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The J arr
Family
By Roy l.. McC ardell.
oopy1shf. 1919. ~ M Pr~s Pubtshhs0A
fThs New York Evening Worhl

Cupynshf. 1919. ~ Ins Prs rubtshnG0
rThs New York Evening woh-l
Get KNOW who's goins to be sioct-
3D." said Mrs. Jar gayiy.
well, who Is it?'' asked Mr..
Jarr. who was enjoying his u OF
coffee
You tust eat your breakfast and
never you mindi" said Mn. JarT. ~
high good humor and keeping her
eyes on the morning Newspaper.
why do you say you know who'u
| DO elected7" repeated Mr.. Jarr. know
Ing II no asked any questions very
little attention would be paid hin.
and no was trying to turn the part of
the embroidered centreptece he had
spattered egg on around and away
from him, 80 when MIA Jar would
notice Il later On she would blame II
on the children
What did you sayf" replied Mr..
Jarr, her eyes stu on the mark-down
sale Of children's clothes. and know
ing her spouse had spoken. but not
hearing what he asked
IT asked you." said Mr.. Jar with
! forced calmness. who was going to
be elected and how you knew II DID
you read It In thb paperf"
Read It In tho paperT- his good
lady replied. laying the paper down
and catching the last part Of his
question. Have 1 ever the time &c
read the psper7 II you get hold OF
1t first you let your coffee get cold
and then say It was that way when
we gavo Il to you. Then when you
rush downtown you take tho paper
with you, and At night you mover
think enough of me to bring the
evening editions homo with you. but
leave them IN tho cars. And, any
way, | am not interested in your ole
politics and / don't see why the
papers print all the stuff they DC
about It."
well, who DO you think WIN b
elected and how do You knowf'
asked Mr.. Jarr.
why. Mr.. Wilson win Re elected
Everybody Is going to vote for him
and / had II on very good authority
said Mrs. Jarr, decisively.
WHO told your WHO'S your au'
thorityT" asked MI. Jarr.
Mrs. Rangle's brothor;~ replied
Mrs.. Jarr. -He~
THAT ignoramusf- broke In Mr.
Jarr. What does he know abou'
anything7 Why. he doesn't know h
is alive"
"If you'd only walt a minute anC
not interrupt me-" said Mrs. Jarr
'It wasn't him at all. He's engaged
to a young lady and She
yea and shsf' osid Nj, Jarrs II
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To-Day's Anniversary

Riohheld. N. Y. but in 1909 removed
to New Salem. now Conneaut, o.
While living there he wrote a ro-
nance entitled The Manuscript
Found" which was a narrative of tho
customs and OF the people
who were depicted as being the origl-
The tact that Spaulding, in his ro-
nance, gave as the basis for his
story a manuscript found in an an
cient mound, may have led TO the al
legation that the Book OF Mormon.
eald to have been found by Joseph
Smith in a hill nea Manchester.
N, Y, was based on The Manu-
script Found" When tho Mormons
began preaching in Ohio. soma OF
those who had heard Spaulding read
his romance insisted that the sacred
book OF tho new sect was derived
from tho novel;
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she . prophet or tns SON Of .
prophet7"
mo, she isn't, but she's a lovely
girl and has the incest figure and the
sweetest manners" replied Mrs, Jarr.
talking in a hurry 90 Mr.. Jsrr could
not got another word In "Shs's 10
ladylihe that you'd never think she
had TO work for her tvtnS, But she's
a manicure. although Mn. Rangie
doesn't want II known, because she
~says-that ia, Mrs- Ransle s~ays-she's
old fashioned. and It sort OF CRATES
on her 10 think a young lady her
brother is engaged to works in a
barber shop, even II II Is called a on
serial parior. Wen. ! was telling you,
Lllian-tor that - hsr nAms-told u
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that Wilson IN surs 20 be ssccssd.,

that Wilson IN surs 20 Be sfooeed,
Ian says It Is dreadful b hear :.
bitter all those BARRIERS arc aga
Hughes. or course, Lillian says. a.
Of the patrons are for Mr.. Hug
but tho BARRIERS talk TO them and
them how Wilson kept u out
war;
"a: har- cried Mr.. JarN 80 y
son strikes q barber shop chord
popularity I sec Il AMI"
what do you meanY~ ssdksd
puzzled Mrs. Jar.
THE BARRIERS win all CUT Hus
al Wilson win win by a Z.
shave"
But Mrs. Jarr said she could
understand poltuos At AU
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Hits From SHARP Wits

When q whipped dos bowls. Il isn't
the happening OF the unexpected-a
howl Ia the only language. aside from
q whine-Knoxville Journal.
Some patriots require nags to i'd
vertise their patriotism. while others
require nagons.-Coiumbia q. c.
State.
II would indeed be the irony Of fate
II married men who went TO war 70
get peace should be returned home.-
Atlanta Constitution.
Don't you hate TO call on a woman
who looks at your child every time
he touches anything in the house
And isn't II hard TO keep from watch
ing a callers child TO see what no IL
going TO soil OF break next?-Macou
News.
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Just a WHEELER Diary
Edited by Janet Trevor

9 On rTns New Yorh pvcnins wo~tp.
her apartment and drew mo into
front room. from which Tom and
bette, tho children. had been
cfudcd-
pan has gona- she said.
"0one-wherer I echoed, stun.
II don't know ssid Pattya
me4n-DAn has left me. Irs .
tectly respectable desertion. II {,
II suoh a thing. There's no .,
woman. Dan simply has found
thet I am earning money. and Id
fuses TO stay with q wife whoI
says, 30 grossly humiliates him
III eomes down to this, utnl
must stvo mp toe httfs indepand'
I have won and TO bach to ehA
way Of asking for every penny
enduring reflsas, OF he declares
he viii withdraw all support
me-"
But he csn>t do that I erciai
Indignantly. "The law win make
take care of his children"
"Do you suppose that ! am r
30 summon to court the father at I
and Babettef" Patty reminded
do you suppose that I am goin!
have their names publicly brand
BeSides-Dan may try TO got {
away from me. ] must keep %
thing TO use an a threat In that on
gency.
II would trampis On my own m
but I have found that my husa,
win not, In any circumstances
me enough money 70 buy my chf<
what they need I believe I oan
better for them than he In within,
do. Anyway. Tn going to nah
very earnest effort before I give
Patty. how can you manage II
asked hpprehensively.
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of Stratford. Eng
land, as the birth
place of tho most
complete intellect
the English race
b q produced.
William Shake
spears Q5s4-ls1O
was the Oldest of
five children born
to John Shake
speare and his
wife. Mary, whose
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y OR years a controyersS has be

Whged about the authorship OF
the Book OF Mormon, which the
Latter-Day Saints. or Mormons. hold
TO be tho word OF God. on an equality
with the Bible. The contention Of
many of the opponents of Mormonism
has been that the work Of Joseph
Smith and his disciples was derived
from a romance written by the Rev.
Solomon Spaulding.
Interest In the controversy has been
revived by the fact that to-day marks
the centenary OF tho death OF the
clerical author. Solomon Spauldlng
was born In Ashford. Conn, In l7Gl.
and, after serving In the Revolution
airy War. graduated from Dartmouth
College. For some years he was en-
gagged IN business In Cherry VALLEY and
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ovwr.sht 1919. b. rs Pr
CHAPTER LXXu.

CHAPTER LXIu.
n YOv. 11.-Ned and I were Just nm
N lining breakfast when Mary
oams - tan me- that Mrs. Kane
w1shed to speak to me ever the teie-
phone.
GOOD morning. Morie' said Pstty's
quiet voice, q little strained. It seemed
70 me- -Are you doing anything
especial to-day7-
"No. DEAR" I answered Can
help your"
Il wish you'd come and sos me ~
soon - you can got away this morn
ing, and ] should tfHs to hsvo you
stay an DAY. You were 70 lovely with
the children that other time. and
have 70 be OUT for several hourA
know it's tmposiron"-
Not a htl- Uninterrupted. those
babies Of yours arc dears- But, Patty,
I hope nothing 10 seriously wrong"
It'll tsa you all about II whsn see
you. Come a. carly - you can.
aoodby. Moine.-
IN some p~orturbatton ! returned &c
Ned and told him what I had been
asked TO do.
Surge ahead no commented
-Mra Kane's q Moo little woman,
Too bad SHE'S married 10 nich q
taghtwad- Why not have the Khner
TO thinner sone night before longt'
I promised TO deliver tho invitation
for I had no fnkiing OF the condition
of affaip. Patty did not leave me
long IN doubt. however. Pale and
smiling. she met me at tho door OF
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me man who Is touched Is ant IN
regara himself as hard hlt.-Deserss
When you got down TO rock bo,.
s"tn' mats a good. solid startina
mercial Appeal. ~o"-
Inc wlsaom upon which youth
Prides Itself Is recognized in Later
Years TO have been mostly folv~AI''
bany Journal.
some men try TO look as dignined
as BOOSTERS. but they seldom succeed.
Toledo Blade.
Even a religious man must be we'll
heeled these days to look after his
! sole.-Phiiadelphia Inquirer.
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His Letters Opened. Cy Of OLeary-Headiin~
What with his mail. his kilograms and his tonxua Jere
miah 0Lsary II by this time marked % ono Of the most un.
mitsatsd and noisy nuisanoes that ever cropped up In q cam.
palm.
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made q getaway from Sing Sing yesterday the Acting Warden
was on . trip upstate and the Deputy Warden was In tMh city
helping MT Thomas Mott Osborne extol the merits. of the
Osborne system. One of the theories OF that system las been
mat nobody should feel confined at Sing sins-not even IN.
keepers.
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the first coin is worth from % to
flO. The second IL worth si.75.
miiied Edge, Not Lettered, from 10
Cents 10 $3.50.
To TIN Editor VI The Evening Worlds
What is the value Of an 1885 half
dollArT T. J. IL.
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Our corntrvi In nor Intercourse 10TH foreign aano~s sssv 80 $3.50
BE- IN tho right; but % country. 1on. o ,oroaoi-srErRnN DnuArC
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NLD TRINITY. as II is familinriy
~ known, at Wall and Broadway.
Is not no old as churches 20.
The first Trinity was erected on tho
site In 1897, and burned In 1875. And
the second became unsafe In lS46,
when II vas demolished and the
present church built
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- ENIUS was mover more demo-
" cratic than when she ohoso the
home of a retired shopkeepor
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Letters From the People

T~wenty-Cent Piece Rare.
~ ths Editor a Ths Epnins Worh;
What Ia the value OF an 1876 TWEEN
ty-cent piece and an 1854 gold dol
larf L. Z. II.
Htth the letterA &C c" under eagle
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Lives That Prove Democracy
By Nixola Greeley-Smith
cowrsh. ISIS By The Pr.s PsShsf
No. VW.-Whliam Shakespeare.

.sn.hans %. I'm. Nov Yui Dr.a,ns worn,.
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TRAINED AMI TRIED.

~ HE American mind a; its best is not easily bcguiled. It
not let theories outweigh facts, nor does it readily give
certainty for a promise.
Evening star., 1916-12-03
TURTLES BY THE THOUSAND

7APAN might well be called the land
of infinite detail. Perhaps no.
where else on earth may one see
detail carried to such extremes as in
that land. where every available square
foot of soil must be made to yield every
possible return. Farms of one or two
acres. producing six, eight, ten or a
dozen different crops. are common
sights. the soil being fertilized and
handled in such a manner as to bring
results every month of the year.
Smallness and intensive cultivation
are not the only Distinguishing charac-
teristics of these tiny japanese farms.
One peasant who obtained some over
flowed land turned what in this coun-
try would be waste ground" to profit.
Converting the marshy overflow into
ponds, he bred and raised swapping
turtles. which in Japan are considered
as much of a delicacy as diamond back
terrapin here. The farm" now pro-
duces tens of thousands of the snap
ping turtles annually. these being ship
ped to Toxic and Yokohama markets by
the ton.
Certain of the ponds are set apart as
breeding grounds for the turtles, and
once a day men go carefully along the
banks with little wire baskets with
which they cover all newly deposited
turtle eggs. Sometimes thousands of
the wire baskets are In sight at one
time. marking the places where the
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eggs lie and preventing the turtles
from scratching the earth from them.
Matching consumes from forty to six
ty days, according to the weather. Tho
young, as soon as they appear, are put
in separate small ponds and are fed
with finely chopped fish. They eat this
during September and October, and late
for the witner. coming out in April or
May.
Most of them are sold in the market
when they are from three to five years
old. at which time they are most deli
cate"
Japan has also a pearl-oyster farm.
In the bay of Ago there has been es-
tablished a plantation. from which
rich harvest is obtained.
In May or June stones weighing from
six to eight pounds are sunk In shallow
water. and IN August the tiny shells be-
gin to appear on them. The stones re-
main for two months, but, since tho
young oysters cannot endure cold, in
November all rocks In less than five
feet of water are moved farther out,
where the temperature is more even
At the end of three years, when the
shells are about two inches across. they
are taken from the water, nuclei for
pearls inserted in them and replaced in
the water, thirty of them to every six
square feet of bottom.
There they are left for four years,
Then. being seven and q half years old,
they are removed and searched for
pearls
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and Efficiency i'm Cleaning City's Stree

squeesee scrape it Off the pavement,
The rain and mist also loosen II ana
make 1t easy to remove, so the next
time the sQueegees are seen watering
the streets when IL is raining. please do
not think that 1t is the drivers who do
not know enough to come out Of the
wet.
The ideal way to clean streets is to
wash them by water flushing. The
der placed horizontally on a fourS
wheeled truck and discharginG water
from nozzles upon the roadhed. Is noe
unfamiliar, but its inside working 10
of the water in filling the cylinder
congresses air in an inside cylinder
that the water is driven out under
pneumatic pressure with force enough
to cleanse the street This method is
expensive because 1t requires a lot OF
water and time is lost in filling tho
tank against the air pressure within.
Another objection to those now in use
is that the pressure, which at first Is
forty-five pounds, gradually runs down
to normal as the tank is emptied.
"A new motor fusher has been ORDER
ed, and this type may. If 1t proves sats-
factory, be adopted. The water Is
forced out of the nozzles by a centri-
fugal pump. placed within the tank
and driven by the motor. A constant
pressure high as sixty-five pounds
can be maintained.
1t is only within the past few years
that the great improvements in street
cleaning equipment has been inaugu-
rated. The manufacturers were con-
tent to offer what they had. and that
was all that the various departments
could buy. But the leading cities were
not satisfied. and have not only encour-
aged the makers. but insisted that they
should make better machinery. The re.
suit is some of the modern monsters
of warfare against city dirt.
Mr. Paxton told very briefly Of his
examination Of new type of garbage
reduction plant, where the operation is
carried on in way that makes mu-
nicipal plants quite feasible. The OBJ
jectionable feature of such plant has
been its stack belching out malodorous
fumes over the country for several
miles from its place of origin.
BY the method in use at Los Angeles
there is smoke other than the little
from coal burned in the furnace. This
system is being installed in Greater
New York and in other places and
promises to solve a serious question for
all large municipalities. AS it can he
maintained in or near the city limits,
the long, unpleasant and expensive haul
of garbage will be obviated.
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PNHREE million dollars for the
comfort of the sick and wound
ed in the army and navy. That
+. is the sum which the War and
Navy departments are spending on the
latest hospital equipment for the land
and sea branches of Uncle Sans mill
tary forces-a hospital train that cost
100000 and a hospital ship for which
$2,50o,000 has been appropriated.
These equipments for the comfort and
care of the sick and wounded are
unique, inasmuch as both the hospital
train and the hospital ship are the first
of their kind ever constructed ex-
clusively for this purpose.
The various warning nations of Eu-
rope possess hospital trains and hos
pital ships but. in every case these are
makeshift propositions, commercial
units converted to the uses of the army
or navy and not built especially for the
purpose for which they are being used.
American military observers attached
to the various armies abroad have re-
ported that considerable percentage
of wounded men have died the result
of delay in getting them back to the
main or base hospital, and it was on
account of this that the surgeon gem
eral of the United States Army was able
to induce Congress to set aside money
enough to give our army a first-class
hospital train, not a made-over set or
cars, which would only partly solve the
difficulty of the transportation and care
of the wounded.
This train has been used experiment.
ally by the War Department for more
than a month and, a result, army
medical experts are unanimous In de-
claring that it will be of immense value
in the event of any war in which this
nation may engage.
Uncle Sans hospital train consists of
ten cars, each containing the most
modern of surgical and hospital equip
ment and characterized by authorities
on the subject to be superior to any
train of it's kind in the world.
Each of the cars is painted a dark
green, with the insignia of the War
Department Medical Corps in gold let
tering along the side. While the train
was constructed with the idea of US
ing it as whole, the equipment of the
cars is such that the train may be
broken into two sections and used. if
necessary. in different parts of the
country
Five of the cars are what are techni-
cally known as ward cars"-rolling
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ter in another bag, to be deposited at
the same or some other corner. until
collected. The trouble was that the
trucks could not be on hand to clear
the corners promptly, and until they
did come these bags remained d nuis-
ance.
In Washington we are using about
5000 sacks year. and wish we knew
a better way of doing things. for they
give US a lot of trouble. particularly in
cold weather. when they freeze. if wet
and have to be thawed and dried.
But we have modified our system of
collecting-we think improved it-and
We have adopted a new style of push
cart. The filled sacks no longer are
set down at the street corners. but
collecting stations have been estab-
lished in some cheap buildings hired
for the purpose within the alleys.
"Our new pushcart is sheet-iron
box with a hinged cover, mounted on
wheels. 1t is big enough to hold three
or four sacks, open for filling, and is
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troduced at the outset Small struc-
lures may be built above ground with
the space underneath left open. Priva to
houses should be built with concreted
cellars and walls. and all openings
above ground protected by strong wire
netting. Wharves and warehouses
should be built with concrete floors and
bases. Wherever this has been done
the result has been favorable.
In San Francisco. where ships carry
ing rats from the plague-infested
shores of the orient make harbor. the
rat proofng laws have been exposed.
In New Orleans, in the summers heat.
rats bearing the disease of the tropics
from the southern ports are met by
threatened starvation If they come
ashore at the rat-proof wharves, which
the health service has secured along
the water front.
They have been builded out of shell
ter. If not yet out of existence, and in
consequence in two years in neither
of those ports has there been a single
case of bubonic plague, and that sort
of protection is one which the whole
country favors. and this is the sort
of protection which the public health
service gives when 1t has the means
and opportunity.
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sacks from the street corners horse
power costs less, because the stops
were more frequent, but now motor
trucks can do the work at a considera-
BILE saving. because one stop and start
is all that has to be made. The pur-
chase of several has been authorized
and it Is only question of time when
they will be in active operation.
Contrary to general belief. hand
brush sweeping is better than ma
chine for city like Washington, al
though the use of machines is less ex-
pensive in streets that are roughly
paved or where the sweeping is very
heavy. Streets should be cleaned by
water flushing every other day. and
usually all that is required between
times is the removal Of dirt as 1t ac-
cumulates in spots. 1t is not necessary
to send a machine. with its driver and
team. to do the work which pair of
white wings and a pushcart can do
more easily.
When the sweeping is so heavy that
a gang Of brushmen is necessary. or
where the machine sweeper body Of
several horse-brooms headed by a
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STREET CLEANERS AT WORK.

so we'll constructed that it can be as
easily drawn about as the old cart
with single sack. When all the
sacks in the cart are filled it is drawn
to the collecting stations, where the
sacks remain out of the way until
taken to the dumps. One station suf-
fees for a number of handsweeping
areas, and thus the collections are
easily made.
Here we encounter a new question:
Is it cheaper for the department to
use horses or motor trucks for it's
work? The answer is determined by
the conditions of each case. If the
hauls are long and the stops infre-
quent, motors at the present relative
prices of forage and gasoline are more
economical. If, in the nature of things,
the vehicles are likely to have con-
siderable periods of rest. motors are
not eating and horses are, SO in that
case motors are preferable
Where stops and starts are frequent
the motors eat gasoline more rapidly
than horses do oats, and then the motor
is more expensive.
Under the old system Of collecting
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TOOLS OF THE "wH1TE WINGS"

streets. 1t used to be thought necessary
to hire extra teams and wagons to
haul the leaves away, but now the SIM
pie expedient of applying sideboards to
the carts doubles their capacity and
enables US to remove the leaves prompt
ly without the extra expense.
"In collecting the sweepings from the
cutters the cost of running motors is
prohibitive. Here is where the horse
comes in; he is led or driven to his
place at the first pile and knows that
has been taken up. The equine union
of which he is member forbids him to
watch his man helpers. but the rules re-
quire the men, when all is clear, to rap
the edge of the cart with their shovels.
This is the horses signal and all that
he will do is to walk leisurely on Che
must not hurry to the next pile and
rest there until the shovel sounds for
him to move on again. If any one thinks
this is an exaggeration, let him watch
the operation.
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THE squeegee. that queer-looking four
whe led tank which sauirts water In
fro'.t of the hind wheels and behind
them and drags a back-acting cylinder
with rubber blades to scrape the water
Off again, is either horse-drawn or
motor driven.
I'VE have eleven horse-drawn squee-
gees and are expecting soon to have one
driven by motor. People sometimes
wonder why these machines are used on
rainy or misty days when the streets
do not need wetting. The explanation
will perhaps give a little insight into
things.
Paper and trash are unsightly, but
not dangerous until they are pulverized
by passing wheels and strewn about.
Oil, grease and kindred substances are
not very noticeable. but all spread over
the asphalt and form thin coating of
scum which when wet rises and makes
the roadbed slippery and dangerous.
The moisture also loosens it SO that
after a sprinkling the blades Of the