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[WHEN will
p r i n c e s
learn arithmetic
enough to calcu-
late, if they
want pieces of
one another’s
territory, how
much cheaper it
would be to buy
them than to
make war for
t h e m , e v e 11
though they
were to give a
hundred years’
purchase? But
if glory can not
be valued, and
therefore the
wars for it can
not be subject
to arithmetical
calculation, so
as to show their
advantage or
disadvantage, at
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Appetite is a fickle jade, easily tempted and
just as easily dissuaded. 1]] The Poet speaks
of “fruit in an unwholesome dish”e“good meat
in an unclean dish,” etc. (1 China that is rightly
made will not become unclean in the sense of “un-
sanitary,” “unsightly,” “unwholesome.” (L There is
health and happiness in every piece of
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For more than a generation and a decade, China bearing the Homer Laughlin
shopmark has been demonstrating to the people of this country that just as line
China can be made in America as in the chief China centers of the Old World. ([The
China manufactured in the greatest china-factory on earth, at Newe1l,West Virginia,
‘ will rival comparison with any China made in Europe or elsewhere.
- The Homer Laughlin trademark, stamped on the under side of a piece of China. means quality
- and usability. It symbols protection to the purchaser. (I The China Book tells how Homer Laugh-
, lin China is made. Also it contains helpful hints on the selection and care of China, that will appeal
to housekeepers, and the husbands of housekeepers. Sent gratis. Write today.
least wars for
trade, which
have gain for
their object,
The Homer Laughlin China Co.,
Newell, West Virginia
,
may be proper no A
Subjects for Such gfgef ‘V0
Computation;
and a trading
nation, as well
E1 S a s i n gl e
trader, ought to
calculate the
Probabilities of
Profit and loss
before engaging
"1 any consider-
able adventure. This, however, nations seldom
C10: and we have had frequent instances of their
Spending more money in wars for acquiring
01' Securing branches of commerce than a hun-
dred years’ profit or the full enjoyment of them
can compensate.-Benjamin Franklin.
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GiV6n a government with a big surplus and a
big majority and a weak opposition, and you
W0U1d debauch a committee of archangels.
aSir John A. Macdonald.
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THE railroads and the government are
largely responsible for farm progress. They
dig out facts in their laboratories and at their
experiment-stations, then send men into the
country, not only to tell the farmer the facts,
but to show him how to use them sq. But we
shall make infinitely greater progress, both in
the science of agriculture and in agricultural
methods up Farming, I believe, is destined
to evolve into a great business proposition,
conducted by sharp businessmen.-Edison.