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VOL. XLV. NO. 8.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1912.
$1.00 PER ANNUM.
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ICAN.
BOROUGH OFFICERS.
Burgess. S. C. Dunn.
Justices of the Peace C. A. Randall, D.
W. Clark.
Gouncitmen. J. W. Landers, J. T. Dale,
O, It. ltobliiHon, Wui. Smearbaugh,
It. J. Hopkins, U. F. Watson, A. 15.
Kelly.
Constable L. L. Zuver.
Collector W. H. Hood.
School Directors Vi . O. Imel, J. K.
Dark, 8. M. Henry, (J. Jainieson, 1). 11.
Blum.
FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS.
Member of Congress V. M. Hpeer.
Member of Senate J. K. P. Hall.
Assembly W. J. Campbell,
President Judge W. U. Hinckley.
Associate Jwlges Samuel Aul, Joseph
M. Morgan.
Prothimotary, Register t Recorder, te,
-8. K. Maxwell.
Sheriff Win. H. Hood.
Treasurer W. H. B razee.
Commissioners Win. H. Harrison, J.
C. Noowden, II. H. McClellan.
District Attorney V. A. Carrlnger.
Jury Commissioners 1 '. li. Eden, A.M.
Moore.
tbroner Dr. M. C Kerr.
County Auditors-(iarM H. Warden,
A. C. Ureiu and 8. V. .Shields.
County Purveyor Roy 8. Brsden.
County Superintendent J. O. Carson,
Keaular Term. f .
Fourth Monday of February.
Third Monday of May,
Fourth Monday of September.
Third Monday of November.
Regular Meeting of County Commis
sioners 1st and 3d Tuesdays of month.
Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:46 a.
ui. t M. K. Sabbath School at 10:00 a. in.
Preaching in M. E. Church every Sab
bath evenimr by Kev. W.S. Burton.
Preaching in the F. M. Church every
Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Kev.
O. A. Garrett, Pastor.
Preaching in the Presbvterlan church
everv Nabhatu at 11:00 a. ni. and 7:30 p.
in. Rev. II. A. Bailey, Pastor.
The regular meetings of the W. C. T.
U. are held at the headquarters on the
second and fourtn Tuesdays of each
nicntb.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
'TM'.NKSTA LODUE, No. 369, 1. 0. 0. F.
1 Ments every Tuesday evening, in Odd
Follows' Hall, Partridge building.
CAPT. OEOKOE STOW POST, No. 274
O. A. R. Meets 1st Tuesday after
noon of each uioulb at 3 o'clock.
CAPT. OF.ORQE STOW CORPS, No.
137, W. K. C, meets first and third
Wednesday evening of each month.
F. niTCHEV,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
' Tionesta, Pa.
MA. CARRINOER.
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law.
Ollice over Forest County National
Bunk Building, TIONESTA, PA.
CURTIS M. 8HAWKEY,
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW,
Warren, Pa.
Practice in Forest Co.
AO BROWN,
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW.
Ollice In Arner Building, Cor. Elm
and Bridge Sts., Tionesta, Pa.
FRANK 8. HUNTER, D. D. S.
Rooms over CitUens Nat. Bank,
TIONESTA, PA.
DR. F.J. BOVARD,
Physician A Surgeon,
TIONESTA, PA.
Eves Tested and Glasses Fitted.
D
R. J. B..SIUGINS,
Physician and Nurgeon,
OIL CITY, PA,
HOTEL WEAVER.
J. B. PIERCE, Propriotor.
Modern and up-to-date in all its ap
pointments. Every convenience and
conilort provided for the traveling public.
pENTRAL HOUSE,
- K. A. FU LTON, Proprietor.
Tionsela, Pa. This is the most centrally
located hotel in the place, and has all the
modern improvements. No pains will
be spared to make It a pleasant stopping
place lor the traveling public
pHlL. EMERT
FANCY BOOT A SHOEMAKER.
Shop over K. L- Haslet's grocery store
Qti Klin street. Is prepared to do all
Kinds of custom work from the finest to
the coarsest and guarantees his work to
give perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten
tion given to mending, and prices rea
sonable. Fred. Orettcnbergor
GENERAL
BLACKSMITH & MACHINIST.
All work nertalninsr to Machinery . En
gines, Oil Well Tools, Gas or Water Fit
tings and wenerai rsiacKsni nuing prom in
Iv done at Low Rates. Repairing Mill
Machinery given special attention, and
satistactiou guaranteed.
Shop in rear of and (list west of the
fcuaw llouse, Tiuioute, ra.
Your patronage solicited.
FRED. GRETTENBERGER
THE TIONESTA
Can supply your wants in such staple
lines as Hand Painted Chins, Japan
ese China, Decorated Glassware, and
l'laiu Bud Fancy Dishes, Candy, as
wpll as other lines too numerous to
mention.
Time to Think of
Paint & Paper,
Before you plan vour spring work
in painting and papering let us give
you our estimates on the complete
job. satisfaction guaranteed.
G. F. RODDA,
Next Door to the Fruit Store, Elm
btreet, lioncsta, l'a.
LEVEE BREAKS AT
PANTHERJOREST
Two Hundred Square Miles ol
Planiations Flooded.
RAILROADS OUT OF BUSINESS
Territory Swept by Waters Has a
Farming Population of 22,000 Low
er Mississippi Valley Feeling
Effects of the Forward Tl..
Greenville, Miss. The Mississippi
River levee at Panther ForeBt, nine
toen mllt'B above Greenville, on tli
Arkansas Bhore, gave way, and the
water found is way over 200 square
miles of rich farming lands and sev
eral prosperous towns toward the
Tensus and Arkansas rivers. Sixty
townships in Chicot, East Ashley,
Drew and Desha counties in Arkansas
and East Carroll parish, La., were in
undated. Lake Village, with a popu
lation of 1,500, is the most importanl
town in the water's path. So fai
there has been no loss of life.
The territory inundated 1b thlckl)
populated and the water's sweep has t
wide range. Chicot county, whict
will be covered, has a population ol
22,000.
A break Is also reported In the Ar
ansas River near Red Fork, on the
northern boundary of Chicot county
The water flooded the environs of Ar
kansas City. The waters of the twe
crevasses Joined.
Reports from several other points
south of this city are not encouraging
A heavy rain and wind storm ham
pered the work of those fighting back
the flood and beat tho water lute
waves against the banks.
With a roar and a crash that could
be heard for a mile the levee at Alsa
tia broke and opened a way for a
stream of water that swept everything
before it. The levee where the ere
vasBe occurred Is about 22 feet is
height and was apparently Bound.
Tho break put tho Vlcksburg
Shreveport and Pacific and the Mem
phis, Helena and Louisiana railroads
out of business, flooded the towns o)
Tallulah and RooBevelt and submerged
some of the largest and most fertile
plantations in the State.
The crevasse will be the moBt disas
trous that has occurred In the State
since the great Holly Brook break ir
1903. The Holly Brook crevasse waf
in the same part of the Slate. The
loss to live Btock is expected to be the
greatest in the history of Louisiana.
Many women are leaving the towni
of Luxora and Osceola, as breaks at
these pouts have been expected. The
pien remain to light the water thai
threatens (he leyee and their proper
ly, th garden spot of Arkansas,
CLARA BARTON DEAD.
Aaed Founder of the National
Red
Cross Explrfs Suddenly.
Washington. Miss Clara Barton,
founder of tfce American Red Cross
Society and one of the best known wo
men in the world, died at her home at
Glen Echo, Md., after a lingering ill
ness. Miss Barton was past 90 years
of nge. The body was taken to Ox
ford, Mass., her former home, for In
terment. m v - 3-1
MISS CLARA BARTON,
Founder and First President of the
American National Red Crosa
. Society.
At her bedside when she died was
her nephew, Stephen Burton of Bos
ton, who had been visiting her.
Clara Barton, whose twenty-three
years of ollice as president of the Red
Cross In this country ended in 1904,
was born in North Oxford, Worcester
county, Mass., on Christmas Day of
1821. Her name was known wherever,
famine or war or disaster visited the
people of a country, from Armenia tq
Cuba, from Russia to tho United
States.
MAY NOT REGISTER WOMEN,
Test Case in New Jersey Decided.
Against Suffragette.
Trenton, N. J. A decision of the
Supreme Court, written by Justice
Knllsch, was filed dismissing an appli
cation for a writ of mandamus to com
pel an election board in .Morris county
to register MIub Harriet r , rarpenter
of I'assaic township bo that she could
lake part In the election next fall.
The Supreme Court holds that the
laws refusing to permit women to vote
are constitutional.
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RICH MAN SLAIN
ON JAGGED ROCKS AT SIDE OF
AGED CAPITALIST'S BODY FOUND
. LYNN BOULEVARD.
SIX STEEL BULLET WOUNDS
Boy Saw Him with Woman Police
Believe Aged Man Was Shot in
Carriage, but Are at Sea aa tc
Murderer's Motive.
Lynn, Mass., April 13. George E
Marsh, wealthy president of the
George E. Marsh Soap Manufacturing
Company, whose body, showing wounds
made by five steel pointed bullets, was
found lying on the rocky embankment
of the Point of Pines Boulevard, was
murdered while riding in a carriage,
according to the theory adopted by the
police. Chief of Police Thomas M.
Burckes admitted that the myBtery
presented many baffling features, and
that there was little, if any, prospect
of an immediate arrest.
Mr. Marsh was seventy-one years
old and in feeble health. He is known
to have been in the business section ol
the city and was seen to board an elec
tric car bound toward his home. The
police say he alighted from the car at
Essex and Chatham streets, near hie
residence, and was last seen, so far
as is known, in Chatham street about
6.30 p. m.
"The police are completely at sea,"
said Chief Burckes. "I am satisfied
that it is a case of murder, and thai
the pistol shots were fired in some
kind of a vehicle, supposedly a car
riage, and that the tragedy occurred
between 9 and 10 o'clock at night
After the shooting the body was tak
en, I believe, to Sea street extension,
which Is the state highway between
Lynn and Revere, and was thrown over
the fence, landing where it was
found."
All theories as to the motive for the
crime have failed to develop satisfac
torlly. Money and a gold watch were
found on the body, indicating that rob
bery was not the motive.
Mr. Marsh is not known to have had
trouble with any one, or to have hac
any enemies. He had not owned an
automobile or a horse and buggy foi
several years.
There is a theory that the aged man
went to his unoccupied refining works
on the West Lynn marshes, and there
encountered thieves, who shot him;
but little evidence to sustain this the
ory has been found.
From Harold D. Cummings, a boy
whose home is next to the Marsh resi
dence, the police have learned thai
just before 6 o'clock he saw Mr
Marsh riding In a carriage withar
elderly woman on Ireson avenue, neai
his home,
The police theory la that Mr. Marsh
had met the woman by appointment
LOUISIANA LEVEE BREAKS
Putt Two Railroads Out of Business
and Floods Towns of Roose
velt and Tallulah.
New Orleans, April 13. A greai
break in the leves that Inundated
thousands of square miles in north
eastern Louisiana and flooded the en
tire Tensas River basin, comprising
several parishes, occurred In east Car
roll Parish, on the west bank of the
Mississippi River at Alsatla. The
stream of water swept everything be
fore It.
The break put the Vicksburg
Shreveport ft Pacifio and the Mem
phis, Helena & Louisiana railroads out
of business, flooded the towns of Tal
lqlah and Roosevelt, and submergec
some of the largest and most fertile
plantations in the state.
Water from another great break, at
Miller's Bend many miles above, is
pouring into Arkansas a second grea'
flood, the waters of which will mingle
with the one from the Alsatla break.
Roosevelt, built upon very low
ground, will be practically wiped out
The town has 400 inhabitants. Tallu
lah, much larger, suffered severely.
DISSOLVE HARVESTER TRUST
Corporation That Has Been Under
Fire For Yeara Capitulates
to Government.
Washington, April 13. Attorney
General Wlckersham and the Harvest
er Trust attorneys, Messrs. Bancroft
and Wilson, have reached an agree
ment for a voluntary dissolution of
the $200,000,000 trust.
Neither Wlckersham nor the trust
attorneys would make known tht
terms of the plan, hut is is understood
that the parent body Is to he divided.
Into six corporations.
BARS WEAPONS IN CAPITAL
House Passes Bill Forbidding Wash
Ingtonlant to Carry
Any.
Washington, April 13. Citizens ol
this town who carry any deadly wea
pon hereafter will be liable to a peni
tentiary sentence or fine, or both, by
the terms of a bill passed in the
House.
Representative Madden of Illinois
proposod an amendment to cause all
capital policemen to hold up visitors
to Washington and search them for
weapons. It was quickly passed, but
later withdrawn.
MADE ALMOST
CLLW SWEEP
Roosevelt Gets Nearly All the
National Delegates
RESULTS IN PENNSYLVANIA
Thirtyseven of Thirty-eight in State
Convention His Friends Dalzell
Is Defeated "We Hit Them
Middling Hard."
Philadelphia, Pa Colonel Roose
velt's made a sweeping victory in
Pennsylvania at Saturday's primary
election.
Incomplete returns from every dis
trict give the former president 05 ot
the State's 76 delegates in the Repub
lican national convention, and later
returns may carry the figures to 67
Colonel Roosevelt won 53 of the 64
district national delegates and his fol
lowers elected enough delegates to
the State convention to give them
control of that body. The State con
vention will name 12 delegates-at-large.
Governor Woodrow Wilson of New
Jersey, who had no organized opposi
tion, will have 74 of the 76 delegates
from Pennsylvania in the Democratic
national convention.
Politicians look on the triumph of
Colonel Roosevelt with astonishment.
The supporters of the former presi
dent were without a state organiza
tion or without an organization in
many of the 32 congressional districts.
The regular Republican organiza
tion headed by Vnited States Senator
Boles Penrose, which has withstool
the fury of many a political storm, re
ceived a crushing defeat in tbe loss
of control of the State convention. It
is the first time in the present gener
ation that it has lost control of that
body.
The significance of the Roosevelt
vitftory can be realized when It Is re
membered that the delegates in con
trol of the State convention have the
power to select the State chairman
and under the party rules the dele
gales the national convention elects
the national commiteeman.
Henry K. Walton is State chairman
and Senator Penrose is national com
mittee man. It is said by a promi
nent member of the State committee
that some of the Roosevelt delegates
ejected to the State convention are
regular organization men, who while
voting for Roosevelt delegates, will
still itnnd by the State organization.
The vote polled was light. In
some districts it did not go much over
50 per cent of the vote at the last
general election. Colonel Roosevelt
is said to have received his heaviest
vote from the reform element repre
sented by the Keystone party, which
succeeded In electing a reform mayor
in Philadelphia hiBt year.
Another element of strength of the
Rooseelt forces was the 170,000 Idle
anthracite miners among whom the
former president ran strong.
Among those who escaped the
Roosevelt storm were John Wanamak
er and E. T. Stotesbury, who were
elected as Taft delegates in the sec
ond district.
Roosevelt made a clean sweep In
Allegheny county. The eight nation
al delegates will go to the Chicago
convention pledged to him. Of the
38 state delegates, at least 37 of them
will support delegates-at-large to Uie
national convention friendly to the
Colonel.
The defeat of Congressional John
Da'zrill is practically conceded by his
friends. The Indications are that
M. Clyde Kelly has won the seat held
for 13 years terms by Mr. Dalzell. His
majority will range from 300 to 500.
MAY NOT PLAY AGAIN.
Cub Manager Chance Has Old Trou
ble With His Head Once More.
Cincinnati, O Frank Chance play
ed his last game as a regular Cub Sat
urday and it is not likely he will ever
appear in a game again except In a
desperate emergency. Chance be
lieves his active career on the dia
mond ended after 12 years of bril
liant and honorable conection with
the game as a great player.
The heat of mid-summer, which
greeted tho opening games here,
brought on Chance's old trouble with
his head. It was particularly seri
ous Saturday, the manager suffering
with a terrific headache and deciding
to take the warning before it was too
late. The trouble is caused, phy
sicians say, by the repeated blows
Chance has received on the head from
pitched ballB. He was obliged to
stop playing on account of his Bevere
headaches early last season, but did
not give up until he collapsed on the
playing field at Cincinnati during pre
liminary practice.
Lake Erie Has Big Tidal Wave.
Cleveland, O. An immense tidal
wave that swept the southern shore
Of Uike IC:ie Saturday night at Ash
tabula. Tbe steamer Sahara of Duluth
was swept from her moorings and
thrown against the Sohoonrmlier, the
largest freighter on the lakes, smash
jug the Sohoonmaker's light upper
works. At Pninesvlllo Ice was wash
ed (iOO feet back up the river and
large Iceburgs were observed out in
the lake-
Odd Charge Against Woman.
St. .Marys, (). Mrs. James Wlrick ot
this place, who has been living apart
from her husband lor some time, went
to Quincy and, according to the hns
band's charge, entered his home
without him knowing it. He caused
her arrest on a charge of housebreak
ing. Warren Hotel Changes Hands.
Warren, Pa.- Hobcrt Gunsky, a
Jewish Junk dealer, has bought the
(Undo house here for $6,000. The
property will lie leased to an expeo
ienced hotelman.
COMMISSION MEETS
AND DISCUSSES LAWS PERTAIN
ING TO FACTORY INSPECTION
BEFORE COMMISSION.
Dairy and Food Commissioner Foust
Arrests More Violators of Pure
Food Law Measles Prev
alent Over State.
Harrisburg. The state industrial
tccidents commission, named by the
sovernor several months ago to frame
in employers' liability bill to be pre
tented to the next legislature, held
ts first hearing here and obtained
lie views of state officials as to the
ihanges necessary in the present stat
ites governing protection to workers.
The commission held only one sea
lion and thrn adjourned, it being the
Jlan to meet in Philadelphia on April
!2 and then darft a tentative bill,
ivhlch will be made public and on
A'hlch opportunity to be heard will
De given late in the year in Philadel
phia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Wilkes
aarre, Williamsport, Erie and other
daces. The commission hopes to
;omplete its work In November and
;he final series of hearings are ex
pected to be attended by many men
.nterested in Industries.
Ask Candidates to Back Bill.
Many of the candidates for the state
egislature have been sounded as to
;helr stand on the proposed resident
maters' license bill, which is urged
)y various sportsmen's organizations
.hroughout Pennsylvania. Most of the
western Pennsylvania candidates, It
s said, have pledged their support to
.he measure.
The proposed statute calls for a
Hinting license of $1 a year, exempt
n g farmers and tenants hunting on
heir own lands. Licenses are to be
Bsued to any resident citizen by the
:ounty prothonotary for $1 or by a
lotary public for $1.25, and all license
'ees are to be used solely for wild bird
ind game protection, for the propaga
.ion of game and the payment of
wunties. The penalty, under the bill,
s to be $20 for each day of hunting
without a license.
More Arrests by Foust.
Some unusual prosecutions for vlo
ation of the state's pure food laws
ippear on the lists of the state dairy
nd food division for the last week,
ndicating that numerous lines are
peing gone into as well as dried fruits,
:ondlments, meats and various food
products. In one case a produce
lealer was arrested for selling pota
;oes 4hat were bo bad that they were
jnfit for food, the lot having been
epresented as good all the way
.hrough. In another Instance an
jgent caiiBed the arrest of a grocer
who sold datos covered with mould,
while two suits were brought in coun
ties wide apart for selling rotten
ipples. The commissioner has taken
:he position that vegetbles and fruits
is well as fish come under his Juris
llction and that when they are offered
is unfit for eating or cooking arrests
will be made.
"A Measles Year."
An unuBual amount of measles Is
prevalent in Pennsylvania at present,
iccording to reports received at the
state department of health, and In
many towns health officers are strict
ly enforcing the quarantines pre
jcribed by the laws. This Is what is
Hyled "a measles year" by the offl
;ers In charge of .the reports, and
there are very few counties free from
the disease. In some cities cases have
Oeen reported by hundreds, notably
in central Pennsylvania, and at re
quest of local authorities the state
Dfflcers are co-operating in handling
matters.
Inspecting Guards.
Harrisburg. Kxcellent progress in
the spring Inspections of the national
guard is reported at the state capltol
by the Inspection officers of the four
brigades, who have started on their
annual round of the organizations. In
a number of Instances the men and
stores were found to be in excellent
trim, thanks to the training they had
gone through preparatory to the In
spection by the regular army officers
last month.
The Inspections will be completed
before June and then preparations for
the annual encampment will begin.
While no place has been designated
and will not be for some time, opinion
seems to incline toward the selection
of Gettysburg as the probable place
for the three brigades and auxiliaries
not camping with the regulars at Mt.
Gretna to go under canvas.
Against Baseball Gambling.
Betting on the results of baseball
games in Pennsylvania Is to be
stamped out in order to save the na
tional game from the odium that is
attached to horse racing where pool
Belling prevails, according to Gov
ernor Tener. If gambling in cigar
stores and other places whore scores
are posted is not stopped as effective
ly as the authorities have stopped
open betting on tho fields, a dniBtlc
bill will probably be drawn up for pre
sentation at the nt Nsloa of the
legislature.
THEN THEY WERE MARRIED
Millionaire Produces Morocco Cass
That Has Startling Effect on Cho
rus Girl's Hearing.
"It isn't true that every beautiful
chorus girl is mercenary," said George
M. Cohan, the brilliant young actor
playwright of New York; "but It is
certainly true that some chorus girln
are.
"I know an aged millionaire who laid
his heart at the feet of one of the
most beautiful chorus girls who ever
trod the Great White Way. But the
girl' received those protestations of
devotion coldly.
" 'Are you deaf to my suit?' the poor
old fellow groaned.
"'Yes, I am,' said the chorus girl,
and she laughed coldly.
"Then the millionaire took from the
packet of his frock coat a black mo
rocco case. He sprung the gold clasp;
the lid flew back; within, on a bed of
black satin, glittered a necklace of
huge diamonds. The chorus girl gave
a little, breathless cry. The necklace
seemed alive. It seemed, on Its black
satin bed, a thing of pure fire that
writhed and glowed and trembled, con
tinually emitting the clearest rays.
" 'Are you still deaf?' asked the mil
lionaire. "'Ah, no, Blghed the chorus glrL
'Ah, no; I am not stone deaf."'
MOTHERCRAFT TO BE TAUGHT
6chool In New York Will Give Pre
natal and Postnatal Instruc
tion to Mothers.
Miss Mary L. Read has been chosen
as director of the motherhood school
which Is soon to be opened in New
York city. The name of the institu
tion Is the New York School of Moth
ercraft. It la to be on the West Side.
Resides classes and lectureB at the
school there will be prenatal and post
natal Instruction for mothers In their
homes. There will be a selected li
brary and public reading room and a
public information bureau for prob
lems relating to the family, marriage
and eugenics as well as the care and
training of children In the home. The
school Is to be worked in co-operation
with well-known physicians, educa
tors, sociologists, club women and
mothers. Miss Read is a graduate of
Teachers college, Columbia university,
and spent some time as a special
student In Clark university and the
University of Chicago. She was the
organizer of the home committee's ex
hibit In the New York Child Welfare
exhibit, held last winter.
Famous Bride's Petticoat.
A cambric petticoat, yellow with age
and trimmed in fine crocheted edging
and insertion, holds the record of hav
ing been 55 years in one family and of
having served 18 brides as the "some
thing old" which every maid must
wear to the nuptial altar. This petti
coat was made 56 years ago by Nancy
Emma Stroud of Atlanta, Ga., who
wore it to the altar when she became
the bride of Aaron Nunnally of the
same city. Even before forming part
of her nuptial attire it was famous,
for Mrs. Nunnally made it when she
was a pupil of the Baptist college in
Madison, Ga., and It took the prize not
anly for the exquisite needlework, but
also for the fine and excellent quality
of the hand-made lace. Less than a
year afterward a younger sister was
married and the petticoat was loaned.
Sixteen other brides have worn the
Stroud petticoat and It has been sent
recently to form part of the bridal
finery of Mrs. Stroud's granddaughter,
Miss Rose Belle Hines of McKinney,
Tex.
Knighthood for Women.
It Is not at all well known that
knighthood has constantly been con
ferred upon women. Many English
ladies received the accolnde and
mnny more were members of such
knightly orders as the Garter and St.
John. When Mary Cholmondeley, "the
bold lady of Cheshire," was knighted
by Elizabeth for "her valiant ad
dress" on the queen taking the com
ninnd at the threatened invasion by
Spain, did she know that a whole
city of Spanish women, the gallant
women of Tortosa, had been knighted
for saving that city from the Moors?
Mary and Elizabeth had both been
knighted at their coronation; hut by
the time Anne, the second Mary, and
Victoria ascended the throne it had
been quite forgotten that according
to English law and use a woman who
filled a man's office acquired all Its
privileges find was immune from none
of its duties.
Partridge Berries.
"One of the most satisfactory orna
ments for the center of your dinner
table is a glass jar or bowl filled
with the growing plant of the part
ridge berry," said a New Yorker who
Just has returned from a visit to her
former Vermont home. "The bright
red of the berry against the green
moss and the green foliage of the
plant Is always attractive and looks
cheerful. A bowl of these berries on
their delicate vines, carefully planted
in well moistened moss and kept cov
ered, will last all winter and need no
further attention. The partridge ber
ry Is native to both Vermont nnd New
York. Keep this In mind during your
next ramble In the woods."
Why They Killed the Calf.
The prodigal son was coining up
the road.
"Hurry and killed the fatted calf!"
said his father. "You remember that
the boy always was fond of cblckeU
potpie." Judge.
HOGS ARE SMART ANIMALS
instance of Their Intelligence Ob
served by an Easterner Travel
ing Through the South.
"A hog hns a lot more sense than
people give the average hog credit for
or at least a razorback hog has,"
remarked an easterner who travels
through the south. "Here's some
thing that impressed me: At a little
southern town or village I went
hrough some time ago, a small boy
boarded the train with sandwiches
that he was selling, for there was no
eating place and the train reached
that point at about the noon hour. I
bought two sandwiches.
"By the time the train was at the
outskirts of the little town, I found
that tbe sandwiches Instead of being
made with ham in the interior, con
tained only some Bllces of turnip. Of
course I threw mine away as soon as
I found that out. Other passengers
'aised the windows to throw theirs
out at about the same time I noticed.
And right at the point where most of
the sandwiches were thrown out, I saw
a drove of razorback hogs ready to
gobble them up.
"The conductor told me that the
hogs had learned Just how far the
train would go every morning before
the passengers would find the turnips
In the sandwiches and then throw the
sandwiches away. And he said the
hogs wouldn't miss the right place by
more than a couple of yards."
SAINT FOR THE JOURNALISTS
Pope Pius IX. Fifty Years Ago, Se
lected St. Francis De Sales as
Their Patron.
It will be news to many journalists
to learn that they have an officially
selected patron saint. But the Man
chester Guardian points out that they
have, and have had for tbe last fifty
years. Pius IX., at the request of a
number of continental journalists, Is
sued a decree on the point. He res
ommended Journalists to seek the help
of St. Francis de Sales, whose body
has just lately been transferred, with
great pomp and amidst popular re
joicing, to a new church at Annecy,
In Savoy, his native place. The choice,
our contemporary thinks, was an apt
one, for St. Francis was a man of let
ters. His famous work, "The Devout
Lite," is still popular, "no doubt be
cause of the lightness of touch with
which It is written and the unerring
journalistic instinct (if one may put
it so In writing of the work of a
aaint) with which ho compels atten
tion to serious questions by the skill
ful use of aNecdote and illustration."
Westminster Gazette.
Cruelty to Animals.
During the discussion of the dif
ference between the high cost of liv
ing and the cost of high living at the
Curbstone club the ancient carpenter
vouchsafed the following: "It Just
seems like everything conspires to
make things harder for a man when
prices are high. Now, for Instance,
( know that all of my hens Intention
ally stop laying when eggs are worth
their weight In gold JtiBt when they
ought to do their very best!"
"Smoke up! Your pipe's going out!"
sarcastically exclaimed the real es
tate man.
"Fact," continue, 1 the ancient car
penter. "But I fooled the critters. I
got a sign painted with words, 'Eggs
10 cents a dozen,' and hung It In the
coop. Now the hens are laying two
and three eggs every day, and some
of them are even working nights."
Youngstown Telegraph.
Now the Machine Sermon.
The only ceremony at the funeral
of a school tencher In an Austrian vil
lage was the rendition by a talking
machine of the hymn "Eine Feste
Utirg," as sung by a chorus of male
voices. The Incident gave an enter
prising firm an Idea. They now, ac
cording to a circular which has been
distributed In tho rural districts, are
"prepared to furnish for funerals
good and appropriate music, either
solo, duet or chorus. Our large list
Includes universal as well as strictly
church music." In discussing this
enterprise a Vienna paper says that
the "mnchlno sermon" hns already
been Introduced, and In conjunction
with the "machine music" will make
old methods useless. "The talking
machine sermon," says the humorist,
"has at least tlieso good points It
nr.ift be short and the machine does
aot weep."
Lighted Him Home.
Two friends who lived In the coun
try were In the habit of dining fre
rpicntly with one another. One day
lack received nn Invitation from
lames to dine with him at the usual
lour In the evening. As It happened
t was an extremely dark night, nnd
lack took a stable lantern to enable
aim" to see the way clearly. In due
;ourse ho arrived quite safely at
lames's residence, and they dined ex
:eedlngly well, but certainly not
A-Isely.
The next morning Jack received a
lote from James to this effect: "Dear
lack, herewith find your stable lan
.ern. Please return my parrot and
;age."
Her Fortune.
Miss Ivy Drayton Hodge, one of the
ecll known women drummers of the
vest, at a commercial travelers' ban
iuet In Chicago, responded to a toast
rlth these words:
"A woman's face Is said to be her
ortune. In the girl drummer's case,
.owever, it's her cheek."