Some time ago the Pierce Company received an order from the British War Department for 250 one-ton and two-ton trucks. It is reported that a competition will be held for a big order expected from the Russian government. The new order will keep at work at the Pierce plant several thousand men, day and night turns. It is not likely that any extra men will be needed, because the present force has almost finished the contract with the British government. Prize Peaches Twenty-eight Years Old. Mrs. Roy Trimble, of Atchison, Kan., has a jar of peaches that took first premium at a recent fair. Nothing unusual about that, but the remarkable part of this story is the fact that the same jar of preserves took a similar premium at the Kansas State fair twenty-eight years ago, when they were exhibited by Mrs. Fred Hartman, Mrs. Trimble’s mother. The fruit is apparently just as perfect to-day as it was when preserved more than a quarter of a century ago. New Way to Stanch Wounds. A preparation which it is said will stop almost instantly the flow of blood from a wound has been devised by Professor Theodor Kocher, of Berne, who was awarded the Nobel prize for surgery in 1912, and his assistant, Doctor A. Fonce. It is called coagulen. The powder is dissolved in water before being applied to a wound. The discoverers of coagulen have made a gift of their secret to the armies in the field. They have sent large quantities of the powder to the surgical headquarters of both German and French armies. War Stops Immigration. Before the war an average of 5,000 immigrants used to arrive daily at Ellis Island, New York. Now the average is only 150 a day, according to Commissioner Uhl. The total number of immigrants into the United States last year was 1,197,892. Of these the number admitted from the Russian empire and Finland was 291,040; from Italy, 265,542; and from Austria and Hungary, 254,825. “Regular Horse for Work.” John Phipps, a farmer near Kalamazoo, Mich., has an old horse that had done her full share of work and was finally allowed to take life easy. Two or three days later, when the other horses had been led to the tank and watered and were being lined up to be harnessed, the old horse ran from the pasture and took her position beside the workers, evidently willing and ready for duty. The old horse has just died. Bandit Raids Poker Party. Twenty men, eight of them playing, were backed away from a poker table in a private room at Iowa City, Iowa, at two o’clock in the morning by a lone bandit and relieved of a forty-dollar pot and about $200 in the bank of the game. He then made a safe get-away. “Mother of Civil War.” Mrs. Sarah Brandon, who died at her home in the southern part of Belmont County, Ohio, a few days ago, was 113 years old. She was known as the “Mother of the Civil War.” She had sixteen sons who served in the war, fourteen for the Union and two for the Confederacy. Most of them never returned. Fight in Dark Forest.