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S - V jf- «• -V * r 'i%--e S[* , , , . JpUBWIflR mWiiiK m liinimii tmt of Thirty Bays the Dove of Peace Had Grown Spurs * ^ IIAJ. GKN, J. 6, HARBORD, Deputy Chief of Sta*,lJ.S. &' War for us seems fairly remote at this moment. Recently the commanding general of the district of Washington .put on a little demonstration of an infantry attack. It was a good show witnessed by probably 20,000 people. At its close the general was waited on by two ladies who asked where the next one would be held. They said they belonged tb a woman's peace organization and he waa making war look so attractive that they wished to put on a rival ( meeting next time, to counteract its effect Foiled by Fate and Two Ten Spots # H. IRVING ((£. 1112, bjr McClur* Newipfcp«r Syndlcata.) was as pretty a girl as you would find In a day's Journey; abounding In health and vitality, but rather given to day dreams and impressed with the idea that It waa incumbent on her to take hold of this wandering old world and «st it In a straight and narrow orbit Under a great tree in the front yard she fin3 her aunt sat in straight-backed It waa summer and Amanda Lathrop was visiting her aunt, Miss Jane Perkins. Aunt Jane's farmhouse stood a little back from the road and dominated well-kept acres. It was a most proper farmhouse--everything pertaining to Aunt Jane was proper; it was an efflclent-Iooking farmhouse-- I everything having to dc with Aunt In Jul*y , a solemn demonstration with flaunting JWainlde CPI O artook< t l o<fk hmeIhrI enffni cMieAnI*c y«t.f AA««ml/l aAnld%fa1 Winers, music and speeches was held in Washington, in the course of , Which the President was urged to set aside a "No more war day" for flanual observances. War was to end. The dove of peace was to take immortality. ^ In September the war drams began to throb in the Near East. Then jjlas a rush of troops and warships to the crossroads of the world, the city of Golden Horn. Britain was at the breach. The League of Nations scutfled for the cyclone cellar. The cynical Old World diplomats smiled and chaire sewing. The bloom of the lilacs • „ began to pin on their decorations preparatory to taking seats at the ooun- ^ ton? 8t?cw faded • t but *here - v | other odoriferous shrubs about which -01 table. 1 6ent faint perfumes wandering on the Mustapha Kernel, whom I know to be a decent young man, trying to languid air, and from a neighboring «o for his country what you and I would do for ours in a similar situation, came now and then the breath , , . . ,. ... . ,r , . * of new-mown hay; and the voice of Was represented as sharpening his scimitar on the tomb of Mahomet to the afternooil was punctuated by the Itit the throats of the infidel. Once mora had bedi raised the crescent the cross. Thus the headliners got in their deadly work, and the White House overwhelmed with demands that our country intervene in the Near Eastern situation, and if necessary join England in war against Turkey. ^Resolutions were passed all over the country insisting that the Turk must *. |e checked at any cost. Most of this insistence came from organizations apparently willing to Ibvoke war without giving the diplomats even a chance to settle things. file class which would disband the army and scuttle the navy a year ago Turk, ^ at ions in 193. •Wr, -' r wn spurs r f.gow wanted a host and an armada . Those who conc demanded league in 1919! ipporters of the n the short space of thirty „ ..Uj.,, '& I Parliament Can Do No Wrong, No Higher Authority Can Deny Its Acts ~ * _ •- l£i__ •.>. ¥. G. MASTERMAN, in "How England Is Governed" liament can do no Wrong. No judge or higher authority or deny any decisions, however absurd or monstrous those decimay be even to the very people who elected those members of at In America the laws as fhey axe passed can always be challenged . ?-\M violating the ^written Constitution of the federation of states. And if 1file Supreme Court of Justice declares that they are in violation of it, fhey are annulled, and do not become law unless the Constitution itself & changed. Bat in Britain there is no written constitution, and parliament can ' exactly as it pleases during the yean it remains in office. It could pass :*>f ;/'j (» law that every red-headed man should be hanged, and the courts of law should have to carry out its bidding, and hang every man whose hair „ %as proved to be red. It could pass a law that every man who now had , •' ••• So property should receive the property of those who had some, who v . , Ifcenceforth would have none. It could destroy a whole country by the %^-Sjae of the army and navy, which are under its control. It could eject Igreat portions of the British Empire and hand thean over to other tarri- • *,•; or to govern themselves. 'A; Z5a5a5g5a5afe5g5g5g52525gSg5Z5gSZSZ5Z5g5Z5g5 *8 Foreign Policy:^ Security of. Frontiers; Productivity Increase By TCHITCHERIN, Russian Foreign Minister. . Thereasoa we an apart from Prance is that France dominates the ent, and is trying all the time to extend the area pf her domina- Tbe reason why we are apart from England is that ^ngland domthe seas, and stretches her power over oceans and other continents |n a way that tends to bring Asiatic peoples in conflict with us. The Russian government has always opposed its veto when Russian ts have been taken under consideration without Russia's participa- The consequence has been that all the efforts to solve the problem . ®f the politics of the world without Russia have been doomed to im- |potency. But the active policy which they are now undertaking is in no :t £fv jjeense a policy of aggression. The foreign policy of Russia has two ob» »'V Is! " jeetives: 1. The security of our frontiers; 3. the increase of our propductiveness. Russia encourages brotherly co-operation with all nations, 'f|iand that is why she is the natural friend of all t^see whoee is threatened, or who are fighting for liberty. Our Security Depends Upon a Rational Policy of National Defense ::M* GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING, U. 8. AiMfv w we are to keep the faith of our fathers we cannot rest secure alone in the certainty that the heart of the nation is sound, for security depends upon a rational policy of national defense as the only tnonna whereby we •can preserve the things for which we stand. It is folly not to profit by the lessons of experience, as it would be •folly to permit the development of militarism in America. W« only ask > the merest skeleton of an army, but it should always be alert, wide awake •and have sufficient officers. I am not militaristic, bijt a plain, practical citizen who would profit by r "the experience of the past and not indulge in day dreams. We have de- :f.£ militarism the world over. We do not want war, but complete dis- 4 ! | firmament on our part alone will never prevent it. We are and have been f .1 ln * practical state of disarmament, and now only advocate a moderate p "«•' * measure of preparation as a national insurance. A$gf. JQfcw of the ^ . -qwetwn is faUacious, fatuous and foolish. / V ^ twittering or the songs of birds. You have heard, perhaps, from a distance, or from the top of a high building, that murmuring sound which is the voice of a great city. To a citybred person the country seems silent, but It is not; there is a voice of the country as well as a voice of the city-- only it - is pitched in a dlffe key; a drowsy hum made myriad sounds o; life w! t: . As AuttM|flHjHH|0rmt and sewed a DdflHpPi^TOis all-golden afternoon matrimony was the object of their animadversions-- which were no less condemnatory from the fact that for both the old maid and the young maiden the subject was purely academic. They were perfectly agreed with regard to the undesirabiHty of the married state, but disagreed In their statements when it came to the details of the unmarried. Amanda mapped out a strenuous life aa a missionary to some particularly depraved and benighted tribe of cannibals while Aunt Jane declared for the simple life of the farm, mitigated by a round of gayeties consisting of strawberry festivals, church fairs and meetings of the local Red Cross ln the neighboring village of Ashville. Amanda today was all the more insistent .upon the necessity of her faring forth to somewhere beyond India's coral strand to wrest his nose rings and his idols from the scantily clothed chief of some palm-clothed isle from the fact that, since she had been on this visit to her aunt, she had not infrequently found herself--with a shudder at her own weakness--picturing with half-longing thoughts, the pleasant and comfortable life that might be lived amid the rural scenes by which she was now surrounded. Such a life might be all right for Aunt Jane, who had no great uplifting work to accomplish in the world, but for Amanda such thoughts were, she well knew, the suggestions of the hero of Mr. Milton's celebrated epic; and she confronted them with a vade retro Satanas--or words to that effect Had you told her that young Doctor Clinton and not the prince of Eblla was the cause of these wanderings of her maiden mind she would have told you that you were "Just too silly for anything"; and believed it. too--besides very likely being right. Dr. Arthur Clinton had come to Ashville the year before to take over the practice of Doctor Kenyon, superannuated and retired, and had, the previous summer, while Amanda was on her usual visit to her aunt attended her for a bruised thumb acquired by well-meant but injudicious attempts at helping, put down the new carpet on the front stairs. Somehow, that thumb of Amanda's required a preposterous number of calls and much skillful, not to say tender, handling by her medical adviser before it was cured. And this summer, ever since Amanda's arrival, the doctor had evinced the utmost anxiety with regard to Aunt Jane's health, stopping to inquire after it every time his flivver bore him in the direction of the Perkins farm. And that was so often one might have been justified in thinking an epidemic had broken out ln that neighborhood. Strange to say, Amanda's wandering and sinful thoughts, when they pictured the attractions of life in the country, began to center around the future wife of Doctor Clinton--for, of course, the doctor would marry sometime; he was not, like Amanda, dedicated to celibacy and a great work. Struggle as she would these visions of the life of a country doctor's wife became more and more frequent and she sternly resolved to down them by aaJ ffliore constant plat Ion of the joys of missionary ex* tstence. On the afternoon on which our story opens she was just in the midst of a description of the happy state of some cannibal king when she should have brought him to a realization of the superiority of roast lamb over roast enemy, as an article of diet, and of Plymouth Rock pants to the sarong as an article of dress, when, with an anatomical rattle and a bronchial cough, the doctor's machine came up to the gate and the doctor dropped in for one of his little chats, disseminating youth, health, animal spirits and a slight odor of the apothecary shop about him. The longer the doctor stayed the more Amanda felt herself slipping, anil when he finally arose to go she took a sudden and desperate resolve. "Good-by," Bhe said, "I probably shall not see you again. I leave for home tomorrow and join a party of missionaries sailing for the Par East the following day. The steamer leaves in the afternoon--I shall hav« Just time to pack. My parents have consented to my trying the missionary lite, but I have heretofore delayed doing so. I have resolved to .delay bo longer. Good-by." Aunt Jane exclaimed and expostulated ; the doctor looked grave and sought his fllwer with hardly a word of farewell. Amanda was deaf to an Aunt Jane's pleadings; she was firm with the firmness of panic--there is such a firmness. The secret of her own heart had suddenly been revealed to her; ln her startled mind she saw it only a temptation, and therefore something to be fled from. Sbe telephoned to the village garage for a machine to come and take her to the railway station to catch the four e next afternoon. The ion she would make to not to try and cateh 'train at six o'clockire only two through trains a day out of the village. It'.was 8:40 when the machine ordered by Amanda arrived to take her to the station: "Lots of time," said Ruben Hughes, the cheerful chauffeur, "and this old boat is a flier." But scarcely two" miles from the house the engine of Ruben's machine went wrong and he had to fuss with it a long time hefore he got it going again. Even then he might have made the train, had not another machine, unoccupied except by Its driver, * collided with Ruben's "boat" about two miles beyond the scene of the first delay. The collision was so slight that Amanda scarcely felt the shock, but both drivers, roundly abusing each other for carelessness, declared that their engines had been so dislocated that they could not move--a wrecking party must be telephoned for from the village. Amanda was ln despair, when Doctor Clinton's machine was seen rapidly approaching. Oh, doctor," cried Amanda, as the young man drew up beside the motionless cars, "do, please, try and get me to the station." "Why, my dear Miss Lathrop," cried the physician, what has happened? Are you injured? Are you sure? Some internal' Injury, perhaps, here; let me help you into the car. There. No, you must not think of going on. Tou must get right home and have your aunt put you to bed.** And before he got Amanda to the house he had really persuaded her that, perhaps, after all, she might have received some Injury from the gentle collision. "She must remain absolutely quiet for three days," sajd he to Aunt Jane as he left "I will run over In the morning." "Well, doc, everything all right?!* asked Ruben Hughes that evening. "All right," replied Doctor Clinton. "Here's the ten dollars for you and here's the ten for Hiram." Having been foiled by fate-- and two ten-spots--In her attempt to flee temptation, Amanda consented to remain with her aunt the rest of the summer. And if the missionary service lost an Incompetent recruit who would have been a failure in the South Sea islands. Doctor Clinton gained a most efficient wife, who was a great success in Ashville. Aunt Jane lamented Amanda's falling away from celibacy, but Amanda's children died her. British Stfilor Reversed the Usual of Things. •li Royal "Crank" on Clothing. According to Suetonius, an ancient historian, the Roman Emperor Augustus took great pains to protect his body from the extremes of heat and cold. In the winter he would wear four tunics beneath a thick toga, ln addition to a shirt and a woolen under garment. In summer he would sleep with open doors and windows, and often even under the peristyle of his palace. (This, however, does not s*em anything extraordinary to us. He was only anticipating the "fresh-sir cure. Even in winter Augustus could not endure the sun, and never walked abroad without a broad-brimmed bat |rijf head. Mush to Be Said In Commendation of fAe Change, Says Writer In Eastern Magacin*. Captain Campbell, v. C., royal navy, hero of mystery ships, used to put in his night order book as a closing admonition, "safety last" Time and again Captain Campbell took a chance and came through, while the cautious took their caution down to Davy Jones' locker. America was discovered because Christopher Columbus dared to jump across the line. The restless and audacious enterprise which advanced the frontiers of American business was but a carrying on of the explorer and the pioneer. The sheltered-life theory means either premature demise or an oversupply of weaklings. The street that breeds strong men is not Easy street. Danger risk are as essential !n molding strength as air and food are^ observes the Saturday Evening Post. America would do well at this moment to call back something of the devil-may-care bravado of her cattle kings and her clipper captains. They were strong men with strong vices, but also with strong virtues; pungent characters in a pungent age. The life of Sir William Van Home is a great sermon on the test "Safety last." Donald Smith and his* colleagues had a vision of clamping all British North America with an iron band. They came to Minneapolis to consult with James J. Hill. ' "You need," said Hill, "a man at great mental and physical power to put the line through. Van Home can do it." ' From the first the scheme was problematical. The railway man who undertook It was risking his carler. Van Horne had before him an assured success in the United States, but as a friend put It, "He went off chasing rabbits Into the wilderness." The task which called him was the execution of the greatest railway project in the world. The natural obstacles to l>e overcome were unparalleled. tindaunted he turned his back on the easy places and ventured forth. Said one of his engineers, "He always acted as if nothing were impossible. He was not always right. He was the kind that would go out on the side of S mountain and say 'Blow that down.' He would not ask If It could be done. He would say, 'Do It 1' Sometimes the thing was Impossible under ordinary circumstances, but he had such luck. Some accident or other would happen so the thing could be blown up or torn down without any harm. His hick, his daring and his fearlessness just carried him through." Or, to put it more dearly, pluck tar^ rled him through. Physical obstacles were the least of the opposition met by Van Horne and his colleagues. "On one fateful day in July," writes Professor Skelton, "when the final passage of the bill was being tensely awaited, the Canadian Pacific, which can borrow $50,000,000 any'day before breakfast, was within three hours of bankruptcy for lack of a few hundred thousand dollara." Optimism is a nice word, but right now pluck Is a thousand times more what we are needing. Amid the softness of today we need more stoutness of heart. There Is a Gaelic phrase, "Sioul fear ferrail," which means "the sons of manly men." On the floor of the stock exchange, on the floor of the reeking foundry, wherever there Is hesitation there Is a <$ll for the sons of manly men, a call for those who are possessed of that good old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon virtue of pluck. • A ' Artful Explanation. The milliner looked at the sign she had ordered and observed it ran: "Mrss. J. I}}ank." When she called the sign painter's attention to the error he calmly replied: "Madame, you have had two husbands. Tou were a 'Mrs.' when you lost the first Do you think a woman can go on marrying and not lengthen her title? 'Mrs.' means a married woman or a widow. Mrss.' means a woman who has been married twice and Is young enough, to marry again; and only yesterday a rich old party told me that If he had any idea yon were. heart-free he'd come and--'* "Oh, well, you can nail up the sign,** she interrupted?--Boats* Transcript Mrs. Grace Miller, mayor of Jackson, Wyo., haa a council of five women to aid her. CLING TO AN ANCIENT CUSTOM Tyreleee Villagers Cttlt Danoe the ••flheat Danoe," as Old Anos% tors In the Dark Agea. John Cooper Powys, English Lecturer.--Iri order to understand tioyd George one should be somewhat wicked himself. The great statesman of England is not one who overcomes evil with good. Ho overoamea «vil with evil. He works wrong to accomplish right. Dr. Grant S. Peck, Denver Physician.--In Vienna the people walk the city in a daze of "wonderment. No one can say that hie aoul is Jus own. One lives and breathes on the brink of the unfathomable. J2, Jfockefeiler The attachment of the people of the little village of Imst In the Tyrol to a ghost dance custom that was begun in the Dark ages, was proved when, during a fire that destroyed the larger part of the place, no persons thought of saving their own property until they had devoted themselves to the rescue of the precious masks and head-dresses that are worn during th* observation of that custom. The various parts In the medieval pageant are played year after year by tha same men, and are handed down as an Inheritance ln the same fmllles, like the parts in Passion plays. Apart from influencing good harvests, the ghoet dance* are regarded as great helps to matrtaocy. Though | the young wmasa do not join la the [ r$»£a. they aU cam out to see the Uioo gagements made on that day. Good luck Is also conferred on any houses where the dancers form a circle <flng the ancient songs. Paper That Can Be Washed. Many possible uses suggest themselves for a special paper recently produced and patented by a Japanese Inventor. This paper, according to an Illustrated article published ln the Popular Mechanics Magazine, la remarkably strong and can be crumpled up and washed with soap and water, oiuch as one would wash clothes. So durable Is this paper that It can be used as a covering for umbrellas, and when soiled can be easily cleaned at home. Wring In t "By* Hath Net Seen." " The storm abated, and towafff droning I crept on deck. I did not see a fair sunset, but there was a rosy light ln the far west that might have been the reflection of a golden glory such as often adorns the sky over that beautiful Jand far westward from our rolling sUp. We want to look beyond any harison we can see.--Franklin NoMe, D. D. W-J '«•, Undeeirahle4t Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil, and still more the man who Is Indifferent to everything.--Lavater. Hat Stand, Tall hat stands ft black enameled ,.woe4 patetetf te pty' Sowers woul# Petroleum "Salt of the Earth.* There Is an historic association between salt and petroleum. Scientists say that the Biblical "salt of the earth" was nothing other than natural petroleum. On losing its savor It was literally trodden under the foot «f man, because on losing its volatile cssence it became asphalt, of which the pavements of Nineveh and Babylon were found to have been constructed. In the second chapter of Maccabees It la referred to as "naphthar," Which is not very far removed from our own "naphtha." Have coneeralnf HI* ton. The best story observed ln print for Home time Is told by Joe Vila in the Sun about young Robert FUasbnmona. Xoung Fits Is considerably fetgget and stronger than his father ever waa, he is quick with his hands and with his head, he knows the adence of the game. But it seems he cant Staftd up an<l take it Mr, Vila contlM*s: Ten years apo Qld Fits introduced Young Fitz to a party of frieads at the former champion's New Jersey home. The father put on the gloves with his son and the letter surprised the visitors with a dassllng exhibition of science. , "He's Very clever, ain't he?" remarked Old Fits during a short rest. "Well, now I'll show you something i" Resuming the tilt Old Fits ffU'Wmiy hook d his right to Young Flts's chin with terrific force. Toung Fits, •tsggsrlng, pulled off his gloves and thtow them on the floor, as he walked hurriedly out of the barn. "He can bos: well," said the Oorninhman, "but ho can't taka a punch. He afn't gamer' 'I stopped because I didn't want to lose my temper,' explained the kid at the dinner table. "I didn't care to alug the old gent I"--New York Times. LIGHT ON ANCIENT HISTORY Discoveries Made in . Old Tombs ln Syria Reveal Important Fact Not £ Hitherto Known. Two tombs about 4,000 years old have been discovered at Bybloa, Syria, by the excavation* being carried on under the direction of General Gourand, the French high commissioner, according to the Paris correspondent to The London Times. The age is established by the discovery ln one of them of a harpy; a curved sword with a gold handle; a seat of gold on which Is engraved the Egyptian sparrow-hawk; a gold acarabaeus ring beautifully carved, and a balm box of obsidian, mounted in gold and bearing the name of Pharaoh Amenemhat of the twelfth dynasty. This Is stated to be the oldest Inscription discovered ln Syria, and proves that commercial relations between Syria, Greece and Egypt were already active 2,000 years before our era. The first recorded conquest of Syria by Egypt was made my Thotmes I (Tethmosis) of the eighteenth dynasty during the Sixteenth century, B. CL Si A 22,500-Rubta Stamp. The soviet postal service of Russia hss just issued for the benefit of the famished people of the VolgsT a postage stamp that, aa they say, beats all records. It Is a postage stamp of 22,800 rubles. Stamp collectors will gladly stick It ln their albums, the more so since the purchase of this vignette will not ruin them. In Issuing this novelty the soviet posts hastened to establish the "parity- of the modern ruble and' the former kopecks that were used in the times of the hated czars. One kopeck equals 10,000 rubles. This new stamp of 22,500 rubles Is therefore worth 2% kopecks (old style); thst Is, a few cents. It is to be added that this stamp Is colored flesh tint and mauve and repreaenta a fist clasping a hammer, with banner bearing humanitarian inscrlptlona. Popularity of Rubber Heels. Sixty per cent of the rimes mattl* factored in the United States toSe# are said to he equipped with rubberheels. Shoes for men are more often equipped with rubber heels than shoos for women. It Is estimated that IB per cent of the rubber heels manufactured are for men. Tho CnitSil States census of manufactures of 1920, covering production during 1919, showed that 275,367,206 pairs of leather boots and shoes were manufactured by 1,449 establishments. This was exclusive of slippers and fiber and other footwear not of leather. During the s'sme period the production of rubber heels reached 138,468,769 pairs, and 9,777,088 pairs of rubber* snd composition fiber soles were manufactured. 5 WINTER TRSECS ^•ifeo would like Ask Law to Protept Amortean Namee. At the nineteenth annual meeting and reunion of the Reade Society for Genealogical Reeeatyh, held in this city, resolutions Were passed ssklng that a national act be passed by congress making It unlawful for any person to assume the family surname of any one of colonial, revolutionary or historical fame. It waa also voted that for the protection of such names and to avoid confusion, mistakes or fraud, the organization seek to prevent foreigners from taking any colonial or American names which have bsan made Glebe. - to ha^9 the Winter Trees werf "that we are not w« now. ' We are thloktog time and getting res^f ibr it a# 1 „ ishing and strengtMBUg oursetowi,*^* ^ . ' "Yon can tell that opposite each other, because Okf llMI' „ -y'. are," said the HorseMGtt«tt&«t trie* t " 4r "You can tell the same of us," satl^ *" ,» the Dogwood*. „ "Ana of us," said the Mapleeg^ But most of the other trees whijP 1-# pered in the winter breeze: ,* "You can tell that vtftm. "differentia* w -1, Our buds ere never oppotfte ^ j other, and so our twigs arenV "I have gray, rough twigs," said Slippery Kim, "but I'm nice to chew. , "It's more than can be said of most trees. Yes, I'm a delicious kind thing to chow!" f "You talk about yourself In stftflia£ strange manner," said the Coiflt IBsv with a cork-like material upon it* branches. "I hope I wilt be recognised,'1 the Black-berried Holly. "I am green, «. ""I, ; "You Help Me, Too." \ . s;: m* far aa my leavea are concerned meat of the winter. % "I'm a relative of Christmas Holly* But my berries are black, as you maST -have guessed from my name. And X am also called Inkberry!" "• *1 am a Red Spruce tree," said thi> Red Spruce tree, "and I will grow nicflN ® Iy If horrible forest fires don't comH up against me and fight me. I can^:^ fight them back. "I have nice cousins known as th%'; White Spruce. They're a fine famtljp and dress handsomely with bluish foU^R age, which Is very lovely. "Then I have cousins known aa tlNf- Black Spruce family. They havfe • bluish foliage and they are more tng| usual than I am. gr| "But still I do not think it mattenfif one is' a more usual kind of trefil* Any kind of a tree Is nice, I think. Of course I look upon It as a tr# would!- • "The strangest thing about ttS^A4 trees to me," said Mr. Wind, as he blOWthrough the trees with Old Man Win- V; ^ >•* ter nearby, "Is t^e way they ilka travel." "Travel r asked Old Man Winter. "Yes," said lir. Wind, "and X help them, too." "Of course I suppose you do If yen say you do. "Intact, I know you do if you say you do, for though you're a blustering old fellow, you're truthful," said OW Man Winter. "Yes, it's true," said Ms. Wind, "but^r-" you help me, too. Yes, Old Man Win ter helps. ' ~i-;~ "Do explain," said Old Man Winter. ^ " "Well," began Mr. Wind, "I help Mow the seeds of the trees so they " g| will fall away from the big tree aa* - so they will ase a little more of til, g world. ' "The pine tree seeds have small ^ wings attached to them, you will notlce, and so I can help them easily. They almost help themselves. j "Plants and trees like to travel, y«K see, and have a change^ just as peop§» and animals do." "I see," said Old Man Winter, ^ ^ I never thought of It before. 'Strange, here I've been helping, to% without knowing it, and I neyw ;^p thought about-tie traveling .of tl» ^ tree seeds! . -.Jgg •Well, Old Man Winter had better * ' { come around next year. He wHt^ doubtless learn something else then,** •• Old Man Winter chuckled. ^ «For aa old as he Is fee still hss * , great deal to learn." "So have I," said Mr. Wind, don't let's say so above a whisper." v And Mr. Wind whistled merrily. High Hat Turned Into Handbag. Jkt a London social function the oft> er day one of the woman guests carried a bag which wan generally remarked upon. The material looked like Mack velvet, but had a remarkable sb^en. The owner explained she bad majie the bar herself out 0< her hoSbattPs old toplmt, from which she t^pNifetd the benwr. Ivory mounts New Control for Autos. ^Dispensing with the present emergency brake and gear-shift levers in any motor car. the clutch, brakes and gear shifts are controlled by means of pneumatic pressure of from 40 to 85 pounds, obtained from the motor, ln a device of receut Invention. The apparatus. according to Popular Mochanlcs Magazine, Is mounted on the transmission case ln place of Its cover, and u operated by means of a small pivoted lever. With the new control it Is Impossible to strip gears, or to engage the clutch when the teakoa Serious Suhjeot. Son--Ms,' didn't pa used to havo~» rod wise? Ma--Yes, dear; why do yon ask? Son--It was such a fanny What became of It? ' ' _ Ma--Hush, Johnnie, year father Is very sensitive. He may be terribly angry If lM'hears you. Careful Man. BHlaon a caitful fthm Briggs--Very much so. He always toots his horn before crossing a rail An Oath in Japan. Girt scouts take a promise of loyaljQr fo God. The Japanese do not WorSnlp any one God, so a knotty proMom arose when scouting was IntrowcoS In Japan. At the International council held In England recently, It wan decided to permit the Japanese to join the movement provided they Uve up to the ten scout laws and are loyal to tho spiritual part of the promise. They may swear by the Eternal Truth Their Ancestors or whatever repsf* seats tbalr ideal. Um '4MT< A Warning. "I dont want to grow a Captain Gabbles, mummy!" "Why not. darling?" ^ "Cause he's growed right thtOtflfe his hair!"--London Matt. ^ Side Slapping. Mrs. Crawford--When I asked mf J husband for money to get a new wtt»-" * J ter outfit he acted Just sa if Td So- t; msnded a bonus. ^ Mrs. Cralfhaw--My husband want on just the1 same. Ho said he'd bo glad to give if I would only show where ho could get it. n'aJoks. .. - ,1am, can yop -MR M whatmakaet ?owcr ef Pisa least