Error About the White House.
To the Editor:
I noticed somewhere recently I
would not say positively that It wa
tn your columns an article on the
White House which contained several
mis-statements.
In the first place it was'stated the
White House was first occupied in
1809, and that its first occupant was
President Madison. The fact is, its
first occupant was President Adams,
wno 100a up nis residence mere in
1800.'
The original mansion was begun
in 1792. In 1S14 it was burned by,
the British and rebuilt In 1818.
Another of the errors in the arti
cle referred to wasthe statement that
ready-prepared paint is used on the
White House to make it beautifully
white.
! I noticed this especially because I
pave used considerable paint myself,
End wondered that "canned" paint
hould be used on such an Important
ttiillrilno' whon Dllnalntava l-nMU that
- pure white lead and linseed oil make
the best paint.
It so happened also that I knew
white lead and linseed oil not
ready-mixed paint were used on the
White House, because I had just read
a booklet published by a firm of
ready-mixed paint manufacturers,
who also manufacture pure white
lead. In that book the manufactur
ers admitted that for the White
Bouse nothing but "the best and
purest of paint could be used," and
aid that their pure white lead had
been selected.
! Above all people those who at
tempt to write on historical subjects
should give us facts, even if it is
only a date or a statement about
wood, or brick, or paint, or other
building material. Yours for truth,
U
Coal as a Food.
Dr. Emile Fischer, who four years
ago won the Nobel prize for chemis
try, has discovered he declares that
coal is edible. He has been making
an extract of coal and finds that this
. extract has the same nutritive quail
ties as are possessed by beefsteak
and eggs.
Mrs. Wlnalow's Soothing Syrup for Children
eetbinR,80ftenstheiriims,redueesinftamnia-
tion, allays pain, euros wind colic, 25c a bottle
SEA SHELLS IN COLORADO
Huge Ones, Millions in Number
Found In Irrigation Tunnel.
Sea shells more than three feet in
diameter and weighing in many in
stances, fully 100 pounds, are delay
ing the construction of an irrigating
tunnel by the Government near Gun
nison, Col.
The tunnel Is being forced through
millions of shells, which geological
and biological sharps, declare were
.once the- homes of molusks each of a
size large enough to feed a dozen
men of present-day size. The shells
according to the views of the geolog
ists who have charge of the work, are
millions of years old, and were de
posited there at the time when the
ocean covered that part of Colorado,
but which receding left only the great
salt lake of Utah and the shells as a
reminder of the fact that the arid
and semi arid lands of the Southwest
were once the bed of the ocean.
- New Consumption Cure.
Tuberculosis and its cure are the
all engrossing topics . of conversa
tion in medical circles In Paris at
present. At every meeting of the
Academy of Medicine somebody pro
pounds a new theory for the extermi
nation of the scourge. At the last
meeting of the Academy of Medicine
Dr. Brouardel held forth on the bene
fits to be derived from living In an
atmosphere charged with lime dust.
He quoted a report by Dr. Borden
ave, who says that within the 30
years 'that he has practiced he has
not seen a single case of tuberculosis
among the workmen at kilns, and that
people affected with tuberculosis are
soon cured after they live some time
In the lime dust.
GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP.
No Medicine So Beneficial to Brain
and Nerves.
Lying awake nights makes it hard
to keep awake and do things in day
time. To take "tonics and stimu
lants" under such circumstances ia
like setting the house on fire to see
if you can put It out.
The right kind of food promotes
refreshing sleep at night and a wide
awake individual during the day.
A lady changed from her old way
of eating to Grape-Nuts and says:
"For about three years I had been
A great sufferer from indigestion.
After trying several kinds of medi
cine the doctor would ask me to drop
off potatoes, then meat, and so on,
but in a few days that craving, gnaw
ing feeling would start up and I
would vomit everything I ate and
drank.
"When I started on Grape-Nuts,
vomiting stopped, and the bloating
feeling which was so distressing dis
appeared entirely.
"My mother was very much both
ered with diarrhea before commenc
ing the Grape-Nuts, because her
stomach was so weak she could not
digest her food. Since using Grape
Nuts she is well, and says she don't
think she could live without it.
"It is a great brain restorer and
erve builder, for I can sleep as
sound and undisturbed after a sup
per of Grape-Nuts as in the old days
When I could not realize what they
aneant by a "bad stomach." There)
la bo medicine so beneficial to nervea
and brain as a good night's sleep,
such as you can enjoy after eating
Grape-Nuts."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek. Mich.
"There's a reason."
Xew York City. The popularity
of the Eton Jacket appears to in
crease week by week and month by
month, and It not alone Is a favorite
of the moment, but.is predicted for
the coming as well as the present
season. This one is exceedingly
charming and attractive and is ap
propriate for Bilk, light weight wool
and similar materials, whether used
as a part of a suit or a separate
wrap. Also It can be made from
washable materials, such as linen,
pique and the like. In reality it is
quite simple, but the trimming is so
arranged as to give a vest effect. In
the illustration nut brown taffeta is
trimmed with bands of the material
embroidered in shades of brown with
touches of gold, but various combi
nations might be suggested. The
shaped bands can be either of the
same or contrasting material, and
either embroidered or trimmed in
any way that may be liked.
The jacket is made with fronts
and back, all of which are tucked
and stitched with beldiae silk. The
trimming bands are., shaped and are
arranged over the jacket on indi
cated lines, leaving the narrow
space at the front that suggests the
vest. The sleeves are the pretty
ones that extend just below the el
bows and are tucked at their lower
edges, where they are completed by
bands that match those upon the
jacket.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is four and a
quarter yards twenty-one, three and
a half yards twenty-seven or two
yards forty-four inches wide,- with
seven and three-quarter yards of nar
row braid and two and a half yards
of lace for frills.
Something New In Leather.
"Jack has just Bent me the newest
thing out In the way of a pocket
book," said the latest-to-be-engaged
member of the Fad and Frill Club.
"It's a vanity bag, aud it's a wonder,
for it holds such a lot of things. And
then the shape of it is so novel, it
looks exactly like a big four-leaf
clover, and I intend to make it my
mascot. It's of lovely grsen leather,
and it's really shaped just like a
clover. Of course, there's a handle,
but that you have to forget. Inside,
besides the mirror, powder-puff and
little rogue box, there is the cutest
pair of gold mounted opera glasses
that you can think of, and they fold
up so flat that they take up no room
whatever. Then there's a tiny cut
glass vinaigrette, a gold pencil and a
little gold box for holding hairpins,
coin purse, and a place for calling
cards." Woman's Home Companion.
White and Pearl Belts.
White linen tailored belts are
trimmed with white pearl buckles
and buttons.
Ribbon Interlacing.
A yoke of open-meshed net Inter
laced with dainty-colored ribbon may
be inserted In the gown of flowered
lawn. Of course the ribbon matches
the sprigs in color and the gown is
delightfully cool If spaces simulating
insertion are left between the ribbon
rows.
Trimmings For Sailor Hut.
A chic way of trimming a sailor
hat is to use both the cachepeigne
of ribbon loops and the rosette. Take
a little sailor shape, for Instance, of
pale blue chip. Use for its trimming
a delicate gray wing; fusten the wing
to the right sido of the crown with
two flat rosettes of white mallne,
edged with a narrow little pleating
of silver ribbon. The wing should
be caught between the rosettes. Now,
to give the hat the character it
needs, add a beauty touch of many
loops of black velvet ribbon at the
back. Another smart combination of
color to use in a hat of this sort Is
to have the hat Itself cream color,
the wing white and the rosette white,
edged with a little pleating of gold
ribbon. Then instead of using black
velvet ribbon for the cachepelgne
have' the velvet loops In golden
brown. Grace Margaret Gould, In
the Woman's Home Companion.
Shirt Wuist or lllouse.
The comfort of the shirt waist
made with elbow sleeves and with
the round collar is so apparent that
It Is very nearly impossible to supply
the demand. This one shows two
wide tucks in each front, so provid
ing becoming fulness aud is adapted
to Madras, to linen, to lawn, to the
soft finished pique, to wash silks and
all the waistlngs of the season. In
the illustration it is made of white
linen lawn, a material that always is
satisfactory, but exceedingly pretty
ones are made from dotted lawns
and from the pretty wash silks, the
former material being a peculiarly
satisfactory one for the shirt waist
dresses designed for home wear.
The waist is made with fronts and
back, and is finished at the front
edges with w ide hems. There' is a
patch pocket arranged over the left
front and the turn-over collar com
pletes the neck. The sleeves can be
made either with or without open
ings, and are gathered into bands, to
which the cuffs are attached.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is three and
three-quarter yardBtwenty-one, three
and a half yards twenty-seven or one
and seven-eighth yards forty-four
inches wide.
FREAKS OF THE LAVA.
Conditions of the Present Eruption
and of That of A. D. 70 Reversed.
At one house, which had been en
tirely surrounded by the flood, but
not destroyed, one saw people, on
top of the mass of lava, entering the
upper windows with a ladder and
bringing forth their household goods,
to transport them to a place of safe
ty. One vineyard was surrounded on
three sides by this dividing current,
and it was possible to wafk into it
among the lines of trimmed vines,
and to perceive the fire still glowing
in the towering walls of lava on each
side. The people attributed this re
markable phenomenon to the mirac
ulous intervention of their Madonna,
"Our Lady of the Snows," with whose
sacred image they had confronted
the all-devouring monster sweeping
implacably down on their apparently
doomed homes. Step by step the
priests and the faithful, singing the
litany, retreated, as the awful flood
swept on, and still the sound of sing
ing and prayer rose above the awful
roar of the torrent and the thunder
of the mountain above, belching forth
from the central crater fiery bombs
and enormous swirls of cinder, sand
and smoke, which rose to great
heights. Yard by yard the lava
swept onward; now a palatial villa
would be surrounded by the torrent,
crushed down and disappear in
smoke; now a weeping peasant would
see bis little cottage and vineyard,
his all, go under in an Instant. One
poor woman was thus watching the
fate of her earthly belongings from a
little eminence when a smaller crater
came roaring forth at her feet. She
turned to flee, fell, rolled to the bot
tom of the little hill, and the next
moment the lava flowed forth like
the foam from a glass of beer and
swept over the spot where she had
been standing an Instant before.
In the eruption of A. D. 79, it was
the shower of pulverized material
which came in this direction and de
stroyed Pompeii, while the lava
flowed toward Herculaneum. This Is
what has made it easy to dig out
Pompeii, but impossible to uncover
any great part of the finer city, now
lying under the modern town of Re-
sina, on the confines of Naples itself,
In the present eruption the condi
tions have been reversed. From
William P. Andrews' "Vesuvius in
Fury," in the Century.
The Cause of Waterspouts.
A waterspout is a meteorological
phenomenon of peculiar character,
which is occasionally observed on
land but usually occurs at sea. It
consists of a cone-shaped pillar of
condensed vapor which descends,
with the apex downward, frenn a
dense cloud and at sea attracts a
somewhat similar cone in a reversed
position from the position of the
water. The two may not inaptly be
compared to a gigantic hourglass.
The cause of this phenomenon is sup
posed to be the gyratory movement
of the air with such swiftness as to
produce a vacuum in the axis of ro
tation, and the contact of the lower
extremity of such an axis with water
would effect the elevation of a col
umn of the latter to a considerable
height. The most probable solution
of the phenomenon is that water
spouts originate in adjacent strata of
air .of different temperatures running
in the opposite directions in the up
per regions of the atmosphere. They
condense the vapor and give it a
whirling motion so that it descends
tapering to the sea below, and causes
the surface of the water to ascend in
a pointed spiral till it joins that from
above.
Railroad Man's Prayer.
The following Is the text of a "rail
road man's prayer" pasted on the
fireman's side of the switch engine
In the Northern Pacific yards In Spo
kane:
"Now that I have flagged Thee lift
tip my feet from the rough road of
life and plant them safely on the
deck of the train of salvation. Let
me use the safety lamp of prudence,
make all the couplings with the link
of love, and let my hand lamp be the
Bible, and keep all switches closed
that lead off the main line into the
sidings with blind ends. Have every
semaphore block along the line show
the white light of hope, that I may
make the run of life without stop
ping. Give me the Ten Command
ments as a working card, and when
I have finished the run on schedule
time and pulled into the terminal,
may Thou, superintendent of the uni
verse, say: 'Well done, good and
faithful servant; come into the gen
eral office to sign the payroll and re
ceive your check for eternal happi
ness,' " Milwaukee Sentinel.
Potatoes Without Vines.
At the Great Falls (Mont.) county
fair there was on exhibition what the
inventor calls vineless potatoes.
About three months ago D. D. Darst,
discoverer of a new process for pro
ducing potatoes, says the Chicago
Post, announced that he could grow
them in from two to three months in
layers on top of each other and with
out vines. His experiments have
been conducted in a box eight feet
square. In the bottom of this box a
layer of Darst's preparation is placed
to the depth of three inches, and a
number of potatoes are planted there
in. Another layer of three inches is
scattered over these potatoes and
more potatoes are planted in the
usual way until the frame is full.-
Darst asserts that the box may be
built to almost any height, with lay
er after layer of potatoes, without af
fecting the producing quality of his
composition, and that he can have
new potatoes for the market In any
climate at any, time of the year.
Remedy for Riches.
We are schooling ourselves to re-
gard the chorus girl as an admirable
and very effective method for keep
ing the rich from growing richer.
Newark News.
FITP,Rt.Vitus'Dance:Nervous Diseases per
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Chile was the first South Ameri
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Re One in the 1000 Islands.
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world's greatest trading nations. It
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gal having the half east of a certain
meridian drawn by the Pope for that
very purpose, Spain having the half to
the west of the said line. In those
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were men of great energy, enterprise.
ttnd daring.
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After I began using Doan's Kidney
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War Pigeons Out of a Job.
Owing to the development of the
telephone, the wireless telegraph and
other recent scientific inventions the
Japanese military authorities have
decided to stop the employment of
carrier pigeons. Kobe Herald.
The black diamond is so hard that
it. cannot, he polished.
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