Worth a Chicago statistical expert. hey would form SaV8 ten and one-half tons. Reckoning the valued at $51,570,729 a bushel. in an ordinary produced, all told, 170,574,000 ; Borneo, 1,000,000; 000 ; China, 2,000 ; Siberia, 500; output of 236,777 diamonds could be packed India, it is estimated, has 15,000,000; South Africa, 50,000; Australia, 500, Brazil, This is a total rough possibly still be in existence. least 1,000,000 carats 855,474 carats, The estimate of § ean be bought today. great and they wealthy classes. f . ¢ 2 for the loss of at as well as the the people times as much now as before TIME TO LAUGH Invisible. “Yes, they have invisible ink.” “I must have gotten hold of some of it by mistake.” “How s0?’ “The magazine people see the poetry 1 write.” can’t seem to His Heroic Act Mrs considered you a Mr. Henpeck struck you on the death-defying of proposing hero! Oh, the evening I performed and foolhardy feat marriage to you. Between Friends. “Why are vou pawing library?” “I'm the genital “What's the matter? "Has somebody called you one?’ over the lookin’ up term, con idiot,” Considerate. Her Father—I hear you've been look- Ing up my rating. What for? Her Suitor—I wanted to should be the right for you. it I nw Soe sort of son-in The Situation. Parent (from the Edith, aren't gas in there? ulith—Yes, mamma! Charlie I were just speaking of-—er a match. adjoining room) you going to light the and striking Doomed to Dumbness. “Money talks” sald the political grafter, “Well, if dnes any ing,” said bribe giver, ing It over, will be the yon will get.” this talk- the hand- Inst ever Advance Two Theories i in The origin of the West Indies is to be studied by a naturalist who recent. ly sailed from New York City for Ja- males. Scientists hold two support able theories in this oatter The first theory makes Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti and Porto Rico mere fragments of the American continent It supposes that they were isolated by depression be- low sea level of the surrounding areas, The second theory sees the islands as independent uprisings from the ocean bed, caused by a combination of vol canie upheavals, foldings in the earth's crust, and coral growth, 5 DOBOG0S000OCOEO0DEEEEEEEEIGIIN0000 1 RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS Doing something for ofhers. Doing it without expecting a return, Always look on the bright. er side, Keeping eternally busy at something. Never taking too much of any- thing. Contentment with your lot, Reverence for older folks, Making your middie pame “Cheerfulness.” : Companionship of a good dog. aaa aa World's Debt Has Increased From $40,000,000,000 in 1914 to $200,000,000,000 in 1920 The world’s debt has hee at $200,000 (00 (000 compared with $40, O00 (RL O00 in 1014, Paper currency throu has incr while n esthmnted ghout the world 14014, it has in eased 60 per cent since behind 40 per cent The feee val thirty pring the gold reserve creased only according to sper ipal countries, 1111 4, S40 (EX) (HM) (¥¥) nt the siatistics, ue of p rency of which tot has gled S$T.200(00 (kX) in increased to time of the armistice 000.060) in December 34 O00) (HX) IM Insped by and 1910 to S54) (KN), - exclusive of Germany, Austrin-Hungni I Bulgaria show and advance in lation from 21.200 (XK) (xx) in 12.300 000 000 nt KIRTT0Mx iX%) in Turkey note 1914 the I hone ember, falling from to SOUT.0000600 In the ciose of reserve 1014 ratio of gold $0.7 gold SOOO ON KK in 1919 y 41 the to notes declin cent in 1914 to 50.5 1810 from per In the eight principal eountries of allies, paper notes incren 1.168.066) (¥¥) in in 1010 we] from 1914 to S22. 420 06K) (Xx) the gold while reserve in ratio of 44.3 in 1914 and 509 in From Glasses Which Were More Precious Than Rubies Glaces” or the “Gal nt the Palace of Ver from 17 mare “Galerie Des lery of Mirrors” calles, gets iz name mirrors, were than rubies hefore which precious glassmaking science, wns each windows ton is a Opposite window, these were revelries and regal pomp, In these gardens all standing in France were oom for innumerahie pieces, Piped waters spout mouths of gilded frogs and fauns play and dragons kidnap cupids, while stately old trees give one touch of nature against this supremely artificial setting in these gardens, The mirrors are framed in works of art and surmounted by paintings, scenes of royal the sculptors of fronn Hzards, the Louis X1V. Originally tables and chairs In this hall were of solid =il- ver. The ensemble was typical of the emptiness of the yoke from which France freed herself, gOPNOS Man ean rise only as he grows ont of limiting habits, This is the high- est test of worth. Habits become so much a part of the individual that it is hard to throw them off. They are the builders of character. Let alone, habits determine our conduct and set the limits of our possibilities, The wholesome habits—habits of indastry and balance—we want to cultivate and develop. Habits that create appetites, set limitation and resultant weakening of the powers we want to grow out of, Man must be busy. If he has surplus unengaged time he must hinve a hobby or he entertained. He must grow out of idleness into Indnstry, Highest Village. The little village of Karzok, In Kash. mir, India, is belleved to be the high. est in the world, Its altitude is 14,040 feet, Household Budget System Is an Instrument of Home Economy and Aids Thrift regulated private busle In- prosperity unless The budg- et is n system for the allotment of ex- penditures. In common sense it Every well come can not make nue, and it enables the executives to make sure at least that both ends shall meet, The going business house that does not have an item for surplus, saving, in its budget, is on a mud-house basis, As un instrument of the budget is most useful. headed housekeeper can small deficit into a steady employing a budget. on expenditure, and in general opportunity to keep the Any levels CORSeS, business of hand. you Too much! spend last month Cut it down, spend for that? A might be worth while, tries to get into the need it, perhaps you .can shave If you merely want it, You kpow whether or The budget tells What did little more Something you you, If you household budget, will out =a year you ever never worked do it now, have One hence you wonder how Towns” Along Great Lakes Were at Mouths of Rivers Sites of lake in the hefore the scattered here and of Lake Michi Promoters, en would cities “located” wild of 1X47. the Huron. the Hitie money often ual settier, speculation, were shore there along couraged by snle of lots, in making a small ing, from the fiearest n mark out in ast a han ser towoas” noe ording to John Bach MeMaster's "His the People of the United were at the months of small wold Some SIreets gine i up, In the of burne umps, write] and Favorite sites for “ps tory of Ntntes,” streams The bull Port Sheldon construction and but tenantliess town, frame without, hotel Port of Havre wa fer town” on 3 the hank h “pa- near other sue sae Erie the of Maumee But chosen was nrshy, mouth Hoy tne site and a score of abandoned cabins were all Another was «d to be on at the mouth maps represented that “White the shore marked its streets Rock City of Lake river HEY of a fine an flouris! n wide river he " harbor, but ng Lake Hu y Rtopped to see 1his , found ng cit with piers running out into a one, coasting on a ri ron wha none, OF INTEREST TO POULTRY GROWERS The earth carding 10 chicks die diarrhen fond for baby chicks poultry during perhaps ail The is a poison to the trouble, while the sour relished by the young of the most nour- and medicine on ig sour milk, ae More infancy of white other dis acid In sour germs of this greatest grower y than orders combined. milk dreaded bowel inilk birds, itself is and it ill feeds, apparently the most sanitary chicks from the incubator or from hatchings by hens will tract bowel troubles conditions and careful disinfecting will often check trouble and lessen danger, but they will not always act as a cure preventive, Many careful scientific and practical tests have proved beyond doubt that sour milk fed to baby chicks is one of the very best preventives, and for bowel troubles, It is important to begin feeding the sour the chicks as soon as they It i= even recom- few drops of the the is one «hing of Under COn- serious Clean this milk down is placed in the drink or eat. The sour milk acts ime mediately as a bowel thoroughly cleansing the tract amd starting the young bird out in life free from bowel disease and vigorous in every way. brooder or with the hen may have sour milk before them all the time to their benefit, the milk serving both as a Not only should baby chicks be give ing their mash feeds, ns sweet milk as a food, and much safer to use with chicks. And there is no better food and medicine for growing chicks and laying hens, Dugouts in Colombia. The natives In the interior of Colom. bia, South America, still use the ple turesque dugout, carved from a single log, to convey their produce to market. Popular Mechanics Magazine, Ostrich Farms. South Africa Is a great ostrich growing country, particularly the dis trict near the Cape’ of Good Hope, from whence tremendous shipments of feathers are constantly being made, Shall World War? Must Be Given Inducement to Work and Guaranteed Fair Deal. Ing in the Distribution of the Result, Article VI. By FRANK COMERFORD, The world lives by two kinds of work, the work on the soil and the la- bor spent in making things. In this way we get the things we eat and wer, The We world's reserve Is gone, overcome the food shortage we must production, live and gradually get back plus which stood as a against crop failures, the sc» work of complex nbout it magic. To grow plow and gather. is our greatest available. and the tors and farm tools we the industrial arm of lif is the call for men, man power. Men crippled in the survived the war work that would who did their present not man, There ix not anything You can't things men The will to need The God furnishes the rain use work land is sunshine To get the plows, must Here again wore killed and The must help have done by not come back, In frame of mind they de under the WHT, do the heen those will to work, at least old conditions obtaining before the war, It with was little is furnish them There work mitented are i necessary to an inducement to work ducement for men to war ! kicking at goes to fhe twefore the aot work. Their objection unfairness shown in dis It i=n'"t ting it ting | they dems tributing the They wpe of Eu share of the things they - result, any se the nd a pro- There is *ret are shou from house! rope inrger duce, or they refuse to work of human buman There isn't anything A good nature in it, (00 It is only self nature to think of nnatural he workingman looking for reward in th Willingness to on the thought of working for oneself Five things are ned and keep pr going. In i clothes work Ix largely based CRSEry 1o start oduction other get the shoes, stockings, coal ¢ mforts of life, to give q agricultural production, so dl Co the farmer the tools he needs for that we may the tr: at. $00 I rovide pecessary to nsportation and distribu bring the city to the ntry to the market we must essentinl things, collection tion, to and do five country the cou Need. have plants the Production’s First First, the we must use word in most general sense with machinery and tools, he they must for work, plant is ready Becond, a useless stands idle unless we provide terial, the thing furnished by that man and machine finished product. Third, we must have mw ma- work into the coal. of the man who runs the machine, articles, The government, the courts, has tried to force back The effort Is a failure, streets sre dark at night, are Business is these left the pit. The cold. crying out because of the coal shortage, we are on the men who pick and dig the coal. All of the Intelligence and enlture, the courts, the gold, are but symbols of power. When the coal Fourth, ering of raw material and the distribu: tion of the finished product. Fifth, and last, but first ia impor tance, is man power, The purpose of production is man. He is master of it at every stage, in every department. Without him production is impossible, The business men who proceed on the forget the Man cuts, digs, gathers and hauls the He hews the wood, builds the plant. He mines the ore, he makes the tools, the machinery. He oils it, sete it in motion, He runs it, He makes the furnace and the boiler, He digs and shovels the coal which makes the power. He defies the heat of the furnace. He builds the locomo- tive and pulls its throttle. He makes the freight car and stands in the sleet in the dangerous rallroad yard with the signal of safety. Railroads All Worn Out. Transportation in Europe is partly paralyzed, During the war railroad tracks and roadbeds were allowed to aoteriorate. It could not be helped, but the fact that it was unavoidable doesn’t alter the situation, Roadbed and rails have fallen to pieces, There is a terrible shortage of cars, Every where on the Continent this is felt third of the They hanve lense than a requireménts, The demand for trans portation facilities will neceggarily in crease during the period of reconstruc: tion. I have seen coughing, expiring every few kind one expects to find in a museum. CXPress, dition I commented upon the of the locomotive, which commented upon the condition of the coaches, The chief of the train looked at me, smiled and said: “If you think this one is bad you ought to see some of the others.” The war disarranged plants and fac- The demand was for muni- tions. Peace gave way to war and plant equipment efficient for peace production gave way to plant construc- tion necessary to manufacture the weapons of war. Plants were com- mandeered., Machinery was torn out, new machinery put in, A complete re- construction and reorganization was Now that the war Is over and demand for everything Is great, it i$ necessary to change these plants back and fit them for the production It is expensive, it takes time, production, It is strange that, while ean see and understand the difficuities incident to reorganizing tories, everyone delays many people cannot see or understand men's heen the COT rearranging who for four years have living abnormally. The effect of war upon plants and equipment is ceded by the very man who refused to see any effect of the war on the men Women in Labor World. During the war women answered the roll They left their homes and went to work, There is hardly a Kind of work that I can think of that I have Europe. 1 shovel driving tors on el call doing In ng boals, windows, seen women them load washing not have seen ing “ LE ins conl, cleaning streets, conduc Many of the the indusiries were young rams, women who went Ww oTnen the nd on into Now that the is over and men have the part of the tire to thelr ble in have gr for their living. Ther War come back there is 8 dems men that the women re- bomes This ix impossi- many cases, for these women own dependent upon their Joh toa, there is 8 shortage of marriageahle men Rome emp vantage « lovers of Iabor hav taken ad They pay a they pay a makes f this situation joss money than work. This woman man for the same both sympathy of has the He with him dissatisfied The won the working doesn’t want her fo compete his ther does he want the bo that to the extent wages will be lowered, ne to discriminate against her, Women io ving into the world of eaning they fire have come work If there is any m conscions,”™ They demands long have in the phrase “ciass are living examples of It more outspoken about than They before 1 man CAN brought their intu world, They men, and they stimulate men {0 action have brought to the prob interesting angie the hands their sense 8 wrong Thes o the labor than men see if, ition Int are more radical iabor and The key to the future is In Production that must be opened. Men women must work, or winter and make a No Man's Land of before the sun of 19020 thaws en and women, is the door will Europe Children crying for bread, shivering eald these bleak winter nights, they pray to God for good and warmth Their help cries are smothered by a great blanket—unrest. Will men hear them? Lo 1 sought to find the ecanses of nn- knowing it would bring me close to the heart of the trouble, 1830 rest, (Copyright Western Newspaper Union) Dickens’ Tribute to the Cow. If civilized peoples were to lapse In worship of animals, the oow certainly be their chosen god. dess. What a fountain of hlessing Is the cow! She ig the mother of beef, the source of butter, the original cause of cheese, to say nothing of shochorns, A gone creature, would tle. amiable, ever-yielding that she does not share with man. We rob her of her children, that we may rob her thereafter of her milk; and may he perpetrated. Charles Dickens, Approaching the End. Cicero in his dialogue entitled “De Senectute” makes one of his interloc- utors say that all men wish to attain old age and yet complain of the fact when they have attained it. He adds that one of the grievances of the old ie that age steals over them more rap- idly than they expected, It is pointed out that we cannot prevent time from passing, and that even if we lived eight hundred Instead of eighty years the past time, however long, cannot when It has flown away be able to “soothe with any consolation for an old age of folly.” A Sister Wilhelm Did Not Like. Princess Charlotte of Meningen, sie ter of the ex-kalser, who died recently, had been a sufferer for years and had undergone many operations, She puss. od most of her time on the Riviera. Indeed, the princess was a woman you couldn't miss, She wore bobbed hair, when no other woman had ever dream: ed of such a thing, and falked democ. racy, and smoked all the time. The ex- kaiser was rather alarmed at her vagaries pod preferred his other sis. ter, Queen Sophie of Greece, who Is more his sort—Lomdon Mail, Applicants for Insurance Often Rejected. Judging from reports from druggists who are constantly in direct touch with the public, there is one preparation that overcoming The and healing It stands the highest for An examining physician for one of the tn interview on the subject, made the as tonishing statement that one reason why so many applicants for insurance are re. jected is because kidney trouble is wo sommon to the American people, and the large majority of those whose applica. tions are declined do pot even suspect that they have the disease. It is on mle st all drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medium and large. However, if you wish first to test this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a wumple bottle. When writing be sure and A Coo! Head. ix ye #Hy-Oit un hile =n Fast end was getting other day he ter the the wa eT JIA ster repli 0s She told The S144 or The young ns ads co enrm and our dl lis News, “CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP” IS CHILD'S LAXATIVE Look at tongue! Remove poisons from stomach, liver and bowels, Accept “California™ Syrup of Figs oniy—iook for the name California on the package, then you are sure your child is having the best and most harm- less laxative or physic for the little stomach, liver snd bowels Children love its delicious fruity taste. Full directions for chi each bot. tle. Give it without Mother! You must say “California” ~— Adv, id's dose on fear. Getting a Night Out “Do you “Hy the doom Courier Sours nal, PUT CREAM IN NOSE AND STOP CATARRH Tells How to Open Clogged Nostrile and End Head Colds. You feel fine in a few moments. Your cold in head or catarrh will be gone. Your clogged nostrils will open. The air passages of your head will clear and you can breathe freely, No more dullness, headache; no hawking, enuffling, mucous discharges or dry- ness; Do struggling for breath at night, Tell your druggist you want a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm. Apply a this fragrant, antiseptic cream in your nostrils, let it penetrate through every air passage of the head ; soothe and heal the swollen, inflamed mucous membrane, and relief comes It is just what every cold and ca- peeds. Don’t stay Who Is Me? Wife—1'll tell you one thing. I know occasion Husband—Yes, but who is this Oc Cuticura Soothes Baby Rashes That itch and burn with hot baths of Cuticura Soap followed by gentle anointings of Cuoticura Ointment. Nothing better, purer, sweeter, espe cially if a little of the fragrant Cutl- cura Talcum is dusted on at the fin. ish. 25¢ each everywhere. —Adv, Things to Be Reckoned With, “There are no sure things in life” sighed the pessimist. “Oh yes, there are,” argued the phi- losopher. “How about the expenses you hadn't counted on?" Good health cannot be maintained where there is a constipated habit. Garfield Tea overcomes constipation. Ady. The average politician is as tough ws India rubber and his conscience is more elastic, ABRs i you oat ahhine yo outshine your | pors acquire a good reputation thea keep it polished.
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