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CHURCH A REFUGE
Pews of London Edifice Made In
to Sleeping Places.
All Who Faced Night in the Streets
Made Welcome at Old St. Mar.
tin's- Fields.
St. Martin's In the Fields — always
during the last war years, and now.
a place of midnight shelter for people
stranded in London streets —was a ha
ven to some of the mothers who had
come from distant towns to attend the
ceremonies In memory of the unknown
soldier dead, and to soldiers who oth
erwise must have tramped- the streets.
says a writer in the Manchester Guard
lan.
Long before midnight they begin to
come. In the light of the flickering
candles on the white altar ami the
few lights shining on the white celling
of the gallery one saw two or three
well-dressed women sitting In the pews
on one side and two or three men on
the other, and wondered whether It
were worth while Keeping the church
open and two policewomen In attend
ance for so few wanderers. But the
sound of heavy breathing, so loud In
the silence, did not come from them,
nor was the lad In khaki who lay
asleep In the bottom of a pew, his head
resting on a hassock, responsible.
Tiptoeing down the long aisle to the
end. where a man knelt in prayer be
fore the wreath of palms entwined
with crimson ribbon, which was to go
to the cenotaph, one found that there
were sleepers on the seats of nearly
every pew. Occasionally they wak
ened and peered sleepily over the back
of the (lews as a newcomer entered.
Then they sank to rest again, while
the stranger, after a few hesitant min
utes sitting bolt upright as If at a serv
ice, disappeared from sight and soon
was fast asleep.
The policewomen kept unobtrusive
watch. Where they saw a man sleep
ing on the floor they woke him, remind
ing him that he must lie on the seat.
The man in shirtsleeves was told to
put on his coal : the man who for a
second time had disregarded the order
to put on his .boots and who had rolled
under the seat had to leave the church.
The discipline of the shelter is slight,
but It must be obeyed.
After midnight a young woman from
Lancashire came in, carrying a heavy
child. She said that all day she had
sought in vain for lodgings. No one
would take her In because of the baby,
ami at last a kindly policeman had
sent her here. As she sat there hold
ing the child her shoulders moved un
easily. One saw that she had Come to
the end of her endurance, and a po
licewoman, folding a thick coat, made
up a bed on tlie pew for the preternat
orally well-behaved child. Then the
mother went to sleep, secure of shelter
till live in the morning, when the wait
ing rooms at Charing Cross would be
open to her. The older women, the
mothers of soldiers, glanced around
from time to time, but were evidently
determined not to yield to their fa-,
tigue. They would sit the night
through. The rules are simple. Peo
ple are allowed to make use of the
church for one night. In case of emer
gency a second visit may be allowed,
but no more.
Buckwheat and Cakes.
Even though there is great satisfac
tion at the breaking of five crop records
In the United States this year, many
an American must heave a sigh as he
reads that the buckwheat crop has
never exceeded the production of 1868,
and thai this season it is 8,000,000
bushels below the top yield of that
year. Who does not know that the de
cline of the buckwheat cake as the
backbone of a hearty breakfast is the
cause of the falling off?
The buckwheat cake was once an
American Institution. It followed the
pioneer from the Atlantic coast Into
the depths of the Middle West. Its
allies were home-made sausages and
sugar-house syrup. It held the lines
from early November until the sap be
gan to run In the spring. Then there
followed plentiful doses of sulphur
and molasses to rid the blood of Im
purities supposed to he the result of
buckwheat's heating qualities. But
who cared? Wasn't the kind of cakes
that mother used to bake on the soap
stone griddle worth even such a price?
—Providence Journal.
Catch Salmon at Sea.
Fishing for salmon is prohibited at
the present time in nearly all the
rivers of Alaska and altogether in the
southeastern part of the territory.
Meanwhile the fishery goes on; but
It is a marine fishery. The salmon
are caught on their feeding grounds
out at sea with purse seines, gill nets,
floating traps and fish lines.
Trolling for salmon is great sport
and is particularly tine off the straits
of San Juan de Fucu.
Unfortunately, very many of the
salmon captured at sea are not yet
full grown. That they should be tak
en before they are mature means few
er to run up the rivers to spawn in
coming years. It helps to mnjte the
outlook for the future of the fishery
a bad one.
Electricity cm Farm*.
out of 6.362.502 farms in the United
States, only 310,000, or 5.3 per cent.
are electrically equipped, according vo
government census figures. More than
42,000,000 people live on these farms,
Indicating that farming folk constitute
almost one-third of the population of
the nation-
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|(Q, 1920, by McClur* v*« mm Byndlc.t* 1
Hetty Minima of •• leg western Insur
ance company opened on. of their
huge city maps, turned the mud,
pasted tinges until she came to the
particular streets designated on Ihe
application which she laid In her hand
:111■ l ran a linger down the street to
the little square house which bore the
correct number, She carefully stu
died the surroundings anil then shook
her bond.
"We'll have to have this applies
tion cancelled, Mr. Phelps." A tail
young man en me at her call aml
glanced at the tell-tale map. "You
foe." she continued in explanation, "it's
nothing hut an old shack, surrounded
tin all sides by dilapidated buildings,
On this side is ,i laundry and on the
other another one-story wooden •'buck
The whole street Is one big tire trap."
"But they only want $300 on house
hold furniture, Betty."
Miss Ninons resented such easy use
of her given name and plainly showed
It. "I know, hut If ever a good li
got started in that neighborhood
there Wouldn't lie a house left. I'll
quite sure the furniture which you
recommend Insuring would not remain
suspended unhurt In the air."
Despite the sarcasm the young man
was nonplused,
"I grant you that, but—" he leaned
closer and to nil Intent wns engaged
in a strictly business conversation —
"in.it. Betty dear, have you no heart?"
Betty glared, "What are you driv
ing at? This is a poor business risk,
n very bad Are hazard, nnd probably
a poor moral hazard as well. Folks
who live in such places may not be
overparticular about setting n fire.
Please have it ordered cancelled."
"As i was saying, Betty," he con
tinued easily, "this poor couple have
begun a heme, all secure In their fan
cied happiness, and then yon, n girl
without a heart, refuse to Issue their
policy when they try .to Insure the
material part of their happiness, Con
fidence is smashed, they begin to
think about the poor outside of their
home, the rickety old flreproofiess
shack. They go to sleep dreading
thai elixir of life, afraid the house
will burn around them while they
slumber. The noise of the laundry be
comes prophetic; the kid next door
with a fire cracker sets their nerves
Jangling. Peace is gone and all be
ceause a certain flint-hearted—"
"That will do, Mr. Phelps. This is
a business office. I try to be a busi
ness woman, but you have utterly
failed to be a business man. Per
haps if you had—" She hurried away
leaving a much disconcerted person
leaning over the map counter.
The much abused $300 policy was
cancelled In due season. Days passed
as they do in all insurance offices.
Betty retained a cold silence, even
ignoring Jimmy's wistful attempts to
appear contrite. And then, one day,
after the company had sustained a
big loss, he came over to Betty's cor
ner, his face aglow, all differences for
gotten.
"I've got my chance, Betty," he said
eagerly. "I asked for it and I'm go
ing to do Inspecting, starting this af
ternoon with that big loss at W—
I've imagined that you were hnrd
hearted, Petty, but perhaps if I try
to become a business man, perhaps—'"
But Miss Slmms totally Ignored the
mischievous face above her. "I can't
ever forgive you," she announced curt
ly, banging away on ber noiseless
typewriter in an effort to create noise,
She thought, with remorse, of her
words late that afternoon when there
came rumors that the slinky walls of
the w ruins had collapsed, injuring
several. The company could not get
In touch with its agent and Batty went
home without her usual appetite for
•supper. She tried to eat and at last,
after several attempts, gave it up and
a little shamefacedly went to the tele
phone.
The voice at the other end of the
telephone seemed coolly Impersonal.
"Yes, he has been hurt badly, though
not seriously."
"Could she come over?" There was
a moment Of silence and then:
"I'm sorry, but he thinks you are
probably not really Interested and It
would only be an unnecessary bother."
"I'll be right over." said Miss Betty
Slmms, shortly.
Jimmy's white face grinned above
tin- coverlet. "Tried to be a business
man, but 'twas knocked on the head
first toe, by a brick, at that. Guess
I can't be nothing but a 'sob sister
clerk."
Betty slipped a hand over his one
unbandaged one. "Jim," she said soft
ly, "It was mean of me to call you
that. If you'll Just try to get strong
soon again, I'll—we'll make a business
man of youtogether."
"We?" he queried faintly, and as
she nodded, lie shook his head. "No,
it was selfish even to think of such a
thing. Petty.'
"It wasn't, if you have withdrawn
the dozen proposals, Jimmy Phelps, I'll
take a leap year's opportunity. We
can start with $300 worth of dollar
down furniture, in a humble shack,
anywhere."
"And supposing the furniture people
come for our stuff when we can't pay.
or—or the Insurance company refuses
our policy, thereby destroying our
peace of mind, what then. Hetty?" he
asked, mischievously.
"It won't happen, and If it should
we'll still have each other."
"Bless that $300 canceled policy,"
said Jimmy fervently, forgetting his
hurt hand as he drew hers to his cheek.
THK PULLMAN KHALI)
HIS DEBT TO ESKIMO WOMEN
Life of Famous Churchman of the
Yukon Saved by the "Muck.
locks" They Had Made.
That Hudson Stuck, noted archdea
con of the Yukon, who died recently,
should for 15 years have escaped the
death from freezing and hardships
which he risked a hundred times a
year, may have been due to a special
protection of Providence, but In one
case at least, he owed his life to the
strong teeth of Eskimo women, accord
ing to a Seattle dispatch.
He told this story himself the last
time he was in the States. It hap
pened Just when the first thaws were
setting In one spring. An Indian run
ner brought him an urgent call for
help from the missions on the Kuyu
kuk, far north "of the Yukon, a call
that could not wait until the rivers
were open and the days of dangerous
travel past.
So the archdeacon started from
Fairbanks on foot, with one Indian
nnd a dog train. They followed the
Tanana to the Yukon, reaching the
great river at sundown, and striking
out across the ice on a sharp diagonal
which lengthened the crossing to Aye
miles. It had been biting cold under
the lee of the shore, and on the un
sheltered river Dr. Stock's thermome
ter registered 50 degrees below zero.
Four miles of Ice were behind them
when trouble began. First there was
a vast groaning of the river and thin
cracks zigzagged away from them In
all directions.
Experience told them that the strong
currents below the northern bank
were at work again after their win
ter's rest. As they turned back to
ward the stronger footing behind
them, the ice broke sharply at their
feet, and before they could throw
themselves flat they were wet to the
thighs in the chilly water.
Fortunately one section of the Ice
crust within reach held firm and they
were on their feet again in an Instant,
knowing that their only hope against
death by freezing In that terrific cold
wns a four-mile race to shore and a
brushwood tire.
"We could never have won that
race," concluded the archdeacon, "If
dry feet and the circulation pumped
to them by the tremendous effort of
our running hadn't helped us. Other
wise we should have frozen to death
on the first mile. Our lives were saved
by our leather mucklocks, the high
native boots whose seams have been
chewed to a watertight pulp between
the teeth of the Eskimo women."
Firearms.
Firearms are said to have been first
used in European warfare In the Four
teenth century. The first weapon of
this kind that passed Into general use
was the hand gun, which was of very
rude construction. It consisted of a
simple Iron or brass tube, fixed In a
straight stock of wood. An Improve
ment was made In the reign of Ed
ward IV, when a cock was affixed to
the hand gun to hold the match which
was brought down to the priming by
a trigger, whence the term matchlock.
Then came the wheel lock and about
1688 the firelock or flintlock. It was
the wenpon of Marlborough's and
Wellington's armies and became known
as "Brown Bess." In 1834 the per
cussion cap. Invented by Rev. Alexan
der John Forsyth, was successfully
tested at Woolwich. In 1839 the flint
lock muskets were altered to suit the
percussion cap. The percussion mus
ket of 1842 continued in use In the
British army until partially superseded
by the Minis rifle in 1851, and alto
gether by the Enfield rifle In 1855,
and since then the breech-loading,
magazine rifle has been perfected.
Hot Water a Sovereign Remedy.
Edmund Burke, the celebrated Brit
ish statesman whom every high school
boy has occasion to know through his
famous speech on conciliation, was a
believer In the hot water theory of
therapeutics. For whenever Burke
found himself Indisposed he ordered
a kettle of hot water to be kept boil
ing, of which he drank large quanti
ties, sometimes as much as four or
five quarts In a morning, without any
mixture or Infusion, according to an
old copy of the Dublin University
Magazine. He would pour out about
a pint as hot as he could bear, and
drink It with a spoon, as If It had
been soup. Warm water, he said,
would relax and nauseate, but hot
water was the finest stimulant and
most powerful restorative In the
world. lie not only partook of this
sovereign remedy himself, but pre
scribed It to every patient that would
listen to him at all.—Kansas City Star.
Farm Women's Long Hours.
The Kansas Industrialist remarks
that an extensive survey made by the
United States Department of Agri
culture shows 96 per cent of the farm
| women do the family washing and
i more than half of them are still using
! the washboard. Sixty-one per cent of
! the farm women carry water an aver
j age of forty feet. Ninety-two per cent
i do the family sewing and mending,
i and a large majority do the family
I baking.
The farm woman's work day aver
] ages eleven and one-half hours, the
I survey shows. The department Is co
j operating with state colleges of agri
; culture In an effort to bring about bet
i ter conditions for women on the farm,
1 especially more home conveniences. As
| a result of this work a thousand farm
kitchens were remodeled last year.
One Exception.
"I never heard of girls being suc
cessful at a leap.''
"My dear man. did you never see
one Jump at a proposal?" .
"ARMENIAN NATION
LOOKS TO U. S. FOR
SUCCOR FROM DEATH"
Edwin M. Bulkley, Financier and
Philanthropist, Defines Near
East Relief Work.
New York. —"There ls no spot on
the globe today where there Is more
desperate and hopeless suffering than
In Armenia," Edwin M. Bulkley, the
well known New York banker, who has
Just been elected chairman of the
board of trustees of Near East Relief,
declared today. Mr. Bulkley succeeds
the late Alexander J. Hemphill as
head of the American relief work In
Armenia, Turkey, Palestine, Syria.
Mesopotamia and Persia. He has long
been connected with the hanking house
of Spencer Trask „ Co., and Is thor
oughly conversant with the Near East
ern situation.
"Elsewhere," Mr. Bulkley continued,
"there Is famine that tears at our
heart-strings and evokes our pity and
our help. But in Armenia It Is not
starvation alone that the people face —
but starvation coming after six years' j
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destruction, wrought by a war that
has never ended and that today ls not
even ended. It is starvation following
pestilence, and stalking hand in hand
with death from exposure, from vio
lence or from disease.
"In the mountains between Kars
and Alexandropol there are 263,000
human beings without clothing, food or
shelter In the bitter winter, who are
wandering from place to place like
people In a nightmare. Unless they
nre succored before the end of an
other month, they will all be dead.
In southern Persia, the remnant of the
ancient family of Chaldean Christians
have been forced to renounce forever
all hope of ever returning to the home
land where they have dwelt and flour
ished for 1,000 years, and to become
pitiful fugitives, dependent upon the
generosity of strangers for life Itself.
In Clllcla, 15,000 Armenian refugees
have crowded into the coast regions
seeking safety from the anarchy which
reigns In the Interior, in terror for
their lives. They live from day to
day on the food which is given them
in the soup kitchens established by
the Near East Relief. Scattered
throughout the Near East, there are
some 7,790,490 Armenians, the re
mainder of a nation of 4,000,000, who
have neither government, country,
homeland, shelter or hope of regenera
tion, save that which lies in the great
heart of America.
"It is a tragedy so stupendous that
It Is difficult for us to grasp its mean
ing. A whole nation, a living, Christian
people, face to face with extermina
tion today, unless we help. We shall
it** an entire nation disappear from
ihe face of the earth before our eyes
If we withhold our hand now, when
the call comes to us to save by giving,
or by inaction to condemn to death.
Save the Children:
"Perhaps we cannot save all the
grown peopde of this oldest Christian
natron in the world. But at least we
can save the little children who hold
the future in their hands. They have
wronged no one. They have harmed
no one. And they have suffered
through the precious years of child
hood a calvary of agony and wretched
ness. For three years the Near East
Relief, an American organization, in
corporated by Congress, has built up
the nucleus of a new generation in the
Near East, with the little children
that it has taken In from the roadside
and barren places, and nursed back to
health, fed, clothed, housed and edu
cated, in the name of the American
people who have furnished the funds
for this great work.
"This has been our signal contribu
tion to the world's future peace—that
tens of thousands of these little ones
shall all their lives look to us with
gratitude and faith. It Is a seed of
world brotherhood that we have sown.
Shall we let It die now?
"The Near East Relief Is appealing
to the American people for the money
to go on with this work to keep these
little ones alive and to save this
martyred Christian people. Sixty dol
lars per year—slo per month—feeds a
child. We have taken this great re
sponsibility upon us. A whole nation
looks to us in faith and trust.
"We cannot betray them now."
Contributions may be sent to Cl_-._
land H. Dodge, Treasurer, 1 Madison
Avenue, New Yor* City.
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AUCTION SALE!
I Will Sell at Public Auction at My Place Three Miles North
of Pullman, on
Wednesday, March 23
The Following Described Property
TWO MARES FIFTEEN MULES ONE BULL
FARM MACHINERY
SALE STARTS AT 10:00 A. M. FREE LUNCH AT NOON
Terms—-All sums under $20 cash •on sums over $20 bankable
notes, due November 1 1, 1921, will be accepted at eight
per cent interest.
R. W. Gwinn, Owner
N. W. CAIRNS, Auctioneer F. C. FORREST, Clerk
Mill Work of All Descriptions
Store Fronts and Interior
Fixtures a Specialty
Estimates Gladly Furnished
PULLMAN MANUFACTURING CO.
F. V. Roth
300 Main Street Pullman, Wash-
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