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Satisfactory Method of Borrowing
Monty Which la Resorted To by
Swiss Farmers.
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fanners find It comparative­
ly easy to borrow money of the mort
gate banks which exist In many of
the cantons. Farm and Home remarks.
The chief advantage secured by the
fanner In placing a mortgage with the
cantonal or state mortgage banks Is
that he escapes the necessity of re
paying the principal of his mortgage
In a single payment, and he is practi
cally relieved from the danger of
foreclosure.
Til? Interest rate charged by the
cantonal mortgage banks 1B about the
s~me as that collected by other banks.
For Instance, a farmer wishes to raiBe
a loan of $10,000 on his property. He
secures the money form the cantonal
bank as 4\i per cent. He could prob
ably do as well for himself if he went
to the private sources, but here is
where the cantonal banks help him
out If he went to a private bank to
borrow money at 4% per cent, for a
stated number of years he would be
required to pay that bank his interest
each year and the full amount at the
end of the term.
Now, with the cantonal bank he is
required each year. In addition to his
4% per cent., to pay one per cent,
as amortization. After the first pay
ment he owes the bank $10,000 lesi
one per cent. Naturally, the second
year he must pay interest, not on the
$10,000, but on $9,000. However, his
actual payment is still 5% per cent of
$10,000. Each year, however, a
large portion of the 5% percent, goes
to liquidate the loan. In this way
the farmer ultimately pays back the
entire loan without having been bur
dened with one big payment in any
year," as he ordinarily would have
been. Only In very rare cases are the
loans made by these mortgage banks
on farm properties foreclosed.
German 8chool for Clerks.
The Madgeburg Verein Selbstandi
ger Kaufleute (Madgeburg Association
of Independent Merchants) plans to
open a school for the special training
of women and girls desiring to be
come shop clerks. The scheme of in
struction contemplates courses in the
courteous and intelligent treatment of
customers, in the art of decorating,
modern languages, mathematics, gram
mar, general commercial knowledge,
commercial correspondence and book
keeping.
1 A one-year course, consisting of
twenty hours weekly, is to be given
in the above mentioned subjects, the
tuition amounting to $19. The cost ot
school materials will be about $5. It
Is hoped that the new Bchool, in pro
Tiding its students with theoretical
and practical knowledge certain to
prove of great value to them in their
future work, will bring about a bet
terment in the social standing ofjphop
clerks, and thus open a field for girls
of higher Intellectual and educational
qualifications than has hitherto been
the case.—From a Hadgeburg Consu
lar Report.
Time Had Come.
A big, brawny Texan, known for
his nasal twang and ability to
make money, was paying court to a
young woman of his town, when
she left Texas for Vancouver, Brit
ish Columbia. Some time later she
married there. When the Texan
heard of It—but let him tell his
own story:
"D'ye know what I done? I got
on the train and I went up there,
and I went to see her. And d'ye
know what I said to her? I said
to her, 'I'm goln' to quit ye.
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IOWA
HELP FOR THE MORTGAGER
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goin to quit ye right now!'"
I'm
Command "Keep 8till" Cruel.
Sir John Cockburn, speaking to
teachers at the London Day Training
college, said speech was called into
function by the movement of the
hand.
"If you want to reach the brain you
must do it through the hand, and If
you disregard the use of the eyes and
hands in education you are placing
the brake on all mental development
of the child.
"The command to "keep still' In a
school Is the greatest cruelty you can
possibly impose on children, for to
make children keep still for any
length of time very often produces de
formity."
The Height of Obstinacy.
Representative Pujo was talking
about an obstinate financier.
"This man," he said, "is undoubt
edly the most obstinate man In Wall
street, I may %iy, in fact, that he
Is the moBt obstinate man. In the
world.
"Why, he Is BO obstinate and con
trary-minded that if he sees a newspa
per advertisement headed: 'Don't
Read This!' he doesn't read it."
She Knew the Count.
Mayor Whitlock of Toledo was talk
ing about a Toledo heiress who had
married a count.
"Well, at an rate," said he, "the
girl seemed convinced that the count
had nO unworthy motives.
'Don't you know,' a friend said
to her some months before the wed
ding, 'don't you know that the count
is simply marrying you for your
jnoney, so that he can pay his bills?'
"'Nonsense!' she replied. 'The
count never thinks of paying his
bills.'"
The Latest 8port.
Hunting game from an aeroplane
'will likely be one of the recognized
"v 'field bports. la France recently an
aeronaut was Invited to take part in
such
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sip,
event, and while flying about
'Nheeflfcld^ hfr was struek in? the eye by
bullet from one1 of the guns and
painfully, though not. seriously, in
jured:i:Hettianaged to Arjpgj the ma
chine safely to the ground, and then
had his wound dressed by some sur
geons who happened to be among the
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Postal Savings System Undsr
Man of Experience.
Former Governor Doekery, Who De
voted Many Years to the Bank-'
Ing Business, Now Super
vises the Deposits.
Washington.—For the first time
since its inception the postal savings
system is to be administered by an
experienced banker. Third Assistant
Postmaster General Doekery, before
he beccme interested in wider politi
cal life, was in the banking business.
As far back as 1866 he organized with
the assistance of a coterie of his
financial friends the Farmers' Ex
change bank of Gallatin, Mo. Later
he became its cashier and remained
such until 1882.
While in many respects the postal
savings depositories are widely differ
ent from banking institutions, in the
ordinary acceptance of the term, still
there is much similarity noticeable,
and for this reason, more than for
any other, it is said, Postmaster Gen
eral Burleson was influenced to call
to his assistance in the administration
of the new system that means so much
to the saving population of the coun
try the experience of a trained banker.
The last reports that may be said to
be complete thus far cover the system
up to March 31 last. At that time
there were 12,823 depositories, located
at 12,160 postoffices, of which 8,222
were of the presidential class and
3.938 were fourth-class offices. The
number of depositors at that date ap
proximated 335,000, and the amount
on deposit about $33,500,000, or an av
erage of about $100 per depositor.
Alexander M. Doekery.
About $21,600,000, or more than three
fifths of the entire deposits, were held
in 251 postoffices, each of which re
corded deposits amounting to $15,000
or more $15,000,000, approximately,
was held in 37 offices, each holding
about $100,000 or more.
New York leads the list with de
posits amounting to $2,366,049, with
Chicago second, $1,689,024 Brooklyn
third, with $876,091, and Portland,
Ore., the leading city in the west, fifth,
with $718,745. Washington ranks twen
ty-seventh, with $153,560, and Astoria,
Ore., the lowest on the scheduled list,
thirty-seventh, with $107,866.
In addition to this big sum in de
posits, representing the savings of the
country,
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far as the postal system
is concerned, $2,389,120 of the depos
itors' savings have been converted
into interest-bearing 2% per cent.
Uhlted States bonds.
While the faith of the United States
government is specifically pledged to
the return of the money when demand
ed, the deposits, under the law, are
for the most part in solvent banks or
ganized under national or state laws
and subject to national or state su
pervision, Including savings banks and
trust companies doing a banking busi
ness. Of these 7,248 institutions have
qualified as depositories, including
3,808 national banks, 2,412 state banks,
401 savings banks, 572 trust compa
nies and 54 "organized" private banks.
A story is going the rounds on Sec
retary of the Navy Josephus Daniels.
It is said that aft
Shouid Change
His Uniform.
er an experience
in
a,
Washington
hotel where he
was to be one of the principal speak
ers at a banquet the North Carolina
secretary remarked that he is meant
for the life of a country town.
Arriving at the hotel, so the story
goes. Secretary Daniels took an ele
vator for the banquet hall, where he
was met by a distinguished looking
man who apparently was a foreigner.
With typical southern courtesy, the
navy secretary bowed.
"I'm glad to see you," he said.
"That foreign persons of distinction
should take an interest in our poli
tics is gratifying to me. We are a
new people, sir, but—"
"The distinguished looking man" in
terrupted with—
"Name und number, blcase?"
"Name and number?" repeated Mr.
Daniels. "What number?"
"Ze zeat number," answered the
other. "Eaf you gif me that, I'll find
your zeat for you."
"Are you a waiter?" asked Mr. Dan
iels with amazement.
"If you blease, sir."
"Then, by George, you
Fhould
change your uniform so I could tell
you from the guests of honor," said
Mr. Daniels.
Gastronomic Feat.
My niece, aged four years, saw her
grandmother take some medicine con
tained in an unusually large capsule.
When the feat had been accomplished
the astonished child ran to me with
the exclamation: "O aunty, grandma
swallowed her medicine—bottle aud
all."—Exchange.
Missed It.
"How do you like that joke I just
now told you? It's a foreign joke."
"Well, it's certainly foreign to me.
I don't see the point."
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William C. Redfleld, secretary 01
commerce, in pommsnting on the de
tailed figures con
Exports and oernlng the lm
Imports
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and
Pointing to the number of deaths
from typhoid fever for the year 1911
as being the low
TyphOld Death
Toll Reduced.
est on record, a
Statement of the
bureau of the cen­
sus declares, however, that this is far
In excess of the mortality from this
cause in progressive European coun
try. This reduction, it says, "indi
cates that the public health officials
of the country and the people who
support their efforts are awakening
to the necessity of wiping out this
filth disease."
The statement declares that in 1911
there were 12,451 deaths from this
cause in the registration area. This
is a death rate of 21 per 100,000 com
pared with 23.5 the year previous.
Lower death rates are also noted in
tuberculosis, measles, scarlet fever,
cancer, infantile paralysis and organic
diseases of the heart.
Increases were shown in the deaths
from pellagra, suicide and violent
deaths excluding suicide.
The increase in the mortality from
pellagra was large, according to the
statement. During the early part of
the decade, 1900 to 1909, the reported
mortality from this disease was in
significant, two deaths being returned
for 1900, two for 1903 and one for.
1904. For 1908, 23 deaths were re
turned, all of which occurred in south
ern cities. A large increase was
shown In 1909, during which 116
deaths were reported, and a still larg
er increase for 1910, when 368 deaths
were reported as due to this disease.
The mortality of 659 for 1911, as com
pared with 368 for 1910, indicates an
increase of 79 per cent.
An important statement in the cen
sus bureau's paper is that organic
diseases of the heart in 1911 caused
more deaths, 83,525, than any other
disease or group of diseases shown
in the abridged international list, al
though the number of deaths from
tuberculosis of all forms, 94,205, was
considerably greater. However, the
death rate from organic heart trouble
in 1911 was slightly lower than that
for the preceding year, but the rate
for these two years is declared to be
much higher than that of previous
years.
After reading that so many congress
men had obtained their election to the
house of represen
It Was Case
of Necessity.
tatives "without
spending a dollar*
it was refreshing
to hear one southern member the
other day admit to a few intimates
that if hp were haled before the bar
of justice he would have to acknowl
edge that he had bought votes to se
cure his nomination and election.
"It was a case of necessity, though,"
he added, "because my opponent was
doing the same thing."
The congressman went on to relate
an incident of the last November elec
tions.
"I overheard my campaign manager
talking with one of his assistants. The
latter was protesting that a voter had
taxed him $5 for his vote.
"My manager exclaimed angrily: 'I
won't stand for it. It is an outrage.
We have never paid more than $3 for
his vote. But then I suppose the other
side has been after him. However,
before we let the other party get him
I reckon we will have to meet his fig
ure. Hold him down, though, if you
can.'"
A new member of congress who' was
present was frankly amazed.
"Suppose detectives should have
heard your manager admit h% was
buying votes?"
"Well," replied the other, "detec
tives did come to my district once but
the sheriff arrested them for carrying
concealed weapons."
Mourned His Lost Youth.
In the ground of Sketty hall, near
Swansea, Wales, the residence of the
late Mr. Glyn Vivian, is a large, grass
entwined gravestone which is prob
ably unique. It was erected by Mr.
Vivian himself to the memory of his
lost youth, and on it are inscribed
some pathetic lamentations in elegant
verse.
Senatorial 8aying.
"Let me go on the junkets of a coun
try," says Senator Wombat, "and 1
care not who makeB the laws."
f'
«*ports
of the United
States for the month of March and
the nine months ended March, said:
"The figures are striking, both in
their magnitude and in their details.
The aggregate business, inward and
outward, of die United States with
foreign countries for the nine months
was a Ifttlfe In excess of $3,300,000,000
—an impresslv,e total, which if main
tained at the same rate, would bring
the business for the entire fiscal year
well in excess of $4,100,000,000.
"Great Britain Is our largest cus
tomer, buying from us over $478,000,
000, and eelling us over $234,000,000,
an aggregate for the nine months In
excess of $712,000,000, or a total busi
ness of nearly $80,000,000 a month.
Canada is our second best customer,
buying from us $300,000,000 in nine
months, equal to nearly $1,300,000
every working day. A pretty fair cus
tomer, that. Then Germany comes
third, buying $268,000,000 from us In
nine months and selling us $146,000,
000. She is a pretty fair customer,
too—buys over $1,000,000 a day. And
fourth comes France, to whom we
sold $120,000,000, and from whom,we
bought $112,000,000.
"The figures for the entire nine
months are such as to give just pride
to every thoughtful American to
whose notice they come. Out of the
total transactions of $3,300,000,000
there is a balance In our favor of a
little over $500,000,000. Doing pretty
well, that. But a few comparisons
with 1912 make it look even better.
For example, our sales of manufac
tures for further use In manufacturing
increased over $56,000,000 and our
sales of manufactures ready for use
increased over the same period last
year $88,500,000, an increase in these
two lines of manufactured goods alone
of over $114,500,000, as compared with
the same period of last year."
A round, elocutionary eye, blue in
color, and an oratorical mouth, the
human appraiser
would say, if
there were such a
specialist, as he
wrote the items
The duties of the private secretary
are more onerous, if not more im
portant, at the
in in of
an administration
than at any other
time. Also in
most instances in
the present ad
ministration the
private secre
taries, like the
men they serve,
are new to their
places.
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schedule ot a*
sets. To which he
would add, a& hi*
.proceeded to. in
ventorize features
and surface char
asteristics, a good,
tuneful voice, ring
ing and robust in
both the higher
and lower registers.
In like manner he would specify two
military shoulders, an energetic man
ner, a sky-blue necktie, a flax-colored
mustache and a pair of thick, mahog
any-colored side-whiskers. Drawing
a line at the bottom of the column he
would total the whole into William
Cox Redfleld, the new secretary of
commerce and the personal tariff coun
selor of President Wilson.
A propensity for getting money and
a talent for putting his active and pro
gressive thoughts into language have
removed Mr. Redfleld from the over
crowded ranks of mediocrity.
Once Mr. Redfleld was a teacher and
the superintendent of a Brooklyn Sun
day school for 20 years. All he had to
do in politics was to change his sub
ject, and, possibly, his coat and cravat,
and then go ahead. Still it must be
admitted that he has the gift of speak­
PRIVATE SECRETARY OF WILLIAM J. BRYAN
As Mr. Bryan
Is premier of the
cabinet, so to his
new secretary falls the honor of being
premier of the corps of private sec
retaries. This honor came not through
seniority. There are other private
secretaries who have been in serv
ice many years, while Manton M. Wy
vell was appointed only recently. But
be is rapidly acquiring experience, for
regardless of the fact that the ap
pointing powers of the secretary of
state are the most limited of any of
the ten cabinet members, the principal
attack of the officeseekers has cen
tered about Mr. Bryan's office. It
requires a man of cast iron nerve and
extended experience in the buffer busi­
M/hen the Princess Victoria Louise,
Emperor William's only .daughter and
the apple of his
eye, became the
bride of Prince
At the wedding
were assembled
proud monarchs^
and their glitter­
ing suites kings and ruling princes of
that mighty confederation of which
the kaiser is the chief special en
voys laden with jeweled orders,
queens and princesses famed for their
pulchritude, shining with priceless
gems, decked in superb costumes.
And in this surrounding were group
ed the bride and her four bridesmaids,
fresh, blushing, fragrant, like rose
buds set in a gaudily-enameled vase.
"I shall choose my bridesmaids,"
sa)d the girl whom Berlhiers have de­
Gen. Mario G. Menocal was a few
days ago inaugurated &s president of
Cuba. In his in
augural address
the new executive
will welcome foreign capital and im
migration and maintain friendly rela
tions with all nations, especially with
the United States, to which Cuba Is
so closely linked by bonds of mutual
affection and Interest.
General Menocal was born in 1866
at Jaguey Grande, Matanzas province.
His family moved to the United States
and he was educated in the military
college of Washington and at Cornell
university. He graduated from Cor
nell as a civil engineer. Upon leav
ing Ithaca he went with his uncle,
Anlceto G. Menocal, chief of the en­
Securing Household Efficiency.
A practical knowledge of the work
to be done, an ability to convey that
knowledge to servants, to observe
without appearing to observe, to cor
rect without nagging, and to show
friendliness without familiarity—all
these will enable us to give to a maid
a sense of personal freedom and re
sponsibility and a practical knowledge
of the detail of her work which will
tend to disBipate the hostility engen
dered by years of misunderstanding.
—Century Magazine.
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PRESIDENT WILSON'S BUSINESS MANAGER
DAUGHTER OF KAISER WEDS PRINCE ERNEST
Ernest of Cumber
land a few days
ago, she was at
tended by a bevy
of young women
as distinguished
for their beauty
as for their ex
alted rank.
CUBA'S NEW PRESIDENT A CORNELL GRADUATE
Contented himself
with the declara
tion that he will
devote all his en
ergies to giving
the country a
clean business ad
in 1 a ion,
which will foster
the industries of
the island and de
velop its splendid
resources, which
rr v,rl -TV/ vni. .t" 3'/•'
ing exceptionally eloquently.
Two years ago Mr. Redfleld came to
the house of representatives.. It Is a
principle In business «bat nothing over
takes the sensitive man who looks and
stands back. The firing line of com
merce has its own methods and point
of view. Likewise Its own casualties,
which Is an essay in Itself. Mr. Red
field, besides was filled with prin
ciples battling for utterance. He talk
ed In congress right off. Better still,
be was --beard. He was a manufactur
er. Money came at his beck and call.
Maybe he would reveal the Becret.
Moreover, be was precise. Once he
was a bookkeeper and a cent even
could unbalance his accounts. By habit
and by instinct he abominated errors
of fact as he saw the truth. So he
took the floor when he thought he
heard them and slew them on the
spot. Wherefore he was also re
spected'and privately feared.
The secretary of commerce Investi
gates the organization and manage
ment of corporations. He has no au
thority, however, over railroads. Fur
thermore, he is directed to scrutinize
and foster commerce. He is the busi
ness man, it might be eald, at the
solemn table of the president's coun
selors. His eye, in a way, Is supposed
to be on iron, steel, oil, sugar, tobac
co, and other products more or less
monopolized. The detection of cor
porative lawbreakers, because he must
know their management, is one of the
duties he is required to perform. Their
prosecution is the employment of the
attorney general.
ness to fill the position of private sec
retary to William J. Bryan.
Secretary Bryan picked Mr. Wyvell
on the ground, primarily, of his per
sonal fidelity. Mr. Wyvell is a Bryan
devotee. Nearly 13 years ago, when
Mr. Bryan was making his second
campaign for the presidency, he dis
covered Mr. Wyvell, then a student at
Cornell, and president of the Cornell
Bryan club, an organization of vast
activity and limited membership.
Now, Cornell Is one of the most pro
lific of the American universities in
the production of Republican gradu
ates. The principles enunciated from
the chair long held by Andrew D.
White, were distinctly anti-Bryan, and
it occurred to the anti-imperialist lead
er of 1900 that a man who could de
velop Bryanism in the atmosphere of
Ithaca, must have the real spirit.
There and then he picked upon Wy
vell as his disciple, and such Wy
veil has remained until on March 6 he
reaped his reward by being called to
serve his leader in ^he confidential ca
pacity of private secretary.
Mr. Wyvell Is still young, hardly
thirty-five, but he has been in politics
ever since he left college. Last fall
he ran for congress, but was defeat
ed. His new position is his first fed
eral appointment.
lighted to call "Prinzesschen," "little
princess," And her royal and impe
rial father, who bows to nobody else
on earth, bowed his assent.
Princess Victoria Louise has chosen
weil. Her bridesmaids were Princess
Maty of England, King Edward's
daughter Grand Duchess Olga of Rus
sia, the czar's daughter Princess Yo
landa of Italy, King Victor Emman
uel's daughter, and Princess Elizabeth
of Roumania, daughter of Prince Fer
dinand, heir presumptive to the Rou
manian throne.
These princesses are of distinct
types of loveliness. Princess Mary,
who is second cousin of-the bride, is
fair haired, with the ruddy, healthy
complexion of which
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many Eng­
lish girls boast. Princess Mary was
sixteen years old last month. Grand
Duchess Olga will be eighteen years
old next November she, too, is a sec
ond cousin of Princess Victoria Louise.
The grand duchess Is a pronounced
brunette, with somber hair and eyes.
Princes Elizabeth of Roumania, who is
nearly twenty, is of the brilliantly
clear Caucasian type, and is almost as
tovely as- her mother, the famous
Princess Marie.
gineering staff which made the sur
vey of the Nicaragua canal, and
worked with him. He returned to
Cuba as an engineer for a French
company. At Santa Cruz he joined
the revolutionary forces as a private
and rose rapidly until he became gen
eral of division. His military record
was brilliant he rendered great serv
ice to the Americans at the time of
the Spanish evacuotion, and General
Ludlow, civil governor of Havana
province, appointed him chief of po
lice of Havana, a position requiring at
that time great tact and ability. He
managed a large sugar estate until a
few weeks before his inauguration.
Wise Saw Refuted.
Mrs. Vastlee Rich (sentimentally)
Longfellow says: "We cannot buy
with gold the old associations."
Vastlee Rich—Don't you believe It,
my dear. When I was on politics I
found that cash would purchase the
ancientest organization on earth.—
Life.
Soon Done.
"If you'll give Thickwlt time he'll
tell you all lie knows."
"I'd give lilm about two minutes for
that."
Many Years' Loss of Memory.
A Nevada case is reported where a
man wandered away from his wife
and three children. For ten years he
was not. heard from. Passing through
the state again something aeemed to
snpp in his head and he knew him
self again. He had gone to Texas,
married and had another jittle family.
His wifo had died only the week be
fore hia knowledge of his real self
returned. He attributed his loss of
memory to overwork while figuring
on complicated contracts.
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MANY QUEER CURES 111010 THE CROWDS
Quaint Remedies of English Peas
ants Described.
Keys With Pieces of White Bone, Cop
per Rlnse Mole's Feet, First
Tooth, Flint, and Witch
Cake as Charms.
Quaint remedies for all manner of
troubles and diseases declared by
peasants in many parts of England to
be most efficacious were described by
E. Lovett in a fascinating lecture at
a meeting of the Folk Lore society in
London.
Charms and amulets, relics of me
diaeval superstition, still exist, it ap
pears, in many of those counties which
are washed by -the North sea. They
are, however, gradually dying out but
while they exist they provide a splen
did field for research. Mr. Lovett
brought with him about 20 or 30 neat
little glass boxes, each of which con
tained an object about which a won
derful story could be told.
Old keys are regarded as powerful
charms throughout East Anglia, and
although Mr. Lovett offered five shill
ings for an example with a piece of
white bone attached, which he saw in
the keyhole of a barn, so great was
the belief of the country people In Its
power that the rustic at once refused
the offer. Great reverence is also felt
for stones with holes in them. Round
about Thetford they are hung by a
piece of string to the cottage doors
as a preventive. against the visits of
witches or the devil.
For cramp it is averred tl.at the one
satisfactory cure is the skin of an
eel, while at Brandon, when one is
afflicted with rheumatism. Immediate
recourse is had to the simple expedi
ent of tying up a potato in a cloth and
carrying it about in one's pocket.
The Norfolk peasants always regard
pointed flints as thunderbolts. So
consistent are the simple folks that
they will often assure you that they
picked them up red hot. They carry
flints and stone arrowheads about
with them In the belief that this cus
tom will prevent them from being
struck by lightning.
Around about Flamborough Head
"witch cakes" are to be met with In
almost every cottage.* These are cir
cular shaped, with a hole in the mid
dle and with spikes projecting on all
sides. If you hang one up in your
cottage and once a year burn it and
replace it with another you will have
good luck, we are told. At Scarbor
ough there lives an old fisherman who
is supposed to possess a special faculty
for curing rheumatism. He sells the
"patient" a copper bangle and a cop
per ring. A special feature is that on
the ends of the bangle there must be
wedged two small bore brass cart
ridge cases.
The fishermen of Whitby have a
special charm against drowining with
out which they would never venture
out of port.' It is a little hammer
shaped bone known as "Thor's ham
mer"—from the head of a sheep. In
many parts toctache can apparently
be cured by carrying a, mole's foot,
while in Sussex thd same article will
surely cure cramp. Two little hearts
made of polished amber, with small
holes pierced in them, are worn by
fishermen in the north as a cure for
rheumatism.
In Suffolk a girl always keeps the
first tooth she loses—in some districts
the milk tooth, and In others the first
"second tooth." When she marries
and has a child she wraps^ the tooth
up in a dainty little silk bag and Bus-,
pends it from the infant's neck while
teething. It is said to bring instant
relief.
Mr. Lovett told of his difficulty in
many cases of discovering what good
the charm was supposed to accom
plish. It often took him weeks of pa
tient endeavor before he could find
what he wanted to know, so reticent
are the country folks.
In a discussion which followed oth
er members told of wondrous charms
and remedies. Amputated limbs are
in some cases preserved so that in
the next world the crippled person
may not be deficient in that respect.
In public houses in parts of the east
end all pieces of "silver paper" are
preserved, moistened with beer and
made up Into one large ball. This,
hung up, is a preventive against the
visits of witches. Thistle heads car
ried in the pocket also cure toothache.
Talked. In Vain.
"This, madam," said the bouse
agent, "is the larder. You will ob
serve that it has a brick floor and
slate shelves, which keep the meat
delightfully cool. The marble slab
is designed to hold a week's supply of
fish^ That patent ventilator causes a
constant current of fresh air to cir
culate round the game, so that your
pheasants will never be too hign for
reach and here we have hooks for
joints not required for immediate use.
The fact of its facing south is a great
advantage, as new-laid eggs placed
near the window in the morning will
often turn Into spring chickens during
the afternoon."
"You may spare me further details,"
remarked the lady, acidly. "We are
stiljt vegetarians."
Speaking of Footprints.
"Johnny," said the teacher, "what
is meant by 'footprints in the sands
of time?'"
"I don't know," replied Johnny, "but
I wish you'd have heard what father
said about that party that stepped on
our cement sidewalk before it was
dry."
Lost Money by Dishonesty.
Some years ago, when silver had a
much higher value than at present and
the Mexican dollar was worth Intrin
sically about 95 cents, a counterfeit
Mexican dollar came into the posses
sion of the United States assayera at
the Philadelphia mint. They assayed
the coin and found it to be worth in
trinsically $1.00. It seems that th«
mine from yvhich the counterfeiters
got their metal produced silver that
was strong in gold. Thus the forgers
lost money by making counterfeits.
Danger From Pneumonia in Un
settled Weather.
Great Menace In Street Can
an(
The prospect of a cure
Th«y
Should Be 8hunned During th«
Rush Hours, and
Especially
While One Is Fatigued.
The end of the winter, far froB
bringing a termination to the danger
from pneumonia, in reality marks ty
beginning of the season when this di?
ease becomes an extremely
berious
cause of Increase of mortality, sayj
the Journal of the American .Medical
association. This is true particularly
in large cities. In recent years this
Increase has become more and more
(parked and is all the more striking
because of the decrease in deaths
from other infectious diseases. Pneu.
monla has been aptly termed the
"captain of the men of death," dis
placing tuberculosis, which for aok
long occupied that "bad eminence."
The most important problem before
the medical profession at present It
the reduction of the death rate from
pneumonia. Considering the nature
of the disease and the Intense strain
which it imposes on the heart, It 1b
probable that the only hopeful out
look for any considerable reduction
in pneumonia mortality Is through the
prevention of the disease.
for it,
the disease. While
most frequent in the
of the year it is not
from cold, Arctic
in
popular sense of that term,
the
has grown
less as we have learned
more about
pneumonia is
colder portion
dependent entire­
ly on low temperature. The
occurs at all seasons
disease
and in all cli­
mates, but is rather rare
in the cold
of high altitudes and is
almost never
known to occur within
the Arctic cir­
cle. In spite of all
their suffering
explorers escape
this danger.
Iienc6 we must assume that cold
acts in conjunction with some other
factor In the production of the dis
ease. Pneumonia is favored bv lack
of sunlight and it occurs among those
who are much exposed to dust or who
have to breathe the emanations from
the lungs of other people. Catarrhal
processes affecting the air passages
prepare the soil for the Implantation
of the germ of pneumonia. It is par
ticularly a disease of city life and
crowded living. With our present
knowledge the prospects are hopeful
for the control of pneumonia in the
future through prevention. This is of
special importance to the individual.
The avoidance of pneumonia is large
ly a question of personal precautions
that prevent the development of the
disease by lessening the predisposi
tion to it.
Men in middle life, particularly
those above fifty, must learn in un
settled weather to avoid crowds, es
pecially wheij fatigued and when they
have been for a number of hours
without eating. Late at night, when
for any reason a meal has been
missed, crowds are dangerous. If this
lesson could be generally learned
there would be less pneumonia among
the well to do classes. The principal
danger comes in crowded street cars,
which if possible should be avoided at
rush hours. It needs to be empha
sized that the danger from overcrowd
ing is greatly enhanced by fatigue
and going without food. In a word,
the prevention of pneumonia is now
much clearer than it was. Like all
other Infectious diseases, instead of
being a more or less Inevitable dis
pensation it has come to be recog
nized as due to certain definite fac
tors which can be greatly lessened by
public and individual hygienic regula
tions.
Cautious and True.
A good story is being told of ^Mr.
Gulland, M. P., the government Scot
tish whip.
During a recent all-night sitting
when everybody wanted to go home to
bed and couldn't, he passed a liberal
M. P. reclining on a bench, half asleep.
"Is this debate going on much
longer?" the M. P. asked drowsily.
It was one of those questions wltD
which whips are forever being bom'
barded, for, needless to say, no one
not evi^i Mr. Asqulth—could answer
it witl! any .degree of certainty.
Mr. Gulland was equal to the occa
sion, however, for he
glanced a
questioner with the most
sympatnet
air in the world, and answered, gent
ly: "I think we're getting nearer
the end of it."—Tit-Bits.
The Healer.
A physician, at a luncheon in Provi
dence, told a dialect story:
"A physician from tke
south, he
gar., "said he was glad
that a
treatment was now better
V,
understood
—that it was not looked on like
treatment of Dr. Mose. »w
"A white physician, meeting
Mose, said: wri''
'Well, Mose, where have you Be
'Been to see Cal Clay,'
Mose
It was an English ship
re­
plied. 'He busted a blood vessel *res
tlln' with Wash White.'
'Why, Mose, that's serious,
did you prescribe?' asked the
'I fixed him up all right wrtb1 alum
and gum arable,' Mose an
•Alum to draw the pahts together, an
the gum to stick 'em.'
Same Here.
"Ella Wheeler Wilcox ®aysofine
0f
hundred years from now the ea
meats will be a thing of the
"Well, she is right so far as
concerned."
Deadly Insult.
w,tJ*JeBgef
l!ch crew and an American
list. Two stewards *ere I1
a passenger."—San Franc
naut.
fortb
heated altercation and pouring
anathemas upon each
ot°®r gaid
when as a crowning insult
to the other. "Aw, you
eat
Argo-
Really the Whole Thing^
All one woman cares
lclsm of another Is that she lo
—Manchester Union.
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