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Suppose files were as big as some of Sparks' elephants. Never destroy a lumpy old mat- tress. Some farmer can use it for ~~ & summer boarder. ------ In some respects the world improv- es little, but you very se!dom see & horse-hair sofa. ---- The world hasn't yet seen a man 85 important as a rich man in a small town feels. . ---- To make a visitor feel at home raise cain when he spills gravy on the tablecloth. ------ A father is a man who is afraid his son of 17 is going to act the way _ he did at that age. -------- The only time | some men think they have no kick coming is when it . comes time to kick in, ---- One fine thing about using a taxi- ab is that you can feel neutral when the fenders crumple, ---- "Nerves" are things you have it aren't kept busy enough to quit inking about yourself. Our estimate is that the energy used In applying tonic to bald heads is equal to 22,465 horse power. : -- Correct this sentence: "I bought cantaloupes," said she, "and Ohe was green or spoiled." EE ------------------------ Neighbors should remember that All boys are no more a nuisance to than they are to small hoys. A ---------- The Olympic games are persuad- many people to get down the and see where Finland is. : time you get a thrill You sacrifice the capacity for being thrilled in the same way again. O LORD, THOU ART MY GOD; WHEAT SHORTAGE AND IMMI. GRATION. Even though it has been kmown some portions of the Canadian West was rather a speculation as regards the results of any given year, it is still distressing to find that in com- 'siderable parts of that area the yield, in a year of magnificently high prices, will be very much below the average. At the same time, destiny, with a fine discrimination, has awarded to practically the whole wheat area of the United States a yery generous crop, which with the high price level will make the year a brilliant one for the American farmer. Even in this situation there is an advantage to Canada if we look for Farm prices in the United States have been much depressed for seyeral years by the economic difficulties of the farmers; they will be greatly raised by pros- perity--not altogether because peo- ple think farms are worth more in times of prosperity, but rather be- cause the prosperous farmer is al- ways desperately anxious to add to his land holdings and has the money with which to do it. But a high price for farm lands in the United States always stimulates a migration of good American farmers to Canada, the type of men who have had sub- stantial farms in their own country and see an opportunity to sell in a dear land market and buy in a com- paratively cheap one. They are a different type from the men who are brought to Canada by hardship in their own 'land and the vision of prosperity in the Dominion. But economically at least the man who has had a good farm in the United States and brings the price of it with him as well as the experience it gave him is the better immigrant. NEW WORDS, GOOD AND BAD. That unpleasant word '"'realtor," which many sensitive people have feared would succeed in attaching it- self to the language as a common noun, has been rendered harmless by being declared the exclusive property of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. At least, such is the situation in the United States, and the sooner some similar organization saves the word from being an owner- less stray in the Dominion of Canada the better it will be--that is, if none has already done so. Nobody, how- ever much of a purist, can object to the members of an incorporated so- clety calling themselves by any name that they like, from realtors to mor- ticlans, and from Ku Klux Klanners to Boo Hoos. The proper noun ap- plied to any organized group of per- sons, like that borne by any given family, is not a matter of public con- cern, If it comes to that, we may even be thankful that the National Association of Real Estate Boards did not decide to call all its members '"'narebs;"" it might quite easily have done so. The vast increase in the number of proprietary articles and of close associations is bound to create an im- mense class of proper nouns for the designation of the articles and of the members of such associations. Some of these will in time pass into the language as common nouns and even as verbs. "Kodak" was one of the first of the completely manutfactur- ed, entirely derivationless words, to be applied to a proprietary article other than a drug; and its success undoubtedly had much to do with the spread of the tendency. In the manufacture of these words one test and one only is kept in view, namely the value of the word as a business- getter; and it is useless to expect that etymology, history, ; rules of spelling or any other resribion will be regarded by the manwfacturers. Some of the words will undoubtedly get into the English language in due course as common nouns; in ordin- ary conversation, even though not in law, "kodak™ is apt to mean any portable camera, and we suppose that even the Rochester camera- ers would hardly claim that the ver "to kodak," which they use freely, means to make pictures with no Other implement than a kodak cam- era, "Kodak" is a good word, and we should not have objected to having to apply it to all small cameras. "Realtor" is not a good word, except for proprietary and advertising pur- poses, and it is a relief to know that we shall not have to apply it to every real estate dealer, or indeed to any real estate dealer except when we are considering him in his character as a member of the National Assocla- tion, etc. a -------------- THE CONFERENCE DIFFICULTIES It is a very difficult matter for the! ordinary layman, who is not, as' a for some time that wheat raising in re have been full of terms and phrases which are hard to understand unless the reader is fully conversant with the events which have preceded the conference, and with the matters which are under consideration. It would appear, from what can be gleaned from the news despatches, that the point of disagreement is that of the terms on which an inter- national loan,*amounting to two hundred million dollars, shall be made to Germany. This loan was recommended in the Dawes report as being essential before Germany could be placed on a solid financial | basis, which had to be accomplished before there could be any hope of re- parations payments. The loan, it is evident, would have to come from THE DAILY BRITISH | British and United States bankers, because none of the other countries | of the world are in a position to| make loans to Germany in sufficient amounts to be worth while. The bankers of Britain and the United States have undertaken to make the loan, but before they do so, they de- mand that certain guarantees be | made as to the course of action to | be followed in case Germany defaults | in the repayment of the loan. All of this is very simple. It is | only natural that the bankers, the | | men who are to advance the money, | should seek to have adequate protec- | tion for their interests. The poln: wr | contention is that the French dele- | gate and the Anglo-American bank- | ers are unable to agree on the form | of guarantée which 'should be given, | and the part which France should | play in the enforcement of the guarantee. France is loath to give | up the position she has taken with | regard to the Ruhr district, and par- ticularly with regard to the railroads | running through the Ruhr. Briia'n| remains firm in endorsing the atti-| tude of the banking interests. Thus the matter stands, and it is on this point that the conference has become temporarily stranded. While the French delegates are. possibly having a hard row to hoe at London, it should be remembered that Premier Herriot faces a very strong opposi- tion in his own parliament, and a public opinion which is set on mak- ing Germany accept the most humili- ating of terms. - He is thus between two fires, and it remains to be seen which is to count for most in his de- sire to bring the German troubles to a satisfactory solution. | acid forming foods, and not enough | | er it is caused by too much acid in| PRESS COMMENT -- The Church. The church is human! Yes, but the very men who disclaim most loudly against her defects take greatest care to plant their homes' beneath her shadow. The church is the greatest protector of human life and liberty that the world ever knew. The church is the greatest friend bf bumanity that exists in the world today; and even her bitterest ene- mies would probably not remain long in a community from which that church had been banished. Yet men will today find great enjoyment in telling of the church's faults and to- morrow in selling their property they will take pains to say that it is near a church. Strange, isn't it >--Chris- tia Guardian. Good Advice. Arthur W. Cutten, the Chicago grain operator who is credited with having cleaned up more than $1. 500,000 in: the bull market which has developed in corn, warns meg against the grain pit. He says that most of the men there, who call themselves brokers, are really "broke." "If I had a son, I wouldn't let him touch it with a ten-foot pole," he adds. . That is good advice. It seldom pays to look for easy money. For one speculator who makes a killing, there are hundreds who lose their stake, But Mr. Cutten's advice is good from another point of view. There won't be the opportunities for speculation in grain in the fu- ture. The farmers are coming to the conclusion that they should con- trol their own markets and it is a sure tip to wouliabe gamblers that they will do it, some day.--Border Cities Star. Will Population : Decline? Professor Bowley, the famous sta- tisticlan, published a day or two ago some careful calculations which show that by 1941, if the present rates of births, deaths and emigration con- tinue, the population of Great Brit- ain will be actually declining. The number of births has been falling for 20 years, and the real reason why the population shows an in- the replacement of the young by the old, not wholly a cheering thought.--London Sunday Pictorial, | ¥ Body of 4 Pours By James WW, Barton, M.D, Acidosis and Biliousness. You are feeling as if you were about a hundred years old. You haven't any appetite, the tongue is coated, you have half a headache all the time, you are ir- ritable, and sometimes a bit dizzy. You have been feeling this way for two or three days, when you drop in on your doctor, who afteg a brief examination, orders calomel and salts, perhaps an injection, or even washes out your stomach. You feel all right for a day or two, and then in a short time you have all your symptoms back again. This time you treat yourself by using something to cleanse the in- testine, and you feel a bit better. But in a short time again you are up against the same old symptoms. It is called a "bilious attack" by your friends, or just a case of over- eating by members of the family, who are candid in the matter. Now what is the matter? Well, your doctor will tell you that it is acidosis, because that is the popular name, and perhaps really the proper mame to give the condi- tion. It is caused by eating too many of the alkalies. There 3 an argument as to wheth- | the blood, or not enough alkaline ma- terial. Now remember these acid form- ing foods are good foods, being great body builders, and if you are run down, have been overworked, these foods are indicated, because they repair worn out tissue. | Such food as meat, whites of eggs, { cheese, sugar, pastry, puddings, are | all right at times, but as a steady | diet for the average man or woman, not doing hard manual labor, they cause acidosis. New the foods that have the op- posite effect, that keep the blood alkaline, are green vegetables, egg yolk, whole wheat bread, ripe fruits and milk. But there is just this point to re- member. Don't try to eat a lot of the alka- line foods, to make up for your eat- ing large quantities of the acid form- ing fopds. Your best plan is to cut down on your acid formers. You can't really eat enough of the alkaline foods to reduce thé acid in that way. You must not let the acids accumulate, as they lower the alkaline reserve in the blood. _ On this day in 1639, a little party of four women set foot for the first time on Canadian soil. They were women destined to become famous in the annals of the country. Their leader was Madame de la Peltrie, an example of the results achieved by the strange religions manias of that age. Madame ila Peltrie was a pretty, coquettish woman who constantly sought a position in tha centre of the stage of life. She craved attention and applause, and when she decided to devote her life and wealth to religious work, could fot renounce this strange vanity and loved praise for any of her good works. She was a wealthy, childless widow at the age of twenty-two, and was soon afterwards inspired with a desire to establish a school for In- dian girls at Quebec. It was a pic- turesque mission, in those early days of Canadian history. One of the nuns who accompanied her to Canada was the famous Mere de {'Incarnation, who in the 33 years of her lite in Canada, kept up an amazingly large correspondence, so that her let- ters to-day throw an interesting light upon the history of her times. She had hundreds of correspondents, and her letters to them were full of the details of the daily life of the colonists and Indians. The con- vent founded then still exists, the Ursuline convent of Quebec. Mad- ame de la Peltrie died in the convent which she had founded in 1671, and her co-worker, the Superior of the convent, Mere de I' Incarnation, sur- vived her only until the following L oF WHIG ------ " . Sale Straw Hats $1.45 CLEARANCE SALE } All Summer Suits Marked at Greatly Reduced Prices MEN'S SUITS The Fall Suits that are comin. these fine selections of Suits at gr Every one of these Suits is m price. Yet they have few equals f Ing, tailoring and fabrics. This is an incomparable opportunity to save. You should seize it. 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They are usually active also during this month in the far South- west, this being within the season of maximum rainfall in Arizona and New Mexico and portions of the ad- joining states." FORD'S RECIPE. "Henry Ford," says a writer in an American financial magazine, 'sails serenely on his way to fabulous pro- fits, even during a business slump." And, to prove his point, this writer sets forth that in May, whem the steel industry was sagging to 50 per cent. capacity and the auto industry in general was 'inspecting its life preservers, Ford sold 209,601 pas- senger cars and trucks. That, how- ever, was peak production. Ford has been compelled by the pre-presiden- tial election depression to take a reef in his belt during the last few months. His many factories are still emitting the soothing hum that in- dicates prosperity, but, like other manufacturers, he has had to curtail output. The remarkable success of this man, Ford, has been a mystery to many--and yet he has but dem- onstrated in a big way, a principle that hundreds of others before him found profitable--the selection of a useful device that everybody needs and wants and then menufacturiag it at a populaf price. C. W. Barron, Wall street finan- cial expert, is credited with having he - SUITS €s. OUR $1.00 SHIRT SALE $27.50 g to our store are forcing out eat concessions. arked at a surprisingly low or the superiority of their styl. $1850 | $2250 ' $29.50 FINE WOOL BATHING SUITS is a real money saver| Regular $4.00 value for you. BIBBY'S THE WEATHER MAY SEEM eT Ae To LZ ELAR HEN the at this time of the year it may be bluffing. Re- member that there is a cloud behind every silver lining and remember our 'phone number when you make up your mind to ordes coal. 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