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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
BELGIANS PROUD OF CITIES
In Their centers Of Industry They See
Embodied the Glorious History
of the Past.

No man shall say we love our land
less than a Frenchman loves France,
less than a Belgian loves his native
land We have our holy cities. Win
chester and Canterbury, and a hundred
more whose old names are dear to
speak. Yet ! believe. writes Lon
dOner" in the London Evening News,
that the Belgian has a patriotism Of
the city. of the town. which we never
had.
The story Of that love for the city
is all the history of Belgium. The his
tory of the freedom and the wealth
and the ancient arts of Belgium is
In the history of Antwerp and Bruges.
Of Brussels and Client. and LOuvain
and Ypres. II begins with the build
ing Of the town wall. with the market
that grows up behind the shelter of
walls and armed g;res. with the rails
ing Of the tall belfry. the towns pride,
and the hanging of the bells.
II You we're tourist who could see
the glory IL old Flanders and Brabant,
yOu would look not at the cathedral or
the church. although Belgium has
many noble old churches. but at the
town hall and the belfry. The like Of
them is not in any other country.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
Mark T~ain,s Toast to -sabies.-

Responding to the toast Of Babies"
at the memorial Chicago banquet in
honor Of General Grant in 1873. Mark
Twain concluded with a sentence that
set the gathering in an uprOar. In his
inimitable drawing voice he said:
I'm his cradle. somewhere under the
flag. the future illustriOus commander
in-chief of the American armies is so
little burdened with his approaching
grandeurs and responsibilities as to
be giving his whole strategic mind. at
this moment, to trying 10 find some
way to get his own big toe into his
mouth. an achievement which (mean-
ing no disrespect) the illustrious guest
Of this evening also turned his atten-
ton to some fifty-six years ago. And
II the child is but the father Of the
man there are mighty few who will
doubt that he succeeded
At that conclusion the audience
broke into cheers and roarS Of laugh
ter in which even the reserved Grant
Joined.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
THIS CAT EXPERT ANGLER
English Writer Tells Of Feline That
Catches Fine Trout without
Bait or Line.

Cats have a passion for fish and
VIII hover about a room plaintively
mewing long after the piscine sub
stance has gone and only the smell
Is left; built Is not generally known
that they are expert anglers says q
writer In the Family Journal CLon-
don). A Hampshire sportsman whose
garden bordered on a well-stocked
stream stated that his cat takes more
trout out of IL than he does. All fish
love 20 bask IN the sun and. taking
advantage Of this on fine summer
days. Mr.. Tom lies in ambush, con-
cealed In the reedy grass bordering
some bright pebbly shallow. He needs
neither rod nor line: unlimited pa
thence is his whole stock in trade. Not
a move does he make, his quivering
tail merely rustling the slender bents
a. IL stirred with the gentlest south
ern breeze. Presently there Is
splash and a founder. and a fine. fat
trout. bursting with condition, comes
Tapping up to the shallow for its
morning sun bath. For an instant
only Il lies there contentedIy gasping
In the soft, warm air, but In that in
slant the four-fOoted angler has
made his spring and fastened his
claws firmly in the fish's shimmering
back.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
Influence of Good Books.

When you find child who loves
good books. the nOxiOus weeds of
envy. hatred, jealousy and malice are
not So likely to grow in his mind and
choke out the exquisite blossoms of
love. tenderness. unselfishness. graft
tude and the desire To do unto Others
as he would be done by. The love of
good books Is one foundation for good
character. observes a writer I'm the
Oklahoman. IL is the exception. not
the rule, TO encounter sOrdidneSS, greed
or insensibiliIy in the man or woman
who knows and loves good books. Rob
ert Louis Stevenson once said that 50
long as a man had a friend he had
something TO live for. Is IL nor true
30 long as one can love good and
beautiful book that life never viii he
without hope? a
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
WAS ONCE WASTE LAND"
Present Site Of Great Bank in New
York City So Described in
Kings Grant.

In the Office of George F. Baker, In
the First National bank Of New York
city, there hangs on the wall the origi-
nal patent from James ii. king of Eng
land. dated February 4, 1855. for. the
land on which the First National bank
now stands. therein designated as
waste land outside the city gate OF
New York. II was issued to one Thorn
as DOugan, late governor and now
ADMIRAL of New York"
There is attached a small sketch OF
the property, showing Wall street with
its fence, and the city gate, through
which leads Broad way"
When one considers that this waste
land now represents one Of the most
valuable spots in the world one real
lies what changes a little more than
two centuries have wrought in New
York city.
What would Thomas DOugan have
said IL he had been told that on this
waste land" would one day stand a
banking institution returning its stock
holders over so per cent a yearT
Wall Street Journal.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
A Sad World.

j am cursed with good manners ]
cannot grab for food cannot take
the choice morsel of a dish. instinc-
lively choose the most uncomfortable
seat. / make way for others at the
ticket Office. I let everyone push ahead
of me to secure the remaining seats
Of a subway coach. suffer when
forced to take pronered seat. I do
not interfere with the conversation Of
shopgiris behind the counter. wait.
I accept invitations from persons" de
sirOus OF showing or their homes or
their cash In restaurants. / listen pa
tiently TO platitudes of the young. OF
TO the discoveries Of Oscar Wilde and
Bernard Shaw. / agree that men are
vainer than women. smile upon an
moving children admire the costum-
ing Of all the women / know. Unless
historical. never inquire of my love
where he has been. whittier going. or
whom he has seen give everyone
the preference OF liberty I lose op
portunities.-G. We're Taylor I'm Judge
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
Chinese Lanterns.

Particularly gay and attractive are
the shops OF the lantern vendors in the
Chinese cities. All varieties of Ian
terms are 10 be seen-the large silken
ones three and four feet high. gor.
geously painted with variegated cOlOrs.
embroidered in gold and silver or dec
GRATED with deep fringe Of the same
material. costing from 500 to 500 and
used by the wealthy mandarins and
others: and common small horn and
paper lanterns. used by the coolies,
which cost one-sixteenth Of a dollar.
The mode of making horn lanterns is
very ingenious; the horns are cut into
remarkably, thin slices which, by means
Of heat and pressure. are joined to
gether and formed into various shapes
round. square. hexagOn. octagon. and
some shaped to resemble an hour glass
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
BIRD IS WORTH PRESERVING
Writer oepieres the Threatened Ex-
tinetion Of the Beautiful and
UsefuI Upland PIover.

The upland ployer. one Of the most
beneficial birds of all the winged host
that once abounded In North America.
has beea hunted and shot TO the verge
of determination, says Dumb Animals.
With the passing OF the passenger
pigeons. which even now~>so many
friends Of all birds find It hard TO be
lieye and Of Which a great many are
not convinced. the plovers were marked
for wholesale destruction. They were
candidates for oblivion along with
more than a score of other useful and
beautiful species that could be iii
spared from our vast and valuable IA
tive fauna.
There is ray OF hope that these
birds may not be pursued to complete
humiliation. The federal law for the
protection Of migratory birds makes it
possible for the plover species to re-
habilitate itself. provided the closed
season be fixed to continue throughout
the year. The upland plover is a mil
gratory bird and an insectivorous bird
Its food consists of 81 per cent of ami
NAL forms which are chiefly the worst
enemies to agriculture. The federal
law fixes a closed season on-migra-
tory insectivOrous birds TO continue
throughout the year with the exception
OF the bobolink or ricebird, but under
the law the plover is classed as n mi
gratory game bird and 50 its fate is
precarious. These birds should not be
shot.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
'Trompe.


The old French word troupe"
meant a pipe or tuba, and the term
trompe was applied TO the apparatus
by which the blast is produced in the
Catalan forge. Ii is a simple. effec-
tive and ingenious Continuance for
producing a continuous and equable
blast, but its use is restricted TO To-
calities where a fall of water from
height of several yards can be OBJ
tanned. The principle Is that water
can be made TO fall through a pipe
in such a way that IL will draw in
through side openings a considerable
amount of air. which by a simple and
ingenious arrangement can be utilized
as a constant current or blast, and
which has The merit Of costing almost
nothing. IL has been utilized to a lin
tied extent elsewhere than in the de-
partment of Ariege. i'm the South of
France. where IL was formerly very
generally employed. Iron has been
made in that district for more than
600 years, but the use Of the trompe
blast was not introduced until the end
OF the seventeenth century.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
SHOOTING into Space.

he question of whether 1t would
ee be possible 10 shoot a projectile
I'M space. that is to say entirely OF
ne erth, has long been the subject
Of dsnssion. In a detailed scientific
Paper On the German lCngranged gun
which bombarded Paris last spring.
Major J. Maitland-AddiSon. writing In
the Journal Of the Royal Artillery,
Eys the requisite velocity of such a
gun Is not so very much higher than
What has already been achieved; viz
nuzzie velocity of a mile per second.
When We are ablest to increase this 10
I'VE miles per second, the projectile.
L fired at suitable angle. will travel
around the earth as a grazing satellite.
Completing its orbit between L. and Is
uneS daily With a velocity of about
seven miles a second. it will move off
Mo space. never 10 return.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
PET PEEvES OF PREACHERS
Men Of the Cloth Have Their Treu-
bies. just As Have Their Lower
Placed Brethren.

I have met a number of types In my
ministerial meanderingS Let me
quote you few:
Those hard-headed gentlemen who
call upon me to display my backbone"
by giving them my active support in
their pet quarrels.
The backsliding member who fears
lest l be not religious-minded enough
for his people.
The loud and in-Istent prOpagandist
who thinks l am insincere because l
do not shout our common beliefs from
every street corner.
The man who never attends serT-
ice, who wonders IL my sermons are
up to the mark.
The person who sees me only during
meals. and who therefore assumes that
1 have nothing TO do but eat.
The fastidiOus critic but slOvenly
dresser who objects to the shape OF
my shoe and the length of my coat.
Those who believe they have the
right to give me orders, on the ground
that they supply some OF the money
that pays my salary.
The mothers who think IL undigni-
fed Of me TO seat myself near girls
other than their own daughters.
The near-fiatterer who thinks my
sermons gOOd-and wonders where l
got them.-IndianapOlis Star.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
Rare Books Price

Collectors Of rare books and manu-
scripts were very much interested in
the announcement that a first edition
OF Shakespeare's works. published in
1922. was sold at auction in London a
few. weeks ago for LEO pounds ster-
ling. The volume is said To be in ex-
eellent condition. though the binding is
considerably worn
This costly book has increased in
price by bounds. At the beginning Of
the eighteenth century the volume was
bought for five pounds from a book
dealer. In 1900 IL was valued at fifty
pounds. and in the year 1890 24O
pounds was paid for IT. This was
record price until 1899. when its value
again increased. The indications are
that with the years the price Of 1,15e
pounds will again be- advanced, as the
value of the volume will be more and
more enhanced as time passes
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
NEVER DEIGN TO EXPLAIN
Japanese Have a Peculiar Philosophy
Which Westerners Find u Rather
Hard to Understand.

A Philadelphia lady. now resident in
Japan. has written to a friend in her
home city a letter which the Public
Ledger reprOduces in part, because it
Is so fine in its reading from within
Of the japanese nation and nature"
Mrs Nitobe says:
II am hoping that the light may
soon dawn upon the uniformed mind
Of America in reference TO the true
thought Of Japan.
1T is part of the Samurai training
not to explain II you are wrong.
show that you acknowledge your err
TOR by changing your conduct No
amount Of explanation can set the
wrong right II you are right and your
accuser is mistaken, time will make
manifest the justice of your cause
This is the underlying thought of this
particular teaching. II is, I believe.
often carried too far-certainly, it may
prove misleading TO an impatient west.
erner. and I do not hesitate to say that
I have at times resented the situation
IL has created.
ION the other hand. II Is impossible
to bare ones soul to the unsympathet-
ic or curiOusly minded.
every man or woman Of fine feel
ing knows thar. and the japanese ara
singulariy sensitive to a sympathetic
or an unsympathetie. coarse or an
understanding probing"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
AUTO HAD LOST ITS SOUL
Mysterious Happening With Which, Of
Course. the Owner Could Have
Had Nothing 20 Do.

This road burner was betting on a
sure thing. IF my car viii make 81
miles an hour" said an indignant own
er Of q fivver, who was hailed into
court for fracturing the speed law,
~TIl make this policeman a present Of
it." And the magistrate took the
speeder at his word by ordering the
COP to take joy ride. But bear in
mind were the parting words Of the
magistrate. that If your automobile
is capable of that speed you autOmati-
czlIy admit that the officer Is right
sbOut the speed you were making, and
you will not only lose your car, but
VII pay a S25 fine besides" You're
en- judge" said the automobiles, at
'Fhich the court pounded the gavel.
lut the cop didn't win the auto. Half
q hour later he was back with his
dsOner ~YOur honor" said the po=
Eman, that car, in its present con-
GOn. wouldn't go mile in a month.
Ee went over TO the garage to get II
nd II pulled. sneezed, whistled and
vent one block under protest. Me-
6snically, about everything is miss
ne but the windshield Somebody
must have kicked the soul out Of II
Ence saw it. The car has been tam
pered with and there is no mistake
ibOut It." The owner of the fiivver
vas fined So and made a brief speech.
N which he allowed that justice had
fed from the earth.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
When Did Civil War End,

Ask anybody the date Of the Civil
wars end The answer viii invariably
be: april. 1865" But, in a literal
sense. that answer Is all wrong.
The supreme court declared that the
Civil war came TO an end Sat the pc
Rod designated in the proclamation Of
the PRESIDENT the United States"
That proclamation was dated April
2, 1866 Thus the Civil war came &c
a formal conclusion on that date. not
In April Of 1885.
up to and before that date" (ApriE
2. 1850. says Secretary Of State Bay
ards decision. --the insurrecfion IA
those Cthe CONFIDENTLY states WIS heIt
to exist. After that date Il was held
to be nj an end"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
Hidden Beauties.

The hidden beauties of standard au-
norS break upon the mind by sur
pnse. Il is like discovering the hid
aen spring in an old jewel You take
% the book in an idle moment. as you
nay have done a thousand times be-
lofe perhaps wondering as you turn
e'er the leaves what the world finds
Il to admire; when suddenly as You
.ad Your fingers press closely upon
y covers. your frame thrills. and
Passage you have lighted on chains
DIX spell. 1t is so viyidly true
beautiful. MfitOn's ~C0muS-
S-hed upon me in this Way. p.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
kino Johns Bath.

As to the washing habits of royalty
In former times. there is one thing. at
least. TO be remembered 10 King
Johns credit. His accounts show that
that constantly travelling king nearly
always had a bath at his resting
places during his Journeys.
His water man" could generally
reckon upon getting the bath fee Of
fivepenee. For TO our early king, as
to the. modern sOjOurners in most no
tells, a bath was officially accounted
as an extra to be paid for as such
The royal water man obtained his
special fee every time his majesty de
manded a bath-except upon the three
great church festivals = Loadon
Chronicle. =
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
ORIGIN OF CHRISTMAS CARD
u 10 said to Have Sprung From
school Pieces Of Middle Of
Aineteenth Century.

The Christmas card is the legitimate
descendant OF the school pieces" or
christmas pieces" which were popu-
lar from the beginning to the middle
OF the nineteenth century. These were
sheets Of writing paper. sometimes sur
rounded with those hldeous and elab-
crate pen fiourishes forming birds,
scrolls, etc, 50 unnaturaIly dear to the
hearts OF writing masters, and some
times beaded with copper plate engrav-
ings, plain or colOred. These were
used by schoolboys at the approach OF
the holidays for carefully written let
tiers exploiting the progress they had
made In composition and chirography.
Charity boys were large purchasers d
these pieces, says one writer. and at
Christmas time used TO take them
around their parish to show and at the
same time Solicit trifie.
The Christmas care proper had its
tentative origin in 1854. Joseph Cum
dall. London artist. claims to have
issued the first in that year. II was
printed In photography. eOlored by hand
and was of the usual size Of a lady's
card.
Not until 1862. however, did the Gus
tom obtain any foOthold. Then expert
ments were made with cards Of the
size Of an ordinary carte de yiste, in
scribed simply "A Merry Christmas"
and "A Happy New Year" After that
came to be added robins and holly
branches, embossed figures and land
scupeS
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
The piston.

The piston is In the form Of q
solid iron rod that enters the cylinder
through a hole pierced In the middle
Of one Of tine ends writes Henri
Fabre, @and Just large enough to give
free passage TO the rod. without let
ding the steam escape This rod Il
bound TO another iron piece. called D
crank, and finally the crank Is attached
20 the neIghboring wheel The
piston, advancing and retreating in
t1rn In the cylinder. pushes the crank
forward and back, and the crank thus
makes the great wheel turn On thu
other slde Of the locomotive. the sams
things are taking place By means Of ,
second cylinder. Then the two great
wheels turn ut the sane time and the
locomotive moves forward"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
OPPOSED OIL PIPE LINES
Transfers Defeated Proposition
Which Had It's Origin In Brain Of
Herman Jones, Pennsylvania.

IL was an American. Heman Jones
OF Erie. Pa, who first conceived the
idea Of the construction of an oil pipe
line. IL was 10 be of wood four inches
In diameter, but was not executed. A
year later. In 1862, a bill was intro:
duced into the legislature authorizing
pipe line from OIL Greek to Kittan-
Ming. Pa tthe state in which oil was
nrst discovered), but it got no further.
through the opposition Of 1000 team
sterS- In fact, for some years the
teamsters made impossible the sue
cess Of the pipe lines. They were do
Ing very well out of the existing meth
DDS OF transportation, earning SO to
$50 a day, and they viewed with vim
dictive disfavor the loss Of dollars
and weekly revelries. Both in 1863
and in 1865 the teamsters wrought
havoc on the two pipe lines construct
ed In those years. Eventually prog
ress gained the day. and many lines
were laid. including one 102 miles long
In 1870. IL was not, however, till John
ID. Rockefeller and his associates took
the matter in hand. eliminating all the
oid-fashiOned methods Of production
and transportation. that petroleum be-
gan to be the power and profit ii is to-
day. In 1850 the United States pro-
duction of petroleum was 2l.0OOOOO
gallons. In 1917 Ii had risen TO b.
4+O.OOO,OO0 gallons. Gasoline is still
the chief derivative. but fuel oil has
a great future.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
M OF PHONETIC SPELLING
...,o,. Advanced Why II Would Re
Wei II Its Study Should De
Made More General

pbouetics in its hroadest sense II q
~ of the whole range OF sounds.
.ssc,,ste. musical and otherwise. In
:. restricted sense il is confined TO
H-,,culare sounds of human speech.
- in this restricted sense IL is Still
80 enough 10 Include the subject
= the acoustic or mechanical side and
:. anthropological or pathological
sSs II may discuss simply the
s...cb vibrations that cause any par
.r1lsr sensations on the human ears.
:, n may include an investigation OF
a. manner and causes Of the changes
=. srticulate sounds nt "A language
,,a4rgo as II develops. The study
: nhonetics is widely advocated by
,hHologists and by many Of the most
.eoushrful teachers for three reasons (:
n, That persons may speak their
,,o.her tongue correctly through thus
Earning 10 know the proper valuation
=, sounds; (2) that they may learn
spcceSsfully the pronunciation of 9TH
= languages, TO which knowledge Of
their own is the best introduction |;
IN that those who. wish to study
Mythology may have key to that
science. And the sounds of our Ian
mage cannot be successfully studied
ar explained without some use OF pho
petic spelling. Hundreds Of phonetic
,lphabets have been proposed. but the
snly one that has made progress and
lids fair TO become general NATURALLY
with some modificationsJ is that of
tbe Association Internationale Phone
tioue. This alphabet took form be
tween 1885 and 1889 in proposals made
by Paul Edouard Passy. a noted
French phonetician-
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
Good SLOGAN.

An imposing cemetery was opened
in a. young and thriving town In the
Middle West. The mayor. who had
charge Of the laying out Of the
grounds. was puzzled for an -apprO-
pirate inscription To be placed over
the gate Riding along in his car one
day he was cogitating over different
holy texts, which were not entirely
satisfactory; so he explained his DIFF
ncuIty to his chauffeur. an intensely
practical man without hesitation the
chauffeur suggested:
1--WE have come to stay.r-Harper's
Magazine.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
Choice of Voices

Edith-Mr. Boreleigh? On. dearl
III have Ninette tel him I'm out
Aliee-wOn't the still, small voice
reproaeh youg
Edith-Maybe. but I'd much rathei
hear the still. small voice than Mr.
observation-disclosures Evening Tran
script.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25

.'Mr. and Mrs Whittier put on a gresi
many airs since they have returned
from Europe
Yes. they do. but while they wert
away several people mlstook the care
taker and his wife for Mr.. and Mrs
-Brookiyn Citizen
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-01-25
poina Nicely

Tep.-
nov IS she doing in the Officer"
pOing very well. Half the clerks
-. - 70 he willing to do her work fOi
Louisville Courier-JournaL