MercolizedWax Keeps Skin Young Qel as ounce And ueo a* directed. Floe per tide* of il*4 akm phI off until *11 detect* curb ee pttnpUa B»*f ■put* ten ond freckleA diaappcAi Skin ie then eeft ted velvety. Your *noe look* yeera youn«*r Mereu!Ue4 Wu briny* out tbe hiddaa beauty of your akte. T* rawieve wrinkle* »*e. oo« ounce Powdered Saxolito cd in one-half pint witch ha eel. At dray stores. ~_"■ _L3 Rock Oddly Carved by Erosion of Centuries If there is any character that pre dominates iu the Infinite variety of form and outline among the smaller Galapagos islands. It Is perpendicu larity. They seem to specialize Iu it. On some of them the rock walls, rising directly out of deep water, are so nearly vertical that ■ landing could be made upon them only with great difficulty, If at ail. On some I imagine no human foot has ever trod In many cases the waves have cut the shore line inward in a deep groove, so that at ten or twenty feet above low water the rock actually overhangs, and one walks or crawls, If he can keep his feet ac all, under a SiTt of stone portico whose roof is carved into innumerable coigns and arches and inverted pinnacles of the most fantastic form. Not seldom the unceasing erosion of the waves has worn the rock away lute huge caverns and flying but tresses and natural bridges, and here and there a great promontory or a whole Island, like Watson island or Kicker rock, lias been pierced clear through from side to side in a pas sage high ami wide enough to take a boat—Gifford I’inchot in the Sat urday Evening Post. CHILD need REGULATING? CASTORIA WILL OO ITI When your child needs regulating, remember this: the organs of babies and children are delicate. Littls bowels must be gently urged—never forced. That’s why Castoria la used by bo many doctors and mothers. It i* specially made for children’s ail ments; contains no harsh, harmful drugs, no narcotics. You can safely give it to young infants for colic pains. Yet it Is an equally effective regulator for older children. The next time your child has a little cold or fever, or a digestive upset, give him the help of Castoria, the children’s own remedy. Genuine Castoria al ways has the name: CASTORIA I HililBli Lioness Followed Girls Escaping from her cage In Earl Shilton, England, Zenita, seven-year old lioness, quietly followed a crowd of well fed girls Just returning from dinner to a hosiery factory. The girls scattered, but Zenita raided a vegetable garden and was captured later in the factory yard. RHEUMATIC PAINS relieved this quick way H the stabbing pains of rheumatism are crippling you, rub on good old St. Jacobs Oil. Relief comes in a min ute)'This famous remedy draw* out pain and inflammation. It’s the quick, safe way to stop aches and pains of Rheumatism, Neuritis, Lumbago or Backache, Neuralgia or swollen Joints. No blistering. No burning. Get a small bottle at any drug store. Brain Model in Neon Tubes An illuminated model of the hu man brain and central nerve system has been made by two physicians of Vienna, Austria. One hundred pieces of neon tube were used. The glass construction enables the showing of both exterior and Interior parts, each particular section being Illuminated ns desired during lectures. It never kjlls a law to execute It. IfclLL COLD GERMS I Sioux City Ptj Co., Ns, 7-1S32 idid ddAcSl OF INTEREST TO FARMERS __ J EARLY SPRING WORK Have you had to replace a single tree (broken nearly a year before) on the cultivator the first day of corn plowing, or a worn "dog” on the corn planter (noted 350 days before) when planting time was here? Have you spent a half-day getting a new bearing and putting it on the disk when it was time to put in oats? Have you had to stop the seeder or binder or make a hurried trip to town to get a new drive chain to replace that worn out the year i before? Have you found the har ness short several needed straps, rings and buckles, as well as with a lot of badly worn and weakened ! parts the first spring day. when every horse and harness was needed? If none of these or of the other 113 things that have to be repaired or replaced about farm machinery and equipment for its anual period of use during the field work season have ever delayed work, then you don’t need to spend part of January and February doing such jobs. Otherwise, better get at it. With saving of time md material a sharp necessity, sand wiching systematic overhauling of machinery, equipment and harness in between daily chores ton days when other winter work is not press ing) is economical and also very saving on temper and nerves during the rush of spring and summer work. The beginning of the new year is the time to consider whether the field planning and arrangement on the home farm is the best for most efficient operation and rotation. On a majority of corn belt farms, the present farm arrangement, like Top sy in Uncle Tom's Cabin, "just growed” or Is approximately' the same as when the present operator began to run the farm. What would be the best arrangement of your farm as to size of neias, eonsiaering the rotation you have found best fitted to your soil, livestock handled, location of buildings, and so forth? Should you have all the fields about the same size, or a group of three or more large fields and another group of smaller ones, or even three different groups as to size, each adapted to the use to which it is put? Why not work out a plan—or perhaps two or three of them—for the farm layout? Put them on pa per, Talk to others who have worked on this problem. Perhaps you won’t arrive at a conclusion and start carrying it out this year, but studying this problem can often be profitably carried out for a year or two. Better field arrangement is one of the most common needs of corn belt farms. Keeping a financial record of the farm doesn’t in itself make or even save money. Only a bare record of income and expenses may give a new importance to some sources of income and some sur prises as to which are the chief ex penditures. When the year’s record of income and expenses is supple mented by an inventory on January 1, March 1, or some convenient date between, and another inventory a year later, one’s progress financially is known. Of course, the inventory must include not only what is found on the farm, but also be complete as to bills and obligations to others and owed to the farm operator. If these records are kept in one of the very convenient forms worked out by the farm management folks at the agricultural college, one is much more likely to get it com plete than when an ordinary note book or some old-time account book is used. If it is posible to have the record book totaled, analyzed and compared with records kept by others in your county or area, as is being done on a large number of western farms by the extension ser vice, the record will be of particular value. The efficiency, economy and plan of operation can be compared with that of other farms and far mers. January is the ideal time to start keeping books on the farm business. In theory, January 1 is the time to start, though in practice folks can commonly begin two or three weeks later (checking back on transactions if they so desire to January 1), with no loss in the value or accuracy of the records. Putting paper or screening around the trunks of young trees, or painting them with a rodent paint in late fall or early winter isn't enough. The job should be checked in January, to see if it is 100 per cent effec tive. Snow and winter weather sometimes make it possible for niice or rabbits to get in and do then destructive work. Occasionally, a bit of hurry or carelessness in doing the job also shows up, and a check in January will reveal exposed places that should be taken care of. January or early February is an excellent time to do orchard prun ing for both young and old trees— a fine time to remove broken, diseased or twisted branches, as well as surplus wood. This is the month to get equipment and houses ready for early pigs—also those not so early, since field work is generally pressing when April comes. If you use a nog nouse navmg to three pens in which to farrow the pigs, tnere is always some check ing and repairing to do. A little patching and repairing may save a whole litter or two if they farrow during a cold snap in late February or early March. Roofs, outside walls, partitions and safety fails have a habit of getting loose or broken. Troughs and feeding equipment have a practice of disappearing, getting mislaid or being used for j other things during the season the sows and pigs don't need them. If the farrowing houses, whether large or small, are not in use during the winter, one of the best jobs for the warm days of a January thaw is to give them the needed cleaning, that is, a cleaning that ends up with plenty of hot lye water and a scrubbing brush used on floors, walls, partitions and troughs. This will make it easy to complete the lob of Riving the pigs a clean, fair start by washing the sow when she is put in the maternity room, a few days before farrowing. - — - The mother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a descendant of Priscilla, the Puritan maid. DI G SELF OUT OF GRAVE Benton, 111. — 'UP) — The mere fact that he was knocked uncon scious and later buried by his assail ant meant nothing to Raymond Tackett. Tackett proceeded to dig ! himself out of his grave after re gaining consciousness. He then brought charges against Dan Hoff man, who recently was convicted on a charge of assault and battery, and ined $100 and costs. RADIO ‘TONE CONTROL" Chicago— (UP) —Someone found a new lone oontttR ter l( « .T GIVE PLENTY LITTEK Exercise isn't necessary lor iiealth or egg production where everything else is ideal, the experiment stations tell us. Hence, plenty of straw or shredded corn fodder or crushed corn cobs or other litter would ap grain in order to make the hens pear to be a matter of little impor tance. As a place to bury the scratch work to eat, it isn't important. Nevertheless, sufficient litter is one of the essentials. First, the hens must have something to do. With 8 or 10 inches of good dry litter, they will busy themselves here dur ing the months of confinement. Without it, it is surprising how much trouble they get into. They fight, pull feathers, learn to eat eggs and each other, try to turn the mash hoppers into dusting boxes, and pick at the droppings. Enough litter means a dry and a warm floor un less the house is all wrong in con struction and location. Lots of litter means that there will be few, if any, loot or body injuries due to drops from roosts or other places. This is a frequent cause of loss, es pecially with the heavier breeds. Plenty of litter means tliat the wa ter and feed will be cleaner, pro vided containers are raised from the floor as they should be. Bare floors mean dirty feet, and dirty feet mean more soiled eggs. * * BEWARE OF NAILS As the season approaches tor the cattle to spend more time In and around the barn, the danger lrom nails or other foreign metal getting into their systems increases. At one United States Dairy Experiment Station 46 per cent of the deaths among cattle over a year old was from foreign bodies taken in with the feed. Tnis trouble is no respecter of animals and frequently it is the finest animal that is stricken. The foreign material may be taken in the grain or hay or may be picked up out of sheer curosity by tiie animal. The better manufactured feed is run over magnets to remove all metal. Extreme care should be taken in unbailing hay to see that no small piece of wire breaks oif and the bailing wire should be care fully doubled up and put into a receptacle used especially for dis carded wire. Cattle should never be permitted where a building is under construction. Frequently the symp toms of foreign bodies develop after some severe exertion as at calving time. Owing to the fact that the foreign body may be lodged almost anywhere in the vital organs the symptoms are not uniformly alike. Frequently, however, the cow stands in one position for a long time, looks distressed, breathes cuutiously, and moves around slowly and stiffly. Sometimes the symptoms come and go at intervals of a few days. Pre vention is about the only remedy. THE COW AND CALF The cow that has been dry for six weeks to two months, and that has been liberally fed while milking, as well as during the dry period, should be in good flesh at calving time. Several days before the cow calves, reduce the quantity oi silage and hay slightly, and if any grain is being fed, cut it down to three or four pounds daily. Ground oats mixed with wheat bran and linseed meal is a good feed at this time. The drinking water should not be too cold. For several hours befere calving, feed the cow very little hay or silage. A warm bran mash at this time Is very beneficial. For a few days after calving, continue to feed sparingly. This will help to prevent digestive disturbances n.nd to reduce the swelling in the udder. In general, after calving, the appa^ tite of a thin cow is somewhat keener than that of a fat cow, and the udder reaches normal sizo in a shorter time. For these reasons, thin cows may gradually be put on full feed in about two weeks, as com pared with four or more weeks for fat cows. FEEDING IN TROUGHS Putting the grain fed to the hens in deep litter, so that they will have to scratch for it, has been proved useless and unnecessary so lar as adding to egg production or health is concerned. In fact, from the standpoint of health, this practice is doubtless undesirable, because litter rather commonly contains con siderable dirt and manure. Feeding grain in troughs is to be recom mended for two reasons. The grain is cleaner when eaten. Also, it is 1 much easier to check as to whether ; enough grain is being fed. The lay ! lng flock should go to roost with crops well filled, largely of grain, | during the winter season. Enough | grain so that a little is left in the | troughs when the flock is through eating for the day is the ideal meth j od of handling. Hens laying from 25 ! to 60 per cent during the winter months need a well-balanced nash, | but they can not keep up egg pro duction and weight without plenty ! of grain. The grain mixture should | be at least 50 per cent yellow corn. * « WARM WATER FOR LAYERS In one western state a large number of farmers keep detailed farm business records, that are supervised and analyzed by ex perienced accountants. Recently, there was released some information on a single item of poultry practice that seems significant. Records of the poultry flocks on 411 farms were totaled. Of these. 338 flocks got warm water all winter. They averaged 95.G eggs. Forty-eight flocks got warm water part oi the time. They averaged 87.8 eggs, eight eggs less per hen. Only cold water was used with thirty-five flocks. They averaged 80.8 eggs, 15 less than those getting warm water all winter. ♦ ♦ No Advancement. From the Detroit News. A year after his coronation the emperor of Abyssinia is still a mere “King of Kings. Conquering Lion of Judah. Elect of God and Light of the World.” but maybe we oucht to give the boy a little more time to make good. May’s $300 radio, which has been keeping the neighbors on South State street awake nights. It was a “pineapole”—a black powder bomb—and when it went off it de stroyed the radio. - - ♦ • AVERAC 1 AGE 18.63 YEARS Cambrid , Mass. — iUP> — The average a; ■ of this year’s Harvard freshmen j 18.63 years. Half the class is fro. i Massachusetts and the remainder lroin three other states three tetri; ories and seven foreign oeuntriea. is i ‘H'OfiU •*' .Mf#' Desire for Peace Dominated Addresses Delivered by Lincoln A love of peace, a recognition that by peaceful methods the most was to be gained, the loathsomeness of war, a realization that through war alone nothing permanent is won—there are the thoughts which dominate the addresses of Lincoln, who in the midst of the Civil war which was forced upon the nation was ever looking for a lasting as surance of peace. More pertinent today perhaps than on the occasion of their ut terance are the words in Lincoln’s first inaugural address in which he made his appeal against war as a means of settling the issue of seces sion: "It is impossible, then, to make intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before. Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws among friends? Suppose you go to war you cannot fight al ways, and when after much loss on both sides and no gain on either you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to the terms of inter course are again with you.” And in the same address, in de claring that the laws of the union will be faiihlully executed in all states, he adds: , “I trust tins will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the de clared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself. In doing this there need be no bloodshed or violence; there shall be none unless it be forced upon the national authority. The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but be yond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no Inva sion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere ” Addressing himself to those who would disjoin the Union, President Lincoln likewise found words of peace, not of war: “If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right sida of this dispute, there is still not a single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on him who has never yet forsaken this favored land are still compe tent to adjust in the best way our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, are the momen tous issues of the Civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered , in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ‘preserve, protect, and de fend’ it. “We must not be enemies, but friends. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our honds of affection.’’ And after the war President Lin coln’s thoughts turned to welding together the people of the country with ties of friendship^ Probably his most memorable remark in this connection is the closing paragraph of his second inaugural address: “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow ; and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” -- COMPETITION Competition is the order of the day in this thoroughly commercial ized world—competition for trade between producing nations, between country stores in the villages, and between seekers for profit in every trade, vocation and profession. Youth coming from high schools, academies, colleges and universities have to meet competition on all sides. They rise or fall only as they meet or fail to meet competition. Every factory, f-ollege, church, institution, business, and human ac tivity for gain, faces competition. There is no escape from this test. But there are certain qualities in men who are in the minority that surely win ocer the competition of the multitudes who have them not. They are industry, intelligence, honesty. courage, sound principles, loyal ' to employers, willingness to save at the cost of self-denials, to maintain < cod habits, to avoid evil associations, to respect all good thin:-s. and to do with little when necessary. Ev. cy man must have a firm foundation on which to build. The liar, llie dodger, the crcok, have no chance. The good man, the clean man, the honorable man, is the one who rises above the shifty, uncer tain. untrustworthy multitude. He may go slow, very slow, at first; but he will go. and go in the right di ection, and finally “get there.” That ’s demonstrated every day. — \V. G. Sibley in Chicago Journal of Commerce. FRIGHTFUL SIGHT When angered, a Queensland lizard opens a large cape-like frill from i's neck and distends Its jaws. The frill is a foot wide and. with he gaping jaw3, preesnts a terrify ing picture to an enemy. -»♦.. . SPRINGS MAY GO DRY Crawford. Colo. — (UP)—Cattle men with foresight erected troughs to conserve water from the springs, which has been running low during tne hot weather. The springs dot the Black Mesa range land. --- At an English seaport where the tide levels sometime* change as much as 30 feet an inventor ob tains from 30 to 250 horsepower by capturing the water in tanks and using i;s fall to operate a luzhlne. A Child Neighbor's Memories Of Lincoln in Springfield Maty Todd Melvin Dewing tells ner recollections of Abraham Lin coln as a Springfield neighbor. My father and mother were very close friends of the Lincolns. My mother was so fond of Mrs. Lin coln that It was decided before I came into this world that if I should prove to be a girl I should bear her name. The Lincolns lived Just a block from us in Springfield. 111., and the night before I was born Mrs. Lin coln gave a party. The following morning she sent her centerpiece to my mother and me. I was unable to enjoy either the sight or taste of it. but mother told me it was a large pyramid of macaroons. Per sonally, I remember just two in cidents touching the Lincolns, but I have heard father and mother and my older brothers speak of them so much that I feel as though I had been personally acquainted with the family. My father. Dr. Samuel Melvin, kept a store in Springfield. In the back room he had a rosewood chess table, and whenever Mr. Lincoln had an hour of leisure he would drop in. and if father was not busy the two of them would go back there and play chess. They were both good players and pretty evenlv matched. It was in these intimate moments that father learned to know and appreciate Abraham Lin coln. Father often said: "Lincoln is not a show man—he does not impress one greatly at first sight, or even after a slight ac quaintance. It is only when one really knows the quiet, sincere, per sonal side of him, that his superi ority is grasped.” The Little Boy Cheer* Mr. Lincoln must pass both the store and our home every day to reach his own house. Mv little brother Charles was devoted to Lin coln. and one of his daily joys was to mount the gate post and greet Mr. Lincoln as the latter passed But one dav Mr. Lincoln was much engrossed in conversation with a companion and did not hear Charles’ ‘ Hello, Misser Lincoln. The child was much offended. He called louder, but still Lincoln did not hear. The third time he falrlv screamed. "Misser Lincoln. Misser Lincoln!" Lincoln whirled suddenly and asked, . „„ "Why. what is it. Charlie? Charlie didn't know what he wanted himself except to be no ticed, and thus confronted he could think of nothing to say except to raise his little hand and shout. "Hurrah for you!” It was just aft er the political campaign and that phrase had flown to the boys llpa Lincoln laughed, came back and caught the boy from his post squeezed him and set him on the sidewalk as he said— .... “That’s right, Charlie, thats right.” Patting the bov on the shoulder, he hastened off to catch his companion. „ _ Mr. Lincoln’s love for his own children and other peoples chil dren as well, was much remarked nb0Ut "Are Mv Boys Here?” I had five brothers older than mvself. Two of them were the ages of Robert and Willie Lincoln, and our old nurse. Mary, claimed that she had as much to do with bring ing up the Lincoln boys as their mother and father did..^nu^tok and Willie were always in our oacK vard and Mr Lincoln stopped In two or three times a dav to collect hU children and take them home. Should he RO home at noon and not find them there, it was. "Mary, where are the boys. “Over at Melvin’s.” would be the invariable reply, and Lincolnwould hasten back to our place and Ret them After a time he learned to stop on his way home and ask. Arc mv bovs here?” and takong one bv each hand, he would lead them home, only to repeat the perform ^The^inoolns at that time had no servant, and as mother never a - lowed our boys to go out of the vard. and as our Mary was always near, watching the play. Mrs. Lin coln felt it was a safe place tor her older boys to be, and she would in turn plan some treat for my broth ers. One time she wished to make some calls, and for the purpose hired a hack from the city livery stable. She asked mother if two or my brothers might go with her. as was taking Robert and Willie. It Is needless to say the four boys enjoyed the ride, and enjoyed as . much playing in the hack while she went in to make her calls. Playing Nursemaid Tad was a little youngster at the time, and the following story was told by the carpenter in question Mrs. Lincoln desired to eo .down town and do some shopping. Mr Lincoln volunteered to look after Tad, as some carpenter work was being done on the house and he said he would like to be home to oversee it. After a while the carpen ter called Mr. Lincoln out into the back yard to ask advice concerning some alteration, and Lincoln put Tad on the Poor. Immediately the child set up a howl, and Mrs. Lin coln came in at that inopportune time. She had rather a hasty tem Der and at once she sought her husband and berated him soundly for letting the child sit on the floor and cry. “Why, Mary, he’s just been there a minute." soothed Lincoln, and then In his quiet, gentle way. he took the child in his arms, and snuggling him elese sat down in an cld rocking chair and sang to quiet him, that old hymn. "Jesus, my all, to heaven has gone." After Lincoln was elected presi dent, the family made preparations to move to Washington and decided to sell the greater part of their fur niture. My father bought a number of pieces, and I still have the bill of sale. Aside from the pieces men Civil Service In Porto Rico Prom Good Government. A comprehensive modern person nel system for the Insular govern ment of Porto Rico, based on mer it and fitness to be determined aft er competitive tests, has been adopted by the Porto Rican legisla ture and will become effective about August 1. 1931. A reorganiza tion of the public service of the Po to Rican Insular government had been urged by Gov. Gen. Theo dore Ter, jyelt for a number of ! > H jl ; * (Sii i: >7i-> ; ■) J -iYit 0<"// il to H-jfiilt W'hn adt tioned. we acquired from them a buj four-poster; this furniture was used in the great bedroom in which my father and mother and I slept. The Literary Bureau A few evenings before Mr. Lin coln left for Washington, Mrs Grimsley, the only daughter of Dr. Todd, who was Mrs. Lincoln’s uncle invited a few of Lincoln's intimate friends to the home of Dr. Todd to a little farewell party. They were all assembled, and Lincoln was late. When he came, he brought with him a little black satchel This was bulg ing with something heavy. He gave it to Mrs. Grimsley, and with a smile explained: “Gentlemen, this is my literary Dureau. He asked Mrs. Grimsley to take care of It until he should return to Springfield, but added, that if h