The Washington Bee Newspaper, September 19, 1908, Page 2

SS ————— ———_—————- NOVEL TIN CAN CLUBS. Their Mission Is to Supply the De mand for New Forests. B. H. Green of Monterey, Cal. has sent out a circular giving informa- tion regarding the Tin Can clubs through whose beneficent activities he expects to see the country sup- plied with needed fores‘s. The attempts to cultivate tree claims in the Dakotaes many years ago were rather discouraging, says the National Magazine, but Mr. Green insists that he has been suc- cessful in planting tree seeds, nuts and cuttings in refuse tin cans, and ean now show an oak tree twenty feet high only eight years old and also a redwood tree grown from seed, which is now fully thirty feet high and only twelve years of age. Mr. Green jnsists that a tomato can with a fair sized hole punched in the bottom and filled with good earth is just the thing needed io start a tree in and that if the earth fs never allowed to become dry the growth of the tree will be amazing. Later the little trees are transplant- ed without removing from the cans, for the rust eats away the can suf- ficiently to allow the roots to free themselves as they need more room, Nebraska Sod House. There are few surviving examples of the primitive style of architecture once in fashion on the plains With- in a radius of many miles of Central City, Neb., only one sod house that is inhabited, can be found. It is the res- idence of Oscar Nelson and is situat- ed south of Polk in Hamilton Coun- ty. For thirty years it has shelter- ed Mr. Nelson and his wife, and within its walls three children were born and raised. It has weathered some very seyere storms and proved so stanchly built that surprisingly few repairs have been needed. Nebraska soil has proved reliable in many ways. But few other instan- ees can be cited of it standing the test for thirty years when forming the walls of a sod ho Reed Laths in Germany. | Consul H. W. Harris of Nurem- durg, writes that the use of small reeds as a substi:cte for plastering | jaths is common in Germany. The! reeds are chiefly imported from Hun- gary by Danube boats, and vary in! length from 1 tv 2% yards or even more, and from % inch to 1% imches in diameter. By machinery these reeds are fast- ehed together by wires to form a mat as wide as the reeds are long, and this is cut and fastened to walls in place of laths In some _ cases duilders require the matting to be put on double, the aim being to have the reeds in the upper mat fall at the interstices in the lower mat The Spanish Cnion in Song. How many people would guess the meaning of a “Spanish onion song?” This strange phrase—one of the! many to be found in the profession- als’ dictionary of slang—is used to denote the music hal! ballard, and owes it origin to the fact that no self respecting member of its race would be without a pathetic reference to “dear old mother” or “somebody's aweetheart far away. Now, pathos draws tears, and so do onions. The rest is obvious “Politely Garbled. Sir Algernon West in his recently published reminiscences, tells this story of Robert Browning: “When he had become famous one wanted very much to meet him. A kind friend arranged a meeting, and the guest besieged Browning with questions and conversation during the dinner, and even after dinner he continued button-hoiing his victim ‘Come,’ said the poet, ‘this will nev- er do; they will say I'm monopolizing you some Trials of a Ch Miss Mayme (on vacation)——“O, auntie, -..6 such a luxury to have nothing to do but just loll in a ham- mock with my precious Shelley or even the ‘Vicar of Wakefield! Elderly Relative Child if I hear of any more such scandalous doings I shall write to your «eg Gorilla and Man. The gorilla is in statue about the same as man, but is far behind him when it comes to the contents of the brain-pan. The greatest ty of the gorilla’s brain is only 34% cubic inches, the least 23, as against 62 in the least capacious human skull and 1i4 in the greatest. mother Cat Photographers. A young woman looking told a New York salesman wanted a shade to match Speaking of cats, there are graphers in the city who make a specialty of posing cats for pictures. a studio in New York has spectfied/ hours for posing. for rugs that she her cat. photo- Medical Air Locks. Tunnels in course of construction are now provided with medical air locks, where workmen afflicted with * bends” can be treated under pres- sure. A Natural Hat's Lining. Littue Margie’s father had a bald spot. While kissing him at bed-| time one evening she said: “Stoop’ dewn, papa; I want to kiss you on the head where the lining shows.” | of the Lackawanna mines, | handle than the ordinary picnic dis- ; Ral. A HOSPITAL ON WHEELS. Intended Primarily for the Benefit of Injured Coal Miners. -A hospital car fully equipped and in charge of a doctor and his assist- ant has been built for the Lackawan- na Coal Company. The hospital car of the Lackawan- na is the only one in the anthracite) regions, but it is not likely to remain} long an exception, as the other rail- road companies who own mines will probably follow suit. A _ hospital car for the coal mines is a necessity, says ‘the Engineering and ‘“h | Journal. Many of the mines are] long distances from a hospital, while they are all situated on, or near, rail- way tracks, where a hospital car can be conveyed wihout delay or incon-| venience. Under the new conditions the pa- tient can be treated in the hospital) car, regardless of the nature of the! accident. Should it be necessary as it often is, that amputation should be performed, the car carries all the| equipment that its surgeon may need in such an emergency This is the first time the car has been used since it left the builders’ hands, some few months ago. It has not, however, been idle during all that time. It has gone the rounds visiting | each colliery, where Dr. Lake has given personal instructions to many miners and mine attendants on first aid to the injured. Miners are in- trepid in rescue work, but it fs all important that some one about the mines should be able to give first ald, to some poor fellow “‘badly smash- ed,”’ as they say, before the ambu- lance doctor arrives upon the scene. | Not for Lo. The Indian bureau will not hire barbers to minister to the red man’s wants. The red man can use a safety raz- or and let his squaw shear his dusky locks. When a red man looks too long on the firewater a safety razor is a much better weapon for him to turber. The red man can have umbrellas and plug hats and spats and invisible Suspenders, but no gilded and strip- ed pole will decorate the front of! his lone wigwam. The Wrong One. | A young man had been calling now and then on a young lady, when one night, as he sat in the parlor, waiting for her to come down, her mother entered the room instead, and asked him in a very grave, stern way, what his intentions were. He turned very red, and was about to stammer some incoherent reply, when suddenly the young lady ; called down from the head of the | stairs: “Mamma, mamma, that is not the one!” ! | | Why Journalism is Popular, Journalism is very Smith College girls, ago, two graduates of the col- lege applied for positions on} a Boston newspaper and were immediately accepted. This year there are two vacancies, the young ladies having married mem- bers of the newspaper staff. The, editor now has made application for two of this year’s graduates and will have no trouble in getting them. | popular with as two years | Poignant Wit. | Sir Richard Bethell, afterward | Lord Westbury, with a suave voice | and a stately manner, nevertheless had a way of bearing down the foe with almost a savage wit. Qnce, in| court, he had to follow a barrister | who had delivered his remarks in| very loud tones. “Now that the noise in court has subdued,”’ mur- mured Bethell, ‘I will tell your Hon- | or in two sentences the gist of the | case.” | TS psa | A Thought for the Week. | Blessed is the man who has the giit of making friends, for it is one*! of God's best 3° It involves many things, but 5 |. all the power | of going out of on2’s self and seeing | and appreciating what is noble and | loving in another man.—Thomas | Hughes. : Pienty of Time. “Give me a little time,” said the | literary young man, according to/ Speed, “and I will do something to | arouse the country Three months | later he had his chance. He was peddling alarm clocks in a farming | community.—Youth’s Companion. Columbus. Historians have not satisfactorily | determined when Columbus was| born. Some give the year of his birth as 1436, others as 1447. If} the latter year be accepted he was forty-five when he made his discov- ery. If the former, he was fifty-six. | Circumstantial Evidence, Recent excavations at Pompeii | have uncovered the remains of a Man with both hands resting on his | stomach. This would seem to indi- | cate that the early cucumber was | not unknown to the ancients. Seeing Things Squarely. So live that you may look every | man squarely in the face. You will | see many hideous things, but if there | be one or two fair you will be whol- ly requitted.—Lincoln (Neb.) Jour- yor cra aly ‘Places which have long been known violet blue flowers | teur athletes in this country, | which | is much in vogue at the universities, | where it may be studied at its best | cellent cover for mertary candidates. \ cinths of different kinds. AS TO MOSQUITOES, One Authority Advises Feeding Them to the Millions. Some interesting experiments ; (writes an English correspondent) , are being conducted in several of the | British Colonial possessions in the West Indies, for the purpose of as- certaining how far the immunity en- joyed by Barbados from the visita- tious of the male ial mosquito is due to the ri in the local wa- ters of a tiny fish known as “mil- lions.” As far back as 1888, speci- mens of the Trinidad vafiety of this little fish were determined by the au- thorities at South Kensington, its habits being similar in every respect to the Barbados species. Its vorac- | ity is out of all proportion to its size, and as its food sts to a large | extent of the iarvae of the mosquito, it cannot be doubted that its opera- tions constitute a very potent factor in rendering the area in which | it lives from malarial fever. co free to be the recognized breeding haunts of mosquitoes have become quite harmless after the introduction of these fish. It is believed that a) far more effectual method of eradi- cating the mosquito is to be found | in inducing them to lay their eggs in a receptacle to which the “millions” have been previously introduced, than to rely solely on kerosene or petroleum, although the last-named | would seem to be peculiarly suitable for dealing with the stagnant water which collects in the gutters of large buildings and which is a haunt of the militant mosquito. A Fireless House, To demonstrate his faith in the practicability of electricity for all domestic purposes, an official of an Illinois electrical company has re- cently built a house at Carrollton, lll., without a chimney or any oth- er means of making use of fire. The house is heated by steam and the cooking done by electricity, both sup- plied by the ueat, light and power company, with which the gentleman is connected This coustruction marks the beginning of an effort to obtain customers for current to be used in the kitchen, and a special rate has been fixed for that kind of service The Water Hyacinth. An interesting novelty for the corm ner of the garden may be found in the water hyacinth, which can now be bought from the florist for a few cents. This requires a little pond or a tub of water, upon the surface of which the curiously expanded | leaves will float, sending dov their long roots into the water. A single plant multiplies rapidly, and before | the end of the season will be likely | to send up many of the spikes of English Urbanity. We sincerely hope that this is the last time we shall see American ama- and we can get on very well without a great many other Americans who are not athletes. Of course it would be absurd not to admit that among Americans there are some good sportsmen and agreeable people, but they are in such a small minority that it is almost impossible to trace them. Not a Matter of Creed. A man addicted to walking in his sleep went to bed all right, but when he awoke he found himself on the street in the grasp of a policeman. “Hold on,” he cried, ‘“‘you mustn’t ar- rest me. I’m a somnambulist.” To the policeman replied: —‘I don’t care what your religion is—yer can’t walk the street in yer night- shirt.” Art of the Superior Smile. The superior smile is a useful ac- complishment for any young man. It on young Don. Many men who learn nothing else at the universities, 1ea;* “is art, and find it uncommon- ly ful in after tife It is an ex- a naked mind, and shou.d be sought fter by parlia- | An Error of the Times. Among the educated classes the tendency of the day is to make fa too much of the ciuildren. One of the most objectionabie sights is to} see well-trained, well-mannered lit- | tle men and women of the world | who are treated by their elders as if they were not only equals but su- | periors. Shears for Carving Fowl. A pair of shears has been devised especially for those who find the tal- | ent of carving hard to acquire. The upper blade is a carving knife and | the dented lower blade forms a clip. | ‘[ne shears are easy to handle and permit one to attack any part of the fowl. Man's Dull Attire. Britishers are constantly becoming duller and more morose in the mat-} ter of their clothes. ness in this respect seems sometimes | to amount to affectation. A Garden of Hyacinths. The Sultan of Turkey has a whole garden exclusively devoted to hya- | sitting in the | I boiled up the bird-seed by | employer's automobile without | not so much in evidence now. ; men far past middle life who hardly ; “Wealth,” he cried, will make a king | | There is only one fruit of this ter- | rene | side, go into your back yard, lie flat | assembly grounds, to the singing of | the Esperanto hymn. The flag ts a | There careless- | THE SILK HA On Whose Head and in What Ctr. cumstances It Is Most Conspicuous. Conspicuous as the silk het some- how appears on the head of an un- accustomed wearer, it may in some — circumstances be even more conspicu, | ous on the head of one accustomed to wear it constantly, as when worn »y a cabman on his way home to the Stable with his coat cf. Then does the cabman’s silk hat loom up indeed, to become not mere- | ly conspicuous at a hat, but to be worn above a white shirt and crossed Suspenders, of all the laadscape easi- ly the dominating feature. | Sunshine as a Hair Bleach. | In the days of Queen Elizabeth women of fashion suffered thé most violent headaches because they stood in the sunshine day after day to bleach their hair yellow, in imitation ot Her Majesty’s chrome locks. There is ne particular fashion in hair color to-day. All shades and tints are in the market. The peroxide blonde is background hoping, and among men she remains always under suspicion, Made Him a Songster. Mr. Stubb (in astonishment)— “Gracious, Maria! That tramp has been singing out in the back yard for the last hour.” Mrs. Stubb—“Yes, my fault.’ Mr. Stubb—"Your fault?” j “Mrs. Stubb—‘Indeedfi it is. I! thought I was giving him a dish of | boiled oatmeal and instead of that | John, it is all | take.’'f Milk. From whatever source obtained, milk contains every constituent re- | quired by the human body for its | growth and nourishment, and noth- ing more is required for the develop. ment of the young of all mammals, whether carniyerous or herbivorous, | than the elements which analysis | shows us to exist in that important fluid. A Good Precedent. : A good precedent has been set in| the sending to jail for thirty days of a rascally chauffeur who took his per- mission for a “‘joy ride” and did a lot of damage. If every such offense had such a sequel there would be less of that sort of law breaking—or the jails would be filled and the chauf- feur market depleted. Strenuous, Yet Robust. The patriarch of the olden type, is j But America is full of well preserved show their years, as, with modern machinery of achievement, they ac- complish more in a month than their grandfathers could have done in a year. Regal. His ambition was to be rich, and — for that he toiled early and late. | of me!” And so it did. At the age of 50, by which time he was worth $100,- 000,000, he had to have a_ body-/ guard to keep him from being assas- | Sinated, just like a king. A Bright Lad. “That’s a powerful smart boy of your’n Ike,” zen of Polkville, Ark, “You betcha!’ proudly replied the parent of the prodigy. “He ca swear like a pirate, and the little fel- , ler’s only five years old and hain’t never been fin sight of the ocean in his life, neither!” Century of Shriek. Politically, socially and morally we are to-day suffering from the fact that the huge army of degenerates in our midst have a voice in the mak- ing of public opinion. The high-; pitched voices of the “excitable er-{ ratic’” have marked the twentieth century as “The Century of Shriek.” The Law of Life. Keep thyself, then, simple, good, | pure, serious, free from affectation, | | a friend of justice, a worshipper of | the gods, kind, affectionate, strenu- ous, in all proper acts. Short is life. life—a pious disposition and social acts. Mental Therapeutics in Action. Whenever you feel that you must | go off to the mountains or the sea- on your back on the grass, look up trougu the leaves at the blue sky—/} you will find that an excellent substi- | tute. Esperanto Flagged. Have you seen the Esperanto flag? | It was raised for the first time in| America Monday ai the Chautauqua | green and white ensign with a green | star on a white field. Taking Notice. The election board of the In&ni- tive Spitters’ Union is now sitting on the application of the Washington ; Post, which yesterday rose “to re-| spectfully suggest “something or oth. eg , "UROPEAN | tution for watering plants. Wm. 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Someone says: “It is bet- ter to live with others even at the cost of considerable jarring and fric- tion, than to live in undisturbed quiet alone.” That Sawng Motion. “Some people do dislike work,” remarked the Observer of Events and Things; “and yet it takes about the same number of motions to play one of Schubert’s sonatas on the fiddle as it does to saw a cord of wood.”” Yonkers Statesman. Save the Soot. A cheap way to keep house plants free from disease is to put a bag of soot into a pail of water, let the con- tents settle and use a very weak s0- Soot is a valuable fungicide. West Grows Independent. The matter of securing funds to remove the crop no longer disturbs western bankers. To use an exX- pression of one of the number, “The West no longer sneezes when Wall Street takes snuff.” St'cky Varnish. Sticky varnish put on furniture by cheap woramen may be remedied by first placing on shallac varnish and then follow with a coat of copal varnish. Soldiers Live on Nuts. The small soldier keeps diet of nuts. aay, but they are of a very nour- ishing kind. An Undiscovered Genius. The world has never learned the name of the genius who conceived the idea of spreading sone upon his, breads _ | Born himself | in perfect fighting condition on a| He eats only twenty a) 60 YEARS EXPERIENCE TRape MaRKs Desicns Copyvricuts &c. ch and desert +40 ma, a free w Anyone sending a s tain Our ¢ fie Fimerican, ty. Itustrated we lentigie Ba #3, $4. Soid byall newsdealere, Y Ca: 361Broadway, Hen York vatoe 425 Zo wton, D.C MRS, ittle protection Negroes class preach- CLAIRVOYANT AND CARD READER. TELLS ABOUT BUSINESS. Reunites the Separated, and Removes Spells and Evil Influences. 1228 25th St. N.W., Washington, D. G Gives Luck to All. N. B.—No leters answered unlesg accompanied by stamp. B—Mention The Bee.