[ncfiana Town It Demolished by Terrible Tornado

Breaking of a Great Levee During the Middle West Floods

Coming?

Now the Blind Can Hear Print

BIBIKS FOR THE BUND

Tills Is a BOX* tor the Mind prtMMl In American Braille by the American Bible society. It leqnfaed 19 eettimes, weighs UO pooeds and coetg rre to produce. In comparison Is la. held by the lady to the pixKqgraph, a ges. The

s ctnall eoongfa to be carried In set pocket and aeUe at a price i the rearii of anyone.

BUILDING IN A CRATE

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i light projected by a day photograph ig perfemdoos In a rerolring disk and dby

Gift for National Woman’s Party

A bolldlng on Bros Os. which was -crated up“ for repairs after a big fire had gutted tbs Interior receody. Sc

An Always Timely Fable. J. II. C coatrtbotee The lexy men came to a tree Luton with loecioos fruit and threw himseli down In Ms broad shade. “Why bother pick any." be uusnd. Tf I wait long enoegb It will fall of its own accord, and waiting U coca an easy Job." 1 go the lazy man waited and b. doe : time the trait fell. He crawled about m the gram and picked it up, only to 9nd thtv it was to decayed as to be unavaUsbk ss food. Moral—H he trait of today Is the garbage of toi lorrow.—Bos

Why Coconut* Tarive In Raratoo^jL This is the dmo of year in Kara tonga, an Island nine days* voyage

L<j, e dbouy. wo "y nils work of art will bs —— ns. «-hich o.oriooka the capltri at

govenunect me lies its annual Inspection’ and f.nes those who ba*e u ( complied with the Island Uw which provides thal the heed of each family shall plant and cultivate a coconut tree for each yoar of a child's age until be is old enough to plant wwm blu,aeif Tbi lalcnd U no'.od for Its hue md sfauedant coconuts, many of whn h Mtr brought to this Country—hew Vorfc Brsalng Pout.

Floods In the Mississippi river valley have been doing immense damage. Many towns have been Inundated and millions of acres of land are under water. This photograph was taken Just as the 90 foot levee at Beardstown, 111., gar* •

MRS. HARDING TTiup “Scotty” Hero Newsboy, Comes Home

The latent botanical development tv to be a crosa and the Uggar lily. It has bees named by botanists the Mrs. Warran Q. Harding

X L. MITCHELL MEDAL

draped with the American killed In artton.' This with a detachment of his

newsboy of Brookline, Mass., wbo ran way to sodred and Pint Infantry proud of him by killing returned to Boston the other day—In bis coffin flag. The report reads: “Private Albert E. Scott. . shows the funeral procession of “Scotty**

ent acting as a guard of honor.

Scene in Beardstown During Flood

Jazz Even in the Hospitals Now

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“It to n pretty state of affairs" some people »U1 say, “that you can't get sway from the constant Jass." However, hospitals are now forced by competition to add this to the list of attractions, end here we see surgeons at the Providence hospital. Washington, performing so operation to the lively strains of canned music.

INTERESTING FACTS An electrical method for quickly detecting counterfeit coins has been Invented by o mint official in India. A new gauge for registering the air pressure to automobile tires replaces the valve cap end does not have to be removed when a tire is Oiled. The Pekin Gazette, founded to A. D. 908. was for s long time the only journal permitted to be published in Chins, but within the tost sixty years a number of others have been eatab-

The windows of the famous Southwark cauie-iml in London hare not been washed in 20 years. Motor-driven, a new machine Into which safey raaor blades can be Inserted while It to in motion, sharpens 250 of them an hour. New w indow shade brackets not only can be adjusted to bold shades of different widths, but ere also equipped with hooks for curtain poles. A loose movable duw replaces the usual slide electrode to a new Preach spark plug and prevents oil and cartx* rising .o torn short circuits