Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1919 — Page 8

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SCRAPS of HUMOR

Her Next Number. “What’s the prima donna sore about ?” “First she sang a chanson of her own composition. That didn’t get much applause.” “Well?” “So she went out and give ’ein Hail , Columbia.” Technical Arguments. t “I heard a k.nife grinder and a carpenter arguing tjie other day, and each was scoring according to his ,'trade.” ’‘How so?” “The fli»t was making sharp rejoinder to flm other’s plane talk.” i Mistakes Needed. “Do you believe everything you see in the newspapers?” • “No,” replied Senator Sorghum. “If feome mistakes didn’t get in now and then therc’d be no use of my doing so much work from time to time to get campaign stuff into their hands.” 1 The Times Have Changed. ‘ “I never was so mortified in my life.” “What’s th% matter?” ■ "I woman at the patrlotic raH> hi a new gown. I knew I Should have worn an old dress, but really I haven’t one fit to put on.” ' ‘ Just Like Real Folks. Irate Shopper—Seethere. - You are charting $5 more for handkerchiefs fhan the store across the street. Suave Profiteer—Well, you must realize, madam, that even we shopkeepers have, our little differences.

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When They Lean Over the Rail. “I see. by tlie papers that aviators frequently suffer from a malady very like seasickness, due to the pitching of the plane.” “H-m. That’s going to be mighty unpleasant for us pedestrians below.” The Art#. "Of course, you admit the necessity of using alcohol In the arts.”. * “Yes,” replied Uncle Bill Bottletop; "and just between ourselves I regard mixing a drink as an art” Admits All. Wife (during squabble)—You can't deny that I made you what you are. Hub- —I certainly can’t, for what I am is head over heels in debt • K In the Kitchen. “I have a grate trouble,” sighed the Range. “Perhaps,” returned the Nutmeg, "but I have a grater." VERY LIKELY.

First Congressman —He wants to be considered a‘giant in debate. Second Congressman—l reckon that’s why he uses such blamed long words. - A Race. ' There seems but little to be praised In fortune's strange devices, For every time yotir pay is raised There comes a jump in prices. No Doubt. “Yoji seem depressed.” “Got to write a story and dunnow what to write about,” declared the popular novelist. “That’s a mean situation.” “Yep. A manufacturer could make money with a fountain pen that was a self-starter.”

THE TWICB-A-WEBK democrat

Romance Bah!

By GERALD ST. ETIENNE

(Copyright, 1»18, by McClure Newspapw Syndicate.)

Caroline Kelso could not take her eyes off the man across the table. To her he was a curiosity, and, as he munched away at a piece of toast In one hand and stirred hls cup of coffee furiously with a spoon in the other hand, with hls eyes glued on the newspaper before him, she wondered if he was human. It had been the same every morning since the first morning at that boarding house, two weeks before. The landlady had not thought it necessary to make them acquainted. » Never once had he raised hls eyes nt Caroline’s entrance to the dining room; never once hnd .he offered to pass her anything at the table. She had only seen him eat, stir coffee .'read a paper, Jump from the table and leave the room. She had not heard him speak. He was not even decently polite. He was good-looking and’seemed well bred, too. What a shame for such good qualities to be wasted on* a bore like him, Caroline thought. “Romance —bah !” The words came out of the man’s lips in a disgusted exclamation. ■ Caroline almost called out in fright. He had spoken—the shock was almost too much. But that was all he said. When he turned the paper over she caught sight of what had’’caused the outburst. It was an advertisement Tor a film play called “Romance." As Caroline devoted herself to her grapefruit, she thought it over. This man was a woman-hater, that was apparent. To him there was no romance —he seemed to hate the word. It seemed to her that men like that should not be allowed nt large. All through her breakfast Caroline’s indignation grew. When he got up and went out in the same old way she frowned after

He Was Not Even Decently Polite.

him. She was still frowning when he returned. Another variation Jn his daily program. If there were any more shocks her breakfast would be spoiled, She felt sure. But that was nothing to the next shock. The man sat down in a chair in the corner and groaned. “Are you ill?” she cried, jumping hurriedly to her feet, sympathy overcoming all other feelings. “No,” he said, grimly, “but one of the landlady’s youngsters Is, and we are under quarantine.” “Oh,’* Caroline exclaimed. “What shall we do?” “Stay here for ten days, at the very least. Godd heavens, and all the work that is piling up for me at the office!” “And my work, too!’/ she almost sobbed. “Are you sure we are under quarantine?” Before he could answer the landlady herself appeared and tearfully confirmed the lews. Her youngest child had contracted smallpox and had been removed to an Isolation hospital. It would be qecessary for the household to remain under quarantine until the house had been thoroughly fumigated, and even then they might be held -for ten days until the authorities were sure no more cases would develop. If the quarantine we/e broken the breaker would be put under immediate arrest. There was nothing to it but to make the best of it. The boarding house was situated in the suburbs. Caroling had chosen It to be away from the noise of the city so that she could do some writing at night. There was a large garden, inclosed by a fence,‘'that had always appeared inviting. It was beautiful summer weather, so she could spend her time reading in the hammock under the shade trees. After notifying the city editor of the Evening Mail why she would not be able to report for work for a few days, Caroline sought out the hammock. The woman-hater had arrived there first. She coughed to attract his attention, but was really surprised when he took the hint and offered her the hammock. After all, he did remember some of the laws of sociability. Suddenly Caroline threw aside her book. A terrible thought had come to her. The house was to be fumigated. All papers would probably be destroyed* and there were two manuscripts of stories in her room. She would have to get them out of the way somehow. A spade, standing against the house, gave her an Idea. She hurried to her room and with the manuscripts wrapped, in a newspaper, and

proceeded to bury them. When the work was done she looked up to see the man looking at her. He pretended he £ad not, seen, but she knew he ha<J. With a toss of her head she. went back to the hammock. “Miss Kelso, do you think I have smallpox?” Somehow he had found out her name. Caroline looked up from her book to find him bending oyer her. “Goodness, no! Why?” she cried. He pointed to a spot on hls forehead. Caroline gave a sigh of relief as she looked^more closely at It. '“lt is only a freckle,” she laughed- “You have two or of them-” That started a conversation. It began with freckles and ended with books and flowers. His name was Mr. Latimer, she learned, but by the second day they were calling each other Harry and Caroline. How jphe ever could have thought he was a bore was more than she knew. He was really delightful. When the quarantine was Mfted at the end' of ten days they were genuinely sorry. They both went back to the grind, meeting only at breakfast, but they were different breakfasts after that, and when they caught up with their work they were going to become better friends, they assured each other. One morning the mail brought Caroline a big surprise—a check from the publisher of a magazine. She had not remembered sending any stories to him. The magazine was published in the city, too. What stories had she sent? Then she remembered burying the two in the garden. They were probably destroyed by that tkne. A look at the letter that accompanied them startled her. The check was for those two stories. Then it occurred to her that Harry Latimer had no doubt sent them in and forgotten to erase her name from them and thp publisher had given her Credit' for them. He had stolen them. He who hated romance could hot write romantic stories, so he had taken hers. The wretch I She would call on the editor that very day to learn how he had got them. • When Caroline was ushered into the editorial room of the magazine she gasped. There sat Harry at the desk. He knew why she had come. “Sit down,” he smiled. “Is it about your stories?” "Yes,” she said meekly. “Where did you get them?” “The sandman gave them to me,” he laughed. “I am mighty grateful to him for them, for they are very good.” "They are not,” she said seriously. "They are wretched. You bought them just to please me.” "No, I didn’t. I’m not a bit romantic. Business comes first with me. Your stories are going to prove a buried treasure in more ways than one.” Caroline tried to persuade him that the stories were poor ones, but he would not listen to her. “ . "Won’t you come to dinner with me?” he asked as she was going. “I have something I want to say to you.” “What?” she asked, half dismayed. “Can’t you gu&ss?” he smiled. “But you’re not a hit romantic,” she blushed. “I shall never forget the disgust in your tone one morning when you said: ‘Romance —bah!’ You used to be a terrible bore at breakfast.” "I have been overworked here, but I am going to have an assistant,” he said. "How could you expect me to like romance when I read nothing but romantic manuscripts day in and day out. I hate the very word.” “When the right girl comes alontf you will be as romantic as anyone,” she prophesied. “But yoti are the right girl—the only girl for me,” he blurted. “Life without you will be nothing. You are the girl I have been dreaming about and waiting for for years. My ambitions have all been for you. My hard work has all been for you, and for the little home we should have when I found you. Just think how happy we could be—just you and I in a garden like the one which we were ijj. those ten wonderful days. Please do not let a false idt?a of romance come between us. I loye you—surely ypu will believe me?” Harry had risen and was talking right into Caroline’s eyes. Before she knew It his arm was about her and she did not draw her lips away ns his came closer. “Dear heart,” he said pleadingly, “perhaps I can learn to be romantic." There was a merry twinkle in Caroline’s eyes as she exclaimed: “Romantic ! Well, perhaps!” That seemed to be all the answer Harry needed; her smile made up for words.

Electrician’s Plyers.

A new type of plyers for the use of electricians has the handles cpvered with insulating compound of such a character that it is semi-soft, not hard. Therefore the insulation will not crack or break when dropped pr struck on a hard surface. It is claimed that the bond uniting the rubber compound to metal makes a permanent attachment, jand is in no way to be confused with the present slip-on handles of semi-soft rubber and the methods of attachment to the handles of insulated plyers which are neither practical nor can withstand a test for dielectric strength after hard impact. Every pair of the new plyers is subjected to a 10,000-watt insulatjpn test.

Not Sufficiently Explicit.

The witness had been turned over for cross-examination. then, Mr. Smith,” began the legal „ light, “what did I understand you to say that your occupation is?” “I arfi a piano finisher,” answered the witness. “Yes, I see,” persisted the lawyer; “but you must be more definite; do you polish them or do you move them?”

THIS BARN GIVES IMMENSE STORAGE

Ground Floor Will House 28 Cows and Six Horses. IS TWO STABLES IN ONE Bam of This Type Must Be Used Before Its Many Conveniences and Economies Can Be Thoroughly Appreciated. Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building. Tor the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he Is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 1827 Prairie avenue, Chicago, lit, and only enclose three-cent stamp for reply. Better farm methods require better buildings, not necessarily expensive ones, but buildings that are well planned and properly adapted to the work for which they tire intended. A farm building should lie first a property saver, second a labor saver. Fann

economies can be thoroughly ap_preclated. In effect, it is two stpbles in one. The horse bam, ns should be the rule, iTshut off from the dairy stable by tight partitions and solid doors. Rpom is provided in the tremendous mow for the storage of sufficient forage to last through an ordinary winter season. Any surplus hay product, however, may be stored to excellent advantage in a hay shed. The plan for this barn may be modified, if desired, by creating more space for horses, or x by eliminating the horse barn feature entirely and making a dairy barn of the entire structure.

BELIEVED BY MANY BRITISH

Legend Connects People of the “Tight Little Island” With the Lost Tribes of Israel. There is a small group In England who believe the British are the lost ten tribes. Victoria is said to have been interested in the idea that the reason for her being crowned in a chair under which lay the Stone of Destiny may have stretched directly back to the Son of Isaac. The legend is that before the Scottish kings were crowned -on this stone it was in Ireland, whither it was taken in the fifth century before Christ. This was the stone used by Jacob as a pillow. Norman Hapgood, in Leslie’s Weekly, has the following to say. regarding the subject: “The theory that the British are the lost ten tribes has two coinciding One brings tq Britain the tribes never restored after the Captivity. It Is th« earlier captivity that Is taken to affect the British population as a whole. The ancestors tn this case woulcl be Israel, the northern branch of the Jews. The other line of the legend deals with a later period when the southern branch of the Jews were scattered. There being no male descendants, the crown went through the daughters., Ultimately these turned up in Ireland, and Victoria was descended from y them through the Irish kings. At one time a member of the house of lordS and a colonial bishop of the Church of England were included among the believers. “The principle of these legends is the same that causes most legehds to find the nucleus of any given nation in some wanderer from Troy. Before history became in any waj exact, these attributions, both religious and heroic, flourished everywhere.” , r

An Undefined Expression.

“Is your place within walking dis tance of the cars?” - “I dunno,” answered Farmer Corn tossel. “How far kin you walk?”

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY SB,

feed overhead. It leaves a clear space for the horse fork, which works freely from one end of the building to the other. Roofs like this are comparatively new. The first ones built were not strong enough to stand heavy winds, md. some of them blew down, but there has been no such trouble recently. If properly braced each side forms a truss and the two trusses meet together at the peak. There are hay chutes at the sides for putting down hay and bedding and there is a stairway for convenience in getting up and down. To help out at feeding time there should be a allage carrier to run from the allo down the different alleys to distribute the feed. If a fanner wants to know the number of miles traveled about the stable It Is only necessary to figure the number of trips and steps taken each feeding time, then multiply this by the number of feeds during the winter. If every dairyman would do this the location of some silos would be changed. The amount of travel will surprise those who have never thought about It. This is one reason for placing the silo at the side. The ipanure alley in the center is wide enough.so It Is not necessary to have a pile of manure outside of the stable. Manure is worth a great deal more when It Is drawn Immediately from the stable to the field. This bam looks well and it is a good practical barn. A barn of this type must be used before Its many conveniences and

buildings may be considered In a sense as a necessary expense, but on the other hand they should be considered in the light of an Investment. A farm barn is the fanner’s factpry. It is a building in which he converts raw 'materials into ' manufactured products. In a dairy stable he takes cheap feeds and manufactures, them into expensive cream and butteh In feeding stables and hogpens he manufactures high-priced breeding stock, ns well as good beef, mutton and pork out of cheap grain and cheaper roughage. It makes a great difference in the profits whether this barn factory is so constructed that the animals may be comfortable enough to make the best possible use of the feeds given them. Profits are also seriously affected by the labor problem. Barns and stables may be so arranged as to conserve labor or to waste labor. In selecting a plan the farmer himself must be the judge of he needs. The kind of farm building best adapted to one part of the country is not suitable for another. Two farms adjoining need different buildings, became the kind of farming differs with Individuals. One farmer makes a great mistake by blindly copying: what another farmer uses to advantage. Every building requires careful study to fit It into,environments of the farm and the peculiarities pf the man. In building, by all means secure the services of the best mechanics within reach. Their wages are a little higher, but they seldom spoil material, and the job. is almost always more satisfactory in the end. Judgment is necessary in buying materials; generally speaking, the best is the cheapest, but it often happens that a good second grade answers the purpose just as well, while effecting considerable saving in cash. Farmers may save a great deal by getting ready weeks, or months before building. Putting up even a small building runs into a .great deal of work. Often the time required is more than twice as much as the estimates. By having everything on the ground confusion, is avoided, as well as the unnecessary expense of getting things together In a great hurry, often at an inconvenient season. This cow barn is. 34 feet wide by SO feet long and will accommodate 28 cows. There is also space for several horses. The manure gutters and floor for cleaning is in the center, so that in this stable the cows face outward. This arrangement makes it easier to remove the manure and the plan is liked by some dairymen; , The balloon roof construction makes It possible to store a great deal of

Plan of Gambrel Roof Barn.