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i Glass of Hot Water | Before Breakfast a Splendid Habit Open sluices of the system each morning and wash away the poisonous, stagnant matter, — Those of us who are accustomed to feel dull and heavy when wo arise; tplitting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul tongue, nasty breath, acid storm [eh, lame back, can, instead, both >ok and feel as fresh as a daisy always by washing the poisons and toxins from the body with phospbated hot water each morning. Wo should drink, before breakfast | glass of real hot water with a tea (poonful of limestone phosphate in it to flush from the stomach, liver, kidneys and ten yards of bowels tho previous day's indigestible waste, sour Idle and poisonous toxins; thus cleans ing. sweetening and purifying the en tire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. The action of limestone phosphate rnd hot water on an empty stomach Is wonderfully invigorating. It clean? out all the sour fermentations, gaBef^ waste and acidity and gives one q fplendld appetite for breakfast and It fa said to bo but a little while until the roses begin to appear In tho cheeks. A quarter pound of lime p.tone phosphate will cost very little at your druggist or from the store, but Is sufficient to make anyone who Is bothered with biliousness, constipa Ion, stomach trouble or rheumatism a real enthusiast on tho subject of in ternal sanitation. Try It and you are assured that you will look better and feel better In every way shortly.— Adv. In a Way. "Isn't it queer it baa been so cold?'1 "Why queer at tills time of year?’ "Because these are the dog days.' TENDER SKINNED BABIES With Rashes and Irritations Find Comfort in Cutlcura. Trial Free. Baby’s tender skin requires mild, soothing properties such as are found in the Cuticura Soap and Ointmont. Cuticura Soap is so sweet, pure and cleansing and Cuticura Ointment so soothing and healing, especially when baby's skin is irritated and rashy. Free sample each by mall with Book. Address poBtcard, Cutlcura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. Hire Woman Detective. A woman detective has received an appointment from the Bristol authorl ties. There is nothing amateurish Jibout the Bristol appointment. The new officer has received special train ing in police work, and although hor duties will chiefly concern women and .children her services will be utilized •in solving all classes of crime and %nystery. "Women," an authority ox plained, “are particularly adapted for work which comes outside the scope of the ordinary detective, but unfor tunately it is sometimes unsafe to trust a woman with an important. In vestigation where young men are con cerned. They are. swayed by emotion. They can't help It; It Is their nature, and they have been known to fall in love with the man they have been set to watch.” Women for Police Duty. Spokane’s civil service commission after debating the type of woman that would make the best police officer, fieems to have reached no very narrow (definitions, the requirements being between five feet and five feet ten inches in height, between twenty-live and thlrtv-iive years in age, and be tween 115 and 200 pounds in weight, timber line having been boosted tn the latter figure to satisfy Commis sioner J. M. Corbett, who admits a preference for woman officers of ths 'large, queenly type.” HANDY HUSBAND Knew How to Get Part of the Break, fast. " ‘I know one dish 1 can prepare for breakfast as well as any cook on earth,’ said my husband one morning when the cook was 111 r.nd ho had vol unteered to help get breakfast. He appeared with his dish and I discov ered it was Grape-Nuts which, of course, was easy to prepare for it was perfectly cooked at the factory, but It was a good illustration of the conven ience of having Grape-Nuts about. . “We took up Grape-Nuts immedi ately after returning from a five years’ 'sojourn in a hot country. Our stom achs were in bad condition and we were in poor health generally. “In a day or two we liked Grape ,Nuts better than any other kind of ■food on the table. We both gained steadily In health and strength, and this was caused by Grape-Nuts and Postura. “A friend of ours had a similar ox rerlenco. She was seriously 111 with indigestion and could find nothing to eat that would not give her heartburn and palpitation, especially at night. “She found that a small dish of :Grape-Nuts with cream made her a •satisfactory supper and gave her a Comfortable night's rest. In a short time she gained several pounds in weight.” “There’s a Reason.” Name given by Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich. Ever read lb. above letter? A lev* one nppenrs from time to time. They ■rf *«*«ilnet true, nod fall of human Interest. THE “LADY OF THE LAMP” From the Kansas City Star. vve snuuaer as we reaa me news iruin the war front: For 48 hours streams of danger ously wounded have been making their way toward Germany. • • • Trainloads of wounded, moving Parlsward today, are bringing evi dence of the fearfulness of the car nage north of the French fortress. From the battle Held of Verdun a stream jf wounded men pouring eastward, and mother pouring westward, day and night, without ceasing. But, If this battle had been fought 75 rears ago, there would have been no men with stretchers to hunt out and carry »wny the wounded; no ambulances; no hospitals; few surgeons, no nurses. The wounded would have been left upon the field with the dead, to perish from cold, hunger and thirst, or from gangrene. In all the Napoleonic wars there were no nurses, no held hospitals, and only a few lurgeons, The wounded dragged them selves off the field If they could, otherwise they slowly died where they lay. For days after those big battles groans and walls and shrieks went up from the field, the Bounds gradually diminishing as the wounded died. Even so lato as 1859 the battle of Solferlno was fought with only a few surgeons to caro for the wounded. HhtnrI Dimant was there and has described the horrors of that field after the battle. Wounded officers were cared for, the rank and file got littlo attention. "In the si lence of that night could be heard the sighing, the stifled cries of anguish, de spairing appeals for help and water. What [wm can describe the agonies of that night,” writes Dunant. For days wounded lay because there wore so many the small staff of surgeons could not attend to thorn. "The great majority perished where they lay." That It Is not so today Is due largely to the Influence and example of women. The first war rrurse was a woman, Florence Nightingale. In the winter of 1854 Eng land was stirred to Its depths by reports oi mo sintering oi me sick ana wounded In the Crimea. Miss Nightingale, a nurse who had been trained In Germany, volun teered to go. The government accepted her offer. She took 34 women nurses with her and arrived in Scutari in time to re ceive the wounded from Balaclava, and a few days later 600 shattered man from Inkerman. What she did is history now. The world never knew such self sacrifice, such devotion before. She used to work 20 hours at a stretch with the wounded. Each night sho made her solitary round of the big barn like hospital with a lamp, ready for any complaint. The men called her the "Lady of the Lamp," and kissed the hem of her garment Gradually she collected 1«J,000 men under her. They adored her. "The angel of the trenches,” “the soldiers' friend,” "our good angel, Saint Florence,” they called her. Every man wounded In battle since then owns much to her. Every trained nurse In the world should reverence her name. Before her time only the poorest and most stupid women were nurses. Nursing was considered one of the meanest of callings. She raised the dignity of it so that women of the best rank were proud to go Into It. To Ignorance has succeeded sclentlflo training. Her example led to the founding of the Ited Cross by Henri Dunant who acknowl edged his debt to her and said, "The Influ ence of this woman Is precious for the welfare of tho human race." Last week a memorial to Miss Night ingale was unveiled In St. Paul's Cathe dral In London, and the queen of England, In hor tribute to this heroine, quoted from the tribute of the American poet. Long fellow: Lo! In that house of misery A lady with a lamp 1 see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. And slow, as In a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow as it falls Upon the darkening walls. States' Rights Last Defense Of All Predatory Interests j William L. Chenery The child labor bill at Washington has called to Ufo the ancient fight for states' rights. That old doctrine which seemed to have died with negro slavery always bobs up when some special Interest has to be protected. It Is the one thing which provents the United Status from becoming a natton. Tlie southern textile mill owners profit chiefly by child labor. They are tho only Important class who would be injured by the passage of tho Keatlng-Owen bill bar ring the products of child labor from In terstate commerce. Tho southern mill owners, however, are not the only people who are fighting for states’ rights. They have allies with kindred sentiments. James A. Emery, the counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers, has been mentioned as an active lobbyist against the child labor bill. The associa tion. Mr. Emery says, “has been at no time opposed to the regulation of child labor." Wbat he Is fighting for Is not child labor In the southern mills. He Is merely opposing the national control of the southern mills. Consequently he must attack a child labor bill which substi tutes national for local control. “Saving ths Constitution." Mr. Emery has written an enlightening letter to the New Republic. Ho says: I represent the opposition of tho manufacturers of this country to the principle of control hero Invoked, be cause It seems from an examination of the measure that It proposes to substitute an exerclso of the police power by congress for that of the legislatures of the respective states, themselves. Nay, more, by tho cir cumstances of Interstate commerce In this country It substitutes the views of congress for those of boards of aldermen and supervisors and county and municipal authorities In the states themselves In other words, Mr. Emery professes not to disapprove of clitld labor laws If they are passed by legislatures, by city coun cils and by county boards. He objects solely to congressional or national control. That is very significant. The men who defended negro slavery took precisely the same position. The men who have fought and are now fight ing for the private exploitation of the na tional water power and mineral resources of the country occupy the same ground. The enemies of conservation find them selves In hearty accord with this attitude. Everywhere It Is easier for a powerful prlvato Interest to break down state or local control than it Is to confront the natton. A Bundle of Provinces. States' rights came to the fore when California adopted a Japanese policy that appeared to bid fair to Involve the entiro country In war. States’ rights were Invoked when the national govern ment attempted to conserve the radium re sources of the country for tho benefit of all tho people. States’ rights were dug DEATH DEFEATS COURT ORDER REUNITING FAMILY v mcugo.—11 me wneeis or justice had turned Just a little more quickly, the life of a woman would have been saved. An aged woman, who loved her five grandchildren only as a mother could, died of a broken heart because they were taken from her while they were on their way to see he, after a court order separating them was refused. Mrs. Mariasanta Palermo was the grandmother. She came to Chicago from Italy two months ago, bringing with her children of her daughter, who died seven years ago. Salvatore Gris anti, the children's father, came to America when their mother died, and they had not heard from him. Their mother had been an invalid and the grandmother had reared them. All went well until Grisanti came from New Jersey, where he had been living, and obtained custody of the children by means of a writ of habeas corpus. The children rebelled. When Hrisanti called at the office of Attor ney Albertson N. Gualano two weeks ago to get them they attempted to jump from a fourth story window' rather than go with him. lie placed ffi£Th in file Juvenile home, where they were to stay until the court was to decide who should have them. In the meantime Mrs. Palermo was not permitted to sec them, and she grieved and worried. Finally Attorney Gualano received word she was dying and wanted them at her bedside. Ho hurried to Judge Pinckney and ex plained the situation to him. The Judge ordered the children released. Put It was too late. When they reached her she was dead. Our Navy’s Lack of Speed. From the Outlook. If there is one lesson that the naval en gagements of this war have brought out clearly, it Is tho importance of speed to war ships. Given two vessels of equal .-.-. In Chicago Herald, up when the ruling powers of Utah and Wyoming and Colorado wished to obtain possession of the coal lands, the timber, the mineral resources belonging to the United States. Able constitutional lawyers can find ex cellent defenses for states' rights doc trines. The defenses wore stronger still when negro slaves wore the greatest property Interest In the country. They wore unanswerable In the days when the 13 states were still a confederation, each unwilling to sacrifice for the common good. Child labor, too, can be defended. So, also, slavery was bulwarked. Every bad cause has Its supporters. States' rights which have been used to excuse so many evils have themselves become unsavory. It is hard to recall a great struggle for Justice, for freedom, for humanity which has been served by them. The Case of the Railroads. States' rights are out of the trend of the times. The railroads once opposed national control. They wished the states to exercise the power which it was pro posed to give to the Interstate Commerce commission. Now. however, their feel ,ings have been changed. They prefer the Interstate Commerce commission to the multitude of state railroad commissions. Mr. Emery and Ills constituents would probnbly have a similar change of heart. The south Is progressing. Humanttarlan ism Is growing. The southern legislature, which today refuses to protect working children, tomorrow will be adopting radi cal laws. That was the experience of the railroads and It Is likely to be the case of the manufacturers who. directly or In directly. support child labor. When the legislatures and local hoards do wake up, they are much more severe than congress. The control they Impose hurts. The Interest which thinks to es enpo by taking refuge with the states has a sorry experience. A Longer View. Mr. Emery protests against "the larceny of local self-government,” which happens to be an excellent phrase. His clients none the less will profit in the long run by the same larceny. Illinois already has a child labor law whleh does about what tho Keatlng-Owen bill would accomplish. Children under 14 cannot work In the Illinois factories and none between 14 and 16 may toll moro than eight hours. Massachusetts has a similar law and likewise It has cotton mills. Tender children can be exploited by the southern millers. The Massachusetts own ers cannot devise profit from this source. Accordingly they suffer in competition with tho south. Obviously the Massa chusetts man should favor the Keatlng Owen bill. It benefits him by eliminating unfair competition. That on a large scale is the advantage which national control achieves. Child labor through states' rights is bad morals and worse business. Mr. Emery should take a longer view. armament, the swifter one can dictate when and where the encounter shall take place. And if a swift vessel has heavier guns than a slow one, the former can keep just out of range of the latter's wea pons and pound It to pieces, as the Sydney did to the Emden. By the way, how many Americans know that wo have no vessels which would have boon strong enough to cope with the Emden and swift enough to catch it? And how many of them know that the heavy cruiser Blucher, over hauled ami sunk by Admiral Beatty’s fast steaming battle cruisers, could have shown Its heels to any vessel larger than a destroyer in our navy? Tin1 war has done one thing for Ameri cans; it lias opened their eyes to the fact that we are not independent of the trade, treaties and quarrels of the rest of the world. We have not the splendid isola tion that we though we had. Consequent ly more and moro of us are coming to realize Cult our navy today lacks many ships and men to make it a sufficient bul wark of protection. Fine as It is, and it Is the finest we have ever had, our navy j does not yet offer an adequate fighting ileet for a peaceful people as numerous as we are, and with as extended a coast line as we have to defend. No Limit. From Life. “What do you do with your car when your wife is away?" "Everything.” The Five Little Pennys. Said a very poor couple named Penny: “Of children we can’t afford any!” But when five had been born. They remarked with fine scorn: “Though we re poor, we’ve a Nickel too many!" —Judge. The Worst of It. From the Washington Star. "It must be a terrible thing to know that you are to be shot at sunrise,” com mented the highly Imaginable person. "yes," answered the lazy citizen; “It's bad enough to have to get up at sunrise, without going through the rest of It." Dry bran will quickly cleanse the finer velvet and woolen fabrics. ■MMIH111HB From the London Mail. to time anecdotes of rescue work among the cats and dogs of Flanders, accompanied in some cases by por traits of waifs retrieved from a life of vagabondage and mendicancy. Mr. Atkins is noted for his kindness to animals, and that his affections are not influenced by either beauty or blameless descent is patent to any one who has ever visited the soldier ex hibits at a station dog show in India. The situation of these hapless victims of the war has stirred the compassion of all animal lovers, and to them it will be welcome hearing that the relief of the cats at any rate has been sensi bly organized by those practical cre atures themselves. The following in stances are all vouched for by trust worthy witnesses and have been col lected direct from those witnesses; none is even second hand. Cats are in the majority among the strays; their vitality is a proverb and it is well known that their numbers do not decrease. Their outlook on life is severely practical—in fact, detractors call it by a harsher name. The col lapse of the building containing the hearth to which she was attached, the disappearance of the dispensers of vic tuals and drinks, and the prevalence of atmospheric disturbances of an alarm ing nature soon convinced such a rea sonable animal of the precariousness of life above ground. Not far from the ruins of her home she might come upon a race of human beings living like rab bits in deep, complicated burrows and she would at once grasp the advan tages of the system. No one ever saw her arrive; with her sisters, her cous ins and their combined offspring she insinuated herself into her new abode and was soon very much at home. Meals were fairly regular, comfort and shelter assured and there were always bits of sacking to lie upon. On cold nights a cozy corner might be found close up against the shoulders of a sleeping soldier, though this sometimes led to upheavals, as on one occasion when an officer started into life and vigor under the impression that the loud purring beside his ear was the buzzing of a hostile aeroplane. The waking hours simply teemed with interest. Often sappers on night work, repairing trenches, found them selves accompanied by an inquisitive little cat, and a four-legged delegate was generally present to superintend the arrival of stores or ammunition. An officer relates that one night when well + ♦ ♦ ITALY TURNING TO RIVERS ♦ ♦ FOR POWER AND FUEL + ♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦ »mm»m »♦♦+»»♦» Special Correspondent Associated Press. Rome—Italy lias Just taken the initial steps toward becoming the first entirely electrified country of the world. It will be one of the permanent benefits that war will have conferred, or rather forced, up on her. Italy never did have a coal supply of her own, and what wood there was was consumed by the barbarians centuries be fore modern Italy had a chance to make use of it. With the outbreak of the pres ent war, Italy at once realized that her greatest menace was that of having her coal supply, which comes largely from England, cut Off. Within the first month of the wrar Eng land entered into an open agreement with Italy to keep her supplied with coal The wiseacres at once knew that Italy, if she ever participated in the war, would enter on the side of the allies, at is was con sidered eertain that England would not allow coal to be sent to Italy without a positive guarantee that the coal might not eventually be used against her. In fact, it is even conceded in certain high official circles that the absolute neces sity of keeping her coal supply helped to line Italy up with the allies as much as i did other considerations. In spite of England’s promise to keep Italy stocked, the lack of ships, the high cost of freighting and the labor difficul ties of England, all have had the effect1 of putting Italy in a bad way Industrially. Realizing more than ever that a coal i supply moans to Italy what mastery of the sea means to England, what freedom of the seas means to Germany and what mastery of the Pacific means to Japan. Italy has set about to emancipate herself from this perpetual menace. While entirely lacking a natural coal supply, Italy Is blessed with perhaps more mountains to the square inch than any ; other country in the world. These moun tains produce nothing but useless rocks, i and what, up to date, have been useless streams and waterfalls. What Italy now proposes to do is to harness an of these j streams and waterfalls with hydraulic j electric plants that will render unneces- ; sary a single ton of coal In all Italy. As a matter of fact, Italy already has scores of these plants, but to hurry along scores of others a series of royal decrees has just been Issued creating subsidies and other government help for their in stallation and development. Already in j northern Ttaiy there are hundreds of miles i of electrified railways, but the present plans call not only for the electrifying of every mile of railway in Italy, but for furnishing electric power from hydraulic plants that will supply absolutely every Industrial concern in the country without the use of a single ton of coal. In this way Italy not only plans to free herself from the perpetual menace to her national existence, which would come from any country that might cut off her coal supply, but also to make possible an Industrial life, which heretofore, owing to the high price of imported coal, has been impossible. Volunteer bystem a Failure. From the Chicago News. One of the most Interesting contribu tions to the large fund of argument In favor of universal military training was furnished by Edward Price Bell in his special cable dispatch published in the Dally News on Saturday. Mr. Bell, the Daily News’ Dondon rep resentative and dean of American corres pondents in that city, until the wmr was far advanced was convinced that the vol unteer system on which Britain had pinned its faith so long was the only right and proper system for a free peo ple. Recent developments, however, ap pear to have convinced Mr. Bell—as they have many thinking men on this side of the Atlantic—that a system wfiilch per mits selfish men to stay at home and make money while self-sacrificing citizens, perhaps in spite of exceptionally heavy home responsibilities, risk their lives in battle is neither just nor democratic. Further, its injustice is so patent that It is hound to prove a failure in any serious crisis. “The United States, one imagines, could avoid political rfnd social troubles of this sort by adopting compulsory and univer sal military service at once,” 6ays Mr. Bell. “This W’ould appear not merely the only democratic method of putting the na tion in a position of effective military de fense. It has been proved in the United Kingdom since the outbreak of the war that military training is a magnificent thing for young men. It improves them rapidly and amazingly in body, mental alertness and moral fiber. Flabby youth* with a few months’ training have become first rate men with a heightened respect for themselves and for others. Their more selfish impulses give way to ideals of service to their nation and their fellow' men.'* All this is exactly true. A system of universal military training is good for the nation and it is particularly good for the individual citizen. Th® Fear of Graft. From the Des Moines (la.) Capital. If we w*‘re asked to state the stumbling block in the pathway of good roads, costly surfaced roads, we would iiy it is a fear in nit; anp ne saw uy me light of a German flare a black and j white kitten sitting close beside look- j ing on with the pleased expression of a I spectator at a fireworks display. Yel ! there is nothing foolhardy or reckless about these prowlers; they combine discretion with valor, as was proved by one middle aged tabby that was seen rudently making her wav to th« rear during bombardment. When ob served she was walking delicately along a narrow plank across a trench exhibiting no signs of unseemly haste but merely possessed of a judtcioui purpose. She will probably live tc j write her memoirs. Besides the cat there are her poor re- ! lations, the rabbits—a family not noted for courage. They, too, have learned philosophy in adversity, or else tha| fatalism defined by some as the ref up* of the weak minded. In the garden <4 a ruined farm a goat and a party o! rabbits, the sole inhabitants, wer* found demolishing what was left of a lettuce bed. The paws of the rabbits were stained yellow from lyddite, and at the time the British entered German shells were dropping unpleasantly near ) In fact, it was presently necessary to take cover, and while sheltering under a bank the officer in command, on look ing around, saw one of the yellow foot ed bunnies crouching near him, its ears tucked well back into its shoul ders. It quite understood the art o; taking cover, and until the lettuces were exhausted meant to stick to its post. On another occasion, a fine, fat rab bit, left in lonely possession of a de serted farm, was made a pet of by th« soldiers. For some days fortune smiled j upon it, but fate eventually overtook it in the form of a prowling dog, and in the ensuing scuffle its leg was broken, j “Bunny” then justified a useful exist- ; ence and rewarded its preservers by i affording them a succulent stew. Pets that are free to roam are less , to be pitied than those shut up or kept in cages. Many poor little singing birds must have died from want of food and • water, and many a venerable parrot croaked Ill's last "bonjour.” Already parrot stories are finding their way across the channel, and one trembles at the thought of the varied tongues a really accomplished bird may acquire. It is recorded of one that it could imi tate the whistle of a shell to such per fection that the men billeted in the same house suffered much from the , trick, which, as a practical Joke, was i eminently successful. that such large expenditures would result in graft. And while everybody denounces graft, there appears to be many people who are willing to continue the grafting ways. If some one county would, under new laws authorizing the same vote bonds placing the money in the hands of five men who are known to be honest and be yond the reach of temptation, and those five men should build permanent roads and work out a system for constant or an nual repairs, this object lesson would ho worth to the good roads cause more than all the other work which the good roads workers have in tnlnd. The annual expenditure in Towa at the present time for roads and bridges is over $12,000,000. This Is a startling sum when wo come to know that only a part of this money is expended for anything like per manent roads. There is much talk of ef ficiency In all lines of work and the lack of efficiency in the road business discour ages many honest men. The commission appointed by Governor Clarke Is an able one and that commis sion may report amendments to the pres ent system or may give plans and specifi cations for an entirely new system of road work and expenditure. The state is hop ing for much from this commission. While the difficulties are great, the peo ple of Iowa are not going to be discour aged. They are determined to cooperale for the securing of better roads for the use and enjoyment of all the people. A Return of Helmets. From the Boston Transcript. The soldiers of the future will deplore, with many wearying headaches, this war If one of Its results Is to bring back the helmet into general use. The precedent of France sustains the supposition that the restoration of the helmet Is to be looked for—not the pith helmet, or that of felt, but a stout casque of steel. The French government Is so gratified by the experi mental use of the helmets by the Infantry that it has already issued 300.000. and is going to supersede tho cloth kepi for serv ice wear as rapidly as possible. Specimen helmets received in Paris which have sus tained fusillades at the front bear marks of bullets that would have killed men wearing ordinary caps. The feelings of a soldier whose life Is saved at the price of sensing the concussion of bullet against steel can better be imagined than described, but the practical arguments are all in favor of the casque for battle wear. The Germans have never abandoned it, though they have occasionally discarded it for a cloth cap in campaigning. The revival of helmet wearing will be testi mony to the value of another idea, and it may mean the exile of tho campaign hat, dear to our own soldiers, who recall with headache memories the heavy head gear they wore before the Spanish war when in full dress. We imported the hel met Idea from Germany, anil gave It up partly because It never attained popu larity and partly because the campaign hat lent itself so easily to rough-and ready work under hot suns. Bookkeepinq in the Coal Business. As chairman of the executive commit tee of the anthracite mine operators, S. D. Warrlner explains that out of the $7.25 a ton that the consumer pays for coal the operator’s earnings available for return on Investments average only 20 cents per ton. Tho retailing cost he puts at $2.15 per ton: the transportation at $1:65; the labor-production cost at $1.S0; the loss. s on small sizes of coal sold at less than cost of production at 93 cents per ton. Then, by way of good measure, he enters one item of $2.40 per ton to cover "ma terials of all kinds, royalty, taxes, depre ciation of coal lands, equipment, admin istration expenses and accident indemni ties." One-third of the cost of every ton to the consumer is charged under this last head. The classification Is so broad as to meet any emergency, past, present and future. If the price of coal Is jumped up. It Is the privilege of the consumer to attribute it to any one of half a dozen causes to be found in this liberal estimate.^ If the operators are in need of a pretext to ex cuse advancing prices, they have the choice of half a dozen reasons In reliev ing the consumers’ feelings. The con sumer has no choice; he pays. By way of consolation, he is invited to remem ber that one-third of the cost of every ton of anthracite that he uses represents •materials of all kinds, royalty, taxes, de preciation of coal lands, equipment, ad ministration expenses and accident indem nities." There will always be room some where In the list to account for any sac rifices he may be called on to make or to absorb any little economies he muv plan. It is expert bookkeeping. Unqrammatical. Ifmm the Boston Transcript. We rivently heard a remark by an old Kentucky farmer which seems worth en tering for the ungrammatical sentence prize. To a visitor he observed: “Them three Miss Perkins is three of as pretty a gal as ever I see." Net Always. She—It's always to a man's credit when he stops drinking. He—Don't you believe it. Sometimes u is to his lack of credit. Soaking for several hours In butter milk, followed by a rinsing In cleas water, will soften and cleanse sponges Ybu i Eveiywhere They Know Heard at the Palace. “How long have you been learning to skate?” “Oh, about a dozen sittings.”—Pern* sylvania Punch Bowl. ---\ PROSPERITY IN ; WESTERN CANADA 900 Million Dollars in New Wealth Added in 1915. Canada as a whole has enjoyed won derful prosperity in 1915, from the products of the farm, the orchard and the centres of industry. No country , wrote a brighter page of history in agricultural and industrial develop ment during 1915 than Canada. Nearly a billion bushels of grain produced. Taxes in Western Canada average $24 and will not exceed $35 per quarter section, which includes all taxes. No taxes on improvements. When Western Canada was faced with her enormous harvest last fall the military authorities decided that soldiers in Canada could give the Em pire no better service for the time being than to assist in harvesting the crops For that reason leave of ab sence was given to soldiers who wished to work in the harvest fields, and their labor was an important fac tor in harvesting the big crops success fully. The necessity for increasing the ag ricultural production is commanding even more attention in 1916, and it is now announced that soldiers in Can ada may obtain leave of absence from . their military duties in the spring for * a certain length of time to enable them to plant the seed for the crops in every Province of the Dominion. The fact that the Government rec ognizes the seeding and harvesting of x _ Canada’s crops as being of the first j importance is perhaps the best evi- - denco that conscription or any In crease of taxes which would reduce the agricultural activity of Canada will never be considered by the author ities. Owing to the number who have en listed for overseas service it has been found necessary to secure farm labor in the United States. It is hoped that fifty thousand can be secured.—Adven tisement. Secret. “Robb's life is a closed book." “Yes. he has kept it. pretty well under cover.” mow rwiv Ar«u uci Skinners THE HIGHEST QUALITY MACARONI Save the trademark signature of Paul F. Skinner from all packages and exchange free for Oneida Community Silverware. Write today for free 36-page recipe book and full information. SKINNER MFG. CO., OMAHA, U.S.A. LARGEST MACARONI FACTORY IN AMERICA Farmers Attention! 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