FRUIT LAXATIVE FOR SICK GHILD “California Syrup of Figs” can’t harm tender stomach, liver and bowels. Every mother er realizes, after giving her children “California Syrup of | Figs” that this is their ideal laxative, little stomach, out griping. When cross, breath is bad, the tongue, mother! teaspoonful of this irritable, feverish, or harmless “fruit foul, undigested food passes out of the bow- els, and you have a well, playful child again. of cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache, diarrhoea, indigestion, ber, a good “inside cleaning” should always be the first treatment given. Millions of mothers keep “California Syrup of Figs" handy; teaspoonful today saves a sick child tomorrow. cent bottle of “( Figs,” children of all printed on the | bottle. Adv. Almost Any Married Man Will Appre- ciate the Situation Poor Hubby Got Himself Into. ‘What a ‘beautiful new hat coat!” she cried, as soon as he home that afternoon “Isn't it? I mean, said proudly. largains, overcoat was $16, thing, and the going to raise the price next week.” His young wife crowed with delight. ‘Herman, you look stunning!” she exclaimed. “Let me put them on, give you some slight idea of the gen- eral effect. You can never tell on yourself, you know.” And she put them on. The coat vas a nobby plaid Balmacaan and the hat was a Nile green fell, very swagger. “By Jove, Cecile,” he cried, “if 1 look half that good in "em I'm fied!” She walked to the pier glass. ‘You look very fine in them, dear.” she said hesitatingly, “but—truth com aren't they?” too. the and You know, men’s hats as becoming on me. women are wearing coats this winter. could get yourself another outfit to morrow -—something la colors a little more becoming to you, perhaps? ner, just the way you like them.” And-—but what's the use? IF HAIR IS TURNING ‘Con't Look Oidl Try Grandmother's Recipe to Darken and Beautify Gray, Faded, Lifeless Hair. Grandmother kept her hair beauti- fully darkened, glossy and abundant with a brew of Sage Tea and Sulphur Whenever her hair fell out or took on that dull, faded or streaked appear ance, this simple mixture was applied with wonderful effect. By asking at any drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy,” you will get large bottle of this old-time recipe, ready to use, for about 50 cents. This simple mixture can be depended upon to restore natural color and beauty druff, dry, itchy scalp and falling hair A wellknown druggist says every- body uses Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur, hecause applled—it's so easy to use, 400 one strand at a time. By morning the gray hair disappears; after an other application or two, it is re stored to its natural color and look glossy. soft and abundant. Ady : Willie Knew. Some time ago the teacher of a pub fic school geography, hand out a few to Willie Smith, “Willie,” she said, was questions she turned “can you tell me of the West Indies?” “No, ma'am,” frankly answered Wil He, after a moment's hesitation. “Just think a bit,” turned the teacher; sugar come from that you use at your house?” “Son eMmes from the store” an swered Wille, “and sometimes we bor. row it from the next-door neighbor.” = ok as SS, “Irresponsible. “No matter how hard misfortunes pirike some men, they never lose thelr poise” “1 dare say that's true.” “I know a man whose favorite order used to be, “Waiter, a bottle of wine.’ Nowadays he puis on just as wany airs when he says, ‘Heinle, a bucket of sade,” Its Nature. “I've got work with a sirqus, lend: ing to. the animals.’ What a beastly job!" ME, ' "Twas Ever Thus! The Elm-What was your ambition? The Oak-—~As an acorn I planned to grow up to be u Christmas tree no SY WE COULD STOP THE WAR ——— 2 mie os Representaiives Vollmer and Bartholdt Talk. HOW THEY WOULD END IT ALL The lowa Congressman Declares That We Are Bending Relief To Bel. gium and Dum Dum Bul lets For Germany. Washington, D. C.—How the United { States could end the European war in | 80 days, by cutting off the export of war supplies, was described by Repre | sentative Vollmer, of lowa, to the House Foreign Affaire Commitlee i With Representative Bartholdt, he in. i dorsed a joint resolution to empower {| the President, in his discretion, to pro- { hibit such exports American embargoes from 1794 down to the Mexican arms embargo of 1812 were cited by Vollmer in a legal argument to support the constitutional right of Congress to act ‘regident Wilson,” he said i pended the embargo of export of and munitions to Mexico in the inter neutrality as against neu- paper. that the pending line with the the advocate it i= line with that reputation to supply the truments of murder to European Are we to take the position the arch-hypocrite the nations Are we our knees and pray for peace, and at the time supply the death-dealing to Europe? Are to God for peace with the in our pockets? now in the positi for Belgium and dum many officials have their investiga by the German Bernstorf!, that dum bullets were being supplied the United States to the armies of the Allies An answer *Count made within the od ates BEN Arms ests of true ! trality on “I maintain is In reso historic great not in Of peace of among to gO upon same we plead with oney “We are for Ger Mriment Com plete «1 State De; made 16 Count dum from io next few days No Dum Dum Bullets. The department's investigators have reported that samples of dum dum bullets submitted by the German Ambassador as having made fit any the been in not rifle being used by the Allies State Department officials have been informed by an American mat just back from Europe found no ground for charges mutilated by also diplo he that (Ger that PANAMA EXPOSITION OPENED. President Wilson Pressed Button Last Midnight San Diego. Cal fornia Exposition, | month celebration of the completion of the Panama Canal, was opened mid t night, when President Wilson, | Washington, pressed an electric {ton that turned the lights | buildings and Preceding The Panama-Call San Diego's 12- hut the on in grounds the formal opening of a music pavili organ presented t and the city of wammoth position Spreckels William Treasury, in the the John Q D. McAdoo, Secretary of represented President remonies the Wil | SOD night's ce i ADMITS POISONING HUSBAND. Coroner Now Investigating Death Of First Spouse. Atlantic City According to the police, Nettie Salines, 32 years of age, i who has been taken into custody con { fessed that she caused the death of i her husband, Alexander Salinesz, by putting poison in his food on Decem- {ber 20 to collect Insurance of $1.000 ihe had recently taken out The | Woman was held without bail to await | the action of the grand jury The coroner of Atlantic county sald 0 is Investigating the circumstances {of the death of the woman's former lshusband, whe died about two years i ago GREECE READY TO MOBOLIZE. {All Necessary Measures Taken, Says Premier, Paris The Havas correspondent at Athens kends the following excerpt from a speech delivered by the Greek Premier, M. Venizelos, during a dis. cussion of the budget in the Greek Chamber of Deputies: “All the neces. sary measured to assure the national defense have been taken since the out. break of the war. [| can again assure the Chamber and {he country that at the present moment Greece is ready to mobelize at any hour asd oh every point of her territory all the con tingents of her army.” . a 1 SB SRR KAIBER'S GREETING TO WILSON. German Ruler Also Sends Bost Wishes For United States. Bava. -Raipatth William has sent from the army headquarters a mes. gage to President Wilson cofiveying “his wishes for a happy new year. The Emperor also expressed his best wishes for the welfare of the United States. i CENTRE HALL, PA 1 WisH Jou FELLOW 4s AWOULP i 7 BOTHER ME - Fea | (Copyright) ENGLAND 15 ASKED 10 PAY DAMAGES Congress Will Support President's Protest. NO ROOM FOR A DEBATE Nothing Belligerent In Wilson's At titude, But Tone Of Communica. Firm — London Pro fesses Great Surprise. tion BRITONS INSURE AGAINST WAR WITH U. 8 London —A premium of 15 guineas per cent, was being paid in Lloyds on policies worded To pay a total loss in svent of a declaration of war belween Great Britaln and America within 12 months from date” The premium to insure against war being declared between Nor way and Great Britain within 12 months is now 7 gulneas per cent Washington, D C--Not since the outbreak of the war io Europe has the capital of this country been more stirred than by the action of Preaident Wilson In directing to Great Britain a2 sharp note of protest against her ued interference with American commerce, Leaders of all in Congress were congratulating the President on his firm stand for the rights of Ameri can citizens. That Coagress pared to uphold him action he may fit to take Britaln with the protest was evident thia, contin parties fo im earnest Gv ness of the a tangible the A score or more petitions 1 Amer can shippers protesiing AgRiDSt A con tinuanee of the hardships Imposed on them by British officials The President, in talking with call ers at the White House, discussed wit frankness the reason prompting the Government to file the protest. Atl he same time, there was nothing belligerent about his attitude, and nothing to justify the belief that the United States has any intention of going to war about the matter Willi Demand Millions. This much the President did make plain. That when the war in Europe is over, England will be called upon to pay damages which her course has inflicted on American trade. Whether she does or does not agree (0 respect American rights from now on, Great Britain will be called upon to make good American losses. Acquiescence ai this time can only prevent these claims from growing larger, Already they total well in millions of dollars In this connection the President emphasized quite plzinly that the eson- tention made by the United States in the present note is no new thing. Eng. land long ago and in every war to which she was pot a party held to the position that neutral commerce shail be allowed to enjoy the freedom of the gens and not be subjected to undue interference. There was, he pointed out, no ques- tion of treaty violation involved. All that the United States was contending for, he indicated, was that Great Britain should respect a principle of international law of which she herself was the founder and to which she had always subscribed until the pres- ent wir made it expedient for her to ignore the requirement. The greatest hardship, from the standpoint of trading, however, wes when Great Britain, in complete dis regard of her previous position in in. ternational law, presumed to question proof of members of creo leaving Amerlean porta for Bu rope. For this reason fhe refused to reapect shipments consigied “to order,” although only by this practice, common in tities of peace, could American exporters discount bills of fading at the | 8 without waitin: for the Shivmty to be delivered. PARGEL POST A GREAT SURPRISE : All Expectations. Estimates From 50 Offices indicate 1,200,000,000 Packages Were Handled This Year—*Farm Products Post” Success Washing years’ ton, D. « The first operation of the pare A pheno revenues it el post has al growth brous placed er and the public Postoflice has treasury Departm taining basis officials who 3 parcel nave it © pon a self Recording to (sovernment have been checkir post traffic éxXiravagant pre Lewis parcel and revenues The most post yusiness during the operation Estimates post Be ( the range $50 000.060 dur of amount of parcel £40 000 the year CRRIogUes the total REKETegale Ww the that revyen bet and lie ing If books and are included, it stated parcel post revenue in about $60.000.000, So “eavy Christmas parcel post traffic believed that the total number of pack ages during the present year will total 1.200,000,000 The Postoffice Department checks up on thewmount of traffic and revenue in parcel post twice a year A com plete record of parcels is kept in the 50 Iargest postoffices for a period of 15 days ‘he last record for 15 days end ing October 15 showed that 30,000.00 packages were handled The 50 lars is an i: IN : t otal parcel post business about packs or 13 Y Our showed 40,000,000 packages phenomenal Christmas sd, offsets the dif ference between the April and October counts, and thereby brings tal to 1,.200,000,000 packages One of the arguments in Con passage the Postoffice eht's new railway mail bill is that more extension of the parcel post system is being mapped out and that the department does not desire to ex tend the service until the railroad: are paid under andther basis, so that they may receive compensation for carrying the package mail. What these exten sions involve is not given out sald it is planned to develop further the “farm products post” which 100.960.0000 tee mouth 0.000.000 a andled. The anil it is estimate the used of 2 cents and by reducing the rates for the sixth, seventh and eighth zones The success with which the “farm produtts post” has met in a number of large cities in developing trade direct ly between the producer and the city Department to formulate additional plants for the development fervioe GOV. BLEASE FREES 556 MORE. 149 Prisoners Yet Detained Ir South Carolina. Columbia, 8 «Fifty-five New Year's pardons, paroles and commuta tions granted by Governor Cole L Blease reduced the number of prison ers in the State penitentiary. at the State farms and in Only put the total number of prisoners to four years of office at 1.544. a A SRLS 3 OR RA CONFESS STEALING $442,000. asin iin Former Cashier and Assistant’ of Bank Plead Guilty. Caruthersville, Mo.- hs C. Tindle, formor caslifer of the old Pemiscot County Bank. and Thomas B, Ward, assistant cashier, pleaded guilty to the embezzlement of $442,000 6f the bank's funds. Tindle had been convicted previously on a charge incident to the irregularities at the bunk and had bees sentenced to two years’ imprisonment From that verdict he had appealed. STOP EATING MEAT IF KIDNEYS OR BACK Hurt Take a Glass of Salts to Clean Kig- | neys If Bladder Bothers You- Meat Forms Uric Acid. Eating meat regularly eventually | produces kiduey trouble in some form or other, says a well-known authority, because the uric acid in meat excites clog up and cause all rheu twinges, severe headaches, acid stomach, constipation, torpid liver, sness, bladder and urinary Ir ritation. The moment your back hurts or kid acting right, or if bladder bothers you, get about four ounces of | Jad from any good pharmacy; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, com- bined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush clogged kid pneyvs and stimulate them to normal activity; also to neutralize the acids in the urine so it no longer rrits thus ending bladder disorders Jad cannot injure mikes a delightful effervescent lithia ater drink which millions of men and om en take then to keep the ineys and urin ary Organs clean, thus ng ger Ady NOT THE TIME FOR A SMOKE Old Salts te Salts anyone; now and y Gligeage. avol Lady, Filled Up tridges,” Was in Natural of an Explosion. With “Car Fear CARE FOR YOUR HAIR 8y Frequent Shampoos With Cuticura Soap. Trial Free. Precede Caticurs Olin of dandratl, fic the scalp. Nothis plexion, hair, hands skin thay ragrant supercreamy emollients for the tollet. by mail with | uticura, Dept Ady touches of needed to spots irritation of for the com these Also | better v or preparati Sample eg Address postcard, ( Boston. oT ook XY. res Sold everywhere Transients All nNany Full of Spirit. Your cousin Sara Creature Yeu. call her Volatile we Sal “CASCARETS” ACT ~~ ONLIVER; BOWELS No sick headache, ‘biliousness, bad taste or constipation by morning. Get a 10-cent box. Are you keeping vour bowels, liver, and stomach clean, pu and fresh with Cascarets, ‘or merely forcing a passageway every few days with Salts, Cathartic Pills, Castor Ofl or Purgative Watera? Stop having a bowel wash-day. Let Cascarets thoroughly cleanse and reg ulate the stomach, remove the sour and fermenting food and foul gases. take the excess bile from the liver and carry out of the system all the constipated waste matter and polsons in the bowels. A Cascaret feel great while you Or cause Te to-night will make you Sy morning. They work sleep-—never gripe, sicken inconvenience, and cost only 10 cents a box from* your store Millions of men and women take a Cascaret now and then and never have Headacne, PBilicusness, Coated Tongue, Indigestion, Sour Stomach or Constipation Adv 31% No Room for a Thiro. wa a r Pen i every » and 8 more inte st con OL Chit 1¢ Se) clan en in there? isitively neftled the tersely had all my wisdon replied the lady the ide % L anvil y anytiuing Because have ulled out mh ave a that wisdom love, do with you were to head pulled upider, you Wir if your a foolish one! tooth in uldn’t make vou any *Ters Criticism. going be inside S50 you are narried Mary Yes, ma’ next Well, 1 hope you are good husband.” if he ain't any I won't am. and I'll be leaving you Tuesday.’ EelliLg = the one long.” ter than keep him Should Tarry. mblys tell me they are go i a better neighbor hood.” That's ques “Why “They haven't made hborhood they're 81 good yet in the leaving.” as neig dom ta nd Wo Elandas irs to sit down on up for his rights oq ple nan You seldom hear of a man marryiag a woman to reform her Lumbago Sciatica Liniment kills pain? I have used it for sore "eeAllen Dunn, Rowle 1, ders. About two years ago my left knee It pained me at I bad never tried
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