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now TO AVOID
BACKACHE AND
NERVOUSNESS
ToU by Mr. Lynch From
Own Experience.
.Providence. R. I. "I wu ail ran
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for the peace of the world !
Our boys arrived in time
but more are needed to
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CITY NO LONGER PEST HOLE
British Authorities Have Worked
Wonders in Cleaning Up Ancient
Cspitsl of the Caliphs.
Paved streets, electric street lights,
municipal sprinkling carts, a modern
lire department these are all In old
Bagdad now. says Cleveland Plain
dealer. Or. rather, they are In new
Bagdad, for the slumberous city on the
Tigris has assumed a new aspect since
the British drove out the Turks six
teen months ago.
Nothing now remains of the filth and
squalor of the Turkish regime. The
place Is still oriental, but the oriental
atmosphere I less odoriferous.' Dead
cats s re not left to decompose In the
middle of narrow streets. Great Brit
ain has a wonderful way of leaving
orientalism unspoiled while making
it reasonably clean. The British sol
dier cannot abide filth. His sanitary
squads penetrate the remotest mews
and the most deeply hidden cesspools
and the mews and the cesspools cease
to offend. The natives soon discover
that cleanliness is not a horror.
- The Arab is not naturally vile, but
he has fallen into the ways of his
Turkish masters. Bagdad is as inter
esting as ever, and ever so much safer,
After the war many British tourists
will visit the ancient Abbaslde capital,
wher ruled the mighty caliphs, and
will note with interest the British
benefits bellowed on the city that WU-
helm und Cott once picked as the far
goalpost of Mitteleuropa.
Fix the Furnace Now.
The prudent ni:in will have his fur
nace put In thorough order at the pres
ent time. Letting It go till fall would
be rash at a time when labor Is so
scarce as now and when there are sure
to be so ninny other people anxious to
have their furnaces pnt In order,
There was considerable complaint la
winter of the quality of some of the
coal, which was explained by the sto
ries received from the mining regions
of the working over of. heaps at the
pit heads, some of which represented
the accumulation of many years. This
winter the coal may contain fewer
impurities, hut necessity for getting
the greatest possible return In service
for every pound burned will be obvl
us in view of the rule that consumers
are allowed t purchase only a per
centage of the total amount thev used
for heating their houses a vear ago.
furnace that is out of order will
waste a great deal of coal. No one
can afford to have that sort, of thing
going on at the present time.
Proper Breathing Hejp to Swimmers.
Anyone's body will float when the
lungs are filled with air. but as a hu
man body is a trifle heavier than wa
ter it will sink unless buoyed up by
air in the lungs, says Dan Beard in
Boys Life. Consequently if you learn
to breathe so that you blow out your
breath in time to intake a new breath
before yon sink, it is evident that you
will not sink at all. When breathing
While swimming do not take too manv
breaths, but let your mouth serve as
the Intake. It can do It quicker than
your nose because your mouth Is big
ger than your nostrils or nose holes.
Now if any of yon tenderfeet drown
this season it will be your own fa nit
Breathe right and you will float.
Ideals.
W must love Ideals and struggle
toward them ourselves, but we must
not use them excessively in the meas
urement of others. David Swing.
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UNCLE SAM'S
ADVICE. ON FLU
U. S. Public Health Service Issues
Official Health Bulletin
on Influenza.
LATEST WORD ON SUBJECT.
Epidemic Probably Not Spanish In
Origin Germ Still Unknown Peo-
' pie Should Guard Against "Droplet
Infection" Surgeon - General Blue
Makes Authoritative Statement
Washington. D. C (Special.) Al
though King Alfonso of Spain was
one of the victims of the Influenza epi
demic In 1SJ and again this summer.
Spanish authorities repudiate any
claim to Influenza a a "Spanish" dis
ease. If Ihe people of this country do
not lake care the epidemic will be
come so widespread throughout the
United States that soou we shall hoar
the disease called "American" Influ
enza. In resNiiise to a request for definite
informal Ion concerning Spanish influ
enza. Surgeon General Rupert Blue of
the U. S. Public Health Service Iibs
authorized the following official Inter
view :
What is Spanish Influenza? Is it
something new? Does It corns frpm
Spain?
"The disease now occurring In this
country and called "Spanish Influen
za resembles a very contagious kind
of 'cold.' accompanied by fever, pains
Coughs and Sneezes
Spread Diseases
BOND PRICE VARIATIONS
As Daneroia ma Poison Cm Sheila
In. th head. eyes, ears, back or other
parts of the body and a feeling of se
vere sickness. In most of the cases the
symptoms disappear after three or four
days, the patient then rapidly recover
ing. Some of the patients, however,
develop pneumonia, or Inflammation
of the ear. or meningitis, and many of
these complicated cases die. Whether
this so-called 'Spanish Influenza Is
Identical with the epidemics of Influen
za of earlier yearn Is not yet known.
"Epidemics of Influenza have visited
this country since 1H47. It Is Interest
ing to know that this first epidemic
was brought here from Valencia,
Bps in. Since that time there have
been numerous epidemics of the dis
ease. In 18811 and 1890 an epidemic
of Influenza, starting somewhere in the
Orient, spread first to Russia and
thence over practically the entire civ
ilized world. Three years later there
wss another Mure-up of the disease.
Both times the epidemic spread wide
ly over the United Slates.
"Although the present epidemic Is
called 'Spanish influenza, there la no
reason to believe that it originated In
Spain. Some writers who have studied
the question believe that the epidemic
came from the Orient and they call at
tention to the fact that the Germans
mention the disease as occurring along
the eastern front In the summer and
fall of 1917."
How can "Spanish influenza" be rec
ognized ? ' '
"There Is as yet no certain way In
which a single case 'of ''Spanish influ
enza' can be recognized. On the oth
er . hand, recognition Is easy where
there la a group of cases. In contrast
to the outbreaks of ordinary coughs
and colds, which usually occur In the
cold months, epidemics of Influenza
may occur at any season of the year.
Thus the present epidemic raged most
Intensely In Europe in May, June and
July. Moreover. In. the case ofordl- . -Cover up each cough and sneeze,
nary colds, the general symptoms if you con't you'll spread disease."
(fever, pain, depression) are by no
means aa severe or as sudden In their The Unexpected.
onset as they are In Influenza. Final- i An amazing instance of the iinov-
ly, ordinary colds do not spread peeled hnnnenlnsr at the frnnf
others, have been caused by streptor
cocci, and by others' germs with long
names..
"No matter what particular kind of
germ causes the epidemic, It la now
believed that Influenza Is always
spread from person to person, Ihe
germs being carried with ihe air along
with the very small droplets of mucus,
expelled by coughing or sneezing,
forceful talking, and the like by one
who already has the germs of the dis
ease. They may also be carried about
In the air In the form of dust coming
from dried mucus, from coughing nnd
sneezing, or from careless people who
spit on Ihe floor and on the sidewalk.
As in most other catching diseases, a
person who has only a mild attack of
Ihe disease himself may give a very
severe attack to others."
What should bs done by those who
catch the disease?
"It is very Important that every per
son who becomes sick with Influenza
should go home at once and go to bed.
This will help keep away dimgerous
complications and will, at ihe same
time, keep the patient from scattering
the disease far and wide, it is highly
desirable that no one be allowed to
sleep In the same room with the pa
tient. In fact, no one but the nurse
should he allowed In the room.
"if i here Is cough and sputum or
running of the eyes and nose, care
should he taken that all such dis
charges are collected on bits of gauze
or rag or paper napkins and burned.
If ihe patient complains of fever and
headache, he should be given water to
drink, a ci cpfnpress fp the forehead
anil n light sponge. Only such medi
cine should he given as Is prescribed
It V the doctor. It is foolish to ask the
druggist to prescribe and may be dan
gerous to take the .so-called 'safp, sure
and harmless' remedies advertised by
patent medicine manufacturers.
"If the patient is so situated that he
can be attended only by some one who
must also look after others in the fam
ily. It Is advisable that such attendant
wear a wrapper, apron or gown over
the ordinary house clothes while In the
sick room and slip this off V'llPR leav
ing to look after the others.
'"Nurses and attendants will do well
to guard against breathing In danger
ous disease germs by wearing a simple
fold of gauze or mask while near the
patient."
Will I person who has had Influenza
befors patch th disease again?
jt is wen known that an attach of
measles or scarlet fever or smallpox
usually protects a person against an
other attack of the same disease. This
appears mil to be true of 'Spanish In
fluenza.' According to uewspaper re
ports ihe King of Spain suffered a;i
attack of influenza during the epl
.lemic thirty years ago, and was again
stricken during the recent outbreak Jn
Spain."
How (in en guard against influ
enza? "In guarding against disease of all
kinds, it is important that the body be
kept strong and able to tight off dis
ease genus. This can be done hy hav
ing a proper proportion of work, play
ii nd rest, by keeping the body well
clothed, nnd hy eating sufficient whole
some and properly selected food, in
connection with diet, it Is well to re
member that milk Is one of the best
all-around foods obtainable for adults
as well as children. So far as a dis
ease like influenza Is concerned, health
authorities everywhere recognize the
very close relation between Its spread
and overcrowded homes. While It Is the public debt the Mexican
not always possible, especially in
limes like the present, to avoid such
overcrowding, --people should consider
ihe health danger and make every
effort to reduce the home overcrowd
ing to a minimum. The value of fresh
air through open windows cannot be
over emphasized.
"When -crowding is unavoidable, as
in street cars, care should be taken to
keep ihe' face so turned as not to In
hale directly-, the air breathed out by
-another person.
'Mi is. especially Important to be
'wnre of the. person who coughs or
sneezes without covering his mouth
and nose. It also follows that one
should keep out of crowds and stuffy
places as much as possible, keep
Ironies, offices BndwurVshops well air
ed, spend some time out of doors each
day, walk to work If at ail practicable
In short, make every possible effort
u breathe as much pure air as pos
sible. "In all health matters follow the ad
vice of your doctor and obey the regu
lations of your local and state health
officers.
Fighting Fourth Liberty Loan
Facts and Figures
On the basis of the relation be
tween national indebtedness and
wealth at the . time of the Civil War
the United States Government should
be able to float a loan of $25,000,000.
000 with every prospect of Its forming
a safe, sound and thoroughly desira
ble investment for the Individual, an
authority on the subject, E. Kerr, sta
tistical expert, said as this country
was entering the great war.
On the basis on which Great Brit
ain and France were borrowing, the
United State3 might with comparative
safety borrow up to $38,500,000,000,
this statistic an said, for "The United
States, has proved that it can easily
and rapidly pay off a considerable debt,
and it is still a country with magni
ficent opportunities for development
and the production of new wealth."
After being at war a year and a
half, with its always excessive first
cost, the war indebtedness of the coun
try as expressed in Liberty Loans
and War Savings stamps i less than
fifteen Million Jollars The new Lib
erty Loan, the Fighting Fouith, there
fore, offers a good and safe invest
ment to the loyal as well as an op
portunity to give practical expression
to their patriotism.
In the entire history of govern
ment loans, and it goes back through
the centuries, there are sry few oc
pasions on which the Interest on the
ppnds. pf responsible governments has
been defaulted, repudiated or fund
ed. This has happened only in the case
pf pew and untried gP" ernment3 or
as a result of anarchy and repudiation
of the debts then incurred by the re
sponsible incoming government. Rven
then the repudiation has usually been
temporary. War is usually fpllowed by
a. period of expansion and invention
In the defeated as well s Jn the vifl'
torious country Taking past wars
as a precedent, the pr ent war, be
ing on a larger scale than any which
iave preceded it, should have larger
results.
When the present form of govern
ment came Into existence in this
country in 1790 the total indebtedness
of the Unlter States exclusive of pi
per currency was $52,788,722 and Uate
debts amounting to over 18 million
were assumed by the federal govern
ment. The foreign debt of 10 million
wlfl) an interest rate of 5 was re
paid by 185. The domest, Je debt al
so was funded and gradually repaid,
the interest rate being reduced to
67r, 5 J-2. 4 1-2 and 3 in various
ways.
To the toi.il Indebtedness of ap
proximately 83 million in 1800 was
added $11,250,000, the purchase price
of Louisiana but more than half had
been paid when the country entered
into the war of 1812. In 1811 an at
tempt was made to introduce United
States bonds on the London market.
The -ifr were quoted at 65 to 70.71.
ihe at 101 and 102. Interrupted
bv the War of 18J2 a secpnd attempt
wa3 made in 181 fi. The 3 were then
quoted fit 51 and the 6 at 81 1-2 and
82. TTOiese same boi.ds were quoted
in Philadelphia at the same time at
fil and 92 A 6rr loan put out in
1813 was id at 88 1-4.
Although the war added about 88
million, to the public debt the floating
debt hSJd been reduced to such small
proportion'? bv 1817 that payment into
the slnl ins fund recommenced. By
SIX
The Kaiser's Sons Versus
Sons of Presidents.
the Six
"Cited for conspicuous bravery in
action." "Enlisted as a private."
"Killed in action." Under such
headings the sons of American for
mer presidents appear in accounts Of
the great war that has rent the
world. They were of the first to re
spond to the country's call and have
been conspicuous in its service. No
safe place in the rear for them!
Theirs not to say "go" but "come.''
There are six of them, six sons of
our former presidents, shoulder to
shoulder with the sons of you and
me, sharing with them the dangers,
the tortures, yea, the death of the
trenches, of No-man's Land, of the
ferocity of the Huns.
And the six sons of the arch-Hun?
Where are they when danger calls?
They are brilliantly placed "in com
mand" and then disappear from the
public eye only to reappear at some
safe vantage point or in revolting
escapade with victims of invaded
countries. Only one of them, the
Crown Prince, has ever been re
ported in a battle and then hedged
about so that no harm could come to
him.
For all his dashing about the Kai
ser himself has stayed far from the
danger zone. This self-styled cq
partner with God takes care to w
round himself with his legions, his air
planes and every other known de
vice to protect him from his eneml' i
whenever he Invokes the Divine
protection ip Ihe open field.
Just one of the imperial ramny
have the dispatches said anything
fine about, Puke Ernest August of
Brunswick who narried the Kaiser's
only daughter. He is reported to
have commanded some troops on the
Russian front and gone insane over
the horrors he saw there.
Bacchanalian feasts for the Hun
princes while the men suffer and die
in the trenches.
Voluntary assumption of peril and
sacrifice for America's "first sons."
No honorary positions for - them but
hard id dangerous service.
Shall il be the rule of the Hun or
the reign of democracy?
yerily he who loseth his life shall
AW! jt.
WHERE THE MONEY GOES
nn mn nnd nne SF.O Libertv bonds
1S36 so much had been paid off that. . wJl provjde ja pistols and four signal
SyCgESS DEPENDS ON WOMEN,
ff (he mothers and sisters oyer
here could be made to realize just
what has happened "over there,"
there would be no hesitancy, no re
luctance, but they would go out and
fight over here to make the fighting
Fourth Liberty Loan the biggest and
ths quickest the world has ever
known, says Dorothy Cisli. Miss
Gisb is a noted movie star. With her
mother and sister she spent a number
of weeks in the territory invaded by
the Germans in the urst big drive of
the war and it is from the fullness of
that experience that she speaks. The
success ( " the loan, she says, depends
on the women.
through the community so rapidly or
so extensively as does Influenza.
"In most cases a person taken sick
with Influensa feels sick rather sud
denly. He feels weak, has pains In the
eyes, ears, head or back, and may be
sore all over. Many patients feel
dizzy, some vomit. Most of the pa
tients complain of feeling chilly, and
with this comes a fever In which the-'
temperature rises to 100 to 104. In
most cases the pulse remains relative
ly slow.
"In appearance one Is struck by the
fact that the patient looks sick. His
eyes and the Inner side of his eyelids
may be slightly 'bloodshot,' or 'con
gested.' as the doctors say. There
may be running from the nose, or
there may be some cough. These signs
of a cold may not he marked ; never
theless the patient looks and feels very
sick.
"In addition to the appearance and
the symptoms as already described,
examination of the patient's blood may
aid Ihe physician in recognizing 'Span
ish influenza, for It has been found
thai In this disease the number of
white corpuscles shows little or no In
crease above the normal. It is possi
ble that the laboratory Investigations
now being made through the National
Kesearch Council and the United
States Hygienic laboratory will fur
nish a more certain way In which Indi
vidual cases of this disease can be
recognized."
What is ths course of the disease?
Oo peoplt die of It?
"Ordinarily. Ihe fever lasts from
three to four days and the patient re
covers. But while the proportion of
dalhs in the present epidemic has
generally been low. In some places the
outbreak has been severe and deaths
have been numerous. When death oc
curs It is usually the result of a com
plication."
What causes the disease and how is
It spread?
"Bacteriologists who have studied In
fluenza epidemics In the past have
found in many of the cases a very
small rod-shaped germ called, after its
discoverer. PfelfTer's bacillus. In other
cases of apparently the same kind of
disease there were found pneumococcl.
Us germs of lobar pneumonia. Still
28 million surplus revep :e was dis- I rockets or enough T. N. T. for bursting
tributed among the state". Although j 2f mm howjtzer shells or 300 hand
it added approximately 49 n ljJMDivxes to be used in the prosecution of
1 I Ihe w
y- v-d.ooo
d iT was , Nine
ar. Two $iuu nonas win proviue
machine gun rifle cartridges.
$100 bonds will provide 20 demol
ition drop bombs. Fifteen $100 bonds
justed the Civil War is stated to have .j
cost the Government three billion
Collars. At its maximum in l(n tne
not interrupt tnis prospern
loan which partially financed
issued at nar
Un tne D!sis or an claims u-m- i- win nrnvirte one 37 mm eun.
rational debt was $2,756,431 571 Up
to ths present war the Civil war was
one Of the most expensive and ex
haustive of all hMorv yP the lat
war loan hnnd wn? redeemed 42 years
later, in 1907 This was a feat re
garded bv Eurone as astounding
The mo?t poiuiar loan of tvt war
w th-fi. n-20-year of 1802 of
vhtch 5"5 OOO.oon was placed at par.
Uefunding operations from 1870 'n
1877 redu the interest rate to 5,
to 4 3-2 and then to 4. All is
suer Vi'c-re at not less than nar.
The pr'ces of the 6s of were
ps follows durins the war; I8fi1 from
R4 1-2 to 94: 1862. from 87 1-2 to
107 1- '863 from 91 3-4 to 110 3-4:
1864, from '"2 to 118: 18P5 from
103 1-2 to 112 3-8
Just previous to the Spanish War
the national V amounted to some
thing over 598(3 000.00. . At the end
of the war this had mounted to
$1,155,320,235 A $200,000,000 3
wai- loan offered at par was sub
scribed seven times over and went
to 106 inside of three months. The
debt was stead'lv reduced dir'ing the j
nine; vears fo'lowing the war and i
bonds for the Pa"" ma Canal were ls-
Bued at or ove par,
Three $1000 and one $500 bonds will
supply the army with five dozen pack
outfits Nine $1000 bonds will provide
20,000 gas or phosphorus grenades and
10 $1000 bonds will purchase 30,000
rifle grenades. One 16-lnch e coast
gun can be bought with 175 $1000
bonds.
WHY MONEY IS NEEDED
Tlit cost of a 3-inch (23 calibre) gun
and mount complete for the United
States Navy is $4000, yet with the ex
ception ot the airplane machine guns
which cost $560 it is the least expen
sive of any. A 16-inch gun (50 cali
bre) costs $256,000 and a 16-inch (45
calibre) costs $215,000. A 14-inch (50
calibre) costs $166,000. An 8-inch
Howitzer costs $22,000 complete, $10,
000 for the gun a I $12,000 for the
mount. If our sailor boys are to ac
complish the thing for which they left'
home and friends they must be sup
plied witli these guns and plenty of
them. Fighting Fourth Liberty bonds
wil buy (hem.
LIBERTY LOAN INTEREST RATE
ended in a French and a German
pilot landing together. The French
man and Ihe German were circling
and "dipping for battle position.
Suddenly, the, ..French pilot, think
ing he had the advantnjre, charged
his enemy from the rear. Put the
German din not swerve sufficiently I
and the left wing of the French
m'chinei struck the right-hand
struts of the German. The collision
canned the French airplane to spin
around violently until Its tail whizzed
between the wings of the German
and stuck. Apparently being too busy
or perhaps too astonished to shoot
nt each other, the opponents spiral e-d
side by side In a close embrace, ulti
mately crashing into the bou.Ths' of
some trees. N.Mrher pilot was hurl,
so they clambered out, looking at each
other and the German was reminded
that he was a prisoner.
high credit stan'ns: of the country
DuriBE; this period government secur
ities rose to a maximum of 139 3-4
for .the 4 and 103 1-4 for the Hr
Issued fb finance the canal.
Since then there ha3 been no de
crease, the 1916 net Indebtedness of
Ihe "United States standing at $1,132.
639,1185 and having interest rates at Ar(
3, 2 1-2 and 2. Of Uie cross said in
debt 66 was non-interet bearina I paign
and 24 was bearing interest at z.
Secretary McAdoo has definitely
announced thai the Fourth Liberty
showing the ! Loan bonds the Fighting Fourth, will
bear 44 per cent interest. The Sec
retary has been insistent that the Gov
ernment interest rate should be stabil
ized, say at 4 14 per cent, so that ail
business and all investments might be
adjusted to that basis, "and so that we
ourselves may protect ourselves
agairst successively increased rates of
interest on Government loans", as he
he Third Liberty Loan cam
GERMAN VIEW OF CHRISTIANITY
Forestry After the War.
Nobody except those of us who have
seen something of life at the front
during the last four years can realize
what an enormous quantity of timber
has been taken from this country for
war purposes nnd what an enormous
amount of planting and tending of
trees will be necessary to replace It.
Unfortunately foresters who really un
derstand all that afforestation mefms
are not numerous in England, and
though the necessity of educating
younsrsters for the work has received
much more serlons attention in Ihe
last few years than it ever did before,
when our methods as in many other
things were haphazard, the facilities
are still hardly sufficient to five us
enough foresters to cope with the de
mand. Westminster Gazette.
pead this by Frledrich Wilhelm
'Nletxsche and then think of the women
rod children whose blood was spilled
a invaded Belgium and France and of
the Lusitania:
'I condemn Christianity. To me it
is the greatest of all possible corrup
tions. The church Is the grit para
site; with its anemic idea of holiness
jft drains life of all its strength, its
love, and its hope. I 'call
Christianity the one great curse, the
one great intrinsic depravity, the one
great instinct of revenge, for which
no expedient is sufficiently poisonous,
tecret, underhand to gain its ends. I
rail it the one immortal shame and
blemish upon the human race."
Neither our patriotism nor our sup
port of the Liberty Loans are meas
ured in fractions of per cent.
By
BUY A LIBERTY BOND.
Mary Christina Austin. Boatnn.
Mass,
Arise, ye eons of Liberty:
The time is drawing nigh
When ev'ry man of patriot mould
. Must need his Country's ury.
Our brothers in a foreign land
Are fighting Freedom's cause;
Their daring deeds of braverv
I Call forth rounds of applause.
i They give their life for our defer.
1 Thev strive to keep us free:
' Chnll u. nfit hilri . h ...
Juan t. ihji infill nun uur mixe
To trample tyranny?
Cold is the heart, and base the mi,J
And sordid is the slave,
Who will not buy a t'reeman'B bond
Democracy to sat-
CHAPLAINS TELL OF FRONT
Moral and Religious Situation There
Declared to Be Excellent, and
Will Stay That Way.
find the same situation, here the same
story; the condition and the spirit of
the men are excellent." When leaving
France on his present mission the
chaplain asked General Pershing:
"May we not tell our people in Amer-
Where Courage Is Common.
The Kansas soldier who. after tak
ing part in a battle on the Western
front, wrote to his mother, "Say, moth
er dear, I never knew courage was so
common," has expressed the sentiment
of the nation. We never knew that
there was so much latent heroism
among the young fellows in the offices,
the factories and on the farms of
America. Thank God that to our young
Americans "courage is common!"
Lawsoa Constttntion. v
Chaplains Francis B. Doherty. and ica that the moral and religious situa
Lyinan Rollins have just returned tion here is eminently high and very
from France 011 a military mission to satisfactory?" The reply was: "Yes,
tht United States. and you may say furthermore, that it
Chaplain Doherty is attached to gen- is going to be kept up to that"
eral headquarters In France, being as- Chaplains Doherty and Rollins spoke
sodated with Bishop Charles H. Brent enthusiastically of the altogether ad-
and Chaplain Paul Dwight Moody (son mirable spirit of fraternity existing
of the well-known evangelist of that between those who are ministering to
name) in the genernl headquarters our soldiers. The Catholic ehanlalns.
chaplains office. The function of this they say, are not merely looking to
office is, declares the religious public- the good of the Catholic boys nor the
ity committee, the direction and dis
tribution of chaplains' activities in
France to the end of the attainment of
the best and special interests of all
concerned, under General Pershing.
This work carries with it considerable
travel and gives an intimate knowledge
of the situation from a religious and
moral point of view.
From this broad knowledge Chap
ala .Pcherty says: "Exerrwhere we
Protestant to that of the Protestant
boys ; each is working for the best In
terest of every man.
gwtst;cmftMmi
A Study in
Monogamy
Br JANE OSBORNE
Naturally.
"A manicurist's business is bound
to be successful."
"How do you make that out?"
"Because a manicurist is sura to
have something always on hand."
(Copyright. IMS. by the McClura Newspa
per Syndicate.)
It was just before Philip Lewis' last
college vacation that his celebrated
old uncle, James Devrldge, told him In
his blunt, quaint way that he was
strongly of the opinion that he Philip
was a lazy, loafing, worthless speci
men of humanity, and utterly un
worthy of being James Devridge's sole
heir, as had been that distinguished
man's original intentions.
On the charge of never having done
anything in life that he had not been
made to do, Philip mentioned the fact,
not at all boastfully but only In self
defense, that he had brought down
various prizes for his amateur pho
tography. "Yes, but what value has It been
pictures of pretty girls' and horses or
something of that sort," muttered the
old scientist. "If you i?ould get photo
graphs of birds that would do to illus
trate this book I've been working over,
they might count for something."
"Give me a chance," challenged the
nephew. "What sort of pictures do yon
want?" '
"Read the manuscript and find
out," was the uncle's answer. "The
book is a study of monogamous habits
among the birds of v eastern North
America. It is not a popular work at
all. I doubt If you an make head or
tall of it. It requires a scientific point
of view, and that you don't possess."
"I'll try it," said the nephew, and
the day after work at college was over
he started off to a little cabin in the
northern mountain country of New
England, where his uncle had in years
past done considerable observation of
bird life, there to get the photographs
the uncle had assured him he couldn't
get. Philip was perfectly confident of
Ills lenses and his cameras and his
photography. The thing that troubled
him was knowing what sort of pic
tures to take. For the first three days
of his stay in the woods country he
read the duplicate manuscript his
uncle had given him. ; Frankly he was
pot very mueb encouraged.
Then he yearned for a letup of his
solitude, and with characteristic blunt
ness asked the old countryman who
drove the stage that passed his door
twice a day whether there were any
nice girls in the neighborhood. "There
is only one good-looker," said the old
man, who seemed to 'have made care
ful observations, "and she's queer.
You wouldn't like her and she wouldn't
have anything to do with yon, neither.
She lives flippy in tfae summer in a
shack in the woods next to yours.
She's awful queer. But she do be good
looking." ;L
"How's she queer?" queried Philip.
"Powerful queerthat's how queer,
She sometimes sets a whole day at a
time under a bflsb, in the gully, and one
day I seen her setting way up In the
tip-top of a tree. Well, she was there
when I went down in the morning and
still there when I come home in the
afternoon. Don't know how she got
there, but there she was. And she goes
around with opera glasses, Just as if
she thought there was a show going
on, and she whistles and chirrups to
herself, and well, there's no doubt but
she's queer," concluded the old man
with a significant tapping of the side
of his own head, a If to Indicate where
the weakness iay,
Philip needed no further proof. He
believed the old man had exaggerated
the matter, but be had no doubt of the
young woman's dementia. One day
while still reading bis uncle's manu
script, hoping to find a clue as to what
his photographs should be he saw
the strange young lady, sitting not in
the top of one of her own trees, but
in the top of one of the trees very near
to his own shack. He looked at her
from the safety of his shack and then
assuming a perfectly confident air and
a cheerful whistle, ventured out and
began to walk noisily about the tree,
"Oh, please tread softly," said the
strange young lady. "I think they are
settling here In this tree. If you dis
turb them they may go off again.
Please go away, won't you?" Philip
withdrew and did not return till later
in the day. when the young lady de
scended very quietly.
"I think they are located," she told
him. "They are in the next tree two
thrushes. I watched them in my own
trees and then they came over here.
I can watch them beautifully from this
other tree that I was sitting In. I hope
you don't mind,"
"Why, please, were you watching
just those thrushes?" he asked her,
and she told him that If he would let
her stay and eat lunch with him in his
shack instead of having to tramp back
the half mile to her own, she would
take time to tell him. It was in his
little cabin dining room over a rustic
sort of luncheon that Philip prepared
for them coffee, smoky of aroma, but
delicious to the appetite, sharpened by
woods air, sliced ham, dry biscuits and
cheese that the girl explained.
"Well, you see, I am making a study
of monogamy among, birds that is, I
want to get a little data that will be
of some value in establishing the fact
that thrushes either are or are not
monogamous thai is, that they do or
don't mate for life. Last year I
worked hard all summer. I studied
the birds from the tree tops and from
under the hedge. No one knows how
long I sat silently so as not to disturb
them, and I trapped some of them long
enough to fasten little bracelets on
their ankles, I knew that if the same
birds came back to these trees this
year and mated with the same males,
then I would have some small fact to
contribute to this great study. And
now two of the birds with my brace
lets have ome back and I think they
are the mates of last year. Once they
get settled for nesting I can get closer
to them and find out. You know.
James Devrldge, the greatest of all
bird students and one of the greatest
scientists of the day, has made a spe
cial study of this. I read everything
he writes, and I heard him lecture
once. He said that he didn't have
anywhere near enough data on the.
subject of monogamy and that anyone
who would seriously go about it to
collect It might feel that she was mak
ing a real contribution to science. So
I made up. my mind to do it. That is
much better than frittering one's time
away dancing or loafing at a summer
resort. I've got quite a lot of data,
and some day Tut going to take it to
Mr. Devrldge and tell him it Is my
contribution to science." -
"Then you understand what the old
fellow is gettta:at in; those books- of
"Oh, yes, Indeed. He's just finished
a new book on bird monogamy. I am
so Impatient to read It. It must be
wonderful."
"Here is a bargain," said Philip,
draining the coffee pot for a last cup
of coffee to offer to his companion.
"Ill let you read that wonderful book
if you'll tell me what it is about." And
that led very easily to telling, the girl
the predicament he was In.
It was In mid-summer that James
Deveridge came up to the mountain
camp to visit his nephew.
"At least you have stayed here." he
said. "I don't know what you have
been doing, but I thought you would
have given up long before this." Philip
lost no time in showing his uncle what
he had been doing. There were hun
dreds of photographs that no eyes save
those of Philip and Alice Gerry had
ever fallen upon before. The nega
tives had been developed and the pic
tures had been printed in the shack,
Of this detail of the process Philip was
a past master. What amazed the
uncle was that the pictures were so
entirely what he wanted.
"They are the most wonderful pic
tures 1 have ever seen," said the old
man, tears coming Into his usually
hard old eyes. "It is ns If I had sud
denly found you, my nephew. It has
always been my grief that no one of
my own has been Interested in the
work I do. But yon must be Interest
ed or vou could not have done these
pictures. They are as good in their
way ss anything I ever did."
"A little later Alice Gerry, dressed In
her usual tree-cllmblng attire, slipped
Into the shack and came straight over
to the old man's side.
"I've always longed to meet you,'
she said with a timidity that Indicated
her admiration better than any elab
orate compliments she might have ex
pressed would have done. "I've been
getting together a few notes to give
you on my own observation. I have
always wondered If you would accept
them."
There was Just a little disappoint
ment in the old man's face as he took
the girl's hands Into his. 'Then ihe
pictures were not my nephew's work
and you, like the ethers who under
stand my work, will go away front me
and leave me alone. I had hoped my
nephew took the pictures."
"He did take them," the girl assured
him, "He took every one and took
roost of them alone. I just showed him
at first and then he became as en
thusiastic as I "
"And. anyway," interrupted the
nephew, who perhaps had never ap
preciated his eccentric old uncle as
much before as he should have, "Alice
is going to be your niece. We were
Just waiting to ask your blessing."
And in truly patriarchal fashion the
white-haired old man stood and raised
his bands in benediction.
Hen Cannot Rival the Fish.
Information concerning the numbet
of eggs produced by various species ot
fish has been limited mainly to rathet
rough estimates. According to the All
gemene FUcherel-Seitung, some care
ful eounts were made last year at the
Bavarian trout hatchery. The first in
vestigations were in connection with
common trout and rainbow trout ; 5S
specimens of the former and 54 of the
latter were stripped and the spawn
counted. The older and heavier fish
were found to have the most eggs
(ranging up to about 8,000). but the
younger fish yielded a decidedly larg
er number of eggs In proportion to the
weight of the fish. The experiments
were repeated with perch (Perca
flu via tlMe), In this case the females
just about to spawn being killed and
tj)e ovaries being removed and dis
sected. The number of eggs In perch
ranged from 3,710 for a fish four
Inches long up to 30,480 for one 10.2
inches long; but in this species, also,
the number of eggs per unit weight of
fish is much larger in small than In
large fish. Scientific American.
Only One Aviator Hae Reached Forty,
All this amazing science of war ny.
ing is in the hands of boys and youths.
Rarely do we find a successful air
man 40 years old. Lieutenant Colonel
PIcclo of Italy, with a score of sev
enteen airplanes brought down to
date, is the only ace in the world
who has. reached this age. On the
other hand, fully a score of celebrated
fighting aces are under the age of 1'0.
It is a young man's game, and solely
hy the experience and inventions of
these young men will this Important
arm of warfare evolve and become
perfecie Lawrence La Touretie
Dr'-a-i in the Century Magazine.
"Cellulen" New Wood Pulp Fiber.
There has, says the Board of Trade
Journal," been much discussion In the
German press during recent weeks con
cerning a wood pulp fiber named "Cel
lulon," for which large claims are
made as an efficient substitute for Jute,
cotton and other fibers. It appears to
be certain that the fiber is not made
by spinning long strips of paper run
off reels through water In the manner
which German paper textile substi
tutes have made familiar. The ac
counts agree in describing the proc
ess, or processes, as a direct manu
facture from wood pulp. The con
sul general at Zurich, who has pre
sented a report to the foreign office,
states that the method employed op
erates on the same general lines as
that used for artificial silk manufac
ture that is, by squeezing pulp. un
der high pressure through small holes
in plates. Engineer,
Wooden Shoes Classy.
If it were not for the pioneers hu
manity would be helpless. The wife
of Lieut. A. J. Huntington of the One
Hundred Sixty-Second Infantry, resi
dent in Portland, Ore., has long been
of the opinion that shoes are too high
in price, and, having the courage of
her convictions and possessing also a
desire to save leather for the army, she
occasionally wears a pair of neat
wooden low shoes. These are painted
black, with a patent leather effect,
and are really very convenient and
classy in still life, though the rigidity
of the sole is some backset. The lieu
tenant sent the shoes from France,
where that style of shoes is much in
use. With rubber tires to dispense
with the staccato rattle on cement
walks, mother and the girls might
save pin money and get along, and
with a few old pairs around the house
would never be out of kindling wood.
German Resources.
The resources of Germany before
the war were estimated to be $80.
000.000,000. The annual expendi
tures then of the imperial govern
ment were about 1800.000,000. Her
debt now Is $30,000,000,000, and her re
sources and men, power have been se
verely Impaired. ' After the war she
is confronted with additional expendi
tures growing out of the war totaling
one- $4,000,000,000. - . ,
THIRTY-ONE YEARS AGO.
October so, 1887.
Items of local iDterest, takes from the col urn tin
nf The Press, t hlrty-on years ago.
M. A. Smith has sold his meat mar
ket in the Warren block to Richards
& Armstrong.
L. K. Lord has sold his house oil
Highland Terrace to Lucius Wash
burn. A son' of George Sands, by being
caught in machinery at. Peel's mill,
Staffordville, Oct. 8th, fractured both
I ones of his right, leg below Iho knee.
Born Tolland, Oct. 16, 1887, a
daughter to Henry and Llla F. Ben
ton; Willington Hollow, lt'.ih, son to
George Wilson.
Married Ashford, Oct. 12, by Rev.
.Mr. Rand let I, John It. Miller, Jr. und
Carrie Duell.
UNITED OLD AND NEW WORLD
Atlantic Cable, After Three Disheart
ening Failures, Was Successfully
Laid In July-August, 1858.
Sixty .years ago our broad Yankee
land awoke nnd learned that Hie old
country and the new had been nulled
by a muglcul lie the Atlantic cable.
Through the courage mid persistence
of three Americans there were oth
ers, hut Ihe three were the actual cable
sponsors Cyrus W. Field, his brother,
Ihivld Dudley Field, and that fine old
philanthropist, Peter Cooper the Rrcat
project wuk curried oer. The total
cost was $1.8.14,.r)00, the cable elone
taking $1,250,250. and the line crossed
from Trinity bay, Newfoundland, to.
Valentla, Ireland, Ihe cable being very
close to 2.500 miles long.
Three times the attempt to lay the
cnble had failed, chiclly owing to de.
fects In Its materlul. The fourth ut
tempt was successful. The NluKura.
then Ihe largest ship In Ihe Utilled
States navy, and the Agumemnon, a
British warship, met In mldocean on
July 20, 1858, euch carrying a Hcellon
of the i able. The ends were carefully
spliced and then the two nhlps turned
homeward, moving Mowly 11s Ihey puld
out the cable. On Aupust 4 the Nia
gara reached Trinity bay; the Awn
meronon reached Valentla on the fth.
On AiiKiist 1G the cable whs pro
nounced in worllng order, nnd here 1
the first official message that paired
across :
"Europe and America are united l
telegraphy. Glory to God In the high
est; on earth peace, good will toward
men."
AT END OF GLACIAL PERIOD
Geological Authority Makes Deduc
tions From Shrinking of Great
Ice Cap at the South Pole.
Dr, Marsden Manson of Sau Fran
cisco, an eminent authority on geology,
points to the fact established by re
cent Antarctic explorers that the great
ice cap Is shrinking. From this he
draws t..e conclusion that the gradual
subsidence of the Age-of Ice of which
the polar Ice caps are Ihe existing
remnants, Is still going on and that
we live, so to speak, at the tall end of
the glacial period, ne expresse the
conviction that the same succession
of geologlcnl climates has prevailed
In A nt a relic as In other latitudes, and
says that Ihe evidence collected In re
cent Antarctic explorations Is corrobo
rated by the comparatively recent un
covering of temperate land areas nnd
the progressive retreat of the inow
line to higher elevations In temperate
and tropical latitudes and toward the
poles ot sea level. He comes to the
conclusion that the disappearance of
the Ice Age Is an active present proce
and must be accounted for by activi
ties nnd energies now nt work. He
considers It as proved that the rates
and lines of retreat are and have been
determined by exposure to solar en
ergy and Ihe temperature established
thereby and by the difference In the
specific heat of the land end water
hemispheres.
TURNING PESTS INTO PROFITS
United States Department of AgrcuU
ture Has Plans for Dealing With
the Rabbit Problem.
Fully 200,000,000 wild rabbits are
killed in the United States every year
according to estimates made by the
biological survey of the United Slates
department of agriculture. Many of
them are Jack rabbits, the majority of
which have not been utilized In the
past. If all the rabbits killed were
consumed, they would represent be
tween 200,000 and 800.000 ton of val
uable food, and If proper measures
were taken to Insure the collection of
skins, these alone would have a value
of $20,000,000. The biological survey
has frequently been called upon to help
western farmers in coping with the
rabbit pest. In view of the probable
economic value of rabbit meat and fur
In the coming few yea cm, the energies
of the farmers and ranchmen will be
directed to the conservation of this Im
portant resource. Already a number
of establishments for collecting, dress
ing, canning, and shipping rabbit meat
are in operation in western centers. As
In Australia the transition of the wild
rabbit In this country from its status
as a pest to source of profit Is assured.
It is believed.
The London county council has add
ed domestic science courses to Its day
schools and evening inHlules.
A boarder Is a man who Is mors In
terested In getting his bite than ia git-,
Ing his bit. '
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Whenever you sense a sick j
headache, or feel a bilious
attack coming on, word it
oft by the timely use of
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