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THE ENTERPRISE, ELKHART. KANSAS. MUCH TIME FOR PREPARATION suit of homespun from rails which he split. The-" were hickory rails, HURLS BOMBFRGMROOM 31 SCHOLARS hence hickory shirts." 'Franklin produced electricity by rubbing cats backwards." EXPLOSION FOLLOWS, SHATTERING WINDOWS OF HOME. Told in Short Paragraphs "Where poisoning by acids is caused Some "Howlers" That Are Worth Preservation.

the blood should be immediately drawn from the bruises to send back the acids." Quick Action of Mrs. Antonio Lopresto, Wife of Aguilar Saloonkeeper, Saves Lives of Family. "If a schoolroom is without ventila tion how are the pupils to study with Three Months Needed to Make Machine Gun War Department Ha Cartridges on Hand. The government small arms factories have a maximum productive power of 1,500 rilies a day and a private concern at New Haven and llton of 1,000 a day, or in ail a million a year. It takes three months to make a machine gun and four to make a field gun or howitzer.

American munition plants can turn out 30,000,000 ritle cartridges a week. In fact, they are doint it. The war department has cartridges on hand. the fowl air pressed down upon them; it makes them oftentimes sick and Inclined to laziness." "The blood vessels are the veins, ar teries and artilleries." As Samples of Peculiar Mixups That Will Occur in the Minds of Youth They Are Entertaining and Illuminating. "The source of food supply In England is In ships." Here is a "schoolboy howler" which the Philadelphia Evening Ledger says turns out to be an important fact and one which has The strike of twelve hundred miners employed by the Sheridan Coal Company and subsidiary companies near Pittsburg has been settled.

The terms of the settlement are not announced. District officers of the United Mine Workers of America have been in conference with John P. White, International president, at Indianapolis. The strike began August 2.. Six men were Injured, only one of them severely, when a steam shovel beam weighing eighteen thousand pounds fell at- a strip pit coal works near Minden the other afternoon.

The men were carrying a timber and the You might think from these questions that the brain really is "a soft bunch covered with wrinkles." Or perhaps your conclusion would agree with this: "The bones of the blood Western Newspaper Union Newi Trinidad. When Mrs. Antonio Lopresto, wife of an Aguilar saloonkeeper, woke suddenly, she saw a bomb with a lighted fuse, nearly burned down, sputtering on the bedroom window sill on their first floor of the dwelling. Awakening her husband with a warning cry, she leaped from her bed, ran to the window, seized the bomb and threw it as far as she could. The bomb struck a sand pile and been well illuminated by recent events.

It is timely information, too, that "to germinate Is to become a nat uralized German." From the same source the class in civil government exploded an instant later. All upper we receive the reminder that "the president takes the yoke of office." windows of the house were shattered by the blast, but the Loprestos were uninjured. The joke is on us. For, to quote a To make smokeless powder takes from thirty days to five months, according to the size of the grains. The largest grains are an inch and a half by an inch, used in big guns.

Drying the powder is what delays the manufacture. It takes three months to make a shrapnel shell. The task is in the manufacture of the fuse, which requires expert workmanship. It takes six months to make a torpedo, the submarine's weapon, and the cost is $8,500. The projectiles must be tested with great care.

Submarine mines are easily and quickly made. It takes only two or three weeks schoolboy: "The press today is the The sheriff's office was notified and mouthorgan of the people." Which, in Doiniuick Dl Grassa, whom the authorities charge with being a black phraseology, suggests another boy description of how the cavalry swept over "the eyebrow of hill." mailer, was brought to the county jail here. Lopresto is known to have re The reader is earnestly requested ceived warnings and demands for not to apply the Salic law to this com are the Cerebrum, the cerebellum and other small bones." "Retlex action is when anything is turning in one direction, and it turns in the other." The man who eats too fast or too well may be interested to know that "the heart is located in the left part of the stomach in a loose membrane sack." "A deacon Is the lowest kind of Christian." "Mayday commemorates the landing of the Mayflower." "The Boxers were Corbett, Fitzsim-mons and Bill Johnson." is correct.) "A renegade is a man who kills a king." "In India a man out of cask may not marry a woman out of another cask." "The Pharisees were people who liked to show off by praying in synonyms." "Modern conveniences: Incubators and fireless telegraphy." "A lie is an aversion to the truth." (Ah, an epigram!) "The German emperor has been money recently, but he refuses to talk pilation: "The Salic law is that you about them to the authorities. must take everything with a grain of salt." Many of these "howlers" are taken from the notebook of the writer who had experience as a high-school to make an aeroplane. It takes longer, however, to train aviators to run them.

It takes six months to make a soldier out of a raw recruit. Syracuse Post-Standard. teacher. It should be added, for the sake of the boys that some of the beam missed the men but struck the timber. The attorneys for J.

D. Botkin, warden of the Kansas penitentiary, lost out in their preliminary skirmishes before the legislative commission, and practically served notice on the legislative committee that there would be a lawsuit in the supreme court if the findings were adverse to Botkin. The right leg and foot of Willard Boyer of Niles, aged 14, was entirely shot away at Salina recently. Vernon Gallion, aged 13, was out hunting with Boyer when the gun went off accidentally. W.

E. Thomas of Goddard, died in a hospital at Wichita from a fractured skull sustained when his motorcycle collided with a motor car one mile west of Goddard. Mr. Thomas was 27 years old. Mrs.

Frank Pope of Prontenae, aged 65 years, shot and killed herself in her home the other day. A real estate deal Involving one of the largest tracts of pasture land to exchange hands in Chase county recently has been closed in the sale of howlers were written by girls. Now let us begin with the class in civil government. "I don't know anything about the constitution, as I was born in "The minority is composed of the Aged Woman Faces Death Alone. Boulder.

When Dr. Mary L. Am-brook, Co, one of the first women physicians to practice in the state, realized that death was overtaking her, she diagnosed her own condition, saw there was no hope and lay down to die without disturbing the household. She was found by her maid, who went to call her to breakfast. Coroner Howe decided that death, caused by heart disease, had taken place about.

3 a. m. Dr. Ambrook had left the following note: "I feel so cold, and my heart is very bad; 2:30 a.m." Then she had lighted a gas heater in the room, made herself comfortable beside it and awaited the end. She came to Boulder more than forty years ago with her husband, Dr.

Charles Ambrook, Later she studied medicine at Ann Arbor, and began practice here in the early '80s. She Is survived by a son, Albert. minors. "Old and Distinguished." "Gerald," said the young wife, noticing how heartily he was eating, "do I cook as well as your mother did?" Gerald put up his monocle and stared at her through it. "Once and for all, Agatha," he said, "I beg you to remember that although I may seem to be in reduced circumstances now, I come of an old and distinguished family.

My mother was not a cook." called the geyser." (Worse than that.) "The spoils system: The place And now, gentle reader, school i3 dismissed for the day. where spoiled things and waste are kept. The board of health has largely taken the place of this." "An ex post facto law is one that gives officers a right to go to foreign countries and get criminals, dead or alive, and take them back to the A Change of Luck. Hicks How do you happen to be going fishing on Friday? I thought you believed Friday was an unlucky day? Wicks Well, I always have, but it occurred to me this morning that perhaps it would be unlucky for the fish! fifteen hundred acres to William Mer place where the crime was committed. It is a law where the crimes of the father descend to his children; they are punished for him." "An ex post facto law is one that Touch Pre-eminent.

"A cozy picture, eh? A man lolling in an easy chair and his beautiful wife leaning over, him to light bis cigar." "You haven't seen the companion picture to it, have you?" "Why, no." "It's the same man savagely chewing the end of his cigar and writing a check." Kansas City Star. cer of Clements. The land, which lies three miles south of Clements, was owned by W. T. Smith.

JIhe consideration was $22,000. Two colonies of bees belong to W. H. Blood of near Wetmore, happened gives electricity." Faculty Changes at School of Law. Boulder.

Prof. William R. Arthur, dean of Washington College of Law "George Washington was a land savory. of Topeka, has been appointed "Lord Italeigh was the first man to A Difference. Angelina And so you love me with all your heart? Would you die for me? Edwin No, dear.

Angelina You wouldn't die for me? Edwin No; mine is an undying see the invisible Armada. ir.ng- to swarm on the same day and for some reason declared war on each Ush.) professor of law at the University of Colorado law school to take the place of the late Prof. William H. Pease. F.

G. Folsom, who for several years past has been part-time professor, has other. Not only did they attack mem 'Tennyson wrote 'In Memoran bers of Blood's family, but also the cat dum." and chickens, three of which died as been made a full professor. Announce "Tennyson also wrote a poem called Grave's "Louis XIV was gelatined during the a result of their stings. Couldn't Do It.

"I want you," -said fair society leader, "to give me a plain opinion about my latest photograph." "Madam," said the gallant cavalier, bowing, "to speak in plain terms of that portrait would be impossible!" ment of the reorganization was made by Dean John D. Fleming of the law French revolution." Mrs. Margaret Line, 29 years old, was shot and killed in her home at Beautiful Neutrality. The Venus of Milo explained. "An endeavor to be neutral." she said; "arms are munitions of war." school, who becomes Thomson profes "Ben Johnson is one of the three For of law in accordance with the be highest mountains of Scotland." quest of the late Mrs.

Oliva Thomson "George Eliot left a wife and chil- who left $75,000 to the university to Have a little patience. Even a corkscrew doesn't go straight to the but it gets there. dred to mourn his genii." A well-trained memory is merely one that admits of discreet forgetfulness. endow a chair in honor of her hus "Henry I died of eating Palfreys." "Caesar was a king and went high band, the late Charles Inglis Thom son, formerly of the Colorado Court of up on a mountain. The quickest way to do things is to do but one thing at a time.

On the sea of adversity the pawnbroker is captain of the watch. Appeals. Lincoln had a woman make him a Chino Copper Earns $2,006,543.18. Colorado Springs. The earnings of Parsons following a quarrel while on a buggy ride with Gus Robinson.

Robinson was held to await the action of the coroner's jury. James Whitford, living about two miles west of Garnett, was struck by lightning and killed the other afternoon. He was 24 years old. He was working in the field at the time the bolt struck him. Another 5-cent raise in the price of crude oil has been announced by the Prairie Oil and Gas Company.

Rapidly decreasing production in the Crushing field, with greater demand for oil, was the cause given for the increase. The new price is GO cents a barrel. the Chino Copper Company for the second quarter of the present year, ending June 30, amounted to 548. IX, as compared with $890,037.90 for the first quarter of the year, according to the quarterly report issued by the president. The dividends for the quarter total $052,405, which left $1,354,095.18 to be added to tbe sur plus account.

The total production of copper was 1,845,502 pounds, and the earnings were figured on copper at 17.51 cents per pound. Mis3ing Heir Sought. Grand Junction. The whereabouts of Edwin Yarnell is being sought here by his niece, Miss Lena Yarnell of riowen. 111., who writes local author ities that Mr.

Yarnell, known to have lived in Grand Junction about twenty years ago, is one of the heirs to the Yarnell estate, worth over $100,000 The Lyon County commissioners voted $15,600 for bridge building in Lyon County. Seven of the structures will be township bridges and three will be county bridges. Two men, after ordering steaks at a Wichita restaurant, set off a powder bomb and under cover of the smoke and the excitement robbed the cash register of $25 and escaped. According to Dr. H.

S. Maxwell, a veterinary surgeon of Salina, there is hog cholera prevalent in many parts of Saline and adjoining counties. He declares hundreds of hogs have died this year from the disease. Members of the Kansas Avenue Methodist Church at Atchison have voted to build a new $40,000 church on the site of the present building. The congregation was organized in 1807, and was the first Protestant church body in Atchison.

The present edifice was erected, in 1870. Find Body of Pioneer In Ditch. Pueblo. The Fowler search party headed by Charles Delebar, a son, found the body of Joseph Delebar, 81 Food For Thought Proper nourishment and well chosen books are food for thought for those who are fitting themselves for the battles of life. Canon City pioneer, imbedded in the mud of Bessemer ditch, a mile below Devino, seven miles east of Pueblo.

The aged man disappeared a week ago, and the condition of the body in dicates that he fell into the water then. Pair Shcot ex-Husband Four Times, Denver. Shot four times, perhaps patallv. with a revolver in the hands of his divorced wife, Mrs. Alice M.

Grif FOOD fith, and riddled with scattering buck-rhot from a shotgun by her husband George Griffith, a rancher, Marion F. Jack Wright, 10 years old, was drowned in Three Mile Creek, Just north of the Leavenworth County Courthouse, the other afternoon. The boy was In wading and ventured beyond his depth. James Hackett, 83, for many years a resident of Kansas, is dead at his home In Atchison. Mr, Hackett set Head, 53 years old, of Denver, formerly a fought them off and es- "iFd with bis life in a desperate en by providing thorough nourishment to both body and brain keeps one in fine fettle bright and alert to absorb the world's great lessons.

For "thinkers" and "doers." "There's a Reason" for Grape-Nuts counter at his former home, eight epst of Elbert. Criffitu was called from a neighbor's house by his wire, after Head, she says, had started a fight In the house and she had fired one Bb.ot at him. tled In Nemaha County when he came to Kansas In the early days, but moved to Atchison County eighteen years ago, Ha was a retired farmer.