mmm ria sugar, but this commodity might have ing continued difficulty in sccuring been more scarce and the price much In the last year and a half a vast essential food have saved majority of the makers of this semi- amounts to the present time. Here is the suggestion that was sent out by the university: It was 14. ik s taken and 50 grams of powdered tartaric ac thirty or thirty-five minut id, mixed together and boiled from l It containes mixed readily with the ingredients of gar same proportions as su 1¢ce-cream., necessal So successful did the tests adopted it and are continuing using the method the sug much only 71.4 per cent sugar u sweetness was obtained. There was pounds out of every million that manufactu It was readily seen ti be stretched, for with » | ne game degree of " vs a 1 { VM 1s a saving of approximately 300,000 Money and Value More in Silver Coin Than Appears on Face of it The person who doesn’ about facts among perfectly goad stamped “420 refused he legal tender ma dollar. of grains, ward of then, 1.20, monetary s« which puzzle re. his souvenir ence trade grains.” if attempts to It is quoted at something Yet silver, w ret hie hich worth £1.36. coih abundant tically equal of the fused ght of silver, but United denomination; it wel prac to States coins game is or he has to count. Yet ity face value that this al of sil Silver two years ALO WAS worth 0 n day headed for £1.40 an ently. Knowing that at £1.30 or higher melting any of metal, our financial ried. At any time up discover that has disappeared cire There's money in it pears the face of it Times, only cents ounce oun when there | our coins are powers wor- they may wake to gilver currency | from ulation. tha ap more in Hartford on i i St te : GETHSEMANE | Bassirsttnsas NAB —tp In A summeriand When souls are glad And not a si} w lurks in sight We do not k lies, Somewhere A garden w! The garden golden youth hen seems the earth 2 of ng mirth 1 hearts are light ad skies all must see of Gethsemane, under evening ich we With foyous steps we Love lends a Light sorrows sall We laugh and say how sirong we are We hurry on: and hurrying go Close to the border land of woe That walts for you, and walts for me Forever walts Gethsemane EO our ways, halo to our days like clouds afar, Down shadowy gireams, Bridged over by our broken dreams, Behind the misty caps of years, Beyond the great salt fount of tears The garden lies. Strive as you may, You cannot miss it on your way- All paths that have been or shall be Pass somewhere through Gethsemane lanes, across strange All those who journey, soon or late, Must pass within the garden gate, Must kneel alone In darkness there, And battle with some flerce despair, God pity those who cannot say, *Not mine but Thine,” who only pray, “let this cup pass’ and cannot see The purpose of Gethsemane —~Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The World's Population. A conservative estimate, based on rough estimates of the world’s popula- tion, which even now are hardly more than guesses, shows that there are probably about as many people living now as have died within the last 140 years, Popular and Electoral Vote. The number of electoral votes and the popular vote for President Wilson and Charles E. Hughes in the Inst elec tion were: Popular vote: Wilson, 9,120,606; Hughes, 80588221, Elector pl: Wilson, 277; Hughes, 254. und e and self honey of patient With words of sweet A quart and 1 desire to eat ike be not n lessons « In all y¢ xing learn from Kiene™ ut study t a And r ¢ why and the fects of all you allow Mary 4 Dishes to Tempt the Appetite, Shape rich breac th Ir ilar to bread buttered A warm with the Sauce ra Baked Banana With Sultan {ook ! half « f of Apple Souffle four tart » and stew water through =a ul of butter ir tablespoonfn oonful tables a teaspoonful four tablespoonfuls of cold wa 1 Add cupful of ' sweetened to taste and cook until <} one one teaspoonful of lemon [nice Re move from the fire and add three well then e1 stiff yolks, the into Pour dish and in whites beaten a well-h puffed an ittered bakin d dell tely brown. oo g a Blanquette of Chicken, Make one cupfnl of cream sauce of cooked chicken cut When add two tablespoonfuls of milk a rice and stir into the Serve in or potato Home-Made Breakfast Food. Take three-fourths cupful each graham and wheat flour, mix well, add salt and water and cook usual to a thick mush, with cream and SUEAT. Nerese Mogae of ne Serve Legion Posts Throughout American Legion posts in the Uni ted States and foreign countries now olis, France, England and Canada ench have one post, Alaska has four posts, Hawall five, Cuba one, Panama one, Mexico one and the Philippine islands one. Ten states have more than 200 posts each, New York leads the states with 777 poste; Pennsylva- nia Is second with 407, and Illinois is third with 360 posts, Towa has 345 local organizations, Ohio has 208, Mas- sachusetts 238, New Jersey 224, Mis sour! 220 and Indiana 203, Early Playing Cards. In early playing cards swords took the place of “spades” and representa. tions of coins were the equivalent of “diamonds.” Negro Supreme In Liberia, but Must Endure Conditions That Very Few Could Enjoy The negro is supreme in Liberia. No of land or vote in the republic, But after consid. the irritations that who live in Liberian must endure, as Emory Ross them in the Geograph- fenl Review, few people would care to share the negro's privileges, Besides the trying conditions of cll- mate and there 18 a host of one another race ean own those ering outlines disease, occur. Moths eat up clothing; cock- roaches devour bookbindings and nest in the cookhouse ; rats climb to impos. gible locations and leave nothing but the fragments of what they have eaten there: white ants consume the sills of houses and the rungs of chairs; driver ants through the and force every other living creature there. in, from the lord and master down to the lurking lizard, to flee even in the dead of night or in the midst of rain; jiggers bore under the skin of the foot and lay their eggs; fleas bite; the heat rash which the lightest clothing feels like nexles ; and, to crown all, These thousand and one others like them are al but of sun” sweep house produces a against comes dhoble's teh, things and the proverbial one and irritating at any time, blur of a “touch out of all reason the heavy, sume proportions sights, nerves: the 7 1 si 1] fmpend trable green in like a nd grows Nao one ust of Africa 18 months at a time, Evaporates, Two-Thirds Runs Off, One-Third Is Absorbed really amaz niles away from Mr power; the ‘ it it reaches the » of Inland nence how lly the precip irface, wi Oldest Conductor in World Runs Southern Indiana Train active, its round between Or di the stance of Monon orty years, hav- the i ralire the West during te married, he and his wife wd man prior to that the pioneer thelr home there for wrf 2 orms the mesenger conductor, neces ion into a sary 0 urn mixed train, Bills helps out as & brake As the slow through southers moving engine picks Indiana hills man, its way John B sealing a box car and riding atop his He is the oldest active railroad lis frequently may be seen rain, ctor the world, WORTH REMEMBERING Friendship rings truest in ad. versity. Poverty} need never fear that sunshine will be rationed, Many a hero owes all to the thought that he gave to his com- rade, An known science, The wrong we do to one anoth- er is sure to return with its sting. If the sum total of health could only be calculated, there would be very few who could truthful- ily say that they are poor today! is never of con unjust sentence in the court Four Eclipses During Year. Here is a little meteorological Infor. mation for 1920 that may be of Inter est. It indieates four eclipses will be seen during the year. Two will be of the sun and two of the moon. The first will be a total eclipse of the moon on May 2; the next eclipse will be a partial eclipse of the sun, May 17; the next a total eclipse of the moon, Octo ber 27, and the last a partial eclipse of the sun ont November 10. The In formation is from the government weather bureau UM SKETE A PFiece of Tile By Katharine Eggleston Roberts, | (Copyright, 1520 Western Newspaper Union “Is this where 1 used to live, grand. mother?" The little girl stood in the { middle of No Man's Land, surveying | the torn ground and leafless trees, { “Yes, dear. right here you | are standing.” The old woman slipped | and slid over the uneven earth | Ing now Into one eavity, now | other, seeing always if broken bricks, and sometimes a | rusted “Louisa,” she {de her daughter, “1 helleve this Is where the ald here. | “oem Paul ssy where peer into gn hits only small obus, enlled cherry tree stood. Try remember hearing it the Louisa, a broadly built thrust into the ilently began to dig “Grandn to he burled near tree.” tall, her spade Woman ground and other,” the child called fron 2 little distance, “did father and moth toa?" Marin mrned her da lon't the lo for Maris here, We “And whe sliver nd it 1 It before he lef it in the saf HE be straightened or Hve he *Y es ye, Veorbeel “If we Madame ughter again. money If onls to find what are 1 we to r mother were turned ever her ach “Y og t him to reall Her he thought he'd come for and I elf. Somehow, he never that he dwin seemed ze ht never come.” reife mig volee died to a whisper The old looking, aiways Marin something In beg gan to dis ME ALN ” wandered off, till she ws to where and poked It with cavernous eyes The « black 1 Fr eS ns “It's the asked he at was round and white and hroken teeth. 1 he the § iid recalled, widening ipils darkened y of her she stared fascinated fust like the ones we maw on ehe CW isn't it, grandmother? er a horrified a German or a Belgian?” “You can't tell now, Marie. Come SWAY it. the litt it way aft moment. on fron She took | i They trudged the long way hac! aeross the battle-riven land. Mauris prattied of the tile she'd found. “I'l wash it nine and elean. The little gir Auntie, do you 8" pose ¢ lived there In that piece of house? “Yes, thoughts were busy How to provide? 0 old, the child they had found money! Twilight gray railroad where nohody 3 sii yes, maybe she did,” Loulsa's elsewhere, Her mother young. I brother's to do? Was sO only her fields reached wrapped the in hefore they hut—na new-bullt lived. About her thin, the shawl more tightly. She shivered The Wrecked Home p and chilly her threadbare gn her arm within her 1 stood between Maris and Back to Ypres, the took them, and then they where they of town 1} ie sky eft the one's hand. and together they tramped rank, yellow water-grass, old the through the the rememi leveled fire of the who when heen woman, who longingly that had been nothing by the : and the child, scarce believing stare her this had She had heard a lot th years of her had told her cold nights were they town powdered to IVY guns gazed with they id her home, about he in life. Her grandmother all about it, in “And father happy in the stories, too, and she liked them “Yee, Maria; happy, until the war came.” “You told come again er will?” oy know, dear, I don’t know. The Germans took her—drove her off to work.” “When she comes, she'll be glad to see me, won't she?” “Yes—when she comes.” They stopped and looked across the barren waste, “What's that, to place me © fo w it. the long. mother need ana here?" Those people had heen very me father wouldn't ever Do you think that moth don’t Oh, tile I" fhe rubbed away the dirt. “It was In the kitchen wall” They “It's a pretty picture, isn't 1t? and there's a Httle girl, and I guess that must have It's brok- en.” She sat down on a hump of sod and put the tile upon her knees. “Yes, it's broken." Madame Ver beek watched the little girl examining the one thing left of home. “Mother!” Louisa rested on her spade, “You've found it!" erly. Loulea shook her head, “There's no use trying. We'll never find it In this upheaved place, Let's go away.” ‘ “But what are we to do?" “1 do not know.” Maria saw them making ready to depart. She clasped the tile against her side and skipped across to where they stood. “I'm going to take it back with me, for mother; and, when she comes, I'm going to give it to her” Madame Verbeek sighed: "We ought not to let her plan so. Helene will She started eag pever come” Used to Live, now called home sink and sleep. +) ce they pia and they upon of And enc! one e gray-haired woman of a of her glad to thelr beds Louisa innumerahle tortured with Worry Maria of a tile that % » - » gky of bleak November the world within its pall. The heavy bound Louisa restless sleep. An Each das long. nnd yet they passed too wakened from her other day to meet, seemed quickly as the winter eame. She moved about Why The more the less she'd think with an empty purse. thoughts were startled by “Helene I” “Louisa I” That Maria into a the roon wake t} her about the fu- Her gloomy a knock. on two? tip-toe. ye other mother 1 slent ’ ture wae all until the mother held in her arms-—her baby grown little girl, Madame Verbeek her. And then they all sat they could not talk. “I've hunted for you for time,” at last Helene began. I came back—" “Where have you heen?” a long let the past lie still, 1 came for you, Last night some people over there in Poeleapelle, you know the Neefe—they used to live near us—told me you were here” “Then you were home before us? “Yes, I was home; I found the money Paul had—" “You found the money!” both the women gasped. “Oh, 1 found the money, the box lay in full view upon the ground; 1 found the money, but 1 didn't find my family nor my home-—a broken piece of tile was all 1 found” “1 found one, too. 1 saved It just for you.” Maria ran to get it from the cupboard. “Look, your plece fits with mine. It makes the pleture—a woman and a little girl, That's you and me. One corner's gone, though, yet” “A man stood there before a house,” her mother said. Well Known Folks Baltimore, Md.—“It has been my pleas ure to recommend Dr. Pierce's remedies “ for the past 37 years and I have never known them to fail. I was sufiering with a complication of troubles. I had pains all over my body and my heart seemed weak. 1 had been doctoring for months with our best doctors and had obtained no : relief. 1 wae discour- aged and wrote to Dr, Pierce's Invalides’ Hotel in Buffalo, N. Y., and started tak- ing ‘Favorite Prescription,’ ‘Golden Medi eal Discovery’ and ‘Pleasant Pellets.’ My health improved from the very start and eventually 1 was cured of my ailments and was in perfect health.” —Mrs. Lydia J. Ewig, 1953 W. Franklin Bt. Hinton, W. Va.—“It affords me great pleasure to have the privilege to make public this statement in behalf of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and the ‘Golden Medical Dis- covery. 1 cannot recommend them too highly to the public. We have used them in our family years and | reaped good We have always found the ‘Discovery’ superior any other tonic wonderful system builder.” —E. Box 4, Bellepoint. Dr. Pierce of hind this standard take getting a doct the es Lnoe Skin Troubles —— Soothed With Cuticura Soap Z5¢, Ointment 25 and 50c, Talcum 25¢. results. te - 2 , Mand When you s be you Golden are the experience of 1 around 3il around 305755 COUGHS On the Right Side Catarrh Cannot Be Cured by LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the diseases Catarrh is a | disease greatly - enced by constitutional « HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE il cure catarrh It i» taken ts through the Blood on irfaces of the MEDICINE best tonics of the best combination ‘8 CATARRH Jo internally nd ac the Mu own, combined with blood purifiers. The of the ingredients in MEDICINE is what iuces such won- derful results in catarrhal conditions Druggists Tc. Testimonials free, F. J. Cheney & Co., Props, Toledo, Ohto. The Distributing Point “How is it that couple always seems to be In a pickle?” si they family jars.” suppose get it from Take care of vour health and wealth will take care of you. Garfield Tea pro motes health. —Adr. Roses are like children; you've got to give them plenty of care to get the best results, WAS DISCOURAGED| St. Charles Man Tells How He Suffered Before Doan’s Cured Him. “Heavy strains on my back and being exposed to all kinds of weather, weak: ened my kidneys,” says John 8. Shel ton of St. Charles, Mo. “The misery in my back was constant and 1 bad to get up several times during the night to pass the kidney secretions. I got mo rest night or day " and lost twenty- two pounds in weight. My eyes burned as i were would feel as if I were going to iteh forward
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers