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PRICE TO LIVE EVERYTHING GOING UP. CHILDWBN5 DEPARTMENT: 77re Forgiving Wife v By Winifred Black r n I TtTTTTTTtt I KNOW a woman who has just come home from a long visit to Europe. She didn't go on the visit for pleasure; her young daughter was ill and she took her daughter abroad to save her life. When my friend came home from abroad she noticed something peculiar about the way her friends greeted her. They seemed to be sorry for her some way, though none of them said anything in so many words. One day my friend found out what It was that made them sorry. Her husband had had a foolish little affair with a foolish little woman and there had been a little scandal about it. My friend loves her husband and he loves her. So she went to him and aid: "Dear, you are worried; you are in trouble; you think I'm going to find something out and be angry with you. "I have found it out and I am not angry with you. I am sorry for you. I want you to know that 1 am not only your wife, I am the best friend, the most loyal, the most unselfish and the truest friend you have in the world. 1 will stand by you through this thing. I know that you have not been really laithless to me: you have just been foolish: you are heartsick ovr the whale thing now; so am I. Come, let's be heartsick together." And the husband of my friend looked at her as if he heard some one peaking from an open grave, and he told his wife the whole truth, the fool ish, silly, miserable truth, and she talked It all over with him and comforted him an;l er.ouraged him and laughed at him and teased him. ami together they faced the whole tiling through and to-day you couldn't lure that man away from his wife with any siren who ever sang, or any Salome who ever breamed a dream o.f dancing. 1 wonrter if It wasn't worth while? New York American. What Causes the Tides Sv Edgar Lucien Larkin. Of the Lowe Observatory, Echo Mountain, Cat. HE tides have been studied with great care and labor during three centuries, and are not yet completely understood by astronomers. Any point on earth moves from west to east around to the same location in space In a period of twenty four hours. The moon goes around the earth in a period of 27.o21CC days. Let the moon and a star be on the samo straight line at exact noon: then, of course, they would cross the meridian together. In twenty-four hours the star will cross it again, but you will have to wait fifty-two minutes longer for the moon to cross, it having moved eastward through a space re quiring that length of time to traverse. The moon attracts by the law of gravitation, and, being a dead planet, has no effect on attractive force. And this attraction heaps up water directly under it in the ocean. But there li another heap on the exact opposite side of the earth away from the moon. This is because the moon attracts the whole earth away from the water, leaving it behind in a heap of pile or elevation. The tide day is therefore 24 hours 52 minutes long. High tides will be at both sides of the earth at the same time, and, of course, low tides at distances of 90 degrees each way, or at points one-.fourth the circumference of the earth from the high heaps. Tides are caused by differences In the Intensity of the moon's attraction on water on the Edde of the earth nearest to it and farthest away and also between these attractions and the attraction exerted on the centre of the earth. The sun also causes tides. These combine with the lunar and call into ue the most intricate mathematics to compute heights and times of high and low. t 3 r Experts In Alpine Mountain Climbing $ Ty Day Allen LVillcy OME of the guides are experts in climbing. There are a number who are noted for their skill in what the Alpinist calls "snow and ice work." That means going up a peak which has so many snow fields and glaciers that its sides and summits may be nearly covered with them. The gla- H oier guide can tell you all about "cornices" snow masses I which project from the edge of precipices and overhang the valley beneath like the roof of a house. Experience has told him whether a cornice can be crossed safely or wheth er it may break off if one ventures upon it. He is also an expert with the ice axe carried in his belt, cutting footholds in the glittering walls that may rise fifty or a hundred feet above your head. These ice precipices are frequently found at the heads of glaciers, which, as the schoolboy knows, are merely rivers of frozen water slowing moving down the face of a mountain on account of the force of gravity and the great pressure of the ice masses which form their source on the upper part of the slope. Other guides make a specialty of "rock work," conducting persons up peaks which may be only partly covered with snow and ice, but having sides of bare rock so steep that in places the cliffs may be almost straight up and down. Here it would seem that oca must be as spry and as sure-footed as the chamois the rare goat that lives up amid the Alp?. While the crevasse and other dangers of the -snow and ice fields may be absent, the mountain may be so abrupt that the climber must ascend hundreds of feet pulling himself up with his arme aiding his legs, while often the guide hauls him to the top of the most difficult slopes y main strength. St. Nicholas. -wV The Law of the Lower Sky Some Remarks on the Landowner's Rights as Against the Aeronaut Ey Hyacinth Rin prose 1 VERY, lawyer with his lit art in his subtle trade hi looking eagerly for the first suit against an air skipper for trespass. When balloons first began to float over fields and houses the great question was raised and pushed aside by a Lord Chief Justice of England as something which might, be left for posterity to settle. The common law Is clear enough as to the ownership of the air above the land, some genius with a taste for definition having given us the maxim that the owner of the soil is the owner of all between It and heaven, as well as all between it and- the earth's cor or centre. If an airship or anything from it falls onto a man's land, he can maintain am action for trespass "quare clausum f regit" that Is to say, for "breaking G .J E Beyond this, there is much airship law to be made anent natural rights, ownership and actual occupancy of the air. So Ions as the flying man soars la the upper air no one will grudge him his place among the swallow; but the market gardener who notes the uncertain ricochetting with uncertain wings a few yards above the glass of his frames will soon demand a legal rer to the question which Lord S3 ten borough dodged so successfully. Cartoon by Gregg, in the New York American. GOVERNMENT TO INVESTIGATE THE INCREASED COST OF LIVING Senator Crawford Calls on Secretary Nagel For a Conservative Statement of the Facts Regarding Advance In Price ,J Necessities If Data Fail, Inquiry and Remedial Legislation Will Follow. Washington, D. C. The alarming increase in the coa. of living, due to the rapid and constant advance In the price of necessities, is 10 oe mvenu gated by the Government. Senator Crawford, of South Da kota, has asked Secretary Nagel, of the Department of Commerce and Labor, for-a conservative statement of the facts. Should the Secretary, from data in his possession, fall to give the desired information, Senator Craw ford will press a resolution in the Senate, directing the Commissioner to investigate and report to Congress early, that there may be prompt remedial legislation. Senator Crawford purposes to get at the bottom facts as to the advance in prices. There is suspicion in his part of the country that combination and community of Interest: have something to do with conditions that are alarming and fast growing intol erable. Senator Crawford is an op ponent of all monopolistic trusts and corners in farm and dairy products. Preliminary investigations show there have been no reports from the Commissioner of Labor on the costs of living, the advance In price of necessities and the value of labor sines 1907. At that time a report was made that labor was not able to purchase as much as In previous years. The report was severely criti cised by ReDubllcan statesmen, be cause a political camnaign was about to open. An amended report soon appea.-ed, and Its comparisons, more exhaustive than in the first report, explained some of the most damaging statements previously made. Increased Cost 37 Per Cent. Since 1907 there has been a sharp Increase in the cost of living, and a siadual increase for a dozen years. In a special dispatch to Ths Am?rican from Trenton, N. J., it was stated by the State Board of Labor and Statis tics that the cost of living In New Jersey has increased in thirteen years C7.13 per cent. These facts have been brought homo to a number of Senators by their constituents. The people want to know whether combinations and price arrangements have raised cost to consumers; what the farmer and the middle man get, to determine whether the margins of profit are too great. Senator Crawford will have little difficulty In getting his resolu tions of inquiry passed. Senator Bristow, of Kansas, be lieves combinations have something to do with the advance of the cost of necessities, but thinks that the desire for luxuries has more. "The people have grown accus tomed to luxuries,'' he said. "For. years they got the best of everything at prices lower than now. When prices were advanced because of de mand, they bad to take the next best. The result has been a general advance of all grades of necessities. I believe the combinations have had much to do with it, but not all. "When the wholesaler advances slightly, the retailer advances, and the two or more advances made be fore the article reaches the consumer makes the general advance a bnrden on the wage-earner. I would like to know the relationship that exists In all cases or in large communities be tween wholesaler and the retailer. I have heard, but do pot know, that In some instances the wholesaler con trols the retailers and fixes the retail price. "I do not think the tariff can be neid responsible for these advances. There can be no defense of the woolen schedules, no justification for the sugar tariffs except to Insure per petuity to the Sugar Trust. Opposes Investigation. "I cannot see what good results would flow from an investigation of these conditions at this time." Senator Perkins, of California, be lieves the advance is due to the law of supply and demand, that production- has not kept pace with the growth of population. "Many years ago, I was a cattle raiser," he said. ""We got $12 to $15 for a steer. To-day that steer brings $45 to $50. I sold sheep at $1.50 a head. They now bring $5 for mutton. Wheat has sold at fifty cents a bushel; it Is now more than $1 in Chicago. The cattle raiser and the wheat grower get a large per centage of this Increase. "Formerly the cities could be fed In large part by the produot of sur rounding territory. Now the neces sities are demanded in such bulk they must be transported great distances. This increases the cost of the necessities-Cost to Go Still Higher. That the cost of living soon will be greater than ever before, is indicated by the December report, just issued by the Bradstreet Company. The re port shows that the prices of com modities to-day are within a small fraction of the record. Up to date the highest prices ever known in this country for commodi ties was March 1, 1907. According to Bradstreet's table of index num bers, on December 1, this year, the level stood at $9.1262. On March 1, 1907, the level was $9.1293. That is, the price of commodities to-day Is within a small fraction of one per cent, of the highest record. Bradstreet's report shows that, theoretically, a man going to the wholesale market place to purchase a pound of each of ninety-six articles would have had to pay on December 1 of this year about $9.12. On March l l.-.st like goods might have been purchased for nearly ninoty-one cents less, while on December 1, 1908, they were cheaper by 91.36 cents. Bradstreet's Index numbers are the totals of the prices per pound of ninety-six articles, quarterly or monthly, which is iir.rd as a standard of com parison. The groups that make up the index numbers are set out in the following table, which shows the striking In crease In the cost ot living this year as compared to last: Breadstuffs Livestock Provisions Fruits Hides and leather. Textiles Metals Coal and coke . . . . Oils Naval stores Building material . Chemicals, drugs.. Miscellaneous . . . . Dec. 1, 1908. $0.0979 .3275 2.0603 .1607 1.1825 2.3653 .5881 .0063 .3637 .0683 .0804 .6379 .2744 Dec. 1, 1909. $04014 .4010 2.3187 .1057 1.2875 2.7350 .6960 .0070 .3753 .0898 .0827 .5958 .3712 Total $8.2133 $9.1262 The report shows that prices con tinue to move upward. If the pres ent rate of increase continues. It can be a matter of only a short time be fore the highest prices ever known will be recorded for all kinds of commodities. Oklahoma Inspector Determined to- Have Orders Obeyed. McAlester. Okie. Eleven collieries of four different companies war ciosed at Coalgate, Okla., by Mine Inspector Hanratr. becanse they had' ignored his formal notice that they must cease maintaining mule stables in the mines. Inspector Hanraty's order for all operations to cease until his rule is complied with Immediately threw 5000 miners there temporarily out of employment. Electrical appliances will be installed ta do the work. f 120 a Year From Govern me at tf You're OS and Don't Make $240. Washington. D. C "An old age noma guard bfll" was introduced In the Horse by Mr. Wilson, of Penn sylvania. It provides that all persons over sixty-five rears of age who have resided in the United Stater tor twen-'..-flve years and have been cltlsens for fifteen years not possessing prop erty exceeding $1500 in value or with an Income In excess of $240 a year ay be enrolled to receive a pension of $120 a year, to be paid quarterly. Mr. Wilson is a labor man. RIDING. Bound the world goes Edna May On ber hone, so grand and gay. Gallop, trot, nnd maybe run. Oh, but riding's lots of fun! "Gee up, Horsey! " Edna cries. And old Horsey fairly flies Down the valley, up the hill; Always going never still! Round the world, then quickly back; Coining o'er the selfsame track; For 'tis teatime, don't you know. And they must no farther go. Washington Star. CONUNDRUMS. Why Is It easy to break Into an old man's garden? Ans. Because his gait (gats) Is broken and his locks are few. Why is a child In Its mother's arms like a pocket book? Ans. Because It is clasped. What Is ths difference between a glass of water and a glass of beer? Ans. Five cents. Why Is a drawn tooth like a thing forgotten? Ans. Because It Is out of ths head. Washington Star. HAWK AND SPARROW. All but one of the players stand In a circle clasping each other's hands, which are held out at arm's length. The one outside the circle is the spar row. He touches one of the players in the circle. The one touched be comes the hawk and must run after the sparrow until he catches him. The sparrow can only run around the circle and in and out under the arms of the players in the ring. The hawk must follow under the arms of the same players. When the sparrow is caught he takes his place In the cir cle and the hawk becomes the spar row for the next game. Washington Star. LITTLE DOCTOR PHIL. "Say, mamma, It just makes me sick to see the poor stray cats about the streets and to know that the boys mistreat them so cruelly." So spoke little Phil Downs to his mother one evening on coming home from school. And I'm wondering if something cannot be done for the poor dumb creatures that have such a battle for life in a heartless city." . Of course, Phil's mother was eager to encourage her little son in his de sire to do something for creatures in distress. "We might open a hospital for them," she said. "I had not thought of It before, but now that you bring the matter to my attention I feel it would be worse than wicked (or me to turn a deaf ear to the wails of the poor starving cats, so to speak. And we might not only do something for the homeless cats, but tor Phil as well." "How's that, mamma?" asked Phil. "I don't see where I come In for any thing except for a feeling of content ment after being ot assistance to the hapless creatures of the streets that are at the mercy of cold, starvation and wicked boys." "Well, I'll explain my meaning after a while," said Mrs. Downs. "But now we must do some planning, Let's see, where could we make a suitable hospital fbr our cats, any way?" "We've no use for the old stable," said Phil, "since we sold the horse and carriage In order to get an auto. Papa said the other day that he meant to sell the stable for whatever he could get for It, as he didn't want It taking up the room on the grounds. But while we are waiting for the sale to take place we might use the stable for our eat hospital." . "A capital idea." said Mrs. Downs. "And If we find good use for it papa will allow us to keep It, I am sure." Then a trip was made to the stable and the building was gone over care fully. "You see, the place Is roomy enough to accommodate a large num ber of cats, and we'll have our man John divide both the first floor and the loft by wire partitions. We shall hare to keen the cats apart for a few days those that show a disposition to fight. After they are well ac quainted they will live together on friendly terms." "And while John is fixing the par titions 111 be bringing In the, stray cats." said PhU. "I'll make a trip about the streets every evening after school and pick up a eat and carry it borne In a basket. After the place Is fall, what shall we do?" Mrs. Downs smiled. "Wait till we hare the place full," she said. "Wall find a solution to the problem of over crowding our hospital." "But why should we call it a tow pltal, mamma?" asked Phil. "Why don't we call It an asylum for home less cats?" "Well, most of the cats you wilt bring here will be in need of hospital attention. They will be starved, some of them ill from hurts and cold, and none in a perfectly healthy con dition." "You are right, mamma," agreed Phil. "It will be a cat hospital." "And you will be the doctor Doc tor PhU," said Mrs. Downs. "And a better or more sympathetic doctor than my little Phil has never yet been found." "Ah, and you shall be the hospital nurse, mamma," exclaimed PhU. deeply Interested In the plan. "And we'll doctor and feed the cats as though they were real people." "All God's living creatures are kin," said Mrs. Downs. "And those of superior intellect should look after the welfare of the more helpless ones. An animal has the same claim upon us for consideration that one of our own kin has." "If only the bad boys of the streets could be made to know that," de clared Phil. That week was a busy one for the "doctor" and the "nurse," and the man who was in charge of remodeling the stable. And each evening, after school, little Dr. PhU brought in on or two more stray cats that he had found prowling about In alleyways or empty buildings and basements. But a week after the hospital plan had been carried out there were twelve cats being made comfortable and happy there. The "nurse." so good and helpful to the "doctor." would "classify" her patients. 1 put ting some In one "ward" and some in another of the hospital. And only the most trustworthy were allowed the run of the place, and none were allowed to go out into the grounds until they had become real "home" cats. After that they went and camo as they pleased, and only one ran away, nerer to return. After the second month of running the hospital the place was filled to Its capacity. Then It was that the "nurse" held a consultation with the "doctor" In his private room one evening, just as he was about to re tire for the night. She came In car rying in her hand a small bit of paper with something written on It. Sitting on the side ot Dr. Phil's bed, she said: "Now, dearie, I shall tell you what I meant when I said at the begin ning of our hospital undertaking that we might not only do something; for the homeless cats, but for Phil as well." "Oh, yes, I remember your saying that," said Dr. Phil. "But I've been so busy that I had not thought of it again." "Well, let me read what I have here," said Mrs. Downs. And she read from a bit of paper: "Large assortment of fine cats for sale. Purchasers must give good homes to cats. Will not sell to those havlng small children. Apply at of flee of Dr. Phil, 10 Mulberry street." Phil sat up In bed and looked ques tionlngly at his mother. "Are we to sell out the hospital, mamma?" he asked, disappointment in his voice. "No, dearie, only a (ew of the fin est and healthiest cats to make room for otHer unfortunates. We'll sell off a certain per cent, of the number each month, thus finding good" homes for good cats and providing for those In distress. And you see, what money comes from the sale of our cats shall go Into the good little doctor's hands." Mrs. Downs was smiling as she said this. And Phil smiled, too; not because of the promise of money, but because the plan was such a good sensible one. He had been bothered a good bit in his mind lately on ac count of the hospital being so crowded, and he had not thought of a way to provide for the new needy ones that he saw every little while, though he had pretty well cleaned the streets of stray cats. "Well, my nurse is splendid when It comes to knowing Just what to do In all cases declared Phil. "I couldn't run my hospital without her. We'll sell the cats as fast ss they become fine and strong. And Just tMnk of it. mamma, people buying poor old stray allay cats for pets' That shows you wha feeding and good, warm beds will do for even paupers." "The whole animal kingdom is the same all God's creatures," said Mrs. Downs. "And the whole man king dom Is the same, too. my child. It 1 environment, comforts, -education,, lore, good teaching, that makes oner man appear to be superior to bis fel lows. And could oar little Dr. Phil do for the humanity In distress Just what he Is doing for the stray cats , sh. what a mercy it would he." "Maybe I shall, some day," do-" dared little Dr. Phil. Wasuingtouw Star. ' - . Easy to Diagnose. A St. Loots woman swallowed her false teeth twenty-five yean ago, and is now complaining of a gnawing sen sation Inside ot her. Atlanta Georg-
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