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Give the Auto Good Care.
Automobiles have become a part
; of farm necessity. And ¢vecy farmer
| is a mechanic and must get the “auto
| habit"—know what to do in case of
| emergency.
| The sick or ailing machine cries cut
for assistance. Usually a dash of cil,
a bolt or nut tightened, an electric
wire made secure so that the electric
current can travel safely to its des-
tination will correct a fault and save
time and expense.
When the working parts of a car
are clean, efficiency and durability are
secured. Clogged cylinders and
valves tell a story by the working
sound. ‘Don’t delay action, but get at
‘em! Wash the machinery as well as
the body. When that thick, gummy
accumuation appears in the cylinder,
on the piston, joints, clutch and bear-
ings wash it off with coal oil; it eats
dirt. The gear box is easily removed.
Paint the parts with kerosene, using
a stiff brush and permit them to stand
for a few minutes to eat out the small
hard particles. Do this often; it pays.
off grease dirt but it doenn’t lubricats
a working part. Give all joints and
bearings a ‘healthy dose of oil and
| grease and use the best. It is always
cheapest. Study the machiue and un-
derstand what each rumble, squeak
and clatter designates and fix them
immediatey. The reward of “getting-
at-it” is pleasure, easy riding and no
machine trouble when on the road
and at night. The “tractor” is a
brother to the auto and requires the
same attention, —A. L. Roat.
The First Flank Attack.
We have a record in the book of
Joshun of *‘the stratagem whereby Af
| was taken.” This tells us how 5,000
| men were set lu ambush behind the
| city. so that when the king of Al and
| his hosts were drawn forward to the
| ight a. flank attack was made with
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overwhelming success by the warriors
of lsrael. ®
Not less disastrous wax the fate of
| Leonidas and his brave little baud of
heroes when the Persians at Thermop
vine, led by a traitor. took them in th
rear. 480 B. C. .
It was by a musterly maneuver near
1300 ‘years Tater thot Hannibal dealt
! vine of the heaviest blows wmtinst th
hosts of Rome. Having con. ealed his
urother Mago, with 2.0 10 hore aid Too
soldiers, among the reads, be entice]
| the Roman forces across tlie river "re
bia. The legions feuzht bt avely snd
held their own until Maro, rising from
ambush, attacked them in the rear and
routed therm.
Hope. and Faith.
Hope is the boy. a blind. hendiong.
pleasant fellow good fo chase swal
lows with salt; Faith ix the grave, ex
perienced yet sui ling man. Hope lives
on ignorance; open eved Iaith is built
upon a knowledge of our life, ef the
tyranny of circumstance and the fail
ure of human resolution. Hope looks
cor unqualified success, but Faith
counts certainly on failure and takes
honorable defeat to be a form of vic-
tory. Hope is a kind old pagan. but
Faith grew up in Christian days and
early learned humanity. In the one
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temper a man is indignant that he can-
not spring up. in a clap to heights of
elecance and virtue: in the other, out
of u sense of his infirmities he is filled
with confidence because a year has
come and gone and he hag still pre
served some ray of honor. — Robert
[.onis Stevenson.
Crest or te Bloody Hand.
The noted HMnglsh family of the
Hoites has for its badge a bloody hand.
and this sinister badge commemorates
a wager that ended in a crime. Sir
Thomas Holte one day in 1612 was
hunting. He invited his comrades
home with him to dinner, and as he
rode along he made a heavy bet on
his cook’s punctuality. But the cook
failed him {or once. When he got
home dinner was not ready. The jeer:
of his companions at this failure, to
wether with his huge loss in the matte
of the wager. enraged him so that he
ran into the Kitchen. seized a cleaver
and split tie cook's head open with
it. Aiterward his family, to keep this
crime alive, adopted for its crest the
Population by Sex. Charm of Prahova.
About half the probable population Na trave.er wio has visited Rou
of the world has been enumerated with mania returns without praising the
About 50.3 per cent | wonders of Prahova. Here. aiter one
relation to sex.
male, 49.7 per cent female, is the re-
sult of this count. Only in Europe. |a charming valley in the midst of for
among continents, do the females out- | esis. of great rocks aud
number the males. the proportion be- gers. The ands
ing: Female, 50.6 per cent; male, 49.4 | ri
per cent. In mest parts of the world | that recalls the orient.
of which we have information the re- are seated on tie
verse is true. The percentage of males
jn British Iadia is 50.9: in the tribu-
tary states, 51.7: in Japan, 50.5. In
the United States by the last census
there were 106 males to 100 females,
the divisions of native, foreign, etc.,
being as follows: Native white of na-
tive parentage, 104 males, 100 females; Prahova aud its sweet
native white of foreign parentage, 99.5 | Near Singin the valley
males, 100 females; foreign white, 129.2 | campina appears, the chief city of the
| coal lands and of the salt mines. Ani
caulk of a tumuitu
{heir summer homes. There are 1e¢
Bul harest is taken by
journers to the shadows
summer So
offered by
100 females; all other, 185 males, 100
females.—New York Times.
a ad
salt, like petroleum, is everywhere.
Adjustable Mathematics.
- “Figures prove began the statis-
i tical expert.
Ambiguous.
1 “Wait 2 minute,” interrui ted Senato. | on a long business trip he got a left
® Sorghum. “You tell me what question | from bi . that still puzzles him.
vou are discussing and w hich side of It ended thu
“Baby is well and lots brighter than
used to be.
it you are on and I'll tell you without
3 the trouble of going through the calcu- | she
going to prove.”—W ashington Star. Manchester Union.
| has passed the heights of Pu deat, iv!
woiiing wa-
ape evolies recoliec-
x of Swiier and, with architecture
Azuga. Bustena,
ous river. Farther away is Sinaia. The
court and tie [loumanian aristocracy
have built in tiis delightful vailer
freshness.
widens and
When Bilkips was away from home
Hoping that you are
Ration just about ‘what your figures are the same, I remain, your loving wife.”
bloody hand of the cook killer.
A Mild Threat.
The following story is told of the late
: Dr. Timothy Dwight. In his early
days, when he was a tutor in charge
of student discipline at Yale--a sort o.
proctor, appareitly --he was called Sut
of his room by some midnight escapade
He was obliged as a matter of duty
to pursue the disturbers, and with his
long legs he soon found himself gain
ing rapidly upon them. Thereupon a
solemn voice rang out suddenly into
the night:
“Gentlemen, if you don't run a little
! | faster I shall be obliged to overtake
large hotels. All that made life at | you.”
Hunting a Penny.
More than a year ago the balance in
the Bank of lusland suowed the loss |
of 3 pcnuy The working force was
Governments
about a block of salt to lick it, for |are exact in their small financial deal-
ings, and even in this country a post-
master has received a check for a cent.
Poot Business.
“The milliner, as usual, is six weeks
behind with my hat.”
“Serves you ri * growled her hus-
band, the eminent magnate.
women will deliberately place a big
construction order without a sign of a
penalty clause.”
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SOME EVERYDAY CAUSES |
OF INDIGESTION |
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The teeth are the first actor in the |
process of digestion. They represent
the millstones that cut and grind the
food. As they do so, alkaline secre-
tions are given out by glands in the
mouth and mix with the food to make
the first change it undergoes in tne
process of being absorbed by the sys-
tem.
Good teeth.are essential to normal
digestion. Teeth whcih are diseased
or artificial teeth held in plaee by ret-
tings which retain foodstuffs, are in-
jurious to health because they provide
places in which disease prodncing
germs grow and multiply.
If you have diseased teeth or false
teeth not easy to clean have them at-
tended to. The germs they foster are
producing poisonous substances that
interfere with the normal functions
of vital organs, such as the heart and
kidneys.
If you put your teeth in order, pro-
vided the organs have not become
chronically effected by long subjec-;
tion of the poisons will permit Nature
to reassort itself and the organs whose
functions have been effected will re-
sume their normal course in sustain-
ing the scheme of life.
Care of the teeth should begin with
the advent of the chid’s first ones.
They should be kept clean by mears |
that will insure no wounding of the |
gums. They are usually destroyed by |
acid, therefore mouth washes contain - |
ing acids should be used. Consult]
your dentist before using mouth
washes or preparations in the forin
of powders, creams, ete.
If you are interested in your diges-
tion, you will avoid fmeruony ak
tures of foodstuffs made up so i: |
tickle the taste. Potato N- in rn
American style is a good See |
The potato is composed chief |
starch. That is digested in 4d sec-
ond stomach where the secretions are
alkaline. If you soak the potato in |
vinegar you have something whose 1a- |
ture is strictly opposite to the alka-
line, which it fights. Therefore, you
Poor cooking often ‘makes proper
food either difficult or impossible to
digest. The hard earned money of the |
household goes to the purchas of good
food which is often ruined by tha
housewife ignorant in the art of cook-
ing. Good cooking is not a matter of |
whim or flattering the palate.
an absolute essential to health.
Therefore the ant should be taught in
our public and parochial schools.
If you eat too fast when the body
is overtired, heated, or chilled, you
will often suffer distressing indiges-
tion. Eating in impure or stale air
will interfere with the digestion. If
you are compelled to take a meal un-
der such circumstances, the quality
of the food should be reduced to a
minimum.
Outside of some of these things
which have been mentioned, all of
which can be controlled to a greater
or less extent it will be found that
certain foods do not in themselves
agree with certain persons. If yoa
are eating sensible food in a sensible |
manner and you find that some par-
ticular thing does not agree with you,
the only thing to do is to cut it of
vour list.
Our Wildcats.
From the earliest settlement of
America the bobcat, or nay iyux, has
figuged largely in huni: literature.
and the popular estima. -t its char-
acter is well attested by “he frontier
iCea of the superiative pbs sical prow
ces of a man who can “whip his weight
In wiidcats.” Althongh our wildcat
usually weighs less chan twebds
pounds, if its reputed licreeiess could
be sustained it would be an awkward
fee. But, so far as man is concerned.
uilless it is cornered and forced to de
fend itself it is extremely timid and
inoifensive. ‘Like all cats, it is very:
muscwar and active, and to the rab
told to find it and has been working !
3 that are at liberty assemble |since without success.
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bits, squirrels, mice. grouse and other
small game upon which it feeds it is
a jursistent and remorseless enemy
As in the case of most small cats, the
stenthy hunting habits of the bay
Iyus render it exes ;
to ground freyuenting bivas, espe ial
to quail, grouse aud othe gane Lin
For this reason, like many of its li
it is outlawed in ail seitled parts ©
the country.-- National Geographic Mas
azine
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Our mode of life is based upon oul
theories. Our sash windows are prob
ably the most irrational things in crea-
tion. They appear to have been first
invented in Holland and brought ove:
to England toward the close of the sev
| enteenth century in place of the ration
| al French windows. It must have been
a curious person who invented the for-
| Why Sash Windows?
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hand. French windwws, as
ily seen anywhere on the continent oi
in Boypt or elsewhere, may be closed
to exclude either draft or noise. More
over. seldom if ever do we have double
windows such as are used through-
out northern Europe. -London Science
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GERMAN RAIDER
SINKS 26 SHIPS
Entente Alias’ bs Stipa alay In
South Atlantic Suis |
Raider Preys on Allied Commerce Vee
sels In Unpretected Waters—3ev. |
eral Hundred Sailors Captured.
Twenty-six ships of the allies, most-
ly British, were sunk or cap u. ed by |
It is a daring German raider in the souti
Atlantic.
Two hundred and fifty-seven men of
the crews of captured and .unke:,
ships have been put ashore ut Per-
pambuco in the captured Japanese
vessel, Hudson Maru. Four hund.ed
EF CH EE EK ME Ee ¥E-
STEAMER YARROWDALE
REACHES GERMAN PORT.
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* lin statement the British steam-
# or Yarrowdale was brought into
* a German harbor on Dec. 31 as
* ga prize by a prize crew of
* teen men. She carried 649 pris-
* oners, the crews of stririers
* captured by.a German aux. liary
* cruiser in the Atlantic.
* The prisoners on the Yarrow-
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dale were from one Norwegian
and seven British vessels. The
cargoes of the captured vess
the statement adds, cons
principally of war material for *
the entente allies and food- *
stuffs. -
Three of the vessels sunk *
were armed British merchant *
nen. »
The bringing of the Yarrow- »
dale, the statement cent'nu»s, *
had been kept secret for mili- *
tary reasons. »
EF RE OR RE B® RE AE FR
more are about to be landed from th
captured steamer St. Theodor?.
London issues the following LSU Of
vessels lost: Sunk—Dramatist, Geor-
gic, Minich, Voltaire, etherby H
Nantes, Mount Tenple, Acnierces, kL
George; captured— St. Theodore, Yar
rowdale.
South American reports divide the |
vessels as sunk and captured as fol-
lows: Sunk—Radnorshire, Tredega
Hall, St. Theodore, Nantes, Dramatis?
Asnieres, Minieh; captured—Kiug
George, Mcunt Temple, Georgie, Vo
taire, Yarrowdale, I fudson Maru.
The Rio Janicro cc {le gram said tha
all the vessels were suk or capiurl red
yetween Dec. 12 and Jan. 10, on tue
rou-c between the Azores and Pe:
naribuco, in longitudes varying be-
tween 40 and 32 west, latitude be-
tween 30 north and 7 south.
“The crews of the steamships sunk
were placed on the Hudson Maru,”
continued the cablegram. “This ves
sel was compelled to accompany th=
raider to a point seven degrees south
latitude, where she arrived, Jan. 12.
She then received permission to go to
Pernambuco, where she arrived on
Monday evening with 237 men from
the crews of the vessels which were
sunk. No inf on has been re
ceived in regard ‘0 crews of the
captured vessels.
Most "of these beats when last re
ported were in the south Atlantic, in
dicating that the German raider h~s
been at work off the South Amer
£oast At Norfolk last night there
ras picked up a
a ae rman raider
const near Perna
Side maak a ly
ireless warning that
placed the raider in Int!tude 7 degrons
south and lengitude 26 dogrec: west.
The a vessel was descr.bed as
ship of about 4,000 tons, well armed
2d 2 torpedo tubes.
A cordon of British cruisers report-
ed to number fifteen is believed to b2
sweeping the southern seas in search
of the raider, which, according to one
report, may be the auxiliary cruiser
Vineta; according to another the
cruiser ‘Moewe, the same sea rover
which played havoc with allied ship-
, ping about a year ago.
DEWEY FUNERAL SIMPLE
Body of Hero of Manila Bay Laid
Away—Nation Pays Tribute.
Admiral Dewey was laid to rest Sat-
_urday with all the honors a grateful
; ' nation can bestow.
After funeral services conducted un-
der the dome of, the capitol, and at-
| tended by President Wilson, the cabi-
‘net, the supreme court, the diplo-
‘matic corps and a notable company,
the admiral’s body was taken to Ar-
lington National cemetery, to rest with
those of maval heroes gone before.
All business of the government was
| suspended for the day, all private
| business in Washington stopped for
| an hour. On every American ship on
| the seven seas an ensign fluttered at
‘half-mast and an admiral’s salute of
| nineteen guns was fired. The entire
! corps of midshipmen from Annapolis
I escorted the body to the rotunda of
| the capitol. *
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Three Bank Robbers Slain.
| A posse of ten men which left Ok-
| mulgee, Okla., in search for bank rob-
| bers, returned with the bodies of Os-
| car Poe, William Hart and Harry
| Hart. The men killed were engaged in
la skirmish with the posse about
| eighteen wiles southwest of Okmul-
| gee.
After the Secrets.
“Ma’s just crazy to serve on a jury.
“That so.”
“Yes: she says she wants to be one
of the first to tell the secrets of the
jury room.” — Detroit Free Press.
”
Trans. lity of Liszt,
Liszt was a =veet =eiled character.
One day two of his friendd, musicians,
resolved to put the aw tro into a
passic which oue his habits,”
they inquired. ‘wot! most seriously
trouble him were he deprived of it?
“Perhaps,” was tue auswer, ‘he
would sau
made Led.”
| The two confederates, with a louis.
bouzut ov or a servant to their designs.
| She ‘was not. it was agreed, to make
his Led for th at night.
Liszt slept badly and the next morn-
ing simply said, “You have forgotten
i to make my bed.”
| For two days following she neglect-
ed making the bed. and on the third
day the maestro simply said:
“1 see that you have decided not to
make my bed. Well, let it alone. I
have come to accustom myself to it.”
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most if deprived of a well
Shoes That Do Not Wear Out.
Esparto shoes, or shoes made of the
toughest and strongest of the coarse
| esparto fibers, are still worn in Iberia
and parts of Portugal. There is no
shoe made which will outlast them.
not excepting leather shoes. Indeed.
one pair of esparto shoes has been
known to outwear a dozen tanned hide
soles. This is due to their faculty of
picking up and retainine in i
terstices steny particics
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the pibbles i's worn out they are re-
placed automatically by others. Thus
a seif soling process is constantly go
ing on. It is not uncommon in some
parts of Spain or Portugal to hear the
natives boast of wearing a pair of
esparto shoes for twenty-five years or
more.
Hair is nut to be mentioned in a dpaléd
| man’s house.~-Livonian Proverb.
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