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NEWS IN GENERAL.
Scores of children and many ad-
ults paid tribute to the memory of
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Saturday at
Rome, Ga. on the first anniversary
of her death by placing flowers on
her grave. The Elllen Wilson Memo-
rial Association held services at the
grave later.
“A billion bushel wheat
the prediction of B. W. Snow, a noted
grain expert, Figures
Snow to date show the winter crop
of wheat will total 689,000,000 bush-
els and the spring 305.000,000 bush-
els, making a total of 994,000.000
bushels.
Serious munities have broken out
fn the German garrisons at Liege,
Ghent and Bruges, according to ad-
wices, which have reached this
country. Troops who were ordered to
the Yser front refused to march, A
number of the ring leaders are re-
ported to have been shot.
A squad of government commer-
cial scouts will prepare the way for
American invasion of world markets
heretofore dominated by Europe. Un-
der plans, just perfected by Dr. E. BE.
Prattt, chief of the bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce, agents will
be sent to South America, Africa,
Australia and the far East, covering
practically the whole world except
the European war area, their reports
to be submitted to American manu-
facturers.
When grass roots and mother
earth come in contact with bare feet
there is sort of a soothing, electric-
al current transmitted through the
body that rebuilds and invigorates
the entire system, is the theory and
practice of J. M. Haiger, of Carlton,
Oklahoma. Eight months in each year
he spurns the pressure of leather on |
his feet and with trousers rolled up
nearly knee high attends to his farm. |
He has been in Kansas €ity with no
shoe or boot accompaniment and did
not feel half as strange as people who
looked at him.
A traveler who returned last week
from Europe, after a stay of several
months has brought back a story that
already Austria has been practically
absorbed by Germany and that when
the war ends the German Empire's |
representatives at the peace confer-
ence will speak also for the peoples
in the Hapsburg domain when hos-
tilities broke out. The situation in the
Teutonic Alliance is regarded as sig:
nificant of the outcome of the war
and as forecasting a breaking up of
the Austrian fabric which has long
been expected due to its lack of ho-
mogeneity. In every way it is
tribute to the efficiency of the Ger-
man system and of the Germans
themselves.
1° ADDISON.
The farmers hereabouts are busy
with harvest and are thinking of
putting out crops for the year.
Mrs. Willis Awgustine and chil-
dren, Martha, Cecil and Vernon, are
spending their vacation at the home
of H. Augustine at the Willows.
Miss Lucy Forquer of Brandon-
ville is the guest of her sister-in-law
and brother, Ray Forquer.
Emma Schrader and her brother,
George are visiting their grandmoth-
er, Mrs. Annie Kurtz at Ridgeview.
Mrs. Elmira R. Grimes met with
a serious accident a few days ago.
While standing on a ladder picking
cherries, she became dizzy and fell
to the ground striking her head on
a stone which rendering her uncon-
scious for several hours. She is
all right again.
Quite a number of invited guests
arrived at the home of Mrs. Mary
Shaffer at Listonburg to witness
the marriage ceremony of her daugh
ter, Miss Jessie Pearl to Mr. Harvey
Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Anderson of Listonburg. The
bride was attired in white messa-
line with white chiffon and crystal
trimmings and carried a large bou-
quet of white sweet peas. At the
bride's table covers were laid for
twelve and’ the decorations were
white and green. The rbide will be
missed from her large circle of
friends. She was a teacher in our
school for a number of years, also
an organist in the church and also
was a great workers in the interests
of the church. Mr. Anderson is a
telegraph operator at Bedford at
which place they will make their
home. The ceremony was perform-
ed by the Rev. Hydrick, pastor of
the M. E. Church South.
HISTORICAL PAMPHLET
“The Blue and the Gray,” is the
title of a historical booklet issued by
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad de-
scriptive of battlefields on or near
its lines and which bear evidence of
bitter conflict which stirred the A-
merican people in Revolutionary
days, during the war of 1812 and the ,
Civil war.
The booklet is attractively prepar-
ed and elaborately illustrated by
views of points of historic inte
the cover design embodying the
rest
em-
crop” is |
compiled by
con-
sidered the situation is a remarkable .
| Song and
Story.... ..
| American or What?
Fritz Deutscher left his home because
He loathed the Prussian despots
plan,
He swore allegiance to our laws—
Became American.
. We liked him well upon the whole,
And helped him unlearn many
things;
We helped each other. Heart and soul
We thought he’d done with kings.
We never dreamed that in his heart
Old loves were stronger than the
new!
All ours he was, we thought,
part—
Our comrade through and through.
But now creeps in a doubt to mmar—
And born of his own speech it is—
The king Fritz cast off is at war;
Is Fritz our man or his?
If not our man, his duty’'s plain,
And it should suit well with his
mood;
The kaiser needs, along the Adsne,
More men, more cannon food..
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We are not England’s pawn or tool,
We are not Deutschland’s tool or
i pawn,
But disregarding knave and fool
We stand aloof, withdrawn;
We are not foes of any state,
Nor shall we join the bloody brawl;
But still, discounting lies and hate.
We'd fain befriend them all;
We are not English, German, Swede,
Or Austrian, Russian, French, or
| Pole,
But we have made a separate breed
And gained a separate soul;
And if plain, straight “American,”
Without the hyph&n, sounds too
crude,
! Then be outright some other’s man—
The kings need cannon food.
—Don Marquis in N. Y. Sun.
|
Nora Wasn't Alarmed.
“Nora,” said her mistress severely,
| “if you have that policeman in the
| kitchen again I shall speak to him.”
“Go as far as ye like, Mum, said
: Nora, “but yez'll niver git him. We're
| to be married next Chuesday.”
| Not What He Thought
THIRD ANNUAL FIRST AID
MEET IN THIS COUNTY.
Arrangements have been completed
for the third annual Somerset County
First Aid Meet, which will be heid
this year at Boswell, on Saturday,
Septemebr 4th. The meet will be
held under the direction of the in-
dustrial committee of the State
Young Men’s Christian Association
of Pennsylvania which will be repre-
sented by George B. Landis of Har-
risburg.
The committee on arrrangements
is composed of Samuel Steinbach,
superintendent of the Consolidation
coal company; Fletcher W. Cunning-
ham, state mine inspector and Rich-
ard Maize, superintendent of the U-
nitedCoal Company of Boswell.
It is expected that more ® than a
dozen teams will enter the contest.
Rules Governing the Mest.
1. A First Aid Team shall consist
of six men. \
2. Bach team shall bring all sup-
plies necessary to the proper per-
formance of all events. .
3. All types of dressings, banda-
ges, splints and stretchers which con-
form to the standards of First Aid
practice will receive equal credit.
4. The team shall consist of three
full team events. Only one problem
each will be given in the one man e-
vent; each team shall choose from
its own number including the captain
‘those who shall demonstrate these
problems.
5. At the sound of the first gong
the patient will take position on the
ground, feet towards specators; next,
towards spectators; second gong,
team will advance and treat condi-
tions. Gong will sound when allotted
time is up. Two gongs take patient
back to the station and remove band-
ages.
6. Patient may not assist in two
man or team demonstrations. Cap-
tain may not assist team except by
instructions or commands.
7. Judges shall use the discount
tables as guide in marking the work
of teams. They may discount a team
from one per cent. to the limit allow-
ed for penalties specified. A judge
may call upon the captain or upon
|the member who applied the dressing
to explain his treatment. There shall
be no appeal from the decision of a
Judge.
8. When a patient has been treat-
ed he shall be placed on a stretcher
and team will stand at post. Captain
A gentleman riding with an Irish- Will then raise his right hand and an-
man came within sight of an old gal- Dounce his team number.
lows, and to display his wit, said:
“Pat, do you see that?”
“To be sure Oi do,” replied Pat.
“And where would you to-day if the
gallows had its due?”
“0Oi’d be riding alone,” replied Pat.
Litte Elmer, while walking with his
nurse, saw a blacksmith shoeing a
horse and upon returning home said:
“Mother, I saw the man to-day who
makes horses.” “Are you sure he
did?” asked his mother. “Of course I
am,” replied Elmer. “He had one
nearly finished when I saw him. He
was just nailing on his hind feet.
Lucky Pdor Markmanship.
Sergeant (disgustedly to Private
Jones)—Ugh! don’t waste your last
bullet. Nineteen are quite enough to
blaze away without hitting the target
once. Go behind that wall and blow
your brains out.
Jones walked away and a few sec-
onds later a shot rang out.
‘G‘reat sausages, the fool's done
what I told - him!” howled the ser-
geant. running behind the wall. Great
Jones coming towards him.
“Sorry, sergeant ” he said apolo-
getically, “another miss.”
Evidently Some Mistake.
Lindley M. Garrison, Secretary of
‘War, smiled the other evening when
the conversation turned to the sub-
ject of dreams. He said he was re-
minded of an incident that happened
in New England.
Some time ago a man named Brown
had a dream and the thing so impres-
| sed him that he gave a detailed ac-
; count of it to several of his friends.
“By the way, Jim ’* he remarked to
'an acquaintance, one afternoon, “did
{I tell you about the dream I had the
| other night?”
| “No, I don’t think you did,” respon-
‘ded th ther. “Wh i ut?”
e © other, “What Wes it abo la litter for 20 feet for fresh air and
“I dreamed that I was in heaven,”
responded Brown, with a, reflective
expression. “On one side there was a
piano playing. On the other there was
a cornet. Not far away there was a
| phonograph while just beyond again
there was a vio 2
“You must have been mistaken, old
man,” impressively broke in the oth-
er. “That wasn’t heaven.”
Get our prices on Job work.
was his relief when he saw Private |
9. The team making the highest
average in the contest will be declar-
ed the winner of the first prize; sec-
ond highest average, winner of the
second prize, ete.
10. Should twe or more teams be
tied for any of the prizes, the judges
and captains of such teams shall de-
cide how winners shall be determin-
ed.
One Man Events for Practice.
1. Man has been struck by fall of
slate producing the following injur-
ies: Left ear torn off, contused wound
on right eye and lacerated scalp
wound four inches long on rihgt side
‘of head. Treat.
2. Thumb and index finger right
hand have been torn off. Severe arte-
rial bleeding( bright red). Treat.
Some other cases are—Lacerated
‘scalp wound on top of head, with pro-
fuse bleeding. Evidences of severe
shock. Treat. —Patient fell breaking
left arm below elbow. Ne break in
skin. Treat —Man has been over-
come with gas. Perform artificial res-
piration by the Schaeffer method for
‘one minute.
Events for Practice for Two Men.
A car has run over a patient's left
foot, cutting off in front of ankle
joint. There is severe bleeding. Treat
and carry patient 30 feet by twe-hand
‘seat.Patient found wunconecsscious, ly-
ing on an electric wire across the ab-
domen. There is a simple fracture of
the right forearm. Rescue and treat
the case.
Practice for Full Team Work.
Man has been run over by a motor
car and right arm cut off close to
the shoulder. Profuse bleeding. Sev-
‘eral ribs broken on the right side.
Treat and carry on a stretcher.—-
Man overcome by after damp. Burns
on hands, arms, face and neck. Carry
patient ten feet to an improvised lit-
ter. Two of team at that time
should be supposedly overcome by
gas. Others carry patient without
treat. —There are many other hypo-
thethical cases to be treated.
TELEPHONES OF GLASS
A European concern is now buiigd-
{ glass. The glass is
ing telegraph and telephone poles cf
moulded over a
thick frame work of woven wire,
which adds to the strength of the
poles. These poles will neither rot
no rust and insects will not attack
broken by an accident
will last almost forever and now
them. Unless
they
blems of the men who wore the Blue |that timber is so expensive in Eurove
and of those
who wore the Gray,
ng the Stars and Stripes
supporti
they are little more costly than wood-
en poles.
The Rise of a Liar
Doubtless there are advantages in a
policy of truthfulness—particularly if
one lacks the initiative to tell an agre
gious lie and get away with it. :
But this is the story—the true story,
too, d’yuhmind—of how ‘a notorious
liar made good. And ssrangely enough,
was after he was found out that he
got in right. |
‘Wilmont—the same being the name
of the liar—was working as a book-
keeper in a ‘concern manufacturing
machinery on a large scale and the
cashier would press $14 into his palm
shortly before the whistle blew each
Saturday afternoon. 1
But Wilmot was a hero about the
office. For he never came to work In
the morning that he didn’t have an ex-
citing tale of personal adventure or
hairbreadth escape of some sort to
narrate.
Then one day Wilmont got a day off
and went down the state to a Iretle
town where the hitching racks border
the court house square, to be an usher
at a wedding. The day following, he
did not show up at the office, but a
letter came from him telling the par-
ticulars about how he was shot in the
foot in rescuing some young woman
from thugs, and how it would proba-
bly be a day or two before he would
be able to come back.
The office force was greatly excited.
Everybody was sorry, now, that Wil-
mont was in trouble. Good old scout,
Wilmont, they all recalled. One clerk
was so worked up about it that he
sent a telegram down to a causin that |
he remembered he had in the town!
where Wilmont was shot, to get more i
particulars. “Never heard of any
shooting affair,” came back the word.
“Saw Wilmont at a dance last nigh:
and he wasn’t lame.”
A day or two later Wilmont came
in, limping. But of course everybody
was wise. One man came up to him.
sympathetically, and asked how it all
happened. Wilmont told a story that
lacked not a detail--not even the
name of the doctor who removed the
bullet.
The boss was the last one to hear
the story. After Wimont had finished
the boss looked at him. with a cold
mackerel stare. “You're an infernal
liar,” the boss announced, “and you
know it. You weren't shot and that
limp is all a bluff. I won’t have you
around here! Go to the bookkeeper
and get your wages to the end of the
week and then clear out!”
But the head of the sales depart-
ment happened along just then.
“You aren’t firing him, are you?”
he inquired while Wilmont was waiting
for the cashier to hand him his mon- .
ey. “What! A man with an imagina-'
tion like that ought to be worth his
weight.in gold as a salesman. Just let
me try him out.” And the boss re-
lented.
One day the office found itself short
of salesmen just when there was a big
order hanging fire at Pittsburgh. Wil-
mont wanted to try his hand at it, and
they put him on the job on condition
that he should quote no prices, for
they were afraid he might lie and
quote prices below the cost of the raw
material.
Wilmont came back next day with
a $1200 order. How he managed to
do it without quoting prices was a
puzzler to everybody in the office, but
he explained that he had just told the
man how silly it would be to haggle
over prices when his concern had
made its reputation on always selling
the best goods at the lowest possible
price. ‘Tll guarantee that the price’ll
suit,” he had said. And it went.
Less than three months later Wil-
mont was placed in charge of the New
York office of the concern, succeeding
a man who had been there for 12 or
14 years. Not long afterward it was
said that he had ‘tripled the concern’s
business in that territory.
If Wilmont had adhered strictly to
the truth, as the old bromimum rec-
ommends, he might in time have had
his weekly salary increased from $14
to $16, and been trusted with longer
and more tedious tasks to perform.
As it is he merely draws $12,000 a
year and the firm makes him allow the
use of his name on their letterheads
in full-faced black caps.
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A Fair Chance.
There had been friction between the
choir and the minister for some time
past, but so far the singers had more
than held their own. However, one
Sunday morning the minister, after
listening to the singing of the usual
anthem, announced in a loud, clear
voice, “My text this morning will be,
‘Now, when the uproar had ceased.’ ”
For a moment the members of the
choir looked crestfallen. They felt
that the parson had scored for once.
Then ‘in the softest of whispers they
decided to make a slight alteration in
the musical program, and when the
sermon concluded the organ pealed
forth and the choir triumphantly
sang, “Now it is high time to wake
out of sleep.”
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A tourist traveling in the north of
Scotland, far from anywhere, exclaim-
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when any of you are ill?
never get a doctor.”
“Nae, sir,” 1
st to dee a nait
ied Sandy.
ral death.”
“Why, what do you do |
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