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SHARE OUR SUGAR WITH THE ALLIES British Get Two Pounds a Month. French Pound and Half, Italians One Pound. GERMAN SUPPLY PLENTIFUL All Nations Permit Use of Sweetening for Homo Preserving Purposes. America's new sugar ration of two pounds a month per person Is equita ble when compared with tho sugar ra tion enforced by rigid governmental order In England, France and Italy, na tions with which we are sharing sugar. Each Allied nation In the matter of sugar consumption Is sharing on near est possible equal terms the hardships Imposed by greatly altered conditions In the world sugar situation. Formerly classed as a luxury, sugar Is now a war time essential. The fair and just division of this essential Is In the hands of the various Allied food controllers. The United States Food Administra tion has asked this nation to observe a voluntary sugar ration of two pounds per person a month. In the other countries at war with Germany sugar Is one of the scarce articles on every menu whether In the households of both rich and poor, or In the hotels. England today bus a sugar ration of two pounds per month per person. In France the ration Is a pound and a half and In Italy It Is one pound a mouth. And the prices In allied coun tries are from two to three times as high ns In America. If you go to a hotel In Englnnd or France these days and order tea or coffee they serve absolutely no sugar with It If you want sugar you must bring It with you. In England It Is allowable to use one-seventh of an ounce of sugar In the preparation of each luncheon. In France many persons carry little sac charine tablets about with them for use In hotels and In England rich and poor must take their sugur with them If they wish to havo sweetened tea while visiting friends. Bcforo the war started France had 025,000 acres devoted to sugar produc tion. Ily 1017 the French sugar acre age had decreased to 180,000 acres. Today the French man or woman with a sugar card has no assurance whatever that he or she will be able to actually buy sugar. To buy It, one must first find it Italy Has "State Sugar." Especially drastic regulations govern the use of sugar in Italy. Its manu facture, distribution and sale are close ly controlled, and In part actuully taken over by the stale. Saccharine Is permitted to he sold and used as n substitute for sugar and the government manufactures a mix ture of saccharins and sugar called "State Sugar," which is largely used. German Sugar Ration Adequate. Germany, before the war, produced a great surplus of sugar and exported largo quantities. Today the Germans have virtually gone out of tho export business, but have plenty of cheap sugar for home use. Wholesale prices prevalent In the Allied nations, according to Informa tion received by the United Slates Food Administration nro as follows: England, 10 ei'iils a pound; France, VI cents; Italy, 'JO rents. While these high prices aro being paid abroad the American wholesale prlco Is being held ut 7V4 cents. LOOSEN UP, TURTLE GIVE INSIGHT TO CHARACTER HAVE ORGY OF CANNIBlQSH TIm Fourth Liberty Loan is tlie first item on the program of national war finance since the announcement of our inten tion to put five million men in France and finish the war next year. On our response to its call for our dollars our friends and enemies will judge of our sincerity and earnestness in making that pledge. The nation's resources are ample. The success of the Fourth Liberty Loan depends on our converting a share of those resources into Fourth Liberty Bonds. Nothing more. The loan should be subscribed the first day and oversub scribed the second day. Buy Liberty Bonds. Don't be a Turtle. STUDY HOLDING OF CAMERA RAISING FOXES IN ALASKA Successful Work With the Instrument Depends Largely on Its Being in Proper Position. Successful hand-camera work de pends largely on the power to give slow shatter exposures with the enm era held In the band, und In tills con nection sufficient attention Is rarely given to the matter of "grip." It Is not enough to hold the camera firmly against the chest or stomach. The best position must be found by trial, and this will vary with different in dividuals and different makes of camera. In general it will be found that the most comfortable position Is the steadiest. At waist level the hands will be usually placed sym metrically on cither side of the instru ment, the right, near the release, for ward, and the oilier n little behind. When the camera Is held at eye level, one hand Is usually held rather under the Instrument as u support, and the other grips the hack or side, or with u folding type of camera both hands may grip the back. With the very small types, one bund often almost In closes the Instrument and releases tho Shutter, whilst the other Is used ns a support, At eye level It Is often a grout assistance to a steady nlin to press the back of the camera against the cheek. Just ns tho feel of a fn vorlte gun gives confidence, so the uso of the camera should bo familiar, and regular and systematic practice With the unloaded camera will be a grout help In tills. Trial exposures should be given from tliuo to time, and the resulting negatives carefully ex amined. At first fulrly short exposures only should be given, to gain confi dence, gradually employing slower speeds us the band Is trulned and nerve is acuulred. Animals Are Bred There for Their Fur, and the Industry la a Re muneratlve One, There are ten or twelve fol farms In Alaska. One of them, situated In the Tuniinn valley, a mile and a half from Fairbanks, consists of ten acres of cleared land, the greater part of which Is covered with pens In which the animals live. From a distance the fox farm looks like a huge chicken yard, with walls of woven .wire and hencoops of various sizes Inside. Each pen Is 50 feet long, 8 feet wide and about 10 feet high. The wire Is tough steel and is sunk about four feet In the ground and Is then bent so thnt It runs Inward underground for about two feet to prevent the foxes from dig ging out. At the top the wire has an overhang of two feet to prevent the captives from climbing over. Each ! pen has n kennel made of hoards, like n dog kennel, the entrance to which Is a chute or a wooden pipe a foot square. Only one pair of foxes live In each pen. They are very timid and have to he handled carefully. Most of the fox farmers will not allow strang ers to enter their property for fear they Will frighten the animals. The foxes arc fed with salmon, moose meat, horse meat, rabbits, carrots and turnips. A common feed Is rice and rabbits conked together In a stew. My brother has just reached France. On being moved from one village to nnotber he wished to thank the kind old Frenchwoman with whom he had been billeted and thought he was say ing. "We thank you for your kindness to us while we were here." The girls standing near laughed so heartily that he repeated his sentence later to an Interpreter and found that he had sold, "before we were here." Exchange. Remember The Zero Hour Buy Your Bonds Today Shape of Eyebrows Reveal Vlgjr, In sincerity, Lack of Vitality, and Many Other Things. It Is now conceded that the Greek eyebrow Is quite in accord with the conception of mere physical beauty in women. Like the rosebub mouth, It does not Indicate the highest order of intelligence and the arch Is expressive always of greater sensibility and great er sense of character, says London Tit-Bits. Scant growth of the eyebrows lnvr.ri ably denotes lock of vitality; on the contrary, heavy, thick eyebrows indi cate a strong constitution and great physical endurance. They are not beautiful on n woman's face, however much they may signify either mental or bodily vigor, and when they are not only heavy, but droop and meet a the nose, they are disagreeable and an said to accompany an insincere am! prying nature. Romantic women usually have a very well-defined arch In the center of the eyebrow, while a sense of humor Is In dicated In the arch nearer the nose. Long, drooping eyebrows, lying wide apart, indicate an umlablc disposition. Where the eyebrows are lighter In col or than the hair, the indications are lack of vitality and great sensitiveness. Faintly defined eyebrows placed high above the nose are signs of Indolence and weakness. Very black eyebrows give the face an Intense and searching expressing; when natural, they accompany n pas sionate temperament Very light eve- brows rarely are seen on strongly Intel lectual faces, although the color of the eyebrows Is not accepted simply as de noting lack of intelligence; the form gives the key to the faculties and their direction. Red eyebrows denote great fervor and ambition ; brown, a medium between red and bh ek. HOUSE BUILDING IN KOREA Operations Always Begun by the Con struction of a Most Ingenious System of Flues. When a Korean begins to build a house he first lays down a system of flues where the floor Is to be. These flues begin at a fireplace, usually built In an outer shed or in a closed alleyway connected with the house. From the fireplace the Hues brunch out like the ribs of a fan and end in a trench at the back of the floor space. This trench, in turn, opens Into a chimney, usually built at some dis tance from the house. When the flues are completed the builder carefully covers them over with flagstones; he then cements the whole floor and cov ers It with n sort of thick oiled paper for which Korea Is famous. The rest of the house Is then built round the completed floor. The heating system works in this way: hen It Is time to cook the rice for the morning meal the housewife lights a little straw or brushwood In the fireplace In the outer shed. While the rice is cooking the hent from the fireplace passes through the flues, heating the stone flags of the floor and diffusing a pleasant warmth that lasts until It Is time to prepare the next meal. Two heatings a day gen erally suffice to keep the floor warm. On tho floor the people sit by day and sleep by night The heavy oiled paper thnt covers the floor prevents any smoke from entering the room. Center of Agricultural Production. The center of agricultural produc tion of the United States, according to the value of crop and animal products for 1017, Is in west-Central Illinois, as shown by a diagram just Issued by the department of agriculture. The states of greatest production are: Iowa, Jl,330,000,000; Illinois, $1,255, 000,000; Texas, $1,015,000,000; Missou ri, $947,000,000; Ohio, $851,000,000; Nebraska, $774,000,000; Indianii, $766, 000,00); Kunsns, $735,000,000; New York, $700,00,000; Minnesota, $046, 000,000; Pennsylvania, $636,000,000; Georgia, $605,000,000; Wisconsin, $508,000,000; California, $575,000,000; Michigan, $534,000,000, and Ken tucky, $520,000,000. Really 8erlous. The Newlyweds had unwittingly chosen their abode In the neighbor hood where scandal was rife. One morning one of the nelirhhora sent a hoarse whisper over to her chief Louiiuiiuc: "What's the trnnhl., lutawn tha Newlyweds?" Her husband tried tn keen Rome- thing from her." "Oh. that's not serious t Men will have their little secrets." "Ah. you don't Undemlnnil 1 TtiU Is serious. He tried to keep a dollar and a quarter of bis last week's pay." Use Common Sense. In a desire to help food conservation many women go to ridiculous extremes. Children and growing youngsters should be well nourished, war or no war. Mr. Hoover wants us to use com mon sense In our conservation. Put ting youngsters on half rations Is very far from common sense. If you cut down their butter or sugar, Increase their consumption of milk. People's Homo Journal. Ash Trees for Airplanes. The appeal of the Aerial league of che British empire tor ash trees for aeronautical purposes has resulted In between three and jur thousand trees being offered with In the last few weeks, according to "Flight" The government requirements tn the next twelve months are expected to exceed WO.OOQ trees. BcleuUflc American. Ghastly Doings of the Burying Beetles Regularly Take Place at Certain Seasons of the Year. Here Is a monstrous case of the most ghastly depravity mingled with sublime sacrifice. The Burying Beetle buries small birds, mammals and reptiles, not as stored food for Itself, but for the sustenance of Its offspring. In the confines of a cage these undertakers will bury carcass after carcass, eating scarcely anything, depositing their eggs with the game. They display most edifying Industry and order un til the proper season Is over. Then they strike work and take themselves , underground. And now n most frightful orgy be gins. Despite the abundance of food both above ground and stored with the eggs, which they will not touch, the undertakers begin mutually eat ing each other. One emerges to the surface with a leg missing, and other wise In a most battered condition. An other appears a little better off. He has two legs left. This one throws i himself on the first, tears him to pieces and eats him. Famine plays no part In the slaughter. It is time for them to die, perhaps, and not be ing able to die naturally, instinct drives the undertaker to tear and eat his fellow, heedless that he, himself, is being torn to pieces and eaten by another. And so the horror goes on, one eating the limbs of another, and that other eating still another, until the tragedy Is over, until next year. Exchange. II jSS. WE FIGHT FOR ' ' ' ' ' 1 WE FIGHT FOR THE PRINCIPAL of better groceries all the time. We believe everybody is entitled to good living and do our share toward supplying it by selling the finest groceries at the lowest prices good busineess will alow. We do not sell at cost but so near it that our customers are practically buying at wholesale WHAT FASTING FEELS LIKE University of Chicago Professor Has Made Public the Results of In vestigations He Has Made. In numerous descriptions of the ex periences of man In the conrse of more or less prolonged fasting, one meets the repented assertion that aft er a brief initial period little or no hunger whatever Is felt, S"ince It has been well-established that the sensa tion of hunger Is Induced by a certain type of tonic and peristaltic contrac tions of "the empty or nearly empty stomach, It must be assumed either that these contractions are abolished as a fast proceeds or that the sensa tions are decidedly modified. A professor of the University of Chicago has lately had an exceptional opportunity to investigate these ques tions. As the result of careful ob servations on man during prolonged Intentional starvation, he found that during the 15 days' complete fast and the subsequent eight days of absti nence from food with daily ingestion of cotton fiber, the gastric hunger con tractions of his subjects continued with practically normal rhythm and Intensity; but the subjective sensa tions Induced by the gastric contrac tions appeared to be somewhat weak ened and tinged with an element of general epigastric distress or sick stomach. Indian Names. The Indians up In the far North country call the beaver ah-mick, says Dan Beard in Boys' Life, the boy scouts' ma'gazine. By the way, when boy scouts lay out their council grounds nt camp and divide it up as It should be, according to the north, south, east and west winds around the circle, they should remember that the Indian name for north Is Qulewed nong, for south Is Show-neln-nong, for east Is Waba-nong, and for west Is Gabie-a-nong. Now, you know the Indian ceremony always begins with blowing the smoke of the pipe to the four winds, and then to the sky, which Is O'quie, and then to the earth, which Is A'kee, and the warrior lights his pipe with Skoo day, that is, with Are, but if he is tow neeke with the Skoo-day he starts a forest fire (tow-neeke means care less). To be a good scout, one must never be tow-neeke ; to be patriotic one must never be tow-neeke. Barristers' Wigs. Barristers' wigs first came Into vogue about 200 years ago. Up to the end of the seventeenth century judges and sergeants at law alone had any dlstlctlve dress. Under Queen Anne the queen's coun selor adopted the court dress and silk gown which made up the mourning of the period, together with the full-bottomed wig then usually worn by all persons of position. Thereupon tho outer bar started wearing a modest short wig, with strings of horsehair tied up at the end, In Imitation of the fashion of tying the back hair up Into a pigtail. Some judges, we are told by a legal historian, found these wigs "cox combical," and would not allow barris ters wearing them to plead In Court London Chronicle. Dangers for Qame Fish. The great cause of the decline In fish life In a stream Is the pollution of the stream, and for this there la neither palliation nor excuse. A writer tn All Outdoors says It Is true that . brook or river Is a convenient place luto which to throw refuse. The people of medi eval cities thought the same of their streets until plague and pestilence taught them better and Instilled the elements of hygiene Into their minds. Such Ignorant negligence was a sign of their unenllghtenment, yet, with all of our boasted civilization, we are but a step In advance when we convert our sparkling streams Into noisome sowen. FOR THIS WEEK Bulk Macaroni 9 pounds for $1.00 Mexican Red Beans 9 pounds f ir . 1.00 Tigh House Cleanser 4 cans for 25c Celluloid Starch per package .,, 10c Corn Flakes 2 packages for 25c j 35c Coffee SPECIAL 3 1-2 lbs. $1.00 Try this-Guaranteed to Please. THE ECONOMY GASH GROCERY Phone 53S Quality Always Service First IMMtlH Reed's Plain and Anti Rust Tinware Reed's Tinware is so well known in every locality that it is needless for us to dwell upon its merits In this line wa are now showing Wash Boilers, Striners f Dairv Pails and Laundry Dippers Watts & Rogers Just Over the Hill IIHlnmiHIimiMIMHIMHIIU wss Show Your Patriotism! Buy a War Savings Stamp and Help Win the War illinium For Sale at The First National Bank of cAthena Ullllllllt Meeting the Problems of the Day Requires alertness to the ever changing wai-time conditions. You will always find us ready to help meet these problems as they arisi, and we are going to help you to meet them By the Expansion of Your Credit on and after September 1,1918, all book accounts will be lim ited to 80 days' credit, if an extension of time is desired, THE TRADE ACCEPTANCE, a form of paper recommended by the Federal Reserve Banks, wi.'l be used. For detailed information, watch our sds, see your banker or call on us and we will be glad to explain. Tum-a-Lum Lumber Co.