| "Wimmin Stay At Home? Who'd | Do th' Work?" Asks Mrs. Dooley ®SJgi3M3/a/3/SaE r S. , 2.'SMS ? SISES r 3J3®3SJSfS/SSISIS. r 2JSMSMSMSMSBJSISj'S r SMSME/SEfi SCACI-T DittKTiGrt?! AR? All fntse I ——. I MOST CATCH THE KOOrtTRAIM MACHINES IDLE? wt MUST S&SKft S® K oH-6tT ll SHIP THESt GOODS ON J 7HEV Vltßt RIGHT AND VXE. DIDN'T HAVE. TO Y^&QB LEAVE OOR HOME Z^^ GET MV NUMRER QUICK, I "%>, TfeW- \ HOME *rc DAV AMD THERES CENTRAL ITMCAMSIifE OR ) \\ / eneer Leigh Hughes. M. P.. fells of the following amusing experience He was once passing the war office building in Whitehall when his com panion. a Scotchman, pointing to the , emblematic devices engraved nver the door, indicated the Scotch thistle, the English iion and the Irish harp : "Where is the emblem of Wales?" ask l ed his friend "Oh." Mr Hughes re plied. "I expect there is a leak 'c the roof."—London Express. Due to Big Acreage. The increase in the wheat crop is practically entirely due to the increas ed acreage under cultivation this year, as the average yied ior acre is ex pected to fail slightly bo low , bat of last year, being put at 10.3 bushels to the acre, where last year's yield was iO.G bushels to the acre. The corn crop, like the wheat, is threatening to pass another memorable mark by turning out 3,000.000.000 bush els. the advance estimate now being 3.918,000.000 bushels. This is uu in crease over last year's yield of 245,- 000.000 bushels. Marketed at GO cents a bushel, this crop will be worth $l,- 750,800,000 to the country. The expansion of the corn crop is due at once to increased acreage under cultivation, and to a better yieid iter acre, the acre yield having been in creased. in spite of the wet weather, from 25.8 bushels to 2G.7 bushels. This crop will probably represent close to three-fourths the world's total produc tion. The oat crop, the third of the three great leaders, has increased over last year's record by nearly 25 per cent, the figures being for this year 1,402.000,000 bushels; for last year. 1.141.000,0000 bushels. Placed on the market the crop will bring, it is estimated, about J $841,200,000. Thus these three crops alone represent a marketable addition to the nation's wealth of nearly $4.- . 000,000.000. •a-—. ____ Ypres in England. We have the name of Ypres in Eng land—in that of the Ypres tower at Rye, in Sussex, though local talk knows nothing of its proper pronunci , ntion and broadly calls it the "Wipers tower." It is a twelfth century budd ing. the oldest secular building oi all i the Cinque ports, and was at one r :ne j the only stronghold of the town, tli > igh j later walls and gates were built. The • reason for its name is to be found in 1 the commonly accepted statement that it was built by William des Ypres. earl of Kent.—London Globe. "Is It Possible?" Prince George of Denmark was nick named Est-il-possible by James 11. i; is said that when the startling events of the revolution of IGBB succeeded one another with breathless rapidity the emotions of Prince George found vent in the repeated exclamation. "Est-il possible?" King James, enumerating those who had forsaken him. said, "And Est-il-possible has gone too!" A Lamblike Lion. "Well, did you have that social lion at your reception that you were tell ing me about?" "Oh. yes. He was there." "And did he roar?" "No. His wife was also present, and he could only bleat" I—Birmingham 1 —Birmingham Age-Herald. Our First Silk Factory. Ohio was the first state in the Union to engage in the manufacture of silk, according to Dr. William C. Mills of Ohio State university. "The first silk factory was erected at Point Pleasant in 1841 by John W. Gill and Thomas White," said Dr. Mills. "These men planted twenty five acres in mulberry trees and began the raising of silkworms the following year. Dress silks, ribbons, silk velvets and figured silks were manufactured. The buckeye burr in light buff was the first pattern woven. A vast pattern from this piece was presented to Hen ry Clay, who also wore a suit of broad cloth made in a Steubenville factory. Since 1877 not a yard of cloth of any j kind has been made in Steubenville, although at one time there *** ere twelve woolen, cotton and silk mills located there."—Baltimore American. The Sublime Porte. The phrase "the sublime porte" arises from an aspect of the sultan's capital. The French words "sublime porte" are derived from "porta subli ma," meaning "the lofty gate." Con stantinople city used to have twelve gates, and near one was a building with an imposing gateway called Bab i-Humajun. In this building resided the grand vizier, and there also were the offices of the chief ministers, whence all the edicts of state were is sued. The French phrase was adopted because at the time French was the language of European diplomacy Restricted Freedom. One of the funniest things in the world is the self conscious look of em barrassment on the face of a distin guished visitor when lie receives the freedom of a city and its key. which he knows won't even admit him to a five cent moving picture show.—Phila delphia Inquirer. A Facilitztor. Impatient Guest—Waiter, I must ratcli a train, and I'm in a hurry. What are the chances of my getting served at once? Waiter—About one to one. sir. Impatient Guest—l get you— sl to one waiter. Here you ar?! Now slide!— Exchange. LIFE'S PURPOSES. Life' s purposes are the attainment of personal perfection and to help in the whole life of the world. Men are given their lives and the possi bility of dying natural deaths only on condition that they serve the life of the whole world, whereas the suicide exploits life as long as it is agreeable and refuses to serve the life of the world as soon as it be comes unpleasant, ignonng the likely fact that His service began only at that moment when his life became burdensome. Every work is at first unpleasant.—Tolstoy. Puzzled. An old settler down Nola Chucky way when the Paint Rock line first began to run through his district un dertook to explain the workings of the steam engine to a little crowd of friends. As he talked a train ran past the station ami then backed lip. This procedure of backing quite flabbergast ed the old settler. "By gosh, boys!" he confessed. "1 kin understand how the engine pulls the cars, but I'll be busted if I see how them cars pull the engine."—Exchange. | TELLS CANADIANS HE • " IS FCR ALLIES' CAUSE | I Photo by American Press Association. YOU KNOW HIS NAME. An Old Verb. To laze is an old verb. In Samne; Rowlands* "Martin Markall," IGIO, we are told that "loyterers laze in the streete. lurke in alehouses and range in the higbwaies." The word occurs I believe, in some of Mortimer Collins' lyrics: But Cupid lazeth 'mongst the faiery lasses. Whose clere complexion he oft sweareth passes —London Notes and Queries Anchovi 3s. The delicious little fish called the an chovy is found in large quantities in the Mediterranean sea and also on the coasts of Spain. Portugal and France, where extensive fishing operations are carried on during the months of May. June and July. A Far Cry. Ella—Miss Antique says she wishes she could step to the phone and call up her happy college days. Bella— lf she did she'd have to employ the long distance phone. —Florida Times-Union Nothing hut tlie harmony of friend ship soothes our sorrows. Without its sympathy there is no happiness on earth.—Mozart Presence of Mind. Young Arthur, the pride of the faini ly, had been attending school all of six weeks, and his devoted parent thought it was high time he should find out how tilings were running. So he asked one afternoon: "And what did my little son lean: about this morning?"' "Oh, a mouse. Miss Wilcox told us all about mouses." "That's the boy. New. how do vot spell mouse?" "It was then that Arthur gave prom ise of being an artful dodger. Hn pTh sed meditatively for a moment, then said: "Father, I guess I was wrong. It wasn't a mouse teacher was telling us about; it. was a rat."—Harper's Maga : zine. Couldn't Blame Them. Papa had a grouch, and an atmos phere of deep gloom settled ever the family dinner table. Even little Bobbj felt that something was wrong, but he had to talk or burst and he preferred to talk. "Daddy," he asked, "why did they throw the tea overboard in Boston har bor?" Daddy twirled the spoon in his cup while he thought up this mean thing te say: "If it was anything like this stufi they certainly had a mighty good ex cuse for throwing it overboard." Having got this remark off his chest,, the old man felt so good that he actual ly smiled, and before be knew it his grouch was gone.—St. Louis Post-Dis patch. I [ Barefoot Boy "j Barefoot boy in the far green land. Bearing a. fishing po'.e in your hand: Barefoot boy in the old and still End gate pool at the back of the mill; Barefoot boy, with that careless swing. Owner of Arcady, summer's king. Tyrannous monarch of valley and hill. You we welcome and you we sing. Thanking the Lord that there's boyhood still That smiles oblivious to everything! Barefoot boy—who are makin* eart> A place of joy and a place o. .cirth; A new domain for the vision life, Softening ami sweetening ti zurden c strife. Bringing the sunshine to hea 'hat ache. Lifting the souls t!...t are it: rife * Mad struggle .-.ml conflict \ s!n snc truth; Up to a service for all men's sake In the deathless combat life makes for truth. When there's so much more than the truth at stake! Barefoot boy, in the sunbright lane. You are creating us over again; You. with jour whistle, your freckle** face. Your wild abandon to native grace Of movement and action and .-orig nr." fz It>e— Child of the blossom and bird and tree King of the woodland, and friend of stream. God of the morning of vision to be. Knowing your power a, ' keeping your place the sake of the song z j stnl' and the dream trvJ the hope of the spirit t set tit free! —Ba! Sun. U. S. FLAG NOW FLYING ON 2.768 OCEAN VESSELS. New Register/ Law Sets Record Not Touched Since 1E63. The American flag now floats over more skips in the loieign trade tiiau at any other ... e sin e 18G3. and the United States is pressing close on France and Norway as a maritime na tion. Figures by the department of com merce show a record increase in Amer ican shipping for the year ended June 30. On that date there were registered in the foreign trade 2.7G8 ships, totaling 1.813,775 gross tons, an increase of 3G3 ships and 737.G23 tons for the year. Assistant Secretary Sweet of the de partment of commerce said: "This is about triple the increase in registered tonnage for anjr previous year in American history. Our reg istered tonnage is now ir.fcb greatei than at any time since IS3K, when wf had 2.023.114 gross tons In foreigr trade. It is many times mo& efficient however, as the steam toannge no* amounts to 1.273.007 gross tons, while in 1803 it amounted to only 133.215 tons. \ "The increase from the ship regis try act of Aug. IS, 1914, to June 13. 1915. was so rapid that tonnage under the American flag now employed in foreign trade is nearly equal to such tonnage under the French or Nor wegian flag. British tonnage, of course, is more than tenfold greater." The increase is directly dfle to the enlarged commerce of this country on account of the war and the retirement 1 of so many merchantmen of other na tions. WOMAN FINED $1,000,000. Oklahoma Police Judge Gives Her Ninety-nine Year Sentence Besides. Police Judge Ed I. Williams, Mus kogee. Okla.. fined Mandy Simon, a Creek Indian woman, $1,000,000 and sentenced her to serve ninety-nine years in jail. She has been in the po lice court virtually every week for sev eral years. Judge Williams said he set the tine so high because he did not want her to ever be at large again. The judge's actions were recorded in the record hooks of the police department, and he was supported by Chief of Police Joe Depew. "Mandy has been a continual pest to the city of Muskogee for years," said Judge Williams. "She was always caus ing trouble by getting drunk and dop ing up. Counting all the times she has been sentenced in this court, I would estimate that had she served out all her time she would have served some fifteen years. I will see t> it person ally that she spends the l- xxainder of her days in the Muskogee jail." On numerous occasions Wil liams bad extended leniency Co the wo man. Several times he 09t her posi tions and released her from jail and once got her a home. Mandy was re leased by the judge on her last appear ence in court. Aug. 10. However, she came back to town Tuesday, got drunk and was arrested. Judge Williams believes he has as sessed the largest fine ever recorded in a municipal court, but also thinks his action was warranted. Traps In French. A frequent trap in French for the unwary is the difference of meaning in similar phrases. For example, "faire feu" means to tire a gun, while "faire du feu" means to light a fire: "tomber par terre" conveys the idea of falling to the ground from one's own height, whereas "tomber a terre" means to fall from any height—in other words, to tumble down and to tumble off. In the same way "traiter de fat" means to call a man a fop and "traiter en roi" to treat him like a king. The English bore may be expressed in two ways—"un raseur" gives the idea of an active bore and "une bas sinoire" of a passive bore. London Saturday Review. CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT ON NATIONAL DEFENSE j v # "..v. • jy—; * / C Photo h\ \ r:can ITf s Association. SENATOR B. R. TILLMAN. sidered the problem may be solved bt. . iiu x . h the least em barrassnu r.i TO either the German or American government by bringing about iiis a dgnment to other dutiej than that of military attache of the embassy. RffiSEiH BESNDS Tilt SEAMEN'S LAW Vessels Have iHGi Gone From j Unoer Our Flag, He Says New York, Sept. 13. —Andrew Furn setli, preside t of the International Seamen's union, the man to whom Senator La i'ollette gave credit for drawing up many features of the sea men's law pa -ed by congress at its last session, i -ued a statement calcu lated to answer those who are now advocating the rep< al of the law be cause of its adverse effects upon American shipping and the develop ment of an American merchant ma rine. In his opinion the many recent changes in ownership and routing* are not attributable to the operation of the seamen's law lut to the open ing of the Panama canal. "Now that the ves els of the Pacific Mail company have actually been sold," he says, "it is clear to all that the threat of transfer to the Japanese or Chinese flag \vj , more bluff. The vessels have be n sold to an Ameri can concern and will continue to fly the American flag.'' He <-rys that while the trade in which these vessels will be engaged is problematical it i- reported that some of them will tsike trans-Atlantic routes while --hers will Lm placed on the run from w York to San Fran cisco byway of the Panama canal. He thinks thp vcs-ch; now employed be tween Sa T Francisco and ports in Mexico. Central and South America will cor* iue in that trade or will use the P":;mre canal for trade with the Atlantic roast of these countries. STARLINGS MENACE FARMS Bird is Greater Pest Than English Sparrow, Say Ornithologists. New York, Sept. 13. —The war against the European starling, a bird which bids lair to become even a greater pest than the English sparrow, has received a new impetus. The bureau of biological survey of the de partment of agriculture has often recommended that the protection af forded The birds in the various states be withdrawn, but a few days ago two citizens oi Montclair, N. J., secured permits from the state fish and game commission to shoot starlings annoy ing them and this action may lead to the abolition of the Jersey state law which protects them in that part of the country. Starlings have spread as far north as Albany, in this state, and with the approach of winter, their roosting time, it is probable that similar step* may be taken against them here. Al though the starling is useful to some extent, inasmuch as it feeds on in sects and does not destroy grain, it is fond of small fruits, is a veritable fruit pilferer and in nest building it competes with useful native birds. Few ornithologists hold that the starlings are desirable aliens in this country. The birds were imported here from Europe* about twenty-five years ago and their spread, through out the eastern states especially, was rapid. Fruit growers early branded them as pests and spoilers of crops. FAVORS SCHOOL WAR COURSE Are We Going to Lose Happiness le Conflict? No! Says Mr. Taft. Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 13.—1n an ad dress before the business men's mili tary instruction camp at American lake William H. Taft urged military training in schools and colleges. He conLr.U'd: "We ha***' happiness; we have greater equ lity and a better social rystem than any other country. We are going to Th*>m in disastrous war? No. and it is e ueh as yon who will save us trom .-ue a face