LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY Cuttaanl Fro* Pint P«s» have reached Punts Arenas on the strait of Magellan without injury. Eeverses for Turkey at the hands of Bussis on land and of England on the sea were chronicled in to-day's official war dispatches. Russian army head quarters in the Caucasus reports that the Turks whose strong resistance to the invaders from the north compelled them to retreat, have now been repulsed everywhere and are being pursued ba yond the Euphrates river, suffering heavy losses. The British admiralty an nounces that the old Turkish battle ship Messudieh, which carried 600 men. has been destroyed by a British sub marine. To accomplish the feat the sub marine penetrated tbe supposedly im pregnate Dardanelles. The recent successes of the Servians partly confirmed from Berlin are said at Kish to have been extended. It is as serted that the Austrians have been unable to check their retreat before the advancing Servians, who are sweeping them out of their country. A statement attributed to Field Mar shal Von Der Goltz. who was sent by the German government to Constanti nople to direct the Turkish forces, in dicates that in the opinion of this man. one of the leading German military au thorities, the war may drag on for a long time. He is quoted as saying that Germany is prepared to carry on the war for years but is certain to triumph eventually. VIOLENT ASSAULTS BY GERMANS ABE REPULSED Paris, Dee. 14. 2.44 P. M. —The French official statement jjiven out m Paris this afternoon reports compara tive quiet in Flanders, and artillery ex changes of relatively miuor importance elsewhere. In the Meuse German bat teries are said to be moving to the north. In the Woevre district the French captured a trench and repulsed two counter attacks. The advance of the French line into Alsace has brought it to a point north of Altkirch and about ten miles to the east of the front ier. The text of the communication follows: •' There has been nothing of im portance to report between the sea and the Oise. In the region of the Aisne, to the northwest of Soupier, the enemy bombarded violently our entrench ments. We replied and demolished his positions. There were no infantry at tacks from one side or the other. Oar artillery destroyed au important field work of the enemy ;n the vicinity of Aiiles. "In the Argonne, at the forest of La Grurie, we have made slight prog ress by the use of mines. Shere were no attacks from the enemy. On the heights of the Meuse there has beeu violent cannonading. Batteries of the enemy was appeared to have moved to positions further north. In the Woevre district, after having occupied a line of retrenchments along a front of 500 yards, in the forest of Mortmare. our troops repulsed two violent counter at tacks. In Alsace our advance has brought our front to a line that passes 425 yards to the north of Steinbach, thence to Pont D'Aspach. and thence to Pont De Br nighoet'en 1,300 yards to the west of Eglingen. • Servia: During the days of Decem ber 10, 11 and 12 the enemy continued to retire along the entire front. The Servian advance guards have progressed as :a- as Veliki and Bosnisk in the di rection of Shabats, and as far as Zav 'aka in the direction of Loznica. Dar ing the retreat the Austrians aban doned many trophies of war. From the time the Servians resumed the offen sive up to the eleventh of December, inclusive, the number of prisoners made by the Servians reaches 28,000. The Servians captured 7 4 cannons and machine guns. ' Montenegro: After two days of lighting Montenegrin forces have cap tare i Yishnegrad, and driven the Au strians back to the other side of the river Drina." GERMAN CRUISER DRESDEN INCHiIE PORT, UNINJURED Valparaiso. Chile. Dee. .14. — Dis patches received here from Punta Dresden has come into that port UTUU- Areua® declare that tae German cruiser jured. This location of the German cruiser Dresden at Punta Arenas, on tfce Strait of Magellan, clears up all doubt as to the whereabouts of the last of the Ger man warshi;~ that encountered the Brit ish squadron December S off the Falk land islands. The Gneisenau. the S-ehar: norst, the Leipzig and the Xurn berg were sunk; the Dresden and has been pursued by British cruis ers. Her presence at "Punta Arenas means that she was either endeavoring to reae- the Pacific again, or that she • contemplates interning for the remain der of the war. Punta Arenas is a Chilean port. The Strait of Magellan is narrow. 3rit;sh warships douotiess are at its Atlantic entrance, and Jap anese cruisers are said to be either watching or not far from the approach on the Pacific side. '•PEACE INSURANCE LUNCHEON" Will Discuss Means to Prevent U. S. From Engaging in War By Altocia(e4 Pros. Xew York. Dec. 14.—.More than SOO leading business men of this city have reserved places for a '' peace insurance luncheon " to be held to-morrow night under the auspices of the Merchants' Association. The speakers, including Henry L. Stimson. former Secretary of War: Ma s" j?r General Leonarl Wood and Mayor John P. Mitchell, will discuss means of preventing the United States from en gaging in wa.. "To Get Into a Scrape'' The expression "to get into a scrape." referred at one time to any one who fell into a deer run in the for est. When deer run wild in the forest they frequently cut deep guiiies among the trees, due to their constantly ruu mng backward and forward over the tame ground The cuts so made in the forest were known as "deer scrapes" and it sometimes happened that a woodsman fell into them, to his great danger. COLD WAVE SCHEDULED TO COME RJE TO-NICBT CMttaarU Kro« First Pas*. ture dropped to slightly below freer iug aud in places where pavements had been cleared ice formed. This condi tion existed this morning and there were many falls. There was but one serious accident reported. Mrs. Abbie Beck, 332 Strawberry street, employed at the Court House, fell at Eighteenth and streets. Her right wrist was broken. She was treated in the Har rishurg Hospital. There were some delays last evening on the suburban trolley lines out of Harrisjfurg, but these were slight as sweepers kept the lines open while the snow still was falling. After the pre cipitation changed to rain h frose ou the wires but no damage resulted for the wind never reaching a damaging velocity. It s maximum at the time the rain was heaviest was but «ght miles an hour. There will be an increase in the froz en surface of the Susquehanna and its tributaries and slight rises in the stream will occur as a result but thev wiil be local and uo general rise in is looked for. The West Branch is over frozen at Clearfield. Because of the dam at the southern limits of the city the frozen surface of the river will in crease fast at this point. There was a lot of slush ice floating here this moru ing. I pwards of 200 men, half again as many as are employed regularly, and about 30 carts were put to work by Highway Commissioner Lynch this morning cleaniag snow from the streets in the business sections and clearing the street crossings in the outlying sections. By evening Commissioner Lynch said he expects to have the greater part of the task finished, although the extra force again will be put to work on the streets in the business section to mor row. 21 Degrees Below in Nebraska B? Associated Press. Omaha. Xeb.. Dw. 14. —The coldest weather of the winter prevailed in this : art of the country today. Norfolk. Xeb., reported 21 degrees below zero. Diiluth. Minn.. Dee. 14.-—Dultrth shivered today in a northwind that brought the mercury to 17 below zero, the lowest of the season. Snow Foot Deep in New York Rochester. X. Y.. Dec. 14.—The ' storm that swept western Xew York this morning deposited more thau a foot of snow. Country roads are blocked and traffic on steam and suburban trol ley roads is delayed. The storm was accompanied by a sharp drop in tern i perature. WIFE OF SUICIDE CLOSE TO DEATH Continued From Fimt Page. with a revolver and started shooting. Three bullets hit his wife and then sue reeled back of Mrs. Fortney, who re ceived the fourth bullet ia the deshy part of her right arm. Throne then went into the living room of the house and seat the one re maining bullet in the revolver through • his own heart. He dropped where he had stood, death resulting almost in stantaneously. Both women were taken to the Har rsbarg ital. Mrs. Fortney was discharged this afternoon in care of her family physician. Her wound is not dangerous. Coroner Eckinger had Throne's body removed to the morgue of R. K. Spicer, undertaker, last evening. The man's father, Joseph Throne. 330 South Thir teenth street, took charge of it later and wi:l make funeral arrangements this evening. Burial will be made in i.'eßterviiie. Cumberland county. Throne is survived by his parents and a brother, who resides in the AY est. Throne had a police record. After be ing arrested in 190$ by Chief of Police Hutchison, he t was sentenced to six months in the Dauphin county prison on a charge of larceny. On June 13. 1912. he was sentenced to two years in the Ohio State penitentiary on a similar , charge. Within the last week, aceord | tug to the police, he was at police head | quarters eager to, file a complaint ' against his wife who had left him, he said. The Thrones were married in 1909 and lived together until a month ago when Mrs. Throne left him because of his cruel treatment, according to her story told yesterday after the shoot ing. RETIRED FARMER EXPIRES Reuben Clemens Died at His Home in Progress Last Night Reuben Clemens, a weil-known re tired farmer living in Progress, died last night at 9 o'clock. Beside his wife he leaves one son, John, and four daugh ters, Adella, a; home; UJrs. Irvin E. | Ha.n, 00 to $2,000, the to be payable only on deposits of up to $1,000; increased {"ay for rural car i riers; authority for the experiment of ' puttiug rural carriers of one county in each State on a contract basis; increase . of SIOO annually in the pay of post office and railway mail clerks and let ter carriers until the maximum allowed by law is reported;"authority for re arrangement of the salaries of superin tendents, their assistants, cashiers, and j others with appropriation with sl,- ! 000.000 expenditures. The measure also includes as a rider the railway pay bill, passed by the House and now pending in the Senate, to change the basis of pay from a ton nage to the car space basis used by the mails carried. One million dollars ad ; ditional compensation would be given the railroads because of the additioual : burdens imposed by the parcels post. 'ECONOMY' TBEWATCHWORD House Committee Lops Off $2,000,000 in Legislative, Executive aud Judicial Appropriation Bill B.v Associated Press. Washington, Dec. 14. —"Economy" was the watchword of the appropria- I tions committee in the preparation of , the legislative, executive and judicial : appropriation biVi. first of the big sup j>ly measures, which was report**.! to the House to-day. The committee lop > ped off nearly $2,000,000 from the estimates submitted by the various !e --partinemts cutting salary allowances a!l along the line, and brought in a measure appropriating S3X.. 14., i, : 50. The bill provides for more than 16,000 salaries of government em : ployes. The of the bill shows an iu i cr«.ise of $1,X25,543 over last year's I measure. this year's measure ln | eludes a special appropriation of $2.- | 286,100 and a-athorizes one thousand additional employes for taking the agricultural census authorized bv the taw covering the last regular census in 1 y 10. The committee in its report says thut this is an extraordinary ex- I penditure which will come once every ten years, and maintains therefore that : this year's measure is materially less than the last appropriation. The bill contains the us«al provi sion cutting down the mileage allow ance of members of Congress from twenty cents a mile to five cents a I mile. The fight to cut down the mileage allowance has been on for years, and although the committee each reports the reduction in t«ie bill it is defeated either on the floor of the House or in J the Senate. Florin Pioneer Resident Dies Florin. Dec. 14. —Daniel S. Heisey, 78 years of age. died last nitfht from a lingering illness of a complication of diseases. He was one of t-he pioneer residents o'" this place and an extensive land owner. For years he was engaged in the manufacture of brooms from corn grown on his farms. He was a member and official in the Brethren of t hrist church and leaves a widow and several children. GOSSIP SAYS BEEBER MAY BE THE fITTERNEY ESNERAL Capitol Hill Politicians Believe Place Will Go to Francis Shunk Brown's Partner. Unless Either Brown or Cunningham Is Selected Politicians on Capitol Hill who are discussing the probable makeup of the Cabinet to be appointed by Governor Brumhaugh now say that, despite the i stories the Governor-elect has not con sidered to any great extent the make- I»p of his official family, the choice for Attorney General has narrowed down to three attorneys, Francis Shunk Brown and Dimner Beeber, law i atrners. of i'&Hadelphia, and Jesse E. B. Cunningham, of Westmoreland, the piesent Deputy Attorney General. It was thought that no I'hiladelphian except -Ylr. Brown would be considered, but there is a rumor that he would pre fer to have his partner. Mr. Beeber, ap pointed. It is said that Mr. Brown and his political friends in Philadelphia were very much disappointed when he was not made Attorney General by Gov ernor Tener, and why he shoal 1 prefer to have his law partner appointed bv Governor Brumbaugdi is not quite clear to the men on Ca; itol Hill. Thus far the name most mentioned in gossip for Secretary of the Common wealth is that of the [>resent incumbent* Robert McAfee, of Allegheny, who has served since inly. 1905, when he was appointed by Governor Pennypacker' a* l l was reappointed by Governors Stuart and Tener. The Alleghenv county Senators and members of the 'House held a meeing in Pittsburgh last week and unanimousi;- endorsed Secre tary McAfee for reappointment. If there are other aspirants they have not yet come to the front. The statement by Governor-elect Brumbaugh that he is not coming to Harrisburg to sweep out at office the men who are already holding positions and are faithfully performing their du ties has been* very reassuring to a large number of Capitol Hill attaches who were fearful that there would be a disposition to turn things upside down and put new men in everywhere. Gov ernor el«ct Brumbaugh is espected in Harrisburg on December 29 to address an educational meeting anil it is said that while he he may indicate whom he is going to ctoose as his immediate family. GOETIALS ASKS FOR TWO TORPEDO BOATS TO GUARD CANAL ZONE NEOTRALITY Washington, Dee. 14. —uual witters to provent 1 violation of neutrality through the misuse of wireless and the taking on of supipliet* by belligerent vessels. Be cause o if the confidential uafcure of Col onN Coethal's dispatch, Secretary Gar rtsou declined to make it publk. He is sued this statement: '' The substance of the dispatch is that in Colonel Uoetihal's judgment the misuse of radio communications with in the cam! waters and the prevention of the misuse of these waters as » base of supplies, require the presence of swift moving; ships of the variety imen tion I. Since the questions involved re quire the consideration V the State Department and the Navy Deipartaient as well as my own, I have taken the mwtter up wit>h the other departments and as soon as the requirements are fully ascertained, proper action will be taken to meet them.'' TABS OX HOLIDAY W ORKERS Labor Department Inspectors Will See That the Law Is Not Violated John Price Jacksjn. Commissioner of Labor and Industry, will this week is sue directions to che various deputy in spectors throughout the State to be careful to note that the laws relating to the hours of work for* women and chil dren i\re strictly observed. This is done in view of the fact that the holiday business may tempt some employers to work their employes longer than the law allows. The woman s labor law provides that no female shall be employed more that six days a week, more than fifty-four hours in any one week or more than ten hours in any one day. However, during weeks in" which a legal holiday I occurs a woman ma- be employed dur ing three days of such week for a long er period, bur not over two extra hours in any one of the three days or more than the maximum hours per week fixed by the law. Commissioner Jackson will instruct the deputies to keep a strict watch on all places where female labor is em ployed, more especially in the large stores that handle holiday goods, and any infraction of th law will at once be reported and prosecution entered. DANCING INSTRUCTOR HAS SMALLPOX: 30 VACCINATED Ceatinurd Front First Pace, my and the hotel rooms which the mem '• l>ers of tiie orchestra occupied last niglit were fumigated this morning, llinkson never before had been vacci nated. Those persons who have been and will be vaccinated will be placed on parole, ? rule under which they will, for one week, be required to report daily to the health authorities. They will be kept under surveillance for two weeks, al though during the second week they must report to the Health Department only everv other dar.\ This system will not interfere with their following their vocations regularly. This case of smallpox is the first •called to the attention of the health authorities since last winter. It is be lieved to be a miid case of the disease, Health Officer Raunick said this morn ing the disease was imported, probably from the western part of the State, where smallpox now is prevalent. So far as can be learned, this is the onlv ca-'e reported east of Altoona. Along the western State border and in lumber camps around the city of Krie manv eases have been reported within the last several weeks, according to in formation received by the local Health Bureau. The patient, Rinkson. had been ill for a week, but was able to give atten tion to his dancing elasses until Friday. "COLO STORAGE" DEFINED Court Holds Eggs Can Be Placed in "Cooling Boom" The Dauphin county court in an opin ion filed this afternoon directs the tak ing of a "not guilty'' verdict in the case of H. W. Reve. an employe of the Brelsford Packing Company, who was charge! with violating the pure food laws. Reve was held 0:1 a charge of selling eggs" which had been removed from one cold storage warehouse and re stored in another." What it was contended Reve actually did was to sell a quantity of eggs that had been removed from cold storage., and placed in a "cooling room." The court was asked to decide the technical question of whether a cooling room is a place of cold storage. Eggs removed from cold storage, the law provides, must be sold within thirty days after they are taken out of sm*h warehouse. The court holds that the cooling room is not a col.l storage and a verdict will be taken in favor of Reve. It was an amicable suit to test the law. FEW GOLD COINS AS GIFTS Banks Are Discouraging Idea of Per sons Hoarding the Pieces The banks of this city this year are trying to discourage the idea of giving gold coins for Christinas presents, as, they say, this practice leads to the hoarding of money which should be de posited and kept in circulation. In cases where demand is made for the coveted coins the bknks supply them with no extra charge. The local banks are getting in very few gold coins in denominations higher titan Jo this year. The few that are demanded are in the |2.50 and $1 de nominations. "Are you economizing!" "I *ould say 90,/' said the mnn who is always cheerful. "My wife boughrt enough marked down articles to save SSO on the original prices." —Washington Star. FIGURE CITY CAN RAISE $568,3891 ON NINE MILLS Commissioners Start Paring Down Esti mates 8a That Total Will Approxi mate ss4s,ooo—Count on 935,000 Balance in General Fund Actual paring of the 1915 city ap propriation bill which, revised figures show, now contains requests totaling something more than $568,000. was be gun by the City Commissioners who went into executive session beginning at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The aim is to prune the several departmental budgets so that the total appropriations will not exceed $545,000, an amount which it is believed can be raised with a tax rate of nine mills, or half a mill less than for the present year. The half mill tax rate reduction plan is based on the fact that at the close of the present nine-month fiscal "year, there will be a balance of something like $35,000 in the city's general fund and in addition. The sur plus in the several departmental funds will approximate something like SB,- 000 or $9,000. Besides that the value of assessed property in the city has during the vear been boosted something like $300,000. New buildings and property improve ments made during the year will total approximately SBOO,OOO although part of this will be offset by at least $500,- 000 which will be lost'through the raz ing of buildings in South flarristourg to permit the railroad companies to make improvements and also by the State taking over many of the Eighth word properties in the Capitol Park ex tension rone. The estimated receipts from general taxatiou, aside from losses through er rors, commissions and exonerations, will run close to $430,389 during the com ing year. To that must be added the following estimates: $26,000 from" liq uor licenses; $24,500 tax on trolley companies; $25,500 back taxes; $6,- 000 from fines ami forfeitures; $15,- [OOO from mercantile tax, and $6,000 from other sources, making a total of $533,389. With an estimated balance of $35,- 000 remaining in the city general fund at the close of .the present nine-month | year, added there should be available for use during 1915 something like $568,389. In 1913, when the city's realty valuation was much less than at 1 present, there was available something : like $570,000. Some of the Commissioners this morning had outlined plans for cut ting appropriations. In one instance the reductions total as much as $20,- 000. However these must be sanctioned by the Commission as a whole. , In discussions of the budget to-day it was hinted that the measure will not be ready fof printing to-morrow. It may, however, be passed on first read ing at to-morrow's meeting, amended at a session likely to be held on Wed nesday and passed finally two days la ter or at the regular meeting next Tuesday. BRUMBAUGH TO SPEAK HERE Governor-elect Will Address Teachers of State at Convention at Tech During Holidays The program of the sixty-fifth meet ing of the Pennsylvania State Educa tional Association, to be held in the Technical High school building, Decem ber 29, 30 and 31. announces many subjects of timely interest to be dis cussed by authorities in educational work. Judge Samwl) J. Me-Carrell is sched uled to give the address of welcome, the response to come from James J. PahiK'r. superintendent of Oil City schools. The opening session is to t>e held Tuosdaf afternoon at 2 o'clock, on convention week. A feature will be aa adJress by Governor-elect Brum baugh. Educators from other status will be aanong the speakers. The topics indi cate that discussions will be largely on rural school problems. The department programs will in clude, county superintendence, city and boromjh superintendence, college" ami normal schools, high schools, history, modern language, mathematics and sci ence. commercial. English, graded schools, township schools, manual arts, imisi-c, nature study and child study. CAPITOL HILL Sproul' for President At the election for officers of the Union League of Philadelphia to-night the two candidates for president of the organization will h«t these accidents have been due to carelessness on the part of Americans or "imprudent curiosity." lie points out that the position of .Hill's troops who are stationed with their backs to the American frontier is such that it would be impossible for their tire to enter American territory and that consequently any shots from the American side would be a direct aid to the Villa forces. CHOSEN LfIFAYBTTFs HEAD Dr. John Henry MacCracken, of New York University, Elected President by Trustees To-day By Associated Press. East on, Pa., Dec. 14.—Dr. John 'Henry MacCracken, professor of po litical philosophy of New York Univer sity, was unanimously elected president of Lafayette College at a special tneet ing of the trustees held here to-day. Dr. MacCracken will fill the vavancy caused by the resignation of Dr. E. I). Warfield, a few months ago. The new president is a son of ex- Chancellor H. M. MacCracken, of New York University, and he is considered an excellent choice for the position. The announcement of his election caused great enthusiasm in Ijafayette circles. PARCEL POST ROOM OPEN Quarters at 200 North Second Street Will Believe the Main Office Additional facilities have been pro vided by Poat master {sites for the ac commodation of persons desiring to mail parcel post packages. The room at 2-0€ •North Hecoihi street, was open ed this morning with all facilities for accepting parcels and promptly dis patching them. The station will be open from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. The additional room was necessary to take care of the langiely increasing business of the 'local (Kxrtoffice and patrons can now be better accommo dated. The postmaster advises all per sons mailing parcels to take tbem to the new station in oriler to relieve the congestion at the temporary postoffice in the Boyd building. Bichloride Victim Cured Miss Bessie H a gey, 321 Poplar street, Steelton, who took ten grains of bichloride of mercury last Tuesday morning in mistake for headache taB% Pen ua K K 54a s Phila Electric 23% Philn Comipauv 3,") Pl\ila Rapid Transit 1;!% Reading .. . , 76% Storage Battery 45% I'nion Traction 4^j 4 I'nited Gas Imp S-% U. S. Steel 54% Chicago Grain Market Chicago, Dec. 14. ' Open. t'Jost'. Wheat— December 119 US May 123 121', Corn— December 63% 6" May 69% 6#% Oats— December 4$ 47% May 52*4 51% Philadelphia 2 p. m. Quotations Philadelphia, strong. (.'amlbria Steel 43% General Asphalt 33 do pfd 68 Ijdhigh Navigation 74> Lehigh Valley 69% I Penna R R 56% Phila Electric 24 Phila Company 35 Phila Rapid Transit 13% Reading 7$ J/4 Storage Battery 4 9 Union Traction 41 I'nited Gas Improvement .... 82% l'. S. Steel 69% Warwick Iron and Steel 9%t>id Chicago Board of Trade Chicago, Dee. 14.—Closf<> Wheat—December, US. May, lilV. Corn—December, «3. May. 69 %. Oats—December. 47 s *; May. 51'« Pork—January, 18.10: Mav, 18.S0. Uard—January. 9.80: May. 10.07. Kibs—January, 9.8"; May, 10.20. OPEN MARKET FOR ALL STOCKS Will Be Created on Floor of New York Stock Exchange To-morrow By Associated Press, New York, Dec. 14.—r-An open mar ket for all stocks on the floor of th« New oik Stock Exchange will be cre ated to-morrow. This action was decid ed on this afternoon. It was voted to eliminate, beginning to-morrow, the so called clearing house list and to place the stocks there on the same basis of trading as the 182 issues already ap proved. The solitary restriction placed upon all stocks is to be that their prices shall not go below the minimum al ready established. The chief issues thus placed in the open market are IT. S. Steel, Southern Pacific, Great Northern Canadian Pa cific, New York Central and Anp.conda Mining issues, all known as internation al securities. HEARING IX (iROVE SL IT Action in Case Against Building In spector Resumed To-day Further hearing in the injunction to restrain Building Inspector James H. Grove from razing the John Wagner building at 603 York avenue was held bv Judge .\JfCarrell to-day. One of the walls has bulged several indies and it was alleged by the con tractors, James J. Lynch and W. F. Martin, that the building inspector anil the owner of the building conspired to cheat the contractors out of their moeny—somethiug like $2,600. Two witnesses had been heard up until noon and it is expected that the hearing will take up a week or more. TWO VIEWS OF A DANDY ' In Which Oarlyle and Dr. Holmes Took Opposite Sides When your gaze runs afoul of a male adorned with a wrist watch and pink socks and a purple necktie, think kind ly or unkindly of him—it all depends upon whether you swear by Thomas Carlvle or Oliver Wendell Holmes, both of whom have furnished intimate de scriptions of the "dandy." Says the former in "Sartor Resartus:" "A dandy is a clothes wearing man •—a man whose trade, ofluve and exist ence is the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, purse and person is heroically consecrated to this one object, the wearing of clothes wise ly and well, so that, as others dross to live, he lives to dress." And now look on tlie other side of the picture furnished by Holmes: "There was Alcibiades, the 'curled son of Clinias,' an accomplished young man, but what would be called a 'swell' in these days. There was Aristotle, a distinguished writer of whom you have heard —a regular dandy he was. So was Marcus Antoninus, so was Sir Humphrey Davy, so was Ijord Palmers ton, if I am not forgetful. Dandies such as I was speaking of have rocked this planet like a cradle —aye, and left it swinging to this day."—Philadelphia Ledger. KITCHEN SINKS They Are Low Yet Because They Had to Be Low Originally In a-recent issue of the Survey the question why kitchen sinks have been made so low was discussed. No one seemed able to explain. Finally a i certain maker discovered that the orig- J inal sinks were made when the wjlmli- / ing of dishes ami other sink work was I doae in wooden tubs with high sides./ Such a tub when used in a high sink/ came up too far, so the sink was mad® low. l\irt her more, as running watefc* and fixed faucets had not long lie on made, the tub had to be lifted out of, the sink and the lowwr the sink the lighter the lift. Through improvements in faucets, dish pans and other accessories of kitchon ginks have been made no one has seemed to realize that the sink could he improved by Haising. So women were—and are—compelled to endure discomfort when doin^ 1 their ordinary household work. "There may be a certain percenHage of inconvenience to be reached before the human mind grasps the fact that something mu«t be altered','' remarks the Journal of the American Medical association. "The wise inventor attains a repu tation for brilliancy by nuaking his in vention before tho need becomes ob vious to others.'' 9