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By Henry Fe
“Atlantic
Nos. HE west-bound
A Ye Express running to-
Oo © wara Chica rattlingover
of R bridges, through
© cuts ‘and g contemps
squousiy past the small. unimportant
stations. The afternoon was drab and
dreary, the landscape traversed by the
road never had great claims to at-
tractiveness, and to-day. the absence
of contrasting light and shade com-
pletely stripped it of its even mediocre
interest. A A4arizzly f had settled
upon the world, cioaking with gray
the fields and woods
brushing the
voking mist.
With one
were dull
was; to he
and buildings and
car windows with a pro-
exception the passengers
and disgruntled. Nothing
seen outside, and little in-
side. Even the train-boy had subsidéd
into ‘gloomy despair, recognizing the
futility of trying to dispose of his
wares to such an unresponsive com-
pany. . 3 A
The only
dence
trace of animation in evi-
adown the aisle of the whole
train was found in the’ coach behind
the smoker. Here a baby lustily pro-
tested against goodness knows whit,
and here a group of sympathizing kin
endeavored to comfort him. Certainly
he could not rightly complain of neg-
lect. He was being regaled with at-
tentions the most solicitous, and espe-
cially from his custodian—a girl of
fifteen, who patted him and danced
him and tempted him with an endless
variety of distractions. But her wiles
were in vain. He refused to be turned
aside from the shrill recital of his
woes, real or imaginary
Occupying as double
Horace Kilroy. general
of the western division of the road,
fumed and remonstrated under his
breath. He repented having come into
one of the ordinary coaches, but, on
the other hand. how otherwise was he
to pursue his pet method of keeping
posted on all the workings of his de-
partment? - He argued that unless he
sometimes doffed his official privilege
of private
ticket, like everybody else. he could
not gain the complete knowledge which
he was after. He was thus brought
into close contact with patrons and
employes, and if he was enabled to re-
main incognito so much the better.
In truth. the indulgences of his hob-
by had its disadvantages also, and
was now putting the finishing polish
on what he considered to be the most
disagreeable trip he ever had taken
over his line. But he was determined
10 stick it out. He had encountered a
number of offending matters in both
management and manners, and he was
headed homeward with his notebook
full of memoranda which boded ili for
his subalterns.
In the Chicago office the forae of
clerks was waiting in fear and trem-
bling the "arrival of the executive.
From a single curt, decisive message
addressed to the chief clerk all appre-
hended that trouble was in store for
somebody. Whenever the general su-
seat opposite,
superintendent
perintendent came back cross and ner- |
vous his immediate subjects paid the
penalty for being present.
Superintendent Kilroy gazed on the
baby as on an intolerable nuisance.
He made a resolve that he would pro-
pose to the managenient of the system
the introduction, as an experiment, ¢f
a special coach, noise-proof, for the
conveyance of babies and party. No
doubt the traveling public would haii
this as a blessed innovation. :
Perhaps he would favor the probib-
iting the carrying of children without
an adult escort. Here was a case in
point across the aisle. Reclining halt
at length in his corner, from beneath
his hat tipped over his eyes he wrath-
fully scrutinized the “case.” Five
children unattended—one a baby, and
the eldest one a mere chit—outrageous.
Had a mother or other mature person
been with them cf course that baby
would ‘not be acting so; it would he
quiet somehow. The superintendent
possessed vague ideas conc erning ba-
bies, he Paine a bachelor.
The little family obtruded itself upon
the superintendent's observation rath-
er more than he desired. He could
shut it out from neither sight nor hear-
ing. The fact was very irritating. He
ras of the opinion that at least two of
the children badly needed washing.
Yet conscientiously he could not blame
the busy young body in charge.
She herself was disheveled, but was
doing her best. She had a worried.
motherly way about her that was
quite at variance with the two slender
flaxen braids hanging down her back.
Her face was round and pink. and her
eyes were a clear gray-blue. She wore
a plain, sober-colored frock, with none
of those prefty ribbons and dainty
tucks so dear to the heart of any
However, she bore an air of neatness,
as much neatness as was compatible
with the intimate supervision of four
active juniors—a miss ‘of eight. a miss
of six, a rogue of three, and a regular
rascal assuredly, no more than ten
months. With these to right and to
a huge telescope
from the ru
even were
Jeft and in front, and
bag threatening her
above—ah, what a
not the baby crying incess:
Imbued with the firm
not only infants, but
should be restricted to that car
he had in project, finally the supe
tendent desperately appealed to what
few winks he simply must have de-
ished shrieks. He
spite the und
had just succ
threshold o
on his ba
seat distu
in skirting
light
1 a
car and pass, and rode on a,
‘blankly
BABY’ S VICTORY Jt
Sabin.
his- eyes and one of the smailer
of his neighbors standing at his knee,
and looking with awe at his kid gloves.
He impatiently drew in. his hand (the
saw
boy's hands were sticky), and his vis-
itor retreated, alarmed. !
Ah! Ah! the baby was
shouting.
The supe now wide
awake, knew that sleep would not ap-
proach him ‘again with ‘these condi-
tions prevailing. He had lost his op-
portunity, and he grumbled and kicked
Lis feet with, impo.ent wrath. i
Although one after another of her
band, with the. exception of the inl-
fant, was constantly at the fee water
tank, and each time brought back, as
in duty bound, the tin cup for her usé.
it was a question whether the head of
the flock derivéd much benefit from
these efforts. The passage of the cup
was hazardous with so. many larches
and other disastrous experiences! Be-
sides, she divided with the baby. Alt
last she ~cald no longer resist thirst
aggravated from time to time by a
few drops, and she ventured’ an’ ex-
pedition on her own account: :
Ostensibly ‘the baby: was left in-the
care of the three remaining childreu,
but in reality, owing to the fact that
this trio at once shyly followed the
leader up the aisle, he was abandoned]
to his fate. Promptly he rolled off the
seat, into the aisle, and almost under
the dismayed superintendent. "There
was nothing else to do—the superin-
tendent stooped and gingerly rescued
him. The baby’s cries had been inter-
rupted by the accident, and they did
not now recommence, He stared
at his: preserver. Each was
afraid of the other.’ P
The state of mental apprehension
was relieved by the flurried reappear-
ance of the youthful nurse. With a
flushed countenance she hastened to
lighten the superintendent of the bur-
den lying so awkwardly in his arms.
To her overtures the baby responded
with an energetic scream of objec-
tion.
“Sh-sh-sh!” said the girl. “Come,
now.”
“It seems to prefer me, doesn't it?”
huskily admitted the superintendent,
set back by the change of .pro-
gramme. The baby, clinging to him
with astonishing strength, was quiet
once more.
“Yes sir,” replied the girl,
barrassed shyness.
“Perhaps I'd better
if that will stop its crying. -Maybe it
will go to sleep.” he suggested. ing
on a possible reprieve for himself and
his suffering neighbor. '
#1 doen't know, sir,”
girl, doubtfully
with em-
keep it a while,
seiz
answered the
“Well, we'll see,” he continued look-
ing down at the small being on his
lap. “Am I holding it right?”
“Yes. sir:” lhe doesn’t mind having
his legs twisted a little,” assured the
girl. “When he gces to sleep you can
lay him down. But I think I ought
to take him.”
“No. indeed,” interposed the super-
intenderit, in memory hearing those
appalling sounds renewed.
He sat there stiffly, bolt upright,
not daring to move, the baby clasped
in his arms, and he felt very silly.
This was the first baby that Le ever
nad handled. and he was over forty.
On his part the baby was peering up
with all his might, but his eyes were
becoming drowsy.
“You can sit here if you like, where
you can watch,” said the superinten-
dent to the girl, indicating the seat
facing him. “You don’t mind riding
backward?’ he added, politely.
“Oh. no, sir.” she declared; and she
slipped in. The other three children,
who had formed a ‘wondering audi-
ence, crowded and clamored after
her.
“Where are. you going?’ inquired
the superintendent.
“Fargo. in Dakota,”
manner not yet free
“We've lost all our
safed Miss® Eight-year-old, frankly.
“That's too bad! How did it hap-
pen?’ asked the superintendent.
“1 don't know, sir,” said the older
girl. “Only after we got on this train
I found 1 didn't have any more.”
‘and what will you do?’ pursued
the superintendent.
“Our tickets take us to Chicago, and
when we cet there I'll te legraph papa,’
she réplied, Ler
from timidity.
money.” vouch-
. “So this is Hilda?’ he asked. “Then
| what is -your name?’ 5
: “Louise—Louise Swanssan. And
that is Gusta, and that is Johty and
the baby is Peter.
“Mamma’'s dead,” announced Hilda,
in a ‘matter-of-fact way. °
“Yes,” explained Louise, with grow-
ing assurance in her new. acquaint:
ance. “We lived in Byport, Penn
vania, and papa went gut to Ds
year ago, and when. mam
died he sent for us to come to him;
was counting on having us ail "as
as he: got. settled.” Louise's
eves filled with tears.
‘Well’ well, that’s a
and st you in charge!
he superintendent.
ay—I like you!” stated Frida, can-
Si thrusting her hand into’ his.
Tlis . frank avowal rather startled
the superintendent, who was-not used
to such overtures. ‘Thank you,” he
answered reservedly, not wishing to
court further advances from the sus-
ceptibl> but grimy youwig lady. ~
IFutile was his dodging. In _ an in-
stant, without warning, came" an ‘at.
tack from another quarter.'«¥Master
John it was who unceremoniously
plumped down upon his 1ap. and af-
fectionately embraced him.
“Oh, Johnnie, ‘don’t!” pleaded Louise,
Lorrified at the audacity.
“Never mind; let him stay,’
the superintendent, bravely.
Johnnie stayed, to be joined within a
moment ‘by. Gusta, equally as ambi-
tious. Gig
Said the grinning brakeman, who
long ago had recognized the ‘official,
but had pretended ignorance, to the
conductor, who also was in the secret,
over a
Lie
soon
Jjourney—
yeulated
long
’ spoke
sight of this same superintendent con-
veying those children into the station
would have clapped the climax!
“You're to stay here, remember, un-
til five o'clock,” he instructed, when |
Louise and her youngsters and bag
and all had been safely ensconced up-
on a seat in the waiting-room. ‘One
of the men in red caps will tell you
when your train is ready—and I'll see
to it that they take you to Fargo.”
“Do you own all the railroads?’
asked Hilda, admiringly.
“Not quite, Hilda,” he replied.
“Goodbye
On his way to the door he Dbeck-
oned to a station attendant. ‘ George,”
he directed. ‘you sce those children
over there—four and a baby. Look
after them, will you, please? They're
friends of mine—going to Fargo, and
I'll depend on you to put them aboard
the five o'clock L. & D, And, George.”
handing him a dollar,” “you might get
some sandwiches and oranges and
other truck. They've lost their money.
Children always want to eat, I
lieve.”
“Yes, sir; I'll look after them, Mr.
Kilroy, sure,” asserted the man.
With this the sup.rintendent hur-
ried to the curb, sprang into a cab,
and was whirled off to his office.
All the day the atmosphere through-
out his suite had been depressing, for
it was suspected that he was return-
ing in a temper which meant a gener-
al and brusque upheaval. No clerk,
however humble, but feared that the
first victim of. displeasure might be
himself. The superintendent's heels
striking sharply along the fioor of the
corridor were heard in the outer office,
and by that subtle species of wireless
telegraphy termea “intuition”
word was passed from desk, “The ‘old
.man’ is coming!
He opened the door—and he was
whistling! Actually- whistling! As he
strode through his own private apart-
ment he whistled on! The clerks
glanced at one another in relieved sur-
prise. A smile showed here and there,
and it seemed as if the sun were shin-
ing again. Hardly had Mr. Kilroy en-
tered his sanctum ere he rang his bell
imperatively.
“Send in Johnson,” he ordered.
Johnson, not entirely devoid of fore-
boding, obe ved the summons.
“I want you to make out an appli
cation—in the usual way—to the L. &
D. for transportation to Fargo—charge
to my account—for Louise Swansson
and family, S-w-a-n-s-s-0-n—got it?
All right. Go over with it yourself
and wait for the pass, and take it
down to the station and give it to Miss
she returned proudly. Swansson. She’s in the ladies’ wait
“And where's papa?’ persisted the ing-room with three children and a
superintendent. baby. She's to go out on the five-
“Why, he's in Dakota, on a farm, o'clock. A girl of fifteen, three other
and he’s to meet us in Fargo.’
«But I'm afraid you can't telegraph
to Fargo without money to pay for
the message; and, besides, how is he
to know there's a telegram for Him?’
excepted the superintendent.
+QOh!” exclaimed the girl, puzzled
for a moment, but nevertheless un-
daunted.
“Papa’ll send us money,”
affirmed Eight-year-old,
against the superintendent's knees.
eful,. Hilda, you'll wake
vd tte girl. "1 gues
sir, if
-. He's asleep, 1 think.”
superintendent cautiously
the recommendation.
was conducted to a Succ
and the thorou
slum 1
trustfully
Miss squirm-
1” admonishe
him
lay dowi now,
cushion.
» immedi
two others wrig-
at h
s elbow,
y
only a
him.
children and a baby—you can’t help
find them. The chances are youll
hear the baby before you reach the
station.”
The bewildered clerk had sense
enough left to smile at the conclud-
ing sarcasm of his superior. :
“Yes, sir: I'll go. at once,
stammered.
‘“‘And—here,
cive the young lady this.
the baby.”
“I—I hope you had a pleasant trip,
Mr. Kilroy,” he hazarded, boldly,
a test to know the worst—if there was
a worst. Perhaps the superintendent's
urbanity was only surface deep.
“Oh—quite pleasant; in fact, unusual-
ly pleasant, thank you,” averred the
superintendent unconcernedly. “Things
are in good shape. Now don’t fail to
tre wsportation to the station.
ght away.” .
clerk made his exit, with
h the open door drifted the
nd of Superintendent Kil-
satisfied and
Home Compan-
sir,” he
Johnson — you might
Tell her it's
for
s the
him thr
welcome §
whistle
Y 1oy’s —chee
reassuring.—Woman’s
ion.
“Look at thie ‘old man’ will you! Reg- Too Quiet. .
ular «happy -family, isn’t he! Some- at I hear she had a very quiet wed-
body ought to take a photograph of | 4iD&-
him!’ - : grep “Quiet? I should say so. She ran
- 4 V o
Could the superintendent's many away wih a young PER aro
friends and associates, business. and Ah! That's the sort of quie i
social, have seen him thus engaged ding that usually Jonas to a noisy di-
. 3 . yy S
when the train pulled into Chicago | YOrce: —Philadelphia Press.
they would have gazed agape, thunder- Comparing Recordse
struck, mearly incredulous. And the “I can never
be- |
the
as
Chilly.
The violet came out too socn
The big, wide world to view,
i. any one who looks can see
$ lite nose is Blue.
—New York Times.
The Test.
First Chauffeur— Did he keep his
‘presence of mind after the accident?’
Second Chauffeur—“Yes; as soon as
the doctor came he asked him to pre-
‘scribe for the auto.” ‘
ieee
In Style.
Gunner—“That is: the toniest fish
‘peddler in town.”
Guyer—“I don’t see Viv.
toots a horn.”
Gunner—“Yes, but it is an automo-
‘bile horn.”—Columbus Dispatch. E
He still
Knew Her Way.
Towne—'“That was a pretty parasol
your sister had yesterday.”
© Browne—“‘Yes, my wife
‘get one like it.”
Towne—*“Ah, she told you 0?”
Browne—“No, but I told her not to.”
Phildeinhin Press. !
PIE
is going to
“No, indeed,” she said,
be your wife. Why, 1 had half a dozen
offers before yours.
“Huh!” rejoined the young man in
the case. “That's nothing. I proposed
to at least a dozen girls before I met
you. »_Chicdgo Daily News.
An Ounce of Preventione
&t
Nd 3
ot
roads sa
he a A
country
“Why
crooked?”
are your
“So automobiles cannol
speed.’
that the
'—Jugend.
rtm
Insinuating.
“Who owns that Paintivg? ?
“It is mine now.”
“Well done.”
“But 1 am not the artist.
buyer.”
“Again I say well done.”
“Do you mean, sir, the picture or
me?’
I am the
Nothing But Action.
“Js there much action in the new
play you appeared in last night?”
psked Mr. Walker Tighs.
“Weld, 1 guess yes,” replied Mr.
Stormington Barns. “I was kept on
the: move all evening dodging vegeta-.
bies and eggs that had seen -beiter
days.”
It’s Different ‘Now.
“Js Tim Slimmers still paying atten-
tion to Mandy Tompkins?’ asked the
man who had been away from home
for some timé. i
“No,” answered Cott, “They
don’t either of ‘em pay any ’tention to
the other. They're married.’—Wash-
ington Star.
or
Legal Deduction.
“Ah, my friend,” said the passenger
with the unbarbered hair, “what can be
more delicious than clear, cold water in
the early morn, fresh from the pump Vid
.“Water,” rejoined the hardware
drummer, “is certainly a good thing.
By the way, are you in the ilk busi-
ness ?’—Chicago Daily News.
rt hae
Cause For Prides
Naggsby—“Simley certainly has rea-
sons to be proud of his wife.”
Mrs. Naggsby—' ‘Why do you think
S07
Naggsby—*“She doesn’t assume the
look of a martyr or try to change the
subject when he attempts to tell a
funny story.”—Detroit Tribune.
Sarcasm.
Mr. Sapphead—‘“Charlie Hiroll has
actually disgraced his family by going
into trade.”
Miss Sulfuric—‘Let me see, he had |
already committed forgery, embezzle- |
ment and one or two other things, had
he not?’
Mr. Sapphead—“Yaas.”
"Miss Sulfuric — “Well, what could
you expect of a fellow like that?”
Discouraged.
“I'm downright discouraged,” said
the man who always looks on the dark
side of life. “That's what I am; down-
right discouraged.”
“What's the trouble?’
“Rvery summer thatI can remember
has produced a day hat broke all pre-
vious records for heat.
“What of it?’
it out fos yourself.
eps up the pace for five {
Washington ar.
“Well, figure
Suppose it ke
r six years more?
TWO KILLED, MANY HURT.
Excursion Train Meets Passenger
Head-Cn Near New Castle—Vic-
tims Were Buried in Wreckage.
A heavily laden excursion tra 1in,
bound for the Stoneboro from
New Castle, collided head-on with a
regular passenger train on the Penn-
sylvania railroad a mile south of
New Wilmington Junction. The acci-
ednt caused the death of .two men
and the injury of more than 30
others, two of whom are likely to
die, and 21 of whom ware ‘very badly
hurt. The dead are: 1. : ©.) Mask:
ray, New Castle, engineer of regular
passenger ? / Cannon,
Stoneboro,
train.
passenger
Coroner W. H.
Washington was asked if he had been
When Sipe of
notified of the death in Robinson
township of David White, concerning
whom a Pittsburg newspaper printed
a sensational story of murder and
robbery, the coroner said he had re-
ceived’ no official notification of Mr.
White’s- death, that he. had taken no
action, and had no intention of taking
any. Coroner Sipe said that in con-
versation with neighbors of, Mr
White he had learned that death was
due, te pneumonia, as stated by Dr.
Marlin, of Clinton, who had charge of
the case.
Jessie Henderson of Mt. Pleasant,
was acquitted of the murder of Perry
Lowry. of Blairsville at; Pleasant Uni-
ty on July 25 at Greensburg. Self-
defense was proved: Clark Neil,
charged with the murder of E. H.
Stahlnecker at Blairsville Inter-
section, was acquitted. Neil testified
that upon returning home one night
he met Stahlnecker and ‘spoke to
him. He alleges that Stahlnecker
made a movement as if to draw a re-
volver. Neil claimed he then shot,
thinking he was about to be at-
tacked. a. ~
An affidavit of a new political
party called the Lincoln party was
filed in the prothonotary’s office at
Somerset by Alexander B. Groff, edi-
tor of the Somerset County Democrat
and chairman of the Democrat Coun-
ty Committee. The affidavit is
sworn to by Peter Heflley, of Somer-
set township; E. D. Glessner, of
Stoney Creek township; Solomon D.
Shoemaker, Haywood T. Montgom-
ery and Samuel F. Sharrah, of Som-
erset borough, all qualified voters re-
siding in the county.
The grand jury at Waynesburg re-
turned true bills against John
Straight, the Aleppo township farm-
er recently placed in jail for assault
with intent to kill his daughter,
Miss Jessie Straight, and for other
crimes against her. The girl was
brought here from Washington hos-
pital to testify against her father,
She has almost recovered from the
five bullet wounds inflicted by him.
but both hands will be permanently
crippled. A 32-caliber bullet is still
lodged near the base of the brain.
Driven desperate by jealousy over
attentions her husband had been pay-
ing to her unmarried sister, Mrs.
Elizabeth Mercer, wife of Joseph L.
Mercer, of New Castle, drank two
ounces of carbolic acid at her home
and died within a few minutes, in
terrible agony. Her husband witness-
ed the desperate deed and was
severely burned upon the hands by
the fiery acid while struggling with
his wife to prevent her swallowing it.
The pottery plant of the Shenango
China Co., which was last week pur-
chased by local capitalists at public
sale, under the receiver, Attorney
Eugene N. Baer, was put in operation
at New Castle by the new owners.
About 150 men are now employed and
‘the plant will be run full turn, giv-
ing work to 250 men, as soon as the
order of sale is officially confirmed.
Frederick Gerthing, of Sharpsville,
has had stomach trouble for a number
of years. On Sunday he was seized
with vomiting spells, and during one
of the paroxysms a live frog came
from his stomach. It was over an in-
ch in length and was alive. -Gerthing
placed it in chloroform and is now ex-
hibiting it to his friends. His stom-
ach dees not trouble him now. and he
has developed a wonderful appetite.
Judge James M. Galbreath has
made an order changing the time of
holding License Court at Butler,
from the third Monday of June to the
first Monday of February each year,
and fixing the manner of advertise-
ment, which caused so much trouble
in the last License Court. The first
court under the new order will be
held in next February.
Ralph Smith and William Hender-
son, aged, 14 and 15 years, respect-
ively, of Franklin, sentenced to the
Morganza reformatory, escaped from
the county jail. They were confined
on the third flcor. They cuit their
way through the ceiling into the gar-
ret. Tieing two blankets and a ham-
mock end to end, they slid down their
improvised rope to the ground.
Michael Patrucelli, a watchman on
the Pennsylvania railroad, was found
near - Juniata with his skull crushed
and about $600 which he is known
to have carried about his. person
missing. He died two hours later.
Charles. Hudspath, aged 20 years,
was fatally scalded by the bursting of
a. steam pipe underneath the boiler
of the Penn Gas Coal iCo’s No. 3
mine at Blackburn, near Greensburg.
State Health Commissioner Dixon
has been in communication with re-
presentatives of the various munici-
palities of the State in regard to
pollution of streams and the need of
more efficient systems of sewage dis-
posal. The: officials of ..Reading,
Conshohocken and Allentown have
been advised that better sanitary
methods must be found.
n¢ journeymen plumb-
New Castle, believe they are
the verge of victory in the trouble
has been. on here for. seven
s_ four firms having signed their
The st
ers at
on
that
INTENSE HEAT PRODUCES PRECIOUS
STONES.
Ecientists Have Succeeded in Plucking
Real Diamonds nnd Rubies From the
Crucible of the Furnace.
Recent advices from I‘rance state
that Professor Moissan, the eminent
scientist and inventor,” has actually
succeeded in making genuine dia-
monds and rubies. He employs fer
this purpose the electric furnace,
which has heen so improved that &
degree of heat can be ‘produced ap-
proaching the extreme temperatures
which were undoubt-diy a factor in
the formation of minerals and gems in
the interior of the earth.
The rubies obtained are of
size, weighing ten or fifteen carats,
and in “quality and
large
color equal and
even surpass those found in the earth.
The natural forces attending the for-
mation of diamonds seem to haye
“been more complicated, and so far the
diamonds resulting from the efforts of
the scientists have been very small,
but still they are positively identified
as the carbon ecrystal—the diamond.
They are remarkably clear and bright,
and on a small scale a3 fine specimens
_as nature's own product.
The electric furnace has enriched
chemistry with a whole series of new
compounds. Probably the one of most
value to mankind at large is Calcium
Carbide. The simple application of
water to Calcium Carbide generates
the gas Acetylene, which is now being
commonly used for lighting
The peculiar merits of Acetylene
light are its brilliance and high candle
power, ease of installation, economy,
and its adaptability for lighting build-
inzs of every description, regardless
of their location. i
Many Russian Holidays. ,
Russian days of religious and civil
observances are numerous beyond
reason, and become a sort of -servi-
tude, hampering labor and all com-
mercial enterprises. It has been
pointed -out that in all Protestant
countries the farmer has about 310
days to work in. In Catholic coun-
tries where holidays have not been
limited by statute workmen and farm-
ers stil] have about 300 days, while in
Russia the very most that the people
can de is to work 250 days. This
means that the workmen and farm-
ers of Russia have their year cut
down to five or six weeks less than
that of the farmers of Austria and
Italy and to two months less than in
England and the United States. It
is pointed out that this is a patent
cause for the economic ‘inferiority of
Russia as compared with other mna-
tions, the more so that in every pro-
vince, village, and family local holi-
days, anniversaries, birthdays, saints’
days, etc., are added.
How to Plunk a Watermelon.
To plug is to let air into the mel-
on, causing withering and decay
around the edges of the holes, no
matter how carefully the plug is re-
placed. To plunk dces no . harm.
Down on your knees over a fine,
large one, shining green amid the
vines of the patch; lean over and
press one hand on each side—a quick,
sharp squeeze—and ear inclined to
thear the sound. Does it crackle in
response? Does a sound come forth
like a ripping of the heart within—a
breaking down of those walls of solid
juiciness? Then it has plunked, then
it is ripe, then it is fit for the gods
to eat.
Secret Camera in Bank.
One of the most ingenious methods
in the world for photographing per-
sons and keeping them -in ignorance
of the fact is that of the Bank of
France. The bank has a hidden
studio in a gallery behind the cash-
jer’s desk, so that at a signal from
one of the bank employes any sus-
pected customer will instantly have
his picture: taken without his own
knowledge.
What the Hens Do.
The hens in the United States now
produce one and two-third billion
dozens of eggs a year, and at the
high average price of the year the
hens during their busy season lay
enough eggs in a single month * to
pay the year’s interest on the na-
tional debt.
STRONGER THAN MEAT.
A Judge’s Opinion of Grape-Nufs.
A gentleman who has acquired a ju-
dicial turn of mind from experience on
the bench out in the Sunflower State,
writes a carefully considered opinion
as to the value of Grape- Nuts as food.
He says
“For the past five years Grape-Nuts
has been a prominent feature in our
bill of fare.
“The crisp food with the delicious,
nutty flavor has become an indispensa-
ble necessity in my family’s everyday
life.
“It has proved to be most healthful
and beneficial, and has enabled us to
practically abolish pastry and pies
from our table, for the children prefer
Grape-Nuts and do not crave rich and
unwholescme food.
“Grape-Nuts keeps us all in perfect
physical condition—as a preventive of
disease it is beyond value. I have been
particularly impressed by the beneficial
effects of Grape-Nuts when used by
ladies who are troubled with face
blemishes, skin eruptions, etc. = It
clears up the complexion wonderfully.
“As to its nutritive qualities, my ex-
peience is that one small dish of Grape-
Nuts is superior to a pound of meat
for breakfast, which is an important
consideration for any It satisfies
the appetite and strengthens the pow-
er of resisting fatigue, while its use in-
volves none of the disagreeable conse-
quences that sometimes follow a meat
breakfast.” given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich,
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