RAILROAD BRIDGE DESTROYED. _ _ > > Photo copyright, 1914. by American Press Association. This shows tlie awful destruction of war. French troopr near Amiens, France. destroyed a railroad bridge to hmder the movements of the Germans. Untie barn's Shore Line. We have rather a long shore line t< survey. According t<> trend it i- H (XX) miles hut wlu-a it i.-> iuck.- ured so as to include the shore lin of all large islands, bays, sounds ai estuaries within tidal range it IK comes upward of 40,000 miles.—W. .1 Showalter in National Geographic Ala; azlne. , "One Eye Open." Some years ago in London a French man stepped into a hansom and was asked: "Where do you wish to go?" "One eye open," lie replied. "Right," said cabby, who understood nothing and drove off. After a time, same question, same reply. Finally the driver descended and demanded further information. "One eye open." still was the an- I swer. Cabby furious. A crowd assem bled, a policeman appeared on the scene and demanded the whole story. Then the mystery was solved. The j fare wanted to be driven to 1 High 1 HoJborn. WIFE COILS TO ENTANGLE SHELLS. : "\st. *4 '**Vf $ | Photo copyright. 1914, by American Press Association. The Germans took thousands of coils of wire with them from Hamburg into France and used them as protection against artillery fire. The coils were placed in front of trenches to smother shells that fell in them. EYES OF A PORTRAIT. Why They Seem to Follow Observers Moving To and Fro. The fact that the eyes of some por traits follow the observer as he moves to different positions has always l>een looked upon as a triumph of realism. Although the phenomenon has been exaggerated in some instances, it Is not a myth. If the eyes of the portrait look at the observer in a favorable po sition they will continue to do so with in a wide angle extending to any situ- j ation where a view is possible. Con trarily, if the eyes do not intentionally look at the observer they will not d> so even though he take his station ai a point where the painted g.-r/.e is seem ingly directed. Suppose that the portrait bead is in three-quarter face turned to our left, with the eyes turned toward the sje-- • tator. If we move to the right we do j not obtain another view of the head— j that is. we do not move into the profile GUARDING RAILWAY IN SERVIA i • '■ v: • \ >W$ >. N \V > >v > , -> S ~ -'} r< rfV •• <>\ I Photo by American Press Association. uuv-i uav i uuivuta V/JL tut viui liiuuoi A Phil May Anecdote. One winter night an old hawker en tered the bar of the Old Bell tavern. Fleet street, and offered the customers sets of three studs for a peuny. Phil May said t hiui: "You are just the man 1 want!" He took only one stud and gave the hawker a five shilling piece. The bar maid said to Phil .May: "I believe, Phil, you would give your coat to the first beggar who asked for it r "Well, miss," replied the artist, "there would be no harm in that. St. Martin gave his coat to a beggar, and he was a better man than Phil May. I am only a wicked sinner!"— London Tatler. The Widow's Name. In addressing a letter to a widow— for instance, "Mrs. John .Jones"—you can write it Mrs. John Jones or Mrs. Hilda Jones, whichever you prefer. Either is proper, there being no hard and fast rules about the matter. If Mrs. Jones prefers being addressed as Mrs. Hilda Jones, then !et it be that. There is no law in the case one way or the other.—New York American. were." said he. "The reason they aiu not come back was because two of them got good jobs in Cape Town: the other two married Boer widows and settled down on farms," he said.—New York Sun. One Thing He Remembered. He was standing near one of the stamp windows iu the general post offlce. His face was flushed and his features distorted, while he tugged with his teeth at a knot in his hand kerchief. When the knot gave way a friend who had been watching the un usual performance stepped up and ask ed. "What was the knot for—to re member something?" "Yes. to have my wife's umbrella mended." "Did you have it done?" "No; forgot the blamed thing in the subway. But 1 remembered the kuot all right"—Ne York Tribuu Champagne. Champagne is a product of France. ;It was invented or discovered there 250 years ago. evening recently an aunt who * newspaper woman called up the boy's mother on the telephone to cancel an engagement. She was absent, and the boy himself answered the call. "Tell your mother," said the aunt, "that I can't come out this evening because 1 have taken an assignment. Can you remember that?" "Yes. ma'am." said the boy. "I'll tell her." When the mother returned he said to her: "Mother, auntie telephoned that she couldn't come, because she is sick." "Sick? Why, what's the matter?" s.be wanted to know "I forgot what it is she's got." said (be boy. "It's something she has tak en, but it isn't mumps." Nashvilli Banner. Why One Treaty Was lorn Up. Many wars have flamed up from slight causes. One recalls the quarrel 'twixt that Venetian ambassador and that Turkish grand vizier of ihe past. The ratification a treaty was in au-cstion, and the Turk asked the Venetian to sv. ear in Moslem fashion— upon his beard and the beard of the prophet. The ambassador would not "Venetians wear no beards," he re marked. "Neither do monkeys," replied the Turk, and straightway the treaty was torn up and war declared. And that interchange of compliments cir cling round the bear cost 150,000 lives. Supreme Toet of Friendship. An invitation to breakfast was, in Macaulay's opinion, one of the supreme tests of friendship. "You invite a man to dinner," he wrote to Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, "because you must in vite him, because you are acquainted with his grandfather, or because it is proper that you should; but you invite a man to breakfast because you wish to see him. You may be sure if you are invited to breakfast that there is something agreeable about you." Moral Twisted. The telephone in a physician's office rang madly the other day, relates Cur rent Opinion, and the following qpn versation took place: "We want the doctor, quick!" "Who's sick at your house?" "Everybody except me. I'd been naughty, so tliey wouldn't give me any of the nice mushrooms papa picked in the woods." Her Praise Was Premature. Lady Gushington (to great tenor)— You saug that last song beautifully I was in the supper room, but I heard every word. You have improved; you have, really. The Great Tenor—But —I have not sung; I am next!— London Illustrated Bits. I The Way Out. ( Dad—The kind of wedding you want my child, would cost $2,000. Daughter —Then what is to be done, papa? Dad —You will have to be married without my consent.—Boston Transcript. Always Something. I find this life upsetting quite, things never seem to come my way. It's hard to get asleep at night and hard to keep awake by day.—Kansas Citv Journal. Papa's P!en Prevents Proposal. He (impecunious)— But you say your self" that your father is anxious to get you off his hands. She—Yes; that's why I don't think he'll listen to you.— Exchange. F WHEN FACING DEATH. Pain or Fright, It Would Appear, la Rarely Present. A distinguished British physician who has been at some pains to collect data on the subject asserts that few persons about to die have really any fear of dissolution. There is cited the case of the African explorer who was partially devoured by a lion. He de clared that he felt no pain or fear and that his only sensation was one of in tense curiosity as to what portion of his body the lion would take next Pasha, Turkish ambassador at London, used to tell of an attack made upon him by a bear during a hunt in the east The beast tore off a bit of the Turk's hand, a part of bis arm and a portion of his shoulder. Kustem solemnly averred that he suf fered neither pain nor fear, but that he felt the greatest Indignation because the bear grunted with so much satis faction while munching hira. Grant Allen, whose scientific habit at thought gave weight to his words, say* that in his boyhood he had a narrow escape from drowning. While skating be fell through thin Ice over a place whence several blocks had the day before been removed. He was carried under the thicker ice b yond and when he came to the surface tried to break through by butting his head against it. The result wns that he was - stunned, then numbed by the cold and so waterlogged that artificial respiration had to be employed to re store hira. These are the impressions as recorded by him with reference to the pain he suffered; "The knowledge that I have thus ex perienced death in my own person has had a great deal to do with my utter physical indifference to it I know bow It feels, i had only a sense of cold damp and breathlessness, a short strug gle, and then all was over. "I had been momentarily uncomfort able, but it was not half so bad as breaking an arm or having a tooth drawn. In fact, dying is as painless as falling asleep. It is only the previous struggle, the sense of its approach, that is at all uncomfortable. Even this is less anpleasant than 1 should have ex pected. There was a total absence of any craven shrinking. The sensation , was merely the physical one of aa spins | for breath.—Harper's Weekij. Taught by Example. Mrs. Mordecai Hummerfest turned pale as her husband entered the dining room for breakfast. "Mordy." she gasped, "do you—don't you feel well?" "Perfectly," he replied in seeming surprise. "But—but you are In your"— "Tell me something I don't know. Pass the butter, please." She passed the butter, remarking nervously, "But, Mordy, dear, as you came in I saw you didn't have any shoes on." "Well, what of It? Your balr is in curl papers, isn't it?" "Why—y-yes." "And you have on a wrapper." "Yes." "Very well, then." And he went on eating his breakfast in silence except when he asked her to pass the butter. Then he went up stairs and finished dressing, and the next morning and on succeeding morn ings she reported for breakfast in reg ular clothes.—Boston JournaL Changing Matter. "Can the diamond be destroyed by In tense heat?" asks a reader. Y'es. Any substance known can be vaporized in the fierce heat of the elec tric furnace. The word "destroyed" should not have been used. Diamond is chemically pure carbon—that is, lamp black—and the same quantity still ex ists after the diamond ha 9 vanished. Man Is now able to destroy the form of all matter known to chemists—that Is, matter disappears as matter, only to resolve back into its primordial elec trons. These are pure electricity, and nothing else exists. These man cannot create nor destroy. All that any hu man can create is a thought that had not been created before. But this is a theory, for all thoughts may be eternal. But here one must stop, for our minds cannot think of the meaning of the word eternal.—Edgar Lucien Larkin in New York American. MEXICO'S NEW REVOLUTION. Villa's Plans For March on Mexico City to Oust Carranza. Now that General Villa has definite ly broken with General Carranza and announced that he will fight to the last Torreon becomes the center of interest in the new war in Mexico. It is at Ton-eon that Villa expects the big bat tle, and he is preparing that city for a vigorous defense and a possible siege. All troops ordered to Sonora by Villa have been recalled and are being hur ried to the south. All troops in Chi huahua City are being sent to Torreon, and every garrison in the north is be ing stripped of men to mobilize at Tor reon the greatest army that Villa has put into the field. Villa has made plans for an immediate movement against Mexico City. Villa holds all northern Mexico and in this position has advantages which will count seriously against Carranza. Villa wiil be able to control the rail communication with the United States. Paris Women Far Outnumber Men. The war census of Paris is complete. The population is now 1.507.044, a de cline of 1.0215.307 from normal figures. There are in Paris now 949,087 women, 585,486 men and 272.471 children, of whom 30,980 are under fifteen mouths old. - " r Atomic Attraction. Hydrogen and oxygen gases sepa rately may be compressed to the liquid form, and then the compression fur ther Is exceedingly difficult. But in the chemical union of two atoms of hydrogen with one of oxygen to form a water molecule the Immense force of atomic attraction, or chemisin, as one may prefer to name the force, is one of the most powerful in nature. It re duces nuge volumes of the gases down to a far less volume, and the force is far greater than can be secured in any machine of screws, levers or hydraulic Atomic attraction is perhaps the most powerful in nature. At least it is strong enough to hold atoms of steel and platinum together and dia monds.—New York American. Napier at the Battle of Meeanec. When in the fight 1 held my life as gone, for as to escaping all idea of that vanished when I saw the Twenty-sec ond giving way and was obliged to ride between the fires of two lines not twenty yards apart. I expected death as much from our men as the enemy, and I was much singed by our fire, my whiskers twice or thrice so and my face peppered by fellows who in their fear fired high over all beads but mine and nearly scattered my brains. In agony I rode, holding my reins with a broken hand (he had sprained it a few days before) and quite unequal to a single combat had a Belpocbee picked me out, as one was about to do when Marstoj slew him.—Letter of Sit Charles Napier. Easily Classified. Hemmandhaw. who was writing a letter, looked up to inquire: "Is It ever permissible to apply gen der to volcanoes?" "I don't know," Mrs. Hemmendhaw returned, "but if it is they are surely masculine." "Why?" "Because they spotter, grumble and •moke."—Youngstown Telegram. Wonderful 8 ewe re. The sewers of Paris are the moat wonderful in the world and constitute one of the sights of the city. Visitors are allowed to inspect them on certain days each week, and It is certainly an experience to make a "personally con ducted" tour of the two main sewers The journey is made on electric car* and launches, which draw up occasion % at brightly Illuminated ■frtttm* HOLE IN WALL OF MALINES CATHEDRAL I Photo copyright. 1914, by American Press Assoev tion. This shows the damage done by a projectile tired by the Germans. Diet of the Bluebird. The bluebird, one of the most fa miliar tenants of the farm and barn yard, pays amply for its rent and board by destroying insects, and takes no toll from the farm crop. Its diet consists •f GS per cent of insects and 02 i>er cent of vegetable matter. The largest Items of insect food are grasshoppers, beetles and caterpillars. Both Alike. "This letter from your son in college is short." "So's my son. That's why he wrote it." Smotnered rile Joy. Cheerful Husbaud (eutering the kitcheu singing "My love is like the red. red rose!") Wife (looking up from the stove) —You'd look red, too, if you'd been bending over a frying pan for twenty minutes! Iron Ore. Next to the United States. Germany and France are the largest producers of iron in the world. ■ MADONNA SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION. ' f • --- Photo copyright, 1914, by American Press Association. This little statue, standing in a niche of a small convent in Termonde, was unharmed, though the building was destroyed and a portion of the roof fell within n *<->"- iw.oV.oc of tho imn?p | JAMES COLANGELO | J Italian interpreter J J and Labor Information Bureau £ Hotel Montgomery Indiana, Pa. # To the Wholesaler. In placing INDIANA MACARONI on tlle market we are con fklent that the quality of our product will create a big demand. Our plant is equipped with the most modern machinery, and our Mr. L. Giammerini has expert knowledge and experience in Macaroni preparation. To the retailer. If you are unable to procure INDIANA MACARONI from your wholesaler, or if we have no representative in your town, write us and we will refer your name and address to vcur nearest wholesaler. If you desire a special kind of Macaroni, we can supply you. It will pay vou to stock the highest grades. If our product is given an oppor tunity, we are convinced that your costumers will always ask for INDIANA MACARONI. To the Consumer. INDIANA MACARONI made in the same way as the ge nuine Italian Macaroni. Macaroni, like bread, is best when fresh, and of course being made in Western Pennsylvania, you can buy INDIANA MACARONI when only a few days old. If vou want absolutely the highest quality, ask for INDIANA MA CAROM Tri'TTyf.Tyrrry.T.TT'rf.y %4 \ If you want good fruits go to ROSS'STORE jj \ corner Sixth and Water St. or call Local | | 'phone. |! We get fresh fruits of all kinds twice a | f. o - I $ week. | t _ _ on Jj SUBSCRIBE ?Ofi 188 "PAXBIOT,, 12.03 P£B IBAB . Porcupine Quills. The spines both of the hedgehog and the jHreupine are nothing more than excessively enlarged hairs, and on the bodies of these animals every grada tion letween hairs and spines can be found. The Letter X. The letter "x" appears but once in English for every six times it occurs in French. Cold Feet. During a marriage ceremony in Scotland recently the bridegroom look ed extremely wretched, and he got so fidgety, standing first on one foot and then on the other, that the "best man" decided he would find out what the trouble was. "\T'hat's up. .lack?" he whispered. "Hae ye lost the ring?" "No." answered the unhappy one. with a woful look, "the ring's safe enough, but. man. I've lost ma enthu siasm."—Boston Transcript. 3
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