Farm’ Notes, Choice Fiction, Part 2. MAGAZINE SECTION. Current Topics. ntre Jemocral. BELLEFONTE. PA. THURSDAY AUGUST 6. 1906, = The MADAME JUSSERAND AMERICAN GIRL WHO MARRIED A FRENCHMAN, NOW IN DIPLOMATIC SWIM. French Ambassador at Washington Given Position Largely on Account of Wife's Nativity—New Embassy Building Projected. How much a wife can do to help her husband in a public career is con vincingly proven by the married life of Madame Jusserand, the American | wife of the Ambassador at Washington. Indeed M. Jusserand was selected by the Government of France to act as the accredited agent of our sister republic at Uncle Sam's headquarters largely because of fact that he had an American wife who It was believed wuld be of great assistance to him in handling any negotiations which might have to be carried on between the {wo na tions. Madame Jusserand, erican born, spent up to the time of her marriage, France. That she was thus an from the land of the Stars and Stripes was due to the fact that her father, Mr. Richards, was an American bank er in Paris, and thus his business In terests compelled him to reside al most continuously at the French cap ital. His daughter the banks of the Seine and French quite as readily English, Her husband has a great admiration for the American people y be cause he is so fond of his wife. Ie Is an author of has trans lated several American | erary works into French, Prior ming Washington, M. Jussera: resided in Copenhage Denmark, where M. Jusserand ac ns the envoy of governm His promotion to Washington decided advance in rank and with it a big increase in salar AN INSEPARABLE COUPLE. loth AM. Lhelpmate are very gen able, French although Am most of her m spenks as he do possibly note and to con |] da the capital nd his wife n, Ol his en wns iry and but they are manifestly hospit 1 ue the | life, | exile | was educated on | However, 'the government at Paris recently purchased a good-sized tract of ground in the most desirable sec tion of Washington and will erect thereon a splendid embassy home of its own. Madame Jusserand being an American woman and thoroughly conversant with the wants of Amer- can women and Yankee conditions of life in general has been able to give the French architect journeyed from Paris many valuable pointers as to “designing the new house and she will be able to select the furnishings, lete.,, with far greater and sue | cogs than could a Frenchwoman not lin touch with American ways. ————— et n—— INSURANCE SIDE LIGHTS. who Case | Methods Employed for Gouging the | Hard Worked Agent. During the recent seandal and the airing of insurance methods in general | which followed, of the tenderest | apots of that business was left un- | touched It the known In | the. parlance of Industrial Insurance | workers ns “arrears and advances.’ The taking of arrears and advances occurs weekly the book of agent, the agent mn pay { each polices whic) bevond the grace I ried allowed by tie company, namely “four y | Superficially it =~ nid 1] y to obey the company's rules or—sup- \ bat the Minis mp | one system is on © at for when 1 Week On every weeks.” IDDOAr 6 Cans ght | what is known as “thrown cOomt precip off cl any sufficient cants | cellation 4 | ent to the {lar for the ber of substantial a ed to off-set v are n 0 foom Jusserand and his Yankee | Jt up In MADAME El wrapped AND-WIFE each | deed. | when the French Ambassador visited the Bt. Louis Exposition alone bs reason of the fact that Madame Jusse rand was prevented from accompans Ing him because of an her forehead it was the first time In their married life that they had ever beer separated, even for a few days Madame Jusserand rather complexioned and In many has the appearance of French woman Khe Is a firm be Hever In outdoor life as a source of health and pleasure. When in Wash Ington or at thelr summer home the const of Massachusetts ! her hushand daily Indulge In long walks and spend hours playing tennis, | Madame Jusserand Is a most charlt | ably disposed woman and since her arrival in America has constantly but Inconspicuously nided many causes | She has no children, but on several ocearions she has given parties at her! home for the French children residing at the national capital, y NEW FRENCH EMBASSY, The Indy is looking forward to hav Ing the privilege of fitting up a new French Embassy at Washington that will be In keeping with the dignity of our sister republic, For years the “branch office” of France In the United States was located In an old residence In Washington that was at one time the home of Admiral Porter Then a few years ago the French os fablishment was moved to the house owned hy Nellamy Rtorerthe honse which President Roosevelt leased frst after his oloction as Vice-President and hefare he had any thought that he would he ealled upon to go to the White Flonse when he took up his residence In the city on the Potomac. (A) h other ahscess on Ee) n typleal on she n i OF THE { more than thirty years Is a subject | for conjecture, FRENCH AMBA elihoo wanes, forced from that followed by whose experience is most likely to be n repetition of his 1 he | is finally of labor i anti field another system Ia for about men are thoughout the ns agents, and the amount of us obtainel by one company alone (employing about fifteen thon. | sand men), Is upwards of one million dollars annually. The officials resort to many methods of intrijue to pre- | vent the real mission of tue rel and advance” manipulations from be. | coming apparent to the agents, among which Is the tacking of placards In the | offices forbidding agents to pay on In. | surances which Is beyond the com- | pany's grace period To the exper) | enced agent ‘t reads, “we know you will pay | Why this subtle system of graft has remained almost unmolested for us gouging in Ms vastness ndred thousand ens HS Yooation country money ti aArre Never Drink Water. There are many different kinds of animals that never in all their lves sip so much as a drop of water Among these are the llamas of the Andes and the gaselles of the far East. M ny naturalists believe that the only moisture Imbibed by wild rabbits Is derived from the green borb- age they eat, Ocean steamers carry from nix to ten eats, whose duty Is to keep the passengers’ quarters free from mice and rata, If the eats are not rat SOUTHWEST'S SMALL FARM WONDERFUL CROP RESULTS FROM A SINGLE ACRE OF GOOD IRRIGATED LAND, PL Instance of a Man Who Makes Good Living and Lays by four hundred bollars a Year-No Fear of Droutn or Failure, WILLIAM The Sacramento Valley of Cali- fornia a land of big farms, Pri vitte estates run all the way from one thousand tw hundred thousand teres, It was once profitable to farm vist 1 grain, Although this valley Is blessed with abundant water supplies, irri not generally employed little rainfall from May to yet grain and deciduous growu without arudcial SEMYTHE, ON is one ureus most gation here Is November, fruits is ure q | ing conditions gre superior even to | those of southern California. There is a great future for this southwestern corner of America, and it will some day be peopled as extensively as Its wonderful ruins show it to have been unknown centuries ago. The Waaderer Relurns, It was old-home week, and the re- turned sons and grandsons had been telling with mere or less pride of the changes time had wrought for them, AL last Edward Jameson spoke: “l1 went away from here twenty years ago a poor man, with only one solitary dollar in my pocket. 1 walked the four miles from my father's farm to the station, and there I begged an {ride to Boston on a freight ear. Last night I drove Into town behind a guess how much my purse holds in money to-day, besides a large check,” and Mr. Jameson looked about him with a brilliant swile, very | Is | ' IN THE s8OU ns are not are largely cult ints and are strangely the the which make rm one of e-spots In ‘ of irrigated land which makes a better home and larger net income for its owner than many of his neighbors enjoy on places of thousands of acres each. The little farm Is at Orland, In Glen County, and Is the property of a man named Samuel Clk who has grown old and gray while tilling it for the past nr ok tells me that he has no what the SINGLE ACRE to he |. nme, ng, Yoars o ud r seven years old, 1 and bearing ore last year JW fi Lrees, a res ra) apevines, wiinh vy, ney suc kien, eed hed, et-bed, iage-hed, Fomato vines Stands of Dees, ERA OF THE SMALL FARM. Time was when the man who had ald that a living could be made from oO acres, much less a single acre. would have heen considered n dreamer or a greenhorn Now, how ever, all through the Southwest. In great sections of California and Art gona, where the sun Is warm, the soll — TH-WEST UNDER IRRIGATION, ( “Fifty dollars!" “Reventy-fiy A 1" shouted the filled with admiratio “No,” sald Mr. Jax drawing a large flat purse from his pocket the clamor had subsided, “none has guessed right. When 1 to Ozzy Bogg ) dr n the trunk check financial reaso } 4 cents, 1 have come back, my friends, to stay. Any little jobs of sawing and splitting will be gratefully re- elved. ww Youth's Companion. A. ———— Worked the Double Cross, eh said the jeweler, “is what happened hb } nth “Mr. B. drove entered 1 sree ATEN 1O80N when of you DH cents freshing besides tained for Ye : 3 my a ™ tI ay a hansom ¢ ul v “Mrs. B.' Nefore she tract all them with goo {real Jewels ar This, of course, transaction, ing of It.’ “I looked nt 1 blushed a littl “‘My dear sir,’ 1 sald, ‘I should be giad to do what you but It Is impossible Two years Mrs. B called here on the same errand that now brings you, and this errand her case, was successful he Jews that you offer Ire little more than the hirs of the ha ~~ ! returns these stor 1 In 1 giving 3 } De t B. 1% Ny Mr. B. » I think ” 3 ass, Ago pasts Is me worth SOM awaiting you outs seedy ntly from ockner's b He Liked the Game. ‘A looking individual, ap the rurais entered rher day last ws Repub ond wanted ahon of says the Hobart Ne “He got In the se and told Charley he ‘whole works.” “After Charley o chalr the had trimmed him Niblack, he woke him up “Hair cut,’ says the sleeper, drows iy. ‘Halr's cut.’ says Charlie ‘Shave,' says he, still half asleep * ‘Done shaved you.' * ‘Shampoo.’ “You've got ‘er. * ‘Rhine.’ ‘Neen shined! ‘Neek shave! ‘Already been thered ‘Binge hair.’ “I've burned IL’ “The customer settled down In the chair until he was sitting on his neck, and says, ‘Pull a tooth'" w The Other Fellow. The butcher thinks the baker has an easy time through life; in deep and fertile, and the water for irrigation ample, little farms are mak ing for thelr owners more money than many of the big ones. Two, three five and ten acre tracts closely and faithfully eultivated have become, In hundreds of instances, veritable gold mines, Bame of the communition of sonthern California, comnosed of these little ranches, resemble the snbnrhe of fn villare, so close are the farm honses Arizona Is not so far along In this class of settlement, hecanse It Ia a newer conntry, hut the enthasiastie claim la made for many parts of the eaters, they are dismissed. The baker thinks the doctor's path is ever free from strife; And to us all this truth comes home as through this life we bob It's the other fellow every time that has the easy job, — \ Football as Played. “T hear your son has been winning high honors at college? “He han, Indeed. He has been a quarterback, a balfback, a fullback, and now..." “Yes, what Is he now? sald the wpenker eagerly, “Now.” replied the other, “he's a hunchback” Territory that the climate and grow. spirited pair of horses, and my purse— | exactly | THE ARMY TRANSPORT, PACIFIC SQUADRON IS A MODEL FOR HANDLING THE GOVERN ~ MENT’S TROOPS. Private Steamship Companies Said to be Unequal to the Task of Trans- Greater. Along the Pacific | transport service in oper | Philippines and intermediate points, is not regarded with favor Private | steamship companies covet the busi ness which is now being done by the dozen and a half vessels transport fleet, During the last fiscal year the Sheri dan, Sherman, Tho { Dix earried to Hon Manila 31,000 passeng {of freight, 860M pour States mail, and Ly states money, besides amount of Philippine » Ban | 8CO Im 10045, the schedule Coast the army ation with the making up the > ’ ’ $ ranci Fanci ) enger bu ng reas I } | l nj r the fe HIOW 108 r vate compan secu 1ld not furnish the ser without specially vessels, wessitate the {a col feral 30m be | Impossibility a priva {company which Is forced by con { tion to operate with strict COMBINED COMFORT CAPACITY. the first of tra te steams! est economs AND In explanation of eo ts 4 Rd ron rt reasons type of @ average BIH Pp marine const 0 Pe ) re of troops an n distance of miles, the greater part of this mileage Iying within the tropics, demands the best possible ventilation and sanita tion. The sleeping accommodations | for soldiers are between decks, and the entire space allotted for this purpose is often rom ! end Metal berths in tiers o ', one ab Ui ACTOSK O04 7.000) wo ot} hor i giant honey m wards is in char and assistants drawn lical Cor hese RUrgeor rom the art ps and t Hospital Corps. quarters are Fa porting Soldier Boys~The Cost is | [bark in fifteen days. Assuming this { ratio, it would require, to strike the first quick blow of a force correspond. ing w our present military establish ment, the entire shipping on the At- lantic and more than the entire ton of the Pacific." It is doubt- {ful If any private line would care to {hold enough sh in reserve to trans- port two divi on a fortnight's uotice, Th General gave it, ng his opinion that, “In view of the futile efforts of the Quarter. master's Department to obtain suit transports from the merchant in 1808 for the transportation to Cuba, and of the that when withdrawn ar line servic the trans- not be advantageously dis- owing to their peculiar {ne truction, it would be wise in a sufficient number of the equipment of the lly eared for and on as to be prompt- which sportation Kince the nt, two ve been held at id until Janu- * transport vice, with I' A MODEL. @ 8 Pacifie and trying lly conced- Is of their r | a nage ps ons army et } emerger ; the trax in." the Orie cy reign nd re- ications, live stock has B. Th first pped to Man- t anxiety. and fi- belly- we of wn In dol- of 1 Kr thousand » of tn {ind 1 exercise of swinging on LEARNS LANGUAGES IN JAIL. Derkmann, Who Tried to Kill Henry C. Frick, Becomes Linguist. When A left t} Allegheny May last after hav fifteen years for kill Henry C. Frick, nd steel magnate, he found mself able to converse fluently In elght languages The years behind prison bars have converted him from an avowed an- ! archist to a student and philosopher. | Many persons have forgotten both Berkmann and his crime, yet ther | mtartied the nation during the days of the great Homestead strike of 1802 Mr. Frick was one of the managers of the steel Industry when it grappled In i ran struggle with Its work- nani: was so radical. at cale, that he g anarchist, tement of the indus. ntro Be v into the Pittsburg of reached tha lexander Berkmann Con prison in served n inty foyer Rg tt to in attemse n nj oe coke n erss Kinar » ’ up till he would have passed for Leslie | TRANEPORT THOMAS" ABOUT BAIL FOR ORIENT TO THE FREIGHT TRANSPORT “DIX” LOADING ANIMALS FOR PHILIPPINES y / not seh Am are provided for steer Age passengers on the Pacific, and If vessels so equipped were owned and operated by a private line, that line would be long In getting rid of them, should the army be suddenly recalled from the Islands. Furthermore, the Army transport must carry a battery of rapid fire guns In her bows, some- thing for which private steamship companies have very little use. The second argument advanced by the adherents of the present system needs no comment, The third and last contention is best supported by a report made on January 14 of this year by the Gen eral Btaff of the Army to the Senate Committee on Merchant Marine, In which It was stated that “to embark a division would require ten 4 .500-ton ships and nine S500-ton ships, With the strength of the regular army two divisions could be made ready to em- eT Ing to complete the work with a dag. ger. ” Overpowered before he could accom. plish his full purpose, Berkmann was hurried to Jall. Being convicted at his trial he was given a fifteen year term In the penitentiary for attempt to kill, This was supplemented by a one-year term In the Allegheny County workhouse for carrying concealed deadly weapons, - Once behind prison bare he gave up all his leisure time to study. At the beginning of his term he could read and write English and German. Dun ing the first years of his imprisons ment he eagerly sed all books In those languages that be could secure, In course of time be mastered the Blavie,™ Polish and Hungarian lane guages, and also acquired a good gens eral KSowledpe of Italian, Spanish and
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