A Popular Dlaasaa Vfeat American Is there who has not Ban or Is not going to be a president of aorae thing? Time was when the ranter of societies, clubs, orgunlza Dona, chapters, associations, etc.. was limited that only about one in ten thousand could be a president Now aoixxly. t.'.t matter how bumble he la. cm avoid the office.—Life. The Great Eastern. Tbe dimensions of the one Rme world famouH Great Eastern were us fol lows : Length. *502 feet: width. R3 feet: depth. CO feet: tounage. 24J*X tons: firnft when unloaded. 2*) feet: when •tended. 30 feet. She bad paddle wheel* ■fty-six feet In diameter and was also provided with a four bladed screw prir pcller of twenty-four feet diameter She had tic omniodations for MOO first otasH. 2.R00 second class and 1.200 third Hass passengers. 4.000 in all rier Agteed was ulxuit eighteen m'les an hour. The Great Eastern wis finally broken up for old iron in the year IWV) after n checkered career of some thirty-one years. Four Kinds of Peoplo. There are four kinds of jieople; Ini Those who are grouchy at home and p.easant everywhere else. (b Those wln> u.e pleasant at home axi l groin hy everywhere else. tt Thoce who are pleasant both ut home and elsewhere. tC) Thoce who nre grouchy every where. Class u are as the sands of the sea. Cia s (b> are rare. Class k' u.e rarer. Class k1 > nre public and private nui sances.—Strickland Gillilau. in Judge. Versatile. It was at a reception, and the two Brfcsds had met. "Io you know." said Ina. "it was as much us I could do to keep from laugh ing when Josephine was Just telling r about lev li nice being 'so versatile?'' "Meaning Webb?" replied Kathleen, smiling. "Well. dear, he Is rather ver satile. you know." "Nonsense!" erieJ Ina. "You know. Kntblecti. lie Is a regular Idiot." "Yes." replied Kathleen, "but he'* so many kinds of uu idiot-"—Bt. Iuls •Post-Dispatch. Not a Bad Way. "1 wonder how Ananias and Sap phtra got along as a married couple. They were both liars." "Probably they Just ted each other's little yarns and let it go at that."—Exchange. Hen Trickery. Since Australia is at the antipodes from us the hens there naturullr lay ( best from May to November, c* trary u the habit of hens here. It is now sug gested that if a hen after her annual tayiug period in the southern hemi sphere were rushed across the equator to the United States she might lay dur ing t'ae rest of the year at the same rate und thus establish a new "record" for a year's production. Still. it looks |:ke a mean trick to play on a poor hen, •-Youth's Companion. Descriptive. !' "Freddy." said the visitor, "i hear your father gave you a watch for your Birthday. Was It a hunting case watch?" "No. ma'am." replied Freddy: "it was a bare faced watch."—Chicago News. Mocha Coffee. 'The name of Mocha coffee is applied generally to the col Tee produced In Arabia and Mivssinia. Arms and the Men. "I see you have your arm in a sting," said the inquisitive passenger. "Bro ken. is it?" "Yes. sir." cesiKiuded the. other pas senger. "Meet with an accident?" "No. Broke if while I was trying to pat myself 011 the baek." "Great Scott! What for?" "For minding my owu business." "I see. Never could hupi>eu to me. ' eou.d it ?" "No." "Aud if it did ! wouldn't be blame fool enough to tell -it." Then there was silence iu t'ae car. — Chicago Tribune. Political Note. T:i. what is meant by 'emoluments of offli e?'" "That's a high sounding word used frequently by politicians to denote their pay. mv son. and it's like char j fty." "How's that, pa?" "Tt wvers a multitude of sins."—Bir mingham Age-Herald. Innocent Cause of It. "How did you happen t< leave your last place?" "The house was burued down, ma'am." "Well, of eotirse you were not to btarne for that." "No'm. The lady what hired me wouldn't furnish fat klndlin'. an' I had j to start the fires with kerosene."—Bir mingham Age-Herald. Saving Trouble. "Can you tell me," said the pood na tared old gentleman, "why those golf ers over there called me all those frtghtful names just nor ?" "Why. what happenedT* "Oh. when they hit their ball over here I picked it up and threw it back to them to save them the trouble of x>ming for it."—Christian Register. Another Denial. At a dinner of the Gridiron club In 1913 Thomas F. Logan of the Phila delphia Inquirer was initiated as a member, nnd part of bis baziug was to go about as a young reporter and in terview the guests. Then he was ques tioned coiK-crning the results. "Dkl you interview the secretary of war?** he was asked. "Yes." "What did be say7" "He denies it." "What does he deny?' "Why. what I asked bira. and he said it didn't make any difference what; It was the immemorial custom of the war department to deny everything."—Ar thur W. Dunn's "Gridiron Nights." His Maternal Grandma. A devotel father after a day's ab sence was met by bis two iittle sous. "Ilave you leeu good itoys?" Silence. "Have you been good boys?" "No. papa. I t ailed grandma a bad word." said the tive-year-old. turning scarlet "Is it possible? What did yon call . your granJma?" "I called her a human being." The father, with a mighty effort, maintained Ids gravity and closed the scene decorously. "I must forgive you for oic-e. but remember If you ever t ail yocr grandmother a human being again I sYdl have to spank you"— Loudon TeVgrapb Man's Lim.tations. Mail has done wonders since lie came before the public. He has navigated the ocean, be has penetrated the my* teries of the starry heavens, he has harnessed the lightning and made it light the great cities of the world. [tut he can't find a spool of thread I in bis wife's workbasket; he can't dis cover her i>ocket in a dress banging in the closet; lie cannot bang out clothes and get them on ibe line the right end up. lie cannot hold clothes pegs in bis mouth while he is doiug it either. He cannot be polite to somebody be bates. In short, he cannot do a hundred things that women do almost instioc lively. A Vary Old Rule. The oldest mutbematic book in the world is lielieved to be the "Papyrus Rhind" hi the British museum, pro fessed to have been written by Ahmes. a scribe of King Ra-u-us. about the period between 20CO and 17<M) B. C. This "Papyrus Rhind" was translated by Risenlohr of I>*ipzig. and it was found to contain u rule for making a square equal in area to a given circle. It was not put forth as an original dis covery. but as the transcript of a treatise sC<> years older still, which sends us back to approximately 2TXX) B. C.. when Egyptian mathematicians solved, or thought they had solved, the problem of squaring the circle. No Pity There. Undutiful boys may see themselves held up as before a mirror in the fol lowing anecdote: A young Irish girl in giving testimony in a court of jus tice. when asked some uuestions in I reference to the prisoner, replied. "Ar 'rah. sir. I'm sure he never made his /mother smile." There is a biography of uiikindncss in that simple sentence. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat- Lucky Dog. "My wife is excessively fond of her poodle. "Actually I'm beginning to look 011 it as a sort of rival to me." "Say. you'tg lucky. I'm only a sort of a rival to my wife's poodle."—Kan sas City Times. The Observant Beggar. "Excuse me. sir." said the pan handler. shuCliiig tip to Dubbleigh's side, "but you couldn't let me have $l5. could you?" "Fifteen dollars!" echoed Dubblelgh. "Great Seott. man. do you for one moment suppose I'd he fool enough to give you $15?" "No. chief. I didn't," said the pan handle:-. "hut I sort o* hoped you'd re gard it as a kind of personal assess ment and s— ear off $l-1.1)0. leuvin' me with a dime to the good." He got it. -New York Times. Cutting. Young Wife—How fortunate 1 am tt possessing a husband who always stays at home in the evening! Bosom Friend—Yes: your husband . never was much addicted to pleasure, j —New York Telegram. * - * —- * ——'■ *'* 1*" 1 —1 —*| '*|C. J • • • • j 4 OPPORTUNITY. .J. ' X 1 Every day brings to our door T I T something (hit is good to do and V that it neve-* will come our way 4 t !• 4 4> to do aga n. If we are blind and a. T do not see it and then insist that J. T our days arc featureless, whose 4 4 fault is t? Opportunity does its j- X part, and we must likewise do X I our part. J •M-I-M I ■: 1 I I I 1 H 1 1 H M i -I I I I I ►M-I-t-H t I : I 1-H-K-H-H-KH-H-W a • #5- ;• DO IT NOW. | Begin this very moment to live 4 • • the right life. The man who 4 •• postpones the day for living as 4 • ♦ he knows he ought to live is like 4 .. the fool who sits by the river X I! and waits till it flows no more, X *" but it glides and wit! glide on tit! T T time is no mors. T ; I BE TACTFUL. Talent is something, but tact "* is everything- Talent is sect- .. " out. sober, grave and reepecta- *" >• ble. Tact is all that and more •• too. ft is not a sever'h -r-sr but is the life of all the five. It lj! '* is the open eye, the quick ear, j* • • the judging taste, the keen X .. smell and the lively touch. It is X || the interpreter of alt riddles, the T " surmounter of all difficulties -|* • > end the remover of all obstacles. X || Tact is a wonder worker. X • *'"H"l i ■!■■! i ? ■t-i -i t M ercurial. The adjective mercurial, like many others, came into ordinary speech from the realm of astrology. In astrological language a mercurial man was one born under the influence of Mercury when Mercury was in tbe ascendant and therefore possessed of the mental qualities supposed to distinguish the heathen Strength of Bees. Hun !n i' l ei'.s ,an liaug one to another • m tearing away the feet of the ' 1 cr occo. M- i c of its clt>se proxim ity t i *!;• most fauatieal of tin . *?idrles. Vv'cuid Help Him. "I'M try to make you a gcd husband, my dear." "And I have no doubt that you will succeed. Mother nnd I will abet your effort* in that direction vigorously."— Loi lisville Courier Journal. The Irish Sea. The English channel is nowhere more than 1k) feet deep. The Irish sen is 2.130 feet. The Wild Elephant. A wild elephant has such n delicate sense of smell that it cau detect an enemy nenrlv a mile away. MAP TO WHICH ENGLISH CENSOR OBJECTED. f i - &►**P \\%E i y|w * .^*|g^ i^^6y^-" st?ASf-^v C/ 1 /* : Vi,;;,v • jsa'..' \>L" J* ' 5 Tv* IBll^ The above map was published recently by the London Daily Mail as show ing how the Germans, through the invasion of Servia. successfully carried out with Bulgaria's aid and through the subsequent opening of the road to Con stantinople accomplished au important step toward the materialization of the plan to strike at "the heart of the British empire" by invading Eg pr and India As u result of its publication Lord Northeliffe, proprietor of the paper, was severely < ensured by the government in the house of commons and threatened with prosecution in the courts. The map was reproduced by Daheim. a Ger man illustrated weekly. Since it was tirst published the black line has been extended over the whole of Servia and part of Montenegro. Germany aims, ac cording to authentic reports', at the conquest control of the Suez canal, through which i>asses the major portion of the traffic between Great Britain and India. Big Ostriches. That ostriches on e grew fifteen feet in height is shown by remains found in the island of Madagascar. Tell It Not In Cat'n. "Toll it not in Oath" moans now adays "Keep it a secret" and is from the Old Testament. Gnth was a Philistine city, but is sometimes used to mean "Judih." The reference is found in II Samuel i. 20 Distant Popularity. "Does absence really make the heart grow ronder?" "It does In some cases. There are persons who when they are a thousand or so miles away I can almost tolerate." —Richmond Times-Dispatch. Books as Camsrs or Uiseass. The report of the commissioner of education undertakes to reassure per- I sons who are fearful of the spreud of [ disease through books by recording the results of recent investigation at Yak university. During the cleaning of the library a chemical analysis of the dus; was made. About half of this was found to be mineral matter. whHe tb other half was organic, including pj j per fiber, wood fiber and molds. No mouth bacteria were found, and in j general the analysis showed the harm- 1 lessnese of the dust. The "Bull.* Tbe origin of the word "boll" ma tbe definition of a confused utterance is doubtfuL Some philologists say it come* from the French boule— "fraud" —and others that it is derived from the Icelandic bull—"minseuse." Many definitions have been attempted, but tbe ' est ; *■->* nbty Is thnt of Sydney Smith. Writing of the difference be tween wit and "bulls." he save: "Wit discovers real relatione that are aj>- parent: 'bol's' admit apparent relations that are not real. The stronger the apparent connection and tbe more com plete the real disconnection of tbe ideas the greater the surprise and the better the 'hull.' ** Wholly Inappropriate. "I can't find any old clothes to put on the scarecrow." said Farmer Corn tossel. "You might use some of the fancy dud* our boy Josh brought home." sug gested his wife. "I'm tryin* to * arc the crows. I'm not tr. •■' to make *eiu laugh."—Har vard LumjKxm Know What a Mole l? now dull the dictionary. It says "a mole is a i>eruianent dark brown spot on the human skin." A California poetess refers to a mole as "a teardrop petrified by its own audacity."—Toledo Blade. Wasps. Wasps are said to rank next to the higher classes of ants in point of in sect iutel.igeiK'e. Where the Worry Comes. "Are you not worried b\ your wife's absence?" "No. It's her return that al ways worrl' s me " Early Irish Kings. Beginning from A. D. 4. seven sue cessive kings of Ireland were all slain, four of tbeui by their successors. Gales. The average number of gales that sweep the world In a year is a Unit sixty-six. The Booth. A the: iri< al man. In an appreciation of .Junius Brutus Booth, declares that "intellectually he stood above any ac tor of his own or any other time." In justifii a:i< n of this praise these claims are made. Booth bnd a knowledge of seamanship acquired as a midshipman, was an expert printer, had studied law and medicine, was an acute theologian and spoke tight languages fluently, be sides being "the greatest actor who er spoke the English language."—Ex t haute. Refuge In the Office. "What makes Bliggins in such a hurry to £ et to work in the morning?" "He isn't getting to work. His faro tfy has moved and they're fixing up the louse. He's getting away from work." Washington Btar. • tth Culture. The United States does more to stock its inland waters with edible fish than any other nation. Acute Indigestion. Acute indigestion Is a catarrhal in flammation of the lining mucous mem brane of the stomach caused by food which is indigestible or has begun to decompose. This condltiou is very fa vorable to the growth of disease germs. Mighty la T'rtiee. Tba ruler of Turkey in addition to j tbe titles sultan and kha-kban (high j prince and lord of lordsi. also claims sovereignty over moat districts, towns, j cities and states in tbe orient, specify j ing each by name aud setting out in each of bis *- a riou* titles "all tbe fort*. ' citadels, purlieus aud neighborhood • thereof" in regular legal form. His of ficial designation ends. "Sovereign also of diverse nations, states. i>eople* aud races on tbe fare of the earth." All this is In addition to his high p*?itton as "head of tbe faithful" nnd "supreme lord of all the followers of the propb et." "direct and only lieutenant on earth of Mohammed." Th# Safa Spot. "So when you bad 200 feet start t* esca]>e you ran Instead directly up to the bear when your gun failed to ' work? I don't know whether you were ' a foolhardy hero or a rattled fool!*' de 1 tdared the doctor as he sewed up Smith's numerous wounds. "I was neither." explained Smith, i "1 used remarkable judgment at a I critical moment. You see. the Imar : was between Jones and myself. I saw Jones was .* 'wit to tire, so I took shel ter at the safest spot—with the tear." j —New York Sun. The Change of a Name. How family names change In tbe course of many year* is illustrated by the conversion of "Botcvile" into "Thymic." An English deed bearing date in the closing days of the fif ! teenth century shows three brother* then flourishing—John Botevlle of Botevile and Thomas and William Botevile. i"ie trio are distinguished from all other Botevile* by the ex planation "r* the Inne." or family res idence. the ' + le to which had come to thiir joint posses don. John's grand son was known a* Ralph Botevile-o* j the liuie. from which the transition to j Ralph Thynne Is easy. His descend- I ants have b,en Thynnes ever since. Holding Up the Earth. According to East Indian mythology, tin* earth is supiiorted by eight white elephants. The Burden of Gol'. Golfer (with a full bag. looking for a caddie)—l say. my friend, do you hap pen to know of any one who— Near sighted Villager (testily)— No. I don't An the folks round here does their own umbrella repairin'.—Puck. Dalicats Scales. There are two sets of scales in use 1L the New Orleans mint the larger of which weighs anything from one-thou sandth of an ounce to OCX) pounds. The second scale, wttb its agate bearings, will weigh accurately a human hair. Nothing New. "1 see." said Bilklns, "that a French scientist has discovered a method for staving off old age." "Well, what of it?" demanded Wil kins. "There's nothing new in that A maD can stare off okl age by jumping off the Eiffel tower, or dropping a lighted match in a powder barrel while sitting on it or by rocking the boat when he's out in the water, or by rid lng over Niagara falls sitting astride of a log. Those French scientists make me tired with their hullabaloo over nothing."—Harper's Weekly. EXPANDING THE CHEST. Proper Attitude to Assume During Breathing Exercises. It has been the popular belief that when exercising certain arm move ments during inspiration, such as bold j ing the arms up, expand the chest arvl ft to t rVe in more ir. Ao -1 curvuug 10 uc. .imok-o ticucuvi In an article in the Medical .Journal. ' Jiis is not the pro;er thing to do. He tested fifty person* of both sexes, ranging from sixteen to forty veitrs of j age. measuring carefully the quuutity of air inspired when elevating the arms, as usually taught, and when standing still wr.th the arms hanging loose, lie found that in uo single case dkl the arm movements increase the juantity of uir insplreJ. but In many they actually decreased IL He also found that standing naturally is more • conducive to deep breath ug than ly ing flat or banging by the hands. "The raising of the arms." he writes, "does apparently increase the measure ments of the upper parts of the ( best, bnt the increase Is due to the change in the position of the muscles in this region and to their contraction o I stretching, which causes them to stand out from the thorax. For the muscles which lift the arms forward or side ward or upward have nothing to do with the lifting of tlie i*Ps. inul conse quently no special effect upon the depth of inspiration. "With very deep Inspiration there is a drawing backward of the head and a straightening of be thoracic spine. lit other words, the assuming of a very posture and. If any exercises are to be carried out a* aids to deep in take of air. It seems that the drawing backward of the chin and the assump tion of the moat erect standing or sir ting posture would be most useful as an aid or accompaniment of deep breathing." London's Windmill. New Zealand, we are Informed, now boasts only a single windmill. In this resfieet London is equal with the An tipodes. On Brixton hill, just by the waterworks and only a few yards from the main road, stands an old mill intact with the exception f the sails, and still in use. though now electricity takes the place of wind as motive pow er. The mill was erected by a Quaker about a <-entury ago, and lias remained in the family ever since.—London Chronicle. Pascal's Carly Observation. Blaise Rascal, who wrote a remark able treatise on the laws of souti I. was constantly observing the familiar occurrences alwit him even as a boy. When he was only ten years old he sat at the dinner table one day strik ing bis plate with his knife and then listening to the sound. "What are you doing with that plate, Blaise 7* asked his *ister. "See." he replied. "When I strike the plate with my knife It rings. Hark!" Again he called forth the sound. "When I grasp it with my band so." he continued, "the sound ceases. I wonder why it is." Carthage's Great Snake. The ancients firmly believed in mon ster serients of all kinds and of both the laud and marine species. During the wars with Carthage a great snake is said to have kept the Roman army from crossing the Bagrados river for several day The monster swallowed up no less than seventy Roman sol diers during this combat and was not conquered until a bundled stones from as many different catapults were tired upon it all sir one time. The monster's skull and skin were preserved and aft erward exhibited in one of the Roman temples. The dried skin of the crea ture was 120 feet in length, according I to Plinj. Dumas, Father and Son. A story is to'.d about the two Dt mns:s. father and son. which illus trates the i relations between the two. T!:e son had written his til'st successful novel, and the father wrote him a letter of congratulation, which he began in the formal manner of "Dear Sir," This letter throughout read as though addressed to a total stronger and merely thanked the au thor for tiie ] ilea sure the book had given him. Dumas fils answered in thus manner: Sir—l thank you mo6t heartily for your kind letter. Praise from you Is especially appreciated by me, as 1 have always heard of you as the most enthusiastic ad mi er of my father, who also makes some pretension of being a novelist. The Eskimo Baby. The clothing of the Eskimo baby Is often very scanty. In fact, one occa slonally see* a baby being carried In its mother's hood with only a cotton shirt on. desjrtte the fact that the ther mometer registers 20 degrees below eero. The mother's hood is the baby's cradle. Being made of seal or deer skin. It Is warm and wind proof. The Infant also has the benefit of the heat of ita mother's body and is out of harm's way. If it were laid in a bas ket cradle In the tent it would be very much In tbe way and would always he in danger of falling a prey to the woifish Eskimo dogs that prowl rouu& tbe door by day and night, ever ready to pick up a dainty morsel. iimiMHlilMlM IM I II I-fr X a a I PATIENCE. • -p Be patient. God has all ater- '.I T nity in which to maka plain tha |' •r hidden things of your life- • V
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