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WJF' - - ALWATb A 5IUNAL Ur Ut AI M Flag at "Half Staff" Hat Dire Significance for All Who Understand .Ite Import. < 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 flags are at "half Staff" because they, are-flown in this manner wheth Ker gir icnd*or*9eft-from the-flagstaff-. To etc a flag at half staff incans <lcath. It may mean, on an incomj^^^-jng ship, .that one of the passengers or crew died at sea. Many a little fishing vessel eomes into Gloucester and T wharf in Boston every sea* " ? son with a flag at half staff, and this means one of the fishermen, or more. * has met death, generally by being swept overboard. This custom of flying Hugs at half staff originated first as a token of defThai in, vviiuU an nnuV v?no defeated, its flag was 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 dies, regardless of whether he was sailor, soldier or civilian, the flags are hung at half stuff. 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 the dead person to have flags at half 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 Hour of emery and on the finishing surface apply some rouge (ferric oxide). The commercial grades of these materials as purchased at the dnig stores are not sufficiently fine and uniform to he used without preparation. Any coarse grit ruins the 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-em cry flour or the rouge from which it is desired to secure the finest, particles. Shak? it well around over the paper and .then tip the sheet so that the material slides off. A line dust will he seen clinging to the surface of the paper. This dust umv ilu>n lu. - ferred with the linger tip to the surface of the strop and worked into the leather. The occasional application of oil to the finishing side of tlie strop will prevent glazing and assist in the production of a keen edge. % 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?Is?oks as if we might be getting hack to the loaves-and-fishee idea. THE OBSERVANT CHILD. "Little girl, does your papa have much trouble with his automobile?" "Yes, sir. lie has as much irpunie w11! 1 it as if ho waa married | to it."?Judge. LOGIC OF THE SITUATION. V "See here, this gas bill is too heavy." "My dear sir,'in the nature of things it must be a light bill." DON'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE. Nell?Maude has rejected that lawyer who was so attentive to her. , Belle?Well, 1 suppose even a legal light can he turned down. HER REST. "Did you get a good rest on your aeation ?" "Splendid. We played bridge every afternoon and danced every night." TOO TRUE. "Stolen sweets are dearest." "That's what you'll find out about the kisses one snatches when it ow?e to a breach -0/-promise awt," Btsi ur Liumnmia huus * Conductor, It la Claimed, Will Give the Most Effective Protection Yet Devised. Mention is made in a recent number of a German journal of a lightning conductor which, it is claimed. ?mvp? mor-h rnoro pfTppfive nrntentinn O ' *? I than the usual rod. The inventor took an ordinary lightning rod and equipped .it below the point with a| disk that was overlaid by electrolysis with about two milligrams of bromide of radium, so put on that ii was weatherproof. The experiments made showed ! that the preparation of radium ionized the air, making it conductive, i 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' "tr.twt of air lying in layers one o'vir another. The charge of atmospheric, electricity in those strata flowed toward y - - - - ? - . the point through the air, which was still a good conductor even at a con- j siderable distance from the point of, ihc conducting rod, and was carried from the point to the ground. In addition to the increase of radius of action of the lightning rod, the ionizing of the air by a preparation of radium seems to cause the1 carrying otf of stronger currents of I atmospheric electricity. EASY TO PLEASE "Do you prefer any particulaii month to get. married in." "Oh! 1 like Vm all." m SPOTTED. "lie is a very distinguished ap-; pearing man. A captain of induiv try, I'll bet." "You're wrong. He drives a jitney." 'Now do you know?" "I tapped him on the shouldei with mv fun. and he reached baci under his arm for a nickel." HINDERING AGRICULTURE. Agriculture will he impeded for f century on the European battlefields because every time a laborer's hoe i; swung vigorously it will strike nr unexploded shell and cause its cxplo sion.?Iiouisville Courier-Journal. A CONTRADICTION. "Politeness," said the ready?tnad( philosopher, "doesn't cost anything.' "Maybe not," repli?nl Mr. Croweher. "But I once stopped to Ml t man the time of day and he grabbcc my watch." HASTY READING. "I wonder on what lines ot thought the brain of that man with the newspaner onnosite is rnnninir?' ? ? ' - e ' "To judge from the way he's reading it, I should say mostly on headlines." ONE ON THE MEN. "What do you think of these roll collars the inen are wearing?" "Looks like the girls have got the laugh on us at last." THE REASON. "In his writing Scribble has such a fine, flowing style." "That's because he always uses n fountain pen." ! SHOULD SAY SO. "Smithers 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 drum major of that corps is only nineteen." "Don't believe it. A minor can't 1 fcc * major, too." ^ ... I EARLIEST OF WOMEN'S CLUBS The Puritan Fathers Banished the Founder of the First One in the Year 1634. Tracing the beginnings of women's clubs has given pleasant occupation to research workers, and there has been speculation atid discussion as to which* is the "oldest oiuh and* who was the pioneer clubwoman in America. . - ' Mrs. Philip X. Moore, writing-in the General Federation Magazine.1 gives an interesting sketch in this connection when she states: "Anne Bradstreet, wife of the governor of the Puritan colony, who came here in HUH, instigated a club that discussed polemics and religious ques- ! tions. The Puritan fathers disapproved and banished the founder." In 1818 Hannah Adams started a literary club in Boston. In 1848 the1 Ladies* Physiological institute discussed laws of life and health. Mrs. Lueinda 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 18t?H that the New England ?dinen s ciun in boston and porosis of \*ow York wore founded, and these two have beeoine the pillars of the women's cluh movement in America. Nine thousand clubs and two million members are now the membership figures given by the (teneral Federation for its affiliations in all lands. GOOD NAME Kitty?I call them an agricultu?..i i 1U1 fUUHll'. Katharine?How so? Kitty?She's a peach ami lie's a 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. Tliev were obliged later ti> ask the local authorities to send back'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, Kabyles from Algeria, and Moors, were tried unsuccessfully, yet, thanks to the womeif, the total wheat ucreage is 11,44(5,256 acres against last year's 12,08(5,6(50, of which 606,204 acres were in invaded territory. PARDONABLE ERROR. "What an interesting thumb j print!" exclaimed the uear-sighted j man. "I suppose you had it magni- ! lied and framed for scientific purjioses ?" "That isn't a thumb print," re- | spomled the museum attendant. : "That's a map of Boston." CALOMEL WHEN Bll MAXES YOU SIGI "Dodson's Liver Tone" Is Harmless To Clean Your Sluggish Liver md Bowels. t'gh! Calomel makcB you sick. It's horrible! Take a dose o! the dangerous drug tonight and tomorrow you may lose a day's work, Cnlojncl is mercury or quicksilver which ranees necrosis of the Imncs. Calomel, when it come* into contact with sour bile crashes into it, breaking it up. This is when you fcol that awful nausea and cramping, if you arc sluggish and "all knocked out," if your liver is torpid and bowels constipated or you have headache, divines*. coated tongue, if breath is bad or stomach sour, ; lust try a spouaial of kanal?u Uudsa't { Uw Tom tfigM ?a say fHrastM, CLOCKS WENT ON STRIKE | But It Was in Philadelphia, So Thar* Waa Not Much Worry Over Tardy Timepieces. Several thousand 1'hiladelphians, peering from trolley ear windows at familiar clocks on familiar buildings. wondered what "in all con-> science" was the matter with the j home alarm eloek: or. if there was i nothing the matter with the alarm ! clock, what "tn all conscience" the 1 "''old man" at tin? 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 usual 2 :37 seconds. The real trouble was thai fully a thousand Philadelphia street and factory clocks had stopped near 7:15 a. m. They were the timepieces which arc regulated by 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 hv one o'clock in the afternoon.? Philadelphia Public Uedorpr "FACTS" ABOUT THE WHALE Are Put on Record, but It la Not Compulsory That One Must Believe Them. The whale, like tho orator, makes the most noise when nearest the surface of tilings. When he goes deep you never hear him. Whales spend their time in ocean travel and taking the air. There was once a whale named (leorge 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, hut, with prodigious courage, for a whale, said: ''Father, I cannot tell you a tale. I swallowed Jonah with my little swallower." Whales are 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 BE INCREASED Or Shall the World Mora Widely Diffusa tha KnawlailAa Alraarfu ? - * Gained? Two purjjoses were prescribed for the Smithsonian institution by its founder?"the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Which of these aims is the more important? Shall we stop finding out new things until qvery living man knows about the old iliings?or shall we devote ourselves to investigating the universe and not bother ourselves about whether anyone knows or cares? Doubtless either of these extremes would be foolish; but which way shall we tend? This question is suggested by# a scries 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, wlulo nnit/iipaitv uvtoiul.o. ?. >? ?oii f I AlCilOIWU TTVTIIV 13 I encouraged and rewarded. In other ! words, the diffusion of knowledge is favored rather than its increase. The reason, we are told, is that the i more popular work means popular approval, followed by legislative appropriations.? Literary Digeat. JOUS? NO! STOP! I < AND SALIVATES Here's my guarantee?Go to any drug store and get a 50 cent bottle of Godson's Liver Tone. Tako a spoonful and ii> it doesn't straighten you right up and make you feel tine and vigomiu I want you to go back to the store and get your money. Godson's Liver Tone is destroying the sale of calomel hecause it is real liver medicine; tmtirely vegetable, therefore it can not salivate or mnke you sick. I guarantee that one *|>oonful of Godson's Liver Tone, will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your liowels of that sour bile and constipated waste which is clogging your system ami making you feel miserable. 1 guarantee that a bottle of Godson's Liver Tone will keep your entire family feeling fine for months. din it to your children. It la kwliM; rtrwtt |nfa?si tkmj likn its j SEli =31 11=3 f= 1 How J I Do You n The Net Pren the Union Centra Policies written ir lows: For$l,000.( Kind of Policy. Ajr< I Ordinary Life $1 20-Payment Life 2! 15-Payment Life 2 10-Payment Life 3' 5-Year Term ! 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