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STRIKE BREAKING BARRED
Welfare of Wage Earners and Ad
vancement of Opportunities For Em
ployment Chief Aims of the Govern
ment—Policy Pursued In Complete
Accord With the Law on the Matter.
The two subjects which Secretary
Wilson's report for the department of
labor principally emphasizes are medi
ation in labor controversies and em
ployment opportunities. Many notable
instances of mediation are described,
and some remarkable results are re
ported.
The attitude of the department of
labor as to sending workers to places
where there are strikes and lockouts is
especially interesting. On this point
Secretary Wilson says:
"To promulgate in any manner in
formation concerning workmen wanted
where a strike exists or is threatened
would be inconsistent with the pur
pose prescribed for the department by
its organic law, which is 'to foster, pro
mote and develop the welfare of the
wage earners of the United States, to
improve their working conditions and
to advance their opportunities for prof
itable employment.' Not only would It
not advance opportunities for prolitable
employment tior otherwise foster the
welfare of wage earners to promulgate
information of demands for help where
strikes are In progress, but it would
have the reverse effect. Such a policy
would be equivalent to directing wage
earners to places already sulliclently
supplied with labor, for wherever there
is a strike or one is imminent that fact
alone is evidence prima facie that there
is no real scarcity of labor there. Con
ditions of employment are in dispute,
and that is all. This involves the ques
tion of prolitable employment—profit
able to wage earners. That wage
earners who have experience at the
place and in the employment whence
the demand for more labor comes do
not look at the offered employment as
profitable is manifest from their re
fusal to continue in it at the offered
terms, and that they are qualified for it
is evident from the fact that they have
bees doing it satisfactorily.
"The policy pursued by the department
with reference to the labor situation
where strikes exist or are threatened
involves five elements, which may be
generalized as follows: First, workers
who have had experience with the em
ployment In question do not look upon
it as being profitable second, as there
KEEP HANDS OFF DURING STRIKES
ATTITUDE OP DEPAR1T1ENTS OF LABOR TOWARU DISPUTES
Is a sufficient supply of labor already
there the problem is one not of supply
ing labor where it is scarce, but of
adjusting tenus of employment where
labor Is plentiful third, the wage earn
ers engaged in the dispute are qualified
by virtue of the training and experi
ence they have had to »erforui the kind
of work required, and this would not
always be the case with persons who
without previous experience in that
employment might respond to the re
ported demand fourth, for the United
States employment service to convey
information of employment offered
where a strike exists or is threatened
would be to place it in the i»osition of
actively assisting one side of the con
troversy, whereas if it does not convey
such information its position is wholly
passive fifth, it is a function of the
department of labor to promote indus
trial peace, not industrial disturbance.
"It follows that the department of
labor should not make Itself a medium
for conveying information of demands
for wage earners where labor disputes
are the cause of the demand. That
there is already a sufficient supply of
labor there Is as true if it is uneui
ployed on account of a dispute over
terms as If it were unemployed for
lack of employment opportunities from
other causes. Moreover, the termina
tlon of such a dispute would result
either in dismissal of the new employ
ees from a service they had been led by
the department to apply for. or in leav
ing unemployed the workers involved
in the dispute. The point that also
should be emphasized is the impro
priety of the department's informing
wage earners of opportunities for em
ployment at places where their apply
ing would serve one side to the dis
advantage of the other and thereby
operate as a disturbing instead of a
peacemaking factor.
"State or city agencies may be in a
position so different as to find it neces
sary to pursue a different policy. It
depends, of course, ui»on the local laws
by which they are created or under
which they operate. This policy, how
ever, is the only one the department of
labor of the United States can adopt
consistently with the congressional
legislation that controls the depart
ment's administrative activities."
Advocates Seven Hour Day.
The time has come for union labor
to seek a seven hour workday. In the
opinion of John P. White, international
president of the United Mine Workers
of America. "A further reduction in the
daily hours is necessary if we are to
conserve the economic and social wel
fare of our vast membership," he says
"This is made almost essential by the
Increased introduction of machines. So
widespread has become their use that
pick mining in many districts has be
come almost a lost art/'
POWER OF FROST.
P«ll of Fifty Ton Bowlder of Granite
In the Yosemite.
Delicate frost tracings on the win
dowpanes seem to be tlie work of fan
ciful and harmless sportiveness, but
the hand that forms them is capable of
greater deeds and other kinds.
An official of the geological survey
tells of an experience that must have
been wonderfully impressive to the
spectator, lie had been spending some
weeks in exploring the Yosemite valley
and the "great rocks," like El Capitan,
that wall it in.
Standing one day of late autumn
about the middle of the valley, he was
startled by a report like a cannon shot,
which filled the whole valley with
echoes that roared and boomed, re
plied and multiplied, in a long continu
ed, glorious tumult.
As the deafening sound died away in
sullen muttering* under the visor of El
Capitan the spectator was aide to dis
tinguish the point of attack by the long,
clattering descent of a vast quantity
of rock.
The night had been a cold one in the
valley, and on the 7.000 and 8,000 foot
levels of the upper rim the temperature
must have dropped almost to zero.
Frost, working quietly with his Archi
medean lever, had just succeeded In
shifting from the shoulder of the senti
nel a trifle of fifty tons or so of granite.
For near a thousand feet the bowlder
fell sheer, swift and silent theu, strik
ing the cliff, it burst like a bomb, shat
tered into a myriad flying shards and
splinters and dislodged a smother of
fragments that trickled down to the
valley In a stream that lasted for min
utes.
Then from the spot where the bowld
er had struck dust began to rise Into
the sunny air, slowly building up like
a summer cloud and everv bit as snowy.
It was the Hour
of
Vfv
granite, powdered
Instantaneously by the terrific
shock.
NERVE OF A STEEPLEJACK.
Hie Coolness and Resource In a Time
of Extreme Paril.
Ordinary people
standing
on a nar­
row ledge whence they can see down
200 or 300 feet are so appalled by the
danger of falling that their nerves give
way, their bodies flinch and there
comes to some at least an Impulse to
end the mental strain by a leap into
the gulf. Hut the steeplejack is Indif
ferent to height and proximity to the
abyss.
The coolness and resource of these
men were never better shown than in
a case which happened in upper New
York state a few years ago. A steeple
jack had flown his kite over a chimney
and subsequently drawn himself up to
the top. lie was Just beginning his in
spection of the work when by some
mishap he dropped his nq*? ami was
left, Hke ft. Simeon Stylite*, alone on
his pillar.
Attempts were made to ily another
kite over him, but the wiml had drop
ped. There were Iron ladders inside
the chimney, but the tires would have
to be drawn and the chimney let cool
for hours.
The steeplejack was then seen to un
lace one of his shoes, take off the long
blue stocking worn by such workmen
and set to work carefully to unravel if.
knotting the pieces of yarn together
when necessary.
He then fastened a stone to the end,
plumbed the depth, picked the other
stocking to pieces and added it to the
first length of yarn ami let it down far
enough to meet a tall ladder, from
which he drew lip first a. piece of
strong string, next a rope and then
after completing his inspection of the
chimney top lowered himself to the
gi-ound.—Los Angeles Times.
Origin of an Old Saying.
Many think that the saying "Blood is
thicker than water" originated with
Commodore Tatnall of the United
States navy, who assisted the English
in the Chinese waters, and, in his dis
patch to his government, Justified his
interference by quoting the words. It
is, however, an old English proverb
and is to be found in Ray's "Collection
of English Proverbs," published In 1072.
Walter Scott, too, makes Dandie Dln
mont say: "Weel, 'bluld's thicker than
water.' She's welcome to the cheeses
and the hams, just the same."—Phila
delphia Press.
An Offensive Cravat.
A man once called upon Whistler
with a letter of Introduction, and an
amusing scene followed arising out of
the fact that the visitor was wearing a
red necktie. Whistler declared it In
terfered with the color scheme of his
room and "put him off" a picture he
was painting in quite a different "key."
Finally he obliged him to take off the
offending cravat before he would con
descend to exchange another word with
him.
Faulty In His Diagnosis.
Mrs. Malaprop Young Sharp will
have to apologize to me before I speak
to him again.
Miss Interest—Did he Insult you?
Mrs. Malaprop—Did he? The last
time I met him I told him that my un
tie had locomotor ataxia, and be asked
me if he whistled at crossings.—Strav
THE BUTLElt COUNTY
A CITY OF SILENCE.
Conditions That Make Santa Cruz d* la
8ierra Noiseless.
Amid gusts of Scotch mist and under
heavy skies we drifted Inertly into a
sand paved, silent, tropical city street,
past rows of languid stares, and on the
last afternoon of the year, with Co
ehubamba la town in the center of Bo
livia) 835 miles behind us, we sat
down dripping and sunburned in the
central plaza of Santa Cruz de la
Sierra.
The capital of all the vast tropical
department of eastern Bolivia owes its
fame largely to its Isolation. Far
away one hears much of It once there,
he finds little. I.ike the eminent men
of many secluded corners of South
America, it Is important only through
the exceeding unimportance of Its
neighbors.
It is a city of silence. Not only Its
bare feet, but its primitive ox carts
make not a sound in the sand streets.
There is no industry to add its strident
voice, and every street fades away at
each end into the trackless, whisper
ing, Jungled montana.
In this rainy season, which begins In
earnest with the new year and lasts
through April, it had many muddy
pools and ponds, along the edges of
some of which the streets crawled by
on long heaps of the skulls of cattle,
bleached snow white by th» sun.
The larger ponds were almost lakes
and carried the mind back to Kandy,
Ceylon. Frequently the streets were
flooded deep for an hour or more until
the thirsty sand had drunk up the trop
ical deluge. For these eventualities the
town has a system of its own. At ev
ery street corner four rows of weather
blackened plies protruele a foot or more
above the sand, and along these step
ping stones the shod minority passes
from one
roofed
sidewalk
to
another.
The houses Invariably consist of a
large room, by day opening directly ou
the porch sidewalk, though the best of
them are rather bare in appearance,
despite a small forest of frail cane
chairs, black in color, as the best pro
vided Cruceno family is not rich by
our standards.—Ilenry A. Frnnck, in
Century Magazine.
RAGAMUFFIN ABYSSINIA.
Its Despotic Rulers Descend From
Menelik, Son of Solomon.
Abyssinia Is the Ethiopia of the
Bible, and it is almost unchanged since
the birth of civilization. The Hue of
despots that ru'e Abyssinia today are
the lineal descendants of Menelik. the
son of the queen of Sheba and King
Solomon. They seem to have inherited
very little tiie well known wisdom
of their famous sire, however, for
Abyssinia is today the unregenerate
raganiutiin among nations—and also
the picturesque reiniiant of the world's
oldest civilization.
For Abyssinia, surrounded by trop
ical wilderness and without a seaport,
Is a country apart from the modern
world—a country of turbaned and san
daled men, of veiled women wearing
silver anklets, of mighty hunters who
still take their game with leopards and
hawks as in Biblical days a land
where gentlemen live by plunder and
monks by alms anel a man has as many
wives as he can buy or steal.
Abyssinia Is a fortress of antiquity,
defying the world by Its sheer physical
Impenetrability. But a few degrees
from the equator, It is a great mass of
igneus mountain ranges flung down
upon a tropical plain. Lower Abyssinia
Is burning desert and fever ridden Jun
gle. The Interior Is healthy upland cut
by great gorges, many of which are
wholly impassable, in the midst of
this wilderness Is Lake Tsana, forty
seven miles !"ng and more than 5,000
feet above sea level. It Is the source
of the Blue Nile.—Exchange.
Electricity In the White House.
The White House is said to have the
most intricate and complete electrical
system installed in any building in this
country. There are in the mansion
nearly 170 miles of wires providing for
8,000 Incandescent lights, a bell system,
a private telephoue system for the
president and his family exclusively,
burglar alarms, fire alarms and a pow
er system which supplies current to
veDtilatlng funs and an automatic ele
vator.
Niagara by Electric Light.
Generally speaking. It is hard to Im
prove on nature, but those who have
seen Niagara falls lighted at night by
electricity are agreed that the effect
Is far more Impressive and beautiful
than anything that daylight affords.
The lights are of more than a hundred
million candle power.—Youth's Com
panion.
The P. P.
"I put my faith in the wisdom of the
plain people," said the statesman.
"Yes," replied Senator Sorghum.
"The wisdom of the plain people is all
right. The only thing I fear Is that
some of them are getting so that the
know too much."—Washington Star.
Small Comfort.
"Never despair. Somewhere beyond
the clouds the sun is shining."
"Yes, and somewhere below the sc.
there's a solid bottom. But thr.r doesn't
help a man when he falls overboard.'
—Baltimore American.
Smart Girl.
Teacher—Now, Nellie, would It be
proper to say, "I can't learu you noth
ing?" Nellie—Yes, mum. Teacher
Why? Nellie—'Cause you can't.—Lon
don Telegraph.
Hie Job.
"It takes two to make a bargain."
"Yep my wife and the storekeeper.
But I'm paying the bills single handed."
—Detroit Free Press.
VOL. XVI. NO 37. HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29,1916. $1.00 PER YEAR
LIFE IN ROUMANIA
A Nation of Peasants, With Curi
ous Customs and Beliefs.
RULED BY SIGNS AND OMENS.
Many Superstitions Enter Into the
Everyday Life of This People, Who
Are Little Given to Money Thrift.
The Way a Lad Goes A-courting.
"The great bulk of Itoumanla's pop
ulation belongs to the peasant class,
for there are comparatively few cities,
and most of them are small," says a
bulletin of the National Geographic
society on Roumanian folklore and cus
toms, which gives an Intimate Insight
Into the home life of that nation. The
bulletin, which -is based on a commu
nication to the society from John Oli
ver LaGorce, says:
"Many of these peasants live on the
great estates, where their forbears for
generations have fanned for the ab
sentee landlords. And an Interesting
class these peasants form, with theii
peculiar customs, their primitive ways
of looking at things In general.
"The evil of race suicide has -never
Invaded rural Roumanla. It Is re
garded as worthy of honor to be the
head of a large family. As In all lands
where many of the ieople are more or
less illiterate, there is a high death
rate, though the fact that the bottle
fed baby is almost unknown In peasant
Roumanla tends to overcome the high
Infant mortality that would otherwise
result.
"The average Roumanian peasant Is
not given to the kind of thrift that
leads him often to a savings bank.
The patrimony of his sous and daugh
ters is more often good will, good
health and an honest mind than It Is
land or money or houses. So narrow
is the margin upon which a young
couple starts out in life that It has
come to be a proverb among them,
'Married today and out at. the elbows
tomorrow,' for children come apace,
and the prices of the things the peas
ant has to sell are even lower than the
prices of those he has to buy, and not
until his own labors are supplemented
by those of his sons and daughters has
he much chance to prepare for even
the shortest of rainy days.
"When a young Roumanian peasant
lad's thoughts turn to love and his
mind begins to Incline toward mar
riage he goes to his mother rather than
to his sweetheart with his tale. The
mother acts as an ambassador to the
father, and if he can le Induced to
look with favor upon the lover's choice
he calls In two of his best ft lends in
the village, tells them of his son's
dreams and asks them to accompany
the said son to the house of the ob
ject of love's young dreams.
"Mayhap the girl herself has not re
ceived from the youth a single hint
of his love but, even so, as he and
his spokesmen approach the house she
suspects the object of his visit and
peeps through any crack or cranny
t*at is convenient.
"If It happens to be winter the fa
ther of the girl Invites the company
In and, surmising their mission, gives
some hint as to his attitude by the
way lie looks alter the Are. If he
keeps It burning brightly they know
that he Is favorable if he lets it elie
down a little they understand that he
Is only of an open mind on the sub
ject. But if he lets It go out entirely
there Is no use arguing the question.
"The Roumanian peasant Is much
given to superstition, and he has a sign
for everything. If shingles are not
nailed on a roof In the proper sign
they will turn up at the ends if pota
toes are not planted In the proper
sign they will grow on top of the soil
and be a failure if you have money
in your pocket when you see the new
moon you will not "go broke." at least
not until another new moon has come.
On the other hand, It Is held to be dan
gerous to announce to those In the
house that the new moon has appear
ed, for in that case all the pots and
pans In the kitchen will be broken be
fore the waning moon passes.
"When a peasant child Is christened
all of those present assume the rela
tion of godparents, and it is a super
stition that there must be no Intermar
riages between godfathers and god
mothers. The result is that christen
ings are not wielely attended, and those
with matrimonial ambitions eschew
them entirely.
"The utmost care Is taken by some
to prevent a child from seeing Its Im
age In a mirror before it is three years
old, for If it does It will become a vic
tim of the 'falling sickness.' which will
send it stumbling through life.
"There are many customs which still
proclaim the olden time rule and in
fluence of ancient Rome that have per
sisted through the centuries since the
departure of her glory. For instance,
there is the old Pyrrhic dance, the
robes with bells on sleeves and girdles.
The Roumanians still shout in unison
to prevent Saturn from hearing the
voice of the Infant Jupiter, and even
their oxen proclaim the 'glory that was
Rome' in their names, for here you
may" see Caesar and Brutus as yoke
fellows and there Cassius and Augus
tus."
The
Later Eduoation.
"Well, how did things come out in
your school contest?"
"Trifle mixed. A girl won the ham
mer throwing contest, and a boy took
first prize for fruit cake."—Louisville
Courier-Jcurial.
Worry Is a blunder that blackens all
around and makes life a regret.
RUSE OF A CHINAMAN.
Clever Way He Got Around the Law
and Gained His Case.
A
cemetery is the one sacred spot In
China. To desecrate such a place Is
the worst of crimes. Some years since
there lived in a village on the plain of
the Yellow river a man called Tu. His
little farm furnished him with a com
fortable living, but nothing more. Like
all farms in that part of China, there
was no fence to separate his fields
from those of his neighbors. One of
these neighbors was a rascal, who,
knowing Mr. Tu to be of mild disposi
tion, resolved to impose upon him by
plowing a few furrows of Mr. Tu's
land anel thus incorporating it with his
own. This act did not pass unobserved,
but Mr. Tu was cautious as well as
mild. He knew that litigation came
high and was uncertain. "Better," he
said to himself, "to endure the wrong
than to suffer loss of both land and
money."
The next year the neighbor repeated
the experiment and plowed up a few
more furrows. Again Mr. Tu consult
ed with himself and determined, as
previously, that law was too expensive
a luxury for him.
The neighbor, encouraged by this
complaisance, continued to add to his
own acres ot the other's expense. At
length he became so bold as to incor
porate In this way the family ceme
tery, where were buried Mr. Tu's an
cestors.
Then Mr. Tu saw the chance for
which he had been waiting. By plow
ing up this cemetery the neighbor had
committed sacrilege. The only diffi
culty was that the punishment was so
severe that it might not be possible,
unless he was careful, to get his neigh
bor punished at all. For the law was
that If the magistrate should take no
tice of the suit he would have to send
up a report to his superiors at the cap
ital of the province and request that
proper punishment be inflicted upon
himself, seeing that so heinous a crime
had been committed In the district for
which he was responsible.
Accordingly Mr. Tu brought the mat
ter before the magistrate in a way
that did not involve that official. He
brought accusation against his father,
who was dead, for having moved his
grave off his son's land to that of the
encroaching neighbor instead of abid
ing In the cemetery where he properly
belonged!
The Chinese love humor and greatly
admire shrewdness. When, therefore,
the magistrate read this amazing doc
ument he smiled with genuine appre
ciation of Mr. Tu's cleverness, called
up the offending neighbor, made him
restore all the lauel he had appropri
ated and punished him with due sever
ity for his robbery.—Youth's Compan
ion.
Effective Danger Sign.
A
contractor who has observed that
pedestrians
pay little attention to signs
has evolved a new plan to guard against
accidents to "innocent bystanders."
A
steam shovel working many feet below
the surface of the
street
attracts scores
of persons daily. They stop, lean over
the board railing around the excava
tion and stare. Sometimes the crowd
gets so large that there is danger of the
railing giving way and plunging them
into the excavation. "langer" signs
don't worry them hence the new idea
of the contractor. He has smeared the
top of the railing with tar and grease.
Now iKrsons who never shudder at the
"danger" sign flee from the grease
menace as if it were poison.—Philadel
phia North American.
Fanny Crosby's Memory.
The blind hymn writer. Fanny Cros
by, who immortalized herself with
"Safe In the Arms of Jesus," was ca
pable of the most amazing exhibitions
of "inability to forget."
On one occasion she contracted
supply a publisher with ninety hyrn
She composed forty-five of these, si
ply storing them in her memory wl'
out committing a word to paper. Wl
she had finished the forty-fifth she
gan to dictate them, going right throt
without a pause. She then did H"'
same with the other forty-five.—Lonti
Answers.
To Prevent Draft.
To keep windows open ami yet feel
no draft while sleeping take an old
sheet or a piece of cloth as long as the
bed and about a yard and a half wide.
Fasten a loop of tape or clastic to the
corners of one lengthwise edge, loop
over the posts at the head and foot of
bed on side next to the window and
you have a screen that will keep off all
draft, but still give plenty of fresh air.
—St Louis Post-Dispatch.
Ma Enters the Game.
"What do you want, ma?"
"You must go to the grocery store at
once and get a pound of butter."
"But. ma, we're playiu' war. an' I'm
leadln' our arm.v against the enemy."
"Never mind. Play the commissary
department has been shot to pieces
and go after that butter Birming
ham Age-Herald.
Forever at Him.
Newltt—Fuuny! I always associate
your wife with a certain episode in my
own life. There's just one thing she
always reminds me of— Henpeek—I
wish I could say that. There's lots of
things she always reminds me of.—
Philadelphia Press.
Impedimenta.
Floorwalker.—(Jood morning. You
wish to do some shopping, 1 presume.
Bride (with hubbyi Yes. Floorwalker
—Step up to the smoking room and the
boy there will give you a check for
your husband.—Exchange.
A grateful dog Is better than an un
grateful man.—Saadl.
LABOR NOTES.
The next annual convention of the
American Federation will be held at
Buffalo.
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America demand a $2 increase and a
forty-eight hour week.
The American Federation of Labor
has again pledged unswerving support
to the eight hour movement.
Cabo-Rojo, Porto Rico, has a Confec
tioners' union affiliated with the labor
movement of the'United States.
Mayor Elect Thomas Van Lear of
Minneapolis, Minn., is an international
#rgauizer for the Machinists' union.
About 13,000 union men paraded in
Kew York recently to express sym
pathy for strikers who are in jail In
Minnr-sota awaiting trlnl for rioting.
MADE HIS WORKMEN RIVALS.
Hew Charles M. Schwab Spurratf Them
on to Greater Effort^
In telling how he increased the effi
ciency of one of his departments
Charles M. Schwab, the famous steel
man, says in the American Magazine:
"It was near the end of the day in
a few minutes the night force would
come on duty. I turned to a workman
who was standing beside one of the
red mouthed furnaces and asl^d him
for a piece of chalk.
'How many heats
has your shift
made today V I queried.
'Six.' he replied.
"I chalked a big '6' on the floor and
passed along without another word.
When the night hlft came in they
saw the '6' anel asked about 1'.
'The big boss was in here today,'
said the day men. 'lie asked us how
many heats we had made, and we told
him six. He chalked it down
"The next morning 1 passed through
the same m.
been rubbed
instead.
saw tli.it the '0' had
and a big written
ight shift had ail
That night I went
"I been erased, and a
i:
its place. The
Th.
nounce.i it--.-'!
back Tl.
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force re o-n
fine lonmeii-
About the Most Effective Infernal Ma
chine In Existence.
In proportion to its size, the Mm: ot
the honeybee Is prot.nV»ly the lliosi
fectlve infernal machine in existence.
The stinging apparatus is sn. M-r
than that of ry I i e -iirj.V
Stlr.g ha- I""!' k::.-v- I
When we n i 1'irt it
The
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iv
no superiors. Thu
was started. and
went ». c'ltii this mill, form
poorest i"dueer. was turcm- i,
more Uian any other mill In the plain
STING OF THE HONEYBEE.
Square Is the name. Square is our aim
All Suits and Pants made to your
individual order in a
visible and consider what it can do w*
cannot fail to be astounded. It seems
the very quintessence of devilishness.
The honeybee's sting is complicated
—so complicated that many words and
much ink have been used in discuss
ing Its construction and use.
It 1s generally conceded that the
sting consists of a shaft of three parts,
the principal one being a sheath within
which move two barbed lancets. Like
the barbs of a fishhook, the lancets are
not easily extracted from the flesh Into
which they have been driven. The
sheath aud the lancets combined form
a hoilow tube through which the poi
son flows from the poison sac.
Two hairy, soft projections, evident
ly very sensitive, inform the bee when
she is In contact with a sUngable ob
ject.—Popular Science Monthly.
Frohman's Little Safe.
When Charles Frohman was treas
urer with Ilaverly's minstrels he con
ceived a novel stunt of arousing curi
osity in 6mall towns. He bought a
small iron safe, about three feet high,
and on it had painted in big letters,
"Treasurer, Ilaverly's Mastodon Min
strels." Now actually there was little
need for this safe, but it was always
carried ou the first load of baggage
that went to a hotel. It would be
placed in a conspicuous place, and then
Frohman, waiting until the proper mo
ment, would bustle up to it with an
air of great importance, open it, put in
two or three $100 bills, close it and go
away. When the crowd had gone he
would slip back and get the money out
again. It proved a good advertising
stunt.—"Charles Frohman, Manager
and Man."
The White House.
A prize of $500 was offered in Wash
ington's administration for the best de
sign for a house to serve as a home for
the president in Washington. James
Hoban, an Irishman from South Caro
lina, was the successful competitor. His
sketch contained so many wings and
colonnades that the public was horri
fied, and frills and gingerbread decora
tions were eliminated. The result was
the two story White House as we know
It now. Washington laid the corner
stone of the building in 1792. It was
completed in 17VH), the year of Wash
ington's death
Rather Demoralizing.
"Are you still thinkiii ,-ibout buying
a motorcar?"
"Yes. It doesn't cost me anything to
think about buying one."
"Don't
you fool yourself. When a
man gets an idea like that he's liable
to neglect his business."—St. Louis
Post-Tisp:itch.
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