Question Prompted by the Manj
New Methods of Rapid Trans«
portation*
AIRSHIP
AND
OCEAN
FLYER
May Cross Atlantic in Three Days-
Mop.orail the Successor to the
Present Railroad«
naa Deen answering some horrid mat
rimonial ads under assumed names
The little one said her mother would
‘just kill her if she found out/ and
the other one suggested that if they
should give some out-of-town place as
their home address, and then insist
that the false names were their own,
they would probably get their letters
all right.
“It made me sick to hear them plaD
it so coolly, and yet, Grant, for one in
stant I actually considered borrowing
the idea and getting your letter that
way. Then I looked up, and not ten
feet off stood a man that lives near us.
It was just like a flash of lightning,—
the curious, unbelieving stare he gave
me,—and suddenly I saw myself in it,
the ‘common sinner/
“That is all. I waited just long
enough to say to those silly girls what
I should wish somebody to say to my
little sister in the same circumstances:
and then came away without getting
your letter—which I wanted more than
words can tell.
“And, Grant, please—please under
stand and sympathize when I say that
I cannot have letters, even from you,
at the expense of deceiving my father
and mother. If our love for each other
is all that we believe, it can live down
opposition; if it must be, it could even
outlive an enforced silence—but it can
never stoop to anything that even
seems vulgar or tricky.’’—Youth’?
Companion.
BRITAIN WANTS $150,000 WARSHIP OF THE AIR.
When Rlgr&ie Tells a Story*
You have to do what he thinks right;
You can’t sit still to hear his tale;
You have to join him in the flight.
Or else the fun is sure to fail,
When Reggie tells a story.
There comes the bear,“ he cries in
glee,
“Nurse, you’re the bear; sit up and
howL
Here, Amy, you must stand by me,
And hug me tight at every growl.
| prised an old snake—of the variety
i known in New England as the striped
| or garter snake—with a brood of hair
■ a dozen young ones, each about five or
i six inches long, and about the size of"
a slate pencil. They were scattered
about in various directions within a.
radius of three or four feet from the-
mother snake.
“I know not how she signaled to the-
little ones that danger was nigh. But
she lifted her head about two inches,
just enough to clear the short grass,
opened wide her mouth and lay per- <
fectly still. Then the little ones, a&
by a common impulse, all turned to
ward that open mouth, and, each
shaping its course so as to come in.
direct line with the old snake, ‘about,
its own length in front of her, they
one after another darted Into that
open mouth and down the old snake’s
throat. She then closed her mouth
and crawled away into the swale
grass. And I stood spell-bound and
allowed her to go, making no effort
to kill or molest her. The act was
accomplished in less than ten sec-
onds.
“It will be observed that the old
snake did not run around after the
little ones—nor was there any act of
swallowing on her part. She simply
opened her mouth and the little ones
did the rest—running into the open,
mouth exactly the same as if it had
been a hole in the ground.
“One fact is worth a thousand theo
ries/’—Chicago News.
Two questions seem to be the most
Important problems of the age. They
When I say ‘bang,’ the gun goes off,
are “Where is the speed limit?” and
I’ve killed you, nurse, but move your
“How fast is it possible to travel a
head
given distance?”
And give a little, tiny cough
To let us know when you are dead.
When the first automobiles reached
such perfection that a speed of twen
Then, Amy, I must kiss your hand,
ty-five miles an hour was made with
And here’s a ring for you to carry,
out injury to machines or drivers the
And over there’s the Prince’s land,
public gasped, the Baltimore Sun says.
Where you and I shall go to marry.' 99
Yet little by little this record has been
changed, until recently Barney Old
And then nurse runs; the Prince runs
field dashed around a mile course in
after,
And brandishes his dreadful gun— .
27 seconds, the equivalent of 131
While Amy jumps and screams with
miles an hour. *And this remarkable
laughter,
Mate of speed Barney coolly promises
“I flnk we has the mostest fun—
to exceed the next time he enters a
HUMOROUS TAXIDERMIST.
When Weggy tells a stowy.”
contest.
—Chicago News.
LIFE OF A LUMBER JACK.
Already it is possible to leave New English Museum Wherein Is Told
York on Monday morning and take
What the Fox Thought.
the Story of Cock Robin.
uMes* of
Preachers”
That
Sup
dinner on Friday in Liverpool. Naval
Nat had a very exciting story to tell
Beneath the shadow of the ruined
pressed Men - at Christmas Time.
men experimenting with oil fuel pre castle of Bramber, England, there is
to Ned— all about how he had been
The Woman’s Christian Temperance
dict that within six months or a year a novel and interesting museum well
down in the lower field and had seen Union has sent out tons of magazines
the trip will be reduced from five worthy the attention of all who find
a fox, and how the fox had cantered and tracts that have at last brokeit
days to three. Small craft burning oil themselves in that prettiest of South
off and disappeared in the ground.
the. monotony of the lumberman's^
fuel have plowed through the sea on Down villages. According f to the i
“I found the hole,” said Nat, eager- dreary existence, although the value is-
test runs at the rate of fifty miles an Strand, the exhibits displayed there
ly, an’ we’ll get the hired man to go doubtful of temperance tracts ands
hour. Aeroplanes are showing aston in are principally examples of the art
with us to-night and dig out the little floral mottoes saying, “Look not upon,
ishing rates of speed. Beriot’s tri of the taxidermist, but the subjects
ones! It’s just time now for the little the wine cup when it is red. As one-
umph in crossing the English Channel, are treated in such a humorous man
foxes to be in the nests, Mr. Cum- old fellow remarked to me, ‘ We never
leaving far behind steamers which ner as to render the museum unique
mlns says.”
have no red cups out here, anyhow/’
left France at almost the same mo in England. From a child’s point of
The boys’ father had told them of
There seems to me a great gulf
ment, has shown the scientific world view it is a veritable wonderland,
a little tame fox he used to have when sprung up between, the life of the lum-
what is possible and*'his record may reminiscent of the strange sights seeD
he was a boy, and ever since Nat and ber jack and the oiftside world, and;
be broken at any time. The bird-like by Alice when she made her journey
Ned had been wild to get a baby fox mighty little has been done to bridge
to “bring up.”
flights of flying machines at recent ex into that delectable country. It is not,
that gulf, a writer in Harper’s Week
The British government is negotiating for the purchase of the great
hibitions show clearly that these de however, only the juveniM who is cap
Jackson, the hired man, agreed to ly says. “Faith without works,” is as-
dirigible
balloon
named
the
Clement-Bayard
II.,
constructed
in
France.
The
go with them that evening when his dead in the American woods as it is in.
vices will one day rival the highest tivated with the exhibition; the adult
rate of speed motion attained by ve is none the less amused and agree price is between $125,000 and $150,000. Preliminary to the possible closing work was done, and 7 o’clock found our American cities. The woods and.
hicles on the earth’s surface. It may ably surprised at the wonderful in- of negotiations the balloon will be tested in an attempt to cross the British them at the hole in the field. None of the streams and the singing of birds
channel and land at Wormwood Scrubbs, in England. The British Parlia- them saw a pair of sharp eyes watch and the ice and snow and the awful
be that they will exceed them.
genuity there displayed.
Tremendous speed means the saving
The idea of thus combining the art mentary aerial defense committee has an option on the giant craft designed ing from the bushes.
silence may all teach the Divine Spirt,,
It was hard work digging in the but the only gospel preached and
of time, and this is a time-saving era. of the taxidermist with that of the for war purposes. France, it is said, will buy a similar ship named the
Clement-Bayard
III.
—
illustrated
London
News.
stony soil, and, dear me! when they worked out in the life of the lumber
Time is money, and every second humorist was generated in the brain
got to the end of the little, tunnel jack is the gospel of greed.
saved means dollars to the hustling of the veteran proprietor, Mr. W. Pot
business men of this generation. This ter. In 1861 Mr. Potter set to work
It is hard enough to be robbed of"
lieves, upon many other fertile dis In the ground there was a great dis
probably is the real reason for the to construct his first set piece, illus
tricts of Greece. He ascribes the de appointment in store for Nat and Ned his hard-earned dollars in the com
eternal striving for faster methods of trating the “Death and Burial of Cock
pany’s stores, where he must pay two»
cadence of the Greeks before the tri —there were no foxes there!
The owner of the sharp eyes stole or three times the regular price for-
transportation.
Robin.” The work was done in Mr.
umph of Rome, in part, at least, to
In England/ there Is in operation a Potter’s spare time, and was not com
i the ravages of malaria. As to Rome, softly away, and if she had any his tobacco and “foot riggin’ and
queer looking vehicle which, .it is pleted until seven years had elapsed.
Mr. Jones points out that some dis thoughts upon the subject, and I’m clothes. But every mortal that na-
claimed by the inventor, can be rim The nursery rhyme is too well known
tricts in Etruria and Latium were at quite sqre she did, this is what they sees from the outside world is clothing
over a single rail with absolute safety to repeat here. The whole of the in
one time populous and prosperous, al were: “What stupid folks to go to peddlers, cheap jewelry agents and in
at the incredible speed of 140 miles cidents in the story are graphically After six years’ contest Peter Coo though now they are hardly habitable all that trouble without finding out ' surance agents authorized on the pay
an hour. Already the monorail sys portrayed, and, as evidencing the pa per Hewitt has been awarded patents on account of malaria. Although Rome beforehand something about the hab ment of a certain commission to the-
tem is talked of as the most likely tience and perseverance exercised by for his mercury vapor electric lamp. was marshy in the early period, it its of foxes! Then they would have lumber company to go in and “rob**"
successor to our present railroad meth Mr. Potter, it may be stated that nc The patents have been in dispute al was well drained, and there is no rea- known that we always take our ba the men of their scanty earnings.
ods, and plans to try out the English fewer than 100 specimens of British most since the date when they were son to suppose that malaria was pres- bies and scamper off to hole number
Do you wonder that the men one-
inventor’s time-saving train here in •birds are included in the setting. In first applied for, in 1901.
ent. But in the first century B. C. two as soon as we find that somebody night, after a settlement worker had
America are already under way. With addition to the birds which figure in
The battleship Indiana has under Cicero and others speak of a shrine has discovered hole number one. That gone out twenty miles to a camp to
the monorail a success.the trip from the story there are the cuckoo, night gone some tests of the “ship brake,’’ and altar on the Palatine Hill dedi Is our protection.”—Youth’s Compan- give the men a Christmas entertain
New York to Philadelphia could be ingale, goldfinch, hawkfinch, bramble with which she has been equipped. It cated to the goddess Fever. While
ment with a talking machine and choir
accomplished in about twenty minutes. finch, whyneck, etc. Considerable in was found that the vessel could be not regarding malaria as one of the
A Little Girl’s Grief.
boys from a large Boston church, and.
The Twentieth Century limited when genuity is displayed in the arrange brought to a stop within the distance causes of the downfall of the Roman
with pipes and. tobacco and handker
run from New York to Chicago in six ment of the “fish with his dish,” the of her own length without injurious empire. Mr. Jones holds that it great
chiefs for gifts, were dumfounded to»
teen hours, would then be about as “fly with his little eye,” the owl, the shock qr strain.
have the visitors refuse an offering of
iy influenced the course of events.
modern as a Conestoga “prairie bull rendered in minature, the rook
Construction work will shortly be
more than $25. The boss stood there
THE AMERICAN ACCENT.
schooner” in the heart of Broadway.
and the mourning birds all a-sighing gin on another of those stupendous
with the collection in his cap and ex
The one desire of the civilized and a-sobbing.
buildings which are called a city of
claimed: “This is the first mess or
world seems, in this generation, to be
towers. The new structure, which is An English Writer Frees His Mind
preachers I ever saw that wouldn’t,
on the Subject.
to “get there first.” New inventions, FROM ONE WIZARD TO ANOTHER. to be built at the northwest corner of
take a hat after it ’d been passed,
“The American accent,” writes a
be they ever so hazardous, are snap
Wall and Nassau streets, will extend
around.”
ped up with avidity by excitement How Thomas A. Edison Found the 539 feet above the street level, mak contemporary correspondent, “is far
HOUSES IN A CIRCLE.
Diary of Samuel F. B. Morse.
loving men who are ever willing to
ing it the third tallest office building less irritating than the cockney dia
lect, and it would be well for us if
brave death in making the idea prac
In the middle “80’s” Thomas A. in the world.
Buenos Ayres Architect’s New
ticable.
Edison took a house in Gramercy The Society of Illuminating Engi the former, which is at least musical,
Idea in Building.
could
be
substituted
for
the
cacopho
Park, New York City, where he found neers in England has lately discussed
Buenos
Ayres has an architect in?
himself very well situated for the leis the question of the best means of nous patois of our east encl.”
FOR GIRLS TO READ.
Prof.
Pierre
Roveda who has devised
As a matter of fact, we think that
ure which he always enjoys, being by avoiding glare from artificial lights,
a special plan for building whole dis
the
cockney
accent
has
a
certain
num
New Rule That His Recently Gone nature a reposeful man and not the It is beginning to be recognized that
tricts of houses for the workingman.
grinding dynamo that people so often the recent introduction of intensely ber of real admirers, but what we
Into Effect at the Postoffice.
Instead of erecting the houses on the
wish to call to our readers’ minds par
fancy him. Few things suit better the
ordinary square block Prof. Roveda..
It was addressed to a man, but none ,mood of idleness than to poke aim dazzling points of light raises prob ticularly is that America has its cock
has used a circle which has a diam
the less it is a’ letter for girls to read. lessly around an old house that has lems in the solution of which the ney, so to speak, precisely as we have.
eter of from 100 to 130 yards.
“Dear Grant,” it said. t “Somewhere its legible traces and signs of human oculist must take a hand. Two Ber People in Kentucky have a rather
This circle of ground is divided into*
1 have seen this: ‘One is never the occupancy, and y thus one day Edison lin professors urged in a communi burrish way of speaking, and they
BBUNO, FATHER IS GOING TO SELL thirty-nine radial lots converging to a
common sinner.’ It means more to me found himself in the garret of the cation to the society the “advisability loathe and detest the fruity twang
YOU.” .
of imitating daylight.” The quality
center. The circle is concentrically di
noW than ever before.
house, where some old furniture had of daylight is its diffusion, whereby which overwhelms New England. The
vided to form an interior avenue four
“This morning I went downtown, as been stored, a writer in the Metropolis
westerner,
again,
is
responsible
for
the
Snake Mothers.
yards broad to allow communication
we agreed I should, to get your letter says. Opening one of the drawers, he the eye is saved from injury. It has dialect which was supplied on the
A friend has written to the editor witfi the center of the circle. Each
at the general delivery department of saw lying within a flat oblong book been estimated that the diffused day English boards by stage Yankees.
light from a clear sky is about 60 per
the postoffice. I found there were two labeled “Daily Journal.”
Whether you acquire the American an interesting account of an observa avenue leads to external sidewalks and
To his
to longitudinal and transverse streets.
windows for women, but there was a astonishment this proved to be noth cent of the direct sunlight. It is point accent or not depends on the length of tion of snake ways.
In the center of the circle is a plot:
long line in front of each; so I took ing less than an original diary kept ed out that the injurious eye effects time you remain in America. English “In your issue of Jan. 30,” begins
my place at the end of one line, feel by Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of of artificial lights are not confined to men who stay in New York for pro the friend, in your short article on of 40 yards in diameter where chil
ing as uncomfortable as if everybody the universal system of telegraphy the light centers, but arise also from tracted periods preserve their native snakes, you say: ‘There is no authen- dren may be left to themselves with
knew that 1 was going to ask for my which bears his name. The entries the glare reflected from the surface cadences intact. It is the man who tic account of a snake mother having out their parents’ care, in charge of a.
of shining paper and other bright ob
young at1 the approach specially designated I person. In this
letter under a false name.
pays a flying visit to the United States swallowed her
belonged to a brief but most interest
In
the New York Museum
of
danger.
’
“Don’t be impatient with me for ing period of his life, the year 1843, jects.
who comes back and always says of Natural History, some time in the garden a playroom, , a school, a hos-
pital, a fire station . and an adminis-
A
device
which
manufactures
that. I hadn’t forgotten the argu supplemented by transcripts of im
“nop” for “no” and “yep” for “yes.”
’90s, a zoological lecturer stated tration room are .10 • be found,
ments in favor of keeping our corre portant correspondence dated back as breathable air, when required, for
Once we met a man who had re early
Naturally this circular plot of
spondence secret, and I know father far as 1843, when the electro-magnetic miners caught in mine accidents, has turned from a week’s stay in Boston. that ‘the theory that snakes swallow
their
young
in
time
of
danger
had
ground
leaves free four corners, In
recently
been
invented
by
Clarence
and mother do' seem to us unreason telegraph system was being construct
He said he had heard it was easy to
able and unjust, but, you see, to them ed between Washington and Balti Hall, government expert at Pittsburg. acquire the twang and finally exclaim exploded long ago,’ and that ‘no one each of these four corners the pro
A double tank contains, in one, com ed, “Waal, stranger, I guess it may be had ever seen it done.’ In an article fessor proposes to build four chalets,
I am just their little girl, and—well, more.
partment, sodium peroxid, and in the dead easy for some, but not for Blank in a Chicago newspaper August 18, such as grocery shops, dairies, haber
I couldn’t help feeling strange.
Edison put the book away carefully other water,
A cock that can be Z. Asterisk,” meaning himself. “Now, 1901, the Rev. Gregory Bates, refer dasheries and the like, which are in
“Soon I noticed that the line didn’t and took it with him when he estab
ring’to this same popular belief, says:
move. A loud-voiced woman was hav lished himself at. his present country opened at will connects the two. The what’s your opinion? Am I right?”— ‘This has never been seen, and nature tended to be carried on in a co-oper-^
ative way. In each of the ninety-nine
combination
of
the
chemical
and
wa
ing an altercation at the window. Aft home in New Jersey. He has now
London Globe.
has no provision for so interesting a radial plots a workingman’s house is
er a while the woman next in front of placed it in the hands of the Ameri ter creates a llow of oxygen, and
function.’
to be erected on the English plan.
. Help!—If Not Too Busy.
me asked a stranger who stodd look can Institute of Electrical Engineers, enough of the raw material is carried
“Now, it is not at all strange that Prof. Roveda argues for his circular
In
the
apparatus
to
supply
one
man
’
s
The courtesy which distinguishes a scholars, scientists, teachers—who
ing on what was the matter, and he with the remark in his accompanying
arrangement that it will give contin
came close and explained in a too fa letter of July 22, 1909: “As this ap- demand for about thirty minutes. A true gentleman is never forgotten, have acquired their information main
uous sunshine at all hours of the day
nose
and
mouth
piece
are
furnished
to
even
in
the
face
of
dire
peril,
An
in-
miliar way, which somehow included pears to me to be a matter of great
ly from books—their knowledge of the and plenty of light and air.—Chicago-
cover
the
face.
The
purpose
of
the
stance in point is given by an antarc animal kingdom from the study of
me with her, about a rule which had scientific and public interest, I feel
gone into effect this morning, com that this journal should be placed device is to provide men with a port tic explorer, Lieutenant Shackleton, animats in captivity, should fail to Tribune.
Knew How to Keep Dry.
pelling every woman who applied at where it may be accessible to others, able supply of oxygen that will enable and printed in the London Chronicle. learn some things that, have come to
The members of his party, he said, the knowledge of the simple ignora
the general delivery window to give and I therefore take much pleasure them to live long enough to make ef
Gent
(to cabby)—How do you man-1
her real name and address. The de in forwarding the same herewith and forts in their own behalf after an were invariably good humored and mus. who has accidentally blundered age to keep yourself dry in this wet;
partment, he said, was primarily for in presenting it to your institute in accident. A man can travel far in polite, but one scientific man attached upon some curious manifestation of weather? Don’t you wear a water
the convenience of people who had no the hope that it may be deemed worthy thirty minutes, if he can breathe free to the expedition wq.s especially con nature in its wild state.
proof?
fixed address in the city, and it had of receiving a place among the me ly and knows his ground. ( It is ex spicuous for this virtue.
“
When
I
was
a
boy,
some
fifty
or
Cabby—Na, na, sir; I just tak’ a.
“Are you busy, Mawson?” he called more years ago, I lived with my par- sault herrin’ in the mornin’ afore I
been misused; a great deal of crime mentos of the telegraphic art in your pected that the invention will be the
means
of
many
otherwise
impossible
out one night to another member of ents on an old farm in northern New come oot, and it keeps me dry a’ day...
was known to originate there. And he library.”
escapes.
the party, who was in the tent.
went on to say that he had been there
Hampshire, I was somewhere in my
That Edisdn himself, the great tel
How to Judge Cigars.
“I am,” said Mawson.
\
all the morning ‘watching the fun»’ egraph inventor of our age, who stands W. H. S. Jones contends that -ma
’teens at the time of the incident I am
Experts appraise cigars on fiver
“Very busy?” asked the professor.
and that it was ‘mighty interesting to ndxt in line to Franklin and Morse laria played a considerable part in
about to relate.
“Yes. Very busy.”
see how many married women came as master of the electrical forces, bringing about the .decline of the an
“One day I was sent by my mother counts; first, burn; second, aroma;
“If you are not too busy, Mawson, upon an errand that took me past a third, taste or flavor; fourth, color;
there for mail.’ O Grant, I felt should have chanced thus casually on cient Greeks, and also exercised a pow
ashamed!
big granite bowlder a few rods back and, fifth, workmanship. If the cigar
a lost relic of his predecessor is, to erful influence upon Roman history I am down a crevasse.”
The professor was found hanging of the buildings, situated right in the does not burn freely, all other merits;
“By this time a young girl behind say the least, a notable coincidence. and life. He thinks it doubtful if
Greece was malarious in eaily times. down a crevasse by his four fingers, edge of a wet run or swale. As I combined will not save it from con
me began to ask questions. Then she
Think of the Hot Air in every town In the fifth century B. C. malaria fell a position which he could not have came .abreast of this bowlder I sur* demnation.—Cigar and Tobacco Worlds
and a still younger girl compared
like a blight upon Attica, and, he be- occupied for any length of time
^tea. I couldn’t help hearing. to » at that never amounts to anything!