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|War Brings Italian Cameo Cutters to New York
■yEW YORK.—Previous to August of 1014 one could count nil the cameo
»■ cutters in New York on the fingers of one hand. About all the cameos
•eame from Torre del Greco and Santa Lucia, the two great cameo towns of
Tfcaij-. Today there are in New York
cMy—In the F.ronx Italian colony—50
nr 60 men whose trade It is to cut
j"landscapes or heads” upon shells.
AJ1 of these men work at home in
fhe old-world style, a small bench
e chair, four or five engraving tools,
w files and some polishing brushes
Ing up the necessary parapher
nalia, except for the pencil-like sticks,
jar “holders,” upon which the cameos
ifio-be are cemented with a brownish
[sealing wax. With this simple equip
.tuent and the proper know-how which he has acquired by years of apprentice
’sbip on the other side, the average cameo cutter can make from $0 to S10 a
!day- This, compared with the European wage of from 3 to 15 francs a day,
!»xplains somewhat New York's latest artist colony.
As one of them, who cuts shells by day and is learning English at the
pearby night school, puts It: “Cameo cutting in this country Is a good trade.
[Here you are paid for what you can do. Over there you must have gray hair
’before they think you are good for anything.” j
The cameo cvtter who can produce a really good “Three Graces" or a
Wtariot bearing aloft a company of angels has something to be proud of. ,
p3iese particular groups are the hardest of all the usual designs which the
[stock cutter is called upon to execute. |
Just now there is no market for cameos adorned with masculine heads,
Jhe they of Socrates or Apollo. Scenes in the antique Greek style also are out
■at vogue.
“They only wanta landscapes and nica ladies' heads,” says the cutter.
(Buffalo Babies Having Six Months’ Health Race
BUFFALO, N. T.—Buffalo’s health race is on. Three thousand babies of
varying age*, from five months to two years, participants in the contest,
are haring a «ix months’ period of proper food, rutdoor sleeping, clean
otbes and regular eafcrcises. Only
babies who were registered in
Tnlo’s big better-babies’ contest
Eg3ed for the health race, which is
o*fcelu$ed in December with a
show at which the mental and
cal development of the child at
time will be compared with its
tion ns registered in June. Those
1 to have made the most pro
|:w>nnced gains in mental and physical
■growth will be given blue ribbons,
t lDt the first of July the race was
tfiairly under way, when district nurses for the first time visited the homes of
Who participants, where requested, to give instructions on child management.
Eyes of the medical world are turned on this unique contest. Application
iat advanced methods in feeding, exercising and general care of the child gov
|«ms the work of grooming the babes for the December examinations. Advice
hat child specialists is free for the asking to mothers of those children registered
}fQ the contest. Milk stations are established in every quarter of the city.
Over a dozen of the 3.000 babies which passed through the hands of 50
taiby.slcians, judges in various departments, were pronounced perfect of form,
Steature and mentality at the June show, but they must during the next six
jaaonths register general development just as much as do the weaker infants, to
t&fe accepted, officially, as still perfect.
Winners next December will qualify as local candidates in a proposed
iesctional contest.
jWoes of the Fashion Mannequins of New York
aajNEW YORK.—Well, just as the mannequins have been guessing right along
«Ml would be the case, the line of parade for models has been extended all the
hway to Fiftieth street on Fifth avenue, with two counter-marches back
to Thirty-fourth street, making more
than three miles in all and never faster
than two minutes to a block. Honest,
as the models say themselves, showing
off the new duds these days is about
as exacting a profession as doing
studio work for the movies, and with
all that is expected it does get on a
girl’s nerves something awful, no mat
ter what people may think.
Imagine a model, all fixed up just
as the pattern book says, and O-K’d
by the designer, promenading up as far
as the first stone lion in front of the library, and a prompter, like as not,
.’Stepping alongside and whispering that It is time to raise the new parasol or
j 3s.se off the summer furs at the neck, or giving some instructions about how to
raxrry the head, or advice to shorten the step by counting one-two-three-four
*3»efore she dares put a toe forward, just as if she were going down the center
la&le on the fateful day with the organ playing that Mendelssohn tune.
Imagine it!
And yet thousands of your women are wishing and wishing that they
Italy had a chance to put on one of those fine gowns and take It out for an
qaBcial airing.
Under the new rules, unless a girl has been at least a full term at a
iifeainatie school or taken a special-course in posturing, she can't hope to go '
I’finrough the hand, wrist, neck and shoulder work required of a model.
iPbiladelphia Planning to Enlarge Its Aquarium
jf\ HTLADELPHIA.—In size and completeness and variety of fishes, it Is
I* planned to make the Philadelphia Park aquarium equal to, If not to
Jfeseel, any public aquarium either in tl%s country or abroad. Marine hall,
while constituting only a single section
of the aquarium, doubtless will he for
all time one of the greatest attractions.
The huge fish tanks are built on such u
liberal scale that to fill one of them re
quires 3,000 gallons, or nearly 15 tons,
of sea water, and the sea water Is
brought to Philadelphia in barges
from the Atlantic ocean, 15 miles oft
the shores of New Jersey.
Marine hall Is already a store
house of fish lore, with the fishes, ar
ranged In family groups, swimming in
crystal-clear waters of the tanks, where every movement can he seen at
range. There are 30 species of fresh water and 50 species of sea water
ices, with a total population of approximately 2,000.
Among the fresh water fishes the sunfish family embraces calico, or straw
p«rrj bass; small-mouth bass, large-mouth bass, long-eared sunfish, blue-gill
.'st&flsh, rock bass and other varieties. In the minnow family are pearl roach,
Silver roach and the ever-pleasing goldfishes. About the goldfishes, as about
t>f the other species In the aquarium, the visitor learns most Interesting
j Descriptions of the seas, rivers or streams fish frequent, their use for food,
WStits, etc., which are placed over each tank, aid In making the aquarium an;
Wm SfiCiClopedla. ____
Hughes Points the Way
The speech of the Republican can
didate for President was a keynote
■peech, indeed. Not one person In
the great audience at the Carnegie
Hall meeting was in douht for one
moment as to just what he meant by
everything he said.
His address was comprehensive, log
ical, clear and all sufficisnt for the
occasion. There can be no dispute
es to this. Plainly Mr. Hughes is a
man who “knows what he wants when
he wants it,” and it is the opinion
of political authorities who heard him
and who have since read hi3 remarks
that he knows, also, how to get It.
It was incumbent upon the Repub
lican candidate to confine the scope
of his remarks to the limitations of
the occasion, but his crushing analy
sis of the shortcomings of the pres
ent administration of the government
is merely an earnest of what the tone
and the contents of his speeches will
be when he gets on the stump.
At Carnegie Hall Mr. Hughes ad
verted to every general question that
Is apt to be a serious issue in the
campaign and in language that will
be absolutely clear to every man or
woman able to read be stated his
opinions, his convictions and his pur
poses. On the stump he will argue
those points in detail. As an orator
he is eloquent, his personality attrac
tive and his marshalling of facts so
cohesive that he holds his audience
to the end. He makes it easy for
them to follow him and his points
are not lost.
There was nothing equivocal, noth
ing apologetic in the Republican can
didate’s speech of acceptance. He
called a spade a spade, and the unani
mous opinion of those who heard him
was that he shot to the center and
rang the bell. The Republican cam
paign is now open, and those who
will speak and write and work for
the success of the Republican ticket
can wish for no more adequate cam
paign document, no more satisfactory
statement of issues than are found in
the candidate’s salutatory.
Brief Sentences Featuring the
Speech of Acceptance
of Charles E. Hughes.
i —
America First and America Efficient
We are too great a country to re
quire of our citizens who are engaged
in peaceful vocations the sort of
military service to which they are
now called.
We cherish no illusions. We know
that the recurrence of war is not
to be prevented by pious wishes.
We denounce all plots and con.
spiracies in the interest of any for
sign nation.
Adequate preparedness is not mill,
tarism.
t /
During this critical period, the only
danger of war has lain in the weak
course of the Administration.
The Nation has no policy of ag.
gression toward Mexico. We have
no desire for any part of her terri
tory.
We propose that in the ftompetitlve
struggle that is about to come the
American workingman shall not suf
fer.
This representative gathering la a
happy augury. It means the strength
of reunion. It means that the party
of Lincoln is restored, alert, effective.
The dealings of the Administration
with Mexico constitute a confused
chapter of blunders. It is a record
which cannot be examined without a
profound sense of humiliation.
We must take Vera Cruz to get
Huerta out of office and trust to other
nations to get our own citizrns out
of peril. What a travesty of interna
tional policy!
Destroying the government of
Huerta, we left Mexico to the ravages
•f revolution.
I stand for adequate Federal Work
men's compensation laws.
The Administration was to seize and
punish Villa for his outrage on our
soil. It has not punished any one;
we went In only to retire.
♦
I favor the vote for women.
THE COMPELLING PERORA
TION TO MR. HUGHES’
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH.
I
We live In a fateful hour, ha
| a true eense, the contest for the
l preservation of the Nation Is
never ended. We must still be
I j imbued with the spirit of heroic
: sacrifice which gave us our
I i country and brought us safely
i through the days of civil war.
i We renew our pledge to the an
I ; cient ideals of individual liberty,
i of opportunity denied to none
because of race or creed, of un
I swerving loyalty. We have a
i vision of America prepared and
| secure; strong and Just; equal
I to her tasks; an exemplar of
the capacity and efficiency of a
free people. I endorse the plat
form adopted by the Convention
and accept its nomination.
CHICAGO PAYS HIGH
Mayor Gets $18,000 a Year and
Seventy Aldermen $3,000 Each.
NEW YORK IS NEXT IN LINE.
Gotham Allows Its Chief Executive
$15,000, Philadelphia $12,000, Boston,
St. Louis, Newark, N. J.; Cincinnati,
Cleveland and Pittsburgh $10,000, In
dianapolis and Seattle $7,500.
Washington.—Chicago has the high
est priced mayor in the country. He
gets $18,000 a year and serves four
years. New York comes next, with
a $15,000 mayor, whose term also lasts
four years. Philadelphia, third in the
list, gives its mayor $12,000 a year for
four years. Boston, St. Louis, New
ark. N. J.; Cincinnati, Cleveland and
Pittsburgh pay their mayors $10,000
annually, the term being four years
in Boston, Pittsburgh and St. Louis,
and two years in Cincinnati, Cleveland
and Newark.
Indianapolis and Seattle pay their
mayors $7,500 a year; San Francisco,
Baltimore and Minneapolis $0,000 each;
East St. Louis, Louisville, New Bed
ford, Detroit. Kansas City, Buffalo,
Mount Vernon. Rochester, Columbus,
Scranton, Providence, San Antonio.
Tex., and Richmond pay $5,000 each.
The aldermen, who share with the
mayor and certain other officials the
responsibility of government in Ameri
can cities, cost the taxpayers varying
sums. Chicago has seventy aldermen,
at $3,000 each: Boston, nine, at $1,500
each; St. Louis, twenty-nine, at $1,800
each; Newark, thirty-two. at $500 each;
New York, seventy-three, at $2,000
each; Cincinnati, thirty-two, at $1,150
apiece; Cleveland, twenty-six, at $1,200
each; Philadelphia, forty-eight select
councilmen and eighty-three common
councilmen. all serving without salary;
Pittsburgh, nine aldermen, at. $6,500
each; Indianapolis, nine, at .$600 apiece,
and Seattle, nine, at $3,000 apiece.
The only cities that have an upper
and a lower house of aldermen or
councilmen are Hartford. Conn.: New
Britain, Conn.; Atlanta, Louisville.
Portland. Me.; Baltimore (thirty-three
in all. at $1,000 each!; Brockton, Mass.;
Cambridge, Mass.: Everett. Mass.: Mal
den. Mass.; Fitchburg, Mass.; New Bed
ford, Mass.; Pittsfield, Mass.; Spring
field, Mass.; Worcester. Mass.; Kansas
City, Mo.; Manchester, N. II.: Buffalo
(thirty-six in all. at $1,000 each): Lan
caster, Pa.; Philadelphia, Fawtucket.
R. I.; Providence, R. I.; Woonsocket,
R. I.: Lynchburg. Va.; Norfolk, Va.;
Portsmouth, Va.; Richmond, Va., and
Roanoke. Va.
The commission form of government,
which takes the place of mayors and
aldermen, involves a smaller salary
outlay. In Washington, D. C., the
three commissioners get a total of
$15,000: in Denver. $25,000; in San
Diego, $12,000: in Topeka. $9,000; in
New Orleans, $30,000; in Salem. Mass.,
$10,000; in St. Paul, $31,500; in Lin
coln, Neb., $10,000; in Atlantic City,
$15,000; in Bayonne, N. J., $10,000; in
Hoboken, $10,000; in Jersey City, $25,
000: in Trenton. $15,000, and in Har
risburg, $13,000.
In some of the commission governed
cities a mayor is elected as such, while
in others he is chosen by the commis
sion. Sometimes he gets an extra al
lowance as chairman of the commis
sion, but this rarely exceeds $500, and
Is included in most of the above totals.
While most cities employ assessors
to fix the valuation of property for
the purposes of taxation, those of
some states have no assessors, but re
port to tbe county the amount required
to be raised for city purposes.
SEVERED MUSCLES TRAINED.
Stumps of Amputated Arms Made to
Operate False Hands.
Zurich.—Three professors of Zurich
university have been experimenting In
the hope of training the muscles In the
stumps of amputated arms to connect
with artificial hands in such a way as
to open and close the fingers.
Professor Sauerbach, one of the pro
fessors, says In a German medical
magazine that the anatomical difficul
ties have been overcome so effectually
that all that Is now required for con^
plete success Is a somewhat better
artificial hand, and he expresses ex
pectation that this soon will be In
vented.
Grass Grows In Tree.
Wetmore, Kan.—In the E. W. Thorn
burrow yard in Wetmore Is a large
bunch of blue grass growing in the
fork of an elm tree ten feet from the
ground. Every fall the residents of
AVetmore, who are watching this curi
osity, expect the grass to be winter
killed, but every spring it shows up
green and strong and matures seed.
The grass has been growing in the
tree for three years.
Movies Draw More Than Church.
Belleville, Ivan.—“Where the People
Go” is the title of an interesting com
pilation prepared during the social sur
vey taken In Belleville. It shows that
during the year 105,000 attend the mov
ing picture show, 03,000 religious serv
ices, 8,090 church socials and picnics,
12,400 the county fair and farmers’ in
stitute, 5,000 the Chautauqua and 2,870
go to ball games.
'Wouldn't Say “Votes For Women.”
Chicago.—Because it could not be
taught to say “Votes for women,” a
parrot which had been recently taken
to the headquarters of the woman suf
fragists la now back in the bird store.
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YOUTHFUL SNAKt HUNTERS.
Bo>s Handle Dangerous Reptilaa Like
Professional Charmers.
Galena, Kan.-Two small boys, Wll
Jle and Robert Shorl, the elder of
whom is about fourteen, have produc
ed a new sensation in the tic,nitj of
their home at Five Milo, where they
have a cage full of writhing suakes of
many varieties. They play uitii these
reptiles without the least sign of fear,
going through with all the stunts of
professional snake charmers.
The collection consists of black
snakes, blue racers, chicken snakes
and three ugly looking rattlers. On
Saturdays they usually go to Snake
branch and hunt for more reptiles.
However, these new reptiles are not
placed with their “pets,” but kept in a
separate cage, and are usually shipped
to owners of small shows and muse
ums, from whom they get from $3 to
$5 for each reptile.
Neither of the boys has ever been
bitten. The older boy gave a lecture
on snakes before the pupils of the
Shoal Creek school. lie surprised
teacher and pupils alike by his classi
fication of reptiles, giving their Latin
names and discussing the harmless or
dangerous varieties, taking each from
a box ns he explained their varied hab
its.
HIS LUCKY NUMBER 13.
Farmer Tells How Myst:c Numerals
Stuck to Him.
Live Oak, Cal.—No matter how other
people may feel about the number 13,
Howard Grimes of Douglas county.
Ore., considers it a messenger of good
luck rather than a harbinger of evil.
Grimes was in Live Oak recently on
his way to Davis, where, although he
is sixty-four years of age, he is taking
a course in agriculture.
On the back of his auto hung its li
cense No. 1313. When reminded of its
hoodoo proclivities the Oregonian
smiled and volunteered it bit of history.
“I was born on Sept. 13, 1S32,” said
be, “and was the thirteenth child In
the family brood. When thirteen years
old I left home to make my fortune.
At twenty I married, and our wedding
fell on the 13th of the month.
“While riding a Northern Pacific
train in 1912 I was in berth 13 and the
train was wrecked. Every occupant in
that car was injured but myself. In
1913 I made a little investment in min
ing property and cleaned up $16,000. I
took the money and purchased $1,300
acres of land, and I am farming a part
of It and learning t >w to farm it bet
ter.’’
MUST BE EIGHTEEN TO DANCE.
Girls if Younger Must Have Guardian’s
Permission.
Cleveland.—Girls who pride them
selves on how young they look will
have to take along their birth cer
tificates when they go dancing at mu
nicipal dancing halls.
Those who can prove they’re more
than eighteen may keep on dancing
after 9 o’clock. Those who not only
look younger than eighteen and really
are will have to press into service a
parent or a guardian. No, no such
luck. Any Tom, Dick or Iiarry won’t
do as a guardian. The powers that
be won’t put up with it. The guardian
has to be a regular guardian, manu
factured by a court of justice.
City Dance Hall Inspector John,
dance hall chaperons and dancing
masters got together at a meeting in
the city hall recently and tried to
have the “younger set” barred from
the floors after 9 o'clock, parents or
guardians notwithstanding.
GET $8,000 FOR KINDNESS.
Boy and Girl Rewarded For Favors to
Invalid Woman.
Pittsburgh.—Henry Paul McPeake of
this city and his sister, Miss Lois Mc
Teake of Canonsburg, have just been
made aware that it pays to be kind
to an old invalid lady, in the fact that
her will, filed for probate here, pro
vides for the boy in the sum of $5,000
and $3,000 to his sister.
Some years ago when Mrs. Anna Su t
ton Leech, a wealthy resident of Pitts
burgh, was at a sanitarium at Marlde
ton there was also there as a patient
young Mcreake, who is a son of
George C. McPeake, Republican nomi
nee for the legislature In Washington
county, and when Lois came to visit
her brother they got acquainted with
the lonely widow. Between them they
contributed to make life a little pleas
anter for Mrs. Leech, and she promised
not to forget them. She died recently.
UNCOVERED HEIRLOOM.
Silver Watch Was Lost and Lay In
Ground Six Years.
Dayton, Wash.—An heirloom watch,
lost six years ago by George Jones,
came to light recently when County
Commissioner Lee Liudley turned a
furrow in a field he was plowing and
brought the relic to the surface.
Jones lost the watch while at the
Llndley farm and had never been able
to find it, although he had looked care
fully many times.
It was in a silver case, which was
badly discolored from long contact
with the earth, but after Liudlev had
shaken the dirt from it and wound it
it ran as well as the day it was lost.
Indian Gold Heart Balm.
SIsseton, S. D-—1The first breach of
promise suit in which Indians were
both plaintiff and defendant was de
cided when Miss Agnes Bear was given
a verdict of $3,500 against Smiley Fin
ley by a Jury here. As a result all ia
sad in the Finley tepee. “Ugh,” said
Smiley, “no more white man snooky
ookum for Smiley Finley!’’
BOONE’S PLACE IN HISTORY.
A Figure That Stands For All That I*
Typical of Pioneer Daye.
Kentucky's rich country had original
ly been a neutral zone, threaded with
Indian trails, a territory where none
might dwell, but through which all
were at liberty to move in hunt or war.
The shade of its forests was so dense,
the story of its white settlement so
full of tragedy, that it was known as
the "dark and bloody ground.” •
The great character of its pioneer
period had been Daniel Boone, whose
picturesque, half legendary figure
stands for all that is typical in that
vanished phase of our national life.
Born in Pennsylvania, he had grown
to manhood on the banks of the Yadkin
in North Carolina, had built his hut
and married early, after the fashion of
the locality. But he found tilling the
ground dull work when the forest
called. Expeditions into it to hunt game
or to make salt at the salt licks, where
animals and men alike went to satisfy
their cravings, only fastened its do
minion more firmly upon him, and
when a wandering Indian trader stray
ed across his pathway and told him of
the rich country to the west called
Kentucky, which, in the language of
the red men. meant "at the head of the
river," or "Long river,” he gave him
self up to it with a fervor that was lit
tle short of fatalism, believing himself
“ordained of God to settle the wilder
ness.”—Helen N'icolay, in Century Mag
azine.
When Nature Was Timekeeper.
In the British museum is a large
stone composed of carbonate of lime,
which would serve perfectly as a day la
borer’s calendar, inasmuch as it would
indicate to him every Sunday and holi
day of the year, though not the day of
the month. Moreover, the stone is an
actual time record of the work done
for a long period in an English coal
mine.
The “Sunday stone,” as it is called,
was removed from a colliery drain.
When the miners were at work the
water running through the drain left a
deposit colored black by the coal dust,
but when no work was being done
the water ran down clear and left a
white deposit. These deposits in the
course of time built up the stone.
Each day of work left a black streak,
immediately followed by a white streak
made during the night Wide white
streaks indicate the holidays and Sun
days.
CORAL REEFS.
Nature’s Methods In Building These
Seashell Monuments.
Coral reefs surround many of the Is
lands in the Pacific. They protect the
lowlands from the washing of the
waves, and the still waters inclosed by
them are the only harbors of refuge for
ships. The reefs themselves furnish
the greatest peril to navigation, and if
there were no inlet through which a
vessel could enter their protected cir
cle they would be a danger and nothing
else.
But almost every reef has such an
inlet It is a necessary result of the ,
laws under which the forces of nature
work. To understand this we must see
how these reefs are formed.
Chemically the reef corals are almost
pure carbonate of lime, the substance
of ordinary limestone and marble. The
reef grows as the shell of the oyster or
any other shellfish grows. It is itself
the common and undivided shell of in
numerable- polypi, or minute insects,
which are being produced and are
dying in successive generations.
These tiny beings get all their living
from the waters of the sea. It is from
this source also that they derive the
salts of lime from which they secrete
the bony structure that remains after
the animal is dead. 4
The coral polypi cannot live in fresh
water. Their food supply is brought to
them by the waves and currents of the
sea. As a result it is found that direct
ly opposite the mouth of the stream
from the island the reef does not grow.
There will be the inlet to the inclosed
waters.—Los Angeles Times.
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Unanimous Consent.
There was a wedding in a certain
church the other day, and. as usual, the
minister in the course of the ceremony
said: “If any one has aught to say why
this couple should not be joined in the
holy bonds of wedlock let him now
speak or forever hold his peace.” Dur
ing the silence that followed a man
who was aeeustomed to serving as a
chairman of meetings arose and, rap
ping the top of the pew sharply with
his knuckles, said, “There being no ob
jection, the motion is carried.”—New
Orleans States.
Modern Life.
“Was your courtship romantic?”
“A little bit. I met my wife on the
seventy-eighth floor of an office build
ing. We took the elevator together. At
the fifty-seventh floor we became en
gaged. At the forty-ninth floor a min
ister got on. We enlisted him, event
ually reached the ground floor, sent for
a license and were married.”—Kansas
City Journal.
Small Things.
We are too fond of our own wilL
We want to he doing what we fancy
mighty things, but the great point is to -
do small things when called to them
in a right spirit.
Evil In Covetousness.
Covetousness, by a greediness ot get
Hng more, deprives itself of the true
«nd of getting it. It loses the enjoy
ment of what it has got—Sprat
Giving Him a Tip.
Passenger—Steward, are we nearing
port? Boat Steward—Yes, suh; cer
tinly, snh! It am only about three tip*
away now.—Life;