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Show ll SIGNS OF THE TIMES LANTERN. I'aul Tlevera began hla famoua ride, sumtnonliig our colonial auceators to arnui, when he eaw a lantern flaeh na a I signal In the tower of the tild North ! church. Hoeton baa Just celebrated thel lone hundred and forty-seventh nnnlver I eary of that lanletn banging, real birth- "l day of our Independence, and republican form of government. America develops traditions as It gets along In years. May we be mors fortu nate and sensible tn our selection of traditions tra-ditions than the old world. FINE I Northern Pacific railway employes who entered military service during the war totaled S977. Of thca 2f,H7 have returned and applied for their old jot. And every one of the applicants haa been taken care of to date, shvs J. M. Kapelje. the road's vice president. Some business men might tack this up in place of the "lo It now" and "Uon't park here'' signs over their desks. IMPORTANT. Today's most Important news la that the raltroada are moving as many cars of frelrht aa during the great business boom of llf. It is a remarkable showing, for the roal strike has reduced freight movement UO,-OoO UO,-OoO cars a week. If cowl shipments were uninterrupted now, as they were In ml, freight traffic would be mors than a seventh bigger than during the boom. It is Important news, mighty encour. aging, for freight loadings show how much Is being produced, how much sold. lrosper:t Is returning In the humble boxcar. BEAUTY. Vent time you are. mar a big museum, especially ihe American museum of nat-oral nat-oral hl"tor Ai New York, be sure to see tlw reconstructed skulls of primitive men. Instantly it will strike. you that modern mod-ern man. compared with nis ancestors, is like beauty alongside the beast. Mau Is losing his ferocious head as ne loses his ferocious disposition. I'rogress is certain, If slow, and the primeval skulls prov it. BRAINS. The cave man had laws like a gorilla, for cracking bones and masticating tough raw meat. His brains wars In his stomach. stom-ach. He hsd almost no forehead. It grew higher as man began to think. I Hi the other side, manv a big skull haa nothing In It. These air exceptions. 1'lacs your bets on the hg skulls. Curler, great Krench naturalist. died ninety years ago. had a brain weighing slaty-four slaty-four ounees, againat yeeent day Amerl-can Amerl-can average of fifty. WOOOtHato. Mrs. Mildred tirandt. aewry e let-ted' police po-lice maaiairatr. announces she will hold court in her parlor at home, "to take less time from any domestic duties." This Is at Wlnalow. til. W hlle a parlor may not look as Impressive Impres-sive aa a dusty courtroom, It Is In the home, the original end greatest agency of Isw snd order. Kor the most part, courtrooms exist to rectify and punish mistakes of early home training. Many a man looks bark to a youthful session In tha woodshed, with father's shingle, as his shifting into the path of righteousness. Beat whoa vaaen in snoi-st snoi-st ale doses. |