! THE GREEN I TOKEN. | By TEMPLE BAILEY. 4 * Copyrighted, 1908, by the Associated j Literary Tress. 2 + +++-:-+-t -M-+*++•:•*+•:• +-M- Miss Mlllicent had decided that on St. Patrick's day there should be a special celebration at the settlement. There were so many little Mickeys and Noras In the neighborhood, and it would he easy enough to tie up little sandwiches with green ribbon and serve the Ice cream In potato forms. Miss Milllcent's coworker, Miss Fa versham, looked dubious when Ice cream was mentioned. "It will be very expensive In forms," she stated. "I don't have to pay for It," Mlllicent told her. "Mr. Barry wants to donate the ice cream." Miss Faversham looked at her friend sharply. "Mr. Barry has taken a sudden inter est in the settlement, it seems to me,'' she remarked dryly. Miss Mlllicent glowed. "Isn't it fine?" she said. "He's going to give tis a picture for the library. 1 am togo with him to pick it out." "Hum," was Miss Faversham's re tort; "I should think he might select it alone." "Oh," Mlllicent told her, "he says he doesn't know anything about pictures. He has lived on the plains, and he says his education along that line is neg lected, but be is big and tine, and he is going to help us a lot with the boys. He says lie knows what It is to be pool and rough and unloved, and now that he lias made his money he is going to give the other fellows a lift." "How did lie happen to get into the work here?" asked Miss Faversham. "Mickey Doyle brought him here to see the club. Mickey had shined his shoes at the hotel and told him about it. And 1 was in the office, and 1 took him over the whole settlement, and he was awfully interested in it, and he has been coming ever since." "I see," said Miss Faversham, with a quick glance at her friend that noted the trim figure in white linen, the hair that rippled away from the low, broad forehead, the earnest gray eyes, the "DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE SHAMItOCK .MEANS V" dimple in the chin that redeemed the rest of the face from seriousness. "I see," said Miss Faversham again. "I ilou't know that I blame him for com ing." Mr. Barry took an immense interest in the St. Patrick's party. "My name," he told Margaret, with a smile that lighted his rugged fea tures, "is John Patrick, and my grand-! father came from the old country." Millicent laughed. "My mother's name was Kate Kear ney," she said, "and there is a tradi tion in our family that we are descend- j ed from Irish kings." "Good," said Barry. "It shall be a feast in honor of the good saint. And ; you must let me give the kids a dinner, please. No little sandwiches, but hot things." And, in spite of the protests of the i economical Miss Faversham, the even ing of the 17th of March found in the gymnasium a long table fairly groan ing with good things. There were little j pigs simply cracking with richness. There were potatoes mealy and white, anut the ne cessity of having fireproof staircases in all tenement and apartment houses as well as exterior lire escapes. An instance of his judgment at a fire was demonstrated once when he was asked why he ordered his men to stop throwing water on the floor of a big office building that was ablaze in the downtown district. "I told the men to stop," said Bonner, "because I didn't kuow what would happen to that build ing if cold water were thrown on hot Iron and stone, it was better to make sure of saving the lower stories than to risk causing the collapse of the en tire building." After his retirement as fire chief in 1809 Mr. Bonner had intended to start a fire school to instruct people how to save their lives and bow to do prac tical work at lires, especially the em ployees of hotels, theaters, business houses and office buildings. At the time Mr. Bonner said: "I do not bolieve that one hotel em ployee out of u hundred knows how to act in case of fire. A traveler arrives late at night and goes to his room to sleep without having the slightest idea where the stairs or the fire escapes are situated. In the middle of the night he may be awakened by finding his room on fire and in his excitement would probably jump from the window and be killed or crippled for life. If he had been properly instructed it would have given him confidence to know how to act in the emergency. I cannot give any man brains, but I hope to teach him to make the best use of what nature endowed him with." Just about that time Mr. Bonner was sent to Manila to organize the fire de partment there, and his scheme for a fire school was never developed. Signs of Spring. When your shoes begin to pinch, When your toes begin to burn, When your underclothing sticks And you yearn and yearn and yearn For the right to travel far From the job to which you cling, There can be no further doubt— Tou may know that It Is spring. When at night you find the house Uttered up with strips and shreda, When you tind the fashion books And the patterns on the bed, When your wife complains that life Is a dreary, dismal thing Just because her waist won't fit. You may know that it Is spring. When tho cab horse trotting by Splashes mud across her nose. When your hat rolls through the street While the west wind wildly blows, When your neighbor's toothless boy Breaks your windows with his sling And tho cellar's flooded, you May be sure that It Is spring. —Chicago Record-Herald. A Homemade Barometer. A weather man described the other day a cheap homemade barometer. He said it was only necessary to take a piece of string about fifteen inches long and to soak It several hours In a strong solution of salt and water. After being dried the string should have a light weight tied to one end and be hung up against a wall, a mark being made to show where the weight reaches. The barometer is now com plete. It Is as accurate as a SIOO In strument. The weight rises for wet weather and falls for fine. CHER NIAGARA FILLS Fate of a Schooner That Was Used as an Experiment. SHE WAS DASHED TO PIECES. A Thrilling Sight From the Time She Struck the Seething Rapids Until the Mighty Falls Tore Her Into Splinters—A Pair of Tough Geese. The following story of the first pub lic excursion to Niagara Falls was n-ritten at the time by an eyewitness: "The schooner Michigan was the largest vessel on Lake Erie at that time. She was too large. In fact, to enter the various harbors on the lake, and, being somewhat decayed in her uppers, the owner, Major Frazer, got the idea that she would answer the purpose of testing the fate of a vessel that by accident might approach too near the cataract and also the fate of living things that might be caught in the rapids. The proprietors of the large public houses at the falls on both sides of the river and of stages and steamboats made up a purse to pur chase the schooner, aware that they would be amply repaid by the specta tors that the exhibition would attract. "For several days previous to Sept G, IS2B, the day for which the affair was fixed, which was Saturday, the stages and canalboats came to Buffalo crowded with people. On the night of Sept. 5 wagons filled with country people rattled through the village in unbroken procession all night long, and oil the morning of Sept. 0 Buffalo it self seemed to be moving in one mass toward the point of attraction. Five steamboats had been advertised to leave Buffalo Saturday morning. They were the Henry Clay, William Penn, Pioneer, Niagara and Chippewa. The Chippewa was appointed to tow the schooner Michigan to the Niagara river. I was a passenger on her. "As soon as we got well under way the scene became interesting. The oth er four steamers came plowing along In our wake, crowded to the guards with passengers and bands of uiusic playing. The Chippewa towed the big schooner to Yale's landing, on the Can ada side of the Niagara river, where our passengers went ashore, as did those of the William Penn. The pas sengers of the Ilenry Clay and Pio neer landed on the American side. Yale's Landing was three miles above the falls, and the crowds of people were taken from there on down the river in wagons of all kinds. The hour fixed for towing the Michigan from Yale's Landing to the rapids was 0 in the afternoon. "This task, an extremely hazardous one. was intrusted to the oldest sailor on the lake. Captain Bough. W'ltli a yawl boat and five sturdy oarsmen the old captain got the schooner under way. They towed her to within a quar ter of a mile of the first rapids and within half a mile of the tremendous precipice itself—as near as they dared approach. They cut the big vessel adrift, and she passed majestically on, while the oarsmen of the yawl had to bend their every nerve and muscle to remove themselves from the peril of being drawn down by the rushing wa ters. Indeed, such had been the fear and apprehension of the men that they mutinied against Captain Bough and cut the towllne before the time he had set. If they had obeyed the reck less old captain, lie, the yawl and its crew would have preceded the Michi gan over the falls. "The high grounds on both shores of the river were lined with people as the Michigan, unguided by human agency, approached, head on, the first rapid of the seething descent, apparently keep ing tin? very course that a skillful nav igator would have guided her in. The American ensign streamed from her bowsprit and the British jack floated at her stern. The vessel shot the first rapid unhurt, still head on, making a plunge, shipping a sea and rising from it in beautiful style. In her descent of the second rapid, the water momenta rily increasing in velocity and tumult, her towering masts went by the board, giving tlie spectators a startling repre sentation of the crashing of a vessel's spars in a shipwreck at sea. She swung around and presented her broadside to the dashing and foaming water, and, after remaining, as it seem ed, stationary for a moment, swung around until she was headed upstream. "Passing the third rapid she bilged, but carried her hull to all appearances whole as she tossed aud groaned be tween Grass island and the British shore to tlie llorsesftoe fall, over which she was drawn sternforemost ayil hurled Into the thundering abyss. She was dashed to fragments before she struck in the seething waters below. Immediately after she went over hun dreds of people hurried below the falls. The river was covered with fragments of the vessel. * 3 - " "There were aboard the Michigan when she started on her trip toward the falls a wild bull buffalo from a western prairie, two bears from the Lake Superior regions, two foxes, a raccoon, a dog, a cat and four geese. When the vessel left Yale's lauding in ti»,v all these were let loose on the deck except the buffalo. lie was Inclosed in a pen. The two bears got enough of the trip when the vessel began the descent of the first rapid, and they climbed down the side next the Canada shore, plunged into the swift water, breasted Its powerful sweep successful ly and reached the shore. They were so exhausted when they got on land that they made no resistance to being captured. The bears, before they aban doned the ship, climbed the masts of the vessel and, as it was presumed, from that outlook saw what their fin ish would be anyhow and then deter mined to take the chances of getting to land, slim as they were. The raccoon ran up a mast and remained there un til the mast fell. lie was never seen Igaln. The foxes ran frantically up and down the deck and went over with the schooner, as did the buffalo bull end the geese. Not a trace of foxes or buffalo was ever found. Two of the geese swam ashore half a mile below the falls. The other two met tbe fate •112 the buffalo and the foxes," HIDING IN A"GLIDER" Simple Flying Device Tried by Aero Club Members. MANY SHORT FLIGHTS MADE. Other Experiments to Be Made With Machines Equipped With Motors. New Device, It Is Said, Can Be Easily Operated and Constructed. Members of au "aviation committee" from the Aero Club of America spent the week end recently on an estate on the north shore of Long Island experi menting with a "glider" of the Her ring model. Members of the party were reticent about the precise loca tion of the experiments, but It is learn ed that members of the party succeeded in "aviating" for short flights of from thirty to forty feet with the glider at a distance of from ten to fifteen feet from the ground. The delegation from the Aero club consisted of Augustus Post and 15. L. Braiue, members of the aviation com mittee, and George 11. Guy and Mr. AVard of the club. The committee was appointed at a recent meeting in New York of the Aero club, when Court landt Bishop, the president, observed that the balloon had no further worlds to conquer and that henceforth the mission of the club would lie iu the de velopment of aerial flight. The investigators arrived at the Long Island estate early the other day. They carried with them material for their machine. In a few hours Mr. Braine had put together the first glider of the club. This consisted of a framework eighteen feet long and five and a half feet high as it lay on the ground, with a width of five feet. At the top of the machine and at the bottom were muslin covers stretched to the upper and lower planes of the ln ln the center was a space for a man to hang suspended by his arms. The top cover was over his head, while the bottom one would be on a level with his arms as the ma chine was in the air. The whole weighed forty-five pounds. The machine was carried to the top of a hill near the place of its birth. There was a stiff breeze blowing at the time. A member of the party was placed in the central position, while one lifted the machine at the head and one at the foot. The passenger stood on his own legs, with the machine par tially supported in the air by the two others. At the word all began to run. Within a few moments the machine would glide through the air and the two assistants would let go at the shout of the passenger. According to members of the party, many flights were made whose great est distance from place of starting to place of alighting was forty feet. The machine would rise in a curve which gradually came to earth again. For ward of the suspended position of the passenger was a bar which the pas senger used to aid him in altering the Inclination of his body and hence the center of gravity of the whole, so that the angle of the muslin surfaces to air currents was altered. All of the members of the aviation expedtlon took turns in riding in the machine. Further experiments will be made to lay the ground for work with machines which employ a motor. Those Interested regarded the success of their experiment as an example of the ease with which such machines can be made and operated. The club at the present time is search ing for a place where experiments may be carried on regularly without too great publicity. Shingles of Cement. A company has been formed at Sagi naw. Mich., for the manufacture of re enforced cement shingles. They will manufacture plain and ornamental shingles, liip covering and ridges, orna mental tile and other roofing material now made of terra eotta only. A large and complete factory will be erected in Saginaw and operations commenced at an early date. Brand New Crimes. A writer in Harper's Weekly won ders if certain "brand new crimes" will not result from the increasing use of wireless telegraphy. A recent spe cial message to congress urged legisla tion to prevent interference with gov ernment wireless telegraphy. A boy lu Washington, it seems, had put up t. ptafC for wireless experiment and had prevented the sending of a wireless message to the president when he was on a warship bound for Panama. A Brooklyn lad had caught a wireless headed for the navy yard, and in other eases boys and amateurs had got in th» government's way. "Behold in sight a new class of rights and easements un known to Blackstone. Kent or Parsons, Invisible. Intangible, Inaudible and yet existent and, we suppose. Important. Let us see now if congress can legis late that boys must not be boys In this matter of playing with magnetic cur rents." siifsnri A. Relia ble TO SHOP Tor ali kind of Tin Roofing? Spoutlne nnd General Job Work. Stoves. Heaters. ftan«»s v Furnaces, sto. PRICES TBE LOWEST! QUiLITY TOE BEST! JOHN HIXSON SO. IV 6. FRONT BT.