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THE MeHFTTHT FT AITTDRA T.ER, BTcHEWilT, 1"LT Radio Savet Life of Engineer ai 5*a Seattle, Wash.--Taken ill to mid-oc«n, Earl O'Brien, chief engineer ef the Wawafcma, owes his lite to the radio aid a ship's surgeon. The engineer was suddenly stricken with appendicitis and the steamship President Jefferson was informed of his condition. The latter altered her coarse to meet the Wawalona. The engineer was transferred to the big ship, where the surgeon "Immediately performed the operation. O'Brien It Improving and will reach this port on the rstarn trip of the Jefferson. MAD MAID SLAYS MAN WITH AX Declares God Told Her tm KiU ..•'.••I'. • Family, PlalnfleM, N. J.--AttribwttNf ber crime to God's will, Mary Kuuisiak, a Polish domestic, murdered her employer, George H. Davey, an accountant, with an ax, as he slept in his home here. Mumbling the Lorld's name, she then stole into the adjoining room of his wife, slashed her and struck the couple's twelve-year-old daughter. She remained in the room until the police carried her away in a straight-jacket. Mrs. Davey, a sufferer from heart disease. Is in a critical condition, with five deep gashes in her chest and throat. Little hope is held for Irer recorery. Winifred, the child. Is not seriously hurt. It was she who spread the alarm. 0 The house was sleeping, when, early in the morning, Mary tiptoed down the three flights of steps to the cellar, where she secured a short handled ax with a long, sharp blade. She entered Davey's room. Five times she hacked her employer's throat and chest, ,<JHIs first groans awakened his wife. "Get up and see if daddy is all fifht," she told her daughter. Winifred did as she was told. Brushin* the little girl aside with the weapon, inflicting slight abrasions, the maid walked Into the room where Mrs. Davey was now sitting op in bed, . frightened. ', "What's the matter? Are yen frightened, Mary?" she asked. The maid did not answer, but crept up to Mrs. Davey's bed. Mrs. Davey cried out, but her screams were suddenly terminated by a sharp. blow against her throat. Mary raised the °ax again and again, hacking the woman three times on the upper part of her body and once on her ankle, the force of the blow almost severing her foot. The (laughter rushed down the stairs SM telephoned to police headquarters. •Hiod told me to kill them all," the 4Mid cried out as the officers came.' WST HUNTER FIGHTS WOLVES Tm-^*ND QUICKSAND. "identified" on Dead Phone; Gets $250 Louis.--Police have been asked the Mermod, Jaccard & King Jewelry company to assist in the search for * stylish stranger calling himself W. H. Robinson of Chicago, who departed from their establishment with % watch, leaving In return for it a $250 draft on a New York bank, which has proved worthless. He mentioned a well-known Webster Groves family, to whom he said he was closely related. A store employee called the telephone number Robinson gave, the customer reached for the phone, saying he would do the talking, He had just dropped down from Chicago; Aunt Martha was fine; brother was still In Europe; was their little Benjamin fully recovered from his measles? Then, in an offhand way, he mentioned that he was then selecting a watch, and the jewelers had expressed some he*dtancy in accepting his draft. The salesman had recognised the family called as reference, and the witch was given Robinson. When the draft was returned unhonored, a second call was placed for Webster Groves. The man who had called them Monday? Why, yes, they remembered and had thought him drank or Insane and had cut off the connection and allowed the spurious nephew to talk to a dead wire for perhaps five minutes; . • Widow Starves Self to Death in Her Grief New York.--The death of Mrs. Florence Dunstan, thirty-six years old. In,, St. John's hospital. Long Island Ctfyr^ from gastro-enteritis, war- attributed by her friends to self-starvation. It had been necessary to feed Iter forcibly for eleven months. She had been trying for almost a year, relatives said, to" starve herself to death because of her grief for her husband, Eugene, who died December 22. They- had been married nine years and the idea of Christmas without her husband affected Mrs. Dunstan so profoundly that from that day It was impossible to persuade her to take food voluntarily. In spite of her resistance, nourishment was administered and her life was prolonged. She failed progressively in strength and health, however, and was taken to the hospital last month. Physicians there were unable to do more than to continue forcible feding. Thief isMSorryP Sterling, 111.--An unmasked cobber Idd up Elsworth Wolf, proprietor of a grocery in Rock Falls, and took $00 .from the cash drawer, pulled the telephone from the wall and backed out of the store. He said he was sorry, bat he needed the money. ncrugan Man Ha* Terrify* ing Adventures in Depths ' •N jof Forest*,. /- In the depths of an Cvuiu»ui| forest, while |ut fought MVage wolves, ua*i Ottorgt* W. vt f/wl i*uM returned ln»tue at nut the won* h# hi# terrifying «<)venture*, v,Lu'L wn* *-$ countered tlurinu a trip KvetiM/ii Meiiittur uf § petty of thr** huniei% wuk emuim*ui nmr '<'*<>• Hearted river, 'M mil** ii'tfiit of N**wberry <>RJ» morelHg he out alone oa a tlmr bunt, carrying only ills cwu pu«M and rtHx. Hotw he mirwk the trail of a l>u<k aud followed k for intutf time, Kitorfly after noon be Mumbled into a qui<-k«ftnd pit and before lie IwogfiiKed the nature of his surtouixllnira had sunk to his knees in the shifting, sucking sand. Every effort that Eversor* made to extricate himself pushed hiiri deeper into the pit, until finally the sand had reached his wsist and was climbing steadily. Life 8av«d by Log. Everson's life was saved by the presence of a log that had fallen across the pit As he sank deeper into the yielding sand he twisted his body until lie grasped the log with his Angers.' Slowly, Inch by Inch, he worked his fingers over the log, the blood spurting from his bruised hands as he began the laborious process of pulling his body from the quagmire. At last he succeeded in reaching firm ground. But his compass was broken and he realized that he was hopelessly lost. Physically exhausted, and aching In every limb, he picked up his rifle, which he had thrown to hard ground while in the sand pit, and began to stumble blindly through the dense forest. Night came and a pack of wolves trailed him. Everson was without matches, and being unacquainted with woodlore, did not know two to start a fire by discharging his rifle. Tomatoes Ranked TP in Crops Nineteen Different Products Had S313.000.000 Crop Value in 1924. - Pulling His Body From the Quagmire. So he remained standing throughout the night, occasionally tiring his rifle and shouting to frighten away the wolves, which kept circling about. Misses Searching Party. When morning came the wolves disappeared and Everson resumed his wanderings, shouting at the top of his voice. The other members of his camp- J "ing party, who were searching for him, occasionally heard ills shouts* but were unable to locate him. About noon he became so hoarse that he no longer could shout and he stumbled on despairing of ever seeing his friends again, and suffering from hunger and fatigue. Late that night he stumbled upon the camp of another hunting party. He was so dazed that he hardly could tell of his experiences, but was given food and shelter for the night The next day his new friends helped him to locate his own party. • Bandits Lose Watch and Chain in Peculiar Way Kew York.--Benjamin Kerstner, a Bronx jeweler, is richer by a gold watch and chain because two holdup men visited his establishment the other night. One of the bandits handed him ttie watch to examine, and then, produced a revolver, ordering him to throw up his hands. Just then several customers entered and the men fled without takings anything, leaving the watch and cbam as souvenirs of their vlsiy--/ j . Cat Causes Flames Thai Result in $2SP000 Damage Martinez, Cal.--One ordinary house cat was blamed for a tire which damaged the Clay substation of the Great Western Power company to the extent of more than $25,000 and cut off Contra Costa county's light and power service for about three hours. According to employees, the cat entered the building and became entangled with some transmission wires, causing a abort circuit The cat lost his U£*. fcr tli* nnttcd States Department of Agriculture.) Vineteen truck crops produced in the United States the past year for table use, running, and manufacture had a gross value to the growers of $313,000,- <WW, according to estimates by the United States Department of Agriculture. This is $12,(100,000 less than in 192$, trtjt $22^000,000 more H""» in W2li and $78,000,000 more than in 192L There has been a rapid expansion in truck crop production, transportation, and .marketing in recent years nB indicated in acreage figures, the department points out. The acreage devoted to the 1» crops this year was 2.302,000 acres, which is a 00 per cent increase over the acreage in 1£>21. Canning Acreage Doubled. Production of 18 crops grown wholly or-partly for table use direct was on mOfr.OW acres and had a value of $262,000,000. The quantity produced wholly or partly for canning or manufacture was grown on 9S)3,000 acres and had a value of $51,000,000. The canning acreage has been more than doubled since 1921, and the table acreage has been Increased one-third. Tomatoes were first In gross value, showing a total of $55,000,000; early Irish potatoes are valued at $44,000.- 000; strawberries $35,000,000, and cantaloupes $20,000,000. Green peas, onions, lettuce, celery, cabbage, and asparagus each come In the $15,000,000 to $17,000,000 range; cucumbers, snap beans and watermelons ranged from $8,500,000 to $12,000,000 each, and sweet corn for canning, spinach, peppers, cauliflower, and carrots, from $3,600,000 to $7,100,000 each. The value of eggplants was $1,030,000. Tomatoes in the Lead. Tomatoes had the largest acreage at 470,000 acres; early Irish potatoes, 808,000 acres; sweet corn for canning, 299,000 acres; green peas, 242,000 acres; watermelons, 168,000 acres; strawberries, 147,000 acres; cucumbers, 130,000 acres. These figures do not include market gardens. Ninety-one per cent of the acreage of green p^js was for canning; canning and manufacture of cucumbers took 72 per cent of the acreage; tomatoes, 67 per cent; asparagus, 4? per cent; spinach, 29 per cent; string beans, 27 per cent and cabbage for kraut, 14 per cent , Truck crops are the product of intensive agriculture and require much human labor, and a highly fertile and well-tilled soil. Gross return per acre Is far from being all profit, and sometimes falls to equal the cost of production, the department says. Jays DQ MUCH TO SHAPE BOYS' UVES Cost.of Fertilizer Can " Be Reduced by Legumes "Grow more legumes and let nature take care of your fertilizer needs. Let the air help pay your fertilizer bill." This is the suggestion sotmnicrop specialists of the Georgia Stated College of Agriculture make to helpjkeep the cost of fertilizer down. Ni/rogen Is the most expensive constituent in factory mixed fertilizer, they say, and economy necessitates the using of a part of the unlimited quantities of nitrogen found in the air over Georgia farms. The clovers and vetches have been found to make available about sixty pounds of nitrogen per acre, and when the whole crop is turned under, tha fertilizing value is equivalent to the addition of five or six loads of stable manure. A good legume hay crop turned under will lead to profitable and permanent farming. It would require four tons of ordinary mixed fertilizer per acre, containing 2 per cent ammonia, to furnish an amount of nitrogen equal to a good crop of vetch or clover. If purchased in mixed form this nitrogen would cost from $20 to $25 per ton. Control of Apple Scald. Oiled wrappers have proved to be the most practical preventive of scald found so far. The first consideration Is prompt cooling after harvest. Then pack your apples, using oiled wrappers for each apple. Such apples should come through storage In much better condition. Write to the United States Department of Agriculture for Farmers' Bulletin No. 1380 for p. more complete discussion of the problem. NEW RECORD MADE IN FIGHT ON DREADED BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS More Tests in October, 1924/ Than Any One Month. (Pnpand by the United Statea Department of Agriculture.) More cittle were tuberculin tested during the month of October, 1924, in the nation-wide campaign to eradicate bovine tuberculosis than were ever tested in any previous month, according to a summary of the work complied by the United Statec Department of Agriculture. A total of 642,- 602 cattle were given the tuberculin test during that month by the force of veterinarians engaged by the government and those co-operating in stamping out this costly cattle plague. This exceeds by more than sixteen thousand the previous record number of cattle tested in one month. In May. 1924, there were tested 626,257 cattle, which was the highest number until the recent month of October. The total number of cattle now under supervision for the eradication of tuberculosis Is 9,198,975. That the work of tuberculosis eradication Is popularly supported is shown by the fact that there Is a waiting list of more than two and one-half milllou cattle whose owners desire to have them tested as #oon as practicable. Of the 642,602 cattle tested In October there were 24,440 which reacted to the test, Indicating that 'hey were tuberculous. Such animals are Immediately disposed of In accordance with regulations for the prevention of their acting as spreaders of the infection of tuberculosis. Hymn Instead of Applause Audiences at a mystery play at Richmond, England, are requested to sing a hemp from a leaflet instead of applauding with their hand* Eagle Fights On Village Grove, 111.--John Bozbech, a farmer, captuifd a black American eagle on his farm which measured 7 feet 2 inches from tip to tip of wings, It became tangled in a wire fence. Bozbech tried to capture It, but the bird showed such fight that he was compelled to shoot It. „ » Canada Stocked With Coal Clin "Ja has sufficient coal in its mines to snpply heat and power. |r 2.000 years. Sources of Protein and Vitamines for Laying Hen Skim milk and buttermilk are evceedingly valuable sources of protein and vitamines tor laying hens. This has been demonstrated not only by experiment stations, but also by thousands of poultry raisers. While poultrymen generally understand the value of these products, they do not always use enough of them to get the best results obtainable. Too many think that if they feed some milk or some buttermilk in addition to the regular mash and grain ration, they are doing all that Is necessary. This, of course, may nor be true. Feeding •"some" of these dairy products may not be enough to properly balance the ration. It baa been shown that an ordinary mash made of ground corn, ground oats, bran, and shorts, when supplemented with whole corn and oats, make a good laying ration when the hens are given all the buttermilk or skim milk they can consume. That is, when they are given no water. If they have access to water in addition to skim milk or buttermilk, they will not consume enough of the latter to balance the ration mentioned, and therein lies the mistake that so many poultrymen make. They do not feed enough of the skim milk or buttermilk to furnish the amount of protein needed for high production. The Strawberry Patch Very few gardeners who have space to spare will do without a strawberry patch. The everbearing variety has come into favor, and in most instances is satisfactory. However, the crop, being continuous throughout most of the growing peason, is seldom as large at any time as the regular kind. Better results will be had by pinching off the blossoms until June. Increase of Roup Although roup Is an all-year-round disease, the worst epidemics come with the shifting weather conditions of fall and spring. The disease causes considerable loss and appears to be Increasing from year to year. The true roup Includes colds, bronchitis, catarrh, canker, diphtheria roup proper, and perhaps chicken pox. It usually comes with colds which start when the birds have been exposed to dampness, drafts and chill. Prune the Fruit Trees" Young trees, fruit or shade trees, require attention ->very season. The pruning knife should be used quite liberally if the'best result, are desired. There Is no doubt that the fruit trees which are headed low prove more satisfactory. They are easier to get at when prun'ng, spraying and finally when picking the fruit. Grape vines require the same attention, early In the spring. Far No Doubt That Playthings ^Have Great Influence. Have you ever watched parents and fond relatives wandering about aimlessly in the toy department of big iturci! Tiiej uugef tula iujr auvl tliiti, worriedly, and finally end by buying something--anything--at the counter that Is least crowded. Such parents lose a great opportunity by neglecting a chance to help their children. A toy Is part of a child's education. Just as educators choose textbooks, considering carefully the needs of the child, so should the parent choose toys, writes Ferdinand Strauss, toy manufacturer, in the Popular Science Monthly. For toys should be chosen that will encourage children to think and develop their latent powers. "America makes toys that teach somathlug, because it has advanced further in the field of child psychology than any other country in the world, and the psychologists have demonstrated that children learn while they play. "Not long ago I read a story ahout Orvllle afcd Wilbur Wright. When they were little boys in Ohio, their favorite toys were kites and balloons. In playing with them, though, they nevef dreamed that they would be the men to accomplish through their airplanes the conquest of the air. "Again and again I find, In reading of the childhood of famous men or In speaking with them, that they spent their play hours with toys that had 6ome definite connection with their later occupation. "If Llndenthal or Modjeskl, the great bridge builders of today, were to tell you of their childhood, you would learn that as boys they spent most of their time making toy bridges "Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the bureau of aeronautics. United States navy, himself told me that as a boy his principal interest was flying kites. "Carl E. Akeley, the Inventor and big-game hunter, the man who raised taxidermy to the level of the arts, spent his playtime as a boy with tools. The gift of a folding pocket footrule, he says, gave him a big thrill, and with his tools he made toys and useful articles for the house. In the heart of a jungle, hundreds of miles from any source of supplies, a man without ability for construction is almost helpless. Carl Akeley Is not, for as a boy he possessed a tool chest." k Checking Up The Skeptics' society, after exhaustive research, hns arrived at the following conclusions: A stltcji In time does not save more than three or four at the most. He who laughed last laughed worst in 86.14 per cent of the tests made. Where there was smoke there was fire In only 18.93 per cent of the cases examined; in all other cases It was too rich a mixture. Still waters were not only shallow in nearly every case investigated, but were most easily excited. In 63 per cent of the tests when a lea per paused to look someone else leaped ahead of him. Of the burnt children examined the majority were carrying matches and manifested, no /ear of fire. Of the mice observed 99.75 per cent did not play at all when the cat was away, but went right to work. Some very short lanes were found to have no turning.--Life. T; Rice Is Not Relished *.« '-,£<6 . - ^ Rice Is not liked by poultry, and It ranks lower than wheat In both dlges tibllilty and palatabiligr. It is not much used for poultry feeding, even la the South where rise is grown. Some commercial chick scratch grain mixtures contain .a little rice, bat it does not add to the value of the feed. Cows do not enjoy moldy silage, it makes horses 'sick. Semi-solid buttermilk Is i valuable poultry feed, especially when there is no home supply of sour milk or buttermilk. • • • Does the snow sift In on the workbench and tools In your shop 'or garage? Melted snow is water, and water rusts. • • The horticulturist of the Dominion of Canada has kept well for 26 years by eating 8 to 16 apples a day, he told members'of the state horticultural society at a recent banquet • • • Twenty-eighr years ago the farmers of Denmark formed the Danish Cooperative Egg Export association which has revolutionized their egg trade and changed production from a precarious, unprofitable business to a prosperous industry of remarkable stability. e • • $ It Is not denied that the robins and some other birds eat the cherries and berries. They also eat the cabbage and other vegetable worms. In fact, they like the worms better than they do the fruit Even the sparrows are valuable when the cabbage worm season is at its height. r.' • • * There is little danger of the small gardener overdoing the fertilizing of his soil. The richer the soil the better for the majority of vegetables and flowering plants. It is well at all times to save any kind of fertlllz-v or anything that can be developed Into fertiliser and apply Jt When moot needed. ; Dogs Mate With Wolves A story reminiscent of Jack London's ^Call of the Wild," has come to the bureau of biological survey of the United States Department of Agriculture. Last winter a number of wolves, Including three black ones, were reported by different stockmen east of Lodgegrass in the WoJ^f mountains In Montana. A government hunter, assigned to clear them out, trapped an almost black animal that was obviously part dog, and a short time afterward, in the 8;uue vicinity, he killed a vk-iou; dog similar to an alredale, probably the sire of the half-blood. It Is believed that most of the wolves in this pack we half-breeds. Successful Foes Are Honored by Britain One cannot recollect any graceful French tribute to Mr. Pitt or Count Von Moltke; Germany still regards Napoleon through the strained eyes of 1813; Italian estimates of Count Badetzky are lamentably deficient in perspective; and even in Spain, so prone to acquiescence, a Just appreciation of " >ii'»ur is iong overdue. But successful insurrection or victorious warfare against British armies is an unfailing passport to esteem la England. No calendar of her favorite saints is complete without St. Joan; no catalogue of patriots would evoke a single British clieer If it omitted a Qoble American, a blameless Boer, and an Irish name or so. Allies are scrutinized with a more dubious eye; but enemies receive, almost without distinction, a national tribute. I'erhups it is an Inverted form of vanity; perhaps the national greatness requires the attribution (sometimes on slender grounds) of a corresponding greatness to enemies. For Washington, British tradition has adopted almost without question the richest embroideries of American myth; and the responsibility for his strange disguise rests solely upon his countrymen. Ills motives, his simpleminded statesmanship, even his military record have been accepted in England at their face value. The worst enemies of his Just appreciation have been his political heirs, the beneficiaries of that lavish testament of freedom; and the problem, If one enters upon the arduous pursuit of truth, Is to disengage the figure of Washington from the Impenetrable shadow of the cherry tree. --Phillip Guedalla In Harper's Magazine. The Way of Childhood The teacher at the conclusion of a lesson in grammar asked the class In turn to give an example of an abstract noun. "Manhood," suggested the head of the class, which was duly approved by the teacher, the example being followed by the next two members of the class with "womanhood" and "girlhood," respectively. The fourth little girl, disdaining anything so obvious as "boyhood.** pAve^as her example "Little Red Riding Hood."--Kansas City Star. ?gj COCOA f Tlicic.il Dutch 'i . Process nth. smooth ! delicious •, Sunday Driving They reached the city limits and pulled up at the side of the road opposite the first billboard. The man shut off his engine, lit his pipe and settled back comfortably In his seat, and his wife got out her sewing. The friend who had been invited for the Sunday drive stood It for nbont ten minutes and then tappet! the husband on the shoulder. .'•Say^ what's the big IdeaT" The man laughed and pointed to the billboard.. "We come out here every Sunday, old man, for a couple of hburs. No use going any farther than the first billboard, because that's all you'll see, anyway, so we Just stay here and take It easy! Saves gaa, tires and dust and the strain of keeping from being crowded off the roftd*J®dge. Atlas TRAM Raiirn-Reproduction Give* tkf IMliafi • Yo«r Set- Tone - Quality. . . . C l a r i t y o f reproduction. Sensitivity to wgimU, -Harmonizer adjustment Ample volume. tm literature send your name to the > . manufacturer. Multiple Electric . Products Co., Inc. S65 Otdaa Stoaat Newark, New Jersey ATLAS products are guaranteed. •v • First Dictionary Chinese The first dictionary was Chinese and was compiled about 1100 B. C.. by I'a-out-she. It contained about 40,000 characters. The first modern dictionary was by a Venetian friar, Ambrose CalepinI, a Latin work, before 1500. Pitying a Queen The recent celebration of Queen Wllhelmina's jubilee revives many stories of her youth In Florence, where she lived for a while with her mother. It is related that one day they were going along the Lung Arno, when they were accosted by a beggar. The queen regent wanted to. push on, fearing that her daughter might catch some fearful disease, but the little queen having a will of her own. insisted on stopping. She questioned the man In broken Italian, believing herself quite unknown and on pcoceeding gave him half a franc. The beggar looked from the silver In his hand to her, and then back again, and at last said, with an air of impertinence: "So your subjects keep you as short as that 1 Poor queen!"--* London Times. STOP CROUP IN 15 MINUTES Croup usually comes suddenly--at midnight--without warnins Bo prepared to op«n the dangerously clogged throat at once. Have on hand thla physician's prescription which often brings relief in 15 minutes--no vomiting. Used in millions of homes for 35 years. The quickest known relief for Coughs, Colds and Whooping Cough. If you have children, get a bottle of this time-tried remedy--Dr. Drake's Qlessco--from your druggist. Oily Me & bottle.--Adv. Quite So "But surely," urged jofiei, "seeing is believing." "Not necessarily," replied Brown. "For Instance, I see you every day."-- London Weekly Telegraph. About Left-Handedness There Is an old tradition that lefthanded people are mentally inferior to right-handed people. Dr. Kate Gorday, a Los Angeles psychologist, says this belief was not confirmed by comparative Intelligence tests which she gave to a group of over 1,000 children. The left-handed children did as well In the tests as the others. However, Doctor Gorday came to the conclusion that there Is a large percentage of lefthanded Individuals among subnormal persons. She also found that there are more left-handed boys than girls. It Is estimated that between 3 and 4 per cent of the population of this country are left<hiinded. Whether or not iefthandedness is hereditary in some families, as clulmed by some authorities, is still a disputed question.--Pathfinder Magazine. To Have a Clear, tweet tfcln Touch pimples, redness, roughness or itching, if any, with Cutlcura Ointment, then bathe with Cuticura Soap and hot water. Rinse, dry gently and dust on a little Cuticura Talcum to leave a fascinating fragrance on Everywhere 25c each.--Advertisement Something to Show for It May--"She spends a lot on evening gowns." Jack--"But she has something to show for It." A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, where there Is no love. Powerful Car Ferry A mammoth car ferry for use between Anchorage and Baton Rouge, La., was recently launched at Neville Island, Ohio. This boat will be 340 feet In length, will have an extreme deck width of 91% feet on a molded beam of 56 feet; atyl will carry at one trip a complete train of moguk engine and eleven pullman cars or 25 loaded freight cars. The cost will be 1250,000, and the ferry will be the largest vessel of Its type. New Building Material A company has recently been organized to make a new building material similar to concrete but which Is reallj n combination of Portland cement and mineralized sawdust. It Is claimed tc be clieaj>er, stronger, and In nearl.t •very way better than real concrete. This represents one of the many an swers to the problem of saving forest waste and thereby lessening forest destruction.-- Nature Magazine. One on the Lawyer A minister, calling one morning at the office of a solicitor with whom he was acquainted, was fereeted thus: "Good morning, minister; you see, pointing to two' men seated in the office, "f have already two of your flock here. I hope they are not black sheep." To this, the minister replied: "It's not for me to speak of their color; but I'm thinking that If they remain here long they are llkely fleeced.'*--London Tit-Bits. Too Patriotic "Mother, make Jane quit singing." This gentle command came for the second time from upstairs, where Jimmy and Jane were supposed to bave been asleep. "Jimmy, pay no attention to Jane. Be a little man and go to sleep," answered mother. "I am a man, mother. June keeps singing 'Star Spangled Banner,' and every time I have to stand up."--Indianapolis News. Proof Enough Mrs. Carr (after a motor tdjr in the country)--I'm afraid our ehllj 1* not normal, James. Carr--What's the aignf Mrs. Carr--We must have passed at least a hundred hot-dog stands an*1 be never dropped a hint.--Life. Where Moses Was Hidden Opposite Cairo lies the island of Roda. where, according to Arab tradition, Pharaoh's daughter found Moses In the bulrushes. At the southern extremity of this Island is the nllometer, by which the rise of the Nile has been measured by the Cslrenes for 1.000 years. It is a square well with an octagonal pillar marked In cubits in the center. Penament roads are a good tavutmmt Road -- Building Far Behind Hie Automobile Millions no*.' recognize . the automobile as a necessity. It is no longer a luxury for the iew. Sixty per cent of its use. is k* business. Because of this the modern paved highway has become an economic necessity. Yet akboogh the nibafe at Concrete Roads ind Streets ha been steadily increasing, our highway system today lags far behind the automobile- The great majority ci our feghways are as out o! date as the singletrack, narrow gauge railwa) ol fiiry years ago. Such a condition noc only seriously handicaps the progress al the automobile as a comfortable profitable means of transportation, but also holds back commercial, industrial and agricultural advancement in practically every section ol the country. It is costing taxpayers millions ot dot* lars annually. Highway building should be continued and enlarged upon. Your highway authorities are ready to carry on their share ol this great public work. But they must have your support. Tell them you are ready to invest in more and wider Coootn Highways now. PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION HI West Washington StieeC CHICAGO Tell Better Later First (lirl Scout--Is this the first night you ever slept In a tent* Second Girl Scout--I doat know, yet.--1-Jfe- Portuguese^ Dislike Mistletoe The Portuguese have a superstitious llslike for the mistletoe and will new ise the plant as a decoration. 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