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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
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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
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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.
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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
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