ONE WAY TO WRITE HISTORY. A Talk With Adam About Discroot Young Methuselah. 1 have a book published in the early didactic period of the nineteenth oen tury which illustrates u certain way of Imparting historical information. It was written with the laudable inten tion of making history interesting to people who didn't want to venture into the unfarnillur. The author tbougfit that if the patriarchs were conceived of as New England selectmen their lives could be made as interesting as it they were New England selectmen. And i am not sure but that he sue ceeded. The hook is divided into two parts, a conversation with Adam cov ering the space of b.'iO years and an in terview with Noah giving an account of the deluge and the other events with which he was familiar. They are represented as nice old gentlemen ratu er formal in their language and strictly orthodox in tneir opinions. Adam speaks hopefully of Methuselah, wno be says, "must be now about fifty seven years old and Is n discreet and well principled youth." He was very much disturbed over the radical views of the Tubal-Cains. There is inehiiig In trie hook that wouid ii;dicj.f ihn Au.iiii i Noah had been out of Connecticut.—B M. Crotbers in Atlantic Monthly. ELECTRICITY IN RAIN. Th Drops of Moisture, as a Rule, Con tain Positive Charges. Rain drops are almost always charg ed with electricity. The charge is of ten positive, rarely negative. Many observers have measured the charge approximately and made It from 0.000,000.000.000.000,01 to 0.000.000,000. 000,001 amperes per square centimeter Professor F. Heratb of Kiel describes In the Revue Electrique the expert ments by which he has measured tbetn He received the rain on a fine me tallic cloth twenty-five meters square, lnsulnt<>d and attached to a galvanom eter in a cellar. The galvanometer reg istered photographically. Among tiie facts he proves are these: Rains with a constantly positive charge are much more frequent than those that change to a' negative. The passage from a positive to a negative charge corresponds to a momentary cessation of the shower. The quantity of positive electricity brought by the rain is fifteen times greater than that of the negative. The positive currents In a steady rainfall are about 0.0b0.- 000,000,000,000.1 amperes per square centimeter. The negative currents never exceed 0.000.000.000.000.001 am peres per square centimeter. Sympathy With Sufferers. Probably nothing is more stimulating and genuinely tonic to sufferers, espe cially those with chronic ailments, than the feeling that in spite of their own helplessness they themselves can stlb be helpful to others. The Shut-in s<> ciety in this country has made life more bearable for many persons who are confined to their rooms or their houses. Nothing disturbs a certain class of patients so much as to be con stantly in contact with those who are In good health and strength and whom they can scarcely help but envy. To be brought into touch with those tor whom they themselves can feel is a precious source ot consolation and up lift Pity is a luxury to be enjoyed, but no human being likes to be pitied or to feel that he is an object of pity. To be conscious of some advantnut- In one's situation over that of other> is ot Itself an alleviation for many s>u"k nesses.—Journal Ameriean Medi< a. As sociation I An Ornithological Curiosity. Jane Ann had called, on bci after noon out to see her friend Matilda. The hitter's mistress had Ju-< pur chased a parrot, and Jane Ai.n was much interested in the bird. iud9 Is very sensible," she said: "yon kiu learn them anything i used to work for a lady that had a bird in a clock, an* when it was time to tei. go about it in the same way you did when you got her to mar ry you. Go and get her a box of can dy; bring her a few flowers once in awhile; then sit down and talk this thing over with her." NEW HOME FOR PRESIDENTS. Summer Capital on Colorado Mountain Peak Ready Next Year. The announcement that President Wilson has consented to lay the corner stone of a proposed castle of granite upon the summit of Mount Falcon, in Colorado, places an official stamp upon the plan to dedicate the structure as the "summer capital" of the United States—as the residence of the presi dent and his staff during the hot months. The castle is to cost $30,000 and its approaches $200,000 more. It is expected that the main part of the building will be completed in time for the president to spend there the sum mer of 1013. The new summer capital will be upon the peak of a mountain which is sev eral hundred feet more than a mile higher than the level of Washington. The foundations of the building are al ready in place. The site is upon land donated by John Brisben Walker. The plan of the summer capital was Mr Walker's idea, which he has urged for several years. Germans Plan For Winter Campaign. The Germans are pushing forward with the utmost vigor their prepara tions for a winter campaign. All the high class shops that former ly did nothing but make the best fur garments for ladles are busily engaged in the manufacture of sheepskin cloth ing for the soldiers. No fewer than 150,01':) fur coats have been delivered, presumably for the use of officers, and 2,000,0 c' sheep and lamb skins have been bought by the government for winter garments for the men. SHOES SPOIL OUR FEEL That Is Why So Few Persons Have Perfect Pedal Extremities. A person with normal feet is very difficult to find. In fact, the doctors inform us that foot trouble is endemic in the United States, as well as in every enlightened country on the globe. The cause of Chis condition and the vast suffering which it entails is the unhygieric shoe. A thousand Porto Ricans whose feet had never bee shod were examined. Not a single diseased or deformed foot, was found among them. A San Fran cisco surgeon, in commenting on this fact, declares that among a thousand shoe wearing Americans there is hard ly one with normal feet. The trouble is that the vast majority of our shoes' are improperly construet ♦ d The fashionable shoe seems built to force the foot into shapes which, however slightly, are nevertheless ab normal. That worn by the masses is equally inimical to foot health, for the reason that it is constructed with very little reference to the lines of the foot and without effort to adjust it to the normal movements of that member. The medical man presents the moc casin as the most wholesome foot cov ering yet devised, but very few are sanguine enough to hope that fashion will permit its general use. Next to the moccasin, so we are told, is the shoe that not only permits the foot to perform its normal functions unimped ed, but strengthens it when in use. This is the shoe that, iustead of pinch ing the foot or forcing it into abnormal shapes or positions, actually fits it.— Boston Herald. How Canada Got Its Name. The origin of the name Canada is strange enough. The Spaniards visited that country previous to the French and made particular search for gold and silver, and. finding none, they of ten said among themselves. "Aea uada," meaning "There is nothing here." The Indians, who watched closely, learned this sentence and its meaning. Later on the French arrived, and the Indians, who wanted none of their company and supposed they had come on the same errand as the Spanish, were desirous to inform them in the Spanish sen teace "Aca nada." The French, who knew as little of the Spanish language as they, supposed that the incessantly recurring sound was the name of the country and ultimately christened it Canada, which it has borne ever since. Lithium. Pure lithium, which iruli)ALo. A Belgian Kongo Savage Tribe That Cannoc Be Subdued. The cannibal Baukutus of Belgian Kongo make a practice of removing the upper incisors. Their dress con sists of a plaited skirt, which does uoi quite meet on the right thigh. But th* women of the south wear a hide girdl with a deep fringe of palm fiber string Among this tribe the slaves are com pelled to wear a special dress, which Is. in fact, the ordinary costume >! the Akela. to which tribe most of then belong. The Baukutus are great cauui bals as far as the male members o the tribe are concerned, and the vic tims are always slaves In fact, a! slaves are ultimately eaten, since it is believed that if a slave were buried his ghost would kill his master Their chief weapon is the bow, poison being used on the arrows. Shields arc now obsolete. One of their most inter esting points is their use of a couven tional throwing knife as currency. The Bankutus are almost the only tribe ol this region who have been successful In resisting the advance of the white man. This fact is due to their skill tn forest warfare. The way leading to their village is defended by poisoned spikes bidden by leaves. They use bows and arrows set like traps in the form of primitive spring guns and are quite ready if a white man is expected to bait such traps with a live baby being sure that the European will be unable to resist the temptation to pick up an apparently abandoned child. The poison they use is absolutely deadly. THE CHANGING TIDES. Causes That Contribute to the Rise and Fall of the Ocean. Many people regard the rise and fall of the ocean as a profound and baffling mystery. The mystery really is not very hard to understand. As we all know, the surface of the ocean rises and falls twice in every lunar day, this rise ap pearing along a coast to be a horizon tal motion—always ebbing or flowing. Now, the lunar day consists of about twenty-five hours. Thus, of course, the "time" of the tides varies each day. The tides, moreover, do not always rise to the same height. Every fortnight, with the new and full moon, they rise very much higher than at other times. These high tides are called "spring" tides, the alternating low tides being termed "neap." When the moon is nearest to the earth the rise and fall of the ocean are markedly increased. Thus the spring tides are greatest at the equinoxes—i. e.. at the end of March and the end of September. Yes, you say, but what has the mooa to do with it at all? Surely it is the sun which attracts the earth. That is so. But, although the sun's attraction on the earth is far greater than the moon's, the inoou is so very much nearer to the earth that the dif ference between its attraction at the center and on the surface is three times as great as the sun's. And it is this difference which causes tides.— London Answers. Flight of the Housefly. Dr. Hindle of Loudon finds that houseflieo tend to travel either against or across the wind. This direction may be directly determined by the ac tion of the wind, or indirectly, owing to the flies being attracted by odors borne by the wind. Fine weather and warmth favor dispersal, and flies travel further in the open country than in towns—probably because the houses offer food and shelter. In thickly housed localities the usual maximum flight is about a quarter of a mile, but in one case a single fly was recovered at a distance of 770 yards—partly over open fenlad. When set free in the afternoon flies do not scatter so well as in the morning. Liberated flies of ten mount almost vertically to a height of forty-five feet or more. Switzerland's President. There is one highly civilized country in which not one person in four could give their ruler's name. That country is Switzerland. One reason why the president is almost unknown either by name or by sight is that he is not a public figure at all. He has no privi leges as president and no official uni form—not even of the army. Switzer land has a fresh president every year. He has no personal authority as presi dent and is practically only the speak er of Switzerland's unassuming little parliament It is recorded that at a meeting of Swiss business men no one could recall the name of the president The waiter was asked. He happened to know, because the president was his uncle.—Philadelphia Times. Burnt' Cottage. The Burns cottage at Ayr is under the charge of trustees, who purchased It in 1881 from the Ayr Shoemakers' incorporation for the sum of £4,000. The birthplace of the poet had up till that time been in use as a public house. The trustees abandoned the license and after a time removed a hall and other extraneous buildings which had been added to the premises and restored the cottage buildings as nearly as possible to the state they may have been in in Burns' time. A new museum was built at the north east corner of the grounds. Most of the relics were removed to the muse um, which now contains a priceless collection—a first or Kilmarnock edi tion of the poet's work, for which £L -000 was paid, and Burns' family Bi ble, acquired at a coet of £l,7oo.—Lon don Answers. A Hard On*. "When," he demanded, "will you pay this bill?" Smiling, we waved him toward our C\< * ell?* ' _ "Yqu must ask," we Mid, Ikf JW gift (diiQC,"—ExdAlfk r FE P lOT I k.u uai anna ARE DEALT WITH \ Double Execution Under Dra matic Circumstances. STORY OF AN EYEWITNESS. Accompanied French Sentry Who Was Tracking German Wire Tappers and Saw Sight That Made Him Thrill "With a Vague Sickness" and That Haunts Him Yet. A correspondent sends to the New York Times from France this dramatic story or the execution of two German spies: A soldier comes out from behind a pine tree with rifle and fixed bayonet. "Ou allez-vous?" he says, stepping before me. "Je vais me promener." I reply, and anticipate his next demand by display ing my special permit. "Monsieur is ze man that writes? 1 Thake you by ze hand with ver' great leasaire." He beckons me back among the trees. "One comes!" he says. "S-sh!" "You see him!" he asks a moment ter. "Zere by ze coulver*. S-st" * * • We both bent forward. A hundred yards down the narrow path, among the pines, a man in a workman's blue blouse is standing, looking in every direction. Suddenly he takes a cou ple of steps in among the trees. Stalking the Enemy's Messenger. The soldier begins to tiptoe down among the traes, keeping a few pace:* away from the path. I am following. As we go down, a step at a time, noise lessly on the pine needles, there sounds a very soft whistle below, which is answered immediately from some where to the left and further down the alope of the pine covered hill. We take a few more steps in utter silence, then pause and listen. I hear the sound now, a soft and cautious scraping of earth. The sentry begins to go forward again, and suddenly we open out a ▼ista, long and narrow, among the trees. far away, perhaps 200, i brhaps 230 yards downhill, a figure is Jing on its stomach, its face close to jfee earth. Near to the head there is appears at this distance to be a Vail box. The sound of something scraping ftly at the earth continues. It is now on our right front, and suddenly I see the man we have already seen. He Is about forty yards away, kneeling down. He is lifting something w r hich looks like a narrow slab of stone, ne is stooping now into some cavity which he has just laid open. He takes a pair of wire cutters from his pocket, and I hear the snick distinctly as he cuts through something in the cavity. The sound catches the hearing of the soldier, and he glances to his right •wiftly. I hear the half hissed "arrre!" again as he sees the second man. Then sud denly he pushes his rifle forward. I thrill with a vague sickness, for 1 know that I am going to see a brief glimpse of the war horror there among the hushed sunlight and the shadow of the tree boles. What It All Meant. Far down the hillside, at the end of the narrow vista among the trees, the second man has suddenly risen. So ut ter is the silence that I can hear him plainly as he coughs. He begins to naul on something, and I realize sud denly the meaning of the whole inci dent that lam watching. The two men have located the underground private telephone wire going up to the fort. They have been tapping it for any t ews they might pick up, and now bey are removing a couple of hundred Jleters of wire bodily, after which no SDubt they will replace the slabs which •©ver that roof in the underground bannel and smooth back the earth and fc.lne needles over the two disturbed places. The soldier is methodical. He takes the distant man first Kneeling there behind him, 1 watch with a growing thrill and tension of tragedy and sick ness his sunburned cheek cuddle against the stock of his rifle. "Cr-rack!" comes the sharp, snapping bang of the weapon, and the man down the vista of trees gives a queer little jump and then turns right around quickly and looks behind him, and thus looking and seemingly unaware that he is the person who has been shot his heart stops, and he rolls over quite easily and gently on his side —a merciful enough death, as these violent deaths go. And then, as I stare, the rifle goes "Cr-rack!" again, and I Jump, for I am still looking at the silent figure down the vista of trees. But the soldier has been attending to his business and h?s snapped off_v "One Ey® Open." Some years ago in London a French man stepped into a hansom and was asked: "Where do you wish to go?" "One eye open," he replied. "Right," said cabby, who understood nothing and drove off. After a time, same question, same reply. Finally the driver descended and demanded further Information. "One eye open." still was the an swer. Cabby furious. 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