Show T THE E WIDOW SHEARS AND ALL SHE HEARS 1 Long And and careful inquiries by German German German Ger Ger- man d doctors Indicate that c cancer is not probably hereditary but that it is perniciously perniciously perniciously per per- contagious In certain districts districts districts dis dis- dis- dis the number nUmb r Of bf f sufferers in proportion proportion proportion pro pro- portion to population n Is much larger every year ther are areas Dogs and arid c cats ts in ii become cancerous Taut but i few few- horses and cattle are attacked d Jbf IgA and w women en are stricken stucken on the Average aYer tvr ge earl earlier r in life In this gener generation thin than in those which preceded it It It i is h hoped that these German Investigations ns of this ful frightful curse which are re to tobe be kept up persistently persist persistently and pona pon a scale cale both liberal and nd extensive may result In the discovery oVery of some remedy Dedy for cancer B But f- f of of f course couse that can cart b onlY a matter of conjecture A high polish on shoes is no longer cx considered good form said a man who follows the fashions closely closeY ItIs It ItIs Itis Is going the way way of r tIle me high gloss on an linen Th The laundryman has become convinced that the dull finish Is what we want but It is more difficult to penetrate the the untutored mind of the bootblack Because he has always re regarded regarded regarded re- re the looking-glass looking shine as the best shine he still stUl s seems ems to think that you want to use your shoes as mirrors and you cant can't get him to think other other- wie wise I can care always spot a man who has his sho shoes s attended to by his valet I rh There re is no no c confusing him with the theman theman man who patronizes the professional nal bootblack Under an insurance law ena ena enacted ted in Germany several several years years ago p people ople re receive ive in return for a nominal sum free medical attendance The theory was that suffering humanity wo would ld receive cheap and effective relie le- le lie ile lief from froni its its' bodily Ills but In practice there are many many drawbacks The he doctors doc doe t tors rs hired by lr the State hold that they are expected ted to do do too much for the the pay they get In Munich they get only about 75 per annum In order to keep down expenses the doctors are inclined to Impress upon the patients th that t nothings nothing is th the trouble with them A provincial newspaper appear appeared d al almost almost almost al- al most entirely blank recently to Illustrate illustrate illustrate illus illus- by a drastic example the difficulties difficulties tie ties which the censorship places In the path o ot the press ress In R Russia In Itt some cases the censor omitted to blue pencil the title or th the signature of an article and the editor printed everything that was yas left The Minister of the Interior C did d not take tak the matter as a Joke and he forbade the publication of the paper in question for tor eight months On Sunday June the hocken hocke Reformed church frequently called d L Leinbachs Leinbach's near Stouchsburg will pay led ted roses as rental due the tha descendants Of Caspar who a century and a half ago was a manufacturer manufacturer manufacturer manu manu- in n Philadelphia In 1745 Caspar Caspar Cas Cas- CasI I par Wister gave one hundred acres of or land to the trustees of ot the ch church they to pay for it one red rose annually I I Ifor It has com come at last the last the hitching post for the automobile Ordinary iron hitching posts posta are used or rings In the sidewalk and the hitching rope which no po 0 automobile should be without is a wire cable with a padlock So many I persons have learned leard to operate these machines that It is now considered Unsafe Unsafe unsafe un Un- safe to leave leav them free and unwatched In the streets street In the mountains three women women women wo wo- men lost t their ir way ay In a a. snowstorm and were found frozen together in a gro group p. p They had to be laid in a sledge together r and dragged into I Ithe the valley and in front of If a great fire lire before they could be separated separated separated sepa sepa- rated for foe burial The fir first t English and En- En glish gUsh dictionary has Just been completed It If is the work of Dr Stem Stem- pie ot of New York who worked on a grammar before our war with Spain i i |