NEWS IN GENERAL
German submarines sunk three more
PBritish merchantmen in 36 hours, Sun-
day. In addition the French cargo boat,
L’Aude has been sunk off the coast
of Algeria by an Austrian submersile.
Ten were killed and 43 injured by
bombs dropped from a German air-
ship n the raid on the eastern counties
of England last Thursday night. Vie-
tims of the raid were civilians as were
those of the night of August 17 when
10 were killed and 36 wounded. Fif-
teen houses were demolished by three
Zeppelins.
The steamer Santa Anna, bound
from New York to Marselles and Nap-
les with seme 1,600 Italian reservests
on board was afire Sunday in the At-
lantic Ocean, three days’ sail from
the nearest port. A wireless that
reached the station at Cape Race Sun-
day night brought the first news of
her plight. The fire was extinguished.
In a statement issued by the Direc-
tor of Public Health of Philadelphia
gives unqualified endorsement to the
penny lunch counters that have been
established in the schools there. He |
contends that thousands of children
who otherwise are facing limited
starvation and the diseases incident
thereto, are materially berefited by
the wholesome food which is served.
Charles H. Dorflinger, a glass man-
ufacturer of Honesdale, Wayne Co., |
announced recently at Philadelphia
that he would be a candidate for dele- |
gate to the Republican National Con-
vention of 1916 and at the same time
declared himself for Senator Penrose
for president on a “Penrose Protec- |
tion and Prosperity” platform. Mr. |
Dorflinger is the first Pennsylvanian i
to announce himself as a candidate
for national delegate.
Insurance agents, human torches
and unnamed prominent business men
comprise the personnel of an ar-
son syndicate the police claim to have
unearthed at St. Louis. These incen-
diaries, the police say, were responsi-
ble for most of the big fires which
have baffled fire and police depart
ments there for five years and the
profits of the syndicate have aggrega-
ted millions of dollars, according to
the police.
Ambassador Bernsdorff of Germany
is quoted in an interview published by
the New York Evening Sun, as declar-
ing that a diplomatic break between
Germany and the United States will
mean war, but the strained relations
from the Arabic affair will probably
be adjusted. “If diplomatic relations
are broken off,” the German Ambas-
sador is quoted as having said, “the
German submarine commanders will
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Stor y sooe oo
The Perfect Man. |
Oh, what does it take to make a man |!
complete *
From the crown of his head to the
soles of his feet,
With naught to subtract and noth-
ing to add,
A man not too good and a man not
too bad?
Is a man but an arm, a leg and a boot
An eye, and an ear and a tongue and
a throat?
Is there nothing more in him to ex-
tol?
A brain—or a heart—or a conscience
or soul? :
Is the hunchback, the deaf, the mute
and theb lind
The only unfortunate the frail world
can find?
Is there no petrified heart? No brain
out of plumb?
No conscience deep-seared and with-
ered and dumb?
Is the miserable gristle in place of a
spine,
The shrunken ideal, the hope out of
line,
The twisted desire, the wishy-washy |
will,
No cause to suspect the make-up is
in?
Is there no vision to look through the
skin
And see the deep voids that may lie
within?
The crack on the inside where the
outside is whoel ?
The warp in the heart and the limp
in the soul? —Dudley Reid.
“I wish I could be Tommy Jones,”
said little Johnnie.
“Why, Johnnie,” said his mother,
“You are stronger than he is, you have
a better home, more toys, and more
pocket money.”
“I know, but he can wiggle his ears,”
replied Johnnie.
A Confession
No we did not come back from our
alleged vacation for the joy of work-
ing. Work is an hereditary trait ac-
cumulated through generations of
genteel poverty. We hate poverty
worse than we do work; that’s why
we choose the lesser evil. But, gee,
how it hurts to work after a fort-
night of magnificent loafing.
Good Rules to Observe.
be instructed to sink everything they
see and ot course this means war
within two or three days.”
Russia has made further concessions
to the Jews, according to a telegram
just given out by the banking houses
of Rothschilds & Sons, from the Inter-
national Commercial Bank, of Petrog-
rad. For the period of the war the
Jews may live and buy property in all
cities of Russia except capitals and
imperial residential towns and some
of the restrictions against the en-
trance of Jews to government schools
have been removed.
The new type of giant biplane under-
going tests in Germany is said to have
a measurement of 42 1-2 metres across
the plane. The motor developed 300-
horsepower, and each works three
propellers. These biplanes are capa:
ble of carrying sufficient fuel Tor
fights of eight hours. They are e-
quipped with wireless and search-
lights, Each carries 12 bombs weigh-
ing 22 pounds and five machine guns.
Biplanes of this type will have crews
of eight men and will be able to trav-
el to London and back in five hours.
The engineers who constructed them
obtained the idea from a Russian ma-
chine. They say that the new craft
will supersede the Zeppelin.
That the central powers still have
an overwhelming superiority in all
the material and equipment of war
and that the allies to win must put
forth all their strength, is the state-
ment made by David Lloyd-George,
of England, minister of munitions, in
the preface of a book containing his
speeches since the outbreak of the
war, entitled: “Through Terror to
Triumph.” “After twelve months of
war,” says he, “my convictions are
stronger than ever that this country
try could not have kept out of it with-
out imperiling its security and its hon-
or. We could not have looked on cyn-
ically with folded arms while a coun-
try we had given our word to protect
was being ravaged—trodden on by
one of our own co-trustees. If British
women and children were being bru-
It is a good and safe rule to sojourn
in each place as if you meant to spenil
your life there, never omitting an ap-
portunity of doing a kindness, or
speaking a true word, or making a
friend.—Ruskin.
He Was Delighted.
“Yes,” said the amateur tenor, “1
once received a high compliment from
a great musician. I was singing on
board an ocean liner, but without ac-
companiment, for accompanists can
never keep time with me, you know.”
“What did the musician say?”
“He said—and these were his very
words—'When I saw you begin to sing
without accompaniment I was amazed;
but when you sat down I was delight-
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Making it Emphatic.
She sailed into the telegraph office
and rapped on the counter. As the
clerk came forward to meet her he
remembered that she had been there
about 10 minutes before.He wondered
what she wanted this time.
“Oh,” she ‘said, “let me have that
telegram I wrote just now; I forgot
something very important, I wanted
to underscore ‘perfectly lovely’ In
acknowledging: the receipt of that
bracelet. Will it cost anything extra?”
“No ma'am,” said the clerk as he
handed her the message.
The young lady drew two heavy
lines beneath the words and said:
“It’s awfully good of you to let me
do that. It will please Arthur ever so
much.”
Followed Suit.
The bride had engaged Sarah, only
a week in America, as a housemaid.
On her first day her mistress said:
“Now, Sarah, I will go over the en-
tire house with you and show you
exactly what you are to do.” She then
kissed her husband, and went on her
rounds with the new girl.
The next morning as the bride and
her husband were sitting at breakfast
tally destroyed on the high seas by
German submarines, the nation would |
have insisted on calling the infanti-
cide empire to a stern reckoning. Ev- |
erything that has happened since the
declaration of war has clearly dem-
onstrated that a military system so
regardless of good faith, honorable
obligations and the elementary im-
pulses of humanity, constitute a men- |
ace to civilization of the most sinister
character, and, despite the terrible
$ ppl ing it, the well-being
of humanity demands that such a sys-
tem should be challenged and destroy-
ed.
she was horrified to see Sarah enter,
and, blushing furiously, go up to the
young man, throw her arms about him
and give him a kiss.
Recent experiments indicate that
round timbers of all the pines, of |
Engelmann spruce, Douglas fir, tam- |
arack and western larch, can be read:
ily treated with preservatives, but that |
the firs, hemlocks, redwood and Sitka |
spruce in the re i do not take treat-
ment easily. Thi 1formation should
ve of value to persons who contems- |
SMOKING
STOVE
PIPE
YOUR ROOF
LUMBIN study when you determine to
conduct the Bornes in the host phactical
ene Tg Sficgtive way. We have mates study
of the ‘trade an ‘that we are qualified to
de know that we a 1 3 )
tickle’ and Sucogasility handle the most difficult
jobs.” No tediporary substitutes here for work
that should remain permaneiitly. Fond
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SAFETY FIRST
SHOULD GOVERN IN PLUMBING.
Health Security—based
on sanitary construction and
durability is the keynote in
making ‘Standard’ Plumb-
ing Fixtures.
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