Duke of the Abruzzi,
Known to Americans,
Heads Mission to U. S.
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DUKE OF THE ABRUZZI
It Is expected that the duke of
Abruzzi, cousin of King Victor Emmanuel,
will head an Italian mission to the United
States.
The name of the Duke of the Abruzzi,
who takes his title from a district of
Italy, is as well known to Americans,
probably, as that of any other European
royalty. Several years ago he figured ex
tensively in the newspapers as a suitor
for the hand of Miss Katherine Elkins.
daughter of Senator Elkins of West Vir
ginia. She is now Mrs. Hitt, but the duke
has remained unmarried. He has com
manded the Italian navy and has won
fame as an arctic explorer and mountain
climber.
A Japanese Get Rich Quick Call.
A broker in Tokyo, wishing to stimu
late speculation among the English
speaking residents, composed a great
handbook at great pains and, printing
it by some mimeographic means on a
largo sheet of paper reproducing hand
writing, scattered it broadcast. The
paper read:
"To the Wideawake Public.—One who
want to make money why not try Stock
business at such rare extraordinary
chance? Even & fool, his pocket is
swelling up every day. Why? Because
he is daring it blindly. Awaiting your
order. More or less yours faithfully,
Okino Yonesaburo."—East and Wen 1
News.
Life Expectancy.
According to the public health serv
ice, life expectancy during infancy and
childhood has increased because of the
more intelligent care of babies and
young children, but life expectancy aft
er the age of forty is less now than it
was thirty years ago, because those
who have arrived at years of discretion
do not exercise discretion for them
selves and take sufficient exercise to
overcome modern conditions. Many
more people are engaged in sedentary
occupations than formerly, which de
prives them of natural assistance af
forded by physical exercise in eliminat
ing through the skin and lungs the
waste products of the body.—Collier's
Weekly.
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MEETING TROUBLE.
Difficulties and troublee, if
bravely met, make etrong men
and women, but endless worry
and anticipation of evil cannot
fail to weaken the will and the
character. Laugh and be glad
now. If you wait till you con*
quer your little world you will
never laugh and be glad. It is
better to live in a castle in the
air than to dwell in the dun*
geons we too often allow our
forebodinge to build for us.
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Bad English on the Btage.
It is indeed a dreadful shock to bear
a young woman, demurely pretty, ex
claim: "Aw, gwan! Quitcher kiddin'!'*
or "Cmawn up t'naight, 'fy'ain't got
nuthin' t'do," or "I gotcha, Steve!" or
"Whadda ya take me fer?"
The stage is much to blame for the
vogue of slipshod and ungrammatical
diction. The text of most of the popu
lar songs is pointlessly defiant of gram
mar. The singers and actors often af
fect a strident nasality for footlight
use which they discard with their cos
metics and their costumes. If actors
and actresses find that they are put
ting to flight a public of sensitive ears
they are likely to reform.—Philadel
phia Ledger.
An Odd Court Incident.
Sensational incidents are not uncom
mon in the closing stages of famous
criminal trials. One of the most re
markable occurred in Melbourne on the
last day of the trial of Ned Kelly,
known as the "ironclad bushranger of
Australia." A knife dropped from a
gallery overhead and fell at the feet of
the desperado in the dock. He had
every temptation to grasp it and put
an end to his existence, for there was
not the slightest chance of his escap
ing the gallows. But it was promptly
picked up by a bailiff, and its owner
was arrested and brought before the
Judge. He pleaded that the occurrence
was purely accidental, and the explana
tion was accepted by the court
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Fissures In the Rockiee.
In some of the high plateaus or mesas
of the Rocky mountains there are to be
found a short distance from the edge
cracks or fissures not more than four
feet wide and often as much as eighty
feet deep. During the terrific blizzards
that rage in the winter these crevices
are filled to the level, and cattle and
horses which are not acquainted with
the country frequently drop into them,
their struggles only causing them to
sink deeper and deeper. The cracks,
into which the sun never penetrates,
are like refrigerators, and the hapless
brutes when death has come to their
relief become to all intents and pur
poses mummies.
World's Oldest Investment.
The oldest investment security on
earth is the real estate mortgage. We
know that money was loaned on mort
gages In ancient Babylon in the time
of King Hamurabi, 4,000 years ago,
and that some 2,500 years ago the great
Babylonian banking house of the Egibi
family invested large sums in mort
gages on both city and farm property,
the mortgages being recorded on bricks,
which have been preserved in the safe
ty deposit vaults of those times—great
earthenware jars buried in the earth
preserved until the archaeologists in our
own day and age dug them up to show
us when, where and how mortjraees
originated.
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By WARREN MILLER
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While serving with my regiment as
surgeon at Manila I received a letter
from my old friend Dick Thurston at
i Batavia, Java, asking me if it would
be possible for me to come down and
see him. He was ill, and despite the
fact that he was taking the best of
care of himself he didn't get any bet
ter. Couldn't I obtain a leave even for
a short time?
I confess I did not relish the idea
of making the journey, but Dick and I
bad long been cronies and I would no
more think of refusing him than my
ov.-n % brother.
I succeeded in getting a leave, and I
found Dick Thurston on a coffee plan
tation, where he had gone some months
before in the interest of an American
grocery concern. He was living with a
Javanese family, consisting of a moth
er, a daughter some twenty-five years
old and several children. The young
woman was attending to the patient's
wants. Indeed, she had the whole care
of him.
Dick was suffering from malignant
dysentery. I put him under treatment
; but got no response. A couple of days
after I began he was as bad as ever.
1 What puzzled me was that his trouble
was intermittent At one time he
would appear so well that I couldn't
believe there was anything the matter
with him. Then, when I was congratu
lating myself that he was going to
come out of it, down he would go
again. As to the drugs I gave him,
they appeared to have no effect what
ever.
I hadn't been attending him long be
fore I discovered that the Javanese
girl who nursed him was in love with
him. This set me to thinking. I had
seen an extract somewhere—l think it
was in a newspaper—from an old
Dutch report stating that when a Jav
anese woman takes a fancy to a Euro
pean she will either have him or poi
son him if she gets the cliance. Might
not this be a case in point? Without
saying anything to Dick I resolved to
watch her. She was very regular in
bringing in his meals, and on several
occasions when she did so I concealed
myself in a closet, keeping my eye to a
nail hole. But if she was poisoning his
food she didn't do it when she gave it
to him.
"Dick," I said to my patient, "your
nurse loves you."
"You don't mean it!" he exclaimed,
astonished.
"Have you been making love to her?"
"I have never thought of such a
thing."
"Have you any objection to doing so?"
Dick demurred, but as I told him I
had a theory connected with his illness
he finally consented. The next time
she was with him he called her to him,
took her hand in his and told her that
her kindness was winning his heart.
She did not object to a caress and went
away looking very happy.
The next day Dick was better,
i I told him to keep up hi:; lovemak'nj;
| for a few days, and he did so, with the
j result that his improvement was re
; inarkabie. I didn't caro enough fur fur
, ther experimenting to ask him to cense
I his devotional attitude and grow worse,
: so I resolved to eat some of his food
myself. • But to get the food that I was
• sure was poisoned I was obliged to
have him do this very thing. He turn
ed away from her, but did not eat the
next meal she brought him. I smug
gled in some food for him, ate a little
of that the girl brought him and made
away with the rest surreptitiously. The
test fulfilled the conditions. The whole
length of my alimentary canal became
irritated. This was the same symp
torn as Thurston's. I didn't care to re
peat the experiment.
There was now nothing to do tut
',€t the patient from out the clutches
of this too much loving nurse, but my
curiosity was aroused as to what poi
son f»he was using. I thought of
watching her as she prepared the food,
but to do this was impracticable. 1
would have tested the food chemically,
but had no materials for the purpose
I was puzzled.
I had, among other instruments 1
Lad brought with me, a pocket micro
scope. It was by no means so power
ful as the regular instrument, but ex
cellent for its grade. For the want of
something better I one day took up
this microscope and brought it to bear
on some of the food I had eaten. Im
mediately the cause of the trouble
was revealed to me. The substance
was filled with fine animal,
but vegetable—hollow tubes spiked like
bayonets.
And thefte things had been passing
through Djck's digestive organs. No
wonder that he was ill. A compara
tively few of them had made me feel
is if I had eaten hot lead.
I took some of the food to a Java
nese man from whom Dick had been
buying coffee, showed him the hairs
with the microscope and asked him
what they were.
"Those," he said, "are bamboo poi
son hairs, so called from the fact that
ttey are used by our people who wish
to put some one out of the way."
After a consultation Dick and I de
cided that we didn't care to have any
thing to do with Javanese justice, so
I advised him to keep on good terms
with his "sweetheart" for a few days
that he misht get no more spikes in
his stomach and get well. Xevertiie
| less, before he ate any of the food she
gave him I examined it with my glass.
Then one fine morning we walked
away, leaving the maiden glaring at
Dick from the door where he had said
good by to her.
Te Break Larfe Yettlee.
The method of breaking email bottles
without splintering the glass by burn
ing an oil soaked string tied about
them is well known, but this method
does not work well with large bottles.
Following is a method by which any
rixed glass vessel can be broken—as, for
example, a glass tub to be made out of
a carboy:
Fill the vessel with cold water up to
the point at which it is to be broken.
Pour enough boiling oU over the water
to make a good coat on the surface,
and before the oil has time to cool dash
cold water on the outside of the vessel.
A clean break at the contact point of
oil and water will be the result. —Ex-
change.
Repudiated National Debts.
Spain, at one time by far the most
powerful of European nations, was the
earliest power to contract a national
debt, which in 1556 only amounted to
the modest sum of £1,000,000. By 1610
It had grown to £40,000,000 under Philip
lIL, after whose death the whole of It
was repudiated.
France in 1643 began to incur her
debt, chiefly through the wars of Louis
XIV. and the lavish expenditure in
building Versailles. In the later years
of Louis XVL this amoumted to £468,-
000,000, only to be repudiated on the es
tablishment of the republic, when some
creditors received 33 per cent and
others nothing.
Net Ueed to the Railway.
Of course every one rides on the
trains in Japan nowadays, for there
are 7,000 miles of railways in the coun
try. and every considerable town is at
least connected with the raUway by
electric car or automobile. Not so very
long ago, however, the train was a curi
osity.
A party of ladies who were '.aking
their first ride on the train once had
trouble with their shoes. A Japanese
on entering a house always leaves his
shoes at the door, so when these ladies
got aboard they politely left their
clogs on the station platform. Great
was their consternation later to tifid
that their shoes had been left miles be
hind.
Fire Under Water.
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Fire under water may be produced
by placing some small pieces of phos
phorus in a conical shaped tumbler
and then covering them with the crys
tals of chlorate of potash. Next fill the
glass with water and then add a few
drops of sulphuric acid, the acid to be
applied directly to the phosphorus and
potash crystals by means of a long
tube. If the experiment is properly
carried out tongues of bright red flame
can be seen flashing up through the
water, the intense chemical heat pro
duced by the action of the sulphuric
acid on the potash and phosphorus be
ing sufficient to inflame the latter, al
though entirely covered with water.
Untangle It.
Speaking of conversations, real or
imaginary, does this one really mean
anything? We've said it over to our
selves ten times since we heard it, and
it gets worse all the time. But a nice
old fellow whom everybody knows, but
whom we will simply designate as A.,
said:
"Don't roast the game of golf. It
has made me twenty years younger."
And a younger fellow whom nobody
knows and whom we shall therefore
be obliged to call B. retorted thus:
"By the time you have reached the
age you are now, if you keep on play
ing golf, how old will you be?"— Clev
eland Plain Dealer.
Taking Castor Oil.
The disagreeable taste of castor oU
may be concealed by giving the dose in
hot milk with salt and a sprinkle of
black pepper. Another way of covering
the taste is by using lemon Juice. In
either method sandwich the castor oil.
Place a layer of milk or lemon juice in
the bottom of the glass, then the castor
oil upon this and then another layer of
the milk or lemon juice. Castor oU pre
pared in this way is not tasted by the
patient, and it can be given to him
without his realizing what he is taking.
Oiseatisfied.
The haughty looking woman upoa.
whose features the dermatologist had
been working for more than two hours
sneered when she glanced in the mir
ror. "I certainly thought you knew
your business," she snapped, "but yon
have not even given me fair treat
ment"
The man shrugged his shoulders. "If
you had wanted fair treatment you
should have been more explicit," he
retorted. "I thought from what you
told me that you wanted brunette."—
Chicago News.
Premature Jubilancy.
Willy—l found mother the other day
crying over your book of poems.
His Sister's Fiance (delighted)— Oh.
is that so? (Aside) Ah, what glory!
What fame awaits me! For a man to
bring tears to the eyes of such a flint
hearted woman as that is certainly a
great achievement (To Willy) She
was. really weeping, Willy?
Willy—Yes; she said it nearly broke
her heart to think that a daughter of
hers was going to marry an idiot who
could write such rot as that—London
Tit-Bits.
She Believed Him.
She What has happened to Mis?
Murdock? He That affable young
fellow told her she had a musical
laugh, and she went into hysterics over
one of his stories.—Woman's Home
Companion
Voter's Catechism.
D. Have you read the Consti
tution of the United States?
R. Yes.
D. What form of Govern
ment is this?
R. Republic.
D. What is the Constitution
of the United States?
R. It is the fundamental law
of this country.
D. Who makes the laws of
the United States?
R. The Congress.
D. What does Congress con
sist of?
R. Senate and House of Rep
resentatives.
D. Who is our State Senator ?
| R. Wilbur P. Graff.
I D. Who is the chief executive
of the United States?
R. President
D. For how long is the Presi
dent of the United States elect
ed?
R. Four years.
D. Who takes the place of
the President in case he dies?
R. The Vice President.
D. What is his name?
R. Thomas R. Marshall.
D. By whom is the President
of the United States elected?
R. By the electors.
D. By whom are the electors
chosen ?
R. By the people.
D. Who makes the laws for
the State of Pennsylvania.
R. The Legislature.
D. What does the Legislature
consist of?
R. Senate and Assembly.
D. Who is our Assembly
man?
R. Wilmer H. Wood.
I _ D. How many States in the
union ?
R. Forty-eight.
D. When was the Declaration
of Independence signed ?
R. July 4, 1776.
D. By whom was it written?
R. Thomas Jefferson.
D. Which is the capital of the
United States?
R. Washington.
D. Which is the capital of the
state of Pennsylvania.
R. Harrisburg.
D. How many Senators has
each state in the United States?
R. Two.
Birds and Orientation.
Professor K. S. Lashley has com
pleted an investigation of the sense of
direction in birds. This is called the
problem of "orientation." Dr. Lashley
used the wild birds of the Florida keys
known as noddy and sooty terns in ex
periments. In their recognition of their
nests it was found that their eyes as
well as their muscles are concerned.
The birds showed no evidence of any
special sense of locality, such as a
"magnetic sense" or a "second sight."
Birds are no more mind readers than
men are. Nor do they have any ability
to retrace their paths of flight by
memory. They recognize their nests
and their own young by muscle habits
and eyesight
' The Macgregore.
The Macgregors were forbidden to
use their family name in 1603. The
proscription was removed by Charles
11.. only to be inflicted again in the
reign of William and Mary. It was
not till 1822 that a royal license to use
the name was granted to Sir Charles
Macgregor, up to then known as "Mur
ray." In the early years of the seven
teenth century every man's band was
raised against this persecuted race,
and they could be mutilated and slain
with impunity.—London Spectator.
Eat Apples and Bananae,
Baked apples and baked or fried ba
nanas make an excellent substitute for
a vegetable and may be used with
meat instead of the potato or onion
and at a smaller cost. Both apples
and bananas contain more food units
per pound (of edible portions) than
onions, and they give a pleasant flavor
and agreeable odor to the meal
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ZS2 ISZSHS2SZSESHJSi
f D. Who are our U. S. Sena
tors?
R. Boise Penrose and George
T. Oliver.
D. By whom are they elect
ed?
R. By the people.
D. For how long?
R. Six years.
D. How many representa
tives are there ?
R. 435. According to the
population one to every 211,000,
(the ratio fixed by Congress af
ter each decennial census.)
D. For how long are they
elected?
R. Two years.
D. Who is our Congressman 7
R. Nathan L. Strong.
D. How many electoral votes
has the state of Pennsylvania?
R. Thirty-eight.
D. Who is the chief execu
tive of the state of Pennsyl
vania ?
R. The Governor.
D. For "how long is he elect
ed?
R. 4 years.
D. Who is the Governor?
R. Martin G. Brumbaugh.
D. Do you believe in organ
ized government?
R: Yes.
D. Are you opposed to or
ganized government?
R. No.
D. Are you an anarchist ?
R. Nc.
D. What is an anarchist?
R. A person who does not be
lieve in organized government.
D. Are you a bigamist or
poligamist ?
R. No.
D. What is a bigamist or po
lygamist ?
R. One who believes in hav
ing more than one wife.
D. Do you belong to any se
cret society who teaches to dis
believe in organized govern
ment?
R. No.
D. Have you ever violated
any laws of the United States T
R. No.
D. Who makes the ordinances
for the City?
R. The board of aldermen.
D. Do you intend to remain
permanently in the U. S.?
R. Yes.
Expecting Too Much.
It was a cold, raw day, but the Never
sweats and the Fearnaughts were play,
lng a game of ball on the prairie just
the same.
The pitcher for the Neversweats, his
fingers half frozen, failed dismally in
getting the balls over the plate.
"Aw," said the captain, "I t'ought ye
wuz one o' dese cold weather pitchers!"
"I am," said the slab artist, blowing
on his benumbed digits to warm them,
"but I aint u ice pitcher, blame ye!"—
Chicago Tribune.
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Ups and Down*.
"Did she really fall in love with mn
aviator?"
"No. She merely took him up for a*
lark."
"Oh!"
"Then he took her up."
"I see—in his machine."
"The man she had been going with
for two years dropped her."
"Served her right."
"Her spirits fell. She stated the cas#
to the aviator. lie went right up in
the air, and she hasn't seen him
since."—Exchange.
A Quaint Introduction.
Clarence King, the ethnologist, once
wrote from San Francisco to John.
Hay the following letter of introduc
tion: "My Dear John—My friend, Hor
ace F. Cutter, in the next geological
period will go east It would be a ca
tastrophe if he did not know you. Leat
I should not be there to expoae Mr.
Cutter's alias, I take this opportunity
to divulge to you that the police are di
vided in opinion as to whether he is
Socrates or Don Quixote. I know bet
ter; he is both." a——— w—mi i ii 1 1—w—a^————— mammamà —■»
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