“The Ce
AN AMERICAN HABIT.
A Chicago doctor counts speed im
eating as the cause of many of the
bodily disorders from which people
suffer, particularly in the business
world. Quick lunches, the hasty bolt-
Ing of food chosen because it is in
sight and the rushing back to work
without thought for the abused di
gestive organs, can only result, he de-
clares, In a physical condition that in-
vites diseases in variety. He is un-
questionably right, says the Indianap-
olis Star, American people really
care little about what they eat—this
In spite of the fact that they possess
hotels and restaurants in which all
the luxuries of the world are served
and markets which supply a wonder
ful variety of products. Notwithstand-
ing what is open to them, as a class
they are not fastidious as to quality.
They have their preferences in foods,
of course, but if what they especially
pare for 18 not immediately available,
they accept what is at hand, gulp $a
down, dash off and forget within ten
minutes what it was they ate. “Quick
lunch” places are an institution of the
time in the business district in all
cities and have an enormous patron-
age, They came in response to a de
mand The not to
blame because insist
upon eating in
time, nor ig the
essarily at
managers Aare
their patrons
the shortest possible
food they serve neo
fault,
Simple eating is urged by
Dewspaper as a reform that should be
aimed at In Germany for the salvation
of society. The
in dining, it is
nancial Impoverishm
gestive ruln. Why
has famous
present extravagance
fi-
asserted, threatens
18 well as
at Germany
tim
AI
in
Hes
Tr |
BUCO
tion is made that the reason
circumstance that Germany
the
80 Inany to the
tering places,
and summer,
over-eating and overwirinking of wir
they have been guilty during the
ter,
be a
part of the leading society
if they
amples to
hixuriousness of me
gluttons, who go
peuitent
to make amends for
win
The Berlin paper says: It would
the
personages
actical
Benga
it
genuine public service on
:
i
would begin by pr ex
the al
ntertaining,
ary end of it is con-
to ea
we
Wage War on
dern e¢
as far as the cull
cerned Only by a
3 glmpl
and sensible dinr
return
Can avert
genuine economic physical perils
the same direction
the United
growth of
for luxu-
Clircumspection in
would not go 8 |
States. There 1s been a
extravagance in the
ries of the table. Many
have eaten themselves Into evil phys
ileal condition.
outlay
men of means
Loulsvilie is the nickel town of the
country. No case is on record of =a
man or woman buying something cost-
ing less than $1 and giving a larger
amount than the cost of the purchase
that the shopkeeper didn't Include sev-
eral nickels in the change. If you
toip around town shopping you'll find
your pockets full of B-cent pleces un
til you think you are the victim of =
conspiracy until a native tells you
it's a habit the town can't shake.
Chicago authorities are asked to
prohibit the rear seat on motorcycles
on the ground that “it encourages
elopements.” What gifted press agent
for manufacturers of tandem motor-
cycles invented that glorious adver
tisement?
A Bt. louls woman testified In =a
divorce suit that her husband pelted
her with money, compelled her to
spend $1,000 a month in clothes alone,
and that she could not count all the
money he gave her. And yet she was
not satisfied. It may be remembered
that some time ago another woman
wanted a divorce because her hus-
band was too perfect. The unrest
among women of which one hears so
much must have a queer twist in it
One of Brooklyn's young men
studied all the detective stories avafl-
tble to learn how to avold arrest and
then turned to burglary, But the po-
licemen got him. Detective stories are
at their worst when they are taken
seriously.
A New York woman has bequeathed
ber husband $5, to be glven him at
the rate of 6 cenls a day. We hope
he will refrain from spending it in
riotous living.
a trout welghing half a pound today
will scale four pounds when the angler
tells about It next week,
princess married a pineapple king.
Such a marriage might be called =»
sweet fruition of romance,
Of course the bunny hug is highly
demoralizing for the poor, working
girl, but high jinks in a glided ball
woom Is quite another matter,
AGAIN SELECT
Chafin and Watkins Prohibition-
ist Standard-bearers.
CONVENTION RUSHES THINGS
Made the
Name and
Proposition Te Change
Party Te Eilect the
National Committee On a New
Basis Steam-Rollered.
Atlantic City
session
three-day
UE BCenes
marked by tumu it uc
and factional strife that reatened to
split the party in
of the Nat
nominated
nole and
Auron 8
iwain
opal Prohibition
Eugene
Arizons
11 §
vv BiRIinE, of On ry |
( \ Watk
the CRInpalg:
the conver
president
od the party
The end
however A8lONLIBNINELY NDAr
1808
mon
considering debat
that
This
the presiden
ed in the hearts
honorary positio
The delegates
expedient t
the nominating
almost before
vention n
the invocatio:r
Four cand
placed |
Chafin
of }
of Na:
Ohi
of Texas
nan
ton or
lave mars
Whe
Tit
ad
lowest
tion thar
Democratic
The lea
Watkins
Ti
plaerson
Btockwell
FARMERS REAP BENEFIT.
Being Paid Mor
cant for
year than they rece
that t
sted
¢, according
ef of the
w
oh Bur
Department of Agr
ibis Inerease
average o1
about three fo
crops of the
Crops
irths
nation
increases Includes
wheat and
rye 6%, buckwheat 6
$1.56 hogs 8% cents
veal calves 61 egpe 24
sheep 318 lambs 51, miich
milk 2 beans 45 swet
onlong 21. cloverseed $2
seed $1.44
bage 21, broom
bran 33.48
Products
included
apples 27
The
cents, 12
oats 18
barley
potatoes 7, hay
caitle 80
butter 2
cows 51980,
potatoes 16
ay timothy
(onwashed) 3, cab
ton $10, and
bee!
i,
WOO.
cort
decreased
flaxseed 7
$4.14 a ton
which
cotton 3
on prices
cents
and cottonseed
PIE LOSING ITS HOLD.
Manufacturer 80 Pleads In Having
Taxes Rebated.
representative of a §
Chicage A
making GEL
stopping &
company's taxes
fore the Board of Review y
that ple is
American people
“There has been n«
the plemaking business ir
Fear,” he told the tax revie
“It has popularity
the masses being take:
by fruit, icecream and salad as luncl
eon dessert Despite the
for busines
creased our tax schedules
think that the
allowed to stand as it
The did
Company's
ern here succeeded in
proposed increase 0 bis
when he appeared be
08Ing 8
the last
ng board
with |
w
decreased In
ita place is
poor outlook
we have voluntari in
$104
Asgegamenst EN
in
not
reviewers
taxes
1913.
annual
Salt Lake City In
Chicago.~The fiftieth
vention of the National Education As
sociation closed here, KE. T. Fairchild,
the new president, sald undoubtedly
the executive committee at a meeting
in the autumn would ratify the geolec
tion of Balt l.ake City, Utah, for next
year's meeting
con
Will Visit Hawaii.
Washington. —8ecretary Fisher exe
pects lo visit the Hawaiian Islands af
ter the adjournment of Congress to
Frear by
Delegate Kalanianaole
For improved Militia,
Washington. ~The Pepper bill to
into closer
touch with the regular army has the
approval of the War Department. It
has been favorably reported by the
House Military Affairs Committee
Under the bill the federal government
would disburse about $8,000,000 a year
to the 10,000 commissioned officers
and the 112,000 enlisted men of the
National Guard in the states and ter
gitories,
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THE ALTO
GOGELE * TAN
TAN EFFECT
THE
TAN
PROF”
EFFECT
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IN COAL PITS
Terrific Explosions in an Eng-
lish Colliery.
BODIES OF 69 RECOVERED
were w
he wlhers
8G Out
ager of the
hut died late:
The first
expl
OCH
It was followed by an explo
o'clock in the alternoor
of the rod TY 0
the entire
whelming
rescuing Origadce
The :
and Queer visited the
Ring
Cene ANG Personally expressed ther
mpathy
A JUDGE KILLED
injured In An Automobile
Accident
18 meal ing.
town, sirud
13 WES
5G
il direct
Car,
irageed a
glopped A nd
unseen by its occupants, and
hundred EE f
lights of a
rialiy in
wan
discovered him mm
inder the second Car
A “PURE FABRIC BILLY
Toe Have All Cioth and
Clothing Rightly Labeled.
bill,
the kind ever i
niro
of
‘pure {ALC
Washington A
the
noses
first measure of
has been
Representative Mur dock.
in
duced by
Kansas
ing of
for =
that
CORnEroess
The bill would require label
clothing
commerce,
whether
shoddy,”
all cloth and
ale in interstate #0
purchasers might know
they buving wool or
silk or cotton. Provision for guarding
against misbranding would be made
were
Venerable Southern Jurist Dies.
Montgomery, Ala--Jonathan Haral
son, for 16 years associate justice of
the Alabama Supreme Court, died
here. Judge Haralson retired to
private life several years ago
FEAST ON FOURTH POISONS 40,
Three Persons Dead and 37 Who At
tended Family Reunion fil.
Augusta, Ga ~Three persons are
dead and 37 ill as a result of eating
poisoned food at the home of Mac
Canady, near Garfield, Ga, on the
Fourth of July, according to informa.
tion reaching here. Mystery surrounds
the wholeaale poisoning of the Canady
family, who had gathered for a re
union "
MAY G0 TO THE
AGUE COURT
Panama Bill,
ght)
ET. FAIRGHILD
Defeats Miss Strachan
President of Educators.
For
CHICAGO TEACHERS RAPPED
pelen!
thoroughis
cation {
vocatlionas
i hygiene and
ng the train
More attentio
education
HiKher
RE 10 te@chers
education
SChoois
u lary
LIGHTNING HITS CAMP,
last
Killed
Seriously
Soldiers and Seventeen
injured.
Ala Tw guardsmen
when
the
dead
who
riously hurt
tent at
The
Rape
B
lied and 17 8¢
ght ruck 8 mess
MAnNeouYer grounds
haries Kirby
ing
here
H
were members of Company
{ Alabama
The
ern states is
were ( and
| Hecond
Infantry, as are all those in
militia of several South
in camp
been in
to sign pay
falling the men of
in their mess tent
giruck, and t
tent were giricken
injured N. {
ired
The mol
several dave
Ag rain
Company B
The light
those in
Of the
Sullivan is not expected
here
{diers
| and
Was
lined up
had
were
camp
slips
almost all
nin
ing
down
wine
to live
THE LAST REFUGE GONE.
Extradition Treaty Has Been Signed
With Monduras.
Washington. --Those who flee jus
tice in the United States will here
after find no place on the Western
Hemisphere safe from extradition. By |
signing an extradition treaty with
Honduras the State Department closed
the last avenue of escape.
i
Fireflies Cause Panic.
Aetna, Ind. Thousands of lightning |
bugs caused terror among workmen |
employed in the powder mills here fol
lowing a thunderstorm. The little in. |
sects, driven from the Kankakee |
marshes by ithe storm, settled down |
upon a tank containing several hun
dred gallons of nitroglycerine, The
employes saw the brilliantly Hiaminat |
ed bugs near the tank and immediate. |
:
i
ly scattered, running terror stricken |
in all directions In the fear that the
tank would explode.
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Great
Between
Lines Are Drawn Tight For a
Diplomatic Struggle
This Country and Great
Britain,
grawn
Lis
(sreat
Washinglol The lineg are
for great diplomatic struggle
Hiules
a
tween the United and
Brita
CoOunLry
American
¢
over tne guestion
discr
VESE@IR LIX
AY minate
aah anty ‘
admin rior
T
Panama Canal Fhe wordy war
orf
the
terminate ix : Ru bmi
favor
PaEsape
There f«
al Lhere is
Celiole 1s
was bullt
ELEVEN ENTOMBED
hree
Out
Perish
Men
Brought
Others
ug. W.Va
Ore & party
descended
was &
Mine
just
ci entomd
ware brought
Hkels
Gis LAY
die
w
DE, A poarch «
iOCALE
JeCIATree
rescuer
whe
WW Mon,
be
$4
ie Dot
met
gest!
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JURY TRIAL FOR CONTEMPT
The Clayton Bill Passes the House By
Vote Of 282 To 18
The } ise paswed
rmpt Bil 242 to 18. The
ovides for irial by jury for
indirect contempt of
the
Liavio:
measure
a&ccured of
feral cour
those
a Fe i! passed by
RW
hose in
kK Morrison
Americal
d
TRUSTED EMPLOYE STEALS
The Prisoner Admits Peculations
Amounting To $23,000,
M. Lawrence
member and
employe of the rice and grain
mporting concern Daniel Tal
madge's Sons, admitted in ombe
Court to Corrigan that he
had 000 from the
concern during the past gix years
This money, he said, had been spent
in being a good fellow and spender in
the Tenderloin. He was held in $5.000
bail for action by the grand jury. The
firm alleges that the theft will amount
to $40 000
» William
chure
New York
40 years old, a
trusted
of
the 7
Magistrate
taken at least $23
Around World in 39 Days,
Los Angeles, Cal What Is sald to
be a mew record for encircling
globe was completéd here Tuesday by
I. A. Allen and E. J. Seott, of Phoenix,
Ariz., who made the trip in 3% days
The two men left los Angeles June
1 and. eailing from Seattle June 3,
way of Viadivo
San Francisco Wants Liberty Beil.
Philadelphia Opposition was heard
that the Liberty Bei: be placed on ex.
hibition at the Panama Pacific Exposi-
tion in San Francisco in 1815. One of
those opposed to it is the chief of the
buresu of city property, which has
charge of the bell. The question of
entirely with the City Council, A re
quest to take the historic bell to the
Lewis and Clark Exposition at Seattle
SNAPSHOTS AT
STATE NEWS
All Pennsylvania Gleaned for
Items of Interest.
REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD
Loca
Farmers ty
Many
Busi
at Interest,
Every
ng Funds for
Busy in
Churches Rais
Worthy of
Objects~Iitems
riess and Pleasure ti
Delaware
AR
imberviiie
at Ios +
al (Oars
Iroposed special
y authorize
to purchase
a portion of
Spring shaft of
and
fiooded
ng Load
CS Hewitt
bass fishing in tl and Valley
#0 far this season eight trips to
Creek in Franklin
all over eight
Comococheague
county he captured 72
inches long
has secured
the Commit-
anry
Congressman McH
a favorable report from
on Public Grounds
8 Federal Bullding in Berwick.
This report will be submitted for ap
proval early next fall
ton Buildings and
for
An old watch, the property of Judge
G. H. Bell, of Lewistown, more than
100 years old, is still in splendid work.
ing order, keeping exact time when
properly wound and cared for The
timepiece, contained in an old silver
cape, was firet owned by the Rew
| Jacob Gruber, Methodist minister up-
on the early Baltimore circuit. and
| carried throughout his entire active
| career, coming into the possession of
| the present owner's father upon the
| death of the old circuit-rider.
Hospital treatment saved the life of
Miss Katie Jeffrey, of Scranton, who
took poison to end her existence.
A new asphalt auto truck, just put
into commission ae a city adjunct In
Pittsburgh, ran down and killed Wal
ter Logan.
W. A. Rogers, superintendent of the
playground system of Wilkes Barre, is
manager of four public playgrounds,
three public tennis courts, five publie
baseball parks and the Wyoming
street river front