By the Way (Continued) animals, who seem so much "nicer" than their dark-skinned relatives. A Colorado man, realizing the shortage of farm labor and the keenness of city men for hunting just now, has, it is reported, posted the following notice on his grounds: NOTICE TO HUNTERS All persons who wish to hunt on my premises during the season of 1917 will be required to husk corn half a day on my farm. Come any time to husk corn, but unless this is done you will not be allowed to enter, as all my lands are private property. Carelessness in using cigars, cigarettes, and smoking-pipes, according to an official report, was responsible for most of the fires that occurred in New York City last year, 1,606 fires being so caused. Next came carelessness in setting bonfires, burning rubbish, etc.-1,573 fires being caused in this way. Careless use of matches caused 1,475 fires; vapors of benzine, gasoline, etc., 545; defective chimneys and flues, 824; matches gnawed by rats or mice, 37; and kerosene oil used to start the kitchen range, 9. Seventy. five per cent of all fires occurred in homes. Pending the arrival of privates who have been ordered transferred from the National Army, the situation of some of the officers detailed for service with certain National Guard regiments is rather amusing, an exchange says. One officers' mess, it is said, discussed hiring at least one man to act as a private, there being none in their command. The depot brigade at Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma, was a little better off, the roster showing one brigadiergeneral, one colonel, six majors, and one hundred captains exercising command over Private John Goings! Dr. Johnson's famous Dictionary, according to a writer in the London "Sphere," in its first edition contained the statement that "the letter H seldom, perhaps never, begins any but the first syllable." John Wilkes, wit and politician, fell afoul of this assertion in this ingenious note: "The author of this remark must be a man of quick appre-hension and compre-hensive genius, but I can never forgive his un-handsome be-havior to the poor knight-hood, priest-hood, and widow-hood, nor his in-humanity to all man-hood." Perhaps Dr. Johnson did not know that Wilkes wrote this criticism, but he was certainly not friendly to the famous Radical. Wilkes, however, at a dinner described by Boswell, tried his arts of flattery on Johnson with some success: Mr. Wilkes was very assiduous in helping him to some fine veal. "Pray give me leave, sir-It is better here-A little of the brown-Some fat, sirA little of the stuffing-Some gravy-Let me have the pleasure of giving you some butter-Allow me to recommend a squeeze of this orange; or the lemon, perhaps, may have more zest. Sir, sir, I am obliged to you, sir," cried Johnson, bowing, and turning his head to him with a look for some time of "surly virtue," but, in a short while, of complacency. 99 A new use for a phonograph is described by a writer in "Good Health." A novelist, he says, found that after writing steadily for several hours his mental machinery stopped. His heroine was suspended from the side of a precipice by a mere comma! He started his phonograph, and under its soothing influence "got his pen in hand again and had his beloved heroine rescued and proposed to before he ended his sitting." 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I will send box (size 12x6x5 inches) full of both, parcel post prepaid, for one dollar. Orders filled only between December 4 and 23. Order early. C. Florence Midgette, Kitty Hawk, N. C. [Advertisement] Saving the Money That Slipped Through Their MR. Fingers How an Investment of $2.00 Grew to $7,000 in R. AND Mrs. B. live in Connecticut. He is a clerk in the office of a manufacturing plant. They have been married ten years and for the first three years of their married life they not only failed to save but actually went in debt over $400. They now have two children, own a comfortable cottage home which is appraised at $3,500 and is clear and free. They have savings-bank accounts of $1,800 and $1,700 invested in 7% preferred securities. And every dollar of this money has been saved from salary during the past seven years, an average of $1,000 per year. I am going to tell you their story, or rather let Mr. B. tell it as he related it to me. If you are facing the crisis in your affairs which the B.'s faced in those early days of married life, it may help you to meet it and come off victorious. Listen to what Mr. B. says: I am now 37 years of age; married and the Daddy of two children. When I was married I had exactly $750 on hand in cash, inherited from my father's estate. Up to that time I never saved a nickel and if this money hadn't come as a windfall, we could not have been married. I held a good position and was earning $2,000 a year. That was in 1907. For the next three years Jane and I just let things run along, living comfortably on my salary. The $750 which I inherited went for furniture and home needs and we did manage to buy-on the spur of early married ambition, perhaps-$300 more of furniture which we paid for out of my salary. But all the rest of it went for clothing, rent, food, amusement, books, cigars, etc. We spent it as it came and it was always a race between our cash and our bills to see which would be on top at the end of the month. Usually the cash lost. But the bills didn't press or worry me. I ran accounts with tradesmen who knew me and knew I was good for it. But gradually the bills distanced the cash and at the end of three years I was in a hole just $400; and then the situation grew serious because we had a baby and in order to pay the emergency bills of the occasion, I had to let my other creditors wait and they became restless. Jane and I had tried time and time again to live within my salary and save a few dollars, but it wasn't any use. We lacked the backbone somehow and didn't have the necessary system to help us see it through. One day I came across a remark made by James Hill, the railroad builder, and it set me thinking. It burned itself into my brain. It was this: "If you want to know whether you are going to be a success or failure in life, you can easily find out. The test is simple and infallible. Are you able to save money? If not, drop out. You will fail as sure as you live. You may not think so, but you will. The seed of success is not in you." I went home and that evening Jane and I had a long heart-to-heart talk. We sat up BY ARTHUR H. PATTERSON until one o'clock, studying, planning, debating, wondering how we could change our shiftless, easy-going habits so that we could feel that we were going to be classified with the successful ones and not the failures. We made up our minds that from that night on not a penny would be spent for other than bare necessities until every debt had been paid. We resolved to live on half my salary, reasoning that if other people whom we knew could live respectably on $1,000, there was no reason why we shouldn't. Then Jane said: "We ought to keep a cash account and put down just where the money goes. We can't go by guesswork any longer. We've been living that way for three years. We'll begin now to keep a record of our money." What Jane said brought to my mind an advertisement which I had seen only a few days before, about an Expense Book for family accounts. So I got the magazine and found the ad. It told about the Economy Expense Book for personal and household accounting. The description told me that it was exactly the thing we needed and before going to bed I wrote a letter ordering a copy. In a few days it came, and Jane and I had an interesting session studying it and entering the Cash and Expenditure Items which we had been keeping tab of since the midnight resolution. That book taught us something about the science of home economics. We learned, for instance, that in a properly arranged budget a man earning the salary I did could save, without stinting, at least 30% of his salary. But we were beating that figure. We had raised the ante to 50% and that without suffering for a single need. Of course, we had cut out the theatre, the cigars, the expensive lunches and we'd begun to get acquainted with some of our discarded clothes all over again. And I learned that rent consumed in the balanced budget 17% % (which was about our cost); food was 25% and we cut it to 21%; clothes 17% we chopped to 5% that first year and it never rose over 10% the first four years. We started on the new system in April, 1907. The following April when we balanced the books for the first year we found this result: Every single bill paid and $653 in the savings bank! Glorious! We were out of the woods and for the first time in my entire business career I had visions of success on which I could actually stand without breaking through into the quicksands of despair. We celebrated that night in good style with a dinner and the theatre and that's become part of the program ever since the annual dinner of the board of directors, Jane calls it. The rest is easy. We were on the right track and once started nothing could turn us back. We stuck right to the original program for three years, living on half my salary and saving the other half. Then I got a raise of $250 and that made it quite a bit easier. A year ago I got another raise, bringing my salary up to $2,500, where it now stands. I've never had the least trouble, since starting on the first page of my first copy of Woolson's Economy Expense Book, in living within my income and saving money. That book brought us, not only independence, but it changed me from a worried, half-baked existence into a self-respecting, successful man. I am in a position, as the result of our joint efforts, where I need look to no man for favors; and further than that, my success has brought us into a circle of friends, both business and social, who value us because we are looked upon in our town as "worth while" and "the sort who are getting ahead." Woolson's Economy Expense Book is designed to keep track of the income and expenses of the average family in a systematic manner. Each book is made to contain the records of four consecutive years. No knowledge of bookkeeping or accounting is necessary to properly keep a Woolson Book. The lifetime experience of an expert accountant is in the book. He devised it for his own household and planned it so his wife could keep it. Two minutes daily is sufficient to keep it written up to date. At the end of each week and month and year you not only know where every penny went, but you will have an analysis and comparative table of all the various expenditures, showing just what it went for. Every detail of money management is provided for by a simple, easy-system that a 12-year-old child could handle. This book has proved truly a godsend to thousands because it has taught them a sure way to manage their finances. With it you know every minute just where you are money-wise. It automatically shows every penny of income and outgo; just how much for groceries, dress, rent, medicine, amusement, car-fare, etc.-and all this instantly and plainly. It is not complicated or tiresome. In fact, once you have started keeping a Woolson Book you will find it fascinating as a game and a miser for saving money. The publishers are desirous this Fall, while the interest of the American public is fastened on the problem of high-cost-ofliving, to distribute several hundred thousand copies and are doing it in this way: Merely write to them and ask that a copy be sent you without cost for a fe days' examination. 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