Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 August 1919 — Page 4
TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1919.
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OFFERS EVERYBODY A CHANCE | Philanthropic Seattle Man Throws Open Hall for Absolutely Free and Uninterrupted Speech. I A |ihi!:intlm>pio li^hi protimtor—on* 3 ' the enterprising gentlemen who has j I in the habit of putting on a box ;ng inafoh every week or two—Is imirh r.nnoyod at tin* spasmodic interference of flu* officers of the law in his huslTn*s< affairs, and Is proposlng in throw open his hall for a weekly fornni of free ami uninterrupted speech, in phne of the boxing bouts. ‘ I want every guy that has nnythitig *o say to come over and say it,” said Tin* promote: according to the Seattle I\>st-Intelligencer, “and I'll give him ten minub s to spiel, and then he must shut his trap. I don't care what he is; any kind of a mil can come over ami say right out what is on his chest. My luck has boon so bad, and my spirits so depressed, thnl I want a laugh, and I lu'lieve a nut gathering of ihN kind would equal anything tin nphcinn circuit or I’antages or tin* In"f of them ever put on. You know, ralure keeps playing jokes on humanir.\ all the tine*: she mixes together nue queer patterns in heads, and n ]r>\ of fellows can’t help what they think; some have a bute h for one ’lung ami some for another; I suppose we eotthl get a few startling facts on anything from rdlgion to chess in ■ In se verbal tournaments. And it " ill he absolutely fr**e; I might pass the hot around at the close of the entertainment to square tut* on the hull rent, hut for the rest I wouldn't want a cent to pay outside of the entertainment I get out of it. As soon as I can pull a Jazz hand together to tit in " iih the speechmaking I " ill announce the details, and we will he sure in for a summer’s entertainment, if the sheriff don’t close us up.”
MANIFOLD USES OF THE OX Anima’ May With Truth Be Said to Be Most Useful of All the Domestic Animals. Of all <>nr donii-sl ii - animnU the n* M certainly the most useful, wrltwi Henri Kuhre in Our Ilmnhle Helpers. Durin* If* !*f»t!me It Urnvrs 'he cart to mountatnnu* regions and works at the plow in the tlllnEe of the fields; furthermore, the cow funiMies milk In abundance. Given over to the butcher, the animal becomes n source of manifold products, each part of Its body having i value of iis own. The flesh Is highly nutritious; the skin Is made Into leather for harness und shoes; the hair furnishes stufllng for saddles; the (allow serves for muUIng • ■smiles nml soap; the hones, half cal'•inert, give i kind of charcoal or bone Mack iisrii especially for refining sugar ami making It perfectly white; this charcoal, alter ihus being usi-d; ts a very rich igrlcultural fertilizer; heated In water to a high temperature, the sume hone yields the blue used by earpenUtra; the largest and thickest *.ones go to the tun er s shop, whore *hejr are manufactured Into buttons sod other small objects, the horns nre fanhloned hr the maker of small wares 'nto snulT boxes and powder boxes; the Mood Is used concurrently with the (tone of black In refining sugar; the Intestines cured, twisted, and dried, are made Into strings for musical In sfninienls; finally, the gall Is fre.piently turned to account by dyers and cleaners in cleaning fabrics and partially restoring Iheir original luster. PETE HAD OBEYED ORDERS U'teraI Minded Soldier Came Near Getting Hi* Commanding Officer Into a Bad Mess. There is n certain young ofllorr who, si-cording i i bis own stoi |s thanking fcls stars (but General Pershing had a sense of 'humor “Home of my men were Polish, mid kef.er obllers never lived, hut I guess In Poland life has been one long, sad story," slid the officer. “Anyway. 1 never run across a bunch who took rflings so literally. One night thef.cr- • landed mi an re In the trench. In the morning I (old one of my nion, Pete, ve called him. to take ft away. “‘Where . h til I take i' 1 .'' be asked. “‘Oh, anywhere.' 1 answered peevishly. •pn it to bed In Pershing's tent * “A liltb* laier a brother officer came thing and said: ‘The old man wants you and there’s something doing.’ “I couldn't Imagine what was up midi I st.eid before the chief. He eyed me sternly and then pointed to his Aiinh and would you believe it, there mas that Illumed shell. Pete sure had obeyed orders. Well ! thought I was *ri for It, tint Pershing suddenly he gao to smile. ||i- said : T Just want to • pfltlon you not to order Pete to cap t*je Hcrlln until tbs rest of us are re, 'v to go with hliu. He might go ••4 do It, you know.' ”—UekobvUi Herald.
Edmond Dantes’ Prison. rtefore the great world war the Inst prisoners condemned to the Chateau d’lf, made famous by Pmnas’ novel. “The fount of Monte frlsto," were a number of Arabs seized during the Algerian revolt of 1S71 and taken out In 1S7J to he sent to French Guinea. To day the Island's only Interest Is historical. When the tourisis come to Marseilles guides show them In the old dungeons the tunnels which the Abbe Faria dug Into the cell of Edmond Dantes They even point out the spot where Dantes, sewn up in the ahbe’s shroud, was burled Into the sea and so efTeeii-d bis esiupe.
Many C'es for Sraweed. In Franco I ( nds utility a* a stiffener for mattresses and as size for straw hats, while the native fish ermcn nf SoiiiIi Australia make ropes and fishing nets from local varieties. A certain variety, known In Ireland as icp, has boon recommended by a fnnv.Hs pl.vsb Ian as a cure for rheumatism and throat affections If oaten tan while In some parts of KngInnd and Wales a variety of aei*weed, known as "Inver," has been In demand for years as a vegetable. Served with roast meats. It Is said to be extremely palatable.
When Texas Was a Republic. P.efore Its annexation to the Fnlt-d States, in 1st;,. Texas was an Ind.pendent republic with a much larger area than it has at this time, though it Is now’ the largest state of the I’nlon. Its area as a republic was ,1711,111;: square miles, in ISott the state cede.) to the Fn led Slates all territory heyond its present limits of 274.to<! square miles, in consideratlnn of fill.OonulM In bonds, with the proceeds of which Tt xns paid nff her state debt
Flawless Emeralds Rare. An emerald free from flaw would hr tho most precious of all stones, aecording n> experts nf the Seiithsonian Institution. Washington. The emerald I- unfortunately scMmn flawless, and • re not this the ease it Would be nf giea'cr value than the diamond. Fla .v- '< ss epa r: Ids weighing more than f< rr • ■amts are aire itg the rarest Jew. «; a • orfect stone of four carats is vii<qSi.y priceless. A-elent Engineering Feat. The Plo-ngtn Irrigation system is one nf ihe niosi noteworthy examples of an path cng'ie’erlng feat and deserves fo rank w ith the Pyramids The head waters of the sv item are la the foothills of the Thibetan mountains al tbo city of Kvvan llslen. w In re the Eu Kmug loo.ii, through the northern per. of the plain find makes Its mad P"i'h toward th‘ si'a, TTlc river bed falls in level l.'JtKt feet during it,s 7h mile trip along the edge of the plain Sonic Idea of the magnitude of the engineering 'ns!: may be realized from the fact that Hie flow during a freshet Is not far from 30,000,000 cubic feet of water a minute, approximately the flow of the Niagara river.—Asia Muga- J slue.
HOMESICK FOR ARCTIC SNO'VS No Affectation About the Longing for Far North That Is Experienced by Explorers. If you arc nf ordinary health and strength, if you are .voting enough to be adaptable and Independent enough to shake off the influence of books and belief, you ran find good reason to be as content and comfortable In the North as anywhere on earth. If yon remember that all of us who have spent more than a year “living on the country,” are quite of the Eskimo opinion that no food on earth is better than carilion meat, and If you have any experience in your life ns a hunter anywhere, you will realize that In the evenings when we sit in these warm snow houses, feasting with keen appetites on unlimited quantities of ladled ribs, we have all the creature comforts. What we lack, if we feel any luck at all, will be possibly the presence of friends far away, or the chance to hear opera or see Hie movies. At any rate. It is true that today in the movie infested city I long for more snow house evenings after caribou hunts ns I never In Ihe North longed for clubs nr concerts or orange groves. And this Is not peculiar to me. The men who have hunted with me are nearly all of the same mind—they are either in the North now, on the way back there by whaling ship, nr eating Iheir hearts out because they cannot go.—Vllhjalnotr Stefansson in Harper’s Magazine. Probably Envious. “After a few months in other states, T was returning to Indianapolis," remarked a traveling salesman, “and 1 don't mind telling you I was glad to be getting back home. As I sat down beside Hie stranger I told him how good it was to he hack In the land of cornfields. “So we started to talk about the beauty spots of Mother Nature. It Is nothing more than natural for any lloosler to talk about li’.s own state. And 1 had to ask him whether he had ever been In Brown county. "The stranger hoiked out of the car window a minute, saying softly to himself: 'Brown county. Brown county.' When he looked around at me again he said; " ‘Yes, I have been there. That's the place where the squirrels have to carry a lunch with them when they go across the county, Is It not?'”—Indianapolis News. Flowers of Poland According to an English newspaper correspondent who recently reported a Journey he had made from Paris to the Polish capital, the most Impressive spectacle that he saw was the mantle of blossoms, clustered profusely, which fringed the highways and byways about Warsaw. "All the wars of Poland," he writes, "could not check the new life that came riding through her borders at the head of the advancing spring: sprays of lilac found place In the gray caps of Polish lancers, tulips and chestnut leaves, tokens of the new dawn. In Ihe garb of peer nml peasant. Everywhere was spring yielding hack a measure of her everlasting rights ” Pul the (lowers never took niueh notice of ihe war even "at the front." Runv News Stand Without Hands "'here is a boy running a news stand In I'ninn square. New York city, who has no hands. He opens and closes Ids stand, opens and folds Ids papers and pnssrs (hem out to customers without (lehiy or difficulty, and nmlo-s cliunge like an cxp<*rt. T.nu Young is his name. He lost both hands in an explosion when thirteen years ol 1» hut that hundli-up did not hinder him from going Into bus|. ness and making (^success of it. "The cripple who has spunk Is as good as anyone^else," he says.
IHE GREENCASTLE HERALD
Persian Carpets.
Tb-- si ib of Pi i sia has passed a lew forbidding persons to weave carrels a'cording to European d’sign. Violation of the enactment is a criminal offense, and ihe Imperative attl tilde taken will have a greater tendem ■ Hum ever to raise the Per- - an earpet or rug in esteem. Often a Persian carpel will remain in the family for generations, such careful li'alnieni does ii receive. When Hu* owner of a valuable carpet dies he very oflen gives Instructions that it v ' ■ 11 be cut In pieces as heirlooms to
HAPPY NATIVES OF SARAWAK Under Wire Government, People Live Ea:y Lives in Their Gloriously Fertile Country. Tbo tribe of Kayalis Inhabiting the a waters of Hie Buram and Itcjang rivers of Sarawak, have lived for iinknown generations almost Isolated in rite interior of the island of Borneo. There are many reasons for hellevlng thcin to he originally of Caucasian origin. Many of tliem have very light
his so ecssors, and should a member I skin, and they probably reached Bor'd' Hie family not i\o a portion he I t,co by way of the Malay penlnsi la onb| feel v ery greatly slighted. The | froti) lower Banna. High! diselplltie be-dgns nf Persian e.it-pels have been is eliartteleristie of Hu* domestic ntehntulcd down from remote ages. Each | nnge, ret.lilting In good manners and i keeps iis own design, no two j recognition of authority, carpels hi ing alike for tear of the ^ For a good many years Sarawak evil eye. | wits under the independent governi I aicnt of a while rajah. Sir Charles
I Brooke, who controlled his mingled
"Poison” Made H.t in H.-rcm. with unusual wisdom and lb- ongm ..t wine making also 1* | Alnon(; fm-sighr-d cam,..,| by H, I •rmaos. whose king., , nst , slr |„ K( .„, .Icebeeil s,I a i.uattlil.v ot grapes, 1;m> m, that the island is one of the in h,s . , liar fo:’ fu'ai 1 ..sc, 1 he grapes : ^ , s „ f :, n " DCld * this respect. Bird-, beasts and butter-
' (MV he IimVim] h> h-' finisOII. I lu*\ WOlV
I:iIm*1n|. a wnniiin of tin* kins’*
.Mirs are protoetod, not inoro than two ... i sporlmons of any one spook's bolns
bn!V!h. who fh**MiviJ fo rouimii sulc’lilp. # m t . , , , , i nllowvd lo I lie collector. In this wav *onK frnclv nf ilie nice and neenme , i .... , , . . , . , , he \cn hcaiifilul and ran* Tn*cs and
*• • * drnidc. After a lengthy "liM'p,! - , ..
, , , . nix cts nf ihe country an* hcin ^ in'in-
h"" ''v r. sin* awoki? |>crk»clly "i'll, •null , , , f
, , . . , i inlncd for the enjoyment ol future
as so pleased W'lil, 1 ' r experiment ] K ,. ll( . I , lti|)||s
''.it !,mis11ef| tie reinainder ot the
" - .1 -nisbeed found out what bad b:-ppcne,| ton late to *,*111(10 in’ on the first vintage, but he took Steps to
Another wise move of the rajah was to continue the native costume— what there is of it—in place of Intro-
In-nrt having a plentiful supply of I 'J'T'l'" imi - Juice in fnuvg for hint-elf. ' | !.‘ i | al ,l, "" in K " f
I hi'-, as Stevenson points nut. has
' usually exactly the opposite effect In Switzerland. i f 1 " 0111 Huif Intended by well-meaning Tt m the peeitbai eharneterlstlc nf missionaries, and the happy natives of Switzerland that, after crossing its Sarawak are very well off as they are. frontier-, one never appears to have i —— I'll Fin neighhorlbg eottntr: - GOOD WORK WITH CAMERA
h« hind. The northern ‘‘.!;atcs” seem
1 * introduce nn< to n Tnodifh'd Mer- al. a ^ j
txplorers in Northwectcrn Canada
' I' S, t" Have Photographic Studies of . lepeaking country; while the Wilderness Wild Life.
imprc^Mou om receives upon enter-
In . from ihe south of still being upon . .. . . • » .. , , , ... , „ . , , After a three years hunt with the Italian -oil is at Inst difheult to shake _ , , , . . . .. . . , , camera m the almost unknown Laird
>1. Ihe character ot the -ecnerv ,.
, . , ,1 •I, , river tlistriel m northwcsti rn 1 nnndn, ■ rves only to heighten the illusion. , , ,
II. A. Me war 1 and .lohn Sonnlekson
I!'hnologleally. its well as physically, the soil of Switzerland seems to invile the various people of the earth to make of the country a place of rendezvous where international differ-
ence- are forgotten.
Invaluable Coconut. What the coconut means to th» South Sea Islands native, Mr. Farrell -ay- scarcely can he exaggerated. He makes thatch of the leaves. In some islands he wears a skirt of shredded leaf. Coconut sennit Is his cord. In most low Islands, where the water Is brackish and undrinkable, he depends on the milk of a green nut. or, better, the sap of a tightly bound bud. Fer-
huve cone- back to civilization by way of Peace . Ivor. Alberta, bringing several thousand photographic studies of the milliners and customs of the wild life of those remote woods and streams. The explorers, for they well ' deserve the name, worked Into the 1 wilderness by way of Hudson's Hope and the forks of the Findlay nml Parsnip rivers ns far as Fort Grahatne. Their negatives Illustrate the habits of the ptarmigan, moose, heaver. Canadian wild geese and other animals tin,I birds that have seldom been observed with anything like thoroughness by means of the camera. Tbo travelers had devices of various sorts whereby their subjects were enticed to spots upon which the hidden lenses
mented. this becomes coconut toddy,
and, boiled, It Is a brown, sweet-sirup I v ’*‘ r< ‘ focused; and upon reaching beverage. When the Islander dances I thf ‘ s, ‘ s l w,,s "" Hinbushed rameru man or goes abroad In the rain he anoints ! snapped them by twitching a long his body with eoeonut-oll. And everv , ’ or ‘l attached to the lens shutter. A drop takes Its toll from the copra 8 ' n K |, ‘ negative of some specially shy production i nn l n,,, l was often the only fruit of
many hours of patient waiting. Somej times for days the explorers would
Old Saying. j watch n single spot through their field The proverb "One swallow does not J passes awaiting the favorable momake a summer" is very ancient. Yon nmnt to “shoot." But It »was all
will find It In the Ethics of Aristotle. | worth It.
who was horn 384 years before the
Christian era. There it takes this Gleaning the Stumps, form: "One swallow maketh not a| Tho rapid decrease in the number of spring, nor a woodcock a winter." In I tall stumps which have been so fnAttlca the children were given a holi- j miliar to the traveler through the const day when the swallow first appeared' hills of Oregon, Is regarded as tin Inin the spring, and Horace connected dicatlon of their approaching extlnethe zephyrs of the spring with the Hon. Hitherto some 20 feet of each coming of the swallows. In Italy and stump has been left standing, silent Spain the proverb still runs: “One relics of former monarehs of the forest, swallow does not make a spring." But too thick for most saws to compass In more northern latitudes Ihe swal- ; and too full of pitch to suit the sawlow arrives later, and their proverbial ! mills. But now the need for timber is
literature has It that one swallow does not make a summer.
greater and men no longer climb high up on to boards thrust Into notches in Ihe trunk to suit the saw and the sawmill. They have learned thrift and they cut low down lest good lumber he uselessly wasted. Only as a record of past wastefulness nre the tall stumps with their deep notches still
visible.
A Filipino Vatsar.
What the occidental ideals of universal opportunities of education nre to mean to women of the Orient takes on a large significance with the establishment In the Philippines of a university for girls only. This university Is to he part of an educational group
Agnosticism.
Agnosticism Is a school of thought which believes that beyond what man cun know by his senses or feel by hihigher affections, nothing can he known. Facts or supposed facts both of the lower and the higher life, are accepted, hut all Inferences deduced from these farts as to the existence of an unseen world, or nf beings higher than man are considered unsatisfactory, and are Ignored. Agnostics, positivists, and secularists have much In common, and many people exist to
whom any one of the three names j railed Centro Escolor de Senorltus. might he Indifferently applied. where until now the Instruction to — — — ! girls has been only In the primary, ... - 1 ^ secondary and Intennedlnte grades. Ancient Game It Cribbage. That this Filipino Vaasar will develop Crlbhage Is one of the few card , traditions chnrncterlsttr of girls' colgames that Is of undoubted Engh-h , 0K ,.s in the Cnlted States cannot be origin. It was played in Elizabethan j doubted by anyone who has observed times, only In those days It went by how wholeheartedly though shvlv girl the name of "noddy." The earliest students from the Orient have ontreatlse on the game Is contained In! tered Into the undergraduate studies "The Compleut Gamester." published festivities anti pastimes at American
In 1074. Now there I- quite a library colleges.
of hooks on crlbhage, which explain how to play It, and elucidate the tnys Coquelin's Memory teries of ‘•one for hi- nob” "two for - IImv manv V( ,„ knnw his heels and Other quaint expres- „„,iul„ if sh.ns of the game, handed .town to us, S( , ||( , „ )(i| . n
I sheet of paper and wrote down the j mimes of M plays of his repertoire.
I Ills friends laughed.
"You tire boasting surely, mon anil?" said Hie Viscomte tie l.oven|otil. "You have every one of these plays In your library," said Coquelln qu|etl>.
through the centuries.
Dog Long Friend of Man.
Tho dog is said to be the first animal to be domesticated by man. The primitive dwarf tribes of the Philippines, the pygmies of equatorial Africa und , .
the Vodduhs of Ceylon when white ' n''' I 1 "''''“Himd put Hiem on Hif-
Europeans first came to know them
table." The vlseointe ilhl so. "Now
had one domestic animal—the dog. ' i '" 1 ‘ '"I"" 1 " 1 ' " l, '> 'fleet a When Columbus landed on the Island I> ""' "*''' ‘ ,l ' ,!n -" ut >'»P of Haiti he found there an excellent ''" ,l " to WH " breed of dogs, used for hunting by the H^’d him with 10 plays out of natives, who, when not employing them 1 ' ! n * t ‘ v, ‘ r '' "Ink’le < ue In the chase kept them in cagea. or ,m, ‘ Tn^tuke.—Fortnightly He-
view.
CLAIMS HONOR FOR GEORGIAN C0ST H | M MORE THAN FiF^
Savannah Newspaper Asserts That Elias Howe Was Not Inventor of the Sewing Machine. The centenary of the birth of Elias Howe, the modest Yankee who invented the sewing machine, took place on June There was no extendod nf--ervuliee of the day, observe- H trff.trtl Ciiurant. yet It wa- Howe who ' 10k a good deal of the drudgery out of the lives of millions of American women. He also Increased the power • f his fellow men to pm 1 tee gar tents and other nmtorlal that formerly needed the patient handwork of individuals. But if Is Interesting to observe, 'n connection with the anniversary, that the Savannah News tindertaki - the rather 1 qadess task of trying to convince it- readers that it wa- lad Howe, hut it Georgian, I ranei- I!. GotiMIng. who eon- rue'etl and operated thofir-t sewing tnaehlne. Tin- paper -ays rliai this man, a I’reshyttudan prestch- • •r living in T.iherty county, nia'f; ‘d a Savannah girl and then began wot a on .1 sewing machine in order that he might sate hi- fair wife much hard work. Alleging Hus was long before Howe patented bis tnaehlne, ami also that Gotilding never patented hi.-, they try to show his motives were purely altruistic and not commercial. It all sounds good, but It will take considerable "space" in 'llte Georgia newspapers to convince the world hut Gotilding takes the prize.
MONKEY CHAIN CALLED MYTH Recent Travelers in South America . Explain Probable Origin of Story Once Implicitly Befieved. An Interesting article by I’rof. E. W. Gndger. in a recent issue of Natural History, deals with ihe time-honored story 011 which most of us wore brought up that South American monkeys are In the habit of crossing alliga-tor-infested streams by linking their tails and logs to form a living bridge 1’iellires of this feat figured extensively in the school geographies and Professor Gudger reproduced -uel a picture from a Fourth reader pub 'jshed as late as 1S97. The story was first told, so far as known, h.v Ihe Jesuit priest Padre Jose Acosta in a work published In loSO. Several lai-r writers have repeated the tale. The first person to dispute it- veracity waBaron Humboldt. Iteecntly explorers of South America, when they mention the story at all, express skepticism. Finally, Messrs. J,en E. Mille'and George K. Cherrie of Ihe American Museum of Natural History, who have done *0 much traveling and collecting in South America, have sug gested to Professor Gudger a plausible origin for such tales. They think that the story of the ' monkey bridge" has come about through observation of a procession of monkeys crossing a ravine or stream on a pendent liana. -T-Selentlfle American.
Why American* Lost Contract. "Speaking of Chinese railroads r»u.lnds me of the failure of an American manufacturer to obtain a contract for locomotives because his European competitors made a more cure ful study of Chinese peculiarities." writes Lynn W. Meeklna in the Scientific American. “One locomotive wom ordered from each of the competing companies. In every respect saw* one the American product was unmistakably superior. However, It had been painted black before shipment from the works, and on the way across the Pacific It became more or less rusted. “Its appearance, therefore, was far less attractive than that of the European locomotives, which were painted in accordance with Chinese preference, and had been touched up by the nianufarturers’ agents after arriving In China. Don't get your colors mixed If you want to sell goods to the Chinese.”
No Flattery Intended. "Is that a portrait of yotjr grandmother when she was young?” asked the awkward visitor. “How it resembles you, Miss Cglcton!” “Now you only say that to flatter me. Grandma was quite a beauty, and everybody knows that I—ahem— 1 make no pretensions of that kind." “I assure you, Miss 1'gleton," exclaimed the A. V., "flattery is far from my thoughts. The familj resemblance Is striking. I've often known cases like that. There were two sisters I knew when I was a hoy. They were wonderfully alike, like that portrait's like you, and yet one of them was as beautiful us a poet's dream, and the other was dreadful — that Is, I mean, she wasn't at all—or, rather, she was larking In that—that attractive quality, you know, Hint con-stitutes—-what n lovely frame this tsirtralt has, eh?"—Edinburgh Scotsman.
India Again Importing. All restrictions on the Importation Into India of any American manufactures or products, with the exception of gold and silver coin or bullion nnd cocaine, have been removed. Impor tatlon of cocaine and allied drugs Is forbidden at all times except under a license granted by the chief customs officer at the place of Import. The Importation of gold nnd silver coin and bullion Is restricted In that the government of India roscr os the right to purchase nil Itnportn'Ions of vitne.
Neglecting Opi»ortunitie«. "They sny the peach crop is unti sunlly fine this year." "Then what are so ninny fellows doing marrying over there In France?”
Mr. Travers Had Not Properly Esti. mated His Losses on That Little Fistic Encounter. “I can't afford to lose tt.’O on a prize light," mourned Gelatine Timers an hour or so after the shock he received over Ihe wires that tiilul I riday afternoon. “But you have lost it, haven't you?" we asked, and he nodded disconsolately as he climbed 1 board a homehouittl car. lie iiiim have felt a premonition as ii„ mourned, for II is unlike Mr. Travei--r o regret his lo-ses; and xvlcn lit 1 :,r rivd home he broke the news to \t,v ’.ravers, along with Ihe implied .stu; ;e-Hoii that a little economy for r ext few week- would Hot coin,' i tmiss. Mrs. Tntxers -aid no:In _■ it, her most sympathetic manner, a,el thi evening's conversation covered top; . wholly foreign to prize lighi-. At th, breakfast table next morning Mr.l Travers had no taste for anything Hi morning paper might have to say, iinii Mrs. Travel- gained possession of it' without the usual contest. (tluMcmT through the paper rapidly Mrs. Tra i vers tore 0111 a square section froin page nml another from page 1 p Then at one of those unexpected mol -•■eat- every woman knows breakfast! - replete with, said: "So you could' lose $.10 011 a prize tight. Well. vv. a. Here I- a sale I have been await,t g! fer a long time. And strange to say | here is another Just across the street: —one is on -tills and the other on. ■gowns. And the strangest of all, 'vi 1 happen to have accounts at both tho-ic stores. Fifty dollars, yon say. yon lost? Mas it an even fifty?" Ai I so it Wits that the breakfast di-he-at tin* Travels' home went unwashed| Saturday morning because Mrs. Tra vers was obliged to catch an early jit net downtown and eommence opera- ! on .—Kansas City Star.
WILLING TO BE PUT WISE Private Ready to Absorb Any Infermation Brigadier General Was Able to Impart. In all the armies in the war disci pline was lax in the air service. Army men tire at a loss to account for It, but without exception laxity was cm d'.-nr in all the air c-tmus. The San Francisco Chronicle tells tl e following told bv Brig. G "t. Benjamin Alvnrd when the latter w ,s adjutant gen* ral of the A. E. F. The general had Leeti sent by Generd I'er-hing to make an in-pection nhutit ('olntilbey le- Belles. He walked around without getting the attention the doughboy- would show an officer of hi- rank. No one saluted him nml no one noticed h in Once in a while a captain or a major would snap 11 sal tile, hut not the ea listed men. It rather riled the general, who always scrupulously followed army regulations himself. Finally when a private passed him with * cigar In his mouth, and, although look ing right at him. failed to salute, the general thought it was time to call » halt. "< 'ome here, young fellow,” he ealleil "Say, what do you do In litis camp when a general officer shows up?" “All right, I'll bile, what Is It, old top?" parried the private.
Pipe Built Like a Cornet. A tobacco pipe of unusual design has been Invented by Warren Murrav I’aeehtel of Hagerstown. Md. Every pipe smoker knows that the longer the stem of his pipe the cooler will be the smoke. Pipes with stems a few feet long have been In use In different countries for, many years, but their awkward length precluded their use outside of the house. The Inventor of the pipe circumvented the difficulty hi • oiling the stem of the pipe like the tube of a cornel, or signal horn. The colls are connected at their lower end to form a dripping chamber for reeel* Ing the saliva which accumulates In the stem. Each coil has an independ ent opening Into the dripping chamber and a screw cat* at the bottom glveaeeess to It for the removal of the accumulated saliva. The smoke, In passing through the rolls of the stem. Is drained several times of saliva and nicotine.
Prelude to Adventure. "I have placed my will In my safety deposit box," grimly said J. Fuller Gloom. “My pockets are filled with condensed and desiccated foods. 1 shall nttnch the end of this stoat cord to u convenient projection, light n candle and enter, crawling carefully among the stalactites und stalagmites, paying out the coni ns I go, and—" "Greitt heavens, Mr. Gloom!” ejn 1 ' 11 Inted an neqnnTntnnee. “Are you eon templatlng exploring some vast aim dismal cavern?” “Yes. 1 ,hiii going into our Kansas Gity post office for the purpose of ha'' ing weighed, purchasing stamps for. ami mulling Ibis parcel-post package-•-Kansas City Slur. Liquid Accident. Secretary Elmer Thompson of the Automobile Club of America said in New York Hie other day : "The automobile gets the hluine for everything. A intin lay In the middle • if the road one evening, surrounded by a large erowd. An old ladv pu'h rl * her way into the crowd nnd said: “‘Poor fellow 1 Poor young fellow- • suppose an automobile run Into him ‘“No, ma'am,’ said a policeman. 'H wasn’t an uutoinohlle that ran Int" him this time.' "'What was It, then?’ said the old lady. •“It was a keg. or maybe a kegjma a half of beer,’ said the policeman."
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