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Aristotle Clever in Evading Royal Wrath Alexander the Great met defeat when he tried to obtain ownership and exclusive control of the writings ol Aristotle. During the philosopher’s second sojourn In Athens he gave In struetion to the youthful world con querer and prepared a number of com positions especially for his royal pu pil's instruction. A little later Alex ander wrote the following letter to Aristotle: “You have not treated me fairly In Including with your published works the papers ‘prepared for my instruc tion. For if the scholarly writings by which I was educated become the common property of the world, in what manner shall I be distinguished above ordinary mortals? I would rather be noteworthy through possession of the highest knowledge than by means of the power in my possession." To which Aristotle Ingeniously re piled: "It is true that through zeal of ad miring friends these lectures, orig inally prepared for thy instruction have been given out to the world, but in the full sense of the term tiiey have not been published. For In their present form they can only be under stood when accompanied by the inter pretation of the author and such in terpretation has been given only to you.”—Kansas City Star. Lightning Thought to Drill Hole in Glatt If any reader should find one of his window panes perforated by a perfect ly round hole, without apparent cause, the first question he should ask Is. Has there been a thunderstorm In this neighborhood recently? If the answer is In the affirmative, he may conclude that Jupiter Tonans, the lord of the thunderbolts, in playful mood has sent one Of them through the glass. In ordinary English, the pane has been struck by lightning. That Is what probably happened to the plate-glass window of a New York building recently. A minute hole ap peared mysteriously in the glass Three employees were at work inside the window, and ail three heard a dis tinct report. Particles of glass fell on one of them. Search failed to re veal any bullet or other object that might have caused the hole. It seems to have been due to one of the mys terlous pranks of lightning. Disraeli’s Birthplace The late Lord Beaconstfeld was al ways very vague in his mind as to where he had been born, but at one time he firmly believed it to be the house at the southwest corner of Bloomsbury square and Hart street Actually, says Mr Charles G. Harper in "A Literary Man’s London,” he did not go to live in 'hat house until he was some twelve years of age, and today a bronze tablet on the house testifies to that. Yet when he was the prime minister tie visited this Bloomsbury square house, and sat pon dering “in the room In which he was born!” Another anecdote Mr. Harper has to tell Is of Disraeli when he was nearing his end. When his sovereign wished to call and bid him farewell, he refused, because he said. “She only wants me to give a message to the Prince Consort!” Motors Lift Bridge Most railroad bridges of the lift type In the United States are operated by electric motors served by a power sys tem. However, the Pennsylvania rail road has a bridge across the Chesa peake and Delaware canal that has no easy access to central station power, so a gasoline engine generator set was installed to supply the lift motors with energy. A 110-kilowatt gas engine set serves the two 120 horse-power mo tors. The lift span of the bridge, car rying two tracks, weighs 700 tons and is raised to a level that clears the wa ter by 90 feet If a boat approaches the bridge can be lifted to its top posl Hon In 90 seconds. Iguana’s Accomplishments In northern Australia .the iguana Is seen quite often. This Is a very versatile reptile that “can run like a horse, can swim and dive, shin up a tree, digs its burrow, and, when necessary, can fight like a demon.” The iguana may go down its hole to sleep for months. It can go foodless for weeks: at other times It will eat or swallow anything. Mr. Terry says that snakes, old socks, or even an un opened tin of jam are alike to It, when Its throat can gulp down such tasty morsels. Love Story “You love me, don’t you7’ he said looking Into her beautiful face. A loving look was In her eyes as she snuggled her head on his shoulder. He slipped hls hand Into his pocket and drew out a little box. Opening it. he withdrew a sparkling cube of -ugar. He slipped It Into her await ing mouth, and with a low whinny she galloped off to the pasture.—Path tinder. Voiced Her Desire One day vvtiilu four-year old Helen and her father were out walking, he took her Into an ice cream parlor. He thought she had decided to have a chocolate soda; so, when the waitress appeared, he said: “Helen tell the lady what you want.” Imagine his surprise when Helen in uocently replied: “A baby brother." Old Roman Fountain Credited to Domitian Home has the reputation of being the city which possesses the largest number of artistic and monumental fountains, which all help to give her a most attractive uspect. But certain ly very few people in Borne, writes a correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, could tell you which is the oldest of all, and guides often miss pointing it out to the tourists and other foreign visitors. At the foot of the road leading to the Coliseum there lies the so-called Meta Sudans, a fountain whose name is probably derived from its conical shape, sii iilur to the “metae” of the circus. The fountain is believed to have been erected or embellished by the Emperor Domitian, and it was re produced on the special medal struck on the occasion of the formal opening of the Coliseum. Tlie water issued from numerous small holes in a bronze globe at the top and fell in a veil into a large circular basin, lined through out with marble. This fountain Is mentioned by the philosopher Seneca in one of his epistles, when he com plains of the noise which was made by a showman who blew bis trumpet close to the fountain. Gretna Green Unlike Town of Olden Day« The big Increase in the surplus of English women, as Indicated in re cent census returns, has robbed Gretna Green (Scotland) of hopes of staging j a comeback. The good old days of romance are gone forever, aver the townsfolk. Daughters were far more scarce a hundred years or so ago than now | when parents so rarely try to shoot any young sports who purloin them ( Gretna Green did most of its rushing | marriage business between 1754 and 1856. One of the popular paintings is that of romantic passengers in a post chaise hurrying to the town on the boundary line between England and i Scotland and showing the pursuing father's vehicle in a ditch with the wheel broken down. This picture is more in demand | than the village blacksmith himself who used to lend a helping hand to parties bent on clandestine marriage to avoid the English Ihw. Ar.cient Topography The road followed by the dead on their way to the Elysian fields, based on the actual topography of the Nile valley. Is depicted on one of the earli est maps known. In a lecture before the Royal Dutch Geographical society, i Dr. F. C. VVieder said that the first map makers of whom there is any rec ord were the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians. The way to Elysium ’ was pictured on a sarcophagus of the j old empire of Egypt now in Berlin, j A plan of the Nubian gold mines, he ! continued, is preserved on a papyrus of the Fourteenth century before Christ Bond maps made into a house hold necessity by the automobile had precursors in the clay tablets Into which the Babylonians baked charts of their roads 50 centuries ago, ac cording to the Dutch scientist Careless Letter Writers Post otflee employees Id congress may be pardoned If their estimate of the public’s intelligence is somewhat low. Letters still come addressed to Mark Hanna and Boise Penrose, for mer senators and now dead several years. Uncle Joe Cannon’s mall is quite heavy yet. Senators and mem bers of the house are mixed up indis criminately by letter writers. So many letters are received for mem bers of state legislatures who should have been addressed at their state capitals that a membership roll of all legislatures is kept on hand for as sistance In forwarding such mall to the proper address. Why are letter writers so careless?—Exchange. Selected Big One Albert, age six. was very fond of squeezing tooth paste from the tube. His mother warned him not to take too much. One morning he said: 'How much may I take, mother?” "Oh, a little,” she replied, "about as big as a bean.” Then Albert pinched the tube and out shot the paste. “Oh, oh I” exclaimed his mother. “Not so much, t said as big as a bean.” “Yes,” said Albert, “this Is a string bean.”—Youth's Companion. Leather Centuries Old Pieces of leather believed to be six centuries old, dug up in excavating for ’he foundation of a new building Id ihe city of London, were still In serv Iceable condition and were used b> the workmen to repair their shoes The And was made In a heap about ten yards square of waste and manufac tured leather in a layer of black mud which apparently had been the dump of a medieval leather worker, deposited in the Fourteenth or Fifteenth cen tury. The wet earth had preserved the material. Most Children on Farms More than half the farm population of the United States, 50.4 per cent to be exact. Is made up of persons under twenty-one. In the cities only 37.5 per cent of the people are less than twenty-one. Which is as It should be, for the country Is the place to raise children. And farm-raised boys and girls are the life-blood of all large cities.—Capper’s Weekly. Succession ot lures Produced. Motor Car The history of the motor ear began over aw years ago. when Street, an English Inventor, first utilised oil us a motive power. It was not until 1870 that a really practical petrol engine appeared. It was the work of Julius (lock, of Vienna. The next name connected with thi progress of the motor cur is the mos’ important of all that of (iottlleh Daimler. In 18'»t Daimler made the first small, high-speed petrol engine, ill previous engines bad been hugi clumsy and slow-moving. Two years later lie installed his en glue in a motor bicycle, and at the saute time fitted boats with motors alto ran them at I’aris. The boats attracted the attention ot Levassor, another famous pioneer, who at once saw the Immense possibilities iti Daimler's Invention, lie bought the French patents from the Inventor, Le vassor Invented a system of transmls sion—a method of taking the power from the engine to the wheels—and with a few small Improvements this system Is in use today. Peifeclly Plc'n A ten-y tar-old girl laid moved from Indianapolis to a farm in southern In diuiiu where the language of the Hoosler schoolmaster sometimes still exi ts in reality. Many of the school children's expressions were like Ureek to her and called for translation by her schoolmates or mother. One day she inquired of a school male why lino,, cue was out of school. “She’s got a ri-iu on her head." was the reply. ■’What's that?" "Why, it a raisin’," was the ex planatory answer. Kepeuling the conversation to her mother she learned that Imugene hud a boil or abscess on her head.—In diuuupolis News. It Doss In a lesson in liaising a sentenc-t the word "courting" came to a young miss of fourteen to parse. She com uieuced hesitatingly, but got on wel enough until she hud to tell what li agreed with. Here she stopped short. Bui us the teacher said, "Very well ; wliui dot* courting ugree with?" Elld Mushed and held down her head. "Ellen, don't you know vvlmt cour big agrees with?" “Ye-jre—yes, ma'am.” “Well, Ellen, why don't you purs, j Fiat word? What does it agree with?' Blushing still more and stammer dig, Ellen at last replied, “It agrees ,1'ilb all the girls, ma'am." Plenty of Ignorance The uneuucated huve to pas through life with crippled powers. lliey have not a fair chance of con tending in that struggle for exlstenct upon which all have to embark wb* ire obliged to earn their own liveli hood. Few. if any, Industrial opera lions are so entirely mechanical Uni a man will perform them equally wel whether Ids mental powers have bee. developed or have been permitted t. remain dormant. Iguoruuce tuke away u considerable part of the powe uf a man to acquire the means < dying.—Henry Fawcett. Reply Not Recorded Mildred, age live, having been b< u a day iar removed from the da. ..ges, had never seen a man with beard. Uue day an uncle who pn -essed a crop of rather short whisket ante to visit them. After the firs munitions liad been given. Mlldre tured at her newly found ktnsui. .ith intense interest. Evidently arriving at no sutisfa >ry conclusion, she asked: “Wh nd of fur is that on your face—I r rabbit?” Start of Honeymoon The honeymoon Journey is stated live hud its birth in the reign leorge 11 of England, declares Ut bogie. It became, declares an aulhoi ity on wedding customs, “a recognize bridal institution in the aristocrat! world lu tiie earlier days of Georg Ill's reign. Many years passed befori modest gentlefolk In the middle rani •f life presumed to Imitate their be ers In respect to this convenient cu orn.” Character Shown in Likes and Dislikes It you are ever in dcubt as to whether an acquaintance would prove a good companion, there is one in fallible sign by which you can make sure of the matter. When you talk to him notice whether he tells you first of something he likes or dislikes. If he is prone to air his dislikes you may be sure he will not prove a very cheerful companion. Ills mind Is de structive. He Is more concerned with pulling to pieces than with building up. Such a person has a tendency to shut up one’s mind or put It on Its guard against Impulses and Innova tions. He has a sensitive nature that withdraws Itself Into Its shell on the least Impact of the common things about him. One will get nothing from him but grumblings and animadver sions. The person on the other hand who quickly makes you acquainted with what he likes Is one v'ho will prove a line stimulating companion. He Is ardent, curious, adventuring. He will communicate his own enthusiasm and awaken in those he meets tastes and sympathies and ideas. He Is a builder, a creator, a doer. Such men of in finite likes are to be cultivated. SHOE REPAIRING BENJAMIN & THOMAS always give satisfaction. Best material, reason able prices. 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PAINTERS AND PAPER HANGERS A. F. PEOPLES. Painting and decor ating, wall paper and glass. Plas tering, cement and general work. Sherwin-Williams paints. 2419 Lake St. Phone Webster 6366. | EMERSON’S LAUNDRY 1 •{• The laundry That Suits AH v 1301 No. 24th St. Web. 0820 f. LAWYERS \\. B. BRYANT, Attorney and Coun selor-at-Law. Practices in all courts. Suite 19, Patterson Block, 17th and Famam Sts. AT. 9344 or Ken. 4072. W. G. MORGAN—Phones ATIantir 9344 and JAckson 0210. H. J. PINKETT, Attorney and Coun selor-at-Iaiw. Twenty years' ex perience. Practices in all courts. Suite 19, Patterson Block, 17th and Farnams Sts. AT. 9344 or WE. 3180. HOTELS PATTON HOTEL, 1014, 1016, 1018 South Uth St. Known from coast to coast. Terms reason." hie. N. P. Patton, proprietor. THE HOTEL CUMMINGS, 1916 Cum ing St. Under new management, fernis reasonable. D. G. Russel!, proprietor. BAGGAGE ANI) HAULING .1. A. GARDNER’S TRANSFER. Bag gage, express, moving, light and heavy hauling. Reliable and com petent. 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