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w that a physl- Thus, the chronicler reports, did the red fast coon I desert Island realise through painful ext . 1 penence the two great facts of pollt-! had devoted leal economy which the race regards as j death therefore 90 disagreeable, that In the long run
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been fixed for sugar
»rs are being warned that sore will get them into serious All of this has a wholesome
; dTawt mart be hiui _. , mm coneliip. with all ble to resist f* rv iMi.
_ ; now there Is no sugar on : a fair price. The sugar >parently as growing of better. Authorities
rationing the supply are be-
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If it were «ot for the tyranny of the clock the daylight saving law would not have been necessary. We could have all decided that we would go to work an hour earlier In the morning regardless of what the clock said. The daylight saving law was a recognition of our serfdom; we could not bring ourselves to take advantage of an extra hour of daylight for work or pleasure
ley may be forced
.„ canners. In effect,
* storage bo«s«i.
» placed in
' jroduction, to _ m, beans, to-
n r*»!
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>nus I P, ° WUt ° f work lf the plants ar ® fl
I to preserve as much frlut
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of the
*ry and the all ivars. It
have been it, and that subjected
optatlon. There will, how-
appeals and tempta-
1s cheering that the Rainbow VetAssociation should have turned a deaf ear to the one. and have risen &bov# the other. The soldiers from now on would do well to be on their guard rainst the politicians after votes. For ie assumption of such men always Is
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tention. but they find that the grocer little or no sugar to sell, while the restaurants and hotels e the open sugar bowl policy. During wartime, when sugar, was rationed. their patrons got a limited amount Of sugar. With the present shortage so acute that consumers frequently can not even buy a pound. It would seem fair to all to require the public eating houses to go back to their old basis, but apparently they are having no trouble getting all the sugar they
want. <
To conform to its policy of attempting to Inform the public concerning the new traffic regulations, the board of safety has prepared a series of notes explaining the important sections of the ordinance. Rend them . carefully and aid the police department in enforcing the new regulations ' rknnt confusion or unnecessary severity j
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The board of safety urgently calls attention to tbe sections of the providing that no one nader sixteen years old Is permitted to drive any meter vehicle, and no one' nader fourteen years old Is permitted to drive any horne-drawn vehicle, and that it ta nalawfol for the owner of any motorcycle or motor vehicle to permit the machine to be driven by a person nader sixteen years old, and that It ta unlawful for •ay perann to permit a child under fourteen yearn old to drive a horsedrawn vehicle. There is also in the ordinance a section providing against the practice •f hanging on moving vehicles. Much attention has been given In recent moaths hy the hoard to tho question of obtaining au ordinance which would prevent the puaaage of automobiles through the city streets emitting noxious vapors or offensive smoke. The ordinance provides a method of reaching those who are careless in this regard. STREET CAR REGULATIONSt Street ram have the right ef way over all ordinary traffic between cross streets. - The ordinance provides that when street ears exceed the rate of eight miles aa hour, the operator ahaii not operate the car vrithta 300 feet of any other street car an the same track, except in the congested district. The ordinance further provides that • dear spues of not loao than ion feet shall he kept between street ears •• the same track when there Is u blockade, or when they are operating at a speed of less than eight miles
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And slowly road, and dream of tbs soft look Our syss bad ones, and of their shadows
dost;
many loved your moments of glad grace, d loved your beauty with love false or
How And true;
And one man loved the pilgrim soul In you. And loved the sorrows of your changing
face.
And beading down beside the glowing bars. Murmur, s little sadly, how love flsd And paced upon the mountains overhead, And hid hla face amid the crowd of stare. - William Butler Testa
SCRAPS
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The maximum speed of street curs and interurban cars is fixed hy the ordinance at twenty-five miles au hour outside the congested district, and **u asile* an hour within the congested district. All street cars and late rwr ban vara must stop at the near side of the street eroasiag. PENALTIES: The board of safety directs attention to the penal tie* for violations of the traffic ordinance. Tliey are as follows t °* conviction a person saay.be fined in the sum of WOO and costs, to 1 which may ho addqd imprisonment not exceeding ISO days. nil .. ^
SOME” COOK, BUT LONGED TO SEE WHEAT FIELD AND WALNUT TREE
n»v h °„ u 01“IX'"t 1 m 7!«“ 1 th ' Roland Has Be « n knocking Around in tho Mountains Twenty.
John M. Glenn, of the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association, suggests that we throw off our shackles. At the instigation principally of the farmers congress has repealed the daylight saving law, but there is no reason why the people of the city should feel compelled to go back to the old regime. We believe the great majority of the people of Chicago prefer the present summer schedule, not only because it gives them an extra hour of,daylight
, but because It actually a more congenial work-
.vr«. From the standpoint of
economy and productive output there
is no question of Its desirability. If we are to retain these advantages
some uniformity of action should be sought Mr. Glenn makes the recom-
1 aauiuon va nidation that big business, organlxa- - M. in foodstuffs. tk>ns should Interest themselves In the
tn an increased price for canned plan and act by common agreement.
Hr But we believe it would be wise also'j
Another feature of the cannery ^ app^i to various other organisations >n la throwing thousands of peo- and associations with the idea that
h one should pledge its members
the
can save daylight saving for Chi* t £ var/v m + ♦ /-v A)1 W*£* Vt fh TTA ♦
we will go to work an hour earliev in the moring and quit an hour earlier in the evening. Why be slaves to the clock? ' STRIKING ACTORS ENTER PUY-PRODUCING FIELD
Road Tours Planned for Vaudeville and Legitimate Stage Folk During
Theatrical Walkout in New York.
NEW YORK, August 26.-The “rescue ship'' which is counted on by striking members of the Actors' Equity Asso- , elation to bear them safely over the
Considering how little attention the stormy seas attendant on closed thesenate will probably pay to the foreign at*™' and uncompromising producing
r.uu.n, commit*.'. ..port, £.
Dodge’s group would seem to be put- j theater" to produce vaudeville and legi-
timate shows for road tours.
Play reading and casting departments
ting In a good deal of unnecessary work
on the treaty.
that the soldier, are now Inspired by-* ^ C °™Zl populou,,
other motives than those that Inspired an P c uresque
them-at Chateau Thierry and in the Argonne. That, of course, is an insult, and should be so regarded. To bid for votes in this way Is, in effect, to offer
them.
fine courage and self-reliance by the service men during the war will continue to be manifested in civil life. Thus It will be possible for them to render another great service to the nation at a time when so many are looking to Washington for help The-soldiers have learned
their way over obstacles and entanglements — barbed wire ~ and they have not lost that hope and beUeve that there general concurrence the by our Rainbow The first test has that It will be triumphant-
doubt.
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IT HYDE two members of the commissioners, one bf his distant relative, i still superintendent of the Incurable In-
the Yet
grand Jury of
recommended that a new
ent be appointed. Hyde was
criminal intent or wtlbut with lack of- executive
The law Is, of course, plain. It
the county commissioners
1 issue the necessary orders in acwith the complaints or recom-'
of a grand jury regarding
jail or workhouse, and that i laws of the state relating to the
care, management and maintenance of county asylums and the inmates thereof, except in so far as otherwise provided in this act, shall govern and be applicable to such county asylums for the Insane.'' The finding of the grand jury In this case was, therefore, practically
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There is one thing in connection with Dr. Hyde's administration, apparently forgotten, that proves his unfitness. We refer to the disposition of unclaimed bodies to the former county undertaker, Whiteside. In this matter. Dr. Hyde .dmiUI that h. had follo-M th.
law, which is perfectly clear, and was meant to prevent such scandals as that brought to light last May. Hyde said that he knew that the law provided that ! persons in charge of county institutions
l- w» .tm, striving should notify the state anatomical board
Utractive do wen.
i should not be
when unclaimed bodies were available at an institution, and that It was the
duty of the board to arrange for the
•ak for disposal of the bodies to medical colswtftly But he said that the plan had
not been followed. Here are his words: I simply followed the custom that had always been In effect at Julietta. I did
the secretary of the anatomiwhen there was an unclaimed • at the asylum, but I notified the * ' ' who took charge of
«d of It. This cusby my predecessor aa far as I know no i been followed. I ...... r.™« t .
The official report that all the scales in Brown county are honest may result In
AIL the rain we’re having ought to do a great deal to help the pastures, and good pastures enormously simplify the dairy business, but for all that the producers may see no reason to reduce
their prices.
Coming back from Mexico without accomplishing anything seems to be getting to be A regular habit. It Is much to the credit of the Rainbow Division Veterans' Association that they oppose the six-months-pay-velvet scheme. It looks entirely too much like passing the hat for such soldiers as the
Rainbow men.
If wishes were watermelons all of us might have the stomachache. Wilhelm seems to be getting In Dutch.
But. of course, a farmer can sell more cheaply because the only overhead he has Is rain, sun, wind, hail and frost.
Those Jasonvllle teachers may be expected to teach the young idea how to preserve the Union. . *
Those Columbus grocers who refuse to buy home-grown watermelons ought to hire a band to play Dixie while they sell their southern melons at fancy price#
The Monon has broken all traffic records. but the family purse continues to carry all the traffic will bear.
About the only place sugar is plentiful now Is on a restaurant table. Anyhow, the packers seem to have a lot of dear friends.
Another thing that would help international relations would be for fewer aviators to get lost In Mexico.
Democratic Chairman Cummings talks Just like a politician. Some of the sweet corn also seems to be suffering from a sugar shortage.
The striking Los Angeles trainmen who refused to transport forty carloads of supplies to the troops on the border probably feel that the more they can do to make the United States like Mexico the sooner they will feel at
home.
and a booking office will be established at once, it was announced, and a profitsharing plan worked out by which Idle actors and actresses may go on the
road.
In the meantime* the new Actors' Fidelity League, with George M. Cohan as its president, started consideration of ways and means to effect a settlement 6f the strike. A committee called on Mr. Cohan at his Long island home and he formally accepted the presidency, stating that he would at once resign from the managers’ association and devote himself entirelx- to his new duties. Intervention of the American Federation of Labor In the strike was predicted last night and the arrival of Samuel Gompers from Europe is awaited eagerly. Charles C. Shay, president of the International Alliance of Stage Hands and Motion Picture Operators, announced that 1,100 members had voted to stand by the actors to the finish. A meeting of the National Association of Motion Picture Industries was held today at which the organization was expected to line up with the producing
managers.
The Shuberts announced 1 that the Winter Garden would close with last night’s performance because of the management’s inability to keep up its standard of performances while the
strike is on.
To Play in One-Night Startds. CHICAGO, August 28.—With all the major theaters closed, striking actors last night planned a week of rehearsal for a benefit production including the stars of the shows stopped by the strike of members of the Actors’ Equity Association. As planned, the play would open in Chicago with a tour of one-night stands in Illinois, and Indiana cities fol-
lowing. ,
Scenery was removed from some of the closed theaters today. Strikers were permitted to take away their personal effects. Members of “The Passing Show,” which hsfd been at the Palace until stage hands and musicians went on strike, last night were said to have left for New York on transportation pro-
vided by the Shuberts.
CHANGES IN FACULTY. Two Resignations at Western College
for Women Announced.
[Special to The Indianapolis New*] OXFORD, O., August 25.—A number
of faculty changes in the educational institutions here were announced today. Harrison D. Le Baron, associate professor of organ and theoretical music at the Western College for Women, has resigned to become head of the department of music in Adrian ■ college, Adrian, Mich. Miss Winifred Fitzhugh, of Manti. Utah, assistant treasurer of
two Years—And When It Comes to Preparing Real
Food He Is Johnny on the Spot.
[By the Tenderfoot]
Roland Ewart is some cook. I am sure you would agree with me if you had been a member of the party that came In contact with his culinary accomplishments on a recent trip to the mining districts In the San Juan mountains In southwestern Colorado. I do not mean to convey the impression that Roland is & cook and nothing else. That would be placing an unfair limit on his capabilities. He is also an expert miner and a skilled blacksmith. In addition, hts knowledge of minerals is extensive and his opinion on the value of ore is not ignored by those who know him. . ... . \ Really, ail these qualities are possessed in some degree by every good miner. Miners, like evety one else, must eat and if they have no one to cook for them, they have to cook for themselves. So it probably happened In this very way that Roland became “some” cook, for inasmuch as the task fell to his lot, he learned to do it well, as he did
everything else.
Hla Opinion on Ore Veins.
I don't know whether he prefers the cooking to other phases of mining. I didn’t ask him and he didn’t tell me, but I have an idea that he could change from one to the other if requested to do so without getting fussed up, for I remember one evening he was called In from the kitchen where he was washing the dishes, to give his, opinion on some ore veins that had been discovered. You wouldn't have thought of him as being merely the cook. It was real miner's talk, yet when he was through, back to the dishes he went.
story. My first acquaintance with Roland began indirectly the evening we reached the cabin which was to be our headquarters for a few days. I had been prepared to put up with rather scant rations for the cabin was way up in the mountains at an elevation of more than 10,000 feet, many miles from Lake City, where we had left the train, the Pueblo house and Helen’s mountain trout. Bill Hardy’s spring wagon had not given us the slightest reason to| believe that we were on a beaten pattv provided for tourists, yet as soon as we neared the cabin I knew without question that we were getting close to food. I sensed this all the more for the reason that you have to breathe about twice as fast up there
and then besides I was hungry. Passing through the kitchen to bathe
my face and hands in the mountain stream just outside, I noticed that a man was presiding at the cook stove, which seemed to be modem In pattern, and this also aroused hope. But I was
not prepared for what followed. “Supper’s Ready,” Yells Sloke. Sloke yelled, “supper's ready”—Sloke
was the master of ceremonies—and then ensued a rush that resembled a cross
JAd some medicine on the pantry shelf that would fix you up. “Prepared for most anything,” he said. And when the dishes had been washed and preparations maqe for breakfast, he'd talk with you on most any subject and he was Pretty well informed, too. Just before he started upstairs one night with his candle and alarm clock. I was telling him J»W much I enjoyed the beauty of the mountains and their glorious scenery and he grew real confidential. I was born In England of Scotch parents,” he told me. “I came to this country as a ooy and have been in these mountains, here and there, for twentytwo years. L have seen vast fortunes taken from the hills and have helped to do it. I like the mountains and the scenery still, but I have one longing now. “I d like to go to the country where you came from—Indiana, you say? I want to see a wheat field and a walnut tree.” * v As he said “goodnight” he slipped Into my hand a rare specimen of “ruby silver” ore, to “remember” him by, he said. 'Twaa unnecessary.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS
• AT THE THEATERS TODAY. Marat—"Piccadilly Jim” . ........At S:*0 B. F. Keith’s—Vaudeville...At 2:30, 7:» and 9
Notes of the Stage.
The final week of the Stuart Walker company, at the Murat, begins with the presentation of "Piccadilly Jim,” a new
RuUmovHo ora h„««-rv or* b ®Iore produced, from the i'n u i« /ow„ y ?o u xj si' iS.nf'.hu 1 •&}? o A r r. c - ^
Guy Bolton. Gregory Kelly has the title role, and It is likely that he will continue In the part if the comedy i& litter taken to New York and Chicago, us expected. The new piece Is In n prologue and three acts. Beyond that little Is known. The names of the authors, however, are fairly good assurance that the comedy Is there. The cast Include'* Ruth Gordon, Edgar Stehli, Aldricli Bowker, Elizabeth Patterson, George fcomnee, Beulah Bondy, Orlo Hallssy, Robert McGroarty, Helen Robbins, Ren Lyon,
i *«f
an In*
the first time in
Bondy,
Agnes Horton, Lael Davis, James. Webber and Florence Murphv. George Ade is represented In
between a run on a bank and a scramble 1 , a close third, with Paul and Sed and Clay tied for fourth place. The others also ran. The table was about twelve feet long, covered with white oilcloth. The dishes were of white porceain ware but this detail was forgottan In fiie 1 food" 1 ^ * lolan< * be & an bringing “Beaneries” do not attract me any more an<L in fact, I can look on some of the morel pretentious “eating places” back home now with considerable Indifference. Roland placed before ps tender beefsteak all covered over with that browned pasty stuff-just like mother used to fix it—and gravy for the potatoe*. Also there was delicious cold boiled ham; green peas and fresh lettuce for your salad—where htf got It I don’t
CROSS FOR MUNCIE YOUTH. Story of John Carpenter’# Heroic
Death at Belleau Wood [Special to The Indianapolis News]
sMUNCIE, Ind., August 25.—How John Carpenter, a Muncle youth not i)oc twenty-one years old, won the Distin-
know. Bread and butter, the latter Just as hard as a rock. Don’t need the ice man up there. The mountain etream that comes down near the cabin Is ice cold. You just divert a little part of it through a screened pantry outside and you have as much of a refrgerator as you need. Come on out of the pantry back to the table. Of course, we had coffee, it’s true there was no anaemic, watered milk or near-soup cream for ft. but we had some of the canned variety which perhaps really was better.
A Three-Layer Cake.
But listen! You’ll never guess what I saw when I looked down toward the other end of the table. Remember, Jt was way up in the mountains—far from civilization and no women folk about Oh, boy! A three-layer cake, all slathered over with chocolate icing. Right then it struck me that Roland had more than a passing knowledge of gastronomy. This conviction was all the more firmly established the next morning at breakfast Mush and milk;
^ __ , . -- .stewed prunes—almost a luxury in IndiSl a.y'uLJ I1mm and
dianapolis theater ■BPMHWWMlp years-this week—If rnusicalir.- ! versions of his comedies be “Tim
Mayor ani
early one-act B. F. Keith’s.
comedies
d the Manicure,
excepted. “The
one of his
comedies, Is on the bill at
gulshed Service Cross for gallantry In action and died of his wounds during the battle of Belleau Wood, is told in a • letter accompanying the cross, which has Just been received by the ^oung ithuvs parents, Mr. and
of han-
Miss Chloe Henry, instructor In French and Latin. Oxford high school, resigned to become an assistant professor In Ohio university. Athens, O. Charles A. Beachler. of Lewlsburg, O.. has been appointed instructor in mathematics and director of athletics in the local high
school.
MEETING OF EDITORS.
Dutch
Foreigner, -Headline.
The rest of the world found him an expensive enemy.
Apparently the peace treaty has been criticised on every possible ground, but that is no reason for giving us hope — there may be ’a misplaced comma some-
where in it
So far the main difference between Pottsdam and Weimar seems to be be largely In the degree of divine right exercised. School book prices are going up again this year so It’s up to the children to get their parents’ money’s worth.
The British navy now reports the Bolshevik fleet disabled, but neglects to state whether the disability was sus- i tained in batttle or in target practice.
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Hungary’s new national slogan ought
b« “Sw»t til. Kiag."
Northern Indiana Association’s Ses-
sions September 26 and 27. [Special to Tbe Indiana poll* Newm] WABASH. Ind., August 26.—Morton
Stults, secretary of the Northern Indiana Editorial Association, announced today that the annual meeting of the association would be held at Huntington on September 26 and 27. The association is composed of ail editors north of Indianapolis and is nonpartisan. Officers for the year and the 1920 meeting place will be selected during the second day
of the session.
WORLD CHURCHES TO MEET Intsrnational Committee Session
the Hague September 30.
NEW YORK, August 25.—The federal council of the Churches of Christ In
America announced last nighty that the
onsl committee Of the world for International friendship, the churches would meet Sep-
tember 80, at The Hague. German delegates will be present, it is said, for
war in a gath-
brown potatoes, golden brown toast and coffee; and—pancakes and sirup. In sheer defiance and with the confident belief that a “certain party” will read this story, I am going to say that I never supposed that I would have to go so far from home—I mean go 12,000 feet above the pea level into the heart of the Rocky mountains, to get pancakes that were—right No wonder I felt fit to climb any old mountain that day. And I did, as I have already related. I was dead tired when I got back to the cabin, but Roland was stfll on the Job. For supper he had braised beet and potatoes; stewed corn, bread, butter and jelly; cocoa instead of coffee, and sliced peaches and more chocolate
cake.
Once I Wondered whether Roland was vain and was just trying to show his versatility as a cook, bit immediately I decided that he had only a sincere desire to please. Anyhow, the last supper we had up there was a triumph. Listen! Lamb chons with rasher of bacon; braised beef, baked beans and potatoes: lettuce and tomato salad with French dressing; light and fluffy pocketbook rolls that would have made any hostess the envy of her luncheon guests (and Roland baked ’em); tea and peach pie with a crisp crust that almost melted in your mouth, topped off with a little square of cheese. We all had two or three helpings and Dod and Ed actually had to be restrained. Roland Gets the Credit. Of course, no doubt, our appetites were somewhat whetted by the bracing mountain air and our exertions of the day, but I’m going to give Roland most of the credit. Roland was more than a cook. If you had a headache or a "tummyache” he
Sergrant fc GUbert F. Van Blareom, The following recently was reported Carpenter's “buddy,” tells the story. by an observer In Hawaii: Tremendous
“It was on the night of June 14 and the Germans had opened a terrific fire in the hope of retaking the woods,” Van Blareom writes, “when we were called upon to restore telephone lines that had been destroyed by shells. The telephone booth was directly across the road from the sheltered spot where Carpenter and I were quartered. Carpenter and I decided to go one at a time to the booth. The road in front was a hell of bursting shells, I went first and got across safely and called to Carpenter. I heard him reply, out there somewhere, ‘Stay where you are; I can make it’ “But he didn’t and a little later I called to him again and once more he said, *1 can make it,’ but his voice was weak. A shell had struck him and flung him high Into the air. Another sergeant and I went after him and carried him to a dugout There he laughed and Joked with us, and
pretty soon he died.”
FARMERS IN JOINT PICNIC. Twenty-Five Hundred From Dearborn, Ripley and Other Counties. (Special to Th« Indiana poll* New*] • MOORES HILL, Ind., August 25.-The seventh annual Chautauqua of the Southeastern Indiana Chautauqua Association ended here Saturday, when the farmers of Dearborn, Ripley and adjoining counties held a joint picnic, under the auspices of the Indiana Federation of Farmers’ Associations. More
than 2,500 persons attended.
Since the fanners of Indiana started to organize on March 25 last, forty-five counties have affiliated with the state
The red hat of a cardinal Is said to coat him at leaat <2,500. Every Swedish girl not born to wealth is taught a trade of some kind. Brash's production of sugar has reached about 300,000 tons a year. With few exceptions actresses receive lese pay than actors of equal prominence. Some Italian canneries are pressing tomato seeds into cakes for feeding stock. The expenditures a year of the United States reclamation service are about 18,000,000. Over 2,000 years ago the ancient Gauls made good soap of beech ashes and the fat of goats. Among the women of Borneo elongated ear lobes are considered a great mark of beauty. Medals as decorations for military service were first issued In England by Charles I In 1643. On her marriage a maid of honor to England’s queen Is entitled to receive a dowry of 25,000. Kid gloves, with hand-painted backs, were once a great craze In some of the European countries. ~~ America is the only land in which women have won marked succees in the dental professien. A chimney 115 feet high will sway, without danger, as much aa ten or twelve Inches in a strops wind. London's telephone and telegraph wires extend 73,500 miles overhead and 921,000 miles beneath the ground. The fleeces of ten goats are required to make a cashmere shawl, which takes three men six months to complete. The men and women of Lapland dress exactly alike—in tunics, wrinkled stockings, leather breeches and pointed shoes. Borings for natural gas are to be undertaken by the Hungarian government on an extensive scale In the Keeskernet district. Adjustable casters have been patented by a Michigan inventor for talking machines, typewriter tables and other furniture that it is necessary to keep level. Subject to the consent of parliament, the British government plans to spend nearly 310.000,000 in the next five years on agricultural research and scholar-
ships.
The greatest’length from east to west of the United States is 2,750 miles, the greatest width Is !,«0 miles; the area is 3,026,739 square miles, exclusive of Alaska, which contains 500,884 square miles. Oil firing under boilers Is now universally introduced in Mesopotamia, and coal, which is extremely dear, will finally be displaced everywhere. Even the steam rollers which are now sent to Mesopotamia are built for oil firing, and they have worked without any trouble worth mentioning. The largest spruce log ever brought out of the forests of Wash ngton wss carried from near Hoqualm on a three-and-a-holf-ton truck operated by the spruce division of the United States army. It measured ninety-nine inches at the butt, eighty-six inches at the top, and was twenty-four feet long. Th# log contained more than 13,000 feet of lumber and weighed over thirty-nine
tons.
The first fire alarm ever given by electricity was by the Boston system, from Box 7 of District I. on the old Cooper Street church, Boston, at 8:26 p. m.. April 29, 1862. It was sent in by G.
H. Goodale and received at quarters of the system In
2. Court square, by Charles *Carlton Coffin, who afterward became famous as a war correspondent and writer of civil war books, who was /me of the
first operators of the system. -
Locomotive englners must serve sn apprenticeship as firemen, the length of service depending upon the age and efficiency of the applicant Master mechanics of each division of a railroad system examine candidates, and candidates must be between twenty-one and j twenty-five years of age, in good he&itnJ 6 feet 10 Inches tall, have good hearing and eyesight and be able to distinguish colors When the time copies tor promotion from fireman to engineer the
mechanic again examines as to their knowledge of dling boilers and engines.
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eyesight a -» When
on fl
master ir didates a, dling boll b Th * f bi
changesare in progress at KUauea, and there Is no indication whatsoever of any cessation of the monumental rising of the entire vast lava column. Over the southwest brink a wide stream of glistening lava is sluggishly flowing in the dlrectlpn of the Kalu desert, not with the spectacular cascading torrents of the southeastern flows of last March, but with a steady, stealthy gilding which gains ground slowly at Its bsas. but which piles up into tremendous masses from its source forward. The state of Washington, with a record of more than 3,250,000.000 feet of lumber cut in 1918: Oregon, with 2,000,000,000 feet cut, and Louisiana, with a cut of more than 1,600,000,000 feet, are still the great lumber-producing states of the country, with Mississippi, Call-
fornla and Ni
sion), W
Idaho each
feet each.
32.760.000. 000
1918. In
lumber in this 36.000. 000.000 feet. Is not confined to any general. It is t ern and eastern western states, est percentage
e two in one dlvlTexas and
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association, and of the 218,000 farmers In „ A : F w
the state more than 30,000 are now mem- book bers of the federation. A drive for
100,000 members is being made for vember 13, 1919, when a state me<
will be held. It is hoped that at li fifty-five counties then will be organized and become members of the organization. Dearbonx county leads tbe Tenth district at the association by being thoroughly organized. with Ripley county a close second. A meeting of the Tenth district of the federation will be held In Seymour Tuesday, with the district organizer, John G. Klein, of
North Vernon, in attendance.
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FINDS SECOND NEW COMET.
The Rev. J. H. Metcalf Announces Two Stray Stars In Three Days. CAMBRIDGE. Maas.. August 25,—Discovery of a second new comet In three days by the Rev. Joel H. Metcalf, was announced today by the Harvard college observatory. After picking up In the eastern sky, August 20, the first of the year’s new stray stars, he reported that on the night of August 22 at 11 o’clock, he found in Bootes's constellation in the western sky another unchartered body, more conspicuous than the first. He said that it could be seen with a small telescope. The two discoveries of Mr. Metcalf, which are the latest of many which he has made, were made at South Hero. Vt„ where he Is spending a vacation.
m»nt leave France?—Do
been released snd luted as en route, but dates were mentioned. Where U It —Laet station, London, where it went ft
British peace celebration.
J. E. B —Please print a poem whte , peered la an old school reader and bexan as
follows:
It was six men of Hindoos ten. -Space for this poem U lacking. It Is entitled “The Blind Men and the Elephant” and was written by J. G Saxe. It may be seen in any library.
Anxious Cousin—How long can a marine
1 to a guard company be
Fiance for duty?—It depends on the
who ess transferred
held in ■ terms of his enlistment,
stated time, he vim not be
ilms; If enlisted for the emergency,
be held until hts enlistment
by esMUttve order terminating emergency or for four months after the procla-
mation of peace.
if enlisted for a i held beyond that
tency, he can t* concluded * the ewer-