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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04
ANCIENT OLD TRADING POST
About Fort Smith There Seems to
Gather All the Romance Of the
ssIIent Piaces.1

OF all the giamorous old trading
posts of the Honorable Hudson Bay
company. there Is none with more OF
the romance OF the silent places about
Il than Fort Smith. perched above the
Rapids OF the Drowned on the Slave
river. writes -NIksah" 10 the Chicago
Daily News. The Slave flows here
from Lake Athabasca to Great Slave
lake. and halfway on its journey. just
where the sixtieth parallel Of north
latitude divides the province OF Al
berta from the Northwest Territory. Il
passes Fort Smith.
The fort Is set high above the trou-
bled waters several hundred feet up
the steep. rocky bank. A fine spot
for defense Il was. 10 the early days.
but now that attacks are over e Is an
lnconvenIent location In spite Of It's
picturesque qualities All day long
you can see those who are In the bib
Heal phrase drawers Of water" toll
Ing up the steep path with yoked buck
cts over their shoulders-Indlan wom-
en- and children. servants Of the COM
pany. carrying every drop that IL
drunk. and whatever may be used for
other purposes II Is no dIscredit to
wash sparingiy In Fort Smith. One
must needs have scant consideration
for the value Of human labor TO do
otherwise.
All about the trading post are scat
tered the tepees Of the Indians. wan
derers Of the great woods. on their an
nual trading expedition. They bring
with them the breath Of the vast woods
country; Its struggle has shaped their
tight-lipped mouths. It's loneliness has
made their steady black eyes inscrut-
able; its mystery has made their laugh
low. quick bitten thing. like q laugh
snatched In the shadow Of terror. All
these things the white woodsmen show
even more strongly, with the quicker
impressionabIlIty Of finer clay. The
northern woods runner Is q man apart.
almost a separate species OF the hu-
man animal. shaped by the relentless
pressure OF an irresistible environ
ment.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04
The Tsetse Fly.

The dreaded ''tsetse iy pronounced
tset-se. accent on frst syllable. whose
vowel has short sound. as 10 set)
Is an African gadfiy. about the size
Of q househy- The symptoms Of its
victim are at FIRST those Of a severe
cold. The eyes. nose and mouth be
gin TO run" the body then sweIls
while emaciation sets I'm. although not
always fatal. The harm done Is found
to be not the result Of poison from the
iy itself. but communication to the
blood Of Its victim Of a microscopic
parasite similar TO that Of Texas fe-
yer which u has received from a dis
eased animal Animals or persons
that recover are usually immune. The
great dread Of this ay formerly enter
tained has proved to be unjustIfed-
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04
DEEDS RATHER THAN WORDS
Accomplishments, Even Though Great,
Lose Much Of Their Merit When
Made Subjects Of Boast.

The habit Of boasting is not q sign
Of merit. II is rather the reverse. A
really brave man allows his deeds to
speak for him, and they always will
u they are great and strong enough.
remarks the Ohio State Journal. These
are great days for boasting, for there
. Is much to be proud of. We are proud
Of our country, of our sacrifices. Of
our prvatiOns, Of our SORROWS, but
they are apt to lose their merit by our
baSing about them. The testimony
of worthy deed IL not expressed In
words but In a quiet and noble life.
We heard a man tell Of q heroic deed
n which he was the hero. but one
wouldn't know 1t from what he said,
and yet somehow in his very tone and
his praise for others one could easily
see whose was the honor Of IL. There
Is one phase Of Boosting which Is very
dlstssteful, and that is the sort which
makes ourselves the greatest people
on earth. OF course we are, but we
don't know II from what the boosters
say. We only know it by bearing of
the acts Of our heroes, who are apt
not to mention II at all. We learn Of
our own nobility by feeling It In our
hearts and not by reading 1t In the
newspapers or hearing the orators
tel II.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04
Evil in Small IaIk-

there's enough small talk with its
VICIOUS insinuations I'm every idle
house. UNI"
"hat men say causes other men 10
nG What men think determines
s al conduct Given the suggestion
al you are crazy the chances are
-. you will either resent q strenu-
-! on negin to act a little queer.
-UU 'hen one Of your profesSed friends
a. come along and confide 10 you
- yOu are acting a little queer. IFS
AOnoer some folks 60 daily. Little
, = without foundation keep stirring
~ - tnlnss that even the angels could
- -. .eer straight. So the only rem
IN 10 apply the censor. Let folks
TAKE out the good and LET the
90 where II belongs.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04
SPEECH THAT MADE" RILEY
incident In Early Life % Beloved In
diana Poet That 10 Well Worth
Recalling.

After many disappoIntments 10 for
tune. James WhItcOmb Riley was en-
ployed. at a few dollars a week. as
writer on the indianapolis Journal.
Shortly after, Lie Halford. who was
afterward private secretary TO Presi-
dent Harrison. came to the paper as
managing editor. he decided to cus
down expenses and began by dlscharg-
ing Riley as his first victim. The blow
was a hard one for Riley, and he was
discouraged and about ready to give
up In despair. But q couple Of days
later there was a political convention
10 the city and one OF the men nomi-
mated was a big fellow who had never
made a speech In his life. He was
called on to speak, and. shifting from
one foot to the other In perfect agony
for a moment. he blurted out: "Gen-
tlemen. l thank you for this nominal
hon- ] can't make a speech. but 7
can tell you one thing: The ticket
you've nominated today Is gOIn' TO
win when the frost Is on the punkIn'
and the folders In the shock
That speech took the house By
storm and II was evident that the del
egates and the spectators had read
this poem Of RiIey's which had aD-
peared In the paper just a few days
before. The circumstance brought the
papev back to Riley's rescue. and his
frst hook. THE Old SwimmIn' Hole
and Leven More Poems" was pub
lished and made a great hit. The orig.
Inal copy Of this book recently sold
for 25OO
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04
EXPLAINING FALL or JERICHO
Scientists Have shown How Happen
ing at Which Many Have seoffed
Was Quite Possible.

Many have refused to believe the
biblical suggestion that the walls of
Jericho fell down before the Israelites
as a result Of the sound caused by
their shouts and the horns blown by
the seven priests.
Modern researches and discoveries
10 regard to sound phenomena. how
ever, show that such biblical miracles
could be reconciled with natural law.
Vibration Of sound Is a thing the
possibilities of which we do not yet
understand. II Is said that one of the
great tenor singers can break a wine
glass by singing into its keynote.
The sub-bass Of the pipe organ Is
known to rack pews to pieces with its
sympathetic note.
The authentic story is told Of an
old fiddler who, angered by the work.
men constructing the first suspension
bridge at Niagara. threatened to fiddle
II down OF course he was laughed
1T. but. seating himself near the
bridge he began to experiment with
his bass string.
When he found the note that suited
him he sawed away on that note. The
cables responded and soon the bridge
was swaying In an alarming fashion.
II he had not been stopped he might
have fulfilled his threat. In any case
care was afterward exercised to pre-
vent a particle Of vibration In the
bridge.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04
Food Producers.

The pig and not the OK. 70 appears.
Is the most efficient food producer.
though all animals show q large loss
In transforming vegetable products
Into meat. GOuin and AndOuard
stated to the French Academy Of Agri-
culture that the pig returns as pork
about 25 per cent OF It's food. while
the OK eats at least eight pounds of
vegetables to make one pound OF meat,
and with other domestic beasts the
loss Is about So per cent. The hen
may yield IS per cent Of It's corn as
eggs. and the mich COW does a little
better with a return OF milk equal to
20 per cent Of Its tood.-Newark
News.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04
auI. for vsA.. writers.

Free verse, says a critic. Is only q
new way Of printing rhythmic prose.
such as that found In the Bible and In
the serious writings Of Thomas Brown
and Robert Bacon. And as for print
Ing II In verse form. William Blake
produced verse whose effect to the eye
Is much the same as that Of the most
modern "vers llbrist." In some mod
ern cases, however, Il looks very much
as II the poet were experimenting with
the advice Of voltaire. who said
to Helvetius: do you wish an In
fallible rule for verse? Here q Is:
See II your thought. rs you have writ
ten Il In verse. Is beautiful In prose
also"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04
In the Land Of Aneien. History.

Amman. mentioned In the Bible as
Rabbah. the capital of AmmOn. was
taken by David after Uriah had fallen
In the siege. II has q station on the
Hedjaz railway. The ruins OF the old
city are three miles from the line. In
q dreary valley. imposing 10 their des-
olatIon and grandeur.
There Is q citadel Of hinge. unce-
mented stones, q theater OF about 200
B. C.. capable Of seating 1000 spec
tatOrs. which Is still one OF the most
striking antiquities In Syria, a street
Of columns OF which a few still re-
main. and public baths.
The river. remarkably full Of little
fish. is banked in by ancient masonry
and its bed was once completely
paved.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04

The golden temple. one Of the most
famous Of Japanese shrInes. In sur
rounded by garden which has been
growing for centuries. So artistieaIly
has bis work been done thar the aFti-
does Of the gardener are not very
pronounced. with the noticeable ex-
eeption Of the great old pine tree,
which grows In court surrounded
90 three sides By monastery build
ing&
II Is trained 10 the shape Of . junk.
bull mast and sail being reproduced.
For centuries the patient priests hare
bent. pruned- PRED lied ana propped
up the limbs and twigs Of THE sr.s.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04
BEFORE THE AGE OF STEAM


1T was q bill village on the stage
road midway between - and -.
stage roads In the year 1870 varied
with the seasons from bad to worse. In
the spring they were rivers Of mud
through which the faded horses
dragged the coach YEARLY: In the
summer the passengers were choked
with dust. and 10 the autumn. by rea-
son OF the ruts and holes IN the road.
they we're tossed about Ike 6ice In a
box In winter the roads were blocked
With snow. but the stage. when there
was q stage. always came into our
village with q clatter of gaIlopIng
horses and sounding horn. its round
body. swung on leather straps. It's gal
liant driver. Its four smoking horses
and Its merry horns were followed By
shouting boys. who swung from the
straps OF the boot or fell on In O
cloud Of dust. The stage driver was
q parsonage In every village that de-
pended on bis arrival for the daily
mail and the latest news from the out
side world. He was gazed upon with
awe by the children as a sort Of hero
OF romance. who never worked. but
drove galloping horses back and forth
through a perpetual holiday. He was
an expert with the relns whose repu-
tation was counties wide. AZ he
whiried up to the tavern porch. the
leaders Of his team. which. u was
whispered, had been sold to the stage
company BY the farmers because Of
their vicious tricks. walked around to
the stable with dropping heads and
into their familiar stalls as soon a.
their traces were unlocked. as limo
cent-looking as II they had never
kicked a farmers boy or picked up q
groom by the collar."-wIllIam Henry
Shelton In Century.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04
Ls~mskine Bodies.

Any legislative or lawmaking body
may be called q congress or pariia-
ment but different countries have diff
ferent names. France has a NATIONAL
assembly. with two houses called sen
are and chamber Of deputies Bel
GUM has senate and chamber OF rep
resenfafives: Spain has cortes. with
two houses. senate and congress: Den
mark has q riesdag with upper house
called landthing and lower house folk
thing; Italy q parliament with senate
and Gamers n deputsti. or chamber
Of deputies: Sweden q diet. with irst
chamber and second chamber. Ell the
south American republics. being nod
eled On the government Of the United
States. have Q congress composed o.
two bodies. senate and chamber Of
deputisA
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04
AZ /, Guess

An Instructor In workshop arithme-
dc. etc. to wouid-be air mechanics &C Q
large camp IN England writes to say
that the lack Of knowledge Of the most
elementary arithmetic displayed BY
some Of his charges Is astounding.
As typical instance. be relates that
he had no little trouble In convincing
one young man that there were 100
hundredfhs On IN Inch. He nexf asked
his pupil how many thousandths be
reckoned there would he In an inch.
After gazing long and earnestly at his
ruler. the youfh answered:
-Blimcyi There must be millions Of
emf
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04
ERONe IDEA OF GREATNESS
Ma Means Always Achieved ~
P-nos. Who Have Made Q Big
Noise In the World.

n. make bold to say that there II q
.o,sI mIsconception In the minds OF
eonIe throughout the world as 70
rhst really constitutes q great life
rI,,ess A man or a woman has been
,he nubIIc view with whatever serv-
!. vas rendered, unless his or her
r,.+urs has been In newspapers and
Iooks unless, In short. they have
80 a noise" we do not consider
.s., the lives they led were great lives.
This is not only a harmful miscon-
5..rtion: II Is a mistake and Its conse-
Luspces are. from q moral point Of
Few. extremely vicious.
Suppose you are walking IN the fields
m the forests and you come across
orange kind Of bug or insect. You
10 curious to know what II Is. Well.
Fan can secure q book In almost any
Dnblic library that will tell you just
me, you want to know. That book
res written and compiled by some
n,u who did nothing his whole life
0ns but study bugs. cataloguIng them.
,rpIng their tribe and origin and the
A,SIts of their existence.
other men have spent their lives In
ouslly humble capacities. but adding
lvsys to the worlds sum Of knowl-
are. The drug that soothes your pain.
IAe seectacles by which you renew
Our WORKOUT eyes. the fire you cook
rith and that warns you-these and
millions other Of your blessings and
5elIehts were wormed out Of natures
,ecret storehouses for you by patient
rudents whose names you do not
know.
These are the great lives. These are
the lives that have blessed the lives
81 all who followed after them. And
he men and women who led such
hives we're great people though they
went down to their graves unhonored
and uDSung.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04
Every Little HELPS.

Italy makes excellent use Of her
waste paper. II Is made into 9 cheap
and portable fuel for the soldiers.
Boys and girls go about the cities
collecting all the discarded newspapers
they can find. These are brought TO
establishments where the sheets are
converted by machinery into little
tight rolls about an inch 10 diameter
and two inches long. which are packed
into small bags and dispatched TO the
army.
This compressed paper fuel Is most
convenient whenever an individual SOL
der wishes to warm MP a mugfuI Of
soup or coffee.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04

Cheerfulness Is hard work when &c
has TO soak IN from the outside. A
person may be surrounded by Innum-
cradle blessings and yet wear q
gloomy face. and keep sulien heart.
for e takes a long time for these ex-
ternal benefits to litter through to the
springs OF lIfe and change the bitter
waters to sweet, Cheerfulness. 60 be
easy and natural and Spontaneous.
must start inside. Unborn good cheer
win transform all our surroundings
much more readily than our external
blessings can transform our outlook
on life
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04
halfway po,n.

n lived next door to Betty.
Ocr,.s ~o were constantly togerher.
6r~s ona''y their mothers thoughi u
o. y keep them apart for a while.
T.,t oaE Betty came in and said:
On Justine can't come over.
! 60 over thereT-
syn 20, todsy.- her mother said.
,,a -, men. We Win sit on the fence
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04
pIdn4 Look lt

-whaf would you say asked the
fair theosophIst. II should tell you
that was born In Egypt three thou
sand years agor"
-why." said the man addressed. =
should say you don't look it-s-Boston
Evening Transcript
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04
Teo Dangerous

Here's q story about q sfri VINO
swallowed . diamond ring
she was . veFy foolish girl A
dismond ring h too rich for any5ody's
dieestioa-.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-04
Valuable eema

DO ycu think 9 person ought 10
PM ail bis eggs IN one baskefr
Yes. And then lock the basket NJ
In q cafe deposit boz
The Washington times., 1919-04-10
Suppose the Men Wounded at
Bunker Hill Were in Our
City Today
BY EARL GOODWIN.

Let ndorse the plea Of our neighbor and friend
Evening Star to give every consideration to the wound
led soldiers The particular instance in mind is the sight
iof wounded standing In street cars holding ssps
when they should be given seats
have officer of the army arise and give his
seat to wounded marine heard of marine officers sa
lutng wounded Whether heard correctly or not
that is the spirit that should permeate this country with
us against the German machine guns.
If miracle would occur and we could have on our
streets today the wounded from the fight at Bunker
Hill, would we make THEM stand in street earsi Would
we spurn the crippled at Gettysburgi I guess not
But are this very day in Washington sighting the lads
who fought at Chateau They and in the battles Of the
Argonne Forest-the worst fighting of all time.
We should honor ALL fighting men, and should honor
the wounded fighters than ALL But seems we have
the wrong perspective We mark as sacred ground the
spot where Prescott told the Massachusetts, farmers to wait
until they could the whites of the redcoas eyes, We
erect almost forest of monuments at great battes and
spend millions the homes for old soldiers men who
fought in day long gone. =
All of this is right and proper but dishonor our
selves when fail to give the wounded men of the war
that is NOT YET OVER OFFICIALLY the rihing courtesy
of a street car seat.
Now let's get together. don't know whether have
offended in this respect not am sure it was not in
tentonaly, but I'll make promise to the world right now
NEVER to let a wounded soldier stand if have a seat
to offer him, and YOU do the same and let's form club
Some give good for the club and we II put
it that in all the world Washington D. c. viii be
known the city where the American soldier is an hon
ored hero, first, last and all the time.
The Washington times., 1919-04-10
What Is the Cheapest Labor in
the World?

What Is the cheapest labor in the world? Not the
G3besmans who carries pack in Africa, the coolie
WHO Shoves sampan on the Chinese rivers No. but the
Wffe'S and mothers in the home.
No man who earns $40 week and gives his wife $15
of It but thinks he is model husband supporting her and
Tie family And then descends upon her the municipal
government which insists that she get her children to
school clean and If possible neat the welfare workers,
who tell her how she must keep her premises sanitary and
hsr chldren's food noushng and varied the landlord
the shopkeepers and her old himself who thinks he
has right little bit of comfort and relaxation at home
She is fool She may not be formally educated but
Ss is fool IneGency goes under In the struggle she
has go through She knows all about the eighth day.
Sc works two of them in every tWentyfoU hours She
knows al about the theory Of recreation from change Of
Tps of work. she has half dozen types Of work all steady
jObS She knows all about fatigue points too from
S2nt practical experience.
Why does she so seldom strike? Partly because of the
human tendency to stay in rut habit, what William
James called the great fywheel of society," Partly from
pride; most of would rather go to smash than be pted
BY our neighborS Partly from the persistence Of that
traitor to senteres the maternal instinct she goes on
year after year. racng her body with hard labor and
her brain with worry every often facing suffering and
even death to give another life to the world recognizing
the gmness Of her lot but accepting often with hardly
even complaint.
Surely she ought to have paragraph to herself in
the constitution Of the League of Nations For if
the rights of any sort of labor under any sort Of cond
tOns, deserve to be recognized, surely hers do.
The Washington times., 1919-04-10
What's Doing; Where; When

High School, in auditorium OF school to-
nlght' tomorrow, and Saturday. .. N.
Aeeting-Washington Branch Of the So
ciety OF American Bacteriologists. Rt
Health Department. District Building. 8
p m.
T0m0rrOW.
Free lecture-By Lieut. Col Lewis n.
BreretOn, commander OF Twelfth Aero
Squadron at Chateau Thierry, at George
washington University chapel exercises.
zO23 @ street northwest, 1875 D. m. Pub
lie is invited.
Debate-Pubiic ownership OF railroads
George Washington University vs. Lafav-
cite College, assembly hall OF Y NJ G. A..
lT35 g street northwest. s:t5 D. m. Public
Is invited.
Address-''What u the Race Going 70
Do About IT." b. Plsnyoao Gbs Wolo, af
Liberia, at John Wesley A. NJ. =. Zion
Church, Fourteenth and Coreoran Streets
northwest, p. m.
MeetiuE-Anaeostiansl interested IN gard
ening, at 81, TheFssa's Hall, p. N.
Meeting-West Virginia Society AZ
Thomson School. Twelfth and l. streets
northwest, 2 .. m.
MeetinE-BrightWOod Citizens Associa-
tton, BrightWOod school, D. m.
Meeting-Enlery Alumni Association %
Mesting-Brookland Citizens AssoetA
tiSn, a. Masonic Temple, Twelfth and hoa
roe streets unrtheaHt, . D. m.