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[from harm. Hawk Feather was not
unmindful of the debt he owed for that
P id D b | interference, but his feelings did not
dal a e t count in a grave dispute between his
| people and the government,
Years age, in making a tour of the Deeming themselves wronged and
West, I stoped at one of the frontier | knowing only one way to get redress,
forts to id Hall, the com- |the Indians went on the warpath.
mandant ¢ffthe post, who was an old| The crisis came within two weeks
army frierdfof mine. The Indians all | after the conference at the fort, and,
through the]West were quiet, but the | although I had been warned by the
SiouX, whogp reservation lay near the | colonel that it was almost sure to
fort, Tooth sone restless, and seri- | come, I preferred to remain and have
How Hawk Feather

ous troubleiWas fared. another taste of active service, for I
One day { dep. ation of them came had seen some fighting during the
to the fort o have a “talk” with the | Civil War. Indeed, I do not believe
that I could have got away if I had
desired to do so, for the Indians left
no avenue of escape unwatched.
One evening scouts brought intelli-
agent and Crlonel Hall, in the hope of
laving some objectionable regulation
changed.
There wee six in the party, five
“bucks,” as the men are called, and | &ence that made the colonel decide
one boy, a landsome young fellow of tO take the offensive and move to-
sixteen or thereabouts. He was the | Wards the enemy next morning. He
son of the chief that headed the depu- | 'e¢adily gave me permission to go with
tation, and had been allowed to come | him as a sort of volunteer aid, and
more, I suppose, to gratify his curi- | When the battalion was mustered on
osity than anything else. His name the parade ground soon after day
ifter the romantic fashion of his peo- | break, I was a good deal surprised to
ple, was Hawk Feather. see the major's son Ralph there,
armed and acoutred precisely as I was.
He iad begged his father that he
might be allowed to go with the party,
The boy's wild beauty and graceful
bearing attracted my attention and ad-
niration the moment I saw him.
Ordinarily, when you look at an In- | and the major, being very proud of
lian, you fe¢' like giving him a cake | the boy's physical strength and gal
" soap and sending him to the nearest lant spirit, had given his consent.
tream, but this boy was neat and The scene that met us as we rode
clean, and his deersk n hunting shirt | out upon the prairie was one of great
were worn not withov a certain jaunty beauty. It was the first week of May,
ir that became him well. But, above and the fresh grass of spring made
all, he attradked me by his intelligent | the broad plne a delight to the eye.
face, and the honest, fearless light The monotony of the green harbage
in his dark eyes. was broken to thousands of pieces by
the bright tints of wild flowers.
There was a boy in the fort, the son
In some places the blossoms
Major Williams, who was the same
and it struck
were
ige as the young Indian,
me as a goincidence worthy of note | them by the hundred. This was the | Mongol bandits and packs of ravenous 1
that he aA fine a specimen of the poetry of our expedition; the prose wolves, was accomplished in the same Phonograph Usec
white race as IMawk Feather was of | came later on. {car in which he started in fifty days, A ; Ph 3
the red. We had come upon the hostiles early breaking every record. And what is fo NSW er one
Subsqeunestdy. - vents made this co- in the afternoon and had been fighting [still more remarkable isthat he was .
incidence ever more striking, for With varying fortunes, for three hours | accompanied by his wife, Donna Anna Philadelphia—How the automatic
hance, or fate, or something threw Slowly, but steadily we were now fore- | Maria, only child and sole heiress of telephone, soon to be put in use in this
the boy: together and formed a link | ing them back over a rocky ridge in [the colossally rich Duke Gaetano city can be used as a fire alarm, a
between them that never has been, | which they had found lodgment. © rrari of Genoa, and of his Russian | watchman and various other purpos
and, perhaps, never will be broken. Our men fought with the utmost gal Lite Maria Annenkoff, sister of that was shown to the members of oe
While the older Indians were having lantry, but none more so than the “lit- [General Annenkoff who created the chamber of Commerce at their lunche-
their talk with Colonel Hall and the tle major,” as they called Ralph. A |Trans-Caspian Railroad. The four’ une on in the Bellevue-Stratford, B. L.
weent at the colonel’s headquarters, | number of brave deeds of his came | of the late Duke Ferrari, which went | qrayel, field engineer of the Automatic
Hawk Feather, noticed by the officers under my own eve, and I took time to
and men, but molested by no one, | wonder at the boy's coolness and cour-
strolled about the fort, looking at | age.

everything with wondering eyes. Finally, the colonel determined to
It was all new and strange to him, carry the enemy's position by assult,
and, of course, he marveled at it, but and horses being useless on the ground
the the advance

he did not once lose the impassive, would carry us over,
dignified maaaer of his race. he ordered the battalion to. dismount
A troo ry formed part of | Then, forming his lines with the skill
of the old Indian fighter, he led us to
the attack.
e men were groom-
the time that Hawk
the garris
ing their h

Feather w. king his tour of in- I am not going to describe the
spection. details of that fearful conflict. The
“Oie ry lemperegglrish- | aor x2] fizure iz the bloody drama, so
..n, af it happened, had -rs | as we are concerned, is the boy
horse hut of the stable, and Was rub- | Ralph.
bing him down with a wisp of straw. He seemed like one transformed into
the very incarnation of battle.
threw himself into positions of the
greatest danger with reckless indiffer-
ence to even the common dictates of
The horse’s coat shone in a way quite
unusual in that country of hard cer-
vice, and the young Indian stopped to
look at the operation.
The trooper was evidently not aware prudence.
that tliffe were Indians in the fort, In our final charge over the rocks, I
for whem he saw Hawk Feather, he found myself quite near the boy. He
had =iet a big painted warrior face to
and his rife being empty, he had
clubbed the and rushed to-
stopped his work and stared at him in
amazement. face,
Then, seeming boy's
to take the weapon
presencll as an affront, and apparent: ward the Indian, intendir g no doubt
ly givllze way to an uncontrollable to brain him where he stood. *
hatred § his race, he ordered him to His burly antagonist as if disdaining |
move ofl, using language of the most to fire at so young a foe, dropped his |
violent and threatening kind. gun, seized that of Ralph, as the latter
: y |
so thick that our horses’ hoofs crushed |
He
| his present wife, by whom he has two
Noted Italian Prince
| figure of $900,000, representing less
than a tenth of its value, as deter
Becomes Heir to Host | Tor of fis Wohi 88 det
. y 3 { mined by international experts, while
fo Historic Titles | the city of Rome abtained in a similar
| manner and at a merely nominal price
the exquisite Villa Borghese and it
| superb gardens and park.
| The greatest sorrow, however, to the
Borghese was the necessity of aban-
| doning the historic Bor: Palace,
one of the most magnificent in Rome,
dating from the Borghese pope, Paul

Don Scipio Borghese has just suc-
ceeded to the chieftainship of the his-
toric house of Borghese and to the |
many hereditary honors associated
with it. Those honors include the
French dukedom of Borghese, the Ital-
ian dukedoms of Bomarzo, of Giulliano |
Ss

ese
and of Poggio Nativo, the Spanish V, and built, as are so many palaces
title of Prince Sutmona, as well as the | of that era, with stone and material
Grandezza of the first class, and the | taken from ancient monuments. The
papl title of Prince Vivaro, dating from | palace was not sold, but its various
1609, when it was bestowed by the floors were let to strangers, the mag-
Borghese pope, Paul V, upon his nificent State apartments being leased,
the Grand
Freemasons in
third
Orient of the Order
nephew and heir as well as the dignity through parties, to
of
of prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
The succession followed the death of Italy which is frankly and avowedly
his mentally afflicted father in the atheistic. This tenancy, so horrifying
beautiful palace of Ca de Couri, on the | to all the old Roman patriciate, and
srand canal of Venice and he is popu- | more especially to the court of the
larly known as Don “Scipio Asiaticus.” Vatican, was only brought to a close
after the marriage of Don Scipio, who
It may be recalled that Scipio Pubi-
lus Cornelius, one of the greatest of | used some of his wife's dowry to buy
Roman generals who flourished 200 out the remainder of the Masonic
years before Christ, defeated Hannibal, | lease.
saved the Eternal City, ended victor- Don Scipio's French dukedom of
the first Na-
in 1805 upon
a creation of
it
iously the second Punic War, conquer- | Borghese is
eed Carthage and received as a reward poleon, who bestowed

the surname of Africanus from his | Prince Camillo Borghese when he mar-
fellow citizens. The new chieftain is | ried Pauline Bonaparte, the most beau-
indebted for his surname of “Asiati- | tiful of all the sisters of the emperor.

was she who sat as the model for
inova's world-famed statute of Venus
and who, when asked whether she had
not been rendered uncomfortabl by the
It
in driving his motorcar | (:
to the remarkable feat which he
accomplished
cus”

from Pekin to Paris.
than 10,000
trackl >ss
, the
rivers
The distance of
the
explored Gobi desert
plain,
through primeval
more
f her. cos-
replied, “Oh,
fire
miles, across and un extraordinary scantiness
no!
the
posing,
there
great central when
and
mountain
tume
You
room.”
Siberian over bogs, know was a in
foreests,

gulieys and gorges, through hordes of
his daughter, was
|
[in its entirety to Telephone Company, gave a demon-
| acquired in the manufacture of silk, stration. Perhaps the most remark-
{and especiall of velvet, and amounted | p16 part of his demonstration was a
on
[to some $25,000,000, added to the $5,-
000,000 which Donna Anna Maria had
received from her parents on the oc-
| casion of her wedding.
phonograph attachment whereby a
man could leave a message behind him
when he left the office, which would be
transmitted to whoever called his num-
slender,

Don Scipio, who is a tall, ber during his absence
clean shaven man of much reserve and In introducing Mr. Grauel, Alba B.
soberity of manner and speech ,with 2 | johnson, president of the chamber,
most pleasing smile and a great sim- said:
plicity of manner, was at one time “A Mexican representative at a re-
freely mentioned in the American and cent meeting stated that Mexico was
foreign press as a suitor for the hand not ready to start a system of univer-
of Miss Consuelo Vandervilt, of New sal education because Mexico needed
York, wh subsequently married the |, much manual labor and that edu-
Duke of Marlborough. But in th end | ,tjon made people unwilling to do
{ he married one his own countrywomen | p:¢ kind of work. That was a start-
ling statement of a brutal truth.
daughters but no son. So that on his “There are three ways for us here
death his many honors will pass to ly, meat such a situation. One is the
his brother, Don Livio Borghese, Who | yrovican method of neglecting educa:
passed some time in the United States tion. The second is to follow the
as secretary to the Italian lesation and | rp410q States way of elevating the
who is now minister plenipotentiary at people through education, and then
Vienna. find people from less developea na-
Half Hungarian through his late | tions to do the drudgery; or the third
with
made
drudgery mne-
Mr. Johns
this
means.”
way is to do
chanical
, Countess Helene Apponyi, who
where her
mother
was prouzht up in England, s0Mn

The thy did not understand the ajmed a blow at him and jerked it out
words, Bit he did understand the of hig hands. Then, with the boy com-
man’s ninner, and he drew himself pletely in his power, he drew his knife |
up proudly, while his black eyes and raised it to strike. |
flashed [vith indignation. This an- I rushed toward them, but before I
noyed the Irishman all the more, and, could reach the spot a slight form
snatching up a stable rake that lay sprang forward, there was a flash of
nearby, Ye raised it and rushed at steel and the warrior fell dead at the
Hawk 2 like a fury. boy’s feet. |
The yong Indian did not stir an Hawk Feather had paid his debt;
inch. A blaze of anger and and de- put, in slaying the warrior, he pa |
. Jiance i soned his dusky face, and made himself amenable to the veng- |
TA hand upon his hunting ance of his own people, and he pluced
nife, ready for the unprovoked at- himself under our protection.
tack. By this time the battle was over and |
3ut he had no need to draw his knife | the Indians all killed, captured or in |
yr Ralph, the major’s son, who came | retreat. Hawk Feather went back to |
the fort with us, and when peace was |
established, he asked to be sent to one
of the Indian schools in the East.
dashed i nbetween |
|
Ralph went East with him, and the |
|
|
|
p at the moment,
aside, and
hem, knocked the
save the trooper a push that sent him
rake
reeling back.
Some of the soldiers now interfered,
and Ralph, telling the trooper that he
would report the affair to the colonel,
and biddihg the young Indian follow
him, turned and went towards the
colonel’s uvarters. The talk that had
been going on there ended just as the
arrived and Colonel Hall,
noticing Ralph’s somewhat excited
manner, gave him immediate atten-
tion. It is enough to say that he com-
mended Ralph's action in the matter
and ordered the offending trooper
under, arrest. Hawk Feather, mean-
while ad told the story to his father,
and the latter, in his stolid way,
thanked the “young white chief” for
befriending his son.
As the Indians were about to leave
two boys, now men, have been warm |
friends to this day.
Hawk Feather has grown to
wise, useful and able friend of his
people, and the good that he has done
among them speaks well for the noble
efforts that have been made to educate
the Indian.
Asked Reward—
Dismissed
be a
two boys
Norristown, Pa.—Word was received
in Norristown today that John Gece-
7, a State policeman, had been dis-
missed from the after it be-
came known that he made a claim be-

los

service
-pi ~ie fort, Hawk Feather approached lg .. the oMngomery county commis-
Ralph, took his hand, looked at him a | ;ohore for the reward of $1500 for the
moment with eyes full of kindness and capture of the kidnapper of Blakely
eratitude, and then, without saying a Coughlin.
word, turned and walked towards the
sate. I was standing near the boys,
and in all my intercourse with men
I have never seen a more beautiful or
more sincere manifestation of feeling
than that made by this savage.
Unfortunately, the talk at the fort |
did not result satisfactorily as our!
people desirid. The Indians made de-
mands that he colonel could not grant
and, althougl he did his best to smooth
matters, thy went away grumbling.
Even the litle incident of Ralph’s de-
tense of ‘Feather was robbed of
«ct by the unprovoked at-
ly the trooper, in spite of | feet deep.”
g. the boy’s prompt inter-| “Well, the ordinary yard is
ference hadlsaved the young Indian three feet.”
Gecelosky, who was stationed at
| Pottstown, jumped on August Pasquale
| “The Crank,” in the swamp near Egg
| Harbor , and held him until help ar-
| rived. The demand made by the po-
[liceman was taken up by the county
, commissioners with the head of the
State Constabulary and Harrisburg,
and were advised that no member of
the force had a right to claim the
money.
“I thought you said this house had
It’s only four

an extra large yard?
only

| C
{ his brother
father was ambassador of the Dual clear that the automatic telephone did
Empire, and with a strong strain of | the latter by eliminating the operators
French blood in his veins through his and releasing these girls for other
grandmother, Theresa de la Rochefou- | work.
auld, daughter of the Duc d’Estissac, Mr. Grauel said that the automatic
the new Prince of Borghese has been system of telephoning was really the
able to restore, in a measure, thanks to | oldest of the two methods. Philadel
his wife’s great wealth, the shattered | phia, he said, would be one of the first
fortunes of his family. They were of the large cities to install such a
wrecked by his father. For in the system for general use. To make his
real estate and building boom which | statement clear the ballroom of the
followed the transformation of the hotel was rigged up with automatic
Eternal City into the metropolis of telephones on each table and a cen-
tral switchboard was set up at one side
United Italy, and which was character-

ized by the wildest speculation, Don of the room.
Paolo was amon gthe most reckless Mr. Grauel first showed the practica
and extravagant operators . When the | workings of the machine by calling
several of the tables and then disc
sed the details of
spoke of the dial as nearly perfect as
of the boom came somt eight
afterward, amid an
resulting in the ruin
collapse
or ten
traordinary panic,
vears ex- its construction.
. . % : . « 3 at
of thousands upon thousands of vie- | any invention could be and stated tha
tims, Don Paolo was among the most | in his opinion it would still be in use
-uelly hit. His fortune was entirely | one hundred years hence. Mr. Grauel

wrecked, and to add to the confusion, | continued:

his mind gave way and he had to be “The automatic telephone is so con-
put under restraint, withdrawing with | gtryeted that the human element is
his devoted wife, the once celebrated | qjiminated except in the case of long
beauty, Helen Apponyi, to their place tance calls. The operator calls the
on the Grand canal, at Venice, which | jymber himself by means of a rotating
had been saved for their use through | gia. It is so arranged that a busy
signal is given immediately if the line
If the wrong number
automatically
intervention of relatives, notably
Julius, who, marrying che
daughter and sole heiress of Prince
the
called is in use.
the machine
is called
Alexander Torlonia, had been com- {,..nkg the call through to an operator
pelled by the latter to assume the po corrects the error
name and arms of Torlonia, in lieu of +n the automatic telephone there Is
his patronymic, and to take up the such secrecy no one can interrupt a
Torlonie dukedom of Cer). call. The automatic telephone will do
The financial disaster of the late everything that the operator system
Prince Paul necessitated the sale of | will do, and a great deal more.”
the celebrated Villa Borghese and its
William,
magnificent grounds, which may be Mrs. Blossom (to her son
said to constitute the heart and lungs | with a sprained ankle)— There
of the city of Rome and the alienation | That's what you get for riding a bi-
of the world-famed Borghese collec-
tions of old masters, of books and well
nigh manuscripts; also the
unrivaled collection of statuary. Had
the liquidators of his bankruptcy been
cycle.”
William—**
for not
that’s what
to ride
mother;
how
No,
priceless get knowing a
bicycle.”
jand statuary at the preposterously low
|
Western Union
Defies the U. S.
Washington.—Notice was given the
American government by Newcomb
P. Carlton, president of the Western
Union Telegraph that
company intends connect its new
cable from Barbados with its lines in
the United States by means of exist-
ing cables to Cuba regardless of the
opposition of President Wilson and the
State Department.
Mr. statement made
before a Senate Interstate Commerce
Commission subcommittee, which has
it administration
giving the executive department abso-
lute control over the landing of
lines on He was one
of four examined at the
opening whole
Company his
to
Carlton’s was
before an measure
cable
American soil.
witnesses
into the
of an inquiry

bject of cable communication from
the
veloped among other
All-American Cables,
concern,
whose committee de-
things that
Inc., an American
was engaged, with the
the State Department, in a
fight against the Western Tele graph
testimony
the
sup
port of

Company, of Great Britain, and the
Western Union, in an effort to break
the cable monopoly enjoyed by the
British company in Brazil.
There also was testimony that the
All-American company enjoyed cable
monopolies in several Central and
South American countries, that the in
ternational communications confer
ence here had reached a tentative
agreement that no censorship should
be imposed upon cable message
merely passing through relay poin
that there was no cable communica
tion between the United States and
Germany except over British control
led lines; that some foreign govern
ments were subsidizing news agencies
disseminating reports in other coun-
tries and that the Western Union
planned further independent connec-
tions through American cable lines to
Italy, Holland and Scandinavia.
Elihu Root, Jr, appearing for the
all-America cables, gave an entirely
different version of the controversy.
He said the question of stopping the
Miami cable landing was that it might
lead to the British company giving up
Brazilian and charged
Western Union had entered
with this British com-
its monopoly
that
into a
the
contract
by which the American concern
would direct the British lines all the
business collected in the United States.
Acting Secretary Davis, of the State
Department, testifying the con-
troversy between the government and
the Western Union, said the President
had refused to permit the landing of
the Barbadoes cable because it would
connect the British, which en-
joyed a monopoly in Brazil, and that
in “conformity with
pany
as to
with
this action was
American precedent and tradition.”
Walter Washington,
one of the American commissioners to
the communications
he had heard a great deal of complaint
that American business messages pass-
S. Rogers, of
conference, said
ing through British censorship in the
war were copied and turned to
British trade
over
interests.
The Rajha and the
Seidlitz Powder
the
al-
An attached to
palace
English doctor
of the rajah made himself
most indispensable to his highness.
The doctor had fortunately made a
friend of the prime minister. On one
asion his highne The doctor had

OCC

fortunately made a friend of the prime
minister. On one occasion hig high
ness, being rather indisposed, had
taken, by the doctor's advice, a secid-
litz powder, with which he expressed
himself delighted. Its tendency to
“boil and fizz ready to blow your no:e
off,” seemed to him to “scatter cool-
nes and he ppeared so much bet-
ter after taking it that the dactor felt
himself justified in joining a hunting
party
Presently a horseman from the pal-
ace, i nthe confidential employ of the
prime minister galloped to him.
“My master bids me,” the messenger

said, “to tell you that his highness has
broken open your medicine chest, and
taken first all the white powders and
then all the blue.”
“Gracious goodness!” cried the doc-
tor; “there were twenty-three of each
of them!
“My master adds,” continued the |
messenger, dropping his voice,

you had better make for the frontiei
without a moment's delay.”
[Lava Bottomed Valley
Made Into Reservoir
—
By a
neering
bogey
simple, yet successful,
expedient the ever
a water shortage
has ben banishd from Portland, Ore.
A great reserve of more than 2 ,000,000,-
000 gallons has been carried to ang
ment the supply, the
Popular Mechanics M: gazine, the feat
being
present
of summer
existing says
an interesting development
one of the most remarkable municipal
water systems in America.
The reserve supply was made pos-
sible by damming Bull Run Lake and
controlling the impounded water by a
gateway through the dam.
Bull Run Lake is unusual in that
it has no surface outlet. The lake was
originally formed by the deposit of
slacial material around a bed of vol-
canic lava. The lava bottom is very
irregular and frequently broken by
tunnels and crevices,
It has been presumed that Bull Ran
Lake was thus the source of the river,
although it has been a subject of con-
troversy, and engineers never were
certain of it until the present outlet
was created.
When the new dam was completed,

springs demonstrated for the first time
that the lake
by
cert
e connectad
and
new
and river wer
underground passages,
the
maaqe
ain the success of pro
ject.
Before
the
thought
the plan to control the water
of lake was originated, it was
built,
designed,
that reservoirsmust be
had been
to cost between $3,000,000 and $4,000,
The the work
completed than $40,000,
process that
and they already
000. expense of just
was less and |
the blanketing
ing
Portland's maximum water consump-
is still zo-
on is not. costly.
is about 50,000,000 gallons a day.
hot
at
tion
In when Bull Run River
its the total
utilized officials
that a prolonged dry spell might cause
The new impound
weather
is lowest stage, flow
was and city feared
a serious shortage.
ing system makes it possible to doubie
the flow of the river at any time. An
added 50,000,000 gallon a day could be
turned in ofr a period of nearly two
months without exhausting the sur-
plus, so that it is evident the city’s
water problem has been solved for
many years to come,
No Metric System
in Turkey
S shrd
In connection with agitation for the
the metric
report from
$dlinauglmgosydkintafrbyl
compulsory use of system
in this country a Consul
General Ravndal from Constantinople,
Turkey, the of the Metric
System in Turkey,” issued by the
United States Department of Com-
merce. The Turkish government, it
legally adopted the metric
system as the official standard in 1915
General Ravndal “So
far, outside of official circles, the met-
In fact, in the
is practically
on “Use
is
is stated,
Consul says:
ric umt is little used.
interior, the system un-
known, and it is doubtful if it will be
popularly accepted for many years to
come if at all. The people find the
new system very much simpler from
a mathematical point of view, but its
units are meaningless to them until
converted into the units of the cold
(decimal) system.” The American In-
stitute of Weights and Measures,
which opposes the compulsory adop-
tion of {the metric system in the Unite

This the doctor did, and very quicl
ly.
The Camera’s
Centenary
photography is soon to be celebrated
in the village of Bry-sur-Marne, near

permitted entire freedom i nthe dis- “Seems to me, you're pretty rough
posal of all these assets, there is no on me, for an old friend,” said the
doubt but that a sum would have been clerk, as he ruefully looked at his
realized sufficient to pay off his re- ; re
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maining liabilities of $8,000,000 and | Weorn-out linen cc
to leave a considerable balance. But You been Azhitiie
ine | rs. Figg—" You have been fig g
the existence of the Paceca law, dating Mrs. Fi
from pontifical times and prohibiting | again; I know you have.
Tommy—“No, 1 haven't; honest I
He didn’t give me no chance.”
the sale of any Italian art treasures to |
foreigners or for export without the
sanction of the State, which reserve
ain't.

its right to take the object at its own | If one-half teaspoonful of baking
valuation, prevented the trustees from | ter 1 { for i Cot "
: reed powder be use rT 1€¢ crus eacn
making any advantageous sale. Ulti- | Dowas gjused 10] e er 0
mately the government insisted upon | fruit pie, the upper crust will not sink
taking over the collection of paintings | in and become sogg

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The centenary of the discovery o
Paris, where Dagurre spent the last
years of his life, and where in 1820 he
carried on the experiment which re-
sulted in the daguerreotype, from
whichmodern photography, including
the motion picture, has been devel-
oped. Daguerre began life as a scene
painter in the Paris theatres. He later
attained some renown as a painter of
landscapes and inventor of the
which by
gave illusion to the painted
as part
an ingenuious use
diorama,
lights
scenery of the theatre. He was gene-
rally supposed to have developed at
first a camera obscura which reflected
the external scene on a screen from
which he painted, and that the idea
to have it written down.’
Mrs. Gazzam (to Sadie Bloombump-
er)—“Where's your mamma Sadie?”
Sadie—*“She went over to Mrs. Gar
goyle's two hours ago to stay five min-
utes.’
Teacher— “Arthur, you are not pay-
ing attention. Why do you smile?”
Arthur—“l was just thinking about
something.”
Teacher—* “Well, please bear in
mind that if you want to think you
have got to do it outside of this school-
house.”

occurred to him to attempt some
means of making the reflection on the
screen permanent. This proved a
great difficulty and for mdny years he
discover
worked in his laboratory to
some chemical formula which
screen sensitive and retain
He finally
He
spoiled plate near a dish of mercury
make his
the discovered
left
reflections.
it by accident. one night a
and in the morning he had his formula.
would
ena-
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the temporary dam was dynam’ted,
and the watre released against the
permanent barrier, Then as the gate
was raised the water rushed down a
gulch and into a natural sump, where
it disappeared. Within a few minutes
engineers who were watching the
Springs a mile away, observed the
flow noticably increas Twelve hours
later the added flow was apparent at
the headworks of the Portland water
system, twenty-two miles down he
river The increased flow at the |
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To Trim the Tree
It is fascinating work fashioning
those ornament for the tree which go
to supplement the bright balls and
tinsel strands so beautiful but so ex-
pensive. From the bright gold end
silver mottled and crepe papers all
sorts of delightful little things can be
made, such as candy containers, bright
balls and jolly santas, which will help
to fill up the bare branches of the
tree.

five-pointed flowers in the
but made of al
color in the rainbow can be
f
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most any
cut from crepe paper and given a cem-
tre of bright tinsel. Fringed balls can
be made from the paper festoons to be
Half the length
gathered through the
spool
bought in many
of
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a festoon is
centre, fastened
which the suspending wire or cord is
attached, and the sides flattened with
a bright gummed Christmas label.
From Crepe Paper
Dolls dressed as
from
with wire to
fairies, “rag” dolls
Santa
figures cut
from paper and stiffened or
stuffed all possibilities for one
who wants to make part of the Christ
mas tree trimmings. Kven the strings
of small colored balls can have paper
substitutes made by up small
pi fine crepe
Chains can be made from
and silver into rings,
decorated
of fringed crepe
crepe
and
paper
other
packing,
Claus quaint
crepe
are
puffing
pieces of crepe per on

paper cord.
gold paper cut
of blossoms cut from
crepe paper. KFestoons
paper and narrow streamers may he
used, and crepe paper slashed into
fine “Southern moss” ig very effective
To Hold Candy
To hold candy on the tree one cam
make corucopias , by cutting a triangle
from stiff paper and holding it in shape
by using Christmas seals
edges. They should have a lining of
wax paper and a frill of fringed colored
paper around the top. Little bags of
along the

crepe paper can be drawn together
with paper cord or ribbons and trim-
{med with flowers . Baskets and boxes
of stiff board with gummed paper tape
for trimming can weight some of the
branches, and ingenious imitations of
the red and white striped canes and
baskets are also possible with twisted
crepe paper.
Workbag Chat
Just to think,
more days before Christmas.
there are only a few
I hope
you are all ready with your gifts, but
sometimes there is always some little
thing or perhaps you have forgotten a
gift two. 1 am
attention to a few
if you do not use them this time file
or going to call your
in this number and
them away for another. One present
which is easily and quickly made is 2
slipover If you
ornate affair you
can make it of old blue china silk. You
cut the material long enough so that it
that it will not
also make it wide enough. Stitch
bottom and sides of bag. Fit the top
of the hanger and
for an evening dress.
very
covers the dress so
mus"
bag over a coat
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Trib the
cretonne
seam. bag with roses cut
made from
If you wish silkoline or eretonne may
from or ribbons.
be used for the bag.
Hat
ceptable,
and
especially if they are decora
boxes are very useful ae
To make one of these boxes cut
just gh to
ordinary box
Divide
tive.
wour material wide enou
go round an round hat
and glue smoothly in place.
this surface into four equal par : with

strips of dull gray braid or furaiture
guimpe, and in each of these spaces
paste a colored figure cut from wall
paper or from an advertisement. Cut
a circle of material from the top of
the cover and a band from the edge
to hide the joining with cretonne flow
ers. Furniture guimpe should be also
pasted around the bottom of the box
and the edges of the cover
Wire coat hangers wh
erered with ribbon and
dainty sachet conctale in them are
very good for prese Cover the
wire hanger with cotton and make
tube of ribbon for «¢ nd of
hanger. Je sure to cut la
| enough so that they will slip over the
'otton easily Trim the ends with
cretonne roses and wind the hook with
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States, in commenting on the report
of the Consul General, says: “How
can people find the new system much
simpler if to them the new units are
meaningless? We notice that the
‘adoption’ of ane wsystem is by neo
means equival to its ‘intros
tion." ”
Someone asked an old lady abour a
sermon:
“Could you remember it?”
“Remember it?’ No; the minister
couldn’t remember it himself. He had |
ribbon and finish with a

A utility bag for the closet door may
be made of heavy cloth You should
cut the material the proper length and
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width to fit the door upon which you
intend to hang the bag. It has four
| shoe pockets, two at the bottom and
two at each side, which are 13 inches
wide and 10 inches high Press two

plaits one inch deep, two inches from
the edge of the pocket, and stitch the
pockets to the background. Just above
the shoe pockets on either side is a

smaller stocking measurir
13 inches wide and seven inches high.
It has a long center pocket, which
for corsets and is 11 inches wide and
20 inches high. At the top of the bag
you can have a nightgown pocket, 24
inches wide and 14 inches high. Add a
decorative touch by trimming each
pocket with a gay rose cut from cre
tonne.
pocket,
is

“Oh, madam, Jip has just bit a man
in the street!”
“What kind of a looking man was
it?”
“He was nearly in rags.”
“Poor Jip! Wash the darlings
mouth out with a little eau de
| cologne.”
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