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VALLEY Great Field of Opportunities in Which Few Americans Are Taking Part ? _? Para, Mouth of Amazon River, Xov. 13.?The industrial develop-j rilent of the Amazon Valley is attract- ; -ins the attention of European coun tries." British, 'German, Italian, Nor wegian, Swedish and Dutch capitalists, engineers and importers are making investigation of the mineral and for est resources of the valley or have! obtained concessions to establish in- '< dUstries here! So tar American par-I ticipation in this development work ia! . v Conspicuous by its absence. 1 ? ? English engineers are up river at| present time investigating the possi- ? biiities of vegetable oils;. English ex- | perts are here studying the practica- ! ; lSSlity of extracting starch and indus-! 'tqal alcohol from the root of man-j / dioca: an English engineer has re- j * turned to this city from Iquitos for '? further'eq?ipmerit with which to ex j tend the examination he is making in j^ft&e^ mineral area of the Peruvian Amazon, oh behalf of a British "syndi cate ? * The Italian syndicate which has been operating a small experimentall vegetable oil factory at the town of; Cameta, on the Tocantins River, about j XjtvO miles from Para, has applied for . concessions to open a large factory, in Para for the extraction of lubricating, illuminating and edfble' oils from the i ^nuts of palms and trees which abound j in the forests. A similar concession j has been given to a group of local \ capitalists for the establishment of oil} factories m certain municipalities! throughout the State. [ . Concessions have beer granted re-j v cently by the State congress for va-j rious factories to manufacture glass, j hammocks and jthread,, salt and-its ^ 0 products, paper of'.all grades, rubber ,^ goods, vegetable dyes and ink and .buttons from vegetable ivory nut. These so-called "concessions" are not to be confounded with the exclu sive monopolies so popul?r in other ^tin-American countries which in the past have proved to be a hamper in ~;v-stead of an aid to industrial develop ment. In Brazil a "concession" to ' establish a factory or industry is more in the nature of a "charter' with, in some cases, special tax exemptions for a number of years, or privileges in the matter of import duties on machinery and equipment. The Alsatian Plantations Co., a German syndicate, has" reopened its "plantation near Para, which was j Abandoned when Brazil entered the j war on the side of the Allies. Thisj company ha.s 200.000. banana-trees j and 100,000 abacaxis (pine-apples) j , - under cultivation. Bananas thrive i exceptionally well in this region, they j are subject to none St the diseases! prevalent in other banana-growing? . countries, and owing to the extraordi- j narily even climate of Para require &,-fiAtle--attention when ? growing^". The :L.'Para and Amazonas bananas are said f^gO": be the best Brazil produces, and are in great demand in Rio and Buenos Aires; they are said to stand . Shipment unusually well. Norwegians are operating a large ^sa'wroili.oh.?he Ilha das Oncas, an is & land in the Guajar River opposite to the city of Para. Although there are 1 immense forests full of woods of. :!. ,hiany varieties, some of them of the greatest commercial value, it is sur-1 prising how few first-class sawmills j there are in the region, and there -are none which might be said to com pare in efficiency with those of our own northwest. Owing-to the maze of waterways' which covers the entire surface of the valley, there can ever be any large j railroads paralleling the main Ama- j zon Hiyer and all railroads will there fore be constructed to act as "feed- j ers" only tot he main river and its I principal affluents, opening up the in terior back of the river bantks. Con- j cessions have recently been granted i by the State congresss for various j short lines,, one of which is intended j | t<? link the Amazon, from the town of] ? Macapa near -its ? mouth, with ihe Oyapock River which separates Brazil from French Guiana. This line will open up vast areas suitable for cat tie raising, as also gold-bearing lands which were abandoned when the ^French ceded , the northern part of the State of Para to Brazil twenty years ago. Another line is to be constructed between the town of Obidos, 600 miles up river, and Dutch Guiana. A line is under construction on the bank of the Tocantins River from the first rapids, at Alcobaca. to the navigable water of the upper river, and about ninety, miles of the lower end is now practically completed. Other railroad ' concessions are under discussion in the Chamber of Deputies as also sundry motor roads from the banks of some of the rivers to interior cen tres of population. It is rumored that the Praganca railroad is about to be sold by the Srate .of Parato and Englisth syndi - eate which is said to be backed by j . -the banking firm of Rothschild & Co. The charter of this railroad pro ; vides for a line from the city of Para ! .toward the Atlantic and parallel to | the coast in the States of Para and j Maranhao. About 140 miles have I been completed and in operation for j several years through a highly pro-j duetive agricultural district, but the j recent discovery of valuable ores and mineral deposits on the projected line j into Maranhao probably has been the j occasion of the outside interest. Corn, beans, rice, mand'ioca, bananas, and j many other fruits. potatoes, vege tables of all kinds are now being rais- j ed in the Braganaca section for the; local market, and during the past year or two the production of cotton, to- i baeco, sugar-cane, cacao has >eea ! undertaken on an extensive scale. An anonncement appeared in the j local newspapers recently that the Johnson Tine is about to establish n steamer service between Swedish ports and tin- Amazon, touching at Spanish! and Portuguese ports: Local Americans are outspoken in their regret that there appears to b, yro American-, participation- in this development work; they claim there is no region on earth offering great-' er opportunities. ABOUT MAPjS Travel By Air Needs Specially Prepared $laps San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 3.?-Fly ers, in the proposed 1920 worldrgirdl ing air derby will not travel by Mer cator's projection but by a new "but terfly" way devised by V. J. S. Ca hill, .of Oakland, Cal., which has just been adopted by Major Charles J.; G-iidden, executive secretary . of the Aerial Derby Commission, now on his -way to the Far East and who gave the map his approval before leaving here' i . Mr. Cahill, who is the originator of San Francisco's $12,000.000 "civic1 center" plan, said that an aviator us-' ing the Me'rcator projection as a! guide, would go 1,000 miles out of his! way tfn a trip from Panama to Yoko- j hama. "If the North Pole were onj an island a mile wide," he said, "it J would appear on Mercator's projec-1 tion to be 25,000 miles wide, or near- I ly the total circumference of the j earth at the equator." The inventor of the new map, who worked on his drawings fifteen years, said that "an impartial and rational world geography is essential to world j peace." He said that Mercator's pro- j jection, which was originally devised; by the Belgian^ cartographer as a, guide for navigators, "distorted and | exaggerated the earth .as it receded from the equator." This, for instance, made it appear as if South America j were much smaller than North Amer ica when, as ? matter of fact , he said, they were about .the same area. j The Cahill map is as though an ac-J tual sphere had been cut and flatten-1 ed, its appearance somewhat resembl- i ing the outspread wings of a butter joy. A nation looking unduly expanded] on the map may easily, Mr. Cahill i says, develop a sort of geographical! "big headedness," inducing an over- j bearing diplomacy. A nation whose territory is so unduly exaggerated on the maps in common use may well come to exaggerate its. resources, its economic strength and eevn its vir-, rues and so create an atmosphere any thing but conducive to mutual good > will and consequent world peace. AH problems of intercommunication ! by sea, land or air are baffling and! misleading on Mercator's Chart, says J Mr. Cahill, but simple and obvious on j the "butterfly" map. a further aid to mutual knowledge and understanding. I "Internationalism, now a sporadic and occasional thing, but destined in the future to be. the keynote of all human endeavor, plays an important part in the science of statistics and j meteorology," said Mr. Cahill. "Gra-; phical statistics are self-contradictory j and ludicrous on Mercator's chart and as for indicating the progress of high and low pressure rings in weather charts, the ever changing scale on Mercator's was simply bewildering to the forecaster who had to -use- them/ The new map, by showing all land's j in their true proportion and form, he j declares, would help materially in J solving peacefully problems dealing j with vh* world as a whole. CBOJRBOmSTRIKE "FOR BIG INCREASE Re Island, off ;La Rochelle France, Nov. 16.?"-Choir boys of this little island struck a few days ago for an increase in 'pay of one cent per mass served. It .meant an increase of j one hundred per cen^. They obtained J satisfaction. Silver Change Out of "Use in Mexico, j Mexico City, Nov. 1.?The most I persistent phrase encountered by the j buying public in Mexico at present is "No hay cambio," "There is no change." The silver in the Mexican I peso, fifty-cent piece and the smaller I coins, is worth more than the ?ace ; value of the. coin ,so this money has j been hoarded by many persons and j sold for their silver content. The result is" that "cambio" or j change has disappeared and persons } who buy or sell are forced to pay from four to seven per cent for silver* pieces from brokers. Most merchants; refuse to make small sales if they are forced to give change, asserting they would lose money in the trans action. The "azteca" -or Mexican twenty peso piece (gold) is practically use- j less as money in stores or cates when the purchase is for a small amount. "I might as well be *roke as have an azteca.' complained an American who was hungry and could not find a cafe to change his gold. Later he hit upon a unique scheme. He deposited the "azteca" with the cafe proprietor and proceeded to eat at intervals un til he had no more credit, which with prevailing prices was not a long time. Bicycles in Meixco. Mexico City, Nov. 17?Automobiles, m'.-torcycles and other jasoline-driv en vehicles haVe not deposed the pie ban oicycle as the most popular means of locomotion in Mexico City. Busi ness men use them to go to work, government employes bowl along on them by the score, school children prefer them to street cars and the1 omnibuses. The old-time bicycle I club of twenty years ago flourishes j here and it is no uncommon sight to j see a party of men and women in the conventional riding garb taking a spin over the well-paved streets of the cap-j MaL ! Numerous laws which have been j passed r<?gulat'- the use of bicycles, j 'They?mus!?be equipped with front ai?l| rear lights of a designated color, brakes, horns and whistles. Some of the more fancy ones ben!' flags, coats of arms and a bolder for the inevi table walking stick affected by every real gentleman in the capital. It is n<>: uncommon t<> ree a bicycle carry ing at least twice its original cosl in i equipment. Bui with bicycles as with automo : biles theiv is no speed limit. Bicycle i riders and their daredevil companions, the drivers <>f tin- automobile 'buses, [C'iiuinue to !>?? the terror of pedes t r iansv . gl RAILWAY ?ERV IGE IN MEXICO Many Improvements Being Made and Condition Will Soon ? ? ? ? *?? ? ? - j Be Normal Mexico .City, Nov. 1G.?Railroad j service in Mexico, both passenger and j freight, will be nearer normal on i January 1 next than for nine years. J the directors of the National Railways; for the past few months having made | strenuous -efforts to acquire rolling stock and to put roadbeds in good conditions. Director General Pauline Fontes, since his accession to the head -of j the National lines a few months ago. ; has made numerous recommendations : for necessary projects most of which i have been granted by the govern-! ment. Large sums have recently been j expended in the United States; it is j said, for locomotives, passenger! coaches and freight cars and negoti-j aliens are now in progress with an i assurance of success that Pullman service o;; all workable lines will be j resumed, the first of the year.. ''. Railway, lines now operated by the j government will not t>e returned to previous owners until the service has j been brought to normal, according to j a statement. German Socialists Drifting to Bolshe vism. * Berlin, Nov. 13? The death of Hu-; go Haase, president of the.Independ- i ent Socialist party, leaves thai party j apparently without a leader'of .sugL- I cient calibre to. prevent-it from being j engulfed by the German Bolshevists. Haase died from wounds he received October 8 when he was shot three j times by an Austrian as he was. enter- j ing the Reichstag building. Recent events have indicated .that! Haase had been unable to halt the j stampede of the followers to the ex treme left of radicalism. The author ity he oiice wielded in the Independent party had been undermined by radi cals, such "as Daeumigr Ledebour. Richard Mueller, Eichhorn, Geyer of Saxony and Henke of Bremenri, all desperate oppoents to the parliamen tary' government. withouJL. ^ which Haase finally came to believe govern ment in Germany would be impos sible. / - j It is expected that Haase's death , will hasten a split in the Independent1 Socialist party and a. union of its' more moderate elements wtih the Mar j jority Socialists, headed by ; Philip Seheideman. Indications are seen, 'of\ a complete radicalization of the ma'-! j or portion of * the. "Independent paiHyj after the .Russian pattern. .The .Inde pendents now are dominated by a dozen men who are regarded ? as ex-i pert manipulators of the revolutwnary J proletariat and these men are ^expect ed to -control the party'& councils, . . . Their asceridenqy marks' the". eliitfKj nation from Independent, couriers'-of | Karl Kautsky and other moderating; influences which once ' were led byj Herr -Haase. Political observers 7&y ? that "saner" elements of the In'<?V.-j pendent. party must find a domicile" "in: the camp of the Majority Socialists be-1 causethe "Red" elements of the Inde-? pendents already virtually have gone! over.,- bag and baggage, to the Com-j munists. . f Lady Astors Campaign .Manager. Plymouth. Eng.. Nov. 14.?It was] an up-to-date "Man on the Box" who] guided the destinies of Lady AstorMj campaign to determine whether she j would be the first woman Commoner j of England. More than a score of newspaper i correspondent who trailed. Lady Astor during her electioneering and I junketing about Plymouth, had dif-^ ficulty for some time in learning in advance where she intended to make her next appeal for votes. The reo - f son developed when it was learned j that it was neither Lady Astor nor1 Lord Astor who was guiding ..herj mcanderings, but the ruddy-faced, \ bulky old coachman?Churchwood j who had been serving the Astor fam- ; ily through 5thfee political battles. J He acknowledged that he had been made, director-general pf Lady As? tors' campaign, * Silk-hatted and ..officious execu tives of the Unionist party held coun cil daily and drafted the , candidate*!?! strategic moves, .but. It- was. Church wood?also silk-hatted though less of- ' flcipusr?who really determined wheth- j er these plans should be executed , or I vetoed. j Lady Astor would enter her car-: riage in the morning. Churchwood would whip up the elegant pair of sorrels and the candidate would roll away, unmindful of whither she was bound! If Churchwood . from, his1 vantage point saw a street-corn er j gathering or a lowly abode where Lady Astor might get a hearing, he would rein in the horses without ask ing leave, and let her do the rest. "When the speech and the ensuing cross-fire of questions had ended,- or: when Cruchwood sensed a waning in the interest of the auditors, he would jerk a peremptory thumb.in the di rection ot the hack scat, saying: "Get: in." Whereupon Lady Astor would resume her place in the carriage and it would probed to the next halt. When Lord Astor ended the pre vious campaign. Churchwood deliver ed his felicitations and went back to. his regular occupation as stable man with one of the Plymouth coach services: Rut this time he was am-; bitious. as he confided to the enrre,-, spondent of The Associated Press, to..; Journey to London with Lady Astor. should she be successful, and there was no person in Plymouth, not ex cepting Lady Astor herself, who was! more certain of the outcome of the election than Churchwood. He was hopeful that in a few j months he would be driving her from j her residence to the House of Com-; nions and waiting for her to finish harnguing the Hause, hut was a bit fearful lest she should elerl a motoi*] for her London needs, in that event Churchwood intended to reserve his cgrry-comb and hoof-hock and ^p' back to his livery stable to await then n?-\t . Astor. campaign ,.;''?, 1* I SHAH OF PERSIA VISITS ENGLAND The Visit of a JFormer Shah Is I Recalled I London. Nov. 16.?The Shah of Persia, who is visiting England, bears little resemblance, phvsiciily or o!h erwise, to that othei Shah, Xasruud-! j-.dii. who can' r here m ?;>-/i and ajr^in j in IS 79. and on both occasions left behind him some not particularly sa vory memories. There was little of the saint about him, but he was pic turesque and could not be restricted to the bounds of English convention al respectability. Therefore the pub lic of a generation ago took a much keener interest in him than London- i ers are doing in the reigning Shah, i i The latter is fat. and*.placid, does ! everything that he is' told to do, .never j upsets the programs that are pre-1 pared for him and shocks no one^ j In making a comparison between ' ! the two the Star recalls some of the] ( escapades of Nasruud-din when he j visited these shores, poring }his 73 visit, it .says, he de i nvanded to .see r a prize flght! ;;Sc> af ter a consultation"with Lord Quccns ; berry a glove fight - was arranged for ! h)s delectation in B?ckingn?'ni Pal j ace statbles. As usual the ':Sfiah was late, so the venue was changed to " a i quiet spot in the corner of the palace j gardens. ' ? Oh his way, the Shah dashed j through a room where- a .deputation, j of bishops was. waiting' to see "him .to beseech his august^ protection "for j the Christians of Persia. They fol I lowed him ,intq_tlxe_gardcns and p.res ?cjitly . found themselves in -a riag j around two prize fighters.- The tight j was stopped; the Shah waxed ?.n?ry. and the good Lord ~Shaft'esbury of pious memory, who led the* deputa tion, denounced the holding of ? prize fight in the Queen's Palace: * . ' -But things were ulti'matel}' smooth ed over; though, what the i Shah ?aid about the "Christians in Persia reftuir cd a strong gloss in .the. interpreta tion. '. .: '; Indu^trial Trorbles in Germany. Berlin,';Oct- f.-^The^Germ^'induS; trial world- is cx)nfrbjfited- with' a 'prob lem in thcorganizationandoperalion h ??n of councils of wage earners "and employes in 'many lines of industry. The National Assembly or the^eibh stag will "be caifed. upon to "determine whether such councils .shall be made compulsory, by law. ".This is r^arded here ' aa oue,/ of jthq .most''- d.iiflcnlt! questions Confronting the legislators j of the republic.' - I The Com'ittee on Industrial. Councils; of the National Assembly" has' approv ed of a proposeid' Jajar by' which. .a council' oV employes* would- be co.m j^teory in "every business ? /establish ment, cm pioyirig' m?.re" tJian "-2 Q' perso As.1 German' nevvspapers * .express grave doubt as to..whether..the.- coune?'-^s 'tern will proyg 'av ''succ^'*fnd assert that the' newspaper 'in?ja^^U\lfi^&l ened wtih strikes because" of.' perSoh ail'political,' differences among .their employes. The plan of pViroittin^ councils of employes to have a voice in the control., of mdu^rtes was sponsored .ap'd%ori^n^^oy ihp Ma jority' SoCj^st Fa.rty i'^cemly.their own plan has reacted a^?inkt^em for the Independent\^cis?^s^^'T^tt "ob tained control "of the.'eia^p'xes coun cils in spmc jnfe'tai wording pfant^ '^nd have ruled fthat Majority So^ajists must be ..dismissed. tVhen the em ployers endeavored to'assert the prin ciple that they should hire 'men for what they could 'do. not because of their politics, the Independents re plied that it would be better for mem bers of one- political faith only to be employed in a factory so that no time would be lost in political arguments. The councils in two of these metal j working shops have unanimously vot ed, that members of only one partyi shall be employed in these establish- j ments. The trend of many of the] councils is franfcly directed against] the employment of women in positions which men can fill. The council of one of the leading hotels in Berlin is composed of a waiter, painter 'and fireman. .It re cently demanded the dismissal of a! married woman who with her husr j band worked- in the hotel, on the i ground that both .should not draw salaries. After the woman protested, the demand was withdrawn but.the' council has compelled the manager of the hotel to dismiss two competent women employes and replaced them with men. Foolish Fad of Idle filch. ..At one time snail racing was a great fad in Austria. Vienna had a ?shionable snail racing club, where /ortuhei were" frequently wagered on the ridiculous contests. Carefirt . rac ojSSji of ift?tiiue iakW by "the" winning snail to crawl around the /miniature race conraa were kept, in order that contestants might .be pfopeTly handi capped in subsequent matches. "Writer"* Cramp." ' .Writer's cramp has been defined afi a disease of those \yho do too much writing, especially with the hand tob tightly contracted. A person with thisi trouble has not complete control ovei the muscles Of the thumb and middle and fore .fingers, which are brought I into,use in'wrltmg. The yarions meth ods qf treatment used so.far have riot proved altogether successful. Among the methods used arc surgical opera* j tious and application of electricity, j Thought He Was Privileged. Sam arid his dog'Hypy were romp?j l?g back .and forth on the porch. Snroj shouting and Hypy barking. It was Sam's first 'time out of his room after a severe spell of illness, he havingin] [ narrow escape from death. When hisj j mother corrected him for being so noisy, he said, "Mother. I thought yon was so j^ad I got well and didn't did I that yen wouldn't Cftr? how much I noise I made until I goi used to play* i in* a^ain?" I Bolshevism! Norway; London, Oct 20.---Bolshevism: has not obtained ;so strong a hold in Den mark as it has in. Norway, writes a Copenhagen ' correspondent of the widely-read British Weekly, Common Sense. In Denmark the Syndicalists strive to play much the same role as do the Left-Socialists in Norway who arc reported to be supporters of the Russian brand of Socialism. "The Syndicalists, however, make no show in the Danish Parliament," says , the correspondent. ''Since the riots in Copenhagen last November, when the Grontorv district m the Cen ter of the city was ' wrecked and many scores of civilians and police-! men were injured, there has been a j tendency to regard them .as a merej anarchist rabble. But. as everywhere j in Scandinavia, their power over the I wage earners is greater than .their' voting strength and' they have suc-J ceeded, usually aganst the Association of Trades Unions, which has a large majority behind it, in "bringing about j prolonged strikes. ? "The Danish Syndicalists, by violent j attacks on the Majority Socialist party i and denunciation of." its - leaders, Staun ihg" and Borgbjerg, have gained a certain pull among the wage earn* "The Syndicalists' connection. with the* Russian Bolsheviki has been re I peate'dly '-indicated. ~ This gave the cabinet a good excuse for repression so that arrests, press prosecutions and expulsions take Place on a scale i inconceivable."' in Sweben or Norway where'the? Deft-Socialists have the ? rank' of >e<x>gnfcedv parties. ! "Further, thcDanisb employers are not helpless. -vThey are jthreaiening a great lock-out and declareJthat if ths ; wages /demanded costs' beyond, a -c^r V^S^-.^^^tP^SSsjf will cease manufac turing altogether and will in future make .their profits by importing and selling cheaper foreign goods." Para, Brazil, Nov. 4.'?Although oniy ,80 miles frpm the equator the city of Para3 enjoys a perennial cli mate of what might be called, mild summer. There is a shower of rain nearly every afternoon throughout the year, which together with the welcome trade winds blowing in from the At lantic leniper the intense hVat oj" the sun ahtf'gi've Para a cHlnate that for evenness and equabilr^ cannot* prob ably be surpassed. f The mornings and evenings ar<e al ways cool, . and ? the mid-day lie?t never . approaches iiiat;;Of'*j3i regular August day in -New ,York of Chicago. Sunstroke is entirely unknQwnv.Tbere is ho record of a, case in th,e entire Amazon Vailed. '??'Sc)i?plbtbys :j>Iay. ?po|r ball in the open city spaces-duringfiie hottest hours: of early afternoon an4 laborers, naked.- to the ? walsL j Jtoil swea ling in the docks in " the blaming sunshine without, any apparent ill-, effects. ? ' ? iStraw' hats -are worn the/year round in^Para, ,arrd j a.,sun helmet would .^e re garded with almost '.as much- cuHo$ 1r> on th^'Avenfda de Reptiblica^here as it woul&?n Fifth Avenue.. .The .clothes worn by m^n .are also a/.r^atter^^-sdriif^se. to the fchreignei: vfeiting'tiifc equatorial city.' ?raaR^ lan professional men, doctors/ la%> yers 'and engineers, ^mvartabiy wear clothes, such as^.are jworn in 'New Yprjk in the spring* or fall;, Government o/ftcials, senators and deputi^'-'favbr the convenffpnal ;*cut-away,'* fyj??' si? om\cial calls on the State goverhdr. for instance, this very untropical garb is the rule.,.. ? . . . . ? Business . men" and especially for eigners, however, adhere to the copl lopking white cotton. Jinen or duck. In the matter of evening clothes the citizens of Para are very, formal. In. the days of the rubber boorii' when public entertainments were the rule. &and not as now. the exception? the conventional full evening dress was always worn ~b$\ men. Shipbuilding for -IE." S. in Japan. Tokio. "N?yt, 17.-?Two } ocean-going steamships built for. the United States Shipping Board haVe 'been "launched recently in Japanese yards. They were the Eastern Trade, a 13,000 ton steam er, and the Eastern Glade, a steel cargo ship 4 00 "? feet' long. ? uam?. Sickness* -. . J ... An Inves^g?fion;<<n" Ifhe South Aj? Heap d 'jsesse'- tabwn'' as iaiuviest?,' or |?u* sieimess, sugggastj; that lt & ,ihte to be assodtefed with unpaid w**ifa?r and so? ear^riencj&s of ? which ? Okt drou^it &' in^rtant*' 'tbf6a& Hatch "coaaiHois, Irfttlpg, t^^"&?& fbe faemt^/yt.&?'pt?m,~^&j?s. ??j(j&s tiie coaibon' benei Jbkt'.Q* disease results from ' eaUng wtittf One bl tfi^'lim^iest. ways to 4cleatr wali paper.'is fo t?ke a loaf of staV but. not, hard broad and put. oft* the crust: then tajijtag if; in on> h^an^.njb tiie^paper. gently witli the tetppsfid ftir faqe; -1 When the bread looks sailed ctit oft anbther thiia slice and proceed with tbe work. It Is best to rub up and down on the paper* A Bit Late. One can but sympathize with the commercial traveler, who, not-knowing that the railwaytnen were on strike, spent two days on the platform, at the end of which time he became soine^ what irritated and remarked to a friend, "She's a bit late, isn't she, Her bert?"?London Punch. On the 26lV^ Q.e$gMSfvX^ W the Hudson ^ (??v The rreot was anaounctd by the firing of ?SA90Q jit snort lutcrviiii?. alOCg the ?tire leogtk Xi*e e?naL b^un ^t Bm*. V. 'iTw' in 18T7, w^s completed cb'eflj tbroogh the infhieuce ?f Witt Clinton. The eost of construe-1 Ottoman Empires Finances Not Crippled By War-^Umque War Ke^ rf : ^ Constantinople, Ivoy. ?l<r.-r-TfieVfcS? debt of the Ottoman ^mp^e .is said by experts to have increased le^s. . that of anyv other nation^: 'Bter,* ed indebtedness was. "incr^ only one new loan of ?l^nt it^^p O0.0, and, adding to this Jtter;inci^? es in obligations such as home ml"" tary requf&tions -kn$K advah??s Austria and Germany,' hier war ; penses rah" to oniy tW0,0Q^QQ^ C^-. I sequehtly,... al 1 owing, .for* various ^?ff? i sets. her-, postwar indebtedness I amounts to about .$1,000,3,00,0.00. : "j \. This w?uld maskc "' it. appearjj tfe$t { Turkey "ran. the war on 'a . shoe j string,"' financially, ?s. compare*!? "fco Great Britain with her- $48$<^<8? 00 0 war' debt," or France' xjg^$j$? 000,000,00Or and' the LTnitedi- ?' with <25T?O?,?O?,060'and tx^WSSk possibly" t?Mb.?wt?v:*-Vt Sfe recalled that ion j^gr^he;'\\?ity jEmjpire moMlized j nearly i^MjU ! men, 'yet .shev*^^pej^tfc. so'hYei I like the war ;e^n5e"s''??'WC:-|^SiS 'like Uttie Rtm^n?^19^''?B1fl!g?^^ The record'of the?Tuik^.vVnr^j debtednesa is ..uAi^nei'v- 'T ' ' met war' costs .by ^requisitions, i printing in "Germany; ?$$f* paper- pounds, or normally, aoewc \$Wt00WM but this; acccr&'g^Sro 1 experts,.: cannot> be copsidece/? ?.jt'oxr ernment' iia^^ltyl'* . ' 'tt^is not ^a^nanciai -'.burden^As. ?Tt ? bears' no' interest'^ and also >he prop er' admindstra'tiye bbdy; et tSe* Peace Conference can,at; wfflv'^W'-it."1!?^ Icelled. ; ; '? ."?>.?',;_,*-:V: Turkey's, paper "money, Jt ? is; daiini|lf I has. not depreciated .as much as' 'to^t j of her Allies. . Couhter^^ Seem to ' hive vopetated^^rer^. sively due, to the lack BqT and (gpod_.printihg Jr?^s^" potami? Tarnish paper raoney^ fused - since the British' ?Y which i .the Turks do -not p^?jffk% wh?ch"made war as a' The amount t ration is .yet ."to .be .deter^p??di't ^ Serbia Still Needs : (Correspondence of-?ssoel '. :Ne^rp>Jk;-t^c..J^^A^? ?f :|he '.^bian j&eiie?I .Cot cemmen^ng;' .?h a 'recent; ;S from"' Belgrade, ??nip titaj* Wa? on her feet agate; h?tfi^ eired*5from rtjrp.. i3^^d^ate;;er*^te^^ the war ? said* ? ? "-i- * 52 America ahd afr whs are IP" ' ^ U^^^st%Mj^*-|4fl0iiiF W< that ,'gr^ ^i ^ :|^t^| ;aie?j ed appear, jh,the aggregate^ ? t?at ih> y?'s^?^eit, its^ee^r^^ihe. ,f^nd under-. control Vand ^ia^t ^^oh-^vion^r.; m^gac^s5^nV!i 4nbgrested ..4n Serbia; ^ttjid?J I ve^y ^'aely^pu^rlsHeo! jit sh??ld. bO e^?ilyTwe^-'S! ^^aWest ;h^i^^:^e;'?^^Sfe^' Bosnia.^and; tter^^vm^^^!'',? i^ateian . terriJtory^ ^dtirjng^ suffered y<etfl\\$x(lp. _reaVl Tiierer will perhaps be^n? starvattoh ih' SerJ&fe throtigi . ter,- though the .food, sip in quality or quantity, is sufficient^ .for . thfe reator^.. he?lth ; ?ndf Strength or yoonfe enrf-r dren". Oriie slight ^<WcatfenSI of) tfi?. I is. tOybe seejnt ^'l?..the :^c|jjt^^]S|pp ' by Mr. Hoover's ^dmhiisij^?i;kl dered milk for nse> in f^t^Sty4 southcasterh Europe;" including". j . |Tn.. J?goTSlay.ia, ^here. are-,, j faUierfe^^children .jpf .i^oJSiv. ar6 absoluteTy^ destittiie. ^nSon^# I July, less 'than'-.2,^ \ vided for, -largeiy be>avii*b ofV'" jmj^dous ; difficult-^Ue^2 I work, in an Utterly disoi^Lnizej^ ci^ m-ohity. Thi1 ?oVerh3?hE r'&? grade and the gi^>;J^gt^tf^ English?- relief :orgahliations^ate: i wiwkingin .th?rbn^h . .basymn^ their e^ortej to/ca^ry; tl?se;j ' safely .through /the . w) * can ' only succeed - if.; f) slacking of effort onrth^part of tfi% American ami' Brfticjfcp^Mcs."; J.' The Drink Busia^s^ E^aijd. ~: to reported .^e^;^??c^., 'm???faeturers Of aJcdhalfc are .jiow devo?bgipHl production of ?irft^d^ki-^?^ waters. In th^country7,^ ffie|ife of - what "one jiaper called the '.^ in . BpOze,". seyeral n>ah-u ! hon-intoxicating . bey'erfiges; ing their atfehtt^to the j o^ drinks that^dssess w&atis,; \y called. ?a decide^ *^ic^" v ..^^ evidence that' J;aa ..conifeii ou:Aiy apparent at tns-feeweraJ^?B ; bit ion which opened ; toi^y^OtSe its features was the. dist>&y of ^ii liquors and cordials;^by b^tigt^ name heretofore.' has been~a hold word' in the mihera^-waW. trade. : *. d:Vr'.-* : j'During the. war," said one^>f- th> directors of. the '.company, --^St/Ap plied 15,00?;000 bottle's of soda watcV to the army. Kotv that "has gone we-.are ,goingK. 'in.-.'^stnoi^^r liqueiov tawny $orts?. ^twiic ^^L^$ other, drinks that we n?V m?T^1ffi what some; of ^ur American! custom - ers' call -a 1?unchV".': j'.?y^'r-\.. .;-vrSe^!e,wfcc*.$^ ^^ager.w|ne.as a .%m^;cn^. alcoholic beverage^ whfen jftirins, the h'cart' and le?vWno b?Th^aa^e' morning will have td.;1^'^ear^fn^^dir.' they indulge in jt^n the i'uti^ ihv|his country. It^has beconie d^??hctly eievating in character Hi 6t this firm. ''? - -'; - v" ; 'JPerhaps .that js. the r.easorn-why we have aire^^y sold $4,000 dozen bot tles of it th4^year^,f said -the Utrec _: . ^ ."TV** ? vi?.*.- ? : -??<; /-. -