Washington.—The Pled Piper has
quit. A lifetime consisting of nothing
more inspiring than luring rats to
that bourne whence no traveler re-
turns holds no charms for A. Gentry,
rat catcher in ordinary of the Natlon-
al Capital. Gentry's soul cherishes
foftier ambitions,
“Rats!” he sald, in commenting on
his resignation, “ ‘Big rats, little rats,
fat rats, scrawny rats’'—they're all
Just rats to me.
“And after you have succeeded In
trapping them what have you to show
for your pains. Just rats and 40 cents
an hour. I tell you, sir, a man’s life
of
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mother of Joan of Arc. Both
and American mothers will carry
shown above, of the
is too tmportant to be frittered away
in that fashion,
“You may well say that catching
federal rats Is a public service, and
many and boy, I've caught some
big ones In my time, but I have been
forced reluctantly to the conclusion
that rat trapping is not my metier,
There's no future in it. A long vista
of deceased rodents—nothing more.”
Gentry's nightly feud with the fed-
eral rats is fought out on a field of
the rats’ own choosing—the old Cen-
ter market district, It was here a
short time ago that two young ladies
from Virginia—students of heraldry—
were frightened out of several years’
growth by a platoon of the pests en-
circling thelr car and defying them to
enter. It took the authority of &
policeman to perruade them to dis-
perse,
So A. Gentry, fifty, champion prairie
dog killer of Wyoming, was looked up.
“Will you rid us of our rats?”
“Pleasure.”
“Hired.”
Six rats a night for several nights
Pled Piper that other
fields beckoned. Just where they are
he would not state for publication.
Enough that he is through as a har
rier of rodents. Prairie dogs, then
rats! Enough is enough.
convinced the
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1916
HOOD di
New York—A territory of
acres will be added to the
stone National park if the recom-
mendations of the Yellowstone park
boundary appointed by
President adopted by
are
a
CONZress, i the
commission,
Hoover,
This is
commission's report
which has just been
ernment printing office
Other recommendations of the cor
mission include the retention of
square miles of ridges and valle;
along the Snake river, which It
been proposed to congress should be
eliminated from the park. The report
revealed In
of 184 pag
issued by the ge
eed
By WALTER TRUMBULL
a planetarium, and
prob-
1 had never seen
except for my wife's insistence
ably would not have seen one yet In
fact, In
the subject, I Ina
to it as a solarium,
h at the difference is as that between
night. It does, to be
stars in
med sun,
preliminary conversation on
tly referred
te the fact
iverten
desp
sure,
w the sun as well as the
but it is a dim
which permits observation of the shin-
ing of the lesser lights. In ordinary
study of astronomy you look outdoors
up into what Omd#fr Khayyam
nated as “that inverted bowl they call
the sky." In a planetarium, they
bring the sky indoors.
* ss
”
their courses,
desig
.
Whoever created that weird and
wonderful machine, which looks like
some nightmarish visitor from Mars,
is to my mind entitled to rank with
Merlin and all the ancient magicians,
although all complicated mechanical
fnvention Is just so much mystery to
one who considers the proper thread-
tng of a film In a movie camera an
POPULAR PLAID
Plaid for every occasion is the lat-
est fashion edict. The model shown is
a crepe frock In brown and white
plaid, with it are worn white shoes
and .white hat, The pocketbook Is
also white,
She Can't Help It
*fnere are three things that happen
to most women, no matter how clever
runs in stockings, dieting and matri-
pony.—American Magazine,
achievement, It shows the
solar
through its
but ean mak
in either direc
few minutes. In ot
vice can show you the movin
ens na they looked to Antho
Cleopatra rie +
entire movement
countless fields of stars,
e thousar
not only
system in
ids of years race
tion In the space o©
her words,
floating down the
some clear Eg
show you the sun, moon,
planets in the position they
cupy 10000 years from now,
which, even as an optimist, 1
expected to see. In that space of time,
1 understand, the ations
be distorted; the big dipper will look
as if It had been through the war;
Cassiopeia’s chair will look like a
hammock.
yptian night.
somethi
neve
constell will
As yon gaze up at the interior of
the dome, upon which synchronized and
moving objects of light are cast, you
have no feeling of being under a roof.
It gives you the feeling of looking at
the true sky. When the machine Is
run at speed, you feel decided appre
hension for Venus, desperately try-
ing to keep ahead of the sun, and con-
siderable sympathy for little Mercury,
trying just as desperately to catch up.
Saturn, a lonesome planet, nods eag-
erly to Venus as she flashes by, but,
contrary to any mythological scandal,
she neither pauses nor notices him.
Jupiter and Mars must be tired busi-
ness men. They stay out all night
setelgeuse Is apparently a cop on fixed
post,
a » -
One reason I never had
tarium Is that the only
Uailed States Is (he gift
to the city of Chicago, It stands on a
little island in the lake, near the Field
museum, and has the general form of
an observatory. I belleve there are
several planetariums in Germany, and
there Is soon to be one in Philadel
phia In spite of the cost, which they
tell me Is considerable. 1 can’t see
why there Is not a planetarium in ev-
ery large city In the country. It is
one of the greatest educational factors
I ever saw. The institution in Chica.
go is constantly a place of pilgrimage
for school children, as well as adults,
and teaches them more about astron-
omy in an hour than they would learn
from any ordinary course in months,
It is an impressive demonstration,
making an indelible Impression, Nev.
or wos a sclientifie lesson more skill
fully sugarcoated, Why so rich a
city as New York hasn't a planetarium,
I ean’t Imagine,
. 0»
The head of tha Chicago planetarl-
um Is Doctor Foxx, but frequently
there are visiting lecturers. Doctor
Baker, professor of astronomy at the
University of Illinois, lectured the day
I was present, He showed me a
board, which had more gadgets on it
than the control board of an airplane,
and told me that the speaker regulated
the artificial heavens to sult himself
by means of rows of what seemed to
be electrle buttons and switches, Ap-
parently, the manipulator can place
seen a plane-
ane in the
of Max Adler
Limself on the earth's
surf
any port Of
ace he desires, loo} ng at the
from a or equato-
rial angle. As I left, Doctor Baker
preparing to take a couple of his
showing
1 once had
America to
sky
northern, southern
don ¢
GELS on n
them the
trip South,
hern Cross,
to South
il a > ;
Annetta Brenneman, aged nineteen,
of Factoryville, Pa, who has been
awarded a bronze medal by the Car
negie hero fund committee for risking
her life in saving Frank P. Demeck,
aged twenty, from drowning in Lake
Sheridan, Although Demeck weighs
175 Dots and Annetta weighs but
112. she dove into the lake and brought
in ashore after he had bumped his
head on the bottom of a canoe when
coming us from a dive and sank again.
1 2
fiso recommends
1d
tion interests be denied
a reservolr site 17
Bechler river
This
President
nisgion, appoin
pursuant to
congress approved Febr
uary
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KNOWING HOW
TO STOP
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean of Men, University of
Hlinois.
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In old Norse mytholo there is the
story of a poor man who through bar.
the
devil
WIS ROH
meat Ti
daint fa
and 1
would
sors It
gud gold
were tid to do so.
The man had a ri
who, when he saw the with
which the indigent member of
the family was now surrounded, be
ame curious and envious,
“Whence in h-—l1's name have you
got all this wealth?” he asked, and so
persistent was he in his inquiries that
he finally wormed from his brother
the secret of the quern. Seeing its
possibilities he was not satisfied until
he had possessed himself of it, which
he did upon the payment of a large
sum of money.
It was evening when the rich broth-
er got the quern home, and next morn-
ing. it being the time of hay harvest,
he sent his wife out Into the hay field
to turn over the hay which was being
cut that it might the quickly
dry, and he agreed to stay at home
and get the dinner. When dinner
time came he put the quern upon the
table and said:
“Grind herrings and broth and grind
them good and fast)
The quern began to grind until the
table was covered and the Kitchen
floor, and he was forced to open the
door to let the flood of herrings and
broth out. He had learned how to
even if it
poor h brother
ux Uries
once
more
Peed
BORON
. Brownell of C al-
Morgun
¢
n of New
I [per
He 1
eart of the Shiras
SETS NEW RECORD
4”) Woodworth of Evans
winner of the outboard mo-
race from Albany to New
sented on his craft after being
to the dock from the finish line
Wade {1
ton, Ii.
tor boat
York,
towed
In winning
ord of 3 hours and 10 minutes
The man who gels
something for noth-
ing is always
prised to discover
that it is
hie price that he paid {
just about ir it.
start the mac
ed to discover how it could be stopped
and the yard and
fields were in danger
ered with herrings and
great lava stream, It was only when
he rushed frantically to his brother
that the quern was stopped.
(®. 19
the streets
of being cove
i broth
11. Western Newspaper Union.)
SAVE MONEY
“TVEY WiLL PUT
HIM WN THE
Grade Lawn According iy
to House’s Elevation
Houses which are located at a high-
er elevation than the street walk
should usually be terraced down to the
property line. Because of the lack of
space where bullding lines are close
to the street, the terraces must neces
garily be narrow and steep. A large
front yard, however, may be graded
to terraces having long gentle slopes,
although in either case the treatment
depends entirely upon the difference
in elevation. In all instances of lawn
grading the surface should slope sway
rom the house on all sides and the
length of these slopes will depend upoa
the grade of the yard as a whole,
The rough grading of the lawn Is
the first operation of landscaping aft-
er the construction of the bullding.
Walks, drives and permanent
features of yard follow, If sufi
clent avaliable all planting
before the lawn is fine
seeded. This prevents the
from being disturbed while using
the Vw area for planting. If, bhow-
ever, the location ot the trees and
shrubs can without cross-
ing the new grade, then the grass seed
be planted first. In any case the
be completed as early zs
should
3 | » 1
ions will per
i
other
the
time is l
should be done
graded and
seed
be reached
may
lawn
favorable
mit
weather condit
Protection of Private
Property From Vandals
iia hus found it
al with
| by the few tres]
J i
the |
and def
r ang Qe:
part code. Bu*
who leave unseemly litte
nie, wh
flowery woods, wh
fires to
damage property —ti
o destroy shrubbery
break down
menace
0 even
fences and light
ese are the ¢
ers whose depredations put s
on scif-respecting
persons and
properiy owners
nuise
owner
ani
Aiding Prospective Buyers
new book for
“How to
been issued by the nationa
on wood util
of Commerce.
entfe
House” ha%
ilipe
home buyers
Judge n
| eomn
ization of the Department
Its purpose is to fur.
rish the prospective home buyer with
basic Information about site, design,
construction, and equipment needed
to make a wise and economical choice
of the house already built. It tells
how to judge the quality of building
materials and methods
upon which the security of the buy
er's investment largely
The book may be obtained from the
superintendent of documents, govern.
ment printing office, Washington, or
from the district sales offices of the
Department of Commerce In leading
cities. Tt sells for 10 cents a single
copy, £7 a hundred or £0 a thousand.
construction
depends.
City of the Future
A fascir prophecy of what
city of B50 years honce will
is made by R. L. Duffus
tarian, He foresees
glass-faced buildings
streets that radiate from centers like
cobwebs, The growing belief that
“machines were made for man” leads
to his cenclusion that “a steel mill
will be as beautiful to look at and as
pleasantly situated as a cathedral”
City children of 1080 gre going to
have better air to breathe, adds Mr,
Duffus, and larger playgrounds. Walks
and drives will be lined with trees,
for many obnoxiogs gases will be
eliminated and the setback buildings
will give streets more sunshine.
Live and Dead Towns
The difference between a live town
and a dead one is—in its citizens. In
a live town there are plenty of men
and women ready to boost, work and
put over any worthy enterprise for
the benefit of the community. In a
dead town every man is foo selfishly
interested in his own affairs to spend
any time on affairs for community bet.
terment,
Is your town a live one? If not, it's
ap to you individually to help in every
way possible to give your town the
repuiation of being a live, wide-awake
town.—Annie James, N. C. in Grit.
mating the
look like
in the Ro-
mountainons,
laid out
along
Civie Spirit Spreading
Our cities were once horrible and
apparently insoluble problems. They
were like Lbuilt dweliings, con.
structed without plan, unadapted
either for thelr locations in the land.
scape or for the work to be done in
them. But the new civie spirit Is tak.
ing them over and reshaping then to
weet human demands both esthetic
and commercial,