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^HTISET OPEN TO CHRISTIAN'S Officials Have Invited Missionaries to Wjr Enter Freely Into the "Forj bidden Land." Those disciples of Christ who Interest themselves in foreign missions are aroused over an invitation coming to American disciples from Tibet, according to the Boston Evening Transcript. HH This land, occupying the "roof of the world," has heretofore been practically closed to all foreigners. That it has ^ been so was due, "so Tibet officials tell f American discinles, to the influence r of China. Now Tibet has thrown off Chinese control and one of its first acts ' is to appeal for Christian missionaries. The disciples have a mission station at Batang, one of the farthest west cit^ ie? of China, nearly 3,000 miles up the . Yangste river. * A venturesome American doctor, sent out by the disciples, journeyed fa 18 days farther west, getting into Tiand into a wherein disease in its worst form, unattended and not understood, ravaged the people. The r doctor set uo an imDromntu clinic and I dispensary. The relief was so great that one of the highest civic officials > is all Tibet begged him to stay, or if he could not do so to return, build a hospital and official Tibet would help him. Now the disciples argue that here is a call they are not at liberty to ignore. Their missionary society has acted to this effect. An appeal has been made i for four families, two of them physician families, to go. It is said there are no hospitals, no churches, no chools, no Christian agencies of any kind in that country of 4,000.000 peo pie, American manufactured gooas are beginning to reach Tibet and Scotch whisky has been there for a decade or two. OLD BOXER DIES ON FIELD * Dick Burge, Once Weii Known in This Country Met His Death FightIt ing in France. _ Late Private Richard Burge of the ^ First Surrey rifles never was a quit B ier, and, despite the fact that he was Hp at the half century mark, he enlisted and died the death of a soldier. He was once the lightweight champion of England, and was born December 19, 1865. Dick Burge was a name well known to-the fight fans on both sides of the Atlantic 20 years or so ago, chiefly because of his remrrkable battle with Kid Lavigne for the lightweight championship of the world. Dick was several inches taller than the Saginaw Kid, and he had a considerable ad. vantage in weight, but, much to his 1 surprise and that of the English fans, J he was knocked out in the seventeenth round. He gave a good accouut of himself before he fell, however, and there were times when the Kid had reason to fear that he had taken on too good a man. After Burge quit the ring he became fight promoter. That was in 1900. He enlisted as a volunteer in the British army in 1915 aod served with the colors for three years. ?Detroit Fr^-e Press. > Rulers With Business Instincts. At the outset of his imperial career the grandfather of the former German Pt-o/lnri/it William nu'Mi his AfllOCtf A' l^UVA'VB ? V " vvi ? accumulation of money to his cora^ mercial dealings. One of his commercial undertakings was to start milkrounds, which did exceedingly well, in spite of being carried on sub rosa, for the German courtiers found that th^ Imperial favor was dependent upon their patronizing the imperial dairy. In this way the old emperor created a huge milk monopoly in various cities, nd reaped a correspondingly large profit. Kaiser Wilhelm himself had keen commercial instincts, and had a finger in most of the big German undertakings. In Germany it was currently reported that Ballin was merely the figure-head of the North German Lfoyd line of steamships, and that the kaiser was the real man at the helm, and the same thing was said or many orner money-inusuig cuueerns. y Avery'# Pride. Conservative?By the way, Avery, I understand you want the universal franchise! Avery?Yes! Con.?Why, man, do you want your wife to become a politician? Ite Avery?It isn't that exactly. Fact K la, she has always been a?politician. Con.?Well, what is the reason? W Avery?Pride, pride, my boy?pure, k brute, male pride! * Con.?How so? I don't see the connection. Avery?I don't like tne idea or Deing married to a human being who Is classed with the idiots!?London Tit-Bits. United States' Fliers. In his recent annual report Maj. Gen. William L. Kenley, director of military aeronautics, states that 4,980 men had been graduated as reserve military aviators, the first rating for pilots, by June 30, last, with 110 bombers, 85 bombing pilots, 404 observers, 889 observer pilots, and 131 pursuit pilots. In the year ended last June 30 there were 152 fatalities in training, or an average of one death to 2,684 hours and 201,000 mile3 flown. Stalled engines, usually due to an error of the pilot, caused 86 deaths; collisions, 30; and sideslips, 10. The report goes on further to state that 440 balloon officers also had graduated, 155 of whom were fully qualified observers during the year.?Scientific American. BOHEMIA HIVE OF INDUSTRY Little Country, Now to Be Given Opportunity to Progress, Has Been Much Misunderstood. Not one of the little countries which have come into being as independent states, or parts of new nations, since the triumph of the allies, is more often misunderstood in America than Bo hernia has always been. The very name lias implied, for many persons, the unconventional ways of artists, the gypsying of vagrants, and the impatience of restraint which is supposed to characterize countries remote from great centers of trade and industry and rather backward in their business interests. But Bohemia is a wonderful hive oi hard-working and skilled artisans. It is one of the most densely populated countries in the world, exceeding, in that respect, Germany, Austria-Hungary, as a whole or in either half of the old monarchy, and even Italy. The number of inhabitants, in proportion to the area, is 75 per cent greater than it is in France. Bohemia is almost exactly half as large as Ohio, hut its population, nearly 7,000,000 at the heginning of the war, is about 35 per cent greater than that of this state. There is no other division of Aus tria-Hungary, taking into the reckoning the entire territory formerly in that dual monarchy, which is equal to Bohemia in manufactures. It is a notable center of iron and steel production. Its textiles are an important factor in the trade of Europe, and its glassware, china, sugar, beer, chemicals, paper, tobacco, lace, toys and many other products of skill and patient labor are widely known. Necessorilr fhp commerce of so busy a country is large and far-reaching. All that Bohemia needs is the opportunity which has come at last to prove the capacity of% its people for great progress beyond the level they have already attained. MAKE YOUR OWN DIAGNOSIS i All One Needs to Determine Physical . Condition Is to Test by Clini cai i nermomexcr. < i The best way of asking a friend how i he is, is not to say flippantly: "How I are you blowing?" or even "How's ! your liver?" but simply and sufficient- j ly: "How's your temperature?" Ac- > cording to your temperature you are well or ill, alive or nearly dead. In i fact, there are only ten degrees he- : tween blooming health and certain ? death, observes a writer in London { Answers. The temperature of the air has noth- , in? to do with the temperature of the j body, wh'ch is the temperature of the blood. The Eskimo in health sends I the clinical thermometer to the same j spot as the Negro in Timbuctoo, viz., j 08 decrees Fahrenheit. The temperature of the air will sometimes vary 40 degrees in the same day, but if the temperature of the body goes up two degrees, you are HI; four degrees, you are verj ill; six degrees, and the doctor is very anxious; eight degrees, and you are at death's door. Anybody can take a temperature, even his own. It is a great safe-' guard to possess and use a clinical rnermomeier. iMneiy-eigm uegrt*t?s, mm right; 100 degrees, stay at home; 101 degrees, go to bed: 102 degrees, send for tho doctor. Anything higher than that is a doctor's job. The Economy General. Gen. Sir Henry Horne. "the man who took Douai," has been called the economy general through skillful manipulation of men and his small casualty list. His name will be handed down to posterity, as the man who invented the "creeping barrage" system, which came into universal use on the battlefield. With the assistance of this barrage, he captured Fricourt, Mametz and Douai, gaining maximum results at minimum cost. His losses in men and material on each occasion were very light. General Horne ' belongs to the Old Contemptibles, and he saw service also j in the South African war. His proudI est moment during that campaign was j when General Cronje surrendered to him. May Throw Light on History. A number of archeologists from the Tokyo Imperial university and elsewhere are making excavations in the compound of the Hakusan shrine, Toyama prefecture, said to be a most i vnlmjhlp stnrphonsp of mntprifil for I historical study. Doctor Shibata of i the Tokyo university is quoted as say- j I ing: "We may discover some clues I as to whether our forefathers came 1 from Corea or from Saghalien." At the place mentioned a number of hones ! of women and children are being unearthed. Clemenceau, Playwright. | Like many another Parisian of poli' tics. Monsieur Clemenceau is inter! ested in the finer things of theater 1 and, like Waldeck-Rousseau before ! him nssulnnnslv freouents it even though he happens to be prime min ! ister of France. In his years of leis! ure he has dabbled also in the writing of plays and two of his pieces, "Les Requins" and "Le Voile du Bonheur," have found place on the stage.?Boston Transcript. Held at a Distance. "Father," said the ex-crown prince, "why do you keep the title 'count?"' "As n sort of compromise. I feel that very few people are going to like me wHl enough to want to call me by my first name."?Boston Evening Transcript. f I ? OPPOSED OIL PIPE LINES Teamsters Oefeated Proposition Which Had Its Origin in Brain of Heman Jones, Pennsylvanian. It was an American, Heman Jones of Erie, Pa., who first conceived the idea of the construction of an oil pipe line. It was to be of wood four inches in diameter, but was not executed. A year later, in 18<>2, a bill was introduced into the legislature authorizing a pipe line from Oil Creek to Kittanning, Pa., (the state in which oil was first discovered), but it got no further, through the opposition of 4.(MK> teamsters. In fact, for some years the teamsters made impossible the success of the pipe lines. They were doing very well out of the existing methods of transportation, earning $10 to $30 a day, and they viewed with vin diet!ve disfavor the loss of dollars and weekly revelries. Both in 18G.S and in' 1805 the teamsters wrought havoc on the two pipe lines constructed in those years. Eventually rrogress gained the day. and many linos were laid, including one 102 miles long in 1SS0. It was not, however, till John D. Rockefeller and his associates took the matter in hand, eliminating all the old-fashioned methods of production and transportation, that petroleum began to be the power and profit it is today. In 3SG0 the Tnited States pro .^1 4\f\f\ miction <>i petroleum was -i.*w,iw gallons. In 11)17 it had risen to 13.440,000,000 gallons. Gasoline is still the chief derivative, but fuel oil has a great future. BELGIANS PROUD OF CITIES In Their Centers of Industry They Set Embodied the Gloriouf History of the Past. No man shall say we love our land less than a Frenchman loves France, less than a Belgian loves his native land. We have our holy cities. Winchester and Canterbury, and a hundred more whose old names are dear to speak. Yet I believe, writes ''Londoner" in the London Evening News, that the Belgian has a patriotism of the city, of the town, which we never had. The story of that love for the city is all the history of Belgium. The history of the freedom and the wealth and th#? ancient arts of Belgium is In the history of Antwerp and Bruges, of Brussels ami Ghent, and Louvain and Ypres. It begins with the building of the town wall, with the market that grows up behind the shelter of walls and armed gates, with the raising of the tall belfry, the town's pride; and the hanging of Hie bells. If you were a tourist who could see the glory of old Flanders and Brabant, you would look not at the cathedral or the church, although Belgium has many noble old churches, but at the town hall and the belfry. The like of them is not in any other country. First to Teach Deaf Mutes. The first American institution for the education of the deaf and dumb was founded in Hartford in 1917 by Dr. Thomas H. Gallaudet, who was born in Philadelphia 131 years ago. He was educated at Yale and at Andover Theological seminary, and it was his intention to enter the ministry. Before leaving Andover, howevur hp hnri dprirled to devote his life to the instruction of deaf mutes, for whom no provision had been made anywhere in America. He remained at the head of the Hartford institution from 1S17 until 1830, when ill health forced his retirement- The first systematic attempt to instruct the deaf and dumb in Europe was made in 1570 by Pedro de Ponco, a i Benedictine monk of Spain. The first ; British institution of this* kind was opened in Edinburgh in 1773. , i i Influence of Good Books. When you find a child who loves good books, the noxious weeds of envy, hatred, jealousy and malice are not so likely to grow in his mind and choke out the exquisite blossoms of love, tenderness, unselfishness, gratitude and the desire to do unto others i as he would be done by. The love of , good books is one foundation for good character, observes a writer in the j Oklahoman. It is the exr-eption, not | the rule, to encounter sordidness, greed ; or insensibility in the man or woman ! who knows and loves good books. Rob- J ert Louis Stevenson once said that so 1 long as a man had a friend he had j. something to live for. Is it not true ' so long as one can love a good and ; beautiful book that life never will be without hope? | California Eurglan/ Original Methods, j Burglars attempted to open the safe of the Western Mechanical company. Failing to dislodge the safe doors j after burning off the hinges, they j broke into the company's garage, took J out a truck, hoistod the safe through j a skylight with the company's tackle, hauled it to a canyon and rifled it of $1,500 cash and Liberty bonds.?Los J Angeles Times. The Right Man. "They say Miss High strung is going to marry an army officer.'' "Well, I should think that a man who makes a business of war might be able to get along with her."?Coston Evening Transcript. Used Constantly. Yeast?Don't you think your wife has got a wonderful voice? Crimsonbeak?Yes. It's wonderful Jt A.isn'C given out before this.? tuOOaT.uN AND THE PUMPKIN Eastern Writer Points Out Wherein the Two Have Some Strong Points of Similarity. At one of our city vegetable marts onp day a farmer displayed with commendable pride a huge pumpkin of alluring aspect, with the statement that it grew "full twenty feet from the stalk," remarks Ilochester I'ost-Express. This habit of wandering in tortuous uselcssness to a long distance 1 IVIII I II?* MMIIVC l/l J;I iniu* iiw?. "v.?. ? the fruit of the vine is produced is lon;x known of the pumpkin. It would not be amiss for our educators to consider the pumpkin vine; unquestionably some of them have in earlier days, but whether with a view to its close analogy to educational processes is uncertain. Perhaps it is too much to say that the best fmit of tiki educational vine is produced from its original source; that what comes of schooling is something quite different from the apparent result at the source; that the best things a man or woman does are very different from the particular, or nonparticularized thing, he or she is directly taught to do. We are turning to the business of making our schools show quick fruitage of working ability. But it is at least a fair hazard to opine that the pupils who become "some pumpkins" will often as not be products known a long way from the special process of education that extreme vocationalists advise. rni nfimcc iipq Awn nnWNS UUUUUiVU \J III W nn v WWII I?v Important German City of the Present Has Had Its Periods of Dire Adversity. During the Middle Ages Cologne was a place of great trade; the weavers, the goldsmiths, and the armorers of the city were famous the world over; while its merchants had houses In London, and the city itself was accorded a chief place in the Hanseatic * T*"v^ /In leagur. utoi.y sei m wmi mc the Reformation, and the place owed its downfall to its intolerance. Thus, it? university, which in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries had a great reputation, began at once to decline. This policy dealt severe blows at the prosperity of the town, and when, in 17M, Cologne was occupied by the Frenrh, it was a poor and decayed city of some 40,000 inhabitants, of which only 6,000 possessed civil rights. Since 1815, however, when it was finally assigned to Prussia, Cologne has continued to prosper, until today it is one of the most important (Hies of Germany, with a population of nearly hnlf a million. Fool-Proof Airplane. The latest model of British airplane is said to be as nearly foolproof as it M n nV? inA IS possime to make siuui a luutmuc as an airplane. The machines are so balanced and the wings so arranged, that when the engine stops they glide gradually and easily to earth. The following test shows how stable these airplanes are: A pilot climbed to a sufficient height, and then stopped his engine and took his hands off the control, merely keeping his feet on the rudder bar. He Steered for an airdrome twenty miles away, and, having headed her straight," he let the airplane do what she liked. She traveled the whole twenty miles as steadily as a bicycle coasting down a long, straight and gentle hill. Of course the pilot had to take hold of the con trol stick to land the machine in the airdrome, but except for that, and the steering, the airplane made the whole Journey by herself. Dogs as Messengers. Experiments made in the training of dogs as messengers with the armies in the field have, it is stated, given satisfactory results. The dogs which proved most receptive under instructions are chiefly haif-breed collies and .ntfini-Afo A rafhor nnnr Hrppfi of icuk;t?.-.. bob-tailed sheepdogs has also done well. All have been trained to perform their errands during heavy firing, both o* rifles and guns. They can be fired over as-easily as the or dinarv.sporting dog, and what is quite another thing, they will face fire at close range. ^ Had Same War Adventures. A letter from the chaplain of base hospital 48, French lines, brings to light a strange case of parallel circumstances in the war experiences of two San Franciscans, Corp. Arthur T. Mullen. 621 Alvarado street, and Private Jeremiah Sears, 623 Alvarado street. After enlistment the two men. living in the same building, were assigned to the same division, fought in the same battle, escaping wounds; then in the battle of Argonne they were both wounded October 14 at the same time, by machine-gun bullets, and were placed sidv. by side on cots in the same hospital. New American Industry. Turkish- towels now come from Lewiston, Me., where the mills are daily turning out thousands of high-grade Turkish towels that are said to be far superior to the goods formerly brought across the Atlantic. One mill as a side line turns out 30.000 bedspreads each week and daily produces thousands of yards of mercerized silk. Canary Civen Fine Funeral. Scores of persons attended the fu neral of a canary bird at the home of Harry Chambers, Moorestown, N. J. The bird was twenty-five years old, and many grownups had known it since they were children. It was buried in a little silver box. '""T BEAVER j Solid Comfort, Within Beave there's solid comfor you can't expect spruce fibre of this iKiS heat, cold and soun trade-mark is on or Other Wall buildi the back of the _y , , , board you buy* You don t nave to ing Beaver Board wall: quickly nailed to the stui or directly over old cra< f |ti>y-T(i|| Beaver Board has ^9lBv just the thing to line y< iv?W/ for,the building of a b V|I w/ space in the house. In a new booklet, Farm Home," you II fir gether with an actual p Newberry Lumfc AGENl I There is Nothing B( Fish. Rlnnrl i i -- - : and our custoir ready writing coming after it. Fertilizer got scai you know, anrl at - LK ? was a scram Die mr ber. A shortage ai freely predicted for YOU CAN GE1 ! | , It is a good sche] out now while the tiraf fn nlow WhrJ VT Vfc ii ww * I putting it off and ri of not getting what besides later you | plowing. Now is t] You can't im Fish, Blood and M Anderson Phosj Compa ! W. F. FARMER | ii w HJIPI I.^ .b - -^r*xxza^mu2jr | "The piston is in the form of a ( q solid iron rod that enters the cylinder , through a hole pierced in the middle of one of the ends," writes Henri eir j Fabre, "and just large enough to give ! free passage to the rod, without let- "I ; ting the steam escape. This rod is C'ar j hound to another iron piece, called a wea [ crank, and finally the crank is attached j00j. to the neighboring wheel. . . . The ] j piston, advancing and retreating in j * 1 turn in the cylinder, pushes the. crank j forward and back, and the crank thus 3n * makes the great wheel turn. On the has ' other side of the locomotive, the same I at things are taking place by means of a intei second cylinder. Then the two great jf wheels turn at the same time and the locomotive moves forward." . send Really Sisterly. Hortense?I can only be a sister to ; y0U* you, Alphonse. i I il?1>nnsn T)ian <riro mo mv i BOSt AipiJUJLIOC AULU ^ J presents. help | Hortense?Why, Alphonse! Who Fc ever heard of a sister being so silly? 1 ' J BOARD .LS & CEILINGS n Hot or Cold r Board walls and ceilings t. The closely-meshed pure good lumber product resists d better than lath and plaster. ng materials. > depend on outside labor for build* s and ceilings. Beaver Board i& dding of new buildings or partitions^ :ked plaster and dingy wall paper.. ; endless uses about the farm. It'saur work shop and it's even better*eautiful new room in some waste "Building More Comfort into theid rr.uriy suggestions. It's free, to? iece of Beaver Board, if you ask us.. >er Company^ 'S \ itter Than Our ! I and Meal I ' ^j|j^ jl?j|jIV %" r" > iers are alfor it and ; > t#> 1 ? si" snrin a i the last there it, you rememnd a scarcity is \ this spring. ? . r IT NOW t . I 3 me to haul it ground is too t is the use of ] inning the risk vnn warif arurl jr v/u ft (ah will be busy , be time. I - V-" iprove on Teal Fertilizer. H 3 ci ihate & Oil I & i my * , Secretary __________ " ADiS 25 POUNDS K 30 DATS. tarkalile Experience of P. G. Clarfc Builds Fp Weight Qnieklj. was all run down.' writes P. G. k. "I had to quit work I was so k. Now, thanks to tonoline, t : like a new man: I gained $5, ids in 30 days." * 'onoline has put 30 pounds on nior 4 days," states Chas. Brackets "It made me sleep well, enjoy what e and enabled me to work with rest ar.d pleasure." you would like to put on a few ids of good solid flesh, we wl!l I mil fr?o i "ft opntc hnv nf tnn i to prove what it wul do for '? < > A idress the American Propriety Co, on, Mass., enclosing 10 cents to' pay for postage and packing. ?r sale by Newberry Drug Co.