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MUSICAL MOUNTAINS.
Singing Cliffs In the Pyrenees and
Roaring Sands In Hawaii.
In certain parts of the world are
mountains and hills which are said by
the natives to sing. In the Pyrenees
certain cliffs emit plaintive sounds re-
gembling the strains of a harp. Two
other cliffs in the same chain are called
the “snorers.” When the wind is in
the southwest they send forth a pe-
culiar sound not altogether musical
The faces of these cliffs are marked
by deep gullies, open in front. which
may be compared to the pipes of an
organ. At certain times a stratum of
air, held between the cliffs and border-
ing trees, closes the openings while the
wind blows freely between through
the gullies, or organ pipes. behind;
hence the music that is heard.
At the confluence of the Orinoco and
the Rio Meta are granite cliffs which
sing at sunrise. Humboldt refers to
the phenomenon as the musical stones
of the Orinoco. The music is caused by
the rush of the expanding air through
fissures partly closed by mica.
Many more examples might be cited
to show that nature makes use of prin-
ciples which have been adopted by
man in the creation of musical sounds.
Nor are the musical sounds of nature
confined to rocks, mountains and hills,
for in Hawaii is a sand bank fifty feet
high which, when the hand is moved
about in the loose sand. produces a
sound like that of a melodeon. It is
said that if the observer slides down
the bank on his back, dragging both
hands in the sand. the sound becomes
as loud as faint thunder.—Harper's
Weekly.
Wide Apart In Temperament Were
Thomas and Jane Carlyle.
That the Carlyles were an ill assort-
ed couple no one could deny. She was
a highly strung. nervous woman, very
quick, able and impatient, disappoint-
ed with her married life and her posi-
tion, jealous of the admiration which
Qarlyle received at the hands of all
his admirers, especially of one or two
women, whom she found very unsym-
pathetic.
That Carlyle adored her there is lit-
tle doubt. He loved her with all the
rough, passionate power of his nature,
but he was a peasant in manner and
character and lacking in all the little
outward signs of devotion and affec-
tion which so many women exact and
the absence of which they resent most
bitterly.
Mrs. Carlyle found herself tied to an
irritable genius who, sensitive at every
point. deeply devoted to her, but abso-
lutely incapable of translating that
love into the language which she
1 remember
craved and longed for.
her once saying to me in a bitter way,
“My dear. whatever you do, never
marry a philosopher,” and that was
the key to the enigma—the woman al-
ways hungering for proofs of the de-
votion in which the whole of her daily |
life was wanting.—From Lady St. He- |
ller's “Memories.”
Physiognomy Not Reliable.
I am a profound disbeliever in phys-
jognomy. Features are false witnesses.
Stupidity frequently wears a mask of
intelligence. 1 know business men who
look like poets and poets who look
like business men. Men of genius in-
variably look like idiots, and if you
pick out the man who looks most em-
inent in a party you are sure to find
he is a nobody. I always distrust men
who look magnificent. Nature is a
stingy creature. She seldom gives a
man the double gift of being great
and looking great. She took care to
lame Byron and deform Pope and dis-
figure Johnson. But the crowning ex-
ample of her jealous parsimony is
Shakespeare. 1 have always been dis-
appointed with Shakespeare's face. It
does not live up to his poetry. It is
dull, heavy and commonplace.—From
“Adventures In London.”
The Mistake.
In his biography of Alexandre Du- |
mas Harry A. Spurr says that the im-
provident French author, who hated
avarice, was once waiting in line for
his cloak at a soiree when he saw a
millionaire give a tip of 50 centimes (10
cents) to the servant who handed out
his paletot. Dumas, getting his cloak.
threw down a 100 franc note. “Par-
don, sir; you have made a mistake, I
think." said the man. offering to re-
turn the note. ‘No. no, friend." an-
swered Dumas, casting a disdainful
glance at the millionaire: “it is the
other gentleman who has made the
mistake.”
Shakespeare In France.
1 once stumbled upon a choice bit of
Fren' h quotation from Shakespeare.
It was a wile by Uchard.
The distinguished author of this tale
rendered “Frailty, thy name is wo-
man,” by “Fragilite, c'est le nom d'une
femme” (“Fragility, that is the name
of a woman").—Strauss.
A Woman's Compliment.
“I admire your hair, dear.”
“Thanks.”
“But isn't it a good deal of trouble
to find that peculiar shade in the
shops ?"—Washington Herald.
So Gentle and Nice.
“You have no idea,” said Ethel,
“how my poor head hurts me.”
“Well,” said her friend, “why don't
you take your hair off and rest it?'—
Ladies’ Home Journal
HUNDREDS OF SMALL PLOTS
TRANSFORMED INTO PROFIT-
ABLE VEGETABLE GAR-
DENS.
Following the usual customs, a party of
the directors of the Philadelphia Vacant
Lots Cultivation association paid a visit
of inspection to the pri plots in the
city which are under control, and
found them all in promising condition.
The started in four automobiles
from the street side of the Land
Title building, in which the association
has its headquarters. Henry F. Mitchell,
vice t of the association; Jona-
than M. Steere, treasurer; James Il. Dix,
superintendent; Mrs. Dix, Charles Horn,
assistant Piper infendents; J. Henry Scat-
te J. B. Haines, director; Joseph S.
Neff, S. B. Pennington, former chief of
police of Chester, and George Goerz were
members of the inspection party.
Te tract of land
oaned e Mary W. Logan estate at
Fisher’s lane, There are over 15
acres in this which are cultivated
rincipally by the families of Italian la-
ay although English, Irish, Scotch,
German and negroes also share the
ing space. It was at this tract that the
youngest farmer showed up. The plot of
ground he works stands in the name of
the senior Wilhelm, but the younger, aged
4, accompanies his father to the garden at
every visit and manfully pulls weeds and
struggles successfully with along-handled
hoe. As soon as he is big enough to bea
sure-enough farmer superintendent Dix
has promised to allow him a garden to
work for himself. In honor of the visit
of ipepeciion and because he had been
told he should have his picture taken,
sturdy Wilhelm had coaxed a new pair of
khaki overalls from his fond parents.
the bustle of inspection the boy was near-
ly forgotten, but, being summoned from
the end of the field, he arrived with all
haste, bringing his farming implements
with him.
On this same tract a garden is cultivat- |
ed by the oldest man on the lists of the |
society, George Gesselman, 86 rs old. |
He was out in the sun busil ing up
his rows of corn with a machine that is
an invention of his own. He made it all |
| himself, too, and it is a clever combina- |
| tion tool. Running on a light, high wheel, |
| it is capable of turning up a narrow fur-!
! row of land, of cutting out weeds between !
| the rows and many another useful trick.
| ane second stop was made at George's
| Hill.
| association at this point, and on this land ;
| almost within Fairmount park 75 little |
| farms, each occupying a plot worth about |
| $10,000 to its owner, are thriftily estab-
| lished. One of them covers nearly an
| acre of ground, and is the largest space |
i ever before given up to one man. The’
' man is one-armed Charles Bilger. Last |
! year he was awarded a third of an acre
to work, and, other labor being impossi-
ble for him, he undertook to clear off an-
other near-by piece of ground in order to
have the right to work it. He got rid of |
all the saplings and underbrush on the |
piece, which gave him about two-thirds |
of an acre in all, and the same was!
' awarded to his use again this year.
Mr. Bilger is ambitious despite his one
‘arm, and when this spring a Di of
ground above his was not awarded by
the society he secured the use of it. The
| new garden land is on a side hill, which
has washed badly during the heavy rains,
and for this reason was abandoned. Bil-
| ger has plowed a deep furrow around the
top of the plot to divert the water and
i prevent further washing. The last rain
as disco ed even him, however. He
ut corn in the plot, and was sorrowful-
y working at it with a hoe, protesting
that he wouldn't be able to get a crop
| anyhow.
A piece of land loaned by J. B. Haines
| was passed in review from the cars, as
| were also plots loaned by Dr. J. M. Mun-
on Alter Megear and Dr. Malcolm Mac
arlane.
Other farms visited were the Isman
tracts, at Sixty-sixth and Poplar streets,
‘and the Joseph Fels place, at Sixty-first
street and Kingsessing avenue. This is
the second year of cultivation for this
land, and as is usual in the land taken
under the charge of the society, it has
shown t improvement this year in
the condition of the crops now ing.
The stable and seed house, with its grain
farm of about 19 acres, was also viewed.
This tract is used as an “emergency”
! jar. Men in need of immediate aid to
keep them or their families from hu
, or privation are given daily labor on this
place at wages until their need is tided
| Oper and they have found regular em-
'p ent.
: e last place visited was the Mcll-
vaine Farm, at Fifty-sixth street and
| Woodland avenue. is the newest
{land in the work, as it has never been
| cultivated by the society before, and was
| the last to be prepared this spring. All
| the young crops appeared to be in good
order though considerably behind the
other gardens, for while peas are filling
. the pods ready for picking on George's
Hill, the lowly vines there had just be-
| gun to bloom.
The crops grown by the “vacant lots”
| farmers, cover a wide range, including all
| the commoner vegetables and embraci
: others for which one may have found a
special trade. Lettuce, radishes,
| beans, beets, tomatoes, potatoes,
| cabbages, cauliflower, melons, cucumbers
i
| and corn are all stapie to be met
! with on each plot. ties have been
' made of celery and early peas by some of
and there
| find out about, like a row of sweet pota-
| toes, a few hills of watermelon, a row of
| peanuts, or sunflowers or perhaps a for-
| eign vegetable like Udo, the Japanese sal-
| ad plant the Government introduced to
| The inspection party ended the trip
| with a dinner reports i
! similar work in Chester, Rochester, Cleve-
land, Chicago, Wilmington, Buffalo 2
|
TREE EERE SE EERE Ie:
the had to
200 Sprlicants, whom they hope to be able
to help next season.
S. B. Pennington, of Chester,stold about
the society started in that city this spring |
by some women who had become inter-
' ested in the progress of the work they
had seen in Philadelphia. They had man-
aged to obtain 12 acres, which they had |
[reared and distributed to about 50 fam-
i
Mr. Dix explained something about the
work to the guests of the society. “It is
not the purpose of the Philadelphia Va-
cant Lots Association to wait until a
family is pauperized and reduced to seek-
ing ty,” he said. “Instead, we preter
to give our land, labor and aid to the
man with a large family of children. The
work in the open air, the better quality
of the food comsumed and the consequent
saving to the family, give it an oppor-
tunity to grow into something better as
citizens than can come from the families
of those reduced to beggary and subsist-
ing mainly on charity.
society gives work on the emer-
gency farm, for which it pays cash, but
this is the only thing it “gives” excepting
opportunity. A charge of $1 for the first
year, increasing $1 each year up to $5, is
made by the society to pay for the
ploughing and harrowing of the gronmd,
for fertilizer, seeds and plants. s0-
ci maintain sseveral teams of horses
to do the hauling and preparation, and
these, with other expenses of mainte-
nance, are paid for from funds contribut-
ed by voluntary subscribers to the work.
The money paid by the workers of the
farms is never sufficient to meet many
of the expenses.
Rains this year have kept some of the
plots from being worked to the utmost,
t the average eighth of an acre plot
yields $50 worth of vegetables to its tem-
porary owner. Over 400 families have
n assigned gardens this year, and in
the vicinity of the farm, those known as
the Mcllvaine and the Joseph Fels farms,
the superintendent pointed out many little
garlens which had Sprang into existence
the example of the Vacant Lots
tracts near by.
A New Champion for Women.
Give a woman half a chanceand you
will find she can reason just as well and
generally is a good deal fairer and squarer |
than a man.” This is the gallant asser- |
tion of Timothy D. Sullivan, the Bowery , You're getting."—Chicago Record-Her- |
poticican of New York city, who expresses |
imself as an advocate of woman suffrage.
“If a man is the mighty affair he
thinks he is, ho should he be afraid of
political competition by the women?” con-
tinues Sullivan. If man is not such a|
mighty affair, then it's time he stepped
down and gave the women a chance to
show what they can do in politics."
to make himself solid with the women.
How to make the most and best of life, !
how to preserve the health and increase
the vital powers, how to avoid the pit-
falls of disease; these are things every
one wants to know. It is the knowledge
of these things, taught in Dr. Pierce's
Common Sense Medical Adviser, which
makes the work practically priceless to
men and women. This great book, con-
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Send 21 one-cent stamps for the book in
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The Shapes of Eggs.
There was recently had before the
Zoological society of London a mathe-
matical discussion of the differences in
the shape of eggs. A few eggs. like
those of the owl and the tortoise. are
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This has been shown to be due to their
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Just a Bit Too Apt.
To eke out his salary the people of a
small country church gave their pas-
tor a donation party. among the pres-
ents being a fine new dress coat for
the pastor and a pretty bonnet for bis
wife.
On the following Sunday as they
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Bellefonte.
Allegheny St.
In Men's and Young Men's Suits.
Odds and Ends, One and two Suits
of a kind, all this Seasons Goods, priced
away below their real value.
LET US SHOW YOU.
The Fauble Stores.
BRREREEEEEE DEERE ORR