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r , , -7 When She Combs Her Hair . Wgß n - ' . 1 When Mrs. Ernest Moraell. Clarendon. wasbe* or cutnba her hair ber busband has to stay around and help because Mrs. Morsell has •»<« • ac ’ cum bed to the erase for shorn locks. Her hair drops to her ankles.

Shaker Sect Is Fast Vanishing

Once Powerful Community Victim of Unscrupulous Exploitation. New Lebanon. N. Y. —Fantastic religious dogmas that forbade marriage. Insisted on absolute separation of the sexes and. op equality of inheritance have thinned the ranks of a once powerful sect, the Shakers. Only a handful remain here at New Lebanon, where the ruling body of Shaker elders once held forth, directins the destinies of flourishing Shaker communities along the eastern seaboard whose membership numbered thousands. - Only a single Shaker colony remains at Lebanon. Ohio, at one time a stronghold of the sect. Other colonies still extant but In pitiful contrast to their former condition may be found at East Canterbury. N. H.. and Pittsfield. Majul History of Sect Strange. Annals of (the sect are strong and colorful. Under the leadership of James and Jane Wardlelgh. in 1747. a group of Quakers, whose religious fervor caused them to twitch and tremble during services, separated from the main body and founded what they termed the United Society of Believers In Christ's Second Appearance. Th* term Shaker, first applied in derision by scoffers, was later accepted proudly by the brethren. Dancing with which the Shaken accompany their religious rites is described as a picturesque ceremony. At the community house of worship, after exhortation by the elders, the males of the congregation would form ranks In a half circle, according to size and age. facing the women who were arranged likewise. At a signal the choir would sing while the ranks moved up and down.

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Miiaary attaches es the foreign nations Btatl—id In Washington recently called in a oodjMit the War department and greeted Maj. Gen. Charles P. Sununerall. the aew chief of staff. In the group, left to right, front row: CoL J. H. Reeves, Maj. Gen. C. K. C. G. Chariton (British). Maj. Gen. Summerall. Brig Gen. Auguste Villa (Italian), Lt Cot Carton Garflas (Chilean). Back row: Capt baouro Isoda (Japanese), Lt CoL Nelson E. Mkrgttts. Capt K. A. Prieto (Cuban). Maj. George* Thenault (French). Maj. W. H. 3. Alston (British). Lt CoL K. & Hkruhorn. Maj. V. Casajus (Spanish). Maj. E. Lombard (French), and Maj. Joseph A. Atkina

COMPANY PLANS EIGHT-MILE BRIDGE ON CHESAPEAKE BAY . r

Project Calle tor |10.000.000 and Would Bring Maryland Products j Nearer World Markets. Baltimore. Md.—Maryland*! agriculturaljy rich eastern shore. with its canneries and oyster packing plants nearly fifty mUesnearer Baltimore by highway and hence nearer the markets of the world, would be one of the outstanding results of i a proposed eight-anile bridge »P*» across Chesapeake bayThe span, which would be perhaps the longest of its kind In the world. alm would make the highway distance from the southern half of Delaware tees to Baltimore than to Philadelphia: tts present normal market. Provided War department congressional and* other sanctions are forthXmtag. the bridge will ba started next spring by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge

swinging arms in rhythm. ; rising on tiptoe and shaking or swaying from side to side. j Shakers contributed much to America's trade in the early dpys. Possessing a reputation for prophecy and religious foresight, the Shaker communities drew into the fold the residents of surrounding neighborhoods who at that itlme were willing to give up their worldly belongings and live a life of celibacy. Exploited by Unscruputoua. The community became not only self-sustaining but wealthy; Shrewd Shaker farther* bought the best and richest lands for the communities, the Shaker workshops humming at broom and furniture making, their machinists Invented the buzz-saw. iand money rolled In on the simple people. Their furniture and other products became famous for Roundness and-Appearance. Exploited by unscrupulous leaders.

Slip Him the Priie as Cheekiest Person Buenos Aires.—Juan* Martines gave a display of sheer “cheek" ihere recently that must stand Unrivaled. Twienty-five years ago he deserted his wife In the greatest state jof indigence to, pursue tiie charms of another lady. The wife went to work, and even succeeded In amassing a small capital. A short time ago she died and then the errant spouse appeared u)>on the scene andxpemanded his share of the estate. But even the highest court he appealed to ruled against him-

h , ' The company, the first ,of many predecessors which have toyed with the dream of a bay span to distill a thirty-year bridge romance into hard facts. Is prepared to spend $10,000,000 tn construction work. The bridge would be operated on a toll basts. Previous groups, with the same end In view, have dreamed dreams of. tubes under the bay. rapid ferry and barge fleets and trolley ear bridges st costs estimated from $1,000,000 tn *20,000,000. The projected elght-mile span would be from 20 to 27 feet wtae. set on concrete piling. It would be so placed that it would not interfere with marine traffic to the capes, and two drain would permit passage of vessels tb the Susquehanna river and the Delaware and Chesapeake canal. r-rection or iw onagr mproeoia « difficult engineering feat.

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the strength of the Soak, i euwt.v was dissipated as their weal b grew. Religious fervor rib longer flourished, the binding tie that held all In the community was broken, the socialistic principle of equal distribution aban- ■ doned. Shaker evangelists began to en- ! counter difficulty In gaining convdts. With the promise of abundance no i longer held out, people were skeptical of Shaker doctrines. The simple faith of itself possessed no common t appeal, and thus the sect dwindled away. | Ancient Clock Governs All Bank’s Activities Asbury Park. N. J.—The Merchants National bank here opens its doors in the morning, regulates all Its activities and closes at night by a tall, mahogany clock brought from England 311 years ago. and acquired by the bank's president. Samuel Reeves,' in 1913 for s2l. | Mr. Reeves said he believed the timepiece was at least 500 years old. It has no markings to indicate Its age and birthplace. The dock was brought from Ixmdon by Isaac Woodard in 1615 to Monmouth county. New Jersey. When Charles Woodard.' a descendant, died at the age of seventy in 1912, he willed the clock to a nephew. Dare Switchin of Asbury Park. Switchin owed Mr. Reeves some money for some articles worth s2l and after keeping the clock for a year or so, decided to turn it over to his creditor in payment Americans Hold Vigil on Peak for Science Cape Town. Union of South Afnica. — Two Americans have begun a lonely three-year vigil on a mountain peak near here with a view to studying sun spots in the interest 'of better weather forecasting. Supplied with an Immense amount of astronomical apparatus. F. Greely and W. Hoover took up their abode on the peak, a mile high, where the atmosphere Is clear of dust and there Is little rain to Interfere with their observations. They have a wireless set and can listen in on the radio concerts at Johannesburg and Cape Town. The observations are being carried on under the direction of the Smithsonian institution in connection with similar observations tn Chile and California. How to Make Fortune: Plant Black Walnuts Washington.—Planting a bushel of black walnuts this fall the Agriculture department declared, wjuld make a good Investment for farmers In upland and hill sections of the South, the Ohio river basin and the central Mis sissippi valley. Walnut, one of the finest cabinet woods known, Is worth about S2OO a thousand feet and a bushel of nuts, of which there is a large crop thia year, numbers about 1.500. Plahted in idle corners, waste strips and along fence rows, a bushel in time should return a huge profit. Tide Reveals Old Ships Constantinople.—Five ancient vessels, 400 years old. were brought to light by an unprecedented low tide following the recent hurricane on the Baltic coast.

Eskimo* Tune in Radio to Learn Day of Month New York.—Radio operators who keep two sets of batteries, one in the cook rt:vr oven thawing out. while the other, in use. Is freezing. were de scribed by Dr. William H. Easton. New - York chief of the Westinghouse broadcasting system, in a talk on radio problems north of the Arctic circle. "Many Eskimos are radio fans," he said, “and among them is Pan-il-Pah. who was with Peary when Peary discovered the North pole." Virtually I the entire white population of North America north of the Arctic circle is receiving personal messages regularly by radio, he said. One of the uses of the radio, be saidr Is to inform Inhabitants of sub-P<Mar < regions of the day of the month. The days being all “nights" ,in winter, the population sometimes gets as much as «l ß ht day, behind lh, Twenty years Is the most popular j age tor marriage among ths girls of j

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PHRAIM DUSTIN was certainly a thoughtful man. The meals In bls house were eaten in thoughtful silence, while he fed his brains, also. I upon and books. He t couldn’t get through the > pantry until he had read c the newspapers that cov- . ered the shelves. When the spring cleaning freshet • struck tjie home and be

was given the task of dusting the library, he was found in the midst of a heap of books, sitting on the floor, and finishing a perfect afternoon of meditative reflection. Ephraim also would gaze out of the window tn the evening and get so lost in watching the automobile lights that dashed

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about the view like fireflies that he would forget his supper. On New Year’s Eve the evening star seemed to rest upon a tree twig like a candle light, and this Involved verse for the village paper, beginning thus: Far, fair light* ia the heavens so bright, 1 and ending no matter where. In every family exigency, whether of sickness or financial complexion, Ephraim would give himself to thought. He bad nearly thought himsef to death. Mrs. Almira Dustin was different She was not exactly thoughtless, but she was different. It became helpfully apparent to her poorer half that something bad been taking place In \er mind, also; and that she was determined to have a change New Year's whether happy or not; as she Dot only Imparted a piece of her mind, but also set certain measures Its motion. She provided enough conversation to make the mealtimes lively, turned all the pantry papers up-

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ride down, cleaned the library herself, Invented enough errands to occupy her spare time, bustled meditations into attention, began to look after household and business matters with interference and advice, until the miserable man was fairly goaded into practicality. When they wished him a happy New Year be bad expected to have it, but be failed to get IL It could not be denied, however, that at its end be felt that it had been the most useful and prosperous year of his experience. The neighbors bad been observing and had ae- ' counted for things by saying that a shiftless dreamer and useless theorist had been cured by a sensible wife. After a year or two more Ephraim thought so himself. rik MM. Waataro Newvpspvr Vnlos.) Singer and Toiler i Nsw Year's a little fallow That hasn’t learned to play. But soon he’ll go a-reaping In fed blooms of the May. And then he’ll be a toller Thats had his holiday. n Bell sow the fields for harvest. Beneath the heaven’s bine, 1 Span the sky with rainbows. Make golden dreams come true; And then he’ll sing Love’s - sweetest > song. Sweetheart, for you! * —Atlanta Constitution. ■■ > '

THE NEW YEAR By KATHERINE EDELMAN ANOTHER year has passed into, the great sea of time. Twelve short months ago It was mine to do with as I chose —to mold into the kind of a structure that I would make —but today It is gone from me. and the thing ~that I have made of It shall remain for aye. I cannot even change one word of the writing that I have stamped on its pages; I cannot win back even one moment of it for my own. But though the old year Is past and gone, though its mistakes and its weakness are no longer mine to rectify, there Is today another year opening before me, a new and staining year that Is ail my own. Every page of it gleams snowy white, there Is not a blot or stain anywhere. It is all mine to do with as I will. All through Its hours there will he opportunity for me to do deeds of loving service, to speak words of cheer and kindness, to knit more closely the ties of love and friendship that are now mine. There will be opportunity, too, to forge a little- bit ahead In life's race, to do my allotted tasks a little better than I did them last year, to keep my eyes and ears open for anything that would lead to my happiness and benefit. I know that I will pass by many of these opportunities and aids for happiness if my heart is filled with ceaseless repinings for the mistakes of the past, with continued murmurings on what the present Is giving n»e or with dread and fear of what the future might hold. These things would surely dull my vision so that I would be unable to see or hear many of the good things that might be awaiting me; they would close my heart so tightly that all the . host of pleasures that love and friendship bring would be denied to me. Therefore, I shall go into this year as if it were Indeed a new life. I shall leave behind me all that' keeps me fretful and complaining, all that keeps me dissatisfied and unhappy. I shall believe and know that this New Year holds many precious gifts for me and that 1 shall surely find them if I keep my heart and mind open for their reception. (gk 1»M. Western Newspaper Union.)

No Female Allowed to Enter Before Midday Id some parts of England they used to bar the doors to prevent any female visitant entering the house before midday on New Year’s day. The “first-footer." as the first visitor was called, must bring with him something in his hand, such as a shovelful of coal, uud so comply with the message of the old jingle: Taka out and then take In. Bad luck will begin; Take in. and then take out. Good luck comes about.

Time Flies < "Well, tbe New Year will soon be here." "On his airplane this trip, I guess." “Sure—time fifes."

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ELL, Sis, I suppose you put In a gay night last night with your bayberry candle,' Bob Stevens dropped into I a comfortable chair before the open fireplace toward midday of the first day of the year. “ 'A bayberry candle,’ you know, ‘burned to. the socket’ on New Year’s Eve ‘brings health to the body.

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joy to the heart, and gold to the pocket’ Isn’t that what you quote,! to me as I was leaving for the dance’ Score one for my fine memory! But I expected to find you capering joy ously about with your cold all gone and here you sit all choked up same as ever. If it’s any comfort every body missed you at the party—asked me to tell you how sorrjr they were you couldn’t coma and —oh, you know all the rest of the bunk. I didn’t tell them you were seeking consolation lb a bayberry candle.” "Well, if you’ve, run down. Bob, HI begin. That bayberry candle act

wasn't so bad after all. You remember what grandmother said when she went upstairs just before you left?” "Something about not taking the verse too Mtterally. But one couldn’t help but get something out of watching a candle burn to the socket Yes, I remember now. At the time I wondered what she was getting at

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but promptly forgot it again, “That’s just it exactly. Bob. We rush from one thing to another so fast, we forget everything that’s worth while. We don’t take time to think. That’s what 1 learned watching that candle for an hour and that’s what, grandmother meant She didn’t know, though, that a good'deal of my thinking would be about her. She is gracious and gentle and’ sheds a sort of restfulness over us. Don’t we like mother's dinner parties best, when she uses candles? Don’t we now?" “We sure do,” Bob acquiesced. “There you are. We’re sort of harsh and glaring like the electric lights and well always be that way if we don’t stop ourselves from running from one thing to another. We need tbe electric lights, but tbe glare must be softened with shades and made more like the candles' light; just so we must tone down our lives somewhat I don’t want to be noisy and harsh when I’m old. neither do I want to snap out quick like an electric bulb. Tm going to take time to think." Bob looked soberly into the fire: •Td say you got something out of that baybqrry candle. Sis; guess Td better try tbe thinking stunt a little this year, too.” (©, UM. Western Newnpsper Untos.) Quaint New Year Custom Is Observed in Scotland Ta Scotland, where the first day of the year receives a hearty reception, there is a quaint New Year custom of distributing dowries at St Cyrus, a Forfarshire village, to the tallest shortest, oldest and youngest brides of the preceding year. The dowries are provided from a fund bequeathed in the middle of the last century by a former St Cyrus laird, John Orr of Bridgeton. one time paymaster gen eral of the forces in India, who set aside $5,000 for the dui-dom.

THE WORLD’S GREAT EVENTS ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE

by Dodd. Mead A Compaav.) The Huguvnota AN INSANE man. foaming at the mouth and muttering incoherent prayers to the saints, crouched In the embrasure of one of the upper windows of the palace of the Louvre, at Paris, on the night of August 24, 1572. He was gripping a gold-chased musket which he fired at intervals into the throng of panic-stricken men and women who rushed screaming along the dark street below. The madman was King Charles LX of France, son of that Henry II who had told William the Silent of a plan to massacre all the Huguenots in France. A series of strange events had led up to this midnight scene of wholesale murder. The Protestant creed (started many years before In Germany by Martin Luther) had spread Into France. But there it had, to a great extent, lost its religious significance. The French Protestants (or “Huguenots,” as they were called) became largely a political party. The so-called religious wars, massacres, etc., in France during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries had far more political than pious significance. ’ H - Henry II had married, for political reasons, an Italian woman. Catherine de Medici, daughter of the magnified, or lord, of Florence. Henry neglected her, and In his lifetime she was of little consequence. But on his death she came to the front as the most powerful. most dangerous power of her* . time. Among other Italian customs she introduced into France were assassination by poison. She had four sons—Francis II (who married Mary Queen of Scots), Charles, Henry and Francois. All died childless, and three of them r (Francis 11, Charles IX and Henry III) were successively kings of France. .» The Lorraine family, whose head was the duke of Guise, were all-pow-erful at court. When Francis II died and Catherine became regent for her young son, Charles IX, she sought to curb the growing Influence of Guise by favoring the Huguenots. The leaders of the Huguenot party were Louis, prince of Conde, young Henry, prince of Bearn (afterwards king of Navarre and still later King Henry IV of France), and ’Admiral Coligny. Henry was head of the Bourbon family, as Charles IX s was of the Valois family. In 1562 civil war broke out between Guise’s followers and the Huguenots. Conde was captured and killed. Guise was murdered. His son, who succeeded to the dukedom, declared that Admiral Coligny was his father's assassin and swore blood vengeance on him. At last the Huguenots grew so powerful that Catherine feared them as much as she had once feared the Guises, and she threw her influence with the latter. Charles LX had meantime come to manhood and was strongly In favor of the Huguenots. He loved Coligny and regarded Henry of Navarre as his own brother. Catherine viewed with alarm this attitude of her son. Then she and Guise concocted a plot that has made both their names odious. They arranged a marriage between Charles' sister, Margaret, and Henry of Navarre, and Invited all the Huguenots in France to come to Paris for the ceremony. The wedding occurred August 18, 1572. While the festivities were in progress Catherine hastened to Charles with the false news that Coligny and other Huguenots were conspiring against his life. Charles was weak, credulous, and, moreover, was subject to fits of temporary insanity. By working on his fears Cath- ». erine and Guise persuaded him that the Huguenots, under Coligny's orders. were planning a massacre of Catholics and were especially pledged to murder himself and those dear to him. Insane with fear, he cried: “Kill Coligny! Kill every Huguenot ! Let none be left alive to reproach me 1” Guise had beforehand laid his plans. He was the idol of the populace. Through his agents he instructed the townsfolk and rabt<> to assemble at midnight on August 24 (St. Bartholomew’s day), and at a signal begin a wholesale slaughter of Huguenots. The Huguenots, taken wholly by surprise. died like sheep under their butchers’ weapons. Guise, full of his old-time vengeance against Coligny. hurried to the hotel * where the admiral lay ill in bed. The defenseless old man was stabbed a dozen times and his body hurled into the courtyard beldw. The wave of massacre spread through all France. Henry of Navarre, the young bridegroom whose marriage celebration had bAn the trap to lure so many thou- v sands of his followers to their doom, was captured in the Lbuvre before he could escape or defend himself. Being less scrupulous—or fonder of life—than his unfortunate co-religionists, Henry promptly renounced Protestantism, declared himself an ardent Catholic, and thus appeased the royal wrath and saved his own skin. Atrocious and utterly unpardonable as was the massacre of St. Bartholomew, yet it was not without lasting benefit of a sort. For. owing to it and to subsequent religious persecution, fully 50,000 Huguenots left France and a large number of these eventually settled In America, helping to form the social and religious backbone of our present nation. ■* Immense Wisteria Vine At Sierra Madre, Calif., there is a wisteria vine, more than 350 feet long: When it was covered with buds and, blossoms this spring, thousands of tourists from all parts of the West went to see R. It was planted some 33 vears ago by Mrs. A. C. Brugnan. now living in East Pasadena. The original plant was a small seedling of the Chinese variety, which is darker than the Japanese wisteria. This vine Is said to be the largest in the world.— Pathfinder Magazine-