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Show Alrns giving is in. the main mischievous, disseminating pauperism pau-perism and interfering with the benignant surgery of nature which cuts off the unfit to improve the race. With intelligent breeding breed-ing such as farmers1.apply to cows and pigs what an improved race might we not have. j. The hundredth oirthday anniversaries anniv-ersaries of several great authors jare close at hand. .Ralph Waldo Em?rson, and Bulwer Lytton, j 1903,BeaconfieId and Hawthorne jl904, WVbittier and Longfellow, j 1907, Tennyson TS09, Thackeray 1911, Dickens, Vz: 1 , , Mans joy at the return of spring is fleeting. It is soon ended by the annoumenoent from bis wife that she '-must have a new spring hat, frock, and other fixings." ; Thelives of the hoary pioneers should be made comfortable and happy during their few remaining remain-ing years. A reckless Missouri Minister threatens to tell the truth in his future funeral orations. If he carries out his rash threat he will soon attend his own funeral. . Persons who are inclined to creche the naval budget of the United States, which for the next "ear will amount to $?2,O0Q.OPq, i should reflect that the Driii7h"j budget for the same' period amounts to S 180, 000, 000. Farmers in the Mississippi valley val-ley are philosophically trying to secure some comfort from the well known fact that the'llood materially enriches the farms from which it has carried away houses, barns and other improvements, Lebanon, Pa-, is undoubtedly destined to lead the rest of the 1 world in fashions for men- Al a re-1 cent wedding in that town the! groom wore a pure white broadcloth broad-cloth suit with large buttons stud-! ded with opals. ' I Kelburg, near Cracow, Poland, is a city underground and is! excavated in rock salt. There are 3,ooo inhabitants, all salt miners, j and the houses and streets are ofj the purest white. The Cathedral) is the most beautiful feature tV.- j city carved in salt an d lighted by electric lights- Infectious diseases I are unknown in this underground city and most of the population die of old age. I The scientirts are setting themselves them-selves squarely against "harden- I -J t, a.JV naiuLir I ing" of children by cold bathing. A careful investigation shows that, the process of hardening lowers the child's vitality and, renders it more liable not only to colds but to other contagio us dis- j eases.. Let the little folks rmw i j up naturally, without hardening or pampering but with proper protection from severe conditions aid hfy qq yry we;i |