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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
Feat of a Wild Boar.

The boar is a terrible enemy and also
an alarmingly agile one. An Englisn
sportsman tells of a splendid escape
made by one Of these creatures In
India.
This boar, which had been hard press
ed, galloped into a nullah, a very
sharp, deep cut, more like a narrow
chasm than a ravine. Z Down this,
along the bottom of it, he raced, fol
lowed by q man on a swift horse.
The banks on each side oVerhanging
the boar were six feet or more In
height. Suddenly the creature turned
a sharp corner, which hid him from
view. Then by tremendous effort he
scaled the bank and gained the top.
He turned short around, leaped the
entire width of the nullah and landed
safely on the other side, clearing both
horse and rider as he jumped save fol
the mans pith helmet, which he knock
ed off. He had escaped by a narrow
margin.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
Stupendous Surnames.

The bearers Of some Of the surnames
which appear In medieval documents
must have been glad Of an excuse to
change them. Apparently this was
done, for the more grotesque have
either vanished or have been modified
out of recognition. Among the former
are such names as Alice Thepunders-
stepdoghtre, Mazelina Stabwourchman.
Frethesanccia Del Countynghouse,
Godisman Attestretesende and Thomas
Wrangwisshe. which certainly have no
claimants nowadays.
Many surnames derived from trade
or service have been contracted, such
as LIE Lindraper into Draper, LIE Cou-
hirde into Coward, lie Chapelayn into
Chaplin and lie Gresuenour (gros We
neur) into GrosvenOr.-LOndon Opinion.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29

mattered quite so much. Society, ex-
cept where it was necessary as part
of her husbands official life. has never
interested her.
It Is rumored that Mrs. Hughes Is an
antisuffraglSt. She has been so close
to her own family and her home that
she has not seen the urgent need of
suffrage for women as women more In
public affairs see it. Always Mrs.
Hughes has spent much more time In
study, charity and church work than In
any other pursuits.
Mrs. Hughes is an ardent advocate OF
all kinds of athletics. She has person
ally superintendent the education Of her
three daughters, Catherine, Helen and
Elizabeth. Helen graduated two years
ago from VaSsar and next fall Cath
crime will be q student Of Wellesley.
Perhaps the charity that has been OF
first Importance to Mrs. Hughes during
the past few years is the woman's eve
ming clinic in Washington. which gives
medical advice to working women for
nominal fee.
The friends of Mrs. Hughes, VINO
know her best, speak Of her as a splen
did representative of American wo
man, a woman whose home and family
have always come first even when hel
duties as wife of a member Of the SUI
preme court were the heaviest. With
Mrs. Hughes the fine arts Of homemak
ing are the best. She is proud of hel
reputation Of being an excellent cook.
Mrs. Hughes sews, because to her Il
10 a much more fascinating occupation
than bridge, and it has been said thai
this clear thinking woman, with bel
steady, quiet eyes, believes that tht
modestly dressed woman is always
sure Of being herself, because she Is
bigger than the dictates and vagaries
Of every passing fashion.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
Footgear.

The shops are put to it these days to
keep up with the demand for fanciful
sport shoes. Woman has become used
to having her feet exquisitely dressed
and refuses to don any old shoe for
athletics The country club type OF
sport shoe is Of white washable kid,
with trimmings of colored glazed hd
In the shape Of tip and Saddle" as
the shoe salesman calls the curved
strip Of kid which crosses the toe back
Of the tip All white shoes are OF
washable kid and come In high or low
style, the high laced sport shoe with
white rubber sole being on the whole
smarter than the low Oxford. Still,
many women prefer the Oxford. which
leaves the ankle free, and the new
glazed kid trimmed white Oxfords are
very smart indeed.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
ORIGINAL "Annie Laurie"

"Annie Laurie" as written and sung
by William Douglas, differed greatly
from the version familiar today. 1t
had only two verses. and the second
ran:
She's backit like the peacock,
She's breistit like the swan,
She's jump around the middle,
Her waist We weel MIGHT span,
Her waist We weel MIGHT span.
An she has rolling zee,
And for bonnie Annie Laurie
I'd lay me doun and dee.
1t was Lady John Scott who wrongly
attributed the original to Allan Cum
ningham, who made the rough smooth
In the existing verse. added third and
wrote the familiar tune. annie Lau-
rie," by the way, was a great favorite
with the English soldiers in the Cri-
mea.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
Buttons.

The Elizabethan era gave vogue to
the button and buttonhole. two inven-
lions which may fairly he regarded as
important, since they did much to rev.
olutionize dress. The original button
was wholly a product of needlework,
which was soon improved by the use
of a wooden mold. The brass button
is said to have been introduced by a
Birmingham merchant in 1850. 1t took
200 years to improve on the method
Of sewing the cloth upon the covered
button. Then an ingenious Dane hit
upon the idea of making the button in
two parts and clamping them together
with the cloth between.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
Butter From a Tree.

One shea tree beside each mans back
porch would cut big slice Of butter
off the monthly food bill In Africa
vegetable butter is made from the fruit
Of this tree. and it is said to be of
richer taste than any butter made from
cows milk-alleged or actually scraped
from a churn and squeezed into the
wooden mold which leaves a yellow
rosebud on top of the cake. The Arabs
used it in early times.-Pittsburgh Dis
patch.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.
lnHammations.

@ Concentration of the sur
o face of the body Is often a valua-
8 BILE means of relieving internal
. infiammatory conditions and of
q checking beginning illnesses Of
o the inflammatory type. In such
. affections as common colds. bron-
= chitiS. pneumonia. stomach and
. bowel troubles counterirritation
Q relieves congestion and pain.
. There are various ways of pro-
. ducing rcddening of the skin 4
9 CONCENTRATION. The mustard 4
8 plaster is probably the most sat 4
= iSfactory means OF producing 4
q quick counterirritation of large 4
9 surface
9 At the beginning OF all diseases I
. of the chest or of an intestinal 4
y tract CONTEMPLATION Is a val 4
= liable treatment in conjunction 4
= with free cathartics IA dose of 4
. castor oih and rest In bed. 4
q These methods should be carried 4
= out while waiting for the arrival 4
= OF the medical attendant II Is 4
. rarely a physician can reach q 4
. patient before some time may 4
= have elapsed. and during this In 4
= terval home treatment Is advisa- 4
q BILE TO relieve distress and pain. 4
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
Obituary Gems.

When John Sherman of New Haven,
preacher, mathematician, almanac max
er and father Of twenty-six children,
heard of the death Of his good friend
Jonathan Mitchell, a Harvard pastor,
he explained (after due thought and
many poetic pangs):
Here lies the darling Of his time.
Mitchell expired IN his prime,
Who, four years short Of forty-seven,
Was found full ripe and plucked for
heaven.
When Thomas Dudley, father of the
first American poetess, Anne Brad
street, came to his deathbed he showed
where his daughter had received her
surprising gift by composing such fare
well lines as:
Dim eyes, deaf ears, cold stomach shew
Ny dissolution is in view.
Eleven times seven near lived have ],
And now God calls willing die.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
Ei1h Callinu,

Little Walters uncle was attached to
the commissary department Natural
" little Walter wanted to know what
that meant His father explained that
It was the comnissary's duty to supply
the soldiers with food and drink and
the like. The very next day a lady
came to call and asked Walter how his
Uncle Paul was.
"He's fine" said the young man.
"He's a waiter now."-New York Post
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
A Queer Creature.

Queer that while the male seal Is q
bull and the female COW their young
ster is not called a calf, but pup.
Why seal fisheries" too, when the
seal is not u fish?
And why should the seals breeding
place be styled a roOkery?
1t looks as If this strange creature Is
only a fish in common parlance while
at sea. On land Tor ice) it is classed
popularity with animals or birds.-Ex-
change.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
An Emerald Vase.

A vase cut from a single emerald has
been preserved in the cathedral In Gen.
Ga for 600 years. 1t is the largest gem
Of the kind in the world, its diameter
being twelve and half inches and its
height five and three-quarter inches.
Every precaution is taken to insure
safe keeping. Several locks must be
opened to reach it. and the key Of each
lock is in the possession of a different
man.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
That Berry Tart.

Nix together with a knife or fork
quarter OF a pound OF butter with a
pound Of self raising -four and a pinch
Of salt Beat two eggs. mix with two
cupfuls of milk and add slowly to the
-four and butter. Mix well and roll out
IN O thin sheet. Cut with a circular cut
ter and put the circles in muffin tins.
FIJI with rich stewed raspberries, bake
for a quarter of an hour and serve very
cold with whipped cream.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
A Glimpse of Heaven.

Paterfamilias-Well. Mr.. Smith, I'm
pleased to see you at our humble board
for the first time. Now. Is there any
particular cut you fancy?
Prospective SOn-in-law-Oh, no, thank
you. / think
Youngest Daughter Of the House
Dad. aren't you going to ask Cissie?
You know what a shindy she kicks up
II she doesn't get first pick.-London
Opinion.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
Why He Was Proud,

In a particularly deSOlate region of
the country two travellers came on a
tumbledown shack in the midst Of filth
and barrenneSS. They were discussing
the improbability of human beings liv-
ing there and did not see forlorn lit
tie boy sitting in the edge Of the weeds.
he arose with n proud flush on his
face. "Ye needn't make fun Of It.
'Tain't our'n. It's jest rentedr-Ex.
change.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
aHail. GoIumbia.b

"Hail, Columbia" was written In
1859 and 1.-The Star Spangled Banner
in 1914. Hail, Columbia" was first
called General Washington's March,
the music having been composed by an
orchestra leader in New York and the
words written to be sung when Wash
ington went to New York to be inau-
gurated president April so. 1889. Lat.
er it was called The Presidents
March" and finally "Hail, Columbia"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
CANDIDATES WIFE
Some Interesting Facts About the
Life of Mrs. Charles E. Hughes.
PREFERS HOME TO SOCIETY.

She IL No CIubwoman and 10 Also
- Said to Be Anti suffrage-She De-
lights In the Fine Arts of Homemade
ing.
Women all over the United States
are asking about Mrs. Hughes, want
ing to know something about this quiet
little woman whose husband is the Re
publican candidate for president
Washington has discovered that Mrs.
Hughes is about the only person in its
official who's Who" who has success
fully managed to keep out of the lime
light of official and social publicity.
Mrs. Hughes is not a clubwoman.
She has always preferred to capitalize
home. To her nothing else has ever
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
The Beqinninu and End,

Fond Mother-It was at this point in
the enhancing landscape that my
daughter received a declaration and
accepted. Friend-And tell US the rest
Of the romance. Fond Mother-Un-
fortunately that is all there was.-Meg-
gendorfer Blaetter.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
Easy Money.

Mrs. Blossom is all smiles this
morning"
Eyes. She is going downtown to
spend q rain check"
what sort is that?'
zone she got from Mr.. Blossom by
crying. Baltimore Sun.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
Woodwork.

els it your intention to offer your
enemy an olive branchT
"Tm not sure" replied Senator Sor-
ghum. "We'll try out the olive branch
proposition. But we'll fix the thing so
It can be turned into an ak handle."-
Washington Star.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
Pertinent.

81 asked Arthur how old he thought
I was, and he guessed right the very
first time"
"Have You made up yetT-Pitts
burgh Press.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
From the Stars 70 You.

Somewhere beneath the stars there
Is something that you alone were
meant to do. Never rest until you have
found out what 1t is!-John Brashear
In the American Magazine.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
lInreasonabla

Mrs. Sharpe (severely)-Norah, can
find only seven Of these plates. Where
are the other FIVE? Cook Gin surprise)
Sure, mum. don't We make no allow
ance for ordinary wear an tear?
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
The Assent Sarcastic.

He Cat the end Of fishing story
Ny word, 1t was a monster! Pom my
word, I never saw such a fish In my
life! She-I don't believe you ever
did!-London Mail.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
TELLING the Tina,

Ingenious Teacher-If the clock were
to strike fourteen. what time would It
be? Intelligent Pupn-Time to send
the clock to be repaired.-London Tele-
graph.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
Strict Plant Law.

The law in Switzerland protecting
rare plants is so strict that to be found
In possession of specimens Legitimate
ly collected is penal offense.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
Not as Guaranteed,

you know these gloves I bought
here the other day-you said they'd
last me two years"
"Well?"
1--WE lost themr-Paris Rire.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
Her UpIift Scheme.

"What is Gertrude Gadder's latest
fad?
prison reform"
"Along what linesT
"She thinks every convict ought to
have a canary In his cell"-Birming-
ham Age Herald.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
A Iona Run.

'sThis bill has been running now for
three months" said the collector.
"Dear me-" said the debtor, how
tired II must be."-Detroit Free Press.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
Two Typista

Jenkins-My stenographer can write
80 words a minute. Tompkins - So
ran mine-but she doesn't seem TO
sare what the words are.-Puck.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
The Plan of Onpositas.

"what is the best way to get some
hard cash?"
Get hold of some soft thing."-Balh-
more American.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
Elusive Collars.

Collars are very smart, and they
have to be watched every minute n
one wishes to keep up with their fash.
Cons.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29
PROUD SATISFACTION.
A Fetching Model That Mother Can
Make at Home.

Ever useful gingham is the fabric
used for this small gown cut with
high waist line and side plated skirt
Envelope pockets and pique collar and
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29

The only competition worthy q wise
man a with himself.-MrA Jameson.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29

Good manners are made up Of petty
acrifices.-
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-29

A sunny temper gilds the edges q
lies blacklist cloud.-Guthrie.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-22
JOB AND HIS WIFE
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

not believe in justice at ALL should all be
slaves unreasoning children and time-servers.
We become moral only when we are thrown
hack upon our instincts by the seeming injustice OF
destiny.
Morality is not produced by any weighing OF
proft and loss nor by rewards and punishments;
morality is not policy. 1t is not adopted Oy the
shrewd and wise because it pays; it is believed In
by the simple and heroic because 1t does not pay.
Morality is a result of faith, not OF intellect
The man who how good deed VIII pronti
him and hence does it, is not moral; he is cunning
It is the man who does not see yet does his good
deed from inner compulsion that is moral.
Prosperity was the reward of the Old Testa-
ment said Bacon; aversity of the New
You cannot lure men to grandeur OF soul by
sugar plums. To make men good you must appear
TO the soldier feeling in them. When Garloaloli
offered his ragged recruits wounds and hardsh1ps
and death and asked who now would follow him,
the Italians cheered, threw their caps In the ar
and volunteered in frenzy of patriotism. You
cannot arouse that kind of sentiment by promising
gold and luxury.
It is not the tears of vile men, but their pros
perity and laughter, that makes us believe In the
day of judgment.
The universe and it's events do not make men
moral: man makes the universe moral.
The throne of God is in the breast of mankind
The rich and contented and smugly satisfied do
not bother much about a Just Judge; 1t is tnose
who when cast down and bleeding, cry out,
"Though He slay me- yet will I trust Him. that
attain unto moral sublimity.
Copyright, 1916. by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-22
TraVe1ette
BY NKsAH
THE MAGDALEN ISLANDS.

THE MAGDALEN ISLANDS
If you looking for a place where you escape
the bulletins and the baseball scores go the
Magdalen islands early this fall week two after
arrive, if you time yourself rightly winter
freeze will cut off all communication with mainland
and for six months you will have an uninter-
rupted chance to sit down and think things
You will be in the midst of of the quantest
tenth of whom have been away from their own
little archipelago The climate favorable for
the formation of intimate acquaintancesnips; YOU
should be able to write book islanders when
the spring thaw sets you free. The long gales come
howlng down from the north and east, picking up all
the loose GOLD of the Arctic north Allan
tic the Magdaen islanders themselves up in their
tight little cottages and smoke and wait on the
weather.
Once in a while the food supply runs short, and
the population itself by wrelessng
to Canada. Messages of sympathy in return
but salt port not be sent by wireless. There
nothing do but hold spring makes naviga-
tion possible Even the wireless is luxury of
date. The last time food short the message
mainland that finally drifted to
shore The relief ship could not through until three
months later.
In summer things cheerful The go
seal hunting they for and herring and lobster
is possible explore the neighborhood in comfort
You find that there towns villages worth the
name little cottages scattered apparently hap
about the land each its little patch of
ground is cultivated in the weather. The
people and philosophical rarely find
an islander disturbed. They take life
close to nature. The and the wind and the cold
from these and midst these they wrest their
simple living and along with it they get equahimity
that nothing can shake.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-22
OgLethorpe University Opens.

After lapse of fifty years, historic oglethorpe
University re-enters the life and service of the
South. The institution that was born in 1885 and
died amid the ashes of the Civil War has risen
again with the splendor of a deathless ideal. 1t is
rich in traditions and memories and in present
resources but rich above all in opportunity and
faith
The Oglethorpe that opens its doors today is
we'll worthy of the forefathers who founded the
ago. and it is worthy, too, of the new and greater
South in which it takes up again the golden thread
of its life. The character of the University is SYM
holized in the splendid building that stands upon
its campus as the first completed unit of the new
Oglethorpe plant In all the South there is no
college building which excels and none, perhaps
which equals this structure, either in point of archi
tectural art or general fitness for its purpose
Every line of its contour and every stone of its
fabric bespeaks the strength and honesty and no
bility of the institution itself.
Oglethorpe opens with Freshman class of sew
enty-fve students drawn from every part of the
South--an suspicious beginning. 1t opens with
faculty whose members scholars and educators
in the highest sense of the term, and with equip
ment that is ample and worthy of its aims.
This is a day of hearty congratulation for
everyone the South who helped to make posi-
BILE the refounding of ogethorpe, and day OF Pc
culiar pride to Atlanta whose heart and soul are
in this institution and whose life will be continually
enriched and ennobled by its presence.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-22
QuipS and Quiddities

Getting nicely" said the doctor-"very nicely!
think might have little solid food directly he be-
gins to be convalescent"
But what the signs of convalescence?" asked
the wife
ooh, it's always a good sign when the patient dis
plays rritabiity and disposition to argue and GER
tain peevishness"
on his visit day the doctor fund the little wife
very cheerful
"And how the patient?" he asked.
ooh, much better, think doctor! 1 gave him a
fried steak and onions yesterday"
Fried steak and onions!" gasped the medco. But
why earth
well. followed your Instructions doctor. You said
if he at all peevish disposed to it
asked last night If he could have fried steak and
onions, said didn't think he ought to, he got
up and into the kitchen, smashed fourteen
plates, service, and two milk jugs. So, in view of
what you said, let him have it,"
Artist Ito parvenu)-There you are, sir. I've paint
ed you a full line of ancestors and Ill warrant you
that none will know they not genuine This is your
father that your grandfather this your sreatgrand
Parvenu-Hold on! Good heavens. man. you've
made my great-grandfather a much younger-looking
than am!
the day before the official visit of the general
subaltern had sent the bugler to the regimen
orderly room to obtain particulars of the forth
coming visit.
while numbers of officers dashed in and out The
derby room sergeant swore the colonel swore, and
everybody else sighed gasped while the telephone
buzzed necessarily.
stood against the wall. first Leg then the
other, without receiving moments attention
Finally the sergeant turned on him and in tones of
brass demanded:
well, what the deuce d'you think you're waiting
for?"
For the duration of the war. sir. think"