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K DE SWEET, SWEET COUNTRY.
In de sweety sweet country
What de Kingdom chillun stay,
| I one time see de angels
A-makiri holiday;
i An’ one, he love de angels,
' An' went home wid 'im ter play,
’.V ll His call an’ call ’im,
! Wen mammy de playtime-dav done,
wuz lonesome—
’An’ de hills wuz lookin’
“Come Savin’ good-by nome—-de ter dark de sun:
is failin’:
1 Come home, my liT one!”
. “Come home!” de shadders answer;
“Come home!” de lost hills say;
• “Come home!” de Winter want you
Ter smile an’ make de May;
1 It’s only fer de li’l’ one
De Springtime come ter stay!
But de Night is long wid trouble,
An’ de long, long watch she keep;
> She dunno dat de angels
Love de liT one a heap;
But dev let ’im come ter see her
/ An’ he kiss her in her sleep.
/ —Uncle Remus’s, The Home Magazine.
|*She Just to Wanted Be Sure.
:
♦♦ ♦ Ly JAMES HARRIGAN. •
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Tasker, most patient of men,
gritted his teeth hard to hold back
the retort that hovered on his tongue.
Never had Millicent Kent been so
taltalizing, and to-day it seemed
doubly hard to bear. On the morrow
he must go back to the city to spend
the hot weather season at his desk.
Jim Tasker had snatched two brief
weeks with Miss Kent and most of
their waking hours had been spent in
her motor boat.
It had been an unhappy two weeks.
Millicent had never seemed so to de¬
light in teasing, and Jim’s restraint
was Vorn to the breaking point. Half
a iioz\ oV n times that morning he had
be°»i the verge of a sharp answer,
affid Mtricent, lolling indolent in the
stern oftyhe little craft, smiled wick¬
edly to iierself and was moved to
fresh endeavors.
.This time she had almost drawn
blood. The nose of the b/>at swung
round and headed for thfe channel
that presently would bring them in
sight of the hotel landing.
“Jim.” Millicent’s voice was low
and clear. “You are off your course.
Quagh is over to the left.”
“I know it,” was the quiet response.
“I am trying to get back to the
hotel. ”
“But we were to have lunch on
Quagh,” she reminded. "We don’t
•want to get back to the hotel yet.”
“I do,” was the short response. “I
want to get back there as quickly as
this boat will take me.”
"When I went to such pains to put
up a nice lunch,” expostulated the
girl, “and on your last day, too.”
“I can’t help that,’’retorted Tasker
“I have tried my best to keep my
temper in check, but you will not
have it so. You seem determined to
force me to an outbreak.”
Miss Kent’s face assumed an ex¬
pression of hurt surprise and her
voice was reproachful.
“Please turn, Jim,” she said, plead¬
ingly.
For an instant Tasker's grip on the
steering wheel faltered, but only for
an instant. The boat yawed slightly,
then held steady again.
“I said ‘please,’ Jim,” reminded
Millicent.
Tasker made no response.
For a few moments nothing was
said, then with a sound like a tired
sob the motor ceased its staccato ex¬
plosions and soon the headway was
lost. The boat floated quiescent on
the still surface of the lake.
Still silent, Tasker sought to locate
the trouble. The spark was all right,
there was. plenty of gasoline in the
tank under the seats, the feed pipe
was not clogged up, and yet there
.was no delivery of the fuel.
For full fifteen minutes he worked
over the motor, then he turned to
the smiling girl.
“There is something the matter
with the machinery,” he announced
quietly. “I shall have to paddle in
somehow.”
• But you have no paddle,” remind¬
ed Millicent. "It's a mile to the other
end. You can never make it.”
For answer Tasker caught up a
cross seat find, using this as a paddle,
he began to move the boat slowly
through the water. It was hard work
and more than once Millicent urged
him to stop but his only reply was a
determined shake of the head.
They had gone half the distance,
and already -hey could see an occa
; sional boat slip past the opening of
. the channel, but too far away to hail.
Millicent moved forward and sat
closer to Tasker.
“Jim,” she said softly, “if i say
I’m sorry, will you stop being foolish
and go on to the island?”
“Sorry for what you did on pur¬
pose?” he asked, bitterly. “During
the last two weeks you have done
nothing but try to irritate me.”
“I know it,” confessed Millicent.
sweetly, “ and I am sorry only for
your sake. It was for your own good
that I did It.”
"To improve my temper?” he de¬
manded, sarcastically,
“To see if you had one,” she cor¬
rected. “You see,” she went on, “I’ve
known you five or six years, Jim, and
in all that time I never saw you in a
temper. I never could quite make
out whether it was because you were
without spirit or because you had
such perfect control of yourself,
. —-I just had to find out,” she added,
contritely.
'And you have made excellent
of your time. said Tasker,
"I’ve been tempted to threw* you
board a hundred timas.”
“i wish you had,” cried the
THE ELLUAY TIMES.
with sparkling eyes. “No woman
.wants to marry a man with no spirit,”
she added, in explanation, "and,# was
beginning to be afraid that that was
your case.
"But you will forgive me when I
tell you that my answer is ‘Yes?’ ”
*he demanded.
Tasker’s face beamed. “Is it really
after ail these negatives?” he
demanded.
Millicent nodded.
“I wanted to be sure,” she ex¬
plained, as Tasker took her in his
arms.
“What a shame we can’t have lunch
on the island!” he cried regretfully
a few minutes later.
“But we can,” explained Millicent.
“I wanted to see if the stoppage of
the engine would not be the final
straw. I turned off the feed cock
and then sat over it. You were too
angry with me to ask me to move.”
She bent over and worked at a
shining bit of brass.
“Now, throw over the engine, and
we’ll start on our betrothal party,”
she cried, gayly. “There’s a bottle of
pop in the hamper, and we’ll drink to
the tame temper.—New York Even¬
ing Journal.
WISE WORD.
The only way to get all the happi¬
ness in life is to give for the happi¬
ness of all.
The devil is worried by the people
tvho work for the good, not by those
who worry over him.
Happiness never comes to any who
can enjoy it alone.
The lofty soul Is often best mani¬
fested in the lowly service.
Reviewing old troubles is a sure
way of recruiting new ones.
It is easy to affect to despise the
things we can not understand.
The grace of forgiveness is not ac¬
quired by practicing it on yourself.
The best way to make sure of be¬
ing happy is to make some one else
glad.
The best way to worship the heav¬
enly child is to give some other child
some heaven.
He who waits to do good in some
notable way will never have any good
to note.
The most eloquent prayers for the
needy are the ones we carry to‘them
in baskets.
To follow only the light of your
own desires is to find yourself in the
darkness of self-disgust.
You may have a right to nurse sor
row for yourself, but you have no
right to let its shadow fall on others.
From "Sentence Sermons,” in the
Chicago Tribune.
A Dubious Tribute,
The young theological student Who
had been supplying the Rushby pul¬
pit for two Sundays looked wistfully
at Mrs. Kingman, his hostess for the
time being. “Did you like the sermon
this morning, if I may ask?” he in¬
quired.
"You done real well with the ma¬
terial you selected,” said Mrs. King
man, with much cordiality. “As I
said to Zenas on the way home, I’ve
heard a dozen or more sermons
preached on that text, and this young
man’s the first one that ever made
me realize how difficult ’twas to ex¬
plain.”—Youth's (Companion.
A Holdup.
De Roads—“Mister, I found the
dorg your wife is advertisin’ a reward
uv $5 fer.” Mr. Jaw—“You did,
eh?” De Roads—“Yes, and if you
don’t gimme $10 I’ll take it back to
her. See?”—Philadelphia Inquirer.
BOSTON WOMEN WELL FED.
Variety in Little Restaurants at the Hub Not
Matched in New York City. .
Boston seems to appreciate the
needs of a woman’s stomach
than other cities. There a woman
may eat better for less money than
In any other big city in the country,
and she doesn’t have to go to a for¬
eign restaurant to do it.
While the same woman may sus¬
tain life decently in New York or
Chicago if she doesn’t require con¬
tinued variety, Boston gives more
than that. It is a mistaken idea to
assume that Boston breakfasts,
lunches and dines on the bean.
There are several dozen interesting
places in the business district espec¬
ially intended to attract a woman,
and she may have a wide choice, al¬
though the dishes each day are not
numerous.
Seldom are two days duplicated In
a month’s menu. The monotony of
New York's inexpensive restaurants
is avoided, and as each of these lit
tie Boston restaurants seems to strive
continually to make an individuality
of its own in the list of dishes, un
less a woman really pines for same
ness in her diet she isn't compelled
to submit to it.
So thoroughly is the attractiveness
of some of these places understood
that jn a number of them are dis¬
played signs, “These tables especially
reserved for men,” and this too not
in the shopping or stenographer dfs
trict, hut unclassified all day patron
age.
So many women decline to
meat in these days or cut their allow
ance dpwn that these places pay at
tention to the preparation of vegeta
bles and made dishes, especially
those including tish. While such
women have to eav health rood com
positions in New York or rarely
anythigA hut white bread, wheat or
j a flour, eo/n the mfcSr. Boston more plaeej^*^ than half special whea
I variety if" y
attention to breads, and
rye, whole wheaC'g^ haBJ ,
Devoted to the Interest of Ellijay and GHmer County.
ELLIJAY, UA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28. 1909.
Reflections of Uncle Ezra
By ROY K. MOULTON.
I have seen a lot of French horns
on automobiles, but, by gravy! I have
seen a blame sight more greenhorns
on ’em. .
A feller who puts a matrimonial
ad. in the paper is running a long
ways down the road to .meet trouble.
It is getting so nowadays that a
feller who chaws tobacco is almost
as much of a freak as the feller was
twenty years ago who didn’t.
Some men are born poor and oth¬
ers acquire automobiles.
A feller who thinks he has got to
tell you the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth about your¬
self is more of a nuisance than a
downright durn liar.
Our milliner is using a shredded
wheat biscuit for a rat, and the con¬
stable is at work on the case, tryiug
to find out if she is violating the pure
food law.
About the most aggravatin’ thing
in this world is to see a seven-dollar
dog eat up a twenty-dollar bill.
Pansy Tibbits, of our town, is tak¬
ing music lessons at some conserve
tory. Hank Pike says a conservatory
is a place where they keep fish, but
Uncle Hod Peters says Hank is a
liar, and that a place where they
keep fish is an antiquarian.
Bud Hicks says he wants to marry
a woman with money. Well, by jing!
it is pretty difficult to marry a woman
without money.
Abner Hanks made a mistake the
other day and filled the tank of his
forty-candle-power runabout with gin
instead of gasoline, and the blame
thing wpuldn’t stay in the rud, but
knocked the front porch off from
Hilliker's general store and smashed
four rod of fence in front of the
meetin’-house. V
Rev, Stubbs has got the shingles.
Now would he a good time to put a
pew roof on the church.
'the last time Elmer Spink, of our
village, was In New York he made
love to a chorus girl, but her grand¬
son came out of the stage entrance
just in time to give Elmer a good
thumpin’.
Grandma Spink has got a new set
of false teeth. Let the improvements
go on, and we will have a pretty fine
lookin’ town.
Virtue is its own reward, especially
if a feller is runnin’ a seven-column'
newspaper in a one-column town.
I hate to see a lady chaw tobacco
or gmoke a pfpe> ^ „ y cny . ky ,
rather see ’em doing that than kiss
i ng poodle doge.
There are a whole lot of people
sufferin’ from inflammatory religion.
—Frdm Judge.
Two Little Dogs.
Although there was no sort of toy
which could be bought and for which
Harold had expressed- a desire that
was not in his possession, he still had
his unsatisfied longings. "I know
what I wish I was, mother,” he said
one day, when his own big brother
had gone away and the little boy
across the street was ill.
“Yes, dear,” said his mother.
“Perhaps you can be it, Harold.
Mother will help you. Is it to play
soldier?”
“No, indeed,” said Harold, scorn¬
fully. “I just wish I was two little
dogs, so I could play together.”
The Very Latest.
“She Is wearing her hair in some
entirely new style. I can’t make it
out.”
“That’s the aeroplane tousle.”—
Kansas City Journal.
and Indian corn muffins, gems, Sally
Lunn and such things are not only
ordinary orders but are made so at¬
tractive one really wants to repeat
them.
Most of these lunch and tea rooms
are Inspired by American women who
have had some scientific training and
are blessed with enough business
sense to make money out of it The
places are necessarily tucked away up
one or two flights, hut the Boston pa¬
tron of such a place seems to he as¬
sured that the more one labors in
reaching it the more desirable it is
likely to be.
The Boston woman who doesn’t
propose to spend much money on her
food has become so well trained that
j she can’t be fooled very long. When
: she comes to New York she is soon
disenchanted, for even if dishes
. called by the same names are to he
j found in New York they are five or
’ ten cents higher portion. Boston
a
j is developing in such eating an in
| expensive, nutritious and attractive
cuisine that is really American and
not quite like anything else in the
land.—New York Sun.
Pushing Too Hard.
‘You are pushing me too hard,”
( said Wu Ting Fang to a reporter in
San Francisco who was interviewing
■ him, as the story goes in Everybody’s,
“You are taking advantage of me.
You are like the Pekin poor relation:
“One day he met the head of his
family in tlje street.'
i “ ‘Comp in and dine with us to
night,’ the mandarin said graciously,
I “ ‘Thank you,' said the poor rela
. tion. ‘But wouldn't to-morrow night
do just as well?'
“ ‘Yes, certainly. Eut where are
you dining to-night?’ asked the man
fla-Ar cuTiosly.
i “‘At yotfr house. You see, yonr
estimable wife was good enough to
give me to-night’s invitation.’ ” -
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$260,080 BRIBE OFFERED
GOLLEGTQRQF PORILOEB
In Order to Stop Government
Investigation of
“SLEEPER”TRUNK SCANDAL
The Amount Offered Would be Fully
$ 200,000 Above Appraised Value of
Goods—Women cf Great Social
Prominence Are In It.
New York.—’The smuggling syndi¬
cate ! which firsi offered Collector of
the Port Loeb $100,000 to drop the gov¬
ernment’s investigation of the smug¬
gling of sleeper’’ trunks, containing
155,000 worth of Paris gowns, in¬
creased its offer to $200,000, according
to Mr. Loeb.
“The amount now offered the gov¬
ernment to drop the investigation and
probable prosecutfon is $260,000,” said
Collector Loeb. "The amount repre¬
sents what would be penalties of fully
$200,000 above the- appraised value of
the goods. All offers have been re¬
fused. We want the smugglers.”
It is believed that worry ower this
case so affected the mind of William
B. Bainbridge, confidential agent of
the United States treasury depart¬
ment in charge of the customs bureau
in Paris that he committed suicide.
The treasury department had fully ap¬
proved Mr. Bainbridge’s course in this
case, but he left a note declaring that
h e was the victim of a plot.
Collector Loeb stated that In the
negotiations for thi4 abandonment of
the investigation started by him, he
had been approached by several repu¬
table lawyers, but Refused to reveal
the names of the a m neys because he
said that even the;*uid not know the
identity of the smugglers, and had
been retained by intermediaries.
Mr. Loeb’s investigation so far
shows that the sm*!ggled gowns had
been made In Paris by famous design¬
ers for many women of exceptional
social prominence at$ wealth in New
York, Boston. Philadelphia and Wash¬
ington, and that the reason for offer¬
ing such large sum to suppress the
investigation was to shield these wo¬
men from the unpleasant publicity
threatened by the coming disclosures.
In Paris it was understood that the
treasury department^ had Instructed
Mr. Bainbridge to ohjaln the names of
the makers of the Smuggled gowns
and the Identity af tjie American wo¬
men for whom they were made.
The collector (loes not believe these
women knew that tlpelr gowns were
to be smuggled Into the country, but
had purchased them, like many Amer¬
icans buy other goods abroad, with
the understanding that they were to
be delivered to them in America “du¬
ty paid” or “duty free.” This saves
the purchaser all customs annoyances.
Collector Loeb Will sell the seized
gowns at public auction next month,
and will employ dress-makers and
models to display them.
Crushed by Elevator.
New Orleans.—Pinned beneath an
elevator cable drum on the top floor
of the ten-story Perrin building, Syl¬
vester Evans, assistant engineer of
the building, calmly directed efforts
for his extrication during the two
hours which elapsed before his rescue.
It was thought that his life was being
crushed out, and a priest administered
absolution while the imprisoned man
lay in agony and as the efforts to lib¬
erate him proceeded. Evans’ wounds
were not as serious as' were at first
feared, and it is believed he will re¬
cover. *
Vandals Steal D. A. R. Tablet.
Newburgh, N. Y.—Vandals have sto¬
len a tablet placed on the boulder at
Forge Hill by the Daughters of the
American Revolution some years ago
to mark the site of the old forge,
where were made some of the chains
stretched across the Hudson river at
West Point to prevent the passage
northward of British vessels of war.
Good Irish Whiskey Gone.
Belfast.—Half a million gallons of
whiskey were destroyed by fire at a
bonded warehouse in Belfast. The en¬
tire fire brigade was engaged in fight¬
ing the flames, but the men were driv¬
en back frequently by the fierce heat
and exploding casks of spirits, and
several were hurt,
Deadly Pistol Duel.
St. Petersburg.—Six persons were
killed and four wounded in a pistol
fight following an attempt by armed
robbers to hold up a crowded omnibus
near Kieff. A posse followed the high¬
waymen, keeping up a pistol duel.
Two of the robbers were killed and
four of the pursuers.
Legislate Size of Loaves of Bread.
Providence, R. I.—rLoaves of bread
in Rhode Island must weigh exactly
two pounds, and the price must be
fixed at so much oer pound, according
to an act introduced in the legisla¬
ture.
Saloons Win in Big Cities.
Chicago.—Municipal and township
elections were held by 90 -per cent, of
the cities and towns of the"£tat*. many
of the fights being on the .Wuestion of
local option. Of the 72 towns and vil¬
lages in which fights werejmade on sa¬
loons, either as a direct piat'/JRE', jsr a
test, 41 were won by the saloon forces. Chi¬
The saloon forces were victors' in
cago and Kewanee. They also won
all of the other large towLn v-*ere
were made oif the ^
KILLED HER BETRAYER
AND ESCAPED PENALTY.
_
New York.—Sarah Kot ?n, the young
woman who killed Dr. Martin W. Aus
pitz in this city last summer for be¬
traying her, and who recently pleaded
guilty to manslaughter when brought
to trial, was, through the decision of
Supreme Court Justice Blanchard,
spared the infliction of a prison pen¬
alty. When the woman, with babe ifi
arms, was brought before the justice,
he announced that he would suspend
sc-ntenco and place Miss Koten In the
custody of the Council of Jewish Wo¬
men. This society, the justice said,
would find her a suitable home, where
she could change her name and rear
her child in ignorance of the crime its
mother had committed. She left the
court with one of the women agents of
the society.
PLAN TO ABSORB
WATERS-P1ERQE.
Houston, Tex.—It "has been authori¬
tatively announced here that the Hous¬
ton Oil Company will soon take over
the Waters-PIerce Company’s Texas
property. The official announcement
Is expected within a few days. The
Houston Oil Company, which Is capi¬
talized at $30,000,000, last Friday pass¬
ed out of the receiver’s hands. The
company will maintain its headquar¬
ters here. The corporation will sel{
tracts of land in East Texas and re¬
organize for the purpose, It is said,
of taking over the Waters-Pierce prop¬
erty.
SOUTH TO HAVE A i
COTTON MILL TRUST.
Winston-Salem, N. C.—It Company is report¬
ed that the Duke Tobacco Is
planning to organize a souther:
mill trust, one similar to tne
cah Tobacco Company, of which B&ck.
Ingham Duke is the head. According
to the report the Duke family, wtbo
hav e made millions in the tob«'
business, own a large or controll'f' 1 *
interest in the Southern Power C
pany, through which they expect / to
manipulate the scheme now majo/rity contem¬
plated to obtain control of a
of the leading southern cotton oper/ated njiills,
many of which are now being
with power furnished by the Southern
Power Company.
75 PER CENT. OF LINER’S
PASSENGER LI8T BAl
New Yprk.—The Ryandam, familiar¬
ly known to ocean voyagers as thle
"baby ship,” arrived here with he r
reputation of carrying more baby im -
migrants than any other trans-Atlanti;
liner still unshaken. In the seconot pasj.
cain the “baby ship” carried 287 Tii
sengers, 70 per cent, being babies.
cap the climax, on the fourth day out
twins were born to Mrs. Ernest Cary
tonnie, wife of a Philadelphia drug! (
gist.
To Reorganize Railroads.
Meridian, Miss.—It has been authors
itatively announced here that the Alai
bama Great Southern, the New Ot[
leans and Northeastern, the
and Vicksburg and the
Shreveport and Pacific railroads, com¬
posing the Queen & Crescent system,
will within the next few months be
reorganized and placed under its first
operatives, the Erlanger Syndicate of
London.
Baptists Get $125,000.
Boston.—John D. Rockefeller has
sent his check for $125,000 to the
American Baptist Missionary Union.
This was the customary amount he
sends annually. There are no condi¬
tions named as to the expenditure of
the money.
More Work for Car Builders.
Roanoke, Va.—It has been an¬
nounced that the Norfolk and Western
shops in this city will soon begin work
or. an order for 300 steel cars. The
contract will give work to many men
who have been idle.
Monument to Minute Men.
Washington.—At a banquet of the
Sons of the Revolution a plea was
made for a monument in perpetuation
of the memory of the “Minute Men”
of the Revolution.
Broke the Bank.
Nice.—Huntley Walker, an English¬
man, broke the bank at Monte Carlo,
winning $60,000 in two hours.
LIVE TELEGRAMS.
Philadelphia.—Samuel Lewis, a ne¬
gro 20 years old, has confessed that
he and two other boys stole $10,000
from Rhoda Lovell, an aged Gypsy,
detectives heard that Lewis was flash¬
ing hundred dollar bills, and this
brought about the boy’s arrest.
Paris.—The personal effects of A.
Hart McKee were seized at the Hotel
Ritz to satisfy a claim for an insurance
premium on an automobile. Mr. Me
Kee claimed that since his divorce his
wife had been using the automobile'
and should pay the bills.
St. Petersburg.—Sixty nationalists
were killed and 100 were wounded in
desperate fighting, which has beep
raging in Tabriz, Persia, since Tue<^
day morning, according to reports
casualties of the royalists U R
known. /■
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Brussels.-—It was reported that
Gffi aA^Britain was withholding recog
t<I rjTion of refusal the new of Belgium Congo State, to commu- owing
the
nicate the reform pians she haa de
rifled upon.
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WINCHESTER
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BLACK POWDER SHELLS
The “Nublack” is a grand good shell;
good in construction, good because it is
primed with a quick and sure primer, and
good because carefully and accurately
loaded with the best brands of powder
and shot. It is a favorite amoag hunters
and other users of black powder shells on
account of its uniform shooting, evenness
of pattern and strength to withstand
reloading. A trial will prove its excellence.
ALL DEALERS SELL THEM 1
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SEE FOR
w JOB WORK.
COOKING ON THE TRAIL.
Making Bread Without a Bread Pan
—Keeping Coffee From Boil¬
ing Over.
Our guide allowed me to assist
hiim in preparing the breakfast, though
I fancy my assistance might have
been easily dispensed with.- He sage¬
ly remark i.'d that if I was going to
rough it I might as well begin learn¬
ing now as any time. It was aston¬
ishing 'how appetizing a meal he pre¬
pared with the fewest conveniences.
For instance, he made broad in the
sack of flour without using a bread
pan. He hollowed out a cavity in the
flour, poured in water, added salt and
baking powder in proper quantities,
then proceeded to mix the dough. Hd
did another thing in his cooking that
amused me very much. To prevent
the coffee from boiling over he placed
a small green willow stick across the
open top of the pot. The lessen in
physics soon followed.
The coffee bubbled and then rush¬
ed up to the top of the pot as though
it was going to boil over the sides
and extinguish the fire, hut as soon
as it touched the willow* it subsided
like some sentient thing.—From For¬
est and Stream.
A Painful Exoression.
William G. Rockefeller is the presi¬
dent of the National Beagle Club and
>a.n authority on dogs no less than
on finance.
Discussing the training of dogs af
a recent club meeting, Mr. Rockefel
ler said:
“Yes. training is an art. The sim¬
plest appearing canine performance
’.is. properly understood, a difficult
thing. It looks easy, but It is hard;
ijnd thus”—Mr. Rockefeller smiled—
’"thus it is like the man at the photo¬
grapher's. ' “This sitting for his portrait,
man,
s'aid in patiently to the artist.
' “ ‘Well, have I got now the pleasant
expression you desire?”
" ‘Yes. thank you,’ said the photo¬
grapher. ‘That will do nicely.’
“ ’‘Then hurry up,’ growled the man.
‘It hurts my face.’ ”■—Rochester Her¬
ald. -
Sicily’s Wheat and Fruits.
■Sicily was the “granary of Rome”
j in former days. Wheat grows to an
j enorn;ous height, and the ears sel¬
dom contain less than sixty grains.
I The rice is the finest on earth. I buy
it at 10 cents a pound to make that
! famous dish—"riso el buterro e from
i agio.” No other rice answers the
purpose. The most bountiful crops of
Germans, and France, of England and
Austria-Bungary, present to the Sicii
ian the image of sterility. A Sicilian
watermelon is a dream. It 'was the
original nectar of the gods. No Geor
gia rattlesnake variety is in it?
class. Indian figs and aloes are won
derful, the former serving as food
for the poor. The pomegranate
reaches its highest perfection along
the southern coast, and is shipped to
all parts of the world under the
name of “nunica,” in honor of the
it was brought from Car
York Press. 1
Music on The Waters.
A man, Vhose boriioad i°yho° vJ®hvont home was
in a river val to. recall
g/ Tcr jj i - sev shet thqt swept
^i, e 0 _fay.
‘And the neft^I saw of fath¬
er,” he would say at a thrilling point
of the narrative, “he was sailing
down stream on the dining room ta¬
ble.”
“And what did you do?” would he
the invariable query,
“Oh, I accompanied him on the pi
^o.”—Woman's Home Companion,
—
A large majority of aliens admit
ted to the port of New York are un¬
der 14 years of age.
____
There are , n tWg country abou ,
120 .000 physicians and 35,000 dentists,
NO. 49.
MANILA'S NEW WATER WORKS.
City Supplied From Protected Water¬
shed 140 Miles Square.
The inauguration of Manila’s now
water supply marks the completion of
a project of great importance to the
Iclty. The new water supply is taken
\from the Maxiquina River 11 twenty
,
miles northeast of Manila.
The watershed above the point of
diversion covers about 140 square
miles of mountain and forest and is
withdrawn from settlement. Private,
property within this reservation will
be expropriated, says the Colonial Re¬
view, and the entire district will he
freed from human contamination for¬
ever.
The reservoir is rectangular in plan
and measures 509 by 764 feet and Is 20
feet deep. Its capacity is 50,000,900
gallons. The water enters through
a concrete lined conduit four and one
half miles In length, of which a small
amount lies near the surface of the
ground and was constructed in an
open ditch; the balance is in a tunnel,
which at the deepest point is 180 feet
below the surface of the ground.
At frequent intervals along the con¬
duit are inclined shafts with steps
for entering the tunnel to inspect,
clean or repair. At one point the con¬
duit sinks under the bed of the Dulu
tan River and at another it is car¬
ried across a stream by a 60 foot con¬
crete arch bridge. *1
The water is oarried from the head
works to the tunnels by means of a
riveted steel pipe line 42 inches in di¬
ameter and ten and one-half miles
long. The pipe is carried under the
Mariquina River, but this section, in
place of steel, is of cast iron. Most
rf the other streams are crossed by
means of concrete bridges; but at two
points the pipe is carried across by
steel truss bridges where the width of
the stream is too great for concrete.
The dam is 400 feet long on the
crest and about 85 feet in extreme
height. It is built of cyelopean ma¬
sonry, or concrete in which large
stones are embedded. Behind the
dam will be a storage basin which will
serve the city during the dry months
when the discharge of the river is
loss than that necessary for the sup¬
ply.
The cost of the completed work Is
about $1,500,000 as far as the Deposi
to. and the distribution system to be
installed throughout the city will cost
$5O\000 more.
The new system supplies 22,500.000
gallons of water each twenty-four
hours—enough to give every man, wom¬
an and child in the city 100 gallons
a day.
Caruso, But Still—!
At a performance of “Aida” the
other night, Caruso, as usual, soared
into the highest altitudes of song
with such consummate ease, and thril¬
ling power that he brought down the
house—with the exception of one crit¬
ical young woman in the family elr-/
cle. 'm ■ $
“Lou,” she observed to her compan¬
ion, “isn’t_it funny that Caroozer don’t ,
seem to gripe your noives the way
he does on the record? Queer, ain’t
it?”—Philadelphia Ledger.
Evil Communications.
“Here,” said Johnson, entering the
dealer’s shop that in a rage, “ I thought bought you two
guaranteed parrot
days ago "to be quite free of objec¬
tionable habits. Why, it has done
nothing but swear once I got it.”
“Ah! sir, it’s wonderful how soon
them birds get corrupted in new quar¬
ters. I should ha' been more careful
who I sold him to. I didn’t thing you
was that sort o’ a gent.”—Tit-Bits.
Last year the 125 universities of
Europe were attended by 228,732 stu¬
dents. Berlin was in the lead with
13.8S4; next came Paris, with 12,
985, Budapest, with 6,551, and Vienna,
With 6.205.