i angry. All of the farming is being eomdition : When I asked his why he thought | EBENSBURG, Oct. 22 --George Griffith, son of Ex-Sheriff and Mrs. Webster Griffith, of this place, who re- | «ently returned to the United States after serving in the American field service of the French Ambulance re- warned to his parental residence on Corps, “Somewhere in France” ataturday. ‘The local young man en: Wsted Inst May, for a period: of six 2aonths. Mr. Griffith had about one month to surve when the ambularce Led service was taken in charge by’ is Atherican Army. He returned to United States with 17 other Princeton | students, who had voluntesred their | services in the Ambulance Corps. One | wf Mr. Griffith's chums, a ysatig man | ‘named Hamilton, met his desth in the service about two months ago. was killed by an exploding shell. “Mr. Griffith stated that a Inrge num- od of of the wounded men conveyed to | base hospital by his fellow-work- fran and hitosell were removed from “the third-line trenches, which were located from three and otie-half to five miles from the base hospital “French cars are used extensively in “the ambulance service, but two-thirds ~of the cars used are Fords. He said ‘the battle line is about 250 miles long | extending | and about 50 miles wide, from Belgium to Switzerland. Mr. = Griffith stated that the ambulance men work in sectors of about five miles wach. During 11 days in, July Mr “Griffith's sector removed 1.800 ‘wounded men to the base bospital. “The ambulance corps do not remove he dead from the field. Mr. GrifBth said that if Uncle Sam ad not entered in this great war, Ger- smny would have forced posce terms wn France several months aye. France has been almost devastated, He be Beves that the war will be over with #8 one to two years. Mr. (Griffith ex. presses himself as being anxious to return to France and expats to en. fist in sore branch of the United tBtates Army. Mr. Griffith stated that almost any- De thing can be bought in as large quan. Si Ht SNS or SUF SORE ICH ASL ANN D0 Ba Twp aye He | w—— tities as desired if the purchaser has ‘the money. Everybody gets enough to ent in France, including the peas- ‘done by old men wha are unfit for military service. tb i i A SN BB FEAST OR FAST? A ——— Little Talks on Health and Hygiene by Samuel G. Dixon, Commissioner of Health In civilined life men find it impos. silile to pay proper attention to their muals. They eannot ent regularly and ‘have no time to eat slowly, and they apparently will not eat what they have learned by precept and experi ‘ence is fitting for those who do work indoors that requires intense mental application. Failing to follow the laws of health over a period of time, | thy begin to feel inert mentally and { physically: their work becomes a bur- iden; eyesight loses its acutiness, [while the natural white of the tye is ‘lost and it becomes congested, whow- ing! sometimes a yellow tinge; the ap petite beging to fail; natural sleep is broken up snd interrupted, and when awakening comes, the mind is puzzled by confused ideas. When these symploms are recog- ised, men of experience know it is 'becaizse the food taken has been in Lexcens of the demands of -the body fliich a man was a laboratory as sociate of raine years ago. Oeccazion ally he would salute te in the morn ing nod say, “What db you prescribe, doctor, a feast or a fast?” He meant hat he felt he had been neglecting [all outdoor exercise {or & long time antl had not at all reglected taking heavy and frequent nieals, until now his system was out of balance and sovanthing had to be done to restore balance. Query-—shotild he fas! hime self buck to health, or should he emu. late the old Romans snd start with a proper place and then tne it only % feat? Most people are familiar with the ancient Roman feast, whose features we would describe nowadays more me- curately with the name of orgy or de- baach. These feasts always made them giek and the physical reaction would such that no food was taken into the system for some time afterward ‘80 that the same result of a feast was arrived at by a different route. My associate, being a man of huar- ous viewpoint, was just accenting this of the more roundabout way of the Romans, he replied that you rot some hilarity with it. “You gel more out of treating yourself by delmuch, than drugs,” he said, and thst is the way a good many people look at it, unfor. tunately. The Roman custom is recognined historically as having contimped long afterward in other races, and perhaps it is still surviving today, in principle at least, among individoals here sind there, Still, the mass of our people have a more sensible view. [It is known that a fast will relieve nature while she is coping with the tank of over coming extra burdens that have been nid apon the system. The debauch, which is generally what high hvers make of their “feast,” on-the contrary is seen generally as something that cverionds the system and addu to na ture’s burden, even though it mentally stimulates the subject, wmimetimes to the point where he might be guiity of crime And there in thie hilarity. n thing to be rememberad and tempt ‘the subject to try the mime remedy | the next fume. The alenho! that gooey with over. in. dulgent living makes an over.demarnd for water upon the tissues and grada. | ally changes their physical rondition ard interferes with their physwlogical | wetion. The resell is thar permanent Harm is dor a permanent imprint upen the dies | five syabtinm that will never be erie Each time this imprint deeper until the subject marked ax an aleoholie we sil know the «Ferte of day and saved 5 Ei idelibly excepting in ia mogeralion, Fo ORI SN U6 BR HT Reversed. “Her husband works nights” Well * “She's complaining all the tine tha he never spends his days at home” Detroit Free Press Is Y ample Ee RE EE Ye to you. cars and lgcomic minals and in ot Why ) = Railrea cl Problem The railroads of the United States transport a billion tons of freight annually —50 tons to a fami- ly. This freight represents the business activites of the nation. I is therefore ol the utmost importance to cvery family in the land that railroad taciliyes be to meet the burden of increasing commcr-' cial and military. necessities. : Your prosperity is at stake. SE IRE le ¢ EE ey Amores Greater Railway System’ in common with other railroads, must Buy new ives, build new tracks is er Ways expand, their facilities in order to do their part in meeting the grow- ing service démands. | You, the people, and the custodians of your savings —the banks, insurance companies, trust companies, etc.—will invest, and make the necessary expansions, only as rates and re lations permit the railroads to pay a return t will compare favorably with other investments available THE RAILROAD PROBLEM 18 YOUR PROBLEM rE EEE TR PREBLE Rl EP A Wy cr- Pogsible v Esch time an excess | of wieohol is indulged in there in left | will become Fortunately | aleohol te. in som for 1917, which 3 ably, will probably reduce the mrersge at DESTROYER HAS NARROW ESCAPE FROM SUBMARINE WASHINGTON, out. 22. ~ Coolness (and quick maneuvering by Commander Walter H. Vernou probably saved the American destroyer Cassin from de struction in an encounter with a Ger. man submarine in the war zone on [October 6, the navy department was indvised today by Vice-Admira! Sims in his foll report of the fight, meager details of which were received lant week. Before she Lad an ovnportanity to fire a shot, the destroyer was hit on ithe stern by & torpedo, which killed Gunners’ mate Osmond Kelly Ingram, (alightly wounded five others of the erew and put one engine out of com. mission. The Cassin kad been searching half an hour for a submarine first sighted five miles away Verrou suddenly saw a torpedo 400 yards distant and making for the ship at great speed. Realizing that his vessel was in imminent danger of be. ing hit amidahip and broken in two, the commander ordered full speed ahead and the wheel hard over. The patrol boat was just clear of the Yor. pedo’s path when the projectile broached on the surface, turned sharp. iy and hit its chiective ~ Recovering quickly from the shack taf the explosion, the Cassin coftinued ithe search to be rewarded ishowing of the U-boat's [tower Four shots were sent at {German and two [the iy the gontang the that wtuder She was noTer again sighted VWith ail men adert at their statinne, Hho destroyer continged its bunt anti ! darkness. Later, convayed by other {American and British patrol bosts whe i made port. clme fio elo sahmarine Aah auiekily werd saa 5 RGA AN Ws re In the face of the fact thal Penn. sylvia has just passed throgigph the Worst forest fre messon since JN, {Chief Forest Fire Warden Wirt re f perta that the average fire burned Lover just about ball as large an area (as in 1015, while the number of thogsand-scre fires is twenty five per [rent gnder the 15156 resend i The total samber of forest fires re ported during the 1017 spring fre | semen ia 1, The mernber reported Lim 1010 was 1.101, and in 1514, L303 ‘The average ares horned per lire wens L157 acres in 1917; in 1000, 30d acres: {and in 1918, 15 a» T48 ve screw, The fall sen i opening faver- A when Commander —— | tor the whole your to less then 140 | eres -h | ACTS. The records of the Dopartment of Forestry show thet the fire wapdedin kad to vontend with anasually dificult weather conditions last spring. Two fires burned in Jamuary and seven in February, a very unusual cecurvence. During one week in May over & hun- dred fires were burning every day, the number of Srey for this one week being R43, almont half the total num. ber. The total ares burned over wis 275,007 seren, the total direct lows wis $567.07 and the tital cost of uxtine. tion was wmimont $5006 Indirect losses, such as damage to witersheds snd losses to labor, probably amount to severs! millions of dollars in ad dition to the dimer timber losw with 108, followed in order 1 terne with Fl, Monroe with a8, La- Ante | with 51, and Daaphin with 72. Of the mine counties which had over 10,000 acres each urna over, Deophin leads | with 20,757 ncren, followed by Lycom- | ing with 200098 scres, Bik with 18,380 | acres, Lazerns with 17622 scres, and | Contre with 15,0049 acres. Of the nine | homed over 6200 of $82,570. mel sn . burned over 5,000 acres in township, Dauphin county, damage was estimated at “only AR in the Skefle. A government official was ing the merality of certain war nears, “Their morality reminds me,” ays won at cards, whereas at ¢ races he slhways host “ ‘Oh, pshaw, George,’ his wife seid te him one day, ‘you make me TiN Why is it you always bring Dome horwe-collar roll when you play poker Of the twelve counties which had “M4 ors up broke when you play the over 50 fires sach, Sehuylkill leads | hornes?” * ‘My love, said George quickly, ¥ (don't shffle the horses. "Washing: ton Star. i “Doss the he. removal of the append ‘make any difference in » i weight 1” “It doen, if the person is accustomed fo: ul to carrying all his money sotmties wivielr afl ered lode bf dhe | Pocket,” replies the anil $20,000 each, Jovinta leads with a Leently paid a surgeon's total damage of $71,716 followed in crder by Loycoming with #5785) Contre with 335.402, lararne with SIDA, and Blair with $25. 160. Ore homired and eigthty of the | tained less than ore burned leva than JOO fines § dint Hla Hs Bore; Bored; horned less than 1.000 meres and only | fifty-nine buorved over a thousand ham Age-Hersld 4 ——— ————. Judge" One year and fifty do fine.” r Priwner's Lawyer—~1 shall make ‘motion to have that sentence Mee versed.” 2 Judge—-~Al right. Fifty yenrs aml “one dollar five "Park. py Re ¥ Ee 4 &% Gn PREP, he v LA RPM TRAD a iy 1s Go0oonstoE S01 canoNnECOongs A SEL LLL EXCLUSIVE ARTCRAFT PARAMOUNT PICTURES 11 Ave Strand RE OME HOME OF bi wad 16 st. Alloega [ORCHESTRA OCTOBER 25-26-27 MARGUERITE CLARK in “THE AMAZONS" Ar ik daughter of A titled Iaddy that doesn't care for girls, so Mar puerite i nd ber sliters appear ns boys--real Tomboys Extras ¢ Matioeen Jc & 18¢ Monday, Tuesday Wednesday, October 19, 30, 3 MAE MARSH in “POLLY OF THE CIRCUS" w ar thewe three days—Nuott and Jeff in “The. Prospectors”™ and Cuerent News of our boys in Deaining. 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