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THE CARPATHIAN PASSES
Wild Country Where Teuton and Slav
Are 4 Present Struggling for
Supremacy.
A description of the High Tatra
mountains, within whose shadows
the titanic struggle between the
Teutons tend the Slavs for control of
* ...
Ilurgaiy is being waged, has" beeii
prepared by the National Geographic
society. It is as follows:
"Strongest of all the natural barriers
that are opposed to the Russian
advance upon their German and
Hungarian enemies are the massive,
crescent-shaped Hohe Tntra mountains,
the central and the highest
group of all the Carpathian system.
These mountains, forming a gigantic
wall of more than forty miles in
1 U .iTwl viinn n nd f tnnn
aim uvtntxii nun: aim inn i u
miles in width, lie almost due Bouth
of Cracow and about due north of
Budapest. The passes where tho
Russians have been forcing their
weeks of terrible mountain campaigning
lie considerably to the eastward
of the Hohc Tatra.
"The llohe Tatra mountains are
the highest in Hungary, rising in a
number of peaks beyond 8,000 feet.
The Franz Josef, or Gerlsford peak,
the highest in the Carpathian system,
attains an altitude of 8,737
feet. The mountain presents many
impassable, high, sheer wall faces,
and there is to be found among them
some ??f tho wildest seenerv hevninl
the Alps."
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SLUMP IN PRICE OF LEAD
Drop Last October Was the Lowest in
Fifteen Years, Despite a
Big Output.
The price of lead, instead of being
.v enhanced by the European conflict,
actually slumped in October to the
'owest point reached in the last fifteen
years, although 100,000 more
tons of the refined metal was produced
in 1914 than during the previous
year, declares the advance
statement just issued by the geological
survey. The exports of lead
from this country to Europe since
the war iegan have not increased in
proportion to the increase in exports
of zinc and some other metals.
The total production of refined
lead from both domestic and foreign
.... mo 100 -i l i
orea whs o-i?,i?? snort ions, compared
with 462,460 tons in 1913.
The production of refined lead from
domestic ores was 512,794 tons, an
increase of 100 916 tons over the
record figures reached in 1913.
No domestic pig lead had ever
been exported from the United
States prior to 1914. Generally the
price of lead in this country, owing
to the tariff, exceeds the price
abroad.
Ifcad was consistently higher in
Txindon in 1914 than in New York,
and this, together with the scarcity
of Mexican lead, caused the large exports
of domestic lead.
JITNEYS TO OUST TAX 18.
The widely known jitney is out
and about like the flowers of spring
over this whole broad land. It may
prosper or it may not, and time will
tell; but there are one or two things
to notice concerning 'the craze," as
street railway people call it.
The jitney's success is the taxicab's
failure. The latter has never
been much more than an instrument
* of luxury, bluff, or crime in many of
our cities (see the movies for proof).
The taxieab people havo not given
the service.
Most folks help pay for paved
streets; they like to ride thereon in
motor ears, and the jitney gives
them a chance as nothing else ever
did. If it gives real service, it will
last.?Collier's Weekly.
FORCE OF HABIT.
"That old miser haa very little to
say."
"Possibly he is afraid of spending
his breath.'*
'MOTHER DEFINITION.
Little liemuel?Say, paw, what
is a bachelor maid ?
Paw?She is the opposite of a
spinster man, son. ? Indianapolis
Star.
WISDOM OF JOHNNY.
Teacher?Johnny, what animal
has the keenest sense of smell ? j
Johnny?The skunk, sir.
THE PROPER TERM.
Omar?Is failure to support
wife a misdemeanor in tfcaa RtaAn?
, ilein*?Nx ifh ft Mm itamn?aft
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BAD SIGN TO TAP ON WOODj
Clergyman Expresses the Opinion :
That Luck Signal Is Expressing
Doubt In God.
"Every time a person "taps on
wood'' to counteract the seeming
boastfuiness of having declared that
he hasn't "had a sick day this year"
or some such piece of good fortune,'
l :- _.1 a.i L:- /'_/I
tic it> luiiiiuiui^j iiiui ins v.?ou is nu
bettor than those of the heathen, of '
an envious and quarrelsome disposition,
who dislike to see human beings
at all exuberant over their luck,
according to the Rev. Charles Wood,
who preached last night 011 "Temporary
and Permanent Peace," at the
Church of the Covenant He was
exhorting the congregation to make I
jieace with God and to believe in
him as a kind Father.
Speaking of peace in Europe, Doctor
Wood said:
"Humanity has needlessly lost
faith in peace conferences, culture,
and even Christianity in some cases,
though it was only the lack of faith
that allowed the breaking out of hostilities.
Many wonder if war may
not become a permanent condition in
the world. This is palpably impos
sible. It is impossible to reckon out
the duration of the war by comparing
statistics of natural resources of
the countries engaged and their periods
of exhaustion, but it is easy to
see that war, being an abnormal condition,
is bound to end in time, like
a fire or plague.
"However, pence will be nothing
but an armed truce until humanitarian
diplomats, if we can join those
two words, come together with the
idea of an entirely equable adjustment,
and with a Christian spirit."
?Washington Post.
SMOKE NUISANCE
Evelyn?She separated from heT
husband heeause he wouldn't give up
smoking.
. Tjoraine?heft him tinder a cloud,!
i? it wore!
6AV/IUA TUC LI A I P ppn-r
wn t n^u i 11 v. unur otn I
In those times, when every little
that can tie saved on the living expenses
of the poor counts, I would
suggest that the United States government
coin a half-cent, which
would he of great benefit to those
who must count every cent of expenses.
For instance, if one wished to buy
a h^ilf-pound of coffee, at 2f> cents
a pound, one would be obliged to pay
Iff cents; with a half-cent piece in
use there would be a saving of half
a cent. There are many other things,
too numerous to mention, that could
be bought by poor people, especially
fruit. One often sees apples and
bananas sold two for one cent. If a
poor person had a half-cent he could.
Duv one, when lie <li<l not need two.?
New York Times.
MILD GLOATING.
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"You have no anarchistic tendencies,
1 hope?" said the altruist.
"None in particular," answered
(he dusty pedestrian, "but sometimes
I can't repress a chuckle when I
hear the air escaping from a punctured
automobile tire."
REDUCING THE OVERHEAD.
"1 see vpu have let your business
manager go."
"Yes, I didn't see the need of j
him. I had to get the business. 1
What 1 got he was willing to manage."
BROUGHT THEM HOME.
^ ??
Patience?I see they're back from
their honeymoon trip.
Patrice?So soon?
"Yes, 1 guess his money gave out."
WHAT HE WAS OUT FOR.
Bill?Wasn't he ashamed to shoot
.hat young deer ?
JilJ?Why, no; he said he was out
far the don. i
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TRUE ENJOYMENT OF LIFE
Certain Periods of Outdoor Recreation
a Necessity for Healthful
Existence.
An inquirer, referring to an article
in tile Bankers' Magazine relative
to the health of banker?- in tbnn
answered by Doctor Evans, the sci- I
entific hygieniftt:
"A bank man shdtlld hate an examination
once a yea t to determine
the condition of the kidneys, arte- j
rics, heart and nerves. He should
arrange 60 as to have a daily period
for exercise in the open air. He cannot
keep fit except by following a
plan of maintaining fitness, since
bank life is one to which the human
animal does not automatically adjust
itself."
We are all interested in the bankers?that
they keep in jocund health,
for the general aspect of business
takes its flavor from their physical
health. Hut the remark applies quite
as well to all our big business men
whose work is entirely indoors in
comfortable chairs, where the sedentary
and unhealthy life is most attractive.
The human animal cannot
live its best sorting over notes and i
inspecting ledgers. It needs out- |
doors among the trees and on the
banks of streams where the finnv 1
tribe dwells, (let out where the >
smiles of the blue skies awaken the
kidneys and the nerves to action.?
Columbus Journal.
PROOF
public?
SOON ENDED.
"Wo never have prolonged arguments
at our houec."
"Lucky man ! I presume your wife
does not argue."
"Oh, yes; but she's so darned
clever at it!"
?
GREEN WAS VERDANT.
"Green tells me that he has an automobile
for sa'c."
"i don't doubt it 1 sold him mm. i
Iks other <k?jr *
"Your frieud, the uetor, id a wonder."
"What makes you think so?"
"He admits that he isn't."
SLIPPER "CAME BACK."
Ilerc is a curious little war story
that was related to me by its "hero."
He is a British officer who is home
from the fighting /rout, on a short
leave, having injured one foot rather
severely. Meanwhile lie is going
about in "mufti" and is wearing a
carpet slipper on his in jured foot.
The other day while he was traveling
clown from Hampstead to
Wimpole street in a Ixuidon motor
bus to see his surgeon, a woman opposite
him in the vehicle leaned over
and inquired how long he had been 1
hack from France. ('nnaideruhl v *nr- !
prised, and wofidering if he was eonfronted
by a secress or a feminine
Sherlock Holmes, he explained, and
then asked how she knew that he was
a soldier and had Ikm n in France.
"It is quite simple, really," smiled
the fair one. "You see, I made that
slipper that you are wearing and
aent it to the front!"
AN APPROPRIATE NAME.
In a school in a Jewish district of
the city they were discussing a
change of name for the school, and
the tendency of the hoard of education
to use names of illustrious men
as an inspiration had been commented
011.
A bright little fellow in the front
seat raised his hand for recognition. !
"I think, Mr. f\." he said, "that we
ought to call this the Lincoln school.
There are so many Abrahams in it." :
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PLAYING SAFE.
He?I swear my lore for you shall
never grow less.
She?Would you ? er ? mind
swearing like that before a notary
Will Sell 600,000 Fords.
"The Ford Company manu'
factured 300,000 cars this year,"
said Mr. A. J. Langford, manager
of the Charlotte branch of
the Ford Motor Co.V Tuesday..
"We figure on manufacturing
nnrl R?*llincr KT1A Hflft
I vvv, vvv UCAW * J CCII
Mr. Henry Ford recently asked
Mr. Hawkins, our general sales
| manager, who by the way was
a visitor here recently, how
many cars he could sell next
year and he replied that he
could sell 750,000. Mr. Ford
replied that he could not manufacture
this number but he could
turn out 600,000. This will be
the number we will have io sell.
It can be done and that easily.
Only this month the Charlotte
branch was compelled to cancel
1,600 orders for cars because we
could not get the deliveries.
The home office has cancelled
over 100,000 orders. We could
' lave sold 450.000 cars this vp?r
nstead of 300,000 if we could
Have gotten the deliveries. This
vill give you some idea of the
enormity of the business."
Cotton Growers Lost Millions.
Four hundred million dollars
in profits were made by the
\meriean farmers, grain exporters
and millers during the
I irst year of the European war,
the treasury department announced
Tuesday. During this
period, however, the cotton
growers and shippers lost nearly
$235,000,000.
These are prominent features 1
)f the department's yearly report
on exports of foodstuffs and
cotton. The favorable trade
balance of the United States for
the week ending July 31, exceeded
$25,000,000.
POLITICAL GOSSIPS
When one class of people has anything
to Bay. It has become largely
the custom to make a political Issue
out of It insti ad of a friendly discus>lnn
1. ?- - 1 i 1
tu u in m iaw uuoe instead
of a- newspaper and to argue It before
a jury instead of to settle It in
the higher courts of Common Sense.
As a result, political agitators, political
lawyers, political preachers and
masculine women are powerful in
politics and dissension, selfishness. Intolerance
and hysterics run rampant
in public affairs, for when the low,
damp, murky atmosphere of misunderstanding
envelops publlo thought
it breeds political reptiles, vermin,
bugs and lice which the pure air of
truth and the sunshine of understanding
will choke to death.
We have too many self-appointed
interpreters of industry who are incapable
of grasping the fundamental :
principles of business and who at best i
can only translate gossip and add
color to sensational stories. No business
can stand upon error and might
rules?right or wrong. No industry
can thrive upon misunderstanding. ;
for public opinion Is more powerful
than a King's sword.
When prejudice, suspicion and
class hatred prevail, power gravitates
into the hands of the weak, for demagogues
thrive upon dissension and
statesmen sicken upon strife.
The remedy lies in eliminating the
middleman?the political gossip?and ,
this result can be accomplished by
the managers of business sitting
around the table of industry and talking
it over with the people. Interchange
of information between Indus- |
tries and the people is as necessary I
to success in business as interchange 1
in commodities, for the people can j
only rule when the public under- I
stands. Away with political interpreters
who summon evil spirits from
their prison cells Hnd loose them to
prey upon the welfare of the people
in the name of "My Country."
Gotcha?I ran into a burglar last
night.
Jake?HowM lie get away from
you ? I
Gotcha?He went through me.? !
Dartmouth Jack o' Lantern.
AN EASY MARK.
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-v vi|'i<ivm iiuiii muni DUl you |
can't give me any reason why I
should not enlist.
Spouse?Well, I should miss you,
dear, but the (lirinans couldn't.?
London Mail.
CLEVER YOUTH.
Teacher?Remember, Johnny, that
a stratum is a layer of anything.
Now ean you name a stratum?
Johnny?Yes, ina'am. An old hen
ia a stratum, 'cause she's a layer of
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