Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-12-04


r pariments recently correspondent
scanned yards and rods Of old stat,
{ papers. The Declaration OF Independ-
e ence and the Constitution Of the Unit
, ed States are among the hand made
t documents, and all Of the old presidents
and statesmen from Washington down
to recent White House occupants have
left legacies Ia the way of reams OF
! public papers which prove at least.
that the old boys were not afraid to
work. They did good work with their
copies OF Jefferson's famous MASTER
piece. which brought. the soldiers of
King George the Fourth to our shores,
where our colonial daddies made them
eat dust. Passing into the very next
room ! came upon half dozen young
ladies pounding the keys of Royal
typewriters a comparatively new ma
chine that is surplanting the older
makes in many of the branches of the
government. because it is said to have
excelled the other standard machines
in the government tests AS l stood
and watched a young lady pounding
/ out 121 words a minute of new matter
what a dickens OF a time the novelist
whose name is spelled the same way.
! only with a capital d, must have had
grinding out those volumes that we all
bought "a dollar down and a dollar
month" But heaven perish the
though of what a literary gent with
humanity in this age of modern in
vention. def typists. and the Goddess
stenographers. And there in two adj
Joining rooms had accidently run in
to live story Of the past and the |
present. l recalled a press assign
ment that took me into a small town
contrivances Of maiden. note book,
pencil and machine and where | broke
my wrist on three thousand words.
Now jefferson, Jackson and the orig
inal John Henry had similar exper-
fences. but when | found this little
blond turning out more words in half
an hour that all Of us old veterans
could have produced sinsly in whole
day by the NOW primitive method of
doing it by hand" l was more con-
WINGED than ever that it is blessed
thine TO live IN this year and month
when state papers can be made on
Royals by beautiful young ladies in
stead Of through the labored old pro-
,ess Of quilts and broken backs.
Crying for Pork
Yielding 60 the fear that the country
would not approve Of extravagant APP
lropriations Tor rivers and harbors
DE Congress cut the last bill to the
zone. But now elections have been
iold. and some hungry constituents in
ocalities where dry runs and water
ess rivers are to be improved are pre-
jared 60 come back to Washington In
december Ia search Of about forty mill
lon dollars in appropriations. The
uiciest contents Of the pork barrel"
fere placed beyond the reach OF the
oiticlans last session. and now the
ivcrs and harbors congress viii pro-
note the plan % legislation that has
aused such "A revolt throughout the
ountry with men like Senators
burton and Kenyon remaining on the
b there Is not much hope that the
raid on the treasury viii
e successful
Hickory Switches and Axes.
Before the hickory switches were all
az in those days when our parents
ucfuliy selected the varieties OF this
md of wood. red hickory was dis
animated against especially for
numerical purposes. The United
.ates Governmen, has officially APP
owed red hickory and declared that
has bean found that weight Tor
eight II Is just as serviceable as
bite hickory The War Department
IS bought so many axe handles made
hickory that Il is Dragging about
g bargain that 1t has. made with the
alers IN saving one-fourth the for
r. purchase price.
Fixing Weights.
The Unitor states Bureau Of Chem
~ Is increasing It's usefulness by
information concerning the
guotpn 81 ret weights, and IN pro-