A NERVOUS
BREAKDOWN
Miss Kelly Tells How Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound Restored
Her Health.
Newark, N. J.—“For about three
years I suffered from nervous break
down and got so
weak I couldhardly
i stand, and had head
aches every day. I
• tried everything I
could think of and
was under a phy
sician’s care for two
years. A girl friend
had used Lydia EL
Pinkham’s Vege
j table Compound and
she told me about
Jit From the first
day I took it I began
to feel better and
\ * ara We'l and
\ able to do most any
kind of work. I
'IIIniflLJpWjltjy have been recoin
\ mending the Com
pound ever since and give you my per
mission to publish this letter.”-Mies
Flo Kslly, 476 So. 14th St., Newark,
N. J.
The reason this famous root and herb
remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound, was so successful in Miss
Kelly’s ease was because it went to the
root of her trouble, restored her to a
normal healthy condition and as a result
her nervousness disappeared.
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SIOUX CITY PTG. CO., NO. 34-1918.
SURELY MUST HAVE NERVE
British “Chasing Pilots" Are Required
to Do All Sorts of Stunts
in the Air.
The ordeals that tlie “chasing pilots”
•attached to tlie aviation corps of tlie
British forces at the front have to un
•dergo before they are' considered as
proficient in thein perilous work are
■sufficiently trying to test the nerve
-of Hie bravest flyer. As an army cor
respondent of tlie Philadelphia Public
Ledger puts it, tlie candidate who pass
es Hie required course of aerial
gymnastics must either be all
nerve or possessed of no nerves at
all.
At this school, he says, you will
see tin airplane, thousands of feet
aloft, suddenly fling its nose up and
begin to climb vertically as if the pilot
intended to loop tlie loop. Suddenly it
pauses, and remains for peril ups a full
minute poised perpendicularly on its
tail. Then, with the engine switched
off, it falls .helplessly, tail first, spin
ufhg giddily round and round in n way
that resembles tlie helpless flutter of
a falling leaf. Then suddenly tlie en
gine roars again, tlie twisting, flutter
ing dead tiling becomes instinct with
life, rigid* itself majestically on flash
ing pinions, swoops down in swft and
headlong course, mounts the wind and
soars up and up, as light and grace
ful as any bird.
Other nerve-shattering tilings they
do, these soaring young demigods’ of
the air—feats that seem nothing short
of miraculous to the earth-bound ones
who stand gazing upward in awe.—
Youth’s Companion.
Kindness never made au enemy.
1 Children 1
J Like *
H the attractive fla* ■
S' vor of the healthful a
! cereal drink M
IpostumI
5 And it's fine for 1
them too, for It 1
pf contains nothing gl
ff| harmful-only the SR
111 dcodness of wheat [ J
and pure molasses. !
Bj PeSTUM Is now re$i- B
• lariy used in place |g§
m of tea and coffee )S§
WEe in many of the best ^1
of families. mk
B Wholesome econom- S§1
B leal and healthful. W
m “There's a Reason ” W
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Dry Vegetables at Home
Article No. /—Necessary Equipment Found in Sg**^
Every Home or Easily Made
B» P. G. HOLDEN ~}C-.
AT NO other time -mm, ft bo important to dry or can fntlt or vege
tables In the home as It Is this year, as commercially canned prod
nets will be hard to obtain. In a special bulletin, “Pood Conserva
tion,” recently Iseoewl by the United States Department of Agricul
ture, the following statement of greatest interest to every family Is made:
"We are informed by the U. S. Government that It has contracted for 65
per cent of the output of the eanners of the country, and that the Alllee will
probably take over the
other 85 per cent This
Information should in
duce American house
wives to preserve veg
etables w h 1c h are
plentiful In the sum
mer for winter con
sumption.”
Drying saves the
product saves storage
space, saves transpor
tation. Dried products
may bo kept any
where, as long as they
are in (airtight con
tainers and are ont of
the reach of rats or
mice. i
Any one can suc
cessfully dry and save
any product When de
sired for food, all prod
ucts can be partly re
stored, many .of them
to nearly their original
condition. The house
wife who takes vege
tables fresh from the
garden and follows directions, being care
ful not to use too much heat la drying,
will preserve nil the taste and nutrition
originally contained In the green vege
tables.
The equipment for drying Is as simple i
as the method. It consists of three frames
such as any boy can make, any kind of a
cook stove, a pot or pan or a tin bucket;
a wire basket, or a flour mek, or even a
piece of cheese cloth that can be fash
ioned Into the shape of a bag by bringing
the four corners together; a few pie pans,
some dinner plates and an earthenware
dish or jar.
Each of the frames should be about 27
inches long, 14 inches wide, and 1% Inches
Method of Constructing Rape deep. The sides end ends can be made of
Harness for Drying Frwrne. wood, and the bottom should be of gal
vanized window screen wire, fastened with
double pointed tacks. Get two pieces of small sized rope, or window weight
cord, each six feet long. Tie the ends of each piece together, making two
loops, each exactly 80 inches hmg (Fig. 2). Place one loop around one end of the
frame, the other loop around the other end (Fig. 4). Bring the tipper ends of the
loops together and fasten them with a third loop, or double rope, sufficiently
long to reach from a few feet above the stove to a firm hook in the ceiling
(Figure S). Near each end of a block of wood, 8 Inches long and 1% inches
wide, bore o hole large enough to let the doubled rope pass through easily.
Pr is the end of the upright rope through one hole and shove the block down
to the junction of the two loofW (Fig. 8). Tie a k^St in the upright rope
to keep the 'lower end of the block from slipping up; then pass the double
rope through the upper bole fn the block (Fig. 1), and place the upper end
of the upright loop over ths hook In the celling.
The purpose of the block of wood Is to make it easy to adjust the
height oJ the frame. To tutss the frame, pull the rope through the upper
’ ole In the block until the desired height Is reached, then fasten the frame
In pla-.rf by looping the "slack” of the rope around the upper end of the block
as shov-n In Figure 5.
Place two loops of rope, each about 20 Inches long, around the suspended
frame, one loop at each end, and let them hang down. In the lower ends
cf these loops, place the second frame and suspend the third frame from
the second In the same manner.
t TWILIGHT IN X
t THE WOODS t
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From the London Time*.
Going to bed Is one thing, gacttag up
Is another. There are no doubt, there
must be, people vno rise with lartt-Ilke
facility, and Incontinently break Into
profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
There are such people and they are
rather hard to live with. But going to
bed Is a very different matter. To go
to bed is, on the face of ft, an easy
thing, and the pressure of the times
Is in the direetlon of making It sasler.
Hard worked people need a great deal
at work, and every one Is glad, «r ought
be, hard worked today. Thle is the day
of work, and every One s glad, or ought
to be, when the nitiht cometh. More
over, there Is a too long delayed move
ment on foot to make chlktron go to
bed earlier. It Is a town movement and
fits in with the policy that people who
are called educationists hare an
nounced the "healthy, wealthy and
wise" policy. But, strangely enough,
children do not like going to bed; they
much prefer falling asleep in their
traces, so as not to miss a moment of
the gladness of living.
Children, especially In our village,
make every- possible excuse for not
going to bed. In the big hotraws they
are, they say, afraid to go to bed;
afraid of bogies, who glide across magic
casements or slide down miraculous
moonbeams: afraid of the tox, with
his three quick, hoarse barks, In the
neighboring woods; afraid of tbs owls
who cry; afraid (to think of It!) of the
nightengales who sing of hurt lore and
irretrievable fate. But fber are not
raally afraid; they want to be up and
seeing and .listening and doing. The
cottage children achieve more fully
what the manor house children long for.
They know something at first hand
of the mysteries—mysteries of sunset
and moonrlse, half light and moon
light, starlight and firelight and no
light, mysteries of glade and woodland
and winding, shadowy paths, wbteh all
children crave after. Going *o bod! It
is only mortals who go to bed, and
children are immortals.
It is right and proper for town child
ren to go to bed early: the streets are
no places for them. But In the coun
try the lure of the twilight, of clean,
cool, flower scented breezes on faces
warm with the gathered-« vitlght of a
long June day, is ir tible. The
magie of a warm Junt ” ...Mg tn the
woodland paths Is such mat no child
can resist it. The birds do not resist
It, though they will arise before the
sun. The skylark is singing long he
fore sunrise. Late in the dusk, mjs
terlously flitting, a grey shadow In a
moon-gray copse, a cuckoo calls. Ids
cote dominates the eventidtt Jhecall of
a magician who bids >t*e“wl>«d]a id
oafs and gnomes come out from th dr
shelters and dance on a mrf in a trrtfen;
glade. And, behold, they come.
Sb&dowy, tiny
ahritl little
calling from tree trunk to tree trunk,
and they hare a ffrt, a little glowing
red charcoal heap, the hearth of their
revelry. And there are human oafa and
gnomes, and they are Breathing, and in
a sense making, the mysteries' that
mere humanity talks about and writes
about. They are in lore with their
forest and it* winding aisles and green
theaters of unrecorded Joys. And they
are provident folks, those forerunners
of the midsummer fairies; they hare
brought their sapper with therm and
(adventure of all adventures) are eat
ing It beside their own hearth in the
heart of the bosky wood. There is a
moment in spring when the summer
heat has not yet come and the winter
cold has fled away, when the green of
the year has no darkness in ft, and the
quick ear can feel the growth of things,
in which the children claim with irre
sistible ardor the right to take the twi
light road.
But at last, In the deepening
shadows, the little people take their
homeward paths, and the charcoal
glows untended In the quiet clearing
that the full moon roofs wttli beams.
Even oafs and gnomes must go to bed,
and the mallet of the sleep god Is smit
ing them. More and more they scatter,
each seeking some special path to soms
special cottage in the scattered Tillage.
Quietly they loiter along, golden lads
and lassies all, plucking a teat, snatch
ing a song, till at last mother and her
apron loom In sight and a word of
scolding is obliterated with bread and
butter ere bed, in a twinkllDg, ends thf
long, glad June day.
Great Britain's Bit.
From the IxusSofi Daily Mews.
Wlien war broke out the British army
consisted of 880,000 regulars, 200,000 re
serves and 200,000 territorials. About 100,
000 of these were serving abroad. But au
expeditionary for« of 1*0,000 was put Into
France. In a fortnight there were 100,900
volunteers. In the fifth week 175,009 men
enrolled—no fewer than *0500 in one flay.
In the/lrst year 2,*00.000 tnen had enlisted.
The position today Is that the empire ha*
raised 7,800,000 men, as follows:
England . 4,530,000
Wales .
Scotland .-.. <20,000
Ireland . 170,000
Self governing dominion*. 900.000
Native troops and labor eo»p. .1,000,000
• Total .7500,000
In 1907 alone 820,000 troops were put Into
the army, aid this was before the age
limit was raised from 41 to *1, or even 56
In cartajn Instance*. U means that In
England and Scotland one person In every
seven and one-half is serving, while in
the dominions it is one person In every 15.
erfeje^o^the grave^S§e^m^Sjeve?v^5§f^
Is or has been flgbUngUlWin&AyStttJrtBftii':
land or sea.
f Jfc}; "
To the end of 1515.550,000
—In thu ftnv 1510: n . i ■...........,580,800—
In the year 1517A....800,000
Chain of Mieraphonaa Suggested for Now York Harbor.
A project for throwing about New York harbor a deadline for sub
marines Is outlined by H. (lernabach in the Electrical Experimenter. The
Illustration shows how a chain of submerged microphones connected with j
a central switchboard is suggested, to listen for the sound of the whirring !
submarine propellers. Upon the receipt of telltale noises waiting de- j
Stroyera are dispatched to the indicated vicinity and the submarine hunted .
down.
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Taxes and the Bond Issue. j i
From the N*w York W or I'd. »
The House ways and means committee is baginning work on a
ivar revenue bill to raise $8,000,000,000 from taxes this year, instead
»f the $4,000,000,000 raised last year. It expects to have the bill 1
ready by late in August, while the treasury department is planning |
a big loan drive for late September.
The president has urged early action on the tax bill for the |
reason that business men shoukl know where they stand as soon as •
possible. It is quite as important that the people generally should I
know where they stand in relation to taxes in order that they may 1
know what they can do in subscribing for the new Liberty bonds.
This will not matter so much with those whose incomes have
been favorably affected by war conditions or by that species of infla
tion which iB reflected m a more or less arbitrary and very fiigh a"nd i
fictitious state of prices and valuations of property. But it will I
matter greatly to the BO-called salaried class, who have been a large j
support of previous band issues, but whose nominal incomes have not j
advanced and whose real incomes or wages have been falling steadily
under rising prices and necessary eosts of living.
There is nothing elastic in these incomes. It is all the otbe* way.
It is a case of being eanght between an immovable body on one side
and in irresistibly oonstricting force moving from the other side. It
will be a case not of willingness to continue buying bonds, but of an
honest inability to do anything of the kind.
The tax revenues are to be doubled. It is important not only that
congress keep in mind this forthcoming bond issue in its distribution
of the doubled tax burdens, but that this class of income earners as
well as all others be informed beforehand of just where they stand in
relation thereto.
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t BRIGANDS AND CONQUERORS. 4
4 - 4
4 From the Columbus (OMo) Dtsparfoh. 4
4 It Is an old, old story, but It Is 4
4 applicable today when considering 4
4 a certain emperor and the doing of 4
4 his troops In stricken Russia. It 4
4 will not, therefore, do any harm to 4
4 again relate It. 4
4 Onee there was a Thracian pirate 4
4 named Dlcnldes, who had been rav- 4
4 tshing the seae In the days of Alex- 4
4 ander. He was finally rounded up 4
4 and taken before the mighty con- 4
4 queror for sentence. Alexander said 4
4 to him something like tilts: 4
4 "You contemptible brigand, how 4
4 dare you lnf«*t the seas with your 4
4 misdoing*'?” 4
4 But tt didn’t frtght-en Dtonkles. 4
4 The pirate simply grinned as he re- 4
4 piled: 4
4 "And you! By what right do you 4
4 rbvlsh the universe? Just because 4
4 I have but one ship I am called a 4
4 brigand; but, havtng a whole fleet 4
4 at"your command, you are called a 4
4 conqueror!” 4
4 It Is recorded that Alexander 4
4 saw the point and released the 4
4 pirate. But the moral Is that If one 4
4 man were to go Into the Ukraine 4
4 and rob the people^ he would be 4
4 called a robber or brigand or some- 4
4 thing else despicable. But here we 4
4 have the German emperor throwing 4
4 thousand# of men Into the region 4
4 and taking everything they can 4
4 carry off and murdertng the people 4
4 who refuse to give up thetr property 4
4 to them, and It' Is called warfare. 4
War, A* Usual.
Chester M. Wright, In the hkew York
Tribune.
Big picture* are made of little sweeps
and daubs of paint. Big, wide mind im- j
presslor.s sometimes are made up of little
jottings and flashings of men and things.
The^war "over there” ts really a coHeotion
of experiences through which millions of
men and women are going In various
ways. It is made up of howltaers and
food shortage, of trenches and hospitals,
of women who eay "goodby" to their men
with a smile on their faces, and of men
who go bravety Into Ivcllftre over heaving
parth—of these and many other things Is
this war made up. It Is made up of Eng
lish girls working tn big munition plants
where they wear rubber shoes to keep
from blowing themselves up, of engineers
who pull long trains of wounded into a
big lxjndon railroad elution, of brave men
who go up over that same city to fight off
murderous raiders, of nurses who care
for men who may lkve and who may die
and of silent folk who go wrtnout the food
they used to know about, uncomplaining
and resolute. And ft Is made up of a
thousand other things, some of which
don’t look as If they had any relation to
war. Here are *ome little flashes at just
a few of the things that we saw while we
(members of the American Federation of
Labor mission to Great Britain and
France) went through Britain uml France
a tour lasting five weeks, in which we
saw and saw until our eyes ached with
seeing ar.d our minds balked at taking in
any more of the multitude of strange im
pressions:
The war is as near to New York as It
lt)nde»»*r4iardtunt<hdwuai igipot. if it
jy,er« fdu.wauld see something like Ihls:
The noire That flank the public lit rar£
entrance would be covered with sandl ags.
The statue 0 NeWf?'Nietor? n by cl,J
hall would no longer stanu as a vl sible
symbol of rrvsditat'.on and wish- * You
' tvOtllil S06 H j'HHUW ;illb of Iiibi,*”*. unape
out of the most precious of the art win
dows in the cathedrals and churches.
Queer crtss crosses of paper would turn
shop windows tnto checkerboards, so that
when the flying bits of Iron came splinter
ing through them the glass wouldn’t fly In
huge quantities.
In Washington square the great nreh
would be lost to view under a protecting
structure of wood and sandbags or brush.
There would be signs near every subway
approach and near every basement door.
On these signs would be an arrow and
this Inscription. ”Botnb shelter: 50 peo
ple,” or whatever number the place might
accommodate. Now and then a structure
would be closed to the pablle—wrecked by .
a bomb, as Is St. George’s church. In
Parts, where on Good Friday, a shell
from the superoannon came hurtling
against a huge plllkr, killing 107 as they
prayed. A bit of stone chipped out of
the municipal building would show where
a crippled airplane had crashed Into the
strttefsre while trying to make a land
tng In the Inadequate space near the
bridge approach.
And the visitor wouM be toM about how
things used to be before the Germans
came so near. But the fortitude of liberty
loving humanity would be Just as evident
In New York as it is In Paris, lei us hope.
Most Wilts Are Good.
Robert Grant. In Scribner’s Magazine.
The right to regulate what shall be done
with one’s property, after death, remains
substantially intact, and this, too, not
withstanding the pofrolar Impression that
the Intention of testators Is very easily
frustrated. It Is a current belief, which
dertves color from the sensational con
tests of which we read In the newspapers,
that a great many wills are broken. But,
though the attaeks of disappointed or
greedy relatives are numerous, the con
trary Is (rue, according to the records
of tire largest county of the slate with
which I am most familiar and where
predatory tendencies against testators arc
, well developed.
! Tirese records show a steady average of
rather less than 1 per ce-.it of wills dis
allowed during the last 10 y. ais, a result
whloh Is made more remarkable by the
reminder that some of these were set
aside because of defective attestation In
stead of the mental incapacity and uudue
Influence of the maker ordinarily urged
by the rapacious. The statistics for the
I same period show a yearly average of
less than 1 (ter cent of wills compromised
j -that Is where th«f legatees and next of
kin agreed to split their differences with
the sanction of the eourt. These figures,
which are undoubtedly Indicative of con
dll Ions elsewhere, sevcal a disposition on
the part of Juries til uphold the validity
of legal testaments and lend to contra
dict the notion of the man In the street
that Ills last wishes are apt to be disre
garded.
It Is rather surprising however, that the
showing on tho side of validity should be
so good considering the haphazard and
hasty, If not sloppy, execution of so many
wills. Instead of regarding the making
of a will as one of the most solemn of
I ceremonials, the man In the street, if not
the capitalist. Is constantly asking foolish
chances, as if he conceived It to be a
privilege of democracy to be able to make
a will In "any old way” and have it stand,
Kept His Hand In.
From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
"Smith ls~a great golf bug, isn’t ho?"
said Brown.
"Yes," said Jones. "He kept his hand
Dta#>iuwafter..and practiced every day."
"But how could he practice In winter
hfksiare closed?’ asked Brown.
**W#M^ilretrmjwntown every morning,
and every 300 yards he would swing at an
-tmaglrn ry—hall with his cane." replied
Jones "Then he would cuaa a blue
AMERICAN WAS DOVE
OF PEACE FOR SURE
Made Airplane Flight of 200
Miles and Prevented
Another War.
London, (by maf]>—An American’*
flight by airplane ZOO miles from Jasay
lo Odessa was the means of bringing
about peace between the Bolshevlsts
and the Rumanians last Margh.
The American "peace dove,” as the
Rumanians called him after hts daring
flight was Colonel Joseph Boyle. Col
»nel Boyle, who was formerly In th«
Canadian army on the west front, was
sent to Russia as the representative
of the committee of the American En
gineers In London and spent several
months In Rumania and south Russia
The story of his secret airplane trip
Is now told for the first time.
Colonel Boyle Was one of the few
foreigners In Ruesia who had the con
fidence and close friendship of the ex
tremist Russian parties from the be
ginning of the revolutionary period,
He was known among the bolshevlsts
as a man of action, honest and fearless
ind anxious to extend them a helping
nand In every work of reconstruction.
On his joumeylngs around Russia he
was never Interfered with or chal
lenged. He carried personal letters and
credentials from Lentne, Trotsky and
ft hoet of lesser leaders and could ob
tain almost anything he wanted from
the local or provincial Soviets. Ha
was accompanied everywhere by a staff
of three Russian offloors who spoke
English fluently and who displayed
great personal loyalty to Colonel Boyle.
During the latter part *f February
the situation between the bolshevlst*
•nd Rumanians became very serious.
War had even been declared on Ru
mania by the bolshevlst government,
•fling to misunderstandings about the
•tatus of certain Russian troops In
Rumanian territory and Rumanian
troops In Bessarabia. Active hostili
ties, however, had been generally avoid
ed, nnd both sides were presumably
anxious to reach an amicable under
standing.
But communication between Odessa
•nd Jaesy was In a state of disorgan
ization which made the telegraphs and
the malls useless. Every attempt at
negotiations between .the Rumanians
•t Jassy and the bolshevlsts at Odessa
was blocked or brought to naught by
by Intriguers or mischief-maker*. It
begun to look ns If things were going
to drlfl straight into bloodshed on a
large scale.
It was at this point that Colonel
Boyle, who had been trying to alleviate
the food shortage In Rumania, arranged
a, meeting of unofficial representatives
of both sides on the Rumanian frontier
and succeeded in putting through an
agreement between these representa
tives. The Rumanian government wo*
ready to approve the decision of these
Informal plenipotentiaries, but how was
formal confirmation or even favorable
consideration, to be obtained from the
bolshevlst side?
The bolshevlst “delegates” were with
out credentials or authority, but they
felt if their case were properly put be
fore the authorities In Odessa their
course of action would be approved.
Travel between Jaaey and Odessa had
been Impossible for several week*
owing to the tearing up of the railway
line in Benderi and the wrecking of
several bridges *nd treaties.
Colonel Boyle volunteered to be the
bearer of the olive branch, to carry the
peace proposals to Odessa with ths
least possible delay by means of an
airplane which he had already per
suaded the Rumanian authorities to put
at his disposal, and he proposed also to
use his own personal Influence with the
bolshevist leaders In Odessa to secure
their approval.
• Speed y action was necessary, for it
was known that orders .had already
been given to the bolshevlst troops to
begin hostilities on a large scale, and
It was felt that onee serious fighting
had begun, the chances of an amicable
adjustment would be much diminished.
The necessary papers were haetjly
prepared and Blgned, and Colonel Boyle
motored to an airdrome near Jassy
where a Rumanian pilot was waiting.
The weather on the day of Colonel
Boyle’s departure was stormy and
threatening, and several aviation ex
perts advised him to postpone his
journey. He declined to be dissuaded
and left Jassy about noon, arriving
safely at Odessa shortly before sunset.
The flight was made at a height of
about 8,000 feet across a rough moun
tainous country and in the face of a
driving sleet storm. The machine twice
developed engine trouble, but this was
overcome and a landing was made in
an open field not far from the water
front at Odessa. By midnight Colonel
Boyle had secured the signing of the
peaco treaty and the cancellation of
the orders for a bolshevist offensive
against Rumania._
Trench Shoe Four Sole* Thick.
From the New York Keening Post.
According to the government hide and
leather control board-the principal use
to which leather Is being put at the
present moment is for the Pershing
•trench shoe. Beginning August 1 there
will be delivered 1,500,000 pairs of the Per
shing trench shoes every month. Each
pair of these shoos welghB five and a half
pounds. The shoes are heavier than those
used by the armies of-ClreaV Britain or
Franco. They ure composed of a sole
about three-quarters of an Inch thick,
made of .four soles, or four thicknesses
of leather. The sole and heel are com
pletely studded with iron nail*. Affixed
to ea.S't heel and sole are iron plates so
that the soldier is wearing out the metal
nil the time instead of leather. After
these metal nails and plates wear out tho
shces are exchanged for new ones, while
I the old ere being restudded and replated
to be worn again. The uppers of these
Bhoes are the finest and heaviest that
can be made.
The largest use of leather outside of
that set asido for the Pershing trench
shoe, or possibly larger, is for harness,
for which there is a tremendous demand.
It is stated that the government expects,
within 60 days, to have ail the black
harness leather It requires; as for russet
harness leather, large quantities are still
required. The tanners of tho Uvited
States are cn<louvoring to supply this de
mand for russet harness leather, wpich
unquestionably will be met in time. A«my
officers are paying special attention to
the manufacture end quality of stirrup
straps for cavalry and artillery horses.
They are making the most minute Uisp ic
tlon of every stirrup atrap, because If
one breaks it means almost certain death
to the rider. The strap is made of rus>,-t
leather; It has sot to be of the ve,jr
finest quality and as strong as it is possi
ble to turn it out.
Bad News.
From the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
Fancy dresses were decideiy In her tine,
and her life ambition was to ..eep up thu
deception of youthful appearance.
"Elizabeth,” she called, "did you get th%
flowers that I am to wear In my hair to
night?”
“Yes, mum,” was the reply, but —
“But what?”
“I've mislaid tlia hair, mum!” ,