Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1914 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

HOGS, CATTLE OR MENWHICH7* Governor Ferria Values Mfti Mora „ Than Live Stock. "Michigan Is making a vigorous to ‘stamp out’ hog cholera. Hogs are marketable," said Governor Woodbrldge N. Ferris to the citizens of his state in a recent proclamation calling for co-operation in the anti-tuber-eulosis campaign. "Michigan is making a vigorous effort to ‘stamp out’ tuberculosis in cattle. Cattle are marketable. Why not make a strenuous effort to •stamp out’ tuberculosis in men,/ women and children? Human beings are priceless.” Red Cross Christmas Seals are a means for every man, woman and child in the United States to have a share in “stamping out” tuberculosis. Have you bought your share?

BEAL ON EACH 80LE. “Am I using Red Cross Christmas Seals f’ reiterated a good natured old cobbler as he looked up from the qhoe he was repairing to the person who stood blocking the doorway of the little shop and who had asked the question originally. “I don’t know of them. What are they for?” he asked. When told that the little stickers .were being sold all over the United States to raise money to prevent tuberculosis the cobbler became very much Interested. “Now, I call that a good cause,” he drawled. “I don’t write any letters, and I don’t send any Christmas packages. There’s Just me and the old woman left I can’t use my seals that way, but I’ll tell you how I can use them. I will stick a seal on the sole of every shoe I tap.”

PRESIDENT WILSON ON RED CROSS SEALS. As an expression of his Interest In the Red Cross Seal and Antl-tubercu-losls Campaign President Wilson recently wrote to the National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis: “May I not take this occasion to express to you my deep Interest in the work of the National Anti-tuberculosis association and my hope that Its work Is growing In efficiency and extent from year to year? May I not particularly express my Interest In the Red Cross Christmas Seal, whose sale has been the means of raising funds for the work ? ‘ “ * “It seems to me that; this Is a particularly interesting and sensible way of enabling the people of the country to give this great work their sup port” r SANTA CLAUS HAS^-TUBERCU* losisA-' On Christmas eve little Dorothy, possessed of the whooping cough, was doing some fancy whooping for company that had come. “Dorothy, dear,” the mother said, “you must stop coughing or Santa Claus won’t come. If he hears yon coughing he’ll be afraid to oome In.” “I should worry," Dorothy replied, showing full familiarity with modern expression. “He’s got tuberculosis himself.” "{. vp “Tuberculosis! Who told you Santa Claus had tuberculosis T‘ “Oh, everybody knows that Don’t you buy tuberculosis stamps for him •very Christmas?"