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The Prescott daily news., 1920-01-19
ASK PA ASKITT;; FOR HE KNOWS
Just For An Instance, He Tells Little Tommy All About the Death of the Mighty Roman, Julius Caesar.

"Ma, who was Julius Caesar asked Tommy Askitt.
 'Oh, Julius. As far as know, Thom- as-of course, I'm not nearly as learn ed as your father-but l am very sure Julius Caesar was brother or uncle to Nero-maybe his son. Anyway, as they both ruled over Rome. they must have been some relation. Julius was a great fighter. He.-"
 Dead wrong, Mrs. Askitt," inter- rupted pa, who had been quietly read ing before, but couldn't let chance pass without lording his superior knowledge over his wife and son, since home was the only place he could get away with 1t.
 'Yes, you're dead wrong. Why didn't you ask me. Thomas? You come to me hereafter, when you want to know anything difficult and particular. Your mother says that Julius was a relation of Nero's. Why, Julius never saw Nero and"
 "But couldn't he be relation with out seeing him? never saw grand father, but I'm a."
 "No, he couldn't" snapped pa. Fur thermore, Julius was not great fight CT. He was woman-crazy, that's w.-a he was.
 Julius was a-er-a - Roman senator until he IL : all good men do'' (there he glanced mean ingly at ma) "a woman on whom he showers jewels, gold, silver, eau de cologne, rocks, blows-everything And then she treats him like dog in the end. They're all alike, and poor Julie, although senator, was no different from the rest.
 "One day his good friend Brutus whispered, 'Jule, beware of Ida Marchl' (That was the woman's name.) But Julie didn't pay any at- tention to Brutus' warning and that night they both went to Ida's house. They had some dumplings; he fell over in a fit. Brutus jumped over to him and just heard his last words: 'Et two, Bruter and then he expired.
 "Tm glad I didn't eat any," said Brutus.
 "But pa. what did Julius call him a brute for?" asked Tommy.
 ''I don't know, Thomas. He died be- fore he could explain. ."-Detroit Free Press.
 MUSEUM GETS GIANT BANDA
The Prescott daily news., 1920-01-19
Japanese shrewdness,


 An interesting illustration of Jap anese shrewdness, which a Connecti- cut Yankee might envy, was given in a deal in copper. The war caused an extraordinary demand for this metal. and sent the price soaring. The coin still in common circulation in China is the copper "cash," about the size of an English penny, and so small in value that gold dollar will buy anywhere from 1900 to 2.OO0 of them, according to the rate of exchange. In my trav- els in the interior of China had to have an extra donkey to carry the cash needed for my party. The cop per cash in the province of Shantung alone would weigh nearly 50,0O0 tons. To buy these cash of the Chinese and sell them to the Europeans, who need ed the copper for shells, would yield a handsome profit. The Japanese proceeded to do it. The Manchuria Daily News reported that in a single year the purchases amounted to 25,600 tons and that the transaction was com pleted at a profit of 2.167,0 900 yen (S1,- OS3, ,5O0). .--Asia Magazine.
The Prescott daily news., 1920-01-19
Team Brings Only $2o.

Cottonwood Falls, Kan.-The big slump in live stock prices during the past few months is being strongly re- flected in public sales which have been held by farmers of this part of the state. At nearly all sales held re- gently all kinds of live stock have brought surprisingly low prices, with horses probably the lowest. William Duckett, a farmer living southwest of here. sold team for only $20 at his sale a few days ago. Last spring he had paid $40 for one of the horses. At another sale near this city recently farmer sold horse for $25 after re fusing $95 for the same animal few days before.
The Prescott daily news., 1920-01-19

or walk to where We worked arose one morning rather late and rushed off half cooked to work. On the way noticed that every one around me was smiling, some actually laughing. Im- agine my chagrin when in the busiest street, at Trafalgar square, to have a major touch me on the shoulder and call my attention to the fact that I had neglected to put on my leather leg gngs, which left about two inches of white sock and two inches of equally white underclothes between the shoes and trouser legs.
 Believe me, it did not take me long to climb in taxi and get back to my lodging house.-Exchange
The Prescott daily news., 1920-01-19
SOAP BUBBLES
 INTACT A YEAR
Scientific Society Gives Informa- ton on Sir tanner Wewar's Test.-AIways Mystery to the Scientists.

philadelphia, Pa.-Facts about the
 prodlgious strength of soap bubbles,
 nroyed by experiments in which bub-
 bles were kept intact for more than
 year and subjected to all sorts of
 weight strains, were made public here sor the first time by the Franklin h. st,tute. one of the oldest scientific so- cieties in the United States.
 important to Chemists.
 Gaming on the heels of the an- nouncement of Einstein's discoveries
 of the gravitational bending of light.
 the exploitation of the soap bubble is m the other end of the scale as to
 size, yet, according to scientists, is
 of tremendous importance to chemists, physicists and research workers in the strength of materials and essential ele
 ments. The man who made the expert. ment is universally recognized as one of the leading scientists in the world. He is Sir James Dewar, LL. D., D. Sc, FIR. S., Fullerian Professor of Chem
 istry, Royal Institution of Great
 Britain, and an honorary member of the Franklin Institute.
 The soap bubble is simple thing, vet it has always been more or less a mystery to scientists. They consider 1t perhaps the best phenomenon exist ing for the study of the habits and idiosyncrasies of the molecule. Scientists now claim, on the strength of the experiment made by Sir James Dewar, that when soap bubble becomes very old, say in three or four days, it offers the only pos sible example of the mOlecule visible to the naked eye. Most parts of the bubble are estimated to consist of about one hundred layers of molecules But by various methods of treatment the bubble is induced to perform "stunts" until in black spots which appear It represents only a single lay CT of molecules.
 Remarkable Strength. This layer is so thin that Sir James estimates it would take one and one third million like it, superimposed, to make an inch. Yet, when the soap bub- ble is permitted to mature in air that has been freed of its natural enemies, it is so strong that it will support drops of water many times its own weight before breaking. Sometimes a bubble is torn from it's supporting ring by the weight before the molecules re- lease their bulldog grip.
The Prescott daily news., 1920-01-19
.an Wills $65, ,O0O to
 Girl He Robbed of $2

Osage, Ia.-A strange legacy has just come to an Iowa girl, who has received fortune of S65.000 from a stranger who robbed her of $2 in 1912 by en- tering the home of her uncle, where she was visiting. When a man, evidently a tramp, jerked open the door of her uncle's home. she made haste to hand over the $2, which the man took and then left the house.
 Recently the young woman was notified of a bequest of $65,- 900 left her by tramp, John Brunsvik, who died year ago in Minnesota.
The Prescott daily news., 1920-01-19
Says "shimmy" Is old Dance.

says Snimny is Stu panCe.
 The shimmy is 400 years old, this modern" dance having been done back in the sixteenth century, says Prof. Louis Kretlow of Chicago, who has taught dancing for 0S years. He says many other of the modern dances haven't really changed since the monk. Thoinot Arbeau, wrote a book about them in 1888. They were the same and the positions of the dancers iden- tical with those of the present day. Arbeau knew the shimmy, but called it "The Death Dance"
 Professor Kretlow. who was born in 1S45, was teaching the latest steps when Milwaukee was trading post. It was mostly the reel and the jig at that time, and in the most exciting sets the gentleman touched only his partners finger tips. It, was. the day of the pantalette and hoopskirt.
The Prescott daily news., 1920-01-19
MUSEUM GETS GIANT BANDA
Only Specimen in This Country Sent to New York by Missionary
 From China.

New York.-There has just been placed on exhibition on the second floor of the American Museum of Natural History in New York what is believed to be the only specimen of the giant banda ever brought to this country.
 It was obtained by missionary in western China.
 The banda is an animal found in the Himalayan mountains. intermediary between bear and a raccoon.
The Prescott daily news., 1920-01-19

The new map, by showing all lands m their true proportion and form. he declares. would help materially in sowing peacefully problems dealing With the world as 2 whole
The Prescott daily news., 1920-01-19
FLU MICROBES ON SCHEDULE
Germs Recur Every Thirty Three Weeks, According to London
 Investigators.

London. England.-Inf1uenza mi crobes have regular schedule by which they recur in cycles of 33 weeks, according to the medical research com mittee. The next call Is expected in January and February, 1t is said.
The Prescott daily news., 1920-01-19
The Case Stated.

'sThe young heiress is taking course of domestic science. And yet with all her money she doesn't have to be good breadmaker."
 "No, she doesn't have to, but she kneads to be-"
The Prescott daily news., 1920-01-19
Made London l-aush.

was working in American head quarters in London in March, 1919. As we were Quartered on the opposite side of the city, we had quite 2 little ride
The Prescott daily news., 1920-01-19
His Way.

T notice your aviator friend never stays long at one place when he goes to pay calls"
 "No; naturally he makes only flying visits
The Prescott daily news., 1920-01-19
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 Empty Titles.

"What's in name?" said the ready quotationist.
 "Nothin' whatever" replied Uncle 'Biii Bottletop, If you go by sucn names as 'highbalI and 'rickey,' as they are now printed on prohibition wine cards. Washington Star.
The Prescott daily news., 1920-01-19

FOR SALE-A house and lot. Mrs T. G. Moody lSml
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-08-24

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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-08-24

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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-08-24

1t has never built high grade OF
tire for the large car and then cheabe"ed
ii for the small ca;
Anof it's unlimited facilities-greater
and more widespread than those or
any other rubber manufacturer-have
been devoted from the beginning to
building tires of standard and uniform
quality,
The same gunLiiv in the 30 X 3H
inch size az in the largest size tire it
builds
Nnd nofhinr less.
US. BOX 81 inch tires come in four
trcads-Nobby, Chain, Usco and Plain
"a tread for every road.
They are built by experienced work.
men inafactorydevoted erclusiUelytothe
manufacture of small size clincher tires.
A factory which has produced more
tires every year for the last three years
and still is unable to produce them
fast enough.
The good tire dea1cr-the man who
treats all car o0emers alike-never even
suggests that you be satisfied with any,
thing less than Il. S. Tire quality.
He encourages and aids his GUS
TONERS in their search for the BEST
Until you have met him, you will
never know what it is to get the utmost
economy out of your car.
Tires
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w e. uAnTNEI3 AUTO HUrrLY co WHEELING TIRE Woleh6
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-08-24

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-28
|HARBoR WORKERS. STRIKE
THREATENED IN NEW YORK
Unions Claim II, 900 Men Will Be
Made Idle Unless Ten-Hour e.
Day Demands Are Granted.

NEW YORK, December 2S.-Oficers
of the New York Towboat Exchange
and Harbor Workers Union leaders
today predicted a harbor strike affect
ing several thousand men on January
/. unless some unforeseen agreement
can be reached to avert it.
Union leaders awaited official
action by the exchange on last nights
decision by the Harbor Boatmen's
Union and the Masters. Mates and
Pilots Association rejecting the 1921
working agreement submitted by the
employers, some Of whom intimated
the unions demands would be re-
iected.
The unions which have rejected the
agreement claim a membership of
about 5000, and 1t was said a strike
by them would throw 5000 other
workers out of employment
The chief disagreement Ia over
working hours. The workers demand
a straight ten-hour day. and the en-
ployers offer q sixty-hour week, re-
gardless of lengths of shifts. The
men claim this Is the boat owners
method of working them extra long
shifts and then laying them off, thus
avoiding payment for overtime.
The engineers, who work on the
same boats have signed the 1921
agreement
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-28
[DANGERT0cENTRAL.
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I BY 0VERCROWD|NG.
Principal Maurer Tells Alumni
Association High School
Faces Disaster.

Central High School. one Of Amer
| ica's largest and best equipped public
educational institutions. is facing i'm
| minent disaster, due directly to over
| crowded conditions, in the opinion of
Principal Robert A. Maarer Point
frg QUE at a reunion Of the alumni
association last night that the school
has no additional accommodations for
new students, MI. Maurer appealed to
the members and school authorities
present to stop any further influx and
save the institution from a prospec.
tive calamity.
Has No Available Room.
The principal cited the facilities of
the school and compared them with
the present enrolment, which is far
greater than can be properly accom-
modated. 1T is d physical impossible
ity," he declared, ito make room for
a few more"
The school is full with $500 stu
dents.'' he said. THE maximum ca
pacity is $500. In February. the en-
rollment probably viii reach 1850
students. There is no relief in sight
as the other senior institutions are
full. Even the completion of new
Eastern High School will not help us
at all, because l doubt If We get TWEEN
ty-fve students from the section of
the city where it is located. l don't
know what will happen in September
as we expect 300 or 5000 students
by that time
Thus Mr.. Maurer pictured future
conditions at his school, and stated
that the time has come to stop the
enrolment of additional students
you as alumni" he said, Ought to
say Enough Some time soon some
| body has got to say Enough
Alumni Activities Outlined.
Various activities of the alumni as
ISOLATION during the past year were
outlined by George w. Hodgkins.
president of the alumni association.
He stated that the athletic undertake
ings had been a success, and predict
ed banner year for 1921. The new
endeavors of the organization, he
said, would include the development
of an employment bureau, the forma-
ton of a national alumni association
and the recording, in historical form.
of the life of the school. Dancing
and refreshments completed the pro-
gram.
Mr.. Hodgkins was reelected presi-
dent of the alumni association for
the ensuing year. Other officers Sc
lected are: Miss Ruth H. Bennett,
secretary. and Miss Dorothea +. Sher-
man. treasurer. Twenty-three vice
presidents also were elected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-28

The Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company is named as defend
ant in a suit to recover $4,000 dam
ages died in the District Supreme
Court by Kittie E. Eichelberger. as
administratrix of the estate OF her
husband, Frederick E. Eichelberger.
June 81 last. thu. widow says. an
abandoned wire of the company at
taehed to the kitchen Of her home,
1881 Olive street northeast. came in
contact with live wire and became
charged. Her husband, not aware of
tho charged condition, took hold of
the wire, which had started a fire.
thinking it was dead. He received a
fatal shock, it is stated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-28
WILL ADOPT HARDlNG's
PANAMA CANAL PROGRAM
Congress Preparing to Make Water
way Safe Against Attack From
Air, Sea or Land.

Following suggestions from Presi-
|dent-elect Harding, Congress is prepar-
ing to make the Panama canal impreg=
nable by providing adequately for the
best possible defense for that water
way against attacks from the air, sea
or land. The House committee on ap-
preparations is now drafting a bill
which will supply the needed fortifica-
tions and Seacoast defenses.
1t has been suggested unofiicially to
those members of the House in charge
of appropriations that the canal must
be given the best of modern defenses.
These suggestions were said to have
resulted directly from the recent in
spection of the canals Notifications by
President-elect Harding and his party
Plans to meet these suggestions and
at the same time adhere strictly to the
rules of economy laid down by House
leaders nave been tentatively agreed
to. They involve the sending of neces-
sary ordnance. including the largest
calibered artillery pieces, to the canal
as soon as they are produced. This
ordnance includes those guns which
were authorized in 1918 for coast de-
Tense purposes, the first of which are
to be delivered next spring.
In addition to the canals mainland
defenses. the War Department has
proposed the placing of several Of the
longest range rifles on an island To-
Gated about fifteen miles off the
Pacific entrance. The committee
members are said to have agreed to
this proposal and will authorize the
placement of guns there as soon as
the State Department can conclude
diplomatic negotiations to that end.
The Atlantic entrance under the
present plans will be provided with
an elaborate system of tracks. de-
signed to carry the heaviest railroad
to greater distances than those used
by the most powerful dreadnaughts
afioat.
House members believe that the
canal thus can be made impregnable
by use of material now under con-
struction and with only little addi-
tional expense to the government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-28
AMERICANS IN URUGUAY
FETE SECRETARY COLBY

MoNTEVIDEO, December 2s.-Bain-
Droxo Colby. American Secretary Of
or state who arrived hero today, faced
Quay program OF entertainment. which
VIII continue until Friday night. In
addition to other functions planned in
his honor there has been added a ball
by the American colony, dancing
party BY the Uruguyuan Club and a
banquet by the municipality. Elaborate
police arrangements were made today
to control the hrongs gathered to greet
the Secretary at the dock
Immediately after landing, a series of
formal calls and interviews will begin.
one Of the first acts of the secretary
being to call on President Brum Later
Mr.. Colby will be escorted to his quar-
tera in the Parque Hotel. which over
looks the Atlantic.
Further Greetings Planned.
BUENoS AIRES. December 2s.-1m
mediately after tho arrival Of Secretary
of State Colby in this city on Satur-
day he will be received by Senior Tor
clio, acting minister of foreign affairs.
who will accompany him to the Office
of President Irigoyen. On Sunday Mr..
Colby will DO a guest at an official BAN
Quet at the government house
A popular welcome is being arranged
by various organizations, and a number
Of vessels have been chartered to meet
the Secretary's ship at the entrance to
the harbor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-28

Oysters feed only at about the turn
of high tide, and the habit Of OPEN
ing periodically persists even when
they are out of water.
Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1920-10-29
EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES
BRINGS UP HEALTH MATTERS
City Needs Better Cooperation OF All Citizens
In Preventing Spread of Communicable
Disease
Board of Health Has Never Been An Org
Said Never to Have Held Full Meeting

! enlightenment there has been but lit
of the community in general. Put
nam now has district nurse, a school
nurse and school physician. 1t has
dental hygiene in the schools. These
are all commendable precautionary
measures and are excellent as far as
they go.
The health officer is poorly paid
official. 1t is not expected that for his
small salary he will give full time to
the important position he holds. Ex-
perts who have spoken on the question
have supported the recommendation
made following the "Saye a Baby"
campaign and stated that what Put
nam needs is man adequately COM
pensated to give his full time to mat
tiers concerning health in this city.
Those who have attended meetings
of the common council have heard
stated that the health board has never
met to organize since the first year the
city was incorporated. Except in the
case of possibly one or two members
the board does nothing.
The matter of milk inspection is
also treated lightly. Milk is inspected,
reports read and filed, and that ends
the matter Meat inspection is under
consideration in a half-hearted man
ner and one Of the reasons suggested
why it would not be good preventa-
tive measure was that it would cost
the owner of cattle several dollars to
have an Inspector call at his home to
inspect the cattle he desired to butch
er, or that the expense of q municipal
slaughter house could not be afforded.
There is power under the health
laws to forbid the sale of uninspected
meat in Putnam, and IL can be en-
forced.
While not in the city to criticise,
nor did he criticize. DR.. Osborne
found, what is apparent to many
thinking citizens, that public interest
and public spirit is lacking in the en-
forcement of health laws and prevent
able measures. No one will deny that
health is the first consideration of any
city, yet Putnam is without properly
paid officials to carry on the work
that would prevent such epidemics as
we have had in the past and have at
present.
DR.. Lamarche, school physician, is
going to get extra nurses. In every
case of a child absent from school an
investigation will be made. If alb
sence is due to communicable disease
no child in the family will be allowed
in school until the child is we'll
DIR. Osborn expressed it as his opin-
ion that the epidemic would probably
die out in about a month, and there
probably would be no similar epidem-
ic again for several years.