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Nation Wide Happenings Briefly Told

Doris Savor, 22 years old, of Philadelphia. wrote a letter to the coronesUtitiK that he, Sayer. was a "itroucb" and a "Joy-klllei^ and that he wnaWiut to commit suicide. He instructed the coroner to turr. his body over to the University ot Pennsylvania for scientific purposes Shortly after rectivinc Saver's letter, the coroner was cc tilled of the findlna of the body.

A dexterous pick pocket extracted

.The truns-Atlnnti- navy flier, NO 2. was wrecked on a sand bar at Atlantic City last week.

Hundreds of persons killed and jnred and millions cf dollars worth of dnmnee was the toll exacted by three tornados which swept eight states in the West. Central, and South.

A nude woman, adjudged insan<. was Instantly killed when she threw herself under a train at South Orange, N J The body has not been Uentifled.

Samuel McCourlick. of New York. w»- arrested for writing post cards to Philadeii-:,:. city officials stating that certain persons were "killing his heart."

thirty-five dolars from the wallet of Dr. H. B. Wllmer, after which he returned the empty wallet to the doctor'i pocket.

General Richard I). Simms. G2. trearuter of the Capitol Trust Company, ot Washington. D. C., banged himself in a tree He rode hir horse under the tree, knotted a rope about his n<ck. tied the other end to a limb and ip aired hit horse out from under him

Mayor Moore, of Philadelphia, ha:requested that Philadelphian* voluntarily observe daylight saving.

Dr. Albert H. Smith, a Philadelphia Drue Store proprietor, answered c hrndlt's demand for cash with a handful of red pepper which completely blinded and routed tbe intruder who fli-d after firing three harmless shots from a pistol.

General John J. Pershing assisted in the launching of a ship at Hog Island

Philadelphia Sunday newspapers have raised the price to ten cents.

Candling Culls Inferior Eggs From the Market Supply

Looking at tb<- marvels of Man. through a telescope is a big-acale replica of the wonders the egg tester sees as he candles eggs for cond'tfcin and quality. / peep through the eggtesting devic*. plus the ability to differentiate between sound and stale rggs enables the operator to add markedly to the price of the fresh quality eggs which he aells. The s v *H of a new laid egg has a aoft ''bloom." which is the visible sign of perfect freshness. This bloom Is destroyed by a touch, and In many cases disappears after a few days' exposure to the air. After that the appearance of the shell is not :> reliable indication of the condition of the con-

trots.

By holding an egg between the eye rnd a strong light in such a mann: that the rays of light come to the eye through the egg. the condition of the contents can be stter. This method of examining eggs 1* called “candling." This work Is done In a dark room, using a light enclosed in a case having opposite the light a hole v of proper site and shape before which the egg is held for examination. Handy Home Made Egg Tester An ordinary hand lamp, a lantern, .an Incandescent bulb, or a flash light may be used. Any box Urge enough to hold the lamp, set on end. can be used for a case. Besides the hole the elde opposite the light there should be a hole In the top end; otherwise, the heat from the light would Are the box. A test-r chimney each as Is used oi. a lamp for testing ercs In Inctilutlon may be used tor candling. For convenience ihe light should be placed on a table or shelf. The eggs to be tested should he pUcc" ride of ihe light while ->n the opposite side receptacles for the good and bnd eers should be provided. Each egg should be examined alone by holding |i, large end up. close to the light.

|h rfectly good, fresh egg shows “full' and "clear'' before the light; there is almost no air cell at the Urge end. and tbe yolk outline Is only faintly discernible. A fixed air cell of 1-8 to S-1S of an Inch in depth indicates a fresh egg. as egg* run In general. A larger air cell with a mobile lower line indl cates—accordng to site and fluctuation —a stale egg or one becoming w< rnd watery. Very small spots which are apparent In tbe eggs are usually blood clots. Large .'■pots, rings and shadows are heat and germination and indicate decomposition In the first stages. An egg that is opaque except for a large fixed air cell contains chick de-id at an advanced stage of decomposition. An opaque egg with targe air cells having a mobile lower line is in an advanced stage of fluid decomposition. Eggs showing solid spot* or rings can often be utilized by breaking them and separating the bad

part.

Store Eggs In Lime Water Where wat ergless cannot be obtained for the preservation of eggs. llmewater method may be substituted. Dissolve two or three pounds of unslaked lime In S gallons of water •hat has previously been boiled and fallowed to cool, and permit the mixture to stand iintil the lime rettles and the liquid Is clear. PUrn clean, fresh eggs In a clean, earthenware crock or jar. and pour the clean water into tbe vessel until the egg< are covered. At least 2 Inches of th. solution should cover the top Uyr. c.f egga. Sometime* n pound of salt is u»e<; with the lime, but experience has shown that in general the lime without the salt is more satisfactory. Fresh, clean eggs, properly pros'ryed, can be umh! satisfactorily for all piirj>oscs In cooking and for the

table.

In Sprin«i: a Railroad Official’s Fancies Turn Lightly to Hundred Thousand Dollar Salaries

Following Is a list of the princely salaries that were payed railroad heads in this country before the roadr v. ere taken over by the government Under Federal control salaries of operating officers were reduced at the same time that wages were raised. There is some speculation as to whether or not, now that the roads are returned to private control, these salaries will be restored. Robert S. l»vett. Chairman Execu t;ve Committee, Union Pacific, flOL104.00. Edward P. Riploy. President. Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fc. *75.400.00. Jacob M. Dickinson. Receiver. Chicago. R. I. A Pacific, *120.732.00. Walker D. Hines. Director. Chairiann Atchison. T. & S. F., $17.210.00. Marvin Hewitt. Sr.. Chairman Board of Director*. Chicago & N. W.. *60.460.00. Julius Kruttschnitt. Chairman Executive Committee o. Board <>1 i>i.et - to;s. Southern Pacific Transportation System, f88.860.00. John S. Bunnells. President Pullman Company. $60,500.00. c. H. Mark!.am. President Illinois Central. $60,655.00. Henry McAllister. Jr.. G.-nL-ral Conn tel. Denver A- R. G.. $i S.OOe.dO. E. Pennington. Preslii“nt, Mtnn.. SL P. £ 8. Ste. M.. $62,728.00. Samuel Rea, President. Pennsylva-

nia System. $75.000TO. Thomas M. Sc-humaker. President, Ui i*. .so £ Southwestern, f60.150.00. A H. Smith. President. New York Centra!, f78.360.0o. William Sproule. President, Sooth rn Pacific. $60,036.00. E. B. Thomas. Chairman of the Board, Lehigh Valley. $50,880.00. W. H. Trucsdale. President. Debt vsre. Lackawanna £ Western. $75. 399.00. Frederick D. Underwood. President. Erie Railroad. *77.950.00. H'chard H. Alshton. President. Chicago £ N irthwestern. *50.240.00. L. M. Bo 1. General Counsel. Chicago. Rock Island £ Pacific. *59.486.00. W .G. Bealer. President and General Manager. Central R. It. ofN. *50.210.00. George F. Browell. Vice-President and General Solicitor. Erie Ry„ *49.610.00. H. !.. Byram, President, Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul. *60.000 00 Carter. Ledynrd £ Mllbcrn. Gen. Counsel. Den. & R. G„ *55,000 00. Chadbourne £■ Shores. Counsel. Dec. v.-r A- Rio Granue, *63.000.00. A. J. Earllng. President. Chicago. Milwaukee A St. Paul. *78.315.00. William E Herrin. Vlce-Presidcn' and Chief Counsel. Southern Pacific $$0,500.90.

eieefc bed which overflowed at every ] rain, and st no time thoroughly orained the several acres of fertile Earned SI,000, bo,tom Um;

The farmi

The farmers and laborers present, who had done that, type of ditching by

To obtain a loan of *25 from a bans. agreed that no man could dig

invest in a product Imported from a distant State, ar.i reallxe a net profi of $1,055.85 within fifteen months, sug rests an achievement in high finann To Elton Part or. a fifteen-year-old »• In Bartlett, Williamson County. Texas, the transaction simply represented an investment of $25 in a 68iv.und Poland-Chlna gilt, picked from choice breeding stock In Kansas. The rgotiaMon was simple enough. The result achieved bulks big. The. adven not only rives the texa.. youth a bank baiar.ee of 1 over *1.009. but Elton Sartor also ha* been swarned the unchallenged title as the 1918 pig-club champion of the United States He; l.kewise has been awarded a scholar•hip to the- Texas Agricultural and derhanical College. The hyphen between the banker farmer In Texas, the prestige of a; nlg-club organization of —ttOW wide identity, and tbe helpful co-operatlou if a county agricultural agent wej«mong tbe agencies that stimulated the boy pig-grower. "Whole milk will certainly make the pig's tail curl" is a phrase that Elton Partoi doer not discount In prarticwhen producing championship pork. He has unmovable faith in milk as an item in the pig’s diet. And be talks nthnsiastlcally about a balanced ration. Well-directed effort and intell.-gf-nce characterized the activities of young Sartor In lifting a 68-pound sow pig from a $25 valuation to aq enterprise appraised in four figures. The record herewith in its unvarnished form speaks for Itself: The first litter from this sow was 11 pigs. The price he got for them when they were six months and four days old. and weighed 2.223 pound*, was $527.85. For 9 pic* out of the second Utter of 12 he received *225. Adding $500. th( amount refused for the sow. and deducting the feed bill of 172, the gain was $1,055.85. This means a net profit of $1,055.85 In fifteen months on an initial $25 investment. Remarkably significant is the record of the two pig-club champions claiming Texas as their home, for two successive years. For It was down it Georgetown. Texas, that Shelby Mu. ins developed into championship pro portions In 1917—end both Mullins and Sartor found identical guldano. In the same county agricultural agent. Owen W. SherrlU. Sandwiched between the wealthiest counties of Texas—Williamson anil Bell—is the town of Bartlett, with a pc pulation of 1,815. all told. It is the home of the Bartlett Boys' Registered Pig Club and Elton Sartor, as well the bovroe and -trength of tbe banker, farroei movement that groups itself around sixteen bankers In financing the pig club members. "I am safe m saying that no deserving boy has yet been refused assistance in buying his pig or brood sow where he Is willing to follow the su: gestlons of a county agent,'' says on

banker.

T. B. Benson, cashier of the Bsrtlett National Bank, states: "Any boy who will raise hogs and take an interest In them needs no other security than his note at this bank lost a cent on these notes, and do no 1

expect

Loans are made the pig-club boys st eight per cent interest, the only endorsement or lien required being the toy’s promise to pay and the loan's sanction by the boy’s father Some of the other outstanding Lchievements as contained In renrj o' Owen Sherrill, county agricultural' agent show thai one member cleared jrofit of $1.00(i: four made a net profit of $500 each: eight over $250 each end eleven, over $100 apleci—-from one sow pig each in 1918—S. R. Wiulets, in Farm and Firesld-

cne rod per day. and that a man could .ot be secured to work at that type •f work for less than $3 a day. There cas not A man present who would agree to do the work for less than

*120.

I'e sunk boro hole* 2 1-2 feet deep along the center line evry 18 inch*, with an ordinary 1 1-2-inch crowbar Into each of these was placed one cartridge (one-half pound) of thi might dynamite. We shot three sections each of about 10 rods. The propagated method was used them and there was no trouble whatever in firing each section with »e cap In the center. The resulting ditch was about 10 et wide at top. 4 feet at fottom. and trem $ to 4 feet deep. This was somewhat larger than was actually needed. The cost of the ditch was: Labor -laming dynamite only, no other required!. *5; 125 pounds 60 per cent straight dynamite, at $24.75 per hundred. $30.: 4. Total cost of $0 rods of eitch. *35.94. In other wonts, the right of way '.eared and the ditch blown at peration, and it required only about hours' time for three men. If tbe work bad been done by band, one man ci-uld not have dug it In a month. The importance of this experfmem can be estimated when It is stated, tij the college authorities and county cents that there are thousands oi acres of this fertile mnrk land ly all parts of Michigan. This land when dminod is better than tbe newly cleared cut-over lands, on account of Its extreme fertility. When dtainlng manh land or straightening cut creek channels It might pay you to try this quid and easy way of puling through a ditch. —Gay G. Means, Michigan.

Ditching Made Ea?y

Ditch contractor, and farmers in the uthern peninsula of Michigan tell e that of all problems that confront li.ud-owners on the low-lying sections of the Strte. that of ditching muck is, he most difficult. In connection with H. L. Ostrande of Legrand. Michigan. I made a study of this problem. We decided tc out ditching with dynamite. Ostrander was advised ly the explosive manufacturers to purchase 50 per cent st-Bight dynamite for th< work, since in using this more sens! live dynamite. It is not necessary u more than one cap in a considerable yardage of ditch. Thi' method ailed the propagated method, and will ork only in very moist, wet. or w covered soil. Since muck is always In Ms condition, this method Is usually i'st in muck soils. The dltc h which Ostrander needed vas about 30 rods in length, and lirouch the worst strip of log «‘ump Infested wet land that 1 • 'aw. The neighbors were not at all •v luctant about quetsioninc his sj when he talked of blasting a ditch hrough this swamp. The line of the ditch was laid •io as to straighten the old crooked

European Newspaper Says We are Self Satisfied and Illiterate

Hypnotism as a Cure

American People are Ignorant’

The following, from a European i wspaper. Is all the more hrmerous and interesting in that the people of the nation in which the newspaper is published are famed the world over

for their jollUcal ignorance.

'A person who has never lived in the United States and who has, consequently. no real idea of the Intellectual poverty of the masses of the people, would scarcely credit the assertions that could be made with perfect ac curacy of their bigotry and intolerance. The fundamental fact in the political llte of Amepra is lack of ideas. They have made scarcely any advance politically since the eighteenth century. ‘Americans have no suspicion whatever of tneir own deficiencies Ir this lorpect On the contrary, they believe themselves politically to be the most advanced people in the hlstor of the world. They will undertake in perfect simplicity to teach the Ignore r t fi.retgner although statistics taken bv the Americans themselves reveal the most amazing illiteracy among their own native-born. The growth of igno-

e in the United States is not less

astonishing than the growth of wealth. It is not a humble and, teachable Ignorance. It Is the self-satisfied and blatant Ignorance that accepts its own Infallibility as a matter of course, and fro a. the height of that infallibility undertakes to instruct the world regarding the abstrusities of democracy,

liberty and poll 'cal progress."

z the invqstors In the

future.

'The oil situation continues f of fundamental strength, gasoline' retail prices at 31 cents per gallon. Nearly large producing oil company on 'Western Hemisphere are bending (forts towards increased prodl «nti it might be well tor those rest and speculate In this < stocks to keep an eye on thc-lr fat tssui- from

“As an evidence of the trend a public mind, we have received j

requests for copies of c

TALKS" daring the past two i than we have since early last which we take as an indication th< investor is desirous to keeping! close touch with market movemen* Money talks, and sometimes It M

the losing argument

Financial Notes

The best surgeon couldn't make q

without Inside Information.

Man is a gregarious animi.. way of the transgressor is hard,

is never lonesome.

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From the pessimist's point of - '* '* an ill win-' that shows which •! tbe straws blow.

PF.RSONAI. SERVICE

\ I ' H i. I HLR your acrou ’ * it huge or small, it will ireei

that rainttaking care and i 1 w hich insure* the best results for yt

It it a pieasnr - to keep our diet advised by mail and telephone of m ket changes and happenings !iki to affect the market position of curitiet they are carrying.

At this time, we suggest the purchase good Oils, Industrials, and Coppers. T

Winslow Taylor £ Company say. | >««« cU “ «> f h *‘ * hon » <,eci<1

“We feel that there will be an easing length during the recent reaction.

Not only In physical disease and nerve exha us m, but in all sorts of mental nd moral disease hypni *ism plays a part. It may remove delusions. halludnatiofts. obsessions, and morbid fears. It la most potent In •■ring kleptomania and mania for lyug. At a treatment for the drink nablt, which 1: only second to nervous prostration in adding to the rapid Increase In insanity, hypnotism plays a part in effective alleviation that is unrivaled. Dr. Boris SWls. one of the leading American hypnotists, took the case of a man. a seemingly hopeless sort, wose father and mothe: before him bad both been victims coholism. To the doctor's amazement. he affected a cure in ti shot! time. There are many disappoint ments. it is true, but the percentage of peimunent cures Is astonishingly high.

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The average man has a lot of get rich-quick ideas up his sleeve, which when going nearly always go wrong.

Do You Know That You’re Wealthy

Has anyone ever told you that. In one respect, you are as rich as Rockefeller—as Well of •* Schwab and J. I*. Morgan. Well, *you ARE. When you were born Nature deP<im ed to your credit in the Bank of Life a gnat big ample capital of—TIME.

You have all the time there is— twenty-four hours each day. In that one thing, you're as rich as the wealthiest man In the world.

And mark well, you can exchange Time for Money, but all the wealth In the world won’t buy one additional second for a man. If it would, billionaire* would be fighting on your doorstep, bidding fabulous sums for a bit of your time added to their span of life.

Yon can trade your Time fi thing the world holds.

■ any-

If you want Money—Success—just invest a little of your Time and tbe reward Is yours.

The business man rs well as the unusual investc- rnd t-wder of today le devoting much tin e to the study of our weekly fii vnclal newspaper. “THE DIWOEND PAYER," a copy of whuh will be tent you free upon request.

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Outlook for the Motors

I N the freneral rehabilitation of nation-wide transportation facilities,the motor industry has before it a commercial opportunity that is the subject of a leadin'* article in a current number of our Market Review. In this connection there is specific reference to conditions Surrounding three important motor

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