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(Copyright, 1919, by the Western News
paper Union.)
Warren Dole drove a delivery wagon
wirh the same vim, abandon and erv
Joyment that he would have exercised
had it been a chariot. He had opened
his eyes wide, in the midst of keen
pleasures and great expectations, a
letter had come from an indulgent
uncle apprizing him of the fact that
a ' great flood had swept away the
plant upon which lie depended for
his revenue.
"Coming on to stand by your side
and work tooth and nail for you,"
wrote the loyal-souled Warren, but he
received a reply, prompt and final:
"Stay where you are and make a
man of yourself. There are too many
gathering up the wreck of my for*
tune already."
Then Warren went the rounds of his
friends clearly apprised of the dif
ference between an heir expectant and
a pauper without even a position, sold
off his bachelor belongings and re
moved from ia sumptuous suite to a
small room in a cheap quarter. Hfe
sent the proceeds to his uncle and
started out to face life with a capital
comprising perfect health and a clear
conscience.
Warren chuckled as he drove a little
covered delivery wagon the first day
of his acceptance of the only job that
came his way. He possessed a rare
sense of humor and the quaintuess of
his position amused him. In the back
of the wagon was a great wooden box
that usually held bushels and bushels
of crisp salted peanuts. Warren was
in l'act '»ne of a numerous group who
wern around daily and filled the glass
penny-in-tlie-slot machines which held
"(Jr!g ;:i's Famous One Cent Lunches."
* The machines were set wherever there
was a iikeiiliood or the passer-by being
attracted by the fact that the expendi
ture of a mere cent would secure a
toothsome handful of, the anomalous
fresh salted peanuts.
One of the most ardent of the cus
tomers of the "luxury was Benny Lee.
He had acquired a penny one morning
and had started out early t<s invest in
his favorite esculent. Warren, on his
way to headquarters to secure his
daily supply, saw the little fellow ap r
proach a corner machine, inseii his
penny in its slot and turn flie supply
controlling knob. No result —the glass
container was empty. Little Benny
shook the machine, pounded it, a look
of distress on his face, and he began
to cry. Warren pulled up promptly.
"Empty, my little man," he spoke.
"Now hop up here beside hie, and I'll
see that you get the most famous i
penny's worth of peanuts any boy ever i
happened onto."
It was less than a mile to the ware
house, and once arrived there Warren
gave Benny a big paper bag and led ,
him to a chute.* "•
"Hold it under the end here," di
rected tlfe big-hearted Warren, and
Benny's eyes bulged as at the touch of
a lever the chute disgorged a torrent
of peanuts, filling the bag to overflow
ing. Within an hour Benny was back
home with his wonderful story of a
real living Santa Claus and his won
derful treasure, _ ...
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It .was that same afternoon that
Warren Dole, passing a tree-shaded
yard near to the point where he had
met little Benny, halted to survey a
scene that did his heart good. Seated
on the grass were nearly a dozen little
children, and near them wooden plates
heaped high with peanuts. Benny was
in view as host of the happy coterie,
while near by, dishing out lemonade,
was a graceful, sweet-faced girl, un
mistakably his sister.
"Oh, there's my friend!" cried Ben
ny, and bolted for the fence. The
young lady followed him, for Bonny
had seized her skirt and insisted on an
introduction to "the bestest man in
the world," and when a few minutes
later Warren pursued his way, it was
with a lovely face dancing before his
mental vision.
It got to be so before the month was
over that Warren Dole called fre
quently at the home of Adrienne Wes
ton. He had come to learn that the
grizzled, harsh-featured mau he occa
sionally saw about the place was Ben
ny's father and Adrieune's stepfather.
Mr. Weston was a drinker, treated the
two with little kindness, and Warren
with a jealous pang learned that he
*as intent on marrying Adrienne to a
favorite boon companion whom Adri
enne detested. In tears, after she and
Warren had become better acquainted,
Adrienne told of her misery and her
fears.
"My stepfather says he will take
little Benny away from me and turn
me out on the street if I do not marry
his friend," sobbed Adrienne. "He
has got so, too, that when he is in
drink he abuses both of us dreadfully,"
and from the confession there grew
a plan that solved all the distress of
the troubled Adrienne.
One afternoon when the cruel step
father was on one of his drinking
bouts an extraordinary wedding pro
cession left the Weston place. Warren
and Adrienne led, arm in arm, Benny
coming after, tugging at a suitcase.
There was a call upon a minister, and
then the little party took a train for
the old home of Warren. For he had
received a letter from his uncle, in
forming him that out of the wreck of
his estate sufficient salvage had been
acquired to start his favorite nephew
!n business and maintain a pleusant
home for all hands around.
MRS. ANNIE OLENDA
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Mis. /.nnie Oienda was the maker of
a world's record in a new line of work,
that of loading hand grenades. She
loaded 10,600 in a day while employed
at the Gorham Ammunition plant at
East Providence, R. I.
O'dtime News Service.
Tn 1832 Jnme« Watson Webb, of tlx
New York Courier and Enquirer, es
tablished an express-rider service be
tween New York and Washington
which gave his paper valuable pres
tige.- Tn the following year the Jour
nal of Commerce started a rival serv
ice, which enabled it to print Wash
ington news in New York within 48
hours .of its occurrence. The most
notable express-mail service of all
was the "pony express," which carried
messages by relays of riders across
mountains and deserts and through
hostile Indian territory from St. Louis
to San Francisco, covering 1,900 mi!e>-
in 10 days.
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Small articles may be gilded by im
mersing them in the following solu
tion, which must be used at nearly
boiling heat: Caustic potash, 180
parts; carbonate of potash, 20 parts;
cyanide of potassium, 9 parts; water,
1,000 parts. Rather more than one
and one-half parts chloride of gold
should be dissolved in the water when
the other substances are to be added,
PJid whole boiled together. This
mixture is uiteh employed by dealers
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Deeds and Words.
Deeds are greater than words.
Deeds have such a life, mute but un
deniable, and grow as living trees and
fruit trees do; they people the vacuity
of time and make it green and worthy.
Why should the oak prove logically
that it ought to grow, and will grow?
Plant it, try it; what gifts of diligent
judicious assimilation and secretion it
has, of progress and resistance, of
force to grow, will then declare them
selves.—Carlyle.
No Person Has Seen the Sun.
Astronomers aver that no one has
ever seen the sun. A series of concen
tric shells envelops a nucleus of which
we apparently know nothing except
that it must be almost infinitely hotter
than the fiercest furnace, and that It
must amount to more than nine-tenths
of the solar mass. That nucleus is the
real sun, forever hidden from us. The
outermost of the enveloping shell Is
about 5,000 miles thick, and is called
the "chromosphere."
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Spanish Literature.
While literary Spain sank Into a
deep slumner after the d#ry of Cer*
vantes and Lope de Vega, it awoke bril
liantly in tbe latter half of the nln®-
teenth century, presenting to the world
Palacio Vnldes, Perez CJnldos, Jose de
Pereda, Juan Valera. Echegaray and
ether distinguished writers.
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The Singing Mouse.
The singing mouse is not a distinct
F]>eoies. According to descriptions of
the common house mouse. "Mus mus
culus." and of the American wood
mouse. "Hesperomys leucopus," they
have been known to acquire the trick
or habit of warbling a few notes in a
high key and with a shrill wirj tim
bre, vocalizing in a manner that might
be called singing.
Big Canadian Telescope.
The tube of the telescope erected by
the Canadian dominion at Victoria,
B. C., is large enough to permit of the
passage of a small automobile and the
reflector is 73 inches in diameter. The
movable parts of the telescope weigh
more than 40 tons, and the lens alone
mo;e than 4,000 pounds, yet one man
can easily move the mass into any de
sired position.
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EATING.
Bating is the world's greatest in
ioor sport.
It varies from a duty to a passion
ind an uncontrollable habit. Some
peopie eat merely in order to live,
white otners postpone their deaths in
order that they may struggle up to
the table for one more square meal
with trimmings.
Eating is a necessity. No matter
how proud or haughty a person may
be he cannot rise above it. In some
nations almost half of, the ruler's
spare time is spent in eating rare
and complicated meals. However,
in these nations the peasant is usual
ly less extravagant. He gets along
with a few bites a day. One of the
reasons why the Russian soldier is
hurling himself with such reckless
courage against the enemy is doubt
less the knowledge that if he sur
vives 'ftiQ war he will have to go
back home and live on black bread
with cheese for dessert on holidays.
Some people make eating an art
and exist daintily on aesthetic look
ing dishes which a farmer could not
eat fast enough to keep himself from
dying of starvation. Others make
eating a dissipation. The Romans
were a mighty people but in tima
they got to lying around the dinne*
table for eleven hours at a time and
slightly after this the empire perisß
c! Indigestion. '*
A man can exist on $l5 worth of
j jd a year. However, there is no
competition for this sort of a job. The
average American eats up $2OO worth
of staple and fancy groceries, meats;
etc, each year with ease. There are
other Americans who step into a
city restaurant in the evening and
pay enough for a dinner to keep a
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ALICE IN DOT LAND
By Clifford Leon Sherman
Alice followed the White Rabbit into n rnbbit hole that suddenly dipped down,
and so suddenly that Alice nad not a moment to think before*she found herself
falling down what seemed to be a very deep well. On the sides she saw maps
and pictures and Orange Marmalade and then she began to wonder if she was
going to fall out o_n the other side of the earth and find everybody up-side down.
Ana she thought it might be New Zealand or Australia but she would have to
ask and curtesy as she spoke. And then she wondered if anyone would re
member to feed Dinah. For Dinah was her . " (214)
(Copyright, 1918, by The 801 l Syndicate, "inc.)
Belgian family alive for a month;
and tliere are still other Amer
icans who manage to consume
$lO,OOO worth of food a year.
It is staggering to the mind to
conceive of a man who can load away
this amount of provisions. Stili%
many ordinary sized men do it. When
we think of the large number of soup
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"Americans pay enough for a dinner
to keep a Belgian family alive
for a month.
kitchens which had to close dowa
•this winter before the line was fed
and then ponder upon these vorac
ious eaters and drinkers of th:
world's choicest foods we wonder ii
Providenoe in its jnscrutable ways
will not get tired (5f them some day
•and invest them with a thick coal
of hristlee in order that they maj
herd with their kind. 10*
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Britisher Has Odd Motor.
An English engineer has developed
t novel form of rotary motor having
four cylinders that operate Inside th#
blades of the propeller. The propeller
blades are made of metal and the ex
haust issues from the ends of th«
blades.
Good Rule for Life.
We are ruined, not by what we
really want, but by what we think we
do; therefore, never go abroad In
search of your wants; for if they be
real wants they will come in search of
you. He that buys what he does not
want, will soon want what he cannot
buy.—Colton.
Pope's Poetry.
His poetry is not a mountain-tarn
like that of Wordsworth; It is not in
sympathy with the higher moods of the
mind; yet it continues entertaining in
spite of all changes of mode. It was
a mirror in a drawing-room, but it gave
back a faithful image of society, pow
dered and rouged, to be sure, and in
tent on trifles, yet still as human in its
way as the heroes of Homer in theirs
—LowelL
Music Not His t ong Point.
The leader of a volunteer orchestra
was greatly annoyed by the 'cellist,
who repeatedly at a rehearsal was In
error; finally he stood near him, lis
tening. "Why, man," he exclaimed,
"your 'cello Is not In tune!" The
| player screwed at the pegs, hut a few
moments later the discord was re
peated. "Can't you tune your Instru
ment?" demanded the conductor irri
tably. "No-o!" said the stout 'cellist,
"not always." Then his face bright
ened. "But you should see how I can
skin fish!" The skinning of flsh was
his trade, the orchestra his side line.
Opium.
Opium Is the dried Juice of the white
poppy, a flower that grows In many
parts of Asia. A few days after the
flowers have fallen off the plants men
go through the fields in the afternoon
and make little cuts in the poppy head.
Out of these cuts a milky juice oozes,
which dries into a brown, sticky paste.
Every the men go through the
fields again and scrape off this paste,
which they put into jars. Later on
it is made into half-pound balls and
then packed for shipment.