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    TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. NOVEMBER 29. 1917
Notice of Sale
o—
In the District Court of the United
States for the District of Oregon.
Detroit Trust Company,
Plaintiff
vs.
Carlos A Mann
Jeane B. Mann
Clarence T. Brock
Mary A. Brock
I Quarter of Southeast Quarter.
M .u Sectloa Twenty-five.
Quarten*“1 QuarUr °* Northwest
Quine?'Half 0{ Northwest
Quarter
and Sou‘heast
Sorth HNorthwest Quarter), and
ILnt^Th1“
°*. Southwest Quarter
of L .tree ai^ Northeast Quarter
ot Southwest Quarter).
T
,keCnOn Nineteen, Township
len South, Range Five East of the
State of Oregon4““' “ Unn C°Un,y’
TROOPS IN BATTLE
Trained Soldiers Are Wholly In
different to Danger.
THE PRESIDENT’S MAIL
It Takes • Carp» of Trained Clerks to
Handle the Letters.
President Wilson's mail bag la the
largest in the world. Thousands of let­
ters arrive daily, and every one of any
importance must have the lndivldurl at-
I tention of America's first citizen. Of
course the president Is not able to read
all bls correspondence himself. This
difficulty is overcome by a carefully de­
veloped system by which the contents
of the White House mall bag of any
Importance are laid before Mr. Wilson
' each day.
The work of selection falls upon a
corps of confidential clerks, who open
the letters and give them a first read­
ing; then they are carefully sorted.
Many of them are simply recommenda­
tions for office. These, after courteous
acknowledgment, are referred to the
proper departments and placed on file
until the matter can be taken up for
consideration.
Hundreds of the missives are purely
formal or contain Impossible requests.
These are Immediately answered by the
staff and signed by one of the presi­
dent’s assistant secretaries.
Such communications as ths president
ought to see are clearly briefed—that
is, a slip is pinned at the top of each
letter, and on this is a typewritten
synopsis of its contents, telling who the
writer is and what he has to present.
Frequently the president is sufficiently
interested by the brief to cause him to
read the whole letter. Sometimes the
communication is referred to a cabinet
officer, in which case the slip is retain­
ed at the White House and filed.
Requests for charity are continually
pouring In. These, however, are sent
to a different department, which goes
fully into each ease before replying.
When a large number of persons write
on the same subject the letters are
bunched, and the brief at the top gives
the names of those who present one
argument, and on nuother list are given
the names of the persons who offer a
different view.—Boston Post
Lewis Montgomery
Ida Mae Montgomery
FACE DEATH WITHOUT FEAR.
John C. Ainsworth
Alice H. Ainsworth
r»?|Ottrth: llle iol,ow>ng described
Joseph C. Mann
C?L?r0Pcerty s.i,ua,e >" Tillamook Thought of Calamity Bothers Them
Matilda Mann
County State of Oregon, to-wit:
Not. and They May Bo Severely
J. F. Hertzler
Southeast
Quarter
of Section
C. R. Hoevet
Wounded
Without
Feeling
Pain.
R?ò?
u
Ur
u
,n
ll
lownshl
P
Two
South,
Toledo Lumber Company
Unique Analogy From Railroad Life.
Mendian
‘
ght
°
f
the
Willamet
te
Oregon Lumber and Construction
Company
The thought of not coming out of a
The undersigned is by said decree
George W. Moore Lumber Company
battle alive rarely enters the mind of a
°Ll°L
e
.'
°
Sure
au
‘
horized
to
sell
said
Oregon Surety & Casualty Company
property to make the amounts I due seasoned soldier, and be goes Into the
J. B. Miller Logging Company
the plaintiff on said mortgages, , ad- conflict tired only with the sense of a
Washington Securities Company
vances and expenses, as in said patriotic duty to be well and faithfully
R. N. (Sada) Warnock
decree more specifically set out, l>erformed. with perhaps a vague hope
Alice Nye
alter crediting upon
said
said decree
decree of promotion for a deed of bravery or
Ivan E. Kyniston
the sum of Eight Thousand One daring. Very few people are afraid of
Leland Kyniston
Hundred ($8100.00)
Dollars paid a natural death, bnt a violent death is
Herbert F. Kyniston
thereon November u. 1917, which different, and yet “hundreds of thou­
Eva Pollock
said amounts are approximately as sands of men have gone to meet practi­
Nellie Palmer
'“"ows: Seventy-three Thousand Six cally certain destruction without giv­
Ida Kyniston
Hundred Forty-four
Dollars" and
W. A. Knyiston
Forty-eight Cents ($73,044.48), to- ing a sign of terror."
R. L. Sabin Trustee
Concerning the absolute indifference
gether with interest thereon at ms
the of the trained soldier to death in the
J. B. Miller
f?
te
°2
l
cn
,
p
cr
,cent
pcr
ann
um
from
W. P. McKenna
September, 1917; midst of battie and the reasons there­
W. C. Corbett
t
wo
1
housand
Dollars for. Dr. MacKenna employs a unique
\. and Fourteen Aguilars»
Spain E. Pearce
($¿014.00)
with
interest
thereon
at the and graphic Illustration from the rail­
Henry D. Davis
fate
six per cent per annum from road world.
William U. Franey
“Let us imagine,' he says, "that the
the 20th day of September, 1917; Two
James T. Salvage
thousand One Hundred Fifty-three brain, the organ that links up the body
Fred H. Taylor
Dollars and Seventy Cents ($2153.70), with the sources of thought and action,
A. T. Peterson
and the sum of Twenty-nine Dollars is a railway terminus into which run
E. G. Ralston (E. G. Thompson)
($29.00), and the sum of Thirteen
Carlos A. Mann and Lewis Mont­ Dollars and lhirty-five Cents ($13.35) lines from all parts of the country'.
gomery, co-partners doing business with interest on each of said sums There are lines to and from the eyes,
the ears, the feet, the hands and every
as Mann & Montgomery
at the rate of ten per cent per annum
Andrew Nye as Administrator of the from the 26th day of September, muscle in the body.
“In the heat of battle trains loaded
Estate of Julia Kyniston, deceased. 1917; and the further sum of Three
Defendants.
Hundred
Fifty-six
Dollars
and with messages are racing on the down
Under and by virtue of decree of Eighty-five Cents ($35685), and Fif­ line to every muscle. On a well or­
foreclosure and sale entered by the teen Dollars and
Eighty Cents dered railway system certain trains
District Court of the United States ($15-80), with interest thereon at the have priority, while others are held
for the District of Oregon on the 26th rate of ten per cent per annum from back until congestion is relieved and
day of September, 1917, in the above the 26th day of September, 1917; and some of the tracks are cleared.
entitled cause, the undersigned, as the further sum of Four thousand
“A wise train dispatcher will see that
Master in Chancery in and for said Eight Hundred Seventy-five Dollars a slow freight train does not get in the
Court, will offer for sale and sell at <$4875.00), with interest thereon at way and block the progress of a pas­
public auction to the highest bidder the rate of six pcr cent per annum senger express, and the mind acting In
for cash, at the hour of n:oo in the from the 26th day of September, 1917; this role takes care that no train laden
A NORWEGIAN WORD.
forenoon on the 29th day of Decem­ together with plaintiff’s costs and
with
fear
finds
Its
way
out
of
the
ber, 1917, at the main entrance of the disbursements taxed in said cause,
Origin of "Budstikken,” Which Means
Court House in Linn County, State and the costs and expenses of this terminus to throw the other traffic into
Spreading ths News.
confusion.
There
are
no
tracks
to
spare
of Oregon, in the City of Albany, sale. For particulars relative to each
This peculiar word is frequently found
such
a
cargo,
the
whole
railway
for
County of Linn, State of Oregon, all of said sums reference is made y said
system is occupied with the supply of in Scandinavian communities as the
the following described property, to­ decree.
name of a newspaper, such as St.
gether with all appurtenances there­
Upon the sale each and every pur­ more urgent necessities.
unto attached and belonging, includ­ chaser, other than the plaintiff, shall
“By a similar observation one can ex­ Cloud Bndstlkken. It is a Norwegian
ing all standing and down timber forthwith deposit with the Master in plain the frequently repeated statement word, 1,200 years old at the least and
thereon, and described by said decree Chancery a sum equal to ten per cent that in the beat of battle a soldier may has a very peculiar origin.
In those days when the coasts of Nor­
of foreclosure and sale, to-wit:
of the purchase price bid for said sustain a formidable wound and feel no
First: All those certain pieces or property, and in case any purchaser pain whatever and even be unaware way were ravaged by pirates the in­
habitants had to resort to all sorts of
parcels of land situate in the County shall fail to comply with the terms of that be has been hit
devices to warn those at a distance of
of Linn, State of Oregon, in Town­ his bid or any order of the Court re­
"The Injured limb or organ dispatches the approach of these piratical craft
ship Ten South of Range Four East lative to consummation of the pur­
of the Willamette Meridian in Ore­ chase, then the said sum or sums paid an express train along the line of some When one was seen on the horizon a
gon, and more particularly described in by said purchaser shall be forfeited sensory nerve to the railway terminus man went up to the top of a mountain,
as follows:
as penalty for non-compliance, and in in the brain, but on drawing near the where he lighted a beacon fire. This
Section 3.
the event that the sale to any pur­ terminus the signals are found to be could be seen for a long distance and
West Half of Northwest Quarter; chaser is not confirmed by the Court against It, and It cannot force its way was known to be a warning. When it
Section 10.
such deposit shall be returned to the through the press of traffic into the was seen in the distance another fire
station. It is therefore sidetracked.
South Half of Northeast Quarter, bidder.
was lighted on another hill until all
_
of Northeast
Northwest Quarter
“But just as an ordinary train will over the country fires blazed from ev­
Under and by virtue of the terms of
-Quarter, West Half of Southeast said decree, the plaintiff may become try to call the attention of the signal­ ery hilltop and the people prepared to
Quarter, East Half of Southwest a purchaser at said sale, and in lieu man by blowing its whistle when the
defend themselves.
(Quarter.
of said sums from the plaintiff the signal is against it, so a sensation of
They also had a system of messen­
Also all those certain pieces or par­ Master in Chancery will accept from pain may succeed in calling the atten­
cels of land situate and being in the the plaintiff the receipt for any por­ tion of the brain to its existence by gers. The man who first sighted the
County of Lincoln, State of Oregon, tion of said bid which may become sending on a message not of pain, but sail would take an arrow and send it
to his neighbors. From town to town
in Township Ten south, Ranges Ten tion of its bid which may become
this arrow was sent until all were
and Eleven West of Willamette properly payable to the plaintiff un­ of heaviness or pressure.
"This
may
have
the
effect
of
opening
warned. These were rather primitive
Meridian in Oregon, and more par­ der said decree
ticularly described as follows:
Said various parcels of real proper­ a path for the whole train to run ways of telegraphing, but were so ef­
In Township Ten South, Range ty will be sold by the Master at said through, and the wounded man begins fectual that in the course of twenty-
Eleven West of Willamette Meridian sale in the order heretofore set out, to discover that he has been hit or four hours all Norway knew of the ap­
in Oregon;
and the Master will sell only such of hurt But tn most cases a long Inter­ proach of pirates.
Section Fourteen.
said parcels as may be necessary to val elapses between the Infliction of
This system of spreading the news
South Half of South Half.
pay and discharge the sums mention­ the wound and the realization of the was called "budstikken,” and when
In Township Ten South, Range ed in said decree. Upon the confirma­ soldier that he has been wounded.
there were no more pirates the news­
Ten West of Willamette Meridian in tion of said sale and payment in full
“I have been informed by a soldier papers became spreaders of the news
Oregon:
of the purchase price, and upon com­ who had a large piece blown out of his and so were appropriately styled "bud-
Section Seventeen.
pliance with all the terms of the sale, thigh that be was quite unaware of his stlkken.”— Exchange.
of
Southeast
Southwest Quarter
or upon making such provisions for Injury for several minutes. His atten-
■Quarter, South Half of Southwest the payment of the purchase price as was attracted by hearing his foot
String Beans In Brine.
of
Quarter
Quarter, Northwest
cf the Court may approve, the Master ‘squelch’ every time he moved it On
Instead of canning string beans put
Southwest Quarter.
will make, execute and deliver to the looking down he saw that his boot was
them up in brine, and hi winter they
Section Eighteen.
purchaser, his successors or assigns,
East Half of Southeast Quarter, in form to be approved by the Court full of blood ; then almost immediately taste like freshly picked beans.
Put a layer of dry salt one-fourth
East Half of Southwest Quarter, or a Judge thereof, a proper instru­ he felt a dull ache In the thigh, follow­
Southeast Quarter of Northwest ment of conveyance, transfer ajid as­ ed very shortly by a sensation of acute inch thick in the bottom of a crock.
signment of the property sold, and pain.
Next put a layer of beans one and one-
Quarter.
"In this case, to return to our illus­ half inches high just as they are picked
Section Nineteen.
upon the delivery of such instrument
Quarter,
the grantee named therein will be let tration, the messages of pain from the from the garden without washing.
East Half, of Southeast
Northwest
Quarter of Southeast into the possession of the property wounded thigh had been held up by con­
Next a one-fourth inch layer of salt
Quarter, South Half of Northeast and all the appurtenances thereunto gestion of traffic near the terminus. and so on until the crock Is tilled. On
belonging.
Quarter, and Lot Three.
We may Imagine that the impeded train top invert a plate and put a heavy
Section Twenty.
For further particulars with refer­ tried to call the attention of the signal­ weight.
Southwest Quarter of Northwest ence to the property to be sold and man, but failed to do so until a mes­
When you wish to use them soak an
Quarter, North Half of Southwest with reference to the terms and con­ sage sent from the suburban station of hour or so and then boll like fresh
Quarter, Southwest Quarter of South­ ditions of sale, reference is made to sight, not far from the terminus, got ;
beans.—New York Sun.
the said decree, a copy of which may
east Quarter.
Section Twenty-Nine.
be found on inquiry at the office of through and informed the station mas­
Man and tha Animals.
Northwest Quarter of Northeast the clerk of the United States Dis­ ter that a very Important train from a
The essential difference between
of trict Court for the District of Oregon, remote part of the country was being
Quarter, Northeast
Quarter
at Portland, Oregon, or on applica- held up. The levers were then at once men and animals is well stated by Dr
Southwest Quarter.
tiin to the undersigned Master in drawn, and the sensation of pain pass­ Graazet, an eminent French biologist,
Section Thirty-two.
ed on to the sensorium." — St. Louis quoted by the Scientific American. lie
Northeast Quarter of Northwest Chancery.
Dated at Portland, Oregon, this Post-Dispatch.
says the animal is 1 redestined to obe7
Quarter.
Second: All those certain pieces or 27th day of November, 1917.
the laws of its species, whf’e man
Robert F. Maguire,
parcels of land situate and being in the
obeys them only if and when be will.
Announcement.
Master in Chancery.
County of Linn, State of Oregon, in
A man may, if he wants to, sustain
- ■ o■—
Title & Trust Building,
Township Ten South of Range four
Mrs. J. C. Holden announces that with energy the pretension that two
Portland, Oregon.
East of the Willamette Meridian, in
she will open her Piano Studio, Sept. and two make live, or he may commit
Oregon, and more particularly de­
1, for private and class instruction.
suicide.
scribed as follows:
Mrs. Holden is a graduate cf the
Notice.
Section Nine.
Dunning Improved System of Music
Quicksands.
----- o-----
East Half of Southeast Quarter.
Study and will establish classes in
Quicksands are not caused by water
maker
wanted,
to
furnish
all
Section Ten
Cheese
this method.
constantly flowing over sand. It is only
West Half of Southwest Quarter.
supplies, and make cheese on percent­
Anyone desiring further particulars where there is an upward current that
Section Eleven.
age, at Miami Valley Creamery Co.’s may call at any time.
they are found. Imagine, for instance,
West Half of Northwest Quarter, factory.
a bucket filled with sand. Water poured
Northeast Quarter
of Northwest
Bids will be opened at factory
on that sand does not make it “quick.”
j Monday, Dec. 3, 1917-
Quarter.
If, however, the bucket had a hole tn its
Section Twelve.
|X1J
Right reserved to reject any or
Southwest Quarter of Southwest 1)jds
bottom and water was forced through
Dated this 7th day of Nov., T917.
the bole quicksands would tie formed.
Quarter.
L_
C. V. Stoker, Pres.
Section Thirteen.
Northwest Quarter of Northwest
A Fitting Nam«.
Quarter.
"Well," was the answer of a little
YOU
CAN
EARN
Section Fourteen..
chap who had been asked the name of
North Half of Northeast Quarter.
his cat. “we used to call him William,
Section Fifteen.
month
selling
"Wear-Ever"
each --------
but be has been having fits lately, so
■
.
C.
Northwest Quarter.
specialties in Tillamook county.
we call him Fitz William now.”
Section Twenty-four.
Lewis
county,
1 Irvine Armstrong,
I
South Half of Southeast Quarter Washington, averaged
1275
per
Would Be Prepared.
Northwest Quarter
of Southeast month in July and August. • A recent
She—Suppose, dear, I find you have
month’ w s commissions
Quarter.
..
Juviltu
—------ of T. - r J. Pellow.
not given me enough money? He—
Section Twenty-five.
Astoria, Oregon, were »364 Do not
Then telegraph for more. She—Have
Northeast Quarter, Southeast Quar­ apply unless vou are exempt from
you a telegraph blank?—Exchange.
ter, Southwest Quarter. South Halt army draft, can furnish references
of Northwest Quarter
Northeast and have funds to pay expenses for
Quarter of Northwest Quarter.
Promising Candidate.
one month. Successful applicant will
Section Thirty-five.
Editor—Do you know how to run a
■be selected in few weeks after per­
Southeast Quarter
newspaper? Applicant—No. str. Editor
sonal interview with our sales super-
Section Thirteen.
—Well, 111 try you. I guess you’ve bad
1 visor. For particulars write to The
^Southeast Quarter.
Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company,
experience.— Puck.
Northed0" Ä^ortheaat Portland. Oregon.
WHAT’S IN A SHOE?
Leather, ef Course, but There
Are Lots of Other Things.
FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
Reading
the
Story
ef the
Materials
That Are Ueed In Turning Out Mod­
ern Footgear Is Like Taking a Lee-
eon In Commoroial Geography.
What’s in a shoe?
Take a factory tag that tells how a
shoe is made. Count on it sixty differ­
ent items of material; also different
items of labor. That shows many of
the things tn a case. And there may
be others.
Whence come the materials? When
you look at a shoe you see the four cor­
ners of the globe pulled together in It
Begin with the bottom, or sole, made
from the hide of a Texas steer, tanned
in oak from Pennsylvania forests. And
the heel is of South American dry hide,
tanned in hemlock bark.
It's a kidskin shoe you have? It
looks it, although one never can tell
for sure these days. The vamp is made
of a goat of Brazil. It is tanned with
chrome from New Caledonia, is black­
ed with logwood from Jamaica and la
glazed with glass from Austria.
The top is of a kid skin tanned in Ni­
geria, brought to Massacbusetta and
there retanned and finished. The tongue
is of sheep leather. The sheep grew in
Argentine. The leather linings are of
skins of sheep that grew tn Australia.
The skins were tanned in sumac from
Sicily.
Some of the leather Is treated with
“fat liquor,” an emulsion made of cod
oil from Labrador and acids from ODe
of the new American chemical labora­
tories.
i’et only a few of the things that the
tanner used in making the shoe have
been mentioned. lie also uses in his
mystery of tannlug “dlvl-dlvi” from
the East Indies, valonla from Turkey,
myrobolans from India and algarobilla
from the laud knows where, suit from
Michigan, sawdust from Maine mills,
egg yolk from Russia, blood from Chi­
cago and degras from France—and a
few other things from a few other coun­
tries besides.
If there’s any fellow under the sun,
from an Eskimo to a ratngonlan or
from a Hottentot to a Korean, who has
a hide or Bkln to sell, he can get his
price for it if he will show it to a Yan­
kee tanner, for the Yankee tanner la
buying pelts everywhere.
4
The leather of which the shoe is made
Is fastened together with thread of Irish
linen or Georgia cotton. The lacings are
of Egyptian or long fiber Sea island
cotton, tough and strong. The buttons
are of bone, pearl or paper, American
or European. The eyelets are of brass,
coated with celluloid.
The tacks are made by the million In
Massachusetts of steel. The same is
true of the heel nails and of the shanks
In the arches of the shoe. If a iierson
prefers wood pegs that won’t scratch
hardwood floors in the heels of bls
shoes be may get them at a New
Hampshire shop.
The welt may be of pigskin. The pig
was killed In Packingtown, and hls pelt
was tanned in Massachusetts. Ills
bristles were saved and made Into
brushes for cleaning the shoe.
Between the outsole and the Insole
of the shoe is the "filler,” a composi­
tion of rubber from Ceylon cut with
naphtha and mixed with ground cork
from Portugal.
The Insole perhaps is of good bark
tanned leather. But it may lie of fiber,
coated with a sheet of leather. The
box toe may also be of leather. But
more likely It is of felt, filled with
shellac to make it stiff. Ukewlre tho
counter may be of leather. But more
likely it Is of leather board or celluloid
or of scrups of leather pasted together
with flour paste and compressed.
The felt is made from waste woolen,
perhaps old coats. The shellac is from
the lac tree of India, and the leather
Imard Is mnde down in Jlalnp of shred­
ded leather, hemp and jute from India
and other things.
Yet a few more things are used in
the making of a shoe. The last, over
which the shoe is fashioned, is of ma­
ple from Michigan. The patterns, by
which the uppers are cut, are of paper
board, made from old newsjmpers.
They are bound withybrass. The
brass la stripped from them after they
become obsolete, and it is used for
brazing the steel dies with which leath­
er is cut for several parts of the shoe.
The brazing Is dune in an electric flame
or in a Are of Pennsylvania coal.
The snowy white lining is made from
cotton of Dixie land. The top facing
is of silk made in New Jersey mills,
and the gold leaf on it may tie truly a
product of El Dorado.
The edges of the heels and soles are
burnished with wax, which comes from
Brazil, and the shoes are blacked with
a blacking of which wax is a chief part
There are forty-seven other things in
a shoe. But enough already has t>een
told. What does a fellow expect these
days of high prices? Enough already
has been said to make a lesson in
commercial geography Incorporating
the four comers of the globe, as well
as a few things above and a few things
below the globe, and it's all for the
price of one pair of shoes.- .Salem News.
HANGED THE PRINCESS.
Fate of a Russian Heiress Who Worked'
For the Revelutiotu
What is said to be the true story of
the hanging of Princess Olga Enga-
licheff, daughter of the richest man In
Russia, In the prison of Tomsk on Jan.
15, 1918, la told In a New York society
magazine. The story Is signed by Bo­
ris de Tangko, a name which, the mag­
azine asserts, is the nom de plume of s
Russian nobleman who fled to New
York when the recent Russian impe­
rial government set a price on bls head
as a revolutionist
The story depicts the Russian prin­
cess bravely facing death aa she pre­
dicted the very culmination of Ruaela's
troubles.
According to the story of Borts de
Tangko. the governor of Kiev was as­
sassinated in the home of the princess.
Her father sensed at once her connec­
tion with the murder, and shortly after
he had given hls daughter fair warn­
ing that he Intended to remain true to
the emperor she was arrested and ex­
iled to Siberia.
After live years spent In prison there
she escaped and went to Paris, where
she became a power In social and po­
litical circles. In 1915, following the
death at the front of Dimitri Dashkow,
1 fellow revolutionist, whose acquaint­
ance she had formed while both were
exiles in Siberia, she decided to return
to Russia. Three months later she was
arrested.
influential friends begged that they
be allowed to appeal to the czar for a
pardon, but she refused to allow them
to speak In her behalf. Two days be­
fore her execution she managed to
send several letters to her friends tn
Paris, In all of which she wrote: "When
tills letter reaches you I shall be dead.
But our work will continue. Our na­
tion will soou be free.”
HANDY WITH THEIR FEET.
Many Animals U«» Them Cleverly In
Taking Their Food.
Kangaroos use their hands very read­
ily to hold food in and to put it into
their mouths. As their fore legs are so
short that they have to browse in a
stooping position, they seem pleased
when able to secure a large bunch of
cabbage or other vegetable provender
and to hold it in their hands to eat.
Sometimes the young kangaroo, look­
ing out of its mother’s pouch, catches
one or two of tho leaves which the old
one drops, and the pair may be seen
each nibbling at the salad held in their
hands, one, so to speak, "one floor"
above the other.
The slow, deliberate clasping and
unclasping of a chameleon’s feet look
like the movements which the hands ot
a sleepwalker might make were he
trying to creep downstairs. The cha­
meleon’s are almost deformed hands,
yet they have a superficial resemblance
to the feet of parrota, which more than
other birds use their feet for many of
the purposes of a hand when feeding.
To see many of the smaller rodents—<
ground squirrels, prairie dogs and mar­
mots—hold food, usually in both pawa.
Is to learn a lesson in the dextrous use
of hands without thumbs.
Nothing more readily suggests the
momentary impression that a pretty
little monkey Is “a man and a brother”
than when ho stretches out hls neat lit­
tle palm, flngera and thumb and, with
all the movements proper to the clvi-
IIzed mode of greeting, insists on shak­
ing bands.—London Graphic.
/•
Battleships and Paint.
Our battleships literally eat paint
The initial color requirements for a
new battleship cost about $25,000,
which is tho price of about a hundred
tons of the kind of paint the navy uses.
In addition to this, according to the
Popular Science Monthly, it is custom,
ary to repaint the different parts of a
ship two or three times s year, so the
annual upkeep probably exceeds this
sum. This brings the annual outlay In
paint for the entire fleet to $1,000,000.
The most Important coating a vessel
receives is the paint applied to the sub­
merged parts of the bull to protect It
from corrosion or barnacles.
The Lesser Evil.
“If you were compelled to engage In
conversation with one or the other for
an hour which would you choose, a
woman with a mission or one who
thinks she Is misunderstood?"
“The woman with a mission.”
“Whyr
"She would do most of the talking.
A woman who thinks she Is misunder­
stood usually wants a little confiden­
tial advice.”—Birmingham Age Herald.
Health and Money.
There is this difference between
those two temporal blessings, health
and money: Money Is the most envied,
but least enjoyed; health is the most
enjoyed, but least envied, end thia su­
periority of the latter la still more ob­
vious when we reflect thHt the poorest
man would not pert with health for
money, but the richest man would glad­
ly part with all hls money for health.
Fine Conformity.
"That penmanship teacher to very
consistent In the way she arranges her
face veil.”
“How do you mean?"
“Don't you notice that In patting it
on she always dots her eyes?"—Baa
Francisco Chronicle.
Not Run Down Yel.
Remember Thie.
“Whet do you think Is tile most diffi­
cult thing for a beginner to learn about
golf?"
“To keep from talking about ft all
the time.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Publish your joys and corneal your
griefs.
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"Your husband looks run down."
“Well, he's not. There have been ten
bill collectors here today, and not one
of ’em found him in."—St. Louis Post»
Dispatch.
Evasion la unworthy of ns and is
slwsys the intimate of equivocation.—
Balzac.
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