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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04

and sober sense. a feeling OF safety
and desire 10 do justice prevail: I'm
the other these beneficial influences
are weakened. and folly. feat and
greed assert themselves. War changes
individuals as well as values.
The Losses Enumerated.
"A true appreciation Of the enor-
nous losses which are likely TO result
from this unprecedented calamity can
only be gained by taking into account
its effect on all phases and conditions
OF individual and national existence.
Stated IN the order OF their magni-
tude these losses may be enumerated
as follows:
"Firt, temporary of permanent
shrinkage of wealth OF nations as
distinct from negotiable securities.
The total wealth of the countries in
vOlved is about three hundred billions
OF dollars. Assume only a moderate
production of 10 per cent and sup
pose further that the war should last
from six to seven months or about
zoo days, as forecast by experts, then
the daily shrinkage will amount to
S15O, 100000. To be sure such depre-
citation of physical possessions is
mostly due TO ignorance and faint
heartedness of the people. for the
properties are there and some are in
destructible. But just the same The
warning nations will lose credit and
purchasing power and will be sub
jected for an indefinite period TO suf-
ferings and privations, all of which
must be interpreted as loss OF so
much money.
Losses i'm Industrial Pursuits.
"Second-All losses. individual and
collective, caused by interference Of
war will be the wheelwork of manu-
facture, industry and commerce.
These reflect particularly on the mar
ket value OF negotiable securities
which constitute from 20 to 80 per
cent of the whole national wealth
For obvious reasons they are apt to
be very large, and the shrinkage may
easily amount for the above period to
500, 900, 600 a dsy.
"Third-Specific losses due to de-
struction of existing private and pub
lie property. including implements
and materials of war These will
greatly depend on the circumstances,
but may be placed at from $50,
600 to 100000 a day.
"Fourth-LOss Of life and disa bling
through wounds and disease. Judg-
ing from, the data Of the Balkan war.
the casualties cannot be taken at less
than IL per cent. making the total of
100000. Assuming, an average of
$4,000 per individual this waste Will
be nearly $14.OOO.0O0 a day.
'Fifth-Daily cost of military op-
erations. which NAV amount from
$25.00O,00O TO $3O.OOO.OOO."
According 10 this rough estimate
the total cost cannot be much less
than $4,000, 600. 000. making almost
20 per cent of the total wealth of the
countries in the world. In the best
It will take from 40 TO
so years 10 repair the financial dam
age. not to speak of the injC~y to the
races and retardation of social prog
ress in all directions
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04
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NEWS OF INTEREST TO !
POLISH CITIZENS
X X X x X x X
SOCIAL EVENTS.

The senior and junior exercising
class Of Polish Falcons u. Balicki No.
J. VIII hold its exercises Monday eve
ming at I o'clock at Il. p. hall.
The singing rehearsal of Polish Fail
cons NJ. Romanowski viii be held
Monday evening at 7sYO o'clock at
X oscius-ko hall.
. he military rank OF Polish Fall
Cons Il. Balicki NJ l. will meet Sat-
urday evening ct T.. 3. hall.
Miss Stephanie Reich was pleasant
ly surprised Thursday evening by II
OF her girl friends, who successfully
carried out costume party at the
home of her sister. Mrs. Stanley
Drejer 201 $. Chaplin ST. The occasion
was her birthday anniversary. The
evening was spent with music. sing
Ing and dancing. Games were also
enjoyed. At the close of the affair
dainty refreshments were served by
the hostess Mrs. Stanley Drejer and
Mrs. Joseph Laid. The girls present
ed Miss Reich with a beautiful white
ivory iewelry box. Following is the
list OF those who attended: Misses
Wflhelmina Nifrady, Mamie Callison,
Emma Currise. Anna Luther, Nina
Connor. Pauline Beitman, Emilia
Luther Hedwige Hosinska, Nerna
Rudzynska. Grace Miller and Rose
Harringer
A hashlight OF the group was taken.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04

winski. and John KOsinski OF Gary
will represent the nest Of 4. Balicki
No. l. Stanislaus Chelminiak CeZary
Lewinski. Stanley Drajus and Michael
kitkowski of Chicago will represent
the nest Of NJ. Romanowski John
Oleyniczak will represent the nest OF
K. Pulaski and Misses Frances kras-
zeWska, Florence Ciesielska and
Thresa Gruszczynska will represent
the nest Of Ladies Falcons NJ RO-
manowsld. The convention will con-
tinue for five days.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04

Mrs. n. J. Brouhard. r. r. = No s.
Greenfield. Ind. who suffered fof Yea.
from asthma. now says she ls perfectly
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Airs Brouhard had treated with phgsl-
clans. she wrote as. and got some rehel.
but was never cured The hrst bottle q
Natures Creation did her 50 much good
that she ordered two more and they nelp-
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She formerly weighed 80 pounds, out
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We wish you could look through our
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asthma sufferers who have Deea relieved
by Natures Creation. This medicine -
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Ind
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04
BEND FALCONS
DEIEG ALTON WILL
ATTEND CONVENTION

A special train leaving Chicago al .
a m. and arriving here al a. IN.
Saturday carrying delegates of va
rious nests Of Polish Falcons National
Alliance Of America for Buffalo where
a convention will start Monday morn
ing Delegates OF South Bend are.
Louis Kolski. John Zaremeba. DR..
Nicholas Borisowicz. Igna:ius Wer-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04
PERSONALS

Mrs Earl Currise, Il ST. Louis
blvd. has left for Chicago 10 spend
few days with friends.
MIR. and Mrs. Stanley GrzeskiewicZ,
454 5. Carlisle St. have returned from
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-30
LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Nancy TetreauIt, of Versailles: I re- reived the pretty prize book, Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School which you sent me. I have read 1t through. It is very interesting. l thank you very much for it.
 TheIma Bruce, of wauregan: thank you many times for the lovely prize book, "A Regular Tomboy. have read it all and like it very much.
 Ruth Serivener, of Norwich: I thank you very much for the book entitled "Grace Harlowes Senior Year at High School" am spending my va cation in New Hampshire so I cannot call for my book but will you please retain it until we return.
 AIrira Kramer, of Colchester: Thank you ever so much for the lovely prize book. "Bockers' that you sent to me. I am sure no one would want nicer book.
 Frank Pardy, of Norwich: I thank you very much for the nice prize book YOU gave me entitled, The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics. Ii is very nice book.
 Alice NJ. German, of Versailles: received the interesting prize book, A Soldier of the Legions which you sent me. I have read it through and thank you very much for it.
 Alice F. HurreiI of Stafford Springs: I want to thank you for, the prize book entitled The Grammar School Boys in the Woods. I have read 1t all through and enjoyed the story vecy much. This is the first book I have won.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-30
Luck and Work.


 Bathed in the soft. white light of a beautiful harvest moon lay the old Calhoun homestead in Kentucky It was the witching hour of midnight, and as the long shadows slowly ad- vanced a close observer might have seen small boy diligently yielding a spade at the foot of an oak tree back Of the house.
 In order that you may understand this must go back a little. The masion, was full of interesting relics of bygone days. That morning while helping his sister. unwiliingly It must be confessed hunt for costumes for charades, ten-year-old James Calhoun found in the pocket of an old coat bit of paper. He opened 1t and read these words: -
 You will find the gold buried be- heath the oak tree"
 That was all, but the words haunted him. and the result was that, when his family was quietly sleeping that night. ure
 Thus he tofled on for some time, with no results.
 Just my luckl" he murmured. as he sank down to rest on an old stump nearby. Then an inspiration came to him. The paper was yellowed with age. so the gold couldn't have been buried under that young oak, but be- meath the very stump on which he was sitting. Fired by this thought, he set to work with fresh zeal and it was morning when he finally stag gered to the house with a pot of shiny gold pieces, buried during the war, and he dropped. exhausted. on the ye- randa-
 When his parents discovered him. he said with smile before he told his story: Tt was pure luck to start with and hard work did the rest
 LILLIAN BREHAUT. Age I6. East Norwich. N. Y.
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Did you ever see dos play ball? Well. our little Snowfall. a snow white dog with black spots. is one that can. Every time sit down to read or write snowball will pose at my feet begging me by her intense look to play hall with her, Of course her ball has been snugly put away in the machine drawer so that her little highness will not bother us too much with her play baiY expression,
 One day when I was deeply interest cd in reading, Snowball as usual. posed at my feet. Itook no notice of her, but could see. or rather feel. her eyes fix ed coaxingly upon me, She kept this up until reached down and petted Ter lovingly. but said 'sNo. No. 6nowball, I am busy now. Go and lie down like . xood girl and let me read" Once more I became lost in my story when I felt her eyes riyeted on me again. Her little head would go up and down vigorously as she looked at me and then at the ball.. She had contrived 10 wrfggle it out of the machine. drawer. I put down the book. her look was SO pleading, and said in aInazemefat. You rogue. How did you get that bali ?"
 Her answer was little whine and a glance over at the machihe5 her tail bcbbed furiously with anticipation I was expected to push the hall with my .foa. and thRre it was 1uat an inch from
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-30
THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE
BOYS AND GIRLS DEPARTMENT

wind flowers are all dull colored. or colorIess.
 It is getting to be about time for the wind plants to shed their pollen for the wind to carry it to sister plants and it is when the wind is most charged with pollen that the hay fever season. is on and sensitive peo- pie sneeze themselves thin and sneeze themselves sick
 Every pine tre, cedar tree and fir tree gives forth showers of pollen and the rag weeds and golden rods and other seeds add their supply; and in countrieswhere pines abound they have "sut ohur showers that sulphur has no part in The pine-pollen colors the rains yellow, and ignorant people who think the water gathers sulphur from the air. make this mistake You need not go about to see the wonders of the world, for if you are wide-awake you will see many of them near your own habitation.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-30
SNOWFALL s SOUVENIR
By yENTTA RUTH DUDGEON

my boot. Who could resist the tempta- tion? I kicked the ball across the room and she bounced after 1t, frantic with glee, and returned directly with it in her mouth. She laid it at my feet again and began her coaxing and teas ing. If you could only look at her eyes yes, her whole body-how they coaxed,
 And my story? Well, I can't decide which attraction was the more com polling. I played for few moments and then took the dog up in my lap
 You naughty little, cute little, clevor little dogI remonstrated. This will not do-go and put that ball out of my sight and let me read; then shall play after dinner.'
 To my utter amazement the dog jumped to the floor and took the ball over to the machine. dropped it into the open drawer, where she had found 1t, and closed it emphatically with her nose.
 You see. Snowfall Is my Aunty,s dog, and l was visiting her at the time Aunt Florence never goes away that she does not take the pet a sou- venir rubber ball. When she opens her trunk or bag the little dog stands and waggfes about in evident expectation. Aunty would no more go home without the souvenir ball than neglect to write to her loved ones.--0ur Dumb Aui- mals.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-30
PH and Puff.

Dear Uncle Jed: One day as I was walking in the woods I stepped on an old rotten log and heard a faint squeak inside. I got the axe and cut it in two I saw a wood mouse, but could not catch it. It was the size of a house mouse, and the color was a red dish brown.
 Once a boy near by gave me some wood mice he had caught, but as I did not know what to feed them I let them go. I am led to believe they eat worms they find in old rotten logs.
 If anyone catches one and wishes to keep it. it will be safe to feed it worms of old logs They are great pets when tanned: in fact, any mouse is.
 My brother once bought a pair of yellow mice. One we called Piff and the other Puff.
 They were very gentle and would run up our sleeves and back again, and then would crawl on our heads and go to sleep. They ate bread, cheese or most anything. It was amazing to see how much water they drank for su-h small creatures.
 One night they got out of their cage, but as they were gentle and we caught them very easily.
 One morning we found them both dead and we were led to believe they had eaten something they found that had poisoned them.
 It was a sad ending for our little pets.
 MYRON ENGLAND.
 Norwich Town.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-30
UNCLE JED,s TALK WITH WIDE
 AWAKES


 No one is really wide-awake in this world who does not see the wonder ful things taking place about him every day.
 Most of you know the plantain weed pest which. like the dandelion has to be dug out of the lawn every year before it goes to sec Half the people in the world do not know there is anything wonderful about 1t, but there is.
 The plantaiHais a poor relation of the sky-blue speedwell. a cultivated garden flower in America. but wild meadow plant in Great Britain.
 It is a wind flower, for without the aid of the wind it would become ex- terminated It doesn't try to make any display of flowers and you may never have dreamed each spike of plantain holds up a hundred little forr-rayed blossoms, so faded and lying so flat against the stem that it is even beneath the notice of insects. These tiny flowers have pistils and starnens just like any self fertilizing flowers, but, the pistils ripen first and the 8LAm@nS la@I. Anu tIc P1s1AitdiA blossoms open like the gladiola, from the bottom of the spike; and if you win gather 8 half blown spike you will see that all the stamens are ripe below and all the pisttls above. If the op- posste arrangement prevailed the pollen would fall and they would be seff- fertilizing; but the pdstils below hsvs withered and the plant is making seed before the stamens ripen.
 You just notice how rigid the spike fs and how fuzzy it has become. This is also designed that the wind shall not sTQy it too much. and so the invisible grsins of pollen carried by the wind shall be caught by it
 So you see the detested plantain weed Is really wonderful seed pro ducfng machine and in it's perform ances is far superior to anything man can invent.
 It is called a degraded flower by bohenists because it has ceased to make tall spike with colored flow CTS Go cali the insects to cooperate vf<h 1t for drop of nectar
 Perhaps you have not learned that ai1 the bright -coaored fragrant flowers ars calling their insect friends with their sweet and rich colors, while the
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-30
WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS.

Eva AIperin, of Mansfield Four Corners-The Little Queen.
 2 Merriam GriswoId, of Norwich Town-Sweet P's.
 3 Alice F. Burriil, of Stafford Springs Girls at Chica- go.
 Dorothy King, of Plainfield- 'sBlack Beauty
 5 Mildred White, of Stafford Springs-A Courier of Empire.
 6 Mary Bromley of Stonington- Automobile Girls at Chicago.
 2 Marion M. Wheeler, of Stoning- ton-Language and Poetry of Flowers. Myron RinsIand, of Norwich, Town-In Wild Africa
 e-lrene Mathieu, of Columbia Dorothy Dimple Out West.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-30

Tommy kins Tumble would growl and grumble If his breakfast was not just right; 1t was quite the same when bedtime came,
 For he'd cry with all his might To behave he learned. good digestion he earned,
 While tending the baby chicks; For they praised each mite as they picked each bite, And were guiltless of naughty tricks. Now, listen, you'll hear their "tweet'' of good cheer,
 As he throws down a handful of grain; ''Goody. goody, good, good." for each morsel of food; ''Goody. good!" OCT and o'er again. 'Tweety, tweety, tweet, tweet; I'm so sleepy, sleep sleep, They say as the sun hangs low, And tuck each wee head in mas feather bed,
 As into chick, dreamland they go.
 Wisdom.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-30
STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE.
 AWAKES.
pon,t Re a Coward.

q won't tell lie! I won't be such a coward" said a fine little fellow when he had broken a vase in showing it to his playmates. and they were telling him how he could deceive his mother and escape scolding.
 He was right; and so was Charlie Mann right, and was rewarded for it, as the following story will show:
 A young offender whose name was Charlie Mann smashed a large pane of glass in a drug store and ran away at first, but he quickly thought: What am running for? It was an accident! Why not turn and tell the truth?''
 No sooner thought than done. Charlie was brave boy He told how the ball slipped from his hand and went through the window.
 Charlie said he had no money, but would work to pay for the glass. Charlie did work in the store, and af- ter he had paid up for the glass the owner said he had done well and kept him for a clerk
 "A11, what lucky day when broke that glass" he used to say.
 'sNo. Charlie" his mother would re- mark. What a lucky day it was when you were not afraid to tell the truth
 FRANK PARDY, Age 13.
 sNarwich
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-30
Birds Knew.

Birds ! Knew.
 There are many different kinds of birds around here. TFs are not here all winter They gc south in the fall and come ta spring. We are always glad em come phoeDes, swallows. humminz birds, golden orioles. qusils. biuebirds and sparrows.
 The robins have a. -reddish-brown breast and blackish head and tail. They build their nests mostly in apple trees. They build them of hay and mud. or pieces of straw and grass When this is done something soft must be put inside to keep the little birds warm. Pieces of hair, string or cot ton is used
 The female lays four to six pretty greenish blue eggs. She sets on them for two or three weeks while the male watches close by so nothing will harm her. When the birds are matched the male is busy getting worms and in- seets Tor them to eat The little ones are not pretty when matched for they nave no feathers, but in two weeks they will have feathers and then they will learn to fly. The mother and father teach them te fly by flying from one branch to another. calling all the while.
 The phoebes generally build their nests under the roofs of some build ings. The phoebe is smaller than a robin. They build their nests of hay and straw with just a little mud to stick it to the building They also have soft lining of hair, or string inside. The female phoebe lays about 1 nve small eggs with brownish spots | on them. The birds are matched in the same length of time as the robins are and taught to fly the same
 A swallows nest is made mostly of mud and always built in some build ing or under the edge of a roof. They lay about five white eggs. The humming birds are very small and build tiny nest in a bush It Is made of moss and hair The golden orioles are as large as the robins. They have golden and black wings. They build & swinging nest of hair, string and hay. The orioles are very pretty birds.
 Quails have their rudely built nest l in the grass and lay from eight to ten clear white eggs. While the fe- male sets on the eggs the male calls Bob Bo5-White." ter call everyone's ! attention so they will not hurt the fe- male.
 The bluebirds and sparrows have pretty nests and eggs. too
 Birds are useful. destroying insects that eat gardens, leaves of trees and other things. They also make the world bright and beautiful by singing. MARY A. BURRILL, Age 12 | Stafford Springs
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-30
Stonington.>
Plants.

Plants make up the vegetable king dom. just as animals form the animal kingdom and rocks the mineral king : dom
 Plants are found on nearly all parts or the surface of the earth, on dry land and in the water, but no two countries have just the same kinds.
 Plants grow best in hot and damp countries and generally grow smaller earth; and they do not grow at the tops of very high mountains nor at very great depths in seas and lakes.
 Plants grow in a great many forms. Many of these forms. such as trees shrubs, mosses. grasses and ferns, are we'll known to us, but there are many more kinds.
 | Some plants live but a short time; but others live for hundreds of years
 Plants need air, light, water and some earthly matter to make them grow There are a few kinds of planrs which can stand much cold, such as l1chens. fungi and mosses,
 Most plants grow from seeds. When the seeds are planted the dampness in the earth makes them swell. The skin or the seed soon breaks and a little root pushs out and goes downward and then stalk comes out and shoots up- ward Plants have a great many uses. They give us food, many comforts and lux ur1eS and even medicines. Also all OUT clothing comes from plants, and they give us material which buildings f1-- niture, tools and a great many other things are made of The have also many more uses.
 BERTHA N BURRILI4 Age A
 Stafford Springs.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-30

window. from where we could see the hencoop.
 We did not light a lamp for fear if it was a man he would see us and run. At
 did not think it was a. man, but went and woke papa Hee dressed and took his lantern and gun and went out to the coop. There was an old hen all huddled up in one corner protecting her brood against skunk.
 Papa shot at the skunk, but did not kill him, only wounded him. He has not been back.
 I dressed and went out to hold the lantern for papa while he moved the hen and her chicks to a different place
 After that we loS6ed at the othsr setting hens to see if they were all right We then went to the house and the clock was striking 2. It did not take me long to get into bed. But did not go to sleep right away.
 When I awoke my cousin was at my side to tell me it was time to get up.
 MIRIAM GRISwOLD, Age 10.
 Norwich Town
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-30
A New.p.per seeret.

A great many persons have been wondering how editors all get rich so quickly and with such small effort A brother editor whose name we know not. gives the. secret to the world, says the Macon (Kas.) Times-Demo- crat.
 A nursery firm will send us 25- cent rose bush for only s5 worth of advertising
 For running a six-inch advertise ment one year we can get a gross of pills.
 About one dozen firms are eager to give shares in gold mines for adve--
 For $40 worth of advertising and ss5 cash we can own a bicycle that sells retail at S25.
 A fellow out West wants us to run a. lot of advertising for him for nosh- ing, and if he gets results he may be- come customer.
 For running SIP worth of locals we can get two tickets entitling us to ad . mission to a circus forty miles away
 A gun firm wants us to run SIS worth of advertising and then send $1O in exchange for a shotgun Such a gun would retail at about $e.
 When a man dies the undsrtai<ey gets from $75 to $I50 to bury him; the editor gets nothing for a shfea-columr obituary