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EstMitktdMS Chicago--Boston--Pittsburgh--New York Utility of Yucca Tree The yucca tree, which Is indigenous to the deserts of Arizona and New 'Mexico, is very useful to man. It' hears no leaves, but each one of its tranches terminates in a knob from ithich springs a huge bunch of long, Sristie-like spines. One of the most de-t llghtful of toilet soaps is made from the spinous bunches, which are boiled to extract saponaceous substances. This species of yucca has long been l|nown to Indians as the "soap tree." When they want to wash themselves, «r their garments, they simply lake a pjece of the yucca to the nearest convenient water and rub it with their fcands, thus obtaining an Immediate ilntj profuse lather. The bristly feunchea tyafce a very superior cattle fbod. -""ifjftHM • ........r., " Relief Young Playwright--Wliat did yog think* of my climax? Critic--It was very welcome. s Say "Bayer Aspirin INSIST 1 Unless you see the "Bayer Cross" on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for 24 years. ^ Accept only 1 • 7 ^ 7 ^ Bayer package which contains proven directions Handy "Bayer" boxes of 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 and 100--Druggists Aspirin la the trad* mark of Barer Minnlietm of IfftBOtfWiti r of SsllcyllesolS Good Kidnegs Meaning Life Keep Them Clean and Free from Poisonous Waste with Dr. Carey's Marsh root Pre* scription No. 777. 6 Ounce JSottU, 75c Mo Drafs -- Juit Roots and Hsrba -- And Money Baak If It Don't Hstp You Wonderfully. When back aches and pufflness shows tinder the eyes. It means that your kidlieys need cleaning--need to be built up. It may mean much more If Quick action Isn't taken--your very life may depend on what you do today. Dr. Carey's Marshroot Prescription 777 is for kidney and bladder troubles and for that purpose has been used with what might be called phenomenal Success for 40 years. It has helped thousands and has saved many lives. It Is rigidly guaranteed--if it doesn't . help you in one week's time, money back. In tablet and liquid form at all real druggists everywhere. Price 75c. If your local druggist hasn't it, he can •ret it from the Carey Medical Laboratories at Elmira, N. Y. My Picture on Every Package P.D.Q. P. D. Q., a chemical (not an Insect powder) that will actually rid a house of Bed Bugs, Roaches, Fleas and Anta with Its proper use--impossible for them to exist as It kills their eggs as well i.nd thereby stops future generations. A 36c package makes a quart. Free--a patent spot In every package, to get them In tlM hard-to-get-at places. Special Hospital size, 12.50, make* S gallons. Your druggist has K or can get it for you. Mailed prepaid upon receipt of pries by the Owl ChemldU Works, Terre Haute, Ind. jyz^r j&izc ZZRHZTZAL Bzzaum?, drncA^o V Problems of the fe^toffice^ Department are Oany below. The belt Is t ravelin* In the opposite direction from that of the trnm, and thus It clears each trucklond In time to receive the next h»»d. The conveyors are from 50 to 100 feet In length. They travel 40 #eet a minute and carry nil the precnncelod mall going throagh the building. The width of the belt la 42 Inches and It has a carrying capacity of 13 pounds per square foot. This would amount to approximately 2.V 000 pounds. or 12% tons per hour. Two main conveyors deliver to Inclined conveyors which In turn deliver to two primary separation units on the second and third floors. The separation unit on the th|rd floor, which Is ISO feet lohg. takeS"care of the mall for the states of Iowa. Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin. Illinois and Ohio. The sorting clerks stand on a plntfrom extending between the two tiers of belt conveyors. SUFFERED TWELVE YEARS f WITH STOMACH TROUBLE "My recovery has been a surprise to myself and all my friends," recenSy declared Jacob Ferdinand, R. F. D. 2, Fond Du Lac, Wis., a prominent citizen of this city, in relating his remarkable experience with Tanlac. "The suffering I went through from stomnch trouble for 12 or 13 years simply can't be described. In my efforts to find relief I spent over one thousand dollars, but kept getting worse Instead of betted. A large pnrt of two years I was laid up in bed and for four months oi that time I couldn't got up at all. "Finally I sent my daughter for fti bottle of Tanlac with the result thsf I found Immediate relief, and bottles made a well and happy of me. I will gladly talk to anj personally and answer all letters w garding my experience with. Tanlae. It proved a godsend to me.** Tanlac is for sale by all good iln^ gists. Accept no substitute. Over million bottles sold. Tanlac Vegetable Pflla* for coo potion. made and recommended by manufacturers of TANLAC. By JdWNg^lCKINSON 8HERMAN ^™""1AVE wui seen one of Uncle Saarfi VaJT | raJUxfay mail clerks In his nice hew I I I ®as mask? - Well, he isn't pretty, but J| JIL I he has to wear It nowadays to keep up with the times. You see, in that big train robbery not long ago near Chicago the robbers not only had as airplane and four uutomobiles. nitroglycerine, dynamite, sawed-ofT shotguns and automatic pistols but also gas masks and fas bombs. So ten or a dozen robbers had an easy time in holding up the 50 mall clerks on a goll«J mall and express train on the St. Paul and getting away with registered tmail containing twa millions or so. It was the gas bombs and goM masks that did the business. To be sure. Uncle Sam has caught most of the robbers and got back most of the money, but such things make lots of trouble. And Uncle Sam baa plenty of mail troubles as it is. Just look at the size of his mail business. He's got something like 00,000 post offices--and mora being established every day of the year, except Sundays and legal holidays. There are nearly 350,000 workers In the Post Office department and they handle $3,000,000,000 every year. And Uncle Sam, not being In the business to make money, has all kinds of trouble in making both ends meet. In the fiscal year of 1923, for example. It cost him over $550,000,000 and he took in only about $332,- 000.000. And think of the things he has to attend to-- stamps and envelopes; newspaper wrappers and postal Cards; money orders, foreign and domestic.; postal savings banks; first, second and third-clase matter and pnrcel post; airplane, railway, carrier and rural route service and so on. Why, Postmaster General New has Just been receiving bids for 11,000,000,000 stamped envelopes, and newspaper wrappers. The postal savings banks haves about $150.000000 to the credit of depositors. There are 45,000 rural routes and more than 10,000 star mall routes, the latter involving an aggregate annual travel by automobile and wagon of 85,00(V 000 miles. Little things like these give 8 hint Of some of Uncle Sam's mall troubles. A thing that keeps Uncle Sam on the Jump every minute In his mail business Is our Increase in population. That was from about 92,000.000 to 1(«V- 000.000 in the ten years, 1910-20. And an estimate by the census bureau puts our population on July f. 1924, at 112.078,011. an Increase of about 7,000.000 In the last four years. And that wltli restricted immigrationThis means more towna^ more post offices, more letters--more everything, This new estimate of the population also show*, that there are now 79 cities having a jiopulati.* of 100.000 or more, as oompnred with 08 last year. This means that Uncle Sam Is hard put u» it to keep up with the procession In the large cities. His post office facilities have a way of becoming inadequate over night. Here's an Illustration. Years ago he built the gi^at federal building In Chicago, occupying a whole block In the loop. It was to be the last word in post offices--and the massive pile wns out of date before It was completed. In other words, Chicago's mail business grew faster than Uncle Sam built. Congressman Britten of Illinois will Introduce a bill at the neat session of congress to sell the building and site for approximately $22,000,000 and use the money for two modern poat offices, one on the South tide and one on the West side. Another thing that keeps Uncle Sam awnlte nights Is the Incessant. ever-Increasing demand for speed and more speed. Time is money, sajra the adage; it comes pretty near being literally true In the mails. The experts have calculated that the new transcontinental air mall ser\ ice saves anywhere from $5,000 to $20,000 a day, representing Interest on money trans|H»rted^ across the country. Congressman M. Clyde Kelly of Pennsylvania goes so far as to hold that the serrice by saving three days, Increases our available cash reserve by $150 000.000 each day. He is therefore sponsoring a bill in congress greatly Increasing Its scope. In the meantime requests for air mail service are pouring in on Second Assistant Postmaster General Henderson for. air servlQi. ^ Even Alaska wants It. It Is no wonder that the Chicago post office wg» out of date before finished. As the railroads supplanted the stage and pony express in the tranaportatlon Of the malls, Chicago--because it soon came to be the railroad center of the countrr-- came to be the mall center. Through It oof, moves the mightiest mass of mail matter that It centralized anywhere on earth. - Hall operations quickly outgrew facilities. The situation got so bad in 1919 that a committee of the railway mall service made a thorough study of the operations at Chicago. As s result of this study, the necessary facilities were figured out and a comprehensive scheme of terminal operation was adopted. The plan called for a site conveniently located for both railway mall cars ami anto trucks; a building of adequate dimenslona and design in which to bundle the mail economically ; and an extensive application of mechanical apparatus. The result of all this Is that there has Just bee*. T?j^2zrr^ ZRUCKAIW CVJYT^rYUU^ Eulogy of the Dead The custom of funeral sermons, together with various other rites In connection with the burials may be traced back to antiquity. Even the primitive peoples had certain ceremonies is connection with the burial of their dead. In ancient Greece and Rome the custom of eulogizing the dead was very popular; A Point in Common "When d«»es the honeymoon endT* "Well, frequently, like the other moon, it fades away after the last quarter is reached."--Boston Transcript. In oratory. It Is more make a hit with praise denunciation. District Manager Wanted ~ Unusual opp»>! <unity for ambitions and •dependable man. No in vestment--pajr -weekly--complete co-operation. Salaa experience valuable, but not necessary. Write today for particulars. MOORE 4t CO. NEWARK. >. V. W. N. U., CHICAGO, NO. 33-1924. completed, as a part of the new Chicago Union station project, a railway mall'terminal building which Is unique among such structures. It Is not only the largest existing building-of Its sort, being 800 feet long by 75 feet in width, with a height of 6 stories above basement, track level and subbasement. but contains mechanical conveyors and transportation equipment without an equal In the "world. This equipment Is capable of handling 3.000 tons of mail each 24 hours. A further idea of the magnitude of the operations carried on in this terminal will be gained from the fact that more than 1,000 clerks and i»orters are employed In the railway mail terminal department a\««ne. Robert II. Moulton, a Chicago writer, thus describes the workings of the new plant, which was visited by mall men from all ovt-t the world^who are in search of efficiency and speed: j The mall terminal building extends from Vnn Buren to llnrrison street, between Canal street on the west and the Chicago river on the east, with a private'driveway alc.ng the full length on the east iide. The building is of the latest fireproof design of-ateel and -concrete, and Is furnished throughout with factory-type, steel sash to provide the maximum light and ventilation. Its floor capacity Is 600.000 square feet. It is of the two-level type and 's served by platform tracks on the lower level and a teamway on the street level, the private driveway referred to affording 5S0 feet of cicar tailboard space, or enough for <10 street vehicles at one time. The track level has platform lengths adequate to serve CI cars, while the-basement affords communication, by means of tunnels, with cars at Union station platforms remote from flie mall terminal. Perhaps the most notable feature of this terminal is the system of belt convenors employed la - the building. According to the resident engineer who has been In charge of the Installation of the --mail handling equipment, this system Is the largest Installation of Its. kind In the world. It consists of 71 belt conveyors, requiring the use of approximately eight miles of belting; 400 tilting trucks of a special design; 1.200 balanced type trucks of a standard type; and a sufficient number of tractors to handle the trucks effectively throughout the building. In addition to thej? facilities there are 15 freight elevators, approximately 8 by 18 feet each. The terminal has a variety of functions. One of the most Important Is the handling of mall receded from and delivered to trains at the Union station. This consists primarily of the transfer of mull sacks from street vehicles to mall cars and vice versa. A great pnrt of the operations ~ of the terminal, however, consists in the receipt, . classification and dispatch of all pa|»ers. catalogues and parcel post mall originating In Chicago. as well as mail of these three classes passing through the city. While the bulk of the material Is received In the terminal already weighed and with the postnge canceled, a portion of It has not undergone these operations, and to take care •of the latter a post office has been provided In the building. -Unclassified mall reaching the terminal from the street Is received along Ihe middle portion of the private driveway space; that fronj trains, 'on the basement or track level. From fhene two pointfc of receipt It Is'delivered to the upper floors "of the building for the necessary work of classl-- flcatlon. Formerly parcel post mail originating tn Chicago Mas sacked and loaded into trucks at business houses nnd transported to the mall station. From •25 to 30 minutes were required to load a truck and a similar length of time needed to unload It. Under the new system the same work Is done In from three to five minutes at each end of the line, thus effecting a saving of dose to an honr on each motor truck load. The first step In the system begins «t the large business houses or mall order concerns. The mall is loaded into six or eight of the small tilting trucks and the latter are conveyed by a large motor truck to the mall terminal building. Arrived there the tilting trucks are pulled out of the ttiotor truck, coupled together in trains and attached to an electric tractor, which hauls them to a trough or pit, 50 feet long and 45 inches wide, In the floor. A bumper at one side of the-- pit marks the route for the train of tilting trucks and prevents It from slipping Into the pit. As the train passes along, employees tilt efich fiM-k n««i the consents slide to the feed belt - there being three feet of space each for 4U men. UI>-T£>-JDAZp TfAll, CZLXRK. They pick from the feed belt the packages Intended for the different states, and throw them onto the various belts specified for those states. Canvas Ihires at the sides of the belts prevent packages fruiv gr>ing onto the floor, at the same tlm^ deflecting packages to belts and breaking their fall. A separation unit on the fourth fli»or takes care of the belts assigned to the states of Missouri. New York, Kentucky, etc. The primary separation system on this floor has the same number of belts as the system on the third floor, the only difference being that the fourth floor system Is GO feet long whereas the third floor system is 130 feet In length. The final separation and classification of atl until handled by the terminal forces Is made at tables on the second, third, fourth and fifth floors, where the mall Is placed In sacks and propt-rly marked ready for delivery to the Union station forces on the track floor or the basement, or to the street vehicles on the street floor for delivery to various parts of the city or to other railway stations. Such mall. In sacks. Is handled by means of tractor trains which take the sacks dl- . rect to mail cars. The movement of the sacked ms'll from the floors mentioned to the track or street floors Is accomplished by carrying the sacks, on balanced type trucks, to boles in the floor leuding to longi- _i _-v i i j = • n-i c. mevors live Jo a tloor, which extend practically the entire length of the building. The mall Is 'dropped onto the celling conveyors through openings, or chutes. In the floors. There are 00 of these chutes. -4 to 30 Inches In sir.e, to a floor ami they are uniformly spaced. Since It Is not desirable to have the mail sacks drop the full vertical distance of 7 feet from the floor level to the celling conveyors, the chutes are each given a quarter turn, an arrangement which pt-rmils the sacks to slide within three feet of the belts. Kach of the 20 celling conveyor belts Is Slso connected with one of 5 double spiral chutes placed in different parts of the building. The belting forming the conVVyors is made of four thicknesses of canvas, weighing two pounds to the square yard, tn splicing the belts flexible metal lacing is used. The ends of the belts are pulled together by means of clamps and the teeth aieshed together with a strip of metal Inserted to keep them from pulling apurt. The belts travel on rollers of cold-drawn seamless steel tubes which range from 3»4 to 5 Inches in diameter. This tubing Is spot-welded to pressed steel heads thjit Mipport turned steel shafts Inch In diameter. The shafts are fitted with renewable Steel races and there are two roller bearings to each roller. This method of Installation has been estimated to save some $15,000 a year Operation of the belts is by means of motordriven double-drive pulleys, the main pulley being 30 Inches In diameter and provided with an automatic gravity takeup. The 71 separate conveyor belts are driven by an equal number of motors Kvery motor has a control, there being six control boards In all. or 2 to each of three floors. There are lock buttons at every motor, and every 100 feet there are start and stop push buttons. Tilt latter feature Is provided In order to prevent the piling up of mall should a section of t.he train of conveying equipment in advance be shut off. The cost of this system of belt-conveyor transportation alone was half a million dollars. It Is the belief of postal authorities that alrernft will soon occupy as Important a place In the transmission of mall as railroads and motor trucks. With this Idea In mind, provision has been made by which the roof of the new terminal building can be converted into a landing nnd starting place for airplanes nnd possibly even dirigibles. A number of foreign governments interested in the possibilities of aerial mail have already requested from the United States full Information on this future of the new station, while others are studying the station as a whole with the idea of Installing similar parcel post facilities In their countrles. ! , Probably He Saw the Same Old Circus Away iMtck when he was a boy and carried water for the elephants when be had the chance and sneaked In under tlie fly of the tent when he couldn't get In otherwise, George W. Hunter of Fairmount, W. Va.t was given a ticket for a big circus, the Kansas City Star reports. Some way Hunter never used that ticket He is not just sore why it was that he did not use It then. Perhaps he waa ill, or be had expected to give It to a friend or sell It or something, or perhaps he found another way of getting in and he saw no special use for the ticket. Anyway, when the circus came to Fairmount the other day Hunter wanted to see It. He was kicking around In some old school books and things and found this thirty-two-year-old ticket. Should he use It? Why shouldn't he use It? The circus belonged to the same company--the ticket ought to be good. Hunter decided to try It. He presented the ticket to the man at the gate, who refused it. saving that wjdle it bore the name of the company It was not a "regular" ticket. Hunter protested and told his story of having received the ticket thirty-two years ago. That was enough. The ticket taker believed that anyone who would keep a ticket that long deserved the best possible, and took Hunter In and gave him the best reserved seat In the Radio Record What Is believed to be the world's long-distance amateur radio record was recently established by Carloa Braggio of Bernal. Argentina, and Ivan O'Meara of (lisbome. New Zealand. Tney conversed two hours with 7.000 miles of South * American continent "and "Pacific ocean between tfev. C MOTHER:-- Fletcher's Castoria is a pleasant, harnl* Substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Teething Drops and Soothing Syrups, prepared for Infants ia arms and Children all ages. To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of proven directions on each lockage. Physicians everywhere recommend Sfc, ^ Paper Currency It has been computed that the cost to, the United States of making a $1 bill Is about as great as to make a $20 or n $10,000 bill. The expense Is 1.3 cents each. The length of service varies in direct ratio to the value of the note. The $1 bill lasts little more than a year, it is estimated, a $10 hill lasts about four years, while a $10.- 000 bill obviously, seldom wears out. Inprtant to All Women Readers of This Paper Swamp-Root a Fine Medicine Thousands upon thousands of women have kidney or bladder trouble and never suspect it. Women's complaints often prove to be nothing else hut kidney trouble, or the result of kidney or bladder disease. If the kidneys are not in a healthy condition they may cause the other organs to become diseased. You may suffer pain in the back, headache and loss of ambition. Poor health makes you nervous, irritable and may be despondent; it makes any one so. Hut hundreds of women claim that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, by restoring health to the kidneys, proved to be just the remedy needed to overcome such conditions. Many send for a sample bottle to see what Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder medicine will do for them. By enclosing ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co.. Binghamton, N. Y., you may receive sample size bottle by parcel post. You can purchase medium and large size bottles at ail drug stores.--Advertisement. Florida'* Big Bridge Florida is building the longest aot^ mobile tojl bridge in the world. Five and three-quarter miles in length. Including causeways, this great span stretches across the upper arm of Tampa bay, connecting the winter resort of. St. Petersburg with the commercial city of Tampa. Thirty-three miles--more than one-half--will be cut from the present distance between the two cities when the bridge Is coatpleted. It is estimated that the roadway will be thrown open to traffic hy September 1. ?';-3 ."4 "I Stock at Par v Kansas Farmer--I'm sure I've struck oil on my farm. 1 grabbed the first bottle at hand and brought It to you. I think I have my fortune made. " ~ Chemist (after eia*iiiiiiitlon)--1 find no trace of oil. but you have a fortune If the well sjMiuts soothing sirup in proportion to the sample--Exchange. Cuticura for Sore Hands. Soak hands on retiring In the hot suds of Cuticura Soap, dry and rub in Cu tlcura Ointment. Remove surplus Ointment with tissue paper. Tills Is only one of the things Cuticura will do If Soap, Ointment and Talcum are used for all toilet purposes.--Advertisement. Society in Caveland Stonehammer--I saw Mrs. Bonechisel goin' home from the afternoon tea with hardly any clothes on her. Is that a new style she's settln'? His Wife--No. She merely had bad luck at bridge. Love's greatest charm Is that It forgives a great deal of foolishness. The parent's life Is the child's copy book. 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Ked and S»»e» llo>er. $8: Timothy. $3. Farms and city property for salt- and exchange J. Ul'LHALL. Sioux City. Iswl Again the Sower And again the sun blinks out. and the iKMtr sower is casting his grain late the furrow, hopeful he that the kk. diacs and .far heavenly horologes Jiave Hut faltered; that there will be yet another summer added for us and another harvest.--Carlyle. D«a't tWMt if jm pat mr a nktMs wka • m caM hr. IkjW jw cidMf will «mr am* Ink Overpraise your enemies want to start somebody to them down. if r«a ranuj^ Millions prefer The eyes are of little use If fa mind be blind.--Proverbs of Arabia. Yeast Foam Begin today |o learn the most useful of home arts-- Send for free booklet *The Art of Baking Bitot9 Ortfiwestern Yeast ^^ 173© North Ashland Am ';«j Chicago* 111. y /.