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LIGHTING A CATHEDRAL.
Simple Yet Spectacular Method at St.
Isaac’s, In Petrograd.
In au article in the Atiantic Monthly
describing a midnight mass on Easter
eve in St. Isaac’s cathedral. Petrograd.
Warrington Dawson says:
“A sudden blaze of innumerable can
dles, hanging high overhead in great
chandeliers, tore away the gloom and
told us that the ceremony was to be
gin. At the Isaakiewski Sobor one
match did what a switch or button does
elsewhere, save that here the opera-
ton was as ingenious and initiative
as could be devised, instead of being
. a machine made contrivance scattered
by millions over the world.
“A waxed string, an end of which
hung down within easy reach from the
marble paving, ran from one wick to
another, then from group to group
from chandelier to chandelier, until
all the candles in the cathedral were
connected. The match was applied to
that string. A spark spitting tiny flame
raced up to the first candle and so
sped on its way, an earnest, busy little
lamplighter, quick as the snap of a
finger, adroit as a monkey and almost
anfailing in its success.
“Amorg the hundreds I saw it reach
I counted very few which did not blaze !
at the touch, and most of these flared
an instant and sputtered out, showing
that the string’s work at least had
been done. The general effect, indeed.
was as if each wick had been an elec-
tric bulb, but the whole, instead of
lighting when one switch was turned.
depended upon a hand swept over suc-
cessive buttons.”
The Kitchen Floor.
A practical way of dealing with the
kitchen floor and at the same time
economizing labor, is to cover it with a
plain, dark colored linoleum, such as.
red, blue, green or black, and to polish
it. A shiny surface is easy to sweep
up and keep clean, and if polished once
a week on the other days it need only
be run over with a mop. If treated in
this way it will always Iook nice and
will save at least twenty minutes’ work
4 day.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Fogs of Peru.
Peru has hundreds of square miles
along its coast of rainless country. In
this tract rain is never known to fall
Yet the region is not entirely barren of
vegetation. Some parts of it, indeed,
are eomparatively fertile. This is due
to the extraordinary fogs known as
“garuas.” They prevail every night
from May to October after a summer
that is sultry and extend up to a level
of 1,200 feet above the sea. Above
1,200 feet rain falls.
When Wild Wir Blow.
Most of us are apt to look on a storm
simply a strong Wh d blowing
one place to another It
ight fre
t all, for a storm
y, and a storm is
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BEWITCHED HIS HEARERS.
When James Whitcomb Riley Recited
One of His Poems.
In his platform career,” during
those years when he went about the
country reading his poems, James
Whitcomb Riley saw with his eyes and
heard with his ears what people
thought of him. Never any other man
stood night after night on the stage or
platform to receive such solid roars of
applause for the “reading” of poems—
and for himself.
He did not “read” his poems; he dia
not “recite” them, either. He took his
whole body inte his hands, as it were,
and by his wizard mastery of sugges-
tion left no James Whitcomb Riley at
all upon the stage. Instead the au
dience saw and heard whatever the
incomparable comedian wished them
to*see and hear. He held a literally
unmatched power over them for riot-
ous laughter or for actual copious tears.
and no one who ever saw an exhibi-
tion of that power will forget it—or
forget him.
There he stood, alone upon the stage,
a blond, shortish, whimsical man in
evening clothes—a figure with ‘‘a whole
lot of style” and a whole lot of its
own style too! He offered a deferen-
tial prefatory sentence or so; then sud-
denly face and figure altered, seemed
to merge completely into those of a
person altogether different from the
poet, and not Mr. Riley, but a ITooslicr
farm hand, perhaps, or a thin little gir
stood before you, “done to the life.”
Then the volce came, ‘done to the
life.” too—done to the last half audi-
ble breath at the end of husky chuckle
or wistful sigh. There was no visible
effort on the part of the magician. The
audience did not strain or worry for
him as audiences so often do for those
who “entertain” them, because his
craft lay not in contortion, but in a
glamouring suggestion that held spec-
tators rapt and magnetized.
Nat Goodwin's opinions upon the
production of realistic pathos in com-
edy may be accepted as academic. Mr.
Goodwin said: “I used to recite ‘Good
by, Jim’—until I heard Riley do it.
Then I asked the Lord to forgive me
and never tried it again!”—Booth Tar-
kington in Collier's Weekly.
“Careless.
“Burglar broke into Brown’s house
the other night.”
Photo by American I’ress AsSs0Cialion.
GENERAL F. S. MAUDE.
General Maude by his recapture of |
Kut-el-Amara avenges the reverse suf- |
fered by General Townshend when the |
latter was: compelled to surrender to!
the Turks his garrison of 9,000 men |
after a hard siege.
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THE WAR
An armed transport steamer of 34,
494 tons with about 500 colonial
troops, artillery and horses, on board,
was sunk by a German submarine in
the Mediterranean on Feb. 24, the Ger-
man admiralty announced. Some of
the troops were lost.
A troop-laden transport of about
5,000 tons was sunk on Feb. 23, it was
also announced.
A 9,000-ton transport under escort,
is reported sent to the bottom on Feb.
17, south of Malta, while the sinking
of thirteen other vessels of a total of
more than 25,000 tons, is recorded.
The statement adds that thirteen
other vessels have been sunk.
the Franco-Belgian front north of the
Somme and on the east bank of the
Meuse in the Verdun region, German
army headquarters announced.
A british destroyer was sunk with
BERLIN ADMITS
un T0 TAKE PRECAUTIONS
por ts abou.
‘that Gerraaany, after the proclamatio.
Lively engagements took place ot:
AMERICAN PLOT.
Zimmermann Says Conditions
Made Move Imperative
German Foreign Office. Attempted to
Ally Japan and Mexico Against Unit-
ed States In Case of War.
Foreign Secretary Zimmermann Of
Germany has admitted in part and de-
fended Germany's action in seeking to |
-ally Japan and Mexico against the
United States. The plot was revealed
by President Wilson and the Wash-
ington government last week.
A diipaten won Jerin’ quoted Zim-
meri.ialil as say.ng:
“Yue American press contains re-
cztrucuons from ithe min- |
istry of 10.0 ga afiar, to the German |
mins ier i. Mex.co C..y, in the event |
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of” uuresir.c.ed submarine warfare,’
failed to keep the United States neu-
s tral.
lowing facts:
“After the decision had been taken
to beg.n unrestricted submarine war-!
fare on Keb. 1 we had to reckon in
view of the previous attitude of the
United States government with the
possibility of conflict with that gov-
ernment. That this calculation was
right was proved by the fact that the
American government severed diplo-
matic relations, with Germany soon
after the proclamation of a barred
zone and asked other neutrals to fol-
low her example.
“These reports are based on the fol- |
was not only the right but also the
duty of our government to take pre-
cautions in time—in the event of a
military conflict with the United
States—in order to balance if possible
the adhesion to our foes of a new
enemy. The German minister at Mex-
ico, therefore, was instructed in the
middle of January that in the event
of the United States declaring war he
should offer to the Mexican govern-
ment an ‘alliance and arrange further
details. These instructions, by the
way, expressly directed the minister
to make no advances to the Mexican
. government unless he knew for a’ cer-
tainty that America was going to de-
clare war. "
“How the American government re-
ceived information of the instructions
sent by a secret way to Mexico is not
all hands in the North sea on Thurs-
day, the English admiralty announced.
It is belicved she struck a mine, the
announcement states.
The British troops in their forward
movement in the Ancre area in
France have made another advance
east of Gommecourt along a two-mile
front of about two-thirds of a mile,
according to the official report from
headquarter-. “oc -rly 200 prisoners
were capiur~d.
LIVE STOCY 730 CRAIN
Pittsburgh, March 6.
Butter—Prints, 44@44'%c; tubs, 43
@43%c. Eggs—Fresh, 37c.
Cattle—Prime, $10.50@11; good,
$9.756@10.35; tidy butchers, $9@9.50;
fair, $8@8.75; common, $7@7.75; heif-
ers, $6@9.75; common to good fat
bulls, $5@8.560; common to good fat
cows, $4@8; fresh cows and spring-
ers, $40@85.
Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers,
$11.50@12; good mixed, $10.560@11.25;
fair mixed, $9.25@10.25; culls and
common, $5@6.50; heavy ewes, $6@9;
spring lambs, $11@14.50; veal calves,
$12@12.50; heavy and thin calves, $6
@9.
Hogs—Prime heavy, $14.20@14.25;
heavy mixed, $14.10@14.15; medi-
ums and heavy Yorkers, $14.10; light!
Yorkers, $13.50@13.75; pigs, $12.26@
12.75; roughs, $12.50@13.25; stags.
$11@11.25. :
Cleveland, March 6.
Cattle—Choice fat steers, 1,100
pounds and upward, $9.756@10.50;
choice fat steers, $1,000 pounds and
upward, $9.25@9.50; good to choice
butcher steers, $8.75@9; fair to good
butcher steers, $8.256@8.50; common
to light steers, $6 50@7.25; choice heif-
ers, $8.26@8.50; light heifers, $7.26@
@8; bologna bulls, $6.755@7.50; good
to choice cows, $7@8; fair to good
cows, $5.50@6.50; common cows, $4
@5.
Calves—Good to choice, $12@12.50;
“Did they get anything?”
“Nothing but some jewelry. They :
overlooked a steak and a dozen fresh
eggs that were in the icebox.”—Detroit i
Free Press.
Coney Island.
Coney Island was called Coneyn or
Rabin Island bv the Dutch
Henry Hudson
ne 1SONn river, on
such a «
man o has conquered hin
$13.75; mixed, $18.70; Yorkers, $13.65.
pigs, $12; roughs,
$11.50.
Sheep and Lambs—Good to choi ce
lambs, $14@14.35; fair to good,
common, $9@
ood to choice wethers, Z
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11.60: good to choice ewes,
alll - 82 r
Wheat—May, 91.8% %. Corn—Ma;
, $1.063%%. Oats—May, b9%e.
8; good to choice butcher bulls, $7.50 |
fair to good, $10.50@11; heavy and |
Hogs—Choice mediums and heavies,
$12.50; stags, |
known. It appears, however, that the
treachery—and it only must have been
treachery—wag committed on German
territory.”
The note which Zimmermann sent
to the German minister in Mexico
City and which was revealed by Pres-
ident Wilson was as follows:
“Berlin, Jan. 19, 1917.
“On the first of February we intend
to begin submarine warfare unrestrict-
ed. In spite of this, it is our inten-
tion to endeavor to keep neutral the
United States of America.
“If this attempt is not successful
we propose an alliance on the follow-
ing basis with Mexico: That we shall |
make war together and together make
peace. We shall give general financial
support and it is understood that Mex-
ico is to reconquer the lost territory in
New Mexico, Texas and Arizona. The
details are left to you for settlement.
“You are instructed to inform the
president of Mexico of the above in
the greatest confidence as soon as it
is certain that there will be an out-
break of war with the United States
and suggest that the president of Mex-
ico, on his own initiative, should com-
municate with Japan suggesting ad-
herence at once to this plan; at the
same time, offer to mediate between
Germany and Japan.”
MUCH LEGISLATION
UNFINISHED AT END
Sixty-Fourth Congress Adjourns With
Only Two Administration
Measures Passed.
Of all the legislation on the admin-
istration program proper only two
measures, the revenue bill and the
measure giving civil government to
, Porto Rico and American citizenship
to its inhabitants got through the leg-
islative tangle at the close of the
Among the administration bills
which failed were the measures to
supplement the Adamson law, the bill
“Anticipating these possibilities it
to enlarge the interstate commerce
commission, the Webb bill to legalize |
| joint foreign selling agencies and con- |
| servation legislation, including the |
| general dam bills and water power |
| bills. Bills which did not form part |
© | of the original program, but which
were pressed unsuccessfully by cabi
net officers and administration lead
|
session.
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ers late in the sess included |
amendments to tl 8 g act to
give president comman- |
deer nit nd 1 stic espionagt
bill whici as 5 oy tne
but ney was 1 up in
house. .
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Children Cry
for Fletcher's
The Kind You Have Always — and which has been
in use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of
and
has been made under his per-
LZ sonal supervision since its infancy.
Cdl Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations
and * Just-as-good ”’ are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor 0Qil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups
. It is pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its
age is its guarantee. For
been in constant use for the r
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea ;
more than thirty years it has
elief of Constipation, Fiatulency,
allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids”
The Children’s Panacea—Th
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
¢ Mother’s Friend.
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SHELL SHOCK IN BATTLE. |
A Curious Fact That Only Unwounded |
Men Suffer From 1t.
By the methods of modern war no |
inconsiderable proportion of battlefield |
casualties are due to shel shook. 5 | a]
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new terror of battle and one that was |
unknown before the advent of later |
day high explosives. |
It is a curious fact that only un-|
wounded men suffer from shell shock.
Eminent surgeons say that a wound |
neutralizes the psychic sense—in ple ain |
English that nerves do not affect a
wounded man in the same way as an
unwounded one.
For shell shock is nothing more or
less than a nervous breakdown—a ter-
ribly intensive breakdown that physi-
cians find most difficult to cure. It is
elitirely a mental cause, and though it
is called shell shock it has very little
to do with shells.
There are men, brave men, too, who
find the strain of war too great for
their mental stamina. They see terri-
ble sights and hear terrible things, and
these react upon them temperamentally
and physically. Gradually, perhaps un-
consciously, their ability to resist is
overborne. Their mental power is ex-
hausted. They become afraid—dread-
fully, terribly afraid--and the end is
only a matter of time.
A certain cure has yet to he found,
though severe electrical treatment has
had some effect.—London Answers.
Wasted Power.
Professor Charles Baskerville, head
of the department of chemistry in the
College of the City of New York, stated
in a recent interview regarding the
work of modern chemists:
“In any chemical problem there is
no telling where the chemist will stop.
Just now there are many chemists
working on the problem of free gas.
An immeasurable lot of power is wast-
ed in the dumps of our coal mines. If
this waste were reduced to gas by the
retort process enough ammonia might
be produced as a byproduct to pay for
the whole cost of the operation, making
the gas free. The gas could then be used
to generate electric power. Really, one
big railroad ought to be running on
the power it is now throwing away in
these supposedly worthless dumps.”
Employment Managers.
The function of securing the right
kind of help and seeing to it that that
help makes continued progress toward
maximum efficiency is second to no
other in any factory, and for this rea-
son the manager of the employment
department must have absolute author-
ity over those functions or at least
must have first hand access to the ear
of the Silene administrative author-
ity.—R. C. Clothier in Industrial Man
Se —
Coolness Under Difficulties.
The grammar school principal went
from room to room explaining what to
do in case of fire. The pupils listened
FOR WOW EN © i70TORISTS.
Some Things a Gort Driver Should
and Should Not Do.
The good (river ¢f a motorcar never
brakes swiftly except in an
When drawing up at a
e she cuts off igniticn early
momentum to carry the
street s
and allows
eur to the stepping place, using tbe
service brakes gradually, The good
driver thus saves gasoline and wear
upon brakes, coasting to a stop with
the smoothness of operation of an easy
start.
A good driver never uses the emer-
gency brake, because she never has
ge s. She sees and avoids the
before it arrives. The poor
driver rushes into trouble and depends
upon quickness in grabbing the emer-
gency lever to save life. More than
one accident has followed a futile at-
tempt to find the scldom used emer~
gency lever in a hurry.
The good driver rounds sharp cor-
ners to the right and goes over ex-
tremely rough stretches of road or hit
unexpected “thank you ma'ams’” with
clutch disengaged, to save the rear
axle mecha 1.
The goed driver uses the wheel with
the least possible motion. She does
not drag it suddenly from side to side,
but turns it so gradually that passen-
gers are unconscious of the fact. In
rounding a corner she commences tot
straighten the car up before it is half-
way around. — Woman's Home Coms
panion.
RECORD COAL LOADING.
Uncle Sam’s Plant at Cristobal Is the
Fastest In the World.
The good work of the Cristobal coal
loading plant at the isthmus of Pana-
ma is the subject of a report receiv
ed at the war department from one
of its boards, whose conclusions are
the engineers and is probably the mosft
efficient loading plant in the world. If
was found that the minimum perform.
ance during the test was 1,950 tons an
hour and the maximum 2,486 tons. The
minimum occurred when one of the
four diggers was temporarily out of
commission, due to a defective bucket,
At 2400 tons an hour the plant far
exceeds the work of any other known
plant for loading steamships or even
of railroad !- ading plants. The canal
collier Ulysses was loaded at the rate
of 1,650 tons an hour, and 12,000 tons
chant ships cannot be loaded at this
rapid rate, as their hatches are too
small and their bunkers are not ar-
ranged to admit of such work. This
is a feature in shipbuilding that is be-
ing carefully taken care of nowadays
in constructing ships that are to pass
through the canal. All new United
States naval colliers are so built that
they can be loaded at high speed.
An Eye to Business.
with respectful attention until he game
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to his
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that the plant fully meets the plans of
were put on her in eight hours. Mer-~