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WILL BE EXPENDED WISELY
Btatement 8howing How the Proceeds
of Sale of Red Cross Seals
Are to Be Spent.
For the benefit of the numerous or
ganizations who helped to sell near
ly forty-five million Red Cross seals
last year and for the general public,
the American Red Cross and the Na-
tional Association for the Study and
Prevention of Tuberculosis have
framed a definition of anti-tuberculo-
sis work showing how the proceeds
from thege holiday stickers are to be
used. The definition limits the expen-
diture of money only for the year
ending April 30, 1915.
The definition” was framed at a re-
cent meeting of the National Associa-
tion for the Study and Prevention of
Tuberculosis and states that the term
“anti-tuberculosis work” as it relates
to the expenditure of Red Cross seal
money shall include the following ac-
tivities:
1. The construction of hospitals or
sanatoriums for the care of the tuber-
culous. £
2. The maintenance of the tubercu-
lous. 2
3. The provisions of day or night
camps for the tuberculous; the provi-
sion and maintenance of dispensaries,
« visiting nurses, open air schools, fresh
alr classes, or preventoria for the care
or treatment of tuberculous cases or
for the prevention of the spread of tu-
berculosis.
4. The maintenance of educational
or legislative activities which have for
their object the prevention of infection
with tuberculosis.
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Inventor of the Airbrake.
Who really invented the airbrake?
Certainly the automatic airbrake, the
one that has proved practicable and of
permanent value in modern railroad-
ing, was the product of the late George
Westinghouse’s ingenuity. His patent
for the automatic brake was taken out
in 1872, superseding the non-automatic
or “straight” Westinghouse airbrake
patented in 1869, and later the West-
inghouse vacuum brake was invented.
But, as in the case of most other in-
ventions, there are several claimants
for originality in this field. Thus
Mme. M. Drouanet, daughter of M/
Debruges of Paris, claims the distine-
tlon of priority for her father. The
New York Times has a letter from
Btate Senator William P. Fiero of
White Plains containing a patent office
declaration by his grandfather, Henry
Miller, of a “new and useful improve
ment ‘in the application of steam and
compressed air to the purpose of op-
erating railroad brakes,” recorded Jan-
uary 2, 1855. Mr. Miller was doubt-
less a pioneer in the progress of air-
brake invention.
Rays of Humor:
From undernearth the war cloud lit
tle flashes of humor escape now and
again.
Two Irish sergeants, brought
wounded to Paris, are reported as say-
‘ing that they did not know exactly
where the battle was, but they had
Just been “fighting at Copenhagen.”
They probably meant Compeigne, but
it made no difference in their willing.
ness to fight. "
The Paris Figaro pictures as a com:
mon sight on the streets two men
reading their respective newspapers
through to the end, and then exchang
ing a Figaro for a Matin, ard absorb
ingly rereading in the second news
paper the identical official announce
ment which they had read in the first.
Life retains its shades of fun even
tn the darkest shadow of trouble.
Too Ambiguous. 2
Thornton—When Willie Wimpus
wanted a new motor car he thought
he would throw out a broad hint to
his father.
Rosemary—Did the scheme work?
Thornton—Not exactly. He told the
old man he would like something he
could start and stop, and his father
bought him a dollar watch.
Accounting for It.
“That girl has a swelled head.”
“That's only because she wears such
big ‘rats.’ ”
SICK DOCTOR
Proper Food Put Him Right.
The food experience of a physician
in his own case when worn and weak
from sickness and when needing nour-
ishment the worst way, is valuable:
“An attack of grip, so severe it came
near making an end of me, left my
stoflach in such conditionsI could not
retain any ordinary food. I knew of
course that I must have food nourish-
ment or I could never recover.
“I began to take four teaspoonfuls
of Grape-Nuts and cream three times
a day and for 2 weeks this was almost
my only food. It tasted so delicious
that I enjoyed it immensely and my
stomach handled it perfectly from the
first mouthful. It was so nourishing
I was quickly built back to normal
Realth and strength.
“Grape-Nuts is of great value as food
to sustain life during serious attacks
in which the stomach ig so deranged
it cannot digest and assimilate other
foods.
REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER
DECLARES PENROSEISM
IS NOT REPUBLICANISM
o
Party is Asked to Assert Itself and Give Verdict For Morality.
Says Defeat of Standard 0il Boss Means Rehabilita-
tion of G. 0. P.
Just how much Republicans themselves want Penrose defeated is
shown in an editorial from the Public Ledger, a Republican paper of
Philadelphia, reproduced below.
Republicans who are for a clean state government and against the
influence of liquor and other special interests in national affairs are against
Penrose. ;
Republicans who want a protective tariff and don’t want their party
to be repudiated because of a reckless special interest-serving tariff, as
was the Payne-Aldrich bill, are against Penrose.
Fortunately the opinion is pretty well grounded throughout the state
that in voting for Gifford Pinchot, every Republican gets a protective tariff
man and at the same time removes Penrose and thus helps to rehabilitate
bis, party. :
Pennsylvania Republicanism has be-
come a byword. On it muck-rakers
and hysterical reformers have traded
in every part of the Union for their
own advancement. It is their one
argument that never fails to attract
votes. There are Republicans who
will never vote for 2 Republican Sena-
tor or Representative unless they are
assured that in the party councils in
Washington there shall be no odor of
Penroseism.
The party is asked once and for all
to assert its identity. It is given an
opportunity to prove that Republican- .
ism is not Penroseism and thus to
invigorate every Republican candidacy
in the nation. It has a chance to
cleanse itself, to tear off its manacles,
to justify itself before the country, to
restore the party’s prestige in the
Union. It has only to declare itself
moral. That it cannot do by voting
to vindicate the maladministration of
which it has been the victim. It must
repudiate Penroseism. ‘It must give a
verdict for morality.
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IGNORANCE OF
BEAT PENROSE: WIN THE NATION
Mr. Penrose could not be elected United States Senator from Illinois
In California his candidacy would be ridiculed. In Maine not a corporal’s
guard would rally to his support. In Ohio he would be treated as his
prototype, Foraker, was treated. In Missouri it would not take 20 minutes
to count the votes he could get. In Maryland, another doubtful State, it
would be Penrose last, with none of the other candidates in sight. A
Socialist would poll more votes than he in Wisconsin and Iowa. In Wash-
ington there would be an avalanche of women’s ballots polled against him.
Where, East or West, in any doubtful State, could Penrose command a
following? y
Yet this is the man who, pleading for protection, refuses to step aside
and permit some other man who could really do something for protection
to go to Washington. It is mockery of reason to assume that the rest of
the nation would follow Pennsylvania in devotion to such a leader. It is
sheer madness to suppose that there can be any rehabilitation of the Repub-
lican party so long as he is one of its accredited leaders. It is proper for
men whose business is threatened to dedicate their work and influence to
the restoration of Republican policy in Washington, but every effort they
make will be futile if they insist upon using as their representative a man
whose name is identified with the most thoroughly discredited and hated
system of politics in America.
The national Republican party has many enemies and Mr. Penrose is
the greatest of them all. In his own State and in his own town he has
alienated the independent Republican press. In no other Commonwealth
is there any Republican newspaper with any pretentions whatever to inde-
pendence that would even consider apologizing for or advocating Penroseism.
They know it for what it is. They have no doubts about the cuckoo being
in the robin’s nest. Only in Pennsylvania is the party expected to be a
Little Red Riding Hood. Elsewhere and here, too, the alluring front of
the house of Penroseism does not deceive observers. They have also been
looking at the back yard.—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Dog Had Appetite for Chicken.
AND CLEAN STATE
ARE OUR NEEDS”
—PINCHOT
Washington Party Candidate
Urges Voters of All Parties
to Rally Against Penrose and
Redeem Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Sept. 22.—During the
past ten days Gifford Pinchot has
made a remarkable appeal to the vot-
ers of all parties in his campaign tour
of the counties. !
In a series of remarkable addresses
he has dissected the record of Boies
Penrose and has shown that the se-
nior senator has not played fair with
the people of the state. He pilloried
the Penrose machine and proved that
it mismanaged the roads. He showed
that its failure to keep promises to
the workmen of the state has been at
the direct instigation of special in-
terests who demanded in return for
campaign help that there should be
no workmen's compensation act or
child labor law. -
Pinchot showed by the Congres-
sional Record that Penrose instead of
being a protective tariff advocate ac-
tually voted for free trade on farm
products while he voted to keep the
duty up on all products manufactur-
ed by the trusts. ’ ;
“But the voters of Pennsylvania
have not been responsible for Pen-
rose,” Pinchot said. “He was forced
on them by Quay. The people had no
voice in his selection.
People Now Repudiate Him.
“Fortunately all Penrose’s efforts
to defeat the direct election of United
States senators failed, and he must
account to the people for his record.
“This time no boss can force Pen-
rose on the people. The free voters
of Pennsylvania have him in the
open and can destroy him.”
Pinchot drew “a parallel between
Penrose in the United States senate
refusing to vote for the workmen's
compensation act and Penrose as the
state boss ordering the defeat of the
workmen’s compensation act in the
state legislature. °
He showed how Penrose at Wash-
ington refused to vote for the chil
dren’s’ bureau bill aimed to help chil-
dren who work, and how Penrose as
the state boss ordered the defeat ot
the child labor bill in the legislature
of 1911 and 1913.
He told his audiences how Penrose
sa mismanaged the Payne-Aldrich tar
iff\ bill that the cause of protection
was put back and the people repu-
diated the administration that was
responsible for it.
Penrose an Enemy of Protection.
“What shall we say of a protective
tariff advocate who disgusts the coun:
try by his excesses?” asked Pinchot.
The crowds that heard Pinchot
were impressed by his sincerity and
earnestness. In every county there
were large numbers of voters” who
turned out to hear him. Every one
of his shafts at Penrose was the sig
nal for applause. In many places the
people were loath to have him go and
there was an evident satisfaction- in
the conclusive and able manner he
presented his claims for their votes.
Pinchot toured Somerset, Blair, Cam:
bria, Centre, Clearfield, Elk, McKean
A chicken-stealing dog, in the Dumbarton (Scotland) district, recently
occasioned some anxiety to a number of hen keepers. On a thorough search |
being’ made a number of fowls were recovered buried in a field. =
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fowls were eaten, and those not required for immediate use were hidden.
It was discovered that the cause of the trouble was a large black Labrador
dog, which has been roaming the district at will for several weeks.
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® Explanation of Potlatch.
The word potlatch is a corruption of an Indian word common among
the Pacific coast tribes, meaning festival of gifts. At a patshatl (potlatch)
celebration the more personal property an Indian gives away, blankets,
ornaments, etc. the higher he stands in the estimation of his neighbors,
and the more he expects to receive in return at the next potlatch. The
festival is also accompanied by music, dancing and feasting.
Modern Illustrations. \
“lI am convinced that were .Grape-
Nuts more widely used by physicians,
ft would save many lives that are oth-
The clergymen who formerly declared to their congregations that “we
erwise lost from lack of nourishment.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
The most perfect food in the world.
Trial of Grape-Nuts and cream 10 days |
proves. “There's a Reason.” i
Look in pkgs. for the little book,
“The Road to Wellville.”
Ever read the ahove letter? A mew
one appears from time te time. They
re genulime, true, and fall of human |
terest.
| skin of a neg:
¥
are standing on the brink of cternity” had an occasional accident in the
Lay fields™r at logging bees to remind listeners that they were telling them
a fearful truth. The modern clergyman may add: “Read tomorrow’s papers |
if you have any doubts.”—Utica Observer.
High Prices for Gruesome Relics.
Gruesome relics were sold in a Paris auction room the other day. One
was that of t ified body of a Patagonian slain in battle several thou- |
sand years ago. The price was $1.64 Head of Indian cut off in battle, |
$265; two books, one bound i 2 of a white woman, the other in the |
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and Potter during the past ten days,
and'during the coming week will visit
counties in the western part of the
state.
CAMPAIGN STRAWS
Pinchot halds biggest out-door mass
meeting ever held in Altoona.
Supporters of J. Benjamin Dimmick
in Republican primaries organize
league to work for Pinchot against
Penrose.
September 10 and 11. Pinchot tours
Blair and Cambria counties and gets
biggest receptions in villages and
towns ever tendered candidate.
September 15 and 16. Pinchot's
declarations that he stands for protec
tive tariff and against Penrose
cheered by Republicans at mass meet:
ings in Centre and Clearfield counties.
September 14. Republicans start
Brumbaugh to follow out Pinchot plan
| of campaign.
Stick to Your Own Opinion.
Isn't it a fact that the man who
agrees with every y is almost as
I grees. with
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PLAN TO DIVIDE WORK
HOUSBECLEANING NEED NOT BE
TIME OF TERROR.
Unnecessary to Scour Entire House
at One Time—Arrange a Schedule
and Adhere to It With Ut-
most Strictness.
Friday 4s too often a day of terror,
because Friday's cleaning i§ made
such a difficult matter. To be sure,
Friday cleaning is a difficult matter,
especially if the whole house must
be cleaned on that day. It can be
much lessened, however, by going
about it systematically:
To begin with, no house should be
cleaned from top to toe on any single
day of the week. The bedrooms can
be cleaned Thursday morning, the
bathrooms Saturday and Wednesday,
the kitchen Saturday and the living
room and dining-rooms on Friday. On
Monday the whole house can be put to
rights, to make up for the éxtra use
it gets on Sunday. On Tuesday no
cleaning, except the daily work with
duster and carpet sweeper, need be
done.
If Friday is put aside for the clean-
ing of the living rooms and dining-
rooms it is net a bad day at all. Of
course, these rooms are the most diffi-
cult in the house to clean, and the
downstairs halls must be cleaned at
the same time. and, of course, when
the downstairs halls are cleaned the
stairs and the upstairs halls must be
included. Still, this is easy work for
Friday.
Here is a suggestive schedule for
the work of a Friday of this sort:
The rugs should Le cleaned first.
If there is a vacuum cleaner they
should be cleaned in the house and
folded and covered with a big cotton
duster. If there is no vacuum clean-
er, they should be cleaned out of
doors, if possible, and left piled up on
a safe porch. Then the furniture
should be dusted and all the chairs
and other easily moved articles should
be put into one room. Then the walls
and ceilings should be brushed down
and all woodwork should be. wiped
with a cloth wrung out of clear water
or else moistened with a little oil.
Then the floors hould be cleaned.
The dust should be removed with a
h8oft brush, and then, while the dust
is settling, the various small articles
that need cleaning in the kitchen may
be attended to. Silver desk orna-
ments and objects from the sideboard
should be polished, or nickel ones
washed in hot water, and andirons and
candlesticks and lamps and mirrors
and all other small, movable accesso-
ries should be put in order.
Then the floors should be gone
over again, either with wax or oil or
with a bfoom in a canton flannel bag,
to remove the last traces of dust. The
furniture should then be wiped off |
with a cloth on which there is little |
oil. The rugs should be laid and the |
furniture put in position.
When the windows need washing
they can either be done while the dusi
is settling or else after everything else
is done.
If the rugs must be cleaned indoors
with a broom, the furniture must firsi
be moved to apmother room or else
carefully covered. One room can be
given up to sweeping the rugs to save
moving furniture.
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Tomato Fig.
Slice seven pounds of tomatoes,
sprinkle with half a cup of salt and
let stand over night; in the morning |
drain off the water and cook the to-
matoes for an hour and a half with |
one pint of vinegar, three and one. |
half pounds of sugar, one teaspoonful |
each of cloves and cinnamon and Ge |
half teaspoonful of ginger. |
Canned Blueberries.
The berries should first be thorough:
ly picked over and washed, then |
placed in a kettle with one-half cup- |
ful of sugar and one-half cupful of |
Ww pr
each 't of the berries. |
: dene, then |
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SAVING ON LAUNDRY BILLS
Frequent Pressing Will Do Much To
ward Preserving Appearance of
the Thin Garments.
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The woman whose ambition it is to’
always look well dressed ‘will pay spe<
garments. |A linen shirt waist or suis
should be presséd after each wearing.|
All thin waists and dresses can. bel
worn twice as long before being laun-|
dered if they are pressed often. They
are usually more mussed than soiled!
when put in the wash. Garments which
must be pressed on the wrong side,|
but which need a touch on the right!
side, may be pressed very nicely pro-
vided a piece of smooth tissue paper is
used to protect the goods from the hot
iron. When ironing silks and ribbons
the use of tissue paper will prevent
them from becoming shiny.
A white frock or blouse that is soiled
in places, but not enough to require
laundering, may be much improved
by the following method: Dissolve)
some gloss starch in warm water,
moisten the soiled portions with this
mixture and press carefully. The gar
ment will look almost as good as new:
and may be worn several times with
out laundering. :
Lingerie waists will not get mussed
nearly as soon and are much easier to
iron when subjected to the following
method: Wash as usual, but do not
starch. When dry, dip in borax water,
using one tablespoonful of borax to
one quart of warm water. ‘Wring out
and fold in a towel for a few hours,
then iron dry.
VARIOUS USES FOR HERBS
All That Are Grown in the Garden
Have Their Peculiar Qualities
That Should Be Understood.
Save: & ;
Mint, for meat sauces.
Angelica, for flavoring cakes.
Lavender, for oil and distilled waters
Sage, for sausage and meat dress-
Ings. *
Sweet fennel, leaves used in fish
sauces. -
Dill, the seeds are used to flavor
pickles.
Borage, leaves boiled as dandelion
or spinach.
Thyme, in gravies and dressings of
stuffed meats.
Chives, leaves used tor flavoring
soups and salads.
Borage, balm and catnip are useful
where one has bees. ;
Tarragon, leaves useful in giving
flavor to vinegar and pickles.
Coriander, fennel and caraway seeds
are used for flavoring fruit sirups and
cakes. °
Among those having medicinal value
are arnica, hops, catnip, bene, penny-
royal, belladonna, sage, rue, horehound,
marshmallow, wormwood, hyssop and
peppermint.
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Fig and Nut Jelly. !
Wash a cupful of pulled figs in cold
water. Put over g slow fire with two
cupfuls of cold water and stew figs un.
til tender. Skim out figs and to the
Juice ada one-half cupful of sugar and
boil until it is like thin sirup (there
should be one cupful of liquid). Chop
figs and one-quarter cupful of shelled
becans not very fine. Soak one-half
box of gelatine in one cupful of cold
water for half an hour To the gela-
tine add one-half teaspoonful of lemon
Juice, and to the fig sirup add one-half
cupful of boiling water. Strain through
fine sieve or plece of cheesecloth.
When nearly set, add nuts and figs.
Turn into molds and set in cool place
for three hours. Serve with whipped
cream.
Te Clean Paints and Varnishes.
Here is a good way to clean painted
and varnished surfaces: To half a
bucketful of warm water add a table
spoonful of salts of tartar; wash the
paints with a rag dipped in this, and it
will remove every speck of dirt. R
i warm water and dry it
inse
with a
cial attention to the pressing of he#® -