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Bellefonte, Pa., November 9, 1906.
AN ABDICATION.
“We'll have a coronation,” said
Sister Dorothy.
“We'll have a coronation,
Here in the nursery.”
They sat King Richard on the throne—
King Richard aged three,
They crowned him with a candle shade
Of silver filigree,
A scepter in his dimpled hand
And royal robes had he,
And all his courtiers drew near,
A goodlie companie,
Bo for a space he sat in state
And ruled right royallie
Until his queenlie mother came
His kingdom for to see.
Then from his throne descended
King Richard, aged three,
And laid his erown and scepter down
To «it on mother’s knee!
— Grace Stone Field in October St. Nicholas.
A LAGGARD.
Oh little afterthought, I wish
You had not come to me,
For with myself I otherwise
Quite satisfied should be,
You're excellent, but I deplore
That you should not have come before.
Why is it that you are not prompt,
But saunter in instead,
When all the things I've done are done,
And all I've said is said ?
Of nuisances you are the worst ;
Don't come, unless you come at first!
— Eunice Ward, in Life,
A QUESTION OF COALS.
It wad bitterly oold, and Hetty hung
shivering over the hall register.
“1 'm almost sorry we asked the girls to
come to-day,” she said. ‘We never can
make this old barn comfortable in such
weather!”
The “barn’’ was the Marvina' big, old-
fa-ioned country house, heated by a far-
pace in the cellar, and by no means proof
against the nipping winds of this dark
December morning.
“What are they coming fo1?"’ asked Rob,
going to the closes for his overcoat.
“A Tea,” said Hetty, with importance.
*‘Not a real Tea, she answered to bis shrug
of masculine scorn at the word. ‘‘But just
some of the girls, to sew and talk, and
have a jolly time, and refreshments.
“No use in my coming home eatly, then,
it it i= Saturday,’ «aid Rob, in a slightly
embittered tone.
‘‘Not any,” assented Hetty, promply.
“Boys are n't invited. We sha’n’t have
much of any dinuver, either. For one thing,
Jane’s got the neuralgia, and I know from
past experience that she will retire per-
manently from view right after lunch.
Emily and 1 won't be hungry, anyway,
after all the things we ’ve bad for Tea; hut
we 'll have a cold bite together, late, after
it ’s all over.”
“Cheerful prospect!” murmured Rob to
the bat-rack, rummaging for his glovis.
“Children!” Emily, huddling a shawl
around ber shoulder. came out of the dining.
room, with a letter in band and tragedy in
ber face. ‘The Tracys are coming to
spend the afternoon, —Mr. and Mrs. George
Tracy, you kuow, from Portsmouth. To-
day, of all days! She ray» they "re so sorry
Father and Mother are not at home, but
they bave only a week in the city, and
muss see us dear children, anyhow, and—
what shall we do?’
“Telegraph ‘em not to come!" said Rob,
with inhospitable energy.
“Never!” cried Emily, scandalized.
“They 're Mother's dear old friends, and
we shall bave to he uice to them.”
“Get them to chaperone the crowd, then.
I guess they won't mind, if the girls dons.”
“There 's one thing,’ spoke up Hetty,
waking, apparently, out of a trance of dis-
may. ‘‘Ifibe Tracys are coming, they "ve
got to be kept warm! I can’t have them | 8
going back te Portsmouth avd saying they
were frozen out at the Marving', Besides,
Mrs. Tiacy is delicate—she feels the
draoghts.”
“It 's her heart,’ said Emily. ‘1 've
heard Mother say so; and it’s soares she a
afraid of—pot draughts. Bas I do think
Rob ought to be able to mavpage this far-
nace better, if he really tried! There ia n't
a bit of heat coming up the register now!”
‘He does u't shake it,’’ declared Hetty,
shaking her own determined young head.
“1 believe I could do hetter myself,—and
I shall certainly have to try,’’ she added
pointedly, “if he does n’t wake vp and
take a little more interest!”
Rob chuckled. He had an exasperating
habit, when family affairs became deranged,
of doubling up his long body in a chair,
and shaking with mirth, as if—strictly
from an outside point of view--be were
vastly amuved.
“You may laugh.” said Hetéy, with
rising sputit.
at home, it would n't be. And if yon
can’t or won't do anything with the far-
nace, I shall take bold and see if I can!”
Rob chuckled again, resorting to his
favorite method of self-protection. If there
were ever hurt or angry feelings behind
this show of quiet amusement, they were
as safely concealed ibere as pride could
wish them, and uo one was the wiser,
**Good-hy,—wish you joy!" he said,
Spesivg the front door, and letting ina
of freezing air.
“We ought n't to have scolded him!’
sighed Hetty. ‘‘Now he won’t come back
atall! Weil, we ’ll manage some way.
Let ’s go and make the cake quick, Emily,
before Jane gives out.”
True to the traditions of her pass, that
good woman betook hersell to her room | We
and her bottle of Pond’s Extract shortly
after lunch. All was then ready for the
Tea. The parlor was dainty and charming,
she table spread with alluring confections,
only
in the atmosphere belied the com-
pleteness of the preparations. Sony
“Go and dress, Emily,” commanded
Hetty, ‘while I ran down and fix that fire,
I ’il make it burn!”’
CE Ce
veriog in u rs,
EL
nace, singing a
voice. When she smerged, a
begrimed, she looked ssill a trifle anxious,
though triumphant.
“‘I 'm not sure about the dranghts, but I
ess it ’s all right,” she said. ‘‘There ’s
oh bell now! Well, they won's realize
that it 's cold just as first, and the room
will warm up presently. Let them in,
Emily, and light all the lamps! I'll be
down in a minute and join the reception
committee!”
sometimes, in winter.
you know.”
and was followed by a rattling crash and
“Bus I don’t believe this
house nvede to be so cold! If Father were
e icy chill which still hovered
The warmth of the welcome which Emily
bestowed upon Mr. and Mre. Tracy would
Juve compeusiiel for much that was ask.
n the atmosphere. They were so dear
Tog fo le a their familiar faces made
ber think of her own absent mother!
“Well, well!” cried Mrs. Tracy, in her
soft, surprised old voice. ‘‘And so you are
keeping house all by yourselves! Frank,
my dear, think of it,—they are keeping
house all by themselves!”
“'Frack’’ shook his silvery head in pleas-
ant wonder.
They were childless, these two old peo-
ple; but their hearts were as fresh as the
color in their unwrinkled cheeks. They
seemed never to bave lost the simple, won-
dering attitude of children toward the ex-
periences of life. Existence offered to them
a series of innocent little surprises, in
whose zest they continually renewed the
dew of theic youth. This happy character-
istic made the event of the afternoon
nothing less than a long delight to them.
Their kind faces beamed artless wonder
and enjoyment upon the merry girls, who,
in all the bustle of their work and cbatter,
paid a pretty deference to the graybaired
guests,
Hetty, feeling that all was going well,
and, to her unutterable relief, that the
room was growing warmer, slipped away
to look after her fire. Perhaps something
more ought to be done to it by this time.
She lighted a candle, and went gingeily
down into the cellar, which was quite dark,
even now. The wind, howling around the
house, mingled uncannily with the sounds
of merriment from above, coming down
hollow and distorted through the pipes.
A vague rustling in a sorner startled her.
She looked hastily at her fire, assured ber-
self that it was all right, and fled away up
the stairs sgain, slamming aod locking the
door behind her with a breath of relief.
Back in the bright room, she gave Emily’s
hand a reassuring squeeze as she y
and abandoned herself to enjoyment, until,
presently, she caught a look of apprehen-
gion on Mrs. Traoy’s face, and moving
nearer, saw that her eyes were fixed nuo-
easily upon the register. The next mo-
ment she heard a singular sound of rap
ping and scratching on the pipes below.
“What is that noise, my dear?" asked
Mre. Tracy, mildly.
“0, —that is—cats!"’ said Hetty, prompt.
ly. “Yes 'm—they do get in the cellar
hey like the heat,
The rélief afforded by this happy inspira-
tion was short-lived. The noise increased,
bang, as if somebody bad stumbled and
falien over some heavy object on the floor.
The girls, absorbed in their fan, did not
notice it, but Mre. Tracy’s eyes grew large.
“What can it be?'’ she breathed.
“0, that!” Hetty smiled brilliantly.
“That must be the—um—ah—O, yes 'm—
the girl! She ’s probably down cellar, get-
ting coal.”
To herself, with an accusing vision of
r Jauoe, swathed in Pond’s Extract, up
n her chilly room, she said, with convic
tion, “There is a man in the cellar—some-
body has broken in!
shock would kill her!"
Something like a groan came wavering
up through the register,—then a sighing,
ginister whisper that froze one’s blood.
“Crazy!” thought Hetty clamly. ‘Ora
ran. Thank goodness, t hedoor is look-
She dashed gaily in among the girls.
*‘Let’s bave some music!" she cried.
“Come, Emily, 'Il play that new duet of
ours—I know Mrs. Tracy would like to
hear it!"
**Loader!” she murmured, as they hegan
the dainty Kinderstuck, thundering away
at her bass with an energy that left the
discomfited Emily’s part a mere trickle in
the treble. ‘Play like mad—I ll explain
later.”’
They played and played, Hetty dashing
wildly from one thing into another, satis-
fied so long as Mis. Tracy’s attention was
diverted, and unruffled peace sat on her
gentle brow. When at lass she paused,
realizing that all was quiet below she
wondered to find herself in such a heat.
Looking about, she saw that the other
girls’ face were flashed, aud that Mr. and
Mis. Tracy's cheeks glowed like winter
pples.
“It 's getting awfully hot here,”’ Emily
whispered in her ear. *'Isn’t there anything
we can do to the furnace 2”
“Nothing !"” said Hetty, with fervent
emphasis. She might verve herself to go
down and hrave the unknown terrors in the
cellar, hut who could tell what startling
discovery might ensue, aod if anything
should happen to Mee. Tracy's heart—bes-
ter they should all perish with the heat
than risk the possibility of that! It only
Roh would come home !
The bell rang, and she flew to the door
to find, not Roh, but one of his dearest
chums, Dick Norrie.
**Rob basn’t come,’ she raid, smiling at
him nervously. *‘I wish he bad! O
Dick, do me a favor I"
“Of course I'’ said Dick, heartily.
‘What is it 2"!
‘‘Go to the office, and get Rob! Tell
him we wans him at home right off !"’
“I'l! bring him back myself !"" cried
Dick, plungiog gallantly ous into the snow.
Refreshed by her breath of cool air, Hetty
returned hopefully to whe parlor. It was
growing hotter anc hotter. The girls were
fanning themselves with handkerchiefs and
papers, and Mrs. Tracy smiled drowsily in
a corner, while Mr. Traoy wiped the mois-
tare from his perepiring brow.
“‘Somehody will taneously combust
3 a So ing I"? thought Hatty,
y, opened a window with
stealthy band. Bus Mrs. Tracy was in-
stantly conscious of a draught, and it was
closed again.
‘‘Pretty warm here, aren’t vou?" sug-
gested Dick, easily, coming back with the
report that Rob was not at the office—bad
probably started for home.
“0, does it seem warm?’ wondered
Hetty, politely. ‘It’s such a cold day,
with us till Rob comes,
rhe finished, in a different
tone. Dick, catching its ess, assented
cordially, and with the added gayety of his
presence, the Tea came to a joyous end.
Mr. and Mrs. Tracy stayed until the last
1 bad gone. ‘‘Such a treat, dear !" said
rs. , 88 Ea Dodie he in her
wra : a —wasn’t
it, Frank? There ’s only one thing—you
won't mind an old woman speaking of is,
dear ?—I do think you keep your house a
little too warm—don’t you think so, Frank?
=jm little,—for , you know !"’
etty fell back on the sofa in a collapsed
heap as the door closed. .
‘“We keep our house too warm !"” she
cried. ‘‘We, Emily,~-what a trinmph !
Now, listen both of you, quick--there’s
somebody down in the ceilaz— a robber or a
burglar or---whas 's that !’’
A vigorous nding on the front door
the girls to their feet, and Dick
sprang into the ball with an air of being
equal toa whole army of burglars. “Stay
there I” he cried. ‘I'll go I”
——————
He is there now—
and Mrs. Tracy must not know it—the
§
““The door flew open.
shriek, a scuffle, a shout of laughter, and
Dieke came Byles Dc ollowd by a aunt.
1, yet strangely y e,—white
with dust and cobwebs, with coal,
wes with snow, breathing threatenings and
slaughter from every feature of his fierce
though grimy countenance,—by all that
was incomprebensible—Rob !
“Where have yon been ?”’ cried Emily;
but the truth burst upon Hetty even bhe-
fore he answered.
“Been ? In the cellar !"’ thundered Roh.
“Hetty ought to know—she locked me
down there !”’
“I never !"’ gasped Hetty. ‘You weren't
there !"’
“Wasn't I, though !"’ scoffed the victim,
bitterly. *‘Didn’t I sneak in the back way
#0 as not to distarb von, and go down to
fix the fire, and while I was round the cor
ner getling coal, didn't you creep down
like a ghost,s0 that I never knew you were
there till I saw your 2andle going np the
stairs, and then I rusbed after you and al-
most pounded the door down, hat you'd
one hack to your precicus Tea, and vever
eard.
“But why didn’t you' —hegan Emily.
“I did !'? cried her hrother. “I signalled
up the register every way I could think of,
bat you dido’s catch on a bit. I didn't
dare make too much of a row, for fear of
Mrs. Tracy's heart; and when that racket
on the piano began, I kuew it was all up
with me, and jost sat down in sackeloth
and ashes, —especially ashes —and—went
to sleep.’
Dick doubled himself ap on th. sofa and
roared, and the girls langhed unotil even
Rob's injured and indignant countenance
relaxed into a protesting erin.
-**How did you get out ?'"' asked Emily,
through her tems.
“‘Broke a window, and crawled out over
a coal-heap,’’ auswered her brother. “The
clam of the door must have waked me up
when the people went, I supposed I'd
been there all night, probably, aud thought
I might starve to death if I di- n't get out
somehow, soon,”
“0 Bolhy dear, don't mind—we can't
help it!" said Hetty, wiping her eyes. “If
you knew -'’ .
“I'm not mad—only grieved,’ said Rob,
with dignity. “Besides, though it was dirty
down there, it wasn’t cold ; and then, I got
ured to it after a while. ‘My very chains
and I grew friends, So much a long com-
munion tends’—Dick Norris, if you don’t
quit laughing,and come and help me brush
up, I'll put yon down there to try heing
‘Prisoner of Chillon’ awhile yoursell !”
“Bat I thought yon weren't coming
bome,” Emily began, later, when they
were all gathered about the table,and Rob,
washed and comforted, was beivg fed by
the repentant Hetty with bread and milk
and all the left-over luxaries of the Tea.
“Yon said—"’
*‘You said there wasn’t going to be any
dinner !"" retorted Rob, without bitter-
ness. ‘‘But I thought 1'd come home and
look after things anyhow—I knew Hetty
couldn't do anything with that fire. By
the way," he added, looking np ionocent-
ly. ‘Were you warm enoogh ? Idid my
best—just fired up the old caboose, put all
the draoghts on, and let her go, before.l
went to sleep. It seemed to me when I
woke up'’—A shout of laughter stopped
him, astonished. But Hetty said, tender-
ly : “I forgive you, Bobby, for almost
roasting ns alive—to say wvothing of poor
Mr. and Mrs. Tracy, who think we haven't
an ounce of sense among us—because I
koow now is was just ‘coals of fire’ for
Emily and me, and we deserved it?"'—By
Margaret Johnson, in St. Nicholas.
Suggestions for the Deaf,
In the apartment of Mie. Anna M. Town,
of Utica, N. Y., is an arrangement of elec:
trical lighta that is of practical service to
thoze who cannot hear the ringing of the
door bell and telephone bell. When the
telephone bell rings in the rear of the
apartment, a brilliant light flashes up in
the front room and remains lighted unotil
turned off.
This light is so arranged that it flashes
into the looking-glasses of three rooms. A
light can be placed in every room if desir-
ed. The electric door bell is arranged in a
similar way, the light being of another
color. The arrangement has been in use
two years, proving satisfactory and inex-
pensive. Most deal people can hear over a
telephone. By adopting this plan a tele-
phouve is quite as useful to a deaf person as
to one who can hear. In case of illness,
when the ringing of bells is to be avoided,
this arrangement seems an admirable one.
When the lights are used, the bell is also
retained. A movable bulb that can be
taken to ary part of the houseis a great | pape
convenience. The door bell in that case 1s
silent.
Manufacture of fron in China,
Iron in China is made by mixing four
parts of the ore, one part of decom
coal dust, and one part of small coal. The
mixture is placed in crucibles each about
18 inches deep and 6} inches in diameter.
The crucibles are heated in a furnace hav-
ing walls about 3 feet high and a floor 4
feet hy 6} feet, which is covered with clay
and spread with a layer of coarse coal toa
height of 7 inches or 8 inches above the
clay. The farnace holds about sixty of
these crucibles. The space hetween them
ix filled «ith small coal, and on top is
placed a 3-inch layer of small coal, follow-
ed by a layer of cinders and ashes of the
same depth. Aboat sixteen hours of strong
heat su to convert the mixture into a
mass of carbon iron, says tbe Iron age.
This is made into wrought iron by reheat- i
ing over a wood fire
when red hot.
An English Author Wrote:
“No shade, no shine, no fruit, no flow-
ers, no leaves—November !"’ Many Amezi-
cans would add no freedom catarrh,
which is so aggravated during this month
that it hecomes constantly troublesome.
There is abundant proof that catarrh is a
constitutional disease. It is related to
scrofula and consumption, being one of the
wasting diseases. Hood's lia has
shown that what is capable of eradicati
sorofula, completely cures catarrh,
taken in time prevents consumption. We
cannot see how any sufferer oan pus off
Jatin bis yedisiae, in view of the wide-
ly pu record of its radical and
manent cures. It is undoabtedly America’s
Greatest Medicine for America’s Greatest
Disease—Catarrh.
by hammering it
American.
Marconi Stations in Canada.
Canadian government is still further ex-
tending the organization of the Marconi
stations, which they have established for
communication with ships, and from point
to point alcng the coast. When two new
at Father Point and Seven Islands
are , there will be a continuous
Marconi system from Quebec right up to
Labrador on the one side, and to Cape Race
on the other.
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There was al
Mes. Jeff Davis’ Romance.
The life of the late Mra. Jefferson Davis, | Ameng the interesting localities of the
whose death occurred some weeks ago | Pacific coast the Bay of Monterey is pre-
at the Hotel Majestic, New York, was one .mipent. I believe Dr. Jordan states that
" g mingled viorm Foi pi ae here are found more duatines varieties of
domestic bappiness was all but unbroken, | Siauiin Muy ove lomitty ou ube
Lh is ad Shas there never 3 a more Jer.
ect union thao hers, according to the New | 45 5 few days ago when aogliog for salmon
York Tritune He er Bustand's !in their sea run io the bay, I saw a strange
a a em
ablest speeches, it is said, were prepared | ie phrasing ogee Wan9'-wals so
with her assistance. Her own acconut of | |; 4 recent article I described some tame
her meeting with the man who was after- | seq liohs at Santa Catalina. At Santa Cruz.
ward to become her hushand and President in the St. George Hotel, one of the proprie-
of the Confederacy is most interesting. Is | 1018 is much interested iu fish caltare,and
was during the Christmas holidays, when | i, the offiee of the hotel he has a small
she was home from schocl in Philadelphia, | 15k containing perhaps filly trout rangiog
at the family «eat in Natchez, Hie. Jet- | iy size from five to eight inches in length,
ferson Davis bad stopped on his way too! gome possibly longer. They are rainbows,
litical meeting at Vicksburg to ree his | 00k trout, and steellieads, and are abso-
tother Joseph, and the latter, thinking to | |grely tame. I first noticed thas when I
make his visit more agreeable, senta sad- | went near the sank they crowded to the
dle horse to the Howell homestead to bring | front and lined vp, facing me, eager for
back Miss Varina Howell, who was then | something, and : I found this to be
in her seventeenth year. The result wasa | gue to the fact that at this time the owner
wedding aboot a year later, though Mies (4 them. He was kind enongh to extend
Howell's fist imprison of ber future hus- | (ig preregative to me, and banding me
baud was vot altegether favorable. In a ome chopped meat, red and invitirg,a ked
Tame Trout.
Certainly this is not confined to fishes,
|
letter to hier mother she paid :
I do not know whether this Mr. Jefferson
Dasis is young or old. He looks both at
times, hut [ believe be is old, for fiom
what [ hear he is only two years younger
than sou are. He impresses me asa re-
markable kind of man, hut of uncertain
temper, and hax a way of taking for grant-
ed that eseryhody agrees with him when
he expresses an opinion which offends me ;
yet he is most agreeable, and has a pecul-
iarly sweet voice and a winning manner of
asserting himself. The fact ir, he is the
kind of a person I ¢hould expect to rescue
one from a mad dog at any risk, but to in-
sist upon a stoical indifference to the fright |
afterward. I do not think that I shall ever
like him as I do his brother *'Joe.” Would
you believe it, he is refined and cultivated,
aud yet be is a Democrat !
Mr. Davis’ age at that time was 30, and
he was a widower, having been previously
married to a davgbrer of Colonel (after-
wards President) Zachary Taylor, who died
daring the honeymoon of malarial fever.
He married Miss Howell in February, 1847.
The same year he was elected a member of
Congress, and from that time ootil the
outbreak of the civil war the couple epent
much of their time in Washington, where
Mre. Davis shone as a social leader. In
her memoir of her husband Mrs. Davis
gives an interesting glimpse of the serious-
ness with which the representatives of the
conntry regarded their duties in those days.
When the future President of the Confed-
erncy was serving as Secretary of War, Mis.
Davis, having no other servant at hand to
send on an errand, made use on one o¢-
casion of his attendants for ball on hour.
The Secrectary told her, when he learned
of this indiscretion, to engage more servants
if she had vot enough, but on no account
to forget that the servants of the Secretary
of War were paid by the Governmeus to at-
tend exclusively to Government business,
During the war Mrs. Davis was exposed
to many grave dangers, which she met with
great heroism. .
The World's Paper Consumption.
The Revue Scientifique recently discuss.
ed the consumption of paper by the princi
pal uations of the world as reflecting wmod-
ein pingress of civilization because of its
extensive use for printing purposes. It
places the United States in the front rank
as the greatest paper-producing country of
the world, with an avnual output of 639,
734 tons (avoirdupois). Germany follows
with an annual production of 393 683 tons,
England 246,051, France 196,942, Austria
147,706, and Italy 123,026.
One American corporation is declared to
be the greatest paper manusacturing enter-
prise in the world, possessivg 31 factories
with 96 continuously running machines,
the company usiug almost as many wa:
chines as are operated in Italy and Nether-
lands altogether, and its annual production
exceeds that of all the paper factories in
Austria-Hungary and almost equals thas
of all the British ones. Its capital amounts
to more than $110.000,000. While America
leads in production, Geruany bas become
the largest exporter of this article, with
51,000 tons avnually, Eugland following
with 49,210, the United States 16,880, and
France 13,090. The United States export
goes principally to South America, bus
also to Canada and Australia. Notwith-
standing its large production Eogland re-
mains a good buyer, having imported 147,
706 tons last year.
Regarding the direct consumption of
r it is an interesting fact that the
United States leads with an annual figure
of 38.6 pounds per capita, Eogland coming
pext with 34.3, Germany 20.98, Fravce
20.5, Austria 19, Italy 15.4, Servia show-
ing the lowest European figure, 1.1; India
shows only 0.22 and China 1.1 per capita.
Nearly halt of the paper manufactured in
the world is used for printing Jurpese.
Twenty per cent is absorbed in the trades
and industries. Almost an equal propor-
tion is applied for official and school pur-
e remaining 10 per cent serves
the demand for private use.— Scientific
American.
Origin of the Pearl
The origin of the pearl in the shell of
the oyster, or other bivalve or mollusk,
bas been the object of a considerable
amount of investigation and speculation.
Among the more recent studies of ths sub-
ect may be noted those of M. Searat, re-
corded in the Com Rendus. This
naturalist finds that in Jeat} oysters from
the Gambia in the South Facific,
the pearls are due to a small worm—a sors
of tapeworm. In oysts on the Jody and
mantle of the oyster he bas found true
pearls surrounding a nucleus which he bas
shown to be one of these worms. Like
other tapeworms, this one, concerned in
the production of pearls, requires » second
hoes in which to complete its development.
pA rl that ihe ray is the
second host in this case, for he bas found
in the spiral intestine of this fish small
tapeworms, which be regards as the adult
form of the larval worm of the pearl oyster.
The author has named this Hew apesios ul
tapeworm Tylocephalm erae. The
view has been held that the pearl is a se-
cretion formed, as it wore, in self-defense
for the surrounding and isolation of au in-
jurions foregin body.
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never su he touched a drop.”
Mrs. Brown: “And he doesn’t. I'm
sare he doesn’t drink.”
Mrs. : “No doubt ol it. Why,
he wrote a in she paper the other day
admitting he’s a bibliomaniso.”
“I am oertainly
Booker. I didn’s
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man must be behin
days.
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in the matter of birth-
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me to hold it over the tank,
I bave seen the rainbow rise to the lure
in ile native wilds; seen it leap for the fly;
| bat this was the fisst time I ever saw one
| leap at myself.
No sooner did my fingers appear over the
| water than half a dozen fishes surged up,
and one hig fellow almost cleared the
water and seized the meat, while the others
fought to take it from my hand. It was
a strange and extraordinary spectacle. I
bad often in wading down a trout stream
for this same game, approached a pool or
rifle with the greatest care, maneuvering
to make the right approach to get the wind
behiod we go that I could wake the long-
est cast and have my fly literally appear to
drop out of a clear sky or come down
stream naturally to the fish heading up;
but here were the same fishes fighting to
nip my fingers, and absolutely as tame as
cats. [say cats, as these trout rubbed
their sides against my band, and seemed
pleased at the attention I wasgiving them.
Even more interesting was the exhibi-
tion given by the owner. He would in-
dicate certain fishes that were a certain
age and say that they were pot so tame as
others, though I could see hut little differ-
ence. All were marvelously tame; indeed,
the owner had raiced them from ‘‘fry,”
and had always bandled them.
Aa he placed his hands in the water they
crowded about, and appeared to enjoy be-
ing lifted up, and the spectacle—to me, at
least—ol a big trout lying complacently in
Lis hand out of water and perfectly at ease
and comfortable, was remarkable. I tried
the same experiment witha wild trout
later, and the performance did vot appeal
to the trout.
At Brookdale, about five miles above
Santa Croz in the mountains, the county
bas established a large troot hatchery from
whick the streats of the neighborhood are
stocked. Here one may see trout of all
sizes and ages, an attractive spectacle. It
was interesting, to note how quickly they
felt or heard a noise. I happened to be
standing hy a large tank of big rainhows
when the little narrow-gauge train came
down the mountain. 1 could hear it a
mile or two distant, and the trout noticed
it at once, and their fright increased until
the train reached the hatobery, when they
displayed every evidence of alarm and fear.
y Chatles F. Holder, in the Scientific
American.
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|
Adulteration of Cereal Breakfast Foods
|
The cereal breakfast foods a« a ciass, ac-
cording to Dr. Charles D. Woods and Prol.
Harry B. Snyder in a bulletin issued by
the Department of Agriculture, are ordi-
narily free from adulteration. Various ex-
periment station chemists and public
analysts in States having pure-focd laws
have examined the hiands on the market,
as indeed they examine all classes of food
at frequen intervals, and found that as a
general rule they were made from good,
sound grain without admixture of harmful
substances. Some may be made from
coarse miiling products, such as wheat
middlivgs, and some doubtless contain
molasses, glucose, or other similar mater-
ials which do not appear in the mavufac:
turer’s description, but which are vot in-
jurious. .
Occasionally the percentage of ash or
mineral matter in breakfast foods is abnor-
mally high, but this is apparently due to
common salt added to give flavor and not
as an adulterant. In general, it may be
said that there is every reason to suppose
that the manufacturers endeavor to use
wholesome materials, and that il an im-
purity is occasionally found in their goods
it is accidental rather than intentional.
Furthermore, cereal breakfast foods, as
previously noted, are generally made from
well-cleaned grain and are marketed ina
cleanly way. In the case of the package
goods the form of marketing affords special
protection while the goods are in the deal-
er’s bands and also in the house-hold, where
they are very commonly kept in the origi-
nal cardboard hox or package.
m—
The sapphire workings at Yogo Gulch,
Montana, are being gradually developed
into a great and permanent wining indus
try, says Mr. George F. Kunz in a forth-
coming 1 on ous stones, publish-
ed by the United States Geological Survey.
Taken as 8 whole, the Yogo dikeis per-
hape the em mine in the world.
It is about four miles long on the surface,
aod being a true igneous dike, descends to
an indefinite depth. Itis estimated that
the entire content of workable sapphire.
bearing rock would approximate 10,000,-
000 cubic yards. A mining t is now
being erected there which will quadruple
the ious output and make Moutana
bel wining a very important factor in
American gem production.
The stones obtained are not of large size.
They range from ‘“‘culls,’”’ used for watch
jewels and other mechanical purposes, to
gems averaging, when cut, from halla
carat to 2 or 3 carats and rarely up to 5 or
6. As gems they are brilliant, free from
flaws aud of good color, ranging from light
shades to the rich, deep blue of oriental
‘bave an ad-
vantage for mechan uses over
short tio or th
basal terminations, and hence they
need mush less cutting purposes
——To cause paint to adhere firmly to
galvanized iron, the United States govern-
ment has adopted specifications compelling
the use of vinegar for washing the surface
preparatory to painting. is eaid to
roughen the surface, thus giving the paint
The Greatest Gem Mine in the World. |
better opportunity to adbere.— Scientific
American.
A Heart to Heart Talk with the Women
and Girls of Pennsylvania,
Why a woman's ? Mast women be
fed ou special and diloted diet? Can they
not read as men read ?
They do read as men read—and all that
men read —and add the woman's page to it.
Rightly conducted, it is the earnest jour-
nalistic attempt to instruct more thao to
amuse; well edited, it steers clear of the
encyclopaedia and the boudoir.
It should be all that a well-rounded, in-
teresting, helpful woman is—ready to put
out a strong gaiding band wherever is is
needed,
It mast take itself seriously. It must be
honest. It must reflect what really is, and
suggest from experience what might be.
A great class turns to the woman's page
for council, for advice, for suggestion. The
ready made conventions of one set of peo-
ple would be a misfit on another set, so
why tell a woman who hasto cook and
wash for a husband and six children bow
to instruct a footman to receive the cards
of callers ?
A woman's page should be all things to
all women.
No woman's page deserves success that
does not give to its least reader a respeot-
ful hearing sod the best advice in its scope.
It must be kindly. It must inspire con~
fidence.
It must enter into all the homely duties
of the housewife with zest and enthusiasm.
It must hold the affectionate friendship of
its women readers.
All these things the woman's page of the
Philadelphia Daily Press is and does—is is
beyond doubt the most practical and truly
and helpfol woman's e ever offered
Penvsylvania women, You cannot afford
to miss even one day.
ANNE RITTENHOUSE.
Another Open Winter.
Veazig, Me., Nov. 3.—“We are goin
to have auvother open winter in 1907," sai
Ezekiel Boal: the aged weather prophet of
Pebobueol valley, “I can smell it in the
air.
“The birds are stayiog later than usual
this fall, which is always taken as a sure
sign that winter will not come until after
Christmas. Last week I caw swallows and
bumming birds and thistle birds, all of
which are in the babit of getting away late
in August.
‘“The hens have hardly begun to shed
their feathers yet,and most years they have
moulted and started in to lay by October
1st. The partridges are very thinly clad
with feathers.
“The corn husks are very scant and
gaunzy. Burrs on beechnuts and hazelnuts
are 80 thin and roft that a child can bite
through the toughest of them.
“Cattle and horses out at pasture are
looking as sleek as they did in June, in-
dicating that they have not begun to think
of putting ou winter overcoats. Wood-
cbucks which should bave retired for the
winter in September, are out loafing at the
entrances to their burrows,
“Chipmunks bave laid by very smal}
stores of nuts and grain, though the beech-
nut crop has been the biggest for ten years.
Look anywhere you will and the evidence
stands ont and meets you and tells yon
that she winter will be brief and warm.
Last year at this time the muskrats bad
built their mud houses all along the upper
reaches of the Penobecot river, and now
one can go by ocavoe from Old Town to
Medway and never see the sign of a musk-
rat house. Unless there has heen a great
strike among the carpenters and builders
who put up muskrat houses, wome of the
homes will not be fit for occupancy until
next year.
“Hunters who bave shot deer say that
the antlers are still growing, or in the vel-
vet stage, though the love making season
with deer is only two weeks away. Though
there have been several cold nights, and
though I bave rubbed the backs of several
fat cats to get electric sparks out of the fur,
I have not heard »o much as a crackle as
yet. This is because the cuatiog of fur on
the cats has not become thick enough,
proving that the cats are not making any
baste about putting on winter garments.
“Right here in the village tbe old maids
and grass widows are still coming out in
white and peekaboo shirtwaists, and the
fathers of marriageable daughters have not
set up their parlor stoves or bought the
coal for the winter's courting. It seems as
if they expected that most of the courting
would be done on the piazza or over the
garden gate, as in summer.
“Unless the signs fail, ice will be high
and pneumonia will be plentiful and
graves will be open often between now and
next March.”
PENNSY TO INCREASE WAGES
Nearly 150,000 Will Be Affected, Some
Receiving 10 Per Cent. Raise.
Philadelphia, Nov. 3.—The wages of
all employes of the Pennsylvania rail
road system on lines east and west of
Pittsburg are to be increased. Nearly
150,000 men will be affected. It is
probable the increase will be effective
December 1, but on account of the de
tail work to be done before a sweeping
order is issued, it may be later.
The management is considering a
proposition to grant an increase of 14
per cent. to ail employes whose salary
per month is less than $500. The
monthly pay roll of the system aver
ages about $10,000,000 and an increase
would mean the additional payment of
$1,000,000. The total number of em:
ployes on the combined systems af.
fected is about 133,565.
BURNED TO DEATH IN HIS HOME
Duvai Mixed Politics and Drink and
Knocked Over a Lamp.
Cumberland, Md. Nov. 6. — John
Duval, a constable at Tunnellton, on
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, a few
miles west of Oakland, Md. went to
his home in an intoxicated condition
after attending a political celebration
and knocked over a lamp, which ex
ploded. In the ensuing fire Duval was
burned to death and his house was
consumed, as was the house occupied
by Hubert Pentney, adjoining. The
town has no fire department. Duval's
head and legs were burned off. His
wife and children were not at home.
Mine Boss Beaten to Death.
Barboursville, W. Va, Nov. 6—At
Stone Branch, 20 miles south of here,
G. W. Wright and Andrew Childers,
mine bosses, became enraged at John
Kelley, another boss, assaulted him
with clube and beat him into insensi-
bility. Keiley died 30 minutes later.
Wright apd Childers secured mules
and escaped, but were later captured
and locked up in the Logan county jail.