fiddled copies of the annual re~ ‘ WI to Governor Holcomb for year ending September 30,1915. Wdelt on Friday in the lily“: were office yThégdignes of lllPJfli‘Vl‘ “51.7110- count are given as follows: 1.3eceim . . .-» 1 cash on hand. .« climber: 1, 1914.._....... $102,827.97 enue receipts during H theyenr ............ 6,972,099.88 37 074. 927. 85 lit-nae sold .............. 2,000, 000 00 640.000.00 _, Plyments. 0 it list or- ., darn . . 37.926.740.05 Interest on 2,565.95 ! 1,024.39 640, 000. 00 18,570 830. 390 list 1 .1 14409746 $9, 714. 995 85 “Renard and Special Accounts. nenounte, October ‘ 1 , $305,449.35 tofrom all sources ‘-“ I mt!" endlnt What 39 1515.. .5'5.u.».-~.I~5-.‘- a 11.799.100.69 812 194154998 151 for all pur~ g ........... 19.890.941.92 tie to new year” $1,413,605.95 ‘ state Debt; “debt .........‘..513.054j1oooo _. mrury to cred . ‘ it list funds ‘ ,’ ember 35 1915.. 111453515 . . . . . . .. 41,1 929,093.54 thélhtete‘ amounting jut of 8111c 'l‘reoeurer l" S. Chom- . ................. $9,714,927.85! lin good condition. but receipts from?- 8 to Ithflglnjlrmp; in the. noonritydthef-dhnnhh‘b tum“; mud-humanly thevalueofflie solarium-locum ability end thrift of the borrower. momma-«.15fthesekooitud usovmdbytheonmohuuto character of oecurl'ty, thot rotate to orally, but up to this time. for neoriy one hundred rem. the place of In- vestment has not been mace." THE TWO MYSTERIES. We know not what it is, dear, this sleep so deep and still; The folded hands, the aw'iul calm, the check so pale and . chill; l‘hc lids. that will not lift again, though no may call and call; The strange, white. solitude of peace that settles m or all. For liver the legislature, ore n5 eificooioun In , bringing in money no it is predicted they will be, and the love are ni~. _ lowed to remain on the books, utdl if reasonable economy in expendi- ture is adhered to. we they look forward to a gradual reduction of the debt." Treasurer Chamberlain says the .»llaw creating a. sinking fund ought new to be repealed until such time as the outstanding bonds of the state are fully providod \ionble to allow it wider field in treasurer says: . "Expenses hove Increased rapidly in the loot ten 0 years and the ~general soemhly fund 'it very difficult. on well no very disagreeable. to redudoor re- fuse appropriation ,bul. n‘good- be V cry lure legislation will hold the. same line of ecdnoniy’l" . He points out that the state pays interest on bonds to the amount of 3507.240. The treasurer says his department needs more room for its work. ‘i‘hle comment is made by Trees. “,urer Chamberlain: on the school fund: "The school fund continues, this fund will probably be some what decreased on account of recent legislation Details of this branch iiésfifl‘ofm the treasury will be found in thlsl l The largest amount of inheritance lax paid was that on the estate of Norman D. Ream of Thompson. 583495.40. . ‘ ‘ , School Fund. ‘ in his report on the management the school tund for the year. lTreasurer Chamberlain says that the income for the year was 3106. 911.57, or more than 5 per cent. on the ' capital of the fund. 1 The gmas income- of the fund dur- ling the 18 years of its existence, was i811H749702. 38.- The present capigtl of the fund is $2. 008. 590. 79. : Mr. Chamberlain makes the fol that session: to the school fund eifected during manta of the fund are restricted to the state of Connecticut and nil lonns outside of the stole are to be re tired by? 1925. has not appreciably htelnber 30.19157 but it“ hits brought to us a number of applicatione for he considered ‘- an insoluble neuritis: Thirty lears: for,l . “though he thinlul it may be ad- iot with knowlcd or in- the investment of the fund. 1 t‘cnt gr 39mm” 3° expenduurp“ me So all who enter death must go twelve - ginning wall mode and i hope fu-j lowing comment on the legislation of . “The legislation relating the negation of 1915, by. which invest- 7 ,anectod' the new business' in Con-1 noctiout during the year ending Sep- ,loono upon proportion that could not “’9 know not what dear, this pain; 1T hisl dread to take our doll) nay, and walk in it again: l\\e know not what to other sphere the lost-d who Icaxe us go, Nor “in were left still, nor why know. it means, desolate heart to wonder “1' (it) not But this we know. our loved and dead, if they ,should come this day—— Should come and ask us is Life?" say. Life is a my story as (it 11) av. el’er death can be; Yet. oh, how dear it is in us. this _ life we live and see! ‘What not one of us. could Then might they say—~thcsc vau~ . ished ones—end blessed is ~ the thought; “50 (Earth is sweet to no, belov- e We may not to the quick reveal l the mystery of death. Ye cannot tell us, if ye would, the mystery ol hreath.‘ The child who enters life comes . as little children sent. Nothing is known. But nearing God, what has the soul to dread? And as life is to the living, so death is to. the dead. ~Mory Mapcs Dodge. IN THE Tnnucuns. l There are graves thai are dug for living men, Graves into which the Lorpscs walk, iAnd there, again, The unburied dcarL "round and talk. until Hell is loosed lounge \ little time to cut and drink Of the little of time before they die. \ little time to yawn and smoke and think, ' And the rest of the time wonder why. to Whywere they brought from the open fields, Widch sea border high From all the life that the broad earth yields. (lust in be trapped in a ditch to die? 'uud hillside A‘ little of time for sickening . fear Of the little that swiftly passes b A littl; to- boast or cursc or jcer, And the rest of the time to won- der why r A flash of 3flame in the deathly .1 mist, Where those others watch from their narrow 15.55,, .4 And murder and hate haw: met and kissed, ' As the little guns bark and the big guns boom. 1.. r. ,. 1 A little of 1131113 and Enroll. pain. lie—— , ~ And those who are praying not , homeinTvain , ,. ihotnuwnultflfiotionu U, habieteviwolouuothon‘lnu“ the invesh‘nent of trut funds up ‘ kins. had be ten times the fortune ho Wildly 4 A little writhing 5.1.1.3511 they‘ll-v .mmmmmw ”WWII nem'othto hmwhmttofldnu on. We onto-y. mendnomhrhd- mm hie ilvinx Ill “carcinomas-I'm hpummnuundrym mmmuwmmwu mnemontion. Arman mmmmwdh wetland: Madrid.» uncured 3111an title! mmmwhichuvoflm buythlthowaenmedw the elb- . but he was oeldom if ver celled npontodo any work. ”muncheoltheiegutlonhore People. be war ncmrded social liber- ties thnt other man were not granted. hmtance, there were families which he won permitted to visit as young men villt in America—tint Ill. be we: not forced to convene with young women from the sidewalk they standing on a balcony high above his head He wan permitted to see eer— toin young indies in their homes. but not done. Sonic member of the fam- ily other than the lady on whom he called was elven present. One young lady in whose home he was ncconlod an entrance was a dough- ter of Don Schumann lierrere. u Span- ish grandee whose family tree won (domed in the time of lieniinnnd and loabelln. Dona inns. the dumbter, was declined for come nobleman who would be consul-rod worthy to enter the Horror! fondly. Al for Billy Per» Wed he was not for a moment to be thought of:- n husband for her. “Wald” m Herrera hnd tnv- eled abroad 1 good deal and had tin-ova at some of the moat ultro of their 895111381 con'ventionul forms. Their daughter not men at built. and Wally one In omitted to her home—of nonra- only by her rather or What her at n function given by.” shirt. the one tin-odor. and foil Wkly in love with her. Dona inc: and 5 demo to turn English. and when' Billy cloud to been her her northerner much planned with the 0hr. Whoa ledy bed 5 high 11de M the Enllioh nobil- lty and hot! man design of tam nor doubler.“ upland. bonus that her we beauty would catch In line liah nobleman However thin may be. Billy was permutation-1m to the house two evening- in the week to tire Donn 'lnen lessons lathe Ennieh inn- xuue. Of course her? mother or some; member of the founimwho could be re- lled upon no N p watch thot no lovemnkinl penned between ‘59 “'0 young per-cone. flore‘ol‘cr. whoever was on watch understood enough Illus- llsh to know if Billy were trying to work thnt language for the purpose of making love. though. 51m Donn loo: did not underatand :1 word or English. this was hardly nocemry. Nothing in no delightful to tvvo young persons of opposite sex Is to outwit those who are placed on sunrd own them. Biliy' 5 method of touching Enc- lioh one to have his pupil read some thing printed in thntlouguage or con- vett something printed from Spanish into me Englllh torlne.'1‘llls required the one of a Spanish and English dic- tioliory. ~ One evening when the two were at work unto; the dictionary every few minutes. Billy. turning the leuvetl. atop- ped and put his linger on the word _“your." Then he turned to mower-do “eyes“ and put his linger on that word. in this way he spelled out “your eyes are like beautiful twin lakes. and your inches are liltc‘the rushes growing on the borders" Then inc: took the die- tlonnry and by the some menus acid. “You Americans are great flatterers." This was followed by it sentence from 3“!va Them in no such beauty in A on yours." lbw communications occupied half an holu. but; what time was loot in looking up words was trained in the fervor of the sentence. In two or three evenings Billy had made on much love its mmuncn with every facility would make in 11' year. (I Donn Inez inc numb. Lemmy understood with marvelous fnciiity when wad said toJ her by this method of communication.“ Before Dona men had WWI English to catch a British nobleman she had been caught by on mm _ been put in the "‘r‘to kelovetbtiie‘ daughter» of o mnulimdee. Ede? ever. he elm tint frhnkly at last and if she we: not uh upt'llcholar ut leurn- l girls?“ “Milled the maiden "P!!!“- one m mulching” boldly into the , E andwhooennmeisoneoihietoricre novrn. A theatrical manager III-Cincinnati In the seventies, having planned to pro duce a popular moxie were with a chorus composed of pupilo‘from the public schools, selected Sarah Frost. then 5 girl about twelve. perceived her 1W aptitude and provided the opportunity for its development. The manager was Robert E. J. Miles. and under his dim-lion she made her first appearance on the stage and passed her juvenile novitinte. Her store name at first was Funny Brough. Later she adopted that of Julia Marlowe—William Winter In Century Magazine. . BENEFITS FROM BOOKS. Traveling Along the Roads That Lead Us into Other Worlds. The benefit of literature can hardly be overestimated. Book: m: mon'o horinon. They role a mirage‘o‘f water brooks and (into pahn to trove!- nm In the desert. They are "the nick! men'o health. the prisoner's release" , Shut withh n nnrrov routine of duh none-lit: end ct hurt in 5 world when vrronc triumph, where beauty MI no doom-um of respect. when hu- tnnndty tolhterrlbly merelyioriu doi- ly had or the com d trivhl We. the enrthly pun-Int need do nomentheuplrkupewkend. lo, he wandeue. hummebnrdenofhiobdy.nom thereon m‘mr the Iver: of hope. frol- nominees of soul and herd-ole nnyminxieiotheoociotyofthe nodule-”innocentotbe Mthaprophet: honey-ea and minor-y: he my much the himn in It: strife with airman-Inoc- oonqner or barely account»; he may no down through the “gate of a hundred comm" or mmpuny Dante ind Beatrice through the spheres of [until-e -Athutic Monthlv Tobacco Production. very little. Ronnie is third and raises practically Ill her Bwplr, importing and exporting only 11 small quantity. Austria Huumry in the fourth produc- ing country, Importing more than it fourth on much no it mines and exports one-eighth of its own crop. Germany is on extensive grower of tobacco. but impel-tn two and it half time: on much on it cultivates and does not export any. Frame raises considerable tobac- co under. government supervision and imports grout quantities of the milder Virginia tobacco- to keep up the quail- ty of the cigarettes not] other products mode under the state monopoly. Both France and finnin keep buyers in this market. No‘. For Strange". “What In the world does tinit menu?" asked the trnveiel' through d sparsely notilod region on the Cum-3 “There's no such place on my road map." The 111511.th he addressed fir-t took 11 leisurely survey of the traveler and his horse and then turned his eyes toward the wentherheoten sign. which bore’ the dipole word "'Iblpom" awry; “lt‘o lest- an indication: It moms “1‘0 bong pond one mile.‘ it’s plain enough to folks from metrby that's hunting for the pond, 11nd We don‘ I reckon on strangers inking much interns? +Yonth‘e' Companion A Matter of One Art. ‘ ‘ “Billie you ever loved uny other ioueLv. “Well, l have attempted a few kin- dorgarten.‘ prep school and college come in direction." responded the a veil purpose to get rid of my bache- ior'u degree.” Whereupon he took ‘ ‘-'i lttle Moo; liold.~lliehmond dimes-Wren A .w L..- J Pmtooot notional». ’ 7‘ 1 'tboii’tf you kno‘ii“ ‘13.. 173th bnt I enn’t tell. until '-“.I.hnvrloqund» not. my‘bonstititehla » 3 ;,iikethe nrtth-AWW ' envy. anion-y. contempt, not: name '_ lion. from rain area. than winks— niithecoiuiithooofhunuhopotnove‘ indie. second only to 101! country in , . Box of ironing Board '. . -. 1. man in. the case. "but this .5qu ‘ “Did that 1min quote you correctly in ~' ‘_ Vthnt intentional... ., ' . » «r 5511' , IBIS! 15151155 Senator Stir \ “shun. The D. M. Read Co. . I W185;- - -..l v: Winter Shopping Days The Shops at this time of year, in the week before the annual inventory, provide hundreds of attractions for What one comes upon unexpectedly, at a reduced price if it is a needed article, the careful and economic buyer. is so much treasure trme. The \Nomen’ 5 Apparel Shops on the second floor are all concerned in these interesting clearances of “inter l‘il IIIllI merchandise. The Question of a Hat Never were Trimmed Hats ()Lhigh quality ofl'cred 1.1 There are good styles for all occasiom such low prices. Hats for reception and theater wear. Tailored Hats for street and shopping. Hats for motoring and riding. \ And Hats for those who with to slip away to -.\soulhland for the rest of th: winter. Furs and Fur Coats The highest grades of Furs, all that runnin in sinclt , at nominal prices. SpecialAMufi'o in all kinds of fur. The Neotness of Rag Rugs 3. and cottage use. borders. 5301x130 $1.50 ,36x'72 $2-25_ - '1' ' “1'11? Honsehold Findings 'Four special tables." At. 1 ct. ~ "” Iron Handles Tack Pullers Match Boxes Ice Cream Freezer Clamps Letter Seals. . Pan Lids Knives Shakers AI: to cts. ' Match Holders Odd pieces of blue. Alcohol Cups ware ,, Nickel Soap Dishes Sauccpans Ruffin llnnd llag‘s - u» mm 5...... “That ain't a name." he sold. with" ' --a new idea in finance directed slam: A time to. secure good values. Second floor. New lines oi these pleasing Cotton Rugs for lm‘lrlmm Effects' in blue, green, old rose and tan, with “floral 24x36 27x54 Pineapple Eyersl' Petite M‘armites Aluminum Jelly Moulds Aluminum Salt and Pt‘ppti‘ Match Boxes ' Glass Funnels At 25 cts. Fedetul Reserve Bank modem no 1-" g antimonaar 1.3-2: lidlilt of l‘dflltf'
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