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SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson Xl.—Second Quarter, Foi
June 11, ®
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES,
Taxt of the Leeeon, Gal. vi. and I Cor.
II —Memory V«rnes, I Cor. ii, 9, 10.
Golden Text, f Cor. ii, 10—Commen
tary Prepared by Rov. D. M. Btearne.
As there Is n prominent ami all Im
portant line of truth running through
lioth the lessons for today, We will
consider both, and the heart of both
scorns to me to lie the Spirit controlled
life for those who are truly redeemed.
Wo were recently studying u lesson
concerning a long Journey and a great
council, all because of circumcision,
and now we rend thnt*in Christ Je
sua neither circumcision ovalleth any
thing nor «nelrcumcl«lon, but a new
creature" (Oal. vl, 15). The one es
sential thing la to lie "In Christ Jesus,"
the Son of Ood, who loved taw 1 and
gavo Himself for me; who hath re
deemed me from the curse of the
law, l>elng made a curse for me; who
gar* Himself for my sins that lie
might deliver mo from the present evil
world (OaL U. 20; 111, 13; I, 1). Then
tho words of Oal. vl, 14, should lie ours
and tho dally life be a manifest stand
Ing fast In the liberty wherewith
Christ hath mado u* free, the "not I
but Chrlat" life, the world crucified to
us and we to the world (v, 1; 11. 'JO).
Because of the flesh, or old sinful
nature, that remains In every liellcver
there Is a constant conflict, but the
Holy Spirit who dwelled) hi the lie
llever will keep him from doing the
things which the flesh would prompt
him to do (v, 17). As believers wo
must earnestly desire to walk In the
Spirit, lie led of the .Spirit, live In the
Spirit, and thus mAnlfest the fruit of
tho Spirit, to the glory of Ood (v, lit,
18, 22, 25). There 4* a sowing and ii
reaping tn every life, and It Is either
the old life or the now, the llesh or the
Spirit, resulting In loss or gain (vl. Mi
We will aurely reap what we sow.
and the harvest may lie large for good
or evil (Hoses vlll, 7; x, 12, 13; I'rov
xiII, 8). May our aim always lie to
gather fruit Into life eternal and nev
er faint or grow weary, but go on In
patient continuance, for the reaping
time will aurely come (Oal. vl, 1); John
Iv. 80-38; Rom. 11, 7; I Cor. xv, SHI.
Turning to the lesson In Corinthians,
the truths are Just the. same, 1 teller
era arc bjr the grace of God annctlfled
In Chrlat Jesus, called saints, and in
Chrlat Jesus have wisdom, righteous
neaa, aanctlflcation anil redemption, so
that tbero la no one and no thing
worth knowing compared with Jesus
Chrlat and Illm cructticd (I Cor. I, 2-4.
20-31; It, 2). We have here, as lu the
other Icaaon lu Oalatlnns, tho tlesh and
the Spirit, or the wisdom of this world
and Jesus Christ, who Is the jiower of
Ood, and tho wisdom of God, and they
are always contrary, the one to the
other (I Cor. 1. 21, 24). l'aul knew
much of the wisdom of this world, l>e-
Ing brought up at the feet of Gamaliel,
but he set aside all the wisdom of
men that bo might know the wisdom
fit God (I Cor. 11.
We remember that Muses, bclug
learned In all the wisdom of (he Egyp
tlaus, had to keep sheep fur forty-jrear*
In tlie ai-hool of Ood that he might
know tho wisdom of Oral*. The wis
doin of Rgypt coil ill not Interpret the
dreams of Pharaoh, but the wisdom of
Oot In Joeopli easily could and did
' All the wisdom of Itabylon could not
tell the king what he had dreamed, nor
tbe meaning of his dreams, nor inter
jiret the hnudwrltiiig on tlm tvall. but
the wledoin of God in Knnlel easily
did all. The wisdom of this world
qever has been able t» ami cannot now
Interpret the things of tiod, for the
things of God knowcth no man, but
the Spirit of God (I for. 11. 11). Ilu
man scholarship, however ureal, unless
tinder the contrvi-of the Spirit of Gi«d,
la wholly unable to understand the
thing* of God.
The greatest scholar that earth can
produce, unless born again. Is simply a
natural man. and to him the things of
God are only foolishness (I Cor. 11. 14).
bat the most unlearned and Ignorant In
the things of this world's wisdom may
by the Spirit of God know the things
of God. The wise men In the time of
our Lord spoke of Him as having never
learned, and they called Peter and
John unlearned and Ignorant men (John
*ll, 16; Acta IT, 18), so lh>>se who nin.v
be despised by the world's scholarship
should find comfort In this. While we
wait for the coming of our I.ord Jesus
Christ we are culled Into fellowship
Vlth Him (I Cor. I. 7. 01. and tills is
put at the*fellowjililp—to l>c counted
* nnscholarly and Ignorant because wc
take the Bible literally, liellcvc it all,
and that God means wliat Heaays. and
If the plain, obvious sense makes gissl
sense we need seek no other sense
We have received the Spirit of Ood
that we may know the thins* tli.it ore
freely given ua of Ood, which neither
- eye nor ear nor heart of man Initli
' *een or heard or imagined, and thus lie
able in the power of au endless life to
endnre patiently till He come (1 Cor
11, 0-12). Compare Isa. lxlv, 4. from
which part of thla la quoted aud note
th« revised version. In connection with
' the sowing and reaping of Onl. vt note
' building of I Q>r. ill, 0 15, and the.
posslfTlllty "of jrrr.'it log* oven though
the soul HI ay IM» KIIVCMI. Solvation ran
only be obtained as a free tflft from
Ood, apart from any work* or effort
EN our part. But KIIVCM! ther#
are KoOtl work* prepared f«»r n* lo
walk In (Kpfi. 11. K-Wi. There are no
degrees in salvation. but nnnli dif
ference in servleo and reward*.
Making the Little
Farm Pay
By C. C. BOWSFIELD
Next to having a comfortable home
and u contented family the real test of
farm success Is lii securing a steady
Increase of acreage profits. Many -(1 re
gressive landowners, especially those
occupying small places, have caught
the vision of this kind of farming.
The corn crop the countryfover aver
ages about thirty-five bushels an acre
giving a gross return not above
and a net profit of about sls. A 1
grain farming IS otl the same level
sometimes returning u little more prof
It and often considerably less.
Capable fariuers grapple wltli, till
iroblem of raising ucreago profits 1
ooas nrrvßtm oooti aciceaoc morns.
various ways. Naturally the first Idea
Is to Improve the methods of cultiva
tion—to rotate crops, build up soli fer
llllty, use great cure with seed and put
In a little extra work all along the line.
Those who think of an Improved sys
tem and are determined to get out of
the rut will get -results In proportion
to their skill and efforts. Expansive
Idens will come with the disposition to
do things.
Kor Instance, M. I). Crow of Audu
bon county, la., secured acreage profits
of nearly sl7o by combining corn. rti|K'
and hogs as a furui feature. He had
formerly raised corn at sls to S2O au
acre. Home difference! Just before
he laid by his corn lu Juno two feurs
ago he soweil I iwarf Essex ra|ie broad
cast lu ten acres of it, using five
pounds of seed per acre. The cultiva
tor covered It, and about six weeks
later 170 spring pigs were turned Into
this ten acre field. They remained
there until early winter, when the corn
had been cleaned up and the rape kill
ed by freezing. When winter came be
found ho bad a numerous bunch of
thrifty half grown hog* with nearly
unapiK-asable appetites and a surpris
ing capacity for further growth. He
fill them corn, mill feed ami tankage
until March, when they were sold at
*7..'iO per 100 pound*, bringing I-.
1H0.75.
t'p to the time they were Bold these
hogs had consumed 2,100 bushels of
corn, valued at 4i> cents |>er bushel, or
SBtU; also mill feet) and tankage cost
ing SSII..V). Thus their total feed bill
was leaving a profit of ft.-
C0U.20.
As Mr. Crow figures It. tills |I,KKI.2O
representa the returns from the ten
a re field of rape and corn, since full
allowance has !>cen made for all other
feeds. Hence he reallxed $1 &).(£.' per
acre from this field. The same kind
of an experiment last year brought
similar results, so that this fnrmer lias
demonstrated a method of making bis
com return an acreage profit far be
yond what people ordinarily dream of.
Eight exiicrimenta with rape and
corn have been conducted nt the lowa
station, •with results strikingly like
those obtained by Sir. Craw. By aver
aging the results of these experiments,
using precisely the same values for
pork aud corn as were given by Mr.
Crow. It Is found that the average pro
duction of pork |er acre was 3,84."
pounds, worth at sT.r>o per 100 pomula
f2HB; Hint the average cost of corn and
other feeds required to produce this
amount of pork was and that the
average return i>er acre was SI(H net.
Aerial Navigation.
Researches Into the principles of aeri
al navigation date back to the foor
teenth century.
BEST PAID MEN
ARE NOW ASKING
| FOR HIGHER PAY
Goisrcneat Officials Fail Ti Fit' *1
Justice li Demands Of Trail Ser
vice Employees.
By Judton C. Welllver In The Waah
ington Tlme».
j Administrative and legislative au
thorities in Washington are taking a
| distinctly different views of the pres
i ent effort of railway trainmen to
compel an advancement lu their
wages, from any that has been taken
on former occaslona.
It Is very apparent that the case
for the employes seeking higher
wages Is viewed with less amiability
than ordinarily. In legislative cir
cles there has recently been serious
talk of legislation to prohibit strikes
by employes of interstate carriers*
and to provide a procedure for com
pulsory arbitration.
The Impression has gained a good
deal of ground, that certain favored
classes of employes have for a long
time been systematically aggregating
to themselves most of the increases
in wages.
Highest Paid Cla®» Of Men
On behalf of the englnemen and
trainmen who are making the de
mand for a large wage Increase, It Is
urged that the higher coat of living
Justifies their demand. Ygt these
men, the engineers, firemen, conduc
tors and brakemen, are the highest
paid classes of railroad labor. The
question being asked why an engineer
getting an average wage In 1913 of
$5.20, should require an Increase,
while trackmen, who were getting
91.58 per day, should be left out?
Again, the average wage of conduc
tors In 1913 Is shown by the statistics
of the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion to have been $4.39 per day. At
the same time, telegraph operators
anil dispatchers were getting an aver
age wage of $2.52 per day.
If the Increased cost of living for
the $4.39 conductor necessitates a
large Increase In his compensation,
whore does the $2.52 dispatcher come
lu?
No demand Is being urged on be
half of the operators and dispatchers,
and some of the railroads have lately
been Intimating vigorously that If a
big additional burden must be laid
on their labor funds they would like
to give the benefit to the poorer paid
classes of employes.
The truth of the whole business Ib
that, as a whole, the railroad em
ployes of tho country are not very
highly paid as compared to other peo
ple. A few classes of railroad men
are paid very hlffll wages. The moat
fortunate of all these classes are the
engineers, firemen, conductors and
brakemen.
Rate Riling Rapidly
Not only are these four classes paid
much more liberally than other em
ployes, but tbo figures show that
their rate of wages has been rising
more rapidly than that of any other
classes.
In 1914 the Interstate Commerce
Commission's report showed the num
ber of railroad employes for the en
tire country to be 1,710,290. Out of
this number there were'* 62,021 en
gineers, 04,959 firemen, 48,201 con
ductors, and 138,809 other trainmen;
a total of 311,990, or Just about one
sixth of the entire number.
At that same date, the number of
trackmen, exclusive of foremen, was
337,461. That Is, the number of com
mon laborers on the section was
greater than the entire roll of en
gineers, firemen, conductors, and
brakemen. Yet this Jiuge army of
trackmen was working for an aver
age wage of $1.68 per day. while en
gineers were getting $5.20, firemen:
were getting $2.13, conductors were
getting $4.39, and other trainmen
were getting $3.04. These figures are
tho commission's averages for the en
tire country.
Condition Bettered
Largoly because they are the best
organized classes or railway workers
and have been unremitting in their
demand* for better wages, these four
classes have succeeded In bettering
their condition replevy and regularly,
at the expense of the other classes,
which are not bo highly organized.
The trainmen, whenever they Insist
on a wage Increase, have, on their
aide, the tremendously potent argu
ment that If they (lon't get what they
ask, they can walk out and tie up the
whole railroad system. No other
class of employes could do thla, be
cause no other Is so Initantly Indis
pensable.
How effectively the four favored
classes have used their power Is
shown by the cold flgure*. In the
ten years from 1803 to 1912, inclusive,
the salaries of general officer* In
creased an average of 1? per cent
In that same ten-year period the
salaries of engineers Increased 24
per ctnL
During those same ten year* the
wag'** of general office clerks Increas
ed IS per cent, while the wages of
Bremen Increased 32 per cent.
During those same ten years the
wages of telegraph operators and dis
patchers Increased J 4 per cent, while
those of trainmen other than conduc
tors Increased 36 per cent
WE HAVE THE EARLIEST, BlQ
gent, high class Strawberry grown.
Also the Best one or the ever
bearing kinds; bears the beat * fla
vored berries from Spring until the
anow flics. Free Booklet. Wake
field. Plant Farm, Charlotte, North
Carolina. lifebot
Considerable Oaubt.
"I hear yon are going to gtve a big
dinner dauee." chirped the society re
porter.
"I don't know whether I am or not."
aald Mrs. Flubdub. "Nobody seems to
want to come, the cook threatens to
leave If I do, and my husband la mak
ing bad talk about the expense."—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
lull Know What Vu« Are Taking
When you take Grove's TaateieM
Chill Tonic hccause the fortfiula la
plainly printed on every bottle
showing that it U Iron and Qul
nine In • tasteless form. No
cure, DO pay.—soc, ad*.
ARTISTIC STAIRWAY DESIGN.
DesUn 839, by Glenn L. Sixton, Architect, Minneapolis. Minn.
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I'EBSPECTIVK VIEW lit. \ IHOTOdttAr II
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INTERIOU VIEW—AN AUTISTIC BTAIUWAY.
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A practical stairway Is one of the features of this little home. The art
glass window could be omitted, and even without tbls the stairway would lie
attractive. The size of this house Is 24 feet by 30 feet. Cost to build, exclu
sive of heating and plumbing, $2,000. First story, 0 feet high; second story,
8 feet, and basement, 7 feet.
Upon receipt of $1 the publisher of this paper will furnish a copy of Sax
ton's book of plans, "American Dwellings," which contains over 300 designs
costing from SI,OOO to $0,000; also a book of Interiors, $1 per copy. \
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POOR ROADS COST
TIME AND MONEY
Horse Can Pull a Heavier Load
on a Good Highway.
BAD CONDITIONS SPELL LOSS
On • Muddy Road the Amount of
Weight Drawn la From Zaro to a
Maximum of 800 Pounda —On ■
Smooth Earth Highway a Horaa Can
Pull From 1,000 to 2,009 Pounda and
Mora on Graval and Brick.
[Prepared by office of good roads, depart
ment of agriculture,J
Every one knows Hint a horse can
ptiil a heavier lonil on a good road
than on one that Is bud. It U, bow
ever, a rather difficult matter to cal
culate Just how much he can pull on
different kinds of surfaces. After care
ful study engineers have accepted as
fairly accurate the following weights:
On n muddy earth road the amount
varies from nothing at all, when the
road Is in very bad slin|>e, to a maxi
mum of 800 pounds. On a smooth, dry
earth road a horse can pull from 1,000 to
2,000 pounds; ou a gravel road In bad
condition, from 1,000 to 1,500 pounds;
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BOA.D IK SULLIVAN OOL'STT, TX&t., B£-
rous lur&oviuuLNr.
on a gravel road in good condition,
about 3,300 pounds; on a macadam
road, from 2,000 to 5,000 pounds; and
on a brick road, from 5,000 to 8,000
pounds. From these figures It appears
that a horse on a good macadam road
can do from three to Ave times as
much work in a day as on a moderate
ly muddy earth road.
One or two Instances will show what
this means In actual practice. Some
years ago a farmer In Sullivan county,
Tenn., had to haul bo rived wire a dls
tance of twenty-three miles. The moet
his two horse team could manage was
a load of 600 pounds, and three days
were necessary to make the round trip.
The road bas since been improved, and
the same team now draws a ton with
out difficulty and makes the round trip
in two days. Estimating the time of a
man and team to be worth $3 a day,
under the old conditions It cost S3O to
haul a ton of the barbed wire. The
same amount of wire can now be haul
ed the same distance at a cost of Id.
In estimating the cost of tsullng road
engineers usually adopt as the unit tbo
ton mile—that is to say, the coat of
hauling one ton one mile. In the case
described the cost per ton mile under
the old conditions was $1.54 and under
the new $0.20.
Another significant Instance is re
ported from Crosby, Tex. For a mile
out of town there was an excellent
road which terminated, however. In a
stretch of unimproved highway. A
| farmer Who lived four miles out of
town drove a team of two mules to the
railroad station to get two tons of wire
fencing. Tills lie wns able to haul
without difficulty to the end of the
shell road. There, however, he had to
throw off 8,000 pounds of wire and
hitch up two more mules to his wagon
in order to haul the remaining 1,000
pounds of wire over the unimproved
road to his farm. In older to carry all
the wire he bad to make three more
trips. Altogether to transport this wire
the four miles from the station to his
house took him from 10 o'clock one
morning until 11 o'clock the next morn
ing. If the shell road had extended as
far as his house he could have hauled
with two mules instead of four the two
tons.of wire In two and one-half hours.
Because the fnrmer usually does his
hauling himself and therefore does not
have to pay cash wages for the time
wasted on bad roads the expensive
ness of the operation is not so obvious
to him as It might be. There are times,
however, when the loss thut results
from poor means of communication
cannot be ignored. Sullivan county.
Tenn., affords another Instance of this.
A farmer (here some years ago had 100
bushels of Irish potatoes, which he in
tended to market in Bristol during the
winter. On account of the condition
of the roads, however, he put off going
to town and stored the potatoes in the
cellar. In the meantime the price of
potatoes at Bristol rose as high as
(1.40 a bushel. The roads, however,
remained impassable and before the
farmer could get his stock to. maket
he found that it had all rotted in the
cellar. While these potatoes were go
ing to waste a few miles away, car
loads of farm produce were being ship
ped in by rail to feed Bristol and the
Idjacent territory.
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BE CHEERFUL.
% We all ought to be a* cheerful
a* we can. Every one must
J { have felt that a cheerful friend ] !
! i is like a sunny day, shedding
] | brightness on all around, and |
• most of us can. If we choose,
make of ths world a palace or a ]
prison. 'To be bright snd cheer
] ful often requires sn effort, but
the effort is well worth the mak-
|j ing and will amply repay thoea , !
JI who succeed in makin] it a euc
ceas.—Avebdry.
Limbs come on trees and people
They are seen on tree*, Ihycourtrooms.
on the stage and attlio seashore. Thej
may lie covered wltb bark, plasters ot
silk, as the case may be.
Limbs are useful in many ways
Pelicans, who are very economical and
therefore never get Into deep water
use only one at a time. Soldiers use
them for various purposes, sometimes
standing upon them and sometimes
running away.
Limits are made of cork, wood oi
bone. Cork limbs are useful as lift
preservers. Wooden limbs can be Lak
en off and used for purposes of de
fense. Bone limbs often enable one tc
get on one's feet—lJfe.
A Scandal Spoiled.
-Of course he and his wife seem de
voted to each other now," said the
Jealous Miss Oausslp, "but do you
think she will always be so true and
alltbatr '
"Well," replied Miss Kidder. "I have
reason to know that only last nlgbt be
had occasion to set a trap for her."
"Ah! Do you know, I suspected
something"—
"They more than suspected; tbej
knew there were mice In the house."-
Phlladelphla Press.
New Zealand's Graat Glacier.
The Taaman, the greatest glacier In
New Zealand, bas an average width of
0.270 feet, though si Its widest point it
is somewhat more than two miles
across. The Tasniau is eighteen miles
in length.
Impressive Statement
Here U mil impresaive statement at
fact about railway wage* that ought
not to escape attention. There were
a total of 37,873 employes classified
as awltch tenders, crossing lenders,
and watchmen. were receiv
ing in 1912 an average of $1.70 per
day, which waa actually 6 cents a
day lesa than they had been receiv
ing ten years earlier.
At that time there were 48,201 con
ductors with whom the statistics
dealt. The conductors, therefore,
were only a slightly more numer
-1 ous claw than the tenders and watch
men; yet, while the conductors had
had their wages raised from $3.38 to
$4.29 per day, the leas fortunate
class of tenders and watchmen had
to stand a reduction from $1.76- to
$1.70 per day.
If the cost of living baa been stead
ily advancing for conductors, so aa to
Justify an Increase of 27 per cent in
their wages, it seems difficult to ex
plain why that same cost of living
should have fallen sufficiently to war
rant a decrease of. 8 per cent In the
wages of switch tenders, crossing
tenders, and watchmen.
Take, the single classification of
general office clerka. There were
87,106 of theae according to the of
ficial report A much larger number
than of either engineers, firemen, or
conductors.
These general office clerka were
paid an average of $2.21 iter day In
1903, and of S2.SO In 1912; an In
crease of only 13 per cent In the ten
year period.
General office clerks, without ex
ception, are compelled to live in
cities, where cost of living la high.
Engineers Better Off
Engineers, on the other hand, are
distributed between large towns and
small towns; on the average, their
living circumstances ought to make
their expenses average considerably
less than those of office clerka, yet
the statistics show that engineers
have received In the ten-year period
an Increase of 24 per cent in their
wages, making them average exactly
$6 per day, while general office
clerks have received an increase of
only 13 per cent, making them aver
age $2.50 per day.
One of the worst underpaid classi
fications of railway employes la that
of the station agents. There are juat
about 40,000 of these in the country,
or nearly as many aa the number of
conductors.
In 1903 station agents averaged
SI.BO a day, and In 1912 they had
been raised to only $2.20 a day, while
In that same time conductors had
advanced from $3.38 to $4.20.
That Is, the station agent in I*ll
was getting just about half the wage*
of the conductor, and in ten years he
had had an average increase of 17
per cent, while the conductor's int.
crease had been 27 per cent.
Here are two of the most numer
ous classes of railway employes:
Trainmen, other than engineers,
firemen, and conductors, numbered
136,809, while trackmen numbered
337,451. The statistics show that the
trackmen were getting in 1903 an
average of $1.31 per day, and to 1911
an average of $1.60 per day, an In
crease of .14 per cent.
What Other* Cot
On the other hand, the classifica
tion of other trainmen was getting in
1903 $2.17 per day, and in 1912, $2.96
per day, an Increase of 36 per cent.
In percentage, this is the largest ad
vance received by any single clasa of
railway employes during this decade.
A general survey of wage condi
tions In the railway service and in
other industries, it is believed, would
show that in the last fifteen years
the highly organized and favored
classes of railway wag* earners have
had their Incomes Increased more
than almost any other ciaas of work
ers in the country, while the much
more numerous, but less effectively
organized classes of railway workers
have probably received rather less
Increases than otlier industrial work
ers in general.
In view of the strong feeling
these most fortunate classes of the
railway employes are now making
excessive and unreasonable demands,
attention is now being called as
never before to these general dis
crepancies. There is a strong dis
position to inaugurate a general and
sweeping investigation of the whole
question of railway wagea with a
view to establishing some sort of pub
lio regulation not unlike that already
applied to railroad rates, in the In
terest of employes and public alike.
Meanwhile, there Is a marked indis
position to extend further favors to
those classes already most highly
favored, at the expense of other
classes of employes who appear to be
getting very low wages.
I,*,
1+ ♦ + ♦ ♦
♦ Four national railroad union* *
♦ threaten to tie up every steam ♦
+ road in the country. The num- *
♦ ber of employees Involved may +
♦ total 400,000. They seem to ♦
♦ have It in their power to stop ♦
♦ all freight and passenger traf- 4
♦ lie on 260,(00 miles of track. ♦
♦ We have never had* a strike +
♦ of such scope and magnitude. ♦
♦ It would paralyse all American +
♦ Industry and oommerce and ex- +
♦ port trade. A nation oI 100,- +
♦ ' 000,000 people would stand ♦
4 still, while its biggest industry ♦
♦ fought out a question of wages ♦
+ and hours. ▲ deadlock would +
♦ be Inconceivably destructive.— +
♦ Bangor (Me.) News. +
♦ ♦
Hydrofluoric acid la an acid com
pound of hydrogen and fluorine. It
may be prepared by the action of aul
pburlc acid upon cryolite in an ap
propriate apparatus made of lead or
platinum, it may ttfua be readily ob
tained in a liquid form and la color
leaa. Ita vapora are exceedingly poi
aonoua, and tbe liquid itaeif, even
when mixed with more or leaa water,
cause* severe swellings on th# akin.
Great care moat therefore be taken in
working with thia add. Hydrofluoric
acid dlaaolvea glaaa, forming hydro
flnoallicic add with Ita silica; hence
ita use for making etchings on glass.—
Exchange.
H ' Wonderful Wisdom.
"Tan seem to be rather busy."
"Yea. I'm writing a love letter.
Pve been working on It for more than
an hoar."
"Why take such pains 7"
1 want to feel sure that if thia letter
la ever read in court it won't make me
look ilka a foot"—Birmingham Age
BmU
Chlldrn Cry tor Ftotchw's
The Kind Ton Hare Always Bought, and which has been
In use for over 80 yean, has borne the signature of
/n ' anil has been made under his per-
SP . y/f/i v sonal supervision since its infancy.
y-aZcJUMs Allow no one to deceive you in this.
• All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Jnst-as-good " are hut
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health ot
Infants and Children—experience against Experiment*
. What is CASTORIA
Castoria Is a harmless substitute lor Castor OH, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years tt
has been In constant use for the relief of Constipation,
Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and
Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Income Bearing Wealth
a Grievous Burden
on the Nation
By MOKJUS HILLQUIT, Noted
' Socialist
■
AT extension of the income and
inheritance taxes and a pro
gressive property tax are im
mediate steps that should be taken
to limit private fortunes. II
THAT IS NOT DONE >IORI
RADICAL MEASURES WILI
EVENTUALLY HAVE TO BE
TAKEN.
The extent of the national tribute
paid to the, owners of large private
fortunes is already crushing. The
income of private fortunes is 8
charge Upon the industries of the
country, _ a tax upon the working
population to the extent of $75 pel
capita, including men, women and
children.
"The average family 'consisting ol
five per# ins is thus saddled with a
tax of $375 a year for the right to
work and live. Our so called "na
tional wealth," so far as the people
at large are, concerned, is not an as
set, but a liability, a heavy mort
gage hanging over the heads of all
fenerations of Americans to come.
ttoyai Nicknames.
William I. of England was William
tbe Conqueror. He conquered Harold
and became king of the first Norman
dynasty that gave England four rulers,
father was Robert the Devil.
Leopold I. of Germany was called the
Little Man In Bed Stockings.
Jaana, widow of Philip the Fair, was
the Mad Queen.
James 11. o{ Scotland was the Just
James IV. of the same country was
called King of the Iron Belt
Charles tbe Oreat of France, son of
Pepin tbe Short, extended tbe limits of
the empire from the Baltic to the Med
iterranean and from tbe bay of Biscay
to the coast of Illyrla. His son was
known as Lonls tbe Pious.
Good Score.
Mother was looking at Bobble's
school report
"Why, Bobble," she exclaimed,'"you
have only 74 in deportment! I shall
have to tell your father."
"All right Go ahead and tell him,"
■aid Bobble. "He was bragging all
over town when be got 74 in golf."—
Pittsburgh Press.
Anelent Egyptians.
The race or breed of the men who
built the pyramids is aad will probably
remain an ethnological mystery. They
were not white nor black, nor has It
been possible clearly to Identify them
With the Turanian or Arab race. We
•Imply do not know tbe kind of people
they were. They were probably a mix
ture of many breeds.
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