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Did Cleo Use Her Needle?
Customer (in rug shop)—You are
positive that this is an antique?
Salesman—Positive, madam! Why,
this rug is known to have been in the
home of Cleopatra.
Customer—What are those four lit-
tle holes?”
Salesman—H’'m—it is known, too,
madam, that the rug was in her sew-
ing room, and that is where the sew-
ing machine stood.
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Ae in the States,"
nid d an American’ ona ‘holiday in Ros-
mmon.
“TH tell you,” said the Yankee,
“about a hen my mother had. She
went out one day and ate a feed of
corn and returned and Taid twelve
eggs. She went out the next day
and ate a feed of corn and laid twelve
, more eggs. She went out the third
day and returned and laid twelve more
eggs. She went out the fourth day
and hatched seventy-two chicks out of
thirty-two eggs. Now that is the kind
of hen we have in the States.”
“Well,” said Pat. “I'll tell you about
a half-blind hen my mother had. She
ate a feed of sawdust, thinking it was
oatmeal. She went fo her nest and
laid a plank twelve feet long. Again
on the third day she ate more sSaw-
dust gnd laid another twelve-foot
plank, She sat on the three planks
and hatched three kitchen chairs, a
sofa; one table an’ a mahogany “chest
of drawers. Now,” said Pat, with a
twinkle in his eye, “that is the kind
of hen we have in Roscommon.”—
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
Another Paradox.
“What is the greatest spur to your
ambition?” she. asked of the young
artist,
“The checks I get for my sales,” he
answered without a quiver.
Sad.
Worm—Why so gloomy, old chap?
Locust—My sweetheart’s away on a
' seventeen-year visit,
To share a thing with a friend is
to add to its weight substance,
‘In buying a home and taking a wife
shut your eyes.
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5 troop ship, was sunk’ recently
WILL SPEED UP
FOOD CONTROL
Big Appropriation . for Survey
to Pass Both Houses
Immediately
TO SELL FERTILIZER AT COST
Persistent Rumors of a Crisis in Gov-
ernmental ‘Quarters Continue to
Come From Germany -— New
Peace Offer to be Made.
Washington, D. C.—To make avall-
able "quickly an appropriation for a
food survey, the department of agri
culture asked, and the Senate and
House agricultural committees agreed,
to have the administration food con-
trol legislation re-introduced in Con-
gress in separate -bills. One meas-
ure, expected to pass without delay,
will carry a $25,000,000 appropriation
for the survey and will provide for
enlarging the department's staff to
permit supervision of seeding® opera:
tions; another will include provisions
for licensing and controlling storage
and distributing concerns.
Appropriation of $10,000,000 for
purchase by the government of ni
trates for fertilizing purposes and
their distribution at cost to farmers
of the Atlantic seaboard would be
authorized by a bill passed by the
Senate, 52 to 8.
Another Peace Offer.
The Hague.— Dr. Von Bethmann:
Hollweg, German imperial chancellor,
will make another peace offer in the
Reichstag, according to an announce
ment made by the Berliner Tage:
*blatt. “The world will be astonished
by the moderation of the German
peace terms,” said the General An
zieger of Dusseldorf, Germany.
3 ’ ——— ee ete ®
Rumors of Crisis in Germany.
Amsterdam.— The Weser Zeitung
of Bremen reports that Berlin is
filled with rumors of a crisis in high
government quarters. The newspa
per says that demands are being
made that a strong man be placed al
the helm of the state. An orderly
Socialist May day procession was
held. Banners carried by the march
ers bore inscriptions calling for
peace and the maintenance of Hol
land’s neutrality.
Troop Ship Is Sunk.
London.—The\ Peninsular: & Orien
| tal Line steamship Ballarat of 11,12
German; submarine. ~All
were. saved. The Ballarat Was Carry.
ing troops from Australia to England
The soldiers were rescued by British
~ Coal Boat Burned.
Sandusky, O.—That the boat which
burned in Lake Erie off East Sister
Island was the steamer Case of
Windsor, Ont., and was bound for De
troit from Cleveland with 2,000 tons
of coal, became known when the
ened many times by wind and wave,
succeeded in landing the captain and
crew of seven men at the United
States life saving station at Marble
head. :
Steel Plant Soon Readys
Baltimore.—Charles M. Schwab an
nounced that the great tin plate mills
the Bethlehem Steel Company is
building here will be ready July 1,
and that the steel plate mills will be
ready August 1. Mr. Schwab said the
problem of his corporation is labor,
and that the scarcity of it had re
tarded some of his improvements.
U. 8. May Operate Bakery.
‘Chicago.—Intervention ‘by the gov:
ernment in the bakers’ strike is he
lieved to be imminent. It was re
ported that federal authorities were
prepared to at once take over one
of the largest bakeries in the city
and operate it.
Postpone Schoo! Openings.
Washington. — Suggestion that all
school openings next fall be post:
poned several weeks to permit girls
and boys to work on farms and in
food producing establishments was
made to the. House agriculture com:
mittee, by Secretary Houston.
U. 8. to Ask Miners to Stick.
~ Washington.—Anthracite operators
told the federal trade commission
that the price of their product dur
Ling the war will depend largely upon
whether miners are exempted from
military service, and upon the sup-
: ply. of cars available for transporta-
tion from the mines. They urged
if that thes government notify miners
{that they will serve their country-
as effectually by sticking to their
picks as by going into trenches.
Allles Get Liners.
Washington, D. C.—The Hamburg:
American liners Portenia and Clara
Mennig at New York have been
#t turned over by the American govern:
ment for use of the Entente allies.
One ship will go to France and the
“1 sther to Italy.
Lexington, Ky-~—A tornado swept
shrough western Kentucky, damaging
*esidences and small buildings in sev-
sral towns and ruining crops. The
lamage is estimated at more than
"100,000.
torpedo boat destroyers and trawlers
coast guard, after having been threat’
| township,
KEYSTONE BRIEFS] i
Dr. J. Leonard Levy, a prominent
Jewish rabbi, of Pittsburgh, is dead.
Will J. Erwood of Philadelphia was
elected president of the Pennsylvania
Spiritualist Association.
The ice company supplying Con-
nellsville threatens to raise the price
of ice to consumers. 2
M. H. Stevenson of Pittsburgh, was
re-elected president of the Western
Pennsylvania Historical society.
The voters of Monaca deteated the
proposition to issue $25,000 of water
works. bonds. : ¢
Frank McMichael, 61 years'old, a
retired newspaper man, dfeq at
Greensburg. |
Andrew Carnegie has resigned as
trustee ‘of the Mary E. Schenley es- =
tate in Pittsburgh..
_ McKeesport is closing a successtul
campaign to raise $300, 000 for its Y. v2
M. C. A. ie uke >
Miss Ida Winslow, 19, and Gladys| | oi
. Richter, 4, we refatally burned by their | »
clothing catching fire at Connellsville. :
Brewers of Lebanon have announced -
that an increase in the: price of beer
of $1 a barrel will go into effect May 1.| :
Connellsville bakers have announced Ne
that they will sell former 5 cent loaves | :
at 10 cents and the 10 cent size at 15} i
cents. 4
The burning of the de )artment store ~
of Clarence Sassco and the Palace the-| -
ater in Hazelton caused a loss of
$200,000.
Dr. V. }. VanKirk of Pittsburgh | Ten
was appointed a first lieutenant in| >
the medical corps and assigned to
the first field hospital.
Plumbers, steamfitters, tinsmiths
and sheet metal workers of Shamokin
who had been on strike since April 1,
were granted a 20 per cent. increase
in wages and a 9-hour work day.
. Plans are under way along the
main line of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road for painting grade crossing gates
in accordance with instructions from
the Board of Public Utilities.
+ Mrs. Robert Sweeney, of New York,
who also maintains a fiome in Scran-
ton, was robbed of a handbag contain- »
ing jewels valued at $12,000 at the a
Lackawanna station at Scranton. .
One “wheatless day” a week is be-
ing urged by a group of women in| A
Franklin, with a view to conserving i
the wheat supply. The substitution
of cornbread is urged. -
Twenty Yale students are coming a
to Uniontown from New Haven on}
‘May 10 to take up aviation under De‘}
‘Lloyd Thompson, who is do instruct 11. 3
‘the racing drivers in’ fying! =~. Rl i
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commis- | Eat ho na
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sion have 2. awarded 21 bronze ® medals uel,
r cases were I 2
FAS The Savasn ‘Senate bill increasing
‘the salaries of the referees in com,
pensation from $2,500 to $5,000 per
year was aprpoved by Gov: Brum,
baugh. 3
Plans have been ‘made for a meeting
fof an international conference on for-
estry and conservation to be held in|
Pittsburgh June 21 to 23. The leading |
foresters of the United States and
Canada will attend.
Chief of police of Harrisburg ‘has
put a ban on all carnivals. If com-
pelled by court order to permit them, | |
he says he will tax them $166 for the |
first day and $25 for each additional
ay. » sot
Francis Lucey, aged 101, died ab|
his home on a farm in Cranberry
Butler county. He was
born in County Tyrone, Ireland, and
lived for many years in Cranberry
township. 2
The Public Service: Commission re-
ceived complaint from residents of
Erie against increases made in the
rates for natural and manufactured
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gas on the part of utility companies
operating in that district.
David H. Singer, teacher of the
Florin grammar school, will, in a
few days, close his forty-third term
at teaching. He taught thirty-seven
years in Mount Joy township and six
‘years in Rapho.
Pleading the urgent havssaity of
‘arm work obtained the releases of
1 number of jurors from court duty
Stamps ‘Spread Disease.
Experiments in the laboratories of
the University of Pennsylvania es-
tablish the fact that postage stamps
do carry germs, and may therefore
be classed as a disease-spreading dan-
ger. In 48 tests out of a total of 505
bacteria were found. The fact that
it Beaver when the new panel of 50
4 lurymen reported in common pleas
court. Judge George A. Baldwin
sranted the request for the releuse
>f the jurors.
Two men are dead, three others are
suffering from stab and gunshot
wounds, and others were hurt in a
factional fight between Italians in a
woods’ near Smyerstown. The fight
J is believed to have been the sequel
to the dynamiting of the residence and
store of Sam Cabrise at Smyerstown.
The dead are Charles Carno,”Smyersr
town, and Guisseppe Fotisguino. :
An attempt was made by unknown
persons to set fire to the plant of
the Westmoreland Chemical and Col
or Company at New Castle. ‘An old
tea kettle filled with oil-soaked waste
was hung on the wall of the plant:
The plant is of frame construction
stroyed. The blazing kettle was dis-
covered by a watchman.
The Pittsburgh Chapter of the
American Red Cross has 65,000 mem-
bers, more than any other single chap:
ter in the National Red Cross organ.
ization. Two months ago the number
of members was only 1,000.
Control of the Wheeling & Lake
Erie railroad has passed into the
hands of Rockefeller interests. The
road has ‘been purchased in behalf
of the Western Maryland Railroad
company, owned by Rockefeller inter-
asts, and it is understood that the
Western Maryland plans to use the
Wheeling & Lake Erie in linking up
a Waghingion and Chicago line.
and would have been speedily de-|
in only two cases were the germs of
a malignant type does not lessen in
any degree the danger that lurks in
wetting the gum with the tongue.
“Meticulous.”
The use of the word “meticulous” in
the sense of “particular,” may be un-
derstood by the following definitions,
which we quote in answer to a re-
quest for the citation of authorities:
Century Dictionary, “timid; over-cere-
ful;” New Standard, “over-cautious;”
Oxford Concise, “over-scrupulous about
minute details.” The word is from
the Latin “meticulosus,” “ful of fear,”
the detivation being fram ‘metus,”
“fear.”
Abuse of Pension System.
Abuse of the pension system is {l-
lustrired by the Bostonian who dis-
covered, in a distant New England
town, a former townsman and police-
man in a new uniform; walking a
heat. “How is this?” asked the visit-
r. “I thought you were on the Bos-
ton force.” “Oh,” exclaimed the trans:
planted. policeman, “you see I’m pen-
sioned by Boston, so I moved. Now
I'm working here.”
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Hair Was Seldom.
A neighbor's child, three, had never
before noticed that her uncle had a
bald spot on his head. On the occa-
sion of a recent call she said: “Ob,
hair.”
Uncle Frank, you have a hole in your
Not Product of Nature. :
.The natural products of the Arabi
an deserts and other oriental regions
which bear the name of manna have
not the qualities of the manna of the
Bible which the Israelites fed upon for
40 years until they got the new corn
of the land of Canaan. The manna of
the Scriptures may be regarded as
wholly miraculous and not in any re-
spect a product of nature.
Wise Farmer.
A farmer, being at the point of dean,
called his sons to his bedside and said:
“There is a great treasure hid in one
of my vineyards.” The sons, after his
death, carefully dug over every portion
of their land. They found no treasure,
but the vines repaid their labor by an
extraordinary and superabundant crop.
—JIsop’s Fables.
Wealth in Alaskan Waters.
Nearly all Alaskan waters teem with
herring, whose value as a food fish is
Just beginning to be recognized ir
those parts. Important in Alaskan
fisheries is the whaling industry. The
species of whale most common are the
hump-back, fin-back, sulphur-botiom
and sperm. The sperm whale is plen-
tiful about Resurrection bay and Cook
inlet waters. A good-sized sperm
whale is worth about $3,000. The
great Alaska salmon industry is the
most important industry in Alaska
next to mining.
Good Advice Wasted.
The Life Extension institute issues a
statement advising girls and young
women to go to bed early every night,
to shun cake and in no circumstances
to eat ice cream. They will be glad
to follow this advice, beginning on the
ne day they stop talking about
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Wanted Joy Distributed.
Marion was given a beautiful ring
Christmas eve. She was overjoyed,
but changed it from one finger to the
other all evening. No one noticed it
that evening, but she kept it up the
next morning. Her mother, fearing
Marion would lose the ring, said:
“Why don’t you put your ring on one
finger and keep it there, Marion?”
“Well, I don't like to be mean. When
I keep it on one finger I pity the othe
ers.”
Her Object.
Little Miss Sarah went calling the
other day with her mother. At one
home the hostess’ little daughter gath-
ered all of her toys into her lap and
sat in her little chair holding them.
“Why, La Rue,” rebuked her mother,
“put down your toys so Sarah can play
with them.” “I am just holding them,
mamma, SO Sarah. can have more room
to play.”
Grecian Dolls.
As one might expect, the little Greek
girls had beautiful dolls. They were
made of clay and wax and decorated
with bright colors. They had beautiful
garments which could be put on and
taken off at will, and some of them
were made to represent the gods and
heroes so much revered by the people.
They were not stiff creatures, but hac
movable limbs.
‘Not a Chance In the Worn.
“A good husband ought to tell his
wife all his faults,” is the advice given
husbands of more or less doubtful
status by a Milwaukee authority on
domesticity. But the average husband
will have to be very, very quick about
it or the aver wife will tell him
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