Z ♦ 2 ♦ ! * ♦ ♦ l : X" Ì | 1 * O X <► 2 <► ? ♦ Z <► | / * X ♦ * 5 J La Ditta PASQLALE GII NIA SONS. importatrice di J[ i generi alimentari, del numero 1030 So. 9tli St., Philadelphia, l\ | Pa., avvisa la sua clientela che lia ricevuto 5000 Casse <► X < ► T ? M ~, ~, inniiiniinn * Vulcanizzatori, Batterie, Gomme e Cerchi Orr ie Meccanica Completa 1 ■■ " * " ■ Il pi u' grande Garage in citta' Spazio riservato per 100 Automobili e Trucks Rappresentanti del-e famose CAPII AC TEMPI, AB N V'IONAL I ~ r &f MATfw rn ! v. €k. E*. I vJi.*, Cu. I Vii iiiu Lì r'tnziouÉ». i eli:ì B. R. k P. R IN DIANA, PA. 1 i >| hhbmbH■■■mmmamssmmmmaam&&&»& a tt i m —wj The ls Che- 1. Doctor .Tollmen's old shoolmate said that he **«>'! : •! nut he a philosopher be cause "cheerfulness was always break ing in." Our world of mankind cannot be that kind of a philosopher, either for the same reason. It may have its moods and depressions, or prove to the utmost the reasonableness of despair; but there is an inexhaustible well spring of vigor within it, and vigor is another word for joy.—From the Üb» popular Review. Dark Ages. The term is applied to a portion of the Middle Ages, including the period of about 1,000 years from the fall of Rome to revival of letters in the fif teenth century It is generally re garded as beginning with invasion of France by Clovis, 48G A. D„ and clos ing with invasion of Naples by Charles VIII in 1495. Learning was at a low ebb during this period. v The Candle in History. The cnlt of the candle plays a large role in Roman. Jewish and Eastern ecclesiastical history; and many are *he customs that have tlieir birth in some magical or ritualistic use to which the candle has been put. In some parts of Ireland, for instance, it was usual on Christinas eye to burn a large candle which no one was per mitted to snuff except those who bore the name of Mary. Oldtime News Service. In 1532 James Watson Webb, of the New York Courier and Enquirer, es tablished an express-rider service be ween New York and Washington which gave his paper valuable pres tige. In the following year the Jour nal of Commerce started a rival serv ice, which enabled it to print Wash ington news in New York within 48 hours of its occurrence. The most notable express-mail service of all was the "pony express." which carried messages by relays of riders across mountains and deserts and through hostile Indian territory from St. Louis to San Francisco, covering 1,966 miles in 10 days. > Free Board. A restaurant in Yuma, Ariz., dis plays a sign that reads: "Free board every day the sun doesn't shine." At first sight the offer of free board every day the sun doesn't shine might seem a reckless one, but, as a matter of fact, a day without sunshine in that desert country is far rarer than black berries in May. • If it rains at all, it is only for a very short time, leaving most of the day for sunshine, so that he sign would only catch a tender foot. No Hasty Judgment. What your mirror tells you you may drr >n .. i. a .... , u - jin idleness. i« .;iory that is lo be are largely dreams slid iong after tlie days are past that should have witnessed the crowning. But life is more than dreams. Most folks have learned to their sorrow that it is a rather stern reality. It promises much, but it's always conditional. It teaches men that in the using oi what they have they become the heroes of the days that are to be. It's the filling of present hours that brings the full hours of the future. It's folly to mourn the past. It's all made in the present and today passes so swiftly into tomorrow that we scarcely realize how swiftly go the speeding hours. Ordering One's Life. j Take time to scrutinize your life. Try to define just why you are "run" and decide for yourself that if you are .going to be ruled, as most of us are, it must be by something or somebody well worth the arduous sprinting we are all indulging in. If the goal to ward which we are being steered is worth while, only then can we look back and feel that the race has been well run. * Making Gas From Wood. Experiments on wood as part substi tute for coal in gas making have been carried out in France. The wood used was sea pine in the form of billets cut from the middle of the trunk. The charge of the wood was about half the weight of that of coal, and carboniza tion occupied half the usual time. When running one retort with wood to every two with coal, no appreciable difference in the calorific power of the gas was noted. Of the two by-products —small coke and tar —the former amounted to 5 to 10 per cent. To Make Attar of Roses. After having gathered a quantity of i roses, place them in a jar, then pour j upon them some spring water. Cover i the top with thin muslin to keep out the dust, and expose the jar to the heat of the sun for a few days, until oily j particles are observed to be floating on the surface of the water. Take ofT ; this oil substance and place it In a bot- j tie. This is the perfume known as J "attar of roses." Beans. The common bean is a native of South America and was introduced into Europe during the sixteenth cen tury. Now it is represented by over 150 varieties. The big broad bean is probably a native of southwest Asia ! and northeastern Europe. The broad. hut not th'ck. lime hi n. cMTee switched If they don't poke off to bed at between nine and ten o'clock every night of the world!" —Kansas City Stnr. Game in Mexico. Mexico cannot be said to offer a | field for hunters of big game, and the I term, "a sportsman's"paradise." which j is sometimes applied to it. is an ex aggeration. Among animals may be enumerated the peccaries or javelines, deer, rabbits, hares. The reptiles in clude alligators, turtles and iguanas. Whales, seals and sea lions are en countered on the Pacific coast. —New York Telegram. No Person Has Seen the Sun. Astronomers aver that no one has ever seen the sun. A series of concen tric shells envelops a nucleus of which .we apparently know nothing except that it must be almost infinitely hotter than the fiercest furnace, and that It must amount to more than nine-tenths nf the solar mass. That nucleus Is the real sun. forever hidden from us. The outermost of the enveloping shell Is about 5,000 miles thick, and is called the "chromosphere."