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Schedule In Effect November 16, 1913.
All trains Daily unless specifi d
Leave Frederick Arrive Thurmont.
5 15 a. m ? 6.00 a. m.
7.31 a. m 8.16 a. m.
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6.10 p. 650 p. m.
10.03 p. m 10.48 p. m.
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8.25 a. m 9 08 a. m.
11.55 a. m '2 32 a. m
2.20 a. m 3.02 p. m.
C.!O p. m 5.55 p. m.
6.15 p. in 659 p in.
7.00 p. in 7.49 p. in.
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BRAVE LITTLE THING:
By SUSANNE GLENN.
June went to the station with thei
others to tell him good-bye. June was
always a brave little thing, accepting
whatever life brought without much
murmur. And life hadn’t been lavish
with gilts at the little brown house.
' “So that Is the lust of the Greys at
Gyey's Crossing," said the men, when
the train had switched round the
curve. “Wonder how long It will bo
before the name changes? 1 should
think Kod might have been better oft
right litre."
"We always thought you and Rod
ney would make a mutch of It, Jane,"
the women added, “especially since
you were both left alone, so."
■ "1 suppose we know each other too
well to be very sentimental," smiled
Jane. Hut she slipped her hand into
her pocket and grasped the key to the
little Uiey cottage to be sure she was
not having an unhappy dream.
Hut Jane did not have much time
to mourn the absence of Rodney
Grey from Grey's Crossing. She had
to keep the hens laying and the gar
den and the berry patch productive to
ensure food and clothing for the com
ing winter.
People said Jane looked over-work
ed and that she must have a hard
time of it making a living off her lit
tle place. "Seems to me." they always
ended, ‘That a nice little tiling like
Jane has always been, ought to find
a good husband somewhere. They did
not know about the hours she spent
in loving care of that cottage across
the road. "Mrs. Grey would have felt
so dreadful to have had it neglected,"
she told herself us if some excuse
were demanded for her own self-esti
mation.
At rare intervals letters came from
queer, outlandish places. Once Rod
ney wrote asking her to rent the place
If she could get anything for it. "You
deserve something for the care you
have given it all this time," he said
Once he sent a check that took Jane's
breath, in answer to her statement
that the roof needed patching. "Do
what fixing is necessary to keep the
old place from falling to pieces,” he
wrote, "and keep the rest for your
self.” And when she returned that
money, after paying the local carpen
ter for repairs, saying that she could
not think of accepting so large a sum.
the longest letter of all arrived.
"You see, I've prospered out here,
Jane,” It said. "1 had to sit down
and think how that check would have
looked to me in Grey's Crossing, not
to be really offended with you for re
turning It.”
So Jane began picturing Rodney In
the place of the millionaires about
whom she read —Rodney riding about
In a private car, Rodney in tine rai
ment smiled upon by beautiful women
She could scarcely conceal resentment
when the neighbors wondered "how
Hod was getting on, anyway.” Each
fresh picture of glory which she proud
ly yet reluctantly drew seemed t< re
move him further from her, but the
did not experience despair until the
night she heard of the petition for
changing the name of the Grey's Cross
ing postolhee to "Paterson.” "There's
no Greys here any more," explained
the circular of the petition, "and the
Patersons have done a lot for the
town; it don’t seem more than fair."
Jane took the pen he held reddy for
her and bent above the paper. "I —I
can't do It,” she gasped. “It’ll go
through without my signature, 1 reck
on. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I
never can agree to have that name
changed”
"I suppose It will make a sight of
talk If Jay tells what I said," she ad
milled to herself, and the thought kept
her awake at an unusual hour. “1
don't know what possessed me, any
way. I never did like changes as some
folks do. The Grey house is here, yet,
whether any of the family Is or not.”
And she lifted her head from her
troubled pillow to look across to
where she knew the dark bulk of the
house would be showing In the star
light. A bright light was shining
from the kitchen window!
Although Jane had lived alone so
long, she was a timid little creature
after a charming, feminine fashion,
but brave ns a lion In the face of duty.
“I’ve got to go over there,” she whis
pered. "I've got to see who Is in that
house.’
Feeling about in the darkness she
dressed with all haste, and stole noise
lessly from .her own door. She had al
most reached the center of the Grey
yard when the kitchen door was flung
suddenly back and Rodney Grey stood
revealed in the opening.
“Jane,” he cried, as the light shone
on her white, scared face, “I never
thought of this—l thought you were
asleep ’’
"How did you get In?” gasped Jane,
almost too weak to stand.
"I pried open that hook to the old
woodhouse door. It was dark at your
house so I thought 1 would not disturb
you for the key. I never thought of
your seeing the light and being fright
ened.”
”1 should not have seen It once out
of a hundred times,” she stammered,
thinking of the reason for her wake
fulness. “But I’m real glad to see you.
Rodney ” He went down the starlit
path then and shook hands with her
and Insisted upon going with her
across to her own door. “You will
come over and have breakfast with
me?” she insisted. “There Isn't a
thing In the house over there, you
know.”
“That is like you, Jane. Yea, I'll:
come, thank you.”
THURMONT, FREDERICK COUNTY, MD., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1913.
No one could have guessed that the
exceedingly fresh and pretty little wo
man across the table from Rodney
Grey next morning had not closed her
eyes the night before.
“It hasn't been all pleasure, by any
means, 1 ' he vvas telling her in his old
impulsive way. "At first it was ex
citing to make inpney, but that palled
after a little, for I didn’t know what
to do with It, and never loved
money Just for the mefe possession
I’ve traveled some, but that gets
mighty tiresome alter a while. A spell
back, 1 thought if I could get here to
the old place I'd be satisfied, but —I
don't know'—lt seems different than 1
thought, someway. 1 don’t know that
I shall stay long, after all."
Hut he reckoned without the rotten
old hath steps which gave way under
his unaccustomed weight, twisting his
knee under him painfully. Jane heard
his call and summoned help. Jane
sent for the doctor and ordered a
nurse from the city—a nice, cheerful
young man, she bargained for, "who
will be a companion for him and cheer
him up.”
In spite of all this Rodney was nor.
cheerful. In fact, he looked quite
melancholy the afternoon Jane went
over to sit with him while the nurse
w( nt to the city for a half-holiday
“1 11 w in el you out on the west porch."
she said cheerlully. “I want you to
see how fine the old dahlia bed is
looking. Isn’t It fortunate, If you had
to be ill. that it could be here in youi
old home?"
"It hasn’t made any difference.
June,” he blurted out. as if glad to uu
burden himself. "That has troubled
me- 1 ought to enjoy being here, hm
I do not. What Is the matter with
me, anyway?”
"Oh. you have a roving disposition.
1 suppose,” answered June, pleasantly
unfolding a bit of sewing from the lit
tle basket beside ht r. "There goes Jay
Brownell,” she continued. “He is cir
dilating a paper to have the postolhee
name changed to ‘Paterson,’ seeing
there are no Greys here, any more."
Then her sewing seemed to absorb
her attention, and there was silence
save for the buzzing of bees along Ulu
late flower border. Tlfe quiet, (lower
filled garden, Hie porch with its silent
worker and its cozy tea table spoke
suddenly of peace, a peace that flood
ed the heart of Rodney Grey.
“Jane,” he said eagerly, leaning to
ward her, “I know now what it is I’ve
been missing all along it’s you, Jane’
I’ve wanted the garden like this, and
you with your sewing telling me the
neighborhood happenings, and some
one to eat supper with me." He laugh
ed out happily, like a boy. "Do you
understand. Jane? I’ve been a fool
for I didn't know !"
There was another nice, comfortln
silence on the little porch. Then Rod
ney smiled at the top of Jane's hoai.
where it rested against his shoulder
"1 guess they’ll not need to change tin
name of the postolflce," he said, wit!
deep satisfaction.
(Copyright. 1813. hy the McClure Nows
paper Syndicate.)
MICROBE THAT EATS METAL
English Student Discovers Bacillus
That Has Specific Action on
Iron and Steel.
Although science knows a hundred
micro-organisms that devour the hu
man tissues and cause all sorts of mal
adies, and also many that eat plants,
roots, dirt, wood and clothing, it has
never been imagined that there was
one capable of eating up bits of steei
and iron. Yet the discovery just made
by E. M. Mumford, an English stu
dent, shows that this Is the case.
A bacillus that has a specific action
upon solutions of iron and steel was
obtained by Mr. Mumford from the
Bridgewater canal tunnels at Wors
ley, Lancashire.
This new species of bacillus varies
In Its digestive action upon iron and
steel compounds according to whether
it acts in Uie presence or absence of
air. When oxygen is present the iron
is precipitated by the germs as Iron
hog ore, while in the absence of oxy
gen no iron salts are formed.
This iron-eating germ is a short mi
crobe about one-thousandth of an inch
long. It grows readily on potatoes and
then looks greenish-brown in color. It
also colonizes in milk, gelatine and
agar.
It also forms an Iron digestive juice
or euzyin, which acts upon iron Just
as the germ itself does.
Not Like Father.
An old Irishman who had a good
deal of money, hut who wasn't very
'particular about his habits or con
duct, lived in Chicago. His custom
W'as to go down town about once a
month on a spree, and then come hack
and beat his family and break the
fruniture. His aged wife who hud
stood him for many years, was blind
Finally he died, and his children
gave him a fine funeral. They had
plenty of money now that the old man
was dead, and so they spread them
selves. At the church there was
elaborate ceremony. The blind widow
was dissolved la woe. She cried and
cried all through the service, paying
scant heed to what was going on un
til the eulogy was pronounced. She
listened. The parson referred to the
dead man in glowing terms. Aftei
about ten minutes of this the aged
widow nudged her son and whispered
“Danny, do they be havin’ two fun
erals here today?"
Of Course Not.
“The Idea of dozing while 1 was sing
Ing.”
"You were singing a lullaby, weren't
you?"
"Yes."
“Then I couldn’t pay your art an)
JtUgher compliment"
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CITIES LAID OUT BY EXPERTS
Plan* Made for the Future as Well
a* the Present, by Men Whose
Life Work It I*.
As an organized art, city planning
Is a new thing. It had its birth in
the last generation, when mills, fac
tories, and workshops threatened with
extinction the life, health, and beauty
of the towns, writes Frederick O.
Howe in Harper's Magazine. Like the
city Itself, it is a product of the in
dustrial revolution. It is a by-product
of machine Industry and steam trans
portation. Individual rulers planned
capital cities in ancient Habylon,
Greece, and Rome, as did the mer
chant princes of the medieval Italian
and Hanseatic towns. Paris was
planned In a commanding way
Louis XIV., who laid Its present
foundations. The first and third Na
poleons projected great boulevards
and avenues, beautified the banks of
the Seine with embankments and
bridges, erected monuments, arches,
and open spaces, and made Paris the
capital of the modern world. The
kings of Havarla and Saxony laid out
Munich and Dresden In the same big
visioned way.
These cities were the Individual
creations of ambitious rulers, eager
to give expression to their power.
Modern city planning Is a democratic
movement, although It found its first
organized expression In monarchical
Germany, in which country, In a few
years' time, it has attained the rank
of a profession. Today there is
scarcely a large town In Germany that
Is not eblng built according to an
official plan, worked out by experts
trained to the profession and often
after competition. They plan the city
from center to circumference, and for
future generations rather than for to
day.
RURAL SECTIONS LAG BEHIND
Writer Make* Statement That Condi
tion* In Cities Are Better Than
In the Country.
Forty years ago the American city
was regarded as hopeless. Crowded
tenements, dirty alleys, haunts of vice
and cesspools of disease were accepted
as Inevitable results of dense popula
tions. Epidemics were expected and
when they came and killed their thou
sands they were looked upon as nec
essary evils. But science found the
microbes and the civic conscience
found the Joy In public service.
Thus in a third of a century a mir
acle was wrought and today the city
shows up better In the health and In
sanity and defective statistics than the
country. The pressing problems of
better living are found In the rural sec
tions. There is much to do in the way
of sanitation and ventilation, of purer
water and more sunshine. There Is a
noble gain to be made In giving more
variety and Interest to country life
The Inneeomenoss can be changed and
the change means a wonderful uplift
In the average of the new generation.
Of course, the cities are far from
perfection—but they are also far from
their conditions of 40 years ago, and
city people have seen and learned.
Soon they will be scattered through
out the rural regions. Why not take
with them a purpose to use their
knowledge wlecly?—Philadelphia Led
ger.
Improving Village Life.
A writer In the Survey discovers the
average village to he a fruitful field
for Investigation leading to Improve
ment In admlnlstratiSn, health, sanita
tion, social condition*, physical condi
tions and so on. After summing up
the various lacks In village life he
makes a suggestion for betterment
that offers some possible measure of
relief. "Cannot the state organize Its
villages,” he Inquires, "stir them Into
active life, make them keep awake,
clean and efficient? Cannot each com
monwealth standardize village Im
provement In all particulars—create a
village reference bureau If need be? In
asmuch a* the village Is the recruiting
station for the city, the earlier the
state teaches Its citizens the modern
lessons of efficient and enlightened
self-government and progressive social
action, the easier will be the task when
the larger units of government are
concerned. And the gain will be that
of all the citizens of the state, even
those of the entire nation.”
Habit of Kissing.
Kissing Is out of style. Nobody does
It now but sweethearts, young chil
dren and teachers. The first blow was
struck by the medical profession. In
families where pro er respect Is paid
to hygiene chlldn are cautioned
against promlscuour kissing according
to Health Culture.
In society a
twice in a season. When an old
friend Is greeted I .nd she advances
with her lips the victim turns her
face, and the car‘Bß falls askance.
Possibly the very "oman who Is op
posed to the practice takes the initia
tive, but her lips never meet Ups.
She may kiss within a fraction of
your mouth—kiss your chin, your
cheek or your forehead; kiss your eye
lid Into repose, or kiss your hair —but
If she has any training, socially, sb
will never kiss your mouth.
IjSfdvertising I
'Gaiks I
USE SUGGESTION
TO SELL GOODS
Salesman Who Suggests to Cus
tomer Instead of Asking Is
Most Valuable.
Old you ever notice In a store,
after making a purchase, that the
clerk usually says:
"Is there something else I can show
you ?”
This Is against every principle of
good salesmanship.
What the clerk should do la to sug
gest something and make the sug
gestion form a desire to see the arti
cle.
A salesman should always appeal to
the buyer, and merely asking a pa
tron If there Is something else Is ask
ing the customer to do what Is the
natural duty of the salesman.
A retail salesman, or any salesman
for that matter, should remember that
on the average people pro too lazy
or haven't the time to think: the
salesman must think for them In the
way of suggestion and until the sug
gestion appeals to their selfishness,
nnd then the patron will do his own
thinking.
If a clerk has sold one thing to a
customer nnd desires to sell him
something else, he must develop the
ability to match up that Individual
with some other Item In stock, some
thing lliyt will be suited to him.
This faculty almost amounts to pic
turing hlfn In the possession of that
article.
The development of this faculty of
matching up Individuals with goods
comes first with a detailed knowledge
of the stock In a store or a depart
ment, which should Include a know!
edge of the purpose of each Item,
how It Is made —the selling reasons.
In other words, and to gain this natur
ally will require study; for if a young
man. say. ettters the profession o(
medicine or of the law. he would
• have to do a lot of study by reading.
Now, selling Is a profession, Just as
useful, respectable and Important as
the law or medicine, and a young man
entering the profession of selling
must expect to do some studying—
not nit of books, perhaps, but by oh
serration and Inquiry.
When a customer has made one pur
chase It Is easy to Judge him for a
suggestion to another by his first In
qulry and selection. If a woman
conies Into, say, a hardware store
nnd buys one labor-saving household
device, it would he good selling Jttdg
men* to show her another household
labor-saving device.
All people express their nature,
character and trend of thought In
what they buy Just as In where they
live and what they wear, and after
one sale It requires but little experi
ence to Judge them for another.
However, It Is never well to go so
far with suggestions as to become of
fensive; for we all know' the barber
who, after we have had a haircut,
shampoo and shave. Insists on run
ning up the check by suggesting n
hair tonic that looks like red lemon
ade and smells like horse medicine.
While a customer who has bought
one' thing may not buy another thing
at the same time, yet his coming In a
store should be taken as an opportu
nity to give a knowledge of something
he might buy in the future; for on
the average no selling effort is ever
lost.
Advertisers
A great modern force Is Ad
vertising—the art of convinc
ing other people of the merit
back of vkhat you have for
them. Effective advertising Is
effective truth-telling.
Advertise.
Advertising not only strength
ens the existing confidence
back of an article, but It cre
ates more confidence. The
more advertising you do the
more confidence you create.
And the securing of confidence
Is the securing of success.
Advertise.
CHINA’S TEMPLE OF HEAVEN
Famous Building In Which the Em
peror Formerly Made Annual Re
port of His Realm.
China’s famous Temple of Heaven,
In which the new constitution was
drafted, was formerly visited once a
year by the emperor to give an ac
count of his empire and its affairs dur
ing the previous twelve months. This
was set forth In writing, and the
manuscripts were then placed In the
furnace and In' that way consigned
to the emperor In heaven. The Tem
ple of Heaven Is one of the most
beautiful and Interesting sights of pic
turesque Peking. The walls enclosing
the temple, the royal apartments, the
altar, and the grounds are three miles
in circumference, and the white mar
ble structures with their blue and
gn-tn porcelain tiles have to be seen
to be appreciated.
KOVEL GAME LAWS
Enactments for Protection of
Wild Things.
Marked Features of Legislation of
Year Was Unusual Progress in
Establishment of Bird and
Game Refuges.
Washington.—Ohio and Pennsylva
nia now require hunters to wear a
budge conspicuously exposed, bearing
the number of their hunting license,
according to Bulletin No. 22 of the de
partment of agriculture, setting forth
game laws of the United States and
Canada for 1912.
Hunters are required by the authori
ties of .Manitoba to wear a white coat
or sweater and cap, while those who
hunt for big game In Saskatchewan
must wear a complete outer suit aud
sap of white.
Maine, New Jersey, North Dakota,
Washington, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Minnesota and Wyoming prohibit the
use of silencers. Connecticut has pro
vided that any hunter who shall injure
a U nco or let down a bar without re
placing it shall forfeit his hunting
license privilege for two years.
Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Brit
ish Columbia require license appli
cants under sixteen years of age to
furnish the written consent of parent
or guardian. Vermont lias a similar
restriction lor those under fifteen, and
Oregon does not permit children un
der fourteen years old to hunt except
on the premises of their parents, rela
tives or guardians.
Numerous slates are restocking pre
serves with elk and other big game
in the effort to protect this game
Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia
and Wisconsin have protected elk toi
a term of years, and in Massachusetts
where a few moose have escaped from
the Blue Mountain forest reserve lute
the unjoining woodlands, a perpetual
close season for moose has been pro
videti in the hope that this area may
eventually be restocked from this nu
cleus.
Liming the year 18 states created
game pn serves, 11 in the United
Btales and 4 in Manitoba. In Wash
ington tli" county game‘commissioners
were authorized to create game pre
serves, not to include more than three
townships in a county, and the authori
ties ol Michigan, Ohio and Vermoii
were authorized to establish game pre
serves on private lands.
One of the marked features of flu
legislation of this year was the un
usual progress in the establishment
of bird and game refuges. By (.v cu
live order four national bird reserves
were created, the Aleutian reservation,
containing the entire chain of Aleu
tian islands, in AlusTta, and the smaller
reservations of Walker lake in Arkan
sas, Petit Bois island on the coa". oi
Alabama and Anaho island in Pyr. add
lake, Nev., thus bringing the total
number of national bird reservation
up to (14. Recently the Niobrara hire
reservation has been enlarged and
stocked with a herd of buffalo, elk anc
deer.
A number of changes in laws pro
tectlng big game were made during
the year. Colorado and North Dakota
prohibited all killing of deer for a turn
of years and Saskatchewan has pro
vlded a close season throughout the
year for all big game south of latitu 1c
62 degrees. Laws protecting does at
all seasons were enacted in Florida,
Nevada and Wyoming. The deer sea
sons were shortened from two weeks
to two months in Utah, Wyoming and
Quebec. New Hampshire lengthened
the season two weeks in Coos county,
Vermont ten days, aud Massachusetts
opened the season in the few close !
counties, thus permitting shooting
throughout the state.
Wyoming aud Montana, heretofor
affording the principal hunting for el.,
and sheep, have recently limited the
hunting area to a few counties in eacli
stale, where the seasons have usually
been shortened. Wyoming has adopt
ed the innovation of allowing the kill
ing of female elk only under ordinary
resident licenses and requiring licen
sees to obtain a special sls license
to kill a bull or an additional cow.
The most important changes In sea
sons are duo to the passage of the fed
eral law protecting migratory birds.
Under the regulations proposed by the
department of agriculture spring shoot
ing is entirely eliminated and the sea
sons materially shortened in several
states.
Restriction of hunting and greater
uniformity of laws is the general
trend of stale legislation in the mat
ter of seasons. Florida repealed all
local game laws and made the seasons
uniform throughout the state and the
passage of a measure in Wisconsin
adopting the same opening date for
upland game as is in force in Minne
sota and North Dakota Illustrates the
fact.
Now York placed a close season on
quail for five years and Kansas added
both quail and prairie chickens to the
close-season list until 1918. Ohio sus
pended hunting of quail, ruffed grouse
and doves tor two years. Pennsylva
nia eliminated the open season on
doves, kildeer plover and blackbirds,
while Utah extended complete protec
tion to doves, swans and all shore
birds except snipe. The trend of leg
islation during the last year has been
toward electing the close season.
Delaware shortened the season on
ducko a month and on geeso two
weeks; Indiana curtailed the season
six weeks on doves and ten days on
quail and ruffed grouse; Michigan, 16
days on woodcock, and Missouri, one
month on quail; Oregon shortened the
season 45 days on doves aud pigeons,
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six weeks on shore birds, ran a i
geese, and west of the Cascades cur
tailed the season on ducks 17 days.
New Jersey shortened the open season
26 days on upland game and 19 day*
on woodcocks, while Pennsylvania cut
down the woodcock season two weeks.
In Utah 45 days were taken off tha
open season on sage hens and In Wy
oming one month on sage grouse and
two months on sage hen and geese.
The United States Is Americanizing
the navy as rapidly as possible by
weeding out all
Americanizing the aliens. Regular
U. S. NaVV. tlous have been
In effect in the
department for more than a year to
prevent the enlistment In the navy of
any but American citizens. The suc
cess of this new policy may be shown
by the fact that more than 95 per
cent, of the sailors in the navy are
now Americans.
It is declared by the navy de
partment that the policy of not ac
cepting any foreigners was adopted
because it was desired not to discrim
inate against any nationality. Citi
zens of some countries are highly de
sirable in the navy, but others are very
objectionable, it was said. The de
partment. found it could not accept
some enlistments of foreigners and
turn down others without causing
trouble.
The same regulations are not In
force in the army and marine corps,
although there is talk of their
adoption there In the near fu
ture. There has been so much trou
ble in filling up the army under exist
ing conditions that the heads of the
war department have hesitated to ex
clude aliens.
An officer of the navy department
said tile other day that the new rule
was put into effect because of the de
sire to protect the government's naval
secrets from other nations. With
aliens In the navy department and on
ships there is always danger of
"leaks," he said.
"It is desirable that our yards and
ships be manned by Americans who
have sworn allegiance to the flag,” he
continued, "and therefore we are get
ting rid of foreigners as rapidly as
possible. We have gone about it
gradually, as we are not able to draft
men for the service.”
The department of agriculture la
just now engaged In the development
of a new fruit, and
Developing a it is one of those
New Fruit. quaint and curioua
contributions la
the plant line that this country has
drawn from China.
The new fruit is the “cha," a near
relative of the Osage orange, but it
bears fruit that is good to eat, which
the Osage orange does noL
Anything that is allied to the Osage
orange is sure to create Interest In
the southwest. That plant has proved
ono of the most valuable for wind
breaks In the west. There are liter
ally thousands of miles of .Osage
orange hedge on the Western ranches.
It has proved drought and alkali re
sisting and will stand almost any
amount of heat, while it makes a
thorny hedge that is impenetrable to
almost anything.
The new relative of the hedge plant,
the cha, is not so well understood. It
will thrive above the frost line, but
just how far is not yet known. Tha
fruit is small and round aud looks
something like a sycamore ball. It
has small seed and Is sweet, with a
sort of Indescribable flavor. Several
have been raised in the experimental
garden and they are being distributed
and tried under varying conditions ol
soil and climate to see what they will
stand.
The fruit was first brought hare
and tried out in the experimental
garden by David Fairchild of tha
office of plant and seed Introduction.
Since then it has been found and
sent In by Frank Myer of the
same office, who Is on an agricultu
ral exploring trip In the Interior ol
China.
That the inventive genius of thd
country is busy is indicated by the
annual report ol
Genius Has a the commissioner
Busy Year. of t*Bl6lllß
- " cations for pat
ents during the year totaled 67,986, the
largest on record, except for 1911,
when there were 69,236.
During the year 38,764 patents were
granted, and 5,166 trade marks, 664 la
bels, and 254 prints were registered.
The receipts from all sources aggre
gated $2,082,490; expenditures, $1,924*
459, the net revenue being $158,030.
The patent office lias the distinc
tion of being one of the few bureaus
of the government that is operated as
a profit, the net surplus of tho of
fice since its establishment being s7*
290,103.
Ttie retiring commissioner, Edward
11. Moore, who made the report, rec
ommends an increase In the salaries
of patent office offclals In order to
retain exceptionally well-equipped
men in the service, and urges strong
ly the erection of an adequate build
ing to insure the preservation of “tbs
priceless records and archives of
the office.” /
Protection of Records.
To protect records of the govern
ment from fire, congress has made an
appropriation for the installation
of a modern system of auxiliary flra
protection for three of the largest
buildings occupied by Abe department
•of the interior In of Wash
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