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DANGER WILO FLOWERS ? !< Many Are a Prolific Cause of Hay 0 Fever. According to Expert Who I ^ Sounds Warning. j <> Ilav fever is relatively common In | f children. hat* the reason that this Is not inor. <:eneniM\* known is that these attacks are usually mistaken for "colds." writes l>r. William Seheppe- A ?rell of New Orleans, president of t# n Hay F??<.er Prevention association. t? the Medical Record. s . Sometimes a child that seems to s have a "cold" is taken Into a park or '' away to the country in the hope that 11 the fresh air will effect a cure, and 't 9 is there exposed to further infection n e? or nlantt that are 1 chiefly responsible. Besides the ragweeds. which are the principal offenders, there are several other wild flowers that, though quite Innocent when left alone, are likely to caus<? hay fever If applied directly to the nostrils of children. Among these Doctor Scheppegrell warns us especially against the daisy fleobane, one of the commonest of weeds. It grows from one to two feet In height, has v light gceen almost toothless leaves, ? dalsy-Ule flowers about hftlf so inch * wide, trlth a large gt^jUeh yajjow disk. y.bite rajs occasionally .Ulactinged. shower than those of the daisy and sometimes entirety absent. j Other flowers against which Doctor a 8chepp< grell warns are the daadehon. { fleld da sj, black eyed Sosan, and other of the Oompasltaa family. These at* ( harmless nplsss one sniffs thnir. bloe- i soma, in which case th^y are likely to tart a hay fever that may persist well , lots the fall. t MADE RECORD DURING WAR ' Soldier* Proud of "Start and Stripes* " Official Organ of American Troop* in Franoe. ' The most remarkable publication * horn of the war appears to have been p "The Srars and Stripes." As It went out of business with the ftnal scat- * terlng of its staff in June Its record Is p aow op.;n to the public. * The publication was. as Is well ? known, the official organ of the Amer- ? Aon AVTVAA)! (An a *w #Atmaa I** TTeonAA ? v?u vd|^uiwvuai; ivtvcro iu i iau\.v, and there Is no doubt that It lived up ^ to Its dignity in a handsome manner. It * started with a circulation of 30,000, b red this was increased to 550,000 in ^ less than a year. It maintained a 0 French war orphan fund, to which 450,- n 600 s>ldiers contributed 2,000,000 e francs, and In its 16 months of life the ^ paper cleared 3,500.000 francs. There are other details of its prog- t! ress ar.d its work, among which is one 11 to the effect that It printed 500 poems !t by soldiers and rejected 20,000. p The Editor and Publisher prints an w ' ti o I ? Great i i Comprising S Our display v "v Mr. Sihrermai | peri? ' = We do not b We invite yo SI1 East M v.T. rtended review of the accomplishlents of the paper, and from It we ( ?aru that Its staff at one time or an- aw ther contained something like 250 ^ len. Among them were Sergt. Maj. . 'hilip Von Blon. managing editor, and lergt Robert I. Snadjr, staff contrlbu- s0\ or. both Clevelaruiers. at ~~ ha An American Solomon. 0f The story is told of a member of Ed he American Red Cross, somewhere ief n the Syrian side of the African coninent, who found himself faced with omething of the same problem the ohition of which earned for Solomon, pa i ancient days, the'reputation of be-, ig^he wiseet of men. On this occa-i g,] ion the child was that of an Arm*Jan woman, fonnd in the house of a 'urk at Aleppo, and who. the mother, aid, bad been taken from her when hree years old. The child she claimed s hers was a llttl^'girl of seven yean ^ __ SD uu snr |a?r uw 9tgu ui iuv.v|ui4m? tr mother. The American was pua- 18 led to know what to do. An idea stj truck him. He told the mother to dr ing the lullabies with which she had een used to rock her baby to sleep. dr >he little girl looked astonished and sn houghtfnl; then she soalled. Memory ad awakened, and the Armenian cil roman had recovered her child. ,aJ th ddeatMto IdnoogewseisS. th *Tt deeaa't do to swallow all the " testes yon hear about the eleaey el dSBdlfr aaaagament, hut I heard.ens ho Other tay that l can weU beltere." Senator Oumalae, the apf^ker, was rh atertaialng e luncheon party at At* tn antte City. . cr a !So your wife refused to marry yoi rhea yen first proposed to her f I sald( P* o Brown daring a confidential chat ru ?ne day. Did you keep on pursuing sa lertill she consented?' 011 " "Not much V Brown replied craftily. ' [ meat eut and made a fortune. When ^ came back it was she who did the pursuing.'H Soheols of Dcmkerque. One ef,the thin?; that deeply lm- of ressed the company of journalists thi rom some twenty different nations np :ho recently vistted Dunkerque in a flxn arty waa the story of the public po ehools. Dunkerque, although it es- hit aped occupation.' was under constant ch< ombardment; the enemy at one time thi ml another had the city under fire mc y land, sea and air, bat, except for boi short time In th>* beginning when the II? uUdlngs were used for war purposes, le schools of Dunkerque, like those f Reims, continued in session, and ') ew sehoolhouses were built- When- y0 ver the city was bombarded, the pu- | lis, big snd little, marched to the eel- WJ tr in orderly procession, and some- jn !mes th-? entire session was held there. T-n f s sehoolhouse was partly shattered. : was rep-tired at once, and school roriptiv resumed; nothing, in short. ,, ras allowed to interfere with the con- ^ Inulty of fhe schools of Dunkerque. VNN< 4 showing of of the Sec r _ i lerges, Garbadines, 1 vill be a delight to line a < n, who for 18 years 1 ;nce in buying the ri to be ti A vi r i andie nmutore, groceries nor I u cardially to our up i-VERMy am Streets Lost Arm* Without Pain. Our story of a man being blown . ay, unhurt, by the explosion of a I mb which he did not hear must seem ?redible to many people. Here is a methlng like an analogy. King Edward once brought togethei = his dinner table Rustem Pasha, who d had half his right hand and part 'g his,arm torn ofT by a bear, and Sir [ward Bradford, who had had hi9 't arm up to the elbow munched ' "* ray by a tiger. ; . The two men compared notes. dther had felt the least twinge ol In at the time. They Imagined that sir Intense desire to save their Uvea lied all other senses. ? London. ironicle. ' _______________ i ' Bismarck's Wine Thirst. In his choice of drinks Bismarck I splayed a somewhat unpatriotic irit Talking to Mr. John Booth In 7Q Rimirrlc confessed that whon itloned at St Petersburg, he usad to ink two bottles of champagne a (fay j i He estimated that altogether he bad tink 5,000 bottles of champagne and loked 100,000 cigars. On another occasion Bismarck do i ired that beer "makes men stupid j iy and useless. It lb responsible fet e democratic nonsepse spouted oret e tavern tables. A good rye whisky' very much better." --n 1L_ i Chilean Nitrate Needed. i In aplte of the prophets of disaster e war did not ruin th^ Chilean nl ' | ate industry; instead, military necd? eated an unprecedented demand ( >w that this has ceased, the Chilesr eslmist* are once again prediotlDij j iln. but El Industrial of Anrofagasuj ys there will now be a greater de, and th'.n ever for fertiliser and that i tiflcial nitrates have failed even t? ml the natural product of Chlln. Will Film a Big Game Hunt Writing of Eaat Africa reminds use 1 a young man of greater enterprise i in financial resources who has fixed a contract with a motion pictcre m to go on a big game shooting axdltion in East Africa and take with n operators and camera. His own rerful view of the undertaking is it he will get his shooting, and the 1 x >vie.flrm will get their pictures, and I th will reap substantial profits.? inchester Guardian. Suspicious. Patience?What's the matter with u and Fred? Patrice?Well. I had a suspicion h? isn't true to me all the time he was France with his regiment, and now l quit*- sure of It. Wltj i?" - <i jn Hi- hfgsiii saying swde' i.jjs to ' uic uj French."?Yonkan atesman. 3UN< OF Ol Ladies' Cos ison s Best Mater Vicolettes, Tricotine f I rery lady in this aa credit to any large ci 4 n... * ? - - J * * svas in the wholesa ght goods at the ri: be very lowest to 1 liarihinra knl ciwinlwn An 9 I iwiunwv; vw wpvviuutv vu ? -to-date store and as: U^S D Who Knov Lightin Absolute knowledge. I hs But my Aunt's washer wc Heard a policeman on his Say to a laborer, on the That he had a letter just fir.'i.. _ ai X! ft. fi written in tae unesi un From a Chinese Coolie :i Who said the niggers in Of a colored man in a Ts Who got it straight from That a man in the Klodii From a gang of South Ai About somebody in IJon Who heard a man who d Of a swell female society Whose mother-in-law. wil To prove that her seveiH Has stated in a printed p That 3he has a son who's And he knows of a plant < You may laugh at time when your auton cause of weak batterii sides laugh. Now, we molife Batteries guara so see us for batteries r For Demc CARTER ELECT J. V. Carter. > \ CEME c | R it Suits, Coats lals and Latest Styli s, and Poplins as well a d grounding counties ty department store. 1 i it.1" 'i. i le end of this busines ght pride, and guaranfc ye found any where. ? 2= - 2* ' " ? r If - I(w: *? . bor space of 5,000 square feet in i sore you honest treatme EFT. sr KINGST r " y 1 -i vs of a Better g Pliant? t ive none, iraan's sister's son. > beat ' ^ Street last week, ?k. . ' | a Timbuctoo, Cuba knew, *xas town, \ a circus cIowj, te beard the news, Jnerican Jews, aimed to know rrake, ' *<-* ! \ II Undertake, frlitaband's sister's niece, J i very bright % j i : that beats Delco-Light 4 \ . , I the above ad, but some- ? { lobile will not crank bfees you do something behave put in a fine of Peril teed for twenty months, to suit any car. *Y< * instration See RIC SERVICE CO. ... i'-cr I '* e | ; i ? a 171? niTv OA> mn v LAIkT/ VII I, OU, V/VIV. | ' ' TloL ' . ,';*d \ 11 i, 1 ? - j NT. 1, i *' ^ M. , ; ' %J >M , { ; * .' 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