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i5 sh -T"Er BRssfgw! s-rr? ?.-g ."va ir" SGW. PAGE TWO AVkSVfcV.WVV-v OWNERS AND DIRECTORS Dan M. Jackson Geo. X. Kersey David A. McGowan Ahmed A. Rayner The Emanuel Jackson Undertaking Go., Inc. 2959-61 South State St. Reliable Service & Courteous Treatment Reasonable Prices FREE CHAPEL IN CONNECTION Complete line of Funeral Goods. Automobles for hire Vt.WWVfcV"V Fleetest Animate. Writers of a century ago were firm In the conviction that the greyhound was the fastest living animal; some maintained that he could run a mile in a minute. Modern observers, however, have found that the best hound la by no means able to keep pace with a trained race horse. Indeed, the late J. A. Graham, a careful student of such cotters, used to say that no living animal could outfoot a modern race horse. A first rate horse running his best and not handicapped by carrying a rider can run a mile in less than 100 seconds. A fleet hound, such as those used in coursing, can run a mile In about a minute and fifty seconds. A jack rabbit is nearly as fast, and an antelope is considerably faster. Mr. Graham thought an antelope might run a mile across the level prairie in a minute and forty-five seconds. On the other hand, Mr. Cottar, an old African hunter, thinks that Thom son's gazelle would have no trouble whatever in running away from the fastest horse and that Grant's gazelle and the gerenuk are almost equally fleet Youth's Companion. Money No Object. An an instance of the reckless char acter of the old time British tar an English writer quotes the following authenticated reminiscence: J "One nioiuiug. as an officer was standing in Fore -.street, Devonport, his attention was drawn to three post chaises, with four horses to each, drawn up at the door of the King's Arms hotel. These were presently driven off. On Inquiring what great person had arrived, the officer was informed that a:i this display was the freak of a i-ommon sailor, who had just receive. 1 i.lOO in prize money, and. having been granted but a week's leave, his n-scuuity had devised the most ostentatious mode of getting rid of this wiu.ifall. He bad hired one chaise and four for himself, another for his hat and a third for his cudgel. It was his intention to make the trip to London and back, which would, he hoped, nearly consume the whole sura." Really Little Known of Poland. Poland's history, with its fight for freedom, justice and equality, its struggle in defense of Christianity and European civilization and its unself ishness in uidins the weak, made it famous anion:; the world's nations, both in siu-eess and adversity. The achievements of the Polish nation in art music, literature, science and re ligion are known, as are the life deeds of its great men. But the Industries, mines, trade and natural wealth of that unhappy coun try have since its partition been to a great extent a sealed book to most of the people outside of the nations attempting to assimilate the Poles. This was principally due to the In ability of people from the outside to break through the network of foreign governmental systems In which Po land Is enmeshed. Buffalo News. How Some Insects Multiply. The fecundity of certain insect forms is astounding. The progeny of one lit tle insect, the "hop aphis." sees thir teen generations born to it in a single year and would. If unchecked to the end of the twelfth generation, multi ply to the Inconceivable number of ten sextillions of individuals. If this brood were marshaled In line, ten to the inch, it 'would extend to a point so sunk In the profundity of space that light from the head of the procession, traveling at the rate of 184,000 miles a second, would take 2,500 years to reach the earth. In elglit years the progeny of a pair of gypsy moths could destroy all the foliage in the United States if unchecked. Popular Science Monthly. What Worried Him. "Papa, dear," said the anxious daughter, "you must not worry be cause Harold is going to marry me and take me far away from you and mamma." "Oh, a little thing like that isn't go ing to worry me." replied the fond parent "but if he ever does anything that will cause you to come back to us again I'll certainly do him bodily in Jury." St Louis Post-Dispatch. Time to Quit Then. "Do you expect to sjiend your whole life In the wicked rursult of riches?" asked the ascetic person. "No," replied the brisk Individual. "If I'm not rich by the time I reach fifty years of age I shall consider my self an ignoble failure." Birmingham Age-Herald. Puzzled. "Women are so awfully hard to un derstand!" "What's the matter now?" vvvVVVVVVVVVVVVVWWVVWWVVVVi Phones Calumet 61C4 Automatic Tl-629 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT VSWVVfcVVWVWVVSAVVVVV "r He Used His Head. In the American Magazine Charles M. Schwab says: "Andrew Carnegie first attracted at tention by using his head to think with. It was when he was a telegraph operator on the Pennsylvania railroad under Colonel Thomas A. Scott One morning a series of wrecks tangled up the line. Colonel Scott was absent and young Carnegie could not locate him. Things looked bad. "Right then Carnegie disregarded one of the road's strictest rules and sent out a dozen telegrams signed with Colonel Scott's name, giving orders that would clear the blockade. " 'Young man,' said the superintend ent a few hours later, 'do you realize that you have broken this company's rules?' " 'Well, Mr. Scott, aren't your tracks clear and your trains running?' asked the young-telegrapher. "Colonel Scott's punishment was to make Carnegie his private secretary. A few years later, when the colonel re tired from office, he was succeeded by the former telegraph operator, then only twenty-eight years old." - The Thespian's Fiasco. Among Italians, a correspondent in Rome tells me, the origin of the term "fiasco" for failure Is believed to have originated in the remark of an old Ital ian actor. He had In the course of a play to deliver a somewhat lengthy monologue, In which he invariably scored a great success. It was his habit to always hold some object or other in his hand, changing the article every time he appeared and never us ing the same thing twice. One even ing, seeing a wine battle (called In Italian fiasco), he seized It and pro ceeded on the stage to pronounce his soliloquy. Whether it was that on that occasion the audience was extraordi narily difficult to please or whether It was that the actor was not up to his usual form, the fact remains that for once he did not obtain his customary applause, from which time the phrase "fare fiasco" has become general in the Italian language. London Chron icle. Largest Village In the World. Open, unprotected, utterly Indefensi ble, The Hague has basked, smiling, just behind the storm swept edge of the ocean for centuries. Bleak, shift ing downs roll up to the very gardens of its suburban villas; ancient histor ical forests proffer mild memories of their vastness in woody parks and winding shady ways. It is essentially a place to be at peace. Although so mingled with the doings of the house of Orange that every square has a historical association, every old palace and park its story, though the parliaments of the Dutch states have met there since 1466 and suave ambassadors have brought it weighty questions and strange faces since the .sixteenth century, there is a pretty irresponsibility about this "lar gest village of the world" that has en deared it to the pleasure lover of all ages. New York Telegram. Making Mistakes. Big men make big mistakes. Little men could not make big mistakes if they tried; they haven't the capacity. The fellow of strong personality, the man who grabs at an opportunity with all his might and goes straight toward Its accomplishment hurriedly is more likely to make big mistakes than the weazened r the world who are timid and afraid. But the mistakes do not amount to so much with him that Is the point The little fellow who makes & mistake is lost But the big fellow Is only encouraged by making a mistake nd often Is able to drag success over his errors as a giant might drag a bull through the underbrush. The little fol low Is not to be blamed, but the big fellow Is to be admired. Columbus (O.) Dispatch That Midnight Oil. "I suppose.' ventured the Interested friend of the family, "that John Is still burning the midnight oil at col lege?" "Yes. indeed," replied the fond but puzzled mother, "but the college must furnish a very inferior quality of oil. Johu writes me that some midnights the light Is so very poor that he can hardly read his hand." Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. College Faculty. From the letter of n father to his son at college: Dear Harold Your brief letter came to day. I am Inclosing: the check for the amount you requested. I have heard a treat deal of the college faculty. I take It to be the faculty for spending; money. Affectionately. FATHER. -New York Post THE BKOAD AX, CHICAGO . JANUARY 27, 1917. gffiLTlLTS AfiTFACSE,' SAYS PROFESSOR SHAW Don't Believe Her When She She'll Bo Your Friend. 8 ays New York. "When a girl says, I cannot be your wife, but I'll be your friend,' she tries to speak the truth, but utters a psychological falsehood," declared Professor Charles Gray Shaw, head of the philosophy department of the New York university, in a lecture at the Institution. Professor Shaw argued that no wom an could be a friend to men or to women, because a friend requires a clear cut personality and a disinter ested outlook on life. Both of these, he asserted, women lack. He also de clared that friendships between men were passing from the earth. "Woman cannot be a friend because she is never an Individual, for to be an Individual one must stand alone," he said. "Only those who stand alone can come together." Professor Shaw said that woman was like a planet well adapted to revolve about some center, "but not organized in such a way as to stand alone." "Unfortunately, masculine friend ships are just passing from the earth, and In the course of time menas wm be found only In museums, along with other aboriginal products. This mel ancholy situation Is due to the fact that modern life tends to destroy per sonality and a philosophic view of the world. Man is bound to man not by ties of friendship, but by bonds of pro fessionalism which are usually of a commercial character." INDIAN TRIBES USE WHISTLING LANGUAGE Able to Express Their Thoughts Perfectly by Its UserSays Mining Engineer. Carlisle, Pa. That entire tribes of Indians in Mexico carry on long con versations by means of whistling is as serted by Harold T. Mapes, mining en gineer, who was for twelve years in Mexico, but now lives in Carlisle. Mapes declares that the Indians have a whistling language and are able to express their thoughts perfectly by its use. He says It is not a series of signs or calls signifying danger, love, fear, peace, war, etc., but a regular language, by which the most subtle shades of thought may be expressed. Like people in other parts of the world, the Mexican Indians occasion ally whistle for their dinners, only they are able to explain by their whistles exactly what kind of a dinner they want either a simple meal of tortillas and frljoles or a more elaborate feast of enchiladas and mole guajalote, with cervczt or vino. Mapes siys that he understands that the whistling language has been hand ed down from generation to generation from the time of the Toltecs and Az tecs and that Indian lovers can put a world of tenderness and passion into their whistled declarations of love or stir their fellows to heroic deeds by the fierceness with which they whistle a call to arms. A whistling language has been used from time immemorial by the Swiss mountaineers, and Neapolitan sailors converse frequently by means of whis tling. Convicts in the big jails in Na pies converse freely by means of whis tling, nnd there Is apparently no limit to their whistling vocabulary. BIRD DOG WEARS GLASSES. Georgia Setter Does Good Work After Visit to Oculist. Moultrie, Ga. Fanny, a thorough bred setter, wears spectacles. She was fitted with glasses by an oculist who found that she had astigmatism. -For years Fanny has been known as one of the best hunting dogs In this section. Before the opening of the quail season this year she went to the fields by herself and on returning showed evidence of bad falls. Fanny could not help falling Into ditches nnd running into trees. Then it was dis. covered that her eyes had become af fected. .Jt Is believed the glasses will correct the trouble. At least Fanny now Is do ing her work ns well as usual HE KNEW. Austrian Tells Who It Is That Elects a President. Hammond, Intl. Jorn Bosovicb, late of Austria, applied to the federal court for citizenship papers. Clerk Hem stock put the questions and got these answers: "Who is president of the United States?" "Mr. Wilson." "Who makes the laws?" "The congress." "Who elects the president?" "California." He got the papers. Bank Robber Returns 5. Scranton, Pa. A letter with $5 in closed has been received by the Pine Brook bank. The letter said that the writer held up the teller and took the money nt the point of a revolver. "I am taking the first opportunity to pay It back," said the letter, which was postmarked Moscow, Pa. The bank officials will have the missive framed. The robber entered the bank and point ing a revolver at the teller, George Browning, demanded $25. Browning handed out $5, which satisfied him. KlSf.l 4lff'.i.l' l-swf -t 4".' 1 ail Teaching Birds Tricks. A professor of natural history re futes the statement so frequently made that teaching a bird to draw water needs apparatus and that the learning is cruelty to the bird. "The following experience of mine," he says, "proves that it Is not so by any means. We bought a young bird last January, so wild that on our ap proach it flew madly round the cage. We hung the cage low and by patience, after the bird got used to our proxlm- t ity, induced it to take groundsel, first held at stem's length, then between tne 1 fingers, finally from the lips. We used J to let him out freely, and he would perch on the loaf next me at break fast His perch projected through the wires, and here was his favorite seat j when at liberty. Then I tried hanging a bit of groundsel by a short string to the projecting stick. After inspection he pulled it up with his beak. On lengthening the string with a fresh bit of his preferred weed I had the pleasure and Interest of seeing him pull up the string with his beak till the flower head was within reach, catching the slack after each pull with one foot and then transferring It to the other, so that the coils were quite neat" London Globe. Water Pressure. As early as 1648 a Frenchman of science named Pascal experimented with pressures applied to liquids and discovered the following law: A pres sure applied to any part of the sur face of a liquid Is transmitted un changed in amount In every direction through the liquid. Perhaps the most familiar applica tion of Pascal's law Is the hydraulic press. In that machine a pump having a small piston drives water Into a large cylinder and thereby forces upward a large piston, which compresses what ever is placed between the platform of the piston and the fixed crossbeam at the top ofthe press. If the area of the larger piston is 100 times that of the smaller a downward force of one pound exerted on the smaller piston will create an upward rorce or pounds upon the larger piston. 100 Home Ground Flour. Grinding wheat to make flour may be done at home as easily as the grinding of coffee. Thus a family may have whole wheat flour, freshly ground, a thing that is usually difficult to ob tain. The New York Medical Journal advises its readers to buy their wheat from seedsmen rather than from gro cers or feed stores because It will be cheaper and more efficient The grinder can be used also for cracking wheat, corn, barley, oats, rye and other grains for use as breakfast cereals. And the cereals will need chewing, which will not only strength en the muscles of the chewers' jaws, but will keep their teeth from decay- that Is, If they begin as children. Homemade cereals 'need long cook ing, so a llreless cooker Is almost In dispensable. Greek Fire Gunpowder? M. Zenghells told the Academle des Sciences in Paris recently that he had been studying the Greek fire" used In war by the Byzantines. The descrip tions of this say that It was hurled from a copper tube with a sound like thunder and with a great cloud of smoke. From this he concluded that the Byzantine Greeks had real cannon In which they used explosive mixtures with nitrate as a base. Therefore the honor of the discovery of gunpowder must be given to the engineer Callini cus of Hellopolis, who first used it de stroying a Saracen fleet with It in 670 A. D. The Silent Moon. Dead silence reigns on the moon. A thousand cannons might be fired and a thousand drums beaten upon that airless world, butno sound could come from them. LlpT might quiver and tongues essay to speak, but no action of theirs could break the utter silence of the lunar scene. Roundabout Way. "I see where an aviator contrived to have the last word with his wife." "How on earth did he do it?" "Ho didn't exactly do it on earth." "No?" "He rose 1,000 feet in the air and dropped her a message." Birmingham Age-Herald. The Experienced Husband. "She threatens to sue Dor divorce." "What's he say to that?" "Nothing. When their quarrels get to that point he always keeps still. He's learned from experience that the next move will be a flood of tears." Detroit Free Press. Two Sorrows. The sorrow of the woman who cries out her grief on the kitchen towel somehow seems more sincere than that of the woman who puts on a pretty gown, arranges the sofa cushions and turns the lights low before she begins. Exchange. Fussy. Bank Manager Now please under stand. Miss Jones, you must make the books balance. Miss Jones Oh, Mr. Brown, how fussy you are! London Punch. Sound and -Sound. "That young Hercules over there la a great musical composer." "A sound mind In a sound body, eh?" St Louis Star. It is generally more profitable to reckon up ourdefects than to boast of our attainments. Carlyle. ALIENS TO LEAVE That May Happen at End of Great War. ALL AVAILABLE LAND GONE. Commissioner of Immigration Howe Predicts That United States Will Be come an Emigrant Rather Than an Immigrant Nation at the End of Hos tilities In Europe. New York. A prediction that the United States would become an "emi grant" rather than an "immigrant" na tion at the close of the war was made by Commissioner of Immigration Fred eric C. Howe at the Sunday evening forum of the Free synagogue. Mr. Howe took the stand that immi gration was purely an economic ques tion and declared that it had been such from the beginning. He said that those who opposed immigration did so because they desired to limit the com petition of unskilled foreign labor; those who favored the wide open door did so because It made labor cheap. He said the immigrant no longer went to the farm because all the avail able land of the country had been tak en up, hundreds of millions of acres being held for purely speculative pur poses. "The immigration problem never ex isted so long as the land was free for the asking," said Mr. Howe, "and it is this scarceness of land which makes Immigration an economic question. "It is a matter of freeing labor on one hand from the competition of the Incoming labor groups from Europe and of Insuring to the immigrant an opportunity to work for himself rather than for an employer Interested In se curing his services at the lowest pos sible cost "I keep more or less in touch with the centers to which go most of the men who pass through Ellis island. I am told that everywhere the men now employed In our shops and factories who at home worked as farmers are saving their money to return to the old country. They have always wished to own their own farms they came here for that purpose and they figure that after the war laud will be cheap In the countries overseas. This senti ment spreading among our workers, will result in a serious crisis In our industrial life." Mr. Howe also discussed the servant question. He said that since the war there had been practically no servant girls coming to this country and that many of those who were In service had left it to enter munition factories and offices, while others had married or died. To regulate the tide of oriental Im migration nnd, in fact to check In some measure immigration from auy land Dr. Sydney L. Gulick, an authority on Japan, suggested that, for example, if a thousand Syrians came to this coun try in 1D00 and ten years later all had taken out American citizenship then another thousand might be admitted. If, however, only 300 had applied for naturalization papers the decision of the remaining 700 to still be Syrians automatically would keep an equal number of their fellow countrymen In Syria. RABBITS TO BE "HOT DOGS." Texas Plant Soon to Make Animals Into Sausage. Austin, Tex. A plant for the manu facture of sausage from the meat of the Texas jaekrabbit is to be erected soon and put into operation in west Texas, according to an announcement made by Fred W. Davis, state commis sioner of agriculture. Promoters of the plant expect to handle most of the an nual rabbit crop in their mill. The Texas state departmeut of agri culture has decided to attempt to cre ato a country wide demand for rabbit meat It is expected that not less than a million rabbits, Texas born and reared, will be shipped to New -England aud eastern markets during the next few months. Commissioner Davis says the rabbits are quoted In some cities at a higher price than turkey or chicken. NEW. COINS ARE HELD UP. Quarter and Half Dollar Won't Be Out Until First of Year. Washington. Issue of the new half dollar desigued by Adolph A. Wein man, creator of the new dime, and the new quarter, designed by Herman A. MacNell, both considered by experts coins of great beauty, was ordered de ferred by the treasury department un til the beginuing of 1017. The extraordinary demand for small coins cents, nickels and dimes is tax ing the facilities of the mints, and offi cials believed calls for the new quarter and half dollar would swamp the mints if they were Issued now. Wedding Party; No Bride. Allentown, Pa. Andrew MIreck the other evening hunted up Arthur Koenlg, Allentown's license clerk, and returned a license which, he said, was no louger any good. The day before MIreck nnd Mary Novntny, a comely girl, had appeared arm in arm and ob tained the license. The next day she left him waiting at the church, priest, attendants, guests and all. After wait ing several hours the guests disappear ed in disappointment, nnd when Mi reck got home for dinner there was a telegram from the girl In which she stated she had changed her mind and would noTinarxy him. ... .? i -u-'- . JW 11 'wm OUR BUSINESS MEN ASK FOR PUBLIC GO-OPERATION Leaders Point Out Partnersbip Between Capital and Labor, SAY INTERESTS ARE MUTUAL Our Future" Prosperity Depends on a Better Understanding and More Prac tical Application of Get-Together Spirit In Industry Must Eliminate Trouble-Breeders and Agitators. A better public understanding and appreciation of the needs and problems of our American industries is conceded on every side to "be ono of the Impor tant national requirements for the de velopment of our future Industrial prosperity. Few people seem to un derstand that the majority of our busi ness men are fair minded, reasonable beings, legitimately engaged in the de velopment of our economic resources. In the opinion of our business lead ers this misunderstanding leads the public, through the legislators, into thoughtless and unnecessary acts of reprisal against all branches of Indus try, which are often Inimical to the best Interests of their own community. To cure this lamentable condition It Is first essential that a closer degree of co-operative action for the common good be established between em ployees and employers. The first step In this direction Is to eliminate the selfish, destructive agitator:. This hap py event would greatly facilitate a general get together spirit among em ployers and workers. The Work That Men Do. The nation is confronted with more work than ever before ships to build, factories to enlarge, railways to com plete, new foreign business to be at tracted and help to be extended to the unfortunates on the other side. There are about30.000,000men at work:lf they work ten hours a day that Is 300.000. 000 hours a day or 90,600,000,000 hours a year. If they work eight hours it is 74,8SO,000,000, or a difference of 1S. 720,000,000 hours a year. At eidit hours a day this means that about 7,400.000 more men must be employed to do the work that could ho done by the 30.000,000. and where are they to come from? During the past year there has been a unified and standardized banking cur rency system tried and not found wanting. But there are yet other step to be taken before the Ideal of eco nomic unit is worked out There are 662,000 stockholders of railroads in the United States. A larce proportion of them depend on the earn ings of the carriers for a meager in come. Many of these stockholders have less than $1,000 a year income, and they are unable to earn more, be ing elderly persons or women. Thou sands of them are former employees of the railroads who depend upon their stock dividends to pay their rent and their grocery bills. Labor and Capital Are Partners. The manufactured output of the United States amounts to $2S.000.00o. 000 In value per annum. This is three times the amount of the yearly output of the ranches, farms, orchards and gardens; it Is a dozen times the output of the mines; It Is larger than the -m blned manufactures of any two fr elgn nations. Labor received, as share of the fruits of Industry, was amounting almost to seven billion di lars In the single year of 1014. IW not this prove that the Interests -f employees are Joint with those win) employ them and that a real partner ship exists? Today there are over IOO.OOO.whi peo ple In the land who must be fetl. clothed, sheltered, kept warm and many of whom travel for health, pleas ure and business. The railway s tenn are In many places overtaxed in tWws this work. What will be the conditions when there are l.'O.OOO.OOO people to be served? This means an addition of at least ." per cent to the number of tens of freight moved one mile nnd the num ber of passengers moved one mile There was a total mllence of 41-'.,sS In the hands of receivers in W". total capitalization of which was $'- 26-1.000.000. In that year alone 20.143 miles of road went Into the han.H of re ceivers, and these roads had a total cap italization of $1.070.S0S,62S. Tl.-s coin pares with 4.222 miles in 10U ith total capitalization of $109,571. H.,n receivers' hands. This Is not a uealtuy condition: It is a malady that alTeci directly and Indirectly every one In tn country. . nnlln-nra rtn nnt hplOtl!T to R feV "C men or bankers. There are nt leasi 1.000.000 owners of the securities American railways. There re 1.S00.- """"''" i In 000 men approximately cinpw"' " the railway service. The insurance companies have $1,500,000,000 Invested In railway securities representing a 000.000 policy holders: snvlnzs nan have $800,000,000 Invested In wn banks there are 11.000.000 debitors From 1009 to 1913 the States ena ed 60.001 and 'congress enacted -" now laws which Involved the const eration of more than one-half mil" legislative propositions, or na ana production of over 12.000 new ii to be assimilated by the bosuw-world. i--i: S33SSE2552SB:Tr ,--n SSa