Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 42, Plymouth, Marshall County, 21 July 1910 — Page 6

C0MCRETE AS BASE BUILDER

ECONOMY IN COOLING MILK m k : -zi Instrument Invented by Washington Man Is Decided Improvement on Method of Construction. Tank. Vith Two Compartments, Allowing Water to Flow From One to Other, Is Used.

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INDUSTRIAL AND MECHANICAL NOTES.

it has taken eighteen years for steamships to lower the transatlantic record by a single day. The Chicago and Alton railroad is testing automatic stokers on thirtysix of its largest engines. Russia's wheat crop of 7S3.000.f-00 bushels for 1903 was the largest ever produced by any country for a single year. A big Pennsylvania anthracite mining company is turning its accumulations of coal dust for years into briquettes. From S.OOO to 10,006 cf coal slack and pitch briquettes are manufactured an! consumed in the city of Belfast, Ireland, each year The cultivation of tobacco in Spain is proh!bited, a company which has a monopoly in dealing in it paying the government about $35,000.000 a year. The New York public service commission will make an extensive investigation of concrete as a deadener of noise on elevated railroad structures. The highest viaduct in the world recently was opened in France. It stands 144 feet above a river, took eight years to build and cost about $SO0,00O. The soil and climate of Formosa have been found so well adapted to the castor bean that a company he i been formed to plant 2G0 acres rnd erect an oil mill. It 13 said that enough horsepower goes to waste in the rivers and streams between Austin and San Antonio, Tex., to run all the industries in the state. After exhausting research an English architect has decided that the leaning tower of Pisa was built at the angle it stands today as a feat of structural bravado. While in the valleys of Abyssinia are grown sugar cane, cotton, rubber and ether tropical plants, the uplands have excellent pastures and cornfields, such as may be found in Engla'nd. In British Columbia 'platinum is found in many alluvial gold workings a a by-product, but its separation Is attended by too many difficulties to be practical except in a few instances. ,A patent has been granted an Ohio man on a washboard with a convex metal rubbing surface, slightly roughened, so that even a light pressure of clothing passed over it will gave the ?ame results a3 hard rubbing over the ordinary fiat, corrugated board. IMPROVED BOND FOR BRICKS Becomes Fast in Mortar and Adds Much Strength to Walls Made of Galvanized Iron. A new and improved brick bond has been invented by a Philadelphia man. At flrrc glance it looks like a weird sort of hairpin, but anybody who understands building can appreciate its merits in that glance. It i3 made of galvanized iron wire and is strong enough to withstand great strain. Laid ncross the top of a row of bricks it becomes fast in the mortar, which works it3 way around the crimping tnd makes it practically Impossible for the bricks to spread. The hook feature of the bond la at once a preventive of the separation of the Inner and outer walls and a time saver for the inspector, enabling the latter to tett at a glance how many bonds bare been used. The bond is laid so Wire Bond for Bricks. that the hook hangs over the side of the brick, and It also enables the bricklayer to tell how many bricks have been used. This bond also obviates the necessity of chipping brlck3 when building a "leader" row, saving much labor and annoyance. SHIP AS WEIGHING MACHINE Load of Vessel Ascertained by Apparatus Called Porhydrometer Very Accurate. How the load of a ship can be quickly ascertained without actually weighing it was demonstrated in London recently by Edward Beresford at the Temple Pier by experiments on a two hundred ton bärge. The apparatus used is known as a porfiydrometer, and consists of a float placed in the water, which is admitted up a pipe fixed in the center of the vessel. As the load is increased the Tessel naturally sinks deeper into the water, and the water in the pipe rises to a greater height, and the float thus raised throws a lever out of balance. A sliding weight enables one to brin;; It into balance again, and the position Of the Welgnt On a &cie euvna nmnilTil Of the. load me pornyaro- . n,.mipntlv accurate to STnw the weight of a man stepping aboard the barge. Pure Titanium. Titanium chloride reduced with so,ih , , v ehls pure titanium as a metal dium, yieiu pui rambling ilfthed . teel It 1 brlt i i.nt at low red heat can : 1 2, , ; ,;;. Though , It can b ; shaped with a file. First Wooden House. Three hundred years ago the first home of wood was erected on Manhattan island. It was near where the west end or Pearl street is and was made of rough logs, quite diiferent from the last one of steel and stone now being built not far from th9 same site. Colombia produces platinum second in quantity only to Russia, washing it from the gravels of the Cboco river, wnere it always is found mixed with gol

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Concrete bases for telegraph and telephone poles are not new, but the instrument invented by a Washington man a id here shown, is a recent improvement on the method of constructing these bases. Where a wooden polt has rotted at the base or an iron polo has worked itself loose in soft ground the trouble can be remedied by excavating at the base and filling in the hole with concrete, giving the pole a firm foundation. Heretofore this has been an expensive operation, but the appliance here described reduces the expense con-

Concrete Base Builder. siderably. A body portion, made in two semi-circular sections, clamps around the pole. Extending below is a strong spiral prong that encircles the ;:oI." and the whole is revolved by a double handle. When this Instrument is fixed in place and turned around, as a corkscrew would be turned, the spiral loosens the earth around the pole and pulls it up on being withdrawn. The concrete can then be poured in the excavation and the pole will stand firm for many years. STAINS WOOD WHEN GROWING Louisiana Man Invents Process Whereby This Can Be Done Unusual Colors Obtainable. The idea of staining wood as it grows seems revolutionary, but a Louisiana man has invented a process by which this can be done. By this method any light wood can be made Coloring Injected Into Sap. practically any darker color or dark wood made still darker, though it will be difficult to lighten the natural shades. It also obviates the necessity of dyeing mahogany or other woods of this nature. A bucket of coloring fluid is hung just below the branches of a young tree, or any tree that Is in good, healthy condition. A hose runs from this bucket to a point near thei base of tlie tree and here the bark and sonie of the fibers are cut out and the coloring matter applied to the pore3 thus exposed. As the sap flows through the tree the stain Is cir culated with it and the wood changes its color to any shade desired. The possibilities of such a process are almost unlimited, and some very unusual cojorlngs can be obtained in this manner. The expense of dyeing the wood later is also saved. COLOR OF SEA DUE TO SALT Some Parts Are More Salty Than Oth era and It Is These Which Are the Bluer. In Its deepest parts the sea is intensely blue, but where It Is shallow it 13 a bright green color. This prevails until soundings cease to bi struck. Some people ascribe the Mud to the reflection of the sky, and say that if the green water which is found nearer land were piled up in a basin as deep as that which holds the blue, it would be the same color. But the true cause of the difference be tween the ts'o Is the quantity of salt which the water contains. Some parts of the sea are much more salty than others, and it Is these which are the bluer. That the sea water is denser In o part than another is the result evaporation, less rainfall and a sma: er inflow of fresh water from river: etc. It 13 estimated that eight feet of water are annually withdrawn from the Red sea by evaporation, and it Is not surprising that it is saltier than the Baltic, where the evaporation is very small, and where there is an Influx of water from various streams fed by heavy annual rainfalls. But why is the ocean salt at all? The streams which feed it bring with then the salts of the soli through which tbey pass. As evaporation is f.vtT going on, one would think that '-? sea water must ever grow nior eliki?, but such is not the case. Tcrpedo Boat Without Funnels. It is stated from Italy that one of J the construction companies of that country as succeeu'i in Duiiuiug a successful torpedo boat without funnels. The products of combustion are discharged from the vessel by the mean or eiecmc yenuuuors. no smoK . h t bcing shown. The operafo means of electric ventilators, no smokM i . 1' L"m' under ordinary circumstances. Cork-Cak Tree. Cork oak is to have a thorough trial in the national forests. The bureau of plant industry of the United States department of agriculture ha3 assigned 2.000 one-year seedlings of cork oak, now at a nursery at Chico, Cal., to be used by the forest service for experimental planting. Much Wool Ruined. Many tons of wool were ruined in North China last August by heayy protracted rains, when there was no I way of keeping the wool dry.

CAUSE OF TEST VARIATIONS

Errors Are Often Made, Especially In Taking Samples, Thus Creating Much Dissatisfaction. Variation in tests has caused much dissatisfaction in the selling of cream. When the cream is from the same cows, which have been fed Ihe same ration and milked by the same man. cr.d when the same separator is used, the fanntr naturally thinks the per cent, of fat in the cream should remain the same. Errors are -often made in making tests, especially in taking the sample, but variations constantly occur that are due to other causes. The most common causes of these variations, as pointed out in a circular by Prof. C. II. Ecklos of the Missouri Agricultural Experiment station, Columbia, Mo., are as follows: 1. Variations in the speed of the separator. 2. Variation in temperature of milk separated. . 3. Rate the m.'lk flows into the machine. 4. Amount of water or skim milk used in flushing out the bowl. 5. Change in the richness of the milk separated. 6. Adjustment of the cream screw. Change in the speed of the separator is the most common cause of variation. The greater the speed of the separator, the smaller the amount of cream and the higher the per cent, of fat. Again, the temperature of the milk separated varies on the farm from day to day. If cream tests 30 per cent, when the milk is separated at CO degrees, it may test as high as 40 per cent, when separated at TO degrees. Under average conditions cn the farm, however, the variation in fat due to change of temperature wi.l not amount to more than three to four per cent. A third cause of variation is found !n the rate at which the milk flows into the machine. If Hi than the regular quantity flows into the bowl, the tendency la to increase the per cent, of fat in the cream. The richness of the mill separated affects the richness but not the quantity of cream. The richness of a cow's milk depends on inheritance and cannot be changed permanently by feed. Small variations are likely to occur from the other causes suggested.' By the use of an ordinary Babcock testing machine and by measuring the sample of cream into the test bottle with the game pipette as is used for measuring milk, any farmer can make a test of his cream that will satisfy him as to the accuracy of the test he receives from the cream buyer. BUILDING AN OCTAGON SILO Detailed Instructions and Illustration for Erecting Tank That Will Last for Many Years. We should consider it a mistake to build an octagon silo when it is easier and better to build a round one. The octagon silo has no advantages over the round. If it Is desirable to build the octagon structure i as suggested, says Hoard's Dairyman, in reply to a query, we should advise setting 2 by 4's on a circular foundation which extends at least six feet into the ground End View. and two feet above. Place the .2 by 4's 1C inches apart, sheet on the inside with good matched lumber, then put on silo pap.T and cover with matched lumber. The outside of the 2 by 4's can be covered with paper and sheeting. This will make a very serviceable silo and one that will last for many years. To us the better plan would be to line the inside of the silo with a coating of cement. Instead of putting on the second liuing of sheeting and paper, bevel lath may be used, and then cover with cement, making the coating about one Inch or one and one-half Inches thick. The accompanying illustration shows the half-inch board which is naled to the 2 by 4's, and they may be any width; the beveled iaths and how the cement Is put over them. Prevent Milk Fever. While milk fever Is no longer a fatal disease owing to the discovery of the simple remedy of air distention, it should be prevented rather than cured. The trouble Is caused by collapse and chill. These can be prevented by not drawing off all the milk in a cow's udder for 21 hours or more after calving. Then milk only enough to keep down distention. After the second day the cow may be milked out clean. Never let any inflammation arise from too much distention and when the shock of the calving has passed she will be beyond all danger of milk fever. Using Milking Machines. Milking machines pre extensively ; ?jsed in Kngland ar.d Australia. Twelve

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must be iir.tehed by hand, .-uks are quite satisfactory. The reDanger. Ce like the early bird, my son." advised the fond parent, "and you will catch the worm" Put the up-to-date youngster shrugged his shoulders. "No early bird business for me," he responded, forcibly. "I might catch the hookworm." Two Sides. Author My books sell like hot cakes. Critic Yes; and they ar Just about ad hard to digest. Judge.

We have plenty of water on our farm and have always been able to keep our milk sweet for a long time, w rites C. V. ret heran of Nebraska, in Farm and Home. We use a tank similar to the one in the drawing. There are two compartments to the tank that are connected at tbo bottom. The water comes from the well ito the first apartment and from there it must go through the opening at the

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V i Milk Cooler. bottom of the partition into th apartment where the cans of milk arc. Thi3 keeps the water fresh in the tank and less fresh water is required to keep the milk in good condition. If it were not for the fact that water is forced to go to the bottom of the tank in order to circulate, it would be pulped in at one and run eff at the ot.er, while the water in the bottom viould remain almost stationary. A hiirjed 2 by 4 is used in the tank to hold partly filled cans steady. PRIDE OF THE WHITE HOUSE "Pauline," Wisconsin Cow, to Become Milk-Giver for President Taft and Family in Fall. "Pauline," the pride of Wisconsin, daughter of "Gertrude," the chief rival of "Josephine," champion of Missouri, is to become the property of President and Mrs. Taft. Pauline will have all the privileges of the white lot. just back cf the White House, where the very best "of grass is being grown for her benefit. "Pauline,". New White House Cow. Pauline will take th- place of "Mooley," whom President Taft made the first cow of the land shortly after the inaugu ration"; a year ago. Mooley died. The reign of Pauline will bgin next September. Just now she Is rather young and Inexperienced, but gives every promise of becoming well qualified for a queen of cows. Pure water Is necessary on the dairy farm. It Is fast becoming eo that a separator Is almost as much of a necessity on the farm as the churn. To a very considerable extent the way in which tho cream i r'rned controls the flavor of th Cream or milk wher low temperature for st . velops a somewhat bitter . You should not only Luv..- low much each cow produces, but how much it costs to do the producing. The returns received from tho cow should determine tho economy and profit there may be in keeping her. A quart of milk by actual chemical analysis is Faid to possess as much nutritive value as a pound of beefsteak. Oatmeal contns 32 per cent, pretein, consequently it is good for milch cows, but should not be fed too liberally. Milk at a stated hour both morning and evening and keep everything about the stable and tho dairy clean and fresh. Good pasture is the most economical milk feed that a cow can have and when pastures are thort, green ; soiling comes next. Keep tho cows comfortable at night and when the weather is cold and wet. In dajtirae. if they have pasture and good water, they can care for themselves. As milk readily absorbs odors, don't set your milk pans where food is kept. The richest milk is tho last that leaves ihe-udder. Be sure ;that the cows are milked clean. The Pennsylvania experiment station has discovered that rye meal as a part of properly balanced ration for dairy cows is suflicrent in milk and butter production to an equal weight of corn meal. Experiments at Cornell experiment farm showed that while cows which were fed grain while on good pasture gave more milk than those which had pasture alonf, the Increased quantity of milk was-not produced at a profit. Average of Minnesota Cows. Yhe butter average A the common cows in Minnesota, zrK 'or dairy purposes, is about 1C0 k'onnds of butter annually. The dairy type of common cows at the northeast experiment station at Grand Rapids, under a systematic method of care and feeding, average about 250 pounds of butter annually. At University Farm, one dairy cow has averaged 223 pounds a year in a five-year period. Save for a bad habit of self-milking she wouli easily produce GOO pounds, or more, yearly. This cow shows the value of breeding and feeding properly. The experiment station ct St. Anthony park, a. Paul, will send bulletins without charge to those asking for them. Keep Milk Fresh and Purs. It Is not necessary that tie rnllk for family consumption shall be of Kv n a doctor cannot correct your mistakes. Another Theory. "How do you explain this charge that beef magnates sell their product abroad cheaper than at home?' "Patriotism," replied Mr. Dustln Stax. "They believe that a nation of meat eaters is likely to e at a disadvantage In the event of tay conflict." That's So. The bee Is like a man. All up And down the world he beas It; He gathers honey all his lfo8om other teUow eat It.

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E HAVE today visited an os-1 trkh farm in lovely, balmy South California, situated between Los Angeles and Pasadena, a farm that con tains 200 gigantic birds. The guide informed us that some seventeen odd years ago fifty birds were brought from South Africa by Mr. Cawston, the proprietor. Of these, several died on board ship, others after their arrival, and a few only eventually became acclimatized. The latter bred and multiplied. Other birds were added, and cress breeding, the fine climate, care, regular and good feeding, brought these farm ostriches to be the superiors of the wild birds which have to struggle for existence on the African deserts. Tho first and largest of the corrals contains the Kindergarten.- Fine children it held of various ages, continuously on the move, after the restless manner of youth. "The boys wear blck coats, you will perceive," said our cicvorone, "the girls gray, which underviating uniform is an assistance to strangers in determining sex, for the females run the males close In sizo The babies are round that corner the same side." Three had recently been hatched .out of a sitting of sixteen. "One dropped off, and then there-were two!" Two perky little ones, of ten clays old, with funny stubby little Lacks, looking as if tousled horse-hair replaced the soft down of the callow period .common to most birds, but the body such perfect ovals thpt. tuck in the heads and legs, and prestro! one perceives they could again adriotly refit into their vacated, big, creamy-hued shells. The parent birds, we learnt, concern themselves little about thler young after their advent. Possibly the forty days they are engaged over the hatching satisfies their paternal and maternal instincts. At any rate, in this farm they are brought up by hand by an attendant, as they require to be dealt with Judiciously to tide over the early months of babyhood. For. the first four days they are unfed, after which they are allowed alfalfa, and they pick up gravel to aid digestion, being busily employed thereat as we surveyed the couple, with the adroit alacrity of a robin picking up worms out of the newly-turned soil in our northern lands. Seemingly sturdy as are their little frames, they have to be sheltered at night even in equable Cali fornia, for damp or chill would en endanger them at this early period of - growth. In the marital relationship the ; trich sets a good example to all classes of society. It is constant in attachment, never attempting, but reseuting, divorce. The mate shares tne long-uarwn-out nours or incuDatlon with the hen, the wife of his choice. At the age of four the male r,.. luuuu uwt: iu ma lining, oiicivs iu nci and to her only; and when she presents him with the eggs that are to j carry on their kind, he does turn and ! urn about in the sitting, and sometimes extra innings, the good lady be ing exercisod at the outset by the laying of an egg about three pounds in weight each equal to thirty chicken eggs. .k Alternate dayj until thirty days give them a store worthy their devotion to the further requisite weeks demanded for the bringing into being. There is no billing and cooing and gathering up of material for nest-making. Such a big nest It would have to be! Instead, in their native state the birds ' scoop out the warm sand and deposit the eggs therein; and at this Pasadena breeding corral, on a corner of

1 Large Demand for Rubber

New Plants Supplying Product are Eagerly Sought Efforts to Find Substitute. llubbcr is in such demand for mod ern uses that not only are new plants supplying it being sought, but eager efforts ate being made to produce sub stitutes. Artificial Indigo and artificial camphor are among the great successes of modern chemistry, and artifi cial rubber seems to be near at ham' as the production of caoutchouc I. synthesis has been already announced by Mr. Allsebrook and Dr. Docherty, of P.urtcn-on-Trcnt, Knglnnd. A process yielding an adcouate supply would take rank as one of the greatest of chemical achievements. Substitutes for rubber find some uses, and one of the most promising recent ones seems to be a patented German composition containing glue, glycerine, chrome salts, "lead plaster," vegetable fibers parchment ed by acids, gum trgacanth. vegetable balsams and wa As They Do at Dinner Time. "I want this floor repaired from the parlor to the dining-room," said the housewife to the tramp carpenter. "Yes'ni, but when do I got something to eat?" "When you repair fo tho diningroom." Precocious. "Have you ever heard a person curse the day he was born?" "Yes; that is very common." "He must have had the gift of speech early ."-The Collegian.

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the bare ground, lay an incompleted heap which, when the tally was" completed, the huge patient birds would start on, without the doing of much beyond the covering of the giant' eggs with'their giant bodies. As they sit in the open, readily discernable to the naked eye, in the clear air of their native regions, nature has provided them with suitable colored feathering. The gray of the female for the daylight, the black of the male for the night hours. But on this our visit, Mr. Washington had obligingly not tarried for tho shadows, but waa lolling on the eggs that good Mrs. Washington had abandoned, and was stretching a long-drawn-out neck and taking a gentle side roll for relaxa tion. while Dame Washington waa easing her cramped legs by a stroll round the corral, congratulating herself doubtless on being early off duty. These long-necked birds bolt the most extraordinary things, such as iron and steel nails, gimlets, tennia and other hard balls, Jewels, and stones. The gardner took from a basket oranges, of which fruit they ar exceedingly fond, and decorously bid , ding the previously quiet but now eager birds to wait their turn and "Place aux dames, let Madame have the first," his hand scarce neared the gaping beak protruding ready, than gulp, and In the long thin neck the orange showed the way down, gone ert a lady watching could exclaim, "she does not even seem to taste it though we see it going." "Why certainly," responds our gardener, to whom the re mark seemed not unexpected, "its a lengthened-out enjoyment. You re member Mark Twa,in and the giraffe.'" Plucking season, we are told, is announced in the local papers, and visitors throng for the interesting event, which, In reality. Is a cutting of the larger plumes and only a plucking of the "smaller ones that are ready to fall. There Is no pain In the removal, as the large feathers are also ripe for falling, but the birds resent the Initial handling, and an angry ostrich is a danger, as they kick with a power and directness well known to denizens of the desert. Consequently they are bej guileJ, not driven, into a corner of the corral by several men, and a hooa is drawn over their heads, when, realizing their helplessness they offer little or no resistance. The oldest ostriches stand eight feet high and weigh 300 pounds. The feathers of the male are in some re- ' ects superior to those of the femal irder in texture, retaining curl long: u are capable of taking a beautifu. glossy finish. On the live birds they are not the long, thick plumes we seek in purchase, but are single, flat and somewhat unusable looking. Three or more of like length and width are placed together and other methods of treatment are adopted to obtain the richness, flufflness and grace that renbo attractive for personal adornment. S. FRANCES LATIMER. Wireless Pocket Apparatus. A wireless telegraph apparatus was exhibited recently by the inventor. Professor Cerebotann, the priest in charge of the Munich pariah, during a scientific lecture before an audience, of persons engaged In the various branches of scientific Investigation. The Instrument consists of a wood en base with the letters of the alpha bet thereupon arranged In a circle. A small metal indicator swings on a pivot- in the center, so adjusted as to respond to the wireless dot and dash currents and spell out the messages. Tl e apparatus Is simple and somewhat larger than the ordinary card case ter glass. A process of making rub ber from naptha is said to be under, test on a large scale in the Caucasus. It Doesn't Go. C,,'o:ge Ade, at a dinner in New York, talked about America humor in England. 'if we draw our American characters like comic valentines," he said, "'he English think us f::nny. The u actors were all comic valentines Mrs. Vi;;gs of, th3 Cabbage Patch," joa know, and that play ran a year in London. "Oar own native humor they don't quite understand over there. So never try to bo fenny in Lor .Ion, tor it's like making faces in church oaruiy any lodv smiles, while a hoil of good pecpie tre annoyed and shocked. Untrue. "They say she's fickle." Xonsense! I know three fellowt she was engaged to for over a year" Rivalry. Squire Durnit I notice they's lots more funerals in your town than we are having in Lonelyville. Uncle Welby Gosh (of Drearyhurst) Yes- people seem to kind o' hate the id'ee of bein' found dead iu your Village. Appropriate Fastenings. "How will I keep my new chantecler hat on my head?" she asked, perplexed. , , "With hat plnfeathers, ray dear,' said the milliner

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IMPROVING MORALS IN CHINA Influence of Christian Teachings Shown in the Changed Conditions Found There. "The public conscience Is now being awakened upon this aspect of publie morality. Last week I was in vited to take part in a meeting organized by men who are not directly connected with any Christian church, but who are sincerely desirous of assisting in the reformation of their countrymen. Their purpose was to start' an antigambling league, and with this In mind they called a public meeting, which was attended by. some hundreds of Chinese scholars and business men, and resolutions were passed in approved public meeting style, approving of a campaign against the gambling vice. Members of the Chinese Young Men's Christian association were asked to assist in the meeting, and to demonstrate by the means of games the possibility of recreation without vice. Suitable addresses were given by prominent Chinese, and the chief organizer of the movement is one of the government education inspectors for the provinces of Kiangsu and Kiangsi. A Chinese Koman Catholic teacher gave a violin solo, a Chinese secretary of the Young Mens' Christian association rendered two .cornet solos, and a Protestant missionary sang to the gathering. The u'.iole meeting was conducted in so orderly and orthodox a fashion that it was scarcely possible to realize how tremendous , a reformation in the whole Chinese outlook upon public life this meeting revealed. Twenty years, even ten years, ago such a meeting would not have been within he realm of possibility. Today we lave a class of public moralists arising who have undoubtedly learned from Christianity in their midst the ideals which they are desirous of impressing upon their countrymen." Alms and the Man. "Sure Father Flaherty was a good man," Mr. Murphy said of the deceased wish priest. "He hated sin but he oved th' sinner, an he was all com passion an patience an' wisdom. There never was another loike 'im fr holdin' up hope to th poor batthered man that had anny desire f'r good. 'Faith.' said he to Con Meehan, th' tolme th' bh'y was down an' out. faith, this soide av paradise 'tist ail beginning again, over an over, an tin tolmes over!' -An" that keen." continued Mr. Murphy, " 'twas niver worth wholle to keep back part av th price av th' land! Wid a twinkle in his eye he'd see clean through anny Ananias that lver walked. "An gln'rous!" Mr. Murphy's voice dropped to a lower key ami his eyes were wet as he added, "His hand was always In his pockut, pn whin they prepared him f'r burial they found hi3 right arm longer. than his left wid stretchln it out to th' poor." Youth's Companion. Is Dirt Good for Soys? Some folks say: "Oh, let the boy play in the dirt. It is good for him. I wouldn't give a cent for a boy that keeps his clothes clean. That may be all right, but what anout the boy's mother? Getting the dirt out of clothes by the use of old-fashioned yellow soap and a slow washday method is hard la bor. If the boy's mother uses Easy Task laundry soap, which does half the work for her itself, and which reduces washday h-.bor by fifty per cent, it is different. Easy Task is five cents a cake and is tho greatest nickel's wcrth of soap ever sold. Autoing and Optics. "Is cot auto driving terribly lard on the eyes?" we asked. , "Well, I guess not," replied the chauffeur, withering us with scorn. "Why, before I get to runnin ä car I was thinkin o' gettin specks, my eye sight was that poor I couldn't see the contribution box in church until it was so near past me it was too late to dig for any money. But I hadn't been runnin' that wagon two days till I could see a policeman's little finger stickin out from behind a tree four miles away. I could even see which way a copper's eyeballs were turned if he was standin' in the shade three miles off. Hard on tho eyes! Well, not much! It's the best medicine for weak eyes that was ever invented, don't you forget It." His Claim to Prominence. At a social gathering a certain man, Intent cn knowing every one, was introduced to Senator Julius C. Burrows of Michigan. "The name Burrows is very familiar to me," he said. "I am certain that you are a man of some promlpence." "Yes," replied Senator Burrows, "I am the man that 'died at first' just before Casey came to bat In that celebrated ball game in Mudville." Success Magazine. ' Confused Impressions. "Oi course, you know the story of William Tell." said the serious citir.en. ' To tell you the truth," replied Mr. Cunirox, "I'm not clear about him. I can't exactly remember whether he was a great marksman or a famous opera singer." Women In Love. "Women in love are generally trou- ( '"i-'ome and persecuting." Such is ; Iio rci)orted oninion of M. Emile Fagutt. And if a French critic does not understand the subject, of whom shall we seek understanding?" Refinement of Assurance. Busy Business Man (irately) Sir, I didn't ask you to sit down! Persistent Salesman (settling back comfortably) That's all right no apology is necessary. I knew it was oiily an oversight. Harper's Weekly. The narrow man hedges in his workMi with restrictions, and foolishly pects him to do greater things when nied tfr.e right to be himself.

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