. system in this central India is wonder-
! ful and the greatest, so I am told, in the
i world, and I can assure you no native
done it alone; they
| would rather sit down and smoke.
| There are some educated ones true,
| but generally, the education has not gone
\ wii . ' deep enough nor been a family posses-
Te waa | sion long enough to give the holder one
On the maps of the world you will find it not— | thing except a bombastic idea of his own
*Twas fought by the mothers of men. | importance, and we get the most marvel-
Ney ok witksCangon, 4% Bas sho, ous letters, demanding all sorts of things
rd or Tr pen; —from having our temperature charts
Neat wonderiul men, | COpied, to sending them signed. _prescrip-
. . | tions of all the medicines we have and
But deep in» welled up Woman's hean. | are using on a certain case. Truly itis
Belletonte, Pa., August 1, 1913.
THE BRAVEST BATTLE.
A woman that would not yield, Y
But bravely, silently bore her part, funny, if it did not make me so terribly
Lo, there is that battlefield! angry, that I just wade in and tell a few
No marshaling troop, no bivouac song: what I think (by way of an interpreter)
No banner to gleam and wave; and either the poor nurse is so scared he
But, oh! those battles they last so long—
From babyhood to the grave.
Yet, faithful still as a bridge of stars,
She fights in her walled-up town,
Fights on and on, in the endless wars,
Then silent, unseen, goes down.
O ye with banners and battleshot,
And soldiers to shout and praise.
1 tell you the kingliest victories fought
Are fought in these silent ways.
Oh, spotless woman, in a world of shame!
With splendid and silent scorn,
Go back to God as white as you came,
repeats verbatim what I say, or my face
and voice must convey the meaning, for
they meekly subside and I march out.
Seven o'clock and I am off to see how
the patients are.
Again itis a good-morning, and al-
though not dry nor dusty, still a fairly
| fine day to live in. Ihave been invited
to a tea party at a “Begums” today,
but am going to send my regrets; it is
too hot to take food in a stuffy, small
place without a “punkah” and it will
The kingliest warrior born.
— Joaquin Miller. | Mean several hours anyway, and [I can-
su— not afford to swelter even for one minute
FROM INDIA unless I have to; it makes me too
| grouchy, you see by that I have not gain-
ed any in “grace.”
| Dr. MecMillan had a bad attack of fe-
| ver this week, but she went to bed ear-
| ly and stayed for two days so I guess
| that is the reason she did not have a
JHANSI, JuLy 26th. | longer siege.
Having gotten up a lot earlier than The army folks are energetic this
usual, since the wet weather came, and | morning as practice-shooting has been
wanting to chat awhile, here am I writ- | going on since five o'clock; it seems al-
ing this to you before six o'clock, with | most as though heavy blasts had been
what looks to be a gorgeous day in front | put off.
of us; they have been few since I perhaps told you how badly most of
the rains started—in fact, I think none. | these bungalows leak, and it reminded
As they say we are fortunate this season | me of the time the roof was off our
in having rain nearly all the time so that house. I understand that the wind
there has not been a true clearing day; | blows the tiles off and of course down
since everything is unusually wet you | comes the rain, as through a sieve. Itis
can well imagine how it will feel when! well there is not much of value in this
thehot tropical sun comes out in full | Place or it surely would be ruined, but
force. 1 must tell you that you never | One need not worry on that score in this
saw such variations of the way it can house. It seems so strange, in a place
rain as we have had here and I believe it | that has been a home for women for ten
is the wettest rain I ever saw for even if | or twelve years, to find it so absolutely
it looks like a mist you go out and are | empty or so much of no value, and
soaked in a few minutes, unless you are | yet each night it is locked up, much bet-
well protected. | ter than our house at home; I guess to
Things don’t and won't dry here; yes- | keep bats and bugs from going in as the
terday I picked up a pair of white shoes | only other intruder I have seen is a big
that | had been wearing, to find them | white bullock that insists upon grazing
_ green with mould and the shoe trees in- | on our compound and tiring of other places
side were covered with rust, being metal. | decides to come to the bungalow about
Your clothes mildew and sour over night | 4:30 a. m., and snuffs and snorts until
and the mosquitoes and flies, which had | I have to call the “chow-kadir” and tell
entirely disappeared during the hot | him to drive the beast out of the yard,
weather, have returned in renewed force | which puts me out of sleep, and
and show their appreciation of you by |you know why Iam up so very early
leaving you neither day nor night, so, some mornings.
that the “punkah” does double service; | (Continued next week.)
keeps this hot, moist air moving and
keeps these pests from making you wish |
to commit suicide. Of course, you sleep | [In the June Woman's Home Companion
under a net at night and you do have Frank A. Waugh writing about “The
peace, although the other morning I Flowers in Nature’s Garden” says in
counted nine mosquitos sitting on the | TY ere are two or three practical gar-
outside of my net right in front of my | dening lessons which the wild flowers in
nose, just waiting to get a good bite; | the fields have long been trying to teach
you see 1am nice and green and juicy. | U8 and which are too frequently missed.
1 want to tell you what these rains are i One 12 the a0 OLY 0. Rlufs is
. r-
hike generally, so I am told; there will | cups cover a whole meadow that they
be one hard rain a day and then the sun | begin to be truly worth while, A quar-
d | ter section of sunflowers, as 1 have seen
iy ot an Aree Flo Gaye gO pas} | them in Kansas when the owner of the
;any may be several | jand was running for the Legislature, is
weeks will pass while you simply swel- a glorious sight. One of the most strict-
ter, or perhaps it will rain deluges for 'ly magnificsit floral displays I Sar Fav
two or three days and then stop for a| Was in a wide swamp in Lanaca. tere
long tithe, so that this year, with ts. dal. | Sacre were dugens of acres thickly set
ly rains and long cloudy days has been | you! Acres of orchids! And every blos-
unusually fair for in truth the heat is |som more splendid than the hothouse
much lower and one can sleep well at | orchid which Algernon sends to Gwen:
night, for it is nice and cool even if damp. | dolyn for the theatre party.
By One on Medical Duty in that Far Eastern
Country. The Beginning of the Wet Seasc™,
Regular Down-Pour. Flowers Before Leaves.
Quinine Eaters. Good Roads Here.
Dear Home Folk:
Imagine 180 Acres of Sun Flowers.
Everything outside looks as though in
a forcing house and the vines, especially
the “four gauvilla,”” which have looked |
so dead are all in full bloom, and the
archway into the garden is a mad riot of
purplish-red flowers. The bushes that
are in this garden all seem to want to
bloom before putting on their green coats
so that each way you look is a white or |
yellow bush with a suggestion of green
underneath; it is a beautiful “world and
the murky-hot heat does produce splen-
did results in the flower world The
vegetables, being annuals, fare less well
since the rain washes the seed out as
fast as put in, so that we can only dream
of the early spring things you get in
June.
To offset this, the dispensary is full of
colds and bronchitis, and quinine. Gra-
cious! They must produce it in tonefrom |
the amount that is used in our hospital.
Everybody takes it, and I tried to follow
the other's lead, but guess I am not a
good Indian yet, as a five grain dose set
my head ringing and made me so dizzy 1
could scarcely walk the next day so Ii
am going in for a milder preparation. i
I wish you had the roads of India.
Even with these hard, hard rains and
small freshets every day I have seen no
washouts any place around here and
they are as smooth and level as a floor.
1 do not think these are natural to this
country, for it is just the contrary. The
usual native road you would put down
to being made by a creek and when it
dried up—well, we just drive down :he
center—rocks, holes and all.
has surely spent and is spending much
money in this part of the world and of
course she is said to derive a big reve-
nue from India. 1 guess it is true,
but I wonder whether it really would be
80 large if evened up, for the irrigation
“Frequently I see in man-made gar-
dens a single plant of some sort—peony,
phlox, or even golden glow—and it al-
ways looks to me both stingy and ridic-
ulous. Were it a nurseryman’s collec-
tion of samples the single nts might
be justified, like the swatches of dress
goods samples which Frederika has sent
out from the department stores when she
conspires toward a new dress. Should
she sew the samples together and let
that be her gown, she would be following
in her dressmaking the same principle
which some folks follow in their garden-
ing.”
How a Girl Can Fasten Her Veil.
The following is taken from the June
Woman's Home Companion :
. “Fastening a veil around a large hat
18 one of the trials of a girl's life; either
holes and
the pins come out or there are
a general untidy
appearance.
“Take a long thread of heavy sewing | “Ps
silk the color of the veil, run it in large
stitches around the veiling, then put it
loosely around the crown of the hat,
fastening the ends at the back, and ad-
just the fullness evenly.
“When the hat is put on, pull the veil
down, pinning it in the back, and you
have a properly arranged veil which will
stay, as it can remain on the hat until
the veil is renewed, if you so desire.”
She Knew Harry.
“Now, Harry, go to Smith's, the ”
TRE pion. Hg eb ond geet
is Mother, and she Handed the young
a couple of good-sized
hen the boy had gone the vicar’s ie
“You didn’t tell him to get anything in
he other jug. Is he going to leave it at
op
“No, ma'am; he’s going to bring it
n.
England | back here agai
“But why send two jugs to get a pound
of syrup?”
“Well, you see, it's this way. If he
has a jug in each hand, he can’t go dip-
his finger in the syrup and eating it
as he comes along.”
A
w=Have your Job Work done here.
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FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN
DAILY THOUGHT.
1 hate inconstancy—1 loathe, detest,
Abhor, condemn, abjure the mortal made
Of such quicksilver clay that in his breast
No permanent foundation can be laid.
- ~—Byron.
New York.— than ever at the
bottom, but with an eight-inch slit to
allow locomotion and looser at the top to
make sitting down a graceful possibility | ing
is the edict for women's skirts evolved
from the deliberations of the National
Association of Women’s Tailors, which |
has ended its convention here. A wrag-
Ble oves the session of the delegates six
but the scant skirt advocates prov-
ed victorious. All skirts will be elabo-
rately draped.
A “cuff,” like those on men's trousers,
will finish the skirts around the bottom, |
and, what is more, in the three-piece
suits, which will be correct, the waists of
em chiffon or net will have
straps of the skirt material in suspender
effects.
The pistol pocket suit, made in black
and white cloth, with coat trimmings of |
green velvet, which was displayed, show- |
ed two patch pockets, one for pistol, the |
other for powder, corresponding to a |
man's back trouser pockets and covered
by the coat tail. :
Coats will be cutaway, 36to 41 inches |
long. Evening coats will be 42 to 45 |
inches and street and automobile coats |
48 to 52 inches long. All will be draped. |
Coats and waists will show deeply slop- |
ing Japanese shoulders. Charmeuse cloth, |
peau de piche, velour de laine, brocaded |
eponge and moire will be favored ma-
terials.
The slit, now that it is recognized, is!
evidently no longer to be left to display |
any chance petticoat. It is generally |
faced either with the material of the |
skirt itself, with a self-colored net, or)
with the coat trimming. i
The favorite suit in the display held |
seemed to be La Militaire. It was shown-
in a mahogany colored cut velour, or rib |
bed velour de laine, asit is to be called. |
The skirt, made of a single width of |
the fifty-four inch material and contain- |
ing only a yard and a-half of goods, was |
draped up in the lower centre of the front |
to the long ends of a black cordeliore |
girdle. Above the drapery was a V-wise |
graduated tuck, giving an apron effect. |
The front of the coat was double |
breasted, with black braid Brandenberges |
matching the belt, and cuffs and high |
Medici collar of Hudson Bay seal. The
bodice was of self-colored silk, mar- |
quisette embroidered in floss and finish- |
ed with shoulder straps of the skirt ma- |
terial. The suit was planned to cost $125. |
The pegtop skirt, designed by Max ;
Kinkelstein, of Chicago,showed box pleats |
at the waist, which were draped into!
back and front panels. The cutaway |
coat showed a vest of white flowered |
broadcloth and bretelles of black velvet. |
The pleats over the shoulders were car-
ried down in the velvet belt in the back !
and below it inverted to the hem of the!
coat tail.
A leg of mutton skirt was shown in a
mouse colored wool Bengaline with gray
fur collar and cuffs. The drapery over
each hip fell in a Watteau effect merging |
into the narrow skirt, which was slit
front 2nd back and turned up in a stitch:
cuit. {
“One of the earliest and happiest rezol-
lections of mother and home were the |
little surprises she used to have for us,” |
said an elderly woman.
“l cannot remember the time when |
mother did not have some little treat or |
surprise for us. They were trifling in
cost—perhaps a page of paper dolls from
a magazine she had finished reading, or!
some bright colored wrapping paper to |
cut out Sometimes it would be a cake |
or a tart baked solely for each of us, or:
a red apple someone had brought in, or |
a bunch of pretty red leaves or nuts
found on a stroll. The value was com- |
paratively nothing, but it was the fact |
that it was a surprise and the evidence |
of mother’s love and thought for us
which made us so happy.” }
i
It takes so littie to please children.
They are happy over such trifles and it
is such a privilege for the mother to be
able to add to the happiess, to create
little pleasures and surprises for them.
It takes very little thought and extra
work on her part, but the result will be
joyous little ones and recollections of
mothers and home happiness which will
be carried far into the years.
Have little surprises for the children, |
mothers! Do all you can to make their |
lives as sunny and happy as you can |
now, for the years fly only too rapidly. |
Before you realize it they will be men
and women locking back on their child-
hood and home. It is the mother’s privi-
lege to see that the children’s recollec-
tions of that home shall always be hap-
py—always an influence for good in after
years.— The Housewife.
Sleeveless coats in black or white lace,
long enough to reach the knees and
sometimes draped jer fashion, are
very much worn. With a black chiffon
gown arranged with three flounces, one
of these coats in Chantilly is worn. The
hat accompanying it has the orthodox
three brims in unlined black tulle super-
posed, each wired round the edge, the
three forming a shade for the eyes. The
frill has now invaded the toque and, in
some instances, displays a very t-
tulle itis
effect. In black
to this objection.
The frill in some cases is so deep that
at the back it rests upon the shoulders,
while in front and at the sides it almost
completely masks the features. This has
been a season of frills and we must ex-
pect that they will exhibit much extrava-
gance before they leave us entirely.
Green Corn Balls.— Beat a whi
Sig. Iwo toasiiouns ih) buts one
of white sugar and salt to taste intc two
cups from the cob and
put mixture enough flour to enable
u to handle it and form it into balls.
| these in raw egg and then in flour
and fry in deep fat.
A delicious way to bake halibut is to
cover the fish with milk in the baking
pan and baste it with the milk
times during the hour.
~For high class Job Work come to
the WATCHMAN Office.
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FARM NOTES.
—The proper temperature at which
cream should be churned varies. Usually
from 5 degrees Fahreneit is the
i —Although certain pessimists claim
that the dairy market will soon be over-
stocked, present prices give no indication
of the sign.
—The silo today furnishes the most
economical, the safest
means of storing the corn crop for feed-
purpose.
Purebred Poultry. — Statistics prove
that the American hen is not doing her
i duty. With lessthan seventy eggs per
head each year to her credit, where she
might have twice that number, statistics
prove that a better quality of stock
should be encouraged The recent egg-
laying contests indicate that there is not
so much significance in the breed as in
the strain, therefore my subject should
properly have been “Pedigreed Poultry.”
The most successful breeders of the
present day are pedigree-breeding; that
| is, they are recording the ancestry of
each fowl, just as do breeders of cattle
and horses. This method is carned out
by the use of trap nests in the breeding
pens, which identifies each egg. Each
hen's eggs are kept separate from all
! others, and those from the best layers,
having been mated to cocks of an equally
good laying strain, are hatched. The
chicks are identified by foot marks and
the grown birds by leg bands with name
and number. Careful records are kept,
and after a few years of breeding by this
method, it is possible to build up a strain
that will double the productiveness.
Sometimes it may be possible to pro-
duce a laying strain by accident, but how
much more likely it is to be done by
careful breeding.
gree-breeding is still comparatively new,
but as fanciers follow the method, there
will doubtless be built up more of the
strains that will produce 250 eggs per
year, or even more.
One well known breeder of pedigreed
stock estimates that the cost of producing
birds on his farm is about ten cents per
head more than by ordinary methods.
This is to hatch them, and it costs no
more to raise the pedigreed chick than
the barnyard type. His entire crop was
sold in one year for $4.50 per head. The
demand far exceeds the supply, and
many farmers might profitably take up
the industry. It costs a little more to
build the houses, equip with trap nests
and fixtures; then there is more work,
of course, in keeping separate the eggs
and recording the data, but breeders of
fancy stock find that they are producing
better market birds by this methed, in-
dicating that it is not alone in the laying
qualities that pedigree counts.—Charles
H. Chesley, Strafford Co., N. H.
-—Cleanliness is an important factor in
both milking and the care of milk. In
these days of germs “floating about the
air” it is imperative that the best of care
must be taken.
The necessity for thoroughly washing
the cow's udder before milking will de-
pend entirely upon the places where the
animal has been accustomed to forage
and lie down, together with the condi-
tion of the hands of the milker at the
previous milking. If the paddock in
which the cows have been accustomed
to lie down during the night is not clean
and there really are very few paddocks
so clean that some of the cows’ udders
should be washed before milking is pro-
ceeded with. Also, if cows are allowed
to forage in unclean places, especially
during times of drought, then undoubted-
ly it will be necessary to wash the ud-
ders before milking. Included in this
latter must be the general conditions pre-
vailing in the farm-yard during wet
weather. As the cow walks to and from
the barn she generally does so on a beat-
en path, and in wet weather this track is
nothing more or less than a continuous
manure track. The consequence is that
she kicks up on to the udder pieces of
this contaminated soil, with the result
that the udder is unclean by the time
milking begins. Another fruitful source
of dirt on the teats of the cow, though
one not generally associated with con-
tamination in the mind of the farmer, is
the unclean condition in which some
milkers allow their hands to get during
the process of milking. In other words,
the damp, dirty hand of the milker coats
a portion of the cow's udder with unclean
matter, and between milkings bacteria
will develop frequently in this matter
which sometimes contains a certain
amount of milk, and thus we get per-
haps the worst form of uncleanliness on
the cow's udder, necessitating the wash-
ing thereof before milking is proceeded
with
—Most uncleanliness connected with
milking occurs because of the fact that a
man prefers to milk with a moist rather
than a dry hand, and for the matter of
that the cow also prefers it, as there is
less friction; and also less chance of irri-
tation should there be any slight cracks
or sores on the cow's teats. An easy
way to get over this difficulty is to have
placed in every cow pail a tin of cheap
vaseline to which about one per cent. of
carbolic acid has been added; the hands
of the milker, after having been washed
may be moistened with a small amount
of this vaseline, the result being that un-
necessary friction and sore teats will be
avoided, and there will be no excuse for
the milker to have recourse to the dirt
habit of dipping his fingers into the mil
pail in order to moisten them as he con-
tinues the process of milking. Not alone
will this result in clean milking, but it
will prevent any contagious form of sore
teats being transferred from one cow to
another.
Of course, as will have been gathered
from what has been said up to the pres-
ent, the whole of the industry so far as
quality is concerned, practically speak-
ing, lies in cleanliness. If it were pos-
sible that every dairy-farmer should
understand from a bacteriological Poise
of view the meaning of uncleanliness,
then undoubtedly we would be on the
NE nm daiing condions: ons
ean y
Eo models in this respect,
but unfortunately their efforts are ren:
dered less valuable by the negl and
carelessness of others in their ict en-
gaged in the same industry and who send
cream to the same factory.
—No matter how well the farmer may
do his work, if the cream has been held
too long it will undoubtedly contain the
injurious fermentations.
Lactic acid development pro-
oe already pointed
and the best!
In this country pedi- |
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| cate grasses grew in the crannies, glow-
! ing green. giving accent and harmony
| work.—New York World.
om | Se a——
Buying Versus Observing.
To buy wisely has its true satisfac
tion. hut just “buying” seems to have
irresistible attraction for the human
mind We were spending a golden
hour ut the top of a great headland.
Far below the sea showed opal color
and violet light. The clay of the cliff
ranged in tone from black. through
red. blue and yeliow. to a creamy
white: patches of sweet fern and deli-
to the whole. Far below, the line of
the golden beach, the white curl of
the surf. were like poetry and music,
and yet among the people who jour-
neyed that day to enjoy a fair place
only a few had time to go out on the
cliffs and revel in color and beauty.
hecause at a neat little stall there was
a collection of perishable souvenirs fot
sale. and so great was the demand fot
them that the buyers had no time to
feast their eyes elsewhere—a proof
that purchasing is more interesting to
the majority than observing.—Eliza- |
beth C. Billings in Atlantic Monthly.
Daredevil Photography.
A naval photographer gets many
Anckings and, after a time, takes them |
as a matter of course. Being thrown
into the sea isn't considered by him |
at all a serious event. It is during
hattleship practice that he encounters |
grave dangers. for much of the work
done nt this time is from the tops of
the fighting masts, which are at an|
elevation of 120 feet above the sea.
During different practices I have taken |
my position in these masts in order to!
get detafled pictures. Once in these
hasket-like tops the question is how to
ugtick.” The gunfire photographs it-
self. 1 suppose you wonder what I
mean, but it is just this: Every time!
the big twelve inch guns fire the aw-
ful concussion they cause invariably!
gives the snap to the shutter of the
camera. and the exposure is made.—
BE. Muller. Jr., in St. Nicholas.
Odd Bankruptcy Proceedings.
They had a peculiar way of going
into bankruptcy among the Marawaris
in India, now unhappily giving way to,
the less picturesque method of the!
white man. When a man could not
pay his bills he would summon his
creditors. They were ushered into a
room in which the thakur, or house-
hold god. was enshrined. but covered
up with a cloth and with the face
turned to the wail in order that it,
might not witness the scene that was |
to follow, The insolvent would then, |
in garb of mourning. lie on the floor,
presenting his back to his creditors,
who on a given signal would fall on
him with shoes and slippers and bela-
bor him till their wrath was exhaust-
ed. The beating finished. honor was
declared to be satisfied all around.— |
Calcutta Journal.
Quaint Signs In Peru. !
An Indian custom which adds a pie-
turesque touch to the roadsides bhe-
tween Cuzco and Machu Picchu. in|
Peru. is the presence of quaint signs.
indicating what is for sale in the In-
dian huts. A small bunch of wheat or |
barley tied on the end of a pole and,
stuck out in front of the hut indicates
that there is chicha a native corn
beer) for sale within. A bunch of
flowers on the end of a pole also has
the same significance. A green wreath
means that there is bread for sale.
while a piece of white cloth or white
paper waving in the breeze indicates
that the wayfarer may here purchase
aguardiente. a powerful white rum
made of cane juice and containing a
large percentage of raw alcohol.—Ar-
gonaut.
“Galley West.”
The phrase “he knocked everything
galley west” is credited to the United
States by Webster's Dictionary. It has
really a far wider extent, and there is
no reason to credit it to this or any
other solid land. It had its beginning
in sailor English, essentially a migra-
tory dialect of extent as wide as the
unending sea. Galley west. or. in its
full form, galley west and crooked.
means higglety piggety, all in confu-
sion. It has the same sense of dis-
ordered direction as appears in other
locutions in sailor English, such as
“Paddy's hurricane-straight up and
down the mast"—and "Tox Cox's
traverse—twice around the scuttle butt
and once around the mast.” —8t. Louis
Times.
Quite Wil ing.
Kirby Stone—l hat? to mention it.
dear, but [ must tell you that business
has been awfully poor lately. If you
could economize a little in dresses
wear something plainer—
Mrs. Stone—Certainty, dear! [I shall
order some plainer dresses tOmMorrow.—
Puck.
His Protest.
The Dentist—Let me see! I'll have
to treat four teeth—elgzht teeth—elght-
een teeth—
Mr. Pildo - Hold ou! Four teeth.
eight teeth, eighteen teeth! What do
you think | am—a comb? — London
Telegraph.
His Ignorance,
“I don't suppose you know what be
comes of all the pins?”
“] should sa not., [I don't even
know what becomes of all the battle-
ships.”—Birmingham Age-Herald.
A Hard Loser.
“Whatever became of that woman
who was married on a bet?
“She is now giving her time to a cru-
sade against gambling.”—Judge.
onan n ae
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Trouble Above.
The Sun—I'm going to strike for
shorter hours. The Mooun—I'll join you
I'm getting tired of so much night
A FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEF.
BSsattle, the Statesman, After Whom
the City Was Named.
At Fort Madison, ou t'uget sound.
fifteen miles northwest of Seattle,
Wash. stands a wonument to Seattle,
or Seaith. chief of the Squauusb and
allied tribes. This aborigine was re-
guarded us among the greatest of the
maps Indian characters of the western
! country. He ruted tis people for more
than half a century with superior tal-
ent und wus lvoked upon as u states-
man who had no equal among the
tribeswen
At the time of his death, in 1866, he
was the acknowledged head and chief
sachem of ail the tribes living on or
near Puget sound. He bad reached
the age of eighty when be passed
away and bad made many warm
friendships with the white pioneers in
Washington. Over 100 white men
were in attendance at his funeral.
In 1890 his friends erected a monn-
ment of (talian marble. seven feet
| high. with ua base or pedestal sur
mounted by a cross bearing the letters
“1 H 8" On one side of the monu-
ment is the following inscription:
SEATTLE
Chief of the Squamish and Allied Tribes,
Died June th, 1865
The firm Friend of the Whites, and for
Him the City of Seattle was Named
ny its Founders
—Magazine of American History.
FATAL ELECTRIC SHOCKS.
They Kill by Attacking the Heart or
Respiratory Organs.
While every vue knows that ap elec.
tric shock. it powerful enough, will
cause death. there are very few who
know exactly the cause, and from a de-
seription given in a recent English
magazine, quoting an authority on the
subject, the whole matter Is simple.
Death produced from electric shock,
says this magazine, usually is the re-
sult of contraction of the fibrils or
| muscular fibers of the heart or of par-
alysis of the respiratory organs.
While doctors have been unable to
find any treatment that will cure the
former, artiticial respiration often over-
comes the respiratory paralysis.
The effects of direct and niternat-
ing currents vary with the current
strength. the duration of contact and
the puth through the body. and with
alternating currents low frequency
usually is more dangerous than high.
The lower animuls ure more suscepti-
ble to electric shock than man, dogs
often being killed by a direct current
of seventy volts. In the average wan
a direct current of 100 volts is scarcely
felt. 200 to 300 volts give rise to muscu-
lar cramps. while 320 voits will stop
respiration suddenly.—New York Press,
tr a cn
“Be the friend of your house servant
and let her realize that you are inter-
ested in her well being,” was the ad-
vice of a lecturer hefore a housewives’
meeting at Vienna. A woman who at-
tended and listened to the servant
problem discussion wrote a letter to
the lecturer n few days later in the
course of which she said: “1 agree
with you, but did you know that in
this city a nursery maid, a mere child
herself, threw the child intrusted to
her care out of a window and then
followed, intending to kill herself?
And that on the same day another
child servant attempted to take her
life? And why? The first one had
been denied a part of her earned wages
because her lady wished to teach her
thrift and the second was not allow-
ed to leave the house after a certain
hour at night Our ‘friendship’ is of-
ten misinterpreted.”
A Heipful Letter.
A letter that Rev. W. M. L. Evans,
rector of Saxby. North Lincolnshire,
wrote to the London Times added an
amusing contribution to the discussion
then going on in that newspaper con-
cerning the alleged decay of hand-
writing Mr Evans says:
“The nume ot Dean Stanley will oc
cur to many of us as that of a cele-
brated cacographist of the pretype-
writer period. When Mrs. Kingsley
was Iying very ill ber busband re-
ceived u letter from the dean.
“He conned it earefuily and slowly
and then said: ‘Here 1s a letter from
dear Stanley. | um sure it is sympa-
thetic and affectionate. but there are
only two words that | can make any-
thing of. aud | don’t thiok | can have
got them quite right, for they seem to
be “beastly” and “devil.” "
American Colleges,
Whatever the defects of American
universities way be. they disseminate
no prejudices, rear no bigots. dig up
the buried ashes of no oid superstitions,
never interpose between the people
and their twprovement, exclude Do
man because of bis religious opinions—
above all, in their whole course of
study and instruction, recognize a
worid. and a broad one, too, lying be-
yond the college walls.—Charles Dick-
ens.
The Focus.
Three sons who traveled west (0
make their fortunes in cattle raising
wrote home for an appropriate name to
give their ranch. The reply. “Focus,”
did not seem especially suitable until
the explanation wus forthcoming, “The
place where the sons raise meat’ --Ex-
change.
Takes Time to Dress,
She (getting ready tv go outi—What
are you looking at? He—I'm just
watching whether that bouse opposite
will be finished first or you.—Fliegende
Blatter.
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Success Is sweet, the sweeter if long
delayed and attained through manifold
struggles and defeats.—A. Bronson Al-
eott.
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