The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 24, 1917, Page 4

FOUR BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1917. Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. ____D,, as Second Class Matter. ISSUED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY ®BUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE $ 60 Dally, by carrier, rer month. Daily, by nail, per year.. 4.00 Dally; by mail in North Dakota, Daily, by mail ‘outside of North akota, one year -. 6.00 Deily, by mall outside | th Dakota, three months Weekly, by mail, per year. G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Special Foreign Representative MEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bidg.; BOSTON, & Winter Bt.; DETROIT, Kresge Bldg.; MINNE- APOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member Audit B ; STATE'S OLDEST Be Beare ablished 1873) WSPAPER | WEATHER REPORT for 24 hours ending at noon Aug. Temperature at 7 a m.. Temperature at noon.. Highest yesterday ... 76 Lowest yesterday ..... Lowest last night.. 50 Precipitation Highest wind velocity. Forecast for North Dakota: Fair tonight and Saturday; somewhat warmer tonight. Lowest Temperatures 2 Fargo .. Williston 46 Grand Forks 49 Pierre ..... 50 St. Paul . 3 Winnipeg 44 Helena 12 Chicago 60 Swift Curr 44 K 5 60 San Franc 56 BERTS, ORRIS V Tt will not at meeting and sinners % where el ‘Beecher. SEE ey do to be PRICE STILL OPEN. The $1.65 a bushel credited as the ion of Herbert C. Hoover turns out to be a fiction. H. A. Garfield, chairman of the price fixing commis- sion, wires Treadwell Twichell as fol- lows: “Report absolutely without founda- tion. An equitable price for farmers will be recommended by committee, which includes five practical farmers in its membership and which is con- sidering all factors you have men: | tioned, including the fact that the country is at war. Personally, | have not advocated any price, but am keep-| ing mind open until our investigations are completed.” It is now up to Congressmen Young and Norton and Senator Gronna to ex- plain to the farmers of North Dakota their authority for stating that Mr Hoover intended to confiscate the; grain of the tillers of the soil The Tribune felt from the first that the government's attitude toward the agricultural int Ss was misrepre- sented. It has insisted that the price should be in ex of $2 and urged the farmers to send in telegrams of protest against fixing the price at $1.65. bs Undoubtedly the agitation did no harm, but if North Dakota’s represen- tatives, with the exception of Senator McCumber, misrepresented Hoover's attitude, each and everyone owes the farmers of this state an apology. Mr. Garfield states definitely that no price has been fixed. Congress+ man Young wired the Fargo Com- mercial club that if Hoover has his way the price will be $1.65 a| bushel. This raises an issue of ver-| acity between Hoover, Young and Gar- field. If Congressman Young cried, wolf when there was no wolf, he has placed the commercial interests of the state in a ridiculous position The farmer is entitled to more than the price Hoover is reported to have} fixed, but there is not a scintilla of} evidence that Hoover ever suggested a price of $1.65. Senator Gronna has opposed Hoover and all war measures, and doubtless saw insthe situation ey cellent material for political capital. Telegrams went to every Commer- cial club in the state urging them to Send in protests. Delegations poured into Washingion from Dakota points only to find out that no price had been fixed. Congressmen Young, Norton and Senator Gronna should give their proof without delay that Hoover de- sired to fiv the price at $1.65 It hes also been noised abroad that the grain exchanges wanted the price fixed at $1.65 and that Mr. Hoover has surrounded himself with grain gamblers whose only object was to rob the North Dakota farmer. develops that the Minneapolis Cham- ber of Commerce suggests a price of at least $: in Minneapolis. The entire agitation is fast assum- ing the proportions of a tempest in a tea-pot with Young, Norton and Gron- na holding the bag. administration puts itself definitely on record, it is poor judgment to hurl m and vituperation. It has become a favorite diversion | ha *| whole-hearted It now} Until the. food} into office. Gronna, Young and Nor ton, who are politicians first, last and all the time, probably saw an excel- lent opportunity for creating political capital. Now comes the reports trom Wash- ington that the battle '- 71 and the politicians are contending with the Commercial clubs of fargo and Grand) nd the Nonpartisan league for the credit of protecting the farmers against Hoover. No one can blame the commercial interests for being aroused, if the statement credited to Ifoover is true, but Gartield’s telegram to Twichell hes the fact that no ed upon. absolutely establi price had been agr Young, Gronna and Norton should now give the farmers proof of Hoov- er’s intention to fix the price at $1.65 That would only be fair. How is a large woman to dress on the new allowance of four and a half irt still look slen- yards per and der? EVASIONS OF GERMAN PRESS. It is indeed surprising that when editors of the German papers trapped that they immediately the defense that the articles ¢ in their columns are not correctly translated, but they never show any to furnish a translation, ion of the damnable propa- ganda being secretly carried on through the columns of the enemy Janguage press of the Slope. The Tribune has had the assistance arned in the German lan- guage to translate some of the viper- ous things, which, if short of treason, are highly seditious and unpatriotic. Kach time translations have been pub- lished, the German pre: ists the translations were incorre ‘, but there never been any offer to furnish any other translation. It is a well known fact that the Ger- man press of the nation, with but few exceptions, are not assisting this na- tion in the conduct of the war against Prussianism. Nowhere is there that willingne: one indic of one | support love of America, but the covert admiration of the German system which continues to slaughter Americans on the high seas and upon which we are now openly making war. ‘Lhe government acts slowly, but be- fore the war goes much longer, every German newspaper will be compelled to publish the English equivalent of all it prints in the enemy language, or else cease publication. Those who admire German kultur should ask for their passports and live under the flag of the nation they love and whose acts they condone Abraham Simmer of Dubuque, called | recently to his reward, left $3,000 to an editor who conducted his paper honestly, which merely indicates that the veracious newspaperman is not} the dodo. as extinct a DECISIVE STAGE. The war has entered its stage. The last battle is now being fought—not in the trenches, not in the air, not under the sea, but right here in the United States. The war is to be decided by a final test of the relative fitness to survive of the German autocracy and the American democracy. If the American democracy proyes the moral equal of the German auto decisive y in the fundamental quality which kes a nation it will win. That i ra mi the quality of “stick to- or team work. gether’ No social or national organization that lacks this quality can live. It may excel in all other virtues. Its people may be marvels of industrial, scientific or artistic attainment. They] may be individually superior to their foes. Their system of government may be a thousand times more liberal or en- lightened—but if the people prove in- capable of burying their individual in- terests to marshal all their energies in support of the nation in time of peril, the nation will become the vas- sal of any nation which can do that. Germany has to date demonstrated the supreme quality of “team work.” All else has failed her—her mighty guns, her perfect armies, her subma- rines, her wonderful industrial mobi- zation. The war is a draw on the battle fields, in the fields and shops. The all superior resources are bound to win—if their “morale” equals; Germany's The war has now entered a spirit: | ual stage. at is a staying match be- tween German social and national ef- ficiency and American social and na- tional efficiency. The others do not count. have They also hot their bolt and failed to win. They cannot defeat Germany without u nd would not have had a chance if we had not been forced into the war. It is up to the American people—the| people at home. ‘The boys at the! front will do their part. If we fail, then we deserve to lose. We deserve to be the slaves of the German winners. And we will be. We may maintain for some time a | few of the forms of freedom. \Ve may maintain the sort of “democracy” the pacif and non-resisters rave about, to saddle the farmer for a joy-ride when urged to sacruice a few of their 5). have By THE TRIBUNE'S fILITARY EXPERT, President Wi order naming 148 new division and brigade gene completes the preparatioa for training B America’s new national army. With the junior officers’ graduation from ining camps, it turns the United States inte ~ veal military power. Germany thought we wer? bluffing, called us, and finds we hold the hand. When we wert to war our total armed forces were 332,000 men. Today we have 820,000. And we tramed the men who will train the next million. America has performed the most gigantic feat of military preparedness in his It has made strides believ- im sidle in, putting effective force against the Teutons, In April the regular army consisted of 131,48) off and men; officers reserve corps, 2,009; ‘tha national guard 123,605 the navy 62,000; the marine corps 1,000, and there were les sthan 10,000 naval militiamen. The AR APRIL 1917 Was Uncle Sam Blufting? — Here’s. Story of Army’s Great Growth FORCE ARMY 131481 | REGULARS 293.000 -\NATGUARD 123GO5 © |NATGUARD 300.000 NAVY 62000 |USNAVY (97000 MARINES 15000 . | MARINES _30.000 TOTAL 332086 TOTAL - 620,000 total forces numbered 322,000. The rogular army: and the national guard were cvdered: recruited to war strength—the army~'to 000 men, the Guard to 329,984, a total of 622, 954. The regulars reached their quota in August, having added 131,481 men in four months. The national guard, mu: tered into federal service August numbered ‘approximately 300,000 men, and recruiting continues in ‘organiza- tions not filled. The navy, finally ordered to recruit up to 197,000, and the marine corps, 000 to 20,000 men, completed their quotas. 4 Five months ‘after the declaration of war, therefore, approximately $20,-; 000 fighting men of all branches are under arms. More than one-third of the 687,000 men in the first quota of the new na- tional army have |een passed. Be- fore October all will’ be in camp. The men who will train them have been se- lected in officers’. training camps. precious peacetime privileges and “rights” to save the country. But if Germany wins the American demo cy will have proved to be a democracy of rabbits or sheep. In a world full of wolf hounds the ultimate destiny of such a people is not a guessing matter. China and Hindustan afford some interesting studies of such peoples. Now that the political dust has cleared away, it is assured that no price has been fixed for wheat and that none even was tentatively agreed upon. WHY WORK? (Life has two lessons which every man and woman must learn—if not today, tomorrow. The first is the necessity of work- ing, imposed on us all. Of the*two lessons this usually is the easier to master. We live in material bodies that must be fed and clothed and sheltered And somewhere between childhood and maturity it dawns on us that food, raiment and shelter can be had only in exchange for effort. In some de- gree even the corner loafer and the parasite of inherited wealth master the first of life’s two lessons—salva- tion in work. How is it then that many men whose work giv: tisfaction find for themselves no satisfaction? Perhaps they long for a better job, wider op- portunity and greater reward. And when this longing is balked they pro- claim the world unfair. And in their complaint there is oft- en much justice. Desert is not always rewarded. task over and over again is truly mo- notonous. Men should not work sim- ply to work, but rather to develop. Yet even so there is satisfaction in work if one has learned the second of two lessons life teaches. It this, that man works not for himself as he supposes in the first blush of his discovery of work's neces- ty. Work for sel mut a step in achievement of the saving grace that lies in effort. Give to a man all the reward and recognition he craves and if he works for self alone, he will find himself still working to work and not to live. The big thing to know is that all things are one and that for ourselves we work only as we are parts of the universal unity. This is the secret of finding salva- tion in work—service. “Premiers may come and premiers may go, but we go on forever,” said the kaiser to the Austrian emperor when he heard Esterhazy had quit. But the Austrian emperor only shook his head sadly. The doing of the old, old}? “CONTRABAND” A Romance of the North Atlantic by RANDALL PARRISH Author of “My Lady of. the North,” aid of the Forest,” etc. SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER |.—Robert. Hollis, one time sea capiain, who tells the story, is a guest on. Gerald. Carrington’s yacht, Esmeralda. It is supposed to be a “stag” party and Hollis is sur- prised on discovering a woman, who evidently wishes to remain unknown, aboard. CHAPTER II—Hollis, the next Wight, succeeds in having an interview vith the woman. She n+ tells m1 her name is Vera. CHAPTER II—Cdrring + his guests of the coming>-war, . .d that @ is engineering a copper por. CHAPTER IV—The yacht is sunk in a collision and Woliis saves Me- Cann, millionaire, and one of the par- ty. CHAPTER V——Hollis and. McCann rescue Vera and leave. the. ship in a smali ‘boat. | BK. CHAPTER VI—Hollis and ‘Vera be- come friendly, though he is unaware of her igentity. i CHAPTER VII—-McCann refuses to submit to Hollis’ authority, and the « enforces it. t.:APTER VIII—The castaways are d by a ship, the ‘Indian Chief, nich takes them aboard. CHAPTER IX—The Indian Chief| has recently been struck by lightning and is almost a wreck, All the offi- cers are dead. ‘Hollis meets the own- er, who félls him the vessel has a cargo of ammunition, consigned to the German government. OHAPTER X--Hollis, consents to} take charge of ship and continue voy- Vera recognizes an old friend in Robert Bascom, owner of the Indian Chief. Bascom and McCann are dead- ly enemies: CHAPTER XI—Some dissatisfaction among the crew ugickly develops, and Hollis selects his of ers. i CHAPTER -XIL. The Crew Grow Ugly. For a moment I remained forgetful of the presence of the girl-on: deck. There was but one course to pursue— at the very first evidence of disobedi- ence I must assert ‘full authority. There must be no hesitation, no sign of weakness. Even as this crystallized In my own mind, the girl's hand touched the sleeve of my jacket. “Supper Is ready, Mr. Hollis,” she said. “Are you not coming down?” “Very shortly. I will have the men; knock off work, and leave the mate in| charge of the deck.” , “Wheat were you thinking about so earnestly? You actually forgot me.” I glanced aside into her eyes. “Not guilty, Miss Vera; I was think- ing of you, and of how I could get you safely out of this scrape. I do not say | this to frighten you, Miss Vera, only, | perhaps it is best for you to know the situation. The first thing necessary on this voyage Is to show those fellows AUGUST. IRST INCREMENT OF 1917 -Pershing in the 1918 spring drive can have 472,000 thoroughly trained and equipped men. By the end of March, the national army will have completed six months training. Brit- ish infantrymen now go to France af- ter sixteen weeks’ training, are test- ed eight days and sent to the trenches. If the allies require, we can throw into battle 500,000 addition- al troops the end of March—every one trained more than six months. —A million fully trained men for the next big offensive. April 21, 1917, the war department announced it had ample supplies for 00,000, with the exception of heavy ordnance and machine guns. These deficiencies have been met. By the end of November the first increment of the national army will be equipped. The rifle supply problem has been solved. * Yes, in a way Uncle Sam was bluff- ing. But the blnffer has bluffed the other bluffer! (Copyright A. C. McClurg & Co. The Girl’s Hand Touched the Sleeve of My Jacket. forward who ts master aboard, . But we've talked about it long enough now. I do not anticipate any locking of horns tonight for those lads will need to.dis- cuss plans among themselves first. Bascom will be waiting for you in the cabin, and I will join you presently.” I walked with her as far as the lad- der, and watched until she disappeared. Forward I could perceive little outside the glow of the lanterns in the radius of which black, grotesque figures con- stantly passed and repassed. Occasion- ally a voice sang out some command, the words scarcely distinguishable, “Mr, Leayord!”’ I sang out. “Aye, aye, sir.” “Let the men knock off work for the present, and send the second mate’s watch down for supper. You will take the deck, und it will be better to have another hand aft here at the wheel.’ “Very well, sir.” I waited until he clambered heavily up the ladder and joined me, his huge figure outlined against the gleam of the binnacle light. “I was pleased to see the way in which the crew took hold, Mr, Lea- yord,” I said quietly, “and that Olson set. them so good an example.” He crossed over to the rail and came back wiping his lips on his sleeve. “Olson is a good man, Mr, Hollis; you made no mistake when you chose him for second officer, but I never saw a-worse bunch of sea scum in any fo’- castle than we've got aboard here, sir. “They took hold, all right.” dazed yet; an’ fave lind no tfme’to talk: it over among themselves.” “We'll hear from them later, you think?” “Tomorrow, sir, ‘or perhaps to- night, as soon as they learn for sure the course we're steering. They are dead set against Humburg.” “Why Hamburg, Mr. Leayord?” “Well, sir, I don't just know myself, for I was the bosun, and the lads never talked to me very freely. From all I've heard, however, it’s largely caused by what that fat bloke yer brought aboard with yer kad to say about this dirty war breakin’ out. I don’t know the dutfer’s name, sir; but I hear he claims to be a millionaire, an’ is willin’ ter spend a lot o’ coin, just to be took back ter New York. Cookie told me that he and the guy that goes by the name of Liverpool had quite a talk.” “Liverpool Red—yes, I've heard of him; he’s ‘the men’s leader forward.” “Likely so; but there’s others of the same kidney. If I was you, sir, I'd have a talk with Olson when he come on deck again, He'll tell you more’n I can.” I stood silent a moment, staring out into the black void. ; “J gvesume, Mr. Leayord, I can con- fidently rely on your loyalty in case trouble develops?” “You sure can, sir.” “And Olson?” 2 “He'll face it like a man; and al- Whough Masters 1s a bit of a fool, I'a guessing he can be counted on in a@ pinch.” “Are there any others?” “That's hard to say, sir, offhand, I haven’t been shipmates with them, or with ary o’ this crew long enough yet to size ’em up; but there are a few men forward who don’t chum none with Liverpool’s crowd. Olson would know ‘em better than I.” “Well, the sooner we learn exactly how woe stand in this matter the better. I'll relfeve you as soon as I have a bite to eat.” In spite of its general dinginess of paint and furnishings, the main cabin had a look of coziness and comfort as I entered from the black gloom of the decks. Bascom and Miss Vera occu- Pied seats on one side, while Olson, washed and brushed into a state of rare discomfort, sat alone opposite. A slim, narrow-chested man, his weak mouth partiglly concealed by a strag- gling mustache, and who answered to the name of Dade, acted as steward, but the boy, Moon, was’doing most of the work. I drew out the single va- cant chair and sat down, “Well,” I said pleasantly, breaking the rather awkward silence, “I do not exactly know where we are going, but we ure on our way.” “The sea Is rising, I judge,” re- marked Bascom, “There is every promise of a rough night, but nothing to worry over. Dade, why did you set the table only for four? There is another passenger aboard.” “He has refused to mess aft, sir,” “Oh, he has! Well, possibly, I may have something to say as to that. . Did he give any reason?” Dade endeavored to hide a grin. “Not exactly, a reason, sir,” he answered softly, “but I took It from what he said that he was not overly proud o’ the way he wus marked up, sir.” I devoted a few minutes to the meal, but when Dade departed on an errand forward, decided I might just as well discuss the situation frankly, “IT am beginning to fear,” I said qul- etly, “that Mr. Fergus McCann intends to make us all the trouble possible, and is even now behind most of the dis- satisfaction on board. Do you know anything definite, Mr, Olson?” ‘The mate paused in his eating, with knife and fork uplifted. - “I had not heurd, sir, May I ask if he ts rich?” “Quite so; he was a guest on the yacht Esmeralda. Now that I have answered these questions, Mr. Olson,” and I stared into his rather emotion- less face intently, “perhaps you will be kind enough to answer mine.” “I would know what I talk,” he re- turned stubboruly. “He, this Mr. Me- Cann, he offers ten thousand dollars to be put back In New York.” “So that’s his game! Who brought the word forward?” “Cookie, I think, sir, I overheard Jim White say that Mr. McCann had belt on him with more’ mongy in it than they'd ever seen before in all their lives. The d—— fool—I beg your pardon, miss—didn’t know no more than to show it to’em. Why, the sight of it fairly drove them two wharf- rats crazy. “There's half a dozen men forward,” he went on slowly, “who would murder their grandfathers, sir, to get hold o' all that coin. The rest o’ the crew are decent enough fellows as sailormen go, but there’s liquor aboard yet, and all this ’ere war talk has scared ’em against continuing the voyaffe.” “McCann told them?” “He told Cookie an’ Liverpool, an’ they circulated the news. ’'Tis said we're chuck up with contraband, sir, an’ that If we're took, every man jack of us will be chucked into an English or French prison.” “You expect a mutiny, then, Mr. Ol- son?” © “I don’t know what'll stop it, sir,” he answered solemnly. “The men went aft ter sorter take ‘your measure, sir, and hear what it was you proposed do- ing. They ain't had no chance to git tergether an’ talk since, but it’s my notion theyre ripe enough for the job.” I looked him squarely in the eyes, “And how about you, Mr. Olson?” “Me, sir?” his lips grinned. “If 1 hadn't Intended for to stay with yer, sir, I never would ’a’ took the Job.” I reached out my hand, and our fin- gers locked. “Good; with both my officers loyal, we'll find a way out of this mess. Come with me into the captain’s stateroom, until we see what we can find there useful.” I disturbed things as little as pos- sible, leaving any necessary research into Captain Hadley’s private affairs “aye, for -the once: they’re.a hit to a_later.date, but_sought with some anxiety through ‘a roll of ‘nlaps ‘shoved behind. the chest, Olson holding.a lan; tern aloft, until I finally brought forth an old chart of the North Atlantic. We bent over this, outspread on the. deck between us, and Olson’s stubby fore- finger traced the prickings of two voy- ages around the Orkneys into the North sea. The chart revealed, also, although :in somewhat less detail, the German coastline. I.was fer from sat- isfied with this discovery, but nothing better could be hoped for. The total destruction of the charthouse forward mage this find a godsend indeed, and we were fortunate in the fact: that Captain Hadley -preserved his old maps. Bidding Olson relieve the first officer, I remained there alone for some minutes familiarizing myself with the two charts, and outlining in my mind the safest course to pursue. As I sat there the rising wind began to hurl rain against the, closed glass of the jport, and I could hear the splash of the drops on the deck overhead» An oiled cout, belonging to the skipper, hung dangling from a hook, and [ slipped it on, extinguishing the Nght before closing and locking the door. Leayord was alone at the table in the cabin, which had already been cleared of its dirtied dishes, I had advanced to the companion steps when his voice stopped me. “Captain,” he said in hoarse whis- per, “wus you planning to go forward alone?” “Certainly.” Leayord glanced about uneasily. “Well, I wouldn't, sir, if I was you— not tonight anyhow. The men are that ugly there’s no knowin’ what: might bappen, Do you carry a gun, sir?” “Why, no; I saw one there in a drawer of Captain Hadley’s desk. You think \he situation is as bad as that?” “Td go back and get it, sir,” he sald soberly, “an’ then keep to the after-| deck till daylight.” An instant I stood staring at the rain beating fiercely against the glass| of the companion, then turned back! to the stateroom I had just left, slipped the revolver out of the desk drawer Into my pocket, and re-entered the! cabin. I buttoned the.ollskin closely about my throat and stepped out on deck, the wind driving the rain full into my face, and, for the moment, blinding me (To be continued.) Done at Radcilffe. Daily theme by a ‘Radcliffe student: “Some men are born with an insight into the soul feminine, some men mar- Ty and achieve this .nsight, and some men correct girls’ themes and have this Insight thrust upon them.” Admiring comment by 2 Harvard student. strug- gling with his own daily: “Gosh! hut it takes a girl to write that sort of thing, don’t it?”—Christian Herald. RULE OF THUMB NAVIGATION New England Sailors Stick to Sextant and Care Little for New-Fangled | Nautical Instruments. Edward Hungerford, who made an investigation for Everybody's to find out where the men are coming from for our new merchant marine, relates some interesting incidents showing the New England sailors’ independence of new-fangled nautical instruments. “Ask them about navigation,” he writes, “and they will bring out, with loving care, the sextant that was father's or Uncle Jim's or, more likely, grand- father's or one of the great-uncle’s. They will point out the vernier scule upon its bright face and say to you— landlubber that you are: “‘She shoots the sun. With it we get the latitude. A chart and the lati- tude lead line and jedgement—jedg- ment counts—and we can get anywhere between the Bermudas and Green- land?’ ““How about the longitude?’ you venture, “*You certainly are a landlubber. The salt lets you know that, with a single glance.’ Then he shows com- passion and relates an anecdote: “There was a fellow sailing out of Gloucester and someone gave him a chronometer—that'’s the instrument the scientific fellows get the. longitude with. They explained it to him, an’ for three days he sailed by it—God knows where to. Then the dinged thing busts an’ he comes back to the sextant an’ gets to the banks only a little behind the rest of the fleet. But if that chronometer hadn't’ busted, by Judas Priest, stranger, he might have hit over in Portugal somewhere.’” ee A Good Listener. The horse is really one of the best listeners in the world. He ts always on the alert for sounds which concern or interest him, When he looks at anything he turns his ears towards it to observe the better whether any sound comes from it. If a horse is particularly interested in your. driving of him he always turns his ears back- ward toward you, but if he has no con- cern on that subject or if he sees any: thing ahead that interests him he keeps his ears pricked forward. A horse hears the whinny of another horse at a greater distance than the verage man can hear it—! Tan it.—Boston ee, No Clothespins In China. The American housewife carries around a big bag of clothespins every Monday. The Chinaman twists tw9 clotheslines together and thrusts ths corners of the washing between the two strands, where they are held as firmly as clothespin ever held them, says the “Christian Herald.” The in- troduction of clothespins will not help the Chinese, and even such revolution- izing products as the sewing machine, the electric light and the Phonograph, which give to Americans leisure, eve- ings of good reading and grand opera - at home, may mean longer hours of toil for the Chinese, or unwholesome Pleasures when the work is finished. omen. | |