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Town Topics.

Boston is now claiming that it has
better weather than New York. Next
thing New York will be claiming more
culture than Boston.-Pittsburgh Sun.
A Philadelphia judge has decided
that chickens cannot be kept in the
residential section of that city. That's
too bad. It's such a quiet place
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
1t is claimed that the eating of horse
meat in New York will pOpulariZe it in
other cities. But the use of horse cars
in New York does not pOpularize them
in other cities.-Florida Times-Union.
Cleveland and Detroit are cOntending
with st. Louis. Boston and Baltimore
for the position of fourth city in the
Union, which. to Chicago's notion, is
distinction scarcely worth quarreling
about.-Chicago News.
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DANES AND DAUGHTERS.

General Won Mackensen's mother,
aged eighty-nine, lives in Geglenfelde,
West Prussia.
Perhaps the finest pearls in the world
are owned by the Duchess Of Mari-
borough, to whom they were given by
her father. They formerly belonged to
the Empress Catherine of Russia.
Mrs. Maurice Hewlett, the wife Of
the famous novelist, is regarded as a
mascot where flying is concerned, for
although she has made scores Of aero
plane flights both as passenger and
pilot, she has never met with the
slightest mishap.
Mrs. Timothy T. Lew, who has re-
ceived the degree of master Of arts
from the Teachers college Of Columbia
university, is Il well known Chinese
educator, who was sent to Columbia
by the Chinese government. She pos
sesses eight diplomas and degrees from
American institutions of learning. She
Is shortly to return to China, where she
will have supervision over the kinder
gartens of five provinces.
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SHCnT .aIID SHARP.

PromisSOry noses are in reality moth
ing but paper waits.
The time for cuItivating repose is
not during working hours.
The best way to seek health is to
forget your ills and troubles.
Be sure you are r;ght-and then take
out little accident insurance.
Easy is the descent of an unsuccess-
full Mexican general into Oblivion.
Always keep your temper; it's worth
more to you than it is to anybody else.
If we could STE ourselves as others
see us n lot of mirrors would be
smashed before sunset
A mans home is where his wife is.
ruled a New Ycrk Justice. He must
have meant department store.
Golf is said 30 hc popular in Japan.
All that game needs to win popularity
it seems. is an introduction.
You never know what invincible ig
means until you meet a man
who absolutely refuses to agree with
you
Imagine, too. the feelings of some
United States cOnsulS who went to Eu-
rope before the war looking for a nice.
soft job.
Some of the statesmen seem to be in
doubt whether miiitariSm conduces to
pacificism or whether pacificism invites
1t Is not an unknown experience for
q sturdy advocate of preparedness to
have an empty coal bin rise up In
righteous judgment against him.
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| feat has been the production of nitrate
Of potash from, sI!Ec unknown source,
possibly from tine ali.
Nitrate is an o. v'It:al ingredient Of
gunpowder. aEt without gunpowder
Germany would b we'll nigh helpless.
1t is gunpOwdcr that mas kept her big
field guns thUnj,riT. :;way. first on
this border. thea ill that, confounding
first this foe. then he other. Gunpow-
der Germany hls - hive.
DR.. RatheIiau haS provided no one
knows how maIiy substitutes. A de-
partment of rcolO"lic:; was organized
separate from III" &. !mrtment of war.
Through it the government and private
concerns were CaHl".lcd by its direc-
tor, Dr. Rather#I. "a build the facto-
ries that he saw WrJiI be necessary to
make the things he country would
shortly need
Eighty per cent Of the German fac
tories are working fJr the government,
contributing directly or indirectly to
the supplies that make a continuance
Of the conflict possible. Enormous de-
mandS are being plade. On more than
one occasion Germany has burned
more powder in three days than was
used in the whole Franco l'ruSSian war;
The world will never know, at least
not before the end of the war. how
Germany has done it. Possibly then
science will be informed by what proc
ess this wizard snatches nitrogen
from the air and makes nitrate of pot
ash or saltpeter. how he takes some
elements from somewhere and makes
a substitute for rubber or copper or
butter or gasoline.
How he does ii is secret. but he's
doing it, and he is the man who per
haps more than any other in bis line is
keeping Germany alive and in the
game.
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FIippant filings.

Do all the advocates Of preparedness
heed their wives advice and wear their
rubbers? -PittSburgh Dispatch.
A New York man was fined $500 for
hugging a dressmaker. They're an ex-
pensive set. those dressmakers.-De-
troit Free Press.
Gasoline is 50 high ut present that a
man whose clothes have recently been
renovated is likely to be investigated
by q commission on suspicion Of being
malefactor of great wealth.-Chi-
cago News.
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley asserts that
6S per cent Of the men of fighting
age In the United States are physical
~ unfit for military service. Most Of
them, however. are capable of run
ming for Office.-NcW York Sun.
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AERIAL PATROL FOR
COAST DEFENSE
Rear Admiral Robert E. Pedry
Father of the Project.

"HE problem Of national defense
is the most important question
that is confronting this coun-
try today. Numbers of socie,
ties have sprung into existence and en-
rolled hundreds of thousands Of men,
bers to aid in carrying out the project,
and energetic Americans all over the
country are giving of both their time
and money to place this country in a
position to resist attacks from with
out. The question may be said to be
in the very air, for the air as well as
land and sea is included I'm modern
warfare
The project to establish an aerial
coast patrol on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts and the great lakes is a new
one, but it is catching on, as the phrase
is, and has been quickly recognized as
very important factor in the problem
Of national defense. The father of this
project is Rear Admiral Robert E. Pea
~, q. S. N, who is bringing to its So
luton the ripe experience and splendid
energy that landed him at the pole.
The Aero Club Of America has taken
the project under its wing and through
its executive board has got in touch
with the war and navy departments
and the United States coast and geo.
detic survey. The plan has been in
dorsed by President Wilson, Secretary
Garrison. Secretary Daniels and by
authorities. Rear Admi-
raj Peary has been authorized to or
ganize committee of army, naval and
militia authorities and aeronautical and
experts from every part of the
country, who will cooperate in estab-
fishing the chain of aerial coast de-
Tense units. The plan is to divide our
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Current Comment.

An eastern court has decided that
tipping is legal This. however, is the
best that can be said of it-Detroit
Free Press.
Americans are becoming more saw
ing, according to statistics. but it is
not yet time to take down that safety
first" sign.-Chicago News.
Everybody apparently is for pre-
paredness. but the difficulty is that no
body seems to know just what pre-
paredness iS.-Indianapolis News.
The amount of cotton seed crushed
In 1915 was 2.G2S.G1O tons against
3,33S,176 tons in the previous year.
and the shortage contributed materi-
ally to the high price of olive OIL
New York Sun.
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BRIGHT BRIEFS.

After a rough lie has been polished
it is called hypocrisy.
Can't is Il longer word than can, but
1t seems easier To use.
The road TO success is full of the ruts
Of other mems failures.
Speed the day when they will beat
the war stocks into plowshares.
What has become of the old fash
toned steer that grew the cheaper cuts
Remember that the money you in
tend to save doesn't draw any inter
est
Every man was born at a very early
age, but some Of them never seem to
get over it.
The man who is too poor to lend
money to his friends will never have
many enemies.
If the price keeps going up one may
soon have to mortgage the car to buy
gasoline for ii.
A pint pot that knows its own meas
ure is worth more than a quart that
thinks it's gallon.
After a man becomes about so old II
seems to him that the country elects a
new president every few minutes.
Pullman cars are not to be as elabo-
rately decorated as formerly. Travel
L. now recognized as a necessity and
not luxury.
Without waiting for details 1t may be
assumed the fine imposed on a Swiss
editor for writing a poem was based
on general principles.
Anyway. the young man who's pro
posed to In leap year ought to demand
to be supported In the style to which
he has been accustomed.
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Photo by American Press Association.
REAR ADMIRAL ROBERT E. PEARY II
AEROPLANE.
entire coast lines into sections of con.
venient length, say about hundred
miles. and in each of these sections
establish a station where would be
erected a suitable hangar for housing
a seaplane and an equipment sufficient
to make all minor repairs, with several
larger stations at intervals where all
more complicated repairs can be made
or a complete overhauling given at reg,
ular intervals.
Each of these sections and stations
would be equipped with a seaplane.
Each Of these machines would carry a
driver and an observer and be equip
ped with light wireless apparatus, pow
erful glasses and a sensitive micro
phone. When in active operation these
seaplanes in each section would take
their position some fifty miles off shore
and patrol their respective beats con-
tinuously back and forth in clear
weather 1000 feet or more above sea.
from which altitude ships fifty miles
distant may be seen. At night or in
fog seaplanes would, Of course, sweep
much lower. at all times themselves
invisible to an enemy.
By means of the wireless informa-
ton as to the character, number and
apparent destination Of approaching
ship or ships would be transmitted to
the shore station and from these to
Washington.
Such a system Is a new departure
One great attraction is that its value
as a peace asset Is fully worth its cost
even If We never have occasion to use
1t as a military asset
It should be under such circum-
stances q natural and valuable adjunct
Of the coast guard and life saving serv.
ice. The partly submerged derelict
too light to sink and a constant men
ace to traffic, would be spotted by the
aerial scout and its presence reported
Wrecks, vessels In distress and all
other marine incidents and accidents
would be reported and aid quickly sum-
moned when necessary.
In wartimes the patrol could weave
such a continuous ofrshore curtain of
observation around our entire coasts as
would make surprise attack In force an
impossibflity.
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Automobile Runs.

Moving single lever converts a new
automobile body into an open cart or
a two seated vehicle. whichever may
be desired.
A Frenchman is the inventor of a
device to be attached to the rim of an
automobile wheel to give an alarm
when a tire becomes fiat.
The total value of automobile tires
used in 1915 in the United States, in
Guiding solid tires for trucks, tires for
BUSES and taxicabs, amounts to $780,
100000 in round numbers.
Automobiles can be used to provide
power for machinery by the invention
Of frame which lifts them from the
ground and presses against their rear
wheels rollers that drive belts.
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Short Stories.

Cholock waterfall. Yosemite, is 1894
feet high.
The Peruvians and Bolivians make
boats of straw.
, Corrections made recently in maps of
Greenland have shown it to be about
10000 square miles larger than for
merly believed.
In former days mountain climbing III
Japan was almost exclusively limited
to the dOsha or pilgrims. who assembled
a peak for religious purposes.
1t is officially estimated that the
Crowsnest coaIfields in British Colum-
bia alone contain coal sufficient to
supply 100000 tons of fuel a year for
1000 years.
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Fashion FriIIS.

Fashion ought to have a heart and
spare poor women the horrors that
some of these thin soled shoes entail
Chicago News.
If the dresses of women are made
much shorter there will be no necessity
for buying bathing suits.-Richmond
Times-Dispatch.
Seems kind O. rushing the season for
the spring clothes to appear in the
show windows before the fall ones are
paid for.-Indianapolis News.
One reason why we know high top
boots in bright colors will be fashion
able is that every pretty girl is wearing
high top boots in bright colors.-Wash-
ington Post.
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THE WIZARD OF
THE GERMAN EMPIRE
Dr.. Rathenau a Field Marshal
of Business.

Germany has a wizard who appar-
emily can make something out of moth
ing. He is DR.. Walter Rathenau, who
appears to be the Edison and Stein
metz Of Germany rolled into one.
DR.. Rathenau. little more than forty
years old, above six feet tall, straight
and soldierly in appearance, is as much
one Of the conqucring forces in Ger
many as are the field marshals of the
army. For it is he who has kept Ger
many supplied with the things that the
blockade keeps out. How he does it IS
the mystery.
His great feat has been the gift OF
discovering substitutes. His greatest
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Three Reels.

Cinematograph pictures are taken at
the rate of from sixteen to twenty q
second.
Free motion pictures are displayed In
amusement parks mt Seville. Spain, the
profits coming from refreshments sold
or from a tiny rental charged for
chairs.
There are now 5000 motion picture
houses in the country The daily at
tendance is estimated at 100000,
and the nickelS and dimes that the
girls in the glass cages receive aggre-
gate S1.OOO.OOO day.
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Recent Inventions.

A Michigan inventor has patented a
milk bottle with Il hole in one side
through which cream can be drawn
without disturbing the rest of the milk
To protect mail boxes from thieves,
spring wire gratinGs have been invent
ed that permit letters to be inserted In
the usual way. hut prevent them be-
ing withdrawn.
A newly invented compressed air
jack can lift thirty-fve tons at a speed
Of from six to twelve inches a minute
or from ten to twenty times as fast as
most screw or hydraulic jacks.
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SlRES AND SONS.

General Joffre wears on his little
finger a ring that he has not removed
for six years.
Charles Upseon Clark. who has been
elected director of the American School
Of Classical Studies at Rome, is as
sistant professor of Latin in Yale uni
versity.
Sir Douglas Haig, succeeding Sir
John French as commander of the
British forces in France. is a Scots
man, fifty-four years old, and has been
I'm the army since 1885. He served in
the Sudan and South African cam
paigns, winning distinguished honors
and promotions.
DR.. Abraham jacob. who has accept.
ed the presidency of the Germanistic
Society of America. was identified with
the revolutionary movement in Ger
many and in 1913 was held in deten-
ton in Berlin and Cologne for high
treason" In 1853 he settled in New
York and devoted himself to the prac-
tice of medicine.
Major Robert r. Motion, successor to
the late Booker T. Washington as pres
ident of Tuskegee institute, has been
commandant of cadets at Hampton in
situte, Virginia, since 1890. He is a
native of Virginia, of pure negro par
entage, and the work to which he has
devoted himself has won him q wide
recognition as an educator and able
administrator
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Train and Track.

midas railroads pension old en-
ployees.
Switzerland now owns the st. Goth
ard tunnel and railway.
ChicagO's railways have spent S75.-
100000, a railway journal states, in
eliminating grade crossings. Accidents
have largely diminished as q result.
The installation of oil burning loco
motives on the mountain section Of
the Grand Trunk Pacific railway has
now been completed. Large oil stor-
age tanks have been erected at various
points along the line for supplying the
locomotives with the necessary fuel.
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Science Siftings.

Among the planets the earth comes
Mercury and Venus being before It
1t has been estimated that an adult
man produces in twenty-four hours
enough heat to boil five or six pints OF
water.
In high ATTITUDES the suns rays
strike the earth's surface obliquely
and have thus less heating power than
In low ATTITUDES.
Air may be turned to a liquid or even
solid by the application Of great
pressure. producing also an extremely
low temperature.
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a Dress Hints.

After thoroughly drying a mackin-
tosh, when not in use. brush and fold
and place in a drawer. 1t will last
twice as long as if left hanging in the
dust
Wax the thread thoroughly before at
tempting to string beads or to sew
them on any material This makes the
work easier AZ we'll as stronger, and
the thread or sewing silk will never
knot.
Using a warm iron when cutting out
a garment will 10 away with pins on
tissue paper patterns. Lay the paper
on the material and press lightly with
the warm iron. The pattern clings to
the cloth.
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THE PASSING CT
! AN ANCIENT NATION
Montenegro, Hitherto UnCOn-
quered, Now Subject State.

Montenegro, the famous little king
dom of the Black mountains, which
never before has bowed its head to a
conqueror, has passed practically un-
der Austrian control. Its capital has
fallen; its king is a fugitive Nicholas
is In Lyons, France, with his family
and Is occupying a residence on the
Saone river which was built by Louis
XIV. for Nine. de Pompadour.
In the first Balkan war Montenegro
doubled its population by annexation
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Echoes of the War.

All armies now wear "oh. say can
you see" uniforms-that is, clothes
that you can't see. The unitarian
panoply Of war Is something that
won't show dirt because It looks like
it-St- Louis Clio e-Democrat.
As Japan views the conditions In Eu-
rope. the white peril grows beautiful
" less every day Washington Post.
Perhaps another 9ign Of peace ap-
pears In the willingness Of both ar
mics on the weston front to let the
artillery do it-Pu-t-a Herald
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KInG NICHOLAS AND MoNTENEGRIN SOL
DusRS.
&C. coz .Tercd Turkish territory, and its
zee. l. HCw Hu1llbcr 100000.
''C.:.:i,'. Tia. ting capital Of this tiny
IL. d.. h;.S Il population of less than
:; 80. Il i situated in a narrow valley
;;:a"n'l t." moHntainS ut an elevation
al 81 fcT'. The capture of the i'm
la'"i"nt Committing position of Mount
L.N' 81. 81 mi,cS away. rendered its
fnrt -; occupation by the Montene-
%ril> GnlrI;JH.,.
'i."Vrea - the Olympus of our race"
lI'.!caivd Kin Nicholas. the cradle of
t." d. na:'tr. ihc stronghold which re-
lite. The invasion of the Turks even
When The. reached the walls of Wen
Ga. l.nvven i more precious than if it
Wee Il colossal diamond"
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TIE OLDEST AUTOMOBILES.

Henry Spcer, Ninety-six Years Old,
Drops Horse For Machine.
Lacking hut four years of rounding
ont IN even century. Henry Spicer.
.nincty-SiX years of age. hailing from
Dexter. Il hamlet i'm northern New
York. has the distinction of being the
oldest active automobiles in that
state and probably in the whole
Union. Last year Mr.. Spicer covered
a tri1e over 5000 miles He hopes to
do better this year.
The aged man adopted the gasoline
driven vehicle only year or so ago,
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after q lifelong allegiance to the
horse. 1t was Henry Spicer who bred
and reared Gold Dust, familiar on
grand circuit tracks a few years ago
and which brought over $4,000 to the
Spicer Golfers when sold. When Mr..
Spicer wrote Secretary of State Hugo
this year for his 1916 auto license he
was given a plate with numerals cor
responding to his age. Back In 1877
Mr.. Spicer dabbled bit In politics,
going TO the assembly. One term was
enough. When a denomination was
mentioned to him he remarked that
the assembly was no place for a man
who had any business Of his own.
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MOVABLE GUNS FOR DEFENSE

IL Is Planned to Mount Artillery on
Specially Constructed Railway Cars.
Representative J. II. Capstick of
New Jersey has introduced a coast de-
tense bill aS'-i"r S:IOONN OOa for largest
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Most impregnable fortresses are well
shaken before taken.
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Havana abolished the fly because it
had to, in which there is a beautiful
moral.
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Did you ever try to knock the eff
out of life? 1t has no place there.
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Some people appear to make a spe-
cialty Of condensing the milk of human
kindness.
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He who neglects an opportunity is
taking a chance.
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The best way to keep your word is
not to give it.
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guns and mortars permanently mount
ed on especially constructed railroad
cars which. it is asserted. can be quick
ly transported to and securely locked
upon previously constructed heavy con-
crete bases distributed on short spurs
In railroad cuts behind hills ON nm
roads along our coasts and interior.
This new plan for national defense a.
the invention Of Lawrence w. LueIlen
and Cecil +. Dawson. both Of New
York city.
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Extremes of sentiment are represent
ed by peace at any price" and war
at any cost"
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Many of the war aviators are said to
be suffering from flying sickness"
Yes, flying does make one soar
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Anyhow, in few years some of US
may be telling our grandchildren that
we can remember when gasoline was
cheap.
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PiTH AND POINT.

|
The best way to keep your word is
not to give it.
He who neglects an opportunity is
taking a chance.
Most impregnable fortresses are well
shaken before taken.
Did you ever try to knock the eff
out of life? 1t has no place there.
Havana abolished the fly because it
had to, in which there is q beautiful
moral.
Some people appear to make q spe-
cialty Of cOndensing the milk of human
kindness.
Extremes of sentiment are represent
ed by peace at any price" and war
at any cost"
Many of the war aviators are said to
be suffering from flying sickness"
Yes, flying does make one soar.
Anyhow, in a few years some of US
may be telling our grandchildren that
we can remember when gasoline was
cheap.
The giving of shares of steel stock
for bridge prizes is not likely to be-
come so general as to make the prac-
tice vulgar.
Somebody has declared that the hand
shake is an epidemic spreader. Pretty
soon a man can't say "howdy" with
out saying it through a prophylactic
sieve.
An English humOrist says it takes
better jokes to get a laugh since the
war began. And being a humOrist in
England was never an easy task at
the best
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The giving of shares of steel stock
for bridge prizes is not likely to be-
come so general as to make the prac-
tice vulgar
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An English humOrist says it takes
better jokes to get a laugh since the
war began. And being a humorist in
England was never an easy task at
the best
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Somebody has declared that the hand
shake is an epidemic spreader. Pretty
soon a man can't say "hOwdy" with
out saying it through a prophylactic
sieve.
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THE problem Of national defense
is the most important question
that is confronting this coun-
-