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“rv.iis&jT:-.' - . , -i-- *■-■ Folks:■ The money that I threw. aw$y- on things that didn’t count, wo|fH* if I had.it all'today, he quite a amount. I don’t remember whhrc it'wont, or why or when or how, if'drily know that; it wain spent— J. wish I bad it now. The cash I $ blew for things that leave brave 1 memories that last, I don’t regret; ( nor do I grieve because it vanished ■ fash But, what I did with all the : rest I can’t recall, I vow I spent it ! with a reckless zest—I wish I had it now. When I was young I had fun from New- Year’s to December; I don’t regret a single one of follies \ I remember. But most of what I had, in truth, was spent—I don’t kftow how, until I found I’d spent my youth—I wish I had it no\v. Where are you goings, my pretty maid? I’m going to the* library, sir, ! f she said. And why to.t.the library, pretty maid? t<$ look up the name of : a Zulu chieftain of the eighteenth century whose name Hhd six letters and ended in “zf,” sir, she jsaid. The only sure wTay io,c<rthmand a good price is never to chbapen one’s stock in trade. A Charlotte justice of the peace . received an inquiry from a neighbor ing city attorney in regard to a judgment that had been .entered •: against a certain client. iHe inclosed a stamped envelope for reply. Some few days later the inquirer received • a postcard bearing thiai,^reformation. ; “Your inquiry duly received. I beg to inform you that my time is ‘ highly valuable just now.- Hay cut ting is most high here, politics is sizzling hot, and automohiling is i mighty fine. If you would inclose I a dollar bill it .might stimulate me ‘ some. I paid two dollars once to , a lawyer for answering a question and all he said was ‘No.’ ” ' One way to store the straw hat helpfully, is to wrap it carefully in paper and place it where you will be sure not to find it next summer. New “weeks” are: “Shut up your office week, Eat more garlic week, Trade in your old alarm clock week, Stand for your mother-in-law (six weeks), Amend the constitution - week, Take out five times as much insurance t^you. .can .nay for .week*. ... Walk, a mile for a-darnel week, Na tive son week, Cuss the government week, Buy more booze week, Hit a pedestrian week, and Give ’till it hurts week. All weak stuff. Most of us worry because the river doesn’t flow our way, and a few learn to go the way the river goes. A Prophecy—I look for the near future passing of the correspondence school, with radio as its successor. A step-up in education, I believe. - Consider the nationalizing effect, for instance, of a New Yorker, residing in Pittsburgh, taking a course in Latin from a Russian at the Uni versity of California; at the same time listening in on a colored qaur tet from Memphis singing, “M.y Wild Irish Rose” at a Klan convention in Indiana. Windy - Wolf is noted for his thriftiness, but several days ago he let a storekeeper talk him into buy ing a pair of socks. - j > A goose came winging; from the north; he cast a wary glance upon a big, inviting pond. F caiinot take a chance, lest I be potted, quoth the goose. Look at that cornstalk blind; I’ll just continue on uny way; I’m not the silly kind. I can’t af ford to risk my neck my life is mine alone; to light upon that pond, I fear, would be a costly ‘bone.’ Suffi cient unto every day the evR is there of; knowing these hunters.and their skill I can’t afford to scoff. Some man will get me in the end, but this fact I declare: the hunter that would cook this goose, the man must be a bear. Many a time when you think some girl is looking at you through a win dow her gaze extends nQ further than her rown reflection in the glass. The poorest dime’s worth in the world is a Sunday paper , that was printed in a metropolitan center on the preceding /Tuesday. WHY, CERTAWJLYI Pinehu.rst, N. C., Dec. 11.—The federal child labor amendment was denounced as umAmerichn and a blow at freedom by the North Caror lina Cotton Manufacturers’ Associa tion at its semi-annual meeting here. These employers of child labor stood asi one man to Wo ice their en raged protest against the proposal. A committee was appointed to raise funds to fight the amendment. OPPOSE NIGHT BAKING. , Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 11.—Organ ized bakers are urging the abolish ment of night bakeries in this state. . The Wisconsin Federation of Labor is supporting a bill that^Will be in troduced in the legislature to end this evil. , ' Asked and — -—'Answered * (This is a valuable educational feature in The Herald. Send in your questions, and address them to United States Press Association, 1343 l). Street, Washington, D. C. Mention this paper when you write. Enclose two cents in stamps for re ojy. Do not include trivial matter or questions requiring icxtensive re search. .!> / V. Q. Who was tho- author of the Missionary Hymn, and have the Buddhists formerly, repudiated it? Tho “Missionary Hymn'' is recog nised by the familiar line, “From Greenland's Icy Mountains.;’ .Its author was Reginald Heber, who iived between 1783-1S26. It is said that a formal protest was recently made by an influential group of Buddhists in Ceylon against the con tinued singing, in its present form, of the famous Missionary Hymn, “From Greenland’s Icy Mountains.” The hymn, as everybody knows, re grets that “Ceylon’s Isle” is a spot Where “though every prospects pleas es, and only man is vile.” Naturally the Cingalese do not relish being sung about through the centuries in an immensely popular hymn as 1 “vile.” ! . : Q. How many civil service em ployes in the federal government have been retired on pay. At. the end of the last fiscal year the number, retired employes at the above time, totaled 10,548, of whom 9,706 vfere male employes and 842 were female employes. ' Q. Is* the operation of stone quar ries in tell Upited States diminish ing, and how man,y people are em ployed in the industry? According to the United States Bureau of Mines, there were'•99,455 men employed in stone quarries last year and this, the bureau states, was a larger number than has been em ployed in this capacity since 1915. Q. How many ships have been scrapped under the four power treaty by the United States, Great Britain and Japan? I The United States has scrapped 17 old ships, totaling 268,770 tons; Great Britain, 24, aggregating 500, 000 tons, and Japan, -ten, totaling 163,312 tons. The United States seems to be the only nation that has scrapped any new ships, unless two of the Japanese ships might be so classed. Great Britain has not; given up any new ships. In addi tion to the above the United States has sent eleven new capital ships to the scrap heap. :.r- % —Can - ais Mrbjeofr^whe has received the degree of doctor iif civil engineering at Padpva. Jtaly, practice in the 4fnftpd HStafesy* with out taking the degrees in this coun try? The right of such a person to practice w ould not be. questioned in the District of Columbia, but would likely be challenged in Pennsylvania. Laws of states differ and before at tempting to practice the local state conditions should be investigated. Q. Is Houdini, the magician, an American, and how ong has he been on the stage? Harry Houdini was born at Ap pleton, Wisconsin, in 1874. He was the son of Rev. Dr. Mayer Samuel Weiss, but he had his name legally changed in after years to Houdini. He was educated in the public schools, and upn losing his job as a clerk in a store in Appleton, he turned in desperation to work as a trapeze performer, in 1882. Houdini is perhaps the greatest magician on the American stage. Among numer ous books of which he is author are the following: Handcuff Secrets, Miracle Mongers, Paper Prestidigita tion, Spooks and Spiritualism, Rope Ties and Escapades. Q. Do all people who snore in their sleep do it in the same key? To quote an eminent authority on the subject it may be said in answer to the above that William Jenkins has been a Pullman car conductor out of New York for twenty-four years. He says that women are apt to snore louder than men, but that he is thankful that most folk do not §nore at all. He adds that portly men and buxom women who snore produce a mellow noise, somewhat on the order of saxophone tones; the lean, slender types, emit a wheezy, whistling note, like a cheap cornet. According to Jenkins the big ones are more likely to snore than the little ones. Q. When, and how was the Lib erty,;ell cracked? There is & popular misunderstand ing that the Liberty Bell was cracked when the continental congress; on July 4, 1776, declared the independ ence of the American colonies from Great, Britain, antfwhen the oid bell man, .in his ecstasy and enthusjaaifti, is said to have rung- .the belt fpi” two' hours. -.The facts are, however! that the; bell was not cTackecj until 1835; ^hen it w"as’cracked under a stroke of the hammer. v / Q. I recently read reference to Franklin’s toast to Washington in Asked and Answered. I am enclosing such a toast, believing it to be the on.e considered “famous,” and which was delivered byi Franklin. The toast referred to above may properly be considered as one of Franklin’s most “famous” utterances. It is published below in the manner in which it was received by this de partment from Bethel, Maine. Benjaimn Franklin’s Toastf. * ?irst published in 1797. i At the conclusion of the war, Dr. Franklin, the Eng lish ambassador, and the French min ister, Vergennes, dining together, at Versailles, a toast from each was called for, and agreed to. The Brit ish minister began with: “George tiie Third, who, like the sun in its merid ian, spreads a luster throughout, and enlightens the world.” The French minister followed with: “The' illus trious Louis XV5, who, like the moon, she'ds; his mild and benignant rays on, and influences the globe.’’ Our American Franklin then gave: “Gebrge Washington, commander of the American armies; who, like Josh ua of old, commanded the sun and the moon to stand still, and they obeyed him.” Q. Hpv/ long has M. Jusserand been the minister of France? M. Jusserand has the rank of am bassador apd he will leave this coun try this year after having given faithful service to France at the Washington capital for twenty-two years. He is the dean of the am bassadors. Q. What city in Europe is called the Venice of the North? Stockholm, Sweden. It is on an arm of the Baltic and the water ways are constantly filled with''small boats plying between different parts of 'the city. Q. WKft *% tHe. average wwkiig day in the coal amines? At the.present time miners do not average 2dt) days work a year. Q. Is there any process where (Rustless; dust clothe can bo made at home? < Take a largo square of new clean cheesecloth, dip in kerosene and hang in sun until dry. Q. It it true that George Wash ington was disfigured from a sickness of smallpox? He had the disease and was quite badly pockmarked; .in consequence. MINERS OF SOFT COAL WORK FOR SAFETY LAWS Indianapolis, Ind., , Dec. 11.—Or ganized miners over the bituminous coal, tegion are giving moBe atten tion to. the enactment of™ adequate mine safety laws than usual, follow ing the various mine accidents that have taken toll of hundreds of lives within the last year. Indiana miners are interested in an amendment to the state mining laws whereby booster fans operated by electricity and located insidy the workings would be eliminated and steam operated fans installed. The amendment includes taking authority PWT1", I'.JUJ miA'-l'U away from the state mine inspector in regard to issuing permits for 'the installation of booster fans. t Another amendment which wiU the offered to the general assembly will, make it incumbent on all mine own ers, quarries, plants and factories to establish a weekly pay day instead of paying- twice a month. ' . --— 1 ' \ INJUNCTION DENIED; BY JUDGE ANDERSON Indianapolis, Dec. 11.*—Federal Judg<£ Anderson has rejected the in junction ploa of a score of cut stone contracting firms in the Bedford Bloomington limestone district ; of this *state. These employers wanted their organized stone cutters enjoin ed from ceasing work. The journey men Stone Cutters* Association has attempted for more than three years to affect a settlement with these con cerns. One of the amusing incidents of the hearing before Judge Anderson, was the admission by attorneys for the employers that they organized “independent unions.” The employ ers included in their plea a demand for $5,000 damages fbr each of the complainants. Judge Anderson dis missed the plea without comment. There ra,c 110 furniture factories ip North Carolina, representing an, investment of more than $10,0,00, 000. . / - 1 • t -• •• i ■■■:'-*. V-4- • Wr'w* •. :.? ■* - ‘ ■ ;. r* SOUTHERN IMPROVES ITS LINES Washington, D. C., Dec. 11.—Con trasts have just been let by the Southern Railway system for fifty-, five thousand tons of new rail lor delivery in first half of the year 1025 according to announcement just made. The hew rail is to be fabricated as follqws: i Forty-five thousand, seven-’ hun dred tons by the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railway Company. \ Six thousand five hundred tons l»y the Bethlehem Steel Co., and two j thousand, eight hundred tons by the Illinois Steel Company. 1 RE AT CUTTERS ADVANCE'. I - J>4huque, Iowa, Dec. 11.—Organ ised/ meat cotters and employers have signed a new agreement. A weekly half holiday is a feature of the con tra ct. i - Shamokin, Pa., Dec. 11.—A reduc tion of six .hours in the work week and wage increases of from 8 to 12 peir cent has been secured by Meat Cutters’ Union No. 141. Peacocks eaten by the Romans sq:netimes cost $10 apiece. ' Between 1910 and 1920 the South lent 363,916 negro workers. WASHINGTON'S NEWEST STATUE. LcydBryee^ in his book describing the beauties of the city of Wash ington remarked-that it was not in need of any more equestrian statues —that there were enough of them. But W ishiugtcn has a new eques /tnuan sjatun of which, in the words of the famous writer “it rejoices.” It is the statue of Methodist Bishop Francis • Asbury, who/rode the cir cuits i» Pennsylvania before the Declara tion of of Independence. It p. Underfill piece' of work by ar '"English sculptor, Augustus Lukema ’ wh*>' has succeeded -in evolving equestrian bronze that looks li’ hoi^ e. The great mass of thr jughout Washington are 0£ war hej oes of the civil war and“ • Hr* Aviation of » in*? men has been very mu h d/ ne, this places ' ,he statue- of tae gfeod Man of Go'/ in a contrast tnat adds to its poj ;Qiara pproval. A, an xe a catues TAX PUBLI ^uy UPHELD. Kansas City, /'Mo., Dec, 11.—Fed eral Judge Be eves has discharged the 1 owner and ‘manager of the Kansas City JournCi? Post,who were indicted rfor publishing the federal income ."tax returns. 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