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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-02-20
Motion Pictures tO Help Recruiting
in British Army.

London-The army council took "a
novel step recently in an effort to i'm
prove recruiting for the army when
they not only allowed Messrs. Keith
Prowse e Co.. to take $4,000 feet of
cinematograph pictures of the British
army but actively assisted in it, pro
duction.
No fewer than $4,000 officers and
men took part Ia the various scenes
which were photographed at Alder
shot, ShOeburyness, Chatham and
Hythe and everything was done un-
der the personal supervision of Off
Gers On tine active list The film was
exhibited recently for the first time
ait The Palace theater, Shaftesbury
avenue, before v special audience vi
soldiers, representing various branch
es of the service, who marched m a
body To the Palace.
The men occupied the upper parts
Of the theater and in the stalls and
boxes were many Well-known mill
tary men, including Lord Roberts,
whose arrival caused N scene Of great
eRthusiasm.-Chr Science Mon
itOn.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-02-20
DE-. Tanner % Live On q Dime Day.

Los Angeles, Tal., FEB. Slightly
five years old yesterday, Dr. Henry 5.
Tanner, who achieved worldwide
fame ly e4HaliRg the exploit of Elijah
and other Biblical characters in fast
Ing 40 days and AM nights declares
that the simple Lfe Ky the only solu-
ton OF the high cost OF living uues-
tom Furthermore, AK Wit Live Ior
one year on 1U cents day to prove
not only that it is possible TO Go so
with comfort, but that a persons
health viii be greatly benefited by a
food schedule which calls for dimes
worth XII nuts and fruit a. "A daily
menu.
"I ana eighty-ive years old" said
Dr Tanner, anG as. \ have said be-
fore, I expect to get married when l
am 1G1 years old, and settle down.
"I understand from friend that
John D. Rockefeller says he would
rive $1,O0O,O0O to have my stomach.
| fear the change cannot be effected,
but if John D. would go to bed and do
without food for 40 days and nights,
he will have digestive organs like
mine and it will not cost him mil
lion dollars"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-02-20
How Hog cholera is Being ComGated.

Washington, ID. o., Jan. 30.--The
Department of Agriculture, during the
past year has been conducting cam
paigns In Indiana, Missouri, Iowa and
Nebraska to control the contagious
disease or hogs known as hog
cholera" by means of anti-hog-cholera
serum and farm guarantees Tn one
county (Pettis county MissourD where
there was loss of Is per cent in 1911
and 25.6 per cent in 1912 Of I'll hogs
raised, there was only loss OF lat
per cent up to November 1913. This
decrease was due to the use of tn
serum, which, although not used
there by the Departments agents IN
Till August, 1913, materially reduced
the loss. About $4,000 hogs were
raised during the past year and Of
the 10000 that died on the hog cholera
only about 1000 were lost after the
active use of serum and quarantine
measures were inaugurated.
In every county where these meas
ures were employed, even though D.
Gun after the disease had continued
its ravages for some time, there was
less loss from hog cholera than in
either OF the two preceding years.
The inspector examines the hogs
when he arrives, takes the tempera-
ture Of all hogs in the herd and sepa-
rates the sick from the well. The
temperature ID an indication OF the
sickness. The temperature of sick
hog, unless the hog il near death will
run above 104 degrees and sometimes
as high as 107 degrees or los degrees
F.
Some States ars engaged ln the
manufacture of serum 10 cure this dis
ease. This serum requires special
treatment To preserve its quality and
a qual fed nan to produce it Sufii-
cient serum tO treat an average hun
dred-pound hog costs about thirty
cents at liberal estimate The treat
ment II Dy hypodermic injection.
The Department is initiating its
campaign against the devastating hog
disease has only been able to com
mence in few Of the districts where
the cholera wa the most widespread
and where the active ac-Operation OF
the State was offered in enforcing the
ordinary quarantine measures, eIc-
The object OF the Department has
been to endeavor To control the dis
ease and III possible, tO eliminate III
from the country. To secure this end
the best efforts of the farmer himself
are necessary.
Hog cholera is caused by a germ
that exists i'm The blood. It il an OF
ganism apparently 80 small that the
most powerful microscopes do not
show lid. However, ii IL easy to dem
onstrate its presence Nv inoculating
a small part of the blood from a sick
no. into wen one, which produces
the log cholera.
HOG cholera is disease which
seems to W. stopped to degree by
the frosts Of winter, although frost
cannot be said To stop A case after At
has taken hold wv It'd victim. However,
it seems to prevent the rapid spread
of tGe disease The result il that i'm
spring time the affection IL as rule
at the lowest ebb but increases rapid
Nv from that time until fall
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-02-20

Most trees-all tie fruit trees
blossom early in spring. Oak, maple,
elm, birch, beech, this last very mod
estly, hickory, gum. The lime and
plane come later The tulip tree ex-
cells both in magnitude Of trunk and
blossom. | have in mind fine
specimen u feet in circumference, SO
feet hiyh and covered every year in
early June with great yellow-green
cups Had they the color of ounce
Oh apple, such tree would be one of
the most splendid objects in nature.
Early in June come the chestnuts,
when their pretty golden bloom may
be distinguished a mile away burst
ing from among the dark green
woods This | think Is the
last tree to bloom, for that uncanny
shrub, the witch hazel, hardly counts.
Acorn and chestnut come nearly to-
gether in ripening, and are not unlike
i'm size, but the former has much the
longer preparation for its fall--per-
hans because its burr, as Thoreau
found, II inside-C. ". ID. Phelps in
"a Farmers Note Book"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-02-20
BichIOride Deaths.

Oh rs deaths in New York from BIZ
chloride of mercury, in the past eight
months, 3D. were suicides and 22 vic
tins who took the poison surprising
it was headache tablets. This leaves
21 cases unaccounted for. The curl
Gus thing about this particular poison
is that 50 many deaths have resulted
from 1t, either by intention or acct
dent, since very general attention was
directed to the death of a Southern
banker a week or more after inadyert-
emily taking the poison. "Sugges-
ton" might explain the selection Of
the drug for suicide, but why should
it's accidental use increase?-Philade
phia Record.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-02-20

Everybody in any pursuit whose
success has been recorded brought
himself to like his business Athen-
aeus says Of Parrhasius, the greatest
of Greek painters: However, as re-
CARDS hi art, H. never suffered him
Self to grow doubtful Of it or COM
planning, or ill-tempered, but he was
ever making himself more good
lumored at his work, SO that he sang
all thse time that he was painting, as
Theophrastus doth relate in his
treatise on happiness. journal OF
Education.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-02-20
WOMEN ROuT A BOSS.
PrOuty Sees More in Real Estate Now
Than in Politics.

There was in Winnetka, a fash
ionable North Shore suburb, a
political boss, Carlton Prouty, real
estate operator, justice of the peace,
county collector and assessor. The
new women voters organized a cIti-
zens' league and controlled the vote
Dir it, township This made MIR. Prouty
weary.
No one can tell how the wJmen
viii vote" he said gloomily. It'll de-
vote more time to the real estate
business and let the new voters have
their way"
Sherman NJ. Booth, president or the
league, said women a. we'll a. men
will Be put up for Office by the organi-
cation, and predicted victory hi
cago Correspondence New York
World.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-02-20
Parcel Post w Undertaken.

The ashes of Frederick Heist, aged
30, who died in McKeesport, Pa, last
week, and whose body was crenated
i'm Pittsburgh, were sent to Germany
by parcel post They were packed,
weighed by a McKeesport postoffice
clerk, and after the necessary stamps
had been affixed all that il left OF
Frederick Heist started on the way
to the Fatherland, where the ashes
are to be inferred between the bodies
of his father and mother
III IL believed to Nv the first pack
age Of the kind to be sent by parcel
post from this country The postage
was $1.42.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-02-20

To replace The always more OF less
Objectionable hot water bottle there
has been invented an aluminium af-
fair of similar shape, in which il an
electrical heating element supplied
with current from a light socket.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-02-20
Shipping Fruit In 30 Days


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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-11-05

| the door and undressed swiftly. Ten
minutes later he was sleeping the
death-like sleep which follows com
plete exhaustion of brain and body.
He did not wake till noon. Jason
answered his ring. The old negro en-
tered with hesitating steps.
Good morning" said his master.
Jason, do you know how a guest lives
In q hotel when he wants to be alone,
absolutely alone? He eats in his own
room, his mail Is brought to him, he
goes and comes without word being
spoken to him by anyone in the house.
You understand"
"Yassir"
II wish to have that sort of service
in my home until-your mistress re-
turns. If it is necessary, engage an
other servant to look after your du-
ties. / want you to wait on me ex-
actly rs I have explained. You can
do it, Jason?"
I'll be mighty glad to do it, Marse
Enoch."
Wentworth returned to the theater
and took up his duties as if nothing
had happened. His associates greeted
him with their usual courtesy; still
he felt as if drop curtain had fallen
between him and the world where his
daily labor lay. Women and q few
men shrank away from him even while
they seemed trying to be polite, some
times kind.
Zilla Paget made no secret OF her
change Of residence. She Haunted the
news of it abroad and Wentworth
lapse from the conventionalities of life
made a nine-days gossip in theatrical
circles. 1t even agitated moralities
which had been esteemed lenient. The
reason back of the intensity of feeling
was not, in every case, shocked vir-
tue, but Dorcas was loved, while the
Englishwoman was held in universal
contempt and hatred.
1t was several days after his return
to business before Enoch met his sis
ter. He heard in a casual way that
she had rented an apartment and had
taken Alice Volk with the two chill
dren to live with her. Their first en-
counter was an ordeal to each one.
They came face to face in the foyer.
Enoch said Good morning" and held
out his hand. The girl held 1t for a
second, looking up into his face with
eager usefulness. The ghost of a
smile broke over Enoch's haggard
face, then he glanced backward as the
glass door behind him slammed, and
Zilla Paget came rustling in.
He turned brusquely and entered
his office. The jaded look in his eyes
had changed to shuddering hate. Dor
cas- passed out to join the throng on
Broadway. She felt chilled and lonely.
She did not realize that the sun was
shining.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-11-05
Lack of Standards
Among Our Students
By MARIAN r. WRIGHT. Mlw.uke.. Wa.

for the lack of respect with which the man OF today
regards the young with whom thrown into daily contact Ihs
especially true of the so-cald Society better elements
1t privilege attend Of the foremostf not the fore
mosof the secondary schools in the West and noticed especially this
terribly obvious lack high standards Because could not see the app
cation of the ba dance its kindred to the school o
doris branded could not the reasons Tor
transferring the classroom into social cen where Cicero and Vn
underrun by of social gossip pointed out as
pseudo-eak
At lunch and during periods thing to hear
of sophisticated and all under eighteen discuss
the $50 and So" making his latest cruh how lar you
could "go with the arrival in school, The way girls reputation
torn sd shong the ase assumed by these young
society cutups absolutely disgusting
have often boys and girls kissing and embracing in the halls
thinking they acting in accordance with Notwithstanding ideas OF
decency and propriety
We find social refomers trying clear the of the working girl
of the many obstacles that oruct her path but that social reform
needed among the eter classes for is they who will posi-
tons in leadership in years to come.
how these abuses punished generation ago.
that antedates my existence but think little corporal punishment
applied society and good deal the
eighteen pmp faced of the world would work wonders
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-11-05

fashion. A young man with gIeam-
ing expanse of shirt front rose from
a lower box and set his foot upon the
railing, preparing to climb over to the
stage. A woman stood beside him
clasping her hands and staring at
Merry with horror-stricken eyes. Her
face grew as white as the lace robe
she wore Then she shrieked, long,
shivering cry of terror. Enoch sprang
toward the footlights with one swift
leap, holding his arm over his head
as If to ward off the heavy curtain,
which was still descending. He seized
Merry with a desperate grip and
tossed the actor far back on the stage,
then he fell with the ponderous cur
tain across his inert body. His closed
eyes were facing the glare of the foot
lights.
Dorcas and Merry. in swift motor.
reached the Waverly Place home be-
fore the ambulance, and a famous sur
geon came close at their heels. When
the operation was over they laid
Wentworth upon his own bed. The
surgeon stood looking down on the
unconscious face. Blood was yelling
slowly from the wound on his fore
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-11-05
CHAPTER XIV.
The Yellow Envelope.

More than one summer show" had
begun to blazon an alluring sign over
the door of a Broadway theater be-
fore 1.-THE House Of Esterbrook" closed
it's season. The fame of the play had
gone abroad through the country, and
night after night, long after the resi-
dence part of New York showed a
labyrinth of boarded fronts, every seat
in the Gotham was sold before the
curtain went up.
The house was packed to the roof
on the night the play closed. 1t was
the middle Of June and the city had
grown uncomfortably hot. Wentworth
had spent a restless day. 1t seemed
to him as if the air was filed with an
ticipation.
Before the curtain fell on the last
act he strolled through the darkened
house and opened narrow door be-
hind the lower boxes. A few shad-
owed steps led to the stage A man
stood inside with his fingers moving
over the buttons, which flooded the
stage with light or shadow. Went
worth pushed past him and walked
swiftly behind the drops until he
reached corner which was compare
lively deserted. He stood inside a
wing, watching the company take their
curtain calls. Last of all came Merry,
alone. The insistent applause impor-
tuned a speech. Wentworth smiled
grimly. Andrews one terror was a
speech. He saw the actor glance
about him appealingly, then his eyes
signaled to the man who controlled
the curtain. 1t began to descend with
quiet elaboration. Merry paused for
a moment, then he came back
Ladies and gentlemen" he began.
Il had hoped"
While Wentworth stood listening he
wondered why the descent of the cur
tain did not stop. He turned and whis-
pered a command to the stagehand
who stood beside him. The mans face
was deathly white, he looked para
lyzed with terror. In second Enoch
realized that something in the ma
chinery had lost it's grip. The house
had grown still, while Merry stood
smiling and talking in his nonchalant
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-11-05
He pulled the papers from pigeon

He pulled the papers from pigeon
holes in his desk and tossed them
about in loose piles, dropping some
in the waste basket and bundling 9TH
ers together with rubber bands.
Oswald's pen was travelling slowly
across a sheet OF paper when some
one tapped softly at the door. Merry
entered. Enoch did not turn his head.
The actor seated himself beside Os-
wald's desk.
II could not show up this morning
when you 'phoned," he explained. Il
have been arranging for a funeral.
It's one of those funerals which have
no great string of carriages.
who's dead?"
George Volk."
Oswald laid down his pen and stared
at Merry. George Volk! When did
he drift back to American!
Nobody seems to know anything
about him. It's a mercy though; it
sets Alice Free"
rs there anything can dor
mo. I've looked after everything.
But l want your advice on one point.
What do you think of not telling her
till he is buried?"
tits the best plan. supposed he
had fallen pretty low"
"Low!" Merry shrugged his shout
ders. Il did not know such dives ex-
listed as the place where found him.
He had been lying there soaked to the
point of insensibility for two weeks.
He was too horrible sight for the
eyes of any woman"
What an end!" exclaimed Oswald.
THE man once stood on pinnacle
that many an actor would give half a
lifetime to win. He had"
The Englishman and Merry both
looked up quickly. Wentworth had
dropped an armful of books noisily on
his desk. He opened the door which
led to the inner office, passed through,
then slammed it sharply behind him.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-11-05
Little English Sparrow
Eats Many Insects
By A. C. BUCHANAN. Chicago

years ago destroy the inch that had become such pest These
thousands by invisible webs from the shade the
and residential eastern cities At the time the sparrow
brought claimed they grain eaters and destructive
gardens and that they would not eat destroy insects they
could get their natural food
The following facts the writer thinks will eue the belief
One morning short time while he passing along the busiest
part Of Dearborn street sparrow almost flew into the writer's face So
eager the little bird pursuit his prey that had lost all fear Of
humanity Stopping watch the excited sparrow that after
moth miller tiny that it almost invisible its rapid flight to
escape.
Back forward the sidewalk bird and miller few out into
the street. down into the gutter hundreds Of grains of that had
been dropped in the street by the feeding teams.
Yet the the supposed natural food of the sparrow
p overlooked by the Bird its appetite whetd to frenzy by the sight
of the household pest, the moth miller
It willing to work and work hard for this flying mors despite
the easy breakfast lying the street at its feet.
Look lawn and will the sparrow side by side with the
robin rebeas hunting not for grain but for the destructive grubworm
and And % what has become the old pest the inch worm?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1914-11-05
Cocaine in Schools
of the Orient
By RALPH T. BARLOW, Manila. P. /.

consequently will all power
purchase the drug regardless of the terrible effects has upon
the
The retail trade in the streets Of Bombay India has been going
years evidently organized Police
almost all being of the criminal
sell the
police not fully making of the power they
majority sellers being sentences
In the Bombay presidency the maximum quantity of cocaine which
duly licensed physician duly licensed chemist druggist person
holding prescription qualified physician in the agge
shall oneenh grain dry state
solution and if sold person holding prescription quail
flied physician grains whether in dry state solution