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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1921-10-28
1t was decided to hold Poultry
show. during the winter months.

A committee also appointed it,
agents to collect information requested
by the joint Agricultural Commission OF
the United States Congress covering
prices secured for farm produce and
prices paid for various articles during
the past seven years.
The committee were much in favor
of "blue sky committee Of the
Farm Bureau consisting Of one or more
members in each township who would
report to the central Office the sale of
any kind Of stock. They will require
the salesman to show letter or card
giving the consent of the Farm Bureau
to the sale Of such stock or securities
in the county. This protection is af-
forded in almost every city and village
in the country through it's commercial.
organization. It was felt that the farm
ers should have the same protection.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1921-08-11

TUB SKIRTS-S Slightly soiled
but cheap. They probably could
not be worn without first being
washed, but you will find them
attractive for the price, each
only --$1.25
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1921-08-11
Final Clearance Sale
Of All Spring and Summer Merchandise
Closes Satur-
day, Aug. 20

the of
fol thereare two or three months no the
o.
no in S needed ~''N
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1921-08-11
This Great Bargain Sale Will Last On
Seven Days--Hurry to This Sale

AUGUST SALE OF SHOES
Netteton low shoes for men. all sizes styles
and colors $3.50
One lot Nettleton low cuts----$5.95
Mems Black Tennis Oxfords rs l-2----95c
100 pairs ladies patent leather pumps
fords and ties French heels-----$1.95
A Munson Army last soft toe. full vsmp
work shoe ------ 81. IS
Many other reductions in the shoe depart
ment.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1921-08-11
NOTICE

Not everything is reduced.
but the items that are strictly
for summer wear. of items
bought for this sale at close
prices, or items on which we
are overstocked. With the
new goods and staple items
restricted. however. you will
find plenty of items that will
make il interesting for you to
visit our store daily
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1921-08-11
DRESSES

A woman needs fresh dress for street wear bus
ness travel by the end of the If you want
to get big values for small money you will find that
this sale offers any number of dresses in the nu
merous attractive fabrics in vogue.
lot priced up to $3.50 now------------$ 23.75
Another lot priced up to S75 NV S29.75
Another lot priced up to $40 So now S19.75
Imported Swiss and Wolfe Dresses values up to $3.50
now only --- S1675
Values up to $3.50 S1I75
Some others for the very low prices of 81 IS and LIS
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1921-08-11

Many, many Specials
over the store, part of
them having been bought
specially for this sale on our
buyers recent market trip.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
HER IDEA OF LuxURlEs
MiddIe-Aeed Negroes Tells Mistress
How She Will Spend 5000 Insurance
Left by Her Husband.

A mlddle-aged negro woman of
Richmond was left some 5000 insur-
ance by her husband, and shortly aft
erward, when asked by the lady for
whom she had cooked for many years
what she intended to do with her
money, declared that she meant to
spend it on luxuries.
"Yo' see. Miss Mary, All done wuck
hard all nah life, an amt had muffin
but DIES needcessities, an Abs gwine
blow in dis money" she explained.
How are you going to spend 1t,
Mandy?"
"Ah is gwine buy me a phoneygraf.
an two silk dresses, an a dimont
ring, an marry Jack Thompson"
Mandy declared happily.
Marry Jack Thompson? Why,
Mandy, he is nothing but worthless
loafer, a dressed-up dude who tries to
be 'sportp"
"Yassum, All knows dat" Mandy
agreed, "but, lack All said, All wants
some luxuries. My ole man was
good niger, but he sho' was sorry to
look at. Now, dis Jack Thompson, he
gwine be jest plumb ornamental, set
tin round de house all day."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
EVER SYMBOLS OF RELIGION
Before the Days Of Christianity
Leaves of the Clover Plant Were
Used as illustrations.

Even In Druidic worship, In pre-
Christian times, the trefoil leaves OF
the clover plant were symbols Of re-
ligion, setting forth the three grades
of Druids, Bards and Neophites. In
Christian mythology it's leaf is fire.
quently held to symbolic the Trinity,
and some Irish authorities insist that
1t is the true and original shamrock
which st. Patrick used to illustrate
how three separate objects, such as
leaves, could be one.
The four-leaf clover is a freak
growth, and the causes that produce
it are heredity and nutrition. After
a moist season clover plants with from
four to seven leaves, and some hav-
ing only two leaves, are found. Some
plants are abnormal by heredity, and
reproduce themselves with the same
characteristics in successive years
when their environment remains tie
same, external influences merely modi-
flying the size of the leaves.
The fourrleaf clover is everywhere
held as an omen of good luck to the
finder, partly on account of Its rarity
and partly because of its crosslike
form. In Germany 1t is believed
fourIeaf clover will overcome witch
cry, win love, guard one from danger
when travelling, and secure a safe re-
turn, and If plucked on st. Johns eve
will enable the finder to work won
ders in magic.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
RIVERS TURNED INTO SEWERS
Streams That Once Were Famous Lon.
don Thoroughfares Now Are Far
Under the Ground.

The river Tyburn, which. along with
the Thames, helped to make Westmin-
ster, in London, an island In Saxon
times, can still be traced from the Mar
BILE arch neighborhood to Westminster
1t originally flowed through Hyde park
and st. James park at time when
these were marshlands. Several feet
below the pavement in Great College
street are the remains Of bridge
which spanned the Tyburn at this spot
just before 1t entered the Thames.
But the most famous of all the bur
led rivers of London is undoubtedly
the Fleet. 1t flowed through Jack
Ketch's warren, where dwelt at times
such notorious characters as Dick Tur-
pin and Jack Sheppard. 1t was a IA
vorite dodge of the highwaymen and
other thieves who infested the district
of Saffron hill and Hatton garden to
drop through q trapdoor to the Stygian
banks of the Fleet, pull plank after
them and so escape capture by the
Bow street runners. The Fleet ditch
ran into the Thames at Blackfriars,
and small craft used to put into 1t
with merchandise.
In the middle of the city was the
Wellbrooke, and on the east side the
Langbourne, and in the western
suburbs the pleasant stream of the
Oldbourne, also deep enough TO accom-
modate good-sized craft. Other Lon
don rivers not yet wholly sewers are
the Rodlng, the Lea, the Ravensbourne
and the Wandle, but the Brixtsn is no
longer visible anywhere.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
The Roman Coliseum.

The Roman coliseum was the largest
and most splendid of the buildings
known in architecture as amphithea-
tiers, which the Romans invented for
exhibiting gladiatorial combats, fights
of wild beasts and other spectacles.
The repetition of arch beyond arch
and story over story gives this amphi-
theater its imposing grandeur. This
principle of reduplication Of parts. of
which the Gothic architects after
wards made so much use, is carried to
a greater extent than In any other Ro-
man building. 1t did not have roof.
The upper story is not arched like the
three lower stories, but solid and with
pilasters. Some architects think it
was meant wholly for the purpose o.
supporting and working the great We
larium or silk awning that covered the
arena during the representation.
which may not have been attempted
when the amphitheater was first erect
ed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
A Psychologists Morning After.

had two days spoiled by psyche
logical experiment with mescal, an in:
toxicant used by some of our south
western Indians in their religious cere-
monies-a sort of cactus bud of which
the United States government had dis
tributed supply TO certain medical
men, including Weir Mitchell, who
sent me some to try. He had himself
been sin fairyland." II gives the most
glorious visions of color-every object
thought of appears in a jeweled splen-
dor unknown to the natural world. II
disturbs the stomach somewhat, but
that, according to w. NJ. was cheap
price. / took one bud three days ago,
was violently sick for twenty-four
hours, and had no other symptom
whatever except that and the katzen-
jammer the following day.-From Let
ter of William James, Atlantic Month
ly,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND
Nothing So Small That the Zephyrs
Shall Not Find 1t and Spread
II Beneficially.

Acres of perfume come on the wind
from the black and white of the beam
field; the frs fill the air by the copse
with perfume. know nothing TO
which the wind has not some happy
use. Is there grain of dust so small
the wind shall not find it out?
Ground in the mill-wheel of the cen
turtles, the iron of the distant noun
tain floats like gossamer, and is drunk
up as dew. . . A thousand miles of
cloud go by from morn till night,
passing overhead without a sound;
the immense packs, mile square, sue
coed to each other, side by side, laid
parallel, book shape, coming up from
the horizon and widening as they APP
proach. From morn till night the
silent footballs of the ponderous va
pors travel overhead, no sound, no
creaking of the wheels and rafting of
the chains; It is calm at the earth,
but the wind lab9rs without an effort
above, with such ease, with such
power. Gray smoke hangs on the hill
side where the couch-heaps are piled.
a cumulus of smoke; the wind comes,
and 1t draws its length along like the
genii from the earthen pot; there
leaps up red flame shaking its head;
it shines In the bright sunlight; you
can see 1t across the valley.-Richard
Jefferies.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
DESERVES PLACE IN HISTORY
cecrops, IIlustrious Egyptian, Made
Country an. Asylum for the In
nocent and Prosecuted.

With the dawn of Attic civilization
in ancient Greece, Cecrops, an Egyp-
tian, built town on the site where
later the citadel of Athens rose in
magnificence. He introduced morals
and judicial regulations, and the coun-
try under his rule became an asylum
for the innocent and prosecuted. From
that time on festivals, compacts and
laws extended their beneficial infiu-
ence. About 100 years alder him the
Phoenician Cadmas brought the use
of letters into Boeotia; and at Thebes,
in the same country, he erected cita-
del. The greatest lyric poet and the
greatest general of the Greeks were
Boeotians, but nevertheless this peo-
pie was accused of stupidity. While
their value was not appreciated, their
discoveries were brought to perfection
by others and more usefully applied. Z
1t is remarkable that Cadmus,
the father of learning, who taught
us to hand down our thoughts to fu-
turity. came into Greece just at time
when Joshua, the leader of the
Jews, drove the Phoenecian tribes to-
ward the sea and compelled them to
seek refuge in distant colonies. This
act of despised people, scarcely
known to Greek historians, was the
occasional cause of all the intellectual
and moral excellence which has arisen
through the influence of literature.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
JEWELS USED IN WATCHES
Hard Substance Is Needed to With
stand the Constant Friction Which
Wears Away Moving Parts.

The principal reason for the deteri-
grafton of any piece Of machinery is
because the constant friction wears
away the moving parts and interferes
with the regularity of the mechanism.
A watch, being a machine In which
absolute uniformity of speed Is essen
tial, it is necessary to reduce this
friction to minimum-either Though
constant oiling, the use of ball bear
ings or some very hard material which
will withstand the wear and tear Of
constant friction. The first two Of
these methods are not feasible in so
small a piece of machinery as
watch, so certain very hard jewels are
placed at various points to counterfeit
the rubbing caused by the moving
parts.
Watches are generally equipped
with Z, IS, II, IS, p or % jew
els, the IS and 17-jewel types being
the most popular. Intrinsically, the
Jewels used in the manufacture of
watches are of little value, but from
the standpoint of service and the spe-
cific purpose which they serve they are
invaluable. The jewels usually used
in matchmaking are the hardest of
the precious stones, diamonds, sap
phiras and rubies, and Of these the
most generally used is the sapphire,
which combines hardness with corl-
paratively reasonable price.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
Magnet Has Many Uses.

A highly important use of a magnet
is that In which ii is sometimes en-
ployed to withdraw small pieces of
iron from such out of the way places
as the human eye. Another use of the
tractiye force of magnetism on a much
larger scale was that to which ii was
put by Edison in his magnetic ore
separator, In which the ore, previously
crushed to fine powder, is dropped
down chute past the poles of pow
erful electro-nagnets, in passing which
the iron particles of the ore are de-
flected to one side, while the nom
magnetic stone dust continues unde-
flected down the chute. Still another
instance of the employment of mag
netism in small way Is that in which
a magnetized tack hammer is used In
the manufacture of strawberry baskets
on a large scale in conjunction with a
mechanical device which presents the
tacks, one at time and head up, to
the operative, thereby greatly facilitat-
ing his work.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
POWER IN RADIUM WATCH
Owner Of Radcliffe Timepiece Is Also
Possessor of Vast Power
Plant.

The possessor of a radcliffe watch
or one having a radiur1 dial by which
the time can he detected at night, is
also the possessor of vast power
plant of no mean proportions, accord
ling TO a writer in the Electrical Ex-
peTimenter There is sufficient radium
on your watch to haul your train
home If 1T could be properly applied.
says this author.
AS the matter stands. the innocent
looking radium dial does not seem to
possess any extraordinary amount Of
concentrated energy, but this is only
apparently the case, and not actually
so, for the reason that while the
amount of activity manifested by the
radium paint on the dial is small, this
effect will keep up for $500 years,
provided the zinc sulphide, with which
the radium is mixed so as to produce
a glow, holds out that long. The zinc
sulphide in most cases gives out in
about eight to ten years.
Now, if we could but find a way to
make the radlum release all its energy
In few hours, instead of spreading ii
over $500 years, it would not be diff
cult to make motor that would util-
lie this energy.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
Seeing Through Others Eyes.

We all have our natural tendency to-
ward bias Of one sort or another.
When we see through others eyes we
also add their bias to our own. There
is possibility that one bias will coun-
teract the other. If so II Is well. II
is also possible that one bias will add
very greatly to another. Then what an
unfair verdict you must render. Poor
judgment is sure to follow and shame
will lay at your door before you dream
1t possible. Yet most of us are to more
or less extent guilty of the habit. It's
so easy to take our start from where
others leave Off. We are compromised
to the extent that we lean on their
judgments. 1t isn't fair and often
leads to sorrow.
Don't make too much fun of the
other fellows glasses. He may be bad
ly biased, but then you have no means
Of knowing how you look in his eyes.
We are all more or less Influenced by
our heredity and environment. So the
wise thing is to get all the facts pos
sible before we pass judgment.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
EARLY DAYS OF THE CIRCUS
Methods by Which Rivals Fought
Each Other Were Not Always
Fair as Might Have Been.

In what we refer to as the "opposi-
ton days." says Mr.. John Ringing in
the American Magazine, circus life
was full of thrills. 1t was real war
fare against powerful enemies, fight
for existence on our part. When we
had begun to grow and had established
our policy of honesty and clean shows,
the big fellows fought US hard.
One Of their favorite tricks was to
slip into our parade a wagon with
large signs announcing that we were
nice little show, but that the big show
slant fight to prevent the wagon from
getting into our parade. Once Charles
Ringing quietly announced that he
would give five-dOllar gold piece for
each nut from it; and when 1t started
to join our parade 1t fell to pieces like
the "one-hoss shay" On another oc-
casion some of our men sawed its
timbers, so that at the first heavy
jolt 1t collapsed in a heap. Another
time, the opposition hid the objection
able wagon out in the country; but
Charles learned which road it would
take and fixed bucket Of green paint
with hose and force pump under
bridge. When it started to cross the
bridge, our men pumped and squirted
paint until all the lettering was oblit-
Grated.
Such unfair fighting never profited
the opposition to any great extent.
Indeed. II aroused sentiment In our
favor. 1t is question in my mind
now whether it would not have been
better policy to permit the wagon to
parade with us and to rely upon the
sense of fair play Of the American
public, but 1t was hard to see 1t In
that light when we were fighting for
existence.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
UNIQUE Moccasins.

Braves Of the Passamaquoddy In
dams at the Pleasant Point (Me) res
eryation do thriving business among
summer visitors by the sale of moe
casins made from the feet of seals.
Seals are prolific in Passamaquoddy
bay. The Indians kill many of them
each year. The hides are tanned and
used for various purposes and the feet
are worked up into footwear both for
their own use and for commerce. The
fact that there is always a claw, or
nail, left for each of the five toes
makes these articles of footwear
unique and gives them an appeal to the
tourists who visit the reservation.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
Wisdom In Loading Up Work.

Because other folks do not organize
their work they get tired and quit. Or
1t may be they lose their nerve be-
cause they do not see the way out You
have come into your powers so grad
ually that 1t seems second nature to
you. Accordingly you hustle along
with keen satisfaction while the other
fellow worries or even gives up.
There's nothing like loading up when
you do 1t wisely. Besides adding to
your own strength you are doing some
thing that benefits your fellow men.
You profit on two scores. The salts
faction of knowing you are doing your
full share and the praise men will give
when they realize what you are con-
tributing toward the worlds welfare.
The weakllng can gain strength, and
the strong man become a benefactor
when they use their heads in loading
up. Begin today to rise into your
heritage. Load up.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
Aluminium Brass.

Experiments aimed at developing
the resistance of brass to the action
of sea water, with view to its en-
ployment for constructing submarines
in France, have, II is reported, shown
some remarkable results from the ad-
ditlon of aluminium. The internal
structure of the alloy is strikingly
changed by a very small percentage
of aluminium and the color changes
are surprising.
From half of per cent up to 8 per
cent of aluminium gives the brass a
deep golden color. II the quantity of
aluminium is increased beyond per
cent superb rose color results, which
reaches its maximum when the alum
mum amounts TO per cent With 10
per cent Of aluminium the color turns
TO q silvery white.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
The Passion for Haste.

A japanese baron visited the Uni
versity of California, and on leaving
was put aboard partly filed local
car.
At the junction the party transferred
to a much-crowded through car. Jap
anese courtesy weathered the test so
far as manners went, but the baron
could not resist the question: "Why
did we leave the comfortable car for
this one, which is so crowded.
He was told: "Oh, we save two
minutes getting into San Francisco"
"Ah, said he, "and what will we do
with the two minutesT
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
InqersolI Quoted Scripture.

There has been no modern controver-
sialist who, in. the audaclous use of
scripture, could surpass the once cele-
brated Colonel Ingersoll, most influen-
tial of agnostic lecturers in America
In his day. His anti-theological enter
prises did not exhaust his energies;
Ingersoll was powerful champion of
sound currency during the epoch Of
inflated paper money after the Civil
war. In a speech on this exciting sub
ject he once delivered himself TO the
following effect: 81 hope to see the
day when every greenback in the
United States will be able to rise up
on its edge and say I know that my
redeemer nveth!"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
Virtues of Bare Feet,

/ Eve was reputedly barefoot, and
Nausicaa played ball all the better be
cause she went unsh0d.
Helen of Troy at the most wore san
dals, and the sandal is the compromise
between the shoeless and the shod. 1t
is easier to make sandals than to make
boots.
In Ireland and Scotland the children
have run barefoot for many day, and
the wit of the one and the enterprise
of the other show that there is nothing
really demoralizing in going without
shoes ard stockings.-London Chroni-
Gle.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
Measuring Earth,s Circumference.

Erastothenes, who lived between 275
and 1875 b. c., probably was the first
to measure the earth's circumference
and adopted the same method that is
employed at present. He found that
the distance between Syene and Alex
andria was one-fiftieth Of great cir
cle-about seven degrees 10 minutes
and on this basis computed the circum-
ference of the earth to be 100000
stadia. The exact length Of the sta
dium he used is not known and 1t Is
not possible TO compute the degree
of error in his calculations.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
Wasn't Open.

A rather green countryman had just
returned from his first visit to New
York.
swell, ST." said the postmaster,
what did You think of the metropo-
lisT'
swat say?" gawked the other,
stumped by so big word.
81 asked how did you like the me-
tropolis?"
"oh. that-'twan't open." said ST.
Boston Transcript.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
Growing Triumph.

Little Norman and his two play
fellows were Boosting about their
parents and their belongings. my ia
ther," said Norman, SIS going to build
a fine house with steeple on it,"
"That's nothingp exclaimed Willie
scornfully. my father has just built
a house with flagpole on It,"
Conrad, who had been listening in
tently, was silent for a moment, then
burst out triumphantly "Oh, that's
nothingl My father is going to build
a house with a mortgage on it,"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-02-03
A Sllaht Omission.

Bertie-Good heavens What sight
you are!
Reggie--Just as / was leaving the
house to come TO the club my wife,
pelted me with flowers.
But that doesn't account for your
bruised and battered appearance
mo, you see, she forgot to take them
out of the pots Prom the Edinburgh
Scotsman.