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...Scotch town of Levenford, James Brodie, hatter, independent as a hog on ice, was considered an outstanding citizen, considered himself preeminent. That he was merely a hatter was a source of amusement to him; his business had brought him comfort but he thought it far beneath him. Brodie had built himself a house the town wondered at: too small for a castle, too grand for a small house. But no one laughed at Brodie to his face. A bull of a man. he had a bull's temper, a bull's disregard of neighbors' china-shops. Brutal...
Forrest was a born fighter; what he had to learn about soldiering he learned at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Hog Mountain, Chickamauga, Brice's Cross-Roads. He had a great contempt for West Pointers. After a disastrous action whose plans he had not approved, his commander, General Stephen D. Lee, called a council of war, asked Forrest if he had any ideas. "Yes, sir," said Forrest. "I've always got ideas, and I'll tell you one thing, General Lee. If I knew as much about West Point tactics as you, the Yankees would whip hell out of me every...
...Municipal Sanitation, derive any revenue from garbage disposal. A notable exception is Miami where the incinerator plants collect $5,000 per year from a hospital to supply it with steam for laundering and cooking. Many a small city helps dispose of its garbage by feeding it either to hogs of its own or by turning it over to private piggeries. Among hog-feeding towns Alhambra, Calif., Portland, Me., Lynn, Mass., Albany, N. Y. Grand Rapids, Lansing and Ann Arbor, Mich, truck their refuse to piggeries. The cost of incineration runs from 26? per ton at Florence...
...over by the U. S. Government. A truck goes through Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi carrying instructors who teach the Negro farmer how to improve his farm, his wife how to manage the farmhouse. Tuskegee attempts to better the quality of local livestock: it will swap a pedigreed cow, chicken, hog with a farmer, take in exchange his meaner stock for its larder. Tuskegee sponsors the only clinic in the U. S. where Negro doctors may meet and discuss their special problems; last week 300 Negro physicians & surgeons attended the annual meeting...