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to see Senators and members of the
House, unless they have some par
ticular reason for not doing so. Con-
sequent1y, private secretaries are sup
posed to know on the instant a MEM
Der of either legislative body, call
him by name and be able to gossip
with him while he is waiting for the
man already talking with the secre-
tary to make his departure When a
private secretary does not know, by
sight and name at least, prominent
official caller, embarrassing conse-
quences are likely to ensue. The other
day Secretary of War Garrison called
on one of his colleagues in the cab
met whose private secretary had
never seen him. The secretary OF
war said he wanted to see the other
secretary, addressing the statement
to the private secretary. That indi-
vidual asked for his name. Where
upon Mr.. Garrison replied: "G-a-r-r-i-
SON, Garrison, secretary of war;
and the chagrined and humbled pri-
vate secretary lost no time in usher
! ing him in.
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convent was destroyed, and the IN
mates, all but Sister Martha, because
| they were members of the nobility,
fled to the protection of their families
or into exile out of France. But SIS
ter Martha had nothing to fear.
Somehow she managed to get a psn-
sion equivalent to about $26 a year,
and a small house. With this facility
she became self-appointed sister to all
the wounded soldiers who were
brought to her and who needed her
help. She dressed their wounds,
comforted them and gave them shell
ter and in many cases gave the dying
the only religious solace they re-
ceived. On the battlefields in many
parts of France the name of Sister
Martha was known.
where is Sister Martha?" the SOL
diers would cry when they lay wound
ed or dying. "If Sister Martha were
only here we would not have to suf-
fer So
When the war was over Sister Mar
tina went on with her simple religious
life, still finding wretched people
enough among the poor and prisoners
who needed her care in times of
peace At last when Sister Martha
was sixty-seven years old a great
fete was given in her honor in one
of the military prisons in France.
On this occasion the devoted woman
received medals of honor from half
the crowned heads of Europe in token
of the comfort and care she had given
| their dying soldiers in time of war.
| But Sister Martha's work was not
done. The next winter she went to
the court of Louis XVIII. to plead in
her old age for money to carry on
some of her many good works and it
| is said that when she was at court
| for this purpose the most frivolous
women of the court and the most
worldly statesmen and courtiers We'd
with each other to speak with the
! sanity woman.
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HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
Many Ills Vanish When Soft Tonsils Are
Removed.
BY DIR. LEONARD KEENB HRsHBE RG
A. B.. NJ. A, M D. tJohns HOpkius).

Many Ills Vanish When Soft Tonsils Are
Removed.
Like the genii who was summoned
by Aladdin's lamp, the tonsil is some
times life saving magician and
again Feritable demon of destruc-
ton. The tonsil, too. helps some
voices and does direful damage to
others. Like the Irishman's flea, the
tonsil can always be expected ito
be where it isn't, to do what 1t
DOESN'T
The tongue, the throat and the pal
ate a. : intimately associated with the
! little sugar-loaf sponges which pro-
| ject upon each side of the throat. All
| of these cavernous structures have
much to do with the voice.
If you consider the palate an upper
tongue and the throat the posterior
link of the two, you will have men,
tai picture of the vocal apparatus af-
fected by your tonsils.
A few medical men still remain
active who hold that the tonsils serve
distinct and physiological purpose
in the human economy. Most physi-
clans, however. are convinced from a
long series of running ears, deafness,
heart infections, joint diseases, coughs,
tonsils are pests and denominations.
Soft Tonsils Harmful.
They are the abiding place of pus
germs, malignant microbes, polluted
particles of potatoes, decayed food
and fetid victuals which give rise to
foul breath and maloderous emana-
lions.
The tonsil is small yielding body
much shrunken in grown people, soft,
mushy and a nuisance in children.
The voice is rarely, IL ever changed
when these spongy plaques are dis
sected away, and it is the better part
of wisdom always. and as early as
possible, to be rid of them.
Enlarged tonsils are wickedly preju-
dicial to the acuteness and health of
the ears as we'll as to the power,
soundness and stamina of the heart.
Bacteria of boils, often harmless on
the skin and elsewhere, once they
lodge in the loose, moss-lil1e tissue of
the tonsils, have an unpleasant way
of jumping thence into the middle
ear, upon the heart valves. or into the
knee elbow, ankle and other joints.
The mouth breathing which often
shows itself as the tonsils enlarge and
become infiamed, causes all sorts of
unhappy and dangerous deformities.
The voice becomes hoarse and coarse.
the teeth become large and gross:
they protrude and overlap the lower
jaw and the lips, and they bulge so
that almost an imbecile look develops.
Nor is this ALL Even the thyroid
gland becomes stirred up, the eyes
pop out in true frog-face appear
ance, the glands of the front and
back of the neck become tender, and
the back of the throat begins to show
the effects of an extension of the
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Che Mediator

When warning kings and emperors
Form battle seek surcease,
They turn TO kindly Uncle Sam
Whose middle name is Peace.
He puts aside the apple crop
And lets the harvest wait,
To listen to their grievances
And try to mediate.
No sceptre glitters in his hand,
No jewels his brow,
No royal ermine trims his coat,
Yet monarchs to him bow,
For in the councils of the world
To every creed and clan
He stands for peace, and represents
The brotherhood of man.
A good old-fashioned neighbor, he
About his business goes,
And never NEEDLES with the feuds
Of either friends foes,
But when they seek his aid to check
carnival of gore
He is the first to help them sheathe
Their crimson swords once
When future ages weigh the worth
OF deeds immortal, loi
To Uncle Sam the palm of peace j.
And need of praise will go;
For it is not the hand of war
From fields of battle CORY,
But Peace that TO nation gives
The brightest crown of glory
-Minna Irving in Leslies.
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BIRTHDAY OF NOTED WOMEN
OCTOBER 20
Sister Martha
Copyrighted 1914.
BY MARY MARSHALL.


Dear to the hearts of the soldiers
of the French Revolution was the
name of Sister Martha. one of the
bravest and most devoted nurses who
ever lived. 1t was on October rs, 1748,
that Anne Biget was born at Besan-
con, the birthplace fifty-four years
later of the great novelist, Victor
Hugo Anne was the daughter of
poor, simple parents and in her wild
est dreams she could not have known
that her name would ever be heard
outside the small circle of her own
immediate friends.
From her earliest childhood Anne
showed signs of great tenderhearted-
ness and it is said that as a child she
used to share her simple rough fare
with wayfarers and beggar5 rather
than see them go without, But Anne
did this with no thought Of being a
saint. She did not think of herself as
having any special vocation for the
life of religious, but she had deep
sympathy and devotion for those less
fortunate than herself.
When she grew up her thoughts
turned to the convent because she
thought that there she might do more
good for suffering humanity than any
place else So taking the name OF
"Sister Martha" she entered con-
vent as working sister, In this
particular convent most of the nuns
were members of noble families and
were i'll fitted for doing the rougher
| sort of homework. So Sister Martha
was welcomed in her novitiate as one
well suited to do the heavy work.
AS soon as Sister Martha became a
| full-fiedged sister she received per-
mission, as a reward for her long
! hours of indoor work. to visit the
prisons and in this way she came to
| know how to comfort and relieve the
most wretched class of society.
About this time-when Sister Mar
| tina was forty-one years old-the
French Revolution broke out The
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COSTLY EDUCATION FOR A RAILROAD.

The New Haven railroad in its own report is
authority for the statement that in 1928 it cost
SLIP to run passenger train mile, of which eight
cents per cent, was the expense OF killing and
injurng travellers This is the deduction from the
item of nearly $2000000 paid out in settlement of
damages for the disasters of that period But the
New Haven has been doing better since. 1t has had
an expensive education in the school of safety first
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California Wants Belgians.
m the Philadelphia inquirer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
California wants the expatriated
Belgians. A committee, made up of
planters, viticulturists, flnanciers and
statesmen. is raising money and
hopes to induce many of them to set
tie on California soil. The propo-'
sition is to allot large amount of
land in small sections, but several
times as large as the Belgians have
cultivated at home, to supply them
with seed, food and homes SO that
they may begin early next spring to
raise crops.
This is a sound proposition. 1t con-
templates getting to California the
most intensive agriculturists in the
world. It win not be an easy step,
but there Is no reason why 1t should
not measurably succeed il there is
displayed sufficient intelligence and
enough money is raised.S
OF all other classes of the popula-
tion we now have a surfeit, but we
never can have too many cultivators
of the soil. And the Europeans know
much more about farming than we
do in this country.
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orders on time. Accumulated stocks
of tools have been taken up in this
movement, andsmakers have felt war
ranted in number of eases i'll in
creasins working forces, which in
August and September We're down to
the smallest in months.
Absorption of Wood Alcohol Through
the lungs.
From the Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association
The increasing use of wood alcohol
in the industries and the growing APP
probation of the toXicity of the sub
stance, involving possibilities of harm
far greater than the Behavior of the
closely related grain spirits, ethyl
alcohol, would lead one to suspect,
have given the impetus to extensive
physiologic investigations. Usually
the study of the effects of methyl
alcohol has been confined to condi-
tons in which it has been introduced
into the body by way of the stomach.
In some of the industries, particular
ly those in (which denatured alcohol
containing the methylated spirits are
employed, the possibility of absorption
of Vapors of wood alcohol through
the respiratory passage and lungs
must be reckoned with. a very re-
cent investigation with this point in
view, by Loewy and Won der Helde at
the Royal Agricultural College in
Berlin, has disclosed the surprising
fact that quantities of methyl alcohol
as small as OF per cent. i'm the in
spired air may lead TO absorption OF
the product into the body in not in
considerable amounts. The absorb
ton is slow, so that some time may
elapse before the organism is sat
uratedn with the alcohol. Somewhat
unexpected is the fact that, under
comparable conditions, fat animals
take up decidedly less wood alcohol
exhibited as vapor admixed with air
than do lean subjects. This is due tc
the poor solubility of methyl alcoho
| in fats, a fact demonstrated by tho
German investigators contrary to the
current beliefs of the relatively ready
solubility of the lower alcohols IL,
fats and fat-like substances.
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Didn't Know

Uncle Ezra-Do you think the new
dances show that people are becom
ing more immoral?
Uncle Eben-- WAL dunno, but
since the summer boarders introduced
them here we amt had single old
fashioned kissing game.-Puck.
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Steel Trade rnImprosed.

From the Iron Age,
with mill operations averaging
flfty per cent. or less, and with no
tangible evidence that better scale
of buying is near at hand, sentiment
in the steel trade is not improved.
The belief that October would show
the low point both in operations and
new buying was expressed in high
quarters as the month came in, but
it is now only a hope. The small buy
ing waves of January February and
June-July seemed TO indicate that the
late fall would bring another, but the
war has upset all such calculations.
Several blast furnaces in the Cen
trail West have blown out in October,
While Others are scheduled to stop,
and it is reported from Pittsburgh that
q large steel plant in that district
will close down before the end of the
month. 1t is true that in some lines
the amount of business booked has
not shown progressive falling OFF
in October but shipments on con-
tracts have been for some time so
much in excess of new orders that a
still lower rate of operations is in
prospect.
lin contrast with the monotonous
reiteration of depressed conditions in
iron and steel are the reports from
the machine tool trade. There the war
has brought large business from
foreign governments and from manu-
facturers at home who needed new
equipment to get out foreign wal
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Pressing the Question

Mr.. Sambo-See here, Mr.. Johnson
might | make so free as to ask you
whut you wah about when 1 saw you
las evenin'?
Mr. -Why-er-uh, wan
gittin' ready ted feed some er Pahson
'Williams's chickens.
Mr. Sambo-Dat reply is good fur
as it goes. But would it strike you
as superfluxeness on my part ef |
on feedin' 'em to?
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NO SWAPPING OF HORSES" AT THIS TIME.


Congress having finally adjourned Saturday with
out counting a quorum. than half of its mem
bers had departed, the last week of the campaign
will be actively participated in by practically the
whole body aud national questions will take preee-
denee of State issues. The greater issue always in
eludes the lesser one.
1t IS serious proposition for the American people
at this critical time to change the personnel and
policies the government Abraham Lincoln in 1864
doubted the policy of swapping horses in crossing
stream. In the presidential election that year the
nation though sorely tried by than three years
of the great Civil War. reelected Lincoln and Re
publican Congress The popular instinct was averse
10 a change There was swapping of political
horses
The situation today IS not dssimilar from that in
1857 The program of national legislation is incom-
niete That IS one reason. But greater one is the
crtieSi condition of the worlds affairs, which has
already profoundly affected the United States and
presents for Us grave possibilities II is at such time
thar the nation wants harmony between the execu-
tive and legislative branches of the government.
consistent policy and little controversy possible
in Congress
Popular instinct for the safe course should be as
strong IN 1914 as it was in 1861 when by the support
given to President Lincoln adherence 10 the poll
cies of the government the war ended in few
months and the nation started upon career Of
progress without parallel in history.
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rnE uNIMrnEssIoNAnLE guRons IN rHE CASE

There were two hard-headed and emotioness men
on the jury in the Mrs. Carman case and they were
the two jurors who stood out for conviction They
paid attention to appeals to their sympathies they
were calous to the pathos of wife and mother in
criminal dock and unimpressed by the fact that
their judgment would condemn to death.
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They strangers that sentiment of the
American juryman that makes him shrink from
dict of guilty against in murder trial
What did impress them the mercess logic
of the prosecutor in piecng the evidence together
There may be a second trial of Mrs. Carman
but there will be conviction. The woman
and her friends looked confidently for acquittal
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The Chrintmas SHIN.
tho Raiiimnre NeMs.

From the baltimore News.
How the soldiers of the opposing
armies will fare in the trenches at
Christmas is all too certain; but the
suggestion originating in America
that hostilities everywhere in Europe
be suspended on that day Is happy.
sympathetic one. however forcefully
the fear that the enemy would use
the respite 70 his military advantage
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showgirl WEEDS When She Loses Bet o,
Dartmouth

Showgirl WEEDS When She Loses Bet on
Dartmouth
NEW YORK, Oct. ga notice was
sent out last night that Miss Elaine
French, the showgirl, who threatened
to organize chorus girls union and
call strike, had been married early
Yesterday morning to Vannie Cooke,
formerly residing at the Hotel Nc
Alpin. nephew and heir of the Earl
of Lincoln" Miss French, when seen
at her residence at 127 West Forty
fifth street, admitted that she had
been married because Dartmouth lost
to Princeton.
On Friday night, it is said, the
couple were in a restaurant with
some friends when Miss French re-
marked that she thought Dartmouth
would win Saturdays game. Mr.
Cooke disagreed, and as a result a bet
was made to the effect that il Prince
ton won Miss French was to marry
the earrs nephew. Princeton Won
and, as the new Mrs. Cooke observed
last night, 81 lost"
To be sure, lists of the British peer
age make no mention of any Earl OF
Lincoln, but what of that?
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An Authority

Say. Bill, what's a mixed meta
phor?"
Oats a new one on me. Let's go
over an ask de bartender. Boston
Transcript.
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Easy to Please

Mamma-say, willie, haven't you
some broken toys that can send to
the heather?
Wiiiie-No, but guess can break
up a few.
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aalIetlon wIth chronic .pharyngI
Cause Many his.

| affiiction with chronic "pharyngi-
It's
Cause Many Ills.
| While it is true that hard, small,
| invisible adult tonsils are in no way
harmful to health, large or oven small
tonsls which are soft and full of
spaces or channels to trap food are
menace TO a good physique no less
than to vocal power.
These last interfere with the mus
Giles and elasticity of the throat; they
block clear exit of foul breath and
the entry of clean air, and they break
PUP the clear passage of sound waves
| The irritation of microbes In most
] tonsils Spreads the swelling to the
ear tube, the nasal cavity, the palate.
| the throat, and may even set up q
long standing and mysterious non
ltuberculous cough.
Since there is no such thing as a
stomach cough" or smokers
cough" ii behooves those who have
excluded tuberculosis to have their
tonsils removed by a competent per-
son. Never permit the tonsils to be
guillotined, chopped off or burned out
Such makeshift operations must in
the nature of things be botch jobs, in
eyitably worse than nothing.
Answers to Health Questions
b. Fl. S.-What's to be done for
knock knees?
A slight operation by skilful
surgeon will correct this deformity
L. R.-Will you kindly give some
information about hives?
Hives are usually cured by a two
day fast and a milk and barley diet
afterward. They are caused by q
hypersusceptibility to fruits, fish or
vegetables.
f. Sam nineteen and am
troubled with hair that has grown on
the face. What will remove it?
A shaving powder which is made
in the South will remove it. 1t is
rubbed on the skin for one minute,
only, once a week.
MRS. j. b have a baby two
months old. feed him seventeen and
one-half ounces of milk in the day.
Would the yollk of one egg be enough
for this amount of milk boiled?
You may in addition to your milk
feelings add the yolk of an egg. But
you should nurse him from the
breast. There is no substitute for
mothers milk, and I have seen it
brought back three months after Ii
has gone.
MISS M. C. Pam unnaturally
pale and sallow. Wind and sun do no
good. Also have spells of dizziness
after getting up. Is this due to bill
iousness?
Eat plenty of eggs, milk, vegetables
and fruits. To your present diet add
wineglassful of olive oil before every
meal also.
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Finds Diamond Ring He Lost While
Bathing. Inside Fish.

HILLSBORo, ILL.,, Oct. ga two
pound bass, caught in Chautauqua
Lake by \. NJ. Howell, will be mount
ed and placed in HowelPs den, be-
cause the bass was responsible for
returning his two-carat diamond
ring. Last year Howell lost the ring
while bathing.
While angling he caught the bass
and ordered the fish for dinner. There
was commotion in the kitchen,
and Howell found his chef pinching
himself to see whether he was asleep
Massa HOWELL" cried the excited
negro, ''dey-alls musta been a awful
rich bass, as he had a diamun ring
in his bait baskit.''
Howell examined the ring and found
ii TO be the one he lost last year.
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Squirrels Remove Pits from Orchard Of
Apricots.

hssor Fines Himself for Auto Speeding
PARAMOUNT, w. Va, Oct. 26.-
Mayor Anthony Bowen imposed a fine
of $ on himself for automobile speed
ing.
lie was returning in his machine
from lecture when the chief of DO
ice halted him, without knowing his
identity, because he was exceeding the
speed limit.
I'll take the case up i'm police
court, said the mayor. and he did.
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Sixty-one members of the Belfast
Qreland) city police force have left
the city on active service.
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An effort is being made to organize
the workers employed in the smoking
pipe trade of New York city.
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Elaborate preparations for the hold
ing of a label exhibit in Philadelphia
in connection with the convention of
the American Federation of Labor, at
which will be displayed every descrip-
ton of manufactures bearing the
union label, has been perfected by the
committee appointed for that purpose
'by the Central Labor Union.
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Mother" Jones is once again
among the miners in the tent colonies
of southern Colorado.
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Boston freight handlers have start
ed an organizing campaign to ex-
tend throughout New England
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German trade unions are paying re-
lief to the unemployed and in some
cases war relief.