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Becomes "Substitute" for His Boyhoad ' i-*' ' * JtV • V"'̂ i * ' THIS FLAINDEALEK, BtdflNR m Owner 5»','v Cadets Sau Fliers, Not German Aoents, Are Rfe Sponsible for Most Falls XEJl/LTarATT£WT TO VOJLPJLA#£ hW£/f7DOff£A*i TMSG/iOWD % PART Of HI1FEES Tennessee lawyer Claims Loot as Payment for Defending Negro Thieves. w' w t - i ¥•; &'V B • . i. • k IE. r 01 ' '*$ , » I" & HE officers and cadets of the flying fields that are scattered thickly over Texus do not share the belief of Senator Overman and a good many others that Teuton agents In Airplane plants are responsible for »ny of the deaths by accident *among them. They say they do • not know anything about condl- j flons in airplane factories and ijherefore do not know whether or not his assertions about the num- of Germans employed therein are • true, bat they are skeptical about the senator's fears and allegations. They think they know a deal about the causes of the many accidents,, both -fatal and unimportant, that have occurred during the last sis months, says a writer in the New York Times' magazine section. And they declare very positively that not one Of these accidents has been due to faulty construction or to enemy tam­ pering with the machinery. They say that In every case, thus far. the cause for t the accident was to be' found In the man himself and not in the machine he was driving. Among the flyers the conviction is strong that even if the machinery of an airplane were to be weakened by the method indicated by Senator Overman it would prob­ ably be discovered in the course of the rigorous ex­ amination and tests %to which It is subjected be­ fore it is sent from the factory. Still, they admit - that a machine so damaged might possibly slip through without discovery. But they do not be­ lieve that, up to the present time, any such damaged machine has been sent to an American flying field. And as for the possibility of a German agent doing any "monkey business" with an airplane after it Is received by a flying field, they scoff without mercy at the mere suggestion. They do • not deny the possibility of spies being present on > any i or all the flying fields but they do not be­ lieve that the most astute and malignant German agent could "put anything over" in the hangar* ' which house their steeds of the air. In charge of each hangar is an officer whose •uty it is to know all about each machine in it, : 'What happens to each one. where it is at any mo­ ment, and what its Condition is whenever it ts In the hangar. Three mechanics are detailed.to each machine to keep it in order and groomed for use whenever it may be needed. The flying men are confident that no sabotage could be suc­ cessfully attempted under these conditions except toy means of an organization so large aud so •unlikely in flying field forces that its possibility Is not worth considering. In addition, no man ever takes a plane up from a flying field without himself first carefully Inspecting its machinery. ' The aviators are so confident that the fault does not He in the planes that when they are discuss­ ing the cause of accidents they do not even men­ tion the planes or their machinery, unless they are questioned by an outsider. They confine their discussions to the human factor Involved and speculate upon why his nerves or his muscle, his heart or his brain, failed him at some crucial moment. i The percentage of losses among student avia­ tors is much larger at Canadian than at the American training schools, while the number of fatal accidents at the Canadian field at Fort Worth. Tex.. Is appalling. That field has suf­ fered more casaulties than all the other fields to­ gether in Texas. The aviators of the American fields are all of the opinion thnt the fatalities there are mainly due to haste and carelessness in training. At the American fields a man must have had from four to nine hours of training in the air with an instructor, the time depending on his quickness in learning control, before he< is allowed to take up a machine by himself. A "tail spin," one of the causes of accidental •saost coixiaionly cited, is an acrobatic stunt which an aviator must know how to execute with skill and ease. In it he noses his machine downward with its tall whirling in a circle above him, while its nose whirls In a similar but smaller circle beneath hira, and he, In the pilot's seat, is the pivot of the two gyrations. To the landsman it sounds a heady sort of a combination, and It Is likely to prove so to the airman unless he has the knowledge and the skUl with which to manage it. To throw his machine in and out of tall spins Is a part of his dally practice after he begins iu« acrobatic training, and in a very little while he acquires sufficient knowledge of what to do and x Instinctive control of the machinery to execute tall spins as easily and safely as he could twirl on his toes or turn on his heel If his feet were on •olid ground. But he may get into a tall spin accidentally la ' his early flights alone and, although he may know what is the right thing to do to take the machine out of it, he may lose his head at the crucial moment and fail to do what he ought Every man, woman, or child who has learned to ride a bicycle or drive an automobile is familiar with that unconscious influence of the mind over the muscles which causes one who has not yet acquired complete command of a machine to •drive straight at the object which he wishes and •Is doing his best to avoid. The aviator has a brief time in his training when he suffers from that Same difficulty and at important moments is prone to give the wrong pressure upon his con­ trol stick or his elevator. If he does this when his machine goes into a tall spin and his mind . does not work quickly enough to recognize his , difficulty and do the right thing, a fatal accident 11* very likely to result. t>izziness, sudden panic, failure to think quick­ ly, unconscious movement, Ignorance of what to may cause a fatal accident when a learner TWO/*CA/r£LT 77iAT OOLJL/£?£D Jiff Sf/OA/J? JUfG CAA-SNJTa TO 7St£-G&O2/JY0 gets into a tail spin accidentally. Or he- may intentionally take his machine lntox one, before he has had the usual instruction, out of the spirit of adventure, or even the kiddish desire to con­ vince himself of his daring or exhibit It to his fellow students. But, whatever the cause, it is the opinion of flying field aviators that getting into a tail spin, purposely or accidentally, without being able to manage it properly, is the cause of a large proportion of fatal accidents at the fly- • lag fields. " The same perverse, unconscious influence.^ the mind over the muscles which forces the bicycle learner straight toward the object he Is trying to avoid is responsible for many of the . fatal accidents due to collisions. Even the most expert of flyers may be unable to avert a serious accident when he sees approaching him a plana driven by a cadet who is doing his level best to keep his machine out of the other's way. How serious and eyer present Is this danger In flying fields is proved by Capt. Vernon Castle's death. In flying there are certain "blind angles" In which collisions are possible through no fault of the driver of either plane. The sections of space covered by the wings of his ship are Invisible to the pilot, and if such a section coincides with the space concealed from the eyes of another „ pilot approaching from below or at one side, a sudden crash is likely to be the first that either knows of the other plane. This "blind angle" . may be the cause of an occasional serious acci­ dent, but aviators do not think that such collisions •are of frequent occurrence. Engine trouble causes many unimportant acci­ dents, but, aviators say, should never offer any serious difficulty to a man who has learned how to manage his plane. If he Is In a region where It is possible for him to come down safely. And for engine trouble there are as many possible and legitimate causes as there are reasons for an automobile to balk. In a few cases a broken propeller has caused a pilot to make a forced landing, with injury to his plane, but, up to the present time, never with serious result to himself. The accompanying pic­ ture shows what happened to a pilot when blf propeller weakened, cracked and broke over the grounds of a high school in the environs of Hous­ ton, Tex. He brought his ship down with some damage to it, but none to himself, and greatly to the delight of the inhabitants of the reglpn. Various causes may result In the breaking of the propeller. It may have been injured in some previous nose dive to the ground; or a bird may have got entangled In Its blades. Cadets are for­ bidden to chase birds because of the possibility of such a result and the sure smashing of the propeller. Nevertheless, they do It sometimes, when the instinct of the chase Is strong In their blood. And it would be quite possible for a bird to fly against his propeller, to the undoing of both bird and propeller, and the pilot to be ignorant of what had happened. The men who by hard work and steady pr»c- t!ce have the richt to th£ title of~"b(rd- men" believe thnt with both students and settled aviators one cause of fatal accidents Is the fail­ ure of the nervous system to respond Immediately and accurately to the command of the brain. Anything which causes nervous fatigue may bring about that physical state--dissipation, nerve strain, physical weariness, lack of sleep. The flyer must be so alert, his grasp upon every situ­ ation which may confront him so Instant, and his action to^meet and control it so prompt that the fraction of a second in the movement of his hand upon the controls of his machine may mean the difference between life and death. And anything which slows by ever so little the action of the brain in an emergency, or the flash* ing of Its commands along the nerves, or the In­ stant obedience of the motor nerves may send him crashing to the earth. The cadets before they have become what they call "instinctive flyers" are especially liable to this danger, al­ though even those who are skilled in the air are not free from its menace. Blrdmen who are skilled in one, or another, or several forms of athletics say that In nothing else have they felt so much the necessity of this Instant and com­ plete response of the nerves to the demand upon them. The cadets .quickly discover, so they , say, ttyat lack of plenty of sleep soon results In a physical condition which, although they would not even notice It In any other * occupation, they regard as dangerous in flying. In one of the Texas fields recently a lieutenant with a reputation as a skilled and careful aviator fell from a considerable height and was killed instantly. His nearest friends were unani­ mous In the belief that his fall was due to the fact that he had not been getting enough sleep. For a week he had been giving Instruc­ tion in night flying, working all night, and had not been able to sleep-well during the Careful training and plenty of practice soon bring the student aviator to the point where flying becomes as in­ stinctive with him, in the movement of hand and foot upon the controls of his ma­ chine, as the action of his body in walking. For him flying becomes as safe as running an automobile is for the skilled motorist so far as the machine and his control of It.an the medium through which or uP°n which he moves are concerned. But the unreliability o the human mechanism must still be reckoned wltb, and that unreliability seems to be greater In the air than it is upon the ground. It some- times results In strange and unexpected happen- Once in a while H man In the best of health and the pink of condition, who has passed with every one of the severe tests to high success . . which aviation candidates are subjected, who has never fainted before in his life, Will faint while he is in the air. One recent fatal accident at a Texas field is supposed to have been due to that cause. One pilot fainted and the plane feU to the earth, but neither he nor the student with him was hurt except for a few scratches and cuts. He said that he did not know why he fainted. All that he knew was that he suddenly lost con­ sciousness, and did not regain it until he was being hauled out of the wrecked airplane. He had never fainted before In his life. Neither had another young fellow, to whom everything suddenly becande a blank as hlt^ ma­ chine was sailing away through the blue. It was still sailing along easily when presently he came to himself again with the feeling that something had happened to him. Looking down, he could see that he had covered a considerable distance since the moment when he had lost consciousness. He does not know why he fainted any more than he knows why he did not spin downward to prob­ able death during those blank moments. A British surgeon attached to the relay naval air service. Dr. H. Graeme Aaderson, who has had extensive experience at British flying stations, has recently written some Interesting conclusions concerning these somewhat obscure causes of airplane accidents at training schools. In the opinion of Doctor Anderson, based upon study and comparison of the statements made to him In such cases by a hundrgg, student flyers, there Is a brain fatigue not due to previous men­ tal or physical strain that may yet cause serious accidents. He thinks It is induced by the Impact of overwhelming sensations upon the mind of the pupil after he Is in the air. The flying pupil who Is overcome by this form of fatigue, says Doctor Anderson, "reaches the stage where he has the power neither to reason, decide, nor act A state of mental Inertia supervenes. This Is due to repeated stimuli received by his brain in rapid succession In his flight. He feels alone; a suc­ cession of errors occurs in the air; he feels he cannot manage to control the airplane; fear does not seize him, but the enormity of the whole thing appalls him; he feels helpless, and a vtate of brain fatigue occurs in which he, in a stupor, awaits events add takes little part in the air­ plane's control." This form of brain fatigue would seem to be largely a result of personal temperament Doctor Auurrsou thiuks it responsible for **a fair pro* portion of accidents" among students in the early stages of flying, and he adds that student avia­ tors who have suffered from it, if they sacape Injury, are likely to give up flying. There are mapy, many of the unimportant ac­ cidents, of which nobody takes heed. But of fatal accidents, notwithstanding the concern over them manifest in some parts of the country, the percentage is no greater than should be expected. Is less than In the flying schools of some other countries, and Is not higher than It Is In almost any extra-hazardous occupation. And when It Is remembered that this latter comparison brings together figures representing men in the training stage with those of skilled workers, it is evident both that flying Is a safer game than It has the credit of being, and that It will be a good plan for the country to guard against , the totalities that do occur. BUSINE88 OPPORTUNITY. • ---- \ , "Baths are scarce In Europe. Frequently yw have to order a tub sent ln.w i "Is that so?" - *Yes, and It takes time." "Um. A fellow might do a good business going around with one of these motorcycles with bath­ tub attached."--Louisville Courier-Journal. r - % Cupid Comes a Cropper. Ida incidentally indicates Interest In fees. Irving, Impressionable, infatu­ ated, Injudiciously invests. Ida's in­ dulgence in ices is inordinate, insatia­ ble. Irving. Impecunious, ineptly in­ troduces Inexpensive innovations. Ida, Instantly irate Indignantly impeaches Irvlng's Iterated Infatuation, Insinuat­ ing indifference, insurbanlty. Ida's In­ fantile Invective illuminates Irvlng's Innermost Intelligence, inhibiting In­ fatuation, intercepting intentions*-- Christian Register. WORTH RECORDING fchere are only 42 horses left at the fire stations all over London. But for the war the service would be entirely motor-propelled. • The purposes of applying lime to the soil are to correct or neutralize acidity or sourness of the soil and Improve the tilth or meehanirfnl condition. Before the advenr«f footlights In Japan it was customary for each actor to have a boy with a candle Illuminate i his face during the whole performance. In Italy a government t8T-»-a special one-cent stamp--must be affixed to all restaurant or cafe bills amounting to more than 20 cents. The rum-dlstillatlon Industry of Barbados is growing in Importance, due to the Introduction of improved stills, increased cane crops, and a larg­ er demand for the product A gold palladium alloy which makes an acceptable substitute for the more expensive platinum Iridium alloy used in chemists' utensils has been develop­ ed by raetallurj Chinese Do ft. Too. * A department store was opened re­ cently In Shanghai, China, and has been such a success that It will stay there. The Chinese are going to department store rather than to amusement places, finding It more In- teresting to walk around and pick up bargains than to patronize the theater. *They are credited with buying things they don't want, just as people do In the United States. Human nature la pretty much the same all om tha world. IS NOW IN FRANCE Draftee, Rejected, Paoee Death «C Su* geon's Hands to Spare Mttr Who Mafried Girl Ha Hint, •slf Laved. ' Fert Collins, Colo.--Joseplr lifcnnett O'Neill, wealthy ranch owner In Col­ orado, rejected for military service un­ der the draft, is with the United States army in France, taking the place of Walter Howard Stone, boyhood chum, who married the girl that O'Neill loved. The romance is one of re­ nunciation akin to that of Sidney Car ton in Dickens' famous "Tale of Two Cities," and calls to mind the passage of Scripture recorded in St. John 15:1& "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for hia friends." Romance Began In Youth. Joseph Emmett O'Neill and! Walter Howard Stone were born In Fort Col­ lins, a college town In Colorado. The former was of a wealthy family, which owned great ranches that reached across the plains into the Rocky moun­ tains. The parents of Stone were pi­ oneers in the community and in mod­ est circumstances. The girl in the ro­ mance was Marion Palmer, whose fa­ ther was one of the founders of the college and prominent In Colorado's financial and social life. The three families lived In the same blqck in Fort Collins, and when school days were over and- Marion became Miss Palmer, both young men beeame suit­ ors for her hand. Walter Stone became afeank clerk and was ambitious to rlse'ln his pro­ fession. O'Neill, whose father had died, came Into possession of the fam­ ily fortune and the management of the ranches. The race was neck-and-neck for Miss Palmer's hand. Of course, In the nature of things, that state of affairs could not go on. Finally Miss Palmer's heart began to affect her neutrality. Then she sum­ moned the two young men before ber Memphis,, Tena.--Three •tola $2,200 in money and diamonds to the value of $3,000 at Hot Springs* during the races there, and came to Memphis. Local authorities were noti­ fied to arrest the negroes. The trio went to jail and their ill-gotten wealth was locked In a safe at police head­ quarters. Abe Cohen, a local attorney, called on the negroes and they read­ ily employed him to secure their re­ lease. Incidentally, they gave him an order on the desk sergeant for the money and jewels. When the desk sergeant refused to give up the wealth Cohen went into chancery court and Fairly in Love French Capital. V,* r Uj Cohen Secured the Wealth. secured a writ of replevin. Armed with the writ Cohen secured the wealth. He sued out another writ-- a writ of habeas corpus--and the court freed the negroes. A little later offi­ cers from Hot Springs came to get the negroes and the money. The desk sergeant showed them the writ of habeas corpus instead of the prison­ ers and the receipts for the money and jewels instead of the money and Jewels. The Hot Springs officers re­ turned to Hot Springs, vowing it was a little hotter in Memphis. Gohen claims the money and jewels as "part of his fee" for defending the negroes. COURT CAT STEALS FISH •, Submitted to. an Operation. * , and demanded that they be friends, no matter which was selected to be her husband. They agreed. Miss Marlon, as girls sometimes do, followed the In­ clinations of her heart, and selected Stone, whose salary was meager, In preference to O'Neill and his wealth. Then came the draft Stone was summoned before the draft board and passed. He was placed In class 1 and filed no claim for exemption. O'Neill was examined and rejected. In February Stone was oi> dered to report By this time an inter­ esting event was presaged in the Stone home, and he asked for more time. The draft board was powerless, and his wife became seriously ill because of worry. O'Neill was Watching. He visited a noted surgeon In Denver and asked for an operation. He was told that his chances for recovery would be two In five, but he elected the op­ eration. O'Neill Beeame a Substitute. Three weeks after the operation O'Neill returned to Fort Collins, sound and whole, and demanded a new ex­ amination. He passed as "qualified for military service." Then he asked that he be substituted for Stone. The draft board was unable to make such a sub­ stitution, but because of the urgent appeal of O'Neill they finally sum­ moned Stone for re-examination and gave him a deferred classification be­ cause of nervous- breakdown. O'Neill won his fight Then he went further. He called Stone from his bank job and placed him In charge of the O'Neill ranches, which yield $50,000 a year. O'Neill stipulated that Stone manage the ranches on a "50-60" basis. And O'Neill went to war. Marlon Stone is now #ell and happy, following the arrival of a new meih- ber In the Stone family, a boy, who has been named Joseph Emmett Stone. Now the father, who has re­ gained his former health, is asking that he, too, be allowed to go to the army, and, if possible, be assigned to <Juty with O'Neill. Sympathetic Hlghwaymfn. liebanon. Pa.--Highwaymen who held up Abraham Hurts, assistant Pennsylvania station agent and tele­ grapher, returned him his seventy cents when he told them that was all the money he had. "Airing" of Pant# Cost $400. at Louis, Mo.--While Felix PaWlee. kl, slept bis wife shook bis trousers out of the window, to air. She shook $400 out of the pockets. When the discovery was made later, the moaeg was gone. Pet of a St Paul Municipal Judge Takes Week End Food ,,, . Supply. % •, St Paul, Minn.--Shyness, a cat and the official rat catcher for the municip­ al court, where rats appear dally, 1b in disgrace. A small box ia fixed to the window in the office of the municipal court which is open to the outside air and forms a first-class refrigerator in winter. The lid of the box is hard to open and re- t quires some exertion even for a man to pull it open. One night recently a whole fish was out in the refrigerator to form Shy- ness's week end repast, but Shyness was hungry and when the court house building was silent she managed to get her claws under the fastening and pry it open. Shyness looked overfed on Saturday and fish bones were plentiful in the office. Even Judge Finehout whose special pet the cat is, thinks that a charge of petit larceny ought to be made against the animal and that it ought to have at least a suspended sentence. Polltsnaaa of the Men ami Pleaem* Manners of the Women Impressed . American Soldier--Saw Ut- J He ftlfem in'City. Ylmow )wu are crazy to heifr wtait I thought about Paris, it beta' the first time I ever seen it. Well, Joe, al| I can say Is that Parts reminds me of Philadelphia with a bun en! The streets Is all called "rues" and the main one is the Rue de la Paix. It's a whole lot like Broadway would be without the electric. lights, theaters, hotels aad cabarets. Every other place Is a restaurant and the ones In between Is cafes. The people here are so stuck .on their home town that they won't evea go indoors to eat, but sit right out on the pavement at little tables for all their meals, so's they can keep right on lookln' at dear Paris all the time, not to say the dames which parades up and ddwn. The girls is pretty near all knodr- outs, and none of them Is too 8tu& up to give a guy a pleasant smile and pass the time of day. I must say that anybody which gets lonesome here ain't got no pne but hisseif to blame. Joe! The men is all In uneyform and. great little guys. I think as doughboys Is mlxin' with the French, better than anybody else. They go' out of their way tor make things vntae for us arid don't laff at us 'when we try to speak French and call eggs "woofs" Instead of whatever It Is. Joe, a Frenchman Is the. politest guy on earth. If you gb Into a plaee of business here and ask a guy how to get to a certain street and numhepv !he closes his" desk, calls.a taxi, stops, ; ?on the way to buy you a shot of vin Ordinaire and deliver^ you personally, right outside the dooi\ *the while beg- gin' your pardon for not gettln' yeo there, sooner! Can you imagine any­ thing like that in New York? ^Ott go up to a guy on Broadway and ask him how to get somewhere, and what does he do? He says: "I never heard tell of it; I'm a stranger here my- "aelf?" Anr I right, Joe? I t I beard a lot of talk about I%|j» beln* up against It on amount of the war, the people all downhearted, and food beln' as scarce as heat prostra­ tions in Iceland. Joe, that ts all the bunk! They Is plenty of food here for everybody, and I put away some of the finest steaks I ever seen. If the people is downhearted, then rm vice president of Egypt! Joe, they are the gamest nation on earth, and we are proud to be in the lineup over* here with 'em. They've had a tough time for four years, and they know they been to the war all right, but. that ain't gloomed 'em a little bit.- They're as full of pep as a steam drill, and pretty near everything that was runnin' before the war here is still doin' business at the old stand. Why.1 Joe, one of these French guys could kid the kaiser to death, on the level I --H. C. Witwer in Collier's Weekly. liil' 111' !• 1-111 •I»l"l»l"l"l' if. •!••§• | STORK WINS LONG RACE j WITH AUTO--GIRL BORN : Wenatchee, Wash.--The fabled stork won a twenty-mile race against a big super-six automo- < bile In the Wenatchee valley, | when W. O. Fraley, a wheat i rancher in Moses Coulee coun- ; ty, started from his ranch .twen­ ty miles from here with his \ wife in an automobile. An eight- pound girl was born. The moth- er and baby are now in a hos­ pital here, both doing well. W»|,fH"l"T"l'<"T"l"M"Wll MUM' GETS SIX MONTHS' SENTENCE Sad Ending for Hiram Justice's Pa- trlotlo and Family Af» fairs. Bridgeport Oonn.--When the draft got Hiram Justice Wake he was living with a woman not his wife in Spring­ field, She refused to sign his ques­ tionnaire, so Wake returned to his le­ gal wife here and she signed up for him to enable him to get a low rating. But after getting her signature Hiram went back to his old love In Spring­ field for a visit His real wife became suspicions »nd exposed him, and he is now serving six months in jail with a prospect of doing military dttt$» . Gets Fortune; Wed* Pittsburgh, Pa.--Herman C. Meyers, a bank clerk, had a sweetheart in Huntingdon. Then came the draft and Meyers was sent away to camp. By steady plugging he was advanced to corporal, but even the corporal's pay, he decided, was not sufficient with which to start married life. All seem­ ed despair until the girl wrote that an uncle of hers had died and willed her a home and $250,000, provided she •would wed before May; 18 next Thf 1 Upheld Traditions of Hia Corps.,: : Fighting on his own hook or helpttf^'- out when it Is somebody else's fight, a United States marine Is pretty likely to be on the job. Private Garrell Mabe, a marine attached to the Boston navy yard, was 111 at the United States naval hospital at Chelsea, Mass. There was not much fight left In him. Near , by, In the same hospital, was another, patient, desperately 111, who could not make his fight alone. He had to have a transfusion of blood. Private Mabo volunteered, and his blood saved the day. He risked his life as cheerfully for a fellow servant of the flag as he would have done for the flag Itself, and the commanding officer of the hospital In his report warmly praised hira for volunteering this dangerous and try­ ing service. The marine proved that there Is as much opportunity for hero­ ism on a sick bed as on a battlefield, and has been personally commended by Major General Barnett for his self- sacrifice and heroic act. Private Mn||» enlisted with the marines at Winstftt* Salem, N. C., la November, 1916. - Weeds Always Troublesome. It Is a fact that, with al^he pree* re8S along many Un$s, the Agricultur­ ist has made precious little headway against the vegetable trespassers la his fields. Various tools have been invented which excel the primitive hoes made by the Indian women as they pottered about their little fields, but the weeds have Increased with the spreading of the cultivated areas and are as much of a menace to the farmers of today as they were to the Indians of Champlain's time. They are Intensely virile, else they would not be weeds; floods fall to drown them and droughts cannot prevent them from producing seed, and while the grain or the vegetables may fall to germinate the weeds make no such mistake. They are the first things out of ground in the spring and the last to ripen their crop In the fall, and they outlast generation after .genera­ tion of farmers. "' Doctor In Wooden Shoes. A great Dutch dally publishes Infor­ mation which throws a peculiar lig|* on the condition of public life in oc<spk pled Belgium. ^ ^ "At Mallnes," says the correspondent^ of this Netherlands paper, "the rich are more and more setting the examine : of wearing sabots, since the shortage of shoes has g.own so acute. Mr. OH- * lis. physician and alderman, can regu­ larly be seen going around In sabots. 'He Is dressed as was formerly his he&-. it, not forgetting his high hat, but in­ stead of wearing the usual shoes -he wears black sabots. He Is setting a good example In overcoming lata* pride also. A number of ladies are ready following his example." Thofe Summer Furs. *Tm kind o* hopeful It's goln* a cool summer," remarked the with the subdued air. "Are you a weather prophetT* - ^ " "No. But my daughter Is wonderful* ly smart. And she's buying more fan this springstfcaa she dti{