NEWS FLASHES

Nation Wide Happenings Briefly Told

A R.inc of asto bandits mardpred a man and robbed nine other people In Thnadelphla one day last week. A two million dollar fire destroyed a section of pier owned by the Mor Can Steamship Line at Galveston

Texas, last week.

Thomas E. Mitten. President of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company has jast become a natnrallxed citizen

of the United States.

Declnrinr that “the Lord command cd me to.” Clarence Murphy, of Kansas City. Mo., ran amuck in the din!t>«; room of the Southern Hotel a. Laltiraore. wounding the house detect! i with a revolver shot and shooting at a traffic policeman. Murphy 'said he saw the devil in a waiter. Three stores and apartmentc were destroyed by flames last week «' Wyncote, Pa., at a loss of $*5,000. T. Elect Hodgskln. New York lawyer was sentenced to two years In the Federal Penlti-ntary at Atlanta

prieonment. She was convicted of the murder of her slater In an Eas.

Side apartment.

| Last of Philadelphia’s Volunteer Fire Companies Passed Out ol Existence Had Unique and Honorable History; Furnishings and

Equipment Sold to Highest Bidder is a large silk banner, painted by Johc A. Wood side and presented to the firs

For Quick action a pistol holster has been patented that ojiens it< entire length when a weapon is withdrawn. Dr Paula Hertwig. who will lee uiv on "Zoology." is the first woman pro lessor at the University of Berlin Gladstone firmly believed U at Homer was a real man describing historical events. Many Paris weraen of fashion wearing diamond.-- in the heels of their shoes. Miss Ada Summers, mayor of St airbridge, Eng., Is England's first won an magistrate. The christening of a ship with wise Is a survival of the old blood sa- ri-

flee.

It took from 1775 until 1819 for Maine to gain separate statehood ftoa Massachusetts. Investors say In Russia deetructrm bar gone as far as It can go. and th at construction now is Inert tjtble. "Worth." In proper name •

Philadelphia.—The Active Volunteer Fire Company, awef busotb to the old United Swtcs Hose Company, f.t 4tt Buttonv.ood street, and the last of the volunteer companies In this city, passed out of existence last week when the bnildlng. furnishings ard equipment went under the auctioneer' ; t

hammer.

In thh- famous old building are housed the implements that exUn gubhed many a flame of “ye olde days." Hose carriages, with their four-coil spring bells on the front an<* their glaas rollers for the hoxe, a hand power engine, bearing the motto Semper Paratns." or "always prepared.' firemen's haU of the old type Leather bells with Uu- names of the companies form a 1 order for the room The old-fashioned coal stoves still stand In their places. On the second floor la the meeting

campary by the Ladles' Auxiliary in 1843. It pictures two beautiful women symbolising fidelity and duty. This the painter declared to be hla master

piece.

Hero also are more old-fashioned colorful lithographs and old leather capes which fire fighters of those days wore. There Is also a framed set of resolutions, done on the old-time black paper and gilt print, expressing regret at the death of Abraham Lincoln Over the door U hung two of the no*sets used by the Heart to Heart Fire Company of 1735. Old-time fire axes stand In the corner. The third floor contains much the same things as the- second, with one exception. Arranged around the reom Is a row of chairs, on which are th< hats of the deceased members. They

of the food whereby we Uv«> ceaUxir that we are truly independent nationally ard safe only so long as wo maintain an agriculture that can full 1 support us with all needful food; and he believes that the farmer as a .nan and as an exponent or our gr»*»t nttloaal Industry, and as a custodian our lands should figure more tn the councils of the nation than bv ha^ heretofore thought possible. "Eccleslasticus considered that tbs ira who raised the food of the world would never sit In the raunclls of the mighty.” said Dean Davenport. "He was mlstmxen. for there la no larger question, whether of peace or of progress. than the fate of that industrj and that portion of our population

of the people.

toom of the present association, where | are cove-rd with dust and falling the original members slept while wa' apart with age—Philadelphia Public

!ng u call to duty. In ihis room there' Ledger.

Tasting and Smelling By Ear

violation of the trade-with-enemy act. I Kenilworth. Edgeworth, etc., signifies Miss Maria Tnccl, New York. face-’, that the town standi- on a tongue of a penalty of ten to twenty years' 1m- land. How Can the Mystery of Existence Be Solved? is the Eternal Question of Man Man Studies Many Lines But Learns Little; Life an Asset

or n Liability

Who shall reveal the mysteries of, future holds for him at the end of his this old world and of tbs life on Hf | years. Life comes and goes. H It an We take pride in human .chh-vements w a liability? We have mental pictures of places for the righteous and imagine vain thin^ The won- lhe after juiiguleolLf ^ ders of science, art and nature ec-] totircw | W e believe divine, but tbev UjtaP us. One moment we reveal injdre visions of faith, net actual demonthe thought of the volume of xnow!-|8trations of reality. We ray our dead edgi we po.sess; th next are cha-jers in a long sleep, awaiting the grined by our narrow limitations, in • Uessurectlon. Blessed nope! And all our accumulated ttulbs, painfully!the next moment We imagine them acquired during thousands of yetrs. | already in heaven we have not yet attained perfecUon j A bit of music thrills us. Youth in any direction. Our learning has land spring and love bnng ua Joy. never yot reached to tbs beginnings Age and weakness and disease destroy of things nor to their endings. We j cur capacity for earthly pleasures, del - . into geology, annonomv and , and we turn to the promise of Holy theology: into philosophy and science j Writ for consolation. The wind sighs apfl '.inmnn experience; and with all.'hrough tbs trees and our heart; of It w • do not yet know why a blade' sink. We grew weaker and weaker

There are lota of things your ea 1Is capable of doing besides hearing. ui taste and smell when those senses have been lost. Mr. Henry Fhwcett. England's blind postmaster gene.al, declared that the sense of sound enabled him to see, in a modifled form, shap and color. He oouia tell, for Ihslance by the sharpness of the sound, a lifeguard sman In scarht blowing a truihpet from, a noiseguardsman in blue playing on the same instrument. The report of a bursting tire .n thr. stieet sugg*si* a different Impression altogether to the report of a revolver shot and so on Indefinitely throughout the whole gamut of soona and smells. What is termed seeirg, hearing, tasting, smelling and feeling may be ascribed as plcturisation on the bnux. performed through the instrumentality of the eyes. nose, ears, mouth and the body generally. Most persons are unaware that iu many cases they recognise things by their smell when they think they know their flavor. Again, they do not know that they taste some things with pert of the tongue only and some with

of era.* > exists, or a tree, or an animal or anything else on earth, under the forth, or above- it. We look Into the sky at right and ere abashed. We re- the ocean pounding the rockbound shore, or thistledown routine iU summer air. and cannot tell why or

tor what either exists.

We do not know why we are here nor where we are going. Brought Into a world of contendln t forces and beliefs, of hardships, luxuries, pains.

until the finish. What creatures circumstance, of physical conditions, of environment we all are—to the very

end!

We struggle for success, and when we win It find it not what we sought. Tango d tn the -arch if mortality, dodging death daily, we are oppressed by the knowledge that we art? dying, little by little, every day of our lives. Confounded by things we cannot understand, we finally come to know iher-

pleasures, Jojs. sorrows, vanities, hu- Is no escape from melancholy except mutation*, achievements and failures. ^ by the cultivation of the s piritual sidi we try to get what we want and tojof our natures. Then a new realm e-.ade what we dislike, until tbo pass-'open* to us. The everlasting Joys «? In* years lead us to a hole :n the. hope, faith and love beckon. Perproend and that grealest of all my«- chance the Inspiration of a reasonable tcries—death. religion taker hold upon us Happy Never are we able to tall the why ' are they whom this fal.h t eaches, for or the what for of this world. We it lightens their hearts, disalnates thetr but nibble at the edge of things, with 1 rnxleties. and satlfles their souls, no definite, accurate, scientific com- J They are ushered Into the promised prehension whither our loves, hatreds land flowing with the milk and boney and atriviniis are leadmg us. No of religious trust In God nnd a happy lalher has ye: been abl- to tell his life beyond the grivr The ages hare son why he exist*-, no son has ever brought no substiiute for the Rock of been able to lell his father what the 1 Ages.—Omaha Bee

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Conservation of Our Village Youth

Community service as planned tor fttichogue is merely organised effort, to care for the boys and girls, the young people and the young ram who iiave returned from the war. who are to be the coming men of affeirs cf

t-d before that it was the lair paper that the time would ten communities like ours i- directors to look after the the village Just as they now . engineers to build up and ood conulilon the streets and : auc it Is morally certain tonrer is far more Important

latter.

tree that a few years : of the average village re iout as much recognition. mxht and •■are as 'be stray

young people for th" home there I nothing so fine as their h.yalty ft their own home town. But unlethe community shows by a generoi’» and whole-souled service that It 1» deeply Interested in their welfare. ‘there will be but an Indifferent spirit of loyalty; there is more ap u sullen opposition and an enmity to

!aw- and order.

With the yoath of a village happ; in the recognition of their right to the pursuit ol happiness and all unite -

m civic patriotism and pulling atrocif in d ‘‘ Te ' 0 P in X America as lor everythin.- <h>t makes for a belt-1 | trU1 country.- be *>lnl;

hom>-town, what a wonderful cot munity they would make.—Rate hog,

(L I) Advance.

another, while some parts of the lose the finer perceptions of taste. Prcf. H. Ik Hollingsworth has recently been making exhaustive experiments with a view to solving th<* mystery cf taste. He has demon strated that the se.se of taste reaches the brain merely through the ear

nerves.

Various nerves in the tongue communicate with a main nerve, which acts as a kind of telephone exchange to ring up the brain. The taste nerves for the tongue concentrate in the ea: drum nerve. If this nerve is Injured the sense of taste becomes dulled, and is well known that deaf personlost the finer perceptions ol taste. When the drum of the ear is stini'ilated mechanically, chemically or elec trlcally, at the point vhere th? nerves meet, taite seasutions are aroused. Sweet, blue * and sour flavors may b: detected, but strange to say. sa't tastes have never been observed by the direction oh the ear. Many sensa lions called tastes are merely odoir Pinch your nose and shut your eyes, and see tf you can distinguish between an apple and an onion.

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There is a demand at railroad and trolley line terminals /or some means of automatically selling tickets so that passengers will not be compelled to wait in line at a window, and a very satisfactory device has been lately invented which does this work. It will take any coin up to a BCoent piece and wi’l deliver th,- ticket and the "hinge. There are several slots, each one designed for a coin of different denomination, and when the coin Is placed In this the ticket and the change fall into a receptacle at thi lower part of the machine, to be removed by the patron. ' r he mrst lu gen iout part of this apparatus Is th,unerring feature of rejecting spuriojucoins. It has a very delicate attacht which takes into consldeiatior ail the particular governmental mark Ings of lhe coins by means of a series of points which bear upon both surfaces of the coin when it is presented and any which do not come up *o the test are thrown out. Thtse machine* operated by small electric motois which consume a very trilling amount

of current.

World In a Death Dance Disaster Certain Unless Farmer is Recognized

SENSE AND NONSENSE Jimmy had beeq very naughty, and father was co:reeling him rather vioently. Whack! Whack! Whack • the strap, and Jimmy s wails rent air. This brought Jimmy's little sister and staunch ally on the scene. •tared at her father In rcnsternatioi lor a while; then, as me whacking continued, she spoke firmly: "Step on his corn. Jimmy! rhat'U stop him!" Some people are satisfied to »ak< what they can get. others get what they can take.

"The whole world is engaged tn a unionized labor, with no experience. dance of death with starvation-ann no risk and no renponslbilty. and yet does not realise it." ! cn even terms as to. income. In these weeds Dean Dawcnpon. ; ""'e ail know what mat will do head of th,- Department of Agricul-‘ within half a century or s x>n»r un lure in the University of Illinois.; less means can he found to ccunter-t-ums up the food situation today. ~Hc^net ‘be consequences of tail 1 wide says the era of cheap food Is end'-! spread discrepancy between our agiinnd that the time has arrived when I culture and our organized industry.

it can no longer be taken for granted. 1- part he blames this condition to the lure of high wages paid to industrial vo.kers In cities. ■'The time l* here,” he says. "When he chief national and radical pro'; em. next to free governni,-nt. is the welfare of our lands and of the peoplon which society depends, ano must depend, for their efleciive and effi dent cultivation. The prevailing at tltude towards agilcuitu;.- has bom ■Riiniseration or contempt This hue been Its roots in the glare of the city as compared with what men have been pleased to call the 'isolation

of the country.’ *'

IfcDfl Davcnpop believer, a new day la agriculture Is breaking, and that the time is here when the farmer must work for money, and tor a gooo dual ot i». Ho says the problem of heavy investment In a business wltu but one turnover a year Is a problem of exceeding difficulty for the farmer, and that whatever solution Le may find will involve fooa at a cost to the consumer beyond anything the American people have ever ye*, experienced or even Imagined. "We are going at a breakneck speed

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which provide* and controls the food Unlr.-s some means can be found U; increase the emolutions of the farm a consideraole proportion of our land . will too? be deserted, and much that ts left will furnish a greatly reduced yield by reason of lessened labor." In this connection Dean Davenport tails attention to the fact that the great demand for clover seed has sen.

it up to $30. and sometimes more, a — — bushel—four times the prewar price Dfc ' iU ' burning caustic.or pow

“Th" only explanation for the cur rent price of clover seed Is a wide spread seeding down of land becausot the imposribilily of getting adequate labor, in the mining and factory districts many thousands ol small farmers have left their farms 'o the women folks anC the children ard gone Into industry or tracspoitatior. Unause of the greatly Increased pay

they are liable to get there.

•This will be felt tn the amount o." food, for land In grass can yield but a fraction of what it would yield In grain. This will raise prices because of scarcity and tend to adjust mat ters. But If a fanner must get more for bis labor it would be better all around if be got ft for an adequate food supply than In the form of high prices for insufficient amounts of foodstuff*. Here is an eeonoml problem calling for settlement. The

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ike and every shin In the Indus-

j trial program makes It increasingly

j difficult to retain ui«on the Inni j farmer . annot atrike. In the ordinary j enough workers to feed our populs- j sense of the term, but he can unit lion, not to speak of export, upon j the farm, as thousands are quitting I which we have always depended to; It. and experience shows that once| j keep the balance of trade upon th-.* off the land the farmer doea not go

side of the ledger. We hare aiready j back."

reached a point in our industrial d? Considered ns’lonajly. Dean Davun-

on'-nds that agriculture ts no public than a private question •r, we are Interested lr> the farr hi* own sake. Jurt as we are ted In the banker, the mev-

the farm lo-ag diys n r chant, the carpenter—as human bo wilt - - expensive tnacr.iu- Ings and American citizen.?. He ad i-rial s.‘!k. he.wy risk* and rtit* that perhaps we are even morel

widen the farmer cannot ij.

land enough with hLs own hand* ! i< by the aid of the noat moden ;E nerj. to insure him a labor lr- n • qua 1 to that of the soft cons ti

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