|i THF NEED OF THE WORLD.
I know the need of the world, though it
would not have me know;
It would hide its sorrow deep, where only
. God may go;
Yet its secret it cannot keep;
Jt tells it awake or asleep;
i It tells it to all who will heed,
And he who runs may read.
The need of the world I know.
‘I know the need of the world when it
boasts of its wealth the loudest,
When it flaunts it in all men’s eyes, when
! its mien is the gayest and proudest,
Oh, ever it lies, it lies!
For the sound of its laughter dies
In a sob or a smothered groan,
‘And it weeps when it sits alone!
. The need of the world I know.
I know the need of the world when it
_ babbles of gold and fame;
It is only to lead us astray from the thing
that it dare not name.
For that is the sad world’s way—
Oh, poor, blind world grown gray,
With the lack of a thing so near,
With the want of a thing so dear!
The need of the world I know.
I know. the need of the world when the
earth shakes under the tread
Of men who march to the fight, when
: rivers with blood are red,
'And there is no law but might,
‘And the wrong way seems the right;
When he who slaughters the most
Is all men’s pride and boast.
The need of the world I know.
Dh, love is the need of the world! Down
under its pride of power,
Down under its lust of greed, for the joys
that last but an hour,
There lies forever its need.
For love is tha law and the creed;
'And lcve is the aim and the goal
to the mole,
1d is love.
Frhhkkhkhkhk Arh kkk hkkkkhhx
J THE BLIND MUSICIAN (:
YGF DAMASCUS.
\
Ak AA hk hr hkhkxhkhkkk xk
Musa played presently; and I lis-
tened, engaged, but not comprehend-
ing, until the light began to fail in
the little room. And as he played, he
talked with the Interpreter—at last
putting aside the oud, and curiously
gesturing, smiling wistfully, too.
“It is a pretty story of his child-
hood,” said the Interpreter, when
Musa had fallen silent. “I will tell
it to you.”
I heard then the story of the ca-
noun and the angel, which pleased
me very much.
“Long ago,” the Interpreter began,
when this old Musa was a little child,
his mother was unkindly disposed
toward him because he was blind.
“What is the use of a blind boy, who
must forever consume, but contribute
nothing?’ she would say. ‘I had
rather have a seeing girl than a blind
boy,’ she said; ‘and I had rather have
neither than either.” Day by day the
little Musa must listen to these com-
plaints, and though he was wounded
sorely, as he says, he would neither
curs God because of his affliction
nor answer his mother in anger, be-
lieving always in the wisdom of God.
When I am grown,” he would reply,
*I will find a work for the blind to
do.’ ‘There are the blind and the
blind,” said she, ‘and you are of the
blind who are blind indeed. Is it so
that I am to serve you all my life and
gain no smallest service in return?’
‘No,’ answered Musa; ‘the good God
who created me, leaving me blind,
will yet give me some labor that a
biind boy may do.” To escape his
mother’s wailing he would then go
into the street, where he must feel
his way along the walls, being care-
ful to avoid the teeth and hoofs of
the beasts of the city, but not fearing
the men of Damascus, who are ten-
der to the afflicted, according to the
teachings of their religion. First
a step or more; then beyond, even-
tually to the corner, and at last into
the Long Bazar.
“Musa walked out, feeling his way
along the walls, careful cf the hoofs
and teeth of the donkeys and camels,
and came presently near the corner
of the Long Bazar, where, strangely,
he was arrested by sweet tinkling
sounds. These he had never heard
before—no music, as he has told me:
neither cud nor canoun. He stood
against the wail, below the window
whence issued the attractive sounds
— withdrawn from the jostling and
complaint and pity of the street.
Soon, enraptured, he issued from
this seclusion, and caught a passer-
by by the roke.
¢ “What is this?’ he demanded.
* ‘It is a canoun,” was the answer;
and thereupon the man explained the
manner of its playing and all the
business cof music.
“ ‘It is evident,’
‘that Cod has
and entranced
/
}
thought Musa,
led me to this place
me. Surely, the God
who made me to be born blind had
the intention of succoring me, and
having led me to this accident, wishes
that I should cestinue, not a turner
of wheels, but a giver of delight.’
“Musa's mother would hear noth-
ing of this plan. ‘What!’ cried she;
“a canoun indeed! Shail we give a
bear silk to weave?’
“Always was this answer,
we give a bear silk to weave?’
and day the same: ‘Shall we
bear silk to weave? Shall we give a
bear silk to weave?’ until Musa
sought no more. ‘But,’ thought he,
i will ask God to send an angel with
p canoun, and in this way I will sure-
jy gain my wish.” This he did night
and morning, aad often during the
day, beseeching that an angel might
pe sent with a canoun; but no angel
rame, pray as hard as he might. It
pecame his habit, then, when in the
street, to pause, absent minded, and
strum the palm of his left hand with
the fingers of his right; and this curi-
pus occupation never failed to attract
attention. ‘Blind boy,” they would
ask, ‘why do you this queer thing?’
*f play on my little eanoun,’ he an-
gwered; ‘it is my little canoun, and
I play.” Always he would answer in
‘Shall
Night
give a
the same words, strumming the palm
of his left hand, ‘I play on my little |
canoun.’ One day a lady laughed]
close at hand. ‘Little boy,” she asked,
‘what are you doing?’ ‘I play,” Musa
answered, ‘on my little canoun.’ ‘But
here,’ said she, ‘is no canoun!’ ‘It is
true, lady,’ he answered; ‘but having
no canoun I must pretend to possess
one.’ The lady laughed then, and
went away; and Musa idled on, but,
returning, was intercepted by a boy
of his neighborhood, who said, ‘Make
haste; there is a surprise in store for
you.” At the corner of the Long
Bazar they said, ‘Go faster; you will
be much pleased with what you find
at home.’ Believing then that the
angel had arrived, Musa hastened;
and at home, indeed, he found his
first canoun.
« «An angel,” he said, ‘has brought
it!’ ”— Norman Duncan, in Harper's
Magazine.
—
THE SOCIALISTS IN AMERICA.
What They Believe and What They
Have Gained.
That eminent Socialist, Charles Ed-
ward Russell, has some particularly
interesting things to say in Hamp-
ton’s Magazine. For instance, speak-
ing of the growth of the movement in
America, he declares:
The first appearance of a Socialist
party in the United States was in
1892 when Simon Wing was nom-
inated as the Socialist candidate for
President. These figures of the So-
cialist votes cast at Presidential elec-
tions show the growth of the move-
ment:
V803.. eins vive 21,164
The vote of 1904 was a very mis-
leading indication of Socialist
strength since it comprised the votes
of many thousands of radical Demo-
crats who were disgusted with the
nomination of Judge Parker and with
the defeat in the national convention
of the radical element of the party.
But the vote of 1908 was purely So-
cialistic, and may be taken as an ac-
curate measure of the present
strength of the party in the United
States.
All the more remarkable this
growth seems .because it has been
made in the face of intense and unre-
mitting opposition from all the influ-
ential agencies in the country-—press,
pulpit and public officers; it has not
had even the assistance of a fair
statement of Socialism’s objects in
the public prints; and it has been
obliged to combat the full strength
of the prejudice to which I have pre-
viously referred. No other movement
in our times has been so fiercely de-
nounced or has had against it the
weight of an official disapproval so
profound and effective. As in Europe
so in America the ruling and wealthy
classes have looked upon Socialism
with inexpressible abnorrence and
upon a Socialist as an implacable en-
emy of the human race; and with all
the great means at their command
these classes have striven to impress
their views upon the community.
And what is, in fact, this terrible
monster that thus causes the cheek
of statesmanship to pale and shakes
with terror so many hearts of valor
approved upon the battlefield and the
hunting ground? Also just what is
this movement that in our own times
has arisen from nothing to such a
commanding position in the world?
What is this Socialism that has won
so many millions in so many lands to
its support, and continues day by day
to win others? :
Two terrific propositions and no
more, to wit:
1. All men are brethren, not mere-
ly brethren in name but brethren in
fact, with a common blood, common
destiny, common interests, common
cause.
being brethren, all war and strife and
hatred should cease.
2. The things that men need in
common should be owned in common
and supplied for the common good,
not for private profit; there should
not be private ownership and control
of other universal necessities any
more than there is private ownership
of air. .
That is all. Isn't it awful?
The Sunday Paper.
I spent five cents for The Sunday
Dart, and hauled it home in a two-
wheeled cart; I piled the sections
upon the floor, till they reached as
high as the kitchen door; I hung the
chromos upon the wall, though there
wasn’t room to hang them all, and the
vard was littered some ten feet deep
with “comic sections” that made me
weep; and there were sections of
pink and green, a woman's section
and magazine, and sheets of music
the which if played would make an
audience quickly fade; and there
were patterns for women’s gowns
and also for gentlemen’s hand-me-
downs; and a false moustache and a
rubber doll, and a deck of cards and
a parasol. Now men are busy with
dray and cart a-hauling away The
Sunday Dart.—Walt Mason, in the
Emporia Gazette.
i etnias
Very Sagacious.
A farmer had a very sagacious dog
which he had trained to count his
sheep as they passed through a par-
ticular opened gate, against which a
pile of stones were placed for the
dog's use. As each sheep passed
through the dog placed one of the
stones aside. One day, much to the
farmer’s surprise, he found the dog
trying to break a stone in half, and
on himself countingthe flock he found
there had been an addition in the
night of a lamb.
ANS NATLS GROW
11 FEET IN 70 YEARS.
Those on Middle Finger Mors
Rapid Than Those of First and
Third. ’
A scientist has estimated that in a
lifetime of seventy years a man grows
nails which, if it were possible to
preserve them uncut, would reach the
length of seven feet nine inches.
Exactly on what argument this
statement is based it is hard to say,
for a little observation will show
that during the greater portion of a
man’s life he cuts his nails on an
average of once a week, and at each
paring removes a sixteenth of an
inch, or the equivalent of a quarter
of an inch per month, working out at
three inches a year.
This would give him a growth of
seven feet six inches during the thirty
years he lives between twenty and
fifty, says the St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch. In the other forty vears, when
the growth is less rapid, he would
certainly produce four feet of nails,
so that eleven feet is a better average
for the nail producing capacity of a
man.
it should be noted, however, that
the growth of the nails on the right
hand is, in most people, more rapid
than of those on the left hand, and it
may be that the scientists in question
has based his argument on the slower
growth of the left hand nails.
Another curious point is that the
rate of growth of the nails depends
directly on the length of the finger;
thus, the nails on the two middle
fingers of. men grow more rapidly
than those on the first and ‘hird
fingers, respectively, and these in
turn are more speedy in the growth
than those on the little fin
ia ei mmeene
Coyote Hunt in an Auto.
Coyote hunting in an automobile
since the success of G. A. Maxwell
and party, promises to tecome a
highly popular sport in Colorado.
Mr. Maxwell, accompanied by Charles
The welfare of one of us is!
the brotherly concern of all of us, and |
Petree, of Denver, and CC. Hilde~
brand, of Chicopee Falls, Mass., left
Denver at 7.10 in the morning, start-
ed over the plains to the eastward,
and by 8.30 o'clock had bagged one
coyotte. Forty minutes later anoth-
er fleetfooted animal had besn run
down, and by 9.30 still another had
been bagged.
By this time the party was twenty
miles from Denver, and satisfied with
the success of the hunt, returned to
the city with the three fine trophies,
the skins of exceptionally large coy-
otes.
Some of the animals led the ma-
chine for a nice run of two miles at a
rate of about forty miles an hour
before the dogs that were taken
along were turned loose to finish the
work.—Denver Republican.
— eimai
Quite Safe With Her.
“John, love,” said the young wife,
“you oughtn’t “to have any. secrets
from me.”
“Well, Tootsie?”
“You go to lodge meetings and you
never tell me anything about them.”
“They wouldn’t interest you, dear.
I don’t mind giving you the password,
though, if you’ll promise never to
disclose it to a living soul.”
“1’11 promise never to teil it to
anybody.”
“Remember it's to bz repeated only
once and very rapidly.”
“17’11 remember. What is it?”
« Aldaborontiphosciphorniosticos.”
“What? Please say it again, a lit-
tle slower.”
“Have you forgotten the conditions
already? I said ‘only cmnce and very
rapidly.’ ”
(Tearful pause.)
«0 dear! 1 wish you hadn't told
me!”
Not First Sunday Afternoon Paper.
The Westerly (R. I.) Sun rises to
remark that Frank A. Munsey, of the
Washington Times, instead of being a
pioneer in his scheme of a Sunday af-
copying after at least two other news=-
papers. “The Sun,” writes the edi-
tor, ‘‘claims to Le the criginator of
the Sunday afternoon edition busi-
ness, except in the case of a New Or-
leans newspaper, which has been
printed seven afternoons each week
for a good many years. We are ready
to give Mr. Munsey credit for being
the first in a wide circle of periodical
literature, but he is out of it so far as
he Sunday afternoon newspaper is
concerned.”
es
No Great Rush.
A number of weeks after an oid
man was appointed postmaster of a
small village, says a Wri in the
Philadelphia Bulletin, villagers
and their friends began to complain
about the mails. An inspector inves-
{izating the matter found out that
the postmaster had sent cul no mail
since his entrance into e, and
pointing to the hundr ed or more
dusty letters that the postmaster had
kept by him, said, sternly:
“Why on earth didn’t you let these
go?”
“7 was waiting till I got the ba
full,” said the old man, with a gentl
smile.
the
Ss
e
We Wake Up Toco Soon.
A Philadeiphia paper
diamonds may be burned like coal.
We never get so far along as shovel-
ing diamonds into the furnace be-
fore waking up.
says that
— i iain
Where Platinum is Plentiful.
Sixty-five per cent. of America’s
output of platinum comes from the
placer mines of Northern California
and Southern Oregon.
ternoon paper in the capital is really |
~ PENNSYLVANIA
GREATER CONNELLSVILLE
Planning to Take in New Haven and
to Apply for City Charter.
Unless present
1910 will list
the
Connellsville. —
plans fail the cnsus of
Connellsville as having double
population the 1900 report gave it.
The Councils of Connellsville and
New Haven have made a joint agree-
ment providing for the consolidation
of the two boroughs, and Connellsville
council in addition passed an ordin-
ance annexing Snydertown and the
East Park Addition. The joint agree-
ment will be submitted to the voters
of the two boroughs at the election
February 16.
_ The agreement provides for seven
wards in the consolidated borough and
that the property in each of the pres-
ent boroughs be assessed to pay oft
the indebtedness of each, a separate
sinking fund to be kept for that pur-
pose. Connellsville or Eastside will
_ Connellsville now
has four wards. If the consolidation
movement is carried th h Con-
nellsville will get a city charter about
1910.
Westside two.
COULDN'T SURVIVE WIFE
Bodies of Man and Woman to Be In-
terred in One Grave.
Washington.—Leaving the Wash-
ington hospital after learning his
wife could not live more than an hour,
Michael Bigler, went to the postoffice,
where he was a clerk, borrowed a re-
volver and going to the cellar of his
was instantaneous. His body
found several hours later. His wife
died at the hospital at about the same
hour. Bigler is thought to have Kkill-
ed himseli.
Saturday, when told by physicians
there was little hope for the woman’s
recovery, Bigler remarked he would
soon follow her. He left a note in
the dining room of his home reading:
“Goodby, all; forgive a suffered.
Mike.”
unusually devoted to his wife.
THREE CHILDREN
Powder Ignited While at Play, and
Little Ones Will Likely Die.
Johnstown.—Four children were
burned, three of them fatally and a
ARE BURNED
main part of a double house
children,
“puff.”
Two of the children are daughters
of Joseph Demongo, while the other
little boy and girl are children of
John Hnelko. The eyes of two of
the little tots were blown out, and
their bodies are badly mutilated.
The burning powder set fire to the
building, and the injured were threat-
ened with cremation, but miners ex-
tinguished the flames.
who “wanted to see the
CRIME IN CONNELLSVILLE
Murder Arcuse Residents.
Connellsville.
Joe Elise, a foreign merchant was
! called from bed to his front door,
where an unknown
Elise will probably die.
Fire of mysterious origin destroy-
ed the house of Cassaro
owned by the Peter Soisson estate
This fire was extinguished before the
building was destroyed.
DWELLING DEMOLISHED
Cars Crash
Woman,
Into House and
but Children Escape.
Roberts, of Stoneboro, was almost to-
tally demolished as the result of a
freight wreck on the Lake Shore rail-
road. Seven cars jumped the track
while the train was running at high
speed and two of them
through the front part of the house.
Mrs. Roberts was = standing in a
doorway between the kitchen snd
one arm and side.
Three children in the kitchen were
unharmed. box car fell on
bed which they had just vacated.
W. & J. Oratorical Contests.
Washington.—For the annual select
oration contests between the Fresh-
man and Sophomore classes of Wash-
ington and Jefferson college, the fol-
lowing have been chosen: Freshmen,
E. J. Aten, G. B. Matthews, W. 8S,
Jack, C. E. Gray; Sophomores, John
Judson, J. N. Alexander, Carl O.
Schmidt.
Track Walker Killed.
Vandergrift.—C. F. Cochrane, a
track walker on the West Penn divi-
killed by a freight train just east of
town.
4C0 Miners On a Strike.
ces between the mine
miners, over the use of
400 men employed in the Patterson
mine at Elizabeth, are out on strike.
The miners, it is said, want to use
black powder, while the officials want
them to use carbenite.
owners and
Well-Known Rabbi Dead.
Philadelphia.—Rabbi David lid-
dem, for 20 vears a leader of ortho-
dox Jews in this city, dropped
at his home.
a marriage ceremony.
have five wards and New Haven or
home. shot himself in the head. Death |
i was |
Bigler, who was 40 years old, was |
large kitchen was town loose from the |
at |
Stoughton, three miles from Boswell, |
when three kegs of powder stored In |
the kitchen were touched off by the |
Two Mysterious Fires and Attempted |
Connellsville.—There have been two
incendiary fires and a mysterious at- |
tempt at murder within 24 hours in |
Early in tue morning !
Italian slashed |
him across the face with a stiletto. |
Rotundo. |
Shortly afterward another blaze was |
discovered nearby in the double house |
and occupied by two Italian families. |
injure
Franklin—The residence of James |
crashed |
dining rcom, and was injured about |
the
sicn of the Pennsylvania railroad, was |
Pittsburg.—As a result of differen- |
explosives, |
cead |
He had just performed |
Interesting Items from All Sections of
the Keystone State.
BANK PUTS UP SHUTTERS
Institution Is Closed by State Banke
ing Commissioner, but will
Pay All Depositors.
Washington.—The Bank of Coal
Center, at Coal Center, was closed by
order of Commissioner of Banking
John Berkey.
The closing, it is said, is the result
of bad loans, and there are no charges
against any of the officials. The
bank has been placed in control of
Bank Examiner James S. Cover, who
says depositors will receive every
cent, that there are no defalcations
and that no criminal charges will be
instituted.
R. B. Drum is president of the
bank and George S. Hornbake, Ir.
cashier.
NEW TRACTION ROUTE
| West Newton Into
Connection With Pittsburg.
Charleroi. — Announcement was
made by. R. W. Hervey, secretary-
| treasurer of the recently incorporated
| Donora-Eldora Street Railway Com-
| pany, that the concern’s rights of way
i have been sold to the Pittsburg, Me-
| Keesport & Westmoreland Railway
| Company.
| It is the idea of the latter concern
| to build a line from West Newton to
| Donora, where it will cross the newly
| erected Donora-Webster bridge, and
| continue to Eldora, where connection
will be made with Pittsburg Railways
| Company's line.
| The deal will open up territory
1eretofore without trolley facilities.
|
|
to Be Brought
SCHOOLMASTER QUITS
| Principal at West Alexander Simply
| Says He's Going and Goes.
| Washington. — Without giving any
reason for his action, J. W. Cathcart,
principal of the West Alexander pub-
| lic schools, instead of going to his
| school, as usual, boarded an east
| bound train, bidding farewell to tha
town.
Cathcart simply announced that he
| was leaving with no intention of re-
| turning, but offered the board no ex-
| planation. It is not known where he
went. His home is in Crawford coun-
ty. He took charge of the West Alex-
ander schools at the beginning of the
| fall term, and had encountered no
! trouble.
BRIDE GAGGED AND ROBBED
| Mrs. Mahoney Knocked Down
Heme, Which Is Ransacked.
Scranton.—Friends discovered Mrs.
| Daniel Mahoney at her home bound,
gagged and bleeding from a wound in
{the face. She said a man, appearing
|like a book agent, called during the
| afternoon, when she was alone, fell-
| ed her with the butt end of a revolver,
| gagged her and bound her to a bed-
post with a clothes !line. He then
{took a diamond ing from her finger
{and ransacked the house, getting
away with $400 worth of jewelry and
| other valuables.
Mrs. Mahoney is a bride of three
| months and a rather frail girl.
in
WIFE WON'T SUPPORT HIM
Husky Citizen Considers Beating Due
8 to Helpmeet.
Greensburg.—“Turn about is fair
play; I provided for my wife hereto-
| fore, and it’s her turn to take care of
me.”
This was the defense of H. E. Fen-
i nell of Grapeville, powerful of physi-
| que and 50 years old, when arraigned
‘ing his wife.
Fennell complained that his wife
| would not support him. He was ar-
rested by a State policeman after he
had beaten her. He was held for
court.
BIG COAL TRACT BOUGHT
Pittsburg Company Pays $575,000 for
4,000-Acre Tract.
Johnstown.—It is reported that ne-
| gotiations were closed by which the
| Kennerly Coal Company of this city
‘transferred its holdings in the Bens
| Creek Valley, Somerset county, to in-
| terests supposed to represent the
i United Coal Company of Pittsburg.
The tract comprises about four
| thousand acres, and the purchase price
is given as $675,000, representing a
profit to the Kennerly Company of
about $250,000 over the price paid for
the land a few years ago.
: Division Abgclished.
i Officials of the Pennsylvania Rail-
‘road Company will announce shortly
the abolishment of the middle divi-
! sion of the Pennsylvania railroad.
This is one of the three divisions of
the road as first built and embraces
that part of the line between Harris-
i burg and Altcona. The middle divi-
| sion is 131 miles in length and in-
cludes .scme of the most difficult
mountain road.
| Lived to Be Ninety-Eight.
| Waynesburg.—Mrs. Elizabeth Mar-
i iner, 98 years old, the coldest woman
| in Greene county, died in Gilmore
township. Mrs. Mariner had always
‘resided in this county, and was active
{until a few days before her death.
Found the Corpse Inside.
Franklin —“Good-bye, all; you will
find the corpsc inside,” announced a
| placard cn John Osmer’s front door.
i When neighbers entered the house
they found Osmer had fired a rifle
{ ball through his brain. He was a
| farmer, 55 years old.
i The Molteno (Cape Ceclony) farm-
| ers have hit upon a novel plan for
| dealing with locusts. A farmer has
imported some eagle kites for the
| purpose cf scaring locusts from the
| creps.
before Justice J. Q. Truxal for beat-
OFTEN THE CASE.
Women Struggle Hopelessly Along,
Suffering Backache, Dizzy Spells,
Languor, Ete.
Women have sO mich to go through
in life that it’s a pity there is so much
suffering from back-
ache and other com-
mon curable kidney
ills. If you suffer so,
profit by this wom-
an’s example. Mrs.
Martin Douglass, 52
Cedar St., Kingston,
N.Y, says: "Lk had
a lame, aching back,
dizzy spells, head-
aches, and a feeling
of languor. Part of
the time I could not attend to my
work and irregularity of the kidney
secretions was annoying. Doan’s Kid-
ney Pills brought me prompt relief.”
Sold by all dealers. 50c. a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Once An Infant, Always.
In this country every industry is an
infant industry until it is dead. That
is the doctrine of those who are ar-
guing for the continuance of dutien
on iron and steel. Anybody who dis-
putes this doctrine is not merely
wrong he does not know what he is
talking about. No matter if the testi-
mony comes from the greatest Ameri-
can manufacturer of iron and steel,
if he favors free trade in those metals
he is an ignoramus. By the same
logic, John D. Rockefeller would prove
himself a dunce and fit to be placed
under a guardianship if he were to
advocate the abolition of the duty-.on
petroleum.—Hartford Times.
a b
Banking Growth.
It is exactly 127 years since the
first bank in the United States open-
ed its doors in Philadelphia. Today
there are 6,855 national banks, with
a paid-in capital of $921,000,000.—New
York Journal of Commerce.
Breaks a Cold Promptly.
The following formula is a never
failing remedy for colds:
One ounce of compound syrup of
Sarsaparilla, one ounce Toris com-
pound and half pint of good whiskey;
mix and shake thoroughly each time
and use in doses of a tablespoonful
every four hours.
This will frequently cure an acute
cold in twenty-four hours. The in-
gredients can be gotten at any drug
store.
TAMING A RIVER
The Erratic Susquehanna Has At Last
.Been Harnessed.
Although with the exception of the
St. Lawrence river it is the largest
stream flowing into the north Atlan-
tie, the Susquehanna river has never
been renowned for anything but
scenery and trouble.
Since the timber has been stripped
from its mountainous drainage basin,
embodying an area of 27,000 square
miles, the floods of the Susquehanna
have been extremely sudden, violent
and destructive. Not infrequently it
attains the remarkable record of a
flow at high water equal to 25 times
its volume at low water.
Large as it is, the erratic Susque-
hanna is navigable for only five miles
above its mouth. Beyond that point it
is so full of rocks and shoals and
rapids that nothing but an occasional
raft at high water has ever passed
down.
Such a particularly outrageous
stream is the Susquehanna, says the
Technical World, that it is difficult to
find room upon it even to navigate a
ferryboat comfortably. One of these
quiet reaches is McCall's ferry, where
a part of Washington’s army crossed
on its way to do up Cornwallis at
Yorktown. The commander himself
crossed at Conowingo Ford, 14 miles
below.
At this historic spot some clever en-
gineers are demonstrating that the
Susquehanna is good for something
after all, for they are building a
hydro-electric power plant which is
remarkable. Not the least interesting
feature is the extraordinary care with
which the situation was studied before
the plans were formed. To be sure
engineers are proverbially painstak-
ing, but in this case a new record for
thoroughgoing accuracy was establish-
ed. It was the highest tribute that
man could pay to the terrors of the
Susquehanna.—New York Sun.
JOY WORK
And the Other Kind.
Did you ever stand on a prominent
corner at an early morning hour and
watch the throngs of people on their
way to work? Noting the number
who were forcing themselves along
because it meant their daily bread,
and the others cheerfully and eagerly
pursuing their way because of love of
their work.
. It is a tact that one’s food has
much to do with it. As an example:
If an engine has poor oil, or a boil-
er is fired with poor coal, a bad resuit
is certain, isn’t it?
Treating your stomach right is the
keystone that sustains the arch of
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If you have never tried Grape-Nuts
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