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The Finding of Old Glory.
When the day came that our revolu-
tionary fathers needed to design a flag
for the new nation of their heroic
founding they had but to lift their eyes
to the heavens to find the banner of
their faith and pride.
In the glowing west, in the burning
clouds of the sunset sky—streaming 4
across the wide horizon in alternate
bands of flame and mist—they saw the
symbol of their own fair dreams,
mystic, mighty and baflling.
And as they looked there came a sud-
den rending of the fleecy mass by a
wind of liberty’s own sending, and
through the monster rift thus made
they beheld a patch of azure sky set
thick with silver stars.
The stars—the stripes—the blue—Old
Glory, blazoned in beauty across the
wonder of God's heaven, for all the
world to see. It is our flag—God make
ms worthy of it—Anne Rankin in
Southern Woman's Magazine.
False Economy.
Some people begrudge the expendi-
ture of money to beautify the home or
to bring the comforting message of
friendship in time of trouble. To them
flowers are of no use, pictures and
music a waste of money. But a life re-
stricted to things that go into the pot
or are worn on the back results in
starving the spirit. “If I had two
loaves of bread I would sell one of
them to buy white hyacinths to feed
my soul.” That was the terse and
poetic sentiment of a truth oft neg-
lected. ‘
Even the poor need other things
more than they need money. The
money will be gone next month, but
the memory of a great bunch of wild
flowers remains. “Flower missions”
furnish a beautiful ministry that al-
most any Sunday school class can exer-
cise. Send your posies to the hospitals
or to the children of the slums.—
Christian Herald.
Ministers’ Sons.
An investigator finds that one-twelfth
of all the men whose names appear in
“Who's Who” are sons of preachers.
Four presidents were sons of ministers
~Buchanan, Arthur, Cleveland and
Wilson. Three of the great Boston
group of writers—Emerson, Lowell and
Holmes—were of ministerial parent-
age, so were Parkman and Bancroft,
also the remarkable Field brothers—
Cyrus W., David Dudley and Stephen
J. The influence of the eminent Jona-
than Edwards appears to have extend-
ed far down in the line of his descend-
ants, for the list include one vice pres-
ident, three senators, thirty judges,
gixty authors, twelve college presi-
dents, and not one of the 1,304 who
were traced was ever convicted of a
crime. The list of clergymen’s distin-
guished sons could be greatly extended,
for they are to be found in every line
of activity.—Indianapolis Star.
How Houses Explode.
The most remarkable phenomenon
connected with tornadoes is the explo-
sion of houses, which literally burst,
scattering their fragments in all direc-
tions. Sometimes substantial dwell-
ings are carried high into the air and
then explode.
It is now understood that this is due
to the fact that the “funnel cloud” (re-
volving at a rate of at least 500 miles
STUDY YOUR BUSINESS.
Learn a Lesson Out of One Big Man's
Book of Success.
Perhaps the most wonderful memory
in the United States is owned by James
A. Farrell, president of the United
States Steel corporation, whose meth-
ods and successes are described in anf
article by B. C. Forbes in the American
Magazine.
“Mr. Farrell could rattle off the exact |
location of every sizable iron plant, not
only in America, but in England, Ger-
many, Belgium, France, Austria, Rus-
sia, China, India—in short, all over the
world. He knew the charges made by
the railroads for carrying iron and
steel from all these works to seaboard
and the ocean freight rates from any
one point to any other point on the
map.
“Distances, too, he had at his finger
tips and could always explain exactly
the cheapest way to ship material from
anywhere to everywhere. Straight off
the bat he told the exact percentage,
even to the decimal point, of how
much of America’s total production
was exported in every recent year. One
lawyer wanted light on how many
wheels were made in the United
States, and Mr. Farrell obligingly in-
formed Lim that the annual total was
2,260,000.
“+1 could conceive no more humiliat-
ing experience,’ he replied, ‘than to be
asked some question concerning our |
operations and to be obliged to send |
for a subordinate to answer it. T would
not consider myself fit for the job un-
less I knew the ins and outs of the
business and how each detail of it is
conducted." ”
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VALUE OF THE PORPOISE.
Oil From Its Jaw Keeps Clocks and
Watches Running Smoothly.
In this hastening age of ours, when
even seconds count in business life, it
may sound paradoxical to say that we
owe our punctuality and time saving
to the playful porpoise. And yet such,
indeed, is the fact, for watches, clocks
and the still more dignified chronometer
would not run month in and month out
with regularity but for the lubricant
obtained from its jaws. This oil has
the unique property of being able to
retain its fluidity summer and winter,
and there is an authentic record of the
lubricant doing its work at a tempera-
ture of quite 100 degrees below the
freezing point.
A variety of other oils have been
tried for the same service, but all of
them have proved far less reliable. In
a watch or chronometer the oil must
stay where put—it must not “creep”
over the mechanism and thus steal
GET BACK TO NATURE.
Live the Simple Life and Win Health
and Happiness.
The movement to return to nature
and simple life is the solution offered
to the high cost of living problem, but
health experts and enthusiasts have
found it to be the only way of right
living or healthful living known today.
They have adopted it as a safe road to
health. They say that a return fo na-
ture means good digestion, sound sleep,
a clear head, a placid mind, eoentent-
ment and joy to be alive.
But first, they say, it means getting
close to nature—living out of doors as
much as possible by working, playing
and resting in the open air and, above
all, by sleeping in the open air. “Out-
door sleeping is the best life preserver
known.” It means also going to the
garden and orchard for your bill of
fare—tomatoes, lettuce, celery, spinach,
turnips, beans, corn, peas, melons, ber-
ries, apples, peaches, plums and all
other fruits and green stuffs unouched
by fire.
The real value of adopting the sim-
ple life, according to the health ex-
perts, lies in the pleasure we find in
living it. To do it grudgingly or with-
out knowing and appreciating its bene-
fits we botch it and fail, but to love
health more than appetite and seek it is
to have health, comfort, efficiency and a
jong life. ‘Start the simple life—begin
it today,” is the motto of this health
movement.—North Carolina State Board
of Health Bulletin. il
COLORS IN SURNAMES.
Why the English Word “Red” ls Not
to Be Found Among Them.
Black, White and Brown are com-
mon surnames in English, but there is
no English family called Red. The for-
mer names were given originally be-
cause of the complexion of the persons
who received them. It seems strange
that in a people among whom red
heads were common none should have
acquired the name “Red,” espegially as
this is frequently bestowed as a nick-
name. A dictionary explains this as
follows:
“Red, like lead (led), with which fit is
phonetically parallel, had in Middle
English a long vowel, which has be-
come shortened. The long vowel re-
mains, however, in the surnames Read,
Reade, Reed, Reid, which represent old
forms of the adjective and the exist-
ence of which as surnames explains the
almost total absence of the expected
surname Red, parallel to Black, Brown,
White, ete.” 1 B
The equivalent of “red” in foreign
languages is just as common a sur-
name as are the equivalents of
away from its proper post of duty.
Therefore, it ought not to run away in
the presence of considerable heat. Nei-
ther should the oil oxidize, evaporate
or grow rancid. These exacting re-
quirements are met in their entirety
only by porpoise jaw oil, and it is no
wonder that the stuff when refined sells
wholesale in the neighborhood of $25 a
gallon. There are many other mechan.
isms that are best cared for by using
porpoise jaw oil, such, for instance, as
talking machines, delicate recording ap-
paratus, etc.—Scientific American.
Record Fishing. 3]
A correspondent asks for the record
an hour) has a vacuum inside. Thus it
sucks up everything in its path, even
emptying wells. It sucks all the air
from around a house over which it
passes, and the house (a vacuum being
thus created outside of it) promptly ex-
plodes, owing to the pressure of the
air, at thirty pounds to the square
inch, from within.
The house, in a word, is transformed
into a bomb.—Philadelphia Press.
About Temperature.
The best authorities on the science of
meteorology tell us that without the
the temperature
there would be a perfect calm at all
times in all parts of the globe. A uni-
form and unvarying barometric pres- mm
sure would everywhere prevail, and
there would be no change of seasons,
or condensation, no
In short, without
which we
sometimes think so uncomfortable, the
atmosphere would soon become poison-
ous, stagnant and incapable of sus-
various changes in
no evaporation
clouds and no rain.
changes of temperature,
taining human life.
Awkwardly Put.
«I grovel here before you in the
dust!” observed the impassioned youth
as he sank on to the drawing room
floor.
«J don’t know what you mean by
dust,” replied she coldly. “I look after
this room most carefully myself every
morning.”—London Tit-Bits.
Top and Bottom.
“My friend,” said the long haire
passenger to the young man in the sea
opposite, “to what end has your life |
work been directed?”
«Po both ends,” was the reply.
have the only first class hat and shoe
store in the village.”
To Clarify Fat.
Fat is easily clarified if a few pieces
of raw potato are added to it and then
{t is heated slowly in the oven or on
top of the stove. When it ceases to
bubble, strain through cheesecloth and
let it stand till firm. Keep in a cool
place.
Good Reason.
“Why don’t you ever laugh at any of
my jokes?”
“Because 1 was brought up to re-
spect old age and feebleness.”’—Bslti-
more American.
No man gets rich whose pocket is a
flag station Instead of a terminal—
Youth's Companion.
tuna taken on light tackle in Santa
Catalina island waters. He requests
further enlightenment on what light
tackle means.
Light tackle of the Tuna club con-
sists of a wood rod, butt and tip, not
shorter than six feet over all. Butt to
be not over fourteen inches in length,
tip not less than five feet in length and
pot to weigh more than six ounces.
Line not to exceed standard nine
tiiread.
On this tackle R. Rochester, Jr., of
Los Angeles, in the waters of San Cle-
monte on Aug. 28, 1913, fought a sev-
enty-seven and three-fourths pound
tuna for seven hours before subduing
the fish.—New York Sun.
Preserve the Wild Flowers.
An earnest appeal has been made by
the Kansas City Star for the preserva-
tion of one of the most beautiful of
wild flowers, the columbine, particul-
larly along tourist routes. This appeal
will find sympathetic support every-
where throughout the states in which
the columbine is a natural annual, but
it should be broadened to include all
wild flowering plants that are need-
lessly and often wantonly pulled up by
the roots. The conservation of wild
flowers is a patriotic duty.—Christian
Science Monthly.
Have an Old Fashioned Garden.
If you wish to grow flowers in quanti-
ties for house decoration or other pur-
poses grow them in a border three or
four feet wide along a back fence. This
a i is the place for larkspurs, hollyhocks,
¢ ! dahlias, columbines, phlox, shasta dais-
| fes, gladioli, ete. Call this an old fash-
joned garden if you will, all the same
“fi everybody likes it.
Pomegranates.
The pomegranate was early cultivat-
ed in Egypt; hence the complaint of
the Israelites in the wilderness of Zin
figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates.”
Geometrical.
“Don’t know her?
the same square with you.”
ele.”—Cleveland Leader.
Natural History.
Possibly.
advance guards,
Courier-Journal.
| ¢han you do from a car window.
I gmt msn,
(Numbers xx, 5), this “is no place of
Why, she lives in
“Yes, but she’s not in the same cir.
A naturalist asserts that bees have
But the
rear guard is more feared.—Louisville
Take a good book slowly. You see
much finer country in a mover’s wagon
“black,” “white” and ‘‘brown,” for the
reason that in them there Cn. Fo
modification of the original word.—
New York World.
Old Time London Ruffians.
At the beginning of the eighteenth
century a number of ruffianly young
men of the higher classes—called by
Swift “a race of rakes that play the
devil about the town every night’—
known as “Mchocks.” infested T.ondon.
sallying out drunk into tho streets
rying short ciubs cad 4d with
both ends and perpetrating
ful cruelties upon peaceable pa
wantonly wounding and di
men and subjecting all alite to 2tro-
Cer aE,
glue
cious insults. Lecky says thats ma-
trons inclosed in harreis wore plied
down the steep aid =tony Snow, hill
Watchmen weie aniuerciful'y beaten.
and their noses were . Ceaches and
chairs were overtu d on rubbish
heaps, and country gentlemen visiting
the theaters had to be accompanied
by their armed retainers as if in time
of war.—Pearson’s Weekly. {
Milk, Sweet and Sour.
Every ounce of skimmilk or whole
milk contains valuable nourishment.
Use every drop of milk to drink or to
add nourishment to cereals, soups,
sauces and other foods. Remember,
too, that sour milk, buttermilk and
sour cream are valuable in cookery, so
do not waste any. Sour milk and but-
termilk can be used with soda in mak-
ing hot breads, or sour milk can be
turned easily into cottage cheese,
cream cheese or clabber. Sour cream
is a good shortening’ in making cakes
and cookles and useful for salad dress-
ings and gravies for meat.
Antiquity of Tennis.
Tennis is as old as the hills, basic-
ally speaking, though it has undergone
many changes for the better. It was
played by the Greeks and Romans un-
der the names of ‘“sphairisis” and
“pila.” As “paume” it is mentioned in
the Arthurian romances and in the,
earlier records of the dark ages. In
the fifteenth century it enjoyed great
favor in France and in England from
the sixteenth century to the present
time.
He Was Desperate.
Mrs, Hubb—Oh, John, you say that
if you lost me you would take to drink-
ing, neglect your personal appearance
and go to the bad in every way. Hubb
(fitfmly) —Yes, my dear; you can bet
7’'d fix it 80 I'd never be an inducement
to a woman again.—New Haven Reg-
ister.
Little Russia.
The people of Little Russia occupy
that part of the vast country which
constitutes the steppes of its southern
portion, the southwestern slopes of its
central plateau and those of the Car-
pathian and Lublin. mountains and
the Carpathian plateau.
Japanned Ware.
Japanned tea trays should not be
washed in hot water. If greasy, a little
flour rubbed on them will give them a
pew look. If they are scratched rub
YOUNG MEN LINED
UP BY THOUSANDS
Opposition fo Registration Not
More Than Expected
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CELEBRATIONS EVERYWHERE
Severe Penalties Promised For Slack-
ers, Who Will Have to Face Bullets
Later In Front Ranks.
The youth of the nation responded
enthusiastically to the call to the
colors. .
Reports from all sections of the na-
tion told of young men going to
the registration places and enrolling
‘themselves for military duty in the
struggle of democracy against auto-
cracy.
As was anticipated, there were
cases of disorders. In many communi-
ties there were eligibles who refused
to register and some attempts to pre-
vent others. But there were no
reports of serious organized resist-
ance to the order of the president.
The holiday spirit prevailed every-
where. In some states the governors
had decreed statewide holidays. In
others the chief executives had in
structed the people to celebrate. Flag
raisings, gun salutes, parades and pa-
triotic meetings were the order in all
parts.
Immediately after the last man had
registered Tuesday the work of check-
ing up was started. The rounding
up of slackers will come later. This
part of the work will be carried out
with less publicity than the arresting
of those who oppose registration.
The government will take drastic
steps against any who deliberately re-
fused to register. If the humber is
large there will be internment camps
for them. After serving a year these
slackers will be forced into the army
and will be placed in the front ranks
of the first military units to see ac-
tive service at the front in France.
Last night patriotic rallies brought
to a close the campaign on the part
of patriotic organizations to bring
home the necessity of registration to
every young man. Thousands of these
meetings were held throughout the
nation.
Class exemptions in large numbers
will imperil the success of the con-
scription law, Judge Advocate General
_Cpowder ‘says.
He said that in the first draft some
625,000 men will be needed to ensure
the “first 500,000,” and this in addition
to the men that will be needed to
bring the regular army and the na-
tional guard up to war strength.
The conscription bill authorizes ex-
emption of agricultural and munition
workers. General Crowder said he
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did not know what the president will
do in construing this feature of the
law, but emphasized that if carried to
an extreme it may prove a handicap
to the war department.
Crowder said that possibly 1,500,
000 names might be drawn in all to
secure the men necessary to bring the
national guard and regular army to
authorized strength and still insure
plenty for the 500,000 for the national
army.
It may be days before the roll of
states is complete. No incomplete re-
turns will be transmitted, either from
precincts or county officials to the
state authorities, ar by the latter to
the provost marshal general. Instruc-
tions have gone out to all officials to
make public only figures for units
which are complete precincts, counties
or states, as the case may be.
Officials believe it would not only
confuse the situation for fragmentary
returns to be handled, but that mis-
conceptions of the results, wrong de-
ductions and improper conclusions
might be reached from premature pub-
lication. They have urged the press
of the country to make no com-
parisons of the results, as between
town and town or state and state, un-
less the full report from each locality
is available.
Pittsburghers Enrolling.
At all the voting places in Pitts-
burgh and Allegheny county there
were scores of young men who en-
rolled on Tuesday for military service
under Uncle Sam.
Saloons and clubs were closed
by request of Mayor Armstrong. There
were parades and flag rasings. At
night students of the Carnegie Tech
institute - presented a war pageant
symbolizing the cause of the allies
in the present war. The pageant will
be offered to the government for pre-
sentation in other parts of the country.
United States Attorney E. Lowry
Humes announced that charges of
treason would be lodged against the
four men who were arrested Monday
in the Oakland district for distribut-
jng anti-conscription literature, the
penalty for which, he said, was death.
They will also be charged with con-
spiracy, he said. 5
In discussing the case, Mr. Humes
gaid this is the first time since the
Civil war where arrests have been
made on charges of treason.
Root ‘Commission Safe.
The American mission to Russia,
headed by Elihu Root, arrived at a
Russian port. Announcement of the
safe passage of the commission was
made by Secretary of the Navy Dan
jels. He had received a dispatch from
Meyersdale
Prompt Plumbing Service
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the equipment is temporarily out of order. ;
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Garden Soil.
Test your garden soil for acidity.
Procure a dime's worth of blue litmus
paper at a drug store. Make a slit or
incision in the damp soil, put in paper
two-thirds its length and leave it for a
half hour. If the change of color is to
red or deep pink your soil needs heavy
liming. If there is no change of color
‘liming will be of little value.
If garden soil is heavy, or “hungry”
—that is, harsh and lacking in humus--
give it plenty of well rotted stable ma.
nure. Nothing could be better. If the
soil is in excellent physical condition
bonemeal with the addition of a little
potash will supply the plant food nec-
essary for any ordinary crop of plants
or mere annual growth.
Something In Your Eye.
Foreign bodies in the eye, if they
have not penetrated any part of the
eyeball, are best removed by pulling
the lid away from the eyeball with
the fingers, so that the tears will flow
and wash the particle away. Never
rub the eye. When the eyeball is pen-
etrated you cannot see an oculist too
quickly.
Raising Geese.
The raising of geese was a profitable
eccupation of farming in England
years ago, and some farmers had flocks
of 8000 or 10,000. Each goose pro-
duced a shilling’s worth of feathers
every year and quills to the value of
threepence. The quills were used fo
peas.
Easy,
Bill—He always acid he’d never mar-
ry until the right girl came along.”
Jill—Well, how does he know that the
ene he is about to marry is the right
one?
“0h, she told him she was.™—Yon
kers Statesman.
Neighbers,
“What sort of neighbors have you?”
“The usual sort. Cost us just a Ht-
tie more than I earn to keep up with
‘e@a.”—Detroit Free Press.
What a happy world this weuld be
¢# every man spoke as well of his Mve
the commander of the vessel on which
the journey was made
| with a little olive ofl.
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Coming 'n Out of the Wet. -
There is an amusing story by Athe
naeus which suggests the possible ori-
gin of the phrase “He does not know
enough to come in out of the wet.” Ac~
cording to the entertaining grammarian
referred ‘0, a town in Greece under
stress of evil circumstances borrowed
money from a rich man, who took as
security for the loan a mortgage on the
handsome portico which surrounded
the market place. He was not an un-
gonerovs creditor, for when it rained
he caused the town critrs to announce
that the citizens had permission to
take refuge under the colonnade.
Strangers visiting the tewn who fail-
ed to have the matter properly explain-
ed to them were so impressed by the
extraordinary circumstances that they
soread abroad the report that the peo-
ple were so stupid that they had to be
told when to come in out of the wet.
Early insurance.
William Gibbons of London is said
to have been the first man to have his
life insured. On June 18, 1853, he
signed a contract with eight men by
the terms of which he was to have his
life insured for £283 for one year for 8
per cent of this amount. In 1859
a resident of a Connecticut city was
traveling in England and became in-
terested in the workings of accideat
insurance for travelers. So he came
home and promoted the first accident
insurance company in this country.
His first client was a resident of Hart-
ford, whom he insured for $5,000
against injury in his stroll from the
postoffice to his home. Marine insur
ance goes back to the early part of the
fourteenth century and comes from
Belgium.
Curious Death Custom In Fiji.
The Fijians believe that in case 8
marriageable youth or maiden dies
elaborate nuptial knot tying ceremony
of the islands his or her soul is doom-
ed to wander about forever in an in-
feemoninte region between heaven and
When any one dies—man, woman OF
ekild—a whale’s tooth is placed in the
Band of the corpse, the missile to be
thrown at the tree which stands a§ 8
guidepont to point out the road that
to heaven and the one that leads
Ssighbors as he does of his dead enes’
te hell.—London Mail.
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