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fr ' v always a signal of death i ,V Flag at -Half Staff" Haa Dire Signiflcance for All Who Underatandlta Import. Pe Nearly everyone speaks of a flag, when being flown at a distance from the top of the pole, as "half mast." This is not the correct expression. Such flogs are at "half ttnff" because thcr ar?B-5own in this manner avbother 7<r iarid-'or-seft-'frciii-the-flagevafk To see a flag at half staff means ; death. It may mean, on an incoming ship, .that one erf the passengers or crew- died at sea. Many a little H| fishing vessel uofHefi into Gloucester and T wharf in Boston every season with a hag at half staff, and this - means one of the fishermen, or more. ' has met death, generally by being swept overboard. This custom of flying Hags at half staff originated first as a token of defeat. That is, when an army was defeated, its flag waa lowered down the staff to give room for the victorious army to place its flag above that of the defeated army. From this the custom grew into flying the flag at half staff when an officer, army or navy, died. Later it was adopted by civilians as well, and today when a man of prominence dier, regardless of whether he was sailor, soldier or civilian, the flags are hung at half staff. Whereas, inthe olden days, when the custom started, the upper space was left to indicate that the victor could put his flag there, now it. seems that death is*the victor, and so the space is left. It is, of course, a mark of respect to M.. 11 . i ? / . .. 11it? ueau person to nave nags at nait staff for him. DRESSING THE RAZOR STROP Many Things Are to Be Considered If One Would Achieve the Best Results. To put a razor's edge in condition to cut easily and smoothly, remove all dirt and coarse grit from both the sharpening and the finishing sides of the strop and then dress as follows: On the shaqiening surface spread a light coat of superfine flour of emery and on the finishing surface apply some rouge (ferric oxide). The commercial grades of these materials as purchased at the drug stores are not sufficiently fine and uniform to he used without preparation. Any coarse grit ruins fhc edge of the razor, while the uniform, fine grit produces the tiny, keen cutting teeth. Upon a sheet of smooth paper spread a quantity of the-emory flour or the rouge from which it is desired to secure the finest particles. Shakt it well around over the paper and .then tip the sheet so that the materia} slides off. A fine dust will he seen clinging to the surface of the paper. This dust may then Ik1 transferred with the linger fip to the surface of the strop and worked into the leather. The occasional applillation of oil to the finishing side of the strop will prevent glazing and assist in the production of a keen edge. I FISH IN BREAD. Patience?The latest, fad in the way of a cure for dyspepsia is bread made of sea water, instead of fresh water. Patrice?I?oks as if we might be getting hack to the loaves-and-fishes idea. TUP nnecuviuT "Little girl, does your papa have much trouble with his automobile?" "Yes, sir. He has as much trouble with it as if he was married to it."?Judge. LOGIC OF THE 8ITUATION. "See here, this gas bill is too heavy." "My dear sir, in the nature of things it must be a light bill." DONT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE. NToll i.? ? J-'* 14 * ...... manui: 1IOK rL-JtrClCU TriJlt lawyer who was ho attentive to her. Kelle?Well, I suppose even a legal light can be turned down. HER RE8T. "Did you get a good rest on your vacation ?" "Splendid. We played bridge every afternoon and danced every night." TOO TRUE. "Stolen sweets are dearest." r "That'e what you'll find out about the kisses one snatches when at owaa to a broach-of-promi? aut" BEST OF LIGHTNING RODS Conductor, It Is Claimed, Will Give the Most Effective Protection Yet Devised. Mention is made in n recent num ber of a German journal of a lightning conductor which, it is claimed, gives much more effective protection 1 rhtm the usual rod. The inventor took an ordinary lightning rod and - eqttipped\it below the point with a di?k that was overlaid by electrolysis with about two milligrams of bromide of radium, so put on that it i was weatherproof. The experiments njade showed that the preparation of radium ionized the air, making it conductive, for a wide circuit around the point of the lightning rod. This led, naturally, to a decided fall of potential in the atmospheric electricity and to equalization between the various strata of air lying in layers one over another. The charge of atmospheric electricity in these strata flowed toward the point through, the air, which was still s good conductor even at a considerable distance from the point of the conducting rod. and was carried from the point to the ground. In addition to the inorease of radius of action of the lightning rod. the ionizing of the air by a preparation of radium seems to cause the i carrying off of stronger currents of atmospheric electricity. _______ EASY TO PLEASE "Do you prefer any particulai month to pet. married in." "Oh! I like 'em nil." < SPOTTED. "He is a very distinguished appearing man. A captain of industry, I'll bet." "You're wrong. lie drives a jitney." 'How do you know?" "I tapped him on the shouldei with my fun, and he reached badunder his arm for a nickel." HINDERING AGRICULTURE. Agriculture will l?e impeded for f centurv on the European battlefield; because every time a laborer's hoe i; swung vigorously it will strike ar unexplodeil shell and cause its explosion.?I ion isv i lie C'ou r ier-Jou rnal. ^ A CONTRADICTION. "Politeness," said the readv?inadc philosopher, "doesn't cost anything.' "Maybe not," replied Mr. flrowcher. "But I once stopped to toll t man the time of day and he grabbet my watch." HASTY READING. "I wonder on what lines ot thought (lie brain of that man witl the newspaper opposite is running?' "To judge from the way he's reading it, 1 should say mostly on headlines." ONE ON THE MEN. "What do you think of these roll collars the men are wearing?" "I.ooks like the girls have got the laugh on us at last." THE REASON. "In his writing Scribble has such ft filli* llnu iiur otuln " , ....... "That's because he always uses a fountain pen." SHOULD SAY SO. "Sinithers is a great advocate of peace, 1 understand." "I should say he is! Why, he won't even use military hair brushes." IMPOSSIBLE RANK. "The druui major of that corps is only nineteen." "Don't believe it. A minor can't 1 U ? ?Mj?r, too." ^ , .. I . . r-mm - - , ) . \ * ... 1 I ? i EARLIEST OF WOMEN'S CLUBS The Puritan Fathers Banished the Founder of the First One in the Year 1634. TrflPltlir Ilia ** * .wv<A>g ?IIV 1/c^ilIIJIU^O KJ1 WUlll" en's clubs has given pleasant occupation to research workers, and there has been speculation and discussion as to which 'is the'oldest olufc and' who was the pioneej- clubwoman in America. . ? . . , Mrs. Philip N. Moore, writing-in the General Federation Magazine, gives an interesting sketch in this connection when she states: "Anne Bradstreet, wife of the governor of the Puritan colony, who came here in 1634, instigated a club that discussed polemics and religious questions. The Puritan fathers disapproved und banished the founder." In 1818 Hannah Adams started a literary club in Boston. In 1848 the T Hhvoi/Jrviriool tnof if iifn <1 lO. cussed laws of life and health. Mrs. Lucinda Stone, in 1852, originated the Ladies' Library association, in which she remained interested for fifty years. As early as 1858 there were Minerva clubs. But it was not until 1868 (hat the New England Women's club in Boston uud Sorosis of New York were founded, and these two have become the pillars of the women's club movement in America. Nine thousand clubs and two million members are now the membership figures given by the General Federation for its affiliations in all lands. GOOD NAME Kitty?T call thorn an agricultural couple. Katharine?Ilow so? Kitty?She's a peach and he's a j regular heat. FRENCH WOMEN DO FARM WORK. Service at the front seems to indispose men for work in the fields. The military authorities of France granted leave to a great many to permit them to do the work of seeding. They were obliged later to ask the local authorities to send hack to the front all men who neglected the work for which they were sent home. An employment bureau organized to recruit farm help to replace the men at the front succeeded in placing only 3,(500 refugees from Belgium and northern France, Spaniards, Kabvles from Algeria, and Moors, were tried unsuccessfully, yet, thanks to the womeif, the total wheat acreage is 11,44(5,256 acres against last year's 12,1)86,660, of which 606,204 acres were in invaded territory. PARDONABLE ERROR. "What an interesting thumb print!" exclaimed the near-sighted man. "I suppose von had it magnified and framed for scientific purposes ?" "That isn't a thumb print/' responded the museum attendant. "That's a map of lloston." *1 A T| | 0 A I \/ CALOMEL WHEN Bll MAXES YOU SICI Godson's Liver Tone" Is Harmless To Clean Your Sluggish Liver and Bowels. *. Ugh! Calomel makes you sick. It's horrible! 'lake it dose of the dangerous drug tonight and tomorrow you may lose (t day's work, Calopiel is mercury or nuicksilvcr 1 which causes necrosis of the bones. Calomel, when it comes into contact with sour bile crashes into it, breaking it up. This in when you feol that awful nausea and cramping. If yon are slugf;ish and "all knocked out," if your iver is torpid and bowels constipated or you have headache, dizziness, coated tongue, if breath is bawl or atomsch sour, just try a spoonful of harmless Dudsna'a livr Tom t??a wkj faiai>?. % CLOCKS WENT ON STRIKE But It Was In Philadelphia, 80 There Wee Not Much Worry Over Tardy Tlmepiecea. Several thousand Philadelphians, peering from trolley car windows at familiar clocks on familiar build* ings. wondered what "in all conscience'' was the matter with the home alarm clock: rrr if there trns nothing the matter with the alarm clock, what "hi all conscience" the ""'old lnan'* at the office would say when they dropped in three-quarters of an hour early for that eight o clock appointment. As a matter of fact, there was nothing the matter with the alarm clock, and the thousands slid into their typewriter chairs or climbed on to their bookkeeping stools just inside the usuaT 2 :37 seconds. The real trouble was that fully a thousand Philadelphia street and factory clocks hail stopped near 7:15 a. m. They were the timepieces which are regulated bv Western Union telegraph wires from the United States observatory in Washington, and water had somehow leaked in and let the current out, of the wires. New circuits were arranged, which set all the clocks going again by one o'clock in the afternoon.?Philadelphia Publie Ledger. "FACTS' ABOUT THE WHALE Are Put on Record, but It le Not Compuleory That One Muit Believe Them. The whale, like the orator, makes the most noise when nearest the surface of things. When he goes deep you never hear him. Whales spend their time in ocean travel and tak- ? ing the air. There was once a whale named George Washington. His father had caught a favorite human being and had put him in the refrigerator to keep, when George happened along and swallowed him. George's father, missing Jonah, which was the name of the dainty, suspected George, and took him out into back ocean current. George thereupon began to weep salt tears, but, with prodigious courage, for a whale, said: "Father, I cannot tell you a tale. I swallowed Jonah with my little swallower." Whales ara used to lubricate sewing machines, to decorate museums of unnatural history and to reduce to a pulp a woman's waist line.? Life. LEARNING TO RE INCREASED Or Shall tha World Mora Wldaly Diffusa ths Knowlodgs Already Qalnadf Two purj>o3e8 were prescribed for the Smithsonian institution by its founder?"the increase and diffusion of kuowledge." Which of these aims is the more important? Shall we stop finding out new things until $very living man knows about the old tilings?or shall we devote ourselves to investigating the universe and not bother ourselves plinilt nrliptlmr anvnna Irnnnra cares? Doubtless either of these extremes would be foolish; but which way shall we tend? This question is suggested by# a series of communications addressed ' to the editor of Science. In one of . these the charge is made that the western universities, as distinguished from the eastern, neglect scientific research, and even discourage it, while university extension work is encouraged and rewarded. In other words, the dillusion of knowledge is favored rather than its increase. The reason, we are told, is that the more popular work means popular approval, followed by legislative appropriations.? l.itcrarv Digest. .I0US? NO! STOP! I AND SALIVATES nere h my guarantee?Go to any drug | store and got & 50 cent bottle of DodBon'a Liver Tone, 'l ake a spoonful and ik it doean't straighten you right up and make you feel line and vigorous i want you to go book to the store and your money. Dodson's Liver Tone I is destroying the sale of calomel because it is real liver medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore it can not salivate or make you sick. I guarantee that one spoonful of Dudeon's Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your bowels of that sour bile and constipated waste which is clogging your system and making you feel miserable. I guarantee that a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will keep your entire family feeling fine for month*, bin it to your vhiidreo. It is I kufdeai; dowat grtfrmad tfcoy liks itr How Pi fc-J I I Do You The Net Prerr the Union Centra Policies written ir lows: For $1,000.( Kind of Policy. A 3 171 Ordinnrv T.ifo ? j "..v. v? 20-Payment Life 2S 15-Payment Life 27 10-Payment Life 3*7 % 5-Year Term ? 3 We write all I and rates are pro] =4 Ask for specimen Bailes & I m?ii ?ii =i i=ii= I : VERY LOW RA Panama Pacif SAN FRANCISC< Opened February 20th, CL Panama-Calif SAN DIEGO, ( Opened January 1st, 1915, I VI Southern Premier Carrie: Tickets on sale daily and lir Good going via one route and Stop-overs allowed. Frui Rmd-Trif fi Columbia, S. C $82. Charleston, S. C.. 85. Orangeburg, S. 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