AVIATOR BONNEY IN MEXICO. Belletonte, Pa., March 24, 1916. i Centre county residents will recall with | a shudder the thrilling experience of aviator W. Leonard Bonney during his appearance here at the Centre county fair in the first week of September, 1914, and his fall of one thousand feet when his machine caught fire, landing in a ploughed field and escaping with but a few bruises. The accident happened late Thursday afternoon and the WATCHMAN was the first newspaper in the United States to announce the accident and Bonney’s escape, and the only newspaper in Centre county that gave an account of | it that week. A year ago the WATCH- MAN made exclusive announcement of the fact that Bonney had been engaged by Carranza, the defacto President of Mexico, as his chief flier and the past year was spent by Bonney in probably the hardest aviation work he has so far experienced. That it was a year filled with thrills as well as revolting experi- ences is evidenced from the following article published in the New York Sun, of Sunday, March 12th, which is here re- published in full: It is rare to find an American who is honored and respected in Mexico. It is still rarer perhaps to find an Ameri- can woman who has spent several months in Mexico and met with cour- teous treatment everywhere. Yet this has been the experience of Mr. and Mrs. W. Leonard Bonney, of 71 River- side Drive, who have just returned from Mexico city. True, they have had adventures, they have had to look upon revolting things, they have seen bloodshed a-plenty, they have faced death many times in many different forms; but they are back in New York now tell- ing the story, glad of their experiences but not longing for more of the same sort. Some of these things they ex- pected when they entered a country where fighting is the vocation and torture is common, but their expecta- tions were doubly exceeded. A year ago Gen. Carranza commis- sioned his agent in New York to find his an aviator, the best to be had, one willing to take risks in the air and on the ground, one willing to drop dynamite bombs with intent to Kill This agent picked out Bonney, who had a reputation for being able to fly anything with an engine in it. So on February 25, 1915, W. Leonard Bon- ney became the chief flier for Car- ranza's army, with an expense ac- count of $1,000 (Mex.) a week and a salary of—well, the salary was in gold deposited in a New York City bank and was commensurate with the risk. He went alone to Mexico, but Mrs. Bonney joined him a few months later. “I reported directly to Lieut. Col. Alberto Salinas, who is at the head of Carranza’s aviation corps,” Bonney said the other day in telling some of his experiences to a party of friends gathered in his Riverside Drive apart- ment. ‘“‘Almost the first thing, they handed me a half dozen dynamite bombs to be attached to the bottom of my areaplane and told me that the enemy was a little less than fifty miles inland. This <wras at Tampico. The machine was a Moisant monoplane built at Hemstead, L. I. “The bombs weighed twenty-three pounds each and consisted of cast iron shells filled with dynamite 90 per cent. pure. Each bomb had a ring in tic top through which a wire was passed, extending up through the bottom of the areoplane underneath the aviator’s seat. The bombs were arranged in a horizontal row directly under my seat and I could release any one of them by pulling out the pin that held it in place. I rigged up a sight, similar to a gun sight, using a notch in the bot- tom of the seat and a point on the fuselage below. “Then 1 set out to drop my first bomb. I flew from Tampico forty-two miles back inland over a camp of Villistas mear Ebano. I was about 2,000 feet up and the ground below was dotted with little black specks, some of them moving, others standing still, evidently watching me. I pulled out the pin that held No. 1 bomb. There was a puff of dust, and when that cleared it was as though I had kicked the top off an anthill. The specks were running about wildly trying to get under cover. I let them have another. : “Now they had begun to get my range. They had only Mausers. (if they had had anti-aircraft guns I could not have come down so low. I was up now about 1,800 feet. 1 could not see them shooting, but the first | thing I noticed was a little tear in the cloth of one of the wings. Then an- other appeared and another. They were getting uncomfortably near the fuselage. “I dropped a third bomb and a fourth. Then I noticed that one of the cylinders was not working. Quick as a flash I released the other two bombs. Then I turned back. The machine was settling slowly. She would fly all right with one cylinder silenced, but I could not maintain the altitude. I had for- ty-two miles to make, so I held her as high as she would stay and got safely inside our lines. “I found forty-seven bullet holes in the areoplane after I landed, including the one that had stopped the seventh cylinder, I think I was more scared when I saw those bullet holes than I[ was when they were trying to pick me out of the air up there above Ebano. “That was my first bomb dropping flight. I made many others after that, but none that has left such a vivid im- pression.” : Mr. Bonney is a dapper, smiling young man. He tips the scales at little more than 100 pounds plus hat, cane and overcoat. His dress is cor- rect, almost elegant. He is the sort of person you might well expect to meet in Wall street or at your cluo. But never would one associate him with the inglorious warfare in Mexico. “It was hard at first,” Bonney ex- plained, “but one can become used to almost anything, even to Killing peo- ple. I went armed all the time I was in Mexico, but I never actually shot at a human being. That would be hard- er to do than dropping bombs. One is so far away that the horrible effects of a bomb cannot be seen, even though fifty persons have been torn to pieces. It is so easy to pull out the little pin.” “What degree of accuracy was pos- sible in bomb dropping?’ Bonney was asked. “That of course, would depend on conditions,” he said, “but if I could get down to within 1,800 feet on a clear day with little or no wind I could make four hits out of six on a target the size of a locomotive. To be sure I could not do as well as that at first. It took a little practicing. “And these bombs have a killing W. LEONARD BONNEY, radiuus of 1,000 yards. We tested that by throwing up a trench and shooting at a bomb with a Mauser until it ex- ploded. the enemy's batteries out of four near Ebano after Carranza had tried in every way to capture them or silence them with land forces.” This was before Mrs. Bonney went to Mexico. She had been listening to her husband’s story with evident in- terest, although doubtless she had heard the details often before. “Now tell them about the time you dropped inside the lines of the Villa men,” she prompted. “I was ordered to fly about fifty miles inland from Tampico and drop some bombs in Villa’s camp beyond Ebano,” Bonney began. “This was late one afternoon. It was after 5 o'clock when I arrived over the Villa lines and let the bombs go. I had just started back when suddenly my motor went dead. “lI was now headed toward the rail- road which I had followed up from Tampico; but that was several miles away. The machine was settling rap- idly and I saw that I would have no chance of reaching it. Then I spied just one little clear place a mile or so away, probably the only one in all that country. “I steered for it and held the ma- chine as high as possible. For a time it seemed as thoughlI would fall short of the clearing and drop into the hopeless jungle, but the machine just barely skimmed the top of the brush and glided in, landing with her nose up against the underbrush cn the further side of the clearing. “By the time I had climbed out of the seat it was wark. I had neither food nor water. I was about forty miles from Tampico, at least four miles from the railroad and in the enemy’s country. “I saw one tree a little taller than the others, and I climbed that one. It wasn’t much taller at that. All the jungle is about the same height, just a little over a man’s head. I could see nothing but jungle by the moon- light, but I listened and soon I heard the whistle of a locomotive. “It seemed a long way off, but a second whistle was nearer and soon I could hear the train running. 1 de- cided that the railroad must be a little over a mile from me. I moted the direction that the clouds were blowing and decided that if I walked so that the clouds travelled directly across my path I would strike the railroad. “So I started in that direction and soon I hit a trail. It wasn’t much of a trail, but it led in the right direction, so I followed it. “I had walked about six miles when I saw the outline of a little depot at the side of the track. Then came a sharp ‘Quien vive? That is the Mexi- can sentry challange. Literally it means ‘Who lives?” I had no pass words because I had never thought I would need them. “ ‘Amigo!’ I shouted. Then came a click, click, click, as three guns were cocked, and again the abrupt chal- lenge ‘Quien vive? I had a happy thought and it probably saved my life. ‘“ ‘Muy grande pajoro,” I replied. They didn’t fire but kept me covered and allowed me to come closer. 1 had remembered that the areoplane was commonly referred to by the Mexicans as the ‘muy grande pajaro,” meaning the great bird. “I knew very little Spanish, and it was impossible to make them believe that I had dropped from the sky. I finally induced them to send word back to Gen. Carranza, and the answer soon came from Tampico that I was to be shown every attention. Later a spe- cial train came up after me, and I went back in the best style the coun- try affords. ‘Later I took the machines and went up to Mexico city and joined in the operations against Zapata. I did very little bomb dropping there. It was mostly scouting work, for the reason that the Zapatistas fight a guerrilla warfare and they are so scattered that bombs are of little use except to frighten them.” It was while Bonney was operating in Mexico City that Mrs. Bonney join- ed him. That was last September. She traveled alone. “It was a terrible journey from Vera (Cruz to Mexico City,” Mrs. Bonney raid. “The train was stalled and we had to sit all one night in a day coach without food. No one knew what min- ute the train would be attacked or blown up. Along the line of the road the country was strewn with human bones; with here and there a patch of tangled, blood stained black hair. At one station I saw two Villistas hang- ing from trees. It was horrible. “But the Mexicans were kind to me personally. Thy heralded my husband as a hero. As a rule, those Mexi- cans believe that President Wilson and all other Americans are cowards. They verily believe that one Mexican can lick six Americans. ‘But your husband is different,” they would say to me.” “And what do you think of Car- ranza?’ Mr. Bonney was asked. “I saw a great deal of Gen. Car- ranza,” he replied, “and I had an op- portunity to study him, his generals and his government. Carranza is a well meaning, nice old chap. He is quite a thinker. I really believe he is sincere and that he has the best in- terests of his country at heart. I be- lieve, too, that he will hold Mexico down. It is true that he lacks strength, but that will be supplied by his Gen- erals, Gonzales and Obregon. They are the strong men of Mexico to-day. “Carranza is not liked personally in Mexico City. It is sail that he moved the Mexican capital to Queretaro, a city noted for its opals, because he realized that he was unpopular in Mexico city. He did it to get even with the people of Mexico city. The moving of the capital was a body blow to Mexico city. “I got to know Gen. Gonzales very well. He made many flights with me and became an aviation enthusiast, He is cruel, but he has an iron hand and is generally looked upon as a great man in Mexico.” I was able to silence two of Meeting of the Fire Wardens. A meeting of the forest fire wardens of southern Centre county was held on Fri- | day, March 17th, at the Garman house, | in Bellefonte. This meeting was held in accordance with the new fire warden’s | law passed by the last Legislature under the direction of George H. Wirt, Chief Warden of the Department of Forestry. | The chairman of the meeting, Clem H. Gramley, of Rebersburg, read the paper setting forth the purpose of the meeting, “that they (the wardens) may know each other better and that there may be a the forest fire organization of the Com- monwealth. W. E. Montgomery, forest- er, of Potter's Mills, was chosen secre- tary. J. Linn Harris made a few remarks to the men relative to the pro- vision of food for men fighting fire. Mr. Geo. H. Wirt, chief Forest Fire Warden, gave a very interesting address to the men. He told of the inefficiency of the old law of 1907 and explained the law. He gave an instance of a fact that where the new law came into effect he found that the State was depending upon wardens in some places who had been dead several years, and of several cases where the wardens had moved away with- out the authorities knowing it. Mr. Wirt says that the State does not want “dead ones” for wardens but “live” ones. Under the new law 700 appointments as fire wardens have been made in the State and it is hoped to have 2500 before a year. There are fifteen million acres of forest land in the State and there were 1100 fires in 1915. Seventy-eight of these fires burned over 1000 acres each., and these 78]fires burned over 60 per cent. of the total area burned. Theloss in fires in this State is about fifty million dollars annually and often buildings and lives are sacrificed. Mr. Wirt pointed out that most fires resulted from ignorance and that the cure for this was systemat ic education and that it was up to each warden to do his share. Mr. Wirt point- ed out that the railroads are fast awak- ening to the fire loss and the part that they play in this destruction and that they are willing in nearly every case to co-operate with the State or private indi- viduals in order to reduce this loss. He said that most of the timber used in this State is shipped in from other States and this was entirely due to the fact that there are only four million acres of real- ly productive forest land in the State out of the fifteen million acreage. Mr. Wirt impressed very forcibly upon the men that the people and especially the war- dens must wake up and that nothing must be left undone in order to reduce the loss from fire. The key notes of the address were prevention instead of al- lowing fires to start—education instead of ignorance-—efficiency instead of indo- lence. Mr. Leonard G. Barnes, Forester, of Centre Hall, then read a paper on the extinction of forest fires. This paper was especially interesting to the wardens as it dealt with the serious side of the very practical business of putting out a fire. In particular he asked the wardens to let everybody know that they are fire wardens and that it is every one’s especial duty to notify the nearest warden in case of fire on any forest land, private or State. He spoke of organization, pre- paredness and efficiency in the fire fight- ing crew and impressed each man’s duty upon him. The meeting was then thrown open to discussion by the wardens and many things were brought out in these discus- sions that were of intense interest to those present. The men all took a good hold and the meeting was of untold benefit to all. Mr. Geo. B. Thompson, lumberman and Fire Warden of State College, told of the problems that he had to deal with along the railroads and how he met and is overcoming these difficul- ties. His illustrations were very apt and his problems were unique as to outcome but common to all the wardens. He told of some timberland burned over by the railroad and that the railroad company refused the owner damages as the tim- ber was valueless. Mr, Thompson then told how he went on this same land and cut hundreds of dollars worth ot pit poles for the mines. Mr. Jacobs, Mr. Eves and Mr. Bartley spoke of how they overcame some of their difficulties. The meeting was well attended and much interest shown and untold good derived. Out of twenty-two wardens on- ly five were prevented from being present, owing to their business; there were in ad- dition to the wardens a few visitors pres- ent. The following isa list of the fire wardens in southern Centre county: Centre Hall—]. C. Rossman. Centre Hall—L. G. Barnes, Forester. Pine Grove Mills—]. I. Reed. -Warriorsmark, R. F. D. 2—W. T. Wrye. Spring Mills, R. F. D.—L. P. Saith Spring Mills, R. F. D. 1-Wm, H. Weaver. Madisonburg—Homer C. Rachau. oodward—Carl D. Motz, Ranger. Aaronsburg—A. S. Stover. Stormstown—]J. P. Eves. Boalsburg—Robt. Reitz, Ranger. State College—W. A. Leech. Boalsburg—]J. H. Jacobs. Nittany, BF Dred: Wh Holm ittany, R. F. D.—J. W. Holmes. Zions, W. Bartley. Rebersburg—Clem. H. Gramley. Livonia—L. M. Stover, Ranger. State Conlege, &. . DiGeo. B. Th tate College, R. F. D.—Geo. B. Thomp son. Coburn—Chas. R. Meek, Forester. Millheim—E. I. Musser. - Spring Mills, R. F. D.—W. E. Montgomery, Forester. Tusseyville—H. A. McClellan. Spring Mills, R. F. D.—Wm. F. McKinney, Ranger. Bellefonte, R. F. D. 2—=W. R. Hoover. Bellefonte—]. H. Oliger. Mingoville—Wm. R. Harnish, Nittany—W. E. Kessinger. FOREST FIRE WARDEN MEETING, ' president of the Central Penna. Fire Protective Association, will occupy | Hon. Henry C. Quigley is to The chief, Mr. Centre county will have their first get- ' together meeting in the court house at Bellefonte at 10 a. m. J. Linn Harris, the chair. welcome the wardens George H. Wirt, of the State forest pro- | tection seryice, will discuss methods of | fighting forest fires and preventing them. : ! A luncheon will follow. CENTRE COUNTY SUPERVISORS HELD IN- TERESTING CONVENTION.—A Good sized delegation of the road supervisors of general improvement in the efficiency of | Centre county met in their annual con- vention in the court house last Friday. The meeting was called to order prompt- association, ex-Judge Ellis L. Orvis, who made a brief address in which he out- lined to the supervisors the increasing sentiment all over the country for better highways, and told them that the object of bringing them together in annual con- ventions was to foster a unification of purpose. He pointed out the fact that a road was no better than its poorest sec- tion. . That is, a mile of good road and a half mile of poor would enable the far- could pull over the poor stretch. Following the president’s address the secretary, H. C. Chaney, read the min- utes of the last meeting which were ap- proved. A roll call showed twenty-six supervisors present. appointed as a committe on the nomina- tion of officers for the ensuing year Wil- liam Clevenstine, of Walker township; D. H. Way, of Halfmoon. were out Judge Henry C. Quigley was in- troduced. he had a grudge against the supervisors, not personally, nor as boards of super- visors, but generally speaking, because many of them do not use the same busi- ness methods in building roads that they do in conducting their farms. As an in- stance he cited Walker township. No sooner had the State taken over the main highway than the supervisors low- ered the road tax, instead of keeping it at the old figure and then improving the other thoroughfares in that township. The Judge stated that at five mills about $100,000 in road tax was collected in Centre county and this should be so ap- plied that so many miles of permanent roadway would be built every year. In this way in ten or fifteen years most of the important feeders of the state high- ways would be put in good condition. Dr. Robert S. Sackett, dean of the School of Engineering at State College, school at the College, but as it is yet in its infancy he made his talk general and recounted some interesting experiences in his own life which showed the advan- tage of good roads, not only in the mar- keting of the farmer’s crops but in the increased value of farm land where the roads were uniformly good; not merely a stretch of two or three miles and then a dump into mud and obscurity, but where they were good throughout the entire valley. The last speaker of the morning was J. V. McNary, a graduate of State College class of ’05, and who is now engineer of bridges in the Bureau of Township High- ways. He started out by calling the at- tention of the supervisors to the several amendments in the road law. One is that supervisors can select a Trust com- pany or bank as their treasurer, but if an individual is elected he must give bond. Another is the repeal of the wide tire rebate, and another is that auditors must allow supervisors pay for making a semi-annual inspection of the roads in their district, and he advised supervisors to see that such inspection is made. He also stated that the way most super- visors do is to lay a certain millage then work ag long as the money lasts. The proper way is to make an inspection and decide on just what amount of work to do that year. Figure out the cost then lay the millage to cover it. In this way far better and more lasting results will be obtained. He also called attention to the fact that ten of the boards of supervisors in Centre county are still short in whole or part of their reports to the State which should have been in by January first. Until these are all in it is impossible for the State to figure out any money due the townships. Mr. McNary stated that the money apportioned the various town- ships of Centre county as a bonus on the amount of cash road tax paid, and which is available for permanent improvements during 1916, and checks for which will be sent in the near future, is as follows; TOL sissies ill ii rien 9,383 54 Before adjournment of the 1yorning session the committee on the nomina- tion of officers reported in favor of On March 30th, 1916, twenty-five forest fire wardens of the northern half of | H. C. Judge Henry C. Quigley, for president; Chaney, secretary, and Ben- Forest | ly at ten o'clock by the president of the’ mer to haul only the load that his team Judge Orvis then | Edward Hess, of Rush; B. W. Royer, of | Miles; J. Linn Pletcher, of Howard, and | While they | The Judge started out by saying that! was booked for a talk on the good roads | jamin Vonada, treasurer. Both Judge Quigley and Mr. Chaney advised the supervisors to select some one from their own ranks to fill the offices but they preferred otherwise and the above were elected unaminously. When the meeting adjourned at noon | Mr. Orvis retired finally as president and Judge Quigley presided in the afternoon. AFTERNOON SESSION. At the afternoon session Col. John A. | Woodward made an address on “Benefits | Derived from Co-operation in Road { Work.” The Colonel stated that co-op- | eration was absolutely essential if there ! was to be a continuous stretch of good ‘roadways. That is supervisors in one | township should co-operate with the ' supervisors in adjoining townships and build the road uniform so that it would not be a checker board of good road here and bad road there. Edward J. Ducey, instructor in high- way engineering at State College, gave a talk on the “Construction and Mainten- ance of Dirt Roads.” He illustrated his talk with a half dozen free hand draw- ings, showing proper drainage and sur- facing and advocated the free use of the road drags. S. Ward Gramley, of Spring Mills, made a brief talk on “Good Roads Day” and advocated that another be held in Centre county during the coming spring. During his talk Dr. Sackett invited the supervisors to hold their next convention at State College, if possible during the Farmers’ week exercises, and before ad- journment a committee of five was ap- pointed to prepare a program for next year and to select the place of meeting. | The supervisors present at the conven- | tion included the following: | Benner—John Benner. Boggs—G. P. Heverly, H. K. Walker, J. Confer: Curtin—D. R. Confer. Halfmoon—D. H. Way, Newton Wilson. Harris—Davis Bohn, O. W. Stover, J. A. Ging- erich. Howard—William Aikey, J. Linn Pletcher. Marion—John F. Grove. Miles—B. W. Royer, W. J. Blair. Patton—]. W. Hartsock, J. W. Blair. Rush—Daniel Moore, Ed. Hess, H. H. Moore. Spring—Frank Wian, John Garbrick. Union—David Custer. Walker—E. J. Evers, William Clevenstine. Worth—Dennis Reese. When Bill Has Been Paid Living Will Be Cheaper, Is the Opinion of Experts. The high cost of living and the con- tinued dissatisfaction of workmen with the wages paid by large industrial es- tablishments, two problems that have perplexed manufacturers, educators and public officials in all parts of the country, can be remedied by a realiza- tion on the part of the city people of i the obligations they are under to those | who spend their lives in the country, “working” the soil for the essentials of life. This is the advice brought to this | city by the four-state conference on | country life, at its first important ses- sion here, the Philadelphia Bulletin believes. Those taking part in the conference maintain that the cities have become self-centered and selfish, and have allowed themselves to for- get that they are dependent upon the rural communities for food. The result of this attitude, they claim, is that by far the largest amount of public money and the great- est part of the intelligence of the country have been devoted to the de- velopment of the thickly populated sections and the country places and farms have been neglected and prac- tically forgotten. Now, through the conference, the farmers are demand- ing what they consider their rights. What they want immediately are: A thoroughly reorganized rural school system, good roads, improved facilities for marketing their products, better transportation facilities and higher sal- aried teachers, who are qualified to be community leaders. If these advan- tages are granted, the farmers say, ru- ral people will be made healthier and happier, and the cost of food prod- ucts will be so materially reduced that much of the discontent and dissatis- faction among the working classes will be eliminated. Up North, of Course. An Indianapolis salesman, while in a crowd of “drummers” who were wait- ing on a train in a little Texas town on the Fort Wayne & Denver line, tells the following story: “As in most small Texas towns, the station, as far as the waiting room is concerned, consists of an abbreviated platform and that is all. A genuine ‘norther’ was on that day and all of us had our coats buttoned in a vain endeavor to keep out the chill. While huddled together, we saw a small darky come up on the platform. For clothes he had on a pair of pants and a shirt, but a very dark line between the two suggested that the boy had outgrown his clothes. He braved splinters while dancing a jig to keep warm, and, much to our surprise, after he had quit dancing, he rushed up to us, held out his arms and said, in a most dramatic tone: “Oh, cold wind, where were you last July?” Carbonic Acid for Wounds. Military surgeons it is stated are taking advantage of the pain-stilling and disinfecting properties of carbonic acid in the treatment of wounds by utilizing an effervescent powder which is now being prepared. This is com- posed of 10 parts sodium bicarbonate, 9 parts tartaric acid, and 19 parts sugar. The ingredients are thorough- ly mixed and then crushed to about the fineness of granulated sugar. The substance is applied freely to the sur- face of a wound, the moisture of which causes it to effervesce and liberate car- bonic acid. OFFICER WASTED FEW WORDS Conveyed Injunction Briefly, but Left Hearers With a Small Matter to Ponder Over. Though the czar packed him away to the Caucasus and put others in his place at the head of the Russian levies sent to stem the tide of German inva- sion, Paris still cherishes its admira- tion of the tall, grim Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch, sometime generalissimo of the armies of Mus- covy. And it is in Paris that they still tell this story: One evening, when his forces lay near the Polish frontier, the grand duke gave orders that ail the persons engaged in purveying supplies to the soldiers should be assembled at nine o'clock alongside the track where the grand ducal train was stabled for the night. “I have a high- ly important communication to make to the individuals in question,” Nich- dblas explained. Promptly at the hour named the in- vited guests were on hand and stood in line respectfully waiting. They did not wait long. In not above a minute the grand duke stepped out of his car, facing the trades persons, and looked them over for several minutes in si- lence. Then he spoke: “Gentlemen, what I have to say to you is very serious for you, and is comprised in exactly three words. Do not steal—or I'll hang every mother’s son of you.” With that he turned on his heel and re-entered his car. The audience was at an end. ELEPHANT GIVES FIRE ALARM Baby Pachyderm’s Grunts Save Large Menagerie From Flames Only Just in Time. Credit should be forthcoming to Little Nemo. She, “the world’s small- est elephant,” at last has gained a legitimate story. The J. H. Eschman World United Shows winters in a couple of vacant lots at Guinotte avenue and Salisbury street, Kansas City, in the East bot- toms. There are ten cars. A spread: ing barn protects the animals. The barnkeeper and assistants were playing rhum in the private car of Mr. Eschman. They heard big grunts from Little Nemo. They rushed out. The interior of the barn was blazing. The elephant had kicked over a gasoline stove in the straw. “Cap” Watkins rushed in. Little Nemo was fast los- ing her senses in the smoke. It was dark and the “Cap” groped about, un- tied Nemo’s halter and shouted, “Come, Nemo!” Nemo came. In the meantime someone had called the fire department. Before it arrived other assistants had removed the South American llama and the wagon of screaming monkeys from the barn. Activities of Women. The maximum wages paid female stenographers in Ireland is three dol lars per week. Women munition workers in Eng- land are forbidden from wearing metal buttons on their blouses or metal hair- pins in their hair. The county courthouse in Kansas City, Kan., has a room equipped with mirrors, powder puffs, ete, for the use of women jurors. The young widows of the most ex- clusive set in Los Angeles have organ- ized a Merry Widows’ club which has as its object the “pursuit of happi- ness.” Since King George was incapaci- tated by his accident from his duties of state, Queen Mary has proved a wonderful assistant and a woman of exceptional discrimination. Mrs. Mary Moore is Philadelphia's first woman rural mail carrier. As the government does not appoint wom- en mail carriers, Mrs. Moore got a man appointed to the route, which she drives as a substitute carrier, the gov- ernment not objecting to permitting women to carry mails as substitutes. New Safety Device. A clever device to insure that not . more than ten men at once shall ride on the mine cages is in use at the colliery of Jermyn & Company at Rendham. It consists of a turnstile with four spaces, which will revolve exactly two and a half times in one direction, thus admitting ten men. The turistile revolves on a screw thread, of which there is just enough to per- mit the two and a half revolutions. Then the gate to that shaft is closed, and that to the adjoining shaft opened and ten men are admitted by the turnstile revolving in the opposite di- rection to the cage in that shaft. The device stands between the two shafts. It is the invention of Supt. John Cor- coran, and has been in use long enough for a thorough test. The only way to load more than ten men on either cage is for the extra man to climb over the turnstile or gate, and, of course, the headman will not per: mit that. Mrs. Wilson's Lack of Jewelry. One of the things that Washington is noticing about Mrs. Wilson is the fact that she, the owner of a jewelry business that has been established for a century, wears almost no jewelry herself. One really handsome orna- ment seems to be about all she cares for even on state occasions, and most frequently she wears none. People ‘observed, with a grin of rather mali. cious delight, that the president went to St. Margaret's with Mrs. Wilson one Sunday. It was the first time, and downed the rumor that he was too ‘good a Presbyterian to go inside an ‘Episcopal church.—Washington Let- ! ter to Chicago Tribune. -n,
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