Evening star., 1923-08-01

II is getting late for sea serpent
stories. Like the sere and yellow leai'
they are fading. Better thrills are
takinx their place. just as gooseeeF=
ries follow Strawberries.
There is a man with a gun. ne
went duck hunting and 2hTed- ohe
shot. which shot was heard rouho
tho solar universe, for 1t breusht
down 500 ducks. Not, a duckl1ns VIII
over he discounted-full 500 or moth
ing.
The gun has been retrieved as
well as the ducks. 1t is nine iee'
long snd has a bore Of an inch ana
half AS this story goes thundering
down the ages, there will be many
bores connected with it, but the origl-
nal one is as specified. t.
That gun is now located IN the
Warrington post office and is ready
te bore through any man or woman
who blames Postmaster Mooney when
thew fail to receive their expected let
Now let the revolution of civhiSa-
ton proceed, for the American LIE,
gion and Boy Scouts viii be armed
with guns just like this, and every
six shots will kill a regimeht-ooo AT
shot-one shot enough "heh the
enemy is. in goose step.
United States mail history, for m d
few days the first air-maii postage
stamps will be printed. They VIII oe
of Scent. 16-cent and 24-cent denomiT
nations, and each denomination WIZ
hear a special design indicating the
air-seryice-the wings of an aviator,
the picture of an airplane ana pic
ture of a propeller.
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II NAV surprise many readers to
know that adhesive postage stamps
are only eighty-three years oio-
only seventy-eight years in America.
They are novelties compared WITH
flying machines. -
The Wright brothers made their
first successful gliders from Wnicn
ali modern flying machines developed1
in 1908. but they were not the first of
flying machine inventors ihey niaue
Aviation practicable, which Is all the
difference In the world from theore-
tical work, so this is not said In any
tone of disparagement or their great
achievement. The first flight OF a
heavier -than-afr machine was made
in CT A. D., but even the Wright bro
theirs flight was only three years
later than the first adhesive stamp IN
America. And now stamp ana nignt
are going into partnership. Mos1 OF
us now living can remember the first
81 OF iry1a
can also remember the first adhesive
postage stamps.
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The first stamps for postage were
authorized in France in 1853. but they
were used as wrappers. Envelopes
had not been invented.
The use of adhesive stamps In
America-fve years later than in
EnTland--was introduced by individ-
ual postmasters at their own expense,
lin 1s45, and two years later the
eoyernment teek up the invention
and assumed a monopoly for it. All
stamps are engraved and printed at
the bureau of engraving and print
ing, Washington.
Senator Rroakhart, speaking at a
trade and labor picnic, told the labor
interests that the farm bloc, the
labor bloc, the soldiers bloc (sic)
and the mothers bloc" (sie) will
all unite to consider their own in
terests collectively, and each from
his own standpoint" He appealed
especially to the farmers and the
Iaber members. and added, IF these
two great elements OF the sommon mon
Hair soldier members and mother
members, can unite upon common
program, and every dictate of COM
mon sense demands that they shall
dc Sc" then the great state of
unrest" will be righted.
The most cemprehensive of Mr..
Brook kha rt's ID fasses" Of "blces' is the
"usothsrs' b .s If all mothers will