THE STAR KEYNOLDSVILLE - - PENNA. BLAMED DOGS FOR SICKNESS Authorities of the Middle Ages Had Little Sympathy for the House hold Pets. Disease and the dog were believed to walk together In the sixteenth cen tury. The terrier then was as much k suspect as the rat today. In plague (times he had only to venture Into the street to court death. Here Is an or )fler Issued by the authorities at Win blester, In 1583, which la typical of (the rest: "That If any house within this city shall happen to be infected (with the plague, that then every per son to keep within his or her house prery his or her dog, and not to suffer Ihem to go at large. And If any dog be then found at large, It shall be law ful for the Beadle or any other person co kill the same dog, and that any own- pr of such dog going at large shall lose ix shillings." Among the records of g"S Lynn, under May, 1585, appear- this: "For as much as It batn leased Almighty God to begin to nd us his visitation with sickness amongst us, and that dogs and cats are thought very unfit to he suffered In this time. Therefore Mr. Malor, al Mermen, and common council have or Iflered and decreed that every inhabi tant within the same town shall forth with take all their dogs and yappes and hang them or kill them and carry them to some out-place and bury them ifor breeding of a great annoyance And likewise for catB, if there be any alckness. ... It is ordered that the cats shall forthwith be killed In all such places." An exception was made "In favor of any 'dogge or accompte. Such a one was allowed to be kept It Tcenelled or tied' up or led in a lease." Worse and Worse. "Tipping gets worse and worse on the other side," said Senator Depew In a recent Interview. "A New Mexican told me that at the Savoy In London he went to have a wash before luncheon, but saw a pla card on a mirror, saying: "'Please tip the basin after using; "This made the man so angry he rushed from the washroom muttering: " No, I'll go dirty first." "The New Mexican added that, after lie got his lunch, he tipped the waiter the waiter's two helpers, the man whe rave htm his hat and gloves, and the man who whistled for a taxi. The ve hide rolled out Into the Strand, and our friend leaned back with a sigh of roller, when he was aware of a boy In buttons running along beside the window. " "Well, what do you want?' said the New Mexican savagely. "'A few coppers, sir accordln' tc the usual custom, sir,' the boy panted ""Why, what did you do?' snarled the New Mexican. " It you please, sir,' said the boy, 1 saw you get Into the cab.' " 8eom to Have Good Case. Miss Josefa Schneider, a Turkish Subject, resident in Constantinople, has brought a suit for damages gainst the state which throws a vivid light on conditions In Turkey under Abdul Hamid II. According to the Paris Eclair one of Abdul's daughters fell seriously 111 In the days when he was still padlsha and the court physi cians recommended an operation for appendicitis. Abdul refused to give his consent until the operntinn had been performed on someone else, tc prove that It was not dangerous tc life. Miss Schneider, who had recent ly spent some time In a Constantino ple, was handy, so she was forcibly taken from her house and deprived ot her appendix. Abdul Hamid was con tnced, his daughter was cured and sow Miss Schneider's suit Is part of his successor's troubles. ' Portuguese Vampire. An atrocious case of a human vam pire Is reported from Galizana, in Por tugal. A young child, son of the local blacksmith, was missing for several days, and was found dead in a field near the town. Examination revealed that the corpse was bloodless. Inquir ies led to the apprehension of a mer chant, Dom Salvarrey, who was last Been with the child. This man con fessed that he had killed the child In order to drink his blood. He declared he suffered from pthisls, and had been told by a gypsy that he could only be cuTed in this manner. He was assured that several cures had thus been made. It is surmised that this terrible outrage was due to the' murderer be ing mentally deranged, but it is not the first case recorded of such an atrocity. A Difficult Position. Why don't you be your own land lord?" asked the agent. "I couldn't manage it." Imagine hav ing nobody but yourself to blame be cause the house Is out of repair." A Nightmare. "I dreamed that I had a million do lars last night." "Were you happy?" "No. I thought the bank where 1 Cot It had short-changed me and I wai obliged to count it." Wonderful Faith. Randall Bliss evidently has grea faith In the lifting power of his air hip. Ellicott Why? Randall He's after the contract to r falsing the Maine. , Sr NATION'S WW 4--fl . .5.1. i'l L - ' RESIDENT TAFT recently de clared that this nation ought to build two battleships of the "Dreadnaught" class every year until the Panama canal Is com pleted and open for traffic. After that water way is com pleted and the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States are In effect brought nearer together in a naval sense that Is, It is made pos sible for our warships to get from one coast to the other more quickly in the event of trouble it might, In the presi dent's Judgment, be advisable to slow down In the matter of battleship building. Perhaps after the canal dig gers have cut the continent in two it will suffice to build one battleship a year, but for the time being two a year and Dreadnaughts at that are needed, in the opinion of the administration. Now "Dreadnaughts" are a comparative novelty in the United States navy and for all that there are several of these vessels flying the Stars and Stripes, and more building, there Is a consider able share of tho public that has never grasped the significance of these new-style sea warriors. To put the matter In a nutshell, it may be ex plained that a "dreadnaught" differs from the ordinary battleship principally by being larger and heavier and carrying an Increased number of guns of a big caliber. The term "Dreadnaught," It will be understood, has come to stand for a whole class or family of battleships rather than for any individual vessel. All the same, this new nickname for the lat est fashion in floating fortresses did originate with one particular vessel the first of her type. The pioneer "Dreadnaught" was a British prod- ; ; ; .';"v -' ' '-::jT.''. ': ; JW&Sttlt' ink - ' ,-'.'v- ' ' 7F - HnWtSvi i-: .raft fr? - arUyWiwrs :'J . n . - l' L agS&Sfr, r. Ji : .OTp;-;;-fih--;-'- jmmnmm Mr if ' ! Ill uct and she blazed a new path In battleship de sign. Prior to the advent of this new-pattern peacemaker the average battleship, whatever her nationality, had been armed with '12-inch or 13 inch breech-loading i'ifles and with a variety of loss powerful hitters, Including 8-inch, 5-inch and 3-lnch guns, and so on down through the whole catalogue of naval weapons to the one-pounders. The British naval architects and shipbuilders when they produced the original "Dreadnaught," pointed the way to a new policy. In arming the new style vessel they cut down the number of guns of lesser importance particularly the weap ons of intermediate size such as the 8-inch and the 6-lnch, and placed almost all the responsi bility for offense and defense on guns of the largest size. The whole naval world was immensely im pressed with the naval novelty which John Bull produced and all the leading nations, including the United States, straightway set about follow ing his example by constructing such ships of their own. Thus It came about that the name "Dreadnaught," which originally applied to only one ship, came to stand for the whole family ot "all-big-gun" ships, no matter under what flag such a vessel might be in service. The United States now has four battleships of the "Dread naught" class in service; two more will probably be ready to Join the big fleet within a year; another pair are under construction, and yet oth ers will be contracted for this winter. It is cost ing a pretty penny, too, to assemble such an ar ray of heavyweight fighters, for each of these largest-size vessels costs complete upward of $12, 000,000. Likewise does it make a big tug at Uncle Sam's purse-strings to keep these huge armor-clads in active service, for each of them requires the services of nearly one thousand offi cers and men half as many again as were re quired -for the largest of the old-style battleships. The irst American "Dreadnaughts," tho bat tleships South Carolina and Michigan, are yet so new that few of the people even In our large sea coast cities have had a peep at them. They are Bister ships that is, exact duplicates of one an other and are 450 feet in length and 80 feet beam or width. Eifch of these battleships carries eight of the big 12-inch guns arranged iu pairs in turrets. - This is Just double the number of the big barkers to be found on any of the battleships that were the accepted thing up to a few years ago. Neither battle ship has any other weapons except the three-inch and three pounder guns that are provided to repel tor pedo attacks. It was onlv a few months ano that the second pair of "Dread naughts," twins, made their appearance in navy. ' There are the Delaware and North Dakota. Each vessel Is 610 feet in length and 85 feet beam, and they go their predecessors one better in the matter of "shooting Irons," for each has five turrets in stead of four and carries a total of ten Instead of eight of the 12-lnch guns. Moreover, the Dela ware and the North Dakota have each a powerful secondary battery made up of fourteen of the ef fective 6-inch guns. Next year will see another brace of "Dreadnaughts," the Utah and Florida, take their places among the ships of the line. They are almost Identical in size with the Dela ware and North Dakota. After them will come the Arkansas and Wyoming each 654 feet In length and 93 feet beam and carrying a full dozen ,of the 12-lnch guns, but It will be several years ere these record-breakers are ready to report for duty. Next to the importance of providing fighting ships for Uncle Sam's navy is the task of prepar ing the ships and the men who handle them for the work they are Intended for fighting the bat tles of the country, should the dread specter at any time descend upon us. The thrilling experi ences on board big ships playing at war are In terestingly described in the following account written by one who witnessed the recent naval evolutions. The plain red pennant for "commence firing" was hanging like a stain from all yards. "Load!" from the ordnance officer. The stains glide down, to the shrill peals of the stand-by bells. Never stood men so braced and rigid as those spotters, staring through the soft rubber eyepieces of their binoculars, as the ordnance officer gravely syl labled the final range and deflection, as he got them from the substation prophet, who had been advised by the performance of the ranging shots: "The range is 10,500; deflection 47." It is the last suspense. Slowly, far below, the moving turrets begin to nose upward their guns like intelligent creatures. The big fo'castle deck is an empty, slim, flat, cigar-shaped finger, lazily ' dealing forward slippery ruffs of whiteness. Foam oozes up complacent around the anchor chains, and your eyes rest unwittingly on a four-masted schooner, a passenger steamship with a red fun nel, astern the waiting targets. Every living sinew scattered on our faraway decks is trans fixed on the bridge screen the skipper's arms, bright with their four gold stripes, the midship man on watch with the nickeled stadimctnr at bis eyes, the white bluejackets in boats on tho super structure, some with cameras poised all leveled to the same trenchant awe. Vague murmurs, not quite a shouting, rise; the rumble of a belated loading hoist, the hoarse hiss of air blasts clear ing the bores. The nerve-racking tsung of a primer discharged In some breech, with the bra vado of utter preparedness. Choking smoke clouds vomit up over us from the crater of the forward smoke pipe, with the heat of a Turkish bath. "Fire!" and all around on the rails of our cage snarl out the buzzers. All the sea to starboard goes ribbed and scit tcring, as if under the first blow of a tornado. "Knots ten right." (Deflection.) "Down 600." (Range.) "Kuots six left." "Down 300." "Salvo!" You miss, 'or cannot remember after, the exact shouts of the Bpotters, the key to the actual marksmanship, cried out as the geyser-gardens rise, and, transformed, as they echo in the sub station, into the craft that guides the great spurts to bloom out where we all hunger for them to be bunched together and hiding the target with their Bpray. "The Georgia's shooting at our screen." That last one winged her." You catch such fever ish comments between . times, slowly grasping, too, that the yards and angles of range and de flection keep dwindling in size, as shouted. "Hit!" comes, now and then, in the- climax like a ham mer blow; and as the four-minute eternity ends on the long alarm bell for cease firing, you hear, like a man coming out of a trance, the ordnance officer calmly observing that the deflection wasn't a knot out all the time, but d n that forward turret for hanging fire so that those poison fumes hid the splashes. You are coughing, in a first remembrance of their strange, acrid, burning strangulation. ' x The run is over, the spectacle and the human burden of it delivered, as the order is passed to call up all divisional officers to report any misfires. .- Swinging out now to the targets, hungrily searching them for shell holes, the throng of officers on the quarterdeck vent their relaxed ten sion "Our dispersal was good, but the range finder read 600 yards over. That's always the fault. And half tha time It figures under." Or you hear, "A difference of 30 per cent. In range makes a difference of 300 per cent, in the diffi culty of spotting." One learns that the forward twelves hung fire because water splashed the sights. We discern three hits in our target none in any of the other three, glory be! pick ing them reluctantly from rents niado by the seas; as the repair boats, putting out from each ship of us, set their half-naked crews struggling with the mast and screens, herding the pireclous canvases aboard the flagship, for judgment by all umpires assembled. . WRONG IN THAT DIAGNOSIS Physician's Method May Have Been All Right, but Here He Was at Fault. We are told that the latest sensa tion in the medical world is the asser tion ot a doctor that he is able, by looking into a patient's eye, to make an accurate diagnosis of the complaint which the patient is suffering. But li this really as novel as it is supposed to be? I recollect hearing some time ago of a doctor who said to a patient who was under examination: "I can see by the appearance of your right eye what is the matter with you. You are suffering from 'liver.'" "My right eye?" asked the patient "Yes," returned the doctor. "It shows me plainly that your liver is out of order." "Excuse me, doctor," said the pa tient, apologetlcallly. "My right eye's a glass one." One of the Best Rest Cures. Is a good story. To many women it is as good as a trip away from home. When you are tired out and youf nerves an on edge, try going off by yourself and losing yourself in some) good story. You will, in nine cases out of ten, come back rested and in vigorated. One woman who has passed serene ly through many years ot bard work and worry that go with the managing ot a house and bringing up ot a large family of children, said that she con sidered it the duty of every busy housekeeper to read a certain amount of "trash," light fiction, for the rest and change to the mind that it would give. Try it, you who lead a strenuous life, and who sometimes grow exceedingly- weary of the same. Lovemaking and Practice. The only way to become an expert at lovemaking Is to practice. This was the information handed out to a handful of hearers by the Hindu phil osopher, Sakhnram Ganesh Pandit, in a lecture on "The Science of Love." "Love is a divine discontent," said the philosopher, "and If you want to arouse love in others it can be dons only by giving them love. How to develop the emotion of love in another Is the great question of today the art of making love. It needs a great deal of Btudy and a great deal ot practice." His Defense, It was shortly after midnight, and the colonel had caught Rastus red handed. "Well, Rastus, you old rascal, you," said he, "I've caught you at last. What are you doing In my henhouse?" "Why, Marse Bill," said the old man, "I I done heerd such a cacklin' in dls yare coop, dat I I thought mebbe de ole hen done gone lay an aig, an" I I wanted ter git it fo' you" breakfas' while it was fresh, suh." Harper's Weekly. When He Hedged on Faith. "Dar's nutln' lak faith," said Broth er Williams. "I once prayed a fat turkey off a high roost, but the sher iff took htm t'um me ez I wuz gwine home ter cook him, an' I wuz took ter Jail." "Why didn't you pray your way out of jail?" someone aBked. "I would ' 'adone it," was the reply, "but I didn't want Providence ter know I wbb In no slch place." "Off Day" of Favorite. Cbapley How did she happen to refuse you; I thought you were her favorite? Washley Well, the favorite didn't win, that's all. That observation which Is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequent to make men cun ning than good. Dr. Johnson. THE FIRST TASTE Learned to Drink Coffee When a Baby. If parents realized, the fact that cof fee contains a drug caffeine which is especially harmful to children, they would doubtless hesitate before giving the babies coffee to drink. "When I was a child In my moth er's arms and first began to nibble things at the table, another used to give me sips of coffee. As my parents used coffee exclusively at meals I never ksew there was anything to drink but coffee and water. "And so I contracted the coffee imun eariy. i rememoer wnen quite young the (continual use of coffee so affected my parents that they tried roasting wheat and barley, then ground it in the coffee-mill, as a sub stitute for coffee. "But it did not taste right and they went back to coffee again. That was long before Postum was ever heard of. I continued to Use coffee until I was 27, and when I got into office Work, I began to have nervous spells. Especially after breakfast I was so nervous I could scarcely attend to my ' correspondence. "At night, after having coffee for supper, I could hardly sleep, and on rising in the morning would feel weak and nervous. "A friend persuaded me to try Postum. My wife and I did not like it at first, but later when boiled good and strong it was fine. Now we would not give up Postum for the best coffee we ever tasted. "I can now get good sleep, am free from nervousness and headaches. . I recommend Postum to all coffee drink ers." Read "The Road to Wellvllle," la pkgs. "There's a Reason." . Ever rrmA the above letter? A Hi) oae appears fram time ta time, Tae7 are aeaulae, true, aad fall at luuu latereai.
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