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TOO FEW USE THEIR BRAINS
Result Truthfully May Be Said to Be
the Greatest Waste In the
World.
The recent invention which renders
wireless transmission independent of
atmospheric conditions and the dis
covery by which seven messages can
be sent simultaneously over a tele !
phone wire are striking instances of
latent possibilities long unsuspected. '
For thousands of years we did not
even suspect the existence of elec |
tricity, and, being ignorant, derived
no advantage from it.
If we had never heard music, we,
would say it was merely the dream of
a simpleton to expect the most beauti- |
ful harmony of sounds from a combi: |
nation of wood, intestines of a dead
cat and hairs from the tail of a horse. |
But the violin, plus the man who
knows how, accomplishes the wonder-
ful result.
Active talent is the source of both
quantity and quality of production,
and that does not lie in capital but
in men, and it usually is latent.
Every man has power and courage,
but not all of them know it.
David had it, and knew it, and licked
Goliath.
Foch was not plucked from the “four
hundred.”
And Lincoln came from a
cabin.
Not only once in a while, but very
often, nature takes a particularly
“raw” bit of material and shows up
what is in it. It is a suggestion for
use to do likewise with ourselves.
The greatest waste in the world is
the unused brains.
TAKING HIM DOWN A PEG
Visitdr’'s Comment on the Intelligence
of His Host Verged on the
Caustic.
Two old men, one a bachelor and
the other a widower of many years
standing, have lived on small aon
ing farms in the southern part of
Washington county for many years
Not long ago ane of them inherited a!
small amount of money and he imme
diately put it to use by building a
pew shack on his land.
When the house was completed he |
asked his old friend and neighbor tc’
come over to spend the night. After
supper they sat by the fire and smoked
and talked, and finally, when conver:
sation began to lag, the visitor turned
to his host and said:
“You say this home is all done and
paid for?”
“Yes,” was the short reply.
“And you planned it all yourself
and hired the carpenters and every
thing?’ the guest insisted.
“Why, yes, of course, I did. What's
the matter with you?”
“Oh, nuthin’ much,” yawned the vis
itor. “Only if I was smart enough
to buy a house and build it and then’d
ast folks to come to see it, Ill be!
dum’d if I wouldn't know when it was
time to say something about going to
bed.”—Indianapolis News.
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Shark Salad Wins Favor.
Shark meat is delicate in flavor and
texture, and sharks are plentiful in
certain parts of Florida, but the fish-
ermen do not catch them because they
are not salable. The home demon-
stration agent of Monroe county, Flor
ida, decided last winter on an effort
to establish in favor this fish now un-
der the ban. At her request a fisher-
man caught one, but warned her that
no one would eat it. Undismayed, she
invited a large company of women
to a home economics luncheon at which
was served a fish salad. When all
had tasted the salad she asked for a
vote as to how many liked it and
wanted the recipe. Without exception
the women voted their hearty ap-
proval, and thus proved to theXselves
that their prejudice was without
foundation.
Increasing Use of Castor Beans.
The use of castor beans for making
oil increased very rapidly in 1918
Great Britain imported from India from
8,500 to 4,000 tons per month. They
were used in making a motor lubricat-
ing oil. An effort was made last year
to plant large areas of the beans in
the southern part of the United States
and in the West Indies and Brazil
So far most of the beans have been
raised in India from which some
1,723,000 gallons of oil were exported
in 1916-17, This bean is a form of
our common garden castor bean used
as an ornamental.
Regent Spanish Inventions.
Recent inventions reported by Carl
Bailey Hurst, American consul gen-
eral at Barcelona, include a straw
compound as a substitute for coal for
locomotives and agricultural tractors,
t. develops suflicient heat in thirty
minutes, and the ashes make an’ex-
cellent fertilizer. This is Invented by
Joaquin Estevan, the engineer. An
other patent is by Thomas Roca of
Las Palmas; on a process for the use
of’ banana fibre for textiles, yarns and
cords as a substitute for hemp.
Shadows and Substance.
“A shadow social was given last
week at the Ward house. After the
shadows were all sold they auctioned
{ But Really,
off the pies and danced.”—Idaho
Falls Times.
SILVER IS KING IN ARIZONA ACTION BETTER THAN WORDS
Old and New Mines Are Being Opened How Lieutenant Colore! Whittlesey
After Peace Brought Slump
in Copper.
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Silver is king again in Arizona, says ;
C. P. Reiniger, president of the As-
sociation of Arizona Mining Men, ac-
cording to the Philadelphia Ledger's
Phoenix correspondent. With the cop-
per market stagnant as a result of the
mands for white metal are pouring in
from all quarters of the globe. Many
| cessaticn of war requirements, the de- |
of the producers are replacing their
copper handling equipment with
plants to turn out silver.
“There is a big demand for silver
fn China and India,” says George D.
Bethune of Globe. “The United States
government is filling it at $1 an ounce,
the same price at which it is sppplying
| 200,000,000 ounces of the metal to the
British government on contract.”
Years ago, when Tombstone was at
the height of its fame, Arizona was a
great silver producer. Then came the
slump. Copper was discovered. Last
year, according to the estimate of the
United States geological survey, Ari-
zona produced $192,000,000 worth of
copper. “Give us copper,” was the
cry from the United States and the
allies.
With the armistice conditions
changed overnight. One billion pounds
of copper, more than a third of which
was Arizona preduction, are estimated
to be awaiting sale. So copper is
down and silver is up.
Surveys of the state indicate that in
the Prescott and Tucson mines silver
predominates over the other metals;
in Bisbee, Jerome, Globe and Ajo its
values as a by-product run heavily.
From the neighborhood of Prescott
come reports of the revival of old sil-
ver mines. Battle Flat, scene of a
sanguinary Indian fight in the seven-
ties, is reported to have yielded new
discoveries of silver, and two fresh
camps have been opened on this spur
of the northern slope of the Brad-
shaws.
DID SEEM LIKE PROFANITY
Prospective Bride Was
Merely Trying to Tell Marriage
License Clerk Her Name.
C. M. Kennedy, who issues mar-
riage licenses in Seattle, Wash,, is an
exceedingly polite and withal a proper
young man. When a prospective bride
and groom approached his desk re-
| pulp here’s what happened that
shocked Kennedy:
“Name, please?” .said Kennedy to
the sweet-faced young thing before
him.
“Helmaheart Hurts,” came the unex-
pected reply. -
“Er—I'm sorry,” said Kennedy witha
a frown. Turning to the prospective
groom, Kennedy asked his name, think-
ing to give the coming bride an oppor-
tunity to recover from her evident at-
tack of heart trouble.
“George T. Halliday,” said the maa.
“And now your name?” said Ket
~ nedy to the apparently recovered bride-
| to-be.
“Helmaheart Hurts,” she repeated.
“Young lady,” said Kennedy severe-
ly, “I am a married man and a father,
and it grieves me to hear such lan-
guage from a girl getting a marriage
license. If your heart hurts I'm sorry,
but profanity is wholly unnecessary.”
“What the future Mrs. Halliday is
trying to tell you,” said the young man,
“is that her name is H-e-l-m-a H-a-r-t
H-u-r-t-z.”. Kennedy apologized. —Ciu-
cinnati Inquirer.
Wireless vs. Wire.
Will all the telegraph and telephone
poles, wires and instruments connect- :
ed with these methods of communica- |
tion be simply so much “scrap” in a
year or so? Representative Steener-
son of Minnesota, ranking Republican
member of the house post office com-
mittee, predicted “Yes,” if the progress
now being made in wireless communi-
cation continues. Mr. Steenerson, as
quoted in The Wireless Age, says:
“Radio communication is the coming
thing. It is making such rapid strides
that before the end of the year the
ayerage American will not be bother-
ing much about the transmission ¢f an
ordinary message over an ordinary
telegraph or telephone wire or as to
whether the ordinary telephone or tel-
egraph wire is owned or controlled by .
government or private interests.”
Spoiled Sarah’s Great Scene.
During a performance of “Hamlet,”
in which Sarah Bernhardt was imper-
sonating the melancholy Dane, the
graveyard scene was entirely ruined
by the unfortunate appearance on
the stage of a cat, which walked in
from the wings and began to wash
its face. The Divine Sarah, somewhat
disconcerted, stamped her foot, and
the cat, taking fright, jumped—into
the open grave, the resting place of
“poor Yorick!” Madame withdrew
and the curtain descended. A cat
can look at a king, but not at a queen
-0f the drama!
Life in Other Planets.
Marconi truthfully says that many
of the planets are much older than
ours; therefore, beings who dwell
thereon ought to possess vast funds
of information that would be of in-
calculable value to us poor martals.
He makes this reasonable statement
in a recent interview: “It is silly to
assert that other planets are uninhab-
ited because they have no atmosphere
or are so hot or otherwise totally dif-
ferent from the earth. If there wers
no fish in the sea, we would maintain
to our last breath that life therein
was impossible.” That is a reason
able assertion.
Boche Demand
That He Surrender.
Answered the
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Lieut. Col. Charles W. atin.
commander of the “Lost Battalion,” !
and winner of the first congressional |
medal of the war, has been dubbed |
Go-to-Hell Whittlesey, because of his |
reputed pithy answer to the German |
demand to surrender. Now comes |
Lieut. Arthur McKeogh. adjutant of |
the battalion, with the complete story |
which he tells in Everybody's. “As |
a matter of faet,” writes Lieutenant |
McKeogh, “the colonel sent back no |
written answer whatever. To fiose
nearest him he did suggest that the !
Boches could take the well-known easy |
descent. But the most complete, prac-
tical and splendid answer that could
have been made to the German pro-
posal he made as he finished reading
the note.
“On the side of the hill our airplane
liaison agent had spread out his panel
to indicate the battalion’s position te
the divisional planes that had been try-
tng to drop message cylinders and
even food within reach of the com- |
mand. That panel was an equilateral
cloth triangle, more than six feet long.
Moreover, with the exception of a small |
plack patch, it was white. The |
thought sprang into the colonel’s mind |
that, inclined as itwas on comparatively |
open ground. the big signal device was |
probably visible in the Boche lines. '
And it was white. Messages and food
were essential enough, God knows, but
suppose the Germans mistook that
panel for surrender!
“Whit ordered It taken In at once.
That was his answer.
“What words could have been as
magnificent !”
WILL NOT BE MADE REL!C
Clemenceau’s Coat to Be Missing From
Collection of Mementoes of the
World's Famous.
Apparently M. Clemenceau’s prac- |
tical mind and hate of show are going
to deprive his admirers of the right
of gazing at the famous perforated
coat and waistcoat in one of the Paris
museums, for this is not to be in-
cluded among the relics of greatness
for a future age, like Nelson's coat and
the Napoleon relics. There have been
Some very curious souvenirs of the
kind, apart from the half-smoked
cigars of royalties which are treasured
by some. Most curious of all undoubted-
iy was Lord Anglesey’s “leg.” Lord
Anglesey lost a leg at Waterloo, and it |
was buried in the garden of the villa |
to which he was taken. In after years
Ze used to recall how parties of people
visited the spot “to view the grave.”
4 relic of another kind was George
«I's famous coat, and it was a pleas-
‘ant trait-in the fiery little King that he |
¥queezed himself at Dettingen into the '
coat he had worn years before at
Oudenarde. Horace Walpole’s ‘“re- |
searches after Queen Mary's comb, |
Wolsey’s red hat, the pipe which Van :
Tromp smoked during his last sea
fight, and the spur which King William |
struck into the flank of Sorrel’s” are |
Somous.—Westminster Guardian.
Mineral That Can Be Molded.
Charles E. Sweet has discovered a |
reparation of silver which may be
mmade in a plastic form like wax or
clay, and also thinned down to the
=onsistency of paint, according to the
Little Journal, Cambridge, Mass. Cop-
ver, copper alloys and bronzes may be
worked in the same manner. By sim- |
vle technology, the preparation may '
be reduced to the pure metal with- |
out any change in its form or shape.
A sculptor may work it in the rough |
or in relief, just as he does his usual |
materials, or in dilution it may be ap-
rvlied to a metallic surface with a
hrush. It greatly simplifies the prob-
lem of artistic work of a high order,
although, of course, it is more expen-
sive than stamped wares. Medallions
and figures may thus be presented in '
the original without the need of cast- |
tug, and such articles as silver sets
may be made of which every membvy |
1s original and unique. Tt provides a
new medium for artists. The inven-
tion has been patented.
He Wears a Necklace.
Did you ever hear of a man wear-
ing a necklace? Well, that is what
the male Canadian warbler does, while
on the female of this attractive bird
there is only the slightest indication
of a necklace, says the American For-
estry association, Washington, which
is conducting the nation-wide bird- |
house building contest among school
children. The warbler’s necklace of
black spots shows up very strikingly
on his olive green and yellowish throat
and breast. On the back the bird is
of a slate gray color with the tail more
of an olive brown tone. This is a very
lively bird. It is very seldom still
for more than a few seconds before it
dashes out at some tempting bit to
eat. It is partial to the wooded
banks of streams. It usually keeps
in underbrush near the ground.
Shells as Feed.
America possesses some of the larg- |
est chicken hatcheries in the world,
a single establishment sometimes hav-
ing a capacity of 225,000 eggs. One
room:in such a hatchery has' 88,000
eggs in process of incubation at one
time. An interesting by-preduct of
the industry are, the shells which ac-
cumulate in mountainous piles. They
are not wasted, however, but are
ground and sold to chicken raisers for
LIVE IN PRACTICAL SLAVERY
Estaonian;: Little Better Than Serf:
to the Germans, Who Own Nine-
Tenths of Land.
Esthonians, or Esths, who have re
pulsed repeated attacks from the Bol
sheviki, and recently drove a force un: |
der Trotzky to ignominious flight, are
described by Dr. Edwin A. Grosvenor
in a National Geographic society bul
letin as follows:
The Esths
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are a Finno-Ugrian
people, once savage and adventurous, |
terrifying the Baltic with their piracy,
constantly attacking and attacked by
the Danes and Swedes. Their final
subjection by the Brothers of the
Sword and their enforced acceptance
of Christianity crushed their spirit
and rendered them serfs to the Ger
man masters.
The Esths outnumber the Germans
in the old province of Esthonia 29 to
1; yet nine-tenths of all the land is
held by Germans.
In the former province of Livonia
the Esths constitute nearly half the
population, while the Germans are
less than one-fifteenth. There the land
is divided into estates averaging over
ten thousand acres in extent, none
owned by an Esth or Lett but almost |
invariably by a German.
The Russian government at times
endeavored by agrarian laws to alle-
viate the condition of the peasant.
Such efforts failed against the stolid
resistance of the great proprietors.
The Esths have clung devotedly to
their national language, the sole in-
heritance from their past. They love
poetry and song. Their physical char-
acteristics are Finnic; their faces
short, broad. beardless; their fore
heads low, mouths small, arms long,
legs short. Despite their extreme pov-
erty education is relatively advanced.
All but 4 per cent are Lutheran Prot-
estants.
Since the sudden universal awaken-
ing in 1918 the Esths have been insis-
tent upon national recognition. But
ownership in the land is their greatest
need.
WHEN FLYING IS UNIVERSAL
Some Highly Interesting Legal Prob.
lems That Will Call for Intelli-
gent Settlement.
A series of interesting questions has
been made concerning contingencies
that may be expected when the air is
actually: used for miscellaneous traf-
fie. How, for example, will the man
on the ground be protected against
carelessness by the man in the air,
and what kind of sign can the air
plane carry which will serve to identi
fy it if some earth-man wishes to
lodge a complaint with the authori-
ties? Or again, what will be the rights
of the proprietors of a baseball park
if an aviator evades the price of ad-
mission by flying about over the dia-
mond? Or what will be the remedy
of the man who is kept awake at
night by airplane motors? What will
be the limit of the private citizen's
property measured perpendicularly,
and how can he tell whether or not an
airman is trespassing? Such questions
are amusing to read, but in all serious-
ness they mean that the legal prob-
lems that will come up with the in-
creasing use of airplanes will require
ingenuity for settlement.
Queen of the Rhine.
A writer in the March number of
The Sunday at Home recalls that
Cologne, on the Rhine, which is now
occupied by British troops, dates
back to the year 37 B. C. In the year
50 A. D. a Roman colony was estab-
| lished there by Colonia Agrippina, the
. wife of Claudius Caesar, and the city
was named after her. It has always
been an important city, doing a large
trade. The 1905 census shows a popu-
lation of 428,503, of whom 80 per cent
are Roman Catholics.
Cologne is a fortress of the first
rank, the forts forming a semi-circle
around the city. Being an ancient city,
the streets are narrow and crooked.
The Church of Ursula is said to con-
tain the bones of 11,000 virgins,
! slaughtered, the legend informs us, by
the ancient Huns because they would
not break their vows of chastity. The
great cathedral is one of the finest
examples of Gothic architecture in
Europe. It was centuries in building.
The total cost has been about two
millions.
| Toll of Snakes in India.
i The American consul, M. M. Hay-
wood, stationed at Calcutta, India,
! states in a government report that
more than 26,000 persons lost their
lives in the country last year because
of snakes and wild animals—the
snakes claiming by far the larger num-
ber of victims.
| To be exact, the consul says that
23,900 persons died in India last year
as a result of snake’ bite, and that
2,176 persons were killed by wild ani-
‘mals. This is an increase of 300 over
the previous year as regards fatalities
from snake bite and ams increase of
100 as regards tlie: number killed by
‘animals.
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Boy Saved by Rubber Heels.
, Lawrence Ramm’s study of electrici-
ty was not for naught. The young
Ben Franklin, who is twelve years old,
and his brother, John, two years his
senior, went out with other Chicago
lads for a bit of play. They encounter-
ed the end of a broken electric wire,
still charged with a strong current.
‘With, boyish curiousness John touched
the wire. He could not let go.
feed, principally as bone builder, thus :
completing the cycle to everyone's sat-
isfaction—~Popular Mechanics Maga- |
zine,
| The: other boys became frightened
and ran. But Lawrence remained.
1+ Tearing off his rubber heels, he jam-
| med them against the wire and his
brother's hand was released.
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Fall Showing
OF COATS AND SUITS
We extend a cordial invitation to all who
want to see advance Fall Styles. These gar-
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us to sell then: at a phenomenal saving to you.
NEW FLOOR COVERINGS
are here. Buy early at our prices; it will be to
your advantage.
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CRETONNES
A most complete line of Tapestries and Cre-
tonnes in the new dark designs, from 25c. to
$3.50 per yard. This means new goods at old
prices.
SHOES
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Shoes for children in all sizes.
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Men’s Work and Dress Shoes
Ladies’ and Misses’ Shoes at prices
lower than wholesale today.
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Clearance Sale Prices
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