MercolizedWax Keeps Skin Young Get an ounce and -t*» 11 directed. Fin* particle* of ac*d Ada peel off until all defect* neb a* pimple*, lirer •pot*, tan and freildei disappear. Skin 1* then soft and velvety. Your fee* look* year* younger Mer-’otited Wax brine* out the hidden beauty of your skin. T* VUineva wrinkle* on* ouooe Powdered Scroll to dtardv©d in ooo-haLf pint witch haxel. At drua store*. ~Odd Wall Design A petrified snake, outlined in baa relief on a stoue perhaps millions of years old, wdl appear in the wall of the first stone house to be built In Warren county, Pennsylvania, in sev enty years. The fossil form, about two feet long, resembles a garter •nuke. A1 Westren, builder of the bpuse, was showing visitors over the scene. While inspecting the stone to be used In the construction, all of which is being used just as it ie found on the hillsides, one of the vis itors noted tiie form of the snake. We-1 ren denied to use the stone in the construction.—Indianapolis News. Dr Pierce’s Pillets are best for liver, bcweis and stomach. One little Pellet for a las alive—three for a cathartic.—Adv. The Centuries The Nineteenth century Included the whole of 1900, just as the First century, beginning with January 1 In the year 1, would include the whole year, 100. The Twentieth century, therefore, began with January 1 in 1901, and it wit! not be completed un til December 31, 2000. [kill COLD germs! ; Clears head instantly. Stops cold spreading. Sprinkle your handkerchief during the day —your pillow at nighf. Relic of Old Days A btriking relic of the old Com stock days was unearthed at Virginia City by Albert Dressier, of Berkeley, a souvenir hunter, when he found an imitation glass cigar five feet long that was used to advertise a famous cigar store 50 years ago. The device, forerunner of electric signs, was lighted with gas and Is constructed of If 000 to 20,000 glass prisms. STOP RHEUMATIC PAINS WITH HEAT OF RED PEPPERS Relieves Almost Instantly Good old Nature has put into red peppers a marvelous therapeutic heat that gets right down to the source of trouble and almost instantly relieves the pains and aches of rheumatism, •tiff joints, lumbago and neuritis. Thousands have found it the one safe guard against chest colds, too. Now this genuine red peppers' heat is con tained in an ointment that you just rub on. In less than 3 minutes you feel re lief come. It is called Rowles Red Pepper Rub. Safe. Will not burn or sting. Geta small jar from yourdruggist. Figuratively "That woman, Mrs. White, has a fine figure.” "A fine figure! Why, the only iking she can buy ready made is an umbrella.”—Passing Show. Magic carpets are never nailed down. Unfortunately, one can't make a Wring being a tourist. Los Angeles Boy Needed Help Leroy Young, 111G Georgia St., Los An geles, is a “regular f e 11 o w,” active In sports, anil at the top in his classes at school. To look at him now, you’d think he never had a day’s sickness but his mother says: “When Leroy was just a little fellow, we found his stomach and bowels were weak. He kept suffering from con ttfpation. Nothing he ate agreed with him. He was fretful, feverish and puny. “When we started giving him Cali fornia Fig Syrup his condition im proved quickly. Hi< constipation and ' biliousness stopped and he has had no rrcre trouble of that kind. I have since used California Fig Syrup with hire for colds and upset spells. He likes It because it tastes so good and I like it because it helps him so wonderfully!” California Fig Syrup has been the trusted standby of mothers for over GO years. Leading physicians recom mend it. It is purely vegetable and works with Nature to regulate, tone snd strengthen the stomach and bowels of children so they get full nourishment from their food and waste is eliminated in a normal way. Four million bottles used a year shows ljow mothers depend on it. Al ways look for the word “California” •on the carton to he sure of getting the genuine. MADRID LOSES BIG CITY TITLE Barcelona Also Falls Below Million Class in New Census Count Madrid—(UP)—Spain has com pleted another census, which reveals that it yet has no city with a mil lion residents. Great pains were taken to count every one in Barcelona, the larg est city of Spain, in the hope that the census would show 1,000,000 residents. But the tabulations de veloped that Barcelona had failed by 22,869 Even though the Catalan capi tal is not in the million class, it has had a remarkable growth. Ac cording to the census of 1920, its total population was 710,335, and according to the calculations made by the municipal government in 1928, it had 840,931 inhabitants. As in most continental European cities, there is a big surplus of women over men. The difference is 87,138, which means ther„ are ap proximately 9 per cent more wom en than men. Many years ago Barcelona and Madrid were big rivals in the ques tion of population, but recently i Barcelona has forged ahead. In 1920 Madrid was still ahead, with 750.896, but in 1928 it already wras behind Barcelona, Madrid then having 809,400 inhabitants. -»-» - — YE SPORT OF YESTERYEAR Out in the shed wherein I keep Reminders of old times, T came across, this very morn, A string of sleigh bell chimes. Each bell is fastened to a strap, Old Dobbin used to wear, When snow and ice were on tha ground And frost was in the air. \nd so attuned, on moon lit nights We hitched him to a sleigh Of graceful, swanlike curves and shape, And jingled down the way. And »o we drove the miles alonfc Nor scarcely needed fur, Because, you’ll mind, beside us there We felt the glow of "Her.” Oh modern youth, in speeding cars* You’ll never have our chance To know the beauty of a night, Nor flavor of romance. —Sam Page. -+ » ---- Cultured Gasoline. From Christian Science Monitor The plain and fancy brands of gasoline which are entering tha market bid fair to outdo the pickle industry in variety. Where once the motorist drew his machine up alongside the curb and called for five gallons of "gas,” he calls today for a tankful of “forked lightning.’* or "orchid streak,” or “blue spit fire.” or something else which is supposed to push any “old bus” over the turnpike at a rate of speed and a facility of movement that no plain gasoline ever could hope to produce. He backs up to an array of filling posts that resemble a denuded for est. Gasoline here to fit anv pock etbook and more names for it than there are ingredients in an end-of the-week stew. And the color schemes are not neglected. One may now have his favorite tint carried into his gasoline tank. Whether one’s taste favors pink or green, blue or yellow, the chemist appears to be quite ready to meet it. To top THIS CURIOUS WORLD 1 ■Mgymaurar-jMihiaflt&Hs"'VT~rr'.^ar— *.""-"-tf*1 .w„ ~ The eoK/lAip£P4l)CC op A PcRSOfA cnns in The exUsswe coid of The bar NORTH is AlMcsT IDENTICAL with ft TH4TOPONE. \\ WHO RESIDES \\ fN THe sfevnjNo \\ TfZopcs. IV, A N ptclbRE _ jy AcfcR. 9 _ _£> /nthe Amazon Ri\£r, lH£ Tips rolls I TH£ m'l£R &ALKUIAROS ** fx^rSoo mess. 1Z-Z3 © 1931 BY Nt* SCRVICC. IBC Health Service Why People Take to Drink MOST ALCOHOLICS HAVE DEFE CTS IN HEREDITY. AND DRINK TO ESCAPE REALITY AND FIN D SUSCEASE FOR THEIR PROB LEMS BY DK. MORRIS FISHBEIN. Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hy geia. the Health Magazine. The question as to why some peo ple indulge excessively in alcoholic liquors, whereas others do not, has been one which has long given concern to the experts in phar macology, physiology, psychology, nervous and mental diseases. In general, all are agreed that chronic alcoholic* are the result of some In adequacy to face the problems of life, and In most cases have some defect of heredity. The defect in heredity does not Indicate, as most novelists presume, some alcoholic ancestry, but rather 1 the occurrence In previous gener ations of some mental weakness The chronic alcoholic, before suc cumbing to his habit, has usually suffered some nervous symptoms of one kind or another, quite fre quently a state of depression which alcohol for the time being relieves. * • * This virtue in alcoholic liquors is one of the reasons why physi cians prescribe them. Scientifically they have the ability to Induce a state of euphoria or a feeling of well being, which particularly in the aged is of great importance. One of the British physiologists expresses this particular virtue In alcohol in the following manner: ‘‘In the terrific conflict between what he has been taught to desire and what he is allowed to get, a man has found the alcohol a sin lster but effective peacemaker . . . a way out of the prison house of reality.” Another British observer. Dr. D Yellowlees, points out that certain cases of alcoholism represent an en deavor to relieve an unconscious mental tension. In a case of those who are periodic drunkards, that is those who only occasionally in dulge in excessive drinking but who are usually temperate or who may even abstain entirely from alcoholic liquors in the intervals, it is found that the outbreaks occur when some unconscious mental tension has ac cumulated until the breaking point. The discharge err the escape from reality occurs in a sudden debauch. In those cases in which the drink ing is habitual, the mental prob lem is more constantly in the mind of the individual, and he is fre quently found to have not a weak will or a bad character but an un satisfactory emotional life. The physiologists who have been primarily concerned with the effects of alcohol on the human body be gan with the generally accepted view that alcohol is not a stimulant but a depressant of the nervous sys tem. The lower centers of the ner vous system are the first and the easiest to be depressed; hence there seems to be a stimulation of the higher levels. It is this stimu lation and the removal of the re pression which gives rise to the feeling of exaltation, and which makes the alcoholic talkative, emo tional and easily disturbed. Glorifying Yourself By Alicia Hart Are your fingers smooth, soft and white? I know of a young woman with perhaps the most shapely pair of hands I have ever seen. But she recently had a harsh surface along the outer edge of her first fingers on both hands. She didn't know what caused them. The rest of her hands were their usual soft, white, firm selves. However, she set to work to rem edy the defect. She used her little facial brush with tepid soap suds and carefully rubbed and scrubbed the surfaces. Next, she used a piece of fine pumice stone, again not over doing it but going at it patiently. After this she used warmed olive oil for a few nights, bandaging both fingers with tape, loosely, just to keep the oil on them. After that she used a new hand cream just put on the market this winter and the to tal effect of all of her care are two perfect fingers again. For Callouses Too The ends of some fingers become calloused. Across the mounds of the fingers inside the palm of the hand is another spot for callouses. A per son who writes much by hand or sews is apt to have one blemished finger that sends out callouses to protect itself. The above treatment is good for them all. One of the most unsightly stains on a really womanly hand is a brown nicotine stain. Sometimes both the first and second fingers of one hand become temporarily blem ished by this brown stain. It needs soaking, scrubbing, a good soften ing with cream and then a bleach. After the bleach use a hand cream. And, if you think you are going to stain them again, use a holder for your cigaret. British smokers pay $20 > 000,000 Into the nation's treasury every year. __ PROTECT THE COBS Cows that are accustomed to be ing comfortably housed during the winter months are not in condition to stand sto: my, cold outside tem perature and conditions that are a normal part of winter. One cannot turn feeds into milk efficiently with cold air and Ice water. Cow barns need not be warmer than 46 to 50 degrees F. ft ; cows. There is a lot of differenct however, between 45 degrees F. id i&ero temperature Try it vour. If. Don't blame the cow if she c ects to too much cold air. GIVE POl'1 i KY PLENTY LIME Oyster she I and high grad- lime [ atone grit c - l’t make up a verv BARBS A Chicago woman gave her sweet heart a set of false teeth and then he Jilted her. Probably enabled him to snap at other opportunities. • • • The United States protests that Japan’s invasion of Manchuria Is illegal. But Japan probably knows that Uncle Sam has been protest ing for several years about selling liquor, too. * • • Yet, if most of us could see our selves as others see us, we’d think it was two other fellows. • • • Frozen booze stopped sewage in a Missouri city. Prozen assets have stopped more thay that. * • * Dempsey suid he would fight 10 rounds with'Johnny Risko in Cleve land If promoters could scrape up $500,000 for his purse. If there’s room for $500,000 in his purse, it must be pretty flat, * • • Anyway, Dempsey is just a big time boy coming back. But from this it would seem he had never been gone. M1T.K PRODUCTION Producing a quality milk on the farm is very little harder to do than producing a poor milk. The added expense is ?. very small mat ter indeed. Proper washing and sterilizing of milking utensils will work wonders in Keeping milk as nature intended it. Cooling, use of small-top milk palls, wiping of the udder with a damp cloth, and clip ping the long hair from the flanks, udders, and bellies, all are examples of the little steps that mean so much to this important part of making more money milking cows. FARM TRADE INCREASED Washington — — Higher standards of living among farmers has brought Increased trade to towns of between 1.000 and 10.000 population, Dr. C. 3. Galpin, of the bureau of agricultural economics, believes. ! large percentage of the ration of the properly fed laying hen but are extremely essential. Having calci um in one or both of these forms available at all times is the only sound plan that will guarantee that the hens will get all they need. If they don't, egg production during the winter months is bound to come down. --— The burner on the oil brooder stove should be carefully cleaned at least once a week and if carbon collects excessively, it should be cleaned oftener. The automatic feed on the stove needs attention to see that it, is working properly and •moothly at all times. OF INTEREST TO FARMERS CLEANING DAIRY UTENSILS There aie various compound.* .hlch may used to dissolve the film 4 milky coating that forms in the ewer Uning. A strong solution 01 odium carbonate (sal soda' may be used to good advantage. This should oe mixed at the rate of one pound of the crystals to two quarts of hot water. If tills does not work, a stronger solution may be used which is made from either caustic soda or potash. The soda is usually the cheaper. Two quarts of such solution should contain about ont pound of i he caustic. Usually it is quite dil iicult to clean dairy utensils when lhe milk has dried on them. This may be prevented by rinsing the utensils as soon as they are used in tepid or luke warm water. Most any cleaning compound that you might purchase would have a ten dency to blacken the tin provided vou soakedithe utensil In a solution of it. One of them, however, a pro duct containing sodium chromate and tri-basic sodium phosphate, does not seem to affect the tin to any great extent. If the utensils are rinsed as soon as they are used, any good soda cleaner should work satisfactorily. It is usually a poor plan, however, to soak tinned uten sils, - ■ —♦ ♦ COOKING SOY BEANS One agricultural experiment sta tion has found hat the cooking of cull beans improves their feeding value lor swine. Another station found that feeding cooked soy beans saved 115.7 lbs feed per 100 lbs. gain. In a ration including raw soy beans, pigs fed 30 weeks averaged 198 lbs. weight as compared with an average of 247 lbs. for similar pigs led a ration including cooked soy beans but limited to the same a mount of total feed as was fed the pigs having raw soy beans. Where pigs were allowed 0.71 lb. cooked soy beans daily plus other feeds to the limit of appetite, they were ready for market 84 days earlier than' similar pigs fed raw soy beans. In these trials corn, ground alfalfa, and minerals w'ere fed In addition to soy beans. Too many soy beans produce soft pork. Another station says that a ration for fattening hogs should not contain over 12 per cent of soy beans. --* *--— CASHING CHECKS There has been no end of trouble in Iowa of late, due to folks taking checks in payment for products and then holding the checks a few weeks, only to find them no good when presented for payment. Some times it’s a closed bank, and at other times It's bankruptcy that beats the farmer. When you get a check, send It to the bank at once. The law allows a reasonable time to collect a check, but when you hold it a week or so and something happens to the writer's bank ac count. you lose. Remember, when you take a check the law protects you If the writer hasn’t any money on hand. But If you hold the check, you lose your protection. If you can not get to town at once to present the check for payment, endorsp It. Payable to the-bank for deposit," and mall it to the bank. Then the bank eollects the check and you have the cash coming. CORN STALK DISEASE More or less corn stalk disease oc curs every fall when cattle and horses are turned out into the corn stalks. The disease is more prevalent some years than others, and no one can tell whether It will be prevalent this year. When attacked by the disease, the animals become delir ious, get down and thrash around, and within a few hours are usually dead. The first symptom is nervous ness. A sort of intoxication takes place, the animal becomes weak and wabbly, some being so crazed that they nave a tendency to fight any person giving them attention. The cause of the disease is not really known. The most reasonable opinion which has been ventured Is that corn stalk disease is due to some form of poison, either prussic acid or potassium nitrate, or both. Treat ment of sick animals, especially cat tle, Is practically ineffective, and the only absolute preventive is to keep cattle and horses out of the corn stalks. FORCING LATE PULLETS “How can one best handle late pullets to get them Into lay before winter weather arrives?” has been asked many times. Warm houses and a good ration, with plenty of green feed or alfalfa hay, are es sentials, of course. Separation of the pullets from the older and more mature fowls is also necessary if the best possible egg production is to be obtained Milk is really the magic feed for such birds. Some how, it makes up for whatever our good rations lack of being ideal. It partly replaces the grass and sun shine that the earlier maturing birds had to help mature and de velop them. Probably liquid milk is best, but if it is not available, milk paste fed straight or diluted is an excellent substitute, or one can re place 8 or 10 per cent of the meat scraps or meat and bone in the mash with dried skim-milk or dried buttermilk. SEEKING A REMEDY In attempting to secure better prices for farm products, it has been discovered that a slight surplus has too great an effect on the price of the entire commodity. Therefore, some people, who have not thought deeply on the necessity of an ade quate food supply, look upon sur plus as an evil, and effort is made toward controlling production of ag ricultural products. WATERING COWS IN WINTER A leading agricultural extension service gives an interesting observa tion on watering cows. One dairy farmer found that it took 20 cows to give nine cans of milk a day when they drank water from the creek in winter, whereas 18 cows gave the same quantity of milk when their water was supplied from drinking bowls attached to the stanchions. Winter weather is here. It takes PASTURAGE MONEY MAKER. Time was when virgin fertility gave us considerable grazing with out much work. This no longer holds true. Good pastures are the result of the same careful planning and carrying out of practices that we would expect to use with other crops. _ A GOOD THING TO KNOW It is a simple matter to find pul ley sizes and speeds if one only re members that either pulley’s speed multiplied by diameter equals the other pulley’s speed multiplied by that pulley’s diameter. Then mul tiplying the speed of either util more than cows and feed to make profitable quantities of milk. It takes quite a lot of water. Normal average milk Is about 87 per cent water. The conditions under which water is offered to cows has a lot to do wdth how much they will ac tually drink. Try it yourself. Take a drink from the unprotected, un heated water tank some morning when the temperature is down to zero. — ♦ ♦ - — SOV BEANS FOB BKOOD SOWS Tests at one university have proved soy beans are satisfactory as a supplement to farm grains far brood sows during gestation. About , two-thirds to three-fourths of » pound of beans a head daily was fed. One and a half bushels of beans, therefore, will carry a sow through her gestation period of 114 days. In addition to farm grains and sov beans, sows should be given what legume hay of good quality they wdll eat. The hay can be fed from a simple feed rack or on a leeding floor. Alfalfa hay is ths standard, although soy bean hay ot good quality also has been fed suc cessfully. The sows also should hava access to a mineral mixture. Aa item fully as important as the ra tion is the exercise the sows get. They should be forced to exercise if they do not do so voluntarily. A large pasture or corn field in which the sows are gathering part of their feed is excellent. ♦ ♦ FATTENING LAMBS Because many inexperienced feeders are handling lambs this year, market men are now proph esying that an abundance of low grade, half-fat lambs will be on tho market this winter, according to an extension specialist in sheep and wool. The owner may tell whether the lambs are fat by walking along back of them while they are feeding and placing the hands on the backs of the lambs. If the backbone is still sharply defined, the lambs are not fat. Another method of deter mining the condition of the lamb is to grasp it around the loin. In » thin lamb, it is possible for the fin gers to pass well over the edges of the loin. As the lamb becomes fat* the loin fills out. count your chickens There e going to be a lot 01 steal ing this winter. Farmers will loso along with others. Therefore, it’s extra important that you know what you own. If you raise live stock, poultry or grain, know how much you nave. Count now and then, and if you think there’s bcvu a loss, you will have time to notify your stieriff before all clews am gone. When you go to town, lock your automobile. That will sava you some trouble and considerable property. The average thief is aa amateur, and will not go out of tha way to rob you, but if you are care less and leave your property about recklessly, you merely help him to help himself. • ♦ — KEEP TANK WARM Hogs as well as dairy cows ap preciate warm water in winter amt repay their owners in more effi cient production, according to ex periments. A lot of fall pigs wtuc4 received warm water returned abou# 17 per cent more profit than a lott of similar pigs which got cold wa ter. It takes food energy to wand up the cold water which the ani mal takes in. It is profitable, there^ fore, to bank and cover the stock tank during the winter. The water may be warmed with a tank heater or by the heat generated in a bunk ing of fresh horse manure. --—■ HANDY FARM TOOL The time and labor required to handle ensilage with a makeshift tool may be cut in half through tha use of a fork which has been spe cially designed for this purpose. The face of such a fork is dished to hold a sizeable load, and the tinea are close enough to pick up an