VOL. LI
v NATIONAL BODY TO
WAR ON CRIMINALS
Score of Influential* Men to
Pufh Fight.
New York. — War has been declared
against the growing cohorts of crime.
▲ score of influential men pledged
themselves at a Meeting In the office
of Elbert H. Gary to do their utmost
te stem the tide of lawlessness now
sweeping the country. Their efTorts
will be exerted through the national
crime commission, which, instead of
a temporary body as at first planned,
is to be organized permanently
tlon-wide affiliations.
Headquarters will be opened in New
York and crimes of violence will be
the first to come under attack. Mr.
Gary promised assistance, financial
and otherwise. He has been nsked
to head the commission, but his de
cision is not yet -known. " —■
An executive committee of five or
six members, representative of the en
tire country, is planned. The work of
druwing up the nominating slate is In
the hands of u committee headed by
George W. Wickersham, former nttor.
ney genernl of tire United Stutes.
Others taking part In the prelimi
nary work include Richard Washburn
Child, former ambassador to Italy;
former Gov. Charles S. Whitman,
Gov. George S. Sllzer of New Jersey.
George Gordon Battle and John W,
Davis.
HAD 286 OPERATIONS
George Gillespie, thirty-seven, Pitts
burgh (Pa.) police Sergeant, is now
recovering frpra Ills two• hundred sixty
eighth operation. The operations foV
lowed Injuries suffered in an automo
bile accident two yeafft ago. Nineteen
of them were major ones. Gillespie
by his lutest operation lost a leg.
New Railroad Connects
South American Countries
Washington.—Recent completion of
a 124-mile railroad line connecting
Bolivia and Argentina was hailed In
a statement by the National Geo
graphic society as blearing "the long
clTerished dream of uniting the repub
lics of North and South America with
bonds of steel anothtft* step nwirer
realization."
In adtfitlon to provld'.nV a new out
let for Bolivia, which has no sea
coast, the new line cdanects with the
railway systems of Argentina at Its
southern terminal""and through them,
with the lines of Urnguay and Bra
ell, while at Atocha It Is possible to
make connections with Pacific coast
ports and tq continue as far north as
Cuzco, Peru.
"More than half of the IQ£ll miles
separating Washington -and Buenos
Aires have already been 'paved with
steel,'" the statement said.
Tree Preservatives Kill Bees
Werder, Germany,—Millions of bees
In the Werder district have been killed
supposedly from chemicals sprinkled
upon fruit trees. Only the insects that
were near the orchards died.
Cites Big Drop in Crime '
in Britain in 50 Years
Loadoit: —Better education, an In- ,
crease in sobriety and an advanced i
standard of living have resulted in a
tremendous decrease of crime in Eng
land in the last -CO years, Sir William
Joynson-Hlcks, home secretary, told
the International Prison Congress.
He said that In 1875 there were 10,-
000 persons undergoing penal servi
tude. Now, he said, there are only 1,-
600 In spite of the Increase of popula
tion. Besides ths number there are
I.WO young people undergoing correc
tional treatment
Clock Saves Life
Burlington, Wis. —A recording clock
which he carried on his belt saved the
life of Cornle Betdlg. night patrol
man, recently, when a fleeing burglat
fired two shots at him.
THE ALAMANCE CLEANER
Piaro Long in Favor'
With Lovers of Music
The first upright piuno made in the
United States was manufactured In
the year 1800 by John Isaac Hawkins
of Philadelphia, an Englishman by
birth. The earliest piano made in the
United States was that made by Jo
seph Hisky of Baltimore. His Instru
ments quickly found favor and his es
tablishment in Baltimore was the mee
cu of all lovers of good musical Instru
ments Johannes Francis Kahl, who
was born in Germany, Is credited with
making the first plane made tn Wash
ington. '
.Tonus Chlckerlng designed the first
distinctly American pianoforte. His
father was a blacksmith. The English
owed their first piano to a Scotsman,
John Brondwood. The English harpsi
chord, known to the Germans as the
■flufjel because its shape somewhat re
sen'bled the wing of a bird, to the
French as the clavecslu and to the
Italians as the clavicembalo, waa the
Immediate predecessor of the piano
forte.
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Preserve Relics of
Emperor Charlemagne
A vuulft In the cathedral of Alx-la-
Chnpelle In Ilhenish Prussia, covered
with a marble slab, is Inscribed with
the words "Carlo Magno." At his
death in Sl4, the Einperor Charlemagne
was pluced therelh In a sitting pos
ture upon a marble throne, dressed in
iiis imperial rofles. his crown op his
head, scepter In his hand, and the
gospels lying open in his lap.
In 1215 Frederick . II ordered the
body removed from the vault and
placed In a casket of gold and silver,
in which It Is preserved In the treas
ury of the eothedralV at the present
day. The marble throne on which the
dead Charieinagne sat for nearly four
hundred yeurs is in the cathedral.
Until 1558, It was used at the corona
tion of the German emperors. The
other rellca found In the vauft are pre
served In Vienna.—Kansas City Star.
Brick Buildings Endure
Since ihe earliest dawn of civiliza
tion brick has served the world well.
Time has proved It to be the one
Imperishable building material, su
preme through all the ages. Europe
has been a land of brick houses for
hundreds of years, and America 1b
,no\v emerging /rdm the "wood age"
and leadership In tremendous Are
losses. Throughout Europe are
magnificent brick buildings hundreds
of yeurs #d,J>ut still as substantial
nnd -evejf mWe beautiful than when
they wgce built. Brick Is preserving
th» landmarks of our own history.
Tfe Old South church In Boston,
Fai»#ull hail In the same city, Inde-
Pfuaence 1 hall In Philadelphia, the
Rrjsy Ross house, and a host of other
motoric buildings, all built of brick,
*re standing as firmly as on the day
Ihey were finished.
Oldtime Pocketbooks
Under Charles II of England pnrses
were supplunted by flap-pockets, which
were worn over the hips, and ladles
favored quilted pockets which were
perfumed. Years later, purses of net
ting again came into vogue, and were
carried by men and women alike, even
to the daysof our grandparents. These
were displaced once more by small,
book-like cases made with several
i divisions, to each of which the coin
age of the (lay was regulated—gold
in one, silver In another, and bronze
or copper In a third. When banknotes
nnd bills became common the shape of
the puroe was modified. It was made
lnrger. had more compartments, and
became card case and purse combined,
or what we know as the modern
pocketbook.
Why They Hesitated
An Inspector of schools at Natal,
South Africa, after Inspecting a small
farm school, situated at the mouth of
one of the rivers on the coast. Invited
the boys to Join him In a swim In the
lagoon.
The bgys accompanied him to the
lagoon, wSlftied him undress and go
In, but themselves remained on the
bank.
After a long and enjoyable swim,
the Inspector came ont and proceeded
to dress. He chaffed the boys for not
coming In, and said: M I suppose yon
are afraid to bathe with an Inspectors
"No, sir," said one of the boys, "but
we aaw a crocodile In this lagoon
yesterday."
Promising Boy Musician
James Whitehead, a youth of twelve
In Uorecamba, England, recently d?
feeted 80 adults in a violin competi
tion. He was pronounced a musical
marvel by the Judges who sat Ao
tranced by his music and the facility
with which he played. H« plana to
follow a musical career.
Doable Real Speed
By use of benzol rail motor cars et
Australia have doubled their ayeM
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GRAHAM, N. C.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 8,1925
Heraldry at Bottom
• of Ophelia's Remark
Many who have seen the tragedy,
"Hamlet," and heard Ophelia suy te
: the queen, Hamlet's mother, "You may
I wear rue with a difference," must
have been mystified as to her mean«
lug, although the poignancy of the
mad act causes the mind to pass It
by as one of Shakespeare's inexplic
able problems.
s Tet it is not Inexplicable. In her
aldry "differences," or "marks of
cadency" Indicate the various brunches
of a family. During the lifetime of
his father, the eldest son bears u label,
the second a crescent, the third a
mullet, the fourth a martlet, the fifth
an annulet, the sixth a fleur de lis,
the seventh a rose, the eighth u cross
mqllne, the ninth a double q\iatre foil.
Ophelia says both she und the
queen are to wear rue, herself us the
affianced bride of the eldest son of
the king, but the queen with a "dlf
j ference," Indicative of the fact that,
although she was Hamlet's mother, her
status was that of her present hus
band, Claudius, the cadet branch of
the family.—Cleveland Plain Dealej.
Evil Spirit of Sea
Feared by Sailors
Punt a Flechas, a promontory on the
i northeast coast of Palawan, Phllip
| pines, has become a well-known land
| mark to Yankee skippers voyaging to
J minor ports of the Philippines to pick
| up" cargoes of sugar, coconuts dried
I into copra to be shipped to_ vegetal
oil mills, und Manila hemp and other
fibers" for the cordage industry. An
interesting superstition of Filipino
sailors attaches to the name Punta
Flechas, which meuns in English Ar
row point. The granite cliff figures
in Philippine mythology as the dread
abode of an ogre of the sea who - could
conjure winds ayd typhoons to trouble
the water of Dumaran channel and
wreck the little navies of those who
refused to pay •him homage. He de
munded prowess In his worshipers,
and the way to appease his wrath was
to Ball close under the cliff and
launch arrows into it. Shots falling
short were an evil omen—if-they are
not yet'
Fled From Native Land
The name "emigres" is given to
those persons who left France at the
time of the revolution. The royal
princes fled in 1780, in consequence
of the full of Bastille, and wore
followed, after the adoption of rhe~-
constitution of 1791, by all those who
felt aggrieved by the extinction of
their privileges. The grenter number
of these refugees returned in ..1902,
after the pence of Amiens, owing to'
an amnesty grant by Napoleon Bona
parte, while first consul. Many, how
ever, remained abroad until after the
fall of Napoleon. .According to the
charter of 1814, the emigres were un
able to recover their estates or their
privileges. In 1825, however, a com
pensation of 30,000,000 francs yearly
was granted those emigres who had
lost their landed estates. This grant
was annulled after the July revolu
tion of 1830.—Kansas City Star.
Jenny Lind, Genial Friend
Jenny Lind came aguin and yet
again to the Taylors' congenial home
stead ; her kindness, "sensitive, ca
pricious and festless as It Is, her hu
manities and impetuosities" won the
affections of mother und boy ulike,
says the Christian Science Monitor.
"Great Impulses, a humble Christian
heart watching and praying to bring
Ijer Into subjection of God's will, she
Is a great addition to my iife," wrote
Alice Taylor. .• . . Nor was It to
him (James Spedding) only that the
great cantatrlce of the world's worship
brought her message M beauty and
joy. In many a letter of that date we
catch glimpses of tier shining presence
In that quiet home.
Historic Scottish Castle
The ancient und picturesque castle
of Dumbarton is situated on a rocky
eminence above the river Clyde, near
Glasgow, Scotland. Although of no
military Value now. It Is one of the
four Scottish fortresses that must be
maintained by the terms of the treaty
of Union. Sir William Wallace, the
Scottish patriot, was confined there In
1300, and In one of the apartments of
the castle Is shown the huge, two
handed sword wielded by the hero.
Mnry Queen of Scots lived there in
her childhood. In IMS. Dumbarton
rock has been famous since its* cap
ture by the Picts and Northumbrians
in 756 A. D.—Exchange^
Insinuation Here
Tn sorry 1 kept you waiting so
long, Harry, dear." murmured the
wife as she appeared ready for the
theater. "It took 'me so long to put on
my coat."
"Did you put on only one coatf*
be asked, blandly.
Turning quickly she found his gase
resting en tier cheeks ,
WHY
Babies Should Have All the
Sunlight Possiblp
Old Sol Is a good baby doctor. Let
him have a chance at your child!
So says Dr. Martha M. Eliot, direc
tor of child hygiene of the children's
bureau, United States Department of
Labor, urging *more' sunlight for
babies."
Doctor Eliot Is directing a demon
stration of the control of rickets in
New Haven, Conn., In which the chli
dren's bureau and the pediatric de
partment of the Yale school of medi
cine are co-operating. This demon
stration has proved again the power
of the sun In preventing nnd curing
rickets.
"In the campaign for better babies
and healthier children," says Doctor
Eliot "more stress must be lujd upon
sunlight. The baby or little child who
has been kept out of doors and tnnned
by the sun is strikingly healthy and
vigorous in contrast to the pule flabby
baby or child who has been kept In
doors.
"When the sun's rnys are analyzed
by the physicist, it Is found that some
of them produce visible light which
cfln be divided by a prism Into the
well-known spectrum of colors, red,
orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.
It Is also found that beyond each end
of this visible spectrum there are In
visible rays; at the red end, the Infra
red rays which produce heat, at the
violet end, the ultra-violet rays and
X-rays. It Is these ultra-violet rays
which have so powerful an effect on
living matter, destroying bacteria,
healing tuberculosis nnd rickets.
When sunlight shines through window
glass, the visible ltgkt and the heat
rnys pass througix, but the ultra-violet
rays do not- penetrate beyond the
glass."
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Why Waters of Ocean
Vary in Their Color
Nepr the shore, the sea often
changes its color to green. A stretch
of white sand below shallow water
will cause It to appear water-gray,
or light green, while a deep yellow
colored sand. Joined with the blue of
the water, produces a darker green.
In the Bay of Loango the wuter ap
pears to be deep red, which Is on ac
count of the red bottom.
Another cause of water colors Is the
large numbers of minute organisms
always present In some of- the salt
.Jakes of Tibet, and In the south
France, a certain red organism gives
to the water a vivid crimson hue.
When a rope is thrown over the
Side of a boat, It Is sometimes found
thqit the water Is phosphorescent. The
drops of water hang to the rope like
a blazing necklaee of pearls!
At one "afm of % the sea" In Great
Britain, practically any color of the
rainbow can be seen, from n (flowing
crimson to a glittering gold. This Is
due chiefly to sunlight effects. If
anyone doubts this they should go to
the Bristol channel, where Turner, the
great painter, produced some of the
most wonderful seascapes the world
has seen.—Tlt-Blts.
Why Anger Perils Health
Both anger and grief have a mental
basis, and Indulgence In both produce
marked ill-effects on the body, says a
writer In the London Times. Sir
James Paget and Doctor Murchlson,
tor example, considered that protracted
grief and anxiety were the cause of
cancer in certain organs of the body.
Further Investigations i.ito this sub
ject tend to prove the truth of their
assumptions.
Anger, which, like grief. Is a mental
quality, is known to provoke lndlges
tlog, headaches and neuralgia. Seek
ing relief In tears, therefore, when the
feeling of anger Is sought to be over
come, would be tantamount to Jump
ing from the frying pan Into the fire.
Both anger and grief, therefore, ought
to be shunted hy all right-thinking
people, and this modern applied psy
chology teaches one how to do It.
Why the fingers Wrinkle
Over our bodies is an outer covering
which acts as a sort of skln-flttlftg pro
tection to the tru* skin underneath.
With immersion Into hot water this
outer layer responds quickly to the
change of temperature and so expands
some little tlfhe befofe the true skin
below has realized the conditions and
expanded too. The ooter covering,
then, Isn* at such times "skln-fltting."
but ratbe* fends to hang |ike a glove
slightly overlarge for the hand. In
other wards. It wrinkle* till such time
as the true skin underneath has caught
up with It and, as it were, filled tJb
glove out
Why a Cloud Floats *
In still air a cloud will sink to lower
levels at the rate of 8 feet per mlnuts.
Average cloud droplet* are but
000,000 of the size of an ordinary rain
drop, so that it takes but a slight as>
vending current of air to ke«y such
atoistuie floating.
Boy Finds Pail of Gold
While Diving in California
Murysvllle, Cat—"Rainbow's End"
has been found—the old legend Is
true.
The pot of gold lay at the bottom
of a 12-foot pool of water in Dry
creek, near Bobbins.
Twelve boys of Yuba county fotind
It as their fihshing bodies plunged
deeply Into the limpid water—and one
of them bumped his head upon reality.
In the shape of on old, rusty tin pall.
Half filled with nuggets aad dust of
gold, the value of the find has not yet
been estimated. It may be worth
thousands. The boys are not particu
larly Interested In how many.
The old pall bears on Its side the
legend of a man's name, now unde
cipherable, and the date "1868."
Auctioneer'a Find
Some time ago a man sent a parcel
of books to a London salesroom. They
proved mostly of little value, but
among them the auctioneer discovered
a rare leather-bound volume contain
ing specimens of Caxton's press. The
contents comprised a fragment of the
*Boyal Book," a perfect copy of which
Is worth over HO,OOO, nearly all "The
Rook of Good Manners," and about
haH of "The Doctrinal of Sapience," a
complete copy of which has realized
13,000 at auction. The only perfect
copy known to collectors outside the
Bodleian library at Oxford, of the
"Songs and Sonnets" by Henry How
ard, earl of Surrey, published In 1587,
was found In the old oak wainscot of
a bakery at Chatham. How long It
had lain there Is a mystery.
Term Uaed by Mason*
The name "Cyclopean masonry" la
given to walls constructed of large. Ir
regular, but closely fitting stones, un
hewn and uncemented, specimens of
which may still be seen at Mycenae
and Tlryns and other parts of Greece,
and also In Italy. These walls were
probnbly built by the Pelasglsns, a
race anterior to the Greeks and Ro
mans, abopt 1000 B. O.; but later gen
erations, struck by their vast propor
tions, ascribed their construction to
the fabulous race of the Cyclopes,
whence their name. Examples of
Cyclopean masonry exist also In Sicily,
Ireland, Peru and Africa.—Exchange.
Chick Embryo in Gloat
For the first time In history, the de
velopment of the embryo of a warm
blooded animal has been carried on
under such that it can be
watched. This feat has beet} accom
plished by two aclentlsts at the Uni
versity of Leyden, Drs. J. P. M. Voge
luar and J. B. van den Boogert, who
have placed common hens' eggs, with
the shells removed. In small glass
dishes In an Incubator, anf have suc
ceeded in keeping the embryo allv#
and growing for five days. Hitherto
the only way In which embryos could
be studied has been by placing large
numbers of eggs la the Incubator and
removing and opening them one by one
at intervals. By this older method It
haa been possible to study closely
spaced stages of development, bnt not
to observe the growth as a continuous
process, now made possible by the new
way.
Recalled Matter on Car
Just as a young woman on a south
bound street car rang the bell prepar
atory to leaving the car, the other day,
a woman seated beside her asked x
"Pardon me, but will you be going
near a telephone?"
The girl said she would; whereup
on the other said: "Well, will you
please call up Westport XYZ and tell
whoever answers to please take the
potatoes off the fire, water tha plant*
and leave the laundry on the side
porch? And thank >ou, so much."
And so far as the other passenger*
know the young woman did.—Kansas
City Star.
Policemen Uae Tear Gas
Tear gas such a# was ilaed daring
the World war la becoming more and
more a weapon employed by the po
lice In big dtlee In arresting violent
criminals who resist. One policeman
equipped with tear gas ran now ar
rest a man or group of men with
greater ease than 20 officers could
formerly. The gas Is loaded into
the ulght stick or billy clubhand re
leased by pressing a button. Police
are being Instructed by moo who
had ei perl en co with the gaa daring
tha war. '
Famous Irishman
Oliver St. John Gogarty, noted In
hla native Dublin as a wlt and satir
ist, haa been at various times a poli
tician, a physician and" a writer. Aa a
senator of the Irish Free State, he waa
captured by insurgent tarcea and waa
forced to swim the icy Uffey to save
his life. Escaping to London, he be
came a physician, and upon his return
to Ireland produced a volume of verse
that won the poetry prize at tha Irish
games. Critics of Gaelic versa place
him with Teats aad Jopmt _
SPITLESS TOWN |
"Not a very elegant title!" you say.
No indeed, and not a very eleganti
habit, you will agree. Not a veryf
elegant thing to do, this spitting. In
fact a very disgusting species of
license.
You do not indulge in it? So much
the better then, but do you allow your
friends, your brother, your father,
your husband, or your son to do it?
SO-O-O-O? You do not spread dis
ease yourself; you are not guilty of
an offence against decency and yet you
jwjrmit your associates to do and be
so without voicing a protest. Then
"YOU too might be considered re
sponsible in a small measure for
epidemics, for suffering and for death.
I knew a little boy once, —a lad of
about nine years. He was bedridden,
had been so for over a year when I
first saw him. Pitiful little chap-
Alex! Had tuberculosis of the bones
and the knee joint was larger than
a football, by a good deal. The par
ticles of bone were coming through
the flesh which was also diseased. The
odor was so offensive that no one but
the doctor and the good nurses, the
father, and the mother would visit
his hospital roofn. One day, with his
face quivering, he turned his appeal
ing eyes to mine and said, "I wish the
other children would come in to play
with me. Not even the little Jesus
would come to see me, I guess."
You think I should not tell you
such a story? How else am I going
to make you see how terrible a thing
it may be to expectorate in public
places, or for that matter in any place
except into a handkerchief or its
equivalent, which can be boiled or
burned. How can you care unless you
know of some of these awful conse
quences, to children especially, which
follow carelessness. *
I know the old excuse. You and
they "have not the germs of tuber
culosis in your nose and throat." How
do you know? Pneumonia, influenza,
diphtheria, scarlet fever ,and most of
the other infections—how, are they
spread if not In this way and by cough
ing and sneezing improperly?
Little children are the ones who are
most frequently endangered because
of their great susceptibility. Doctors
and nurses are all the time seeing
just such suffering as Alex went
through. It is not rare, it is not neces
sary.
Use your scouring powders and
your soaps, by all means, but in the
name of pity>snd decency, wipe out
the prevalent habit of spitting. Make
yours a "spitless town" in the full
Sense of the term.
Naval Commander Almost
Blinded in Lone Cruise
Clallafu Bay, Wash. —Commander
Eustace B. Maude, R. N., retired, who
departed from ilayne Island, 30 miles
north of Victoria, B. C, April 30 on
a lone voyage to England In a 25-foot
ketch, the Halfmoon, landed at La
Push, an Indian village, 35 miles
south of Cape Flattery, partly blind.
He was reported as far south aa
Santa Barbara, Cel., July 7 and was
sighted from Destruction Island off
the Washington coast, headed north,
flying distress signals.
Commander Maude said that the
constant glare of the sun's rays on the
water blinded him so that he was un
able to make observations or read his
compass, which forced him to return
home.
London's Big Reservoir
As a means of Iwroaslng the fresh
water imppt J for the city, London
built the world's largest artificial res
ervolr. It IK capable of holding about
7,000.000,000 gallons of water. It has
a surface of more than 700 acres,
larger than a section of land. It Is
about one and a quarter miles In diam
eter, and Is a seven-sided polygon In
shape. Its location Is north of ths
Thames between Staines aad Bhep
perton.
But Robert Will Learn
Little Robert, age three, and his
mother were visiting his aunt. His
mother was the fortunate possesses
of a n abundance of hair, but the 1
aunt was not so fortunate. Oae eve
ning Robert was in his aunt's room
when she took her hair down (or
rather off) for the night, and greatly
excited be ran and called: "Oh, mama,
eome quick. Auntie's lialr has all
broken off."
No Wonder
The new baby bad-fried almost con
tinuously for three weeks. Even
Harold' was disturbed. It seemed to
the lad every where he went he beard
the cries of his baby brother. He bad
beard ■ a lot about storks carrying
babies to happy homes and remarked,
rather sarcastically one evening after
listening to ibe baby's walls "Well, It
Is no wonder that they chucked him
out of heaven."
NO. 36
BREADFRUIT HAS
MYTHICAL ORICIW
Filipinos Believe It to B*/
Gift of a Cod.
The mythical account of the origin
of breadfruit la typical of the Turan
ian culture which still grips the soul
of the common man In the Philippines
despite four centuries of Christian dv- »
lUsation.
According to the breadfruit myth,
there was once 'a prolonged famine
which was so severe that the people
were reduced to the extremity of sub
sisting upon "araea," a sort of reddish -
earth declared to be edlbla • |
A poor man and his wife had only
one sen, whom they tenderly loved. Not
being able to bear the sight of the
slow starvation of this son during the
fearful famine, the father vowed that
he himself would die and become ltood
for the child. He asked the special
boon of Batfiala, god of gods in the
Philippine pantheon, that when be
should be dead Bathala would convert
his remains Into a food, and
granted the prayer. Thereupon this
father told the afflicted mother Co ,
grieve no more, but when be should be
dead to bury his head In one place,
his vitals In another and his body In I
another. When she should hear fbe';
sound of a leaf falling, then of an an- i
ripe fruit, and then of a ripe fruit, i
she would know that his prayer bed 1
been answered and hers and the child's
life were to be spared.
Death came to the father. Ike
widow burled the heart and stomach In
the garden near the bouse, and Bath- -
ala lost no time In complying with bis
promise to a father ready to sacrifice
Ufa Itself for a suffering child. 8000
the widow heard a leaf fall, then an
unripe fruit, then a ripe fruit. In a
paroxysm of fear and hope she looked
out into the garden—where behold! a •
breadfruit was growing! It was al
ready fall of ripened fruits curloaaty
shaped like the human stomach I Ikt
famine was broken, the child's life
saved, as the father bad wished. Now,
with mapy varieties of breadfruit
growing without the least care through
out the Philippine* famine la not Bkety
to recur in any degree of Intensity;
and if breadfruit does not suffice, tfeen
there are bananas aad coconuts, each
of which no doubt has quite as mimes*
lous an origin aa the breadfruit If if
Why Eggs Are "Pbachad"
Our word "poach" is taken froa a!
Wench word podie. which aasariil
pocket, and the association lies In ffcaj
fact that the yolk of the poacbad egg
lies in a sort of pocket of Its ean
white. So. to pocket- an egg tiai as>j
the stock term for this particular way]
of cooking It, and we tdrned tt tale
poach In English.
The poacher, too, who takes another
man'* pheasants and the ilka, ala»j
takes his name from the same Francs
word. In that he "pockeW the otbar
man's property.
Cost of Screening Barnfl
The cost of screening the barn 9
more than paid for by the Increafl
production. When the cowa are f|t
from flies they can devote their enar,!
to production. If screening cannot Mj
done, spraying with some cheap In
effective fly repellent should praeaM
the milking process, whenever poeJ
slble. Care should be taken, bowevera
not to get sny of the spray Into-tiM
milk, because of the disagreeable »d 4
and taste It will Impart.
| Lack of Tourists
0 Arouses the Irish 1
§ Dublin.—At the Uotary dub Oj
1 in Dublin complaint was made M
« thst the tourist traffic, parties- I
? larty from America, had not f
0 reached expectations this year. £
0 One member who had returnedjjr'
f from America said he was kws
X mUlated there by the questJoafS
9 asked regarding Ireland, by lg*
0 doubts expressed as to whatlyS
A the country was sate for traj***
¥ era, and by the impression I
9 Ireland was in a backward I
0 of civilization, "with pigs tB
, % drawing room," tL.
1 P. J. O'Brien, secretary dg*™
| Irish TourlstDeveloptDent
9 elation, answering these
O ments, said that, while V*®
g had nnj been apythlng lnH
• nature of an American Inm
X the arrivals at Cobh toaT"
9 more t)ao 1.000 a week, andV
A traffic between Ireland andjT^J
2 land on one of the most laf
T ant services was
v double what It was last
O The transportation
Z concerned were
| bcth results and
9 In Ulster, the jj
0 Is reported In ekcess of
X years and In several re
has reached the P re ~ wa |