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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-03-14
An Old, Family Cough
Remedy, Hon Made
Easily repaired - Costs Very
Little, bat ~ P-um1t, sure
and Effect

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81, as compared with t7r ready-made
kind, but you Will also haze u much more
prompt and positive reiHrds in every Wav
II oyereomes the usual e8a4hs throat and
enest colds i'll u hour ielieYes even
whooping cough quiekl}-aa1 Is excellent.
too. Tor bronchitis, bronchial asthma,
uoarsenCss and spasmo4- craup.
Get from any drug store . z ounces OF
PineX go cents worth pour it into a
pint bottle and fill the bottle with plain
graduated sugar syrup Fun directions
with PineX. Keeps perfectly and tastes
good
You can feel this take hold of a cough
or cold IN way that means business. 1t
quickly lodsens the dry, boarse or pain
tut cough and heals The ind0med mem
hrahes. 1t also has a remarkable effect
IN overcoming the persistent loose cough
aY stopping the formation # phlegm in
the throat and bronchial tHbes
he effect OF Pine on the membranes is
known by almost every me Pinex is u
most valuable concentrated compound of
genuine Norway pine cNtract combined
with 9ualacol and other natural healing
Dine clements
There are many worthless limitations
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hing else.
a Guarantee of absolute satisfaction,
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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-03-14

ker's picture also be included, as the
latter is an alumnus of the nigh
school,
The report of the schools for the
school month just ended shows enroll
ment to have been 1,525 against 1920
for the same month last year, de
crease Of IS; average attendance
1877 against 1899 the same month
last year decrease of t22
Days absent 1,246; time tardy, 100;
visits by superintendent, 100; by com
missioners, 9; by principals, 269 by
cthcss, 81; 10 homes, SO; days teach.
era absent IS; cases Of corporal pun.
ishmcnt -
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-03-14
PAGE SIX
MRS. BAKER LEAvgs.

Mrs. N. D. Baker, ST. who has
been visiting at the home of Mr.. S.
v. Fiery, West Burke street, left for
Washington. There she will cali on
her son, Secretary Of War n. d. Bak-
er, after which she will visit another
son in New York, before returning
to Cleveland, Ohio.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-03-14
THE RExALL STORE

breath, and, simultaneously the use
# mis- forceful. picturesque and mar
ellously expressive vocabulary.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-03-14

WANTED sets old false teeth
Address O-7S@ this office
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18

tance by wireless an electric shock similar to that
produced by touching a charged wire. One can
think of no other way in which effects perilous to
life and property could be obtained with cleo
tricity.
With this idea worked out to it's ultimate per.
lection, one might foretell such appalling events
in warfare as this: An entire army, in its
trenches, is without warning seized with the death
agonies of a wretch in the electrical chair, and is
exterminated by a silent enemy, using no bullets.
Or, at a given moment, every living thing in a
great city is struck dead as if by lightning, by
means of a force unleashed hundreds of miles
away by an officer who merely pulls a lever in a
wireless tower.
Tesla appears to see in the future a warfare of
electrical appliances more deadly than all the can.
non ever made; he sees entire areas electrified
and made untenable for any living creature.
Death and destruction will be dealt out at unheard
of distances, with zones Of action more spacious
than we now dream of. There is foreshadowed
a conflict in which not armies but nations may
be destroyed in a single action, by men armed
with thunderbolts more mighty than those of the
heavens. No wonder that Tesla, his own imagi-
nation recoiling in horror. says:
81 hope this is the invention that will make war
impossible"
Another device for which inventors are seeking
is one that will be able, by means of the wireless
current, to explode at a distance the enemys
magazines of ammunition. If this were perfected,
one man in London, by pressing a button, could
set fire to all the explosives in the Krupp factories
and blow that institution into bits; or he could
blow up all the cartridges and explosives in the
German army. Or another man in Berlin could
with one stroke blow the English fleet out of the
water with its own powder. In an article in a
Paris newspaper recently, Marconi, father Of wire
less telegraphy, declared that such an invention
would mean the abolition of firearms and a re.
version to hand-to-hand fighting.
A Dutch inventor named Lanzius, now in New
York, claims to have made such a device. An
Italian inventor won considerable notoriety for
himself two years ago by demonstrating an appa-
ratus which he declared would explode ammu-
milton at a distance by means of a wireless cur.
rent-but he was shown to be a fraud. A young
New Yorker, who already has several authentic
inventions to his credit, declares he has perfected
a method Of emitting wireless current which will
melt all metals within a certain radius. A Cali
fornia inventor asserts that he can create a flame
at a distance by means of wireless, and offers to
set fire to any feet approaching the Pacific coast.
The Germans are reported to have used heat to
destroy the barbed-wire entanglements of the Rus.
slams. Tesla believes that the result was obtained.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18

down and a hole cut through it's CEN
ter to receive a candle Gig. %; glue
the turned down edges to the sides of
the box. Fig. 8 shows how to fold a
cardboard strip for the handle. One
end Of this is stuck through a slot
In n side of the box and is glued to
the box bottom; the other end is
slipped into the box and glued to the
side.
The candle stick in Fig. 4 is of a
more ornamental design. A pill box
forms the top. Fig. S shows how a
hole is cut through the center of the
box bottom for the candle to slip
through, also how slots are cut through
the bottom to receive the ends of the
four supports. A pattern for the sup
ports is shown in Fig. 6. Fig. 4 shows
the relative proportions of the box
top and the supports. The two slots A
Gig. 60 are provided for the cross
strips to stick through. Fig. A shows
how these cross strips connect and
brace the supports. The upper pair
OF braces support the candle. Glue
the ends of the ~crosspieces in slots A,
and glue n c%rosspiece to the other
at their intersection.
In Fig. 7 we have a candle stick
with a simple shade. The base is a
small cardboard box. turned bottom
side up Gig. 81. The center post
mounted upon the base is in reality a
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18

if at all, by the projection of a fame produced
by hydrogen gas under high pressure. Such a
flame can readily be projected for 10 feet, which
might be sufficient when the trenches are close
enough together. In such a flame barbed wire
would melt like wax.
In all Of the belligerent countries, and in those
which fear they may sometime become belliger-
ents, the best brains are hard at work on the
problem of continuing new methods Of murder
more deadly and more wholesale than those now
employed. Some of their dreams of future war
fare may seem fantastic. But the rude cannon Of
the Turks seemed an incredible prodigy at the
siege of Constantinople in the fifteenth century;
and to the artillerymen of our Revolutionary war
the machine gun Of today would appear an equal
marvel. On can scarcely doubt that if man con-
tinues to maintain his delight in war, science will
be at hand to supply him with weapons as ad.
vanced in murderous power over those today, as
the arms of today surpass the sling and stone with
which David, introducing the artillery of his era,
slew the armored giant. VIII human nerves be
able to endure these colossal horrors? Probably;
today they endure the shock of explosives, the
sound of which would have sent Achilles to the
madhouse.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18

and through the top and bottom of the
box into the ends of partitions A.
Cut the scroll rollers D figs. 5 and
g. from pieces of b~room-handle, a
trifie shorter than the distance be-
tween the partitions A, and get four
large spools, such as crochet-cotton
comes on, for the end knobs E Gigs.
5 and g.. Rollers D turn on the nail
pivots F Gig. g., which must be long
enough to run through the spool
knobs Z, through holes G in partitions
A, and half an inch into the ends of
the rollers. The spools must fit tight.
ly on the nails. Wrap nails F with
paper, and then coat the paper with
glue SO the spools will stick fast.
A tough wrapping-paper should be
used for the scroll. Perhaps you can
find a store dealer who has a roll of
paper from which you can get the
length you want in n piece. Tack
the ends Of this paper to the scroll
rollers Gig. y. Be careful to get the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18

paper square on the rollers, so 1t will
roll up evenly. The pictures should
be put on before the scroll is pivoted
in the desk. Cut out and paste these
in place.
Fig. 4 shows how the box-cover
boards are fastened together by
means OF the end battens G, and how
the pair Of hinges are placed for
Ringing this drop-leaf to the desk. To
support the outer edge of the drop.
leaf, when the desk is open, a pair of
chains must be provided. Screw
screw-eyes into the drop-leaf and the
other side. of the desk, to attach the
chains to.
Putty all joints and nail holes. Then
a coat of stain, or two coats of paint
or white-enamel, will complete the
desk. BY screwtng a pair of screw.
eyes into the top, the desk may be
suspended from Q picture-molding; or
it may be hung upon a pair of long
hooks screwed into the wall.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18

the cover boards. too, because you
will need them for the hinged drop
leaf. The first thing to do is to re.
enforce the mailing Of any boards
which show signs of coming loose.
Then prepare the %pigeonhole parti.
lions Fig. 2 shows the inside of the
desk. Partitions A should be fastened
seven inches each side of the center
of the length of the box, or IA inches
apart, and shelves B should be SO
spaced that there will be a small top
and bottom pigeonhole and a larger
n between. Holes c in partitions
A Gig. 81 are provided for the rollers
of the scroll to turn in. Bore the up
per one about three inches below the
upper end of A, and place the lower
one ten inches or so below it. Nail
partitions A to the end of shelves B;
then stand these assembled pieces in
the box, set a temporary brace be-
tween partitions A to hold them in the
right position, and drive nails through
the ends Of the box into shelves B,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18
ELECTRIC FURNACES

An electric furnace for the heat treatment Of
steel used in construction has been
introduced. Its method of producing uniform,
dependable heat that is so urgently sought by
automobile manufacturers is quite novel in cleo.
trio furnace practice, although its principle is
comparable to that Of the well-known Nernst
lamp. Both the floor and the domelike covers of
this furnace are of a refractory material which is
practically nonconducting at ordinary tempera-
lures. To start the furnace, a current is passed
through a bed Of coke laid on its floor. On bein.
sufficiently heated the floor becomes a conductor
and in turn heats the wall and top, rendering
them conductive, until finally the entire furnace
becomes incandescent. 1t is stated by those who
have tried the furnace that its use in the heat
treatment of parts promises to be
extensive in the future.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18
TEST OF U

You often see a woman at the market pinching
the end of a chickens breastbone to find out how
tender-in other words, how young-the fowl is.
Oddly enough, the same test with human beings
rs one Of the most reliable known. II in advanced
life the lower part of your breastbone feels elias.
tic when pushed inward, you may assume that
no important changes have yet taken place in
your arteries, or otherwise in your anatomical
makeup.
The human breastbone is shaped like an ancient
Roman sword, and the upper part of 1t is like the
sword handle. Its point is a piece Of cartilage,
which anatomists call the "%xiphoid" cartilage. The
,early hardening and ~stiffening of 1t indicate that
the changes that accompany old age have prema-
turely begun-Youths Companion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18
MEAL-TIME CONSCIENCE.
What Do the Children DRINK

There are times when mother or
father feeds the youngsters something
that they know children should not
have. Perhaps it is some rich dessert
but more often it is tea or coffee.
1t is better to have some delicious,
hot food.drink that you can take your
self and feed to your children, con
scious that it will help and strength
en-, but never hurt them,
A Yorkstate lady says: Il used
coffee many years in spite Of the con-
viction that 1t injured my nervous sys-
tenn and produced my nervous head.
aches. While visiting a friend l was
served with Postum and / determined
to get a package and try it myself.
The result was all that could be de-
sired-a delicious, finely favored, rich
ly colored beverage. Since / quit cof-
fee,l Postum has worked wonders for
me.
my husband, who had suffered from
kidney trouble when drinking coffee,
quit the coffee and took up Postum
with me and since drinking Postum he
has felt stronger and better, with no
indication of kidney trouble.
you may be sure l find It a great
comfort to have a warm drink at
meals that l can give my children.
with a clear conscience that it will
help and not hurt them as coffee or
tea would"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
Postum comes in two forms:
Postum cereaI-the original form
must be we'll boiled. 15c and csc pkgs.
NInstant Postum-a soluble powder
dissolves quickly in a cup Of hot wa
ter, and, with cream and sugar, makes
a delicious beverage Instantly. sOc
and SOC tins.
Both forms are equally delicious
and cost about the same per cup.
There's q Reason" for Postum.
-sold by GrocerA.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18
NOTHING Like That.

When Newton d. Baker became sec
rotary of war, his predecessor, Lind
ley NJ. Garrison, CONSIDERABLY ran
down from New York to show him a
few Of the ropes.
you will find the place heavily in
tested with opportunity for arduous
labor" remarked Garrison to Bakers
much more So, in fact, than l real
lied until I had tried it. After l had
been here a week | was reminded of
the story of the two tough boys who
were walking by a fine home and saw
a handsomely dressed rich boy play
ing all alone behind a big iron fence.
"'Come on out here suggested n
of the tough boys.
"'No, / don't want to play replied
the rich boy, shrinkingly.
ooh the tough boy assured him,
this won't be play"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18

He had that well-grocmed, well-fed,
ooking-after-himself appearance that
goes with prosperity and the corner
hangers-on made way for him as he en-
tered a cigar store. He wore a large
diamond ring and another fine dia-
mond blazed from his scarfpin.
He approached the counter, tossed
down a dime and called for a highly
advertised brand of five-cent smokes"
When the box was thrust before him
he carefully picked out two, stuffed
them in his pocket and started out
the door.
One Of the hangers-on looked after
him and shook his head:
Wearing diamonds like that and
smoking nickel cigars"
The purchaser caught the remark,
and turned quickly.
YES he called back, and that's
how he got those diamonds
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18

sleeve that fits over the lower part OF
the candle Gig. 81. This post is fold
ed out of Il piece of cardboard, and a
flap is provided on one edge to lap
and glue to the other edge. The top
cap projects over the sides of the sup
port all around, and has a hole cut
through its center large enough for
the candle to slip through. This post
is glued to the center of the base, and
is braced with the candle stick han
dies Gig. 100. After preparing the
handles, cut the two pair Of slots A
and B Zig. 81 through the base, for
the handle ends to stick through.
Glue the inner upright of each handle
to the candle post, glue the end of the
outer upright to the ends of the box,
and glue the end of the inner upright
to the box bottom.
The candle shade is made of a band
of cardboard bent into a ring and GOV.
cred with a strip of paper that has
been slashed along it's edges Gig. ~
to form fringe. Red paper will look
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18
HEAL SKIN TROUBLES
That Itch, Burn and Dlsfigure by
Using Cuticura. Trial Free.

The Soap to cleanse and purify, the
Ointment to soothe and heal. Rashes,
eczemas, pimples, dandruff and sore
hands yield to treatment with Cuticura
Soap and Ointment. Relief is immedi-
ate and healment, in most cases, com
plete, speedy and permanent.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. l.,
Boston. Sold eyerywhere.-Adv,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18

Russia and Serbia. also Austria, may
allow young women to fight in their
armies, but Canada will not, although,
according to a recruiting oficer in
Winnipeg, several have applied, and
two could hardly be kept from joining
by force in response to a call for
"stenographers for the second service
unit OF the Nineteenth battalion"
Biologists are trying to estimate the
ages Of the ocean, by comparing the
amount Of sodium they contain with
the amount they receive annually BY
washings from the continents.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18

In case the United States were involved in war
however, he says he would place his device I'M
Ireservedly at the disposition of the military
authorities.
1T is, of course, possible" he said to a repre-
sentative Of the Post-Dispatch Sunday Magazine
a few days ago, ito produce electrical effects at a
distance by means Of wireless energy. But the
insurmountable difficulty thus far has been to aim
an electric wave in one direction only, with al!
OF its force concentrated on a given target.
Il will go so far as to say that after twenty
years of application to the problem of
energy by wireless, l have just made a valuable
advance in this direction, The stage has been
reached where to an extent it is practicable to use
this force in war, and to predict such a develop
ment as will make electricity supplant cannon in
battle.
at is impossible to give details at this time, but
in a general way my invention can be used in
three methods.
In the first place, it will be possible to send
an explosive body through the air-an aerial tor
.pedo flying many times faster than an acceptance
and to direct this p~rojectile to the spot desired,
where it can be exploded by wireless. 1t will be
possible to guide the projectile by wireless after
it has passed beyond the range of the eye. and the
aim is so accurate that it is possible to reduce
the error to a few feet in a thousand miles.
In the second place, it will be practicable with
this apparatus to produce effects at a distance
which will interfere with the enemy and tend to
make him ineffective.
In the third place, it promises to be able to
fDroduce at a distance such effects of electrical
tension as will jeopardize life and property"
The inventor declined to go into specific details,
saying that it is safer to be specific after the
fact. But one would gather from the words he
did speak that he has contrived a torpedo of the
air flying under it's own power as a torpedo swims
in the water, which can be steered by wireless
and exploded by the same force. Such a %projectile
would have a range not of some twenty miles, like
the highest power cannon, but one limited only
by it's own flying endurance. 1t would be harder
TO hit with shell and rifle fire than an aeroplane,
because of it's smaller size and swifter velocity,
and it need not be manned by a crew who would
he exposed to death at every instant.
Such a missile, aimed according to the mathe-
NAUTICAL formulas used today by gunners whose
target is beyond the range of eye and telescope,
could be dispatched for the destruction of a bat
tIeship long before her own guns would be able
to come into play. Safe from the shells of the
greatest ordnance, it could start from a point
miles beyond their range and destroy the batteries
without the possibility of a reply.
The second and third methods of which Tesla
speaks are discussed in rather cryptic language,
but leave the inference that he believes himself
already able, in some degree, to produce at a dis
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18

A substitute for gold is obtained by
combining "a parts Of copper with six
parts of anthony and adding a little
magnesium carbonate to increase the
weight. It is said that this alloy can
be drawn. wrought and soldered very
much like gold, and that 1t also re-
ceives and retains q golden polish. 1t
is worth something like rs cents a
pound.
In the Southern Pacific a large UNI
dersea desert val recently discovered.
Over its whole area moi q vestige OF
plant or animal life could be found.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18

The tuberculosis death rate of New
York, Philadelphia and Boston com
bined declined from 30S.6 a 100000
population in 1882 to 1915 in 1914.
The 1914 death rate was, therefore,
only 1872 per cent Of that Of 1882, or,
to put 1t the other way, the death rate
Of 1882 had by 1914 fallen SOS per
cent.
Cellulose from wood fiber is being
used in Europe as a substitute for alb
sorbent cotton, which has become rela-
lively scarce because Of the war de-
manda
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18
The Actress and the RoIs.

Playing Katherine in The Tanning
Of the shrew' brought me much salts
faction, but a very bad reputation for
temper Ada Reban said.
Il have often been amused at see.
Ing the effect that a first performance
Of the 'shrew' in a strange place pro.
duced on the employees Of the stage.
They summed me as something actu-
ally to be feared.
During a long run ! have heard II
said that ! hated my Petruchio. 1
looked upon this Is a compliment
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18
A HOMEMADE DESK WITH A PIC.
TuRE SCROLL.

Every boy can own a desk. because
it is one Of the simplest pieces of fur
niture to build. l have designed a
great many desks for boys to make,
hut | believe that the n shown in
Fig. 1 will be the most popular yet.
This desk is made out of a small
packing-case, or a grocery box. Select
the best-looking box you can find. Get
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-18
Convenient.

Il shouldn't call this a desirable
apartment" said the lady who was
looking for rooms. There's a saloon
only three doors away"
That's just the point" replied the
agent. think what a comfort it will
be to know that your husband is new
er far from home"