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THREE MILLION
II EVERY MINUTE
TEAT IS THE AVERAGE IN USE
OF MATCHES.
One-Half of the World's Product is
Consumed in United States.
Timber Supply Tailing.
By the end of the brief minutes
taken to read these paragraphs th%
nations of the civilized world will
hav« struck three milion matches. This
is the average for every minute of
the twenty-four Lours of the day.
. ^ Seven billion is the enormous number
Ifor the entire year, and those living
under the American fiag are said to
'be responsible for the consumption of
one-half of this amount.
The importance of the industry
which turns out the little splinters
of wood tipped with sulphur or some
I * other material ignited by friction is
I only recognuized when the average
smoker tries to contemplate his pre-
dicament ih he had to go back to the
time when he had to coak a spark
from a tinder box. Of course, the
enswer is, he would smoke a grvif
k* deal less because of the difficulty iu
^getting a light, or else, on the other
hand, smoke continuously in order 1o
keep alive the fire at the end of his
stogie or Havana, .pipe or cigarette,
at the case might be.
Smal and insignificant as it is, >he
imatch demands perhaps as much atten
tion in the choice of the wood going
into its manufacture as any other
forest product. Only the choicest por-
1 tions of thebest trees are suitable, j
Sapwod, knotty or crow-grained tim-
ber will not do. Instead of being a
by-product of other articles of man-
ufacture the little match is turned
out at hundreds of mills over the
country where the by-products are
bulky objects like doors, sash, shing-
les, siding, posts, and cord-wood. The
pines, linden, aspen white cedar, pop-
lar, birch and willow are the most
suitable match timbers.
The match makers—not the matri-
monial kind—are already finding that
the amount of choice timber availa-
ble is dwindling. Forest conservation,
if applied to the holdings of the
match companies, like it is on Uncle
Sam's National Forests in the West,
will do much to make thesupply suf-
ficient for a longer number of years
than would be the cas eif the old-
time wasteful lumbering methods of
a few years ago should continue. The
rapid increase in stiimpage prices is
one of the chief factors in encourag-
ing the wise U9e of the forests where
suitable match timber is available.
HENS THAT POISONED FISH;
la Cobb Tells About Pots That Had
Brains and Knew How to
Use Them.
Kiiougn
Transient—Kindly tell me whether
this ticket will allow me a stop-over
here?
Station Agent—It depends. What do
you want to stop for?
Transient—To visit some rather dis-
tant relatives of mine, the Jinkses.
Station Agent—Then you'll have
plenty of time. This ticket is good
for the next train.
Transient—See here! Do you know
how long I intend to stop?
Station Agent—Not exactly; but I
know the Jinkses!—Puck.
The Power of Humor.
Wlggs—It takes my wife to manage
tramps. Tou should see the wood ska's
got cut.
Biggs—How does she work If?
Wiggs— Easily enough. She tells
them such funny stories they laugh
till they split.
"Pshaw!" said Ez Cobb, a Barkers-
Tflle poultry fancier, when he read
about a hen owned by H. C. Spaulding
of Colebrook, digging bait for her
owner when he had the fishing fever.
"That's nothing. I've got some Rhode
Islands reds that poisoned fish to
death because the fish stole worms
from 'em."
"How did they do that?" demanded
an Incredulous listener.
"I have a deep spring in an open
lot," replied Ez. "The fish I kept in
it got so wise that they dug their
own worms. The earth at the edges
of the spring had lots of worms, and
whenever a fish saw one crawling out
of the ground he would Jump out of
the water and grab it. My Rhode
Island reds, in scratching about the
spring saw what the fish were doing.
"Now, what do you think those mur-
derous hens did? They went to my
potato patch, where I'd put Paris
green. They got their bills full of
poison, went back to the spring and
washed their bills free of the Paris
green. I tried hard to get the poison
out of the spring, but I was too late.
It dissolved. The next morning all
the fish were dead.
"Now, the hens have the worms,
and we don't dare drink from the
spring. And some people say that
chickens haven't any brains."
jThe Best of Everything
at
jPodvant's Cafe
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Happiness and Luxury.
I believe that the popular idea of
happiness is to be able to live in lux-
ury. I have never tried it, but I feel
somehow that It would be irksome.
There must be more seat In living the
closer one gets to the rudiments of
life. We hear women complain of
dullness, and see them searching
through the days and years for some-
thing of real intereat to fill their
hearta and atone for the things of
which civilization has robbed them.
The gentle village women whom I
knew In my childhood had no such
anxieties. There was no time for
ennui, and I believe there was fine-
ness and quality in their lives that
is woefully lacking In tke lives of
vomen to-day.—From "Thi Ideas of a
Plain Country Woman."
The Red Man'a Mental 8tatui.
In mental equipment the Indians
rank easily above the average ne-
groes. In their new estate they have
produced every variety of active man-
hood from statesmen, teachers, doc-
tors and preachers down to good-for-
nothings—even as the whites. We
can accept their numerical influence
as the physical evidence of a racial
progress succeeding the o!4 processes
of decay under abuse—New York
World.
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• and Chicken Suppers Every Day
• Except Friday—Fish Day : : : ; :
| Short Orders Every Hour in the Day
Fruitr Game and all Delicacies of the Season
Served in the Most Approved Style. Try
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WEST SECOND STREET
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PIRACY AN ANCIENT CALLING
In Vogue Since the First Days Men
Learned to Sail the Seas
in Ships.
Only the other day there came the
story of an alleged pirate ship cap-
tured in the Qulf of Mexico and the in-
cident suggests that at one time or
another nearly every body of salt wa-
ter on the globe has suffered from the
ancient calling. Even the Thames
river was once a favorite haunt of
pirates. In the fourteenth century the
danger was so great that, according
to a historian, "John Philipot offered
to build at his own cost a stone tower
•0 king's feet in height, near Ratcliff,
provided the corporation of London
would levy sixpence in the pound on
the rental of the city and build a cor-
responding tower on the opposite side
of the river, so that an iron chain
might be stretched from one tower
to the other to protect the shipping of
the river from night attack."
The watch was kept In the following
order: "On Tuesday, the drapers and
the tailora; on Wednesday, the mer-
cera and the apothecaries; on Thurs-
day, the fishmongers and the butch-
ers; on Friday, the pewterers and the
vintners; in Saturday, the goldsmiths
and the saddlers; on Sunday, the iron-
mongers, the armorers, and the cut-
lers; on Monday, the tawers, the spur-
riers, the bowyers and the glrdlers."
Even in 1616 pirate vessels were
captured off the Kentish coast, be-
tween Broadstalra and Margate.
"The danger waa so imminent that
the common council agreed to the pro-
posal, but, aa the alarm died away,
this scheme of defence waa laid
aaide." In 1370 a report was circulated
that "certain galleya, with a multitude
of armed men therein, were lying off
the foreland of Thanet," and an order
waa at once Issued that "every night
watch shall be kipt between the tower
of tandon and Billingsgate with 40
men-at-arms and <0 archers."
ONLY II MORE DAYS
AND THEN
Tha Crescent.
The crescent waa a symbol of aov-
erelgnty among the ancleat Romans
and Greeks. During a alege of Con
atantlnople, 340 B. C„ by Philip, the
father of Alexander the Oreot. the
Oreeks were sated by the light of the
moon, then in crescent, which re-
vealed tha danger of • night attack.
Tha creacent thereafter was tha sym-
bol of their city.
•la and Her Brather.
"la your young man from Pittsburg,
alaT" Inquired her Irrepreaalble
brother.
The sweet girl eyed him coldly
• Why do you aak such an utterly
silly question?" ahe demanded.
The youngster chuckled.
"Oh, 1 Just noticed a sooty smudge
on your none," ha eoAraety explained
Christmas
And the Question of the Hour is, What Shall
I get for HIM?
We are awfully sure that both YOU and
HE will be better pleased if you buy his gift at
the "MAN'S STORE." Had it ever occur-
red to you that
A CRAVENETTE
AN OVERCOAT
OR A SUIT
Would make an Ideal Christm^ ribute to
his wardrobe* Well, it would.
Here are a few other suggestions that might
be of some benefit to you:
SUSPENDERS in nice Christmas boxes.
HANDKERCHIEFS, always acceptable.
GLOVES,the kind that will keep His hands
warm and soft.
SOCKS, (If you ask for "Hose" we will
know what you mean) in gift boxes.
NECKT IES, beautiful as a dream and in
tints as delicate as the coloring of a butterfly's
wing.
Lots of other things,-too, for HIM at the
'"Man's Store,Mfcwhich, of course, is
G. UNGER'S
MASONIC BLOC. BARTLESVILLE
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