LIMERICK UNDER MARTIAL LAW
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Fo. suine tiinu tiie Irish city ol' Limerick was under martial law, the
troops in full control. The picture shows a soldier stopping and questioning
CONDENSATIONS
Norwegian government experiment
ers have succeeded in producing a
bread containing 20 per cent of fish.
Of the 15 lines comprising the sys
tem of Chinese governing railways,
only one was built by the Chinese
themselves.
BRINGS A FRENCH ORPHAN
Dr. Ethel Lyon Heard, who has just
returned from France where she saw
18 months' active service at the front,
brings back with her Leon Thibaut, a
little French orphan, whom she will
adopt.
Medicine From Trees.
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The earliest steam vessels also car
ried sails, the idea being to relieve
the stress on the engines.
Gllroy, Cal., Is proud of its plan for
a war memorial —a swimming pool for
returning soldiers and sailors.
Isaac Snedder, sixty, of Butler Val
ley, Pa., has 19 children, the oldest of
whom is now twenty-nine years old
useful" and mo"st-usea stimuTanTlo" tEe
heart and nervous system.
Strychnia is an alkaloid found orig
inally in the seed of the strychnos nux
vomica, an exceedingly poisonous nut
tree that grows in tropical climates.
It is the most bitter substance
known, and to its presence Is due the
disagreeable taste left in one's mouth
after taking a tonic pick-me-up.
A tree which has various species—
several hundreds in fact—and is of
some medical interest, is the acacia.
The acacia Senegal furnishes us with
gum arable, a substance that, while
not possessed of any marked curative
properties of itself, is of considerable
importance in the making-up of
pharmaceutical prescriptions.
Europe Likes American Milk.
European people have learned to like
American dairy products. Exports of
condensed milk to Europe rose from
16,000,000 pounds In 1914 to 530,000,-
000 pounds in 1918, and there were
notable increases in exports of other
dairy products. Much of this may be
due to abnormal war demands, but the
United States department of agricul
ture believes that there is both an op
portunity and a tendency to expand
in this direction over pre-war require
ments. A normal increase in dairying
In this country, the department thinks,
Is fully justified, provided there is the
necessary increase in feed croDs.
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GREEK LETTER SOCIETIES
THE Greek Letter Society was
invented over 100 years ago in
an American college and there
are now so many of them that the
Greek alphabet is becoming sadly
overworked and must soon be en
larged to take care of the rush of
business.
Contrary to popular supposition
the members of these societies do
not spend their time writing letters
in Greek. No doubt they could if
they chose, but the kind of letter
that father understands and an
swers most kindly must be written
in English, and the Greek letter
member is usually a most faithful
correspondent as far as his father
is concerned.
A Greek Letter Society is com
monly supposed to be a gang of des
perate young men who have sworn
over a bloody skull to stand firmly
by each other and never to reveal
the name of the brother who blew
up the court house. It is supposed
to be so powerful that when twenty
or thirty young men With pompa
dour hats get together in a black
cellar under a red light and whisper
in case-hardened voices they can de
feat the noble young candidate for
Congress who is supported only by
a few« shivering magnates or a
plucky little railroad.
Greek Letter Societies are also
supposed to lead lives of crime and
to encourage their devotees to en
gulf large vats of virulent stimu
lants. Many a bright young man
who has gone to college with a
pocket full of picture cards for per
fect attendance at Sunday-school is
supposed to have emerged from the
first meeting of his secret society
with a fier.ee yearning for hasheesh
and the blood of tender young
children.
All of these suspicions arise from
the fact that the Greek Letter So
ciety is secret and that its members
are supposed never, no, never, to re
veal what has happened behind the
black curtain with the cross-bones
on it. Anything secret is sus.
picious, as John D. Rockefeller has
found out. But at the risk of In
voking the horrid vengeance of the
Alfalfa Delts, the Delta Kappa Son
ofaguns, the Eta Bita Pies, the Sigh
Whooperups, the Mu Kow Moos and
Orientals Believe In 13.
Thirteen has no terrors for Orientals.
This was shown in Seattle, \Vush„
when the little Japanese sailing ves- i i
sel Kashima Maru arrived in port from ! I
the Orient with a crew of exactly 13 ;
men aboard. Officers of the vessel ex- J
plained that 13 is considered in the j
Orient just like an even dozen or a
score when it comes to manning ves
sels or inviting wedding guests.
Preferred "Motorhouse."
in Kngland during the early days of
motor vehicles, there was a decided
nreference for the name "motorhouse"
rather than "garage."
the Omega Salves we are about to
divulge the four princioal secrets of
the Greetv Letter Soeiety.
Turn down the lights, please.
They are a? follows:
1. The rent of t»he chapter house
is now two months overdue and to
morrow the high priest of Delta
Emerged from the first meeting with
a fierce yearning for the blood
of tender young children
Plush chapter is going to try to
jolly the landlord along another
month.
2. If a certain tow-headed fresh
man is made president of his class
he can be snagged away from the
other frats and into our noble or
der. Vote, Brothers, vote.
3. On the third or next month an
informal dance will be given with
an imported orchestra and when the
Fli Gammas hear of it they will
expire with envy.
4. On next Saturday night at mid
night three shuddering neophytes
will be inducted into the awful mys
teries of our mighty baad. Let no
brother forget to bring a barrel
stave. v
There are a few othef dark
secrets but none as black as these.
Greek Letter Societies are harm
less and moreover are of great good.
Many a collegian has, through
them, learned the Greek, alphabet
so thoroughly that he has remem
bered it after FTepch and Trigo
nometry have cantered from blfi
memory.
Britisher Has Odd Motor.
An English engineer has developed
a novel form of rotary motor having
four cylinders that operate inside the
blades of the propeller. The propeller
blades are made of metal and the ex
haust issues from the «nds of the
blades.
Fortunate Is Our Country.
It is stated that the United States
has 5 per cent of the world's popula
tion and 33 per cent of its wealth. In
other words, one-twentieth of the peo
ple and one-third of the money of the
whole world.
Make Most of What Yen Have.
Shakespeare says. "You can't turn
1 the wheel wi:ii the water that is past."
j The modern says, - y >. can't fxcol
in fitness when >"U spend the hours
in idleness." Dreams of the glory that
j is to be are largely dreams still long
J alter the days are ; - that should
have witnessed the «•: vtr.nc. I>' " itV
is more than dreams. M sr t«»lk- have
learned to their sohmw that it is a
rather stern reality. It promises much,
but it's always conditional. It teaches
men that in the using of what th.-y
have they become the heroes of the
! days that are to be. It's tiie tilling of
present hours that briu-s the full hours
jof the future. It's folly t.» mourn :he
l>:i<r. It's all made in the presen" :.n<l
today passes so swiftly into tomorrow
that we scarcely realize how swiftly
go the speeding hours.
The Candle in History.
The cult of the candle plays a large
role in Roman, Jewish and Eastern
ecclesiastical history: and many are
the customs that have tl.eir birth in
some magical or ritualistic use to
which the candle has been put. In
some parts of Ireland, for instance, it
was usual on Christmas eve to burn
a large candle which no one was per
mitted to snuff except those who bore
the name of Mary.
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THE TANGLED DOTS.
By Clifford Leon Sherman.
"Some of you girls who read poetry ought to recognize this dot picture,"
said Sammy. Doris looked at it and then said, "It looks a good deal lik«i
Dante, but you ought to know that in Dante's time no gentleman used a
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Advice for Singers.
Sims Reeves, the fatuous English
tenor. ;> quoted as sayiui;: "A singer
who does not recite <>r read the
verses of a song aloud before at
tempting the music will never become
a great artist.'' The young singer
should memorize a tex*. should repeat
it over and over aloud, testing the
matter of emphasis or stress upon
each word to determine just where it
should be and the proper amount to
give the best Interpretation to the
thought.
Apprcprintf Lock.
Robert had lost his little pet dog and
i felt ba<l about it. His father told him
poor little Fido must he dead or he
would return home. His mother sent
him on an errand. \\ lien he met a wom
an friend of his mother's who asked
him if he was ill, as he had little to
say. "Oh. no." he said, "but my little
dog Is dead and I am wearing a black
look."
Early American Statesman.
Alexander Hamilton, one of our
greatest statesmen, was sometimes
called "Alexander the Coppersmith,"
because of the copper rents he had
made in 179", when he was secretary
of the treasury. These pennies were
very unpopular with the people. He
was killed In a duel bv Aaron Rurr.