The Celina Democrat., September 07, 1917, Image 2

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THE CELINA DEMOCRAT, CELINA, OHIO
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Just How One Washingtonian "Landed" Army Job
WASHINGTON. The news columns carry the story of HIH Dearden going
to France to be Pershing's secretary; uud thereat probably thousands of
young men wondered what manner of man litll Dearden Is and how he came
to Ret the Job, Here 18 the utory:
IUII bus been secretary to Repre
sentative Samuel K. VVlnslow of Mas
nuchusetts ever since Wlnslow came to
congress. In addition to doing Ids con
gressional worlc thoroughly and wVU,
looking out for constituents by the
dozen, answering letters, landing Jobs
for Massachusetts college nieu, and all
that, he has been quietly writing a lot
'of interesting magazine stuff. So you
jftee Pershing's new secretary Isn't a
lloafer. When the war broke out. Bill
found himself getting Massachusetts men Into the army as fast as they
'turned up. He had little trouble In mediating for them and they went In.
Well, after Bill had shoved scores of men Into the army, he sat down and
took stock of himself. He found he was a bit over age and a bit over
weight, hut that his disposition was. Just right. He wanted to find a nook
for himself In that big military machine, and set about finding It.
The first thing thut turned up was the army need for field clerks. That's
where BUI thought he would shine. He dfdu't wait to find out what It paid,
or whether It paid anythmg. He just took a car to the war department and
handed in his card:
"I am Representative Wlnslow's secretary. I am familiar with all office
wink. My chief pays me such and such a sum over and above the regular
iBliownnce for congressional secretary work."
"Step Inside," said the officer.
That night I met Bill downtown, In the worst fitting and heaviest army
uniform ever made, I do believe. But BUI was satisfied. He had found the
iright niche.
And later, when the army really found out that Bill Dearden has a
i record of unbroken excellence at the house office building It sent hlra to
General Pershing as the best thing yet discovered In the army field clerk line.
And so It was that BUI Deardeu, who had been working political and
departmental pull for everybody that asked him for it, fell Into a remarkably
good army Job himself, without the slightest kind of influence.
Surely There Is a Destiny That Rules Our Ends
THERE have always been women and women. There always will be. One,
for this instauce, Is a plain soul, as like as a match to all the other plain
'8ouIs you see going around alone not being the 6ort of matches that are
made In heaven. Still, the cheapest
still, she ought to have peaches. And as she turned a corner she bumped Into
an oll, old woman who was carrying a basket and talking to herself, as old
wmen will. Also, old men. Naturally, the plain soul apologized, and, equally
natural, the old woman was only too thankful to be Jostled for the sake of
voicing her wall.
She had taken home the clean wash, all tucksd under oilcloth to keep it
dry, and the lady said she couldn't break a bill tonight, and being as it was
so far to come, phe had better take the soiled clothes back with her and she
would pay for both washes next week.
"She always does me that way and I told her my daughter was 111 in her
bed and that I had to buy milk for her baby. But she wouldn't give me my
money. And I said my beads all the way going, and the Blessed Mother
she didn't help me either "
It takes very little to tide over needs sealed to the income of a wash
basket, so that was all there was to that, but
As the plain soul went back to where she belonged almost forgetting to
go to the staud around the corner to buy four peaches for ten cents she said
to herself:
"I wonder If I was sent out to help?
"I wonder who sent me?"
Women Workers in Big Demand at Washington
THERE'S as much hustle and bustle here when the departments quit work
as there Is in an industrial city when the six o'clock whistle blows. Only
It doesn't happen at six o'clock here, but nn hour and a half sooner. And a
good many of the thousands of clerks
who make their way homewards at
that time are required to come back
after supper beg pardon, after din
ner. For Uncle Sntn Is working them
hard these days. In spite of the addi
tions, there is yet too much work to go
around.
There's another thing that has
been in evidence ever since the boom
began. Of the residence contingent,
men re beginning to disappear from
their usunl haunts. Private employ-
in 'lit of more lucrative character than the government afforded them has
suddenly been thrown open to them. Men have been going into the array,
into the reserve camps, Into the navy, into other occupations directly related
to war activities. Their places must be filled. The civil service examina
tions have been taken by hosts of American women here and elsewhere, by
luany women who never cared to be called Into service, at least by very many
who never expected to be called into competition with the best talent in their
respective cities. But now the call Is no longer only for the best. The
demand for clerks, typewriters and stenographers is so great that those who
pass with a fair average are certain to be invited to hil- positions no
longer at $600 or $700 a year entrance salary, but nt $1,000. W here formerly
the bureau chiefs would accept only those who passed with something over'
00, they are satisfied with those who go to 80, and they are not adamant in
that particular, either.
Goats Calmly Browse on Streets of the Capital
GOATS still graze in Washington, and for many days this summer two
species of the family Capra hlrous that being the highly proper family
ame for plain goat have been enjoying the herbage on a green plot on upper
Sixteenth street. Many comments
made about the Harlem goats and their strange appetites have passed away.
The goats on Sixteenth street have taken possession of the large piece of va
cant land on (he west side of Sixteenth street between Fuller street and Colum
bia street. They browse calmly and deliberately across the street from the great
house In which Balfour and other members of the British commission to the
United Slates hud headquarters, and quite near the French embassy, the
Spanish embassy, the marble house of Mrs. Marshall Field and the new build
ing that Is being erected as the Cuban legation.
ODDS AND ENDS
With a vaccine of his invention
agulwt hydrophobia an Italian scien
tist has saved about 09 per cent of his
human patients and even has cured
Tabid dogs.
In the Olnnt Forest, which is a ta
bleland about two miles in diameter,
are trees snld by experts to be 4,000
years old. One of them, the largest in
the world, hus a circumference at Its
base of 209 feet and towers 279.9 feet
Into tim air.
2l HI
blue head carries its hidden soul of
fire, which compensates.
The other evening, for one time,
she had come out of an nil-day storm
Into the friendliness of a lamp that
she lighting, with every sense of be
ing in for the night, when It suddenly
occurred to her that she had forgotten
to buy peaches for her breakfast and
must go out at once and get them.
Not after a while. Now. She didn't
want to go back In all thnt weather
have been made on the presence of
these goats, but they have browsed on
without interruption, apparently un
conscious of or unconcerned at the at
tention they attract.
Once upon a time goats were more
numerous in the city than they are
now, and those that still dwell among
us are usually seen In the outlying
pnrts of the city. The goat seems to
have lost favor as a domestic animal,
and even the jokes that used to be
Nearly 8,000 loaves of bread a day
are turned out by an electric oven In
a Toronto bakery.
A carriage has been invented to sup
port one end of a large saw so tUtt
one man can handle it.
A Callfornian has patented a ham
mer to which nails are fed from paper
strips, enabling a man to nail liUis
at many times his usual speed.
For sprinkling floors of buildings,
lawns or streets a one-man wheeled
tank has been Invented, from which
the water Is forced by compressed air.
cm
ir Care aid CuMvatioiv S?
A fP&i&W 4 X I I I U
NATIVE BULBS
By LIMA R. ROSE.
Ton would nor think one could find
faough native bulbs to slock n gurden,
but every year I discover some new
ones and have high hope for future re
searches. The first thing that opens in my
wild garden Is the iris. Our mountain
sides are covered with it In the spring,
! and the flower stalks on the mountain
are seldom more than seven or eight
Inches high, but mine are much taller
nnd the purple flowers very much
larger.
Dog-tooth violet comes next, and Is
one of my prime favorites. I departed
from my usual rule and planted the
bulbs In a large jar, which was sunk
In the earth and filled with a rich soil
of creek loam, leaf mold and fertilizer
from the burn. The flowers are much
larger than those I found growing by
the brook two years ago. The leaves
are very tiandsome, rich, dark green,
mottled curiously with dark brown
and white. The flower Is a clear lemon
yellow tinge, with recurved petals
about two inches long and durk brown
stamens.
Besides white and yellow water
lilies, I have two others that are na
tives. One, a delicate little white
beauty, that is called the "fairy lily,"
the other larger, blooming In early
spring and sending up a leafless flower
stalk. It Is also white In color.
My wake-robins and lady slippers
also come on early, in colors pink,
white, pale yellow and rich purple.
The violet wood sorrel Is quite as
pretty as its haughty greenhouse kins
folk, its flowers being of a deep violet
color instead of reddish purple, nnd Its
leaves dark green with a deep choco
late zone.
I have sometimes succeeded In get
ting the anemone to grow, but one va
riety only likes me well enough to
live through the winter. Buttercups
grow for me without any trouble, and
I have some queer little bulbs which
the colored folks call "Adam and Eve."
They have no bloom but the dark
green leaves with maroon linings are
very pretty. The bulbs are pearly
white and look as If they might be
good to eat! If you put them In water
those that float are Adams and those
that sink are Eves 1
Over In his dark, damp den of a
corner, covered with wild clematis and
wild passion flower, looms up a giant
Jack-In-the-Pulplt. He scorns to be
called Indian turnip, and much pre
fers that you should note the resem
blance between his purplish-black and
yellow striped spathe and the queen
ly calla. In the late autumn when the
cloniatls festoons his pulpit with
cream-colored sprays, the spathe will
be gone and In its place will flame a
spike of scarlet berries.
PROPAGATING BY CUTTING
By W. R. GILBERT.
Where thousands of plants are grown
for positions" in the open air during
the summer, this Is an Important oper
ation from March onward. Consider
able forethought and knowledge of the
, . r W&4 if"
8plr.
Wffifflt
work are necessary to obtain the plants
In suitable condition aud In sufficient
numbers, when the time for plnatlng
out arrives.
Although decried by some, the scar
let geranium still has hosts of admir
ers, especially since the Introduction
of the variety Paul Crampel.
Cuttings of the varieties of which the
numbers are short can be inserted now.
These may be obtained from the old
plants lifted from the beds In the au
tumn, or a few tops may be taken off
the strongest of the young plants. In
serted In light, sandy soli they will
soon root on a shelf in a warm house.
Cuttings of ireslne, coleus, ageratum,
heliotrope, verbena, fuchsia, librou
rooted begonia, etc., when required in
quantity, should be Inserted in a bed of
sand made up in a propagating frame
with bottom heat. Three inches of
sand will be sufficient, and if this is
made firm, well supplied with water
and a bottom heat of 75 to SO degrees
maintained, many of the cuttings will
be rooted in a week and ready for pot
ting up singly in small pots.
Remaining iu the sand such a short
time, they can be dibbled In close to
gether. Lobelias, altermnntheras and mesem
bryuuthemums can also be increased
by the thousands in this way.
Provided there is good stock of old
plants on hand, March is soon enough
to commence propagating.
Early in February dahlia tubers, of
which a large stock is required, may be
brought into the propagating house,
placed on the stage, partly burying the
tubers in leaf mold, plenty of shoots
will soon push out. When these are
about three Inches in length they
should be tuken off with a slight heel
and If inserted In a sand bed they will
soon root. '
A list of the quantities of plants re
quired should be made and the num
bers entered ns they are rooted. This
may have much trouble when the time
comes for planting out.
PANSIES
Pansles
come into
when the
sown in midsummer will
bloom late in the season
weather Is cool and give
some very fine flowers.
, Probably His Best.
Lillian's father had been traveling
for his health and the little girl hadn't
seen him for a year. When he went
away he was thin and pale nnd wore
a Vandyke beard and a mustache. Lil
lian was called downstairs and looked
the big, clean-shaven man over shy
ly. When asked if she knew who it
was, she answered thoughtfully : "I
I think It's a friend of my papa's."
Let In the Sun.
A shuttered window does not put out
the sun, but it keeps It out. Discon
tent in a girl's heart does not change
the beauty and helpfulness there Is
all nbout her, but it keeps her from
discovering It. Open the shutters of
the soul's windows. It will not make
any difference to the sunshine, but It
will make all the difference In the
world to vou. Exchange.
Kind Fate
J
By George Elmer G)bb
(Copyright. 1U17, by W. O. Chapman.!
It was u pitiable situation, and the
two most Involved lu the sumo sat with
others on the rear platform of (he o!
scrvntlon car of the Overland Limited,
silently viewing the darkening land
scape. It had been a hot day and the
sleeping coach was close nnd stuny.
The train had been shunted on a Kill
ing near a wretched little hamlet,
their engine having broken down, and
the crew were awaiting the arrival of
a substitute locomotive.
"You will find Anlce no better, Ros
coe," spoke hln companion In a low
anxious tone. "Why do you go through
this ordeal twice each year, when she
has every care, every luxury that
mqney and affection can provide?"
"Because I hunger for the old-time
love," came the answer In accents of
deep emotion. "I enn nt least see
Anlce at a distance; I can feed my sor
rowing heart on the hope that some
day she will be restored to us."
"I fenr your hopes are baseless,"
murmured Eda Walters. "Anlce over
and over reviews the conviction that it
was your fault thr.t little Pearl was
drowned. Her love for you has grown
Into a perversion where she shrinks
with dread, almost hatred, at the mere
mention of your name."
It wns a snd tragedy. Roscoe Vnr
ner nnd his wife, Anlce, had led a
happy life for fifteen years, her sister,
Eda. living with them. Varner was
wealthy nnd life was one placid day of
sunshine and happiness. Pearl, their
only child, had gone with her father on
one of his business trips to a distant
city. One section of the route was on
a steamer line. Amid the riot and con
fusion of a sudden storm little Tenrl
had been swept overboard and
drowned. Her body wns recovered, but
her mother never saw the face of her
dear one again. When the dreadful
news reached Mrs. Vnrner she wns ut
terly crushed. For months she lay In
n fever nnd delirium. When she enme
back to life again her mind was a
"Brother, Quick," She Breathed Ex
citedly. wreck. Her physician reported his be
lief that she would never recover her
full reason nnd advised that she be re
moved permanently to some distant re
treat. An Isolated but beautiful estate
In California was purchased by her de
voted husband. Eda, the sister, became
her nurse and guardian.
From the first Mrs. Varner evinced
the deepest dislike for her husband. To
him she ascribed all the blame for the
loss of her little one. She seemed to
entertain a consuming hatred for him
whenever he wns In her presence, fly
ing into the most unreasonable pas
sion. The phj-slclnns declnred thnt
this delusion must be catered to.
Thenceforth, twice a year, when Eda
came East for a brief visit to her
parents, leaving her sister under com
petent enre, Varner accompanied her
bnck to the California home.
There he would linger about the
beautiful country place, never reveal
ing himself to the wife he Idolized, but
from careening shrubbery, or peering
through open windows he Would catch
vagrant glimpses of Anlce. Her mood
hnd changed to more quietude, but
there was not a dny thnt she did not
refer to her lost dnrllng.
"And he took her away, the mon
ster 1" she would rave. "He has hidden
her. He has given her to some new
mother he loves better than he does
me. Oh, cruel ! Cruel !"
This had been the mournful routine
of five long years. For the tenth time
Roscoe Varner was once more entered
upon the-hapless hegtra, to go back
to his lonely life In the Eastern city
nnd endure its wretchedness, only be
cause six months ahead he would again
see the wife to whom he dared not re
veal himself.
And now, though both these loyal
sonls never dreamed It, fnte was
weaving a strange crisis in the tragedy
that had wrecked their lives.
Two years previous a bright-eyed
beautiful girl of twelve had been
farmed out from an orphan's home to
Levi Gore, a man of fnmlly having a
small slovenly cared-for farm not more
thnn a mile from the railroad siding
where the Overland Limited wns now
stalled.. She had never known father
nor mother. She had never received
love or sympathy, though her longing
childish henrt crnved the same hun
grily. The Gores made a slave of her.
Mrs. Gore beat her. Upon that event
ful night, with a great stick the old
bnrrldnn had Ptarted to belnbor the
frightened child for some trivial re
missness. Wanda had fled. A big
brutnl son of the household was sent
to bring her back. The chase led
ft'
lownward. Exhausted, oesperai", lit
tie Wanda had reached Ihe ulifliiB. She
sprana up the steps of one of the car,
entered a deserted sleeping conch and
dodged behind the curtains of a made
up berth. There she lay, panting and
uncertain, and lapsed into slumber.
Within nn hour the train started up.
Miss Walters went to her berth, bid
ding her brother-in-law, who occupied
n section nt the end of the smile coach,
good night. With a strangely per
turbed face she came back to him ab
ruptly, "Brother, quick!" she breathed ex
citedly, "the strangest thing I Look,
oh. look !"
She had led Varner bnck to her berth
nnd opened tho curtains. The elec
tric reading lamnhnd been turned on.
Its rndlnnce flooded tho faco of 4lie
sleeping child. Roscoe Varner uttered
a shnrp cry.
"How like!" he gasped. "The sweet
dimpled chin, the golden hair oh,
Ednl It Is like a wraith from the past.
How enme she here?"
"I do not know. Poor, dear crea
ture! I will awuken her. Roscoe, If
you have the same thought as I myself,
then destiny may be kind to us."
Upon the mentality of both there hnd
flushed nn extrnordlnnry suggestion.
This child wns not unlike the lost one
If they could keep her, what might
not the effect be upon the bereft Mrs.
Varner! Gently Miss Walters nwoko
tho sleeping girl. There wns little dif
ficulty experienced In gleaning from
her the story of her past life.
One week later, n strange, n thrilling
scene wns enncted nt the beautiful
country home where Anlce Varner wns
to continue her Isolated life, but no
longer amid gloom nnd unlmpplness.
When It wns decided by Vnrner nnd
Miss Walters that they could do ns
they chose with Wnndn, they armnged
for her to continue the journey with
them. At their terminus, they were
pleased nnd astonished to realize how
fully the bright wistful little creature
could be Influenced ,to nsslst them In
coming Into the life of Mrs. Vnrner
ns the restored child who hnd been
drowned. The henrt longing of the
lonely cnstnwny made her cling to
these new good friends with nrdor nnd
delight, glnd nnd willing to follow out
their every bidding.
It wns nil arranged how Miss Wnl
ters should lend her sister to n spot
where, In a rustle nrbor, Vnrner should
be sented, Wnndn upon his knee, he
rending to her from n book. The
stnrtllng confrontation for a moment
bewildered the Invnlld. Then she
rushed forwnrd In the wildest Joy.
"Oh, my husband ! you hnve brought
bnck our lost one. Penrl ! Pearl !" nnd,
c'nsplng Wanda In her nrms, Mrs. Var
ner fainted nwny.
She awoke to bosrln n new life, with
only one reigning thought In her mind
to nil day long wnnder nbout the
benutlful home spot, content only
when Vnrner or Wnndn were with her.
They never told her the truth. It
wns merelfnl to nllow her to believe
thnt Wnndn wns really her lost Penrl.
And Wanda never made tbe least mis
step calculated to undeceive her ah !
too fervently she cherished this new
mother love, thnt glorified her life with
perpetnnl serenity nnd hnpnlness.
STREET BUILT OVER RIVER
Stream Boarded Over to Make High
way Because It Was Only Spot
Level Enough for Purpose.
The Slocan Is the nnme given to the
picturesque mining district of south
western Canada, that has known the
romnnce of n big boom, the slow trng
edy of decline nnd desertion, nnd the
pulse of renewed prosperity nnd ac
tivity, nil within the memory of men
still young enough for military serv
ice. Twenty years ago the rush wns
on, nnd nil the mad scramble nnd lnv
Ish spending of Lendvllle nnd the Klon
dike were being re-enacted in Kaslo
nnd Nelson nnd Sandon nnd the rest
of the little mining enmps. In Sandon
they boarded over the river to mnke
the single city street, becnuse the can
yon walls were too steep to lay it any
where else. Knslo grew overnight Into
a budding metropolis.
The drop In sliver spelled temporary
disaster to the Slocan, nnd men who
were too Impatient to do with less
thnn the hope of a fortune a week
poured out ns fast ns they had rushed
In. They left many a deep-burled low
grade ore vein behind them for the
patient and methodical work of some
powerful syndicate to open up and ex
ploit. They threw aside as not worth
bothering. with the zinc ores that the
war has almost classed among the pre
cious metals. So the future of the
Slocan district may yet be as pros
perous and a good deal more solidly
founded than Its past.
Credit Claimed for Negro.
It was a wandering negro minstrel
who wrote "Listen to the Mocking
Bird." That Is, this is the claim of
negro investigators. The understand
ing of the white race is thnt the author
of the song, which, because of its long
popularity may be said to be estab
lished as a great song, was Septimus
Winner. The claim of the negro au
thorities Is that the composer of the
song was George Melburn, and that It
was set to music by Septimus Winner,
a white man, who, according to the
negro year book, "got the credit and
the financial profits."
Bees' Eyesight.
Odor Is given flowers to attract In
sects, It may be, but bright colors are
not, ns It Is conceded that Insects are
very near-sighted und can make cut
objects clearly but six feet away, nnd
scientists state -that bees, Wasps nnd
hornets can see but two feet clearly.
When a boy the writer knows they
could see his two feet clearly at least
a hundred feet away, also the remain
der of his body was clearly discerned
at the same "respectable" distance
Exchange. A Suggestion.
"They want some particularly strike
lng features to introduce in our so
ciety minstrel show."
'Why not hnve a few skeletons out
of closets to rattle their bones?"
An Addition.
' "Do you like songs without words?"
"Tes, and I would like them still
more if they could only be given by
voiceless singers."
SOME QUEER RENTS
One Man Sends King George al
Bucket of Snow Yearly.
Another Gives British Ruler Bowl of
Porridge for Use of Great Estate
City of London Contribute
Two Pieces of Firewood.
On Juno 8, the date of Waterloo,
Ihe Duke of Wellington paid King
(eorge Ihe runt for Strathfleldsaye,
the estate presented to the Iron Duke
for bis great victory. The "rent," duly
entered in the king's rent book, Is a
miniature napoleonlc standard, which
will rest for a year In the guard room
at Windsor above the bust of Welling
ton. The owner of the Foulls estate In
Scotland pays rent to the king for
these lands by sending hi in a bucket
ful of snow every year, says London
Tlt-Blts. As Ben Nevis, the highest
mountain In Britain, Is handy, nnd as
snow lies on It sometimes the whole
year round, and always well Into sum
mer, a small bucketful can generally
be obtained ! Doubtless the king might
have more If he wanted It, but this
last winter, at least, he has had ns
much ns he wants nearer home!
On the other hand, (he tenant of
Crendon, In Bucks, has to send a gar
land of roses to the king as rent for
his estate every year. Doubtless he
does the thing well roses piled up
and running over. It Is more thnn
probable that the queen looks forward
to this rose rent day!
' The lord of the mnnor of Addlngton
has one of the most comical rents of
all to pay to our genial king, nnd If the
king ever looks down his rent roll he
must he hugely tickled, especially In
Jhese days of food shortnge. The rent
Is a bowl of jMirridge. As the king Is
said not to appreciate porridge, per
haps the rent Is winked at!
The holder of the Corbet estates un
dertakes to provide the king with a
flitch of bacon during the whole time
he Is leading his troops In person. He
has thus escaped rent since George
II led at Dettlngen, for, though doubt
less George IV would gladly lead his
armies to battle, he knows It to be fur
wiser to lenve It to the experts.
A short time ngo the king's stock of
fuel wns Increased by the addition of
two faggots. These came from the
corporation of London as rent for cer
tain lands. The city remembrancer
had duly to attend at the law courts
with the faggots und get a quit-receipt
for them.
Kut the funniest of nil rents on the
king's rent book Is the one which In
sists on the holders of certain lands
down Dover way holding the king's
head when he Is seasick ! As King
George, like bis great-uncle, William
IV., Is a sailor king, and has traveled
farther, by thousands of miles, than
any monarch either of this or any
other age, It Is not likely that he
will call on anybody to pay this curi
ous rent.
Respect the Flag.
Proper use of the United States flag
means much to American patriotism.
Never let the flag touch the ground.
Fold It carefully whenever It Is taken
down. Never knot, tie, or crumple It.
Never hoist the flag before sunrise or
after eight o'clock In the morning.
Take it down at sunset, also during
storms. Outdoors, It should be hung
from a pole, if possible, at least so that
It can wave. When flying with other
emblems, the Hag should be placed to
the right.
Fly the ling nt half-mast only to In
dicate mourning for the death of a dis
tinguished public person. When fly
ing tbe flag at half-mast, first raise it
to the top of the pole. When the flag
is formally raised, each person present
should stand at attention with hand
raised to forehead waiting for the
salute.
Six Days From Tree to House.
At Camp Taylor, near Louisville,
one of the administration buildings is
said to have been built partly of lum
ber cut from a Mississippi pine forest
,less than a week before. The trees
were felled and went through the mill
Saturday, were kilndrled Sunday,
loaded Monday on special cars com
mnndeered by the government, rshed
to Louisville at almost passenger
schedule time, and when the carpen
ters at Camp Taylor laid down their
tools nt the end of work the following
Saturday men were moving desks and
other office paraphernalia Into a house
which had been part of the forest six
days previously.
Internationally Known Americana.
"Forty years ngo," says President
Butler of Columbia university in the
Youth's Companion, "you could counb
on the fingers of one hnud those
Americans who had nn international
reputation of any sort for scholarly
endeavor. Today the number of such
Americans Is very considerable. The
price that hns been paid for that gain,
calculated in terms of personality, of
breadth of view, of deep human sym
pathy and of genuine wisdom, has
been rather high. It is my own belief
that this phenomenon Is, however,
purely temporary."
Largest American Flag.
The city of St. Louis, Mo., possesses
the largest American flng in existence,
as far as is known. It Is 150 feet long
and 78 feet wide. Each of the thir
teen stripes Is 6 feet wide. Imagine
ii plot of ground containing 11,700
"liinre feet almost one-quarter of an
acre nnd you will have nn idea of the
size of the flag. When used in parades
it requires 200 people to enrry It. But
on account of its great width it ennnot
be carried through many of the streets
of the city. Popular Science Mouthly.
Frenchman a Soldier at Eighty-One.
The French army probably contains
the oldest soldier in the world in the
person of one Montsarrat, who ia
tlghty-one years old. He was for more
than two years In captivity,-having
been taken at Lille by the Germans,
'who decided that he was harmless, and
liberated him. As soon as he arrived
in Paris, however, he enlisted, and ia
noxious to seek vengenuee.
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