Nebraska Newspapers

    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 <jUN fiob
The title of “hero of two wars” may
rightly be given to John Henry Quick,
who also bears the title of Sergeant
Major In the 11 S. Marines.
Quick got Into tho Spanish-American
war as quick as lie could when it broke
out. At one time during Ms service
In Cuba the enemy lay In ambush for
the American forces. Aid of the V. B.
S. Dolphin was needed.
Quick risked hie life to stand on a
prominent eresl of land near the ene
my and flash signals to the ship In
forming her commander where to fire
to rout the enemy. Despite tho fact
SHEET MUSIC WOULD
MAKE HIT WITH BOYS
BY FRANK J. TAYLCTi.
United Press Staff Correspondent.
With the American Army In France
(by mail)—The boys want music over
here In the trenches. If you w'-nt to
make a l.it with a soldier boy, send
him some of the latest song hits, so
that he and his pals can try to "har
monize” on them during the long eve
nings they spend fn the trenches or
among tho ruins of somewhere in the
woods.
European officers say th* American1
army is the most musical In the world.
The boys are always going about their
v.'ork^ whether It's marching Into the
trenches or filling up a shell hole In
the road, with a seng.
A song to sing is a great thing. It
boosts up the spirit and the morale,
and makes a man forget the things
ho doesn't like. The fellows In the
army who can't sing always whistle.
Somewhere In every group is an in
strument Of some kind, often nothing
more than a couple of strings over a
cigar box with a handle on It—but
something that will make a tune.
The boys usually get near a “hut”
that has a phonograph now and then
and try out the song*. But they want
new ones, tho latest ones from Amer
ica, the soldier songs that take so
long to drift across the sea, unless
someone sends sheet music.
So If you want to make a hit with a
"doughboy” send him some sheet
music, the latest thing you can got
from Broadway. The best way to send
It Is in an envolope, sealed tight, as
first class matter, for otherwise it may
be lost.
Now the One Way Glace.
From the Little Journal.
For making range finders, checking eye
pieces for gunslgnts, for comparison ocu
lars, binocular microscopes and for other
purposes ft has been found necessary to
produce a one way glass; that la, a glass
which looked through from one side Is
transparent, while looked at from the
other ts opaque and functions as a mirror.
This is brought about by slivering In such
a manner that exactly the same measure
of light is transmuted through It as la re
flected bv It.
The Invention was perfected In Ger
many before the war and It was Immedi
ately put to use not only for purposes of
military observation, but also for the
delectation of the most favored of the
nobility. There was, for Instance, the
high well born Freiherr von Namenver
gessen, who, being a man of wealth and
Influence, procured enough of the one
way glass to equip the guest room walls
of his castle so that they appeared as
ordinary mirrors to his guests, while he
had convenient posts of observation pro
vided for himself at the back.
Thic type of German humor would never
appeal to America but there are, however,
many uses to which one way glass could
be put with profit and convenience. In
a business office, for Instance, the eye of
tho master Is often a useful Instrument,
whi r*as he frequently needs privacy for
conferences. Therefore, a private office
inclosed In this kind of glass would often
he desirable It would be agreeable In
many windows; In short, with consider
able limitations, It would provide a cur
tain of Invisibility, less effective than the
legendary gift of Minerva, but useful In
1,000 ways.
Status of Women Aliens.
From the New York Times.
Among other wise provisions In the new
bill Just adopted unanimously by the Brit
ish house of commons, defining national
ity and the status of aliens. Is one mak
ing In the existing law a change the need
of which has already been felt In this
country. Its effect Is to empower the
home office to assent to the application of
a British born wife for the privilege of
resuming the rights of British citizenship,
’o»*. by her when she married a man who
Is now an enemy alien.
That wives, whatever their origin, ac
quit the political status of their hus
!«{(#», whatever that may be, and that
tjrey can recover their former status
c-nly ‘hrougli the death of, or a divorce
fi'onj. their allcnt husbands—these are
we I orlabllshed principles of law In prac
tice, iv all lands, civilized and uncivilized
They Me. however, mere survivals from
Me era when everywhere It was held that
men and wife are one, and tha man Is the
ono. Now that the separate Individuality
of women has gained nearly full recog
nl loo In some countries, and a tendency
teward jvcb recognition exists In a good
many move, refusal to grant It In the
aia'.Ur cf citizenship lias become move or
that bullets sputtered and fell around
him ho stood there nonchalantly as if
In camp and wigwagged the messago.
Congress awarded him a congres
sional medal of honor for his conduct.
When America got into the world
! war Quick got In. too. On June 8 he
volunteered to assist In taking a truck
load of ammunition and material Into
the town of Bouresches, France, over
a road swept by artillery and machine
gun fire, thereby relieving a critical sit
uation. For this he wan highly com
mented and cited by General Persh
ing.
less of an absurdity In all cases, and It
Imposes severe hardship and even great
cruely In not a few.
Cltltenshlp In tho only Important, or at
least most Important, sense of sincere
allegiance and loyalty Is not determined
by marriage, but by peisonal Intention
and purpose—by Inherited or reasoned
preference. A new and particular need
for abandoning antiquated notions as to
woman' s political standing Is created
wherever the sex discrimination as to vot
ing has disappeared.
Brothers in Arms.
From tho London Times.
There was an exhilarating thrill in th«
ftlr of London yesterday, and we shell
riot be wrohg if we believe It to have been
felt throughout the BrltlBh Isles. Formal
observance of the union in arms of Great
Britain and the United States there was
In plenty, and carefully attuned to the
truo spirit of Independence day. The
two flags that flew side by side above
Buckingham palace, from the Victoria
tower of the palace of Westminster, over
the western entranco of St. raul's, from
the great public buildings of Whitehall
and the city, and from countless private
places of business and of residence, pro
claimed it to the eye. The crowdB In the
streets, with their twin button hole flags
of America and of Britain, paid homage
to it. At Westminster It found worthy
expression In speeches by Lord Bryco and
Mr. Churchill, as well by chosen represen
tatives of the American people now In this
country. The “ball game" at Chelsea,
played with all Its native ritual to a vast
crowd, and watched by the king, was In
tho authentic tradition of Its lighter vein.
But more than all was the sense—through
the thronged streets of the old capital that
the common ancestors of both peoples
built—of a great event In human history.
It was perceptible, yet hard to define, as
are all such movlngs of the emotions of
a people. There was Imagination In It,
for who could be so dull as not to be
stirred by the visible symbol of the two
flags flying side by side? There was also
the familiar stir of a day of pageantry,
deepened perhaps and accentuated yes
terday by the flow of the common day's
work that went on so busily side by side
with the special parade of the occasion.
But there was more. London yesterday
strengthened belief In the rooted depth
and sweep of the wisdom of a free peo
ple. Freedom, In this celebration of the
brotherhood In arms of the American and
the British races, was Justified of her
children.
Look Across ths Sea.
E. T. Meredith. In Nation’s Business.
In England and France I have seen
things which I wish could be burned Intq
the conscience of every business man Iq
the United States. -I have seen factories
In ruins, office buildings blown Into bits,
commercial districts, miles In extent, ly
ing deserted and silent, grass growing In
tho streets like places of the dead— every-,
thing that years, perhaps hundreds oj
years of patient Industry had built up and
passed on as a heritage from father te
son—all vanished.
We In America have known nothing lik«
this. We can know nothing like It.
Thanks to our allies, these experiences
will be kept from us That factory ol
yours In New England, thqt mine of youi
neighbor’s In Michigan, that farm 1 own
In Iowa—they are being protected today
by the untold sacrifices of the soldiers,
the business men, tno women of Eng
land and France.
Why then should we complain? Why
should we protest that our business Is
ruined? Why should we bewail lessened
profits, cavil at high prices. Inconveni
ences, hard conditions? Why should we
rage at the disaster that overtakes out
business?
Our business? Our profitt»r Our lives?
Oood God. will we ever open our eyes to
see the truth? Gan we ever repay the debt
we owe% The tlmo has come for us, the
commercial men of this country, to re
lieve our French and British allies over
seas of their appalling- burden. Their
soldiers are now our soldiers, as truly
as If they wore our uniform; and our boys
are theirs.
What Is tho Answer?
From the Washington Times.
Five i>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”
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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.
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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
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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