THE HERMISTON
HERALD,
HERMISTON, OREGON.
SCHOOL WORK SHOWS WELL MERGING BILL PROGRESSES APPLES IN STORAGE SCARCE
PEACE IMPOSSIBLE Oregon Pupils Rank First in U. S. in Measure to Consolidate State Boards Of 2000 Carloads for 1916 Season
Makes Long Strides.
350 Remain Unshipped.
NOW, SAY ALLIES Regularity of Attendance.
Salem — Further progress in the
That the public schools of Oregon
Hood River—Out of 2000 carloads of
have made much progress during the economy and consolidation program apples produced by Hood River valley
past two years is shown by the bien was made in the house Wednesday. ' last season, a yield almost twice the
nial report which has just been issued By unanimous vote the house adopted J tonnage of any former year, only
by Superintendent of Public Instruc the resolutions committee’s resolution about 350 carloads remain unshipped.
tion, J. A. Churchill. The report con | providing for the appointment of a
The Fruit Growers’ Exchange has
tains nearly one hundred pages and committee of five members to “ex practically cleaned out its holdings,
deals with many phases of school amine all feasible plans, to receive, having shipped 150 carloads.
A. E.
| prepare and report bills looking to-
work. Superintendent Churchill has
Woolpert, of White Salmon, Wash.,
| ward the abolition, consolidation and
briefly noted the principal lines of merging of various states offices, I who represents in the mid-Columbia
I district the Dan Wuille Co., an Eng
progress, in the following words:
boards and commissions in the interest
lish importing firm, says that he has
Berlin Holds Just Peace is Possible-
“A summary of the work of the of a more economical and efficient gov handled a tonnage of 175 carloads from
ernment.
”
public schools of Oregon during the
Statement to Neutrals Sets Forth
| mid-Columbia points, all but two of
Speaker Stanfield appointed on the
which have rolled to Eastern seaports
past
two
years
shows
that
substantial
committee Representatives Brownell,
Germany’s Exact Position.
progress is being made. Every year Thomas, Ritner, Portwood and Porter. for export.
The Apple Growers’ association re
The resolution under which this ac
the attendance of the pupils has be
ported that approximately 350 car-
come more regular until Oregon now tion was taken was a substitute for loads of extra fancy and fancy New-
Washington, D. C.—The entente al
Representative Brownell’s resolution, | towns and Spitzenbergs, chiefly the
ranks first in the United States in reg
debated on the floor of the house Tues
lies, replying to President Wilson’s
ularity of attendance in the rural day, and providing for a consolidation former variety, remain in local stor
peace note in a joint communication,
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schools. There is a growing interest program by the revision of the laws age.
express the belief that it is impossible
committee.
at the present moment to attain peace in the industrial club work, end the
Has 500 Cars Fruit.
Chairman Stott and other members
that will assure them reparation, res number of children who carry their of the revision committee protested
Wenatchee—Shippers and dealers
titution and such guarantees as they projects through to a successful ter against the Brownell plan because,
agree that there are in storage about
consider are essential.
mination is increasing each year. To they explained, it would throw addi 500 cars of apples in the valley.
In a separate note the Belgian gov
tional work on a committee that al
ernment expresses its desire for peace, use the words of a county superintend ready is one of the hardest worked About 50 cars leave this district week
ly for Eastern points, most of them
ent:
‘
The
pupils
are
not
only
learn
but declares it could only accept a set
committees of the legislature.
back orders.
Demand now is at a
tlement which would assure it repara ing to do things and acquire right
The resolution seemed to be satis standstill. The holdings in the valley
tion and security in the future.
habits, but they are learning to pro factory all around, and members who
Both of the communications are duce and make things at a profit.’ discussed it insisted that the commit are well divided among the shipping
agencies. It is not thought that any
dated January 10 and were transmitted The standardization of the country tee should get to work right away.
one has more than 75 cars.
in translations from the French texts schools is doing much to improve the
“I consider that I won my fight,”
It is thought that the movement to
through Ambassador Sharp at Paris.
work of that institution, and while commented Brownell. “What I want market will not be less than 50 cars a
Following is the outline of the en there are still many rural schools that is an intelligent consolidation pro
week, and on this basis the cleanup
tente allies’ terms of peace:
have not yet met all of the require gram.”
will be made by the latter part of
Restoration of Belgium, Serbia and ments for standardization, the number
In his argument on the floor Brown April.
Montenegro, with indemnities.
that have done so is increasing from ell said that he was willing to give his
Evacuation of invaded territories of year to year. The work of the high time and his clerk’s time to the consol Twenty-Cent Rise in Flour Market.
France, Russia and Roumania, with schools has been greatly strengthened idation work, and it is apparent that
Portland—There was an advance of
reparation.
through meeting the requirements of the speaker has taken him at his word 20 cents a barrel in the price of flour
Reorganization of Europe, founded the State Board of Education relative
by making him chairman of the com
on stable regime.
Thursday, all parts of the list being
to libraries and other equipment. This mittee.
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Restitution of provinces wrested in is especially true of the smaller high
affected. The rise will put the whole
past from allies by force or against schools, many of which have hereto
sale quotation on family patents at
Employers
’
Association
Presents
will of their populations.
$8.40. This is the quotation that pre
fore had almost no equipment or ap
Liberation of Italians, Slavs, Rou paratus with which to do their work.
vailed from November 13 to November
Strict
Anti-Boycott
Measure
manians and Tcheco Slavs from fore The high school tuition fund law,
25, 1916. Later the market dropped
Salem—An anti-picketing, anti-ban off to $7.80, but resumed its upward
ign domination.
which was passed in 1915, is making
Enfranchisement of populations sub it possible for thousands of pupils to ner, anti-boycott measure, submitted course on January 3. Flour has not
by Thomas McCusker, of the Employ sold higher than this quotation since
ject to “bloody tyranny of Turks.’’
attend high school who would other
Expulsion of Turkish Empire from wise be denied the opportunity. That ers’ association, was put up to the early days. The market is strong and
Multnomah delegation for approval by there is every indication of further ad
Europe.
the increase in attendance due directly
The statement is added that the al to this law has been phenomenal, is Representative Kubli, of Multnomah, vances in the near future.
lies wish to liberate Europe from shown by the fact that in some high at a special meeting of the delegation
Prussian domination, but have no de schools the number of students has at noon Monday. It carries an emer
Collier Judges Poultry.
gency clause.
sign to exterminate the German peo doubled.
North Yakima — Yakima county’s
The county superintendent
After considerable discussion, the
ples.
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of one of the large counties of West delegation decided to take a day to annual poultry show is well under way
and Chief Judge Harry F. Collier, of
Berlin—(By wireless to Sayville, N. ern Oregon reports that the high think it over.
Tacoma, says the showing, both in
Y. )—Germany has handed neutral gov school attendance in his county has in
The measure is based on the present quantity and quality, is equal to any
ernments a note concerning the reply creased 128 per cent since the passage law prohibiting use of force or intimi which has been held in the county.
of the entente to the German peace of the high school tuition fund law. dation to prevent any person from con He is especially pleased with the en
proposals, the Overseas News Agency Among the other features of progress tinuing at work, or from accepting tries in the White Leghorn and Black
should be mentioned the gradual in employment.
announces.
It goes much further, Minorca classes.
Following is Germany’s statement crease in the requirements for certifi however, by prohibiting picketing of
cation,
which
mean
more
thorough
to the neutrals in brief :
any kind, peaceable or otherwise.
$85,000 for 55,000 Bushels Wheat.
Entente declared to have closed door preparation on the part of teachers
and
better
teaching;
the
stimulated
Spokane—Thomas F. Wren, who
to direct reply.
Want Troops Returned.
owns a wheat ranch near Fenn, Idaho,
Germany and her allies held to be interest in supervised recreational ac
tivities, which has led to the improve
fighting in defense of existence.
Salem — After a deal of high-flung Thursday sold 55,000 bushels of wheat
Four grain companies
Entente, on other hand, accused of ment of playgrounds and the installa oratory, Democratic senators profess for $85,000.
intention to conquer Alsace-Lorraine tion of play apparatus; an improve ing to believe that criticism of Presi participated in the transaction.
and several Prussian provinces, to hu ment in the style of school architec dent Wilson was intended, the senate
miliate Austria, partition Turkey and ture, embodying both utility and Monday adopted Senator Lewis’ joint
beauty: and, finally, a better commun
mutilate Bulgaria.
memorial asking the President for the
“War maneuver” in original peace ity spirit, due to the work of the speedy return of Oregon troops on the
Parent-Teacher association and kindred
-+*****++******+• ++++**********+ o+***4+********+4
note denied.
Mexican border.
As test of sincerity of entente pro organizations.”
What made the memorial obnoxious
fessions, Germany mentions fate of
to Democratic political sensibilities
Portland—Wheat— Bluestem, $1.86
Irish people, destruction of Boer re Would Make Every Oregon
appeared to be that it was addressed per bushel; club, $1.65; fortyfold,
public, subjugation of Northern Af
the President, as well as a section $1.65; red Russian, $1.62.
School House a Civic Center to
rica, suppression of Russian alien na
Oats—No. 1 white feed, $36.50.
reading: “Whereas, there is no im
tions and violation of Greece.
Barley—No. 1 feed, $38.50.
In his biennial report to the legisla perative need for said members of the
War of starvation of Germany also ture Superintendent of Public Instruc Oregon National Guard at said place,
Flour — Patents, $8.40; straights,
mentioned.
$7.60 @ 7.80; valley, $7.90; whole
and
it
is
the
desire
of
the
people
of
tion J. A. Churchill highly commends
Use of colored troops in Europe de
the state of Oregon that they be re wheat, $8.60; graham, $8.40.
the law making every Oregon school turned to their homes. . .”
nounced.
Millfeed—Spot prices: Bran, $26.50
In discussing
Barbarous treatment of prisoners house a civic center.
Whatever it was, the charge was per ton; shorts, $30.50; rolled barley,
charged.
made, first by Senator Garland, then $41@42.
this subject Mr. Churchill says:
Germariy held to have made honest
Corn—Whole, $16 per ton; cracked,
“In 1915, the state legislature en by Senator Wilbur, and finally by Sen
efforts to end war.
ator
Strayer,
all
Democrats,
that
there
$47.
acted a law making every public
Hay—Producers’ prices: Timothy,
schoolhouse a civic center, under the was political significance in the re
Eastern Oregon, $19@21 per ton; val
quest for the return of the troops.
control
of
the
district
school
board,
Munitions Blow Up.
After an hour's talk, which sounded ley, $16@17; alfalfa, $17@18; valley
where the citizens of the district may
New York—Four hundred thousand ‘engage in supervised recreational ac in spots like last fall’s election cam grain hay, $13@15; clover, $12.50.
Butter — Cubes, extras, 35352c;
pounds of powder was destroyed by fire tivities, and where they may discuss paigning, the memorial was adopted,
and explosion at the Haskell, N. J., any and all subjects which in their 20 votes to 9. It now goes to the prime firsts, 34 he; firsts, 331@34c.
Jobbing prices; Prime extras, 38c;
plant of the DuPont Powder company judgment pertain to the educational, house.
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cartons, 1 cent extra; butterfat, No.
at 9:30 o’clock Friday night. Officials economic, artistic and moral interests
Anti-Alien Law is Proposed.
1, 38c; No. 2, 36c, Portland.
of the company declared, after check of the citizens.’
Lighting, heating,
Eggs — Oregon ranch, current re
Salem, Or.—Japanese ownership of
ing up the members of the night shift janitor service and the services of the
at the works, that only two men were supervising officer when needed, may land, so strenuous an issue in Califor ceipts, 38@40c per dozen; Oregon
missing. Twelve others were cut by be paid from the public school funds nia a few years ago. is made an Ore ranch, candled, 41c; selects, 43c.
Poultry — Hens, 15@17c per pound;
gon, issue by Senate bill No. 61, intro
flying debris, but none of them was of the district.
seriously .hurt.
No estimate of the
' ‘The passage of this law has done duced by Senator Wilbur. It prohibits springs, 16@17c; turkeys, live. 20@
loss was obtainable.
much to open the doors of our country aliens, who are not eligible for citizen 22c; dressed, 25@26c; ducks, 16@20c;
schoolhouses to the church, the Grange, ship, including Japanese, Chinese and geese, 12@14c.
Veal—Fancy, 141@15c per pound.
New York — The plant of the Cana the Farmers’ Union, and the Parent- Hindus, from owning land in Oregon,
Pork—121@13c per pound.
or
from
leasing
land
for
more
than
dian Car & Foundry company, one-half Teacher association.
Because these
Vegetables—Artichokes, 90c@$ 1.10
mile east of Kingsland, N. J., in which buildings were erected primarily for | three years. Associations or corpora
were stored hundreds of thousands of the use of the schools, their use has tions, a majority of whose stock is so per dozen; tomatoes, nominal; cab
shells destined for the Russian govern frequently been refused for any other owned, are subject to the same restric bage, $3.25 per hundred;, eggplant, 25c
ment, was destroyed late Thursday by purposes, in spite of the fact that a tion. Land now owned by Japanese, per pound; lettuce, $2.50 per box; cu
fire and a series of explosions which building for public meetings is greatly : Chinese or Hindus, is to escheat to the cumbers, $1.50@2.00 per dozen; cel
ery, $5.50 per crate; cauliflower,
continued for three hours.
needed in every rural community, and state on their death.
$2.50, squash, 12c per pound; pep-
the schoolhouses are used for school
pers, 25c; sack vegetables, $1.25;
Sterilization is Up Again.
$65,000 Left by Cody.
purposes only five days in the week,
sprouts,
10c per pound.
Salem—The issue of sterilization,
Denver—The estate of Colonel Wil and then for not more than from six
Potatoes — Oregon buying prices,
to
nine
months
in
the
year.
Thus
voted
down
by
the
1913
legislature,
liam F. Cody, who died here Wednes
many thousands of dollars’ worth of has been brought before the present | $1.7502.00 per hundred; sweet, $4.
day. and which had been estimated
Onions—Oregon buying prices, $5
public property has been standing idle . legislature by Farrell, of Multnomah,
several times in the past at more than
per sack, country points.
a
large
part
of
the
year
and
many
peo
who introduced a bill in the senate
$1,000,000. was estimated by Judge
Green Fruits—Apples, 50c@$1.50
W. L. Wall, for years Colonel Cody’s ple have been denied the social and in providing for sterilization of sexual per box; pears, $1.5002.50; cranber
tellectual pleasures which are so | perverts and feeble-minded persons.
attorney, at not to exceed $65,000.
ries, $11012 per barrel.
It consists in the main of three ranches greaty enjoyed in the country districts. Sexual perverts, under this bill, can be
Hops—1916 crop, 5@9c per pound.
This economic waste will be largely sterilized only upon their consent.
near Cody, Wyo., and an equity in |
Wool—Eastern Oregon, fine, 24@,
done away with through the passage of After sterilization they may be parol
a hotel in that town.
30c per pound; coarse, 33@36c; val
this
law
providing
for
the
use
of
ed. Feeble-minded persons may be ley, 33@35c; mohair, nominal.
The Nebraska and Wyoming legis
sterilized, after examination by a
latures appointed committees to rep schoolhouses as civic centers.
Cascara Bark—Old and new, 5c per
board of physicians and psychologists, pound.
resent them at Cody’s funeral in Den
Three Budgets Are Uncut.
upon the order of the county judge.
ver Sunday.
Cattle—Steers, prime, $8.2508.50;
Salem—Lands involved in the seven
fair to good, $7.0008.00;
cows,
8-Hour Bill Appears.
Hyde-Benson cases, which have been |
Insult to Tar Costs $250.
choice, $6.75@7.50; medium to good,
New York—Respect must be accord on trial in seven Circuit courts through-. Salem—Senator Gill Wednesday in $6.2506.75; ordinary to fair, $5.50@
heifers. $6.0007.00;
bulls.
ed the uniform of the American sailor out the state, are of immense value, troduced the expected eight-hour law 6.00;
equal to that given to the civilian’s according to a statement made by At for women. His measure, S. B. 78, $2.7505.25; calves, $3.0001 7.00.
Hogs — Heavy packing, 215-250
clothes, the Brooklyn Court of Special torney General Brown before the joint changes the word “ten” to “eight” in
Sessions held Saturday in deciding that ways and means committee.
One the 1909 law fixing the hours of day pounds, $10.20010.55; light butchers.
Henry Traub, lessee of a Brooklyn small tract, he said, was worth $24,- | work for women, and reduces from 60 $10.00010.35; light packing, 17 0-19 0
theater, had no right to exclude Adolph 000, and the total cruise or. the timber to 48 the number of hours a week that pounds, $10.000.10.15; rough heavy,1
The rul $9.0009.25; pigs and skips, $8.50@
Gottman, a sailor on the battleship Ar alone more than $400,000. To lose women employes may work.
kansas. Traub was fined $250. Thos. these lands would mean an almost in ing of the Industrial Welfare commis 8.7 5; stock hogs, $8.5008.75.
Sheep—Lambs, $9.2501 1.25; year
F. Cuff, United States assistant dis | estimable loss to the state, he said, in sion permitting women to work 54
trict attorney, prosecuted Traub at i making a plea to retain all hie budget hours a week would be superseded by ling wethers, $8.75010.00; old weth
ers, $8.5009.00; ewes, $6.7508.25.
the request of the Navy authorities.
| expenses. The amount was allowed.
| this’amendment.
Entente Reply to Wilson’s Plea
Given Out at Washington.
MAIN TERMS FULLY OUTLINED
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT
MORE THAN HE COULD STAND
Absence of “Properties’* Caused Actor
to Leave the “Bally Rotten Show’’
in a Hurry.
SCENES LINGER YET
EVENTS ONE RECALLS FROM OLD
VOLUMES.
Humorous recollections of a slip In
stage business turning a thrilling cli-
max into a comical sight is told in E.
II. Sothern’s book, as shown in the dra
matic department of the Sunday Post
and that brings to mind the funny ex
perience of Taylor Holmes, the young
farce comedian remembered in “The
Third Party" and “His Majesty Bunker
Bean.”
It was when Holmes was with a
stock company in Newark. N. J. The
heavy man was a well-known actor.
who was playing in stock to tide him
over the summer financially, and he
was unaccustomed to the free and easy
way of doing without things used in
the play.
The regular stock actors made no
complaint when props were missing,
but improvised as best they could.
The opening night in "Ticket of
Leave Man,” as Jack Dalton (the
heavy) and Melter Moss (Taylor
Holmes) were supposed to be kidnap
ing Bob Brierly to a churchyard.
Holmes said to the heavy in the wings
Just before their entrance:
“Don’t ask me for the light. Cut the
line.”
"Why should I cut my linos?” de-
manded the heavy with all his dignity.
"You'll have to cut them,” insisted
Holmes. "I haven’t any lantern to give
you.”
"My word, what a bally rotten show,”
said the heavy. "I'm not accustomed
to tills sort of thing,” ns he stalked on
the stage.
All his lines fled—excepting the one
he should have forgotten. He looked
blankly at Holmes, stuttered and stam-
mered, then thundered:
"Moss, give me the glim 1”
“I can’t gif you no glim; I ain’t got
no glim,” said Holmes. But the heavy
was now past comprehending.
“Moss, give me the glim—give me
the glim !” lie shrieked.
“I ain’t got no glim. Didn’t I tell
you not to ask for the glim? You
don't need no glim; it’s light enough
for your dirty work,” said Holmes,
frantically trying to ad lib and set the
heavy straight la the scene.
The heavy gave Holmes one disgust
ed look ; snorted as he threw up his
hands, and said : “Good night, this is
awful. I cannot stand it. I’m not used
to it,” and stalked off the stage, leav
ing the audience howling with glee.
Big Collection of Brains.
The brain collection of the United
States National museum, which has
lately received valuable additions rep
resenting the higher apes, was starteli
13 years ago by Ales Hrdlicka, and
now contains about 1,500 human and
animal brains. Of these 223 are hu
man, including 95 of whites and 128 of
other races, and 348 belong to the goril-
las, chimpanzees, orangs, gibbons,
balloons and other primates. The num
ber of adult anthropoids, though It em
braces only a single adult chimpanzee,
is believed to exceed that of all other
known collections. Besides those of the
primates, the collection now has the
brains of 165 carnivores and cetaceans,
50 insectivores, 266 ungulates or hoofed
animals, 81 rodents, 47 edentates or
toothless animals and marsupials, or
pouch-bearers, and 287 birds and rep
tiles.
Danger in Raw Pork.
There is considerable danger in eat
ing pork or pork products raw or not
thoroughly cooked. The disease fre
quently resulting is called trichinosis.
It is caused by certain round worms,
microscopic in size, that often infest
tlie flesh of hogs.
Of 8,000,000 hog carcasses micro
scopically inspected by federal inspec
tors in eight years, about one in every
thirty-nine contained these worms. Of
about 1,200 American cases of trichino
sis, 255 came from eating raw sausage
and 213 from raw ham.
In a community in Wisconsin last
year 21 cuses developed In five fami
lies and three deaths resulted from
eating sausage that was only slightly
cooked. These round worms die at a
temperature of 140, so thorough cook
ing does away with possible danger.
They Just Want to Know.
The inquisitiveness of children
which, ns Oliver Wendell Holmes says,
makes them the terror and despair
of their parents, has no object save
the craving to know about things, so
Dr. J. Mitchell Bruce, consulting physi
cian to Charing Cross hospital, Lon
don, told his students at the opening
of the winter session. The small boy
Is hungry for knowledge for its own
sake, Just ns he eats because he Is
hungry, without any notion of physio
logical use of food.
Beneficent Motives.
“What makes you keep boosting the
price of commodities under your con
trol ?”
"Philanthropy, my boy,” replied Mr.
Dustin Stax. "Economy makes people
happier and better; and we’re teach
ing economy to people who never had
any previous Idea of what the word
meant.”
By No Means Always the Most Impor
tant Things Recorded That Remain
in the Memory After a
Lapse of Time.
There is a peculiar pleasure In striv
ing to remember something of books
enjoyed years ago and never read
again. It happened with us, und may
! with most people, that in many in
stances one or two scenes, one or two
| gestures, starting out of a sort of fog,
stand for the whole book. There are
numerous fogs and each one has Its
own quality.
Ail that is left to us of “Rob Roy.”
Don Marquis writes in the New York
Sun, its a woman with a broadsword in
her hand who stands upon a rocky way
that overhangs a lake and screams
forth a vehement command. Someone,
we believe, is about to be cast over the
precipice at this furious lady’s order.
The earth round about is reddish
brown and overhead the clouds are
moving rapidly.
“Bleak House” is a woman who clings
to an iron gate and peers through its
bars. And we have also some faint rec
ollection ot an echo thut was like the
footstep of a sentinel ghost. The fog
from which emerges the woman at the
iron gate is more than fog ; it is a black
vapor—inky black.
We cannot see the heroine of “Lorna
Doone” at all, but we still know how
John Ridd felt when he all but
drowned in a swirling, icy pool ; we can
still see him as he bends over and tries
to catch little fish with his fingers in
the cold brook just before he falls into
the pool. The pale glitter of a faint
sun upon shaken drops of water and a
sense of much snow and rain generally
are our only other impressions of the
book.
"Tom Sawyer" is a boy groping and
fearing in a cave; of Tom's humorous
pranks we remember nothing. "Huckle-
bery Finn” we almost know by heart,
but then we have read it a dozen
times.
In “Toilers of the Sea," where the
man is seized by the devilfish as he
himself is hunting crabs to eat, Hugo
elaborately builds up a scene which is
the epitome of the whole tremendous
book and the symbol of the gnunt eter
nal struggle between man and nature
(animate and inanimate) which the
book dramatizes. And yet, for all Hu
go's cruft nnd power, that scene thrills
us less—speaks less stirringly to our
blood and nerves—than one Incident
of fur less significance in the same vol
ume.
This incident, which stirs us more,
deals merely with the murder of a
guard on tlie edge of a cliff that over
looks the sea. It is a tiling that in no
wise touches the moral bones of the
story; it Is not essential to the struc
ture of the tale as a tule; another de
vice might lia ve ween used If Hugo had
not evidently fancied tills one for his
own sake. But it gets itself remem-
bered. The devilfish scene, informed
though it is of the essential spirit of
the book expressed in the terms of phy-
sical conflict, will have left us long be
fore we forget the coastguardsman’s
murder.
“Casket" Factory.
The fact was revealed at the Rhond
da tribunal recently that nt Treorchy,
a colliery village in Kthondda valley,
one of tlie largest coffin industries in
the kingdom is carried on.
It was stated that those works,
which contain 25 machines, can turn
out 80 to 100 coffins in six hours. In
America coffins are now called caske. .
Before the war coffins were exported to
till parts of the world, but naturally lit
tle business is done In this direction
nowadays. Nevertheless, between 200
and 300 coffins are turned out weekly.
Practically all the coffins necessitat
ed by big disasters are provided by
this firm, and requisites for use nt cre
matoriums are manufactured.—London
Mail.
Takes Casts of Records.
Joseph Sanders of Washington has
just patented a method of making
phonograph records. He makes a disk
of material Hint becomes plastic under
heat ; heats only that part which is to
bear the record, sprinkles a powder
□ver this part and Impresses a record
upon the heated surface under high
pressure. Thus he takes a cast of any
record on his disk and forces the cen
tral part that is to bear the label out
of the plane of annular margin, or rec
ord part.
A Proud Moment.
"How was the musicale at Mrs.
Gadder’s house?”
“A great success from Mrs. Gad
der's point of view.”
“Yes?"
"Everyone who attended professed
to be amazed nt the sums paid the
artists who took part."
In Receptive Mood.
“Our graduating class comprises 35
young ladies."
Matter o’ Money.
"How many of them have planned
“I thought Katherine figured on mar- I careers?”
rylng Jack Hansom.”
"None that I know of. Most of them
"She did; but another girl with | are waiting for some movie company
more money outfigured her.”—Boston to snap them up.”—Pittsburgh Dis-
Transcript.
patch.
Maternal Mortality.
A study of maternal mortality has
“This
been made by the federal children's place If
bureau. It shows that 15,000 mothers In It."
die each year in this country from pre
“Yea;
ventable causes incident to maternity. to make
Easy Marks.
world would be a pleasanter
there were not so many fools
but It would be more difficult
a living."