Aged War Veterans Daniel C. Dakeman was the last pensioner of the Revolutionary war. He died 86 years after the close of the war at the age of one hundred and nine years, eight months and eight days on April 5, 1860. Hiram Crenk was the last surviving pen aioner of the War of 1812. He died on May 13, 1905, at the age ot one hundred and five years and six teen days. Owen Thomas Edgar la^-t surviving pensioner of the Mex ican war, died in Washington, Sep tember 3, 1029. Narrow Thoroughfare The narrowest street in the United States is said to be Treas ury street in St. Augustine, Fla. It is 6 feet 1 inch wide. This streel was shown as a street on the map of St. Augustine In 1737, and called Treasury street because the •Id treasury was on the corner of this cross street and St. George street. Carriages used to drive through It, and a atone was placed at the entrance on Bay street to prevent this. The old treasury building is still standing. Not Much DSfforonc* The words fort and fortress are sften used Interchangeably. In the ■United States all permanently gar risoned places, whether fortified or not, are termed forts. In fortifica tion fort Is usually applied to a work entirely Inclosed by defens ible parapets. Fortress generally designates a fortified city or town, or any piece of ground so strongly fortified as to be capable of resist ing an attack. It Is a permanent fortification. Famous American’s Nicknamo “Old Man Eloquent” was one of the nicknames of John Quincy Adams during the latter years of his life while he was a member of the house of representatives. Milton jpplied the phrase to Isocrates, the famous Greek orator,, who Is said to have died of mental shock and grief when he learned that Phil Ip of Macedon had defeated the Greek allies at Chaeronea. — Pathfinder Magazine. Hero’s Resting Place George Rogers Clark Is burled In Pare Hill cemetery In Louisville, Ky. General Clark founded tbe city i>f Louisville In 1779 after return ing from hts military expedition to the Northwest. He spent most of Ids declining yenr In Louisville, Ky., and Clarksville, Ind., across the Ohio river from Louisville. This town was also founded by General Clark. Had Enough of the Sea On account of a shipwreck In bis teens when he was emigrating from England to South Africa, Mr. Clark of Boshof, Orange Free State, made Ills way Inland, and vowed that he would never cast eyes on the sea again. He settled it Boshof, where he built up an ex tensive general dealers’ business, ind left a large fortune at his flenth. Loving Wifo Scene In millinery shop. Wife ad Iresses husband: “You see, my dear, this Is the hat I adore most passionately, hut since you prefer that other oue, I shall take them both. Just to please you!” First Used by Holmes? The expression "mutual admira tion society” was probably coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes. The phrase appears In “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.” One Point of View He Is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace In his borne. Head ACHE When you feel a headache coming on, it's lime to take Bayer Aspirin, Two tablets will head it off, and you can finish your shopping in comfort. Limbs that ache from sheer weari ness. Joints sore from the beginnings of a cold. Systemic pain. The remedy is rest. But immediate relief is yours for the taking; a pocket tin of Bayer Aspirin is protection from pain wherever you go. Get real aspirin. Look for Bayer on the box. Read the proven direc tions found inside every genuine Bayer package. They cover head aches, colds, sore throat, toothache, neuralgia, neuritis, sciatica, lumbago, rheumatism, muscular pains, etc. These tablets do not depress the heart. They do nothing but stop the pain. Every druggist has Bayer Aspirin in the pocket size, and in bottles. To save money, buy the genuine tablets by the hundred. Don’t experiment with imitations. Out Our Way By William* ^h\EFK004 HOUSES, /Ov4 , »Te juS>T ©C AS\-E T'OOPC COPiO^TW. t.OOV wet away from the hail of bullets.” In hunting parlance this Is called •‘shooting them sitting,” a thing which decent sportsmen do not countenance in the case of game. Where convicts are concerned killing is held excusable if neces sary to prevent escape or if they put others in jeopardy. But in this instance, according to the reports, the guards were not endangered and capture was easy. Even in the case of law breakers this Joliet per formance seems callous and brutal. A DREAM OF A GOWN. Smart women who to Paris flocked For spring gown inspiration, Are seeking now the spirit world, In search of Information. Clairvoyants, yes, and mediums Just go into a trance, Then tell the dames what they must wear, For beach or street or dance. Suggestions emanating thence Are promised to entice; And what is even better yet, They’re moderate in price. Mere man has not gone in for ghosts And all that sort of guff; \it I can see where he may change And now O. K. their stuff. —Sam Page. -•-»«--— Gold Hoard in Wall Street. John T. Flynn in Collier’s. Some day when you are visiting New York walk down Wall Street a little past Broad. Nestling in among the soaring skyscrapers you will see a little 2-story building known as the United States assay office. Hiding under the shadow of the lofty 65-story tower of the Bank of Manhattan Trust company, this little building seems the humblest j and least pretentious in that ex traordinary neighborhood. Opposite is the office of J. P. Morgan and company. On the adjoining corners are the Stock Exchange, the First National bank, headed by George F. Baker, and the United States sub treasury. All around are the offices af great banks and bankers. This is the very heart of the fi nancial capital of the world. But It Is not those amazing towers and banks and exchanges and financial giants which make it the capital. It is that little 2-story assay offiee. Far down in its vaults—in a small room in fact—is one-third of all the jnonetary gold in the world—more than $3,500,000,000, all in gold bricks »nd stacked up in cases in dark cel tars like so much firewood. This gold is the property of the United states government. It is part o' the gold reserve of the nation. It is the possession of this vast treasure by America which makes Wall Street the money power of the earth. There is abcut $21,003,000,000 worth of gold in the world after centuries of digging and mining. About one half of it—roughly $11, 300,000.000—is used as money gold. The other half is used in the arts— chiefly in ornaments and jewelry. Of this monetary gold about 40 per cent is held by the government of the United States and 20 per cent by the government of France. Mellon Family Wealth Lucius Beebe in the Outlook ar.d In dependent. Few estimates of the wealth of Andrew W. Mellon have been com piled and there U practically no method of gauging the precise ex tent of his financial Interests. In 1921, when first appointed to the treasury post, It was supposed that the money controlled by An drew Mellon as head of the Mel lon family was in the neighbor hood of $2,000,000,000. He was an officers and director in banks and insuranoe companies with resources of $a«n non mm and in oilier corpof* Wool for a Banker . . 1 -— — ■■ ■ — ' ' I ... I —-I Besides bulls and bears, J. P. Morgan, famous banker and financier, knows something about lambs—other than the Wall Street variety. On his extensive estate at Hertfordshire, England, he raises English lambs, 6aid to be among the finest 4n the world. Here you see a caretaker on his estate posing three little lambs for a photograph while the proud mother ewe looks on. In other words, these two countries i hold 60 per cent of the money gold of the world. The United States has about $4,500,000,000. France has over $2,000,000,000. Great Britain has only $782,000,000, a little more than one third the holdings of France. Codington County Farmers Favor Demonstration Plots Watertown, S. D. — — Fif teen Codington county farmers are planning to devote a part of their farni!$ for use as demonstration plots on which different varieties of corn and small grain will be tested this year, L. D. Nichols, county agent, reports. At the end of the year it is ex pected to have some new informa tion as to which varieties yield best in Codington county. Four farmers are also planning to test out the value of fertilizer on corn. On each plot the different var ieties will be grown under the same conditions and will be given the same care. The demonstrations will be carried on with com, flax, wheat, oats, and barley. With a Grain of Truth. From New York Times. The practice of applying past ex perience to a new situation is the very thing which leads the enter prising schoolboy to make deplor able blunders. The lad who stated that a “conservative is a kind of greenhouse where you look at the moon” was simply adapting known definitions to a new w’ord. In “The Book of Howlers”, Just published in London, many of the most amusing specimens have sonn germ of truth. The definition of corps diplomatique as “shamming dead” is not co wide of the mark. Politicians may be found to agree with the boy who said that “many' people say that free trade is better than perfection.” On the subject of government and rulers, youthful blunderers have muddled fact and fiction inextric ably. One contributor says, “Our country has a king who can’t do anything but what he ought to.” The king's evil is defined as bore dom. The dlfiei\.ncc between a king and a president is explained in the cryptic phrase: “A king is the son tions with known assets of more than $700,000,000. The Mellon fam ily had controlling voice in the af fairs of banks with resources of $19, 000,000 and corporations with assets of $106,000,000 more, making a known total of interests valued at something like §1,700,00^000. 'Eight years later financial au thorities calculated that the wealth of the Mellon family had been in creased by nearly $300,000,000 as the result of spectacular rises in the stock of the Aluminum company of American and the Gulf Oil corpora tion of Pennsylvania. With no more than these indices on which to base speculation it is Farm Product f Marion Lee Foster, six month* old, has been selected as America’* champion farm baby in a contest sponsored by the American Farm Bureau Federation. Her parents liv« near Junction City, la. This study won Marion Lee the prize among 10,854 contestants. of his fatlier, but a president 1* not.” Oral-minded students have man aged to change the dramatis per sonage to history by dubbing th* famous Scotish hero, William Wal rus, and giving Italy a flapper dic tator. Miss Olini. The most shocking revelation is the description of Hal land, which is "a low, lying country, and is damned all around.” Q. Who founded Sauk Center, Minn., the home of Sinclair Lewi*, author of ‘ Main Street?” M. C. A. Mrs. Rachel Moore, a pioneer woman of Minnesota, founded the town and opened the first store. apparent that the personal wealth of Mr. Mellon must be enormous despite his resignation from all directorates upon assuming the treasury post while that of his family will bulk as one of the great est fortunes of all time. Most Essential. According to a current question naire, all that a girl demands In a husband Is character, good disposi tion, earning ability, intellectual brilliance, social standing and good looks. However, if the young maa possesses good earning ability w« dare say the other qualifications will consldf,-»rf naolirible. ---:-=== Wakeful restless CHILD needs Castoria We can never be sure just what makes an infant restless, but the remedy can always be the same. Good old Castoria' There's comfort in every drop of this pure vegetable preparation, and not the slightest harm in its frequent use. As often as Baby has a fretful spill, is feverish, or cries and can't sleep, let vastoria soothe and quiet him. Sometimes it's a touch of colic. Other times it's constipation. Or diarrhea—a condition that should always be checked promptly. Just keep Castori., handy, and give it promptly. Relit t will follow very promptly; if it doesn't you should call a phys:cian All through babyhood, Castoria should be a mother's standby; and a wise mother continues it in more liberal doses as a child grows up. Readily obtained at any Ju g store, the genuine easily identified by tlie ('lias. II. Fletcher signature and the name Castoria on the wrapper like this: to Confess Daddy Was “Only e. Trustee” Lloyd SI wo, Chicago attorney and me of tin* board of directors of the I’lilversily of Chicago, lias a small laughter who, with two pln.vinptos *f similar age and stiilur**, Is Inter »sted in pet live stock. Her chums are daughters of professors at the adversity. One day the three chll Iren were greatly excited to learn lint a professor in the biology de partment had a surplus of guinea •dgs which he Intended to dispose of it 50 cents per head to children of he university. The little girls raided heir savings hanks ami hastened to he biology department. ‘Ttciise, sir,” said the first, olYer ng her 50 rents “may l have a gain •a pig7” “if your father a professor?" "Yes. sir.” Kite got her guinea pig. So did Hie second child. It was young Miss tteore’a turn. “is your fattier a professor?" asked the Ido'ogist, bolding up a piineu pig. The child hit her lip and flushed. Mn* felt that she was about to be liseriminateil against. Yet slip could lot tell a lie. “No, sir," she faltered, “lie’s only \ trustee.”—Collier’s Weekly. FOR COLDS ALKALINIZE YOUR SYSTEM Doctors everywhere are prescrib ing this new treatment for colds: Jlegin when you feel a cold com ing. Take u tablespoonful of Phil lip,’ Milk of Magnesia, morning, noon and night, the first day. Do the same second day. Then only at night. Colds reduce the alkalinity of your system. That’s what makes you feel achy, feverish, weak, half-sick. Phil lips’ Milk of Magnesia is alkali In harmless, palatable form. It checks the symptoms of colds by restoring ‘.he alkalinity of your system. Relieves sour stomach, Indigestion, gas, over-acidity. All drugstores. Father* Poor Hou»e Peculiar Stunt tine of the slunts nt a meeting cl tile Maryland beekeepers was a bee catching coldest. In which the par ticipants, barehanded and with nt protection for llielr faces, caught iip many bees as possible, one at a time keeping them in a wide mouth bottl* held in one hand. “Argyle” The name Arc ! * is derived from two Gaelic words, “airer jiaidlical," meaning district of the Gaels. Lose Fat Safely and Quickly Kruschen Salts—(a perfect com j blnulion of the six mineral salU | your body should have to function properly) purify your blood of harm ful acids, and aid the kidneys au