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fIJfjESIGN
of Long Ago Were
Masterpieces of Art.
-L- Queen of Long Ago Were
Masterpieces of Art.
Queen of Scots Had a Collection
i-> „> Watches of Peculiar and
Grewßome Shape.
< The fragile watch of dainty pattern
Hd design which today is a favorite
mong women Is In striking contrast
tigorae of the watches which were fa
nous centuries ago.
i Many of these were of enormous
Ha B nd of the most ornate design, re
-1 narks a writer in the Dearborn In-
I dependent.
|f Mary" Queen of Scots wns the pos
issorof a death's head watch which
■ nt of silver gilt and most elaborate
thornamented. The forehead of the
inll bore the symbols of death, the
Kythe and hourglass placed between
X palace and a cottage to show the Im
partiality of the grim destroyer. At
the back of the skull was Time, de
coying all things, and at the top of
tie bead, scenes of the Garden of Eden
'and tbe crucifixion. The watch was
opened by reversing the skull, plac
ing the upper part of It ln the hollow
of the hand and lifting the Jaw by
the hinge, this part being enriched by
engraved representations of the holy
trinity, angels and shepherds with
their flocks. The works of the watch
formed the brains of the skull and
were within a silver envelope which
acted as a musically-toned bell, while
the dial plate was In the place of the
palate. The curious work of art was
made at Blols and. at her death, was
bequeathed by Mary Queen of Scots
to her maid of honor Mary Seton, In
1687. It afterward came Into the
I possession of Sir John Dick Lander.
Another skull watch which once be
longed to Mary Queen of Scots by Its
Inscription and date, 1500, shows
that Francis II of ' France presented
It to his young wife many years be
fore watches were supposed to have
been brought to England from Ger
many.
Queen Mary was evidently a collect
or of watches of unique design. She
It said to have possessed one In a
ease of crystal, shaped like a COffln,
and another made at Rouen, In which
a thread of catgut supplied the place
of a chain.
Some of the early watches were so
small as to he set in the head of
walking sticks, the clasp of bracelets.
or In pendants, and there is a record
of n striking watch which was
mounted In a ring, in the year 1542.
At the Strawberry Hill sale Queen
Victoria purchased a little clock of
brass-gilt, which bad been presented
to Anne Boleyn by Henry VIII, upon
, their marriage in 1532. It is richly
chased and engraved and is still at
Windsor castle.
The clock placed In one of the tow
ers at the palace at Hampton court
In 1551 is said to he the oldest Eng
lish-made clock extant. When In ac
tion it shows the motions of several
of the planets. The dial and several
of the wheels attached to the back of
the dial still remain.
Carrier Pigeon's Swift Flight
A currier pigeon, the record of
which lias been used for the purpose
of comparison with the performance
of man on the 220-yard course, was
the property of A. E. Harman. The
face took place at Washington, where
this sport Is very frequently Indulged
to* The record of this particular flight
» preserved in the records In the Mu
seum of Natural History, and was tak
en from the Washington Star of Sep
tember 17, 1901. According to the
best authorities available, the record
made by Mr. Herman's pigeon has
"ever been equaled, although It was
established almost two decades ago.
On this occasion the race was be
w»n about 20 birds. The pigeon of
»■ Harman came In first, and his best
™>« was 1,78- yards for the first min
«e of flight, which means 7 468-891
*onds for 220 yards.
J. 0 ' of the four official records it
"'be noted that while a runner has
made his 220 yards in 20 4-5 seconds,
™ carrier pigeon is almost three
! ,lDles as fast.
The Army of the Disabled. •
™« International labor bureau nt
,'" ,ni' lms prepared statistics showing
■^ Bomber 0 men disabled during the
'lZl w' France leads the list with
;"•""'' soldier, crippled or other
"J Permanently injured; Germany
■Jjjr a close second with 1,400,000, A.l-
Mbm for the smaller population of
jj "'- this means that French Indus
' "st support a heavier burden of
Brit •"•■.pai-itate.i *„: 111 German. Great
eontrihutes 1,170,000 to the
tirV 1i5,,,,1'"!: ltnly> 570,000; the
<'a.ir,uT, ~mm' l Caecho-Slova.
'and iS/T s,avln ' 180,000; Po
"aula "!!'!***' ,:i,1!,,l »* *8.000; Hon-
Cl r cWj; Be-, Klu,n' 40000. **
•tori, i Jerman-V l""1 Parts of the old
Kttti ,lUnCTrj' which are now allied
tan J,'J?;»tatht!ci of former enemy
"» statu,, ,ack, * Russia ,llS1,,lil"
«en Jo c* are »'*» wanting. But
Hnal-i! ° " th"s" the army of the
Iffriblet? "'"' tlie Impressive and
frJl J 01*' of "lw*- """• 5.500.000.—
* **• ladependenl (N. v.).
th, *'""" of Sympathy.
testedi-. art? you 8 " frwiuently dlseon
*. 'wi',''' r"l;"1 Fnrmer Oorntos-
Witlrian. i WOIIMn be If nil the
■t» as " ' met „1,,n,t seem to think
b «vii„„ m,l ° f tMr "'Jfu-ar business
|£™ wtM*e with me about some
KNOW ART OF CONTENTMENT
Cats Set Excellent Example to the
Restless Men and Women of the
Present Day.
The treasures in "the Egyptian sec
tion of]the British museum Were a
source of great Interest to the crown
prince of Japan during bis visit to
London. These rooms are special
favorites of the public, ami for the
children the Egyptian eat. have a
special fascination. Curious-looking
things they are but they are cats even
If their type is not of the type of the
present day.
The Egyptians looked upon the cat
as the very symbol of contentment,
and all who know a hearth where a
cat sits before the fire will agree with
them, and sines contentment is a
good thing, the cat should be In de
mand at the present time. Madam
i'uss certainly sets an example of
ranking the best of things. In a Lon
don drawing-room a workwoman was
left alone to fit some chintz covers on
the chairs. When she was going she
looked at a cat on the rug by the lire,
and said, "It lis a very friendly cat;
it did not nt all resect me being here,"
Tbe mistress of tbe bouse glanced
nt the cat and replied, "I am glad it
gave you a welcome, but as a matter
of fact it Is as much a stranger as you
are. I have never seen It before. It
must belong to some people who have
recently left the neighborhood, ami as
there is no fire to sit by at present in
Its, own home, It contentedly goes to
the next [dace where it finds one. and
not only makes itself at home but
evidently makes other people feel at
home, too." —Christian Science Moni
tor.
BOYS PROVED THEIR HONESTY
Small New York News Vendors "Made
Good" W'thojt Having Given
Promissory Notes.
One of the great New York news
papers pays an astonishing tribute to
the young merchants who sell Its wares
upon the streets. This newspaper,
like practically every other, printed
tin 'extra" after the big Jersey City
prize fight. When the papers arrived
at Times square the young man whose
. business It was to sell them to tlie
newsboys, taking their cash in return,
found himself overwhelmed by an
eager flock of youngsters who grabbed
the papers as fast as lie could open
the bundles and raced away to dis
pose of them without going through
the usual formality of paying for their
stock.
Many a boy could have kept all the
money be received as profit and neg
lected to pay for his papers, but, so
the paper declares, as soon as the
storm of Belling was over the boys re
turned to the neighborhood and set
tled, until the cash turned in was ex
actly what It should have been for
the number of papers sent out from
the office of publication.
That was only ordinary honesty, it
is true, but a kind of honesty met
with seldom enough to he uncommon.
Yet it would be expected by those
who are familiar with newsboys. The
newsboy doesn't expect to be cheated,
and he certainly doesn't intend to
cheat anybody. More power to him.
Hartford Times.
Settling a Complicated Question.
one of the queerest requests that
has reached state officials for several
months Is a petition signed by eight
beekeepers' at Kale, Mo., asking that
owners of a sorghum mill near-by be re
quested to screen the mill so as to
prevent great loss to the petitioners
because of the death of their bees af
ter visiting the mill. After a long and
tortuous .journey through federal and
state hoards, the petition finally
reached the hoard of agriculture, and
Jewell Mayes replied that after a care
ful search of the statutes he believes
the beekeepers have no recourse at
law, but'are liable themselves under
the statutes prohibiting trespassing.—
Jefferson City correspondence Sedalia
Capital.
Stripping Hemp by Machinery.
Many hemp-stripping machines of a
simple type are In operation on the
hemp plantations of the Davao gulf
region of Mindanao, and two three
horsepower oil engines connected with
sets of four stripping machines each
have recently been installed in that
region, The machines pull the hemp
over a knife In much the same man
ner that It is cleaned by hand. They
are comparatively Inexpensive and are
operated by one man. With the aid ot
one of the machines one worker can
strip a picul (ahout 140 pounds) of
fiber in a day, which would be a lar::'
amount of work for one week If dorn
by hand.
Who Owns a Glacier?
When the retreat of a glacier leaves
a piece of ground uncovered, whose li
lt? The state's. says the law of Iran*-.
and of Italy. 'Vl"' canton's, says flu
general law of Switzerland. Hut it
the Qrisons the commune is held ti
own both the glacier ami the groum
It covers, so thai a body like a parisi
council often possesses Some million.'
of tons of good blue ice.—Manchestei
Guardian,
How Shall They Park?
Akron. <>.. recently, by ordinance
eliminated all angular uutomobtW
parking, with the result that accidents
have been cut 23 per cent In downtowr
sections and street car service ha.
been Improved. In Huffalo prnctlcallj
all parking bus been changed from tin
parallel method to the perpendicular
which allows three ears to park where
one formerly did.
rill. PULLMAN HERALD
| SUE'S TENANTS 8
V By MILDRED WHITE. J®
(©. 1921, Weatern Newspaper Union.)
It was a very beautiful old house,
set far back In a welled garden.
Mi-- Sue Heathcote, who Inherited the
boil-,, as it came down in the family,
found the solitude of her surroundings
growing unbearable.
Mis- Sue In her younger years had
known travel and the companionship
Of college days, Also, her ever de
creasing legacy could not much longer
hermit the service of Lena.
The elderly woman could not con
ceive of life without Lena's attention.
It was Lena who. finally realising Miss
Sue's problem, made the astonishing
suggestion of renting the west wing -
astonishing because no person through
all past years had occupied Heathcote
house save a Heathcote.
Hut as days passed. Miss Sue grew
to dwell pleasantly upon Lena's sug
gestion; it would be undoubtedly com
forting, as well as helpful, to have
some nice person about.
Lena was sure the person offered
for Miss Sue's consideration was nice;
Mrs. Dale of the White Inn told her
SO. A young lady from the city, who
was stopping at the Inn. desired a
more Sequestered and quiet location.
Mrs. Hale thought that the young lady
in question had either been disap
pointed in love, or was Just a kind of
invalid— though she didn't look It.'
Anyway, the young Woman deter
minedly avoided all guests of the inn
and kept resolutely to her own upper
balcony. Hut she prefered a garden
to sit in. she said; Mrs. Dale assured
Lena that the young lady would come
"well recommended." And after Miss
Rhoda Brent was summoned to talk
business with Miss Sue. she begged
only the assurance, before agreeing to
rent the delightful west wing of
the Heathcote house, that there would
be no Intruders there. Miss Sue ex
plained that she and Lena were the
only inmates of the house ami would
not disturb their tenant,
"Oh, I'm not a recluse," the girl
laughed, "It's just that I grow tired
being forced to mix with strange peo
ple, as I go about."
Lena scoffed at Mrs. Dale's fancy
concerning a disappointing love af
fair. "This Miss Hrent has got too
taking ways," said Lena, "for a man
to forget her—easily."
The young woman was a charming
companion, Old Miss Sue grew to
look forward eagerl., for the short vis
its accorded her. Miss Rhoda Hrent
appeared happily contented walking or
reading in her part of the garden
walled off for the west wing; she had
her own entrance there also, and rare
ly visited other parts of the great
house. Lena, for an extra allowance,
gladly served the tenants' meals ln her
own rooms.
Miss Sue, busy with her embroid
eries, loved to seek silently a seat In
the garden near the west wall — was
there only that she could bear Miss
Khoda sing. And It was there, one
evening, that a stranger directed by
Lena, found her. lie came with a re
quest to rent the east wing for the
remainder of the summer. The Inn
keeper had admitted, the stranger
said, that Miss Heathcote let out
part of her house; he himself would he
willing to pny a generous price for the
, excluslveness of the location. The
stranger's name was John Allison and
he was a preacher, he announced
smilingly.
She had assured Rhoda Hrent that
there would be no other occupants of
the house save Lena and herself, but
before the advanced price offered by
the newcomer Miss Sue's conscience
subsided: The east wing was his for
the time he required
"After all," she told Lena later, "the
tenants need not know of each other's
presence. The gardens are as sepa
rately divided as the house."
(•id Miss Sue found her lonely hours
past ; new and delightful Interest filled
her days. It was really exciting to
plan her tenants' visits apart.
Miss Sue thought with sympathy all
that day of the young woman whom
-lie and Lena had learned to love.
Strangely enough, she felt sorry, too.
for the generally admired John Alii
son. And presently, to her astonished
ears came Khoda Brent's lovely laugh
ing voice. The young woman was
actually talking to souk.- one over in
her divided part of the garden.
"John Allison," said Rhoda, "may 1
never run away from you, though I
cross to the Other side of the world."
"You can never run away from my
love," the man replied.
"You will not see," the girl said Im
patiently, "how Impossible It all is. I
must be a concert singer, John, for
that I have studied and proved my
skill. How can a pastor's wife keep
running around the world'/"
"She can not," John Allison firmly
replied; her place is nt her husband's
side. What is the applause of the
world to love, Rhoda?"
Shamelessly, breathlessly, Miss Sue
listened. Here was romance*, wonder
romance, nt last, In old Heathcote
garden.
"John." said the girl at last, "I came
here to try to forget you. Isn't It a
pity that 1 like you so well? So well,
John." added the happy voice, "that
I find the only applause I shall ever
care for is just yours—alone."
A Good Neighbor.
"He's a fine neighbor." "That so?"
"Yes. We can always send our chil
dren ever to hi.*, place to play and he
doesn't care how much noise they
make." '
HERMIT'S LIFE HIS CHOICt
Man Who Has "Flocked by Himself"
for Twenty.Five Years Will
Have No Other.
A hermit lead.- a fascinating life.
So VV. D, 'lurk says, and he ought to
know, for he has been a hermit In the
arctic wilderness nearly a quarter of
a century.
"Once a hermit, always .i hermit."
says Mr. Clark. 'A hermit wants no
body's pity. lie enjoys his solitude
and wouldn't trade it for the plea*
tires and excitement of cities. I have
been In civilisation a year now and
I am going back, home to the wilder
ness as quickly as I can. There are
DO fakirs, swindlers and thieves there."
Mr. Clark's home cabin is on the
headwaters of Peel river, 180 miles
from l!.-i— I ,*| island and 110 miles
from Fori McPherson. Ills nearest
neighbor Is 58 miles away. They see
each other once a' year. With the ex
ception of this man, Abe Schafer, Mr.
Clark is the only human being In a
thousand square miles of country. The
Indians do not go that far north and
the Eskimos do. no« come that far
south.
"I have seen 10.000 caribou In a
herd." Mr. Clark said. "They go to
the arctic coast In the spring to have
their young and in September they re
turn south to the edge of the timber,
where they can find shelter and moss
on which they live."
The mercury goes "\ degrees below
In winter. Mr. Clark says, but it is
the most healthful climate in the
world. Old-timers up there, he de
clares, do not know what sickness
means.
WORD HAS MANY MEANINGS
When One Mentions "Fish," the Sylla
ble Is Susceptible of More Than
One Construction.
"All Is not fish thnt swims" reflected
the sapient philosopher as he beheld
a summer girl taking to the ocean.
The sapient philosopher was formulat
ing a great truth when he came to
that conclusion.
The whale, for instance, although It
unquestionably swims, is more closetv
related to the cow than to the minnow,
The seal Is closer kill to the dog than
to the fluke.
To a great many fishermen the word
"fish"—see Latin "plscis" and Dutch
"vlscli" (the same word) — possesses
only the verb form, "to fish." Catch
ing fish Is not a necessary part of the
process of fishing. The thing is "to
fish," and is not primarily to
catch fish. (See fishermen on the
banks of the Seine in Paris, "fishing'
till day without even getting a bite
from a minnow.)
A famous Englishman by the name
of Izaak Walton was one of the most
persistent patrons of the verb "to
fish." The word "fish" was also ex
tensively used during the war In an ef
fort to save meat for the fighters.—
Exchange.
Bigamy for a Lodging.
A Le Mans signalman has just been
condemned to two years' Imprison
ment for bigamy which, he avers, he
committed in order to find in the pres
ent "crlse de Logement" somewhere
to lay his head.
He Is a man of fifty-live and lie re
cently married a widow of seventy
live who ottered him a room in her
cottage on the linn condition that be
should marry her. 'Ibis he did, de
claring that his wife was dead. One
of his wives was dead, but the police
tracked down another, who deserted
him some time ago. The unfortunate
■ man has now bad "crlse de Logement"
' solved for some time, at least.Paris
Figaro.
Blackbird Fed Thrush.
A lady of Penzance who Is a great
lover of birds, says Mr. W. 11. Hudson
In his recently published hook, "Ad
ventures Among Birds," noticed that
a blackbird and a thrush always came
together to her lawn where she was in
the habit of placing food for the birds.
Then she noticed that the blackbird
fed the thrush, picking up the crumbs
of bread and putting them into its
mouth. Looking more closely, she dis
covered that tin- thrush's beak had
heen cut off close to the head, prob
ably by a steel trap or a sudden-death
spring trap, such as the children in
Cornwall commonly use to catch or
kill small birds. The thrush was In
capable of feeding itself.
Osmiriduim in Tasmania.
Recent exploration and develop
ment have revealed enormous de
posits of osmlridium and gold-bearing
gravels in the valleys of tin; large
rivers id' the western division of Tas
mania, which is He- sol.* producer on
a large scale of point metal osmlrld
ium. For the first half of 1920 the pro
duction was 1,093 ounces, valued at
£41.042. In March, 1920, the local price
reached £42 10s, per ounce, states the
London Times Trade Supplement
A Super-Hero.
"Anything unusual in the court of
domestic relations this morning?"
"A young woman who married a bo*
gus war hero wants a divorce."
•That has happened before."
"Hut Ibis fellow has large id.-as.
He claims to have won the battle at
tie* Mitrne." —Birmingham Age-Herald.
Reward of Merit.
"What's the most attractive feature
id farm life.-" asked the city dweller.
"Knocking off work on Saturday and
going to town in the lllvver" said the
truthful agriculturist. — BunnlßfOMi
Age-Herald.
RED PEPS "
PHILOSOPHY
"If wishes were automobiles
gasoline would be worth 8
million dollars a gallon?
Everybody wishes for an automo
bile, but we don't sell 'em. but we
do repair the tires for them.
VULCANIZING
is the surest road to Tire Satisfac
tion and Saving
United States and
Goodrich Tires
Goodrich Bicycle Tires
A itch in Time Saves Nine
In the Repairing of Your Tires
Pullman Tire Shop
Corner Main and Grand Streets
Pullman Wash.
[MRS 6-ALLEN
MATERNITY HOME'
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511 ri c KENSIEST
11 mi i ———n
Go to Duthie's for Red, White &
Dlue flour. jlyltf
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The new Brunswick Method of Reproduction is
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That is the comment of many
Of our patrons, and the food
tastes as good as it smells, wo
can assure you. Everything we
do here is lor your comfort and
pleasure and if you are dissatis
fied, you will do us a favor by
telling us.
Robinson's Bakery
Phone 40
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The danger that one encounters
when out riding, if they arc not
in a position to do their own
repairing when an accident
happens,
We make a specialty of
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We will give your work lhe
most careful attention.
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at fair prices is our motto.
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Opposite P. 0.
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