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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-09-30
COMMERCIAL
Weekly Review of Trade and
Market Reports.

r. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review
Of trade says:
while there are a few bad or
uncertain spots in the business sit
uation, they are not sufficient. to
change the generally cheerful and,
IN some respects, brilliant outlook.
The movement in iron and steel Is
so tremendous, reaching at some
points to practically full capacity and
resulting Ia instances of premiums
paid for prompt delivery that the
only doubt cast upon it by anybody
Is that the pace may be too fast. The
reports from the principal cities and
especially the eloquent statistics or
rapidly expanding building opera
tions, confirm these figures. The
foreign trade Is unsatisfactory in
view OF the decreased exports and in
creased imports. but 1t should not
be overlooked that the former is the
result in part OF the more rapid ad-
vance in prices here than abroad.
while the big imports testify to the
increased spending capacity OF our
people,"
Bradstreet's says:
Trade continues of favorable pro-
portions, demands for staple lines
being noteworthy features, though
there is a tone of conservatism in
many reports. Shipments are heavy
and IN many instances buyers are re-
questing prompt deliveries. Business
on spring accounts is also of good
volume. Retail trade is getting into
better shape at many centers. Com
modify prices. both for raw materials
and edibles. are generally very firm.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending with Sep
TENDER % were III, against 1913 last
week, 267 In the like week Of 1908.
166 in 1907, 165 In 1906 and 1S5 in
1906"
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How He Made A CuddIe.

A gentleman went into q pipemak-
er's shop with the intention of see
ing the method of making pipes.
The proprietor, who was a Scotch
man, had arrived from Edinburgh a
few weeks before.
When the Philadelphia got in the
shop he found only boy back of
the counter, so without any more
ado he thus addressed him:
- We'll, my Gallant. I'll give you a
quarter If you show me how you
make your pipes"
81 Gamma max a peep, sir" Tepli-
ed the lad. ct ca only max a cud-
die"
"A cuddle!" What's that, my him
ney?"
its short peep" replied the boy
sic as men women smoke DOT on.
III give you a quarter if you
show NE how to make that"
"Gie's yer quarter furst," was the
reply.
The gentleman gave the boy the
quarter, and he took long pipe ant
broke piece off 1t, saying:
There, now. sir, that is the wa,
] max cuddles." Philadelphi;
Times.
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Paw Paw, Mich.

Another Operation Avoided.
Chicago, Ill. -"I want women to
know what that wonderful medicine,
Lydia +. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, has done for me. Two of the
best doctors in Chicago said / would
die if did not have an operation, and
1 never thought of seeing we'll day
again. had a small tumor and female
troubles so that suffered day and
night. A friend recommended Lydia
Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and it made me a well woman. Mrs.
ALvENA SPERLNe, IL Langdon St..
Chicago, Ill.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com.
pound, made from roots and herbs,
has proved to be the most successful
remedy for curing the worst forms Of
female ills, including displacements,
Inflammation, fibroid tumors, irregu-
larities, periodic pains, backache, bear
ing-down feeling, fiatulency, indiges.
ton, and nervous prostration. 1t costs
but trifle to try it, and the result
has been worth millions to many
suffering women.
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Foreign

Bernhard Dernburg, German secre-
tary Of state for the colonies, has
sailed for the United States to study
cotton growing conditions In the
South.
The Jewish Benevolent Society OF
Berlin has learned that there is no
truth in the reports of a fatal anti
Jewish riot at Kiev, Russia.
Nineteen prisoners escaped from
the jail at Och, Asiatic Russia, and
the military guard. firing at the fee
ing men, killed nine.
Floods in Hows, Northern Syria,
have caused the loss OF 100 lives
and the destruction of 500 houses
The war in Morocco continues,
with the Rifians stubbornly oppos-
ing the Spanish advance.
The Austria-Hungarian cabinet
has decided to resign.
Three men (Berruyer, David and
Liottard) were guillotined at Va
lence, France, at daybreak for a
Series OF atrocious crimes in the
Department of Drome.
A Birmingham (England) magis-
trate sentenced sentenced two mill
tant suffragettes to several months
Imprisonment and hard labor.
The Russian submarine Kambala
which was sunk off Sebastopol last
June with a loss of 90 men. was
brought to the surface.
Two men were killed and sc
wounded in religious rioting at Cas-
tro. Spain.
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When Jerry Turned Tables.

Half a dozen Kansas men who
moved and had their political being
several years ago were mixing po-
litical and tobacco smoke the other
night in front Of Topeka hotel. AS
was to be expected, they fell to yarn
ing" and their subject was Jerry
Simpson. They told a lot of stories
concerning the sockless Socrates,
and here are a few of them:
One time Jerry arrived at an Ex-
eelsior Springs hotel and registered
Jerry Simpson, Wichita The
news reached the parlor, which ad-
joins the office. and several femi-
nine guests hustled out to look at
the signature. 1t was at the time
when Jerry was. at the zenith of his
notoriety.
"Oh," glggled one of them, ad-
dressing the clerk, Il wonder if he
wears socks?"
Mr.. Simpson was standing hard by
and overheard the remark The
women all laughed at this well-worn
witticism, and they stopped suddenly
when Jerry said quietly TO the clerk
II wonder If they wear stockings?'
Whereupon the women fled to the
parlor amid a silence that was knee
deep.-Kansas City Journal.
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Sexton. Verger. sacrIstan.

cit is the same thing under differ
ent names" said DR.. Harvey w.
Wiley, the governments food ex-
pert, Of some new food preserva-
tiyes.
The same thing under different
Names" Dr. Wiley repeated. at re-
mindes me of the old caretaker Of
an Episcopal church.
This caretaker, as he sat smok-
ing his pipe on tomb in the ceme-
terry, dismissed as trivial certain
changes In the ritual.
The good, old creed keeps the
same for ALL said he. Look at me
here. I used to be the janitor. The
new parson called me the sextant
Dr. Thirdly gave me the name OF
virgin. And the young man we've
got now says I'm the sacrIlege. -
WASHINGTON Post
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The Tennis Champion Says
MAY SUTTON
Tells American Girls How To BE
Healthy and Graceful.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.
Don't drink coffee.
Don't drink tea.
Don't exercise too much.
These three don'ts constitute the
advice of Miss May Sutton, champion
woman tennis player of the world, to
girls who would go In seriously and
Systematically for athletics.
Eat what you want.
Take long walks.
Get all the fresh air you can.
These are the three rules Miss SUIT
ton lays down for girls who desire
merely to be strong and healthy.
The little champion recently ap-
peared on courts in San Francisco in
a series of exhibition matches. 1t
had been reported that she was not in
the best OF health, but she gave. no In
dication OF having "gone back" play
ing her strong game that made her
worlds champion, with her same old
dash and accuracy.
At the close OF the series Miss SUIT
ton was asked to tell what system of
training she had found most effective
and what, in her opinion. is the best
form of exercise and diet for the av-
erage American girl. Inpartshe said:
"While I advocate hearty
eating, | cannot say too much
against the use of tea or coffee.
They are nerve destroyers and
no one can be healthy who
persists in their use.
''Too much exercise is as bad as too
little. Walking is the best exercise
there is. Early each morning, after
drinking glass Of hot water, dressed
In loose clothing, walk for nearly
an hour.
Athletics should receive some at
tention from every girl. II her time
precludes the playing of tennis or golf
she should take long walks in the
open air, both before the morning
and evening meal, throwing the head
! and shoulders back and taking long
deep draughts Of that which money
cannot buy but is in reach OF the poor
| as well as the rich-pure air.
Pure air and moderate amount
OF exercise I cannot too strongly i'm.
press upon girls as being the only Sc.
cret OF health and grace. Medicine
for that out-of-sorts feeling may cause
| girls to imagine they feel all right
but what they really need is more
fresh air and not quite so much sit
ting around the house in tight-fittinf
clothes as great many of them do"
Miss Sutton is declared by physi
clans 20 be perfect athlete. Tennis
experts declared that every movement
Is "a picture. "--Lerineton (Ky.) Leader
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Shall Smiling Be Made Mandatory?
Is there no peace in the world for
the man of serious mien? Must one
smile, smile, smile from morning till
night whether one feels like it or
not?
Faddists say the dinner table joke
is the best aid to digestion and pro-
notes domestic peace. When dull
care intrudes, laugh 1t away. II
your neighbor flies to wrath because
your cocker spaniel chases his fowls,
dissolve his anger with q smile. In
short, keep on smiling.
And now comes a new social dis
ease which this panacean smile Is
guaranteed to cure. AS II man had
not already crystalized his features
into a perpetual grin, he is now ad-
vised to smile to prevent his COM
hitting suicidei This new doctrine
Is advanced by writer in a medical
publication. play, smile and don't
kill yourself is the slogan in brief.
Let us harbor still a kind thought
for the man who refuses to smile al
society's behest. Not that anyone
would discourage smiling; merely
| let us not make the rule mandatory
At least, permit the poor fellow some
little option as to when and how
much he shall smile-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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No Man Is Satisfied.

A friend of the Rev. DR.. ]. Wilbur
Chapman, the evangelist, has receiV'
ed a letter from the former Phila-
deIphia minister, in which he tells
of the great success of his meetings
In Australia.
The letter describes the people
there as fun-loving, and says he has
worked off many stories that in the
United States would be labeled an
cient.
One which he has told with great
success to illustrate that there is
no real happiness IN the world will
bear retelling. Here it is:
why, even the man who smokes
a pipe is not happy" says DR.. Chap
man. eff he is smoking his own to-
bacco he is thinking OF how much
1t cost him, and if he is smoking the
other fellows, he packs it so tight
in the bowl of his pipe that it won't
draw. "-Philadelphia Times.
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there's a Reason. -
WONDERED WHY
Found the Answer Was "Coffee."
is, as a morning cup.

Many pale, sickly persons wonder
and eventually discover that tho drug
cause of the trouble.
Il was always very fond Of coffee
and drank 1T every day. l never lad
much flesh and often wondered why
was always so pale, thin and weak.
About five years ago my health
completely broke down and was con-
fined to my bed. My stomach was in
such condition that / could hardly
take sufficient nourishment to sustain
life.
During this time 1 was drinking
coffee, didn't think could do with
out 1t.
after awhile 1 came to the con-
clusion that coffee was hurting me.
and decided to give It up and try
Postum. / didn't like the taste of Il
at first, but when 1t was made right
boiled until dark and rich-I soon be-
came very fond of 1t.
In one week l began to feel bet-
ter. / could eat more and sleep BE-.
ter. My sick headaches we're less fire.
Quent; and within FIVE months |
looked and felt like a new being.
headache spells entirely gone.
My health continued to improve
and to-day / am well and strong,
weigh 148 lbs. / attribute my pres
ent health to the life=giving qualities
of Postum"
There's Reason"
Read, THE Road to MELVILLE" In
pkRs.
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Result OF Scientific Farming.

A forthcoming circular OF the
Agricultural Department will contra
dict the prevailing impression that
the fertility of the soil OF the coun-
try Is wearing out, but will show
that, Notwithstanding the abandon
ment OF farming districts in the
Northeast, not only is there an In
crease In the total volume OF crops,
but an actual growth in the average
yield per acre under cultivation. This
result is obtained by restoring to
the soil those elements and oom-
pounds needed and consumed by the
different crops.
The well-informed farmer of the
present day does not blindly send
his plants out to grope for their
food; but sees that it is supplied
them in proper measure. Recent
discoveries in bacteriology have
greatly assisted the planter, enabling
him to obtain bacteria, with which
the growing plant may be inoeulat-
ed and by which the nitrogen OF the
air is fixed in form available for
plant food and fed to the plant as
required. A few cents per acre spent
inoculating the plants comes back
to the farmer in increased yield of
many dollars per acr6.2-M Mobile
Register.
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Live stock.

CbicagO-Cattle - Market steady
Steers. $5.60D8.50; COWS. $500
5.25; heifers. $35006; bulls, $50
4S5; calves, 5000; stockers and
feeders, $3.75 a $50.
Hogs - Market so 10c. higher.
Choice heavy. $500 S.521z; butch
ers'. 1885 a $50; light mixed, $3.50
$40; choice light, $500 S.35;
packing. $7.75@S.25; pigs, So q
SIS; bulk OF sales. SS.10@S.30.
Sheep-Market steady. Sheep.
$405; lambs. $6G725; yearlings
So q $40.
Kansas City, Mo. - Cattle - Mar
ket steady to weak. Choice5 exports
and dressed beef steers, $3.50 ~
SIS; fair to good. s4.75G 6.25:
Western steers. $38O@7: .stockeri
and feeders, Sc a $50; Southern
steers. $3.50 AIS; Southern cows
s2.25@375; native COWS. s$2.25 @
40; native heifers. So q $50; bulls
S25OQ3 10: calves. $3.50 a 100.
Hogs-AIarket steady to 10c
higher. Top. $685.: bulk OF sales
tS770My25: heavy, sS.15@8.35i
pa ke.s and butchers. s795 % S.25i
light. s7.S0@ s.l2h; pigs. IS
$50.
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An eccentric country squire agreed
to employ an equally eccentric rustic
to rid his mansion of it's plague of
dies, the terms being board, lodgings
and beer for three days. At the end
or this period there were more flies
than ever, and the squire interroga-
ted his new employee thus:
Why ever haven't you made a
start You contracted to kill all the
flies"
I'm waiting for you, guv'nor," re-
torted the willy rustic, you've got
to catch 'em first. 1 only promised
to kill 'em"-London News.
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TASTED Fifty Days.

Cleveland. o. Especially William
H. Marie. a Cleveland man. who is
now in Battle Greek. Mich. has
just completed a fast OF fifty and
one-half days. according to informa-
ton received by his relatives here
In performing the feat Marie lost
forty pounds in weight. Throughout
the fast he drank filtered water
Stomach trouble. which physicians
were unable to diagnose. caused
says he is now in perfect health.
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Thomas Edison has perfected q
1tofago battery which he says viii
last indefinitely and revoiutlonize the
present propeliing power.
Prof. Munyon says Il IL only \
question OF time until a remedy Is
discovered that will supply the waste
live on almost indefinitely, barring
accidents. This seems almost too
good to be true, but nothing seems
TO be impossible in these days when
we consider the flying machine and
NE wireless telegraph.
Prof. Munyon has certainly revolu-
donized the practice of medicine. He
does not believe in building hospitals
Tor consumptives. He says that con-
sumption can always be traced to a
cold. Cure a cold and you prevent
consumption. His Cold and Cough
Remedy will break up almost any
form OF a cold in a few hours and
positively prevent Bronchitis and
Pneumonia. To convince the medical
world and people In general Of the
truth OK his claims he has distributed
millions of Walls of the Cold Cure, s5-
soIutely free, from the leading news
paper Offices throughout the country.
and the cures that have been reported
from its use have been most astonish-
ing. These little sugar pellets con-
tain no opium, morphine, cocaine or
any harmful drug. They seem to re-
lieve the head, throat and lungs al
most Immediately.
In order that no one may be de-
prived Of this remedy he has placed
It with all the druggists throughout
the United States for the small sum
OF 25 cents. or sent postpaid on re-
ceipt of price, and with each bottle he
gives this guarantee: ''If Munyon's
Cold and Cough Cure does not do all
that Is claimed for it, 1 Will refund
your money"
There are four advantages in TAX
Ing Munyon's Remedies. First, they
are absolutely harmless. Second, they
are pleasant to take. Third, they re-
Iieve almost Immediately. Fourth,
they cost nothing unless they give
satisfaction.
Munyon's Guide to Health sent
free on request. Munyon Remedy
Co, Phila., Pa.
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cannot describe my suffering from
terrible bearing down pains, dizzy
spells, headaches and periods Of par
tial blindness The urine was full of
sediment. was in the hospital three
weeks. Doan's Kidney Pills were
quick to bring relief and soon made
me we'll and strong again."
Remember the name-Doan's- For
sale by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y.
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Wholesale Markets.

New York-Wheat-Sp easy;
No. red. 1101zc., nominal, eleva-
tor; No. red, nominal, {. o. b. afloat;
No. l Northern Duluth. LOSES.
nominal, Z. o. b. afioat; No. hard
winter. 1.12B. nominal, +. o. b.
afloat.
Corn-Spot quiet; No. 2. 7Sc ask
ed and 79c. delivery; No. 2, 60 ",
f. o. b. afioat winter shipments.
Oats-Spot steady; mixed, Al Y
@42c,; natural. 42@45; clipped.
Butter-steady; receipts, s,OS4
pkgs.; process. 24@27c.; Western
factory, 221k 024; Imitation cream
cry. PAN Q25 Y.
Cheese-steady and unchanged;
receipts. $500 boxes.
Eggs-Weaker; Western extra
frsts, 26@ 27c.; flrsts. "a II @25 u;
seconds. 2O@22.
Philadelphia - Wheat - Steady;
contract grade, September. los q
lO6c.
Corn-Dull. &c. lower; No.
yellow for local trade. 76 " @77c.
Oats-Quiet, but firm; No. 2
white natural 44h @45c.
Butter-Firm; prints 1c. higher;
extra Western creamery, SIC; do.
nearby prints, "a.
Eggs-Firm; good demand. Penn
sylvania and other nearby firsts.
free cases, 27c. at mark; DO, cur
rent receipts. in returnable cases.
25 at mark; Western firsts, free
cases. 81 at mark; do. current re-
ceipts. free cases. % @26 at mark.
Live Poultry-Steady; fowls, 10 II
a l6 &c; old roosters, liz a IL;
spring chickens. 1901; ducks, old,
13 a IA; do. spring, IA q Is.
BaItimore-Whcat- market
for Western opened easier; spot
los &c; October. LOT "; December,
1.07 ". Spot was In some demand
and the price hardened as the day
/ progressed, but the other positions
were easy. At the midday call spot
/ was los &c. and October, 1.07A a.
! 1.07 Y. Sales--two cars No. red.
track. Canton. l10c.; cars No. 2
red. track. Canton. 1.09%; car
steamer No. 2 red. spot. 1.O1.
Settling prices were: No. red
! 1.0S34; No. red, LOS; steamer No
2 red, 1.O1; steamer No 2 red West
ern. 1.O21a.
Corn-Western opened easier;
year. 64@64Ac.; January, 631k q
63%
Hay-We quote per ton: No. l
timothy. large bales, SIS; do. small
bales, SIS; No. 2 timothy, as to To-
cation. $16.50917; No. 8 timothy
$14.50@ 1850; choice clover mixed
$3.50; No. 1 clover mixed, $500
1850; No. clover mixed, $14Q15;
No. / clover. $15.5O@ 16; No. .
clover. $14@15.
oats-stock in elevators. 7O4.4OO
bushels; shipments from elevators,
9,7S4 bushels. The quotations for
new oats on spot were: White
No. 2. as to weight, 43h a.
44c.; do. No. 8, 42Q 4Sc.; do, No
4. 391z @40c.; do, mixed, No. q
42@42Mc.; do. No. 8, 4O1k @41c.
Butter-Creamery separator, per
pound. $40 32c.; imitation. pei
pound. 2S a 24c.; prints, half-pound
30 a 33c.; do, pound, per pound. g.
a 33c.; blocks, two-pound, per pound
81 a S2e.; dairy prints. Maryland
Pennsylvania and Virginia, pei
pound. $50 zoe; Virginia and Wes
Virginia, store packed, per pound
21c.; Ohio, store packed, per pound
gle; nearby rolls. per pound, 2lc.
West Virginia rolls, per pound, 21c.i
Ohio rolls, per pound. 21c.
Eggs - Maryland. Pennsylvania
and nearby firsts, per dozen, &c.
Eastern Shore, Maryland and Vir
ginia, per dozen, 27c.; Western firsts
per dozen. 27c.; West Virginia. pc
dozen. 27c.; North Carolina. pc
dozen, 26c.
Cheese-We quote, jobbing lots
per b., liz a. IT nc.
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he WAS SAFE Either way.

An Elk County citizen, who has
just graduated from law school,
wrote to a prominent lawyer in an
Arkansas town to find out what
chance there would be for him In
hat part of the country.
Il am a Republican in politics,
he wrote, land an honest lawyer.
IF your are an honest lawyer,
lame the reply, you will have no
competition, and If you are Repub-
lican, the game law will protect you. "
Kansas City Journal.
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The City Editor-Here's a mighty
good story about q young fellow who
runs away with q chorus girl.
The Night Editor-What's that
A good story? Why It's been done
to death.
It's an absolute novelty. The young
fellow Is neither a millionaire nor
q Pittsburger. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
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Source OF Information.

Browning hear you are engaged
to that young widow who is visiting
relatives here. Is it true?
Greening-Yes.
Browning-How did you discover
that she was the one woman In the
world for an old bachelor like you?
Greening - Why, she - er - told
me so.-Chicago News.
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ness. headaches.
tired feeling, urfn-
airy troubles. Doan's
Kidney Pills cure
the cause. Mrs.
Virginia Splitter,
Buenn Vista, Va,
says: For thirty
years 1 suffered
everything but death
with my kidneys. ]
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For hundreds OF years mankind
used the same style and size OF razor
and had no thought that it could be
improved until some genius evolved
the safety razor. That genius reaped
the benefit OF his inventive talent by
charging from SO to SO for each i'm
plement. people being glad to buy at
those figures. Now comes another
inventor who has made possible a
still better safety razor, and for only
twenty-five cents. That sum in post
age stamps sent to the Book Publish
ing House, 1874 Leonard street, New
York. will secure a razor postpaid
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The Zanzibar governments new
steamship Cupid, recently arrived
from Scotland. 1t is primarily In
tended for freight and passenger
traffic between Zanzibar and Pemba
Islands.
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Safety.

Farragut had just dashed himself
to the mast.
much safer than getting nailed
to the Pole" he observed.
Herewith he was pleased 10 note
the absence of controversy.-New
York Sun.
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Graphite is obtained in Bavaria
and Bohemia, although the best pen
Gil graphite is apparently received
In Germany from Ceylon and Siberia,
1t is also imported from the United
States, Japan, China, Australia,
Mexico, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden,
Belgium aid France.
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Dairy maids in Denmark get from
about 81 to SO, with board and lodg-
ing, a month.