THE CENTRE REPORTER, FocSimite Signatare Of aE wm CoNPANE. co YORK. 10 Sr hea S FREER Exact Copy of Wrapper. COULDNT FORGET THE GREEN | Loyalty to Her Native and Her Adopted Land. Mrs. Flannigan for years has proud ly exhibited from her front @ row of geraniums, in pots wrapped In bright, Irish green crepe paper, says the Indianapolis News. But the other day when her ghbor, whose son was in France for several months, pulled back her window curtain and revealed her flower pots, decorated In red, white and blue paper, Mrs. Flan- aigan bly troubled. She wor- ried and worried. It is quite hard to be loyal to two countries at the same time, yet Mrs. Flannigan desired to be Then on smile passers-by ss: window a red, white ery ring a wide ba f green nei was visi 80, e morning 1g her wide Irish her face. And 1 the Flannigan front f flower pe came to ots brave In and Blue coverings and ev- s tied to with ribbon. coveri wa the pot She Had’ it Buried. In illustration of the e3 gold and sily China, the bureau merce reporte her purcha $50.000 w had dug ou estimated political quate ba ughout China, worth of silver is mila hoarded, which may partial exchange nt to which aoarded In & . yf the gives 1 ] Of at » present 8 Naturally, are lashing state excitement nse I want to get off the beat en track.” “Why such a “Been you ¢ OL Adam also got his eyes open after bis marriage ——— GASTORIA For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. | PERU S DRIFTING SAND DUNES i Shaped Formations That Are | Packed Hard. one the ascent of fron Pacific port Peru, follow line of Southern of Peru the is steps or widespreading or pampa. 1 the first As Andes le the makes : ’ the of ndo, ing the Railway, the climb oO divide broken by two shelves of des ert Or two ¢ of bout fil hours’ steep and at an altitude sand to five t the famous The plateau miles wide, the no trace of veg ye Can ‘omposed of fi see, ne n white and prevailing They feet in part of the hundred So tightly is the feet the + impression on the desert, ward the this region. | to twenty thick breadth Crescent * > ¥ Hes one foot fie the od horses is il. of or mules A War Lesson, gh 1 is morning, but I didn’t have the “Why not? “I noticed that jotted a amount on a scrap of paper.” “1 thought it un mnt a scrap of paper signifies an obli- that won't be met” jorrowedd R20 ron me mind letting tl him he own the nerall generally lerstood I's | i gation Result, Beams Natural “Your friend thought." “Yes; he Is In a grave reverie” buried In Laws of health are simple, consist in not enjoying great deal, They anything a vousness and sleeplessness, way, try fulness, Sold by Grocers in two sizes—25¢—15¢ PROBLEMS FACING | STRICKEN WORLD Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in Europe Follow the Great World War? LAND QUESTION IN RUSSIA | Natural Desire of Peasants to Parti. cipate in Ownership of Soil They Till Is Root of the Revolution. Article XVII By FRANK COMERFORD. In talking with people about Russia, I have discovered that most people In America have only a faint, uncertain, vague idea of the country, Czar Nich- olas, the last of the self-proclaimed au- | tocrats, was monarch of 8.660000 | square miles, one-sixth of the entire | land surface of the earth. The great Russian empire is spread over part of | two continents, Europe and Asia, It Is almost entirely confined to the cold | and temperate zones, Three seas bound it on the north— | White, Barents and Kara of the arctic; the seas of Bering, Okhotsh and Japan of the northern Pacific bound it on the east. The Baltle the gulfs of | Bothnia and Finland Iimit it on the northwest; two sinuous lines of land front separate it respectively from Sweden and Norway on the northwest, and from Prussia, Austria and Rou. mania on the west, On the south and seq, ly, according to the expansion and con- traction of the empire under the pres gure of political exigency and expedi- Black sea is the princi pal demarcating feature on the south On the west side frontier touc 20 miles: on the sea It zigza the Caspian, for part of is vir he south some 1 hes the Dunube for cmt of from the Black utilizing the river the Ax t tually a Russian Persia may said to form the next link in the south ern boundary of the followed by Afghanists ince 1885 British India, away side the same to Aras he gs sea distance, Caspian sea, Russian empire On the Pa- been co- the north the y 100 0 Russian has = terminous mirs with but then swing 2.806) nearly Xx) mi! 11.06%) son, miles rope and be Asin tween and frontier of Empire's Vast Population, ' the 10.066) 200) mille in — Osi) flow The cording mated at same tribute i sia, 131.706.8500: in Cancasus, 13.12% 837.000 ; in the central Asian provinces, 11,125,000: Finland, 3.125.000, iy cent of the Jacple ts. The land § ry AN: In Iver per peasan It life, T} ni the Is A iefind Russia are means home ir one dream has been Land ownership is their idea work, to their ition of freedom, of happiness, The Russian peasant has been a stranger In his own country. The | man who tills the soil and lives on the | Iand and yet never ns an acre of | it i= a foreigner, even though his forbears may have been native to the | country for centuries. The Russians | have felt this; they are simple, home ! loving people. From the conversations I have had with Russians of the peas ant class I believe that they have suf. more because they never had a chance to own their own homes, their own farms, than from the denial to | them of political freedom. The land question is a heart question, a hearth question to them, Crime in Land Distribution. Some idea of the land erime in Rus ela is *old in the startling figures show. ing the actual distribution of arable | land, forests and meadows in Euro pean Russia. The following table is only one count in the indictment: | European Russia. jg ow land. owl Percent. age x 16 1] 19 100 This land In European Russia was | divided among the different classes of owners as follows: Acres Arable land 301.435.000 Meadows and pastures 185 482 e00 Forests ..........ccoev.. 52153000 Uncultivated ....oieve.. 220,279,000 1,159,354,000 Per- cent. Acres age State and imperial family. 0R1600 8 Peasants ................. . HE.65T.00 30 Private owners, towns, ete. 245.835.000 21 Unfit for cultivation........ 66,086,000 by I———— | So——_ 1,158, 864,000 100 The condition of the peasants prior to the revolution, according to official documents, appears to be as follows: “In the 12 central governments they | grow, on the average, suflicient rye for bread for only 200 days in the year, often for only 180 and 100 days” One-quarter of the people have re ceived allotments of only 2.9 acres per male, one-half of them less than 85 to 11.4 acres—the normal size of the allotment neceasary to feed and main taln a family being estimated at 28 CENTRE HALL, PA. to 42 acres, “Therefore the peasants were compelled to rent land from the landlords at fabulous prices, The aggregate value of the redemption and land taxes often reached 185 to 250 per cent of the normal value of the allotment, not to speak of the taxes for recruiting, the churches, roads and local administration, chiefly levied from the peasants. The peasants have sunk deeper into debt every year. The scheme was a quicksand--the harder they worked and struggled the deeper into debt they fell, Increasing arrears have driven one-fifth of the inhabit. ants from thelr houses, Every year more than half the adult males (in some districts three-quarters of the men and one-third of the women) are | forced to quit their. homes and wan- | der throughout Russia In search of | work. In the governments of the | black earth region the state of mat. | ters Is hardly better. i The phrase “class distinction more than rhetoric In Russia—It part of the chains, it handcuffed tiny, bolted the door of opportunity. | The great mass of the people, 81.6 peasants; 1.0 per cent made nobility; 9 per cent the 93 per cent the burghers merchants; 6.1 per cent the mill thus 147,000,000 of the Russians | peasants, slavery was | wns | des | up the clergy; and tary; The consecrated by law in 1861, in Russia in 1600 was partly The Act only pretended to the serfs. Even the best landlords conditions continued to terrible. Household servants or de abolished | under of leased, letariat thelr masters were re They joined the town The peasants were arable land. These al- lotments were not given the indi. duals, they were glven over t commune called the Mir, wus made res whole the payment It w sort of land excep pro- given al- of to 0 the vi which for ius | that ible as of allotments communism, pons a af made them tenant serfs. was a demption chs the gidered compl 8 mertpaged commu irge Was value of the ls as payn on loss of the ” he rec. v + oot 4 preiencgea ent for the labor of serfs of ry the Meant was Act which ensiavement ognized in the . ss *lan mancipation. Peasants Systematically Cheated. ws of land propriet allotments di needed the lation « barb: pu peasants ever was the clearing a socis f local self gos it simpls operating ghts “ of provid in bearing. prright, 1920 HARD AT WORK nN BELGIUM Coal Mining and Other Industries Are Being Rapidly Put on a Normal Basis {iC Western Newspaper turn nor- nea needed for Belgls 350.000 tons The Belgian coal mines ing out 80 per cent of the mal prods They supply all the the industries, while some conl a month are exported to France Then the great glass industry of the which before the war gave many thousands, is rapidly regaining its former prosperity, and only quite recently the French minis of reconstruction gave an order | to a single Belgian firm for 2.000.000 | fire now abot setion ¥ coal An of to fons, The at in the devastated reg whereas, utilized result of all this is that tice, the French franc was worth 110 | or even 1.15 francs In Belgium, it is now worth 80 centimes, Belgium, moreover, is very far from confining | her efforts to France. Great Britain is | already a considerable Importer of Belgian goods, while the United States | recently placed an order in Belgium of glassware, Large.Hearted Doughboys. The children played a large part in the American army's Christinas in France. At the artillery camp at Mail ly, for example, it was a fop sergeant who said, ten days or so before the day: “Say. fellows, these poor little vil Inge kids haven't had much Christ now? What do you say, we take up a col lection nnd see what we conn do?” The idea took In an flash. And they did so well, giving as they always gave, with both hands, that the total sum was amazing, “Why.” some one hazarded, “I reck. on we could hand those little shavers pretty near anything they want, with all this wad to spend.” Bright eves, = rosy cheeks and red lips come from good digestion. Wrigley’'s is a delicious ald to the teeth, breath, appetite and digestion. — e G DEW HAS VITALIZING EFFECT Abundant Proof That It Possesses In. vigorating Action That Affects Growth of Plants, the a rule reach it form upon vhereas as CAD Honey Yield Higher, The average yield of surplus honey n 1019 wa woney bees, ~au fepa colon iis to a by of crop est ritment of agri average of and 41 above 45 pou nds 6-10 pounds for the ive years 1013-1817. The relative pro- portions In which honey of the ast two vears was marketed are Indl sated by 50 for extracted honey, 31 for somb honey and 10 for bulk honey. siderably n 1918, of 3 the ‘outside” markets. He Knows Best. Hostess—-You can't dance? sense! 1 saw you dancing with Miss The Guest--Yes, and she hasn't AIDED BY Out by the Wi Have Great Effect Generations. MORALE Fact Brought to and along of Africa, i (French) he west the ongitude ! tO are ast, northerls pa the paralle north; the southernmost known, the territory | into the unmaj ped Saha To Be Washed Out. Hogg—Wrote a ballad on my cuff the other day. What would you ad | vise me to do with it? Blogg--Send it to the London Tit-Bits, Some men's ideas of reciprocity ew on 1 east, in | ots «3 de exireme ly at about degrees un- outh itely. _ © The rt of Libya ’ is of lat 3 tude point is runs ra indefi: us < | laundry. — are { rather one-sided. wheat and malted . FL RRL 1 ~/ Sold Grocers
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