Sti Solietonte, Pa., March 12, 1915. | DENOUNCED ACT OF CHARITY | Butchers of French Town Saw Damage | to Their Interests in Gift of Phil- anthropist. A little drama portraying the con- flict of patriotism with private inter- ests is now in action, says Le Cri de Paris, on a little island in the Seine, opposite Maisons-Laffitte. Monsieur Leigh, a well-known turfman, who un- til recently has been an American, but is now a naturalized Frenchman, “rounding the cape of sixty years,” has been raising some fine pigs on his lit- tle island—handsome, high-bred, black porkers, which came to him by express from the Ivory coast. Filled with the eclat of patriotism and benevolence, Monsieur Leigh said to the mayor of Maisons: “Monsieur, you have public souphouses for the unfortunate. I will | give you for soup a pig each week un- til the end of hostilities.” A fine pig is worth from one hun- | dred to one hundred and fifty francs, and his was a handsome present, and the donor was warmly thanked for his generosity. Then it was that the pork butchers of the village intervened: “This ani- mal,” they said, “that Leigh gives for nothing, the mayor had bought, per- haps from us. We'll cease to furnish meats to that man Leigh We'll boy- cott the Leigh pigs.” M. Leigh came back at them. He said to the drummer of the village: “Announce everywhere that I will set up a pork butcher myself in the mar- ket place, and will sell my pigs to the public at 33 per cent less than these envious fellows.” M. Leigh did as he said. Each mar- ket day there is a rush of the popu- lation to the stand of his pork butcher, which has become the object of gen- eral favor. Following this the philan- thropist has been receiving many let ters, sce of them threatening to burn his stables, “And,” says Le Cri, “this | is how human nature recompenses one | who proposed to do good with his own money.” TURNED FROM WAR TO PEACE William Penn a Distinguished Soldier Before His Conversion to the Faith of the Quakers. The death day of William Penn, the great advocate of peace, was July 30, 1718. His father was Sir William Penn, an admiral who had fought with distinction the fleets of Spain and Holland, and a gruff old sea dog was he, while his mother was a Dutch woman, a daughter of a rich Rotter- dam merchant. While a student at Oxford William Penn went to hear Thomas Lee, a Quaker, preach. He was so affected that he began to think of becoming a Quaker himself. His father heard of the impending meta- morphosis with horror and packed off young William to France, where he forgot Quakerism in the gavety of Paris and returned, to his father’s de- light, a fine gentleman with all the airs and accomplishments of a cour- tier. The terrors of the plague in London in 1665 revived his pious ten- dencies. This time he was sent to Ireland, where he distinguished him- self as a soldier. It happened while in Ireland at Cork that he strolled into a meeting house. Thomas Lee was preaching. He spoke from the text “There is a faith that overcomes the world and there is a faith that is over- come by the world.” From that meet- ing is dated Penn’s thorough conver- sion to Quakerism. It is a curious fact that the only “authentic portrait of the great apostle of peace represents him at this period as a young man armed and accoutered as a soldier. Fatalities Among the Wounded. A report to the army commission, made by the director of the medical department at the ministry of war in France, discloses the wonderful re- sults achieved by modern surgery. The wounded, between September 15 and November 30, numbered 500, 000, approximately. Fifty-four and one- half per cent of them returned to the firing line. Twenty-four and one-half per cent were sent out on furlough during convalescence and have since returned to the front. Seventeen per cent are still in hospital, to complete their recovery. One and forty-eight hundredths per cent are unfit for fur- ther service. Two and forty-eight hundredths per cent died from the effects of their injuries. The mortality would probably fall as low as one per cent if the wound- ed could be received from the battle lines with less delay and there were enough professional surgeons to treat them all. Head of Great Gun Works. Dr. Krupp von Bohlen, at the head of the great Krupp gun works, was, prior to his marriage to Bertha Krupp, Von Bohlen und Halbach, but on the day of his wedding his name was changed by permission of the kaiser. He was secretary of the Prus- sian legation at the Vatican when he met and won the richest woman of Germany for his wife. He had had an extended diplomatic experience, but from the day of his marriage turned his attention to armor manufacture. An Uplifted Feeling. Nothing gives a person more spirit- ual satisfaction than getting to church on time, once in a while, for a change, and seeing other people come in late. | commodity. —Newark News. CORNCOCB AND CO COTTON BALE | American Products dts. Both, and Well Worthy of Attention, According to This Writer. 1. Memories of Mark Twain’s favorite uxury were recalled when statistics rot in Washington showed that over twenty-eight million corncob pipes had been manufactured in the state of Missouri alone in one year, and that corncobs had been utilized to the value of a half million dollars in six Missouri factories. A corncob pipe is the favorite of many men from Missouri, in the hours given by them to rest, reflection and happy memories of the good old state, and while smoking one the other day a friend called attention to the dimin- ishing supply of wool and the increas- ing population. The wool question ws long an issue in England, where it was provided that everyone, though he could not afford to wear it when living, must be buried "in English woolens. Everything was done in those days to stimulate the use of this Now, how much more logical it seems that people should be encour- aged in the use of cotton, which cer- tainly makes great inroads upon its ancient, age-long rival, for today even the blankets and all those things that look and appear like wool are made principally from cotton, but ever since the times when Abraham divided with Lot the pasturage, and Lot drove his flocks to the plains, woolen legislation has in one way or another always played a part in governmental affairs, so much so, in fact, that it evoked the old saying, “You can’t pull the wool over his eyes.”—“Affairs at Washing- “ton,” Joe Mitchell Chapple, in Nation al Magazine. MODERN NEEDS IN EDUCATION ————————— | Writer in Medical Journal Has Started | a Controversy That May Be i ‘Worth While. i { A writer in the New York Medical | Journal asks the thought-provoking question: “Is a boy who goes through | a private boarding school in New Eng- | land and then spends four years in a | costly dormitory of a large university | a real American?” This inquiry would have been an | even more fertile field of controversy, | says the New York Times, if the ques- | tioner had characterized the private school as one that laboriously imitates the customs and as laboriously at- terapts to import the “traditions” of the ancient institutions that in Eng- land are called public schools in dis- tinction from board schools. Some of us think that the American ‘“headmas- ters” who do the imitating and import- ing make a grave mistake—that what a school needs is not “traditions” or customs. in harmony with past condi- tions and, therefore, necessarily dis- cordant with those of the present, but continuous readjustment to the now and the to be. It may be picturesque and interesting to be out of date, but progress, too, has its charms, and change is not always for the worse, Nose Neglected. “It’s a funny thing,’ said the doc- tor, “that the average man pays less attention to the most prominent fea. ture of his face than to any other part of his countenance. Yes, it’s the nose I'm speaking of. We clamp it with eyeglasses that pinch too much or impose upon it spectacles that are altogether too heavy. Then we won- der why it increases in size or per- haps in redness. But this lack of care for the nose is not restricted to those whose vision is defective. * I venture to say that not one man out of ten washes his nose in the way that he should. Every other part of the face comes in for vigorous scrubbing, but the nose, which needs it most of all, is apt to be passed over gently—prob- ably because it is being used to breathe through during the ablutions. The result is that the nose gives more and more evidence of being neglected. The tissues become flabby and the pores are filled up. A little massage | would work wonders in such cases, but it is rarely given.” Not Asleep. Comments by the bishop of London (Doctor Ingram) on the falling birth rate were quoted by counsel in a case, when Judge Cluer interposed, “What has the bishop to do with it? He is not married. Example is better than precept.” And when a doctor remarked, in giv- ing evidence, that “everything is pos- sible,” Judge Cluer replied, “No, it is not; or many a man would like to un- do what he has done.” While, when counsel put a question to a witness twice, he was sharply rebuked by the judge, who said, “If you see me asleep, tell me; but do not assume it by ask- ing questions twice.” It was Judge Cluer, too, who once dryly retorted, when a prisoner said, “I am only speaking the truth.” “You must not take unusual exercises here.” Those Innocent Ducks. Father James Healy, the Sydney Smith of the Irish metropolis, figures in many anecdotes told by Judge Bod- kin in his “Recollections.” Father Healy was poor, and used to say, good: humoredly, that he did not know how he would live at all if it were not for the ‘‘outdoor relief” he received. 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