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DACIA WILL BE STOPPEO ..
English Government Notifies Washing
tor of Its Intentions.
Washington, Jan. 20.—Notice ol
Great Britain's refusal to grant a re
quest of the United States government
that the former German steamer
Dacia be permitted to carry a cargo of
cotton for Germany to Rotterdam
without molestation was received at
the state department.
The British government declared it
could not consent to waive any of its
rights in the case of the Dacia .and
assigned as one of the reasons for its
position the fact that such action
might con'titute a precedent which
might be_ invoked to the prejudice of
the British position in regard to
enemy ships transferred to neutral
registry.
While tbe officials of the state de
partment are disappointed at the Brit
ish refusal, it was said it is not the
intention of the department to take
any further action in the case.
200 Men Blown Into Bits by Mine.
Cape Town. Jan. 20.—Two hundred
of the South African soldiers who cap
tured Swakopmund last Thursday
were blown into bits by mines explod
ed by the Germans as they retreated.
The \rater tation and electric lighting
and telegraph plants were destroyed.
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Roumanla Buys $9,650,000 Supplies.
London, Jan. 20. —According to a
dispatch from Copenhagen the Ber
lin Tageblstt states that Roumania
has purchared in the United States
VJ,650,000 worth of war supplies.
Seeking Information.
Little Wife—How do you like mes
saline and brocaded satin with chiffoa
over velvet? Hubby—What are yom
talking about—clothes or the platform
of the woman's party?— Chicago News.
Musical Note.
"Say, Hiram, what do they mean by
a Stradevar'us?"
"Oh, a Stradevar'us is the Latin name
for a fiddle."—Musical Courier.
Common Course.
Hi—What course is Sarah studying
at that boarding school? Si—l can't re
member, but 1 think it's cosmetics.—
Stamford Chaparral.
The only failure a man ought to fear
Is failure in cleaving to the purpose fee
sees to be best. —George Eliot.
Sporting Note.
1 Speaking cf mollycoddle games, how
would you like to play cricket on the
hearth ?—Judge.
DEMONSTRATION BY UNEMPLOYED.
Photo by American Press Association.
Several thousand men without work recently assembled in the streets of New York bearing banners express
ing their objections to charity.
GIVING MEDALS TO SAILOR HEROES.
Photo by American Press Association.
The arrow designates Secretary of the Navy Daniels as he was giving medals to the sailors whose conduct at
Vera Cruz caused them to be honored by congress. The presentation of the medals took place ia the Brooklyn
navy yard.
THE MALTESE DERSY.
Its Curious Race Course With Go at
You Please Rules.
Horse raciug is a favorite sport the
world over, but it is doubtful whether
any nation can boast of such a curiou
race course or claim more remarkable
ideas of the sport than the Maltese
Once a year the road skirting Slieina
harbor is reserved as a racecourse, ami
the people turn out in thousands
There is no regulation of the course.
The crowd simply clears out of tbo
way as the horses come along.
The jockeys ride without bridles or
saddles, and each carries a whip in
either hand —one for his own mount,
the other to keep tack any horse which
may try to overtake him. We saw one
of the spectators deliberately trip a
horse up by putting his leg out, at
grave risk to himself.
• These things, however incredible as
they seem to sportsmen in this eoun
try. are taken as quite a matter of
course, and consequently hardly a year
goes by without a fatality of some
kind. All things considered, it Is not
likely that the "go as you please" rule 9
of this Maltese derby are likely to com
mend themselves to other turf author!
ties.—Wide World Magazine.
Quicksilver.
The ore from which quicksilver If
obtained is a brilliant red rock knowr
as cinnabar. When of high purity 1*
is actually vermilion in color China
bar is the original source of the pip
ment known commercially as verraii
ion. It is a compound of sulphur unc
quicksilver, and in order to separate
the latter from the sulphur the rock Is
roasted. Passing off in the form of a
gas. the mercury is afterward eon
densed and flows out in a fine stream.
like a continuous pencil of molten sil
ver. Like gold and silver, mercury 1"
occasionally found in a native or pur©
state. Sometimes the miner's pick
penetrates a cavity that contains a
cupful or more of the elusive and beau
tiful fluid. Miners suffer much from
the poisonous effects of the quicksilver
fumes. Extreme cleanliness is the best
safeguard for workers in this danger
ous occupation.
USE YOUR STRENGTH.
In the assurance of strength there
is strength, and they are the weak
est, however strong, who have no
faith in themselves or their powers.
—Lord Bacon.
MILLIONS OF SH ES
FOR ALLIES' HORSES.
Factories Pressed to Fill Single Order
Worth $25,000,000.
American manufacturers of horse
shoes are not lying awake nights In
worry about the duration of the war
in Europe. Instead they are employ
lug both their nights and days turning
out their wares to keep up with the
foreign and home demand.
Oue of their welcome burdens is the
rilling of an order from tbe warring
nations for 6.000.060 kegs of shoes.
The factories at Providence. Pough
keepsie. Pittsburgh and Troy are going
at high pressure to make the output
fit the order.
The normal yearly exports of horse
-shoes, a maker told me. amount to
about 10.000,000 kegs. There are no
factories in Europe comparable with
those in the United States, he said, and
hence no particular reason why the
manufacturers of this particular prod
uct in this country should stamp their
shoes with the "Made in U. S. A."
trade mark.
When demand is well distributed
throughout the year, he said, there is
little difficulty in meeting it, but a sin
gle order for G,000,000 kegs necessi
tated abnormal activity by the makers.
Some of the shoes have been delivered,
others are on the way, and the rest
are being turned out with the greatest
possible speed. It Is understood that
the big order came from a single firm
in London and that the shoes are con
signed to Holland as the distributing
country.
Extravagance.
Extravagance in thought is as bad aa
extravagance in living expenses.—E.
W. Howe's Monthly.
Their Novelty Wearing Off.
Elderly Sister—So Mr. Hembridge
said I had teeth like pearls? And what
did you say? Young Brother—Oh.
nothing: except that you were gradu
ally getting used to them—London
Standard.
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Rather Too Light.
The landlady who had not a reputa
tion for overfeeding her boarders asked
her solitary boarder as he looked dole
fully at his supper, "Shall I light the
gas?"
The boarder gazed at the scanty meal
and replied. "Well, no, It isn't neces
sary; the supper is light enough!"—
London Telegraph.
THE PATRIOT
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It liit- plural of man is always called men.
Why shouldn't t:.e piurui ui pun be culled
pen ?
The cow in the plural may be cows or
k'ne.
But a bow. if repeated, is never called
b:ne.
And the plural of vow is vows, not vine;
And if 1 speak of a foot and you show
me your feet.
And 1 give you a boot, would a pair be
called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are
teeth.
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be
called beeih?
If the singular's this and the plural Is
these.
Should the plural of kiss be nicknamed
keese?
Then one may be that and three would
be those.
Yet hat in the plural would never be
hose.
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
"We speak of a brother and also of breth
ren.
But though we say mothers we never say
methren
The masculine pronouns are he. his and
him.
But imagine the feminine she. shis and
shim.
So the English. 1 think you all will agree,
Is the most wonderful language you ever
did see.
—Springfield Republican.
Quite Enough.
Penman—Did j*ou wade through that
last hook of mine?
Wright—Yes. I did.
"Were you much stuck on it?"
"Only a dollar twenty-five."—Yonkers
Statesman.
An Old Larch Tree.
Italy can boast of u larch tree the
age of which is estimated to be 2.000
years. It is situated on the northern
flank of Mont Chetip In the direction
of the huts of Pian Veni, above Cour
mayeur, a few steps from the footpath
that skirts the limits of the meadow
land. Due allowance being made for
the extreme slowness with which the
larch grows, for the altitude above sea
level (1,650 meters) at which it is root
ed and for its northerly exposure in
the near neighborhood of the glacier,
where the cycle of its development is
barely five months every year, this
venerable larch, untouched alike by
woodman's ax and thunderbolt, cannot
be less than 2.000 years old.—Scots
man.
MRS. CHARLES S. WHITMAN.
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Photo by American Press Association.
The wife of the new governor of New York is shown here as she pours tea for a visitor.
TESTING CONCRETE.
Experiments to Show the Action of
Sea Water and Frost.
One of the largest construction com
panies in this country is making ex
periments to determine what is the ac
tion of sea water and frost upon con
crete. According to Science Conspec
tus. the company made twenty-four
concrete columns, each sixteen feet
long and sixteen inches square, re-en
forced with iron bars near their cor
ners, and in January, 1909, immersed
them in the water at the Boston navy
yard.
At high tide the water almost entire
ly covers them, but at low tide they are
completely exposed. Thus in cold
weather the columns are alternately
thawed and frozen as the tide rises
and falls. The columns are made with
various qualities of concrete—mixed
dry, plastic and very wet—and also
with different qualities of cement Ex
perts are studying the effects of the
addition of waterproofing materials.
Clay and other substances are added
from time to time, and the effect is ob
served.
Many years must elapse before it
will be possible to tell with certainty
what £ind of concrete is most perma
nent When last examined many of
the columns were virtually unaffected,
but others were badly eroded. The
columns that contain the largest pro
portion of cement mixed wet, have so
far shown the least wear. Of two col
umns made with one part of cement to
one of sand and two of stone the one
mixed dry was badly eroded over its
entire length, whereas the other,
which was mixed very wet, was only
slightly pitted.
The experiment, it is expected, will
throw much light upon a problem that
has long perplexed construction en
ginaers.
CHrysan. ct v n
Although the rJir-sinOe 'in !i:i
reached its high. * '< ;t t . r v !•>;
meat in an I Is still rev e<
as the imperii! 1 emblem, it v. : s '■ : e.
to Japan from China where it I: >
been brought to its high, st sp te of
cultivation At the imperial < iirvsan
theuium party given by Ids in:est
the emperor of Japan in Nov< mhi rev
cry year one sees the most m rv ' -ni
blossoms known t< the f! >r eul wist.
The number of blossoms from one rot
is amazing. In one i-ase no less
700 flowers were seen growing fro n
oue plant. The festival of the ehrysan
themuni dates back to the Ileian er
when the great ones of the empire used
to call at the imperial palace and drink
to the health of the imperial house
from sake cups in which floated petals
of tbe beautiful flowers.
Old Time Coining.
In the fifteenth century a skilled coin
r, of whom there were but few. might
be able to turn out by baud fifty or
sixty coins a day. a result totally in
adequate to cope with the vast quan
tity of treasure, chiefly silver, that
shortly began to arrive from America.
To multiply coiners was to multiply
forgers, and thus the coining machine
became a necessity of state. A laminat
ing mill and screw coining press was
invented in Italy 1547, Spain 1548.
France 1553 and England 1561, reign
of Elizabeth. After several trials ami
abandonments the mill and press were
established permanently under Charles
11., whose golden guineas, struck in
1662, were the first regular issues of
machine coins made north of the chan
nel.—Argonaut
Why They Don't Hear.
Perhaps the limit of hymnic fatuity
was reached by tbe writer of hymn
575 in the "Ancient and Modern" col
lection. Here is the fourth stanza:
They do not hear when the great hell
Is ringing overhead;
They cannot rise and come to church
With us. for they are dead.
The list of things which "they" are
unable to do might be indefinitely ex
tended, and it seems a thing incredible
that the author of the above verse
should have written so beautiful and
moving a hymn as "There is a greea
hill far away."—London Chronicle.
Canada's Size.
The area of the Dominion of Canada
is 3,658.940 square miles. The urea of
continental United States is 3.025.000
square miles. Canada is as big as the
United States with a territory to spare
that is as large as three German em
pires and the state of New York.—New
York American.
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MR. AND MRS. LONSDALE.
Considerable publicity was given
recently to the case of William Lorn*
dale, an English soldier sentenced to
death in Germany for assaulting the
guard at the detention camp. Citizens
of Leeds, Lonsdale's home city, asked
the United States state department i
intercede with the Germans on, behalf
of Lonsdale The prisoner's sentence
was later reduced to ten years' penal
servitude.
RUSSIANS WIN ADVANTAGE
Three Times Victorious In Series of
Actions Along Vistula.
London, Jan. 21. —An official Rus
sian statement describes a series of
actions along the Vistula, northwest
of Warsaw, during Jan. 17 and 18.
In three of these engagements, it is
said, Ihn.llu-sia"s .wowthe_advantage.