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.
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Wanton Killings
Baltimore Sun.
Reports of the killing of two con
victs and the fatal wounding of a
third In the course of an attempt
to escape from Joliet penitentiary
make it appear that the men were
shot down though they could have
been captured without risk of in
jury to the guards.
The prisoners were caught in an
ambush, their plan of escape hav
ing become known. The guards
were awaiting them and when they
undertook to let themselves down
from the top of a 20-foot wall a
huge prison searchlight was fo
cused upon them, 'making them,”
says the dispatch, ‘‘a certain target
as they tried frantically lk> 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.
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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
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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.
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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<ceeper»
Fa liters make poor housekeepers,
tccording to Dr. F. <«. E. Hill, med
leal nilieer of .Morley, England, in a
recent report. In Morley many vvom
*n arc being employed In textile
mills but there is lillle work for men.
riicrcl’ore many mothers of infants
tud children go to work while the
men tare for the home and little
.lies. “Neglect for domestic duties,
lack of comforts and a lower stand
ard of food preparation and cleanli
ness re. a Its. Such factors must In
•viinhly nfleet the health of the de
veloping infants and children," says
* Ik* doctor.
L)r. 1‘icrcc'v Pleasant Pellel* are the orig
in d little liver pill* put up 60 years ago.
they regulate liver and bowel*.—Ad/.
Frank
‘Have you come to me to ask my
permission to marry my daughter?"
asked her dad.
"No," replied the nervy youth “1
I'itme to liml out vvliut kind of a
faiher-ln-law you would agree to be
if I did decide to marry her.”
Don't class liens as vegetables be
cause of I heir crops.
Locarno Pen nl*nng
Ii was recently ntnieil that the gol.J
pen, !*i tin* form of a goose rpiHU
wliloli was used to sign III? Luca rat
treaty, hail *llsap|H*nretl. Tills pen
was lent by ibe l.oearno municipaliiy
for The Hague exhibition last Fehro*
ary. It was suptwsetl to have been
nnpaeketl with a number of other ob
jects lent by Hie l.oearno municipality
for Ibe occasion.
Kill Rats
Without Poison
4 New Exterminator that
Won't Hill Livestock, Poultry,
Dogs, Cats, or even Baby Chicks
K-R Ocan tK. used about the home,barn or pool
try yard with aDsolute sulsty as it contains M
deadly poison. K-R-Olsmade of Squill, as recorn
mended by US. Dept, of Agriculture,oven-drieS
under the Connable process which Insures mo a
imum strength. Used by County Agents In mod
rat - killing campaigns. Money - Back (iuarantoa
Insist upon K-R-O,the original Squill ext-rmtn
alor All druggists.75c.tl.M St.On. Direct lldraiei
cannot supply you. K H O Co.. Springfield, OUfi
KJLLS-RATS-ONLY
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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<J
bowel* to throw off waste materia’
—the continual formation of which
is probably the cause of your f=t
In this modern age of living. It'l
Impossible to get these salts from
the fancy foods you eat—but don't
worry just as long as you have
Kruschen Salts.
Take a half teaspoon every morn
ing before breakfast in a glass ol
i hot water—little by little that uglj
j fat disappears, you'u feel better tha»
1 ever before—years younger, more
energy. You’ll soon possess that en
| viable' beauty, dear skin, sparkling
eyes, superb figure which only per
fect health can Impart.
An 85c bottle (lasts 4 weeks) at
any progressive druggist In Amer
ica Money back if Kruschen doesn't
convince you that it Is the safest,
quickest, easiest way to lose fat.
A Hurt ford womnn writes, “I’ll
i tell the world Kruschen Salts l«
wonderful stuff to reduce.” An Ohio
woman lost 10 pounds with one bot
tle.- Adv.
'A PARKER’S
hair balsam
Stop< Hmir * •***■•
JH IrapAfti Color and
f 3eauty to G r»y and Faded Half
000 »nd 01 00 •* L)rotfgiata
Hi*cn« Ch«n Wk, r»r-hotfu- N.TJ
FLORESTON SHAMPOO — Ideal for use la
connection with Parker-* Hair Balsam. Makra th*
hair soft and Huffy. 50 cent* by mail or *, drug
gists. Hiscox Chemical Works, Pstchogue. N Y.
Sioux City Ptg. Co., No. 14-1931.
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Something New!!
A Shaving Cream
that is also A Skin Tonic!
Shaving Cream fills a
long-frit want. Contaimug the delicately
medicated, emollient jpropcrtiea of Cutl
euro, it produces a rich, creamy lather that
remains moist throughout the shave* softens tlit*
beard and at the same time soothes the skin. 'And
what a wonderful after-share feeling! A skin that u
and refreshed, free from any tenae, dry feeling.
dealers or sent postpaid on receipt of He.
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