Show some time ago a young married wo woman nan of our town whose name we omit made a curious blunder she put some eggs on to boil soon after breakfast one morning they were still on when lie he carne came horne home at dinner time upon her husband asking what was in the sauce pan she answered eggs for your dinner they have been on oil since soon after breakfast I 1 have tried them with a fork and they are not bo boiled ailed yet his astonishment may rather be bet imagined than described and the mere mention of eggs now brings a rosy blush to her face the importance of steady and useful employment especially by the young can hardly be overestimated the unemployed are generally the most unhappy the most discontented the most liable to go wrong the person who is busy will vill have less time or inclination to find fault with others or to engage in disreputable affairs keep employed do something useful work for small wages if you cannot get more work without pay rather than be idle such a person will not long be unemployed neither will he work long without compensation there is always a demand for faithful employees many people who do not contribute a dollar to the support of a newspaper wonder why they never receive a puff through its columns the same people probably never contribute a petition and yet they expect st peter to meet them with a delegation of angels and escort them to heaven the interstate commerce commissio commission n has gained a victory in its campaign a against commission companies which for years have defrauded railroads through claims for alleged damage to goods in shipment when the davidson brothers commission company of des moines pleaded guilty to such a charge in the united states district di brict court at st louis recently and was fined 2000 the suit grew out of claims filed by the davidson company with several southern railroads for alleged damage to peaches shipped in 1912 the company asked for alleging that the shipments were delayed roughly handled and not given proper refrigeration facilities the davidson company and and two other firms were indicted on evidence collected ty ly the corn commerce merce commission mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow it strayed away one day where lambs should never go and mary sat her quickly down and tears streamed from her eyes she never found the lamb becaas she s he did not advertise and mar mary y had a brother john who kept a village store he sat down and smoked a cigar and watched the open door and as the people passed along and did not stop to buy john still sat and smoked his pipe and blinked his sleepy eyes and so the sheriff closed him out but still he lingered near and mary alary came to drop with him a sympathetic tear how is it sister can you tell why other merchants here sell all their goods so readily and thrive from year to year remembering mem bering her own bad luck the little maid replied those other fellows get there John because they advertise maud muller on a summers night went out on her bike in the bright moonlight she peddled around from six to ten on a trip that would fag the strongest man but her heart was light and her spirits gay for it work nothing but play next morning however shed a pain in tier her head bead she was all played out and staid in bed while her mother hustled in the kitchen below not to ride a wheel but to make things go though the morning was hot and she worked by the fire she collapse with a punctured tire alas for the girl and the woman see things are not as they used to be |