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8 New Profession.
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Ut ^ Y ' r8 ago in America I went pros
for gold," he said, “I did not
tf/old dnt but something time almost were in¬ as
nrecious At that we
fested by cockroaches. But they ai
avoided the crumblings of the
way* thought there must be a
Sc ,rti I shyness
reason for this on
their part, for they are not shy as a
l,fe f,t, So I called in an investigated anlytical chem- mat
and together we
t6 ^Ve had Just finished our investiga¬ that all
tions when the news came
the kitchens of Chicago were overrun
by cockroaches. I went to the chef
of the largest kitchen In Chicago and
aid, ‘Let me clear your kitchen.’
B despair, and said, lm
"He was In
^Good,’ i replied. ‘This cockroaches is where
I arrive,’ and I drove the
out of Chicago.
“And now, young man, one word of
advice. I advise you to start a new
profession. I have done that, and
found it very profitable.”
FIND A MANET IN HENHOUSE
Painting by the Master Found in
Zlem’s Back Yard After Expira¬
tion of 50 Years.
Paris.— Caesar’s ashes stopping a
bunghole is a pharse forcibly recalled
by the remarkable announcement just
mad# that a priceless painting by
Manet has been found to have patched
a hole in the roof of a henhouse in
the back garden of Zitm, the well
knewn painter, who died recently.
After Ziem's death, it is said, a
quantity of battered furniture was
discovered together with the frames
of old canvases, in the corners of his
picturesque house on the Butte of
Montmartre, and the accumulations
were thought to be not worth taking
away by the executors, who left them
behind.
The concierge arranged to have
them removed by a rag and bone
dealer, who carefully stripped the
place of every movable object, not
omitting a discolored and muddy
iquar# of canvas bearing marks of
paint, and filling the humble office
mentioned above.
On cleaning the canvases at bis
shop he discovered under a thick
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layer of dirt the marvelous portrait
of a woman with Manet’s signature.
As the picture must have been
nailed to the shed before Manet be¬
came famous, the inference is that
it had served to keep the rain off
chickens for something like fifty
years.
BEAR OUTWRESTLES A MAN
Bruin Gets the Best of It Until Fel¬
low Fisherman Comes Upon
the Scene of Action.
Beaudette, Minn.—P. J. Barry of
Chicago, who pitched for the Spencer,
Minn., baseball team recently, jour¬
neyed with a friend to the Lake of
the Woods. They were fishing and
became separated. Barry hooked a
15-pound pike and while walking
along, endeavoring to land it in the
rocks, he came face to face with a
bear, accompanied by a cub.
Mrs. Bear immediately rushed the
ball player. They roughed it and
Barry was getting the best of the
argument, when, in a clinch, he step¬
ped on the fish and fell, with the bear
on top.
Barry’s friend heard the commotion,
and, cutting a sapling, came to the
rescue. Barry was unconscious from
loss of blood, his right srm being torn
from elbow to shoulder. He was
taken to Kenora, and It is not believ¬
ed his wounds are dangerous.
The men captured the cub and
took it with them. Barry will take
the animal to Chicago when he re¬
covers.
Henry Ward Beecher's Memory.
Henry Ward Beecher, the centenary
of whose birth is being celebrated,
had a poor verbal memory, says the
British Weekly. On one occasion he
gave a notice in his ch.urch thus:
“In addition to the notices just read,
I desire to sty that I shall be absent
next Sabbath, and that this pulpit will
be occupied by—ah—by—ah—the—
Rev.— (he became much flushed and
confused). I will not be here next Sab¬
bath, and, as I was trying to say, the
preacher will be—ah—why, I know
him—you all know him—know—‘Sam’
will preach next Sabbath. Let ub
praiee God by singing the—the hymn.’*
He had no difficulty in remembering
the family name, “Sam,” but Rev. Sam¬
uel Scoville was too mueh for him.
What She Could Do.
Arthur was spending a day with
his aunt.
“I am going to do something to
please you on your birthday,” she said
to the little boy, “but first I want to
ask the teacher how you behave at
school.*’
“If you really want to do something
to please me, auntie,” said the boy,
“don’t ask the teacher.”—Lippincott’s.
PAY OF BRITISHERS
Premier Asquith Receives No
Salary in That Office.
Assumes Another Portfolio Remuner*
tion From Which Is More Profitable
—Lord Chancellor Gets $50,
000 a Year.
London.—Up to date no cabinet min¬
ister in this country has threatened to
go on the lecture platform on the
ground that his official salary is in¬
adequate to his needs, although David
Lloyd George recently assured an in¬
vestigation committee that he was a
poor man on the $25,000 a year—or
over twice as much as is paid to any
member of President Wilson’s official
family—which he receives as chan¬
cellor of the exchequer.
Ministers of the crown are In re¬
ceipt of salaries and enjoy “perquis¬
ites” which must make the mouths ol
American ministers water if they
know about them. One of them draws
an actual stipend of $50,000, or as
much as the presidency of the United
States was worth until a few years
ago, while another gets $35,000 a year
and fees in addition, which more
often than not amount to more than
his official pay. Three others live
rent free at the expense of the. public,
and one of these latter, the first lord
of the admiralty, has at his disposal,
besides, a private yacht which costs
the British taxpayers something like
$50,000 a year to keep up.
If William J. Bryan, for example,
instead of being secretary of state
for Uncle Sam, had Prime Minister
Asquith’s job, he would be drawing
more than three times his present sal¬
ary and would also enjoy, rent free,
an uncommonly comfortable as well
as historic official residence.
The premiership of England, it is
true, is an unpaid job, the only real
perquisite in connection with it be¬
ing its holder’s privilege of occupying
the famous mansion, 10 Downing
street—now the goal of suffragettes
and Scotch bailies—which often has
been described, and perhaps justly,
David Lloyd George.
as "the most interesting house in the
world.” Whoever becomes premier
when a new administration comes into
being, however, seldom contents him¬
self with that office, but takes unto
himself also the portfolio of some
other minister of the crown. Mr. Bal¬
four before him, that of first lord of
the treasury, which carries with it the
yearly emolument of $25,000.
Directly next door is 11 Downing
street, an Infinitely less luxurious
and historic but eminently comfortable
house, where, rent free again lives
the chancellor of the exchequer. It is
rather a striking coincidence, by the
way, that Lloyd George, who, like W.
J. Bryan, has come to be regarded
as the tribune and advocate of the
“plain people," should, like his distin¬
guished contemporary on the other
side of the Atlantic, be the only mem¬
ber of the present cabinet to allege
that his official salary is Inadequate to
his needs.
In the United States there is no
exact counterpart of the lord chancel¬
lor who, besides acting as speaker of
the upper house, is supreme head of
the English judiciary, and who draws
an annual salary of $50,000. When he
retires, moreover, he Immediately en¬
ters on a life annuity amounting to
$25,000 a year. The present holder
of this office Is Lord Haldane, who
was secretary of state for war before
his elevation to the woolsack.
Nobody ever has accused the lord
chancellor of having a snap. Besides
sitting, clad in wig and gown, as
speaker of the house of peers he sits as
a judge in that house, in the privy coun¬
cil, the court of appeal, and the chan¬
cery division of the high court of jus¬
tice. He has the appointment of all
justices of the peace throughout the
kingdom, and all the judges of the
superior courts except the lord chief
justice, who is nominated by the prime
minister.
Wanted Dog Hung for Murder.
Montclair, N. J—Mr. L. H. Fores¬
ter’s pet cat was murdered, seemingly
by a dog, whereupon Mrs. Forester
rushed into police headquarters here
and asked that Snap, a dog owned by
a neighbor, be charged with the mur
der and duly executed. Asked if she
knew to a certainty that Snap was the
culprit, she answered in the negative,
but declared she felt sure Snap killed
her cat “because he was sniffing in my
yard afterward.” The police con¬
tended that Snap had a right to aniff
and refused to have him haled Into
court
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Cotton and Cotton Seed
Dealer In
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Hulls, Meal and Fertilizers
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Mansfiield, - - Georgia
Phone No. 67.
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