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VOL. X. 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. • . 4* 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.’ ” - _ $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. /■ t 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. r* WINCHESTER “NUBLACK” 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 ■ DS 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.