare. Government experti ments shbw that there is scarcely any difference in the food value of the different cuts, or in their digesti bility. There Js, however, a difference in the amount of cooking required, and this should be taken into account, for fuel is a considerable item in tne preparation of every meat Thus the meat of the neck is often two and one-half times as tough as the loin. Then, too, the poorer cuts are inferior in flavor, and unless they can be cooked so that they will be palatable, it will not pay to use them. However, if the cuts are wall chosen and correctly cooked, many of the cheaper ones may be made into very attractive-dishes, and it is doubtless true that these cuts should be used a great deal more than they now are by most American families. The essentials in preparing cheaper cuts of meat are long cooking at low temperatures, and attractive sea soning. The double boiler should be used for this purpose, and the temperature should be kept a few degrees below boiling. Stewed shin of beef, boiled bes and horseradish sauce, Scotch broth, braised beef, and Hungarian goulash may in this way be made*- attractive and digestible dishes. Quips and Quiddities ."Now,” said the farmer to the aristocratic lady farmhand, “I want you to clean up the pigsty, the stable, the henhouse and all the other houses of the stock. For two days the sweet thing worked vigorously, then she appeared before her employer with both eyes nearly closed, her mouth swollen, and red 'lumps over face, neck and hands. "I should be glad if you would pay me my money,” she murmured. "I can't do any more farming. I want to leave.” "What's the matter?” asked the farmer. “I don’t know what’s the matter” replied the victim, “but it happened when I started to clean out the bee hive!” • • • A farm hand had been working in the fields- from dawn till darkness day after day, finishing up his chores by lantern light. At the end of the month he said to the farmer: "I’m going to quit. You promised me a steady job of work.” “Well, haven’t you got one?” was the astonished reply. “No.” said the man: “there are three or four hours every night that I don’t’have anything to do but fool my time away sleeping.” * • • • The playwrights own latest play was being pro duced. Sitting in the last row in the parquet seats, he listened to its leaden phrases. The piece was a com plete failure. As the playwright sat, pale and sad. chilled to the heart by the fatal silence, a woman sitting behind him leaned forward and said: "Excuse me, sir; I have something belonging to you. Knowing.you to be the author of the play. I took the liberty at the beginning of the performance of snip ping off a lock of your Jiair. Allow- me to return it.” Villa seems to be about the only man left who isn’t mixed up in some sort of peace proposition. Henry Ford’s peace expedition wouldn’t be con sidered a joke now. People who speculated and lost on Wall street recently shouldn’t blame the “leak.” They would have lost anyhow, sooner or later.
