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The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
JOKE WASN'T ON 'ST0NEWALL'
Students Futile Attempt TO Make
Great Soldier Evinee Even a
Slight Sign of Fear.

MAI. Thomas i. Jackson, later the
famous 'Stonewalr Jackson, was our
instructor In mathematics and drilled
the students in artillery tactics" said
General Armistead. an ante bellum grad
uate Of the Virginia Military institute.
"'Old Jack as the students called
him, with his worn uniform, faded
angle upon his big head, rusty old
cavalry saber and ungraceful gait, was
in appearance far from our beau ideal
of soldier. Nevertheless, 1t was pos
slble even then to guess at the real
greatness Of the man.
"The guns we used in our artillery
drills were pulled by hand. AS the
drill proceeded. our instructor would
become transformed into the very SEM
blance Of Mars himself, as, with form
erect, waving sword and flashing eye,
he would give the command 'FireP I'm
a voice that rang over the campus like
the blast Of bugle.
"One day, in a spirit Of mischief, the
pretended to lose control Of II as 1t
moved rapidly down a gentle incline,
directly toward Major Jackson. But
the commander, instead of scuttling
out of the way as the boys had glee-
fully anticipated, stood sternly erect
and immovable right In the track of
the gun.
81 tell you there was some lively
hustling, and just in the nick of time,
too, to keep Old Jack from being run
over. That was our only attempt to
play a practical joke at Major Jack
sons expense. e."-Youth's Companion.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
MUSIC OF BARBARY STATES
Strange and Weird Tunes Are Those
Played by Men OF the
Great Desert.

"The four Barbary states are Moroc-
CO, Algeria, Tunis and Tripoli," is a
lesson most OF us learned in childhood,
and most Of US know very little more
about them today.
Mrs. Mabel L. Todd comments on the
wonderful mental quickness OF the
children Of Tripoli, in '"Tripol the
Mysterious" They acquire languages,
she declares, without effort, and the
street urchins use easily French. Ital-
ian. and all the languages that are
current In their narrow streets. The
strange music Of the city, too, the
weird chants, the cymbals, nageolets
and queer stringed instruments, all
deeply impressed the American visitor.
Sometimes at dawn. when roofs and
minarets were dazzlingly white against
the sapphire sky, while yet the laby-
rinthine streets at the bottoms of stuc-
co canyons lay in twilight gray, strange
men from the desert would stalk by,
making uncanny music.
One Of them, very tall and blacker
than most, was dressed in a low
necked, short-sleeved garment, greatly
abbreviated as to skirts; playing melo-
dies In a minor mode unknown 10 the
West, and his stride was full OF dig
nifty well-nigh appalling.
The instrument slightly resembled a
Scotch bagpipe decorated with bar
barrie strings of shells and beads, an
inflated skin with primitive mouth
piece, and Mt the opposite end two
pointed projections like horns. His
companion beat upon a curious little
tomtom, and now and then sang a
bloodcurdling chant.
Black boys followed, Jumped, shout
ed, danced like wild creatures, excited
beyond all bounds by this oddly COM
pelllng music, as the rhythm penetrat-
ed and seized their imagination. AL
though these men OF mystery generally
passed about sunrise, they sometimes
went by in the night once or twice the
weird performances took place about
two o'clock in the morning. The min
strels always walked with peculiar
swiftness, intent upon the serious busi-
ness In hand.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
Urban
Realty Mortgage
Company
Uncle Sans Chemists.
46-4s w. Congress ST.. Detroit

Despite the monumental work of
such government experts as Doctor
Rittmann, the discoveTer of new gas
Oline process; DR.. Harvey Wiley OF
pure-food fame, and the whole corps
engaged in fertilizer experiments, pub
lie opinion will not give credit for any
good thing to Uncle Sans chemists.
After making low-cost record for pro-
ducing smokeless powder at Picka-
tinny arsenal and producing "dannite"
our famous secret "high explosive
ID the workers in explosives have
succeeded in producing a fiashless
powder. The great heat developed in
smokeless powder detonations causes
flying particles to become incandescent,
producing a flash, but this new explO-
sive produces only pear-shaped iri-
descent flow at the muzzle, invisible at
two miles. At night, a mask as high as
a mounted man Technically known as
mounted defilade') will conceal the
glow; the "defilade" required at night
for our present explosive is not exactly
known, but artillery officers have been
known to declare pessimistically, that
a mile would be none too high.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
REALLY SHOULD BE 'SC00NER'
First Vessel Of That Type Was So
Named by the Man Who Designed
and Built Her.

"In 1713 Gloucester (Mass.) launched
the worlds first schooner. The word
originally was PEELED "scooner."
"Scoon" was term used in New Eng
land Of that time to describe the skit-
tering of a stone across a water sur
face. AS this vessel left the ways Q
spectator of the launching shouted
'Oh, see how she scoonsp
"'A sooner let her beP declared
Capt. Andrew Robinson, her builder,
who had been put to 1t for word to-
describe her peculiar native fore and
aft rig"
This interesting bit OF phllology In
from handy little book entitled Tho
Heritage of Tyre" by William Brown
Meloney, which has for its aim laud-
able ambition to awaken the impulse
to put the United States In the position
Of Mistress of the Seas"
1t is a clever little history Of the
mercantile marine of the writer's coun-
try, to which the world has certainly
been indebted for improvements in ma
rIne architecture, though possibly not
quite so greatly as he imagines.
The British had reason to regret
the activities Of United States seamen
In 1912, when 'privateers had de-
stroyed Sc, 100000 of British shipping"
probably as much as the Alabama cost
the States In 1864.
At the outbreak Of the Civil war
the United States total tonnage
river, lake, coastwlse and deep water
amounted to 5,299,175, and Britain's
including her colonies and dependen-
cies to 5,710,96s."
Then, however, dawned the age OF
iron ships, and North Americas pre-
eminencs in suitable ship-building tim
Der no longer helped the United States
to forge ahead Of other nations. From
that time the States ownership of mer-
chant vessels suffered decline.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
ENRAGED MAN SHOOTS TWO
Fires Bullet in His Own Breast But
Failing to Die Uses Butcher
Knife.

Grand Rapids.-Enraged when his
proposal of marriage was rejected,
Mitchell Govana, alias Kornfeldt, 43
years old, fired three bullets into the
body of Mrs. Alice Raymond, 80
years old, two bullets into the body
of Cook Cakes, 40 years old, the
womans brother, and then shot him
self in the left breast. Failing to in
fiict a fatal wound. Govana cut his
throat with a butcher knife, All
three are now in st. Mary's hospital.
Govana and Mrs. Raymond are not
expected to live. Oakes' injuries are
not serious, and he will recover.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
WHY BUSINESS HOUSES FAIL
Because Of Incompetence or lnexperl-
ence, Says bradstreet-Way to
Get Experience.

Bradstreet attributes more than a
quarter Of the business failures to In
competence, and another five per cent
TO inexperience. Our intentions are
all right, but we haven't been able to
stand the strain.
We have all OF us seen businesses
which have prospered, have expanded,
and have eventually gone on the rocks.
They were prosperous as long as all
was under the eye Of the proprietor.
When he had to delegate his authority
things began TO go wrong. He could
fix things himself, but there were get
ting to be too many things to be fixed.
He had always looked into everything
personally. As the business grew, he
resembled more and more a marathon
racer on the last lap. II he had an
iron constitution, he didn't join the
wreckage on the coast of southern
California; but In any case the busi-
ness ceased to prosper, and was sold
or helped to initiate the bankruptcy sta
tistics.
OF course, in America, the great
god Luck will very often see corpora
tion through such periods, writes
Dwight L. Farnham in the Engineer
ing Magazine. Not long ago a finan-
cier of international reputation ad-
vised a young man against entering the
employ of large and prosperous cor
poration In which he hoped to gain
hNNCtranga NAf ACh
with a concern that is losing money,
or that's just keeping its head above
water. You'll learn something about
business there. Lots of these fellows
that are earning big dividends are
throwing away as much as they are
making. They don't know it. and you'll
learn bad habits"
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
Grain, Etc.

DETROIT T.-Wheat-Cash No. red,
$685.; December opened with drop
of 1ac at $1.61h, advanced to $1621s
and declined to $1.62; May opened at
S1.63, advanced to s1.64 and closed
at $1.631a; No. l white. s1.53h.
Corn-Cash No. 3, 9Ohc; No. 3 yell
low, 92hc; No. 4 yellow, 9ohQ91Ac.
Oats-Standard 5OHc; No. white.
49Iac; No. 4 white, 4S1Ac.
Rye-Cash No. 2, $1.2S.
Beans-Immediate and prompt ship
ment. S5; October, $495.
Seeds-Prime red clover, $9.75; al.
sike. $40; timothy, $2.4O; alfalfa, s99
10.
Hay-No. 1 timothy, s14615; stand
ard timothy. $f9.5O@14; No. 2 timothy,
s12d13; light mixed. s13.50d14; No.
l mixed, S11@12; No. l clover, $1OG
IL; rye straw, $S.5O@9; wheat and
oat straw, $7.50@S per ton in carlots,
Detroit
Feed-In 100-lb sacks, jobbing lots:
Bran, $26.50; standard middlings, $2S;
fine middlings. $95; cracked corn, $36;
coarse cornmeal. $50; corn and oat
chop. sSi per ton.
Flour-Per 1876 lbs, in eight paper
sacks: Best patent, $40; second
patent, $500 straight. sS; spring
wheat, $500; rye -four, $40 per bbl.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
RUSSIA AND Japan PROTEST
Both File a Formal Joint Protest To
the Chinese Government Over
Concession Granted to
Americans.

Pekin.-The first concerted diplo-
matte move to be taken by Russia
and Japan since the conclusion OF
the recent alliance, was made when
the representatives OF the two
governments filed formal joint
protest to the Chinese government
against a railway and canal construc-
tion concession granted by China to
Americans.
While the protests were made
simultaneously and are both directed
against American enterprise, they
dea lwith separate projects.
The protest by Prince Nicholas
Koudacheff, the Russian minister to
China, deals with the proposed
American railroad from Feng-Chang,
Shansi province. A verbal promise
made 1S years ago by the Chinese
minister in Petrograd. that Russia
should get contracts for building rail
ways near Mongolia, Is given as the
basis for Russia's objection to the
American enterprise.
The line was TO be 400 miles long
and was to be built by agreement
between the Siems-Carey company
of st. Paul, and the Chinese govern
ment.
Japan, through Baron Gonsuke
Hayashi, entered protest against the
plan to construct 200 miles of the
Grand canal, in Shantung province.
by the Siems-Carey company, as
provided for by agreement with the
Chinese government
The Japanese government having
conquered Shantung province, asserts
she has automatically assumed all
rights previously held by Germany in
developing this province. China con-
tends this cannot be claimed until
Germany is defeated.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
FEW HISTORIC SPOTS MARKED
Exception In Case Of cooperstown,
Where Famous Author Of Indian
Stories Lived.

The biggest thing that ever was at
erstown was James Fenimore Cooper.
Misunderstanding" is worth any fifty
villages, a writer in the Philadelphia
Public Ledger states.
President Loree, being a man of sem
timent as well as sense, made his rail-
roads new station on the shores Of the
famous "Glimmerglass" a memorial Of
Americas celebrated novelist. 1 trust
his example will be catching and
spread all over the land.
Recently 1 was going to New York
in company with bright young rail,
road superintendent AS we rushed
past Monmouth Junction mentioned
what hot day 1t had been when the
battle was fought-59 British died Of
sunstroke.
Queer" answered the railroad man.
'T never associated Monmouth juno
tion with washington's battle with the
British"
A good spot for a railroad station to
commemorate that historic EVENT.
You may stop at Paoli, but you would
never guess from the cut-and-dried
little station that anything had ever
happened one night near there to Mad
Anthony Wayne's soldiers.
There is a pretty station at Valley
Forge, but 1t is hardly monument for
the place.
Getting of the little train at Jerusa-
lem, was surprised. as is every trav-
eler, to see no sign or symbol about
the station to indicate that one stood
at the birthplace of the worlds fore
most religion.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
RECEPTION IN PRISON YARD
1900 Prisoners Shake Hands With
Warden Osborne at Sing Sing
Prison.

New York.-While his lunch grew
cold Warden Osborne held an i'm
promptu reception in the prison
yard.
He shook hands with every pris-
oner and for everyone he had a kind
ly word. Not once did Mr.. Osborne's
memory fail him; he had every
mans name ready as his hand went
out.
On the side Of the men there was
vast deal of mumbling, few in
telligible phrases and an earnestness
of grip that their ex-warden will re-
member for days to come.
Most of the men wrung the hand
extended to them. muttering God
bless you!" in husky tones and stood
hesitating until the press urged them
on.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
Billy Sunday
Says:
"SOME get-rich-quick

scamps have tried to interest me in
their plans. But SO first mortgage
bonds and a nights rest should be
better than 15Po and insomnia" 1t
is fact that some investments do
pay six, eight, ten per cent, and even
more. But only to those who are
closely in touch with investment
centers and have generous supply
of good luck thrown in. Such invest
ments are not open indiscriminately
10 the person of limited means. The
average person better stick to the good,
safe so investment. such as offered
by our First Mortgage Bond Certifi-
Gates, secured by First Mortgage taken
ON basis of 500 of actual cost value
every 81 of investment secured by
more than 50 of actual income-produc-
ing property, and further guaranteed
by a conservative, responsible COM
pany, with $200,0O000 paid-up capital.
Bonds issued in denominations of $50,
500, $500 and upwards. Send for
booklet.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
MICHIGAN GUARDS
WELL EQUIPPED
GAN SOLDIERS WILL SEE
MORE SERVICE THAN
OTHER STATES.
MEN ARE IN BETTER SHAPE
Against Typhoid Fever and
Smallpox Before Reaching
the Border.

Detroit.-Michigan guardsmen will
see more service at the border than
all organizations from other states,
In the opinion of Colonel j. S. Bersey,
acknowledgement. 1t will be several
months, at least, l think, before the
Michigan troops will be mustered
out, he said. There are several in
dications to this end.
In the first place the Michigan
troops are admitted to be in better
condition for service than the ma
jority of the organization at the bor-
der, not only as far as equipment is
concerned, but in personnel. Com
pared to the other state troops, the
Michigan soldiers were exceptionally
well equipped, while they arc
among the few who were immunized
against typhoid fever and smallpox
before reaching the border.
Another thing is that the Eleventh
division. composed of Michigan and
Ohio troops is now complete. 1t
seems probable that the war depart
ment will keep this division intact.
Many of the national guard or
ganizations have been mustered out.
It Is absurd to think that the troops
we're needed there and it is reason
able 20 believe that the more troops
sent to their home stations the more
probpble it will be that 1t will be
sope time before the Michigan
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
ITEMS OF STATE INTEREST

Edward Youmans, % years old,
was killed instantly at Bay City when
an automobile which he was driving
ran into a Columbus avenue car.
Rain prevented his seeing the car.
Clinton county has completed "a
miles of road in the last year, accord
ing to a report submitted to the board
OF supervisors by the county road
commissioners. Eight miles of road
are still under construction.
Two Detroit high school graduates
have been elected to positions at
Smith college at Northampton, Mass
Miss Patty Gurd, who is also
graduate OF the University in
switzerland, has been elected instruc-
tor in charge of the French depart
ment. Miss Aileen Barrett has been
elected secretary of the senior class.
The second fatal case of infantile
paralysis in Sanilac county resulted
when the 2ik-year-old child of May
nard hudson. of Snover, died. Tho
other fatality occurred when child
in sandusky died about three weeks
ago.
over 1000 prisoners have been
confined in the Washtenaw county
jail during the past year at a
cost for feeding Of $4,5s1.45, an aver
age Of approximately 81 per prisoner.
But 1s women have been held during
the period between Oct. /, 1915. and
the present
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
MICHIGAN GUARD NOTES
The War Departments Program
Completed BY Detroit Guards
at El Paso, Texas.

FL Paso, Texas.-The Detroit in
fantrymen, having completed the
program of training outlined for them
by the war department, are anxious
to return to Michigan in time 10 vote
Nov. 7. Two officers have wired
Detroit congressman in Washington
asking them to use their influence TO
get the Michigan soldiers home for
election day.
The order from Gen. George Bell
that he would order no further ma
neuvers, marches or border patrol
for the Detroit infantrymen, leaves
the regiment, to Brig. General John
p. Kirk for further training until 1t
is to be ordered home.
Gen. Kirk has announced he will
order the two Michigan regiments to
review their company, battalion and
regimental problem drills for his in
spection on the Mesa east OF the city
this week.
A board, comprised of Major Geo.
c. Waldo, Capt. Albert c. Wilson
and Capt. David Z. Cleary, Thirty
first Michigan. after a days investi-
CATION, exhonerated Private Alvin
Sauer, Jackson, Mich, in the shoot
ing and killing of Private Leo J.
Graham, Detroit bellhop. The board
held that Sauer's rifle accidentally
discharged while he was guarding
Graham, a prisoner 1t was shown
the two soldiers did not know each
other and there was no animosity.
Close Call to War.
San Antonio.-Maj.-G Gen. Frederick
Funston at a dinner given by the
Third and Fourth Illinois Infantry
said: when you men of the Natio-
nal Guard were called out you ex-
pected TO go 'slam-bang' across the
border. Let me tell you that when
history is written, it will show that
the calling out of the guard in June
was no child's play-that 1t was a
question OF hours The calling out
of the National Guard was absolutely
necessary. All OF you will know why
some day, and don't think there has
been any time since when it would
have been safe to reduce tS2 number
of men on the border"
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
COMPLIMENT OF HIGH ORDER
Happy the Woman Who Could Truth
fully Be Described as "TraiI-
ing the Beatitudes."

There comes Mrs. MacGregor-
trailing the beatitudes,'" said a young
man admiringly as a beautiful elderly
woman came out of the hotel door and
stopped to speak to a group on the
steps.
The girl beside him turned In sur
prise. What a funny thing to say 7"
she cried with laugh. "What do
you mean by such a speech as that ~
Just look. and I'm sure you'll see,"
he answered softly. "Watch her face
as she talks to those people,"
For a moment the girl was silent,
studying the face that was turned
toward her as Mrs. MacGregor sank
into a proffered chair.
II do understand" she whispered at
length, turning back to her companion.
Blessed are the pure In heart That's
there isn't it2"
Yes" answered the man quietly
"and all the rest of them, too. looked
them up at once when / heard someone
say that about her. and they're all
there, and In her life, too-the mercy
and the peacemaking; and the hunger
and thirst after righteousness most Of
oil. She's the mother of a friend OF
mine, so know her right we'll"
what n lovely thing to say about a
womanl' mused the girl thoughtfully.
81 thought 1t was funny at first, trail
ing the beatitudes, but now 1 appre-
ciate IL. 1t is as II she were clothed
In them. isn't IL? Beautiful and bles-
sed Why, it's the most wonderful
compliment you could pay p'-Youth's
Companion.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19

EAST BUFFALO.-Cattle Receipts.
235 cars; market steady; choice to
prime native steers, $9.50910.25;
good to choice, $S25@875; fair 10
good. $7.25Q775; plain to coarse,
$65O47; yearlings, dry fed. s9.50q
10; best handy steers, $725@775;
light, $6.2566.50; best butcher
steers and heifers. $65O@7; western
heifers, $625Q6.5O; best fat cows,
$6.5067; butcher cows, s5.5066:
cutters, S45O9475; Gamers. s3.5O@
4; fancy bulls, s6.75@7; butcher
bulls, s696.25; common, s5G5.5O;
good stockers, $6665O; light com
mon stockers, $5Q525; feeders,
$6.5O07; best mixers and springers,
sSO@jO5; mediums, $60@75; COM
mon, s40050. Hogs-Receipts, 125
cars; lower; heavy. $10Q1015; yor-
kers. S9S5@9.S5; pigs, SO. Sheep and
lambs-Receipts, so cars; market
active; top lambs, $1,000 0@10.75.
Calves-Receipts. 900; steady; tops.
S12.50@13; fair to good, $11.500
1880; fed calves, $5q5.50.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
MARKET QUOTATIONS
Live Stock.

DETRCIT.-Cattle Receipts, 2,77e.
Best heavy steers, S7.75; best handy
weight butcher steers, S6.75@7.50;
mixed steers and heifers, $6Q6.50;
handy light butchers, $5.2545.75;
light butchers. s4.75@5.25; best COVE,
$5.2595.75; butcher cows, $4.50Q5;
common cows. $4.25q475; Gamers.
$3.50@4.25; best heavy bulls, $500
6; bologna bulls, $5Q5.50; stock
bulls, $4@4.50 feeders. $6q6.7b;
stockers. $4.5O@625; mixers and
springers, s40q$75.
Calves Receipts, 1850. Best grades,
s11.50@12.25; medium, $500; heavy,
$5Q7
Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 9,519.
Best lambs. $10@10.15; fair lambs, SO
$3.50; light to common lambs, $3.50
0S.5O; fair to good sheep. $6,25G
$50; culls and common. $350@4.50.
Hogs Receipts. 14,755. The run was
large and the quality fair. Best
grades. $9.25Q96O; pigs, $S75QS.sO
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
His Weather Eve.

Two ladies were hurrying down the
street in Worcester in the rain, carry
ing their umbrellas low for protection.
In turning n corner sharply the point
of one umbrella struck a passerby in
the forehead.
Goodness ~ gasped the woman. 'I'll
keep an eye out in the future"
Goodness !" exclaimed the man,
"you rear had one out in the pres
ent :"
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
The New sunbur.t shIrrIna.

A white taffeta model made over
flesh silk and richly brocaded with
natural color cornhowers, showed a
skirt set onto the bodice with a head
ing faced with cornfower blue satin.
The yoke section had sunburst shir-
rings both front and back, which form
ed butterfly drapery at the sides.
Umbrella folds ut the side fronts
were faced with blue and edged with
narrow gold galoon. This was the
nearest approach to the full hip drap-
cry seen among the new skirts for
evening wear.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
rroper WAY to Look on lIf..

Take life like a man. Take II as
though 1t was-as II is-an earnest.
vital, essential affair. Take 1t just as
though you were born to the task Of
performing a merry part in II, as
though the world had waited your
coming. Take II as though IL were q
grand opportunity to achieve, to carry
forward great and good schemes. to
hold and to cheer a suffering. weary.
II may be heart-broksn brother
Charles H. Spurgeon.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
Rapld Growers.

Banana plantations will yield con-
tinuous harvest for years without re-
planting. Nearly 200 hills, having 900
stalks. are allowed to the acre, yield
ing some 800 marketable lunches per
year, the average profit per acre being
near $50 annually.
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-19
The ONLY Way to Phone.

"Why, this is a funny telephone you
have on your desk; it isn't finished, is
it?
"Yes, that is a complete telephone"
"But there is nothing to 1t but the
receiver. Where is the mOuthpieceT
Doesn't need one. That is the in
strument over which converse with
my wife,"