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STRATEGY OF A SMALL BOY
Youngster, Who Broke Window in
Suburban Home, Seems to Have
Making of Clever Rascal.
An iron hoop bounded through the
area railings of a suburban house and
played havoc with the kitchen window,
says Llppincott's. Tbe woman waited,
anger In her eyes, for the appearance
of the hoop's owner. Presently he
came.
"Please, I've broken your window,"
he said, "and here's my father to mend
It"
And sure enough, he was followed
by a stolid-looking workman, who at
once started to work, while the small
boy took his hoop and ran off.
"That'll be four bits, ma'am,
aounoed the glazier when the window
was whole once more.
"Four bits!" gasped the woman.
"But your little boy broke It—the lit
tle fellow with the hoop, you know.
You're his father, aren't you?"
The stolid man shook his head.
"Don't know him from Adam," he
He came around to my place
and told me his mother wanted her
winder fixed. You're his mother,
aren't you?"
And the woman shook her head
also.
of
an
said.
Serviceable, Anyhow,
The unanswerable retort was heard
at a North Country dog show last
week. At the man who brought up
a brisk but undecorative whippet, an
affable attendant scoffed. "That'll
win no prize, lad," he remarked Anally.
"What's wrang wT him?" was the sur
prised answer. "Wrang? Haven't A
been tellln' you? Why, look at his
legs. Those legs are na' lang enough."
"Not lang enough? Why, they touch
the ground—did ye want them any
langer?" —London Chronicle.
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Naturally Surprised.
An old German furniture dealer had
a woman customer who was a great
talker. Nobody could get away from
her when she started In. One day he
sent a clerk to the lady's house to try
to collect a bill. When the élerk re
turned empty handed the old German
said:
"Veil! Vat did the lady say?"
"She did not say anything, sir. She
was mute," replied the clerk.
■'Vat!'' exclaimed the surprised Ger
man; "vas she dead?"
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Horan (the under dog)—Shure,
Mike Doran, an' If yez don't take yure
fist out av me oye It's sthorage Ol'll
be afther chargin' yez.
A Deep One.
"Gosh all hemlock!" exclntraed the
first farmer; "ain't yer struck water
yet? How deep hev ye gone?"
" 'Bout a hundred feet," replied the
other placidly.
''An' ain't ye discouraged?"
"Oh! I dunno! I can't say I ain't
glttln' a long well."—Cathollo Stand
ard and Times.
Giving Her Away.
"I don't feel a bit older than I did
40 years ago," he declared.
"Don't go around making such a sll
I have
ly boast," his wife begged,
told several of my friends that you
are only five years older than I am."
A Plausible Explanation.
''Why do they call Washington tbe
city of magnificent distances?"
"Because," answered the disappoint
ed office seeker, "It is such a long way
between what you go after and what
grou get"
A Prophetic Profit.
Pharaoh had just dreamed of the
seven full and the seven blasted ears
of corn.
"You are going to Invent a new Und
-of breakfast food," Interpreted Joseph.
«-Judge.
ACTOR AND THE PLAYWRIGHT
Former Resents Idea That He la
Given Vehicle to Express Talent
and Genlua to World.
"You don't seem to have a very high
opinion of the man who wrote the play
In which you are appearing."
"Why should I have a high oplnoln
of hlmT" asked the popular young
Actor.
"He has given you the opportunity*
lo become a public favorite."
"He has given me the opportunity?
My dear sir, he Is not responsible for
the talent, the genius, the artistic tem
perament I possess."
"No, but If there were no play
wright to provide you with a vehicle
how would you find expreslon for your
talent, your genius, your artistic tem
perament? It seems to me that you
owe everything to the man who gives
you lines to speak."
"My dear boy, you have a primitive
mind—very primitive. You could not
drive your automobile If there were no
mechanics to make the wheels and
the brakes and the engines; but do you
feel that you owe all to the besmeared
mechanics? Pardon me for a moment
while I indulge In thought. It la my
favorite recreation."
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Heredity.
"Give me a kiss!" pleads the suitor
of the lovely daughter of the eminent
philanthropist.
"I will," she replies thoughtfully,
"on condition that you raise three
more within five minutes."—Judge's
Library.
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HI8 PURPOSE.
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First Senator—What makes you
keep declaring that you will never
Again be a candidate for public of
Bee?
Second Senator — Well, I've got
•o keep saying something In order to
prevent my friends from overlooking
me as a possible candidate.
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A Tender Plea.
"I see that Jack has colored h!s hair
black where It was turning. Why did
he do such a foolish thing?" •
"Well, his girl asked him to do It,
and, of course, no man could refuse
a loved one's dyeing request"
he
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In the Blood.
"Why do American heiresses persist
'.n marrying Impecunious noblemen?"
"I suppose with the American vom
in's Instinctive love of bargains, they
:annot resist the prospect of geb
ting anything that's reduced."
The Question Today.
"Are you making history?" Inquired
the Mexican Insurgent.
"What a question, general."
"I ask It seriously. Are we making
alstory or Just a few films for the mov
ing picture people?"
Average Time.
"Which of these clocks Is right?"
"I don't know. We've five clocks
When we want to know the time we
idd 'em together and divide by five,
and even then we're not certain."—
London Opinion.
The Only Way.
"1 think, dear. I'll make my will."
"Why should you do that? You
haven't anything to leave."
"I know; but It seems to he the
only way lu which I cau hope to have
i will of my own."
At It Again.
The Doctor—I boo there has beet
«orne discussion as to whether It should
be a Norwegian or an English flag that
flies from the south pole.
The Professor—The hotor belongs
to neither. It should he Polish.
the
the
Time to Roost.
"Doctor," said a despairing patient,
"I'm In a dreadful way—I can neith
er lay nor set. What shall I do?"
''Well," said the medical man
gravely, "I think you had better
roost"
Inexcusable Ignorance.
Rankin (trying to remember)—Wht
and what are the "geisha girls?"
Fyle—The gay Shaw girls? I don't
know. Why not read his stuff your
self and find out?
did
sll
Lost Time.
"When you make an engagement,
you are always right on the minute
keeping It, aren't yoii?"
"Yes, I have lost a lot of time that
way."
tbe
Her Untrained Ear.
"Yea, I enjoyed my visit to Boston
ever so much." Miss Cahokla was
saying. "What a curious— er —brogue
they apeak there, don't they?"
the
The Cause.
"I don't look well In a steamer cap."
"Few people do. You aee, It Is a aort
of handy cap."
OPERATION SAVED MIND
VAN LEARNS NAME AFTER FOU»
TEEN BLANK YEARS.
Condition Due to Attack of Toughe
and Being Shanghaied—Recover
ing Memory of Former Days,
He Forgete Former Life.
New York.—B. Chandler Rogers,
who was beaten by toughs, thrown Up
to the Hudson river and »t»«ngt»ataA
by a British sailing ship on the night
of - May 10, 1897, and who spent the
next fourteen years of his life wltlv
out the slightest recollection of whom
he was or what he had done before
he waa Injured, came here from Be
attie the other day to search for hia
sister. His mind was cleared last Oo
tober after surgeons In Seattle
removed a fragment of bone that was
pressing on his brain.
Rogers, who is now thirty-one years
old, told his story to a reporter.
"My principal business In life," he
sand, "now Is to find the sister that I
haven't seen for nearly IB years. 1
have reason to believe that she is in
Bridgeport, Ct., and I am going there
tomorrow.
Mrs. Michael Roy, who
lives In Bridgeport, has Identified, I am
told, a photograph of me as that of
her brother. Maybe she Is mistaken,
but I hope not
"After I was operated on in Seattle
everything I had been doing for four
teen years was wiped out and I re
membered who I was and what I had
been doing before I was hurt In this
city at Eighth avenue and Sixteenth
streeL I remembered that my right
name was S. Chandler Rogers and
that my home was In New York, al
though they told me at the SeatUe
hospital that I had been known as
George Kelly for many years.
"I was a newsboy In New York and
later a messenger boy. Once in a
while I got a chance to box In the
aters and made a little money. On
May 1, 1897, I got a day off from my
work and that evening with a friend
and two girls I went to a show. Aft
er the show I took my girl home and
then atarted for bed, but at Eighth
avenue and Sixteenth street three men
stopped me. It was pretty dark and
I couldn't see their faces,
them asked me for a match,
hlm I wasn't a match factory, and he
made a pass at me. I tried to hit him
with brass knuckles I was wearing,
but another of the three slugged me
with a blackjack.
One of
I told
"When I came to I was trying to
keep afloat In the Hudson, swimming
desperately and nearly blind from ths
pain and shock of my hurts. I man
aged to catch hold of a piece of piling
and screamed for help. That's all I
recall definitely. I have been told by
the doctors that I revealed to them
after the operation in Seattle that I
was shanghaied that night by a Brit
ish ship, that I was badly hurt by ths
mate and that I had all sorts of ad
ventures In the next fourteen years
under the name of George Kelly. I
suppose they are right, but I can't r»
member what I did as Kelly.
"There's a young woman out In Se
attle who says that I am married toi
her. If that is true she Is In a mean
sort of position. S' ie married me as
Kelly and I have sued the name and
personally of Kelly forever."
Rogers' Identity was established by
a curious circumstance. As Qeorgo
Kelly he was living last October at
Fort Blakely and working in a lum
ber mill. On the evening of Tuesday»
October 10th, Rogers—or KeUy—left
home for a trip to Mill Town,
hadn't been feeling well and his wlfo
was worried about him. After order
ing groceries at a Fort Blakely store,
he disappeared. Three days later he
was found naked In a forest near Port
Blakely crawlipg on his hands and
knees and barking at dogs that were
annoying him. He was taken to the
Providence hospital in Seattle and was
the doctors found, unable to speak co
herently or to see. On October 16th,
the operation was performed, which
relieved pressure on his brain,
stored the power of speech and the
ability to see and which gave him
back also bis former Identity.
He
HAS A USE FOR OLD MAIDS
lohn Burns Would Make Unmarried
Women Take a Poor Law Child
to Board.
London.—Replying to parllamentar)
critics of his administration of the
poor law schools, John Burns, Presi
dent of the Local Government Board,
declared that every old mold In Eng
land who owns more than two cate
or more than one dog should be com
pelled to take a child from the poor
hbuse. He maintained that his policy
of removing the children from the
poorhouse to the care of private fam
lies had proven markedly successful.
Referring to the children who have
been boarded out Mr. Burns said:
"Increasingly both rich and poor are
adopting poor law children. If I had
my way I would make it compulsory
for all women who keep more two
cate and one dog to have a poor law
child on which to divert some of the
cash and a good deal of the wasted
sentiment which many people put upon
animals to an extent which le absurd."
1,600 Tone of Hay In One Pile.
Wapato, Wash.—The largest pile of
baled hay ever put up on tho reserva
tion la to be seen on the Wapato ranch,
two miles northwest of this city. This
pile contains 1,623 tons, or SflCIH
TRY POND LILY SALAD
of
MADE WITH LETTUCE, BOILEO
EGGS AND OTHER THINGS.
Veal Croquettes That Are Tasty, Made
From Meat Left Over—Stuffed
Peppers, Madge's Cookies
and Pie Cruta.
Pond Lily 8alad.—On separate salad
plates arrange some nice white let
tuce leaves. Boll eggs hard, one and
one-half for each person. Cut whites
In long strips, placing these In cen
ter of lettuce. Then chop yolks flue,
adding finely chopped celery, parsley
and olives. Mix well with mayon
naise dressing, season with salt and
pepper and place In middle of dish.
Veal Croquettea.—Use beef or
chicken or any kind of leftover meat.
Put tbe meat through the chopper,
season with salt and pepper, moisten
with cream sauce or soup; add well
beaten egg; cracker crumbs to make
stiff enough to mold In balls and fry
sauce for same. Pry a small onion In
butter for the flavor only, take out
and brown some flour; then add either
soup stock or water and then season
with salt, pepper and catsup. Cream
sauce may be poured over them In
stead.
Stuffed Peppere.—Be sure and get
bell peppers. For six large peppers
cut tops and take out seeds. Boll for
half an hour one and one-half cups
of chopped veal, one-half cup cold
boiled rice, three chopped tomatoes,
one-half teaspoon salt, one tablespoon
of melted butter. Fill the shells with
this and a few buttered cracker
crumbs on top. Bake about one hour.
Madge's Cooklea.—Cup of butter,
cup of powdered sugar, cup of corn
starch, tablespoon of milk, two well
beaten eggs, small glass of sherry
and teaspoon baking powder. Flour
to make stiff enough to roll; roll thin
and cut, then brush over with milk;
sprinkle cinnamon, granulated auger
and chopped nuta.
Good Pie Cruat.—Six heaping table
spoons of flour; about half teaspoon
of baking powder, tablespoon lard
and a little salt Mix with milk In
stead of water.
I n
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Kerosene will make boots or shoes
hardened by water Boft and pliable as
new.
Place a deep skillet over Irons
when they are heating. They will re
tain the heat longer.
Boiled starch Is made smooth and
effective by the Introduction of sperm,
salt or gum arable dissolved.
Old paint stains may be removed
from cloth by covering the spot with
olive oil or butter, then applying chlo
roform.
If dirt eeems to settle under the
nails rub pulverized pumice stone un
der them with an orange stick and
wash with warm water.
Parsley may be kept fresh and
green for several daye If It le put in
a covered earthen Jar In a cool place.
It will last longer than In water.
To scald milk put the milk In a pan
or double boiler, stand In a pan of
boiling water over the fire. When the
milk begins to steam It Is scalded.
To clean and renew shine of leather
chairs, bniBh off first all dust Then
rah well with a mixture of three
parte benslne and one of sweet oil.
Steel, when rusty, may be cleaned
by giving the article a good coating
of sweet oil, leaving It for a few days
and then rubbing It with unslaked
Um«.
It's a good scheme to keep a long
crochet needle In the bathroom to
draw out threads or hairs from the
waste pipes, which stop the outflow of
water.
To Bottle Peas.
Green peas that are to be bottled
should be gathered on a dry day and
only peas that are perfectly sound
should be used. Shell them carefully
lnd dip them In boiling water In which
a spray of mint has been soaked. Ari
er blanching, dry the peas and put
them Into w^de necked bottles with
mint and salted boiling water. Cover
the bottles and put them, wrapped In
hay, In a pan of water. Bring the wa
ter slowly to the boll and allow the
peaa to cook gently for an hour and a
half. Set the pan aelde till the peas
are quite cold, then lift the bottles
out and lay them on a damp cloth In
a warm place. Hermetically teal the
bottles, dry them carefully and store
till required.
Frleaeeed Beefsteak.
Take a round steak and cut It Into
small pieces about two Inches square;
roll each piece In flour, sprinkle salt
and pepper over all and put Into fry
ing pan with plenty of lard or butter.
Put Into oven and brown as you would
a roast, turning pieces a few times.
Then add water and cook either In
oven or on stove for an hour end a
half or two hours. Thicken the gravy
and aerve.
Sploed 8almon.
Place In the dish the liquor from e
can of salmon, two tablespoons bub
ter, two tablespoons lemon Juice, four
of water, one-half teaspoon cloves,
pinch of cayenne. When It begins to
boll add the salmon, salt to taste and
boll a tew minutes. Serve on toast or
eraokere.
PLAIN REASONS WHY THE WIND«
BLOW.
Astronomers and other scientists
have not yet succeeded in ascertain
ing Just how far the atmosphere of
our earth extends above the land and
the sea on which It rests, but some of
them hope to some day soon. The
Astronomer Royal of England, who
has completed his report for the fiscal
year ending May 10. tells some very
Interesting things about the varying
densities, altitudes and temperatures
of the air cushions, air pockets and
air currents surrounding the earth.
In reference to air currents and
the reasons why the wind blows, the
report explains that air consists of
gaseous particles, all trying to get
away from one another, and that, un
der certain conditions, they can be
compelled to come closer together by
contraction, or forced to fly further
apart by expansion. A quart bottle,
for example, holds 22 grains of air at
the temperature of 70 degrees. If the
bottle be cooled by surrounding It
with loe, the air Inside contracts.
When this occurs, more air rushes In
through the bottle's neck. The quart
of air now weighs more than 22 grains.
If the bottle be heated, the air It con
tains expands, its tiny particles fly
further asunder, and many of them
escape from the bottle altogether.
There Is still a quart of air, but It
weighs much less than the original 21
grains.
Now, consider the earth and the sea
under the Influence of varying degrees
of the sun's heat Where the heat Is
greatest, the air Is made lighter and
expands. Where the heat Is least, the
air Is unexpanded and heavy. Both
the hot and the cold air have weight
but the oold, being the heavier, Is
drawn more effectively down to the
ground. In doing so it drives the light
er air np out of Its way. Just as a lump
of lead dropped Into a pall of water
forces some of the water upward. If
the earth were equally warm at every
part, and continued at a constant tem
perature, wind could not exlsL It
••blows" because of heat and gravita
tion. In other words, air moves from
the place where Its weight or pressure
is most, toward the place where Its
weight or pressure Is least.
HORSES DECREASING IN PARIS.
The number of horses In Parts
steadily decreases under motor comp»
tltlon, and the horses that remain
have to thank the automobile as well
ms the efforts of various societies for
the better treatment they receive, for
to survive In these days they must be
fit. The army authorities take a cen
sus of the number of horses, and the
figures for 1911 show 72,488 in Parts,
compared with 96,698 in 1901. Thlj
means that the number of horses has
decreased 24,210 In ten years, or al
most exactly a quarter. The military
authorities are somewhat perturbed
over this fact. It Is true that for
transport of war material and provis
ions automobile traction saves the use
of many horses, but there remain the
needs of the cavalry and artillery. The
old standby for trained horses, the
omnibus companies, will soon be of no
assistance, for autobuses are rapidly
supplanting horse-drawn stages.
BIRTHPLACES OF FRUITS.
The raspberry Is native to tem
perate Europe and America and cer
tain parte of Asia. The apricot orig
inated at China. The peach, too, was
originally a Chinese fruit. The cher
ry birthplace was near the Caspian
Sea, and the plum cornea from the
Caucasus and Turkey. The pear Is
native In temperate Europe and West
ern Asia. The quince ' came from
Southeastern Europe, the Caucasus
and the Caaplan region. The apple Is
native all over Europe. In the Cau
casus, round the Black Sea and In
Persia. The flg seems to have origin
ated In the lands bordering on the
Mediterranean, particularly In Syria.
The red current grows wild all over
Europe. In the Caucasus, the Hima
layas, Manchuria, Japan and Arctlo
America. The sweet orange origin
ated in Southern China and Cochin
China and the citron in India.
THE U8E OF THE COMMA.
The point on which most writers
are at odds with the compositor Is
the comma, says the London Chron
icle. It Is not that he misplaces It so
outrageously, as In that sentence
which was the cause of many tears In
a Berlin newspaper office some years
ago: "Prince Bismarck walked In on
his head, the well-known cap on his
feet, large, brightly polished top boots
on his forehead, a dark cloud In his
hand, the Inevitable walking stick In
hla eye, a menacing glance."
No, but he la too fond of this par
ticular punctuation point. He takes a
delight In breaking up the flow of
sentences with his artificial pauses.
We all say; "Why then did you do It?"
In one breath. It la the composite.
who aaya, "Why, then, did you do It?"
It Is possible to be too hard on the
oomma. It has its undeniable uaea.
CHRONOLOGY OF INVENTION«.
Barometers were flrat made by Tor
ricelli In 1842. Bombshells were first
made In Holland In 1496. The first
almanac was printed in Hungary in
1470. Iron pavements were flrat laid
In London In 1817. Buckles were first
made In 1680. Brandy was first
In France In 1310. Roller skates were
Invented by Plympton In 1868. Cov
ered carriages were first used In Bng
land In 1580. Alcohol was discovered
In the thirteenth century. Stem wind
ing watches were the Invention of
Noel In 1851. The first Iron wire
draws at Nuremburg In 1351 .
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TRYING TO AVOID THE HURLY
Motoriste of Dundee Having 8trenu
Time Trying to Sidestep Boya*
Favorite Machine.
Motorists are having a lively tlmt
In Dundee Just now.
They need to keep an extra sharp
lookout passing along thoroughfares
which are flanked by side streets on a
gradient, for no matter how slow they
drive the boy In the street continues
to get In front, and It is sometimes a
near thing. Inches only, avoiding a
fatality.
The hurly Is a favorite machine for
amusing Dundee yruth, saya the
Courier.. It consists of a soap box
which has served Its day
ous
and li
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Come Darting Out
mounted on four wheels, the front
pair turning on an axle, which enables
the occupante to do a bit of steering.
The favorite place for the running
of these toy carts Is a gradient, and
motorists have lately been tortured in
the stretches of Perth road and Ferry
road.
The little carts come darting out of
the side streets irrespective of the
possible approach of a tram or motor
car, and the result Is to give the most
careful driver a touch of
Recently a Dundee motoring party
got scared three times on the route
named, and though the speed was
never more than five miles an hour, a
miracle only prevented a mishap, and
two ladles with the car arrived home
In a state of collapse.
nerves.
MAKING PICTURES OF HANDS
Illustration Shows How Little Folks
May Amuse Themselves—Col
ored Worsted Ie Needed.
The Illustration shows a way fot
little folks to make pictures of thelt
own hands. The hand is placed flat
on a piece of heavy paper or card
board and traced all around with a
lead pencil. Then with a darning
needle or other blunt point punch out
Picture of Own Hands.
holes at frequent Intervals on the
pencil outline. With a needle and
colored thread or worsted the child
then sews over and under around the
outline, returning the same way to
fill the alternate spaces.
Snores Are Casteless.
The cause and cure of snoring con
cern all classes, says the London
Chronicle. We have record that both
the house of lords and the workhouse
have suffered from It.
former Duke of Norfolk who fell Into
the habit of sleeping audibly In the
lords, and It happened that he
hard at It on one occasion when a
bill concerning the parish of Great
Snoring, In Norfolk, came before the
house.
which the bill's title
There was a
was
The roar of laughter with
was greeted
awakened the duke and relieved his
fellow peers. At the other end of the
social scale we have the poor law
mission minority's commendation of
the Ingenious workhouse master, who
divided the old men at night so that
the snorers and the deaf men slept
in one ward and the rest In another.
com
Too Many Slipper*.
Minister (to naughty boy)—Tommy,
you should be good—like my little
hoy.
Tommy—Oh, people donate you so
many slippers he doesn't dare to be
bad."
Cat and a Comma.
John—Say, James, what Is the dlb
<erence between a cat and a commet
James—I give It up.
John—A cat has claws at the end
of Its paws, and a comma has the
pause at the end of the clausal See?

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