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FACTS ABOUT TOBACCO. How Larue the Industry is and How the War Affects It. In a special consular report just issued some idea is given of the tobacco industry in this country. The United States is the greatest producer of tobacco in the world, the production of leaf averaging somewhat more than 1,000,000,000, pounds a year, with a value to the growers oft about $100,000,000. More than one-third is exported in normal years. These exports exceed in value such items as cotton manufactures, electrical machinery, paper and paper products, and, leather and its manufactures. The dislocation of trade resulting from the war has had its effect on these tobacco sales, however, just as | it has upon the exports of many other items. The sales of manufactured leaf have suffered most, nnH these sales reDresent the bulk! of the tobacco exports. In the first place it is practically impossible to ship leaf -to some of the belligerents * at all, and, in the second place, the factories in the warring countries j that are accessable are not taking! their usual supply of leaf, probably ! because sufficient labor can pot be ; spared to manufacture it. Our manufactured tobacco is holding its own in spite of-the war, thanks' largely to increasing demands from the Far East and Oceania. In the i actual war zone the increased consumption by the men in the field is more than offset by the economies! that must be practiced by noneom baiants.? ICxrlimiyc. Benson Briefs. Benson, June 1:?The picnic sea-' soK opened in this section Saturday last, celebrating Children's Day at Cbntral church. The exercises for the day were creditable to the ehil-! dren who were trained by Miss j Flossie Kellahan and others. As is: customary a bountiful supply of 4 edibles of every kind were prepared for the home folks and visitors. Rev W I Sinnott conducted devotional exercises after dinner to the edification of his hearers. Later in the same afternoon a ball game was played. The weather was threatening and the diamond not being in good condition,the boys were not enthusiasts. The game .was one-sided, so we omit putting the score in print. The farmers are,up against it now. Showers continue daily, grass j < is flourishing and tobacco worms are thriving on the succulent weed to the detriment of this valuable crop. Corn has been neglected on account of the excessive rains of some days ago; it had a yellow cast but in many instances it will later, under careful working and fertilizing, change back to its natural color. j Cotton is doing very well where I it is worked. We are extremely sorry to learn of Editor Wolfe's illness and sincere-1 ly hope the change of climate, ere many days, will prove a benefit to his health* WES. KEEP THE SHEEP DRY Wet Ewe Is Not Likely to Do Her Best for Owner. j Greatest Damage Resulting From Wetting Is Discomfort Following ?Water-Tight Shed Will Prove Quite Satisfactory. 4 ! (By E. HENDERSON.) A few days ago, while returning from our home town, I was struck by the sad and forsaken appearance of a flock of sheep subjected to a beating rain. Their backs were humped up, their heads drooping and the general appearance gave the Impression that they were the victims of a careless jand thoughtless farmer. I It Is true that the fleece of a sheep Is quite long and dense and in an ordinary rain it is quite improbable that the fleece should become thoroughly saturated, but it is also true that all rains are not "ordinary" ones, and we can never tell just when one of these beating, driving rains will . come to cause misery to the ewes and loss to the farmer's pocketbook. It is at once apparent that the wet we is not one to do the best for her owner. As long as she is soaked she will not graze, or if she does it will be only enough to furnish the Actual needs of the bodv. / i: ' 't ' ; >3 *v * V ' BLUE AID PINK RIBBON By MARY MONROE. (Copyright. 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) For 15 years Miss Martha and Miss Mary had inhabited the big old house on the hill, at the top of the village street, and neither had spoken to the other. And nobody in Grantford had ever learned the cause of their dispute. When the only brother died, leaving a little girl, the sisters, then in the second year of their quarrel, had each written, asking John's executor for the privilege of caring for the orphaned niece. So Maud had come to the home, and from the first she had accustomed herself to the peculiar state fomilv %jl duaiis in umt tv*a.iij. It was convenient to say what you wished to say through the intermediary of a third person, instead of having to soliloquize. It was when Maud Grant married John Springer, the doctor, that the wrench came. If Maud had only known it, the old aunts were so chastened by her approaching departure that she could have made them friends. So Maud went to live in the new ! house at the bottom of the hill, as Mrs. John Springer; and, . though she climbed the lfiU- often, the old ladies were sadly disconsolate at her loss. But after a.while Maud did not climb the hill so often;^tnd then the j time came( when she did not climb it at all And the two old ladies began to be very busy with knitting and crochet work, find the Lulls of yarn rolled all over the room as the busy old fingers pulled at them ' Miss Mary and Miss Martha sat o> j pesite each oth -r in their chairs, their j fingers working and the needles click- , ing, ar.d, as they wended, they soliloquized: "A pink ribbon en the little cap, be- 1 cause, of course, it#is going to be a'! toy," said I'ttlt Miss Martha. "Mow gk A I'ain it is going to be a girl," saia I\Iv-s y.yry. "I love,blue i ribbons. 1 think a baby girl with a | dainty little cap with a Hue ribbon on ; it is just the sweetest thing in tho j world." "I can't abide blue," soliloquized Miss Martha. "I am so glad that Maud's baby is to be a boy. Charles? Or Ferdinand? My uncle or my father? I thipk Ferdinand will sound prettier, and then, it would be a sort of tribute to papa." , "SUie must be called Dorothj, after mamma," Miss Mary soliloquized. ThOy emphasized their sentiments o callers, and it did not take at all a long time for the news to reach Mrs. John Springer, in the house at the bottom of the hill. ? "The dear old things!" she said to her husband. "Oh, John, one of them is going to be so dreadfully disappointed. Whatever shall we do?" "Well, my dear, they are bringing their own troubles on their own heads," laughing. "We must just leave them to work out their own problems. Anyway, we shaH be happy, whichever way it is, won't we dear?" Maid smiled up at her husband, and he put his arm round her shoulders and kissed her. And now the day arrived when the blue ind the pink ribbon each reposed upon its cap, along with little jackets end coats and all the paraphernalia cf br.bydom. And the little maiden ladies waited. And the wait proved longer than they had expected. And by and by rumors began to spread about the town, and then a carriage drove swiftly up from the station, and a famous specialist leaped out and ran through the room in which the two old ladies sat, waiting. ? "Dear Lord, save her to me!'* prayed Miss Martha upon her knees. "Thou knowest I want her?we want her." T.lt + la Hfico ntartpH frtP tills was the first time in all those years that her sister had betrayed the recognition of her identity. # "Martha! Sister!" she said iD a trembling voice. And it was Martha's turn to tremble and look afraid, for she had not dared to hope that the olive branch, held out, would bear 6uch fruit so soon. The little old ladies looked at each other, and of a sudden they fell into each other's arms and cried. And as the tears streamed down their cheeks and mingled, they asked each other's forgiveness with sobs and self-re- ! proaches. "I?I?I hope it will be a girl' j There!" said little Miss Martha. "No, no! It is going to be a boy. I I want it to be a boy!" answered Miss j Mary. And each had gone es far as it was possible .to go when she mado that admission. There was the sound of hurried foot teps on tne stairs, ana ix>cior springer came into the room. Instantly the two old ladies had seized him, one by each hand, and their wrinkled old faces were upturned to his. "John! She's doing well?" they both pleaded together. "Well!" cried John Springey. "Why, it's all over. It is?" "A girl!" exclaimed Miss Martha. "A boy!" said little Miss Mary. 'Well?it's bpth?," admitted John Springer, rubbing his hands. "A boy and a girl. Eight pounders. So we'll have use for both your gifts, after all." 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