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The Clinton News Record, 1920-1-1, Page 7ct. 1 .0* ei • The Game of Nations saeseti By DONNA SliEll,WOOD BOGERT, aeeeaeeareeeae,=e==i=eeeeoeeaoee,ose'reae'eee.,ya''"""''aaaa,ee-a,eeeeeaareeea-eee= „ OHAPTER 4rel), now, Toeing 'the MIT -five cent "1110eti a step en' I cimalcs yerl" Pllaneet she-trtse".°t 4591.7' ated, Tremanion , Her that:items oeW elomeneY to ere- rePelaetabece anti AO the deor belxincl Min and leisurely vanion's sister. abe had been eming helped his:111'01f to a seat npon Miss Miss Iteorotileeei,,often since that first Herforda bed, the mumle of the wave motor ride but had Saidnothing of the ering pistol elmost grazing his temple, lose of her pefeithrl. Now he reflect- • -"Go ahead," he said coolly, "I tried ed Uneasily that the could nee keep to do it myeelf but feand I hadn't; the the eecret muchlonger, Hor increase nerve awl I don' believe you thave eig shabbiness v.eas a sign that a more either. What's the inatter, bey? WorlellY woman would have noticed Starving, eh?" Trevanion's woe long ago, , coed be veaY gettle• A tineid rap upon her bedroom door • The lad's arm dropped and he began startled her, an she wondered, a tit to sob th soch an abandote-oef misery breathlessly, if the landlady had de., m would haveanoved a stone te pity. cleled to aemand her following week's "Gaved—ain't I jest! Three days rent tre' advance, with nary a bite—and thet devil, Bev. "Mies Tovaniont" erly, aschasin'—chesin'--" Miss Dorothea enteeed with • a res "So you killed old, man Schneideia proachful look in hes, masheaseut, blue eh?" His tone was quietly conveem- eYea- hero this time is "a well known civic Coned, "My dear child—and you never told wag," In treveling pose he Was Obliged "He were a cur," snarled. the boy 1nel I called at the ono to see You viciously. "He were—" ' The sound and found you had not been employed to, atop at 4 village to replace e shoe of voices in the lower rooms stopped there for some time. I do hope you Which his horse had lost, when the him. Fmotaeos were ascending the have another position, I shouldut Paul Pry of the Mao bustleci up to stairs. Trevamon glanced once at the like to SA0 you want for Anything." the carriage window. bog's strickengface and his resolution "No?" queried Peggy. Her laugh- "Good morning, sir! florae Oast a ter load returned with Mies Dorothea'0 was taken. shoe, I see, I somtese you ere going "Get under the bed," he commands arrivaa ariti she dimpled adorably e ed. "I'll save you if I can." under the older woman's gaze. My dear Miss Dorothea, I Here he Paused, expecting the name The bed NVEta long and narrow. From "Want? want simply—everything: emcee, a the »lace to be euppiled, but the the doorway the lad cold easily be seen. Trevanion dragged his trunk boots," checking the items off on her gentleman answered: before the bed; seated himself at the slim fingers., "gowns, het, hosiery, my "You are quite right. 1 generally go foot and pulled off his coat which he there at this season." next weeke meal tioket---" "Gracious!" It was es very strong "Aye—chant—do you? And, no allowed to dangle carelessly down be - expression for Miss Dorothea and doubt, you ere now come from—" tween his knees. When Herford was drawn from her by the thoughts that Basil's future wife had perhape "Right again, sir. I live there," entered he was greeted with a weary nod, ; been in absolute need. "Gray:nous! "Resting a bit before unoacking don't- know what Basil will say to Pin all in, Herford, 'and that's a fact. My nerves are in a rotten state. If it mat" "lease!? 'You are very flattering, wasn't for seeming a mollycoddle, I'd Miss Trevanion, but why should your Be -tempted to go to bed. I've been brother have anything to say on the putting in any number of wretched subject?" nights lately." "I don't know what he will say to "Go ahead," exclaimed the other me for not taking batter care of you! man heartily. "You do look seedy, Perhems I had best not tell him. I but this is just the climate to brace a don't want him to worry. • I had a body up. 'Want anything?" letter from him te-day and it 'sounded "Thanks, no. I've taken enough of so despondent. He is all I have, you your time as it is. And—Heeford—on the way from Calgary you mentioned knew.' "I am sorry.- I hadn't heard. Jim, being willing to take a etar boarder. I'd like -to apply for the job. Terms you know, very seldom yrites," amething You ohoose to name. I mean "Sometimes," continued Trevanion's to take your advice and look around sister, edging her complaining rocker • nearer the bed on 'which Peggy was a bit" seated, "sometimes I fear that all is not well with him—that he is keeping something from me!" Her lips quiv- ered. "I wish I could go up there. want to me hem. I want to he near Basil. I'm sure that he needs me; he didn't even take Wilkes—his man —along." Mise Dorothea's plaint touched a responsive eluml ir. Peggy's heart. "Why don't you go to see him?" she .asked. "There is nothing an earth to prevent you. And he probably does get lonely; the ranch isn't a very ex- citing place." "If I .only could! But it's so far away—and I'm not mod to traveling; it confuses me dreudfrilly, the chang- ing and time -tables and all that." "I came down alone tWO years ago and bad no tiouble whatever." "But you are se capable. I get nervous. I'm always afraid of some- body snatching my purse--" She paused and a peculiar eapression crept slowly over her downcast features. Then she sat bolt upright and a otch of color glowed in each - withered cheek. "I have an idea!" she exclaimed." a e -et eemee,:eaegosam....),,,,,eamesseeseeeseageetereleeleemenereeseergeereggraeresegresovree emseetiveareggraosseasoMer A Joke of Three Moos There are only a NW erIelnal joleas "Oh, aye; I Oa! ,You 401 But 2 M the World; donee say there are but perceive it le a bond= shay. fiX there three, While Mere liberal authorittee anything lettering In London?" allow seven But eyeey 'dory het: ite "Oh, yeti; plenty of other elialeee Yerleets, hie to the part a the world elm earriages oe all eorts,,' inalehleilionhulet 4lse toll, ueleure, peeeinp,t0 1:0;14'Aoyeee,y ye, of coUreel BM wimt do lime@ through Lyons wog, 4.110101. 7. 4".rheY SSY their Prayers every Sang the hishop of tbSet PlItge With n loud alma "111! Hil" The duke stopped. , 0frIxat 100 Whe4.11119411. X wanato "Wilma have Yen collie frem?" col the prelate, 1 ask- know whetbee there ie aueallieg nelv and freeh," "Prom Pole." "Yee; area(' and herrings,4 , "What is there Pooh M Paris?" , "Al, you we e owe eelleav, "Green. peas," 'But What were the peseple onying lui5ter' may I a5k "115 name?" • - "Foie an* elevens'', mid the gentle - when yon loft?" "Vespers," man, "Mal Me Plate: l'Alt X am in "Goodness, man: Who are y. ou? planes, reality 0ard mar ti1141-1°ZieofBitkriesItt°e: What's your name?" • "Ignorant people dell me '111! Hia kax K°11x1" - Gentlemen call me the DO de Roque- Some these in the later nineteenth This is how the storY alieetire in igcnerniatiteuwdryeallieldilsmAspIntaeperYerirc:aalitleeaaredas trisonnstoMwoo: Imre," French. Horace Smith, In his n Trumpet," gives an English form "Jilts ilnlog,,,Strangeree You -appear to be , traTeel "We're always glad ate new feu or O new interest," raturried his compan- ion seriously. You're welcome to stay • as long as you like." • Daring the short winter afternoon, Trevanion lay quietly upon Peggy Herford's bed. When night fell, one of the cowboys aripeared With a tray of steaming food. Trevanion, who had counted on this provision for his eomfort locked the door upon the man's exit and lighted a candle. He then set the tray on the floor ;beside the bed • and watched the clawlike fingers snatch the food. It was cer- tainly a queer situation. The clock' struck eleven before tie ventured to let the boy stir from -his place of concealment. A waxen suit of clothes, a sweater, fresh socks and a pair of heavy shoes were spread out upon the trunk. "Get into them—quick!" whispered Trevanion. "They'll be miles too big, but they're warm." The lad lost no -tame in complying. A trace of cOlor glowed in his sunken cheeks. "Yer a brick," .he assured Trevanion again and again "Perhaps Beverly perfectly wonderful idea! atm have won't get me, after all. They's a no reason just new—thereds nothing platel know of—" he paused, tongue on earth," repeating the girl's own disclosed too much. "Let me out by in his cheek, as thogli fearfuI he had words, to prerent. you—why not let the window," he said hurriedly. el me take you with me? I sbould not ,feel at all uneasy if you were with some in thet way—up those curly inc." "Just a moment," veturned Trevan- ion curtly. He jerked the boy toward him, forcing his reluetant gaze. "It's up to you to tell me why you killed Schneider. I don't m,ake a practice, you know, of thieddirsg criminals." For a long minute the boy' hesitated, then thrust a hand'enside his shirt and pulled out a folded paper. "That's the reason!" he said des- perately, "that! and 'cause he hael me oornered lace a rat in o trap. He'd killed nie to keep thet paper. So I flied 'im first: He hadn't no right to t—" Trevanion carried the paper ovm tegthe bureau and spread it out be- neath the light. It was a carefully drawn map of a potion of thickly wooded comney between two rivers whose names he had never heard, but located) apparently, Somewhere among the foothills of the Canaderm Rockies. Nome of some secret hidden in those sloping forests a man's life had been taken. A swirl of icy air struck through the TOOM. He turned swiftly—the window was open and the boy nowhere in sight. CHAPTER VII. .Peggy Herford, anxiously biting the end of a etubby lead pencil, sur- veyed with knitted brows) a row of fig•ures on a slip of paper: June 10—Cash on hand 730 Board Board and lodging 6,00 Carfare .50 Sundries .25 June 17—Balance $ .55 Fifty-five cents is a trifling sum to stand between me and hunger, and— her had was paid only until the followingday! • Oa course, elm could' always wire Jim, but Peggy was proud and deeply resented the :tact that he had let her go so easily. Now, looking backward, Peggy Was a little ashamed of that display of temper, After all, Dave had only hiseed her! But something in the al- most beutiel•clasp of his arms bad g.oaded her to a w'hiteelsot frenzy. She had aftWays known that he was in love , with her; in a half-hearbed fashion she ad oven encouraged his attentions, t smiles and the, gracious tooth of Iter hand were the .only favors she hodleelernitted until Dave had proceed- ed to ride roligh shed over her ro- sorves Witl,c litfle oigh, Peggy Madded the itemized slip. How hard, how dreuelfraly 'hard it eves to find work! She thrust ont a habby littlo foot, fioting with o pang the shoe's sun- down cencliton; de held eue rounded, young arntg to inspeet the intricate dame on her elooves. . For a while luck bad heti with her, 'She had even secured the position of which she heti spoken 14 Mies Dmoe thea but her employer, a man of un- !shod of Sulphur. , bridled lemPer, Wee went to veld Ilia e leen men arty of his office force Mimeo i en island in Now 'Zealand nearly three miles in circeofference that le tamest entirely mooed of eulpher, mixed nit h gYesurn end itfen eeher minerale. Peggy almost turned faint. Foe Trevanion with the nightmare of Miss Dorothea' s belief in their mutual pas- sion weighing down hetconscience— the belief -which she had not troubled herself to refute? Never! "M.; dear Mess Trevanion, the pres- ent Mete of my finances wouldn't carry me to the need town and too sensible a business woman to coy for A oacaoionannder those conditione." "But I would take you," Mies Dor- othea pleaded, "and Pit pay you will- ingly—gladly—for yor services as companion, Miss Herford, you won't, you can't refuse -me?" The lonely litilo soul mopped her dyes with path- etic self-pity. Gould she? After all, what a won- derful opportunity this was. If she declined, -what was left for her when the little pose was squeezed dry? Searcely know what to say," she faltered. "Itis veryleind of you, Mies Trevanion. To tell -the truth, I have been wondering how I was going tmenana,ge. Positions seem very hard, to get just now." Miss Dorothea left the plaintive rocker and eagerly seated herself be- side the girl. There was a subtle that in her usually colorless voice. "When thole we start? Oh, let it be just as soon as possible! Peggy! I can scarcely wait for the first glimpse of my Mother's face!" So ethe wen her base and Inserted away to get ready. "The day after to -morrow," she re- peated happily. "You must wire your brother but be sore be •does net tell : 'Sure," ec'hoed 'Peggy, closing the door and lietening in dazed astonish- ment to Miss .Dorothea's footsteps descending the etailei. Then she walk- door as a beverage than he enters the edover to her clingy dresser and front .door in triumph as a fuel." deliberately emptied the contents of Tmnoreant beglimidge in this dIree at the mangey rethit , har purse into a small teay, sighing tion - have already been madeBe- "Beggars cannot be ch•oosers," she Detrimental alcohol engines have bean whispered to hmeelf, "But—I wonder built, and have proved highly eatisfee- what he will say when he sees me?" torete Automobiles can he rumbyealeo- (To, be con tano ed) hol perfectly welloveth flight math- catione a their mat:Cory, 'ritch Shipping Loos. Alcohol iFt au Ideal fuel. tis cam - Lord Inclicepe, at a recant meeting hnstion-is perfece, msd it is, therefore oe the Peninsular a.nd Ovimetal Mom- emoleeless. In burning, itresolves ship Co.'s stOoltheldeee, recoiled that eel! itto water ascii carbonte, acid, ex, 7,000000 tocz et Beam wale aetly as it doee when themically on - mem wss 0t,ok by tas enemy in the slimed in the human body, sem • af mteoar Lot 7 of .:1,900,000 tons, Kays is Louden deopatch, 'But this," he saki; 'has net affect, d6 the determination' of British ship- owners to maintain their position, nor has it brolten the seagehig spirit of the British race, (Men faie play And freedom tromgovernment interfer- ence atul control, tale leritish':nowcans tile merino will comemmt on top NO RELIEF FROM PRESENT HC. L. "Yes; I seleveye 'Cravels when 1 am on a journey," "I think I have sem you some - Where," "Very likely, I hare often been there." aleglitna your name be Sinith?" "Well, it might it it Warin't 'some- thing "Have you been long Mthese parts?". "Never louger than atspresent—ftve feet Mee." "Do you calculate to remain here some time?" "Well, I guess I'll stay here oath am ready to leave." NO PRICE DROP IN SIGHT, SAYS BRITISH EXPERT. Normal Production is First Necessary Before Balance Can be Reached. The world can expect no relief from the high cost of living and the slime - age of commodities until the wide- spread social and industrial unrest has disappeared and theowar seatter- ed economic machineryhas been put in order, according to Charles A. Mc- Curdy, parliamentery secretary to the Islinistry of Food, says a London des- patch. Mr. MeCurdy expressed this view daring an interview with a coa respondent of Tee AssociatePress, and added that he was not particular- ly optimistic over elle chances of any marked betterment, of the situation in the near future. ' "We have Bolshevism at one end of the world and widespread strikes at the other," said Mr. McCurdy, "and not until society resuin0 its normal course can we right economic condi- tions. "It is difficult to prophesy regarding the food situation of the future, In view of the fact that the vhole mono. nlic structure of tho world has bon so badly dislocated. There is hardly any factor of bus:ness that is stable, mid we do not Imow what wages are to be. As 'a remit of these conaitions the regular chanuels of distribation are dianganized, and until they are normal it will be impossible to tell what effectieie supplies there are as compared with the world stocks. "While it is true that Americe, Great Britain and smile other coun- tries are sufficiently supplied 11.01'! SO thatItilere is 110 distress alining the people, yet this comparative abun- dance is in reality a fictitious one, and may not last. Great sections of the world age actuelly Iningry bemuse of the impossibility of distributing sup - Plies properly. If tile channels of dis- tribution were open and the °coolie conditione Were soli that foodstuffs ould be purchased by those countries which need them we probably would find ourselves faced with a shortage in a, many things. am wiling in WY outlook and that there will be no shortage, but 1 can figure it no other way, There 'certainly are, Many countries now which are secur- ing far below what they need in the way of foodstuffs, encl when the time COMM for them 60 buy it will be -fm- poseible to refuse them their fair .share of whet the woad produces. We cannot let bus part of the world starve wlille another section has plenty, Must Return to Normal. "There is another factor to be con- sidered 'also. Where 'production has been sthindated &mite, the war it must ultimately revert to normal. It Is not natural as it stands. In the United States, for instance, the meat production has been 'artlficlelly stimm latedaand it is -hard to estimate when this temporary median will vanish. America next year may Ise an importer of meat instead of a hig exporter. -See what that would mean to the rest. Of the world. "On the other 'hand, produetion has been crippled in many countaies. In this case the process of getting back to normal is likely to he slower than in the case of the war -stimulated pro- duction. "In Europe as a whole' there is an aetual shortege of 11 per cent. in she,ep and a larger 'shortage in pigs. Be- cause of tliis, Europe would have to import 3,600,000 tons of meat this coin- ing -year, it it were to return to its 'ne- wel censemption. . . "In regard to whet7t, the exportable surplus of the world is ,down com- pared with that before the war. La - port requirements et the same time are up. The same Ong is true of butter and in some countries its consumption has been increased by the lack of mar- garine. There le oleo a sugar short- age. The beet sugar production has dropped off 4,200,000 tons. in Europe since 1914. The cane sugar prodoc- tion of the world meantime has in- creased only 1,800,000 tons. "In discussing prices, we must con- sider the meaning of the phenomenon In North America, .where there is no Mod shortage, but an exportable 0111. - plus. ,,The food supply is above nor- mal, and yet the prices have adoanced almost propoitiontitely with selie in- crease in Great Britajo, which is large- ly an importing country. This curious situation makes me realize that in estinuaIng food prices the ecOnomic effects peculiar to foodstuffs are not the 'determinating factor, but mono - into conditions .ns iawhole. • "There moms to he a tendency in "For example, if thelieoples of Con- many ocuntries to expend war wages trite Europe should be in a position and profits on consumption of goods— sleet year to purchase the meat they food, cicthing, etc., • to a greater ex - need there would be a world shortage tent than on the 'purchase or raw ma - of several million tons, It is hoprob- teriale • for the etteesion of industry, able that they will be able to buy, but It may be partly due to this consump- it is impossible to predict so far in tion • that goods on the whole have 'advance, I believe that a year from such an upward treod slime the armis- now things will have been brought Co tice.'f, • `, e head, and that the world will be fac- ing its most critical time. He who blackens others does: net ing three years, the total number of "There are those who tell me that I whitenhimself. .. • cases minted as contracted in Eng- . MALARIA AFTER- MATH OF WAR SOLDIERS BRING DISEASE. HOME But Malady is An Arno- 13orn One end Will Soon" Disappear. Two 'very interesting Euglisb via ernment repeets Ismael beg the Local Government Board oes' the eablect oe malaria haste Met arrived in ehie coun- try, mid furnish a fund of information which‘oot Oily 10 of ecientille value in 'hewing the lium of distribution usually followed by thio disease in ite traVels, but aleo indtcates unneifitato ablY that thieealstribution leas eollow- ed in the wake of armies, thereby up - heading its emartation as ea army born 616eItafshea.ppeloe le tete particulees, In- taicca that triglatia hap been rela- tieelY free from malaria for many de- cadee until 1916, many goons pass- ing without a 'angle case being report- ed throughout the country. The re. turn of soldiers Yeah Eastern lands waere fighting was in progress reim- poeted it, and during the last summer several hundred cases were tabulated, each onehaving received the infee- tirindotl. trioremayretur,ned soldier, directlY o Tiee Lincolnehire Fens and parts of Kent were known to ‚be infested and assuniably there had been a certain immunity established among' the noe tives, as a feu man is exhorted not to take a wife "out -foreign" because she was sure to die of ague; the speaker, a Fen man (and a fietitious character) having had thls ill luck three times. In some sections, as in Kent, south of the lower Thames, ma- laria was prevalent up to 1809-1870 at intervals. From this time until the be- ginning of the great war England was coMparatively or entirely free from it. The curious fact whpli has been un- noted in any other portion of the world is that foe decades, at intervals only, England has been free from. it. There were large importations of in- fected men in 1857, 1858 and 1859 from the Crimea. These summers at the same time were exceptionally hot and moist, favorable to rapid propagation of the mosquito. The result was that malaria existed in regular epidemic EOM. Has a Tendency to Die Out. -But the remarkable fact about all theme incursions of malarial patients is that in the absence MI impdrtation on a large scale malaria has a distinct tendency to die out in England and that,this occurs in spite ot the fact that the anopheles mosquito in parts is very prevalent, How cau this be acocobivnisoteticsliyfort?he factors necessary for the conveyance of malaria are:—(1) Men infective to tho anopheles moss gnitoes, (2) Active enoplieles of suf- ficient numbers to serve as vectors, (3) Hemperature, gettable for the full development of the parasite in the gastro-intestinal tract of the mos- quito, (4) Men accessible to the in- fective mosquitoes. The unknown "inn factor" (in ma cation to anopheles and infected men) predicated as necessary for the con- veyance of malaria and which is ap- parently absent in England, may leave been in many cases a temperature for much of Um time so low that the full development of the parasite in the mosquito took place either not at all or so slowly its to materially reduce the efficiency of the insect as a vac - tor. In 1916, 1917 and 1918 a large nein': ber of men suffering from malaria were brought to England from the Bal- kans, Gallipoli, Palestine and Egypt. In a report made by Ross in March, 1918, 2,460 cases were reported as un- dergoing during the previous tyear a specially devised therepy to prevent relapses. A conservative estimate would be that from 20,000 to 30,000 men infected with malaria were brought back to England in 1916 and 1917— .They were scattered through- out the island, in the villages and cities without special effort to segre- gate them. After the epidemic started twenty-nine t6ci of infection were es- tablished, all cases being or the ter- tain Ev113.electty.D isease a:, Disappear. Then the curious fact stands out. 'With the importation of not loss than 20,000 mon infected with malaria dur- Akuh4i1 May Be Fi of t. The fuel of the Ifuture mems 1111017 to be alcohol. And the very near future at that. As Prof, Alexander Graham, Bon said the other: day, "No soonee .has King Alcohol gone out of the back happened to be, handy, Peggy, as StenegnalSber, WaS always handy; wed OM day., infuriated ^i9ith• hie tinjuSt oritieiste, the aoneed hat ani coat gestilete land in two years wag only 326, some of which were contracted frm opre- \ *ire • sa, existing eindigenous) intectioe. The Englith • medial antholts have oriels right at hand, "Sr can at least therefore concluded that the Mo. be manufactured somewhere not very lgtcalconditions of the insect host are such that malaria, once prevaleut, far away., At every port it •will be spontaneously dimppears, that while stored in huge tanks, and OM arriving ship, wanting fuel, will need only a the introduction of the carriers, . no oleo onnection to matter in what number, may cause an cup, outbreak of malarleathis outbreak will Alcohol will go steadily down price ' as methods of making it are improved, be temperate, only and malaria will decrease and spontaneonsly disappear Already it is sold In Cuba at eight if thee conditions of tee insect host cents a gallon, en -tropical countries it can be promote with special cheap- vermin the mines,. In other words, Hugh al has little ness because or their luxuriant yoga - to fear from chronic mularia Gym if tatiin. Anythieg of a vegetable nature so many carriers were brought in as eau bo madato yield aleohol. an War, • In out own country alcohol will be. aftermeth of the come one of Cos most important farm precincts. A Sail with a capacity of To Chase Hurricanes huoureas ot gallohe a day can be built for e500, thcf apparatus being so simple : • by Boat. Weather reporting is generally re- thsit alcohol eF111 bo turned out as gardee as the mildest of occupations, easily ae cider from a clam press, but it will become ate ot the most ad- venturesome end romantic: if Ole idea of a 'Weather Doreen Official is put Lo effect. Tbe plan calls for a nunilme of swift, staunch vessels to puma tropteal Moos thrototh Atlantic and Mexican Clelf waters tend eenort tlfaie by wireines foa the enact...Olen or the ctilet7, These 55011115 freqUe0tly cen- ter far out' at ten, Without affecting land barometers until it 10 40 late, Lots of men fail at a job, not be- eame they -can't do it, bat beense Oak *met it is Maier and cheapee to pick out loafing teem laying hoe then it is to pay their beeret With the present high prices or tett Before long all our, warships will be One soh plant will centime all the delvtei by alcohol, which will take the farm waste within radlus' of a couple place of fuel oil, itiet as the latter hes of miles— Cornstalks 'and corncobs, replaced math Already experhnentat Most -bitten potatoes, rotten apples, alcohol engines limo been construct- etc. 00 May even betolletall the neigh- ed for naval vessels, borhood weave taWS wile reCairs 16 iii equally cmtnin that all moo- theadmixture of a eortain percentage aloud steamships will be propelled hp et a "denaturing" agent, micelle!. The convenience thee eo be Professor Boll says: "'the worlds gained is obvionsi as weft as the annual cosmetic:el of coal and oil is economy, Fax gavel ena commercial Me, fuel station are scattered all over the world. Their applies of coal or oil mre retailed neatly from great distancoo, and at such expense thet tee prices charged aro extremely high. HoW different a will be wben alto, hol Wei 1110 piene ef 011 mil coat le can be made en the epote from rew ma - -a_ es ea. so enormous that \vci are now with measurable disteuce of the end of the supply," As for its utiltmition ter power, it is 'limply Is nuatoe of affitably modifying maohinelee, Oil WM stenally advance in pace, as Well as eottl, and :Nis in- evitably must son arrive the dawn - Ins of tbe ago eideehol, ."10444.41W00/2/V.4144.1 9 COCCl/10 ttilvtammto-' Blouses tor Nothing. aVernen Me frequently baxed with Doing hopelessly extravagant mat - ten oil drese, but I think miny mer: ore equally ettipable; and my brother Jiro. is One oe them I weedily Admit Shat hie 'tante In ties and make and shirts is perteet, and it is se long time slime I gave up buying anything, even in the way of a presentfoi; libn, 1)0- 501180 110 00 difficult to please. There ene thing whichel have atm envied ham and that Is the dainty colorings :and sat material of his shirts, "%Tale" he eemaeked the other 'morning at breakfast, "these celored shirts of mine meet have eimuna 111 the washing, ler I have put on •fleth evaaet I've boo, in the Army, for I tried to put on three this morning an* failed. You had better bestow them on one of your many proteges, or give then( aWey to the rag -man," "It does seem a pity to waste them, they are So pretty/' I eplied. "Why not make blouses out of them?" he eynietilly sugiasted, know- iag my weakness for a big Mock ,of that form of garment. "Goad idea, Mother mine," said I. "It is the Most sensible thing you have Said for a long time," No sow had he left the house, than 1 went upstairs to his noir) where •h,e had left the shirts lying ib., a heap on the,, &or. One was a pale rose color, the other an azure bid, mid the third a faint, fanciful stripe in blues and green, my favorite shades. I unpicked the neckband the sleeves and the side seams, and, wital the aid of a good shirt pattern, experienced oo difficulty in cutting the blouse out. The fronts were .a fen width, but a few pie -tucks put that right; the box - pleat, the buttons, and the buttonholes answered the same purpose as origin- ally; the back, with its saddle, require ad to be cut rather smolleo, and so had the sleeves. I quickly ran up the some on the machine, fitted: the shirt on, and made a law trifling alterations. The original •ctifts and the pearl but- tons were requisitioned, and saved all but the work of stitching them on. A cutting of the material was utilized for the collar, whica. fastened at the back; another scrap served for the slot at the back for the drawstring, and my blouse, of which rwas very proud, looked 'quite ,smart. I fell heir to las under-veste for the same reasons and, elated by the so- ceeseof ray former experiment, 1 be- thought me of turning them to account for winter slip -bodices. They were little the worse for wear, and were made of fine white flannel. I unpicked an old bodice which fitted well, also the flannels, and cut the different parts quite easily. Few men wear white shirts nowa- days, and there were a dozen or more toking space up in my brother's ward - abbe, and Jim's euggestion of blouses occurred again. Wha not make my- self a few neev ones, and trim them differently and accoeding to fashion and fancy? I had a well -fitting pat- tern by me, and it was the sbnplest thing in the world to cutethe garment out from the body, and the sleeves only required reducing. I applied a sprawly design of marguerites to the 'front, for I had cut et with a back fastening, and I worked the pattern in evbite,, with a touch of yellow silk for the centres. I tucked the cuffs and an uncommon blouse was the re- mit. The idea, in my estimation, was too good to keep to myseef, tio I confided it to my cousin, who eonfessed that elle had made some time before several dainty camisoles from old white shirts, also two lovely little ararons, which find favor with careful housewives when they are wearing a nice frock and must undertake a little work. She trimmed them, either with a tiny frill of the linen or else with lace. A married friend of hers used her husband's shirts for babies' drosses and pinafores, and also for pillow - , thould be lined with astbeetoe or the when e kerosene lames is mei ter Imat Ing ttIO begt7 If an electric light is Mesa the Ilninewill not be mammary. A sixteen candlespewer light will heat, the box nleely. ,A, smell and ineopone. sive night lamp is pieced in the beta tom of the box, and a 'shallow .ean of: water its placed on the lower shelf so that tbe air ist the box will be kept' ni Met. The door is hinged and fastened with a thumb latch or hook and staple, Nuts in' the Children's Diet. Co/seeming nuts as 00d, aoctorrie disagree, Vegetarians rate them very' Iiigh—too high, some physicians think.1 Intereeting' experietwes with' outs ,as, food for children were reported at a gtetimeriwy in g by Dr. Scott aN Note tontain. wAter, peotein, fat, sugar, starch, crude fibre and eels in large preportions. Each kind of nut, has its parelcular value. Dry nuts are; very high in nutritive value and cona thin More fat thanauy vegdphle sub-, staoce known. In nutritive aelue, aid, nut butters are far above ordin- ary cream butter. Dr. Scat has given nuts to children as a sulestitute for meat because of the nutritive aisle° ia intestinal fermentation. - The discomfort of eating nuts is due -to faulty modification and to the er- roneous habit of giving them to chile dren After a hearty meal, betweeo meals, or late at night, whcrees they shouldaform an integral part of the meal, Probably nut protein is not 00 easily digested as meat protein on am count of the water content of three, to five per cent. in meats. It is there-. 2ore, fair to assume that the finer nuts wen divided, chopped and mashed' the more rapid would he theigaigesti- Unity. Salt does not make nub food more digestible. Mothers should undere stand the food value of nuts better, giving a variety of mite to suit the individual child, but it must be under- stood that they are given RS an acklb tion to the diet. Spooge Box or Bread Raiser. In making bread in cold weather the houeelseeper often finds it difficult to hold her sponge or dough at the right "Lost Provinces" of France Express Loyalty. Another chapter in the stirring his tory of Alsace Reid Lorraine was writ ten in the French Chamber of Depu- ties recently, when an Alsatian De - poly, speaking in the llama 01!hls twenty-three colleagues, solemnly re- affirmed the deckiration of Mr. Gam- betta in the Chamber on March I,' 1871, to remain loyal to the mothers land. When Mr. Gambette. made this declaration, Germany had Just torn Alsace ana Lorraine_ from France. Therefore, the long tragedy of the. se- paration has ended, and there was joy In the heart of every Frenthmen when the Deputies from Alsace and Lorraine took their seats. Many residents of the provincee came all the way to Paris to attend the session. Among the Alsatians was Abbe Wee- terie, who was the principal speaker. He declared that the people of the., "lost provinces" had Oval Inc more than forty years with the vision or that day ahead of them. "It none of you, gentlemen, have never before seen a perfectly happy man, you see one now," he Said. "For foi•ty-eight years my countrymen and I endured all, in the knowledge that we would live this moment, "You'know, gentlemen, that nettling else matters, now that we again aro free. You, who cannot realize the intense brutality of our Gernmn mas- ters; cannot realize the intense joy we reel at this moment. We had firm faith in the destiny of France; our faith has beau justilled. Oar people in Alsace and Lorraine feel glad that we are to contribute to the prosperity and well being of our mother France. We are resolved -to work for her and, we feel quite confident that whatever happens, the world will come to under- stand that not only has France found Alsace and Lorraine provinces of great material richness, for we are imbued with a full consciousness of duty, and above all things with a patri, otic reeling, openly affirmed under the most odious conditions tor over forty years." temperature so that et Will rise in the required length of time. She will Aerial Freight Line for find a sponge box or bread raisat a Mexico. great help 1r2 keeping the proper Down In Sinaloa, Mexico, it is pro-% teinperature. Such a box‘tan be made from an ordinary clry goods packing box, A convenient size is 20x20x20 inches. About ten, inches from the bottom of the box, a shelf mini° of slats co• stoips of wood rests on cleats faetened to the eides of the box. A second slielf is placed four :inches above the lower one. •The shelves cati be removed when cleaning the box. On the under side of the lower shelf, a sheet of gal- vanized Men slightly wider than the shelf is ineerted. This piece of metal is curved, in order_ to make it elin in fold stay it place ocurely. This pre- vents ,scoeching eof the Jower shelf When the lamp ie placed below, and also .helps to distribute the heat more evenly. Several small boles, are bored in the lower ,and upper parte of the sides and hi the tem of the boa to peemote eirculation of air. A cork whith has been bored 'through the centre to ad- mit a straight therinoineter is inserted in one tqathe holes its the top. Any Fahrenheit chemical th-emorneter that registere es high as mie Iranclamcl cle- greee on be used. Such a therm, - meter may be puechas.ed from ahnost any hardware dealer. The temperature of the pox should be kepi, no neer eighty -eh: clog•ives as possible if bread in being made in the quick way, aloweveer, if the sponge a ...50 of establishing lanalime and hare is set over:Mete, &iffy -five' to smote, gars ere scarce degree's 15 i•lie better ternoseature un- 1 til tan dough is'inede in the morning, Once lei Awhile, attar whieli the temperiame may be "The great question noW 170200e 0L7," i77i.rear7.ed to sighty-six dented. The begin, the new .Logiallitur. teiliperatm.e in the bole may .1:0 varied, ''''Weerti got more quotient ta howl by raising et lowering the flame of thelevilla er by using warm cti water in the shallow pan. llesed by a British company to use aeroplanes In tile transpertation of mining supplees end ores. The airman would be used to carry ineehlnery and supplies to the numerous gold and silver millet in tbe State of Stolen and to return with for the man ket. The particular idea le now, al- though flying machines already 'have been.adepted for certain forms of eona mereial usage. Inquiries already have, been made to the British Vice Consul at Mazer: Ian, as to the ferteibility of the elan, Soh. an air servicle would aortae be- tween the mines and the railway eta. Pons, and Mazatlanm woutd be ade the distributing point for interainery and supplies and the concentration point for local mining products destined for shipmeiet to the United States 1or gal and watee, Tho planes could not be expected to carry but a feet tons web, Nearly all ot the mines aro looted in the mountains from thirty to more than oao Minaret neel arty from Mazathre Rod due to the ebeence 01 roads the mining 007111)0151P.k.pert• enee meth difile.ulty transportation, A problem to lie considered is the lo- cating and putting horr a e delanding fields for the air01.011, 11(11111:le ahnost all of the Mines are situated 'in rough, hilly or mo otelnous country where level sots lerge enough for the 11U1" Mat now than We really need." Intel.- rapteldne rof tits hearere, "Came around with an answer once in To .aeold•411 danger Of arc, the best awhile.