j The Price of Eggs. [ From tho New York Tribune. That very clever journal, the Villager, makes some remarks on “the uuescapable results that follow on the watering of the stock of money,” and quotes from Hartley Withers a remark of Dr. Johnson. When told that in Skye 20 eggs might be bought for a penny the genial scholar observed: “Sir, I do not gather from this that eggs are plenty in your miserable island, but that pence are few.” Anid that, as the Villager observes, “is the whole story:” It the number of pence in Skye had been increased twentyfold and the number of eggs had remained the same the •'miserable Islanders” would have had to pay 20 pence for their 20 eggs. We should need to assume, of course, that what Is called the velocity of the circulation X Was all the while unchanged, and we quite fearlessly make such assumption, feeling that Skye would not betray us nor force us into unnecessary complexities. Anyway, It passes us to comprehend how aught than this main conclusion can be made out of Inflation, yet many of our successful business men, and even editors with business bent of mind, build up curious—we had almost said fatuous—argu ments on the other side. The only explanation for this that the Villager can find is that “economic theories are true only in the long run; that is to say, they do not show iu detail, but only in the full cross section of the move ment:” And it goes on to say that business men are somewhat prone to confine their reasoning “to what happens between the morning’s unlocking of the office door and the evening’s locking of the cash drawer. ’ ’ In Britain one of the foremost of living economists, Prof. J. Shield Nicholson, has gone so far as to endeavor to show by a series of tables and charts that the rise in the average of commodity prices in that country has followed promptly within three months each new increase in the output of treasury bills. Professor Kemmerer’s admirable article in the American Economic Review, shows that while the actual volume of American production and trade from 1914 increased about 25 per cent, the nation’s stock of money and the volume of banking credit increased 70 or 80 per cent. This could have no other effect than an immediate And corresponding rise in the average of prices; and this is precisely what we got. The thing worked with the precision of a machine. NEW POWER PROJECT " BUILDING AT NIAGARA -Canadians to Harness Mam moth Falls to Limit Pro vided In Agreement. Buffalo. N. Y.—One of the greatest Water development projects of the many centering about Niagara Falls has been launched on the Canadian side of the river. It contemplates an immediate production of 300,000 electrical horse power, or equal to approximately one half the present total development on both sides of the river, and It may ex pand to 1,000,000-horse power. Actual work on the new channel was begun recently by the Ontario hydro •commission. There were no ceremonies and the launching of the work was virtually unknown to the general pub lic. The channel will encircle the city of Niagara Falls, Ont., one running from the Welland river, a tributary of the Niagara above the cataract, to the f escarpment below Queenstown heights. The power house will be located on the river level almost at the foot of Brock’s monument. The channel is the first one planned to get the full bene fit of the difference in level between lakes Erie and Ontario, approximately 300 feet. The old companies, with pen - stocks located close to the foot of the cataract, get a head of about 200 feet. The additional 100 feet head, it is esti mated, will make it possible to develop the 300,000-horse power with the same flow of water required to develop 100, t'OO-horse'power at the falls. While the units under construction for the power house are planned to produce only 300,000-horse power, the canal Itself will be built to allow a fu ture flow of water capable of trebling this volume. The Ontario hydro com mission is a provincial body, appointed by the Ontario government. It dis tributes jtower to Ontario municipali ties within a radius of 200 miles of the falls at low cost. A large part of the current generated on the Canadian side, formerly exported and distributed by an American corporation, has been cut off. Canadian power for Canadian in dustries has been the motto of Sir Adam Beck, chairman of the comtnis Nsion, and war conditions have brought a speedier application of the policy than had been expected. To replace the Canadian current thus lost, a steam generating plant has been built here with an ultimate capacity of 110,000-horse power. Steam plants and water power plants far down the state have been drawn upon to keep Buffalo factories going. Part of the current from the new hydro plant will be available for American industries, but only those engaged in war work, Sir Adam has announced. Under the treaty between Canada, Great Britain and the t nited States the diversion of water on the Canadian side is limited to 39,000 cubic feet a second. The limit on the American side is 20,000 feet. Canada already has authorized the di version of all but 6,000 cubic feet of her allotment. Under special war permits the American companies are also within a few hundred feet of their limit. The new channel will carry off about 10,000 cubic feet of water a second. This will necessitate some readjustment of the allowances to the otjior Canadian com panies unless the treaty Is modified. This has led to suggestions of consoli dation of all the Canadian companies and the 1,000,000-horse power develop ment. “POTATO TRIPS” IN AUSTRIA. From the Philadelphia Public I.cdger. I.ondon.—One singular outcome of the exceedingly grave food shortage in Vienna is tho institution of "potato trips." The people of the Austrian cap ital. carrying knapsacks and baskets, make their way into the country to bargain with the farmers for a few vegetables. In most cases the farmers will not sell from their stocks for money, but will barter for other food stuffs. The price of potatoes, says the Hague correspondent of the Times, has been driven up to a crazy height. If one city dweller finds a willing seller who allows him to enter the field and dig potatoes, other would-be buyers will not bo denied. Some farmers at Stam mersdorf have demanded as much as six shillings for two pounds of potatoes. /250 Miles an Hour. From the New York World. "It would be easy for any British air plane manufacturer to produce a machino which could make better Ilian 2S0 miles an hour,’ declared Capt. V.'. t;. Aston, one of the leading English experts on air me chanics. here the other day. "This could be accomplished by merely altering the curvature of the planes. But this would mean a minimum landing speed of about ISO miles and hour, and there is tho great difficulty. “Tlie machine would bo unquestionably 1 flyable. but Its successful landing would require an airdrome five or nix miles long, to say nothing of extraordinary skill ou tbs part c.f the pilot." SEAFOOD MARKETS BEING DEVELOPED Washington, D. C.—New markets for seafood are being developed by the bureau of fisheries of the department of commerce, as a meat conservation measure. Whale meat from the Paciflo coast—20,000 pounds of it—recently has been put on the Boston market. The shipment was disposed of in 10 days at a retail price of 16 cents a pound and was received with such satisfac tion by householders who like to live both well and economically that prep arations are being made to assure a regular supply. Some oft the meat was sold as far north as Panland, Me. " On the Texas coast, a representa tive of the bureau is seeking to intro- , duce porpoise meat, which has been pronounced excellent by those who have tried it. The main difficulty has been to make arrangements at the fish ing centers for systematic shipments. Fishes from the gulf are being sold in many cities through the middle west, as the result of shipments arranged by the bureau. Carload lots are being ordered by dealers in Indianapolis, Louisville and Nashville. Efforts are being made by the bureau to increase the pack of salt whiting, for which there was a 'large demand last winter. New England fishermen are being instructed in salting methods. Dr. Russell J. Coles, an assistant at the bureau, is endeavor ing to establish a fishery for sharks, rays and porpoises at Cape Lookout, N. C. Experiments have shown that smoked porpoise is nutritious food. WHOLE ENGLISH TOWN FOR SALE London (by mail)—Any man whose ambition Is to own a whole town will have an opportunity to satisfy his de sire here next month. By direction of Lord Stalbrldge, the owner, the entire town of Shaftsbury will be put on the auction block. Including private houses, banks, postoffices, stores, offices hotels and three saloons. The town Is located In a picturesque part of Derbyshire, perched on the top of a hill in the midst of rolling farm country. The nearest railway station Is three miles distant at Semley. Sales of great estates are frequent in these days, when taxes are eating up profits and many of the younger generation of the nobility are losing their lives on the battle fields. This is the first sale of an entire town which has been arranged. IRISH LEADER IS * KNIGHTED BY KING Sir John Mahaffy. King George has Just bestowed a knighthood of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Empire upon John Pent land Mahaffy, who thus becomes Sir John Mahaffy. He is the provost and prejident of Ireland’s principal college, Trinity, at Dublin. He has long been recognized as the most eminent of the” Emerald Isle. He is president of the Koyal Irish acade my, governor of the National Gallery at Dublin, etc. He is a large land owner in County Monag tkn. He is a former cricketer, Is celebrated as an explorer and is the pioneer in the de ciphering of the ancient papyri found in Egypt and elsewhere. He is a vol uminous writer. His works include “Problems of Greek History,” and "Empire of the Ptolemys." All sorts of witty saying are credited to him, including his description of Irels.nd as “a very curious country in which the impossible was always hap pening and the inevitable never coma | HERO IN CUBA; WINS MEDAL IN FRANCE. , WON MEDAC ' OF HONOt? IN CUBA IN 1896 WHEN MB BR SIGNALED 10 A US'.WAQS'HIP FPCM A HILLTOP, THOUGH IN A HAIL Of QevdeanL Major *£, John Henry Quick ' ,K volunteers to bong up a truck loa* ^ Of AMMUNITION and material OVER a '/ GOAD SWEPT BV ARTILLERY and MACHINE eopl« were discussing the gams of golf. •'Golf might be described as billiard* gone to grass," said one. “Spleen on the green,” suggested another. "The last flicker of the dying fire of athletics." jiut In a third, who was evidently an ardent footballer. "The misuse of land and language," was the contribution of a tennis player. The fifth man said, "Golf Is simply a game wherein the ball lies . tadly and the player w«Ui” * /• v __ ... Great Britain's Share. A___________ - _ — —-A I Louis Tracy, a Member of the British [ N<*w York and many other great cities ; in the United States love a procession, and i it Is a startling fact to note that If the Head and wholly wrar shattered youth of the British empire could march down Fifth avenue In platoons of 20 men In a rank the pallid host could not pass from Central park to Washington square In 10 long summer days. -America Is proud, and very properly proud, of the great army she has poured Into France. It Is 1.000. 000 iln round numbers. But Britain has already lost 1,000.000 In dead and grievously wounded, while 2,600.000 have been smitten by the pestilence called Oer fnany. Tt has been estimated that Britain has fought on 17 fronts during the last four years. One can readily enumerate most of them, for her troops have been to the fore In Belgium, Prance, Italy, Serbia, Greece, Russia, Palestine, Mesopotamia, China and North, East and West Africa, to name only the main theaters of the war. She and her colonies have raised 7,600,000 soldiers, and of this total Eng land's (not Great Britain's) proportion Is 60 per cent. In this regard I must remove a misapprehension, or, to be candid, nail down a Hun lie, which has found credence In some quarters. I shall not labor the point. It should suffice If I state with ab solute authority that one man In every seven and a half of the population ofr . England Is In the army. The same ratio hold* good of Scotland. Wales has con tributed one man In every 10 and a fifth, Ireland one man In every 26 and a third, and the overseas dominions one man in every 15. The ministry of munitions handles 60.000. 000 articles per week, and sends abroad 60,000 consignments per week. In War Mission, in tha Washington Star. addition to over 90 national arsenals. Great Britain has now 6.018 government controlled factories, all working day and night on munitions and supplies. In Octo ber. 1917, about 2,000,000 men and about 700,000 women were engaged In munition work proper.- In duly, 1917, the number of women employed In government work of all kinds rt“bd*l,066,000. According to the board of trade Labor Gaiette of Novem ber 16. 1917, he number had risen to 1,302. 000 before tbs latter date. Women do 66 to 70 per cent of all the machine work on shells, fuses and trench warfare sup plies, and have contributed 1,460 trained mechanics to the Royal Flying corps. In one way or another about 6,000,000 British women are working for their country In her need, many of whom never worked In their lives before. Turning to the fleet, what shall I say, what can I say that will be at all ade quate to the theme, of the work done by the British navy? It would be almost ludicrous, In a review of Britain’s share In the war, to dismiss In a sentence tha absolutely vital part borne by the fleet cjld I not feci assured that every Intelli gent man and woman In the United States knows as well. If not better, than I that the civilised world ow'es Its existence to day to tha unparalleled services rendered by the navy. Britain’s ships hava kept open the ocean highways and penned the Hun in his few protected harbors. The navy has tripled Its personnel and doubled Its fighting armament. It has transported over the face of the waters 13,000,000 of men, 2,000,000 of horses and mules, 600,000 vehicles, 26,000,000 tons of explosives, 61.000.000 tons of oil and fuel, and 130,000,000 tons of food and other stores. Good Work Slowly Done. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Some of us are trying to live our lives all at once. We would cramp tho slow development of years Into the coming month or week; we would compress the work of an hour Into the next five min utes. Nature—patient, tireless, cunning laborer that she Is—does not favor this plans. She takes her time—"Because It Is hers!” some one makes prompt answer. "She has command of all the time there Is. She can be as deliberate as she chooses. We must make haste because our little lives are so soon clipped off. The darkness too early rounds our day. Our work must be put through with speed and under pressure or we shall not finish." The best work even by these feeble mortal hands and minds of ours Is done not In a fever but In a calm. Art (and the exception provea the rule) achieves most nobly when It achieves with tran quility. Ths personal circumstances of the artist may be distressing. He rises above them. His dream translates him to the skies above his mundane environ ment. His passion for the truth leads him to forget that he Is poor and hungry and misunderstood. He writes his book or paints his picture or composes his sonata In a land where it Is always summer and the skies are blue and tears are never shed aud none ever dies. By the force of a creative Imagination, he establishes for himself a new heaven and a new earth, and his spirit Is tranquil because It Is triumphant over the pinching and gnawing circumstances. Artist or artisan, each of us must learn to make the pilgrimage a step at a time. Let not an anxious forecast corrugate the brow with the thought of a morrow suffi cient unto Itself. Kplcurean delight lives for the moment; and a man's more seri ous purpose In existence would often do veil to follow the example. The Thresher’* Dinner. From the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald. The farmer of this new era who comes to help at a threshing bee will carry his own dinner. The war board has set Its face against the old fashioned "threshing dinner,” In the preparation of which each farmer’s wife vied with her neighbor In quantity and variety of edfcles. The war board has not done this be cause It Is lorry for the poor farmer's wife, sweating In her fiery kitchen, break ing her b&ck over the oven and dtshpan. What the war hoard Is thinking about Is tho waste of food. But the result will be the same. For it has become bad form, even In the coun try, to try to outdo one's neighbor In the amount of food served. The rivalry for tho remainder of the war will be In find ing nourishment for the workers without waste, and without use of those foods which are needed by our allies. No longer Is cottage cheese to be a side dish, added to a dinner already too rich In protein by heavy meats and by vegetables cooked with bacon or salt pork. Cottage cheese Is to take the center of the table. Flanked with hard boiled eggs It becomes the piece de resistance. In vain let the farmhand raise hta voice In scorn. His Insides will be supplied with strength and energy as never before. With the necessity for saving food comes a great stimulus to the study of scientific dietaries. After this year It should be rare to see a housewife working her body to the point where she Is left at night without the energy to work her brain. Hereafter, she Is to work her brain first, that she may save her body. It Is the most necessary reform which could he applied to any department of rural life. The passing of the threshing dinner In accordance with the request of the war board will hut mark a milestone on the way of progfbss. to pay a higher price for almost anything. On an article that formerly sola for 1100 to Increase the prlca to $200 ts to Invite criticism and Investigation, but nothing is likely to be said If a dime la charged for an article that formerly sold for a nickel, although there may be noth ing to warrant the 100 per cent Increase. High cost of material, higher wages and Increased overhead expenses are the reasons most generally given for an ln creaes In retail price. In St. Louis an Investigation was con ducted when shoe shining establishments raised the price 6 to 10 cents. Testimony showed the Increase cost of materials to be less than 10 per cent; rent, lights and heat less than 20 per cent and labor about 30 per oent, with no Increase whatsoever In many Items, yet the public was asked for a 100 per cent Increase. This Is only an example of price In creases on small articles, yot these smalt Items, according to statistics, represent approximately 60 per cent of household expenses. A Fable For Loafers. From the Jayhawk. If you have anybody working for you and they lie down on the Job, don’t fire them at once—Just call them In and teU this story. Down In Virginia a farmer had an ox and a mule that he bitched together to a plow. One night, after several days of continuous plowing, and after the ox and the mule had been stabled and provendered for the night, the ox said to the mule: "We’ve been working pretty hard, let'# play off sick tomorrow and lie here la the stalls all day.’’ “You can If you want to." returned the mule, “hut I believe I’ll go to work." So the next morning when the farmer came out, the ox played oft sick; the farmer bedded him down with clean straw, gave him fresh hay, a bucket of oats and bran mixed, left him for the day and went forth alone with the mule to plow. All that day the ox laid In his stall, chewed hie cud and nodded, slowly blinked his eyes and gently swished his tall. That night when the mule came In, the ox asked how thoy got along plowing alone all day. "Well,” eald the mule, “I* was hard and we didn’t get much done^ and—" “Did the old man have anything to sag about me?" Interrupted the ox. "No,” replied the mule. "Well, then," went on the ox, ”1 believe I’ll play off again tomorrow; It wae cer tainly fine lying here all day and resting.’* "That’s up to you," said the mule, ‘‘hut I’ll go out and plow.” So the next day the ox played off again, was bedded down with clean straw, provendered with hay, bran and oatt, and lay all day nodding, blinking, chewing hie cud and gently swishing his tail. When the mule came In at night the ox aBked again how they had gotten along without him. "Did the old man have anything to say to you about me?" again Inquired the ox. "No,” replied the mule, "not to me, but he did have a damn long talk with the butcher on the way home." English Estates Sold. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Britannia still rules the waves, but beneath the waves lie ' unseen terrors, menacing the nation's commerce, Its food supply, its very life. The nation cannot trust Its sea borne trade now. It must utilize every possible means to provide the necessary sustenance for its armies, and for those who supply the fighting men. And the British government rises to the occasion. Before the war Lloyd George fought long and well to compel the breaking up of old estates, to make possible the culti vation of land long Idle, to give the la borer a chance at the soil. He failed, for the British are conservative by instinct, and the old way seemed easiest. They have learned their lesson now. In three years past the British govern ment has taken over outright no less than 1,000,000 acres of British soil, purchasing some, renting more. It has. Indeed, found necessary the establishment of the great department to handle this work of na tional regeneration. It is a great change, and one that should not he regretted. The England which makes peace will not be the England of Its fathers, but a better one. Paper matches are built Into a new paper box for cigarets. 44444444444444444444444444 X THE VALUE-OF CHEER. 4i 4 —- 4 4 From the Christian Herald. 4 4 A western court has awarded a 4 4 goodly sum to a nurse who en- 4 4 livened a rich man's declining years 4 4 with good cheer. The court said 4 4 that It was Impossible to separate 4 4 physical benefit from good cheer, 4 4 and that while good cheer Itself 4 4 might not have a definite price, the 4 4 physical benefit resulting from It 4 4 certainly has. 4 4 Many a millionaire, when ill 4 4 health or failing strength compels 4 4 him to drop the pursuit that has 4 4 absorbed all his life, thought and 4 4 interest, might be willing to give a 4 4 large sum to be able to feel cheer- 4 4 ful. To those who think that get- 4 4 ting rich Is the main aim in life 4 4 and the highest achievement It 4 I 4 must seem strange that a poor man 4 I 4 should havo cheerfulness to spare 4 4 to a rich one. But such is the way 4 4 of tlio world. The most precious 4 4 things cannot be measured in 4 4 mor.ey. 4 ^4444-44444 44+444444444444£ A Platinum Discovery. From the Worcester Telegram. The experience of something better than was anticipated lias come to the Norquist Brothers, of Spokane and Seattle. They report having spent $28,001 developing what was supposed to he a great ». Iyer mine on the Kasio river in the great northwest of Canada and tills country, and finding that there was no silver worth mining. But they observed a kind of rock that puzzled them, and had it analyzed. The man of science reported a prospect of $700 worth of platinum ore per ton of the rock, and the brothers have gone at it with the vigor that naturally pertains to an open chance to handle a ton of rock for $700. As the platinum is worth $11*6 an ounce. It Is plain that no great amount of trains will be necessary to move the fi^e product from that mine when it has been reduced to the sale stage of platinum. It Is barely more than six ounces to the ton of rock. The millers of that rock will have to he watched and they must watch out for every bit of that dust. for an ounce of the real stuff is pretty small pickings from a ton of ore. The incident is one more addi tion to the independence of this side of the Atlantic. !t provides the necessary mineral, and what comes from the north west will not bo needed from the enemy countries of Europe. The Patty Profiteer. From the Omaha Wos1d-lIera!d. Tim government *s taking care of the direct profiteers, after a fashion, but the indirect profiteer, the man who handles k low priced commodity with a large vol ume nf-faleq, is likely to be able to in crease prices without attracting much at tention. either public or official. If such a commodity Is In common use and there Is nothing to justify such an Increase, he is no less a profiteer than th« man who attempts to secure an exorbi tant price for a war necessity. Since the drift* *1 States entered the wai the public has been, educated to higher prices for many "article* and it is a com caraUveiy ce.sy L.a:t°r to lattice people