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The log cabin Democrat., 1916-04-08
Savings Banked in Teapots,

A considerable amount of gold is be- ing boarded by people who bank their incomes and business takings and who are anxious to be ready to meet emer- gency demands; but it is probable that much larger quantity is stored up in rural parishes throughout the country.
 The money, which is added to from time to time, lies unproductive in the house, concealed in wooden boxes un- der the bed, teapots, vases, or in tin boxes. It was stated recently in To- cal paper in Devonshire that persons who went about the country districts knew instances of from $500 to $4, 1000 being kept in bedrooms in lonely farm houses, the owners of these dead re- serves being in no way tempted by per cent bonds. It has, in fact, been the custom in many families for the family fortune, such as 1t is, to be handed to the heirs in cash.
 In certain rustic minds there seems to be not only distrust of the bank and post office, but an ineradicable oh- jection to outside persons knowing the state of their finances. It is not yet realized that practice which may be comparatively innocuous in time of peace is positively harmful in time of war.-London Times.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-04-08
START FIERCE FIRE
How German Incendiary Bombs
 Are Constructed.
Intended to Generate Sudden and ln- tense Heat at the Point Where They Are Dropped-Noxious
 Gas Also Liberated.

The incendiary bombs which have been dropped from Zeppelins upon parts of France and England are among the most ingenious and perfect ly devised destructive contrivances that the war has brought out.
 In the scores that have been dropped from Germany's gigantic airships only one so far has failed to explode and this has been seized upon eagerly by the English war officials for examina- tion.
 It differs from an ordinary explo- sive bomb inasmuch as it is intended not to scatter fragments over a wide area, but to produce sudden and in- tense heat at given point, thus start ing fierce conflagration.
 The bomb, as a rule, is conical, of ten-inch diameter at the base, corded
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-04-08
Chateau of Pierrefonds.

The feudal stronghold of Pierrefonds Git is nine miles from Compiegne by road) is famous as a model of modern restoration. The building is rectangu- lar, with tower at each corner and at the center of each of the walls. which are strengthened by crenelation and nfachocolation. A lofty keep defends the principal entrances on the south west. The interior buildings are chief ly modern, but the exterior is a faith ful representation of a medieval for tress. The chateau was begun in the last decade of the fourteenth century by Louis d'Orleans, to whom the do- main was given by Charles VI, and was finished early in the fifteenth cen tury. It was subsequently held by the adherents of the League from whom it passed to Henri ". It was dismantled in 1922. The ruins were bought by Napoleon l, and it was restored by the order of Napoleon III 1S5S-1895.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-04-08
General Merritt's Career.

General Wesley Merritt was born in New York city in 1886 and died in 1910. He was graduated from West Point in 1860 and in 1861 assigned to a cavalry regiment. In 1862 he acted as aid to General Cooke. In 1863 he par ticipated in Stoneman famous raid toward Richmond. In the battle of Gettysburg and in the Richmond cam paign of April-August, 1864, he com manded reserve cavalry brigade, and in the Shenandoah valley campaign and the final Richmond campaign he commanded a cavalry division. By the end of the war he had been made major general of volunteers and brevet major general in the regular army. In 1876 he served in the Indian campaigns in Wyoming and Dakota. From 1882 to 1887 he was superintend- ent of the United States Military acad- emy. In 1887 he was made brigadier general, in 1895 major general. In lS9l-99 he commanded the department of the East of the United States army, and he was in command of the United States forces in the Philippines in lS9o. He was one of the United States peace commissioners to Paris, ana after that was again commander of the department of the East until he retired from the service June 16, 1900. He was the son of John w. and Julia Anne Merritt.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-04-08
THIS FISH A GREAT WALKER
If His Pond Goes Dry He Simply Am bles Across the Country
 to Another.

Droughts have no terrors for the climbing perch If the pool or river where he makes his home becomes dry, he climbs up the banks and starts across country to find wet place. This ability to travel led to a belief, once common, that the fish could climb trees, whence he got his name-climbing perch.
 He walks with the aid of his fins, virtually wriggling his way along. If he strikes place grown up with grass or herbs, he uses his pectoral fins, which are the ones on either side, just behind the gills. He hooks one of these fins around a blade of grass and pulls himself forward
 Not much speed, but the climbing perch usually gets there. As for his ability to climb trees, stories have come from India and the East Indies to the effect that the fish has been known to ascend cocoanut palms to drink the milk from the cocoanut. Naturalists have little faith in these stories, however.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-04-08
HAD FlGUREHEADS OF BEAUTY
In the Days of Sails, Ships Carried Some Really Remarkable Speci-
 mems of Carving.

An almost forgotten profession is that of ship carving. For many cen turies. down to the beginning of the nineteenth, the ornamentation Of ves- sels, especially men-of-war, was pro- fuse, intricate and forid. The carv- ing on the United States line-of-battle ship America, launched in 17S2 and presented to France, will give some idea of the extent to which this was carried
 The figurehead was female figure crowned with laurel, representing America. The right arm was raised, pointing upward. On the left arm was a buckler with a blue ground carrying 13 stars. On the stern of the ship under the cabin windows appeared two large figures in bas-relief representing Tyranny" and "Oppression,' bound and bleeding on the ground. On the back of the starboard quarter was a large figure of Mars" On the highest part of the stern appeared Wisdom" and above her head an owl.
 Philadelphia furnished not only the greatest ship designer in the United States, but also the best ship carver in the world, William Rush. In this field he was without rival, and to a won- derful technical skill he added an ar- tistic sense of beauty and genius for composition.
 Rush was the first carver to give an idea of life and motion to a ships fig urehead Each of his figureheads was either the lifelike representation of person or some symbolic conception expressed in exquisite carving. His most noted productions were Nature for the Constellation, "The Genius of the United States for the frigate of that name and The River God" for the East India ship Ganges. These fig ureheads were nine feet high and could be removed for repair or in ac- tion.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-04-08
EYE 0F SUBMARINE
PeriScope Described as Really
 Simple Instrument.
Gives Clear Images, but Has Some De- fects Which Scientists Are En- deavorng to Rectify-Tires
 the Observer Quickly.

The periscope, the eye" of the submarine, is described as a simple in- strument whose construction has proved a complicated problem for op- ticians. Tn its simple form" an op- tician says, it is vertical steel tube about 20 feet long, with a ref1ecting prism at the top and the lenses of telescope at the bottom. It is, in fact, simple telescope whose line Of light turns corner from hori- zontal to vertical as it passes through the prism. This instrument takes in 45 degrees of the horizon, or one- eighth of the total field, at one view. By turning the tube on it's axis, the rest comes into sight successively.
 This periscope gives very clear images, but as it can be used with only one eye at a time it does not allow of distinguishing the different planes of vision very we'll, and tires the observers eye rather quickly Binocular periscopes have been at tempted, but luminosity is lost by gaining the advantage of stereo- scopic vision.
 The so-called combination peril scope allows of vision with both eyes, though it is not stereoscopic. A real image is thrown on a ground glass screen, much like that of a photo graph camera; it may be looked at with the two eyes, but no impress sion of depth and space is given. The screen avoids excessive fatigue, and it can be used only in bright light. The size of the image is often insuf- ficient to bring out detail. To obtain greater enlargement without dimin- ishing clearness too much, magnify ing lenses are sometimes added.
 The preceding periscopes do not enable a commander to take a rapid survey of the horizon; it takes five to ten seconds to make complete circle. Again, the observer must himself move around with the eye-piece. If the image is to remain upright with out moving the eyepiece it is neces- sary to use a compensatory prism whose movement makes up for that of the eyepiece.
 This is the principle of the pano- ramic periscope whose tube is fixed
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-04-08
Different Kinds of Bread.

A crust of bread is usually regarded in this country as the last stopping place on this side of starvation. For eigners like crusts, Americans do not; therefore the foreigners buy hearth bread, which is baked on the floor of the oven, and which consequently has heavy crust all over it, whereas we buy the pan loaf, which has a good crust only on top. That is one req son why our immigrants have better teeth than native Americans, although they take less care of them and spend less money on them. Not only to they buy better bread, but they keep it longer. They have learned what we have still to discover; that bread fresh from the oven is unfit to eat.-Youths 8 Companion.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-04-08

round, and has a metal handle at the apex. The base is fiat cup, on to which pierced metal funnel is fitted. having the ignition device and handle fitted at the top. The funnel is gener- ally filled with thermit, which upon ignition generates intense heat, and by the time of the concussion has taken the form of molten metal of the ex- traordinarily high temperature of over 5,OO0 degrees Fahrenheit.
 The molten metal is spread by the concussion. Outside the funnel is a padding of highly-infammable or re- slnous material bound on with an in- hammable form of rope. The resinous material creates pungent smoke.
 There is generally some melted White phosphorus in the bottom of tho cup, which develops nauseous fumes. In some cases celluloid clippings are added, and occasionally a small quan- tity of petrol
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-04-08
The First Skater.

The first man or nation to skate is lost in the minds of antiquity. The Eskimos of the farthest North were found to be in possession of runners carved from whalebone when they were first discovered. Skating is men, toned by Danish historian about 1l34, and Fitzstephen, in his History of London" says that in the twelfth century young men fastened the leg bones of animals under their feet by means of thongs in order to slide along the ice. A pair of these bone skates is now in the British museum. Lon- doners got the idea from Holland. probably via Lincolnshire. where skates have been used on the frozen fers from the very earliest times.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-04-08
INTERESTING INFORMATION

Spain is credited with producing more than three-quarters of the worlds supply of olive oil.
 Vancouver island, it is estimated. alone can furnish one billion feet of merchantable timber a year for 100 years to come.
 The worlds output of new platinum in 1914 was placed at 263,453 troy ounces. Russia furnished 24l,200 ounces, Colombia l7.500 ounces and tho United States 570 ounces.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-04-08

Gloves. belting and other leather ar ticles have been made from sea lions hides in a British Columbian factory.
 Mrs. Lydia Botkin of Homer. Ill. celebrated her one hundred and first birthday anniversary November l9. She is in the best of health and would be taken for a woman not over seventy. She can recall vividly his toric scenes of years ago. which pass before her in the minds eye as clear and distinct as a motion picture screen depicting a centurys growth and pro- gross.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-04-08

Qulrlng three cOlumnS or Drlgnt. Splcy, interesting, crisp short paragraphs to be telegraphed before eleven o'clock that night. They were to relate to public events and public men and ey- cry line must be printed whether good. bad oi indifferent. And this, not for one day. but for every day.
 Tt is no use to say in the face of such an order, if you only had twenty. four hours notice it might be well done. The only question was what could be done and how well could it be done before eleven o'clock that night The paper cane to Washing ton the next day with four columns of the most interesting novelettes about president, members of his cabinet, sen. ators, congressman, bureau officials; in fact everybody in official life con- tributed to the humor of those col umns The grave chief justice of the United States, and the ponderous ex. ecutive were credited with saying the cleverest things-I say credited be- cause all the stories, all the jokes were either pure invention or vital ized chestnuts.
 Now let me take you into my con- fidence since you would all like to know the secret of journalistic intel ectual force Probably not one in a hundred of the bright things you read in the papers were ever said by the persons to whom they are attributed. In the days of President Lincoln ev. cry story extant had him for father. The journalist of today knows very we'll the way to float a witty saying is to put it upon one in public life. In our day Senator Evarts has the credit of saying more bright, clever things than anybody else And why? Be- cause he really has told, very frequent. ly too. witty stories. For that reason when a newspaper man invents any. thing particularly good and wants sponsor he puts it on Evarts.
 You may remember early in the first session of the Fifty-hrst congress the Democrats evaded the roll call for
 weeks in succession. Whenever the ayes and noes were called they left tue ldll III d bOoS' ouoI NhSi IhO O. APPO was very common in our midst and
 one morning there appeared the fol. | lowing. Senator Evarts remarked to
 his colleague, Edmunds, that if run. ming from the eyes and nose was a
 sure symptom of the grippe then ev. cry Democratic member in the house must be sadly afflicted. for they had | been running from the ayes and noes
 for more than two weeks past
 If you were to ask Senator Evarts | if he made such a remark he would doubtless tell you, if you read it in the newspaper it must be true. But | the trouble about such humor is, the newspaper where 1t originates never
 gets credit for 1t. Not long ago the size of the postage stamp was reduced. | Again Senator Evarts came to the | front. He said-in the newspaper
 'Edmunds. do you know that Wana-
 maker has endeared himself to the
 rising generation of Young America" That profound lawyer from Vermont | could not answer the conundrum, and so Senator Evarts answered, Because | the postmaster general by reducing
 the size of the postage stamp. has
 diminished the licking propensity of | the adult population of the country.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-04-08

porters, Cruelty Him. Cruelty Him, Cruelty Him."
 MT. Bennett arose, and apparent ly without any feeling in the beginning of his remarks, yet showing the depth and intense fervor of his nature as he continued. This is what he said in conclusion. Yes, MT. President, your Secretary of State thoroughly under stands the underlying principle which daily governs each issue of the Herald. He says the Herald would have been on the side of the rabble, of the clam bring populace and it it would have re- echoed the cry, Cruelty Him, Cruelty Him, Cruelty Him" So it would, MT. Black! and then turning upon the sec l retary of state he raised his voice and 1 stretched out his long Scotch arm, shaking his finger in MT. Blacks face Yes. you are right; and where would your hope of salvation be today, MT. Black. if he had not been crucified for you
 Some years ago the owner of one of the largest papers in New York, recog- niZing the need for brightening his pa | per, issued an order that common, place writing should not thereafter be | printed. 'The order extended to the editorial page. The cleverest descrip- tive writers that could be found were | employed, and what was the result? Why they tell the story that the edi- tors wanted the pavements around the building covered with sawdust and straw to deaden the disturbing noise of the passing vehicles, because such a great mental effort was necessary
 You remember what l said about hu- nor and insanity. Well, the presence of this additional force of funny writ CTS made a very sheol of the office. The merit of news was forgotten and the whole establishment was divided against itself.
 Petty jealousiY were more numer- ous than individuals among them. A. B. was simply a conceited fool, c. D. and E, r. had no more humor in their composition than the Belgian pave ment in Broadway As the night edi- tor and the city editor were only plain news fellows the fine writing and the funny writing went out every time under that memorable rule, chop things down. The editorial page es. tablished standard of cynical ridi, cule, so that it became byword, and when a contemporary wished to pi- rouette on the apex of comparison, he merely had to say that such a thing was funnier than an editorial in the New York Eagle. In less than six months the order in that office was to buy more Procrustean beds and less | paper and pencils.
 When a man has turned what he thinks is a particularly fine sentence, invented a good joke, on some public men, and sees his master the next morning as dry as dust. why he has no desire to try to comply with the owners order. After a while the pa per got back into its common practi. cal everyday style again and again the editor shook em up with an impera- tive order that the first man that inter- fered with this command would be fired on sight He thought Washing ton was an excellent field wherein to establish this new order of things. One afternoon when the editor was in great hurry he sent a telegram re-
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-04-08

A newly designed side car for the motor cycle may be taken off and used as a boat
 As much as thirty pounds of wool have been sheared from one Angora goat.
 The silver output for the last year 67 100000 ounces, while never exceed. ed in quantity except once in this country, falls below the record of sev- eral other years in value because Of low prices last year.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-04-08
Frame of Mind.

Now, why deliberately irritate the cook, my dear?"
 Tt is necessary, John. She has to whip some cream"
 What of that?"
 She will make a much better job of 1t If she is mad"
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-04-08
An Eye Placed at the Observing End of Submarines Periscope Sees a Ring-Shaped Image of the Horizon With Direct Image of One Part in the Center.


 the Center.
 and bears at it's summit a glass bulb containing refecting prism mount ed on a base that may be turned with a handle. There is a compensating prism that turns at half the speed and keeps the. image straight.
 ITO observe successively all points of the horizon it suffices to turn the crank, without it's being necessary for either observer or eyepiece to change place.
 Nevertheless, however rapid the operation, it does not enable the ob- server to see the whole horizon at once. This is realized in the peri scope with ring-shaped eyepiece. At the top of the tube is a ring shaped lens which refracts toward the base of the tube rays that reach it from all sides. A panoramic image is thus obtained thNt includes all surround ing objects, although they appear smaller and more distant than with the naked eye. The observer also sees, in the center of the panoramic image, portion of the field on 8 larger scale.'
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-09-16
MEMORIAL CHAPELS ARE IN
CREASING IN NUMBER

From time to time the value of
placing money in G memorial chapel
for our departed relatives, rather than
in tombstones, has been set forth.
Happily, many persons have taken
this way to aid the work of the Propa-
cation of the Faith, and the number
of chapels that are being erected in
mission lands is gradually increasing.
There are thousands of little mis-
sions without suitable dwelling place
for the Lord of Heaven and Earth.
In these districts souls are being lost,
thousands of them, and Jesus Christ
is fighting a losing fight, simply be-
cause Catholics here at home would
rather erect costly monuments over
the remains of their dead than provide
the Living God with place where He
may dwell among His children.
A chapel, be it ever SO humble, in
which the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
will be offered daily, is. a memorial,
the worth of which in obtaining the
release of their loved ones FROM Pur-
gatory cannot be estimated. rla
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-09-16

Few can utter words of wisdom, but
opportunity to speak kind words is of.
fered to every one; and they are more
helpful.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-09-16
IN NEED OF HYMN
BOOKS.

Just the other day the Catholic
Church Extension Society received,
from a little priest who is struggling
with a small congregation in Nevada,
a letter inquiring whether the Exten-
sion Society could not send him some
hymn books for his mission church.
He says that our discarded or Sec
ond-hand books would serve the pur-
pose very we'll Perhaps you may
have some on hand to send, or perhaps
you know of some one who has no fur
Their. use for theirs.
In either. case, send them on to the
Catholic Church Extension Society
Mccormick Bldg. Chicago. and they
will be promptly forwarded to destina-
ton.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-09-16
LETTER FROM AN INDIAN
MISSIONARY.

Rasur Remount Depot, Mattigiri,
Qndia), July rs, 1916.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-09-16
ON THE MEXICAN BORDER.

From Mercedes. Texas, there comes
to the Catholic Church Extension So
ciety a pitiful letter from one of the
Oblate Fathers in charge of a large
territory mostly inhabited by Next
cans, who are. in the majority. very
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