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? The ? Scrap Booh MIGHT HAVE BEEN, AT THAI ? Still, Worker on Handcuffs Could Hav< Been a Little Less Pointed in His Answer. a company tH mt*rviiimis wt-it- unuj hown over a large manufacturing es tablishment. Among them was an out t Spoken and blustering man, who en ^th a^sen.^of hi: IB hesai<1^ "Indeed," replie< one of the partj, greatly impressed "Let us go and see what It is." They went over. "My good man." began the self Important, one, "what is it you are mak ing? Anything for my use, eh?" t "Shouldn't wonder if it was," replie( fee workman; "it's a pair of hand cuffs." INGENUITY SHOWN BY RATS Accordirvg to This Story, Rodents ir England Are About as: Clever as They Make Them. An extraordinary story of the cnnnins Of rats is vouched for by one of tlu government's rat experts, and told ir the London Mail. The proprietors of a Leeds factory to destroy the rats that Infested theli prfemfses, adopted an increasingly user j method that consisted of laying k>\vr attractive baits and paving the wa> ta them with large plates dressed with a sticky varnish after the style or bin] Ume. suen piates nave caugnt ana nein f hundreds ->f rats, but In the Leeds in stance Ihe crafty rodests carried tc the scene large quantities * of factory waste, which they laid over the varnish. V ;JOver this carpet they passed to and from the baits. The latter were eaten, but the rats escaped. * ?\> /WORTH IT Judge: Well air it will just eost you for the'five kisses you stole from this lady without her permission. Prisoner: Yer honor ff Ifs all the same to you I'll give yoQ $50 and take five more. Quickly Ends Fainting Fit. Natives of Rapau have a curious anil jk drastic method of bringing a man round when he has fainted. If water thrown in his face has no immediate effect a piece of burning wood from the fire is placed against the big toe of the left foot. For some unknown reason the fire-brand is never applied to the big toe of the right foot. In a few seconds after the stick is used the man's leg muscles begin to contract and as a rule he quickly recovers his senses. No Assistance Necessary. I have a small brother whom I often take to the movies, and as he cannot read, I tell him the subtitles aloud. One night I went to a picture show with ' a young man I had known only a short time. After we were comfortably seated I became so interested in the picture that I absent mlndedly began to read the subtitles aloud. I rea^ mv pomnjinion snid ciushing'y: "You know I've gone to school, though I may not look-like it.* ?Chieag.) Tribune. More Than Obliging. On a train one evening, I happened to glance over to my side, there beine two young boys sitting together, one writing with many flourishes. After I had been watching him for quite a while and not thinking of what I was doing, I heard the other boy say: t - "Yon hotter wt.ie vour address 100. i so that if anybody is looking they T/iJl I know where you live."?Exchange. 1 Ostriches' Christmas Dinner. m Ostriches have no sense of taste, ac| cording to a ranch manager in Pa.?a< I dena, CaU but thoy like "the feel of I a neckful of oranges." Accordingly a Christmas dinner of nine thousand oranges was served to the birds. I Spring Flows From Tree. p A flowing spring from a tree is thf curiosity reported to exist in the suburbs of Berne. Switzerland. Tlx1 tref Vis a growing i>ne. but emits a steady flow of wjfler from its trunk. The Prcper Treatment. "Well, girlie, what's the matter?" "Dcctor. I have a broken heart." "Uh! I think I'd better leave this c*se to my handsome young assistant!' i SERMAH WAR PLOT . Plan to Wreck Machinery in Chilean Nitrgte Fields. ' ' ) Had ?>ie Scheme Succeeded the Great War Might Have Had a Vastly l Different Ending. War depends upon explosive ammunition. Explosive ammunition depends absolutely upon nitric acid, and j the huge supply of nitric acid which ; is necessary comes almost entirely ?rom the nitrate fields of Chile. The j sodium nitrate of the Chilean pampas makes it possible for the guns of the I world to speak. . The most colossal war in the world's ! 7 history depended upon a little strip J * of desert in northern Chile, writes | Willard Price in the Christian Herald, j j Germany well understood this fact. For years before the war she purchased annually 42 per cent of Chile's total production of nitrate. This enorm- j ous quantity was bought ostensibly to ] be used as fertilizer, and, in fact, I much of it was so used. But also j much of it was systematically stored away for the manufacture of ammunition ; so that, when the cloudburst carne, Germany had #on hand a vast supply of explosives and of nitrates , from which explosives could be made. With the beginning of war she was, ? of course, promptly cut off from com mumcation witn <jmie. since it was I impossible for her to get more Chilean nitrate, she would make it also imz possible for the allies to get it. The 4 outcome of this reasoning was a plot, v the story of which never got to most North Americans, but which I found to j , be widely known in South America, j But for the telltale wagging of a ; i drunken man's tongue, the war might j i have come to a conclusion of a sort ; far more pleasing to the kaiser, r One day In February of 1917 a \ I Chilean miner came down from the nitrate pampas to the coast town of I Antofagasta. He had money. He ! visited a cantina and in time became j , dmnkenly garrulous. His babblings ! . made his listeners sit up sharply and . exchange glances, and later report to , the authorities. I An investigation followed and a stu- j ( pendous German plot was revealed, j having for its object nothing less than J the destruction of the machinery in I ail the nitrate oficinas of Chile. The plot was to be consummated on , Pebrunrv 26 ("the .same riatp as that i vset for the attempt, which proved fu- i tile, to steal the Peruvian subma- j rines). Charges well placed under ; boilers and at other vulnerable points { would have wrecked machinery that it j would have taken at least a year and a half to replace. Of course, guards were immediately detailed and tne plan was abandoned, i But if the plot l?d succeeded?what,: then? In a few months the existing J supply of nitrated the hands of the allies would have been exhausted. The manufacture of ammunition, except in Germany, would have stopped. Women on Juries Old Stuff. While considei$ble ink is flowing relative to women, serving as jurors, the theme is rather old in Chester, Pa. It has been proved that this city had the first jury of women empaneled in this country, and that was in 1689. The history of the Carter family, one of the early settlers of Pennsylvania, has the following to say about the public service of one of its members: "Mary Carter was one of a jury of ' women empaneled in Chester in 1689 1 to examine a female convict and report whether she should endure the 1 punishment the court had ordered." The appointment of this jury was made in conformance with a rule laid down by William Penn who, with his prejudice against capital punishment and undue penal servitude, gave his erring subjects much opportunity to escape the fruits of their misdeeds. Two hundred and thirty-one years j after Mary Carter served on a jury ! other Chester women's names have : been placed in the jury wheel for ! service at the next term of court. Good Rccord for Colleges. Thirty-six per cent of the members l 1 of congress, 53 per cent of the Pres- j idents of the United States, and 54 I per cent of the vice Presidents have j been college graduates, according to an announcement made by Dr. G. I I Borst, dean of education of the Val-' ; paraiso (Ind.) university. \ Doctor Borst also made the state- J ' ment that there is only 1 per cent of i college graduates in our male popu: lation of graduate age. "Nearly 5C> per cent of all cabinet j members, 69 per cent of the justices I of the supreme court and So per c.?nt of the chief justices nave aiso own | furnished from this 1 per cent," said Doctor Borst. Chorus Girls' Wages. The wages of chorus girls in New York range as high as $100 a week, . according to their good looks. The average pay, however, is nearer $25 a week. The nsinimum wage for chorus girls in England, as fixed by the Actors' association, is $15 a week, although in a few cases, as high as $25 , is given. i r Situation Wanted. "Mamma, what did you say papa did all day?" "Why, ho samples coffee, dear?that is, tastes it." , A pause. . "Mamma, do they ever hire ice cream (tamplers?"=^Chicagp Tribune. , . j PUT ONE OVER ON BUTCHEB I i Incident Proves That Art of Shopping Has Not Been Altogether Thrown in Discard. A dignified-looking woman stepped ! nr* a ehimv>nso in tlit? rniint- 111:1 rL-??l\ j and after she hail bought several i pieces of meat, she asked: "Have you any shiDbone that I could use for soup stock?" "Just the thing," responded the obliging clerk as he took up a long j shinbone and knuckle and balanced it on his left hand. "What is it worth?" asked the woman. "Just a half-dollar," said he. "It is such a large piece, would you | mind cutting it at the joint?" 41 o T ...111 it oure, 1 win, nt; itryueu. After cutting off the large knuckie be again balanced the long, slim shinbone on his hand and said: | "You may have this for 40 cents." The woman looked at the piece for j a moment, then at the knuckle and said: "Is that piece you cut off worth only 10 cents?" The clerk hesitatingly replied: I "Yes, madam." "All right," said the woman. Til take that knuckle." The clerk waited a moment, looked - A ? M?* InnrrV*Afl ui xne wuiuuu, uieii aciuaii.v muo>n.u fi.'oud. But he was game and willingly wrapped up the 10-cent soup bone. NO WONDER THEY LAUGHED American Soldier in Paris Had Made a Small Mistake in Copying the Street Name. During the war, while I was on leave of absence in Paris, relates a returned soldier, I decided to take a walk alone. I thought it advisable to copy down the name of the street in which I was staying, so I wrote down some words printed on the sidewalk. When I was ready to return I found that I could not locate the street where my hotel was, so I approached a woman, showed her what I had written in my book, and tried to learn from her where the place was. She laughed and said something in French, which, of course. I did not under stand, and passed on. A number of times I did the same tiling, and every one I stopped laughed, and passed on until a man said in English, "What is it you want?" Delighted to find that I had discovered one person who spoke English, 1 said, "That is the name of the street where I am staying, and I am lost. Will you please direct me?" "You haven't written down a street name," said the man, "but 'post Ho bills.'" Skidding Is Overcome. Attention is called in a circu!ar reTinct frnm Qnlnou Anctrnlio tA n nPIV t""1 *,vf? ^UU..U..U| ..w ~ invention of a front-drive vehicle which entirely prevents skidding. A test over 10^600 miles of rough road has been made, it is claimed, with no signs of wear. The front wheels are pivoted in the center, which enables the steering of the car wUm much greater ease than in the rear-wheeldriven machine. The device is now attached to an old wDrn British car which, prior to the attachment of the device, weighed 32 ewt., with a speed flf thirty-eight miles an hour traveling fifteen miles on one gallon of gasoline. After alteration and application of tlie front drive device, the car weighs 3") ewt., has a speed of forty-five miles an hour and will go seventeen and onehalf miles on a single gallon of gasoline. Tuberculosis in France. That of 368 antituberculosis dispensaries in France only ten per cent are situated in Paris was hailed as a "happy omen" at the second international conference. Only a few organizations were actively engaged in antituberculosis work in France before the war. Today, largely through the activity of the Rockefeller Foundation, in addition to the dispensaries mentioned, there are 10,000 sanitarium beds for tuberculous patients; many hospitals have provided isolation wards; the boarding out of anaemic children in rural homes has been organized on a large scale, and there is national co-operation of all the agencies concerned. ?. ^ British Soldiers and New Roads. ^ 1 _ :nw... ftSOIUt? 5CVCU illiU cl ?Uil uumi/u u v/ilars1 worth of new road construction has been taken in hand by various British cities to provide work for the unemployed. According to a report of the British information service of the Bankers' Trust company, the ministry of transportation contributes one-half of the cost?probably out of funds accumulated for that purpose for mmy years by the development commission ?and lends to the municipalities the other half for Ave years, repayable in annual installments. Ex-service men, after due registration at a labor exchange, receive preference among ap pilCUlilO. Unquestioning Admirer. "Are you an admirer of Joffersonian simplicity?" "I am," replied Seuator Sorghum. "I don't know exactly what it is, but I admire anything that can command so much public approval and political influence." Calumny in the Calendar. "Do you regard Friday as an unlucky day V "Most assuredly any day with sucfi a bad reputation Is unlucky, whethei tt deserves it op nat." , {SAVED BY RABBIT I _ Lucky Catch Preserved Lives of, Surveyors. ?'? I On the Verge of Starvation in Cana- j dian Wilds, Smal! Creature Wa6 i Godsend to Men and Dogs. j The flying survey that the engineers j of the Grand Trunk I'acitic railway I made through the unexplored l'orests and mountains of Canada was attended by all manner of hardships and adventures. It is remarkable that so few men lost their lives, for the work, which was pushed forward winter and summer, was always tilled with dangers. An experience related in Mr. F. A. Talbot's book, "The Making of a /I j. r* i: u ! j V-rietil WUIUUUU1 XMlinaj! ? graphic idea of the pains and penalties that many surveyors endured in that silent, unpopulated country: In the depth.? of winter I was out with one of the surveyors on an exploration trip. We had four dogs and a couple of sleighs not heavily laden. Somehow or other, owing to the blinding snow, we were delayed and lost our way. The dogs had to go without food and we ourselves did not i taste a bite for three 'Ws; nor did we catch sight of the smallest sped*i. I men of game. One thing alter antuiier was thrown off the sleighs to eas?e the plight of the dogs, grown so thin from want of food that their ribs showed through their skins. Only our sleeping bags were retained. Through the da^ we stumbled along on our snowshoes, constantly failing over obstacles and bruising ourselves against the trees. At night we lay down by our camp fire, utterly exhausted and faint from hunger and cold. It was on the third morning that I* descried the faint footprints of a jack rabbit. It was the first sign of game that we had seen for three days. I drew my companion's attention to the tracks. "Stop right here and light a fire. We'll have something to eat this morning or else I won't come back again!" I cried excitedly as I grabbed my gun. I sped off with my eyes glued to those scarcely discernible fcpfprints. But It was weary tracking; the trail was as elusive a will-o-tne-wisp as ; anyone could find in the forest. For i three solid hours I followed it relent- ; lessly, stumbling and .falling 'wildly, ; bruising my shins and teaHng my i hands through the bush. ,fv> j At last It disappeared intowillow shrub-. Crawling up warily, I searched the thicket, and there spied the quarry. Fearful that in my excitement I ; might- take too hurried an aim with my rifle, miss, frighten, and Ipse the ; animal, I crawled steadily forward on : my hands and knees. Whe^ within ; an arm's reach I made a sudden spring r-uno-iif it- hv the scruff of the \ neck. In a trice it was deadr but I |i had captured a sorry prize. Like ourselves, it wag in sore need of food, for it couI& obtain Jbut slender sustenance from the snow-covered ground. I retraced my footsteps as "Eurried- ; ly as I could. I found my i&mrade ; sitting before the fire holdinjfEFs head in hrs hands between his knees?an abject picture of misery and despair. In a few minutes the rabbit was . skinned and spitting merrily on an imi niwvispfi rnnstincr iack. The skin was ] f1 w w cut into four equal parts and given to the dogs. They devoured it ravenously. Not an atom of that rabbit was wasted. The little bit of food put new life into us and we pressed on through the forest until finally we reached our camp. I - Repairing Stonehenge. Stonehenge, the prehistoric group of huge standing stones near Salisbury, in southern England, has been'set in order for the first time in three or J four thousand years. A single stone was straightened in 1901, says Popular Mechanics Magazine, but a thorough overhauling was made impossible by the government and during the war was the center of a large, permanent encampment. Artillery range and mine experiment stations were established close enough to jar the uprights and the remaining lintels. One lintel was moved outward to such a degree that it became a menace to visitors. The government put up cranes and winches to restore that stone and has set firm the stones that are still erect. - Kept on tne i\een ?iurnp. "I reckon you had a right lively time in Kansas City?" insinuated an acquaintance. "Tollable," replied Oabe Gosnell of Grudge, "but nothing like what I probably would have had if I wasn't considerable lively on ray feet. Yoti see, up in Kay See, if you meet a respectable-looking man after 4 o'clock in the afternoon, anywhere the least bit off to one side, he's a hold-up and j robs you. "And if you meet one that don't look respectable, he's a plain clothes policeman, and pounds you because he ihinks you're a hold-up. So I was practically on the keen jump all the . time I was there, dodging the one or the other."?Kansas City Star. Fine Pictures of the Aurora. In the last 10 years, Prof. Carl Stor- ! mer, in Norway, has obtained more | than .'iOO successful pairs of simultn- ! neous pictures of the aurora, besides j ?;in"ip nirhirps. and the brilliant ! vv J'-- ?-? ? , display of March 22-23 last was photo- i graphed at seven stations, separated from 16 to 55 miles. A height of more than 800 miles is Indicated for the 1 last aurora, no earlier measurement having reached 200 miles. . 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