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Evening journal., 1918-01-04
ALLEY GETS COMMISSION.

Archie d. Alley, who for sometime
has been stationed in this city as one
Of the detail in charge Of the regular
army recruiting detail has been, COM
missioned a second lieutenant
Lieutenant Alley, who has served for
more than seven years in the army,
has been advanced rapidly since the
advent Of the United States into the
war. He was first made corporal,
then promoted 20 sergeant and until
recently. after leaving this city, was
stationed at Fort Dupont Receiving
his commission as lieutenant. he was
discharged as sergeant at the fort and
has been assigned to the l53 Depot
Brigade. Camp Dix
While stationed here, Lieutenant
Alley was active In the affairs Of the
Boy Scouts, and has a host Of friends
in this city.
Evening journal., 1918-01-04
NEW YORK COTTON.

BY Inc Lntod pfess.
NEW YORK. Jan. The cotton
market opened firm today. January
sold at 81 80, up IS; March. 3O95, up
II May, 3065, up 20, and July, 1898,
up %
After the opening the market was
firm, with prices up % to % points
The very strong Liverpool market ac-
counted for the advance There We're
buying O. ders from that source and
New York quotations were stlll con-
sidered cheap compared 10 Liverpool.
Evening journal., 1918-01-04
CHILDRENs DEPARTMENT, SECOND FLOOR.

CHILDRENs DEPARTMENT, SECOND FLOOR.
Chi dren's Bingham Dresses; 2 to an
years old; 81 values, at ................. 4JC
Chldren's Bingham Dresses guaranteed to
wash; to IA years Of age; $1.25 IN
ChildrenS Bingham Dresses guaranteed to
wash; to IA years of age; $3.50 value no
at SOc
ESQ Girls" Goats to close out; SIS TO SIS
values to ID years of age; at sos, 1898, $4.9s
and $6.9S.
Evening journal., 1918-01-04
STOCK NIARKET FIRM.

BY The United Press.
NEW YORK Jan i--Prices were
firm when the stock market opened to-
day United States steel sold up 4
at $3.50; Bethlehem b. at 81. up ~.
and Studebaker at 81 up Il. Union
Pacific was the exception, showing O
fractional loss over night.
Evening journal., 1918-01-04
LONDON COTTON.


DN IIU IUITNU FTCsa
LIVERPOOL. Jan Spots opened
quiet with prices steady sales amount
ed to 5000 bales Receipts totaled
5000, including 400 American Good
middlings, % 80; m.ddNngs. % TO- Fu-
lures, old contracts, Janua y-February,
2is5; March-April, 2i67; May-June,
u as
Evening journal., 1918-01-04
NIR. KEMP RFcnAEns

Robert d Kemp, president OF the
Artisans Savings Bank. who has been
~ for several weeks, has recovered
sufficiently to be able to leave his
home He is chairman Of the VII
mington fuel administ alive commit
Tee, and has again taken charge Of the
affairs Of that committee
Evening journal., 1918-01-04

The Quinine That Does Not Affect Head
because OF It's tonic and laxative eject
Laxative bromo Quinine can be taken BY
ringing IN the head. There Is only one
-Bromo Quinlne" r. W. GROVES SIG
nature Is on box. 30c--Adv.
Evening journal., 1918-01-04
GRAIN MARKET.

BY The United Press.
CHICAGO, Jan. i-Opening grain
Corn. January 1871; May, 1854. Oats.
December 79H; Moy. Tia76N
Evening journal., 1918-01-04
Legal SECURITIES MARKET

Laird and Company. DUPONT Buildins.
furnish the following quotations on
local securities;
Evening journal., 1918-01-04
cAnn ~ rmANns-

Mr.. ana Mrs Tohn 4 Hanna wish 10
thank friends and relatives for their sym
PATTY ana beautiful flowers az the time Of
heir recent bereavements
Evening journal., 1918-01-04

Grip Follows The SNOW
LAXATIVE BROMO QUiNINE Tablets
taken In time, will Prevent Grip. y. w.
GROVES signature on box. SOC. Adv
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STRANGE OCCUPATIONS.

The British Tommy has always
been famous for the brilliance of his
powers of romance, if asked ques-
tons he did not want to answer by
people who had no right to know.
The latest illustration is afforded by
a repatriated soldier of Welsh regi-
ment. He had been prisoner in the
camp of Gutrow, where the German
authorities, with a view to securing
skilled labor, were anxious to learn
the occupation of the prisoners. But
surely never before we're there such
callings-a treacle bender, watch
makers striker, a milestone inspec-
tor. The Germans gave it up
Christian Science Monitor.
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AMERICAS GAIN FROM WAR
Had Done for Them Before They
Entered It, Says Writer.

81 wonder" asks Sydney Brooks
In Everybody's, eff Americans quite
realize all that the war has done for
them, and had done for them long
before they entered it.
"First, it saved them from COM
lnercial collapse at about the last mo-
ment when it could still be Tended
off.
Secondly, it deluged the United
| States with a stream of prosperity
the like of which had never been
known in the history of this or any
other land.
Thirdly, it did more in a few
months than half-century of enter
prise in times of peace could have
done to advance Americas position
in international finance, in the
ocean-carrying trade, and in foreign
commerce.
"Fourthly, it woke Americans to
the weak points in their national
harness and initiated that movement
for preparedness which l reckon
among the sanest and most whole
some agitations | have known in "a
twenty-one years. experience of the
United States.
"Fifthly, it very greatly enlarged
the political horizon of the average
citizen, and brought him face to face
with problems and conditions that
formerly he could comfortably
ignore.
"Sixthly, it taught American
manufacturers, or some of them, the
invaluable and neglected art of max
ing munitions.
Sand, finally, it staged for Amer
ica's instruction, and at Europe's ex-
pense, the full panorama of war, and
furnished the United States, when
her turn should come-as it has
colne-with a whole library of direc-
lions on what to do and what not to
do"
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BRITISH PosTMEN IN WAR.

Some wonderful figures of the
work of the British post office are
given in the report of the British
postmaster general for 1915-16. Of
10000 employees who have joined
the colors, 5000 have fallen. The
Victoria Cross has been won by two
postmen; eight officers have received
the D. S. 0. and twenty-five the mill
tary cross; 1876 men have gained the
distinguished conduct medal and GO
the military medal, while 201 have
been mentioned in dispatches.
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CARNEGIE HAS NEW CASTLE
Laird of skibo's Country Home De.
clared to Be Finest In America,
With One Exception.

For size, richness, massiveness of
construction, and romantic beauty of
natural surroundings no private resi-
dence in the United States, with the
exception of George W. Vanderbilts
BiltnaoTe boa 70 ans, com r,,.r:s,,. viz.
Shadowbrook, Andrew Carnege's
new place at Lenox, Mass, where the
magnificent country houses are so
secluded that the vulgar eyes of the
people can't discern even their roofs
in the vast remoteness of the exclu-
sive estates.
The aged ironmaster, travelling
with Mrs. Carnegie and Miss Marga-
ret Carnegie, arrived in Lenox
short time ago. With the party were
Mr.. Carnegie's physician, his valet,
and other attendants. He was assist
ed from the car to an automobile
and was driven to Shadowbrook. a
distance of three miles from the sta
ton,
His apartments are on the second
floor of the great house, and have a
beautiful outlook to Lake Mahkee-
nae, at the foot of the estate
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URGE FRENCH METRIC SYSTEM
Scale of Measurement Favored In
Preference to the English Stand
ard Which Now Is in Use.

Recently we have been strongly
urged to adopt the French system of
measurement in this country, as OPP
posed to the English scale now in
use, comments a writer. The war
has made us familiar with such
terms as millimeter, centimeter, kilo-
meter and so on. 1t is urged that
the metric system of the French is
much superior to the English. The
English themselves are awake to this
fact, and there has been a similar
movement in England that has
gained more strength than its coun'
terpart in America.
An Enolis-S. e.mtseering Jour. o
in supporting the plan, states that
since 1910 "a countries have given
up their standards of measurement
to adopt the French system, and that
not a single nation has adopted the
English method in all that period.
1t also is pointed out that no fresh
system of measurement has been
brought forward. The French plan
is so exact and easy of manipulation
that it leaves little chance of i'm
provement.
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ESTATES HEAVILY TAXED.

Large estates are heavily taxed, At
Albany, N. Y, State Collector
Travis received check for 81, 130,-
900 to be applied in payment for the
transfer tax on the estate of the late
John D. Archbold, who died Deem
Der 5, 1916. This was only tenn
porary payment. The tax may reach
nearly 100000. The Archbold
estate is now being appraised by the
controller. 1t is estimated to be val
ued at about $3O,0o0,oo0. The tax
will be assessed after the appraiser Of
the controller fixes the value of the
property and holdings of the de-
ceased oil man.
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THE HUN-HARRIED SEA.

Lord Northcliffe told a sea story
at banquet in New York.
"Thanks to the hum" he began,
"the sea to all of us is as hateful now
as it was in peace time to the Burn
ley chap.
"a seasick Burnley chap on the
Isle of Man boat was heard to say to
his son:
Jimmy, I've gotten stick wi
a silver knob ont a. whoam. Tha
can have it. There's two or three
quid i the bank, an that's for t
buryin'. And, Jimmy, bury me in
t Isle Of Man. l can't stand this
trip again, alive or dead.'"
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Pa0N0GRAPH AIDS WORKERS
Some Big Offices Find That Starting
Day With Snappy Music Increases
Efficiency of Force.

Have you ever stopped to think
how much valuable time is lost each
morning before you, your office force
or your employers get started on the
days work? Generally the business
world takes from fifteen minutes to
half an hour to wake up in the morn
ing and 'to get down to brass tacks."
Workers come down to business in
varying degrees of eficiency-some
still sleepy, some gaping, some
grouchy, some disgruntled.
Someone started racking his brain
for some method by which to dispel
this early morning gloom and forth
with came an idea which bids fair to
eliminate it, and which promises to
clesr up the brow and make smiles
take the. place of frowns right from
the start of the day. First comes the
news that a New York concern
which conducts a large factory for
making muslin underwear conceived
a happy thought as a solution. At
the stroke of the opening hour,
monograph plays smart, rafting,
quick-step movement that makes
brilliant and snappy the morning air
and sets every heart beating a little
quicker, dispelling as feet as light
ming, any unhappiness or gloom that
might still linger.
Now We learn that this speeding
up plan has been adopted by many
business houses throughout the coun-
try and the difference in the spirit
of the workers is remarkable to see.
Exchange.
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NATION OF BREAD MASTERS
United States Only Country Where
People Throw Away the Crusts,
Declares TraVeIer

"Of all the lands that | have WIS.,
Ited," says Sir Rabindranath Tagore,
"the United States ia the only one
where a person eats the inside of
slice Of bread and throws away the
crust" That the East Indian poet,
philosopher and trader meant this
literally is apparent from the obser-
vation that bread is the food most
commonly wasted in American
households. Because bread has been
the most inexpensive food of the diet
for many years it has often been
wasted. Now the habit persists in
spite of its increased cost.
Good, fresh bread has a spongy
texture which in time disappears,
leaving it dry and crumbly, the mois-
ture gradually passing out through
the crust.
There soon will be no stale bread
taken back by bakeries, and it is well
to know how to use it. Bread little
too stale to be appetizing may be
freshened by putting it into the oven
few minutes. Rolls and biscuits
which dry out more rapidly than
loaves of bread, may be freshened by
lmmersing them quickly in boiling
water and putting them into hot
oven to dry out. They may be served
hot and will taste as fresh as when
first baked.
There are innumerable delicious
dishes that may be made from dry
bread, from bread puddings through
the list of escalloped dishes which
use bread crumbs. Any cook book
yields number of recipes, The nu-
tritious elements remain in bread
even when it is dry.
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WRONG In HIS DIMENSIONS
Inventor of Fishing Machine Causes
Skepticism by Referring to Water
in Terms of Square Feet"

An enterprising inventor has an
nounced that he has perfected fish
ing machine capable of removing call
the fish from 92,ooo,OOO square feet
of water per minute"
The only point of this announce
ment that offers us any comfort is
the dimensional value given in the
reference to water, says the Boston
Transcript. 1t seems likely that this
predatory fishing machine may not
be as efficient as it sounds. If this
inventor considers water, as a me-
dium for the support of Psychological
life, in terms of Square feet" it
does not seem as if he could be very
practical man, and probably his fish
ing machine is as seriously defective
as Darius Green's flying machine.
Even to sustain goldfish water must
have three dimensions.
If it were not for this superficial
evidence of error, there might be rea-
son to feel some alarm over this an
nouncement. AS it is, perhaps there
is little danger that the waters will
be rendered fshless by any mechani-
cal device in the near future, and for
a time we may continue to have some
fun with hooks, line and bait.
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HOW He TURNED THE TABLES
Noted Artist Put Inquisitive Inter-
viewer to Flight When He Assumed
Role of Questioner Himself.

A noted artist was recently visited
by an interviewer, who fired at him
from a question-sheet questions such
as these:
"Were your parents artistic !?
Which of your paintings do you con-
slider your best work? When, where,
and why did you paint it? How
much did it bring you in? Who is
your fay tie dead master? Favorite
living master? What is your income
from art? How much"
But at this point the artist seized
the interviewer by the arm and be-
gan in lis turn:
Gust a moment, please. What is
your name, age, and salary? Is jour-
nalisn with you tife-work or mere
ly a mems to a higher literary end !?
How do YOU like your editor? State
his faults and salary. What was the
best interview you ever wrote? Give
a brief summary of same. Have YOU
ever been fired? How does it feel?
Where"
But here the interviewer, jerking
his arm, from the painters grasp,
fled from the studio, and the artist
cheerfulIv resumed his work.-Pitts-
burgh Chronicle Telegraph.
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FAMINE IS RUSSIA'S PERIL
Country Is Hard Pressed to Provide
Staples Essential to the Main
tenance of Her Inhabitants.

Not Germany but famine is the
most desperate peril which Russia
faces now. Russia is hard pressed
to provide staples essential to the
maintenance of her people, observes
"a correspondent. Great cities such
as Petrograd are short of provisions.
Bread is hard to obtain. Appeals
have been published to the citizens
Of the capital explaining that the
grain-growing provinces refuse to
sell their wheat or -four and begging
the people to remember that any dis
orders will make it yet more difficult
to get food. e'"' 4p..
With such conditions existing
what will happen at the end of the
long, hard Russian winter? And if
actual starvation blights the chief
cities of Russia, then what can be
hoped for from the army and the
government?
In the largest sense, of course,
Russia will survive. To a certain
extent that vast country may even
"come back" before the end of the
war. But no help from Russia can
be counted on by the allies. They
may hope for some uncertain assist
ance, but their plans will necessarily
be made without reckoning on Mus
covite cooperation at all.
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A SUCCESS SECRET.

Governor Bilbo said at dinner in
jackson:
"The man who succeeds easiest is
the one who works on the queer, the
funny, in human nature.
"Like the chap who turned up at
Palm Beach with new 12-cylinder
car, you know.
"'Oh, I've struck it rich,' said he.
I've written book called "Hints to
Beautiful Women"
"'Goodp said the reception clerk,
as he led the newcomer to his lock-
er, And all the beautiful women
are buying it, eh?
"'No,' said Newrich. 'All the
plain ones.'"
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WHOLE No. 2, 1913
GLASS INDUSTRY Is WRECKED
Germany Has Experienced Terrible
Blow From the War and Business
Is WoefuIy Crippled.

Prior to the war the German glass
industry was an export industry. In
the year 1913 glassware valued at
more than 146,000,000 marks 1884,
748,000) was sold in foreign mar
kets. Since the outbreak of the war,
however, the glass industry has been
working under difficulties and its
very existence is threatened, COM
ments the Bremen Buerger-Zeitung,
Bremen. In the first months of the
war, owing to the stoppage of ex-
ports, a majority of the glassworkers
were thrown out of work.
When the industry gradually re-
covered, thanks to the increasing de-
mand of the military authorities and
the preserved-food industries, new
menace appeared, as large numbers
of the workers were drafted into the
army. Several glassworkers are, as
a rule, working jointly on a piece of
glassware, and if but one member Of
the group is taken away it becomes
difficult to form a new group.
Then the supplies of soda were
Communicated; fortunately, how
ever, substitute materials were found
which enabled the factories to con-
tinue their operations. The COM
Wandering of straw and the lack Of
freight cars has interfered with ship
ments, and now the glass industry,
always a large consumer of coal, has
had its supply of fuel reduced to less
than one-haf. Thus, for example,
the bottle factories are to receive
only $4,000 tons of coal, instead Of
$4,000, which they had been receiv'
ing heretofore. In order to save Goa
the factories are expected to consoli
date; but as there are hardly an.
places with more than one factory
consolidation means a change of resi-
dence for the workers.
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NEVER USED TITLE OF BARON
Nathan Rothschild, Famous FlnancIer,
Spurned Honor as He Consd-
cred His Own Name Greater.

The celebrated fnancier, Nathan
Rothschild, never used the tile Of
baron, which had been conferred
upon him by the emperor of Aus
tria. He said he considered the
name Rothschild greater than such
title, lgnatius Balla, in "The Ro-
nance of the Rothschilds," says that
the banker had wonderful self-con-
troland got through an enormous
amount of business.
"When he was ill, and an opera
ton had to be performed by the ia
nous surgeon, Liston, he bore it
without murmur. After the OPP
Grafton Rothschild said to Liston:
Nov, [ suppose you expect me
to pay you for the pain you have
given me? There you are mistaken.
l will pay you nothing, but | will
ask you to accept this little me-
mento.'
with these words he handed the
surgeon a nightcap. Liston, know
ing the peculiarities of his patient,
quietly accepted the cap and put it
In his pocket. AS he was engaged
the whole day, going from one pa
tient to another, he forgot the sin
gular gift of the Croesus of London.
''It was not until he returned
hc;ne in the evening that he remem-
bered it. He then took out the cap
and put it on his desk, as a reminder
of the eccentric millionaire. As he
handled it, however, he heard rust
ling sound, and when he examined
it he found in it banknote for
81 900.
"Rothschild delighted to play
jokes of this kind that turned to the
profit of his victim"
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CHEESE FOR BRITISH SOLDIERS.

The soldiers in the British army
by royal decree, are allowed one
eighth of a pound Of cheese IN their
daily rations. The amount per man
may seem small, but when II is real
lied that Great Britain has approx
mately 100000 men under arms
the aggregate consumption is over
100000 pounds a day. 1t is this con-
sumption that explains the boom in
prices on the kind of cheese that
British and American people con.
sumo.
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WISDOM OF CENSORSHIP.

The British newspaper fraternity
loses no opportunity to hammer at
the restrictions and excuses of the
censorship. The latest skit runs
somewhat as follows: cannon to
the left of them, cannon to the right
of them, cannon behind them, vol
leyed and Numbered" So quoted
the enthusiastic war correspondent.
But the censor cut out this passage,
Cant be giving away the positions
of our artillery" commented he,
sagely.-The Argonaut.
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A lot of men have family trees,
And of them loudly rant;
But | would rather wed a man
Who has a business plant.
EARNING HIS KEEP.

"Why don't you get rid Of that
dog, son? He's useless and has no
spirit"
"He's big help to me in the junk
business, dad. Comes home nearly
every day with a kettle tied to his
tail"
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EXPLAINED.

"What is the price of white taper"
asked the lady.
Give cents per yard" said the as
sistant.
"That's very DEAR" said the lady.
'Well, you see,' said the hopeful
assistant, seeing his masters eyes
upon him, cts on account of the
scarcity of tapeworms."
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LIKE CHINESE LABOR.

When the dealer informed her
that the price of eggs was 40 cents
per dozen she exclaimed:
''Forty centsl Why, that's more
than 3 cents for each egg!"
eyes, num-" said the dealer; "but
you must remember that one egg is a
whole days work for HEMP
Everybody's Magazine.
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VIcTIMIzED.

A group of Western politicians
were swapping "reminiscences of
their experiences in other parts,
when one said:
q was once the victim of a lynch
ing party"
"You don't say SOP exclaimed
several, seeming a thrilling yarn.
GLOW, did it happen?"
"Why, l married the widow of a
man who Was strung up for horse
stealing" -Everybody's Magazine.
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DIAGNOSIS.

"Did you find much the matter
with the man who got mixed up in
the gas explosion ?"
''They said at the hospital he was
suffering from that all-gone feeling
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FORBIDDEN COMFORT.

"Have you got any antitoxin in
the house"
''Mercy me, mol This towns local
option"
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NO COMPETITOR.

"They say. Mrs. Jaggs, that the
tanks they are using in France have
remarkable capacity"
"I'll venture to say that in that
line they haven't anything on Mr..
Jaggs."
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A DIscoNSoLATE STACKER.

"Bliggins says he is worrying
about his health"
"He is. The doctors can't suggest
the slightest ground on which he can
apply for exemption"
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SHE GOT 1T.

Miss BIack-Fm Disguised with
my dressnaker My new costume
doesn't fit little bit!
Miss White-Well, ! heard you
tell her you wanted it lawful bad"
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PREPAREDNESS.

Visitor-Have your employees had
any experience in military training?
Employer-Well, most of them
have been soldering on the job for
years.-Puck.