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Show I A Hot Shot. The cynical old bachelor and the pert young madicn had been having a quarrel. - "Kid you ever see a man who paint- ( ed his cheeks, twisted his hair up Into Impossible shapes, perchascd on his head a hat made of feathers and things and then squeezed his waste up like a waspV Did you ever see a man do anything so foolish?" "I never did," admitted Miss Costl-que. Costl-que. "And I never saw a woman hanging over a bar until midnight getting get-ting 'rested' after a hard day's work, nor tilting her hat on the back of her head and wiping her mouth on a dirty towel hung on the end of a bar; mn-standing mn-standing on the corner ogling the men who went by; nor whooping It up for reform on election day and voting with tho ward healers and bums; nor spending a dollar for cigars for the girls and then growling because her ,' husband spent :i0 cents for a pair of bargain counter shoes for the baby; nor bunching around a sloppy table In a back room and singing 'Soldiers' Fare- . well' in maudlin tones; nor getting 7 homo smelling llko a combined dls- " tlllery and tobacco factory and growling growl-ing because her husband didn't have supper ready; nor spitting out a big chew of tlnc-cut before pressing her lips to the lips of her little ones; nor spending the last dollar pf the week's wages for booze when the family at home was hugging a cold stove and looking at an empty larder; nor" But the cynical bachelor had lied, slamming the door viciously behind him. "And I wasn't even started," complained com-plained Miss Costlquc, In a sorrowful tone of voice. A Wife's Ingenuity. Irving Grinnell, treasurer of tho Church Temperance Society of New York, told at a temperance meeting a dramatic story, according to the Chicago Chica-go Chronicle. "A woman entered a barroom," he said, "and advanced quietly to her husband, who sat drinking with three othormen. "She placed a covered dish on tho table and said: " 'Thlnkln' yo'd be too busy to come home to supper, Jack, I've fetched it to you here.' "And she departed. "The man laughed awkwardly. Ho Invited his friends to share the meal with him. Then he removed the cover from the dish. I "The dish was empty. It contained I a slip of paper that said: ' "I hope you will enjoy your supper. It is the same your wlo aud children , have at home." I Good Men Nctded. Yon may preach until your head Is giay, and you may pray until your knees are as hard as the camel's, you may adopt all the temperance reports and pass all the temperance resolutions resolu-tions you please in your associations and conventions, but the saloonkeepers saloonkeep-ers care nothing for all that so long as vou will walk up to the polls on election elec-tion day and vote for weak men for oillce. says an exchange. In fact. they rather like it. It helps you, perhaps, In casing your conscience, and does not hurt them. But when people learn to vote as they pray, then the saloonkeepers will tremble and then the saloon will totter and fall then, and not until then. In Illinois. Illinois liquor men, eighteen months ahead of next election, declare their Intention to raise $100,000 to defeat local prohibition In the next legislature. legisla-ture. The liquor men realize that the passage of this measure simply gives the people the right to do away with saloons if they would: would close up three-fourths of the saloons of Illinois outside of Chicago, and they realize that their wisest plan is, if possible, to prevent the passage of a law that would put this power Into the hands of the people. t The Deadly Cigaret. The words below are what some men and newspapers over the country have to say about the cigaret. These people are not religious fanatics, but sane, sensible men. These newspapers are not religious ' publication, but newspapers that note the ravages of the cigaret. "1 do not believe there is an agency more destructive of soul, mind and body, or more subversive of good morals than the cigaret. The tight against the cigaret is a tight for civilization." civili-zation." Dr. Frank W Gunsalus, President of Armous Institute. "How docs It happen that a fresh, sweet girl, moving In her own atmosphere, atmos-phere, which resembles the blcndid breath of roses and violets endures the presence of stale cigaret smoke that lingers perpetually about the "tiend" whose very breath bears the odor of the Juice of tobacco." Columbia Colum-bia (S. C.) State. "Taking smoke Into the bronchial tubes, where pure air is required to oxygenize the blood, creates nervous weakness and leaves tho victim unprotected unpro-tected against any malady to which he may be exposed. Medical Journil. "Cigaret tmoklng begets a thirst for stimulants and may be considered one of the most deleterious vices of the age." Minneapolis Tribune. "I sec dishonor, disappointment and disgrace ahead of every boy or man who habitually smokes clgarets." Kibe Ki-be rt Hubbard. |