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OFFICIAL RECIFE JVK PEACE
"If there are quarrels aud tears,
Pla.v something pretty on the piano
an*1 thick the word1 harmony," ad"
vi~es a government bulletin which
aims to establish amity between par"
tntj and oad little boys. The case
5 recounted of a mother who, direct
y she heard the first howl, ruah
jJ to the piano and- sang gently
"ver and over, in soft contralto, 'he
vord Peace, whereupon the children
—1*e quota from the official docu
ment—"easily yielded." There are
infortunately parents whos© sing
•ag voices lack the melting sweet
ess required, and these are advised
> hav<» someone come in at twi
st" and sing with the squirming
eirs and heiresses, the words of the
reing "constructive." If these
onderj can be worked with chil
ren, why might not an unsym
\*?elic dentist be made tender if
! • patient should sing "Pale Hands
Love?" A janitor who had pre*
•lurely quelled the furnace could
rically inform his angry tenants,
-*J»a spring, th® spring has come
•a'n:" Or In the cold autumn he
ignt answer, ''Forgotten you?
e!l, if forgetting—" Induitably
pentleman seeking hi3 house door
•he dark might set himself right
crooning, "I want no stars in
^ven to guide me " Perhaps the
ts that make Roman arenas of
my a back yard w-ould "yield" to
n Silent Night," determindelv
idered. Anyway, the bulletin
•ads, "Pass this on/* and one can
i do his best.—New York Post.
D GLORY OVER THE RHINE
American troopg hare crossed the
ine. The historic significant e af
fact cannot for th^ moment bo
sped, but it will be accepted as
i ot the great events in the career
♦h.. United States. Its tl^g to
float3 over the soil of a proud
)ire, •whose boast thorough four
rs of desperate ^arf®re bad been
t 'ts armies fought on conquered
, asd that never would they
31 it an invader to press the
and oebind the eacre<l Rhine.
Utter collapse of that pride is
ced in the cool reception given
troops. Never again will
e Watch on the Rhine" sound
same; Jig words are holiw
. But the German people -will
s in their present humiliation! a
>a that must be of great serv
U> them. They will come to>
know that the power of the Ameri
can ueople la put forth to pre
serva and not to destroy. That ua
der 0;<J Glory marches a nation de*
v ted to ltheaifl of service and of
humanitarian purpose. It is bo
a; variance with all they have be
lieved and devoted themselves to for
generations that they will not
e»tily grasp its mening, but ia
jears »o com© they may; appreciate
just what the crossing of the
Rcii»e by General Perehing and his
'orres really holds for the future
of Germany.—Omaha Bee.
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More Powerful Explosive Than Any In
Present Uye Is Dire Possibility
of the Future.
Nitroglycerin, although considered
one of the most violent explosives In
present use, develops only 1.580 cal
ories per kilogram, since the nitric
acid which It comprises does not take
part in the reaction and the hydrogen
and the carbon therein ghe only ■»;]
i per cent i;f the energy of combustion
which they would disengage if they"
were alone, rsplosives of liquid air.
or osjiiqv.!te, give as liigh as 2,"0)
calories because the liquid oxygen
combines directly with the carbon and
the hydrogen. The combination of
hydrocarbides with ozone, ozonide of
ethylene and benzine triozonlde, though
liberating no more heat of explosion,
have a higher "brenklng value"' be
cause of the greater speed of decom
position.
Theoretically, still more powerful
explosives are conceivable; a trichlor
ate of glycerin should develop 3,000
calories, twice the force of nitro
glycerin : and finally, a mixture of
liquid hydrogen and liquid ozone, if it
were practical, would give about 4,500
calories and would be the most terrible
substance possible to obtain.
DADDY OF ALL FISH STORIES
Here Is One That Will Make Any
Disciple of Irnak Walton Look
to His Laurels.
A reader has asked us to retell the
story of the sixty-live pound catfish,
which appeared orig-'ral in the column
some six or seven years ago. We have
always considered it the best fish story
we know. We trust the community
will permit us to repeat It.
As we used to tell it. the story ran
something like this: We were fishing
for bass under the old mill dam In the
river," south of Grigsby City. Som'*
thing took the bait and lunged away
with it despite our efforts to hold it.
We surmised, correctly, that It was a
good-sized catfish or drum, and began
working it backward and forward
across the stream in the deep water
under the dam. Eventually we headed
the leviathan down stream and finally
stranded it in the shallow "ripple" be
low. It could get neither forward nor
back, and with the help of half a dozen
other fishermen, who were watching
the contest, we landed It. It proved
to be a monster cat of the yellow or
Mississippi variety, and weighed sixty
five pounds on the scales uptown.—
New York Tribune.
Index Finger as Nut Cracker.
Nut crackers, which are based on
leverage, make us suppose that It takes
great strength to open a nut; and, In
fact, everyone knows from experience
that without such a little machine It Is
hardly possible to overcome the hard
ness of a nut. And yet one can open
hundreds of nuts in a very short time
without any implement and without
any effort whatever merely with the
aid of the Index finger.
Place the nut upon a stone or a
block of wood, but so that the joint
stands perpendicular. In this position
hold it fast with the index finger of
your left hand, strike with the right
fist hard upon the index, and the nut
will at once break asunder. Light
blows will not accomplish the feat.
One must strike hard. It may happen
that the nut will fly away, but this
only proves that the joint was not held
in a perfectly perpendicular position,
which is indispensable to success. The
point of the nut should also be turned
toward the chest.
How Birds Save Farmers' Crops.
A farmer who thought the robins
were pulling up his young cabbages
learned from a student of bird life that
the birds were pulling up only those
plants which were dead; and this was
to get at the wire worms at the root,
which had caused the plants to die
and which would destroy other cab
bages If left alone. In another case a
group of farmers thought the meadow
larks were destroying their crops. An
ornithologist persuaded one farmer to
spare the larks on his place. The
other farmers shot them. The result
was that the man who spared the larks
was the only one for miles around who
had an oat crop. The birds killed the
insects which destroyed the other
crops.
Wealth of Forestry.
The coost forests of southern and
southeastern Alaska are included In
>he national forests of Tongass and
Chugach, which comprise over ninety
six million acres, a large proportion
of which is covered with trees. Of
these. Sitka spruce averages about 2t>
per -cent and western hemlock about
75 per cent. The spruce are occasion
ally six feet in diameter and 150 feet
tall. The interior forests are prac- |
tlcally all found in the drainage basins
of the Yukon and Kushokwlm rivers,
and It Is estimated that there are forty
million acres bearing trees large
enough for cordwood and logs.
All Harmonious.
"So you are getting good results
from juries of ladies?"
"Yes," said the Judge; "they don't
want us men to have a chance to
say they couldn't agree."—Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Not Alwa/s.
"The young fellow who's catling on
your daughter, Smith, has a lot of
•go' In him."
"Not any to notice when he's calling
>n my daughter."
A CHERISHED KISS
By MIRABEL LEE.
(Copyright, 1918, bjr Western Newspaper Union..'
A series of rapid occurrences
aroused Walter Adsit from the hum
di'utn career of an average youug man,
end within a woe!; tested ingenuity,
eourt.go ."ti<l the timber he was made
ol' hi 11 signull.v exciting way.
Re had dallied in the train shed of
a big railroad to wave a departing
adieu to a frleud ju.it as another train
pulled in. He trtood for a moment,
casually watching the passengers
alight.
"Oh, Hnrry! I am so glad!" and
f;om the hand of a daintily dressed
miss a suit case dropped Impulsively,
a pair of arms encircled his neck and
right on his lips a kiss was impriuted.
Then, with a dismayed cry, the be
stower of the precious favor flushed
scarlet and incoherently stammered:
"I thought it was my brother—I—"
Her embarrassment was relieved as
a man approached her, and Walter
started away, lifting his cap, not one
bit sorry for the mistake, but too much
of a gentleman to remain and further
confuse the young lady.
"This Is Miss Ward," he heard the
man say, as he tendered a card to the
young lady which she glanced at casu
ally and listened closely to an evident
explanation. She'picked Up her suit
case and with the man walked through
the gutes and out upon the side depot
platform. He signaled ■ a cab and
helped the young lady Into It. She
dropped something white as she
crossed the platform. Walter picked
it up. It was a printed card, bearing
the pame, "Harry Ward," and an ad
dress.
A shriek echoed out. It was followed
by a crash. As ths vehicle whizzed
around a corner there was a clatter of
glass as the pane in the door was
pushed through.
Walter ran to the corner. The cab
was proceeding more rapidly. As It
passed under an electric lamp he j
caught a full view of the face of the I
driver.
"I'd know him again," soliloquized !
Walter, and "and I wonder what this
all means?' Within half an hour he
was at the addresd given by the card—
a respectable boarding house.
"Mr. Ward? yes, sir," spoke the >
maid who answered his summons, "ne |
Is ill, but I think he can see you." She |
led Walter up a flight of stairs, tapped j
at a door and left him to his own de
vices.
"t'onie In," spoKe a masculine voice.
••who is itr
The moment Walter's eye rested on
the occupant of the bed he traced a
close resemblance to the plrl on the
train.
"You will pardon me for Intruding,"
he said, "but an incident has trans
pired that has caused me some alarm
and has led me to seek you out," and
briefly but clearly Walter narrated the
circumstances of the hour.
Harry Ward looked curious, auspi
cious and then deeply alarmed. Uls
face grew pale and troubled.
"I must get up at once," he spoke
excitedly. "Estelle, my sister! Oh ! I
see it all. She has been kidnaped to
prevent—but you are a stranger and It
cannot interest you. I met with a bad
fall today and one foot Is crippled.
That was why I was unable to meet
my sister. I counted on her being safe
to come here alone."
•Ton mistake if you think I am not
sufficiently interested to wish to be of
some practical help to yourself and
your sister," observed Walter, earnest
ly. "It Is plain to me that mystery,
villainy is involved. You are helpless
to pursue the man who has seemingly
deluded Miss Ward into believing that
you sent him to represent you. Tell
me as little or as much as you choose,
but let me try to aid you."
It was a somewhat remarkable story
that Harry Ward recited. He was en
gaged in prosecuting a claim of his
dead father. The opposition had
fought the case. A final decision In
court was now pending and the evi
dence of Miss Ward, her brother's law-1
yer had told him, would win the case.
The other side In some way had as
certained this. Bold, unscrupulous,
they had Intercepted the star witness,
doubtless intending to hold her as a
captive until the case was ended,
which would fall flat without her evi
dence.
The memory or a kiss jrapeuea wai
ter Adslt to put la three whole days
watching everywhere for a clue he had
In mind. One day he came to a sud
den standstill at a cabstand. A newly
glazed window In a cab gave him hopa
A little later the driver appeared.
In twenty words Walter satisfied
this man that If he did not give the
details of the abduction of Miss Ward
and her whereabouts he was headed
for the penitentiary. The cab driver
was, in fact, only a hired tool, but he
knew enough to post Walter as to the
best course for him to pursue.
An hour later, armed with names
and details the cab driver had given
him, Walter rushed unceremoniously
in upon an old hag la a wretched tene
ment house.
"From Devoney!" he exclaimed.
"The police are on the track of the
girl—get her, quick 1 I must hurry her
to better hiding."
The alarmed woman acted on the
fear imposed. An hour later Estelle
Ward was in the arms of her brother.
A week afterward the case at law was
decided in his favor, and later still— |
Walter Adslt became a suitor, but
not In the courts—that Is, except the
court of love, where his earnest plea
was met with the favor It deserved.
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