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w LOW SALARIED SUFFER MOST -*V *- / X 'Labor Department Compiles Sta tistics in Cities That Show Expenditures. ji FOOD AND RENT GOME HIGH The Lower Your Salary the Greater Proportion of It You Spend for Food^and Shelter, Say In vestigators. •Washington.-—The lower your salary, the greater percentage of dt you spend for food and shelter, according to the latent governjnent cost of livings Inves tigation. —*— - Tables compiled by labor depart- -, v li ent experts after study (ft hundred's of family budgets show the actuah cash <593.09; clothing, $2 1 73.53; rent,-4200.04; 1 fm-l-^aqd -light, $75.60; -furniture, $76.02; mlscellaaeop, $310.60, lutul expenditures j(ier family averaged $1,535.77 for an nvernge number of 4.7 persons per family. Sixty-two families ended the year with an average sur plus of $125.03, nine experienced an av erage deficit of $103.81, \yhile four bal anced their books;evenly. Study M^ny Cities. LITTLE WOMAN TRAPS BURGLARS rorld over" w r»»/condemned ny—T. — —- j lev. Dr. A. I’ul/jtnan tnc_ 4.} Tiptoeing/lr.to Dark Home She >«.»!,ytertan raini.frT.i f p rot jtices Two Intruders for Police. M^ny es wl Eleven families 1 with an income of $2,500 or over averaged In their ex penditures for food, . $914.42 ; clothing, $476.39; rent, $250.36; fuel and Rght, $95.16; furniture, $127.33; miscellane ous, $664.31. The total average ex penditures per family was $2,527.89 for an avernge family of 7.6 persons. All families reported a surplus. The average surplus was $409.52. Similar studies have been prepared^ by the labor deportment for groups representative families In BnljHfiore, South Sea Beauties Use C^alk on Complexion .Philadelphia.—I’a’.ht and pow der on the faces, of "women the world over" w re/condemi)ed by Rev. 1 ence In the Witherspoon build ing. Doctor Polilnmn, who wax formerly an African missionary, said? “It thelrTdeslre to make their faces'^ attractive by paint and powder women are the same the world over. Ip Liberia they use white chalk on their black faces. Here .they use red and pink. What Is the< difference?” j ‘J Yanks Salvage outlay fbr food and rent Is greater in famines wfth the higher Incomes, hut in the average family the expenditures for thcs*vneressitles flops not increase. as fast as the income. un Baltimore, for instance, W fam ilies with Incomes under $900 averaged expenditures <»f $382.05 for food and $120.44 for rent. The average was 46.5 per cent of the total income for food and 14.6 f*»r rent. The fnmllies whose Incomes were $2,500 or more, however, average i3.5 per cent ies* for food in German Guns Worth Many* Mil- Boston. Bridgeport, Buffalo. Chambers- lrurg, Pa. ; Dover, J.; Fall. River, Mass.; JohnsIprfii, N. Y.; Lawrence, Mass.; Mpfrldiester. N. H.; Newark. N. York city. Pittsburgh, Portland, Mb# Providence, It. 1.; Rut- I'arvl, Vt.; Scranton, Syracuse, Trenton, Westfield, Mass.; and Wilmington, Del. rX -7- —rt— / Immense Booty VOICE SCARES THEM Had Loot Crammed In Gunny Sack, but Drop Guna When Woman Speaks—One J-ong Wanted by Police Chlcdgo.—She’s not knee-high to the proverbial duck.- In fact, the pistol she held probably w-ould have kicked her over backward hud she pilled Its trigger. [’ / F Yet Mrs. Oliver T. Martin, wife of a wealthy tobacconist living at 364 East Fifty-eighth street,-luwl the .nerve. And that enabled her to capture two burglars, one of whom the entire po lice force has been.trying and fulling to capture for several r-ouths. - • . It happened thus: Mrs. Martin was In Tier husband.’* store at 316 East Flft.vj-elghth street. A neighbor telephoned that t<ro bur glars were ransacking her apartnaenu Gets Out Big HistoL Just Once! Try Dodson’s Liver Tone! . Take. No Calomel! Listen To Me! If bilious,/constipated, headachy or sick, I guarantee relief without, taking dangerous calomel which sickens and salivates. Stop using calomel! It makes yon sick. Don’t lose a flag’s work. If you feel lazy, sluggish, bilious or consti pated, listed tp toe! - Calomel Is mercury or quicksilver, which causes necrosis of the bones. Calomel, when it comes Into contact with sour bile, crashes Into It, break ing It tip. This Is wl^en you feet that awful nausea and cramping. If you are “all knocked out," If your liver Is torpid and bowels constipated or you have headache, dizziness, coated ton gue, If breath Is had or stmnach sour, Just try a spobnful of harmless Dod son's Liver Tone. . Here’s my guarantee—4»o to any drug store and get a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone for a few cents. Take a spoonful tonight, and If It doesn't Comparing Note*. am I the first girl you ever ■*— straighten you right up and make you feel fine and vigorous by morning, I want you to g o (bade to the store and get your moBey. Dodson’s Liver Tone la destroying the sale of calomel be cause it Is retf! liver medlcfhe; entirely vegetable, therefore it can not salivate - Or make you sick. I guarantee that one spoonful of Dodson’s Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your bowels of that sour bile and consti pated waste which is clogging your- system and making you,feel miserable. I guarantee that a bottle of Dodpon’s Liver Tone will keep the entire family feeling fine for months. Give It to your children. It Is harmless; doesn't gripe and they like its pleasant taste. —Adr. * - NOT HIS UNLUCKY NUMBER comparison with total Income und 11.5 less f**r rent. Showing how fntich more cheaply the highor-snlarled families get off In other oitle* are these differences: I’ltlxhurgh. food 15 per cent, rent 7.5 per cent; New York. f«*od &7 |**»r cent, rent - 7.7 per cent; Boston, f«***d 4.9 l**t eent. rent 5.2 |w*r cent; Syracuse. f»MHl 4.3 |M-r cent, rent 19 per cent; Scranton.. f****d 3.7 |**r cent, rent 6 4 , l»»*r cent. * How Spending Varies. » llow Ian.Hies of varying Income* upend tfA. ru 1*, Indicated hv tables showing average expenditures of dif ferent groups for l*tilladclphta and C'amden. N. J. The table deals with 1 of 3i»l families of seven lions Are Found in Ar- gonne Forest. WEAPONS ABANDONED BY FOE ei|wndlture' different in. Four 4am under Jk**t fat food rent. #176,25; furniture. .« $U«>52. The twee- p^r fatally was $821.26, and the axerage ntitul>**r of |*er*ofi* ja»r family 4 .3 Three faiiinb 1 * ft! ie groups. •s wh«>*<- income* were year averaged |>er year 'clothing, $100.87; fuel and light • M3.01; 15.22; misfvllaneou*. axerage total ox|»-odl- I" |w SI of e* •rt»*l >r fat tilly 57.35 i* fify- $1 * III f ba*f 1 Itur pluses which nvera r, xx Idle one had a fed $24.33 deficit of • families with Incomes t under *1,wx». re|M»rted that jiv« raged for f.»d Teuton* Left Artillery and Shell* In Mad Flight When American* Ad vanced—Forest Cleaned by — - Doughboys. Paris.—tl'nr iwoty. xalued ut more than $5.iasu**i. left by tfie German* - In their- filght from the Arg<>nne for est., the scene of America'* greatest battle In the world war. ha* 4»een col lected by a force of negro ntltllrr* w ho have been clenultig up the fatuous bat tlefield. Machine gup*. rUiaa. muni tton* and war supplies of all kinds have |teen collected In every eoodfd ravin**, dugout and trench In the Ar- gonn*-Meuse sector, comprising Wi square miles. The American engineers move*! up to the battlefield soon after the amis »l*e was signed For ndles around th**re was not a village or farm that W as occupied. * « »rd.-rs were Issue*! t*> s«pin*ls of An>ert«*uu snlxage engineer* to pick up BRITAIN DEPORTING BOLSHEVISTS every gun they found, broken or Jn- serviceable conllitlon. ns xvell ns all war material, and'pluce the snppHe** along the nearest road for-mtleetlon In army trucks. The colored fighters receive*I Instructions that whenever they came across mi um-xplodod shell they were riot to touch It, but to put up a little stick beside It with a note so that thg munition, salvagers could find It Jatur. The douglritoy* soon mnde the dis covery thnt the German* In their filght nhiindoned hundred* of machine guns'ami even large pieces of artillery which the Yankees, in their hurry to advance, had lath'd to ».**, Loaded In Box Cara. One of the dhu-oxerie* made by the Americans who .have completed the task of cleaning up »l*«* hattU-fleid whs j the unusually large number of ma chine guns the Germans had Installed J tu the Argmine forest. No Information t was —cured as to the nunilmr the enemy was able to *nve In his flight 1 toward the Rhine, hut thousands of I these wea|*ius were left behind. In <me small sector of the battlefield sev eral hundred cars were loaded with f-msrtrtnr guns* - ^ I In one town located In the rear of the batth'fleM there Is a pile of brass shell cases, abandon* *1 by the Ger- j ■ mans, that would more than fill the , hold of a large ocean freighter. It | was estimated that nearly l.(NN).0iMi | shell canes bad been piled In thnf vll- I lage. These have been purchased by the French government. Salvage Work Expensive.* Kx|*er* with the American expedi tionary force* have estimated that tin* i Yankees hail captured 21K1 [a*r cent • more war booty fn tb** Arg*»nn«> forest than tln*lr rec*»rds will show. This nns *lue, It Is seld, t*» the nipldlty of the American advance and to the hurry of the Germans to leuve their dugout* and wea|**n* himI *urreu*lee-H* th**lr conquerors. . The work of Henning tip the Ar- gonne battlefield. h*»xvever, has been an T expensive one. although vast qtianti- 1 ties of copper, brass and steel have been salvaged. It has eost more than , $2,000,tM)tt tt) complete^ the task, but the work has been a suceess financial ly, as the booty is worth more than" t\vi*e that sum. •Truly Visaed? •* Although Unpopular, ‘ 4 Thirteen ,, Has “You are. darling; and It mu^es me Been Decidedly ^ ixe d With Thi* happy to hear you *av I am the first Englishman'* Life.' “ man who hvec kiss*»d you.” | * fl She notified the Wabash avenue po- “If I am the first, how does It hap- Superstitious readers will be Lnter- lice and directed them to meet her in pen you do it so **\|M*rtly?” . the vestibule of the building. Seizing “And If I am the first, how do you a big automatic pistol, she rushed to know whether I do it expertly or not?” the rendezvous. - | —Exchange.. „ . “Policemen Edward McGuire. Pat- 1 rick Mdnerney und Thomas Cassidy . Hard Task. were there ringing t^f doorbell when. Tom—Halloa. Dick, old hoy! Wrlt- * log home for money? . ■he arrived. "Don’t do that. You’ll alarm them." cried *Mrs. Martin. "Ie-t'a catch- 'em. dead or alive." She held the big gun steadily and led the way to the sec ond floor. The Martin apartment was dark and silent when the plucky woman unlock ed the d«*or softly. She crept In uh**ad of the policemen and stopped to listen. A slight noise came from the library. "Are any burglars In there?" Mrv Martin demanded to know. She ■wit died on the pecepttnn hall llght^ “Yes. I'm one." answered a voice In the library, before the horrified po licemen could protest at Mrs. Oliver's method of criminal pr*H-**«1ure. The Dick—No. Tom—>Yhat arq you taking so much trouldo for? You’ve been fussing about two blessed h*»urs *»ver that *u»e letter. Dick—Pifi trying to write home with out asking for money.- — Subject to Change. “Mrs. Smlth-Jones Is a decided ( blonde. Isn’t she?" "Ye*, hut she • only decided last week."—Stray I Stories. ested in the following extraordinary story,.of which the hero is Mr. F. O. Cordwell, the well-knowp and popular Fleet street Journalist. Mr. .Cordwell lias lieen literally dogged by the number thirteen.- It was on the 13th day of the month thut he went to.-France, that he went infr action, got his~flr*t l«*ac^ and re turned to take up his commission. It xx a* hi the thirteenth tent. In Iln4 13. camp 13 that he had his first lodff- m#-nt In France. The tent contained 13 men. He had 13 day* In hospitaL He wa* given No. 13 pills. And. re turning to civil work rih January 13, he found Uiat his old room had been renumbered 113. Now count up the coincidence*. You will find 13 of them’—Answers. Lon don. v ** Smart. T planned the house out of my own . .. ,, _ h«.d - "Oh. I dl.tn-t ku..« It ... . V.M*. *.»• US* woortM b«,«■.- , T !‘A‘,* ? .' in :. "?.i D L '“ T T 1 tor closed recently with the small est catch In recent gear*. Only ton ships, the smallest fleet sine* 1970, prosecuted the Industry, the crew numbering 1.685 men, and the total catch amounting to 81.298 pelu. valoed at $278,145. This give* a decrease In number of 70,148 and In value of $585.- 407. compared with the 1^18 voyage. The poor Ashing seemed to be doe to adverse WHirher con dittoes. Ice being too closely packed for vessels to navi gate properly, and to the fact that the seal were scattered. The price of young seel pelts was placed at $8 per TRIN PEOPLE SHOULD. TAKE ; PHOSPHATE Nothing Like Plain Bitro-Pheaphate to Put on Firm, Healthy Flesh and to Increase Strength, Vigor and Nerve Force. Judging from the countless preparatlone hundredweight, as against $12 for 191& and treatments which are continually be- nnd $8.56 to $7 for other qualities as lit// 1 ing advertised for the purpose of making __ a » thin people fleshy, developing arms, neck against $9 to ed.nU. • and bust, and replacing ugly hollows and , . angles by the soft < urved tinea of hsalth ana beauty there are evidently thousands of men and women who keenly feel their excessive thinness Thinness and weakness are often due to starved nerves. Our bodies need more phosphate than Is contained In modern foods Physicians claim there Is nothing ASWAWV.'iv •;?$ 4 ~~ About one hundred bolsbevlsts were rempxed from Ilrixton prison. Lon don. for deportation to Russia. They were placed in motorbusses and taken ' to the eniharkation port. The-photograph shows a small crowd of relatives and friends of the prisoners gathering about the entrance to the prison as the first -motorbus tilled up". Soldier Beat* Train. Junction City, Kan.—T-ralns wore too slow for a certain Kansas soldier who has been away from his home at Salina for two years. When he re turned to Camp Funstorvthe other day h,‘ received a pass to spend 8unday at Salina. Instead of waiting seveniL hours for the next train to his home town, he hit the highway and was for tunate in catchingian automobile ride to AJiilene. His good luck did not foresake him there, for ho again took, to the road and' another motorcar picked Wtff*up and landed him in Sa lina about the time the train wa. leaving Junction City. RED ORGY OF MURDER 4 .. % City, Freed, of Bolshevist Rule, Reveals Terrible Story.* Men, Women and Children Killed ^ Without Ti'ial, Many After Horrible Torture. London.—Farm, the first city of any size retaken by »dmiral Kolchak’s All-Russian army from the bolshevikl, offers a great study In “red" atrocities. Ferm Is virtually a slaughter house. tim* already have been recovered, and' more are !»eing found every day. tims were killed by being fftpprd. Oh the head with a wooden rimllet. This seminary garden is one con tinuous grave of naked-ri»odies and 80, SHE TAKES AIR FLIGHT Atlantic City Widow Goos Up 3,000 Feet as Aviator Does Stunt. >- ' '*? • • Atlantic City, N. J.—Mfs. Ida C. Wilcox, who is eighty, the widow of un The Voice Materialized in the Shapi of a Youth. voice materialized in the shape of • youth. -T “There are two here. Where is thfr other?" the little woman persisted. “Here I am,” answered another voice from the dining room. Another youth stepped forward. Burglars Drop Guns. Investigation showed both burglars had dropped their revolvers on the floor at the sound of Mrs. MaffTn’s voice. In the dining room was their loot sack crammed'with Jewelry and silverware valued at several thousand dollars. - One of the burgles, Charles Bray- ton, has a long police record ‘and has been sought repealedlT-fAr’numerous burglaries and holdups throughout the city. He gave his address at 213 East Forty-eighth street, but thut was found to be fictitious. The other. Edward Sandler, who al so gave a fictitious address, declared he was an “ajuateur burglar." that will supply this deficiency so well,a* the organic phosphate known £tnong drug gists aa bltro-phowphateg which is inex pensive and Is sold, by mo*t all drugxlata under a guarantee of xatlsfaetlon or money bark By feeding the. nerves directly and by supplying the body cell* with the nec essary phosphoric food elements, bltro- phoaphate should produce a welcome transformation In the appearance; the in crease in weight frequently being aston ishing. Increase in weight also carries with It a general Improvement In the health. Nervousness, ^sleeplessness and lack of energy, which nearly always accompany excessive thinness, should disappear, dull eyes become bright, and pale cheeks glow With the bloom hf perfect health CAUTION: — Although bltro-fihoBphate is unsurpassed for relieving nerx’ousness, sleeplessness and general weakness, it should not. owing to Its tendency to in crease weight, be used by anyone who does not desire to put on .flesh. The Usual Thing. “There dm** uot seem to b# much fraternal spirit among your cltlzena," *ald the specturlvd guest. "They ap pear to be almost at swords’ points with each other—backbiting, gossiping, denouncing, and—" “Yep:" returned the landlord of tha tavern at \Vayovcrbchind. "But that’s all on the surface. Just xxalt till some stranger comes to town aud gets into trouble, and you’ll behold a united com munity JGinp onto him with both feet and I11 one voice,’-'—Kansas City Star. Crawfish Decide to Migrate. Passengers arriving in New Orleans on a recent Sunday evening by the Louisville Ar Nashville railroad said the trackA were swarming with craw fish practically the whole distance be tween Mlcheud aud Chef Menteur. Hundreds were walking along gath ering the seafood. Baskets, heavy with squirming, wriggling, pinching craxvfish were brought in by scores of persons, Expert fishermen said the fish were crawling back t^ calm wa ters to escape thg squalls outside. DOGS FIND STILL AND DRINK .skeletons. .Identification of the vie- army colonel, lives in a little cottage tims is Impossible.'A Russian-countess ; near the field where airmen ha\*e been nrnl hee. daughter woe tied to pouts In tills garden, stripped of their clothes, then killed by a succession of- dagger pricks ail over their bodies. ' A doing—da r I tig—exhibition 'peril .stun in The fascination tempted* Tier until sfie could stand it no longer JW recently she gave the most experienced aviation dozen priests were crucified head j fan * ftt air port a thrill hy tajclng downward; two others were boiled In i* rl,,e w,,h Eddie Stinson, who ascend- oil. "* _ : ed 3,000 feet.. “I want you to go as high as Police Wonder When Canines Stagger Along Streets in an Oregon Town. Baker. Ore.—With dogs blear-eyed and wobbly In their underpinnings, staggering along suburban streets Hundreds of the upper classe* of you- Hundreds of bodies of l»olslievlkF-rtr ri * , n>e city, men. women and children. < | nI1 ’ s *‘** *° daring fl}-er. “and You Do More Work, You are more ambitious and you get more enjoyment out of everything when your blood is in good condition. Impurities in the blood have a very depressing effect on the system, causing weakness, laziness, * nervousness and sickness. OROVE’S TASTELESS Chill TONIC restores Energy and Vitality by Purifying and Enriching the Blood. When you feel its strengthening, invigorating effect, see bow it brings color to the cheeks and how it improves the appetite, you will then Appreciate its true tonic value. GROVE’S TASTELESS Chill TONIC is not a patent medicine, it is simply IRON and QUININE suspended in Syrup So pleasant even children like Ll The blood needs Quinine to Purify it and.-HKHt to Enrich iL Thesis reliable tonic prop erties never fail to drive out impurities in the blood. The Strength-Creating Power of GROVE’S Gladness ^appreciated only by those TASTELESS Chill TONIC has made it 1 w jj 0 know what sadness is. Old Age Unhealthy. We can’t help thinking, that the business of a centenarian is very un healthy. We rarely hear of them un less they are dying. Superfluous. Victim—“Bur have you drilled any \Vells yet?" Promoter—"We don’t need ’em; on our claim it rains oil." - Dr. P««ry‘« "D«xd Shot” la powerful bat safe One dose la enough to expel Worm* or Tapeworm. No castor oil necessary. Adv. pie favorite tonic (n thousands of homes. More than thirty-fiv^ years ago. folks istan would ride a long dis TASTELESS Chill refndetr.BnvFt' 4t’* -easier to acquire a poor wlfa TONIC then , I than a «oo<! »erv»n< girl. or 1 — - 11111 1 - ■*"* ’ ■ - *" 7 In the nlt»n of a fteniinarjr hO rt« Mm Vl revels, the l» diva t W girts, ra 4 their «ro where ront ta of two ve bf**t tin a*» v* **-Htenced to death without trial. w «Te r . " ' ." tuken to the edge *»f a swamp outmde | W 1 ot " er * the city ami given their c|H»|ce of flee- i Ing into the swamp or being shot d**w'n where they stood. Many dashed Into the swamp, uariy to be ragulfed the qu*rfc«*Ad« The -hot duxB at tLe edge of a ditch. 1 a^irfc their Imdw* ftU. ud left do All the stunts I have seen yw do stock With Gum. Malden. Max*.—A - - \.,*B 1 f frit w gum for iradisj asa |Milcw are * f.. -* He dli $1*4 f*i Hi and In other ways Acting.queer, police-}, officer* are beginning to t« v e notice of : a serious condition of th* canine popu- . lation of Baker. {— In recent day* many of the unfor tunate brute* have been* sent to the | pofind and the last one raptured had ; to be klTIwL Every symptom peteta t« | their l»eing drunk, and the belief !• that the keen treat «f t?*e*e f.air- legged timers has “n*.eerf* tmi a m**oa dlls# plant. And maw iV >8>vfi are tsklsc pre fi«tV«< tm prevent |vehft#4 dhtarah «f smtW nrflw nruag In a needed a body-building, strength-giving tonic. The formula is just the same Id- day, and you can get it from any drug 60c per bottle. Patience is the right bower of suo res*. ' ' . ENERGETS BLAUDS MASS IS IRON, CASCARA IS LAXATIVE NUX VOMICA IS TOMIC These with other valuable iugredL sera, enter Into the roropaltios of Parc* fcfeergrU. (he energy tabMt for weak, amiss*, rsedvsi peopin. They are •••selerfnlly active—n few 4y.rm |#U Ibe afoTf. Fifty ersu bnyn a VuS .4 W «f the— masdHfUjtkMh by ■>>< — fr a* saws V ‘fF** III fkiiUJM t u r 4*VflM0MU MW.WJj.JLOW* jr