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elevator fires, year than any o according to G u--The armistice has ended the use of poison gas. but the much-execrated "substl- |^fr: white flour. Consumers " old-fashioned wheat e necessity of purchas- at the same time, R. of the flour department state food administra­ tion, was notified by wire from Wash­ ington, p. C. The sugar department alaefeit the beginning of the return to conditions when advices were "by Charles Stevenson, its that all restrictions are removed from the sale of sweetened condensed milk to manufacturers. Explaining that "the necessity for the regulation «*o longer exists," the dispatch stated that all manufactufers who were in the habit of utiing sweetened condensed tailk can r»ow get their full supplies without restriction and without having to furnish certificates. The ban on the establishment of new milk conden- aarles also is lifted, Mr. Stevenson aald. Cocdensaries planned before the war and held up by the order can be i|t onec. igo.--The Illinois reserve mlll- m *111 not be mustered out because Of the peace treaty. "The moral effect of having 12,000 men in the Illinois state militia will be useful for several years after the final determination of peace," according to Brig. Gen. Leroy T. Stewart, commander of the First brigade. "Since no National Guard «*l8t8 in our state, the duty of pre­ serving order falls on us during the reconstruction period," he said. "Our duty Is to preserve order and our work will be similar to that of the Pennsylvania state constabulary. Our men ecllsted for two years. To date they have paid their own expenses and the state has provided guns. We ex­ pect the next legislature to pass dome liVs making our organization perma­ nent. What Is now the Illinois! reserve militia Iti the outgrowth of a voluntary Organization started under the guid­ ance of the state council of defense." Springfield.--Between Thanksgiving aikd December 31 the state of Illinois will have to "dig up" almost $60,-000,- 400 to invest In War Savings stamps, If,!thero is to be no regret when the 1018 wjir record of the state Is closed. During all that time there is going to fee a drive on for the sale of stamps- tile last of the year. The War Savings committee estimates that if every man, woman and child in the state will «|ve $4.22 by Thanksgiving time the work will be half over the day the •drive iq started. Another War Sav­ ings stamp bought between Thanksgiv­ ing and New Year's by every person l« the state will take Illinois over the top, and also be the best Christmas present the state could make to the armies in France. Chicago.^--Illinois Is not among the states in which the sugar allowance lifts been raised to four pounds for each person a month. Cane and beet ougaf-producing states have been so flavored, but in Illinois for the remain­ der of November, the allowance will oontinue both for households and res­ taurants, three pounds a person. In December there Is a possibility that the allowance in Illinois will be In­ creased to four pounds. Restrictions oil the use of pork and vegetable fats may be increased, owing to the vital seed for these articles of food In Eu­ rope. The Illinois organization of the food administration remains Intact Chicago.--A break In the soft coal market in Chicago Is expected to be one of the first effects of peace on com­ modity prices. Already the wholesale price of Springfield and Belleville coal, ia low-grade product, is 15 to 25 cents * ton lower than the government maxi­ mum on all grades of coal since it was ottablished. There are reports that southern Illinois coal is being offered at price concessions. This is the high- <ect grade produced in. this zone. These reports are denied, but among coal .merchants the opinion prevails that the present prices of soft coal will be jcut unless production is curtailed or ja severe cold spell gives relief to the ! growing congestion. , Urbunn.--Four years ago instruc­ tors in the department of mechanical engineering at the University of Illi- jnols organised the Life and Limb club, ^because of the Increasing number of jaccldents In the shop laboratories. iThis club was intended to prevent ac- "Cldeuts, rather than to acknowledge (Claims for injuries received. .Accord­ ing to the plan each student is re­ quired to sign a pledge, the substance -of which is expressed in a button that 4> worn oft the work clothes. The but- :ton bears the words, "I Will Be Care­ ful Always.** In addition to this the jstudents are instructed in a few ele- wentary principles of first-aid. Springfield.--During the absence of j<|overnor Lowden, who is sojourning •on his farm In Arkansas, Lieut. 'Gov. John ©. Oftlesby is governor of 1111- nola. / /» Decatur.--The perennial question 'of- K^Alr #AM 111 IV* OV11WI tllllUiClI Will ibe the principal theme for discussion At the annual meeting of the Illinois Stfete School Boart} association to be held here* Number 20 nd 21. '* Wear­ ily every city in the state will be rep­ resented. BpringfleM.--Rev. Stuart M. Camp- fefll, moderator of the synod of Illinois of the Presbyterian church, has an­ nounced there will be no meeting of ttfe synod this year, The meeting was to have been held October 19 at Chl- <mo, but was postponed because of the influenza epidemic. Mount Vernon.--The election race •between Grant Holcomb,' Democrat, aad Grunt Irvln, Republican, for sher­ iff Is believed to be the closest in Illinois. The official count indicates fitolcomb elected by one vote. Irvin will ask a recount. Urbana.--A conference of the high school teachers of Illinois will be held here November 21 and 22 to discuss school problems. E. E. McNary of Philadelphia, Pa., will speak upon the wabject: "Training Men to Build a Of Ships." He la euperlntend- tra|ftportfttio6 of the United the e in the U*lb&, Gamber, state fire marshal. In discussing the result of fire prevention work of the division, Gamber said: "Elevator men are be­ ginning advice of the di­ vision of fire prevention A rigid in­ spection was maintained last year, and this year it is even more rigid. We do not stop with inspection and ad­ vice, but follow it up by seeing that the suggestions are carried out. There are but few elevators which do not show some conditions which Increase the fire hazard. All elevators are re- inspected about the expiration of the time limit and failure to comply with suggestions, however small the defect, will result In prosecution. During the last two years five serious disasters, directly traceable to dust accumula­ tions, caused a loss of $7,000,000, and resulted In the death of B0 persons and serious injury to 40 more. Per­ sonal carelessness is largely responsi­ ble for this terrible loss, and it is well to bear in mind that 'where dust is present, there danger is also.' These inspections are made as a conserva­ tion meagre at the request of the gov­ ernor^ this state, and backed by the state ahd national councils of do? fensei* »•» / Springfield.--City women go insane more than their country sisters. This is the claim of Col. Frank D. Whipp, fiscal supervisor of the Illinois depart­ ment of public works. He bases it on a compilation of figures during the re­ cent year. It shatters the time-worn theory that rural life through its so- called drudgery has been responsible for more insanity among the country women than the city. Colonel Whipp's calculations take into consideration that the cities have a larger popula­ tion. He studied the counties con­ taining 8,000 or more population* In proportion to the population, as given In the census of 1910, he discovered the percentage of insane, both men and women, to be thirty-three hun­ dredths, the actual number of insane in these countie#« being 13,392. The female insane percentages Colonel Whipp found were in counties with cities of 8,000 or over, or over sixteen hundredths per cent and In the other counties eleven hundredths per cent. Chicago.--"Peace Is not expected to bring a period of unemployment to the hundreds of thousands of men in Clil cago who perform manual labor. Build­ ing construction and allied industry will assimilate the workers as fast as they are released from war work or the military forces. And wages will continue good." These were the opti­ mistic predictions of labor leader and employer alike, as the developments of the reconstruction period began to shape themselves. Concerning the gen­ eral fear that with munitions making and war work stopped and With thou sands o*f manual laborers returning from military service the labor mar­ ket would be flooded and wages would decline, both were engaged In disputing It Springfield.--When is a policeman not a policeman? This question has been raised here. It has been present­ ed to the state public utilities commis­ sion for settlement. - The case arose in a controversy between city officials and the local street car company. On authority of the sheriff the company had presented a free pass to a deputy sheriff. After it the commission had ruled only listed officers would be per­ mitted to accept and use passes. A list was submitted. The deputy's name, however, was missing from the list. "Regardless, he continued exercising the privilege of his previous pass until contested by the company. Danville.--Now that Robert Mater, aged twenty, a former member'Of Bat­ tery A, One Hundred and Forty-ninth field artillery and Danville's war hero, has been elected county treasurer of Vermillion county, the question arises whether he Is legally entitled to the office because of his age. Mater was elected by 40 votes over William J. Ludwlg. He carried Danville by a plu­ rality of 798. But the law provides an elector must be twenty-one years old. It is said, so Mater doesn't yet know whether he is county treasurer or just plain Mr. Mater. It is expected the election will be contested. Springfield.--The section of the state utility act, which exempts muni­ cipally owned plants Is attacked in the case of the Springfield Gas and Elec­ tric company against the city of Springfield, filed on an appeal In the supreme court. The electric company sought to enjoin the city from selling commercial light. In a recent deci­ sion, Judge K. s. Smith upheld the sec­ tion of the utility act and dismissed the petition. Chit-ago.--Shipments pf cattle, hoga and sheep recently became so congest­ ed In the Chleago stock yards that of­ ficials of the railroad administration issued orders to stop loading in the country until further notice. This In­ formation was received at the stock yards, where recent shipments were the heaviest for the year. There were In and around the stock yards 90,000 head of cattle, 52,000 hogs and ,42,000 sheep ready for slaughter. ; East St. Louis.--St Clair county has iuuuc the iluuaiiS! pica tO the Stato board of equalization that tax assess­ ments In the county be increased in­ stead of decreased on the ground that valuation on corporations there Is too low. Springfield.--More than 100,000,000 pounds of condensed milk and more than 18,000,000 pounds of creamery butter Were manufactured In Illinois in the first six months of this year, ac­ cording to figures made public by John B. Newman, superintendent of the di­ vision of foods and dairies of the Illi­ nois department of agriculture. Chicago.--Complete unqfficial re­ turns for United States senator from all counties in Illinois, a total of 3,200 precincts give: McCormick, 492,119; Lewis, 423,829; Lloyd, 30,385; Francia, 1,814; Vennum. 2,364; McCormick'a plurality, 68,290. Lewistown.--By the will of the late Mrs. Mary Porter, her estate of $100,- 000 Is distributed among educational institutions and relatives.' Knox col­ lege of Galesburg Is given $50,000. This sum Is to be used In providing a chair of economics and sociology and also to aid needy students In pro* an education. squad- not. are now bombing the Rhine val­ ley along with the British. The Yank pilots and observers, like their breth­ ren of the royal air force, enter Into this "sport" with the same spirit that has made them famous on the baseball «*atoond or football gridiron of their own American colleges. A young American aviator has Just told of a trip over the German lines and back behind into German territory. The formation in which the American airmen flew consisted of 11 big bomb­ ing machines, each of which carried 1,000 pounds of high explosives, three machine guns and three men. 1 "After I had tried the guns on my machine, checked the bombs, made sure everything was ship-shape, and put a couple of little bombs into a small bag beside me, I started my en­ gine. The big motors growled away, waiting for the starting flash. Soon the signal came and we were off. "For twenty mtnutes we climbed, un­ til the earth was Just a black blot An. other twenty-five minutes and we were over the trenches, with the searchers groping about in the mists below us. The big guns crashed away cont nu- ously, and we could see the explosions from where we soared high above them. No sooner had we crossed the lines than the Germans started firing at us with their anti-aircraft guns. Once a German searchlight got right on us with its beam of light. We fired a couple of rounds of machine-gun fire at the Germans who were manning the searchlight, aad it went out "Far below us we could see the lights of a locomotive. Finally we reached our objective. According to plan, we throttled our motors and glided toward the earth to get nearer our target It seemed curiously quiet Then suddenly the earth seemed to open below us. Seventeen searchlights were turned on us by the Germans, and their shafts of light swept all about as. The anti-aircraft guns made a wall ahead of us. The high- explosive shells burst on every side of us, and the green-fire balls swayed and spiraled as they tried to set us on fire. The American machines went straight on, with never a waver or a turn. There were so many crashes that I thought more than once that we were hit We kept straight on. Amid Blinding Raym. "Suddenly one of the German Searchlights got us and the rest of the seventeen threw around us with a sud­ denness that made their concentra­ tion Jiel macHlne guas until the tips jJUttie weapons got red and the glprir be­ gan to creep up the bartela.'•"'""The whole seventeen beams were on us, al­ though we plunged and sft*-s!ipped about in a desperate way. We let go tfcjp bombs when we were right over tlfe mark. The antiaircraft shells were getting even closer than ever and the machine was hit time and again, though not in a vital spot. Why we were not literally blown out, of the air I do not know. After we were well over the mark and had dropped all our bombs we discovered one 250- pound bomb which had caught fast in the rack and tatted to drop wfctn released. "We went iur IS YET PATRIOTIC !• t _ Ms -•? I • --o; t ' Albany, Ore.--Loss of his left T leg and right foot has failed to • • dampen the patriotism of David 1 * | JfidCV Hunt, who has asked the • | " [ local board to assign hSar to !! I' duty as a gas engine expert ' | !p The hoard Is going to do it m i M M 1 1 1 1 1 1 | 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 M - We crossed our own trench lines at about 3,000 feet up, saw some famil­ iar landmarks, headed for our own airdrome* fired our signal and - got the answer. A few minutes later we had landed. A glance over the ma­ chine saw Jwo big tears In the side of the fuselage and many holes la the wings. "But we had done a splendid bit of bombing, and such damage as our ma­ chine hod suffered was by no means difficult to repair." .H kiVJU v .. v PRISONERS ARE BADLY TREATED ic London.--A corporal In the Ltncoln- shlres, who waa taken prisoner in April, 1917, and who succeeded In es­ caping from the Huns' clutches In June, 1918, has given a very Interesting account of his experiences. He is a man of the highest character and his story Is, therefore, worthy of credence. He was captured April 11,1917, near Alglcourt and was at first token to the German headquarters, behind the line. He was questioned, but refused to give any information. He was then sent to a working party behind the German lines at a place called Maretz, and was employed on a ration dump. The party was about 16 kilo­ meters from the line; they could see the British shells bursting a mile or so away, but the corporal never heard of any casualties among the prisoners. There was a commandant In charge of the camp, and the second In com­ mand was a feldwebel. Both these of­ ficials treated the prisoners very badly. The first day that they were In camp the commandant came, and the feld­ webel shouted "Achtung." The men did not know what he meant and did not therefore spring to attention, as they should have done. The feld­ webel thereupon struok them with a whip. The sentries also treated them very badly. Picks Up Food--Shot When the prisoners were returning from work the Frenchwomen used to AMERICANS !*! ST. WHIEl REGION N«w«P®P*r Americans in support beside a road in the captured tit Mihiei salient Behind them is a captured German narrow-gauge railway for hauling sup­ plies. BURN FRENCH HOMES With the French Army pagne.--Detachments of in Cham- engineers from General Gouraud's army in ex­ ploring the region from which the Germans have been driven in this sec­ tor have discovered in many villages evidence of the method by whloh the destruction of dwellings, churches and other public buildings was organized. The region along the Retourne abounds with indications of willful de- Hnn nf vIIIdvm thnt worn n»oor within range of artillery, but were found razed. In others where houses were still erect they were mined for slow destruction, while the purely military installations, such as barracks built by the Germans for their own troops, were left Intact Orders for the burning of Junville, a large village in the Valley of the Retourne, arrived on the day of evacu­ ation. The people pleaded with the of­ ficers to spare their homes, but the torch was put to every house. The village was one vast brazier when the French entered it Mont St Bemy shared the same fate. At Neu'vllle, where a villager Im­ plored that his home might be spared, an officer replied: "I know it Is an Ignoble task, but such are our orders." Chatelet, Alincourt, Bignicourt and Vllle-Sur-Retourne were partly saved because the French troops pressed the Germans there so closely that the sap- to dc th- surprised. Some of these men fled be­ fore they could set off the mines which had been prepared. Others were cap­ tured. It has been necessary from French sappers and miners to explore the cel­ lar of every house remaining Intact in this region. Under most of them mines have been found. Mouths of wells were so mined that explosions would fill them with rock and earth. United Mine Workers have 7,317 Ca­ nadian members. BOUND TO HAVE BALL cauc Hijai "fchapMn Travels Sixty Mllea at fliQht to Get Necessary Supplies. , Piarts.--To obtain baseball supplies for the soldiers In his brigade, Rev. Father William Munster of Pittsburgh, Pa., chaplain and athletic director of an artillery regiment, rode 60 fnllea on a motorcycle at night recently. A divisional baseball championship was slated to be settled when Father Munster discovered that the truck containing the balls, bats and other,, equipment was on the missing list As the division was going to a sector where it would be too busy for any baseball games for a while, Fa­ ther Muster was determined that the championship should be settled. With­ out saying a word to any of the sol­ diers he Jumped on the motorcycle and rode to a Knights of Columbus club 60 miles away, where he secured the equipment for the game. Before the war Father Munster was nuruiASi bntmiunk RULE rsmo uo America Soon to Be Independent of World for Products, Says Chair­ man Baruch, Washington.--America Independent of the world for mineral and chemical products heretofore obtained mostly from Germany, is in prospect, accord­ ing to Chairman Baruch of the war In­ dustries board. Experts headed by Charles H. Mae- Dowell, chief of the chemical division of the board, Mr. Baruch said, are meeting with success in the develop­ ment of new processes of manufacture or standardizing present processes. At the same time they are fostering the use of German formulae for obtaining In America soluble potash, analine dyes, optical glass and chemical ap­ paratus, fine and pharmaceutical cheih- icala and clay for graphite crucibiogi throw them food and other thing* The men knew that it was forbidden to step out of the ranks to p'ck these things up, but they were so hungry that they often broke the rules. The corporal saw a man shot by a sentry for stepping out of the ranks in this way. He was killed instantly, the bul­ let passed right through him, went through another man's pocket and blew the finger, or two fingers, off a third man. There were two other men shot In the same way; the corporal saw them both brought Into the lager. The prisoners got no food from Eng­ land while they were on this working party, and they were not allowed to write home. Toward the end of May, 1917, the corporal was transferred to Minster 11, in Germany, nnd a week later he was sent on to Mlnden, where he re­ mained six weeks. « The treatment at Mlnden w&s not bad, and in this respect It differed from the food, which was very bad indeed. A five-pound loaf of black bread was divided among 13 men; this was their bread ration for the day. They had coffee in the morning and a thin, watery kind of soup at noon. Once a week they had fish and a small quantity of potatoes. At 6:90 In the evening they had what they called "sandstone." It was Just like eating sund. Sometimes they had ground maize, and one night out of three they bad coffee. Works In Munition Factory. From Minden the corporal wedt on a working party to Hattlngton, where he remained three weeks. He waa working In a munition factory, unload­ ing iron and coal, but the prisoners had nothing to do with the machinery. There were ten Englishmen in the working party, 44 Russians and four Frenchmen. The treatment was not good, and the work was very hard. At the beginning the guards over the prisoners were soldiers, but during the last four months that the corporal was In Germany they had been re­ placed by elderly civilians. The guards told the prisoners that there had been riots In Berlin just after Christmas. 1917, and several people had been shot The guards said that all the best men had gone and that It was shameful to think of the kind of men that they were using In the army. As has already been said, this cor­ poral is a particularly Intelligent man. He is quite ready to admit good treat­ ment when good treatment has been given to him, and he has contented himself with giving the bare facts of the case without comment There are about 200 separata* and distinct kinds of shells fired from Ger- man gunk. Hjiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiitjc 1 PEPPLES FAMILY HAS 1 = ENVIABLE WAR RECORD | S 2 E Hermlll, O.--The Pepples fam- s E lly of this city has an enviable ~ S war record, having been repre- £ S sented in every war fought by E S the United States. The Revo- 5 5 lutionary war, the War of 1812, E S the Mexican war, the Civil war E s and the Spanish-American itrug- E s gle have all seen Peppleses bear- E = lng arms. In the present world E ~ war live ui iheir sOns are with s E the colors, bringing up the fam- E = lly's total for all American wars E 2 to 22 soldiers. E siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiinntiiiiiiiiuiiKiiii Jitney Men Dodge •, ? Junction City, Kan.--When deputy revenue collectors found some twenty jitney drivers had fatteg to pay their monthly war tax, they decided to take Close Court; Pick Cotton. Macon, Ga.--Judge Beverly D. Evans postponed his October term of court to allow all attaches, witnesses and all whose attendance would be re­ quired to busy themselves in the cot­ ton fields, where demand for pickers la extreme. stern measures to stop the practice. In conjunction with the military police at Camp Funston, ail cars whose drivers could not show a receipt for the last month's tax were prevented from en­ tering the cantonment One man from Ogden spent most of the night seeking a collector in order to pay h& l&x and get home. ' ^ r ' , . •• ^ ; V '. 1 r4 • V- Ohio 'Profiteers Swatted. * Steubenville, O.--Bauded together to swat the profiteer in foodstuffs, hun­ dreds of mill men here have placed or­ ders for potatoes, canned goods and other staples by the carload. They will sell the eatables from the car at retail prices, which, they claim, w|ll be far below those asked by local wholesalers and retailers. Speeder Fined $1 a Mile. Portland, Ore.--E. H. Myer, driver of a hearse, was fined $40 for speeding by Judge Rossman. Witnesses swore that Myer drove hisfc automobile hearse at 40 miles an hour, and the judg« assessed a dollar per mile In spaed. Myer waa hurry lag home from a fin - >•» feRMGS ware HUN SAVAGERY Contrast of Present War With That ! Ofthe Spanish- American Conflict Twenty Years Ago. One night, 20 years ago, I sat in an •rmy camr In Cuba during the Santi­ ago campaign, listening to a discussion of war weapons. That day some 2,000 men had been killed or wounded In a three hours' battle, which involved 411 of Shafter's army corps at San Juan hill and at El Caney* The matter which created the most comment was the very small per cent of mortalities in the casualty list. The wounded would nearly all recover, and, except here and there, without permanent injury. Two American staff officers were dis­ cussing it and praising the Mauser rifle, which the Spaniards were us­ ing. I remember substantially the words of one of the staff officers. He saldt Tt Is a mow merciful weapon than the Krag, which we are using, be­ cause It Is of smaller^ bore, makes a cleaner wound and puts the other fel­ low out of business just as effectively as the Krag does without inflicting as dangerous an injury.**? ̂ ̂ I remember that they both agreed that the science of modern war was to knock the other fellow out without slaughtering him. I thought of that odd American conception of that twen­ ty-year-old period while visiting yes­ terday a hospital where Americana were being brought In from the field. Some of the men are Indescribably mangled; some wounds lie open as though they had been made with a cleaver--others are of the crushed, rag* ged kind. I went from this danger* ously wounded ward Into a neighbor­ ing tent, where 200 gassed men with bandaged eyes tossed restlessly. Aa .1 thought of the desperately wounded I had just left and of those poisoned men, called upon to defend themselves against an Inhuman weapon which gave them no chance to strike blow for blow, I realized the utter savagery to which' we have reverted since that gen­ tle day in which we sank the Spanish navy and made guests of the Spanish army until the hour arrived when we might send the conquered home in chivalry and in honor.--Kansas City Tlmea. • Mfffc Godden T«9» How It waa bard form* to <S» egetabl* Com* ' Overcoming Hay Hay fever Is gradually becoming bet­ ter understood. From the public health reports, It appears that recent Inves­ tigations have shown only one person In a hundred to be susceptible, while the susceptibles differ widely In the ef fects produced on them by the various plant pollens that give rise to the dis­ ease. In the eastern and southern United States pollen of the rag­ weed finds the greatest number of sensitive subjects, the spring type of hay fever being therefore the most common. The smaller number of per­ sons who are affected by grass pollen have the autumnal type of fever. Some persons have both the spring and the autumnal fevers, and about 8 per cent of the susceptibles are sensitive not only to the ragweed and grass pollens, but to various other pollens, including some tree pollens. Such unfortunates are liable to hay fever attacks through­ out most of the year. Some patients are affected only when the specific pol­ len is at its greatest abundance, but others have the disease during the en­ tire season of the plant's pollination.. Claim and Counterclaim. Vhe( people of a Western dty suf­ fered from the escape of the animals from a traveling menagerie and circus. A giraffe, frantic with hunger, thrust his head into the second-story window of an apartment house, and placed In process of deglutition a pan of hot fried doughnuts. The trespass brought its own punishment to the giraffe, for the poor animal required the services of two of the circus attendants with hot blankets and a bucket of castor oil all the next night. Two lawsuits, involving gloat con­ stitutional questions, have resulted. Under a state law which prohibits the placing of food containing poisonous or deleterious substances where ani­ mals can find It the circus owner has sued the doughnut maker for damages to the giraffe, and the doughnut maker has sued the circus man for trespass quare clausum fregit for breaking Into his house and seizing the fried dough­ nuts and making away with them,-- Case and Comment l v Perseverance &oes It *It*8 the allies' perseverance • hat la going to win the war," suid Senator Lewis. "The allies suffered defeat after de­ feat, but from each defeat they learned something. "It's like the advice the editor of the Clnnamlnson Scimitar gave to an unlucky wooer who had been i ejected by seven girls in turn. The editor wrote: " 'Unlucky Wooer: Go ahead. Don't be discouraged. Never say die. You must haye learned a lot by what you have gone through. Strikes us yoa must hold something like a record. Well, stick all your experience to­ gether an®«iake love to the next girl who comes around and takes your fancy. If she doesn't reciprocate try another. Remember, you only want one girl to say "Yes," and she'll prob­ ably last your life.'" ^ ftwnaAO.-'l wai the critical period of six: meodedtomeaa&o best remedy for CT trochlea, wfakb it eurely proved to torn. 1 feel batter an* stronger in every way aince and the annoying svmptoma have djaap- peered." -- Mrs. M. GOODEN, 926 Sjpoleon St, Fremont, Ohio. Such annoying symptom aa flashes, nervousnaaa, backache, ache, irritability and "the bloee,' be speedily overcome and the ai- reetored to normal conditions bytfeto famous root and herb remedy Lyula E> Finkbam'a Vegetable Compound. If any complications present them- aelvee write the Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass., for auggeationa bow to overcome them. Hie result of forty years experience la at your service ana your letter held in strict confidence. Caticnra Stops Itching and Saves tae Hair ROYAL LINE SOMEWHAT MIXED Rilling Houae of Roumania Haa MadO Many Alliances With Woimtft Not of Blue Blood. p' ? Prince Carol of Roumania, who fc* reputed to have married "beneath him,** Is only carrying out the family tradition by making a mesalliance. The princely and elder branch of the Hohenzollerns, to which he belong^ has a very "mixed" pedigree, front the point of view of a court genealo­ gist, lu spite of the fact that In the male line they rank as one of the old­ est families in Europe, the origin of which is lost in the mists of ages. To begin with, King Ferdinand's mother, a Portuguese princess of the hones off Coburg, was the granddaughter of tbo Countess Antonla of Kohary, a Hun­ garian lady of great wealth, who waa raised to the rank of prlneess by tbo emperor of Austria to marry on equal terms Prince Ferdinand of Oobnrg, Queen Victoria's uncle. One of the king of Roumanla's great-grambnotik- ers was a Murat, a relation of Napai* eon Fs general, and another Stephanie Beauharnals, a niece of the Bmpreaa Josephine's first husband, whom Hi- noleon adopted into th#» Imperial fnn^> lly. Farther back still. In the first half of the eighteenth century, there is la his pedigree an untitled Englishwom­ an, a mere Miss Marie Bruce, a con­ nection of the then Earl of Relieved the Tenaion. A ttttle boy at school saw his faint and fall. In the confusion it impossible to keep so many heads cool, and the little ones flocked 'round tbo prostrate lady and her sympathetic co§^ leagues. But this small boy kept botfc bis color and his coolness. Standing on a bench and raising bio land, he exclaimed: "Please, teach­ er, can I run and fetch father? Ho makes coffins." The peel of laughter which greeted this unconscious humor roused the teacher from her shott trance, and nobody enjoyed the young­ ster's saying more than she did wheil the circumstances were explained to bac afterward. - > < ;f: • "The Real Arties - " Tm a very busy man, air* Wfeal fti your proposition?" * | "I want to make yon rich." "Just so. Leave your recipe wlife me and I'll look it over later. Juat jiow I'm engaged In closing up a ltttla deal by which I expect to make tn real money."--Brooklyn Cltlaen. • • • -'.Si- Even the strenuous poet baa hia Ml* moments. Army Nurses In Peace Tlmea. , There is a corps of regular army nurses maintained in peace times aa well as In war times. When nurses volunteer under the Red Cross organi­ zation and enter the army service they assume the same status as that of the regular corps of nurses. A nurse aid receives no pay for her services. Transportation and maintenance, how­ ever, are supplied, fturses and nurse aids, uworn into the government serv­ ice through Red Cross channels, and all nurses employed by the army and navy are under the order of the army and navy medical departments. If a nurse or nurse's aid is incapacitated through service, either In this country or abroad and thereafter, because of disability suffered while In the service. Is unable to provide for herself, there Is not known under the law any meant whereby she can secure tbo btnallta ef a. pension. lervous People who drink coffee "find *21 ike+ An4inl wu#w vv»-A*viVH relief when 1, 'Ist- POSTUM some table drink (does contain "caffeine"orarqf oUot harmful, nerve disturb­ ing ingredient tm