Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-07
Gathered On The Battlefield q Thought


halfway down the hall the plaster
opened in great shower about -
foot in front OF her, aud She ran
screaming back to me. 1t was tho
first time that day either child had
great point in all our war training
was TO be brave under all cieun-
stances: to be a coward was worse
than death.
..Try again. / said and she promp-
tly left my side, and this time reach
ed the stairs undisturbed. She slid
down the rail as Diana had done
and like her disappeared % safety
Now IL am killed. what will be-
come of them?"q thought as 1 FOL
lowed, taking the stairs in about
three leapssI found them safely cud
died down in the potato cellar and
stayed with them for a short while
Then I grew uneasy for fear the
house would take fire from the shells
and the cellar instead of being q
place of safety would become our
grave SO 1 came up to look around
and keep watch. AS I looked out to-
ward the garden and Ishmaels care.
fully prepared ground, / saw Con-
federate officer chasing a Yankee across
my pea burrows ordering him to halt
and indeed my entire yard and garden
EuppcStTeQg 10 Dc IlpllS contested ground
] looked out at another window ana
a shell exploded not far from tho
house, blowing off the back of a mans
head. l went next into my bedroom,
as 1t was more sheltered, and sat
down a moment on the edge of the
bed. The roar of the battle was less
distinct here and I drew breath. us it
the Battle Lines" by Sally Royce
Weir, in the October metropolitan
Magazine.
Natures The block and pulley, or
Patent tackle" was Il great me-
Office. chanical discovery, but ia.
ture made every man
carry several of these around with him
at the very beginning of creation Tho
most important of these tackles L!
found in the eye. 1y you turn Your
eye to look at the tip of your nose
you use this block and pulley. which
is Just as perfect as any erected on Il
ship or hoist sail. The muscles which
move the eycball works through the
block easily and smoothly, and with,
out friction, for nature has supplied
to all of her machinery automatic or
mechanical oil Inventions. These never
fail to work unless we are sick, and
then the danger of a hot box Is too
be considered. The invention OF the
safety valve for steam engines has
saved thousands OF lives and millions
of dollars of property. IT is an in
vention that stands prominently to
the front in this age of mechanical
progress, But nature supplied us each
with Il safety valve, which. for effec-
tiveness, works better than any made
by man. If we did not have this SAT
ETY. valve we would not live twenty
four hours. This safety valve is tile
perspiratiVe or sweat glands, and, to
make sure that we would not run short
of the supply, she has furnished tile
body With some 2,500,00o of them, II
our temperature rose seven or eight
degrees we would die within fcw
hours, and yet, we could not run, row.
play tennis, ball or even walk safely
any distance without increasing our
temperature to the danger point il VIC
had no safety valve provided so in
geniously by nature. The cup-anti-
bail socket and the air-tight valve
were first used in the human body. Ii
our hip joints and arms were not pro.
vided with air-tight sockets we would
get too tired to continue our work for
any length of time in just holding
these limbs together by muscles. 1t is
the pressure of the air which holds
them in place and thus all physical ef
fort is avoided In the various air
tight joints and sockets found in the
human body one may find nearly all
the mechanical principles involved in
the air brake or the use of compressed
air for a thousand different things
Some one exclaims that nature did
not discover ball bearings, a mechan-
ical device which has rcyolutionizcd
the vehicular world. But the principle
is almost developed in the ball of the
leg bone and the socket of the hip
= y, -. n - l
well oiled that they slide back and
forth with practically no friction.-A
S Atkinson, NJ. D.. in Harper's Week
ly.