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Jars & Tubes tore ay BOVE Mmensures, was only one ere t may prevent serous who Kkpew weights for them and mea thirty ail and them knew went sires und poor years when the mad died!” OR THIS: Long ugo we simplified the currency in 1786 led the in decimal ney an absurd of CONSTIPATION 500 So See reason, we nav ++ « QUICKLY ctu Carter's Little Liver Pills puted, to other factors In our dally gy Vegalaie Len life, When James Watt, the Scotch | pain and uaplessant after inventor, announced the plan in 1783 shies, Thay selitva the system of constipa- upon which the metric system is based, Washington, Jefferson, Robert cause that dull and aching feeling. Remember they are a doctor's pre- Morris and Gouverneur Morris immedi indorsed its adoption for our Srision and can be ta hI uti: All 25¢ and 75¢ Red Packages. weights, meusures and coinage. Wash ington, in bis frst message to con Success, the Answer | cress, urged its adoption, but its ap to the plication to our colnage only was : In 1866, through the efforts of Charles Sumner of Massachusetts the metric wns made the legal system the United States But the average American, seeming | ly wedded to an outgrown tradition, has preferred to go on using the old cumbersome system. In the mean time more than 100 countries of the world have adopted the metric sys tem and are enjoying a great advan tage in commerce, education and com { mon world understanding thereby. | Only In Great Britain and America are there human beings who are out | of step, commercially and economical { ly, with more than 1.000.000.0000 of | the people of the world who are trad ing on the metric basis. That we are | conscious of this handicap is shown | by the agitation by various organiza | tions and individuals which has been | under way for some time for general | adoption of the metric system. The | states of [llinols, California, North | Dakota, Tennessee and Utah, with a | combined population of 16,000,000, | through their state legislatures, have | memorialized congress to adopt metric IY YY oe CoE : . avatons ‘and world no Apothecaries ” 24 £58 the units of mo ir nen Gift to City ns of porcelain, china srse sr 4 Royal face colnage \ a cont 12 ounces nge reason, we have rest f the decimal Beubenlienfunlesl ir ceramics and enunmel Avoirdupois Weight (Short Ten) behind the (7 11.32 ar the simple Kiang world has been of Naples i Marsi, and h ! museum by the is the Vil Fer jlo, rye rites OR i i Better than a mustard plaster CORNS 16 16 ounces i drame i i 2% pounds 1 3} 1 Oonee pound quarter in extending system, Metric Weight malligrame 1 cer centigrams 1 decigram tec rgr acee 1 gram grams 1 dekagram Arckagraavs 1 Bectogram bectagrams 1 kilogram which is so com tigram Count 4 quarters bundred weight z0 opened HE A Italy. The m where diana, king of 1} tion fills 21 rooms, and consists of 10. 000 pled mong the prized exhibits are several Sevres cups used by Marie Antoinette of France. The enilection includes rare specimens of wares from famous pottleries and works throughout Europe and Asin hundredweights tan (Long Tow) gram 1Seum Seubenduatonteslelosdnd feelers rT TTT TT TTR TR TTT ae eR Avoirdupois Weight once lived 11-32 grange = i 168 drams - 6 12 pounds - 27 e Two Olel ounce pound hundred weight ton o% ately 20 bundredweights ss Troy Weight 24 grams - 1 pennywerght 206 pesnyweights . } ounoe IT ounces wr tT pound THIS: Long Measure 12 inches foot 8 feet yard 815 yards vod or pole 0 rods furinag 8 furlongs statute mile 1.760 yards mile 220 rods mile 3 miles league M - » MM 4 r & feet = fathom fathome - cable length cable lengthe = mile feet - statute mile feet : Ril oautical mie THIS: Dry Measure 2 pints » 1 quart 8 quarts - | peck 4 pecks = 1 bushel Liquid Measure w= 1 pint 1 quart 1 gallon 1 barrel 1 hogehead eines ; wil Ends pain at once/ and In one minute pain from corns is ended. Dr. Scholl's Zino-pads do this safely by removing the cause~—pressing and rubbing of shoes. They are thin, medi- cated, antiseptic, healing. At all drug and shoe stores, Cost but a trifie. Dr Scholls Zino-pads Put one on— big question tm fe o y ccesaful made Cannery Waste Utilized Tomato cannery waste, formerly dis carded. has been discovered to be worth 6 cents a gallon in Italy, where faundries utilize it to remove | stains from linen, particularly eoliars, | The clothes are soaked in vats of the | diluted cannery bypreduct for an hour, by which time the stains are so thoroughly loosened that they ean be washed out with little soap and prac | tieally no rubbing.—Popular Mechan ics Magazine, system able plan for r in lar if you decide to VOCATIONAL 8 Temple Bldg. BUREAU Rochester, N. ¥. Metric Length millimeters cetitimeter centimeters decimeter decimeters meter meters delcameter dekameters bectometer bectometers kilometer go now Deltatype (Strain 5) Recleaned Cotton Seed $1.50 bu. sulphate ammonia 356 ex vemgel NITROPHOSKA (30p-16n-16k) $85 per ton ox vessel. Excelsior Beed Farms, Cheraw, & C. ee shhh bd bd 8 bbebebenbendesteusilfeciiniufeniefusfesirefuieieieeiuifiepeiifegefefefeiejifeied ffeil TTT TTT TTT Tee a EEE EEEE PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Removes Dandruff -StopsHair Failln Restores Color and Beauty to Gray and Faded Hi he. and $1.99 at Druggisia 1 Stace x Chem. Wie Patchogue N. FLORESTON SHAMPOO-Ildeal for nse in connection with Parker's Hair Balsam. Makes the hair soft and flnffy. 850 cents by mail or at dru gists. Hiscox Chemizel Works, Patchogue, N. X. Expectation of Life Modern science has destroyed the tradition of “a short life and a merry | one,” writes Dr. Donald B. Armstrong | tn the North American Review, The | life of the average modern is longer | and merrier than that of a century ! ago. The average expectancy of life | at birth has been increased from | twenty-eight years in 1780 to forty. | eight at the present time, What a baby doesn’t put into its OR THIS: Metric milthhiters centiliters 1 deciliters 1 liters 1 1 1 Capacity wm 1 centiliter deciliter liter dekaliter hectoliter kilaliter 4 pills 2 pints 4 quarts 81; gallons 2 barrels dekaliters inflamed eyelids or other bectoliters eye irritations, You will find a soothing and safe remedy in MITCHELL EYE SALVE. HALL & RUCKEL New York City TTI TITTY VFRPYFFYYY dl STHMA REMEDY £2 8.8 8 & 8 8.8 8 8 8 8 8 8 Bh 8 BR RB be Boleduluded TIT Tr RTE at all druggists. a ea hs SARA eb bb bk tb bbb bobo bb btedddundunfreficiecfufuafunfefuefrfefofofuefrafonfecfedd 2 a LA 0.0 2 rr) 3 1 Led Lodo do dod ¥ t La a a 3 Thr EL] T er TATE 2 2 Beall 2 Let Sl. 0 £0 88 2 2 . 8B 8 BE 48 joofeioirlieiot LJ TIT RRR Ter hn. 5 Tr a is shown by the fact that this coun the world at large, The advance to | the metric system under this bill wili | He who is able to hold his tengue. Pain A Liniment Powerful, penetrating tried remedy bringsquick relief from menacing and colds. PISO'S BEE Quick Relief! A plassant, effective Torna gon F180 5, Theos and The General Federation of year, passed a resolution calling upon More than. 100.000 time ago Congressman Fred Britten of Hlinols announced that he expected to Introduce In this session of con gress a liberal metric standards bill and press its passage. The need for a new set of standards try suffers a loss of millions of dol lars every year in its world trade be cause of delays and losses due to the inequality between our standards and the metric standards of other nations and the difficulty in translating one in terms of the other. The purpose of the proposed metric standards bill, as stated by Congressman Britten, Is to give to Americans “the world langunge of quantity.” It proposes to estab fish a standardization of terms, so that our units of weights and men sures may be alike and invariable throughout our land, snd alse fortn nately in accordance with those of not so much affect the making dising of things by measure. In contrast to our present ards, which are complex and unreiat ed, the metric system is simple and based upon the decimal system our currency, its inter-related. There are damental units, the meter, the liter and the gram, and all three are deel mally divided or decimally multiplied Both multiplication and division are automatie. You move the decimal point and--presto! you have iL Record Tree Planting OC. C dow .or of the American Near fast Rellet at Athens, Greece, reports to the American Tree association, of Washington, 00,000 trees were planted in one day on the slopes of Hymettus, School children and orphans made the pilgrimage following the preparations a week in advance by the army. In his work Director Thurber Is nsiug the forestry primer published by the association. Here Is a lesson for * Americans. The nssocintion has tree planting instruction ready and it wel comes all tree planters to membership tn the tree planting army, Slingshot Days The country boy who uses a sling shot to knock some unwary sparrow off a Himb has little thought that he is practicing one of mackind's earliest arts. Not alone Is the story of David an instance. There were long cen turies of the Stone age when slung pebbles formed man's most effective weapon--his only weapon, it is prob able—in the chase of that consider able fraction of his animal food which had to be ciptured awing. Toast With Honors The reference to drinking a toast “with all the honors three” is to the cheers with which a toast Is greeted. Some toasts are drunk standing, such ns a loast to one's country, and are often received with hurrahs three in number, or, in case of great enthusi asm, with three t'mes three & Hot Help