placed entirely outside of the jurisdiction of the League of Nations. June 22.-The reconditioned American liner Leviathan averages 28.04 knots an hour for five hours on her trial trip, eclipsing all world's speed records for passenger liners. In a speech at Kansas City President Harding urges compulsory consolidation of the nation's railroads into a few systems as the only method by which the transportation problem of the country can be met without burdening the taxpayers. June 23.-Federal officials break British customs seals and remove from the White Star liner Baltic all its liquor supply, except a limited quantity for medicinal purposes. The American S. S. Leviathan makes a new world's speed mark by steaming 687 nautical miles in 25 hours, an average of 27.48 knots an hour. June 24. Sumner Curtis, representative of the Republican National Committee with President Harding's touring party, and Thomas A. French, of Denver, are killed, and Thomas F. Dawson, a newspaper man of Colorado, and Donald Craig, a Washington correspondent, are injured when their automobile plunges over an embankment into Bear Creek Cañon, near Denver. June 25. In a speech at Denver, Colorado, President Harding urges obedience to the law and says, "they are a small, and a greatly mistaken, minority who believe the Eighteenth Amendment will ever be repealed," and that "whatever changes may be made will represent the sincere purpose of effective enforcement rather than moderation of the general policy." At Cheyenne, Wyoming, President Harding expresses opposition to nationalizing the coal-mines, and says that remedial suggestions for the coal problem may be expected from the report to Congress next December of the United States Coal Commission. Seven people are killed and fifty-six are injured when two wooden cars leave the "L" tracks in Brooklyn and plunge to the street below. Unreasonable.-"I hear that Hot Wind Hank shot up the Palace Bar last night," remarked a tenderfoot in Holster, Arizona. "Ugh-huh," replied Black Powder Andy. "Reckon he did." "What were his reasons?" "Reasons?" bellowed the awakened Andy. "Is this yeah town gettin' so blame eivilized that a feller's gotta have reasons for every little thing he does?"— American Legion Weekly. A Treat for Both.—A prominent playwright was in Atlantic City, supervising one of his plays. One night he saw an old scrub-woman bent over her work. Thinking to give her a treat, the playwright stopt and asked her, "Would you like to go to a theater, to-morrow night?" The woman looked up, studied his face earnestly, then said: "I can't go to-morrow night. Can't you get some other night off?"--Chicago Tribune. Modern Literature.-"I want a book for a high-school boy." "How about Fielding?" "I dunno. Got anything on baserunning?” — Louisville Courier-Journal. 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"Everything I can lay my hands on."Yale Record. Generous Jurist. JUDGE-"Twenty years at hard labor." PRISONER "All I have to say is that you are mighty liberal with another man's time."-Puppet. Time to Change. "I hear that Kitty is getting a divorce." "Yes, she married a Captain during the war and now, of course, he's frightfully out of style."-Life. We All Know Him.-JACK-"What kind of a fellow is Blinks?" BILL "Well, he is one of those fellows who always grab the stool when there is a piano to be moved."-Oregon Lemin Punch. Of Two Evils.-FOND PARENT "Now, Doris, if you won't kiss your uncle, I shall have to send you to bed." DORIS (after a few moments' silence)"Very well-good-night, mama." - The Humorist (London). Slight Chance Nowadays.-THE MAN (having surrendered his seat)-"I beg your pardon!" THE GIRL "I didn't speak!" THE MAN "Sorry, I'm sure. I thought you said 'thank you'!"-The Bystander (London). Maybe. Stout Women, Attention.- Literature.-Advt. * * * Sort of a literary digest, eh?-Border Cities Star (Windsor, Canada). Well, What Is It? In the motion picture "Robin Hood," Lady Marian desires to send a message to the Earl of Huntington and chooses Little John to act as her messenger. She presents John with a scroll which is protected by what seems to be a black case or tube. As she handed it over, a small boy in the audience asked his mother what it was. "That's a flashlight," she answered in a loud voice. "Don't show your ignorance, Mary," snapt her husband. "They didn't have flashlights in those days. That's a thermos bottle."-American Legion Weekly. Revenge.-A woman entered a theater recently, and happened to take a seat in front of a newly married couple. She was scarcely seated before they began making remarks about her. Her last year's hat and cloak were criticized with more or less giggling on the bride's part, and there is no telling what might have come next if the woman had not put a stop to the conversation by a bit of clever strategy. She turned her head, noticed that the bride was considerably older than the bridegroom, and in smooth tones said: "Madam, will you please ask your son to remove his feet from the back of my chair?" The Daily Mail (Brisbane, Australia). Outclassed.-FOND UNCLE "Do you like riding on my knee very much?" NIECE "Oh, no. I have ridden a real donkey!"-Sans Gêne (Paris). Extra-ladylike.- THE ACTOR - "Have you special terms for actors, madam?" THE LANDLADY "Yes, I 'ave; but I 'ope I'm too much of a lady to use them." -Sydney Bulletin (Australia). No Such Thing.-"Has that mule of yours got a pedigree, Sam?" "No sah! No, indeedy! Dere ain't nuffin de matter wif dis mule. He am puffectly sound, sah."-Boston Transcript. Many Stops.-"Grandpop, what kind of time did the stage coaches make in the old days?" "It all depended, son." "On how dry the roads were, I suppose?" "And how dry the driver was."—Louisville Courier-Journal. His Progress.-An old Southern planter met one of his former negroes whom he had not seen for a long time. "Well well!" said the planter. "What are you doing now, Uncle Amos?" "I's preachin' of de gospel." "Nossuh. At de fust I use notes, but now I demands de cash."- New Success. "Things which are equal to the same thing are equal to anything else." "A grass widow is the wife of a dead vegetarian." "Oceanica is that continent which contains no land." "In India a man out of a cask may not marry a woman out of another cask." "Parallel lines are the same distance all the way and do not meet unless you bend them." "Gravitation is that which if there were none we should all fly away." "Louis XVI was gelatined during the French Revolution." "Horse power is the distance one horse can carry a pound of water in an hour." "Palsy is a kind of new writer's dance." "Letters in sloping print are hysterics." The Christian Evangelist (St. Louis) THE LEXICOGRAPHER'S EASY CHAIR To decide questions concerning the correct use of words for this column, the Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary is consulted as arbiter. Readers will please bear in mind that no notice will be taken of anonymous communications. "J. B. B., Toronto, Canada. "I recently heard quite an educated lady make use of the word gotten for got. I do not think you will find the word gotten in any modern dictionary." Passing over the characteristic Anglicism "quite an educated lady," the Lexicographer ventures to inform "J. B. B." that the word gotten has been good English since 1340. It is to be found in Funk & Wagnalls NEW STANDARD DICTIONARY, and in every other dictionary worthy of the name available to him. Furthermore, it occurs in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, Richard II., and Henry VI. It is found also in Gladstone's Odes of Horace. "W. E. F.," Charleston, Mo.-(1) The word Khalifa, not Chalifa, is an Arabic term meaning "successor," and was applied to the Mohammedan rulers following the Prophet, known in English as Caliphs, which is another form of the same word. The word is pronounced Ka-li'fa-first a as in art, i as in police, second a as in final. (2) Apuleius's Golden Ass. This was a romance by Apuleius, a Roman satirist of the 2d century B. C. It describes the adventures of a young man named Lucian, who is transformed into an ass but retains his human consciousness. (3) The horse of brass, an automaton which had the power of flight, is described in the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, in the Story of the Third Calender, a young man who rode the animal through the air to Bagdad and whose eye was knocked out by a whisk of its tail as he dismounted. (4) The story the Bishop of Bingen and the mouse-tower on the Rhine alludes to Archbishop Hatto, of Mentz, who was devoured by mice in what is known as the "mouse-tower," situated on an island in the Rhine near Bingen. The Archbishop is said to have burned a number of peasants in a barn in time of famine, to decrease the number of those requiring food, and to have been devoured by mice as a judgment. (5) Regarding the word bagne, with which Jean Valjean was connected in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, it is French and means a convict prison or hulks. Prisoners kept in these places were forced to work with a ball and chain on their legs and were branded on the shoulder for purposes of identification. The pronunciation is ba'nya-the first a as in art, the second a as in inal. (6) The contention that a prophecy can be Messianic and yet not personal seems to be a fair use if the word personal be taken to mean "pertaining to a characteristic of a particular person. That is to say that this prophecy refers to a Messiah, but to no particular individual as being that Messiah. In this sense we think the prophecy could be characterized as "impersonal." "S. R. M.," Catonsville, Md.-(1) Sir George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, to whom the Charter of Maryland was issued, died in England on April 15, 1632, before the Charter had been sealed with the great seal, and the Charter was transferred to his son, Cecilius Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, who carried out his father's project, and founded the colony. (2) The first capital of Maryland was Saint Marie's (Saint Mary's), but in 1776 the city of Annapolis was selected. (3) The first white settlement in Maryland was on the Island of Saint Clements, where Leonard Calvert, a brother of Lord Baltimore, landed with a party of about 300 persons, on March 25, 1634. He subsequently bought from the Indians on the mainland a village and thirty square miles of territory, where he established his capital, and called it Saint Marie's. (4) Mason and Dizon's line is the boundary between the States of Maryland and Pennsylvania, drawn by two English surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon between 1764 and 1767, and marked by stones brought from England for the purpose. This line became famous in later times as the dividing line between the slave and the free States. (5) In 1776-1777 Congress met in a tavern in Baltimore, being afraid that the British might capture Philadelphia, where they had previously met. Pronounced Clicquot Club GINGER ALE 4274 Franklin Keeping pace with the demand for this new The Franklin Sedan gives people the finest Powerful New Six Motor Many Franklin owners are among those who have been THE FRANKLIN SEDAN $2850. |