BR POWDER TESTS O NCE upon a time a chemist was sitting with his feet cocked up on whe table smoking his pipe. off day for the bad-smell artist. The door opened and In walked a boy. He handed a smull jar to the artist—I mean chemist. In the were Yue was streaked purple like a rum- Wister's nose. “Mac says he thinks you'd oughta see this,” A terrific explosion gut. The chemist seemed to shoot in- te the His pipe landed in the eoruer, boy picked it up, stuck It Mito hi and went away. He was safe because of the purple on the yellow in the gia The | eles: he jar was the visual which su of kept in laboratories d purplish streaks told the pars ticular brand becoming minute its box- 1 So he « pl wie having tl der he took that wi own hack That was every mai own powder tests and serisusne to guard. abeard destroy The pow bags in watertight Magazines must M0 degrees F. alw at not than &0 grees F. has g little shelf on glass ja one for powder that mag o'¢lock in the morning ter thout the 8OY was the answer he The 8 teeth, strenks jar. POW der Lx lumps umps smok were pow de r chemist nat ts disint was "On abou: 1S one a tign rooms all magazines, be ke : less than more FOPR amps in jars, ited the af freed wdded vhic hh so OX¢ by action acid to pe vd On such signs the with in the Besides test” the semi-annug ples from to a temp there for break unde: nes an the THE PUNY PAST TINK Chinaman, “y excin the otber thwow A willion meant are at hapd and Alabama, off Cherbourg naughts France odd years ago. Our coun- irymen thrilled with the spectacular details of the great engagement. Ench vessel boasted about 800 horse power In her wheezy old engines. We make no undue comment when we 2ear that 150.000 horsepower will paste the stern-sheets of our new tle cruisers, imed gunn not he ry officer Koa day at 3 examples * to oral - Our ances of what he Take the Kearsarge two Civil war dread. which fought 11 fifty Iam. bat- mensters ind six sit-in*h sarge). the bite of a sick flea alongside a sal was one T-inch, one (Alabar ae da-pounders S-inch S2-pounders, na); and five smilers we'll be buying picture post- fore long. In that rantic gig enterprise, hot body duel of blood and steel, the Kearsarge threw 173 pro- fectiles and the Alabama, 370. Had the pair been 20th century model heavy- weights they might have slammed that ane another's armament. And welght ‘of each shell, about 1.500 Ibs, The doughty pair sailed circles 400 to 1,000 yards. gireles they made Sghtweldhts sparring for a knockout, when we picture this year's {dom crashing over, the horizon at WW knots speed and aooo yards distant *resn her antagonist, When the Alabama looked like g teser Captain Semmes struck his eol- ors, threw his sword into the sea, and Jumped in after it so that he could éwim unhampered to a neutral yacht, the Deerhound. The modern skipper wouldn't give a tinker's d—n whether his vessel floated, prisoncd In the stegl conning tower and couldn't jump overboard [f he srled. And his sword would be down ‘mnder" his jut ries, gathering mark me, worthy contempora- the next generation are already thelr eggs for us. MOON R. TAXPAYER, attention! And all you poor brow-beaten people the especially residential streets. And pacifists, anti-militarists, and other autochithonic landerabs: 1 bring of cheer. The lust aecns 10.000 toward the of 01 naval streets a Message ROY ernment from first tomed to pay some $ entire and final education officer. In many wavs Annapolis ix the fonnl institution in the even with all th nu vital point is over to is eduent And frightful ox world vet, pense, looked. ne sad exa long the war irs he ha y molded into youth a relin we had enthralii ily But intienl star's distanee obtani by a neitnde of the wrist from hy n the an jn the one's clock echt set to a time of the n the are olf f#t any there is These YOurs Agnin eclipses Try one 1 ole fat If you note “oy From time to time hind the moon. O11 the time and aznin when it the two will nteh at whic the moos m tkeg mo moonlight a maid ever. And has iyo sateliit than VOICE PIPES HE bairy savage about his gods snd so different. stock about ev ing, from radio ticklers and codes to rubber boots and swahs, come has le spirits, In the ronds The fleet ery- ROCTot The for navy is there not Brn yarns volce pipe has in ifs share. First what is a voice pipe? This piping is brass or composition (that it will rust}, from two to four inches in diameter, depending on the length : and may be 10.000 feet of it on single ship. It is used to communi. one place he Hs, are shot not there a om fo another and when other telephones, burzers, systems away. On a certain up-to-date fighting eraft-——so the legend runs—there was a voice pipe from chart house to on gineroom, with a branch to the chief engineer's cabin, For the admiral's or captain's curiosity this arrange ment was a great gratifiention, i i i i { i i story possible. First it led and opened straight just above the middie of the chief's bunk. In emergency he could at night. Secondly the ma chinigt in charge of the starboard en gineroom was an artist on an har. monica. It is worth adding that the admiral abhorred a harmonien, fairly lonthed its lethal whinings. One qmet night at sea the old man in the pilot house. Said lethal whin. ings sifted up through the voice pipe. “That dd ecaterwanl again!” he ex And just the way he sald “again” was a hymn of hate by itself, Such a peaceful tropical night it wns, Warm too. And the chief Ing face downward on his bunk, bare and cool, bare as the day he was born, Pace down "WOW!!!" He leaped naked inte the night. Clutching himself behind he fairly sereamed up the tube, "What end eame: “just walt, you—" and a gurgle, Three minutes later he was In the charthouse. It was empty. So was the admiral’s teapot. Another ten sec onde and he was on the bridge. So was the admiral, Each sald good evening. ‘That's abl FRANCE FREE OF American Relief Steadies People in Devastated Areas, Says Noted Writer. Sr ——————— Restore Sufferers to Full Vigor Hope, Not Despair, in Their Hearts. New York.—Bolghevism will never root ir the miles of ruins along the Aisne as long as the morale of the French is kept high while the people are rebullding and replanting, asserts John Kendrick Bangs. It is better to build up a human soul than to re- store a rained chatean, the well-known writer and lecturer epitomize Speaking from observations made in two trips of Inspection through the regions which rer almost Ls wrecked and the left them, he the by the American Devastated France tant in ing the nain Ger- work Committee desolnted ns mans tdecieres done for to be mont } popuinti« he nstruction period. import wdying dur- reco Fears Would] Be Allayed. restiess time like these” Bangs “when the grent bo he whee ; sorts I somethimes tinl factor In ported “In Mr. Yole gaid gey of rel every | nto to i enre, £ of COTIRG wish that every wen Amerien iid be try Europe ins to to for them | nd over sharteon “That easily HiHterncy is the per cent utier of over 90 Y optistion “If there wer © an y real fear of Bol | S. Nav Rations Are So Good That Ath- letic Training Tables Are Barred. n of the Fleet Mas Improvement War, Says Chief, Mechanical Conditic Undergone Littl the Bureau Since be is the , world, Wa made best Sa of the navy, deci port In support of his Rear Admigg! MceGowan cites lowing orl Admiral wi few gon, commant Atlantic Training Tables Barred. “Due to general excellence of pres ent navy ns and living conditions on board ships of the fleet, ‘training tabies’ for athletic events are consid- ered unnecessary G ar therefore forbidden. Surplus provisions left Alling the wartime need, Gowan sald, have nt reasonable prices. He added that new stocks of the current season's pack were being obtained in sufficient meet the estimated quirements of the coming year. Increases in the prices of foodstuffs | during the year were reflected in the | shington in still m™ that the rican navy fed buddy iu in MeGovwan 2 ying ared in his ay the mue! igter general annual re siantemet fcl Wil fleet. the iss er of the i“ after Admiral Me been disposed of over re. With a of Digs a Uni cuttin WwW capacity eight installed in the mall shops of the places the of eight men canvas cloth igle operation. tration, who has been putting the shops since 1017, } blind for 20 a day. services has bees ard ont n not naeent peop we Hun, its these 1 perfectly Jus y Best ¥ of the which rose 1 ration 5 cents navy 70 65 cents In 191 an with AVernge o nar BVern Admiral Asa anal | iith qd 37 Metowan gures showed ge of arour giod NYHA trow ns Franes G00 returning In of Conny the “Ihosnit ticles tent amounting pers ga; of ta, for the navy's Oeations, es on meats, no and the standard never lowered.” Ships The mechanical pecinil thing was done, of subsisience was Not So Good. ; condition of Amer fen’'s fleet has undergone little im provement since the termination of the war, 2nd the gineer perform “has not Admiral of engi report, en been satisfactery,” Rue Griflin, clilef of the bureau neering, says In his annual ar in Marriage They Are Not Divided. Cincinnati, O.— When Oscar Hein. chen, Jr, and his sister, Miss Hilda Heinchen, participate in a double wed ding, they will remain together, as both plan to live Im the same house, their sweethearts at the | 3 same time, propesals were made sim- | ultaneously, their engagements were announced together, and now after be. ing married at the same time they will share a double house, Stout Monoplane HOO feet, Soom a Sticcens of the war Ale MAN GIVES UP T0 SEE MOTHER Absconding Postmaster Surren- ders After Two Years of Detging Officers. ° IS CHANGED BY INJURY State zg. stenciiling Allen gh nu BH iam thro year West, { qjulipme fF 325 bag Ar meant pathy them the ster!” brought and where Delphia the fact Teagarden, cared for her baby, u feet and shoulders, Mrs. Ter own house, nurse the Many w SL iittle were amagZed at which Mrs, arms teeth, ith born with no sing Ny ner ration keeps BOWS, Cooks aired makes the beds and =? her comb held in her May Is a normal chiid. e is ahle with a Del; to comb own hair toes, shia STARA AAA AA SNAAAN BN BAIN BBP COREA FEL EE EEE E CAF EEF OEA CEE CCGA PCT CCE United States Department of Agricul ture Calls Beast Friend of Farmer. S—— Washington. veeeding of skunks as a means stabilizing the “de pressed fur market” is the latest sug gestion of the Department of Agricul jure. Despite all the harsh things that | have been said about this lowly animal the department descrides him as “the | best wild animal friend the’ farmer has,” The skunk, the announcement says, can be used for destroying mice, grasshoppers, crickets and white grubs, at the same time furnishing the farmer from £50 to £100 wurth of fur a year. | All that is required of the farmer : the circular says, is that he “respect the antmal’s ders, keep his poultry in | skunk-proof yards, kill an old horse for | them every fall and be tactful when he meets them in the evening.” 2 01 Sr —— ii Think Monkey Stole Diamond. St. of robberies and pocket pickings, the | police have turned their attention to the Forest Park 200 in the hope of soly. ihg at least one light-fingered misap. propriation. The quest Began with a senrch of the monkey cages on the theory that an $800 diamond pin was taken from Mrs, Clifford C. Fox as she strolled through the zoo on a Sunday afternoon. Park police believe one of the mo tkeys, attractéd by the sparkler, reached through the bars of his cape and “Hfted” the pin as Mrs, | strolled past, mobile Accident, Man Claims Fear of Capture Haunted Him for Months, Chirago.~—On Halloween in 1518 a gly driven automobile crushed a telephone pole on a highway Falls Creek, Pa. hurling three joy riders to the pavement, One of the A. McGrath, 24 years student, the accident, MeGragh , he devel were in poses There wers when gze, Pe normal. he aR I nddthrift, 01) wn and Trouble, began be tried to en. g on ela re “Prycho-some nw Shartly affer ofc a vy here ¥ n I McGrath sent He returned for a Away. be- the re he He A #0 to hth floc Depn fore Io rendered imiith Falls I was go. 1 was Creek posi - took im fo the gr other €inee wy By In McGrath. "Asked for a Deputy Marshal, didn’t 1 heard ba | dare to write home. 1 haven't a word Want to See My Mother” “I haven't dared to get a good job I have hard at what I could find, but 1 couldn't get ahead, “I'd work in one place until I conld not stand the down and outers any longer; then I'd move. [| became & Fear of capture haunted I wanted to live with real people again and most of all 1 wanted to see my mother, But all the time I was afraid. “Nesterday 1 worked got to thinking. 1 ww dead. 1 couldn't stand it any (ong. ww, 80 I'm here” i — REUNITED AFTER 45 YEARS hn — Sisters Meet in Minneapolis First Time Since Leaving Home as Girls. Minneapolis, Minn.—Reunion of two sisters who had not seen each other for 40 years, when they were young girls together in their father's home in Green Bay, Wis, took place when Mrs. J. R. Flysn of Rapld River, Mich, met her sister, Mra Pete Sorrell of Paul. in the home of Mra. Flynn's daughter, Mrs, J. M. Carlton, 515 Tween. ty-Beventh street west, Mrs. Flynn Is the mother of ten ehil- dren, and Mrs Sorrell ig the mother of a family of nine. The reunion for Mra Flynn was not only one with her sister, but alse with her sister's children, whom: she had not seen. After the sisters were married, at early ages, their ways never happened to meet. Wrapped up in the interests of their new families, they stayed apart for 40 years, while their respoe tive families grow to maturity.
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