Ligonier Banner., Volume 46, Number 16, Ligonier, Noble County, 20 July 1911 — Page 3

Peanut-Brittle . By DONALD ALLEN '. ,

Thé gentleman who had . a seat -about the middle of the drawing rdem ‘car had be'en';ﬂ#ea_ding a book f&r the iast hour, ‘and had become ‘sd InterTested that he.},was hardly conseious when some one sat down beside him. It a stranger, 1§ was a piece of impertinence; if an acquaintance— But he had just get'urxLed' from a-tijree years’ trip abroad. | - e The imtruder was a little girl four vears old," Stha had found her way in from the car ahead == " MHello!” ‘sajute'd ‘the man as- he “a\gxrned omherf & & @ - "I 'thought -lyou looked lonesome,” she-replied, a%{ she smiled at him. “And so ¥ u ran away. from your ‘mamma to coNie and sit with me.for a while’ That is\good-of you, but aren’t vou pretty smadk to be wandering about an the{t’ra .by yourself?” “Oh, there's mo dapger. Mamma and 1 have lraveled a gopd * big lot togethers . I've |beenm all throughi the train, but [ d¥dn’t see any gentleman 1 liked ’till A[Tcame, to you. Then | just took a‘seat.” - ¢ “That flatters me. ['ll.lay aside my book and talkl with you.” “RHat | \Vunf to ask you a question 'first,” &hé sald, as‘ her face sobered ap. “Do your—do you like peanut‘brittle? L . & ' . “Why, 1 don’t think I really know “what 1t 182 o A e : “It’s peanut meats stuck Into can--dy, and you ean break it-up” . . . “It's peanut meats stuck into can- - dy, and yeu can break it up the same as glass. When you get to eating it you want a whole pound. Now you know.” o . e “And I'll surely buy you some-the —4rst chance } get. If you'd give me vour name perhaps I might sénd. a box” v & ; - I ha¥en't 4 card with me,” she said soberly, afi ;Ihg drew. away a little. “I'm- not -ofd lenough to be introduced -5%2. s 2 3 P

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to-folks, you know. Then you haven't got.any peanut-brittle in your grip?" ~ “Sorry to say I haven’t. I didn’t expect to. mee;t yod, you see. - I'm wondering if we| haven't met before?’ . “How could we?" e “That's sd, I've been gone a leng. timey" 1 o : } “If,‘wéfdi{ meet anywhere 1 was only a baby, and that don't count, does it? " Oh, dear, if the newsboy on the train only. had some péanut-brittle! All he’s got is |cough-qrops, and I've no cough. Tll have to gét #Hlong some. way. Why are you traveling alone? Haven't 'you got any wife: or childrent AL R T " “When you sat down here,” he said, after a moment’s hesitation, “you said. 1 loeked lonesome? Well, 1 feel lonesome. I'm all alone in the world.” _ The child |put a hand in his -and leaned up against him, and it was a long five mﬁfutes before she said: #So is mother. She cries over it sometimes, But of coursé you don’t. "I never saw a man cry. Do they ever?” “Perhaps, Eut I never-saw one do it either. We have to get along without tears. I supjpose‘k being a young lady, vou have a| crying spell - now and then?: = & - : - “Wh¥, I haye to cry when mamma does, of course. 1 ought to, shouldn’t i . “Surely. Golng away-now?’ =~ - “Yes.. Mamma méy be anxious. Next time yau must have scmg peanutbrittle with you.. You never-g¢an tell when somie little girl or boy will ask for- some. Well, good-by. I'vé had a -real nice tirx'i‘e.'f = = The man held her hand for a mp{ ‘r'nent/,vafpd' ldoked: into her blue eyes,

GRIP- LOADED> WITH IRON{ Urusual. Weight of Baggage Causes _Billingsley to Ask What the : e Rcedptac‘le‘ Contained. o - v | The Billingsleys were starting for a ‘summer outing in the country, expecting to g away from home a week ortwo. The trunk had been gent fo the raflway station, a few blocks distant, and nothing remained but-to closé the house and walk thithier. Mr. Billingsley, the last one to lea[be, locked the front door, picked up the hand bag-| gage and followed the vest of = the family down the steps. e + One of thel two valises he was carrying seemed tremendously heavy, and _before he had walked a block he stopped, set it down on the sidewalk, ‘and turged to his wife. “For_ the land’s sake, Fidelia,” he said, mopping the perspiration frem’ ‘his brow, “what have you got in this. .gripsack?_ The family silyer?” : . -“Nothing of the sort, Hiram” she answeyed. “That’s hidden whera noyody.e&n Asd e - 2

and there was a sigh on his lips as he i let her go. He p'ﬁlied up his book and tried .to . resume : reading, but the | interest- of the story, was gone. He | simply looked out on the landscape | without. seeing it . and .thought and | wondered. Four hours later he was a | 'g':uest,aLa hotel'in the mountains, and | almost the first man he et after | registering slapped him on the back | and exclaimed: - e ; | “Well, if heré.tsn't Tom Thioop! | Why, old man; I thought you were thousands of miles'away. Glad to see | you looking fairly well.” . ! :Next: day: as Throop sat on one O!% the | verandas smoking, -some one | crowded: between the chairs andi léaned.-’ﬂove‘)/._ﬁis knee with, a ~ merry | chuckle. -Tt was the little girl of the I iAo o ‘Got that . peanutbrittle yet?” she | asked. >- . e e | | ~ “Graclous, no! {didn't. think 'l‘di ever meet you again, and I haven't| seen any. candy stores around hdre.” i “Oh,/'but they have it. Thefe's a | place back of the hotel called the grot- ! to. " I found it the first = thing- this l morning. Lots of peanut-brittle there. | Just made yesterday.” whe S ‘Then come right along ~and - you | shall have your pound.”™ o .| ~ "Yes, but let me whisper to you first...'Théy charge double price. Will | that nmiake any diffeten-e'to you?” ‘ - She ‘was told with .a: laugh that it | wouldn’t, and. ~hand- in hahd they 1 tripped away. As a child wise beyond her -years shu asked no impertinentl questions; as -:a ’gén-‘leman, Throop } asked none.* Her mother, and perbaps | her father as well, werc staying at the | Same Hoetel - o o o

The next 'day it ‘was not peanut-brit-’ tlé, but a long walk. The next day it was some more*of the sweet stuff and a “visit” on the veranda. ©On the next; as the child ‘had not appeared up to mid-afternoon, the lonesome man went .w"fandexjing over the grotunds in *search of her.. He was told by _one of the caretakers of the grounds that she had taken ‘a certain path an hour before, but she could come to no harm. . The man followed the path .for al most half a mile up the mountain, and then. he got a sight of the child. ~ She .hacl"'scr&n‘}l‘)'led up the.trugged face of a cliff thirty feet high, and stood cows ering ‘there.| He saw. at once that she was in -fear, ang: he called out to her: to stand still until he reached her side. In two minutés pf’ climbing -he 'was within ten feet aof her. Then she said in a \»‘_Oic'e that quavered just a ‘trifle: . “Lionesome Man, it-isn't that I'm afraid to come down, buc*there’s a big snake here!” - v “What kind of a-snake?” : - “I don’t ¥how, but every time I move he goes-buz-z-z-z with his tail!”™ “Then don't move—on your life don’t ‘thove. I will come up another Wy o ' S And scrambling -down, he made his ‘escalade at a pointfifty feet away, and in a few minutes was above the girl Within three feet of her, and coiled to strike.and keeping up a constant rattling, was a deadly snake.. When the man’ recognized -thie species his heart came, into_his throat and.choked him for a ment. Then he cdlled in a ’voiceﬁ'dly above a whisper: - “Don’t move, and don’t try to answer me! ‘Keep just as, still as you possibly, cam. - There's a lady down below beckoning to you, but hever miind her. I'm going to drop a vig stone on the snake. Dor’t be scared, dearie, now it's_comdpptts e o - o The stone hit the serpent fairly and crushed out its life 1u a second. Half a minute later Throop was down’ beside the child. She was swaying and tottering as his hands recched out. She was unconscious as he reached the path with her to find a lady holding out her arms in mute appeal, but unable é’o utter a sound. She had somehow understood the peril of the child: S A " ' - “Tom!™ Sl “Graciels e ; - . " He laid down the burden and stepped. batk and looked at the woman . “Tom—husband—you were all wrong ‘to go away,” she sobbed.’ . “That’s our Gracie, named after me. She was only a year 0:d when you—you—" Lo e "And he opened his arms and she sobbed on his breast. They were still clinging to each other when they heard a voice saylug: i ; - “Men do cry sometimes—so’ there! And, mamma, if you and the Lone‘some Man will only get married I can have heaps of peanut-brittle every day as long as I live!” = : . 22, What They All Say. - Employer—l hope you save . some thing out of your salary, James? Office’ Boy—VYes, sir! most all of it, sir. . e ) Employer (eagerly)—Do you. want to 'buy an automobile cheap?—Puck.

*Then |what mast thing so heavy? It weighs a ton.” e “I'm taking, along that new set of patent flatirons' I bought last week,” serenely responded Mrs. Billingsley. “There’ll be some washing to do, and I expect to do my own ironing. I've seen the kind of irons they have at summer resorts,- andxthey don’t suit me' at all.”—Youths’ 'Eompanidn_.«- g

- . -To Settlée Boundary - Dispute. The century-old dispute over the boundary Between Persia and Turkey r Asia from Mt. Ararat south to the fersian gulf seems to be at last in a fair way to be settled. At a conference recently held in Constantinople both governments agreed to submit the points in contest to The Hague tribunal and to abide by.its dezision. . - P A-Weighty . Topic.” . . "“].presume the sweet girl graduate will again inform us that beyond,the Alps lies Italy.” - i ~“Don’t fool .yourself. She is more apt -to discuss ‘The = Campaign - for Woman's Rights a Protest” Against Modern Efbnomi,c Conditions.’”

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- Johnny Kling's light began to dim fn the world’'s series last fall. Cub fans were confident ‘that the cateher: would repeat his tactics of 1907. and 1908 when he broke the Tigers’ attack, says the Detroit Journal. . Chance and his players: backed their chances of winring the series by Kling breaking up the Athlietics' hit-agd-run play; but as a matter of fact, the Mackmen .outguessed Klifig at every point and made a sucker out of him. His work was soo poor shat Chance used Archer be-

INGERTON IS BOSTON STAR Manager Chance of Champion Cubs ‘ls Sorry-He Let Go of Clever - ; Youngster. ‘ After seeipg Ingerton and Miller, his former. recruits, im action Manager Chance thinks that . the big league - teams 'sl_:(m}d be allowed ‘to carry at least thirty players on their pay rolls up to June at the very latest.. "'While 'Chance is.not belittling SRR gty SIS o REe | - ‘ . S ‘?@( - fiod wﬁ,\ : ; |SR W : C R MR R e 0 g§¢ . ol I o ESREE R e B ¢ RN e S '.;; 7 4 Wi MR T R B S e S e C g SR S ) e can o oo e o plo j o B ) % o eS B Y : EE el 7 v i st Bt oL wmees .I > T Y e — i R b vT g ] " g - : T : . X c ‘Scotty Ingerton. his judgment, he is keenly interested in the showing Scotty Ingerton "has been making since he traded him to .the Hub team for “nfielder Dave Shean. . Ingertdn has been —pounding the ball to all corners of tlie lot and Chance has been anxious tg see for himself just how good this youngster was. Al 2 It will be remembered that Ingerton was traded ‘to the Doves just before the Cubs went to West Baden. Chance had no chance to get an accurate line on the youngster, but the " P. L. says if he had seen him in action this spring it is .a cinch he never - would have traded him. . 5

s Peasley’s ‘Novel Excuse. Jimmy Casey, who was once the idol of the Detroit fans when he played there, and now manager of Fort Wayne,.- tells an interesting story on Pitcher Peasley, tried out by the Tigers this spring and turned over to Fort Wayne for development. \ “We had three men on .the bases and none out, with Peasley pitching, one day,’ sald Casey. “Onslow, the catcher, caught a man off second. The batter could not hit a low ball, and Onslow kept signaling Peasley tp put it near his knees. Peasley, however, pergisted in keeping it wide. =~ ° “] called Peasléy. to one side and remongtrated with him. ‘What are you pitching that way for? I asked. . “41 thought I would ‘waste on this fellow and fill the bases so that Onslow can catch another man off second, he replied. : ch “As an excuge for lack of control, that beats anything.” ' . ;

hind the bat in the last two games of the series. | ; ‘But Kling was’ not the only Cub who .played bslow his game in the_series, and for all his fall-down in them, he is still a wonderful maskman in all departments, having a deadly throwing arm and being a rattling good hitter. . Wadshington Loses by Errors. - Washington manages to lose gamess on errors when the pitching is good enough to warrant their winning.

- . /| o NERVE TO SPIKE M’GRAW Dick Harley’s Treatment of Giant Manager One of Big Events in ° . Baseball History. i Dick fgarley-, old Cincinnati, Chicago and Detroit outfielder, - living in Philadelphia, was the only player who cver had the nerve«to spike Muggsy. McGraw when McGraw played third base for Baltimore, and his treatment of the future Giant manager is one of the big events in baseball history as ball players remember it. Players wore long,’ sharp - spikes nine years ago. Basemen were cut and runners tripped in every game. Of the rough players McGraw was the roughest, and all feared to try to|get even with him. ‘ i In a game between Baltimore :and Detroit, McGraw got -after Ducky Helmes, the Detroit outfielder. “How do you expect to play ball? Your whole family died of consumption and you're full of it,” said McGraw. - Harley roomed ivith_"Hol_mes, and when ‘l/x,e/-wentf to his hotel-room af ter the game he found Duckyscrying. “You leave McGraw to. me,” said Harley." Next. day Harley slid into third base and cut a big gash in MeGraw’s' leg. After |that Harley was the mést respected bage runner in the leaguel Basemen always gave fim at least half the bag when he slid;, and most of them gave him-all the room he wanited. - : 5 .

, a 2 B R RN % BASES Sandow Mertes, old-time Giant, has been acting as substitute umpire on the Pacific coast during the’ illness of a regular-official. : ) ; Hutchinson, in. the Kansas State’ league, has a player named Laflambois, but he does not 'seem to be set‘ting the league aflame. : Bill James, the new Cleveland pitcher, is the tallest American league twirler. - He stands six feet four and one-half inches in height. . Enraged because they resented his decision, a ‘mob of about 80) angry fans at Moberly, Mo., attempted to throw Umpire Genins of St. Louis in a pond. ‘ - The Cincinnati-Beston game. recently, wWhen the score was 26 to 3, is the heaviest giefeat_ administered since 1901 in the majors.. On September 23 gf that year Brooklyn beat Cinginnati_ sto 6. ‘ : ' , ’ Coombs is now pitching every bit as good ball as he did last year.* The iron man is on the job, and victories are becoming numerous, . . .. Why do baseball managers continue to “protest games,” and wpy do players squabble and cause delay in trying to get umpires to reverse their decisions? _ Have you ever attended a game at which an umpire reversed a decision? 2 R ‘Manager Mack once said that Oldring would be the best center fielder in the country if Rube would' only think so himself. From the way he is. playing this season, Oldring’s opinion of himself must have increased- by a few hundred per: cent. . i Silk O'Loughlin and Bill Dinéen, say the pitching this year is the worst they have ever seen. . Bill said in one ‘game he officiated there were twenty bases oq,bal'l’s' issued by the pitqhers. "Silk says. the pitchers have the batter three and two in nearly every case. - Talking about his early baseball days, -when he was a pitcher, Fred ‘Hunter aséerted that he once struck ouit 23 men in a game. “That's nothing; I strick out 25” put in Howard Cmrﬁxitz, and Hunter:was about to question thejclaim, when “Cammy” added: “It was against a team from the blind asylum. o 0 o v 7

FIND PLAYERS BY ACCIDENT

Some of the Greatest Players Diamond Has Ever Known Were Discovered .by Sheer Luck. . L R et Some of the greatest ball players the:game has ever known have.been disqovered by accident, or through sheer luck. And thig statemiént is the struest 'thin;’ you. know. Five players have been picked at random, but they stand: among the best the game has ever known, just to show the truth of the above assertion. i The men are the late Ed Delehanty, Amos Rusie, who many believe was the greatest pitcher ever in the game; Hans Wagner—by the way, his ffroper nante is John Paul Wagner; Ownie Bush and Ty Cobb. S . - Rusie began his ball career wigh the -old 'Grand Avenue team in Indianap‘6lis, when Indianapolis was a member of the old 12-club’ National ILeague. ‘This was back in the eighties. Rusie “Was a pitcher, a powerful,. husky young giant, who had a world of speed and a dazzling array of curves. The ‘Grand” Avenues had one large picnic with. the- other teams in the old Indianapolis City league when Rnsie pitched. ‘ i Jack Glasscock was playing shortstop on the Indianapolis National leaguye team at that time, and Jerry Denny was holding down third base. Glasscock was captain of the team. He heard of Rusie’s pitching, and. one Sunday took Denny and hiked out to the City Ledgue park, where Rusie played, Gldsscock watched the youngster work, and both he and Denny were so impressed that Rusie was taken downtown after the game. : The next day Rusie appeared at League park in ‘an Indianapolis uniform. ‘The story of his career in the big league is now “baseball history, known, to all fans. Rusie was a wonder, but his-habits put him out of the game when he should have been in his prime. "He is now :liv-ing.at Vincennes, Ind., working in a lumber yard and dredging for mussel pearls in the Wabash river. :

- Ed' Delehanty, the greatest-of the Delehanty bdll-playing family, began on the lots around Cleveland, his home city, in 1886 some one told the manager qf the old Wheeling team that Delehanty Wwas a gréat ball’ player. Some days later Delehanty recéived a letter offering him a trial* with the Wheeling club. : ) The youngster didn't have any money and no transportation was inclosed, but he started for Wheeling and made his way there by riding freight trains and walking. ‘He was an infielder, playing second base, and he made good from the jump. . In 1887 Philadelphia decided to give him a trial, and along in the fall;of that vear Delehanty made Lis major league debut, ‘'succeeding Bastian, one of the greatest players of his time, at second base. - . o ' g As 2 big league second basemen the man ,who was destined to become a terror to the best pitcheis the game has ever known was not-a .brilliant success. Neither did he shine with the bat in his first year, as his average for 56 games was only .227.° In 1888 he played in 54 games and soaked the pill for a grand average of .292. He alternated betweeh second base and left field, and in 1890 he went to left field and remained there untilzshis tragic death. 3 A

M'INNIS IS FAST INFIELDER Youngster Is Not Yet Old Enough to Vote, but Is Sensation of American League. : Jack Meclnnis of the Athletics is not old enough to vote, but he is the best substitute infielder in the country. “Stuffy,” as his team mate§ call him, first saw the light of day in Gloucester, Mass., -..in October, 1890. He joined the Athletics in- the spring of 1900, having miade a name for him-

- AT i AT, . e . HERHee i A TR e e o DE e \w e Wg G N et RS B i S R < Jack Mclnnis.' self.as a member of the'Gloucester High school nine and. the Haverhill New England league team. Mack started” him in as a regular, but he soon yielded the shortstop position to Jack Barry. He made nine hits in thirteen times at bat in the recent se: ries with . the Highlanders, getting five” in one game. Mcllnnis' is the sensation of the American league season. - X §

. -Star in Getting Signals. Detroit players are unanimous in agreeing that'the Athletics have every club skipned eighty ‘ways when it comes to ferreting out the signals of the opposing team. - G “Some of Mack’s players have second sight,” remarked Oscar Stanage recently. “They tell me that Hartsel delights in disclosing the other team’s signs to Connie. 1 guess he is the chief detector of signals, even if he Is not a regular outfielder”. = =.- ~Tlra Thomas is another cute reasom er,-as ’is also Eddie, Collins and the placid Trishthan, Danny Murphy. Connie Mack has a.sclieming bunch and when they get together on the bench they make Mack’s task as manager an easy one. : “Get their signals” is a slogan always heard in the Athletics’ camp. " ¢ Lajoie’s Absence Costly. : - Charlie Somers had a hunch last winter that Larry Jajoie was to have a bad season this summer. The absence of the big fellow has kept the Naps out of the lace for the geagon,

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HE Chimes of Normarndy will ‘ " ring all summer, for dyring the entire season Normandy will celebratet its one thousandth ' birthday. ' Northmen are the heroes of the Norman birthday. Up the river to Rouen will come swift Viking®ocean greyhounds, dashed'o’n by their banks of oars. The first are Norwegian; and, instead of fire and sword, they. bear gifts—in particular an exact reproduction, onie-tenth size, of the magnificent old Viking ship " discovered three years ago in a mound- at Oseberg, complete with its ancient arms and tackle.. All react the ‘strange events' of just 1,000 years hgo. . - A sail! King Frederick of . Denmark looks proud‘, now. Up comes another Viking pirate craft with gifts—in particular, a granite- copy of the Jelling stone, greatest of Runic monuments, dating exactly from this period, 1,000 years ago. It is the gift of the Carlsbergfund, a Danish academy. of arts and sciences. o A ‘sail! Again! It is King Gustaf’s turn. Up the old river dances the Swedish bark of King Hugleik (Hygelac), who conducted—as the Swedes contend—the first Vikings to the land of the Francs. Its heathen warriors also bear a treasure gift to the millenary—a copy in massive gold of Hy.aelac’s arm bracelet, weighing two pounds, wonderfully . carved. The Swedés are, indeed, willing to prove that Rollo himself’ was ,of . thedip country. ) g See the rich old city of Rouen outdo dtself! - Kach of its”stones is a story. It calls the world to. its birthday. It prepares mngniﬁ‘cént corteges, tourneys, jousts and reproductions. It hangs gay old tapestries outside its windows to light up the streets with color as cavalecades.of armored knights go clattering out to the lists—or robber barons to discuss a scheme to conquer Enngnd. ) - Foundations of English. But what must thrill every Englishspeaking person is;.tlhat the very foundations of his language were . laid, 1,000 years ago; in the little town of St. Cldir-sur-Epte, between Paris and Normandy, with a present population of 569 inhabitants and a ruined feudal castle built .by Henry IL. of England. ° ' ’

" Tourists who stop off at St. Clair-sur-Epte” must look 'wl'ithv their historic eye behind that fuin. Two hundred and fifty years before it was bhuilt the site was occupiéd by a villa dating from old Charl?&agne. His great empire had been rokgn up by the quarrels of his incompetent successors; .and the "so-called emperor, Big Charles, saw helplessly a.swarm of Nort_hme?l_ pirates - sailing, rowing up the River Seine, and even attacking Paris! President Fallieres will sit with the three Northmen kings beside him. Thus Normandy was squatted by their pirate’ ancestors—who came to stay. . :

In vain the magnificent’ Count Itudes defended Paris and drove back the Northmen. - Count of Paris, Blois and Orleans, inheritor—with the great French seigneurs and people -also—of {he Roman culture, Eudes was easily the most powerful and respected lord of West France. The people acclaimed him; and the nobles crowned him to replace Big Charles. - But not for long. Jealousies caused generous Eudes to resign, not to waste the land by &ivil war. So, fn the year 893, he begged his brother seigneurs to swear allegiance to Charles the Simple. He was simple. This is why we find him at St.*Clair-sur-Epte, 1,000 years ago. signing a treaty with Rollo, the Northman,chieftain. It was called a treaty, but after having his foot kissed Charles purely and simply ceded away to-Rollo and his crowd all the present great province of Normandy. : o What Might Have Been. ) It is momentous speculation—what would have been the world’s history had not Eudes . miscalculated. He hoped to save France from civil war—of “‘course, to fight the Norman invaders. Eudes would have pushed them back to their:boats in the ocean. And neither you nor any.living man with a drop of English blood would have been -born what we are. England would have remained Saxon. o As things were, see the stupendous adventure. A swarm of hungry Viking piratés suddenly became masters of Normandy—when the name, Normand, Northman—with thelr chief as duke. King Haakon says they were from .Norway; Kirng Gustaf says they were from Swerden; King Frederick says they were from Denmark. . It matters little. The stupendous thing in the swiftness with which those heathen barbarians became thé magnificent Christian knights and haughty aristocrats whose “Norman blood” was certalnly worth more than “simple faith” in’ the mind of Sir Walter Scott and probably of Ténnyson as well. ' They wore leather and sheepskins with the wool out. They were bare legged. They were bearded and mustached, and the ornaments were tan-

gled and matted with food and drink. | Their banners displayed ‘crows, bears. and dogs as emblems. Their only ar- | mor was odd pieces captured : from the'r enemies. ~ Shields they had—of bull's hide. They had nothing. They needed averything—and took it. ) One detail shows the swiftness with which they became smart. In the famous Bayeux tapestry every Nor- | man- of .them is represented as smooth shaven, while the English all wear beards or mustaches. i Their leader, Rollo, after sacking the castle ’of the count’of Bayeux in the year 890, had married the count's’ daughter by force; vet here in 911 we find King (Emperor) Charles the Simple actually giving him His- dauighter, Gisele, in wedlock. " In three generations after Rollo— Long-ﬁwprd, Sans Peur and -Richard the Good—we see Rollo's great-great-grandsen, Robert the Devil, putting his brother-in-law on the ‘throne of Flanders, wresting the Vexin from.the king of France, forcing. the duke of Brittany to do homage to him, and starting an expedition to England that was stopped only by a storm and a 't,_x;leaty.. In a trifle over 100 vears they were exploiting all Notmandy. "~ Norman Conquest Reproduced. Rollo’s original crowd of hungry pirates came up the River Seine to Rouen. Here, where the river s wide, deep and beautiful, with.--islands, bridges and quagys for the crowds to cipculate at ease, will take place the earlier water fetes representing the oo\mmc;t'of Normandy—before that of lEngland. K . Any summer’s day along the Seine. Leoire or other river or canal you can see rival crews of young men planted on tong rowboats, armed. with heavy, blunt lances and breastplates. As the rival boats approach, each chooses his man and tri€s to push him into the water, and the winning boat :is that which forces the other to the shore. At Caen the historic cortege will be based on” the foundation of tge two great abbeys, which still stand - pery fect. William the Conqueror founded the Abbey of Men, and Matilda, his wife, the Abbey of Ladies. Always “favored by their descendants, Caen in the year 1300 was ‘a city greater. than any in England, save London.” Here, .in the church of the Abbey of Men, a black marble slab in front of the high altar marks the tomb of the Conqueror himself. Rollo and his son lie in Rouen' catledral. So-do Richard the Lion Hearted and-Henry IL of England.. - ) o At Bayeuﬁh’(;'e will 'be a procéssion of Matilda and her ladies—pro-. tected by their men-at-arms, secretaries, preiateé and pages—to hand over the famous tapestry to the cathedral. The tapestry itself will be exposed in full all summer. . It is a strip of linen cloth 230 feet long and nearly two feet broad, embroidered with colered EWOrsteds with 58 scenes- ieading up ‘to the comquest of England, each ex'plained by a short Latin text, equally embroidered. Eight colors were used. Its story is that Harold betrayed a trust. Sent by Edward the Confessor ‘to announce to William that he would §“s'o,on be king of England,”” he concealed it from the people and lets }himselt be crowned by Stigand. (Halley’s comet appears in the next scene as-a reproving portent.) 'Three of the most curious scenes are before Mont ‘St. Michel—already a stronghold- of the' duke of Brittany—amid quicksands from which Harold rescues two Norman knights. = Uncounted . thousands have gince perished in those same sands, and Mount St. Michel was for centuries after the French bulwark against England. - - Obviously this will be the most favorable season imaginable to -visit Normandy. L o

- Mother Earth at Work: Geographers of national reputation are discussing a very_curiousiesmt of the slow change going on at" various points of the earth’s’ surface, as: evidenced by the gradual tipping up of the shores of Hudson’s bay, as if some glgantic power were engaged in” an attempt to empty that great basin of water into the adjoining sea. -It is stated that one of the earliest indications. of what was transpiring- in this connection came to the notice of ‘the officers of the Hudson Bay company -when they found that the water at the mouths of the rivérs where their posts were stationed was. grad‘wally getwng shallower, ahd ‘navigation consequently béconfing more difficult. . Examination showed that the ‘shore is lined with old beaches of sand and gravel lying as high as fifty feet or 'more above the present level of the bay. _ . - 'Kicked Out.” i 'Fide—~So they let you go out whenever you like? What particular bark do you use? o o - Royer—None. just go into the rarlor and lie down'pn one of the hﬁt sofa cushions—Puck. .

Missouri Song Author Gives ~ Verse-Making as Recipe. . $ - .- - . Mrs. Hull Was Born in Missourl ~'Sixty-Nine Years Ago—She Enjoys Composing Verses for Her R Cwn Amusement. - St. Louis, Mo.—Ronce De Leon did unwisely when "he went floundericg through the swamps of- Flor.i;(jzi in quest of the fountain of life, in which he hoped to renew his: youth. To ‘achieve enduring youth, freshness of mind®in old age and serenity of temper, he ‘should have stayed in Spain and written poetry. - . . Verse-making as an- antidote to old age is recdmmended by Mrs. Lizzia -Chambers Hull of St. Louis. Who, 69 years young, defeated all competitors in Governor Hadley’s contest for :the words of a Missouri state song. Her stanzas, " because of tlwiz‘,c!\e:@xr simplicity, his,mrifial sincerity and quiet depth of feeling, obtained a prize of ssoo° by unanimous accord of the Judges. “Contestants entered not_only from every section of ‘the ‘United States; but from. Canadg, Australia ang New Zealand. . i When Mrs. Hull was 1~ {ears old, Henry’ Wadsworth® Longfellow leé tured before her clasg on “Poesie.” She was a pupil at Louis Agassiz's School for Young Women at Cambridge, Mass., out of which grfew Rad cliffe college. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Wendell Phillips were also lecturers ‘at the 'smniuaz*y,,and among the Missouri girl's- school Icompantons were Longfellow’s _daughters, @ daughter of Doctor Holmes:a.d Miss Emerson, a relative of Ralph Waldo Emerson: I In this .environment, she fell inta ‘the habit of writing verses, not as a profession, but as a diversion and recreation. Just as- another girl, x\'h‘m’} wearied or lonely, would solace herself by playing the piano,‘or singing: ¢r readin€ @ book, so Miss Chambers, ‘as she then was, found comfort ang society in putting her =emotions and ideas into metrical form. She soon acquired the same facility in rhythniical composition which one by practice obtains in performing the

i/= ' : ' S Y NG N R g o e o Y / oo SN :4, 5 \Z&f'\.‘i. {4’;— Q v (R ‘t}\ oy 5‘7 . ',\*:’.‘“ £, H ) ) /&*ﬂ/? *‘l'4/ > ‘ v s 5 et osl ) - ; 1 v "“-4/. I 00 OB R &'.’i! e ;J\\\ “‘, S\ ".\l \\\ 7 ! _‘:\lﬂ p WO L TS A 7 e ¥ W/ ) = . ‘\\\‘\‘\.\\\\,\\ : . . ‘ ’,\'\\ i.@ i , \\ . LR ¥ B G , Mrs. Lizzie Chambers Hdll scales of the piano or in ‘making embroidery. . ‘ . . ~ During a two years' tour of Europe ‘her muse found constant occasion for exercise. The Alps, the lakes of Switzerland, - Italy, Hollind, Scotland, ‘lvrelandA England and France provided subjects for ‘her’ girlish effusionst »Thes’_e_'\"erses'have been lost, for she ‘did not regara” her® productiéns as se- - rious work, but rather as play. .- ." After she refurned te St.- Louis at the beginning of the Civil war, she seon found need to draw_upoen her every resource of consolation -and ‘comfort. - She married Edward B. Hull, and two weeks after the mar‘riage he marched away to fight in the Confederate army. The desolateH’)ride ‘was left to-her tears and the care of her husband’s plantation in Pike county: e ! But for her habit of verse-making, fshe says, she conld not have endured ‘the first few months of separation !;md dread as to - her bridegroom's |'fate. ‘Her swelling emotions demand- - ed a vent. . 4 ) It has been the forgetfulness of self, ithe throwing off of cares, which Mrs. ' Hull attained through her making of verses, which has ‘kept her, 'in her. lopinlion,,a'.ymmg woman, although | nearly 70 years old. Her” enthusiasms | are those of a girl: for instance, when ' she says: “I love Tennyson; I love !him,"‘ and she is égually youthful [when she exclaims:" “l cani® under- | stand Browning, and I'm free togadmit - | it.” Her step is brisk, her face slight!]y'touched by wrinkles, and her hair 'Just growing gray. Her conversation |is animated, and her opinions are maintained with the vigor of half her, age. She still keeps her youthful preference for George Eliot, but has sent her a copy of “Marie Clire” in - the original French, which she readseasily. ) . :

Despite her winning.of the prize state poem contest, Mrs. Hull earnest- | ly asserts that she is not a poet. _ “] am only a rhymster, not a poet,” she declared emphatically, as she sat at her desk in her modest home. *“I never, presume to call myself a poet. I have too high an opinion ‘of beautiful poetry for)that. I just liked to write verses as another woman might have liked embroidery. ' Her recipe for happy life of perennial youth is contained -in her brief formula, “Write verses, and defy old age.” ; o 1 oo Hunting,Ki\ddLs Gold.- - o Boston.—Under the gray walls of Fort Independence, on Castle island, . now one;of Boston’s most popular parks, a itreasu:e hunting expedition, by perm}ssion “of the -park commissioners, is seeking Captain . Kidd’s. ‘gold. {THe exact spot on the north--west corner of the island, where treasure is hidden, was revealed to Miss May Kinnear in a dl§sam. Miss ; near did the t_ireaming and her bm er, George, is doing fhe digging. ;