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The Wood | Core Is Strongest There is only one wall board wtj made with wood slats as the center core. I ts name is r: ; v If you want the strongest wall board, —if you want the most durable wall board, —if you want the only wall board that can be suc cessfully papered, if you want the wall board that can be most artistically decorated by any method, that doesn’t have to be paneled unless you wish it, —if you want the wall board that his greatest resistance to cold in winter, to heat in summer, to mois ture at all times, —if you want the most satisfactory and economical wall board, —order Compo - Board and be sure you get it. Look for the wood core and l he name on the board. That’s your protection. Send for Sample .\ piece of Compo-Boar.l mailed free. Compare it with other wall boards. Put it to any test you wish. Compo-Hoard is sold in strips four feet wide and one to eighteen feet long by dealers everywhere. Northwestern Compo - Board Company 4315 lynddle Ave. No, Minneapolis. Minn. Cigar Vending Machine A handsome, plate glass case, mounted on substan tial broad based decorated pedestal, givescigar buyerg a choice of five brands. Humidor keeps cigars in perfect smoking condition indefinitely. Vending mechanism absolutely unfailing—delivers goods only when right amount is put in slot -doesn’t kink—saves expense or salesmen wherever cigars are sold as side line. Hotels, Barber Shops ( Restaurants, Billiard Halls, Clubs and all other business houses want the AMERICAN Cigar Vending Machine Not an experiment—not complicated—cnn’t get out ot order—can’t be tampered with. Agents Wanted Exclusive Territory Here is a splendid oppor tunity for a wide awako ealesman in every locality. An attractive, profitable, in> 1. 'pendent business req air ing but little capital and no special experience. Only ne cessary to demonstrate this cigar vender to sell it. Build up a big circuit—and supply the owners with cigars to sell in th- ir machines. No limit to possibilities. Write postal today for particulars and exclusive territory. American Cigar Machine Co., Dept. 3 St. Louis, Mo. (Ok KEYLESS PADLOCK ». i \ __ a. «.. n/. ,>ti/.|fa to count.. f No knobs to turn-no clicks to count. >—' press the buttons and it flies open—10.IK*) combinations possible on each lock. Operated _ ,<A as easily in thedarkasin light. Solidbrass. \ APCIiTC making lOO profit. Sells on T Aui.NI o sight- no competition. Write , Cl for terms of free sample. A postal will do. * American Key less Lock Co., 665 Jackson Blvd..Chicago American Sunday Monthly Magazine Section The Sudden Perfection of the MOTOR"CYCHE / | MIL motor-cycle is one of the big I things this country has almost over looked. For the man who has to | count the dollars he spends, it is the greatest ! thing within his reach. It is recreation, transportation, and, above all, it is excite ment—all for the price of about one-fifth of a cent per mile. Compared with the automobile, the I single-tracker has had a history of hard luck. Though both were the children of the bicy cle, somehow in the early days all the inter est and publicity that had been the cause of the bicycle’s popularity went to the auto mobile. Nobody heard about the motor cycle in its infancy and nobody could be induced to invest money in developing it. The early automobiles were bad enough but they were designed by engineers and built in real factories, fairly well equipped i for the purpose. But the motor-cycles were made by ex-bicycle racers and repair men who had nothing more in mind than a bicy cle with a motor to help it out. The idea of comfort had not dawned on them. Until three or four years ago one had to buy an imported machine to get anything worthy of the name of motor-cycle. Europe up to a very few years ago was at least five years in advance of the American product. Now we export to Europe. The leading domestic manufacturers, and there were only a few at that, still made a little, light, short, wheel-based thing with a two and three-quarter horse-power motor and as little else as they could supply and make it run at all. It had bicycle tires and hence suffered from chronic punctures. Every fifteen miles the rider was required to turn a cock by which a cup was filled with oil from the tank. When this was full there was another cock to turn to let it run into his crank-case. The makers of the two- wheeled mounts had thoughtfully placed the oil-cup and the cocks where the rider could not get at them nor even see nor touch with- This should not be done in your own town out standing almost on his head. There were riders who were able to perform this feat without dismounting but nine riders out of ten got off every fifteen miles to oil up. What with punctures and oiling, the general public got the impression that motor cycle riders spent most of their time “put tering” with the machine to make it go. The oiling system like all else on them was beautifully simple. By the “splash” sys tem the oil in the crank-case was conveyed 1 to the single cylinder where half of it went j out of the exhaust, in the form of smoke and the other half through the bushings onto the I rider’s trousers. Many riders who had no ! cyclometer judged when it was time to oil up by the amount of oil on their leggings. Mufflers there were, but so heavy and j badly designed that the first use the rider ; made of his monkey-wrench was to remove his muffler. Hence the noisy reputation of | the small mount. There is no excuse for making a racket on a modern machine. They are all supplied with well designed and efficient mufflers. When you hear that irri tating “pop-pop-pop”—the cause is the same as for a noisy automobile—the fool rider has his muffler cut out open and is making the noise because he likes it and wants you to notice him and his machine. II you want to hurt his feelings don’t look j at him. The machines of to-day are silent, if you wish them to be, they oil from the scat or mechanically, their tires have fewer punc- : tures and last more miles than those of the i four-wheelers and they are oil-tight—which | last means that the rider can be as dean as I in a car. The old machines were of rigid frames and ] had either a rigid fork or a so-called spring I fork that sprung only in the manufacturer’s imagination. The saddle too was only a I heavier edition of the bicycle seat. The 1913 i motor-cycle rider with a long wheel-base, big tires, a real spring fork, a saddle that will absorb a two-inch bump and various spring frame and floating seat-mast scheme has no idea of what the oldtimers suffered on rough roads. One year, the only improvement on the leading machine, and oh how it was pointed out with pride, was that both the spark and There is no excuse for making modern machine racket on the throttle could be controlled from the handlebars. Now the only reason on any machine that demands removing the hands from the grips where they belong in time < f emergency is to thumb one’s nose at a policeman—which should not be done in your own town. Once chain drive was the rage in America and to get a good belt transmission it was necessary to buy a foreign machine. Now you can get them with flat belts and “V” belts of rubber and leather and even the shaft drive of the auto has been at last per fected so that wit h four cylinders it has cut out chain and belt, both, on some motor-cycles. Some of the machines to-day have elim inated the pedals altogether and have little running boards for the feet. Some start with a crank like an automobile and the rider leis urely straddles his mount, slips in his clutch and gently rolls away exactly like an auto mobile. There are even two speed gears. The good old days of violent peddling, of sudden and unwilling dismounts in the midst of traffic, followed by dashes alongside and acrobatic leaps into the saddle, are no more. The number of cylinders is slowly tending to increase from year to year and though four is the greatest number you find to-day, we are likely to see the six in all its glory before long. Horse-power is growing, too, and where once three-horse was about all the power you could buy. it now ranges all the way to nine' aiid ten in stock machines, and if you want more you can have it. American manufacturers have abandoned the idea of satisfying riders with battery ignition. Magnetos are standard equip ment practically everywhere now, as they should have been years ago. European motor-cycles are invariably fitted with double-brakes. Two of the well-known makes of American machines will be equipped with emergency brakes in 1914, and it is safe to say another season will find them on all. With the rapid improvement in spring frames and other shock-absorbing devices, the American builder has shown a tendency to smaller wheels after the fashion of Europe. Of course a big wheel rides bumps more easily than a small one, but with the spring and the increasing size of tires the difference in wheel radius i* more than swallowed up. But why should anyone want it? Four- horse-power will give you fifty miles an hour and you will be surprised at the number of “ milc-a-minute” cars you can easily whip with an honest fifty-mile speed. Six-horse power assures you the coveted mile to the minute. At that speed but very few things will throw dust at you; but just the same you will get it some day in the form of a seven- or a nine-horse. You will be con scious of a loud snort behind you, and a whining over/one of straining machinery and then you will see the rear elevation of a rider lying flat on his gasoline tank as he vanishes over the top of the hill. But that is not the real joy of the motor cycle. It lies in the long steady Sunday trip of 100 miles out and ioo miles back through the country—the hunting out of interesting mysterious paths and little road houses where the fresh air makes things taste ten times better than they really are. The thousand-mile or two, even three thou sand-mile vacation trip is something to look forward and plan for all the year. Remember, if you can ride a bicycle you can ride a motor-cycle and ride it much bet ter because it is steadier, much less easily upset, much more easily controlled and bet ter than all it is to-day almost mechanically “fool-proof.” You will be surprised at the number of “mile-a- minute” cars you can whip with an honest 50-rnile speed 13 Vow is the time 10 prepare for the social iN events of the snappy Kail e\ filings. Nearly everybody has a sallow, greasy skin and a tired drawn face at the end of Summer, l’ompcian makes skins clear and clean. Also freshens up tired drawn faces wonderfully. Don't envy. Use POMPEIAN Massage Cream WARNING—Cheaply made imitations are offered by certain dealers because they cost the dealer less and he makes more at your expense. (i**t the original and standard massage cream, (let Pompeian. All dealers sell it. 50r, 7’»cand$l. Get Trial Jar & Art Panel •'/. ■ Fire Fun: Forever" Is a panel 32x7'j Ills. Exquisitely done in fire-glow colors An art store would charge 50e to «1 for a picture as finely executed. 30.000 people were disappointed because of limited supply of last year's panel. Reserve your 1014 copy now. Read coupon carefully. The Pompeian Mfg. Co., 103 Prospect St., Cleveland, O. Cut off, sign and send. m«ih|>» urn-p noli c»in preferred. THE POMPEIAN MFG CO . 103 Prospect SI , Cleveland. Ohio llentlemen:—Enclosed find 10i. (coin or stamps) (or a trial jar oi Pompeian and a 1914 Art Panel. Address. City ' U SUMMER’S SUN deals kindly with the complexion protected by LABLAt 111 conspicuously free from facial blemishes, always retaining tlielr fresh attractive ness of youth. Delicate —fragrant—refined. Refuse Substitutes n box of druggists o by mail. Over tw million boxes *>>1 annua!ly. Send 10c. for a samjtle box. BEN. LEVY CO. French Perfumers,Dept. 50 125 Kingston St..Boston,Mast. DYEING FOR 52 YEARS Mason's Magic Hair Dye has been on the market since 1^61 and is still the favorite Hu proven its superiority every druggist in the land recommends it without hesi tation Will dye either black or brown and positive ly will not wash out. Does not injure the hair in any way and is entirely harmless to health. If your druggist cannot supply you, send 25c for I literal triaf package. Masons Magic Hair Dye Co. Dept, i bt. Louis, Mo