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Show these days wheat worth only $1.50 a bushel, butter too high for ordinary people to eat, aDd eggs more precious than gold. Thankful we are indeed, j that we are in the newspaper busl-1 ness, the most remunerative business, in the world! m v - Boys, Read This. Don't be afraid of work. The publisher of one of the world's greatest newspapers was shining shoes and selling newspapers when less than 16 years old. Thomas Edison was a newsboy at 16. The inventor of the comptometer was working at a lathe when only 14. Andrew Carnegie was a newsboy. John D. Rockefeller was a grocer's clerk when a boy. The president of the Illinois Manufacturer's Manu-facturer's association was herding cattle at the age of 12 years. Plan right now for a job when school is out this spring. Don't worry wor-ry about the pay just get a job. "THE DLLS' K OF A BUSY B.RAIN." Some women swallow flattery just as a tiaby swallows bubtons regardless regard-less of the trouble that may follow. c Modern Joke Very Funny Son "Pop, what's an egg?" Pop "I don't know." 4 ft This week may be called a week of birthdays, sin ce each of its days mark an anniversary of the birth of a man prominent in tiistory. Napoleon tlue First was born February Feb-ruary 5, 116S. Aaron Burr was bora Feb. 6, 1756. Charles Dickens was born Februay 7, 1812. John Ruskin was born Feb. 8, 1819. General Harrison was born February Febru-ary 9, 1773. Charles Lamb was born Feb.10,1775. Thomas A. Edison was born February Feb-ruary 1L, 1847. Thrift is just ;mother kind of preparedness. pre-paredness. mm-. Statistics slww there is in circulation circula-tion at the present time in the United States $4,024,095,762, about half of which is in gold. This is enough to give every man, woman and child $39.23. We wish the party who has our share would bring it. in. People who think advertising doesn't pay will wonder why the American Tobacco company has appropriated ap-propriated between $3,000,000 and $3,500,000 for thisyear. m w Any man may be justified in blowing blow-ing his owri horn, but not in going on a "toot." n a Gee! but we'd hate to be a farmer |