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Gity...... State.
making OVER STEEL RAILS.
Now Truces* for Kerolllilg ltatlway Metal,
a Supposed J mpusslOil It v.
The big plant of the McKenna Steel
Working company in Armour dale, is
nearly ready tor use. The business of
the company will be to reroU steel
rails used in railway trucks and new
rails will be made out of old ones.
The process of this work was discov?
ered a short time ago by E. W. Mc?
Kenna, the senior member of the com?
pany, aud it has been given a thorough
test in a mill which this company has
had In operation iu Joliet, 111., about
one year.
An oiilcial of the plant said there had
never been any means known prior to
this discovery by which wornout rails
could be restored to use fur their orig?
inal purpose. The general presump?
tion was that rails lost by use a con?
siderable portion of their metal and
could not again be used. The fact,
however, is that the rails lose only a
very small proportion of their metal,
but become unserviceable from dis?
placement of the metal on the tread
of the rail. The usual loss would not
average more than one pound per
yard; that is to say. a rail o? seventy
five pounds section, i. e.. seventy-five
pounds per yard, weighing originally
750 pounds, when it was removed from
the track would only have losl from
one to two pounds of metal per yard;
and the scrap rail would thus weigh
from 730 to 740 pounds.
In the reproduction of this rail by
the McKenna process a further reduc?
tion of section is made in the manip?
ulation of the rail, equal to 2 Vi to ',',\'z
pounds per yard; thus it is that a rail
of 75-pound section, after having
served its original life, can be re?
newed, weighing seventy pounds to the
yard. The reproduction of the rail is
not limited to the first renewal, but
rails of proper section can be given
from two to five lives.
The First Meerschaum Pipe.
In 1723 there lived in Pesth, the cap?
ital of Hungary, Karol Kowates, a
shoemaker, whose ingenuity in cutting
and carving on wood, etc.. brought
him into contact with Count "An
drassy. ancestor of the prime minister
of Austria, with whom he had become
a favorite. The count, on his return
from a mission to Turkey, brought
with him a large piece of whitish clay,
which had been presented to him as a
curiosity, on account of its light spe?
cific gravity. It struck the shoemaker
thai, being porous, it must naturally
be well adapted for pipes, as it would
absorb the nicotine. The experiment
was tried, and Karol cut a pipe for the
count and one for himself. Hut in the
pursuit of his trade he could not keep
his hands clean, and many a piece of
shoemaker's wax became attached to
the pipe. The clay, however, instead
of assuming a dirty appearance as was
naturally to be expected, when Karol
wiped it off, received, wherever the
wax had,touched, a clear brown polish,
instead of the dull white it previously
hatl. Attributing his change in the
tint to its proper source, he waxed the
whole surface, and, polishing the pipe,
again smoked it. and noticed how ad?
mirably and beautifully it colored; also,
how much more sweetly the pipe
smoked after being waxed. Karol had
struck the smoking philosopher's
stone; and other noblemen, hearing of
the wonderful properties of this sin?
gular species of clay, imported -V.Mii
considerable quantities for tite manu?
facture of pipes. The natural scarcity
of this much-esteemed article, and the
great cost of importation, in those days
of limited facilities for transportation,
rendered its use exclusively confined to
the richest Ettropeau noblemen until
1830, when it became a more general
article of trade. The first meerschaum
pipe made by Karol Kowates has been
preserved in the museum of Pesth.
1'oolml iltt. Bfotel Mini.
This joke is going the rounds at the'
expense of a Lewiston landlord. A
certain dead heat arrived from Port?
land anil after putting in the day
among friends went to the "hotel and
registered. He had just $1. and he hid
somehow come, into possession of a
good hat, coat and vest, but his
trousers were simply too far gone to
Be respectable.
That night he got up at 12 o'clock
and walked over to the river and threw
his ragged garment into the falls.
Then he came back and went to bed.
I The next morning he rung the push
j bell, but it didn't work, for some rea?
son. So he opened the window and
shouted to some one in the street and
asked hint to send up the landlord, lip
came the proprietor.
The lodger showed the window open
upon the veranda, and the transom
open over the door. When he went
to bed he had a good pair of $10 pants,
and now they were gone. He would
like to borrow a pair till he could see
a lawyer and find out what-for.
The propriietor went out and called
in a clothing clerk, who fitted the man
to the best pair of pants in the store,
and the landlord made the gtiest a
present of $"> for his trouble aud a re?
ceipt of his bill thrown in
THE BACHELOR GIRL.
A Mat i on's Lertiire oiiUjii Most Independ?
ent Woman.
Woman is by nature dependent. In?
deed, there is no such thing as an all
around independent woman. Few men
are4 wholly independent. Many young
women calling themselves girl bachel?
ors think that they have sought and
found real Independence. Then there
are the aggressive spinsters who are
firmly convinced that, they alone or
all womanhood'are truly independent.
They join in with the girl bachelors
and pity their married sisters for lieiiiR
tied to a man. The married women do
not answer them, for they ate satisfied
with their lot as a rule. And well they
may be, for the most independeut wom?
an in the world is the woman who is
not only married but also mated. Some
people say that a woman poorly mar?
ried is happier than the woman not
married at all. A matron gave two
girl bachelors some points along this
line not long ago. They spoke to her
lu a rather natroniz-.ng way about her
not being able to join in one of their
larks because she was married; it was
' like touching a match to kerosene.
"Such talk shows your Ignorance,"
she exclaimed in a tone that carried
conviction. '^ou.glvl3_and your boast
eo rnnepenflence irr.;.'.: r^c no end of
amusement as well :.s food for serious
tlto'ttght. You sec. I ran read you like
books because before my marriage 1
was an Independent bachelor maid my?
self. 1 thought I wouldn't exchange
my sweet liberty fur the best husband
and the finest home in the land, or. at
least. I tried awfully hard to make my?
self believe that 1 believed just as you
two girls and your itind are trying to
do."
"Why, what do J on mean?" asked
one of the girl bach jlors.
"Sour grapes," salj the other, with it
gesture of contempt"
"Merely this." answered the matron,
"that it is against .lature for woman
to he wholly independent, and when we
go against nature sje squelches us in
one way or another. Now you claim
to lie two girl bachelors, don't you?
And you represent t!;e two types of so
called independent vomen. One of yon
is independent by choice, the other
through necessity. Tan has a very
generous allowance, .*nd she has elect?
ed to leave her home and spend her life
in study and also to do absolutely as
she pleases. Nell h is been forced to
leave her home and eatn her own liv?
ing, and she, ton. hjs set her head to
think, speak and at;t as she sees lit.
There you are, and you are two out of
thousands. You art. both attractive to
men ami have had and now have no
end of beaux, ami von say that you
can't fall in love v.-ith any of them,
that you are proof igainst such non?
sense, but 1 wart yt-tt you aren't. You
are merely bent. oi. shuttng love or
anythinglikeitoutof fourheart. Some
day a man will nn-.f along who will
drive such notions < it of your head in
a hurry."
"Bosh!" exclniinej the one called
Fan. "You don't k unv what you are
talking about. 1 lea l a life of absolute
independence, and ?.I12 man doesn't
walk the earth whj could make me
give it up."
"And so do I," chimed in Nell.
"Them's my sent im ?nts, too."
"Ii would be prepc -terous to say thai
the average baclielo g>r! is not inde?
pendent in a way," answered the ma?
tron, serenely. "V'here are lots of
meanings to the wor 1 independent, you
know. I'll grunt yoMlial the bachelor
gill is a creature of independent mind,
of independent mea is, of independent
manlier, but she is not, never has been,
and never will be Independent when ii
comes to her heart. her affections.
Man can do without love in this life,
but woman can't.* ."Jot eveiy man is
subject to control I y other people or
things, hut every .vornan is. The
more a woman tails about her ir.de
penitence and brags of it and plume,
herself on it, the mo-e di mly am I con?
vinced that at that v try moment is this
woman dependent fcr happiness on the
affection of someone. Usually it is a
man. Berate me ul- you have a mind
to for speaking this way. hut 1 am hav?
ing the satisfaction of knowing that 1
am striking home, I'ou see I was once
a bachelor girl my?id?. and all of my
friends said that 1 ivas a fool to give
up my career anil Barry."
"Have you regretted it?" asked both
girls.
"Well, I should s,iy not," answered
the matron. "Theru is only one truly
independent life for a woman and that
is a life with'the ui.s.n she loves. Love
is the only thing Uu.t can set a woman
free. An all-wise universal Father ha?
made this so to pr nerve the race. 1
never knew what independence waa
until after I was married. Single wom?
en are apt to mlstal e license for inde
penitence. I kno.i every trend ol
thought that the ; o-ealled bacbelot
girl, the so-called independent woman
has. She gets up early in the morning
thoroughly in love vith thejot she has
chosen and starts out on her day's
work. She iure!.-; rebuffs, gets dis?
couraged, grows pi ysieally so weai j
that she longs to II;- to some one win.
loves her better th.*n all others, ant
have a good cry.
"It is simply ber.iuse her woman's
nature is revolting igainst a life of in
dependent lonelines. or lonely inde
pendence, just as yr,u please to look a
it. All that is best ^n her is stretchin;
out after a home pf her own, aftei
family ties. When she made hersel
independent, in mild, manners am
finances, she enslaved her affections
chained them up, rendered them inert
No woman can be really independen
until she unchains her affections aai
opens her heart to recat/e the lovo o
some true man.
DO YOU SPEAK SOr-TLY?
foil Can He- 1'aiiglit t? <:?nlr?l Your Voles
anil Ailupt it to the ICooui Von l-.nter.
Im you speak softly? Has your voice
)recisely the proper pitch, and can it
idapt itself on the instant to the room
?oil suddenly enter? Have you learned
hat you must never whisper in a
thurcli-?for whispering is always very
tudihle there?but speak in a low, firm
one? fan you laugh properly and
lability, as an ideal girl should? ( an
.-on control your voice, using one lone
"or one occasion and another for uti
tther. at will? Can you talk ani
natedly and with enthusiasm, without
.hrowlug your arms about, your head
:uo far hack and without moving your
oody?
For if you cannot say yes to all these
riuestinns you are not a perfect and
properly modern girl. There have
heel) many criticisms, as well as
praises, levelled at the American girl.
411 (I one of the chief of these lias been
for years that she talked loo loud and
[00 often did not modify her voice
when occasion called. Now. Ameri?
can fathers and mothers say the time
lias come for reform, and the new cult
of speaking softly has been started.
! A foreign woman, continental to her
ringer tips, who has lite softest, pret
liest voice herself?Mine. Mondosez?
is the apostle of this new cult, and to
her "studio." 011 Fifth avenue, come
each day troops of girls, singly or in
classes of six and eight, that they may
he in the fashion. It is. in fan. a rage
I in a mild way. Only those girls blessed
by nature or by very early training
with voices that arc properly fashion?
able can afford to keep out of the pro?
cession, and all the others of the sets
wend their way daily to the studio."
It is not alone yy example?though
example has a great deal to do witli it
? that the cult of speaking softly is
taught. The girls tanged about her.
Mine. Mendosez asks each of them to
speak in her ordinary conversational
lone. Then, stepping to the piano
near by. she strikes a note If high
in the treble it is meant for a girl
whose tones are naturally harsh and
guttural; if down in the bass, for a
girl who speaks shrilly and in a half
scream.
?"That for you," she says, singling
ant a girl. "Now try and see how ? lose
you can pitch your voice to that."
No exact point of meeting is there
und no similarity of tones sought af?
ter, but the deep voice and the shrill
one, the nasal voice and the voice that
5eetns to come from the bottom of the
throat, ate cajoled anil pulled along
until they commence to lose their dis?
agreeable peculiarities and are on
lauucwhut common ground.
Now, this is but the preface. It is
not so much the object of the cult to
change voices as it is to control them.
And yet the two go together in a I
measure. Once, by this plan of nasal
gymnastics, a girl can aller her tones
at will, it is a simple thing for her to
learn to speak softly. She comes to
learn thai by raising her voice hardly
at all she can make her tones "carry"
to a marvelous degree. She is taught
the difference between rooms, how
there is one tone for public assem?
blages, another for parlors, a third for
still smaller rooms and yet another
for the street.
As completely as if she were taking
singing lessons does this system of the
new cult of speaking softly range her
voice ui) and down, keeping it mean
whlle (if there is a tendency either
way), out of her throat and her nose,
until she is complete -mistress of her
tones, all the while holding forward as
the main object soft speaking.
Women Kconomi/.itii;.
Chief among the tendencies of the
moment as regards representative
. New York ? women is a most marked
idea of economy. Economy in every
I way. even lo the saving of the pennies,
let alone the dollars, has come to be
'Ja growing enthusiasm. That this is
not a theory but a genuine condition,
and that women, with the biggest sort
> of incomes are actually practicing
what they preach, can be learned from
? all the prominent tradesmen, as war is
L making many of them genuinely blue
I for the accounts of many of their best
" customers are falling decidedly off.
f The idea of the flay is that the coun
1 try may sooner cr later need money;
. that at all events scores of new char?
ities and aid societies will probably
I spring up, and that they themselves
i should begin to save now In order that
1 they may be prepared when the call
for funds cornea- That Is Ulfi. CfigUnjr
among the women of the "sets,-? and
they are showing their willingness to
hp ready to make all sorts of little sac?
rifices.
This has not been told in print for
the reason that these women have,
naturally, not talked about it. but It is.
nevertheless, a fact. The average wo?
man of fashion is having about a third
as many new gowns as usual, and she
is buying far less in the way of frip?
peries and novelties. A much smaller
quantity of goods Is being ordered
daily from the butcher, the baker and
the grocer, and there are some women
who are actualy keepin? a close watch
on the sugar and butter in their pan?
tries, to see that neither of tliese ar?
ticles is wasted. This, on the part of
women who have never done such a
thing in all their lives before. Ser?
vants are being discharged and estab?
lishments quietly reduced.
Miss T.oulse Horfense Snowdnn of
Philadelphia, who received the degree
of Bachelor of Science In .Inno, was the
tirst woman to receive honors at the
University of Pennsylvania for a full
four years' college course. Sho also re?
ceived the first prize for the best prepa?
rations illustrating the anatomy ot
embryology of auy animal.
WHAT D'OOLEY SAYS.
A-? to the Turrtoniinl ot the l'reatmt t'olted
Ma On Army.
"Well, sir," said Mr. Dooley, "I didn't
vote f'r Muck, but I'm with him now.
I had me doubts whether he was lit'
gr-reatest military jatiitts iv tli" oinch
ry. hut thcy'sc no question about it.
We wint into this war with ould Spain
with about lb' most I'ash'nalilu ar-rtny
that iver creased its pants. 'Twas a
daily hint fr'm Paris to th' crool foe.
"Other gin'rals iv th' r-rottgh-liouse
kind, like Napoleon Uonyparl. th' im
proa iv th' Krlnch, Gln'ral Ulis S.
Grant, an' Cousin George Dooley, hired
coarse, rude men Aint wuddeu't know
th' ditf'rence between goluf an' crokay,
an' had their pants tucked in thler
boots an' chewed toliacco be lh' pound.
Thank hivln McKinley knows betther
thin to sind th" likes iv ihini abroad to
shock our triads be du in pin their cof?
fee into thimsilves tr'm a saucer.
"Th" ilure bell rings an" a human in
liv'ry says 'I'm Master Willie Doo?cl
bery's man an' he's come to be ex?
amined f'r th" ar-rmy,' eays lie. 'Admit
him.' says Mclvinley, an' Mastei Willie
enters, accompanied he Iiis vat-Icy. his
mnh an' pah an' th' comity iv th' golnf
club. 'Willie,' says the I'risi.ient. 'ye
nr-re intheriug upon a gloryims eur'eor,
an' 'Iis nlc'ssary that we shuil be tlirttly
examined so that ye can teach th'
glories Iv civilization to th' tyr-ranies
iv Europe that is supporteil he ye-er
pah an' mah.' he says. ' Tivud be a
turr'ble thing.' he says, "if soitie day
they shud meet a Spanish giu'ral in
Mahdrid an" have him say lu thim: 'I
seen ye'er son Willie durin' th' war
wearin'a stovepipe hat an tan shoes.'
" 'Let us begin th' examination.' lie
says. 'Ar-re ye a good golur player?'
't am," says Willie. 'Thin I appint ye a
liftenant. What we need in' th" army is
good goluf player:;,' he says. 'In our
former war.' he says, 'we hud th' mis?
fortune to have men in command that
djiln't know th' difference botwean a
goluf an' a beecycle, an what was th'
raysult? We foozled our approach at
Hull It-run,' he says. 'Ar're ye a num?
ber iv anny clubs?' he says. 'Four,']
says Willie. 'Thin I make ye a major,' |
he says. "Whore d'ye get ye'er pants?'
he says. 'IT'rni England,' suys Willie.
"Gloryous,' says Mclvinley, I make ye a
colonel,' he says. 'Let me thry ye in
tactics,' lie says. "Suppose ye was con?
fronted be a Spanish ar'rmy in th"
afthernoon, how wud ye dhrefs?' he
says. I'd wear a stovepip hat. a long
coat, a white vest an' lavender pan's,'
says Willie. 'An' if th' attack was be
night?' he says. 'I put on me dhrefs
shoot an' go out to meet thim.'. says
Willie. 'A thuro sojer,' says McKinley.
'Suppose th' sociable lasted all night ?
he says, 'I'd sound th' retreat at day?
break an' have me brave boys change
back,' he says, "to suitable ajipar'l,' be
says. 'Masterly,' says McKinley. 'I will
sind ye'er name in as a brlgadier-gin'
ral," he says. -He Thankful, 111' r'ricli,'
he says, "is brave an' patariotic,' he
says. "Ye will jine th' other boys fr'm
th' club at Tampa.' he says. 'Ye shud
be c areful iv ye'er equipment,' he says.
'I hav almost iv'rything r-ready," says
Willie. "Me man attlnded to thim ue
?ils," lie says. 'But 1 fear I can't go to
th' fr'ront immejetly,' he says. 'Me
pink silk shirts hasn't arrived,' he
says. "Well," says Mack, 'wait f'r thim,"
he says. 'I'm anxious f'r to hid this hor
lile war," he says, "which has cost me
manny a sleepy night,' he says, 'but
'twud be a crime f'r to sind a sojer un?
prepared to battle.' he says. 'Wait f'r
th' silk shirts,' he says. 'Thin on to
war,' he says, 'and let ye'er watch
word be: 'Rnyminiber ye'er manners,'
he says.
"They'se a man out here,' says th"
privit sicrlty, "that wants to see ye,' he
says. 'He's a r'rough-lookln' charack
ter that was in the Soo war,' he says.
'His name is Gin'ral Pitetim,' re says.
?Throw th' man out,' says Msck. "1
seen him in Pinnsylvania avnoo yes
terdah, r'ridin' in a street ca-ar.' he
says. 'Ah, Willie, me boy,' he says,
' 'tis little ye know what troubles I
ha-, e f'rm these vulgar sojers with
pants that bag at th' knees. Give me a
goold-tipped cigareet aniL, tell me
whether shirt waists is much worn in
New York this year.'
?'Vis, U'umissy, wa put th' tastiest
ar-rmy in th' field that iver come out
iv a millinery shop. 'Right dhress!'
was an ordlier that, meant a. iine
thhi.' Th' ar-rmy was followed be
specyal correspondent's fr'm Butth
r'n k's Pattl.eerns uu' Harper's Bazar,
an' if our brave boys don't gore an'
l pleat th' i 111my 'twill bo because 'h'
inimy'll be r'rude enough to schoot in
anny kind iv clothes they find on th'
chair whin they wake up."?Chicago
Journal.
To Milk? Her Happy.
"Ali. ys," she cried, "1 shall grieve
for yon when you ar,e far away; but
still you can do something that will
make me very happy."
""What is it?" he asked. "Do not say
that you would have me desert. Do not
ask me to bring disgrace upon?-"
"No," she Interrupted, "It is not that:
but promise me that you will send me
your belt buckle as soon as you get a
uniform. All the girts are wearing
them now " ? - - -
MADE A REPUTATION. I
An Kruillte Man-? Conversation With a Hop
and the Ke>ult.
Some good men are naturally surf?
teachers, and so full of benevolence,
especially toward the young, that they
.?annot help spreading wisdom wher?
ever they go. That the seed may fall
on stony ground is proyed by a story,
which a gentleman, who went hunting
far into the interior of Nova Scotia,
tells in a letter.
The hunter was carried sixteen miles
at night by a boy 16 years old and a
horse 15 years old. The ride was tedi?
ous, and the boy driver was inclined to
fall asleep. The hunter, therefore,
thought to interest him In something.
"I see we are going due west," ha
said.
'"How do you know that?" asked the
hoy. "Were you ever here before?'*
"No; but there is the North Star."
"How do you know It's the North
Star?"
"Why, there arc the pointers." |j
"What pointers?"
The hunter explained, and told th*
hoy how to tlnd the North Star. Thea
he pointed out two of the planets. Tha
boy seemed wide awake now, and tha
hunter went on to give him his first
lesson in astronomy, telling him how
Jupiter was 1.3oo times as large as the
earth, ami how Mars showed changes
of seasons?how it had bays and ap?
parent canals, and so forth, and how It
was supposed by many to have intel?
ligent inhabitants.
When, after his hunting, the stranger
returned to the town where he had
hired the conveyance and the boy, ha
found that the people seemed to have
a centtin humorous interest in him.
It was so evident that he was the ob?
ject of some curiosity or joke that ha
made inquiries, and finally found a
man who could tell him.
"Why," said his informant, "you'va
lititle a great reputation for yourself;
Around here."
"In what way?"
"Oh. the kid that drove you over to
- the other night came back tha
next day and told all the 'setters' at
ihe hotel that of all the liars he ever
heard, you were the slickest."
"What lie did I tell him?"
"The boy said that you pretended to
know the number of miles to the sun,
and that you pointed to a star that you
said was called 'Jumpter,' and that you
saitl it was 1,1100 times bigger than this
world, and that you polnled to an?
other star that you said was one whera
folks lived."
I " 'Oh,' says the hoy, "you just ought
' :o hear him! He's a peach. Old
Haskins ain't in it with that feller
Tor lyln". I tell you he's the biggest
liar in Nova Scotia. I'll point him out
to you when he comes back.' "
The boy had pointed him out, and he
was at that moment enjoying the repu?
tation of the champion of all liars who
ttad ever come to Nova Scotia. ,
Alt Hawks Not Harmful.
The instinctive dislike of all kinds ot
snakes that is possessed by almost
every human being, is just about as
unreasoning as the antipathy shown by
a man with a gun for any and every
kind of hawk that happens to coma
within range. It is a hawk, and as
such it should be killed; that seems
to be the idea that is predominant. As
a matter of fact there are really very;
fe.v hawks that are harmful even la
the smallest degree to game birds and
game animals. The large majority ara
as useful to farmers as the house-cat
is to the housewife; they quarter the
fields like a setter or pointer, but they,
are not bent ou looking for a quail;
their favorite game is field mice, and
every farmer knows what field mica
can do lo his crops. For this reason
the annual slaughter of all kinds ot
hawks while on their Northern flight
Is something pitiful. A sportsman's
journal, a few months ago, devoted a
column or so to the doings of a certain
gunner who resides near the Atlantic
Highlands. 'Ihe Highlands are right
in the path annually taken by tha
hawks on their way from their winter
resorts, and this year Mr. White, the
party in question, is reputed to have
killed large numbers of bawks of all
kinds. If Mr. White and his kindred
spirits would devote themselves sole?
ly to the sharp-shinned hawks that ara
so destructive to game and chickens,
they would be doing some rea'; good to
the cause ot game protection; hut to
ruthlessly destroy any hawk that ia
(lying over, just because it is a hawk
and not protected by law. Is an outrage
from the naturalist's and' humanit?r?
ian's point of view. j
Maps of Valley Force,
It is somewhat remarkable that tha
only known maps of the Valley Forge
encampment during the winter of 1777- '
'78 were made kt own to an American
as bite as last year. when Judga
Pennypacker discovered them In Am?
sterdam and that, presented before tha
Sons of the Revolution on their visit
to Valley Forge recently, they will
only become known to the American
public when published In the society's
year-book. The series of maps now In
Judge Pennypacker's possession and
made originally by a French engineer
with the American army, include not
only careful drawing* of the Valley
Forge encampment, but plans also of
the battle-fields of Pennsylvania and
New Jersey.
It is understood that the plot of tha
Valley Purge encampment modifies
materially the traditions concerning
the camp, showing the location of
troops where heretofore no troops hava
been supposed to have had their en?
campment. The careful Hollander
who contributed so heartily to tha
American cause appears to have con*
tributed the last chapter to the his?
tory of the cause by preserving these
maps until they fell into the right
hands.
The l ow Wax Vp In Style*. ***
Miss De Style?"Why does that eew
took at me so queerly?"
Rustic-"It's your red sunshade.
Miss."
Miss De Style "Well, I know it's
out of fashion, but I didn't think a
country cow wot !d notice it." j|
Woman'" Advancement.
New Woman?1 froze my right hand
rocking a cradle.
Reporter?Gracious! Did your pooc
baby freeze, top?
New Woman?Sir! I was rocking a
cradle in the Klondike.,

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