Deno twa Belletonte, Pa., February 28, 1913. The little cripple, never out of pain, Oncrutches crept along. No constant strain Could daunt her spirit brave, by sorrow led. “Now God be praised!” the little cripple said. We gazed in awe upon her lovely face, And thanked the Lord, who gave His wondrous grace To this afflicted child, so patient, sweet, Who ever with a smile her friends would greet. The other girls could dance, and she alone Sat looking on, but no complaint or moan The little cripple uttered. Flowers fair Her skillful hands arranged to deck their hair. “What are you thinking of!" I said one day, So dreamy was her look, so far away. “My thoughts,” she said, “are with that sacred throng Where I. at last, shall be forever strong! “No lameness there shall make me suffer; now I bear a heavy cross; upon my brow A crown of light shall rest! Now God be prais- ed" The little cripple said, with eyes upraised. ~Martha A. Kidder. LETTERS FROM INDIA. To Her Home Folk, by One on Medical Duty in that Far Eastern Country, Jhansi, a City of Huts and Dust, Naked Natives, the Plague and Little that is Attractive, JHANSI, JANUARY 20. Dear Home Folk: India is surely peculiar; so entirely different from what I had expected— long, long miles of sandy waste with lit- tle scrub bushes and cacti plants. The jungle, with a bare mountain rising off in the distance, topped by a tomb or a ruin- ed fort; a curious jumble of thatched huts huddled together, and here and there a village. A flock of wild deer quickly succeeded a drove of goats or a herd of cows, and all the humans with bare legs and rag wrapped middle parts, and head covered inches deep with their turbans, so that all seems strange to me. As yet Iam not initiated, for our hospital is empty just now, three-fourths of the peo- ple having run away fearful of the plague. I wish you people could be here to- night, a soft, warm May evening; the darkness so dense that it is velvety to the feel; the stars, like magnificent elec- tric lights shining through a purple cur- tain; the stillness broken by the distant strains of a splendid military band, and, from the opposite direction comes the loud cry of a native, praying to his God because of the plague. This prayer is a nightly occurrence. My days so far have been very simple, I get up at 6:45 a. m., have chowdalioursi (tea, toast and cream,) then go to the hospital for two hours, back for break- fast at eleven; which, with the exception of a cereal, is like our dinners, nodessert, of course. I then go to the teacher for a Hindustani lesson for an hour and a half; bathe and rest an hour; tea at four o'clock, at which we have tea, bread, butter and jam with crackers; back to the hospital to work—either operation or something else, and finally, after six o'clock, home again to dress for dinner, which is served at 7:15, after which our evenings are spent as each one sees fit. Jhansi is without doubt the most curi- ous place I have ever seen. I expect to be shadowed by a servant for months to come, else I will certainly be lost along the broad, curving, fairly curling roads, along which the stores are set seeming- ly hundreds of feet back. There are no side walks and one walks in the very middle of the road, inches deep with dust, but what matters since the natives pass by scores all saluting you with, “Sa- laam,” which can mean “good morning,” “good evening,” ‘thank you,” “good bye” and many other things, but is used under all circumstances when in doubt. JANUARY 24TH. To return to the plague. I must say for a lot of people who are supposed to be fatalists, these Hindus run after medi- cine about as often as their English brethren. They preach, but do not prac- tice, that is certain. Tonight I was driv- ing through the native city and I wish I could describe to you the narrow streets, (the wide streets. only obtain in the civ- ilized parts) closely packed with one- story huts, entire fronts open exposing their wares for sale. Sitting on the floor or squatting on their haunches are the half naked natives. Over all there is a blue smoke of the evening fire and a cu- rious, rather pungent odor, unlike any- thing I have ever smelled. Jhansi is of course, a walled city and | the fort is only a hundred years old, which is truly young here in comparison to tombs and ruins dating back so far that time itself seems of today. I am told our hospital is too fine for the na- tives as they don’t like such grandeur and are rather afraid toenter, but as it had been over-full until the plague came I cannot quite credit their dislike. Have I told you that the ceilings of my room are at least fifteen feet high and and an immense earthen pot of water and each day at three o'clock a bishti, (a water carrier) comes with a large tin flows and from whence it is all scooped out later by another servant. = | their service get fully as much as they! | servants are as plenty as loafers on | Spring creek bridge in Bellefonte in sum- | mer time. They are paid comparatively | nothing, but from what I have seen of | | are worth. Each one does but one kind of work, nor would they learn nor could you train them to do any other than that followed by their ancestors. A cook is a cook and nothing else; a washer woman never anything but a washer woman; a | ! body-servant only a body-servant, so that the services of one good American ser- vant equals that of a dozen or more of these illy paid, illy kept and half clothed creatures that you are compelled to have about you; for here no one but those born to servitude are expected to do anything. The goats are all around here as the | natives use goat's milk entirely. Itseems | so strange to see these green, gray cows | with one hump on their backs and moth- | eaten hides, but their milk is good. Across the road the caravan of camels are still resting, adding picturesqueness to the scene. A native walks by with legs and feet bare, but body securely cov- ered with a cotton padded coat while yards and yards of white cloth top his head as a turban. The ox-cart jostles the Englishman's motor car and a very much dressed Euro- pean steps aside as a “tonga” (a native two-wheeled cart, in which one sits rid- ing backwards, feet resting on the end- gate) in which are women “in Penda”, a term for the Mohammed women, who [Continued next week.) A Wedding Gift. If you pay ten lars for a wedding gift you cannot get anything so valuable or useful as the gift you may obtain free, —Dr. Pierce's mon Sense Medical Adviser. It is a chart which marks for the newly married all the rocks and shoals where so many a matrimonial bark has found shipwreck. It points the way to easy and happy maternity, and shows how motherhood may be robbed of its SMALLNESS OF THE WORLD How Grecian Currency Found its Way to a Pigeon Loft in the City of Indianapolis. Charles M. Cross took from his pocketbook a piece of thin yellow card- board that looked something like the old-fashioned fractional United States currency—shin plasters, “Where do you think I found this?" Bo ankeq, waving it at a group around Of course nobody knew, but sup- posed that Mr. Cross had been digging in the family archives, and had come across a bit of money. ‘ “My men have been tearing down the old Ritter house. Up in the loft they found a pigeon's nest. The house had been deserted, the windows broken, and the pigeons had taken pos- session. In use as a part of the nest was this money. You can see it is of Greek issue, as it is marked ‘duo drachmae;’ but how did it get into an Irvington house, and in a pigeon’s nest?” : Demarchus C. Brown, one of the lis- teners, was showing increasing inter est. “I think I have the mate to that piece of money,” he said and he took from his pocketbook a duplicate. “I believe, also, that I can unfold the mystery. Years ago, when teaching Greek at Butler college I had some Greek money that I had brought home from Athens. This money was ex- hibited in the classroom, and I gave a two drachmae piece to a Greek stu- dent who was then living in the Rit ter house. I have no doubt that it was left there and that the pigeons aft- erward appropriated it. That was a good many years ago, and it was a long ways from Athens, but it proves in another sense that the world isn't 80 big, after all.”—Indianapolis News. Inginuation, “Your dyspeptic friend declares he is a teetotaler.” \ “That may be, but I know for a fact that he regularly dines and whines.” Mrs. Helen G. Longstreet is work. Ing hard to save the forests of Geor gia, and is making speeches in the state to get money to carry on the work. She would have e state build dams in different parts of state to provide power for Longstreet is very much interested in the work of Mr. Gifford Pinchot in the direction of conservation, and wishes to help him as much as possible. By a Remorseful Contributor. Opportunity may hammer Quite too early at one's door. Nothing doing, KLatsenjammer Out too late the night before, A Jolt to Romance. “How about that young doctor? Has he proposed?” “Not yet. Papa nearly ruined every- thing last night.” “How was that?” “Just as the doctor was pleading for & peep at my eyes papa came in and | asked him to take a look at my ton- slis.” WHAT GOTHAM GETS IN TIPS Petty Graft of New Yorkers, It Is Cal culated, Amounts to Over $100,000,000 Yearly. There are on an average 300,000 visitors the day in New York. Often there are many more, seliom any less. Most of the visitors gre there on pleasure bent, or are passing through on pleasure bent in other places. Even those who go to Man- jatian on business decide in favor of ‘he “combination cocktail,” meaning a mixture of business and fun. Every visitor gives tips. whether he stays at a hotel or not. If he visits friends le tips their servants. The tips given by the average person of means amounts to much more than $2 the day. Few tip less than 50 cents the day. It is a low estimate to put a dollar as the average amount given away every day in tips by every vis- itor to the great city. That means $300,000 the day in tips alone, not in- cluding tips given by New Yorkcors themselves. That is about $9,000,010 the month, or $109,500.000 for the f. 1} year of 365 days. Through this petty tipping graft alone more than $10%.- 000,000 the year are paid by the rest of the country for the upkeep of the metropolis. We are not complaining, comments a Charleston newspaper. We are not suggesting a remedy. We merely call attention to the matter that some may grieve over it and otk- ers may laugh, though those who laugh are not by any means the ones who have recently made their cone tributions, BIRDS QUIT ENGLAND EARLY Abnormal Weather Is Believed the Cause of Hurried Departure for Southern Climes. A wonderful concourse of swifts was seen a few days ago over a Hertford- shire common. Some of the birds were at a great height and were playing the almost ecstatic game of flight in company, which is the prelude to mi- gration. The birds are leaving England be fore their time. Many of the doves ere already gone. The question arises why these birds and the restless swallows and martins are thus put- ting forward their date of departure. The flight from England is doubt- less being hurried by the abnormal weather. The dove, which is one of the first to leave, would have nowhere to set its feet in East Anglia, and the corncrakes are flooaed out. In such conditions the dove’s premature at- tention to the call of the Caucasus and the desire of the swallow tribe for the further shore of the Meditesranean are due to the inhospitality of Eng- land—its cold and the disappearance of insect food.—London Mail, Division of Home. “The late General Booth was a pro- nounced feminist,” said a Cinciunati millionaire. "He dined with me on his last visit to America and expressed the strongest feminist views, “There was a little, busy chap pres- ent who insisted that the man should always be the head of the home, that it was the woman's place to obey, and so forth; but General Booth si- lenced him rather neatly, “‘Why shouln’t the wife rule the home? he said. ‘It's her province. You are always insisting that the home is her province, and yet you won't let her rule ner province, My advice tc a man like you is simple and short. It is this: Divide the home with your wife.’ “‘How divide it? the other asked. “‘Why,” sald General Booth, ‘give her the inside and you take the out. side.” Movies Make Target. An ingenious adaptation of moving pictures to a shooting gallery has been made by an Englishman. In this gallery the marksmen have the satis- faction of shooting at rapidly moving deer or other animals, and the suc- cess of their shots is automatically re- corded. In the rear of the gallery is a metal screen painted white. The pictures are thrown on this screen and the rapidly moving objects serve in place of a target, and afford much more excitement. By means of an electrical device in back of the screen a shot that strikes a mortal spot on the deer, or whatever the mark may be, is instantly recorded in the front of the gallery. The marks algo show on the white paint, and after these marks become too numerous the screen can be painted cver again, Point of View. . “This section is almost mountain- ous,” remarked the pedestrian to his companion as they trudged along a country road one summer's day, car- rying heavy grips. “Yes, it's a bit hilly,” said the farm- er a few minutes later as he drove his guest from the station in the big buck- “Nice, rolling country, this,” ob- served the automobilist to his chauf- feur as they whizzed by in a big tour- ing car. “Gee, what a flat, uninteresting re- gion,” thought the aviator, looking down as he sailed over it in his ma- jestic biplane.—Life. Statue of Brule First Journalist, TT SesERE : : NEW RIFLE SIGHT INVENTED Marksman Must Aim for Spot Below Target to Make Sure of a fo Military authorities and big game hunters are much interested in a new rifle sighting system that is designed to eliminate the necessity for esti- mating distances and adjusting sights in long range shooting. Of the negative angle system, as the invention is called, Sir George Green- hill, a noted English ballistical ex- pert, said in a recent lecture: “The new system proves that since the ori- gin of firearms our method of sighting in active service rifle firing has been wrong. The invention is likely to bring about a revolution in the art of shooting.” in brief, the system utilizes the well known fact that the apparent size of an object decreases as the distance in- creases. The user of the negative angle sight is instructed to sight at a point the height of the object under! it. If the arm were the army rifle and the target a man, the point of aiming would be about five feet six inches be- low the man’s feet. With the regula- tion ammunition as furnished for the army rifle, the negative angle system will insure hits on the man target at all ranges from 100 to 825 yards. which is an increase of about 300 yards over the range of the present battle sight. At first it would appear that some trouble might be met in sighting. However, no difficulty whatever is found in aiming at a point five feet six inches below a man’s feet, partic ularly as the man is conveniently on the spot to afford a gauge, very much like a foot rule photographed with an- other object to indicate comparative heights. The new system is the invention of ‘H. Ommundsen, an Englishman, who won the king's prize at a recent Eng- lish national shoot and who has been high up in the same contest on several ‘other occasions. CALLED FOR JESSE JAMES Frank Morse Insisted Noted Bandit Must Be Proprietor of the Fashionable Hotel. Frank P. Morse, one of the best dramatic press agents, and the most incessant talkers in the world, walked into a fashionable hotel in Chicago one evening and wrote on the regis- ter the set of peculiar hieroglyphics which he is pleased to call his signa- ture. “How much will you charge me for a room and bath?” he inquired, with an air of a man to whom money was not a question. The clerk told him. “Yes, yes,” said Morse, with ex- treme urbanity. would like to see Mr. James.” “What Mr. James?’ asked the clerk. “Mr. James, the proprietor of this hotel,” exclaimed Morse. What was more to the point, he grew very peevish when the clerk insisted that | Mr. James was not the proprietor of the hotel, and that no Mr. James was in the house. “You can't kid me,” said Morse angrily. “I want to see Mr. James, the proprietor of this hotel, and I want to see him quick. I mean Mr. Jesse James, the most notorious rob- ber of modern times—brother of Frank.”"—Popular Magazine. Color Artist and the Vegetable. Eggplant purple! Yes, that is one of the very newest shades this season. Perhaps you knew it last year by some entirely different name, but there can be no monotony in color any more than in skirts or waists. Last vear we borrowed the names for some of the fashionable colors from the fruits and the flowers in many cases. This season we seem to be coming down a peg, and have gone off into the vegetable garden for our inspira- tion, It is not only eggplant purple, but lettuce and artichoke greens, radish pink, tomato red and potato brown. These are fashionable names for fash- lonable colors. But all of them are used more or less as trimming touches, for we still have many somber shades that are the height of style. Seal brown, taupe and midnight blue are decidedly the vogue.~Woman's Home Companion, No Chance to Reform Woman's Garb. “Why,” demanded the Erratic Think- er, “should men criticise women's garb and attempt to tell them what to wear and what not to wear? If women will persist in wearing gowns so tight that they appear to have been applied with a paint brush what is it to us? And if some of them are bow-leg'— er-er—well, that's their business, too. And lastly, my brethren, if we at- tempt to compel them to wear any sort of garment or prevent them from wearing any other sort of garb, they won't wear it, or they will wear it, be- cause we have tried to make them the opposite. So, it seems to that where we get off now is just actly where we got on in the place.” 53s _ “Maybe, maybe; but she had bet- ter not try to raise money on it. They are false notes.” “Quite so. Now I PRICE OF PEARLS GOING UP | American Jewelers, However, Are Using Them Extensively and Seem- i ingly Have Large Supply. | Reports trom abroad foretell a rise , in the price of pearls, but nevertheless | the high class jewelers are preparing , some of the most elaborate pearl | Jewels ever shown in this country. Fes- | toon necklaces, corsage ornaments | 2 tiaras are some of the larger pieces, while rings, bracelets, pins and | brooches, pendants, watches, chains | and earrings are all pearl mounted. | Although quantities of pearls are be- | ing used, the quality is well above the , average in the best jewelry, and even | when the European markets have only a scattering of the finest gems merchants here have some splendid | pearls and are only inconvenienced | when they are called upon to match those of unusual shape or tint; other- wise the market seems to be well | stocked. A dull market is not expected on ac- | count of the advance in price, but rather the jewelers are looking for- | ward to added interest and lively trad- | ing. | A remarkable rope necklace priced | at $750,000 was seen lately that puts to flight the notion that finely shaped | pearls are becoming scarce, for in this ! one the gems are wonderfully matched throughout the entire length of its 60 inches. The necklaces that sell for from $25,000 to $60,000 can be found at any of the best shops. ' IS GETTING READY FOR WAR i ———————— | Abyssinian Government Erects a Cart. ridge Factory and Shop for { Repair of Firearms, i The efforts made by the powers | to prevent the importation of arms ! and ammunition into Abyssinia have | constrained the Abyssinian govern- | ment to erect a cartridge factory in | the capital, Adis Ababa. The cart | ridge manufacturing plant has been . purchased in Germany, and has a capacity to turn out ten million cart- | ridges a year. ! The building destined to receive it has already been completed, and the . machinery has been dispatched from | Germany and is about to arrive at | Adis Ababa. The factory will have a | workshop attached for the repair of military weapons, in which from fif- | teen thousand to twenty thousand | rifles can be repaired every year. The - mechanics required for this service | have been engaged in England and | are also on their way out to take up | their work in Adis Ababa. Power will ! be supplied to the cartridge factory, | as well as other factories in the cap- ital, by hydro-electric plant.—Frank- furter Zeitung. Manual “Wireless.” | A new form of generator has been | developed by the United States signal corps for use with its portable wire- less telegraph sets. It consists of a small generator, the motor of which i is driven by hand cranks through a suitable gearing. Two cranks are provided, so that two men may drive the motor at the same time, and if necessary four men may be employed -two at each handle. Low and high speed releases are provided, which disengage the driving gear when the #peed rises above or falls below a pre- determined limit, so that the motor may be kept at a fairly constant speed. The generator is capable of turning out about 200 watts, and it is light enough to be packed on a mule. The portable generating set has a sending capacity of about fifteen miles, No Fly Specks for lowa Food. Do fly specks make food impure? State Food and Dairy Commissioner Barney of Iowa says so and promises ‘prosecutions under the state pure food law against all grocers, butchers and other merchants who expose food: stuffs to flies. Commissioner Barney holds that under the Iowa pure food law food: stuffs so exposed are in fact adulter ated and that merchants who offer them forsale after such exposure are liable to prosecution and punishment, Screens will have to be placed over ° foodtstuffs offered for sale if Comm: sioner Barney is successful in bh. prosecutions. He says he has been figuring all summer on some way to compel the screening of fruits and vegetables in ‘open markets.—Bakers’ Weekly. Wanted Pay for Doll, The maiming of a china doll recent ly caused the war department to con. duct a mass of correspondence and issue an order for a claim board to pass upon the question of damages. The doll belonged to seven-year-old Marion Coggeshall, daughter of Mur ray H. Coggeshall, a New York bank- er, who has a summer home at Cape Hlizabeth, and was broken by con- cussion incident to heavy artillery practice, The child made her claim without the knowledge of her parents. When Mrs. Coggeshall learned what had oc- curred she withdrew her little daugh- ter's claim, In Women's Interests, Miss Lucy Goode White has been ‘elected president of the California League for the Protection of Mother- ‘hood, which was organized with 100 charter members. It is not planned to ‘make this a permanent organization, but it is to exist only long enough to obtain the passage of a state law pen- sloning widowed mothers with de- pendent children and providing for pe- cuniary assistance during enforced idleness to women who work to sup- | port themselves and their children. SUSPICIOUS OF THE AUTHOR George Pattullo Tells of His Experi- ences Among Cowboys on the Mexican Border. George Pattullo, the author of “The Sheriff of Badger,” is a cowboy part of the year and works among the men of a Texas ranch. He tells a story of a time when he did not wear his literary laurels too conspicuously. “A rather amusing thing happened at Naco, which is a town straddling the Mexican border,” he said. “I had been working on the Turkey Track range as the guest of the owner while they were branding 5,000 head of cows and steers that had been sold. Some of us went to Naco at the end of the work for a little fun, and Lee Hardie, the boss, introduced me to the proprietor of the Fashion. An inebriated gentleman standing near seemed to ponder the name, as though trying to recall something. At last he came over to me. “‘Are you,’ he said, ‘the guy that writes stories?” I admitted it, upon which his manner became very grave. “ ‘Well,’ he continued, ‘vou done put my brother in one of them pleces and ! want to see you about it.’ “lI hastily assured him that his brother was wholly unknown to me, He looked doubtful and appeared to nurse a grievance, but allowed the matter to drop. “Fred Hall, one of the cowboys wha had worked with me on the squeezer, which holds each animal that is to be branded—it takes two lusty men to handle a squeezer when the steers are wild—led Lee Hardin aside, and I could heer them in hot debate. “‘Aw, Lee,’ said Fred in much dis- gust, ‘what's the use of trying to tell me that? I tell you Pat ain't got enough sense to write stories.’” THEY MILK ALL DAY LONG Employes on Eastern Dairy Farm Are Specialists, Each Handling 5 Cows Daily. On the average dairy farm the man who can milk fifteen or twenty cows twice a day is ranked as an excellent | milker. Yet on a milk company’s farm | in New Jersey, ten operators are milk- ing 350 animals twice daily, an aver age of 35 cows per milker. Ever since modern dairy husbandry began to ap- proach an intensive development the problem of the milk farm has been how most efficiently to utilize the la- bor of the milking force between milk- ings. In the winter time especially this was a hard nut to crack. The manager of this eastern dairy farm got his mind to working over time and devised the plan of develop- ing his milkers into specialists who milked for ten hours a day and per- | formed no other labor. He correspond- ed with the managers and owners of other large milk farms in order to obtain their opinions concerning his new method, and found they did not believe it would work. In nowise dis- couraged, this progressive manager put the proposition before his milkers and asked them if they would be will- ing to test out the plan., They en- thusiastically assented. His plan as successfully carried out is explained in the Popular Mechanics Magazine. Strange Curiosities of Pain. Pain sometimes behaves in a curi- ous fashion. There was a soldier after the Boer war, who complained of ex- cruciating neuralgic pains in his right foot. This very much amused his friends, for he had lost his right leg. The explanation was that the pain happened to be in the trunks of those nerves, which had sent branches to the foot. The other day a patient went to a doctor complaining of pain in the knee, and he was greatly sur prised when the doctor told him that the site of the affection is not the knee but the hip. We are all famili with the pain under the shoulder blaac which comes from an afflicted liver. The stomach, too, can produce pain in many parts of the body. A dis- ordered stomach will give us pain as far away as the head, and, when one gets a cramp in his toe, it is often due to acidity of the stomach. Swallow a pinch of bicarbonate of soda and the cramp will disappear. An aching tooth will produce neuralgic painsin the face, and very often a violent pain at the back of the head is due to the faraway kidneys, which themselves may suffer no pain at the time. Damage by Big Guns. Six years firing of the big guns the army posts has resulted in submission of many curious gating no less than $32,616, and these claims, distributed among 220 persons, are now being settled by the disburs- ing office. is one item of 46 cents for damages caused by the passage of artillery through a Filipino rice field. The largest claim is for $5,000 for dams ages inflicted by the blast of the guns of Fort Baldwin, Me., upon a summer home.—Lewiston Journal, Willing to Oblige. “I have had 20 offers of marriage in my short career,” cooed the fair appli- cant. The theatrical manager looked at her reflectively. “I don’t dispute you,” he said. “And 1 don't object to the phrase short career. But it will be a good deal better for my purpose if you make it 20 divorces and lengthen the career.” “Very well,” said the fair one.