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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,
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SesERE
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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.