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dir 3* iEiinrl BENEFITED BY AMERICAN TRAINING Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, who fias been appointed new first lord of Wie British admiralty, succeeding Sir Edward Carson, is one of the handful pf great Britishers who emerged out pf comparative obscurity with the ad irent of the war. Until hostilities be fcan he was scarcely known outside of Railroad circles, and American railroad knen knew him best, for It was In the United States thnt he got his training, f The new first lord Is a Scotsman, Ë >rn In India, but owes his abili ln a large degree to his American [lining. Lie Is only forty-one years pld. He spent a year In the Homestead mills In Pittsburgh, and backed that experience with three years in the (employ of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. When Lloyd George took the post wf minister of munitions In 1915 lie Imade Sir Eric his principal lieutenant, »or director general. In that post he controlled the supply of heavy guns, small terms, munitions, etc. Sir Douglas Haig had him transferred to France as director general of (transportation. He was knighted only last year. POWERFUL RECRUIT FOR RED CROSS Another addition to the business executives enlisted in the service of the Red Cross during the war was made when John là Ryan, president of the Anaconda Copper company, was appointed as director general of mili tary relief. Mr. Rvnn will have supervision of the bureau of medical service, the bu reau of nursing service and the bu reau of supplies. The maintenance of 50 or more base hospitals will be one of the large tasks which will be laid Immediately before him. He bus the position of director general of military relief and will be in charge of all relief work for the fighting forces. Mr. Ryan succeeds Col. Jefferson R. Kean, who has been ordered to take command of the 100 United States army ambulance sections in the war theater. The military relief department «was organized by Colonel Kean In 1916 and in the past few months he Jms 'built up, through It, a great machine for relief work at the front. It wns (because of his intimate knowledge of this work that the war department iinnde him commander of tîië arjny Bjgjjjilfflice sections, which were first to xnrry the American flag to the fighting line ST , • •%: . DIRECTED TO BUILD MERCHANT MARINE The biggest constructive job since toe building of the Panama canal, the task of fitting together a fleet of mer chantmen that Is to save Europe from hunger, and possibly starvation, has l*?en turned over to a Chicago man— (Edward N. Hurley. Edward N. Hurley was picked, probably, because of his record of achievement. He is not n politician. He la a business man. It Is not so many years ago that he was sitting on the throttle side of an engine eab for the (Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail road. From this position he stepped Into a salesman's job for the United jßtntes Metallic Packing company, of (which concern he soon became man ager. ! For this enterprise he originated fcnd developed the pneumatic tool in dustry of the United States and Eu rope. He Is the executive head and prin Wpal stockholder of several manufacturing and industrial concerns that have aprung from the development of this Industry. His Interests, however, are C o diversified that they include bankfng and railroading as well, and have so rondened his outlook thnt his reports on his different studies of trade condi tions and credits are regarded ns some of the most authoritative contributions to the literature of American commerce. Mr. Hurley has long been an advocate of an enormous merchant marine tor the United States to open up neglected trade channels. And now he has been assigned to build It. NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR PRACTICAL MAN When Secretary Daniels Informed Rear Admiral Washington Lee Capps that the president had selected him to build the merchant fleets that we must have If the U-boats are to be con quered, a shipbuilder had succeeded an engineer In n job upon which the des tiny of democracy depends. Admiral Capps will build ships In quantities desired, on order, for build ing ships, one way or another, has been his steady Job for 30 years. He Is a practical man, and as chief con structor of the navy has the Inner most details of every yard in the coun try that bears the slightest resem blance to a shipbuilding plant in the grasp of his two hands. The work upon which Admiral Capps has been employed since the new naval building program went Into effect a year and a half ago Is directly In line with that which he will have to do now in his new position. A man with n international reputation as a naval constructor and administrator, his fail ire in a post for which he has been trained by years of practical service, ould come about only through politics and disagreements with associates, rom which he has the instinct to steer clear. He will take orders and obey iem, although he will not surrender a professional opinion. His selection will have an excellent effect upon the country, which would ave resented the virtual removal of the builder of the Panama canal If his iccessor had not been a man of high professional standing, fully acquainted Ith the construction of ships and ready to go ahead under full steam In the •osecution of an enterprise that had been standing still for 60 long a time at it was beginning to be possible to calculate delay In terms of human MdL gg* ■drmiiraiAmaKHilig | PARK BEAR8. "In a park where there were ani mals," commenced Daddy, "there lived two polar bears next door to two brown bears. "Perhaps It would be a little better to say that they lived in cages side by side instead of saying they lived next door to each other, for we usual ly think of houses when we speak of people living next door to each other. ''But the bears had fine yards to play in. as well as their places for sleeping. Their homes were almost entirely of rocks, and In each place there was a big pool where they could swim. "Now the polar bears were very handsome. They were white and they waved their heads about as much as to say, " 'We are such beautiful bears. We are so much admired.' "But the brown bears looked at the polar bears as if they didn't think of them at all. For to themselves they were thinking how cross the polar bears often were, and how friendly and nice they always felt toward ev eryone. " 'Fish day, fish day,' called the keeper and into the pool of the polar bears he put some fine fish. "With a great flopping and splash ing they had gone after their fish meal, and how happy they were. It was a real treat. For the polar l*ars love fish better than any other kind of food. "But the brown bears were just as happy for they were getting bread crumbs and soup and bran—a very delicious mixture they thought. " 'Sniff—sniff,' said Mr. Brown Bear. "And Mrs. Brown Bear made the same noise—just like sniffing the air. " 'It is going to rain,' said Mr. Brown Bear. " T do believe it Is,' said Mrs. Brown Bear. And they pointed their noses Into the air—just in the direction of Mr. Wind. "The bears alwaj-s point their noses In the direction the wind Is coming from, and they always know if a storm \\ • \ VS V v\ nT c*-" "The Bears Enjoyed It Thoroughly." Is on the way. In fact they can al ways tell about the weather, and if only we knew bear talk we might go to the bears to find out if the day was going to be rainy or not. w But they do not mind a storm as the lions do. In fact they quite en joy It, while the Hons roar and get very much upset. "Pretty soon it began to rain. 'Good for us,' said Mr. Brown Bear. T was feeling pretty hot, for my fur coat is rather heavy for the summer.' " T wouldn't want to change It for a lighter one though,' said Mrs. Brown Bear. 'It would be such a waste of time, in the first place, and In the second place, how could we ever pick out a summer coat that would be as handsome as our fur coats. We would look so strange with summer feathers, for instance.' '"Yes, it Is best to always wear a fur coat,' said Mr. Brown Bear, 'and besides It is something we can always afford. Furs are not a luxury to us. But this rain does feel very fine and it is cooling me off.' " T enjoy a rain better in the sum mer than any other time,' said Mrs. Brown Bear. " T shall have to tell the King of the Clouds that,' said Mr. Brown Bear. T am sure he would be very much flattered.' "So he sniffed in the air and tried to have the wind take a message to the King of the Clouds, telling him how much the bears liked the rain. "And from the way the rain kept on, it seemed as if the rain wanted to please the bears. " 'There are some people who go In side when It rains,' said Mr. Brown Bear. "'And I have heard it said,' added Mrs. Brown Bear, 'that folks who do not go in when it rains, do not know much. In fact there Is a saying about very foolish people, that they do not know enough to go In when It rains.' " 'How can such foolish sayings go about?' asked Mr. Brown Bear. 'Well, they never consulted the bear family when they made up that saying—cer tainly they never asked us about It in the summer time.' And throughout the rainstorm the bears stayed outside and enjoyed it thoroughly." Earn Their Own Way. Everyone of the four hundred boy students in the School of Agriculture of the University of Minnesota is self supporting. The majority of them work on farms during the summer and earn and save more than enough mon ey for their six months of schooL A to COURT GIVES WIFE TWO KISSES DAILY l'oing Hubby Is Haled Before i w , „ Show Affection. Knoxville, Tenn.—Charged with fail li re to love his wife, a young hubby baled before City Judge R. P. Wil liams here was sentenced to kiss her twice daily. "From the testimony of neighbors, who, as Is often the ease, seemed to know more about the affair than did the principals themselves. It seemed that 'temperamental incompatibility,' ns It has been termed In higher courts, ft K Sentenced Henry to Two Kisses Daily. 'pure eussedness,' as it is known local ly, was the cause of the trouble," 6ays Judge Williams. "You see, Henry would go home in the afternoon, and not being of a par ticularly affectionate nature, failed to greet his wife with a kiss. Now she, being in love with her husband, want ed to be kissed. After frequent fail ures of this kind on his part she charged Henry with an extreme frig idity of affections. Henry denied the allegations, affirming that he had too many serious and Important things to do to consider without indulging in osculatory e -clses with a woman, whom, after all, was nothing but his Wife.« ... This enraged the wife, who proceed ed to tell Henry Just what she thought of him. Henry opened hostilities with a dishpan. To make up for past omissions, and to cause him to cultivate a taste for such things, City Judge Williams sen tenced Henry to two kisses dally. HATS CAUSE MARITAL ROW Woman's Weakness for Millinery Causes Husband to Seek Separa tion In Court. Chicago.—Mrs. John W. Olson's prime weakness was hats. But her husband found little interest in the millinery magazines with which their home was 6trewn. Neither did he en joy standing before show windows In which Parisian creations were exhib ited. That is where the trouble started. "Billy" Stamm was twenty-two, well tailored and good-looking. He adored millinery and he wns an artist at turn ing out nifty headgear from a miscel laneous assortment of trimmings. So Stamm, being an old friend of the fam ily, became an extremely friendly per son to Mrs. Olson and finally they opened a hat store together. Then Ol son left home. He has filed suit for divorce, naming Stamm, whose ability to trim hats, he alleges, has wrecked the Olson home. I************************! FIND SKELETON WITH $ HORNS; A TAIL, TOO $ $ Wheeling, W. Va. —Boys here have unearthed a skeleton close ly resembling the popular idea of the devil. The skull Is much like that of the present human race, with the exception of two horns, which project from just above the temples on each side. In life the creature was about four feet high, with a long tail. There are four powerful legs or arms, each of which has four fingers. ************************** CANT TELL KISS BY SOUND Momentous Decision, Handed Down by New York Judge, Rules Against Hubby. Beacon, N. Y.—You can't tell wheth er It's a kiss or not by the sound alone. A momentous decision, truly, but one easily reached by Judge Willard Brock way when Herbert Jordan attempted to justify his leaving his wife because she kissed a grocery clerk. "How do you know she did?" asked the judge. Jordan brought forward a neighbor who said she had heard the "sound of kissing through the keyhole." "We have to go by fact, not by sound," re marked Judge Brockway. "It might have been some other noise with a kissing sou id.*' HAWAIIANS SEEK DEATH IN LAVA Fanatics Attempt to Make Sacri fice to Pele, the Goddess of Fire. LED BY SCHOOL GIRL Twenty-Six Persons Begin Trip Up the Lava-Encrusted Slopes, but Ex haustion Thwarts Their Purpose. Honolulu. — Twenty-six Hawaiiens, led by a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl, sought to fling themselves Into the boil ing luva of Kilahoa cruter on the re cent anniversary of King Knmehameha the Great. The fanutics were attempt ing to make a human sacrifice to Pole, the goddess of fire. Their plans were frustrated when they fell exbuüsted on the mountainsides after the long journey toward the volcano. The pilgrimage was started from nookena, Hawaii, by old men and women, children and even infants in arms, all unprovided with food and wa ter and scantily clad. The blazing sun of the lava-encrusted slopes overcame the pilgrims after a day and a night of continuous traveling, and they were found by A. R. Gasper, who operates an automobile stage around the Island from Hilo to Kona. Vision Revealed to Girl. The schoolgirl, Kaneau by name, had recently made an appeal to the people of Hookena telling them of a vision that had been revealed to her in a dream. She said that the spirit of the goddess Pele had come to her and told of the destruction that was to visit the islands on the king's anniversary. Every living being was to be de stroyed, she said, except one man and one woman. All of the Islands were to be destroyed except two and they were to be Joined together Into one. The destruction was to be wrought through an eruption bf Mount Kaneau and noth Y v X \ < M w Led by a Fourteen-Year-Old Girl. lng but human sacrifices could appease the goddess and avert the tragedy, ac cording to the vision. The appeal of the schoolgirl was so eloquent that 26 persons were Imbued with the spirit of primitive Hawaii and decided to sacrifice themselves. They planned to go to the brink of the cra ter and leap into the seething lava. USES FIRE TO START MULE Percy Lands In Jail After Furnishing Considerable Excitement for Fir© Department. Plcasantville, N. J.—Percy Cline saw a balky Missouri mule leaning sound asleep against a lamp post in one of the busiest streets of Plcasantville last night. Percy stopped and watched with Interest while the mule owner tried every conceivable way to make the animal go, except the Missouri sure-fire method of tickling the mule's left hand hoof with a straw, but the mule only blinked, sighed deeply and settled himself more firmly against the post "HI bet I can make her go," re marked Percy with the modesty of genius. "I'll build a fire under her, and then she'll go." "If you do," said an agent of the S. P. C. A., who was also a spectator, "HI nrrest you for cruelty to animals." "Shucks!" said Percy. "You can't be cruel to a mule. I'll do it, and I bet he'll go." ne did. And the mule did. And the agent did. The fire department put out the fire the society's agent put Percy in jail and the mule was still going In the general direction of San Francisco when last seen. Lightning Snipped Off Woman's Toe. Kimball, Neb.—A bolt of lightning ! snipped off one toe from the foot of Mrs. Isaac Barrett when she was sit- ' tiug on her porch during a storm. She ! wus left otherwise uninjured. WOMAN COULO HARDLY STAND Restored to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Fulton, N. Y. — "Why will women pay out their money for treatment and receive no benefit, when so many have proved that Lydi* E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound will make them well? For over • year I suffered so from female weak ness I could hardly stand and was afraid to go on the street alone. Doc tors said medicines were useless and only an operation would help me, but Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has proved it otherwise. I am now perfectly well and can do any kind of work.'—Mrs. Kellie Phelps, care of R. A. Rider, R.F.D. No. 5, Fulton, N. Y. We wish every woman who suffer» from female troubles, nervousness, backache or the blues could see the let ters written by women made well by Ly dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound If you have bad symptoms and do not understand the cause, writ« to the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass., for helpful advice given free. Money back without question if HUNT'S CUKE falls in the treatment of ITCH. ECZEMA, RINGWORM.TETTER or other Itching skin diseases. Price 50c at (lruggis* j, or direct from 1 I. Blchards Hi...mt Co. .Sherman Tel. Cheering Her Up. Bess—I could marry a man who loved me for my looks alone. Jess—Why, dear, the blind some times marry.—Judge. IT IS IMPERATIVE that you keep a bottle of Mississippi Diarrhea Cordial in your medicine chest. In constant use for fifty years. Price 25c and 50c.—Adv. The Secret of Youth. After all, the plain truth Is that ad venture consists Less In the experiences one actually has than in the Indefatiga ble expectancy with which one awaits them, writes Edgar Goodspeed In the Atlantic. Indeed, I sometimes fear that people must be divided Into those who have adventures and those who appre ciate them. And between the two the affinity for adventure Is greater treas ure than the experiencing of It. If wo are possessed of the affinity, adventure itself is, at most, Just round the cor ner from us. This opens the life of adventure to all who crave It. What possibilities lie In merely crossing a street, for example ! Some one re marked the other day as he dodged across among the motorcars, "Why not take a chance now and then nnd lead a real life for a few minutes?" I therefore recommend the life of ad venture. It conceives each ray as a fresh enterprise, full of delightful pos sibilities and promise, and so preserves the wine of life from growing flat. Here is the secret of youth. Going to Land Him. "He was engaged three times before he proposed to her." "Yes." "And she accepted him?"' "Yets, but she's insisting on an Im mediate marriage. Profiting by the experience of other girls she Isn't going to take any chance on his breaking another engagement." Result of Modesty. "Jenkins changed color when yon praised him before everybody." "Yes, I noticed that when Ï said he was a white man through and through, he turned red." As Usual. "Is your wife canning anything this year?" "The servant girls, as usual." INSTANT POSTUN on the family table makes for better health and more comfort Preferred by Thousands There's a Reason