| Show Talks on Snake Culture BY WALT WAIT MASON No 39 39 The The Traveling Man Ma The manager of a 3 wholesale grocery house at Atchison Kan casually in informed informed informed in- in formed a rep reporter the other da day that Th K the establishment had nineteen traveling traveling travel travet- ing men in its employ and not one of them ever took a drink If a young youn man with a star-spangled star breath and andred andred andred red eyes applied to that manager for fora a job how long do you suppose he would last Just long enough to push him out of the office Long long ago when the world orId was as full fun of Jolly JoUy Good F Fellows and everybody had the hie- hie life on hUt his Hudson river estate that the Dutch villagers called his manor farm Dc land thc landt I the gentleman's en ns n's land after compressed Jed b by the tho frugal Eng flag lish Int Queen helena of or Italy HaIr now Is called callec the tite childrens children's qu Cn It I Is one of th the r results of h her r work In lii behalf of at the tho suffering suf sur- ten fering rig children following following- the Messina 1 earthquake and also ll o of 01 her tier unfailing In In- In terest ever since she Bho ascended d the thc throne In the time children of or Rome flome It Is reported that in co connection with the International labor exhibition to be beh beheld h held Md In Turin In 1911 the Turin chamber of commerce offers a n. prize of or to be le given to tho author of ot an any Invention o ot of whatever kind which In practice will wll prove proVo advantageous ous to national m economy Out But such Invention In must not bo of ot older date than titan 1908 A nc new m municipally owned enterprise Is IB is r reported ported from St St. Petersburg Time The United States s consul connul there thero writes rites that the hi high h rates ratos nt at which medicines and dru drugs druga s. s nr r are sold b by the tho private pharmacies and drug drugstores drugstores stores have Induced tho the municipal au authorities au- au to start starl a municipal pharmacy for or which putt purpose has been re- re allowed Tho Tim city pharmacy will wll supply medicines and drugs to all an the dis dis- dis- dis infection and dt departments department as aswell aswell well as ns municipal ho hospitals To ro private persons drugs will wilt bo ho sold at 20 O per cent discount on 00 the tho normal norma charges charKes Basing Rasing his hili statement ment on a series of or ex experiments tx cx- with tho the latest pattern of or military mili tar tary firearm Dr F Fessler ler of ot Dresden says say in a recent number of or Der Dr Artzt that In tho the next great reat war th tIme the mortality mor taUt from rom gunshot wound wilt will be he frightfully large e. e r lIe Ho describes one kind of ot military rifle the missile from which will wilt not ero Co o straight but will be bed d deflected liv U- Uthe the slightest resistance after oUrI It strikes the lo body and will continue continuo on making a wound at an an angle lo with tim tho ont ono through which It entered the body Th The wounding capacity of the new weapon Is ts maim many times timeR greater than that of oC the rifles now In use and this h hp he says cays argument In lu favor tavor makes make It a tangible of ot pence peace I An apartment house exclusively cI for lor women omen in London was filled tilled with tenants a week after completion The Time hou house c Is Ie operated on a n plan which found fount favor Immediately with feminine workers and the Idea might ht ho bo adopt J with profit Inthis Inthis In lu luthis this country livery Every woman enjoys possession possession pos pos- session of or mm im apartment all her own Tho Time building forms a u. and consists of or apartments of two three c and four tour rooms AU n the tho trouble of the Otis kitchen IM lit avoided b by a n. common dining dining- room u and this Is tIme the most popular f feature aturo of tho thin hou house S Servants arc ore provided provide at a n. small wc weekly kt charge chars antI and th there ro Is n a Ion long list of applications for tor vacancies not ot like likely to occur Tho Time house hOtiS-C was designed d bY br f t a woman It I Its IH planned d to tn several sC others on tho tIme same mode mode NeW York lork Press There IK Is a I certain Philadelphia physician claim cian of or considerable prominence wit who hI 1 ill is renowned among hl hiM huits friends s BK Sf the worst penman In tho the Quaker city dU Ho lIe l usel to write them letters lotters and then feel feol hurt when they could not read d them When hen henho ho lie wrote to tn J persons persona who were not familiar with Ills his i th they y frequently would not know whom the letter letters were from Some Som Sometime Um sg ng ago 11 he lie Introduced a a. typewriter into hi his office and this rendered tho tIme l body hodY ody of tho timo letter Int but did not clear ekar up imp the time difficulty over r the signature J Now ow lie he has hns had however says pays th the Record made mado n n. ruh rubber r tamp stamp bearing beanIng hi hilts name and amid address In I Ho hOc Ie 1 signs his hi name in the scrawl but alongside h ho he Impresses hl his stamp It Is III a little hu humiliating hu- hu he sa says s. s hut but h hI he no nn lon longer cr lute has to whom he lie on any trouble about persons penton writes not nol Knowing from era whom the letters are The Thc op opening of a railroad from a 11 point near or 1301 Into the Libyan desert has ham rendered t easy S' S tho tha approach to the oasis oal of 01 KhA h which l is r regarded as ns a n. typical typical cal enl example of those these Isolated centers center of ot 11 life fl For three thre j years r Just p past II H. J I L. L JI has hag resided in this Oils oasis nail studying study study- ing Imig thu hu phenomena of springs spring moving sands ls wells and so forth Th oases ar are arf dc tier deep P depressions In a lofty plateau pla pta which tt has hias a n maximum elevation of nearly 2006 2000 test feet but hut tho tIme bottoms bottom of or the tho are ItO only from to feet above sea ses level Jc They arc aro Underlain b by beds of sandstone which arc the sources of hr time the water supply Artesian well 11 feet d drop I form pt practically cU ally Inexhaustible meant means Af or lf irrigation and such ucb di deep cp won wells havn ha I been used from ancient times time The rho de depressions do- do were fr once the beds of nt lakes and amid the time water in tIme the sandstone tono probably probably proba proba- bl bly has lisa Its sources source In the tho Ab bs b's s lii coughs and it was fashionable l ti tito to bed feet first firt the high irl TO traveling man was wu the usual nd thIr thin was part of his business to bet bf Good Fellow When he lIe c called a 1 merchant his first act was toj toi to It all hands to the fusil oil war ware and he was expected to get ever ever mellow before he lie hinted at bit hii ness s. That sort of tra ff as much an anachronism now now the town fier enier who used to w wi pie up at 2 o'clock in the mon montell tell them what the weather r The present day merchant wo would Id Ida a riot alarm to the police st static ti commercial traveler with a low low low-ae jag called upon him and tried f 1 him goods And the condition conditio similar in iii all branches of industry The drinking man is is' and out th there rc is no place for forb hf the off ff place |
