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CIRCUMSTANTIAL “DEATHS”
The simplest and only really effec-|
tive way to avoid all earthly troubles,
is to die. And the next best method
is to appear to die. History is full
of instances of prominent men who,
either to foil their enemies, or to
avoid the consequences of some rash
act, quietly disappeared and settled
off in some far country after their
faithful followers had buried them in
effigy with full ceremony
Indeed, there is a story to the ef-
fect that Charles Stuart Parnell, the
great Irishman, lived long after he
had died. Throughout Ireland an im-
pression prevails among the peasantry
that the celebrated leader and states-
man, is still in the land of the living,
and during the South African war it
used to be related among the poorer
s of the Emerald Isle that he
was identical with the elusive and
nr @erious Boer general, De Wet.
It is alleged that Parnell, when he
found that by marrying Mrs. O'Shea
he had not made, but married the po-
sition of the ambitious and wonder-
:1ly brilliant woman to whom he had
n so devotdly attached; when he
ized that he could no longer rely
the loyalty and discipline of his
foriowers; and he became convinced
that his existence after the scan-
dal in connection with the O’Shea di-
vorce constituted a source of weak-
ness to the cause of his beloved coun-
try, which would derive advantage
from. his disappearance—he resolved
to vanish, either forever, or at any
rate until such time when Ireland had
cbtained her own government. It is
added that the coffin purporting to con-
tain his remains holds nothing but
a mere lay figure, or sand, and that,
having shaved off his beard, he had
made his escape in the guise of a
priest without any difficulty whatever.
This story has been ridiculed and de-
rounced as preposterous by some of
the former political asscciates of the
great Irish leader; but for all that it is
widely believed among the peasantry
and lower classes generally through-
out the Emerald Isle.
clas
Police annals in America contain
records of many attempts at bogus
burials. In most instances the under-
lying motif is the collection of insur-
ance monies. A man sees financial
ruin staring him in the face. His life
is insured for a big sum. What easier
way to escape it all than to appear to
die, disappear, and then live in peace
and quiet in some far off country on
the proceeds of his insurance after
his faithful wife has joined him?
However, the red tape surrounding
burials these days are such that very
few of these attempts succeed.
People sometimes have recourse to
bogus burials to protect black sheep
members of their families from the
ignominy of public trial, conviction,
and imprisonment, in cases where they
bave misbehaved themselves under the
criminal law. The authorities are wil-
ling to wink at the deception in some
cases, since it has the effect of bring-
ing about the civic if not the material
death of the offender.
Seven years ago one of the best
known and highly respected firms of
family lawyers in London failed, in-
volving in ruin many houses of the
British aristocracy which for genera-
tions had entrusted to it the manage-
ment of their estates and the adminis-
tration of their monied interests. One
of the two members of the firm, who
remained in London to face the pro-
ceedings, explained in the court of
bankruptcy that the insolvency of his
firm was through no fault of his own,
but was due entirely to the dishonesty
and defalcation of his partner and rel-
ative, whom he swore had left the
country, and hid died in Germany.
Certificates were produced to show
that the man’s remains had been
brought back to England, and duly
buried at Bushy. Subsequently the
creditor: *ascertained that the partner
reported dead was alive and well in
the south of Europe, and, warned that
steps were being taken to obtain his
extradition, he fled in tim® to South
Africa, where he survives to this day.
In the olden days—and not so very
olden, either—these things were ac-
complished with a great deal more
ease. That Theobald, Duke of Praslin,
survived for several decades his al-
leged suicide in prison at Paris, and
kis entombment, is pretty generally
known on both sides of the Atlantic.
He had been thrown into jail charged
with the murder of his wife, daughter
and heiress of the French Field Mar-
shal Sebastiani, whom he was accused
of having hacked to pieces with a
sword. The motive of the crime was
ascribed to his desire to wed his chil-
dren’s beautiful governess. The lat-
ter, with her reputation absolutely
clear from any voluntary connection
with the crime, or even of having en-
couraged the attentions of her em-
ployer, came to this country immedi-
ately afterward, married the Rev. Dr.
Henry Field of New York, and now
rests in Woodlawn Cemetery. :
Before the Duke could be brought to
trial in a court composed of the Cham-
ber of Peers, it was suddenly an-
rounced that he had “done justice to
himself,” as they say in France; name-
ly, that he had killed himself, by
nieans of arsenic, in deference, it was
said, to the entreaties of his kinsmen
and fellow peers, who besought him
thus to preserve both his name and his
caste ,from the disgrace that would
fall upon both if he should be con-
victed of so shocking a crime and die
the death of a felon at the hand of
the public executioner. Some skepti-
cism was expressed at the time as to
whether the story of the Duke’s sui-
cide was really {rue; but the revolu-
tion in 1848, which drove King Louis
Philips from the throne, followed not
and had the effect of
diverting the attention of people from
the matter,
long afterward,
Among well-known people whose
death had been doubted is that of the
Earl of Aylesford, who was supposed
to have died. in Texas, and of the
gifted William Henry Hurlbert, who
died in the nick of time to save him
from arrest. And there are many
others.
INTERESTING FACTS
ABOUT THE TRACTOR
The principal use to which a tractor,
is devoted is farm work.
When the first came on the market
a few years ago they were driven en-
tirely by steam engines, This was
very expensive and of course helped
to discourage the sale of them . Fin-
ally the gasoline engine was applied
to the tractor and then it was real-
ized that the “passing of the horse”
would eventually be a fact and not a
myth.
The war then came and the tractor
was given a chance to prove its real
value in many places and of course
made good, like its brother worker,
the truck.
There are approximately 92 tractor
manufacturers in the United States to-
day. They are practically all doing
good business and have good oppcr-
tunities before them.
Labor shortage on the farms gave
the tractor one of the greatest chances
and it made good. Indications point
that farm labor will again give the
tractor a big chance for work this
vear. The tractor is inexpensive and
gives excellent service.
For field work the tractor is used
principally for hauling, plowing, culti-
vating, harrowing, discing, ete. For
stationary work a pulley is provided
to which a belt is attached, therefore
enabling it to do cutting, feeding,
grinding, shelling, shedding, threshing
and pumping.
The tractor engine is in many ways
similar to an automobile engine, It
has the same ignition, timing gears,
valves and other small parts, but is
heavier and runs much slower.
Usually a tractor is started on gas
and run “until the engine gets hot, then
ithe feeding gear is switched off to a
kerosene tank and kerosene is used.
When using kerosene the oil in the
crank case should be changed at least
every 20 hours of running time.
Tractors are geared on an average
cof two and three-quarter miles in high
speed and two in low speed.
They are two and three-
quarter miles hourly in reverse also
miles
geared to
STOCKYARDS FIGURES SHOW
GAIN IN LIVES TOCK BUSINESS
How the live stock business at
stockyards has jumped in recent years
is shown comparisons recently
made by the Bureau of Crop Estimates
of the United States Department of
Agriculture.
Since 1900, the smallest number of
by
cattle received at Chicago, Kansas
City, Omaha, St. Louis, Sioux City, St.
Joseph and St. Paul in any year was
about 7,200,000 in 1914. The number
advanced strongly to more than 12,
900,000 in 1918, a gain of 80 percent in
four years.
The receipts of calves—not included
in “cattle”—at the stockyards of Chi-
cago, Kansas City, St. Joseph, St. Paul
and Sioux City increased from 664,000
in 1914 to 1,362,000 in 1918, a gain of
105 percent.
Swine also went to the stockyards
of the cities first mentioned above in
greater numbers since 1914. From
18,300,000 in that year, the number
grew to 25,500,000 in 1918, a gain of
39 percent. The highest number
reached in any former year was 22,
900,000 in 1908, and the smallest num-
ber since 1900 was 14,900,000 in 1910.
The movement of sheep t othe stock-
yards frew from 1,100,000 in 1900 to
14,000,000 in 1913, after which year the
rumber declined to 10,000,000 in 1917,
but it jumped to 12,100,000 in 1918,
which was close to the average of the
last nine years.
DIRECT MARKETING LIMITED
While it may be attractive to a
city dweller to believe that he can
have a vegetable garden grown for
him 100 miles to 150 miles away,
place his orders for the cost of a
stamp, and have the produce delivered
at his door, it should be remembered
that not all farm products lend them-
selves to direct marketing by parcel
post. Usually it is impracticable to
market such heavy products as pota-
toes by parcel post, whereas eggs,
butter, sausage, poultry, many vesge-
tables and nut meats may frequently
be shipped with profit and at a saving
to the purchaser. In general, the
greater the value a pound the more
favorable is the chance for direct mar-
keting.
A NEW BRUSH FOR FARMERS
Recently Mrs. Brown issued an ulti-
matum which vitally affected the male
members of her farm family. She sup-
ported the theory that cleanliness and
godliness are twin tributes. She main-
tained that the cleanliness should
oxtend to boots and shoes which come
airectly from the stable to the kitchen,
In a word, Mrs. Brown, in common
A REVOLUTION IN
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
THE COUNTRY IS HOPING
WILL NOT MORE’
ADOPTION
Congress is now considering the ad-
vieability of substituting the French
metric system for our present system
nf weights and measures. Following
are a couple of the many arguments
ag 1st the adoption of the
system
to daily life appearing in a current
1ssue of the Iron Age.
Days would be needed simply to
state the number of changes the
“metric system would involve.” The
cost of the war is but a fraction of
what would confront the industries of
the country . Compulsory legislation
in this matter would plunge the nation
into economic disorder, wining out
values in billions of dollars.
life,
grocers’ scales would all require new
weights, all notched balance beams
scrapped and new ones provided.
Peck and bushel measures would have
to be discarded, the liter, being larger
than a quart, new retainers would be
required while the hectolitre, equal to
and four-fifth bushels is too large for
a practical unit . Prices of all com
modities would have to be readjusted
to new units.
In shopping the large numbers in-
volved in sizes would be more than
confusing. A simple eight by ten
photographic dryplate would become
a 203 by 254 affair.
Builders would be confronted by a
762 by 2032 millimeter door instead of
the present simple standard two foot
six by six foot eight. Railroads would
have to replace some 100,000 mile
posts and change all speed sigs and
time tables. All land surveys would
have to be changed to the new system
of figures.
The metric system in
simpler than our own in that it deals
only in combinations of ten. This is
the argument in its favor. The objec-
tions are not to the system itself as
to the difficulties of supplanting the
present system with it. The meter is
about three inches longer than a yard
and is divided into ten decimeters, 100
centimeters, or 1,000 mollimeters. The
kilometer is five-eights of a mile.
The liter is larger than a quart and
divisible into ten deciliters, 100 centi-
liters, or 1,000 milimeters. The kilo:
gramme is equal to about two pounds
and is divisible in 100 centigrammes
or 1,000 milligrammes.
In domestic for instance,
itself is
Reverend Doctor Primrose (stumb-
ling in the hall)—“Your father seems
to be sparing of his light.”
Little Willie—“Yes sir ,he’s always
that way after the gas bill comes in.”
with thousands of other farm house-
wives wants her men folks to brush
or clean their footwear when they
come into the house at meal time or at
night.
The Browns, father and sons,
fer to wear boots and heavy
curing inclement weather, using rub-
ber boots only on rainy days. They
do not like rubbers because they come
off easily in the mud, and also do not
stand up well under rough farm usage.
Overshoes suit them during the very
cold season, but as a rule nine months
in the year they wear boots. They
formerly tried to brush the boots off
every time they entered the house, but
often the broom supposed to be kept
on the porch would get mislaid with
disastrous results to Mrs. Brown’s
clean floors.
The attention of the Browns and
several million other farm families
interested in clean footwear is called
by the United States Department of
Agriculture to an inexpensive three-
way porch brush, which can be made
at home from three scrubbing or
cleaning brushes, or purchased from
most supply houses. It consists of
three foot brooms whicn are arranged,
one at the bottom and the other two
at the sides, in such a way that the
foot can be drawn backward and for-
ward through the device so that the
dirt and mud will be remdved. A
strong box of the desired size, with its
ends removed makes a good foun-
dation onto the sides of which the side
brushes and one on the bottom may
be nailed. Obviously no dimension
which could be given would be very
useful because the size must suit that
of the shoes to be cleaned. Since
they are so easily constructed one
could be made for the men and one
for the children, the chief caution
being that the side brushes should be
close enough together to cause good
friction on the shoe as it draws be-
tween them, Because of the friction
taking place the device should be
fastened securely to the doorstep or
other firm foundation. If an old-
fashioned foot scraper consisting of a
piece of metal, were placed beside the
broom device it would prove a valu-
able adjunct.
Some farmers practice the plan of
always entering the house through a
work room or shed or closet where
they remove their boots and don slip-
pers. The objection to this method
is that too often at the noon hour the
farmer is hurried and neglects to take
the time to make the change.
For use on dairy farms, where con-
siderable work in washing milk cans
and other dairy utensils is necessary,
the wooden or steel soled shoe is
recommended, and {is inexpensive
enough so that the average farmer can
put it to good use.
pre-
shoes
THAT CONGRESS
I'HAN “CONSIDER”
OF SYSTEM
EGG COMPETITION RECORDS
laying competitions in this
country are coming in for close exami-
nation and there is some dscusson on
the question of replacement of birds
All the con-
the
during the contest year.
tests in the past have allowed
contestants to ship one or more birds,
and in case one of the birds in the lay-
ing pen should sicken or die, she was
replaced by a bird from the reserve.
The the
of course, placed in the pen to finish
cut the record. At the Vineland con-
test the first year, an entire pen of
{wenty Barred Rock pullets from
Massachusetts died from tuberculosis
within five months. The entry was
replaced by additional birds purchased
in New Jersy and the year was fin-
ished with a nice record. A breeder
who entered in a western contest one
year, recently stated that the females
which laid the most eggs, whether in
the competing pen or in hig reserve,
were used to make the monthly pen
report.
In Australia, at the government's of-
ficial egg laying competition, a rule
debars replacements of birds that die
or become incapacitated in any way.
This rule has been found to work out
staisfactorily. While it is hard {or the
entrant who has a pen well up in the
test to suffer the misfortune of having
his chance spoiled by the death or
disease of one of his competing birds,
the officials feel that if an extra bird
were put in as a replacement, credit
for the year’s production would have
to go to seven instead of six birds.
This is correct. No poultryman work-
ing on his home plant can compete
with egg competitions in which sub-
stitution and switching of birds is
going on.
It may
best layer in reserve was,
be argued that replacements
are only made in case of death, or
illness which renders the bird incapa-
ble of continuing the race. That mat-
ter of conditions is elastic. If the
caretaker is particularly proud of one
pen and a hen in the pen stops laying,
he may find that “out of con-
aition.” A practical minded poultry-
man might say that the hen in ques-
she is
tion had dried up, but the contest
d'affaires removes her and substi-
tutes a fresh one from the reserve.
There will always be criticism as long
as birds that start are not obliged by
the rules to finsh.
Prof. Harry R. Lewis, director of the
Vineland contest, has started this year
with the birds that are to finish, and
no others. He hag placed a ban on
substitutes and replacements.
—American Poultry Journal.
HOME AND HAPPINESS
Any girl who concludes that her
parents’ views are out of date or that
home conventions are simply so many
old-fashioned notions is not nearly as
practical as she fondly imagines her-
self to be. If she longs to get
from home and accomplish it,
thinking that “freedom” will result in
bringing her the happiness she craves,
she will, and all too soon, be mighty
glad to return to her old habitat.
Of this fact we may each individ-
ually rest assured:—Contentment is
not found in any certain place, 1n the
pursuit of this or that pleasure or in
the taking up of work at which we
see others succeeding brilliantly. if
we do not try to make the best of ex-
ieting conditions, if we are too in-
different to share our joys, regardless
of how tiny or commonplace those
may be, then, no matter how far we
may roam from our own fireside or
how much recognition is
upon us, we shall never find that won-
derful, elusive something called hap-
piness.
Improve, Not Disprove
The girl who gives way to blue or
discouraged moods because her home
is not as well appointed as other
homes to which she is not invited, is
nothing of not foolish. Even grant.
ing that she does not possess as much
in the way of the world’s good things
as certain of her chums, she had bet-
ter forget that fact or set to work to
make the best of what she has. If
she is “handy” with her needle and
knows the possibilities of changes,
here and there she can very quickly
improve things; or, if she will go a
step further and give up some useless
bit of finery and with this sacrificed
amount purchase some piece of dainty
furniture for the home, she will be
well on the way toward suddenly de-
veloping into a resourceful girl much
interested in her home.
The maid who must count her al-
lewance carefully can, if she will help
out with the home decorations. Now-
adays, when needlework is again com-
ing into its own and girls are learning
away
does
showered
hew to conserve and economize, Miss
Practicability will quickly turn her
spare change, plus time, to good ac-
count. It is surprising how a, hand
worked centerpiece will give an air to
a table, even if that table lacks the
high polish we admire. But there are
any amount of good stains on the mar-
ket, and a can of this, together with a
determination to transform the old
lifeless furniture into new, companion-
able pieces, will work wonders upon
any “set,” regardless of its age or
design.
everything we want, and, after all, it
Very few, perhaps none, of us have!
is well for us that fate has so arranged
matters. Having too much and
ing” too must soon pall on the aver-
age person. Indeed, the quest for new
“go-
joys seems to be second nature to
It is only after the pres-
ent golden day flies, never to return,
that we suddenly realize we were
happy and had every opportunity to
share our pleasure if we had not been
downright selfish.
most people.
SMART GIRL, THIS
To invent labels pet
dogs may be allowed; but human be-
ings ought nqt to be put on that level.
The most cutting Mit of repartee we
fantastie for
remember to have heard in recent
weeks, says the “Cleveland Plain-
Dealer,” happened out at the Wil
loughbeach
ternity
certain fra-
to which we belong. A very
man and a pretty girl
were discussing costumes, horseback
riding, golf and fudge. The girl said
picnic of a
young very
that she could ride, but preferred the
old-fashioned side-saddle. She said
she thought it more graceful. |
“But, really, Miss Z,” insisted the
very young man, ‘‘do you see any: |
thing inherently improper in the di-'
vided skirt?”
“Nothing whatever, Mr. Q,” answer-
“For instance, I think that you might
wear one with perfect propriety.”
“Our prof. gave a lecture on ‘Meta- |
physics in Lampson,’ yesterday.”!
“Was there a mixed audience?”
“Mixed? I should say there was. No
one understood a word he said.’— |
Yale Record.
I have been driven many times to
my knees by the overwhelming convie-
tion that I had nowhere else to go.
My own wisdom and that of all about
me seemed insufficient for the day.—
Abraham Lincoln,
A husband leads a dog's life,” said
Mr. Gabb. “That's right,” agreed
Mrs. Gabb. “He growls all day and
snores all night.”—Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Mabel described graphically her
sensation on striking her elbow on
the bed carving;
“Oh, mamma,” she crieq “I've
struck my arm just where it makes
stars in my fingers.”
Phillip—*“Mother, they
in Wall Street either “bulls” or “be-
ars.” Which is papa?”
Phillip’s Mother—"It's time to go
to bed, Phillip.”
Phillip—“Well, I only wanted to
know whether I was a ‘cub’ or a
‘call’?
Nature’s financial methods err;
They're certainly a blunder;
For when we pay our debts to her,
She makes us all go under.
It is a rapid musician who can beat
time by several seconds.
“Who is mama’s little sugar lump?”
A Nautical View—Mamma: “Don’t
vou know that your father is the main-
stay of the family?”
Freddy: “Golly! ain't he, though?
And the spanker, too.”
with to make" it appear in a
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with what faculty we could most easi
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What 1s it?” ;
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aculty.”
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