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tumorous ijfpartrarnt President Wilson's Story.?This Is President Wilson's story- Secretary Daniels brought it to Philadelphia and told it at dinner: "We were talking about miapprehension," said the secretary, "when the president chuckled and said, 'Yes, that reminds me of the story of the man who went to see a famous specialist who demanded that each new patient should come into his private room stripped so that he could give him a thorough examination. When this man's turn came, he protested to the doctor's assistant, and began, 'But I don't want to?' " 'That's the rule, sir, with new patients. The doctor insists upon it. If you will come in here and undress.' " 'Oh. very well,' said the man, and stripped to the skin, he was shown into the doctor's office. " 'Well, sir,' said the doctor, 'what is the matter with you?' " 'Nothing,' replied the man. " 'Nothing?' echoed the physician. 'Then why??pointing to his nude body. " 'Well,' said the man, 'your assistant wouldn't let me see you with my clothes on, so I took them off.' " 'But,' said the doctor, 'what did you want to see me about?' " 'Why,' replied the stranger, 'I called to see if I couldn't get you or your wife to subscribe to the Ladies' Home Journal.' "?Philadelphia Public Ledger. Profitable Loafing.?"I have just - ~caught that man Brown hanging about smoking during working hours, so I gave him his four days' wages and told him to clear out," said the builder. Foreman?"Good 'eavens, guv'nor! That chap was looking for a Job." Honor the Dead.?"The Black Watch are fighting so well in France that even the Germans praise them. Wonderful fighters, the Irish!" The speaker was W. B. Cochran. He continued: "When I think of the valor of the Black Watch regiment, I recall the story of Pat McCann. "Pat came home one night with a DiaCK eye, a Droiten nose anu a ?pm lip; a front tooth was gone as well. " 'Tim Sullivan done it,' he told his wife, as he began to bathe his wounds in a basin of water. . " 'Shame on ye!' Bridget cried. 'A big feller like you to be licked by a little, hard-drinkin' cockroach like Tim Sullivan. Why, he?" " "Whist,' said Pat from the basin, softly, 'don't speak evil of the dea<L" Just Like a Woman.?The two women were discussing the never-failing theme?the incompetency of domestic servants. "Well, I am looking for a new cook," said one of the women, "and I am at my wit's end. They come to you as experts, well recommended and all that, and they turn out to be lazy and incompetent. I declare I can't understand it." "What became of the cook you had last week?" asked the other. "My dear, she was positively the lim- I it. She couldn't cook, she broke dish- 1 es, she wasted food, she wasn't neat 1 and she'was impudent. I have reason i to believe that she drank. Oh, I had : to get rid of her. Honestly, she was so ' bad in every way that I couldn't think i of a thing to say when I wrote a rec- < ommendation for her!"?Cleveland 1 Plain Dealer. i ] Would Assist In Search.?"William," said the good wife, looking up from her paper, "here I see an article that says i a man out in Kansas is suing his wife I for divorce simply because she went i through his pockets after he was ' asleep. Goodness knows, William, J prooaoiy me poor woman never b?ji a. cent from the brute of a husband in any other way!" "Uh-huh," replied William. "William," came from his better half, "don't you dare sit there and 'uh-huh' me in such a manner! What would you do if you woke up and found me going through your pockets?" "Who-me?" asked the sleepy husband, who had already turned over his pay envelope to the boss of the house. "Why, I'd get up and help you search, of course, my dear!"?Exchange. Card of Thanka.?Mr. Editor: I desire to thank the friends and neighbors most heartily in this manner for their co-operation in the illness and death of my late husband, who escaped from me by the hand of death last Saturday. To my friends and all who contributed toward making the last minutes comfortable and the funeral a success I desire to remember most kindly, hoping that these few lines will find them enJoying the same blessing. I have a good milk cow and a roan gelding horse eight years old, which I will sell cheap. God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps on the sea and rides upon the storm. Also lack and white shoat cheap. Mrs. R. C.?Lapeer County (Mich.) Clarion. English.?An English professor, traveling through the hills, noted various quaint expressions, says the Boston Herald. For instance, after a long ride the professor sought provisions at a mountain hut. ' "What d' yo'all want?" called out a ] woman. 1 "Madam," said the professor, "can I we get corn bread here? We'd like to 1 buy some of you." ' "Corn bread? Corn bread, did yo' < say?" Then she chuckled to herself and her manner grew amiable. "Why, * if corn bread's all yo' want, come right 1 in, for that's just what I hain't got ? nothing else on hand but." His Trouble.?"What brought you here, my poor fellow?" a missionary asked a convict. "I married a new woman, sir," the prisoner groaned. "Aha!" said the missionary, "and she was so domineering and extravagant that it drove you to desperate courses, eh?*' "No," replied the prisoner; "but the old woman turned up." The Brainy Molecule.? xne ianu, screamed the orator, "the land from which is produced the food of the people should belong to the people. There is no food used by the people that does not depend upon the land, and therefore"? "How about fish?'' rudely interrupted a molecule with brains in the back of the hall.?Kansas City Star. They Didn't Count.?"Have you ever let any olher man kiss you?" he demanded, jealously. "Never, Henry, never," she replied, demurely. "Only a few college boys." ?Life. aUsrrUattfous grading. CRISIS DEVELOPED HEROES. Girls, Wharf Rats and Tramps Converted Themselves Into Rescuers. Greater by hundreds would have been the number of dead but for actual prodigies of heroism, says a Chicago dispatch of Monday to the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The heroes ranged from slips of girls to ragged dock rats and hoboes. A frail mite of a girl crawled over the slimy side of the ship at the imminent risk of her own life and with her slim little arms dragged a number of children to safety. A gloomy man who was out of work and contemplating suicide in the river, found plenty of work when the ship capsized. He plunged in and rescued nine persons before he was dragged out almost dead by other rescuers. A policeman made a motorman stop between stations. He ran back along j the tracks, plunged into the river and saved eight. There were numerous cases of boy heroes. In two cases the j little fellows themselves perished after , helping many women and children to ? sarety. One boy, whose identity is yet a mystery, jumped from the dock into the river to help two women hanging to some object in the middle of the stream. He was swimming to the dock with one of the women when the other flung her arms around his neck, and all three were drowned. William Raphael, manager of a commission house, leaped into the river and ^as swimming to the dock with two women when a fat man, his face livid from fear, clutched the dress of one woman. Raphael kicked him in the face, but in the struggle the fat man and one woman drowned. A. W. Perkins, an express driver, who had just been excused from duty, had put on his bathing suit under his street clothes, preparatory to a day at the beach. He saw the Eastland topple over. Shedding his outer garments, he plunged and grasped two women, but was forced to release one. He saved the other. He immediately plunged back into the river and brought out two girls. Immediately following the disaster the American Express company placed its entire wagon and motor service at the disposal of the rescue workers. S. S. Mattacks of the American Express company, with another man, whose name was not learned, did valiant res cue work in an unusual way. They , threw a boatload of planks to the , struggling victims and afterwards c picked up many who were thus enabled , to keep afloat. t Edward Atkin, foreman of the R. B. t Atkin company, also proved himself a ( hero in a modest way. He found a r small boat under the Clark street { bridge and rescued 20 persons. Three ? insensible women he brought out were j restored by pulmotors. I Courage and presence of mind saved j the life of Mrs. Walter Hubbard. "I s had presence of mind to hold my 8 breath when I was thrown into the ^ river," she said. "My head felt as if 8 It would burst, but I realized my life c depended upon my retaining my senses. c [ fought until I got from under a sofa t that had fallen on me. Then I prayed c ?oh, I prayed; but I kept my eyes t open and my senses alert. Presently j some one threw me a life preserver, s and a man leaning from somewhere 0 hooked me with an umbrella and I was r saved." Mrs. Hubbard's daughter, p Ruth, aged 22, is among the missing. a All witnesses agree that in the crisis j. women were the stronger and more ^ sensible. While the men fought madly s for their lives, the women and girls, after the first panic, quickly recovered, rhey clung patiently to bits of wreckage and obeyed commands of rescuers. ( Those trapped in the hull waited calmly for death or rescue. The men, chiefly young foreigners, dragged women j. from places of safety, and even after t their own safety was assured stood j, stolidly around without offering to as- ^ sist. s Fred Swigert, a city fireman, worked v three hours lifting bodies from the r hold. Then a diver passed-up the body af a little girl, her flabby dress a pitiful <3 clinging shroud. Swigert placed the 0 little form on a stretcher and then, ^ looking closely at the drawn features, 8 erasped and fell unconscious across the j, body. It was his own daughter. 1, Every person living in the two fam- 8 lly house at 2,301 South Kolin avenue, 8 perished in the disaster. Jule Strogl, ^ and his wife, married five months; Al- e fred Anderson, his wife and 7-year-old 0 son were among the victims. G. S. Pritchard saved his wife and f son by supporting them on deck chairs ^ while he swam, treading water. "I ^ could feel dozens of living persons v churning the water under me," he said. c 'One woman grasped my legs, but the t bodies of others pushed her away, else 8 I should have perished." j, J. N. Johnson of 2,738 North Albany n avenue, had about as sad an experience F as can be told. Mr. Johnson, after three attempts to save his wife and p [laughter, was finally forced to land v without either. b Johnson on three different occasions ^ bad succeeded in getting hold of his 1, LL'ifp hilt chp tL'na nnltpH from V?i? _ ? K ?rasp, the third time going down nev- f ?r to re-appear. His baby was clinging t] to his neck, but when near shore was v pulled from him, and, owing to ex- e haustion, he was forced to fight hard p to save himself. Upon arriving at his f home he was told that the baby had been saved, but that his wife -was u Jrowned. -\ The star hero of them all, a 17-year- t old volunteer diver, who explored the s hull of the Eastland where professional jj divers refused to go and between ij morning and dark brought to the sur- fc face the bodies of 40 victims, is Charles t E. Bowles. v "The human frog," as he was called r by veterans, who marveled at his ex- ? ploits, worked from daylight to dusk, a and even then would not quit his self- c imposed task until, worn and exhaust- j ed, he was forcibly placed in Major Funkhouse's auto and taken from the ? scene of the tragedy. , Young Bowles is the son of a West- j ern Union wire chief and resides at } 3812 Springfield avenue. He is an ex- , pert swimmer and possesses remarka- , ble courage. When only 11 years old i he rescued two companions from s drowning, and a year ago saved the \ life of a baby that was helpless in a j burning building at 63d and Halstead street. The acetylene torch men already had ( begun to cut into the hull when Bowles ] arrived. He lost no time in putting on bathing trunks, and was among the , first to enter the murky water. , Although warned repeatedly, Bowles < dived into remote parts of the ship, seldom coming to the surface without the body of one of the victims. All I throughout Saturday he labored and 1 was on hand this morning as soon as t was light enough for him to enter he ship. I Several times during the day Major Punkhouser advised him to let others :arry on the work, but the young man 1 stuck at it until dusk, then, almost un- 1 :onscious from fatigue, he reached the 1 surface and grasped an iron rod. His < fingers slipped and had not a naval ' -eserve man clutched him his name 1 would have been added to the death 1 oil. ' Major Funkhouser then ordered that ' Bowies be carried to his automobile ' md drove him to the detective bureau, 1 where he got hot coffee and was wrap- 1 >d in a blanket. 1 "Just let me rest a little and I will ' )e back," he pleaded. "I want to go ' >n with the work because I know ' where there are several bodies. I will ' le back tomorrow." RURAL CREDIT LEGISLATION. Subject Will Receive Consideration By Next Congress. The matter of rural credits, or what hey are now calling "agricultural subildy," seems pretty sure to bob up as 1 loon as congress meets. The southern 1 'armers, it appears? will renew their 1 lemands for government aid, and the < politicians are not asleep to the open- i ng that will be afforded them to make ' capital out of it. The rural credit com- ' nission will shortly take up consider- 1 ition of the case. This commission is < ipart from the congressional commie- ' lion, officially organized to study the < lubject. The Washington correspond- 1 jnt of the New York Journal of Com- ' Tierce, writes his paper that the work ' >f this latter commission which has 1 jeen intrusted with the duty of prepar- 1 ng a bill on rural credits for discus- < iion at the next session, has assumed ' i position of unexpected importance. 1 Thus far, all that has been done by the commission has been to classify and listribute to its members the bills, docjments and reports on the subject al- 1 -eady Issued. It is known, however, 1 ;hat the commission is very evenly divided between the element which fa- 1 fors government aid to rural credit or- i ionizations and that which opposes it. 1 There has been a prevailing belief that he so-called conservative element, op- 1 josed to government aid, had a com- 1 Portable majority of the membership ! >f the commission under its control, >ut the demand for public support to ' and mortgage credits seems to be proceding so fast that if a vote were < aken today in the commission, it < night be very questionable whether he government aid group could be 1 lefeated. If this commission should eport in favor of some plan Involving 1 he purchase of land bonds by the government, the scheme might be launch- 1 ed at the opening of congress, with so ' nuch support and prestige that it I could scarcely be held back. The first lession of the commission, therefore, is ooked to as an occasion of considerate importance, inasmuch as it is ex- I >ected to develop clearly the relative I itrength of the two parties. A new 1 levelopment in the rural credit contro- 1 rersy that is receiving a good deal of } Lttentlon, especially from those who f ippose public aid, is seen in the dis-. ( ussion of Federal and state aid in I heir relation to one another. In some < if the southern states, particularly, ' here has been a demand, for some time mst, for the furnishing of aid by the itate governmenta Some opponents if Federal aid are suggesting that a 1 neans of escape, should they be hard- J iressed, would be to offer government ? iid only on condition that prior legis- < ation making concessions of various ' cinds had been enacted by the several 1 tates.?Charlotte Observer. c 0 1 RED SPIDER IN THE COTTON. 1 ? em son uonege ions now L.mie in- sect May Be Controlled. t Reports coming to Clemson college c ndlcate that the cotton red spider is 8 hreatening serious damage to cotton * n many parts of the state and the en- c omology division of the college has isued a statement of control measures trhlch will help farmers to avoid the avages of the tiny insect. f The red spider is a very small, red- "5 lish, spinning mite on the under sides i f cotton leaves. It is injurious during I Iry weather. As soon as dry weather 8 ets in, begin to watch for the mite. It t s not hard to recognize it. Infested 8 eaves become deep red on their upper e urfaces. By looking on the sunder I urfaces of such leaves, one can notice 8 he red spiders moving about. The t arliest sign is merely a blood red spot t n the upper surface of the leaf. E The lower leaves of the plant are af- * ected first. The red spider spreads f >y crawling and is also carried by c lirds, domestic animals, workmen and 8 idnd. The leaves that it attacks be- t ome distorted and brittle and drop off, hus weakening the plant. Several pecies of insects attack the mite and n some seasons do much good, but nan must do the greatest part of the ireventive work himself. The red spider has over fifty food ilants, among the most important of ^hich are violets, jimson weed, pokeierry, cowpea, bean, okra, wild blackerry, and other common plants. Vioets and poke weed are especially danerous, because they afford winter food or the insect. As a preventive measire against red spider, keep down all * HftfUS BU litr as piatucai auu guaiu specially against having violets or ioke weed anywhere near a cotton [eld. At the first signs of red spider. j? ' ip all infested plants and burn them. Vhen large patches in the field have ecome infested, use one of the red a pider sprays. Potassium sulfide and a [me sulphur solution are considered the s est of these. Potassium sulfide may i e bought at drug stores and is used at I he rate of 3 pounds to 100 gallons of i vater. Lime sulphur solution, unless c nade at home as for orchards, is not ^ 10 easily obtained locally. It is used < it the rate of one gallon to 30 gallons \ ' f V*?n la *V?a noma onlnfinri thof 1 'X n aivi v vino 10 mc inline butuiivu vm*v s used for scale in orchards). For small spots a bucket pump is sufficient. For larger areas, use a barrel pump, if the plants are not too urge. Equip the pump with fine nozdes, as when spraying fruit trees. \bout 100 gallons of the spray is re1 aired for an acre. Three acres can je sprayed with care in one day. In spraying be sure to spray thoroughly the under sides of leaves and also the plants nearest to the infested spots. A Query.?Flatbush?I see In the In- 1 lian army all orders are given in English. Bensonhurst?Well, If the colonel 1 wants some pate do foie gras for lun- 1 ?heon, how does he order it??Yonkers ' Statesman. Tests of human bones have shown i them to be 50 per cent stronger than i tiickory. I FACT. FASHION AND FANCY Paragraphs Calculated to Interest York County Women. More than half the troubles of married people are the result of want of fact. Sensible matrimonial partners soon learn the ways and whims of ?ach other, and, by tact avoid the ocks which for ages have shattered :he happiness of married life. For instance, a sensible wife soon discovers :hat her husband does not like to be laked his reasons for everything he loes. Nine times out of ten he does lot know what they are himself. A prudent wife will not try to ape her rich neighbors, nor nag her husband for the money he cannot afford to give tier. She will have the courage and ndependence to accept her life as she finds it, and maker the most of it. No wife ever realizes her most brilliant ?xpectations of happiness. She will never be quite so happy as she expected to be, but she will not grieve iver that. She will take the goods the ?ods provide and be thankful. The iverage man expects a good deal of his wife. He wants her to stay at home when he is out. He doesn't know why, neither does she; but it is so. He wants her to be there when he Mimes home. It does not seem right if she is not. A tactful woman will not stand on her dignity with her huspand, for it doesn't pay. The average nusband has many and varied pecull iriues wnicn are loiauy iiieumprertenslve to women. Do not try to understand them, for you cannot, and that is all there Is about It. If you ire going to be married, make up your mind that you will be patient through the first two or three years, while you ire getlng used to each other. This is the critical period In married life, and if it is passed In safety It is generally fairly plain sailing afterward. Did You Ever? Save old socks and stockings, sew them together for scrub cloths, stove polishers, mop rags, etc? Save candy Jars, label and fill them with* different spices and keep them in i neat row on the cupboard or pantry 3helf? Make a tin sheet to fit the oven, on which to roll, cut and bake cookies without handling? They keep their shape better and it is much less labor. Sew tapes to each corner of the baby's quilt, so he can't kick It off? Hang a five cent slate on the inside jf the cupboard door, on which to Jot down items liable to be forgotten? Put a clean marble In a pot of vege:ables to keep them from scorching? rhe heat keeps the marble rolling iround. Cut the opposite sides of a dress separately, when the goods is the same on both sides? It often saves from one-half to a yard of goods. The Season'* Sleeve*. Sleeves still remain long, reaching 'rom shoulder to wrist; many are dnished with a point or a flaring cuff which falls over the hand. As the warm weather advances it would be veil to have the sleeves as transparent is possible. In direct contrast, many ?venlng gowns have no sleeves at all, >ut have a fulness of chiffon or tulle :arrled over the shoulder simply to lold the bodice in place. * *. Rainy Day Clothe*. There was a day when rain meant inbecoming and unattractive clothes. \.nd that day was not so very long igo. There were some becoming rainy lay clothes then, to be sure, but uness one looked well in a tan waterhoofed covert or gabardine coat, or in >ilskins, or in a rubber coat of some tind, one did not appear to advantage n the rain. Nowadays there are all torts of pretty and becoming rainy lay clothes. Of course, the topcoat hat is absolutely waterproof Is still lesirable. It may be of the thinnest illk fabric for summer, or any heavy vlnter fabric may be waterproofed for ;old weather rainy days. Fig Fancies. There is an unusually large crop of igs in this section this year, and fork county housewives can doubtless ise the following recipe to advantage; ieat to a cream one cupful of butter ind two cupfuls white sugar. Add wo eggs well beaten and one teaipoonful of baking powder sifted with nough flour to permit easy rolling, loll them and cut out In any deilred shape. Wet the edges, place a easpoonful of fig filling on one side of he shape, turn over the other half, >ress edges together and bake about 10 ninutes in a hot oven. To make the llling, add to two cupfuls of figs, :hopped fine, one cupful white sugar md one-half cupful water. Boil thiry minutes, cool and use. She Who Bites Her Nails. Her eyes are of purple hue; Her nose is tilted saucily; I think she beads her lashes, too; Her hair is fixed so flossily. Her charm in only one thing fails? The little girl who bites her nails. 'Tis but the flaw that goes to make Her beauty the more ravishing, Lest all the charms by some mistake The gods on her were lavishing, Who in her fairness Venus Jales? The little girl who bites her nails. For, were perfection there displayed, She'd be too fair to look upon; A goddess not for men's eyes made, For bards to write a book upon. The human touch one's heart assails, The little girl who bites her nails. * * Water lilies are coming into fashion is a trimming for white hats, which ire going to be so much favored this iummer. And certainly they have this n their favor?that they give an imiresslon of coolness, more especially f they be worn with a dress which :omblnes white and leaf green. A rery filmy black gown can also be 'ffectively crowned by a black hat envreathed with these newly favored vater lilies instead of gardenias. Ruffle* Popular. A very new note brought out on Iresses copied after the 19th century [>eriod is the facing of the many ruffles which add to the bouffant lines of i gown. One dress of wood-green faille has six narrow but full ruffles iround the bottom of the skirt. Each ruffle is faced with sand colored silk. Wider ruffles outline the neck of the pointed bodice and edge the cuffs of the full "sleeves. These are also lined with the contrasting color. The Submarine's Advance.?In the note of May 13 to the German government, protesting against the submarine warfare upon merchant shipping, the United States declared: "The objection to their (the Germans') present method of attack igainst the trade of their enemies lies in the practical impossibility of em ploying submarines in the destructlo of commerce, without disregarding those rules of fairness, reason. Justice and humanity which all modern opinion regards as imperative. * * Manifestly, submarines can not be used against merchantmen, as the last few weeks have shown, without an inevitable violation of many saered principles of Justice and humanity." In the note delivered at the German foreign office yesterday, it is declare by the United States: "The events of the past two months have clearly indicated that it is possible and practicable to conduct such submarine operations as have characterized the activity of the Imperial German navy within the so-called war zone in substantial accord with the accepted practices of regulated warfare. I It is manifestly possible therefore, to lift the whole practice of submarine attack above the criticism which it has aroused and remove the chief cause of offense." Whether or not there is intended In this apparently deliberate reversal of lodgment upon the submarine anything more than appears in the latter exp*?*" slon, it is not possible to say, but both curious and Interesting that^almost the identical language should be employed in the one Instance to pronounce Impossible and in the other to recognize as possible the employment of submarines as commerce destroyers. ?Charleston Post. GENERAL NEWS NOTES I items of Interest Gathered from All Around the World. Philadelphia is making a campaign for the 1916 National Republican presidential nominating convention. Baron Michelham of London, has ofIfered a reward of $5,000 each for the first ten Zeppelin airships destroyed I by the airmen of the allies. The Georgia prison commission has issued a statement exonerating Warden Smith of the Milledgevllle state prison farm in connection with the assault on Leo M. Frank. Adolf Blau, a banker, who disappeared from Scranton, Pa., June 10, leaving *1,400 with which to meet deposits of $400,000, was arrested at Chattanogoa, Tenn., Monday. Prince Oscar, fifth son of Emperor William of Germany, has written a book describing the winter campaign in the Champagne region. The profits from the sales of the book will be devoted to the relief of widows and orphans of Rhelnish soldiers. Mrs. George W. Drexel of Philadelphia. was violently pushed from a narrow path near North lslesboro, Me.. Saturday, and fell over a 40-foot ledge. She was saved from death by her clothes catching on limbs of trees bellow the path. The British government has granted permission to the Swedish Cotton Spinners' association to convey to Sweden 55,000 bales of cotton now lying in English ports, provided satisfactory guarantees are given that the cotton will not be re-exported. Court-martial for some of the members of the naval academy graduating class involved in the charges of irregularities in examinations, and outrlg dismissal for some others, are recommended in the report of the special court of inquiry which investigated the scandal. , Loss of life in Canton, China, due to fire and flood, is estimated in tens of thousands, according to a report received at Washington from Admiral Wlnterhalter, commanding the Asiatic fleet. The gunboat Callao took 130 bags of rice to Shuyhlng July 16 and rescued missionaries and 50 blind girls from the dikes of that town. Admira Wlnterhalter cabled from Shanghai the report received by him from the Wilmington, which was sent on re ie work with the Callao. The imports for the fiscal year of 1915, ended June 30, were $219,700,000 less than in the previous year. In exports of domestic products, in aggregate value of foreign trade and in favorable balance of trade, the United States made a new high record in the fiscal year ended June. Figures made public by the department of commerce Monday show that imports and exports romhined totalled $4,442,864,272. an in crease of $184,000,000 over 1914, and of $164,000,000 over 1913, the prior high record year in total trade. The excess of exports over Imports for the year 1915 was $1,094,422,792, which sum exceeded by $428,000,000 the former high record, made in 1908, and by $623,800,000 the export balance for 1914. Drag the Roads. When the smiles of spring appear, Drag the roads; When the summer time is here, Drag the roads; When the corn is In the ear, In the winter cold and drear, Every season of the year. Drag the roads. When you've nothing else to do, Drag the roads; If but for an hour or two, Drag the roads: It will keep them good as new; With a purpose firm and true, U'all in line: it's uo to vou? Drag the roads. In Holy Scriptures the day is always received from the sunset of the previous evening. THREE-QUARTERS OF A CEN1 IN THE TRAINING OF YOUNi A time-seasoned institution o training of the intellect and the dev Christian influences. Situated in a religious in life and atmosphere; ii Health conditions unexcelled. Buildings equipped and arrange in college work and administration, young men. The Wylie Home, a ham provides every modern dormitory eq acre ca mpus; out-door sports and exe Literary and science courses of c degrees. Library of 10,000 volume School. Government based upon an app tuitioh to young ladies in Wylie Horn COTTON FLOODS LIVERPOOL 1,626,260 Bales Are Stored In Warehouses of English Port. One of the strangest commercial situations created by the war is to be found in Liverpool, normally the greatest cotton market of Europe, but today a vast storehouse for as huge a quantity of this material as has ever perhaps been collected at a European port. At this time last year 882,410 bales of cotton were stored at Liverpool. Today there are 1,626,260 bales, the largest quantity ever stored at this port? so large, in fact, that every available building has been converted into a cotton warehouse. The estimated value of the cotton nnrn of T .1 vovnA/il la f HHA nnn Thp greater portion of It Is American cotton, of which last year there were 655.490 bales, while today there are 1,358,370 bales. The biggest building in the city, Tournament Hall, which accommodates 12,000 people, has been converted into a warehouse. The present situation has been caused by three circumstances, all dependent upon the war. First, the closing of the futures market at the outbreak of the war led to very big purchases, which were added to when the futures market re-opened. Second, a large amount of cotton has been diverted by the British government and brought to Liverpool. Third. Americans have sent big quantities of cotton because they regard Liverpool as the best port for future trans-shipment. For some months the weekly deliveries to spinners were slightly below the average of the past four years. Cotton men are not alarmed by the situation and expect that the supply at Liverpool will soon be even greater. ?London dispatch to New York Sun. ODD INCIDENT8 Bits of News Out of Ordinary Gathered From Exchangee. D.- McGinty, a farmer of Junction City, Kan., had an entire wheat field of 140 acres ruined when the Republican river overflowed it and the fishes ate the heads off the wheat. Mrs. Rachael McMullin of Grand Rapids, Mich., has left 81,500 to be used in the education of her grandson il he refrains from playing foot ball. Should he decide in favor of the game, me money is 10 revert 10 me state. Beer kegs are helping save the wheat crop In Cherokee county, Kan. M. Hv. Snodgrass, a farmer near Columbus, conceived the idea of using the kegs as wheels for binders, which prevent the miring of the machines in muddy fields. The county attorney has approved the idea and is giving kegs taken in blind tiger raids to the farmers for the purpose. What is thought to have been a female turtle, with a brood of young ones, attacked the three-year-old daughter of Deputy Sheriff Ed Puller of Ralston, Tenn., when the child became caught beneath a gate. She received seven ugly wounds on her hands and legs, and the turtle was snapping at her viciously when help arrived. Harry, the nine-year-old son of Frank Meredith of Alderson, W. Va., coughed up a needle three inches long which he swallowed six years ago. The needle had remained in the throat and the boy frequently complained of throat trouble. He pulled it out when he gagged while eating cherries. Dreyful Bonham of Bridgeport, Pa., while plowing a field, caught an iron chain attached to a can containing 318 half dollars. The dates on the coins indicate that they had been buried for many years. RAILROADS IN TIME OF WAR German Railroads Have Played Important Part in Russian Defeat. wnthuov mllnflom hna nlflV ed a potent part in the winning of modern battles. The Russians have not only well-equipped, well-trained men to deal with in the eastern war theatre, but, also a wonderful, strategically Invaluable net of railways. The German railways have been instruments of first importance in every Russian defeat On the western front, where the fighting has been more stationary, the highly developed railway system of Germany meets the equally highly developed system of France. How well France and Germany are prepared to meet the emergencies of war transportation as compared with the other belligerents, is shown in a recent bulletin issued by the National Geographic society. The bulletin reads: "The total length of the railways of the world is about 750,000 miles, of which considerably more than fourfifths falls to the continents of Europe and America. The United States leads all other nations of the world in the total of its railroad mileage, although it is proportionately behind some of them. Belgium, now back of the invaders' lines, is one of the best supplied territories in the world for rail communication and the railways of Great Britain, Germany and France are equal to almost any strain that a war traffic may put upon them. "Europe possesses more than 212,600 miles of railway lines, of which about one-third falls to the share of the central German powers, the German empire and Austria-Hungary. rURY OF CONSISTENT IDEALS 3 MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN, ffering superior advantages for the elopment of character under sound quiet college town, educational and nfluences highly favorable to study. d to afford the maximum of efficiency College Home accommodates seventy dsome new building for young women, uipment and convenience. Twentyrcises. ollegiate standard; B. A. and M. A. s; Laboratories, Observatory, Fitting eal to honor and self-respect Free e. Expenses for year about $200, or Catalogue adM \ T * mes Strong JjaHb > PRESIDENT, Germany, with its 210,000 square miles of territory, has about 40,000 miles of rail line, while France, with its 208,000 square miles, has 32,500 miles of trackage. "Russia and Finland, together, with a total area of 2,095,616 square miles or very nearly ten times the size of Germany, has a railway mileage that is slightly less than that of Germany. In great part, the Russian railways are far flung trunkllnes, and the Muscovite land nowhere has anything corresponding to the interest-weaving railway nets of Germany and France. This lack of railway facilities has been one of the disadvantages that the Russians have had to overcome during the present war. 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