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You An Investor?

During the past year the Financial Editor of The Outlook has helped hundreds of Outlook read.. ers to solve intelligently their particular investment problems. Perhaps you are contemplating a shifting of your present holdings or have fresh funds to invest. In either case we shall be

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The Outlook Financial Department

TO READERS DESIRING INFORMATION ABOUT

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INVESTMENTS

ANY inquiries from readers regarding particular stock or bond issues come to the Financial Editor's desk without any inclosure of circulars or prospectuses to enable an opinion to be formed as to the merit of the issues.

We would suggest, therefore, in all cases where readers inquire about companies not listed the New York Stock Exchange or fina.ced by well-known banking houses that there be submitted for examination all the available printed matter. This will save a good deal of time and correspondence.

In all cases we need to have this information:

1. Name and address of bankers or brokers offering the issue.

2. Prospectus or descriptive circular of the company or security issue.

3. Financial statement, including balancesheet and income statement.

4. List of officers and directors.

If the investor cannot easily obtain all this information from the brokers offering the stock, then he should mark the issue off as undesirable and perhaps fraudulent.

A WARNING TO INVESTORS We note an increase in the proportion of inquiries from readers of the Financial Department relating to fraudulent, wildcat, and highly speculative stocks.

Reading of the financial pages of a number of daily newspapers in the past few weeks indicates that the get-rich-quick financial buccaneers are again plying their trade, despite the vigilance of the authorities.

In the alluring bait in recent circulars and advertisements received from Outlook readers we find these choice specimens: "This is your last chance to buy this stock at this low figure."

"One of the greatest opportunities ever presented for quick profits."

"This stock will pay very large dividends."

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Follow the example of Rockefeller, AG-Danforth & Co

Carnegie, Ford, Armour, and the other great leaders and put your money at work."

"An investment absolutely guaranteed against loss and certain to pay handsome dividends."

"Only a limited amount of this stock will be sold to any one person."

"The opportunity of a lifetime to start a fortune."

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Delay is fatal-subscribe now." Telegraph us how many shares to hold for you.'

Such sentences in themselves arouse suspicion.

The Federal authorities in New York have begun another crusade against financial pirates, but wise investors should protect themselves.

Investigate before investing.

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Drawn in the cause of Liberty.

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Write: 1. M. Howell, Sec. of

TOURIST BOOK fully illustrated, tells you. FREE State, Dept. 0, Olympia, Wash. Delightful Summer Outing through Great West for young people. Conducted by well-known artist and his wife. Res ervations made now. Start June 15. For partic

ulars address 7,913, Outlook. Refs. exchanged.

Hotels and Resorts

CONNECTICUT

The Wayside Inn New Milford, Litchfield Co., Conn. In the foothills of the Berkshires. Open all the year. An ideal place for your summer's rest. hours from New York. Write for booklet. Mrs. J. E. CASTLE, Proprietor.

MASSACHUSETTS

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Hotels and Resorts

NEW YORK CITY

Property Wanted

Wanted

For August and September, shore front furnished Adiron dack camp, suitable for 24 girls. Tents not desired. Miss A. K. MACMASTER, Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Real Estate

CALIFORNIA

REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA

ACRE LOTS FOR SALE on carefully restricted Garden Court Sub-division

3 houses already built costing from $6,000 to $12,000. Six choice lots still for sale Commands superb view of San Bernardino Valley and Mountains. Within 10 minutes of post office on principal boulevard with excellent trolley service. Lots laid out by landscape gardener, with fruit trees and ornamental shrubs. City water and electric light. Terms upon application.

E. A. Moore, Redlands, California CONNECTICUT

HOTEL JUDSON 53 Washing- BEAUTIFUL POMFRET

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For rent, furnished, "NORTHCOTE," very desirable dwelling, with dining-room and drawing-room on first floor, also card and smoking rooms, pantry, kitchen, servants' hall with bathroom. Four chambers with bath on 2d floor and four bright chambers on 3d floor. Garage with chauffeur's room. Electric lights. GOLF CLUB near by. Rent $600. Can be seen on application to

EDWARD S. ENGLISH, Pomfret, Conn. SHORE COTTAGE FOR

furnished house 14 rooms, at Branford, Conn., on shore front. Private park about 60 acres and bathing beach. Modern plumbing. Gas, hot water furnace, electricity. 5 open fire

places. Address Box 1,234, New Haven, Conn.

FOR RENT Attractively situated

9-room house in

the foothills of the Berkshires.Furnished, $50 a month. For particulars address 7,981, Outlook,

FOR RENT

Real Estate MASSACHUSETTS

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T Prides Crossing, Beverly, Mass., there is for sale a summer place of 7%1⁄2 acres wooded land, cottage of 19 rooms, hardwood floors, 8 open fireplaces etc., in excellent repair, stable garage with living quarters, bath house on shore. Section is one of the choicest on the famous North Shore of Massachusetts. Near-by estates owned by men of national reputation, running in value from $75,000 to over $1,000,000. Owner cannot use and will sell, furnished if desired, under conditions highly favorable to buyer. Photographs and details of JOHN D. HARDY, 10 High Street, Boston.

TO LET

FOR DURATION OF WAR Attractive Home 5 miles from Boston, suitable for summer and winter residence. Furnished house of 14 rooms, 4 baths, garage with man's room. 5 acres, some woodland, large garden space, apple trees. Will rent for def nite period if desired. Address H. T. Hutchins M.D., 522 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass.

CAPE COD-Barnstable Attractive

property, acre and a half, on Bow Lane, 77 feet front, 270 feet rear. Large residence and outbuild ings, in need of repair. Price very reasonable. For blue print and particulars address Owner, 1025 North Broad St., Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Sea Cliff Inn

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AND COTTAGES

NANTUCKET ISLAND New England's most popular seashore reBort. Send for illustrated booklet " Quaint Nantucket." Address SEA CLIFF INN, Natucket, Mass. Open June 20 to Sept. 20.

NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKE SUNAPEE, N. H.

Charming Summer Homes and Cottages, furmened, for rent and for sale. Write for booklets. Sargent & Co., New London, N. H. Headquarters Lake Sunapee Real Estate.

Attractively Furnished Bungalow For SALE White Mountains. The pictur

Newtown, Conn., among the Berkshires, 2 hours from New York. Beautiful extended view. Six rooms, bath, open fireplace, electric light, steam heat, best water supply and plumbing. Pleasant porch. Garden planted if requested. Address owner, 7,987, Outlook.

esque Satchell Cottage, Sugar or RENT Hill, N. H. Wm. E. Satchell, Own Furnished er, 162 Gates Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

SUGAR HILL, NEW HAMPSHIRE

"Edgewood Camp"

tem a specialty. Fred. W. Seward, Sr. M.D., BEAUTIFUL POMFRET sleeping porches, large veranda. Be hotels

IDYLEASE INN

Newfoundland, New Jersey

A quiet, restful health resort among the hills of northern New Jersey. Large sunny porch; dry, exhilarating air. All forms of hydrotherapy and massage under medical supervision. Believing that there is a curable physical basis for most chronic ailments, we seek the underlying cause through a scientific study of each individual case. Booklet sent on application.

Sanford Hall, est. 1841 Private Hospital

For rent, "GREYSTOKE," furnished; nine master's and four servants' chambers. Has large stairway hall, library 32x23 feet, draw

ing room, smoking or billiard room. Open fireplaces and vapor system of hot water heating. Standard plumbing, three modern bathrooms, a lavatory on first floor, immediate hot water at faucets. Servants' hall adjoining a five-windowed, well-ventilated kitchen. Complete laundry. Pure and cold water from deep (180 feet) driven well. GOLF club near by. ELECTRICITY for light, moderate cooking and power furnished FREE. Garage. Tastefully and lavishly furnished for the home of a gentleman. Rent $1,000. Can be seen on application to

EDWARD S. ENGLISH, Pomfret, Conn.

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For Mental and Nervous Diseases FOR SALE in Washington. Bien-
Comfortable, homelike surround-
ings; modern methods of treatment;
competent nurses. 15 acres of lawn,
park, flower and vegetable gardens.
Food the best. Write for booklet.
Sanford Hall Flushing New York BLUEHILL, ME. FOR RENT

31st Street & Fifth Avenue New York

Combines every convenience and home comfort, and commends itself to people of refinement wishing to live on American Plan and be within easy reach of social and dramatic centers.

Room and bath $3.50 per day with meals, or $2.00 per day without meals. Illustrated Booklet gladly sent upon request. JOHN P. TOLSON. HOTEL

BOSSERT

Montague, Hicks, and Remsen Streets BROOKLYN

TRANSIENT AND RESIDENTIAL The science of conducting a hotel properly is at its highest when it is least apparent. This is exemplified by the cultured, livable atmosphere of the Hotel Bossert. Send for illustrated booklet "B"

Greenwich, Ct. First-class in all respects, home comforts. H. M. HITCHCOCK, M.D.

New Cottage

for season 1918. Fully furnished, ten rooms, three baths, overlooking Bluehill Bay. For particulars address Miss E. G. OWEN, 214 So. 15th St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Furnished cottage to rent. Large living-room kitchen, 4 double and 2 single bedrooms, 3 view. Within convenient distance of Apply to 460 Prospect St., New Haven, Con For Sale. Lake Winnipesaukee, Wolfeboro

N. H. New camp, furnished. Ten rooms, two sleeping porches. All improvements Charles E. Birch, M.D., White Plains, N. Y.

NEW JERSEY FOR SALE, HOUSE AND LOT

on a beautiful and quiet street in Montclair, N. J. Lot 100 ft. wide by about 200 ft. deep. House stucco, 10 rooms, 3 baths. Garage on the lot. Lot well wooded and planted. Hand some shade trees. Easy terms. Address C H Hartshorne, 87 Warren Place, Montclair, N.J.

SUMMIT, N. J.

For Sale-Attractive Colonial House in finest residential section. Corner lot 260. Construction stucco, with tile roof. 14 rooms, 3 baths, and extra lavatories; 5 open fireplaces. Garage with 4 rooms and bath above. Mrs. JAMES C. FOLEY, Summit

NEW YORK

Adirondack Camp

FOR RENT Eighteen rooms, 20 acres, 4 miles from Paul Smith's, on Upper St. Regis Lake. Railroad station, Lake Clear Junction. Post-office, telegraph and express office conveniences. Day and night trains from New York. Furnished, including linen. Ice-house, baru, three platform tents woodshed full of wood, boathouse with large upper porch. Rent reasonable. For particulars address

JUDSON F. STONE, Agent 30 N. La Salle St., Chicago, Ill.

ATTRACTIVE BUNGALOW For Rent for Summer Months Located directly on Trout Lake, three miles from Bolton Landing, Lake George. Built by for entire

ROSE VALLEY SANITARIUM CAMDEN, MAINE present owner, who will rent completely

Dr. Reeves' Sanitarium

A Private Home for chronic, nervous, and mental patients. Also elderly people requiring care. Harriet E. Reeves, M.D., Melrose, Mass.

LINDEN The Ideal Place for Sick People to Get Well Doylestown, Pa. An institution devoted to the personal study and specialized treatment of the invalid. Massage, Electricity, Hydrotherapy. Apply for circular to ROBERT LIPPINCOTT WALTER, M.D. (late of The Walter Sanitarium)

2 high-class Summer Cottages. Near the shore with an 80-mile view up and down the coast. J. R. PRESCOTT, Newtonville, Mass. TO LET-12room bungalow, on water's edge. Rent $400. References required. J. L. COOLIDGE, Cambridge, Mass. Pemaquid Harbor, Maine Coast

North Haven, Maine

Furnished cottages 4, 7 and 9 rooms; $100 to $175 season. Also lots for sale. D. WHITEHOUSE, Pleasant St., Augusta, Maine.

Seashore Cottage Rent for season

6 rooms and bath, fully furnished; hot and cold water. S. W. LITTELL, 138 S. Main St., Rockland, Maine. MASSACHUSETTS FOR SALE

A well-established Country Day School

Near Boston. Address 7,853, Outlook.

season at moderate rental. furnished. Six rooms with three bedrooms and bath. Kitchen with running water. Ice, wood, and rowboat included. For full particulars address 7,855, Outlook.

TO RENT AT

Richfield Springs, N.Y.

Large, comfortable furnished house. 20 rooms, wide verandas; eight acres orchard, garden planted; large covered veranda off second floor; all modern o veniences; complete carriage house; gar dener's cottage; icehouse filled with ice residence adjoins golf links and com mands beautiful view; fine drives in sur rounding country; about a mile from lake Apply to Judson F. Stone, Agt, Chic Stock Exchange Building, Chicago, I

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Farm Prices have not advanced in a Silver Lake Farm For Sale physical training, $1,400; men for English,

lumbia County; crops and produce 100 per cent higher. For information, etc., write RURAL LIFE Co., Kinderhook, N. Y.

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150 Acres, Beautifully Situated
Would make a nice summer residence. Good
chance to put in a fish pond. Building in
good condition. Never-failing springs, abun-
dance of wood; a sugar orchard, 500 trees.
Don't Miss This Offer.
Address JOHN CASSIDY, Barnard, Vermont.

ADDING MACHINES
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money, labor. Costs less than an average mis-
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BOOKS, MAGAZINES

MANUSCRIPTS

DOLLARS for manuscripts-Stories, articles, poems, scenarios wanted. International Literary Bureau, Box 261, Chicago.

HELP WANTED

Business Situations

POSITIONS open for experienced editors on editorial staff World Outlook. Address W. G. Parker, 150 Fifth Ave., New York City. Companions and Domestic Helpers MATRONS, governesses, mothers' helpers, cafeteria managers, dietitians. Miss Richards, 537 Howard Building, Providence. Boston, 16 Jackson Hall, Trinity Court, Thursdays, 11 to 1.

To Rent A Farm of 61 Acres o

House of 10 Rooms Beautifully shaded by large maples. Large barn and hen house. Never-failing spring of cold water. Fruit in abundance and trout brook running through farm. Lecated in the beautiful mountains of Vermont, near village of Peacham. Good roads. Telephone connection. For information and photos address IRWIN C. REYNOLDS,

70 Bridge St., So. Hadley Falls, Mass.

WANTED Plain, sensible woman for housekeeper in family of five in Iowa. Keep one maid. Housekeeper expected to assist in the work. 5,780, Outlook.

Teachers and Governesses WANTED-Competent teachers for public and private schools and colleges. Send for bulletin. Albany Teachers' Agency, Albany, N.Y. CALIFORNIA needs teachers with graduate study. Consult Boynton-Esterly Teachers' Agency, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cal.

Mail to The Tulloss School, Dept. 2964,
College Hill, Springfield, Ohio

HELP WANTED
Teachers and Governesses
AT once a man for university position in
university schools, $1,500 to $1,800; two men
with doctor's degrees, college positions, $1,500
to $1,800; history and English for boys' acad-
emy, $1,500 to $2,000; two head masters for
university training schools, $1,800 to $2,000.
Address THE INTERSTATE TEACHERS'
AGENCY, Macheca Building, New Orleans,
Louisiana.

SITUATIONS WANTED

Professional Situations

POSITION wanted. Romance languages.
Institution demanding results, offering ade-
quate working conditions and commensurate
salary. Doctor of University of Paris. Special-
ist in linguistic pedagogics. Has published.
5,778, Outlook.

Business Situations
CO-OPERATION in established inn or tea-
room desired by young woman with success-
ful business experience, or will help to estab-
lish new proposition. 5,775, Outlook.
Companions and Domestic Helpers
BY woman of culture, position as chaperon,
companion, or housemother. Experienced in
taking care of home. Proficient in French.
Willing to travel. Best references. 5,736,
Outlook.

CAPABLE, executive woman of organizing
ability, successful hotel nanager, buyer,
caterer, cheerful companion, seeks suitable
position in June. 5,753, Outlook.

NURSE-companion, five years last position. 5,781, Outlook.

LADY desires charge young ladies or companion to elderly person to California or intermediate Western cities about May 15. A. T. Waldo, 422 West 119th St., New York City. POSITION as house-mother in home or institution. Experienced. Best credentials. 5,784, Outlook.

Teachers and Governesses COUNCILOR-Experienced high school teacher who swims, plays tennis, desires position in girls' summer camp. Address 5,773, Outlook.

REFINED young woman desires position as nursery governess or mother's helper. 5,779, Outlook.

SITUATIONS WANTED

Teachers and Governesses GRADUATE teacher, American, desires position for summer. Nature study, games, Occupations. References exchanged. 5,783, Outlook.

TEACHER of French in girls' school, M.A., experienced tutor, desires summer engage ment. 5,776, Outlook.

KINDERGARTNER, experienced tutor, athletic, desires summer engagement, preferably in camp. 5,777, Outlook.

MISCELLANEOUS

TO PARENTS ENGAGED IN PATRI OTIC WORK. UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY. LADY living on Long Island, South Shore, will receive a limited number of young girls from eight to twelve years old, for the summer months. Simple home life, sea bathing, riding, outdoor sports. Highest references exchanged. For particulars address Miss M. C., 1819 Vernon Place N. W., Washington, D. C.

FORDS CAN BURN HALF COAL OIL or cheapest gasoline using our 1918 carburetor; 34 miles per gallon guaranteed. Easy starting. Great power increase. Attach it yourself. Big profit selling for us. 30 days' trial. Money back guarantee. Styles to fit any automobile. Air-Friction Carburetor Company, 240 Madison St., Dayton, Ohio.

CAPE COD-SUMMER HOME FOR CHILDREN. Professor's family desire to share mother's care, governess instruction, with limited number of young children. Winter arrangement, New York, if desired. Highest references. Terms on application. 5,772, Outlook.

SOCIAL worker with the best of experience desires executive work. Knowledge of farming and gardening. Box 154, Newburgh, New York.

PATRIOTISM by Lyman Abbott, also 4 verses of America-The Pledge to the Flag2 verses of The Star-Spangled Banner, all in a little leaflet. Further the cause of patriotism by distributing in your letters, in pay envel opes, in schools, churches, clubs, and social gatherings. 200 sent prepaid for 30 cents. Arthur M. Morse, Montclair, N. J.

WANTED Defective persons to board. Address W., Pawling, N. Y.

THE OUTLOOK

BY THE WAY

In a well-known restaurant in New York
City's Chinatown tea is served at various
prices, from ten to fifty cents a cup. The
fifty-cent tea is called "Yos Ban Yen." A
Chinese waiter in this restaurant, on being
asked the reason for the high price of this
particular brand, said: "Him high up on
rocks. Have get monkey pick him." It
would seem that the high cost of living
must have affected even the monkeys' rate
of wages in China to warrant this price for
a single cup of tea.

"Dogs and other animals are wonderful mind-readers," says Henry C. Merwin in one of the " Atlantic Classics". volumes. "I have known three cases in which some discussion about the necessity of killing an old dog, held in his presence, was quickly followed by the sudden, unaccountable disappearance of the animal.... Horses are inferior only to dogs in this capacity. Men who ride race-horses have told me that a sudden conviction in their own minds, in the course of a race, that they could not win has passed immediately to the horse and caused him to slacken his speed, although they had not ceased to urge him."

The love of dogs and other animals is a test of the moral progress of mankind, according to the writer named in the above paragraph. "Not Stephenson, nor Faraday, nor Morse, nor Fulton, nor Bell," he says, "did so maen for the human race, to say nothing of the other animals, as did that dueling Irishman who, in the year 1822, proposed in the English Parliament, amid shrieks and howls of derision, what afterward became the first law for the protection of dumb animals ever placed on the statute-book of any country.' 99 The "dueling Irishman may be identified as Richard Martin, widely known as "Humanity Martin," a name conferred on him by no less a personage than George IV, King of England.

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"Is the expression an oblong square' permissible?" a subscriber asks. It is objected that the word 'square' is superfluous." As used specifically, in geometry, oblong is defined as "a long rectangle," and hence" an oblong" is sufficiently clear to the geometrical mind. But some authorities, as quoted in the Oxford English Dictionary, have used the phrase objected to, or variations of it-as, a "square oblonge (tr. of Palladius, 1420); with towers, forming a kind of oblong an antient wall square" (Dalrymple, 1777).

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What words are most frequently misspelled in the papers? Two candidates for the honor have good claims. "Haled "haled into court"- often appears as "hailed." " Identify," for some curious reason, is frequently printed "indentify." "Superceded," "ecstacy," and "develope" might receive honorable mention in the list.

"Draw a picture of Plymouth Rock as you think it looked," said the teacher to the class, as reported in an educational magazine. One small boy seemed to be in difficulties. "What is the trouble?" asked the sympathetic teacher. I can't tell which you want me to draw," was the reply-" a rooster or a hen."

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The importance of local traffic to a railway system is indicated in the statement that passengers to and from stations on Long Island make up nearly three-fourths of the total number who use the great station of the Pennsylvania Railroad on Seventh Avenue in New York City. In

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used the terminal was 18,148,605, of whom
passengers who
13,224,258 were from Long Island.

Is there a collection of Chinese proverbs?
Here is a specimen which for pith and
point will appeal to Americans as worthy
of preservation: "A road is good for ten
years and bad for ten thousand."

This proverb is quoted with approval by
Mr. Ray Chapman Andrews, who con-
ducted an expedition into farthest China
for the American Museum of Natural
History. Except for bad roads and bandits,
however, Mr. Andrews found that travel
in China met with no difficulties. "It was
apparent," he says, "that throughout China
there is a total lack of anti-foreign feeling
in both the peasant and official classes, and
except for the brigands white men
travel in perfect safety anywhere in the
Republic.'

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Among strange animals found by the expedition above referred to was the goral. This is a mountain goat of great agility. "I have seen a goral," says Mr. Andrews,

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run at full speed down the face of a cliff which appeared to be almost perpendicular and where the dogs dared not venture. As the animal landed on a projecting rock it ber, and leap eight or ten feet to a narrow would bounce off as though made of rubledge which did not seem large enough to support a rabbit."

Even the most careful housewife occasionally sighs for unbreakable dishes; and, whether the responsibility of a broken dish is hers or her maid's, she will sympathize with the heroine of the following skit from the Liverpool "Post :"

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"John," said Mrs. Jenkins, looking up from the
evening paper,
you know how many dishes Kate
has broken lately?"
"Yes," replied John; "what of it?"
"Well," continued the lady, "there is some-
thing here in the paper about steel plates. I don't
know just what they are, but I should think they
might be indestructible and the very thing we
need."

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Everywhere men who suddenly attain prosperity spend money foolishly. A story is told in "Commerce and Finance illustrating the point in the case of a Southern darky who had made money as a result of the high price of cotton. He went to buy a phonograph. "How many children have you?" asked the phonograph man during the transaction. "I has eight," was the answer. "One phonograph for eight children!" exclaimed the salesman; "that will never do! You need two." And he sold them to his credulous customer.

The vigilance of the track-walkers of a railway cannot always prevent accidents from falling rocks. A recent accident on the Pennsylvania Railroad not far from Harrisburg was caused by the falling at midnight of a huge boulder weighing nearly three hundred tons from the top of a cut about seventy feet deep. It fell just as the cars were passing, being possibly dislodged by the vibration of the moving train.

The ingenuity of the limerick-maker has
rarely been better shown than in the follow-
ing example which a medical journal prints
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