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Show FANTASTIC ADVANCE IN GERMAN PRICES BERMN. Oct. 14. About the only thing that can le bought in Germany J today for one mark is a wire nail. "Under the present quulity Htundurds of production." remarks a native pessimist, pes-simist, "the nail may or may not be 'strong enough to hang one's self on after ht hns looked over the other increases in prices." 1 Before the war a thousand marks would pay for twenty suits of clothes. Today that sum will purchase a vest. A ; iod piano could be bought then for 900 marks, a sum now required for a pair of boy's shoes. Five hun-dn hun-dn i i re-war marks sufficed to build small house while now It scarcely foots the bill for two pairs of women's wom-en's woolen stockings. Two pounds of butter can be found on tho market today for 4 00 marks, or the pre-war prl B of a milch cow. Uno cannot get a spool of thread to-dny to-dny for the former price of a sewing machine. Fifty marks once bought a llady's silk dress; now It will buy a hi ip hanJkcr.-hlef. There WSJ tlme. some eight years ago. when on" could get a bottle of champagne :or ;vhat It coats now to ride on the svib-,way. svib-,way. Two clgarets are worth whnt a hundred of tho same quality cost tin 1014. To follow the daily rise In prices at the present time., the Berlin newspaper news-paper read'-r mast pay six marks for . Copy of his fuvorite Journal. In the '-good old days" the paper cost him 1 60 times less, or ten pfennigs. A shopkeeper In Darmstadt displays ?t five-dollar bill in hln window ut-tsuh4 ut-tsuh4 to the following notice. "For ithts noto foreigners formerly obtained Igoods to tho value of 6 25 marks; !now they get wares worth 7.000 msrks 'for it. Therefore I sell only to Ger-nnn Ger-nnn " |