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The Washington herald., 1917-09-08
"JUICE" IN WAR WIRES.

Attempts to 'electrify' barbWlre en-
tangIements with a view to electrocut-
ing an advancing enemy have not
thus far in the war proved success
full. They aren't doing it over In
Europe.
More than one difficulty is in the
way. The principal one is that 1t is
not found practicable to maintain in
the trenches a plant that can fur
nish current of sufficiently high volt
age.
Furthermore, under such conditions
much of the current leaks away and
is lost owing to damp ground and
other circumstances more or less ac-
cidental.
The only important use of electri-
fled barbwire is made along the bOun-
dary that separates Belgium from
Holland. The boundary is marked
by a fence of such wire Ghe latter
duly insulated at each posU that
carries a death-dealing current,
The object of the fence, of course.
is to prevent Belgians from making
their escape into Dutch territory. 1t
seems to have been very effective for
the purpose, and mayn man have lost
their lives in trying to pass the bar
rier. But a good many have got
through in safety by using rubber
gloves for protection while seYerinS
the wires with nippers or by other
means.-Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-08
Bliss Electrical School
Big Help to Uncle Sam

Now that the United States has
entered the world war. the demand
for engineering training will be
greater than ever before. The Bliss
Electrical School offers an opportu-
nifty for young men to secure the
maximum amount of training in
electrical engineering that II is pos
sible TO obtain in a single year
Whether called to service in the
army or navy, or allowed to enter
electrical work in the industries, one
cannot more adequately prepare
himself than by taking the con-
densed course in electrical engineer
ing which has been perfected and
taught in this school for twenty
four years.
Never in all the history Of the
United States have its industries
been so overwhelmed with work as
at present To speed up produc-
tion, electricity is needed on every
side. Never has this school had so
many requests for men as at the
present time. Young men should
meet this demand for electrical train
ing. A quick, thorough course in
electrical engineering. both theoreti-
cal and practical, is now more neces-
sary than ever.
The school will more than double
the capacity OF its dormitory and
dining hall this summer. Both build
ings are of similar construction and
appearance as the present main
school building and dormitory, be-
ing built of hollow tile and concrete
with pebble-dash finish and red as
bestos tile roofing. The improve
ments with furnishings will cost
about 100000.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-08
DIED, BUT NOT AS HE FEARED.

The men of the First Canadian divi-
sion who came unscathed through
the smashing fight at Ypres, the battle
of Festubert and the Givenchy cy-
clone in April, May and June of
1915, almost all believed they could
not be killed. They had seen so many
comrades fall. and had so many mar
row escapes, that they assumed the
| bullet was not nodded that could
get them.
One exception was a member of the
Thirteenth Battalion canadian Black
Watch. He had a premonition of
death and saw his fate in every shell
that burst in sight and every bullet
! that tipped past him.
Eeach time he went into the trenches
he died a thousand times in i'm
| agination, and he was a helpless,
hopeless. useless object the last time
we went into the line in front Of
Ploegsteert woods. He never smiled,
whistled or sang when in the firing
line; he was literally obsessed with
the fear Of death.
On the morning following his last
night in the trenches he was smiling
broadly. The company were snug in
billets and he was preparing to shave,
whistling as he stropped his razor.
Suddenly a careless draft man with
out warning exploded cartridge that
lay forgotten in the breech of his
rife. The bullet pierced the brain of
the man with the razor, and he died
within a few moments.
Not till then did his comrades
rsalize that his fear of death was
J8ed upon a presentment that came
true, though not at all in the manner
the unfortunate man expected.-The
Wide World.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-08
Answers to Correspondents.

'. S.-l am glad you liked The Poor
Little Rich Girl" 1t is too bad you
had to have your curls cut. but you
know cutting the hair is good for it,
and you will have lovelier and thicker
hair than ever when it grows again.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-08
POVERTY KILLS THE BABIES.

Low wages OF fathers and the gain
full employment Of mothers away from
home accompany an excessive
death rate among babies in Manches-
ter, y. H, according TO the report
on infant mortality in that city which
has just been issued by the child
ren's bureau OF the United States
Department OF Labor.
The study was based primarily on
interviews with the babies mothers.
1t was absolutely democratic in scope
and Included all babies whose births
were registered during a singie year,
and whose families could be found.
OF all the babies studied, one in six
-l65 per 1,OOo-had died during the
first year OF life.
Nearly half of the 1,64S babies had
fathers whose earnings were less than
$3.50 year. and more than one-eighth
of the babies had fathers earning less
than $3.50 a year. Only one in sixteen
(6.4 per cent? had fathers earning as
much as $3.50 Low earnings on the
part of the father appear to be the
most potent reason for the mother S
going to work.-North American.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-08
Some Facts About One OF
Our Leading Law Schools

The National University. located
at Washington, was FIRST incorpo-
rated in 1853 by Prof. Wedgewood
and a number of distinguished as
sociates, under the general incor-
poration law of the District of CO.
lumbia. Some time afterwards the
Congress of the United States by
a special act (29 Statutes at Large
1910 granted a broad charter to
Hon. Arthur Macarthur. Hon. Rich
ard II. Alvey and Hon. Charles c.
Cole and their associates. fourteen in
all, with full power ito grant and
confer diplomas and the usual coll
lege and university degrees" Jus
tices Macarthur and Cole were at
that time both serving upon the
bench OF the Supreme Court Of the
District of Columbia and Mr.. Jus
tice Alvey, at one time Justice of
the Court of Appeals of Maryland,
was the- Chief Justice of the Court
of Appeals of the District of Co.
lumbia. Among the other incorpora-
tors was the Honorable Eugene Ca
rusi, at that time dean OF the law
faculty, the Honorable Howard H.
Barker. dean of the medical depart
ment, and the Honorable John
Goode, attorney general of Virginia
Although at no time officially con-
nected with the Federal government,
at the time of its first Organization
the National University was formed
as a nucleus around which 1t was
hoped governmental institution
might spring up. and during the first
half Of its existence IL had the honor
of having as ex-officio chancellors
of the university. FIVE of the Presi-
dents of the United States. The d.
plomas awarded during their terms
OF office bear their signature. and
in most instances were personally
conferred upon the recipient. The
other four chancellors of the uni
versity were Mr.. Justice Arthur Nc
Arthur. Mr.. Associate Justice Samuel
F. Miller, OF the Supreme Court Of
the United States; Mr.. Chief Justice
Richard H. Alvey. of the District
of Columbia Court of Appeals, and
the present chancellor, Eugene Carusi,
LID.
There have been graduated from
the law school during the forty
seven years of its history approxi-
mately $500 students. Among their
number are many who have achiev-
ed distinction at the local bar. others
who have become judges of ma
ttonal reputation. The National Uni
versity Law School is the only
school Of law which was not or
ganiZed as a part Of or connected
with some religious sect. but which
has always been strictly nonsec-
tartan. Its lectures and class meet
ings are held in the Law School
Building. which affords every ma
terial facility for the work that is
carried on.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-08

! wonder Just where the fine line OF
distinction can be drawn between
stinginess and frugality. l know II II
were not for Mothers common sense.
l should want to spend money all the
time just as tree shakes down
leaves. so perhaps l do sympathize
with other girls when they long for
pretty things.
One girl OF seventeen writes to me
from Chicago:
I have been earning ten dollars a
week as assistant bookkeeper out in
the Deering district for a year and a
half. and my father only allows me
dollar and a half a week for myself
out OF that. He takes out four and a
half for my board, and puts the rest
in building and loan association for
me. l never have any good times at
all, or pretty clothes, and vet / have
to work from seven to half past five.
He says by the time I'm ready to
get married I'll own a home of my
own, but why should l supply the
home? Don't you think the man I
marry ought TO do that? I wish
could so into moving pictures. Do
you think from my picture l would be
good in them? l have brown curly
hair and blue eyes. Sometimes l
think I'll just leave home some morn
ing and never show up there again.
would, too, il it wasn't for my mother
and little sister. He's mean to them.
too. He never gives my mother a dol
lar OF her own. III be eighteen next
week, and I wish 1 dared TO go away
by myself. What would you do?"
think would stay with nv mother
and do my best to make her happier.
Perhaps, If l saw how really impossible
1t was for my father to be anything
but a petty household tyrant, I might
do my best to get another home to-
sether. and make her independent of
his unkindness.
There was a girl in our Eastern
studio whose courage l always ad-
mired. She was not pretty at all, but
she had the best tempered face with
such a jolly, infectious smile. And
one day she brought with her to the
studio her mother from Maine. A
slim, rather scared little women she
was. who told me confidentially that
Martie didn't take one bit after her
side of the house. She was just like
her father, all go aheadness" and
pluck.
And the whole family was against
her when she wanted to do anything
theatrical. We'd never had any actor
folks in our family"
Well, they have now, and Martie
Is host in herself. know that she
has bought her mother a home in her
own name, and is educating several
INDECENT young cousins. She may not
have been pretty, but she seems to
have found success through her gift
of friendliness. l have not used the
name she is known by professionally,
but 1 am sure many Of you know her
well. She used to say it was right
that those who are stronger and more
resourceful should help the weaker
ones.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-08
Registering Protector for Printers.

A new machine for use in printing
establishments utilizes the principle
of the opaque optical proiector-the
kind that projects postcard pictures
and the lke-for the purpose of regis
tering plates in a form; that is. ad-
justing them accurately in position.
so that line falls upon line, or edges
correspond. as in color printing. A
copy of the registering plan. or de-
tail, is placed on a glass plate fac
ing downward. at an angle. at the top
of the machine, and an image of this
detail is projected onto the form be-
low. The image is stationary. and
the plates are moved by the operator
until they coincide with it in the form.
From the August Popular Mechan-
les Magazine.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-08
HOW GAS SMOTHERS PLANTS.

From an investiga ton of the poison
ing OF park vegetation near gas works,
it appears that the green coloring
matter in plants is affected and gradu-
ally disappears. With the soil charg-
ed with gas, asphyxiation. through
lack of oxygen in the roots, checks
assimilation and the formation of new
substance in the plant cells. The first
change to be noticed is a drying OF
the edges of leaves and other green
parts, and the lessening of transpir-
alton thus caused gives an accumula-
ton of water that tends to rot and
kill the stalk at the base. On large
leaves transparent spots, spreading
RAPIDLY. often indicate gas poisoning.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-08

So 1 think that II the first girl
who wrote me is only patient and
watches the right opportunity. she
may be able to go into her chosen
field. and be of real help to the
overworked. bullied little mother
back home.
1t might be a way OF opening her
fathers eyes 10 the petty tyranny
he has practised all these years.
am sure there are more homes
wherein happiness is a stranger.
where the women OF the family live
in hourly dread Of displeasing the
king of the castle. There would be
no surer way of teaching such a
husband nd father just what the
commonw llth of true home
should be like. than for his wife
and daughters just to ignore his
domineering and go to work them
selves. The argument of steady
salary is a powerful one.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-08

and you will have lovelier and thicker
hair than ever when it grows again.
B. TT think your idea for so
cial service worker is splendid. Do
let me know what success you have.
The picture you have in mind is The
Pride of the Clan"
A L.-'Tess" was one Of my favor
ties. too. Lottie's baby Is called Mary
Pickford, jr. Write me again and tell
me how your little one is getting on.
F. F. D.-I am sorry, but I can't
give you the information you wish. II
is very thoughtful OF you to want TO
help others. Send me the letter for
Pete and I will see that he receives
it
B. HI Just love to receive letters
from my little girl friends. Tell the
others 1 would love to come TO the
party" Have you thought of start
ing a knitting club?" know a
number of girls who are doing their
bit' in this way.
MARY PICKFORD.
The Washington herald., 1917-09-08
DAILY TALKS BY MARY PICKFORD
TEACHING FATHER.

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publication
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Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-02
Temperance
Conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union)
BOOZER MUST GO.

Employers liability laws in the diff
eferent states have been an important
factor in bringing about the present at
tiude of the business world toward
liquor. Corporation managers, inveSti-
eating the causes of accidents in mill
and factory, on railroad and waterway,
found large proportion directly due
to the drink habit. Hence the reason
for the famous rule G" of the Ameri-
can Railroad association and the total
abstinence requirements of big bust
ness generally.
In line with this comes the Michigan
Workmen's Compensation Mutual of
Detroit, which, we learn from the West
ern Underwater, an insurance journal,
has sent its members q circular letter
on the booze question. We quote:
THE careful consideration of all
moral hazards involved under the COM
penSation law reveals the fact that
booze is the biggest.
'Booze is so insidious in its work
ings that even though an employee may
not be actually under the influence of
liquor at the time of an injury, a very
large percentage of all injuries are
either directly or indirectly due to the
drinking of liquor.
therefore, we are earnestly recon-
mending to all of our members that
the service of the booze fighter,
whether he drink much or little, be
with
providing he cannot be made to see
the error of his ways and become an
abStainer"
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-02
MOTHER! LOOK At
CH|LD'S TONGUE
II cross, feverish, constipatea
give California Syrup
of Figs"

A laxative today saves sick child
tomorrow. Children simply will not
take the time from play To empty their
bowels, which become clogged up with
waste, liver gets sluggish; stomach
sour.
Look ut the tongue. mother! If coat
ed, or your child is listless, cross, few
erish, breath bad, restless, doesn't eat
heartily, full of cold or has sore throat
or any other children's ailment, give
teaspoonful of "CaliforniI Syrup OF
Figs" then don't worry, because 1t iS
perfectly harmless, and in a few hours
all this constipation poison, sour bile
and fermenting waste will gently
move out of the bowels, and you have
well, playful child again. thor
ough "inside cleansing" is ofttimes all
that is necessary. 1t should be the
first treatment given in any sickness.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask at the store for 50-cent bottle OF
california Syrup of Figs" which has
full directions for babies, children OF
all ages and for grown-ups plainly
printed ON the bottle. Adv.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-02
HAD A CAPITAL OF $500
In Six Years He Was Well Off

An Alberta farmer, who had Dor
uniting to them the last payment on
his mortgage, decided to give them the
history of his experience, on a Mani
tOba farm. 1t was that of many anOth-
.er farmer, and for the benefit of those
who contemplate change the liberty
is taken of reproducing ii.
~ will give you here a brief sum-
mary of my experience since coming
here six years ago. l was a new hand
at farming, my trade being meat-cut-
ting and butchering. My capital was
$500, which was a first payment on
my quarter section (160 acres). Most
of my stock, harness, implements, ETC.,
were bought at sales, all ION time"
necessarily. The buildings on the place
were about as good as nothing and had
either to be rebuilt or replaced entirely.
There were &c acres broken, and very
badly farmed, bringing poor returns
the first year." After mentioning a
number of mischanceS, he says: "ID
cpllC VI an llIcSe vi Nv DuNhS, nav
done well. I consider my farm worth
SO, 500 to $4,000. I have four head of
horses, II of cattle, over 400 purebred
Buff Orpington chickens and 125 tur-
keys, besides implements, harness, etc,
to run my place. 1 have well ITO
feet deep with an inexhaustible supply
of water. The we'll with pump cost
me $500. I have built a 1925 chicken
house and put up nearly $50 worth of
poultry fencing; have built root cellars
to hold over 5000 bushels of potatoes
and other vegetables. AS to income, !
raise about ten acres of garden and
roots annually which net from $500 to
$1,000 total. / generally sell from
20 to 40 tons timothy hay which brings
from Sc to $14 per ton. My grain is
most all used on the farm. except
few hundred bushels sold to the neigh
bOrs for seed. My four milk cows bring
in from $50 to $50 each Counting calf.
Last year so hens laid 900 dozen eggs
which averaged more than % cents
dozen Il always work for winter egg
production. The surplus hens were
sold in spring, dressed at 81 each. My
turkeys average $3.50 each in fall. By
having vegetables to feed my young
cattle, the two-year-old steers bring
SIS each In spring" -Advertisement.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-02
What the Small Man Dreamt.

A member of the company seated in
a train the other day had been relat-
ing some wonderful stories of dreams,
fulfilled. Suddenly he turned on the
dminutive passenger who had smiled
at one of his yarns. You appear to
doubt my word, sir" he remarked.
"Perhaps you imagine that dreams
have no valueT
mine hadn't" murmured the little
man.
"lndeed And what did you dream?'
"That big black dog sprang out
of the passage and took about half a
pound out of the calf of my leg!
Strange to say" he continued, 1.-THE dog,
that actually did bite me was the dog
of my dream :"
"There you are, them" CALCULATED
the other man. "If you'd value the
dream at its proper worth you'd have
been on the lookout for that dog, and
might have escaped. And yet you say
that dreams have no value"
"And I repeat, sir, that mine hadn't.
for. unfortunately, met the dog before
I had the dream"
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-02
LIQUOR BUSINESS AND LABOR.

'The average workingman fears be-
ing out of a job more than he does
going to hell, and the liquor interests
have capitalized on this fear" said
Rev. Charles Stelzle before the Fed
eral Council of Churches. And he
pointed out that:
IF the money now invested in the
liquor business were invested in the
average American industry it would
give employment to four times as
many wOrkingmen, who collectively
would receive four times as much in
the form of wages, and four times as
much raw material would be required
than is now the case in the liquor bust
ness"
Mr.. Stelzle said that the number Of
workingmen employed in the liquor
business has been greatly exaggerated.
The liquor interests purchase annually
only about an average of $40 worth Of
produce from each farmer in the Unit
ed States.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-02
IS DECLARED
ON PEG-TOP SKIRT

those they had brought over were dOu-
Bile first cousins. if not sisters.
Yet, against this fact, the dressmak-
erS who cater To exclusive sets are in
sisting that the peg-top Silhouette is
to be taken up warily and not accen-
tuated.
All the dreSSmakers are willing to
take material from the skirts or to
hold whatever material they use In
narrow hobbled band at the instep.
They weight the hem so that it will not
flare, but they do not pull the skirt out
or shape it over the hips In any ex-
IRENE manner.
There is little need of origination on
this side of the water, as far as skirts
are concerned, because France, through
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-02
FAIRNESS TO TAXPAYERS.

A Muncie Und) judge the other day
made the novel ruling that a man not
only has right to lie down in the sa-
loon where he becomes intoxicated but
that it is his duty to do so instead of
going to some other place. The vic
tim in the case had explained to the
judge that after drinking at the bar
he felt the drunken stupor coming on
and so hurried to the Jail, only block
away and gave himself up, because he
did not suppose the saloOnkeeper
would permit him to sleep off his in
toxicatiOn on his premises. $50 you
thought you'd go to the Jail and let
the taxpayers take care of your"
queried the court. 'The next time you
get drunk want you to lie down right
there in the saloon and not become q
public expense"
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-02
SCIENTIST FEARS ALCOHOL.

I fear alcohol as / fear the bacillus
found associated, probably casually,
with anesthetic leprosy, because it
does away with the danger signals
with which we are provided through
our senses-pain, irritability, hunger,
fatigue. Each one of these may be
alcohol, but the real causes of these
sensations are left unaffected or may
even be increased by the use Of the
very agent that blunts the "senses"
through which they are manifested
University, England.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-02
''CAsCkRETS" FOR
LIVER, BOWELS
For sick headache, bad breath,
Sour Stomach and
constipation.
Get a 10.cent box now.

No odds how bad your liver, stomach
or bowels; how much your head
aches, how miserable and uncomfort.
able you are from constipation, indiges-
ton, biliousness and sluggish bowels
you always get the desired results
with Cascarets
Don't let your stomach, liver and
bowels make you miserable. Take
Cascarets tonight; put an end to the
headache. biliousness, dizziness, nerv.
BUSINESS, sick, sour, gassy stomach,
backache and all other distress;
cleanse your inside organs Of all the
bile, gases and constipated matter
which is producing the misery.
A 10-cent box means health, happi.
ness and a clear head for months.
No more days of gloom and distress
If you will take a Cascaret now and
then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don't
forget the children-their little in.
sides need cleansing too. Adv.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-05-02
SKIN-TORTURED BABIES
Sleep, Mothers Rest After Treatment
With Cuticura-TriaI Free.

Send today for free samples Of Cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment and learn how
quickly they relieve itching, burning
skin troubles, and point to speedy heal
ment of baby rashes, eczema and itch
ings. Having cleared baby's skin keep
1t clear by using Cuticura exclusively.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.