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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
Wonderful Rainisr PARK

This Is the heart of the playground,
worshiped by the red men in the days
Of old, and here In the evidence Of
scores Of mineral springs Dubbling
from the ground one feels more keenly
the puissance Of God. To the left
from the road, looking as If it were
but a block away, rises Mount Ia
coma, its sides showing the purplish
lines Of ice, great snow fields and jag
ged rocks. Yet it is five miles from
the springs to Nisqually glacier, over
q road as smooth as pavement and
broken at almost every length Of the
car by vistas of SURPRISING beauty.
Now it is forest of silver, high tree
trunks dotting the sides of a peak
stripped Of their branches and bark
and whitened by the elements. Now
1t is a glimpse of Nisqually river,
which takes its origin from the glacier
Of that name, as it tumbles along
over its rocky bed, and now 1t Is a
forested peak rising toothlike out Of
the jaw of this mighty range Of which
Mount Tacoma, "the mountain that
was God" in the picturesque language
Of the Indians, is a part.-Ralph P.
Mulvane In National Magazine.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
Curious Baths.

In her book. My Siberian Year."
Miss NJ. A. Czaplacka, speaking of the
social habits of the SibeTiaks, says:
1.-THE celebrint OF the fOrtnightly rite
Of the bath Ellis the bauya with dense
cloud of steam 10y sluicing water into
kind of open mouthed oven In the
wall of the stove and sits on a dais
over against this, dabbing himself all
over with water he has taken from the
cistern and tempered to a just endur-
able heat in a tin basin with colder
water from a barrel In the corner
Having put himself into q state border
ing on suffOcation and raised his own
temperature several degrees above fe-
yer point, be pulls open the door, rushes
naked into the open air, rolls over and
over in the snow, covers himself with
it and lies there till the heat Of his
body has made pool of water under
him. Then he runs back to the banya
and fiagellates himself with a bunch
of twigS as he stands surrounded by
Il fresh cloud OF steam from the oven"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
What the Soldiers Eat.

The food Of soldiers in the field va.
ries according to their nationalities
The principal meal of the Russian sol.
der consists Of stchee, something be.
tween a cruel and a soup, the chief In.
gradients Of which are cabbage, pota-
toes, oatmeal and fat meat, preferably
pork. These are boiled together, with
salt and other seasoning, the result be-
ing a thick, nourishing and by no
means unpalatable dish.
The Italian soldiers, who are splen-
did marchers, live largely On a farina-
ceous diet-macaroni, spaghetti and so
on. They are also very partial to fruit,
which is issued, together with wine
and cigars, as part Of their rations
whenever possible.
No German soldier considers his dali
ly menu complete without a sausage of
some kind or other, and the stronger"
its flavor the better. A nutritious pea
soup Is also staple Of the army ration.
The mainstay Of the French soldier
consists of his beloved "soup," as he
calls it. 1t is really q thick, nourish-
ing stew, made Of meat, potatoes and
various other vegetables.
The English Tommy is omnivor-
Gus, but the things he loves above all
else are bacon and jam.-Youth's Com
nanion
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
Why Is It?

Why is it that when there are two
swinging doors IS per cent of the peo-
pie open the left hand door? Why don't
they open the right hand one?
Why is it that 60 per cent Of the peo-
pie walk on the wrong side or in the
middle of the sidewalk? Why don't
they walk on the right side?
Why is it that 80 per cent of the peo-
pie don't know how to turn a corner or
enter store? Why is it that they
keep close to the building when they
ought to be on the outside edge of the
sidewalk to enter as they should?
Why is it that people will stand like
this : on the sidewalk and talk. Why
is it they will not stand like this. Z?
Thereby taking up one-half as much
space. Why is it?-BostOn Post.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
Transformed Mine.

An old abandoned mine near Saal-
field, in the Thuringian forest, which
In the time Of Luther was worked for
silver, copper, alum and vitriol, has
been discovered by a Berlin geologist
to have developed into one of the most
beautiful caverns. In the course Of
centuries the water percolating through
the minerals has built up throughout
the mine a wonderful labyrinth of stall
actites and stalagmites. thrown to.
gether with a profusion and brilliance
Of color which is said to be without
parallel. Deep greens, vivid blues, the
purest white, yellows of all shades-in
fact, the entire scale of color is repro
duced over and over again. and yet
the colors melt into each other so
gently that nowhere is the impression
of disagreeable contrast produced.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
Sunset and II nICInck

The habit of counting IL o'clock at
sunset is very ancient. The Turks.
Greeks and most other people In the
Levant have almost always counted
u o'clock from sunset, and to this
day the common people cannot under
stand that their clocks have to be
changed every day and not ours. The
Turks have officially adopted meridian
time, but only since the Young Turks
came into power-that Is, since 1905.
The change was even then not made
Immediately. 1t encountered a great
deal of opposition on religious grounds,
because the Mohammedan hours Of
prayer are regulated by the sun. And
the common people still stick to the
old system. Only in Constantinople
and Smyrna are there many Turks
who keep the official meridian time,
and the great majority of people
throughout the Turkish dominions still
count II o'clock, as their ancestors
have from time immemorial, at sun
set.-New York Times.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
SEVEN THOUSAND MILE
VOYAGE IS MADE BY TUG
Mistaken a Dozen Times For Sub.
marine In Trip Across
Atlantic.

New York.-A remarkable sea voy-
age Of 1000 miles, from Dordrecht.
Holland, to Tampico, Mexico, in a tug
boat but sixty feet in length. with a
draft Of three feet, has just been COM
pleted by a crew Of men under the
leadership of Captain II. Waltaker.
Captain Waltaker and his crew, Of
whom one was E. NJ. Eden, a young
artist of Amsterdam, who made the
trip to satisfy a longing for adventure,
started home on the steamship Nieuw
Amsterdam.
The voyage required eighty-four days
time and was made dOubly hazardous
by the fact that the tug could carry
only twenty-Seven tons of coal. FIRE.
quent attempts TO stop passing vessels
to replenish the bunkers failed. Each
time the presence of the small boat in
the path of steamship would send the
vessel ZigZagging away in the belief
that the tug might be disguised sub
marine.
I've were taken for a submarine a
dozen times during the trip" said Mr..
Eden, "and each time the vessel took
to flight and we could not catch her,
although we were badly in need of
coal and provisions"
The tug was the Fuerta, built by the
Corona Oil company in its shipyards
in Holland for use in towing oil barges
in the Panuco river. In ordinary cir
cumstances the tug would have been
transported dashed to a ships deck, but
the freight rate demanded was deemed
exorbitant, and Captain Waltaker was
selected to make the voyage with the
tug under her own power.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
Names Gum Industry.

Gathering spruce gum has long since
become one of the steady minor indus
tries of Maine, where every year about
1900 tons OF crude gum. valued at a
third Of million dollars, are harvested
The crude article is formed as the re-
suit of injury to red and black spruce
trees. Hedgehogs feed upon the inner
bark of trees, and the injuries they
cause, known as hog cuts" are fruit
full sources of gum. Lightning scars.
frost cracks. old blaZes and the abra-
sions caused by falling trees and even
sap sucker drills are other occasions
for gum formation. Around the edges
of such wounds little nodules appear
and gradually develop into Jumps or
teats. A wide scar heals slowly and
may produce gum around the entire
wounded area, while a narrow seam
closes so quickly that only a single row
Of these nuggets" is possible.-Argo-
naut
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
PAY FARES AFTER 20 YEARS.
Charity Finally Took 81 That Railway
Official Refused to Accept.

Findlay, o. Philosophers for cen
turtles have attempted to analyze the
conscience Of the human race and what
prompts it, but have been unsuccessful
That such a thing does really exist,
Charles F. Smith, general manager of
the Toledo, Bowling Green and South
ern railway, can now testify.
Recently he was sitting in his Office
when two men walked in and each
threw fifty cent piece on his desk, ex-
planning that twenty years ago they
had ridden from the north side to the
Tangent depot without paying fare.
That was because they were compelled
to stand most of the way. During ali
this time their cOnScienceS, they said,
had troubled them and they got no rest
until they had returned the money
with interest.
Mr.. Smith refused to take the money.
but DR.. J. z. Baker, head OF the As
ISOLATED charities. who happened in
Smiths office at the time, confiscated
the money for that purpose.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
AFTER YEARS.
Rover Never in One Place Long Enough
to Apply For lt.

Rover Never in One Place Long Enough
to AppIy For 1t.
St Louis. George WeiSe. a former
sailor and %. an admitted rowing dispo-
siOn, Recently received $39025 from
The local free legal aid bureau, repre-
&ntfng his share of the estate of an
uncle Whc Gi,,t in Adrian. Mich. eight
cen years AGO
WeiSe aiatel 10 the bureau several
DAYS ago and asked Matthew Conck-
Ins, assistant superintendent, to assist
MN in getting his inheritance. He ex-
lalnel that no had never applied for
HbecauSe SHE the death of his uncle
De had not seen long enough in one
pace To take ji}e time to apply for his
share.
Concklin@ vgute to Adrian and in re-
RtO his lr'.g~ received one from E. A.
l@e. present awmrr Of the property of
"e>eS unv.a, edward Bauer, contain
Is tie n"n"y due Weise and a quit
u4lm deca 10 lie property for the lat
@sSignatug...
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
TWO THOUSAND vGlCES IN
CHORUS CHRISTMAS EVE
VIII Be Supplemented by SoIoist and
Orchestra of Seventy Pieces.

New York.-The New York Commu-
nifty chorus, under the direction of
Harry Barnhart, will try to have al
most all New York sing on Christmas
eve. There will be Christmas songs
around the Christmas tree in Madison
square. and later the chorus and as
many other people as the place can
hold will fill Madison Square Garden
and sing HandeTs Messiah"
The chorus probably will contain be-
tween 1,500 and 1000 persons, who
have been practicirg the oratorio for
two months. They will be supple
mented by soloist and an orchestra
Of seventy pieces.
Mr.. Barnhart, who, with Arthur Far
well, the composer; W. kirkpatrick
Brice, the treasurer, and Claude Brag-
don, the architect and the creator Of
the Light half Of "Song and Light"
was impressed first by the national in
eptitude for music. When listening to
a band concert in park at Rochester
he suddenly was struck by the idea
that the mute and enchanted crowd
would be glad to sing if they had only
the opportunity and training.
To fill this need he organized a com
munity chorus in Rochester and later
a smaller one at Lyons. ~ Y. 1t was
only in January of 1916 that the New
York Community chorus was attempt
ed, but since then its ranks have been
expanding rapidly until it now is neces-
sary to transfer 1t from the auditorium
Of De Witt Clinton high school to Mad
ison Square Garden for the Christmas
celebration.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
GETS 500 A WEEK WASHING.
Girl Gave Up stenosraphy to Take In
Clothes.

Norristown, Pa.-Quitting her posi-
ton as stenOgrapher to go to the wash
tub, Miss Georgianna Cuthbert is max
Ing SOS week, and she handles only
nve washes to do it, according to her
testimony in the equity action in which
she Is defendant and Mrs. Marie LUIS
son, her neighbor, plaintiff
Miss Cuthbert informed Judge Swartz
that one family alone paid her $50, an
other So, two 50 and fifth So week.
She gets the business, she says. be-
cause she does not use bleach or acids
In cleansing them.
None of the clothing l handle Is
soiled, only mussed," she said.
Mrs. Marie Lusson seeks to prevent
Miss Cuthbert erecting a laundry in
the rear of her lot in Ardmore, Pa.
Mrs. Lusson says that laundry there
would be undesirable, unhealthy and
In violation of building restrictions.
In the testimony experts said a laun-
dry would be unobjectionable; that
there would be no dirt, no noise, no
smell and, in fact, no reason why this
woman should not be permitted to pro-
coed with the laundry.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
Very Free Verse.

Vers libre is certainly taking hold.
Much might be said in this connection
Of its form, its content and whether
proficiency in it is innate or acquired.
Let it suffice for the moment to record
what happened when a music teacher
asked her pupils to make up little
verses and then make melodies to ac-
company them. One little boy said he
never had made up verses.
"Just little verse;" said the teacher.
well" said the boy, dreamily:
Sometimes the sky at night
Looks like a spotted egg.
New York Post.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
Salaries With Silver Linincs.

The highest salaried man in Japan
does not receive enough money in that
form to pay for the gasoline used by
his automobile, for salaries of the man.
ayers of business corporations are in
significantly small, says the Japan
Times. Salaries, however, are not the
total income of business men. Under
the japanese custom there is a liberal
bonus system, and the bonus amounts
to 800 or 400 times the monthly sal
airy in some cases.
The Mitsui company is regarded as
the biggest corporation in Japan, and
its directors are noted for their large
incomes. Each director is said to re-
ceive in the form Of a bonus about
100000 a year, although his salary
may be only $3.50 a month.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
The Famous "ereen Man of Brighton"

ne = amOuS "Sreen MAN OF BrI9ntOn.'
In October, 1906, an individual was
to be observed at Brighton, England,
who walked out every day dressed in
green from head to foot-green shoes,
green gloves, green handkerchief and
other articles to match. This eccen-
trio person lived alone, knew nobody,
and in his house the curtains, the wall
paper, the furniture, even the plates
and dishes and the smallest toilet ar
ticles, offered an uninterrupted Sc
quence of green. Having started on
his career, there was obviously no rea-
son to stop, and with full consistency
he carried his scruples so far as to eat
nothing but fruit and vegetables OF the
same green color. The consequences
were extremely disastrous. One fine
day the green man jumped from his
window into the street, rushed forward
and performed a second somersault
from the top Of the nearest cliff.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
VAR Oh! YES FOREIGN
Thieves To AMERICA
netectives Expect Big Haul In
JeweIry at Some Society
Event This Winter.

Washington. If you happen to own
iaUel collection and your taste runs
nrard wearing it in public, You had
bsttpr hire a bOdyguard this winter.
The United States is overrun with Eu-
,rean crooks, some of them the
moothest thieves Oh the continent.
Private detective and police agencies
h, New York. Boston, Philadelphia,
Washington. Chicago and other big CEN
tors are looking forward TO one of the
INST active years in the last decade.
re all OIL account of the European
gar which has made theft hardly
vOrth while on a big scale across the
water.
In Washington there's q detective
,spDcy which specializes in the guard
hg of guests and jewelry at big social
hnctions. The business of this agency
Is not confined to events at the capital.
far private detectives of faultless man.
Dpr and speech are sent out on jobs
S far west as Chicago by this same
agency.
One man who has devoted years of
experience and his organization of
seuthS to the protection of social lead
srs and their guests recently returned
from trip that extended north to Bos-
ton and west to the Mississippi.
Its going to he a big year for agen-
des like ours" he said. within the
aSt twelve months Europe has been
sending over some of the cleverest jew
q thieves this country has ever seen,
and they have only come here when
il was clear that robbery as a profess
sion was III against hard times abroad
until the war was over"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
DEER ATTACKS POSTWAR.
Herd Within Three Miles of PennsyIva.
MIA Town.

Huntington, Pa.-Clark Smith, the
oldest rural route agent attached to the
Huntington pOstOffice, met with spir
tied attack from big buck deer while
on his return trip a few evenings ago
within three miles Of this place.
A herd Of six does, led by a large
buck, had been feeding in a mountain
meadow and were about to emerge into
the open highway just as Smith was
driving leisurely past.
His horse, a calico colored bronco,
seemed to have aroused the ire Of the
buck, which leaped a fence and at
tackled the bronco by rearing up and
endeavoring to strike it with its fore
feet. Mr.. Smith used his whip vigor-
ously on the deer. The bronco took
fright and finally drew itself and
driver to place Of safety.
A herd Of ten deer, including one elk.
has been seen by a farmer at the
further end of Smiths route.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
Work Mine In U. s. supr.,. Court

Observation-Disclosures, motors and
other electrical apparatus whizzed and
whirred In the supreme court chamber
at Washington when the justices view
ed a miniature mining plant in fun op-
Grafton. The demonstration. unique In
the courts history. was held to give
the justices an actual view Of a min
lng patent In operation, one used In
many countries and attacked as In
valid in q case recently reargued.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
WANTS TO GET OUT OF JAIL.
Amandus kessler's Plea to Join Marine
Corps Likely to Go Unheeded.


New York.-Because he is a good
porch climber, rifle shooter and has
other marked accomplishments, Aman-
dus Kessler wants to get out Of Jail at
Easton, Pa, and become a fighter for
Uncle Sam in the ranks Of the United
States marine corps, according to an
appealing letter addressed to the ma
rine recruiting station In this city.
Amandus wrote several pages in his
patriotic outburst and promised to use
his influence to awaken his fellow pris-
oners to the call Of the flag II the ma
rines would only come and get him out
Although the young man claims to be
a good. healthy Teller" unfortunately
his morals are not In the same flourish
ing condition, so Amandus and his pals
must languish in prison while the ma
rine corps remains heartless but I'M
contaminated.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
COLONEL OFFERS A REWARD.
Somebody Cut Down MIR. RooseveIt's
Sassafras Tree at Sycamore.

Oyster Bay, n. Y.-Colonel Roosevelt
Is on the trail of malignant malefac-
tors again. This time it is one or more
intrepid woodsmen who. unknown to
him, sawed down a large sassafras tree
on the colonel's estate, Sycamore Hill.
Colonel Roosevelt offered $25 reward
for information leading to the "discoy-
cry Of the individual who maliciously
and feloniously entered my land and
with crosscut saw felled a large and
valuable sassafras tree, which by its
fall partially destroyed an even more
valuable beech tree"
If there are any trees to come down
at Sycamore Hill the colonel wants to
do the chopping himself.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
DREAMED ABOUT SNAKES.
Then He Woke Up to Find Three Foot
Rassler In His Room.

Altoona, Pa. - George Merits Of
Franklinville, Huntington county, toss
ed In the throes Of frightful night
mare and dreamed of rattlesnakes. In
bed with Merits was Samuel Alley Of
the same place.
When Merits came to himself he still
believed himself dreaming, for q hid
eous rattle sounded in his ears. Alley
also heard it.
The frightful whirr maintained a
steady cadence, and both men were
then aware that a rattlesnake was in
their room. Having no light handy,
the men were imprisoned in their bed
for some time.
Finally match and lantern were
procured. The snake, more than three
feet long, with seven rattles and but
ton, was coiled in the center Of the
floor. 1t was killed.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
Self Convicted,

"Say, pa" querled small Bobby,
"what is gossiping, anyway"
"GossiriLg. my son." replied the old
man, IF We get right down to the
plain, unvarnished facts, is lying. But
why do you ask?"
Because" answered the young in
vestigator, INA says you do q lot Of
gossiping every time your business
keeps you late at the ofIice."-Ex-
change.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
Legal Wit.

A lawyer was walking into court re-
Gently with his length of arm taxed
to hold pile of law books.
To him said friend, pointing to his
books:
"Why, thought you carried all that
stuff in your head"
$50 / do quickly replied the learned
are for the Judges
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
Scholars Read Original Poems.

Westmont, n. J.-Eighteen grade pu-
pills In the public schools read original
poems during the afternoon session.
creating considerable amusement and
uncovering some latent literary talent.
Recently each pupil in this grade was
required to make a Ave minute address
without manuscript.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
loo Much Practice.

docs your minister practice what he
preaches?" the newcomer questioned.
"He does" the citizen answered, with
a sigh, land I'd be perfectly willing to
have him stop. He lives next door to
me and begins at Z o'clock Sunday
morning to practice what he is going
to preach. New York Times.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
UP A TREE TWENTY HOURS.

Fugitive Delirium Tremens Victim Dis
cards Clothes and Climbs.
Nyack, n. Y.-After passing twenty
hours in the topmost branches Of q
tree, Edgar Tordoff was rescued by
hunters. He was arrested suffering
from delirium tremens and sent to the
almshouse at Viola instead of to Jail,
and when he tried to eject the inmates
was strapped in a straitjacket.
He escaped and wandered through
the Ramapo mountains to Ladentown,
where he threw away his clothes and
climbed a tree. He was about famish-
ed when found by the hunters and
Letchworth policemen and may die.
Tordoff is a painter.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
Fine Luck.

Mrs. Exe-So you've got a new gown
after all. thought you said you
couldn't afford one this season? Mrs.
Wye-So / did. But you see my hus-
band had streak of luck recently.
He broke his leg the next day after
taking out an accident policy that pays
$50 week.-BOston Transcript.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
Diplomacy In the Homo.

Every now and then wife urges bus.
band to buy some new clothes for him.
self, but If he is pretty good talker
he can get out Of 1t without making
her mad.-Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
Sharks and Death,

There is an old yet still operative su-
perstition among seafaring men that
when a shark persistently follows a
vessel It is a sign that some person on
board is going to die, the alleged rea-
son being that the great fish can scent
death
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-01-06
Divided IL,

Scene-Police court during dispute
over eight day clock.
Magistrate award the clock to the
plaintiff.
Defendant-Then what do / get?
Magistrate-I'll give You the eight
days.-London Stray Stories.