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Questions-Answers

@. Are ex-serviee men given Priority IN
obtaining public Jands?-G. c. l..
A A joint resolution was recently
passed by congress giving honorably dis
charged service men a preference right In
obtaining public lands under the home
stead act The first application Of the
provisions of this resolution is to be APP
piled to the North Platte and Shoshone
irrigation projects in Wyoming The North
Platte tract will be opened to entry by
former service men on March 5, and the
Shoshone project on March H. The right
will be in force for sixty days. after which
the remaining lands will be available for
public entry.
Q. How long was each of the three
navy machines I'm the air in the navy trans
atlantic Tightly. e. f. :
A. The NC-4. the plane which made the
entire trip across the Atlantic, was in the
air fifty three hours and fifty minutes.
The NC-1 was in flight thirty hours aud
fifty-stx minutes, while the NC-3 was In
the air thirty houFs and two minutes.
O.. Who was omar Khayyam TX. T.. S.
a. He was a Persian poet and astron-
omer, who died in 1923. His philosophy,
expressed chiefly thru his book of poems,
the Rubyiat, became popular several de-
cades ago. and il still widely studied.
q. Is there federal tax on Inheritance?
w. D. z.
A. There is no federal tax on inherit.
ances up to $4,000. The income or in
terest earned by inherrrances, however Is
subject 70 income tax. and must be incEud-
ed in the income tax return
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GERRY STAYS HOME WITH AUNT
FELICIA.
CHAPTER 20.

CHAPTER %
Carson Murphy had a raise last
and he was SO full of 1t he had to
spill over. 1 guess he deserved it
all right, altho he isn't any too clever"
Robert had been quiet for some
time. and l had felt our talk was
finished.
Hes a hard worker Jane says
He doesn't work any harder than
lots of others" Then; Hes ap-
preciated, that's all. Then, too, he
knows that Jane is dependent on him
and so he has to bring in the bought"
II wonder how much Jane earned
teaching"
"a fair salary I've heard. More
ried. It's quite story"
Tell me about it,"
"Oh. she promised to stop teaching
when he got an advanced He hustled
like the devil until he got it, and she
kept her word
''They~iive nicely
1T don't cost them as much for
rent and living as it does us here in
the boarding house"
But she does all her own work
wash and everything"
IT know" moodily.
when I keep house I shall have
someone do all that kind of work. !
wouldn't mind cooking and keeping
tllnsS udy, out no WaSnlnS or scrub
bling for me. 1 loathe homework any
"How do you know-you haven't
tried it,
IT don't intend to-
Robert looked at his watch. and
with a muttered exclamation at the
hour, he hurried Off to work.
We'll, I'm glad that's Overt"
said aloud, satisfied that it had beer
Glen Turner's advancement and Rob
ert's disappointment that he had moi
been raised which had made him Sc
unlike his gay self.
Isn't it wonderful that car
work ?" added as 1 thought of Rob
ert's salary. 1 knew of course tina
someone had to do homework, tina
there must be some women who coulC
not earn money outside of the home
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Yestidday AFTERNOON 1 felt like blow
ing soap bubbles and 1 started to look
for my soap bubble pipe and couldent
find it enywares, witch the more l
couldent find it the more 1 felt like
blowing them, thinking, G., L know
Wat-Il use pops pipe.
WITCH l went up in the setting room
and got it and made some soap wattir
in a bowl down in the kitcllin and
to blow bubbles and after
about the 10th one I started to get a
fearse sensation in the stummick like
sumbody beginning to get sick, think
ing. G, wiss. holey smoaks, I wonder
if its this pipe?
WITCH it proberly was, and 1 quick
umpdumped the soap wettir out of
the bowl and put the bowl back and
went up and put the pipe back and
leened out of the setting room window
and wen 1 stopped feeling pale 1 went
out to see if eny of the fellows was
out, and after suppir pop felt in his
pockets for segars, saying, Jest my
luck, not n segar-O well, that gives
me an ideer Ill smoak my good old
pipe for a change.
And he took his pipe and started to
put tobacko in, saying, After all. a
pipe is mans true friend, there nuth-
ing like a good old pipe.
No there izzent, if you're tawking
about smell, sed ma.
I'm tawking about refreshing taist
and soothing aroma, sed pop.
o, thawt you we're tawking about
smell, hee hee, sed ma.
A womans sents of humor is like
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the pictures. In the face of the girl
and the face of the man was tender
filial "Reminiscences, loyalty-and ap-
peal; in each pair of young eyes some
thing that seemed to be. begging, en-
treating
Of a sudden, in the fireplace. a sap
pocket in a birch log exploded. show
ering sparks. A little flaring brand
flew straight into Betty's silken lap.
Crying a warning. Travers sprang to
pluck it away. A button on his sleeve
caught in the frinses~of the China
shawl and the sweep of his arm as he
struck the spark away brought every
thing fyom the table to the floor.
Travers was not quicker than Betty
to retrieve from the hearth rug his
locket and the nearest of the I'M
framed miniatures.
AS they arose, breathless, from the
recovery of their disordered treas
lures, the man and the girl stood fac
ing one another, each holding in one
hand a locket and in the other a de-
tached picture.
Stealing a chance to assure herself
that the unframed portrait she held
was unframed, Betty Crew sustained
the greatest surprise of her life.
"Why-why. Trav!, Where did this
come from?" she gasped. ITS that
madonna of secretary of yours, Miss
| Chalpersi"
But Travers. too. had glanced at the
picture in his hand. and was exclaim-
| ing simultaneously: Betty! What
does this mean? This isn't your IA
| ther-it's young Forbes, the newspa-
per chap!'
The scared look faded from Betty's
eyes and into them came gladness
"Oh, don't you see, Trav? It's the
sign we asked for. Our mothers
they, want US to be happy in our own
wayN
Copyright, 1920. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
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ON BELONGING.

We always know when We are in
the place that we belong-for it is
then that we feel comfortable. We
don't feel as tho we were going to be
asked to leave, or to move over.
Every faculty that we have has its
place in relation to the world out
side.
And the work of life is to find
whera all that We have and are-be-
longs. Aud in proportion as we find
the largest number of places in the
world for the largest number OF our
abilities. are we given our measure of
success.
We may belong to our friends
and when we do, our friends know 1t
and are glad.
We may belong to our job-and
when we do, the job grows big. AS
people study, observe. travel. and in
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crease in usefulness, everything and
everybody makes larger space for
them-aud they belong more than
ever.
The belonging sensation is the mar
ural one. It is the one that has kept
"one's kind" together.
And how very wonderful it is to be-
long and to be sure that you are under
stood there. Few men and women
who are failures, belong that way.
Mostly their wires became crossed, or
something snapped at the wrong
moment. For all people belong
where their best intentions point.
Let US try to belong where we are
the best fitted. and desire those things
that make US better known to our
selves-so that we may be the more
agreeable to others.
Let US keep our nerve-by~keeping
our place-by belonging to everything
which we touch or attempt or are!
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In recent speech before the Ma
tional Press club in Washington, Sen
ator Harding, Ohio's choice for the
Republican party for president, de-
Inanded that the United States be I'M
shackled from war conditions in gov
eminent and industry. Every war
measure ought to be ended" he said.
1--WE need as much repeal of obstruc-
ton as we need enactment for con-
struction." Since Senator Harding
party is in control of both houses of
congress. it appears to be up to it to
do whatever repeating is needed.
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THE PRICE OF SUCCESS.
If you haven't the patience to work and
wait,
To build with precision and lay your bricks
If you haven't the courage to grin now and
When 'I the structure fails down, and to
start in again,
Just remain where you are and be satisfied.
For the hazards out there will be too much
for you.
If you can't stand alone IN the thick OF the
Aud persist In your course when you know
you are right;
If you can't keep your faith when it's
And still go for the goal which but dimly
Don't leave the broad highway to carve
For the hardships out there will be too
much for you
If you can't get along without ratt'ry or
And the comforts and joys of these wonder
II you tire over quickly or crings at a
Or think it no use when your progress is
If you're one who must have everything his
own way:
Then the price of success you're not wiilins
But if you win take all the fates have to
give,
Stand hardships and setbacks, still glad
that you live;
If you1l cling 70 your faith and keep
plodding along
When disaster besets you and everything
If you're Wiling 10 battle and never. give
in.
Go after your dream. for in time you viii
win.
Copyright 1920 by Edgar A. Guest
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MouLon Musings
BY ROY X. MOULTON.

After all is said and done and writ
ten, it is mostly all free verse in the
scheme of the magazine editor.
Nobody got rich out of the war ex-
cept those who refused to remain
poor.
The only way the average society
woman can get any work out of a
butler is to marry him.
'If a COW could talk. what would
she say?" asks a learned Indiana pro-
fessor. She would probably say that,
altho milk is selling for 10 cents a
quart, she isn't. getting a cent more
than she did four years ago.
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eating hot minis pie the ferst thing
in the morning. its always rong. sed'
pop. And he lit a match and started
to blow in smoak and blow it out agen,
and all of a suddin he stopped. say
ing, Soap soap. izzent that lovely,
soap.
G, gosh, jimminy, I thawt. And
snuek. out and started to go down
stairs, ma saying, That reminds me
Il mixed some dressing in bowl for
suppir and 1T tasted of soap and had
to throw it all out wat on erth could
that boy of bin up to?
Benny, called pop.
Benny, called ma.
Me not heering either of them on
account of jest closing the frunt door
after me
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Persons who are now paying dol
lar for what they could buys for so
cents before the war are inclined TO
complain of the high cost of living.
But when it is remembered that the
dollar is worth only about so cents the
situation does not appear in so bad
light. Then, too, most wage earners
are receiving twice as many dollars
for their work as they were before the
war. That few persons are suffering
from the high cost of living is evil
denced by the way the public contin-
ues to buy much that it does not need
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Disintegration of the business built
up by the big packers ordered by the
government has begun. Advertise
ments in the newspapers indicate that
the Armours as meat packers are go
ing out of leather and the Armours as
individuals are going into a new COM
pany which will take over the leather
business of Armour & Co. How any
body but the Armours will be bene-
fitted by the altered arrangement is not
vet apparent.
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In the Louisiana and Texas rice dis
tricts, for example, labor is paid twenty
times as much as in China, and in
spite of this the crop is produced at
about one-third of the cost in the Far
East.
The supply of potatoes need be linn
tied only by the demand. Our crop
can be multiplied several times thru
moderate increase in acreage and
better farming methods. Nearly a
dozen potato substitutes can be OBJ
tanned from the tropics. chief among
these being the cassava. banana,
dasheen, yam and ether starchy prod
ucts.
Beef is most cheaply produced
where there is an abundance of cheap
range land. This is becoming more
scarce. and We consequently, see an
increase in dairy products and a rela-
tive decline in beef cattle. Pork is
becoming more abundant, as all north
ern countries find the hog the easiest
of all meat animals to feed.
Dhe dairy industry has shown the
most remarkable growth of any agri-
cultural enterprise as a result of the
war. Its possibilities in food produc-
ton are unlimited. Before the war
South Africa was large importer of
butter. In 1916 she exported 1,60O.-
geo pounds, and in the next year prac-
tically doubled it. The secret of in
creased productivity lies in improved
breeds of dairy cattle.
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WHEN PRICES WILL FALL.

While many persons continue 70
hope for and expect a decline in prices.
it should be apparent that no reduc-
ton can come about while conditions
remain as they are. The situation in
the commodities market is similar to
that which prevails in the labor mar
ket. There can be no lowering of
wages until men begin seeking Jobs;
there can be no reduction in prices
of goods until sellers begin to seek
buyers. Just now the jobs are hunt
ing the men and the buyers are seek
ing the sellers.
| Shortage of goods is dominant
cause of high prices because it leads
to the addition of exoEbitant profits.
When there is no competition, when
there are many buyers for. each arti-
Gle, the seller is unrestricted as to the
profit he may charge. Here is what
a merchant who recently visited New
York is quoted as saying:
On a certain line of cotton goods,
formerly the manufacturer added IS
the goods at that price. Today, with
cotton at 40 cents, these goods sell at
$3.50 per pound, which makes the
profit formerly IS cents. now $1.10.
The / S cents before the war includ-
ed labor, overhead expenses selling
expense, and manufacturers profit.
| Even If the 1 8 cents be doubled to
cover increased cost OF 400 per cent
of all these items above pre-war cost,
&c
against net profit of probably not over
cents or cents before the war.
81 used to buy cotton blankets" he
said, ION the basis of 20 cents a pound
for the finished article. That was
when cotton was probably about 10
cents a pound. Today. with cotton.
say, 40 cents pound. the finished ar
ticle is sold readily at $3.50 per
pound. The leeway for the manufac-
turer thus is now 90 cents a pound.
whereas formerly it was IL cents a
pound.
"Mercerized cotton yarns are today
selling a. $3.50. Price before the war
was around 90 cents to one dollar.
Initiation has extended more largely
to profits than to commodities.
81 know of large commission firm
dealing in flannelettes, who, for every
case of goods they open, have ten buy
ers. People who formerly manufac-
tured flannelettes and other different
lines of merchandise, have gone al
most exclusively into the manufacture
of fabrics to be used in making tires,
and the demand from this source, II
is said by some automobile people
would keep all the mills in the coun-
try going for twelve months"
Lumber mills are in many cases
running night and day to meet the de-
7 mand. cotton mills find eager buyers
all over the world scrambling for theil
product at enormous profits, iron and
steel plants cannot turn out theiI
products rapidly enough to fill the
world hunger for machines and tools
and a thousand and one other things
Labor is being literally begged for and
foremen and superintendent are
spending much of their time hunting
J men and eagerly paying big wages
Newspapers are put to their wits enc
: to obtain white paper. and they fact
| an exercising market. More lumber
more iron, more steel. more cottor
: goods. more paper, more food, more
labor, more productive power is the
cry turnout the land.
I
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Consul Charles G. winslow. repre-
senting the United States in New Zea-
land, suggests that America could we'll
import apples from that dominion dur
ing the off season. in this country.
But why select the "off season ?"
Those who now pay from to 10 cents
for single apple probably would be
glad to see a new source of supply
opened up now.
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At the time of the entry of the
United States into the world conflict
much was heard about its being a rich
mans war" It is estimated that
$4,000 new miIlionaires have been
created in the United States since the
war started, in 1914. A smaller per
cent OF these. it is declared, will be
found in Wall street than anywhere
else. The huge profits that have at
tracted so much attention appear to
have gone to the manufacturer, to the
maker of war supplies, to the mer-
chant who benefited from the in
creased purchasing power of the pub
lie. The investor has hardly held his
own.
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Dluu my neaTt tnlS LQe
To Galilean's side, =,
To the wounds of Calvary, e
To the Christ who died for me. e
81 bind my soul this day z
To the brother far away 2
And the brother near at hand.
In this town, and in this land.
81 bind my heart in thrall
To the God, the Lord Of all.
To the God, the poor mans friend,
And the Christ whom he did send.
81 bind myself to peace,
To make strife and envy cease.
God. knot thou sure the cord
OF my thraldom to my Lord"
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The interest being shown recently In
establishing communication with Mars
may be due to search for some place
where one may obtain a drink,
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The French Academy of Science is
offering a prize of 100, 900 francs as an
encouragement to efforts to commun-
icate with other planets. Here is an
opportunity for Doctor Cook.
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A soldiers Religion.

For February Is is peter and Cor
nelius."-Acts 10:30-4S.
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ARBITRACNl PLAN PRED
FEDERACf PRACE.

Montreal, 9. Gervna. = Cd
poruceni, ably delnici a zam6st
navatele We Spoj. Stdtech utvo-
fili dobrovolne arbitracni t6le-
SO ma urovndvanf stiznosti del
nictva, bylo predlozeno dnes
pred sized Americke Fedora
ce Prace jako prostredek ku
privodeni vice harmonickych
vztahu a snizeni cen zivotnich
potreb. Delegati, kteTi jsou ir-
skeho p0vodu, neb sympatisujl
hnutim Sim Feinistu pokusi
Sc prosaditi resoluci proti Sva-
zu NarodG We prospech ir-
ske samostatnosti. Proti tomu
jevi Sc silnd oposice, hlavn6
mezi kanadskymi delegaty.
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Vy5etfovAni vleklo Sc poma-
lu. Mesice ubihaly.
Papouskum dostavalo Sc We
vezeni spatneho osetrenf. Kro-
me toho vezensti organove Ca
sto je drazdili, a tax jeden q
rapousciho paru = samicka-
po nekolika mesicich zasla.
Samecek po nj zbyly, vlastnf
vinnik cele t6 katastrofy, po
smrti svoji druzky upadl do ma
proste melancholie, a tax 81
zasteskl, re Sc 2 neho stal straS
Ivy sabotaznik, prikfe odpi-
raj vdbec vypovidati pTi dal-
sim vysetfovani, a ia vsechny
rokusy vysetfuiicfch organG, a
by n6ho dostali svedectvf -
mlcel.
Soudni komisari Crezvycai-
ky davali 81 vSemoznou praci,
aby osvezili jeho pamet' a wy
rutili z neho poznovu prorad-
nou protirevolucni vetu, ale
marne - Sed6l, nacepyfeny,
ma SVEN bidelku, a ZIstaval ne
my. A tax take po dalsich ne
kolika mesicich j zdechl, ne
me, sabotuje az do sve smrti
vsecky organy sovetove vlady.
Zbavena tax iedinych sved-
XII, ma nichz spocfvala celia hro
ziva obzaloba, moskevska Cree
vycajka posl6ze S tezkym srd-
Gem odhodlala Sc zastaviti wy
Setfovanf, a propustila rodinu
vezeni, ma svobodu.
At Sc tedy nerika, ze by V
Sovdepii nebylo zadnych SOU
dn, re by tn nebylo Spravedl-
nosti. At nikdo nefika. re tam
lide nevinni "a ziva hniif a
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Cpr avnGny hnGv

Sedlak Makula Sc sousedem
Sekulou byli kazd6 nedele v
kostele a obzvlastt kazanf ma
bozne poslouchali, takze byl s
mimi tamni duchovni pastyr
yelmi spokoien.
Nyni vsak uz asi trikrat Ma
kula kostele nebyl, ackoliv,
lax Sc faraf dov6dGl, zdrav je.
] bylo to fardri, kterf ovecky
sve iako oko V hlav6 hlidal, vel
mi divine a proto. kdyz Sla sta
ra Makulova 2 kostela. zasta-
vii il a ptal SC, co della Makula,
re neide do kostela.
Gale, velebnT pane". zacala
Makulova. con ten mdi star5
81 n6iak uminul. a at mu rika-
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me hory dolly d ne ne a ze
do kostela nep1jie, re toho ma
uz dost".
To bylo zavazn6. Takova
mirna ovetka a ted naiednou
ably Sc z nj stal takovy beran.
Faraf Sc sebral a primo k Ma
kulovum.
Makula 10 chIadne pfivital
a kdyz mu pastTr pocal vyci-
tati, proc nechodf do kostela
proc nechava syou dust laden,
vyskocil Makula a hntvive cd
seknul:
"a kdo je tim vinen. pane ia
rari, ia jiste ne at sem byl
kdy chtel v Eostele pofad iste
Sc ienom modlil "a SeEllu, kaz
dou msi jenom sekula sekulo-
lum", tax kdyz "Seke.a", tax
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TENTO MUZ BUDE MfTI
DOSTI PRACE.

Parlz, 9. cervna. - Wal
ker ID. Hines, ustanoveny pre-
sidentem Wilsonem a potvrZe-
ny spojenci jako rozhodGi me-
ri evropskymi mocnostmi V O.
tdzkach tykaiicich Sc plavby
ma rekach stredni Evropy, pTi-
jel do Pafize. Byl provazen pi.
Hinesovou, dcerou a sborem
sekretaru. Po schuzce S premi-
erem Millerandem p. Hines
svola delegaty interesovanych
narodu "a ucelem upraveni
pravidel pro plavbu ma re-
kach Dunaji, Ryn6, Labi a O.
Dire die clanku mirov6 smlou-
Wy, jichz vyklad bude iednou
z povinnosti p. Hinese.
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no mladi. RozSifuie Sc tax je-
iich duSavni obzor Ca jiste vi
ce nez vykladem ucitelskym,
byt' byl nejpoutav6jsD, a vste-
puje Sc Jim mimodek, co je
zdrav6 a dobre jadfe americ-
Ike kultury. LIE proto vitati
tento prvni pokus styky, KITE
re jist6 budoa Sc rozvijeti dale.
Bylo by zddoucno, ably zejme-
ma kruhy ucitelske venovaly
ndlezitou pozornost t6mto
styk1m a nabadaly We SVEN pu
sobisti skolni ditky, aby sly Ia
pfikladem kralupskym a Gle
velandskym.