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1 The Boy Who Fizzle*. From the- Forest City (la.) Summit Time.s certainly have changed and tht uoys ha\ changed with them. Twentj years ago a hoy was willing to spend year, .sometimes three, learning a trade Io you see them doing that now'.' No1 much. A lad strikes you today for a Job. and if you .suggest that he work for a week or a mouth for "experience" he'l! give you the laugh. He must have wages from the moment he doffs his cap, and half the time he don't even do that, but loafs around the store or shop with his bat on the hack of his head and a pipe between his teeth. He can get $1.50 a day washing your windows or carrying the ashes from your cellar, so what is the um: of wasting time learning a trade? There isn't a business In- Forest City today that isn't yearning for one of the old fashioned boys who will treat his eld ers with politeness and take an interest in his work beyond waiting for the clock to mark up quitting time. It's Saturday afternoon off and double pay for every minute He doesn't want to learn the business he Iihs no ambition to own It Home day. He makes fun of the dull town and hikes to the city at every op portunity. He can't see the dear little girl next door who helps mother, but rushes to Mason City or Albert Lea tc chase a "skirt." The best girls on this old earth are right here all about him girls that are growing up to make trot and nobj." women: but he chases "chick en*" of th« city streets. "There is noth ing to keep him here." so the poor little, fool wastes Ills time, his money, and his strength trying to be a tin horn sport, a "regular 12 o'clock feller." To greet your neighbors with a cleai eye, and to owe no man anything tc build a home for the girl you went to school with, and sit with your feet under your own table, occasionally add a leal for the new member of the family whe aits In a high chair and puts bread and Tnllk Into his nose and eyes, is something worth while. Stick to mother and the girls who smile at you on our own streets, and let the city "skirts" that xralk the streets, walk alone. ThereV nothing in chasing the "chickens." 1 British Farmers Aid Belgium. From the London Times. Mention jvna made in the Times re cently of the arrival and distribution it Belgium of the first consignment of cattl» Bent out by the agricultural relief of al lien committee, l»fldon. A second ship merit of about 200 head will follow short ly, and when these have been allotted it can be said that, thanks to the gonerosit of British farmers, a substantial begin ning will have been made with the tasl of restocking the country so thoroughly cleared of animals by the enemy. The cattle already landed and tho» about to be shipped are of the dairy Short horn breed—the type chosen by the Bel glan representatives. It may be repeated that, while 'th« land in Belgium outside the actual hatth area has not been destroyed to the de gt-ee that the soil in northern France ha. Buffered, the country has been cleared of Htock and machinery, and the replen lshing of holdings in mechanical appli unc.es will also be supported by the com mittee. As a result of the first consignment 31 villages of western Flanders in the neigh borhood of thesb&ttle'sone jhave now beei provided with foundation live stock. Th« Belgian government has furnished th committee with details showing how. thf :.(I0 dairy Shorthorns have been placed It the hands of small peasant farmers neai Dixmude. Ypres, Menln and Corte marck. It was laid down by the commit tee that only those peasants who are des titute of means and therefore quite un able to restock their holdings should be the recipients of relief, and among these the number of head of cattle possessed In dividually before the war was taken at insuring that only the small man was as sisted. No one was to be entitled to re ceive a heifer who in pre-war days had more than 10 head of stock. By this means the most urgent and deserving cases among those returning to their holdings was discovered. Will Rebuild "Wipers." From the I-os Angeles Times. The famous Belgian city which Tommy Atkins insisted on calling "Wipers" is to lie rebuilt. It was suggested that the devastated city should remain as it is ti"W, a proof of the barbarous activity of Teutons. Hut the Ypres Society of '..i*!)t, composed of people from all classes of the community, has decided otherwise. It has voted that it be re built In consideration of the historic past of the city no less than the deathless memory which is henceforth attached to the r-!tv nnd its neighborhood, because of tr.u glorious defense by the allied armies." Bedmakers Ask More Pay. From the Tendon Times. Mild sensation has been caused In Cam bridge recently by the bedmakers from the different colleges forming an organi sation to demand more money for their laltors. Men from the colleges attended ttoine of their meetings and appeared much interested in the proceedings, as they had little idea of the remuneration received by these useful and essential persons. A bedmaker at Trinity stated that before the war she received $3 a week, her "help," and In addition a con siderable quantity of food. Since the war, however, she has received hardly, any food arid the wages paid this term ars only $7 for the bedmakers and $3.60 for the "help." which. o*7ing to higher prices for everything, makes a decrease rather than an Increase. sj To Dad And MotHsr. ., From the Watch On the Rhine. '••'.• "Dad" will declare a grand holiday and Mother will assemble the thousand com forts that only her tender hands can fur nish—all in iionor of the lad who has re turned from the battlefields of France Rut the homecomer must not forget—In deed, he cannot forget—that he in turn owes a tribute to these two who have re mained behind in the tedium of a task |ust as important as his—that of pro luctfon. He cannot forget how his own devotion to duty in the most trying hourt he had to face subsisted on Mother's let ter of praise and blessing, and "Dad's" note that said, "I wish I were with you. lad." They who have stayed behind will carry more gray hairs when the soldier returns than when he left, for spch battles as theirs were hard battles. Long weeks, even months, without a single letter—, scarcely a thing equally' so haunting for the man in the t«*enches—and yet they net it with undying valor. Without such spirit back of the American .army, bow much less would bee been Its succcss! Hats off to "Dad," who performed the lesa drarsatfc. taa»C sa*}*fother, who,faun kep'the Ho»rf Ifrea^-Vfilng! ttUy Sunday is to.spend a part N hte acMftig summer drlvtag a tractor. From 189.'! until 1909 he was presi dent of Nicaragua. In that period he was charged with setting on foot revo lutionary forces in several neighbor ing countries in efforts to overthrow governments unfavorable to his plans for a union of Central American states under his dominion. Intervention by the I'nited States waa threatening on more than one occasion. United States gunboats hung off the Nicaragua.il coast to prevent the es cape of Zelijya from his country in 1909. after he had resigned the presi dency. He effected his escape to Alex Ico. The Fourth Man Won. From the Stars and Stripes. They were having a contest to see who sould tell the bigguit war lie. "I drew a bead'.on'aiGerman'airtnan with a rifle, wirelssed him 'Hands up,' and made him come down within our ltnes," said one. "1 whistled iike a 7ii, scattered an ene my machine gun squad, captured the gun and took the whole crew prisoner,'" said the second. 'T sneaked a limousine, ran it to a Ger man corps headquarters, told the G. C. I had a message from the reichstag for him, and brought him back to our regi mental C.." said the third. "My spirals never came down," said the fourth. Her Faith In Man Shaken. From tho Kansas City Star. Chicago—.She smiled sweetly as she ap proached Kmil J. Holmes and asked "I'm a stranger and I have lost my'way. Could you direct me to the loop?" "Why, this is the loop you're In," said Mr. Holmes, who was sitting in his motor :ar. It was about 10 p. m. Some way or other, before Mr. Holmes realized it, she was cuddled beside him. They talked for some time. Then she left. Soon thereafter he discovered the absencc of 12 $100 bills which had reposed in his right hip pocket. "Poor little thing." Mr. Holmes said to a reporter, "I suppose her faith in man kind will be sadly shaken. 1 got that roll in Washington from a fakir. It was stage money, and the bills arc 5 cents a dozen." What He Would Have Done. From the Dearborn independent. Hen Foster was noted for his shiftiess nesK. If it hadn't been for his wife he would have- allowed his farm to remain idle and become worthless. It was all his wife could do to get him to work, as he preferred to sit and read all day. "Oh. yes, I know," his wife responded. "You'd have settled rjglit down on a farm in Corsica and let It run to ruin, and then grumble about hard work. One evening after ho had been reading French history v/lth deep intrest he closed the book and said to his wife. "Do you know. Maria, what Vd done if had been Napoleon?" i* Would Restore Birching. From the lxindon Times. The report of a special committee which was appointed by the Glasgow corporation to inquire into the question jf the tirohation of offenders expresses the opinion that tiir four chief .causes of the alarming increase in juvenile crime and offenses in Glasgow and throughout the country were due to the slackening Df parental control tho lack of moral and relijjlous training and discipline: the want of innocent outlets for youthful en ergy: and the absence of home attrac tions, and the mode and surroundings of lif* in poor and over crowded houses. Wrcning should be more resorted to by magistrates in dealing with ringlead er!! o:' youthful gangs, and the age during which this mnthoA o: punishment could be indicted should be raised to 16, the committee said. A dispatch from The Hague quotes the Niet:r. Hotterdamsche Couranl (is saying, apropos o: the extradition Of the -kai ser: "It has been stated that- William will be guaranteed certainty of justice as regards his defense, but the guarantee whUh throughout the whole world is re garded a« most essential for judicial pro nouncement-she guarantee of an abso lutely unprejudiced judge—as nithlicM f-o:n him. .Tvul.ually HoHay'l, int r^*' *t«riiit-.'Of.1 tluf-viawK htiifaaait• KuaUi' not l»e:a./e to lcti-J its co-operaUou to a verdure bofnre it tribunal'oompoHcd of accusers." Afterwards. Tiic years go by and a nr.n forgets ... Old barricades in the bitter fray The ancient wrongs and the dull regrets He knew so well in a younger day. The slogging hikes :»nit the sudden fears Tnat haunted him in the mud and rain, :.'Arf gilded soon in t'r.e passim years Wiped clean again of the crimson stain. ..-"Never again!"—is the doughboy's cry, v: And deep in his soul lie means it all: ..Hut after the months have drifted by. He leans again to the bugle call .Soon forgetting the army slum, The blasting shell in the swampy glen. His dreams swoop back to the rolling drum And a life on the open road again. The reveille of a rainy dawn—. An endless road with a gun and pack A "bawling out" where the line is drawn With never a chance to answer back Broken dreams where the Fokkers drift, Kven the stockade, dull :ind gray, •i. Drudgeries of a K. P. shift "They a!I look good when you're far1 away." New York, May 19.—Gen. Joseph Santos Zelaya, president of the repub lic of Nicaragua for 16 trubulent years, died at his home here late Saturday night after a long illness. General Zelaya's political daring at home and abroad, h:« bold personality, his rapidly amassed fortune, his am bitious effort to set up the United States of Centra. America, of which he was to he head, ail made him an inter national figure. S" Gijj.iilsnd Rice, in Stars and Stripes. Turbulent Life of Zelaya, Nicaraguan Statesman and Plotter, Ends in New York Then he went to Madrid and Paris, later slipping quietly into the United States. His entry Into New York waa unannounced and the first news the government had of his presence here was contained in a iiewspafer article. Trailed by Detectives. From that hour Zelaya was followed :y secret service agents and although Me moved surreptitiously from hotel to hotel, his whereabouts was never lost to the government. Ho was arrested here Noverr.'cor 11, 1913, on a warrant- from the Nicar aguan government charging him with the murder of two political adversaries and was confined in the- prison. Later he was released and sailed for Spain. In March, 1914, one of his former countrymon tried to kill him in Spain. In July of the same year he arrived igain in New York. For tha last four years he had lived hero. Funeral services fill be held here Wednesday and the body will be placed in a temporary vault to be removed la*«r for interment In Nicaragua. Gen eral Zelaya was 65 years 'old. THE HILL WATER. V." From the rim it trickles down OI£ the mountain's granite crown Clear and'cool -•/•. Kieii and eager though'it go Through your veins witli lively flow, Yet it knowelh not to reign In the chambers of the brain With misrule. Then down the sloping side It wi!l slip with glassy slide ,. Gently welling, Till it gather strength to leap. With a light and foamy sweep, To tiie corrie broad and deep Proudly swelling. Then bends amid the bowlders, 'Neath the shadow of tho shoulders Of the Ben. Through a country rough and shaggy. So juggy and so knaggy, Full of hummocks and of hunches. Full of stumps and tufts and bunches, Full of busher. and of rushes, In the glen. Through rich green solitudes, And wildly hanging woods With blossom and with bell. In rich redundant swell. And the pride Of the mountain daisy there, And the forest everywhere. With the dress and wilh the air Of a bride —Dunca:1 Ban Marlntyre. Fighting for Ports. "Karly in the war l.ihau paid the pen ally for Its advantageous location on the Kaltic by being shelled and taken by the Carinaii warships, and now it is a fight ing center of Letts. Germans and bolsliev i.sts, because of the immense hinterland served through its ice free •harbor.".says, a bulletin from the National* Geographic Society, in connection with the recent fighting aiiout the city. Everywhere there are ports there is a struggle on to con trol them. With a population comparabfe with that of such thriving American cities as San Diego, Cal.. or Dallas. Tex., and flourish ing factories of its ov/n to swell the vol ume of its exports, garnered through its railway connections radiating to Khar kov. Orel and Moscow. Libau was a Bal tic port of prime importance before the war. The city is situated on a low lying, sandy peninsula which separates the nearly tideless Baltic from the. I.ak9 of Libau. It is in a high latitude, fewer than 250 miles south of Petrograd. F.arlv in the 13th ce'Stury Libau vast burned by the Lithuanians, and 150 yuars like some one to do to get himself out ot the ridiculous mess into which he has be come involved. Why cables should bn cluttered up with'stuff about him and business information be sidetracked Is not clear. But America is not the only suffeier. Kven China feds it From Shanghai, through Noel. Murray & Co.'s circu-ar we get the following: The wildly exciting news that Qu*en Mi»rv ra'd a visit to Rethnal Green's p?«*r e«t slums is eliot through the wires to nr far east, but Important commercial t-V grams are still held up through unheard of ^"lays. What is needed in the cable business is more sense and less oensor. Plans for opening a passeug'-r inotot transportation line to encournge travel through the Yellowstone. ISoi-ky Moun tain and Glacier national parks, are an nounced by Secretary Lone. .' "'elgians who have witnessed every public ceremony in HruiMla which hn t4|kfenf idaeehfn tftelr lifwiifi. say the «it' ban ntvvi witnessed a' more 'impressivf. llmri that of the transfer of FVlfth ve?l'»" bodY the Tir Na tional t«» tilt- tfu utrWm. -X' a .. .... In the month of May the mother, in tent upon keeping her baby well, shifts her attention from the chest to the abdomesi. All winter long she has watched over her baby to prevent him from taking cold from no v. un for fuv.r months at least she tries to pro 1i 1.1 him from disorders trie abdom- lij.i' orgiiiis The Maine board of health furnishes ihe mothers of that state a manual called. -Tlie Feeding and Care of the Baby." One chapter is headed. "Some Ailment? of Children." From it the fol lowir.g directions are taken: Habitual V-.mi ting-.A baby may •pit up food because he Jias fed too rapidly and too much. To prevent a baby fivri, spitting up interrupt nurs ing cec.'.r.-i-'.^i'iy. Stop it before the stomach is overfull. Do not lay tin- baby down in a horizontal position inimedi at: iy ,iitcr feeding. I-tough handling !i::nefiiitteiy after feeding m:iy be r.-i. se. Spitting up of food merges into vuHiit^ng. Habitual vomiting may iiv j.n wrong kind of food. The food is nfi too rich in i'at or sugar. The may he too short an interval be •.ef.ti feedings. Simple i")i !rrvY'.'is—These War Promoted Commerce. From Commerce and Finance. There are but few who understand that the science Of political economy is comparatively youny. Adam Smith's ciassieal work upon the ''Wealth of Nations" was not published until 1776, and prior to that rime commercial enterprise yenerjilly went hand in hand with military aggression. Trade, or at least, international trade, was predatory in its character and the hope of finding peoples and conn tries that they might exploit and pillage was the chief inspiration of the explorers of the 15th, l(5th and 17th centuries. As long as com mercial supremacy was a question of physical prowess, a knowledge of economic law was not essential in its attainment. It is, therefore, chronologically appropriate that the birth of eco nomic science as we kimw il today should have been contemporane ous with the French revolution and the establishment of the Ameri can republic, which were the result of the first really successful efforts that society had made to substitute the law of right for that of might. ', Y«* In the days of Adam Smith and for 50 vears thereafter there was, however, but little international trade and practically none of the in ternational community of financial interest that exists today. Great Britain's imports ami experts in 1750 were valued at an aggregate of only £17,400,000. In 1915 they were worth £l,40.'l,555,065, or 80 times the total of 1750, while the population in the interval had only multiplied itself by seven, having been 6,517.035 in 1750 as against 46,089,249 in 1914. In the year 1800 and previously, ioan and deposit bauking as it exists today was practically unknown. Most transactions were set tled by the payment ol' gold or silver, and the supply of these metals must have been altogether inadequate, for, according to Soetbeer, their production during the 40 years ending with 1799 averaged less than $45,000,000 annnually, as against a present average of about $700,000, 000 a year. It was not until labor saving machinery had made production on a large scale possible, and steam provided a prompt, and reliable means of transportation, lhat the development, of modern commerce commenced, and it was only when distance and time were annihi lated by cable and telegraph that prices throughout, the world began: to fluctuate in unison and the law of supply and demand became so "de-localized" in its operation that generalizations in regard to it were sate. German Losses Elucidated. From the New York Post. ... Out of her original area of nearly 209.000 square miles tlermany losen about 35,000 square miles absolutely and stands to lose 8,500 square miles in addition it" the prescribed plebiscites in East Prussia and Schleswig should go solidly against her. Nine-tenths of the province of Posen. nearly as much of tho province ai West Prussia, and one-third of Silesia go to Poland, with the pros pect of something like one-quarter oC East Prussia being added by plebiscite. As tlie outcome of her bid for world domination Germany will therefore lose one fifth of her European territory. This is a formidable penalty with which In recent times we can only compare the terms imposed upon Russia by the Ger mans at Brest-Litovsk. Irrespective of the outcome of the plebiscites, four fifths of the-German cessions will go to the upbuilding of This fact must be kept in mind as we face the first impression^of'the-heavy blow administered to German power and prestige. If the outcry against terri torial "spoliation" be raised in German quarters, if appeal be made to the points which Germany insists upon as the basis of a just peace, then it must be remembered that tv/o of the outstanding points in Mr. W*ilson's program were concerned with Alsace-Korraino and Poland. The cessions to France and the new Polish state make up »5 per cent of German territorial losses. To the restoration of Poland. Germany will in any case contribute about three-fourths o".ly of what Pvussia will give back, and somewhat less than the Hapsburg ter ritorv that will go to Poland in the form of Galicia. Kor everything except 5 per ?„-nt of the soil taken from her Germany must therefore have been prepared f.-orn the moment she asked for an armistice. To this must be added.the ces sions .she must equally have been prepared for in Schleswig and in the fo«m or rectifications on the Belgian frontier. „i.i. In population the German loss will be between 0,000,000 and i,00p,000, with another 500,000 dependent on plebiscites, or a little over 10 per cent of the population of the empire at the outbreak of the war. This relation between u, loss of one-fifth in territory and one-tenth in population arises from the fact that the cessions are, for much the greater part. Of non- "tU,Hl.rl^ ./®f With the exception of portions of Alsace-Lorraine and a sect on of Silesia, the surrender is of agricultural territory. The fact bears directly on the obvioi^ question how a Germany reduced to four-fifths of its area can be bear the enormous burdens imposed on her by her own war debts and rcpara tioi:s to the entente In the treaty handed to the German deleKa es a doubt is expressed at least once opnly and is repeatedly implied. P.ut U-ast this much is clear, that the vita', organs of Germany's economic recuperation have not been seriously touched. ,• SUMMER FOOD FOR BABY. arc- gen eral".:/ result, of incorrect feed rg. The fault may be too frequent feeding, overfeeding or feeding food lhat iii too rich. If the diarrhea is not severe a change from raw to boiled milk m:ty cure it. It may be neeessnr to withdraw all milk for several hours, giving no'food or drink, except water. There .ire different kinds of diarrhea p.nd it it- always risky to allow the symptom to continue long before call ing in a physician. Atntnouical Urine—This symptom means tb. diet 1s to» rich. In most tlicr^ loo much fat. The sypnp V-rn .»• •—ally subsides when the child lSi •-.kim milk and oatmeal gruels. Aft* a few days ot skim milk the child cvn be onb.t' on ordinary milk. l»nt tbe t«rcetita/v ef cream sb94tb3 1 .the 4 4 new-Poland. as high as in the mixture given when the symptom developed. Constipation—In some cases this symptom results from a diet in which there is too little milk. In most cases it is due to a diet that is too rich. Often the diet contains too much sugar. They say it is not best to give more than an vji ounce of sugar in 24 hours to a baby weighing less than 10 pounds or more than an ounce and a half to a baby over that weight. For constipated babies .sif malt sugar is better than other sugars, .-..wja Fruit Juices and scraped fruits and vegetables, figs and dates for older children are advisable. Vole* From the Past. From the New York World. iWiVi The president sueeeedea on this oc casion because he acted without sense and without constraint in a panorama that was gotten up more for tho bene- vr.' lit of his party than for the glory of tl.e nation and the honor of-the dead. We'paf.s-over the silly remark* •it' tli'- president: for the credit of the nation vv«t are willing that the veil of oblivion ^li.all be dropped over them ami that tln-y shall no mure be repeat i-i| or bought of. This in not an extract Irom an editorial in tin: New York Sun or the New York Tribune. Nor were the sentiments tut it cil above taken from any of the pub lie iiitcrances of Senator 1'oindexter or Senator Sherman or Senator ItcCormick.. They are from an editorial that was" printed in the Harritsburg Patriot and •:. I'nlori on November 24, 1SC3, and hnve no teieience to Woodrow Wilson. The president in question was Abraham bineoln. The "silly remarks" were the ':. ltysburg speech. !••. Pat's Mistake. From Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Pat .Malion, the village druggist, during the hcl intluemen epidemic used to he called at all hours of the night to make: up prescriptions. Curious to state, ho never made a liglit to nia^l %ll^/'jM^. one night one ot the vilbi^ark'c.Mip was gett.inj( a mixture made up' by Pat -remarked: "1» you never make a mistake. PatV" "Oh. begorra I do, -«id T'at." -"I took la bad ba'2 dollar'tail iutfUt/V. ,.. v--' I? th