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Nation Would Become Richer If All
Available Spaces Were Utilized, For
Not Only Food, but All Wealth, Comes
In the First Place From Land by La
bor—Lower Cost of Living.
By BOLTON HALL.
[Copyright, 1917, by Bolton HaJL All
rights reserved.]
The flowers that bloom in the spring
look sweet in the public parks, but to
a mother with starving children not so
sweet as potatoes and onions and beets.
The easiest way to bring down the
prices of food 1s to raise more of It—
and yet more. But today there is a
prospect of less acreage. The farmers
are planting less land because of the
high price of seed, in some places po
tato seed cannot be had at all. The
cauners are reducing their output of
vegetables because of the shortage of
tins.
If you and I don't remedy this, food
will cost twice as much next winter
even if the European war is stopped.
Thirty millions of fighting men are
now consuming and destroying produce
of all sorts and even destroying the
land from which their labor should
produce it. And each soldier requires
the entire earning of at least four per
sons to keep him in the field of battle
instead of in the field of crops. Is it
any wonder that, while wages have
risen they only climb the stairs, while
prices go up in the elevator? It is go
ing to take some time to get those
prices down.
Baron Devonport, the English food
controller, with the despotic powers of
the defense of the realm law has com
mandeered all lands in London which
are needed for cultivation by women,
children, invalids or old men.
He has followed our Mayor Pingree's
potato patch plan and has had them
divided into small plots and expects to
have a quarter of a million people em
ployed In London alone.
Richmond park, where William IV.
and Mrs. Fitzlierbert made love, is now
making food for the people. Hyde
park and lots of others are to be plow
ed up. A new cemetery at East Hamp
ton has been planted with potatoes.
Oxford and Cambridge college gardens
are beginning furnish nourishment
for the body rather than delight for
the mind.
All tlite would be a flea bite, but the
ministers of agriculture in England.
France and Italy have followed suit
Germany did it long ago. If England
forces all her idle land into use food
will be cheaper in England in spite of
the submarines than ever before and
England will be richer in spite of the
wastes of war. for not only food, but
all wealth comes in the first place from
land by labor. Like case, like rule if
we use our land we will have more
money and will get more for it.
But you can help yourself even if
others haven't sense enough to help
Is there an unsightly vacant lot near
your bouse? Wouldn't you like to im
prove it this spring and in improving it
save the $200 vou will otherwise have
spent for vegetables?
Don't you think the owner should be
glad to have it cleared of rubbish and
cultivated and made attractive to pro
spective buyers?
Don't you know that one hour of that
sort of work every evening or four eve
nings or mornings a week will improve
you as well as the lot. make you
stronger, give you better sleep and in
crease the respect in which you are
held by your neighbors and by your
neighbor's wife?
Sure thing!
The trouble is that many aren't
smart enough to find the place and the
wise ones haven't time to show them
or they just don't care.
But they will care next winter when
they have to foot the bills for vegeta
bles—instead of for other jewels.
Vacant lot cultivation takes the sting
out of charity by putting men and
their families on the vacant lauds and
make them self supporting and at the
same time provides pure air and health
ful Jiving for the ailing wives and chll
dren.
For the home owners: Why not im
prove the block in which you live, sup
ply your dinner table and supply your
self with an appetite that will be a joy
in itself?
For the asylums, sanitariums, bos
pitals, reformatories, prisons and char
ity associations why not put the
"down and outs" to work in the ab
seuce of other labor and in helping
them teach them to help themselves
and you?
Not only the unemployed or the dls
employed, but the sick, the despondent
the consumptive and the inebriate can
produce $300 or $."00 worth of food on
each acre. Yet we are appointing end
less commissions to inquire into the
cost of food las If we didn't know all
about that) and are always trying tt
Indict somebody for conspiring to raise
prices. No one in this country seems to
have thought of Inquiring why so many
available parts of the earth are kept
Idle, the very places where food should
be produced and raw material pro
cured.
Idle lands that are needed mean ldl«
hands that are in need.
How shall I be able to rule over oth
ers that have not full power and com
maad over myself V—Rabelais^
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EVERY VACANT LOT SHOULD BE USED TO RAISE VEGETABLES
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HIT8 THE MARK.
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An exchange makes the very
good point that opponents of
trade unionism who criticise the
unions because they want to con
vert the nonunionlsts to union
ism are the very men who sub- 4*
scribe money to send mission- 4
arles to deepest Africa to con- 4*
vert the heathen tribes who are 4*
satisfied with their own method *fr
of living. The unorganized are a 4*
menace to the progress of the
wage earners and to the ad
vancement of humanity. We
think It important to devote our
energies to the improvement of
our own people. Some of the 4*
•i» philanthropists very often prefer
to devote their energies to the 4*
•h salvation of the heathen tribes.
—Shoe Workers' Journal.
IN AID OF LABOR.
Bills Before Various State Legislature*
Affecting Workingmen.
Of bills affecting labor tin se concern
ing workmen's compensation are in the
majority. States in which compensa
tion laws may be passed for the first
time are Delaware, Missouri, North
Carolina, North and South Dakota and
Utah. Bills to amend existing laws
range from those in New York to ex
tend the law to all employees and to
increase weekly payments to 100 per
cent of wages, to the Indiana bill to
exempt train employees and the one in
Minnesota to repeal the law altogeth
er. In California, Indiana and Minne
sota it Is proposed to reduce waiting
time to one week in another bill In
Minnesota and in Massachusetts and
New York, to abolish it altogether
Amendments offered in Illinois and
Massachusetts would permit the com
mutation of weekly payments in a
lump sum. Other biiis propose to in
crease the .proportion of wager to he
paid In compensation to 05 per cent in
Indiana, to 0(5 2-3 per cent in Minne
sota, Nebraska, New Hampshire and
Oklahoma, and to 73 per cent in Wis
cousin. In Minnesota, New Jersey and
Utah state funds are proposed. Ohio
has passed a law prohibiting casualty
Insurance companies altogether from
handling compensation business.
In Indiana there is a bill requiring
the injured employee to accept the doc
tor furnished by the employer, while
In Maine, Massachusetts and Minneso
ta there are bilis to permit the em
ployee to select his own physician. An
Indiana bill would provide a judge in
each congressional district to adminis
ter the law another bill would require
the consideration of bonuses in deter
mining the wage which is to be the
basis for compensation payments. A
Massachusetts bill would permit a man
hired within the state to recover for
an injury even if it occurred outside
the state. In Rhode Island there is a
proposal to extend medical and bos
pital treatment for a period of four
weeks. Washington would amend its
law by providing for first aid.—Survej
HORSESHOERS FIX SCALE.
New Wage Agreement Provides For the
Entire Country.
Officers of the Master Horseshoers'
National Protective association and the
International Union of Journeymen
Horseshoers. in recent session at Cin
cinnati, announced at the conclusion of
a two days' conference that they had
signed a wage agreement for the en
tire country, effective May 1, 1917. to
July 1, 1918.
The new agreement provides for a
wage scale raugiug from $3.50 to $5 a
day, according to locality. Nine hours
are to constitute a day's work, with
eight hours on Saturday, during the
winter months, and a half holiday on
Saturday during the summer. All dls
pates are to be settled by arbitration.
The new contract affects 8,000 mas
ter horseshoers and 11,000 journeymen
horseshoers in 400 cities throughout the
United States.
More Pay For Shoemakers.
Forty thousand shoe workers in the
Old Colony district of Massachusetts,
which includes the territory between
Weymouth and New Bedford, will re
ceive a 10 per cent increase in wages
and a Saturday half holiday under an
agreement tentatively arranged be
tween the manufacturers and union of
ficials. Representatives of the Lasters'
union announced that negotiations
virtually had been concluded and that
the increase probably would go into
effect May 1. The 10 per cent increase
granted by Brockton manufacturers to
their 13,000 employees three weeks ago
will go into effect on that date. Manu
facturers estimate that the total addi
ional cost of production of shoes in the
district would be close to 95,000,000.
A Bit of Sentiment.
"Why all these toots as you pass that
village?" inquired the fireman.
"Toots is my wife's pet name," ex
plained the engineer.—Pittsburgh Post
Worry poisons the mind just as much
as a deadly drug poisons the body and
just as aureljr
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COUSINS OF THE CRAB.
Th* Little Bugs You Often Find Ufidvr
a Decayed Log.
Every one has seen the curious little
flat gray creatures that scurry out of
sight when you lift a decayed log or a
moss covered stone in the woods or
near the water. They are the arma
dillidia, or isopods of the genus onl
scoidea, commonly called the arma
dillo, sow bug and pill bug.
They are really not bugs at all, but
crustaceans or distant relatives of the
crab, with gills provided with air tubes
not unlike the air tubes through which
insects breathe all over their body. A
favorite food of frogs, toads and sala
manders, the pill bug itself subsists
largely on decaying vegetable matter,
and some believe it to be a useful
scavenger.
According to the Zoological Society
Bulletin, the name armadillo was giv
en it because of its habit when dis
turbed of rolling itself ujj into a ball,
as the mammal of South America does,
but the crustacean is shrewder than
the mammal, for, whereas trie ama
dillo never uncoils when It is caught or
frightened--and therefore its shell of
ten serves as its own roasting pan in
the ovens of equatorial countries—the
pill bug after rolling Itself up once or
twice and discovering that it is still in
the presence of danger will give up the
useless stratagem and try to make off
unnoticed.
GOT A FURTHER REWARD.
Von Suppe, His Opera "Fatinitza" and
His Lavish Publishers.
Franz vou Suppe, famous as an op
eretta composer, whose "Fatinitza" is
perhaps best known of all his works,
fared badly in the financial disposal
of it.
Kranz, then a Vienna publisher, pur
chased the piece before it had been
produced, paying Yon Suppe the equiv
alent of $180. The success of the work
was enormous. The famous old "Fati
nitza" march is still a not unfamiliar
number in the variety houses. It earn
ed thousands, undoubtedly hundreds of
thousands, of gulden for the publishers.
When It had gone quite a way upon
its career Von Suppe wrote a polite
letter to the publishers suggesting that,
in view of the very small sum original
ly paid him and the amount which the
opera had earned for them, they might
think that some further reward was
not undeserved by him.
In a few day \-u Supie received
an equally polite -tier from the pub
Ushers thanking him for Ills letter,
staling that they quite agreed with his
standpoint and ..further saying .tUnt. the
bearer hron .lit with him a box of twen
ty-live rh. Mv cigars which the firm
hoped 'ii Siu.pe would accept with
their "iniMiii:, i:—-Argonaut.
Selecting Your Broker.
In the Woman's Home Companion
Harold Ilowlaud has an article enti
tled "The Woman Who Wants to In
vest," in which he says:
"A good broker is as vauable to the
intending investor as a good doctor to
the—presumably uu in tending—invalid.
The broker knows the business. lie Is
steeped in the facts of the world of
finance. His judgment is trained by
study and experience and observation.
His advice Is worth having.
"But be sure he is a good broker.
There are charlatans and confidence
men even among stockbrokers, though
the proportion is not nearly so high as
the novelists of 'high finance' would
have us believe. Be as careful in pick
ing out your broker as In selecting
your lawyer or your doctor. Your
chance of getting a good one if you are
equally careful is quite as good."
She Told Him.
An Indianapolis wife took one of her
children to a throat specialist. The
specialist looked into the juvenile
throat. "Tonsils poorly taken out," he
declared crisply. "Have to be done
over again."
Then followed a brief explanation of
the reason why the offending tonsils
should be attended to again. "Who did
this work?" asked the doctor, his face
assuming a keenly professional air as
though he must know who had been
thus lv*relict in his profession.
"You did." said tlie mother, with a
smile. And the doctor «miled too
Indianapolis News.
New Light on an Old Subject.
Some of the engravings found by For
est Ranger Sullivan in recently uncov
ered ruins of New Mexico and Arizona
are said to lend a strong support to
the claim of Chinese Chronicler Hui
Sen, who lived in the sixth century,
that North Americi was known to the
Chinese under the name of Fusang or
Fusu. It was said to be a continent
lying 0,500 miles to the east of Asia.
He said that five Buddhist priests sail
ed from China to Fusu, landing in
what is now Mexico, where they taught
their religion to the natives and htiilt
temples.
Well Defined.
The class in spelling was asked
state the difference between ''results'
and "consequences."'
One bright eyed little miss replied
"Results are what you expect aud con
sequences are what you get."—Coun
try Gentleman.
Philadelphia.
Before the city of Philadelphia re
ceived its present name the site was
known to the Indians by the name
"Coaquannock," which to theta meant
"the grove of tall pines."
Her Penalty.
He—Does your father oHject to my
staying so late? She—No pa says It
serves me right for being in when you
OftB.—Boston Transcript.
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I I I K U E O U N Y E S S
VOL. XVII. NO. 1. HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1917. $1.00 PER YEAR
IKSFft INDUSTRY
The Immense Debt It Owes to
the Science of Chemistry.
A VITAL FORCE IN BUSINESS.
It Is an Exceptional Process or Manu
facturing Plant In These Days That
Does Not Rest Fundamentally Upon
Chemical Control.
Six gentlemen gathered round a ta
ble on which were displayed a steel
rail, a waterproof shoe, a fifty cent
necktie and a tin of preserved beef.
Each claimed credit for creating these
commodities.
"All are products of our wonderfui
factory system," said the manufactur
er. "My foresight built the factory,
and my management kjeps it going."
"How about money?" protested the
banker. "Where would your factory
be without my financial aid?"
The third man was an engineer.
"Neither factory nor finance would
have been of much account without
my professional ability in working out
processes,'' he asserted. "Each of
these articles embodies hundreds of
engineering problems which I have
solved."
"All production rests on labor," de
clared a workman in cap and over
alls. "If I walk out of your factory
everything stops."
"I built up the consuming demand
for your stufif," chipped in the sales
man.
Finally the sixth man spoke.
"I am a chemist," he said, "and
these are all chemical products. All
industry today is three-fourths chem
ical. You may think that your steel
rail was made in furnaces and mills
by purely mechanical processes, but
from start to finish it depends on
chemical exactness In materials and
manipulation, aud if the chemistry is
lacking the rail breaks. That chrome
tanned shoe is a chemical achievement.
Chrome tanning is a chemically exact
process. The necktie is made of artifi
cial silk, a chemical Imitation that is
at once cheap, good looking and use
ful. As for your can of beef, the pack
ing Industry has been built up on
chemical research, and this meat was
probably paid for with chemical by
products. Gentlemen, three-fourths of
all our manufacturing today is chem
ical at bottom, and you must recognize
that fact if you aie going to extend
your business and continue to make
money."
Enter a vital new factor in American
Industry—chemical control.
Look at our manufacturing plants
through the eyes of the chemist and
products that you had supposed were
entirely mechanical in their nature,
such as building materials, metals, ma
chinery, and the like, become products
of the laboratory. The food you eat,
the beverages you drink, the clotLes
you wear, the tools you use, your
playthings and studies and the power,
heat and light that keep you comforta
ble in the modern world—in every one
of them is subtle chemical supervision
It is an exceptional process or plant
nowadays that does not rest funda
mentally ou chemical control, and if
you find one that does not something
is probably the matter with it for that
very reason.
Here is another way of illustrating
chemical control:
Everybody knows that much has
been accomplished in the past few
years by intelligent study of people in
industry—the workers. A manager
understands that his people have dif
ferences of temperament, education,
brains, strength, likes and dislikes. He
uses their natural abilities as far as
possible and, when these are too pro
nounced in a certain direction, may
check one against another, as by har
nessing careless energy and cautious
experience together. Even differences
of nationality, politics and religion can
be harmonized to increase output, raise
earnings, cut costs and abolish waste
and accidents.
Now comes the chemist and insists
that the materials of industry are Just
about like the people. TLey are tem
peramental. They have warm likes
and dislikes for each other. Some are
energetic aud some sluggish. They dif
fer with mass, temperature, time, aud
so on. Their differences are as subtle
as human whimsies, being detected
only with the microscope of delicate
reactions in many cases. The chem
ist aims to bring about with materials
the same balance and working har
mony that tie manager of employees
brings about with human beings.
We must all get acquainted with each
other on this new basis, says the chem
ist. Bankers and business men must
get. the chemical viewpoint and learn
to pass on chemical values. They now
call In the engineer for professional
guidance when they make Investments
and start new enterprises. They must
learn to call in the chemist in the
same way and use his knowledge in
clearing up technical problems. Their
relation with the engineer was not es
tablished in a day.
A similar relation with the chemist
will take time. For the present they
should cultivate an acquaintance with
chemist and chemical literature.
The chemist, on his part, recognizes
that he has been too closely absorbed
in his profession and that he must now
cultivate the acquaintance of the bank
the business man and the man in
the street and show them where chem
istry touches everything in modern life.
—James H. Collins in Saturday Even
ing Post.
Yesterday's neglect caused two-thirds
Ot today** worry.
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LAND OF INFINITE DETAIL.
Japanese Farmers Produce Several
Crops In Small 8pace.
Japan might well be called the land
of infinite detail. Perhaps nowhere on
earth may one see detail carried to
such extremes as in that land, whert
every available square foot of soi
must be made to yield every possible
return. Farms of one or two acres
producing six, eight, ten or a dozen
different crops are common Bights, the
soil being fertilized and tiandled in
such a manner as to bring results in
every month of the year.
One peasant who obtained some over
flowed land turned what in this coun
try would be waste ground to profit.
Converting the marshy overflow into
ponds, he bred and raised snapping
turtles, which in Japan are considered
as much of a delicacy as diamond back
terrapin here. The farm now produces
tens of thousands of the snapping tur
tles annually, these being shipped to
Tokyo and Yokohama markets by the
ton.
Japan has also a pearl oyster farm.
In the bay of Argo there has been es
tablished a plantation from which a
harvest is obtained.
In May or June stones weighing
from six to eight pounds are sunk in
shallow water, and in August the tiny
shells begin to appear on them. The
stones remain for two months, but
since the young oysters cannot endure
cold in November all rocks in less than
five feet of water are moved farther
out, where the temperature is more
even. At the end of three years, when
the shells are about two inches across,
they are taken from the water, nuclei
for pearls inserted In them and re
placed in the water, thirty of them to
every six square feet of bottom.
There they are left for four years.
Then, being seven and a half years
old, they are removed and searched
for pearls.—Washington Star.
HOUSING THE MOTORCAR.
8ome Advice on Building snd Fitting
Up a Practical Garage.
"The size of the garage depends upon
the size of the car It is to be used for,"
says C. H. Claudy in the Woman's
Home Companion. "A convenient size
for most cars is 14 by 18 feet. This
will usually give plenty of room to
work around the car. Shelf room is
essential and should be all along one
side, seven feet high aud one foot
wide. On the other side have plenty of
nails for hanging things on. At the
rear end, above the door, have a shelf
TTlde enough to hold spare outer tires
At each rear corner have a three cor
nered closet for old clothing, etc. At
the front corners have several three
cornered shelves set in.
"A workbench is an essential fea
ture. This should be buiit near a win
dow, so that there will be abundance
of light. Make the workbench of two
inch boards and have It as large as
space will permit. Do not have the
supports, or legs, come down straight
to the floor, as they will be in the way,
but slant them back to the wall. Make
drawers to slide under the bench for
holding nails, tools, etc. A tool chest
of common and useful tools under the
bench u a good friend. Have two
electric light extensions also a hand
electric searchlight
"A life saving equipment is a length
of garden hose that will fit over the
exhaust pipe of your engine. When
the engine is running, with doors and
windows shut, fit one end of the hose
over the exhaust pipe and put the other
end outside through a hole previously
made for that purpose. This may pre
vent you from being asphyxiated, as
the gas from the exhaust is very poi
sonous and has been known to cause
death."
Colombia—the Hebrew Republic.
Colombia is the runaway daught
of Spain. She is twice as large as
mother—and many times as promislt
And it may surprise you to learn tl
the most progressive element in
lombia is not the Spanish population
the natives, but a Jewish people call
Antioquians, who have Old Testamt
names, raise families of from twel
to thirty chi'dren and are fast becc
Ing the dominant power in the lai
both in numbers and influence.
lombia is the great Jewish republic of
the near future.—Dan Ward in World
Outlook.
A 8tump Jump Plow.
In western Australia they use a •pe
dal type of plow called the "stump
Jump," on eccount of the fact that near
ly all the areas susceptible of cultiva
tion in that region are heavily wooded,
and the land cannot be cleared of
stumps and roots because of the dearth
and high cost of labor. The stump
Jump plow, which is the invention of
an Australian, is so made that it will
roll over stumps and other obstruc
tions lying on the ground.
Gardening.
The way to keep up the interest in
gardening is not to do the same thing
year after year. That is monotonous.
Try the new fruits, vegetables and
flowers. Hold to the old, tried and true
for mainstays, if desired, until the new
prove that they are what is wanted
to entirely displace older varieties.—
New York Sun.
Sizes.
"I wish a ton of coal, please."
"Yes, madam. What size?"
"Dear me, I didn't know coal came
lu sizes. I wear a No. 3 shoe and a No
6 glove."—Louisville Courier-Journal.
An Instance of Woman's Superiority.
No man ever dared tell the truth
about women only a woman can do it.
—KL W. Howe's Monthly.
GUARDING A NAVAL SECRET.
How England Cloaked the Building of
a New Type of Cruiser.
In Europe extraordinary precautions
are taken by all the great powers to
mask their military plans, and con
stant efforts are made to ferret out the
military designs of opposing govern
ments. Admiral William S. Sims of
the United States navy threw an inter
esting sidelight on this phase of pre
paredness when testifying before the
house committee.
"To show the extreme importance of
this matter of a new type," said Ad
miral Sims, "when Great Britain first
built these vessels (swift and powerful
battle cruisers) extraordinary precau
tions were taken to prevent her possi
ble enemies learning their characteris
tics. Great Britain had a number of
armored cruisers, and Germany had a
number of them. Great Britain knew
that if she could build a number of
these battle cruisers that had battle
ship guns and twenty-eight knot speed
—in other words, more speed than any
other cruisers in the world and guns
stronger than those of any other cruis
ers—she would thus be away ahead for
a long time.
'She irid down three of those ves
sels. In the estimates they were called
armored cruisers, and everybody in the
world supposed that simply three more
armored cruisers would come out, with
ordinary guns, which are 9.2 inch, etc.
They were going to mount on these
vessels eight twelve-inch guns apiece,
and they were going to give them a
higher speed.
"You can conceal the speed, of course,
while the vessel is building, but it was
wholiy impossible to conceal the fact
that they were building twenty-four
twelve-inch guns that could not other
wise be accounted for. Great Britain
did not want other nations to know
that these were going to be carried by
these three cruisers. So they induced
Turkey to sign a contract for those
guns, and a certain foreign.attache in
London paid not less than £14,000, or
$70,000, to officials of the companies to
get :o look at their books and assure
himself that the guns were being built
for Turkey. Of course they pestered
Turkey to find out \v'i tt she wanted
with twenty-four tei
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inch guns, but
In the meantime the \. -sels were com
pleted and the guns mounted before
foreign nations knew that a radically
new type of vessel was in existence.
"The British wanted to get that type
out because in any conflict with an
Other navy that did not have similar
vessels the British would have a great
advantage. Their scouting power was
so great and their powers of destruc
tion so great that anything except a
battleship was practically helpless be
fore them."—Spokane Spokesman-Re
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Our Poor Recoru.
The average yield of potatoes in the
United States is"T13.4 bushels to the
acre. In Germany it is 183 bushels.
The average yield of wheat here is 15.9
bushels. In Germany it is 32. The
yield of oats here is 37.4. In Germany
it is 44. The yield of barley Is 29.7. Ln
Germany each acre produces thirty-six
bushels.
But German fields did not always
yield such bountiful crops. Thirty-five
years ago Germany raised only 110
bushels of potatoes, nineteen bushels
of wheat, twenty-five bushels of oats
and twenty-three bushels of barley to
the acre. The German soil is poor.
The German climate is unfavorable to
successful agriculture. Yet by a care
ful study of the subject of fertilization
it has been possible to increase their
productivity by GG per cent—Philadel
phia Ledger.
The Pocket Stage.
It may fainy be claimed that human
ity has within (lie past hundred years
found a way of carrying a theater in
its pocket, and so long as humanity re
mains what it is it will delight in tak
ing out its pocket stage aud watching
the antics of the actors, who are so
like itself and yet so much more inters
esting. Perhaps that is, after all, the
best answer to the question, What is
a novel?" It is, or ought to be, a pocket
stage. Scenery, light, shad-.-, the actors
themselves, are made of words and
nothing but words, more or less clev
erly put together.—F. Marion Craw
ford.
Crows and Crops.
The biological survey of the depart
ment of agriculture has investigated
the relation of crows to man. The es
sential conclusions are that crows are
about equally beneficial and injurious
and that they are not so wary and sa
gacious as not to need V*gal protection.
Lack of this, while not endangering
the siecies, will permit farmers to pro
tect their crops or other property when
ever necessary.
Worse Still to Come.
Henderson What makes you so
blue? Sanderson—My wife's bread's a
failure. Henderson—Is that all? San
derson—Ail? No something worse is
coming. Henderson What? Sander
ion—A week's ordeal of bread pud
iing.—Puck
Then Ma Sent Willie to Bed.
"Pa, what is a filibuster?"
"A filibuster is an attempt to talk a
plan of action to death, my boy."
"I see. You married into one, didn't
you, paV" -1».-r f. it ive Press.
Wisdom provides tMntrs
superfluous.—Solon
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