Musings of the Office Cat

IkiM Poohih People There wee m bnsineae men who felled To wlm the longed for prise Of riches end prosperity— He did not ADVERTISE. There wee e lorer ones who died Quite wretched I suppose, tceuae be didn't know enough— Too beehful to propose. There we* enother m*-. whose wey* His neighbors greMly pelned, tceuse he didn't Vjow enough To go In when it mined. All three were foolish; but the worst of all In everybody’ll eyes , Wss he who wss a business man And didn’t ADVERTISE.

For year* « ^ tr cs the enonsoan cost to the « „ 0 f the horde oC rat* aad adse ttat J know no respect of pssoona, bat prey *. eltr aad ssaetm t dweller allies, pert and gives the t weed* coet »* por on ot farm land under eelttvattsa. h not dlMeult to l_ " of this bill. Any school hoy with a j

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report could do io In half an I the outside, aad a * reached be would bo 1 the figurea So* wizard will no* the staggering of our spigot la pay Utt> or ao seat will prove a eevet and then we will

With all

■arrtoge tato a vfle aad tlttay barter.

There Is no but careleasasss The peels can be that ia sot of & few, but of all the people. We Jo not always admire federal government methods of detng this—, but it moat be admitted that when ainde Sam reaRy staits la ssnsssf to yo a thing be doss it welL Home years •go when there was danger of bubonic plague being introdaeed Into this country by means of rats In vsa •«« arriving at the port of New Orletne. the national |t isi sen * tu»d bo rats should be allowed to escape frwn vessels and thsr did not.

If rau can be prevented tram l»t frwn vessels when there Is ►>

bonie plague

Prevented tn_ _

Um«a All that te aeemsary Is the >ropei marhlasry, aad If they saa

** Prevented thzv can be _

from build Inga — Uf daughter. An

•tic campaign would rM the °f rau aid save The |i pa, acre cost of woods can

to treatly reduced, ev , ^ ^ ‘be earn# cur.

V 1 * d °oc by allowing tbeee to go to every year. Ohooxtoew as it la, oany fsnnere wlU walk all around , thiatla a*Jl allow It to go 1° wed for the wind* to epraad b s'* 1 rather than take a little

10 It oat W« 00 real effort U

*Plrot lou by rooting I

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■neatly ad'aaded to

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10 “ 'ben our children's

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W" WJCHI I oeviBwarr i ^leat of the p

^edment u> the Pedsral Coaotlutlon waa not due ao mush to noponijn m the regulation of child labor *h«t l Krowla « deposition to

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no desire U> tea children ronn deyrtved of their

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be g«vea an oip.,tunity to

acoulr. . ““ oipuTunjiy »> 8uu^.^ ^ •d“eMhm which the a „irr' 't ^ “ *“•* b ““ r "« .V! U . ^u««t t-

, «r IM IiiJItWM pro»<itr to do, and they are the ones who prolt by the

wfll ecsnmand higher rMt This is aa old story, we know, but U is a vital oae U our resorts hould not be aeoleeted beesue i oM. (Bean up and paint up.

(HtBAT BEIT AIN last year a .jM.ddd.M6 tor beer against »3«#.epe.eee spent for milk, and the total drink bUl of the nation wae It to not strange that her workl -g people are In tt. condition r are. even thorn who are for-

There to a soil deal of honor for Theodore end Remit Roosevelt and aome Incidental honor tor America ta sBc'* bring tn-de by the Viesto the Pamir* tableland, where the Roosevelts «toh to enplora on thrir way to Turkestan thto eumnaer The smw I fortunately are all »okeo toT eo that by aerldeot as as rfaotr* snmstbuig snore strenuous must be found Theodore »AdJCerarit have to live up to a atvorpriaadard when they a-mtlng. Aa rapresauleT*— of the James ■mpeoaptrid Mnemm they are going la ~rah of the evto pohand «*— re ^eeimaae In tho r—** A ghlaade; aad they are gslai r>xurmt dtoo of p .lAbar-hjmUr putatlor which ■** *!** ’ Md even If tt eaaaot he »»ereiaejt mt the Oovarnseeat efcould ! oa before, as « were. a Leh Pam tor Ihrir ■». oaf the wlldeet and Wmriieet of tb* da blnteriand. to a uetrifo Iribote

Oovernor has told the people what he think* of the tegtalatora. Neither view is particularly ftat-

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Neither to entirely wrong. Governor of political faith aad a very bu lot of legislator* of an oppe _ political faith simply got In other's way. That's alL Ike State to to have an ty next November to treat 11

it of the ttoo of thto railroad's territory,

on district has

g the last tew year*. Naturally than might be exa steady iaeream in railroad

la popularity during last seaI nearly all poln', there have

ernor and a Republicaa Legislature will be the best a good fairy oouM give ua Lot’s be ear o fairies, and elect each a

occur. It rbould be e are mlllloas of young folks who tad the dlfheulUos U the way of

be tar more eerioos than they were era ago. Today families drift arouad from

r bomea among atraagerw. Many young paopk hare left their o’I oe and gone off to other placw

personal except a their ow !y mar.y bluffs are put up.

pearance at first right, but If one knew there real nature, It would be seeu that they wore very unattractive. A girl may seem very taaclnat lag whan she Is putting on her compday

be to on dress parade, but these young people may have such mean traits that nrithsr can make a suc-

Tbe wlas young person will consider these condition* very thoughtfully, and not rush Into marriage so heed-

to a great America* i

Gloucester County Democrat: The writer was na Interested spoeta'oc ot the high school debate la the Woodbury High School, last Friday night. So many people despair of the rising geoerattoo that we felt a double Interest in the affair. Eight hundred high school children of Haddonfield and Woodbury, with thrir friend*, comprised tbs eudleuea Pertiaanehlp ran high, but 11 was tempered by sportsmanship. Ths subject of the debate waa of aatioual scope, and ths young people discussed It with s freedom and assurance that « from thorough knowledge 1 were the characters who within the next tee years will be the lawyers, doc ton. merchants, bankarm. edllora farmer*, oeehaolm. wlvaa. mother*,

A tala tic City Press: Aboat ss amount of new eoaetruetloo w corded in Pleeaantrllle over -

. the shore mad towns have been astonishingly rapid. But m an too ckme to W to get the proper penmectlva Many anug fortunes h^ftonn ade from rail —• «> the mainland In noent years.

holders or counellmen. and perbahpe metnbers ot the Board of ffdMaUoo. They an bring prepared for the toy

■ , *>o not despair of the rising generation is better egulppsd to enioy Ufa. liberty and h. pplneae than any that has gone before. Railroad ▼•Tltotor Ourier Philadelphia BullsUa: further oouflrmaUon of the general knowledge of the way the pleasure automobile. motor truck aad bue an —*

there si vuld be Increase e competition of the aad the substitution of the

a falling off In _ which will not be avprtsfaag to nay frequenter of shore ‘ - “ wltk the dally tripe * with

M railroad* m thrir appeal a of rim eompetltioQ In their aa a comseoa carrier. They had to buy thrir right of way. construct

aad pay taxes on that In . A uompetltor who run* over a public highway, on a roadbed bum by the State, maintained by the But*, in part by th paid by the railroads, to und

IvBagsd.

Ths Wsst Jersey report to stating problem that to devotoptag intensity •very part ei the country.

There to a premium on old bones today. The Italian workman in New Tork who disinterred a maattdon'a remains, only to kwe them to the rtcun Museum of Natural Htotory, to treasuring the kneecap will not part with it aave for a goodly price Fe holds, aa It were, a keystone feature of the case to that he knows the value of hi* treasure trove and If to not raining skulls and bonce about at random, like ths grueedlg ger ta “Hamlet." Today there may a fortune, not merely la a face, but la a skull a tow millions of s more antique than any anthro-

T'ue wise men works for his n snd than makes It work tor kli

mi tabu tor inn.

Orlnthologloal Item: Riches bare wings and creditors have bllla. Man's greatest Inventions are the radio, ths X-ray and the sweet-po-o pie. The next time they have a war tjrey should run It oa the pay-as-■ou-enter plan. It's fanny that the longest sentence Is only three words.. Well, It -•'Sentenced for life.*' * the good old days ba won a bride by applying atone to her head Instead of her finger. Maybe Columbus was merely looking for some new uncrowned golf course, says Cvorga Boeder. Sea GrU (to aeroplane following ship): “Hey, leave thto ship atone, *•— 'working thto territory I"

We take a right smart latartst in the nattou'a baseball game, and, we’re-ready, on

lets play. We ebertth our ausplctoas the way tte thing to done—w % team will worry half a day, never aeon a run! They mebbe

The “Williams Crick Spellbinder*” was s team of tong ago. who weren't afeard to pitch the ball that now-a-days they throw— And when we played “The Buckeyes" there In Jefferson's madder tot, we knocked the kiver off the pill, and beat ’em In a trot! I think the score wss forty-six to twenty-eight or leas,—In fact, the way we raised the dust would baffle any guess; and while we loved .the nation's game, and twirled a fearful bat. the moat of ua was partial to the old “thrae-

A Wildwood mas say* a girl has a vary - -^Ul chance of marrying In th'- jwn wh.re aha waa toad. A little learning to a dangarous thing, and leads you often to put down the wrong words in croae-worl pussies, deduce our stenographer. Her-_ian Diamond thinks Ito a thrifty woman who tells the butcher ut out the cat meat when tabby catches a mouse. Mayor Smith wants to know why they are called hotel "acoommodatlcns" when the price is seven dollars a day?

Twenty-five yean ago .werybody sold have described a tramp He was known for his Indisposition remain In any one place longer tl necessary, for hto equal indlspoeUion to anything resembling labor In return for hto daUv bread, aad for a light aad careleas attitude toward the fundamental theory than any kind of portable or convertible property could belong aad appertain to private

ownership

Today ws have another type of It may be either male or It Is not so afraid of soap aad water. It usually sports knickers, flannels, knapsacks, and other sporting apparel. It to on Its way from hither to yoo. Ilka the protyplc tramp. But It no longer to a rinesre

cadging a living, aome kind of a record, or to pursue some sort of eodotogical Investigation that caa ba pursued only along .the open road By thto pretence it acquiree a sort of excuse for Its philandering. It hecumulatae signatures from Mayor*. 1 eftar* from pastor*, sat* conducts from esoteric brethren presiding over ths local branches of societlss to which it belongs. It enquires a patter of peeodo-eclaiitlfle phraree On occasions It can address a club, or adorn a rostrum It besieges every local paper, and sometimes even carries s ready riectrotpye to accompany the expected write-up And tt trusts to Its wits to make each day bring forth sinews of war needs The new tramp wear* out little shoe leather Especially. If tt to famale. It to highly suee—fnl In travelling by mc»or It would th* word tramp, and object loudly to bring called a hobo But a com mitts* inqulisndo would be hard put to describe the newest wayfarer* by any other name, or analyse thrir original motive* aa greatly different from thoe* of the old fashioned knights of th* box car, who followed the life from preference, rather than from necessity

r aboartng la the

There are two reeeans why most an don’t ktoa otb-r aen’s wives— the first rearon to th dr own wives.

Too often the girl thinks, when be Us here she to the only oae be ever loved, that she to the only oae he to ever going to tore. John Smith remarked that he supposed the girls wore their dramas at half mast as a mark ot respect to departed modaety. new printer on the TIhfEB was fired the other day for writing “face’* Instead of ’’pace” in “the pace that

For every epigram epokea by a great man, there are ten that he thought of that night aa he was getting ready to go to bed. The Queen of Sheba to credited with Introducing the boneydew melon to King Solomon. She picked the only man living who could afford them. Old Mr. Alligator: “My. what a bright lad! What are you going to be when you grew up? WiUle Alligator: “A traveling bag." Pram Agent: “What's ths urn of my telling them people you’re willing to raeor - - - - Tou’ve cream oa the market.’’ Ac tram: “Why worry? Trilthem Tm willing to aay it's th* best face

village lawyer. "Ah wants to dJvo'e*

What's the mat tar?" asked the lawyer. “That nigger's got convsrted to religion, and we ain't seen a chicken > table foh two weeks'*

In ta* recent 1

a of th*

mother to bolding an Intent in her arms as th« husband enters with the announcement: "I Just paid tbs doctor tan dollara.’’ The mother'* face lights up as she replies: "Goody. Just two more payment* snd the baby to all ours.”