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at 3 p. m. and will give away real money to the Kicky ones.
We- want all the boys and girls to come and get their
numbers, and find the ones holding their duplicates,
then come in and get your money. We do not ask
you to buy anything.
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Salt and Pepper, $ 1 .00 per pair
Our Selection of Christmas Goods was never better than this year's. We have
exercised great care in making our choice in order to meet the conditions.
We solicit your visit to our up-to-date store.
DIAMONDS LaVALLIERES PARISIAN IVORY CUT GLASS CHINA
Union City DIErTZ.ErL-'S JEWELRY STORE: Union City
WHEN THEY MINED THE NILE
Primitive Weapon of Detructlon
Might Have Been a Great Suc
cess but for One Reaeon. ;
At a time when submarine mines
must be much in Mr. Winston Church
ill's thoughts one wonders whether he
ever recalls his early experiences of
those destructive agents in the Su
dan campaign of 1898. As the Brit
ish troops approached Omdurman the
Khalifa Abdullah conceived the Idea
of upsetting the British gunboat ex
pedition by mining the Nile. A former
' officer of the Egyptian army whom he
had long held prisoner was ordered
by the khalifa to construct a couple of
mines, which were produced forth
with. They were primitive in form,
consisting, In fact, of two old ' Iron
boilers stuffed with gunpowder, in
.which was concealed a pistol with a
tring attached to the trigger whereby
the charge could be exploded. The
first mine, was laid by the Ismailia,
worked by a native crew, and demon
strated Its efficiency by exploding on
the instant, sinking the Ismailia and
killing the crew, including the mine
constructor.
The khalifa was delighted, not at
the accident, but at the testimony to
the power of the Invention, and Im
mediately ordered the emir in charge
of his arsenal to lay the second mine.
The emir, profiting by experience, in
sured his safety by putting the Nile
Into the boiler before he put the boiler
Into the Nile. He then carried out the
immersion successfully, to the joy of
Abdullah, who loaded him with "pres
ents an praises." Manchester Guard
ian.
HOW A COMET CAME BACK
solving Ihe "mystery of Its steady ap
proach to the sun, a dangerous habit
which 00 other member of the solar
system has yet copied. If all goes
well the comet should be visible to the
naked eye about Christmas. Pall Mall
Gazette.
A Boston Institution.
Franklin Square house faces the
beautiful Franklin square, with Its
trees and flowers, and also on Wash
ington street, but on the top of the
new addition Is provided a roof gar
den, where the advantages of open air
for the social festivities and even for
sleeping purposes can be obtained.
There is nothing in the way of modern
conveniences that is not provided, for
the basic idea in Franklin square is
to provide everything that preserves
the health and insures to the happi
ness of its guests.
, The Cruft Hospital is well said to be
a little world of its own. Every guest
of the house is cared for as tenderly
and devotedly as though at home. In
fact, the board provided for medical
attention, but the hospital records are
most encouraging as to the health and
vigor of the Franklin Square bouse
girls. "The Famous Franklin Square
House," by Mitchell Mannering, in Na
tional Magazine.
Returning Astral Visitor Expected to
. 0 Visible to the Naked Eye About
Christmas Time.
It Is with a sense of relief that as
tronomers have heard of the safe re
turn of Encke's comet,' which has just
been located in the constellation of
Perseus by a Russian astronomer in
the Crimea, This comet was duo to
appear on one of its periodical visits
early in 190S, but to the bewilderment
of the astronomical world two comets
taracd : cp . in - the predicted . place
within a few weeks of each other. ' A
subsequent mathematical investiga
tion identified the second of these two
as the genuine Encke, but the sugges
tion was put forth that the other
comet wasperhaps, a bit of the Encke ,
-comet, which had been broken off as
the result of a collision with some un
seen body. - : .. -. r."
As this particular comet is not built
on massive lines it was feared that it j
would not survive another celestial t
collision. Happily, it etill survives to
veastrononiT9 another chance of J
Can the Wizard Do It?
"Fish can breathe or extract oxygen
from the water. Why should flbt men
in submarines be able to do the same
thing and thus make it possible to
stay under the surface for weeks?"
Thomas A. Edison asked the question
on the occasion of his first visit on
a battleship and in a submarine a few
days ago, and answers it nonchalantly
with! "It can be done in half an hour's
work."
This is rather important if true, to
be able to equip these underwater
craft with fish gills, as it were, and
"the wizard" usually does what he
says he can do. Such an equipment
must vastly increase the efficiency of
the submarine as an arm of the navy,
and it is already a question whether it
is not destined to displace the dread
caught ' , ,
United States' Store of Gold Treasure.
Although the United States has al
ready a greater store of gold than
any other nation, the supply is now to
tracing at a rate which will probably
double its treasure in a decade. An
estimate, which of course is theoreti
cal, places the value of the gold this
country will possess at the close of the
century at aproximately $10,000,000,
000. That in keeping at the present
time is divided among mints and treas
uries ia various states, of which tie
Denver mint held 1510,000,000 on the
first day of this year. The mint -at
Philadelphia, which has the second
largest store, usually has 600 or more
tons of gold In safe-keeping. Popular
Mechanics.
CULTURE AND TE EUROPEAN
American la Apt to Notice What He
Considers a Frivolous Attitude
Toward It
In England, where "culture" is tak
en very frivolously, the bated breath
of the American, when he speaks of
Shakespeare or Tennyson or Brown
ing, is always cause for amusement,
writes Randolph S. Bourne in the At
lantic Magazine. And the Frenchman
is always a little puzzled at the crowds
who attend lectures in Paris on "How
to See Europe Intelligently," or are
taken in vast parties through the
Louvre.
The European objects a little to
being so constantly regarded as the
keeper of a huge museum. If you
speak to him of culture, you find him
frankly more interested in contempo
raneous literature and art and music
than In his worthies of the olden
time, more interested in, discriminat
ing the good of today than in accept
ing the classics. If he Is a cultivated
person, he is much more interested
usually in quarreling about a liv
ing dog than in reverencing a dead
lion.'..: . .. , - - . .
If he is a French lettre, for in
stance, he will be producing a book on
the psychology of some living writer,
while the Anglo-Saxon will be writing
another book on Shakespeare. His
whole attitude toward the things of
"culture," be it noted, is one of the
daily appreciation and intimacy, and
not that attitude of reverence with
which we Americans approach alien
art, and which penalizes cultural
heresy among us.
WOMAN'S PART IN THE NATION
Educational Expert Tells Why He It
In Favor of Extending Privilege
of the Ballot
The time was when the state was
primarily a military organization and
was symbolized best by the marshal's
baton and the headsman's ax. . Its
chief function was to repel invasion
from without and to hold its own peo
ple in subjection. In such a state
only a limited manhood suffrage was
conceivable.
The state of the present and the
future is a on-operative organization,
living normally on terms of friend
ship with all other states, and striv
ing; to obtain for all of its citizens
the largest degree of personal devel
opment and welfare. It is best sym
bolized by the Bchoolhouse, tho good
road, the lighted street, and the san
itary home. .. , t
These ends can, no doubt tC- best
and most surely atta.ned by a suffrage
extended to Include all persons of ma
ture years and such degree of mental
development sanity, and Virtue as will
insure an intelligent and uncorrupt
Dauot. m'tne larger housekeeping
interests of the city ..state, and nation,
women have as important a function
as in the housekeeping affairs of the
smaller world of the home. I believe
in the ballot for women on the same
terms as for men. P. P. Claxton,
United States commissioner of edu
cation. . 1
HOME PAPER BROUGHT JOY
Scholarly British Diplomat
Sir Renneli Rodd, whose name ap
pears in the White Papers as that of
British ambassador at Rome, spent in
1908 some months in America. Ho
greatly distinguished himself at Ox
ford, where he carried off several hon
ors, including the Newdigate poem
prize. Lord Rosebery became one of
his warmest friends and induced him
to join the diplomatic service. Ho
inaugurated his career in that pro
fession as a member of the embassy
of the late Lord Ampthlll at Berlin and
subsequently headed a memorable mis
sion to the court of Abyssinia, He
was also on of Lord Cromer's chief
lieutenants in Egypt, and was under
fire during the insurrection in Zanzi
bar, which culminated in his driving
out the usurper and the establishment
of the late sultan upon the throne. He
ia also well known as the author of
at least half a dozen volumes of verse,
and of monographs on Sir Walter
Haleigh and Emperor Frederick.
When the Snow Lost Its Beauty.
"How softly and beautiful fall the
flakes of snow this morning!" ex
claimed Rosalind M'Gush, as she part
ed the curtains and looked out upon
the whitened fields. "Snow, indeed, is
beautiful! I must hasten and sew
some lace upon my toboggan suit and
hie me away to the elide where "
"Rosy!" came a shrill voice from the
foot of the stair, "don't stop there
dreaming any longer. Your father isn't
well this morning, and you'll have to
sweep the patbs."
Then Rosalind revised her rhapso
dies on the falling Bnow, and plowly
creDt downstairs, inwardly condemn
ing the man who changed woman's
scepter, the broom, into a mere util
ltarian article.
. " '" Boys in Good Work.
In southern Virginia the farmers'
boys are turning to the systematic
cultivation of peanuts, as boys in
other states cultivate corn. The crop
is profitable either as food for human
beings or as feed for bogs, and pro
duces also an excellent hay. Some of
the peanut butter concerns have of
fered prizes, and the government fur
nishes skilled advice in the form of
a recent circular. How better can a
boy benefit hia generation than by
making two peanuts to grow where
but one grew before; and what nobler
ambition can even a high-minded pig
have tiian to fatten himself for Christ
mas on the esculent "gooberl"
Youth's Companion.
Lonesome American Girl, Marooned
by the War, Found Cheer In Sheet
Frem "Her Own Town."
Although detained in Europe mucl
longer than she had expected to be
there, the American girl said she had
not got lonesome.
"But I should have been homesick,
terribly, because it is my disposition
to get homesick, if it had not been for
the things I found in hotel and board
ing house cupboards. No, it wasn't in
bottles; nobody left anything of that
kind behind. What I found was coun
try newspapers which had been spread
on cupboard shelves by American
girls who had tenanted those rooms
before me. ,
'They came from towns in all sec
tions of the United States, those pa
pers. One that I found made me cry.
It came from our home town in Vir
ginia. It was the first Express I had
seen since leaving home three months
before. The sight of that paper was
more magical in its effects than en
chanted carpets and brass bottles.
With incredible swiftness I was trans
ported from the little Austrian fron
tier town and set down in the main
street of a Virginia village. There
was an ice cream supper on at the
Masonic lodge. I went in. Just across
the street the Plum family were hold
ing their annual reunion. ,4 1 attended
that, too. Then I heard a concert by
the local band and spent all my spare
cash at a bargain sale at Floyd's store.
"In the space of about two seconds
I was back in Austria with that blue
penciled paper in my hand. The
more I read the more I wondered how
it got there. The people in our town
are net travelers. Some of them go to
Richmond once a year, maybe one or
two get to Washington, but no farth
er. Nobody from home had registered
at the hotel, yet some previous guest
had friends in our town and was suffi
ciently Interested in its doings to re
ceive marked copies of its principal
paper." ., ,
"WOUNDS MAKE BOYS GROW"
Frnih Lad, Determined to Fight
Enemies of Hla Country, Likens
. . Blood to Soup.
Gustavo Chatain, fifteen yews old,
a gamin and a soldier, who was
brought to the hospital at Paris after
be had been playing at war like a
man, has started again tct the front
He wished to continue his game of
war, having an ambition to capture
a flag. :', v:- . r
The good Bisters who 'had been
nursing hia wounds were tmable to
restrain him, especially since an army
lieutenant bad given him a uniform
whh the congratulations of the of
ficers of the regiment.
tils father took him to the recruit
ing office. When the father told Gus
tavo where they were going the boy
leaped from bis bed. .
"Bully," he cried, and Jumped into
his clothes in feverish haste.
Some one suggested teasingly that
he would be rejected because he was
so small.
"A wound Is like soup, it makes you
grow," retorted the boy. "Anyway, if
they refuse me I will find a way to
wriggle to the front ranks."
Awful Cost of Napoleon's Wars.
One hundred years ago, in the brief
interval of peace between the downfall
of the Napoleonic empire and the be
ginning of the campaign ending at Wa
terloo, the countries of Europe were
striving to repair as best they could
the ravages of the long wars in which
the ambitions of the "Little Corporal"
had involved all of them. From the
commencement to the close of Na
poleon's career, the levies of soldiers
in France alone exceeded 4,000,000,
and not less than 3,000,000 of these
perished in the field, the hospital or
the bivouac. . If to these is added at
least an equal number out of the
ranks of the allies, it is seen that not
less than 6,000,000 soldiers perished in
the twenty years' warfare. 'And to
these musi.be added the thousands of
soldiers who perished from want and
exposure and, the hundreds of thou
sands who were subsequently swept '
away by the ravages of that pestilence
which took its rise amid the retreat
from Russia, and the crowded garri-'
sons of the campaign of 1831, and for
several years afterward desolated lr
succession every country in Europe.
, Kaiser's Stud Farm.
Poultney Blgelow, author of "The
Borderland of Tsar and Kaiser," once
paid a visit to the famous royal stud
farm from which the Russians now
claim to have carried off all the
horses. The farm is situated, he
Bays, "in the most favored province
of Germany for horse breeding pur
poses, although, geographically consid
ered, it appears to be the most unpro
pltlous. Nearly every farm la East
Prussia is devoted to this one occu
pation, and the German army getB
many more horses from this little cor
ner than any other province or king
dom of the empire. The war authori
ties are, Is. respect to this branch of
t-a goTcrzsiGZit,. Tcry literal;, it af
fects the army directly as well as it
does the country Indirectly." ...
French Statesman an! Artist .
Premier M. VivianL who gave oat
the answer of France to the German
ultimatum, is essentially an artist. He
knows the line and the works of every
living French painter of prominence.
It Is said that no poet has gained re
nown in France in the last generation
without a gracious word from him,
uttered at a time when the poet was
still striving for recognition.
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