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DCS MOINKS. IOWA
JMARKS BORNE BY CRIMINALS
Colorado Proftnor Toll# How Thoy
May Bt DtitlnguMiid From Tholr
Follow CltlMIM.
It xoa moot a BUM coming down the
street whose nooo Is tort* «nd aqol
Has and perhaps a bit twisted, whoso
Upa an awollon and protruding and
whose aara aro largo, with large loboa.
It might be Jost aa wlao to right about
face and take to your heela, for In all
probability that man la a murderer—
potentially It not actually.
It a man ralaes his hat and displays
plentiful thatch of hair, It It la not
gray, It hla forehead recedes and his
akull la abnormally large, coming to a
noticeable point, you can bo sure that
you bare diagnosed hla case correctly
and can accelerate your pace without
laying yourself open to the charge of
cowardice.
At leaat that Is what Prof. Fred
erick A. Bushee says, and he ought
to know, aaya the Denver Post, for he
holds the chair of sociology at the
etata university. The thief has the
same egglike head that marks the
murderer and the same long arms and
big ears, but he can be distinguished
by hla flattened nose. His face is apt
to show many wrinkles, especially on
the side of the face and in the fore
head, probaby caused by the shape of
the skulL This is a mark of all born
criminals, aa is the depression at the
baae of the skull, which probably in
dicates a similar depression in the
brain.
The swindler can be recognized by
hla thin Hps. His features will prob
ably be asymmetrical, one side of the
face being different from the other.
This characteristic is cot confined to
swindlers or to criminals, but is one
of the traits generally found tn con
Junction with the others mentioned.
If a man is bald or gray haired, ac
cording to the professor, you can be
reasonably certain that be is not a
born criminal. Of course he may be of
a class of unscrupulous money mak
ers, but he can't blame his wrong
doing on heredity.
Middle Age.
Uncle 'Bastus, Mr. Thompson ex
plained, was employed on a farm in
Virginia, where there was a prlie bull
that became so ferocious that the
owner waa compelled to send for a
veterinary surgeon and have his
horns cut off.
Uncle Hastua viewed the proceed
ing with evident satisfaction from a
safe place in the stable, and when
the «harp horns had been rendered
harmless he rushed up and seized the
veterinarian's hand.
*Tae certly glad, foctah," he grate
fully exclaimed, "dat yo' hab done
gone an' cut offen dat bull's ho'ns!"
"You are, are you?" jestingly re
sponded the veterinarian.* "Why are
you so gjad about it?"
It am Jes' dls way, doctab." ex
plained Hastus, with considerable
feeling. Tse too old to climb trees
an' I'se too young to dia"
Ancient Arithmetic.
An Auburn, Me., man is the owner
of a rare old historical document in
the form of an arithmetic composed
and written by Thomas Chase, while
In an English prison in 1778. He was
•n American sailor during the revo
lution and was captured by an Eng
lish man-of-war and taken to Mill
prison, where he remained for several
months before making his escape. He
finally managed to elude his guards
and crossed the British channel to
France, where he Joined Paul Jones
and continued to fight for his country
until the close of the war. While a
captive he amused himself by writing
this mathematical work.
Detector for Loat Pipes.
An apparatus for detecting the po
sition of underground pipes, which is
being introduced In England, consists
of an electrical vibrator. Induction
coll and telegraph receiver. In using
the Instrument an electric current Is
produced in the lost pipe by connect
ing a battery to the nearest points of
the pipe above ground, such as taps
and fire hydrants, and the position of
the pipe is determined through the
electric field which then surrounds it,
Inducing a current in the detector coil
when the latter Is brought within its
Influence. The coll is connected to
the telephone, and the, nearer the coll
Is to the pipe the louder is the sound
heard In the receiver.
Going 8tralght
Mrs. Bacon—This paper says that
blind horses are never known to make
a mistake in. their diet while grazing.
Like all other horses, they are guided
by the nostrils In the selection of
proper food.
Mr. Bacon—Well, it's a good rule
for human beings, too.
"What?"
"To follow your nose."
"I 8hould Worry."
Mrs. Crlmsonbeak—I see there are
180,000 dry goods stores in the United
States, and of these 27,000 are depart
ment stores.
Mr. Crlmsonbeak—And yet some
women profess to find nothing to 00
cupy their time.
No Unseen Blush Therel
Gray had Just written "Full many a
flower is born to blush unseen."
"Not on your life," wo assured him.
"Smith's chickens can seo them three
inches under ground."
1 'r College Boy's Decocptlons.
Redd—This paper says a three*
years' course In house decorating has
been added to the curriculum of Co
lumbia university.
Greene—That
means a demand for
gtolns and cigar store Indians.
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London English.
witness at the Old Street Polio*
Court—Be called my wife a koo.
The Wagiatrate—What?
A "Voice—He means kaow.
Another Voice—Kaw. tm
The Magistrate—Ob,
cow} S
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INI ALIENS GOME
Tide of Immigration Reaches a
Record Point
Mora Foreigner* Admitted to Uncle
Sam's Domain During This Year
Than in Any of the Three Pre
vioua Years, Figures Show.
Washington. Immigration to the
United States has been heavier this
year than during the three previous
years. 747,998 immigrant allena having
been admitted to this country during
the nine months from July, 1912, to
and Including March, in addition to
which 140,901 non-immigrant aliens
were admitted, making a total of 888,
899
A total of 12,557 aliens were de
barred for various causee. Emigrant
aliens departing numbered 247,798 and
non-emigrant aliens 198,065.
American citizens going abroad dur
ing the nine months numbered 242,
159 thoBe returning 223,478. These
departures and arrivals made the pas
senger movement during that period
total 1,124,934 arrivals and 688.022 de
partures.
More Japanese entered the country
during the nine months than during
the entire previous year, 6,435, com
pared with 6,172 while 591 returned"
to Japan, compared with 1,501 during
1912. Immigrants from the RuEelan
empire predominated during the pe
riod, 176,252 persons from there hav
ing entered, compared with 162,395 in
1912. Italians were next with 150,383,
compared with 157,234 in 1912.
By occupation the majority of immi
grants were farm laborers^ 172,639
having entered other laborers were
133,214 servants, 90,832, and tailors,
16,648. One significant feature of the
statistics is the fact that the number
of laborers departing exceeded the
number arriving. During the nine
months 164,025 sailed and ^during the
previous year 209,279, compared with
133,214 arrivals in the period and 135,
726 for 1912.
GOVERNMENT MUST PAY.
The commonwealth of New Hamp
shire the other day lodged a claim for
35 cents against the federal govern
ment of the United States, and the
worst of it is the United States has
to pay, notwithstanding that econ
omy must be the watchword of the ad
ministration in the face of tariff re
vision.
Zealous state authorities in an un
relenting campaign against
SHOWS BIG GAIN.
More than 150,000.000 parcel post
packages were handled in the postal
service during the first three months
the new By stem was In operation, ac
cording to reports submitted to Post
master-General Burleson. These fig
ures, which are based on the amount
of business done at the 50 largest post
offices, show that approximately 62,
000,000 parcels were handled during
the month of March or about 12,000,
000 more than were handled In Febru
ary, when the total exceeded January
by 10,000,000. Approximately, 55 per
cent, more business was handled in
March than in January.
rMivk.
As during the first two months, Chi
cago led all other cities in the number
of parcels bandied with a total ofJ
6,895,744 New York city handled
5,973,075 and Boston 1,657,039. The
most noticeable gain was made In De
troit by jumping from eighth place In
January and ninth in February to
fourth In March, with a total of 1,420,
000 following In order are Philadil
phla with a total of 1,294,954 Cleve
land, 1,209,000 St. iyouis, 1,148,586
Brooklyn, 983,130 Jvrsey City, &6S,
648, and Kansas^Citv with 687,000.
CHINA'S FOREIGN TRADE.
China's total foreign trade for 1912
was approximately 900,000,000 taels,
or $585,000,000 In United States
money. This Is an increase of $33,
000,000 over 1911. The combination of
the revolution in 1911 and bumper
crops in 1912 was responsible for the
Jump. However, the Imports con
tinued to be somewhat in excess of*
the exports.
America's participation lb the trade
with China In 1912 kept pace with
previous years, except in cotton piece
goods. In 1911 Cbina took 16,000,000
pieces, but only 11,250,000 pieces In
1912. The American contribution of
2,500,000 pieces in 1911 was cut to
1,700,000 pieces last year, represent
ing 87,000,000 and $4,500,000, repee
tlvely.
What the Carver Does.
To be av,good carver is to possess
an accomplishment. Observation,
practice and confidence are necessary.
To carve a fowl a previous study of
the Joints In aa vnoaslscd bft-d is a
help to a beginner. When the carving
is to be done, for a roast chicken or
tarkey. remove first the leg then the
wing, from one side then from the
other side, separating the Joints/
Then carve the breast on each side
next take off the wishbone, separate
the collar bones and shoulder blades,
\. '*•. ."'.
peBts
in­
vaded the back yard of the postofflce
building at Dover, N. H., and dis
covered three browntail moth nests in
a lonely tree that sheds Its shade up
on the hard-working postal employes
of Dover during their rest periods.
The state "bugologists" without much
ado destroyed the nests of tfie per
nicious bugs and nonchalantly pre
sented a bill for 35 cents, evidently
at the established rate of 15 cents for
the first nest and 10 cents for each
of the others.
The postmaster protested vigorous
ly, with the declaration that he him
self could have annihilated the moths
without expense If the state had point
ed them out. An issue was threat
ened and the quarrel was referred to
the treasury department.
Sherman Allen, assistant secretary
of the treasury, who learned diplo
macy as an assistant secretary to
President Taft, conceded the point.
After a formal bill and voucher was
rendered a treasury warrant was sent
to the Btate.
Tho annually Inoreaslng value at
the work of tho Unltod States bureau
of l)ahorles Is shown by th* fact that
In the first eight months qt tho pres
ent fiscal year the numbeifof egga col.
lected for planting exceeds by 8S4r
000,000 the number gathered In the
same period last year. The number
so far this year reaches the glgantlo
total of 2,186,000,000, against 1,851,
000,000 In 1913.
The greatest gain has been In white
fish eggs from the great lakes, where
this year's take has been 524,000,000,
an Increase of 880,000,000. In lake
trout the Increase has been from 59,
000,000 to 69,000,000.
In the kew England coast this
year's gathering of pollock eggs has
been 867,000,000. At Gloucester, Mass.,
last year's haddock egg collection to
taled 160,000,000 and this year's will
exceed that by many millions. All the
haddock eggs are taken from fish
caught for market, so that eggs that
would otherwise be sold and eaten are
saved for further propagation.
Dog salmon egg collection show*
the largest gain on the Pacific coast,
this year's take having been 20,000,
000, against 3,300,000 last year.
MONEY ALM08T GERM PROOF.
Those who have hesitated to amass
wealth because of the warning to "be
ware the billions of bacteria that lurk
in every gill" need hesitate no longer,
according to Dr W. C. Rucker, assist
ant surgeon general of the public
health service. He declared the other
day that tests and examination of
currency, both washed and unwashed
bills, showed them to be singularly
free from germs. He attributed this
to the ink used in printing the bills,
which he said had proved to be an
almost perfect germicide.
"The public health service was call
ed upon to examine the soiled money
returned to the treasury," said Dr.
Rucker, "after It had traveled around
the country and had passed through
the hands of thousands of persons.
To our surprise it was found to be
singularly free from bacteria, and the
Ink used in the bills is given the
credit."
The Ingredients used In the gov
ernment's ink are not made public,
the recipe for the manufacture of the
irik for the bureau of engraving and
printing being zealously guarded.
PRICES CUT DOWN.
Prices received by producers In the
United States for staple crops in
creased 2.3 per cent, from April 1 to
May 1, according to a report by the
department of agriculture. The in
crease for the same period a yeaivago
was 8.4 and the average increase dur
ing April for the last five years was
3.4. On May 1 prices of staple crops
averaged about 30.1 per cent lower
than on May 1, 1912, according to the
department
The average prices for meat ani
mals increased 3.7 per cent, from
March 15 to April 15, as compared
with an Increase of 10.7 per cent for
the same period of 1912. On April 15
prices of meat animals averaged 16.7
per cent, higher than on April 15, 1912.
On April 15. 1911, the prices for meat
animals were 26.6 per cent, lower than
they were on April 15 this year.
VAST "COOKBOOK" I8SUE.
More than 12,000,000 copies of tho
various "cookbooks" prepared by the
department of agriculture, the latest
of which Is one on how to serve mut
ton In a number of delectable forms,
have been issued since this line of
government activity began. By far
the largest number published was of
a bulletin on the "Economic Use of
Meat In the Home," which ran up to
the enormous total of 2,235,000. Con
gress itself printed 500,000 copies in
addition to those distributed by the
department.
Of the bread-making pamphlet,
nearly 500,000 have been distributed,
and of the cheese leaflet almost 300,
000 have been sent out. Of the mut
ton bulletin. Just out, 50,5)00 copies
have been ordered printed for initial
distribution.
Six-Mite Depth Near Philippines.
A surveying ship of the German
navy has recently discovered the
deepest known spot in the oeean. It
is near the Philippines, about forty
sea miles oft the north coast of Mln-
Great depths were found to be nu
merous in this region, but the record
sounding showed the amazing result
of 9,780 meters, or 406 feet more than
six miles.
The greatest ocean depth hitherto
known was found by the United
States cable steamer Nero In 1901.
This spot was to the south of the
Island of Guam, and the deep sea lead
Indicated 9,635 meters—just a little
less than six miles.
Finds Moonlight Calls Forth Germs.
Strange powers always have been
assigned to the moon, and It is not
surprising to learn that a South Afri
can belief Is that moonlight hastens
the decomposition of fish.
But it Is surprising to find this be
lief brought forward as more than a
superstition. D. E. Hutchins says he
has obtained experimental proof of
this action of the moon, and suggested
that It is due to some low form of life
called forth or stimulated to action by
moonlight.
Solemn Speculation.
"So you think that new turtle cure
will be expensive?" said one doctor.
"Well," replied the other, "It may
depend on whether It Employs ordi
nary mud turtle or terrapin."
separate the breast bone froni the
back, then the back from the body,
and then the side bones. In large
birds the second joints aftd legs should
be carved in at least two pieces.
Hard to 8ay.
•"Cheerful doctors are very comfort
ing to their patients."
"Well, that depends on one's point ol
•lew. When my doctor is optimistic
I can't help wondering whether he Is
looking forward seeing me well
again, or Is merely anticipating a tea."
ippropw "f'» PJH "-M
BOOS COLLSSTKD
ipr*
,i,
Itaperor William so completely
Overshadows the members of his
house by the Im
portance of the
place which he
occupies as ruler
of one of the
mightiest of the
g/eat powers of
ths world that
on» is likely to
forget that there
are other Hohen
sollerns, and that,
strictly speaking,
the line to which
he belongs is the
younger branch
of the dynasty. It needs an event
such aa the betrothal of ex-King
Manuel of Portugal to Princess Au
gustine Victoria of Hohenzollern,
which was officially announced last
week, to recall the fact that the Slg
marlngen Hohenzollerns are the
senior branch, although the members
have for more tban two hundred
years past been willing to recognt.e
the supremacy of the ruler of Prussia
by reason of bis importance among
the monarchs of Europe.
The relationship between the two
lined* is very remote indeed. It is
Aguinaldo's' peaceful pursuit is typi
cal of the change that has taken place
in the Philippines during the past
few years.
Mr. Muerman describes the remark
able educational advance in the is
lands since the day the first American
teachers disembarked from the United
States transport Thomas a dozen years
ago.
PRINCESS AU6USTINE VICTORIA TO WED SOON
necessary to go back for hundreds of
years In order to find It, and, although I Princess Stephanie, to Lisbon to be
there has always existed a series of come the wife of King Pedro of Por*
agreements or treaties between the
Hohenzollerns of Suabla and those of
SUPREME COURT ADMITS ANOTHER PORTIA
Mrs. Joslah Quincy Kern, author,
newspaper woman and lawyer, has
been admitted to
the bar of the Su
preme court of
tire United States.
Her admission
was moved by
Mrs. Ellen Spen
cer Mussey, dean
of the Washing
ton Colloge of
law.
Mrs. Kern, the
wife of Judge Jo
slah Quincy Kern,
Is a graduate of
Mrs. Mussey's col
lege. She gradu­
ated In 1907 ,and was admitted during
that year to the district supreme court
and the district court of appeals. Mrs.
Kern is active in club and education
al circles.
It was Mrs. Kern who was elected
a member of the Washington board of
education this year to succeed Mrs.
Elizabeth Hoeke, a place for which
Miss Mabel Boardman was previously
selected, but felt compelled to decline
on account of the pressure of her Red
Cross work.
Among the many positions in club­
Agulnaldo, erstwhile rebel leader,
engaged in farming and in the manu
facture of a spe
cial brand of
hemp braid for
hats, is the entic
ing picture of
AGUINALD0 AS FARMER TYPICAL OF EVOLUTION
Philippine Indus
trial conditions
drawn by J. C.
Muerman, former
ly division school
superintendent of
Cebu, P. I., now a
rural school spe
cialist in the
United States bu
reau of education.
Unhampered by academic traditlou,
RECENTLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE D. A. R.
The newly elected president of the
National Society of the Daughtere of
he A a
on a
been a member of
the society for a
number of years.
Being a woman of
wonderful poise
and gracious per
a
makes an impres
slve presiding of
ficer, and as the
head of several
large 'organiza
tions has dem
onstrated her ex­
ecutive ability on many occasions.
Descended from a line of ancestors
who settled in New York In 1613, Mrs.
Story Is connected with many of the
most prominent Dutch families of that
state. She Is the only daughter of Dr.
James Hart Allen an£ Frances Lup
ton Porter Alleni Her grandfather.
Stephen Allen, was at one time
mayor of New York. She has held
the following offices: State regent of
New York Btate treasurer first
New York state director of the I).
A. R. president of the Ne\y York
City Federation of Women's Clubs
first vice-president of the New York
State Federation of Women's Clubs
vlce-preBident Washington Headquar-
Flghtlng Rinderpest.
For some time a very active war
has been waged In the Philippines
against the rinderpest, which formerly
killed a halt million cattle and cara
baos, but now the number of victims
has been reduced to a few thousands
annually. This effective work has
been done through the assistance of
the Philippine Scouts, the services of
which were of grpat value In search
ing out instances of the existence of
the disease and In preventing the In
troduction of infected cattle into dls-
Prussia with retard to tho disposition
of the family property, yet there
have been relathily few matrimonial
alliances between them, this being
largely due to the circumstance that,
whereas the house of Prussia haa
always been identified with Lntheran
lam, the Hollencollerns of the south,
who received their title of Prince of
the Holy Roman Empire from Charles
V., have ever been fatthful adherents
of the Church of Rome. It is because
of their creed that Dom Manuel has
been able to find a bride among their
fairest daughters.
Princess Augustine Victoria *f
Hohenzollern, according to the eti
quette which has long isvvalled at
the monarchical courts of Et»,*ope, will
become cntltl^L on her marriage to
the style of queen and to the predi
cate of majesty, since a dethroned
sovereign retains his rank by cour
tesy. She Is related to tor future
husband by ties of blood, though not
sufficiently close to offer a If obstacle
to the union on the scori" of consan
guinity. For her father's mother is
the Infanta Antonla of Portugal.-sis
ter of Dom Manuel's grandfather, the
late king Luis of Portugal. She made
the acquaintance of her husband, the
late Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern,
when he escorted his lovely sister,
tugal. The princess, according to her
friends, will not adopt the coveted title.
dom held by Mrs. Kern are president
of the Natiopal League of Pen Wo
men a director of the College Wo
man's club chairman of the commit
tees on club extension and comic sup
plements of the District Federation of
Woman's clubs member of the Twen
tieth- Century club and president of
th^ Toner-Grant Home School associa
tion.
MrB. Kern Is a native of Harvard,
111. As is customary when a woman
is admitted to the bar of the Supreme
court of the United States, she was
dressed in black. Tha large picture
hat, long black gloves and furs were
left in an ante room. This is a set
rule w*heu a woman appears to take
the solemn oath admitting her to prac
tice before the higheEt court in the
land. Just after the ceremonies, Mrs.
Kern said: "I do not believe that I
shall practice law, but shall devote my
time to writing and speaking on edu
cational subjects, and shall continue
my studies iu. the proper education of
children. For the past few years my
time has been so taken up that I have
not had the opportunity to write as
much as I should like, but I have now
so arranged my affairs that I will be
able to take up that work, as 1 much
prefer that line of endeavor."
and face to face with problems of ed
ucation that were as big as civiliza
tion itself, these educators and those
who followed them have gradually de
veloped a system of Filipino schools
under Filipino teachers that is rap
idly transforming the social and indus
trial life of the islands.
Compulsory Industrial training, fit
ted for the needs of everyday Filipino
life, is the most distinctive feature of
the Island schools. The Americans
ties of the valuable raw materials
abundantly at hand in the islands,
and are able to show the Filipinos
how to make the most of them. Every
Filipino schoolboy is required to do
a certain amount of work with native
woods and fibers every one must
learn to till the soil by actually doing
it in the school garden and in a plat
of his own, and every Filipino school
girl is taught certain essentials of
sewing and other home-making arts.
All the children in the schools are
obliged to pass through this period of
elementary training In the everyday
tasks of life.
ters association, founded by the D.
A. R., and is now honorary state, re
gent of New Yoi£ vice president of
the National Society of Patriotic
Women of America historian of the
Washington Headquarters associa
tion, D. A. R. a member of the So
ciety of Colonial Dames in the state
of New York, and regent of Manhat
tan Chapter.
Say "We," Not "He."
Is not that a great thought, that we
can escape the bondage of mere servi
tude by simply rising above our work,
putting our heart into lt and doing
our best? Do not envy the "boss."
Many are his perplexities, great his
problems to make his venture succeed.
Heartily co-operate to help him and
begin to say "we," not "he." "We"
are going to grow the best corn this
year In the north 40 that was ever
seen. "We" are fitting the best lot of
calves for the International ever seen.
Compel that employer to take you at
once Into an invisible partnership Just
by using the word "we" and putting
your heart Into the work.—Breeder's
Gazette.
Not Long 80.
"Sir, your daughter is peerless."
"Well, that's her own fault. I conld
have bought her a peer any time she
wanted one."
tricts which has been cleared of lt.
Fourteen hundred scouts were utilized
in the work, and they were at one
i-me formed into a cordon which
moved southward, leaving the district
behind them absolutely clear of the
disease. It Is anticipated that In
the course of a few years the rinder
pest will be entirely eliminated from
the islands.
What Thoy Really Are.
A good many so-called optimists ara
merely cheerful Idiots.
Adjunct of Every-Day Life of
Great Antiquity.
In Crudest Form It Wao Doubtleae
Natural Thorn—Maohlne Now Ueed
to Make Them the Invention of
a Maasaehuoetta Man.
From the earllcet times the pin has
been an adjunct of every-day life. In
Its crudest form It was doubtless a
natural thorn of the aort still used as
a fastening by the peasant women of
Upper Egypt The name Itself goes
far toward Indicating the origin, splua
being, of course, the Latin for a thorn,
while the spina christl 'Is the great
thorn tree. Centuries ago the Welsh
used "plndraem?" thorns scraped and
dried, for fastening their clothing,
while even today In England gypsies
use the long, sharp shafts of the
blackthorn for this purpose. The Red
Indians and the central Asian tribes
have the
Bame
habit.
After this primary form of pin came
the bone pin of the prehistoric age—
an instrument made from the bone
of some animal, split and then rubbed
to a point. From this emerged the
bronze pin of the bronze age, polished
and finely tempered, and It wae during
the bronze period that the safety pin
came into being. The first efforts in
the latter direction were bow-shapod
and awkward, but these soon flued
down to a virtual replica of the pin
seen today. There were also long sti
letto pins with ribbed handles, many
of which have been found in
Egyptian deposits of 1400 B. C.,
and in Cyprus and Sparta. Need
less to say, these could prove
dangerous weapons in violent hands,
apropos of which Herodotus tells a
strange story of the disastrous ex
pedition undertaken by the Atheniaus
in the sixth century. One man alone
returned to Athens, a fact which so
enraged the wives of the slain that
they set upon the unfortunate sur
vivor and slew him with the stout
pins which fastened their dresses.
After this the ladies of Athens w^re
officially debarred from the use of
these dangerous stillettos.
Hairpins have been elaborated as a
means of decoration since the earliest
times. Particularly beautiful Is the
variety and delicacy of their work
manship, two of the 'finest specimens
being the gold pins which were found
at Salamls in Cyprus, and are now
in the British museum. Even more
handsome were the Saxon pins of a
later date, with their shanks of brass,
head of gold and embellishment of
garnets and pearls. These were, too,
the larger sort of pins so conspicu
ously and frequently mentioned in the
Bible. The Instrument driven by Jael
through the temple of Sistera was
probably a tent pin, while Delilah
fastened the web of Samson's hair
with a pin or batten. In the middle
ages pins were a great fashion—in
deed, a necessity—in France, and we
have it on record thht in 1347 12,000
pins were removed from the royal
wardrobe for one of the French prin
cesses.
The convenience
waB
probably a lit­
tle later In reaching England, but tn
1510
we
hear of Queen Catharine
(Howard) importing pins from France.
In 1560 the trade underwent consider
able change, brass superseding iron,
while at the same ting *he price was
lowered. During the reign of James
I. the metal pin came into fashion.
In 1817 a machine for producing en-
tire'pins" was"invented by "an Amer-
Hunt but lt rem
alned for
Samuel Wright of Massachusetts to
patent In 1824 the wonderful pinmak
ing machine which is generally used
today.
Poor Girl.
"How long have you been married?"
"It will be six months next Thurs
day?"
"And do you still regard your hus
band as the most wonderful man who
ever was born?"
Then the poor girl broke down and
sobbe^ piteously. When she could
trust hersulf to speak again she said:
"No. Charles has disappointed me
terribly. I'm afraid I have wrecked
my li-life. Last night when I asked
him to get up and see if there wasn't
a burglar in our room he bumped his
nose against the edge of the open
door and he said three simple awful
swear words just as if they came
natural to him."—S^n Francisco Star.
Hunger Strike of Long Ago.
As long ago as the reign of Edward
III. the hunger strike was known in
England. Cecilia, wife of John de
Rygeway, was- in 1357 confined in
Nottingham jail on a charge of mur
dering her husband, and there, accord
ing to the old records, she abstained
from meat and drink for forty days.
Which, being reported to the king, he
was "moved by piety, and for the
glory of God and the Blessed Virgin
to grant the woman a pardon." The
records say nothing of her guilt or
innocence, nor do »tl\ey throw any
.light on fourteenth century ideas of
"forcible feeding.
Young Entomologist.
Saturday afternoon when I was fix
ing the scree-s for windows and doors
in our bouse, my son Robert, three
and one-half years old, was an inter
ested and very Inquisitive spectator.
Among other things he asked: "Why
do you put the screen door on, pa?"
"Well," I answered, "so the files won't
eat you up." He pondered a second
upon this, and then suddenly burst
out: "The flies can't eat me up they
got only little mouth-es."—Exchange.
Case of Thrift.
Wife—An' phwy do yez be tcktn'
thlm pills when yez are well again?
Husband—Faith, would ye be afther
havin' me let a dollar's worth of pills
go to waste? It's a thriftless family
Oi married into, sure.
Infection.
"I couldn't help laughing when our
pork dealer complained to me this
morning of how he was suffering."
"What made you laugh?"
"It seemed so funny when he told
me he had a sty in his eye."
1
OF IDE 1 wins OF count
Prospeotor Says He Has Un
earthed Spanish Claims.
Also 8aya That Life Down There l«
Worse Than Danto'a Inferno—Dlgi
Up Rellce of Days Long Past
—Quinine Steady Dlst
Col. John S. Wilbur, veteran pros
pector, who has participated In more
gold rushes than he haa years in his
life, and that means a few, for the
grizzled seeker of El Dorados has seen
the tall lights of a half century go
glimmering down the corridors of
time, arrived,In New York the other
day aboard Mhe eteamshlp Santa
Marta. The gold man Is back from
the wilds of Columbia where he has
secured claims on the very ground
that brought wealth to the adventur
ers of Spain as far back as 1650.
/For two long, feverish, insect In
fested and nightmarish years Colonel
Wilbur scoured the dense jungles of
the South American country before
he made his discovery and found for
tune at his feet. The doughty pros
pector with a belt full of nuggets and
gold dust has now returned to visit
his family in Chicago for two
brief
weeks, then to return to the land of
golden promises
Colonel Wilbtir believes that he has
discovered the gold workings that
made Spanish galleons so sought after
by the cutthroat pirates of the olden
days. Colonel Wilbur's claims are lo
cated along the Atrato river In the
Choco district and near the town
ol
Quibdo. The workings are about 300
miles inland and in a country that
would daunt most white men.
"It is placer gold of the finest qual
ity that I have discovered," said the
veteran prospector. "And my lands
are the same that the early Spaniards
washed for gold. As a matter of fact,
I am using the
s£me
ditches that were
dug by the dons almost three cen
turies ago. Through these ditches I
fetch the water to wash the golden
sands.
"I have dug up many relics of the
Spanish days, such as picks and other
iron tools. And a few days before I
left one of the native workmen
brought to light a Bteel helmet, or
casque, such as were worn by tho
fighting Spaniards of those days. The
Spanish mners Bimply worked off the
top of the land and made it necessary
for me to sink shafts and dig tunnels.
"The gold runs between $4 and $20
to the cubic yard and Is worth $18 an
ounce. If It were not for the fevers
I believe that this section of Colombia
would be every bit as wealthy in gold
as the choicest districts of Alaska.
The next objection is that foreigners
are not permitted to purchase land
outright, but must lease It from the
natives.
'The Choco district is no place for a
man who holds life too dearly. There
you may contract all the fevers ever
thought of and a few more. I have
gulped so much quinine in the la?t
two years that my earn ring like
cathedral chimes.
"And then there are the Insecrs.
They all bite and bite hard in that
country. Every Insect has a bite pe
culiar unto itself and one that makes
a white man think of Dante's inferno
as a haven of joy. Why, even the but
terflies bite in that accursed country.
"All the animals are thin
almost to
transparency. That is because
are always on the run.
has another one constantly
they
Every beast
chasing
It and when a white man comes
along
they seem to concentrate their
forces
and efforts to make him hit the
hurdles.
"Vegetation seems to grow more
rapidly than any place else,on earth.
Talk about mushrooms, why, I've seen
things grow almost as I watched
them. And every thirty days 1 have
to set the natives to cutting down
the jungle about the workings or the
sunlight would soon be hidden from us.
"But I'm going back the first
part
of
June, not because I like fever or en
Joy being chawed by Insects, but be
cause of the wealth In those
Spanish
workings."
Colonel Wilbur had a narrow escape
In getting out of his land of gold.
He journeyed by canoe down tho
Atrato river. The first night of his
Journey his boat hit a half submerge
log and the prospector, his two na
tives and his baggage went headlong
Into the river. The colonel and hi3
men managed to get hold of the over
turned boat and clung to it for over
an hour before they drifted opposi 0
an opening in the jungle where thsy
could struggle ashore. The prospec
tor spent two days fishing In the trop
ic stream for his belongings and ret
cued a small trunk.
Woman's Mission.
Woman's mission Is a striking
tration of the truth that happiness
consists in doing the work for wh cn
we are naturally fitted. Their mission
is always the same it la summed up
in one word—Love. It Is
the 0
work in which there can never be ww
many workers it grows by co-opera
tion It has nothing to fear from com
petition. Women are
charged
wit
the education of sympathy, the sourc
of real human unity and their
est happiness is reached when th
have the full consciousness of
vocation and are free to
foll° fr
It is the admirable feature orthfflx
social mission, that lt Invites the® W
cultivate qualities which are na "ra ..
to them, to call Into exercise emotion
which all allow to S* the most plea*
urable.—Auguste Comte.
Clever.
"I had a poet on one side an
millionaire on the other."
"What did you talk about?
"I talked to the poet about moj
and to the millionaire about the
lectual life."—Life.
Rlaht Time.
Frost—I'll take a burglar
of you at the psychological1 momen
Agent—When will that be.
Frost—I'll 'phone you 'r0®
ond Btory when I hear burglars
first floor.