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ft THE 3TTXXEAP0ITS SUNDAY TPJBUTra: 'AUGUST 21 1027 So This Is Paris I New York Skylines tEIjc IHtuucnpalis (Tribune Uy Charles J. Estrourf, Jr. Rehabilitation Written for Tha Tribune By the Rt. Rev. James E.

Freeman, D.D., LL. From the National Episcopal Cathedral, Washington, D. C. Cotrrltlit. 127.

In All Country, by Vorth American Atwipapar Amine. excellent stead the balance of his life, there is a deal of encouragement in the Thorndike experiments. At least he may proceed with his program of self-improvement 'with the confident knowledge that his capacities to learn are not, so much limited by age as by desire, and that there are no insuperable hurdles strewing the road to a belated education- The incapacities of the adult mind may have some basis in fact, but it Is well to recognize, as Dr. Thorndike has apparently recognized, the fictional elements involved. Charlee M.

Schwab' by V. Ml BI'HT tutertrd at Minn, ajwlia, Minn, ae Siom CIa Waller. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: arive cnaieau an ngnt, and a dozen other Wanhinan mansions are attractive, but Bishop William T. Manning of the Episcopal church, Bt CA Kit IKK I I SEAPt'I-IS I'er Moiitb has the most satisfactory town house In New York. ii ens on a mil or rocic, naa a mansard roof, and n.eny long, deen windows, some w'ih leaded glass tind the blsho'a family can look out of It Ip all directions, a rare privilege In a city of buildings that hold one another up.

ine mannings look down upon Harlem, on the billowing green of Central park, and on ample cathed ral grounds Far to the north they By Alice Langeller. As a pleasant little thought for summer, Charles Clerc, a Frenchman, suggests the formation of an academy of smokers. He point out that humorists, sportsmen, dancers and writer all have their own academies, and why not smoker, who are certainly much more numerous and have a similar elite. Another Fncnctman in favor of the Idea say that thla academy would necessarily be an academy of philosopher, which Is very much desired in these strenuous day. He thinks that the artlstio side of amoklng should be emphasized and would be with an academy of this sort Rene Doumlc says he will Join If there Is any prospect of getting better cigars for one' money.

Far from falling out of favor since the high rise In the price of tobacco some time ago, smoking is on the Increase In France, according to figure covering the first six months ot this year. During this period the revenue from tobacco sales amounted to 1,740,000,000 francs, an Increase of 445.000,000 francs over the corresponding period last year. June ot thi year wa the most flourishing month for smoker. The tobacco monopoly announce that two new brand of very light cigar will shortly be on sal In ornamental packet of 10 cent and a dollar each. Magna cigars at II cent and Manadarln at 10 will also be en sal soon.

at tiurArA InrlrUn TMrsons I'uliy (Morning or FuniltT fun.ixT tni Morning or Evening ..0 BY MAIL: FIRST ZoN'B (Within Mil lia.llns of MIn np po 111) rl'tir I Month! I Monibt I Month I Sii Three tine tally 8Bd.r Dil onlT -W ''y I St nij 3,. -w i .40 IN' MINNESOTA (except first jpnet, AND SUllH DAKOTA IOWA, WISCONSIN1 AND iSUKXUEHN 1 Six Three I One Year Mom In Month! Month Pail, and Sunday ijjj jS 1 1 ALL OTHER STATES 7J 1 Three One Tear Monthi Months Month FallT and Sunday S.00 3.I0 $1.10 IllV Only 2 00 -70 2. i. i. CANADA.

MEXICO, CUBA, POKTO KICO, ALASKA AND HAWAII. Sx Three One Year Month Montln Month Daily and Sunday 110 mi 7.00 8.M I i Daily Only t-00 I 2.10 I see twentieth century machines lift ing into place the rock that are making th walls of the third largest Gothic ithedral in the world, he cathedral of St. John the Divine, Dr. WUIrtn Norman Guthrie, rec tor of St Marks-ln-lhe-Bouwerle, and often at odda with Bishop Manning because of rhythmic dances and dar chickens, tomatoes, eorn, everything. Across a street that looks like a country road a shack la being knocked together by this year's only applicant for a permit to build a private house.

Red signal lights flashed. All southbound automobiles stopped but one arrogant private car, whose sole occupant, looking like a dignified man of millions, kept hunching along until his motor wae In the forefront of the many waiting at the next cross street. Green lights flashed, but traffic was stuck. That one big car had stopped In such a position that none could move. Way back in the lln an Insignificant taxi driver had aeen the big fellow try to hunch on everybody else.

Without a word to his fare, a timid woman, he left his cab and ran forward and berated that millionaire In language loud and choice. He then returned to his cab. Traffic waa cleared. The big car rolled on, the taxi coming along behind. Next time the red lights flashed the taxi man managed to squeeze In close to the millionaire' car, almost running It down, and stopping Just ix Inches away.

From this position he renewed hi attack, and went on airing his view until the light changed again and the millionaire, haa face flaming, could get clear of him. Suddenly then the taxloab man remembered hi far. "Say, lady." he ald. looking around, "I didn't mean to scar you. But we got to teach them fellow their place." Tall and thin, In the current feminine mode, a hotel to hold ISO modern young women rises below park, that preclou bit of green southeast of Madison square.

This is important. It means that 860 new women will have keys to a square unique among Manhattan' patches of green, in having a spiked iron fence andlocked gate. Gramercy park 1 not a public place. Only residents in houses facing the square may enter. Up to thi time It has had A most exclusive air.

too, because most of the Signs for Aviators and Motor Tourists. Secretary Hoover takes kindly to the suggestion that the names of American cities should be painted on their highest buildings or in like conspicuous places for the guidance of aviators. Designations are desirable for both military and commercial fliers. Tha United States has made only a modest start in equipping itself with aviation facilities and conveniences. There is a big shortage of airports, and this shortage is found in some of the larger cities.

The situation will have been greatly improved in the next five or ten years, and probably no one has the prescience to see how aviation will be stamped visibly on the country twenty-five years hence. The developments may be as great, relatively, as those that have attended the expansion of the motor car business. Aviation terminals are bound to be among the Important assets of cities, big and little. There is not likely ever to be euch a demand on them as there is on railway stations, but the airports of the future will be busy The electric light interests will benefit Increasingly with the multiplication of adequate airporta which will need to be well illuminated for night itartings and landings, and for the guidance of fliers across the country. We are hearing these dayi of some remarkable effects produced by powerful illuminating devices.

What is being done along this line is a suggestion of what will be more or less commonplace in yean to come. Speaking of signs, why should there not be better ones for the guidance of motor car travelers! At the outskirts of many cities and towns there are signs reading something like this: "Citr (or village) limits. Speed limit 15 miles FOHEION RATES OX APPLICATION MEMBER Ol THK ASSOCIATEn PRESS The Associated Preee la eiclnalTely entitled te the er repoblleatloa ef ell news dispatches eredlted te It er not etherwlae credited la thla paper. alse the loeel newe St. Luke XV, 24: "He was lost and it found." Jesus' supreme ministry to men was to help them to recover their lost identity as sons of God.

On one occasion He said, "I am come to seek and to save that which was lost." In all His contacts with men and women Ha sought to rediscover to them their better naturet. No matter what the accidents or changes of time had effected, no matter to what depths of degradation they might have sunk, He always saw within them the possibilities of restoration and rehabilitation. It wat this in His approach that made Him so winsome and com pelling. AH who followed after, who have sought to emulate Hit wayg and methods, have found their highest degree of success in regarding human life hopefully and expectantly. Indeed, there is no occupation in which we engage that Is more fascinating or compensating than that of rediscovering the seemingly lost plan of life in one who haa become despondent and despairing.

The most helpful people in tha 1 world are ever the most hopefuL To believe the best of life it to encourage it A constructive policy it ever more Interesting and profitable than one that teet tha hopelessness of a situation that teemt wholly beyond repair. To believe that in every one of ut are potentialities and powers that are susceptible of the highest development, that within ut are capacities for goodness that, may bo brought to their highest and fullest usefulness, lends a zest and enthusiasm to living that it indescribably fascinating. Wt have all found a peculiar interest in working over a dissected puzil. When first approach it with its curiously cut pieces that teem wholly unrelated, there teemt to be no possibility of ever bringing order and design out of It Without knowledge of what it may ultimately develop Into wa approach it with the definite understanding that when part hat been brought to part and rightly related, the whole will constitute a perfect and appealing picture. With painstaking car we gather it together bit by bit Gradually the pieces find their right relation one to the other, and after hours of laborious work wo find to our tatisfaction that we have brought order out of chaos and that the picture in ita beauty it wholly restored.

Many a man's life appears, on the surface, like such a puixle. We see in it nothing of order or To our poor vision it lacks symmetry, plan and design. It it not only out of harmony with the general scheme of life but it seemt to bear no relation to it It appear! utterly formless, and void of all that suggest! plan and purpose. To approach such a life with the belief that it it susceptible of being reordered and restored to that high end for which it wat created and to be privileged to effect this high purpose, it altogether the most appealing occupation at well at the most satisfying wt know. To be, in any tense, the meant of restoring tha divine image la any man, it to be partner with Him Who, in Hit tublimest parable, told tha story of one who had not only gone to tha far country and wasted hit substance In riotous living, but who, on turning hit face homeward, found the loving welcome of a forgiving father, restoration to hit lost estate and a place of honor in hit father't home.

The ttory reachet Ut climax when, with gratitude for hit recovery and forgetfulnest of hit past mistaket, the father declares concerning him: "It wai meet that we should make merry and be glad, for thit my ton waa dead and is alive again; he waa lost and it found." nhllnhed herein Chicago Office N. Mlcblltan ATe. Detroit Office 242 General Motors Bldg. New York Office 110 East 42nd St 8an Francisco Office-First Natl Bank BIdf. Loi Anitelee Office 401 Van Noye BIdf.

Bt Faul Office-2n4 Dispafr-h Bide. Washington Ylffice 720 Alhe committed suicide In Franc last year. The majority of them, 17, used firearm to do It; the next larg tUNDAT. ACGTST tl. ltT.

est number, 1. flrownea tnemseives in inmi stream. Fifty-seven threw themselves from some high monument and 60 more were asphyxiated by gas. Only 21 took poison. Ttanhalnra (tnmmlt SUlcld BlOr often than married men, according to a recent tudy of 807 cae made by the French physlolan, Dr.

Ser an hour." Not many of these signs bear the names of the in. He also finds that auicme is adopted as a way out of life' prob- t. cities or villages In which they appear. It would be lems more irequenuj uj mu m-u women and more often by elderly ones than tha mere adult a great satisfaction to tourists traveling in placet unfamiliar to them to be able to learn from road signs what places they are entering or passing Wjenche have been empty generally. re R.rin divides the cause ot ing discourses In this old East side church, haa one of the most charming house in the city.

The flagstone walk leading from an arched gateway of worn stone to the fine porch and fan windows of this brownstone rectory passes a garden where a peacock struts and a fountain plays and nude figures brood In a setting of moss and grass and fluttering leaves. Not far away, at Btuyveaant square, named for the early Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, who Is burled at St. Marks, la another old church, St. George's, and here the rector, Dr. fCarl Reiland, lives In a brownstone house even 'more spacious.

Dr. Reiland used to work in a factory, but now speaks with the grace to be expected in a church where J. P. Morgan worships. The only resident of New York with a house and lawn on Broadway, at least within the first 10 miles of this thoroughfare, Which starts at the customs house and ends somewhere upstate, Is a clergyman, Dr.

Walter R. Bowie of Grace Episcopal church. This church is Just across Tenth street from Wanamaker's store. It la a bulwark between Greenwich Village and the east side. Every night thousands of girls en paged in the needle trades and In offices and stores, troop past Dr.

Bowie's lawB on their way to homes In the tenements. If the tearing down of old-fashioned family houses, continues as at present, the homes of the clergy, adjoining their churches and protected by sentiment and corporate ability to maintain them, may soon be about the Only real houses with grass and trees ardund them to remain In Manhattan. Except for the red brick Carnegie residence, and several others, even the Fifth Avenue dwellings of the rich society leaders are wedged in between the rest, without, light at the Sides, without porches, without space between front door and walk. And these houses are fast giving way to huge apartment blocks. To find the real old style houses one must go to the remote corners of this island, and there most of the houses are well, In charity let's say peculiar.

Right on Broadway, near the Harlem river that makes Manhattan's upper boundary. Is a sign, "Fresh suicide Into five classes: Insanity, fmholiam. evr grief. Incurable diseases and poverty. It ha been used little by the Play-era' club and aristocrats living around there.

But now what will happen If J50 women In that new hotel all have dates on the same night, and all wish to take their young men Into Gramercy park, which is creened 9 While hundreds of gay Partslens through. There is sometimes a hesitancy of tourists to ask residents for this Information, and anyhow there would be a saving of both time and trouble if the signs carried it Arterial roadt-should be to marked. The cost would not be great, and the publicity obtained is always worth something. Whether there should be illuminated signs for night use is a matter for each community to decide. Such signs were boarding the famous "blue train" to take them to Deauvllle, 500 sick pilgrim took place In from the street by both fence and bushes? The sky-liner haa long felt that the "Whit train" leaving for Lourdes, firm In the faith that in the celebrated Grotto of the Virgin mi making love under the grand old usually carry an implication of aliveness in the town raculous cure will tak place for the lam, the halt and the blind.

to marked. tree of Gramercy park must be an experience delicious and patrician. But the place 1 only one block wide and two block deep, and with some Nothing la more Impressive than the departure of thi whit train very summer at thi season. Many of the cilKrims are afflicted with diseases The Organized Safety Movement. When the National Safety council was organized that have warped ahd ravaged their 500 other in there making love, weU Riverside drive is all right at that.

The eign read: "Can Tou Do This With Your Comb?" At a counter right under It a bodies, but have failed to weaken the in 1913 those sponsoring it could not have foreseen what ravages on human life the motor car was supreme hope that a miracle win oe accomplished In the famou waters of the Grotto. This faith has cured many of them. The Gasoline Tax for Roads. A gasoline price war is' not pleasant for those who are engaged in it as combatants, but it cannot be said to be disturbing to consumers of the product. Considered in terms of the normal, the oil interests have been for some time paying all the tax or gaso- line fot state trunk highway building purposes, and they have been virtually donating money to consumers as an additional contribution.

At least that is the way it is in Minneapolis where prices of gasoline are from three to six cents a gallon lower than they were early in the year, and well below the prices of a year ago at this time. The tax on gasoline for road purposes in Minnesota remains at two cents a gallon, regardless of the quotations made by the companies to consumers. It is collected from the companies. In effect, therefore, the citizens of Minnesota are getting their current state highway improvements for nothing. They may have to settle later on, but competition is such that they are likely to escape permanently considerable share of what they would have had to pay if there were no price-cutting in this time of over-production of oil in Some of the more important producing fields.

What has been happening for some weeks is a -4 illustration of the fact that gasoline taxes are a which consumers do not feel as they feel taxes realty, personal property and monies. Millions of dollars are going into the trunk highway fund in kind of revenue without any sharp appreciation the fact by motor car owners who are the special teceficiaries of good roads. There is a reguiar flow cf this revenue throughout the year, and it is collected at relatively small cost. The result is that the c'oliar in gasoline taxes yields close to a dollar's worth of road service. This is more particularly so of Ilinnesota where the dollars are well and judiciously pent by the state highway department, insofar at existing laws permit a judicious spending of them.

If all other tax dollars were so cheaply collected and so well used, taxpayers would be getting much more in public service for the same amount of money; or, better still, there could be a sharp reduction in tax rates in counties, cities and towns, without any lapse of standards of public service. This is not intended as an argument in favor of a general sales tax, but it is intended to indicate that there is plenty of room for making general tax dollars yield more in public benefit than they now yield in, this or any other state. There is no favoritism, no discrimination, no inequality in gasoline taxes as to individuals. It is a tax that is virtually 100 per cent proof against evasion, and that cannot be said of many other kinds of taxes, if any. destined to work.

At that time the number of automobiles and trucks was small compared with the present registrations. slight man, seemingly sane otherwise, was working himself Into a A vounsr Rumanian girl, Mme. fury trying to destroy a yellow comb, The council has records showing that from 1913 He bent it In he threw it Steohania Maraclneamu, ha recent horticulture te given much attention. Much work has been done en the Improvement of strawberries. All the strawberries grown for domestic use and for market In the in terlor.

and most of those grown in the coast region are ot Blftca origin. The several stations have demonstrated that strawberries can be successfully and profitably grown In Alaska, and strawberry growing is destined to become an Important branch of horticulture In the territory. Perhaps no crop 1 more generally cultivated In Alaska than the potato. It Is the principal money crop, end Is used by everybody. Each town garden and prospector' cabin ha it potato patch.

The many mining camp consume large quantities of potatoes, most of which are produced locally. The Bltka station hn developed a number of varieties that yield well In that region as well a Other sections of Alaska. A seedling potato developed at the Bltka station, known ae Alida, produced at the rate of III bushels an acre et the Matanuska station. The yield graded 14 per cent first grade potatoes. Department of Agriculture against the wall, he beat It with a ly tried to demonstrate before the French academy of science that radioactivity la not a spontaneous hammer, and he tried to saw through It, all In vain.

It was a savage spectacle. At the next counter a line of sol oroDertv In Itself, but that the action of the sun can modify It and even THE CREAM OF THE DOOKS. Quite literally, there are la the World less than 100 books that can seriously engage the attention of the mature reader. That there are other book ot value and interest I do not deny-Jolly books, pretty books, tender books. But I am concerned with nothing but the quintessential oil of literature, attarlzed and trlple4ls-tllled.

And I contend that any man ot favorable predisposition can read these books with pleasure and Inestimable profit In lea than five years; that by doing he will acquaint himself with the best that has been thought and said In the world, acquire a flnep-palate for truth, establish trustworthy bases of departure for hi own contemplative life and, in short render himself Immune from the miserable plague of popularizers, outllner and book-a-month monger that Infest the day. Let any 10 persons, whose only qualification be that they have read all the world book at least six times, each compile a complete list of great work. On comparison the lists wilt be found to be almost identical. How could It bo otherwise? Who, having read Sophocles, could possibly leav him off such a list? Or Euripides or Shakespeare or Thu-cydldes? Actually It will not be necessary te consult 10 opinions. Any man who ha spent hie days In the presence of the marten will be the Arts- emn customers solemnly bought transmit It to certain bodlee which do not possess thi property.

The vounsr doctoress of sciences In comb after comb and departed. One wouldn't have dreamed that there could be so many men who would have the desire to get brutal with terested the eld scholars very much, Eggs for Sale." Follow a dirt path and you reach a funny farm cottage, inhabited by an old crone who suggests nursery rhymes. She raises 'tis said without completely con a corno. vincing them. The Llndbereh "frock" is the new- est creatloS of a fashionable French dressmaker on the Champa Elysees.

It comes In a charming shade of gray crepe de chine, a pearl tint with a touch of rose. The bodice la formed of very small transversal pleat and the skirt of larger one of the aam type. A plain belt divide the two. to 1926 inclusive 160,732 men, women and children have been killed by automobiles. If the 1913 rate had been maintained through these years, the-number of fatalities would have been 57,843.

The fact that it has not been maintained may be ascribed to the great increase In the number of motor vehicles and not to greater individual carelessness. The total death list of 160,732 is a sorry thing to contemplate, but it is well in thinking of it to think also that jf it were not for the precautionary measures which the National Safety council and other organizations have helped to establish, the mortality would have been much larger. While it has not been possible to date to keep the motor car death rate within reasonable bounds, great headway has been made in reducing the general roll of accidental deaths, proportioned to population. It is said on the authority of publicity representatives of the National Safety council that organized accident prevention efforts have conserved the lives of 122,764 persons since 1913, and that if motor car fatalities were not considered, the saving would represent 284,296 human lives. It will thus be teen that organized effort to prevent accidents hat been abundantly worth while.

American industrial employers as a whole have responded well and In good tpirit to tha call for greater taf ety for workmen in their every-day tasks. They have been motivated by humanitarian impulses' at well at by economic contideratient. Safeguards against mishaps eost money, but the price It mora than compensated In the results attained. It payt in dollars and centt to prevent accidents, and it When the wearer moves or there is a slight breese the effect la de lightful. CLEVELAND OPPOSED FEDERAL AID.

President Grover Cleveland once vetoed an appropriation for the distribution of seed In Texas, observing: "I find no warrant for such appropriation In the constitution. I veto this bill te the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the government, the government should not support the people." When hi veto of the tariff bill was overriden In 1894, he wrote In a private letter: "I take my place with the rank and file of the Democratic party who believe la tariff reform, and well know what It is. The trust and combination, whose machination have prevented us from reaching the uoces deserve, should not be forgotten nor forgiven. Kansas City Star. tltelian "Just man," the measure ef all good and bad.

And after debet lng briefly with him Concerning a few doubtful members of the list- Adam Smith, Bernard of Clalrvaux, Henry David Thoreau I should willingly accept hi list as my own. It he rated Hegel greater than Kant, or Cornellle of more Importance Old Dogs and New Tricks. For no good reason whatsoever, the subject of adult education is often regarded as extremely drolL The child may wrestle with his French subjunctives over a number of years without inspiring any great amount of mirth; that he should learn another language seems natural and right But let the adult confess to intimacy with a French grammar, let him A nOTLKSS TOWX. As a simile for loneliness The Man Without a Country ha long don service. Maybe It will now have to share with "A Lonely a Scarsdale." For Bcarsda! la about to become a town without boyt.

Anyhow, we tup-pose that fate la ahead, for the vO. lege board, the New York World report, ba "passed aa ordinance, without dissenting vote, forever banning from their Village hot dog stands, peanut vender, and kindred purveyors of digestive dynamite, to the splendid youth of Beared ale." It appears that the ordinance la a health measure. The physic! coach in the schools supported It The ideal Boye have always eaten hot dogs, or their equivalent. And always they have washed them down with pop, or whatever drink was In season and favor. It Scarsdale prohibits such necessities for adolescence, what ean the Scarsdale boyt do except move elsewhere? Of course, they might follow the example of their elders and get their supplies of weenies and soda from bootlegger.

But we hope they will not. In fact, we believe they will not. Despite the atmosphere of Volstead-lan deceit In which youth 1 growing up today, the American boy la still a square shooter. Scarsdale, it seems clear, must prepare to be a boyless town. Buffalo Courler-Expres.

thaa Racine, I could readily assimilate hi suggestions and doubtle be nourished thereby. For I believe that humility I the abiding mark of the world reader and that hi first motion on discovering a new work Is wonderfully close to gratitude. Henry Morton Robinson, la Century Magazine. FRANCE FEELS MORE SECURE. Many persons have the Idea that the French are a militaristic pec-pie.

They are not although at time In their history at under the Napoleonic Intoxication they have been. The reduction la the term of compulsory military service to one year measures the Increase in the feeling of security that permit them to get further away from militarism, just as the lengthening ot servloo to three year In Kit measured their growing fear of Germany, At the time of the Ruhr occupation, which Europe generally took a a symbol of thirst for Imperialistic glory, foreigner In Paris, familiar with condition, knew that the government wa able to get Its military budget approved only by promising a reduction In the term of conscription at the earliest possible date. France Is nationalistic. Often It acts like the world's spoiled child. But the French people are peace loving.

France they regard as the most desirable country on earth. They do not care to teek their fortunes In other Napoleon's star has faded. They have no far-flung ambition. So long as la pa trie is safe and they, are free to live their lives In their own way they are content Kansas City Star. GRANNY RIDDLE'S LONG LIFE.

This may not be a very highly moral story, but It is Interesting. It is about a woman down In North Carolina who celebrated a birthday the other day. One thing that makes It interesting was that thi woman. Granny Rachel Riddle, wa a hundred and eight year old on this birthday. Another thing that make It interesting, arjd that may make some people doubt whether it I a moral a story as It ought to be, 1 that Granny Riddle ascribes her years and her rugged health to smoking tobacco.

When was I year old, she aid Oh her birthday, was "a alckly gal, slim at a saplln' and pale aa a ghost." The doctor advised her father to teach her to amok tobacco. 8o they bought her a out little clay pipe, and she haa been amoklng for a hundred year and still smoke. But her youngest boy, Jim, who Is 82, and himself a grandfather, rather redeem this unmoral story by saying that Granny, when she wa young, "took thing pretty much a they came, and never worried." It la much more likely that this, and not the pipe and tobacco, gave her so many year. What a span of life! And what she who has lived It has seen or has been alive while It was going on even If she didn't see It or even know about ltl Grahny Riddle waa born In. 1818.

James Monroe was president. Napoleon was thinking it over on St. Helena, and If the ghosts of all those slaughtered to minister to his ambitions were there he wasn't having a very good time. This Country was Just debating the Missouri compromise, which deferred but perhaps made more Certain the Civil war. Florida was bought from Spain in that year.

Great Britain was Just fastening It hold on India a hold that la getting hotter now than it was. Minnesota and most of the middle west wa a wilderness. When Granny was learning to smoke, Abra-ham Lincoln waa a stripling of 18. Twenty-four president have come and gone during her life time, Du-luth Herald. BRITISH USING MORE CHECKS The check habit Is spreading In Great Britain.

In 1911, 276,760,000 checks were passed through the various clearing houses, while in 1926 the total was no less than 000. This 1 In spite of the Imposition of the 2d stamp duty, which falls Impartially upon checks of all de "IF THE! COULD SPEAR. Uncje Bam' nine-year search through- French battlefield for his own lost dead haa accounted for seven, who were burled In a shell hole by the enemy. All have been Identified. At their last roll call they fin "Wired to these namea: William A.

Sheehan, Irving S. Roftls, August H. Rlttmlller, Edward C. Moran, Jesse E. Schall, Ellis Eskowltz, Henry Fuller.

If these resurrected boyt could speak It might be after this fashion: "We know who won. The light of victory was before our eyes when came the dark, and we fell asleep. And you say that was almost nine years ago? That Cannot be. Why, only yesterday we saw the line crumble. "If what you tell Is true, what has happened In the nine years? There Is peace, of Course; we helped to win it.

But Is there brotherhood among men now? No? And do nations still conspire and engage In intrigue, that they may govern men with Iron hands and drive them Into battle? If your answer to that is yes, then we are the ashes from a fire that wa kindled by a phantom flame." Toledo Blade. nominations from Id 'to 1,000,000. In the United States there It no stamp duty. One reason It the growing habit of women to have their oWn bank deposits tor dress allowances and certainly pays in satisfaction to those who have responsibilities in the conservation of human lives and limbs. The broad representative character of the National Safety council is indicated in the fact that when the organization holds its sixteenth annual congress in Chicago next month there will be 300 speakers and 90 distinct sessions.

Safety will be discussed as it relates itself to streets and highways, industry, sea and air travel, fire, health conditions mining, handling of explosives and inflammables, electric power and service' applicanceS, quarrying, dealing with chemicals, steam and electric railways, building, meat packing and other phases of life. 'i PARAGRAPHIC SHOTS. Mm.r'.n lCnoilaS Murray Butler that or the first time In 1,000 years the world it without a treat man which would seem to go to show that the doctor had I ttl tlme teftch'n hool he hasn't tow HOlIyW0a bJect t0 th6 PuM-catton of crime new. ber. IU kep euPPlled with Und.

bergha, all will be GUett, nn? 'rLtruT that lts water contain tl.200.000-000 worth of chemical salts, the Dead sea due for an early Leader. eaih.er, an tndlan 18 reported to hive run from Chicago to Milwaukee, a distance of 85 miles In 19 hours. We don't blame to much as hint that he is clandestinely acquiring culture by correspondence, by night school, or by Independent study, and the situation is certain to provoke more than one case of mild hysterics. The adult, since he has passed the normal school age, is slyly conceded to be ramming his head against a stone wall; the result, as any director of moving picture comedies will testify, is pure comedy. The notion that the adult mind is static apparently will not down.

The idea persists that the human mind is easily receptive to new ideas during its early stages of development and that it suddenly congeals and remains impervious to education at some given point in the life of the adult. Thus the axiom which relates to old dogs and new tricks is given a wider application than it deserves, and the adult, for purposes of easy classification, is relegated to the same canine category. Professor E. L. Thorndike of Columbia university has been conducting experiments which should do much to Correct some fallacies current in regard to adult education.

For the past two yean he has been teaching two groups of adults, and has been comparihg results with those obtained in a class of children. His observations are extremely interesting in the light of the many popular misconceptions which exist. Both adult groups were found to learn more readily than the child group; more than that, the older adult group one averaging 42 years in age was found to learn almost as quicklj as the younger adult group, which averaged 22. The ability to learn, Dr. Thorndike observes, curves upward the payment of household bills.

Yet ho banker in London can say exactly how much It costs to clear a check. One director of a prominent bank said: "It would be as reasoaable to divide the bank's salaries bill by the thousand or So time sneeze annually, and to say the result shows how much It costs the bank every time I sneeze, at to Juggle similarly with the total number of checks drawn by depositors. The clearing of checks represents only a fraction of a barvk's work, and who can say how big the fraction Is? London Mall. A PARSON'S INVENTION. Now it comes to light that the Ice cream sundae not only was invented but Was named by a clergyman, which IS Interesting If not very important A drug store in Ithac.

N. lays claim to being the birthplace of this delightful confection. It was In 1891, the story goes, that a young minister, tiring of hit usual dish of Ice cream, devised the happy expedient of garnishing It with cherry syrup. He was delighted with his discovery, and when pressed to select a name for It decided to call It a "Sunday." Cornell students carried the fame ot the "Sunday" to all parts of the nation. Corrupted into "sundae" It found its way into the dictionary ae well as Into the affections of the American people.

This startling discovery In the field ot etymology leads one to wonder about the origin of other soda fountain terminology. The derivation ef the banana split is quite evident and It does not require a great deal of concentration to see where chocolate malted milk got Its name. But why It a chocolate sundae, liberally sprinkled with salted peanuts, a "tin roof," and who gave It the name? Perhaps Some amateur philologist can relieve our curiosity. Toledo Blade. THE EAST WORKER.

First Youth The girl In pink Is Gladys, the next one to 'er Is Doris, ahd the one on the far side Is Mabel. Second Youth What's the other one's name? First Youth Gimme a chance. I've only been down 'ere 'alf an hour. Pawing Show, London. AUGUST.

Ill the August fields the fall sets the first signals of Us coming. Its advance guards carry flags of gold and blue the golden rod and the aster. So far at the bird world Is Concerned, August 1 known as the silent month. There are only three of four species of our northern birds which have the heart to sing in midsummer. The song sparrow, the oveh bird and one or two others still have their solo hours, but for the rest there Is silence, except for querulous callings or occasional alarm' notes.

There is ho month of the year which does not have some of the belongings of other months. August hat the heat of July and many of Its flowers, while It also claims some Of those things which September holds as Its choicest treasures. The sumac begins to glow in August, but holds it full beauty for the succeeding sister month. Occasionally a September storm comes In August, an occurence which heartens the hard winter propheta for their task. Chicago Post MIXING HIS FIGURES.

Oratort "And what do we do? We pursue the shadow, the bubble bursts, and leaves bat sackcloth and ashes In our empty Outlook. Monadnock ALASKA BERRIES AND POTA-. TOES. Settlers and prospective settlers of Alaska will find considerable valuable and Interesting Information regarding the agriculture of the territory In a report Of the work of the five agricultural experiment stations during 1025. Work was carried on at MatanUska, Fairbanks, Kodlak and Rampart, stations located In Widely separated regions of greatly Varying climatic condition.

Each ttatloft conducted work with a specifio class of projects, such as field and garden crops and live Stock, which are related to the region. At the Sitka station, located in tht southeastern part of the territory, where the climate It eool, the summers wet and the winters mild, W. Imagine there isn't much difference between pgj. and nervousnes. ept in the matter of the bill for diagnosis.

Ohio State Journal. ttIhL! uppljr 01 coffM consumed In iHnw gplt6 ot what-tomo of us have to lrink at breakfast. El Paso Timet. Cannot the anti trust laws be invoked to dissolve the deleterious partnership of Heat and Humidity? Ban Antonio Evening News. Anyway, the claim can be made for Darius Green that he was among the first to make a forced landing.

Detroit Tree Press. 1 Boener or later some aviator will double-nross the Jcean. Arkansas Gaaette. until the age of 20 is reached, proceeds for a long period along the same level, and declines very slowly. Adult education is a phenomenon of the times.

The mushroom growtl. of the correspondence school is but one phase of this phenomenon; other phases may be' noted in the establishment, of night schools, the tremendout popularity of college extension courses and the widespread demand for technical and scientific books intended for adult study. For the adult who sincerely desires to broaden his intellectual horizon, to grasp the educational opportuni- ties denied him as a child, and to prqvide himself with a cultural background Which will stand him In This Is our oldest mountain not so high At many a jauntier peak, but coldly proud Its scars half-hidden by strips of veiling cloud, Its treeless top all bare beneath the sky. Uncounted generations have passed by Sinci first it faced the storm, with head unbowed, Ignoring winds, as if it once had vowed To live resisting till it sink and die. With what ironic smile it seel us men Grumble and curse and weep and cringe and pray, Beset by haunting phantoms and by fears, Resting for days to build our strength again, While it stands tireless, gaunt and grim and gray, Uncrushed beneath its burden of the yeare.

Claude M. Fuesa In Boston Transcript THIS SPEEDY Irt the eld dayt, it anybody missed a stage coach he was content to wait two or three dayt tor the next Now he lett out a tquawk If he misses one section ef a rvnivin knows His red peppers. "Look at that woman driver on the wrong side ot the street. The cop ought to bawl her out" "He doesn't dare; that't hit wife." Judge, door, The Asurlda, Lot Angeles..