| The Great !
| Memorial to |
Washington j
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TP HE public in
jfi: >it. %, I tcr es t in
/■' , ."*% \ George Wash
|f... ?fK ingtoo broadens
urul deepens with
and !he scenes and
memorials of his
grand career are
!w ' '''aßf viewed with ever
growing reverence.
Keilcs, statues, por
traits, etc., of the great man never lose
interest, and in the near future a me
morial is to be erected to his memory
that the entire country may share In
and feel proud of.
For several years the George Wash
ington Memorial association has been
before the public, and a great many
prominent people have been Interested
in it. This movement has received a
new Impetus recently, plans having
been made to give it a wider scope,
which seem to insure complete success
in the undertaking. These plans In
clude giving the patriotic men and wo
men throughout the country a chance
to assist in the good work with sub
scriptions of SI or more and to awaken
interest among the school children atld
let them feci that they have an owner
ship, so to ; ik, in the memorial they
will each lie asked to give the small
snm of 10 cents.
The George Washington Memorial
association was incorporated in the
city of Washington in September,
ISOB. in response to a call made to
the patriotic women of this country In
August of the shtno year. The asso
ciation determined to raise a fund for
the ere'etk'h of a biilldlr ~ to be known
as the George Wasliir con Memorial
building, in commemoration of our first
president and his interest in higher
education in America.
Many, perhaps all, know that Wash
ington in his last will (July, 1799) pro-
Tided $-.">,000 for the endowment of a
university in the District of Columbia.
This legacy is no longer available, aud
all the more, therefore, should we con
sider it a privilege to assist in carry
ing out the thought so often expressed
by Washington ill his various mes
sages to the congress and in his fare
well address, "Promote, then, as an
object of primary importance, institu
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MHH. HEXIIV r. DIMOCK, I'UESIDENT OF
THE GEO ROB MEMORIAL
ASSOCIATION.
tions for the general diffusion of
knowledge." lie uiso urged "the pro
motion of science aud literature."
George Washington was a broad
minded man, and there is no doubt
that if he were living today he would
recognize that such institutions as
Harvard, Yale. I'rinceton, Columbia
Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Stanford aud
many others of similar character have
accomplished the purpose he had il)
mind at that time. But he would alsc
realize that in the general advance in
ail lines of activity, bearing on the
education and welfare of the geople,
there is still a great work to be accom
plished In this general diffusion ol
knowledge and the promotion of sci
ence and literature. At the present
time there are no suitable facilities
for bringing together at Washington
the patriotic, scientific, educational, lit
erary and art activities of our nation
that may need such opportunities as
will be provided.
The building will be dedicated to tin
increase and diffusion of knowledge it
ail lines of human activity that wili
conduce to the advancement of the
welfare of mankind.
it Is to be well located, attractive ir
appearance, practical in plan and con
strut* lon and of the most durable char
actor. It is to be planned so as to fur
nlsh a hi :ne and gathering place foi
national patriotic, scientific, education
al, literary and art organizations thai
may need such accommodations, in
eluding the Washington Acndemy o]
Sciences and its sixteen affiliated so
cieties. It will furnish a place where
all the patriotic societies, both nortl
and south, may testify to their lovt
ior the Father of His Country. The
building will contain a great hall oi
auditorium and room for large con
gresses. such as the recent tubereulo
sis congress: rooms for small and lar K< j
meetings, office rooms and students 1
research rooms.
The Day of Rest.
"And now." said Mr. Fishhook ol
BJllville, "let us he thankful for one
day of rest and get ready for church.'
"Yes." said his wife: "run out anc
chop some wood and milk the cows
and light tin- tire and make the coffo<
and wash the children while I barif
niy hair!"— Atlanta Constitution.
A Reproof.
I "rent—Willie, my father used te
whip me when l behaved as badly :>»
you are doing. Willie—Welt. J -hop*
I'll never have to tell my little bov
that.—Exchange.
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\ Some Odds
And Ends
| Of Interest
—~ '■' HE btisy little
J £ bee, in addition
to its reputa
tion for industry,
gM has also been found
lfT#,,- t0 possess valuable
fewKft-i/ medicinal properties,
n -*B ij and there has been
■ invented an ingen
ious little appliance
M-", jB; I by which they can
B'"4.be imprisoned ready
PHSSfrw for use in treating
patients suffering
h iinillftrra "''t' l rheumatism. In
treating this disease
In this manner the
TIIE BEE VACCI- . . . .
NATO it. BEE ls ulude t0 sting
the patient, and the
invention, which is called a "bee vac
cinator," is placed on the afflicted part
of the sufferer and a knob pressed
down until the angry insect gets busy.
The poison exuded by the sting of
the honeybee has long had a recognized
chemical value, it is known in com
merce as formic acid. This acid,
which is extremely powerful, is a
recognised drug and has many uses.
It has had. besides, for years a recog
nized therapeutic value: The sting of
the honeybee serves to inject this
powerful medicine directly: Among
the homeopaths medicines containing
honeybee poison .'tie employed in the
treatment of Bright* disease, in
dropsy, in eertatVi phases of diphthe
ritic sore throat and for rheumatism.
Many stubborn cases of rheumatism
have been successfully treated by hee
stings.
No doubt most people who have read
of the work of the aviators have given
little thought to just how they steer
their course through the air. Their
THE SHADOW PLATE FOR AERONAUTS,
ships, like the vessels at sea, cannot be
guided by guesswork, and an instru
ment has been invented by which they
are enabled at all times to follow the
direction they have set out to pursue.
This is done by means of the aeronaut
[ ical shadow plate, which consists of a
| circular celluloid plate ten inches in
diameter, with a small pin ten inches
high and one-eighth of an inch in di
ameter mounted vertically on its cen
ter. The plate is mounted in the for
ward part of the upper plane and
close to the aeronaut in such a posi
tion that he can easily see it, the ma
terial of the plane immediately under
the shadow plate being removed. The
sunlight, penetrating the celluloid,
throws a shadoyv of the pin.
The method of using it is as follows:
The aeronaut takes from the chart the
course he wishes to steer by. The
shadow plate is then turned round un
til the graduation for this course is in
lit <• with the lubber point. A list of
th • true bearings of the sun's shadow
during the journey is fixed close to
tli' shadow plate, together with a
watch. The aeronaut as he flies ob
serves the time by the watch and reads
frc n the list the bearing of the sun's
shadow for that time. The aeroplane
is then steered round until the shadow
of the central pin cuts this bearing on
the shadow plate, when the aeronaut
knows that he is going in the right di
rection.
A pony that, should it become balky,
could be picked up and carried along
under one's arm until the lit of stub
bornness passed is now being exhib
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SMALUi&T I'ONY IN THE WOULD.
ited abroad, where it is attracting
great attention, and is soon to be
brought to this country to be shown
throughout America. The animal, said
to be the smallest pony in the world,
is two years old. She, for its name is
Lora, is shown in the accompanying
illustration in the arms of her owner.
Robert Fisher. Upon one occasion
when the pony wns ill he carried her
severnl miles to a veterinary, just as
one might carry a sick child to the
hospital.
Kept Him Busy.
"You haven't had time to tnake any
friends? Then you have lived in vain."
"Not on your life. I've managed to
make some bully enemies."—Cleveland
Leader.
A Hard Job.
Willie Papa, there's a hig black bug
on the celling. Papa (busy reading)—
Well, step on It and don't bother me.—
Boston Transcript.
Suffering.
Suffering overcomes the mind's iaer
tla. develops the thinking powers,
opens up a new world and drives the
■»oul to action Anthony D. Evans.
V; WINDOW GAZING.
A Fascinating Occupation For the
Tourist In Paris.
Window gazing is one of the recog
nized vocations of the tourist in I'iiris.
EveryUmly eUKUges in tins tuscluuliu£
occupation, ami. in trutti, it would be
impossible to re.-ilst the temptation, tor
the most beautiful wares are set forth
in the most artistic manner, and the
only way you can withstand the desire
for possession is to leave the coin of
the realm arid even your letter of
credit at home; otherwise there is no
telling into what extravagance, not to
say useless purchase, you may be per
suaded when probably you have just
gone out for a morning stroll.
Of all these windows the jewelers'
seem to be the greatest magnets. Hut
the bewildering part of it is that to
tb# uian or woman unversed in the
h»\vlml«o of precious stones the imi
tations thereof look quite as good as
the genuine articles. Pearls, diamonds,
rubies, emeralds and so throughout
the long list stones are so perfectly im
itated that it is small wonder many
American women succumb to the
temptation of buying them. Hut there
the temptation does not end. for they
bring them home with all the intent
to dazzle, bewilder and deceive their
unsuspecting relatives and friends
with the magnificence of their sudden
ly acquired wealth of jewels. W omen
whom one would uever suspect of
wearing imitation gems frequent the
shops where they are for sale in Pans
in the most open, not to say brazen,
manner, while the foreign papers fair
ly bristle with advertisements ot re
constructed and imitation gems, which
only goes to show what a lucrative
business it must be,—New York trib
une.
AN OLD BUSYBODY.
What the Bridegroom Thought of tho
Old Native #t the Station.
While wailing for the train the bride
and bridegroom walked slowly up aud
down the platform.
"I don't know what this joking and
guying may have been to you," he re
marked, "but it's death to me. I never
experienced such an ordeal."
"It's perfectly dreadful," she an
swered. "1 shall be so glad when we
get away from everybody we know."
"They're actually impertinent," he
went on. "Why. the very natives"—
At this nnpropitious moment the
wheezy old station master walked up
to them.
"He you goin* to take this train?" he
asked.
"It's none of your business," retorted
the bridegroom indignantly as he
guided the bride tip the platform,
where they condoled with each other
over the Impertinence of some of the
natives.
Onward came the train, its vapor
curling from afar. It was the last
to their destination that day—an ex
press. Nearer aud nearer It came at
full speed; then in a moment it whiz
zed past and was gone.
"Why in thunder didn't that train
stop?" yelled the bridegroom.
"Cos you sed 'twaru't none >of my
business. I has to signal if that train's
to stop."
And as the old station master softly
stroked his board there was a Wicked
twinkle in bis eye.—London Tit-Bits.
Dentistry For a Crocodile.
nattie. the Bronx (New VorUi zoo's
nine foot Indian crocodile, has had sev
en of her long teeth sawed off i !os,. t,
the gums preparatory to being taken
Into inside quarters for her long wi>
ter's nap. Since she went out to tin
iron and concrete summer quarters ;
spring she suffered another atnputa
tlon, that time one which was aci
plished neatly by a smaller croood
jaws, without the help of Keeper i-r
den and besides her shortened to ■ :
she now has only three legs atnl
undiminished tail to help her r
ructious.
A Cood Reason.
Wantanno- Why do you call that hoy
of yours Flannel? I>uzno— Because he
just naturally shrinks from washing.—
London Tit-Bits
The nobleness of life depends ,on its
consistency, clearness of purpose, quier
and ceaseless energy.—Buskin.
A New Delight—
Foods Shot from Guns
There are myriads of homes where Serve it tomorrow morning. Listen
these foods are not new—these deli- to what they say. Then ask them
cious Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice. what food they want next.
The people who know them are Wheat and rice are common foods,
already serving seventeen million prepared in numerous ways. See if
dishes per month. this way is best.
But to millions of others these foods We make all sorts of cereal foods,
remain a new and unknown delight. so it matters little to us which kind
And to those this appeal is addressed. you prefer.
But it means much to you to get
The appeal is to try one package— the food that you like best. Sec if
t just for the children's sake. Puffed Wheat is that food.
Puffed Wheat —10c Puffed Rice —15c
llie.se are the foods invented by I'rof. An- Then the guns are unsealed, and the steam
derson, and this is his curious process: explodes. Instantly every starch granule is
The whole wheat or rice kernels are put into blastC(l into a ,n >' riatl P articles "
sealed gtins. Then the guns arc revolved for . J he kernds of S rain arc expanded e «g h t
sixty minutes in a her.t of 350 degrees. ,mies ' et the c ° ats are unbroken ' the sha I* s
are unaltered. We have simply the magnified
That fierce heat turns the moisture in the grain,
grain to steam, and the pressure becomes tre- O nc package will tell you why people de
mendous. light in them. Order it now.
w Made only by The Quaker Oats Company
STENOGRAPHERS' NOTES-
Perfectly Intelligible Only to the One
Who Wrote Them.
"My stenographer w:isftas<>n 111 «lid-
Jon ly." said a well • known business
(linn thg other day."and us I hud dic
tated some important let tors to blin
which I wanted written at once 1 took
his notebook to a stenographic insti
tution and asked for 11 man to truitt
late the notes. .ludge of my surprise
when 1 was informed that no matter
how good an expert a stenographer
may be lie cannot read the notes of a
colleague."
"This is a common complaint of men
who know nothing of stenography and
have never studied it." said u short
hand reporter recently. "It is true*
however, that Bo stenographer can ac
curately translate another's notes.
This does appear strange, but It must
be remembered that stenography is by
no means a perfect science. In fact,
it Is most imperfect, and there is great
room for improvement. Therefore
every intelligent person who studies
stenograph? after he gets through the
rudiments of it begins to improve il
in bis own' way. invents word signs
and characters a'nd < Manges or niters
those lie bis learned. As a result
every sfenogrhplVt l ! - V notes are stump
ed by bis own Individuality. :t mystery
to another, and therefore, with the ex
ception of words most commonly used.
It would be impossible 10 read anoth
er's notes accurately. New York Her
ald.
EYE OF THE CAMERA.
The Longer It Looks the More It Sees
Within Certain Limits.
Often the eye of the camera will de
cipher documents of which the writing
bad been substantially obliterated by
I age, says a writer In Van Nonion's
Magazine. 1 have successfully copied
with the camera the utterly faded pho
tograph of a classmate of forty years
previous.
Changes iu the pigment of the skin,
undiscovered by the eye. appear with
distinctness ou the sensitive plate, and
it is said that ample warning of np
proachiug disease has been thereby
1 given.
The camera takes pictures of sub
jects which cannot bo made lo appear
on the ground glass and of those which
the, eye of man has never seen. The
liuma 1 eyp can penetrate space no
farther in an hour than in a single
instant. Yet the eye of the camera
will gaze into the sky for hours. look
ing deeper and seeking more wltfi each
second that passes.
Through this attribute of the cam
era a great chart of tlie heavens is now
being made. In this work dlstinguisb
led astronomers and photographers
I throughout the world are co-operating.
Yet not one in a hundred of the stars
already plainly pictured by them was
ever seen by the unaided eye of sci
entists.
A Verbal Speedometer.
Every calling has its technical vocat
ulary. and those who are familiar with
it are often surprised and irritated at
the difficulty other people have in un
derstanding it. A writer in the New
\ ork World tells of an old horseman
in Maine who had run over a man and
was being sued for damages.
The court asked the defendant if he
was driving fast. He answered, "I
was going a pace." The court Uien
said. "Now. kindly tell the gentlemen
of the jury just how fast you were go
ing."
"Well." said the defendant, "I reckon
I was going a clip."
"Well, will you tell the jury bow
fast a clip is';"
"Well, it's going a dito."
"Now. will you tell the jury bow fast
a dite is?"
"Well, a dito's a dite. Anybody
knows what a dite is."
Advantage of Education.
"Are you satisfied with the results of
iTiov course which your daughter fol
lowed rtt college?"
"Perfectly satisfied. She is going to
marry one of the professors."
Excesses in youth are drafts upon
old age. payable about thirty years
p.f'er date.—Chicago News.
THE JEWISH SABBATH.
Its Influence on the Habits of the He
brew Children.
The Hebrew Sabbath, Including Its
complicated preparations. Is rich and
Impressive material for n child's Imagi
nation. On Thursday evening the
mother already prepares dough, goes
to market, cleans the flsh, etc., says
the American Hebrew.
In the morning comes the baking of
"chales" (bread). How bewitching for
a child to watch the mother making
different shapes of dough, smearing It
with egg and decorating It with braids
of different shapes and forms. A Jew
ish child gets the first lesson In model
ing by making make believe "chales."
In the evening the mother prepares
to meet the Sabbath. The child par
takes in the household occupations
and therefore gets habits of industry,
order and regard for the rights and
ideas of others and the fundamental
habit of subordinating his activities to
the general interest of the household.
This is especially true in regard to
Jewish households where everything
seems to be prescribed by law. Before
darkness sets in on Friday the house
wife lights in the dining room extra
candles or a special lamp in houor of
Sabbath and reads the blessing.
Quite often a child not yet able to
talk will cover its face with its little
palms, imitating the gestures of the
devoted mother. The returning from
the synagogue, the appreciative greet
ing "Good Sabbath," the Kiddush, the
blessing over wine, the special menu
and the holiday spirit of ail who par
ticipate have undoubtedly a soothing,
beneficent influence upon the child.
After supper the time is spent In rest
ing.
FIRST SHAPE OF EELS.
Strait of Mossina Revealed Mystery of
the Snakelike Fish.
in the strait of Messina are channels
of immense depth, through which a
wild tide surges, and owing probably
to Irregularities at the bottom there
are whirling eddies which have the
effect of bringing up from the depths
below many marine creatures which
are rarely seen except in the deep sea
trawls.
it was here that the larval form of
a fresh water eel was first discovered,
an incident which threw a blaze of
light ou t(ie lite history of a very mys
terious fish.
All kinds of theories had been given
forth with regard to the propagation
of the eel. Some naturalists declared
they bred in fresh water, others that
they visited the estuaries for spawning
purposes, but thanks to the discovery
off Messina and later captures of tho
eel in its larval form it is practically
certain that after mature eels drop
down our rivers in autumn they hie
them to exceedingly deep water in the
sea and there deposit their eggs.
From the egg conies a little ribbon
shaped creature, the larval form. In
due course this changes into an eel of
still smaller size, strange to say, and
these small eels or elvers afterward
ascend our rivers and there remain
until they reach maturity, when they
in their turn descend to the sea and
history is repeated.—London Telegraph.
Horses !n Literature,
In sacred writ it was deemed worthy
of record that Solomon imported horses
from Egypt, while the description of
the war steed in Job is accounted one
of the finest parts of that piece of lit
erature. in Greek myth and English
satire the qualities ascribed to Centaur
and the Houyhuhnms testify sufficient
ly to the high regard in which the
horse has ever been held. The name
of Bucephalus is inseparably coupled
with that of Alexander. At least one
Ilomun emperor had divine honors paid
to his charger. Who can picture Don
Quixote sleeping on his armor with
out seeing the princely ltoslnaute teth
ered under the dewy night? Aud the
stirring incidents of John Gilpin's ride
conclusi>ely proved that the racing'
blood of far removed equine ancestors
Was not entirely wanting in the de
generate descendant.
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Not Merely Fractured.
"Does your uew baby break your
rest much?"
"Break it!. He pulverizes it!"— E
xchange. i
BIG TIM'S TALK
TO THE BOWERY
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Senator Sullivan's Denial of
White Slave Traffic Charges.
DEFENDS VIKTUE OF WOMEN.
Popular Leadar In Speech to His Con
stituents •enounces With Emotion
Many N«w York Mayoralty Cam
paign Statements as Cruel Lies.
)
Farmer Congressman Timothy D.
•ullivan of New York, now state sena
tor, who is known in his Bowery dis
trict as "Big Tim," stood before an
1 enthusiastic crowd of his constituents
| in Miner's Bowery theater the other
| night and, with tears running down his
| big face at times, answered the
j charges that were made in New York's
| recent mayoralty campaign against the
methods of the Sullivan clan, of which
lie is the leader, and, with his voice
j shaking with emotion, denied that he
j ever had knowledge of, much less
| countenanced, such a thing as is known
I as the white slave traflic. lie said:
| "The trouble with the reformers is
j that they don't know our traditions
j down here. That's why they think be
| cause I've got a little money there
| must be something wrong, that I must
bo getting money in sonic crooked way
|or I wouldn't stay here. I'll tell you
j why 1 stay here.
j "1 was born in poverty, one of six
| children, four boys and two girls. The
j boys used to sleep in a three-quarters
j bed. not big enough for two, and the
j girls in a shakedown on the floor,
j Some nights there was enough to eat
j and some nights there wasn't. , And
I our old mother used to sing to us at
; night, and maybe it would be next day
before we would think that she had
| been singing, but that she had gone to
| bed without anything to eat.
Thieves From Necessity,
j "That's the kind of people we come
' from, and that is the kind of mothers
j that bore us down here. If we can
I help some buy or some father to an
j other chance we are going to give it
jto them. The thieves we have down
I here ain't thieves from choice. They
1 are thieves from necessity, and rieces
, slty don't know any law. They steal
j because they need a doctor for some
dying one or they steal because there
ain't any bread in the house for the
children.
"There's something here written by
| a gentleman named Turner. lie's not
j so bad. even it he has been writing
, horrible stuff, but I can't say as much
for the people who have been paying
him. I've been looking Turner up.
lie's got three children and a wife,
and they might have been starving.
I and a tuan who has children starving
| will do anything.
I "Now we come to the last of all—'
I the white slave talk. My God: They
have put me in between thieves, ami
| I'm not the first man who has been
pilloried between thieves! I've been
living here all tny life, and 1 never
knew a man engaged in this business,
aud 1 won't stand for this. I am not
going to say anything, but this man
Turner had better keep out of this i
district.
Advises Mr. Whitman.
"T've never professed to be more
than the average man.l don't want j
you to think I'm very good, for I've j
done a lot of wrong things. I'm just !
an average man. but I've told you of !
that old mother of mine, what she did I
for me. and 1 want to say here before '
you all that there is no man on earth |
who believes in the virtue of women I
more than I do.
"Whitman says he believes in these |
tbi,ngs, aud he says that when lie is j
elected district attorney he is going to j
start an office on the east side He !
don't have to do that. He'd better
•start one up by the Union League club
and get after the people who's trying
•to form blind pools and who meet
there to shove up the price of meat a
■teat or two a pound.
How Ho Began to Give Away Shoes.
"We do enough bad things, and
when we do good things they hadn't
ought to be distorted so they will
seem bad. Fourteen years ago 1 be
gan giving Christmas dinners and
shoes away to the poor. Some one had i
said the Sullivans give the people a j
little turkey and a pair of shoes aud
rob them the rest of the year. As
I'm the Sullivan that does this they
must mean me. and I'm going to tell
you how 1 got that idea of giving
away shoes.
"It was way back in 18715, and a boy
named Sullivan was going to the Elm
street school, and there was a Miss
Murphy who was a teacher. This
boy had an old pair of shoes, and one
day she asked the boy to stay after
school. He thought some other boy '
had done something and put it up to
him. and he was goiug to stand for it.
So he said, 'Miss Murphy, if I've done
anything let me know, because I want
to get away and sell papers,' and she
told the boy he hadn't done nothing (
and gave him an order. That order j
was to Timothy Brennan. brother of '
a big Tammany leader, and he gave
me an order for a pair of shoes, l
needed them shoes then, and 1 thought
If I ever got any money 1 would give
shoes to people who needed them,
and I'm going to buy shoes for people
just as long as 1 live. And all tha
people on earth can't stop me from
doing what 1 think Is right by calling
me names."
Welsh Nstional Costume.
When the French made a half heart
ed attempt to invade Great Britain In
179" a landing was made at Fishguard,
Wales, but the soldiers of Napoleon"
were frightened off by the sight of a
great number of Welsh girls and wo
men. whom they mistook at a distance
for soldiers on account of their red
dresses and tall black hats. That is
still the national costume of tne Welsh
women.
To have a respect for ourselves
guides our morals, aud to hare a def
erence for others guides our manners.
—Sterne.
DIMINUTIVE FARMS.
j The Way Redl Estate Is Divided Up In
Portugal.
I The Portuguese tire an extremely
conservative people. Every man fol
lows rigidly the methods employed by
his father and forefathers In very,
many parts of the country the. olfli
Wooden plows are stf 11 used.
When a man dies, instead of one or
the heirs taking the wlj>>ln property
and paviiig' the remaining heirs fot
their parti the whole property is di
vided into as many parts as there are
heirs. More than tills, each separate
part of the property is Ihus divided. '
Thus, if the property cot xt ts of tea
acres of pasture land, eighty of vine
yard aud ten of grain land and there
are ten helr3, each heir will receive
one acre each of grain and pasture lan<t
and eight acres of vineyard. Tills proc
ess has been going on for a very long
time, so that now In the most fertile
part of Portugal the land is divided
into Incredibly small portions.
The immediate result of this, accord
ing to the United States consular re
ports, is that the product of the land
is barely sufficient at best to sustain
its owners. South of the river Tagus,
on the other hand, there are enormous
tracts of excellent land lying unused,
but it has been found impossible to in
duce the farmers of the north to mow.
into this region and take up large hold
ings.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
WHITEWASHING COAL.
Not Done For the Ssks of Neatnsss,
but to prevent Thefts.
Persons who have been somewhat
astonished by having whitewashed
coal delivered to them will be inter
ested to know that the whitewashing
j is not done to improve the appearance
or to increase the burning qualities.
The treatment neither improves nor
harms the fuel.
It is a detective scheme on the part
of the railroads to locate and to pre
vent theft of the coal as it is hauled
from the mines to the consumer.
These depredations amount to thou
sands of tons annually, and the rail
roads are the sufferers, as it is up to
them to deliver as many tons at their
destination, often a thousand miles
away, as were weighed in when the
car was turned over for transportation.
| Two or three tons may be removed
| from a carload containing forty tons
I without attracting attention to its de
' creased quantity until the car is again
placed on the scales. To locate th®
loss, says Popular Mechanics, limewa
ter is sprayed over a carload of coal.
In a short time the water has evapo
rated, leaving a load of white coal.
Then removal of any coal leaves a big
black spot, which is quickly noticed by
inspectors and station agents and the
leak found and stopped.
A Nation of Borrowers.
Zanzibar appears, from a consular
report, to be a place of universal bor
rowing. "Nellher the Arab tior the
I Swabili." says the report, "has the
slightest idea of thrift. The former,
wheti he has sold his cloves, immedi
ately spends the proceeds in entertain
ing or in the purchase of European
articles for which he has little or no
use. ITe then mortgages his property
at a ruinous rate of interest or sells
his next year's crop in advance at a
price which would hardly pay for its
harvesting, with the inevitable result
that be is always up to his eyes in
debt. The Swahili. if lie happens to
I be out of debt at the beginning of tho
I month, spends all his pay within a
I few days in food or native dances and
| has to beg. borrow or steal sufiieienr
j to maintain himself for the rest of tho
| mouth. The money lender is In both
i cases the Indian, and the interest
] which he charges varies from 30 up to
j .100 per cent."
Managing a Servant.
One housewife declares that at last
j -die has solved the servant problem,
i "Formerly I had untold trouble with
! my maids." she said. "They'd do well
| for awhile, aud then they'd deteriorate
j so that 1 simply couldn't keep them.
! So I hit on this pbui: When I noticed
a falling off in tlw last maid's work
1 went into the kitchen and told her
that, in addition to her Used wages,
she should have fiO cents extra every
week ithat she did well. When she
was oul.v fairly good I'd give her a
quarter, but on the week.- when sh«
displeased me she'd get no !iiug. Nine
weeks out of tea she gels l r half dol
lar. It. pleases her immen-'ly, and I
find the plan well worth w.ile in the
better service it secures ioe."—New
York Tribune.
The Post's Woe.
"I have always been a reader of
your poetry." begau Mrs. (i us lie.
"1 am glad," replied Algernon
Charles Mystic, "that some one under
stands me."
"Ob, but that is what 1 have been
hoping to meet you for. I wanted you
to explain."— Philadelphia North Amer
ican.
All Dull.
Wife—Here's another invitation to
dine at tho Flat leys. What a bore
those occasions are! Hub—Yes: evea
their dinner knives are dulL a
annum mi .<
A. rtolla tolo
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