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Won Dlstlnctloti In Three Wars.
Gen. John B. S. Todd, a soldier of
three wars and governor of Dakota
territory, was born 100 years ago
In Lexington, Ky. In his youth he
removed with his parents to Illinois.
He graduated from West Point In 1837
and for five years thereafter was ao
tively engaged In the Florida war.
During the war with Mexico he distin
guished himself In the siege of Vera
Cruz and at the battle of Cerro Gordo.
Subsequently he took part in the Sioux
expedition In the Northwest. For a
short period In the early part of the
Civil war he commanded a division of
the Army of the Tennessee. After
quitting the army he served as a Da
kota delegate In congress and was gov
ernor of the territory from 1869 to
1871. General Todd died at Yankton
in 1872.
Worse.
White—-Now that your son has grad
uated, haB be decided where he Is
going to work?
Green—Where? He hasn’t even de
cided when.—Judge.
The less amiable a woman Is the
handsomer she thinks she needs to be.
Are You Suffering FromO
Auto-Intoxication; s «
Intoxication is
the state of being poisoned, from toxic, substances produced within the
body.” This Is a condition due to the stomach, bowels, kidneys, liver, or
pores of the body failing to throw off the poisons More than 50 of adults
are suffering from this trouble. This Is probably why you are suffering from
nervousness, headaches, loss of appetite, lack of ambition, and many other
symptoms produced by Auto-Intoxication. Your whole system needs stirring up.
DR. PIERCE’S GOLDEN
MEDICAL DISCOVERY
tin Tnhlnt M Ihiilif Fom.!
expel accumulated poisons. It acts as a tonic and finally
enables the body to eliminate its own poisons without b« without ft wh«D it win
any outside aid. Obey Nature’s warnings. Your dealer mp?
In medicines will supply you. or you may send 50c for a sample pinaandinuiiinar—81 on*
indue* at tablets by null. Addreu Dr.R.V.Plerce, Buffalo,N.Y. ftSgSHrfZ {£•£v>
Uncomfortable.
”I» Boozer still on the water
wagon?”
"No, very restless.”—Boston Tran
script.
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTOItIA, a safe and sure remedy for
Infants and children, and see that it
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In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
Grounds for Complaint
Hip—Taste that!
Hop—Why, that's the best soup 1
ever tasted!
Hip—Yes; but the steward had the
gall to say It Is coffee.—Michigan
Gargoyle.
RED, ROUGH HANDS MADE
SOFT AND WHITE
For red, rough, chapped and bleed
ing hands, dry, fissured. Itching, burn
ing palms, and painful finger-ends,
with shapeless nails, a one-night Cutl
enra treatment works wonders. Di
rections; Soak the hands, on retir
ing, In hot water and Cutlcura Soap.
Dry, anoint with Cutlcura Ointment,
and wear soft bandages or old, loose
gloves during the night. These pure,
sweet snd gentle emollients preserve
the hands, prevent redness, roughness
end chapping, and Impart In a single
Wight that velvety softness and white
ness so much desired by women. For
those whose occupations tend to In
Jnrs the hands, Cutlcura Soap and Cu
tlcura Ointment are wonderful.
Cutlcura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
tree,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
ward “Cutlcura, Dept. L. Boston.”—Adv.
Forehanded.
“I want three afternoons off a week,
and a fine letter of recommendation,
ud—"
“But we'll let the letter of recom
mendation wait until you leave, I—”
“Nope, 1 get the letter now. I've
tried gettin’ them when 1 leave and
I’ve never been able to get a good one
yet."
Dim.
“What do you think of my mus
tache?"
"I hadn’t noticed It. It’s rather a
dark day.”
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Immigration figures show that the SmM
Culation of Canada increased dur- Jlwu
1915, by the addition of 400,000
Mw settlers from the United States "aSQ
and Europe. Most of these have gone ml
an farms in provinces of Manitoba, El
Saskatchewan and Alberta. ftffi
Lord William Percy, an English Nobleman, jttj
“The possibilities and opportunities offered fytx
htf the Canadian West ere so infinitely
treater then those wliich exist in Bnglend, jH
that it seems absurd to think that peopleJajEj
abauid be impeded from coming to thoVgjy
•euntrr where they cen most aesily ai,Jeijj*0|
•ertelnly Improve their position. JLfP
Mew districts are being opened up. c
Mich will make accessible • greet JMejSsfi
■amber of homesteads in districts a wftV kwfxnet
•specially adapted to mixod hum
■■ and grain raising. eefcltbiSlwM
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Cynical.
Actor—I’ve had lota of notices
wherever I have played.
Critic—Notices to quit?
Putnam Fadeless Dyes are the eas
iest to use. Adv.
Natural Mistake.
"I was only whispering sweet noth
ings In Mabel’s ear," said the young
man as Aunt Miriam entered the par
lor in search of her glasses.
"Strange you should have mistaken
her mouth for her ear,” retorted the
aunt as she left the room.
Solace.
“Aren’t you worried about these
public questions?"
“Ves," replied Farmer Comtoesel.
"Hut l’m thankful fur this much.
There’s enough of 'em so that when
you get tired of worryln’ about one
you can rest your mind thlnkln’ about
another.”
Puzzled.
Husband—I see that a German has
Invented a clock that tells the day
of the month by sounding the num
ber.
Wife—I don’t see how It can tell
tho 10th, 20th and 30th of the month.
It can strike the one, two and three
all right, but how can It sound the
cipher?
Big English Incomes.
Replying to a parliamentary Inquiry
as to how many persons in Great Brit
ain are assessed for super-tax at $750,
000 or more, the secretary of the treas
ury said: "1 cannot undertake to classi
fy In separate divisions Incomes ex
ceeding $500,000 a year. The aggre
gate number of persons assessed for
super-tax In respect to an Income ex
ceeding $500,000, according to the la
test figures available, is 66.”
Smiles
Usually show up
with Post Toasties.
And why not, when
the famous “toastie"
flavor begins opera
tions!
There’s a deal of skill
required in cooking and
toasting these thin bits of
corn so that every one of
the millions of crinkly
(lakes has the delicious
I oasties taste that invites
one to call for more.
Post Toasties come in I
sealed packages — fresh,
crisp and appetizing —
Ready to eat with cream
or good milk, and a
sprinkling of sugar if you
like.
Post
Toasties
— cold by Grocers, j
HELPED SPEND MILLIONS
OF FORMER MERCHANT
Sill 'X
Miss Dorothy Sanborn Wilde Is the stepdaughter of Henry Siegel, the
bankrupt merchant prince of New York city, whose failure Involved the
Siegel Interests In Chicago, Boston and Now York. It Is said she helped
spend his millions. Her father was George M. Wilde of the United States
navy. She Is an expert horsewoman and has studied for two years under
Jean de Reske.
THE TENTH MAN.
By Katherine Hopson.
(Copyright, 1914, by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
"Nino men out of 10 would!"
"But there Is still the 10th one."
Sibyl Clark shook her head. ‘‘Sometimes
I doubt It. I believe they all prefer beauty
to any other quality. And I don't blame
them—I don’t blame Ralph for admiring
Ethel Martin. I do, too. Bike rnost very
plain people, I fairly worship beauty In
others.
"It’s unfortunate this girl came to visit
In Ennlsburg Just now, when things were
a bit difficult between you and Ralph any
way," Mrs. Underwood, Sibyl’s married
sister, re-arranged her embroidery hoops
with a worried frown.
"Better now than—later." Sibyl’s laugh
was a little forced.
"There’s something I’ve been thinking ft
long time; but haven’t had the courage to
say." Mrs. Undrwood regarded her sis
ter reflectively for a moment. "I have
felt for Borne time that you and Ralph
ought to break your engagament.”
Sibyl started In surprise, but her sister
continued: "If you had married four
years ago when you first became engaged,
all might have been well. But you both
decided to go to college and during this
time you have grown apart. You have
both changed He has developed tho friv
olous side of his nature, and you have
grown to look on the serious side of life a
little too closely. If you had attended the
same university', von might have acquired
some of the same ideals; but since you
went to radically different the re
sult la what might have been e^^aoted."
Sibyl laughed a little unsteadily. "That's
—that’s pretty strulght talk, Sis "
"I know It. that's why I’m giving It to
you. Think It over ."
81bvl agreed, and In truth was com
pelled to do so. as a little later she saw
Ralph Coston stop his car for Miss Mar
tin, tho girl who was visiting next door.
Pretty, fluffy haired Ethel Martin ap
peared never to have ft serious thought In
the world, and she and Ralph were laugh
ing gayly as they rode by.
Sibyl watched them from behind the
curtains In her room. "I wonder how
Ralph thinks I feel about his marked at
tentions to Miss Martin. But he doesn’t
care- that’s the point—and wrhy should I?"
"If It Is such a good day for autolng.
I’ll go, too." Hastily she dressed, and at
the last moment before leaving her room,
drew' from her Anger the engagement ring
w'hlch for four years had been such an
Integral i>art of her life.
She was an expert driver and her trim
little runabout spun rapidly down the
smooth roads. It was one of those days
In midwinter which seem a forerunner of
spring and the rest of It gets Into the
blood.
In spite of troubles. Sibyl found herself
In tune, and fell to thinking—not of Ralph
and the present situation-hut of old days
at the university. Since her graduation
last spring she had not had time to ad
just herself to the new order of things,
and often mlsHed the old friends. Ralph,
who had graduated from an eastern col
lege at the same time, had thought best
to postpone th«tr marriage another year
until he could adapt himself to business In
the snug berth awaiting him In his fath
er’s ofJJce.
"If he had had to get out and rustle for
a jjosltlon ns did most of the fellows who
graduated In my class. It would be better
for him,” Sibyl had often thought to her
self.
Memories of old classmates brought to
h>r mind Kenneth Collins, the one she
h.'.d known best She had seen a notice
In the paper of his recent arrival In Fin
nlsburg to spend a few days at the home
of an uncle.
"I hope I shall see him while he Is
here."
On and on she went, paying little heed
to her surroundings, until she noticed her
way ahead was blocked by a large tour
ing cor with which the driver was ap
parently have trouble. He was down be
side it busy with wrench and tools She
saw it was the Reeve's car. and with a
start recognized Kenneth Collins as the
driver in misfortune.
“This is worse than college algebra,"
called she. stopping her car alongside.
He turned, pleasurable surprise lighting
up his frank pleasant face.
"Sibyl Clark! l?y all that's lucky!"
He drew off his gloves and came over
for a cordial handshake.
Immediately conversation turned on the
subject of his difficulties ■»r* ?he oar
"I can't find out what's the matter with
the thing.” acknowledged he. “If it were
a horse. T should he right at home, but a
big touring car like this Is not my native
heath."
"tree's so* If T ran discover what's
wrong.” She alighted and Joined In the
search for the cause of the balkv car.
Soon it was revealed to be of so serious
a nature as to require the services of an
iff pert machinist.
"It's only about half a mile from here
to the Wayside Inn. Ket me take you
there, and you can telephone to town for
some one to come and mend the oar."
Collins gratefullv consented on condition
she would have lunch with him at the
Inn.
They talked of old college days, of the
work, and play and old friends there.
Then Collins launched Into a description
of the new position which had Just been
offered him In the chemical department
°f a large manufacturing company.
“Tt'a a chance to do a man’s-size work
and fee] one Is doing some actual good In
the world testing the food supply.” A*
he talked on about his hopes and ambi
tions, 81 by* listened, every faculty alert.
After all there were men with high vi
sions. She contrasted him with Ralph
Coston, who had lately repudiated her
“soul-talk.”
Suddenly In the midst of what he was
saying, Collins broke off—his keen, gray
eyes on her ringless hands: “You're not
wearing your—your diamond now?”
“No,” she answered.
“I used to feel that that big gllnty dia
mond you wore bored like a gimlet
through my soul. Rut now you no longer
wear it. I’m free to say how I have al
ways cared for you-”
“Oh. no, no, you mustn’t say It,” she
protested, for there was no mistaking the i
exnresslon in his eyes.
He glanced around the rapidly filling
dining room. “Of course this Isn’t the ]
place to speak. A girl has a right to the
prescribed setting—moonlight and that
sort of thing-”
Sh'e spread out her hands denrecatlngly.
“Oh. It isn’t that—the moonshine part. In
fact, I prefer the practical light of day—”
“So do T. I've always had an Idea that
a life contract agreed to In broad, sane
daylight would be pretty apt to stand the
wear and tear of time.”
“Especially when one Is as plain as I
am—then there would be no disillusion- \
ments.” Her smile was a little bitter.
"You—plain? Why. 81b. you’re you—and
that’s always enough for me.”
Her eyes grew misty, brtt before she
could apeak thev were interrunted by a
waiter, who said apologetically: “Beg
pardon, sir; the man from the garage 1*
here.”
“Very well. T* 11 be there In a minute.’*
Then to Sibyl: “Time and automobile*
wait for no one. May T come over tomor
row at 10? That's a practical enough time
to suit anybody.”
She laughingly nodded In assent.
Sibyl got into her own runabout and
drove rapidly back home. She was glad
not to encounter nrv one on the veranda
or in the hall, and had a long quiet time
in her room for thinking of things. For
a time she was uncertain, but the return
of Ralph and Miss Martin to the house
n»*xt door decided her. There was a look
of rapture on his face as he helped out the
other girl that Sibyl had not seen in hi*
face for her sirce their first engaged sum
mer.
“That engagement was founded on
moonlight and propinquity, but this oth
er-■’*
She studied her face In the mirror. Her
frank, almost rugged features, and seri
ous brown eyes looked back at her. “At
last Kenneth knows me Just as I am—he
has known me In classroom and campus
for four years.”
Resolutely she got out her writing ma
terials and wrote a letter—a letter that re
quired much thought and some revision,
hut when It was finished she wrote Ralph
Coston’s name on the envelope and sealed
It without a tremor. Then with a last,
long look at the ring which had played so
vital a part In her early girlhood, put It
In its velvet lined box. wrapped it up and
addressed it for mailing.
Tm glad that man Interrupted us when
he vhd; I wanted to gain time. Time to
be off 'with the old before T was on with
the new. Tomorrow I can listen to Ken
neth with a clear conscience.”
Twilight was falling w*en sho reached
the hoi,qe. aiid Sibyl joined net* sister. Ed
na. who was MonS in Up; Jiving room.
*’Y0Urre right. Ed. Beauty lent the
chief thW With some men-the 10th
ones" declared she. plunulng Into her
story without preamble "T knowwhere
of I speak, for I have found the 10th
man.”_^
Iowa 70 Years Aqo.
From the Clinton Herald.
Seventy years ago Iowa was a frontier
country which attracted large numbers of
settlers from the east, much as in our
own day the newer states of the far west
have been the goal of thousands of home
seekers. The spirit of the times is well
Illustrated by the following extract from
an Iowa City newspaper which has been
preserved in the library of the State His
torical Society of Iowa.
“Vast numbers of people will no doubt
be seeking our territory. The new pur
chaae will draw a host of emigrants, while
the settled part of the territory will doubt
less acquire a large addition of popula
tion. The starving hordes of Europe, the
unrequited labor, and the unemployed
but willing hands of Industry, and a
goodly number, as usual, of the loafers
society from the Ohio valley, the south
and the east will ho traveling to Iowa.
We take this opportunity to advertise,
for the benefit of emigrants generally,
that a good number of tanners and leath
er dressers, boot and shoe makers, sad
dlers, blacksmiths, stone masons, chair
makers, and manufacturers of wooden
ware. etc., will find business, good wages,
and cheap living in Iowa, and there Is a
special and earnest call for about 6.000
good looking, industrious and sweet tem
pered young women."
Canadian labor unions demand the
establishment oil an old age penelon
syatem through out Canada
I
DOWAGER EMPRESS OF
JAPAN PASSES AWAY
Queen Mother Dies, in Pres
ence of Royal Family, Fol
lowing Long Illness.
Toklo. Special: The Dowager Em
press Haruko died at the Imperial villa
at Namazu today.
Following the usual custom In the
case of the death of a member of the
Imperial family, the official announce
ment of the event will not be made
until the body has been transferred to
the capital, prohably tomorrow.
Her majesty died suddenly In the
presence of Emperor Yoshihlto, the
empress and the other members of the
royal family, who had been summoned
from the capital.
The Imperial patient had developed
deceptive symptoms. She displayed In
creased vigor and asked for food. A
short time afterward her majesty be
came unconscious. The doctors in at
tendance applied restoratives but with
out avail.
Her majesty had been suffering for
a considerable period from angina pec
toris, but the official diagnosis de
clared that Bright’s disease was the
direct cause of death.
The Dowager Empress Haruko was
the widow of Emperor Mutsuhlto, who
died on July 30, 3 912. She was born
on May 28. 1850, and was the daugh
ter of a nobleman, Ichijo Tadado. In
1869 she married the late emperor and
was declared empress.
Haruko, by the side of her husband,
passed through the troubled period of
the transformation of Japan at the be
ginning of Mutsuhito’s reign. She saw
him transfer his capital from Koto
to Yedo, which was later renamed
Tokio. She watched with curious in
terest the opening of the country
foreign commerce, its departure from
old world customs and its adoption of
western civilization. She awaited In
the imperial palace news of the Jap
anese armies at war, first with China
and then with Russia, and saw the
complete evolution of Japan into a
world power.
CHAN-CHAN. RUINED OLD
CHIMU CAPITAL, IN PERU
Chan-Chan, the ruined old capital of
the Chlmus, Is not In China, nothwith
standing that the name might suggest
such a location to the uninitiated. If the
Chlmus ever lived In oriental lands our
archaeologists have failed to discover
the fact. They were Americans, just
as were the Incas, whose traditions
traced back an unbroken line of kings
for 1-000 years before the Spanish con
quest, and whose civilization Is so much
better known to us; and once upon a
time these same Chlmus were formida
ble rivals in all the arts of war and
peace, of the Incas. They dwelt along
the shores of Peru, as did the Incas on
the high Andes, and like the Cartha
ginians of old, were a seafaring people.
“Mystery abounds in pre-Columbian
America,” writes Walter Vernier in the
March issue of the monthly bulletin of
the Pan American Union, “and the far
ther modern research penetrates into
the ancient civilizations of Mexico,
Central America, and the west coast of
South America, the more the mystery
of their origin seems to deepen. Among
the problems presented to archaeology
and anthropology none, perhaps. Is more
fascinating than that of the Chimu pto
ple of Peru. What we read of these
dwellers of the north coast of the land,
made famous by the Incas, is contained
in casual references by the early Span
ish chroniclers; what we see of their
civilization consists of stupendous ruins
near the modern town of Trujillo.”
The ruined temples and palace walls
of this ancient city, richly ornamented
In bas-relief, the vast irrigation works,
the mounds containing the sepulchers
of once powerful rulers, all indicate
that the ancient Chlmus were worthy
rivals of the "children of the sun” who
finally conquered them.
The Incas, so tradition says, came
from the south to settle the region once
occupied by an ancient race of Cyclo
pean builders. The Chlmus of the
coast are said to have come from the
north on a flotilla of rafts, and savants
are not agreed as to the time of their
Invasion. Some think there Is evidence
of two earlier civilizations; others that
everything points to a relatively short
occupancy of the valleys, extending
over only a few centuries prior to the
advent of the Spaniards. Racially the
Chimus. in common with nearly all the
Pacific coast peoples of South Ameri
ca north of Chile, present the charac
teristics found among a large portion
of the ancient and modern inhabitants
of Central America and Yucatan, ut
terly distinct from the highland type
of the Inca conquerors.
lie tnat as it may, there are re
markable evidences of the advanced
civilization of this extinct race. The
irrigations works, aqueducts, reservoirs
and canals whose ruins may still be
seen make It certain that the en
gineering skill of the Chimus was of
the very highest order. The water was
brought down from the Muc.hl river,
which was tapped at a considerable
distance from the city. The aqueduct
Is 60 feet high and from the top of
the ridge overlooking the city one can
trace the plan by which the water was
distributed down the slope over the
city and the surrounding land. Every
where are canals and reservoirs
irrigating fields and gardens, pro
tected by a great wall which ran for
mfles on the inland side of the city.
A study of these canals suggests a dif
ferentiation in Irrigating land for
cotton and corn cultivation. The
long staple cotton of Peru was ex
tensively cultivated even in this re
mote period, and finely woven cloth,
dyed in gorgeous colors, was worn by
the wealthy Chimus.
In the art of pottery they were in
advance of even the Incas, for all the
remarkable work In clay that has been
excavated In Peru none can compare in
skillful workmanship with that found
in Chan-Chan. Some of these eastern
vessels representing human figures,
heads and groups, were portraits of
contemporaneous persons, and the ob
server Is struck with the forcefulness
with which the varied expressions of the
(ace are depicted. It Is from relics
such as these that we get our knowl
edge of the Intellectual, moral and re
ligious life of these ancient Chimus,
whose only living trace may be found
in the language, the Muchica, still
spoken In the port of Eton, Peru, and
the neighboring territory. The em
pire was conquered by the Incas some
150 years before Pizarro arrived upon
the scene and as a race they have
vanished from the face of the earth,
having been scattered and finally
ubsorbed >y the conquerors.
Essential of Sovereiqnty.
From the Kansas City Star.
“You are no king at all." said the earl
of Salisbury to King I.ouls IX. of France,
“since you cannot enforce justice.”
The enforcement of justice has been re
garded always as the hall-mark of sov
ereignty. There is really no other func
tion of organized society than to see that
justice la done between man and man,
and between man and th© state. Certain*
ly, the Ideal of justice and the fact of
Justice vary with varying times and civ
ilizations. But the sovereign power
(which may be a pure democracy) lacks
sovereignty In Just the degree that one
man or set of men can take an unfair ad
vantage of another. If a child does not
get the pure air and food that is requisite
to an equal chance for strength and life
that any other child has. th© reproach can
rightly be made to “King People” that
was made to Saint Louis: “You are no
king at all, since you cannot enforce Jus
tice.”
And bo one could go up and down the
line In that broader conception of jus
tice.
But even In th© restricted sens© of Jus
tice enforced In courts of law, the people
ar© no king at all If they do not have the
administration of justice purely In their
hands. And if justice Is In large measure
In the hands of privately paid attorneys,
so that one man can get better service In
“the king’s courts' 'than some other man,
then th© sovereign power has been in
vaded.
There ar© those who say that Justice
should no more be free and open equally
to all In Its legal administration than
should the allotment of food or th© dis
tribution of clothing and houses be free
and be taken out of th© field of Individual
effort. But these do not see that Justice
Is the very breath of society, or its life
blood. They do not see that justice should
be free In courts of law; and that, In the
field of Individual effort, It should be free
In this parallel sense—that every man,
woman and child should enter the lists for
food and shelter and clothing and happi
ness unhandicapped by conditions which
he does not control.
Subsidizing a Monopoly.
From the Chicago Tribune.
The ships on the Atlantic coast which
will receive subsidy under the present
canal toll act are owned as follows:
By railroads . 61.9
By shipping consolidations. 32.0
By other lines. 6.1
100.0
In other words. 93.9 of the shipping on
the Atlantic coast to which rebates are
to be paid are owned by great corpora
tions.
This trust is guaranteed against com
petition by the law which forbids foreign
owned ships to carry between American
ports upon any terms whatsoever.
It has guaranteed itself against com
petition by the aqquisition of practically
all the dock privileges on the Atlantic
coast. In New York only are there any
substantial number of municipally owned
docks.
But New York Is positively under th©
control of Tammany Hall, and Tammany
Hall is In close alliance with the shipping
trust.
An independent company would be rash
Indeed to take a lease from an occasion
ally reformed administration, because by
the time It had invested money and es
tablished business, Tammany Hall, back
In power, would find a way to cancel th©
lease or make it undesirable.
The seacoast shipping trust is 1n inti
mate alliance with the railroads running
from the seacoast ports.
Even though the Interstate Commerce
commission might prevent discrimination
in rates to benefit the corporation owned
ship companies, it could not prevent th©
monopoly getting preferential service and
the benefit of the railroads’ local freight
agents in the collection and distribution
of freight.
The opening of th© Panama canal will
not stimulate competition In seacoast
carrying. The subsidy to be paid to these
coast carriers will not stimulate compe
tition In coastwise carrying.
It is not meant to do this.
It Is meant to foster and feed the only
remaining monopoly which has the
strength to fight openly to control our
government.
Incomes of Farmers. Active and Retired.
From the Chicago Record-Herald.
Statistics require intelligent and skillful
interpretation, and the chances of making
honest figures “lie” are many and seri
ous. Still, no amount of allowance or salt
destroys the Interest or significance of the
recent bulletins of the department of ag
riculture on farming, farmers and farm
ers’ incomes.
The first of these showed in a general
way that the average income of the
American farmer was very small when
measured In cash returns. The second,
which summarizes the results of a study
of several hundred farms in the prosper
ous middle west, shows that the retired
farmer who lives in the town or city on
his income gets only about 3% per cent on
his Investment, while the average labor
Income of the farmer is a little over $400.
A tenant farmer, whose capital invest
ment is naturally smaller than that of an
owner, has a larger labor Income.
Small returns on capital and low “labor
incomes" of farmers are attributed in the
official bulletins to various factors, but
unscientific methods of cultivation, high
cost of transportation, bad roads, ineffi
cient organization of distribution, unused
capital and neglect of resources are
among them.
The real moral of the bulletins Is not
that “farming doesn’t pay,” but that
farming, like everything else, requires
efficiency and method. More agricultural
education, rural credit, co-operation in
marketing products, proper use of mod
ern machinery are necessary to agricul
tural prosperity and progress. Rural life
should not be left to take care of itself on
the cheerful assumption that “prosperity
comes out of the soil.” Brains and or
ganization are increasingly necessary to
coax prosperity out of the soil. Fortu
nately the problems of rural life and la
bor are now being studied as they have •
never been studied before. The young
generation in rural sections will make no
mistake In sticking to the soil and avoid
ing the rush to the cities and the over
crowded trades or professions.
Sentenced to Read the Bible.
From the Christian Herald.
Justice Henry Ulrich, of Baltimore, hae
taken to sentencing habitual violators of
the law to read the bible. The first of
such sentences was Imposed on a young
woman of respectable parentage, who had
been arrested more than 100 times.
A few days ago the young woman
lolled against the brass railing that rims
his desk and pleaded, "Guilty and proud
of It. Do you get that?" to the charge ot
being drunk and disorderly on the street.
After a lecture Justice Ulrich said:
"Now, Victoria, I’m going to give you
another chance to make good. Can job
read?"
She answered, "Tes, sir!"
"Then I sentence you to come to this
station house evefj' Sunday morning and
spend an hour with the matron, reading
the bible. Either that, or the ’cut.’ ’’
Victoria chose the bible. When she ap
peared the next Sunday morning, she had
evidently made a brave effort to appear
respectable. She has been going to the
station house every Sunday for weeks
now, and she thinks she will never fall by
the wayside again.
That was the first ease. Justice Ul
I IcTi was led to apply It again, and it Is
i working well. He is positive that he has
found a plan that works._
Ear Traininq and Rhythm Applied.
Dr. von Lteblch, In Woman's World.
Doubtless you have heard how a fa
mous Russian authoress, being asked
to recite a poem in her native tongue,
thrilled an American audience, moving
her heaters to the verse of tears and
of laughter, by saying aloud for them
the Russian numbers from one to 100.
It was. of course, her voice that thrilled
them. Np one of the audience under
stood Russian, and it is said that they
all felt rather “cheap" when she told
them of h?r trick, and made them ail
admit that they did not know what it
was all about.
I sometimes* think that people’s en
joyment of music is just as “cheap,”
| when they seem deeply Impressed by
| music and v >t cannot tell whether the
| nature of to* must" is tragic or comic.
The 'jindergi.rten—Its place In the ed
ucational svstgm, its social value to
the community. V>d Its future develop
ment—is the subject of special study
| by a newly organised division of Rib
j United States butuu of education.
The license of tne Japanese chauf
t fear Is carried on the steering post.
