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IS RIVAL OF EIFFEL
HE WILL HAVE HIS HAIR CUT ON MARCH 4 I HEARD MUSICAL GHOST
4Voolworth Structure in New
York Is Highest in U. S.
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Mug Building Scrape the Sky ct 750
Feet Edifice When Complete
Will Have Cost Owners
$13,500,000.
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New York. The Wool worth build
ing, now almost completed, holds the
-record for height among all buildings
--ever erected by. man. It is true, the
Eiffel Tower in Paris is 234 feet hlgh
er, but it is a mere steel Ekeleton and
-cannot be classed as a building in the
sense accepted for that term. ,The
building proper, which occupies an
area of 30,000 square feet. Is 384 feet
high and Is surmounted by a tower, 85
by 84- feet, rising 368 feet above the
main part of the building. . The follow
ing list ot the 'tallest structures raised
by man may be interesting for pur
poses of comparisons:
Feet.
'Colossus of Rhodes..... IPS
Pantheon. Rome 150
.'St. Isaac's. St. Pttersburg 365
'Statue of Liberty (highest statue). 305 .
Great Pyramid of Cheops 450
Peters. Rome 400
Rouen Cathedral 490
Cologne Cathedral 1..516
' Washington Monument 5554
Singer Building 612 1-12
.-Metropolitan Tower 700V
Woolworth Building 750
Eiffel Tower 98
. The work of excavating for the
'foundations of the Woolworth building
was begun on Nov 4. 1910. Eixty-six
ttisson.3 were sunk to a depth of 115
feet until they reached solid rock and
the sixty-six concrete piers, resting on
the rock, constitute the foundation of
the structure.. .
The foundation was completed in
the fall of 1911, when the erection of
the steel frame was begun. The lat
ter was completed In July of last year,
and the brick and stone work was
completed at the beginning of the
present year. Twenty-four thousand
:tons of steel went into the making of
the building and the total weight of
the structure Is estimated at 250.000
-tons.
The building has fifty-five floors,
twenty-five of which are in the tower.
and the aggregate floor space Is about
thirty-three acres. The building and
tower together contain about 2,000 of
fices, with 3.000 windows and as many
doors.
To enable the occupants of the
lbuilding to reach their respective
-floors there are thirty-four passenger
elevators, of which twenty-four are
.grouped near the Broadway entrance,
"while the others are near the entrance
tfroni Barclay street and Park place.
The equipment of the building when
fully completed will be thoroughly
modern and as nearly perfect as ft Is
possible to make It. The fifty-fourth
'floor will be used as an observatory.
STOPS QUEEN
-King Ferdinand of Bulgaria Orders
Her to Cease Work Among In
valid Soldiers.
-Sofia, Bulgaria. King Ferdinand
fxas commanded his queen to cease
tier labors for invalid soldiers.
She has been . working very hard.
4ioth at the front and in her own
hospital here, where she has German
ffiuns as nurses.
Ferdinand is terribly afraid of in
fection, and will not enter a hospital
of have a surgeon or nurse near him.
fie has kept his queen In perpetual
quarantine because she has always
Queen Eteonor of Bulgaria. .-
t)een tending the sick and the wound
ed He has aged much since the
war began, for he works day and
nlgfr besides feeling tremendous re
sponsibility. . v.
Before Princess Eleonor of Reuss
miarrted Ferdinand.- who then was
dpiince of Bulgaria, ihe- had achieved
-world-wide fame for her charitable
works. For some years she lived with
the Sisters of. Charity at buebben,
Cermanr. being practically one of
tbem. When Japan made var on Rus
ia In 1904. she went into the field as
military nurse and remained with
General Kuropatkln's army until
jpec was concluded. .
8he Broke the "Law."
Pittsburg, Pa. Viola Durbach, aged
iflent of the Bachelor
Maiden's club of Homewood, eloped
with Wilbert Webblngeram. She ,was
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i Bryan in 1896, that he would not have
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row Wilson and immediately thereafter will be divested of his luxuriant
locks.
and on top of the structure, beneath
the gigantic flag, will be placed a
powerful searchlight. The twenty
eighth floor will be occupied by a
luncheon club, and In the basement
there will be a swimming pool, a res
taurant and a rathskeller.
The total cost of the building is esti
mated at about $13,500,000. of. which
amount $4,500,000 was paid for the
ground. The building was erected for
P. W. Woolworth. who was born poor
at Rodman. N. Y.. April 13. 1852. went
through public school and a business
TENDING SICK
POVERTY PARTS AGED PXlR
Couple Wedded Fifty Years Tearfully
Separate After a Technical Charge
of Abandonment is 'Heard.
Chicago. A thread of romance,
spun fifty years ago between the lives
of John Goode and his then girl bride,
was , broken when the white-haired
couple stood tottering before the bar
in the court of domestic relations.
It was the little, bent old woman
who first quavered out her story.
"I guess John and I've come to the
parting of the road," she began. "And
and, judge, we we were married
fifty year ago fifty year ago."
The old man raised his head for a
moment. He looked at Judge Gemmill
with apology.
"You see, judge, I am a pcor man,
now. I-sell chewing gum on a street
corner and business is poor. I -can't
buy her very much, any more, and
you know how it is with women: they
need mor'n a man."
The aged man and woman looked
wistfully into each other's eyes.
"I did my best. Margaret," the man
whispered across to his wife, and the
old woman blinked and whispered
back: '
"I know you did. John; I know you
did."
But the 6tory that the court listened
to was not a perfect story, for the
broken thread of 'romance was not to
be mended. Although the technical
charge of wife abandonment brought
against tho man -was dismissed, the
husband and wife parted jn the court
room each to go a separate way for
the remainder of life. -
MIt isn't that you haven't been good
to me." the aged woman said as she
hobbled from the room, "but you
know how it is' with you a-selling
gum.- ' -' '
The old man looked after her and
called out his good-by answer: "Yes.
Margaret, I know." - '
DIGGER PARALYZED IN GRAVE
Fellow Workmen Find Him In Throes
of Death in Cemetery at Guild- "
ford, England.
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London. Sounds ; from , an open
grave startled men at work in Guild
ford (Surry) cemetery. They found
a fellow ' workman," who bad a par
alytic stroke, at the bottom of a
grave which be was digging. He died
shortly after being removed from the
excavation.
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who vowed, when McKinley defeated
his hair cut until a Democratic presi-
will attend the inauguration of Wood-
college, and in 1879 opened the first
"five-cent store" at Utica. N. Y. The
venture prospered, and he extended
his business to other cities, and now
has a chain of more than 300 such
stores throughout the country, from
which be derives an enormous in
come. ,
More than half of the capital re
quired for the erection of the Wool
worth building was contributed by
capitalists In France. The rent roll
of the building is expected to be about
$2,500,000 a year.
CRIES FOR HIS NEGRO CHUM
Son of His Father's Coachman Sent
on Filer to Palm Beach to Play
With Vinson McLean.
Washington. D. C. "Send fer 'Jack
Jotnson," said Vinson Walsh Mc
Lean, the $100,000,000 baby, as he
gazed disdainfully at his expensive
toys and other allurements of Palm
Beach. "I war 'Jack' Johnson to
play with me."
Of course "Jack" ' Johason was
wired for, with instructions to start
at once. By the way, he ii not the
pugilist, but a seven-year-old Wash
ington darky boy. Whea the mes
sage summoning him arrived "Jack"
almost rolled his eyes out of his
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Vinson Warsh . McLean.
bead. He often played with Vinson
in the private park at Friendship, but
to go to Palm Beach and play with
hlni war. beyond, his wildest dreams.
To r -nqueror entering ' a captured
city, ever- was as proud as "Jack"
Johnson appeared as he waved good
by to envious friends from the. win
dow of a Palm Beach flier. -He had
a 'good cause for pride, for in Vinson's
acquaintance in Washington . are sci
ons of millionaires and t youthful
sprigs of foreign nobility. But. he
passed them all by for the fun of
making sand -castles' with "Jack"
Johnson, the son of , ona of hia fa
ther's stablemen.
I Cat Caused Oarkness.
I. Winsted, Conn. A-, cat chased up
a poie oy a oog. moti cireuueu
city light wires and caused tlire
hours of darkness. .
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AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCE SOME
THING NEW IN SPOOK LINE.
Sounds Too Long Continued to Be Ex
plained Away as Illusion, and Lis
teners Are Satisfied It Was
a Spirit Visitor.
. I have never seen & ghost, but once
In the company of a friend I heard a
ghost sing. m
- It was in London. I must not men
tion the house, because to say a house
is haunted in London is criminal li
bel. This house was haunted. 1
knew it was haunted, but the ghost
had never troubled me. It bothered
a friend of mine who spent an au
tumn in the house, by tramping up
tho stairs in the middle of the night.
It troubled my secretary, who used
to work alone in ' tho house in the
evening sometimes, by opening and
shutting the doors. It troubled the
police by lighting up the house and
giving a false alarm of burglars in
the middle of the night. It never trou
bled me. I never saw it. I never felt
it. I never heard it till this once.
It was about one o'clock in the
morning. I was sitting in my sitting
room with a friend whom I will call
Xvwho is a well-known author. One
generally adds in a ghost story, "and
who was a hard-headed man of busi
ness, utterly sceptical and completely
matter of fact," asjf that had any
thing to do with it.) We had just
come in and were expecting another
friend who lived in the house, and we
were sitting up for him. We were
talking about Swinburne's verse, and I
took down the first edition of Atalanta
in Calydon, which I then possessed
and which I foolishly sold for
a small sum (It was immediately aft
erward resold at an auction for
a large sum and went to America,
and is now ia some collector's li
brary), and I read out a passage. As
I was reading, we heard singing next
door. I said, "There's Phil," and didn't
pay any further attention, as I expect
ed him to come in, and I went on
reading. But the singing continued.
It sounded foreign like Spanish. This
dida't surprise us, as Phil was in
the habit of singing Provencal songs.
The singing went on, and as he didn't
como in, we went to meet him and
opened the door. The next room was
a tiny ante-room opening into another
sitting room, and beyond this again
was the smallest of bedrooms not
bigger than a cupboard. There wa?
nobody there, but the singing went
on; such curious singing, too; strange
alien, faint, tinkly, as if four confused
voices were singing the song of an
earlier century; it was unreal and it
had a kind of burr in it, as If you
were listening to voices on a tele
phone that is out of order. We walk
ed through the' rooms and we walked
through the singing, and we heard
it behind us still going on; and in
the bedroom we found our friend
asleep in his bed. Then the singing
stopped. Now, as we walked through
the sitting room, I noticed my friend's
hair, in Kipling's phrase,' sitting up. 1
daresay he noticed the same thing
about mine, or he would have done bc
had I any hatr to notice. Metropoi
itan. .
Photographing Thoughts.
Not long ago the claim was mad
in Japan that Japanese scientists hat
actually photographed thought. Jus;
how thoroughly the scientific world a'
large was convinced of this is a ques
tion, but the announcement did create
considerable discussion. Dr. Max Baff
of Clark college, Worcester, Mass., ev
idenced unusual interest in this, ant
in his discussion he observed that i
good way of taking photographs o:
thoughts would be to expose the filn
in a vacuum tank while the subjee
whose thoughts were to be caught oi
the sensitized plate would lean hii
head against his tank.' r
Another method which might resul
in some interesting results, according
to. Dr. Baff, might be to take an un
exposed film roll, and have two sub
jects unroll it in a dark room ant
each develop It together; at the samt
time they should not speak, but shoulc
each continue to think Intently upox
some single subject previously agreet
upon.
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Vhere the Doctor "Fell Down."
A family physician, calling at i
north side home a few days ago, wai
admitted by a solemn-faced little girl
seven years old, ' and. found himsel:
summarily dismissed from furthei
service in the family, despite the fac
that he was attending the father, wht
was ill. . . 7 , .
'. "And may I ask why?" ho queried
as he had believed himself a favorlti
with the small person.' before him
There was no hesitancy in the reply
"Because," said she; ."you comet
here for a long; long time, and yot
never have brought a' baby to thli
house. Elinor ( J's doctor brough
ttfem . a little brother las' night ant
we want a new doctor." Indlanapolb
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Then He Followed Suit.
The shade boldly strode through tht
portal and addressed St. Peter.
"I." he said, "am a vaudeville head
liner. I made an international repu
tation as a singer of popular songs
On earth I was some guy. I presumt
my accommodations here will' be li
keeping with my reputation?"
. "Certainly," agreed St Peter. "
have you in tny book under the titl
He Walked Right in and Turnei
Around and Walked Right Ou
Again.' ' " '.
T IS a good thing to be rich.
1 &LI1U Ot (UUU III W DLIUUfti
but it Is a t-etter thins, to be .beloved of
many irienas. , z.uriiiu.
WHAT SHALL WE HAVE FOR DIN
NER? To the methodical, systematic
housewife, who plans her meals often
a week in advance, there Is a vast
field for individuality and ingenuity
in the planning of a meal; but the
thriftless, indolent woman, who spends
her time in needless ways and a few
momenta before the meal time tears
into the house or the kitchen to pre
pare or see to the preparation of the
food, there Is a limited field, as prep
aration and thought are both neces
sary to have a well balanced meal,
together with variety and economy.
Steaks and chops are often the
poor man's food, because the wife
does not take time to prepare in the
thousand appetizing ways the coarser,
cheaper cuts of meat. Long, slow
cooking develops the flavor, and that
long cooking must be planned for.
often, the day before.
It should be the pride of every
housekeeper to work toward getting
as much a3 possible out of the time,
money and energy spent.
Beef Rolls. Cut thin, round steak
into oblong pieces, and on each piece
place a spoonful of sausage meat;
roll up and tie with a string. Dredge
with flour, pepper and salt, brown in
pork fat and put' into a casserole. To
the fat add a tablespoonful of flour;
stir until brown, add a pint of water
and cook until smooth. Season and
pour over the rolls, cover and simmer
in the oven for two hours. Take off
the strings before serving.
Parsnip Fritters. A very nice frit
ter, and one that is easy to prepare,
may be made from cold cooked pars
nips. Season and mold the parsnips
and dip in a thin fritter batter, drop
In hot. fat and fry; drain on paper
and serve hot. Many people who re
fuse the vegetable fried will enjoy it
this way.
T IS like taking the sun out
of the world to bereave hu
man life of friendship, than which the
mortal Rods have siven man nothing bet
ter, nothing more gladdening.
Cicero.
THE PLEBEIAN CABBAGE.
Cabbage with onions, have gained
an unenviable reputation because of
their odoriferousnesB, but cabbage is
a wholesome vegetable, and one
which contains mineral salts which
are needed in the' blood.
One reason that we tire of certain
vegetables is that they are served in
so few way 8; we grow to dislike them.
If a change of serving could be often
made, and a little more care to have
a variety, these common, vegetables
would be more welcome on our tables.
Cabbage- cooked with an onion,
chopped and served in a white sauce
Is an unusual, but very good, way of
serving that vegetable.
Stuffed Cabbage. Cut out the stalk
end of a firm head of cabbage, leav
ing the hollow shell. Tie the cabbage
in a thin cloth and boil until tender,
fhen carefully remove the cloth and
fill with seasoned stuffing of chopped
meat, bread crumbs and seasoning;
then bake in a hot oven until the cab
bage is brown.
Hot Slaw. Shred a head of cab
bage, and pour over " the following
dressing: Beat two egg yolks, add
two tablespoonfuls of water.; a table
spoonful of butter melted, a dash of
salt and a quarter of a cup of vine
gar. Cook this dressing over hot wa
ter and pour over the shredded cab
bage while hot. Heat the cabbafe
and serve hot. . .
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t you love, ere life's eveninff
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MORE ABOUT VEGETABLES.
There are manv dishes 1..
" "uivuiuaj
be made much cheaper when com
bined .with vegetables. A small
piece of meat, a pound or pound and a
mm, ii.- cut. in serving-sized . pieces,
with carrots, an onion and
tatoes added, will be well seasoned
Game Too Small
A well dressed man called at the of
fice of a celebrated New York criminal
lawyer the other day.
"1 want you to take my case." he
began, when shown into the private of
fice. "I am charged with burglar',
but I assure you 1 am as innocent as
an unborn babe" .
"You are. eh? Well, we don't want
your case," replied the great lawyer.
"We defend ' only' notorious crim-
finais. lou n&d better go to some
young lawyer.",
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oy the meat and
for five people.
If the meat is well browned in fat
before adding the vegetables and
water the flavor is greatly Improved.
Stuffed Onions. Parboil large on
ions, remove the centers, chop and
season with butter, pepper and Bait
and mix with any cold cooked sau
sage and bread crumbs; fill the cen
ters and bake, basting It with soup
stock or butter and water. Any cold
meats, such as tongue or ham, is very
nice for this dish.
Potato Vienna Rolls- Mold mashed
potato into the shape of rolls about
four inches long, brush with egg and
roll like creases across the roll with
a knife. Place on a greased pan and
bake in the oven until brown.
Potato muffins are very attractive
to serve with fish. Grease muffin
rings and fill with mashed potato,
brush with egg and bake. Slip out
carefully and garnish the dish with
parsley.
Some Rules About Cooking. All
root vegetables should have a tea
Bpoonful of salt to a quart of water la
cooking.
All vegetables should be cooked ia
boiling water.
Wilted and shriveled vegetables, if
soaked for two or three hours, will ab
sorb moisture and many times become
quite crisp again.
Cook peas and spinach in an un
covered dish to preserve the pretty
green color.
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KT us beware of losing our
enthusiasm.
Let us evt-r glory in something and
strive to attain our admiration for all
that would ennoble, and our interest in
all that would enrich and beautify our
life.
COLLECTION OF PUDDINGS-
During the winter months puddings
that are rich and hearty may b
served with greater frequency than
in the warm weather.
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Golden Pudding. Add to a. half cup
of molasses a half cup of bu-tter. a half
cup of sour milk and one and a half
cups of flour, one egg well beaten, a
pinch of salt and one-half teaspoonful
of soda; mix, and beat well and steam
two hours.
Serve with this the following sauce:
One egg. half a cup of butter, one cup
of sugar, two tables poonfuls of flour
and a pint of boiling water. Flavor
with either lemon or vanilla.
An egg sauce would be good with
the above pudding. Beat two eggs
well, add a cup of milk, a fourth of a
cup of sugar, and flavor to taste.
Baked Indian Pudding. Scald a
quart of milk; stir in three-fourths of
a cup of corn ,meal. Cook well ; add
a third of a cup of molasses, a pinch
of salt Beat two eggs, add a cup of
cold milk to them, and pour into the
pudding. Add. a few raisins, stir oc
casionally the first half hour. Bake
two hours. ' '
Fruit Dumplings. To a quart of
flour add two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, a tablespoonful of sugar and
half a teaspoonful of salt, two table
spoonfuls of butter, two eggs and
enough mflk to make a mixture to
roll. Roll out and cut In squares,
place a pear or apple or peach in each
square, bring the corners together; on
top of each place a bit of butter and a
dash of cinnamon with a sprinkling of
sugar. Pour into the pan a cup of hot
water. Bake until well browned and
serve with cream and sugar.
- poir a rich powder biscuit batter
oyer peaches in a deep dish and bake.
Turn so that the peaches are on tip.
Heap with sweetened whipped cream
and serve.
Poor Economy.
Charles M. Schwab, apropos of his
superb work in aid of released con
victs, said modestly in New York:
"O, it is economy to help these men.
Help tiiem a little, and their lives, in
stead cf being wasted, are of value to
the nation.-
''To he niggardly and timid about
helping such men , Is to be like thq
chap who was asked, the first of the
year,, to buy a calendar; .
"This chap, after studying the cak
endar thoughtfully, .handed It . back,
with a itrown. r ' "
" 'No; no he said. 'I can't afford iL.
I may tbe dead before the year !
IniusUce to the Esteemed Fish.
: An old. negro In town has been sell
ing fish to various housewives for sev
eral years. The other day he took
his wares to a hquse on the "south
side. The woman of the house exam
ined them v' ." : "
"Uncle,1" she said, as she inspected
the basket, of catfish, "these do not
seem to -he good. They don't smell
fresh." -V. . i
"Law, honey," replied the old mat
smiling, dat ain't de fish you smells;
dat's jes me." Kansas City Star,
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