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T HND Wt D Ly PlON SUTh LNA Get ready to swat the fly. Vassar college is 50 years old, but ddbsn't look It. Dead artists are appreciated, while the living ar" ignored. Fishhooks are ripe, and you can dig bait while spading the garden. A baseball team's winning stride will do it no good if it never strikes It. Farmers should welcome the aero plane. They won't have to turn out for it. The strawberry always makes good In the shortcake. It is the national berry. So if you go to the coronation, you cannot watch the baseball games here at home. The shrinking violet has plenty of cause to shrink or even to shrivel if it prefers to do that. A Chicago doctor has found danger Ois mierobes in the whiskers of cats. Don't kiss your cat. "Let a woman have the last word," says one of our jurists in advising mere men. Superfluous advice. Berlin boasts of a talented canine who can talk. His education is prob ably progressing in dog Latin. Another kind of optitnist is the man who expects to find the garden trowel and rake where he put them last fall. A Newark (N. J.) attorney is suing for $500 for his services in reading a bundle of love letters. Cheap at that. It is estimated that over $5,000,000 will be spent by Americans at King George's coronation. Why not have it over here? Wealthy men cannot always do as they please. A judge wouldn't allow Cornelius Vanderbilt to cross his legs in court. We agree with the police that a burglar who upset a lighted lamp should be tried for criminal carelesq, ness ,at least. A friend of E. 11. Harriman pays it was thinking in bed that killId him. And where else do any of- us get a chance to think? 7AL1gatiopi /over a $17,000 estate in NiThl'k cost $13,000, and now they are wondering how the lawyers over looked the $4,000. A California judge declined to recog nize poker as the great American game. it goes on, however, without judicial recognition. Mine. Rlique, the prophetess, says ihat the breath typifies the spirit. And she night add that cloves don't seem to make much difference. Au iown man is out with a demand that allogs be killed. Perhaps ho eidn't know of any other way of at tracting attention to himnself. An American actress has become the wife of an Egyptian prince, and wvill havet somne justiilcation for it if she wis'hes to wear a harem skirt. .The lbed slat. urged for household currectiou. rounds too much like or ganized assault. The hair brush re ,matus unlequaled for pinch hitting. An American actress has married an flgyptian prince and1( she will now be forced by ani Egyptian fashion af long standing to wvear a harem skirt. The secretary of the treasury is in favor of discontinuing the coinage of $2.50 gold pieces. lHe could (10 so without causing meny people to miss -them much. A Massachusetts scientist is going to attempt to breed stingless bees. It be succeeds, his next hoon to human ity ought to be stingless andl sound less mnosquitoes. A Chicago man bought a rare old book ,at the Hoee sale for $21,000. inut there are publications from which he can get much more information at a cargain price of 21 cents. - Prince Ihenry came down in a hurry w'hen his aeroplane went wrong. Royal personages have no more influence with the laws of gravitation than they have with time and tide. It is said that the English explorers in Jerusalem have found Solomon's crown, his ring and his sword. is wisdomi unfortunately, is still beyond the reach of modern research. Manufacturers have decreed that the hobble and the harem skirts must Eo. And yet it seems hardly possible that their banishment will be followed by an em-a of common sense fashions. News that an Italian cotint has been arrested in New York on a charge of Smuggling leadi. #4 to believo that foreign nobletilea4 A WOt 4epend en tirely on Amest~ ~Iigses for a mesas of y vloo. Rea s~h r dN ore Poa0 read With Pele By GEORGE BRABRNT HOLE wheat bread is not more popular in this country because W the American people are consuming large quantities of proteid or nitrogenous food, chiefly contained in .neat, which. wl'ole wheat also contains in a much larger percentage over white flour. Should persons whose diet largely consists of ieat eat in addition thereto a good portion of whole wheat bread for a time tjhey would find themselves growing tired of that regimen because of the additional proteid, upon which they already are feeding abundantly. Th'iere would then be a super amount for the system to handle. Now whole wileat bread with its plentiful proteid charge has not. been eaten froii childhood to maturity and old age, but instead mostly imeat and while bread. That is why those who have given whole wheat bread eating a trial are found reverting back to an almost exclusive meat, proteid and white bread diet" as they are accustomed to that regimen and their systeis have had to recoil back to white bread or less proteid eating. Another reason why whole wheat bread is not popular is the fact that people in general are consuming foods of a mushy nature, and wholo wheat being somewhat coarse, the tissues must first adjust themselves and become more hardened. This hardening process is the direct result from the additional mineral salts contained in and derived from the bran. Contrary to the assert ions of some correspondents, the bran is digested and firnishes the system with elements that are not contained in any other part of of the wheat. ''he bran also aids digestion in that it prevents elogging of the stniziach (dyspepsia) and bowels. There is no nitrogenous alimental value in the bran, as was thought years ago; that. lies' in the gluten part of the wheat. Whole wheat flour, further, is cheaper to manufacture, ea it requires only one process, one grinding of the kernels. If the American people people would accept their national bread cereal as nature has endowed it, they would be as true and stalwart a race as the Scotch are, whose diet. chiefly is an oat meal gruel, oatimeal bread and oatimeal cakes, all eaten with bran which nature iurnished for i purpose. A serious mistake was committed by a great part. of the American public when it assumed that the five-foot library suggest. Serious19 ed by ex-President Eliot of Ilarvard was ..(M istake in to become popular. Theli oflicials of our public library caight the spirit, with he FiveJ.~'oot . tmilt that for some weeks the few books through the reading of which the sage of Caibridge declared one might obtain liberal education were placed on a special shelf accessible to all. By C. S. DUKE Now (hat the books have been reimoved and the reverberation of the last editorial joke cracked on this ill-fated venture of Professor Eliot lihs died away in the faint distance, it is not at all out of place to approach t-he matter in a serious umoodi. For a liberal educat ion in thle t ruest sense of the term is a serious matter and somaethiing not to be easily seized upon by thle average imian of todlay. It has to do with lhe mat ter of character building and (cultulre--a slow and puainstaking pro (ess, with but a little aidmixture' of the( loose enljoyimenmt to be hadl~ out of readling the books fu rnishued by thle P'ulna-eamr libraries or suchl as con stitute the current literature oif today. Those who earnestly (desire what D r. Eliot lhad in ind when be of fered his list of books will find enough in thIiis live-foot I lbrary to be ren lv helpful. It is these who will aippr'onch ther mat ter with determinmat ion, knowing full well that nothing worth while can be obtained unless the corresp)onding amount of ell'ort is put into thle ait Itmpt. Under the fvniuv oiimtoasyita FlyingApltclpoetiwiou hnr By A. W. MACY'Jhe orshrsbth sikrth Author of eTing est on eros aroteraeuits prid Soni me, lke ynaite xnnoe min the ietie n d me ares resistance.y Thos whowisto e conte with tae shp sho say, tsay itha A mans opnion fa Andld lplitica ophethr is nto hoor sandinhirowipaty Not anypeole ae f eoug fealet akal pst-radwuatoer coure inem'simsfortune Ataana, topin t pik ipThe golen appls Jes the hres and won ahusbad; tus l~~in tha rend in mneedog isnortnear so inever (stng s ne hoisnglperus Some mn, likdynamteealli thsneical ofe tengreaf theea ronasirt G ma'Ipno faln si eten ynwear ne sonstreep wer udri. ildwt wmnmutdonbccei Ntrmn epeae a nuhaongtooer th tak di not-reahateo coure Ap ro a kehoastnreoetsttssm. si Skiratstopn to p is the womden appleh, lost the race an won a husband; tathingosiit that.eeni m oloymesfsortnes ee y C.opyright.R1ankles doelared imowest? Skirts hrm kr tesaet~~m mt hesem skirb evrwryte e n in et e eassne u teeswr A voe wold luol 80 ill edt ofithe omene moned faong iyls n ~o~tabloomersathat did notgethch belowethe knee? 0 MA O LTHOUGH the cultivation of cacao was introduced into the island of Santo Domingo from Venezuela by Spanish settlers more than two hundred years ago, and the crop now produced and exported is of such magnitude as to give the Dominican Republic one of tie leading positions in the cacao world, yet the cultivation continues to be largely a matter of chance, no systematic attention being paid to the several details so necessary to insure the best returns. Soil and climate are not met halfway, and the result is only nature's unaided contribution to the world's supply of an important article of diet. The contrast in this respect with other cacao countries must be noticeable. As a rule cacao is grown by the small planter. There ..re a few large plantations, but even on them the requisite care is not taken. Trees are allowed to grow with but little attention to the proper dis tance that should be between them, so that there Is often the aspect of un dergrowth instead of an orderly or chard: selection of the best soil is not made to give the greatest yield, nor are the trees pruned in order to avoid that waste in substance that should be retained for the develop mnent of the fruit itself. An apprecia tion of the foregoing statements will .conv'ey an idea of what the future may be for cacao in the Dominican Repub lie when the essential efforts are put forth in its cultivation. Unquestion ab!y. cacao is destined to be the main stay of the country, and the income fronm the sale of this natural produ.ct creates wealth more widely dlistribu ted among the people than is true of the other principal product, sugar. A great advantage enjoyed by Dor!irUkan cacao is that Santo Domin go occupies a geographical position nearest to New York of any of the leading producing countries, and New York is the metropolis of the country of greatest cacao consumption. This geographical feature should exert an influence on freight rates, and espe cially so when with the completion of the Panama canal all of the West In dies will reap commercial benefits pro portionally greater than other sec tions. Cacao cultivation is confined prin cipally to the Cibao section, in the northern part of the island. Here thsere is an abundant rainfall, so nec essarv for the growth and maturing of the cacao bean. The best quality cacao comes from the Province of Seibo, in th vicinity of Higuey, and from around Sabana de la Mar on the south coast of Samana bay. The plantations in the two sections par ticularly named are controlled by for eigners, Swiss and French, who are doing and hav'e already accomplished something definite toward improving the quality of Dominican cacao, with the very natural commercial conse quence thiat the cacao marketed by them commands a much better price than obtained in the other district. from whenco comes the bulk of the product. These efforts of the indti viduals mentioned, with the tangible reward accrued, will do mutch toward encouraging the native growers to adopt similar methods if they would increase their income, On either side of the Yuna river, which flows into Samana bay close to the port of Sanchez, there is available land open to settlement by purchase, Thle soil is said to be splendidly adapted to cacao and the annual rain fall meets the requirement in that re r-espect. There are cacao trees still bearing in Santo Domingo claimed to be all of 100 years old, and an average tree will continue to yield until it is 60 years old. The avei'age Dominican cacao bears favorable comparison with that pro duce~d on the island of Sao Thome; Africa; and the best quality-.that whuieh is given special care at time of fornientation-is to be classed with M.: t6he best Bahia product. Dominican labor is inexpensive, and perhaps can be employed to better advantage on h cacao plantation than where heaviet work is the rule. To start a cacao plantation the irtial and principal investment would be confined to the land itself. Then would be the item for fencing. No expensive machinery is required not is any elaborate plant necessary. 01 course there will come off years, as in alH pursuits, but if they do the lose will not be heavy, as would be the case if it were necessary to maintain a costly establishment during a dis. astrous year. The world's consumption of cacao is increasing at a greater rate than the recorded gain in production. It is unlikely that the latter will overtake the former. The demand for choco late, cocoa, and the many confections in which cacao is used expands year by year. Sections of the world's area where cacao can successfully be grown are necessariW lyiiited, owlWg to climatic requirements. The com parative facility with which this crop can be produced, harvested and trans ported gives it advantages not en joyed by other tropical p'oducts. The principal markets taor Domini can cacao are the United 'dtates, Ger many and -France, in the order named. During the current year the prevailing price obtained in the Re public has been around eight dollarr per quintal of 50 kilos. W. E. PULLIAht. ENTERED IN LONG CONTEST Farmer's Explanation of Matters Proved That He Had a 8trong Sense of Humor. A farmer was chasing an escaped pig along the highroad. The animal was putting him far to the rear. A ueighbor, passing in a buggy, came to a stop, turned to watch the pur suit, roaring wvith laughter. "Don't you want to borrow my horse and bug. gy'?" he cried. The farmer seemed Incensed by this pleasantry and drew himself up as i~i to make an angry reply. But he thought better of it. Over his face crept a look of stolid good nature. He perched on the fence and kicked the (lust from his boots. "It's a powerful tiring race," he be gan in a tone that invited friendly conversation. "Well, I guess it is. You'd better wait and take a train and head him off at some way station during the night." "He's still falling farther behind me," drawled the farmer. "But I'm afraid he's begun to get his second wind. Still I don't think he can catch me, do you?" "Behind you! Catch you? Well, hardly, going that way." "That's what I think. You see, this is one of them round-the-world races that automobiles talk about. He's a whole lap behind me, except for the few rods that he seema to be ahead of me. All' that surprises me is the way ho can keep up the trail, being sc far behind. "Oh, there, I see he's losing it now --going through that gap into a pota to patch. I want to be fair, so if you'll excuse me, I'll run down and lap him,/ and steer him right." Youth's Companion. Midgets Blocked Weathervane. On examining the weathervane on Lurgan parish church (County Ar. magh, Ireland), which refused to work lately, a steeplejack found it blocked with myriads of dead midgets. Taking No Chanoes. Vitor---Anjd you always did youm daring robberies single handed? Why didn't you* have -a pal? Prisoner-' Well, sir, I wus afraid he might tu"' otto be haiAfhanaet, Dra 1ig * s ttle Arlene w* arith *pearance of the, n hose ee but who4 she olberved a line .df Ari hose, with its" great lehnth and #ulk lying serpent-like it the street. she immediately inquired what it was.. Her mothir replied that was firemen's hose, and the child went on watching the fire. In the meantime two additional tire companies dashed up, and these newly arrived fire fighters were carrying their reop aotive lines toward the butn ing building, when little Arlene -spie them. ' ,Oh, 'mamma," she cried, craning her neck out of the crowd, "here comes more firemen dragging their hosiery behind them!"-Lippincott's. Remember, there is a limit to hu man endurance. The friends who stand up for you may tire in the course of time and proceed to sit down on you. It isn't always the person who wants to say something that has sore thing to say. SHIE GOT WIIAT SIE This Woman Had to Insist Strongly, but it Paid Chicago Ill.-"I Buffered from a fe. nale weakness and stomach trouble, - and I went to the store to get i bottle of Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable - t Compound, but the . clerk did not want HlM to let me have it Poo- he said it was no good and wanted me to try something elpe, bu't knowing all about It I In. sisted and finally got it, and I am so glad I did, for it has cured me. "I know of so many cases where wo. maen-have been cured by Lytlia E.P1ink.. ham's Vegetable Compound that I can say to every suffering woman if that medicine does not help her, there is 4 noothing that will."-Mrs. JANETzia 206 Arch St., Chicago, Ill. This is the age of substitution, and women who want a cure should insist upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegatable Compound just as this woman d, and not accept something else on which the druggist can make a little more profit. Women who are passing thro ghthis critical period or who ara-6iufering f-om -any of-io l sIng ills pe culiar to their sex shodu d not lose sight of the fact that for thirty years Lyda E. 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