The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-22

The Ratchet of George Washington
immortalized the axe; the blow he hit
the cherry tree was the
THE first of many Whacks;
AXE the axe has figured
nightly in structure
and in wreck; this day the politician
mostly gets it in the neck. it depends,
of course, entirely upon who Yields
the blade; there have been times
when statesmen great genius have
displayed; King Alexander took an
axe and cut the Gordian knot: right
then and there his lasting fame was
builded on the spot; bad Robespierre
was handy with his axe-bladc bright
and keen; he wasn't fast enough by
hand, 50 he made him a machine; Abe
Lincoln chopped his way to fame by
splitting ten-foot rails; he swung his
axe until his arms were just as hard
as nails; and gallant Andy Jackson
used his axe in awful style; he
hewed out spoils of victory that made
his party smile; and now the boys
beg Woodrow not to be slipshod or
lax; they pray that he'll start early
with his official axe; they want to see
G. O. p. heads fall into Wilson's
basket; and then they want the pie
chopped up-cternally they ask it.
NJ. j. Coen of the Coen-Fisher COM
pany reached home yesterday norm
ing from his extended
HAPPY eastern purchasing trip.
RETURN He looks as if he had
been successful and he
says he has. 1T was one of the pleas
ATTEST trips | ever took said Mr..
Coen yesterday morning to the Man
About Town. The weather was ex-
ce%ptionally good all the way and all
the time. / managed to miss the
storms and | was successful in finding
good bargains for our spring stock.
Business conditions are good and the
market is better than it has been for
some time. We will have some sur
prisingly good Easter features to talk
to Missoula folks about, very soon. I
got The Missoulian nearly every
morning | was away and | feel We'll
posted as to what has been going on.
| was sorry that l missed the Red
Apple banquet but you seem to have
done we'll with it. | heard of it all
along the line as | neared home. 1t
certainly made a fine impression ac-
cording to the stories which are told
by those who were here. | look for a
good season. The conditions east are
better and people are more confident
than for a long time, 1t was a fine
trip, but I'm mighty glad to be home
again.
Charles Gould Of the Missoula Brick
and Tile company sent by parcel post
yesterday morning a
A HOUSE brick made by his
BY MAIL company; the brick is
to be used in building
a house at the Chicago Coliseum dur
ing the Clay Products exposition
which is to be held the last week in
his month and the first week in
March. The Missoula brick is one of
5000 sent by parcel post from every
brick plant in the country, to be used
in the construction Of this house,
which will be given away and re-
erected after the exposition is over.
The idea was originated to test the
efficiency of the parcel-pOst system
nc is working out we'll. A record
will be kept Of every brick from the
time it was mailed until it is delivered
in Chicago, to test the speed of Uncle
SANS delivery of u brick house. There
is much interest in the test but it is
not likely that the mail carriers in
Chicago win he enthusiastic over this
method of delivering a brick house,
Other mail carriers throughout the
country will watch the test with fear
and trcmbling-thcy may get Il house
to deliver almost any time. But,
though the fireproof brick house is
becoming more and more popular. it is
not likely that there will be another
delivered by mail very soon. But Mis-
Soula will have at least one brick in
the first house ever delivered by mail.
More people attended the Charter day
exercises at the university yesterday
than have turned out
PLEASANT for the annual cclcbra-
Biz HDAI ton in years. The hall
was full of Interested
visitors during the morning and in the
afternoon Il constant stream of sight
SccrS moved across the campus and
through the various buildings. Every
thing went smoothly and the uniVcr-
SityS guests seemed to enjoy them
selves. In the afternoon the buildings
We're all open and students were at
work in all of the laboratories. Grade
school pupils, alumni and parents of
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