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Vegetables, fresh, potatoes, Bur
bank 82.5
Apples 32.0
GofCeo 35.2
Soda, bicarbonate 38.2
Apples, evaporated, cholco 38.0
Prunos, Calif. In boxes 44.6
Nutmegs 557
Hero Is a revelation in statistics.
Almost everything tnat is an actual
necessity to human life has risen in
prlco bo that the trusts and corpora
tions which control them, even though
thoy may maintain wages, are yet
enabled to '"reach rurther into the
pocket of thd consumer by an arbi
trary increase.
Sinco 1894 canned goods have ad
vanced over 25 per cent on the dozen
cans. The Standard Oil company has
advanced the price or Oil 8 cents a
gallon in the same time. Bread is
still 5 cents, although tho prlco of
flour has risen 36 por cent. This is
because tho bakers, to protect thom
solves, were forced to make the loaf
smaller.
Tho hens of today produce four
limes as many eggs as a similiar
number did ten years ago. Tho ad
vance in, prlco has been "phenomenal.
The art" of cold storage Is the ono
groat barrier which prevents com
modities from finding a natural prlco
lovel. These cold storage plants are
controlled by tho trusts.
Wo cab eggs laid a year ago. Wo
cat chickens and game that was
killed last year and beef that has been
on ico for years. You may find in
these cold storage houses barrels of
frozen turkeys which were killed last
Thanlcsglving Day and which you may
probably cat next November.
The system is a beautiful one for
, keeping up tho prices and making
, tho American laborer feel that he is
' earning his money.
Soda crackers have decreased 10.5
per cent in price, and about 50 per
cent in size. Fresh vegetables cannot
very well bo kept for next year's con
sumption, consequently they have de
creased naturally in price with the
advance in truck farming.
Coal has clambered up the scale
about $2 a ton since 1890, Without
counting the extra high figures
reached in 1903.
sideways between your bofly anil tho
wall. Bend low down, bringing your
torso in a nearly horizontal position,
legs erect Grasp the seat of the
chair in your two .hands, raise the
chair from the floor until it touches
your breast, then proceed to lift
your head from the wall and
straighten up your body. No living
man can do it, but there never VM
a woman who could not do it n2
York Press.
St. Petersburg dispatches say that
M. Muravieff has resigned as chief
peace plenipotentiary and will be sum
ceeded by M. Witte.
Is Your Wheat Good?
Two men were disputing over their
respective churches. Finally .one
called a neighbor who was passing
and asked his opinion as to which,
was tho only churcn in which to be
saved. "Well," said ho, my son and
I have hauled wheat to the same mill
nigh on to forty years. Now, there
are two roads that lead from our
placo to the mill one's the valley
road, t'other takes over the hill. And
never yet, friends, has tho miller
asked me which road I took, but he
always asks: "Is your wheat good?"
Exchange.
Woman's Backbone
Tho average woman has twice as
much "backbono" as tho average man,
yet her spine is one inch shorter.
Consult Gray's Anatomy. It seems,
therefore, singular that she should sit
so much higher. Here is something
about woman that sheds a ray of light
on tho sitting higher: Put the toe of
your right foot against tho baseboard
of tho room, forming the angle of a
square; bring the too of your left foot
against tho heel of the right, contin
uing in a straight line; now place the
tee of tho right against tho heel of
tho left, in tho same straight line,
and bring tho left alongside of the
right so that both toes are on an
equality. You will have stepped
straight hack from the wall two foot
1 lengths. Don't fudge. Now have a
'plain, ordinary armless chair placed
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