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Boy Who Fell Upstairs
by ADA rATTERsON.

. nc was In such hurry. He was
sure sur .h;:i no other boy in all the world
- oi hn "a an TINE had ever been In such
90 nc ran all thc way UP tho eighteen
! Steps OF the elevated stairway, some
tsnins no boy should do. If he has ever
heart he knows why. The vital organ
thar it overworked will finally go on
S'r,Me and by its strike end our lives
But the boy had never heard Of this
or IL he did he didn't care. He dashed
up the subway stairs 1T a little more
f nash Of nile %I minute sa,a There was q
q brown suit and brown cap scud-
ding with wind-likc swittness al
the sound of painting and then the
He fell upon hattcned nose that
stained the steps. Each knee must
nave lost its cuticle. for he ruefully
rubbed the dusty covering. When he
had rubbed them he adminIstered mas
sage TO bruised elbow. He gathered
UP the scattered bundles he had been
carrying and busted them. He cast a
cred about him, a crest-fallcn one at
the. train he had tried to catch. 1t
ma mac I gone ITS 10ariTE E shaking way TO
Gaping colt it's tail
| While he waited two and a half min
be taking an inventory Incarnadined
nose: bruised knees: barkcd elbow
! soiicd trousers and dusty coat and cap.
I Torn bundles: damaged dignity; shaken
! abilities he set the lesson he had
| learned. That one may make too much
! haste.
! There are thousands OF the boys
/ elders who need to learn the same les
/ son. Because they haven't learned 1t
we have. an appalling number. OF
/ deaths OF persons who die In their
! prime At middle life. when the mis-
! takes OF youth are behind them. no
! longer TO be feared, and the resignation
! They drop suddenly from the long
! span OF usefulness. the many scctioned
! bridge between the two extremes Of
! lifc. And for no better reason than
! that they. like the boy. ran UP the ele-
waited steps and fell and bumped his
! nose.
| They were in haste to catch the
! next train. even though catching the
| next train was not important. Per
I haps it mattcred very little whether
! mattered not at all. But they thought
/ II aid just as the boy who fell upstairs
| thought 1t did.
| The business man who thinks he
must make his half million by this
stairs. II only he knew what all his
! friends and nc!shbors know that II
| VIII do quite as we'll IL h. makes IL by
| the year after. OF If he has made only
| s2i567s instead of the full s250,o00.
What will it profit him If he fall up
/ stairs?
| Either the boy was foolish 10 make
/ the dash for the elevated train or the
/ man who sent him with tho bundles
was still more foolish. The man should
have know II the boy didn't: that II
/ vitality TO run upstairs. over haste
/ is under gain. While the boy stood
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-12
WHEN YOU WAKE q !.
w US IL ak~ - ~
IIN nyasuS mr. 81 f4N;l
Up DRINK GLASS I. J. !.
OF HOT WATER.
Wash poisOns and toxins from
system before putting food
into stomach. 9~AT

WASH yourself on the inside before
breakfast like YOU do on the outside .
This is vastly more important because
the skin pores do not absorb impiirl-
ties into the blood, causing .llness ,
while the bowel pores do.
FOR every ounce Of food taken into.
the stomach. nearly an ounce OF waste
material must be carried out of the
body. If this waste is not eliminated
day by day it quickly ferments and
generates poisons, gases and toxins
which are absorbed or sucked into the
blood stream. through the lymph ducts
which should suck only nourishment
n splendid health measure Is to-
drink. before breakfast each day,
glass OF hot water with tcasnooptul
of limestone phosphate in it. which
is harmless way to wash these poi-
sons from the stomach. liver. kidneys
and bowels; thus cleansing, sweeten-
ing and freshening the alimentary
canal before eating more food. ,"H "a
A quarter pound Of limestone phos-
phate costs but very little at the druc,
store, but is sufficient to make any one
an enthusiast on inside bathing.-Ady.
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PAPER UMBRELLAS
Jnps Treat Them With Vegetable OH
to MIKE Them Shed
Water.

\ vegetable oil is used in making
paper umbrellas in Japan. II is pressed
out OF the seeds of an animal plant
that Is extensively cultivated, and
thrives best in sandy soil. The Weld of
seeds Is estimated at seventy bushels
10 The acre. Oil is extracted by the
most simple form OF hand presses
Il is first boiled. and then allowed to
cool until II can be applied by hand
10 umbrellas with a piece Of cloth or
waste. No machinery or tools arc used
in applying the oil. and when the OIL
ing is complete the umbrellas are cx-
posed in the sun for about five hours
This oil Is also used In making paDer
lanterns. oil paper and artificial
leather, and in preparing materials for
making printing ink. paints. varnish
and lacquer.
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guests the past week of the Misses
llazen. Also Mr. and Mrs. II. q. Bur-
net and son. of Charlottesville.
Mrs \. r. Holdcrby. OF Buffalo
Liihia Springs. was with Mrs. Alan
ferguson for the Chcwniug- Smith
wedding.
Misses Carrie and lIcrminc Moore
nave closed their homo for the winter
months and are spending several
weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Douglas
Wherry before leaving.
MISS Frances Withcrs is visiting MIR.
And Mrs. Tazewcll Perrin in Loudoun.
Mrs. III. l.. kundrup has returned
from visit to Washington.
MISS Eliza Christian and Mrs.
tharies Ryiand spent tho last week
end at Old Point.
Miss Fannie Wilkcrson has been the
recent gucs; OF Miss Janis Word.
Mrs. oscar Williams and daughter
nave returned TO Scarsdulc. y. y, after
visit to Colonel and Miss Wood.
Mrs. George Carter spent several
days in Richmond this week with
friends.
Mrs. Joseph Sader has been tho re-
cent guest of the Misses Powers
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"Gets-It" 1t is because OF this fact
that "Gets-It" is today the biggest
seller among corn-rcmovers on this
planet. 1t means the end Of corn
fiddling." For hard corns. soft corns.
very old corns. young corns, cornS be-
tween the toes and calluses 1t means
quick. certain finish. "Gets-lt" is ap-
piled in or, seconds. All you need
is or DROPS AS ca Sy to do as sign
ing Your name. 1t does away forever
with tape. plastcrs, bandages knives.
corn-diggers, scissors. files and blood
bringing razors. Ease your corn-pains
be corn-free at last.
"Gets-it." the only sure. guaranteed.
corn-remover, costs but n
trife at any drug store, MID by e.
Lawrence & Co. Chicago, Ill.-Adv
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Using Leather Tabs.

Cut the leather tabs from some old
shoes. and cut them into circular pieces
about the size OF farthing or half
penny; When 4 button is required on
boys knickers, or on any garment sub
ject to great stress, place one of the
pads on the inner side of the garment
where the button is to be sewn on
TACK 1t securely round. Sew on the
button In the usual way. always re-
membcring to put a knot on your
thread between, the button and the
cLoth also TO put good winding OF
Unread round the neck OF the button
as this is source of strength But
tons sewn on this way will never drag
Il hole In the material 80
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TAKE A GLASS OF SALTS TO FLUSH
THE KIDNEYS IF YOUR BACK HURTS

bothcrs you. get about four ounces Of
Jad Salts from any good pharmacy;
take a tablespoonful In glass Of
water before breakfast for a few days
and your kidneys Will then act fine
This famous salts is made from the
acid OF grapes and lemon Juice, COM
bined with lithia. and ,has been used
for generations to flush clogged KID
ncys and stimulate them to normal
activity: also to neutralize the acids in
the urine SO II no longer irritates, thus
ending bladder disorders.
Jad Salts cannot injurc any one:
makes delightful cffervescent lithia-
water drink which millions Of men and
women take now and then to keep tho
kidneys and urinary organs clean
thus avoiding serious kidney disease
ADV.
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Advises folks to overcome Kid
ncy and Bladder trouble while
IL is only trouble

Eating meat regularly eventually
produces kidney trouble in some form
or other. says a well-known authority,
because the uric acid in meat excites
the kidneys. they become ovcrworked;
get sluggish: clog UP and cause all
sorts of distress, particularly back
ache and misery in the kidney region:
rheumatic twinges. savcrc headaches
acid stomach. constipation, torpid
liver, sleeplessncss bladder and ur!-
nary Irritation.
The moment your back hurts or kid
ncys aren't acting right, or IL bladder
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-12
Tenchcr's Ignorance.

"If there We're twelve sheep In pen,
and seven OF them jumped out how
many sheep Will be left?" The boy
Can't you tell?" said the teacher
There would be five left. would there
would not be any left" Why. there
would certainly be five left in the penn"
exclaimed the teacher. You may un-
understand sheep" replied the scholar.
~ one jumped out every one would
jump out"
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Papa dear" said beautiful young
to marry him 'He does. does hc?'
said papa. What's his incomc?' Il
don't know. papa. she said. and then
coincidencc"" What do YOU mean by
strange coincidence. Mabel: ask ed
her father. Horace asked me jus, the
same question abou; your income" an
SWereh Mabel
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finally

NsS"VIdtT oI, HhaIIN rehearsed MS
speech in the train Oh the way TO the
meeting. speaking in a low voice and
using his hands to emphasize certain
passages. He was accompanied by his
VIE. and a kindly matron. who had
been watching and listening, leaned
forward and; tapping her. on the
shoulder. said feel!ngly: You have
my sincere sympathy. my poor woman
have one lust like him al homo"
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BON AIR

BON AIR. VA, Oct. 1l.-A wedding
% much interest WAS the event OF the
past week. Miss Emily Hazen Smith
and Garland Carpenter Chewing
Church by Rev. l.. g. McClucr on
Tuesday evening at 7:30. The church
and home decorations we're In golden
cd and autumn leaves. MANY out.or
town guests were present.
Nj. and Mrs. French and Philio
Smith. of East Orange. have been the
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monplace. but the preacher was emo
tional and he wept copiously. and as
II seemed TO Pitcairnc. irrelcvantly.
lie turned to the only other occupant
whispered: What OH earth gars tn.
man greet" You would maybe greet
YOU were up there and had as little to
On
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SOVEREIGN TONIC. !.
rssoA
BUILDS YOU UP.

When your health has been undet.t
mined by worry or overwork, when
your vitality is lowered. when YOU
have that don't care rap" feeling.
when your nerves are depressed.
when your work appears too much
for you, you are then in a run down
condition. 'N#
Sovereign Tonic Is real restorative.
a blood maker and nerve builder
When your blood is Impoverished
through the want Of Iron. which nro.
duces rich red blood, and changes food
into living tissue"-you will find the
remedy in Sovereign Tonic Each
tablet contains 1 grain of PREPARES.
IRON with other blood and ,erye
products. You Will be surprised ami
delighted with the new strength and
vim Sovereign Tonic gives you. .t.
Sovereign Tonic will do more ia
brighten the world, TO dispel gloom.
TO mako happy homes, ,nan ali the
medicines that have been com.
pounded. $50.
Sent by mail on receipt OF s1.oo. y,
Sovereign Remeuy Co..
1915 Fiibert ST. Philadelphia, Pa
For sale at the Grant Drug Co.'S
stores. and all leading druEgists.-AdS
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4 ScOttIsh Story.

DR.. Pitcairnc. a once famous physl-
can and philosopher. was not a
chcrchgoer, but on frequent occasions
hc took refuge in. church from "A
shower of rain. The sermon was COM
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BunlStead' SWOrnSyTuIl)).

oTo children an ANGEL of mercy" W6srs
worms arc present and directions foIioTveds
tT NEVER FAILS. One bottle DESTROYED iS3
worms: stood tho test for sixty years. Sold
Est. 2. L. Coortieea. NJ. d. Pbi,adcI,bi.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-12

Sympathetic.
y learned scientist. who was about
to deliver an address before the British
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"Gets-It'" PeeIs Your
Corns Right Off
Two Drops Will DO 1t Without Fuss
or Trouble. Never Fails.

There's only one way to get rid of
corn. and that is to peel 1T off as
you would n banana skin. There is
only ono corn remover in all the world
that does IL that way, and that is
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-10

WHAT KIND OF A MAN AM I9


read that wondered what kind Of man am
probably bet
all fundamental quahues tha
make the everyday
believe work, did to work
college, hard
Mostly with my hands
was born the in girls
O is my minister. He good
good preacher. Mother wonderful In her
LOVE
beautiful It is long
of her. and in heart al
ways-because 1 love her
forty years of a healthy oryyear
still not pretty though proud
and chin.
love to easy) feel
present that dislike intimate
world got rid of its troubles would
tell mine-but till then.
business business and is
things, them not
how fail. shall learn that
m Not always.
aks-Ffor myself then let
o do mind
8 l bigger than that
Of
then, what is done You fix
temper really valuable love
tennsust fairly intend to keep at them just the
/
II
steal a
heart pocketbook is knowledge love
eight pounds.
suits clothesa
ly Saturday suit Sunday.
This
hands with
you personally for reading these simple little talks
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-10
The Peace of Versailles

the world have peace during this genera
ton it will be, far judge international
ditions this time, because Great Britain
famed by her and cultivates the seeds
revolt against But she will do retains
that genius compromise and moderation upon
which her safety and progress in the have been
chiefly founded.
The peace treaty, although in one instrument con-
sists of two parts the provisions establishing league of
nations and the conditions imposed upon Germany.
So far the latter concerned. may as
they will be approved by government without
attempt amendment They have formulated
protracted with the associated
with for the overthrow of the German military
and difference among is not to be considered It
interest that there should be
and morally bound to support that which has been
agreed upon As to the provisions for the establishment
of league of nations, they properly subject of
full consideration by the senate and II in the opinion
that body they susceptible of Interpretation contrary
essential interest security they adopted
only with appropriate reservation.
Such action however, will neither detract the pro-
for league postpone that which is after
all the most need of the country and of the world
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-10
How Did Pioneers
Obtain Flour IN
Early Days?

The early settlers Of Wayne county.
unless they had their wheat and corn
ground into -four ahead of time, had
flour only in the wet and warm sea-
sons OF the year. When the weather
was dry, or very cold, the streams
could not run to furnish power for
the water-mills, the only kind known
for some years.
Later, hand mill or a mill run by
horsepower, was built for emergen-
c1es. A person wishing to get -four
would either harness up the horse,
which he had ridden for miles through
the forest bringing in his corn to the
mill, or he would use his own strength.
Another type Of mill was made on a
square frame about as big az table.
in which were two stones, the upper
one connected with the loft above by
a pole. Two people in the loft would
turn the pole, thus whirling the stones
on one another, and someone below
would pour the grain between the
grinding stones.
Until the middle of the century and
later. the husking of corn was done
at one Of those functions described in
The Hoosier Schoolmaster" and other
books OF early Indiana life, called
"corn-huskfng, at which a whole
neighborhood met at one house, en-
joyed social evening and supper,
and In return husked the hosts crop.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-10
KeepingCIean

Americans like to point to the census figures as
country. high birth rate is regarded as proof
of healthy growth. This nation, containing up
ward of 10O,000,000 souls, is held a most poten-
tial force. And so it is. But sometimes our en-
thusiasm eclipses our judgment in such matters
and we overlook some important considerations.
Physical defects discovered by army examin-
ers showed that about forty per cent of the young
men conscripted were unfit for soldering When
the very flower of our manhood is incapable of
doing mans work, it suggests a much inferior
physical standard among the rest of the popu-
lation. tuberculosis venereal diseases, deform-
ities principally of the feet; defective teeth and
numerous other handicaps and delinquencies
were the causes of the rejection Of such number
that our population might well have been cal
culated on basis of 100000 and these bur-
dened with the present and prospective response
bty for making up the deficiencies, caring for
the sickness and insanity and death, inevitable in
such showing.
1t is estimated that from to 212 per cent of
the young men examined were suffering from
nervous diseases, many of these due to venereal
injections which are forerunners of insanity.
These figures warrant the assumption that four
per cent of the civil population is destined to a
similar degeneration. In other words, of 100,-
O00, 0G0 population we must anticipate 100000
insane
Isn't it worth while to direct some Of the eff
fort ala1 part of the money now appropriated
for charities and benevolences toward prevent
ing such an appalling situation?
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the Chicago Tribune.
wv yITHoUT pomp and the fadlare of victorious
w trumpets the great drama of Prussian world
conquest to its tragic close at Versailles
when Wednesday. May 1872 the terms of the allied
nations received by the German delegates Across
that fateful volume $4,000 words might have been
the words of the prophet hey that take the
sword shall perish with the sword o whatever fortune
follows in path overthrow the Prussan dream is
gone forever.
The situation developed is the MOST remarkable in
modern times. But yesterday the old world in the
hands four great military powers, Germany.
Great Britain Russia, France. Today Russia is divided
into wrangng child states and given to primitive
experimentation Germany is disarmed ami impoverished
The AustroHungarian composite is scattered. France
sore by is hoping rise the ruins of
German enterprise But Great Britain stands out in
rivaled pussance. and powerful than
ever history, perhaps the greatest single
since Rome Her most formidable rivals Russia and
Germany been set far back in the race The only
nation capable challenging her. the United States is
the nation with she is best able to live in peace
nation of kindred mode of thought and action, of pro-
foundly pacific tendencies, without incompatible inter
ests
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Dinner Stories
A kindly old lady approached Sc
verely wounded soldier and said:
Poor man, have you lost your leg?"

A kindly old lady approached Sc
verely wounded soldier and said:
Poor man, have you lost your leg?"
YES, num-"
ooh, poor fellow! Do have an
apple"
When the old lady had departed,
the Yank turned to his chum and re-
marked: bill, I think I'll have my
other leg off before she comes next
week. 1 might get banana
The captain of the S. S. Piffle lis
tened patiently to a passengers &C
count of his shooting abilities, then he
quietly remarked:
81 don't think you could hit this
bottle at twenty yards, placed on the
taffrail, while the ship is heaving like
this
1T would be only chiId's play" said
the passenger.
well, I'll bet you dollar you don't
hit it three times out Of six."
Its a wager. Come along.
The bottle was placed in position.
Crack The passenger hit it and it
disappeared in fragments into the sea.
"Trot out another one,' said the
marksman. ....
Not at all The conditions were
that you hit that one three times out
of six. Five shots more
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May Days, and Social Justice
avs the Christian Science Monitor:

Says the Christian Science Monitor
If the purpose of May Day parades and mass
meetings for the ultra-radical elements of the
social body is to attract attention to them and
their theories by stirring up violent opposition,
the May Day just past is presumably already set
down in the record as a success Its story of
riots street alta acks Of group upon group, of police
interference, suTests, and imprisonments, tallies
more or less exactly with the program laid down
for the propagsuldism Of radical socialism every
where It's disorders are of the sort which, ac-
cording to certain bodies of opponents, would
fade away if only the public would ignore them.
Yet the aftermath of May Day in the United
States is to be found in the talk of new laws to
curb bolshevism," and to strengthen the hand of
authorities in pros ecutng offenders against the
government, on the ground that the time for toll
erance is past And the record Of the May Days
of the past two decades, cumulatively considered,
any more than the literature of agitation that
filled the United States mails as preliminary
to the May Day of the present month, does not
encourage the notion that these disturbances are
to be obviated by ignoring them.
The fact is they cannot be ignored And they
should not be. What rs needed, rather, is to
have them considered, and studied, and dealt
with, not as mere local outbursts, or as part and
parcel of some particular disagreement, but on
the broadcast possible ba.ns Let them be eX-
amined into for all that they can tell or uncover
as to the fundamental causes and sources of the
unrest and protest that they express or embody.
To some extent, and among what may fairly be
termed the more enlightened factors in the social
composite, this sort of study and examination is
being carried on already. 1t is having it's bene-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-10
Good Evening
BY ROY K. MouLToN

When a certain editor offered to
make Mr.. Burleson the most popular
man in the cabinet, the offer didn't
seem to please Mr.. Burleson at all.
A Chicago critic says Mr.. Walter
Hampden is rafting good Hamlet
Sort of skeleton compliment, as ii
were.
We noted the fact that Freddie Ho
henzollern had offered to sell his fur
coat for $4,000 and we offered ours
for $3.50. One gentleman 1--WE hope
we make no mistake) has offered us
the 40. Are there any other bids
Hurry up and get it before the moths
do. going
One Of the unluckiest things to be
just now ISL member Of the Russian
royal family. They are not even al
lowed to stay dead. Every day or sc
somebody sees a mysterious man with
whiskers somewhere in this country
and claims he is the ex-czar.
The recent Geld snap is said to have
frozen all the parsnips from Maine tc
California. Nothing is in vain in this
world.
NAME YOUR OWN TICKET
Dear Roy: You refer to married
lifer." What do you mean? A person
who writes Married Life" stories OF
a person who is sentenced to marriage
for life? ID.
We have no fear of Bolsheyism II
this country. There are too many
public baths and nearly everybody has
little bathtub in his home
Let US have pax as well as pacts.