Doctor: "Now, don't worry, whatever you do; a man with heart disease can't afford to worry. Avoid all company of any kind, drink nothing whatsoever, and on no account touch meat and vegetables. By the way, I won't be able to call till Wednesday, as I have to attend the funerals of three patients."

Salem, Ore., Jan. 27.—Disincorporation of the town of Copperfield, Ore., because it "Is in the hands of a lawless element" has been ordered undertaken by the attorney general, Governor Oswald West announced. Proceedings to this end may be halted, he said, if the whole administration of the town resigns. Copperfield has been under martial law for three weeks, following the closing of saloons there by state troops under the direction of Miss Fern Hobbs, the governor's secretary.

They had a fire in Burlington the other day and when the firemen responded to the alarm and ran to get out the fire-fighting apparatus they found, as the Republican says, that "every wrench, spanner and other dingbat necessary to get the water turned on had been taken from the hose cart since the last fire." The members of the hose company are indignant.—Kansas City Star

Suffocated in mud was the terrible death of Maud Kirby Cornwell, a factory girl, of Cambridge, England. She was out walking with Arthur Mead, a barman, on Coe Fen, an open space between the river and Peterhouse college, when, according to a statement by the man, they walked into a ditch which has scarcely a foot of water in it. He says he sank to his hips immediately. His cries for help were heard, and two men pulled him out, but the girl was not found until sometime afterwards. She was then dead, having been suffocated by mud.

Washington, Jan. 28.—How much white blood it takes to convert a full-blood Indian into a mixed blood is to be passed upon by the supreme court. Solicitor General Davis asked the court, because of the large amount of land ownership turning upon the answer, to consider the question at an early date. The question has arisen specifically in the case of the Chippewa Indians of White Earth reservation in Minnesota, where under the law, "mixed bloods" are permitted to sell their allotted lands at once.

Chicago, Jan. 14.—Genuine winter weather descended upon practically all the country east of the Rocky mountains Monday night and is scheduled to remain at least two days. In Chicago the temperature dropped from Sunday's maximum of 35 above zero to 5 above during the night, and the sudden change caused much suffering. An interesting fact is that it was colder in Chicago than in Sitka, Alaska. The temperature there was 42 above zero, or 37 degrees warmer than Chicago.

The quickest way to copy with pen or pencil is to put a flat, heavy weight over the upper edge of the paper on which you write, to hold it firm an leave both hands free. Then place the matter to be copied flat on the desk at the left, so as to bring it as near as possible to the blank paper. With a finger of the left hand keep your place in the book or manuscript as you write, and you will find generally that you can copy quite fast in this way.

For a paper weight a heavy oblong rectangular piece of brass or glass is most effective. The connecting of words by long pen strokes has very little bad effect on the legibility of the copy and certainly saves time. Of course, the stroke should be long enough to mark clearly the break between words.

Writers who have a habit of dipping pens in the mucilage and putting the mucilage brush in to the ink may find it a good idea to keep the mucilage bottle invariably at one side of the desk, and the inkstand at the other.

Half of a lemon set firmly in a small shallow support and renewed from time to time will be found to remove the finish from old pens quickly and thoroughly. Another good way of bringing forth the possibilities of new steel pens is to lest some ink dry upon them before using.