OAN DEFEATS NATURE.CHAIN STORE GROWTH.UP GOES WHEAT.A BIRD BOOTLEGGER.^Tlan consistency' surpaalka 15 performances^ of nature.Locomotive and automobile outrun the deer. Airplanes already outfly any bird, and will do better When they stop imitating birds and create gn entirely new plane.Bulls of Bashan bellowed and were heard afar. The microphone talks around the world. Man's latest defeat of nature is the crea* tion of an artificial ear “ft thousand times more sensitive than the hu-man ear, that picks up the faintest danger signals coming through the fog and tells the direction whence they come.'Anything that men can imagine they can do.• * '■*Forty-five chain store organix*. tipns, Fn June, did $236,281,747 business, gaining 23 per cent in a year,Sears, Roebuck stands first with June sales of $25,747,979; Wool-worth next. $23,000,000; Montgomery Ward third, $21,000,000.-. ■ rNewspaper publishers are interested in the policy of General Wood, a West Pointer, now president of Sears, Roebuck. He is con-£ wfftinugMvertising.Sears, Roebuck, it is said, plan several retail stores in all big citieR, ope in each smaller city.