DEATn AT MORNING.
BY CHARLES HANSON TOWNS.
She dird when tluwn 'was weeping o'er
the Innil,
When morning glories lit the gleaming
Willi j
Anil one who watched her, holding her
pale hnml,
.Whispered, "Aim! Hint she should miss
it all!"
The eavlv sun, rincn from his dark night,
flamed his great hnnners when she went
awny ;
And one said, "Lo! nt coming of the light
She liss gone forth, and lust the beau
teous day."
But she. from her poor mortal house of
pain
. Gladlv released, .went singing to God's
place,
And cried, "Dear Lord, after the bleak
world-rain,
1 cannot bear the brightness of Thy
face!" .
-From The Quiet Singer, (U, W. Dodge
. & Co.)
A MIDNIGHT ENCOUNTER,
' BT MATTIE OVER BRITTS.
! Women are naturally afraid of rats.
It Is an established fnet that a
oman who will fly right In the face
of death by wearing tight corsets,
thln-soled shoes, or otherwise violat
ing the laws of nature and common
sense, will scream at the top of her
lungs, If she does not go off Into' con
vulsions or a fit of hysterics, at the
Bight of a common sized rat.
Mrs. Harry Brown, being a woman,
and withal an exceedingly pretty one,
Shared the common terror Indeed,
had rather more than her share of It.
One night there was company at
Mr. Harry Brown's, and when the
family retired the hour was quite
late. Mr. brown, with man's easy
forgetfulness, soon slept the sleep of
the Just; but his wife tossed restless
at bis side, and longed In vain to Imi
tate his example.
At length, however, she settled
down, and was Just dropping Into a
comfortable doze, when her attention
was attracted by a faint sound, like
the dripping of water upon some hard
substance.
What could it be? Mrs. Brown's
heart began to beat fast, but she
raised upon her dimpled elbow and
listened. Drip, drip, drip! Drip,
drip, drip! Slowly and steadily the
sound came through the stillness.
Something was evidently wrong,
Mrs. Brown grasped her liege lord
by the shoulder, and gave him a gen
tle shake.
"Harry, Harry! wake up! Some
thing is the matter! "
Harry turned over, gave a rather
unmusical grunt, and subsided again.
Mrs." Brown repeated the shake.
"Harry! Harry! I say! Wakfl up!
wake up! "
Mr. Brown half opened his eyes,
and yielding to Mary's pushes, sat up
In the bed.
"Eh? What's up? What's to pay,
Mary?" he asked.'
"I don't know. Somebody getting
In the house, 'or something. It
sounds like water dropping. "
"Robbers getting in tho house
wouldn't sound like water drop
ping," said Mr. Brown. "You're al
ways getting scared at nothing."
"I'm not! And it is something!"
Indignantly responded Mrs. Brown.
There! listen don't you hear It?"
Mr. Brown listened,- and did hear
very plainly.
"It's the water-pipe. There's a
leak somewhere," he presently de
cided. "It has to be stopped, too."
So he tumbled out of bed and started
In pursuit.
Mrs. Brown, not daring to be left
alone, got up, too, and followed him.
And to protect her shoulders from the
night air, she caught up Mr. Brown's
dressing-gown, which hung on a
chair at the bedside, and threw it
around her.
This dressing-gown was a very
handsome affair, which Mrs. Mary,
with wifely affection, had made and
carefully ornamented with her own
pretty fingers. At the waist she had
sewed a long silken cord, with soft,
heavy tassels, and as her stature was
something less than that of her tall
husband, when she walked these tas
sels dragged on the floor at her bare
feet.
The leak, being diligently sought
for, was at length discovered in the
bath-room, and proceeded from noth
ing worse than one of the faucets of
the water-pipe being left slightly
open.
. Of course, it was only the work of
a single Instant to turn the faucet and
stop the leak, and having done this,
Mr. Brown turned to renew his slum
bers, followed by his devoted wife.
But scarcely had Mrs. Brown takea
a single step, when she set her little
foot plump down upon one of the
soft, yielding tassels of the dressing
gown, and instantly the bathroom re
sounded with a succession of piercing
shrieks bursting upon the appalled
ears of Mr. Brown, and freezing the
blood in his veins.
"Mary! Mary! what Is the matter?"
he cried, running to Mrs. Brown, who
had fled in terror to the farthest cor
ner of the bathroom.
"Oh! It's a rat! It's a rat, Harry!
I stepped right on it! Oh, mercy
mercy! Do kill It, Mr. Brown! do
kill It! "
"Where! where is it! Show It to
me! I'll fix him!" bravely cried Mr.
Brown, catching up t stick which lay
upon the window-sill, and brandish
ing it above his head with a savage
Jr.
"Oh, he's here! he's here! He
followed me right Into the corner!
Oh! look, Harry! look! Here It Is!"
sTTTSJai T iHTTA
Mr. Brown caught sight of ths tas.
scl, which, of course, moved with
every active spring which Mrs. Brown
mnde, and down upon it he made a
furious descent.
Mrs. Brown jumped out of the WRy,
and, of course, the rat Jumped too.
And then began a wild race around
the bathroom Mrs. Brown first the
rat after her, and Mr. Brown after
the rat, making desperate lunges at
the fierce little animal, without seem
ing to hurt It.
"I declnre, I .never saw such a
rat!" he panted, breathlessly. "I
know I've hit It a dozen times, and It
Jumps as lively as ever. Mary! Mary!
Jump up Into the bathtub! He can't
follow you there I Jump, quick!"
Almost exhausted with lies strug
gles, poor Mnry made a desperate at
tempt to leap Into the bathtub, and
succeeded In tumbling safely Into It.
But that wonderful rat did follow;
and Just as It went over the edge, Mr.
Brown dropped his stick, and with
frantic energy made a grab at It
with his hands.
And the hoxt moment, firmly cling
ing to his prisoner, Mr. Brown
dropped himself on the floor; and
such a roar of laughter as he broke
Into never shook the walls of that
bathroom before.
"Oh! hold me! somebody! Hold
mo, or I shall burst!" he yellod, roll
ing on the floor in a paroxysm of
mirth. "Here, Mary, here's your rat!
Oh, my gracious, I know I shall
burst! Here's your rat, look, he
won't hurt you!" And Mr. Brown
held up the soft, silken tassel, which
had been the cause of all their woes,
to the astonished eyes of his wife.
Well! It was too bad, after all Mrs.
Brown's fright, that there wns no
rat In the case though to this day
she declares that there was one, and
that she first set her bare foot upon
a real, genuine rat, and, after he got
away, she mistook the tassel for him.
She begged Mr. Brown not to tell
the story, but It was too good for a
fun-loving man to keep, so he often
entertains his friends with the story
of Mary's terrible rat.
THE USEFULNESS
S OF ICEBERGS J
When an Iceberg Is launched upon
its long Journey Its bottom parts are
barnacled with sand,' bowlders and
other detritus gathered from the land
surface over which It has made its
tedious march to the sea. This bur
den it gradually casts off as It melts
while drifting down nlong our conti
nental seaboard. As a result of the
deposits thus made through countless
centuries, combined with the products
of erosion carried seaward by the
rivers, the seabed for many miles off
shore has been gradually filled up,
creating those vast, . submerged pla
teaus known as "banks," which ex
tend from Labrador to the Bay of
Fundy, and form the breeding
grounds of innumerable shoals of
cod, herring and other valuable food
fishes. In this way the bergs have
performed an economic service of In
calculable value, laying the founda
tion for one of the world's most Im
portant productive Industries, and af
fording a means of livelihood to those
hardy bands of "captains courageous"
who each year reap the harvests of
the sea. The bergs serve a further
economic purpose in that to their
tempering influence are largely due
the climatic conditions prevailing
over a great part of the interior of
North America. Alfred Sidney John
son, In The World To-day.
Target Practice Under Sea.
The second submarine flotilla, con
sisting of the Octopus, Tarantula, Vi
per and Cuttlefish, under command
of Lieutenant Charles E. Courtney,
has been smashing target records
from twenty to fifty feet under the
sea in Gardiner's Bay. The new perl
Ecopes have been used to excellent
advantage by the helmsmen, and the
new additions, it is said, have ad
vanced the value of submarines
largely.
Under the sea the submarines have
been firing with Whitehead torpedoes
at from 1000 to 1500 yards' distance
against targets made of woven nets
about sixty-five feet long. The sub
marines were run at full speed. When
the submarines become attached to
Commander Marsh's training squad
ron more extensive drills, with both
night and day attacks, will be held.
Newport Dispatch to New York Times.
Coal and Prosperity.
It has been computed that In 1840
the production and consumption of
coal In the United States amounted to
a quarter of a ton per head for the
entire population; In 1860 the ratio
had risen to half a ton per head; in
1880 it was one ton, and In 1890 five
tons. As the population Itself was
increasing enormously all this time,
the Increase In the amount of coal
produced and consumed was, of
course, vastly greater than these ra
tios per head would Indicate. The
increase has gone hand ia hc.nd with
the growth of manufactures and In
dustries Philadelphia Record.
An Attractive Offer.
Genial Clerk "Now it is not the
limpid purity of . its tone, nc the
superb quality of Its case which
makes us certain you will be pleased
with one of our pianos, but the fact
that when you remove the wrappings,
on delivery, you will find Inside 1000
all different souvenir post cards
of New York and vicinity." Puck.
About the Size of It.
Hyker "Money is a conundrum."
Pyker "What's the answer?"
Hyker "Everybody has to give it
up." Chicago News,
Some Absurdities
of the Stage
Ily HENItY E. WARNER.
Some of the stork absurdities of
stage business familiar to every thea
tregoer have- become artistic func
tions which not even the spirit of
progress In realism would dare to
challenge. The maid, for Instance,
whose business It is to dust the fur
nlture, outers with a duster which
has never lost a feather and makes
Btralght for some article which will
get her Into the first succeeding pic
ture or situation. The general rule is
that both Bhe and the stage director
have thought more about getting her
Into that situation than about the Inw
mediate business of her part; so she
attacks one leg of a chair and dusts
It into splinters, while the mantel
piece, piano, table and woodwork
groan and grunt In vain for their
Share of caressing.
Using the telephone on the stage is
nearly always a piece of absurdity.
The player puts the receiver to his
ear, Instantly gives the number and
as Instantly gets his connection. Ex
cepting In comedy there never was
the least trouble getting central, there
never was the slightest delay In mak
ing connection, the call was always
answered promptly and no third par
ty ever crossed In on the wire! De
lightful to contemplate, but absurd
as to fact.
As a general rule the use of me
chanical devices on the stage and In
the hands of any character leads to
absurdity. For Instance, in Clyde
Fitch's "Girls" Ruth Maycllffe plays
the part of a stenographer, and the
speed she makes across the machine
is not less than 810 words a minute,
while she never uses the space bsrl
Were she really a good operator she
would be cdbawvlng gum and reading a
novel, devoutly hoping that the head
of the firm would break a leg on the
way to the office. In "Three Twins
there is a canoe that Is supposed to
be paddled across a stereoptlcon lake
by beautiful mnidens. The maidens
in the case, being far removed from
canoe life in dully practice, paddle
this particular canoe after their own
conception of how a canoe should be
propelled. One waves her paddle as
she would a fan, gracefully and with
languor for is not the audience
watching? Another energetically
thrusts her paddle In t6 the haft,
while a third backs water so violently
and erratically that. If it were a real
canoe on a real lake, the logical se
quence of events would lead quickly
to a swimming match or a drowning
event. The Bohemian Magazine,
Fcrro-Concrote For Vessels.'
- An Italian engineer, SIgnor Gabel
llnl, of Rome, has advocated for many
years the use of ferro-concrete for
the construction of vessels and other
kinds of floating structures. After
being applied successfully in a great
number of cases, his system has re
cently been officially approved by the
Italian Government, which has de
cided to adopt it for certain purposes
connected with the Italian navy. Un
der this system the metallic frame
work, or skeleton, of reinforcing Iron
Is arranged In accordance with the
actual distribution of stresses, and
this frame Is covered with expanded
metal, which supplements the pro
tective action by the distribution-of
the armoring over a large area, while
it unites the various portions of the
mass In such an effective manner as
to preclude any risk of fracture. This
process dispenses with the provision
of costly moulds and renders it per
missible to employ ' extremely thin
walls to serve as the outer skin.
Philadelphia Record.
Light Evidence,
An IrlBh soldier on sentry duty had
orders to allow no-one to smoke near
his post. An officer with a lighted
cigar approached, whereupon Pat
boldly challenged him and ordered
him to put It out at once.
The officer, with a gesture of dis
gust, threw away his cigar, but no
sooner was his back turned than Pat
picked It up and quietly retired to
the sentry box.
The officer, happening to look
around, observed a beautiful cloud
of smoke issuing from the box. He
at once challenged Pat for smoking
on duty.
"Smoking, Is It, sorr? Bedad, and
I'm only keeping it lit to show to the
corporal when he comes, as evidence
agin you." Tit-Bits.
Exempt.
The Teacher "And why didn't
you come to school yesterday?"
The Pupil "Please, ma'am, me
muvver didn't know school com
menced yestldday, and she borrered
Mrs. Green's almanac an' it wuz a
last year's one."
The Teacher "And didn't your
father know the day that the school
opens?"
. The Pupil "No, ma'am, he doesn't
know nuffin 'bout days."
The Teacher "How is that?"
The Pupil "He work nights."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Queen Alexandra's Favorite Roses.
The Queen's favorite rose is one of
the old time sorts known as Hermosa,
a lovely free flowering pink rose
which yields a rich harvest of beau
tiful fragrant blossoms. So fond is
the Queen of this rose that she has
caused it to be grown by thousands
In huge borders near her favorite
dairy, as well as In the gardens sur
rounding her home. Girl's Own Pa
per. Slate valued at $6,019,220 was
quarried and sold in the United States
in 1907, an increase over 1906's out
put of 1350,875.
A HERO OF THE HIGH SEAS.
The adventures of no dashing rover
of fiction make more exciting reading
than the true history of Captain John
Manly. The valuable aid of the pri
vateers during the Revolutionary pe
riod has always been recognized and
acknowledged by tho navy, and It is
in appreciation of the fact that "Torpedo-Boat
Number 22" bears the
name of the gallant captain. Mr. Ed
gar S. Maclay, in his "History of
American Privateers," gives sn ac
count of Manly's services to his coun
try. Captain Manly took charge of the
Cumberland In 1779. Soon after he
took command he was captured by a
British frigate and carried to Barba
dos, where he was cruelly treated.
His escape from prison was most au
dacious. He bribed the Jailer, fled
from his confines, seized an English,
government tender, placed the crew
In Irons and made his way to the Uni
ted States.
He was immediately placed In
Charge of the fine ship Jason of twen
ty guns. He had hardly left port
when a squall carried away his masts
and left him helpless. The fact of
this disaster, coupled with his mis
fortune on the Cumberland, made the
crew suspicious, and they mutinied.
A disabled ship and a rebellious
crew are difficulties enough to dis
hearten nny commander, but Manly
was not to be downed by untoward
circumstances. With the vigorous
help of a cutlass he reduced the mu
tiny and brought his ship to port for
repairs. More than that, ho took two
prizes, the Hazard end the Adventu
rer. These he carried to Boston.
There he heard that a British fleet of
merchantmen, homeward bound, were
supposed to be skirting the New Eng
land coast
Manly could not Ho quiet under
Such news, and off he started In pur
suit. Onp thick day tho fog suddenly
lifted and revealed to the Jason a
fleet of forty large ships In alarming
proximity. This was a bit too much,
even for the bold captain, and by the
aldjof the fog, which fortunately shut
down again, he escaped.
'Not long after this the Jason came
up with the British vessel Surprise.
"Heave to or we will fire Into you!"
shouted the English captain.
, "Fire away! We have as many
guns as you!" coolly replied Manly.
He fought bravely, but again his crew
mutinied and the Jason was captured.
Manly was carried before the lord
admiral.
"Are you not the same Manly who
commanded the Cumberland?" ques
Joned the admiral.
"Yes."
"Were you not taken by the Thun
jerer?" ' "Yes."
"Did you not escape by bribing the
Jailer and-taking the king's tender?"
roared the admiral.
Manly did not wish to Incriminate
lie Jailer so he held bis peace. He
las sent to England to be kept In
till Prison until the end of the war,
nit In 1782 he was exchanged. He
t as at once put in command of the
Hague, and In thirteen days had cap
tured a valuable prize ship. How
much more he would have harried
British shipping is not known, for he
was run into Martinique, and block
aded -there until peaca was declared.
KOEPENICK OUTDONE.
Tow that the cobbler ".Captain" of
Koepenlck has been released from
prison, where he hss been serving on
account of hia trick with the German
guardsmen, whom he used to arrest
a Mayor and rob the municipal treas
ury, Henry Cnambsrlain, a retired
Lieutenant of th9 Royal Navy, has
sent to the press the story of a simi
lar experience of his own, which hap
pened before the Koepenick affair.
Mr. Chamberlain was making a
our of Germany on foot He says he
looked a typical Briton in his old,
pray suit, old felt hat, flannel shirt
nd shooting boots, and carrying a
cotton umbrella. His German vocab
ulary consisted of probably- forty
rords. He was .walking through
4ome wood3 when he came upon
About a dozen German soldiers lying
In the grass. Their coats were un
buttoned and sword belts unbuckled.
The traveler, aided by signs, asked If
."ie soldiers were Prussians. No,
i'..jy were Saxons. "I am Anglo
Saxon," replied Mr. Chamberlain. To
his astonishment, the men got up and
shook hands with him. Casually he
pientioned that he was a naval offi
ce:'. At that last word tbe men
quickly buttoned up tbeir tunics and
'eplacd their sword belts, got into
line and saluted the stranger.
"'Are you going to Niederbronn?'
was lny next question,' writes Mr.
Chamberlain. " 'Yes,' they replied,
'we are going to walk to Niederbronn
and there take the train to Bitsch.'
What evil genius prompted me to
make the next remark I cannot tell,
but, though nttered In Joke, its con
sequences were perfectly astounding.
'I, too, am going to Niederbronn.
You are my regiment, I am your Col
onel!' "Up they sprang to their feet, fell
In two deep and kept silent, as if on
parade. 'Right turn!' and off we
marched, I carrying my umbrella as
U it were a sword. Breasting a grassy ,
slope we marched up to the top at a
swinging pace, still observing perfect
silence and In step. A short distance
off was a solitary soldier of the same
regiment, lying at full length on a
bench near the entrance to a wood
tunic unbuttoned, sword unbuckled,
etc. On catching sight of the ap
proaching squad up he Jumped, but
toned his tunic, buckled on his weap
on, stood rigidly at attontlon, and
when the 'regiment' came by 'tailed
on' as If It was the most natural thing
In the world to do.
"A disconcerting thought arose:
'What will happen if we chance across
a German officer, and bow, In my bro
ken German can I ever hope to ex
plain this ettraordlnary assumption
of command of the forces of the Kais
er?' So, without a moment's further
dels, I said to the men: 'I must go
to my hotel, which Is over there,' and
bade them good-bye. These docile
and amiable Saxons, with one accord,
taking time by the leading file, sa
luted, and I, having returned their
salute, got out of sight as rapidly as
possible. On peeping around the cor
ner of a house, there was my late
'regiment' still marching with the
regularity of clockwork."
NOT LIKE BEN BATTLE. .
The only one-footed man who ever
served In the United States Army Is
C. E. Whltmore, an employe of the
Tremont Hotel, Galveston, Texas, and
he also enjoys the distinction of being
the champion military bugler of the
United States and of being the only
one-footed man who ever served in
the United States Revenue Cutter Ser
vice. Whltmore, during the Spanish
American War, had his foot shot off
by the Spanish, but he was not In
jured and was only temporarily dis
abled. It was cork.
His service In the army lasted two
years, and he was In both the cavalry
and artillery branches of the Govern
ment's fighting force. He served In
the Revenue Cutter Service eleven
years and two months and retired
only when more stringent regulations
made It impossible for the authorities
to further overlook the absence of
his natural foot.
During the thirty-two years which
he spent with the United States forces
Whltmore saw service In almost every
branch of tho military and. naval
forces. III3 service began when he
was thirteen years old. At that age
he enlisted as en apprentice on the
Philadelphia, and was first assigned
to the gunboat Saratoga, undir Fight
ing Bob Evans. He served under
Evans four years and rose to be chief
bos'n mate.
Whitmore's title as champion bu
gler of the United States was won in
1900, when he was trumpeter at the
West Point Military Academy. Ho
blew 135 calls, ordered at random,
in one hour and thirty-five minutes,
winning the prize, a silver bugle. This
he presented to the Military Acad-
emy, and It is there now among the
institution's relics.
During the Spanish-American War,
Whltmore served under Generals
Shatter and Wood, and It was at Slbo
ney, on June 29, that his cork foot
was shot off and he was ordered by
General Wood to report to the wheel
wright for surgical attention.
Whltmore blew the last bugle call
that President William McKInley ever
heard. At that time he was a civilian
attached to the military force at the
Pan-American Eposltion, and as Pres
ident McKInley entered the Temple
of Music he sounded three flourishes,
announcing the approach of a distin
guished personage to the people
gathered within. Hardly had tbe
notes died away when Czolgosz's shot
rang out. Whltmore was near enough
to be an eye-witness to the assassina
tion, and his testimony regarding the
occurrence is on file in Washington.
Whitmore's foot was torn off In
Galveston harbor when he was serv
ing on the revenue cutter Galveston
in 1892. While a wire rope was be
ing unreeled it caught his foot and
tore the member off. After several
months In St. Mary's Infirmary here
he was able to get about and devised
a foot which enabled him to walk al
most as Well as he formerly walked
with his natural foot.
In 1S95, despite the absent foot,
Whltmore applied for admission Into
the army and was ecamlned person
ally by Surgeon-General Sternberg.
This examination was supplemented
by another in which experts of the
Johns Hopkins Hospital participated.
They pronounced him capable of do
ing military duty, and he was per
mitted, on the authority of a special
board, to continue his military ca
reer. Houston Post.
Microscopic Tests of Wood.
The microscopic examination of
wood after it breaks in a testing ap
paratus has just been started by the
Office of Wood Utilization in the For
est Service of the United States.
Every species of wood has several
different kinds of cells, each of which
has its own size and form. There is
also a wide variation in the number
and arrangement of the cells In dif
ferent species. These differences in
structure have their bearing on the
strength of the wood. For some
time past the Forest Service has been
carrying on a large number of tests
on many kinds of wood, in order to
determine their strength, stiffness,
elasticity and other physical proper
ties, so that they may be used to the
best possible advantage in construc
tion. The application of mlcroscopie
work to such tests Is expected to give
a better knowledge of the conditions
on which the strength of wood de
pends. Other problems connected
with the structure of wood, such as
the preparation of wood pulp and the
treatment of wood with preservatives,
will probably be aided by this new
study. Philadelphia Record.
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JUSTICE OF TH8 PEACE,
Pension Attorney snd Roal'.RataU Agssk
RAYMOND E. BUOWN,
attorney at law,
Brookvtlls, Pa.
rJ"M. Mcdonald,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Real estate- agent, patents secured, eel
lection mull promptly. UlUce lo Syndicate
hlldlflf, KeynoldsWUe, P.
gMITH1 M. McUKEIGUT,
ATTOKNEY-AT LAW,
Notary public and real estate agent. OoJ
lectloni will receive prompt attention. Offloe
In the ItoynoUUvllle Hardware (Jo. building,
Haiti street ttoynoldsvllle. Pa.
JJR. B. E. HOOVER,
, DENTIST,
Resident dentist In the Hoover bnlldlaf
Halnstroet. Uentlonese la operating.
JJR. L. L. MEANS,
DENTIST;
Office on second floor of ths First Ratios a)
bank building. Main street.
DR. R. DEVEUE KINO,
DENTIST,
Office on second floor of the Syndicate ball!
Eg, Main street, Keynoldsvllle, Pa.
HENRY PIUESTER
UNDERTAKER.
Black and white funeral ears. Italastrssi,
Bey'noldsTllle, Pa.
SPOUTING BREVITIES.
Ketchel now says that be will not
fight Papke again.
Strict rules were adopted to gov
ern the next Brlarcllff auto race.
Harvard won In three events this
year crew, baseball and football.
Harvard's football victory marks a
return of athletic vigor at the Cam
bridge university.
E. W. McDonald. 1910, has been
elected captain of the Colgate foot
ball eleven for 1909.
The Associated Cricket Clubs of
Philadelphia received an Invitation
for a team to tour tho West Indies In
February.
Bender, the Athletics' Indian pitch
er, won the open live bird handicap
shoot of the Penrose Club by killing
fifteen straight. '
Cincinnati University has offered
the position of football director to
former Captain Hollenback, of the
University of Pennsylvania team..
The Board of Review of the Na
tional Trotting Association exoner
ated Oliver H. Balr on charges of
drugging horses in a double team
race.
M. Deroze, a mechanic, was killed,
and Juan Junasz, a driver, badly in
jured while practicing In an S. P. O.
car on the Savannah automobile
course. j
A committee of theXew York State
Football Association will arrange a
series of "knockout" matches for a
cup. Play will begin the last week; in
February.
Abe Attell now says that he will
never meet a man again that weighs
more than 126 pounds. He does not
care to go out of the featherweight
class in future.
, James Gordon" Bennett has pre
sented to the French Aero Club an in
ternational aviation cup, valued at
2500, as well as three sums of
$5000, to be added as prizes in the
first three annual competitions.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
President-elect Gomes of Cuba
greeted the people of the United
States.
King Haakon was the first contrib
utor to Captain Amundsen's Polar ex
pedition. He gave $5000.
J. Plerpont Morgan belongs to
thirty-five clubs, and his membership
dues figure over $7000 annually.
Guglielmo Ferrero, In a lecture at
Columbia University, shattered the
romance of Antony and Cleopatra.
Premier Asquith said he will not
dissolve Parliament at the dictation
of an "irresponsible chamber" (House
of Lords).
Jay Gould Joined the Aero Club of
Columbia University, and announced
he would begin ballooning around
New York City.
Colonel Goethals has prepared a
report denying the existence of a lake
under the Gatun dam at Panama or
any sinking of that structure.
Mr. Bunau-Varilla, in an interview
Ipeclally cabled from Paris, declared
that the Panama Canal would result
In the greatest disaster in history.
Alfred Clifford was elscted a direc
tor of the United States Steel Corpor
ation, talcing the place on the board
made vacant by the resignation of
James Gayley.
Friction Is said to have driven Judge
Wllfley from his post at Shanghai,
China, he having demanded the re
call of two high American officials be
fore he resigned.
Tbe Rev. James E. Mocrdyar, Dr.
Myra H. Josselyn and Gerrit J. Pen
nlngs sailed from New York City to
begin missionary work In .Arabia, un
der the auspices of the Reformed
Church of America.
SAND TARTS.
A llttTe cookie that will keep nicely
Is well to have on band, and the fol
lowing recipe Is for Just such an
article. It can be made cut In vari
ous shapes and Is even more delicious
with a blanched almond at the middle
of each. Take one teacupful of but
ter, cne and one-half teacupfuls of
sugar, two eggs, three teaspoonfuls
ctf water, one-half teaspoonful of sal
eratus and Just enough flour to make
a stiff dough that will roll out very
thin. Cream the sugar and butter to
gether, add the eggs, which should be
well beaten, then the water, and last
ly the sifted flour. In which the sal
eratus Is put Bnish white' of egg
over the tops aid snrlnkle with cinna
mon and sugar. New York Tribune.
Stand by 7cur colors, advises the
Dallas News, provided they are not
blue or yellow.
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