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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-01-24
DO YOU SUFFER
FROM BACKACHE?

When your kidneys are weak and
torpid they do not properly perform
their functions: your back aches
and YOU do not feel like doing much
of anything. You are likely TO be
Respondent and TO borrow trouble.
just as II you hadn't enough already.
Don't be a victim any longer.
Tho old reliable medicine. Hoods
Sarsaparilla, gives strength and
tone to the Kidneys. and builds up
the whole system.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is n peculiar
combination OF roots. barks and
herbs. No other medicine acts like
1T. because no other medicine has
same formula or ingredients. Ac.
cept no substitute. hut insist on
having Hoods. and get II today.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-01-24
SERVICE BOARD Gets ONE
MORE CHANCE TO MAKE GOOD

OLYMPIA. Jan. 24.-The public
service commission is to be placed
On trial for It's right to exist, al a
public institution. The commission
must prove that II exists for the
purpose Of serving the public and
not as an instrument to serve spe-
cial interests, or quit doing bust.
Less.
The ground work for the peo-
pies case was laid yesterday when
Senators Landon. Nichols. Fair
child and Boner landed on the
Jones bill for an $500 emergency
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-01-24
THAT JAR OF MUSTEROLE
ON The BATH. ROOM SHELF
Has Relieved Pain for Every
One In the Family

When little Susie had the croupj
when Johnny got his feet wet and
caught cold; when father sprained
his knee; when granny's rheumatism
bothered her--that jar OF Mustcrole
was right there to give relief.
Musterole is a clean. white ointment
made with oil of mustard. 1t will
not blister like a mustard plaster.
Quick relief for sore throat. bron-
chitis. tonsihtis, Group, stiff neck,
asthma, neuralgia, headache. oongcs-
ton, pleurisy, rheumatism. lumbago,
pains and aches OF the back or joints,
sprains, sore muscles, bruises. chill
blains. frosted feet, colds on the chest
(it often prevents pneumonial.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-01-24

appropriation for the commission
In making railroad valuations. and
raised the question whether II
should be allowed TO further
"squander public money" in raising
rates and working other hardships
on the public It is supposed to
serve.
Before the case ia ended these
same senators. gathering their
forces. will have landed a swift
blow at the other Jones bill to kill
tho jitneys by putting them under
the control OF the public service
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-01-24
GERARD PASSES ON
WILSON MESSAGE

BERLIN. VIA Sayyllle Wireless.
Jan. 20 Ambassador Gerard
transmits 10 tho foreign office the
text OF President Wilson's message
TO tho senate said the official
PRESS bureau today.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-01-24
FRENCH Make RAIDS

PARIS. Jan. "a - Successful
French raids on German lines at
different points-points south OF
Chilly and in the Woevre were an.
nounced in today's official state
ment The report also said there
vas great activity of patrols in the
region of the Seille. but calm else.
where along the front.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-01-24
SIX PLANES LOST

BERLIN. via Sayyille. Jan. "a
Enemy forces lost six aeroplanes
on the western front yesterday to-
days report asserted The bright
weather resulted In numerous air
engagements. and the enemy losses
were incurred b. German defensive
fire.
Smyrna times., 1917-06-13
NEWS OF THE DELAWARE
MARYLAND PENINSULA
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES

Inte resting Items from all Partsof the
Peninsula About Your Friends and
Nerghbors and Their Doings.
Smyrna times., 1917-06-13
DOVER SCHOOL BOARD ELECTS
Met and Organized and Elected Teach
ers for the Ensuing Year

Met and Organized and Elected Teach
ers for the Ensuing Year
Dover's Board of Education met
Tuesday evening with the three new
lv-elected members, for organization
which resulted in the selection of G.
D. jackson as president, succeeding
DR.. ]. H. Wilson, member OF the
board for the last three years but who
declined reelection on Saturday last
for another three years. Elmer Z.
Benson was reelected secretary and
Samuel H. Carsons treasurer. The
new members of the board were sworn
in, including W.S. Hardcastle, Harry
Mayer and James Behen. The board
elected the following staff OF teachers
for the ensuing year: Supervising
Principal, C. w. w. Schantz; teach
ers-Miss Maud Lodge, Miss Eliza
beth Lank, Miss B. Elizabeth Moore,
Miss Josephine Bateman, Miss Jane
atte Shockley, Miss l. M. Myer, Miss
Kathleen Lord, Miss Lillian Carsch,
Miss Mary L. Collision, Miss Edit
Hutton, Miss Kathleen Benson, Miss
Bernice Clymo, Miss c. B. Miller
all members of the old staff of teach
ers. Miss Virginia Mae Conoway o.
Dover, was reelected teacher of do
mestic science. Two new teacher
elected were Miss Verna Brown o
near Rising Sun, and Miss Florenc
| Steffy of near Dover.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
WARNING TO AUTO DEALERS.

That automobile dealers of the state must comply with the statutes regard. ing the use of dealers markers or lose their registration, whether a court has acted on their cases or not, is the deci. sion of Frederick L. Perry secretary of the state, who has issued final warn- ing to Connecticut men dealing in motor cars. The secretary's warming comes as the result of alleged violation of the motor vehicle law which re- quires that dealers markers shall be used only during the adjustment and tests of cars or during demonstration to prospective customers. Letters urging vigilance on the part of the police have been sent by the secretary to the head of all the police departme nts in the state.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
Bathtubs and Bathinu,

In many European countries "the best people"-if you know what that means-never bathe in water.
 Spanish matrons have expressed much surprise at my complaints about the absence of bathing facilities in the Madrid hotels. One lady, wife of dis tinguished member of the cortes, told ne she had herself rubbed down in oil once a week, but never had got into a tub of water and never would!'
 My memory of London hotels goes back to 1875, when there was not single bathtub i'll any hotel in that city. A tin pan and bucket of warm water was the only "tub," and you were lucky to get that.
 And ill that same period in New York city the Metropolitan and St. Nicholas hotels, supposed to be models of excel lence, were totally wanting in bath rooms.
 Admittedly, it is as difficult to imag- inc life without motorcars as without bathtubs, but the former are less than a twenty-year-old necessity, while the hath was an institution long before the times of the Roman emperors.-Julius Chambers in Brooklyn Eagle.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
Suffrage In Norway.

Among the most important laws en- acted by Norway since women have had the vote are the two maternity insur- ance laws of 1909 and 1915 and the di- vorce law of 1910.
 "Since the women ill Norway have got the vote," says Ella Anker in Jus Suf- fragii, "they have turned their chief attention to their rights and duties as wives and mothers. Education and eco- homie independence are the basis of wo- mans freedom, but her greatest work and happiness will be as wife and moth CT. It is an astonishing fact that in all these centuries, while men have taught us that woman's place is in the home, they have neglected to prepare us for the chief duties of our home life."
 Norwegian women have also given particular strength to the work for Ira tional housekeeping" by the establish ment of a state high school for the ed ucation of teachers for the elementary housekeeping schools, to a campaign against consumption and to the support of the peace movement.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
EiffeI's Tower.

The most famous tower since that of Babel is the Eiffel tower in Paris, a monument to the engineering genius of Gustave Eiffel. The tower of Babel was reared in the hope that it might afford a passage to heaven, but the builders, we are told in Genesis, were foiled by their language being con- founded.
 GustaTe Eiffel had no such ambition in rearing the highest edifce the world has ever seen. It is a tower dedicated to science. It's rearing was one of the greatest engineering feats of modern times and was a result of experiments undertaken to prove the greatest limit to which metallic piers in viaducts could be safely pushed. It is now the worlds must celebrated wireless tele- graph station.
 Eiffel tower is 1000 feet in height and is constructed of iron lattice work, 7,300 tons of iron being used In its con- struction. A system of elevators car rtes visitors to the top.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
CIVIL SERVICE EXAM.

The United States Civil Service Commission announces an examina- tion to be held March 15, 1917, for mechanician, qualified as instrument maker in the departmental service at Washington, ID. O., at a salary of $I. .00O to Sl, 400 per annum. Competitors will not he required to report for exam nations at any place, but will be rated on physical ability and training and experience. Four years apprenticeship and two years additional work as in. strument maker in first class scientific instrument or high grade physical laboratory shop required. Age 20 years or over on the date of the exami- nation.
 Qualified persons should make appli. cation at once for Forms 304 and 2029 to the Secretary ot the First United States Civil Service District, Room 145 Postotfice Building, Boston, Massachu' setts.
 Applications should be properly exc cuted, including the medical certificate, and filed with the Commission at Wash ington, D. O., on or before March l5, l9lT
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
Thackeray In America.

Thackeray's lecture on Swift, some of the manuscript of which has been sold by his daughter for military char, ities, proved one of his greatest sue cesses in America. James T. Fields, his host at Boston, has told how all the tickets for the Swift lecture were sold the day before it was delivered.
 II remember ThackCray's uproarious shouting and dancing when told this" '" he adds When We rode together to the lecture hall he msiS cd on thrust ing his long legs out of the carriage window. in defcrcncc. as he said, to his magu2uimous ticket holders TAcSa included Lomgfellow. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Emerson anti other leading literary lights. ts."-Londoa Chru..cle
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
0utRidA fha AnuaA.

How many beautiful homes on which money has been spent lavishly to make them complete are marred by some de. feet in the landscape work! A few hours motor trip through the suburbs of almost any city ill the country will reveal many such cases. The most fire. quent jar the trained eye receives is from the poorly laid out walks and driveways in which badly arranged curves are used or walks made to curve around an oval grass plot placed in the center for no other reason than to make pedestrians take time to circle about that particular grass plot, Post men, messenger boys and others take d short cut, and soon a path in the proper direction is worn across the sod When a curve is used in a walk or driveway there should be a reason for it. If there is no other reason plant one; place tree or two or shrubs in a position so the curve will seem neces, sary. People then will keep on the walk, and the plan will seem reason able.-New York Sun.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
Our Coal Resources,

Are our coal mines being exhausted by their vast production? Not at rate which need worry us or cause fears that the next generation will freeze to death. Nearly ten years ago compe- tent engineer analysed the figures of soft coal production and reserve and concluded that if our output continued to increase according to the growth shown up to that time it would reach a stable maximum of 2,300,000,O00 tons per year about the year 2150 and that TOO years more of production at that rate would exhaust the known coal measures of the United States!
 Since he wrote production has ad- vanced at a slower rate than he antici- pated and important new deposits have come to light. There should be no waste of our mineral fuel, but neither is there any occasion for alarm. An thracite, of course, is another matter. But even of that there is enough to last for at least century.-Chicago Journal
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
FaIIinq Up Out of a Balloon.

If man falls out of a rising aero plane or balloon he will not go toward the earth, but will continue rising into the air for an appreciable time. If the air machine were stopped in its ascent at the time it could catch the man as he came down. If the airship were ascending at the rate of thirty two feet second the man would rise sixteen feet before beginning to fall toward the earth. Thus, by reducing the speed of its ascent, the vessel might keep by the side of the man and rescue him. Tl~e reason why the man rises is the same as the reason for a bullets rising when shot from a gun into the air-both the man and the bullet are given velocity upward, and it takes some time for gravity to mega tive that velocity
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
CENSUS BLANKS OLDEST MAN.

Stafford Springs has gained the record of returning the census blank of the oldest man thus far reported in the Connecticut military census, now in progress. Amasa Morse, aged I02 years, 8 months and 20 days, is the individual who appears. so far as has yet been learned, to be the oldest man in the state. MT. Morse was born May 8, 1914, several months before the British attempted in the war of 1s12 to capture Stonington in this state. He is retired farmer and Advent minis ter. He signed his own name on the census tlank in a clear hand that showed no sign of unsteadiness.
 Up to theN time of receiving MT. Morse's name, the oldest man whose census returnes had been received at state headquarters in Hartford was Augustus Potter of Glastonbury, aged l02 years and 6 months.
 The third oldest was Chester R. Woodford of Avon, aged 102 years and 5 months.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
Makinq a Maqnet.

The simplest way of magnetizing a bar of steel is that known as 'single touch" The bar to be magnetized is laid on the table, and the pole of a powerful magnet is rubbed from ten to twenty times along it's length, always in the same direction. If the north pole of the magnet Is employed the end of the bar first touched will also become a north pole, while the opposite end, at which the magnet is lifted before re- turning, will be a south pole.
 There are other and more complicat- ed methods, known as divided touch and double touch," in which two and even four magnets are employed.
 A steel bar can also be magnetized by placing 1t within a coil of insulated wire, through which galvanic current is circulating. The magnetism induced in this way, however, is weak con- pared with that which can be procured if the same strength of current is en- ployed through the intervention of all electromagnet.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
Many William Shakespeares.

There have been many William Shakespeares in the past. Among the burials in the registers of St. Clement Danes, in the Strand, there is the en- trJT-, "Jane Shackspccr, dGu Inter of Willm., 8 Aug, 1609." Warwickshire records show, among other things, that a William Shakespeare "paid Ss. to the Lay Subsidy, Walton super Olde;" an other W. S. priced the goods of 'Rob- ert Shakesper of Wroxall' on March 10, 1868; another, a shoemaker of Coven- try, made his will March IS, 1605-6; still another William Shakespeare, "gentleman," had This daughter Su- sanna" (singularly enough) baptized on March IA, 1896, and yet again another W. S., a shoemaker of Warwick, fell into the Avon and was drowned. These are a mere fraction of the full list.-London Chronicle.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
GIVE THE ROADS FAIR PLAY.

Now that the country can be fed and warmed only by special trainloads of coal and food, the railway situation is visible to all but the blind. The situ- atlon IS too serious to be dealt with in a nagging spirit. It would be easy to trace blame to the railways or to the Interstate Commerce Commission, as many are doing. It would be easy for them to defend themselves by pointing to the laws. That throws the blame back upon those who elected the law makers and supported them in the policy which it may be hoped is now culminatinF. Placing the blame for the past is not a remedy. What is needed is forward looking policy which shall correct the errors of the past. In that aspect the crisis has its uses, and they are proportioned to its seriousness. Once it was necessary to correct railway abuses and conviGce the companies that they are subject to the law. They are as humble now as ever they were arrogant, and are SUD- pliants rather than dictators. It was also necessary to convince the Inter- state Commerce Commission that some- thing besides power" and "orders" is necessary. The best of intentions have met obstacles in execution of a sort which ought to give the commission a feeling of sympathy with the railways in task more difficult than has been appreciated. The lawmakers also have fallen below theIr intentions and the expectations of the railway haters. Largely that, too, was because of the difficulties of the case. The eNplana. tion of the peoples share of the blame for misdirected Legislation and admin istration is the same. Now even the people must see that they are punish ing themselves over the railways shoulders. Only experience could have produced this frame of mind. If the educational process is now complete, a great first step toward a new departure has been taken, and the outlook may be regarded hopefully.-New York Times.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
A VEGETARIAN MEAL.

In view of tlre ever increasing cost of neat and the desirability of adding variety to the diet by the use of more fruits and vegetables, the Connecticut Pomological Society and the Vegetable Growers Association at their recent convention in Hartford, offered prizes for an exhibit of dinners which should omit meat.
 N Among the other conditions of the contest were the following: The meal should be we'll selected and consist of six dishes in addition to bread and butter. It should be sufficient in amount to serve four people. It should not exceed one dollar and half in cost. It should be planned and pre-. pared by high school pupils with minimum of assistance from teachers.
 The meal which won the second prize, handsome copper cup donated by Henry Kohn & Company, jewellers, of Hartford. was planned and prepared by the second year class in the school of Home Economies. Connecticut Agri cultural College. The menu was as follows:
 Vegetable soup Crouton
 Nut loaf Stuffed potatoes ~ Spinach molded with hard cooked egg
 Bread and butter
 Celery and pepper salad French dressing
 Peach charlotte
 AS the nut loaf is quite hearty dish thin soup and light salad were served, while to balance starchy dish like the potatoes, green succulent vegetable was chosen. The dessert was selected to offer fruit in an st. tractive form, and while light it has much food value on account of the cream used in the preparation.-M. K. Hayes, Home Economies Department, Connecticut Agricultural College.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
Uncle Sam's Uniforms.

An act of congress, approved March 1, 1911, entitled "An act to protect the dignity and honor of the uniform of the United States," provides that hereafter no proprietor, manager or employee of a theater or other public place of entertainment or amusement in the District of Columbia or in any territory. the district of Alaska or in- sular possessions of the United States shall make or cause to be made any discrimination against any person law fully wearing the uniform of the army, navy, revenue cutter service or marine corps of the United States because of that uniform, and any person making or causing to be made such discrimina- ton shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. punishable by a fine not exceeding $500"
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
A Story of LonqfelIow.

In Longfellow's journal, in which he chronicled daily things that came un- der his observation, he notes that upon certain occasion he attended a church where the minister took as his subject Progress" He was very flat tered when the latter quoted about nalf of the Psalm of Life" After re beating the verses the minister said q could never read that poem without feeling the inspiration with which it was written" To this incident Long fellow adds: But I had the conceit taken out of me on the evening of that day, when I happened to meet a lady at Prescott's and in our conversation she referred to the sermon in the morning and added, He quoted some beautiful verses, but nobody knew whence came the quotations.'
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
A Curiosity of Sound.

If when riding in a balloon at height, say, of 2,O00 feet a charge ot guncotton be fired electrically 100 feet below the car, the report, though really as loud as cannon, sounds no more than pistol shot, possibly partly owing to the greater rarity of the air, but chiefly because the sound, having no background to reflect it, simply spends itself in the air. Then, always and un- der all conditions of atmosphere, there ensues absolute silence until the time for the echo back from earth has fully elapsed, when a deafening outburst of thunder rises from below, rolling on often for more than half minute.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
A Wonderful AboriqinaI City.

Near Laguna, N. M., may be seen Acoma, the "sky city" claimed to be the most wonderful aboriginal city in the world. It stands on an isolated rock eminence 400 feet in height The city embraces three rows of houses over a thousand feet in length, rising up in terraces four and five stories. One is amazed when he stops to con- slider that the material for these build ings were transported long distances and up the cliffs upon the heads and backs of these human burden bearers. Their graveyard consumed forty years In building by reason of the necessity of bringing earth from the plain below. and their church must have cost the labor of many generations, for its walls arc sixty feet high and ten feet thick and it has timbers forty feet long and fourteen inches square.-Exchange.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
Growing Grapes.

Grapes will grow almost anywhere and are sure to bear Grapes can be trained on trellises close to fences or to outbuildings. Spring Is the best time to plant, using either one or two year old vines. Frequently cultivation during summer will improve the fruit.
 Wood ashes make a good fertilizer for grapes, and half bushel to the vine will not be too much.
 No pruning will be required the first season, but the second season cut back the strongest canes to three or four buds and remove all others.
Connecticut western news., 1917-03-08
NO INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Dr. John T. Black, secretary of the state board of health, told the score or more who attended the New Haven County Health Association meeting at the Hotel Carde, Thursday, that there was little likelihood that this summer would see another outbreak of the in. fantile paralysis plague. Dr. Black cited histories of other epidemics and showed that in no case was plague vear Followed by another year with the same prevalent.