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ALTOONA TRIBUNE, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1916. AGb EIGHT man. -y na If The Observer Topics of Lining Up Va. Congressmen jj his salary and it is always necessary to secure special permission from the Compensation Board before an employer can pay the amount in a lump sum. This is a very wise provision, for it protects the inexperienced woman and her children from money-grabbers and promoters with schemes which promise large returns, but seldom pay.

The amount of compensation varies with the number of children. In the case of one child, the widow receives forty-five per cent of her husband's weekly earnings for 300 weeks. At the end of 300 weeks, the children receive fifteen per cent of the fathers earnings until 16 years old. If she has two children, the amount goes to Our Foreman's Heavy Bereavement All his associates in the work of turning out the daily issues of the Tribune wish they knew how to express their deep- sympathy with Andrew Kolbonschlag, foreman of ihe newspaper, upon the ferrible bereavement he has sustained in the death of the wife of his bosom, the mother of his children. We feel that the loss of a wife is a heavy calamity at any time, but especially so when the is likewise the mother of several some of them quite young and all needing most urgently the loving counsel of a good mother.

We are in-' capable of understanding those mys teries of human life, but perhaps some day we shall understand. la the prerence of Death we are mute; 110 language is capable of expressing our sympathy, our sorrow, our regret. We would gladly share the grief and tho loneliness of our friend if we could, but, alas! each of us must trend this Gethsemane path alone. Stream Pollution in Cambria The Johnstown Tribune is authority for the suggestion that certain chronic vio lators of the act of assembly forbidding the pollution of streams, and who have their habitation In Cambria county, are likely to get what's coming to them before many days pass. It is intimated that agents of the state department of health have been on the ground and have gathered up considerable evidence of reckless violation of law.

Perhaps the campaign in Cambria may be preliminary to a general crusade on behalf of cleaner streams. Let us hope this is true, al though one finds himself too often face to face with that hope deferred which maketh the soul sick. Cambria may be a great sinner, hut she is scarcely a sinner above her fellows Promotion by Selection Let us hope congress will enact into law the bill transmitted Secretary Daniels for its consideration, providing for promotion of naval officers by selection instead of by seniority. It is not going to be an absolutely perfect measure. There may be some favoritism; probably will be.

Still, the rule which keeps an ambitious and a deserving officer behind some incapable senior for many years, simply because the incompetent is the senior, is grotesquely unfair. It is at war with ordinary common sense and flies in the face of equity. Those who prove their capacity should be trusted with the chief places. When an officer demonstrates his unfitness by inaction he should be superseded by a successor who can bring things to pass. Another Incipient Revolution Several days ago the announcement was made that Felix Diaz, a nephew of former President Porfirio Diaz, had disappeared from the United States, where he was under surveilance, and that 'it was believed he Intended to start another rebellion.

Now comes additional information concerning his intentions. Most fervently do we hope Q- -cr Message the Day he will be captured before he has succeeded in making any headway. He was in prison once in Mexico, under sentence of death and made a very narrow escapo. This time, when he goes to disturb the peace of his unhappy country for the sake of the spoils of office, his early capture and execution, after due trial would surely be for the immediate welfare of his country and its people, especially of the poorer ones. Concerning United States Senator It has been settled by the powers that be that Philander C.

Knox shall be the Republican candidato for United States senator next November. Our private opinion publicly expressed is that he is a very much over-rated man, but. what we think will be of little importance when the people come "to vote for United States senator. Mr. Knox will be successful by a very considerable majority because this is Pennsylvania's 'Republican year and Mr.

Knox, beside having a great reputation, will have no opposition worth mentioning. It is reported that ex-Judge Allison O. Smith, of Clearfield, Is flirting with the Democratic senatorial nomination, and if he really wants it or is willing to accept it he will have little difficulty in getting it. ut the office? Well, that another story. The Fourteenth Dry County Deprived as they are of all privileges in connection with the granting or withholding of license, the people of any Pennsylvania county where a majority are opposed to license, must elect a judge who will refuse all applications.

It Is a very unfortunate and unpleasant thing and is calculated to harm the judiciary, but unless the legislature enacts local option or provides for the granting of licenses by an excise board, it will become increasingly common and many excellent judges will be retired because they do not feel convinced that the law justifies arbitrary judicial refusal of license. The tide is running in that direction. Mercer is the fourteenth county in Pennsylvania to go dry under judicial process and she will have imitators. A Logical Process If the public men of Pennsylvania had a proper comprehension cf whereunto this thing is growing they would cordially unite upon the local option policy. If the brewers and distillers could read the future they would be very earnestly favorable to local option for under it they would retain their trade in the larger counties and stop, for the moment at least, the agitation which will eventually bring into force national prohibition.

It is a shame to expose a good judge to the storm that rages every decade over the se lection of his successor. It does harm to many a judge; it does grievous injustice to others; it sets neighbors by the ears, creating feelings of bitterness that are never obliterated. But whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. brat!" she cried "You know you're sneaking around to see what you can see and hear what you can hear! Beat it, you double-jointed, cloven-hoofed freak!" Wieegan withdrew. "Clarice," he Bald, after a thoughtful pause.

"Percival," she responded softly. "I've changed my mind," he said. 1'Don't love me as a brother. Just forget me." Detroit Free Press, An Inkling. Everybody in Townburg agreed that whatever the new postmaster lacked, he had plenty of dignity.

Promptly at his usual time of half-past nine on the morning of the new postmaster's first day in office Mike Howe tied his gasoline runabout to the town pump and strolled in for his mail. Looking the new postmaster over while the new postmaster was doing as much for him, Mike asked: "Any mail for Mike Howe?" The new postmaster frowned and resumed reading of postal cards. "I say," repeated Mike, somewhat louder, "any mail for Mike Howe?" The new postmaster looked at him as if he didn't like his face atid slip' ped Zeb Tootle's city newspaper out of its wrapper to look over the news. "I say!" yelled Mike. "Ha ye got auy mail for Mike Howe?" Without losing an iota of his dignity, the new postmaster gravely laid Mike low with the government ink-Btand.

"I'll teach him to strut In here askin' tor mail for his cowl" he muttered. Louisville Times. A Timely Warning. The following letter was contributed to the Times, of India, published In Bombay: "My purpos for writin on you this is to Inform you many English Brothers not to give honor and devotion to your ladys because they will in the end becum proud and then they will want vote. 2 or 3 things happen at Victory Garden to morrow and- then I all of iudden made lip my brain to write you immediate.

There was, many Englis woman and when mans are sitting on the bench, and woinans come, man stand and give their to woman. This happen 2 or. 3 time tomorrow and I question you I again tell you why? Mans and womans are similar in this world and then why mans honors woman. If they honors old old woman, one thing, but they honors young young lady. My purpos to write this to inform the Englis Saheb loks that when they do this they spoil their feminine lady and then this lady get Established 1856, Published Daily Except Sunday by THE ALTOONA TRIBUNr 1110 Twelfth Street.

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NEW YORK OFFICE Room 415, 71 Broadway File of the Tribune 'on hand Visitors always welcome. fentered at Post Office at ALTOONA as Second-Class Mall Matter. ALTOONA. MARCH 3, 1916. GOOD MORNING! It's the duty of every patriotic citizen to hare one wife and not less than four children- J.

I. Brldenstein. The man of peace Is frequently the possessor of a terrific temper. Indolence Is the most serious disease with -which some chaps are afflicted. After all one must admit that It Is a shame to insult the average dog by bestowing his name upon a human mlBfit.

Former Senator Burton's presidential boom was of the briefest duration. There are others that will be little less precarious. Obedience to law is the duty of every citizen; especially those occupying positions of more or less trust and responsibility or honor. President Wilson is determined to put his party leaders in congress and their followers on record, so far as the submarine is concerned. Evidently the Democratic congressmen are at a loss what to do with their president.

Precedent seems to have no- terrors or attractions for him. poetry that has never been written or printed save upon the heart of its author. Not here will It be seen or heard. Accumulated Information from the fields and the forests is to the effect that the winter has been exceptionally tender toward the birds and the beasts. It Is true that a oat Is a sneaking creature occasionally and there are momenta when she becomes positively disgusting.

But that Is also true of other and much more pretentious animals. If the Democrats really wish to make sure of the German-American vote next fall let them drop President Wilson overboard and make Willlan Jennings Bryan the pilot of their political ship. When 70a employ a casual workman you need trouble yourself Ittlie about the possibilities of danger or death in connection with his transient work for you. Exemption is the word of the law as explained by an official. The energy and liveliness manifested by young children are merely exemplifications of the laws of nature.

The wise parent restrains, regulates and guides carefully and patiently during the opening years of the child's life. One of the strong points about Justice Hughes is that he has been absolutely out of the reckoning when current problems of a controversial nature have been under discussion. He had been immersed in his judicial duties. And we all have the utmost confidence in hs wisdom and patriotism. It is admitted that some of the indelicate novels and magazine serials ire true to certain revolting aspects of human life.

But of what benetit to the innocent and the pure are these disgusting revelations of unelean- ness? The true, the beautiful and the good, these, also, are aspects of human life. The human body is a wonderful machine. It submits to the most reckless abuse from year to year, sometimes for a long time. But the hour comes at last when it can withstand 10 longer the buffets to which its ihoughtless master subjects it. And niien it is too late he is eager to lave it from decay.

folly of some senators and representatives, leading and influential Germans, including many of their newspapers, have fallen under the delusion that a majority of the voters of this republic are in sympathy with the German noion of wholesale slaughter upon the high seas, or at least with the Bryanite belief that Americans who persist in traveling on British, or French or Italian ships hereafter should be notified that they will do so at their own risk. We may admit that ordinary prudence should suggest to traveling Americans the importance of avoiding danger when that can be done, but reflection shows that the government could not do so without suffering humiliation at the hands of Germany and incurring the contempt of other nations. And President Wilson does not intend that this shall happen. The speediest and most effective way to open the eyes and illuminate the understanding of our friends across the seas is to put a stop to the unconsidered clamor Of congressmen who are fond of making speeches, and bring the matter to a vote. Upon this the president has strongly in sisted.

According to present arrangements the house will stop debate and put itself upon record today. It is the general belief that the test vote will show a very meagre minority in favor of the warning resolution. The result will probably prove a stunner to the pro-German element and demonstrate in the most conclusive manner that the representatives of a majority of the people are favorably disposed toward President Wilson's policy and unwilling to do anything to embarrass him in his efforts to serve the republic. The Tribune will be disappointed if every Republican member or the house does not register his vote in opposition to the resolution of warning; It is the duty of all good citizens to stand by the president; to Help him in every possible way to keep unstained the fair fame of th country. reality.

A main sewer costing, about $100,000 would be necessary, impos ing a ffebt upon the people that would scarcely be justified by the sparse population of the district. Mr. Rhodes is not opposing the proposed annex ation he is merely acquainting the people with the facts. Mayor Rhodes supports the proposition to erect a new city hall upon the grounds of civic lack of accommodations at present and the unsanitary condition of the present building. Many years ago -the Trib une advocated the construction of a city hall and it has never changed its mind concerning the urgent need for such a building at the earliest possible moment.

The mayor believes tho people of Altoona will support a financial proposition having as its chief end the erection of a building that will be a credit to the town. The message favors playgrounds but suggests that the municipality can scarcely be expected to take the place of the parents in the training of children. Yet we are quite sure that some power should rescue many unfortunate children from wretched homes every year. Otherwise they will be a curse to themselves and the state. We are pleased to see a vigorous defense of the water meter in the mayor's message.

The system in vogue generally involves a reckless and costly use of water every year. The Tribune has been hoping for a quarter of a century or more that Altoona might secure a city council a majority of whose members have the courage to do right, regardless of their personal fortunes. Our mayor sounds the right note. How many of his colleagues will follow his example? Let us hope everyone. Waste of the city's substance should not continue when it can be stopped so easily.

relief isn't done. "Preparedness" is the watchword just now, and the Civic club cannot do better work than to help the women of Bellwood prepare for an emergency. To this end a series of lectures has been arranged, to be given by Dr. Alma. Reed Derick, the first on Tuesday, March 14, at 3 o'clock.

The business meeting of the Civic club will precede the lecture. All the women of Bellwood are invited to bring notebooks and pencils. "First Aid to the Sick and Injured" will be the general theme. Demonstrations in bandaging will be given and the lectures will be Intensely practical. NliNE BOYS ARRESTED.

Third Ward tads Charged With Larceny of Lumber From Club House Property, Nine boys residing in the Third ward, charged with larceny of a quantity of lumber from a rod and gun club house in Logan township, belonging to Mrs. E. A. Nicodemus, of the township, were arrested yesterday by Constable C. O.

Baker, of the Seventh ward, on a warrant from Alderman Isehberg. All the defendants, Peter Mowrey, Kenneth and Arthur Miller, John Cree, Paul Amheiser, Paul and Victor Gipprich, Anthony O'Brien and Robert Bennett, furnished bail for their appearance this evening at 7:30 before Alderman Isenberg for a One afternoon tlnH vnolt mm wan- Iderings led us into the Mateer build ing ana just as we passed Inside the main entrance, a cheery voice said: "Just the follow I want to see. It's settled! Settled amicably, too!" We wondered hat in the world had been settled. The gentleman's voice was so full of joy and gladness we knew it was something important, but for the life of us, we could not guess what. At last we confessed our ignorance and asked what had been settled that should cause so much excitement on the part of our good friend.

By tho time we had climbed the stairs to the second floor, Mr. Snyder for it was Jacob Snyder, State Referee for this district said: "Come into my office and I'll tell you all about it." We followed him in to the office and were surprised upon entering to see bo many folks there. There were men and women and a few children and the room was tingling with suppressed excitement. One or two reporters were among the throng and a couple of very well-groomed gentlemen, whoni we took to be lawyers from a distance. "Read that!" said Referee Snyder, handing The Observer a typewritten article setting forth the fact that the representatives of the parties interested in the Shaffer compensation case had come to an amicable agreement.

Mr. Snyder was as tickled over the settlement as he 'was on the day he received his appointment as referee for the Sixth Workmen's Compensation district. "This case and the Bush case, settled last week," said Mr. Snyder, "disproves the rumors that have been afloat that the Pennsylvania Railroad company will fight the new compensation law," and he fairly chuckled with joy. Mr.

Suydcr took us into his private office and we were favorably impressed with the splendid home of the bureau in this city. Both ofllcea are fitted up in good taste ou the second floor of the Mateer building. The only wall adornment in either office is a very good likeness of Governor Brumbaugh, a personal friend of Referee Snyder's. On the third floor of the building, the bureau has rented a commodious hall for public hearings in the matter Of compensation awards when necessarybut Mr. Snyder thinks this will be vacant most of the time, judging from present indications.

About a dozen cases have been adjusted since the opening of the office last December. The new law became effective January 1st and has been a God-send to the bereaved, especially in the case of an Italian family living ou the South Fork branch. The husband was killed in the mines and when the officers visited the home, they found poverty and neglect the children poorly clothed and the barest necessities In the home. There were eight small children in the family the oldest under 16 and It can easily be imagined what would have been the fate of that mother and her children if the new Workmen's Compensation law had not been passed. She received more than $4,000 from the company.

Under the present arrangement, the law provides that a widow and her children will receive a percentage of the husband's earnings. Invariably the widow receives, the money at the same time as her husband received proud and walk like p-cock and then ask vote and then spoil Ken Garden and throw bomb on Loid Gorg, put bursting powder in envelope and post, and create other mischief. Therefore I say to my Englis, pleas dont spoil Englis womans in India because by honouring them you people put in their brain the sids of suffragetism and then they get wild like Misses Pan-curs. Please please print this leter near the Ruter's telegram with big words." World Outlook. Success.

hold that man alone succeeds Whose life is crowned by noble deeds, Who cares not for the world's applause But scorns vain custom's outgrown laws; Who feels not dwarfed by nature's show. But deep within himself doth know That conscious man Is greater far Than ocean, land, or distant star; Who does not count his wealth by gold, His worth by office he may hold, But feels himself, as man alone. As good as king upon a throne; Who, battling 'gainst each seeming wrong, Can meet disaster with a song, Feel sure of victory In defeat, And rise refreshed' tho foe to meet; Who onlv lives the world to bless, Can never failhe is success. Henry Viclor Morgan. By Nlkssh HONGKONG Hongkong is an outpost of tho west in Asia, an isolated fortress in the war of pounds and dollars that is conquering a continent Europe could never conquer by the sword.

She is the Gibraltar of Oriental commerce, a master-key to the complex lock of Chinese trade. The British are proud of Hongkong prouder, you will find, than of almost any other of their distinctly colonial possessions. There is no more hospitablo port In the world than Victoria, capital of the island. The white visitor is welcomed as only white men of the Orient can welcome a stranger, with a little extra warmth added on for the greater glory of Hongkong. The Caucasian population is one of the most cosmopolitan in the world.

There are only twelve thousand of them, but they include English, Americans, and all the nations of Europe. They are all apparently getting rich, and willing to drop a ten-thousand dollar deal to show you the new water system. Hongkong has one of the finest natural harbors in the world. It is crowded with shipping. Trade at the port Is absolutely free, so that no figures as to annual exports and imports are available, but the total must be staggering.

Here the junks and sampans from the mainland meet the grimy freighters from far Atlantic waters, to change their cargoes for manufactured products from the European mills. As you watch the slant-eyed coolies "smashing" the big cases, you can almost hear the guns Travelette Some queer folks are bred in a free country; In the very heat and passion of our Civil War there were thousands of men in the north who bitterly opposed conscription, or "the draft," as it was then called. Simi larly, during the discussion of Great Britain's conscription measure, some months ago, there was fierce talk against it, although tho opposition suddenly fell to pieces In the end. And the United States now has its full share of pacifists, men who are willing to endure any Ignominy rather than offend one of the embattled European powers. President Wilson did exactly right when he notified the congressional leaders that all negotiations with Germany over the Lusitanla and other outrages would cease until congress has acted upon the resolution before it calling for the adoption of a policy toward Germany's submarine warfare whereby Americans intending to viBit Europe should be warned to travel on boats flying the American flag, or take the consequences.

The vote is to be taken today, according to the program of the leaders, and there is little douDi concerning the result. It is quite impossible for the average congressman to realize the responsibility resting upon him and his colleagues. Here in America it is possible to read what a representative or senator says and to forget it straightway. Our friends on the other side of the big pond do not have the same illuminating consciousness as the congressman's constituents. Everything that is said in Washington is misinterpreted in Europe.

The air of the royal courts is generally, somewhat mephitie; it Is not conducive to intelligent comprehension of the latitude allowed an American congressman of the spread-eagle type. And thus it happens that the folly of the moment is interpreted to represent American sentiment. Inspired in part by the pernicious activity of Mr. Bryan, in part by the The first message of Mayor Charles E. Rhodes 'will be found in another part of this number.

He begins by explaining why the document has been delayed and shows, quite incidentally, that under the Clark act the powers of the mayor have been greatly reduced, although he is optimistic enough to believe the law will be amended eventually, so as to cure all existing defects. Once upon a time a gentleman who was perplexed about the condition of a favorite dog was advised by a friend to cut orf the animal's tail close behind his ears. We believe the way to improve the Clark act is to repeal it and substitute a more consistent and efficient municipal law. The mayor discusses at considerable length the problem of efficiently policing the city. He calls attention to the fact that the police department is upon a rather cheap scale and suggests that if certain annexations now under consideration should become effective it will be Imperatively necessary to increase the force.

Indeed, personal observation long ago convinced many that the force is entirely inadequate to meet the demands upon it. The extent of territory in a single beat is much too large. Robberies, assaults and other violations of law would be more frequent if our people were a different type. Good citizenship is Attoona's peculiar heritage. The message shows that it is possible at the present moment for the city to borrow not less than It recommends the borrowing of sufficient money to complete the separation of sewage in the eastern district and for the extension of the filtration system south of the city.

Attention is directed to the problems that will arise should the proposed Pleasant valley extension become a Bellwood Mrs. Miles Bower and Miss Ettie Green attended the Lutheran missionary convention at Duncansville yesterday. The first robin has appeared and taken up Quarters at the home of Mrs. A. C.

Guistwhlte, on Martin street Rather cold under foot, but Robin doesn't seem to mind it. The meeting of the Ladles' auxiliary to the P. R. R. Y.

M. C. A. was postponed until this evening, when it will be held at the home of Mrs. George Ruraberger.

It is important that there be a large turnout, as business is requiring attention promptly. Miss Annie Laird was hostess yes terday at a dinner party given at her home on Boyles and South Third street. The guests were Mahlon Moffet, wife and sons, Cleon and Mahlon, Mrs. Jennie Benton, of Altoona; Mrs. Howard Moffet, of Tipton; Harry Laird, jr.

Several others were invited, but were unavoidably prevented from enjoying the pleasant function. Symphonola music was one of the features especially enjoyed. The Bellwood Civic Club is show ing large energy in its welfare work and the entertainment committee has just made public some of its plans for the near future in which every woman in Bellwood is included. There are so many times when an accident happens, that the mother cr nearest friend is helpless uutil a physician can be called and frequently the thing that might be done quickly to give I Mayor Rhode's fifty per cent, if there are four children, she receives sixty per cent, and the employer also pays the doctor's bill and the funeral expenses. There are eight counties in Mr.

Snyder's district Cambria, Blair, Bedford, Huntingdon, Fulton, Somerset, Juniata and Mifflin. Whenever a fatal accident ocours In these counties, Mr. Snyder and his efficient and obliging secretary, W. Walter Henry, adjust atl matters pertaining to the settlement. In order to receive the benefits cf the new law, a woman whose husband has been killed on the Pennsylvania railroad, need only apply to the claim agent of the company.

He then notifies Referee Snyder and in a few days the entire matter of compensation is adjusted and the bereaved woman receives a regular Income for nearly six years, while the children continue to receive fifteen per cent of their father's earnings until 16 years of age. This law is a wonderful step in humanitarianism and a man will go to his death nowadays with the satis-faction that his wife and children will not be at the mercy of the world. The state is back of them with its bene-flclent protection and regularly week by week or month by month the little family receives a stipend sufficient to keep, them from dire want. This is one of the greatest pieces of constructive legislation in the interests oC humanity ever attempted by Pennsylvania Jawmakers. Mr.

Snyder was also jubilant over the fact that the state insurauce department had paid all its accident claims up to February 15th. The state department issues Insurance to employers ten per cent less than the companies and the business is growing tremendously. It may be necessary In the near future to have a representative from the state insurance department located in Altoona because of the growth of the business. Governor Brumbaugh wrote a book recently on the life of Christopher Dock, the first schoolmaster in Pennsylvania and the first man to write a school text book in America. Mr.

Snyder was the recipient of a copy of the book, although the edition wan limited to 1,000. Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker, ex-governor of the state, wrote an introduction for the book. Mr.

Snyder was one' of the committe'j appointed to the erection of a suitable monument to the memory of Christopher Dock at Skipback, Montgomery county, several months ago. Tho old schoolmaster performed his educational work prior to Revolutionary days and is looked upon by educators as one of the greatest pioneers in that field. Mr. Snyder is very proud of his copy of the book which 1b a splendid example of the printer's art. on the battlefields of Franco.

Hong kong is one of Britaiu's warmest "places in the sun." There is no carelessness In the way she guards it, either. The defensive works are hardly visible, but if you stroll in a certain direction you will chance on a kilted Scot with a six-foot rifle who suggests that you look at the scenery somewhere else. Tho forts are not for the public eye. Nobody can prevent you from looking at the lean gray battleships, where they swing at anchor, grim reminders of the greatest navy in the world. But do not be unduly impressed.

The real significance of Hongkong is not in forts or cruisers, it is in the grimy, smoking freighters that bring cotton prints and looking-glasses to John Chinaman. The Searchlight CATCHING FLIES BY ELECTRICITY A new device for catching flics is being added to the equipment of a number of hotels In preparation for the summer Season. It consists of an electric motor which draws tho files up by a strong current to a pipo. Molasses or moistened sugar is smeared on the edges to draw (horn to the vicinity. As the flies alight upon the pipe, a strong suction seiz-os them and quickly drops them into a steel cage in the bottom of the pipe.

This machine has demonstrated an ability to capture over a hundred files a minute. It will clear a fly infested room In a few minutes and can be easily carried from one room to another and operated from the plug supplying the current for electric light. Daily History Class March 3. 1793 William Charles Macready, tragedian, born in London; died 1ST3. He appeared in the leading cities of the United States in 1848-49.

1799 George Washington, ex-president, made "general and commander in chief of the provisional army of the United States" by congress. 1915 Congress passed a resolution pro- hlblting carriage of supplies to bel- llgerent vessels at sea. Indecisive action at the head of the Persian gulf between Turks and Persians and British forces. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. Evening stars: Jupiter, Mars.

Saturn. Morning Venus, Mercury. East of south, low down about 9 p. is Cor Hydrae, the Solitary One. What's In a Name? He's light as any summer breeds! Two hundred pounds she'd weigh.

Yet he was christened Hercules, Her given name is Fay. Song and Story Home. I know a spot between three ancient tTOOS, A solitude of green and grassy shade, Where the tall roses, naked to the knees. In that deep shadow wade, Whose rippled cooIiksbb drips from bough to bough, And bathes the world's vexation from my brow. The.

gnarled limbs spring upward airy-free, And from their perfect arch they scarcely swerve, Like spouted fountains from a dark green sea So beautiful they curve-Motionless fountains, slumbering in midair, With epray of shadows, falling everywhere. Here the sun comes not like the king of day, To rule his own, but hesitant, afraid. Forbears liis scepter's golden length to lay Across the inviolate share, And wraps the broad space like a darkened tent. With many a quivering shaft of splendor rent. No garrulous company is here, but books Earth's best men taken at their best-books used, With dark-eyed paths, nQ penciled margin-strokes, Where friends hav? paused and mused, And here and there beneath the noticed 1 lines, Faint xlgsag marks like little trailing vinos.

Edward Rowland Bill. Two Prevaricators. An American bavins told an HllEllsh- 111911 that nil fine particular occasion ho nhnt nnfl snine. his interlocutor asked him why he didn't make it 1,000 at once. said he.

"it not likely. I in going to tell a lie for one snipe." Whereupon the ungusnniau, aoier-mined not to be outdone, began to tell a story of a man who swam from Liverpool to Foston. "Did vou see mm yourseu: asKeu the Yankee, suddenly. "Why, yes, of course dia; 1 was enminff across and our vessel passed him a mile out of Boston harbor. "Wf-u.

I'm elad vou saw him, strang er, 'cos ver a witness that I did it I was that swimmer!" Not Even as a At last, hfi realized that she was really in earnest about rejecting hira. "At. least." he said, sadly, at least, love me as a brother." Vps." Rhn aereed. sweetly, 1 es. Percival, I'll do that.

I'll love you al ways as a brother. 1 At that moment little wiegan, ner kid brother, came into the parlor. "Hey, sis, did iya see me. kite any wheres?" he said. "tint nut of here, vou little hem stitched, devilish, scheming, sneaking.