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y School Workers From ada and United States to Meet in June ' ay school officers and teachers ing 1,677,695, and 12,036,246 in the United States and Cana- ‘are already planning for their del- fes to the sixteenth international ay school ‘association ¢onvention ‘zeld in Convention hall, Kansas lsetting up and perfecting the ar- ments for what is expected to e greatest and most significant y schooi gathering ever held. ht thousand official delegates m fifty-four state Sunday school = jations in the United States and s'mine provincial Sunday school as- tions in Canada are expected to fpresent. Even at this early date & been necessary to limit the pber of delegates that each state rovincial associdtion can send ione for every 4,000 Sunday school smbers actually enrolled. Unusual significance is attached to {8 sixteenth international Sunday 0ol convention due ‘%o the fact B ¢ is the first time in-the history fSunday school work that all of the nal and international forces have fi ‘united in their work, For a num- ! % f years there have existed two T Sunday school organizations, i 3 International Sunday School asso { ;fi(on which is organized into state d county associations and the Sun- ¢ School Council of Eyangelistic mominations. &m on the afternoons of Wednes- ¥, Thursday and Friday, June 21, sand 23. i z Moreover, the sixteenth - interna- 4-——nal Sunday school convention will tbe a convention of speeches only. iperts of national and international fne will be heard but a considerable j¥ount of time will be given to insti- %ibwork by groups. This makes it le for Sunday school workers th' children, or young people or i to get instruction for their par- r need. It also gives opportunity ithose whose work is of an admin- ive ¢haracter of among special |. of people or in the field of ons or temperance, to study their particular; problem in a group épare the lesson systems, those who rite the helps for.the Sunday school gons, and the publishers of lesson ps and dealers in. Sunday school jnlies, _is planned that there shall he {#aggociation day service” in all of unday schools of the continent | nvention-day, Sunday, June 26. his day the conventioners will nd the Sunday school of their ference in Kansas City, and many em will supply ‘pulpits in the n Cities. The evening meeting will ‘given over to the “work of the orld’s Spnday school assocation of John Wanamaker is pres- t and Frank L. Brown is execu- secretary. This program will be spared and presented by the offi- of the World’s ‘assoelation. Tree's Winter Plans. The catalpa tree has a way all it i@ American Forestry Magazite, 1t! ices three leaves in a whorl and at a little distance abave there nother whorl so placed that' the above add certainty to their jo- atlon. I we find n tree with the [ds arranged in this way on the! vig: ; Figuratively Speaking, fear Fresno, California, in the San uin valley, is a tree that is said feld annually two tons of white five trees growing as the ‘wide-spreading branches of geverul trunks having been joined rafting some years ago. With a 1y income from this source alone towing, the owner might not. very it in the future, be said to be living ot only “under his own fig tree but . 8 e great buds of the horse chest- ‘have.a most elaborate arrange- feny for ‘the winter protection of the Hcte parts within, saysithe Ameri- ‘Foregtry Magazine. . The baby cluster s covered by the downy of the undevelaped leaves. The y are.surrounded by the tough, " 'scale; and fhese ave. varnished to keep out the water. ttraordinary, qualities - are. pos- by the River Tinto, in §pain, rdens and petrifies the sand of its « 1f a stone falls in the stream lights upon’ another, in a few; tliey unite:and become one. o g ona ) age a closed question. Country— Armenia Austria .. Belgium This latter body is|C CLEVER SYSTEM OF SIGNALS More Ingenious Scheme Than That Contemplated by Germans Prob- . ably ‘Never Was Devised. Gorman -war secrets are now being disclosed in, scientific literature. At the close of the confiict the Germana in their laboratories were working on. . secret-signal character. nothing would be present to indicate that the light was sending out, ignals, but changes would be going would -be apparent to an- observer equ‘pped to view it with a suitable optieal device. Difterent principles were employed for. accomplishing this, them polarized light was to be sent out by the signal, the character of which would change In accordance with the dots and dashes of the code. When viewed through properly : fit- ted binoculars, longer be white but would alternate between red and green. In another | script. method, a,glass screen containing com- ] pounds of the vave element didymium - was arranged to alternate in the beam of light. with another screen of suitable - shade. When the resulting light was Wn In getting ready for winter, says: viewed with binoculars equipped with prisms, a black line would appear in the yellow reglon of the spectrum formed whenever the didymium glass was interposed, permitting the signals to be read. in first breaking up the light at the source into a spectrum across which was placed one or more wires cutting out narrow regions. of color, and these were arranged to be moved back and forth a short distance along the spec- .trum In signaling. then, recombined into white light and transmitted.. With binoculars provided with suitable prisms to re-form. tle spectrum, the signal was perceived in | the motlon of dark bands back and | forth along the spectrum, correspond- ing to the movement of the wires at the transmitting 'station. portant application of this method of signaling’ would be at sea.—Popular Mechanlcs Magazine, ¢ $500, an income that is.steadily |- I way seventeen years of age and had just. completed. junior high school when I met ‘& traveling' man who seemed very nice. with him tlfree.months I had fallen in love, with him. He left about a week afterward to go to his headquarters. 1 received several leiters from him, and. then a sudden: stop, when I re- celved one of my letters back, which home to spend a' week with bis wife and children,” and signed by his boss, ~—Chlcago Journal. Ninety per cent of the men en- gaged in active business fail to reach old age with a competence. ~Nine- téen out of every twenty persons fail to provide for their old age or for { their. families. the economic value of human life is covered by B ACTOF CONRES BERRG AAS AL —_— Common Report Is That Powers Will Agree to Most A_ny Rea- sonable Armament Reduction Program If U. S. Will Agree to Cancel War Loans. * Washington, Oct. 31.—From present indications, the congress will have settled upon a polidy.regarding the refunding, of foreign loans before . the conference on limitation of armaments'will have convened. that this be done, because, with increasing frequency and persistency, re-|he worked and Mys. House ports appear in Européan papers that European delegates to the conference; will endeavor to introduce the proposal-of cancellation of war loans made by the United States as one of the conditions precedent to any reduction in armament. The most common report is they will program of reduction of armament put forward bythe United States if the United States will, in turn, agree to cancel foreign 16ans. congress and administration officials can not. grasp the logic of this position. It is to the ecenomic interest of all European nations to reduce their arma- ments as much as possible, 5 A Lop-Sided Proposal The least concerned, from the standpoint of the financial burdens which large armaments entail, is the United States. countries, already on the verge of bankruptey because of the tremendous expense they are to in maintaining. armaments, to propose that they will e to a reduction of military and naval equipment, provided this country es to cancel its foreign loans, is a good deal like the rooster’s wanting the elephant to enter into an agreement not to step on each other’s toes. While it is understood the administration has no sympathy with such a proposition and does not look with favor upon itroducing the question of America’s foreign loans into the discussions of the conference, yet the mat- ter would be greatly simplified were the congress, before the armament con- ference convenes, to prescribe a definite procedure which administrative | perintendent. officials must follow in dealing with the-subject of foreign loans, | event the American delegation would be in a position to say the subject was 5 - :| money out of there and put it in the I took no fellers.” — Indianapolis Details of Foreign Loan The following is a tabulation of the loans made by the United States to foreign governments during the war, together with the amount of interest which has: accrued and remains unpaid: Total Debt to United States, Including Unpaid Interest Int. Accrued and Unpaid sed of representatives of thir- Czecho-Slovakia 8,125,165 ',p; denomingtions, while the for-|Esthonia 1,389,668 has. worked through these same |Finland . 598,339 hominations and non-denomination-|France . 284,148,863 hools. Great Britain . 407,303,283 e bringing together of these two Greece - Ay es into one organization and the | Hungary 50,675 fying of all efforts and plans|Italy .. 161,078,880 es possible an educational com- Latvia 386,962 e which is now preparing com- Liberia . 1,668 qfiensive plans of religious educa- Lithuania 498,162 <= which will bear abundant fruit|Poland . 9,837,443 “the lives of the next generation Roumania 3,477,634 American and Canadian citizens. Russia 26,120,560 |is committee will present its. pro-|Serbia 4,778,797 Total..... ..$943,6384,766 The interest remains unpaid because of an agreement entered into betw:een the_ foreign countries and the Wilson administration. administration had also opened negotiations with some of the foreign coun- | tries to waive the payment of the principal of the debt for a long period, but | these negotiations had not proceeded to a point where they were binding. propose to agree to any reasonable For some, of ‘the European THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER Confidence: on: her husband telephone only Members of the ed the message. perintendent. husband. husband. In that cowshed. them two News, $12,969,786 24,777,380 409,287,557 9,025,500 99,304,693 15,388,813 8,880,265 3,634,911,801 | they drive othel fault at all, —Whitrier. : "SECRETED HIS LITTLE HOARD Indiana Man Evidently Had Little of the Cloth, * After much persuasion, Mrs. House- wife, In Connersville, finally prevailed use thelr spare. bedroom during a chirell conference. R s A day or two later the’teléphone It is degirnb]ql rang in the office of: the factdey ed on talking to him. forthed that he could be: called to the ness o death or of the gravest lm- portance; * She’ said it was all three combined, or words to that effect, and lie. ywas summoned. Having diffieulty in hearing on the telephone, the. superintendent repeat- “She says it Is gone,” said the su- “What's gone?” asked the puzzled “She says the money's gone,” re- peated the superintendent, after in- —_— quiring of the woman. * “What money?"” inquired thé puzzled gLl Sy | “'Tain’ no use of remindin’ a friend 2 pkgs Jello ...c.ocoeuicnne 23¢ “\Why, the money iu the ‘spare bed- of his faults,” said Uncle Eben. “De 8c ¢ room,” she explainéd, through thie su- f“l‘(‘;‘f‘es "r‘e "l*:f his relatlons. has'done i 4 ]b? SUZAT wooooeeoeeeeee 2 4 1bs Liver Sausage....50c ' oA Al abodt. ey 1 pkg Pancake Flour....16c “Oh,” he said, his face clearing, T — ‘S 1 15, A ' B “don’t worry about that, 1 took the Rl e 1 can Salmon ............ 15¢ $l'00 \ One Good They Do. [ Some folks find fault so much that Simple Duty. Simple duty hath 16 place for fear., First Canadian Marriage. According® to. Johnson’s ‘“First Things in Canada,” the first marriage s ,,/#;:/y,%” celebrated in Canada was that of % 3”4”"‘4«%"" Eticune Couillaid ‘and Marie Hebert, | 7 H/ X /// N 1440} / b, the ceremony being performed at! Quehec on August 26, 1617. 'The three | lundred akd fourth anniversary ‘of {hat event was celebrated at Quebec on August 26 last. Many descendants of the couple took part in the cele- bration. £ in the Wearers to et two: ministers Wlibre | The bride’at that first wedding was e insist-| n daughter of Louis Hebert upon She’ was in- | whom history confers the honor of having been the flrst Canadinn farmer. RIS LR Sweetbread and Pancreas, The organ known: as ‘sweetbread in a calf or other animal corresponds to the organ in the human body known as the pancreas, which is a gland as- sociated with the stomach that se-| cretes ferments which aid the process of digestion by changing, for instance, starch into sugar, and fats .into rnm’, acids. The pancreas of cattle or! sheep used as food is known ds sweet- bread. on matters of sick- Dollar Day Offerings GRO’CERIES'Y ' MEATS Almost a Cinch, Mrs. Doolan's ‘passion for fighting policemen’ makes her his. majesty’s guest af regular intervals. “Halloa,” saild the prison visitor, & resignedly, {‘you here again?” Mrs. Doolan gazed at him with dignity. “And wot of it?” she demanded. “Wot I,says to them coppers and th2 " vest of ’em I-says to you. If it wasn’t for the likes of me wot would you all be doin’ for a livin’?’—London Tit- Bits. chances with r folks to finding no Palace Meat and Grocery *_PHONES 200-201— 4,573,621,642 15,000,000 1,736,410 1,809,112,981 5,619,249 27,568 5,479,790 145,499,103 39,606,029 218,721,857 55,931,958 $11,084,802,341 The Wilson ! generator, Increase in World, this order lights of ~special £ D! yond all e To the ordinary observer which | utter lack Owing to special car rotor and t In one of | iific Ament the ' color would no panies he " ‘Largest Generator Built. A 80,000-kva. 7,000wolt, three-phase designed to withstand 50 per cent by the Siemens-Schuckert works In Germany, according to the Electrical ‘The -largest rating provided in any generator. previously. built’ by this company svas. 21,500, kva,, so that withstand such’ overspeeding was also a severe. requirement, owing to the at the time the unit car had. two ten-wheel trucks.—Sclen- Once the saylng prevailed, “A man is known hy.:the company he keeps.” Now you size a man up by the com- rated at 1,000 r.p.m., but speed, has been completed represents a big jump be- xperience. The abllity to of Ligh-grade nickel steel was' - ordered: tlie slze of the generatdr, g had to. be, built for the ! stator. . The rotor’ gondoly can. The New Way. . promotes—Boston Tran- Dollar Day At Barker's OUR 'PATRONS ARE OFFERED SOME REAL Money Savers for Wednesday, November 2nd. 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