Harry Forbes, chicago star "comeback" fighter, is now the man behind the mask. The former bantamweight champion who has been stirring things up by his wonderful return to form after an absence of four years from the ring, finally has overcome what he considers the greatest handicap under which he has been boxing, but not without the aid of artificial means. In one of his first bouts after his re-entry into the game Forbes was butted in the eye by "Young" Togo and a big gash was cut over the optic. In his training bouts since that time the old wound several times was reopened. Seeking a way to remedy his trouble, Forbes, while in New York, recently hit upon the novel idea of having a mask made which he could wear in training. The mask made of leather, is padded with felt around the yes. It has proved a success.

Huntington, W. Va.—With a double-barrel shotgun, Miss Emeritt Adkins of Leet, a small lumber town in Lincoln county, answered some would-be flirts on a Guyan & Coal River railroad freight train.

Miss Adkins was standing on the porch of her home as the train approached. A shotgun was standing at a corner amid the herbs and tobacco hanging from the roof. Several men of the train crew, it is claimed, waved to the girl, and threw kisses. "Hello, sweetheart," cried one of the trainmen. In a second the shot gun was in her hand. She jumped to the edge of the porch. The gun was pulled to her shoulder. It spoke once. Some of the small shot took effect in the face of a brakeman on the train, who is alleged to have started the attempt at the flirtation.

The engineer of the train pulled the throttle wide open and the train leaped forward. The girl leveled the gun again and fired. By this time, however, the train was too far away for the bird shot to take effect.

It may be proved scientifically that all acts of animals can be accounted for without supposing them to possess the power of reasoning, of drawing conclusions from premises. They give no signs of reasoning and this becomes more evident when we compare their actions with those of rational man.

All men, in full possession of their faculties, can grasp the abstract relation between means and ends, inventing and making new and various means, tools to accomplish their designs. Brute animals never do so; they can only follow the one beaten track to which their specific nature determines them.

A man can improve himself by study, by exertions of his own talents, but brutes cannot do this. They may be taught various actions by man, but they cannot improve themselves.

A race of men may increase in knowledge and civilization, but brutes act now as they were always known to act.

While brute animals have not the faculty of reason, they have a power or aptitude for the proper guidance of their actions, which supplies for them the place of reason. This is called instinct.

It is the natural impulse that prompts animals to do what is useful to the individuals and species.

The young people of the town and community, have been provided with an ice ring on Excelsior bay just north of the boat yards. The enterprise was started by Fred W. Johnson, who cleared and flooded a good sized space by pumping water from under the ice.

A small building belonging to E. E. Searle was brought across the ice from Big Island and serves as a warming house. The Northwestern company furnished a number of poles, which were set in the ice, and the trolley company, in the persons of Messrs. Cairns and Hield, set up and will maintain a row of fine arc lights to light the rink.

The snow will be kept scraped off by popular subscription, and the rink will be popular and useful during the rest of the winter. The warming house will also serve as a sort of headquarters for ice boat sailors. Nearly all of the ice boats have been put in commission, but the season has not been favorable so far. There was some indifferent ice boating early in the winter, but recent snows have interfered with the sport for the present.

Fred Johnson will have charge of the warming house and will see that the boys in their exuberance of youthful ardor do not destroy anything or misuse the place.

Get up right in the morning. Go to bed right at night. Start with joy in your heart, hope in the future, kindness in your purpose.

If it is a dark day, never mind; you will lighten it up. If it is a bright day, you will add to the brightness. Give a word of cheer, a kindly greeting and a warm handshake to your friends.

If you have enemies, look up, pass them by, forget and try to forgive.

If all of us would only think how much of human happiness is made by ourselves, there would be less human misery.

If all of us would bear in mind that happiness is from within and not from without, there would be a wellspring of joy in every heart and the sun would shine forever.

Try it!—Leslie's Weekly

Little Falls.—Dr. J. H. Newman of this city has marketed $1,400 worth of hogs from his farm southeast of the city. "Feeding 45-cent corn to 8-cent hogs is the easiest way of making money that I know of," he says. He is a firm believer in the value of pure bred stock and in a short time will have none but pure bred animals on his place. Carl Biemert recently shipped car of hogs to the South St. Paul market which netted him over $1,000.

These comments on how to attain old age are made by a writer in the Journal of the American Medical Association:

"The chances of attaining old age are much greater if we live much of our life in fresh country air. Statistics go to show, according to Dr. Dezso of Budapest, that the fourth generation of the town dweller is unknown; but enough is currently reported to make the conclusion inevitable that the sine qua non of longevity is a certain amount of time spent in the country.

"The city child is subject to a number of disturbing conditions other than mere absence of creature comforts, which undermine the constitution by throwing too heavy a burden on the sense organs, through which exhaustion of the central nervous system follows; among these conditions are noises, a perpetual round of hurry, and unending sequences of incidents exhausting the attention to which are superadded the physical discomforts of vitiated air effluvia from human beings and waste organic products, besides offensive gasses and infection laden dust.

"To attain old age we have to relieve ourselves from worry, strains and anxieties, withdraw periodically from the whirl of effortful existence, modify our diet, omit the use of stimulants and narcotics, and spend reasonably long periods of time under pleasant conditions in practical retirement. Above all, amusement should be simplified and accepted rather than sought after. Only vegetable and semi-animal foods should be eaten."