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WOODROW WILSON
Wood row Wilson popularized even
2 universalized a worthy creditable h.uman
2 longing. Ue furnished a definition for
I a sublime aspiration which in thousands
" millions of people had been inarticulate.
“ He gave recognizable form to an ab-
♦ stract something—call it a half-thought.
- an incomplete conception—that had ex-
* isted in men’s subconscious minds since
- reason had come to struggle with pas-
-3 sions; a something that had not been
3 evolved beyond the gossamer stage of
2 a vague hope before his eloquence his
2 ntasterv of words gave it a name.
J Wherefore Woodrow Wilson will not
• be cannot be forgotten. The man is
♦ dead but the aspiration he defined still
lives; and may it continue to live until
♦ some means may be found or agreed
7 upon to bring it to concrete fulfillment.
Tn say that Mr. Wilson had faults
« would be merely to emnhasize the fact
2 that to err is human. Some might say
2 ’hat he was but an idealist a dreamer.
* He tried to be mort than that: prob-
X ablv therein lay his greatest mistake.
As a dreamer an idealist. Ite stirred
- the world—moved it. As a would-be
- practical man a designer of method he
f dissinated his power.
He gave the world renewed hope—-
-2 brought it even to the point of exnecta-
S tion. Then undertaking a role at which
B .he was not adept lie deferred that hope—-
-2 for how long a time nobody knows.
~ Having revivified and given recogniza-
g hie form to an old asoiration he offered.
!» as a means of realizing that aspiration
a formula which in the opinion of hun-
dreds of thousands of people would de-
-2 stroy it. In the view of these his failure
y to gain acceptance for that formula may
prove ultimately to have been a factor
in his fame. For it i« their conviction
X" > that its acceptance would eventuallv
J have brought fatal discouragement to
ft the asniration itself. .\s it is. the asnira-
ft tion still lives; men still believe that
ft it is humanly possible to bring about
fsuch an understanding among nations as
will make armed strife an extremely rare
• resort.
ft So. in relation to th? outstanding is-
g «ue that is inevitably and inseparable
ft linked with Ids name it is as an idcal-
- ist that Woodrow M ilson must be ac-!
E cou T ted among the world's great. It is
ft not given to many mortals to have
3 world-affecting purposes. It is given to
2 still fewer t have such purposes and.
ft in addition the ability to execute them
ft Once unon a time a man conceived
2 the idea of buihling a dam to impound
• water for the irrigation of a large valley
that reeded naught but water to trans.
* form it into a paradise. He saw the
ft needs of the people of that region:
f' if they could but have plenty of water
life world become to them as a sweet
8 song. He prepared specific pla^s for
2.. the execution of his purpose. Expert
engineers old heads at the business
pronounced his plans unsafe. Neverthr-
. less the dam was built as the dreamer.
- the man of vision dictated. After a
' few years the dam broke; everything
was swept away by the irresistible
flood. Gone. then was even the oi l
» • desire for what the great valley had
I needed.
The people of the United States ac-
<eptmg the counsel of experienced "en-
juicers”—George Washington among
WEDNESDAY.
others—rejected President Wilson's plans
for giving peace to this vale of (tears.
Peace is what the world needs; there
। could be no greater boon to the sons of
the earth. But the “dam” was not built in
accordance with specifications which old
heads had pronounced unsafe. No ca-
tastrophe has befallen the naton. And
the old desire kindled in every breast
by the man who is now no more still
burns there and doubtless will long con-
tinue to glow illumining the name of
him whose eloquence whose briliant
generalities of speech fanned to flame
the spark that for countless years had
lain dormant in the soul of groping
criing necessarily cautious finite man.
< IO
“PROTECTING' THE TAX PAYERS
■While members of Congress arc lift-
ing their voices to a high pitch and their
hands to a corresponding elevation to
express their sentiments regarding taxes
and teapots a little incident of big sig-
nificance goes unnoticed and unmentioned
by the nation's orators. They arc en-
gaged in greater enterprises. It is their
ambition they’re telling the world to
reduce the people's taxes and to bring
to account former government officials
who are inferentiallv accused of making
deals prejudicial to the nation's financial
and economic interests.
Determined to effect far-reaching
economy in the government's affairs for
the benefit of the people and to enforce
honest administration of such affairs
they iccently rejected one of the easiest
opportunities imaginable for eliminating
from the public's annual bill an item
of extravagance of sheer shameful
waste. It depended upon them and
them alone to effect this saving. No
question of safeguarding a sound prin-
ciple of government stood in their way.
In fact all considerations of sound busi-
ness demanded that the enterprise be
abandoned. But these Jaw-makers re-
fused to take the step. They decided
to retain the item of useless expense—-
useless that is. from the public's stand-
It is neither a pretty story nor a new
one. The government is maintaining
several land offices that reached the end
of their usefulness many years ago.
Periodically some member of Congress
has proposed that they be abolished in
accordance with authority vested in that
body when the creation of the offices
was provided for. Originally the func-
tions of these offices were important—-
the selling of large tracts of the public
domain. W hen most of the land had
been disposed of. so that the remaining
work could easily hate been done al
a much lower cost to the government
than that entailed bv the maintenance
ot stalls of experts such as were origi-
nally required to transact such lr ' less
properly common sense and a decent
respect for the tax-payers’ interests de-
manded that these offices be abo’’ hod.
But they still exist —at the public’s
expense. Their continued existence be-
comes a matter of present concern partly
because Ihe House of Representatives
while professing So loudly its solicitude
for the welfare of the tax-pavers re-
cently refused to eliminate this little
item of expense. It was such a small
matter —only SlOO.OOO a year. But
5100000 here and 5100000 there would
soon amount to millions even if there
was no principle involved.
V by wouldn't ihe House effect this
saving? Can any creditable inference
possible be drawn from this incident?
• oo
GOOD NEWS FOR WEST TEXAS
Residents of West Texas must be
experiencing that “grand and glorious
feeling" which is the proverbial after-
math of causeless worn - . When it was
first announced that the sale of the
Kansas City Mexico & Orient Railroad
had been officially ordered the people
of that section probably jumped to the
conclusion that their hope for better
days in so far as such hope was bound
up with the fortunes of the only means
of freight transportation they have had
finally been blasted. And tliis connec-
tion this dependence was certainly not
a far-fetched one.
But the receiver of the Orient has-
tened to assure them that in no event
’••mild the rail service be discontinued.
Even if the road should be sold he said
this step would be one toward a con-
structive end. Instead of bein< r adverse
to their interests it would help to in-
sure continuance of the service.
This prospect is in gratifying contrast
to the one otiginaliy created by the pro-
posal to “junk” the Orient prone-ties.
If the receiver knows what he is talk-
ing about—and there is no reason to
assume otherwise—then the recent de-
velopments in the Orient's affairs exem-
plify the value of optimism and un-
flagging industry in the face of formida-
ble opposition to a worthy cause.
The Orient may have to be sold Io
satisfy a debt. That the property
should be “junked” has been unthink-
able to reasonable people from the out-
set. There are ways and ways of "get-
ting out of the woods.” Setting fire to
the trees is the poorest way of all. Only
a thoroughly demoralized person would
do that. Some people became demor-
alized when the Orient got into finan-
cial trouble.
But the road was performing an in-
. dispensable service to a large and rap-
idly growing .territory and wiser heads
prevailed over the demoralized ones.
Now the road may be sold; its sale
wouhl be expected to mean a loss to
the present owners but it would be a
far smaller loss than they would suffer
if the "junking” process ’should be re-
sorted to. By "junking” is meant of
course discontinuance of the service that
the Orient is performing and disposal
of such physical property as could be
profitably removed for use elsewhere.
The value of such property is necessarily
maximum in its present position—if it
is put to productive use there.
According to the receiver a sale would
be a step in the process of reorganiza-
tion. h\ hat warrant in “good business”
is there for reorganizing the Orient?
I'he receiver answers that question in
a way that should be satisfactory to any-
body uho accepts his report on the
road's present condition. He says in
brief that the Orient is now “eninving
a good business.” and that conditions
upon which its future is dependent are
“more promising than they have been
(or several years.” Tn that ease sale
and reorganization far from being ad-
verse to the people and section served
by this road would seem to be a direct
means of promoting their interests.
1 his would lie a happy ending of a
situation that has long held wel ! -n'"h
tragic possibilities—and an ending which
would be liighlv gratifying to every- !
body Who is capable of entertaining sym- '
patky for people in undeserved distress.
A RICH MAN'S GREAT-GRANDSON
In the popular conception of wealth
and poverty there is not much that the
typical rich man's son can teach the typi-
cal poor man's son about the proper con-
duct of life—or business. But not all
young men who inherit millions from
their fathers are devoid of the qualities
the desires the aspirations and the sober
sense of responsibility that are recom-
mended as essential elements in the pro-
verbial formula for achieving worthy
success. If they were there would soon
be nothing left of the fortunes for which
not a few old American families are
famous.
It was announced recently that Wil-
liam 11. Vanderbilt had accented a job
at $S a. week and that he had expressed
his determination to “work from ’he
ground up” in the banking business. To
some people there mar be a suwestion
of cheap pretense in this wealthy young
man’s decision. His wealth is rated at
$20000000.
But the history of the Vanderbilt for-
tune disposes of any suspicion that this
namesake of its founder is seeking no-
toriety. Of course his $8 "salary”
wouldn’t begin to pay the interest on his
living expenses. It may safely be as-
sumed that the job isn't worth" more or
less than it is paying; also that the orig-
inal William H. Vanderbilt drew a
smaller salary from his first job. It
was by devoting his personal attention
to his business affairs that the great-
grandfather of the SB-a-wcek man built
up. and held intact the fortune for
which the Vanderbilt family has long
been famous.
The fortunes of other famous Amcri-’
can families have been partly dissipated
through poor management on the part
of the heirs. But as a general proposi-
tion the Vanderbilts have emulated the
example of the founder of the family’s
wealth. In the language ot present-day
youth he “knew his apples.” His heirs
have taken the pains to familiarize them-
selves with the details of the business
interests which lie left to them. They
have equipped themselves to “earn* on.’'
And it is no little task merely to prevent
a fortune from decreasing once it has
been accumulated; even that requires
industry and business ability.
A given wealthy person may not be
admirable or worthy of universal emu-
lation in all things. But in the history
of the Vanderbilts as reflected by the
characteristic determination of one of
them to “learn the business from the
ground up.” there is to be found the
working of a principle which any young
man who aspires to material success
would do well to practice.
THE HAPPIEST HEART.
Who thives the horses of the sun
stmil lord it but n day:
Hotter the lowly <lred were done.
And kept the humble way.
The rust trill find the sword of fame
The dust will hide the crown :
Ay none shr»H nail so high his name
Time trill not tear it down.
The happiest heart that ever beat
Was in some uuiet breast
That found the common daylight sweet
And left to Heaven the rest
—John Vance Cheney
THE VIOLET
Down in a green and shady bed
A modest violet grew;
Its stalks was bent it hung its head
As if to bide from view.
And yet it was n lovely flower.
Its colors bright and fair;
It might have graced a rosy bower.
Instead of hiding there.
Yet there it was content to bloom
In modest tints arrayed;
And there diffused a sweet perfume
Within the silent shade.
Then let me to the valley go
This pretty flower to see;
That I may also learn to grow
In sweet humility
—Jauc Taylor.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
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Begin Here Today.
Hubert Stane dischargi^ convict
saves the life of Helen I'ardely as her
canoe travels toward a dangerous wa-
terfall. Helen is the j.ect of a gov-
ernor of the Hudson L’a: 1 Company
The governor and Helen arc visiting
at a northern post of the company
tieraid Ainley one-time friend of
Stane is in love with Helen. While
walking Ihe trail to return Helen to
her uncle’s camp Stane ’is injure*! in
a fall. Helen decides to stay and care
for him. Gerald goes in setirch of the
missing girl. He meets 7 a half breed
who says he has seen Helen and
Star.e Novy go on with the story.
Iler face flushed as she recognized
it. and a little look of resentment came
in her eyes. Then "sue gave n hard
little laugh at herself and going out-
side once more. prcsenUy returned
with water apd with a e.upie of hand
kerchiefs taken from the sick man’s
pack.
She poured a few drops between
his lips and then after living his
face she laid one of <ae wet hand-
kerchiefs on his brow renewing it.
from time to time in order to cool
his head. After a litle t.'me the babble
ceased the restlessness passed away
and his eyes closed in natural slumber
Seated on the ground she etill watched
him. her face the index of troublesome
thoughts; but after a bttlf time she
began to nod. her chin dropped to her
ehest and she fell into a profound
sleep.
‘‘Miss Yardely! Miss ^ardely!’’
Stane's voice awakmed her two
hours and a half latei She looked
round in some bcwildeiment aud as
her eyes saw his tired white face
she started up.
She stretched a hand and took his
The palm was moist.
“Ah’’ she said. “You fe<-l wonk no
doubt but the fever has left you. 1
will go and attend to the fire and
prepare breakfast.”
Lying on his back his head pil-
lowed on a rolled up blanket. Hubert
Stane became aware hat the soun I
of the girl's movements had ceased.
He wondered where she had gone to
for it seemed clear to him that she
had left the camp mid as the- time
passed without any sound indicating
her presence he began to feed alarmed
She was unused to the woods it would
be easy for her to lose herself and if
she did—
Before the thought was completed
he heard the sound of a snapping
stick and knew that sh i han returned.
He smiled with relief and waited for
her appearance but a few minutes
passed before she entered the tent
bearing in her hand a tin cup. He
looked at her inquiringly.
‘ What have you there. Miss Yardc-
ly?”
“Balsam.” was the -eply. “for the
cut upon your head. It is rather a bad
one. and balsam is goo-1 for healing. ’
Deftly with gentle •it gers the girl
applied the balsam and hen bound the
wound with a strip of linen torn from
a handkerchief. When the operation
was finished still kneeling beside him.
she leaned baek on her heels to survey
the result.
“It looks quite professional” she
said “there isn't an Indian girl in tin
North could have done it better.”
“There isn’t one wha could have
done it half as well’ he answered
with a laugh.
“Are you surer” sho asked quickly
“How about Miskodeed’.'”
“Miskodeed?” he looked at her won
deringly.
“Yes. that beautiful Indian girl 1
saw you talking with uo at Kort Mal-
sun.”
Stane laughed easily. I know noth-
ing about her capacity as a healer”
he said. “I have only spoken to her
on two occasions and on neither of
them did we discuss wounds or the
healing of them.”
“Then—" she began and broke off
in. sudden confusion.
“Yes?” lie asked inquirmgly. “You
were about to say—what?”
“I was about to say the girl was
a comparative stranger to you!”
“Quite correct” he reidieq. “Though
she proved herself a friend on the
Ifonder What a “Scofflaw” Thinks About
(lIAITEK X.
A Canoe Comes and Goes.
night I was kidnaped for I saw her
. running through the bt shes towards
;■ my tent and she cried out to warn
me just as I was struck.”
Helen left The tent Immediately and
as he lay there thinking over the con-
; versa:ion Stane caught the sound of
. her voice. She was singing. He gave a
f little smile at her sudden gaiety.
■ Then he fall to thiusing over the
> situation. They would be tied down
where they were for some weeks and
- if care was not exercised the problem
- of food would grow acule. His thought
l was interrupted by her appearance
at the tent door. She held in her hand
a fishing line that he 'md purchased
at the post and a pack u of hooks.
“I go a-fisbing” she cried gaily.
“Wish me luck?”
“Good hunting!” he laughed back.
“I hope there is fish in the stream.'
“Herds ! Flocks! Coveys! Schools;
What you like. 1 saw them when I
was hunting for the oalsam.”
“Can you shoot?” he -nquired.
“I have killed driven grouse in
Scotland” she answered with a smile.
“But I suppose ammun.tion is valu-
able ui> here and I’m going to try the
poacher's way.”
“The poacher's way?”
“Yes. Snares! There is a roll of
copper wire in your pack. I’ve
watched a warrener at home making
rabbit snares and as there s no par-
ticular mystery about the art and
those birds are so unsophisticated 1
shall be sure to get some. You see
if I don't. But first I must build my
house.”
She turned away and after perhaps!
half an hour he eaught the sound of
an ax at work in the wood a little
way from the tent. The sound reached
him intermittently for some time and
then ceased; and after a few minutes
came a further sound of burdened
steps followed by that of poles tossed
on the ground close to the tent. Then
the girl looked in on bin.
She was radiantly beautiful and
strong he thought to himself a fit
mate for any man who loved
strength and beauty in a woman
.rather than prettiness and softness
and his admiration found sudden
vent in words.
“Miss Yardely yeti are wonder-
ful!''
The color in her face deepened
suddenly and there was a quick
brightening in her gray eyes.
She turned and walked abruptly
away. In her eyes as she went was a
joyous light ami her heart was gay.
As she swung the ax upon her
shoulder and moved towards the
trees she broke into song.
For a long time he lay there lis-
tening to the sound of her move-
ments which told him when she
was near and when further away
and presently he heard her fixing
the lean-to of her improvised hut.
She worked steadily sometimes sing-
ing to herself but she did not enter
the tent again until noon when she
came in to inquire if he were com-
fortable and to Bay that a meal
would be ready shortly.
“How does the hut go?” he asked.
•‘Oh finely!’’ she cried with en-
thusiasm. “The framework is up.
though I’ve used all the packropes
over the job. I wish I had some
nails. I’m sure I could drive them
straight.”
“I'm sure you could’’ he replied
laughingly.
“After we have eaten I am going
to look for bircb-bark to make the
covering but there's one thing that I
is worrying me.” I
“What is that?” he asked.
“I am wondering how to fasten
the bark together. If I had stout 1
twine mid a packing needle it would 1
be easy but —” <
“It is still easy” he interrupted.
“You will have to get the roots of 1
the white spruce and sew with that
as a cobbler sews using a knife for 1
awl."
After the meal of fish and beans
and offee she disappeared once
more and later he heard her busy !
outside again. From the sounds lie J
judged that she had found the bark •
and the other materials that she
needed and was busy sewing the <
covering for her tepee and presently f
he heard her fixing it.
Half an hour later she stood in s
the tent doorway flushed but tri-
umphant.
“Finished” she cried ““and Sir
Christopher Wren was never more
proud than I am."
“I should like to see your cas-
tle.” laughed Stane.
“You shall sir” she cried gaily.
“You shall. I will lift the canvas
of the tent that you may feast your
eyes on my hand’ ork.”
A moment later she was busy roll-
ing up the canvas at one side of the
tent mid presently he found himself
looking out on a very fair imitation
of an Indian hunting tepee. He gave
the work his ungrudiug admira-
tion.
She drbpped the canvas of the
tent fastened it into its place and
1 then proceeded to arrange a bed of
young snruce boughs for herself.
I That done to her satisfaction she
prepared the last meal of the day
nnd then in the stillness of the
bright Northland evening she went
off towards the Jake sho had discov-
ered in the morning with the inten-
tion of setting the snare that she
had spoken of.
The stream which she had fid-
lowed fell over a small cliff to the
shore of the lake and as she reached
the bead of the fall she became
aware of two men beaching a canoe.
Instantly she slipped behind a tree.
The men bad lifted the canoe clear
of the water aud were now standing
upright with their faces to her not
twenty-five yards from the place of
her concealment. tine of the men
was Gerald Ainley and the other
was the Indian Joe.
Helen crouched there for quite a
long time then a whimsical smile
came on her face and without a
regret she crept quietly away
thro gh the forest leaving the two
searchers unaware of her presence.
When she reached the encamp-
ment she looked into the hut and
found that Stane was fast asleep.
She smiled to herself and instead of
replenishing the failing fire care-
fully extinguished it with earth that
neither the glare nor e smoke of
it might reach the two searchers
nnd so lead to the discovery of the
camp.
(Continued in Our Next Issue)
VNCLE SAM NEW WAR LORD.
The year 1924 finds Britain "with
a navy weaker than that of the United
States and an air force completely
overshadowed by the French air fleet.
And because of the destruction of the
German navy. Britain is again plac-
ing her strongest squadron where it
was kept before Kaiser Wilhelm chal-
lenged British supremacy on the sea
that is in the Mediterranean.
The passing of naval superiority—-
on paper at least—from Britain to
the United States is a development of
grea^ significance. The United States
hangs back from the acceptance of the
responsibility that hex- great wealth
ami influence imposes on her. Yet she
shows no disposition to use her power
for purposes' of s< If aggrandizement
and is more sympathetic towards Bri-
tain’s outlook upon life than towards
the policies of other great nations.
Outsiders continue to be puzzled by
the quadrupling of the military ami
naval expenditures of the United
States mid that country's ambition to
be the world’s mightiest warrior in
view of the ideals that she professes.
Today the United States is spend-
ing more money on her navy than
Britain although incomparably less
dependent on sea communication for
her existence. Since 1921 she has
doubled the strength of her battle
fleet and during 11124 will have 33
first-class fighting ships as against
Britain's 32. Her ships will be more
modern and have 300.000 tons greater
displacement and 900000 foot tons
greater striking force. She will also
have more sub.marines.
Just why the United States should
engage other powers in plans for the
reduction of expenditures on arma-
ments while securing for herself first
place as a naval force is beyond the
guess of the man on the street. The
British taxpayer welcomes her move
because he does not suspect America
of having imperialistic designs mid
the Washington agreement Ims a ten-
dency to head off competitive buildinT
programs. Britain has shown her good
faith in the work of disarmament by
scrapping two million tons of war-
ships.—Toronto Dyb' Star.
Somewhat But Not Quite.
A little tellsw was learning from hi?
aunt about Grant Lee. and o-lier famous
leaders ot the Civil war. "Is that the
same Grant we pray to in church?” ho
inquired Innocent^-.
“Pray to in church? You aro mistaken
dear." said the aunt.
“No. I'm not.” he insisted “for during
service wo always say. Grant we be-
seech Thee to hear us.' ’ —Boston Tran-
script.
FEBRUARY C 1924.
A Puzzle a Day
m ej cd
E] El ED
Al E GE
O EZ] E
The drawing shows four rows of
numbered blocks. The only figure
which does not appear on any block
is C. Arrange the blocks in each row
so that that particular row will form
a number divisible by 6. The top row
now forms 123 which is not divisible
by 6; hence the figures will have to bo
re-arranged. The blocks may be set.
in any position and changed from row
to row if necessary.
Yesterday's answer:
PAIRS .MORE PANELS
The three cities formed by “Pairs
More Panels” are:
PA KIS ROME NAPLES
Where to Go
Vaudevills.
Majestic—Big Time Vaudevills.
Motion Pictures.
Palace—Barbara Lamar in “The
Eternal City.”
Empire—Nita Naldi in “Don’t Call
It Love.”
Princess—Tom Mix in “Soft Boil-
ed.“
Rialto—Dorothy Mackaill in “Tha
Fair Cheat.”
Stock.
Royal—Edna Park and Players in
“Don’t Tell My Husband.”
Grand—Jimmie “Slats” Allard in
“Step Lively.”
JAZZ NOT WHOLLY BAD.
Those sensitive souls who are pained
by the crude simplicity of a great
people’s common joys wil. no doubt
disagree violently with the view that
there can be anything of merit in so
naive a form of music as jazz. Ths
very barbaric simplicity of the aver-
age one-step would serve tc condemn
it in the eyes of a true musician. Yet
in that simplicity of form that
abounding life unrestrained and un-
conventional lies the secret of the
popularity which jazz bar enjoyed
wherever it has been played.
America owes to jazz a debt that
is only beginning to be realized. It
was in the dance halls of river ports
the waterfront resorts along the
wharves in New Orleans and on the
Barbary Coast of San Francisco that
the first crude beginn'iigs of jazz
jarred on the world. Since that time
jazz has been taken out of its un-
kempt early environment and has been
washed and coinbed powdered and
penciled tailored and manicured. It
has become a thing of wild beauty
an alluring gypsy creature colorfu!
and dynamic. It hm been hated
cordially in every land where it has
been heard and has remained to con-
quer. It has subdued its youthful
harshness in soft and flowing grace
and has thus won its way to hign
places. It has made American music
known from Sinapore io Stockholm
from Buenos Aires to Bagdad.
No doubt jazz has invaded many
shrines hitherto sacred to the classic
gods. It has flouted mnsica’ conven-
tions defied prohibitions led whole
peoples astray from the paths marked
out by the masters. Bu’ it has inter-
preted life to millions who never be-
fore bad conceived the beatify of per-
fect cadence. By indirection if not bv
shcer contrast jazz has brought home
to multitudes the true grnndcur of the
classics in music and thereby won for
them n recognition they otherwise
might never have received from the
populace.
It is not to be denied that there Is
much in the story of jazz to be re-
gretted. But to say that jazz is wholly
bad is to overstate the case to an ex-
tent that leaves the critic open to a
charge of superficiality bias or insuf-
ficient observation.—Rochester Her-
ald.
Lawless Proceeding.
The teacher was giving the class a lec-
ture oa “gravity."
“Now duldron." she said “it Is the
law- of gravity that keens us cn this
earth."
“But please teacher.” Inquired one
email cl.lid “how did »-e stick on be-
fore the law was passed?"—The Tat-
tler (London). _
The F«sy Sex.
•‘T wonder why it is a girl can’t Bitch
a ball like a man.”
“Oli a man Is so much bigg A and
easier to catch." —Brfsebal ^tagazine.
—By Briggs
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