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"fj""""fv""j"?""""f"""""'"""5" -HAS BAGGED 22 ALLIED AERbs ffl boelkS""- Capt Boelke of. the German- aero corps has brought down 22 allied aeroplanes. lie always goes up alone, actingas pilot and operating mount ed guns. ' o o , A pigeon in Whitinsville, every day alights on the window ledge of Dr. Robert A. Spratt and waits for him to give it a bath. Dr. Spratt sprays the bird with water from a bulb syringe. v o o One -Berkshire, Mass., man buys shoes so large that they fit either foot. He also buys trousers large enough so in case he gets .them on, wrong side to hewill suffer no dis-'comfort I COCHRAN'S. COMMENT PROSPERITY. Being unable, to make the prosperity of 1916 invisi ble to the naked eye, and not want Wilson to get credit for it, Republi- cans argue that it is entirely due to. the war and that the country will go to the demnition bow-wows when the war is over. However, one of the country's great authori ties on business and finance, Theo dore Price, editor of""Commerce and Finance," New York, says: "It will be admitted that whatever profit fhe United States has derived from the war in Europe is measured exclusively by the increase in the balance of trade in our facor. As our imports have varied but slightly since 1912, the increase in our ex ports nust include everything that we have gained from the , expansion of our foreign trade. Price" then says that our maximum possible gain from the war up to June 30, 1916, is ?2,130,000,000r or $21.30 per capita, while the- national wealth has increased$41,000,000,000 or $410 per capita., and asks: "If the war in Europe has been the only, reason for our prosperity, by what alchemy has the gain of only $2,130,000,000 from our foreign trade been multiplied nearly 20 times in the growth of our national wealth?" Politicians, however, can make figures play queer pranks. If we have prosnerity under a G. O. P. adminis tration, according to Republicans, " the G. O. P., is responsible for it. If we have it under a Democratic adminis tration, it isn't real prosperity, or if it is real it won't last unless you put the.G. O. P. back in power. They think Mark Hanna issued a patent to himself and the G. O. P. on the Full Dinner Pail, and-that there can't pos sible be no sich thing under Demo cratic rule. o o The washerwoman has a bar, knuckle fight for existence. mmnimmmm