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DOLLARS GIV E Cou RAGE.
To Be Penniless Makes a Maa Fool De-
pendent and Coweldly.
There is this to befa;q aphout wealth.
It gives courage 10'y, owner. Pover
ty makes cowards ,¢ all.
“The man who“ ae suffering with
fear,” says a writer, “because ne does
not know where the next dollar is com-
ing from is in no condition to earn or
to attract dollars. Fear always makes
a man think be is weak, a nobody. It
always pictures the worst, sees no light
ahead.”
We hear a great deal these days
about efficiency and about inefficiency.
The fellow who has saved a few dol-
lars and has them in the bank or where
be can put his hand upon them is more
efficient than the fellow who is penni-
less. Start out to find a job with nev-
er a dollar in your pocket. You'll have
a hard time. You appear at a disad-
vantage when you approach a business
Man. You feel your dependence, You
have a cowardly air about you, an in-
efficient air. You realize that you will
have to accept anything that is offered.
You are in no position to look the busi-
Thess man in the face and tell him your
qualifications, Want is at your back,
causing you to cringe.
. But with money in your pockets you
assume a different attitude. You real-
ize that you are to that extent inde-
pendent. You meet the business man
more nearly upon an equal feoting.
You are more courageous, more self
assertive, more efficient. You know
that you are not compelled to accept
the first job offered you. You can dis-
cuss wages and contracts and condi-
tions of employment if you are not
“broke.” So if for no other reason the
young mau should scek first of all to
have a bank account, to have some-
thing right in the beginning.—Dayton
News.
PUFFBALLS ARE GOOD FOOD.
And of All the Edible Fungi They Are
Called the Safest.
Puffballs are the safest of all fungi
for the beginner, none of them being
poisonous, and they are at the same
time excellent and easy to obtain.
writes William A. Murrill, assistant
director of the New York botanical gar
den, in the American Museum Journal
Being tender, they cook quickly and
are easily digested. They should as &
Te be cut open before cooking to see
at they are not too old and that they
are really puffballs. If they are white
and firm like cream cheese inside, show-
ing no yellow or brownish discolora-
tion, they are of the right age to use.
If the interior shows no special struc-
tures, but is smooth and homogeneous,
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MOTORCAR ECONOMY.
How to Make a Gallon of Gasoline Go
Further Than It Does.
In the first place, use care in the se-
lection of fuel. Gasoline which does
not vaporize with sufficient readiness
to remain in a gaseous state eventually
condenses in the cylinders and is either
burned or lost without developing its
power. Furthermore, the gasoline must
be pure. with a minimum amount of
residue which will serve to form car
bon.
Secondly, the gasoline must be burn-
ed under the most favorable conditicii:
conducive to a development of maxi
mum power following each explosion
Such conditions require tight
rings and valves, which prevent the
leakage of compression or the power of
the explosion; a uniform and guickly
attained engine temperature; a hot, fat
spark occurring as early as is possible
without producing a knock, and a suf-
ficlently flexible carburetor which will
give proper mixtures at all engine
speeds. The above mentioned main-
tenance of engine temperature is an
important consideration, especially in
cold weather.
“Thirdly. the earbon should be re-
moved from the engine as soon as an |
undue accumulation is indicated, usual- |
ly every 500 to 1,000 miles, depending
upon the kind of oil used. the condi-
tion of the rings, the nature of the fuel,
and the like.
In the fourth place, the mixture
should be set to as lean a point as will
run the motor under normal conditions
when the engine is warmed to its av-
erage temperature. Nearly every car-
buretor will permit the needle valve
to be screwed down one or more notch-
es. In fact, it is well to set the carbu-
retor to so lean a mixture that the en-
gine will not pull properly before it is
thoroughly heated. The difficulty thus
encountered may be overcome by the
use of the choke or other adjustments
of the carburetor which serve to give a
richer mixture when starting. A lean
mixture may be further assured by the
use of some of the well tried out at-
tachments designed to furnish auxili-
ary air to the engine under certain con-
ditions. .
Fifth, the carburetor should be in-
spected by an expert and the strainer
drained frequently to prevent the ac-
cumulation of dirt which may lodge
under the float valve and cause the lat-
ter to leak when the engine is shut
down.
Sixth, the engine should never be left
running while th2 car is standing idle.
If adjustments are properly made
the engine will start easily, and the
current from your starting battery is
cheaper than gasoline. Furthermore.
the engine should not be raced at ran-
piston
then one may be sure he has a puffball.
The “egg” of the deadly amanita con
tains the young cap and stem inside,
which are readily seen when the “egg” |
" 1s cut, and the “egg” of the stinkhorn
shows the stem and a green mass in
glide, surrounded by a layer of jelly-like
substance.
Puffballs may be cooked alone in va-
rious ways or used in stews and om-
elets and for stuffing roast fowls.
When used in omelets they should be
stewed first. All kinds except the very
small one should first be peeled and
cut into slices or cubes, after which
they may be fried quickly in butter or
dipped in beaten egg and fried like
eggplant or cooked in any of the ways
recommended for the ordinary mush-
room. The smaller kinds are much in-
ferior in flavor to the larger ones and
need a few specimens of some good
mushroom to make them attractive.
Seasickness.
The old fashioned notion that a good
dose of seasickness was beneficial was
due wholly to the fact that upon re-
covery the victim of mal de mer is,
usually so delighted that he is apt to
imagine that he never felt better in his
life, while feeling normal again is
merely so great a contrast to the
exceedingly wretched condition which
this disorder brings about that exag-
geration of one’s feelings is the most
natural thing in the world. Seasick-
ness -is far from pleasant. It is not
beneficial, and in rare cases it termi-
nates fatally.
Round Shoulders.
An excellent exercise to straighten
round shoulders—good for girls or wo-
men who have to sit a good deal—is
performed by placing a thin stick or
wand across the back and letting it
run out through the bent elbows. The
arms are bent so that the hands rest on
the chest. Keep the arms and shoul-
ders pressed back and down and walk
about the room in this way for five or
. ten minutes.—Chicago News.
Moisture and Temperature.
A cubic foot of air at the tempera-
ture of zero (F.) can contain only .5 of
a grain of water vapor, at 32 degrees
it can hold 2.13 grains, at 65 it can
contain 6.8 grains and at 98 it can
hold 18.96 grains of moisture in sus-
pension. These figures go to show that
summer air can hold at least nine
Himes the quantity of dampness that
air can when reduced to the tempera-
ture of freezing.
Longer Than Expected.
Vandeventer—So at your request he
spoke at your dinner?
Broadway—He did.
“And did he come up to your expec-
tations?”
“Why, he went an hour beyond it.”—
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
One of Life's Tragedies.
Among the tragedies of life is the
good wife Ww just observed her
twent 1g anniversary, but
yr a set of silver spoons
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dom for testing purposes unless you
have a definite idea as to just where
the trouble iies. 8
venth, ‘all brakes should be free so
that they do not drag, bearings should
be well oiled, tires inflated to the pres-
sure recommended by the manufactur-
er and the whole car so free in its mo-
tion that it can be pushed by hand
without difficulty on a hard level pave-
ment.—H, W. Slauson in Leslie’s.
Dynamite Whiskers.
The name “whiskers” "is applied to
feathery crystals which gather upon
the outside of the wrappings of frozen
dynamite. The “whiskers” are more
“irritable” than dynamite itself. A case
is on record where sticks of dynamite
had been thawed out in hot water and
the can of hot water In which it was
done left in the blacksmith shop with-
out being emptied of the residual scum
of grease and whiskers. The first blow
of the blacksmith’s hammer on a near-
by anvil was sufficient to set off the
“whiskers” by concussion.. The can
was blown to pieces, but fortunately
no one was hurt.
Waste From Small Leaks.
The importance of mending the
tiniest leak in a water pipe is shown in
a circular issued by a small city in
which water meters are used. This, as
quoted by Popular Mechanics, states
that under a pressure of forty pounds
in twenty-four hours 170 gallons of
water will pass through a hole a shade
larger than the period at the end of
this sentence. An orifice the size of a
fairly large pinhead will permit 3,600
gallons to escape in the same time.
Sap of a Tree.
Sap is pumped up through the wood
in a tree and will even go through dead
wood, but will not return by the same
medium. Therefore a tree may live
until the roots starve. Sap ascends on
the inside and descends on the out-
side. Therefore the descending sap
alone builds new tissue of wood and
bark.
Three Legs of a Stool.
Andrew Carnegie was once askea
which he considered to be the most
important factor in industry—labor,
capital or brains? The canny Scot re-
plied, with a merry twinkle in his eye,
“Which is the most important leg on a
ithree legged stool?”—Christian Regis-
; ter.
Well Defined.
“Dad,” said little Reginald, “what is
a bucket shop 7’
‘A bucket shop, my son,” said fhe fa-
ther feelingly—‘a bucket shop is a mod-
ern cooperage establishment to which
a man takes a barrel and brings back
the bunghole.”—Puck.
An Egotist.
Tommy—Pop. what is an egotist?
Tommy's Pop—An egotist, my son, is
a man who be can form an
impartial opini
phia Record
f himself.—Philadel-
Legislative Bodies.
Any legislative body may be called a
congress or parliament, but different
countries have different names and
some of distinctive meaning. France
has a national assembly with two
houses called senate and cham of
deputies; Germany has an upper‘and
lower house. bundesrath and reichstag;
Belgium has a senate and chambepe
representatives: Spain has a cort
two houses, senate and congress; 5
mark, two houses, senate and wid
ltaly has a parliament with senateand
camera di deputati, or chamber of dep-
uties; Prussia, a landtag composed«of
two chambers called the herrenhaus, or
house of lords, and the abgeordneten-
haus, or chamber of deputies; Sweden,
a diet, with a first chamber and sec
chamber. All the South American
publics, being fashioned on the govern-
ment of the United States, have a con-
gress composed of two bodies, senate
and chamber of deputies. A
The Wireless Wave. ¢
In articles on wireless telegraphy'
such expressions as 200 meter wave
lengths, 600 meter wave lengths, 15,000
meter wave lengths, are co ¥
used. In reply to a correspondent@ho
asks how the length of the waves is
measured the Scientific American gives
the following simple explanation: 1
“The length of an electric wave is
determined by a wave meter. The
natural wave length of an aerial is
four times its linear length, just asthe
wave length of a note of a closed or-
gan pipe is four times the length of the
pipe, and the wave length of the note
of a tuning fork is four times the
length of the box which is resonant
with the note. However, other consid-
erations make it) difficult to measure
the wave lengtH by a rule, and the
wave meter gives a more correct result
than can be found by measuring the
length of the wire.”
Indian Rock. p-
Indian rock, in Fairmount park, Phil-
adelphia, the landmark along the Wis-
sahickon, is so called because of the
figure of Teddyuscung upon it. Ted-
dyuscung was king of the Delawares
and a powerful chief in the Six Na-
tions. The rock on which this statue
stands was long known as the Council
rock, and there the last council of the
Lenape tribe was held in 1763, before
their departure for the Wyoming reser-
vation. According to the legend, Ted-
dyuscung took his last look over the
Wissahickon ravine from this rock. A
wooden figure of an Indian was placed
on the rock in 1856. This remained
until replaced in 1903 by the present
figure, the gift of Charles F. Henry of
Chestnut Hill.—Philadelphia Press.
Nature’s Only Timepiece.
There is no need for clocks
Aegean sea any day when the
shining. There nature has £
her only timepiece, one that 8
vary though the centuries pass. This:
natural time marker is the largest sun-
dial in the world. Projecting. into the
blué waters of the sea is a large prom-
ontory, which lifts its head 3,000 feet
above the waves. As thé sun swings
round the pointed shadow of the moun-
tain just touches, one after the other.
a number of small islands, which are
at exact distances apart and act as
hour marks on the great dial.—New
York Tribune.
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A Lost Fortune.
The first girl baby born in Denver
was the daughter of a settler named
Harvey, and she was born in 1860 or
thereabout. In recognition of her en-
terprise in being born in the camp pub-
lic spirited citizens presented heruwith
all the land in sight of her father’s
cabin, Unfortunately the taxes: were
never paid, and the land, now worth
{ many millions, fell into other hands.—
Exchange. th
Ancient Glass.
Fragments of wine vases as oid as
the Exodus have been discovered in
Egypt. The art of glassmaking was
probably known to the ancient As-
syrians. In the New Testament glass
is alluded to as an emblem of bright-
ness (Revelation iv, 6; xv, 2; xxi, 18).
Training For Milkman’s Job.
“What does your son expect to be?’
“From the hours he keeps I should
say he is naturally cut out for a milk-
man.”—Puppet.
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PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.
Rice Diet For Skin Diseases.
Eczema and psoriasis have been
cured by an exclusive diet of
rice, bread, butter and water
three times daily and nothing
else. J. Duncan Buckley in'the
Medical Record said that this
diet should be carried out with
exactness in all its details in or-
der to obtain results. The nature
and severity of the cases must
be taken into consideration in
determining the length of time
the diet must be continued. Cer-
tain cases recover in a specified
time, and others require a much
longer time.
The rice must be well boiled in
water, not soggy, and must be'
eaten hot with a fork, not a
spoon, to secure the action of the
saliva during thorough mastica-
tion. Water should be taken free-
ly. but not when food is in the
mouth, and a pint of hot water
should be taken before the morn-
ing and evening meals. In acute
eczema a marked improvement
is noted within five days, while
psoriasis requires long periods.
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PAIN IN THE BACK.
It Should Not Be Ignored, as It May *
Mean Serious Trouble.
Backache, like headache and many
another ache to which the human
frame is subject, is a symptom that
may be caused by a great many differ-
ent conditions.
A chronic pain in the back may
mean very serious trouble. Tubercu-
losis does not respect any part of the
human body. When it attacks the
spinal column it is called Pott's dis-
ease, Among the initial symptoms is
a backache that the patient complains
of long before signs of deformity show
themselves. If the backache is ignor-
ed much valuable time may be lost. A
careful examination at the earliest
complaint of pain and stiffness may
give the physician an opportunity to
prescribe a course of treatment that
will arrest the disease before it causes
deformity. The tuberculin test enables
the physician to make sure that the
backache is not caused by a less se
rlous condition. A negative tuberculin
test means that he must look further
for the cause of the pain..
Much backache could be spared
young adolescents if" they would per-}
sictently earry out a system of simple
calisthenics designed to strengthen the
pack. If they begin it in childhood it
will prevent many of them from out-
growing - their spines. Of course all
children should use the seats and desks
that enforce a good attitude.
In many cdses of young adolescents
who have grown very rapidly it will be
found advisable to permit the wearing
of a carefully fitted support or belt.
In older persons who suffer from con-
stant backache the cause may be a
weakening of the abdominal muscles.
In that case an abdominal belt be-
comes a necessity.—Youth’s Compan-
lon,
GREAT NATURAL BRIDGE.
Justice Marshall Called It “God's
Greatest Miracle In Stone.”
The great Natural bridge, which is
one of the natural wonders of the
United States, overlooks the James riv-
er valley, in Virginia, being on the
western slope of the Blue mountains.
It is just about the center of the state.
It approaches Niagara in grandeur and
exceeds it in height and awful mys-
tery. It is a single block of limestone,
with many shades of color. The walls
are smooth, as if cut with chisels, and
there is no sign of displacement.
The visitor follows a tumbling cas-
cade down a deep fissure in the moun-
tain under some of the largest arbor
vitae trees in the world and, turning
down a line of steps cut into the preci-
pice, suddenly finds himself by a swift
stream in a dark canyon and the great
bridge far above him.
shingtop , when a surveyor for
Lord Fairfax visited the Natural bridge
and carved his name, where it may
still be seen. The original bridge tract
was granted by King George III to
Thomas Jefferson in 1774, After he
was president Jefferson visited the
place, surveyed it and made the map
with his own hands. Jefferson spoke
of the place as “a famous place that
will draw the attention of the world.”
Chief Justice Marshall wrote of the
bridge as “God’s greatest miracle in
stone.” Henry Clay wrote of “the
bridge not made with hands that spans
a river, carries a highway and makes
two mountains one.” !
Value of the Apple.
The apple is pre-eminent in the house-
hold economy, for no other fruit excels
it in culinary usefulness. It graces the
table in a far greater variety than any
other fruit. Of all fruits grown in
North America the apple leads in
amount and intrinsic value. No fear
of an overproduction, however, if the
means of transportation and distribu-
tion are perfected. What if we do
raise 125,000 carloads of apples or 62,-
000,000 boxes a year? This is but half
a box to a person, not counting what
we export. That isn’t very many.—
Exchange.
Scandinavians.
The term “Scandinavians” is not con-
fined to the Norwegians, The Norwe-
glans are indeed Scandinavians, but so
also are the Swedes, Danes and Ice-
landers. For that matter, the Ger-
mans, English and Americans of Eng-
lish stock are also of the Scandinavian
stock, since it is more than probable
that Germany was originally stocked
from the land of the northmen, and it
is from the north German stock that
the so called Anglo-Saxon comes.
Chemistry of Human Body.
The average human body, besides the
carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen
of which it is chiefly composed, con-
tains three and three-fourths pounds of
lime, one pound eleven ounces of phos-
phorus, two and two-thirds ounces of
potash, two and one-half ounces of so-
dium, one and three-fifths ounces each
of magnesium, sulphur and silica and
about one-sixth of an ounce of iron.
A Japanese Bridge.
One of Japan’s most interesting mon-
uments of antiquity is the bridge of
the Brocade Girdle, built in the sixteen
hundreds, a mass of pegs and crude
joints—not a nail of metal in the en-
tire length of 750 feet, and as good
today as when built.
Ways of an Orchid.
One of South America’s curiosities is
an orchid which has a peculiar tube
that it lets down into the water when
it wants a drink. At other times it is
kept curled up.
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25 Doses, 25 Cents.
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for all attacks of pain, knowing
that they will not disappoint me.”
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Athens the Seat of Learning.
It may be said unbesitatingly that
the country which has produced the
greatest ‘men in literature and phiioso-
phy. art and architecture is Greece
In the little state of Attica—not much
larger than Greater New York—true
civilization and all that goes alon;
with it were born. All that has been
done since the ‘age of Pericles” has
been simply the carrying out of the
ideas, principles and methods laid
{ down by the men who won Marathon
and Salamis, Plataea and Mycale. Gal
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Mrs. Blueblood—We dined al fsesce
ast evening. i
Mrs. Newrich—I think Pve met km
somewhere? Is his first name Albert!
| or Alfred?—Boston Transcript.
[Ndrks of a Great Man.
A really great man is known by
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Bumanity in the execution and modera
Greatest Inland Sea.
The greatest inland sea is the Cas-
pian sea, which is 700 miles long and
270 miles wide.
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