HOBOES NOW GET COUNTRY RETREAT Homeless Wanderers In New York Sent to Farm. WILL GROW GARGEN TRUCK Are Seven Miles From Nearest Saloon, but Close to River—Will Sleep In Tents and Have Great Time Fishing and Shooting Ducks and Maybe Bathing. Now that the spring Is here the ho boes, who gather in New York city for the winter and this year were enabled by Mayor Mitchel's grant of an old house to open the Hotel de Gink, are being sent to a farm on Long Island. Instead of wandering about the coun try, as usual, they are going to grow chickens, flowers and vegetables. The first squad of them has already reached the 450 acre farm which has been lent by George Crater, Jr., a New York lawyer. The farm is six miles from Riverhead and the same distance from the nearest saloon. This last was the only drawback the hoboes could eee in their new rural retreat, which they have named the Farm de Gink. Jeff Davis, king of the hoboes, mo tored down with the pioneers. Twenty other recent patrons of the hostelry used auto furniture vans, which car ried also the travlers' baggage, nick nacks, tents and equipment so neces sary to the advanced scheme of life in project They Put Up Tents. When Mr. Crater and his companions reached Riverhead they tarried there Jong enough to stock up with shovels, pickaxes and provisions, for which— must it be said?— Mr. Crater paid. He took a kindly interest in his bright young men. He says they are not ho boes. He describes tliem as mechanics out of work. The mechanics did not use the farm apparatus on reaching their new home at Flanders, dusk having come on prioi* to their arrival there. After it had been established that the supply of food was sufficient to cover their temporary wants the young men became anxious over the wliereabouts of King Jeff and his retinue. For it happened that In Jeff's suit were the only men who knew how to put up tents, and, which was still more Important, they had the tents and tent poles with them. There are not enough .wooden buildings to house all the me chanies, so most of them will have to ■Jeep in tents. Once the tents were erected the men turned in, and they declared their only trouble was the lack of a moving pic ture theater or a street organ. The quiet rather oppressed them. Another Farm In View. Mr. Crater said he is going to see to it that life on the Farm de Gink will not be all work. He thoroughly agrees with the mau who remarked that all work and no play makes Mike a dull person. So there will be plenty of di versions for the mechanics. As this farm is within three staggers of the Peconic river, there will be plenty of opportunity to go fishing and, when the duck season is on, hunt ducks. The sprightly sports of chicken raising and tree chopping will claim their devo tees. Tame ducks and tame garden truck will be encouraged to grow under the hoboes' care, and Mr. Crater thinks that the end of the summer will see a handsome profit reaped through the ef forts of his lovers of nature. But he is not engineering the scheme for thai reason. He Intends to let the men who make the money retain It. Should the plan work out at Flan ders, Mr. Crater says he will also turn over his 467 acre farm at Yaphank. seven miles distant. The fact that there is no water at Yaphank may be likely to make the second proposition unpopular with the mechanics, but tfccfe is an attraction—the county alms house is at l'aphauk. Mr. Crater's main idea and difficulty Just at first are to keep his guests from dwelling on their departure from their recent comfortable quarters in the Ho tel de Gink, at Centre and Worth streets, Manhattan. - Vicissitudes of Warsaw. No city in Europe has known so many changes of masters as Warsaw. Founded about the year S5O, it was eapital of the independent dukedom of Mazovia until the fifteenth century, when it was annexed by Poland. In the seventeenth century its possession was contended for by Sweden. Rus sia, Austria and Brahdenburg. until, in 1764 Russia practically annexed it. In 1795 the city was handed over to Prussia, but Napoleon occupied it in 1806, and at the peace of Tilsit War saw was proclaimed an independent duchy. In 1809 the Austrians seized the city, but lost it again, and after another brief spell of independence the city passed finally to Russia in 1813.—London Chronicle. A Troublemaker. "Why did you tell my wife that be fore I met her I promised to love you forever?" "Well, didn't your "Sure I did, but that's BO kind of conversation to go to a man's wife with."—Pittsburgh Dispatch. ORIGIN OF "OLIVER TWIST." Sickens Got His Principal Characters From Cruikshank. The true story of the origin of "Oli ver Twist" is not generally known. It Is this: After the amazing success of the "Pickwick Papers" Dickens was think ing of following it up by a story of London life, with which he was more familiar than with English country life. Just about that time he happened to visit the studio of George Cruik shank and was shown some drawings the latter had made illustrating the career of a London thief. There was a sketch of Fagiu's den. with the Art ful Dodger and Master Charley Bates, pictures of Bill Sikes and his dog and Nancy Sikes and, lastly, Fagin in the I condemned cell. Dickens was much struck by the pow er of these character sketches, aud the result was that he changed the whole plot of "Oliver Twist." instead of taking him through spiritless adven tures in the country he introduced him into the thieves* den in Loudon, show ed up their life of sin, but brought his hero through pure and uudetiled. Thus it will he seeu that George Cruikshank. not Charles Dickens, was the originator of the leading charac ters that appear in "Oliver Twist"— London Saturday Review. HAIR AND VITALITY. The One Acts, In a Measure, as an In dex of the Other. In the course of its continuous growth the hair records the tide of vi tality as it rises and falls in the body. When a hair is held up to the light it may he seen to be smaller at some places than at others. There may he a space of one-eighth of an inch perhaps where the hair is so thin as to appear ready to break off. Such spots indicate an appreciable loss of nourishment, a sleepless night or an attack of auto-intoxication, in the last named cases the general vitali ty is interfered with, and the roots of the hair, not being developed, are not as strong as otherwise. The hair grows until the weight is BO great that it can no longer be sus tained by the root, and it drops out. That is why hairs are ot different lengths. Coarse hair, bavin, large roots, will grow long. When the vital ity is low all over the body the roots are imperfectly developed, and the hair is likely to fall out. as in cases of ty phoid fever. Dandruff is a parasitic disease, and the parasites get down around the root of the hair, which becomes diseased. That is another reason why the hair falls out.—Boston Herald. Sand Hills of Bergen. Bergen is so called doubtless from the sand hills which at this point of the coast of Holland are unusually con spicuous and give the name of "Little Switzerland" to the neighborhood. These dunes are the scene of very in teresting experiments in rif planting, with a view to keeping them station ary and preserving the valuable land behind them from sand drift. This slow afforestation at Bergen, on which some thousands of pounds are spent annually, was initiated by a very re markable private association, the Neth erlands Health society, which, starting in a quiet way twenty-five years ago, now employs from its headquarters in Utrecht an army of workers and turns over some £BO.OOO annually iu its im provements.—Loudon Standard WOMEN POLL BIG VOTE IN CHICAGO ELECTION. Did Not Affect City's Mayoral Choice, Anti-suffragists Assert. Anti-suffragists deny that the wom en's vote was the controlling factor In the sensational mayoralty election in Chicago, in which William Hale Thomp son, Republican, obtained a plurality of 140,000, the greatest in the histoiy of the city, over Robert M. Sweitzer, the Democratic candidate. The suffragists claim the victory as theirs. There were no fewer than 282.000 registered women voters, and the elec tion was the largest experiment in women suffrage yet tried in this coun try in a municipal contest The out come was watched with interest the world over. But, while it is believed that 60 per cent of the women voted for Mr. Thompson, it is claimed that he also had 60 per cent of the men voters in his favor. Consequently it is asserted that the result would have been the same without the women's vote. The women say they swung the men and produced the victory. The campaigu sizzled with charges of fraud. Local bitterness reached such a high point that at least one election shooting was recorded. With the first flash of the landslide for Thompson the Republicans began to shout for 191G and hailed the result of the mayoralty election as a reliable Indication of what they hope will hap pen in the next national election. Of the 282,000 women voters 243,549 went to the polls. This Is the largesf woman's vote so far. The largest pre vious poll in Chicago was last spring, when 164,026 women cast their bal lots. Of the 243,549 women 136,920 voted Republican and 86,624 Demo cratic. At the primaries 58,764 women voted Republican and 93,873 Domo cratte. MINE LAYING AND EXPLOSION. lnl ■■■ mmBHTT wW W jr^S onranf||ttMWQooc< * e ***®***^*W*W*H*lHHKWV*flHßßBPfiHPß^^WW*W!W#M6l^6^^^l Photos by American Press Association. f ENGLAND'S NEW ARMY IN TRAINING. v 3<kMRV v V • ; i: : >:;:;s:;^^^i^§^^^^:;:f : • . : : -*• r , 1::n . , | " • [ ■ ; ' ll | IK iflMMcasigaaKejo-v^^g^g^^Twiiiaii : MH!iSHiaMBiiw^^SSg* l *' " Photo bv American Press Association. TROLLEY COMPANIES FEAR "JITNEY" BUS Photo by American Press Association. The "jitney," or five cent cab, is gaining in popularity, especially in the middle west. "Anywhere for a nickel" is the slogan. A national convention of "jitney" men will be held in Kansas City. Mo., May 4, 5 and 6. The pic ture shows a type of "jitney" in New York which has women conductors. YOUNG CAMEL BORN IN ZOO Photo by American Press Association. Keeper Snyder attending mother and baby camels In Central park, New York. A TREE FALLACY." " The Idea That the Branches Rise a* the Trunk Grows. It is commonly believed that as a tree grows it elevates the lower branch es and any other thing firmly attached to it. As a result, curious stories like the following circulate: A Canadian farmer built a barn on willow posts set in the ground. The next spring bappeued to be wet, aud he noticed that the horses had trouble in stepping up to the floor on entering. Finally it dawueff upou him that the willow posts, which by this time had put out branches and leaves, were growing and elevating the whole barn. The process continued uutil the floor was some nine or ten feet high. Then he put in another floor at the ground level. At the time the story was told this second floor was four feet from the ground, and the farmer was hoping for a wet season so that the elevation might continue until he could put in a third floor. It is impossible to take this tale se riously. hut many folks believe stories with as little foundation. Sometimes a hog tight fence is attached to green posts, in a few years the owner no tices that good sized pigs can crawl underneath it. aud often he concludes the green posts have grown and ele vated the whole fence. This elevutiou, however, happens also with seasoned ix>sts and is due to another cause. Water expauds when it freezes, and in the ground the ex pansion cannot be downward or side ' wise, so it must be upward. Conse quently, every time the ground freezes the posts are pushed upward a frac tion of an inch. When thawing occurs | the weight of the fence is not suffl | cient to push them back. Thus every freeze means a slight ele vation, and in the course of three or four years the fence may no longer be j hog tight. In the same way wheat is lifted out of the ground in the early spring when the ground freezes for several nights [ in succession and thaws in the day ! time. Farmers and city dwellers alike be lieve that a growing tree elevates its lower branches; otherwise, they say, how is it tiiat a three foot cherry tree in a few T years lias not a branch with in four feet of the ground? If eleva tion really occurred, however, it is dif ficult to Vee how we could ever have a low headed tree, and that it actually does not occur is shown by careful ob servation spread over a number of years. The lower branches gradually die as they are shaded by the upper ones aud in the course of time drop off. This natural pruning can be seen in all its stages at the same time in any fairly dense forest. Here it is easily seen that only branches in the light continue to thrive and live. No branch is elevated to any extent after it is a year old.—Farm and Fire side. Flags of a Ship. Here Is the complete story of a ship's flags, where they are flown and what they signify: On the staff in the bow—The jack of nation to which vessel belongs. On the foremast—Flag of foreign na tion vessel is going to. If going to own national port she carries flag of nation she is leavqig if that nation happens to be foreign. On the mainmast—Tho h-ause hag. al ways. On the aftermain (if she has one) Flag bearing vessel's name. On the mizzen—Nothing. On the staff at the stern—The nn tional ensign of the nation to which the vessel belongs.—New York Tribune Small Anvils. The anvil that rings to the sturdy blacksmith's sledge may weigh 200. 300 or 400 pounds, but there are anvils whose weight is counted in ounces. These are used by jewelers, silver smiths and various other workers. Counting shapes, sizes, styles of finish, and so on, these little anvils are made in scores of varieties, ranging in weight from fifteen ounces up to a number of pounds each. All the little anvils are of the finest steel. They are all trimly finished, often nickel plated, and those surfaces that are brought into use are made as smooth as glass. " 00000000000000000000000000 O JUST A FEW THINGB THAT O o ONE BMALL GIRL CAN DO. § O O q Accomplishments of twelve- © i o year-old Winifred Sackville Sto- o © ner of Pittsburgh, who has in- § o terested scientists in several o © countries: o j o Reads, writes and speaks eight o g languages. g j o Has written French verse, a o ° suffrage book entitled "A Plea to © i o Gallant Knights" and magazine o o and newspaper short stories, hav- © o ing began this work in her fifth 5 o o o year. © o Taught a class in Esperanto at £ © the Carnegie institute in Pitta- © o burgh. o o Made the first translation of © 2 "Mother Goose" rimes into Es- o O © , o peranto. © ° Has memorized several of Cic- o o ero's orations and parts of Hor- © I g ace, Livy, Sallust and Caesar. o o Plays the piano, violin, guitar o ° and mandolin. ° o Illustrates her own writings. o q Can swim, cook, row, drive an ® o auto, box, ride a horse and play o 2 basebalL o w O 00000000000000000000000000 JAPANESE BAIT DIGGERS. j As Many Women a* Men Work at the Disease Breeding Trade. An extraordinary occupation that many of the very poor follow in Japan Is that of the esatori. or bait catcher, who spends his days gathering angle worms. We say "his," eontinuea the account In the Japan Magazine, but the bait diggers are as often women as men. The Japanese angleworm is not j taken from the soil, as is the case in accidental countries, but from the black rand of the rivers and canals. Tokyo is a great place for this call ing. The city has numerous streams and canals connected with tidewater, and as soon as the tide begins to ebb you can see women with their baskets and their mud forks climbing down the stone facings of the canals, plung ing their legs into the deep mud and | picking up the wriggling red angle worms that they dig out of the mud. These worms are a somewhat differ ent species from the earthworm. They are slightly stouter, with jointed bod ies and peculiar mustached tuoufhs- Tbe receptacles for the captured worms are baskets or tubs with covers that eontaln small square openings through which the women drop the worms as they pick them up. As soon as the bait baskets or tubs are full the wo men take them to the shop and sell them. The bait shop deals in bait only, and from these establishments the flsh : men buy worms for their hoofe-. The amount that the angleworm catchers can make daily is very small, aot more than 40 sen for each worker, hut it helps out in the household ex penses. In the summer weather the work is not hard, although It is cer tainly hot. with the sun beating down en the stooping form and reflected from the wet mikl and water. In the colder weather, however, it is more trying, for the bait catcher has to stand for hours in the freezing mud. Diseases that are the result of their calling are frequent among the bait women, especially beriberi and dropsy. The Japanese regard bait digging as the most miserable way of getting a living known to mortal man. HE KNEW ALL ABOUT SIAIVL Had Even Heard of the Famous Twine From That Country. One day President Cleveland sent for j John Barrett, now director of the bu reau of American republics, and said: "Mr. Barrett, 1 am looking for some young man who is not afraid of hard work and who wants to make a repu tation for himself, to go as minister to Biam to settle the claim of Dr. M. A. Cheek involving several million dol lars, and also involving some delicate matters in connection with the inter pretation of our treaties with oriental countries. This particular case is one of the most important we now have iu the orient. You have received strong indorsements from the Pacific coast , as consul general to Yokohama, but the office was filled when your recom mendations arrived. Will you accept the position as minister to Siam? But first, what do you know about Siam?" Mr. Barrett couldn't remember wheth er Siam was in Asia or Africa, but a little thing like this didn't bother him, •o he said, "Mr. President, I know all about Siam." "Well, what do you know about Slam?" said Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Barrett was stumped for a sec ond. and then said, "Why, Siam is the country that produced the famous Si amese twins." Mr. Cleveland, with a twinkle in his •ye, arose gravely and said, as ho •hook hands with Mr. Barrett: "Mr. Barrett, I am happy, indeed, to get hold of a man with such profound knowledge and abundant Information about Siam. As a matter of fact, Ia in glad you know nothing about it, as you will not be prejudiced one way or the other in regard to the questions to be settled there." Mr. Barrett went to Slam, where he stayed for four years. At the time of his appointment he was twenty-six years old and was the youngest minis ter plenipotentiary that the United Btates had ever appointed/—Portland Journal. Materrate For Sworde. Perhaps no manufactured article has so variously adapted itself to circum stances as the sword. It has been made of stone, wood, bone, oopper, brass, bronze and iron. It has as sumed as many shapes and sizes. It has been long and short, wkte and nar row, curved and straight, heavy and light, pointed, round and square, sharp on one side, on both sides and on neither side. The Maltese. The Makese are mainly the last sur viving remnant of the Carthaginian branch of the okl Phoenician people. Malta was the halfway station be tween Carthage and Sicily, long held by the Carthaginians and of which Hamiloor, the father of Hannibal, wa *t one time governor. TWINS BORN FAR APART. Oddly Enough They Aleo Have Differ ent Birthdays. A boy and a girl, twins, were born In Alliance, 0., on different days and at lifferent places. They are healthy, and their mother, Mrs. Rosina Folgia, thirty-two, is do ing welL The girl was born shortly before midnight in the Folgia home. The next morning Mrs. Folgia was taken to a hospital, where she gave birth to her son. He weighs ten fMlinia Hla sister weighs six and ooe-half pounds. 3
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