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DEPTH AT WHICH SHIPS SINK
CAPITAL VERY MUCH CROWDED
FOOD VALUE OF GRAPE JUICE
CARRY WIRELESS ON HORSES
ENGLAND NEEDS MORE TIMBER
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MORE WAR WORK FOR WOMEN
AIRSHIP OF 100 YEARS AGO
ARMY MEALS C0C7.ED IN AIR
FORCE OF HABIT
HIS IDEA
GETTING BACK
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WINTER FLOWERS.
FOOTBALL 'TACTICS IN WAR.
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FIFTY THOUSAND AN HOUR.
PRUSSIAN JUNKERS.
SILENT SALESMAN.
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WIRELESS PHOTOGRAPHS.
ADMIRABLE OSTENTATION.
A YOUTHFUL FINANCIER.
PERQUISITES.
HARD WORK.
REVERSAL OF FORM.
IDLE QUESTION..
BUTTING IN.
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TOUGH LUCK.
APPROPRIATE.
A LIVELY SHOW.
MAN AND HIS APPETITE.
AUTOMOBILE TROUBLES.
A RELIEF.
MARKET REPORT.
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PUBLICITY UNSOUGHT.
NOT BEING CONSULTED.
A VAGUE GUESS.
BEING AN ANGEL.
LOCATED.
CRUEL.
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Food for Italians in Alpine Fighting is
Heated En Route on the Ther-
mos Principle.
Fond Mother (as the train left for
Camp Grant)—See that you don’t
sleep in a damp bed, and, George,
don’t put on damp clothes.
Unkind Comrade (interrupting)
—And, George dear, see you don’t
drink out of a damp glass I
Seven Ounces of Beverage Will Fur-
nish About 200 Calories in the
Form of Sugar.
England Is Preparing to Extend the
Assistance From Female Popula-
tion, Relieving the Men.
Any Heavy Body Will Go to the Bot-,
tom, Since Water Is Nearly In-
compressible, Is Claim.
Equipment Being Used on Western
Front Has a Range of Upward of
Two Hundred Miles.
Country Clergyman in Lower Saxony,
Inventor of Craft Operated by
Large Pair of Bellows.
Bob—Before we part give me some
trifle to remember you by.
Bess—I will give you this picture
«f Jack. I never really fancied this
one.
Larger Consumption Must Follow as
Result of Postponement of Work
on Account of War.
Josh—Don’t be a fool.
Bosh—You want a monopoly of
the business, do you?
Strangers Who Fail to Make Advance
Reservations Find Difficulty in Ob-
taining Accommodations.
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paper that
the world’s
WALKS EIGHT-INCH BRIDGE
Alaskan Tie-Cutter Totes His Product
Across Narrow Footing, Disre-
garding Great Danger.
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“Arrogant, isn’t he?”
“Very. A. Prussian army officer
would seem humble alongside of
him.”
The Prussian junkers have always
been the loudest and most influential
voices in the German empire. Ger-
man militarism owes everyhing to
them. It is through them that Ger-
many achieved her irresponsible gov-
ernment, which survives as such an
anomaly among constitutional mon-
archies today, notes a writer. Their
dominance has been the cause of the
growth of German socialism. Junk-
erthum or junkerdom is the real seat
of German autocracy; junkerei is the
predominant characteristic of Ger-
man military behavior; junkerhaft
is the German description of the
junkerish behavior. The junker can-
not be defined; he must be seen,
heard and his hand felt.
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“George Washington was a modest
and unostentatious man.”
“Yes. And it is just his luck to
have his picture on more postage
stamps than any other personage in
history.”
“So you’ve been rejected by your
girl as well as the army doctors.”
“Yes, after I got back she decided
that if I wasn’t good enough for
the army there must be something
the matter with me and she refused
to take any chances.”
“Why are you going into the avia-
tion service ?”
“Might as well fly here, as here-
after.”—Orange Peel.
Mother—I want you to be good
little children today.
Eddie—What will you give
we are good ?
Mother—If you are really good
you can watch your father shave
himself tomorrow morning.
“I hear you’ve got a portable gar-
age.”
“Yes, and now I wish my auto-
mobile were portable.”—Judge.
“Who wrote the libretto of that!
musical comedy?”
“Are you looking for him, too i
J udge. ]
“The head waiter seems to scorn
my modest tip.”
“Did you offer him real money ?”
“Yes.”
“No wonder^ he scorned the small
change. What’s money to a man who
can collect all the left-over bread and
beefsteak and potatoes and every-
thing ?”
son like his wai
GROWING TO THE JOB.
“Why doesn’t the president
point a field marshal?”
“Maybe he thinks, as many
that it is a good plan to let a man
carve out a job like that for him-
self.”
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“How does your boy like army
life?”
“Fairly well. He has one criticism
Jto make though. The officers don’t
'take him into their confidence.”
“A public official is very much
overworked in times like theee.”
“Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum.
“The way they campaign now, after
a man’s elected he’s likely to have
to manage a few libel suits in addi-
tion to holding down his regular
job.”
Rooms may be made very bright
and pleasing in winter with tasteful-
ly arranged vases of everlasting flow-
ers. They may be used alone or in
association with dried grasses. On
the European continent greater use
is made of them than in this coun-
try. The French grow them com-
mercially in quantity for making
wreaths and bouquets. Among the
hardy perennial everlastings are sea
lavender, or statice, pearly everlast-
ing, chalk plant, sea holly and globe
thistle. Sea lavender is one of the
most important. Some kind? are
perennial, others are annual, while
others may be treated as biennials.
The perennial sorts are suitable for
the front of the herbaceous or mixed
border and the rockery.
A young inventor by the name ol
'Leishman has devised a system of
Transmitting writing, drawings and
photographs by wireless and also by
telegraph. If the system proves
practicable for commercial purposes,
notes an exchange, there may be
wireless photo stations all over the
country in the near future.
IT DOESN’T ALWAYS WORK.
A neighbor gave Teddy and
Dickie, age five and three, respective-
ly, a penny each. Teddy immedi-
ately assumed the role of guardian,
and took possession of his younger
brother’s coin.
Half an hour later he rushed into
the house, in great distress, and
called to his mother: “Oh, mother I
I’ve lost Dickie’s penny!”—Indian-
apolis News.
The extent of England’s prepara-
tions to give women a bigger part
in the war is indicated by the an-
nouncement, says a British corre-
spondent, that the national service
department wants to enroll 10,000
women a month hereafter for service
in the woman’s army auxiliary corps.
The corps is intended to provide
women for service overseas in doing
practically everything except actual
fighting. The increasing drain on
the national supply of men long ago
directed attention to the possibility
of employing women with the army
to do many auxiliary services for-
merly performed by the men.
Outside of actual fighting, the
maintenance of a great army’s ac-
tivities requires a multifarious
variety of duties to be performed,
driving transport, handling sup-
plies, managing great storehouses
and depots, driving motor cars, cook-
ing, sanitary work, all kinds of do-
mestic service. In the earlier period
of the war these services were pre-
sumed to require men.
“Of course, you disapprove of any
ostentation of wealth ?”
“Not always,” replied Miss Cay-
enne. “I thoroughly enjoy meeting
a man who brags about how many
Liberty, bonds he can afford to buy.”
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“How do you suppose our
likes being in the trenches ?”
“I am sure he likes it,” mused
Mrs. Corntossel. “It must be a great
relief to Josh to be able to get his
feet as muddy as he likes without me
making a word of complaint.”
In an issue of a well-known pro-
vincial paper in England, 100 years
ago, appeared a news item which has
peculiar appositeness to the present
day and hour. “A country clergy-
man in lower Saxony,” the item ran,
“has invented an airship.
“The machine is built of light
wood, and it is made to float in the
air chiefly by means of the constant
action of a large pair of bellows, of
peculiar construction. The wings
on both sides are directed by thin
cords. The height to which the
farmer’s boy, whom the inventor has
instructed in the management of it,
has hitherto ascended with it is in-
considerable, because his attention
has been more directed to give a pro-
gressive than an ascending motion
to his machine.”
One cannot help wishing that
there was a further record, a full
story, in fact, of the adventures of
the farmer’s boy and the Saxon
clergyman of a hundred years ago
and his airship; but then, perhaps
there never was anything ■ more to
record.—Christian Science Monitor.
Wix—I .see by this
more than one-half of
population is feminine.
Nix—I don’t believe it. If it were
so how do you account for the fact
that one-half of the world doesn’t
know how the other half lives?
BLENDED WITH SCENERY.
Cyhus—Look at Miss Passay! Her
'ball gown is like wall paper.
Iris—Camouflage! She knows
she’ll be a wallflower and she means
to be inconspicuous.—Town Topics.
Reports reaching the offices of the
National Lumber Manufacturing as-
sociation in Chicago, indicate there
will soon be an increase in the use of
wood in England. When a timber
controller was appointed last Janu-
ary as a war measure, consumption
of wood was restricted in nearly
every direction until an irreducible
minimum seems to have been
reached.
During the last two years England
has been living very largely on its
fixed capital so far as wood is con-
cerned, and little has been done to
make repairs or erect new buildings.
Railroad companies put off neces-
sary work in the hope of better con-
ditions, but this cannot be longer
postponed.
Cohstruction of workmen’s cot-
tages must also go ahead since many
munition and other workers are
homeless, while the great increase in
shipbuilding and ship repairing is
bringing an inevitable demand for
more ship timber. At the same time
requirements of the British army for
packing boxes and cases, furniture,
light railroads, aerodromes and
other buildings, make a constant de-
mand for lumber.
The conclusion of the English
timber firms is, therefore, that the
time has arrived when a larger tim-
ber consumption must take place,
and the government will act wisely
if it allows a larger importation of
foreign stocks'.
“Has your husband told you that
you must economize on the table?”
“Yes. But he never says a word
about it just before dinner.”
Twenty-five thousand dollars for
a song is quite a neat, but not gaudy
sum for a half hour’s work. 'Thai is
what George M. Cohan earned for
his war song “Over There,” which
he dashed off in exactly 30 minutes,
says a New York correspondent. He
sold it to a New York music pub-
lisher for that sum. The price of
$25,000 represents $161 a word and
$138 a note. A complete opera such
as one by Puccini, for instance, is
frequently valued at $15,000. The
highest previous payments per word
for writing were $1 to Kipling and
$2 to Col. Theodore Roosevelt. But
it took a war jingle, done in half an
hour, to run the price up to $161 a
word.
The most novel commissary in the
war is that employed by the Italians
in the Alpine fighting against the in-
vaders. The kitchens are oftentimes
1,200 feet below the men, writes an
Italian correspondent, yet the sol-
diers get their meals steaming hot.
Aerial tramways are the only
thing that makes the brilliant defense
of the Italians possible, for without
warm food and drink constantly ar-
riving they would be unable to with-
stand the cold in their high posts
where they command vital passes
and hold the invaders back.
It is impossible for the troops on
these high ledges to have fires, lack
of space and secrecy making a stove
or smoke impractical. The cooking
therefore is beg’"^ far below in
kitchens, finished__thermos bottles
and fireless cookers that bear the
food aloft.
Huge cuts of meat and thick vege-
table stews are placed over roaring
fires down at the timber line where
there is fuel in plentitude and then
before finished put into vessels whm1^
apply the thermos principle so that
by the Jime they have reached their
destination high overhead they will
.be cooked through and palatable.
The rapid increase in the use of
fruit juices as beverages in this coun-
try and the likelihood that this use
will become even more widespread
with the temperance wave that is
passing over the country, leads the
Journal of the American Medical
Association to a consideration of the
actual food value of these juices.
“In addition to organic acids
which lend a tart flavor to them,
these beverages, provided directly by
nature, contain a considerable por-
tion of sugars which lend a food
value to the product. Thus a glass-
ful of grape juice measuring seven
ounces will furnish about 200 cal-
ories in the form of sugar, and
orange juice is about half as rich
in food value.
“Recently the juice of the logan
berry has.begun to claim recognition
in this category. Analyses made at
the Oregon State Agricultural col-
lege at Corvallis indicate that this
fluid likewise contains from 6 to 8
per cent of sugar in the acid juice.
This lends to it a fuel value of ap-
proximately 300 calories to the liter,
presumably in the form of available
carbohydrates.”
“What is this dollar diplomacy ?”
“I* dunno. Seems to me I’ve heard
of schools where thpy give boys a
'diploma for a dollar.”
An old football player throwing
himself upon an alighting shell and
hugging it to the ground as if it were
a football to break the force of the
explosion with his own body and
save the lives of 19 comrades in the
British trench where the shell fell,
according to the St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch, was one of the tragic incidents
of unheralded heroism related by
George Sherwood Eddy, fresh from
the front in France, in a speech in
which he pictured with vivid detail
the physical and moral dangers and
miseries confronting the American
troops abroad and pleaded with the
business men to give all their profits
for a year to helping the Y. M. C. A.
and other organizations in combat-
ing these dangers.
There are several forms of wire-
less equipment used on the western
front, and under favorable condi-
tions a range of 150 to 200 miles is
possible with one of them. The
most easily handled wireless “sta-
tion,” however, writes a war corre-
spondent, is the cavalry type, which
weighs about 640 pounds, and is car-
ried in equal proportions by four
horses. Its range is not very great;
it works over a distance of from 25
to 30 miles.
The engine and dynamo are
mounted on opposite sides of a rigid
saddle on the first horse, together
with four gallons of petrol and a
quart of lubricating oil, tools, spare
parts and a telescoping driving shaft.
The second horse carries the trans-
former—which changes the current
to a lighter or lower voltage—in a
wooden case, and in another wooden
case the receiver, while the third
horse carries the masts, which in
some cases arc in sections and in oth-
ers are made on a telescopic prin-
ciple. The fourth horse carries hal-
yards, stays and the aerial wires,
which are wound round drums and
packed away in a fiber case.
Pens and paper are stationery.
Cutlery is very dull. Cheese firm and
fairly active. Butter strong and in-
clined to be slippery. Whisky live-
ly and unsteady. Hops lively and ac-
tive. Gunpowder inclined to be ris-
ing.—Exchange.
“Speaking of preparedness,” said
Uncle Eben, “dar ain’t no amount of
preliminary razor grindin’ dat’ll
make up fob de lack of fast work in
de actual incounter.”—Washington
Star.
“What’s on the menu?” asked the
hungry man.
“Well,” replied the waiter, “a few
articles of food are mentioned. But
most of the space is taken up with
government instructions on what not
to eat.”
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Washington, with the war on its
hands, is a very much occupied city.
So much occupied that the stranger'
within the gates who has not ar-
ranged matters long beforehand mayi
vary well find himself without a lodg-
ing for the night. The hotels are al-
ways full, the clubs are using all
their available guest rooms.
Recently, relates a Washington
correspondent, the vice president of
a big railroad, summoned suddenly
to the capital to confer with some
'one or other of those boards that
seem to be taking over all the func-
tions of government—summoned -
suddenly and promptly responsive—
found himself detained overnight
with nowhere to lay his head. Not a
hotel or a club with a room to spare.
It was late, but an expedient oc-
curred to him. He had left his own
private car' at home out of considera-
tion for wartime congestion of traf-
fic. But, perhaps, some other rail-
road magnate mightn’t have done
likewise. He went down to the rail-
road yards back of the marble pile of
the Union station and surveyed the
scene. Yes, there was a private car.
It looked rather like the car of a'
man he knew. He wasn’t sure, but
he took a chance, scratched upon the
door, and begged for shelter. He got
it.
But supposing he hadn’t been a
railroad vice president!
Carrying railroad ties on one’s
shoulder over an eight-inch footing
across a canyon 30 feet wide, with
150 feet of vacant space between the
log and a rock-torn mountain tor-
rent at the dark bottom, sounds like
the spectacular stunt of a circus per-
former, but it is the daily practice7
of Ed Martin, a tie-chopper, who
lives at Crow Creek pass on the gov-
ernment’s new railroad in Alaska,
writes a correspondent to the Pitts-
burgh Dispatch.
Martin has a permit from the for-
est service to use timber on the north
side of Devil’s gulch to make ties for
the railroad, but the railroad re-
quires that the ties be delivered on
the right of way, and to do this the
gulch must be crossed. For this pur-
pose Martin felled a small spruce
tree from brim to brim, and, when
he finishes a tie, shoulders it and
packs it over.
A party of hunters appeared upon
the scene a few days since, and, not
daring to attempt the frail cross-
ing themselves,' asked Martin why in
the name of all-possessed he did not
fell a safe footing across the chasm.
The tie-cutter replied that for his
purpose an eight-inch log was as
good as an eight-foot log, and it had
not occurred, to him that it was dan-
gerous.
“Do you ever stop to think about
how much you might save if you
were to stop smoking?”
“Look here, friend, I’m one of
those chaps who never touched to-
bacco, and I am $11,000 dollars in
debt. How do you account for it?”
A gentleman went into a barber’s
shop to have his hair cut. Having
sat down in a chair, he glanced at
the looking-glass in front, and saw
reflected therein the attendant, who,
to his surprise, was wearing rubber
gloves. This fact caused the gentle-
man tc become curious, so he said to
the barber
“Why do you wear rubber gloves
when cutting hair, my man ?”
“For the purpose,” replied the at-
tendant, “of keeping our celebrated
hair-restorer from causing hair to
grow on my hands.” He sold a bot-
tle.
“Where was
wounded ?”
“In the abdomen.”
, ‘(Where’s that ?”
“Don’t know—somewhere
France, I suppose.”
“They were a long time putting
up a monument to their comrade.”
“That was all right. Wasn’t it,
after all, a tardy tribute to a late
friend?”
HIS JOB.
“How does your
experiences ?”
“Not much. He says fighting thf
Germans for him so far has beer
mostly peeling potatoes.” ;
One of the most frequent inquiries
in relation to the sinking of vessels1,
is “Does a vessel that sinks go to the
bottom?” Replying to such quos-,
tions the Scientific American says:
“The belief seems to be widely
held that at a certain depth an iron
ship or an iron ball will remain sus-
pended, floating about and never
reaching the bottom. These inquirers
evidently confuse weight and pres-
sure. A body sinks in a fluid when
it weighs more than the fluid which
it displaces, which evidently has the
same volume as the body. For this
reason any heavy body will go to the
bottom in water, since water is near-
ly incompressible.”
An engineer of high repute took
exception to this statement, assert-
ing that at a depth of 33.7 miles wa-
ter would be as dense as cast iron,
and therefore cast iron would float
at that depth. The Scientific Amer-
ican exposed the fallacy of this ar-,
gument, and now publishes a letter
from “an authority connected with
the geographical laboratory, Wash-
ington,” containing calculations of
the specific gravity of water at
depths up to 36 miles. These prove
that if there be'water at any such
depths it is frozen solid in the dense
form of ice, frozen by the pressure
of the water above it, since the freez-
ing point of water is lowered by pres-
sure.
“Where are you going?”
“To price a steak.”
“I see. Are you in the market for
la steak or merely gathering addi-
tional data on the high cost of liv-
ing?”
UNCLE EBEN’S PHILOSOPHY.
Wifey—John, Willie has been a
naughty boy today.
Hubby (a police magistrate)—•
Well, I’ll fine him $10 and costs.
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