Home Heating Hi nts 8y John Barclay Heating Expert Keep Furnace Ashpit Clean—Get Better Heat, Prevent Costly Repairs §OMETIMES we are prone to \J grow careless and get the idea that all a furnace ashpit is for is to receive ashes as they come from the grates. As a matter of fact, however, receiving the ashes Js but one of three important things an ashpit does. Besides holding ashes, it performs the very MN Wy INL of 0) x y a “ HE hd 4 WAY EO - necessary function of receiving air from the cellar and helping dis- tribute it uniformly throughout the fuel bed. Those things bein ru it is dangerous to negl sping the ashpit clean. Ac ited ashes will cut off inc 1§ ila- tion and hamper the complete combustion of fuel, creating trou- blesome clinkers. An ashpit that is choked up with ashes is quite liable to overheat the grates, re- sulting in their warping or break- ing. This, of course, means an expense in replacing the damaged rates. So, I say om I' Circ again, don't take chances. Keep the ashpit cleaned out. Take a few minutes every day to remove the dead ashes. Early Hardships The Kansas pioneers lived hard lives. They had no fountain pens to leak om their fingers. No tele- phones to ring while they were taking baths. motor cars to get flat tires or run out of gaso- line. No radios to burn out tubes or be overcome by static. No brush salesmen to ring their door- bells. And no newspapers to make them mad. It took real men to stand up under such hardships.— Philadelphia Inquirer. No MUSCLES FELT STIFF Got Quick RELIEF If muscles in your rm back or shoulders feel s nd sore, get a Sottie of Han 1 Oil and get tick re —rub it In, Ww Arms ei e3--FIVes w ful com» fort. Will not stain. At all druggists. © * HAMLINS WIZARD OIL" Lr ACHES and PAINS Due to REEUMATISM NEURALGIA LUMBAGO CHEST COLDS 4 nNGeT Crushed Virtue Virtue is like precious most fragrant where they censed or crushad; for Pre doth best discover vice: versity doth best dis -—Bacon. DON'T RUB YOUR EYES Rubbing your eyes grinds invisible particles of dust and dirt right into the delicate tissues, making the irritation just that m worse. A much better way, as thousands have discovered, is to use a little Murine in each eye—night and morning. Murine may be depended on to re- Lieve eye irritation because it is a reliable eye reparation containing 7 active ingredients of nown value in caring for the eyes. In use for 40 years. Ask for Murine at your drug store, odors, are in- sperity but Ad- cover virtue. In Mutual Sympathy Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.—Barrows. At Your Best! Free From Constipation Nothing beats a clean system for health! At the first sign of constipation, take purely vegetable Black-Draught for prompt relief, Many men and women say that Black- Draught brings such refreshing relief. By its cleansing action, poisonous effects of constization are driven out; you soon feel better, more efficient. Black-Draught costs less than most other laxatives, BLACK-DRAUGHT A GOOD LAXATIVE FROM GIRL 10 WOMAN Hagler help it gave me when I was just a girl I would have a great deal of suf- rH begs: " myx LP Q, O|C E Al} HAWAIIAN STATISTICS. ARIA, 7000 50 MILES. L3/PRNATION [838 108.000. Showing the relation of EXPORTS 1096, $8,815,000 IMPORTS 1896 * 184,000 VENUES 1896, #/,078,000 LEXPENSLS- 1894, $004,000 ALT DEB T1897, 7) 888.000 ZEA AXD PRINCIPAL PORTS \ 5 y rr or wy we - “es - oe BF States’ time, fortifying any of the of northern China on the her by the tian group in the north Pacific. ¢ The Uni commercial Wake and has established air bases on Midway, Guam islands, and sovereignty over several small islands in the south Pacific, which, with the naval sta- tion at Pago Pago in the Samoan group, will form commercial bases between Honolulu and New Zealand. The American congress has agreed to surrender sovereignty over the Philippine the Philippines as an inde nation, but retaining an American naval base in the islands. Naval Race Is On. the Washington naval treaty which limited her naval strength to three- fifths of the naval strength of the United States and Great Britain, and since that repudiation has been pressing naval tion with the avowed purg construct or Great Britain Washington n Decer The pired ne ey on both out of mais tween Japan. Very brie the Pacific at ti is seeking a treaty States ths ul ing of islanc fortifying of cific, and to = is saying ‘‘no.’ The Hawaiian islands const the hub of the Pa wheel, around which all the conflicting in- terests of the Pacific revolve. Sentinel of Coastlines, islands represent the basis of all defense plans for our western coast. So long as America holds Pearl Harbor at Honolulu there is practically no danger of any attack on the shores of our western coast states. The big guns in the fortifications at Honolulu afford more protection to San Francisco than do the guns at Presidio, the American army sta- tion overlooking the entrance to the Golden Gate Honolulu has been referred to as the Gibraltar of the Pacific. It is not that, but it is the Malta of the Pacific. It is a protected base any enemy dare not leave behind when attacking the American main- land or the Panama canal. The Hawaiian people first asked that the islands be annexed by the United States in February of 1883, following the forced abdication of Queen Liliuokalani on January 17 of that year. President Harrison was favorable, and sent a treaty of annexation to the senate for rati- fication. Before the senate had tak- en action, President McKinley was inaugurated and he promptly with- drew the treaty. It was not until President McKinley was in the White House that a new treaty was prepared, but as it could not command the needed two-thirds vote for ratification in the senate, the administration followed the precedent set at the time of the snnexation of Texas and intro- duced the treaty as a joint resolu- tion which needed only a majority vote in both houses of congress. How Hawaii Was Annexed. A majority vote in the house was not easily secured. The speaker, Thomas 8. Reed, was opposed and used all his powerful influence to prevent its coming to a vote, Iu April of 1808 the United States internat and bases in the Pa ch a treaty cific ocean The United declared Dewey, war on Spain. Admiral with an American fleet, was eastern waters, with all closed to Amer- for the ships and provisions for the crews were seven thousand miles away on the west coast of Amer- provided Dewey did not de- 1 Dal in- war and | How of the history. assist- realized | stances wh at th The department of the formed Admiral with navy Dewey that Spain had been declared, take Manila one familiar stories of Theodore Roosevelt, then of the navy, under such circun control of the Hawaiian isl would mean to the Un ands he was | the eff of | the Hawaiian | capable he backed ris A. Thurston, representative at Washington, forced action on the part of Sg Reed, and the joint resolution ceived a m and weaker | ajority vole houses becan 2. 1808 Thurston had Speaker of Mr. R 1 A been determ win over Reed. He ited the ai up a rough map show the at Waikiki. island of Oahu. would have to travel from port to port in the Pacific. He made it clear that while our fleet could car- ry enough fuel to cross the Atlan- tic to Europe and return, no fleet in the world could carry enough to make a round trip across the Pa- cific. Operating from a base in Hawaii, however, our fleet could cross to the Asiatic coast and re- turn. Harbor Cost 20 Millions, Roosevelt caused a huge wall map to be created along these lines and showed it to Reed, repeat- ing what Thurston had told him. Reed was sufficiently won over to permit the annexation joint resolu- tion to come to a vote. It received a majority in both houses and be- came effective July 12, 1808. It was in 1884 that the United States first obtained the concession of Pearl Harbor &s a coaling sta- tion. The harbor, just outside the city of Honolulu on the island of Oahu, was ideally situated for that It was completely land- locked, and its narrow entrance was guarded by sharp coral reefs. At the time of annexation fourteen years later the magnificent haven was still blocked, however, by a great sand bar. In 1907 President Roosevelt reco provement of naval base United States has £20.000 000 fortificat Today easily navigable fight on IONS. the e harbor all can navy could an 1835, 160 Us n is, i 12 giant capital ships, was moored or anchored at time Around the harb ¢ r 's shores are stored vast quantities of fuel oil, been erected contain great quantities of Pearl Harbor is dry dock, wi 3 of types Ameri aintenar not far one an enormous uities for repairing vessels All of this a's ce constitutes naval m lant. Fort Kamel off, is an importa: land defense. Pearl Harbor's I a number of batteries of great ims located so as to prevent a land. tt line liber ameha, it auxiliary for rotection consists ’ ai e¢ shore to the island Boasts Largest Army Post, As ir 1 fleet an a planes ase its great in These def by 25,000 Twe happy bathers frolic on the beach are a are of the army and 5,000 of the navy. The army post, some 20 miles out of Honolulu, recently com- pleted, is the largest of America’s army posts. At Schofield barracks and its subsidiary forts, 30,000 men may be quartered. The American navy can operate from Hawaii. If operating against an enemy in the Far East its base is nearly 2,500 miles nearer its objective than would be the case if operating from the American mainland. If it is defending Amer- ican shores or the Panama canal, no enemy would dare advance be- fore capturing and destroying the American fleet at Hololulu, a thing it would be practically impossible to do. That is a part of what the little island territory lying far out in the Pacific ocean represents to Amer- ica. In a recent address General Smedley Butler proposed that the United States withdraw from Ha- waii and leave the islands to what. ever nation might want them, or could first take them. Such a state- ment would not have been popu- lar at any place on the west coast, nor would it have been made by any one who had a really intelligent interest in the safety of America. © Western Newspaper Union. Sch obb Zhimks about Hollywood “Rifts” and “Probes.” EVERLY HILLS, CALIF. — Out here, our two favorite headlines are “Rift” and “Probe,” one signifying that some ideal marriage between movie stars has begun to split at the seams and the other that some functionary has been in office long enough f Irvin 8. Cobb 14 oiq Poor Lo's Renaissance. THE go ing are we own yr The Navah the most independent all the tribesmen. Fi they continu istence, follos liefs and ce: caged in towns, in mater grow any Can it be that culture, which we strive to cram down red people and vellow, isn Vic tin But, prac- tically to admi I vilization might have ws in it, a8 we the and for ; achieve- war. | wr . ial they out- other tribe wh sO the ite man's and black $s need? of cours one of po nt to the late » The Spoils System. ! s a timid ased on all e past expendiiure wi oubtedly whi the of Sen- rgast and such-lik s of the human race. Not that the ins a \y greed- ier than the they've merely improved in sagacity since the days when nearly all the smart wolves seemed to be Republicans and near- ly all the half-witted sheep seemed to be Democrats. But Passamaquoddy might as well make up its mind to being sort of neglected from now on. Maine, she ain't been actin’ right . » * re ar outs, France's Inconsistency. RANCE has just lent a vast sum to Poland, and Poland, it is admitted, will use the money to increase its war strength. If Poland should repudiate the debt and de- fault on the interest, a howl will go up from “La Belle France” that'll ring around the world. But, of course, it will continue to remain an evidence of soulless greed for Uncle Sam even to inti mate that France might pay us a little something on account against the enormous amount she owes us for borrowed money which she has used to build up her army and also, it would appear, to pass along to Poland so that Poland may build up hers. If consistency be a jewel, is practically out of jewelry. IRVIN SS. COBB © --WNU Service, Cat as Prized Weather Forecaster On Japanese ships in the Seven- teenth century the tortoise-shell tomcat was so highly prized as a weather forecaster, because it would rush up the mast before the ap- proach of a storm, that it was often classed as a member of the crew and given a rank higher than that of the cook. —Collier's Weekly. 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