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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-06-23
Modern Machinery,

Not to see poetry in the machinery
OF this present age is not to see poetry
In the life of the age. 1t is not to be-
heVe in the age.-Gerald Stanley Lee.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-06-23
RarRaNarancA

Perseverance Is more prevailing
than violence, and many things which
cannot be overcome when they are to-
Eether yield themselves up when taken
little by little.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-06-23

10 know how to wait Il the great
secret of success.-De Maistre
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-06-01


He stiI had good many superfuous
Hands and Feet and was Needing free
ly on every Green
Sometimes he would last as far as
the Water-Hazard and then sink with
Bubbling Cry.
Notwithstanding which, he kept on
trying to look like the Photographs of
Byers.
If he spun into the High Spinach Off
at the Right it was Tough Luck. If he
whanged away with Niblick down in
a bottomless Pit. caromed on couple
of Oaks, and finally angled off toward
the Cup, he would go around for Days
talking about Some Shot.
AS his Ambition increased, his Men
tai Arithmetic became more and more
defective and his Moral Nature was
wholly atrophied.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-06-01
"WalIflower,, Fiohtino Term.

If one man refers to a fellow worker
as a "wallflower'' is it sufficient provo
cation to strike him?
This is the question that Justice
Packard in central police court at oa'-
tlmore was called upon to settle
Henry Katz, an official of the MidciN
garage, faced the magistrate on
charge of assault. The complainant
was Samuel q. Fernheimer, manager
Of the supply department.
Fernheimer was walking through the
garage when he saw Katz standing
short distance away.
IF there were not so many wallto~-
ers here, there would be more WORE
DONE" remarked Fernheimer to no oua
in particular.
do you mean me?" shouted Katz.
IF the shoe fits you, wear ii" ret0f''
ed the supply man.
Then the blow came.
Magistrate Packard thought the II
mark was sufficient to justify the oIo"
and dismissed Katz.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-06-01

whole appearance was that of a per-
son laboring under some intense spell
of terror or excitement.
She looked me over with fairly de-
vouring glance. She beckoned to me
urgently. As l approached the couch
she seized my sleeve with feverish
haste and whispered hoarsely:
Don't let him hear-pretend!
/ was thrilled and startled. l fol-
lowed the mystery of the moment only
so far as to surmise that my patient
was in deadly fear of the sinister man
who had ushered me into the room,
and whom she apparently suspected of
being an eavesdropper on the other
side of that closed door.
pretend what?" / stumbled.
81 need no doctor" she whispered.
Then in perfectly audible voice she
added: Doctor, cannot sleep. am
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-06-01

had ever seen. The moment my eyes
rested upon him / read him through
and through as a scoundrel. MY analy-
sis later proved entirely correct. /
noted his crafty eye studying me keen
ly. It's sinister glow repealed me, but
likewise put me on my guard.
Doctor" he said in low tone, 81
have sent for you at the within of my
wife, who, while an invalid, is not in
any dangerous condition. Confiden-
TALLY, she is hypochrondiac, has pc
culiar fancies, and one is that she Is
about to die. You will cater to her
fancies, give her sleeping potion that
Will quiet her and your mission is
done. AS have some important writ
ing to do, kindly make the visit brief.
Here is your fee in advance. You un-
derstandT'
Entirely So" nodded, with truly
professional smile. 'These cases are
quite common" and | determined, in
deed, to curtail my services as much
as possible, to get out of the way be-
fore the real physician summoned
should arrive.
The man led me through the adioin-
ing apartment, tapped at the door of
third room and said curtly: Here
is the doctor" opened the door, ush-
cred me across the threshold and
closed the door after me.
Upon a couch lay woman prema-
turely old. What first noticed was
her eyes, glowing, cleaning. bright,
haunted. The face was white and
wrinkled. Her hands trembled, her
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-06-01

nothing on him. Her Man was the Gink
to show that Pill how to take a Joke.
Then she would know that he had
won Box of Balls from Mrs, Talbot's
poor old crippled Father-in-Law.
She could read him like Barometer.
If he and Mr.. Hilgus. the Real Estate
Man, came home together fifteen feet
apart. stepping high and looking
straight ahead, she would know it had
been jolly Day on the Links.
BY the second summer Mr.. Pallzey
had worked up until he was allowed TO
use Shower Bath once hallowed by
the presence of jerome Travers.
He was not exactly Duffer. He
was what you might call sub-Duffer,
or Tarnish, which means that the Com
mntee was ashamed to mark up the
Handicap.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-06-01

in pain. Please try and relieve me.
Bend closer" came the hushed tones
| ensuing. II am in deadly peril. ! i'm
pIOre you TO do me a service. Keep
talking about my sickness so he can
hear you outside there, till hand you
something"
l understood the situation as my pa
tient CROPPED under the bed coverings
and produced a jewel case and long,
fiat wallet
''Take theml" she whispered hur-
riedly. Keep up the farce until yOu
get safely out of the house. Then
hurry to the address written on a card
inside the wallet. Deliver these things
to my niece. Tell her l shall be
robbed, or murdered, if she does not
hurry the police to my rescue. You
shall be richly rewarded"
made a great clatter at my sup
posed medicine case. / voiced lot of
medical gibberish. babe my patient
truly professional adieu. / left the
room, to be shown to the door by my
host. who looked elfish and satisfied
as | Indicated that his wife would
sleep soundly through the night and
/ read his mind meditated robbery,
perhaps worse.
An automobile pulled up in front
nf the house as reached the street
professional-looking man stepped out.
The real doctor had arrived.
gave my case fling into an empty
lot and inspected the wallet. 1t was
filled with bank notes of large demon
ination. I opened the little box. A
galaxy of precious, flashing gems came
into view.
"AIice Derby. % Waltham street"
the card within the wallet read.
hailed a taxicab. Half an hour later
I stood within the parlor of neat
pretty cottage, explaining my mission
to the fairest young cerature / had
ever met, and her father. The latter
became instantly excited. He hurried
from the house with the words:
"Sir, l fear to leave my daughter
alone while the man you have seen
tonight is at large" and so ] had thar
first blissful interview with Alice
Derby.
AS I learned later the man l hau
met was the disowned' husband of my
patient and an escaped convict lie
was returned to prison that night.
l never told the true story OF my
acceptance as a doctor. My patient
indeed, rewarded me-she helped me
into business. and she helped me 10
win the peerless Alice for my bride.
fC'onvripht 1917 hv w q Chapmanl
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-06-01

As an Exponent Of the ,no,a
vanced Play he was a FIv. but az an
Matchmaker he wes Hum-Djngaa %
He knew he was plain pastry for =
Sharks, so he would hang aroma IN ,e
first Tee waiting to cop out soIoetbtns
Soft. mug
One day he took on Mrs. Ol,nstooa,
Infant Son, just home from ,y,i,t"-
School. The tender Cadet n,rsad ~.
along to an even-up ut The Punch.paa'i
and then proceeded to snear His Vito,
Organs all over the Pad Lands
That evening Mr.. PaIlzey told NJ.
PaIlzey she would haye to cut down
on Household Expenses.
Six years after he gave up the Rms,
ness Career and consecrated himself -
something more Important, Mr.. PalIzon
had so well mastered the battling Iptri
cacies that he was allowed to trail in .
Foursome with the President of the
Club. This happened once.
1t is well known that any Person
who mooches around Country Cluh
for a sufficient Period will have soma
kind of a Cup wished on to him.
Fourteen years after Mr.. PaIl1ev
threw himself into it, Heart and SOM
and when the Expenses Appropriated
$4,000, he earned his Halo.
One evening he came back to his
hagsard Companion chortling infant.
wise, and displayed something which
looked like an Eye-Cup with Handles
on it.
He said it was Trophy. It was a
Consolation Offering for Maidens with
an allowance of more than eighteen.
After that their Daily Life revolved
around the Department-Store Bargain.
Mrs. Pallzey had to use Metal Polish
on it to keep it from turning Black.
When the Visitors lined up in front
of the Mantel and gazed ut the tiny
Shaving Mug, the Cellar Champion Of
the World would regale them with the
story of hairbreadth 'Scapes and NOV
ing Adventures by Gravel GulleyS and
rushing Streams on the Memorable Day
when he (Pallzey) had put the Blocks
10 Old Man Willoughby, since de-
ceased.
Then he would ask all present to
feel of his Forearm, after which he
would pun the Favorite One about
Golf adding ten years to his life.
Mrs. Pallzey would. be sitting back,
pouring Tea, but she never chimed in
with any Estimate as to what had been
the effect on her Table of Expecta-
tions.
Moral-Remain under the Awning.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-06-01
THE CLOSED DOOR
BY GEORGE ELMER coee

had not friend in the city. had
not dollar in my pocket. Everything
in the way of honest employment had
| failed me. That is how l came to be
burglar, or rather came near to be-
| ing one. Let not the superman de-
spise me for this confession. My
theme will show how erratic is the
whirligig of fate, how at the brink of
temptation and sordid crime an in
stinct of innate sympathy came to a
hayward, erring one and redeemed him
at the crisis of destiny.
1t was by haphazard that / became
visitor to a den where thieves and
cracksmen congregated in their idle
moments. 1t was through curiosity,
watchfulnesS and keeping my ears
open that ! gathered up acknowledge
of the clever ways Of the crook that
realized how easy it was TO aake
enough at one big haul to stan life
anew in some remote community, for
get the incident and acquire a. new
plane for honest existence. All this
was a fallacy, for my deviation from
the path of rectitude would have sure
| ly held me in the tolls that never let
free a criminal once started on the
downward path. In my case peculiar
| circumstances operated TO lead me
back to the path called Straight.
To my story: l had found in the
den one night a small, neat-looking
case someone had negligently left
] n I 10
own room / found it to contain a
superb kit of burglars tools. The
modern craftsman no longer carries
clumsy bag. AS / inspected the choice
| collection of jimmies, picklOcks and
| skeleton keys, i comprehended their
utility l gratified my vain thought of
experiences by prying my room window,
| by locking and unlocking my room
door without a key. My attire was as
yet respectable. My face was not I'M
prepossessing. The police would
scarcely suspect that was other than
| respectable clerk or professional
man. l started forth on my mission.
| ] had selected d superior-lOOking
apartment house as my point of as
sault. 1t was three stories in height,
and the top floor was dark, so far as
[ could make out, and the presumption
was that it's usual tenant was away
from home. l had no difficulty what
ever in turning the spring lock of the
street door. A very simple skeleton
key did the business. 1t required
little more ingenuity TO use the nip
pers In turning the key in the door of
/ the top suite of rooms, but / made it.
| entered the darkened apartment war
| lily. / closed the door after me and
stood still, the tool case in my hand,
listening intently. l was about to
advance, when distinctly traced foot
steps behind the draperied doorway of
the adjoining room. Then was daz-
zled by a binding flash of brilliancy.
The electric lights had been switched
on from the next room, the draperies
parted, man stepped into view.
"Ah!" he spoke, with quite well
| coming nod, as though expecting me,
the doctor? The door was unlocked?
| did not know it. Be seated, please"
| l was quite taken unawares, but !
managed to preserve my nerve and
composure. l sank 20 chair. compre-
hending that this man had sent for
physician and mistook me for one.
| Ny host had the most vlllainous face l
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-06-01

: !. :" !; !. !. !. !.
~
&XEYa the present Century, man
./nGG with his Hair neatly set
Yk1NSl/ back around the Ears and
/14ANN the usual Blood Pressure,
pAl&k was whizzing through a
sA26AS suburban LOneSomeness on
a lettering Trolley. The name of the
man was Mr.. Pallzey. He had desk
with a Concern that did merchandising
In large way.
Mr.. Pallzey feared Socialism and
carried his Wife's Picture in his Watch
and wore Plasters. In other words he
was Normal, believing nearly every
thing that appeared in the Papers.
While the Dog-Fennel was softly
brushing the FOot-Board and the Motor
was purring consistently beneath, Mr..
PaIlzey looked over into a close cropped
Pasture and became the alert Eye-Wit-
ness of some very weird Doings.
He saw pop-eyed Person in soiled
Neglige, who made threatening move
ments toward something concealed in
the White Glover, with a Weapon re-
sembling the iron Dingus used in goug-
ing the Ciinkers from a Furnace.
"What is the plot of the Piece?" he
inquired of Grand Army man, sitting
next
Il think" replied the Veteran. 81
think he is killing Garter-Snake."
"Oh, no." spoke up the conversations
al Conductor. "He is playing Golluf,"
giving the word the Terre Haute pro-
nunciation.
Mr.. Pallzey looked with pity on the
poor Nut who was out in the Hot Sun,
getting himself all lathered up with
One-Man Skinny.
He said to G. A. r. that it took all
kinds of People to make a World. The
griZzled Warrior arose to an equal At
titude by remarking that if the dag
goned Loon had to do it for Living,
he'd think 1t was Work.
Mr. Pallzey had heard of the new
Diversion for the Idle Rich, just as
people out in the Country hear of
Milk-Sickness or falling Meteors, both
well authenticated but never encoun-
tered.
ing Page he could come across a cryp-
tic Reference to MacFearson of Drum
tOchtie being 3 up and to play on
Hargis of Sunset HO, whereupon he
would experience sense of Annoy
ance and do a quick Hurdle.
He had seen in various Show Win
dOws the spindly Utensils and snowy
Pellets which, he had reason to be-
lieve, were affiliated in some way with
the siekening Fad. He would look at
them with extreme Contempt and rath-
er resent their communicating contigu-
ity to the Mask, the Shin-Guard, and
the upholstered Grabber.
Mr.. Pallzey believed that Golf was
played by the kind of White Rabbits
who march in Suffrage Parades, wear
ing Gloves.
The dreaded Thing lay outside of his
Orbit and beyond his Ken, the same as
Tatting or Biology, His conception of
keen and sporty game was Pin Pool
or Jacks Only with the Deuce running
wild.
One Sunday he was invited out to
Food Saturnalia at a Country-Place.
The Dinner was postponed until late in
the Day because they all dreaded it so
much.
Friend Host said he had twosOme
on at the Club and was trying out an
imported Cleek, so he invited Mr.. PAIL
Zey to be Spectator
If he had said that he was going up
In Balloon to hemstitch a couple of
clouds, it would have sounded just as
plausible to Mr.. Pallzey of the Whole
sale District.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-06-01

!: !: !: :: !: !: :: !: ::
~ NE day in the pink dawn Of
s8ET the present Century, man
,/TAG with his Hair neatly set
XkJNSl/ back around the Ears and
/IgAhN the usual Blood Pressure,
EfOfSA was whizzing through a
UAAGAJ suburban Lonesomeness on
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-01-12
INDUSTRIAL

Jan. 7.-Isioting strikers looted and burn
ed East Youngstown o.
Jan. 49, One man killed and five shot
In strike riot at East Chicago, Ind.
Feb 5.-General strike OF switchmen on
ashNrailroad
March 6.-Wage increases Of 100000
annually granted In soft-coal fields.
April a. Striking employees Of West
ingh0nse Co. riotcd in East Pittsburgh.
led by mask ed woman.
MAY 2.-Fatal strike riots al Carnegie
Steel Works in BrdddOck. Pa.
May 9.-Chicago Garment Workers start
ed big strike.
May l6.-Chicago express drivers went
on strike
voted Overwhelmingly for a strike.
Aug 6.-Strlke stopped all surface car
-lraihc in bofougEs Of Manhattan. the
Bronx and Richmond New York.
Aug. 7-New York street car strike
Avg l2.-FederaI boards mediation iB
thfca tened railway strike failed.
Aug fi-President Wilson conferred
with rail heads and union men.
Aug; O. v,lk,ailins 70 avert rail- strike.
tbree Kills w mebfs tf5,tion ~ T'7
Sept l.-House PASSED eight hour rail-
road bill to avert strike
Sept 2-Senate passed eight hour bill.
surface railway men in New York.
Sept. % 2-General sympathy strike OF
union labor called in New York.
Sept 2S,-General strike in New York
Nov. al. w W men from Seattle
fought sherins posse at Everett. Wash;
Killed.
Nov 2l.-United States Steel corpora
tinn announced 10 per cent raise of wages.
Nov. 22.-Adamson S-hour law held un-
constitutional by federal Judge In Kansas
CITY
Nov 23.-New England cotton mills
raised wages Of employees.
Nov 9-Internatonal Harvester COM
pany and many other concerns announces
! large wage Increases.
Nov. 30.-Chicago Wholesalers associa-
tinn raised wages
Dec 13.-New York garment workers on
strike
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-01-12
DOMESTIC

Jan. 1.-Prohihition In effect in Iowa,
Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Idaho.
Arkansas and South Carolina.
Jan 9.-Sx New Haven road former
directors acquitted of violating Sherman
law; Jury disagreed as to five.
Feb 9.--Most Rev George W. Munde-
lein installed archbishop OF Chicago.
May i3-lmmense preparedness parade
In New York
May 27.-i'oriy thousand in Boston PFC
baredness parade
Elected president General Federation tf
Womah's ciubs.
June S.-Imfhense preparedness par'$
in Chicago.
= June l. Rockefeller education q rd
gave S7S9.9S0 to colleges.
Sept. 27.-New York Chicago expresn {
Michigan Central held up and robbed IL.
Detroit.
Nov TO- Rockefeller boards appropriat.
ed S2,0O0000 for great medical and surgi-
cal institution In Chicago
Nov. 15 80 Wireless service between u. 3.
and Japan opened
Nov 19.-Ruth Law broke American non
stop alrplaue record. Chicago to Hornell,
NJ
Dec l. 7-Freight embargo put on ship
ments from middle west to Atlantic sea-
board
Dec &c. American Association for the
Advahcetnent of Science met IN New
York
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-01-12

dor io Austria. .
ter general in New York. t,. -
or IN middle West athletics, at Chicago.
Sept l6.-Horace White. famous Journal
'ss; sent o i7.wwseth Low. in New York.
Sept ls.-Mai. Gen. Albert Z. Mills. q.
S. A., at Washington
Sept 10.-William j. Calhoun. noted law.
yer and diplomat, at Chicago.
Bept. 27.-Rear. Admiral c. e. vreeland.
oct. 40. s. Senator james p. Clarke
of Arkansas at Little Rock
Oct 2-E. s. Lacey. former comptroller
nf the currency, at Chicago
Mrs. Havelock Ellis. noted lecturer on
'Bctn. i3-ot6. insane former king Of
's5yf''Ii5 oet 'Ii5-Rev. francis Brown, president
Union Theological seminary. at New York
Oct. 1S.-Eben Eugene ReNford, poet aud
Normal Duncan. author, at Tredonia,
oct 25.-wiliiam M. Chase, noted paint
oct 2S."Prof. Cleveland Abbe, ;"father
Of weather bureau" at Washington.
oct. Si.-"Pastor" RUSSELL noted inde-
Nicholas p. Young. former president Ma
tional Baseball league, at Washington.
Nov 5-Cardiual Della Volpe at Rome
Nov. 12.-Dr Percival Lowell. famous
astronomer, at Flagstaff, Ariz.
aNOV. l4.-BrlB. Gen -. - hiHsiuan' y.
NOV is.-Rt Rev. Charles Edward Che
fey. senior bishop Of Reformed Episcopal
church at Chicago.
Molly Elliott Seawell, author. at Wash
ington.
Nov. 18.-F NJ Lyman, president of the
quorum of apostles of Mormon church.
Nov 81 Franz Josef, emperor of Aus
tra- Hungary
Or. Eugene Louis Doyen. noted French
Nov 22-Jack London, author. at Santa
Rosa, Cal
Nov. 24.-sir Hiram Maxim. noted inven.
tor, In London
Nov 2s-Etrs. Inez Milholand Boisse-
vain, noted suffragist, al Los Angeles
Nov. =. -Emile Vethueren. Belgian poet.
Dec. 9.-Sir Francesco Tosti, composer,
! bee. 5.-John D. Archbold president OF
Standard OIL Co, at Tarrytown, N. Y.
/ George c. Boldt. leading hotel man. III
/ New York.
Herbert D Peirce former minister to
Norway. at Portland, Me.
Dec 6.-IIans Richter. noted Wagnerlan
conductor.
! Dec iO-Fied Marshal Prince Iwao
. Oyama at Tokyo
( Dee iS-J W. Comyns Carr English
! critic and dramatist.
Dec. 15-W. c. Nixon, president st.
| Louis and San Francisco railroad.
Dec 16.-Hugo Munsterberg. professor
J Of psychology at Harvard
Dec 17.-Clara Ward, Princess Chimay,
IN PaduH, Italy.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-01-12

June 20-GeneraI Funston called for at
least 500o0 troops for border service
Y. s. sharply refused to withdraw troops
from Mexico.
june a.--Detachment OF American cav
airy attacked by Carranza troops at Car
rizal. II being killed. Mexican losses In
cluded Gen. Felix Gomez.
June 23-H0use granted use OF state
militia as federal soldiers.
Secretary Baker ordered all militia TO
border as quickly as possible.
June %.-Pfesideht Wilson demanded
that Mexico release captured troopers.
June Standardization rejected plan
for mediation with Mexico
Senate passed bill for drafting militia
June g-rwetty-three troopers taken at
Carrlzal released by Mexico. e,.
Pershing's column began retiring north
wards
July 6.-War department called out reg
ular army reserves to fill new regiments.
July i3.-President Wilson raised en-
barge on food for Mexico.
July 2S.-U. s. accepted Carranza's plan
for Joint commission.
Aug 12.-War department ordered $1,000
more state troops to border.
Aug. 22.-Secretary Lane, Judge George
Gray and DR.. j. II. Mott named as MeXi-
can settlement commission.
Aug. 30.-President ordered n,000 troops
back from Mexican border.
Sept. 6.-American and Mexican commits
soners began sessions at New London.
Nov, A-Amerlcan-NfeNican commission
| signed protocol for withdrawal OF Ameri-
| can troops and patrol Of border-
Nov 2S.-Yilla captured chihuahua City.
Dec. 2.-Villa driven from Chihuahua
City by Carranza forces.
Dec 6.-Parral recaptured by Carranza
| forces
Dec 12-Carranza- troop train blown up
by Villistas: 200 killed or injured.