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.
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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.
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JAPANESE BAIT DIGGERS.
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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