Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 50, Plymouth, Marshall County, 15 September 1910 — Page 2

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By DONALD ALLEN

Copyrighted, iic bjr 1 Miss Melincent Davis, daughter of a&e widow Davis, of The Beeches Wanor house, had lived twenty years trithout In the least suspecting that ae was a born artist. She became ware of It at last through her mother. She made a little crayon sketch of klra creek and the bridge below the Qouse, and the mother had scarcely Clanced at it when she said: "Well, this settles It. We will sell hie place and move Into the city ivhere you can attend an art school." The daughter hesitated until she Skad made another sketch this time jf an old stub in a field with a woodpecker grubbing at It In search of Sreakfast. Then the mother said such dent must be cultivated, no matter fwbat the cost the cook said that the j-a-oodpecker looked as natural as an (Id ben, and the hired man said that Wny one who took that old stvb for a weeping willow would have to settle hrith him. "You go right oyer to Rose Manor tomorrow morning and put the property n the hands of a real estate Ugent." commanded the mother. After jtaat. the thing was looked upon as jsood as settled. America was sighing fSor more landscape artists, and she UicraJd have at least one recruit. ; Miss Mellncent had an electric runabout It was brought out for her ftext morning and she started for the ülage of roses. ?he remembered Jiaving seen a very small real estate (nan and a very large sign on a street pcorner. and she decided to call upon looked at the Creek That Needed Another Twist. brim first. If he said that manor mouses were a little dull In the marpet Just then she would call on a blg(cer mar with a smaller sign. She was making good time over the junooth pike, and wondering whether jto ask $10,000 or $15,000 for the property, when th- unexpected happened. Mr. Eugene Bamford had returned (from Europe. He was fairly rich and fairly lazy. He was no artist, but he knew when his coat set well. He did haot know a woodpecker from a robin. but he could run an automobile. Just (then he was visiting a sister at Rose lilanor and driving himself around the jecuntry more or less. He was out on JtMs morning. He thought all the rest "of the United States was sitting in its (back dooryard, and in making a turn tn the road he did not decrease speed, jand he did not consider his right iiand side from his left. Miss Melincenf was in a hurry to jget to that real estate office. Thousands of would-be buyers of manor (houses might be waiting there. She was going pretty fast when she reached the turn. She might have been on the right side or the wrong 'side or In the middle of the road. A Wood-looking young lady Is always entitled to the benefit of the doubt in such cases. Presently there was a shout from iMr. Eugene Bamford! And there was a scream from Miss Mellncent Davis! Then, a turn of the wheel and both ran into the ditch and things crashed and snapped and sputtered! Both machines were damaged hers worse than his, but no one was hurt. Mr. Bamford was gentleman enough to sk if she was mortally Injured to insist it was all his fault to present axis card to climb the roadside fence tfor her hat to declare that he would jpay all damages and to ask If he Seouldn't take her home. His machine Iliad lost lamps and mud guards, but :was still In running order. "I wouldn't care so much," replied the girl in a hystericky way, "but I was going to Rose Manor to sell some real estate. It may go down in price enow." Too bad too bad! I think I can low your machine home behind mine, iagent myseif. If you have property to isell that is, if you have property to dispose of that is" "Why, how lucky." she replied. Mfbu can go home with me and see mother and ask her a lot of question. If you have enough money with ytra we may make a sale right off today. I assure you we aie willing to

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An Inexpensive Souvenir .

A tory Is told of a famous musician rwho vras almost as noted for his parslpnony as for the genius which gave imany fine compositions to the world. iAmong his admirers was a young man iwho was determined, If possible, to secure some memento of hia days of istudy with the master. The last day had come and he was still without his token, when he suddenly plucked up courage. The great musician had taken his old cotton umbrella, green with age and minus several ribs, and announced his intention of walking home with his young pupil to get the air. It was raining slightly, and the joung nan raised his umbrella, a new tand handsome one, holding it humbly iover the musician's shabby hat. They rwere brought so near together that he stammered out: "Oil If I K you would only give ne some little remembrance of yourself rnd these days no matter hew Anall." The great man looked at fclia keer

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Associated Literary Press take a fa'- price. It Isn't possible that you are an artist, too?" "Yes'm!" he boldly replied, though he wanted to club himself the next instant. "You may want to change the landscape around the house, if you buy?" was suggested as they were chugging toward The Beeches. "Yes. I have changed landscapes." "How splendid! Mamma thinks if the creek had another bend toward the house it would add to the scenery." "If so, I'll fix lt. I am a creek herder. That is, I can put all kinds of twists in a creek." Miss Melincent was awed. She had taken the young man for a gentleman of leisure and he had turned out to be a real estate man, an artist, a landscape gardener and a creek twister. She was glad of the accident. She was glad she had not gone on to Rose Manor and dealt with the little man with the big sign. Mr. Eugene Bamford looked at The Beeches through the eyes of a real estate man. and he looked at Miss Melincent Davis through the eyes of a young man rapidly falling In love. He had the mother to deal with, however, and after spending an hour looking over the property and taking his departure she said of him: "Well, Mr. Bamford is the queerest real estate man I ever saw. We have four acres here and he thought there must be nine. He at first thought the place ought to sell for $20.000, and then came down to $7,000. Didn't you hear him speak of the house as a Queen-Anne?" "I think the accident must have rat tied him, mother." "It was either that or he Is Just learning the real estate business." Y.r. Bamford called the next day anC brought a man to repair the runabcut. He wanted to know the lowest cash price for the property; he went down and looked at the creek that needed another twist; he hunted for landmarks and looked over old deeds, and by and by, he was at liberty to look at and criticise Mls3 Melincent's two sketches. He scratched his ear and looked very serious and finally asked If the creek was not running uphill instead of down. In the other he readily recognized the woodpecker as c. quail. MCau vou make him out?" asked the mother after he had gone. "Why, he seems to be a very nice man," was the reply. "But he called that woodpecker a quail." "Perhaps that accident broke a rib for him and he's bravely trying to hide the fact from us," replied the daughter. In t.vo days Mr. Bamford was back to look over those deeds again. On this occasion he decided that the creek ought to have two twists in it. He also called that woodpecker a blackbird. He thought he could pay $17,000 cash down for The Beeches, and then spoke of buying on the in stallment plan. Then he sat for an hour on the veranda with Miss Melln cent and talked about books and poetry and Europe to her, and not one word of real estate. The next time he called in he made the excuse that he was Just going past and thought he would stop for a moment to see 1! that creek didn't want as many as three twists, but he remained for two hours. At his next call he heard a voice saying to him: "Mr. Bamford, I have heard of your mother and heard of you. You are no real estate agent." "No, ma'am." "You are no artist!" "No, ma'am." "You are no landscape gardener!" , "No, ma'am." "You are no creek-twister!" "No, ma'am." "Then what are you?" "Just a young man who admiroa yoir daughter, and proposes to fall In love with her, and make her fall Ic love with him, and then" ask your con sent to marry her and keep the dear eld Beeches in the family." And Impostor that he was. he won the girl In less than a year. How Dumas Won a Wager. For rapidity of composition the prize among novelists must be awarded to Alexander Dumas, who died with 'over three thousand books to his cred it, in all of which he had some share. According to Mr. Arthur F. Davidson, one of his biographers, he often declared tLat when once he had mapped out in hi3 mind the scheme of a novel or a rlay the work was practically accomplished, since the mere writing of It presented no difficulty and could be performed as fast as the pen could travel. Some one disputed this; the result was a wager. Dumas had in his head the plan of the "Chevalier de la Maison Rouge," of which he had not yet written a word, and he made a bet of 100 louis that he would write the first volume of the novel in 72 hours. The volume was to be formed by 75 large foolscap pages, each page containing 45 lines and each line 50 letters. In 66 hours Dumas had done the work in hia fair flowing hand, disfigurea by no eraslons and the bet was won with six hours to spare. Grief Is the agony of an instant; the Indulgence of grief, the agony of a life. Disraeli. ly, then up at the umbrella spread over his head. He thrust his old cot ton umbrella Into the young man's free hand. "Certainly, my dear young friend," he said. "We will exchange umbrellas. I shall be delighted to do it." Youth's Companion. Didn't Want It. "This car Is the most popular auto on the market," said the salesman. "It la widely advertised and you can see its picture in all the magazines." "Then It won't do," objected the secretive man. "I won't have a machine that will tell every Tom, Dick and Harry what I paid for it." A Smart Girl. "My dear," said her father, "the lights were very low in the parlor last night when I came home." "So they were, father. Mr. Simper was reciting Tennyson's 'Crossing the Bar and he thought the lines would " i mc?3 Impressive In semi-darkness. -

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Reprinted from an article by Theolore Roosevelt In The Outlook by gneclal arrangement with The Outlook, of which Theodore Roosevelt is Contributing Editor. Copyright. 1910. by The Outlook Company. All Rights Reserved.

In the New York Evening Post of Friday, August 2G, there appeared In an editorial article the following statements: " 'I will make the corporations come to time,' shouted Roosevelt to the mob. But did he not really mean that he would make them come down with the cash to elect him. as he did before? For a man with Mr. Roosevelt's proved record it is simply disgusting humbug for him to rant about the corporations upon whose treasurers he fawned when he was president and wanted their money for his campaign. Does he think that nobody has a memory which goes back to the life Insurance Investigations, and that everybody has forgotten the $50,000 taken from widows and orphans and added to Theodore Roosevelt's political corruption fund? Did he not take a big check from the Beef trust, and glad to get It? And now he Is going to make the corporations come to time! One can have respect for a sincere radical, for an honest fanatic, for an agitator or leveler who believes that he Is doing God's will; but it Is hard to be patient with a man who talks big but acts mean, whose eye Is always to the main chance politically, and who lets no friendship, no generosity, no principle, no moral scruple stand for a moment between himself and the goal upon which he has set his overmastering ambition. " 'This champion of purity, this roarer for political virtue. Is the man who was for years, when In political life, hand in glove with the worst political corruptionists of his day; who toaded to Piatt, who praised Quay, who paid court to Hanna; under him as president Aldrich rose to the height of his power, always on good terms with Roosevelt; It was Roosevelt wio. In 1906, wrote an open letter urging the re-election of Speaker Cannon, against whom mutterings had then begun to rise; it was Roosevelt who asked Harriman to come to the White House secretly, who took his money to bur votes In New York, and who afterwards wrote to "My Dear Sherman" yes, the same Sherman reviling the capitalist to whom he had previously written saying: "You and I are practical men.'" The Evening Post Is not in itself sufficiently important to warrant an answer, but as reiesentlng a class with whose hostility It Is necessary to reckon In any genuine movement for decent government, it is worth while to speak of it. There are plenty of wealthy people !n this country, and of Intellectual hangers-on of wealthy people, who are delighted to engage In any movement for reform which does not touch the wickedness of certain great corporations and of certain men of great wealth. People of thl3 class will be In favor of any aesthetic movement; they will favor any movement against the small grafting politician, against the grafting labor leader, or any man of that -stamp; but they cannot be trusted the minute that the reform assumes sufficient dimensions to Jeopardize so much of the established order of things as gives an unfair and improper advantage to the great corporation, and to tluso directly and Indirectly responsive to its wishes and dependent upon It. The Evening Post and papers of the came kind, and the people whose views they represent, I would favor attacking a gang of small bosses who wish to control the Republican party; but they would, as the Evening Post has shown,' far rather see these small bosses win than see a movement triumph which aims not merely at the overthrow of the small political boss, but at depriving the corporation of its improper influence over politics, depriving the man of wealth of any advantage beyond that which belongs to him as a simple American citizen. They would be against corporations only after such corporations had been caught in the crudest kind of criminality. I have never for one moment counted upon the support of tho Evening Post or of those whom it represents In tho effort for cleanliness and decency within the Republican party, because the Evening Post would support such a movement only on condition that it .was not part of a larger movement for the betterment of social conditions. But this is not all. In the struggle for honest politics there is no more a place for a liar than there Is for the thief, and in a movement designed to put an end to the dominion of the thief but little good can be derived from the assistance of the liar. Of course objection will be made to my use of this languare. My answer la that I am using it merely scientifically and descriptively, and because no other terms express the facts with the necessary precision. In the article In which the Evening Post comes Doubtful Proposition. "The Bohemian life Is the one that Is frank and sincere," said the man with the artistic temperament. "Perhaps," replied the practical youth. "But I can't help having my doubts about the frankness and sincerity of anybody who tries to convince you that he enjoys being broke." rJoncommjttal. Lawyer Did the prisoner when he stabbed his victim seem to recognize him? Witness Well, he cut him dead. Fine Graft. "The proudest boast of the old-time robber barons was that they never robbed a poor man." "Those fellows were amateurs at the game." explained tho great captain of industry, "and didn't undersfcLd how much money there was in it. ' Puck. Extreme Shock. "I see where the society women at one of the resorts aro going to dance In their bare feet." "Do tell! How bare-faced!"

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Journalism to the defense of those in present control of the Republican party in !ew York state, whom it has affected to oppose in the past, the Evening Pest through whatever editor personally wrote the article, practised every known form of mendacity. Probably the Evening Post regards the decalogue as outworn; but If it will turn to It ana read the eighth and ninth commandments, it will see that bearing false witness is condemned as strongly as theft Itself. To tnke but one instance out of the many in this article, the Evening Post says: 'It was Roosevelt who asked Harriman to come to the White House secretly, who took his money to buy votes in New York, and w"io afterwards wrote to 'My Dear Shernan' yes, the ame Sherman reviling the capitalist to whom he had previously written, saying: 'You and I are practical men.' " Not only Is every important statement In this sentence false, but the writer who wrote It knew It was false. As far as I was concerned, every man visited the White House openly, and Mr. Harriman among the others. 1 I took no money from Mr. Harriman secretly or openly to buy votes or for any other purpose. Whoever wrote the article In the Evening Post In question knew that this was the foulest and basest lie when he wrote the sentence, for he quotes the same letter in which I had written to Mr. Harriman as follows: 'What I have to say to you can be said to you as well after election as before, but I would like to see you some time before I write my message." I am quoting without the letter before me, but the quotation 13 substantially, if not verbally, accurate. That statement In this letter to Harriman is of course on its face . absolutely incompatible with any thought that I was asking him for campaign funds, for It Is of course out of the question that I could tell him equally well what I had to say after election if it referred In any possible way to getting money before elect' jn. This is so clear that any pretense of misunderstanding is proof positive of the basest dishonesty In whoever wrote the article In question. As a matter of fact, when Mr. Harriman called it was to complain that the national committee would not turn over for the use of the state campaign In which be was interested funds to run that campaign, and to ask me to tell Cortelyou to give him aid for tho state campaign. Mr. Cortelyou Is familiar with the facts In other words, the statement of the Evening Post Is not only false and mallclous. Is not only in direct contradiction of the facts, but is such that It could only have been made by a man who, knowing the facts, deliberately Intended to pervert them. Such an act stands on a level of Infamy with the worst act ever performed by a corrupt member of the legislature or city official, and stamps the writer with the same moral brand that stamps the bribe-taker. I have seen only a telegraphic abstract of the article, apparently containing quotations from it. Practically every statement made In these quotations is a falsehood. To but one more shall I allude. The article speaks of my having attacked corporations, and, referring directly to my Ohio speeches, of my having "sought to Inflame the mob and make mischief." In those speeches the prime stand I took was against mob violence a3 shown by the labor people who are engaged in controversy with a corporation. My statement was In effect that the first duty of the state and the first duty of the officials was to put down disorder and to put down mob violence, and that after such action had been taken, then it was the duty of officials to investigate the corporation, and If it had done wrong to make It pay the penalty of Its wrings and to provide against the wrongdoing In the future. It is but another instance I of the peculiar baseness, the peculiar moral obliquity, of the Evening Post that It should pervert the truth in so shameless a fashion. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Cheyenne. Wyo., August 27, 1310. The Only Way. "Why did he leave 11 his money to the black sheep of the family?" "He said the other children wer too good to go to Jail." "Well?" "And ho wanted to fix it so the black sheep would be too rich." Pa's Idea of It. Little Willie Say, pa, what is pride? Pa Pride, my son, is walking with a gold-headed cane when you are not 1.2 ne. Right Off the Reel. "When is an actor not an actor?" asked the man with the conundrum habit. The man who.had passed the afternoon at a vaudeville house never hesitated a minute. "Abou? nine times out of ten," he replied. A Conservative. "Do you take much Interest In these new thought movements?" "No. There's a great deal of old thought I don't understand yet." - Don't Blame the Horse. "There must be something In the theory that animals have the reasoning power." "Yes?" "Only the other day, according to a news dispatch, a horse chased a chauffeur and bit him." Both Behind. "I didn't see you at tho ball game yesterday." 'Trobably not. I was behind a hat." Pshaw! When the game ended I was behind $10."

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INSULATED TIP ON OIL CAN Safeguard Against Sudden and Sometimes Fatal Shock When Oiling Electrical Machinery. When oiling electrical machinery It is always advisable to safeguard yourself against accidental shock, especially when currents of high tension ire being generated, writes A. J. Jarman in Scientific American. It frequently happens when an ordinary long-spout can is employed for oiling dynamos that a severe shock is received by the oiler, resulting sometimes in death. Several years ago the writer Invented an oil can that was perfectly safe under all ordinary conditions of use. Owing to the extreme simplicity of the design any one possessing ordinary mechanical ability can convert an ordinary oiler, either o the vertical or horizontal kind, into a safety oiler. Cut the spout in the middle and solder upon each a piece of brass tubing having either an external or internal thread cut. Fit thereon a coupling sleeve made of insulating material as shown in the sectional view. The Insulator can be Oil Can With Insulated Tip. made out of either hard rubber or vulcanized fiber turned in the lathe, with a milled center to admit of a firm grip when screwing or unscrewing the parts. Since oil is an insulator, no current can get past the coupling sleeve to the oiler's hand. ELECTRIC HEATER IS HANDY Heat Derived From Incandescent Lamp Is Reflected Out in All Directions From Base. An electric heater of ornamental design Is shown in the accompanying cut and is the invention of Frank Kuhn, Detroit, Mich. The heat Is derived from Incandescent electric lamps mounted in the base as shown, says Popular Electricity. These lamps are Electric Heater. of a low efficiency as far as light Is concerned, but they give off a great deal of heat. This heat Is reflected out In all directions' by the polished metal standard and from the base. ELECTRIC ARC LIGHT AIDS Through Its Application Art of Photomicrography Received Great Impulse Intensity Uniform. The art of photomicrography received a great impulse through the application of the electric arc light. Before then it was most difficult to secure good photographs of minute objects magnified more than one thousand diameters, because the oxhydrogen light employed to Illuminate the objects was not sufficiently uniform in intensity. With the electric arc light this difficulty was largely overcome, so that fine photographs have been made of objects magnified five thousand diameters. Microscopy; Is far ahead of astronomy in the magnifying powers that it can employ. It Is seldom that a power of so much as one thousand diameters can be usefully applied with a telescope, and in photographing the heavenly bodies comparatively slight magnification can be used. A photograph of the moon with a magnifying power of 5,000 diameters would be a wonder Indeed. Steam, Electricity and Coal. For a time, during the transitlcn from steam to electricity on the Southport branch of the Lancashire & Yorkshire railway, it was necessary to run rteam trains between the electrical trains, at the same speed. This afforded an oportunlty to compare the coal consumption of the locomotives with that of the power-house supplying the electric trains. It was found that the six-wheeled, coupled-tank engines consumed fO pounds of coal per train mile for express trains, and 100 pounds for accommodation trains. The consumption of coal at the powerstation for the electrical trains Is 49 pounds per train mile. ELECTRICAL NOTES. Modern electric hoists , are so designed that the speed varies with the load. A portable electrolytic bleaching apparatus has been devised for household us to remove stains from textiles. A new sanitary mouthpiece for telephones Is made flush with the transmitter case to avoid germ-catching corners. A 20-watt tungsten lamp gives onefourth more light than the carbon filament lamp of 16 candlepower, on onehalf the current. A coin-In the-slot electric curlingIron heater for the use of feminine patrons of the hotels and other public !nccs has been patented. An electric alarm for incubators, making use of a thermostat, rings a bell when the temperature rises above or falls below the egg hatching point Probably the best timekeeper In the world Is the electric clock In the Berlin observatory. It is inclosed in an airtight cylinder and its deviation is practically nil. The new metal filament lamps are not nearly so fragile as the earMer types. A Baltimore man has patented a clothes tree which folds and slides into a tubular bedpost when net in use.

Hush Device Arranged by New York Inventor Makes Transmitter More Sanitary Than Cup.

A flush mouthpiece for telephones has been designed by a New York inventor for the purpose of making the transmitter more sanitary. It consists of an aluminum cup attached to the diaphragm of the transmitter by means of the bolt and nut used in fastening the front electrode to the diaphragm, says Popular Mechanics. The cup extends through the transmitter ease and its outer edge is turned Dirt-Proof Telephone Mouthpiece. over so as to come nearly flush with the face of the case. . The cup fits close enough to the case to seal its interior from dust and dirt, but does not come in actual contact with it There are no grooves for the lodgment of dust or dirt. Tests of the new transmitter are claimed to prove that it gives just as good service over distances of from 1 to 500 miles as the cup type now in general use. USING ELECTRICITY AT SEA Important Part It Plays in Developing Great Speed Attained by Immense Ocean Liner. A writer In the Electrical Review, of London, gives an interesting account of the important parts played by electricity in developing the great speed attained by the Mauretania. He says : "Without In any way reflecting upon the abilities of the engineers, it must be admitted that they did not seem to have grasped the great possibilities of the various auxiliaries on the ship, and it is attention to these auxiliaries which determines the ultimate fulfillment of the designers' Ideas. "As Is now well known, practically all the auxiliary machinery on the Mauretania is electrically driven, . and It is equally well known, especially among electrical engineers connected with shlpwork, that marine engineers have a stubborn and conservative objection to anything other than the steam-driven plant with which they have been brought up. When, therefore, an electrical Installation of more than 2,000 horse power was thrust upon them with practically no qualified electricians on board to enlighten them as to its proper usage, they naturally felt some trepidation, and had little desire to attempt any record speeds. "Perhaps it is not quite evident why the speed of the ship should entirely depend on the auxiliary plant, and In explanation it must be said that practically all fast boats require a relatively enormous quantity of steam at high pressure, which can only be obtained from the boilers when highpower forced-draft fans are employed to supply air to the furnace:?, and a slight diminution in their output has an immediate effect on the steam pressure of the boilers, and consequently on the speed of the engines and propellers. In the case of the Mauretania the forced-draft fans are' electrically driven." According to the writer, the entire dependence of the boat's speed on the electric generating plant is now thoroughly understood, and ono of the first considerations Is to keep up the voltage. Before this, it might drop 10 or 15 per cent, and the only result was a dim light and the slowing down of a few unimportant motors r at on the Mauretania it is vital. In conclusion, we read: "It is strange, on the face of it, that such apparently small details should be the means of converting a 23-knot boat into one of 26 knots; but it is no exaggeration to say that the records of the Mauretania are entirely due to a better understanding of the electrical conditions." Electricity by Wind It is said that all the difficulties In the way of the generation of electricity by means of wind power have been overcome by a German firm, which has Just placed such sets on the market The apparatus Is entirely automatic and self adjusting, requiring no attention except upon the approach of a gale of unusual severity, when it is necessary to reduce the sail area of the wind wheel. The most Important feature , of the Installation is a regulator which maintains a constant pressure on the lighting circuit, without regard to the activity of the dynamo or the condition of the storage battery. Electrolysis. The current that leaves the motor of the street car and seeks to make its way back to the power-house along the track often comes to a place la the rails where it is much easier traveling to jump off the rail to adjoining moist soil and then to a nearby water or gas pipe. All is well until this current leaves the pipe for some better path, when it takes with it bits of the pipe, finally producing a leak. This destruction of the pipe is called electrolysis. Popular Electricity. Wireless Outfit for Police. A part of the equipment of the new $3,000,000 police headquarters in New York Is to be a wireless telegraphy outfit operated from the dome. It is expected that branch stations will be established in outlying districts of the city and in other counties, so that if wires fail, communlcaation may be maintained. Immense Aqueduct. The aqueduct which Los Angeles Is building from the San Fernando valley, 240 miles distant, not only will be the' greatest in the world, but will supply more persons with water and at the same time irrigate 75.000 acres of land and develop C0.0Ö0 electrical horsepower. New Insulator. A substitute for gutta percha, ebonite, celluloid, amber and other insulators has been invented by Dr. Dakeland, president of the American Electro-Chemical society, from which it takes the name "bakelite." It is produced through the condensation of formaldehyde and phenol. It is said to be an electric insulator of the first rank, insolublo in all ordinary dissolvents and not melting at high temperatures. In chemical Constitution it closely resembles Japanese lacquer, the composition of which has always been more or less of a mystery.

CHURCHES AND THE SALOON Decrease in Number of Ohio Dram. Shops Followed by Increase In Church Members. An analysis of the Presbyterian churches of Ohio in local option districts, by Rev. Frederick N. McMillan, chairman of the committee on evangelical work of the synod of Ohio, shows a suggestive increase duduring the past two years in the number of communicants, says United Presbyterian. From this report it appears that the decrease in the number of saloons is followed by a i. table increase In the membership of the churches. The reasons assigned are that when men are drinking theyt have no money to sufficiently clothe their wives and children that they may attend church with any degree of self-respect The families of drinking men are discouraged and lack heart to appear In places of religious concourse. Mr. McMillan says: "Religion and whisky will not mix. Drinking men keep women and children away from church through shame, fear, poverty and want of heart. Many a woman says: I haven't the heart to go to church when my husband is drinking; he doesn't want us to go to church, and I will not go because my children and myself cannot diess as well as others.'" TLls want of heart is one of the most depressing conditions that can befall any one. The sense of disgrace, on account of being the companion of a drunkard, has kept many a wife shut up in her solitary home, nursing the vultures that are eating out her very heart. The consolations of the gospel would give her hope, but oh, the humility of it; the human nature of It! The dread of appearing where her very presence would be an advertisement of her own humiliation no doubt accounts for many sorrowful wives falling to identify themselves with any church. It requires no argument to show that the average drinking man will not go to church. He takes no Interest in such things. His companions are not there. There is little In common between him and those who worship God. He is at the extreme antipodes of society. His moral sense is benumbed, and the whole association of the saloon is to deepen and Intensify opposition to religion and Durltv of life. When God plants a church the devil comes to plant a saloon nearby, if he can. He must hold his own converts, if he can. He must win over some of the church members, if he can. He must lay his fiery skewers to burn the feet of the children, if he can. The way to destroy the influence of the devil over the lives of men and women. Is to destroy the works of tho devil. The saloon system Is the great barrier between the drinker and the church. Its destruction means sanerf moments for the drinker, when he can think more of the things of the kingdom of God, and the things, too, that will promote the betterment of his home. It gives his family an opportunity to take heart, to regain hope, and to look upon life with some degree of joyfulness. There Is no doubt but there would be a greater disposition on the part of the drinker's family, and the drinker himself, to attend the public worship of God if he spent his money at home and for his home. A reformed husband and father means sunshine to the home, and the grateful family will have an especial reason for expression of gratitude to God by a public profession of his name. Every argument that supports the saloon opposes the church. Sarah Bernhardt and Women Soldiers. I remember when I first appeared as the Due de Reichstadt, I thought tc myself how little disadvantage sex Is to a woman who wishes to play a distinguished part, not merely on the stage, but in real life. Women are only weak when their characters are weak. Surely Louis XVI. did not think women were weak when battalions of them were surrounding his palace at Versailles. My experience has shown me that Frenchwomen are more resolute, more fearless, more competent than the Vomen of other nations. They would not plead their sex In the face of the enemy. Just as Jeanne d'Arc was a born military leader, so, in case of a crisis today, many women would be found who, If men were pusillanimous, would cry with Lady Macbeth: "Give me the daggers!" Sarah Bernhardt in the StrandTried to Keep Sober. There was inserted In Hone's Every Day Book in 1795 the following as an advertisement: "Whereas, the subscriber, through the pernicious habit of drinking, has greatly hurt himself in purse and per son, and rendered himself odious to all his acquaintances, and finding there Is no possibility, of breaking off from said practise but through the impossibility to find the liquor he therefore begs and prays that no person will sell him for money or on trust any sort of spirituous liquors, as he will not in future pay for it but will prosecute any one for an action of damage against the temporal and eternal Interests of the public's humble, serious and sober servant. John Chalmers." First Temperance Sermon. So far as known the first sermon against Intemperance in this country was preached by Rev. Ebenerer Porter in the town of Washington, Conn., in 1805. He was led to deliver it by the fact that a stranger passing through tho town perished in the Fnow,.with a bottle of liquor by his side. The minister was greatly troubled over the awful fate of the poor drunkard and felt moved to warn his congregation against the evils that may follow the use of strong drink. The "Secret Place." God has his "secret place" where he delights to commune with tho believer. Wherever we are when he draws near that is the trystlng place of tho Most High where he will reveal to us the riches of his grace. There we may find how precious is the "covert of his wings," and, beneath his outspread pinions, feel the throbblngs of his love. The more the pruning the greater the promise of fruit.

Thrown Down Emb'ankment 25 Foot George Hahn, C. & N. W. conductor. Arbor Ave., West Chicago, 111., says: "1 was thrown from a car down a 25foot embankment and my kidneys were badly bruised. Kidney trouble developed and for a whole year, I was unable to work. I .suffered agonizing palnji in my back an! the kidney secretions were in terrible condition. My vitality gradually diminished and the doctor's t reat. xnent failed to help. When In despair I began with Doan's Kidney Pills and soon improved. Continued use cured me and at present my healtL Is excellent' Remember the name Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-MIIburn Co, Buffalo, N. T. INDEED, THEY DO. T always try to be a gentleman." "Some people have pretty hard trials, don't they?' Don't Throw That Rug Away. Just because a rug looks old and 'worn and the dust has been ground into it so deeply that a day's beating will not take it out. do not throw It away. Make a thick white suds with. Easy Task soap, scrub the rug fiat on the floor, wipe it dry with a clean cloth, and it will surprise you how beautifully new It Is. Easy Task soap Is an enemy to dirt and a friend to fabric of all kinds. It is the clean, whit laundry soap that halves your washing and doubles your satisfaction. Red Cross Christmas Seals. Arrangements for the sale of Red Cross Christmas, seals for 1910 have been announced by the National Association for the Study and Prevention cf Tuberculosis and the American Red Cioss. ."A Million for Tuberculosis" will be the slogan of the 1910 campaign. Two features of the sale this year are unique and will bring considerable capital to .the tuberculosis fighters., The American National Red Cross is to issue the stamps as in former years, but this organization will work in close co-operation with the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, which body will share In the proceeds of the sales. The charge to local associations for the. use of the national stamps has been reduced also from 20 per cent to 12 per cent., which will mean at least 50,000 more for tuberculosis work in all parts of the United States. The stamps are to be designated as "Red Cross Seals" this year and are to be placed on the back of letter instead of on the front Shrewd Scheme Stopped Run. Many years ago, in consequence of a commercial panic, there was a severe run on a bank in South Wales, and the small farmers jostled each othei in crowds to draw out their money. Things were rapidly going from tad to worse, when the bank manager, ir a fit of desperation, suddenly be thought him of an expedient Dy hU directions a clerk, having heated som sovereigns iu a frying-pan, paid them over the counter to an anxious appli cant "Why, they're quite hot!" said the latUer as he took them up. Ot course," was the reply; "what else could you expect? They are only Just out of the mold. We are coining them by hundreds as fast as we can." "Coining them!" thought the simple agriculturists; "then there is no feat of the money running short!" With this their confidence revived, the pan lc abated, and tht bank was enabled to weather the storm. Vermont Thrift. Robert Lincoln O'Brien, editor of the Boston Transcript, is a great admirer of the thrift of the Vermonters, but thinks sometimes they carry It too far. O'Brien was up in Vermont last summer and went to dinner with a friend who had some political aspirations. As they came in the door he heard the lady of the house say to the hired girl: "I see Mr. Jones has somebody with him for dinner. Take these two big potatoes down to the cellar and bring up three small ones." PRESSED HARD. Coffee's Weight on Old Age. "When prominent men realize the injurious effects of coffee and the change in health that Postum can bring, they are glad to lend their testimony for tho benefit of others. A superintendent of public schools in a Southern state says: "My moth er, since her early childhood, was an inveterate coffee drinker, had been troubled with her heart for a number of years and complained of that 'weak all over' feeling and sick stomach. "Some time ago I was making an official visit to a distant part of the country and took dinner with one of he merchants of the place. I noticed a somewhat peculiar flavor of the coffee, and asked him concerning It He replied that It was Postum. I was so pleased with It that, after the meal was over, I bought a package to carry home with me, and had wife prepare some for the next meal; the whole family liked it so well that we discontinued coffee and used Postum entirely. "I had really been at times very anxious concerning my mother's condition, but we noticed that after using Postum for a short time. Ehe felt so much better than she did prior to Its use, and had little trouble with her heart and no sick stomach; that the headaches were not so frequent, and her general condition much improved. This continued until she was as well and hearty as the rest of us. "I know Postum has benefited myself and the other members of the family, but in a more marked degree in the case of my mother, as she was a victim of long stmding." Ever read he bore IMter? A ew n appears from time to Ina. Tfcff are Kvnalnr, trur, and fall of baxama Interest.

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