Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, May 04, 1906, Image 2
PPO A . _. SE 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 ! »