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Woman and the Schools.
Most of the teachers in the public
schools are women, and they are faith
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the supervision of the Bchools also
woman should have a voice. She un
derstands the needs from the stand
point of the child and the parent, and
can bring: to the work knowledge as
well as enthusiasm. Baltimore Sun.
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Steel and Prosperity.
v The steel rail market is booming.
Mills have so many orders on hand
that they are calling in their sales
men. Railroads continue to buy, de
spite rising prices. They need the
rails. There is reported business
enough in sight to keep the steel
mills and shops busy for months to
come, and the turning point of the
new year will see more orders car
rled over than has been known for
several years. Confidence in the fu
ture prosperity of the weBt was, In
fact, never greater, nor the prospects
better. Of course there are spots here
and there where the crops have failed,
or been a partial failure, like sections
of Southern Nebraska and Texas and
Western Kansas, but they cut no fig
ure in the general prosperity that pre
vails. It Is the kind of business that
lasts, because it Is built on a solid
basis. Washington Herald.
The Mock Sun Phenomenon.
The "mock sun" is a common phe
nomenon in the Bearing sea. On the
evening of June, 2, 1900, perhaps 100
miles south of St. Lawrence Island,
about 9:30 o'clock, and past sunset,
the sun was visible as though halt an
hour high, but appearing aa a much
flattened oval. Then another sun more
nearly round emerged from the horl
zon beneath the "Goose Egg," rising
quite rapidly until it blended with the
descending orb. Thereupon, Instead
of settling below the horizon, the
night was quickly dissipated in the
air. This phenomeuon was probably
due to the unequal density of several
super-Imposed stratas of air producing
refraction of the sun's rays from be
low the horizon. Capt. Edwin Coffin
In National Magazine.
THE DIFFERENCE
Coffee Usually Means Sickness but
Foitum Always Means Health,
Those who have never tried the
experiment of leaving off coffee and
drinking Postum in its place and In
this way regaining health and happi
ness can learn much from the experi
ence of others who have made the
trial.
One who knows says: "I drank
coffee for breakfast every morning
until I had terrible attacks of indi
gestion producing days of discomfort
and nights of sleeplessness. I tried
to give up the use of coffee entirely
bat found it hard to go from hot
coffee to a glass of water. Then 1
tried Postum.
"It wag good and the effect was so
pleasant that I soon learned to love
It and have used it for several years.
1 Improved immediately after 1 left
off coffee and took on Postum and am
now entirely cured of my indigestion
and other troubles, all of which were
dne to coffee. I am now well and
contented and all because I changed
from coffee to Postum.
"Postum is much easier to make
right every time than coffee for it is
so even and always reliable. We
never use coffee now In our family.
We use Postum and are always well."
"There's a reason" and It is proved
by trial.
Look in pkgs. for a copy of the
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Ever read the above letter? A new
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MISLED BY THE LIGHT.
The mullet that figure in the fol
lowing story from Outing eventually
went the way of fc.Il fish, but the ac
count of their passage from their na
tive element to the frying-pan is
marked by some interesting and spec
tacular features.
"How would you like to catch fish
without hook, line, net or seine?"
"Shoot them, you mean?"
No."
"How, then?"
"Let them jump Into the boat."
"Oh, that's preposterous!"
For reply, the first speaker, a Vir
ginian living near Cherrystone Inlet,
north of Cape Charles, called to a
passing nesro and asked him if the
fatbacks'.' were running.
"Reasonabtil, sub, reasoncbul,"
was the answer. "Dey hez been bet
ter, en dey hez hesn wuss."
"Be ready to take us to shore after
supper," the Virginian s.ild to the
negro. To his visitor's eager ques
tions he returned the uniform reply:
"Wait until nightfall."
It was dark when they finished sup
per, and there were clouds In the sky
conditions pronounced "ideal" for
the sport. ' Within an hour they were
on the soft, smooth beach of one of
the inlets on the Chesapeake side.
There was the fishing-boat, it long
canoe or dugout. At the stern was a
platform, on which was a basin half
full of earth. Behind the stern seat
was a pile of wood knots. The ne
groes had long poles.
'Now," said the Virginian to his
Visitor, "all we ask o! you is to keep
as still as you can!"
In a few minutes tho canoe was
shoved gently through the water. By
this time a bonfire had been started
on the sol! In the basin, nnd as the
flames got hold on the resin of the
pine knots, the glare lighted up tho
uig trees u;at 11112a tne snore.
"They're junrpin'!" announced the
negro in the bow, i:i a very hoarse
whisper.
The negro in the stern gave a more
vigorous shove with tho pole, and be
fore anybody could say "Jack Robin
son" plump! plump! piump! the fish
came jumping into the boat, over the
boat, on laps, and even up sleeves!
There were thousands of them, but
the sportsmen got only the smallest
fraction of those they saw; for when
they counted their catch, at the end
of an hour or so, by the light cf the
bonfire, thoy found that there were
one hundred and forty-three.
'That i3 very ordinary." was the
Virginian's comment. "Three hun
dred is a good catch."
Fatback is the local name for the
small mullet which abound in these
waters. And there 13 no mystery
about the ease with which they are
caught. On the fload-tMes aftsr dark
they get Into the shallows in the
streams for food. They have great
leaping abilityand when surprised
make for deep water by leaps end
bounds. The glare from a boat
startles them. The body of the boat
being dark, they do not cee It, and
when they jum.i into it they think
they are going through space into
deep water.
PRIVATE CONNOR'S MOTHER.
Mothers of soldier boys are unl-
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u.uuy maae-m romantic history, at
least after r.n approved generai-in-
petticoats pattern. Mrs. Connor, of
Clonmalrcan. of whom Miss Jane Bar-1
low lens m -riie Land of the Sham-,
rocii, was or a d fferent strlnp TW
1,)c f 1 j ... . . .. 1
-"a u b'ij aim ul conauct in tne
field were demoralizingly unmilltary,
nut tncy make refreshing readine for
those who think the Spartan mother
bit unnatural.
Terry Connor sis feet three in his
stockings in his scarlet uniform
with green facings was beautiful to
Detio'.d. W hen he came over from
Athlone on furlough to visit his
mother, she openly exulted in the '
splendor of his martial aspect and In
HIS mcaes. AtUIOne Was no Such
long way off, and it was known to
have been actually visited by ordinary
people.
It was a wofully different matter
when the Connemaras were sent off j
on active service to strange lands,
about Which all one's knnu-Wira
COUla be summed UD in tho wnrriu
'furrln" and "fishtin' " worda nf
limitless fear. .
Then It Was that retribution mie-hr
be deemed to have alighted upon Mrs. I
Connor's vanity about her son's con.
spicuous stature. For this now be
came a source of, especial torment, as
inreatemng to make him the better
mark.
And you'll be Biased to tell him.
Mr. Mulcahy," she dictated to the
schoolmaster, who was also cobbler
and scribe at Clonmalroan. "that
whatever he does he's not to be run
in' into the forefront of the flrin', and
he a head and shoulders liieher than
half of the lads.
'He'd be hit first thine. God be
good to us! Bid him be croochin'
down hack of somethln' handy. Or
if there was ne'er a rock or a furze
bush on the bit of bog. he might any
way keep stooped behind the others.
If he lets ihem get almln' straight at
him. he's lost."
Mr. Mulcahy stirred the sediment
of his lately watered ink.
"Bedad now, Mrs. Connor," he
aid, disapprovingly, "there'd be no
slnso in tellln' him any such things.
For in the first place he wouldn't
mind a word of it, and in the next
pU goodness may pity yon, wo
man, but sure you wouldn't be wish
ful to see him comln' back to yon
after payln' the poltroon, and behav
la' himself discreditable?"
. ."Troth and I would," cald Mrs.
Connor, "If he was twlnty poltroons!
All the behavln' I want of him 'b to
be brlngln" himself home. Who's any
the betther for the ktllln' and slaugh
tering The heart's weary in me
doubtin' will I ever get a sight of him
agin. That's all I'm thlnkin' of, tell
in" you the truth, and if I said any
thin' diff'rlnt, it 'ud be a He."
"He might bring home a trifle of
honor and glory, and no harm done,"
Mr. Mulcaby urged.
"Glory be bothered!" said Mrs.
Connor.
i And In the end Mr. Mulcahy only
so far modified his Instructions as to
substitute for Mrs. Connor's more de
tailed Injunctions a vague general or
der to "be taking care of himself."
A NORWEGIAN TRAGEDY.
An island inhabited solely by wo
men and children, the head of every
family being a widow, is perhaps
' unique in the geography of the world.
The island in question Is called Aar
lud, and is off the coast of Norway.
Until recently its inhabitants, who
were fisher folk, possessed no distinc
tion above those of other islands.
The present peculiar condition of af
fairs is the result of an accident. A
London paper tells the story, which
is a sad one
To the island of Aarlud came not
long ago a man from the mainland.
It was spring, and he had come to
the island to participate in the spring
egg-gathering. ' While testing his
ropes on a cliff, preparatory to mak
ing a descent he took an unlucky step,
fell to the rocks below, and was in
stantly killed.
The occurrence made a deep im
pression upon the inhabitants. For
eleven years thero had not been a
death among the thirty families that
made up the population of the place,
and the people were determined to do
all in their power to show respectful
sympathy for the family of the un
fortunate man.
The men decided to attend the
j funeral In a body, and accordingly
vent on board a herring smack and
crossed over to Haugesund on the
mainland. It was in gloom and storm
that the body of their late comrade
was laid to rest, for during the burlnl
service a tremendous gale arose. The
wind blew from the east and soon
lashed up a terrible sea.
When the men returned to their
smack the storm was at its height,
and they were strongly urged to post
pone their homeward journey until
the wind had abated. Thoughts of
their wives and children, however,
made the thirty men unwilling to
follow this advice. The women were
alone and would be anxious. It was
I necessary to go back. So the men
only waited to provide certain house
hold necessities that the good women
at home had urgently desired to
have, and then committed themselves
to the will of the waves.
The boat was heavily laden when
all the goods were aboard, and some
of the older seafaring men on shore
shook their heads as they saw how
she labored in the gale. Many
watched her as she made laborious
headway toward the Island, and when
she was about a mile and a half from
the mainland she was seen to he in
distress.
Efforts were at once made to go to
her assistance, but the heavy sea beat
back every boat that was launched.
A few minutes later the watchers saw
the smack plunge forward Into the
mo diuuli. (iiuuo mi nmu in
trough of the foaming waves. She
was never seen again. Every one of
the thirty occupants was drowned.
and the Island of Aarlud became an
Island of widows,
A HERO OF THE AFGHAN WAR,
The only clergyman who has ever
won the Victoria cross was the Rev.
James Williams Adams. He was by
birth an Irishman, and won his "V,
C." In the Afghan campaign of 1S79.
Lord Roberts was a witness of the
act of valor which Adams performed
in the fight in the Chardeh Valley,
near Kabul. An English magazine
quotes from Lord Robert's "Forty-
One Years In India" the general's ac'
count nf hnv tho xhnnloln nrhn hiil
accompanied him throughout the day,
first saved a wounded man of the
Ninth Lancera hv dtsmnnnHnir nnrt
Rnnnn"tln? thA man until ha mom ra.
lieved by some of his comrades.
"Adams rejoined me," says General
T?n'irt "In lime tr. o.ol.l ,
nf tho Mlntli whn o f,,ll.,..
nni'er tlir hori tho hnitnm f ,
ditch. Without n mnmonfe ho.lt..
tinn. Arlnma tnmneH Intn tho lth
He was an unusually powerful man!
und by sheer strength dragged the
lancers clear of their horses. The
Afghans meanwhile were so close to
the ditch that I thought my friend,
the 'padre' (as the British soldiers
call the chaplain), could not possibly
escape. I called to him to look after
himself, but he paid no attention to
my warnings until he had pulled the
almost exhausted lancers to the top
of the slippery bank."
The men were in danger of being
drowned, as the ditch was full of
water, and the "padre" was up to his
waist In water while he was pulling
them out. He was under a heavy fire,
the leading Afghans being within a
few yards.
Possessing all tho modesty of the
true hero, Adams was adored by
"Tommy Atkins," not only as a self
sacrificing minister, but also as a
sportsman. During the cholera epi
demic In Peshawar Mr. Adams
showed fearless devotion to duty. He
saw service, as chaplain, in Burma,
and wore the Burma medal, as well
as the Afghan medal, with clasps, and
the Kandahaf bronxe star.
GREEK COINS ARE MODELS
Originators of 8pecle Have Never
Been Surpassed by Die Sinkers.
The invention of coinage is due to
to the Greeks, most probably to the
bankers of Hallcarnassos and adjacent
Asia Minor Greek colonies, who, to
ward the end of the eighth century
B. C, began stamping the- small gold
and electron Ingots which passed
through their hands as currency with
a mark of some sort intended to guar
antee the weight and purity of the
metal; such Ingots very soon assumed
a round and more regular shape,
which we find already In old silver
coins from Aegina nearly contempor
ary with . Asia Minor "beans," says
the Saturday Review.
Curious to say, none of the sur
rounding people with whom the Asi
atic and European Greeks were in con
stant communication, political or com
mercial, took up the wonderful Inven
tion which at present seems to us of
such obvious necessity that we scarce
ly realize how the civilized world of
old could have got on without it As
a matter of fact, however, neither the
Phoenicians with their practical com
mercial sense, nor the Lydlans or the
Persians, who claimed the supremacy
over the cities where the new cur
rency was Initiated, nor of course the
Egyptians ever had cotnnge, till the
conquests of Alexander disseminated
the Greek civilization all through the
eastern world. The Romans came to
know It through the Greek cities In
Sicily and Magna Graecia, and began
striking silver coins toward the begin
ning of the third century B. C.
In the meantime with the Greeks
die sinking, like everything else, had
fallen within the domain of art, and
their coins, remain forever a standard
of beauty for the artist and a mode!
of perfection for the din sinker.
PUTNAM
Color more Roods hrltlitr nnd raster colors Hum any
an dye any garniuut without ripping apart. Wrlto
Heavenward.
Dink (in 1910) What kind of a fu
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Jinks A mile of aeroplanes. Life.
RASH ALL OVER BOY'S BODY.
Awful, Crusted, Weeping Eczema on
Little BufTerer A Store of Treat
ments Prove Dismal Failures
Cure Achieved by Cutlcura.
"My little boy had an awful rash all over
his body and the doctor said it wag eczema.
It was terrible and used to water awfully.
Any place the water went it would form
another sore and it would become crusted.
A score more physicians failed utterly
and dismally in their efforts to remove the
trouble. Then I was told to use the Cutl
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bottle of Cuticura Resolvent, and before
we had used half the Resolvent I could
see a change in him. In about two months
he was entirely well. George F. Lambert,
139 West Centre St., Muhnnoy City, Pa.,
Sept. 20 and Nov. 4, 1907."
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props.
of Cuticura Remedies, Boston, Mass.
Mayflower Relics.
Among the Maine people who claim
to have genuine Mayflower relics is
Mrs. Hiram Butterfield of Fnrmington,
who has a piece of bed cord used on
the Mayflower. It is made of whale's
sinews. One of Mr. Butterfleld's an
cestors came over In that historic ves
sel. Mrs. Dutterfleld also cherishes
with great care a large conch shell
which belonged to her grandfather,
Ellsha Lambert, and which was used
at Martha's Vineyard during the Rev
olutionary war as a signal of danger
from the approach of Britishers.
Lewlston Journal.
A note In Knowledge calls attention
to an estimate of comparative geolog
ical time made by Dr. H. Schmidt of
Jena. Assuming that the whole of
geological time is comprised of 100,-
000,000 years, then it is estimated that
62,000,000, or rather more than half,
would be required for pre-Cambrian
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