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Deworaiic atcha
Bellefonte, Pa. May 4, 1906,
What They Call It
Grandma says we're right in style
A-sittin’ 1n our automo-bi'e,
Grandpa says we're fit to kill,
A-ridin’ in our automo-bill,
Ma, she says we ought to feel
Grateful fer our automo-beel,
Pa says there ain't no other man
Kin run an auto like he can.
Auntie preaches near and far
'Bout our lovely touring ear.
Uncle Bill says he ain't seen
Nowhere such a good machine.
Brother Jim, he keeps a braggin’
‘Bout the speed of our new wagon.
But, oh, it sounds so grand and noble
When sister Sue says automoble,
—=—The world at best ix but a hash of pleasure
and of pain,
Some days are bright and sunny and some
all slashed with rain,
And that's just how it ought to be, for when
the clouds roll by
We'l Iknow just how to 'preciate the bright | i
and smilin’ sky.
So learn to take it as it comes and don't
sweat at the pores,
Because the Lord's opinion doesn't coin-
cide with yours,
But always keep rememberin’ wher cares
your path enshroud,
That God has lots of sunshine to spill be-
hind the cloud,
—————
HOW ELLEN CAME TO STEAL THE
INDIAN BABY,
Never was a day brighter, or a sky bluer,
or life jollier, than on the morning when
little Ellen’s papa and mama took her to
visit the Indians,—real, live Indians thas
did nothing but weave baskets and sell
baskets and sing strange songs all the day
through. Never was a little girl happier,
broad, low step of the carriage
ment, and then lifting it with all ber might
and main, she first kneeled and then stood
this to love, coddle, sing to, and play with | Crack in Crust of Earth Caused Quake,
up at the big, lonely house that was her |
home. Just then a bright thought flashed
through ber mind : the doll wasn’t with
the other things—it was out under a tree ;
and this Sudiud wae was Surely too dg
lay with dolls. Perbaps, ob, perhaps,
the didn’s carefor it! She ran back to
question Ulla-Ulla.
**Does you love your dolly ?''she ventur-
ed, very timidly, indeed.
Ulla-Ulla was uncertain what to say,
and then, remembering she bad said ‘Yes’
to everything so far, she concluded it was
time to vary the conversation a little, and
answered, ‘Nah !”’
Ellen's heart gave a great bound, and
she stood with ciasped hands before the
Indian woman, a great hope showing in
her eyes.
“Oh !”’ she exclaimed, with a deep
breath, “‘if you don’t care for it one teen-
ty-taunty bit, would yov—won’s you
please give it to me ?"’
Ulla-Ulla thought a moment. The little
girl’s eager manner, her raised voice and
flashed cheeks, all told the Indian woman
she was asking for some unusual privilege.
Now, every one that saw her Sparkling-
Eyes always wanted to do one thing—to
kiss ber,—she was so pretty and dark and
clean for an Indian baby. Ulla-Ulla re-
membered this, and decided it must be
what the little papoose desired.
‘‘Yah,” she laughed, and nodded ; and
she turned back to her weaving and sing-
ng.
Ellen danced out of the tent to the tree,
and laboriously picking up her present,
staggered away with it. Fortunately, the
carriage wae not far distant, and the baby
was very small and light, so that by a
great effort she managed to carry it across
the open space to the carriage. The In.
dians were all in their tents, busy with
their customers ; #0 it came about that no
one saw Ellen as she carried her heavy load
to the carriage steps. Big Jim was down
by the brook, whittling a stick and whist-
ling ; so not even he observed Ellen’s un-
usual actions. And she, laughing to ber-
sell, thought, ‘It's a wery big dolly, an’
is just awful heavy ; but won’t papa and
mama be s’prised when they see it !’’ And
Ellen was right ; they were.
The little girl rested her load on the
for a mo-
for that matter, than was Ellen's own on the step and placed it on the bottom of
sweet little self, all spick-and-span and
dainty in ber little frock, from the crown
of her carly head to the tips of her little
lack shoes. Aud never was a ride over 1
the carriage.
straightened herself, panting from the el-
fort she had made, and then pushed the
This accomplished, she
ittle sleeper far back under the seas,
the sunlit hills and between the meadows among the extra blankets.
of gold butter-cups and white daisies more
beautiful.
At last the white tents of the Indians
came in sight, and Big Jim got down to
hold the horses’ heads ; papa got down to
lifts his girlie out, and mama stood by to
kiss her when she was lifted down ; and
Ellen's little feet kicked with impatience
to be set upon the ground, while Big Jim
smiled and smiled, and showed all his
shining rows of ivory teeth. Then some
folks came up to talk with her papa and
mama ; Big Jim unhitched the horses and
led them to a neighboring brook to drink 3
and Ellen was left alone, with the caution
not to wander far, for papa and mama
would be back in a minute and show their
baby everything. Bat Ellen waited and
waited—oh, ever and ever so long ! as ske
thought—until she couldn’s wait any
longer, and scampered away to the first
big tent just to peep in.
Oh, it was a regalar fairyland for Ellen
in the big tent !
ole there were long, clean boards covered
with dingy shawls and set on barrels. On
the boards were baskets—heaps of baskets,
of every size and shape and color that El
len had ever dreamed of in all her life.
Now, Ellen was partial to baskets—why,
even then, as she peeped in the door, El-
len held a basket clutched tightly in her
little dimpled bands, and in shat basket
there were big, sqnare soda-crackers, of
course. So, being interested in baskets,
Ellen timidly entered to look about.
There were more baskets on the ground
under the counter, and more still in the
back of the tent ! There were carved In-
dian boy dollies and girl dollies, and oa-
noes, and bows and arrows, and—oh, every-
thing ! Bot back of the counter her nyes
caught sight of something still more inter-
esting. There were great heaps of sweer-
grass of every color of the rainbow, and 1
the midst of it Ulla-Ulla, the Squaw, sat
and sang Indian ballads, ‘and wove the
baskets for her husband to sell. Ellen
looked up into the dusky face of the In-
dian who was selling a bow and arrow to
a tall gentleman for bis little hoy, but the
Indian did not see her, and, within, Ulla
Ulla sat and wove on and on.
Ellen could not resist the temptation
any longer ; she darted under the counter,
and in an instant was beside Ulla-Ulla,
the sweet-grass, and the unfinished baskets.
Ulla-Ulla smiled and then laughed, and
Ellen smiled and laughed, too. Ulla. Ulla
was a happy Indian, and contented with
her lot ; but she knew no English except
yes” and “‘no”’—the only two Eoglish
words the could even try to say. Her
lord and master did the relling, and ‘‘yes”’
and “vo” go a great way when wisely
used. Soshe stayed at the back of the
tent, squatting there for honre, and wove
sweet-scented grasses into gorgeous has-
kets, and watched little Sparkling-Eyes,
her only child and the pride of her heart,
dozing away the hours, snugly wiapped up
and fastened to a board that either leaned
Ngaingt A tree or swung airily fiom its
ches
“Do you make all those baskets?’ El.
len began, the awe her little heart felt at
speaking to a real, *‘truly’’ Indian creep-
ing into her voice,
“Yes,” granted Ulla-Ulla—only she pro-
nounced it *‘yah.”’
“Do you always live in a hig tens?”
Ellen ventured again.
Arranged in a great cir-
Just then Ellen’s folks came back, and
she told them how she had seen the In-
dians, and bad had ‘‘just a splendid time"
(but never a word of the Indian dolly—of
course not !) So they all bundled back
into the carriage, and Jim brought back
the horses and had them harnessed up in a
trice. Then be climbed to his box, crack-
ed his whip, and they wheeled gaily away
homeward. Yet all this time Ulla-Ulla
worked on, laughing to herself, between
ber songs, at the little white papoose, and
chanting a few notes from pure joy and
pride at owning such a baby as Sparkling-
Eyes.
“Cp by the four cross-roads, where the
wild woodbine twines about the old fence-
rails, the prancing span drew up and stop-
ped ; and Ellen and her mama got out to
pick the violets that hid their blue heads
among the grasses.
But while Ellen aud her mother were
gathering flowers as the cross-roads, there
was wailing fu the camp. Ulla-Ulla went
out to get her baby, and found her gone!
Dismay was in her heart and sorrow in the
village, and the braves rushed here and
there in search for the lost one, while the
mother wept, beat her breast, and tore her
hair.
At the cross roads the flowers were thick,
and Eilen and her mother gathered them
to their hearts’ content. A vew joy filled
Ellen's heart. fur she owned a very hig
dolly now. Little did she dream, how-
ever, of the sorrow «he had cansed to the
Indian mother in tie tent she bad visited !
Ellen's mother approached the back of the
cariioge to place her Jowers there, where
they woun'!d keep fresher than in her hands.
“No, mama, not there! Let me carry
‘em, —uh, please, do!" exclaimed Ellen.
She didn't care to bave her mother know
her secret yet. The surprise would he
ureater, she thought, if she waited until
they reached howe. But jast then, from
the extra robes under the seat, there came
a merry chuckle, and from ont the depths
two little brown fists were thrust opward
and grabbed for the bunch of flowers,
“Oh, my soul !"’ gasped Ellen's mother,
fairly struck dumb with amazement,
“Where—What—!"" She conld say uo
more in her rurprise, and the expression
on her face was ludicrous to sex, She lean-
ed over and lifted the listle Indian baby
out.
“Why—why—!'" she gasped again ;and
Ellen’s papa and Big Jim sat in their seats
and laughed. so comical was the sight.
“It’s my dolly I" Ellen exclaimed indig-
nantly, almost ready to ory. They were
all laughing—langhing at the dolly—when
they all ought to he as surprised as they
could be !
“On my word,” gasped her father at
last, in such amazement as to satisfy even
Ellen—*‘on my word —your dolly 1"
But when Ellen had finally told them
the whole story, little hy little, Jim, papa,
and even mama laughed and laughed and
then suddenly began to look very serious,
until Ellen was beginning to cry.
Before long there drove into the midst of
the sorrowing village a carriage containing
a big, hiack coachman, a smiling father and
mother, a very penitent Ellen, and a little
brown Indian papoose. Ellen's mama had
told her how sad and sorry Sparkling.
Eyes’s mama must feel to lose her haby,
and had explained how she came to con-
sent to its being taken away, and, last of
Ulla-Ulla watched her face sharply toa) had promised to buy Ellen the very
see whether a “yes or a ‘no’ was requir-
nicest doll her papa could find in all the
ed in answer, and fioally said *-Yab,"— | jre0y city of Boston when he returned to
which was not true at all, as Ulla-Ulla
would have known could she have under-
stood better what Ellen had said to her.
Just then Ellen canght sight of little
Sparkling-Eves ont under the tree in the
sunlight.
his husiness there the following Monday.
So Ellen was partly satisfied at last,
The Indians clustered about the carriage,
Suite J surprised at the grand return so
hy Sparkling. Eves as Ellen's parents
The flaps at the hack of the tent oo when they discovered her in the ear-
that served for doors were fastened back riage
with wooden thongs, so that the afternoon
Ulla-Ulla received her lost one to her
sunlight might stream into the Indian | 4rpng again, and langhed quietly in her
home ; and thiongh this opening Ellen saw
the hahy, so still and quiet there. In
truth, listle Sparkling-Eyes wae, at that
moment, far away in dreamiand.
“Oh, oh, oh!’ exclaimed Ellen, ina
transport of joy and surprise at her discoy-
ery, “ia thay heantifal dolly sonrs—thar
g'ear. hig, heaunfa! dolly 2
“Yah,” sais! Ulla-Ulla, smiling happily
at the praise she supposed the Ingle white
prose was giving her haby, ol
Pe Elie stoned still in wonder and admira-
tion at such a lovely ‘‘doll.”” She had
never heen near a bahy in all her short lit-
tle life—indeed, she had never even seen
ong ! — 80 how was she to know this was
strange Indian fashion when she was told
the tale of how «he gave her baby away.
Bat Ulla Ulla’ hushand ha<iened back
to his wigwam. and brought Ellen the very
nicest and prettiest hasker of all his store,
—By David MacGregor Cheney, in SI,
Nicholas.
~—I% iv not generally known thar to
leanse a chamois leather for plate cleaning
or any other polishing pripose ‘‘the best
way'' is to wash it in lukewarm, soapy
water, and to leave
Inst rinsing water.
leather ns eoft and pliable as when new.
lenty of soap in the
is makes the wash-
not a doll, after all? Her heart began to | To rinse all soap ont will make it hard and
swell with longing for jnst such a doll as dry.
Dry in open air if possible.
Say U. 8. Scientists
Had Nothing to do With Eruption of Vesuvius,
Declare Geoviogists.—Pacific Coast Rising.
Washiogton, April 19th. —Seientists of
the United States Geological Survey ex-
plain the San Francisco earthquake as
probably due to she “faulting’’ of the rocks
along the Pacific coast, and scout the idea
of its having any connection with the erup-
tion of Vesuvius.
The ‘‘faulting”’ theary ds borne out by
the successive shocks, showing a progres-
sive movement down the Pacific coast.
The geological “fault’’ is nothing wore
or less than a crack in the cross of the
earth, and sometimes the weight above he-
comes 0 great that the rocks settle, squeez-
ing up closer. That makes an earthquake.
The formation of the Pacific coast is pe-
culiar. The coast line has been rising for
thousands of years. Old beaches where
the sea evidently at one time washed are
now found high upon cliffs. Holes proba-
biy bored by the date-fish, which harrows
in the beaches, are now seen in the oliffs
many feet above the sea level, showing
that the coast has risen out of the water,
Along the coast of California, ata com-
paratively short distance from the shore,
the shoal water changes from a depth of a
few fathoms and becomes so deep that no
accurate soundings have ever been made.
This indicates a great sea-cliff, and it runs
the entire length of the continent and even
arouud to the coast of China and Japan,
GREAT EARTHQUAKE LINE.
*“This line is characterized by a deep ad-
joining abyss,” says Dr. G. F. Becker,
chief of the division of physical research of
the Geological Sarvey.
*“That line is the great volcanic line and
the great earthquake line of the world. It
passes through the volcanic regions of Jap-
an, through the Alentian Islande, along
the const of Alaska and to Mount Shasta,
which, though not an active volcano, is
representative of the type, then extending
to South America with characteristic vol-
canic developments.
“All along the South American coast
there have been deep uplifts on this plane.
It is a peculiar fissure of the earth.
‘Now there bave heen changes in the
elevation along the line of this fissure, doe
to ocbanges in the elevation and changed
con litions inside the earth, and it is owing
to these chavges or ‘‘faults’’ that the
ground is shaken in California while the
earth’s rocks are readjusting themselves,
‘The process is going on all the time,
but generally it is #0 gradual that it is not
accompanied with any great tremor in the
locanties affected.
‘Furthermore, il these disturbances at-
tending the uplift occur at numerons per-
iods, then itis likely tbat they will be
only mild in character. !f they should he
postponed fora long period, then, when
the accumulated nplift does come, the
shake will be relatively severe,
“I am not prepared to say this particn-
lar earthquake was accompanied with a
measurable uplift ; that will have to be de-
termined by scientific investigation ; hut,
following out the general rule on the Pa-
cific coast, it is to be expected.
‘In my opinion, there can be no connec-
tion whatever between the San Francisco
earthquake and the Vesuvius eruptions.
The first and conclusive reason is that Ve-
suvius is not on the same fissure of the
earth as California. Then, too, the shakes
caused by Vesuvius could affect only a lo-
cal area.
“The violent eruption would undoubs-
edly affect the surrounding neighborhood,
but from a geological standpoint the forma-
tion of the earth in the two regions is of
such a distinotly different chaiaoter, and
the distance of six thonsand miles or more
ix #0 great that the tremor wounld not be
carried #o far.
SAYS WORST IS OVER.
“It would not be suprising if we heard
of severe shakes along the fissure extending
from California to South America, which [
have described, and possibly we will hear
reports of a disturbance in Chile similar to
that in San Francisco, but it would be due
to the same change in elevation. I would
like to add that I do not think there is any
danger of a recurrence of a severe earth-
quake of this kind in California for a very
long period of time.
“Of course, there may be mild shakes
for some time, but the readjustment of the
earth's crust, in this disturbance. was
probably so complete that there will be no
change in the geological formation for many
ears,
y ‘The people of San Francisco should be
encouraged to go ahead and build up their
city greater than ever, because they may
feel confident that the worst is over.’
Dr. Becker's declaration that the quakes
are apt to he more severe when infrequent
is horne out by the fact that San Francis-
oo, although regarded as an earthquake
centre, had heen measurably free from
shocks for several years,
It is explained that in addition to the
“fanlt”’ on the Pacificside of the city there
is a known “fault” ronningdown the San
Joaquin valley. The settling of the orack
has caused many of the slight shocks which
San Francisco has felt from time to time.
It is suggested that the severity of the
reat shock a short time ago may have
Re, due to the settling of the Pacific and
the San Joaquin ‘‘faults’” at the same
time,
Animal Weather Prophets.
Birds and animals are often very trust.
worthy ‘weather prophets,” says the II-
lustrated Rural Industries. When crows
are seen to glide kite-like, or tumble in
somersaults toward the earth, rough
weather is certain to follow within 48
hours. Again, when they stay about the
home pastures, perching on low trees and
hedgerows, returning to their roosting.
lace early in the day with much eclamor-
ng, rain, and probably wind, is immi-
nent. Starlings alen congregate and join
the rooks on such occasions. Woodpeck-
ers often utter their laughing cry, and pea-
cocks their hideous wail, before wet weath-
er, hut neither of these signs is quite trust.
worthy.
When robins sing in low hedges or in
warden shrubberies tain may be expeoted,
but when they ving perched at a high alti-
tude it will generally he fine. The high
flight of swallows indicates that it will he
fine, and vice versa. Owly, especially in
the winter. are usnally silent hefore rain,
but in settled weather they hoot excessive-
ly. The bleating of sheep in winter even.
ings or at night is nearly always followed
hy revere weather. Shepherds contend
that when sheep become frolicsome and
hutt one another there is a storm coming.
The appearance of many earthworms is
also a #ign of rain.
——Mr. Muoggs—Don’t you like to stroll
out through the meadows and vernal vales
in spring ?
Miss Diebl-~Not since a cow acted like a
Srsusmaker and put a gore in my new
skirt,
i
The Destruction of Flies.
The fly is doomed ; the fiat has gone
forth, and its days are numbered. Doctors
have recognized the fact thas the house fly
is not only a unisance, bat also a real dan-
ger, because it is the bearer of microbes
and nastiness of all kinds. Fired with the
spirit of enterprise, and wishing to do good
to humanity as large, the Matin, of Paris,
recently offered a prize to the discoverer of
the most practical and efficacious means of
destroying these insect pests, and thos
eliminating one great source of the spread
of epidemics.
A pamphlet entitled ‘‘Delenda Musca"
has carried off the prize.
According to the writer of this essay,
very few people are aware that the domestic
fly lays its eggs in cesspools, drains, liquid
manure, and dung heaps of all kinds. In
these deleetable media the Musca domestica
deposits oblong eggs, which are opened by
the detachment of a narrow logitudinal
baud or strip—much in the same way as
the blade of a knife is opened. The larvae
grow with sorprising rapidity, attaining
their full size, in sammer, in eight days’
time. One fly may give birth to midious
of others, as it iireeds continuously for sev-
eral consecutive months (usually from May
to October.) Assuming that one specimen
lays 200 eggs (containing an equal nom-
ber of males and females) then, as will be
seen from an easy calculation, in six
months’ time one hundred thousand mil-
lion flies will be brought into the world to
tease bald-headed men and the helpless in
general. Alter showing that it is useless
to attack the fnll.grown insect, the author
seeks some means of destroying it while it
is in the period covered hy the laying of
the egg to the formation of the pupa—jnst
when the insect is most vulnerable, and is
found collected together in more or less
considerable quantities.” The greatest
points of attention to this end are cesspools,
muck heaps, drains, manure heaps, and the
like. . Arsenic and arsenical compounds
should not be used for the destruction of
flies’ eggs and larvae in open ceexpools in
country districts, where—too often, un-
fortunately—they are in underground or
other commuvication with wells, water-
courses, and springs, which might thus get
poisoned. Recourse should be taken to
some substance which not only dissolves in
the liquid contained in the drain, but
which will penetrate right into the heart
of solid matter. This substance must be
of a nature to withstand fermentations and
all tiansformations experienced by the
solids contained in the cesspool, as they are
always, in such media, of ammoniacal and
reductive nature. These reactions show
that it is useless to employ sulphate of iron,
sulphate of copper, etc., for althongh in
the heginning these metallic salts might
have some effect, they would subsequetly
become changed by fermentative influences
and lose their efficacy. The first trials
made showed that ordinary soda, mixed
with ordinary ohloride of zino (in the pro-
portion of 5 kilogrammes of each to every
cubic meter of matter, ) was quite suflicient
to kill the larvae and prevent the batching
of farther eggs laid in the same place dor-
ing the season. This process could, if neo-
essary, be used for stationary, hermetically
closed cesspools, but it would not do for
movable clofets, sewage tanks, or open
drains. Petrolenm was then tried hy the
author of the pamphlet in question, in the
proportion of one liter to every superficial
meter; hut in a short space of time—due
probably to the slight rise in temperatures
caused hy fermentative processes—the
petroleum disappeared. This was verified
by potting a stick into the i; if
petroleum had still heen present, it would
have left traces thereon. Coal tar was then
tried with much better results, although
they were stil! not all that could be desir-
ed. The most satisfactory results were se-
cured with raw petroleum or raw schist oil
(residae of distillation.) Two liters per
superficial meter were mixed with water,
the whole heing well stirred up with a
piece of wood. This, on being poured into
a drain or closet, will form a stratam of oil
which will destroy all the larvae, while,
even should flies not be prevented from en-
tering the drain, at least all the they
may deposit will be prevented from hatoh-
ing. This oil is sufficiently consistent and
tenacious to adhere to the walls of drains,
to form a coating over solids, and remain
attached thereto for a long time. This pro-
tective layer of oil also facilitates the devel-
opment of avaerobio bacteria which canse
the rapid liquefaction of solids, thus ren-
dering them guite unsuitable as a breeding
ground for Diptera. In the case of manuore
heaps this oil may be mixed with earth,
lime, and fossil phosphates, in which state
it is sprinkled preferably in the spring over
all sources likely to tempt young couples
of the Diptera family to start housekeeping
and the rearing of a family.
S—
Electric Trains for the Simplomn,
It was at first proposed to use steam trains
in the Simplon tunuel, bas afterward the
electric system was decided apon on ac-
count of the high heat of the tunnel com-
ing from the hot springs and again because
it was difficult to ventilate the tunnel and
carry off the smoke. The administration
of the Swiss railroads has lately accepted
the project of the Brown-Boveri eleotrio
firm for installing the system of dynamos
and rolling stock. The traction will be
carricd ous according to the system which
is now in use on the Valtelline road in
Italy. The hydraulic power of the Videria i
and the Rhone will operate a turbin station
and the latter will supply current to a
number of sub-stations situated some 30
miles off. In these the high-tension alter-
nating current will he converted to 2,300-
volt current for the different circuits. A
dam is now building which will be nearly
500 feet long. The head of water is some
30 feet. The main station contains two
balls for the turbins, 120 feet long, and the
dynamo hall lies between the two. Each of
the turbin halls contains four pairs of
horizontal turbines. Each unitlis iaid ont
for 3,000 horse-power at a speed of 200 rev-
olution sper minute. The turbine shafts
pass through the wall and in the dynamo
room they have the alternators mounted on
them. These dynamos have a capacity of
1,500 kilowntte and generate three-phase
cnrient at 25 oyeles. Lombard governors
keep the speed constant. The three-phase
cnrrent passes to the transformer hall,
where a bank of oil transformers raise the
tension to 33,000 volts. For the traffic in
the Simplon tunnel it is intended to use
five electrio locomotives at first, and the
electric system is to he extended to all the
seations of the Simplon road which are
operated he the Swiss railroads, or a total
length of 25 miles. The total cost of the
electric tanipment of the tunnel is esti-
mated at $200,000. It is expected to open
the new line about the middle of May.
Ee
Too Much Nothing.
“This cheese is full of holes,’ complain-
ed the prospective purchaser.
“Yes, sir," said the proprietor. “That's
right.”
‘‘Haven’t yon got one with the holes
full of cheese ?"’
Some Women of the Day.
Bertha Krupp has received a new title,
“Queen Krupp,” by which she is known
all round Eaten . He jaeome goes on =
as does state aud power, e
og the Essen Works, according to a
balance sheet just published, amounts now
for ber, who, with their families, make
more than 200,000 persons dependent upon
ber now. If other concerns he added, we
have a total of 300,000 dependents.
She owns gas works, rail ways, telegraphs,
telephones, her own bakesies, slaughter
houses and general stores. She has even
ber own army, regularly drilled, with stern
rules of discipline; it is called a fire bri-
gade, but is as much a body of picked
troops as any in Germany. Her army
numbers more than 900 men, well armed,
Sentinels march up and down the terrace
of her castle, and there are pickets through-
out the grounds. To get at the queen you
must first pass her incorruptible guards.
She has also police, and a secret service.
Finally, she bas her ambassadors in every
court in Enrope. They may not be known
in the regular diplomatie world as such,
says the Argonauf, bu: they are there all
the same, and are a power to he reckoned
with,
A POLYGLOT ACTRESS,
Mme. Simone Le Bargy, now playing in
a French play at Paris, is surely one of the
most accomplished artists of modern times,
She bas just accepted an engagement to
play in German at the Volks theatre at
Vienna. Mme. Le Bargy speaks German
with the ease and purity with whreh she
speaks English. She is sure to have as
great a success in Anstria as she had this
summer in London.
BUSY MISS ADDAMS,
Miss Jave Addame, the Chicago settle.
ment worker, bas heen appointed special
lecturer for the Wisconsin University sum-
mer session. She will give a series on “The
Newer Ideals of Peace.”
A CLUB WOMAN'S CLEVER FABLE.
Mrs. Sarah A. Evavs, president of the
Oregon State Federation of Women's Clubs,
is also editor of the woman's page in the
Oregon Daily Journal. In a recent issue
she publishes an amusing fable by Mary
Alice Ogden about some eats belonging to
a rich man, fed on cream and sleeping on
cushions, who bad all the rights they
wanted, and were indignant when other
cats, with no rich owners, came petitioning
to he fed. The petted pussies declared
that the conduct of these other feline crea-
tures made them ashamed of being cats.
The allegory is evidently aimed at the
small group of millionaires’ wives in Port-
laud who are opposing woman suffrage.
PROFITED BY HER GEOLOGY.
Miss Gwendoline Murphy, a young Min.
nesota school teacher, bas lately made a
fortune by her knowledge of geology, says
the Woman's Journal. Close to the village
of Mentoune lay a great marsh, covering a
tquate mile, but so surrounded by ele-
vated plains on every side that it would
cost thousande of dollars to drain it. Miss
Murphy bad made a special study of geol-
ogy, geography, mining and allied sciences.
She astonished her friends by using an in-
heritance of about $1000 that had come to
ber in buying the equare mile of marsh.
As soon as winter had frozen the swamp
she began the digging of a great well, six
feet in diameter and 107 feet deep, down
through the strata of solid yellow clay add
blue clay underlying the marsh, to a loose
and porous stratum of sand and coarse
gravel which her studies bad led her to
hope to find at about that distance below
the surface. When spring came again the
entire marsh drained perfectly dry; and
Mies Marphy has now sold the whole of
this formerly worthless land for $350 an
acre.
Progress of the South,
Figures serve to illustrate the great pro-
gress the south has made during the last
25 years, and, as furnished by R. H.
Edmunds of the Manufacturers’ Record,
after careful examination aud accurate
compilation, make a most interesting show-
ing.
ne capital invested in manulactories in
the southern state has increased from
$257,000,000 in 1880, when the work of
industrial regeneration was fairly under
way to $1,500.000.000 in 1905. The in-
crease is $1,243,000,000.
The yearly value of products of factories
bas increased from $457,000,000 to §$1,750,-
000,000, or $1,293,000,000.
The capital invested in cotton mills has
increased from $21,000,000 to $225,000,000,
or $201,000,000.
The annual value of the cotton crops bas
increased from $313,000,000 to $680,000,
000, or §367,000,000.
The cotton nsed annually in sonthern
cotton mills has increased from 225,000 to
2,163,000 bales, or $1,938,000 bales.
The vearly lumher product has increased
from $39,000,000 to $250,000,000, or $211,-
000,000.
The annual production of pig iron has
increased from 397,000 to 3,100,000 tons,
or 2,703,000 tone.
The yearly value of exports abroad has
increased from $261.000,000 to $553,000,-
000, or $294,000,000,
The yearly value of farm products has
nereased from $660,000,000 to $1,750,000,
000, or $1,000,000,000.
The railroad mileage has increased from
20,600 to 60.000, or 39,400 miles,
The petroleum Divduation hae increased
from 179,000 to 42,495,000 barrels, or 42,-
316.000 harrels,
Cotton oil wills have increased from 45
to 780, or 735 mills.
Capital invested in cotton oil mills has
inoreased from $800,000 to $54,600,000, or
$53.800,000.
Spindles in cotton mills have increased
from 667,000 to 9,205,000, or 5,538 000
spindles,
The aunual total of tons of phosphate
mined has increased from 211,377, to 1,-
087.458, or 876,061 tone.
The yearly production of coke has in-
creased from 397,776 tons to 6,244,185, or
5,846,000 tons.
Finally, the assessed valuation of prop-
erty, the most expressive evidence of sub-
stantial wealth, has increased from $3,051,-
000,000 in 1880 to $6,500,000,000 in 1905.
The increase is $3,449,000,000, or aa aver-
age of $138,000,000 a year for the quarter
of a century.
It i= doubtful if any other section of the
country can show snch surprising and
commendable figures, But even if any
other section has increased in like ratio,
the distres<ed and discouraging state from
which the sonth arose to this eminence is
a [actor which will count in placing the
palm of acknowledged superiority in pro.
gress in her hands,
——'"“My dear, that miserable little
beast of yous just bit the baby.”
“And the baby’s got the measles! Oh!
my poor little Fido!"
Main State Road 284 Miles Long.
Vice President Sae, of the Peonsylvania
Railroad, is authority for the statement
that plans are already laid for a main State
road between Philadelphia and Pistshorg.
This prospective highway is to be
miles long, following closely the old stage
route, and is seventy miles shorter than
the shortest railroad lines between the two
cities.
This first-class mail highway can be
opened, barring legal delays, to secure the
dissolution of turn pike companies, within
eighteen months, it is said, and motorists
can then, after an early breakfast in Phila.
delphia, and a good run across the State,
dine in Pittshurg.
The roate of the proposed State road
ruos from Philadelphia to Paoli, 20 miles,
by way of old Philadelphia and Lancaster
Turnpike; from Paoli to Lancaster; from
Lancaster vin Columbia to York, and
thence to historic Gettysburg, where june-
tion is made with the old taropike from
Baltimore (only 52 miles distant from
Gettysburg, ) thence across South Moun-
tain, well remembered as the line of re-
treat of Lee's army after the battle of
Gettysburg, thence into the beantiful
Cumberland Valley, as Chambersburg,
where the roate joins the Harrisburg
Turnpike; from Chambersburg, Sideling
Hill, Tuscarora Mountain, along a fifty-
mile line to Bedford, famous a« a Sum-
mer resort,
The route then crosses the main Alle-
gheny range, the Somerset Platean. Lanrel
Hill Mountain and into Ligounier Valley.
Thence through the Gap in Chestnut
Ridge, cut by the Loyalhanna River, it
rises through Greensburg, Irwin and Ture
tle Creek and into Pittshurg, ninety miles
from Bedford.
It addition to this direct route, the
Northern Turnpike from Pittsburg east-
ward, via Blairsville, Ehensburg, Holli-
daysborg. Huntingdon and down the
Juniata Valley to Harrisburg, and on to
Lancaster, may be taken up after the main
road is completed.
The estimated cost of this main State
highway is $10,000 per mile, or a total of
$2,500,000, three-fourths of which would
be furnished by the State,and the remaind-
er distributed among the counties.
i ———
Rules to t of un Man,
do —
Step often on his feet.
Never laugh when he laoghs.
Always ridicule men he admires,
Ask him to love you when he is tired.
Should he offer a caress turn a little
aside.
Do not move when he attempts to em-
brace you.
Atk him continually for things he can-
not give you.
Fiud fault with all plans he wakes fof
your pleasure,
Move your hands a little every time he
opens his mouth. It will make him ner.
vons,
Here are some of the rules Edmund Rus-
sell once gave on “How to Get Rid of a
Lover.”
If both are laughing at the same time,
show that you are not laughing at what he
is laughing.
Let him see you conversing with superior
men while he sits bored and unnoticed in
the background.
When he wants to tell you a story, in.
terropt him with aoother one that has
nothing to do with the one he is about to
tell you.
Americans Eating More Rice.
During the past five years the per capita
consumption of rice in the United States
bas increased from three pounds to seven
pounds. This consumption, however, is
ioeignificant compared to Oriental coun-
tries, where the per capita consumption is
placed at between 300 and 400 pounds per
anoum,
The production of rice in the United
States dates back to the James river settle-
ment of 1646, but the extensive cultivation
began subsequent in 1896, when the Unit
ed States Department of Agriculture com-
missioned Dr. 8. A. Knapp, of Louisiana,
to visit Japan, China and Eass India to
make a study of rice growing. The result
of his visit of nearly a year was the in-
troduction in this country of the celebrated
Kishin variety of agar. which has com-
letely revolutioni the industry here.
The value of the rice crop is now placed at
about $12,200,000, and is rapidly growing.
Five Medicine Chest Rules.
Never give medicines without first 1ead-
ing the directions carefully, uo matter how
you think youn kvow thew.
Never give a larger dose than directed in
the hope of more quickly allaying symp-
toms; you may therehy kill the patient.
Do not glance hastily at the label, think-
ing all is right; carbolic acid might readily
be mistaken for carbolic oil.
Never keep the medicine for internal use
becide any for external application.
Never give or take several kinds of drugs
without consulting a doctor; much mis-
chief might be the reselt.
~The 1906 spring bonnet is a beauty
and has been described by the stingiest
mao on Fifteeenth street as follows : “I
has a cow catcher in front, a tail board bee
hind, a flower garden on top, with a bunch
of grass on the side. The whole is elaborate-
ly bound together with crushed ribbon.and
off with an abundant millinery
bill.”
—'‘Now my child,’ said the cannibal
lady, *‘I want you to be on your good bhe-
havior and not make a little pig of vour-
self to-day.”
“Why ma?" said the little savage.
‘Because we're going to have that uew
minister for dinner.”
—— Alter the teacher had carefully ex-
plained the familiar story she asked
Tommy whether he expects to be among
the sheep or the goats,
“How's a feller to tell,” answered
Tommy, **when his waw calls hime a lamb
and his paw says he is a pesky kid?"
AAAS.
Mix, Nexdme —' ‘Professor Fortay
calied at our house today and my daughter
plased the piano for him. He just raved
over her playing.” Mins Pepprey.— ‘How
rude! Why couldn’ he conceal his feelings
the way the rest of ns do?’
~-—Uptowne—The chewing-gom doesn’
come, eh ? Then you're out a penny !
Clovertop—A penny ! Look here, mister,
I dropt a dime in the pesky machine for 10
pieces, I was goin’ to take home a treat for
the hull family !
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