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OF SALTS
CLEANS KIDNEYS
If your Back hurts or Bladder
bothers you, drink lots Of
water.

when your kidneys hurt and your
back feels sore, don't get scared and
proceed to load your stomach with a
lot of drugs that excite the kidneys
and i~rritate the entire urinary tract.
Keep your kidneys clean like you
keep your bowels clean, by flushing
them with a mild, harmless salts which
removes the body's urinous waste and
stimulates them to their normal ac-
tivity. The function of the kidneys Is
to filter the blood. In ~ hours they
strain from Il 800 grains of acid and
waste, so we can readily understand
the vital Importance Of keeping the
kidneys active.
Drink lots Of water-you can't
drink too much; also get from any
pharmacist about four ounces of Jad
Salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass
Of water before breakfast each morn
ing for a few days and your kidneys
will act fine. This famous salts is
made from the acid of grapes and
lemon juice, combined with lithia, and
has been usedlor generations to clean
and stimulate clogged kidneys; also to
n%eutralize the acids In urine so II no
longer Is q source of irritation, thus
ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in
iure; makes a delightful effervescent
Whitewater drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep their
kidneys clean and active. Try this,
also keep up the water drinking, and
no doubt you will wonder what be-
came Of your kidney trouble and
backachc.-Advt.
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Il Want to Re Good. but Ny Eyes
Won't Let Me- Is the burden Of her
chief song. In this case you can only
regard Follow Me- as q working
basis for eyes that are as famous As
the milk-bath OF earlier years. Miss
Held doesn't hesitate to remind US
Of other days. She has not been dis
couraged by the fieetins years. On
the contrary. she appears In milk
white tights, when the night is still
fairly young. while at other moments
she makes her old love Of display
evident with elaborate costumes and
coolies Of diamonds. 1t Is also her
pleasure to screech rather than 10
sing. In other words, she ID Anna
Held.
Follow Mo" IL musical comedy Of
the common or Broadway variety.
given largely to ragtime. In It's orig
inal German form II may have been
a thing Of melody. With the local
tunesmiths who have been brought
in to hammer out numbers that mean
little more than noise, the piece
makes only a clamorous appeal to the
ear. The rest is vaudeville. Various
people who have been identified for
a long time with the two-a-day kind
Of entertainment are conspicuous in
the performance. One of them. tiny
Sylvia Jason, deserves a hearty well
come to a new field. for she embodies
In her small way both grace and hu-
NOR. She not only sings we'll. but she
knows her way about the stage. Her
work, which seems to be pleasure to
her. is so refreshing and youthful
that she might be called the musical
comedy sister of Peter Pan. II vaude-
vile can give us q Sylvia Jason we
nay forgive Eva Tanguay.
With this charming mite Harry
Tighe dances amusingly. But en-
thusiasm for recruits from the vaude-
Vile stage cannot extend to Henry
Lewis, who has far more assurance
than talent. The sort OF humor to
which he gives himself car serve only
to cheaper the Casino.
Some of the chorus girls are good
looking. but most OF them are awk-
ward. Those exceedingly clever Span
ish dancers. Eduardo and Elisa Cam
sino. give an exhibition that wins
admiration. Miss Held's variation OF
Edna Mays song In The Belle of
New York. Is pleasing to the a
and the memory. But there Is. an
other song touching upon the OAR
winian theory that Is in such bad
taste as TO make 1t quite out OF place
at the Casino. IT gives a one OF vul-
garity TO the performance that Is not
easily forgotten. For that matter,
Follow Me-" from start to finish,
leaves a great deal to be desired.
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FURS-NeW Ones and
Fine Ones for Christmas

Beautiful ermine furs. Care
fully chosen collections of ma
tural raccoon, black fox and
beaver at prices 10 per cent.
or more below the market.
Ermine muffs are $40 to $50;
scarfs are $2l to $3.50.
Beaver muffs are $3.50 to $3S;
scarfs SIS to $50.
Black fox muffs are SIS to SOS;
~scarfs, $3.50 to SIS.
Natural raccoon muffs are $3.50
to S32; scarfs, 50 to $3.50.
Fur salon. Second floor. Old Building.
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Just in, more of the much
wanted seal = dyed muskrat
muffs at the special prices OF
$3.50 to SIS, with scarfs to
match at $40 to SIS.
Red fox muffs specially priced
SIS to $65; scarfs,. SIS to $65:
Skunk furs of deep natural
brown tones, long of hair and
glossy. Muffs specially priced,
SIS to $1lO; scarfs, $40 to $50.
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'es for women.
coats. loose or belted; all lined with
excellent satin.
At $16.75 to $35, special groups
Of wool velours coats. warm and yet
not very heavy.
At $50 upward, evening coats
that are now half the standard prices.
Second floor. Old Building.
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Mems comfy slippers, $3.50 to
$3.50.
Mems leather slippers, 81 to 81.
Boys leather slippers, $l.25 to
$I.75.
Women's ribbon slippers, s..
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Smart Coats, Special
Prices, for Young Women
New for Saturday.

At $29.75, so velours de laine
coats with seal-dyed coney or
raccoon collars and cuffs; half
lined and interlined; a really
stunning model. Burgundy
green and brown.
Other coats-majority are parts
OF special purchases, $lS.75 upward.
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Clearaway Of Suits
at Sis to sos

Our own stocks, marked very low
to clear them quickly. Wool poplin
gabardine, wool velours, and broad
cloth suits, plain and ur-trimmed.
Each coat has its peau de cygne
lining and flannel interlining.
Each skirt smartly cut.
Brown. burgundy. green, black,
navy.
Sizes II to 20 years.
Second floor, Old Bufkiins
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whose annual report. made public to-
day, recommends passage OF a law
authorizing coins OF that denomination
from copper and nickel.
The evening world., 1916-12-01
BY CHARLES DARNTON

A NINA HELD IL stiil having
~ trouble with her Eyes In Fol
low Me-" the musical comedy
that has brought her to the Casino.
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DEMAND FOR 2Na-CENT COIN.

WASHINGTON. Dec. IA 2h-cent
piece IS demanded by the country. ac-
cording TO the Director Of the Mint.
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S25 for Plush Coats
S45 for Silk VelOurS Coats

225 coats at these special pro
At $45, fourteen different styles
of silk velours coats, trimmed with
good furs such as natural raccoon,
beaver, skunk dyed opossum. or If you
like them better. plain. Cut on
youthful swinging lines, with or with
out belts.
At SIS, nine styles Of the plush
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call as the means of rehabilitation
The book is notably clear exposition
of this modern legislative instrumen
It is. besides. a full and precise account
Of the working out of this theory IN
the Oregon situation. DIR. Barnett here
uses his special training in the field of
political science to collect the facts of
this experiment in politics and to or
ganize these facts into body Of polit-
zeal experience that richly repays study.
The attitude Of this writer is a
neither seeks to conceal the weak
ness. even the danger, of the new or
der, nor to exploit It's virtues. The
book Is a document Of the highest value
to the student of direct legislation in
it's practical concrete form.
THE BELFRY. By May Sinclair, au-
thor of 1.-THE Three Sisters" etc.
New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
The point of May Sinclairs new novel
is James Tasker Jevons himself. 1t Is
to the development of James Tasker as
half genius and the other half about
equal parts Of cockney. gentleman,
knight and bounder, that she devotes
the best of her gifts of characterize
ton. Under an exigency of circum-
stance, and not by an exercise of free
will, a group of English gentle folks
surrounds the whimsical, the 1ovable.
often the detestab1e Jevons, support
ing him, under protest. in his aston
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Is, also. a prize play. winning the hun
dred dollars offered by the Drama
League for the best play for children
submitted during the year 1915. The
first act presents the toymaster's shop,
wherein the toymaster himself and
Hans and Ursula are surrounded by
toys in the making. all to be finished
before the hurrying Christmas time. In
the between whites of talk the thoughts
of the three become objectified by
turns. The dreams of Hans fill the
stage with fairies, COMFORTING them
selves according to the fashion of these
playmates OF children. The thoughts
trooping about the stage in a rollick
ing playtime with the litter of toys
about the place. Ursula's vision is a
mysterious advent Of Ursula to the toy
masters house years before in night
of storm. Just like this night And
almost Immediately two couriers ap-
pear to announce that the king is dead
and that the Princess Ursula is required
to ascend the throne of her father. The
second act portrays the steadfast
princess exercising the virtues gained
in the toymaster's shop-the honesty
and kindness and courage and loyalty
that bring happiness and security to
her people. This is the point of the
play, this practice of noble qualities.
But the lesson is unobtrusively pre-
sented, much the larger part Of the lit
tie drama being given over to scenes
and incidents that 1T we'll with the
thoughts and imaginings of children.
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ishinE rise as successful novelist and
playwright. This state of affairs is
brought about by the simple expe-
dent Of having one of these we'll born
persons. the wears own daughter. fall
in love, hopelessly in love. with James
Tasker Jevons. Even that could have
been borne. But when a wears daugh-
ter so far forgets her parentage as to
cross over to Bruges with a young
man. just Ito see-the belfry." without
whatever to make the transit respecta-
BILE, that case may, without danger Of
contradiction. be called a hopeless one.
To be sure, this is only the novelist's
device to give her hero a chance to
play the knight-which he does. The
rest of the affair is made up in the
main of the belated married life OF the
pair. and with the agonies of disap-
prevail to which James Tasker is for
ever consigning one or another of his
aristocratic in-laws, his own wife COM
ing perilously near to this condi-
ton more than once. after the newness
of his astonishing powers of fascina-
ton has worn bit dull The war gives
Jevons chance to add the hero to his
chameleon list of roles. This he
promptly does, and we leave the little
cockney as firmly intrenched in the
hearts of his wife's aristocratic family
as he is in our own. James Tasker
Jevons is very real person, one, too, Of
whom May Sinclair may well be proud
THE IRON STAIR: A Romance of
Dartmoor. By Rita" author of
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gon. New York: The Macmillan

Within the last twenty years or so it
has become a familiar spectacle for this
or that commonwealth of the Union to
bestir itself to the momentous fact that
the people are not their own law
makers, despite the proud claim of de-
mocracy to the contrary. Powers dele
gated pass gradually into the fiber and
force of the delegates. Legislatures, by
insensible degrees. lose their repre-
sentative character. Through subtle and
devious ways they become ultimately
the source of the laws themselves and
not merely the instrument of legislative
enactment a was their original intent.
In these years of awakening prod1g-
ious activities have been set on foot by
the people to recover their lost estate.
to reassure them selves in positive and
concrete terms that theirs is, unassail-
ably government by the people. This
volume is the record of one such case,
a case so like the others in its nature
and treatment as to stand in substance
as chronicle of the whole movement.
This is a full history Of the political
revolution in Oregon. revolution by
whose means the people of that state
recaptured the government. which was
Slipping away from the great body of
citizens into the hands of the few. Be-
ginning with the dissatisfaction and
unrest of the people, the account pro-
crosses through the propaganda OF re-
form, the statewide campaign of ed
ucation and the ultimate acceptance
of the initiative, referendum and re-
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Of Strindberg dramas translated by Ed
win B3orkman. contains THE Bridal
Crown" '"The Spook Sonata" The First
Warning and "Gustavus vasa." The
first Of these. set in Delecarlia, an in
land province of Sweden, is built upon
one Of tho many legends that enrich
the folklore of that place. The last
one is a historical drama employing
as its central figure King Gustavus I.
founder of the vasa dynasty, the king
who waged the war of liberation that
freed Sweden from its union with the
other two Scandinavian Kingdoms. The
Spook Sonata" is a symbolic conception
done in terms of real life. its purpose
that Of tracing the mysterious rela-
tionships between things and events
of no apparent connection. The First
Warnings Is, like so many of the
Strindberg plays. photographic in
character. relating an incident as it in
reality occurred during the first mar
riage of the dramatist. The Bridal
Crown" has been played many times. 1t
stands as one of the most popular of
tho Strindberg plays, II, indeed. any
of them can be SO designated. 'Gusta-
vus Vasa" Is counted as one of the
great plays Of this writer.
THE STEADFAST PRINCESS. BY Cor
nelia Meigs. author Of THE King
dom of the Winding Road New
York: The Macmillan Company.
This is play for young people. 1t
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Sulphuric Acid Made From
Pyrif@s MINED Near Capital

velopment of chemical industry and the
science of agriculture. 1t has been
known as commercial product TOT
considerably more than two centuries.
but it would seem that only within the
last century have it's powers received
due recognition and new uses for 1t are
still being discovered. According to an
authority on this acid. 1t was first ap-
piled commercially between 16S5-176l by
Joshua Ward. a physician Of Twicken-
ham, England, who lived between those
years. After being made by Ward 1t
was also made by Dr. John Roebuck OF
Birmingham. England. who was born IN
the year 171s and died in 1874 Sui
phuric acid was first prepared by heat
ing alum green vitriol and other SUI
pilates and then condensing the product
of Installation. This method OF obtain
ing sulphuric acid. or at least an I'M
sulphur trioxide dissolved in water. re-
ceived. consideration from the medieval
alchemists
Sulphuric acid is now used in scour-
ing the wool of which ones clothing Is
made. and It Is used in making the
The thread Of which ones undershirt
is knit was bleached with sulphuric
acid. 1t was used on the leather of
ones shoes and it helped to make the
shoe polish which you or the Greek boy
uses on those shoes. All the nickel
plated ware in the home. all the silver
ware. and. the .enaneled ware. from the
bathtub to the plate. cup and saucer,
have in one or more phases of their
making been treated with sulphuric
acid.
The blade of the razor, the hair and
tooth brush bristles, the shaving brush,
the soap and the towel have been pro-
duced with the aid of sulphuric acid.
The paper and the ink with which this
paper is printed owe something to the
use of sulphuric acid. 1t is used in the
preparation Of the strip for the break
fast or the supper table and 1t is used
in refining kerosene and gasoline. The
copper wires through which electricity
flows owe their origin in part to sui
phuric acid, and the acid-phosphate
fertilizer OF the farmer Is phosphate
rock and sulphurtc acid.
War well as peace depends on sui
phuric acid because it is required in
the making Of smokeless powder and
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Calvary" etc. New York: 6. P.
Putnam's Sons
The hero of this tale, Aubrey Der

The hero of this tale. Aubrey Der
bingham. a possible peer of the realm.
is openly introduced as one Of the
supercilious, fastidious. bored, superior
beings of London high life. Having
made this declaration in reference to
him. the writer promptly proceeds to
set him to a course of action that
would stamp any young cub as good
deal of fool. He falls In love, practi-
cally at sight, with a heroine who Is
too naive and ingenious to- ind any
safe place at all in this wicked world:
he engages in a quixotic plan to res
cue an unknown young man from the
prison to which he has been sent for
forgery: he rushes precipitately into
matrimony. and takes leave of US in
an inarticulate state of happiness as
he sails on honeymoon voyage.
Dartmoor plays no conspicuous part
in this romance, save as 1t serves for
a pleasant line of motor jaunts for the
lady and the swain. II one is looking
for a story-just any story-this one
will do. If. however, he stipulates for
one that is snug built and warranted
to hold together in fair measure Of
consistency, this Is not his story.
PLAYS. BY August strindberg. Trans
lated by Edwin Bjorkman. New
York: Charles -Scribners Sons
Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
This volume, the fourth in the series
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FOOD PRICES HIGHER
IN NATIONS AT WAR

TT HE Board Of Trade Labor Gazette
of Great Britain gives a COMPARE
son OF the retail food prices in the
United Kingdom, Berlin, Vienna and
Italy. The greatest increase since the
beginning of the war has been in
Vienna, where food prices have been
raised III per cent. Berlin ranks sec
ond with an increase of 50 per cent. ac-
cording to the English view.
In Great Britain the prices were
higher on January 1 than on December
/ by less than l per cent Fish showed
an advance of about per cent, the
price of flour. cheese and potatoes con-
tinued to rise to the extent of about
with the price of flour. Meat, bacon,
tea, sugar. milk and margarine showed
practically no change in their prices,
and there was slight fall in the price
of butter and eggs Compared with
July. 1914. the prices in December, 1915,
had risen A. per cent.
In Berlin the general level of retail
prices show a decrease of sc per cent
in November. as compared with the
prices of the previous month. but as
compared with July. 1914. they show an
increase of 81 per cent The decrease
In ovemher, as given by the latest
official statistics. does not necessarily
imply corresponding relaxation of
strain due to short supplies. but it was
due to the operation of the recent order
of the federal council which fixed the
maximum retail prices upon the impor-
tant foods.
In Vienna the increase in prices upon
all foods has been considerable since
last october. the only article which fell
in price being potatoes. 1t is calculated
that, on the whole. the cost of food was
about IL per cent higher in October than
in September. Compared with July,
1914, every article of food, with the ex-
ception of potatoes. has increased in
cost, the increase varying from per
cent on sugar to 343 per cent on lard.
The general level of prices showed an
increase of over III per cent. Food
prices in october were, on the whole.
about Ill per cent higher than in the
month of 1914.
Italy shows an advance of 2S.6 per
cent on the November prices OF 1915. as
compared with the figures for July. 1914.
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the plaudits. Unique lay the world and
the chance together before him: the
new world barely drawn into creation
by his own hand. the dawned chance of
absolute power untouched beneath that
hand. Both were called forth through
a purity of motive that has made him
forever luminous.
in his heart, at the very moment when
egoism might in a lesser man have
triumphed. And SO the people have this
immortal picture of him to live by, to
look at when, unable to lift their hands
from power at the fullness of time,
Greatness fades away unheard.
1t Is particularly impressive to think
of these three men. the country's very
greatest. in this time of nervous COM
petition and rushing desire to be heard.
felt, seen. In every instance their
greatness consisted in being able,
through long humility. to put self aside
at the bidding of that high and inward
Voice. A. w.
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ing to reach the people generally and
increase both interest and appreciation
of art: another will be given up to
peoples institutions, such as the public
schools, public libraries and the uni
versities in so far as they, too, provide
education along these lines.
There will be a session given over
exclusively to civic art. or city plan
ming, as 1t also relates to art and init
mately touches the lives of the people
Finally, there will be a session at which
manufactures and workshops from
which issue. or should issue, that art
which is both common and fine will
be the theme All of this will be from
the viewpoint of the public, with the
conviction that art is a common her
itage and should be shared by all.
The convention will be concluded, as
last year, with a dinner, at which
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The Falling Off.

A RNOLD BENNETT, the English
~ novelist. has found his sales to be
falling of of late. Hence it is prob
able that he will reduce his usual out
put Of trilogies, comedies. novels,
serials, sketches and short stories this
year.
At dinner at the Authors Club, in
London. Mr.. Bennett said one evening:
Il think I'll go of and rest up some
where for a WHILE"
81 suppose. Mr.. Bennett said an
American journalist, politely. that
your public is beginning 70 suffer
from readers cramp, eh?"
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The Cost of Popularity.

MAvID LLOYD GEORGE. the British
W minister of munitions. was the idol
Of the trade union classes before the
war, and he will probably be their idol
again after the war, but just now, on
account of his advocacy of conscrip-
ton, he is under q cloud.
Henry Taylor. the British consul to
Duluth, said Of Mr.. Lloyd George the
other day:
IF he's unpopular now, it's because
he was SO very popular before. His
case Is like that of the young lady.
What makes Marie so disliked"
one girl asked another.
"'Why, don't you know the other
answered. She got the most votes at
the bazaar for being popular"