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
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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
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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
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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