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AO CHARLOTTE DAILY OBSERVE!?,' FTTiTTARY' 2, 1903. The From Mild (Opyrijht. 1901, by R. F. Hamilton) WhPe the performance of the big mam circus is truly darzling and confusing to the average visitor, an analysis will show It to be a very simple affair. The performance proper oonsiets of four parts, nameiy as rial, .ground, equestrian and hlppo- drome. Everything else is Incidental or adjunctive. The manarvrle.freaka, curiosities, etc make up the remain der of wbat we call "Die show." If one will examine the programme of the circus performan?3 carefully, it will be Been that the latter is ar . ranged so that the ground acts alter nate with, aay, a Jockey act, an aerial act, an equestrian act, another ground art. another aerial act. onJ so on for the entire performance. The per formers are mostly foreigner. Japan furnishing the most of anv particular country. France, Italy anl Germany jrlve tin the most of the athletic artists while England and America produce the equestrians. But th Japanese furnish full three-eighths of the whole entertalnmsnt, ' By Tody . H&inniiltaa back rMers. . Madame Dockrlll, wife of R. H. Dockrlll, himself one of the best high school riders vf his tune, was a famous American rider In 1871. She used to ride Tour bare backed horses abreast, Iut feet rest ing on (he two outside horses in Ro man fashion. She aim ilii the ila xeppvi act, and other thrilling' bare back feats. Her pretty daughter. Rose, was trained In the name act and afterwards became a star rid er. . , Emma Lake,, who died quite recent ly at art advanced age, was another famous American equestrian. She always won salvos of applause as her horse, with noble head high In air, rose almost to a perpendicular on tiln hind, feet at the word of command, while his ski'led mistress retained a firm place In the saddle. Riders at one time weri the chief attraction of the circus, and' were billed as we now bill our "Jeath-defy. 4ng deeds." In ' the )4 "one-ring days the whole performance was practically divided between the rider country crowd.- There used to be elephant anj camel races, but the brutal manner in which it was neces sary to goard and prod- these unfor tunates in order to get them to run at ill was so repulsive to the gentle hearted in the audience that these races toad to be eliminated. The hippodrome has now been a circus feature for a quarter of a century or more, practically unchanged. It is popular with showmen, because cheap and a good filler; Nobody has to be hired for It. The obligation is put Into certain contracts. In writing the? articles It will -be understood that I am now giving a fair Insight Into the realities of Circus life, and am not acting as prts agent. The harmless little press egent stories as to the tremendous outlay in salar ies, nd all that, which may seem to conflict with anything hero set down, may be relegated to the Action de partment. The real cost of running a Dig sn-ow la considerably less than any other business of Ilk- capitaliza tion. When the late James A. Bailey patient waiters, and slipped Aehind the folding doors between that and. ths Inner room, which had been cleared of others for the advent of Gary. Loot retired, leaving the head of the great-, est country in the world and the head of the greatest corporation m the United States to take up th business of stopping the - widespread crash or financial institutions. ' What : conversation took p'ace be tween the two, what wort were ex changed, over the telephone between the White House and th banking structure at Wall and Br.iJ strtets this writer cannot attest. The whole affair consumed only a few minutes. Judge Gary emerged from tit inter view and hurried away "ft hit retmn to New Tork. Almost befo he cross the doorstep of the executle edicts It was known In Will-Street that the steel trust would take over ths Ten nessee Coal and Iron Camnaty, ti at this would save a great ba-ilCn int: tution which was loaded up witi that stock, that thereupon th tJboginin nrrrket would. cease Us nia the bottom of nowhere. When s-in we a.-ked whether this merger r uld not bring ther United States gv:rt;ment down on the hastily, ccelve i ai;.l ex ecuted monopoly, he ticker pipe showed It would not tel'in,i the stoiy with rallying pricos and ths retra tion of confidence. Nobol' wantcj any other explanation; nabdy cared. A friend of Judge ,Ojry, sp ?akin.j --f him the other day, saI.1: "When he gets into aetlon he la a thunderbolt Bmttshing into, the ea. His . work AUTOMOBILE WOULD A motor lamp competition la to be held by the Automobile Club m Milan, Italy. i . . - ' . The Scottish Automobile Club has set June 16th to ltn for Its annual reliability trials. -'.--. t . ""A New York-court has ordered the company operating motor 'busses on Fifth avenue to remove all advertising signs from them. A stethoscope is recommended by a young auto engineer, who also is a physician, to locate a "knock" In an auto beyond a doubt.' One' of the latest suggestions of a route for this year's Qlidden Tour Is from Buffalo, N. Y., to Washington D. C via Pittsburg, Pa; . iSome of London's electric motor busses carry lights backed by reflec tors on their tops so outside pas sengers can read. newspapers--as they ride. A motor Iceboat," propelled by a fourhorserpower motor, which drives an aerial screw, makes a speed of 10 miles an hoar on the (Hudson river. a " AERIAL THRILLE.R3 ALTERNATE WITH 6ROUMDACTS ' The natives of Nippon have never been equalled by those of any other country for trl.-ks of th feet and handH. The Japanese, however, are never found on the programme as enueHtrians, trap-x artist, or clowns. With these parts ellmlni'.led. they muv be sal, to give thn greater part of the performance. Cut the eques trian and trapez acts and th-i Japant-se will be found In a'mot every num ber. A single Japanese trou;' of five or fix number, cowling frn tir0 to 1400 a week, will thus fjrnlMi the most of the eiitertalnmein. A every flrcus-gner knows, the Jnfaneso are especially skillful In every feature of Juggling, balancing by hand1 or feet, manipulation of otJt-cts, wire-Wiiking, etc., which they have carried to such a degree of perfection that their acts are unapproachable y tin people of any other nationality. The first Japanese performer In this country was a small boy who came with the first Japanese embuiwy to 1 he United Kt'iU-s, some forty years ngo. His performance created a perfect furore, of enthuUHm, an I he altravt ej mora attention than tlu' novel em baitey iutelf. IJtl "All );lght " -will be remembered thmgh the enibanxy snd Its important inlsnlon has long been forgotten. The name was acquire I front the circumstance that the svi rdx. "hII right" were the only Kiirflih words the child knew at the V-mc. and ho used to sing them out m his shri'l treble as he finished whet was then ueemed a remarkable feaVIo rHrertir- iriijw! oengni or :ne euaiet.ce. &n pop ular was t.ne little chap trot his ad vent was followed by seviral little "AM Rights" from the ame curious country beyond the Pacifle. until the Japanese performer hen? became an old story. This chief reason for the over whelming preponderance of foreign talent in the American circus lies in the practical exclusion of children from the stage anl ring In the United Stales. So many of thi fintA have laws forbidding the pabll.t appearance of children under sixteen, that thea trical rrtansgers hesitate to produce any play with a J,ild in the cast. As acrobatic feats reoulre etrlv nd se vere training, the AmericMi'is practi eally rut off from this- wny of earn ing a living. in present condilins, when Little Eva, in "L'ncie Tom's Cabl,i," ha be ttm a young woman oil eirough to arry, little -'Alt Right" woul'l U- an impossibility. ir irut only do these laws prevent the training of Ameri can children for the Ue and ring, but they' prevent tbe appearance in this eountry of some of the most fa mous family iroups of Europe. Abroad the show career offers a better means of advancement than the trades, and poor parerrts frfiuenly apprentice their c;hildren to thoe,who train thera for the tUtge or ring.' In this coun try we generously send them to? the cotton rnilU or the mlnesw . The American circus performer has gradually bTfm resirlctel to the eqtierian - a-t: .nl in the act f rWing he, or she. la hot excelled, even by tb English, though rhe latter na tion baa produced eome fin eques trians, haunts ecole and ilcrlng bare- and the clown. When th rider was not riding 'the clown hitd the ring all to himself, evon the band reusing to play until the clown sang or got off his jokes, after which the rider re sumed the performance. All riders In thiwe dayrt wire "champions" In the. rtho w printing. - The r-ress agent Invarlibly wreathud these champions In laurels -wrested from other cham pions, und on tho dead walls their breasts were tidnrned with rich med als of superlative merit. There were such champions as Charles W. Flh, Martini Lowandc, William tfhowlea, William Demott. Robert Ktickney, William Hucrow, Jim Robinson, Jim Mrlvllle, his son, Frank Melville, and many others. Among the clowns of renown In the earlier days were J1tn (Voke. the Shakespearean clown; Johnny Patter son, the Irlh clown; Jo? i'entland, Dan .Rice, Hilly Uurke, etc. Their pay was nearly as high as that of the riders. Clowns nnd rlder.4 wer the only real expensive Attractions of the circus up to the year 1S.70. A year or tw4 later, P. T. Harnum snd hin iiHsH.'lates, W. ('. Coup un.l itun Vw-tell(i, Introduced the hlppj d route, und that feature became a fixture in the circus performance and necessitated the h.4 tent. The hip podrome septi rated the audience so widely from the performers that the old singing and talking clowns soon vanished. 11,1 place whh taken by the silent funmuker of to-day. From being a chief feature th-. clown be rame a mere pHiit mlmist. relegated lt the waitx. The hlppolrome multi- - pHed the rl iers and cheapened them. so they, too. lost Individuality. The diewm-e and multiplicity of features enable the showmen t run tn medi ocre riding acts instead of the tlrst vluss ones formerly necei:.,ry. The sharp rivalry cha racleristlc of the one-ring days waj 1ead. , The hlpivtdrome. which furnisher, a half an hour's entertainment. Is It self relatively the cheapest part of the performance to-dry. When MattJe Oswald wa a hippo drome rider th-' races were hotly con-tested..- do great was this rivalry at times that the maiMgoment had to Interfere not because of the danger ti the contestants but tJr fear they njixht injure the hors-, or other property. Tho rider or.ned their individual necks, and coui'l be replac ed st any time without expense to the sho-r. Nowadays the hippodrorr.e person nel Is m:wle up with the odJ and ends and copt llt'V o- nothing extra. A c own will become a "Roman" rider; his wife will drive a chariot. Half a dozen women, inttif tit them sewing girls In the wardrobe rtepurtment. make up the ladies' flat reres. An equal number o' wtsble grooms will do the crack JVvkev mom.' A few dogs run around the tra?fc once and R t mlled .he "whippet dog race;" half n doxen terror-stricken monkeys re strapped to pony saddles and their frantic fear sends the aj'lience Into convulsions of Isnshter. The" tirly really meritorious fea ture of the hippodrome is that of the fine pimping r.rms lntrivtHced in unxtei ,1 ca Then'rontn the char iot ric-. the cheapest klr.o of affair, but furnishing perhaps rne nvst thri'ling excitement ts the average made his tour of Australia, he had Jim Robinson, the great rider, at 1600 per week, payable In gold. The showman became sick of his bargain and tried to scare Robinson out of It by dwelling on the unhealthfulnessof tho climate. He told Robinson that It was very rbtky, that few people could stand R. Robinson finally "tumbled" to this trick and met it halt way with: "tlay. .Railey, you can pitch your tent in hell unj I'll ride there Just the same for $500 a week." It used o frisks Bailey turn cold to approach Robinson on thu long voy age everv week snd hand the cham pion $500 In gold coin, tho same as if the rider were at work; but Jim Robinson held iitlley to his contract. No rider before or silnea has ever recclve.1 such a salary. . (iAUV'S VISIT TO HO0SEVKLT. Head of tlic KteH Ttiimi Mowsl Mr. Iiicb He Meant HuHliiew. New York Presa. When the recent financial panic was st the height of its fury, former Judge (idry, the real executive head of tlie s.fel trust as the chairman of the mom Important committee ot th. great corporations, aKtonlshed tha se-retary t.i the President by bursting Into hi ptivate office and demanding t s -e th - Cblef Magistrate Immediate, b'lt commanding Loeb. first of all. to get n.i . I'lerpont Morgan on the imp distance telephone. The faithful Lo-b v;as so dumbfounded that for a while he was spewhle.s. He starij at ?he steel man. gasping for breat'i and flushing with excitement. Then hi re covered his dignity and frlgldf.y, be coming again the stern guird'.a-i of tha Inner sanctu'ao'. the unnndtable circuit between the people and their President. "My dear sir," he prote:el, "but you have no engnmeut with the President I shall nl pleased to tr.aV. one for some future date." Oary ex ploded with a deafening roar. "The tottering business and financial world.," he shouted, "has made the appointment -for me, and It has made It for now. this minute!" Ieb tried to soothe him. "If jou will be seat ed." he said. "I will Inquire of the President whether he will be suffici ently disengaged to see you to-day." Judge Gary took a grip on his voice and his paxslon. "Never you mini shout his being dls'engngeJ,'' e said. "First of all you connect his prtvs;e telephone with J. Plerpont Morgan's In New York. Then hold tha nlrs when you go In and tell the President what I say that there Is Just one way to save every bank la the country and the Republican party from extlnctlo-v I'm here to phow It to him, and there la no time Jo lose." , Loeb took another glane at the flashing eye and distended neck Vius cles of the steel monarch, gave hur ried Instructions for the long-dlstane telephone connection, and darted lrtto he withdrawing office of the fhl:.f Magistrate of the nation. In a mo ment he returned snd led Juris Osry along the path to Mr. Roosevelt. V.'itrt precipitation ther paseed fhriirh the outer Cabinet chamber, thr-ir.;p"t wlta done, he leaves no ripple," Loeb can well believe the thunderbolt verslaa The Mystery of Jons Sticks. New York Evening World. In all countries- where Buddhist worship Is celebrated there la a great consumption of "Joss sticks." These ceremonial candles are lighted on oc casions of festivity or mourning, pray er or thanksgiving to divinities, and the like. Joss sticks are at Once can dle's, and Incense, since, like the latter, they burn withoat apparent flame. Their preparation Is shrouded In some mystery and the process Is still prac tically unknown, those who carry It on being chosen from a special class and kept In rlgoroua seclusion. A squared strip of bamboo, of varying length and thickness .according to the size of josi Htick that Is to be made, is skil fully rolled on an Inclined surface, Jn a mixture of odoriferous powders ag glutinated by resin, made viscous by slight elevation of temperature. Onei of tho ends la left as it is, to serve as a handle. In some cases the bam boo is replaced with a flexible - rod, which enables the Joss ntlck to be roil ed In spiral form. The composition of the odorirtrous powjers varies with the country. Those used In Indo f'hlna tome generally from the prov ince of Canton and Include fourteen different drug, among which may be. named camphor, sandalwood, aconite end clove. Aconite plays the part of a preservative and protects the Joa stick against the attacks of rats and nJco : . . . . ' . , The New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club, of Newark, is waging an active campaign to obtain more than 1,000 members by March 1st. For use In he harbor. New York City's police have purchased two 65 iorse-power motorboats, capable of a speed of 13 miles an hour. Of ther orders for 91 Imported cars which were booked at the recent Im porters' Salon, at New York. 55 were for town cars of about 15 'horse-power. -, . 1 Dallas, Tex.. Automobile Club take an active part in looking after th streets and roads of the city and vicln ity. but they assist the local officials In catching speed violators as well To overcome the Deposition of som farmers to the event the promoters of tha Briarclifx trophy race, to be held near New York in April, agreed to buy the milk the farmers would have shipped on tha day of the race - The company which Is seeking the privilege of operating motor 'buses at Washington, D. C, proposes to use electrically driven cars seating 3 passengers, and to run them on six-minute headway jaxet ..Jpecined- routes. - ; The Albany Automobile Club's an nual tour will cover 597 miles this year. ' The start will be made June 20th, and the route will include Greenfield, Mass.; Providence. R. I New Haven and Waterbury, - Conn. ana New York City. Make It a -practice to declutch' at the Instant of Ctosalng a bump In the road, thus relieving the strain upon the car .by checking the driving force and allowing; its niomentum to over come the extra desistance which the obstruction presents. Virtually driven from busmess by the advent of taxlcabs. three New York cabbies drove up to the curb In front of s leading hotel and publicly auctioned off their horses and cabs. declaring they were going to Join a cnaurreurs school.- - Within three years the city of New York has spent 1750,000 for automo biles for its officials and departments. and has on Its pay-roll at least 50 chauffeurs. Don't run your car. to the limit of its power. Any car. one, two, four or six cylinders., will run better and long er If its power Is not taxed to the utmost. Robbed of their business by the In roads of motorcabs, drivers of horse- drawn vehicles at Cleveland, have formed a union to devise plana to avoid starvation. To settle the merits of their respec tive favorite cars Emanuel Cedrino, of (New York, and L. F, Baldwin, of Providence, R. I., have arranged a match race at $1,000 a side, Concrete pavements, reinforced by steel forms so closely constructed that a wheel of any width rests partly on steel and partly on concrete, are being tried out at Paris. British board of trade reports for November, 1907. show that 409 cars were imported into Great Britain, as compared -with 269 In the same month of 1906 and- 852 in 1905. The United States Supreme Court has been asked by tho attorney gen eral to decide whether the owner ol an Imported automobile can be re quired to pay duty on the machine a second time when it has been kept aoroad for a year and extensively re paired . The Insurance companies having announced that they would cancel the policies on. tho building In which it was planned to' hold the Clnclnati probably has prevented a show in that city rthls spring, as there seems to be no outer building available. - Americans taking their cars to Italy are charged duty ranging from 138.60 to 4116.90, according to the weigm of the car, which may be re funded when the tourist leaves the country. Fees running from 115.44 to $28.95 are charged by the officials. For short-distance riding a seatless motor cycles has been brought out In England. The rider's feet rests on plates on each side of tha car wheel, but a few inches from the ground. Thus the centre of gravity Is low and the vibration la materially lessened. Four New York motorists tourlne through rural New Jersey recently were the easy victims of a farmer whose sons purposely allowed a calf to run In front of their car lust in time to be killed. Then he collected $500.. The beast was worth barely $5. The Indiana Supreme Court In a recent decision upheld the provision of the State motor vehicle law re quiring a driver to stop his car when signaled by the driver of a horse. An automobile, surrounded by a papier mache form to represent a full-slxed locomotive, the smoke being produced by over-lubrication, recently took part in a shovv parade at New York. A large St. Louis bank has placed in service) an electric delivery Wagon, fitted with a safe for transporting money between the ' bank and sub Treasury, express offices and other banks. . HEREDITARY POLITICS. New Tork Sun. (eorg Franklin Needham Oldershaw, A keen eyed youth. Without" a flaw. Had reached the'age of twenty-one And was. Intrnth, his fathers son.' He started for the polls to' vote And, as his breast he bravwly smote, lie told his boon companions that He thought he'd be a Democrat. They asked him why. He answered. "Oh. Pa voted so!" Petroehio Frits Oldrrsl.aw, A man who stood for. church and law George's fatner and a man all knew To be an honest soul and true. Proclaimed that every man should vote; It whs the duty ot each should note. The polls h id never found him late; lie always cst his ballot straight A Leinocrat ic one, you know, . Pa voted So!." Nebochadnexsar OldershaW, Without a tooth In cither law, Ptill got around at elality-tliren To vote "for whut bad ousht to be." He, too, had Democratic views And over tlietn would oft enthuse. No wonder that be seemed to feel Po stronsrlv pontics' appeal. For not so many yer ago . Pa voted so!" - 'l ' It seems that politics. nfttbncii Puna tn the blood and sort o' rhymes Th pnai and pnwnt Into one liwvnds front father unto. son. I kimw we lent to left or tigi.r ' As old the rmrent plant: we fight (1n in tne corner, where w f caiisht, Tlie same old Mght our fathers foiiaht. And thooa-h we artiio nrxt debut Of platform and of ritndidnt. Pome fous vote berauiin, you know. Pa voted so!" A London physician 'has designed a landau motor car. the back of which opens and allows a sick person to be lifted out on a movable seat. Which forma part of the car's equipment. Because of Its drastic motoring laws, a boycott of New Jersey by au- toists was recommended by the chair man of the American Automobile As sociation . legislative board In his an nual report. . . . The New York tAutomoblle Trade 'Association will 'hold an open-air car nival during the week of April th, a feature of which will be a parade headed by as many old-time cars as can be found . Three liundred officers with power to arrest and 900. who will rely on' moral suasion for their force,, will guard the course of the Brlarcltff tro phy race. In Westchester county, N. Y., in April, v; " , v , ' In his inaugural address Governor Clulld, of ' Massachusetts, advocated a higher tax upon heavy touring cars than upon light runabouts, contending that they were the more destructive to roads. : . ;., .,' : J ! .' " With a keen eye to becoming a self supporting organization, the Maryland Automobile Club plans to utilize the lower floor of its proposed nVw club house at Baltimore for offices and stores; . j . . . , The difficulty of using gasoline mo tors for pulling cars in coal mines has been obviated, by the invention of a muffler which passes the spent -gases through a llrjuld, nullifying their poisonous qualities, The programme for th carnival of the Savannah Automobile Club dur ing the week of Mrch 15th. in eludes a 200- mile road race over an 18-mlle course, for a $2,000 trophy and several contests. . Thre Important French .motor firms have added dirigible balloon and aero-plane departments to their works and a new com pay has been floated in Paris solely for the construction of machines for air travel. The Automobile Club of Buffalo (Hi. Y.) now has 1.127 members, with 80 applications to be acted upon' at the next meeting. Its officers say they will not be satisfied until they have more than the . Automobile Club of Amer ica, New York City's gTeat organ ization . The Automobile Club of St Louts has adopted a plan to keep, track of all professional chauffeurs in that city by establishing a bureau with which each driver is requested to file Jila record of employment for the past five years, with names of his employes and references. General Thomas, commanding the Department of Colorado, U. S. A., has ordered a military map of South ern Arizona made, and Lieutenant Glmperllng, of the Twenty-first Infan try, has decided to use an automobile In place of the time-honored wagon In the work. - With membership limited to own ers of touring cars who use them for the purpose Implied by their name, the Motor Car Touring Society has been formed at New York. A feat ure of its work will be the maspping out of new touring routes and) the preparation of roadbooks. Taimglowood! KT-CENTRAL ACROSTIC. ni. - - . 1 . .. x " nmiru letters or tne names or tne outside objects name what the cen tral picture represents, BENNIE. 628-CHARADES. ' ' , I. . ' - He wore a ONE of such a Two. It almost hid Ms face from. view; - & . v. . . im pruajea aown tne street He looked Just ready to COMPLETE. As tight and left I saw Mm Anhi .- I thought "He's TWO to be ONB tron- trouule; If by soma .accident unseated. I wonder if ha is COMPLKTKD. ltl. A ONE-talled dog. that sure was TWO. For all the mischief he could do. COMPLETELY circled round him, till inrro came a stiunnie and a spill. , IV. ' No bones were broken. I could ONE hi uog. 1 saw nim run His wheel was TWO; some lucky chance COMPLETED full deliverance. . , '.; m. c. s. "k9-fwd the figures. 76 . . 1 ' .. 7 8 . - n . It looks to be Impossible, but Is It If can be done, how are the figures found? ' It 530-PECAPITATION. ' ' A maid there lived in years gone by.'. so runs the story old, Both fair of face an bright of eye. But, ah: her heart was cold. , Ore night Love came and TWOED thai he Might tarry till the day. But she suspected strategy. And turned the elf away. He came again In deen disguise; rihe fathomed his deceit, And tore the PRijf AL from his eyes. And laughed at his defeat. 'ndaunted. Love, with some new art Renewed each time the fray. Until at last she locked her heart And threw the key away. Love came no more; In later years. The woman, bowed with grief. Prayed Love to kiss away the tears, In vain, for Love was deaf. ... ARTY ESA. s The railroad that crosses the Island of Nantucket. R. I., which are lo cated the resorts of Siasconset ' and Nantucket, has placed in service a gasoline automobile with a capacity of nine passengers, with a view of getting rM of Its steam equipment. If successful two larger ones will be ordered In time for the summed sea son. . - . 1 . One result of the Quaker City Mo tor Club's endurance run on New Year's has been the organization of a club at Allentown, Pa, which -has over 400 owners of cars, more in pro portion to Its population, than . any other city in the country,. The im provement of main roads in Its vicin ity will be one of the club's first tasks, - - 631 HIDDEN UUILD1NQS. ! I knew a Mr. Scott, a generation oVso ae- who claimed to be a dependent, of Sir Walter, but In no way din he resem ble the poet,' he was, In truth, utterly lacking in tha good qualities he delight ed to rehearse as iglng to his an cestors. A lawyer at the bar never shot , eloquence from his tongue more forcibly than did this man when discoursing uoon the writer of Marmion. A Quaker, who was one day listening to his genealogical boasting, said to lilm: "Thou seemest very proud of thy ancestor, fclnce thou are so proud of the fame that was this man s, I only wonder If he would have been as proud of thee. If tliy grand mother hnd an opal a century ago, that s no reason wny tnou shouldat be proud 1 ine colored giaos in my ring. The man thus addressed lumoed Into a cah instantly and disappeared from view. , ETHYL. 535 RtODLE. t The Hebrews used me, long ago, To measure oil and milk and wtne: I'm formed In woods where tall trees grow, Of oak -and cedar, ash and pine. Sometimes across the snow I'm brought. Sometimes adown tha stream I glide; Snd Is my fate. I'm oulckly estigbt Then lose myself and name beside. t Yet I am alwayrround at sea; With me on board each good ship sails; There on the waves I float; with me Men Jlieasure still In calms or gules . E. E. C. A striking Illustration of the re markable progress of the automobile In the United States ,1s afforded by comparing tho coming exhibit at De troit February lOtttlSth. . with that field in that city six years ago. Then six steam cars and one gasoline were exhibited, while this month 50 stand ard makes of cars will be on view. Five automobiles now make rrgu lar trips on a three-hour schedule over the 45 miles between Lubbock and Plainvlew, In the Panhandle, of Texas, A private right of way Is used, protected bv, wire fences and with cattle guards at crossings as if for a railroad. The cars carry the malls and are obliged to make time by the owner's contract with the government. One of the novelties at the recent Berlin show was an electrically-driven tricar. The battery wae placed underneath the body of the vehicle and consisted of 22 cells, giving a traveling radius of SO rdiles. The fifth annuaj hand-book of gaso line cars recently issued by the Asso ciation of Llncensed Automobile Man ufacturers, ' contains illustrations of 114 models of cars, ranging from a $600 runabout to an $8,000 limou sine. - . An attractive hat for feminine wear a-motorlng is of dark . pllve Scotch tweed, with folds of dark toned rib bon around the crown and twisted over a tltic k wing In shades of gmy, green and black for trimming. Several of the American cars which will compete In the Brtarcllff trophy stock car road race, near New York April 2th; will have French or Eng lish drivers, v.-ho have had experience lnv such events In Europe. . " Not only do ths members of the 'Is Generals Brave?" Washington Star. "The late Bishop Coleman." said a , Wilmington divine, "used to take etery summer a long, solitary walk ing trip. He wore rough clothes and slept in farmhouses. . Some times the people took .him for an aged tramp. Always he had in teresting xperlencea. ' "These tramping experiences often served the bishop In his sermons. Thus, once. In a sermon on peace, he said that if they who made tho wars had actually to' go out and fight them fight them as the com mon soldier does, without honor, without hope, without anything de sirable warfare would speedily be abolished. "One evening," he went on. "on a Virginia farm, a little farm boy said to him: Ii generals brave V . " ' t es, to be sure,' the bishop an swered. "Why do you ask?' ""Because said the little hoy. 'If thV are brave, I don't understand wtfy, when the artists make pictures of a battle, the general Is always rn sV hill, four miles away, watching the fighting through an opera 833 RECIPROCITY.. (The emphasized words are definitions of four words, the last two of which are formed by exchanging the initials of the first two. Example: Platter, found; flat ter, pound). I have met many a CRirPLED sol dier who had been severely wounded In some RN'OAunMKN'i during our civil war. Every one of them was proud of his wound, and on account of his REPUTATION for bravery and patriot Imp looked uoon- his disability a a. TRIFLING misfortune. - T. H. 534-ANAGRAM. "HE PAINTS all types and characters In trust tints." his friend avers. I'll not dispute the fallow. Since some HID PAINTS in red and white. ' "Adapted to electric light." And some HE PAINTS quite "out of sight." Especially Othello. " " His genius takes extended range. Finds npne too high, or low, or strange, From emperor to varlet: A man of parts, who scorns control. His part at times absorbs the whole, And In this comprehensive role HB PAINTS the town-la scarlet. 11. C. S. , THE PSIZB OCESSINCJ. ' , Decide 'whether K3 Is possible or Im possible, and then, within three days, send the reasons for your decision tn letter of not more than 100 words to Tom Tangier H R Chadbourn. Melrose. Mans.). The sender of the best state ment will receive a fine prise the works of one of the great poets In a cicely printed edition. A very neat letter from Mrs. T. T." Cov ington. Laurtnburg. N. C, taks th prise offered for an answer to t9T. For other especially good solutions eredlt Is given In this 'Yoll of honor" to Pattle M. Willis. T. E. liuee. R. A. DevMn, Hie. R. E. Pike. Emma J. Grant. L W. liir lw, H. C. Merlin. O. I Knight R. K. Staples. W. K. Washorn. a. J. Ki-ilev, Mrs. N. C. Noyes, Jennie A. Loarcrs. L. D. Trufant ANSWERS. 61S Socks, 4lio. buckle, eol'ar. tie. 619 L Cwn-nt-r. trouser. hair. har. Fker. eta'.' belt, S Printer Mason. 6. Architect. C sf 1: innt- Blacksmith. 5'J-t. , . 41. J1 According to the last !iUtftten, the tofal number of cherries is . rij-ht more than a number divisible by the. Therefore the total number was not dtvis It l by thre. Hut aerordlrig to the l rt statement the number wan divtmbl I) thr-. f.-J-RuHhr. &3tt iir. ;. Saw. J Seen. ' R."4 Mother tjooee rhvmew. !2& I. New-ark. ". Hart-frd. .1. Joii. land. 4. Spnng-field. fc. Hnhn-Vii. 6. tiri'lge-port.- Tam-n. vtPr-b'jt y. 9. Leaven-worth. It, Con-eorl. S36 T-raiL IjElass,' "
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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