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Cotton Crop Condition Haw York Journal oi Commerce keports Show That There ll^ Been Deterioration During Munth Mew York. Oct. 2?.- The New York J * I*.. I of 'Niinnii'itv will have the f?il?>.vn k >.? ??^ Im Um issue tomorrow iei- ft ? Antun >t km l '.mi ??tton flop ^Noturns received fiom iicuil) son ? I"4* ml corn nts of this Journal, uudet ?n h\ . t w< ? "H?lte the almost uui '?rv f weather which Las 4th-,I luring tta?? vre?ter put of rgo portion t?i the cotton belt, there h i> >>u u detei loru . UOU of 4 & from hut month* per cent atdnkm of ?3.r. This, however, coin eor k k-s* In IM? of 1.7, from ? . , .ft figure of fif.H per i ? Kt. lu M18 n ?muH Inerouae?10.;'. per cent we* reported, although in the rear preceding th.it cotton condition fell s.9 per cent, or the past ten yearn average det? i loratAon dam been I per cent: picking, while not up to Ul a little ehvtui of hurt year, ladng estimated at *!? per cent, against i?."? pee cent a year ego. Thle compares with SI per omit pftrk>d In If 18, per ceiu the year previous and S4 per oent m i??ii. I^^^Mbjfialdet Wik tie ha. k wtirdnessj of tbe l?it crop, this show I ok is rather better thai iputed. although it leaven neurtj run third ol the crop to h k i .I, lh< refoi ? . ?tili In dagger of frosts v . ireful ans i Is ef tbe returns showH this year's cot tan tvp to have been one or the most uneven ever w \ lew ? I In so ottou made wholly lavot khle progress. Practically throughout lbs glowing season re- ? turns from reliable sources haw | shown oitt-u In the same localitv, good ootton. ?et| grown with normal n ull? age, wh .vnere the plant has been either overgrown and tank or * undersis* and poorly fruited. At not a few point* c.-tfor Im report? d . 11111 ? ?.-*! a total failure. This has increased the difficulty of determining the sise of tbe crop, snd in the opinion of snauy competent i Servers the final ybrld will resaadji u mallei foi con Jectare until uU'kmg has been ?om p toted t aken by states the h* avbsft Iomm In per cent con4Hk>n la shown In Klor ida. whk'h deter h i - ? I i <?. i.. ? .i , ( also f*red b.?dly. lo.int s; M tastsslpp.' I C; AlMlMtma, 6 1, und Louisiana. In North Cat' uu South Carolina losses were small, <f and 3.7. r-spe.-t tvely. with \ ? n i .i?;.i hihi a lose hurt year of lt.I.. Arkansas also de ited 8..1. against 7.8 a' year ago. Tennessee showed ihn stnallcst kv**? I *. while Missouri registered the which romp ires u Ith a i Otaeluu Umi year of 1.8. As to the ?wont ) siaoa heuds the Vait *?th >? per v em. Plorldu eomes With .Hfi. Ala ha mi ' and M: <i? I 19. The Texas crop is 7 7 per rent gathered. Missouri is tb?? mo ward, showing only 33 per cent. a#s4au*t 43 par coot ose has 38 per een >kl ihom tj North Carolina and Souih i fell pfborl of last year's i erd with i'l per o-nt and ??S pel t it reapsiTin I. but Arkansas per cent, against 4H per cent a year earlier. *\4eobedlng to an overwhelming ma JgSHy Of returns weevils have contin Ued tb?-4r dewiructiveness and In Urge area* damage has esci eded eat Iter ? x pesjtattnno. banc* mile or no tup ? rop ih itk. ry. "A r?- ui !?* n. . Ii- i ? u,d I here. n<.?a In "fa>e?di lad ??kiahonm of exces ster r?m* and ebmdy. ?bo\\er% \s .i thrr Hi esnuiinff a lo?eering of grade*, which in conjunction with the prea> cut P?w tW'?? s of COtUm and scar, it y ..? jdrkris IS espected to Induce con sidcist-b* bbbademnient Many e.-ne - . nd< SU* thai very little low grad-'-MUlor, Nv ,1, d this > 'II In r.e. f^la the Carolinas and Ala? bama the-Ibeeawint rains of July and AugUMt and iniif* oi H?*|iteinher Were fuUoW'^l Vf h month of drouth, Which baa had twe effect m numeromt ?n stanoes 4*f T*educiHf; earln-r es?.. ? f nnal vie1 ) Nearly everywhere OuMSjtelsjts are h.: of the fill in the pfleJ^Vo* tie -Miple, and the rlalra bjL^SjS^s^lbat cotton sold si p?? ?'itt tfKtlBfwfff bring onl> about hah thu ? ??mis ui i lir'?duetton. *'orreM|h?ndentH ? ?aWy^lirts of the rsjtton la-It pre diet Vjffk unless the lals>r Situation I fit iMtujMdA and Motile inninii" W Intro duoedtofnore succt*ssfully combat the ar??e\ |l no no. .Id or, .01 ? aye mil year I* pretty sure to heavily nit. At present vun>iu wi, little cotton is hoteff? marketed. In a few isolated es**? farmers are nal<l to be foftuv ins; t?* plek until >ndili<>ns Improve, hut f,,r it,, iin.-^t p.ul cotton u? being pielted and stored in ware? house pending an advance In prices. "individual estimate* by obttim cor MfjfJfjssadents of in?* entire crop range from lO.Cne Sou to I '... ?ni.oov bales, with the Renem! average It.ftbO.SOti lajles." Troops Guard PoUs In Cuha Presidential Elect on is Held I nder DifTiculties K?vaiu*. Nov. I.?-Cuba l?,voting tor a ureshtrnt and rro?ipeyde? guarding Ibe poll* to pr? \enf ibyci.iene I d. ul d-r. FishhrTg Boat Race Amerigt;^ and ( anadian ( ?nlfn fler.H^tiri Second Knee Today H*'yaJr Nov. I.?The V.h\0 mnlo and T?,.|,(VV in.* Amerh m nnd Caiia* dbin funte ittints for racing elt m p1??nsh|,, 0| the in 1 ernational llalnng ?eete. ????, 1 \ d on ?, , oiul rue. 1111 tut nine ?'Vii Ofl ih- 4?st tap Canadbin enlrj lendind wi'pi I'.u" 1 *: > ? ? 1 id IA v 1 -? ?..?> Straw Vote For President Nation-wide Ballot by RexaU St?ren Indicate That Harding Will Have a Walk Over The straw vom conducted by tho more nun eight thousand Rexall Drug stores located It all Hl? towns of an\ alSe m .ill ihe states gives a decid? ed majority to Ihr Kepubllcau Uctoet aUd, indicates the election of Harding on?l Cooildge. In every stau- tin- ma Joritx for ?o- against Harding is v? r> ?b i Ided, ? xr. pt in SV. Virginia whcir Hai w' ng and ?' > \ run m-ck and nook aith on I) i i< a votes In Harding'* fnvor. According Ihr Itexall straw \>>'. th. electoral vote will be as fol lowi ? a c ?6 0 U Alabama. Ark iMae . Arizona. California. t'olomd. Connecticut Delaware . Florida . I la ... ^ ... . Idaho . Illinois . Indiana. Iowa. Kansas. Kentucky . Loufaftaita . Maine . Maryland . Massachusetts . MU liignn . Iflnneeota. Migaiaaippl .... Missouri . Montana. Nebraska . N? \ oli . Neu Hampshire New Jersey . . Neu Mexico . .\ ? w York .... Nod i' i' irotlna North l?.iKota Ohio . Oklahoma . Orego.i. i'? 'i'isvh ,i nia . . Rhode Island . SomiIi CktrOlina BoUtk l*ikot;i . TU musses . Texas . Utah . Vt rm.iut. VI reinla . \\ ashington . . . W SCJl Virginia . W si onsin . w omirig. i:: ?; 7 4 29 15 || 1U I 8 IS 15 12 14 3 45 5 24 5 || 5 i i 7 x II 3 14 13 10 10 IS II la 12 20 12 M ? - 0 ^ ~* 12 1? 3 II 0 7 3 (1 14 4 l| 15 13 10 IS 10 6 8 18 15 12 10 II 4 s 3 4 14 3 45 12 r? 24 10 I 38 r? I 5 12 20 4 4 12 7 8 13 3 Total .364 1G7 531 Puritans Usrd No Wedding .Ring. The Puritans of the seventeenth century used no Mllf st the wedding tereinony, ss they considered It "a pagan s.\ mbol nnd superstitious con? trivance." All they required wn? that the mnn aid woman should Join hands when stating their purpose to IfVe together in wedlock. Horrow-ble. Calico Hook Progress (reporting IV htstiated ItCfere). "You would he boa row stricken to sc. some of tho plo tnres that are full of blood and bor? row."?Boatos Transcript Regrst. There Is such a thing ns noble re? gret, nnd there Is one wli oh Is Igno? ble, for there may be virtue snd vice even in n memory. Bcwaro of "chew? ing tne cud" of part wrong doing.? Dum ton. West Australia's Vast Size West Australia, the Isrgost state Id the continent, has an at. a vt over 073, ftf*) square miles. Men Not Practical. Ifen are seiilmeuial goSilpg, They are not practical enough. Women arc. Since lite beginning of Htm? it's wom? en that have had to do tie practical things. - (Jeorge Bernard Shaw. Misplaced Sympathy. Many a wife dusts the billiard chalk from her husband's coat and fei eds tears of sympathy because of the late hours he must spend nt his desk close to s whltowsshed wall.?Rxchnnge. Africa's Big Rivers. Of tlafl African rivers the Zambesi, ?J.tKK) lUll* ih length, III the largest rher In Mouth Africa ; the Urtltlgs i\v jr comes ncxi with 1,200 tulles ami .the UsgpOPC "?'it with 'J00 mile/ ?ubmarins Coal Mines. There are many submarine coal de* posits off the British Isles, but so far they tire not much worked. The tun? nels of the mines at Whltehuven ex? tend tome four miles froiu shore under I he Irish sea hOWCI *r. and there also n eoue submarine coal mining at ttotneas near the Firth nf Kor'h und %x Mail' h i iiiuitl b in I Icon, Brought Down to Date. "Mnn winds but little here below nor wants that Httle long.1' Is whal they sang Hotur yearn nvo bin it'i now another eobg rhe words we u?? aio at tlulb. Ihougli fullj at sublime, *alnri want* eveTjihlng Ii Sight, and wnnt? || all I he (i me." Tungsten in Portugal. TUa?Sten Cam-rally Is called wolf ram In Portugal mid i< sold h> ihi mines us !ni,.'si.-n trloxidi m?i the ha sis of Ms richness in tungstic m id Th< production im<- been from '.o;i? p. i.r??k bms a year, as near us can be uscef ?ailncd. CUT OUT THE EAVESDROPP New Device It Expected to Eliminate "Listening in" on Wireless Messages. Successful demonstrations of a new wireless Invention, which marks a Step toward the secrecy of wireless telephone and telegraph messages, have take\t place In Great Britain, and Slgnor Marconi Is at present con? ducting further tests at sea In his yacht Blectra with a view to Its wid? er application. Details of the invention are secret, but It may be stated that, according, to the Continental edition of the Lon? don Daily Mull, an apparatus has been devised which, by what experts call an "electrical method of concen? tration," propagates the electric wire? less >inve In a "beam" In any desired direction and In that direction only. Hitherto Hie electrical waves sent ?ur from wireless stations have ! spread out In all directions and all | who "listened hi'* could hear. The new Invention will mark the end of the wireless ?'eavesdropper." When It Is perfected a wireless station will be able to send out Morse or spoken messages which will he heard only by those for whom they are Intended. The now apparatus which Is being worked at an experiment station In Great Britain with a short wave length, has recently been demonstrat? ed hy a number of experts who ex- I pressed the greatest Interest In the discovery. It Is known that German wireless research has been lntely closely di? rected to this problem of the "eaves? dropper," for the Qennani realised that wo were able to pick up with our listening sets much valuable infor? mation about Zeppelin movement! during tho war. HOW DOLLAR WORKS FOR YOU Benjamin Franklin's Fund of $5,000 Grew to $431,383 In One Hun? dred Years. How the dollar Invested works for the Individual himself has been best Illustrated by that .llrst great Ameri? can teacher of thrift, Benjamin Franklin. In 1701, he bequeathed ?1.000 ($0,000) to the common? wealth of Massachusetts and to the city of Boston as a mark of his appre? ciation for having appointed him as agent in England at the "handsome" salary of ?2,000 ($10,000) and to make his bequest really valuable with his great foresight. Franklin provided In his will that this ?1,000 should be pur out at 5 per cent interest for one hundred years; Muit at the end Of that time 31-131 of the fund accumu? lated should again he put out at In? terest for another hundred years and then the fund be divided one-fourth to Boston and three-fourths tp the state. Let us show how well that ?1.000 of Franklin's has worked. At tho end of the first hundred years It had grown to $431,888.02. It was then di? vided lu accordance with the will; $820,300.48 was set aside for "public work" and $102,083.14 was started on Its course of canting Interest tor an? other hundred years. That was In 18UL January 1, 1018, this sum had grown to .?207.805.10 and at this rate of increase the fund should amount to at least six million dollars when the second period Is completed, and may be considerable more.?World s Work. Title Fits the Duties. The colored caretaker of a small town library boasted the title of "Custodian," which he had embroid? ered on the front of his cap, a source of lasting pride. Having marked diplomatic ability, he deserved a four-syllable title. Ohe morning while he was sweeping off the front walk a wandering loafer, also of Af? rican extraction, paused In front of him and scrutinized the cap closely. "Cuss-todlnn!" he ejaculated. "l>own whah I came from they calla common niggers like you Janltahs." "Ye-es," observed (he ebon-hued diplomat, pausing a moment from his labors, "dat's all right in Memphis. But on a job like dls, 'custodian' b mo* appropriate. You Bee, you Inn to cuss half de patrons und toady l< de rest of 'em."?Judge. Not All Blind. Two charming sisters tire engaged to two brothers, and their neighbors have been Interested In this dual love affair. The young girls live In the second Hat of a house, on the south side of the street, nnd the other day the elder sister was stopped In the street hy the young scion of the fam? ily who occupy the second Hat lu tho house Just opposite. "Oh, Miss Mlggs," said the toy. "my papa said last night that some? one ought to tell you to pull down the blinds, 'cause if love Is blind, lhe> neighbors are not!"?London Tlt-Blts. From Ear to Ear. Willie was away from home for the first time, staying with some friends. He was allowed to "sit til)" for dinner. The servant came round with a plate of slices of melon, and the hoslfsa noticed Willie hesitate about helping himself. "Don't you like melon?" pski il his hostess encouragingly. "Very much, thank you," replied Willie, "only th-Mr make your ears so wet." On the Dry Bathing Beach. Mabel That's a lovely bathlny stilt voii're ?curing. But aren't you afraid water rill take the color out? Jogli II might, so I always uuvt it dr/ cleuued.--.Detroit New*. SAW^MIRAGE ON SIDEWALK College Professor Records Interesting Observation He Made on the StreeU of a City. A curious case of sidewalk mirage j was described by Prof. F. W. McNalr ; of Michigan College of Minin?. Prof. McNalr wrote in Science: ?'1 wns walking enstward on a ce? ment sidewalk on a street running j nearly cast nnd west, and moving up n moderate erode which Joins a nearly level stretcli of walk. On reaching n point which brought my eye slightly i above tue level portion, nnd at which normally the level stretch would have been seen In its entire length, but much foreshortened, I observed In? stead what appeared to be a stretch of clear dark water covering the en? tire width of the walk and brilliantly reflecting moving persons and other objects in sight beyond It. "The sky was clear, the nlr cool, the sun high. It was about 8 o'clock p. m., local time. There was a moder ate breeze. The angle of observation was very small, probably not above | three degrees. A step or two either cast or west, and the water was gone, but within the proper limits, the Illu? sion was definite and continuing. The weather bureau report for the day Indicated that approximately '.\0 feet above the spot where the mirage was observed the air temperature was about 00 degrees F. and the humidity ahout 03 degrees." The resemblance between conditions here described and those which pro? duce the mirage on the plains Is ob? vious. BELIEVE DEVIL RULES EARTH Probably Queerest Religious Faith Is That of Tribe of Kurdish and Arabian Blood. One of the strangest religions sects In the world is known as the Yezedl. a race of mixed Kurdish nnd Arabian blood. They worship rhe devil, and believe he will rule the earth for 10,000 years, 4,000 of this number hav? ing already passed. On the theory that Jesus Is good, and will not harm them, they give most of their devotion and sacrifice to the devil who. they assort, will nt the? end of the nC\t 0.000 years, be put Into bell, where ho will weep so hard he will put out the fires, nnd then will be pardoned nnd given back his rightful place in heaven. The Yezedl believe that there were 71 Adams and a similar number of Eves, and that the originala once had n great dispute as to who was the most important, the man or the wom? an. To prove the matter the women spit In one great Jar and the men in another, nnd the jars were the sealed for nine months. At the end of that period thoy were opened, and from the women's Jnr leaped a pile of snakes and worms, while from the tnen'fl Jnr came a beautiful boy and girl. In spite of their strange beliefs they are very Industrious, honest, hos? pitable nnd kindly, nlthnugh steeped In dense ignorance, one phase of their religion forbidding thein to learn letters. Words in English Language. The number of English words not yet obsolete, but found in good au? thors, or in approved usage by correct speakers, Including the nomenclature of science and the arts, does not probably fall short of 100,000, says George Perkins Marsh. Few writers or speakers use us many as 10,000 words, ordinary persons of fair Intel? ligence not above 8,000 or 4,000. If a scholar were to be required to name, without examination, the authors whose English vocabulary was the largest, he would specify the all-em braclng Shakespeare, and the all-know? ing Milton. And yet in all the works of the great dramatist there seem not more than 15,000 words; in the poems of Milton not above 8,000. The whole number of Egyptian hieroglyphic sym? bols does not exceed 800, and the en? tire Italian vocabulary Is said to be scarcely more extensive. Egg Shows Miracle. One cannot *'iid among the multi? tude of wonders m nature anything more marvelous than the development of an egg, writes Flsa (i. Allen, in the American Forestry Magazine. Whether It be a butterfly which flourishes for a day, only to die after depositing its eggs, or a reptile which lazily leaves Its eggs with only the warm sand to mother them, or a Ash, like the sal? mon, which with Incredible strength, lumps the rapids to spawn in the upper reaches of rivers, or most ap? pealing of all a bird which builds a beautiful nest for Its treasures, the egg in every case is structurally the same, and the miracle of life unfolds according to the same laws of cell division. Modern Words Traced to Trees. While the ancient Creeks fancied that every tree was possessed of Its own peculiar spirit, and nature lovers insist, that trees have personalities even as men ami women, it Is only nat? ural that men have paid tribute to the tree. The leaves of |>lautf named the leaves of books, and the word ''folio'* traces hack to "foliage." Tin* word paper come* from the old papyrus plant, and the word "Uible'* is the Creek name of tin* plant, accord ins b> Ihe Minneapolis Journal, The word "hook" Is derived from "beech," and the "codex" originally meant tree trunk. It Is because men have found I he ttfja kind friends and interesting IttbJeCtH thai they have been paid so mil' h tribute. HAMLET MODEL YOUNG MAN Writer Declares That Melancholy Dane Was "Perfect Lady's Perfect Gentleman.** We nre told in so many words that he was a model young man. He has presented tho English language with two of its stereotyped phrases for the marking of a standardized perfection; he Is called "tho glass of fashion and Ihe mold of form." The titterunce of these words by Ophelia is as Illumina? tive as the words themselves. It Is plain that the youthful Hamlet lives up meticulously, not only to conven? tional, but to feminine, to maidenly, standards of propriety and excellence. He is the perfect lady's perfect gentle? man, O. W. Firkins writes In the North American Review. But we do not need Ophelia's testi? mony; listen to the young man him? self. His mother urges him not to re? turn to college. "I shall In all my best obey you, Madam," he replies with a filial decorum which Samuel Richard? son or Hannah More could not have mended. Observe the nature of his ob? jections to suicide: Oh, that the Everla-tlng had not fixed His canon 'gainst bcif-slaughter. He condemns the act, not because it Is cowardly or simply immoral, but be? cause It Is uncanonlcal, unscrlptural. Hero is a young man In whom his cateehlst or confessor* may rejoice. With such a person it is obviously hazardous to joke. When Horatio, his fellow student, calls himself a truant, Hamlet solemnly defends hlra against the charge: I would not hear your enemy say bo. Clearly this Is a young collegian who never "vext. the souls of deans." We see him assiduous at lectures, methodical in his notes. Shakespeare has not forgotten to Inform us that he kept a note hook. Within two minutes after his father's ghost has ended the appalling tale of the murder in the garden, the young prince Is Jotting down by moonlight an invaluable memorandum about the relations of smiles to vlllany. Do I mean that Hamlet is a fool? Not at all. Hamlet has a strong mind, but Its strength is shown at the outset In the docility and thoroughness of Its assent to the proposition of its teachers. FIRST VENTURE OF LIPTON Friend Tells How He Took Chance With Patrons of a Rundown Grocery. Dr. J*. H. Ostrauder, a personal friend ot Sir Thomas Upton, b id re? cently for the first time the story of Llpton's Initla 1 business venture, an exchange states. Upton's first business venture was an event in one little corner of Glas? gow. He bought for n few pounds a srfrry old rundown provision shop that had changed hands a score of times; everybody had failed. It was In a neighborhood where profits were meager and housewives close traders, and where sharp practice and indiffer? ent ethics precluded credit. So when LIpton announced that he would trust any decent neighbor once all foresaw his doom. LIpton, however, did not mean that he would carry accounts 30 days, for tit this period five such accounts would have swamped him. As he himself put it: "In misfortune I will carry any decent chap till Saturday night. I will he a friend to you In spite of prevailing business rules; but if yon break faith with me you will lose a friend nnd 1 will lose my -business." Thus ho put them on their honor. And It won; won because sympathy nnd fellowship dominated the hoy and ex? cited like attributes in others. Of the Eye of a Frog. The smallest camera In the world which has actually "taken" pictures Is doubtless the eye of the frog, sars Boys' Life. It has been found that If a frog Is kept In the dark for some time the retina of the eye, on being dissected, Is found to have a purple reddish color which fades away or be? comes bleached on exposure to day? light. If the eye be placed In front of a window and left there, or "exposed" for some time, and then fixed In a 4 per cent solution of alum the opto* gram Is partially fixed and retains an inverted picture of the window. It is claimed that by a similar photographic process the last picture or Image re? tained by the eye of a dead man or animal may be preserved. Natural Thermometer. It was a wonderful sapphire, so It Is said, that led the celebrated Doctor Sorby to the discovery of the nature of the liquid sometimes found In? closed In the cavities of crystals. The Kent In question contained a tube shaped cavity, a quarter of an Inch long ami an eighteenth of an inch lu diameter, which was so regular in Its bore that It served, hy means of the liquid partially filling It, for a thermometer. The contained liquid half-filled the bore at 50 degrees F. and completely filled It at SO degrees. A study of the rate of expansion of the liquid led to the;conclusion that It must be carbonic acid. A Pious Man's Consolation. Dr. Lynian P. Powell gives some examples of the lengths to which pet ty bitterness between sects will some? times carry men. "A visitor In n i^r tain town which had four churches and adequately supported none asked a pllWtr of one poor, dying church 'How's your church getting on?' 'Nm very VNdl,' was the reply, 'but, thank the Lord, the others are no I dolpj- hii> teller.' "?Uirlstlsti ItegJ der. Smuggling Dutch Government Dead Line on Gei The Hague. Oct. 31. govornrrjent has establish? line 3uo yards w ide along t| border in an effort to curb' idling whieh has assumed ti j proportions, particularly in (and rubber goods goii g into <*ertS| [Soldiers are constantly on watel the dead-line but. in spite of tl measures, the smuggling continue j Dutch stores in all the fror towns have been prohibited by \ eminent order from carrying n stock than is necessary to supply Dutch villages and the holding markets in the streets has been bidden. Berlin Taxicabs Idle * c. Herl in*. Oct. 31. ? Taxicab ftl droshky drivers in Herlin, as numer? ous now as before the war, have so little to do that many of them stf nd ad day at their plares without a Sin? gle fare. They have increased ^Jielr prices 10 to 15 time;; the old rate but' the cost of living lias kept pace with the increase and some of them are in ' abject poverty. There are a few smart equipages, the obvicus pride of tra owners, but most oi their vehicle* j present a battered, forlorn aspect. A droshky driver, whose ,tail hat was dirty and broken and whose clothes were patched in many places, perkfrd up eagerly at the prospect of a fare but when he discovered only a queo tioncr lapsed into his customary leth? argy. , "I've had only three fares, in two days and have not earned enough to feed my horse," he said. "Before the war w-? were very busy. People then went pleasure riding, and always called a cab to go to their offices. Now the Germans cannot a ' ford it and the majority of th? for? eigners have their own automobiles,"1 ?>r, either side of tin parkway down the middle of Unter den Linden hun? dreds of taxicabs and roshkles are parked, waiting for customers. They take their turn at calls from the ho |tels and they consider they are lucky to get one "long-haul" customer a day. France's Birth Rate Paris, Oct. 15.?France's efforts to raise the birthrate and lower the death rate, by means of the new min? istry of hygiene, are too recent to be judged by comprehensive statistics. The importance of thf problem, how? ever, is given pessimistic proml 1 nenoe anew by publication of labor ministry's statistics for i919. There were three deaths to two births last year. In only one dapart? ment, Finisterre. did births eace^d deaths. In a number deaths we e double and even neatly treble the number of births. Tyrol Joins Italy Innsbruck, Austria. Oct. 31.?Ti e commune of Kriechen which is bisee - cd by the Tryol boundary, has just voted to be Incorporated Into the Ital? ian South Tyrol. Under the law the Austrian government must accede arid lose this community. Under the leadership of the Sumter County Cham be? of Commerce and the Sumter County Fair association, two bodies of "livewire" farmers, merchants, manufacturers, bankers, professional men and women, *iy>aL estate and insurance agents, automo? bile dealers, and other business men. Sumter county is going to put on what the promoters believe will be the big rest and best county fair and bargain iml gala week ever staged in this part of the country. These "never say dies" as they class themselves say they will keep up the "old guard of Gamec ock county, that never .surren? dered" boosters to any foe or to any conditions of times, and that they are going to kick gloom out of Sumter and clean out of Sumter county. That is the "Sumter spiiit" that has male Sumter and Sumter county what they are. Every business establishment that stays out of this procession of progress and boosting will undoubtedly be talk? ed about a great deal, some who have played the role of "the quitter under lire cd" threatened adversity" arc al? ready being talked of with pity by nu? merous "live wires" who are willing to fight against adversity and just create good times any how. It nev? er pays to hang back against an over? whelming majority. You just get into a kind of separate limelight of em? barrassing and unprofitable publicity. Why not run with the crowd of 'democratic, majority rule, do it any how boosters." New York. Nov. 1.?Requests from all part* of the United States that the great westward tide of immigrants be diverted from the fastly-growing cities to rural districts to populate abandon? ed farms have led Commissioner of Immigration Wallis to reply that Im? migration authorities lack this power, tin migrants, lie raid, plan their desti? nation before leaving their home countries. Delegations from different states have called at Elba Island to urge that steps be taken to prevent im? migrants from r?ing to certain cities. Representatives of the Chamber of Commerce of Detroit, which new census figures advanced from the ninth to the fourth laigest city in the country, isked that immigrants be sent to northern Michigan. Pres? ent labor conditions in Detroit ar? not such as to warrant an influx of for? eign labor, they de? tared, as many Maltese, barred from entering Cana? da by a recent order, have located in Del roil. A Louisiana delegation visited the immigrant station in an endeavor to induce Immigrants to go to unoeu pied farms In that state. Commissioner Wallis has conferred with railroad agents with h view of speeding the westward departure of immigrants to alleviate crowded con 1 ditions at the island.