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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20

nthers who celebrate, mot wisely out
too we'll" his opinion has weight
"Tll not 60 home" once retorted a
voung man who had received good ad-
vice from him.
wen not?" returned Policeman
ruvnn in a tone of mild astonishment.
mo, I won't; and I'd like to know
what you're going to do about it. You
can run me in if you want to-"
"R-run ye in" repeated Flynn
OHIO, Dye think Pm lookin' FIR a
.chanst to make throuble FIR mesilf?
III do nawthin' iv tn kind"
.oThen what will you do?" demanded
+he oh~streperous, youth, defiantly.
"rru lump on ye," responded Police
man Flvnn. "'Tis easier done, an
it,Tl Give work. for the ambulance in
stid " tn hurry-up wagon"
As the policeman Is an exceedingly
active man, who could jump high and
oome down hard, the argument ended
there, and the young man moved on.
II will be seen from this that Police
man Flynn's methods are pecuilarly
his own-except when they are his
wife's. She has prompted him in man!
ways, has given him various valuable
suggestions when he stood in need o
them. and he Is always quite ready u
let her have all the credit due her
"Fsr a woman" he is accustomed U
say when speaking of her, "she 40 D.
tn gr-reatest ma-an | liver see. II
her that's more injane-yus than IN
whole polls boord, and many's tn mn
tip she's give to me, though us
mighty unpleasant way she have !
dom it sometimes" At any rate re
Iiceman Flynn and his wife, betwee
them. made an excellent record on h
beat. It is not the policeman WI
makes the most arrests who is nece'
,arily of the greatest value, and in tn
Instance order was maintained wit
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20

less friction and fewer cases on the
docket than ever before.
That was why Policeman Flynn was
dnally made a sergeant. He had faith
fully performed his duty for many
years In many parts OF the city, and
the marks against him were few and
far between. He had been a crossing
policeman, he had Travelled beat" In
a residence section of the city, he had
had his nerve tested in a really tough
district, and wherever tried he had
been found equal to all emergencies.
But 1t was on a "Tenderloin beat" that
he had been most successful. Every
large city has Its "~Tenderloin beats"
and they are the one that call for the
exercise Of the most tact and Judgment
on the part Of the night patrolman.
To this he returned after a brief expe-
rience as a sergeant and a few en-
counters with politicians.
His promotion was held to be de-
served, and there was not a man who
knew him who was not pleased when
the announcement was made. But
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20
Mrs, Liscom Found Her Com
panions TO Be Mere Gossips

sumed her loftiest air. The first week
or two, when | was a newcomer, the
other women were rather careful;
they only spoke Of such things az tha
table, and the way the children 0!
some of the ~cottagers were allowed to
run wild, and what a condition the SO.
ciety Of the town was in, and Cow
ouarrelsome the two Swansley families
were, and the way in which the Rand
girls carried on-things, Of course,
nobody could help speaking OF,
81 was quite deceived until n day,
my dear, they suddenly turned on me
and asked me how long Muriel had
| been engaged, and II Mr.. Glidden
wasn't considerably older than she.
at wasn't so much what they said
as the way they looked that showed
me in a fash that they were regular
g~ossips, and expected me to be the
same. so | just turned of their ques'
lions and left the ~piazza--and never
sat there again except when Mr.. Lis
com was with me."-Youth's Compan'
ioR-
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20

The summer at a seaside resort had
orIv served to confirm Mrs. LiScomD
opinion Of certain folIies Of the DAY
This sitting around on piazza5 Is a
terrible waste Of time she sala 10
n Of her nelghbors when the season
was over and she was once more sur
rounded by the comforts Of her own
home.
"You get in the habit Of 1t before
you realize it, because, OF course, your
room Is never so pleasant to sit IN.
But. my dear, the piazza Is a perfect
hotbed Of gossip 1t was when ! sud
denly realized that that made up ny
mind to stay in my room more, even
II It was hot and looked out on Tie
lighthouses and the stable"
you mean really scandal, or just
harmless TALK" Idly inquired the
n%eIgbbor, whose mind was bent on Sc
curing a new sleeve pattern, but who
saw the time was not ripe.
zone leads to The other, as I've al
WAYS commended" and Mrs. Liscom as
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20

sufficient positive electricity
TO make the atom electrically neutral
given number being present.
these cIcctrons will occupy certain
definite positions, with regard to one
another. within the atom. II, now,
some outside force d~tsplaces one OF
these electrons from its position OF
equilibrium, the force within the
atom tending to pull it back to It's
original place will cause 1t to yibrate'
and this vibrating charge will be the
origin OF ether disturbances the
oscillations succeed one another with
extreme rapidly. and so we have an
electromagnetic disturbance OF snort
wave length which affects our senses
with the sensation Of light,
Knowing, then, that light Is due tf
| electrical oscillations, the question
naturally arose as to whether or mo-
It would be possible to convert sun
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20
He Finds 1t Too Easy Being a Sergeant
and Begs to Be "Ray-Dooced to tn
R'-ranks."
copyright. BY the Century CO.

NNNbS 'heNNs " du NtHNAAg ~
Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowies)
That Policeman Barney Flynn is still
Patrolman Flynn is due entirely to
himself. Others are patrolmen be-
cause they cannot be sergeants or lieu
tenants or captains; Flynn is one from
choice. He is probably the only man
on "th' foorce' who. having been pro-
NOTED, has made a special and earnest
plea to be 'ray-dooced to tn FRANKS"
as he himself put 1t. In this he is
unique, but in many other respects he
is typical Of a certain class of police
men of whom the inhabitants of a city
hear little. He is r~esourceful and hon
est; II he were not 1t is probable more
would be heard OF him in the news
papers and the police reports. A few
rascally men on a police force can do
a world of harm to the reputation of
the whole body, and II they attain
high rank they can demoralize a good
part of 1t. Integrity is 80 important
in those to whom is intrusted the en-
forcement OF the law that there Is a
natural tendency to magnify the evils
that are seen to exist, and the depart
ment Is gagged by the worst rather
than the best that Is to be found in
1t. The men Of the rank and file, as
a rule, are faithful, earnest and rea-
sonably clever. So, II Policeman Bar
ney Flynn does not seem to you typ.
ip1I VDp NAV raut agg,roJ ~ d. L..
you know little of the police
departments of the great cities. It is
the spectacular that gets in the lime
light OF publicity, and faithfulness,
perseverance and honesty are not often
spectacular, so we hear more of things
we admire less; and, hearing more of
them, we gain the idea that they are
the predominating features of modern
life.
True, Policeman Flynn may be more
resourCeful than some of his brother
officers, and he may have more of
"hard-headed common sense, but he is
no more conscientious than tho great
majority Of them. Like them he has
many faults, not the least of which is
a desire to have as easy and comfort
able a life as possible, but he acts al
ways according to his best Judgment,
and he defends his acts with rare
philosophy when they are assailed.
For instance, 1t might be charged
against him that he has made fewer
arrests than any other man of his
length of service, and this would carry
weight in quarters where a ~policeman's
usefulness is Judged solely by the
number of prisoners he brings in.
But there are men Of experience who
will insist that this is not a true gauge
of merit, and Policeman Flynn Is one
of them. He does not like to make ar
rests; he does not deem 1t necessary
in instances where others do.
TITS a nuisance" he says, "to be
dhraggin' ye-er man to tn station an
thin be afther gettin' int~
mex day to PROSECUTE him: 2snu NV
.aaV me Wa-dy Nv
doin' it. It's easy done If he nave
money in his pocket to pay FIR tn CAB"
And as Policeman Flynn for many
Years had a night beat in a district
f~reouented by the gilded youth and
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20

There are three general methods OF
making welded rail joints. In one
method. cast iron. is poured around
the Joint. the molten iron being OBJ
tanned from a portable cupola, In an
other method the rails are fused to-
rether by a high amDerage alternating
current, generated in a transformer
When tbermit was discovered another
nrocess Of welding vas developed, the
orda of the rails being fused together
nv the heat Of the thermit,
In a new system Of rail welding, de-
veIoped in Germany and described IN
fine Street Railway Journal, the heat
IA derived from a flaming arc when
allows the use Of a direct current
The positive wire is attached 20 the
carbon, and the negative wire IS at
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20
A NoueL New Welding Process

tachcd to the rail. The carbon La
guided by a holder, which Ia moved by
hand, and the arc produced is fed with
steel, which melts and runs into a
mold surrounding the joint. At the
same time the ends Of the rails become
fused and unite, thus forming a per-
feet joint,
The current Is taken from a trolley
wire, and is reduced from $50 volts to
60 volts by the apparatus shown In
the sketch. The large wagon contains
a motor dynamo, and the other con-
taIns an auxiliary storage battery,
which is connected In parallel with
the generator. In using the apparatus
the wagons are placed at the side OF
the tracks to be welded, and a wire
hooked on the trolley wire.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20

BATCH Was a Failure

tlnued the search with the result that
a small bag OF white powder, supposed
to be the article in question, was
found poked away in the corner Of a
closet.
The work was soon over and the re-
suit placed in the oven. When the
time was up, both young people eau
tiously opened the door and gazed at a
wonderful sight. Each little biscuit
puffed on high, had a shiny top as If
gilded, and was as hard as steel. When
the young woman's mother returned
it was found that they had used boraa
instead Of cream of tartar.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20

In telling a large tree some days ago
in C~Irencester, Worcestershire, a birds
nest containing four eggs was discoY-
cred inclosed in a hollow near the
heart of the trunk. The sap rings
showed that nearly a century has
elapsed since the eggs were laid, and 1t
was obvious that the hollow had closed
automatically. The eggs were intact,
but slightly faded.-London Daily
MIL
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20
OLD-FASHlONED DOucHNurs
II Too Rich They Soak the Fat-agw
70 Make and Fry Prop
eTly. -

When d~ougaaUts turn out ronrh
and clumsy. they are perhaps made
too rich on toe soft. or both Dough.
nuts soak fat, II made too rich Here
is my recipe,
To one cup sugar add two eggs,
three-quarters cup milk. one table.
spoon melted butter. one-haIf tscaut)
teaspoon salt, the same Of cinnamon
and a little grated nutmeg Use one
heaping teaspoon baking powder, and
-four enough to make dough stir
enough to be handled.
Beat eggs, add sugar. then butter.
then seasoning, then milk; then sift
in flour lahout a pint), into which Won
have put salt and baking powder
Now beat until smooth aud fine. add.
ing a little more -four If necessary.
rake out upon a board about a third
OF the dough at a time. putting the
scraps back and stirring into the
dough each time. Have no flour on
the outside of the cakes when put
into fat. These will not soak fat ff
fried property. and will keep their
Shape-smooth outside aud OF fine.
close texture inside, and not tough,
says a writer in Farm and Homo.
Clarity fat by boiling a raw potato
in it. | always clean the black sodl-
ment from the bottom of fat before
using.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20
ci,v Greenhouse for Mourners.

To encourage the poorer classes to
decorate the graves Of relatives and
friends with growing flowers instead
of with artificial wreaths or cut flow
ara the Hammersmith borough coun-
ell. Of England, has. erected a green
house near its cemetery gates, where
peraniums and other pot flowers may
be bought for a few pence Hitherto
| srayes have been adorned with flowers
placed in Jars and bottles.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20

TO quart -four add one teaspoon
salt two teaspoons baking powder,
three tablespoons butter, one egg, one
mint milk. one teaspoon vanilla or
lemon. Dough should be soft. roll
one inch thick. put in shallow pans
and cover the top with a creamy mix
ture Of sugar, cinnamon and melted
hut,er Bake in a quick oven,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20
A Flower Vase.

For cleaning the inside Of the flower
glass or vase which cannot be scalded,
nut a tablespoonful Of rock salt into a
gil of vinegar, pour into the vase and
shake about for a few minutes, then
r,nse clean with soft water. The wa
Tor should not be allowed to stand
untj, it. gets sour about the flower
stems.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20
Origin Of Old Saying,

Don't care a fig" is not an alIu-
sion to the cheapness of fgs. In
English-speaking lands many othef
fruits cost less and are less priced
II would be much more natural to say
Don't care a berry" But fig IN
this Sag Is a corruption Of "hco''
and "fco" is a snap Of the fingers.
Shakespeare used "dco' instead oil
Gig"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20

In 1905 heart disease" was the most
frequent cause of death among physi-
clans, with 2O3 cases, out of a total OF
2.045 in the United States and Canada.
Cerebral hemorrhage 1873, n pneu-
monia 141 cases follow in frequency
Accidents numbered 70, as compared TO
95 in the previous year. Suicides were
46, instead Of SO, in 1904.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20

Break a pound c, maple sugar into
hitg and nut it In 2 saucepan with a
mint Of milk. Boil, stirring steadily,
nntiI II is brittle whea dropped into
cold water. Stir In a tablespoonful
nj butter and when this IS melted turn
into a creased pan, ane, as it cooiA
cut into squares.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20
The Intensely Practical Poet.
BY ], 0 U

ENGDAHL.
The farmers Uur. Ign Prices
p.ey an VEL lnr DOLLAR U..t..
Sc they scare t., trade H...t cries
q. ltssian fly anl ...ns uf ~.e...
And tae bear NurI- w.>.aS aa,
Tbora are many wheat crop kllnrs.
N.tH this bui, u..a ... -aa.,rt,
Yelling hail ana ..s-ut and frost.
R@t the Russian Nsa. aal Iu. Il.
With tGls bear lt,ts always hot
When he finished ,he applause, which
had broken cut in seyera. places, grew
roaring, for these men of the pit could
yell, md then some one started a line.
aud in turn Furbar was compelled to
shake the hand and receive the con
s"ratu'atlOns OF every man in the room
Lac that afternoon. Fur0er took his
way ~lslsurely u TO the KoesSler man
sion. and he hoped that she would be
at home He didn't have time to wait
for the evening editions to appear on
tue streets, but he would make her
read HIS poetry out OF her own news
paper.
PheIat, coming down the steps as he
~aScended, was a damDer on his feel
lnSS' but could no suppress them by
any means.
l am 50 glad TO see YOU" cried
huth, as she opened the door in an
S"er TO his ring,
Nothing artificial about that wei
,,nJ "DSa7"' ' h -,
t6o ,~onIo.a5 ,onnan ,'1 M, u" w.,
the st-eat uo u,r,a3 T., o,, hot ,,-
ner fr1m ,no corrto ,' w. S 7,,n ,"a a.. r no
rouIi In thu meantime ,hoy tslke1
"I ha,ove could rEo ir,onse,y proc-
teal naonIe , Rnth sold nnori.jIy
~, no., oan, ,.ni, -
"whar 7 w,s a,v, t,,, ,,t. mann,
ing won't ovo, ~ 500 wh,, w., ,,9, n,,,
doIng wv w NV -
81 rovor COW vor 80 ,r,r, Il, r,u,,n
and a strkIy feeltnp J'yns oyar him
He wondered af what time She was nm
there in the EaIcony '"'' ID" w
"No but saw Won and y,r goo,,ol
so excited. inst like all the othor.
do nor know what Won wora an shout.
ing about, but | knew that You were
doing things. Everything seemed on
the move"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20
Didn't Budge.

These Americans are frauds. | no
ticed a big sign on a building in New
York which said; This house will
move on Wednesday next to 800 Broad
way All that day and all night l
watched that building, and it never
. moved an inch. lie Journal.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20

simple manipulation, whlth a movies
can learn In five minuteG, the bearing
of the signal bell can be accurately To-
catel.
Tests between the receivers on ;hs
tug and the bell on the lIghtship
we're made. The position OF the tug
was frequently changed and when tho
ightsElp was on the s~tarboard bow
or beam Il was noted that the bell
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20

could be heard distinctly from the
~starooard receiver, and more family
on the port side, the opposite condl-
lions obtained when the tug brought
the lightship on her port hand. There
in lies one of the chief values of the
device, as because of this readily de-
iccted difference In sound a fog bound
vessel nearing n lightshlp or light
hous" can readily find position. The
captain OF the Cunarder Lucania
picked up the Nantucket llghtship at
a distance OF seven and a half miles
with the bell.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1906-07-20
Horse in Civilization.

The life Of the horse is said to have
been reduced by civilization. At the
age Of IS the domestic animal Is as old
as If It had lived 80 years in a free
state.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-27
What the Admiral Says.

Philip Hichborn, Rear-Admral of the
L. 5. Navy, Washington, d. C., writes;
"After the use Of Peruitn for a short
period, 1 eau mOlU CheeTJuiLy recon-
mend your rGLWd bic remedy to any
one lUhO Is In need Of an nUigOrat-
ting tonic. "--PhtLip Htchb born.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-27

Nearly everyOne's eyes are more or
less afflicted with astigmatism, saws
III. u. w. %i~>.ld--n philndalphia sDec-
ialist, and he lhen proceeds to ddnne
this defect as follows:
The front portion of the eve should
be round or equally curved in all di-
rections, like the central portion of the
end of an egg. 1t is usually. however,
more or less inaccurate and shaped
approximately like the side of the egg.
That Is, its vertical curve is not the
same as that drawn around the sur
face horizontally.
The image produced by such an eye
is not only blurred, but distorted, so
that it is somewhat like that seen
when looking INFO one of those freak
museum mirrors which change fat
man into giraffe like creature, OF
vice versa.
The chief cause of this difference in
the curves is tie Pressure of the up
per id on the eyeball.
This is continuous and, acting
month after month ut exactly the same
point, finally results in ''iattening out
the eye erdwayS."
In order to correct the resulting de-
fective vision all that is necessary is
to have fitted n pair Of glasses which,
by their opposite wrongneSs' outside,
counteract the inward wrongness. -
New York Globe.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-27


"T'aTKIng OF BARRIERS said Joseph
s. Spear, surveyor of the port, Il GER
tainly put the jinks on one of the fra
ternity the other morning. AS you may
know, I've been living at the Palace
Hotel for fourteen years. Everybody
around The Palace knows me, or ought
to-; but ran into a new barber in the
barber shop the other morning, who
mistook me for tenderfoot. 1t was
early in the morning and | went down
to the barber shop with handkerchief
tied around my neck, not caring to put
on a collar until | was shaved
you're a stranger in town, aren't
you?" asked the new barber.
Yes, Just arrived" | said.
where are you from? he inquired
Boston"
is that so? I used to work in the
Parker House there. You need a
shampoo, sir" he added after cOnclud-
ing the shave.
You think SOP"
Yes" running his fingers through
my hair. you hair is full of cinders. |
can see you've been travelling for some
days"
well, struggled through without a
shampoo, or face massage, or a SINCE,
or any of the various ointments and
cosmetics he wanted to infict on ME.
When got out Of the chair the boss
of the shop came over and greeted me
by name, and | couldn't resist the
temptation to tell him about the Gin
ders in my hair. The whole shop is
still joshing that fellow about cinders.'
San Francisco Chronicle.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-27
Use for Old Shoes.

Janitors collect the shoes cast away
by tenants and send them to auction
rooms, where they are sorted into piles
marked Men" Women" Children"
Several poor people made fair bids,
but the auctioneer did not seem eager
to sell. Finally red faced man pushed
his way through the crowd and offered
ten cents apiece for the whole lot. His
bid was successful.
Il was killing time with talk wait
ing for that fellow" said the auction
eer afterward, HE always pays high
for these shoes, and he does not not
want them for wearing, either. He
wants to beat them out for the leather
in them. He gets what material there
Is, puts it through process and makes
stamped imitation leather novelties,
such as picture frames, bags, pocket
books, penknife holders and even chair
backs and seats. He finds ready sale
for these novelties and gets a good
price for them. Shoe Retailer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-27
Season of Lost Purses.

More empty pOcketbooks are picked
up in the shopping district the week
before Christmas than all the rest OF
the year put together These pocket
books, when originally lost, undoubt
edly contained some money, but were
emptied and thrown away again by
the first person that found them. I'm
less the purse is of exceedingly good
quality the finder, who has no inten'
ton of returning it to the owner,
throws everything away but the ac-
tual money it contains so as to rid
himself of all discriminating evidence.
How many times afterward each
plundered pocket book is pounced uu'
on by other disappointed seekers for
lost treasure would be hard to tell
Without those statistics the crop OF
empty pocketbooks gathered up every
night by tanitors and street sweppers
tells tale of voluntary looting that
deals hard blow to professional NOR.
alists.-New York Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-01-27
John Burns of Battersea.

For the first time in our history a
workingman becomes a cabinet minis
ter, and a wOrkingman of an ad-
vanced type of thnnght,, who has been
ana TO some extent still is terror to
the reactionary and privileged classes.
Without any intention to disparage
his colleagues, Mr. Burns is the most
conspicuous figure in the ministry.
Workingmen have before him won the
respect of the house of commons and
reached government posts by sheer
fluence outside parliament by their
mere eloquence, though | doubt if any
of them have eQualed him in the gift.
But none has so deeply impressed all
oI''"s~s Nth his nnlitinal sagacity and
practical grasp of affairs, and it is a
good omen for the future of democra-
cy that the first workingman to be-
come a minister of the crown is a
man of such abilities and character
London Truth.