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GAVE HIS MESSAGE
"Poppa" Just Had to Speak to
Station Master.
Had to Held Up the Train to Do It, but
Now Hot-Tempered Official Knows
Exactly What Murphy
Thinks of Hint.
Id Omniana Mr. J. F. Puller tells of
meeting an American tourist In an
Irish train. There Is much In the story
that is not pleasing to an American
reader but it is an amusing tale, and
in helping us to see ourselves in the
light in tvhich some of us are seen by
others it shows smne characteristics
that we, at least, can avoid.
I soon found myself, says Mr. Fuller,
filling the position of a soit of second
hand tourist guide without the frogged.
frock coat and the cap that lend dignity
to the genuine article.
The conversation dwelt on the differ
ences between the two continents and
the superiority of Amniurrica over
U-rope, and might have gone on indefi
nitely had not "Poppa" put a stop to it
bysuddenly ejaculating, as we pulled
up at the next station:
"Darned if this ain't K— I This it
K—, mister?"
Ha let down the window with a bang
and, poking his head out, shouted to
the guard, gesticulating violently
bald-headed and hatless:
"Say, sir. I must see the station mas
ter right away!"
"Ifon can't. We stop only a minute."
"Wal, won't go without," said he,
jumping out. "That's a fact"
"Then you'll have to wait for the
night mail. The station master is en
gaged doww-nt the other end,. See him
beyond,, shukin* his fists?"
"Cali ban tip! It's most pertlkler."
"PoppaV insistence was so great
that tfie-guard, thinking that there
might'be southing in it, yielded, and
sent a porter to fetch the official up,
while "Poppa" stepped in again and
V'aited.
"What's up?" inquired the full
blooded, punting station master as he
arrived.
"Yankee gout wants to see you, sir
that's^him with the big head, waving
the"Umbrella"
"Well, sir, what do jrou want?"
"This Is K— station! alnt it?"
"Yes. Can't you read that sign
board 7"
The American ignored the question
nnd asked another. "You are Mr. B—t
the station master?"
"Yes. confound it! Don't be keep
ing the train."
"You were acquainted with Joe Mur
phy of Detroit!"
"Oh, yes. Be left this country two
•jrears ago. Is he dead—or what? Look
S«Uve!"
"Wal,no. 'he al'h't dead' 'b'ot he tihtd
to me in confidence when I started on
this tower—and they were hla last
words at partin'—'When you get to Ire
land,' he says, 'you be sure to look oat
for B—, at K— station, and don't go by
on no account without seeln' him.' Let
me have the pleasure of shakln' hands
with you, Mr. B—. I'm vurry pleased
indeed to make your acquaintance.
'For,' says Joe Murphy to me, *B— is
notoriously the worst-tempered railway
offldal in the whole of Ireland.' Ta
ta And he suddenly bobbed in, pull
ed up the window and gesticulated po
litely as he sat down.
The objurgations hurled at "Poppa*
by the Infuriated B— were sufficiently
Tiolent, anyone would have thought, to
shatter the glass.—Youth's Companion,
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Shining Lights.
A short time ago while discussing the
war and the question of saving.
Prof. Henry B. Longdon, head of the
department of German In DePauw uni
versity. made the vow that until the
kaiser was killed and the world forever
rid of him, he would not use any elec
tric lights in his classroom The tow
was taken more as a joke: thai* other
wise, but Professor Longdop has sfuck
to It faithfully. A few dajrs ago" Prof.
A. F. Caldwell, another genuine. all
American,'" asked Professor' T.bngVlon
regarding the resolution, and Inquired
whether he was using any lights, This
was his ans\veri:
don't needi any
lights in my clashes, -because my stu
dents are all so bright.". Now. a num
ber of professors believe they can fol
low Professor Longdon's example be
cause of the sh'jiiiig lights in their
classes.—Indianapolis News.
Found Old Medal.
Last fall, when dipping potatoes In
hjs garden in tlie,roar of 1037 South
Our Prices Are Just the
Same in One Town As
They Are in Another—
The only difference being the actual difference
in freight rates.
In other words the man who buys lumber
from us in a town where we operate the only
lumber yard secures euactly the same prices
as the man who lives in a town where there
are four or five yards besides our own.
Our prices are right. The volume of business
we are doing is evidence enough to support
our claim in regard to our prices. The larg
est users of lumber in the northwest purchase
their lumber from Thompson Yards because
they have found from experience that it is un
mck(
necessary to "figure or dicker.
same price for the same material where we sold it.
ft
You can buy your lumber here with the full
assurance that you get the same price all the
time. You do not need to protect yourself
by getting "figures."
Were it not for the fact that the good business value of such policy was
I JwiMnstrated long ago, common* honesty would compel us to charge the
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Thomson Yards, Inc.
A. C. McQuoid, Lopal Salesmanager
Serial"dVeWife, Frank Fletcher found
with a spadeful of earth nnd a clus
ter of the precious tubers a bronze
medal about one und one-third inches
In diameter, a relic of the Civil war.
On one. side, besides the figures 1861
ISfiTi. it promts two figures, one of
th«- Goddess .if Liberty and the other
a soldier, on whose head the goddess
Is placing a laurel wreath. The other
side, inclosed In a wreath, shows the
Inscription. "The state of Ohio to l.
F. Seal, veteran Co. G. SKith regiment,
-jphlo volunteer tofinjtty^ndl#!#)*
lis News.
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Rice Culture and Malaria.
It has been found that the culture
of rice In the United States, as In
other countries where the matter has
been Investigated, Is attended by the
production of enormous numbers of
Anopheles mosqnltoes, but to what ex
tent the prevalence of malaria
fluenced thereby has. not yet been
curately determined. A study of tUl
question Is being carried on at Cro'w^
ley and Lake Charles. La., by flki
United States public health servtcetr-»
Scientific American,
_One 3 tae ing factors Tn arousing
the people of the United States to the
great patriotic service they could per*
form through war gardening Iraa
through the slogans sounded from
time to time, writes Charles Lathrop
Pack, president of the National'War
Card en commission, in an article in
the Garden Magazine.
"Ever/ 'garden a' munition pUtat,"
is the slogan on the design drtiwn by
James Montgomery F.lagg. "Can Vege
tables fclitf fruit Md 'can thfeUafher,
thfesio^att of attofh^r striking
poster. 'A*
"Grow food F. O. B. the kitchen
deer,-" it one Af .the forceftil-tflegans
iftMeil and Aised by the commission
^HohSOittkes-: versus Hohenzollen&?
ls: -another of the phrases which -has
'hit- thffrrender between the eyett
Into the.garden trenches
"The hoe. is the. machine, gun ati the
garden, ?,"Food must. follow the jbgf
are-sloguBN that-have done, their bit.,*
J/Keopj
the-.home, soil turning!', is,.p.
clever ipuftiphrust- of the title of --a
famous song. Other successful
phrases used by the commission are:
"Speed up and spade up "*"Tuue up
the spading fork
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WHY WOMEN GET THEIR WAY
Prominent Characteristic of the |e^
as Most Married Men Know, lo
Their Determinationi
The main difference between men
and women Is nowhere so marked aa
It is In the distinction between char
acter and ability.
A man's ability la entirely separate
from his character. A man may have
genius and no character at all. He
qu»y have smaU abtlities and larfn
-character.a main t&e two thln^f
appear, t9 be entirely Independent of
one another.
But a woman's character is detei^
mlneiil bji her ability, and her ability
I* determined by her character. In
reality, therefore, women are much
more simple than men, although they
do not appear to be so. Women ar«
more complicated outwardly than men.
They offer more superficial variety.
But closer observation and association
among tbem tend to make them mora
alike.
Men, on the other hand, grow more
complicated as you come to know them
better. This Is because their abilities
and characters being unrelated and the
proportionate measure of each subject
tuan, becau&e everything, in '^pr whole
nwkeijp, con^pus qnd unconscious i'l
\vorklng fofM.t_.'' jj,
If- you \y^n't to see conservatloh of
energy Jijryl tiuv'per.fwtion of efficiency
.wifctch the, Worklng bf that perfectly
C*M)rOiiMrte'(l niachirier—a woman—get
ting a thing from a man that' sh«
wants.—Life.
High-Speed Telegraphy.
A seven-league stride has recently
been made In high-speed telegraphy.
•\n apparatus which In actual tests
has proved Its ability to transmit ovei
a single grounded wire 6,000 words a
iiiituitc lias In'en evolved. The real
significance of this escapes one until it
is realized that 6,000 words set in
type will fill seven and a half stand
ard magazine pages. Details of what
appears to be an epoch-making achieve
ment must he withheld for military
reasons. It is a war Invention, and
has for its chief purpose the liberation
of hundreds of expert operators for
the signal corpsi' without disorganizing
our much needed commercial lines.
No secret Is divulged, however, when
the apparatus Is described as print
ing telegraph system, depending upon
a universally used recording Instru
ment that has never before been asso
ciated with telegraphy. Messages are
handled In any language or cipher with
equal facility and rapidity.—Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
What Language Is This?
A representative of the company,
when Interviewed by the Yavapai,
stated that their Entire development
campaign had already been laid out,
and that arrangements had been made
frith expert drillers employed In the
voduclng fields of California to report
at the property February 15, prepared
to keep the boom bobbing for 24 hours
illy, as soon as. the rig which Is now
ng unloaded can be set up.
The gentleman in question also ad
vised that the first well would be spot
ted by two expert oil men from Cali
fornia.
Later reports from the field are to
the effect that the workmen are push
ing things to the limit and that they
expect to be able to spud-in by the
25th of this month at the latest—From
Yavapai.
German Rubber Oroya.
The capture and occupation of Ger
man Bast Africa by the British forces
revealed the fact that the Germans had
planted In this colony extensive tracts
of rubber trees of the manlhot species.
The manlhot rubber tree cannot be ex
pected to increase its yield year after
year, for the bark thickens after tap
ping and the tree ceases to yield after
five years. But it thrives in hot, dry
-climates where other kinds cannot live.
'At the end of Its productivity It Is root
^d ,out and replaced with young plants,
which begin to yield in about' two
years. The species of rubber trees from
which the great bulk of the world's
rubber products are manufactured is
the heves.
Germane Practically Slaves.'
A ,confession -..made. by a German
agent When being sentenced. In Norway
for espionage casts a vivid light upion
•various ha'ppenin$s In {Ms (and -othef
'countries since the war-began.' -Ohf
Lawen, who had been convicted In
the Norwegian courts, said:
^Bvery. time. a, G?npjm-abngd -is' re
quested by a German omclai or person
In authority to carry out an action
die manr In. question is compelled to
obey, no matter what the nature of the
•a^ttoi" e.ftS
Tafcles Turned.
"You used to scold your boy Josh
great deal."
^Yes?" repftetr --Cerntoeael
"But he's even for any uneasiness wo
gave him. All we think" about now is
runnln' the farm and investln' money
la war bonds in a way he'll approve of
when he gets homa,"
SHOWED HER W
to variations, new combinations are I ^g awake and worried in a lit
constantly being presented. The va
rious things which go to make up the
motive power o? woman, on the othei
hand, are more closely related. Wom
en. therefore, concentrate more than
men, although, they do hot seem to del hofiie." Minnie sat up and blinked,
so, the process being unconscious. I short white later die was looking
Thrit exptdlns why. If a Woman wants 'B'# *'le face of a stranger, mild of
manner and kind of eye. He* was the
sort'of man Minnie had heard give
stereoptlcon lectures In her home
church mAnjr a time—« man easy to
talk to because you instinctively
trusted him and felt he would under
tt&hd. 'Still—there was a certain keen.
a thing and a man doesn't want her to
hav^ It 'She always1 gets It
When, a inan wants a tiling he plans
to'.get jit ^Ufet as. .inucjl as he' can
through the ordinary processes (if his
iplhd and will. When a wiitha'n' waiits
a thjhg slie makes no plan at all-^ut .. ...
sjtie gets 'it' niiicli ni^re of'ten' than tlie Idbl^ in Ws brdwn eyes.
Ai.n iu.'i Minnie was angry. "Who are you,
inyhdWl" she" fhing-deflatitiy. "What
'right have you to come here?"
"Mjr name is Williams—Grant' Wil-
How City Police Captain Dealt
With Runaway Girt.
Brief Tour Sufficed to Mako' Her
Acquainted With New York, and
•lie Realised It Was Not All
That She Had Pictured.
ttbir'Minnie, ttred of tfte prosaic llfe
la her Uttle home town, ran away to
New York and how the New York po
lice found her and returned her to her
Parents—Is one of the Incidents de
Wribed by Zoe Beckley ln an artlde In
the People's Home Journal on "New
York—the Port of Missing Girls and'
Boys." Minnie's parents had wired
the New York police, and Capt Grant
Williams of the missing^ persons bu
reau, by methods the police keep se
cret, had located Minnie. The rest of
the Incident gives a picture of modern
police methods rarely presented to tlie
public.
At half-past seven that same morn
ing, writes Miss Beckley, Minnie Bar-
tie room In an obscure New York hotel,
was an astonished girl when she heard
a sharp "rat-tat-tat!" at her door and
a volie saying, "It's all right, Minnie
Tm a friend with a message from
HdmSi- I'mftom police'headquarters."
Minnie's-face flushed hotly. "You're
going to- try to Send me home she
cried. "Well, I won't go. You can
arrest me if you like, but I won't go
back. They've just sent for me out of
meanness. Well, I can be mean, too!
I've slaved all I'm going to. I've never
seen anything or been anywhere or
done anything In my life but work and
slave and sit home. Now I've a chance
to go with a musical show. I'm going
to play lie xylophone. I can earn
good money. I won't go home! And
what are you going to do about It?"
"Well," answered Williams, rubbing
his chin, "I don't want to send you
home against your will. But your
mother's pretty sick. Suppose we have
some breakfast first, and talk it over?
I'll wait for you downstairs."
I After coffee and ham and eggs at a
nearby restaurant, Minnie's sullen, an
ger relaxed a little. She found h«Nrseli
telling this man, from headquarters
about her home and her work is ste
nographer at ten dollars a week, and
how tied down she was by reason of
her mother's invalidism and her fa
ther's sternness. And how she longed
"to see something."
"Good!" said Williams. "I'll show
you New York."
The girl's eyes widened. The cap
tain slipped away a moment and wired
Jonas Darnell:
"Minnie found. Safe. Meet us at
Grand Central at 4 p. m."
Then he started out with Minnie.
They rode on a street car to Battery
park visited the aquarlam walked up
the wondrous canyon of Broadway
saw Wall street and the stock ex
change, and Trinity church dwarfed
among the skyscrapers. They passed
the Singer tower and the Woolworth
building, the ancient post offlce and
the beautiful city hall. Newspaper
row and the Bowery, dim and grim,
were pointed out—and Minnie forgot
her appointment with the musical show
manager.
With her unusual guide she took
another street car that turned east on
Delancey street, revealing a seething
tenement district the like of which ahe
had not pictured in her wildest dreams.
She saw a single block where more peo
ple Uved than In her whole town. She
saw more poverty, more evidences of
privation and sorrow than she believed
existed in the ^world, let alone New
York, the city of^milllonaires.
They went uptown and took a dash
through Fifth avenue, skimmed Forty
second street and glimpsed Broadway.
Minnie's defiance had melted away. In
its place was the weariness of the
satisfied sightseer. She declined posi
tively to have luncheon, saying that
she preferred to have it on the train
going home with.-her father.
Minnie was back home before mid
night, her mother's glad tears upon
her cheek, her shoulder warm from
her dad's hard hug. She went to work
Monday morning as 'usual. Her em
ployer 'never even' knew she had been
away.
"At an expense of exactly -one dol
lars-breakfast and cairfares," grinned
Captain Williams, telling me the story
as we Rat ip big pfflfce atiheadpuartera,
"Minnie Barnell' was' cured 6t the
obsession that made her wretched at
home! IPs amazing how easily the
human mind unklnks itself as sood
as it* has the least normal outlet Min
nie wanted to see life.' New York
represented 'life to her."
A^(i TreeMor Ahplanes.
The apical .fit the ferial Le*gue$|l
the British empire to landowners to
offer their' hsh trees for aeronautical
.purposes, haa resulted in between three
"and"
four Htousahd trees being Jl$Pei
within the last few weeks, according
to Flight The government require
ments in the next 12 months are ex
pected to exceed 200/100 trees.
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WOULD HANG ON TO QUARTER
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Negro Wa% Determined to Have Some
thing by Which He Could Remem
ber President's GMft.
It occurred when Mr. Taft was pres
ident. He was in Augusta, Ga., and a
barbecue was to be given In his honor
at Mr. C. 3. Bottler's country place,
Mr. Taft was expected to be on hand
at a certain hour. Tlie roads wen
misleading, and fearing to be late he
ha0e th$ ^hauffeftr, stop jmd Imrate*
dlfectiona of negob man who
trudged along. "Can you tell me where
Mr. Bottler's place tor asked the
president
"Yes, sir, I kin, cayse I works dar
myself.". The way as pointed out was
somewhat vaguer so Mr. Taft told the
old man to Jump In by the side of the
chauffeur and act as guide. Upon ar
riving at Mr. Bottler's home, Mr.
Taft gave the old man a 60-cent piece,
Mr. Bohler, afterward hearing of (he
Incident, called the recipient saying:
"Uncle Tom, I hear the president
gave you fifty cents. You ought to
prize that and keep It always as a sou
venir."
"I sho will do dat" the old negro
replied.
A few weeks later Mr. Bohler In
quired of Uncle Tom if he still had
the SO cents.
"I tell you how It was, boss," an
swered the old negro. "I got In a Hgfcf
place and I had to gtt dat mooejt
changed. I spent one quarter, but Tin
a gwlne £o keep dat uddier quarter sho
as I live."
WHAT GREAT WARS HAVE COST,
Expenditures That in the Aggregate
Amount to Sum Sufficient to
:"Stagger• Humanity." ..
Recently the congress of the Italted
States passed, almost without.:debate
the greatest, budget-in. the history Rf
the-world,..making.available for-UacIs
Sam $7,000,000,000 in order Jo cflfry^pil
the war on a scale commensurate wltb
its greatness. It is interesting, there
fore, to compare with this the coat oi
other wars. The Napoleonic
which raged over Europe from 1793 tfl
1815, cost approximately $7,000,000,00^
or the same amount that congress "pre
vl(lcl for the United States to entei
into the conflict, and that was only
beginning.
Tlio Mexican war cost the United
States aliout $100,000,000, a coniparai
tively trifling sum. The Civil war
however, was a very expensive affair,
entailing the expenditure of $8,000,
000.000 from 1861 to 1805. The Franco
Prussian war cost the two nations en?
gaged about $3,500,000,000. The second
Sonth African war, from 1000 to 190$
cost $1,500.000,000. the conflict between
Russia and Japan consumed nlmosl
$4,000,000,000, while the United State*
got- off very cheaply In the Spanlshi
American war with an expenditure oi
$175,000,000. The estimates on the onto
lay for the present war up to Octobel
1 of this year were $98.814,875,000.—
Rocky Mountain News.
Warship Repairs.
Over and above the great activity
of the British yards In building new
warships, particularly destroyers, an{
the construction of merchant ships, U|
enormous amount of time and laboi
has to be devoted to repairs. Inars
cent speech Sir Eric Geddes said)
"During one month the number of wat
vessels which needed repairs wal
nearly 1,000—that la. tn addition to th
1,100 merchant ships—and that was bj
no means an abnormal month. Slnc
the beginning of the war 81,000 wal
vessels. Including patrol craft aflq
mine sweepers, have been docked 01
placed on the ways, and these figure*
do not Include repair work done to th
vessels of our alUeo."
Add to this the arming of the vmI
fleet of British merchant vessels, aM
we have some conception of the enon
mous task of shipbuilding, equlppla|
and repairing carried on by the BrtUal
admiralty.
Tractor* for Cultivation of Rloa.
The French government of
China has become Interested In th^
employment of caterpillar tractors
the cultivation of rice. On Sept
29, 1917, a 45 horse power track
chine valued at more than $5,900 Unltj
ed States currency, was purchased teiej
graphically. If the experiment is net
cessfnl, larger orders will follow. Bvi
erythlng depends upon whether th^
tractor can operate in the soft rice-pad^
dy fields of Cochin China.
Tokyo Grows in Importance.
The prosperity of Greater Tokyd
City is shown by the increased taxe4
qver last year, the average being Si
per cent. In the eight tax-collection
districts the total exceeds 99.000,000
yen .($49,500,000) the rates of in*
crease vary from 9% per cent in ithq
Yotsuya district to SO per cent the
Ryogoku-and 72 percent.in the Yeital
distrlctsr where the offices- and-resty
d.ences of the narlkin are located.
Why" H'e^Wae '"Short
"This man says you owe him money.
9am," said the Judge.
"Dat's right. Judge, I does." .'.
"Well, why don't you pay himf*
"Why, I hain't got nothin't' pay M»n
wtv, judge." ,,w
"Well,, why haven't youj"
"To tgll dfy hones' truf, fort go.
'spects my wife nas felled down oa do
job!"
No Wonder.
"I called' Sttrith a^hardf native Just
now,"
"He doesn't seem to be displeased."
"Why should ha bo? I told hla
was a brick." I