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Williams news., 1914-08-13
MOURN DEAD IN QUEER WAY
Mourning of the Montenegrins Fren- zled Ecstasy of Mailing, Dan-
 cling and Yelling.

London.-In their mourning for the dead the Montenegrins have some sin gular observances.
 In one case, detailed by Edith Dur ham, who was correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle in the first Balkan war, there was only the sem blance of body, the dead youth hay ing been killed while fighting with the Russian army in Manchuria, and the news of his fate only reached his na- tive village six months after his death. But he was duly mourned after the custom of his people. On bier his clothes and weapons were laid, and this done, his relatives and neighbors began their mourning.
 They met at some distance from the house and came in procession-frst the men, then the women. When with in hundred yards of the house they began the death vail; an awful, vail ing, rhythmical chant-"Woe, woe to us, Stevo, O my brother! Woe, woe to us. my winged brother!" The cry
Williams news., 1914-08-13
RASH ON FACE SPREAD

Granton, Wis.-"My sister had . very bad, deep, wet, running sore on the side of her face and it ran up to her ear. It commenced with a small blotch of pimples which turned into a kind of rash and spread rapidly. It itched and looked red and sore for some time and slightly swelled. A thin fluid dripped and ran from the sores which looked like water. Then the swelling would go down and it would keep on spreading. It bothered her during sleep and she would be restless. It was kind of eczema.
 "She treated for some time and it did not help her. It kept spreading larger and deeper. Having always used Cuticura Soap we told her to try 1t SO she got some Cuticura Soap and Ointment and used them. It was two months when it was gone" (Signe0 Miss Emma Retzloff, Apr. z, 1914.
 Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book Address post card "Cuticura, Dept. L. Boston. Adv.
Williams news., 1914-08-13
REAL HOME FOR THE HOLE
Finds Secure Abiding Place After a Period of Troublous
 Wanderinss.

Everett P. Dahlgren, the millionaire opponent of woman suffrage, said at a suffrage debate in Boston:
 "I always declare that woman shouldn't enter politics till she's full filled all her prior duties.
 "'Prior duties! Prior duties!' So a young lady mocked me one day. What do you men mean by these "prior duties" that you're always talk ing about, MT. Dahlgren?'
 "So then told the young lady this story:
 "Once upon time, began, little hole was born; and it looked around to see where it should take up its abode
 "It first decided on a window, but a man came straightway and put in a new pane. It next choose a chair seat. but the housewife sent for 8 caner, and in jiffy new seat was put in the chair. The hole now selected a baby's rattle, and the baby was so pleased that it began to tear the rat tie to pieces, and the poor hole. half crazed with fright, had just time to escape. It threw itself, more dead than alive, into the first thing that came to hand, which happened to be the sock of a suffragist's husband.
 There, at least, the hole seems to have found real home. It's peace has not been troubled from the be- ginning, six months ago."
Williams news., 1914-08-13
Public Fountain at Florence.

emn rites to the priest. The entire morning is occupied thus, as the re- ception of each procession takes con- siderable time. Meanwhile in the public square fair is held, and a great crowd gathers. In the after noon the relics of St: Giovanna are exposed to the populace.
 These local ceremonies fill large place in the lives of the Tuscan peas ants, who, despite the differences be- tween the church and the state, cling to their religious observances tena- ciously. The dispossession of the or ders by the present government dur ing the latter part of the past century gave offense to a great number of the people, but this feeling is passing and readjustment is in progress.
Williams news., 1914-08-13
BILLION INCOME IN DISTRICT
Tax Payments Indicate Wall Street Region the Richest In the v United States.

New York.-Estimates made here based upon the total income assess ments paid into the office of Charles w. Anderson, internal tax collector, indicate that in this one district, which includes the Wall street financial houses, 15,000 persons have a total annual income exceeding $1,000,000.- 0OO
 The section in which all this money is received is about two miles square. Adjoining this district, which it is said the income tax figure will show to be the richest in the United States, lies the territory east of the Bowery and below Fourteenth street, that is, the most populous, filled by 60,000 per sons, few of whom pay an income tax.
Williams news., 1914-08-13
FLORENCE |S. ACTIVE.
Business in Italian City Again
 Has Full Sway.
All Activities Interrupted by Church ceremoniaIs Are Again Taken Up -Festa of Beata Glovanna
 Ends Religious Features.

Florence-Florence is settling down to business again. All the activities interrupted by church ceremonials are resumed, the bells are ringing at regular and frequent intervals and ev- erything is lively and bustling, says a correspondent. Out st Sigma, lit tie walled town about seven miles on the road to Pisa, unique proceeding incident to the season is in progress the fiesta of the Beata Giovanna- and when this is over the local pro- gram of religious spectatles and sign1- ficant services will have been finished We were strongly tempted to go there, but on inquiry found that to appreci- ate it fully 1t was necessary to make an all-day trip, and concluded to do our sightseeing at shorter range.
 This ceremonial consists of a series of processions from all the villages around the town whose chapels are de pendent upon the pieve or parish church of Sigma. St. Giovanna was a peasant maiden of the thirteenth cen tury, noted from childhood for her piety and virtues. While young she vowed herself to a religious life and passed many years, walled up in a little cell, in meditation and prayer. Her neighbors, venerating her as a saint before her formal recognition as such, went to her for help and ad- vice. She performed many miracles of healing, especially on children. She died alone in her cell in 1887, and it is a local tradition that her death was announced by the mysterious ringing of all the church bells in Sigma and the adjacent villages. A chapel was built to serve as shrine and her relics were kept for use on extraor- dinary occasions, being taken to Flor ence and Prato and elsewhere to stay public calamities.
 Easter Monday is the special festi- val of St. Giovanna, when from the va rious villages of the district offerings of oil for the lamps of her shrine are sent in processions, borne by small children dressed as angels, riding richly decked donkeys, and accompa- nied by priests, acolytes and the peo- pie in their holiday attire. These of ferings are carried one by one into the church and transferred with sol
Williams news., 1914-08-13
HAS 25,875 CHILD TOILERs
Young Workers in Philadelphia Stores and Mills Are Listed by
 Education Bureau.


 Philadelphia, Pa.-Approximately 25,875 children under sixteen years of age are at work in stores, factories and other commercial establishments here. This Is shown by the report of statistical investigation conducted by the bureau of compulsory educa- tion. Of the 25,S75 little workers, Ill., 718 are girls. The report shows that these children left school in various grades, but that the greater number terminated their education in the sixth grade. Under the compulsory education law, children cannot obtain employment in Pennsylvania until they have attained the fourteenth birthday, but street trades, such as selling newspapers and shining shoes, are excepted
Williams news., 1914-08-13
GOOD CHANGE. Coffee to Postum.

The large army of persons who have found relief from many chronic ailments by changing from coffee to ing each day.
 It is only a simple question of try. ing it for oneself in order to know the joy of returning health as realized by an Ills. young lady. She writes:
 q had been a coffee thinker nearly all my life and 1t affected my stomach caused insomnia and was seldom without headache. had heard about Postum and how beneficial it was, so concluded to quit coffee and try it.
 T was delighted with the change I can now sleep well and seldom ever have headache. My stomach has got ten strong and I can eat without sui fering afterwards. I think my whole system greatly benefited by Postum.
 My brother also suffered from stomach trouble while he drank cof. fee, but now, since using Postum, he feels so much better he would not go back to coffee for anything"
 Name given by Postum Co.,, Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs.
 Postum comes in two forms:
 Regular Postum-must be well boiled-15c and 25c packages.
 Instant Postum-is a soluble pow der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage InstantIy-30c and 50c tins The cost per cup of both kinds is about the same.
 There's a Reason" for Postum. sold by Grocers
Williams news., 1914-08-13

was taken in quick breath which rap- idly became a convulsive sob and by the time they had reached the house all were in a state bordering on frenzy.
 The men then hurled themselves into the room and danced madIy in front of the corpse, or what should have been, leaping a yard high, humping their breasts with their great fists and yelling frightfully. With tears streaming they threw themselves on the mummy corpse, al- most fighting to kiss it. Meanwhile, the mother and sisters in the back ground sang the praises of their dead boy.
 The men were allowed five minutes of this ecstasy of grief, then the priest came forward and said: Brothers! you have wept enough, make way for others" They with drew, some reeling with exhaustion; then came the women, who followed the same observances, save that they did not jump. And so, village by vil- lage, came the whole tribe to which he belonged. Some did not even know the poor boys name and had to be coached in the details before begin ming to vail, but they sobbed as bit terly as any. Going home the mourn CTS compared notes as to who had cried best.
 At the burying apples, bits of bread and quantities of rags are thrown into the grave with fragments torn from the mourners' clothes. In remote dis tricts even today both men and women tear their faces with their nails, that they may mingle their tears with blood in token of their grief, though the practise has been forbidden and has fallen into disuse in the larger villages.
Williams news., 1914-08-13
Unionville, Mo- female trouble and

Some one advised me to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Ihad taken so much medicine and my doctor said he could do me no good SO toldmy husband he might get me bottle and I would try it. By the time had taken it felt better. I continued it's use, and now I am well and strong.
 tI have always recommended your medicine ever since I was SO wonder. fully benefited by it and I hope this letter will be the means of saving some other poor woman from suffering. "- Mrs. MARTHA SEAvEY, Box 1144, Unionville, Missouri.
 The makers of Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound have thousands of such letters as that above = they tell the truth, else they could not have been obtained for love or money. This med icine is no stranger it has stood the test for years.
 If there are any complications you do not understand write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (cOnfldentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by 8 woman and held in strict confidence.
Williams news., 1914-08-13
GET WIRELESS BY BEDsPRING
Eastern Amateur Experiments With a Novel Form of Antennae and
 Is Successful.

Cyrus H. F1andreaux of Peekskill, N. r., gives the following interesting account of his experiments with 8 novel form of antennae for wireless telegraphy:
 There are many things used as an- tennae to catch the mysterious cleo tric wives which carry our wireless messages through space, and I find that the springs of my bed serve as very efficient antennae. My room is on the second story of my house, and by using these springs as antennae I can easily read the signals sent out every night by the wireless station at Sayville, L. l., although they are not by any means so loud as when I use my outdoor antennae, which are 40 feet above ground, 60 feet long and consists of four wires on spreaders, the wires being two feet apart.
 "The bedspring antennae are best for use with nearby high power sta tions. Sayville, l.. l., is about fifty miles from Peekskill. With my out. door antennae continually hear the Arlington (Va.) naval station when it sends out the correct time signals at 11:55 a. m and at 9:55 p. m.; also the weather reports, Brooklyn navy yard; New London, Conn; Cape Cod and others, including amateur stations too numerous to mention.
 T have an all-round good apparatus hold a station license and an oper ator's license, both issued by the United States government. My ofb cial call Is 2 V U."
Williams news., 1914-08-13
British Forbid Statue.

Cairo.-Trouuble is brewing here because the English-led government positively forbids the Egyptian na- tionalist party to erect a statue in Cairo of Mustapha Kasuci Pasha, the brilliant young nationalist leader, who died in 1908. A French sculptor ex- ecuted the work, but when the statue arrived the government refused a site for it in any public square or street. The nationalists VOW they will put the memorial on ground owned by one of their leaders. Meantime the ex- tremist press rages against the gov ernment's prohibition of an "act of patriotism"
Williams news., 1914-08-13
Responsibilities.

Didn't you ask me why paid rent instead of owning my own homer" asked MT, Crosslots.
 T made that inquiry" replied the real estate man.
 Well, I'll tell you. When the roof leaks or shutter drops off it's mighty handy to be able to ask your wife not to bother you. but to go and tell her troubles to the landlord"
Williams news., 1914-08-13
"SheII Game" Invades Far.

Chicago.-"Shell game" men invad. ed the annual fair of the Wisconsin Society of Chicago and before the for mer Badgers discovered that the game was not a burlesque, escaped, leaving many pockets empty.
Williams news., 1914-08-13

Nothing Like Being Careful. i Shall I pump up the tires, sir?"
 Wait until we get out into the country, Jacques. I heard doctor say that the air around here Is very impure"
Williams news., 1914-08-13
To Separate "slamese Twins"

Paris.-Marie Anne and Anne Marie, born May p last, the French ''Siamese twins joined together back to back, are to be separated by s'S~gisa1 72er- ation.
Williams news., 1914-08-13

A leather belt in an English fac tory has been running at speed of 1,So0 feet minute from to 12 hours c day for more than B years.
Williams news., 1914-08-13

The morning after is cheerful one for the man who devotes the night before to sleep.-Albany Journal
Williams news., 1914-08-13
His Speciality.

Employer = Not afraid of early hours, I suppose?
 Young Man-You can't close too early for me, sir.-Answers.
Williams news., 1914-08-13

An old bachelor says that there are no marriages in heaven because there must be some way to distinguish it from the other place.
Williams news., 1914-08-13

Don't be misled. Ask for Red Cross Bag Blue. Makes beautiful white clothes. At all good grocers. Adv.
Williams news., 1914-08-13
Scene: The Woodshed.

She-Tell me of your early strue gles.
 He-There's not much to tell. The harder I struggled, the more the old man laid 1t on.
Williams news., 1914-08-13
THOUGHT SHE
 COULD NOT LIVE
Restored to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
 Compound.
."I suffered from .

I got so weak that I could hardly W ak across the floor with out holding g on to something. I had nervous spells and my fingers W ould cramp and my face
 would draw, and I
 could not speak, nor
 sleep to do any good.
 had no appetite, and
 everyone thought I
 w0u1d not live.
Williams news., 1914-08-13

Makes the laundress happy-that's Red Cross Bag Blue. Makes beautiful. clear white clothes. All good grocers. Adv.
Williams news., 1914-08-13

Don't despise an humble beginning. To master the violin it is necessary to play second fiddle first.
Williams news., 1914-08-13

YOUR OWN DRUGGIST WILL TELL YOU Try Murine Eye Remedy y,d for Red, Weak, Watsry 1ust Eye Comfort. Write for Book of the Rye by mail Free. Murine Eye Remedy Co.,, Chicago.
Williams news., 1914-08-13
LOSSES SURELY PREvENItl

placed anywhere, at tracts and kills all
 flies. Neat, clean, or namental, convenient, cheap. Lasts all
 season. N ade @ of metal, can'tspill or tip overt will not soil or 1 nj ure anything. Guaranteed effective.
 All dealers or6sent express paid for e1-0o. Ave, Brooklyn, N. '.
Williams news., 1914-08-13

Also Barren of Wealth. "So that foreign suitor of EthePs turned out to be no baron after all" "Oh. he was baron, all right Baron Munchausen."
Williams news., 1914-08-13
To Blow In, Probably.

To Blow In, Probably. Mother-What are Richard and your father storming about so? Daughter Dicks trying to raise the wind again.
The Washington herald., 1914-12-03
Uninportant If True
By DR.. ERITAS

Everybody is ineensed at the censors
Mr. Bryan refused be Hobsonized.
The who is sore is generally
If Holland keeps she may in Dutch
A dressmaker should always good
1t looks if Won Hinderburg is mighty good escaper
Some peoples idea of practng charity give
The allies still trying dub him Wilhelm Conquered
That Troter should be backed leader
No. don't know President Mexico tomorrow
We understand that Turkey eggng game
year family begins pet father
by Palestine in Texas but we don't know
why
We that the fellows wearing
avea a lot of brass
unfortunate than that the
are not allowed to right the
The best that General Depression breaking
General Prosperity is mobizing his forces.
The that price
cause of shortage in the supply sounds fshy
The Kaiser directs the of his King George has
the Col will
in Chicago. And do you think it will rain soon?
The Washington herald., 1914-12-03
Rat-proofng a City.

Conversion OF insanitary districts into
healthful ones and the proOfing of the
entire city against rats is contemplated
in the plans made by the health authori-
ties OF New Orleans for permanently
stamping out the causes of bubonic
plague. The methods proposed are SINH
lar in certain respects to those followed
by the Federal government at the Pan
ANA Canal. while their execution is as
much an engineering problem as 1t is a
medical one. Accomplishment of the
work depends upon the passage OF en-
abIing legislation which bears directly
upon the building regulations and affects
practically every structure in the city.
Ordinances designed to handle the situ-
alton provide that all buildings which
rest upon the ground shall have concrete
floors and every structure shall be proofed
against rats. Other ordinances abolish
hen houses within the city limits, except
ing when they are thoroughly ratproofed:
make stringent rulings concerning the
disposal Of garbage. and subjects ship
ping in the harbor to binding regulations
intended TO prevent rats from landing
from boats docked at the wharves. 1t is
planned that ships shall lie eight feet
from the wharves, have all hawsers fitted
with rat guards. and have a guard at the
gangplanks whenever they are lowered
Popular Mechanics
The Washington herald., 1914-12-03
The Question of Submarines.

In some inspired matter given out few days
ago from the Navy Department with reference to
the importance of submarines as indicated by ex-
perlence in this war, chief point made against
the submarines that they had not sunk a single
rate story of the destruction of the super-Dread-
nought Audacious by a submarine is verified, our
navy sharps will have to abandon this point
Congress is always justified in taking with more
than one grain of salt the department unfriendli.
ness to submarines. Naval officers, consciously or
unconsciously prejudced in favor of the battle
ships and cruisers which officers can live in
comfort in times of peace. And, frankly, we do not
believe that any recent development has made bat
tleships cruisers obsolete. These should be con
structed on an intelligent liberal program, but the
submarine should not be neglected. In war we
led the world, under the Holland patents, in maxi
ing the submarine effective. She should not take
second place in this form of naval construction
Brooklyn Eagle
The Washington herald., 1914-12-03
Parties and Prohibition.

Secretary Bryan's editorial warning TO the Dem
ocratic party that must divorce itself from the
liquor interests has attracted good deal of atten-
ton and some criticism from other Democrats, who
repudiate the implied suggestion that the Demo-
cratic party is or ever has been allied with the
liquor interests. Mr. Bryan is always extreme in
his party statements. He began with the Cross
of Gold as his indictment against those who op-
posed the free coinage of silver without the aid or
consent of any other nation, but he now heartily
approves the Federal reserve banking system which
had its inception among those whom he then de-
nounced.
In this later warning, Mr. Bryan may be only
using figure of speech and not proposing to make
the Democratic party prohibition party, with na-
tiona prohibition the purpose, instead of recog-
milton that this question like woman suffrage be-
longs to the States the President has repeatedly
stated. That Mr.. Bryan was using a figure of
speech appears from the fact that his warning is
not new.
1t is something of an old saw that has been
used against all political parties, not except
ing the Prohibition party That party was accused
of being financed by the Democratic party and the
liquor interests in 1885,, for the sole purpose of
defeating James C. Blaine, and some historians
have SO set it down fact. Republicans have
charged that the Democrats were in alliance with
same charge against the Republicans while it has
been favorite complaint of the Prohbtonists that
both the dominant parties in alliance with each
other and the liquor interests this question.
At the time whichever party has been in
control of the government has legSlated to tax
and regulate the liquor business The tax on
whisky has been increased from 20 cents gallon
to $I.Io, and the tax beer from nothing to $I5o
barrel, while the last legislation placed
a tax on wine. Since the liquor men resisted the
increases in the taxes and the Congress made the
increases, it is difficult to find the evidences of
alliance Internal revenue legislation has been per-
haps the most prolific of all work in Congress- and
it has been to the front in almost every Congress
since the civil war, whether the Republicans or
Democrats were in control About the only con-
given the liquor interests has been the
right to be heard before committees, right which
could hardly be denied.
With the Democrats in control of Senate House
and the Presidency, and Mr.. Bryan the premier in
the Cabinet it must be apparent that this warning
of the Commoner is only figure of speech, or
that President Wilson has Mr.. Bryan'S resignation
on his desk and is only waiting favorable oppor-
tunity to accept it. The liquor interests may be
in politics, but if they they be the poorest
politicians that ever spent their money on that
game, if they expected to get any consideration in
for their efforts The old complaint is
however, good enough excuse for the Prohibition
lists and their appeals for funds to fight the old
parties allied with the liquor interests.