THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
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& Edward
SECOND INSTALLMENT.
If I had only preserved tho whole
of this paper, there would be no break
In the beginning of my sketch of this
Story. For Captain Shaw, If It was he,
handed It to his successor In the
charge, and ho to his.
The rule adopted on bonrd the ships
on which I have met "The Man without
a Country" was, I trtlok, transmitted
from the beginning. Ko mess liked to
have him permanently, because his
presence cut off all talk of home, or of
the prospect of return, of politics or
letters, of peace or of war cut off
more than half the talk men like to
have at sea. But It was always
thought too bard that he should never
meet the rest of us, except to touch
bats, and we finally sank Into one sys
tem, lie was not permitted to talk
with the men unless an officer was by.
With officers he had unrestrained In
tercourse, as far as they and be chose.
But he grew shy, though be had favor
ites: I was one. Then the captain
always asked him to dinner on Mon
day. Every mess in succession took
up the Invitation In Its turn. Accord
ing to the slee of the ship, you had blm
at your mess more or less often at
dinner. Ills breakfast ho ate In his
own stateroom, he always had a state
room, which was where a sentinel, or
somebody on the watch, could see the
door. And whatever else he ate or
drank he ate or drank alone. Some
times, when the marines or sailors had
any special Jollification, they were per
mitted to Invite 'Tlaln-Buttons," as
they called him. Then Nolnn was sent
with some officer, and the men were
forbidden to speak of homo while be
was there. They called him "Plain
Buttons," because, while he always
chose to wear a regulation army uni
form, be was not permitted to wear
the army button, for the reason that
It bore either the Initials or the In
signia of the country he bad disowned.
I remember, soon after I Joined the
navy, I was on shore with some of the
older officers from our ship and from
the Brandywlne, which we had met at
Alexandria. We had leave to make a
party and go up to Cairo and the Pyra
mids. As we Jogged along some of
the gentlemen fell to talking about No
lan, and someone told 'the system
which was adopted from the first about
his books and other reading. As he
was almost never permitted to go on
shore, even though the vessel lay in port
for months, his time, at the best,
bung heavy; and everybody was per
mitted to lend him books, if they were
not published In America and made no
allusion to It These were common
enough In the old days, when people
In the other hemisphere talked of the
United States as little as we do of
Paraguay. lie had almost all the for
eign papers that came Into the ship,
sooner or later; only somebody must
go over them first, and cut out any
advertisement or stray paragraph that
alluded to America. Right In the
midst of one of Napoleon's battles, or
one of Canning's speeches, poor Nolan
would find a great hole, because on the
back of the page of that paper there
bad been an advertisement of a packet
for New York, or a scrap from the
president's message. I say tills was
the first time I ever heard of this plan,
which afterwards I had enough, and
more than enough, to do with. I re
member it, because poor Fhllllps, who
was of the party, as soon as the allu
sion to reading was made, told a story
of something which happened at the
Cape of Good Ilope on Nolan's first'
voyage ; and It Is the only thing I ever
knew of thut voyage. They had
touched at the Cape, and had done the
civil thing with the English admiral
and tho fleet, and then, leaving for a
long cruise up the Indian ocenn, Phil
Hps iiad borrowed a lot of English
books from an ofllcer, which, In those
days, as Indeed In these, was quite a
windfall. Among them, as tho Devil
would order, was tho "Lay of the Last
Minstrel," which they had all of them
heard of, but which most of them had
never seen. I think it could not have
been published long. Well, nobody
thought there could be any risk of any
thing national In that, though Phillips
swore old Sliaw had cut out the
"Tempest" from Shakespeare before
he let Nolnn huve It, becnuse he said,
"The Bermudas ought to be ours and,
by Jove, should be one day." So No
ton was permitted to Join the circle
one afternoon when a lot of them sat
on deck smoking and rending aloud.
People do not do such things so often
now, but when I was young we got
rid of a great deal of time so. Well,
so It happened thnt in his turn Nolan
took the book and rend to tho others;
and he reud very well, ns I know. No
body In the circle knew a line of the
poem, only It was all magic and bor
der chivalry, and was ten thousand
years ago. Poor Nolan rend steadily
through tho fifth ennto, stopped a min
ute and drank something, and then be
gan, without a thought of what was
coming
Breathe! there the man, with loul so
dead,
Who never to himself hath laid
It seems impossible to us that any
body ever heard this for tho first time ;
but all these fellows did then, and
poor Nolnn himself went on, still un
consciously or mechanically
This Is my own, my native landl
Then they all saw something was
to pay; but he expected to get through,
I suppose, turned a little pale, but
plunged on
Whose heart hath ne'er within htm
burned,
At home his footstep! he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign atrandT
If luch there breathe, go, mark him well.
By this time the men were nil be
ldo themselves, wishing there was uby
Eoorett Hale
way to make hlra turn over two pages ;
but ho had not quite presence of mind
for that; ho gngged a little, colored
crimson, and staggered on :
For him no mlnstrol raptures swell;
High though hie titles, proud his name,
noundlvss his wealth as wish can claim,
Despite these titles, power and pelf.
The wretch, concentered all in self,
nnd here the poor fellow choked, could
not go on, but stnrted up, swung the
book Into the sea, vanished Into his
stnteroora, "and by Jove," said Phil
lips, "we did not see blm for two
months ngnln. And I had to make up
somo beggarly story to thut Kugllsh
surgeon why I did not return his Wal
ter Scott to blm."
Thut story shows nbotit the time
when Nolan's braggadocio must have
broken down. At first, they said, he
took a very high tone, considered his
Imprisonment a mere farce, affected
to enjoy the voyage, nnd all that ; but
Phillips snld thnt after he came out of
his stateroom he never was the same
man again. lie never read nload again,
unless It was the Bible or Shakespeare,
or something else ho was sure of. But
It wa4 not that merely. lie never en
tered In with the other young men ex
actly as a companion again. He was
always shy afterward, when I knew
him, very seldom spoke, unless he
was spoken to, except to a very few
friends. He lighted up occasionally,
I remember lato In his life hearing
him fairly eloquent on something
which had been suggested to blm by
one of Flechler's sermons, but gener
ally he had the nervous, tired look of
a heart-wounded man.
When Captain Shaw was coming
home If, ns I say, It was Shaw rath
er to the surprise of everybody they
made one of the Windward Islands,
and lay off and on for nearly a week.
The boys said the officers were sick
of salt Junk, and meant to have tur
tle soup before they came home. But
after several days the Warren came to
the same rendezvous; they exchnnged
signals ; she sent to Phillips and these
homeward-bound men letters and pa
pers, and told them she was outward
bound, perhaps to the Mediterranean,
nnd took poor Nolan and his traps on
the boat back to try his second cruise.
He looked very blank when he was told
to get ready to Join her. He had
known enough of tho signs of the sky
to know that till thut moment he was
going "home." But this was a dis
tinct evidence of something he had not
thought of, perhnps, that there was no
going home for him, even to a prison.
And this was the first of some twenty
such transfers, which brought him
sooner or later Into half our best ves
sels, but which kept him all his life
at least some hundred miles from the
country he had hoped be might never
bear of again.
It may have been on that second
cruise It was once when he was up
tho Mediterranean that Mrs. Graff,
the celebrated Southern beauty of
those days, danced with him. They
had been lying a long time In the Bay
of Naples, and the officers were very
Intimate In the English fleet, nnd there
had been great festivities, and our
men thought they must give a great
ball on board the ship. How they
ever did It on bonrd the Warren I am
sure I do not know. Perhaps It was
not the Warren, or perhaps ladies did
not take up so much room as they
do now. They wanted to nse Nolan's
stateroom for something, and they
hated to do It without asking hlra to
tho ball; so the captain said they
might ask him, If they would be re
sponsible that be did not talk with
the wrong people, "who would give him
Intelligence." So the dance went on,
the finest party thnt had ever been
known, I dure say; for I never heard
Turned a Little Pale but Plunged On.
of a man-of-war ball that was not. For
ladies they had tho family of the
American consul, one or two travelers
who had adventured so far, nnd a nice
bevy of English girls and matrons, per
haps Lady Hamilton herself.
Well, different olllcers relieved each
other in standing and talking with No
lan In a friendly way, so as to be sure
that nobody else spoke to him. The
dancing went on with spirit, and after
a while even the fellows who took this
honorary guard of Nolan censed to fear
nny contretemps. Only when some
English lady Lady Hamilton, as I
said, perbnps, called for a set of
"American dancers," an odd thing hap
pened. Everybody then danced con
tredanccs. The black band, nothing
loath, conferred as to what "American
flff
dances" were, nnd started off with
"Virginia Heel." which they followed
with "Money-Musk," which, In Its turn
In those days, should huvo been fol
lowed by "Tho Old Thirteen." But
Just as Pick, tho leader, tapped for his
fiddlers to begin, nnd bent forward,
about to suy, In true uegro state, " Tho
Old Thirteen,' gentlemen nnd ladles I"
ns ho had said, '"Vlrglnny Reel,' if you
please !" " 'Money-Musk,' If you
please I" tho raptuln's boy tapped him
on the Bhoulder, whispered to hlra, and
he did not announce tho name of tho
dance; ho merely bowed, began on
tho ulr, nnd they nil fell to, the offi
cers teaching tho English girls the
figure, but not telling them why It
had no mime.
But that Is not the story I slnrtcd
to tell. As the dancing weut on. No
lnn nnd our fellows nil got nt case, as
I said, so much so that It seemed quite
natural for him to bow to that splendid
Mrs. Graff, and sny:
"I hope you have not forgotten me,
Miss Butledge. Shall I have the hon
or of dancing?"
He did It so quickly that Shubrlck,
who was by him, could not hinder
him. Site laughed nnd said:
"I nm not Miss Rutlcdge any longer,
Mr. Nolan; but I will dance all the
same," Just nodded to Shubrlck, as If
to sny he must leave Mr. Nolan to her,
nnd led him off to the place where the
dunce was forming.
Nolan thought he had got his chance.
He had known her at Philadelphia,
and at other places had met her, and
this was n godsend. You could not
talk in contredances, as you do in
cotillions, or even In the pauses of
waltzing; but there were chances for
tongues nnd sounds, as well as for
eyes nnd blushes. He began wtth her
travels, nnd Europe, nnd Vesuvius, and
There Appeared Nolan In His Shirt
Sleeves,
the French; and then, when they had
worked down, and hud that long talk
ing time nt the bottom of the set; be
said boldly, a little pale, she said, as
she told me the story, years after:
"And what do you hear from home,
Mrs. Graff?"
And that splendid creature looked
through him. Jove I how she must
have looked through hlra I "Home II
Mr. Nolan 111 I thought you were the
man who never wanted to hear of
home again I" and she walked directly
up the deck to her husband, and left
poor Nolan alone, as he always was.
He did not dance ngiln.
I cannot give any history of him In
order; nobody can now; and, Indeed,
I am not trying to. These are the tra
ditions, which I sort out, as I believe
them, from the myths which have been
told about this man for forty years.
The fellows used to say he was the
"Iron Mask;" and poor George Pons
went to his grave In the belief that
this was the author of "Junius," who
was being punished for his celebrated
libel on Thomas Jefferson. Pons was
not very strong In the historical line.
A happier story than either of these 1
have told Is of the war. That came
along soon after. I have heard this
affair told In three or four ways, and,
Indeed, It may have happened more
than once. But which ship It was on
I cannot tell. However, In one, at
least, of the great frigate duels with
tho English, in which the navy was
really baptized, It happened thnt a
round shot from the enemy entered
one of our ports square, and took right
down tho officer of the gun himself,
nnd almost every man of the gun's
crew. Now you may say what you
choose about courage, but that is not
a nice thing to seo. But as the men
who were not killed picked themselves
up, nnd the surgeon's people were car
rying oft the bodies, there appeared
Nolan, In his shirt sleeves, with the
rammer In his hand, and, Just ns if he
had been the ofilcer, told them off with
authority, who should go to the cock
pit with the wounded men, who should
stay with him, perfectly cheery, nnd
with thnt way which makes men feel
sure all Is right and Is going to be
right. And he finished loading the
gun with his own hands, aimed it, and
bade the men fire. And there he
stayed, captain of that gun, keeping
those fellows in spirits, till the enemy
struck, sitting on the carriage while
tho gun was cooling, though he was
exposed all the time, showing them
easier ways to bundle heavy shot, mak
ing the raw hands laugh at their own
blunders, nnd when the gun cooled
again, getting It loaded nnd fired twice
as often as any other gun on tho ship
Tho captain walked forward, by way
of encouraging the men, nnd Nolun
touched his hat and said:
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Which Was Which?
Jimmy's mother hud told him to stay
nenr the window and watch for the
bride and groom and come and tell
her when he saw them coming. After
watting for some time his patience
was rewarded, but ho forgot to run
and tell his mother. When they were
qulto nenr he suddenly remembered
and called out lustily: "Mamma, here
comes the bribe and the gloom."
Christian Herald.
A pneumatic hammer for tnmplng
paving stones has been invented.
ARM
I Oil
ORDERED TO FRANCE
Machinery Started for Move
ment of Troops to War Zone.
GEN. PERSHING TO COMMAND
Rogietration Under Selective Draft
Bill t& be Completed Within Five
Days From June 5 President
explains That in Refusing to
Send Roosevelt Division
He Is Acting Under
Military Advice.
Washington. President Wilson or
dered 4hat division of regular troops
commanded by Major General John J.
Pershing be sent to France at the
earliest practicable date.
This is (lie answer of America to
France's plea that the Stars and
Sliipes be carried to the fighting front
without delay to hearten the soldiers
battling there with concrete evidence
that a powerful ally has come to their
support HRalnst German nggresslon.
Announcement of the order followed
signing of the Selective Draft War
Army Bill by the President and the
Issuing of a statement thnt under ad
vice of military experts on both sides
of the water the President could not
employ volunteers nor avail himself
of the fine vigor and enthusiasm of
former President Roosevelt for the
expedition.
The Army Law provided for an ulti
mate force of approximately 2,000,000
men to hack up the first troops to go
to the front. When the bill had been
signed the President, affixed his namo
to a proclamation calling upon all men
In the country between the ages of 21
and 30, Inclusive, to register them
selves for mllitnry service on June C
next.
The proclamation sets In motion im
mediately machinery that will enroll
and sift 10,000,000 men and pave the
way for the selection of tho first BOO,
000 young, efficient soldiers without
crippling the Industries or commerco
of the nation or bringing hardship on
those at home.
Even before the bill was signed the
War Department announced that the
full strength of 'the National Guard
would be drafted Into the United
States Army beginning July 15 nnd
concluding August 5. Orders to bring
the regiments lo full war strength
Immediately accompanied the notifi
cation sent to nil governors. A mini
mum of 329,000 fighting men will be
brought to the colors under those or
ders, supplementing the 293,000 regu
lars who will be under arms by Juno
15.
It Is from these forces that the first
armies to Join General Tending nt
the front will be drawn, to be . fol
lowed within a few months by recur
ring waves from the selective draft
armies, (he first 500,000 of whom will
be mobilized Septmber 1.
Following is the text of the terse
announcement of the War Department
as to General Pershing's expedition:
"The President has directed an ex
peditionary force of approximately one
division of regular troops, under com
mand of Geneial John J. Pershing, to
proceed to France at as early a date
as practicable. General Pershing ani
staff will precede the troops abroad.
"It Is requested that no details or
speculations with regard to the mobi
lization of this command, dates of
departure or other items be carried
by the press, other than the official
bulletins given out by the War De
partment relating thereto."
General Pershing has been In Wash
ington some days. He was personally
summoned by Secretary Baker from
the Southern Department, which was
under his command, until this latest
order was issued.
The man who led the expedition
Into Mexico and handled his difficult
tatk with such Judgment nnd skill ns
to win for him the complete confi
dence of the President and his ad
visers has worked hard on plans for
the expedition to France. He has been
in daily conference with Secretary
Baker, Major General Bliss, acting
chief of staff, with department offi
cials co-operating in the preparation
of the forces he will lead against
the Germans and also with Unten
ant General Bridges, head of the mili
tary section of the British mission
and a veteran of the battlefields ot
France.
Nothing that either Frencli or Brit
ish officers have been able to furnish
in the way of Information has been
lacking, and there Is every Indication
that the regular forces which will
compose the expeditionary division
are being selected with greatest care.
No Inkling of the plans for that di
vision have been allowed to leak out.
It in known, however, that orders
have already gone forward to olllcers
of tried judgment and long experi
ence notifying them to prepare for
foreign service.
The war in Europe has developed
many new phases of battle not here
tofore known In military science. Ar
tillery has decided the fate of many
battles, and every army has doubled
and trebled Its guns, both In size nnd
number. For, this reason it was
thought likely that the expeditionary
forces would Include a disproportion
ate number of artillery troops and be
backed by a solid wall of guns when
it conies to grips with the enemy.
HONDURAS AGAINST GERMANY.
Follows Lead Of Guatemala In Sever
ing Relations.
Washington. Honduras has severed
diplomatic relations with Germany,
following the lead of Guatemala. The
Government's information came from
Minister Ewing at Tagucigalpa.
A cablegram from the American vice
consul at Monterey, Mexico, states
that Invoices certified at that con
sulate general during the first halt of
April totaled $944,000.
111?!
A MILLION UNDER
CONSCRIPT LAW
Public Safety Committee Plan
ning Best Use of $2,030,-.
COO War Fund
GETTING LABOR AND TEAMS
Teachers In Public, Parochial and
Private Schools Have Begun to
Enroll for Farm Work Vol
. untecr to Secure Students.
Harrlsburg.
- Under the terms of the conscription
law as agreed upon by the joint com
mltteo of the Senate and House of
Representatives, Pennsylvania, provi
ded every man between the ages of 21
and 30 years Is physically and mentally
lit for service, could place an army
of 1,036,948 in the field. These figures
Were submitted to the State Commit
tee on Public Safety by the Depart
ment of Statistics at Harrlsburg and
are based on the census of 1910.
Providing half of these men, through
physical defects or through provisions
In the selective conscription act, are
excused from service, there would still
remain a formidable host of more than
a half-million soldiers to bear the
State's burden in defending national
honor and national rights. What part
the Public Safety Committee will play
In conscripting the forces of the Com
monwealth has not yet been deter
mined. It Is understood, however,
that this phase of the program is up
for consideration at Harrlsburg and
that a derision on enforcing conscrip
tion will bo made within a few days.
In the meantime the committee is
planning the beat use of the $2,000,
000 appropriated by the Legislature to
be used in waging a two-year cam
paign on the agricultural, industrial
and military needs of the State. With
reference to this, Georgo Wharton
Pepper, chairman of the Public Safety
Committee, made the following state
ment: The Committee of Public Safety has
been waiting for some time for the
passage of the bill Introduced Into the
Legislature at its request Its ap
proval by the Governor now places at
the disposal of the committee, through
the Commission named In tho act, the
sura of $2,000,000 for U3e In carrying
on a two-year campaign for the agri
cultural, industrial and military well-,
being of the Commonwealth. The
plans which the committee ha h.n
formulating in anticipation of the
appropriation will make a large de
mand upon the activities of the local
committees throughout the State.
The Agricultural Bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce took up the
task of co-operating with the State in
the effort being put forth to provide
teams nnd lnbor for farmers. Teach
ers In public, parochial and private
schools began to enroll for farm work
and volunteered their aid In marshal
ing students for the agricultural army.
Slogan; No Empty Cans.
"No empty tin cans this year" is
the slogan urged upon every house
wife by the agricultural schooi at the
Pennsylvania State College. A State
wide campaign to encourage preserv
ing of garden products, both by can
ning and drying, has been launched
by the college authorities through the
department of home economies. Meet
ings will be hold in scores of com
munities until late In the summer.
Demonstrations and lectures by the
college experts will be given free
to the women of Pennsylvania. A spe
cial series of lessons in nrAAPrvtnir
has been prepared for instruction by
correspondence.
The first gun of the canning cam
paign was fired, with the following
announcment:
The slogan in every home this vear
should be 'no empty cans' This will
bo especially necessary if there
enouia ne a shortage of tin and glass
cans, as has been predicted. Every
homemaker should at this time take
inventory of her supply of jars. She
should know how many Jars she haB
available and secure now a sufficient
supply of rubbers. "Odd sizes of Jars
and wide-mouth bottles may bo used.
Furthermore, every homemaker
should estimate at once the number
of Jars she will uso for fruit and for
vegetables, and determine what fruits
and vegetables shall be canned or
dried. She should remember to plan
for the foods that have the proper
food value and which meet tho body
needs In food requirements.
A minimum amount of pickles
should be preserved and crocks or
similar vessels should he utilized for
tho purpose. The food value of
pickles la not high, nnd they are
rather indigestible. Only enough
should be "put up" to provide for a
little variety and an occasional relish.
Bills Approved.
The Governor approved and signed
the following bills:
Tho Eyre Senate bill authorizing
counties, townships or boroughs to
contribute part of the purchase price
for acquisition by the State of a toll
road or turnpike, and permitting a
county to pay for condemnation of
any toll road on a State highway.
Making a deficiency appropriation
of $12,000 to Fairview institution.
Authorizing " municipalities and
school districts to roquire bonds to
protect material and labor on public
building construction contracts.
Establishing a code for construction
and maintenance of booths for mov
ing picture machines.
Amending Philadelphia Municipal
Court law provisions for appeals "un
der law now existing or which may
hereafter be adopted."
Amondlng borough code so as to
provido for erection of now boroughs
from parts of consolidated boroughs.
Allowing cities to contribute annu
ally for support of National Guard
batteries and regimental cauitary
troops.
Validating tax Hens under act of
1910 and supplements.
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To relieve the great scarcity of
labor, one big industrial plant in
Pottstown brings men in by auto
mobile every morning from a wide
extent of rural territory, and takes
them home in the evening.
Adjutant General Stewart announ
ced the appointment of Wi'.bur F.
Leltzell, Scottdale, as first lieutenant
of the Machine Gun Troop of the
First Cavalry. Frank E. Powers was
named as first lieutenant and Peter
J. Pugh as second lieutenant of Com
pany C, Euglneora, Pottsvllle.
Kept home from school to aid her
mother, who was recovering from an
operation, Dorothy Gibb, aged 9, was
drowned nt Carlisle when she attemp
ted to recover her bnll from a cistern
and broke through the covering. The
mother's condition is critical.
In a letter received at Harrlsburg,
from John A. McSparran, master of
the Pennsylvania Grange, an appeal
Is made to the Granges In the State
to grow more corn, buckwheat and
other cereals as an aid to the Impend
ing food shortage.
Charles HImes, of Lancaster, 61,
brooding over the fact that he could
not buy a property for his son, blew
the top of his head off with a gun.
The supply of seedling trees for
free distribution from State nurseries
has been exhausted.
New Cumberland dog owners are up
in arms following the poisoning of
a score of valuable pets.
Miners In the Hazelton region wj-'l
establish more co-operative stores to
holp them live on what they earn.
Through Columbia county's com
munlty club's five miles ot beans will
be planted in Columbia county on
garden day.
One of the principal features of
the meeting of Carlisle Presbytery
at Camp Hill was the raising ot a
maintenance fund of $2,000 for the
upkeep of the Rocky Springs Pres
byterian Church.
A movement has been started to
organize a band at Sellersville.
The Increases in salary granted by
the Doylestown School Board to
teachers adds $350.10 to the annual
salary roll.
The Women's Civic Club, of North
Wales, will sell plants and vegetable
seeds to residents of that community
at wholesale prices.
Lower Merlon Y. M. C. A. boys
have reorganized the "Boy's Paper
Salvage Company" and have added a
patent bailer to their assets.
Students of Jenkintown High
School have advised Supervising
Priuclpal LeRoy King of their will
ingness to work on farms during the
summer months.
J. B. Stevenson, special officer of
the Lehigh Valley Transit Company,
at Lansdale, has been granted a tract
of five acres by the Company, and
will put in potatoes.
The Windsor Water Company, of
Hamburg, has received 13,000 white
pine saplings, to he planted on Its
large reservoir reservation.
Carlisle voters will be asked to sanc
tion a $150.0000 loan for sewers.'
Free seed potatoes have been de
livered to 200 homes in Altoona for
their gardens.
The Coleralne branch of the United
Mine Workers has ordered a carload
of flour to sell It at cost to 300 mem
bers. The Luzerne County Industrial
School for Boys, at Kls-lyn, has con
tributed nine recruits to the army and
navy.
Anthracite operators at Hazelton
have notified miners that men whose
payday sprees affect production will
be recommended as "slackers" for
army service.
. A class of 15 nurses soon to gradu
ate was received into the State Hos
pital Alumni Association at Fountain
Springs to make them immediately
available for enlistment in the Red
Cross Society.
A $48,000 post office building is' to
be erected at State College.
Dickinson Seniors, Carlisle, have
dropped class day, as 30 members
have Joined training camps.
Wormloysburg cannot find men to
hold office being short a constable,
councilman and member of the Health
Board.
Checks for $25 each have been sent
to Fame, Henderson and Brooklyn fire
companies, Lewistown, by the citizens
of Reedville, for recent services, and
a $60 check to R. U. Jacobs, of Cali
fornia. Hazlcton's Y. M. C. A. has entered
upon a campaign to last three weeks,
to teach 200 boys how to swim, with
out charge.
Each of the four playgrounds asso
ciations in Lebanon will receive $150
a season from the Lebanon School
district toward the payment of salar
ies of directors of the grounds.
The Pennsylvania Federation of
Labor, in resolutions adopted at Har
rlsburg calls upon the lahorlng men
of the State to stand loyally by the
Government during the war. Presl
dent Mauror reported that 134 locals
had affiliated with the Federation dur
ing the past year.
The war has deprived Conynghnm
of Its burgess, Oeear Schaeffcr, the
chief executive, having enlisted In the
heavy artillery.
Freight handlers of the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad have been given an ad
vance of from 17 1-2 cents an hour to
20 cents for an 11-hour day.
The presiding officers of the Senate
and House at HarrUburg nfflxoJ their
signatures to the $2,000,000 war emer
gency fund and sent It to the Cover
nor for his action.
Hazleton merchants have decided to
hold a big community outing at Hazle
Park d-!ng the summer and donate
the receipts to the Red Cross.
The employees of Chapman slate
quarries have raised on the hill ad
Joining tho quarries a flag 10 by IS
feet, bought by their contributions.
An address was made by Rev. C. H.
Eger, pastor of the Methodist Church
of the village.
a Note
(Conducted by tho Nutlon.-il w
Christian Temperance- 1
IllOtl.)
FIND NEW USES.
Breweries leud themselves r,y
vviin nine ennnge io me inniiufart,
ui ice mm lor com niorngc
Packing plants nnd creaiin-rics ut,i
cream fuctorles frequently m'L
breweries. A former brewery n
decn, Wash., Is now ciinton;' c'.'
Ono in Spokane is mnniir:ietur;n,r
egnr. In Olympln the brewery ,'(
being used lu the dairy products k,
ness, while in Bcllinghmn the funi(1
got logeiner una uougnt the hrewtfj
use for a eo-operntive civum..
former brewery in Seattle, the ai,.
In the state, Is remodeled fur thorp.
titrttliva fit n flnA frtiwl. r.f i
rrom crncKea rice, unu uin:iturcj
cohol will be produced ns a hy-pra!)',
The Coors' brewery of Gulden,
Is successfully manufacturing i&i,
milk In a portion of the plant, the',
malnder being used In the prodr
from Colorado clay of a fino pored;
It Is impossible to give In detail t,
entire list or transformations, but n
products being turned out In tm
breweries Include In addition tot
articles nlrendy mentioned, yeaitt-
cells, soap, chemicals, moving pfc
films, paint, varnish una lognnU
Juice. AT FEARFUL COST.
England hns nt Inst waked mtjj
ravages innde on her finances .?A-1
A writer In tho Christian of Lou,
Informs us thnt since the tvurlel
the liquor trade has used up the It I
of lifting 00,000,000 tons; Out J
great Pyramid of Egypt timid hi
been pulled down and reset 6 J
times over by the labor used In L
ing the drink stuff at the La. I
docks. This amounts to merer
nil the rest of the. unloading tn;f.l
With regard to food, It Is said ill
would hove been three muli'l
million more tons of fond hut for
traffic. From every homo nn pi
equal to a pound has been sUML
since the war began. The Intel
considered equivalent to the iA
the United Kingdom having stood ;
for a hundred days.
The war savings committee hiH
preaching economy to Indies In tl
dress, nnd discovers now that tro J
a half million dollars are squnukf
dolly for n drink thnt dninnpeifcl
Louisa A'hmuty Nash, in the u
Signal.
IN ARKANSAS.
The mayor of Little Rock tho
titles to the success of prohiMfcl
"Merchants in ten lines of brc:l
In my city have consulted and fl
fled that their collections are far
ter this yenr than last. The s
sheets of many retail dealers si-
steady increase in the amount of!J
ness done, while the records 1
chamber of commerce show i -
Increase In the number of a I
shipments of nil kinds. Thepsj
fice reports an Increase In busl
$300,543.63 which Is considered
nomennl for a post office in 1 1
the size of Little Rock. EaniC
Its show nn Increase of $.W
bnnk clearings, of over $11.
Snvlnirs accounts far exceed in
bcr those of any previous year.
referee In bankruptcy snys lte
no business in his line.'
A CEREBRAL POISON.
Alcohol is specifically nnd toil
tents nnd purposes a cerebral r
It seizes with Its dlsorgiinlilW!
unon the hrnln. thnt mysterloBl
whose steady and undisturbed J
holds ninn In true nnd response i
tions with ids family, with soclepl
with God: and it is this fearwi
null (ircn lu j
their tremendous Interest lnt
tlon. Youmnns on Alcohol.
NEED A CORONER.
Instead of a natlonnl liquor
slon to studv the Honor prow
advocated by the wets, It Is sj
that a coroner's Jury would lit
better.
ei avpo nc drug HABIT.
. Tho New York World Is f
for the statement thnt in i
there nre 200,000 slaves toti
habit.
riiii niNfte in USE.
Of 335 siilnons In Portland.!
1015, only 21 nre vacant-
lnnn slinnUa nnil shllllth'9 W" I
replaced by substantial ImUJinf
ed nt Increased rents.
rr a a o DDAUiDtTtdN.
Tlio UWnrn Retail 'l
Vehicle nnd Hardware as
with n membership of
plnced Itself on record 0s 11
nation-wide prohibition.
TERSELY AND FORCEFUL
. wl rM
"Scientists imvo piwu
i4 a k. 1 1.. nr!nn. IS I
'knock-out drops' thnt puts"!)
civiuzea man out oi uu.---the
primitive, latent snvnS-
mis pronouiici-iiii-"' -
"How to Bo Healthy" d'P"fJ
tho Chicago HenUd,
Is counseled by a large sclf
uina Inelui
oi eminent, iimnum'"'
Irving Fisher, ciinirmmi (
enco nonra; ueu.
consultant on sanitation.
TO USE MAIZE AND MALT-
. Tho Berliner xngci""" - f
the suspensioa of nil d"' t
northern Germany is l,rn' lM
nrtlnn Is to ho taken to i
for bread nnd tho malt as
for coffee. ,.,
If beer Is "liquid W
its manufacture?
RUIN FOR THE "CU"
I A V. i1m InUT Will .
my ousiness, buiu
Nenl Institute for the iu
holism in Portland, Ore.