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MAY 26, 1906'
fresh shot, rouiid and perfect.
"The shot tower, a grand inven
tion, was, due to a dream," the fore
man said. VOnce upon a time shot
was made by hand. Lead was cut
into tiny cubgs.and rolled around in
a barrel till, the corners wearing off,
the cubes grew round. A tedious,
costly process. ,
Then came the dream of a man
named Watts, a' shotmaker.
, "Watts dreamed one night that he
. went to a party,, and that on the way
home from the party a strange rain
began to fall, This rain hurt him.
"'It stings like shot,' he said.
, "And Ihen he caught some of it in
bis hand, and found, that it was shot.
"And when Watts awoke the next
morning he couldn't get his odd dream
out 'of his head. Ho thought of it
all day long. And late that after
noon he went up into the steeple of
a church and melted a small chunk
of lead and dropped it down.
"The lead fell in round pellets, in
perfect globules. It was shot shot
made with none of the difficulties of
cutting and barrel-rolling. Watts,
thanks to his dream, had happened on
a wonderful invention.
"The shot towers that rise like
steeples over the land only steeples
are for the' saving of life, while shot
are for' its destruction would none of
them exist if Watts had not had that
strange dream of his." Denver
News.
MAYOR EUGENE V. SCHMITZ
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promptly "take back" some of the
things which it had 'been saying in re
cent times about Eugene V. Schmitz.
All the radical and revolutionary ele
ments in his town were on his' side
in his , elections for mayor. Social
ists, anarchists, lawbreakers of all
sorts, and all of society's extreme left
voted for him Many conservative
and respectable men also were on his
side, but most of the men who gave
his candidacy 'its peculiar distinctive
ness were neither respectable nor con
servative. But Mayor Schmitz has surprised
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both his supporters and his opponents.
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his city he has done immeasurably
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in his exigency." But he fell In with
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munity. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
WHY HE GOT OFF
Pat, who had recently "come over,"
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