Why Not,
than
indeed?
If more one house are called
houses
And more than one mouse are mice,
Then why ar two not mouses
And why not
mics
are two houses
If a lette
And
and it goes,
it went when
sent
we Know
1't it snent when it snows
Or the money we spent been
clings
that
that never
we spring is
ascended
pyrotechnic
taining a
yard within
The “si
day morning about
roosters began
heralding the
sericea of ghrieks it
ascended from bass the
at descending aiways by the
same course and dying away in a wail
like {the death chant of an Apache.
At 6:30 there was another form-
ance just to show tnat engineer
had steam up, and at 7 the “siren” did
its final morning stunt, which was the
most artistic of all. It happened
that the citizens of Jassopolis took
great pride in the “siren” of the car
shops, for like everything in Casso
polis, It was the superlative of its
kind. Unfortunately, however, for
James J. Hill's reputation, neither une
nor the B. and M. officials were aware
of this fact. Several years subse
quent to the establishment of the
shops the general officers of the Bur
+
yt
get
of
to ac
break
unearthy
the
dawn
again
to treple
6 o'clock,
pe
the
30
on their annual tour of mspection,
In order to be where quiet reigned
President George B, Harris had the
spacial
shop gates. At break of dawn the
day following the advent of the gen-
eral officers the “siren” reached the
height of its artistic career. There
was a full head of steam and the en-
gineer and the “siren” had become
well acquainted. The first crescendo
braught the railway president stand
fng in the middle of his room in the
private car. the allegro bar sent goose
uples chasing up and down his
spine, and by the lime
put the finishing toucl
ery officer
down th
tha *
in its dying
weial
and
on
Wis
1pon the
was hegging for mercy.
Brown,” salt
eral
manager,
Creator wi
imber
occupants
a4 bad
NVENTION
NVENTION.
would be
doubt be
numerous curious
lost secret still
baflles must have been
discovered independently by the three
races which made use of it so long
ago.”
The above item from a Sunday pa-
per is an example of many such float
ing about which both reflect and im-
press an exaggerated sense of the Im-
portance of a so-called lost invention
art, The w says: “A redis-
covery ol this lost art would revolu-
tionize many trades in which steel
at present holds the monopoly.” Why
would fhere Te any revolution? Is
any man sighing for a copper razor,
or any want a JACK
knife blade? There is no evidence to
prove that the t Yau pered copper tools
oi The anclenis we rapable of hold:
ing a Keen edge like steel; on the
| contrary, they were probably very
| crude and unsatisfactory substitutes
| for what we now have. The United
lates government board appointed
twenty-five years ago to test irom,
Sleél and other metals reported
through their chairman, Prof. RB. H.
Thurston, in that portion relating to
copper tin alloys, that alloys of cop
per 72.80, tin 26.85, tin 20.88, copper
| 68.68, tin 37,26, copper 67.87, tin 32.10,
| copper 65.356, and tin 34.47 were all
#0 hard that they could not be turned
in a lathe with steel tools. These
and other hard combinations have
been glinerdlly known to the trade
fact that thougt
stidntisia, it
or iter
does boy brass
for years, but of what
Copper and its alle
good are
Are moro «
they 1
¥ tly
wdinary 3 of tool steel,
» only
that they
advantage
incorrodible
arent POS
are
tand
what, in curren
“hot al Machine
JAPANESE SUFFERING POVERTY
Bus
iness
Taxes
Retarded by Heavy War
People Sacrifice Every-
thing.
people
WOMAN'S F
to Fir
Have
ANCY.
" th Shall
incs yines, Sne
em,
Port
i #9 CaAlige
too cheap--but too
have
they were
expensive
never!
We
question
are constrained to
the propaganda
gant atlire for women
ive and her immediate
taught the world to
seriously
against ele
Old Mother
daughters
upon the
woman as a peacock--radiant, proud,
and beautiful. And through all the
changing years from Egypt and Rome
down through the dark ages and on
until today ihe mind of woman has
turned toward clothes. And we are
glad of it. There i nothing in crea
tion so disgusting as a slovenly dress
ed woman; nothing so dainty and at
tractive as one becomingly gowned
And s0 we raise our masculine voice
in protest against this rather unusual
movement of the Federation of Wom:
an's Club.~Terre Haute Star,
Barbers at Work in Streets.
The topsy-turvey methods of China
are curiously illustrated in the case
look
waiting for customers, goes out to
seek them. He carries his shaving ap
paratus and a stool with him and, like
an American milkman, rings a bell to
attract the attention of likely custom
ers. The man who wishes to be shav-
ed hails the barber, who places his
stool on the ground for the custom.
er's use, puts a bow of water on the
little stove he carries, and, having
lathered his brush, sets to work, The
charge is not high. For a sum equiv.
alent to a halfpenny he shaves the
customer's head and smooths ous his
eyebrows. Tit Bits,
NOTES AND COM)
MENTS
who is seeking &
hit ‘him with
varying the Ch
his wife
divorc @
an iron CARO
guch clr
hushand
conclude
cu
the
Bo)
k a
Wa
Lom nae}
average Chicago
pol
hington Post,
iceman,
the human
laugh. The
found
hiulne
Doctor sas
how
iousness of tod: 3 nay be
The Famil
race is for; Lo
Be Lo
have its roo
of men, the flercer eagernes
up in the of wi
fort, gether with the
this content,
nes
which
LO move
and
temper
the
Ith
com
hearted
ol -
of life, in
the every
the hum
happeni
Tt
NES,
nary wall
cations
that true
not
as a matterof.course impulse,
“Every man that wears a uniform
ia not a hero” sald Wellington, but
there are plenty of heroes who wear
no uniforms.
day
heroism most often appears,
result of deliberation but
as the sul
Human nature is a funny mix-up.
The average man and woman seem (0
be made up, for a good part, of com:
plaints—“kicks,” and when they
travel they especially enjoy turning
them loose, remarks the Four Track
News,
The man who is accustomed to
wood bottomed chairs at home is the
man who compiaing most
hard seats on the train,
The woman who finds most fault
one who, when the opportunity comes,
with parcels.
The man who loafs away three
fa the most unreasonably impatient
if the train is a fow minutes late,
The woman who hates children is
the one who thinks it brutal that she
isn't permitted to take her dog into
the chalr ear.
The man who “eats around” at the
25 cents restaurants is the surest
“kicker' in the dining oar.
extortionate fares.
The woman who lives in a four.
sleeping car.
OTECTION AGAINST A WITCH,
daw Invoked
Sunernatural
to Keep Woman Frem
Detective Work.
$
twi
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