| Summary: | Newsletter of the North Dakota School for the Deaf. 8 THE NORTH DAKOTA BANNER (Continued from page 6.) on.” So I wrote to them again and described the class pin we desired. The lettering N. D. S. D. on the pin the company described may be shown so plainly as on the pin we want. We accepted the price they quoted us.—Clenora Hal-vorson. March 14—Yesterday morning I took charge of the printing-office during Mr. Morris’ absence. After Nick Braunagel changed the liners to 10 pt. face on 11 pt. body, he started to run the linotype, but it stopped. We found that Nick forgot to adjust the knife block to 11 pt. and the slug stuck. We didn’t know what to do, as we had never had such an experience before. So Mr. Read called Mr. Long to come over and adjust the linotype. Mr. Long told me to switch on the electric motor, and raised the ejecting pawl and pulled out the controlling lever, and the machine revolved to its normal position. He opened the vise and told Nick to unscrew the liners and get the slug out. Nick said that he was glad he learned something new from the experience. He and I put the 8 pt. matrices into the magazine after having run out the 10 pt. matrices. Nick went to school at 10:30. I operated the iinotype for the Banner without trouble. After having set all the copies, I corrected the fourth and fifth pages. The Banner will be out this afternoon.—Frank Ivovar. Another Monarch Deposed. John Barleycorn is the world’s most un-happy monarch to-day. Wilhelm of Prussia, Nicholas of Russia, Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Constantine of Greece, Charles of Austria—all have gone into the trash barrel of cast-off things. And now John Barleycorn is toppling upon his world-wide throne. Compared to the king of liquor, all these other emperors are mere pikers in the game of autocracy and their losses are dimmed accordingly. True Wilhelm lost the throne of an empire, Nicholas was overthrown as czar of teeming millions, Ferdinand and Constantine and Charles were shorn of scepters which generations had passed down throughout their'royal families, but John Barleycorn—what of him? His reign extended over all peoples and o\er all lands. Kings and emperors and presidents were alike powerless before him. But now— Truly it is a day of change. Banished from the United States and with revolutions against him brewing in most countries of the world, perhaps the present generation may live to see the wonder of the ages spread throughout all the earth. Roumania and Russia, Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland, Iceland and Greenland and the Faroe Islands of Denmark— all have driven John Barleycorn from kingship in those islands. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand and Scotland have given their peoples local option on the question of whether they want John Barleycorn’s sceptre to reign over them. • France, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy have prohibited the sale of absinthe and other spirited liquors manufactured by the loyal subjects of King John. Various countries which are under the sway of so-called Prohibition religions— China, Japan, India, Persia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Arabia, certain other parts of Asia and Northern Africa—are making war upon the liquor traffic by which John Barleycorn fills his royal coffers. And so it goes all over the world. John Barleycorn, “Emperor of the World,” wears an uneasy crown upon his head today.” —Columbus Citizen. The Versatile Chinaman. In commenting upon the marvelous adaptability of the Chinaman, Mr. Charles Ernest Scott, in his book, China From Within, quotes Bishop Fowler’s picturesque tribute to our Oriental neighbor. The Chinaman, as Bishop Fowler says, crosses all seas, burrows into all continents. He excels the Saxon in ability to toil in all climates; he matches the Russian in enduring Arctic storms; he surpasses the Negro in laboring in the tropics. He is the one cosmopolitan, at home everywhere, as if he owned the world. Silent, gentle, -submissive, industrious,' economical, temperate, enduring—he thrives everywhere, on mountains, in the deserts, on the plains, on the islands of the sea. As the serpent, with his one ‘ability to crawl, competes in all realms,—without fins swims with the fish, without hands climbs with the monkey, without feet runs with the panther,—so the Chinaman, with his supreme gift of adaptability, competes successfully with the sailor on the sea, with the frontierman in the wilderness, with the miner in the earth, with the exile in his wanderings. He never asks for a fair chance, and never gets it. He takes a chance beneath the notice of anyone else’s contempt, and succeeds. Once landed, he abides. The individual changes, but the kind continues. All governments that let him alone suit him. He never breeds or joins revolutions abroad. He is versatile; and all industries that have a possible margin attract him. Like a mongoose, he can run through any passageway. Although fond of a palace, he can live in a hut; although fond of s]:ace, he can live in a sewer pipe—and be at home anywhere.—The Youth’s Companion. Milk as a Food. The increased cost of production has caused a serious decrease in the consumption of milk and other dairy products. The need to practice economy that nearly everyone has felt during the last year has affected the purchases of milk, and that in turn has compelled the dairyman to curtail his production of milk. It would be better for the public health if people would economize more rigorously in almost any other way than in the use of dairy products. Until recently those products constituted from fifteen to twenty per cent of the food of the American people. Wherever the consumption of milk was large, tuberculosis was held in check. With a noticeable decrease in the consumption of milk and butter, the resistance to tuberculosis is weakened. In all institutions where tuberculosis is successfully treated the liberal, not to say lavish, use of milk as a food is the principal item in the treatment; it is even regarded as more important to the patient than fresh air and sunshine. Scientific observation shows that the milk-consuming races are stronger physically and mentally and are longer-lived than those in whose diet milk forms a relatively insignificant part. But milk is good as a food only when it is produced under sanitary conditions. Producing milk under such conditions is in these days expensive. Effort on the part of the public to insist that milk be produced at a price out of proportion to the high prices that prevail for other commodities means either less milk or poorer milk. People should not discourage the milk producer.—The Youth’s Companion. Plow Acres in Less Than Five minutes. The world’s record for plowing was recently broken in a demonstration at Purdue University, Indiana, in which a gang plow having fifty plows and drawn by three traction engines turned over a stubble at the rate of an acre every four and one quarter minutes. This mammoth plow cuts a strip nearly sixty feet wide, and turns over seven acres for every mile it travels. Each of the fifty plows is dependent on the others, rising and falling as easily and naturally as a wooden chip on the surface of rough water, so that the service of. the machine is not confined to ground absolutely level. What such a plow can accomplish when started out on an open, fairly level prairie is remarkable. Allowing for' no delays, it will turn over seven acres for every mile travelled, fourteen acres evei’y hour, and working twelve hours per day, six days per week, it will plow one thousand acres. Working two shifts of men and plowing all night, as is now often done, the acreage turned over a week would be just doubled. Fifty years ago a farmer with his team of oxen had to toil from dawn to sunset to break an acre of land, walking more than ten miles to the acre.—Selected. What the Chevrons Tell on the Soldier. A gold V worn point down on the lower half of the left sleeve nieans six months service in the theater of operations; every addititonal six months means another gold chevron. A sky blue chevron means less than six months service in the theater of operations. A gold chevron worn on the right sleeve means that the wearer was wounded. A silver chevron worn on the left sleeve means six months service outside the theater of operations. A red chevron means that the wearer has received his honorable discharge from the army. Burning Coal A Capital Offense. In the reign of Edward I the inhabitants of London petitioned the king against the growing use of ccal, declaring that it was “a public nuisance, corrupting the air wi.th its stink and smoke, to the great detriment of their health.” Whereupon the king prohibited its use, offenders to be punished for a first offense by a fine, and a second to have their kilns and furnaces destroyed. The practice of using coal was at length made a capital offense, and a man was tried, condemned and hanged for burning coal in London.—Detroit News.
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