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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11
Gut of the Mouths of Babss

MY grandpa had perplexity at the
other day." said small Dorothy.
"Perplexity ftr' echoed Edward.
"You mean Il parallel stroke. don't
you?-Buffalo News.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11
Somebody Had to Sleep.

The doctor entered the patients
room In the morning and, according to
habit. read the chart the first thing.
He was little surprised TO read:
80 a. m.-Patient very restless; nurse
sleeping quietly. Golfers Weekly.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11
Unfortunately Expressed.

VioliniSt Zone of a trio Of amateurs
who have just obliged with a rather
lengthy performance)-Well, we've left
or at last. HoStess-Thank you so
much!-London Telegraph.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11
The Cellar of Air

Pure air is blue in tint because, &C
cording to Newton. the molecules of
the air have the thickness necessary to
reflect blue rays. When the atmos-
phere Is blended with perceptible va
pors the diffused light is mixed with a
large proportion of white.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11
Obliqind,

Only give me time, your honor"
begged the convicted prisoner.
An right" replied the Judge. "How
VIII ten years t?"-Baltimor Amer
lean.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11
Anomalous,

PA, what is an anomaly?"
81 can't explain the term very well.
son. but a deck hand on a submarine
would be anomalous" Birmingham
Age-Herald.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11
A Last Resort.

Cant you do anything at all for my
hair?
Nope" said the barber. Hair all
gone"
But my dome shines like a newly
starched collar. Can't you give it a
sort of dull finish ?-Exchange.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11
Balata,

Balata is a substance belonging to
the rubber-like products and which Is
very similar to gutta percha. 1t is OBJ
tanned from the milky juice Of the
bully tree" (Sapota muelleri belk).
found chiefly in the Guianas and Vene-
Zuela.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11
His Ambition.

Madge-I hear that Charlie is an aw-
full spendthrift. Marjorie-I should
say he was. He's trying to make two
wild oats grow where only one grew
before.-Puck.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11
1ouched-

i suppose you were touched when
your wife gave you that fifty dollar
easy chair for your den"
Il was touched before she gave IT,
Boston Transcript.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11
Jade of Burma.

The worlds principal jade mine Is IN
Burma where the privilege Of mining
the stone has beep in possession Of one
Indian tribe for many generations
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11
Unexpected.

Bnl-Did you ever try to stand Cd
an egg?
Jnl-Oh, yes.
And what did you learnT
That the inside Of the egg was
stronger than the outside"
phia Record.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11
An Easy Arrannement-

Wffe-Am 1. then, never to have nv
way In anything? Husband-Certa
dear. When we are both agreed you
can have your way. When We differ
III have mine"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11
Psychology.

Psychology Is the science Of explain
ing why the time between weekly pay
days seems longer than the period
from one monthly gas bill to the next.
Toledo Blade.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11
Limited Exnarianna

Mistress Ito new girD-we entertain
good deal Have you had much ex-
per1ence at parties? GirLOnly as
guest mum.-New Haven Register
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11
A SIicht Chanoe-

Slight changes sometimes make a
great difference. Dinner for nothing
would be agreeable. for instance: NOT
%. Nothing for dinner"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11

When you know a thing. maintain
that you know 1t; when you do not, &C.
knowledge your -Confucius.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11

II you would hit the target aim q lit
tie above It Every arrow that flies
feels the attraction Of earth.-Longfel-
low.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11
Worse Still.

I have wife who Is like bird that
can sing and won't"
You're lucky. Mine can't sing and
wm"-Baltimore American.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11
The Main Question.

A man asks. rs 1t durabler'
A woman asks, rs it stylish?"
A child asks. rs It good to eatr-
Judge.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11

curiosity Is looking over other peo-
pes anairs and overlooking our own.
-Wayland.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-11

Heaven often smites In mercy, even
when the blow is severest-Baillie.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-25
Tragedy of Easter Hat.
Philadelphia Public Ledger)

1 Philadelphia Public Ledger) 1 Fashion may take it upon herself | to decree now and then that d new hat at Easter is not good form, but the desire to possess one is ineradic- able in the feminine heart. Girls 1 welcome the spring with feathers, rib- bons, flowers or fruit that nature
 never saw, and other timely access
 sories, just as birds do with fresh
 plumage. Thus it was a real tragedy.
 the other day when a young woman
 Of Philadelphia lost in a street car
 all she had painfully saved for this
 annual luxury. Those with plenty of
 money to spend can hardly realize the
 sickening sanse of disappointment
 which must have assailed her at .he
 thought of hatless Easter. If the finder docs not return her purse to her, none of the ingenious punish ments enumerated by the Mikado would fit the crime.
 At all times and seasons. indeed. the right of q woman to dress becom- ingly is beyond question. "A girl who tried to live on SC a week" told a leg islative committee at Albany that she and others in her circumstances have gone with one less meal a day for months at time in order to buy d new hat or dress Economists may discuss the minimum wage: pro or con, all they please; but no mere ar gument can subdue this natural de- sire for good clothes Philanthropists often engage in far less worthy enter priscs than providing every honest working girl with at least one new hat and one new dress a year. There are so-callcd luxuries which are much more important than anyemere neccs- sitics, and this inc one Of them.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-25
The WhippoorwilI
tI'arm JournaL)

There are several reasons why the Whlppoorwill is rarely seen. He sleeps all day in the heart of the solitary woods and instead of perching across the branch (which he is unable to do because his claws are so tiny) he crouches lengthwise along it, his dasky coloring not to be distinguished rom that of the bark. His back and long wings are mottlcd in grays. buffs and browns. his head black and white and his tail in blending colors, with the lower half of the outside feathers white. He matches well the messy limb on which he squats. If he is dis covered by chance he utters no cry. but flies gently away.
 The eggs arc even harder to find than the parents, for they are creamy white with dark brown and olive spots, simply laid on the bare ground with the colors of which they blend The whippoorwills are very carefui of their children. If they think they are discovered they pick them up in their mouths and move them as a eat does her kittens.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-25
THE JITNEY.

Winsted appears to be in favor of Citizen of that town is explaining the distance to Hartford and how such lino would pay because of the lack of steam and trolley facilities. The jitney is becoming very popular in some communities and there is hardly any doubt but that properly managed there is a field for this kind of service in many places during the warm weather when people would rather ride in the open than closed cars One of the leading manufac tages of the automobile in this line q few years ago when the word jitney was unheard of and which by the way has not yet found it's way into the dictionary. There is some reason for believing that this kind of service will be extended to almost every com for it before long. Patrons, however, would be obliged to pay more for the service than if they rode on the trolley. It was suggested that such service could be made to pay as a regular bus mess but omehow it was never started. It does not seem possible that a person could be carried by auto from here to Hartford for dime, the fare on the trolley and dinky, so that the jitney in place like New Britain for instance would necessarily be re- garded as a luxury for which the pa irons might be willing to pay more than in a conveyance to be used wholly for convenience
 There are number of transporta- tion companies in various places that derive good income from automo- bile service which includes lecturers to places of importance along the road, the trip usually having for it's destination some particular point about which there is something of his-. torical interest. That rather bars New Britain, but Winsted could draw we'll in line to Copper Hill. Cornwall Hollow and the Blackberry river.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-25
PRISONERS WORK AT
 GARDENING.

The habit of letting the prisoners in Iitchfield jail out to do odd jobs Of gardening. lawn trimming, etc, is oD- jected to and bill before the legis- lature prohibits it. One of the sc- lectmen says that 200 people have
 been driven out of Litchfield by lack
 of work owing to this prison choring.
 Another man guarantees to bring six
 families back to town the week the
 bill is passed. We can't help feeling
 that the people who are displaced by
 this kind of work are not much good.
 Tn most country places it Is almost
 1npossible to get anyone to do these
 little domestic services aterbury
 American.
 work that is one thing but if they
 were ordered out to do it is quite an:
 other but in neither case does it seem
 as if the labor market had been se-
 riously affected If there are 200 per-
 sons engaged in gardening in Litch-
 field it must be admitted that the
 percentage is very high, more so that in many other places much larger
 than that town. In the absence or an explanation, however, 1t is eminently proper to inquire why the prisoners were put to work gardening. Were they hired out by the day or by con- tract or what was it that prompted the sheriff to provide such employ ment Prisoners have been seen run ming the lawn mower in front of the prison at Wethersfield but they have not gone to neighboring yards to trim the trees and cut the grass. There has been some talk about putting prisoners to work on the highways but nothing definite has been done about it and as gardening is a bit close to road work in general char acter it would seem as if it might be 1 desirable to know omething about l conditions under which the garden ing was done. The principal objection does not lie in the direction of the of men who have been dis placed at gardening by the prisoners but how it was that they were given that form of employment Perhaps ] the state farm idea is being given u trial in Litchfield.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-25
Laugh Was on Him.
(Youth's Companion.) )

On ranscontinental liner, during a recent voyage from Liverpool to New York, there was a dapper little fellow from London whose unlimited conceit made him anything but pop ular with his fellow passengers. He was so ready of wit that ne usually had the best of it in repartee. Each time, of course, he became more con ceited than before. It was a bright Brooklyn school teacher who finally wrought his downfall One day, in a sheltered spot on the deck, some of the passengers were passing the time by playing a game of quotations. As they sat in semi-circle, each in turn gave a quotation--the first quotation beginning with "A," the second with "B" and so on The special point was to give a quotation suggested in some way by the preceding one or by the person who had given it. Chance brought the Brooklyn school teacher seventh in line, next to the young man from London When the young mans turn came, he looked round with a superior smile and quoted: "Frailty. thy name is woman" There was an instant's hesitation: then the clear. level tones of the young teach or were heard: God made him; therefore let him pass for a man!' The roar of laughter that followed hroke up the game. For the rest of the voyage the dapper young man thought more and talked less.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-25
Taylor System. (BOStOn Herald,)

If Luther Burbank discovered a way to double the prod activity of the Vege-
 table garden we should go long dis
 tance to sec it. If some one invented
 device to double the output of a
 mine Or the catch of fishing fleet,
 or the speed of a railroad train, we
 should rate these all as wonders of
 the day. And yet press and politician
 and public allude only raInt-heartedly,
 if at all, to the so-called Taylor
 system, in the application of which
 our own Watertown arsenal has been
 the pioneer among the governments
 military esta blishments. There, how
 ever, the same number of men are
 producing two and one e-half times as
 great a product as they did before
 tdat system was installed. Congress
 has been shutting back and forth as to it's continuation. Legislation final ly enacted in the closing hours of the session has made it's use more dfii- cult than before, but has not so effectively stamped it out as at one time seemed probable.
 The employees of the Watertown arsenal privately confess their liking for the system because they make more under it. Their average increase in compensation has been ruiIy thirty per cent, and they like that But the neighboring unions do not. And vet it is primarily a device for cut ting out lost motion. Everybody knows what this is. Tn every kitchen in the land we understand that one woman can, without greater weari- ness or apparent effort. turn off double the work of somebody else The same contrasts between different persons appear in every sphere of activity, from reporting a fire to rais- ing a cucumber. And, like everything else in the world, the principles on which efficiency rest have been found capable of analysis and systematlza- ton.
 The question before the American people is exceedingly practical. Do 1 they, in taxes on sugar, beer tobacco. ! woolens, etc, diffused through all the !! cost of living, prefer to pay s2 to get 1 a certain result, or to pay S1 to get 1 it? Do they prefer to employ the other dollar in getting something else ! N hich the community desires? Needed | improvements that we cannot even , remotely secure are always in view | In fne do we want our taxation to | perform a half or the whole of it's possible service?
 Workers of the world may be divided into two classes: Those who are paid "by the piece" in the field farm and factory, and those who, the sprotecting arm of union Ia bor, are paid on collective bar gaining basis. The cost of the pro- duct of each kind of labor is borne by the entire purchasing community. Do the persons who milk cows on the l farms, with their return whether as Or employees closely re- lated to their output, like to have the money which they pay through the cost of living employed in the govern ments gun-malling factories on a different basis? If not, they and all who are similarly situated should rise to the defence of the efficiency system.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-25
The Rev. MT. Sundays Revenues.
(New York Sun.)


 Pittsburg has rewarded the Rev
 Billy Sunday with $44,000, Scranton and Wilkesbarre have contributed S22,O0 each, and Philadelphia s fired l will offering now amounts to exactl, s51, S5. Simple souls asked what
 would he do with it? The question surprised the advance organizer of
 the evangelist's campaign" He asked ] another: What would you do if somebody gave you $50,000?" Some thing of a poser for the average man,
 who knows that fortune will never 1 shower such favors upon him, and who, moreover, is aware that neither nature nor art has made him a pro- fessionaI evangelist.
 The question concerning the Rev. Billy" Sundays use of the great sums that fall into his lap in every city where he holds meetings to save souls confuses that undertaking with the material side of his occupation, that is to say, with his human desire 10 lay up ltreasures on earth What is his own he may hold fast to, and free will gifts from his audiences, on certain days set apart for the hire of the labOrer in the vineyard are indispGtably his own lie may invest in gilt edged securities, real estate or precious stones, If the Rev. "Billy's" hearers think that he should employ his revenues in uplifting humanity and improving mankind, not to speak of making new converts by putting other cvangelists in the field, such idealists should obtain a guaranty from MT Sunday before they swell the collection plate. With him evan gelizing is a practical business as well as service to his fellow man. He would not deny this himself ana it would be idle to equivocate about the matter
 There can hardly be a doubt-al- though there may be differences of opinion about it-that the Rev. 'iBilly" Sunday earns what he re- ceives, enormous as the sums arc in the course of d year. Those who go to hear him harangue and strike ! acrobatic attitudes, to listen to his irrevercnt slang and laugh at his au- dacious jokes in the name of religion, 1 in short to be shocked and amused | attend entertainment for which, | if they are not stingy, they should l expect to pay. Those who believe that the evangelist is turning the thoughts of men ond women to bet ter life by his extraordinary appeals and passionate eXhortations, simulat- ed or otherwise, should be grateful enough to give him the pecuniary re- ward solicited in the advertisements of his meetings. Those in his audi onces who are ''sayed'' by him con tribute, of course, according to their means and ability.
 Outsiders will divide upon the moral right of the Rev. Billy" Sun day to reap a golden harvest, from his organized activities for the sal 1ation of great urban centers, as they will differ about his sincerity ana | ;ingleness of purpose. But they will agree that a candid autobiogra phy of | he eX-ball player from the old White l
New Britain herald., 1915-03-25
COMMUNICATED.
Gordon J. Ely Advocates F. A. Woes
 ter For Common Council.

Editor Herald:--It has been stated leading candidates for councilman in the third ward, never voted the re- publican ticket but once in his life. This statem ent is false as he has al- ways voted the ticket since becoming a voter nearly nineteen years ago.
 MT. Wooster has been at the Stan ley Works for twelve years and is in charge of their bolt department. Fra formally, MT. Wooster is well known and popular among a number of or ganizations His friends say he will be nominated at the primaries on April 9th, by large majority
 GORDON J. ELY.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-25
GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED
 IN INSTITUTES LIST THIS WEEK

! railway cars and trucks, compiled l by Rodney Hit.
 1 Electro-platers handbook, by J. H. 1 Weston
 Magnets and magnetism simply ex- plained, by A. ". Marshall. Principles and practice of electrical engineering, by Alexander Gray. Based on lecture and laboratory course given to senior civil, mechan- ical, and mining students in McGiI university. "A. L. A. Booklist. Small accumuators; how made and
 used, edited by Percival Marshall
 k
 of Rontgen rays,S by G. w. c.
 Kaye. ~.
 "A compact, on-mathematical work, summarizing the latest develop ments and giving a brief historical sketch since the discoveries of Ront- gen in 1895. Unapproached in aue thorty among existing English books. We consider that for some time to come this will be the classic book on X-rays. "A. l.. A. Booklist.
 Fiction.
 Child went forth, by Yoi Pawlowska.
 "A simple, unaffected but most ef- fective telling of the childhood and life around little Hungarian girl un til she was sent to England to school. Characters, atmosphere, scenery and 2 10 vi, ii seems as though the material of the story must be autobiographical." A. l.. A. Booklist.
 Contrary Mary, by Temple Bailey.
 "A sweet, entertaining love story, three in fact with a pleasant, rather oldfashioned flavor, although most of it's characters are up-to-date young people. "A. l.. A. Booklist by Ernest Poole
 "An unusual, strong story of the making of a man, and of New York harbor as it seemed to the little boy who lived beside it, hating and fear ing but fascinated-to the youth un- derstanding only it's sinister force-to the man grown with an enlarged vision to see the power and the glory as we'll as the seething labor and so- cial problems, and gift of writing to express these things with force and l.. A. Booklist.
 By all odds the best American novel that has appeared in many a ong day.''-N. Y. Times. Ladder. by Philip Curtiss S,1h- Ia ie cfn af man. It is a typically Amer can story concerning the hero's progress from chore-boy on a farm | o state senator and successful play l wright This is the authors first l lovel, although he has written 1 number of short stories for leading | ''-Publisher's note. 1an of iron, by Richard Dehan.
 
 wilde Prydz. ...
 'An unusual story in which the 1 translator has retained the foreign lavor of it's picturesque, Norwegian citing. It deals with intimate 11u- nan relations without the hectic 1 ouch, has a true poetic quality and .arries the cool, refreshing air. of Jorway's mountains and streams into very moment of the story. "A. L. A Booklist. word of youth, by James Lane
 Allen.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-25

Stocking days down to the prolific present would be a best seller" Cap-- tain Adrian Anson must sometimes reflect that he made a mistake when he went from the diamond into pol itics in Chicago.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-25
FACTS AND RANCHES.

Much has been made since the death of Charles Francis Adams of the contradiction in the Adams fam il- of the old law that 1t took only three generations for q family to rise and fall again Through three gen. erations the Adams family has main tained the highest standing in Amer ica of social distinction, political ability and financial success. Frank F. Sanborn, the Boston correspond ent says that the same high rank is likely to be maintained at least for one or two generations longer Waterbury American. ~a-,a
 Bridgeport discovers a man dls- guised as a woman, working first in a corset factory and then in a laun- dry. because, as skilled ironer, he could find steadier employment as a woman than as q man. up III Will limansett Mass, it is revealed that a woman has worked for, four years In enc of the mills there, in the dls- guiSe of man, because she coulu earn more as a man and better sup port herself and her sister. The Hartford Times.
 A mere man showed courage on Broadway yesterday, but of the sort which a bull shows when he gets In the track of an oncomlng express train, lowers his head and conrands it to stop. This misguided hero ap- peared on that particular street in the first day of spring wearing d straw hat, or lid as it Is technically known. It is hardly necessary to re- late what followed. It is sufficient to record that he escaped with his life. It is not certain that the ''lid'' was as fortunate.-New Haven Register.
 A fire prevention week as we'll as q cleanup week is what Hartford calls it's annual city house cleaning period announced for the middle of next month Tn this Hartford shows that it has got hold of the right idea. Rubbish accumu1atons are fully as objectionable because of their effect on the fire hazard as they are from considerations of health and appear snces Cleanup week is the logical s,rie 3or any concerted campaign to awaken public interest in the duty of reducing fire losses by applying the nrinciple of "stoppage at source.'- Bridgeport Standard.