WINS DIVORCE
Beautiful Lady Dapiine Clifton, for
nerly Miss Daphne Rachel Mulhol
and, who has been awarded a decree
igainst her husband, Lord Clifton.
Lord and Lady Clifton were married
n 1912. They have two children.
Lord Clifton is thirty-two years old
ind served during the war as a major
n the royal artillery.
Haunts Scene of Crimes.
In the olden days Devon and Corn
wall were notorious for their wreck
ers, who tricked many a gallant ves
sel ashore on the rock-encircled coast
by false lights. In many places the
spectres of ships wrecked in this man
ner are said to reappear. At Priest
cove in Cornwall, the ghost of a noto
rious wrecker who was wont to lure
ships ashore by moving lights in lan
terns, which he hung round the neck
of a lame horse, is said to appear on
stormy nights clinging to the fragment
of a wreck, which Is dashed violently
on the rocks, eventually disappearing
with the wrecker in a cloud of foam.
His Classification.
A man was writing somewhat Impa
:iently in a post office while the young
jvoman clerk discussed the gossip of
che day with one of her admirers. His
annoyance being evident in his coun
tenance. she remarked, with Cockney
sprlghtllness:
"Well. you needn't look at me as If
I were poison."
"Not so much poison as a counter
irritant," he replied gravely.—London
Tit-Bits.
Handicap Worth While.
When a handicap becomes the ful»
crum over which we pry out succesi
with the long Iron bar of determine
tion It ought to make us shake hands
with the hindrance and say, "Thanh
you! You have helped Hie out fine!"
BRAINYBOWERS^AKES BUD'ISCH-^^^ 7»E
.. -- W*rnalkiiiulC<^cefrCa., H. Tt
Making Gas From Wood.
Experiments on wood as part substi
tute for coal i:i gas making have been
carried out in France. The wood used
was sea pine in the form of billets cut
from the middle of the trunk. The
charge of the wood was about half the
weight of that of coal, and carboniza
tion occupied half the usual time.
When running one retort with wood to
every two with coal, no appreciable
difference in the calorific power of the
gas was noted. Of the two by-products
—small coke and tar —the former
amounted to 5 to 10 per cent.
Free Board.
A restaurant in Yuma. Ariz., dis
plays a sign that reads: "Free hoard
every day the sun doesn't shine." At
first sight the offer of free board every
day the sun doesn't shine might seem
, a reckless one, but, as a matter of
fact, a day without sunshine in that
desert country is far rarer than black
berries in May. If it rains at all, it is
only for a very short time, leaving
most of the day for sunshine, so that
ihe sign would only catch a tender
foot.
Great Alexanders.
AJpxnndcr Bell was the great Amer
can who Invented the telephone,
cvhich is still called the Bell tele
phone; jind Alexander Humboldt was
i German traveler, statesman and the
most distinguished naturalist of all
times. One of his most important dis
coveries was the decrease in intensity
) of the earth's magnetic force from the
; pole to the equator. His most impor
tant book, "Kosmos," was written In
his seventy-fifth year. He did much In
his long life to further the science of
the world.
Cannot Do Without Sleep.
Sleep is a necessity of life no less
than Is food. No man has ever suc
ceeded in keeping awake for more than
a few days continuously. If he is
forced to do so, as In ancient Chinese
tortures, where constant tickling of the
feet made sleep Impossible, he 'falls at
last into a comatose state from which
he never awakes.
To Make Attar of Roses.
After having gathered a quantity of
roses, place them in a Jar, then pour
upon them some spring water. Cover
the top with thin muslin to keep out
the dust, and expose the jar to the heat
of the sun for a few days, until oily
particles are observed to be floating
on the surface of the water. Take off
this oil substance and place It In a bot
tle. This is the perfume known as
"attar of roses."
Teat of Woolens.
One test is to cut off a bit of the
selvedge and touch a match to It. If
It shrivels up, but does not burn, it Is
wool, but If the fabric burns with a
flame it Is cotton. Another way is to
put a bit of the cloth in a test tube
or other glass receptacle with a solu
tion of caustic soda. The soda will
eat up the wool, leaving that which
Is not wool.
• Preferred "Motorhouse."
In England during the early days of
motor vehicles, there was a decided
preference for the name "motorhouse"
rather than "garage."
EX-PREMIER rr INLAND
Oscar Tokol, ex-premier of Finland,
who is now serving as a Finnish officer
in the legion formed in north Russia to
combat the bolsheviki. The Finns are
now reported as offering stern re
sistance to the spreading bolshevistic
factions.
A Skeptical Investor.
A woman with a few thousand dol
lars to invest as'ked a brokerage house
to suggest a good investment with a
minimum of risk. A partner in this
house, on reading her request, pro
ceeded to write his regular formula
applicable to those who don't want
any security which goes down. His
recommendation was the 5% per cent
bonds of the United Kingdom and Ire
land.
A few days later he received a com
munication from the same woman and
she requested that he send another
investment suggestion.
"While I have faith in Great Brit
ain," she wrote. "I am not so sure
about Ireland." —Wall Street Journal.
Orientals Believe In 13.
Thirteen has no terrors for Oriental!.
This was shown In Seattle, WaslL,
when the little Japanese sailing ves
sel Kashima Mara arrived in port from
the Orient with a crew of exactly 13
men aboard. Officers of the vessel ex
plained that 13 is considered in the
Orient Just like an even dozen or a
score when It comes to manning ves
sels or inviting wedding guests.
ANOTHER OF WAR'S RESULTS
Direct Connection Traced Between
Great Conflict and the Annoying
Scarcity of Laundresses.
This is from Alexandria, our neigh
boring city down the Potomac.
Housekeepers there are having quite
a time getting "help," especially some
: one to do the family wash. The ue
j cessity for clean clothes is one which
devolves upon civilized beings. Wars
may come and wars may go, but the
washtub and washboard go on forever.
But it has been hard to get a laun
dress in Alexandria. War-time condi
tions have enabled many who earned
their living at the tub to turn to leae
arduous pursuits, with the result that
there is a scarcity of "wash ladies."
The condition is one paralleled in
many other cities.
"Aunt Lucy," said one Alexandrian
woman, addressing a colored woman
whom she had known for many years,
"don't you know some one who can
do my washing?"
"No, ma'am I don't know no one,"
she said.
The woman made a last attempt.
"Won't you ,do it for me, Aunt
Lucy?" she asked, with a winning
smile.
" 'Deed, chile," said Aunt Lucy, "I
don't have to do no washing no more.**
"Why?" asked the woman.
"Well, honey, hit is Jes like this,"
explained Aunt Lucy with a nice dis
tinction: "De Civil war made us free.
And dis here worl' war has made us
Independent."—Washington Star.
EAGER TO SEE ELEPHANT
First One That Was Brought to th#
United States Aroused the Ut
most Curioelty.
Nowadays, when summer In the
United States would hardly seem ltsel£
without the coming of a circus, It Is
difficult to realise the ex&teneat
aroused by the first exhibition of an
elephant. A now-forgotten showman,
Hackaliah Bailey, is said to have im
ported the first elephant nearly a hun
dred years ago, and the animal was
a whole show In himself. The circus
tent had not yet come into being, and
the elephant was shown in barns in
the Eastern states that then held the
bulk of the population. Te prevent the
public from seeing the show without
charge, the elephant traveled from
place to place in the night; but even
so, the public refused to be wholly cir
cumvented, and small companies gath
ered with bonfires ready to light when
the strange creature came lumbering
past on his way to the next town.
Sometimes, however, the management
defeated this intention hy sending
along the road a horse built up to look
like an elephant in the dark, and when
the bonfire had been lighted and had
burned out, the real elephant followed.
—Christian Monitor.
The Way to the Pole.
Service with the American air
forces in France adds weight to the
opinion of Donald B. MacMillan, Arc
tic explorer and leader of the Crocker
land expedition, that the airplane Is
not adapted for a dash to the pole,
ind that the cost of such a trip by
fjirtfllfrl* wonlri V nmhfftlflvA _ Tn^|«
own future explorations Mr? MacMfT
lan says, he expects to depend on the
"ever-faithful dogs," for conveyance.
The airplane is, in his judgment, im
practicable for several reasons, one of
which is. he says, sufficient to dis
count the idea of successful Arctic
exploration by hardy airmen. The
frozen north offers no smooth field*
of Ice on which the explorer could
make a landing. A dirigible might
start from a properly eouipped hangar
in Labrador and hope to '•eturn. but
the total cost of the expedition would
i probably be about $1,000,000.
In Apple Blossom Time.
A wedding I attended was held in an
orchard in apple blossom time. One of
the women wore a red shirtwaist. In
the midst of the service a bull In a
pasture in the next field rushed in at
the red shirtwalsted woman, who
climbed a tree before the bull arrived.
The rest of the party and myself did
likewise. The bride's veil fell off,
which embarrassed her exceedingly.
The shirtwaist was thrown over the
fence and the bull subdued, and the
wedding continued in peace. The
woman hastened home after a new
shirtwaist, wearing her husband's
frock coat. —Exchange.
Replanting Forests.
In England and in Scotland, before
the war, were many hunting ranges
and sporting grounds. During the war,
however, these were cut down to sup
ply munition factories at home and
armies abroad. Never before, It is
said, have these countries been so bare
of timber as they are at present. Btit
now they are preparing to replant
their forests. The old ones were first
of all ornamental but incidentally they
proved useful. These which they are
planting now are to be first of all use
ful and also, of course, ornamental.
Remorse.
"So you were in a German prison
camp?"
"Yes."
"How was the food there?"
"Don't ask me to answer a ques
tion like that, but I'll say this much:
If I ever run across the old lady I
used to board with" —overcome by
the recollection of the mean remarks
he used to make about those Sunday
night suppers of cold ham and grits,
the returned doughboy applied a hand
kerchief to his eyes and hastily walk
ed away- —Birmingham Age-Herald.
NEVADA AS "GOLDEN STATE*
From Reports, It Is Not at All Inv
probable She May Become
Thus Known.
When they began to dig out silver
by tbe ton from the Comstock group
•f mines, Nevada lost Its original
name of "the Sagebrush State," and
became known to the whole world as
the "Silver State."
But recent developments in the Di
vide district seem to indicate auother
change of name, for they do say that
the gold is so thick just a little under
the surface that the owners of the
mines refuse to dig lest they be ruined
by the excess profits tax. They just
take out a shovelful from time to
time to pay living expenses, and sit
UghL,ov£lUthf..Mfi .Wtory.. tfrey^tgok
1?" out till they neeif a little* more.
Possibly, also, these mine owners are
Influenced by patriotism, as uot wish
ing to disturb values by flooding the
world with gold and thus adding to
the economic confusion. California
has hitherto takeu pride in calling it
sell the Golden state, but even in Ne
vada they are gettiug ready to de
mand the belt and title aud say they
are going to get it.
And with all due allowance for new
born enthusiasm and for the pic
turesque way in which prosperous
miners are wout to express them
selves, if a tenth of what is claimed
Is true—aud it may be —we may ex
pect the people of Nevada to change
from the most loyal of silverites tc
the most determined and irreconcil
able gold bugs. Circumstances do al
ter cases. That they have fouud a lot
of gold is certain.—Sioux Falls Press.
WHEN AVIATION WAS NEW
Benjamin Franklin Evidently Had
Expectations of Its Value, Though
Venturing No Predictions.
Somebody has been quite naturally
reminded, by events In the air, of
what Benjamin Franklin said to Con
dorcet about aeronautics 130 years
ago, in Paris. The French capital
was just then much interested in the
balloon ascensions of the Montgolfler
brothers, perhaps even more excited,
on the smaller scaie of the times,
than modern cities over the actual
crossing of the Atlantic, aud wher
ever men came together the future
possibilities of ballooning made an
Immediate topic of conversation. Con
dorcet, meeting Franklin, asked him
If he thought an aeronaut would ever
be able to steer \iis balloon. "The
thing is in its infancy," said Frank
lin. "It Is necessary to wait." "But
what Is the good of It?" demanded a
doubting Thomas. "What useful pur
pose will it serve?" "Gentlemen," re
plied Franklin, "It Is a child Just
born; let us wait to Judge It until lis
education is completed." And n
now the education is far from Hu
tched.
Was Big Railroad Project.
The summer brings the semicente
nary of the opening of the Mt. Wash
ington railway, which, 50 years ago,
distinguished the White mouutain re
gion of New England by making it the
location for the first important moun
tain railroad in the country. Remark
able railroading to high altitudes has
since been accomplished, but the climb
of some 6,200 feet to the summit of the
highest of the White mountains was
then regarded almost as an achieve
ment of the impossible. And it did,
for that matter, Immediately make ML
Washington possible to many a tour
-Ist who would have spent his life at
the bottom rather than try then to
climb to the top on foot.
Liberty's Demands.
We honor liberty In name and form.
We set up her statues, and sound her
praises. But we have not yet fairly
trusted her. And with our growth, so
grow her demands. She will have ne
half-service. —Macaulay.