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(Chicago Letter.)
Within a month from this date, In
all probability, the long-awaited action
will be taken which will insure to Chi
cago an unpolluted water "supply, will
furnish to northern Illinois a mag
nificent waterway and add materially
the wealth' and jj^osperlty of not
bnly Chicago, but the whole sanitary
lietrict. The great drainage channel
will be officially opened. The dark
waters of the Chicago river will go
bounding pa their new-found way over
the rocky bed and between the smooth
stone walls of. the mammoth cut to
Lockport, and there joining with those
of the Desplalnes will flow through
Joliet and so on through the Illinois
river to the Mississippi and to the
ocean. For seven years this day has
been anxiously looked forward to not
alone by the trustees who have charge
of the gigantic enterprise, but by the
2,000,000 and more people whose health
is intimately associated with the suc
cessful completion of the task.
Obstacles, unforeseen in the early
days of the great work, were met and
overcome. Heart-bredklng delays, set
backs due to natural agencies as much
as to human failure and malice, were
constantly faced and overcome. The
channel has been dug. The great cut
extends its yawning chasm twenty
eight miles from Robey street to Lock
port awaiting the influx of water. The
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bridges are in place, and where there
is delay the substructures are suffi
ciently advanced to allow of the ad
mission of the water. The mighty
controlling works at Lockport, by
which the trustees can control the flow
of water out of the canal and reduce
It to a pint if necessary, are ready to
do their ^art in the great scheme for
purifying tt'e water supply of Chicago.
The dams and retaining walls in the
Desplalnes river approaching and in
Joliet are prepared to sustain the in
creased pressure. All is ready for the
official act which shall unite the waters
of Lake Michigan with those of the
Gulf of Mexico.
For thirty years before the sanitary
district was created engineers advanced
various plans for solving the sewage
problem of Chicago. As the city grew
rapidly it became evident that the po
lution of the water supply by the sew
age from the river was a constant
menace to the health of the city. The
Illinois and Michigan canal had proved
inadequate to carry off the polluted
water of the river, as every heavy rain
flushing the sewers, resulted in a
change of course in tha river, causing
it to set toward teh^r'We- At about
the'town of Summit fefclki knovn the
watershed between t! At. Lawrence
and Mississippi valleje ~Wed and it
was evident that a ,'ci#
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'(f sufficient
size and carrying to convey
t^e waters of the Chicago -Iver over
that watershed would,solve the prob
lem. A navigable canal was not
thought of at that time because the
Desplalnes and Illinois rivers, into
which such a channel must empty its
waters, were not nav'.gable for deep
draft ships. But as-the idea grew in
the public mind it was pointed out
that the equipping such a broad, deep
channel as was contemplated with
swing bridges would be the"first step
toward a great waterway connecting
Chicago with the Mississippi, to be
completed at such time as the general
government should carry out the
dredging and deepening of the Illinois.
The canal has already cost twice as
much as the original estimates con
templated, and this, too, in spite of the
low cost per cubic yard of the excava
tion resulting from the employment
Of machinery- especially invented for
the work.. The increased cost is large
ly accounted for by the much greater
amounjt of rock excavation than was
originally contemplated and the cost
o^ diyerting the Desplalnes river and
making a new channel for it for thir
teen miles, so as to keep its floods out
of the canal. The Eiesplaines Is a
prairie stream, draining a wide ex
panse of nearly flat country. It has
great fluctuations, so that at some sea
KOtia its whole discharge would pass
through a six-inch pipe, while at
others it reaches 800,000 cubic feet per
minute. This river heads in Chicago,
bnly a few miles from the lake and
fjows into the Illinois. Not only was it
gcessary to cut for it a new channel
allel to the canal, but a huge dike
to be built to confine it to this new
|nnel. and also a back channel pro
ed to conduct a portion of its flood
|ters north Into Lake Michigan, for
reason that they could not safely
I carried through the city of Joliet,
hich lies at the lower end of the
t&al.
Few people realize what this diver
sion of the Desplalnes 'channel means,
frs trustees really had to lift up the
er and move it to one side that its
bed might be used foir part of the
drainage channel. For thirteen miles
a solid wall had to be built to separate
th* waters of the Desplalnes and the
drainage canal,jmarking'a new course
for that river. IJust below the city of
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Joliet the Illinois river is formed by the
confluence of the Desplalnes and Kan
kakee rivers. Its surface is forty feet
below that of the drainage channel,
whose waters it will receive, and one of
the engineering problems was to lower
the waters of the channel to this sur
face. To accomplish this certain dams
in Joliet had to be removed, others
changed retaining walls had to be
built and legal obstacles manifold
overcome, bridges built and other work
undertaken, while the main force of
laborers were at work on the "cut."
In fact, the digging of the channel
proper was the simplest part of the
work. It amounted to an expenditure
of a certain amount of time, labor and
dynamite directed along well-estab
llshed lines to produce a channel 168
feet wide and from twenty-two to
twenty-eight feet deep.
The mam channel, it should be
understood, ends abruptly at Lockport
in a wall six feet thick made of stone
and backed up by thousands of tons
of stone dumped in from the spoil
banks. There the channel widens
from 160 feet, the regulation width of
the cut, to a "windage basin" 600 feet
wide, In which the largest ships can
be turned around. This basin, of course,
is locked on three sides by stone walls
extending seventeen feet above the sur
face of the water when the channel
will be filled. On the north wall
stands the controlling works. The
waters of the river, when they are
turned in on some bright day in the
future, will flow uninterruptedly down
their new rocky bed to this point.
There they will encounter the stono
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walls on the south and west and flow
ing to the north they will pass through
the sluice gates and over the dam
which comprise the controlling works.
These seven gates can be lowered, cut
ting off the flow of the water, and this
dam can be raised, cutting off some
more of It if necessary. The gates can
be shut down altogether, presenting as
impenetrable a front as the stone walls
and the bear trap dam can be raised
until it Is as high as the level of Lake
Michigan. Then the water will stand
still. It will not flow uphill. Rather,
if the dam be thus raised, the water
will turn about and flow back toward
the lake.
There are seven sluice gates at pres
ent and each weighs twenty tons, but
so nicely are they counterbalanced that
but two men are required to work the
machinery to raise or lower them.
They are built in solid masonry which
suggests the frowning front of a fort,
but this is necessary, as the pressure
against them the water will exert will
be tremendous. The heavy granite and
brick wall contains seven other spaces
for additional sluice gates, which are
now bricked in solidly, awaiting tho
time when Chicago's population has so
greatly increased that the capacity of
the channel must be doubled. Then
these gates will be put in to permit an
increased flow of water into the Des
plalnes. But the gates in themselves,
while they are massive pieces of en
gineering work, are not enough with
out the bear-trap dam. It is called a
bear trap, the engineers say, because
its shape suggests the old deadfall bear
traps which were once in use by early
settlers. It consists of two hinged metal
leaves which present an inclined face
160 feet i* width to the waters. The
place of joining, known as the crest of
the dam, can be raised by hydraulic
power, the turning of valves allowing
water from upstream to flow into
chambers uhder the dam and easily
raise its million pounds of weight. It
has a total oscillation of seventeen feet
—that is, it can be raised that much
from its lowest point if necessary. To
lower it other valves are turned and
the water from the chambers under the
dam ar^ released to flow out into the
tail race and tho great metal barrier
settles slowly down to the required
level. Over the top of tho dam the flot
sam and jetsam of the channel, the
trees, sticks, barrels and Ice floating on
the surface will be allowed to pass,
which would never get through the
sluice gates for the reason that the
water will pass under the gates, leav
ing the surface almost placid and im
movable, holding all floating objects,
and in the course of time the windage
basin at the end of the channel would
be filled with floating debris from the
twenty-eight miles of canal all hurried
down against the end wall. These
things will easily pass over the dam,
which will ordinarily have a foot of
water pouring over its crest to the
tall race.
WRESTLING WITH LANDSCAPE.
The Original lowana Got Tlreil of Climb
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LITTLE MISS HARRISON.
It was not much over two years ago
than an expressman, with a broad
smile and a wink which signified con
siderable, took a bright new baby
carriage from his wagon and carried
it up the front steps ^of the residence
of ex-President Harrison. The door
opened and the new vehicle was re­
mils.
"Westward of the Mississippi, the
dramatic play of physical nature
against the migrating will of human
beings assumes many times the inter
est and impressiveness that it had in
the movements from the Alleghanies
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to Illinois," says a writer in Alnslie's,
in an article explaining the settling of
the United States. "The struggle of
the settler with the swamps and
marshes and malaria of Indiana, a
struggle that lasted to within the most
recent generation, was but a proem t.o
the hardships and conflicts that fol
lowed when the Iowa immigrants
crossed the big river, and the Missou
rians that were to be forsook the hills
of Tennessee. Iowa Itself, excluding
the consideration of the warfare with
the doughty Sioux, was not such a
basis of tragedy, n6r was Missouri
topographically so, but Iowa and Mis
souri furnished the ba is of the exodus
to the further west, and In doing so
gave both the genesis and the nemesis
to many a habited place on the way to
the Pacific. Iowa itself is an illustra
tion in a minor way of the law of least
resistance, and Missouri is an illustra
tion of the law of greatest endurance.
The excess of population from Illinois
would doubtless have g?ne over tae
Missouri as well as the Mississippi and
have stretched across the plains of
.Nebraska twenty years before the
Union Pacific rails were laid, had not
Iov.a's surface been as it is and the
ncmads grown tired of rolling up and
down the undulating hills, and decided
that, the easiest thing to do was to
settle in the attractive wooded vales
and stick their plows into the deep,
loamy corn-producing so 1. The thou
sands who remained have always been
of the remaining, sticking kind, steady,
industrious, th:ifty, but circumscribed
by the hills from whose outlook only
hills are to be saen."
A. Merry War.
The Warangi, a wild tribe of Ger
man East Africa, says Lieutenant
ceived with open arms by a whlto
capped nurse. It was quite evident
that there was some use for the baby
carriage. Miss Mary Elizabeth Har
rison was born two years ago, in.In
dianapolis, Ind„ when the ex-president
was abroad as a member of the Vene
zuelan commission.
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THE LEON REPORTER, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1000.
Werther in his recent book, are ex
tremely warlike. The various sub
tribes and family factions are in al
most constant feud, but their cam
paigns are carried on in a very easy
going and comfortable fashion. The
men of rival villages will march
against each other in the morning and
engage in a desultory flght with bows
and arrows. At midday the women
bring lunch and hostilities are sus
pended fcr a time. Then the fipfht is
resumed and kept up until night fall,
when the warriors of both sides go
home, very well contented with the
day's work. Of course, there are a few
casualties which only serve to prolong
the vendetta. One day six messen
gers with despatches for Werther found
their way blocked by a battle of this
sort. They called out to the nearest
party to stop fighting and let them
pass. One of the chiefs thereupon
yelled to Ills opponents: "Hello there!
Here are some men with letters for
the white man in Kondoa. Stop shoot
ing and let them through." The light
was promptly stopped ,to be resumed
as soon as the mail-carriers had
passed.—Staats-Zeitung, Feb. 19, 1S39.
Til© RniterflyN Frcket.
From the Philadelphia Times: The
male butterflies have the proud priv
ilege of a pocket, but the pocket of a
butterfly is wonderfully made. It is
really an extension of the under wing
folded back on the upper side, but it
is exquisitely colored and marked like
the upper side so that it is very hard
to detect, and no one has yet discov
ered just how it is opened, although
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undoubtedly the butterfly cr.n throw
it open while he is flying. At first
ance1there seems to be on white or
amber-colored silk floss wiJhin, but
examine this with a microscope and
you will find twistsd ribbons, slender
rods shaped like a shepherd's crook,
others jointed bamboo-like, and flex
ible rods and tiny scales of various
sorts and patterns. It is known that,
insects have a marvelausly keen scent,
and it is believed that all these odd
little objects are perfume boxes, and
that the fragrance so thrown abroad
is a signal call to the female butterfly
whLh may be wonde:Ing about in the
air. It is, to say the least, a very in
teresting guess, and there is evidence
to prove that butterflies and moths are
summoned from distances by odors
that we would hardly no:ice.
Man WSio Didn't Cut Kis Friend*.
Father Darcy, one of Ireland's real
wits, was a man who hated to say an
un'kind thing, yet could not help say
ing something to the point when the
opportunity offered. Such an oppor
tunity presented itself one da when
he was invited by a man who was
known as an ignorant braggart to visit
a new and beautiful house which the
person, who had become wealthy sud
denly, had bought. With more than
his usual pomposity the host dragged
the priest over the place and expa
tiated on the excellence of everything
that he owned. Finally they reached
the immense library, where there were
thousands of volumes, all splendid in
binding. The host sank Into one of
the great leather-covered chairs with
a sign of contentment and exclaimed:
"But, after all, father, what is all this
luxury compared with my favorites
here? The other rooms, maybe, give
pleasure to my wife and daughters
but this is my place—right here among
these books, which are my friends.
And these here on the desk"—pointing
to a score of fine volumes—"are what
I may call my most intimate friends."
Father Darcy got up and examined one
of them, when a broad grin spread over
his good-natured face. ''Well, it's glad
I am to see that you never cut your
intimate friends!" be exclaimed.
Cabby Knows Hl Fare.
From Tit-Bits: In Dublin the legal
fare for a car-drive between any two
points in the city is sixpence, but
when these points are very far apart
the "fare" Is expected to bear this in
mind. It was overlooked, however, by
a big, fat commercial traveler, who
mounted a car at one extremity of the
city to be driven across to the other
but who, on dismounting, offered the
car-driver the customary sixpence. The
driver, instead of taking it, took the
horsecloth briskly out of the well of
the car, shook It out, carefully covered
with it the horse's head, and then,
turning to the traveler, touched his
hat cheerfully, and held out his hand
for the sixpence. "What was all that
for?" asked the traveler. To whom the
driver replied, in a confidential tone:
"I didn't want the dacent baste, your
honor, to see what a big load he had
brought all this way for one little
sixpence."
Tiresome for the S n,"..
Grandmamma had been explaining,
to the little girl how oir- earth is kept
from flying off into iniriite space by
the attraction of the sun. Which Is con
stantly trying to draw t.he earth to
ward itself, while the latter always
keeps its distance. "Grandmamma,"
said the little girl, "I should think the
sun would get discouraged after a
while and let go."-rCincfcnati En
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FOR HOME AND WOMEN't0
ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS
AND MATRONS.
Abnnfc SUowt tinil Stockings—A Cure for
J.onelln*a i—IIi'lplo«su«H4 of it Woman
Dependent Upon tlie Society »f Others
-Our Cooking Sehool,
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When I was but a little rhllj
They tucketl me, oil, so enu^r luid tight,
Into iny trundle-bed, and then
They left me with the Night
Left me there to sail away
Upon the breast of gentle Sleep—
A solitary sailor on
The Dream Sea vast and deep.
But though about me blackness relprned,
The door was never shut quite tife'lit
And 'cross the room there sped to me
A tiny ray of light.
Twaa like a beacon sent to save
Me from the rocks of childish fears.
And the nameless night-time noises
All so dread to childish ears.
For I knew that where the lamp-llffht
Filtered through—a threadlike thing
There sat mother, sofllv knitting,
And knew that I could brins
Her swiftly to me on the Instant,
Even though I whispered low
6o I felt no hiirm could reach me,
And 1 feared not any fo
—Town Topics.
Allout Shoes anil £tnckftigH.
It is the exceptional woman nowa
days who wears shoes too small for
her, and so light, at that, that they are
no protection against dampness. My
lady's outdoor boots are now stout, but
not stiff. The leather of both uppers
and soles is pliable, but almost water
proof. She has them either high or
low, as suite her fancy and comfort,
for the American woman is fast learn
!ng that she only appears at her beHt
when her clothes are comfortable. The
beauty of a foot or hand was never en
hanced by a covering that fit too close
ly and was cramping. Everyday boots
are of all plain leather or with patent
leather bottoms and plain, heavy
leather uppers. They have moderately
low heels and moderately wide toes.
There are the daintiest and dressiest
of foot coverings also, but these are
reserved for, indoor wear. One of the
prettiest of the dressy lot of shoes is
of fine kid, and comes nearly up to the
ankle. The front Is cut open across
the instep and down to just a tip over
the toe. The opening is strapped across
with black velvet ribbon, each strap
having a bow with a buckle in the cen
ter. Of course, such shoes are worn
with fancy stockings. Embroidery
plays an important part in the hosiery
of the day. There is a fancy for the
quaint little satin slipper that straps
around the ankle with black ribbons.
One dainty girl has a pair of such slip
pers. which she wears with white silk
stockings that are all lace work at the
front. To give just the style to the
foot as the feet of the "ladies of the
sixtieth" had, one must wear white
stockings with the satin slippers, that
are tied at the ankles with crossed rib
bons. Patent leather is used more for
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(iepend upon lier
Ot velvet figured woolen goods and black velvet. Yoke and underskirt of
dull green crepe de chine. Tiny pearl buttons on the satin straps on tho
stock.
outdoor than indoor in women's shoes.
Fancy stockings are not worn on the
Btreet, though there was a decided ef
fort to start the fashion. The stock
ings that aro worn In the house and in
the evening are as elaborate as one
pleases or can afford. It Is rather a
matter of wonder to the woman who
loves pretty, fancy stockings to learn
that Queen Victoria wears, all year
round, a finely spun and woven cotton
stocking. But, then, Queen Victoria
has never been looked to to start the
fashions. We all haven't as simple
tastes as her majesty. Her example
in the matter of hosiery may be good
and comfortable, but it is not apt to
be followed. While silk stockings, em
broidered in floral designs, are among
the modish things of the winter, fine
lisle thread stockings are more worn
than silk.
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Core for I*nneltnv«.
There Is a Quality in a woman's na
ture mat Is. scarcely conducive to Jjer
happiness when fate or the exigencies
of her life demand that she shall be
much alone. Having cultivated lor*
of other persona' :SOc5ety, she becomes
absolutely helploas when she ls/torc«d
°™n-
witho«t
re-
sources of entertainment in hsrself, she
mopes and glows melancholy, with the
result that her disposition is crossed
and she grows old before her time.
Under these circumstances it Is well
for a woman at a very early age to
endeavor to secure enjoyment In occu
pation. Books, sewing, the arrange
ment of her home, music, the care of
pets, all help her to enjoy hours cf
solitude rather than fretting for the
unattainable in the matter of human
companionship. One's own thoughts
can be so trained that they are as sen
tient as the most conversationally in
clined Individual. The day spent in
idle longing for some one to drop in
or in wishing that she might go some
where or do something gives a wom
an that look of discontent that is fatal
to beauty, and is futile so far as bene
ficial results, either mentally or phys
ically. On thf other hand, with good
books for friends, a woman is in touch
with intellectual kings and queens.
She is storing tip treasures of memory
that will be a never-failing source of
pleasure when the twilight of life
conies and she must depend on her
fund of reminiscence for her daily
comfort. Occupation of the right sort
is the greatest: cure for loneliness, and
a safeguard as well.
Of point d'esprit lace. Upper part of
skirt is tucked and trimmed with ruf
fles of point d'esprit, edged with lace.
Ruffles headed with draperies of apple
blossoms.
OUR COOKING SCHOOL.
Hickory Nut dimly.
Boil two cups of granulated sugar
with one-half cup of water, without
stirring, until the syrup "threads" in
cold water. Flavor with a few drops
of lemon or vanilla. As sooy.
HOUSE OOWN.
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vas
the
syrup cools a little stir until it- .be-
comes quite white, mix in one cupful Their headquarters are at Chicago. In
of hickory nut meats, and turn into brief existence the "fontsIs^nBj
When cold, cut iuio s«iaares.
bank, -iiege, lanu as
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flat tins. giow
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Deviled BUoalt.
A slice of good cheddar cheese, some
chutney, a little made mustard, cay
enne, plain water biscuits. Melt the
cheese and mix it to a paste with some
chutney and a little made mustard
season well with cayenne, salt and
pepper spread the mixture on the
biscuits, which should be well but
tered, and griH over a clear fire till
quite hot.
Temperance Eggnog.
An excellent eggnog without liquor
of any kind is a nourishing and pala
table drink, If carefully made. Beat
the yolk of one or two eggs with a de
sired quantity of powdered sugar, un
til it is light and creamy pour into a
glassful of rich milk or cream lastly
stir in the white of the eggs beaten
to a foam. This is a good sedative
when taken just before going to bed.
'"•''""if?"':-' Telltale Phonograph.
Prom Sydney Town and Country
Journal: "Goodnees, Maria' was that
phonograph open during a ,4og fight?"
"No. I turned it on la*t riight when
yo« were sleeping. Perhapa jrog wilt
believe now th^ yon
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CHURCH.
THAT OF FAITH HBALBRS
PHILADELPHIA.^
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Flasks of Wlilsky. Cigar*, Cratches,
Corset*, Iiuuei, and Vials or Si
cine In I'rofaslou—As Symbols of
nuuclatlon.
(Philadelphia Letter.)
Philadelphia has the oddest plac- or
worship in the world. It
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Somerset street, and is the local bra i.
of the "Christian Catholic Chiir* u,"
otherwise the "Zionists," who Heh»
in divine healing. The church neat,
new and well-lighted apartmeiif, about
18x50 feet in size. The wall ba "u of I'.-e
platform, which Is used as a 'pit if
decorated in a unique manner. n:»skn
of whisky, cigars, pipes, bag.- at. to
bacco, crutches, plugs of cheT
bacco, trusses,vials of all kinds
ieine, corsets and many other
have places on the wall, inte
with Scriptural passages. Each
articles la said to be the symt
renunciation of the use of livtor
medicine, or the material evidence
an escape from some malady. Oue
understands their significance at las!
when men and women who have
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JOHN A. DOWIE.
tirely given up the use of medicine
to rely solely on the healing power of
Christ, rise In the audience and bear
testimony to marvelous cures of con
sumption, cancer and other serious dis
eases which were wrought solely
through the efficacy of prayer after
Physicians had abandoned all hope.
The Zionists eschew all swine's flesh,
and the use of whisky and
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absolutely prohibited, and the use of
medicines of all kinds is considered
blasphemous.
The Zionists were founded less than
four years ago by Rev. John Alexand
der Dowie, who was formerly a Con
gregationalist preacher, and was once
a minister of education in Australia.
The -ueml^Sf!,
tireiflHcome to the church
is done through the bank. Tha
Chicago bankers are
at this feature o' IheVw religion, a!
it tases deposits away from them.
AH of these are under the absolute
control of Rev. Dr. Dowie,who is called
the general overseer,and whose powers
extend even to the naming of his suc
cessor.
Dowie poses as a prophet. At Zion
Iuhrrce' Chicago, recently, tho
heaJer predicted that In 25 years
the world would be ready for the -com
tPio °f
Lord-
Idt
"The telephone,
telegraph and other wonderful things,"
w'" make't
so easy to spread
Zion that in a quarter of
^_will be prepared
istciy began a
a centur
for the grei
two weeks' war cH
godly and'eriminal pres!?
He explained that he would "Sft
greater part of the denominationaP
press as well as the secular.
Not There to Talk*
People who talk during a theatrical
performance, a concert or a "paid" en
tertainment of any kind, in a manner
to cause annoyance to their neighbors
before them, behind them, beside them
or within earshot of them, if they be
in boxes, are not mere disturbers and
nerve-rackers. They are plain thieves
and are just as much thieves as the
proverbial grocers (we never met this
kind of grocer in real life), who put
sand into their sugar, and they stand
In exactly the same relation to the pur
veyors of the entertainments as does
a malicious person to hiB grocer who
who puts sand in his grocer's sugar
barrel with that grocer's knowledge or
consent This remark applies not on
ly to the loud talkers, but to the pes
tiferous "siflle—siffle—siffle" ers. who
6peak in whispers.—New Yofk Press*
Camels on the Plow In Germany.
Count Skorzewski, a wealthy land
owner in Posen, Germany, has recent
ly caused a sensation among the na
tives by employing a came): instead of
horses or oxen to draw the plow on
his estate. The experiment has proved
successful, and It Is probable that tt iMjli
will be followed In other agricultural
districts.
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How Children Are Named In Persia.
In Persia the naming of children is a
matter of chance, a sort of lottery de
ciding what name the infant shall car
ry through life. In Persia this cere
mony, performed In the house of birth,
is important and elaborate. All the
relatives, even those Hving at a dis
tance, are brought together, and the
priests of tho locality are invited. Aft
or the meal, which Is served as a wel
come, is eaten, the new addition to
Persia's population is placed in the
center of the room on a rug. Tho
guests form a circle around the child.
One of the priests writes five names,
previously agreed upon, on five slips
of paper, and distributes these among
the leaves of the Koran. He then
reads a chapter from the book »nd
at random picks one of the slips.
Whatever name this slip bears then be
comes the name of the child. It is
whispered into the ear of the new-born
by the priest, and the slip of paper
Is then hidden in the baby's clothes.
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