Newspaper Page Text
8 NEW HAVES MORNIKQ JOURNAL AND COURIER TUESDAY MAltCS 19 19(tt FORM1AL OPENING EXHIBIT flJo-Day and To-Morrow at Muhlfel i der's. ; It would cot take much of ft prophet to predict that the famous millinery es tablishment of Muhlfelder's will be crowded all day to-day and to-morrow, by the ladles of this and neighboring: towns, who have been patiently wait ing for the grand formal opening, on those occasions. And while they are on tiptoe of expectation, and confident ly believe that a rich and rare treat Is In store for them, yet they all will Ibe surprised when they gaze at the. attractions prepared for them. In this instance reality will far exceed expec tation. The results of the highest art and the products of this and other lands will constitute a wealth of beau ty and fashion that will be as beautiful as It Is rare and most bewildering.' This season's goods seem to mark an evolution in the remarkable beauty and delicacy of feminine headgear. Indeed, It would seem that the limit had been reached and perfection attaiened. So boar in mind, ladies, this exposition is for your exclusive benefit. The doors are thrown open foryou, and one and all are cordially welcome and will have the utmost freedom extended to them at the establishment. That the warm est praise will be bestowed on the love ly creations andi expressions of pleas ure and delight be heard Is a foregone certainty. And appreciation for many weeks of arduous work will encourage (md repay those who have planned and exeouted It. See adv. HOW TO CLEAN JEWELRY. (Treatment of Real and Imitation Stones at Home. Those -who 'are the fortunate own ers of a well filled jewel casket are us ually fully alive to the cares and re sponsibilities which such a possession entails, and periodical visits to the Jeweller's, where skilled and ' expert knowledge can be brought to bear up on its preservation, are looked upon as ft stern necessity. The average girl, however, with Inexpensive simple chains and rings, broodies and brace lets, Is far less Inclined to trouble to any particular degree about their care, the result being distinctly disastrous,' Especially where Imitation gems or satural crystals and other stones are concerned. Gold ornaments, says the London Express, when plain or worked and unadorned with gems, should always Ibe washed In warm soapsuds from Itlme to time, excellent results being obtained if a few drops of sal volatile ore added to the hot water before making the lather. In, the case of chains composed of close links, which are most apt to harbor dlret and dust, lew remedies equal that of placing them to soak in a bottle full of warm eoapsuds mixed with a little prepared chalk. The chains should be left for a few hours, after which the bottle must be Well shaken, the lather poured off, and tfte ornaments first rinsed in cold water and then dried as thoroughly as possible. Diamonds, sapphiers, rubles and emeralds are wonderfully restored If the yare washed periodically in a little sal volatile and water, the surface -bothg-attsrward -poTlShed -with a clean chamois leather or a soft piece of silk. Precious stones in general are usually Improved if they are put away in box wood sawdust instead of being en closed -in velvet lined cases. Turquoises must on no aecdunt be touched with water or kept in a damp place, while oil or grease is equally fatal to pearls, wether real or Imita tion. In tases where real pearls have lost their lustre a method of treating them is of laying them to soak for a few days in strong brine and water, many old authorities recommending, however, the curious baking treatment the pearls being enclosed in a lump of dough and then baked in a slow oven. Jade ornaments soon lose their polish If they are neglected, and to remedy this few specifics equal the application of a paste of chalk and water. 'Coral-can be successfully cleaned by placing the ornaments In a saucepan ful of boiling Water and adding a few pieces of white coap and soda. They should be boiled for a few moments, then rinced in tepid water and laid to dry on white paper. COACH HORSES JOIN IN FOX CHASE. ' They had some spirited h irses in the old coaching days. Just a hundred years ago a remarkable proof of. this was given, and fortunately recorded for the astonishment of inter motoring generations, in the case of the Liver pool mail coacti. Horses were changed at Monk's Heath, between Congleton, In Chessler and Newcastle-under-Lyme. :On this particular occasion a pack of fox-bounds was heard in full cry just as the horses from congleton were freed from the coach, and they Started off with the harness on their backs and followed the run to the flnistx In of them, a blood mare, etuck close to the whipper in ana took every jump after him through the two hours. And in the evning they took the return coach to Congleton as merrily as If they had been in the stable ali the time From the London Tribune. "The actor's task is to hold the mir ror up to nature," says John Drew sa piently. But the actor id usually so busy admiring his own reflection that "nature seldom has a look-in. Puck. "Do you believe that story about the frooso that laid the golden egg?" queried the young lady. ' ",'Certainly," replied the man with the new suit. "It was a tailor's goose." Chicago News. Have you much brain work? Try Entlng Grape-Nuts . every day for 10 days and see .how much better you can work. "There's a Reason." HSffiSSBSSHI "THIS SIDE FOR THE ADDRESS." "This side for the address only," as applied to postcards, is out of date. It became a thing of the past on the stroke of 12 last night, and hereafter when you read it on a pasteboard pay no attention to It, but go ahead and write any message you please on the tlefhand of the address Bide of the card and have no fear that you will fall in the clutches of the law. Neither you nor your correspondent will be called on to pay additional postage because you have openly defied the printed order, for with the beginning of this day an order issued by Postmaster General Cortelyou four months ago went into effect, and it is now permissible to .use half the face of a postcard for a mes sage. The United States as a rule is pretty well up with the times on almost everything connected with progress and civilization, but it has -been Just a lit tle backward now and then on postal affairs. The great "souvenir postal card craze'' struck Europe and spread all over the Old World before this country cf me to a realization of Its time sav ing money making and Instructive fea tures. After a while the craze ap peared here, and 'apppaently now as bad a case of souvenir-postal-carditis exists as it is possible for one people to acquire. But the Post Office Depart ment did not keep up with the profes sion of Nations in the matter of facili tating the business. The postal au thorities of foreign countries soon saw a fine chance to boost their postal re venues by catering to the "fad," and it was not long before they granted to postal card users the privilege of writ ing message on one-half of the face of the cards. Thl3 was done mainly to en able the manufacutrers of the cards to print pictures all over one side of the cards and still give to the users a space for their messages. By agree ment, between the- representatives 'of the various foreign postal departments 'the left half of the face of the card was granted to the writers, as well as the entire back, and all that was re served far the address was the right half of the face under the postage stamp. This was found to be enough, and this generosity on the part of the authorities doubtless resulted In the printing of many thousands of cards that would not otherwise have been made iand; the consequent increase in the postal revenue. Tribune Corres pondence. , HONOR IN COLLEGES. The Need of a Higher Standard There .as Elsewhere. At the beginning of the present col lege year the Seniors at Yale Univer sity agreed to adopt .the "honor sys tem," This expression in college cir cles is understood- to refer to an ar rangement under which the students declare their intentions not to cheat in recitation or examination. Its founda tion rests upon the conviction that the commandment "Thou shalt not steal" applies to Intellectual activity, and that t-e true ideal of a gentleman cannot be associated with one who seeks a bet ter mark by dishonest means. The Yale Seniors found that their new plan worked so w-ell that they now propose its extension to include the lower class es. Some doubt is expressed, however, whether the Freshmen should be so trusteJ. . 'College Freshmen ,qulckly learn the ways of the upper classmen. . They look with interest upon the older member of the college community who displays a "roller crib" which has been handed down from one generation to another and has been used in many an exmina tion for the salvation of some shaky student. They are taught quickly the importance of the commandment "Thou shallnot be found out." They come to understand that "swiping" Is not steal ing, and that, no matter What the value, of an object may bo, it is all right for a college man to steal It or destroy it. If Freshmen are not ready for the "honor system" the fault largely rests upon their teachers in the upper class es.' At Princeton It is said that no man can cheat In examination and stay In the Institution, the overwhelming con demnation of his fellows being sure and merciless. The Bame thing is true in most Southern colleges, according to the account given In Sheldon's "Student Life and Customs." The fine sense of honor long the heritage of the South manifests itself in thfs way also, the professor taking no precautions in an exmlnatlon, sometimes leaving the room, the students being quick to de tect and punish an offender against their unwritten code. In the Northern colleges little 8 f tempt has been made to check the custom , ,of cheating in class or examination, and no special censure follows In such a course so far as the student body is concerned. , It is unfortunate that "honor" is so scarce a commodity among the boys and girls who are in the colleges. While the Yale Seniors were discussing, the value of rtheir plan for extendine the "honor system," the Yale librarian was preparing a press bulletin announcing that a student had been expelled from the Institution for multilattng the files of papers in the library utterly unconr sclous apparently, of the petty mean ness of his selfish act. In a local university a few days ago three posters designed for the advertising of a stud ent show given to raise money for student prizes were stolen almost as soon as they were put up, those who mode them being deprived both of the desired advertising from them and of the money their sale was expected to bring. The "I did not think" reply to censure is a common one, because students have been educated to wrong ideals. Most of the attempts to better conditions have failed. It is a slow process to overcome the influence of traditions in college. It is unfortunate that so many of these traditions take little account of "honor." Chicago Tribune. There was some confusion as to which side .of the street cars should stop. . "Let us make it a rule," said the motorman, "to notice on which side the people are waiting, and then stop at the other." "But I suppose there are people wait ing on both sides?" ventured one less hardenei in experience. "Oh, as to that," replied the instruct or, "of course, It's impossible not to oblige somebody once in a while." Philadelphia Ledger. 1. ELEPHANTS AT WORK. Hundreds Employed in Sawmills May Give Place to Machinery. To see the working elephant In all his glory one must go to Burma, the centre of the teakwood Industry. Some of the great saw mills of Maulmain and Rangoon employ hundreds of ele phants, some with and others without a mahout or driver. . The companies own immense timber ct nness'.onE, and each year a certain number of trees are marked for cut ting down. Those so marked are girdled to prevent the sap rising. This causes the tree to die. In three years it is quite seasoned and dry. . It Is then , cut down, the branches are lopped off, and one, two, or three elephants are attached to it by chains to haul it to five nearest stream, The creek in which the elephant has deposited its log, says the Circle, may be dry in the timber cutting season; nevertheless the creature continues to pile log after log in the bed of the torrent against the time when the monsoon shall break and wash the accumulation of logs into one of the main rivers. - When this is done men collect at various points and examine the various owners' marks. The logs are sortel and bound into rafts, and a family of Burmans forthwith installs Itself up on each, and builds a lltle hut of bam boo and leaves In which to live while the big raft of teak logs is coming down the river to Rangoon. When the rafts arrive opposite , the saw-yards herds of working elephants are in waiting to heave the logs out of the water and taken them to different parts of the 1 'mill. ' They display an intelligence almost human; and when the dinner bell rings at midday logs are dropped in every direction and the ground fairly shakes as hundreds of tusksrs scamper off to dinner like playful children let out of school. : When the logs have been sawn other gangs of elepoants mqve dexterlously about among the huge circular saws, avoiding them with extreme pre, clering away debris, and in a marvel lous manner, discriminating between mere rubbish and the sawn planks. Then the elephants stack the latter so carefully that the edges are not in jured. Most amusing is it to see one of these working elephants tackling a huge squared log and placing it on the stack. First of all he estimates Its length and welgnt as it lies on the ground. Then he digs his tusks un der It at one end, curls his trunk over and tries to drag one end of the log on to his tusks. - Should he find the task beyond him he will give a queer little trumpet note, and up comes a colleague to help him at the other end.' In a moment the two elephants have swung the big log between them, walk In step to the pile, and then one of them, apparently by preconcerted agreement, places his end in position on the stack, while the other rams home the log. EVjiry timber yard has its own parti cular show elephant, more Intelligent than the rwt, and one belonging to Messrs. MacGregOr & Co. of Rangun was In the habit of turning on a water tap and helping himself to a big drink, though he could never be induced to turn the 'Water off agaln. Similar ob stinacy and occasionally bad temper is often shown, and the mahouts are very highly paid, for they live always in the risk that the huge brutes my turn upon them nd kill them, prticul rly if tiie mahout has at any time shown cruelty or unkindness. A Hindu mahout was employed" with a working elephant In Bangkok, Slam, and frequently used a steel goad, In deflanef of all warnings. The result wan that his elephant made frequent Easter... Are yon prepared to greet the day properly? How about your suit? What about that too coa ? Is your bat right? How about your g?oves, Ties, etc.? Suits, $8 to $35. O'Coats, $7.50 to $30. Rain Coats, $ 1 0 to $30 . Hats, $1 to $3.50. Everything for the Little Fellow Everything for the Boys. Everything for the Young Men. Everything in FurnLh'mgs. j i i i i r It I New rO-DAY and i : ga; uctmg oi its patrons. , , ... qr We could not begin to give a pen description of the rare beauty of the display of its hun dreds of lovely components. - '' i A Suffice it then for us to say that "the pronouncedly proper the eminently correct the unanimously approved styles of ; Parisian 'ateliers, London shops and ; New York's most skillful adapters are here in a most surprising variety. ,- r ' Large Hats and Small Hats are equally the vogue. Choose whichever is most becoming. Beomingness is novv a-days the diapason style note. Remembef that in- making your selections. So important Is the choice of the, Easter Hat that careful; study should be devoted to it. Our stock and salespeople are entirely at the disposal of our friends for insDectinff and trvintr on the new hats until VVc trust that Display. -. attempts to kill him, and finally the man was discharged. " Nearly four years afterward, by a most remarkable coincidence, both ele phant and mahout met again In Maulmain, Burma, and no sooner was the blu tusker out of sight of the saw- mill and well Into tii forest than he curled his trunk up backward, seiz ed his old persecutor by the neck, hurled him to the ground, and in an Instant a mighty forefoot had crushed out his life. Each working elephant represents a value of $1,500, and years of experi ence have shown that until quite re cently this was the most profitable form of labor that tfould be employed Ui the great forests of Burma and Slam. Now, however, highly ingen ious American, German, and British machinery chiefly portable railroads and steam hoists are gradually tak ing the place of the .giant workers, and in another decade the independent ele phant laborer may be entirely extinct. TRICKS OF THE STEEL, TRADE. How Flaws That May Cause Disasters Are Concealed. It might very natu'arlly have been thought that If there was one ,trad which could be said to be free from trickery and faking it was that of steel manufacture, says Tit-Bits. The mere fact that steel fs synonymous with strength would seem to bear out this view. And yet methods are sometimes adopted In the making of steel which once again illustrate the saying that there are tricks in every ti'ade. At the same time, it must be ad mitted that some of these tricks, when carried out, do not necessarily mean a lessening In the soundness and quality of the material. For instance, it some times happens that in casting a piece of steel what is known as a "blowhole" oocurs. Often this is not noticed un til the steel has been cut and trimmtl 1 Hi f Hex if w irwi U P SJ1 ! , f ist js " i -fit f 1 4 We Announce the Formal Opening Exhibit Of Our Exclusive Collection of Spring TO-DAY AND to-morrow will be displayed for f i- ! . i mi- -' . : i , l new opnng ivuuinery wnicn mis - -! . they are delighted with some particular model and be sure that model is here. no critical and particular ' 841-843 Chapel Street, for the required purpose. In such a case the hole is usually '.'tapped" and a well fitting screw inserted, the head of the latter being filed off so closely to the metal that It needs an expert eye to detect any unusual feature. This is a trick which makes no differ ence to the strength of the metal, and consequently is quite harmless. Sometimes, however, a. crack appears In a piece of metal which It Is impos sible to remedy by the usual expedl erts" of hammering and rolling. The careful manufacturer will put the piece on one side and! make a fresh casting for if such a piece of metal were used as a cranshaft, for in stance, It might split at a time of ex tra strain, and so bring untold disaster. On the other hand, the manufactur er may decide that he cannot afford to throw the faulty casting on one side, and In order to cover the defect It is put In' the open air to rust, The weath er will, most likely be found to have filled the cra:k 'by the time the cast ing is required, and no one outside the foundry will have known its existence until, perhaps, It causes a vessel to be come dliabled. And a3 it; Is almost im possible to tell , afterwards how the. crack originated,, the maker Is quite se cure from bl'ame.-. '. . , ' ;. One of the most sensational' scandals which have agitated the engineering world for some years , past came to light .not long ago, in connection with the building of a great battleship.- Af ter a trip she was found to be some what leaky, and an examination of some of the plates forming tne side of the vessel revealed the startling fact that the rivets had been put in the holes cold and simply caulked. When a ship's plates are riveted to gether, it Is usual not only, of course, to drive the rivets in red hot, but also to caulk them over with special compo sition as leakage. an extra precaution against j thousand dollars, and on the Wenaha In the case mentioned thereserve in Washington and Oregon, tne "T mm Jiff 5 TO - MORROW. if f if ; WML the , first time the repressntative arid sup erior i i ' i - - i . .... store nas so painstaKingiy gacne:ea to de light ' -; woman will fail to attend this builder was working under contrast, and in order to save time resorted to the trick described. The result was that the strain on the plates quickly loosen ed the caulking, and some of the fle ets actually dropped out of the holes, FREB TIMBER FOR SETTLERS, Government Is Not Stingy and Forest Reserves Benefit. The government during the past year has furnished seventy-five thousand dollars worth of timber to settlers and ranchers in or near the reserves, with out charge. One of the regulations of the forest service provides that legiti mate applicants may secure what tim ber they need by what is conveniently called the "free use" privilege. Fif teen thousand permittees in this way obtained timber to supply tbelr wants. From these figures it may readily be seen that the settlers are securing very material assistance without cost from the forest -reserves. At, the same time, the free-use 'business has been so han dled that the material taken out "has improved the condition of the forest. Dead .timber which would otherwise ;have rotted or helped to spread forest fires has been removed first of all. Where it was necessary for the settlers to have green wood the rangers, so far as possible, marked trees which were suppressed, diseased or from some oth er cause no longer in a condition for further growth. In this way the ranchers secured material which they desired, and at the same time the for est was left stocked with the thriftiest trees, whose chance to develop will be unhindered. The greatest amount of free use was on those reserves which He In the semi arid parts of the west, where there is east timber. On a number of reserves the value of the material for which permits v.vr Issued axre--ie-1 th-- iner v leading Opening Bear river reserve In Utah and Idaho and the Weiser and Henrys Lake re--serves, Idaho, it exceeded four thou sand dollars. If there had been no re- ' strictlon on the settlers in securing this material, great waste would have re sulted, 'because the settlers would have paid no attention to ahe future good of the forest or its value as a protec tive covering. Another distinct ad vantage of the system, is that a settler, when he has secured hie permit. Is sure of being able to get the material from the localitly assigned to him without interference from other people. Very little ohange in the handling of the free-use business is contempla ted for the next year. The experience of nhe past year has shown, however, that methods can he systematized so as to give yet better service to the people and be more economical to the forest service. This branch of the work of the forest service gives good evidenoe of the fact that the aim In the administration of the forest reserves is to aid in the per manent development of the country and place only such restrictions on the cutting of timber as are necessary for the maintenance of a permanent tim ber supply and the conservation of wa ter needei for irrigation, for cities, and for the generation of power. The free-use privilege has been granted freely to ranchers who are building up homes, and enough timber will be reserved to supply their wants even if this -will considerably reduce the amount of timber that can 'be sold. The first of the Lyman Beecher lec ture series this season was delivered yesterday afternoon in Marquand chapel by the Rev. Dr. Peter Taylor Forsyth. Dr, Forsyth is one of the most capable theologians before the public? and is equally well known on both sides of the Atlantic. The subject of the lecture was "The Preacher and His Charter."