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Show ore, in he, paj J i8 the views and Teasonings of the English "man in the street, as I have endeavored to interpret what I believe io be those which predominate in America at this time. Argonaut. :ot in his nature to insist on his He appreciates that Ui;,I of flesh. no ordinary debt, and that it nr t be treated as if it were. More-er- , he realizes quite well that his :s ountry cannot return to a state t ormalcy until a reasonable least to an economic equips,. will have been established in u ;1 He recognizes that among erequisites for that all too long of th Vi'fte el". 'd consummation is some kind of eniim - nsetW 3 d writT s. 1 Jn;- - flu- t d debt element of the ' and liberal terms, and otherwise in' ;ican problem of European adjustment. Inter-Allie- ge-mind- ed is not influenced by German i, Uganda, nor even to a decisive de-gby Irish propaganda. He does gcL set himself up as the censor of Euii pe. His is not the Pharisaical fK ier than thou spirit. Nor does he i!.. r, take account of Americas own sliiu t) of responsibility, to the extent Wilson represented t Am rica in the peace negotiations, for il to . position (j d cahk ex-Presid- island t only cot1 en tho1 essive l rn brout to iation ds lie lamentable conditions which weigh in . i the world. poii He ani-iiate- e-- in it' -- America ment, and toward or li- Jirnl il that comprehensive which z Jhe situation calls for, he will have to mamenii lecome affected with the impression me 3 ire an attitude, a purpose, a spirit, and somcviEi condition in Europe more nearly apnation.; jr proaching than seems to him the exs uuVjsf isting state of things those concepil to can. tions which he believed the American $ of nation was aiming and aiding to reala peatize when it set out on its crusade to from bij ?Europe in the spring of 1917. the . broad-gauge- d on mud;" - i icli. r.PI; the clu; am quite aware that the correctness of, and justification for, the views which I have endeavored to portray, 1 e subjft'. and tr' lie lint nd L ' the vrt n place' erce v thly. jlhey t But the fact is, ac-- l cording to my observation, that these J views and sentiments are widely prevalent among the masses of the American people, and it has seemed to me, far as 1 can judge from this distance, that this state of mind and the reasoning from which it arises are not, j perhaps, sufficiently realized among br e!::r.d. lit : ClV ; I tat the; latorialb. er-- tfcC d th 3p'e lit ; greKi . loci I sliapr t h inifr d marA ;d-'O- ic i j j OS': Ci-.'- he by not a few Americans. finite ociiy. will, indeed, be questioned or j contested, at least in part, wr rigb; ear English friends. And it lias also seemed to .me, whether they are helcj. t' be based upon error or upon truth, or upon part error and part truth, that Use views and sentiments and rea- rulings ought to be brought to public intention in England; for nothing is i ro apt to cause men and nations hi drift apart and become estranged fi'iin lack of comprehension of one an- ther's mental currents and trend ft 'lings th- - i.t d : Hi-- UtUk Hie , l. an t. th- ! :iprc p j he?, - ic !r "1 , res. at j gllUt j j $ I of and of their whys and wherecauses of e usually misunderstandings reciprocal. It would, I "'lit ure to think, servo a useful pur-''so if an English chronicler, in a i'irit of well inlentinned truthfulness, 'ere to interpret to American renders l ; manufacturer. The story is related as an instance of the value to the commerce of the United States of weli trained consuls. It is doubtful if there is any one class of government servants whose duties are so multifarious as are thoso of the United States, consuls: The broader his education the better fitted the consul. In at least three subjects The only women pearl divers in the world are Japanese, and are employed in a certain sort of pearl culture which was originated many years ago by an enterprising subject of the Mikado named Mikimoto, who is proprietor of extensive beds of pearl oysters near Toba, on the shores of the Japan sea. The process consists in introducing tiny metal pellets or other foreign objects into the oysters anatomy when the latter is three years old. Then the bivalve is returned to its bed; and, when taken up again four years later, a true pearl has formed about each nucleus. Many odd shapes are the Unfortunately, the foreign object often adheres to the shell, and in that case the result is not the perfectly rounded jewel desired, but a pearly hemisphere. It is understood, however, that, thanks to the adoption of an improved and more scientific method, the output of round pearls is now much greater than formerly. The women divers do all the work of gathering and replanting the pearl oysters. They are extraordinarily husky and muscular, and think nothing of staying under water three minutes at a time. re-sul- e. Cl vrilft Office Boy (anxious to go to football match) May I have the after- noon off, sir? Employer Gli, yes, Ive heard that before. Your grandmother died last week. Office My grand Yes, sir, but ray grandfathers getting married again this afternoon. Punch. Boy "Pm not quite sure about your washing machine. Will you demonstrate it again? "No, maam. Wo only do one weeks washing. Louisville Courier-Journa- l. trade information from Australia. On being advised that there was a U. S. commercial agent in that coutnry be requested that instructions issue from the department of commerce that the agent, i? convenient, secure this information. It appears, however, that the agent was engaged in some work for the department which required all his attention, so that he was not at the time available for this particular task. The manufacturer then took the matter up with the state department, which cabled one of its consuls in Australia to see what he could accomplish. Within a very short time the information sought was in the hands of the d is bewildered and disillusioned, Inil the possibly naive faith which him has undergone a somewhat .yude shock. In order to be predisposed toward those accommodations .jpn Americas part which are indispensable to a satisfactory financial settle- t who desired certain often cut and polished, which has the peculiarities in weight and texture of the hardest kind of anthracite. It has been used in Britain since before historic times and was common in the bronze age, from which times have come jet beads, buttons, rings, armlets and other ornaments. Julius Caesar alludes to the abundance of jet in Britain and jet ornaments are found with Homan relics in them. The monks used jet for rosary beads at Whitby Abbey and at Whitney, where it was found in the greatest abundance. It occurs in irregular masses in hard shale known as jet rock. Often mic-- . loscopic examination discloses coniferous wood in tket composition of jet. It is probable that jet was. developed when masses of wood drifted down a river, rotted or became water-loggeand sank out at sea, becoming gradually buried in a deposit of fine mud, which hardened eventually into shale. Sometimes drops of bitumen are found in jet cavities, which seems to confirm the suspicion of its wood origin. . flun The story was told recently of a large manufacturer in this country Jet is a sort of lignite or anthracite, ap-a- ai;yW THE DUTIES OF A CONSUL. t be should be specialized commerce, finance, and international law and if he has a smattering of engineering, law, chemistry, racial psychology, ethology, mining, lumbering, art, and half a hundred other subjects, none of them will come amiss in the course of bis consular career, for scarcely a day goes by that he does not receive from the homeland a request for some information, from an inquiry into market conditions in the locality surrounding his post, to an account of the habits and racial characteristics of the people. He must prepare invoices, listen to the complaints of seafaring men, consul and declining years in poverty seems to be the policy, yet who can estimate the value that a single piece of information which the consul in Australia gave to the American manufacturer? Multiply it by a thousand, cr ten thousand, as the aggregate value of the consular service to the elate each year, and while still no estimate is possible, the notion is conceived. It should be a part of the Republican program of reconstruction' tefi perfect our consular service. To exhibit parsimony in this direction may sound well when the nations budget' is read from the political hustings, but it will not read so well in the nations commercial balance sheet. Trade is real, trade is earnest in these trying times. A program for better trained, better equipped consuls, better paid, and as certain of retirement pay as any member of the profession of arms is a program of economy, an assurance of increased sales abroad, and something which comports agreeably with the dignity of the American people. 9 The great little making rapid headway in Egypt, despite the fact that no playing cards are manufactured in that country. In eight months the United States exported 7 packs for the Egyptians to amuse themselves with. This was 1,100 packs more than were exported in the period of the previous year. The Egyptians are fond of playing all games of cards, but their favorite game is poker. American exporters know this by tlie stipulation made by Egyptian dealers that the twos, threes, fours, fives, sixes and jokers be separated from the rest of the pack by a thin band of paper, leaving the poker deck of thirty-tw-o cards loose. This arrangement is ahsoltuely required.. The Egyptians are there in other respects, too, for they insist on having the numbers or the markers in all four corners i while in the case of thoso who purchase packs by the dozen the buyers insist upon having six of the packs with blue backs and tho remainder with red backs. Thq clubs use only the best quality of cards, and decks once played with are resold to local dealers. game of poker is 12,-22- take charge of the property of American citizens dying in his jurisdiction, keep informed with respect to local and national regulations and laws, the sentiment of the press, and, on occasion, keep this coutnry informed as to any preparations which may be quietly made with a view to hostile action against a neighboring country. And, of course, he should he able to speak, read and write foreign languages, the more the better. The sweet young thing had been unIn these days of intense competition of all sorts, a splendid consular able to buy tho article she wanted, but service is one of the greatest assets in each case the clerk assured her of a country. America has a service that next time it would assuredly today far more competent than it pos- be in stock. One .day she called at the sessed prior to the reforms drafted by storo to find a new clerk on Do you have spats yet? she inquired. Root when he was secretary of state, No, maam, he and adopted in 1906. There is still The celrk blushed. great room for Improvement, cnlaiged stammered; "Im not living with my by the fact that the last Democratic wife now. administration did nothing to perfect "Your new pianist didnt stay long! tho service and considerable to demorI had to let him go,' said the alize it. Considering what is expected "As like as not hed he playing of them, our consuls arc perhaps the poorest paid of our public servants, a jazz selection when people were dytheir salarcis barely sufficing to meet ing on tho screen. t "Didnt he offer an explanation? Oh, yes. He said household expenses by the application circumstances compelled him to acother in which an of any economy cept employment in a movie house, and be would of life niggardly, walk hut he would be dadblamcd if hed no provision whatever made for tho prostitute his Intellect by looking at time when age has deteriorated their the pictures. Birmingham vnluo to the state. Thirty years a the-job- . man-nge- r. |