INVISIBLE ICEBERGS. Conditions Under Which They Cannot Be Seen on Clear Nights. In a recent coumiiiijicution to the New York Tribune Abbo-t H. Thayer, the artist, asserts that many vessels have been lost by collisions with ice bergs because it: Icr -<ertain conditions <£>ky and light tiny arc invisible, fie cites the fact thai on the occasion of the Titanic* disaster, although the black ship was clearly visible to survivors at a distance of several miles, they could not see the white bergs against which they actually heard the wash of the sea. Mr. Thayer claims that on u clear, starry night the b'-rgs are so nearly the same color as the sky that they are totally invisible and that the same is the case under many conditions of cJrydjties.s, the onl.v exception being .. Jen tbe side of tiie berg viewed is in such shadow that it shows black against the sky. In other words, it is impossible to see white against white. In answer to the criticism of those who say they never saw a berg at nigbt that was the color of the sky the answer is that this is very natural, because this is the very condition un der which tlie berg is invisible. Mr Thayer mai:cs the suggest on that a very simple \. sio avoid the danger of colliding with an invisible berg would be to use a searchlight. The re flection would show 11j> the herg very plainly. ROMANCE IfJ GEOGRAPHY. Names That Speak of Achievement and c* Desperate Need. Geography is a fascinating study. The history of the human race is writ ten in large characters on the earth's surface for the seeing eye. Most people know that Pike's peak commemorates the explorations of a daring young otiicer early in the last century. But how many know that in the name of the Bill Williams river lingers the only memorial to a famous trapper and Indian fighter of Kit Car son's time, to whom the Rocky moun tain country was an open book before even Fremont "blazed tbe trail" to the Pacific. ot.er.uous Love. "Do yer love me. "Erb?" "Love yer. 'Liza! I should jest tiling I does. Why, if yer ever gives me uy I'll murder yer! I can't say more'n that, can I?"— London Punch. Very Moving. Talk about moving things with n derrick—the most powerful thing known to move man is a woman'* eyes.— Florida Times- onion. "NO WAR WHILE I AM SEC- ! RETARY," MR. BRYAN DE CLARED IN 1913. In a speech on May 12, 1913, to visiting British, Canadian and Australian delegates on the trea ty of Ghent celebration Mr. Bry an told the diners that there 1 would be no war while he was secretary of state and that he would never have accepted the portfolio of the. premiership if he had thought for one moment that there would be war during his incinnlx ncy of the office. In his speech Mr. Bryan said: "I made up my mind before I accepted the offer of the secre taryship of stale that I would not take the office if 1 thought there was to be a war during my tenure. "When I say this I am confi dent that I shall have no cause to change my view, for we know no cause today that cannot be settled better by reason than by war. "I believe there will be no war while 1 am secretary of state, and I believe there will be no war so long as I live. I hove we have seen the last great war." Traps In French. A frequent trap in French for the unwary is the difference of meaning in similar phrases. For example, "faire feu" means to tire a gun. while "faire du feu" means to light a tire; "tomber par terre" conveys the idea of falling to the ground from one's own height, whereas "tomber a terre" means to fall from any height—in other words, to tumble down and to tumble off. In the same way "traitor de fat" means to call a man a fop and "traitor en roi" to treat him like a king. The English bore may be expressed in two ways—"un raseur" gives the idea of an active bore and "une bas sinoire" of a passive bore. London Saturday Review. Child of His Own Drain. "Johnson needn't be mad because the teacher criticised liis boy's composition. The boy will improve." "You don't appear to understand. Johnson wrote the composition him self." —Kansas City Star. A Lost Mine. Among the famous lost mines of the western world and one which is again being sought is the Tisingall of Costa Rica. It is said to have yielded great quantities of gold in tlie time of the Spanish domination. After quelling the Indian uprisings, however, the Spaniards failed to relocate the mine. It is thought that it lies hidden in the bed of one of the larger streams. Many legends are heard dealing with its wonderful richness, and many at tempts have been made to find it, but far without avail. —Argonaut. May Land force of Ma rines In Mexico Photo hv American Press Association , NORTHERN AFRICA. Where Once the Ancient Romans Ruled In Wealth and Splendor. It is not generally realized that dur ing the early centuries of our era the Roman proconsular province of Africa rivaled Italy itself lu wealth and bril liancy and that in what are now Tunisia and Algeria there exist Roman ruins that vie in number, splendor, and state of preservation with those to be found anywhere else. The fall of Carthage in 140 B. C. led the Romans to establish themselves in North Africa, at tirst in a modest settlement, the purpose of which was to see that the Phoenician city was nor rebuilt. Ere long they themselves, however, reoecupied the site and built on It a city that became the third in the empire. The gradual extension of their rule was forced on the somewhat unwilling Romans. To protect their settlement against the predatory Phoenicians. Libyans, and Berbers they found it necessary to push their conquests along the littoral to the west and the south, into the high plateaus between the Tell Atlas and the Sahara Atlas, and even well into the desert itself, till a good part of what are now Tripoli. Tunisia. Algeria and Morocco was ruled by them. The country was much more exten sively cultivated and thickly populated than at present, and for centuries was the principal granary of Rome. After lasting for nearly six centuries Roman rule in North Africa was brought to an end by the invasion of the Vandals from Spain and their capture of Car thage in 4.'JO A. D.—Argonaut. DEEP BREATHING. It Freshens Up the Whole System and Kills That Tired Feeling. Deep breathing does more than bene fit the lungs. Physiologists tell us that the great advantage in that it gives the liver a healthy squeeze. All organs in the abdominal cavity as well as the liver are apt to get overcharged with blood from careless habits of sitting. A relaxed sitting position causes the abdominal muscles to relax so that blood runs into this part of the body like water and it accumulates like a stagnant pool. The blood needed in the brain is down in the liver. The condition pro duced led the ancients to refer to a man with the blues as a hypochondriac, which means, literally, down under the ribs. Today we sperik of the condition as being down in the mouth because the lines of the face are pulled down. Melancholy is due to a congested condition of the liver and other organs depriving the brain of blood necessary to keep up the normal balance of no tivity. When one is tired or feels the dejected feeling coming on. relief can be obtained by lying on the floor with a pillow under the middle of the back and taking a few long, deep breaths. If the arms are thrown over the head and a dozen deep breaths are taken, a new spirit will come into the brain. Sometimes this is done auto raatically. as when we throw up the arms and straighten up after a >oh ed position desk. —Cincinnati The Check Went Back. Not long ago a woman wrote her first story and sent it to a magazine. To lier surprise and delight it was accepted. The story was duly published and a check for payment forwarded. With the check was a printed slip reading, "No more checks will be sent until this one has been returned." Back by re turn mail went the check, with a note from the lady to the effect that she was very sorry the magazine had had the trouble of sending it. and please to send the others immediately.—New York Sun. Pur Bred Arab Horses. In Cairo there is a society for pre serving the pure bred Arab horse. If is said that recent changes in the lives and habits of the Bedouins have re suited in the deterioration of these horses. A practical horseman cf wide experience says that as a rule the Arab horse is now no better treated than our own horses, whatever may have been true of the old days when suc-i: poems as "The Arab to His Steed" were writ ten. WAITER M'HENRY TELLSJF OFFER Admits Part In Sciineidsr A.-, sauit Case in Pittsburgh . < WEAKENS OUHijtS SWEATING Claims Attorney Forney Hired Him to Do Away With Franklin Schneid er, Forney's Father-in-Law —Prom- I issory Note Mentioned In Case Is Found by Washington Officers —Car- lisle, a Chauffeur, Involved In Case. Pittsburgh, June 29.—Sweated by the police ior several hours. George McHenry of Washington, v aiter, brokf down and admitted his port in the at tack upon T. Franklin Schneider, the wealthy Washington candy man, in a local hotel. The police allege tha.: McHenry's confession was complete in every detail. The other interest' -1 " nf j Schneider ease was the arrest in JU lantic City, .v. J., oi c.v n | chauffeur. He was held in $5,000 bad. at the New Jersey resort. Thomas G. Forney, the young Wash ington attorney and son-in-law of Mr.. Schneider, who was arrested first, was taken into custody In New Comers town, 0., last week, after his hat had been found in the room occupied by Schneider, when the latter's straw hat had deflected the blow of a ham mer in the hands of two men who in-- vaded his room. McHenry said he supposed he was | to be given a job when he went to see Forney, sent there by Carlisle. "I want you to work for a New York house, but your particular job is to watch the actions of a certain man," Forney is said to have told McHenry. The latter asked why. " 'I want to get that old ,' " Mc- Henry claims Forney answered. "When I asked him how he replied evasively at first and then said that he wanted me to put away his father in-law (Schneider) and put him away right. I told him that I had never done anything like that and he then pulled out a roll of bills and said that I need not worry about money. "A short time later he again called me bv telephone and made the prop osition again to put Schneider out of the way and that time he drew up a promissory note in my favor for $4,000 contingent on my performing the job." "Where is that note?" Captain Crooks asked. "It is between paper coverings in the upper drawer of a dresser in ir room, 414 Sixth street, N. W., Wash ington." Captain Crooks immediately wired the Washington police and received a return wire saying that the note had been found and mailed to him. McHenry also said 'hat he advised Forney, after he had seen Schneider, to wait a ccuple of years to get the latter's money, be- cuse, so he says, he deducts that Schneider has tuber culosis. McHenry also declared that two weeks ago Forney had his auto mobile out on a rainy night, just after insuring it for its full value. He said that Forney ordered his wife out of the car despite thp weather, near St. John's bridge and drove on alone. The next day, McHenry says, the car was reported as having been stolen. Captain Crooks says that he be lieves McHenry is the tool in the hands of a clever man (Forney*) and that his sympathies are with Mc- Henry. "If I divulged all that McHenry has told me," Captain Crooks said, "it would give Forney all the advantage, because he has money at his com mand and with the. staf of lawyers he could h ; re McHenry likely would T>e punished and Forney go free." In his confession Forney told 1 the police that when he conceived the idea of doing away with Schneider, because thg latter had a $75,090 in surance policy maturing this month, although Schneider is independently wealthy otherwise, he went to Car lisle whom he had heard knew des perate men. Carlisle, he says, promised 1 to send him a "competent" man am} Mc- Henry's visit was the result. Veteran Drops Dead Driving Auto. Wiiliamspori. Pa., June 29. J Horace Rogers, sixty-nine years old. Civil war veteran and prominent resi dent of Picture Ecrks, was fatal' stricken and died while driving his automobile. Another motorist passei by when the man lost control of hi car and. quickly stopping his machine, ran to Rogers' car ar.d shut eff th power. Admits Plan to Kill Restaurateur. Pittsburgh, June 29.—After he toid Magistrate Sweeney In Central polic 3 station that he was m love with a waitress in a restaurant and wished 11 kill the proprietor, purchase the es tablishment nr. .1 •' n . tarry the girl, Thomas Reynold. . New Kensington, accused of felonious assault and bat tery, was held tor court. Your.g Woman Takes Poison. Pittsburgh, Jur.c 2C. — Mrs. Emma G. Marren, aged nineteen, Ts alleged tc have nttemm-d suicide in her home, SOI Sandusky street, by drinking poic-or. ii is said that *o cause he: husband, Michael Marren, refused t; go to an amusement park with her she became despondent. !j ..The Indiana Macaroni Company.. OUR MACARONI Can le Bought at the Following Stores: The Cunningham Department Store, Steveson A: Myers. Plotzer Meat Market. | They are FRESH. Made in Indiana OBSERVATION. It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts made by successive generations of men —the little bits of knowledge and experience care fully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid.— Samuel Smiles. Animal Etiquette. No one who is at all observant of the ways of animals can have failed to notice how gentle large clogs, like' the St. Bernard and the Great Dane, are to their smaller canine fellows. It is rare that a big dog turns upon one of the little fellows, no matter bow aggravating and snappy the latter may be. Instead, he invariably treats the small dog's'antics with unruffled and dignified tolerance. For there is a recognized code of etiquette among animals,. if yon please, quite as much as there is among human beings. In truth, there are not a few respects in which' the animals can give points on politeness and good behavior to man himself. Lincoln's Funeral Coach. The first Pullman sleeping car, con structed in 18t34 in the sjiops of the Alton and Chicago and called the Pio neer, served as the fnneral coach for President Lincoln. Its cost was SIS.- 000, which was regarded in those days as most extravagant, and as it was higher and wider than the ordinary cars and the clearances- of station plat- j forms and: bridges when it was decid- i ed that it should! be the fnneral coach of the president many changes were i Involved. Gangs of men were set work- [ lng night and dhy to cut wider clear- ! ances all the way from Washington (byway of New York and Albany) to Springfield, . 111. —Brooklyn Eagle. Necessarily Slow. A California youngster lual been per mitted to visit a. boy frieud ou the strict condition that he was to leave there at 5 o'clock. LLe did not arrive home till 7 o'clock, and liis mother was very angry. The youngster insisted, however, that he had obeyed her or ders and hud not lingered unneces sarily on the way. "Do you expect me to believe," said his mother, 'that it took you two hours to walk a quarter of a mile?" She reached for the whip, "Now. sir. will you tell me the truth#' "Ye-es, mamma," sobbed the boy, "Charlie Wilson: gave me a mud turtle and I was afraid—to carry it —so I led it home."—St.. Louis Post-Dispatch. The Logic- of It- The Yale freshman year was proving too expensive to father, so father decid ed to have a "heart to heart" talk with Johnny, home- foe the week end. "Now, soin" said he gravely, but af fectionately,. "year mother and 1 are spending: just as. tittle as we i>ossibly can. l! get up ill the morning at 6:30. and Ii work until after o. Put. son. the money just woct't go round at the rate that your expenses are running. Now. I ask; you, as orte man to another, what do you- think we had better do T For- a moment Johnny's head was buried in thought, and then he replied: "Well; father, I don't see any way out but for you. to work nights."—New York Posst Small Anvils. The anvil that rings to the sturd.. blacksmith's sledge may weigh 2iH>. ."<m> or 400 pounds, but there are anvils whose weight is counted in ounces These are used by jewelers, silver smiths and various other worker>. 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 arc all trimly finished, often nickel plated, and those surfaces that are brought into use are made as smooth as glass. Wonderful Memories. We are told that Pascal never for got anything he had seen, heard or thought. Avicenna could repeat by rote the entire Koran when he was ten years old, and Francis Suarez had the whole of St. Augustine in his mem ory. In three weeks Scaiiger, the fa mous scholar, committed to memorv every line of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey." Another scholar, Justus Lipsius, offered to repeat the "Histo ries" of Tacitus without a mistake on forfeit of his life. A Sure Proof. "The new family who have just moved in have something in their lives they want t hide." "Why do you think .so?" "Because their hired girl is deaf and dumb." —Baltimore American. ■ > t 0 j THE VOICE AND THE STAGE. Being a Good Elocutionist Does Not Make a Good Actor. i Of all the tilings to eschew, elocu j tion schooU stand first. Actors should ' know nothing of the rules of elocution as taught in any school of which 1 have ever heard. I can always tell at the first glance whether an actor is a stu ; dent of elocution. No good elocutionist was ever a good actor. That is, nAgood : reciter —and elocution schools produce ; only reciters —is ever a good actor. I Reciting and acting are two entirely ; different arts. The reciter is never j natural, never can be. Awhile ago one I of the most distinguished professors of ; elocution in America —he had the chair of elocution at one of our biggest uni versities—came to be an actor. It was thought that he would be something wonderful because of his knowledge i and gift of elocution. lie went back to teaching. He could do that better than most, but his acting - was bad. All the rules of elocution an actor ever j needs can be obtained' in singing les ! sons. j Now. proper of words Is a different matter. An actor should not have to lie taught that, but if he does need It it is a pretty bad need, and he should never rest until he has lost all slovenly habits. Some of my friends think 1 am too severe on this point. I am not. One cannot be too severe. It is clean cut work, perfect in its smallest details, that makes for perfect illusion on the stage, and I am always for such work.—Henrietta Crosman in Century. MYSTIC NUMBERS. Romance That Is Woven Around tha Sevan, Three and Nine. There are seven days In the week bo cause of the oriental tradition that the world was coeated In seven days. The Romans had no veek. but reckoned by months, counting forward and back ward from the klw and nones, until the fourth century when they adopted the Jewish-Christian week. Because of Its relation to the creation the number seven has always been In vested with an occult and mystic sig nificance. There were seven wise men I In antiquity and seven wonders of the world. The seventh son of a seventh son, or seventh daughter of a seventh daughter was supposed to possess pow ers of prophecy or divination. For seven days seven priests with seven trumpets invested Jericho, and on the seventh day they encompassed it seven times. The ancients knew of seven planets and seven metals. There were seven heavens and seven hierarchies of angels. Seven had a mystical significance among peoples who had no tradition of a seven day creation, and tills was due to its being indivisible by any number but itself and to its being a comblnn tion of 3 (called by Pythagoras the per feet number, representing beginning, middle and end) and 4. the square nur& ber. The Pythagorean Idea about 3 recelv ed confirmation when the doctrine of trinity in unity was promulgated by the early Christians. For 3 is itself nf once trinity and nnity. The number 9 was endowed w'.th mysterious properties because it la the product of three times three—perfec tion multiplied by perfection. To see nine magpies was remarkably lucky Nine grains of wheat laid on a four leafed clover enabled one to see the fairies.--New York World. Thereby Hangs a Tale. Nature Faker—Why do the leaves turn red iu autumn? Freshman— It's the established law of creation. Na ture Faker—You're wrong. They have to blush; when they think how green they've been.—Brunonian. His Occupation. "What does your father do?** "Whatever mother tells him." "I mean what's lin? occupation?" "Oh, his occupation! Pa's a confla gration ejector; puts out fires, you know."—Boston Transcript. WAR BABE FOR ADOPTION. German Mother Unable to Get Word of Her Soldier Husband. Mrs. Carl Muller of Yaphank has in serted an advertisement in several Long Island papers offering for adop tion a newborn war babe, whose moth er, a German woman, is stopping nt Mrs. Muller's home. "The baby's mother, who doesn't want her name known save to the cou pie who. she hopes, will adopt her lit tle daughter. does not know whether Ehe is a widow or not." said Mrs. Mul ler to a reporter "The mother is a friend of mine who came to the United States after her husband had l>een forced to fight for Germany She has tried repeatedly to obtain word from or of her husband without result, and she has no knowledge whvih.-r ' hy boen killed or is ii.-'ir:-;. Ski feels tk r -he >r c .r f r !:ei Iktif dauciuer. wit was bora uii Feb. 2" -md is a !i;t.e dear, an 1 >:i* i; willing T> tr.ve full surrender to •> ot:u!e wF at:, con vine her that the wli Lave a good homo and km.] i-entr i - . _ . —— f ARMY BUGLES. ~ Fashioned From Sheets of Copper by an Ingenious Process. From stmt to finish the making of an army bugle is a process of much Ingenuity and interest. A bugle may uot at first sight present a striking re semblance to its cousin, the coach horn, but one is practically a curled ap version of the other, for l>efore the ougle is bent into shape it consists of a narrow tube tifty-one inches long. In the first stage of manufacture ttnr ougle is cut out of sheet copper and .•oiled into two thin cylinders, technic ally known as the "bell" and the "branch.** The narrow tube, which is the • bell." is gradually shaped out on molds until the opening is the regular four iuehes in diameter. It is then "spun" 011 a wonderful machine, and an expert workman takes the rough tdges off the copper. Both sections are afterward filled w>tu molten lead preparatory to the bending si age. and it is this solid stnfiiug which prevents the tube breaking in -ho process and allows it to keep its shape. The expert workman, with the aid of a formidable lever and hammer, bends the bugle into the familiar shape, the lead being subsequently <r>elfed out at a charcoal furnace, after which the Instrument is sent off to th polishers. One of the most intricate parts of the bugle Is the mouthpiece, which is made of nickel silver and turned out on a special lathe. With the mouthpiece fixed the instrument is ready for the Besting room.—Pearson's Weekly. BUCK THE LINE HARD. Pbopi* Who Do Big Things Do Not Let Themselves Be Held. Lt was on the football field at one of the large colleges. A big tackle had been brought over to the varsity field from one of the class elevens. It was his first experience with the big team lie played a fine game until the ol he side had' the baiL Then he did not "break through" as he should. The coach finally stopped the play aul -rent over to him, "What is the trouble? Why don't you. get through?" he said. "The man opposite u>e is not playing fair. lie is holding me." said the tackle. "If he holds you again I'll put yon off the field!" Unshed, back the coach. Of course, as the tackle said, it is against the rules to hold an opponent unless he has the bull, but the coach wanted results and not excuses. His position was that a man ought somehow to break away; that m> man must let himself be held. And that is true, no one ought to let himself be held. The excuse may be excellent, but a player who is held is put out of the game as effectively as if he were off the field. He might just as well be off the field. The people who accomplish things worth while in the world are those who will uot let themselves be held. There have always been things enough to hold them. They might have found excellent excuses, hut they have not had *0 use any excuses.—Youth's Com panion. Quits. Little M-au! Ie would tell "whoppers.* One day her aunt thought she ought to be cured of this habit, so she spoke seriously to the little maid, who prom ised to mend her ways. To iH>int the moral auntie told the tale of the shepherd boy who was al ways calling '"Wolf!' until no one could believe him. Then one day the wolf really ea-aw- and ate up all the sheep. "All the- sheep'."* interrupted Maudie. "Yes, every one of them," replied auntie decidedly. "Every stogie- one?" Auntie- nodded. "Well." said Maudie slowly, "1 don't believe yon. and you don't believe me. Ho, there!"— Loudon Answers. Food For Punsters. "I don't see how Fussleigh gets any enjoyment out of his food. He's diet ifttg. you know." "Yes." "He uses this new 'mathematical masticatory* system." "flood gracious, what's that? So many chews to the mouthful?" "Xo. He eats beans by the dozen, rice by the grain, fish by the perch and spaghetti by the yard." "Does he seem better?" "Measurably so." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Drink Plenty of Water. A Roumanian scientist claims that any one can live to be 100 years old. barring accidents, if he drinks enough water. He declares he has discovered that old age is due to a decrease in the amount of water in the system and that Father Time may be check mated by systematic water drinking -luring middle age. Buying Wives. Wives are stiii obtained by purchase in some parts of Russia. In the dis trict of Kamyshin, on the Volga, this Is practically the only way in which marriages are brought about. The pri- e of a pretty girl from a well 10 do fam ily ranges from to Slldo. Same Way. "How did you find dtar old P.road way ?" "That way yet." "What way?" "Old and dear." —Cleveland Leader. . + j ..
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