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The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
MANS DEBT TO THE BIRDS
Matter That Is Worth a Great Deal
More Consideration Than 1t Has
Been Receiving.

Why should birds fear a human be-
fng? They have no fear of the horse
or COW. There are birds that even
light on the back of a COW and de-
YOUR the flies that are troublesome.
If mankind were kind and thoughtful
of the rights of birds what pleasure
it might be. Every small boy and girl
should be taught to love all birds and
never to disturb or brighten. Their
companionship and their songs more
than repay the little fruit or grain
that they eat. And we cannot forget
that but for the aid of the birds we
could not have fruit or grain. THE
hop aphis," the North American tells
us, developing Is generations in
year, at the end Of the twelfth genera
ton would have multiplied to the in
conceivable number of ten seXtillionS
of individuals" Forbush says: IF this
brood were marshaled in line ten to
the inch, it would extend to point so
sunk in profundity of space that light
from the head of the procession, trav-
cling at the rate of $4,000 miles per
second, would require $500 years to
reach the earth" Think once what
would be our condition If the birds
should fail to destroy this one kind
OF insect And other kinds are in
Vulnerable What love and protection
and care we owe these birds!
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
Flour Substitutes.

The United States bureau of chem.
istry is now testing a number of so
called flour substitutes" These are
not intended to replace wheat -four,
but to be used in combination with it
in making bread The substitutes thus
far examined include flours made OF
chestnuts, bananas, peanuts, soy beans,
peas. corn, barley, oats, rye, etc. AL
together about thirty substitutes have
been found to give satisfactory re-
suits when not more than 25 per cent
OF the substitute is used with rs per
cent of wheat flour in bread-making.
Bread made of II parts of boiled po-
tato to nine of ordinary -four is said
to be satisfactory.-Sc Scientific Ameri-
can.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
TERM OF MUCH SIGNIFlCANC E
Phrase South of Panama" Means
Much More Than Merely Geo.
graphical Location.

South of Panama" is phrase
which has mighty significance. II
means not merely geographical loca
ton. 1t signifies vast virgin areas OF
lowland and upland contrasted with
fallow valleys and lofty plateaus pop.
ulated and cultivated through centu
ries.
=. 1t means barren and burned noun
tains and dreary deserts mingled with
forested and watered slopes, grassy
llanos and pampas and Towering sa
vannas.
1t means the mixing of almost for
gotten aboriginal races and surviving
indian types with the intellectual and
refined descendants of early Spaniards
and Portuguese and the later sprin.
king of adventuresome Germans,
Italians, English and Americans
1t means an ancient civilization, fas.
cinating Incan ruins, old-fashioned
Moorish and Spanish architecture in
the sleeping cities and towns with
strange peoples and conditions bark.
ing back to far centuries, hard by a
new civilization, modern skyscrapers
and boulevards in growing commercial
entrepots and ambitious capitals with
progressive peoples and conditions
which rival the best that the old East
ard the new West of North America
can show.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
READING Ones own Books.

Cultivated men and women have al
ways counted good books among their
most valued possessions, and one can
not believe that this taste can be sac
rificed without definite loss to our
civilization. The spoken word can
never supplant the written word; and
in fact, the present tendency is all to-
ward substituting print for speech.
Nor can reading in public places take
the place of reading ones own books
in the quiet of ones home. Books
that are owned wait patiently 81 the
readers leisure; and to have just the
book one wants, when one wants it, is
and must remain one of the supreme
luxuries Of cultivated life.
Books, too, when personally owned,
gather around themselves a wealth OF
personal associations. The very bind
ing, paper and title-page recall the
conditions under which the book came
into our possession. As we open its
pages we remember the last time we
read it, the place and circumstances,
and the people with whom we dis
cussed it. Books have personality;
and they must always remain the
warm friends of their possessors.--
Atlantic Monthly.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
ALWAYS ON BRINK OF DEATH
Workers in High Explosives Realize
What May Be the Result of Me-
ment's CareIessness.

Explosives are solids which, under
certain conditions, suddenly change
into heated gas occupying many times
the original space of the solids. Ordi-
nary gunpowder, when fired, turns
into gas, of which the volume is 1000
times as great as that of the powder.
No wonder the bullet in front of it
leaves the muzzle of the rife in
hurry.
Today there are scores, even hun
dreds, of different sorts of explosives
known to science. Some, such as lyd-
dite, require very considerable shock
to explode them. Others, such as nj
troglycerin, are fearfully dangerous to
handle, for a few extra degrees Of
warmth or very slight jar is suf-
ficient to turn them instantly into gas,
OF the latter type there is nothing
quite SO unstable as iodide of nitro
gen. 1t has to be made In alcohol.
When allowed to dry it appears as a
brown powder, and so unstable is this
powder that touch with feather
will set 1t off. The experiment has
been tried Of leaving few grams
upon a table mixed with a lew grams
of sugar. The first bluebottle that
few on the table and began to crawl
among the grains caused an explosion.
The mere Earring of the air by
loud shout or a heavy footstep is suf-
ficient to detonate iodide of nitrogen,
and it need hardly be added that no
one in his senses would attempt to
make this terrible stuff. To do so in
any quantity would be equivalent to
committing suicide.
Nitroglycerin is not so dangerous as
this iodide, but at a temperature Of
only 100 degrees-that is, very little
more than the warmth of the human
body-it begins to decompose.
Tons of nitroglycerin are turned out
every day, for it is the explosive from
which guncotton is made. But all the
mixing watts are artiticially cooled by
coils of cold-water pipes.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
PATENT ATTORNEYS
PUZZLE TO SCIENTIFIC MEN
Most Advanced OF Specialists Concede
They Know Little of the vagaries
OF the Brain.

A French sergeant who was wound
ed in the head in the FrancoPrussian
war of 1870 had abnormal times,
which lasted about thirty hours, dur
ing which he felt and smelt nothing,
although his appetite was normal.
During these abnormal periods GER
tain experiments were made with him,
and one of these was the writing Of
an unseen letter, the writer's hand be-
ing hidden by special screen.
Ten sheets Of paper were placed I'M
der his hand, and he would commence
to write. As he wrote, the sheets
would be removed one by one, until
only the signature would appear on
the last. That is to say, he would
have written one page Of writing on
to read his letter from the last sheet,
blank with the exception of the sigma
ture This he would do without miss
ing word, making corrections where
necessary, and putting punctuation
marks exactly in the right place as
measured by the other sheets.
There is the case Of Scottish law
yer, who, having perplexing case in
hand. was observed by his wife to
get up one night, go to writing desk
in the bedroom, sit down and write
for considerable time. Having care.
fully folded his document, he then
opened his desk, put it away and came
back to bed.
Next morning he related dream to
his wife, in the course of which ne
had given an excellent expert opinion
on the case at issue, no single point of
which he could recall Judge of his
surprise when his wife led him to his
desk, told him where to look, and di-
rected him to his own dream docu.
ment, where he found the whole mat.
ter clearly written out and the whole
case satisfactory.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
The Panama Snake.

The mass of creeping, writhing dirt
known as Culebra (Snake) Hill which
has made traffic an uncertainty ever
since the Panama canal has been open
is to be conquered finally and abso-
lutely. Maj. Gen. George W. Goethals
says so. Therefore Americans, hav-
ing had experience with his canal
making ability already complacently
accept the conquering as being as
good as accomplished already and
turn on to the other news.
1t takes considerable courage to ad-
nit partial defeat at the isthmus by
announcing that the canal will re-
main closed until the slide danger has
been eliminated. In reaching such a
decision General Goethals is wise,
However, for it would waste time and
money in the long run to try to do
the job piecemeal. He is the right
man to kill the Panama snake. Ev-
erybody hopes that he will take time
enough to make sure that it crawls
no more.-Philadelph Ledger.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
NOTHING COMING TO JOHNNY
Small Boy Would Get No Change
From Groceryman If He Gave Him
DoIlar-Old Bill In Way.

The topic having turned to mathe-
matical problems, Congressman Jacob
A. Canter of New York told of an
incident that happened in a public
school.
The teacher was instructing a
junior class in arithmetic, when she
started to give the youngsters some
mental exercises, says Philadelphia
Telegraph.
Johnny" said she, turning to a
youngster of ten, IF you went to the
grocery store and bought 10 cents
worth of sugar, 5 cents worth of
soap, 25 cents worth of coffee and 10
cents worth of crackers and gave the
proprietor a dollar bill in payment
for these articles, how much change
would you get?"
Il wouldn't get any change, Miss
Mary" was the rather surprising re.
Spouse of the boy.
you wouldn't get any change" ex.
claimed the teacher. How do you
figure that out?'
"Storekeeper wouldn't give up," an
swered Johnny. He would freeze
on to it for the old BILL"
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
that COLD YOU HAVE

may bring sickness, doctors bills and
loss of work; you know that serious
sickness usually starts with a cold, and
cold only exists where weakness
exists. Remember that.
Overcome the weakness and nature
cures the cold-that is the law of
reason. Carefully avoid drugged pills,
syrups or stimulants; they are only
props and braces and whips.
tits the pure medicinal nourishment
in SCOTS Emulsion that quickly en-
riches the blood, strengthens the lungs
and helps heal the air passages.
And mark this well-Scott's Emul-
sion generates body-heat as protection
against winter sickness. Get SCOTS
at your drug store to-day. 1t always
strengthens and builds up.
14-51 Scott & Bovine. Bloomfield, NJ
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
WORDS CHANGE IN MEANING
Sometimes Through the Centuries
They Became Contradictory
Two Great Examples.

It is curious habit that history re-
veals, that of stripping word of its
original meaning and clothing it with
a meaning radically different We
were told in our high school days that
Slav meant originally, master" and
great numbers by the more civilized
nations of Europe and impressed
into involuntary servitude, they gave
their once proud name to be used for
ever to designate the condition of
slavery. Modern etymologists are in
clined to scout the idea that the word
Slav came from the old Bulgarian
"slava," which signified glory" but
in the case Of another perverted word
there is no dispute That word is
"Mameluke"
In Turkey mameluke was a slave
boy, usually a Circassian, who did
mental work in the household of the
master. About the year 1900 a great
body of these slaves were sold by
Genghis Khan to the ruler of Egypt.
In so years they had seized the gov
eminent, assassinated the monarch
and elected one of their number to
the throne. Their government lasted
until 1917, when they were overthrown
by Selim l. sultan of Turkey, but they
continued to be power in the army
until the beginning of the nineteenth
century, when Mehmet Ali had them
massacred, because no ruler could
ever feel secure on his throne as long
as the cavalry wing of his army was
composed of mamelukes Their very
name had come to signify the master.
full qualities that belong not to the
slave hnt to tho nnnnnnrnr
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
EXTENDING Charity.

Shut not thy purse strings against
painted distress. Act a charity some
times. When poor creature tout
wardly and v1sibly such) comes be-
fore thee, do not stay to inquire
whether the seven small children, p
in whose name he implores thy assist
ance, have veritable existence. Rake
not into the bowels of unwelcome
truth to save halfpenny. 1t is good
to believe him. II he be not all he pre-
tendeth, give, and under a personate
father OF family think (if thou pleas.
est that thou hast relieved an lndi
gent pachelor.-Charles Lamb.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
HAD TO LEARN TO BE TT"
Mothers Firmness Lesson to Those
Who Would Allow Child to
Impose Upon Others.

The children were playing in the
sunshine. and Judging by their shouts
and laughter they were having a great
time "Bushel O. wheat-bushel O.
rye-all not ready boiler 1! Here
GOMEZ" sounded shrill and gay from
behind a big old forest tree over in
the campus. There were so many
grand old trees to hid behind and
such an ideal place for the dear old
game that / longed to tear off my
white gloves, throw my hat at the hat
rack and take to my heels, leaving an
astonished hostess staring after me.
Breezes and sunshine, and the voices
of happy children sometimes affect
the mind and heels that way, you
know. But before / had time to dis
grace myself the young son of my hos
tess burst in at the front door. He
remembered to snatch off his cap, in
Difference to his mothers caller, but
he could not keep back the tempestu-
flying to the arbiter of all childish af-
fairs.
Mother, make Grace be it," he
painted. "She plays and plays, but
when she gets caught and it's her turn
she just won't be it. p"
I almost held my breath waiting for
that mothers reply. So many mothers
always take the daughters part, say
ing: Now, let your sister play it her
way; don't tease your sister," etc. But
this mother is different, so she an
swered calmly: Tell Grace that she
will be it when her turn comes, or
boy, sure OF his mothers fairness,
rushed back to deliver a message
which must be needed. Maybe she
saw the question in my eyes, regard
ing her decision, as I volunteered
some excuse for the little girl who is
great favorite of mine, for she said
firmly: Grace is just as strong as the
boys she is playing with. She can
count quite as well, run as fast and
is just as shrewd in catching those
WIZ die uluIuS, UuL Sic uO0Su nap
pen to like that part of the game. She
must learn to be it when her turn
comes-or get out of the game" This
mother is strong and sane and sensi.
BILE. When that daughter goes out in.
to the world to make her own way she
will have the right idea of life. Many
of us have been making the mistake
of letting our daughters hold on to
the tender e-handed-sheltered
darling idea, even in this age, when
women are pushing their way to the
front in every line This mothers
daughter will understand that if sht
is as strong, mentally and physically
as her brother, if she is going to claim
the same wage, demand the same
rights, she must work in the same
way, without any concessions to her
femininity, or extra consideration-in
fact she must take her place and fill
it efficiently-Or get out of the game,
Indianapolis News.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
Cleaning Garments.

In cleaning whole garment it is
a good plan first to brush well, and,
second, to mark each spot with white
thread before putting into the gaso-
line bath. Then the spots can be
found and given special attention
without much searching. The best
way of removing the dirt after using
gasoline, as advised in the Handbook
of Cleaning, by Sarah ]. Macleod, is
to pour the gasoline back into the jug
through piece of filter paper, OBJ
tainable at any drug store Gaso-
line should be kept tightly corked, in
stone jugs, and preferably out of the
house.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
Everbroke-If I can't raise enough
to pay that alimony lam afraid I'll be
arrested.
Observation-Disclosures nothing. I'm Of
ten pinched for money.
Sheer Loss.

you can't afford to miss this offer, y
said the agent, persuasively. "All you
have to pay is dollar down and a
dollar month, and you can be read
ing the books while you are paying
for them"
That's just the trouble" replied
Jobson. I'D finish reading them long
before finished paying for them and
then it would be just like throwing
money away"
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
MeIanchoIia.

IF l were to offer you a job, what
would you think?" asked the practical
philanthropist.
Indeed, sir" replied the mournful-
looking tramp. deere Amt nothin you
could say to me dat would add to de
mental depression I've been laborin
under fur many years.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
Bad Strategy.

Gen. Hugh L. Scott was talking in
Salt Lake City about strategy.
Too many strategists," he said,
jump at conclusions. They are too
nasty. They begin new movement
before the old one is finished. Hence,
all manner of errors.
These strategists are like the floor
walker whom married man, having
got separated from his wife in the
crowd, approached and said:
Excuse me, but I've lost nv
wife
'Coffins,' said the floor walker,
ninth floor back. Gents mourning
eleventh floor, 'front.'"
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
A Modern Version,

Here's a pretty romance. A mil
lionaire fell in love with a country
maid while making an automobile
tour, and now they are to be married"
Il suppose she gave the thirsty mo-
torist a drink of water, standing by
his car in rustic grace?'
mo. She sold him little gasoline
Tor his auto"
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
Then the clerk Collapsed.

81 don't suppose this business could
run very long without me- said the
important young man.
Perhaps not" answered the visitor
''Is the boss in?"
"Oh, yes. But I can tell you any.
thing you want to know"
mo, you can't, either. I'm the 81.
lent partner and financial hacker OF
this firm, and l want to know how
long a nincompoop like you Is going
to be kept on the pay roll"
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
In Politics.

us it true that all successful poll.
ticians keep one ear to the ground SO
that they may learn what their con-
stituents are thinking?"
"Oh, no. The men who subscribe the
largest amounts to campaign funds
keep the politicians informed of what
they are thinking and it doesn't mat
ter particularly what other people
think
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
EorcefuI Character.

you seem to have had great
many places lately" said the house,
wife to the prospective cook. "Yet
notice that all your employers give
you good references"
"Yis, num-" replied the candidate,
as she rolled up her sleeves and
showed a brawny arm, Il nearly
always leaves wild a good reference"
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
Dehydrated Olives

are Better than Nuts and cure con,
stipation, hemorrhoids, stomach and
liver troubles. An ounce a day will
keep the decter away. Sold in 4 OF
cartons at 10 cents. Get them from
your grocer or druggist. If they haven u
got them, tell them to get them. Every
body's eating them.
haywood Packing Co., Corning, Cal.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
Not Serious,

She-Why did you start so?
He (anxiously)-Did I understand
you to say your father was failinga +
She-Physically, l mean.
He UNNECESSARILY relieved doh, all
right. / was afraid it was something
serious.-Boston Transcript.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
economies.

Have you studied political econ.
omy?"
Yes, replied the frequent candi.
date; but haven't yet got to a point
when l feel like depending on a fund
OF information to take the place OF
campaign fund
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
NEW MODERN DANCING

Z. Fletcher Hallamore, the leading
Dancing Expert and Instructor In New
York City, writes: az have used ALLEN 8
FOOT EASE, the antiseptic powder to
be shaken into the shoes, fer ten years,
and recommend 1t to all my pupils" 1t
cures aud prevents sore feet. Sold by all
Drug and Department Stores, 25c Sample
FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le
Roy N Y-Adv
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
Weeks Break-Up-a-CoId Tablets
A guaranteed remedy for Colds and
La Grippe. Price 25c of your druggist.
It's good. Take nothing else. ADV.
One of the Mysteries.

"Bliggins says he never reads the
newspapers because they always make
him angry"
tBut if he doesn t read 'em, how
does he know what. to get angry
about7 Washington Star.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
Faint Praise.

What did the critics seem to think
Of Scribson's latest novel?"
They didn't seem to think much of
it."
Nor"
One said 1t might be good book
to read on train, IL there were
plenty of charming scenery to look
at along the route
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18
On the Rialto.

I know you were married twenty
years ago. yet you have the nerve to
ted me that this is your seventh, wed
d hg anniversary"
i said my seventh wedding Yorick.
EsH anniversary"
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-12-18

Constipation causes ana aggravates
many serious diseases. 1t is thoroughly
cured by DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
The favorable family laxative.-Adv.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-13

HARBOR NOTES

| With general cargo. the Matson Ma
/ vigation steamer Enterprise is report
ed to have left San Francisco for Hilo
today.
Remaining at the port a fortnight,
the schooner Fred J. Wood left for
| Aberdeen, Wash, today. The sehoon-
er sailed in ballast.
With 5000 sacks of sugar the steam
er w. G. Hall is an arrival from Kauai
today. The vessel brought 40 sacks
OF mail from the Garden island.
The schooner Annie Johnson, sailing
from Mahukona, Hawaii, for San Fran
cisco today, carried more than 10000
sacks of sugar for coast refineries.
With a number OF passengers from
Honolulu, the Canadian-Australasia
liner Niagara IS reported to have ar
rived at Sydney, N s. W., yesterday.
c. p. Morse, representative for the
freighter Mexican,
was advised that the vessel with 5000
tons of cargo from the mainland, left
Seattle for Honolulu today.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-13
Maui Brings Paving Material.

MauI Brings Paving WdteFIaI.
The largest shipment of hardwood
blocks from Hawaii to Honolulu ship
ped in months arrived here in the
steamer Maui today. The vessel was
supplied with $1,000 blocks to be used
by local concerns in the repair of
streets and wharves. The Maui was
given SIS head of cattle, 20 calves and
about 1000 sacks of sugar.