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The Washington times., 1916-02-23
HERE IS RARE
/. HEALING power
Contained in Poslam and Ready to
Benefit Your Skin.

Consistent performance. q term used
automobile. perfectly explains the sue
cess OF another modern wonder. Pos
lam. the skin remedy And with Pos
lam an with the motor, the power ~
there. and At your bidding sets to
work persictentiy TO clear your In
famed complexion. TO eradicate your
Eczema. Pinples. or any ailment that
may beset your skin.
Poslam Soap imparts the hygtenic eff
fects of antiseptic medication with
Poslam. TRY II for Toilet and Bath.
For samples. send 70 stamps TO Erner-
gency Laboratories, ~ West s6th st.,
New York city. Sold bytall druggists- -
Advt.
The Washington times., 1916-02-23
Y. W. c. A. PAGEANT TO
BE GIVEN TONIGHT
Girls Of Yesterday and Today
Will Picture Progress.

The Y. w. &. A. pageant, The Girls
OF Yesterday and Today" will be pre-
sented at the First Congregational
Church tonight. No charge will be
made for admission. but entrance will
be by card until o'clock. at which
time the public will be admitted.
The various activities OF the Y. w
c. A. will be visualized In the pageant
The chairman OF the pageant com
mittee is Mrs. Frank @. wilkins. Mrs
Robert Lansing. wife OF the Secretary
OF State. is chairman. and Mrs. Wal.
lace Radcliffe, vice chairman, or tns
golden jubilee committee.
The Washington times., 1916-02-23
Firemen Called --wice
To Fight Same Fire

Engine Company, No. "a. was called
out twice within twelve hours TO fight
the same FIRE.
Flames were discovered in an old
terra Gotta plant near stott. Station,
engine company responded and ex-
tinguished the blaze. Shortly after mid
night. the FIRE broke out again and the
flremen were called back to the scene.
The damage was slight.
The Washington times., 1916-02-23
Lantz and Gidley to Speak
Before Biological Society

Addresses on IAN Early Seventeenth
Century Mammalogist" and extinct
Animal Life of North America" will be
teh features of the meeting of the Bio
logical Society of Washington In the
lecture hall of the Cosmos Club. Sat-
urday evening.
d. e. Lantz and ]. w. Gidley will de-
liver the addresses.
The Washington times., 1916-02-23
ARMY OF USHERS At
SUNDAY TABERNACLE
Fifteen Hundred Of Them and
800 Doorkeepers viii As
sist at Baltimore.

BALTIMORE. Feb. Elf II should
become necessary for the United states
to send out hurried call for volunteer
soldiers. next week, q regiment and n
section over could be recruited from
among the ushers and doorkeepers at
the Billy Sunday Tabernacle.
There Will be 1900 men who will have
The Washington times., 1916-02-23
Luncheon at Church.

A luncheon IL to be served in the par
ish hall Of Grace Episcopal Church.
Georgetown. tomorrow by the Ladies'
Aid Society.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
An lnvaIid's Request.

When ! am III and sore beset
With all the aches that flesh Is heir to.
When ] must lie In bed and fret
And swallow dose do not care to.
When on the table standing near
Are powders. capsules. pills In Dozens,
| have no great desire to hear
OF something that relieved your cousins
When as you sit beside my bed
violent coughing fit attacks me,
And my pale cheeks turn fiery red
And you behold how sore It racks me.
In silence let me cough II out.
In silence even let me smother,
That's preferable beyond a doubt.
To being told what cured your brother.
III you can tell with Jus: a glance
fFor all my symptoms plainly show III
That my disease removed your aunts.
Just pass IL by. Don't let me know II.
Just bear In mind. couldn't hope
BY passing up my daily rations
To swallow all the kinds OF dope
That cured your friends and their reia-
tons.
Edgar A. Guest. in Detroit Free Press.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BOASTFUL IGNORANCE.
BY Or. SAMUEL c. DIXON
leaIth Commissioner of Pennsylvania.


The boastfulness of Ignorance Is or
dinarily not worthy of comment, but
when it jeopardizes the health of other
people, 1t is perhaps worth while to
take up the cudgels.
There is a class of individuals who
pooh-pooh all warnings regarding mat
tiers of hygiene. and usually end their
assertions by informing you that their
grandfathers never paid any attention
to "such nonsense" and what's more
they never have, and here they are
alive and well to show for Ii. Sta
tistics. however, show that these peo-
pie who violate the laws of nature
often meet an untimely death. I'm
fortunately, some give an ear to such
foolish Boosting and run headlong
into danger.
The transmission of disease by
germs is most frequently attacked by
the ignorant. Those people who ae-
cept without comment the statement
that the world revolves upon its axis
as a part of the solar system, and
thousands of other things which they
are incompetent to work out for them
selves, will buster about the absurd
ity of germs causing disease. That
typhoid fever, diphtheria,. yellow fever.
tuberculosis, anthrax, malaria and
pneumonia are caused by germs has
been proven. Just as definitely as the
fact that the world is round.
Fortunately. exposure to disease.
even of communicable type does not
always mean that the individual so
exposed will contract 1t. This Is the
reason that the boaster
MAY boast and stay
And live to boast another day."
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
eermanys Motor Mixtures.

Owing to the shortage Of gasoline
I'm Germany other motor fuels had TO
be sought. and IL is stated that the
one most used Is a mixture Of aico-
hol and benzol. According 10 re-
port of the American consul at Lyons
the results of experiments made with
a touring car, with an ordinary car
buretor, showed n mileage of 4.66 miles
with one pint of mixture OF equal
parts alcohol and benzol, at speed
of AZ miles an hour. With one part
benzol and three alcohol 4.34 miles
were covered at 80 miles an hour.
With one part benzol and five Of al
cohol the car covered a.72 miles at 80
miles an hour. With pure benzoi the
car covered 3.73 miles at AZ miles per
hour; and with gasoline the record was
800 miles at A miles per hour. These
figures may be of value In this coun-
try when the cessation Of war de-
mands throw more benzol on the mar
ket.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24

done by introducing new blood occa-
sionally or BY having the breeding
stock each year reared under farm
conditions. Most all city or town peo-
pie have a few farmer friends that
would be glad to raise some of their
pure-bred poultry on halves.
For a good arrangement of town
poultry plant see the accompanying
figure. A shows the movable colony
brooder houses for small chicks. The
place used for garden one year may
the next year be used to grow the
chicks and the garden put where
chicks were the year before. B shows
laying house, IA by 40. divided in two
pens. each large enough to accommo-
date about IS laying hens. 1t will be
noticed that to each of these pens is
attached two yards, G. This makes 1t
possible to use one yard for a garden
one year and the next year the other.
This system of yardlng keeps the
ground sweet at all times, and makes
it possible to grow wonderful garden
crops without buying any commercial
fertilizer. ID shows the movable colo
ny houses for the growing stock. One
of these houses may be used as a cock
erel house. These yards should be Gull
tivated when not In use or planted to
some crops once a year TO prevent
their becoming contaminated.
A plant of this size properly taken
care of can be made to bring in
profit over all expenses except labor,
of from $500 to $780, After several
years improved breeding, gradually
working into the breeding of high-bred
stock, either for egg production or for
the show, there is no telling to what
extent such plant may be worked.
Remember, to make a success on such
a plant it is highly important to keep
the stock healthy, strong and vigor-
Gus. and to prevent the contamination
of the ground.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
GOATS, MILK FOR CHILDREN
English Newspaper Asserts That e Il
In Many Respects Superior e
That From the Cow.

Londoners. Il seems, have expert
enced difficulties in getting clean milk
of the kind that cows give and there
has been some agitation about tuber-
cuIosis and other infection. In view
of this, a correspondent of the Lon
don Times commends goats milk as
a food for London children. Though
goats milk IL familiar elsewhere in
Europe, 1t is evident from what the
correspondent says that the people
of London look askance at It. Though
the goat Is not an animal immune to
tuberculosis, the writer says, II is sell
dom affected by 1t, so that goats milk
can be guaranteed tubercle free In
almost any given instance.
"Unhapplly," he continues. "the
mere mention of goats milk provokes
contempt. It Is said to be unpleasant
to taste. II is regarded as indlgestible;
every fault which self-interest can
find has been found. But the truth
is that clean-milked goats milk has
no taste at all. 1t furnishes In itself
a guaranty against the filthy methods
prevailing in many dairy farms. II liz
not indigestible, but Is on the contrary
more easy to digest than cows milk.
Dyspeptics flourish on II; the young
est children are able to enjoy IL. II
is much richer In fats than cows milk.
and thus forms an ideal food for chill
dren with a tendency to tuberculosis.
These children. too, are preserved
against the danger OF new infection
by tubercle while taking 1t.
"Some fifty years ago doctors In
London used TO send their consump-
tive patients to Scotland to drink
goats milk. The results often justi-
fed the advice. Today we are. per-
haps, as far from a successful treat
ment OF consumption as we have ever
been. Here Is food which our IA
Tiers have used with benefit but
which we have neglected. 1t Is
cheap food. too, for goats cost less to
feed than cows and give more milk In
proportion. The peasant who keeps
his mllch goat has learned these truths
by happy experience. The poor mans
cow is a valued possession In many
a country district. But In the towns
only contempt Is bestowed upon H. IL
goats milk were obtalnable and were
given a trial 1t would soon supplant
cows milk as a staple food Of young
children and Of tuberculosis patients
The wonder Is. indeed, In these days
Of multiplying organizations. one has
not yet been formed to supply goats
milk to city dwellers.'
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
WHY DO BOYS LEAVE THE FARM?
BY JAMES ]. WHITE

crime. There never was time when
the individual did not stand for lot
more out in the country or small town
than in the big city.
Why then do the boys leave the
farm? There are several reasons:
/. This Is an age of unrest. We do
not stop to think that our present
prosperity and happiness depend upon
what our fathers and our grandfathers
have done Changes are looked upon
as improvements.
2. Some young men have special
leaning toward other business.
3. They become dissatisfied with
their present surroundings. They see
the difficulties of the business in which
they are engaged, but do not apprecia-
ate the difficulties of those With which
they are not acquainted.
Here are several reasons why boys
should not leave the farm:
j. Farming Is the most independent
life. Farmers are their own masters.
2. No business in which you get so
large return for the investment.
3. No business in which you find so
many leisure hours.
4. No business In which success is
so assured.
8. No business In which there Is a.
better chance to go.
Not long ago the Farmers Breeze
published an article on this subject.
The writer says:
'We have three great, big, joyial, In
dustrious boys who are pining to get to
the farm. One of them--the eldest
has Just resigned an honorable and lu-
cratiye position In one of the largest
banks in the South to go back to the
farm. There Is reason, and 1t is this /:
The surroundings on the farm are In
viting, the labor pleasant and remun-
erative. the authority supreme and
comfort and plenty abounds In the
majority of cases the parent is at fault
when the boy leaves the farm. 1t is
always to his credit when he re-
turns"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
Xuan,s sneedx Immortality.

Yuan Shih Kai. according 10 popular
belief In China, Is not dead at all. He
is thoroughly alive. but In state Of
extreme low visibility. Yuan saw his
difficulties increase till there was no
way out. The revolution In the south
seemed certain TO bring his overthrow
and a shameful death. The time was
ripe for disappearing.
So, according 10 this popular belief.
which already seems likely to become
established as an enduring legend. the
dictator slipped away ineognito TO
some remote interior region or 10 some
foreign land. while corpse or sack
of meal was left behind for obsequies
which were excessively private.
No one could have blamed Yuan for
wishing to disappear. Never was a
man surrounded by more harrassing
tangle. He could not see any COM
Portable egress. But wishing to dis
appear and actually disappearing are
two very differept things, especially
when one Is a nations most conspicu-
GUS citizen. II is unlikely that even
the craft Of Yuan could have worked
the miracle.
In all probability Yuan Is quite dead.
The Yuan legend may live, and do no
harm, but Chlna's well wishers viii
hope that the reactionary system OF
the dictator died with him, and that an
era OF true enlightenment Is dawning
for the troubled realm.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24

A--MovabIe colony brooder house
and yard. B-Laying pens. Guards
for laying pens. D-coIony houses for
growing stock.
are not pleasing to look at nor very
profitable. On the other hand. pure
bred flock of chickens in comfortable
and sanitary house and clean yard are
a beautiful sight and substantially
profitable. They will turn much waste
into dollars and cents. Such flock
and such a flock alone will make it
possible to have fresh eggs any and at
all times. Fresh eggs are in reality
very hard to get, and unless you have
a small flock of hens you perhaps not
very often get the real fresh eggs.
The greatest difficulties in connec-
ton with back-lot poultry keeping are
the prevention of contamination of the
land and the keeping up of the vigor
of the stock. The former can only be
prevented by proper rotation and
planting to crops. The latter may be
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
Dominican Republic.

The Dominican Republic has an area
of about 10000 square miles and is
larger than Belgium, the Netherlands,
Denmark, Switzerland, or Turkey in
Europe, or than the combined areas Of
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware,
and Rhode Island. The population Is
estimated at about 100000, which is
about IS people a square mile, while
Haiti. its nelghbor on the west, has
about 200 square miles and Porto Rico
has more than 800. Most Of the fer
tile land OF the country is still virgin.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24

Mans idea of happiness has always
been a city. In the Pilgrims Prog
ress' Bunyan's hero was headed for a
city. Heaven is pictured as great
city. Man is gregarious. He likes
company. There is something about
the stir and rush of the big city that
attracts him and he goes there. After
a while he finds out that the big city is
unsatisfactory and mighty cruel to a
large part Of its inhabitants; that the
happiest man In the long run is the
one nearest the soil. But as long as
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
A FEW JOKES

Il dom know. but it may have af-
feeted his hearers tonight In one way"
How was thatf"
well, you know quotations from
the classics have a soporific effect on a
great many people. Maybe those who
were here went away so tranquilized
and sleepy that they would rather 90
to bed than sit up and find fault with
the speakers arguments"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
MIaht Have Been Worse.

How did you enjoy your trip
through the South?'
"Oh, we had fewer hardships than
j expected" replied the motor tour
list. "While there was a woeful lack
of roadhouses and most of the towns
were dry | discovered out in the ru-
raj districts that | could get all the
liquor I could drink by laying a dol
lar on designated stump and boot
ing three times like an owl"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
HIGH COST OF LIVING

This Is a serious matter with house
keepers as food prices are constantly
going up. To overcome this, cut out
the high priced meat dishes and serve
your family more SINNERS Macaronl
and Spaghetti, the cheapest, most de-
ucious and most nutritious Of all foods.
Write the Skinner Mfg. Co., Omaha.
Nebr., for beautiful cook book, telling
how to prepare It In a hundred different
ways. It's free to every woman.-Adv.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
SAWS NO Good.

THAT woman's tongue goes al fast
az an express"
(Which isn't the only point of re-
semblance. for like an express, II II
always on the rail-"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
IN
In Mourninu.

"a gentleman of the old school, evil
IDENTIFY"
Quite so. When the drastic prohi-
bition law went into effect, what do
you suppose he did,"
81 can't imagine"
Rather than fill his wine cellar
with grapejuice and soda pop be
nailed 1t up and tied piece of crepe
TO the door,"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
MIXING with ones Fellows.

Pretty soft for those millionaires
who traTei to and from their New
York Offices In private yachts"
Maybe So" replied the gregarious
individual, but dare say you will
find more real sociability on the rear
platform of a trolley carr
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
sycophant.

TITS ridiculous 20 see the way Mrs.
Hobbies fawns on Mrs. Grabcoin, the
social leader
1T is. indeed Every time Mrs.
Grabcoin sneezes Mrs. Jobbins is
threatened with acute pneumonia
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24

While some Of Us have more ups
and downs In this world than others.
wei all be on the dead level sooner
or later.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
HIs First Name is Fortune.

Hunter tells me he Is going to mar
~ an heiress. asked her age and he
couldn't tell me-"
"Oh. II isn't her age Hunter Is inter-
ested in, Its her heritage"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24

human nature Is as 1t is now. the city
will be attractive to the farmer boy
even though he does not leave the
farm for the city.
There never has been time when 1t
was not really easier TO make living
out on the farm than in the city. that
IL, for the average human. There
never has been time when the cities
did NOT reek with dirt and misery aud
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
Evidently AfflnIsIes.

$50 you think that we are made
for each other. do your" she said.
"Yes," he replied I'm heavily In debt,
and you've got all kinds of money
Boston Transcript.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24

When angry words pass between two
people. the one who keeps cool and
controls himself IL the one who has
the advantage.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
Poultry Keeping On
Small Town Lot
BY F. w. kAzMEIER,
Poultry Husbandman, Texas A. and M.
Extension Department.

It certainly is true that poultry rails
ing on q small town lot can be made
to pay. 1t may also lead to something
better. Many salaried men realize that
some day they will be too old to hold
down their job. They will see some
younger man taking their place. 1t is
then that many of these think of going
into the poultry business on small
scale, just large enough to make a
comfortable living. 1t Is easily under
stood how much surer these people
would be of success If they had a lit
tie previous experience to fall back
on.
1t is true that city lot poultry keep
ing requires closer attention to details
and sanitary measures than farm
poultry keeping. 1t is also true that a
flock of chickens in a dirty backyard
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24

woMAN's GROWING GLORY
IL her hair. II yours II streaked with
ugly, grizzly. gray hairs. use La Gre
ole" Hair Dressing and change II in
the natural way. Price si.00.-Adv.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
A ouietinu Effect.

"This orator made use of a great
many quotations from the classics"
$50 he did"
do you suppose that has any effect
on the average voterT
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
Sensible Girl.


what first at
ira etc d you TO
Miss F'libber?"
She seemed able
to talk about NOV
ing-picture actors
in an ordinary tone
of voice without
excessive emotion"
WELL Well |"
$50 ] thought a
chap without curly
hair and a dimple
In his chin might
h o p G to become
popular with a girl
like that"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24

North Crandon, Wis Gswhen was is years
old got married and at Is years gave birth TO
twins and 1t left with very poor health. Icould
not walk across tho floor without having to sit
down to rest and 1t was hard for me to keep about
and do my work went 10 doctor and he told
me had displacement and ulcers, and would
have to have an operation. This frightened me SO
much that did not know what 10 do Having
heard of Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
/ thought would give Il a trial and II made me
well as ever. / cannot say enough In favor of the
s'-Mrs. MAYME AspAcH. North Crandon, WIS.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
Strong Proof.

Strong Proof.
II thought you
said Glithers W a 5
not an optimist."
$50 | did"
Nonsense He
started out yes
terday TO ~ n k e
a transcontinental
trip In a second
hand automobile"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24

The destruction of birds costs this
country S1,000000,0e0 year. 1t is es-
timated.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
ARE YOUR KIDNEYS WEAKl
Thousands of Men and Women Have Kidney
Trouble and Never Suspect 1t.

ing increase and remarkable prevalene1
Of kidney disease. While aidney dis-
orders are among the most common die
eases that prevail. they are almost tho
last recognized by patients. rUho usually
content fl<mssiv<s sDffh doefoying The
e6.sfs, while the original disease mag
constantly undermine the system.
II you feel that your kidneys are tks
cause Of your sickness or run down con-
dition, try taking DIR. Kilmer's swamp
Root, the famous kidney, liver and hlad-
der remedy, because az soon as your kid.
neys improve, they will help the otheB
organs to health.
II you are already convinced ths4
Swamp Root 10 what you need, you can
purchase the regular fifty-cent and one
dollar size bottles at all drug stores.
Don't make any mistake but remembeB
the name, DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root.
and the address, Binghamton, N. Y, which
you win find on every bottle.
,pIe size bottle Of Swamp Root by enclosine
"A, n. Y. This gives you the opportunity
icine. They will also send you a book of
the thousands OF grateful letters received
Swamp Root TO be just the remedy needed
value and success Of Swamp Root srS -
send for sample size bottle. Address Dx.
ritins be sure and tHsntion this paper.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24

No man ever gets discouraged In
trying to live without labor.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-24
From Grateful Massachusetts, Woman.

Roxbury, Mass.-sT was suffering from infarn-
nation and was examined by physician who found
that my trouble was caused by displacement
My symptoms were bearing down pains, backache,
and sluggish liver. I tried several kinds of medi-
cine; then was asked TO try Lydia j. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. 1t has cured me and l am
pleased to be in my usual good health by using it
and highly recommend it."-Mrs. u. H. OsoooD,
Haynes Park, Roxbury, Mass.