VOL. LI 
ROOSEVELT HUNTERS
PUN TRIP TO CHINA
Quest of Rare Animals ih
A»ia May Extend. Tour.
Am,ritsar, India. —The Roosevelt ex
pedition in quest of rare animals of
the mountains and Junglfes of Asia,,
had not decided whein it passed
through Kashmir dn its way to the
Pamirs, by Jupt what route It would
return or how long Its trip would lust.
There was some prospect, it was
said, that the tour might be extended
to January and that It was possible
the expedition might be continued Into
China dnd_ not return to India.
The expedition, including Col. Theo
dore Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt,
George Cherrle and Mr. Cutting, a
cinema operator, made the first part
of Its trip into India without Inci
dent* The members traveled over the
well-known route from Srinagsr to
Leh and Ladakh.
There Is abundant game In that
'section of the country, but the expe
dition was interested in getting the
ovis poll on the lofty heights of the
Pamirs and the long-haired tiger in
the TWanshan mountains of Chinese
Turkestan.
Ovis Poll Hard to Shoot.
The ovis poll, or Pamir sheep, Is not
so rare as some may think, but as It.
the high part of the Pamir
range, the shooting of it is made dif
ficult. This animal Is the largest of
the sheep family and sometimes
weighs 300 pounds. Its head is beau
tified by its horns, each of, which
grows- Into a spiral form, five -or six
feet around the curve. The long
haired tiger found in the Chinese
Turkestan regions often grows to s
length of 12 feet. *
The Roosevelt party went to Ra
walpindi by train In the blazing heat
of May when thermometer regis
tered 115 degrees in the shade. From
Rawalpindi the party went by auto
mobile 202 miles up and down the
mountainside!
The travelers, while In the Kash
mir valley, were guests of Sir and
Lady John B. Wood, but' they re
mained only sufficiently long for their
transport arrangements to be made.
Made Haste to Avoid Cholera.
Tl'.eir baste In getting away was
due to the fact that this year there
Is a cholera epidemic of more than
ordinary proportions. Dptths have
been occurring at the-fate of 1.500
to 1,700 a week since 1
In the preparation of
rnent Colonel Roosevelt and his as
sociates were ably assisted while In
Kashmir by MaJ. A. J. Hinde, assist*
ant resident of Kashmir -tad British
Joint commissioner of Ladakh. In the
transportation of their equipment and
supplies coolies and yalrs were used
during the first stnges of the Jour
ney throughout the Leh regions.
Coolies are hired for 24 cents a day
and ponies for 30 cents a day as fur
as Leh.
*i During (he first 100 miles to Leh
the expedition met Reverend and
Mrs. Heher of the Moravian mission;
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Jones of Chlcagn,
and MnJ. George Van B. Glllan, consul
general at Kashgar, who represents
the American as well as British Inter
ests.
, Obtain Passports From Peking.
In order to go Into Chinese Turke
stan the Roosevelt expedition was |
obliged to obtain permits from the Pe
king government, which enabledthem to
enter territory which Is truly a sports- 1
man's paradise and very little traveled
by white people. *
Only 12 passes a year are given to
travelers to visit Leh and Ladakh, *| x
for. the first half and six for the lat
ter half, this being necessary because
of food problems, much of the food ,
having to be taken from Srtnagar.
Ip addition to their Interest in the
hunting for rare animals members of
the expedition always were confront- |
ed with food problems and some of ,
them, especially Kermit Roosevelt,
took every opportunity to help solve
these. lie always had ready bis fish- ,
ing rods and used them to good ad- ,
v W.tage for the entire party In th« •
jftraa and Tarkand rivers.
News Comes Slowly. )
The progress and success of the 
ltoosevelt expedition Is being watched i
with considerable interest by English
sportsmen now In India, although the I
news that filters through Is very
meager.
It Is much the same as It was on the
last Everest expedition when the new*
India received of the mountain cftmb- |
Ing was dated London. Most of the i
dispatches that have r®me through up |
to this time merely said: "Airs welt 
\rlth the Rwsevelts," or words to I* ,
fffect .j
Wolves' Damage la $2,000,000
Moscow.—Destruction of live, stock
by wolves daring {he last year en
tailed a loss of $2,000,000. Daring
that time, statistics show that 02.000
horses, 50,000 cattle and Cs.ooo other
aalmals were devoured by the wolves j
»n "* ■■ ■ ■n- asrj^rr. •»-
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER
Self-Sacrifice of Son
j ' Met Deserved Fteward
Wonderful in surgical annals, says
a writer in the Glasgow Evening Citl
ser., was the case bf a Scottish woman
whQ sustained shocking Injuries in a
runaway accident. ;Her aknll and both
legs were fractured, and her left arm
and one aide of her face badly lac
erated. Her son, a young physician,
abandoned His, practice and set him
self to endeavor to restore his moth
er's life. Every one else had given up
her case as hopeless, nay and night
he devoted his whole time to her, and
so inspired not only her nurses, but
the poor sufferer herself, that slfe sur
vived and began slowly to mend.
But the mutilation of the face
caused terrible disfigurement The son
thereupon Insisted upon the attendant
physicians removing skin enough from
his own body to gruft upon tlwe scars.
One by one, ( no fewer than forty pieces
of skin were'cut from his body and
grafted upon his mother's face and
nrm v In the end the woman not only
recovered from injuries which would
have killed ninety-nine out of a hun
dred, but also showed very alight dis
figurement.
In this case, however, filial love was
the motive for the sacrifice, and per
haps similar disinterested motives
have operated at least as powerfully
In cases or this kind as the hope. of
monetary gain.
"Name to Conjure With**
Once Had Real Meaning
" "A name to conjure t with" la
a phrase more used than understood,
as conjuring was not always the term
for stage or parlor tricks of the pres
ent day. Originally conjuring stood
for the art of the magician—the con
jurer of the Dark ages being really
the same personage as the wizard. His
conjuring really meant a very solemn
compact or agreement, the word It
self being taken from the Latin for
an oath. Part of his ritual consisted
in the then popular belief that he
could summon up Satan or some other
spirit by the saying of some "word of
power," such a word being generally
mysterious-sounding like "abracada
bra." Occasionally the naWe of some
departed great one, such as Solomon,
was used. This name wotild then be
known as sufficiently mighty te "con
jure , with," spirits hearing It being
hound to obey. Today, wp no longer
believe in magic, and the magician of
mystery and dread has turned into the
harmless gentleman who produces
rabbits from his hat at children's par
ties ; but the old phrase Wtlll remains,
and we refer to this and that great
mun as having "a name to conjure
with."
Fun With Writers
Hindsight—What you have after
Overbearing two strangers discuss your
receatly published story.
Coincidence—What you Introduce In
your plot' to make the reader think you
took the rabbit out of the hat
'Writer's Cramp—A term applied to
the condition of writers between
checks.
Collaboration—An agreement be
tween authors under which one does
the work and the other undoes It
Honorarium—-What the writer re
ceives when the «jdltor Is ashamed Co
call It a payment.
End—What the woman reader turns
forward to, to see If she wants to
turn back and read on; the place where
the,make-up man achieves a "fill" by
throwing *Way the last paragraph; the
point Just Before which your neighbor
drops In Ho spend an hour borrowing
the screw driver-Writers' Monthly.
* System" Fell Down
Johnson prides himself on having a
"system" tor betting en the races
that cant be beat. He frequently
makes queer bets and sometimes that
god of chance that favors those who
rush in where angels are conspicuous
by their, absence smiles upon him. But
the other day he tried one and failed.
There was a four-horse race and
Johnson conceived the- brilliant Idea
of betting on each of the four horses
to win. Perhaps ha didn't stop to
think that It would take a 4 to 1
shot winner for him to break even.
In any event at the last moment tiers
was an added starter—and the added
starter won.
Johnson doesn't think so much of
his system.
Say Earth Stands Still
Aa Instrument which, the maker
says, proves that the modern Ideas of
the solar system are wrong, has bee*
Invented by Chang Chang-Shan, a
Chines* astronomer. He says his In
strument demonstrates that the earth
does not mora, bat stands still, su»
pended In air like * soap babble. He
says farther, he can prove with ft that
the son sad other heavenly bodies re
solve around the earth. With .the aid
of two colleagues he has written *
book In support of his theory, but ft
has not yet been tranjAtfeft t».U « for
eign tqpgue.
OBAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. SEPT
Simple Reason for
the Change in Nam•
TOie ease with which many of the
recent accessions to our population
change their names is Illustrated by
the following true anecdote:
The teacher in a South Boston
school became so interested In a little
Polish glri that she was anxious to
learn of her progress" after she was
promoted to a higher grade and asked
her new teacher concerning her.
"There Is no such child in my room,"
answered the one so questioned.
"No Marie Levenskl! Why! I know
that she wall sent to your room, for I
asked about It at the time."
"There is no Marie Levenskl in mg
room. I am very sure," persisted the
other. \
"But I have seen her go'ln the door,
and there she is now," darting as she
spoke toward a small girl approaching
from the opposite direction. "Isn't
your name Marie Levenskl?" she de
manded.
"It used to be, but now it Is Mary
Jones," was the calm reply.
"Mary Jones! How can that be?"
"Why, father buys and sells old
Junk, and one day there wSs a door
plate with the things, and the name
on it was Jones. Nobody would buy
It, so we put It on our door, and now
my name Is Mary Jones."—Youth's
Companion.
Semi-Savage Chileans
Serve as Stevedores
Coronel Is the principal coaling port
on the west, coast of South America
and there it Is customary for freight
ers to ship 2(f or 30 stevedores In ad
•dltlbn to the regular crew to break
out the cargo when It Is consigned to
various ports farther up the coast, the
New York Times states.
These men are mostly Chileans and
a tougher-looking company than these
seagoing longshoremen could not be
found, even among the fcandlts of
southern Hurope and Asia or the old
time pirates of the West Indies.
Swarthy, undersized, dirty and
clothed In rtgs, they seem to touch the
bottom notch In the scale of human
ity. What they lack In Intelligence la
apparently made up In animal cunning
and ferocity. Even a crew of Kanakas
refuse to berth or mess with them.
Every one carries a knife, which he
ean throw with the speed and accuracy
of a bullet ,
They are commanded by an over
seer who Is addressed as captain and
who exerts a certain degree of author
ity over them. They do their own
cooking aboard ship, each man serv
ing as cook for a week, ut the end of
which time he resigns In favor of the
next in line. Of course the captain
descends to menial labor, not
even to work the cargo.
Wasps Build Strong House
Scientists claim they have learned
some Important secrets from the work
done by the paper-making wasp. It
constructs Its from paper of
Its own making that Is durable to an
unusual degree. The wood pulp paper
made by man today is modeled exact
ly after the paper made by the wasp
and the two qualities are almost Iden
tical, the Ohio State Journal says.
' The paper Is strong, so that when
the large wasp house, with Its many*
slx-slded cells, is completed, the edi
fice swings from two or three twigs.
It Is held there safely by paper cables
and anchored so firmly tluit winds are
unable to dislodge It for years 'after
the wasps have deoerted It, leaving the
top-shaped bag swinging In the winds.
Astonished Audience
A man who usually dictates his busi
ness letters Into a dictaphone was re
cently asked to say a few words at a
public meeting.
He had had fib previous experience
of facing an audience, but he consent
ed to speak, thinking that. If he were
to Imagine he was merely addressing
his remarks to an Inanimate record Inn.
machine, he would find things-go quite
easily for him.
When he had been Introduced by the
chairman, he stood up, cleared hla
throat and began:
"Ladles and gentlemen comma It Is
a very great underlined pleasure to me
to be present here tonight dash al
though I am naturally somewhst
nervous at addressing a public meet
ing for the first time semicolon bat
trust It will not be my last full stop."
Day of Glory Cone
The Cinque Ports was the old col
lective name for the five English
channel ports—Sandwich. Dover, (
Fly the, Romtfty and Hasting* They t
were enfranchised hy Edward the j
Confessor, snd granted special prlvl- j
leges by William tl»e Osaqaeror. Up 
to the reign of HMI*T YII their chief j
duty was to supply the Country's
naval eantlßgeat. In the time of Ed-!
ward 1 they
rqalpiitd ships and often extended
tWetr pswtra by equipping piratical
expeditions. Dating from the revolo
ton of lABB, their privilege* and pow
ers waned. t
WHY
Handshaking as Ceremonial
Is General j
Hand shaking ha* passed through
many stages of development. In prim
itive life the hjtad symbolized strength
and power, and It was a sign of good
will to extend the right hand, or
weapon hand, to show that it was not
armed nor prepared for fighting. The
Olympic gods were prayed to In an
upright position with raised hands.
This presentation of the bauds. Joined
palm to palm, was at one time 1 re-1
quired throughout Europe from an In
ferior when professing obelsimrP To
•a superior. The feudal vassal doing
homage placed ills Joined hands be
tween the hands of Ms superior.
Among the Arats it was "customary
to kiss the hand of a superior. Later,
among polite Arabs, the offer of an
Inferior to kiss the hand of a superior
resisted. It may be that the two
persons each wished to make obei
sance to the other by kissing the hand,
and each out of compliment refused to
have his own hand kissed. Can you
see what would happen? There would
be a clnspihg of the hands while each
tried tg ral.se to his Hps the hand of
the other.
The eariy Greeks extended the right
hand of fellowship to a stranger.
So through the centuries the use of
hands has descended Into social Inter
course. Today we extend our hands
In greeting Instinctively, without stop
ping to think about It
Why Soapy Dishwater
Does Away With Germs
Soup in the dishwater helps to kill
the germs of common colds and pneu
monia and prevents infections being
passed on with the next service.
If the dlshw'ater contains 0.5 per
cent of ordinary yellow or brown bar
soap, the pneumoeomis, which causes
pnedmonla, and the streptococcus,
which Is associated with various types
of Infections of the nose, throat ears
and chest, as well Aa with various
special Infectious diseases, will be
eliminated.
Thp same soaps that kill the pneu
monia and common cold germs do not
destroy the typhoid fever organism.
Soaps made of palmitic and stearic
acldf will kill typhoid fever germs as
well as the others, but the typhoid
organism Is resistant to soups of un
saturated acids.
These facts are given In an Inter
esting discussion of "Does Soap Kill
Germs?" which appears In the edi
torial columns of Hygeiu. health
magazine published by the American
Medical association.
It has been found by Dr. John E.
Walker, says Ilygela, tjjat raising the
temperature of the soupy dishwater
will increase Its power to kill germs,
so that typhoid fever germs are killed
In a soap solution thnt Is only as
warm as the of the body,
whereas cold solutions of soap will
not kill them.
To Renovate Velvet
When renovating velvet brush oat all
the dust. Hold the right tide over
■team unTH quite moist and Iron on.
wrong side, or the velvet can be thor
oughly brushed' on right side and
stalna removed, then moistened on
wrong side and Ironed. Never lay vel
vet down when Ironing. Stand the Iron
firmly on end, or have some one hold
It for yon, and, holding the velvet taut
with both hands, pasa It across the
Iron, having back of vfelvet against
iron. If the garment la large It may
be more convenient to fasten one end
firmly, or have an asalstant hold It,
then holding the other end tightly, up
high, with your left hand Iron It on
wrong side. This treatment will make
velvet look like new.—Kansaa City
Star.
I Golf Bulb*
Little Joan had been promoted to m
garden of her own, and Joan's father
had been using strange oatha about
the diminution on IRa stock of golf
balls. He was perambulating the gar
den when he noticed a carious whitish
protuberance In Joan's section, and In
vestigated. The culprit waa sum
moned- "Weil,'* she said, "*you did say
that you wished you could grow golf
balla In the garden 'cos they're ao
dear, ao I thought I'd try for a sur
prise. And I've watered them every
day, and now you've gone and spoiled
everything." And Joan'a father, re
garding half a dozen muddy object*
atole away with a sense of guilt—M
buy more balls and to find a hiding
place for them. —London Chronicle.
Easily Settled
A lady artlat was giving a studio
dinner with the uanal Bohemian twist
to it Approaching a guest she asked
in a kittenish manner: "What la th«
difference between imported caviar
aixl hash?"
Taking this for ■ playful riddle the
guest replied: "I ■don't know."
**9 ben you'd Just aa soon have haafa,"
■aid OM hostess, serving bins with ■
IMS* pontlea.
EMBER 24,1925
Dead Chines* Shipped
to Celestial Kingdom
Twice a year all New York China
town turns oat tq be present at the
■hipping of the dead, Pierre Van Paas
sen writes In the Atlanta Constitution.
When a Chinaman dies he la not
buried, but his coffined body U kept in
a storage place along with others until
the coffin ship can take a load back
to the Celestial kingdom.
The ceremony of conveying the cof
fins to the ship offers an animated
scene. Violins shriek, bells tinkle, rat
tles are used and pictures of the de
ceased are carried In the procession,
all to keep the evil spirits at a dis
tance. Some of the officiating priests
in their ancient robes,' with shaved
heads and their arms folded, are pic
tures of Impenetrable oriental stoicism.
The procession Is a colorful one and a
noisy one, but the priests do maintain
their dignity.
During tbe hours of the ceremony
rival tongs cease all hostility under
the terms of a previously agreed upon
armistice. It's the only hour the police
may be certain there will be no kill
ings and stip the bluecoats and plain
clothes men are as thick as files
around a Chinese funeral procession.
Claim That Voltture
Invented War ''Tanks'*
The fact that tanks play .an Impor
tant role in warfare has led one stu
dent of history, and Voltaire, to de
clare that Voltaire was the real Inven
tor of the armored tank.
According to this claimant Voltaire
announced the Invention, about 1750.
of the "Assyrian Chariot," which was
armed like the modern tank. With
this Invention Voltaire proclaimed
that he could crush the armies of
Frederick the Great then waging the
Seven Years' war. Marshal de Riche
lieu, however, turned down the Inven
tion and Voltaire. In 1770, offered it
to Czarina Catherine of Russia, who
was then engaged la war with the
Turks.
Catherine ordered ■ pair of the
tanks, but later informed Voltaire that
they were useless exrept against
troops In massed ranks, as she per
sonally had seen them tested.
„ Why Talking Is Barred
Donald MacMlllan, arctic explorer,
forbids talking among tts men during
the day or at meal time. It Is solitude,
more than the cold, or shortage of
food or lack of conveniences, which
makes an arctic expedition hard to en
dure.' "The Isolation of thdt vast re
gion soon exhausts all timely re
sources," MacMlllan says. "It la not
long before the men know the life
history of each other, that of thetr
families and relatives and virtually
everything else In connection with the
ordinary man's life. When those sub
jects hsve ceased to be topics of con
versation and the few other sources
have played out, the men become a
bore to each other. That leads {nto
an unfavorable morale. PSo w# talk
as little as possible and keep our
counsel |by being aloof."— Pathfinder
Magazlqe.
Why Cloudbursts Occur
Formerly It waa believed that largo
volumes of water were held In the
clouda in the liquid state by ascend
ing air currents. This theory has been
abandoned. Cloudbursts, according te
present-day scientists, do not differ
from ordinary rains except In late©-
alty. When s warm current of air
surcharged with moisture meets a
cold current, the result la swift con
densation and Immediate precipitation.
If the cloud or current of moist air
happens to be very high the result
Is a cloudburst, a term generally
used only when the precipitation Is at
least six Inches at the rate of ten
inchea or more an hour. These heavy
rains—or cloudbursts—cover small
areas, uaually only a few acres, or
at most, a few square mllee,—Ex
change.
Open Church on Heights
of Shenandoah Mountains
Orkney Springe, Va. —Consecration
ceremonies for the Shrine of the
Transfiguration, an edifice of native,
unbenn stone erected on the heights
of the Shenttndoah mountains to the
memory of prominent clergymen and
laymen of the Episcopal chnrch In Vir
ginia, drew a large assembly of
church representatives here.
Bishop William Cabell Brown of
Virginia waa the prealdlng dlgnttary
for the ceremony.
Why Tigers Are Striped
At an examination %Jboy was asked
to state why a tiger la striped, and lie
wrote: "It Is striped because It
makes It better for dress proprietors.
If a tiger escapes from a circus It is
easier to find him then If he hsd no
stripes. He will not go far without
some one noticing that he Is not a
horse or a dog. on account of his
stripes, and calling op and aaktng the
circus people If they hsrve lent • tlupc."
Modern Purse Traced
to Rome and Greece
Purses were known to King Solomon
or he would scarcely have warned the
young man of his dny against casting
their lot together so that they might
all have one purse. But the exact kind
of purse meant Is not known. It may
have been a purse of chain mall, a bag
of netting or a pouch of leather or
jome other skin. The biblical refer
ences to purees are numerous, but
none throws any light on the shape or
construction.
The first authentic description of
purses conies from ancient Rome and
clssslc Greece. There the first purses
were little bags of leather which could
be closed at the mouth by strings. At
a somewhat later date these bags were
made of network and were put to ull
kinds of uses, on which, to a consider
able extent, depended their size. Some
were worn over the hair by women,
from which practlcp is derived the
fillet of modern times.
Then, again, others were used by
hunters as gome bags. From this pur
pose to one of general use as a con
venient receptacle for carrying the
lawyers' papers or merchants' provi
sions, the net bag grew until Its- pro
portion became Immense and for
purses, as such, cusfom reverted to
the little leather pouches first used.—
New York Times.
Aunt Harriet's Share
in Her Grand "Party*
Aunt Harriet lived ln« remote Ken
tucky village, and was locally famed
for kindness of heart and good will
toward her # neighbors. For many
months she had heen saving her slen
der means "to give a grand party,"
she said. •
At last the great event came. All
Aunt Harriet's friends, dressed In
their best, were present, and the eve
ning was most enjoyable, the only
drawback being the mysterious ab
sence of the hostess.
Meeting her the next morning one
of the youthful guests of the night
before spoke rapturously of tbe party.
"I'm certainly glad you enjoyed
yourself," returned the old lady, beam
ing with satisfaction. "So It really
was a success? Yes? My! I cer
tainly should like to have seen It"
"But why were you not there. Aunt
Harriet?"
"My Lord, child," answered Aunt
Harriet, her face still shining-with de
light "I )pd to stay In the kitchen and
wash the dishes." —Everybody's Maga
zine.
Feut Women in Pulpits
The church In general Is very con
servative In regard to admitting wom
en to Its highest offices and while
pastoifc are In practically every case
men, women predominate among re
ligious workers employed to assist
which deny women the right to them.
There are about 30 sects officiate;
among the largest of these are the
Protestant Episcopal, all Presbyterian
bodies except the Cumberland, and
tbe Reformed Church In America. In
approximately 40 sects women are re
ceived Into the pulpit; among them
are the Unitarians. Unlversallsts.
Congregationallsts, Friends, Christian
Scientists, the Christian church.
Shakers, Church of the Nazarene, the
United Evangelical church, and the
Methodist Protestant church. The
Methodist Episcopal church grants
women license to preach and now or
dains them to the ministry, although
they will not hold regular charges and
are not admitted to membership In
New Sea Discovery
In a recent scientific expedition on
the sea there was discovered a gi
gantic tlderace where two great cur
rents meet. The nuiss of foam caused
by their violent 'collision extended for
miles, and In this foam great num
bers of whale* and por|>olses wal
lowed, attracted by the Immense sup
ply of food. There were also great
quantities of wreckage, covered with
organisms, fish of all kinds feed
ing on them. For the first time tbe
scientists found the eg;;* of balohates,
the only marine Inset-t in the world.
Tbe eggs are being hatched In tanks.
Vast numbers of Jellyfish colored the
water purple for msny square miles.
The expedition caught more than 190
species of fish.
As Magnet Finds Iron
If any one should give me a dish of
l»nd and tell me there were particles
of Iron In It, I might look for them
with mjr eyes, and search for them
with my clumsy fingers, and fie unable
to detect them; but let me take a mag
net and sweep through It, nnd how
would It draw to Itself the almost in
visible particles by mere power of at
traction! The unthankful heart, like
my fingers in the sand, discovers no
mercies; but let the thankful henrt
•weep 'through the day and. ns the
magnet finds the iron, so will it find
in every honr some heavenly bless
ings; only the iron In God's hand is
gsttf.—Oliver Wendell Holmes.
NO. 34
SUIT TO INTERPRET If
WILL 100 YEARS OLD
■I..
WM Made by Wife of Na
poleon's Youngest Brother. . 1
Baltimore, Md.—Jerome Jf. C. Bona*
parte of New York city and his wife; I
Mrs. Blanche Bonaparte, are defend"!
ants In a suit filed In a Baltimore
court to interpret the will of Betsy,
Patterson, a Baltimore belle of mora
than a century ago, who married Je-'
rome Bonaparte, brother of _
On the court's Interpretation of the
meaning of certain provisions of the
will depends the manner of distribu
tion of 56 ground rents In Baltimore
said to represent a value of many
thousand dollars.
The suit Is a friendly action.
Betsy Patterson, daughter of Wil
liam Patterson, a wealthy Baltimore
merchant, and Jerome Bonaparte
youngest brother of Napoleon, then
first consul of the French republic,
were married in Baltimore Christina*
eve, 1803.
The father of the bride had opposed
the wedding. It was equally distaste
ful to Napoleon He refr.sed to admit
the bride of his brother to court cir
cles and finally succeeded In forcing
a divorce. Jerome was n>ade king of
Westphalia. After living for a time ta>
Europe Betsy Patterson returned to
Baltimore.
Coal-Burning Engines
Introduced 75 Yean Ago
Rending. Pa.—A local historian has 1
dug out the fact that exactly 75 jean
ago the Reading company, which now
Is experimenting with the IXesel loco
motive with a view to as lug oO instead
of coal to haul its trains, was experi
menting with coal to take the place of
wood.
Up until the summer of fs5C wood
was burned on all the locomotives and
the management was looking about for
a new fueL Naturally coal was select
ed. but building an engine that woold
burn the stone fuel, as anthracite then
was called." a difficult matter.
During the summer of ISjO F. P.
Dimpfel built an engine *hlch was tried
on the Reading road between here and
Philadelphia, and after making a num
ber of trips was taken off the line and
taken to the Hudson railroad. Th»
managers of the road admitted that it
had merit, but claimed the Inventor's
demands were greater than they were
willing to pay. The officials were so
much Impressed with the coal as a
fuel that they admitted "that the nso
of anthracite will not only soon b«
found possible, but general.
Soon thereafter engines were Intro
duced on the Reading which burned *
coal exclusively and satisfactorily. j|
Rare Exhibits of Peoria
In n shop In Regent street, London
Is being shown a remarkable collec
tion of pearls gartered from fisheries
all over fhe world. There are whits
Austrian pearls with their silver shee*
very beautiful, but o>ld la color, that.
can be worn triumphantly by the pale
blonde. Th* warm magnolia-tinted
pearls from Ceylon, or the golden and
hrown pearls found in the depths o t
the Red sea are ideal for darker wont
en, as are the rare black pearls found J
only In the Oulf of Mexico by pesil
fisher* searching for black mother of
pearl.
The He giro
The Mohammedan calendar, by
which time is reckoned In Turitey and
all lands adhering to the religion of
Islnm dates from the Hegira. or flight
of their prophet from Mecca. Jnly U5»
t?J2. The Moiiummedan calendar is
divided into 42 v months; the first
month has 30 days, the second 29
and so on through the calendar, except
that the eleventh and twelfth months
both have 30 days respectively.
 • * • *•■*•s©®®a@s
| To Restore Lee Home |
-i in Arlington Cemetery J
w Washington.—Restoration of 8
A the Lee mansion, on the highest Jf.
'•> |pot in Arlington cemetery, will sl ■
S be undertaken under supervisloa gl
® of the War department, at a cost j|J
a of $223,000. A survey by the S
S quartermaster corps, made at @1
'•1 the direction of congress, has II
'{ shown that the famous structure Ml
® will require much work to put It |
X in a condition comparable to Its fcjj
® splendor shortly before the Civil j I
8 war, and to provide Adequate J J .2§
quarters for cemetery officials | t
A Union troops seized the man- 3f j
$ sion and estate surrounding It J 1
A when Hen. Robert E. Lee Joined j j
v the Confederate cause, and It S'
» wns purchased by the govern, a
a ment for in 1884. The |
•) estate of 0,000 acres was wjH
originally purclmsed for six 2
hogsheads of tobacco and later
,j[ passed into the hands of the S
y Custls ami tee families, ?f '