Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 294, 25 September 1919 — Page 13

PAGE THIRTEEN WHAT ARE BIGGEST THINGS IN WORLD? MOUNTAINS, TREES? HERE ARE A FEW John Hay, Many-Sidled Man, Was Statesman; Author, American SIX THOUSAND STEEL WORKERS HEAR LEADER AT GARY

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, SEPT. 25, 1919.

New York Sun , The recent greatest -war the world has ever experienced, both In numbers engaged and intensity, as well as the billions raised to. JSnance it, have accustomed us to thinking in terms of big things. However, although the largest guns, the largest loans and the largest of everything obtainable were used in the prosecution of the great war, many of the largest things in the world are employed in typifying peace, industry and natural greatness. For instance, Greater London, with its 7,500,000 pre-war population, heretofore has been considered the largest city in the world, but since the war Greater New York is claiming this honor. This is easily explained by the fact that while London has lost much population on account of the

war. New York has gained almost in credibly, as so many of the returning soldiers remain here instead of returning to their old homes. If you don't believe this Just go out and try to rent a room or an apartment. 'Ihe Woolworth building is the largest and tallest office building known. It is fifty-five stories high and from the curb to the top of the tower measures 792 feet. Magellan gave the Pacific ocean its name from experiencing calm weather on its surface after having survived the stormy waters around Cape Horn. It is more than 10,000 miles wide, with an area of 70,000,000 square miles, which is greater than the entire land Furface of the globe. The greatest , depth known is 31.614 feet, found just fast of the island of Guam. It is almost three times as large as the Atlantic. .Largest and Longest Rivers. While the Mississippi, including the Missouri, is the longest river, the Amezon, which traverses Brazil, is the largest. It is 150 miles wide at its mouth and each minute discharges 'into the ocean a volume of water equal to eighty acres fifty feet deep, and nowhere in the last 750 miles of 'its course is the main channel less than 180 feet in depth. As is generally accepted, the Statue of Liberty, 151 foot from the top of the pedes! al to the tip of the torch, is the largest statue in the world, but if the; remarkable statue of Buddha, itar Yokohama. Japan, were standing. :

V. would be taller. In its sitting po-.rarth; Sahara, largest desert, with sition it is taller than a four-story 3,500,000 square miles of desolation: house, the eyes are a yard wide and j Leviathan, larpest ocean vessel; larger told, while the brow wei rs a i est fortune, estimated to be $1,000.crown of jewels. j OOO.OOO, thought to be possessed by Along with the sriants of statuary i Rockefeller, and Victoria Nyanza, in might be mentioned the largest hu- j Africa, largest fresh water lake

r.ian being the world has ever known. Preserved in the museum of Trinity College at Dublin, is a human skeleton right feet six inches tall, the tallest in i existence. The largest diamond that the earth has ever given up from its depths is the famous Culllnan gem. found in the premier mine at Johannesburg. South Africa, in March, 1905. It weighed 3.251 karats, or more than a pound and a half, in the rough, and was valued at $2,500,000. Later it was Fplit in half and cut into two beautiful stones called Cullinan I and Culllnan II. The largest diamond mined at Kimberley is known as the Syndicate and weighed 960 karats in the rough. Clocks of enormous size have been made, but one reputed to have the largest, face is mounted above a factory at Jersey City. Its minute harl is twenty feet long. The great floral clock shown in front of the Agricultural building at the St. Louis world's fair had the largest face of any clock ever known, but, of course, it was not permanent. The World's Biggest Trees The largest trees in the world are J the redwoods of California. The most famous of these, now down, was called "The Father of the Forest," and lifted its mighty bulk 450 feet in the air, while it was 10 feet in diameter at. the ground when standing. However, i here are still many redwood trees Mantling with diameters of 20 or 25 feet, with a ooresponding height of 300 or more feet. Naturally you would think that the largest windmill would be found somewhere in Holland, but prepare for a little surprise. It is in our own country r.ear Seal Rocks, San Francisco, and is used to pump water tor the irrigation of Golden Gate Park. Built in the

Dutch stvle, its round tower is 120 1 feet high and 50 feet in diameter, A member of his congregation was while itr? four giant arms have aiding to condole with Dr. Broughter m-eeri nf tfU feet 1 f(jr "the Joyless existence" he must

Meteorites, those fiery bits of mete ors which sometimes detach themselves and take a shot at the old earth, have been found in very large frag ments. The largest authentically weighed meteorite was brought from Greenland bv Lieut. Pearv. and now stands in the American Museum of Natural History in New York. It weigh 37V tons, and probably! .iel. more ivhen it fell, nsl the natives had been using its metal for arrow tips for centuries before it was discovered and brought to this country. Several years ago a meteorite 13 ieet long, 6 feet wide and 5 feet thick, estimated to weigh forty or fifty tons, was discovered at Bacubirto, Mexico, but the Peary find is actual weight and must be accepted until the , k Inirope. Situated in l'aris, u nas more than 2.CC0.000 volumes and VoS.OOO manuscripts. It is called the National Library. Next in size comes I that of the British Museum, which contains 1.900,000 printed books and 100.000 manuscripts. The library of congress in Washington, had 2,254,000 books in 1914 and it was then increasing at the rate of 125,000 books yearly. The Highest Mountain. Mt. Everett situated in the central Himalayas, is 29,002 feet high, five and:

a half miles. It is thus the largest!1"1". "'J" l" " "imu

and highest mountain in the world and so far no one has ever reached its summit. Many years ago the geographies used to proclaim that Australia was the largest island on the globe; but when the full extent of this great country was known it speedily took the more dignified name of continent, and Greenland thus became the largest island. It has been said that thi3 desolate island contains enough ice to cover the whole United States with an icy blanket one quarter of a mile deep Phirairn'9 stockvards are the larsest on earth, having twenty miles of i streets, the same length of watering troughs, and fifty miles of feeding'

troughs. Twenty thousand cattle. 20,000 shoop. and 120,000 hogs can be accomodated at one time. The entire

equipment and grounds cost over $10,000,000. Mammoth cave is generally conceded to be the largest cave whose exact details are known. It is located In Kentucky, and is nine miles long. Many freaks of nature are found m us cavernous depths, and it contains numerous avenues, domes, lakes, and waterfalls. Echo rives flows inside this remarkable cave for more than three-quarters of a mile and then disappears in the earth. Fish caught in this river are without eyes. The largest mines are near Cracow, in what was Austrian Poland, until the war rearranged the map of Europe. Its galeries extend for miles and to almost unknown depths, not for the minerals of commerce and industry, but for a most important article used on our tables and commonly called salt. A copper mine at North Tamar ack, Michigan, is the deepest mine. It is now more than a mile in depth and still going. Other B'ogest Things on Earth, The American Museum of Natural History in New York City is probably line largest museum devoted exclusively to natural history purposes. The British Museum in London is rated as larger but much of its bulk is centered in manuscripts and printed matter, as a copy of every news paper, book, pamphlet or sheet of mu sic published in the British empire is forwarded to this place. In fact. Its natural history exhibits have been moved to a separate building. Shaw's Garden, located in St. Louis, contains the world's largest collection of botanical specimens. Founded in 1849 by Henry Shaw, there is said to be no country on earth which is not represented by some of its plant life in this botanical paradise. Among many other largest things on earth might be mentioned the Mormon tabernacle at Salt Lake City, accommodating 12,000 persons, the largest church structure; the superdreadnaught Tennesses, the largest battleship, recently launched at Brooklyn navy yard; Niagara falls, largest cataract in volume, though several others are higher; Jupiter, the largest planet, whose bulk is larger than all the other planets put together, and 1,355 times that of the known. Pjtcaim Island LotlAv . . Spot; People Degenerate New York Sun Home is where the heart is, but the heart picks out some most unusual lo cations at times. Rather near, as Pacific ocean distances go, to the Society islands, is Pitcairn island. It is certainly a lonesome spot and as far back as 1856 the British authorities decided that it was no fit place for human habitation. So, the descendants of the mutineers of the "Bounty" who had settled there in 1790 were transferred that year to! the more inviting Norfolk island. Several families, however, were so homesick that they went back to Pitcairn. The population from these few families has now increased until there are about 150 people on the island. Through intermarriage and other evils of isolation these island ers have degenerated and their retropression undoubtedly will end in their extermination. Out at Universal City the other day a child player approached the bewhiskered patriarch of the company and asked timidly "Please, mister, were vou In the Ark?" "Certainly not," replied the astonished old man. "Well, then, why weren't you drowned?" lead as a preacher of the gospel. Dr. Brougher laughed: "Not. everyone thinks that way," he replied. "In fact, I know a little girl v.ho takes quite the contrary view, i Ju.st, she asked her mother: bha.l I invite Lucy to my party? . es, dear, she s the ministers . . . ,Do ministers daughters get Invi,u to a!1 in? tanies 'Yes, my dear " 'Gee, mother, I wish papa was a j minister, 'stead of a miserable sin ncr!" " Rivers had come home and was stumbling over things in the dark hallway. "What are you growling about, dear?" called Mrs. Rivers from the : floor above "I am growling." he answered In j , . - " . ,,, " -- ---, i "'Vi'T . . louro"IllIle Marking of my shins." Officers of George Washington Decorated hy King of Belgium (By Associated Press) ON BOARD THE U. S. S. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Sept. 24. (By wireless) King Albert of Bel-1 States is proceeding uneventfullv, be stowed decorations today upon the ranking naval officers of the steamship which is bringing him across the Atlantic. Rear Admiral Andrew T. Long, who is accting as escort to the royal party, was made a grand officer of the Order of Leopold; Captain Edward McCauley, Jr., commander of the George Washington, an officer of the Order of Leopold, and Commander Fred M. Perkins, executive officer of the George Washington, an officer of the Order of the Crown. The ceremony took place on deck in the presence of Queen Elizabeth and Crown Prince Leopold, together with all the officers of the king's suite.

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Meeting of strikers in East Because of the fact that it has one of the biggest mills of the fj. S. Steel Corporation and is the J.own practically built by Elbert H. ary, head of that organization, 6G0D GRAPE JELLY BEST THERE IS; HERE ARE DIRECTIONS (American Cookery) Grape jelly has always been a sort of "poor relation" among jellies. It has never made good, entirely. It has always had a way of developing crystals when jolly was needed in the springtime, and it was never quite straightforward about turning into jelly. Give it a chance with these new directions, and see what it can do. Any kind of grapes can be used for jelly, but each kind will give its own kind of jelly. Green, that is, unripe, grapes seem more willing to turn into jelly than the very ripe ones, according to the old theory. Different varieties give jellies that vary in color and flavor. This fact opens up fascinating hours for the eager housewife. The new jelly will compare favorably with the finest crab or quince, even when made from fruit so ripe it falls from the stem. Any woman who makes it successfully will find herself unable to fill ciders should she wish to add to her income. Ripe grapes are referred to in the following directions. Take half the grapes in a small grape basket and w-ash carefully by lifting the bunches up and down in cold water. Have icady two granito saucepans and drop the pulps with the escaping juice into one pan and the skins into the other. In each pan place one medium tart or unripe apple, sliced, the juice of onehalf lemon and a half a cup of water. Into the pan containing the skins, put two level tablespoons of ground cinnamon and one of ground cloves. Allow the contents of each pan to simmer slowly until the pulp has softened enough to loosen the seeds and the skins in the other pan are thoroughly soft. Do not cook enough to release more than all the juice, however. Have ready two jelly bags and empty the pulps and juice into one and the skins and juice into the other. Allow to drip without squeezing as otherwise the jelly will not be crystal clear. All the juice will drip if time is allowed. Only Two Glasses at a Time. Never attempt making more than two glasses at one boiling. Jelly, made in small quantites, is much more satisfactory in every way and time is saved in the end. Measure two and a quarter glasses of juice and exactly the same quantity of sugar. Stir well and allow ten minutes from the time boil - ing begins. Avoid furious boiling. The best way to test jelly is to dip a spoon, tip down into the juice. Allow the juice to drip back into the pan." If the hot juice coats the spoon, like molasses, the critical moment is near. When the juice forms in a heavy drop on the tip of the spoon and breaks away sharply the jelly should be removed

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Side park, Gary, Ind. Inset shows one

Gary, Ind., feels that it is the heart of the steel industry. Leaders and workers in the steel workers' strike are watching the progress of the fight at Gary with interest. The

THEliAN'WHO IS STRIKINGT

"Puddler" working up his ball of iron at furnace,

from the Are at once. Practiced jelly makers spy twin drops formed on the edge of the spoon just as the jelly is perfectly made. 'Overcooking takes the jelly past the jellying stage, and nothing will restore that lost property. Take Off Scum. While the jelly is cooking take two tablespoonfuls of the dark juice and add it to tha light-colored juie. This gives a delicate crabapple pink tinge. As soon as the jellying stage has been reached remove the pan from the fire and allow all movement to ctease. If there is a thick scum that needs removing, it should be taken off very carefully before attempting to nil the glasses, if tins scum Dreans s the jelly goes into the glass it will distribute itself throughout the mass and destroy the appearance of the jelly. The light-colored jelly can, be used wherever the choicest jelly would be served and the dark spiced jelly is especially fine with meat or fowl. Jelly, made very late in the autumn from over-ripe grape, should have the juice of an extra half-lemon allowed, and also about a fourth more of grapes and water on account of the added amount of softened cellulose that mixes with the juice and must be removed, at the last, with a consequent loss of more or less juice. Soldiers to Demand Good Roads System New York Times Signs multiply that the returning soldier is to be the strongest of all apostles of good roads. He knows that except for the network of highways leading to Verdun not even the heroic poilu could have kept the Germans from passing. Day and night, as long as the peril lasted, an unending line of motor trucks rolled into the threatened region and back again. On a scale only slightly less impressive, it was always so when there was a "show" on. In the minds of our soldiers, however, the military need of stone road3 seems less important than the commercial need; and always a deep sense seems present of the beauty of the smooth and shaded highway. The Amaroc News, official organ of our army on the Rhine, points out that of the 2 million miles of highway in the United States less than 275,000 miles, or one in ten, has any form of surfacing whatever. But it becomes lyric when it notes that in France "each road, it matters not how small ! or how seldom used, has its quota of beautiful shade trees whose limbs form an arch to protect the traveler from the sun." The American legion will have posts throughout the land, and wherever there is a post there will be a band of men who know the value of easy com j munication and who know how to have their way.

of leaders addressing crowd.

photo above shows the meeting place of the strikers from the Gary plants. The open space and rostrum at East Side park furnishes an ideal meeting place. Only Six Short Years It Was Lese-majeste to Cancel Czars Face Manchester Guardian "Turning over some newspaper cuttings," w-rites a correspondent, "I have just come across one dated February 1913, which certainly underlines one of the many changes that six short years have brought about. " 'A few days ago,' says the writer of the paragraph, 'the Russian postoffice issued a series of special stamps bearing the effigies of the Romanoff 1 rzars. ineludine that of Nicholas II lt was the first time that the czars had j appeared on postage stamps, and probably the last, for these stamps are now to be withdrawn. The holy synod, sitting in solemn conclave, has decided that to strike the imperial visage with a die in order to obliterate the stamp is an impiety. This Is something wose than lese majeste. The Russian postofflce authorities have had an uneasy feeling that it was not quite the thing, and have been very chary in defacing the stamps. Those that have reached this country have been defaced only on the extreme edge.' " Three Killed in Street Car Crash at Gary, Ind. (By Associated Press) GARY, Ind., Sept 25. Three men were killed, two were seriously injured and fifty hurt less seriously when two street cars crowded with steel strikers collided near the plantl of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company. Both cars were running at high sped and collided head on under a viaduct on a sharp curve. The men were on their way to the company's office to receive their pay checks when the accident occurred. Hebrew New Year's Services Held Today Services commemorating the Hebrew New Years were held in the I. O. O. F. hall Wednesday morning, with a Rabbi from Cincinnati in charge. Practically all of the Jewish people ln Richmond attended these services. Five of the business establishments on Main street, owned by Hebrews, suspended business for the day. BANKERS VOTE FOR PRIVATE OWNERSHIP INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 2a. Members of the In"na State Bankers' association at tn.. closing session of their annual convention here today adopted a resolution favoring the return of the railroads to private ownership with protective legislation and adequate compensation from the federal government.

("Bookman," In the Christian Science Monitor). Midway through dinner, in the year

1898, at one of those cosmopolitan gathering held at the Hotel Cecil by the American Society in London, I was told that John Hay was at the high table. As soon as the speeches began I sided round toward the high table to have a particular look at him. For John Hay as a man of let ters interested me immensely. Incidentally, at that time, he was American Ambassador to the Court of St. James; but that might hap pen to anybody. What interested me was to see the author of two such desperate works as the rough "Jim Bludso," written as far back as 1870, and the smooth speech he made in 1898 at the Omar Khayyam club, which set all literary London talking. By universal consent that speech was the most polished and poignant address eve rgiven at the club whose monthtly dinners were distinguished by the best speaking in London. This opuscule had been prettily published by John Lane; today it is becoming a bibliographical rarity. As for "Jim Bludse," everybody knows it, and most llterarjr folk can quote H varen t no saint but at Jedgment I'd run my chances with Jim. 'Longslde of some pious gentlemen That wouldn't shook hands with him. He seen his duty, a dead sure thing And went for it thar and then; And Christ ain't a-going to be too bard On a man that died for men. "Jim Bludso" and "Little Breechesare the best of Hay's "Pike County Ballads." "They rolled out spontaneously." says Mr. Thayer in his excellent "Life of John Hay," and they shot round the English-speaking world. Every paper quoted them. John Hay who by Instinct and training was a modish classicist (he was a bosom friend of Henry Adams) was almost ashamed of the sucess of these rough ballads. Ashamed of Ballads Their popularity annoyed him. so! man a invitation to include them in "An Amni'inon A nf n rslnerxr Ac a youth he desired to be a poet, a real poet, but his poetical verse (as Mayor Hylan might call it) is no better than the .verse produced by thousands of young men of culture and breeding. Quite early he discovered that for him poetry was not a fame or a bread winner. Perhaps that was why he dropped his second name of Milton. Tu-rt rrinf e nf intaroct attoeh in "Jim Bludso." Bret Harte's .Tiain Language from Truthful James" had been published a month before. Dialect was in the air. Bret Harte used a Chmaman, John Hay a westerner. Possibly, probably, Hay had read the plain language of Truthful James, When J. Ha, "dashed off" "Jim Bludso" in the train from Boston, it is said, the poem lacked the last two lines. When Hay showed it to Whitelaw Reid. editor of the Tribune, he growled that it needed "some thought drawn from it that was vital and would live." So Hay sat down and dashed off "And Christ ain't going to be too hard, On a man that died for men." John Hay was a ready man, as ready with a Poem as with a Treaty, with a Witticism as with an Arbitration, or with an epigrammatic couplet such as There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going. When they seem going they come: Diplomats, women, and crabs. Had Wordly Wisdom Some of these epigrams, says his dignified biographer, have the tang of worldly wisdom before it has soured into synicism. True. A man who ha3 been a diplomatist at every court of importance in Europe, ending with seven years as Secretary of State at Washington, gathers much worldly wisdom. And the literary mind, it it does not happen to dwell in a Herbert Spencer or a W. E. H. Lecky, likes its bit of worldly wisdom fun. Hay was very happily married, but he enjoyed writing Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else. Knowing all this you may imagine that I crept with some stealthy fervor toward the high table to have a better look at John Hay. On the way I thought of his "Castilian Days." That is a delightful book. It was my companion on my first visit to Spain and of all the books, I read on Spain that was the cheerfulest and the most intimate and informing. As I drew near the high table, babbing behind an Hotel Cecil palm when a speaker paused in his oratory, suddenly. I remembered that John Hay had been for four years one of Abraham Lincoln's secretaries, beginning at the age of 23. He was a Lincoln man. He had been in daily, and often nightly converse with the greatest American. Had John Hay done nothing else, that. by itself, would have honor for one life I tried to recall a passage from a letter he wrote J. G. Nicolay, his fellow biographer of Lincoln. It was a passage setting a standard for their joint efforts. While I was trying to recall it I reached the end of the high table and there was John Hay. Was Logician; Thinker He looked a severe man a thinker, a logician who would pursue a subject to its logical conclusion. It was an alert face, stern in repose, but when he spoke lt lightened like a gleam of sun through set, gray clouds. It was a tired, rather pugnacious face, the face of a man with whom it would not be easy or safe to trifle. Troops of friends he had, some very intimate, some of them great men, but it has been said that nobody ever slapped John Hay on the back. His mind was witty, not humorous. He could never, like Mark Twain, have explained, at a fashionable assembly, that the reason he carried a cotton umbrella was because Englishmen would not consider it worth stealing. His wit was of a different kind, as. when he wrote to Henry Adams: "I have spent the last cent I got for 'Democracy in minerals for Mrs. Hay." (It was an open secret that the novel "Democracy," published anonymously, was by Henry Adams.) Oh, and as I gazed at John Hay I remembered that another anonymous

novel, "The Bread Winners," was written by this versatile man in the winter of 1882-83. It was the novel of the year, but Hay never acknowledged the authorship. Silent John Hay! As I gazed, his face grew stern again. Was he bored T The speeches, I remember, were rather tedious. Something in his face seemed queerly familiar; then I remembered that when Zorn etched Hay's head it was said that he gave to him "the badger-like appearance which the admirers of Zorn so greatly value." Was Proletarian. Later in the evening I drew closer to John Hay. It was in the prosaic and democratic cloakroom. .1 had made my way to the table, and wa3 about to tender my ticket, when I noticed that the man behind me was John Hay, patiently waiting, looking rather amused at being one of the bowling proletariat. I vacated my place, and motioned him. forward. He thanked me with a smile; today that smile Is he. In a glimpse I saw the man, and understood the charm he had for those who knew him. That smile seemed to lubricate my memory, for. on the way home, the passage I had been tryine to remember, the passage wherein be set the standard for writing the Lite of Lincoln, and gave his creed as an historian, came to me. Two Everlasting Angela.

I discovered afterwards that It Is printed in a letter addressed to Nicolay, on August 10, 1885: "We must not write a stump speech In eight vols., 8vo. We will not fall in with, the present tone of blubbering sentiment, of course. But we ought to write the history of those times like two everlasting angels who know ev erything. judge everything, tell the truth about everything, and don't care a twang of our harps about one side or the other. There will be one exception. We are Lincoln men all through. But in other little matters, let us look at men as insects, and not blame the black beetle because he is hot a grasshopper." Therp we have Hav In hta hof 7-1. ! tolary style, the scholar rejoicing in the raciness of his "Pike County Bal'a" Z. " 7. Wemight have signed his description of Napoleon III, and his pen pictura of the portrait of Helen Fourment by Rubens should be Included In any anthology of art prose. Add to these his analysis of Augustus Saint Gaudens .monument to Mrs. Adams in Rock Creek cemetery "Infinite wisdom; a past without beginning and a future without end; a repose, after limitless experience; a I 1 ci L f . lu wm;ii uoLuiug mallei 3 tin j embodied in this austere and beautii ful face and form." ! A ripe man! A wise man! A witty j man: ma?- who a,,d ln anar" j ? "s ,7"' su vwy m rule of conduct is, perhaps, the Mon roe Doctrine and the Golden Rule. With this simple chart we can hardly go far wrong." Hay and Adams. John Hay and Henry Adams, so different yet so closely allied, one jso effective, the other so ineffective, ony seeing the world through a telescope, the other through a magnifying glass, to me stand out as the two finest American minds, short of genius, of their time. At Washington, Mr. Thayer tells us, they walked together every afternoon "Hay with one arm crooked behind his back two small men, busily discussing great topics, or .... " Every honor came to John Hay. every success, including a rich and charming wife, but all his honors, ia these days of lesser squabbles, fada before one honor that was supreme. For four years he walked and talked with, watched and listened to that Great Companion Abraham Lincoln. The knowledge that he was a Lincoln man gave to John Hay a wisdom passing the wisdom of statesmen and poets. Good Evening BY ROY K. MOULTON GRAVE DIGGERS TO STRIKE I know that one thing's sure in life; It's death, but now I'm worried; For after I have shuffled off, I may never be buried. Norman Stuckey. The daughter of the sultan of Su'm has arrived in Chicago evidently on the trail of our celebrated bachelor friend George Ade, who made her father famous. A LITTLE MORE SQUIRREL FOOD A woman is as old as she looks. When a man is old he stops looking. I had my nose broken in eight different places and my brother warned me to stay away from those places. PROBABLY IT WAS A WARM EVENING Dear Roy I Jotted down the following quating from a book I was read-

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'our readers to solve the high cost of toic,0,hJnK problem At the designated time Col. Blak appeared, wearing a large belt buckl. highly polished, and created quite a furore." I'll say he did. G. S. R. Paris modiste warns the world that skirts will be shorter this fall than ever before. The only thing for tha girls to hope for is a mild winter. Doctors In the Bronx threaten to go on strike, which will probably deprive a good many people of the luxury of being sick and staying home from, work. John Shell of Lexington, Ky., han" Just celebrated his one hundred and , thirty-first birthday. He is probably the only man in this country who can remember when the butchers gave , liver away. '4. H. C. L. FIGHT TAKES ANOTHER STEP FORWARD' WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. Leglsla tlon requested by President Wilson to. aid the government in combatting the'; high cost of living took another step1 forward today. The bouse agriculture commmittee reported a bill prohibit ing hoarding of foods in cold storage,'and prescribing heavy penalties.