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Name "E&yer^ cm patting "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" Is genu ine Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for over twenty years. Accept only an unbroken "Bayer package" which contains proper d/rections to relieve Headache, Tooth ache, Earache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Colds and Pain. ,Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost few cents. Druggists also sell larger "Bayer packages." Aspirin Is trade mark Bayer Manufacture Mon oaceticacidester of Salicylicacid.—Adv. MISTAKEN IN HIS SURMISE Mr. Brown Somewhat Hasty in Blam. ing the Gramophone for Those Unearthy Sounds. Perfect peace reigned in the Brown's household. The head of the family, his day'B work over, was read ing, in hiissfni It is said that anticipation of the eve ning meal which Mrs. lirown was busy preparing in the kitchen. The gentle stillness was suddenly broken by eerie sounds, apparently coming from the next house—a weird moaning, developing into heart-rend ing wails and harrowing shriek*. Mr. Brown jumped up. "It's Mrs. Wood's confounded gram ophone playing Tosti's 'Good-by*" he cried. "Lizzie"—to his oldest daughter—"go and implore her to stop It I Tell her I'm 111—tell her we're all 111, anything you like, only make her leave off!" The cl^ld obedientfy hurried out, and two minutes later caue rushing back. "It's not Mrs. Wood's gramophone, dad," she said. "It's the Murphjs down the street opening a tin of corned beef!" Forests to Pay Country's Expenses. A scheme has been outlined for the county of Otsego in New York by •which forests now existing and those to be planned will pay the operating expenses of the county in the near future. Each of the twenty-four townships in the county will under take to plant 100 acres of trees and the profits _o£ these tracts will soon be sufficient to take care of the run ning expenses of the county, so that taxes will be lowered to the minimum point. CTKSS Rrowing\f Sure Relief districts nf is the quickest 6 BELL-ANS Hot wafer djz^i Sure Relief UE. LL-AiMS WFOR INDIGESTION Harvest 20 to 45 Bishal ta km Wheat in Western Canada Think what that means to you in gooi hard dollars with tho great de mand lor wheat at higfh prices. Many farmers in Western Canada have paid for their land from a single crop. The *ame success may still be yours, lor, you can buy on easy terms. Farm Land at $15 to $30 an Acre located near thriving towns, good mar kets. railways—land of a kind which grows 20 to 45 bushels of wheat to the •ere. Good grazing lands at low prices convenient to your grain farm enable you to reap the profit* from stock rais ing and dairying. Learn the Facts About Western Canada —-low taxation (none on improvements), healthful climate, good schools, churches, pleasant social relationships, prosperous and industrious people. For Illustrated literature, map*, d«acrlp tlon ot farm opportunities in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, reduced railway rates, etc.. write Department pt Immigration, Ottawa,-Can., or Coflk, Dnnr 117, W*tirto«i, South tat W. V. Buatti, Room 4, lu IMf.. Oath*, Nth. and I. A. Sarrttt, 311 iaektta St.. St. Paul, NIM. mm^^anadiai^Qovermnen^j^gentBj^| WATCH THE BIG 4 -SfoxnacA -Kidneys-H—rt-U-ror Keep the vital organs healthy by regularly taking the world's stand-' pro remedy for kidney, lirer, bladder and uric acid trouble*-*- COLD MEDAL The National Remedy of Holland tor -centuries and endorsed by Queen WllhaJ mlna. At all druggists, three sizes. s»nn C«U Medal on crtij In aad accept taiutiaa «IOUX CITyt fPTG. CO,, NO/35-1920. r,^„rs if -.V cu- peace an?istice e. Oil and Speed. From the New York World. Because of the war, Atlantic competi tition for speed is practically over. The record for a crossing has rested un broken 10 years—an unprecedented in terval. Few big ships and practically no fast ones are being completed, unless they were begun or planned before the War. Tet the Aquitania, which left New York July 31, made as an oil burner a new record of short distance speed when she logged the last 129 miles into Cher bourg at an average rate of 27.40 knots, or 31 land miles, an hour. Her captain Is not unreasonable in expecting her to excel for an entire voyage the 1910 time of her sister, the Mauretaia, four days 10 hours and 41 minutes. New York to Queenstown. So much for oil. Such instances of its use and evidences of its value in trans portation appeal to "mingled entotion8." It is a great thing to cut down the man killing work of ocean line stokers and In land traffic to lessen or eliminate smoke and the danger of forest flres. But the common stock of oil and its dis tillates is being so swiftly exhausted, often in senates and selfish ways, that coal may yet resume its old importance In a spendthrift world. Why They Can Do It. From the Milwaukee Journal. The American public has had a vague idea that there has been more or less profiteering during and since the war, but the exact evidence is usually lack ing. Investigators found one instance of stockings manufactured at a cost of 97 a dozen, sold to the wholesaler at (14 a dozen, sold to the retailer at $24 a dozen, sold to the consumer in one case at $3.60 a pair and in another case at |6.60 ar'pair. -''5- The manufacturer took 100 per cent. l^^nSStice That Failed. Txrv.. Rwiwi^Tlti London Times. War betweenVoitm* 2'e Vy wnich tho allies planned to end the nation swent b»«?d the bbtaWevlsts vere mide public/ la wave of itidig ed as eurrendtfr vThe latlon i^S_$tlonal i1 provislorts for temporary peace were regard- wrath -sheviam .5 clones with a graphic lllustria.tion of "what .bol says* to its neighbors," the correspondent of the London Times who haye It is now learned that the Lithuanian government on July 12 signed an agreement with the bolshevists whereby Lithuania receives the whole of the yilna and Kovno district. According to figures supplied by the Polish for k? °"lcet the total pouplation of Lithuania, including the Polish area, will, be 4,500,000 of which under 2,000,000 are Lithuanians and the remainder Poles, Jews and White Russians. If Poland is forced to accept strictly the principle of nationality on her eastern frontier, why should she be deprived of the benefit thereof on the northeast? I understand that the Polish government would not have accepted the -armistice terms unless it had distinctly understood that in fKe even{ of their rejection, or subsequent infraction, by the bolshevists Poland could count oiS all necessary support, moral and material, from Great Britain and" Shanes. One of these conditions "was that their troops should remain 50 kilometers (31% miles) distant from the Polish line. "What bolshevism means to its neighbors can hardly be appreciated by those who live at a distance". Only this morning I heard from M. Rus sanowski the ghastly manner in which his cousin, Count Groholski, was done to death by the bolshevists. The count was superintendent of a Red Cross train, in which he toas trying to get refugees «and wounded away from Proskuroff, in the Ukraine, last week. The train was struck by -a shell and could not proceed. Bolshevists swept down upon it and hacked all to death —the wounded, the women and the children. After 40 hours the Poles recov ered the corpses.1' The barbarities committed upon Count Groholski's body were so awful tlfat it is quite impossible to repeat them. Most of the bodies were mangled in a terrible manner and all the wounded were killed." A Chapter on Speculating. From Bankers' Trust Company. The desire to make money speedily in ventures out of the beaten path of conservative investment is not confined to individuals. Governments have sometimes yielded to it with discouraging results. Such was the experience of the British government some 200 years ago when it undertook to get rid of the unfunded national debt by back ing an operation into which it entered with the South Sea Company. The details are presented in a study of "English Public Finance," by the Bank ers' Trust Company. This venture, according to the study, was based upon the "fund of credit" idea, "Fund of credit" was a theory prevalent in the latter part of the Seventeenth and earlier part of the Eighteenth centuries. It watf^ the basis of John Law's famous "Mississippi Company," which about 1718 had such a meteoric career in France. Also in pursuance of this idea the Bank of England was organized. The entire original capital of the bank as well as part of the deposits were loaned to the nation. This left the bank as a basis for conducting its busi ness a "fund of credit" founded upon its loan to the government. Similar was the policy of parliament in forcing the East India" Company to pass on to tlJfe government in exchange for its obligations the proceeds of its sales of stock. The "fund of credit" theory was applied in the South Sea Company's scheme by the granting by the British government to the South Sea Com pany of a monopoly of trading rights in the Pacific ocean, and almost ex clusive trading rights in the southwestern Atlantic. In considerat^in of these trading rights, which were expected to have great value, the company was to exchange its stock for the outstanding unfunded government debt and in addition was to pay the government $2,500,000. The government was to pay the company interest at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum upon all government securities which it should thus acquire and in addition $40,000 a year for management. The conversion offer was accepted between 1711 and 1719 by holders of about $60,000,000 of government obligations. Then those associated in con trol of the scheme decided upon conversion of the entire balance of the British debt into the company's stock, which if successful would havo given the company a capital of around $200,000,000. It would also have secured a practical monopoly of the trading and banking business of the nation. The Bank of England and the East India Company opposed this project Competitive bidding by the bank led the South Sea Company to offer to pay the government $37,500,000 in consideration of all holders of govern ment securities, except the Bank of England and East India Company, converting these holdings into South Sea stock. The government in turn was to pay at first 5 per cent, on its obliga tions acquired by the South Sea Company, then 4 per cent. The advantage to the govei'iimeiit was to be the- saving cf 1 per ccn».. um-iCot aim die receipt of $37,500,000 cash. Profit to the promoters was to come from stock market operations. By manipulation South Sea stock was forced up 200, 300, 800 and finally 1,050 per cent. As their terms with the government were for even exchanges, the pro moters accumulated a large amount of treasury stock which they were able to sell at the advanced prices. The magnitude of the operation and the rapid advance in South Sea stock brought other promotion schemes into the field and a wild orgy of speculation ensued. The collapse when it came was sudden and severe. The exchange of public securities for the company's stock had been achieved, but the specu lators were most of them ruined. The government, according to the Bankers' Trust Company's study, had to surrender its right to the $37,500,000 and to make the company a tem porary loan of $5,000,000 in the form of exchequer bills. It also had to pay the interest at 5 and later, 4 per cent, on the company's holdings of gov ernment securities. Strangely enough, the company itself remained sol vent though conspirators in the scheme were punished and the public vic timized It existed as a public debt holding corporation until 1854. was intensified by the reye- b&lhhevlsts under which the Kovno and Vilna it an a I a is a W a a turned from Spa have a difficult busi- .^ the country, over which a wave of patriotic ardor is surging, nam*,* accepting the terms of the armistice imposed by Mr. Lloyd woniri ®*®te that only the knowledge that in the event of refusal they ?J® 'rom all supplies of ammunition from western Europe com pelled tham to accept. tiro 'h sidered unfair by Poland that its army should be expected to re" ILnf6 :he terms are discussed. Should the negotiations break Poland would have to start again with the enemy 140 miles from War- terms involve the retirement of the Polish army 125 miles was fixed by the supreme council in December, 1919, as the i» »T JCr i?s^e which the Polish administration might be definitely estab lished. Prom the south northwards the line follows the old Russo-Qalician rroiuier to the Bug, then follows the river to Brest-Litovsk, and thence past urodno (exclusive). North of Grodno it turns sharply west, passing just north of Suwalki. Thus the whole of Polish Lithuania is excluded. profit on cost, the wholesaler took 71 per cent, and the retailer took 75 pel cent, in one case and 175 per cent. 11 the other. Here were stockings which cost lea than 60 cents a pair for manufacturing but which went to the consumer as high at $5.50 a pair. The original cost wai multiplied by more than nine. The consumer's extravagance, his will ing payment of a foolish price for stock' ings, makes him in part to blame. Th« dealer would not charge ridiculous price* if there were not a gullible public to paj them. The cupidity of manufacturer* and handlers On tto other hand is oi lourse indefensible. GreenJand'e CoaL From the Kansas City Star. The fact that Denmark now has te pay England prices for coal 10 times greater than the pre-war prices has started a revival of the once well begun enthusiasm over coal from (Greenland, a move proposed some years ago by a returned explorer. These coal deposits were said to have teen discovered through the fact that some of them were burning and had been presumably since for many years. A survey was made at that time and 'ey wa the coal deposits were found to b« ex tensive and of splendid quality, thermore, they were said to be slt- Fur- uated with regard to the sea that ship ment would be possible. Itie only dif ficulty would be the very short season during which vessels coulf load and the rigors of the climate and the at tendant mining difficulty. It Is said, however, that the present coal crisis will sufficiently stimulate Scandinavian brains so that these dif ficulties will be overcome. One the things that observers say make this seem probable is the fact that the Scan dinavian ship companies are now all extraordinarily rich. During the war, despite their submarine losses, they made vast profits. They played both ends against the middle, it is admitted, and made big profits out of both the Germans and the allies. To their con tinued prosperity- is very largely due the Improvement in general ScanBi? navian rate of exchange which luu? fwi £u 5tSv« January 1. oic- u. humanjnventory. The fourth annual report on btrth sta tietics of the United States census of flce shows that 1918 wife a poor yew. The birth rate continued to fall slowly surely, while the. gre*t epidemic of Influenza jumped the death rate .up. In Kew Hampshire the births exceeded tho deaths by only «L In Maryland the death rate was S4.8 and the birth rate 24.6 and in Vermont they were 18.7 and 80.5 respectively. Since there was no immigration, the country gained very little to population In 1918. Utah is the only state where the gain in population (death rate 13.7 and blHh rate 31.9) merited the approval of a society for the promotion of increase In population. A study of the relation of births to the birth country of parents is interest ing. Those born in Germany haye the largest families (4.6 average), and "also the largest number of living children (3.9 average). Of the children born to mothers born in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, 90.4 per cent. live. Some others are: United States, 89.4 Austria, 83.7 Hungary, 81.7 Canada, 87 England, Scotland and Wales, 87.1 Ireland, 87.8 Germany (including German Poland), 86.1 Italy, 83.9 Poland, 82.8 Russia, 86.6. Of the children bom to Scandlnav ian born mothers nearly 10 per cent, more live than is the case with children born to Polish born mothers. Of each 1,000 babies born, 190.9 die be fore reaching 1 year of age. The various racial elements contrib ute in the following order: Poles, 172 Negro, 162 Austriarm, 138 Italians, 119 Cnadians, 118 Hungarians, 106 Irish, 105 Germans, (principally Jews), 91 United States, 94 England, Scotland and Wtrtes, 93 JDentnark, 72. Average all CTOujw, 100.9. The report calls attention to the Aus tralian baby death rate of 56.9, about 60 better than ours. About one-half of this difference (or 26) is due to lower death rate in the first three moths of the year and the remainder to better rates in the last nine months. One heavy death rate among babies less than 3 months of age is due to mid wives, poor maternal facilities, and gen erally poor midwifery service. The principal causes of death among babies over 3 months of age and less than 12 are pneumonia and diarrhoea. Dut to the influenza epidemic, the pneu monia death rate of 1918 was high, but at that babies suffered but little com paratively from the disease. In 1918 the baby death rate was scarcely raised at all, whereas the death rate for all ages was raised over 28 per cent.. Wholly due to influenza. Thanks to better care of babies, more Intelligent motherhood and better milk supplies, the summer diarrhoea death rate falls steadily year by year. .The Foreign Debt of Russia. Murray Stewart in The London Times. Sir: Russia's war debt to England is, In round figures, £550,000,000. England's war debt to America is just over £1, 000,000,000, but of this rather more than half was incurred for munitions and ma terials supplied to Russia on condition that the British treasury undertook pay ment. Russia therefore really owes England over £1,000,000,000, in addition to municipal and private debts. Tho British government has made it a con dition precedent to the. resumption of trade relations with Russia that private debts shall be acknowledged, but, so far, has ignored the question of Russia's public foreign indebtedness. That the soviet government should seek to discriminate between private and public obligations, the hope of find ing themselves eventually In a position to repudiate the latter, is not surpris ing. The surprising thing is to find the British government acquiescing in such discrimination. No greater encourage ment to world-wide revolution can be conceived than to allow the soviet gov ernment to repudiate Russia's foreign debt. For the successful assertion of the principle that international indebted ness can be got rid of simply by Setting up new forms of government and dis owning the obligations of the old would set up a precedent of which the bolshe vist elements ill all countries wouid cer tainly not confine the application to public debts contracted abroad. Plague of Rats. From the Indianapolis News. Millions of rats are overrunning Aber tillery (Monmouth), England, and neigh borhood. While the congregation was leaving a Baptist church in Tillery street on a recent Sunday an army of rats ran s.~cng therr,. One wuman col lapsed. All means have been tried to keep down the plague. Traps, poison, shooting, dogs, and cats have been used, but the rats have not only sur vived, but also thrived. The medical of ficer of health, Dr. Bailie Smith, says the rats are of two kinds—brown and black. The black rats, as a rule, keep to the sewers, but the brown rats climb anything—telegraph poles and rain and gas pipes. They swarm everywhere. It was suggested to the Abertillery dis trict council that expert rat destroyers should be employed, but the local staff have stated that they could do better than the experts, the matter has been left to them with discretionary power to call in help if necessary. All In the Viewpoint. From The Jayhawk. Things and conditions are largely the reflection of our mental viewpoint. To one person, a dandelion is a tiny sun radiating a glorious gcflden glow to an other it is a common weed-not worth noticing. An old story illustrates the point: A man who had just moved into a small Pennsylvania town fell into con versation with an old Quaker who was accustomed to sit on a bench in the quiet square in the center of the village. •What kind of people live here?" asked the newcomer. "What manner of people didst thee live amongst before?" returned the Quaker. "Oh, they were mean, narrow, suspU clous, and very unfair," answered the man: "Then," said the Quaker, "I am sorry, but thee will find the same manner of people here." Not long afterward the Quaker was accosted by another man who had come to live In the town. •What sort of people are they here?" said the stranger. "What manner of people didst thee live amongst before?" said the old Quaker. A warm smile spread over the new ccmer's face. "Friend," he answered, "they were the best folks In .the world. They were always friendly, k)nd and lovable, and I h&ted to leave thetn!'' The old Quaker beamed. "Welcome, neighbor." he said, "be of good cheer, for thee will find the same fine people here!" Mellen Pessimistic. From the Springfield Republican, Interviews with Charles H. Mellen on the railroad question are periodic sen sations with the Boston press. Mr. Mel len's views can invariably be described by the hackneyed adjective "stimulat ing." His latest pronouncement Is ut terly pessimistic. His view of the Euch Cummins act is that a mechanism has been established for bringing about a never-ceasing round of wage advances and rate increases, which will result in government ownership and probably In the nationalization of other industries. Rdi R. J. Lowell, Sweetwater, Toons, says, "Eatonlc helped but it wis my davghter %lio yst marvelous benefits. 8be codd nor even take a drink of wfcter Hr!t&oQt ayfol misery, trot it relieved her she Is feeling much better. All tfcla from one box so send me four more at once." '-'H-., Hundreds of pec^le now take •atonic one or two tablets Alter efcch meal keeps them In good, health, feeling fine* full of pep. Batonlc simply takes up the excess acidity and poisons and canies them right ont of the system. Of course, when the cause of tite misery Is removed, the sufferer ca¬ help but get well. Ton will find it a .quick, sure relief for heartburn, indigestion, sour, add, gassy, bloated stomach. It costs but a trifle and your druggist will supply you. If you don*t feel well, you five eatonlc a test Adv. After Using.' The woman was the author of a cookery book that had been published at her request with wide margins and occasional blank pages for notes and additional recipes. Often she had expressed a wish to see an old copy of the hook and find to wliat tise uie blank pages had been put. One day In a second-hand book store her husband unearthed an old volume. Noticing that It had been annotated freely, he bought it. After a day or two he said: "How about the notes in that cook ery book? Were they Interesting?" "No," she said curtly "they didn't amount to anything." When he got a chance he looked through the book himself. Every note the book contained was a remedy for dyspepsia and kindred ailments!— Dallas News. vv -r- He Drank the Gravy. "Too many cooks spoil the broth," but If there is no broth—well, here's the story as the young man told it: "I went to a church luncheon and thought it mighty strange that the meat was brought in first and a few minutes later a bowl of soup. "So I laid the meat aside, reached over for the soup and begun dipping my spoon in It. "There was a loud cry from the ladles giving the luncheon, and one of them rushed up, crying: "Goodness gracious, man, you're drinking the gravy!"—Columbus Dis patch. Only Thinks He Is. "Mrs. Jones, is your husband a member of any secret society?" "He thinks he is, but he talks ,in his Bleep." Buffalo, N. Y.—"I goffered with organic inflammation and displace* meat. When lifting I had inch pain and bearing down that I was not able to stand op, and it hurt me to walk or go np or down stairs. I waa going to a doctor without anr re sults and he aaid the safest thing would be to hare an operation. I meta lady who told me she had three operations and was not well until she took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Ifelt relief after taking two bottles of vegetable Compound and I kept on with It until I was cured. I al ways use Lydia E. Pinkham's Llrer Pills and they are fine, Syeiytbing used to turn sour on my stomach ana the Llrer Pills relieved that."—Mrs. Buffalo, N. Y. ISk S» iw Fargo Avenue, •chy? KvSiagfind till btaM, and strain oaf you 'ih htodaehfe* and easier and help tiw Rtdney KODAKS Reliable Information All American women know of the great success of LydiaE. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in restor ing to health women who suffered from ailments pe culiar to their sex, yet there are some who are skeptical and do not realize that all that is claimed for it is absolutely true—if they did, our laboratoiy would not be half large enough to supply the demand, though today it is the largest in the country used for toe manufacture of one particular medicine. 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Pinkham's Vegotable Ccmpound as it had saved Jier life at one time, and it put me in a wonderful condition ia a couple of weeks, so I can keep ea workinc, I woriTfe a department have tp stand on my feet all day and I do net have any mcce_paine. 1 rarely reoommena your Vegetable Compound to*11 myide&&aad yos may these faeta aa testimon ial/'—BE*THA J. Pausa, OBO St. Saciamento, Calif. 5 f,