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WOMEN'S TRADE UNION
C3
NEtU OF TCE ENTERPRISE
Increasing Number of Women Enter
ing, the Trades Prompted the Move
ment—Educational Policy of the In
stitution—Methods of Teaching and
Variety of the Subjects Taught.
The school for active workers in the
labor movement conducted by the Na
tional Woman's Trade Union league
at Chicago grows apace. Opened In
January, 1014, with one student, it has
devel ped through nearly three years
of experience a unique course o* drain
ing for leadership in women's tA.de un
ion organizations. The ever increas
ing number of women entering every
trade and the successful social upris
ings of the workers in the sweated in
dustries emphasize the need of this
training, which the league undertook
to provide at the Initiative of Mrs.
Raymond Rubins, its [(resident.
•t* UNIQUE COURSE OF 1 RAININO FOR LABOR LEADHRSH1P jt
Mrs. itobins furnished its convention
With the background for this action in
a report in which she effectively de
tailed the movement in England to af
ford facilities for self culture and or
ganized educational advantages to
wagewoikers, beginning with the ef
forts of the Itochdaie Co-operative Pio
neers and culminating in the co-opera
tion between the Workers' Education
al association and the universities of
England and Wales, tier i©commen
dations resulted not only in the estab
lishment of this school, but in the
adoption of an educational policy for
the league.
Three classes of students are re
ceived into the school- those whom the
league asks to leave their trades to
take the training to tit them to become
organizers, those sent by their own
unions or central labor bodies to Im
prove their efficiency in working for
the organization and those who come
at their own initiative and on their
own responsibility.
The academic work covers four
months, the courses including, besides
English, public speaking and other
necessary preparatory work, the study
and analysis of judicial decisions af
fecting labor injunctions, boycotts, etc.,
economic history and the history of
organized labor, elementary economics
and modern radicalism Some of these
courses are taken at toe Chicago
School of Civics and philanthropy and
the University of Chicago.
The eight months of lield work in
clude the theory and practice of or
ganization, attendance at meetiugs of
unions and the Federation of Labor,
conferences with their men and worn
en leaders, analysis of trade agree
ments. writing for the press, study of
police court methods and instruction
In suffrage and civic duties. Atten
tion is given to health, exercise In the
gymnasium and regular recreation. An
extension department otters eorre
spondence courses and public lectures.
A group of the students is in ivmiIcih•
at Chicago Common
Mrs. Robins thus Mutes the .-m huol s
motive and enters its plea: "Our days
work is in the main dire*'ted to the
Immediate aspects and demands of the
struggle, but we cannot act wisely nor
fully understand the meaning of the
hour in which we live unless we keep
in mind the underlying cause tor these
•conditions and the fundamental prin
clples of justice. Today, as yesterday,
'where there is no vision, the people
perish.' and today, as yesterday, tin
spirit must be born to see the vision,
to hold It, to live and die for it. To
release and set free this spirit, so that,
It may achieve its purpose foretold In
the hidden heart of man—to show the
path of freedom, to bring hope, faith,
courage, to those held in bondage and
crushed under the weight of wrong
and to give them the message, 'To you,
too, has been given the dominion over
life'—this is our task.
"We therefore ask those who recog
nize in today's industrial struggle the
challenge of democracy and those who
believe that the great heritage of the
past in thought and act, In history,
science and poetry, belongs to all the
people, to help us work out the most
effective plan to meet the demands for
further educational opportunity of the
working women of America."—Survey.
CUTS OUT UNION MEN.
8anta Fe Railroad Won't Give Bonus
to Members of Brotherhoods.
The Santa Fe railroad distributed
about $2,750,000 to 2.1,000 employees as
Christmas bonuses. In the announce
ment President E. P. Ripley says ad
ditional compensation equal to 10 per
lent of a year's pay would be given to
all employees in the service of the rail
road system for at least two years,
whose annual compensation does not
exceed $2,500 and whose compensation
ig not paid according to present or for
mer contract schedules.
The latter provision excludes mem
bers of the four brotherhoods, engl
neers, firemen, brjkemen and condue
tors from participation in the bonuses.
Those benefited are for the most part
Clerks, operators, agents, trackmen and
yardmen who are not affected by the
Adamson law.
FADS OF LITERARY MEN.
A
Letter From His Wife Always Made
Hawthorne Wash His Hands.
Keats liked red pepper on his toast.
Dickens was fond of wearing jewelry.
Joaquin Miller nailed all his chairs
to the wall.
Edgar Allan Poe slept with his cat
and was inordinately proud of his feet.
Daudet wore his eyeglasses when
asleep.
Tha keray used to lift his hat when
ever he passed the house in which he
wrote "Vanity Fair."
Alexandre Dumas the younger bought
a new painting every time he had a
new book published.
Robert Louis Stevenson's favorite
recreation was playing the flute, in or
der, as he said, to tune his ideas.
Robert Bi owning could not sit still.
With the constant shuffling of his feet
holes were worn in the carpet.
Longfellow enjoyed walking only at
sunrise or sunset, as he said his sub
limest moods came upon him at these
times.
Ilawthome always washed his hands
before reading a letter from his wife.
He delighted in poring over old adver
tisements in the newspaper Dies.
Oliver Wendell Holmes used to carry
a horse chestnut in one pocket and a
potato in another to ward off rheuma
tism.— Philadelphia Inquirer.
ROCK OF GIBRALTAR.
The "Key of the Mediterranean" Has
Had a Stormy History.
England has been in possession of the
rocky promontory of Gibraltar since
1704. From that time to this it has
been a crown colony under the admin
istration of ,i i• ernor. By reason of
its imp !!•::tegleal position it is
called the "key of the Mediterranean.''
Gibraltar has had a stormy history.
In 711 the rock was taken by the Arab
chief Tarik, who called it Jebel-al-Tar
ilc (Hill of Tariki and built a fortress
on the promontory. Part of these ruin^
is still extant. In l.'vfU it was taken
by the astilians. only to be recaptured
by the Moon j,, It was held by
tb in until 1 I'r "imwing the tak
ing and sacking of Gibraltar In 1540
by Harbarossa. extensive military
works were built there by order of
Charles V.
In 17«»t 11ie pi'"..mi,Hi"i wits cap
tured by a combined force under Sir
George Rooke and the Prince of IIes.se
Darmstadt, lighting for the Archduke
Charles of Austria
Tim
moment it fell
Into their hands iie Uritish admiral
threw off the a!5e.ia .• wl-h the Aus
trian* and "k ctc possession of
the works.
British pos i •!, ii, e that time has
been unbroke, u ,:i.•:_U it was under
a Spanish siege Jor nearly three years
and eight mouths, beginning In 177H.
Twice the garrison was on the point
Of falling be a' M' of tin* st.-it vatnm of
its defenders
Line and Siafi
Officers.
Broadly speaking. the distinction be
tween a line officer and a staff officer
Is that between the fighter and the
nonfighter. The staff officer has non
military duties. lie may, for example,
be a member of the medical rps, an
instructor at a military inst lute or
have charge some admin strative
department of the army or ua\ y. The
word is also* used for those en at
tache! to the staff of the con niander
in chief. A line officer is litera ly that:
he is the man in the lield or on a bat
tleship to »!». the tunl fighting.—New
York Sun.
Where Eating Is a Trade.
"Maceheroni" eating Is a trade with
the street beggar of Italy and appar
ently a satisfying one to men and boys
gifted with copper interiors immune to
heat One of the most familiar cries
of the beggar 1b, "Slgnore, dame cinque
soldi, tnangia maccheroni!" ("Mister,
gimme a nickel for macaroui!") And
usually the plea ends with a lugubri
ous whine, "Oh, muori di fame!" ("Oh,
I am dying of hunger!") National
Geographic Magazine.
The Difference.
He—Of course there's a big differ
ence between a botanist and a florist.
She—Is there really?
He—Yes a botanist is one who
knows all about flowers, and a florist Is
one who knows all about the price
people will pay for them.—Boston
Transcript.
He Traveled
The clock struck 12.
"I wish I had enough money to trav
el," remarked the young man.
"Here's a car ticket." announced her
father, making his appearance at that
point—Louisville Courier-Journal.
His Snarl.
"Come on. III ram! Don't yon want
to see the ossified man?"
"Naw. I kin show you a whole town
of 'em."—Kansas City Journal.
His Early Struggles.
She—Tell me about your early strag
gles. He—There's not much to tell. The
more I struggled the more the old man
laid it on.—Boston Transcript
?QL. XVI. NO 40. HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1917.
POWER OF RADIUM
It May Be the Force Destined
His Works In a Sea of Fire.
to
Destroy the World.
TO DIE IN A BURST OF FLAME.
This Wonderful Element, It Is Claimed,
Will First Emancipate Man and Then
Later on Put an End to Him and All
If we place a thermometer Into a
phial containing a minute quantity of
radium bromide it will indicate a tem
perature 2.7 degrees hotter than the
temperature outside of the phial.
What the temperature would be If we
substituted radium for radium bromide
we have no means of knowing, for sci
ence has not as yet produced pure ra
dium. although the lay world prefers
to think so. Our closest approach to
radium so far has been radium bro
mide. which if pure consists roughly of
three-fifths by weight of the element
radium and two-fifths of the element
bromine.
Turning hack to our thermometer, we
also make the discovery that the heat
radiated from our speck of radium
bromide does not grow less as the days
and months—nay, years and centuries—
roll by. The mysterious element con
tinues to furnish prodigious amounts of
energy, with never a let up or at least
not until it has "worked" for 2,500
years, this being the present calculated
age of radium.
In order to better comprehend what
this means lot. us com pare it with coal.
This is what we flnd:
According to Professor Soddy, a
gram of pure radium evolves 133 calo
ries of heat an hour. In one year
8,700 hoursi the same gram of radium
evolves l.HMMMM) calories. In 2,."00
years—the length of rime radium will
evolve energy~2.COO.OOO,iOO calories
will be developed. Now, one gram of
coal when burned evolves 2,200 net
calories of heat. Consequently the en
ergy developed by radium Is more than
a million times that furnished from the
combustion of coal.
Commercial radium salts are at pres
ent obi.ii: ,i i working the Austrian
pitchbli n•!• i lately from the Ameri
can cartiotite found in ('].e-ado. These
are practically (he only unniercial
sources known today.
But radium U iy |S. mean^ as scarce
as most peoi.ii' I ic Helium ema
nations have been found in springs, in
the air. hi rocks, etc., and this has
given rise to an extraordinary theory
regarding the evolution of the worlds.
When the famous Swiss-Italian Sim
plon tunnel was constructed some years
ago totally unforeseen circumstances
arose which made the work most diffi
cult. Although this tunnel is far above
sea level, the heat became unendurable
as the work progressed. Artificial cool
ing had to be resorted to in order to al
low the workmen to proceed with their
work. Professor .lol.v then made the
astounding discovery that the rocks of
the Simplon contained radium, which
accounted for the unexpected high tem
perature within the mountain.
From this Jolv has built up a new
theory of evolution, and, while revolu
tionary in the extreme, it is most plau
sible and gains more ndh'erents each
year.
Lord Kelvin already deduced that If
the earth contained only two parts of
radium per million million—and a great
deal more is actually found In the
rocks and crust of our globe—this min
ute quantity would raise the tempera
ture of the earth's core 1.S00 degrees
C. In 100,(MK),fMu) years. There being no
escape for the imprisoned heat—the
earth's crust being an exceedingly bad
heat conductor—Professor Joly con
vinces us that as the ages roll by the
interior of the earth must become hot
ter and hotter. Finally, after the end
of millions of millions of years the
crust must give way to this tremen
dous heat from within and the burst
ing earth must go up in flames, becom
ing a burning gas
hall,
iu^t
as
we see
our sun today.
This will be the "incandescent age,"
a title suggested by Professor Soddy.
After another ten million years the
incandescent earth will have expended
all of Its heat Into space by radiation
and It gradually will cool. A new crust
then begins to form anew. This Is
what we see at present on the planets
Jupiter and Saturn, worlds just begin
nlng to cool nfter emerging from their
incandescent nge.
Thus we find that worlds do not die.
They slowly pass from one stage to
another, In a long and interminable
cycle. It is more than probable from
the above that the earth must have
passed many times through this cycle.
Probably every time the world went
up in flames man was at his highest
point of civilization, infinitely further
advanced than we are today. In an
Instant every living soul had perished,
and for millions of years his like wa
not to tread again «n the har loned
earth crust.
This is the new and stealer gospel
of radium, the element which will
emancipate man and which wUl de
stroy him and his all later.—H. Gerns
bach in Electrical Expei linenter.
•_ One of Jerrold's Retorts.
Very tart was Douglas Jerrold's re
tort to a would be wit who, having
fired off all his stale jokes with no ef
feet, exclaimed:
"Why, you never laugh when 1 say
a good thing!"
"Don't I?" said Jerrold. "Only try
me with one!"
Tou cannot dream yourself into a
rharaeter you must hammer and forge
yourself
one.—James
Anthony Froude.
GRAFT RULES CHINA.
To
RefuM to Accept It Would Create
a Big Sensation.
Why can't China build her own rail
roads, dredge her own canals? She
has engineers who are no slouches she
has limitless material and the cheap
est of labor.
There are two reasons, sloth, and
graft, the outgrowth of sloth.
Try to take one of the little steamers
that ply from point to point along the
coast of China. "Will the boat leave
today at the schedule time?" you ask
the agents at the pier. Well, no, prob
ably not till tomorrow, the courteous
Chinese tell you. Tomorrow again there
is some delay, and you may hang about
for a week before you get off In that
steamer. How could such methods
build a trunk line from Peking to Can
ton, even if the government could float
all the bonds in the world?
Graft, which permeates all China,
from the highest official to the poorest
coolie, would make It very difficult for
S
corporation to live. So many would
take bites from the melon!
A missionary over here on a visit
tells a story of a Chinese boy, educat
ed In a mission school, who nearly up
set a whole province by refusing graft.
Sent on some expedition for the local
government, he wa
money would be
When he returned.
"What Is this to
"I spent, only
given what i!» our
."10 for expenses,
ie handed in $50.
they asked.
»,*' he explained,
at to do, and the
vlnce sent to see
lone what no man
wn to do befi re.
ly assured that he
.$50 because It
who kept all tliey
ii Simmons in
There was a gr
governor of the pi
this lad, who had
had ever been kn
But lie was solemt
must not return
would inortjfv ot
could get.—Eleai
World Outlook.
A MAN WE HAVE FORGOTTEN.
Matthew Fontaine Maury, Who Was a
Really Great American.
Every one who
Fulton, certainly
heard of S. F. I'
Field ought also
they Fontaine
the case. For
heard of Maury
glnia. I have
have heard
Yet Maury's s i
heard of Robert
:y
one who has
•rse or Cyrus W.
rd of Mat
i' that is not
an, i
had never
i
"tit to Ylr
oys
if they
\one of them has.
researches and
accomplishments have had an enor
mous effect, not only in this country,
but throughout the world.
It may be said that Maury laid the
foundation for our modern weather bu
reau and that the science of meteor
ology began with him. He founded
the nation.".! nautical observatory and
the hydro^raphic office in Washington
and discovered, among other things,
the cause of the gtdf stream and the
existence of that plateau In the north
Atlantic ocean which, if I am not mis
taken, made possible the laying of the
first Atlantic cable. Cyrus W. Field said
with reference 'o this, "Maury furnish
ed the brains. England the money, and
I did the work." Further than this,
the charts of the mirth Atlantic which
Maury made yearslago are today the
basis upon which
gated by all natio
hat o^ean is navl-
I am informed
decorated -y nan
ments, he v.a
a cheap U:'
United St.i ml
not been k :r.re
other tokei
—Julian Sti' l'f n
nit though he was
foreign govern
aiven so much as
.i!
by that of the
that his name has
iy any memorial or
n il' gratitude.
'"i!i r~ Weekly.
The Cruel Wolf Spider.
Ono of the most unnatural things in
nature, if tin- qression is allowable,
is the man ii- a in which the young of
the common \.olf spider treat their
mother. After the little eature has
laid her eggs she env them In a
silken covering. t- i ake a ball
about the size ot i
i.
devour their mother.
ami
A Bamboo Forest.
There are few spots imaginable more
beautiful than a Japanese bamboo for
est. It is the most lovely in color, the
most aristocratic and the best behaved
forest In the world. It whispers pleas
antly and gently, and the severest
winds cannot make it angry. The long,
slim bodies of Its trees are useful long
after death, for they arc ma-ie into
water pipes, canes,
s,
picture
frames, vases, fishing roiiK i".fines
flutes, fans, furniture and i
Following the Styles.
"The average woman sp.-iais most
of her time thinking about what
wear."
"I fear you are mistaken.
"Why so?"
"She spends most of
her
time think-
|ig about what to wear next."—Bir
mingham Age-IIerald.
His Time to Talk
Jndge—Have you anything to say be
fore I pronounce sentence upon you?
Prisoner—Yes, judge. I certainly have.
But It's dinner time. Let's wait until
after we've had it. I have quite a
reputation as an after dinner speaker.
—Yonkers Statesman.
Dangerous Suggestion.
"Talk is cheap."
"Now, look out and don't be talking
Chat way or first thing you know the
telephone rates will be going up."
Baltimore American.
Wben a man sits down and hopes
for the befit he 1s npt to get the worst
of it
Y
OUR FLOUR RIOTS
When Mob Law Ruled For Awhile
In New York City.
DURING THE PANIC OF 1837.
Short Crops and High Prices Added to
the Terrors of the Financial Disaster,
and Warehouses Were Wrecked by
the Frenzied Populace.
The panic of 1837 was one of the
most severe this country has ever ex
perienced. Owing to the scarcity of
money every sort of business received
a sudden and severe check. The price
of money rose, and none but those with
the best security could get it at any
terms.
The financial suffering was still fur
ther aggravated by the scarcity and
high price of flour in the eastern cities.
The Hessian fly had made such rav
ages that the crojs along the Atlantic
coast states were almost a complete
failure. In certain sections it was rec
ommended that the legislature estab
lish public granaries for the storage of
wheat.
Affairs In New York were brought to
a crisis by the leaders of the Antl-mo
nopoly. Equal Rights or Locofoco par
ty, who plastered the walls and fences
of the city with a handbill calling a
meeting of the pe. -,!,. to he held in the
City park.
On the appointed afternoon some
5,000 persons, mostly foreigners, gath
ered in front of the city nail. Moses
Jacques was chosen chairman, but the
crowd was quickly parted into groups
and addressed by several speakers.
Conspicuous among the orators was
Alexander Ming, Jr., many times a
candidate for city recorder. He closed
his harangue by offering a set of reso
lutions to be presented to the legisla
ture and praying for a law prohibiting
the circulation of bank notes under
$100. They were adopted, and Ming
was carried off on the shoulders of his
admirers.
Another speaker meanwhile was ad
dressing another group of listeners
and, carried away by the denunciation
of the holders of flour, exclaimed "Fel
low citizens, Mr. Hart has now 53,000
barrels of flour in his store. Let us go
and offer him ?S a barrel, and if he
does not take it"—here somebody
touched him on tic shoulder "we shall
depart from him in peace."
The hint was enough, and his hearers
set on In "a body for tlie warehouse of
EH Hart & '•., ia w. street.
The clerks. the a: a !i ..f the
mob, hastened i -h u iiie uours, but
one was buist i.d barrels of flour
were rolled into 11,.- -treet and opened.
Mr. Hart. w i*II a ... now
arrived on a re at
tacked with sue' .-uuiic* and driv
en from the sect rrels of flour and
sacks of wheat ntime had been
thrown fr
i
flour in tl«
aid tlds she
carries about wiiit hei v\ i,erevf»r she
goes and will defend it wit: life.
When the young are hat they
climb on her back, giving s a mon
strous appearance, and ride a n until
nearly half grown, and ns "dun as they
discover their strength ti ey fall to
by scores,
and the fl a a i i -a !ered up by
women *t uuuu-n. A thousand
bush' at and 500 barrels of
flour -:i
i
have been destroyed.
While th a- thus engaged the
cry "Meeci was raised, and
a party weni uu toward the East riv
er to attack the warehouse of Meech &
Co., but stopped on the way and sack
ed the warehouse of Herri. a.
and destroyed thirty barre
In a card r^'bUshed in tue
pers Hart v remarked that the im
pression ed that they were mo
nopolizing :!.••••
a as,
i'
all
wa-
ia
rty of
the miller.-^ ui.a v,«.» utui uuut*r the
control of the owners. It was needless
to say that the destruction of an arti
cle could not tend to reduce !:,• price.
Nor did it, for flour at once went up
50 cents a barrel
At a second n. the park a
few weeks later
a i
Ing flags iuscril
came bear
v
give us gold or
rag money-
-a
Down with
chartered mono) a for prin
ciple no monop a v enjoy
our liberties or
uic in
tin-
a-t i
ch."
A carpenter's bench was used for a
platform, and mounted on this Ming
urged his hearers not to use rag money,
which was the foundation of artistoc
racy and rnonoi Another speaker
advised the crowd to go west in a body,
buy land at $1.2.") an acre, found a new
state and let the aristocrats build their
own houses. This time the artillery
paraded, and no disorder occurred.
Tlie panic of 1837 passed into history
as probably the most severe monetary
crisis the country has ever experienced.
Banks all over the country failed, and
most of the notes in circulation became
valueless. Many large business firms
also failed, and mills and factories shut
down because their products could not
be sold. Rich men became poor, and
poor people because there was no work
*o be had suffered for lack of food. In
no place was the panic more keenly felt
than in New York, where all the banks
suspended May pi. 1337.—I'hiiadelphia
Press.
A Great Wheel.
Laxey, In the Isle of Mat), is the
headquarters of the lead mines of the
island. It Is celebrated also for its
preat wheel, which was erected in 1854.
hs diameter is seventy-two feet, and so
iplendidly is It set that there is no os
eillation, and it has been going prac
tically ever since its erection.
He Reduced.
Willis—I took up golf to reduce. Gll
!ls—Did you succeed? Willis—Yes. 1
reduced my bank account, my hours at
the office and my reputation for veraci
ty.—Puck.
Talebearers are just as bad as tale
makers.—Sheridan.
FASHIONS FIFTY YEARS AGO.
When Caps and Aprons Were Worn
Even With Evening Gowns.
Fifty years or more ago the apron
and the breakfast
cap
According to an
were the pride
and Joy of every matron, for they were
her sign and symbol. The cap of that
time was an elaborate and dainty af
fair. It was worn with the house dress
and often, much trimmed, throughout
the afternoon and evening. Aprons,
evidently an important feature of ev
ery woman's wardrobe in those days,
were decidedly fancy, and usefulness
was not a strong point In their con
struction.
old copy
of 'rodey's
Lady's Book, aprons were made of
such materials as black silk and satin
and were trimmed with lace and vel
vet, with graduated ruffles the silk.
Often these ruffles were scalloped.
They were also cut in strange shapes,
and a final touch was added by sewing
on lnce pockets and a few bows. The
same old fashioned book i, hitchat
on the Fashions For November" says:
"Aprons, or simulated apron*, are the
folly of the day. They are likely to
have as iopular a reign as In the time
of Queen Charlotte, when Bean Brtun
mel deposed them from their high es
tate by deliberately before all the peo
ple assembled taking off the apron of a
duchess and flinging It behind one of
the settees at a ball given at the as
sembly rooms at Rath. Aprons were
made then, as now, of costliest lace,
and enormous sums were at upon
this article of dress. The I: uovelty
Is a depth of silk not more twelve
inches, to whicli Is added nee of
lace equally wide, but nan at the
sides. Of cour
a
urne1
tUT
ana
It fi
upoi
Mr. Tu
urtliage
it. nm •.
It."
"Y.
eas, but
"Well,"
come pre]
think it
seems to
traord'aar
part
ntime
give way to lar: is use
ful generally and
lasts for a con e -Chris
tian Science M'
WHIM C:: AM ARTIST.
a' P.iintirr]. "The
ige."
a ais great pi
1
arthage"
•as io
guin
All Suits and Pants made to your
individual order in a
Union Shop
The SquareTailors
106 HIGH STREET
^oss-Holbrock Stamps with
all Cash Purchases.
fvleet him at
Cor. Front and Hieh Sis.
Merchants' Dinner Lunch
Served every Day
Lunch Counter Connected
$1.00 PER YEAR
"Do as you piea«e.
After a few days Sir Robert called
again upon the great painter. "Mr.
Turner," he began, "although I thought
it a very extraordinary thing for you to
raise your price, I shall Le proud to buy
that picture, arid I am prepared to give
you the Goo guineas
"Ah!" s:iid Turner. "It was '00 guin
eas, but today it's 700."
Sir Robert grew angry, and Turner
laughed. "I was only in fun," he said.
"I don't intend to sell the picture at all.
It shall be my winding sheet."
For years he kept it in his cellar.
Then it was brought up and hung in
his gallery, where it remained as long
as he lived. When he died be left it to
the nation
Autobiography.
The teacher had instructed the chil
dren to write their autobiographies.
The following was one of the autobi
ographies turned in:
"I can remember when you got into
the back seat of an auto through a lit
tle back door instead of side doors.
When I was ten was knocked down
by a seven passenger machine, but !t
did not get over me. Mother has an
automobile, and my dog Teddy and I
and the rest of the family like to ride
in it. Some of these days I am going to
own an auto. That is all I know about
autobiography."—Indianapolis News.
Musical Feat.
One of the fastest composers that
ever lived was Trot ere, the writer of
songs. Some of the composer's feats
verge on the marvelous. It Is said, for
example, that he actually wrote the
score of "In Old Madrid" and hpd
dropped it into the letter box within
eight minutes of the time he had taken
up his pen. This would be remarkable
merely as showing his dexterity and
agility, to say nothing of the labor of
the composition itself.
The Cuckoo.
In the os the cuckoo was
thouglu who took the form
of a hire.. a sacrilege to kill
hi: ie Rot
a-
He Was Soured.
ex Wig u ng—I can always 1 a married
our man when I meet one Henpeckke—
Oh,
I
Spare is (lie name. Sijuare is our aim
don't know! You might oc aslon
11 v run across a bachelor with a
I- n Philadelphia Record.
"t
itoiD roc rf bros.
Reliable Dealers in
Dry Goods, Carpets, Cloaks, Queens-ware
Millinery. House Furnishings
1
•.
were less supersti-
t' I more practical. They caught
him, killed him and ate him and heM
no bird could be compared with him
for swepfness of flesh.
The Next
ri
!i
i n
"This is the
v
a.
The com-
mandlng officer '-a. ar its report
"And s -li.aii.f fail o make
'"?PJrta
"Then
i a
a,
e to make a report."—
I.ouisvill rler-Journal
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