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.
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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.
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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
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i EARLIEST OF WOMEN'S CLUBS
The Puritan Fathers Banished the
Founder of the First One in
the Year 1634.
TrflPltlir Ilia **
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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."
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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>?.
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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
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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
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