talned by the association. The larger
portion, about twenty-two acres, val
ued nt more than ll.OOO.OOO, was
bought of the city of Alexandria at
a nominal figure, which made It a gift.
Ceremonies of cornerstone laying
AOriN BLAKE
were planned for Nov. 4. the anni
versary of tiie inauguration of the
country’« first President, but have been
TEX YEAKS
advanced to <-arly October. The day
times, except when uscii In ritual by has not yet been set. but the program
O THE boy of eight, ten years Is
tlw Alexandria lodge, the entire tern- Includes participation by President
an eternity. Ten years ago he
¡de will be open to the public.
Harding. Chief Justice Taft nnd many
bad
no existence. Ten years more
other notable ami high government
Masonic Art Qallery.
ami he will he a man In stature—
officials.
Above the hall, which will rise In a
a size that seems to him far beyond
clear story from the ground floor, will
attainment.
be a museum and Masonic art gallery.
To the boy of twenty-one, ten
JEFF DAVIS MONUMENT
Here will lie placed Masonic portraits
years, while not a lifetime, is a
and the many historic relic» of Wash
tong stretch ahead.
ington and the several other noted
At the cad of the coming ten years
Virginian» who from time to time
he will be well on his way to wher
Im ve been members of the Alexandria
ever he Is going, success or failure.
lodge.
If he could understand Just how
A replica of the flrnt lodge house
much those ten years mean. Just
used by Alexandria lodge, which wm
what can be done with them. Just
dedicated by Washington, will Is- In- ,
what they will yield If rightly culti
eluded. Other souvenirs Include the :
vated, there would be fur less
clock which stood benide Washington’s '
trouble and distress in the world.
bed. the |s*ndulum cord of which was
To the man of forty, ten years are
cut at the moment of his death; a
ten years which must not be wasted.
IMicket knife given Washington by his '
The next ten years are his best, as
mother, which was carried by him ns !
far as productivity is concerned. If
he hns not made the last ten years
a boy trad nmn; Ills old hour-glass, the
count, be still lias a chance with the
chair he occupied ns Worshipful Mas.
ter and which was used for 122 years,
next ten.
After that, unless he Is a phe
nnd the Williams jiortralt of Wash
ington, which lie approved.
nomenon, the chance will tie gone. He
can progress after fifty, g» farther
With these will also be placed the
than he has ever gone, but rarely un
spade used In the ground-breaking <
less he Is going strong on his fiftieth
ceremony by ¡xmls A. Watres, Pres
birthday.
ident of the Masotdd National Memor
Look at your remaining years as
ial association.
an asset. Examine the next ten of
The thirty-two-ncre tract surround- :
them for opportunity, and see If you
Ing the temple Ims nlrendy been ob
can allot to eacii enough work to
carry you at a better pace into the
next decade.
Ten years wisely employed at any
Must Serve Punishment
time after twenty ought to make a
Meted Out to His Son
man either a success or a failure.
They may not be enough to bring
Herbert P. Vernier of Syra-
a fortune, but they ought to bring
was sentenced to
cune,
habits and methods which later will
serve five months In the Onon.
insure independence.
dagn county Jail after he had
Compare the next ten years with
pleaded guilty, together with
the last, and determine that these
Ids wife, to a charge that they
After four year», work lias been re stretches of time, now empty and un
kept their five-year-old son. Ken
sumed on the Jefferson Davi» monu improved, shall be filled with achieve
neth, Imprisoned for five month«
ment which Is being erected at Fair- ment that Is worth while.
In an old dry good« box in the
You can put Into them almost any
view-. Ky„ the birthplace of the presi
con! cellar of their borne. Mrs.
you
choose—work,
effort,
dent of the Confederacy. Work on it thing
Vernier was sent to jail for ten
has been halted three times by lack thought, or Idling, and time wasting.
Almost any man can be made or
days.
of funds. The shaft 1» being made of
concrete nnd will stand 351 feet high. broken In ten years. You have at
least that time before you if you are
the age of the average newspaper
reader.
Make up your mind that even if
the last ten years counted for noth
ing the next ten will count for much.
Make that purpose, and stick to it.
And these coming ten years will be
the best you have ever known.
Masons to Honor
Firit President
Ground Already Broken for Class
Ic Structure on Outskirts of
Alexandria, Va.
COST IS PUT AT $2,500,000
Every Mason In Country to Bs Asked
to Contribute *1, and Already
•700,000 Has Been Collected-
Hall of Fame for Masons.
Alexandria, Va.—With the turning
of the first ood on a beautiful »pot on
the outskirts of Alexandria, over
looking the natloaal capital, work has
begun on a memorial to George Wash
ington which will l>e u fitting com
panion-piece to the Lincoln Memorial
in Washington,
The edifice, u stately temple inspired
by Greek and Roman architecture, 1»
being erected by the combined efforts
of all tlie Masons and Masonic orders
in the Culled State«, and will be a
tribute to Washington, the man and
Mason. It wlli be 200 feet from por
tico to observation pintform on the
top, and will be surrounded by an ex
tensive lnndsca|N*d garden to be
known ns George Washington park. It
Is expected that the memorial will be
completed in from four to five years.
Tiie cost will be approximately >2.-
SOO,OOO.
Constructed of snowy marble and
white concrete, the columned structure
wilt tower high above the river and
will stand out from a background of
densely wooded hillsides.
Masons to Contribute.
Every Mason Ims been asked to con
tribute a dollar toward the fund, nnd
nlrendy more than I’OO.OOO has tieen
collected. Additional pledges bring
the figure to almost 11,000,000. Maaon*
Ic orders and individuals contributing j
flOO toward the fund will he placed j
upon the honor charter roll to be kept !
among the temple archive».
The building, according to architects,
will t»e after the style of memorial» .
to heroes placed nt the harbor en- {
trnn<vs of ancient Greek and Romen ,
cities. It «III lie ert*cled on a ridge i
250 feet above the Potomnc, and from
Its tower, 200 feet higher, a grand
pnnoramn of the City of Washington
will He before the observer, a» well
ns of the country bordering upon
Mount Vernon.
The first floor will be given over
largely to a memorial hall, the com
manding feature of which will be a
heroic statue of -Washington. How
ever, ns the memorial ns n whole will
be dedicated also to the memories
of other great Masons of the country,
there will lie available to the Grand:
Lodges of each state apace In the
memorial hall In which they may en
shrine ¡airtralts or other tributes to
Masons whose deeds place them be
side the First President.
Such men ns Paul Revere, represent
ing Massachusetts; De Witt Clinton,
New York; Benjamin Franklin, Penn
sylvania : Henry Clny, Lewis and
Clark, Blair, Randolph and many
others have been suggested to lie re
membered thus us prominent history-
making Masons.
The temple will be the active lodge
quarters of Alexandria - Washington
Lodge No. 22 A. F. and A. M„ of
which Washington was the first Mas
ter when It was Lodge No. 39. Other
rooms surrounding the atrium will be
given over to the uses of grand na
tional bodies of the order. At all
Uncommon
Sense
mm
Any wny, It was not isinglass at all
In the front of the stove. Had It been,
It would have lasted as long ns paper,
for Isinglass is made of the air blad
ders of certain fish and Is a soluble
combustible substance. What really
was in the stove windows was mica,
one of the oddest of natural sub
stances, nnd which is now one of the
greatest boons in the electrical Indus
Possesses Combination of Special try as a i>erfect Insulator. So Impor
Qualities Found In no Other
tant i» mica. In electrical goods, It Is
Substance—No Satisfactory
declared, that many of the larger elec
trical supply manufacturing companies
Substitute Found.
own and operate their own inica mines.
Washington.—Do you remember how
Split Into Thin Plates.
you used to ait before the old barrel
Mica, says the bureau, includes a
stove In the parlor, or before tbut group of several minerals character
“new-fangled" Introbe, watching the ized by a perfect basal cleavage by
glow of the cheery winter lire through virtue of which they may be split Into
the “Isinglass windows?
You may exceedingly thin plates.
think that since the basement furnace
How often as a youngster did you
has generally supplanted the trouble make wonderful finds of "gold" or
some ¡msky things the pnslucers of “silver" among the rock dejmslts near
“isinglass" must have long since gone the homestead?
Of course, the
bankrupt; but there's more demand dreams of wealth vanished when you
for It now than ever before, says the found the silvery or golden flakes
United States bureau of mines.
were only mica.
Such mica has no
commercial value; It is only when it
occurs In large deposits where It ap
pears In "books" fairly free from de-
fects, varying in width nnd length
from a few Inches to feet nnd up to
six inches or more in thickness It Is
of value.
Of the several varieties of the mln-
ernl only two are of commercial
value, the "muscovite" or white mica,
nnd the “phlogopite" or atnlier. India,
Canada nnd the United States are the
chief producers.
As Perfect Insulator It Has Im
portant and Varied Uses in
Electrical Industry.
FOUND IN THREEC0UNTR1ES
Voting Machine Arrests Cheaters
Has Special Qualities.
Mica possesses a combination of
special qualities which is found In no
other substance, consequently no sat
isfactory substitute has been found.
Chief among these qualities are elas
ticity, toughness, flexibility, trans
parency, ability to withstand exces
sive heat nnd sudden changes of tem-
pernturr, high dielectric strength,
cleavabillty and resistance to decom
position.
An important use of electrical mica
Is for Interleaving between the cop-
। per segments of commutators. Thin
films nre used in vast numbers In con
densers for magnetos nnd in wireless
npparntus. As sheets In greatly di
versified shapes, or ns washers nnd
tubes, mica Is used extensively as an
Insulator In dynamos nnd In various
appliances, in fuse boxes, sockets, in
sulators, electric henters, flatirons, tel-
| ephonos, etc.
As a heat-resisting, transparent me
dium, sheet mica Is still used in fur
Adolph Nitlot, official Interpreter in the bureau of fire Investigation, nace sight holes, for heat screens,
New York fire department, with the voting machine which he hns Invented. lamp chimneys, canopies nnd shades,
He plans to offer his patent rights to the city gratis. Mr. Nlflot claims particularly for gas mantles, also for
the machine mnkes either lamest mistake or fraud virtually Impossible. military lanterns and lantern slides.
It Is simple nnd "foolproof" of operation and requires neither electricity nor
Its ability to withstand strains nnd
springs The voter sees not only the name nnd emblem of the party but the shocks, combined with its transpar
picture of each candidate. Ho votes by dropping n little bnll In n slot benenth
ency, has led to wide use in motor
the picture. In the case ot dishonesty the word "fraud" will appear outside goggles, spectacles, divers’ helmets,
the booth n bell will ring to attract attention of police nnd watchers, nnd the smoke helmets, compass cards, gage
machine will “arrest" the voter, making It impossible for him to leave until
the booth Is unlocked from outside. Five minutes after closing the polls n fronts nnd In windows subject to
shock such as on the conning towers
move of n lever will reveal on the picture of each candidate the exact number
. of battleships.
of votes he bus received.
(Copyright by John Bioko )
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THE ROMANCE OF WORDS
“VILLAIN”
ISTORY, which has a habit
ot repeating Itself, runs
true to form in a number of
words, as may be seen by the
comparison of the changes un-
dergone by “pagan" and “vil-
lain." The former, as we have
seen, first meant a dweller In
a village (pagus), then a heathen
villager and then a heathen.
Similarly, “villain” was origi-
nally applied to the serf or peas-
ant, known as “vlllanus" be-
cause he was attached to the
villa or farm. In this sense it
had no opprobrious meaning
whatever, being practically a
synonym for our word “country-
man" or “rustic." Then, because
It was taken for granted that the
peasant would be churlish, self-
ish, dishonest, and generally of
evil moral conditions—referring,
of course, only to the peasants
of other days—the word began
to take on these secondary char-
acteristics, and. at the third
step, nothing of the meaning
which the etymology suggests
sun Ives. The peasant is en-
tlrely lost, and the evil moral
conditions of him who Is called
by this name alone remain, for,
in Its final stage, the epithet may
be as freely applied to the peer
as to the pauper. In fact,
thanks to popular fiction and the
even more popular screen, the
current visualization of a vil-
lain is that of a well-dressed,
black-mustached, cigarette-smok-
Ing person, bred within the
morally cramped confines of the
big city rather than raised In
the
theoretically
pure
at
mosphere of the farm. Thus do
words swing around until their
meaning points in a direction
precisely opposite to that In
which they started,
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(® by th* WhMltr Syndicate, Inc.)
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Something to
Think About
By F. A.TALKER
DIES SIX f
WiD M. Maupin =
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DON’T WORRY!
RAGGED PRACTICE
riendship , the most sacred of
F
ail moral bonds. Is never appreci
ated at its full worth until by some
unlooked for snap of Its golden moor
lugs It takes fright and flies away.
In the excitement of the moment,
the loss may not be keenly felt, but
as the years ride by in their swift
chariots, hues mark the face and
strands of silver streak the hair,
there comes to the loser an inex
pressible sense of loneliness which
sharply reminds him or her of the
glorious sun that has set behind the
purple hills.
A friendship which multiplied Joys
and divided sorrows is gone forever.
As you repeat this word “gone" in
the night when you are alone, and
again In the morning and at inter
vals through the day. It comes upon
you with a new and terrible meaning.
How gladly you would erase it, but
In spite of your oft boasted strength
of will, you find in your grief that
you cannot do it.
Pride scores as dictator.
Like a beggar you sup on its dry
crusts, and go to bed night after
night with an ache In your heart
and a sting in your conscience.
Yet you keep going crookedly
about the byways and highways of
life and continue year after year the
ragged practice of unbending your
neck or curving your lips with a
friendly smile.
It no longer matters so much how
your behavior appears to the glar
ing eyes of the world, so you per
sist stubbornly to air your pride and
flout it in public places, dropping
daily a little lower from the high
Ideals so sabred to you in the peace
ful, hallowed days of friendship.
In the background of every pic
ture depicting human unhappiness
you will find an ugly blur of color
quite at variance with the rules of
harmony, caused by a slip of the
tongue or a spurt of passionate anger
between two persons, communities or
nations.
If you will study the blur intently,
you will find that It is the evil thing
that destroys peace and strews
battlefields with rivulets of blood.
If you have a true friend, give
him or her the best of which pure
friendship is capable of giving; or,
if you have quarreled, break the
truce and heaven will bless you!
(© 1*22. by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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YOUR-^ Hov^^ReadYour|
IT A MEV J* Characteristics
n/Al ’D anj Tendencies — the
SSSBSSS Capabilities or Weak-
f Besses That Make for Success or
I Failure as Shown in Your Palm
LOSS OF MONEY
various signs
A s in WE the may hand read that by the
fortunate
subject has acquired, or is to acquire,
wealth
through
inheritance
or
through his or her own exertions, so
we may read also, in the hand, the
loss of wealth, after it has been pos
sessed and enjoyed.
Inspect carefully the finger of Sat
urn, the middle or ring finger, near
the top, for a star. If it appears
plainly near the edge of the finger.
It Indicates loss of position and
money. See also the Mount of Sa-
money. See also the mount of Sat
urn, which lies nt the base of the
base or beginning of the mount, a
zigzag line, the same loss is indi
cated.
Naturally, it must be understood
that these signs, as so many others
In the hand, are not always perfectly
clear and well-marked, nnd great enre
must be exercised in rending them, in
conjunction with the other marks and
signs in the hand.
(Copyrlsbl by th* Whe«l»r Syndleat«. Ino.)
HEN the sun is blazing hot.
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Don't worry!
When the breezes bloweth not.
Don’t worry!
Think how It affects the corn;
Bumiier crop, as sure's you’re born—
Get up smiling every morn.
Don't worry!
When the Iceman brings his bill.
Don't worry!
Keep your tongue and temper stllL
Don’t worry!
Pay his huge outrageous toll.
For they’ve got you in a hole—
If not ice, then it's for coal—
Don't worry!
Things Icok bad the country through?
Don’t worry!
Can’t help things by looking blue.
Don’t worry!
Smile and Just keep on your way,
Things will work out right some day,
So let nothing you dismay—
Don’t worry!
Every dark cloud In your sight—
Don’t worry!
Has a silver lining bright
Don’t worry!
Don’t let trouble trouble you;
Just refuse to fret and stew;
To your own good sense prove true—
Don’t worry!
Hot, of course, but what of that?
Don’t worry I
It will make the harvest fat.
Don’t worry!
Toil today—tomorrow rest;
Brace your nerves to stand each test.
For whatever is, is best—
Don’t worry!
(Copyright by Will M. Maupin.)
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“Worry and optimism cannot travel
the same road, to say nothing of going
In the same company. A real good wor
rier is not generally sought after, either
in business or social life.”
FOR THE FAMILY MEAL
hot lunch sandwiches,
T O chop MAKE
remnants of ham fine ; season
and moisten with cream or melted
butter and put on buttered slices of
bread.
Press the slices firmly to
gether and trim them in oblongs or
squares. Beat one egg, add from a
cupful to a pint of milk, according to
the number of sandwiches ; add a little
pepper and salt and dip each sandwich
In the mixture, turning once or twice
until well saturated. Brown delicately
on both sides In a hot frying pan' with
a little butter. Serve at once on a hot
platter, garnished with parsley or
nasturtium leaves and blossoms. Sand
wiches filled with jelly may be fried
the same way, dusted with powdered
sugar and served as dessert.
Apple Salad.
Slice tender apples thinly, leav
ing the skin remain if bright red.
Mix with half as much finely-cut
celery, chopped onion or cabbage.
Add enough thick cooked salad dress
ing to hold the mixture together. Pea
nut butter may be used in place of
the dressing if desired; season with
salt, pepper nnd thin with a little
vinegar and water. Serve on lettuce
or In apple cups.
Strawberry Cake.
Make a one-egg cake mixture and
bake In two layers. Take the whites
of two eggs beaten stiff and dry. then
add one cupful of crushed strawber
ries mixed with one cupful of sugar.
Add gradually, beating all the while
until stiff enough to hold Its shape.
Place on the cake and cover with the
other layer.
(©, 1*21, by Wootorn
Union.)