The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 8, 1920, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE “SOLID STARK” AGAIN RESISTS LEAGUE EFFORT Remains in Independent Column’ by Good Majority in Election OTHER STATE REPORTS Dickinson, Nov. 8.—Despite the bit-} ter fight made by the league in the county during the closing weeks of the campaign “Solid Stark” remained | true to its traditions at the polls and | gave the entire fusion ticket a large} majority. L. R. Baird for state senator and ratio against all league candidates on Pius Kopp for representative defeat- ed their league opponents by an overwhelming majority while the ration against all league candidates on the county ticket was equally large and in some instances far more so. On the county ticket every league candidate was decisively defeated. In Taylor village not one of them re- ceived a vote. The race between John J. Reuter, Jr., and Frank X. Wanner for clerk of court was decid- edly close. With all county returns in with the exception of the Plum Creek precinct, Reuter leads Wanner} by about 50 votes. iG George J. Brown has won: out over James Soules in the race for sheriff by a majority of approximately 150. Luhman, the league candidate has received less than 900 votes. C. G. Turner, for treasurer, has a lead more than 1,500 votes over} his opponent. J. L. Hughes. for auditor, J. P. Cain, for state’s attorney, and John} Leask, for register of deeds who had: no opposition received a splendid} complimentary vote. These, however, | have ‘not ‘yet! been tabulated. The’ county agricultural agent question also carried by a large majority. Approximately 4,400 votes were cast in the county compared with) 2,504 at the June primaries. LEAGUE PAPER NAMED Lisbon, N. D., Nov. 8—The Ender- lin Independent, Nonpartisan paper, was elected official paper of Ransom! county by a majority of about 250 over the independent paper, the Gazette 6f Lisbon. MARKED BALLOT WRONG Minot, Noy. 8~Some amusing; things happened in Minot on election | day. A young woman wanted to vote | against Frazier. “I don’t want to! vote for him,” she was heard to say and the judge saw her place an X in the square opposite his name. An aged woman was casting her first vote. She carried her little hand bag into the booth with “her sample ballot for guidance. A judge instruct- ed her in marking her ballot and when she came out she started for the door. A judge stopped her and asked for her ballot. “Why, I have them all in my hand bag,” she said. She had taken great care to mark her ballots, and thought she was through. Election returns were received by wireless at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Kemper in this city with the} wireless outfit established by Max, Kemper., Henry Blaisdell, former op-_ erator with the U. §. Navy, operated the wireless during the evening, re- ceiving the news of Harding's elec- tion direct from Annapolis at 10 o'clock that night, several hours be- fore the news was received by tele-} ! passengers. BERLIN—Here is the giant Zep- pelin airplane with which a ‘flight from Berlin to New York is soon to be attempted. The plane is built en- tirely of metal-—duraliminium. The crew consists of two pilots and two mechanics and there’s room for 18 An idea of the size of the plane can be had by counting the people standing from tip to tip and by noticing that the wheels of the plane are as high as a man. Experts expect the plane to make the Berlin— New York flight in 3@ hours.’ The route which it is proposed, to take would be about 5200 miles long. FROM FAMINE IN Peking, Nov. S.—Relief work for the 20,000,000 estimated sufferers from famine in the four Chinese provinces where the crops failed this year has been undertaken energetically by botk Chinese and foreign organizations. One of the latter is an American com- mittee to raise and distribute famine funds which was organized on the in- itiative of the American minister, Charles R. Crane, and is headed by 4 C. Faxon ,of the American Chambet of Commerce in Peking. H.C, Emery a banker, recently of New York and Washington, was appointed treasurer of the American committee. The Brit- ish and French communities will ap- point similar committees. The Chinese ministries of ‘inance, agriculture, and interior have appoint- ed a commission to dispense $1,000,000 fund to be raised by means of a short term loan. From Shanghai comes news of another fund of $1,800,000 un- dertaken by seven provinces at the fn- stigation of Tang Shao-yi, the chief southern peace delegate. Comprehensive reports submitted to the American Relief committee indi- cate that the early reports of distress have not been exaggerated. Dr. F. F. Tucker, writing from Tehchow, Shan- tung, says: “Today at old man with a keen memory was describing condi- tions 42 years ago (when a memor- able famine occurred) and he is quite sure that conditions are worse, for then, he said, there was a wheat crop just before the drought, which crop we have not had except in very lim- ited areas.” Mrs. Edith C. Tallmon. missionary, 20,000,000 CHINESE ARE SUFFERING COURT PROVINCES ! WHERE CROPS FAILED; RELIEF GIVEN portions of Skantung and Chihli ‘ovinces are practically without any rves Even the trees had been stripped of their; leaves‘ for use as a 7tBrom:. how to Lintsing (100°inites alohg the Grand Canal in Shantung) not half the planted fields will give back the grain used to plant them,” she writes. “One well-to-do farmer has already used all the produce trom his ten acres and has sold the wadded gar- ments that his family need for winter. Another farmer near Lintsting has torn down some of his buildings in or- der to use the sorghum stalks of the thick roof for fuel.” “The selling of children is common,” continues Mrs..Tallmon. “A fine lit- tle lad a year old was offered for $2 and none wanted him. A boy of five, whose mother had died of colera and whose mother had died of cholera and old beggar woman. She has four boys of her own, but she said: ‘I couldn't leave him; his father is trying to give him away and says if nobody will feed him he will have to'throw him in the river.” Little children are found de- serted in the streets and some have been rescued from the river. People are trying to make marriages for their daughters, even very young girls.” Another writer from the district southwest of Paotingfu, says: “As far as one can see in any‘ direction there, is nothing growing in the fields that can keep the people alive this win- ter. No one was working in the fields and almost no one traveling on the roads. . The people have either left or are sitting in the villages con: serving eneregy a8 much as possible. newspaper and this paper ran con- siderably ahead of the Record. APPROVE AGENT Dickinson, N. D., Nov. 8.— Stark county voters showed that sentiment was largely in favor sof hiring a county agricultural agent when they approved the measurds providing for the proposition by a vote of 2,153 to 1,445, The county has been without an agent since the resignation of A. H. Neumann last spring. Just how soon an agent will be secured is not known but the state and federal aid, which the county has been receiving for graph. Mr, Blaisdell received mess- ‘farm bureau work, will be retained. ages from Washington, D. C., Ann Ar- bor, San Diego, during the night. He was assisted in receiving by Paul Kemper, who is quite a wireless art- ist. The news was given from the Keniper home to the Association of Commerce. J BONES BECOMES CLERK Langdon, N. D., Nov. 8—Cecil Bone was elected clerk of court of Cavalier county. S. J. A. Boyd was elected superintendent. John — W. Scott was re-elected county auditor. Jerry Kelland ' was elected. sheriff, and G. Grimson was elected statg’s attorney. ‘owes voter! Dickinson, N. D., Nov. an | Catherine Flynn, mother ‘of Mrs. Catherine Ray, and grandmother of Frank Ray, Mrs. W. C: Crawford and ‘Mrs. H. L. Reichert of: this city and known to her host of friends as “Grandma” Flynn, was the oldest Dickinson woman to cast her ballot at the polls Tuesday. “Grandma” Flynn, who is 84, is as sprightly as many a matron 20 years younger. Since the granting of equal suffrage to women she has taken great interest in the political situa- tion, especially as it applied to the state and by going to the polls early in the day to register her vote set a splendid example to those of her sex who were careless or indifferent of the privilege and duty which came to them Tuesday for the first time. INDEPENDENTS WIN Mandan, N. D., Nov. 8—The Non- partisans won only one office in Morton county, J. H. Brady being elected sheriff. William Ellison was elected treasurer. Lee Nichols was elected’ auditor. John Rovig was elected register of deeds. B. W. Shaw was) re-elected county judge. H. K. Jensen was re-elected super- jntendent of schools. and L. H. Con- nolly defeated Krause for state’s at- torney. PEOPLE'S OPINION WINS valley City, N. D., Nov. 8.—The People’s: Opinion won as official paper of Barnes county by 2,949 to 2,376 for the Times-Record, with two other papers in the field. Halberg was elected county coroner. Fer- guson defeated Conlan in the Fifth district, and Ogelsby defeated Mc- Fagden for commissioner in the Third district... The proposal to build a soldiers’ memorial was re- jected 3,849 to 2,260. RECORD DEFEATED Carrington, N. D., Nov. 8,.— The Foster County Independent was designated official paper of Foster; county, defeating the Record. The successful paper is an independent “VOLSTEAD RED” LATEST COLOR New York, Nov. '8.—Milliners here wanted to popularize a new shade of red. So they began to look for a name for it. “What,” said they, “is the most popular thing in the world right now?” “Red noses,” “All right,” said they. Volstead Red.” It’s popular. was the answer. “Call it into” the movie game but perh TEDDY “HIGHEST PAID” DOG IN MOVIES One Shot Was Enough. Stearns, Ky.—Scott Tate, substantial citizen, surrendered to authorities at Whitely City, telling them he had killed Bill Calhoun at Indian Head. Tate was released yn his own recogni- zange. Reports from Indian Head say that Calhoun appeared at a mine tip- ple, commanding every one to shell out all their belongings. ‘He is said to have’ emphas@zed his demafids by promiscu- oug shooting. Tate tired once. the ball striking Calhoun in the temple. No Shots Fi Lexington, Ky- r once a duel has been fought in Kentucky and no shots were fired. J. Franklin Wallace, attorney, was late going to a magis- trate’s court and found he had lost his suit by default. Wallace expressed his opinion of the court. | Deputy Sheriff Frank Hall objected to Wal- ‘ace's remarks. Wallace issued a chal- | lenge for a duel. and laying aside his gun, Hall went outside and the duel was fought with fists, WANTED—Competent _ gir Apply G. R. Berndt, 104 Ave. A. Phone 622. 11-8-1wk. TEDDY~ NEW YORK.—Teddy’s had a lot of trouble since he “broke aps his hardest job was signing his name along the dotted line on the.contract that will give him a number of months’ more fame and a lot more coin. Teddy will be able to live on porterhouse an inch thick and the kind of soup bones dogs dream about and still put money in the bank. He’s the highest paid dog on the screen, it is said. ‘HAD MANY ‘HOMES? Woman School Teacher Tells of “Boarding ’Round.” Burely Plenty of Changes in Those Times for Those Who Had Charge of the Education of the Young —Enjoyed Life. _ The first woman teacher who’ was ever “boarded ’round” Is now living in one of the many almost-forgotten cor- | ners of New York. Her experien | gained 63 years ago in schoolhouse No. 240, on the plank road in Lake county, Ohio. Her name, Frances L. Garside tells the New York Post, was Elizabeth Bartlett, her age seventeen, and it was ; her firm conviction that she was cre- | ated. ‘to teach, a conviction that {m- | pressed the district board; the mem- | bers appointed her, with,many misgiv- | ings because of her age and her sex, | to teach for the summer term. She | changed her abiding place every Sat- | urday as a’part of the compensation for her services, the rest of which compensation was $1.50 a week. A textbook of those days stated that the Staple products of a certain sec- tion of Connecticut-were school teach- er§ and onions. “I just had to be a school teacher.” she explains, “with this Information staring me in the ‘face 1n my own school days.” She taught three and a half months ‘during that summer and never enjoyed life more. The coming of the .teacher was a gala event, and never before nor since has she known tables that ‘came so literally near groaning under the weight of the repasts. There was an endless profusion of jams and jel- Nes; there were always fresh vegeta- bles and meat, and the latter included game. Squirrels were plentiful, and very often there! were “clouds of P}geons” in the sky, sounding like the roar of the sea. Hunters came from many miles around to shoot. them. Pigeon pie was not a luxury for this little teacher, who.was earning $1.50 a week; neither was ple of any kind, for they always had !t for breakfast. Her hostesses took care of her laun- dry and mending; and there was al- ways a series of festivities for her, such as picnics and parties. She en- joyed-a room ‘by herself, and though she never saw any fce, or heard of such a thing, ice being one of the un- known luxuries of those days, she did not miss ft, for there was always a springhouse, In which the abundance of milk and cream and butter was kept cool. oF, She tasted :her first pork gravy while “boarding round,” and had to watch to see what her hostess did with it before she put any on her own plate. One of her weekly visits was spent with a German family, ‘and though !t was midsummer, she had to sleep between feather beds. When her summer term ended she came to New York, where for five years she taught In a private semi- nary. She did not like boarding in the seminary, and “living outside” consumed so tnuch of her salary that she found after paying for board and room she had just 15 cents a week left. She supplemented this sum by taking private pupils. Miss Bartlett changed her name to Grannis after teaching school five years, but her record of being the “first woman who” has bgen maintained in many and varied ways in the 63 years that have elapsed since she called her first class to order. She was the first woman to own and publish and edit a religious, publica- tion, She was the first woman to make an appeal for the appointment of police matrons; it was ten years after her appeal was made that the police matron was appointed/ Going back to her childhood, she was the first child who ever taught in Sunday school, beginning when she was only eleven. Today she Is the last of the famous survivors of the original woman’s rights group that in- cluded Susan B, Anthony, Elizabed Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Road Etiquette. We were fairly burning up\the roads of western Indiana, The fellow who was driving was rather hot-headed and gave the driver of another car a “piece of his mind” because he had paid little attention to our clamorous horn. A few miles on our car stopped dead for lack of gas. The driver and my father started on toward the near- est town on foot, but were soon over- taken by the man we had bawled out and asked by him to ride. Our driver was. very, polite and insisted on my = BERLIN-NEW YORK IN 3€-HOURS BY PLANE! | SENSATIONAL FLIGHT IN SUPER-CRAFT PLANNED BY GERMANS Peet SED ALR Sea aay cove eae father getting in, but declined to roi low, being rather embarrassed.—Ex- change. Safeguarding Airmen. Because of the possible disastrous failure of an, airman's oxygen-supply apparatus at great altitudes, the United States bureau of standards has devised a reliable method: of, testing the’ équipment in thé latétatory. “All the conditions of high-altitude flights are accurately reproduced, says Popu- lar Mechanics magazine. Decreased pressure is obtained by inclosing the equipment in a bell jar connected to an air pump. IMPRESSED BY SHAKEN FIST Gesture Marks the Fighter and Wins the Plaudits of Audiences, Ac- cording to This Writer. Learn to shake your fist when make Ing a speech in public. | It has been said of the American people that they like a man who fs a | fighter. An (elemental symbol ‘of fight | is a well-shaken fist. Has the candi- | date definite views? Has he policies? | Has he constructive ideas? No mat- ter. He shakes his fist. He Is a fight- | er. Cheer him. The shaken fist is an emblem of de- structive criticism. It is a threat to, destroy something, Is destructive crite | felsm a good kind? No; telling how | to-make a thing right {s much better | than merely saying it is wrong. But | it is a tougher job, much tougher, And i {t affords little opportunity for effec: | tive gesture. The mob Will not ask, you for a constructive program If only, in a big, virile, outdoor way,, you con- vey the impression that you are there to knock something down, and knock it‘hard. You are a fighter; a fighter of “the people’s battles.” It 4s proved by the fact that you are shaking your fist. The greatest of our gteat men might have been greater, For! example, take Lincoln. He: had a splendid fist, the result of hard, manual labor In his youth. Had he chosen to shake it and been photographed. even without mo- vies he would have come down to us of this day as a man of “the virile type,” rather than as the patient man of sorrows. He missed many chances, “With malice toward none, with char- ity for all’—how much more effective might that have been, for instance, had a gnarled and sinewy fist elo- quently punctuated it! As ft was, many good people didn’t even applaud him. They thought him sarin And weak. And wagged their heads, saying there wasn’t enough of “the fighter” in Lincoln. ' Learn the lessons of history. Shake your fist—Arthur H. Folwell in Les lie’s, ‘ y Flying Above the Clouds. The full majesty of the aerial per- spective can only be realized when one is above the clouds and the earth is shut off from view. In flying on an overcast day, when heavy banks of cumilous clouds lie At’3,000 feet, it is possible. to experience within a minute or two every degree of fog and sun-' shine. When one is passing into the clouds the lower surfaces of which | are almost perfectly flat, there isan instantaneous transition from shadow to complete atmospheric opacity, sim-} ilar in appearance to a dense fog at the ground, but differing somewhat} from it in feeling, for the interior of | a cloud seems to be drier, the air less, saturated with water vapor, than the fogs which are met with at sea or) ashore. If the climb is continued a few hundred feet farther, the airplane! passes again into clear air, but ‘into! air now of a clarity and: brightness; worthy of Mediterranean skies and not | at all to be compared with the sky at sea level—Edward P. Warren in the! Ohio State Journal. Practical Aid to Industry, Ten years ago no industry, existed: that was capable of placing American- grown varieties of European grapes, upon the market for Christmas trade, | say marketing experts of the United | States department of agriculture.) Then the department devised a meth-| od of packing the grapes in redwood sawdust in veneered drums, -and of handling the product under refrigera: tion in transit and in storage from the time of harvesting until the period of the holiday markets. Today the in- dustry ships more than 500 carloads of grapes annually. A few years ago the supply of redwood was threatened, Once more the department of agricule ture aided. It experimented with va- rious kinds of wood and demonstrated that spruce could be satisfactorily used. The supply of spruce is prac tically inexhaustible. VEMBER 8, 1920 CHINA ADDS TO DEMON LIST At Least Five New influences” Have Come to That Country With Spreading Civilization. \ China is a land of demons “and spirits, For untold ages every busi- hess, every dwelling and every condl- tion of life*has had its particular dethon or flock of demons. The ancient Chinese religion consisted mainly of rites to either propitiate or render powerless the evil spirits and encour- age the attendance of the good ones The category of demons was sq com- plete that it-was not until modern civilization began to work its changes that there was room for any more. Now, however, there are at least five new devils, according to Dr. W. H. Hudson of Kashing, whose lectures in Shanghai on the Chinese conception of ghosts and spirits have been reported to the San Francisco Chronicle. “Among the modern new devils,” Dr. Judson said in one lecture, “are the malaria devil, the opium devil, the red match devil, the railway devil and the gunshot de The natives of the ma- laria districts have learned that mos- quito netting is very efficacious in com- bating the malaria devil. But that method is not very impressive, and the Chinese, especially those in the back country districts, insist on being impressed. So the priests and native doctors have devised charms and exor- cisms whereby they claim to banish the demon without recourse to the netting The foreign doctofs’ naturally are skeptical, but if noise and banners and general impressiveness have any vir tue, the method should be effective. “The opium devil calls for a particu lar set of incantations and paper prayers, as does the red match demon This is a comparatively new demon that came into being about the time that the Chinese discovered that eat ing match heads w “a very Conven- ient and cheap way of committing sui cide, The railway deviLis distinctly foreign, the natives say. He dwells inside locomotives and his special busi- to ru the engine over people He is subject to nes: at every opportunity. two sets of prayers, one to allay his yearning to destroy, the ovher invoking his aid for those tired of life and de- sirons of a speedy end. “Then there is the gunshot devil not so distinctly foreign as his brother of the railway, but just as blood: thirst: He has come into prominence since the mode pf public execution was changed in most places from hehead- ing with the)sword to shooting. Originator of “Bread Line.” . John Leake. a wealthy New Yorker ; of Revolutionary days, was respon: sible for, the “dole of bread” distribut- ed weekly by Trinity parish, provision for which he made in his will, A por- tion of his will said: “I hereby give and bequeath to the rector and vestrymen of Trinity par: Ish, New York city, N. Y.j 1,000) pounds, put out at interest, to be laid | out in. the annual-Income in sixpenny , wheaten loaves of brend and distribut- | ed to such poor as shall appear most | deserving.” ‘The dole’s “wheaten bread” has been | distributed for 128 years. Originally | 18 poor families were provided for, | but only 10 are being taken care of | now, due to the high cost of living, and the fact that the same time pros- perity has reached out into more homes, and there is less need of it. Each family gets from four to six loaves, St. @uke’s chapel parish house has been Whe scene of the dole for four years, the charity having been - distributed before that tine from St. John’s chapel. Originally its home was Trinity church, where the poor had to apply for it at the altar after the Sunday service. She Comes No More. My little friend in the apartment} across the hall was a studious pupil, who had come to my apartment for! a few hints in the execution of her studies when a mutual friend of ours who was known as'a chatterbox was seen coming down the street headed | for my apartment. My friend, being more anxious to spend an hour studying than talking, | said, “Tell her that I am not here,” and hid in a fair sized clothes hamper, | expecting the talkative party to leave in a moment or two. at Forty-five minutes passed and to my horror the hidden one sneezed, while in the clothes hamper. I could barely keep from laughing; In fact, a little smile from me seemed to give away! the entire proceeding. The talkative! friend evidently had discovered the intrigue, for she left immedjately, and | although this happened some time agp, we have never seen her since. | This certainly was my most embar- rassing moment.—Exchange. Portuguese Feminism. | Recently the diploma of doctor of agronomical engineering was for the | first time conferred upon a woman in Brazil. The recipient, Maria Ade- lalda Pinto de Magallanes Quintanilla, | is a young woman of Portuguese birth. She comes from one of the most noted of the Iberian families, being a direct descendant, as her name would indi cate, of the famous sailor Magellan Miss Magallanes is the third woman in the family to have received the doctorate, her two elder sisters having been graduated as experts in law and pharmaceutics. She has made a spe-} cial study of tropical plants and con- | ditions. Pertinent Query. Telephone Operator (lately returned : from overseas)—Park 6666 does not answer. T. O.—Say, Buddy, what outfit were you with?—The Home Sector. Lehigh Dry Mined Lignite Coal. Phone 659R. A vast supply of sodium sulphate is represented in the deposits of some of the lakes in Siberia. HAS FINE TRAITS Animal Trainer Reyea's .Facis About Elephant. Bays the Brute Is Both Tender and Af- fectionate, Though He Will old Grudge Against One Who Has Abused Hira. An elephant lives to a great age and comes to maturity slowly, and is hot full-grown until from thirty-five to forty years old. It is a mi: think an elephant is clumsy be e he looks so. In proportion to its size an elephant is much lighter on its feet than a horse, and can outrun most horses for a shert distance, and there is no one of an elephant’s four feet that he cannot strike or kick quickly and accurately with, An elephant can stand considerable cold if he is kept moving. I have taken elephants in Bridgeport, fitted bags over their ears and tails and worked them up to their bellies in the snow pushing cars without its doing them any harm. On the other hand, I lost a fine elephant once as a result of ex- posure to the cald, writes George Conk- lin in the Saturday Evening Post. * The elephant is the most affection: ate of animals and will watch over and protect a favorite keeper, and he will also hold a grudge against one for some time, watching for an opportunity to get even with him. But I do not believe those popular stories of ele! phants that. have remembered being cheated by- strangers and squirting water over them when they had an) opportunity after the lapse of years. An angry elephant, however, is a dangerous thing, and an_ elephant keeper who is,rough is always running} a ris A cr elephant is usually] made so by the keeper. Some men are| naturally cruel and are willing to do! anything to satisfy their desire to show off. This is apt to be a fault of-new men around elephants. I knew of the case of a felfow called Bayou Bill, who was with the Jerry Mabie show. elephant put her trunk round his s ders, pulled him off his hors fore anyone could prevent she put orfe of her feet on his legs, pulled him in two and threw the pieces over her back. I have also known many in- stances of men being squeezed to death between a wall and an elephant’s head or under its foot. But from a keeper or trainer who treats them properly an elephant will accept punishment, and when it has given in the man can do almost anything with it and/the ani- mal will not lay it up against him. In spite of {ts great size the ele- phant is quite timid. A strange animal or an unfamiliar noise will start him in a panic. Once Tody Hamilton, the Barnum & Bailey press agent, had me demonstrate to a group of New York reporters how easy it was to frighten an elephant. It was at the winter quarters in Bridgeport. We had at the time some two or three dozen ele- phants, and I let a pig loose among them. There was a commotion at once. They snorted and squefiled and kicked —and, by the way, they can use: their hind legs like gatling guns. I also put some rats in among them, and they were just as afraid of them. If they had not been well chained the whole bunch would have run away. Elephants are driven from the near, or left, side, like oxen, The driver tells them to shy when he wants them to go to the right and says “come in” to bring them toward him. “Mile” means to go fast; “mule up” to trot, and when he wants them to stop the, driver calls out “tut.” Misinterpreting His Motive. At about three o’clock one morning according to Toby, M. P:—Mr. T. P. O'Connor was orating in the house of| commons to 12 or 15 members lying) about in various stages of drowsi- ness. Sir Patrick O'Brien was amongst them, and, now and then rescuing him- self with a start from falling asleep, audibly engaged in conversation. “Tt protest against this disorderly conduct!” exclaimed Mr. O’Connor, at length. “The honorable baronet 1s constantly interrupting me.” y “Sir,” replied Sir Patrick, with a graceful how, “the honorable gentle- man misinterprets.my motive. I in- | terrupted, it is true; but it was with the intention of waking the honorable gentleman's audience.” — Pearson's Weekly. Introductions. | “T want to have a bill introduced in/ congress—” began the emphatic citi- zen. n / “All right,” replied Senator Sorghum. “But I can tell you in advance that | introducing a Dill in congress is like any other kind of an Introduction. It will result in a few minntes of pleas- ant courtesy, but it doesn’t necessari- ly lead to any substantial acquaint- ance.” Tasmania Mutton. Tasmania is a far outpost of the British empire, and is not yet great in industry and trade, but noné the less it has nearly 2,000,000 sheep and is about to begin the business of ex- porting frozen meat. It is estimated that with its present flocks it can send out yearly about 100,000 carcasses of lamb and mutton. By Degrees. Hub—My dear, isn’t that dress a trifle extreme? Wife—This dress, darling? Why, I put this on merely that you may be- come accustomed to the one I am hav- ing made.—Boston Transcript. Order a load of Black Diamond Coal, Give it a trial, and you will always use it. More heat for the money than any other coal. F. H. Carpenter Lumber Co., Phone 115.