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Bloomington, 111.—Scheherazade has
been outdone by Capt. Lewis E. Ijams,
•<t Illinois. The Arabian Nights are In
laager of being outclassed in history,
henceforth, by the Bloomington- Days.
Tbe resiiectlve ancient and modern
instances of the two great story-tellers
run parallel, to a certain extent; but
the American army veteran’s continu
ous performance was inspired seem
ingly by a more sordid motive than
(hat of the bride of the sulton of India,
and had a different, though perhaps
equally happy ending.
Scheherazade told her royal spouse
1,101 stories in as many nights, in or
der to divert him from his disagree
able habit of putting to death each I
morning his new bride of the day be- j
lore.
Ijaais spun the same number of
cheerful yarns to Abram Brokaw. a
millionaire plowmaker 85 years old,
presumably with the object of prolong
ing the iatter's life. But when the
aged man finally succumbed at the
one hundred and first side-splitter,
and it transpired that he had been so
well entertained that he had clean for- j
gotten In mention the said Ijams in j
his will or to compensate him in any
substantial way for the humorous !
treatment so untiringly administered, j
then the captain felt right mad, and
up and sued the estate for $10,000—
that is to say. for 1,000 prime, hand
made jokes, at ten dollars per. The
extra one hundred and one Joe Mil
lerisai was thrown ill gratis for good
measure.
He didn’t get quite the. ten thou- :
sand—but that’s another story, which ;
is worth telling in some detail, to- \
gether with its romantic sequel, as to
how, Capt. fjams won a bride, through
(•laying a losing game of strategy
against Cupid.
How a Fortune Was Made.
Abram Brokaw *had settled ia
Bloomington away back in the forties:
when the site of the present city was
nothing but a blooming prairie, ac
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cording to a New York World corre
spondent. He bought up land for al
most nothing and lent small sums of
money on likely looking farms, then
foreclosed the mortgages. He also
manufactured and sold nlows, which
no farmer, rich or [>oor. could do with
out. These enterprises, combined by
the time he was old enough to have no
particular use for money, so he grad
ually became a miser.
Like some other millionaires of our
time, old man Brokaw cultivated a
sense of humor and loved the society
of a cheerful liar—especially when,
like salvation, it was free.
He found a congenial affinity, in the
funny sense, in the person of his neigh
bor, Capt. Lewis E. Ijams, who had a
civil war record, a small pension and
a reputation as the local Mark Tapley.
Lewis was possessed of a prodigious
memory, a fertile imagination and a
vast collection of antiques in the line
of jocose anecdotes of the vintage of
1840 and backward. He could draw
STRENGTH OF ALUMINUM.
A Question Frequently Asked by
Workers in Metal.
Metal workers frequently ask: What
is the strength of aluminum? The ten
sile. crushing and transverse strength
of aluminum varies considerably with
different conditions of hardness, due
to cold weather: also to the amount of
work that has been put upon the metal
and character of the section, and the
amount Of hardening Ingredients.
Cast aluminum is about equal in
strength to cast iron In tension, while
under compression it is comparatively
____ 1 we&k- Taking the metal 99 per cent,
pare, the ultimate tensile strength per
isquare Inch in castings is 18,600
pounds; in sheet, 24,000 to 40,000;
wire, 30,000 to 65,000 pounds, and bars,
128,000 to 40,000 pounds. As compared
wUli copper, the average tensile
- sttength of which' per square inch Is
authoritatively stated to *e as fol
tows: Cast, 18,000 pounds; sheet, 30,
008; molts, 36,000, and wire, 16,500,
pore aluminum compares with copper
upon this inexhaustible store In lots
to suit any listener and keep it up in
definitely. He never had to repeat
himself—or. if he did, he never told
tlie same story twice in the same way.
Abram Brokaw loved to have Capt.
Ijams drop in with a budget of button
busters, and he was such a good lis
tener thdt the captain never failed to
spread himself. Kor hours at a time
the octogenarian would sit spellbound
drinking in tales of early life in Illi
nois, many of which were contempora
neous with his own boyhood days. The
habit grew upn him, and after Mrs.
Brokaw’s death Capt. Ijams was in
vited to put in all his time with the
aged widower and take up story-tell
ing as a steady job.
Was lAais O fecial “Story Teller.”
So Capt. Ijams accepted the posi
tion of grand vizier and raeonteur-in
ehief to Harou.n Brokaw. No salary
wrs mentioned in connection with the
office, but Ijaras figured that so long
as he could make the old gentleman
laugL he-would have little trouble to
induce him to iocsen up financially.
Moreover, it was a safe gamble that
his stock of stories would, last longer
than the venerable listener, and then
the latter would more than square
tilings in his will.
Jams started In systematically with
his choice line of Chauncey M. Do
pe w’s favorites, then want on with his
early Illinois legends and persona!
recollections of Abraham Lincoln, and
lii’.aliy brought up in the comparative
ly modern period of Urn civil war. By
this iirae he would have Mr. Brokaw
going so that he could read a chapter
or two trom the Bible, and the dear
old men would chuckle delightedly
over;
"Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac
begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judas
and Iiis brethren; and Judas begat
Phares and Zara of Tharnar; and
Phares begat Esrom, and Esrom be
gat Aram, and Aram begat Aminadab,”
and so on.
The great stream of the antiques
was this quotation from a Latin
writer of the first century of the
Cbrist.iau era; “A man who fired a
rock at a dog and hit his mother-in
law said, ‘Not such a bad shot at
that! ‘ ”
Here is a specimen from early Illi
nois? :
“Jake Spawr was one of the three
commissioners appointed to lay out
tim turnpike road between Chicago
and Springfield. The act required that
these commissioners should be sworn,
but there was no official handy to per
form this duty. So Jake, as a justice
of the peace, administered the oath to
the other two commissioners and then
raised up the lid oi a shoe-box with a
looking-glass inside it, and solemnly
administered the oath to his reflection
in the! mirror, thus swearing himself
in, so that he could legally help to con
struct the pike.”
IhiB Lincoln story was one that old
man Brokaw pronounced “a bird:”
“Lincoln and Douglas were travel
ing together by stage-coach from La
con to Pontiac, when they got into a
heated persnal debate, and Lincoln
more than hinted that there was a liar
in their party of two, and that it
wasn't himself. This meant tight. At
the next stopping place tho fiery
Douglas pulled a pair of pistols out of
his carpetbag and proposed to ‘Abe'
that they arbitrate their differences
with cold lead. Lincoln drew himself
up and said: ‘I am about twice your
! height, and would be too<easy a mark
for you. To make things even, you’ll
have t:o stand further away from me
than I do from you.’ Douglas began to
see the joke and replied: “No; I’ll tell
you what we’ll do. I’ll mark out my
size on your person, and every shot
that hits outside the mark won’t count.’
Then they had a drink together and
called the fight off.’’
Another warm baby was this waif
from the battlefield:
“An Irish corporal was carrying a
wounded comrade to the rear and did
in the Bame manner that alloyed alum
inum compares with brass. The elas
tic limit of 99 per cent, pure aluminum
is for castings in tension 8,500 pounds;
sheet, 12,500 ^ 25,00); wire, 16,000
to 33,000; bars, 14,000 to 23,000 pounds
per square inch.
Under transverse tests aluminum is
not very rigid, although the metal will
bend nearly double before breaking,
while cast iron, under similar condi
tions. i3 broken very easily. The ten
sile strength of aluminum Is greatly
improved by subjecting the ingots to
forging and pressing at a temperature
the tensile strength of pure aluminum
of 600 degrees Fahrenheit. Taking
in relation to its weight, it is as strong
as steel of 80,000 pounds per square
inch. Aluminum property alloyed with
nickel is much stronger than the pore
metal, as may be seen by the follow
ing figures: Nickel aluminum has aa
ultimate strength per square inch ten
slon in the form of castings of 18,00(
to 28,000 pounds; lq the form of sheet
of 35,000 to 50,000, and' in bars, 30,00<
to 45,000.
The elastic limit la tension pei
not notice when a cannon-ball whizzed
by and took the poor fellow's head
off. When Pat reached the ambu
lance with his burden the surgeon
asked: *What are you bringing in
that headless corpse for?’ The Irish
man turhed and looked at the remains
and exclaimed disgustedly: 'Begob,
he tould me it was his leg!’ ”
And Ijams could at any moment
throw the aged plowmaker into con
vulsions of laughter by repeating Josh
Billings' recipe for making hoe-cake:
“Take a common or garden hoe, boil
her down till she jells and then let her
cake.”
uay alter day and week after week
Capt. Ijams continued reeling off these
stories, quips and cranks. The old
millionaire grew feebler, but kept
alive just to laugh. Since then Ijams
has suspected that Mr. Brokaw was
laughing at something else besides
his jokes. But for two or three years
everything went merrily as a marriage
bell.
Speaking of marriage bells recalls
the fact that old man Brokaw was de
cidedly of a re-marrying disposition,
yet he wouldn’t give in to It because
he suspected that the many women
who offered to be a nurse, a sister or
nny old companion to htm were only
after his money.
Had to Keep the Old Maids Away.
It was to keep these designing fe
males at a safe distance that Miss
Selina Lantz, spinster and house
keeper, was specially engaged. She
got to be so busy shooing off old
maids and grass widows, that Capt.
Ijams had to help her. In addition to
his humorous stunts, the captain for
a long period acted as Miss Lantz’s
chief aid in protecting Abram Brokaw
from the onslaught and blandish
ments of the female sex.
Finally, one day, as Ijams was tell
ing jokelet No. 1,031, about a man
who slipped on a banana peel, poor
| Mr. Brokaw gave a loud chuckle and
| expired.
Capt. Ijams* grief was tempered by
the thought that his long and faithful
services were to be substantially re
warded.
Alas! When the last will and testa
ment of Abram Brokaw came to pro
bate, the name of Lewis E. Ijams was
conspicuously missing from its list of
legatees. That was funny, very funny!
And for once the joke was on Ijams.
Then the captain brought his fa
mous suit against the Brokaw heirs.
The court decided that he was en
titled to some compensation, but that
his claim of ten dollars per story was
in excess of the regular wage-rates of
the Jokesmiths’ union; so he was
awarded $5,050, which the Brokaw es
tate paid.
The captain, meanwhile, had exe
cuted a sentimental flank movement
on Miss Lantz, for whose especial
delectation he told his one hundred
and( second funny story, which was as
follows:
a girl wno was Desiegea wnn aa- ;
mirers on shipboard, while cross »g
the Atlantic, asked the captain’s ad
vice. He said: ‘Well, the weather is
fine, and you know how to swim. Sup
pose you accidentally fall overboard,
and then accept the young man who
jumps after you.’ So. the girl tried it.
Four of her beaux were on deck at the
time, and three of them „ jumped,
simultaneously. The fourth cautiously
threw a life-preserver. When the
young lady had been fished out, she
sent for the captain, and said: ‘What
shall I do now? I can’t marry the
whole three.' ‘Well,’ responded the
captain, ‘I should advise you to take
the dry one.’
“Now, Selina,” continued Ijams,
“the moral of this story is, that lots
of fellows will be jumping after you,
but I’m the only dry one—dry humor,
you know. You’d better take me.
Will you?”
Selna saw the point, and whispered
a coy “yes.” They were married here
and have settled down happily on their
little jokefarm in McLean county.
square inch of nickel aluminum is as
follows: In castings, 8,500 to 12.000
pounds; sheet, 21,000 to 30.000. and
bars, 18,500 to. 25,000. Th* average
tensile strength of brass when cast is
18,000 pounds per square inch; when j
cast is 18,000 pounds per squa>e inch; '
when in the form of wire, 49,000
pounds. Bronze or gunmetal has an
average tensile strength of 36.000
pounds p& square inch.—Philadelphia
Record. •
Teeth foi Charms.
Sig. Mascagni ard h’S wife wear
watch charms alike, and these have
been the occasion of some curious
comment . They are common Italian
coins, each punctured with six
'holes, in which are set bits of white
substance, the nature of which is
not apparent except on close exam
ination. These are,' in reality, the
teeth of the first two Mascagni
children; the teeth of the mother's j
charm being the first of her tittle j
daughter’s, while the proud father
wears , in Ms charm the milk-teeth!
of his first-bora sou. !
BASIS OF WEALTH
MOTHER EARTH 'KIND TO ALL
HER CHILDREN.
THE GREATNESS OF NATIONS
Utilization of Natural Resources Goes
Hand in Hand with Civilization—
Exhaustible and Renewable
Riches.
—:-: i
Old mother earth is the basis of all
wealth. Greatness of aiations is com
mensurate with the degree of utiliza
ion of the mineral elements and other
products, all of which are the result
of natural laws. The higher the civ
ilization the greater and the more eco
nomical are the uses of the earth’s
resources. In the great commercial
and manufacturing centers of the
world is found the superior intelli
gence. Wherever there is industry
there flourishes civilization. With
the decay of commercial importance
nations retrograde and lose power,
and finally find a place in history
only.
Wealth of countries can be divided
into two classes; that which is ex
haustible, and that which is renewable.
The exhaustible is the mineral wealth,
gold, silver, iron, copper, and all the
useful metals—coal, salt, sulphur, oil
and mineral products which once util
ized In manufacture and commerce are
not renewable. The renewable wealth
Is entirely In the vegetable and ant
mal kingdom and nearly all of it is
ircluded in the. field of agriculture,
i»3ing the word In its broadest sens?,
and is represented by the crops of
cereals, vegetables, fruits, fibrous
plants, the useful gums, such as rub
ber, the woods of trees and all that
is of utility in the arts and manufac
tures.
The wealthiest nations, and those
that give promise of the longest ex
istence, are those that possess abun
dance of both exhaustible and renew
able wealth. Both classes afford a
field for manufacture and commerce'.
The nation that lacks the conditions
necessary for the production of re-,
newable wealth, and only has exhaust
ible wealth, will eventually And its
resources for self-sustalnence at an
end. and will of necessity become de
pendent upon some other nation.
No other nation possesses such di
versified resources as does the Unit
ed States. With mineral resources
that will renuire ages of tim° to util
ize, the millions upon milliQns of
rich timber and agricultural lands rep
resenting renewable wealth, and every
natural advantage for manufacture,
wi'hin its vast territory hundreds of
millions of people can find homes and
sustenance for thousands of years to
come, and if necessary suprly oth°r
rations with a surplus of its products.
Thus the nation will grow riche,
through disposing of Its renewable
wealth for what represents the labor
and the exhaustible wealth of less fa
vored nations.
The countries comprising Great
Britain have little renewable wealth
according to population, and relies
chiefly upon exhaustible resources,
their utilization in manufacture and
the value of the labor of its people In
manufacture for commerce of arti
cles from the raw products, both min
eral and vegetabls, imported from
her dependencies and other nations.
It is plain that the nation that ex
changes its raw, exhaustible wea’t’a
for the renewable wealth of another
country will grow poorer, and the na
tion that receives this exhaustible
wea’th in exchange for its renewable
wealth will grow richer.
Principles that apply to nations in
this regard, are also applicable to In
tegral parts of nations, and in a re
public like the United States, to its
states and lesser communities. Thus
it is patent that the state or com
munity that employs its people In man
ufacturing from its products to the
greatest extent, instead of having
them go to the markets of the world
in a raw state, and retains within its
borders the profits accruing fron/
labor employed in the product'on of
its articles of commerce, will advance
in wealth and importance.
D. M. CARR.
SAPS LOCAL WEALTH.
Systems That Deaw frcm Circulation
Money That. Shculd Be Kept Home.
t -
That city, town or community from
which the major part of the earnings
of the people are sent elsewhere is
destined to go backward and take a
place in the rear of progressive com
munities. It will never have the full
quota of wealth that is due It, and
that it shculd have. It Is the profits,
the amounts that represent the sur
plus above cost of production of prod
ucts. and the earnings of the laborer
above his expenses of living, and the
legitimate profits of the merchants and
others in business that makes a com
munity wealthy. When these earnings
are diverted to foreign places their
local tax-paying and up-building pow
er is destroyed and the places re
ceiving the money acquire a benefit.
If you desire to see the greatest
measure of prosperity in your own
town, keep every dollar you can In
circulation at home. The bins cor
poration or individual that has its ex
istence elsewhere and has a mortgage
on your farm or other property, en
joys a means of making you bear a
portion of ,th« burden of taxes of an
other section than your own. It mat
ters' not by what means your money
reaches outside your own bailiwick, It
results in the same eviL You are
helping those who pay none of the
cost of maintaining the institution of
your own town and county.
Gay Costumes in Church.
“New Yorkers take their religion
as gayly as they take everything else,”
remarked the woman from the count
ry. “Now, you know, out home we
mostly dress in sombre clothing when
we go to hear A sermon. If not black,
dark gray almost like it, mouse col
ored things, anything but bright col
ors, bat I wish you could have seen
the drees of ‘bo women at the Little
Church Around the Corner last gun
day morning. It was a pretty sight
THRIFT AND ECONOMY.
Right Thinking Neceasary to Great
est Success in Every Field of
Endeavor.
Economy is one of the essentials to
success. It matters not how great
one’s earnings may be. if there is no
pennies laid by, there will be no
counting of dollars to your credit.
From childhood children should ba
taught lessons of thrift, and the value
of saving. There is a difference be
tween economy and stinginess. Thero
is an excess which defeats the aim.
and is the cause of loss and misery.
That economy which prevents the
farmer from spending money to prop
erly house his stock during the win
ter, is paradoxical. It is a saving of
dollars and the loss of dollars by the
saving. That so-called economy
which prevents the consuming of fuel
in winter, which results in a cold
house and sickness in the family, and
perhaps 'a death, is niggardly stingi
ness, which is criminal. It is the sav
ing of a few dollars in the coal bill,
and paying perhaps a hundred or more
to the doctor or the undertaker. There
is no economy in cheap things gen
erally. A bit of machinery that is
needed about the farm should be the
best. A cheap, poor mowing machine
from some mail order house may
break down when it is needed the
most, and a result is the loss of tons
of hay several times the value of a
good machine. Poor articles wear out
rapidly, and are likely to give out
at a time when most needed, and are
a continual source of expense. A poor
breed of stock is another illustration.
Poor, bony horses eat more than well
bred ones, and the latter always find a
ready sale, while the raw-bones cannot
be disposed of at any price. The same
with hogs, sheep, and all classes of
domestic stock. A poor lot of ani
mals should be gotten rid of as soon
as possible. They are expensive and
it is poor economy to keep them.
It is in looking after the saving of
a penny and being blind to the dollar
that could be gained that is the trou
ble with many. Savages have no
idea of economy. They cannot fore
go a small pleasure for a greater one
a little farther doff. It is the ability
to think out these matters that makes
the civilized man superior to the bar
barian Think! Don’t get tired of
using the reasoning brain that a good
Providence has given you. The
secret of knowledge is in thinking, and
•the power to make comparison. One
of th£ drawbacks of many schools is
the teaching, the cramming of rules
and facts without combining with
them the importance of cause and ef
fect. Teach one to think, and he will
soon be a person of no mean knowl
edge. It is the thinker who wins in
life, and on the farm, iu Lhe workshop,
in the store, anywhere and every
where, where brains are needed, you
will find it is the active, keen and
careful thinker who forges to the j
front
I). M. CARR 1
INTERESTS ARE EQUAL.
Farmers Should Cooperate with Towns
people in Work of Municipal
Improvement.
Among the many plans devised to
further the interests of small towns
and cities, and which has proved most
successful, is the commercial clubs in
which all business men of the commu
nity cooperate for the common good.
Organizations of this class are al
most a necessity in any town where
harmony is desired among the differ
ent business classes in the carrying
out of plans for town improvement,
securing the enterprises of various
kinds and the general good of all in
the community. There is no reason
why these clubs in their membership
should be confined to the residents of
the town. The farmers in the neigh
borhood are as deeply interested in
the success of town enterprises as
are the business men of the place, or
at least they should be. For what
will help along the town towards pros
perity will also help the farmer.
In many localities there is a senti
ment that the interests of the farm
er and the business men are not par
allel. It is necessary that this feel
ing be obliterated as far as possible
because there is no logical foundation
for it. The better the town is the bet
ter the local market for the farmers'
produce; the more equitable will be
taxation and the better educational fa
cilities. All these are matters that
concern the farmer in the immediate
neighborhood ol the town. Many
business men feel that a membership
in clubs organized for promotion of
two industries should be confined to
business men; that perhaps the farm
er would not be in accord with resi
dents of the town In matters of public
Improvements. This is an error, a
lack of confidence In the good Judg
ment of the average farmer, who will
generally realize how important the
home town is to him. and all his neigh
bors. Then the farmer sometimes
thinks that he is not welcome in an as
sociation of business men, perhaps be
cause he has never been invited to
take part in meetings held to discuss
matters pertaining to town affairs.
There is no gytd reason why these
sentiments should exist. It is only
t>y a harmonious pulling together of
the residents of the rural districts and
the business men that the greatest
good can be,brought about for the
home town.
Insurance.
“You’d better take out some life in
surance.’’
“Go on. I’m so healthy I won’t die
for 60 years yet.'
“But if you get a policy you’ll prob
ably work yourself to death paying
premiums.” ,
It matched the brilliant coloring of
the stained glass In the windows, and
fortunately they toned it down a little
or it would have looked like a kaleid
oscope. Red, blue, green, yellow hats
with flowers on them; with grapes
tin them, with cherries on them, and
light blue chiffon veils! Yes, light
bine chiffon automobile veils!
“Out in the country we would as
lief fly to tffe moon/ as wear a light
bine chiffon automobile veil to hear
a sermon, and yet It was pretty. It
certainly was.”—New York Press.
Mfc’.W . VJ:-'. ■ - ' -it.-', *
....... sw- -tavJzwas.
wot satisnea with tne present facil
ities for fitting^ his sons for the ca
reer of soldier, "Uncle Sam is soon to
open at Washington a war college,
where the art of war may be taught
in all of its intricacies. A new war
college building has been erected and
a model military post is to be es
tablished as part of the college equip
ment. All this has been accomptshed
at a cost of $2,000,000, and it is here
that the officers of the regular army
and the national guard will be given
a postgraduate course jn military
science. The project has been in the
making for several years past, and
even now ambition is not fully realiz
ed in so far as the model military post
is concerned, but the war college prop
er Is in readiness for its commissioned
pupils, and so the school is to be call
ed to order for serious work.
The nation's newest war college is
very much superior In every way to
any similar seat of professional learn
ing possessed by any other world
power. Just here is should be em
phasized that this new school of ad
vanced instruction is an army war col
lege, for the navy already has a war
college of its own, located at New
port, R. I. The new army college
rather surpasses its naval rival in
some respects, but it must be borne in
mind that it will have to care for a
greater number of students than are
usually in attendance at the school
maintained by the other arm of the
service.
The lact that it was desired to pro
vide, supplementary to the college
structure, a group of representative
buildings for a model military post
made is incumbent upon the war tie
partment to use considerable care in
the selection of a site, and choice fin
ally fell upon a historic spot on the
bank of the Potomac river and serving
as what might be termed the water
gateway to oar national capital. Here
there have been erected, in accord
ance with a grodp plan, a magnificent
college building and officers’ quarters,
officers mess, barracks, a supply de
pot, storehouses for the quartermaster
and commissary and the other neces
sary units of a military community.
Not only is the college building a
thing of beauty, but every effort has
been made to make it fireproof in or
der to provide a sdfe repository for
the invaluable library, the collection
of models and other rare possessions
which will have place in the refer
ence archives of the War college. The
home of the college, which is of brick,
and has re-enforced concrete construc
tion, is of classic design, suggestive
of the Roman basilica style. The
structure measures 260 feet in length
by 125 feet in depth, with a bay win
dow on the south side 37 feet in diam
eter. The building rises to a height
of two stories above a basement and
in the center of the front facade is the
main entrance pavilion, which has
been designed as the principal orna
mental feature of the exterior design.
The pavilion consists of a pedi
mental gable, with massive piers on
either side and beautifully propor
tioned Ionic columns in the center.
These columns support an entablature,
above which is a semicircular opening.
In the center of the opening thus
formed is the emblematic figure of an
eagle, thrown into bold relief by the
shadow#. The entrance pavilion de
sign is reproduced to an extent at
either end of the building, while the
portions of the structure flanking the
pavilion are in the plaster style of
treatment, the pilasters being several
feet lower than the Ionic columns in
the center. The plan of the roof pre
sents the form of a cross with a low
octangoaal dome at the intersection.
In front of the War College building
is a terrace with a graceful balustrade
half a thousand feet in length. Here
is located the statue of Frederick the
Great, presented to this nation by the
German emperor, and with it will be
grouped tb« bronze figures of other
famous warriors who have places m
history. ,
The recently completed Institution
at Washington is to be known official
ly as the United States War College
and Engineer School of Application,
and more than 50 buildings will have
place within its boundaries when the
scheme is worked out in its entirety.
The plan that has been carried out has
involved the distribution of the many
buildings around an immense quad
rangle drill ground. This park is
crossed by a driveway running east ^
and west, while on either side of the
reservation near the boundary this
road leads into two roadways running
north and south, the entire length of
tjie reservation.
The object of this vast project
which has cost the country millions
of dollars is to make study profitable
and popular among our army officers
—in other words to provide them with
facilities for self-help in their chosen
profession and to encourage men of
genius to develop their talent along
lines in which they have especial pro
ficiency. Uncle Sam’s new system of
military education is a close parallel
to our public school system—with the
W ar college corresponding to the high
school—but with only a portion of the
soldierly pupils will attendance be
compulsory.
I he younger officers in the various
branches of the service will be “or
dered” to attend the War college and
other schools, whereas the older men
in the military service will be merely
urged to participate. However, spe
cial records are to be kept regarding
every individual who shows special
capacity in the school work so that
officers who are ambitious for promo
tion or specially desirable details of
duty will probably find it to their ad
vantage to make a good.showing in ,
this new-fangled book learning. In
cidentally it may be noted that the
provision in conjunction with the War
college of a fully garrisoned military
post will enable the instructors at the
college to illustrate their teachings as
to tactics, campaigning, etc., by prac
tical object lessons, furnished by the
maneuvers of seasoned troops.
Eaters of Camphor.
.It is surprising what a number of
camphor eaters there are among the
well-to-do classes. The idea seems to
prevail that this article, taken in small
and regular doses, gives a peculiarly
clear creaminess of complexion, and
score of young women buy it for this
very purpose. The habit is, more
over, very difficult to cast aside, for
camphor produces a mild form of
exhilaration and stupefaction, and in
many instances where very large
doses have been swallowed the habit
has become a sort of slavery. These
comphor eaters all have a dieainy.
dazed and very listless air, and In
most of them there is an ever pres
ent longing to sleep, or at least rest.
Extreme weariness generally follows
the taking of regular dcsea, and
cases have been seen where it has
been almost difficult to tell the ef
fects from those of alcohol. As to
the complexion, if a ghastly pallor be
an improvement, camphor certainly
produces it.—Dundee Advertiser.
Didn’t Harmonize.
Patience—That artist friend of
yours is the greatest man for harmony
I ever saw.
Patrice—Do you really think 90?
“I do.”
“Well, I don’t. I saw him out riding
to-day with a sorrel-top girl and a bru
nette horse.”—Yonkers Statesman.
Steadiness Well Proved. ^
Relative—Well, I sincerely hope you
will be happy with him, Mandy. Is he
a steady young man?
Miss Mandy—Steady! My goodness.
Aunt Judy, he's been coming to see
me for more than 11 years.—Stray
Stories. '
EAT WHILE YOU WORK.
President of Seabord Wants Em
ployes to Follow His Plan.
“Work while you eat and eat while
you work.”
In a nutshell such Is the order
which President W’. A. Garrett of the
Seaboard Air Line sends out to the of
ficials c? the road in a circular letter
just issued.
“I always take a bite with me in the
morning,” declared the railroad presi
dent in the circular, “and when lunch
time comes I eat it at my desk, there
by losing little time from my work.
I think it wouldn’t be a bad idea if you
would do likewise.” , •
So far as can be ascertained the
recipients of the circular haven’t taken
the matter very seriously. The is
suance of the quick-lunch circular
brings to mind the fact that President
Garrett is also an early riser.
When in the city he is always at his
desk each morning at 7 o’clock,. dis
posing of business, even before the ar
rival of .his stenographer and cler
ical assistants. When on the road,
where he spends most of his time in
a private car, he rises at 5 a. m. on
summer mornings, putting in a good
hour’s time each morning with his
stenographer before partaking of
breakfast. This fact has made it dif
ficult, of late, for him to keep a ste
nographer for any length of time.
When he came with the Seaboard
about nine months ago frcm the Queen
and Crescent, one of the first things
President Garrett did was to issue a
general circular letter requesting all
^employes of the read to abstahi from
the obnoxious cigarette habit, and also
to refrain from use of intoxicating
liquors. The circular created quite a
flurry, and for a while cigarette users
became almost as scarce as hen’s
teeth in the Seaboard’s general office
building.
Naturally.
"My lawyer recommends this to me
as a feasible course."
"That proves nothing as to its >
merit.” J
"It doesn't f
"Of course sot My dear, to a law
yer all courses are fee-sibl3.”—Balti
more American.
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