Bellefonte, Pa., June 25, 1920.
THE SONG OF THE STARS.
The morning star began it
At the dawn of creation’s birth,
And the circling spheres go swinging
And singing it unto earth.
And earth shall forget her groaning,
And learn the songs of the spheres,
And the tired shall sing that are moaning,
And the sad shall dry their tears.
As the sears tread paths appointed,
And the sun gives forth his heat,
Bo the sons of men shall labor,
Ere they rest in leisure’s seat.
And kings are to serve the people,
And wealth is to ease the poor,
And learning to lift up the lowly,
And strength that the weak may endure.
Lo, the burden shall be divided,
And each shall know his own,
And the royalty of manhood
Shall be more than crown or throne.
And the flesh and blood of toilers
Shall no longer be less than gold,
And nevergn honest spirit
Into hopeless bondage be sold.
For we the people are waking,
And low and high shall employ
The splendid strength of union
For liberty, life and joy.
—~Silver Cross
ENRICHETTA AND THE FLAG.
When Mrs. Morland returned home
from Florence the three most valued
possessons brought by her from the
City of Flowers were a wonderful old
ivory crucifix, a silver candlestick,
which might have been designed by
Benvenuto Cellini, and—Enrichetta.
Enrichetta had been a “cameriera”
in the pension on the Via Pandolfina.
She was so beautiful that Mrs. Mor-
land, whose own face was plain, was
never tired of looking at her, and
when she said “Felice notte” (Good
night”) upon leaving the American
woman’s room at night Enrichetta’s
voice was ‘as soft as the first trem-
bling trill of the nightingale.
“I must take Enrichetta home with
me,” said Mrs. Morland, who, blessed
with plenty of this world’s goods, was
in the habit of gratifying every ca-
price. And it was not difficult to per-
suade the girl to sail for that far-off
land over the sea, especially as the
kind American lady had promised to
bring her home again within two
years should she become dissatisfied.
This thought comforted Enrichetta
many a winter night when she sat at
the window of her little room looking
out upon the snow and sleet and tear-
fully thinking of her native skies. She
was hungry for the companionship of
her own people and pined for the
sound of her own musical language,
which she heard from none but her
mistress, who_spoke it with a decided
American accent.
A devout Roman Catholic, Enrichet-
ta attended the nearest church, but
there she met only Irish and Ameri-
cans, and she missed the sweet face of
the Madonna Addolorata in her church
at home, a face always associated in.
her mind with the half remembered
countenance of her own mother.
But when fine weather came and the
grass was green and the birds were
singing a vegetable vender stopped at
the back door one day and spoke to
Enrichetta in Italian. The two talked
happily together, and he told her of a
church where their own people wor-
shipped, and from that day the great
city was less lonely for the young
Florentine.
At that church she met Luigi, who,
Enrichetta thought had the kindest
eyes in the world and whose teeth
were as white as milk. Luigi owned
a fruit store and had laid by 10,000
lire, which would be considered a for-
tune by his friends and acquaintances
on the other side.
The Fourth of July was coming,
which Luigi explained was a great
day in America and was always cele-
brated with fireworks after the man-
ner of San Glovanni’s day in Italy,
only with a far greater amount of
boom and snap and ¢rash. He told
her he would come in the evening and
take her to a certain spot on the lake
front where there was sure to be a
splendid display of rockets.
Enrichetta sang merrily as she went
about her work and then began to
think seriously of what she would
wear on that night so sacred to this
great United States. She would have
a new waist, something gay and
showy; then she bethought her of the
contents of a box given to her at
house-cleaning time by her mistress.
“Here, Enrichetta,” the latter had
said, “this box is marked ‘Odds and
Ends.’ You may have it; I want to
get it out of my way.”
In the bottom of the box, beneath
scraps and remnants of goods, was a
silk flag about three yards long. It
was torn at the end, and there were
a few round holes in it which Enrich-
etta supposed accounted for the fact
that the signora no longer prized it.
It was the flag of this country, which,
now that she knew Luigi, the girl se-
cretly believed would be her own
country forevermore, and it was pret-
iier than the bandiera of Italy.
Enrichetta decided to make a waist
of the flag to wear on the Fourth of
July. Being very deft with scissors
and needle, she managed to escape the
holes and flaws in cutting out the gar-
ment, and the result of her labor was
a rather startling red and white waist
with a silver starred blue yoke trim-
med with gold fringe.
Early in the morning of the Fourth
Mrs. Morland began to search for the
silk flag, which when she was at home
on that day always occupied the place
of honor over the front door. She val-
ued this banner highly; she had inher-
ited it from her father; .it had waved
above the glorious field of Gettysburg,
where it had been pierced by shot and
shell. But now it could not be found,
and thinking it must have been stolen
Mrs. Morland gave up the search in
despair.
The other servants were either out
or engaged in another part of the
house when Enrichetta came down-
stairs that evening to answer Luigi’s
ring at the rear door. The girl wore
her gorgeous waist with a dark blue
woolen skirt. Her cheeks were red as
the coral rings twinkling in her small
ears, and her large dark eyes were
sparkling with happiness.
Mrs. Morland happened to enter the
kitchen at the moment of Luigi’s ar-
rival. “Why, Enrichetta, how patriot-
ic you are!” she exclaimed, noting
the shimmering stars. Then she
frowned and asked sternly, “Where
did you get that waist?”
“I made it out of the flag the sig-
nora so kindly gave me,” replied En-
richetta in an unsteady voice, for she
was frightened at Mrs. Morland’s un-
familiar harshness.
“The flag that I gave you! Why,
I would not have. taken a small for-
tune for it! And you were slipping
out of the house to prevent my seeing
you! Oh, Enrichetta, I was so fond
of you, I would not have believed that
you were a thief!”
“A thief, madame!” cried Luigi,
throwing back his head and knitting
his straight black brows.
Enrichetta burst into tears. “How
can the sigmora be so cruel?” she
moaned. “She will remember that
she gave it to me in the bottom of a
box. I thought she no longer cared
for it because of the torn places and
the holes.”
“Why, girl, the holes and the torn
places made it the more valuable! But
I now understand how it happened. It
was not your fault, but mine, I should
have examined the box.”
“I will take off the waist at once,”
said Enrichetta, “but, alas, I never car
replace the bandiera as it was.”
By this time Mrs. Morland had re-
covered her usual serenity, “There,
child, it can’t be helped now,” she
said; “run along and enjoy yourself
and wear the patriotic waist if it
pleases you. There is a stiff breeze
coming up from the lake, but the silk
is thick and will protect you from the
chill air. And,” she added, “to protect
foreigners is one of the missions of
the stars and stripes.”—Cornelia
Baker.
SUGAR BOARD WILL
APPORTION U. S. SUPPLY
Preferential distribution of sugar
rather than rationing is to be the
method employed by the government
to prevent the sugar shortage from
teaching famine conditions: this fall.
As the result of an agreement be-
tween the big producers and consum-
ers of sugar, the Department of Jus-
tice will proceed with the formation of
the national sugar distributing com-
mittee it was announced by Armin W.
Riley, special assistant attorney gen-
eral, who has been in charge of high-
cost-of-living prosecutions in New
york. Mr. Riley said the committee
would be functioning within two
weeks. He predicted it would operate
to assure the canning and preserving
interests and the housewives an ade-
quate supply of sugar for the summer
season and the lean months before
the 1920 sugar crop is harvested.
The distributing committee, Mr. Ril-
ey said, will consist of representatives
of the refiners, the importers and
brokers, the canners and preservers,
the wholesale grocers and the candy,
soft drink and ice cream manufactur-
ers. He indicated that arrangements
already have been completed by which
the refiners and importers will see
that ~the. canners get their needed
supply of sugar. Under the plan the
distributing committee will divert
sugar first to the commercial can-
ners; second, to the wholesale grocers
for retail distribution to domestic con-
sumers, and last, to the candy and
soft-drink manufacturers. An exist-
ing contract for future delivery, Mr.
Riley said, however, will not be in-
terfered with.
An embargo on sugar exports from
the United States also is advocated by
Mr. Riley and may be given serious
consideration by the Department of
Justice. Although the attorney gen-
eral has been delegated the power
of food administrator under the Lever
act, there is grave question as to
whether an export embargo could be
ordered without a special Act of
Congress. A bill authorizing an em-
bargo was introduced in the Senate
before adjournment, but was not act-
ed upon.
In explaining his advocacy of the
embargo Mr. Riley recently cited the
fact that American exports of sugar
for the first five months of this year
had exceeded the exportation of Am-
erican owned sugar during the whole
of 1919. The sugar exports from this
country from January 1 to May 27
totaled, he said, 220,000 long tons,
as against 211,000 tons during 1919.
The total export of all sugar from this
country in 1919 amounted to 658,660
long tons, but 447,660 tons were
owned by the British Sugar Commis-
sion and was refined in the United
States under the war arrangement by
which the American Government
bought the entire Cuban crop.
Timely Reminders from The Pennsyl-
vania State College.
Orchard—Over-loaded trees should
be thinned, especially of peaches and
apples. Thin so that fruits will not
touch; pull or shear the fruit.
Woodlot—While the leaves are on
the trees is the time to mark dead and
spiked topped trees for cutting. You
will not be able to note these trees in
winter.
Dairy—Prevent the accumulation of
manure about the cow stable. It fur-
nishes the best breeding place for
flies.
Binder twine should be purchased
now. Wheat harvest will start early
next month. All machinery used in
the harvesting of grain and h.y
should be in good working order. It
is costly to have a machine break
down in the harvest rush. Give it an
inspection immediately.
Paint on the outside walls of the
stave silo and a coat of linseed oil on
the inside walls will improve the ap-
pearance and prolong the life of this
valuable equipment.
The garden needs water, but not
every day. Better a heavy watering
once a week than a sprinkling every
day. Water is useful only when it
reaches the roots.
Spring pigs that do not thrive well
at this time of the year should be
treated for insect parasites. The lat-
est and best treatment is to adminis-
ter the drugs in capsule form. Each
pig then gets the right dose - which
makes the treatment more effective,
OCEAN CASTS UP OLD SHIP FIGHTING RATS WITH VARNISH
Identity of Ancient Vessel Found en! New Form of
Rockaway Beach Uncertain-—May
Be Historic Pirate.
ms.
Rockaway Beach has another sensa- |
Trap Used on London
i Docks Said to Have Had Grat-
i ifying Success.
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It is computed that the London,
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tion, the Brooklyn Eagle states. Not | docks contain about 1,000.000 rats,
content with washing up hundreds of which attack grain, food, and other
thousands of crabs, lobsters and clams,
the great tide recently dug an ancient
oceanic relic out of the sands and left
it to bleach in a winter's sun, like
some skeleton of a departed dinosaur.
According to Capt. Joseph Meade of
the Rockaway coast guard station, it
is an old sloop o’ war.
Nobody knows its history. From ail
appearances this washed out corpse in
an ocean graveyard was once a saucy
war vessel. mounting nine guns, in-
cluding the old time bow chaser that
used to bark with ferocity at pursuing
vengeance.
The ship is bluff-bowed. her spikes
are handwrought, her ribs are of stout
oak and her bowsprit, broken short
at the cap. is a mighty headstone on a
sandy grave.
The old salts who are experts on
such matters say the buried hull is
an old British sloop. During the war
of 1812 privateers manned by adven-
turous Yankees frequently hung about
Jones’ inlet. towing in their prizes for
anchorage and running to shelter
when British men-o’-war, out for re-
venge, hore down upon them.
Another tradition unearthed from
the old skippers of clipper ships, now
come to anchor on the Rockaway
shores, has it that Capt. Jones, for
whom Jones’ inlet was named, at one
time just prior to the Revolutionary
war, pursued a profitable trade in con-
traband in the vicinity, unknown to |
the British customs. The handwrought
spikes and the general shape of the
rotting. wreck plainly indicate that
she was an oldtimer, very likely of
Revolutionary times,
Village Within Extinct Volcano.
of mountain which comprises the
island of Saba, in the Caribbean sea.
No other spot in the world is quite |
like Saba; of all the islands of the
tropical seas, it is the strangest, the :
most forbidding. Sheer conical, frown- '
ing. (0s island rises from the waves, |
its topmest pinnacle veiled in drifting
clouds 3,000 feet above the sea, its
coast rock-bound and precipitous. It
is seldom sighted by ships, but those
who do pass it would never dream
that it was inhabited.
The mountain is an extinct volcano
and the town of Bottom rests in its
crater. No harbor breaks Saba’s
coast; there is no safe landing place
or anchorage, and if one would visit
the town one must step ashore from a
small boat and climb a steep stairway
of hundreds of stone steps or toil up
a narrow, difficult trail. Every article
world must be carried up the heights.
The inhabitants are sailors, as they
lave been since the earliest times, and
though they sail the seven seas they
always return to their island home.
Thrift in Chile,
The Scots and the French had better
look to their laurels as saving peo-
ples. Chile bids fair to rival them.
During the last ten years savings in-
stitutions have risen considerably in
number. In 1910 there existed in the
entire country but a dozen independ-
ent institutions carrying the accounts
of some 200,000 persons; their com-
plete savings amounted to only $4.-
000.000 in American money. In 1917
deposits rose to 110,000,000 Chilean
pesos, which would equal about one-
fourth as many American dollars. To
this, in the year 1918, were added 50,-
000.000 more Chilean pesos.
tion has encouraged savings, through
stamps and other substantial induce-
ments. Incidentally it is worth while
noting that lotteries are not permitted
in Chile; down there they believe in
getting rich slowly and surely.
Sounded Like a Curse.
A spinster of about forty years or a
bit more recently had a house to rent. | §
Now her last tenant had three healthy | [OF more than thirty-five years.
American sons and they had done a
great deal of damage to the house,
so she had firmly declared that she
would tolerate no children this time.
Sc when a man responded to her ad-
vertisement, she asked him whether
he had any children. “Seven,” he re-
turned and then went on to tell how
good they were.
But the spinster informed him that
she would not rent her house to a
family in which there were so many
children. Angrily the man turned
away, but retorted over his shoulder:
“T only hope some day you’ll have sev-
en children, lady, and can’t find a
house, either.”—Indianapolis News.
Humor in a Bank.
The first day I worked in the bank
in which I am employed I was given
a sealed package marked “$10,000 in
gold.” which was in the form of a
brick. I presented it to the down-
town bank for payment and was sent
from one teller to the other, each one
keeping his discovery to himself, un-
til T got sore because of the fact that
they had me going around in a circle
and discovered I was the goat.
I might add that it was not a gold
brick—it was a red one. C. B.
P. S.—Don’t you think a d—n fool
like me earned a dollar?—Exchange.
Farther Away.
Mrs. Howles—I've decided that
Edith shall have her voice trained in
Europe.
Howles—Certainly; but isn’t there
some place in Asia?—Boston Tran-
|Cript.
| cargwes, causing about $2.000.000 loss
i per annum. A society was established
' to exterminate this destructive enemy,
, but the congested state of the wharves
| made their schemes inoperative. Now
'a new benefactor has come forward
i with a “trap” that opens up a possi-
: bility of putting armies of rodents out
; of business. The process employed is
| simple. Traps are placed along or
i near rat holes. The trap is made of
i cardboard covered with lithographic
i varnish. The varnish is warmed by
; heating its container in boiling water
{till the varnish becomes sufficiently
| liquid, when it is spread 1-16 to 1-8
‘of an inch thick on pieces of straw-
board or thickish cardboard, measur-
ing about 15 in. by 12 in. A margin
of about 1 in, is left clear of varnish.
and bait placed in the center of the
{ board, where it adheres to the varnish.
Bags of 60 at a time have been se-
cured. The medical officer of health
for the port of London reports favor-
ably of the antidote to the rat thief,
and gives it ‘as his opinion that once ; :
© still remained under the crescent ban-
Today a postmortem is about to
their. tails stick on the board they
are doomed. and that the majority die '
of fright.
two rats get on to the varnish to-
gether one of them kills the other.
evidently thinking the other is holdinz
him. :
HELD BACK TIME’S PROGRESS
Announcing Hour of Noon Secondary
in Importance to Mexican Serv-
ant’s Other Duties.
A certain village in northern Mexico
| broken.
Ambitions of Austria, Russia, Ger-
many and Turkey All Lie Buried
in the Balkans.
We stood on the forward deck of
the Sirio as she slipped southward,
through the placid waters of the Adri-
atic, at 20 knots an hour. Less than
a league away the Balkan mountains.
savage, mysterious, forbidding,
in a rocky rampart against the east-
ern sky.
“Did it ever occur to you,” remarked
the Italian officer who stood beside me,
a noted historian in his own land,
“that four great empires have died as
a result of their lust for dominion
over the restless lands which lie be-
yond those mountains? Austria cov-
eted Serbia—and the empire of the
Hapsburg is in fragments now. Rus-
sia, seeing her infiuence in the penin-
sula imperiled, hastened to the sup-
port of her fellow Slavs—but Russia
has gone down in red ruin, and the
Romanoffs are dead, Germany, seek-
ing a gateway to the warm water, and
a highway to the East, seized on the
excuse thus offered to launch her wait-
ing armies—and the empire reared by
the Hohenzollerns is bankrupt and
Turkey fought to retain her
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| GRAVE OF FOUR DYNASTIES LONG-DRAWN-OUT ELOQUENCE
Speeches That Tccupy Day May Be
Brilliant, but Are Apt to Be
Somewhat Tiresome.
There was a commercial case of
great magnitude the other day in Eng-
land, in which it was expected that
one at least of counsel would take
eight days for his speech. With all
respect for a learned professor, but in
amicable candor, it is hard not to com-
miserate any judge that may have to
listen to a speech of this length. It
may be made by the cleverest and
most eloquent of men, but the fact is
. that by the eighth day, the facts and
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hold on such European territory as .
| dan in point of fact were rather above
ner.
‘ house of Osman.
“Think of it!
! four ancient dynasties, lie buried over
CHECK ON TRICKY “COPPERS” |
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did not boast of a town clock. When !
| twelve o’clock arrived the parish
“Bottom” is the paradoxical name |
of a little village perched on the peak |
priest used to tell
his servant te |
mount the berfry and strike the church '
bell twelve times, so that the villagers
would know that it was high noon.
One of the neighbors, who had a
watch, noticed that for some days
twelve o'clock had struck a few min-
utes late. Thinking that perhaps the
priest’s watch was slow, he asked
the mozo (servant) why it was that
he had delayed in striking the hour.
The mozo answered:
“It is this way:
tells me it is time to strike twelve;
{ but just as 1 am to start up the ladder
The na-
the cook tells me to get the tortillas.
So I have to go after tortillas, and
when 1 get back and climb the ladder
again it makes the noon late.”
Foch Saved the Day.
M. Poincare,
French academy, had the task of wel-
ler was: a ‘member of the academy
and, in the course of his remarks
said:
“Field Marshal French was on the
point of moving back his heavy artil-
lery and beating a retreat. You
The padrecito |
there in the Balkans. It is something
more than a range of mountains at
which we are looking; it is the wall of
a cemetery.”—E. Alexander Powell in
Scribner's Magazine,
A aie
Simple Contrivance Prevents Fraud
on the Part of Applicants for
Coveted Positions.
In Philadelphia the position of traf-
fic policeman is open only to men
who are six feet or more in height.
Such positions are so much sought
after that many applicants who fall
short of the required height by only
a small fraction of an inch are tempt-
ed to cheat a little bit by rising on
their heels.
An ingenious application of elec-
| tricity is now used to circumvent this
trick. and any attempt to register a
fraudulent measure is disclosed at
once. The applicant, as he stands up-
on the platform under the slide rule,
sets his feet upon two metal plates
that are normally a trifle above the
platform. They are just large enough
to be covered by a man’s heels, and
| when the candidate stands with his
as president of the |
i Marshal Foch when that sol-
brought to Saba from the outside, Sng SAG on. N
rushed to Vlamertinghe and summoned |,
him to you. ‘If we make known your
weakness,” you declared, ‘we shall be
carried away like a wisp of straw.
Keep at all costs your First corps
where it is; I will myself attack on
the right and on the left with French
troops.” As you spoke you took a sheet
of paper to the desk; hastily you
scribbled four lines in which you made
clear your thought and you handed the
note to the field marshal. He read
it, thought a moment, called a staff of-
ficer, and said to him: ‘Go and carry
out this order.’ Disaster was averted.”
Sand Long Retained Properties.
Prof. H. L. Fairchild of the Uni-
versity of Rochester and Dr. H. Car-
rington Bolton of New York found
the sands at Rockaway beach emitting
; & high musical note one summer day
in 1884. They collected some of the
sand and took it home, where Prof.
Fairchild put in a large glass bottle |
. a sample, but except for that one in-
stance the sand has been undisturbed
Professor Fairchild writes now to
Science, saying that on December 2,
| 1919, he poured the contents of the
bottle into a stocking and found that
when quickly compressed it still gave
out its characteristic high" note, aud-
ible at a considerable distance. But
since he spread it out in a dry room
and handled it considerably it has
lost its sonorous quality.
Hotels in Japan.
Plans are under consideration for
providing the larger cities of Japan—
Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Osaka—
with more hotels, it was announced
recently in Tokyo by D. Shono, gen-
eral manager of the Japan tourist
bureau. He said, however, that it
would be some time before these ho-
tels are erected. “Efforts are being
made to relieve the congestion in the
city hotels by inducing guests to
travel in the country, where hotels
have room to spare.” It is proposed
to supply wireless information to in-
coming boats concerning the number
of unoccupied rooms in the various ho-
tels. The matter is under negotiation
with the companies.
The Usual Thing.
“It says in the paper, here,” re-
her reading, ‘that in a debate in con-
gress Hon.
and shouted—"
“Don’t bother to read the rest of
it, Debby,” interrupted Farmer Fields.
“The honorable didn’t say any more
when he shouted than he does when
he keeps still.”—Kansas City Star.
his heels on the floor the plates are
So depressed that they make a con-
tact and form a circuit that lights a
lamp overhead. As long as the man
stands with both heels on the ground
the lamp stays lighted, but the mo-
ment he raises either heel the smallest
part of an inch the contact is broken
and the lamp goes out. So does he.
Russian Painters Thriving.
“Art,” so far as the production of
pictures is concerned, is said to have
had a great boom in bolshevist Rus-
sia owing to the fact that the govern-
ment pays a liberal amount for all
works approved by official experts.
The whole domain of art has been
| placed under the control of a council
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marked Mrs. Fields, in the midst of |
of seven members, four of whom are
apostles of futurism. Artists’ earn-
ings have been increased through a
rule established by the council un-
der which all pictures that pass the
judges are to be paid for at the uni-
form rate of 7,000 rubles each.
Whether the artist has devoted
months of assiduous labor to a pie-
ture or whether it is a daub which
has taken a few hours to paint, the
recompense is the same. With such
encouragement the number of artists
in Russia is increasing rapidly.
Town Sells for $10,000.
The entire town of Moneta, Wyo.,
has been sold for $10,000. The pur-
chaser, John Goodman, received title
from A. Kanson, who founded Moneta
twenty years ago, to the following:
One townsite of forty lots, one eight-
een-room hotel, one five-room cottage,
one three-room cottage, two two-room
cottages, one large livery barn, one
railroad eating house and a miscel-
laneous assortment of outbuildings.
No person other than Goodman owns
a single thing in Moneta, but the Chi-
cago and Northwestern owns the right
of way on which the town site fronts
and a small depot building on this
right of way.—Christian Science Moni-
tor.
Biggest Opal in the World.
Proclaimed as the largest uncut
precious stone in the world, an enor-
mous, absolutely flawless black opal,
recently discovered in this country, is
now in the office of a government offi-
cial in Washington. The gem con-
tains approximately 21 cubic inches,
and weighs 2,572,332 carats. It is val-
ued at $250,000 by the owners. The
famous Viennese opal, which was
without an equal until the American
specimen was found, weighs 1,658,927
carats, but has a number of flaws.
Less Embarrassment.
“Well,” sald Farmer Corntossel,
| “I'm glad the railroads have gone back
Benjamin Blawhaw rose |
to private ownership.”
“What difference does it make to
{ you ”
“T can speak my mind to the station
agent without feelin’ that mebbe I'll
be criticized for showin’ lack of re-
speck to a government official.”
Four great empires, |
Another feature is that if | be held on the Turkish empire and the |
| the tropes of the first are pretty well
faded. The value of these long
speeches by counsel consists largely
in the notes that the judge has taken,
provided he followed the argument,
which is by no means always the case.
We have, to be sure, the splendid per-
formances at Warren Hastings’ im-
peachment, where we are assured that
ladies of the most exalted station
swooned in sheer admiration and aw-
ful wonder at the genius displayed.
So be it; they swooned, though we
have to point out that swooning at
that period was a pretty general ac-
complishment; nevertheless, it is fair
to say that Burke and Fox and Sheri-
the average counsel in eloquence,
though Sergeant Saunders could have
| made any of the three *look foolish”
on his own ground.—Christian Science
! Monitor.
|
SUSPENDED PAYMENT IN CASH
How British Government Saved the
Situation When Country's Financial
Solvency Was Threatened.
In the great war which England com-
menced with France in 1793, the first
four years saw £400,000,000 added to the
: national debt, without any material
advantage being gained. So much coin
had left the country for the payment
of troops abroad and as subsidies to
allies that the bank, during 1796, be-
gan to feel a difficulty in satisfying
demands made on it. At the close of
the year ‘people began to hoard coin
and to make runs upon the county
banks. These applied to the Bank of
England for help, and the consequence
was that a run upon it commenced in
the latter part of February, 1797. This
great establishment could only keep
itself afloat by paying in sixpences.
Immediate insolvency was expected,
when on February 26, the government
stepped in with an order in council
authorizing the notes of the hank as
legal tender until such time as proper
remedies could be applied. This sus-
pension of cash payments was attend-
ed by the usual effect of raising the
normal prices of all articles.
. Old Weights and Measures.
“Stil-yards,” beams and all manner
of weights and measures, as might be
expected from their importance in the
life and interchange of the populace,
are frequently mentioned in old chron-
icles, and one quaint allusion reads,
“this lying weight was by the Bal-
ance, the weight lying in one scale,
and not hanging or sliding on the
Beam of a Stil-yard, as in auncel
weight.” But the “stil-yard” was also
not beyond reproach, for Arnold. in
1500, tells how “this wayght is forbid-
den in England by statute of Parlia-
ment and also holy Church hath cursed
in England all that beyen or sellen
by that auncel wayght.” However,
in spite of church and law, the “aunc-
cel wayght” continued in use till 1582,
ten years after that one we have been
considering began its long career,
when the jury appointed by Elizabeth
set up a new standard of weights and
measures, which remained in force
down to the present time.
Lamps for Brides.
In early times the courtship and
marriage customs among the Green-
landers were simple and unceremoni-
ous enough, since we are told that
when a lovelorn youth made up his
mind as to the girl he wanted to adorn
and be useful in his hut of ice and
snow, he went to her house, seized
her by the hair or wherever he could
secure a good grip on her, and dragged
her to his own domain, where she was
expected to remain, without any fur-
ther marriage ceremony. If an affluent
bridegroom he would perhaps soothe
her lacerated feeling by presenting
her with a new lamp or some other
article of household utility.
Mosquitoes Hate Light.
It has been shown that the malaria-
bearing mosquito does not stay in a
well-lighted house or modern hospital,
says the Medical Record. Clean, bare
walls and ceilings, large windows and
little furniture do not attract it. On
the contrary, it selects cottages or old-
fashioned houses, where the rooms are
“stuffy” and hot, ill-lighted, ill-venti-
lated, with dark recesses, cupboards,
old curtains and much furniture. In
such a place the mosquito is altogether
at home, and if there is restricted liv-
ing or sleeping accommodation infee-
tion is very likely to be carried from
the malaria carrier to the susceptible
person.
Always Hope.
The fashionable physician walked in,
in his breezy way, and nodded smil
ingly at his patient.
“Well, here I am, Mrs. Adams,” he
announced. “What do you think is the
matter with you this morning?”
“Doctor, I hardly know,” murmure
the fashionable patient languidly
“wnat is new?" --Life,
od