HOMING
HER PREJUDICE,
The Wooing of a Big Man *,d a
Mite of a Woman.
Ey OLIVE ADAMS.
ICopyr.K'it. Associated Literary
He had always declared that ho
would uoi marry a small woman. No
diminutive <t 'autre of scanty stature
could ever grace his home.
She, on her part, had been quite sure
that she disliked l>ig men. No weighty
slant, towering far above her, could
>ver capture and hold her heart.
Yet fate threw them together, and
neither one felt comfortable. They
seemed strangely antagonistic one to
the other, and yet there was something
n their innermost selves that was kin.
He. busy day after day in his law
office, found bis thoughts and fancies
•ontinually, unaccoun;.- 4 straying to
the memory of he: - deli' ale head and
yet more delicate £:iger ; .
She, painting away, as always, won
dered why the recollection of his big
frame and strong featured face should
haunt her. Nlk'\ half indignant, tried
to conquer the persistent recollection
by working harder than ever.
lie, in a way wiser, yielded to his
strange fancies and paid her a studio
call. Her greeting was cordial, but
they were long silent.
'At last he invited her to take a walk.
The dusk was falling. The avenue
gleamed with myriad lights, presenting
an alluring vista. For nearly an hour
thft.'' walked, she taking hasty steps to
>ach of the long, swinging strides into
which he had naturally and uncon
sciously fallen. By and by, unreasona
bly irritated, she came to a sudden
halt.
"There can't be much sympathy be
tween our natures," she said sharply.
'They say that people who can't keep
HEli PtRE, CT.EAI! PROFILE WAS OUTLINED
AGAINST TIXE DAIiK WINDOW.
step comfortably are out of tune some
how. We're not even walking in the !
same key."
"Let's try again," he laughed, with
gay good humor, "I'll accommodate j
my steps to yours politely, as 1 should
have done long ago. See how nicely I |
can do it."
He minced along with determination, '
keeping time with her tripping steps.
Xhe effect was so ridiculous that she
yielded to impulsive laughter.
"No, no," she cried, still smiling, I
"we won't try your plan any longer.
Let's be natural and 'gang our ain
gait' in peace."
"The tiniest friendships arc built on 1
that plan," he answered with mean
ing, but she was silent.
As for the man, he no longer de
sired to conquer the new, strange fan
cies. They had become too sweet. 1
She was wondering why his quiet
glance could cause her heart to dance, j
But the walk was pleasant, and |
other walks followed. They spent one j
.'ong. perfect autumn Sunday in the i
country, walking through the golden j
hours and tields together. Night j
found them a long way from tho city, j
far too distant to walk home again, i
They waited at a little wayside station j
for the train that should bear them !
thither. Both were silent, wrapped in
the dreamy, trancelike happiness that
is too eloquent for speech. Presently,
however, she broko the soft silence
with her thrilling laugh.
"What Is it, little comrade''" for so
he had elected to call her.
"We haven't quarreled once today ,
over keeping step," she said, still smil- I
lug. "I wonder what has come over I
us."
"Love," was bis unexpected answer.
But she shrank farther away in the
sheltering darkness, and his heart felt
a strange chill. The nest moment the j
train rushed noisily down upon them,
and in the crowded, uncomfortable
day coach they occupied they were
again silent.
She sat so still beside him that, he 1
fancied she was asleep, and her head. 1
on a level with his shoulder, leaned 112
gainst the red plush seat back, tier
pure, lear profile was outlined against i
the 1 rk window. He watched her
with : he taungriness of suddenly recog
lilzed worship. He did not know that ;
she. wide awake iu all but outer see- j
lug, gloried hi his glance. She would j
not, could not, give up her profession I
for marriage, but still how good it I
would seem to rest in his love.
And then suddenly there was a wild
shriek from the engine, a jarring col
lision, a horrible, grinding stop and an
utter desolation of blackness. She
knew that something awful had hap
pened. that she was losing control of
her senses, but this was all.
When she opeiv : lier eyes the blaed
Kky, star studded, Impenetrable, wak
above her. The man of whom had
been her last conscious thought came
between the sky and her puzzled gaze.
Then she saw the long train, dim.
shadow-like, uncertain, stretched out
darkly before her. She knew that
lights flashed about, voices cried,
moans shook the silence. And then,
with a sharp twinge of suffering, she
knew that the wreck had caused her
1o be injured— that she could not rise.
Perhaps—horrible thought!—her spine
had been seriously disabled aud she
would never rise a^ain.
j "My darling!" said a voice softly, a
! voice she knew well, yet had never
! heard with this strange, wonderful !s-
I tonation.
A wave of ineffable gladness met and
| conquered the rising tide of distress
and agouy. Again she swooned. This
time the hospital had been reached be
fore she came 10.
For weeks she lay there helpless, fac
ing the terrible uncertainty in regard
to her future. There were times when
' it was feared that her days of activity
| were over. Through it all he was her
constant stay and tho rock on which
her wavering hopes rested.
To tile lonely woman with no living
relative his tender, gentle companion
ship was sweet beyond expression. She
was still determined—more than ever
.: ormined now that possible luvu&S ■
11 lay before her—never to marry,
but she would not allow herself to
realize how and where she was drlft
! ing. To liav" realized and acknowledg
ed the truth would have meant his
1 banishment, speedy and unrelenting,
and she simply could not bring herself
to face this new aud pain tilled life
without his continual solacing pres
ence. Fate, smiling, took the case in
hand.
"I shall not lie helpless or even
lame." Marcia told him joyously one
day after long months of waiting.
"But 1 shall be even smaller than ever,
they tell me."
He. who had come oulwardly scath
less thr< ugh the ordeal, smiled as he
bent over lier.
"Dear love." was Ills tense whisper,
"you will be .iust as high as ray heart."
It was a frail bride, pale, slender,
leaning hard upon the arm of her bus*
hand lover, who stood at th>> altar a
! few weeks later—a bride who looked
j especially small and diminutive beside
the big man who had just thankfully
I claimed her. And into the eyes of this
j bride, joyously happy in her complete
j surrender, crept a whimsical gleam as
j she realized this fact.
THE SAYLER TRAGEDY.
A Distressing Case In Which Promi
nent Families Figure.
It is a pitiable situation in which
i Mrs. John Sayler of Watseka, 111.,
! finds herself. She watched from her
cell in the county jail tho funeral pro
cession in which the body of her hus
! band was borne to its last resting
: place. Mr. Sayler, a banker and lead
• iug citizen, on entering bis homo on a
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MRS. JOHN SATLF.R.
recent evening found there Dr. W. B.
Miller, and, words between the two men
ensuing, Dr. Miller drew a revolver
aud shot Mr. Sayler, killing him. Mrs.
Sayler and Dr. Miller were both held
and were charged jointly with re
sponsibility for the death of the slain
banker. Golda Sayler. seventeen years
old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Sayler and for whose sake the banker
is said to have shielded the relations
he suspected between his wife and Dr.
Miller, has Issued a statement lu which
she says the latter was a good friend
to her and her mother and, she be
lieves, killed her father only in self
defense. Mrs. Miller has said she was
confident her husband had done her
no wrong, and 6he expects to stand
by him in his trial.
MIND OVER MATTER.
The Power of the Spirit In Helpirrg to
Retain Life.
The power of the mind over the
body, as demonstrated in all forms of
faith healing, was recognized in the
seventeenth centnry by Richelieu's
physician, Citois. Summoned to at
tend his master's constant fits of de
pression, Citois would solemnly call
for a sheet of paper on which to write
a prescription, and almost invariably
after his departure the prescription
would prove to consist of the words
"One dram of Boisrobert," Boisrobert
being a poet of small talent, but pos
sessed of high spirits and wit. In
those days, when the common remedy
was bleeding, when it Is known that
Voiture, the poet, was bled to death
and the Princess of Conti, suffering
from apoplexy, was beaten till she
died In the hope of rousing her from
her lethargy, it is no wonder that a
humane and a human physician like
Citois ..thould have been successful.
The famous frequenter of the French
salons, Foiitenelle, is, however, the
best example of the power of the spirit
in retaining life. At. the age of nlnety
flve he fell when picking up a lady's
handkerchief and made the historic
remark. "Ah, que je n'ai pas encore
mes quatre-vingits ans." A certain
callousness marked his determination
not to die, as on the occasion when, a
friend dying beside him at the table,
he requested his man to remove him
and continued his conversation. He
managed, nevertheless, to survive to
within a month of his hundred years
and then complained that he would
have lasted much longer had not the
outbreak of war "put a stop to pleas
ant conversation."—London Chronicle.
An Easy One.
Blllfuzz—!f I had $3 and you asked
me to lend you two, how much would
I have left? Jiibb—Oh, I know the
answer to that. Vou would still have
left, granting it. were possible that
you ever had that much at one time,
because you wouldn't lend me any.
Ask me something probable.-Path
finder.
THEGEHMAN PREMIER
: Personality of Dr. Von Bethmann
! Hollweg, the New Chancellor.
I RESERVED AND THOUGHTFUL.
1 Princ* von Bulow's Successor Is Em
peror William's College Friend and
Has Been Called "the Philosopher
Statesman" —A Man of Convincing
Thought and Substance.
Dr. Theobald von Bethmann-Holl
j weg. former secretary of the interior
j and vice chancellor, who was recently
i appointed by the kaiser chancellor of
I the German empire in succession to
j Prince von lin low. is a college friend
!of Emperor William 11. They were
| fraternity brothers in the Borussia
j corps at Bonn, and during the entire
j reign of William IJr. von Bethmann-
Ilollweg often lias advised his majes
ty. But ho has shown a disinclination
to accept high office. He is a man of
reserved and thoughtful habits and
has been called "the philosopher states
| man."
Natural and Simple In Bearing.
He is a tall man with a long face.
1 emphasized by a small, dark, pointed
beard. Emperor William often has
found rest and comfort in I>r. von
Bethmann-Hollweg's repose of man
ner and agreeable conversation, and
he is one of the few frequenters of
the court whose bearing toward his
majesty Is natural and simple.
Dr. von Bethmann-llollwog is of
Jewish origin. The Bethmnun family
left Holland two centuries ago on ac
-I'U. IJIEOBAI.D VON BETDMASS-nor.I.WFO
| count of its religion and settled in
1 Frankfort, where the men engaged in
I banking. His great grandmother mar
j rled John James Hollweg, who added
his wife's name to his own. llis
I grandfather was the lirst member of
| the family to enter public service. He
j became j professor of jurisprudence
! at the Bonn university and received a
j patent of nobility for his learning,
j Later he was made a member of the
j Prussian diet and became active in
j the constitutional agitation of the for
, ties, and ten years later lie was ap-
I pointed to the Liberal cabinet as mtn
l ister of education.
Often Rode With the Kaiser,
j Trince von Bulow's successor is fifty-
I three years old. in youth lie studied
law. always the lirst step to a public
! career, and was appointed assistant
| judge. Before he was thirty years old
; ho was made district governor of Ober
] Bamim and later became provincial
1 president of Potsdam. For three years
j there he saw much of his majesty, and
{ the two took long walks and rides to
j getlier. It was the doctor's custom to
| ride out with his majesty In an old
| tweed suit of sober cut, and he always
j selected a quiet horse.
Following his sojourn at Potsdam
: Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg's promo
! tion was rapid. He became president of
j the government of Brombergaiul presi
l dent of the province of Brandenburg,
I from which post he took up the port
| folio of Prussian minister of the in
terior. He followed Posadowsky as
j imperial minister and showed in par
; 11,anient liis powers of plain and effec
j tive statement. He is without the
: graces of expression and the wit of
| Prince von Bulow. but is a man of
i convincing thought and substance.
Prepared Important Laws.
Since lie became minister of the in
terior Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg has
distinguished himself by preparing an
' imperial insurance law and a law con
i trolling a right of assemblage, both of
which passed the reichstag
Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg in his
political principles is a mild Conserva
tive, but he is most particular in the
application to himself of the tradition
al policy that the servants of the
crown must be nonpartisan. While he
I was district governor of Bromberg the
Conservative Interests sought to use
his influence In a local election, and
he explained indignantly, "I am an
i administrative official, not an election
agent"
Prince vou Bulow recently said of
the new chancellor, "He is a very able
man and of a profound nature."
Dr von Bethmann-llollweg possess
i es an excellent knowledge of the Eng
lish Unguace and is a student of
American affairs.
The Attraction.
"You say you are In love with Miss
Baggs?"
"I 6ure am."
"But I can't see anything attractive
nbout her."
"Neither can 1 see !t. But it's In
the bank, all right."—dev. and Leader.
A Relief From School.
Johnny—Hooray.' Tommy—What yer
so happy about? Johnny—l don't
hafter go to school today. Tommy—
Cbce. y're lucky! W'y dontcher?
Johnny—l gotta goto th' dentist's ai;
have three teeth pulled!— Exchange.
PARADES OF PROGRESS!
Northwest's Transformation to Be
Shown at Irrigation Congress, j
j
INDIANS ARE TO PLAY ROLES.
Red Men From Spokane Reservation j
Will Be Led by Chief Jim Sam. |
March of Civilization to Be Depicted :
by Floats—Many Uniformed Men In '
the Line.
Historic incidents, showing the
transformation of the northwest from
Bemisavagery to civilization, will be
depicted in the parades of progress
through the principal streets of Spo
kane, Wash., the afternoon of Aug. 10
nnd the evening of Aug. 11, in connec
tion with the seventeenth session of
the national irrigation congress, begin
ning Aug. 0 and continuing until
Aug. 14.
There will also be a march in review
by the industrial and irrigation army
the afternoon of Aug. 12, when it is
expected 10,000 uniformed men will
be in line. The evening parade will
be illuminated. E. F. Cartier Van Dis
sel has been appointed grand marshal
and will be assisted by a large staff of
mounted aids.
The parade, made up of several divi
sions, will be headed by a mounted
band of music under the direction of
William Ostermann, followed by In
dians nf the Spokane tribe from the
Spokane reservation, led by Chief Jim !
Sain, who was recently chosen suc
cessor to the late Oliver I.ott. They
will bring with them some of the tribal
finery nnd gala day garb, also their
best horses, and make camp near the
city. The squaws will be accompanied
by their children and papooses.
Lewis and Clark on Floats.
The advent of Captains I.ewis and
Clark and their faithful followers into
the Clearwater country will be depict
ed by men in costumes of the period
on a series of tloafs. followed by floats
showing trappers and traders in their
garments of fur. carrying implements
of their occupation. Then will come a
number of tioats bearing the early
missionaries and Jesuit priests; also
the hardy pioneers who made their
way across the plains in the old fash
ioned prairie schooners, miners' pack
trains, with grizzled prospectors < arry
ing rifles, picks and pans, and a band
of wild and woolly cowpunchers wear- j
ing wide brimmed sombreros, chaps
and high heeled boots with clanking
spur*.
Another divisii n will show the lum
bermen with axes and crosscut saws,
loads of logs, finished lumber, shingles,
sash nnd doors, followed by a magnifi
cent display of farm machinery, in
cluding plows, drills, harvesters, head
ers and combines, with thirty-two
horses attached to the latter, and loads
of grain and flour brlnglug up the rear.
Science Bids the Desert Drink.
The third division will be headed by
a float with the official emblem of the
national irrigation congress showing
Science bidding the Desert drink. This
will bo represented by two beautiful
young women in classic garb posed in
the shade of a bearing fruit tree. This
representation is now to the irrigation
congress, and it is predicted it will
prove a bg feature.
Next in line will be floats of the dis
tricts iu the northwest and other
states, followed by exhibits of fruits
and grasses of the various communi
ties on elaborately decorated vehicles,
with flower and bunting covered car
riages, automobiles and smart traps
and a large number of caparisoned
saddle horses. It is expected that ev
ery district in the inland empire will
be represented in this division of the
parade; also that communities in New
Mexico, Texas, Kansas, California.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Flor
ida. Georgia, Missouri. New York, Illi
nois, Colorado and other states will
participate in this event, which is de
signed to show the country's resources.
The march in review of the indus
trial and irrigation army will show
representatives of every district in
which irrigation is practiced on the
continent. Practically every inarching
club will be headed by its band of
music. The parade will begin immedi
ately after the close of the afternoon
session on Aug. 11', and the plan is to
have each district distinguished from
the other by uniform or headdress.
This will afford opportunities to the
various marching clubs to bring their
communities directly to the attention
of thousands of delegates and visitor*
from the eastern, middle western and
southern states.
Many Marching Clubs Expected.
"We expect to have with us march
ing clubs from the irrigated and dry
farming districts in Idaho, Oregon.
Montana and Washington," snid Mr.
Van Dissel, "also from California.
Wyoming, Utah, North nnd South I >a
kota, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, Kan
sas, Texas. Oklahoma and other states :
In the middle west, east nnd south, as j
well as from the provinces of liriii-.li :
Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Sas j
katchewan.
"The decorations and illuminations
of the principal thoroughfares by a
special committee headed by Harry .1
Neely, president of the 100.000 club of
Spokane, will be the most pretentious
yet undertaken anywhere in the north
west."-Spokane (Wash.i Spokesman-
Review.
oust a iviistaKe.
During one of the banquets of the ;
church congress in London a certain
bishop had a.-, his left hand companion
a clergyman who was completely bald
I Hiring dessert the baldheaded vicar
dropped his napkin and stooped to pick
it up. At this moment the bishop,
who was talking to his right hand
neighbor, 112• >ll a slight toucAi on nis
left arm. lie turned and, beholding
the vicar's pate on a level with his el
bow, said: "No, thank you. no melon.
1 will ta«' some pineapple."
Line Carrying Rockets.
The first line carrying rockets were
invented in IS2O by an Englishman
named Trengrouse and were soon
after adopted by the Massachusetts
Humane society for use at Its stations,
where they proved very successful,
though today brass canuons are ex
clusively used for throwing lines to
* reeks.
SCHOOL FOR INDUSTRY;
Freeport, 111., Trying a Trade Be
tween Factory and Lessons.
PUPILS PAID FOR THEIR WORK
One Week Boys Labor Over the Ma
chines and the Next Over Their
Desks, Getting a Training to Fit
Them For the Commercial World. j
Radical Educational Changd.
The Citizens' Commercial association
of Freeport, 111., has, in connection
with the school board, brought about
an innovation in iDtlastrial education.
The plan adopted ta to permit students
in the high school to work one-half
of the time in factories.
The boys work in pairs, one boy in
the factory one week and in high
school the next week, the other boy of
the pair alternating—that is. the boy in
school this week goes to 1t factory
on Saturday afternoon and takes the
work in hand that the other boy has
been doing all the week so that be
can take it up quickly Monday morn
ing without encroaching too much
upon the time of the foreman. The j
boys are paid 10 cents an hour the |
first year, 11 cents the second year and j
12'/2 cents the third year, and they are
given full credit for their work in '
high school.
Good Progress Made In School.
It is said that boys working in this j
way pass their examinations as cred j
ltably as those spending their full time j
in school. The reasons given are that j
because of (heir factory experience \
their minds are more receptive and j
they comprehend the school work j
quickly. Then they have their even- '
ings to prepare recitations, and as only !
the more ambitious boys elect such a ;
course they make good progress.
The plan pleases the boys because
it gives them a chance to work with j
tools and to earn something. Most
boys when they arrive at the age of
fourteen years wish to earn their own
money. This gives them an opportu-1
nity to do so and to remain in school I
at the same time. It pleases the moth
ers because, while they appreciate (lie 1
necessity of the boys going to work, |
they feel that it is a rather tender age |
to tie them down to hard work every I
day.
It pleases the fathers because they
feel that the boys ought to be engaged
in some productive employment, while j
still they desire them better prepared j
Intellectually. It pleases the manu- j
faeturers because it provides boys;
who have brains and ambition beyond
the average, for only the more ener
getic boys will choose a course of this '
kind.
It pleases the school board because j
it keeps boys in school for the four,
year period, something that is very!
difficult fo do. It pleases the labor:
organizations l»j' helping the boys who
need help most.
It is beneficial to the boys in another j
way. If a boy don't goto work when
he Is about fourteen years old he be
comes too proud or too lazy to work
It Is a well known fact that the most
Important business men were brought
up to work when they were young:
that a large proportion of tramps and
irresponsibles are recruited from vil
luges where boys have uo chores to
attend to before school and nothing
to do after school.
Interest In the Home Hearth.
Still another object is to bring a
closer relation between the high school j
and the manufacturing interests of I
Freeport for the purpose of interesting
the boys in their home city lustead of
pointing them away to some other city
,as soon as they leave school. The
, plan will help to solve the apprentice
difficulties, while directing the minds
of the brightest boys along mechan
ical lines, something after the plan of
the German educational system.
The general plan Is for the boys to
start work iu the factory In vacation.
They choose the factory that suits 1
them best, and the employers try them
out. The boys try the work to learn
whether they like it or not.
Mr. Shearer of the Citizens' Com
mercial association, who was prim i
pally instrumental in introducing the
plan, says:
"The Freeport plan means a radical
change in educational matters, one
that is about as far away from the
old time classical system as It is pos
sible to get. Specializing In high
school to such an extent Is an inno
vation which points to radical changes
iu our educational methods, leaning
well over toward the manufacturing
interests of the United States.
"No radical change In the curricu
lum of the Freeport high school is con
templared at present, but in all proba
bility the system will be extended
along special lines looking to the cdu
cation of young men and young wo
men to fit them for the special lines
of work chosen by them.
"Technical studies will he used as
mind trainers just as effectually as the
Greek and I.atln of our old time peda
gogues, and the boys will imbibe some
thing of practical value while they are
still young."—Kansas City Star.
Uate Cake With Coffee Icing.
One-half cup of butter creamed, i
one and one-third cup of brown sugar
added and beat together, two eggs well
beaten, one-half teaspoonful cinnamon. !
one-half teaspoonl'ul nutmeg, one and !
one-half teaspoonfuls baking powder. !
one-half cup sweet milk, one and three- |
quarter cups sifted dour, threc-quar-!
ter cup dates, stones removed. Cut!
up fine and reserve a little of the flour !
to shake over them.
Icing.—Two tablespoonfuls strong, J
strained coffee and the same quantit"
of the white of an egg stirred together, j
Thicken with powdered sugar until !
stiff enough to spread. Allow the cake '
to cool before It is Iced.—lloston Post, j
Getting Down to Facts.
"I love you."
"I've heard that before."
"I worship you madly."
"Loose talk."
"I cannot live without your love." j
"Get some new stuff."
"Will you marry me?"
"Well, now, there's some class to
that."—lndianapolis News.
MAKING ANEW ITALY.
Big Southern Colony's Promoter
Tells of Work Done.
MAY BE KEY TO BIG PROBLEMS'
I
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Scheme Being Tried Near Wilmington,
N. C.i Is Expected to Aid the South
In Solving Negi a Problem and That
of Making Use of Idle Land—Life In
New Italian Settlement.
Convinced that there is still enough
good truck garden land still unoccu
pied along the Atlantic seaboard to
support many ihousauds of his coun
trymen, Felice Ferrero. brother of
William Ferrero, the Italian historian
and sociologist, recently returned to
New York city after a visit of investi
gation and inspection to an experi
mental co-operative Italian colony lo
cated near Wilmington. N. C.
Mr. Ferrero is certain that the exper
iment has reached the point where it
may bo designated as a success, and
be expects the general spreading of
the news of what it has done to turn
a wave of Italian immigration south
ward. Heretofore this immigration
has headed westward, and its deflec
tion into the south is expected to bring
an end to a certain condition that has
existed in the south since the war.
Ati experimental Dutch colon} - , locat
ed also in North Carolina, has so far
succeeded that a group of fifty fami
lies is now being organized in Holland
to come over in the autumn to prepare
for next year's seeding time.
With these combined immigration
movements away from the general
trend of their progress across the
country, Mr. Ferrero is convinced that
the south has seen the end of the day
when it may expect to have the "ne
gro problem" as a special sectional
difficulty and that from now on other
labor will invade the market hereto
fore so universally surrendered to the
descendants of the slaves.
Italian Government Interested.
Mr. Ferrero, who talked freely of
conditions as he found them among
North Carolina Italians and of the
Interest that he and his brother ara
taking in seeing such of their country
men as like the life of farmers trans
planted where there will be an op
i portuuity for them to develop, said:
Tlicre are many orKanlzatlons in Italy
I anxious tn find Rood land, so that they
I can let their people know where best
! to KO. Mere In New York there is an
i Italian labor bureau In I.afayette street
j maintained by the government. It col
; lects Information and gives the benefit of
i Its I:.emigration free to all inquirhr: ltal
t ians. It costs tho government, I should
i say. a year to keep It up. This
i bureau will distribute ai or.-e copies of
the report on the Carolina experiment
I and v.lll advise Italians what they may
, reasonably expect to tind tf they settle
| there.
The new movement, tis Mr. Ferrero
sees it. will affect the negro question,
the problem of getting relief in tho
| congested centers ol' tin? big cities, the
| Immigration question and the matter
; of Increasing the industrial wealth of
the south by turning many waste
I areas into farming sections
Greatly Attached to the Land,
i When asked to state exactly in what
i condition he found the 300 colonists
making up the experimental venture
| at the end of their third season on the
| land he spoke with much enthusiasm.
They're raisins thn finest children you
ever saw—much huskier and healthier
than their half fed brothers and Misters
In Italy Italian peasants, such as these
colonists were, are usually much attached
to the land. With a pateit of land, a bit
of meal to eat and a small lum tucked
away In some corner of the house such a
peasant would be happy Only the most
desperate could be induced to leave.
Hut here after three years of work 1
find a people whose daily diet Includes
sweet potatoes, a (food assortment of veg
etables and even chickens and beer lie
sides this prosperity, their priest assures
me each family has something over
put aside, the product of the sales of the
season's strawberry crop.
The colony has a church and a school,
and all of the younger children are
taught to speak English.
Most of the North Carolina Italians
will come over direct from Italy and wi : l
lie Venetlai - and people no\. farming In
the northern provinces.
Grape and Olive Crops Thriving.
One interesting experiment in North
Carolina has been that of grape ami
olive culture. So far the chief crops
put out of St. Helena, the name of the
Italian colony, have been strawber
ries, potatoes. English beans and cab
bages. wiiile crops of alfalfa, corn and
cotton are being introduced.
Father Donati. tho priest of tin. col
ony, came from a grape and olive
raising family lie has experimented
with both, has a thriving prospect
now and is planning to bring over the
members of his family In the fall with
enough grapevines and young olive
trees to start a large vineyard and
olive grove.
Besides this new venture, Mr. Fer
rero hopes to interest it few scientific
farmers in the settlement so that the
peasant farmers, who adopt new ideas
slowly, will have before them the in
spiration of model farms handled bv
experts in horticulture and agricul
ture. These. Mr. Ferrero hopes, will
do for the Italian settlements what the
agricultural college experiment sta
tions have done for the western and
middle western states.
Besides their work on the farms, he
hopes to see established in New York
another branch of the movement—a
co-operative distributing system in
which the Italian commission mer
chants in New York will keep in close
touch with crop conditions in the col
onies and will prepare to handle speed
ily the shipments of perishable truck
garden crops. New Y'ork Evening
Sun.
Quite a Success.
Wife of the Professor—Charles, here
Is a telegram—an explosion in your
laboratory and the place wrecked.
Professor Thank goodness! Then
that experiment was a success, after
all.—New York Journal.
Cause For Joy.
"Congratulations, old man! I sup
pose you're tickled to death because
It's a boy." -
"Yes; In a few years, now, I'll have
on excuse forgoing to the circus."—
Detroit Free Pres3.
A PUZZLE IH LEPROSY
Eleven Persons From Molokai
Free From the Disease.
RESULT OF RE-EXAMINATION.
Had Been Declared Lepers and Had
Spent From Two to Twenty Years In
Hawaiian Settlement—Nineteen More
to Be Re-examined Legislative
Committee's Discovery.
Is leprosy, after all, curable, or have
men and women and children, too,
wilti no taint of the disease in their
veins been sent in the past to lifelong
exile at the Molokai leper settlement
In the Hawaiian Islands?
These questions have been raised by
the outcome of the re-examination of
eleven persons, each of whom had In
the past been declared a leper and had
spent from two to twenty years In the
settlement. The re-examinations were
made by the most eminent patholo
gists and bacteriologists in the islands.
One of thorn was Dr. Walter P.rincker
hofl', who was seut to Honolulu by
the surgeon general of the United
States three years ago to study the
disease and if possible to discover a
j cure.
I Nineteen mote persons from the set-
I tlement are to be brought to Honolulu
j to be re-examined to determine wlietb
| er they are now lepers.
| These re-examinations were made
j owing to a visit to the settlement of a
| committee of the legislature of Ha
j wail when last in session. This com
mittee found several people there who
showed i utward signs of the dis
ease, and most o." them insisted that
they were not lepers. Afler this visit
Senator Frank Harvey introduced a.
joint resolution requesting the board
of health to bring some thirty persons
named in the resolution from the set
tlement to Honolulu for the purpose of
being re-examined by three physicians*
oue to be chosen by the person him
self, another by the board of health
i and the third by these two. Tho
i board of health brought eleven of the
I thirty to Honolulu, that being as many
j as there were accommodations for at.
I one time at the leper receiving hns
j pital at Kalihi, near Honolulu. The
' other nineteen will lie taken to Iloti
] olulu as fast as there is room for
' them.
! That every one of tho first eleven
j brought should be declared not a leper
1 Is considered remarkable, for, while
I some of them were sent to Molokai
| years ago. before the bacteriological
test was in use, several did not go
there until it had been adopted. They
therefore must have giveu evidence
under the microscope that their sys
i terns contained the bacillus of leprosy.
' Under re-examination the microscope
fails to reveal the presence of the ba-
I eillus. -
, .This has given renewed hope that a
! cure for the disease may yet be found
| either by accident or by research. „\p-
I parentlv since these eleven went to
j the settlement there has been some
thing either In their treatment or in
their dietary or in both which has en
i a bled the system to resist the attacks
of the bacillus and to expel it Anally
BABY TALK.
An Infantile Habit That Sometimes
Sticks and Breeds Trouble.
Once in awhile a rare stammering
case comes to tlie laboratory where
there's nothing the matter with the
child—the matter is with his dear
mamma. In 100."> Dr. Witmer examin
ed a boy of twelve who talked baby
talk—a bright, alert youngster, to all
J appearances normal. Kut nobody could
understand a word he uttered—except
mamma; she understood It all per
fectly. "I—aw—ow—ay" was to her
ear "1 want togo out to play" as
j plain as anything could be It was her
tender custom to reply likewise, and
j she took pride in the thought that she
had never allowed her Willie to asso- !
elate with the children on the block,
j She had encouraged him to be hep
' baby and "kept him from growing up
; too soon" by prattling to him
Except fot his unintelligible lan
guage. the examination did not reveal
a defect, physical or mental. In tha
1 boy, and In. Witmer was forced to
the conclusion that the trouble lay ia
the persistence of an infantile habit of
articulation for which the mother wa»
solely responsible. Through senti
mentality and overindulgence "she had
almost ruined his chances for a use
ful and possibly successful life."
(Psychological clinic, March. litOT.)
Mont lis of painstaking, expert labor
j had to be expended upon him to break
up the habit his mother had carefully
developed before he could even begin
to make himself understood by any
one else.—Dr. Witmer of Vale iu Me-
Clure's Magazine.
His Wise Plan.
"I never have any luck."
"Neither do I," responded the othec
citizen. "Therefore 1 keep out of en
, terprises requiring gobs of luck to bo
a success."— I.ouisville Courier-Journal.
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