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THE PROFESSOR COMES TO SEE THEM AND MAKES AN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT DEPRESSES CAROL- THEN SHE SURPRISESiHIM Synopsis.--The story concerns the household of Rev. Mr. Starr, a Methodist minister at Mount "Mark, la., and the affairs of his five loveable daughters--Prudence, the eldest; Fairy, the next; Carol and] Lark, tvvins; fciralenoe marries and goes away. Her placfe -as '"litnther" hi the home'* Is taken by A rait Qrace. j Fairy is engaged to wed. The twins and the "baby," just coming into womanhood, have the iisual boy-sind-girl love affairs,, ai|d tl^^sual. amazing adventures of adolescence. » • < • ' • • • ' ^ - S£'" CHAPTER VII--Continued. ^ l|*Did they tell you about it?" •Yes, they told me. They told me.*1 "V *Come on into iiiy office," he said. **1Tou must write it up while it is fresh til your mind. You'll do it better while the feeling is on you." ..-- _ ; , Lark gazed at him stupidly, not com­ prehending.... .~ -- v&aans.' "Write it upT' she repeated confus­ edly. ••Yes, for the paper, ti&w'they looked, what they said, how it happened everything. We want to scoop on it." $f ;\»But I don't think they--woula whnt % It told." Lark gasped, . ^ ^ ^ • ^ "Oh probably not, Tnit p^le'trattt to know about it. L>on't you remember what I told you? The press is a pow­ erful taskmaster. He aSks^iard duties of US. but we must obey.. "We've got to give the people v."taut- th<b* Iwjwst. There's a reporter down Jfrotu/JSujItng^ ton already, but he couldn't get any­ thing out of them. We^tjft jgol^ scoop on it." Lark glanced fearfully over her shotiftder. A huge menaclftfg shadow lowered black behind her. The press! She shuddered again. "I can't write it up," she faltered. "Mrs. Daly--she-- Oh; I held her in my artns, Mr. Raider, and kissed her, and we cried -ali morning, and I can't .write it up. I--I am the^ minister's, -daughter, yon know. I can't." v ! "Nonsense, now, Lark," he said, "be Sensible. You needn't give all -the sob part. I'll touch it up for you. Just write out what you saw, and what they eaid, and I'll do the test. Run along feow. Be sensible." Lai* glanced over her shoulder •gain. The press seemed tremendous­ ly big, leering at her,' threatening her. Lark gasped, sobbingly. Then she sat down at Mr. Raider's nek, and drew a pad of paper toward her. For five minutes she sat immov­ able, body tense, face stern, breathless, rigid. Mr. Raider after one curious, Witlsfled glance, slipped out and closed the door softly after him. He felt he could trust to the newspaper Instinct to get that story out of her. finally Lark, despairingly, clutched 4 * * <»£encil and'wrote: LVl' •'"? ' . . V. ,JU if terrible Tragedy ,of Morning. the Early ' 7. t V Paly Family Crushed With Sorrow, iter mind passed rapidly back over the story she had heard, the father's occasional wild bursts of temper, the pitiful efforts of the family to keep his weakness hidden, the insignificant al­ tercation at the breakfast table, the cry of the startled baby, and then the sadden ungovernable fury that lashed him, the two children--! Lark shud­ dered ! She glanced over her shoulder again. The fearful dark shadow was very close, very terrible, ready to en­ velop her In its smothering depths. She sprang to her feet and rushed out of the office. Mr. Raider was in the' doorway. She flung herself upon him, crushing the paper in his hand. "I can't," she cried, looking in terror Over her shoulder as she spoke, "I can't. I don't want to be a newspaper woman. I don't want any literary career. I am a minister's daughter, Mr. Raider, I can't talk about people's troubles. I want to go home." Mr. Raider looked searctdngly into Ate white face, and noted the fright­ ened eyes. "There, now," he said sooth­ ingly, "never mind the Daly story. I'll i vi- I wasnt'|/V*rr ijtrf*fOr thfe line, I know. I w$pt to go now." "Run along," he said. 'Til see Jpou tater on. Yon go to bed. You'ce near­ ly sick." pignitv? Lark did not remember that she had ever dreamed of dignity. She just started for home, for her fa­ ther, Aunt Grace and the girls! The shabby old parsonage seemed sudden­ ly very bright, very sunny, very safe. The dreadful dark shadow was not pressing so close to her shoulders', did not feel so smotheringly near. A startled group sprang up from the porch to greet her. She flung one arm around Carol's shoulder, and drew her twin with her close to her aunt's side. "I don't want to be a newspaper wom­ an," She cried, in n high excited voice. "I don't ljlfe it. I am awfully afraid of--The I'£oks---• She looked over her shoulder. "JUie shadow was fading away fri the distance. v,l Couldn't do it. I--" And then, crouching, with Carol, close •gainst her aunt's side, clutching one Of the soft hands inf her own, she fold the story. ^ **1 couldn't. Fairy," she declared, looking beseechingly into. the strong kind face of her sister. "I-- couldn't. Mrs. Daly--sobbed so, and her hands were so brown and hard, Fairy, she kept rubbing my shoulder, and saying, 'Oh, Lark, oh, Lark, my Httle children.' I coui3ri'tT f 3oirt like ^newspapers, Fairy. Really, I doh't«" Fairy looked greatly troubled. "I wish father were 3t home'," she said very quietly. "Mr. Raider meant all right, of course, but it was wrong to send a young girl like you. Father is there now. It's very terrible. You did just exactly right, Larkie. Father will say so. I guess maybe it's not the job for a minister's girl. Of course, the story will come out, but we're not the on$g to tell It." . "But--the career," suggested Carol. "Why," Mid Lark, 'TH walt a little and then have a real career, you know, stories, and books, and poems, the kind that don't harrow people's feelings. I really don't think it is right. Don't you remember Prudence says the parson­ age is a place to hide sorrows, not to haug them on the clothesline for every one to see." She looked for a last time over her shoulder. Dimly she saw a small dark cloud--all that was left of the shadow which had seemed so eager to devour her. Her arms clasped Carol with renewed intensity. "Oh," she breathed, "oh, Isn't the parsonage lovely, Carol I I wish father would come. You all look so sweet, and kind, and--oh, I love to be at home." "But that was Phil and this Is Joe!" "Oh, that's all right. It's Just ths principle, you know, nothing personal about it." 1 She stood thoughtfully beside the table, her brows puckered unbecom­ ingly. "I think," she said at last slowly, with wary eyes on her father's quiet fftce, "I think ni let the tuck out of my old rose dress. It's too short." ' "Too short!' Why, Carol--" Inter­ rupted her aunt.' "Too short for the occasion, I mean. I'll put it back tomorrow." Once njore her eyes turned cautiously fatherward. "You see, professor still has the 'little twinnie' Idea In his brain, and I'm go­ ing to get It out. It isn't consistent with our five feet seven. We're grown up. Professor has got to see it. Ilou skoot upstairs, Connie, won't you, there's a dear, and bring it down, both of them, Lark's too. Lark--where did you put that ripping knife? Aunt Grace, will you put the iron on for me? It's perfectly right that professor should see we're growing up. We'll have tj^or Five Minutes She Sat Immovable, ^ #tody Tense, Face 8tern. -#Over „lt myself. I guess It was too liard th assignment to begin with, and ' ffou a friend of the family and all. Let ;lt go. You stay at home this after­ noon. Come back tomorrow and I'll . Jetart you again. Maybe I was too hard •on you today." "I don't want to," she cried, looking ;,£> jback at the shadow, which seemed IK "Jwmelfw to have rec^le^- a little. "I Sgdon't want to be a newspaper woman. 'jJt thinfc ril be the other kind of writer Writing. I'm sure I shall like U better. CHAFTER VIII. A Clear Call. The tinkle of the telephone disturbed the family as they were at dinner, and Connie, who sat nearest, rose to an­ swer the summons, while Carol, at her corner of the table struck a tragic at­ titude. "If Joe Graves has broken anything, he's broken our friendship for good and all. These fellows that break them­ selves--" "Break themselves?"'asked her fa­ ther gravely. "Yes--any of his members, you know, his leg, or his arm, or--• If he has. I must say frankly that I hope it is his neck. These boys that break themselves at the last minute, thereby breaking dates, are--" "Well," Connie said calmly, "if you're through, I'll begin." "Oh, goodness, Connie, deafen one ear and listen with the other. You've got to learn to hear in a hubbub. Go on then, I'm through. But I haven't forgotten that I missed the Thanksgiv­ ing banquet last year because Phil broke his ankle.that very afternoon on the ice. What business had he on the Ice when he had a date--" "Ready?" asked Connie, as the phone' rang again, insistently. "Grb on", then. Don't wait until I get started. Answer it." Connie removed the receiver and called the customary "Hello." Then, "Yes, Just a minute. It's for you, Carol." Carol rose darkly. "It's Joe," she said in a dungeon-dark voice. "He's broken, I foresee it. If there's any­ thing I despise and abominate it's a breaker of dates. Men have no busi­ ness being broken, except their hearts, when girls are mixed up in it.--Hello? --Oh; oh-h-h! Yes--it's professor! How are you?--Yes, Indeed--oh, yes, I'm going to be: home. Ytifc, Indeed Come about eight., Of, course I'll be here--nothing importunt--it didn't amount to anything at all--just a little old everyday affair.--Yes, I can ar­ range it nicely.--We're so anxious to see you--All right--Good-by." She turned back to the table, her face fipshed, eyes shining. "It's pro-, fessor! He's in town Just overnight, and he's coming out. FU have to phone Joe--" "Anything I despise and abominate It's a breaker of dates," chanted Con­ nie. - **Oh's that's different," explained Carol. "This Is professor! Besides, t . P Kit- f- &•}" i , ^ ! x - « 1 I i '« -Hsv ^ . ^ 4 . V. -".'T . . " . • • ' V " V-J Carol Waa Standing Among the Rose- Bushes, Tall and 8lim. to emphasize it something extra, or.he might overlook it. It makes him feel Methuselish because he's so awfully smart. But I'll sdon change his mind for him." In less than two minutes the whole family was engaged In growing Carol up for the occasion. They didn't see any sense In it, but Carol seemed so unalterably convinced that it was nec­ essary that they hated to question her motives. If her idea had been utterly to dum- found the unsuspecting professor, she succeeded admirably. Carefully she planned her appearance, giving him Just the proper interval of patient wait­ ing in the presence of her aunt and sisters. Then, a slow parting of the curtains and Carol stood out, brightly, gladly, her slender hands held out in welcome, Carol, with long skirts swish­ ing around her white-slippered feet, her slender throat rising cream-white above the soft fold of old rose lace, her graceful head with Its royal crown of bronze-gold hair, tilted most charm­ ingly. The professor sprang to his feet and stared at her. "Why, Carol," he ex­ claimed soberly, almost sadly, as he crossed the room and took, her hand. Why, Carol! Whatever have you been doing to yourself overnight?" Of course, it was far more "over­ night" than the professor knew, but Carol saw to It that there was nothing to arouse his suspicion on that score. He lifted her hand high, and looked frankly down the long lines of her skirt, with the white toes of her slip­ pers showing beneath. He shook his head. And though he smiled again, his voice was sober. "I'm beginning to feel my age," he said. This was not what Carol wanted, and she resumed her old childish manner with a gleeful laugh. "What on earth are you doing In Mount Mark again, P'fessor!" When Carol wished to be particularly coy, she said "p'fessor." It didn't sound ^x- actly cultured, but spoken in Carol's voice was really Irresistible. "Why, I came to see you before y»ur hair turned gray,:.n»d.wrinkles marred you-**"' . « "Wrinkles won't mar mine," cried Carol emphatically. "Not ever! I use up a whole jar. of cold cream ev^ry three weeks! I won't have'em. Wrin­ kles ! P'fessor, you don't know what a time I have keeping, myself young." t She joined in the peal of laughter tha|: rapg 9Ut as this age-wise state­ ment fell from her lips. . "You'll be surprised," he s^td, "what does bring me to Mount &Iark. I have given up my position In New York, and am going tcrschool agalnin Chicago this winter. I shall be;here only tonight. Tomorrow I begin to study again- I am changing my line of work. The fact is, fm going to enter the niln- Sstry myself, and will have a couple of years In a theological seminary fitsj^v Utter stupefaction greeted this ex­ planation. Not one word was spoken. I've been going into these things rather deeply the last two years. For a year I've felt It would finally come to this, but I preferred my own Job, and I thought I would stick it out^'as Carol say*. But I've decided to <gllt balking, and answer the cnil." Aunt Grace nodded, with a warmly approving smile. "But, professor." *aid Carol faintly and falteringly, "didn't you teil me you wer* .to 'get five thousand a year with the Institute from this on7 •• .*•- • "Yes. I was." .i Carol gazed at her family despairing- < ly. "It would take an awfully loud call to drown the chink of five thou­ sand gold pilars In my ears, I ami afraid." , "It was ja|-loud call," he said. And bet looked at hfer. etfl'iously, for of all the! family she atone seemed distrait and unenthusiastlc. | '"But, professor," she argued, "can't, people dq good without preaching?: think of all/ the lovely things you; could do with five thousand dollars!' Think of, the influence a prominent educator has! 'Think of--" "I have thought of it, ail of.lt. But haven't I got to answer the call?" "Tell tfS all about It," said Fairy cor­ dially. "We are so Interested In It. Of; course, we think it is the finest work in the world." She looked reproachful-. ly at Carol, but Carol made no res- sponse. • • ' . .. : ' - ! He tojid them, then, sgpiethitig of his plan, which Was very simple. He had arranged for a special course at the seminary in Chicago, and then would enter the iliinistry like any, other young man starting upon his lifework. "I'm a Presbyterian, you know," he said. "I'll have to go around' atid preach un­ til I find a church willing to put up' with me. I won't have a presiding elder : to make a niche for me/' He talked frjinkly^ even with en­ thusiasm, but always he felt the curi­ ous disappointment that Carol sat there silent, her eyes upon the hands in her lap. Once or twice she lifted them swiftly to his face, and lowered them instantly again. Only he noticed when they were raised, that they were unusually deep, and that something lay within shining brightly, like the reflec­ tion of a star in a clear dark; pool of water. "I must go now," she said, "I must have a little visit with my uncle, I just wanted to see you, and tell you about It. I knew you would like it." Carol's hand was the first placed in his, and she murmured an inaudible word of farewell, her eyes downcast,' and turned quickly away. "Don't let them wait for me," she whispered to Lark,, and then she disappeared. . The professor turned away from the hospitable door very much depressed. Ee shook his head impatiently and thrust his hands deep into his pockets like a troubled boy. Half-way down the board walk he stopped, and smiled. Carol was standing among the rose bushes, tall and slim in the cloudy' moonlight, waiting for him. She held out her hand with a friendly smile. "I came to take you a piece, if you want me," she said. "It's so hard to talk when there's a roomful, Isn't it? I thought maybe you wouldn't mind." "Mind? It was dear of you to think of It," he said gratefully, drawing her hand into the curve of his arm. "I was , wishing I could talk with you alone. You won't be cold?" in this case the course of true love seems destined to run smoothly. Professor Duke con­ vinces Carol that he Is doing the right thing in studying for the ministry. (TO BE CONTINUED.) WONDER WORDS OF RUSSIANS Favorite Phrase That Means Happi­ ness and Peace for Which They Have So Long Struggled. "I am going to try to teach my read­ ers six Russian words," writes William G. Shepherd in Everybody's. "The first Is 'tavarish.' It means 'comrade.' There used to be a law in Russia against using it! The French In their revolu­ tion, meant about the same thing when they said 'citoyen.' It is a word you hear a thousand times a day, every­ where. 1 'Mir bez annex! e contrlbutzl.' These are the other five words. You hear thim as we In the United States hear our latest slang phrases. The Russians use them as we once used the phrase, 'sixteen to one,' or 'safety first.' They mean 'no annexations and no Contributions.' Every Russian lost In his happy wonderland, full of the new joy of life, means, when he uses these words, to say. This world Is a more beautiful place than I had ever thought. Let us all be brothers and help each other to enjoy It, Instead of fighting to make slaves of each other and to drive the beauty and hap­ piness out of life.' 'There is something Infinitely pa­ thetic In their faces when you say to a Russian, 'Yes. Your Idea Is fine. But what of the Germans?' "In vain the Russians have stood their front aud cried to the Germans. All the rest of the world is listening, except the Germans, to that Russian call to happiness and peace; "Tavarish! Mir hex a^next e con­ trlbutzl !'" t :. Want No VerrAln. TSq man is allowed to enter Germany from Russia without being thoroughly disinfected and purified. It is not dis­ ease that the Germans are guarding against, but something that to them Is more terrorising than disease--vermin. Therefore, friend or foe, nobleman or peas Ant, nobody, is allowed to cross the threshold of Germany without a visit to one of the disinfecting stations along the eastern frontier. Even one of the emperor's sons had to submit to the disinfecting process and re­ ceived. along with such of the Russian Cossacks who merited it, a certificate stating that "His Royal Iligness Prince Adalbert Is, for the time being, free from lice." He who coaunits Injustice il^rer more wretched th*a he wte raflan It.--Plato, Story of Young Man Hidden Under 8moking Ledge Points a Moral for All of Us, Especially In These Troubled Times. Have yon-read the sto*y? A trapper amid the snow-hiished hills of western Massachusetts spied smoke issuing from a ledge of rocks In the depths of a dense forest. He did not know what to make of it. All sorts of fearsome notions beset him ,as he ventured on attempts to solve the mystery. But when he had summoned help and they went in at the opening detected, bear­ ing lanterns and all hands armed to meet' whatever might be encountered, they discovered a lone man bending over a small fire ltf the act of roasting a bit of meat. And they learned from him that he was living there to escape the service men are summoned to ren-. der In war time! The mystery of the smoking ledge would serve somebody well to point a moral or adorn a tale. For most of life's experiences that puzzle and trou­ ble us mortals are much like this Of the smoking ledge. We conjure up no end of dire thoughts about them-- about diseases, disasters and especial­ ly such distresses as are now come on the world, when the whole of civilized life is like a smoking ledge. We think of nature as malign, of fateful evil powers as lying in ambush against us, even of God himself as causing things which confound ijs as we go the rounds of common life. But by and by we dis­ cover, in one instance after another, that precisely what alarm and puzzle and trouble us are really due to some human aberration from right doing. We are wrong In thinking that fate or na­ ture or God are responsible for the mysteries of suffering and sorrow. The truth is that some human being who has gone wrong is down under most of the smoking ledges that mystify us. To get this clear in one's mind is of the greatest importance, especially in times like these. This young man hid under the Smok­ ing ledge told a story vividly signifi­ cant. He was there to escape the duty of all when all that we cherish is im­ periled. He confessed that he had crept out at night to buy food in a town miles away--he couldn't subsist without drawing on the common pro­ visions'for welfare which are now In Jeopardy. He acknowledged having been obliged by illness In his cave to go and secretly'spend a week In a ho­ tel's comfort--he would have died like a wild animal but for such shelter in the established order he was refusing to help maintain. He had even tramp­ ed far through the snow on a winter night to peer through a window at his sister's family, happy around their home's bright fireplace--his man's -heart, craven as it was, longed for a glimpse of those sanctities which sound-headed men are now going forth to safeguard. Food, shelter, the realm of love! These are the primary human Imperatives, as even the man Under the smoking ledge bears witness. And these, with many other blessings, are nqw put in peril by ruthless foes, over­ seas and here at home as truly. Could anything show the folly and wrong of falling to defend them more strikingly than the story of this man under the smoking ledge?--Boston Herald. Hair Dyes Forbidden. All blondes who have decided to be­ come brunettes and all brunettes who have decided upon a golden disguise, take heed. The monthly drug bulletin of the New York health department contnins the following warning; "Lead and silver salts were formerly the main poisons to be found in hair dyes, but the wails of the would-be young under the punishment of 'indignant nature,' who was said to hide 'her lash in the purple hues of a dyed mus­ tache,' more particularly the offerings of their pocketbooks, have caused many of the hair dye manufacturers to use a coal tar derivative as the base of their product. This Is known as paraphenylenediamin. It having become evident that the use of this substance In dyes intended for application to hu­ man heads was dangerous, su$£| y^e has been forbidden In this city.**? " , .. ; 't' Beautiful Surgeons. "The girls of India make the finest surgeons in the world," according to Dr. Mary Riggs Noble of Colorado, re­ cently returned from India, where she has been professor of surgery in the woman's medical college of Ludhlana. Doctor Noble Is giving a course of lectures In Kansas City on "Patriotism and the Woman," particularly the young woman. "The tremendous need for doctors In India," said Doctor Noble, "has helped to produce them, for the veiled women of the East will not have man physi­ cians to attend them, and many have died rather than be treated (by a man. During the awful plague that raged In one of their cities a few years ago ten thousand women lost their lives because of the lack of woman physi­ cians and nurses to attend theaft ' «;*<• School Neighborliness. • In the city of New York, 14 of the large public schools have been made into community centers. Roller-skat­ ing rinks, employment bureaus, social clubs, reading rooms, lecture halls and gymnasiums, are some of the features of these centers. And all their attrac­ tions are not for young folks alone. The mothers have their clubs where they listen to experts on all subjects of home interest* and where they ex­ change with each other views on com­ mon problems, personal experiences and friendship. This movement for neighborliness has become widespread, and in many cities the new school- houses are being designed with partlo ular attention to their prospective use as centers of the community. The' Heavy Hand of JuatlM. We read recently of a butcher who was discharged for being light fingered. Sis hand probably did not weigh enough to 'moke- it mtail praXahly.-- Fargo Courier-News. • IvW^aiYi;, *70^. -"T A V(:v«jP *1 m-, ' * . :i¥M \.--w 5*^ injii.ij.ii "»mii »' in "minr fi' JOKE WAS ON SALOON MMH Nerves All I Wat Goods Dealer Found That Bundle He So Obligingly Kept for Cus­ tomer Had Its Uses. Is 0ue Responsibility for Human Sorrow and Suffering. By ETHEL HUESTON Anof of •(PRUDENCE OF THE PARSONAGE Cowright Bobb. HItM Co. * r. 4 / ' & - Aren't the master workmen of the wet goods establishments easy marks? That is what the gentry who live by tftelr wits are asking each other. They know that the proprietor of a wet goods establishment loses his mental balance and is completely disarmed when he Is invited to have a drink. Re­ cently two husky-looking Individuals entered a Forty-second street suds em­ porium. One of the party carried an enormous bundle, which he placed on the t6p of the mahogany. They both called for a drink. "Well, It Is hopeful that my wife will stop her nagging about the cold weather and being cold when I carry this home," .said the man who carried the bundle. -- At the end of the bar stood the prt>- prletor of the wet goods establishment. He seemed curious, so the two men in­ vited him to have a drink, which was accepted. One of them explained that he had'the finest pair of wool blankets that was ever sheared from ihe. backs •of sheep in the package. "Feel for yourself," he Said, .as he unfastened one end of the bundfe. The proprietor felt and acknowl­ edged that they were the simon pure wool article. ' "I'm taking them home to my wife," said the owner. "She has been kicking about being cold." Then they had another round of li­ quids. "Well, I must be on my way," said the man, as he picked up the bundle. "Why don't you leave them here un­ til you start for home?"' interposed his companion. "Good Idea,he said. And turning to the owner of the cafe he asked If he could leave the bundle. "Sure," said the proprietor, "but yott had better write your name on it to avoid any mistake." Twelve o'clock came around and the man hadn't called for his bundle. "I can see that fellow getting more h--1 when he goes home tonight," Said the proprietor as he turned the key In the ^floor. The next day the owner of the cafe was the first on the job. He took a survey of the wet goods and then went to the rear of the store, Where the safe was. Here was a surprise for him. He found the door of his burglar-proof safe neatly reposing on the pair of downy blankets, which had been used to muffle the sound of the explosion.--> New ark Time* , -! 1 .. ' "iuw'i'I'} Maritime Mffscellany. One of the minor and yet exceeding ly Important articles entering into the construction of a wooden ship is the "knee." A ship knee is a right-angled wooden brace used to give strength to the framing and is fashioned from the natural crook of a tree formed by a heavy, shallow, horizontal root and a section of the trunk. Knees when fin­ ished are sometimes as much as six or seven feet high and many of them are four ifeet high. The tremendous impe­ tus to wooden shipbuilding brought about by the war has resulted In the establishment of a sawmill at Port­ land, Ore., designed exclusively for the finishing of ship knees. Thg timber preferred Is second-growth Douglas fir, found growing In shallow soil, so that the roots turn off at right angles to the trunk aud thus give the proper shape. A tract of timber that will pro­ duce five to seven knees per acre is considered a good location for a camp. The standardized wooden ship requires some two hundred knees of all sizes, while another type of wooden ship, also under construction, requires more than one hundred and sixty knees. In addi­ tion to the production of knees by the special sawmill at Portland, various operators are also getting out knees by the old-fashioned method of hand hew­ ing In the woods.--National, Lumber Manufacturers' Association. ' 1 and nerve jjeias •$«* com from weak kidneys. Huy * j who worries over trill tayihied with neuralgia, , puns and backache weald find tetief throat a good kidney remedy. It rom have aervous attacks, with heeds ofcw, herkschee, dfaoy wSf^fh^hfte w thousands of s«eb IlL, aara: 'T«| „ * was la poor health from disordered kidneys of the bladder. The pains in my back were awful and morning* it was all I could do to get up. My feet an< ankles were swot len and I often so dizzy I co hardly keep from' falling. Doan's Kidney Pllle *q« well after everything" else & I have felt fine since." Get Damn*# at Am Staes. 90m a l« DOAN'S Vf.S.V FOSTES4llLBUltM CO. BUFFALO. H.Y. Food--After the War. Whatever other blessings peace may bring It will not bring Instant relief let the masses who are now distressed bjr food shortage and Its natural conse»f quences, high prices. There will be as many mouths to feed when the arm­ ies are demobilized as there are now. It is true that the fare of the soldiers In most European countries is more liberal than that of the civil popula­ tion, hut no statesman will take' com*, fort In the prospect of masses of dls| ' banded soldiers reduced to the level of civil undernourishment. And be­ sides, the civil populations that are now enduring semistarvatlon uncom­ plainingly, recoguizlng that no relief can be expected while the energies of their government are engrossed by war, will be far less patient when peace returns. More food, not less, will be required in peace.--The New Jtepublic, • --• I., -- -1 ' • - yf•' • •£•••"• VW i . 4 Walt « illfn»te|j*V;'*C'^ An elder sister approached In att In­ gratiating way a small girl who, in th* breakfast room, was engaged in knit­ ting. "Well done, well done!" she re­ marked. "That is really capital. You are doing the work so nicely, and so quietly, and so Industriously--" "Look here," interrupted the small girl defiantly. "If It's anything up­ stairs at the top of the house, I, for one, am not going to fetch it 1" i; f# v ^ Unsatisfactory Visit. ; « ; "Congressman Twobble writes that he is my representative and wants to serve me," said Mr. Dubwalte. "What are you going to ask for?" "Nothing. Th« last time I visited Washington, with the fond expectation of hobnob­ bing with the great, he turned me over to his secretary, and the most impor­ tant person I met was a hotel door­ man."--Birmingham Age-Herald. Broken 8tove Lining. 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