PA great net •/ mercy drawn through
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Facts About the American Red Cross
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Did you know that—
It has established and is operating twenty dis
pensaries in the American Army Zone in France to
care for the needy families there and to improve
health conditions in that section ready for our troops?
It is housing- and feeding thousands of children
in the War Zone to" keep them away from the
danger of gas and shell fire?
It has divided the entire War Zone into six main
districts, with Red Cross workers at each point to
distribute cooking utensils, agricultural implements,
beds, bedding, food and clothing ?
It provides builders and ready-to-put-up build
. ings to house the homeless in the devastated regions,
often before the walls of the destroyed homes have
cooled?
It is bringing over two hundred tons of supplies
every day into Paris, from which one hundred and
twenty-five tons are reshipped to branch warehouses
over France?
It is providing an artificial limb factory outside
of Paris, in addition to special plants for the making
of splints ?
What will you give to keep this Hand of Mercy
at its work?
Every cent of every dollar received for the Red Cross War Fund goes for War Relief.
The American Red CroBS is the largest and most
efficient organization for the relief of suffering that the
World has ever seen.
It is made up almost entirely of volunteer workers,
the higher executives being without exception men ac
oustomed to large affairs, who are In almost all cases
giving their services without pay.
It is supported entirely by Its membership fees and
by voluntary contributions.
It is today bringing relief to suffering humanity,
both military and civil, in every War torn allied country.
It plans tomorrow to help in the work of restora
tion throughout the world.
An Old-Time Plow.
An old-time plow, probably used by
ithe early Spaniards around San An-
Itonio, Tex., was upturned by workmen
of a construction company. The plow
'has a three-foot turning blade capable
of making a three-foot furrow, and al
though the wooden handles have rot
ted away the size of the iron supports
Indicates the plow must have been
about twelve feet in length. It is be
lieved the old instrument was used by
the early Spaniards with several yoke
of oxen.
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Gourd Family Is Important
The gourd family furnishes the hu
man families with many edible fruits,
and it is believed that pumpkins and
squashes are of American origin,
though in nowise certain. On the oth
er hand, it Is known that watermelons,
muskmelons, cucumbers and all that
branch of the family are of Asiatic ori
gin. Yet all countries have native spe
cies of this great family.
Left-Handedness.
No attempt should be made to teach
naturally left-handed children to use
their right hands, according to P. B.
Ballard, inspector of schools of Lon
don, as it is likely to make them stam
merers. Mr. Ballard supplies the fol
lowing statistics: Out of one group of
545 left-handed children 1 per cent of
pure left-handers stammered, against
4.8 per cent of 899 being taught to use
the right hand. In another group of
207 the figures was 4.2 per cent and
21.8 per cent, respectively.
A Mutual Pleasure.
Mother—"Were you glad to get back
to school and see your dear teacher?"
little Son —"Well, I—l was Just about
as glad as dear teacher was to get
back and see me I"
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Make Gems of Them.
Nearly all artificial gems—that is to
say, stones that are really made by ar
tificial means —are compounds of alum
crystallized under special conditions.
The metallic salts that are added dur
ing fusion determine whether the
stones produced shall be sapphires, ru
bles or Oriental topazes, amethysts or
emeralds.
Work.
There is nothing but what's bearable,
as long as a man can work. The nature
of things don't change, though It seems
as if one's life was nothing but change.
That the square of four is sixteen, and
you must lengthen your lever in pro
portion to your weight, is as true
when a man's miserable as when he's
happy; and the best of working is, it
i gives you a good grip-hold of things
outside your own lot. —George Eliot.
Understanding.
More hate would be mellowed to
love by intimate knowledge than
would regard to disfavor. A smatter
ing information is a treacherous pos
session. All it requires to effect
better relations between nations as
, well as individuals is knowledge, and
more knowledge.
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Ground Squirrels.
More than 50 species and races of
ground squirrels inhabit the United
States and Canada.
Watch Winding Machine.
In a New York watch repairing es
tablishment, where more than 700
watches have to be wound every day,
an electrical apparatus has been in
stalled to do the winding. It does the
work more efficiently than human
hands can, and takes the place of sev
eral men formerly required for this
work.
It feeds and clothes entire populations in times of
great calamity.
It is there to help your soldier boy in his tlm« of
need.
With its thousands ot workers, ita tremendous
stores and smooth running transportation facilities,
it is serving as America's advance guard—and thufl
helping to win the war.
Congress authorizes It.
President Wilson heads it.
The War Department audits its accounts.
Your Army, your Navy and your Allies enthusi
astically endorse it.
Twenty-two million Americans hr.v« joined it
The Largest Diamond.
The largest diamond that has yet
been found is the Culllnan, which was
discovered in the Premier mine in the
I Transvaal In 1907 and weighed 3,025%
carats, or one and one-third pounds,
in the rough, and at that it was ap
parently only a fragment of a larger
stone. In cutting this immense gem
it was divided into nine large stones
and a number of brilliants, the largest
finished stone being only carats,
Handy Scrapbook.
Have you a little blank book which
you keep full of household sugges
tions, in alphabetical form? Much can
be gained when reading the papers and
magazines if you clip out some of the
suggestions which are worth while.
Paste them in the proper place in your
little book. It is more than worth the
trouble. —Exchange.
No Time for Debate.
"Jlbbes is the kind of fellow who
never makes a move without first ask
ing himself whether or not it will be
good for his health." "I saw him Jump
six feet in the air yesterday to dodge
an automobile. Instinct probably told
him what was good for his health,
i without his stopping to debate the mat
ter.**
Production of Leghorns.
The average production of eggs by
hens of all kinds and ages in the
United States is 85. Unselected White
Leghorns, however, produce an aver
age of 130 eggs for the first year, 120
for the second, 110 for the third, 85
for the fourth, and fall off about ten
a year up to the eighth. These fig
ures are from a bulletin of the Utah
experiment station. If the first year
production be low, the second will be
high and vice versa, the total produc
tion for three years being about the
same.
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ALL HAD TRAGIC HISTORY
Carolina the Last of a Quartet of Ships
That Seemed to Be Doomed
to Misfortune.
"The sinking of the Carolina by a
German U-boat removed the last of a
quartet of ships that have had a tragic
history," remarked Brooks Amiss of
Baltimore, a former resident of Wash
ington, at the Willard. according to the
Washington Post "The Carolina was
formerly the Grand Duchess, built for
the Plant line in 1896. She made her
first trip from Boston to Halifax and
two years later she was taken over by
the government to be used as trans
port in the Spanish-American war.
Her maiden voyage in the transport
service was from Charleston, S. C.,
carrying a regiment of Wisconsin
troops and high army officers to Porto
Rico.
"General Miles a short time before
had been placed in command of the
American army and he left Washing
ton with members of his stafT early in
July. At Charleston General Miles
1 went on board the Yale, which had
been the City of Paris of the Ameri
can line. He left Gen. Roy Stone of
his staff at Charleston to recruit a
gang of laborers for the army in Porto
Rico. General Miles proceeded to
Cuba on the Yale and after staying
there a few days went to Guanica on
the southern coast of Porto Rico. It
was while he was lying in the wonder
ful little harbor of Guanica on board
the Cherokee, the Yale being too large
to enter the harbor, that he was joined
by members of his staff who had sailed
on the Grand Duchess. The Cherokee,
another Plant liner, took the staff to
Ponce, and among others on that ves
sel was the late Richard Harding Da
vis, who had sailed from Cuba on a
dispatch boat. The Cherokee arrived
off Ponce the next morning to find that
the city had been taken the previous
day by an ensign of the navy in a dis
patch yacht.
"A few days later the protocol end
ing the war was declared and most of
.he members of the Miles party sailed
itack for the States on the Obdam, a
, transport that had been purchased
| from the Holland-American line.
"The curious part of the thing is
: *:hat the Yale was sunk in some inan
i ner; the Obdam ran ashore off the
j coast of Cuba while in the transport
| service; the Cherokee foundered some-
I where in the Atlantic and now the
I Grand Duchess, rechristened the Caro
lina, has been sent to the bottom by
a German U-boat."
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Jupiter's Belts.
It has been suggested by Lau that
the reason Jupiter has belts instead • *
zones of spots is to be found in its
rapid rotation. The material forced
upward from the lower strata of the
planet, bringing with It a smaller lin
ear velocity than that of the surface,
streams eastward, assuming the look
of elongated streaks. If the centers of
eruption are sufficiently numerous,
belts are formed; and It Is suggested
that, were the sun's rotation much
more rapid than it is, the solar sur
face at spot maximum would also pre
sent dark streaks.
Dolly Dillon.
Dolly Dillon, denouncing dawdlers,
disdained dashing Dick Dereritt, deb
onair dancer. Dick, despairing, defied
decorum, dug ditches daily, duly dem
onstrating devotion. Dolly, delighted,
discarded derision, discontinued dis
paragements. Dick's diamond deco
rates Dolly's dainty digit—Christian
Register.
Stops Flag Wrapping.
The wind will not play pranks -with j
your flag if a soft piece of feather
bone, as used by dressmakers, is run
through a casing of narrow navy blue
ribbon along the upper edge of the
field. The casing will never be noticed
if carefully done.
Improved Soldering Process.
A form of the Sehoop metal-spraying i
process Is claimed to be effective in \
soldering. The soldering pistol does j
not require the compressed air jet, as I
the fuel-gas used is under pressure '
and gives the flame sufficient driving ;
force to spread the solder over the
surfaces to be soldered. A small driv- i
ing mechanism feeds the wire solder j
continuously into the flame. The j
! method is convenient, rapid and inex-
I pensive and is free from the tedious
j and disagreeable features of soldering
by hand.
Want Technical Training for Women.
At a joint meeting of the Rirming- t
ham and Atlanta sections of the Amer
ican Society of Mechanical Engineers j
resolutions were adopted requesting j
the colleges and technical schools of |
the country to provide special courses |
of technical instruction for women j
and girls In order that they may be
able to take the places of men who
have been or may be called into the
service of the country during the war.
—Birmingham Age-Herald.
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Qood-by Leather Shoes.
The leather shoe is becoming so ex
pensive that It will soon be out of
the reach of all but the rich; therefore,
according to Andrew H. King, writinf
In Metallurgical and Chemical Engi
neering, its place is to be taken bjr
shoes with soles of rubber and uppers
of canvas. The properly made rubb«r
sole, Into which ground cotton wast#
and leather dust are incorporated, will
outwear two or three leather soles and
will not slip on wet pavement. ,
A Break.
Member S. P. C. A. (to brutal driver)
—"No, my friend. I won't shut up.
Your poor horse, unfortunately, cannot
speak like Baalam's ass. but I would
have you know, sir, that I can.—Bos
ton Transcript.
Why the Weather Bureau?
Why the weather bureau? This
question is likely to be asked, in more
or less querulous tones, whenever the
local weather prediction fails, as It
often does, says the Popular Science
Monthly. The Inquirer overlooks the
fact that the weather bureau has much
more important things to foretell than
ordinary changes of weather. It pre
dicts with certainty great windstorms,
destructive floods, severe freezes and
other atmospheric visitations that en
danger life and property on a large
scale and collects climatic statistics for
scientific agriculture.
Flowers.
Flowers are perhaps the most effec
tive of the many little "finishing
toucnes" necessary to aa attractive
home. There are thousauds of persons
with beautiful houses, costly furnish
ings. perhaps, artistically and skillfully
arranged by the hands of a clever dec
orator, but it takes the little finishing
touches, the seemingly unimportant
tiny things, done by the woman who
loves and exists for her home and ex
presses her soul In her surroundings
to make the house lovable.—Exchange.
Knife Superstitions.
The various knife superstitions are
easily explained. It is unlucky to give
a knife to a friend, because knives
sever things, and might sever friend
ship; but if he gives you a halfpenny
in return the danger is avoided, for
his gift Is a token of continued affec
tion. It Is unlucky to place one's knife
and fork crosswise on an empty plate,
because it Invites crosses and misfor
tune, also recalling the Christian sym
bol of suffering. I
A prezzi fatti prima della guerra, I prezzi dei Pianoforti
e delle Pianole sono stati aumentati durante gli ultimi 6
mesi, e fra altri 6 mesi vi sara' un nuovo aumento su questi
.
strumenti.
La ragione che noi possiamo vendere
a prezzo più basso degli altri, e' che ci
troviamo negli affari da più' tempo, e
compriamo a prezzi bassi: Fra non
molto saremo costretti aumentare i
prezzi anche noi.
Se volete comprare un pianoforte vi conviene far presto e non aspettare.
Pianole da $450 a S7OO
Grande varietà' di Pianoforti da SIOO a $750
di qualsiasi stile o legno.
PAGAMENTI FACILI
s. R. POLLOCK
Di RISPETTO LA CORTE - - * INDIANA, PA.,