The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 12, 1914, Image 4
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"fbURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 12, 1914
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Great things in life are not to be attained
without paying the price.
There is a lack of faith in some
things which is the real cause of deteat.
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It is useless to try to predict the
end of the European war with any
degress of certainty.
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When the European war shall have
finally ended, we wonder what the
newspapers will have to write about.
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There are many who use their
hands to perfection but they let their
brains lie idle for all the years.
One of the greatest fields for
thought and study in this world is the
criminal tendency for men and just
what it is causes it to thrive.
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Any man who i& willing to throw
"his money away for one'thing that is
fnnlicll TImII Kn on* /-? ?? it ni?n..
VVKUO^ mil L'C Uf'l W nil un 11
in some manner anyhow.
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Then *e is always a difference in the
ability of men, but there is not a one
who cannot improve his faculties as
lime goes on and increase his producing
power.
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An automobile is a good thing to
have provided a man's income justifies
it. It is the worst thing a man
can have where his income is too
small to afford it.
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Have you read all of the amendments
that are proposed to the constitution
of this State ? It is your duty
to read and study them before casting
your vote.
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Reading all of the proposed amendments
to the constitution appearing
in the election notice in this issue of
the paper is labor indeed, but it is also
a matter of duty.
Time has been when the idea of a
war in the air, or war from the air,
would have been laughed to scorn. It
now appears that England is afraid
?f an attack that may be made upon
her bv Germanv's air shins.
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The pretty girls at the recent county
fair made up the best attraction,
it was enough to turn the heads of cer
tain young men judging from appearances.
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Be glad that the Wav is so far away
"from this country.and cease to trouble
about the financial difficulties it may
cause us for they are small compared
to what our troubles might be.
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* Governor Blease is gone out of politics
after his present term is over,
but he does not intend to be forgotten
for it appears that he has arranged to
establish a newspaper in the capital
city of this State. ?- ?* A,
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nu*v nia',. lilt; X^U1U|H'(1I1 WclF JH Upon
the world to stay, and hard times
have struck see that you cut out
the unnecessary things you have been
buying?things that you really did
not need any of the time.
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What shall be done with the man
who believes that the government
?wee him a living, and that no matter
what his troubles may be that the
government shall t^ke care of him ?
The fact is that man made the government
and the government did not
make men.
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borne people ' speak of shows and I
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even the circus as a bad thing for any
ttown. They state as a reason that
the management of the show takes
away all of the money. This argument
will not hold# for wherever a
large aggregation of pebple are taking
in much money, they are compelled
to spend much money. The show is
always on the road and has to spend
each day much the larger portion of
the day V receipts: ! 4
The not ire of election for State and
County officers tills a page in this paper.
The space is required in order to
give notice of the great number of
amendments proposed to the constitution
of this State, by the Legislature
and which must be carried by a
vote of the people to become effective.
It is the duty of every voter to
read these carefully and decide whether
the Constitution should be thutf
changed or not.
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Much money has been spent on the
streets of Conway in the business section
of tho town It u'flc itnont- in
small amounts from year to year in
making temporary repairs to them.
Iyong ago is was pointed out that it
would be better to build up the streets
a small portion at a time with good
paving or rock, so that as far as this
went there would be a good hard
streets that would bear up some load.
In the course of time this would result
in good hard streets throughout
the town. Rut in all these years
nothing but clay and grit has been put
on them. Enough has been spent in ;
hauling sand and clay to pave at least
one side of the main business block of
the city. Still the work of temporary
repairs is going on. It is a work of
necessity. One heavy rain is enough
to wash away the work of a force of
hands for several days. We think it
is time to quit these temporary makeshifts
and go into something of a permanent
nature.
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THE WRAPPING OF
BAKER'S BREAD.
It has been said that the making of
a perfect loaf of bread is the goal of
all those who aspire to excel in cookery.
Certainly bread, which forms a
part of every well planned meal, is a
food of which the palate never tires.
Let the loaf be evey so satisfactory,
however, with respect to size and
symmerty, crust aand crumb, when it
leaves the baker's oven, it may never
theless experience subsequent changes
which sooner or later render it less
attractive, palatable, or wholesome.
Stale bread does not appeal to the
taste in the same way that fresh specimens
of the "staff of life" do; but in
addition to the development of stale
ness bread may also develop so-called
bread diseases caused by micro-organisms,
rendering the product unfit for
human consumption. Furthermore,
like many other unprotected and carelessly
handled articles of food, exposed
bread may become a purely mechan
ical carrier of objectionable organisms.
The recent agitation in behalf of
improved conditions in the food indus1
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mes nits invoiveci not oniy tne adulteration
of the products entering into
the ration of man and the domestic
animal, but likewise the cleanliness of
the article of diet intended for human
consumption. The plan of clean milk
is becoming more prominent than the
propaganda for pure milk. Sanitary
food legislation is beginning to aim
at food that is clean from the point of
view of the hygienist.
The demand for clean bread has
promptly followed the cry for clean
milk and unpoluted water. Already
in many commuities regulations are
in force which compel the protection
of bread and bakery products between
the oven and the home. Bread wrapped
with either porous or paraffined
paper is now a common sight in even
small villages of the United States.
Although this practice has met with
public approval in many quarters, it
has been claimed that wrapping injures
the quality and palatability of
the loaf. This claim demands consideration
along with the possible sanitary
advantages. A chemical investigation
of the subject has been completed
in the department of food and
I drugs of the Indiana State Board of
I Health. The wrapping of bread, either
in semi-porous waxed or paraffin
paper retards the escape of moisture
and tends rather to the perservation
of the freshness of the bread than to
its staleness. Unwrapped bread loses
its freshness after the first day, while
the early keeping quality both as to
the condition of crumb, flavor and
odor is enhanced by the use of wrappers.
There is, accordingly, says the
Journal of the American Medical Association,
no occasion at present for
discarding what has seemed to many
to be a wholesome innovation in the
distribution of bakery products.
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INSTANT DEATH IN CREVASSE
One of the Tragedies That Seem Inseparable
From Antarctic
Exploration.
Tragic was the fate that overtook
two of Doctor Mawson's companions
in the course of their recent explorations
In the Antarctic. Thie account Is
taken from the Geographical Journal:
| "As regards the disastrous sledge jour
ney from the main base with Lieutenant
Nlnnts and Doctor Mert, Doctor
Miwi^n says thai his object in undertaking
It was to dash as far east las
possible so as to ascertain the nature
of the land In that direction. The
three men had the assistance of II
dogs in dragging a load of over seventeen
hundred pounds. On December
14, 1912, the party were in 68 degrees
53 minutes south, 151 degrees 35 minutes
east, having covered a distance of
211 miles. The track had lain over
plateau heights and crevassed glacial
depressions, the totals of the ascents
having reached 9,000 feet. All were in
the hichest Bnirits j?k nrnannnfa
seemed good for a further advance
over on unbroken plateau at a safe distance
from the crevassed coastal downfalls.
The day was a beautiful one
and Doctor Merz was leading on ski,
Doctor Mawson following with the
first dog-team, while Lieutenant Ninnifi
brought up the rear with the sledge
containing the most vital necessaries.
Unexpectedly the faint outline of a
crevasse crossing the path was noticed,
but both Doctor Merz and Doctor
Mawson crossed without halting or
regarding it as a cause for anxiety.
"The latter called back 'Crevasse!'
to Lieutenant Ninnis, but on looking
back soon after saw nothing but a
blank expanse of snow and ice. Hastening
back, the two travelers found a
yawning abyss, and at length discerned
an injured dog caught on a
ledge, but no trace of their comrade,
who must have gone down to the invisible
depths below?certainly to Inof
o n f rlnoth A 11L% ? G - ? '
ovciiik ULUIII. /mn Lulling 1UI I1U11I 2?
without answer, they read the burial
service and started on their return,
with only one and a half weeks' food
for themselves and none for the sii
emaciated dogs. There was saved alsc
a spare tent cover, for which a frame
was improvised out of a pair of ski
and a theodolite's legs.
"The food was strictly apportioned
to the distance to be covered, but bad
weather was encountered and the dogs
gave out daily, until soon none was
left. No nutriment was to be extracted
from their flesh and by January
3 both travelers were very weak
Merz being in the worse case of the
two, though still cheerful. Unable tc
proceed on foot, his companion
dragged him painfully in the sledge,
but about midnight of January 8-9 h?
passed away. A month of terrible privation
for the survivor followed, with
miraculous escapes from falls intc
crevasses, but Doctor Mawson unex*
pectedly came upon a cache containing
food, left by a search party, and
eventually reached the hut."
Space and Eyesight.
When we speak of outer space, the
space between star and star, as bo
ing empty of matter, it is rather interesting
to see exactly what we mean
We know from observation on the
planets that light, in its passage acrosf
space to our earth, suffers hardly any
absorption, and from this fact we can
deduce conclusions respecting the den?1tv
nf niirh muftor ac pviotu In mitci '
space.
If the degree of rarefaction in outei
space is, for example, in the neighborhood
of the one hundred-millionth
part of an atmosphere, the appearance
of Jupiter, for instance, would
be as if our atmosphere had twice its
present opacity. So that such matter
as exists must be in a much more
rarefied state. But after all these
terms are only comparative.
Suppose our atmosphere were allowed
to expand up to the limits ol
the visible universe, as far as the
milky way, then its raefaction would
be such that it would bo quite impossible,
by any optical means, to detect
the presence of any matter. Nevertheless,
there would be about five thousand
molecules per cubic centimeter
throughout space.
Heavy-Handed.
Postmaster General Burleson smiled,
at a luncheon in Washington, over the
suggestion that the parcel post's rivalry
of the express companies was bad
for the people's transport trade.
"Bad for the people?" said Mr.
Burleson. "Well, sir, when you say
that, you remind me of one of our
oldest post office stories.
"According to this story, a postmaster
said to a customer:
" This letter won't go for two cents.'
" 'What's the matter with it?'
" 'Too heavy.'
" 'Too heavy, hey? Wall, that's Just
about what I expected. My son wrote
that letter, and I told him at the time
he was writin' too heavy a hand; but
he kep' bearln' down and bearln' down
?Here, give It back. I'll take it bome
and ma If A him Ha ft nror fn IaoH ru>n.
oil.' "?Chicago Record-Herald.
Ignorance la Bile*
.."Don't you know that I don't allow
any man to kiss my daughter?" said
the Indulgent father.
"Well, how was I to know ehe wa?
your daughter, sir?" replied the young
man.
Important.
Tommie?And did Noah only ban
two of each kind In the ark, pop?
Father?So we are told.
"And were teeth fleas on one ?f thi
<MP, JK?P?"
QUEER LAND TENURES
CEREMONIES OF ANCIENT DATE
OBSERVED IN ENGLAND.
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Appear Somewhat Ridiculous In Thlt
Day and Age, but Aro Regarded
With Conalderable Seriousneaa
Aefeaa the Water.
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- Our British cousipt still oting to
home curious customs with respect to
land tenures. Whenever, for instance,
a certain estate at Chingford, in Essex,
passes into new hands, the owner,
with his wife, man servant, and maid
servant, aroesi on hon?*?hnrk tr> iht* n?r.
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nonage and pays homage by blowing
three blasts on a horn. He carries a
i hawk on his wrist, and his servant
, leads a greyhound, both supposed to
be for the use of tho rector that day.
The new owner then receives a
chicken for the hawk, a pock Gf oats
for his horse, and a loaf of bread for
his greyhound. After dinner the owner
blows three more blasts, and then
with his party withdraws from the
rectory.
Another curious proceeding is known
as "The Castor Whip Tenure." On
i Palm Sunday every year a servant
from the Hroughton estate attends
service at Castor church with a new
! cart whip, and, after cracking it three
times on the porch, marches with it to,
the manor house.
As the clergyman begins to deliver
his BPrmon the Servant quits his
seat. A purse containing 30 pieces
of silver is fixed at the end of the
whiplash, and, kueoling on a cushion,
i he holds the purse suspended over the
head of the minister until the end of
the sermon. Then purse and whip are (
left at the manor house.
Tho "Whisper Court" at Roc.hford,
I in Essex, is a strange Michaelmas obi
Hprv.'nirfl unflnr thft niinnirna r?f
1 the steward of the manor. The business
of the court is transacted at midnight
in the open air. The absence
of a tenant is punishable by a line of
double his rent for each hour he fails;
to be in attendance; no artificial light
except a firebrand is permitted; the
proceedings are recorded by means of j
one of the embers of the brand. The'
l
roil of 14 tenants is called and answered
in a whisper, and then all
kneel and swear allegiance.
' In explanation of tills odd ceremony
it is said that many years ago the lord
of the manor, after an absence from
his estate, was returning home at
night. Passing over what is known as
j Kings hill, he accidentally heard some
; of his discontented tenantry plotting
his assassination, and, thus warned,
went home by an unexpected route. 1
He enacted that from that time forth '
the tenants on his estate should as- <
semble every year exactly at the same <
: time to do him homage round a post j
which he caused to be erected on the
precise spot where the 'plotters met.?
Illustrated Sunday Magazine.
Only a Minor Difference.
An artist relates that a newly beI
trothed lover commissioned him to
paint a certain Becluded nook in the
| rocks on the shore, because there he
' had declared his passion.
The picture was painted, but before
j it was done the lover said to the
I artist:
"Of course, I will see you through
on that picture, but our engagement I
is off, and naturally, It would be pain- j
fully suggestive to me. If you can!
j sell it to somebody else, I will take
another picture, and be extremely
obliged besides."
The painter assented to the arrange- i
ment, but within a week his patron
presented himself.
"It's all right," he announced. "I'll
take that picture."
"Am I to congratulate you on the
renewal of your engagement?" the
artist asked.
The other seemed a little confused,
but quickly recovered his 'self-possession,
and laughed as he said:
"Well, not exactly; it was the same
place, but the girl was different."
Expensive Flowers.
The conversation in a Washington
club turned to flowers the other night,
when Congressman James L?. Slayden
of Texas unfurled a gentle smile. He
said he was reminded of the declaration
of a certain Mr. Smith.
Smith was walking through the cuburbs
with a friend one afternoon, when
they came to a house where the gar
doner was doing the spring planting.
For a moment they stood and watched
the work. "Speaking of flowers," remarked
Smith as the pair passed on
down the street, "I doubt if anything
along that line is quite so expensive
as sweet peas."
"Sweet peat," wonderingly returned
the other. "I didn't know they were
so very expensive."
"Oh, yes," was the positive rejoinder
of Smith. "Thirteen dollars for a
small bouquet. I just ruined a five-dollar
pair of shoes, and an eight-dollar
1 pair of trousers putting in the seeds
' at home."
Of Course Not.
Mrs. Church?Don't you think the
fashions adapt themselves to the
' times?
Mrs. Gotham?Oh, my, yes! Why,
* when we wore bustles we didn't have
> these little flats.
Oldnt Know Him.
Bacon?Tou say he asked ypu to
> -loan him five dollars?
Egbert?Yes; and I hardly know
him.
* "That's the reason he asked you,
probably."
I'll Show 'Em, Durn 'Em.
I*ve stopped the paper, yes I have,
I didn't like to do it,
But the editor he got too smart,
And 1 allow he'll rue it.
1 am a man who pays his debts,
And will not be insulted,
So when the editor gets smart
I want to be consulted.
I took the paper 'leven years
And helped him all I could, sir,
But when it conies to dunning me
T, .l.'J.'i *- _ ! 1 -1. t
a uiuh t tuuik ne wuuiuy ?irf
But that he did, and you can bet
It made me hot as thunder;
I says, "I'll stop that sheet, I will,
If the doggone thing goes under."
I huntoti up the editor
And for his cunnin' caper,
I paid him 'LEVEN years and quit !
Yes, sir, I stopped the paper.
India and the War
The importance of the rank and file
of literate Indians understanding the
reasons why Britain went to war has
been realized by the Christian Literature
Society for India.
"We are doing' our best," writes
the Rev. Joseph Passmore, the secretary
of the Christian Literature Society
for Indians at Madras, "to circulate
through the society information
that will enable the Indians to understand
the situation, not only in English,
but in the vernacular. I had an
appeal from an American missionary
lady begging me to get out some literature
describing what she spoke of
as 'England's just and great cause."
In Best Health.
According to a Central News dispatch
from Copenhagen, the German
minister there, Count Von Brock doff
Rantzau, has issued a statement categorically
denying the report that the
German crown price and Prince Albert
were either wounded or killed.
He states that both are in the best
possible health.
Potato Disease.
Discovery of powdery scab in
Franklin and Clinton counties, N. Y.,
caused the department of agriculture 1
to consider last Friday the advisability
of putting into effect in that State
federal quarantine regulations against
this potato disease.
Production of Grain.
That a meeting of farmers of Sumter
county was to be held to hear addresses
by the party of experts conducting
the campaign to be inaugurated
within the next 10 days by the
state department of agriculture to
arouse interest in the production of
?rain crops was stated last Friday.
Potato Peeling Distinction.
A. B. C. writes to us about a delicate
point in use of words. Our correspondent
object8 to the use of the,
word "peeling" as applied in the story
of Sacca Bonna and the potatoes, a
few weeks ago. The word should have
been "paring." There is authority for
the contention that raw potatoes urc
pared, while potatoes boiled with their
jackets on may be peeled. It is a fine
distinction, but logical. You pare a|
thing by taking a knife and removing
Its outer integument?together with
some of the substance of the thing itself.
Hut to peel an apple or a potato
or a case of sunburn, you seize the already
loosened integment itself and
eimply strip it off?it's hard to put into
words, but you see how it la don't you?
?Cleveland Plain Dealer.
They Ate a Few Cherries.
Cherries were known In England
E,000 years ago, but their systematic
cultivation dates only from the beginning
of the sixteenth century.
From the first Kent was the great
cherry county, and it was once a
favorite amusement in the Kentish
orchards to try who could eat the
largest quantity of the fruit at a sitting.
Husino, Venetian ambassador at
the Court of James I, witnessed one
of these contests when the winner,
was a young woman who disposed of
20 pounds of cherries, beating her
nearest rival by only two and one-half
oounds.
Mean Hit at Noble Game.
A lunatlo was being eacorted to an
asylum some distance away, and consequently
journeyed to It by train. It
was raining hard, and as they passed
a large field the lunatic noticed several
men grouped together. Some of them
had umbrellas raised over their heads,
and these were looking at two men
"putting." Turning to the attendant
by his side, the "soft" one remarked:
"What are the people doin'T" "Playing
golf," answered his burly guardian.
"Then," said the other, after a pause,
"hadn't we better atop for them 7"
Nothing Missing.
Mrs. Benton tasted the saTory mor ol
?VtA Had J-*J 1 ?
>V> ?UV tiMU vaiciuil/ vvu/puuiiueu 1U
the chafing dish, and looked at her
husband somewhat apprehensively.
Then she said: "Somehow it don't
taste just as Mrs. Mink's did the other
night. Yet I thought I remembered
the recipe all right. 1 suppose I must
have left something out." Mr. Benton
tasted, reflectively. "I don't think so,"
he remarked. Mrs. Benton's face
brightened visibly. Then her husband
continued: "There's nothing you
could leave out," he said, "that would
make it taste like this. It's something
you've put ial"
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FAT ItiAN MOVED OVER
LITTLE INCIDENT THAT MAD? 1
MR. GOSLINCTON SMILE.
Retributive Justice Was Abroad and
Wrtr-kinn That Momlna. Though It
It Not Often In Evidence*
In a Railroad Car. ~ s
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"Whenever I take a seat In an ele. at^
or a. subway car," sold Mr.
5osllngton,^I am careful to sit square*
ly In the middle of It so that I shall
not unduly crowd anybody that may
be sitting at either side, but I do not
flnrl (hat everybody respects my rights.
In like manner.
"This morning, for Instance, when I
had seated myself in my accustomed
fashion in a subway car there came in
and took the vacant seat next me on.
my left a big, thoughtless, fleshy man,
who was quite regardless of my rights
and comfort, to which. Indeed, he was
plainly quite Indifferent. He dropped
Into that seat any way he happened
to. which proved to be two-thirds on
j that seat and one-third on mine, or
rather on me. And then he stayed
right there where he had dropped,
making no effort whatever to shift
over.
"I stood this for a minute or two so
as not to appear disturbed or impatient,
and then I moved one seat to
the right, that next seat there happening
to he vacant, thus leaving the
place I had lately occupied free, or
two-thirds so, the other third being
still taken up by the big fleshy man.
"And now there came into the ear
another large man. bigger than the
other, but not fleshy; a big man who
wns bony, angular and muscular, and
who had also a resolute cast of countenance.
^
"This large, bony and resolute man
made for the seat which I had Just
left, and did he simply sit down on its
front, edge, leaving the fleshy intruder
upon it In undisturbed possession of
the remainder?
"No. This large and bony newcomer
appeared to be a man of keen dis- 1
corn merit as well as by nature resolute.
At a glance ho saw that about
one-third of the fleshy man's own
proper seat at his left was vacant,
while he was sitting over on about
one-third of this one. So now the
newcomer did not just sit down on
the front edge, but he sat well in toward
the bock of the seat, and then
ho dropped himself into it, solidly
and squarely.
"The fleshy man turned toward the
big, bony, resolute man who had thus
sat down on him and looked at him
really quite sourly; but then within a
short moment he moved over. And
as I saw him move I felt that what {
the big man had just done to him far
more than made up for what he had
done to me."
No Tango or Motors.
There is one place where the tango
is as yet unknown, and that is Monrovia,
the capital of Liberia, according
to Heed Paige Clark, t/ie receiver
of the general customs there, who
is now on six months' leave of absence.
Ragtime and the movies, however,
flourish there, Mr. Clark says, but
there is not an automobile in the
whole of Liberia; in fact, there are no
wheeled vehicles at all, as there are
nn rntwlc on/1 ?/-? ? j
__ _ , vyiuu UIIU U\l 1 Hill UttUH.
L.ife at the capital is village-like In
its simplicity. The people are kindly
and courteous, and Mr. Clark is delighted
with the treatment he received
during his two years' residence there.
Mr. ("lark says his British, French
and German colleagues work harmoniously,
although there is some friction
on political questions, but this is
of no great importance.
The port of Monrovia is showing &
wonderful increase in shipping. Mom
than 400 steamers called there during
the past year with cargoes which exceeded
a million tons.
Bergson Dislikes Popularity.
j Henri Bergson is growing very
I weary of his popularity, which, since
his election to the French academy,
I has increased so much that there ia
never even standing room at his lectures
at the Sorbonne. Mr. Bergson,
who lives a solitary life in his Ivory
Tower at Auteuil, is bored by his fashionable
audiences, and by lecturing as
abstrusely as possible tries to frighten
them away. But it does no good.
One afternoon a woman, whose
name is historic and whose clothes
are the envy of Paris, went up to the
philosopher at the close of a lecture
on the psychology of laughter. "Master,"
ehe said, "I do not know how to
thank you. You have made me think."
"Please accept my sinceto apologies,
Mme. la Duchesse," said Bergson.
Somebody Getting Hie.
Church?I see a trolley line In a
western city 1b going to be knocked
down to the loweet bidder at auction.
Gotham?It won't be the first time
that the "knock" trick has been know*
to trolley lines.
He'd Gondolaed There.
Bacon?It 1b stated that Venice la
wrestling with the peculiar problem of
a rapidly-Increasing population without
being able to enlarge the city.
Egbert?Why, I should think they
could easily do it by irrigation.
A Mover.
Patience?1 hear Mrs. Flatte baa
lived in 16 different apartments in 12
months.
Patrice?She must be "this queen of
the movies*"
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