Belletonte, Pa., March 17, 1916.
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BEAUTIFUL LIVES.
Beautiful lives are those that seek
To make life beautiful—peak to peak
Sending the sunlight, sounding the cheer
That heal the sorrow and dry the tear.
Beautiful lives, that build and bloom
In every sunless and silent room.
A shrine of beauty that those that dwell
May feel the touch of the beautiful spell.
Beautiful lives, that find their way
Into the corner so dark and gray,
And dust the cobwebs and bring the gleam
That the hermit souls therein ‘may dream,
Beautiful lives are those that find
The beautiful secret of being kind,
And passing it on and making it grow
In many an aching heart of woe.
Beautiful lives, that where they pass
Are like a music along the grass,
A breeze of summer, a velvet thing
Like a butterfly poised on azure wing,
Beautiful lives, that come with love
To teach the lesson of dream and dove,
And spread the fashion of being sweet
From door to door in the little street.
Beautiful lives are those that give
Beautiful love that the world may live
In mellow manners and tenderer ways
Down its toiling and teeming days.
Beautiful lives are those that seek
To help the helpless and aid the weak,
To cheer the cheerless, and sing and smile
In such a friendly and fearless style.
Beautiful lives that are a dew
On dusty roads that the world ploughs through,
And a vine by the door and flower on the sill,
‘To bring God's beauty to lone and ill.
—Baltimore Sun.
How many of us know that there is one
portion of the American continent, that,
thus far, has not been penetrated by the
white man; that, indeed, is almost as lit-
tle known to the whites as it was on the
day Columbus landed on American soil?
This land is not so great in area, but it
is exceedingly wild. If this region were
the Brazilian hinterland, along the east-
ward slope of the Andes, it would not
seem so remarkable that it should remain
unknown. But our credulity is strained
when we learn that this land lies in the
northeast curve of the southern conti-
nent—South America. This unknown
land is the interior of British Guiana.
The country contains 104,000 square
miles at a population estimated at 300,-
000, an average of less than three per-
sons to the square mile. The greater
part of the population is assembled in
Georgetown, the capital, and in other
ports along the coast, as well as in the
lower ports along the reaches of the
Demerara Berbice and Essequibo rivers,
the principal streams of the country.
Near the coast are found the Carib In-
dians, who are comparatively friendly
with the white man; but in the interior
roam the Tarumas and the Atoradis,
warlike and crafty.
In the early Spanish days, during the.
hunt for El Dorado, several expeditions |
proceeded through what is now Bitish
Guiana. Somewhere in the deep forests
the bones of the Spaniards lie. The gold
seekers were never heard of after they
disappeared up the slopes near the sea.
It was believed, when Great Britian took
possession about a century ago, that the
country would be explored and opened
to settlement, but comparatively little
has been accomplished. Explorers, tak-
ing their lives in their hands, have pene-
trated some distance into the interior,
but beyond a certain dim, undefined line,
they die. Nothing is known of the vast,
silent forests of the interior.—Edwin
Tarrisse.
No More Canal Slides is Goethal’s Pre-
diction.
Major Geo. W. Goethals, Governor
of the Panama Canal Zone, when in New
York on his way to Washington to ap-
pear before the Congressional Commit-
tee on Canal Appropriations, said he was
unable to fix any definite date as to when
the canal would be opened, but was zon-
fident there would be no more slides.
“We have widened the canal north of
Gold" Hill,” said Goethals, “and are at-
tacking the slide from that direction,
which enables us to divert the slide from
the main canal. We are removing about
a million cubic yards a month, and it is
estimated there is between 750,000 and
800,000 yards remaining. The Gold Hill
slide was caused by the movement of a
“blowout” of igneous rock, which differs
from the rock found elsewhere on the
Isthmus.”
Brigadier General Clarence R. Ed-
wards, commanding the military force in
the Zone, also arrived and both he and
General Goethals stoutly denied any fric-
tion or serious differences existing be-
tween them.
Retain the Quene.
Many Chinese retain the queue, though
the Government of the Republic stands
firmly against it. This is particularly
true in the southern part of the country,
where the old fashion is liberally display-
A certain amount of disquietude is
thus caused to the administration, since
the keeping of the queue is regarded as
an indication of sympathy for the depos-
ed ruling house, as it is a badge of servi-
tude to the Manchu dynasty which was
imposed upon the people three centuries
ago. ‘Several of the Council of State
still cling to the queue, and for that rea-
son the government is in no condition to
enforce the expressed wish of the Presi-
dent in this respect. Some officials have
resigned rather than submit to the new
order, and it is feared that others will
do the same if the proscription is en-
forced.
Most of Foods Cheaper in U. S. During
Last Year.
WASHINGTON, March 16.—Most of the
leading food articles in the United States
are slightly cheaper than a year ago, ac-
cording to Sgures published by the De-
partment of Labor, though rises in
the price of a few foods, nota ly. flour,
sugar and potatoes, have made the gen-
ies average of prices about 3 per cent.
igher.
Meat prices fell from 1 to 4 per cent.
during the year 1915. Prices of potatoes
increased 25 per cent, and sugar rose 12
per cent. Cheese and eggs rose, as did
beans and onions. Fowls and butter re-
ie
average of food for
the 12 months of 1915 was about 1 per
cent. below the 1914 average.
1915 Healthiest Year in Pennsylvania. |
HARRISBURG, March 16th. |
The year 1915 was the healthiest in |
the history of Pennsylvania according to
a report which has just been made to!
Governor Brumbaugh by Commissioner |
of Health Samuel G. Dixon. The vital |
statistics for the year 1915 show a very
considerable reduction in deaths from |
FOR ARD ABOUT WOMEN
DAILY THOUGHT.
Write it on your heart that every day is the
best day in the year. No man has learned any-
thing rightly until he knows that every day is
Doomsday. — Emerson.
Young married couples who wish to
diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, whoop-
ing cough. tuberculosis and typhoid
fever.
The comparative figures of 1906 and
1915 for these diseases are as follows:
1906 1915
Diphtheria 2,438 1,634
Measles 1,463 536
Scarlet Fever 577 295
Whooping Cough 1.550 580
Tuberculosis 9,258 8,777
Typhoid Fever 3917 1,020
These reductions in the actual num-
ber of deaths have occurred despite the
fact that in 1915 the population of the
State was 1,242,716 greater than in 1906.
The State Department of Health has
directed specific efforts for a number of
years toward the prevention of these
diseases and the reduction in the death
rate is an evidence of the value of the
application of preventative medicine.
Ten years ago Pennsylvania first began
the collection of vital statistics. In that
year the population of the State was
7,141,766, the death rate was sixteen per
thousand inhabitants; the death rate for
1915 was thirteen and eight-tenths per
thousand. Had the death rate of 1906
obtained during the year just passed,
18,833 additional deaths would have oc-
curred.
The total number of deaths recorded
total number of births 218,915.
In event of war between the United
States and Germany many things could
activities the effects upon! the United
States would be chiefly these;
A second general readjustment of bus-
iness affairs to a new situation, less vio-
lent than in 1914;
Some temporary derangement in the
security markets;
Extensive bond issue which would tend
to lessen foreign borrowings on this side.
A larger home demand for war muni-
tions which would probably interfere
with foreign orders;
Stricter efforts to check the large
American exports to Germany, now filter-
ing through Holland, Denmark and Swe-
en;
Imports would be slightly affected, un-
less Germany secured control of the sea;
| The German ships now interned in this
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| ports or to relieve the freight situation;
Some lines of industry would be stim-
ulated by our entering the war, and few
would be injured more than they are by
present uncertainties;
Taking the situation at large, war with
Germany could not be a very serious
matter to the United States, and if it
hastened peace would be distinctly bene-
ficial.— Journal of Commerce.
Rockefeller Fund Gives $22,800 for Insane
Aid.
The Rockefeller Foundation has donat-
ed $22,800 for carrying on surveys of the
care of theinsane in sixteen States this
year, according to an announcement
made at the annual meeting of the Na-
tional Committee for Mental Hygiene.
Clifford W. Beers, sccretary of the
committee, reported that the movement
for conserving mental health and improv-
ing the care of insane and feeble-minded
has resulted in the organization of so-
cieties for mental hygiene in Connecticut,
Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, Mary-
land, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Dis-
trict of Columbia, Alabama, Louisiana
and California. Societies will be organiz-
ed this year, it was said, in Michigan,
Rhode Island, Minnesota, Ohio, Indiana,
South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
Soil Conservation to be Study in Schools.
Secretary Patton, of the State Depart-
ment of Agriculture of Pennsylvania, ar-
ranged with the Bureau of Agricultural
Education of the State Department of
Public Instruction for co-operative work
in instruction in soil conservation in the
rural schools of the State. Bulletins pre-
pared by soil experts of the Department
and covering the soils of every county
will be placed in the hands of teachers
and also will be sent to each High school
in the State.
Special attention will be given to the
study of climatic conditions, adaptation
of soils in certain sections of the State,
to particular crops and the resources of
each township.
——The largest peach orchard in the
world under one management is said to
be in Howard and Pike counties in Ar-
kansas. There are three hundred and
fifty thousand trees on thirty-five hun-
dred acres, and in the three weeks har-
vest season two thousand hands are em-
ployed ' picking and packing the crop
which fills six or seven hundred cars.
The' Western Methodist, of Little Rock,
says that Bert Johnson, the manager,
who has brought the enterprise to its
present success, is a pillar of the local
Methodist (South) church, and his rev-
erence for the Lord’s Day is responsible
for the quiet Sabbaths in the great orch-
ard, where no work is done on Sunday.
——On the farthest north railroad of
the world, which runs from Nome to
Kugarok in Alaska, a distance of eighty
miles, locomotives have been retired and
dogs substituted. The reason for the
adoption of canine power is said to be
the government tax of $100 per annum
for each mile. The high price of coal,
in addition to the tax, made the operating
of the road an unprofitable business. At
first transit ceased altogether, but this
was such an embarrassment to the trans-
portation of mail and freight that light
cars on four wheels, drawn by dogs,
were placed in commission, and these are
said to be making better time than the
steam trains were formerly doing.
errer——————
—— America is the world’s wealthiest
nation, according to figures published in
The Statist of London, for which Sir
George Paish is the authority. The ac-
cumulated riches of this country he esti-
mates at the inconceivable figure of
$150,000,000,000, which is almost equal
to the combined wealth of Great Britain
and Germany. While France, German
and England have expanded in weal
with remarkable percentages during the
past one hundred years, America has
year.
during the year 1915 was 115311; the
happen. Outside of military and naval |
{ country might be commandered, as trans-’
ou them all. Moreover, the
wealth of the United States, is now grow.
ing at the rate of about $7,000,000,000 a
| celebrate their wedding anniversaries
! with their friends usually make this oc-
! casion the excuse for the merriest of par-
| ties. With their friends around them,
| the young pair demonstrate the happi-
| ness of their union by the gayety and joy
i of the celebration. The guests, too, often
have just as much if not more pleasure
| out of the entertainment than the hosts
| themselves.
Many a married couple, however, would
[like to entertain on their anniversary
days, but are ignorant of the sort of a
party to fall on each successive year.
For the benefit of the uninitiated who
are constantly clamoring for enlighten-
| ment as tothenames of the various wed-
1 ding anniversaries, the correct informa-
{ tion is here given:
i The first year is the cotton wedding;
: the second anniversary, paper; the third,
| leather; the fifth, wooden; the seventh,
woolen; the tenth, tin, the twelfth, silk
and linen; the fifteenth, crystal; twen-
| tieth, china; twenty-fifth, silver; thirtieth,
| pearl; fortieth, ruby; fiftieth, golden,
and the seventy-fifth wedding anniversary
I is the diamond wedding.
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| Women are even acting as street clean-
| ers in Southern Germany.
Missouri has nearly 4,000 women work-
ers who are members of unions.
The board of visitors of the University
! of Virginia has recommended that the
| General Assembly authorize the establish-
i ment and maintenance of a woman's col-
lege, which wili be located at Charlotte-
| ville.
For the first time in the history of the
four medical and dental associations of
that city, a woman, Dr. Clara Shetter-
Keiser, has been elected president of the
Reading, Pa., Medical Society.
While most women of her circumstan-
ces are whiling away their time at Palm
Beach, Mrs. Carl Pitcher, heiress to mil-
lions, is preparing herself to manage her
vast estate left her by her father.
- Radium lace is being used to trim
many negligees. It is so cobwebby in
texture that it is especially pleasing.
Flesh colored georgette crepe, silk nets
and laces are being made into airy little
night robes and combination suits that
are termed “silhouettes.”
The new pajamas night gown is attrac-
tive indeed. The upper part is made
empire with short puff sleeves and a
pointed neck. The bloomers are full
and finished at the ankle with a lace
frill. At the waistline is a ribbon run
through long embroidered eyelets.
Pink satin boots, edged with fur, look-
ing very much like carriage boots, are
new for boudoir wear. They are quilt-
ed as to sole and are most comfortable.
Quaintness is the keynote of the pres-
ent afternoon frocks, as well as of those
for informal . evening wear; to
resemble our grandmothers is now the
fashion. !
The wise woman will be sure to add
one of the charming cross-barred mate-
rials to her list of new spring fabrics, for
these are more lovely than ever.
In the cross-bar all sorts of materials
appear; even the silks are showing the
effect. The barring is newer than the
checks and plaids, rivaling the wonder-
ful designs in stripes which are coming
over from France.
Many of the dainty muslins and voiles
have within each little square a tiny
nosegay or rose spray, or perhaps an
embroidered dot. These, when trimmed
with the delicate pinks and blues in
which the French always delight, will
make che daintiest of gowns. Another
combination, in hai mony with past times,
is the use of narrow black velvet ribbons,
with some sprays of pink roses or con-
ventional he ts,
udging from the displays in the shops,
this is to be a year of oh wife and of
gay flowered costumes, reserving the
plain surface materials for the street and
sport clothes.
Skirts are short, but not too short
which means that for the street they cov-
er at least the upper edge of the button-
ed boot. Dancing frocks, worn with
slippers, may. be a trifle shorter. In
many instances outer tunics of chiffon or
indestructible voile fall several inches
below the foundation skirt of silk or sat-
in, and the ankles appear to be covered
until one glimpses at the smart buttoned
boots through the transparent tunic.
Now that the severely plain hair-dress-
ing is less popular and the hair is waved
more loosely over the forehead orna-
ments are again being used. Pretty
shell combs, jeweled rhinestone pins and
jet pins or bandeaux are all much worn.
Flexible metal bands, in various colors,
are worn low over the brow like the fil-
let of old. .
With a high arrangement of the hair
a large shell or amber pin is used, or sin-
gle-pronged pins of shell, shaped like
spikes or poignards. Sometimes the knot
of the hair is held firm at the base with
a large comb ornamented with rhine-
stones or jet, or with the top shaped like
a fan or a palm leaf. These ornaments
are very effective for evening wear.
If dried or candied fruit has become
too hard to be used to advantage in a
cake steam it for a few moments.
To make a filling for hickory nut cake
whip cream very stiff, sweeten, flavor to
taste and add nuts cut rather fine.
While stewing chicken, a piece of on-
ion added when it is stewing will add
much to the flavor, and the onion taste
will not be noticed.
Brush the bottom crust of pie with
white of egy before putting in the fruit
to prevent the juices being absorbed and
the crust soggy.
Butter with finely chopped candied
peel and raisins makes a much-liked
sweet sandwich, and honey with chopped
nuts is another sweet filling.
Pound Cake,~One level cupful fine
granulated sugar, two-thirds cupful but-
ter, one heaping cupful flour, four eggs,
pinch salaratus, cream butter and sugar
Sogsther, separate the eggs and add the
yolks, beaten, first, then the flour and
salaratus sifted, and lastly the stiffly
beaten whites. Bake in a greased square
tin in a moderate oven for 40 minutes.
——Have your Job Work done here.
HUMAN VISION.
Nearsight and Method
Testing the Eyes,
i Farsight or nearsight—which is bet-
| ter?
has unusually acute vision for objects
at a great distance can rarely thread a
needle or read small print without
glasses, while the person whose near
vision is so acute as to serve him al-
most like a microscope sees distant ob-
jects as a blurred mass,
The Medical Record comments on
“how little is known as to the extent
of vision of the farsighted and still less
of the nearsighted.” We have two eyes
in order that our vision may be stereo-
scopic, and it is thus that we are able
to judge of the relative distances of ob-
jects, and it brings a greater field be-
fore the retina at one time, but the
sight of two eyes is no keener than
that of one. “Indeed, if there be re-
quired a greater intensity in a given
field it is a natural tendency to obscure
the vision of one eye.” That is why
most womeu close one eye when thread-
ing a fine needle and why men in firing
a rifle at a target shut one eye.
The Medical Record doubts the value
of uniform tests for eyesight, urging
Farsight, in
nite occupations.
pacitated from work in the field of
‘transportation. yet admirably fitted for
such work as engraving. A very far-
sighted man, on the other hand, who
would be utterly useless as a proof-
reader or a gem setter, might be a
prize as a field surveyor, a forest rang-
er or even a locomotive engineer.
“Many misfits,” says the Medical
Record, ‘“‘can be prevented by deter-
mining the kind of occupation the in-
dividual will be best fitted for. In the
last analysis it should be the aim to
educate the vision one has to greater
powers by calling to aid all sources of
orientation—to educate and train vis-
ual perception so that one may per-
ceive more of the objects within the
field of one’s vision.”
HIGHEST DAM IN THE WORLD.
Difficulties Overcome In Building the
: Arrowrock, In Idaho.
The dam is built in a narrow, precip-
itous canyon, through which the turbu-
lent Boise river races. Its name is
gained from a gigantic rock in that
canyon, the Arrowrock, which had
won its name from the custom of the
roving Indians, who shot arrows into
the face of it to tell their comrades
which way they had traveled. By the
angle of the arrow the late comers
knew whether those in advance had
gone up stream or down or up one of
the many tributaries.
The construction of the dam com-
menced in 1911, although much prelim-
inary and preparatory work had been
done before that, the most important
being that of diverting the river from
the site of the dam while the building
was in progress. This was done by
cutting a wunnel through the canyon
walls for 500 feet and turning the
river through that. This tunnel was
large enough to’ carry the river at its
highest flood and was lined with ce-
ment. When the dam was finished the
tunnel was plugged with solid cement.
In order to reach solid vock on which
to anchor the dam founuation it was
necessary to go down ninety-one feet
below the normal bed of the river. No
less than 225,000 cubic yards of soil
and gravel were removed to lay bare
this bedrock. :
The dam as finished is 348 feet high.
240 feet thick at the base, tapering to
sixteen feet at the top, where there is
a fine driveway, lighted at night with
artistic electric lamps. The length of
the dam is 1,060 feet, curving grace-
fully upstream with a radius of 662
feet. In its construction 530,000 cubic
yards of cement were used, sufficient
to make a column ten feet square and
twenty-seven miles high.—J. F. Strat-
ton in St. Nicholas.
Official Ignorance.
One of the best of the many stories
of English official ignorance of the col-
onfes is recalled by P. A. Silburn in
“The Governance of Empire.” Lord
Palmerston was forming a new minis-
try and in 2' preliminary council was
arranging its composition. He had
filled up all the portfolios with the ex-
ception of the colonial office. First one
and thrown aside. At last he said to
Sir Arthur Helps: “I suppose I must
take the thing myself. Come upstairs
with me and show me where these
places are on the maps.”
Where Gannets Swarm,
One of the most remarkable sights in
the world is Bird island, in South Af-
rica, for the reason that during some
months of the year it is literally cov-
ered with gannets. Not a foot of ground
is to be seen anywhere. Day after day
thousands of gannets strut around, and
they are so close to each other that the
whole island seems actually alive,
Those who have seen this sight say
that it is one which can never be for-
gotten.
Harboring Pain.
A Japanese proverb says, “When you
take poison don’t lick the plate.” How
much happier a place the world would
be if that advice were taken! The
principal reason the higher animals
suffer less than man is that they do
not think about their sufferings.—Har-
per’'s Weekly.
Freak Shadows.
One of the mountains in Ceylon has a
remarkable shadow. Instead of lying
on the ground, it appears to rise up like
a veil in front of the observer. This is
due to mist.
God divided man into men that they
might help each other.—Seneca.
We must remember that he who !
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National Woman Suffrage Asso-
ciation Says Judiciary Com-
mittee Should. Vote Again
Washington, D. C.— The cause of
woman suffrage will not suffer be-
cause of the action of the House Ju-
diciary Committee in voting to post-
pone until next December the consid-
eration of the constitutional amend-
ment for equal suffrage.
This is the one outstanding feature
of the view taken by officers ot the
National American Woman Suffrage
Association of the recent action of the
Judiciary Committee. This and other
less important but none the less inter-
esting phases of the matter are dis-
cussed in a statement issued by Mrs.
Frank M. Roessing, first vice presi-
dent of the National American Wom-
an Suffrage Association, who is in
charge of the Congressional work.
“In considering the postponement
of final action on our suffrage amend-
ment,” said Mrs. Roessing, “It is nec-
essary to understand at the outset that
what we want is not merely a VOTE
on the matter in Committee and in
Congress. What we want is favorable
action by both the Committee and
Congress. The action of postpone-
ment is, of course, open for a recon-
sideration by the Committee, and the
Congressional Committee has already
taken steps toward that end.
“Postponement by Committee is not
defeat of woman suffrage. It must
also be emphasized that there were
votes enough in that particular meet-
ing of the Judiciary Committee to
have buried our amendment for two
years instead of merely delaying com-
mittee action.
“It speaks volumes for the cause of ;
equal suffrage when men in Congress
who are avowedly opposed to it refuse
to defeat it, and it is but just to refer
to that phase of the matter, especially
when at least four members of the
Judiciary Committee who favor suf-
frage were known to be unable to at-
tend the meeting.
“In the meantime, the policy of our
Association toward securing the en-
actment by Congress .of legislation
for equal suffrage remains unchanged,
and our work both in Washington and
in the states will be pushed with un-
abated vigor.”
Suffragists May Register as Vo-
ters, Mrs. Blatch Writes
Gov. Capper
Topeka, Kan—New York women |
may come to Kansas to register as :
voters this year, according to a letter !
made public by Governor Capper from
Harriot Stanton Blatch, president of
the Woman's Political Union.
“It is the intention of some of us,” |
Mrs. Blatch wrote, “after having
worked for so many years in the
State of New York for our enfran-
chisement, to qualify as voters in one
of the suffrage states in the West.”
The letter inquired whether women
who qualify in Kansas may spend
part of their time in the Iowa cam.
paign. Iowa will vote on woman suf
frage in June.
The New York women will be in-
formed by Governor Capper that they
need not necessarily remain actually
in the state for six months preced-
ing an election, provided that they
state their intention of qualifying.
SENATOR SHEPPARD ON
AMENDING CONSTITUTION
In a recent address delivered be
fore the Methodist congregation in
Washington, Senator Sheppard said,
“Nothing could be more inaccurate
than the contention that the prohibi-
tion and suffrage amendments to the
federal constitution involve a viola
tion of state rights. The states re-
served to themselves the right to
amend the constitution by a vote of
three-fourths of their number. In re-
serving this right they retained in
themselves ultimate sovereignty over
the federal government. The prohibi-
tion and suffrage amendments mere-
ly enable the states to exercise this
right. Therefore, the supporters of
the amendments are the real friends
of state rights, while the opponents of
the amendments are in reality stand-
ing between the states and one of the
most fundamental rights they pos
sess.”
‘This opinion, coming from a Senator
from Texas, indicates the growing
nationalization of thought in the
southern part of our country.
Parole Is Recommended.
Indeterminate sentences and the pa-
role system for prisoners are recom-
mended in the annual report of the
District of Columbia board of chari-
ties. The short-sentence system is
deplored on the ground that in most
cases of commitments of ten, fifteen or
thirty days no substantial reformation
can be accomplished. Under the rec-
ommended system prisoners would be
sentenced to a maximum of two years,
subject to parole on record of good
conduct at any time before the expi-
ration of the maximum term.
Worth While.
“Have you ever had a vice commis-
sion in this town?” asked the visitor.
“We've never had one here,” an-
swered the old resident. “I fear this!
Isn't a progressive community.”
“But maybe you have never needed,
anything of the sort.”
“I don’t know about that, but there:
are always so many curious persons!
glad to serve on a vice commission;
without any pay that it’s decidedly!
the cheapest form of municipal ad-
vertising I know of.”
APPLE TREE HAS MONUMENT
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' Canadian Farmers Recognize Worthy
Part Played by Progenitor of Fruit
in the Dominion.
Perhaps one of the most curious
monuments in existence has recently
been built in Ontario by Canadians.
| The farmers have just erected a mar-
“ble pillar to mark the site on which.
grew a famous apple tree.
More than a century ago a settler
in Canada named McIntosh, when
clearing a space in which to make a
home in the wilderness, discovered
among a aumber of wild apple trees
one which bore fruit so well that he
cultivated it and named it McIntosh
Red.
The apple became famous; seeds
and cuttings: were distributed to all
parts of Canada, so that now the Mc-
Intosn Red flourishes wherever apples
grow in the great Dominion. In 1896,
the original tree from which this enor-
mous family sprang was injured by
fire; but it continued to bear fruit un-
til five years ago. Then, after 16
years, it died, and the grateful farm-
ers have raised a marble pillar in
honor of the tree which has done so
much for the fruit-growing industry of
their land.
The story of this apple tree illus.
trates the African proverb that though
you can count the apples on one tree,
you can never count the trees in one
apple.—Popular Science Monthly.
YANKED YOUTH TO SAFETY
Former Idaho Cowboy Skillfully Uses
Driving Rein to Save Imperiled
Skater.
After hanging on the edge of a sheet
of ice for 15 minutes with feet and
body dangling in icy water at the dam
of the Thurmont Power company,
Charles, twelve-year-old son of Mrs.
B. M. Jones of Thurmont, was saved
. from drowning by Frank Harne of
* Foxville, formerly an Idaho cowboy.
The youngster was pulled from the
ice by a lasso fashioned from a driv:
ing rein and thrown by Harne.
With a view of determining whether
the ice would bear his weight, the boy
; ventured on it and plunged through a
| weak section. In his fall he clutched
solid ice, and as Harne, accompanied
. by his brother, drove by in a buggy he
| was discovered. Harne stopped, tore
a rein from the harness of the horse
and hurriedly fashioned a lasso, then
ventured on the ice until he came
| within range. Then he tossed the
| lasso, and the noose settled over the
i neck of the boy, who was pulled to
i safety.—San Francisco Dispatch
| Philadelphia Record.
“A
A Visiting Librarian.
Mary Dewitt Titcomb has extend-
ed the field of the circulating library
in Washington county, Maryland, un-
. til it reached the most inaccessible on
the rural delivery list. With the con-
sent of the trustees, she built a “li.
brary wagon,” which was made much
{ like a laundry wagon. It had side
| doors opening outward and each side
| was fitted with shelves of books,
Drawn by two mules, the library start-
ed out into the country. Now the
wagon has been taken off and in its
place is a library motor car which
carries a visiting librarian who ad-
vises the families and helps select
the books they want. The teachers
of the district schools also use the:
library motor car to choose pictures
and books for their pupils. The trav.
eling library makes two trips a week;
or 16 routes, covering the entire coun:
ty, which has 50,000 inhabitants. Miss
Titcomb says that the people in the.
country do not read as much fiction
as her patrons in the city do.
Woman's idea of War.
This is the final opinion of war that
an American woman formed after see-
ing it in reality. It is a quotation
from “Kings, Queens and Pawns,” in
which Mary Roberts Rinehart gives
her first-hand impressions.
“War is not two great armies meet
ing in the clash and frenzy of battle.
“War is a boy carried on a stretch:
er, looking up at God's blue sky with
bewildered eyes that are soon to close.
War is a woman carrying a child that
has been injured by a shell. War is
spirited horses tied in burning build-
ings and waiting for death. War is
the flower of a race, battered, hungry,
bleeding, up to its knees in filthy war.
“War is an old woman burning 3
candle before the Mater Dolorosa for
the son she has given for ‘King and
Country.’ ”
To Supply British Juror Shortage.
How is the shortage of jurors occa-
sioned by the war to be remedied? Sir
George Lewis proposes, in a contribu-
tion to the Law Journal, the imme-
diate adoption of the recommendation
made by Lord Mersey's committee that
the right to trial by jury should be
restricted. The committee, or rather
the majority of its members, proposed
that the question whether an action
should be tried by a jury, except an ac-
tion affecting personal. character,
should be determined by a judge.
Thus the supply of jurymen would be
made sufficient by reducing the de-
mand upon . their services.—London
Globe.
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Recruits.
Recruiting posters in England are
numerous and striking. One of them
shows the black silhouettes of sol
diers climbing a hill with bayonets at
the ready. “Don’t stand iooking at
this,” says the inscription, “but 80 -
out and help them.” One poster—
clearly unofficial—was chalked on a
glass “Blimey, when are you going?”