Milk production is so sensitive a —— to changes in prices that the milk Owing profitable menths. cost of production, the distributors and the consumer is assured of a The feed expense in the purchased fe eds are fed. of farm-raised and siderably less in the su is true whether based upon the total milk. Proper significance of th horse labor, throughout the year. ducing one ¢ hundred pounds of cost, and wile a fluctuating se trade demands a constant supply of of milk must fluctuate approxi to prevent an extra shortage at one In other words, a properly adjusted fl protects the supply. farmer's the year sumers & This used on the herd 1s of ited only amount of labor bor i8 appre Cl savings occur in labor th the when the Crop Cason, : Aside from man labor, milk are more or less included the net cost 15% 18 SIX1y per cent of per nt. f. As tho 3 the v nonths. urban price f production in order and a large surplus oo IC Dri i { pe 1 1 i: and the Cis Arabian Plant Produces Seeds That Cause People to Behave Ridiculously there is a fects sim In Arabia seeds produce ef caused by hing gas, dry the seeds and reduce powder, a small curious effects, It est person dance and edly and to behave in a manner for an hour time exhaustion sets in an asleep, plant whose | ilar to The them those | natives | to which has the sober laugh excit- loug dose of causes to ridiculous | By nearly this | to wake up after sever with no recollection of his antics, The fruits of destroy the taste of sweetness, A berry In the district of Ashanti renders sour and b t shocks ean dia by n the electric tree. In Brazil some plan ahle luminosity. One Is that it can be plain ly the darkest nights for a di more than mile In its immediate | vicinity it sufficient light to en- | able a the print, wonderf: oOr some plants found | stances sweet. Electric In- of | itter st he obtained in central touching the leaves werely ts show remark- Inur distingnished ay stance OF emits ! person to read smallest | One of the most ly of stituted country is the ball-throwing fungus. It is a small fungus, about the size of a pea projects a ball to a eral with a report. plants this jriant stance of distinctly and sev inches ible Giraffe Has Use for Long Neck in Defending Himself The giraffe has neith beak nor teeth with defend itself or to attack so when It is out of temper of its own kind it to disembowel its rhinoceros might, er claws nor to | its enemies; i with one i does not attempt i adversary, as a or tear it, as a tiger | would. But nature has given it a long | and pliable neck, and, aecording to a writer in the New York Herald, fit uses the upper part of itself like a flail, swinging its neck round and round, and brings its head down at each swing with a thump on its antagonist. The other combatant uses precisely the same tactics, and the animals, planting themselves as firmly as pos- { gible by stretching out all four legs to | the utmost, stand opposite to each oth- er and hammer away with their heads until one or the other has had enough. sharp which two “Pork Barrel” Legislation and What the Term Means | “Pork barrel legislation,” in political parlance, is legislation involving ap- propriations for buildings and public work largely for the purpose of alding representatives and senators In mak- ing a good impression on their con- stituents. The expression Is based on the rural custom of sharing the con- tents of the pork barrel with a neigh- bor who has failed to lay aside a win- ter's supply, and the similarity of this custom to that of congressmen trading votes to help each other weather the political storms back home, Using Wood With Concrete. When wood is used as a reinforcing snaterinl for concrete it should be im- pregnated with magnesium chloride, and the wood must be so placed that any change in the cross-sectional area does not affect the durability of the structure, If the latter precaution Is overlooked the concrete may crack. YOUR SMILE Doesn't Know His Luck. Father find that married life ha Daughter—Well, yes. Er times won't | =O YOu ire bheginn £ten to reason, “The youn eC Pp He ought to be elf! It the ashamed of hims married man that gets That's All House what want- Busy wife—Well, do ails 4 ICR ry | of coffee. innuende. “When 1 little girl bs T+ wouldn't let me kiss anybody u was a they washed my face.” “Wouldn't be a bad idea n« her old-fashioned une with at her n ow," i le signifi cant glance wmkeup. Come High, but Must Have "Em. Kidder ght would youn? -No: 1 1 don't suppose you'd take wel in gold for your new baby, Newpop to sell out at should hardly Cost, The Situation. “That fellow 1 is a millionaire.” “1 should think he'd be happy when thinks of all the money he “Trouble is, he seems to think ly of all the money he hasn't.” Shakespearean Student, “Yes, has.” main. I may say Im a close stu- dent of Shake speare.” “And which of his plays do you tke best?” “Dromio Juliet.” and Its Advantage. “What a flowing siyle has!" “Yes; that writer 1 suppose that it is one thing Inconsistent Qualities. “The follow you see yonder is noth- ing but a rounder.” “That's queer; somebody told me he was a sharper.” WORTH REMEMBERING Righteouspess—ie who devi ates from a clear path may lose his way. Rumor.~<A whisper is louder than a sh “:, The eart.: has ears, rumor has wings. fhrewdness, If you want to fool, pretend to be a fool, Talkativeness, — While the pumpkin vine ereeps along, the fruit iy left behind, | Soothing Cigar Has Been Overtaken and Passed by Popular Little Cigarette Cigar types of tohaceo are produced New England, New York. Pennsyl the Miami valley in Ohlo, Wis Georgla and Florida, Of the tobacco crop of 1,3889,000,000 in 1010, the cigar types stituted about one-sixth, and the chew ing, smoking, snuff and a types most of the ’ remainder. necording to the bureau of crop United con estimates, cigar nere, types are heavy the average for 1019 being 1,200 while the other types had an average of 670 pounds, Before 1919, the average farm price of the cigar types of tobacco was al ways that of the other types, as a whole, hut In that year the ex traordinary demand for tobacco other than the cigar the Im: incre tobacco for raised farm smok snuff and export to 41.38 December 1, or greatly price of 21.9 cents for cigar to Indeed, the latter class of to lower price ti} ither not hut above classes and use of the nsed average f the composite chewing, types nbove bhoeeo had a m7 an in e of hecnuse increase f weaker overtake. ion, hecause o The cig: passed hy ir ha 8 heen the clgnre demand and tte, on BACK-YARD PULLETS MAKE GOOD RECORD prolifically ys short time for thelr their feed are the ites dream, D. (. iis hack Mr White hicks ‘Horton Leghort hooded 1410 bought two-day chicks, with The MM until thes were nough to he ¢ | an out } «ix oh t Lon wailt for them Coop Later n house Seven seven were onc ance was | Death Rate for 1918 Was Highest in History of the Country, Statistics Show ith f 18 for each 1.000 tration The de mite 0 death regis and 27 cities, with a of 81.808 £ 30 stat estimated population 1018 was cording to highest on rec census burean's 104 for morality statist] C8, whiel 1.471.367 Of the total deaths than 32 per wore due to influen za and pneumonia, 380.906 having curred in the last four months of the year when epidemic of these dis. eases prevailed, The rate for influen- 581.2 for each cansed 244.01 292 786, show. 984.3 for ench and the highest rates deaths for the year, §77.467, or more cent, or. nn za and ia was 100.006) deaths and ing rates of 100.000), respec tively, which ever have appeared for causes. The rate in 1017 for influen za was 17.2 and for pneumonia 140.8 The other principal causes of deaths of the heart, tuberculosis, acute nephritis, Bright's disease and which together wore responsible for 301.381 deaths, or nearly per cent of the total during the year. ptieumon Influenza pneumonia oR 0 these were organic diseases cancer, oy -h Natives Employ Curious Inhabitants of the little mountain country of Montenegro employ curious methods of medical treatment, accord- relief work there, The first thought of of the natives in healing wounds is to apply chewing tobacco, horsehair or tresh rabbit skin to a sore, with the hair facing inside, Common Ink is con. sidered to be a sovereign remedy for burns. Cobwebs are used in Montene gro to stop bleeding sores or wounds, When a person is bitten by a dog, the favorite remedy is to pull off the ani mal’s ear and rub the wound with it Since the arrival of American physi clans, however, the natives are mak- ing numerous visite to Red Cross clin leg and dispenseries a8 a means of curing their ils, PROBLEMS FACING |: STRICKEN WORLD Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in Europe Follow the Great Word War? DANGER IN GENERAL UNREST Practically Universal Feeling of Dis. content Will Grow Unless the Causes Which Gave It Birth Are Removed, Article. Vil. FRANK COMERFORD. It Is I started Furope 1 idle about By A specter haunts Europe, ghost of unrest. When to unrest In not ear to the who always knowe all thing, but never from ence with It, who pre out did theorist interview give my every. direct experi nor did 1 go to the aglta- unrest in did 1 seek out the Iabor who who is tryh to red words of fa- is eager for tor aches Nelther patical trouble, rest and marshal it Revolution type leader, mobilize un- under the I passed hy g£ polit platitud g and p of the place. hunting, iclan, 1 interested time-servin WHE not in rom- ines, I sought k those who knew It yy mtact the I went g_yerag of from with it nowledge unrest i miner nt the shi ie had rkness the mat listened weaty, of his ground, imsler, with ime with the idle well as lt Must Be Quieted f mind Is Unrest epiden ttle of vithout cifism in It ity cause, of this di ition, close to the cause threatens revols one and understand what the mind if the ng upon It de understand men we to and depend » thing brutal started, it wo i © BOLIEPR, uld Hike wile would be fire run ite course until stopped bees there ing left to burn. Who dares picture which It In this sprea world swept from The would use was noth state In would leave world? of and hunger he thinks of civiliza If unrest is 1 before It ssion and wrath, day, when the 3 i the world ge. when cold Aare on ed irritate, the checked one shudders when fate of ex- nt plodes in pa is an onk now, lo were an acorn then, it fore the war and justly complaining, The difference in the stop compiaining taught the ining. about their lot, four years them men compl 3 now is that trenches have caused to them much. They learned of force, their present tendency act is the grown grievance and war lesson. Before the war they plained; today they demand, It is teresting to examine unrest complaint stage, as these men knew it before 1014. These plain, have greatness Back k of the in- in ordinary average been intensely They loved their wives and children, they lived for their homes, they felt keenly their respongibility for the hap- piness oftheir loved ones, They have but one thing to give. Before the war they gave It unsparingly—it was their labor. Their one source of income was the pay envelope. With their wages they had to buy shoes, clothes, food, mon always human, and for the women they had chosen to be the moth- “Home” Before All “Home, Sweet Home” is the inter. national anthem. It is the heart song of the average man. The club plays From hig home he home, Shanties and tenements ‘are not homes, These men have always protested against the ugly shacks in which they were compelled to house their loved ones. They bit their lips in jobless days when their children went to bed hungry. Resentment grew In their hearts when they saw how poorly dressed their wives and children were. They muttered curses when their children were forced to go to work. They wanted to give their children a better education than they had had, a better chance in life, and they lnughed at laws prohibiting child ‘abor, while conditions compelled chil. dren to work or starve, As these men grew older thelr families grew in wize and demand, while thelr ability to earn decrensed. The tragedy istered in their pay envelopes. were being ground between growing needs and diminishing Th grinding not only hurt their bodies, it furrowed thelr brain. reg They WHEeH, They lived in dread of poverty, It had been their nurse, thoy femed ft would be thelr pallbearer., Poverty had taken its revenge upon They were resolving that if they conld help It it would not put its lash upo thelr children, They knew poverty intimately, It wasn't a word, a name, living hateful, cruel compan the devil that recruited Marys of Scarlet Hall, the Magda of the and always the army was mobilized from the shanties of the Children who had been robbed of their youth, who had owned a flower, poorly fed and erably clad, dragged out of bed alarm clocks, sounding the call to should have bell, the them, it wns a ton. It the lens was slums, poor, never mis- hy toll Answer when they the been ing school children physical. unfit for hreadwinner's without the for the fight Woman's | the worl Light in Education, the strug mora iidren or * NOCESKAry No under Were into BCU iefore wir men were hroodine on these things, papers, hooks, , life, pictured the debate zines mirroring were » eyes of a mot re the fears he The invention of the typeset! heap manufacture of public school fihrarls a libraries, hroug is of the workn He wants to ge kept hin is dari ce had overty. ” hstacle They sa was Contradiction in Berlin, oils, clothes, milk for windoy full of bea WH Housing conditions pinch despite the that Berlin and in before the war, in Berlin wefore It all day other cities have less population th Every cron d as well candy store window long. Adults, as children, stand and displays of sweets, Movies—most of them immoral Twelve new are moving The most popular firms are those “on the ragged edge” Theaters are opera, as a rule. crowded, and =o is the “Old Timely" on Rhine Again, Quite a number of regular “old tim- ers” who marched to the Rhine with the American army of occupation in December, 1018, and who have been to the United States and discharged and enlisted again, go to make up the Fifth and Fiftieth infantry regiments which arrived recently In the vicinity of Coblenz to await possible dispatch in the near future to Upper Silesia to supervise the plebiscite, Some of them saw ten and twelve months’ service In France and Bei gium before the armistice, Ruse Losses 35,000,000 The Polish professor, A. A. Ossen- doffsky, chief of the Intelligence de partment of the all-Russian govern- ment, estimates that the world war, bolsheviem, Civil war, starvation and disease has cost Russia a total of 35. 000 lives, He places the cost of bol- sheviem at 12,280,000 liver, Professor Ossendoffsky says that formerly the Russian population Increased at the rate of four persons a minute. Today 1t is decreasing at the rate of twelve to thirteen s minute. RUGS EXCITE YOUR KIDNEY 3 USE SALTS if Your Back Hurts or Bothers, Drink Lots of Water, Bladder When your kidneys hurt and yonr back feels sore, don’t seared and proceed to load your stomach with a lot of drugs that exe the kidneys the entire urinary tract, Keep your kidneys clean like you keep your clean, by flushing with a mild, harmless galts which re. the body's urinons waste and stimulates them to thelr normal activ. ity. The function of the kidneys iz to filter the blood, In 24 nours they strain from It 500 grains of acid and waste, go we can understand the vital importance of keeping the kidneys active, Drink lots of water- too much: also cist about four take a tablegspoonful in a water hefore for a fine, from the rot wel ite howelg them moves readily vou can't drink get from pharma. of Jad Ra ginus morning any ounces Its; of breakfast each few and idneye will famons salts days our } This acid net made of grapes and lemon combined with lithia, snd has used for generations to clean and stimulate clogged kidneys: also to neutralize the acids in orine so It no thus longer is n source of irritation ending t Jad frre: 1144 should their ki this ladder weakness Baltes Is Inexpensive: cannot in. makes a delipg! nl fforveseent ip. water drink which everyone then to keep Try ine ng take now and dneys clean and active algo keep up the water drink no doubt von will wonder what and became of backache — Adv, your kidney trouble Make Themselves Miserable, It } ' i To abort a cold and prevent coms plications, take The purified and refined calomel tablets that are nausealess, safe and sure, Medicinal virtues retain. ed and improved. 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