Estacada progress., November 09, 1911, Image 2

DOINGS OFTHEWEEK
Current Events oí Interest Gathered
From the World at Large.
General Resume o f Important Evente
Presented In Condensed Form
fo r Our Busy Readers.
Francisco I. Madero formally takes
office as president of Mexico.
Portland has become second only to
San Francisco as a tourist center.
Complete official returns give pro
hibitionists a slight majority in Maine.
Union labor leaders point out many
alleged flaws in the employers’ lia
bility act.
With censorship removed, Chinese
papers score the Imperialists for need
less massacres.
Pekin has fallen into the hands of
the revolutionists and the royal family
o f China has fled and cannot be found
A second package o f bank bills was
found near the scene o f the robbery
o f the Bank o f Montreal at New West­
minister, B. C.
AVIATOR WHO HA8 COMPLETED FIRST CROSS-CONTINENT FLIGHT
EVER BLADE.
MEN W ILL N O T YIELD.
Shop
Employes o f Railroads
Continue Struggle.
Will
San Francisco— A t the end o f the
first month o f the strike o f the shop
employes o f the Harriman lines, both
sides in the Pacific Coast division are
declaring their forces unimpaired and
that they are ready to continue the
tight. Officials o f the railroad point
to the fact that traffic has continued
uninterrupted and that the shops at
Sacramento, Los Angeles, Dunsmuir,
Oakland and San Francisco have been
kept in operation with almost full
forces at work.
Leaders among the strikers point to
the fact that there has been almost an
entire absence o f violence and declare
it is their intention to continue the
strike peaceably. E. L. Reguin, pres­
ident o f the San Francisco local of the
Shop Employes’ Federation, is hopeful
o f a victory for the strikers.
" W e were prepared for the strike
when we began,’ ’ he said, “ and we
are prepared to continue it.
We
knew it would be a long, hard fight,
and teat all our resources, but we have
something to fight for and we will
fight it out. Our men have refrained
from violence and I am sure will con­
tinue to do so.’ ’
Officials of the Southern Pacific”road
would make no statement other than
that the strike has not seriously inter­
fered with the business o f the board
and that the shops will be kept in
operation. Rumors o f elaborate pre­
paration against attack by strikers in
the building o f stockades and the em­
ployment o f hundreds of private watch­
men were denied.
Courtship °£
Miles Standish
pending electrical thrills through
every nerve In his body.
Z2f
Lo! in the midst of this scene, a
breathless messenger entered,
Bringing in hurry and heat tho ter­
rible news from tho village.
Yes; Miles Standish was dead!—an
Indian had brought them the tid­
ings.—
Slain by a poisoned arrow, shot down
In the front of tho battle,
Into an ambush beguiled, cut off with
the whole of his forces;
All the town would be burned, and all
W ith Illustrations by
the people be murdered!
Such wpro the tidings of evil that
burst on the hearts of the hear­
ers.
( C o p y r ig h t. T h e U o b b s - M e r r i l l C o m p a n y )
Silent and statue-Uke stood Priscilla,
Bertha, the Beautiful Spinner.”
her face looking backward
Here the light foot on the treadle Still at the face of the speaker, her
grew swifter and swifter; the
arms uplifted in horror;
spindle
But John Alden, upstarting, as If the
Uttered an angry snarl, and the thread
barb of the arrow
%
Month after month passed away, and
snapped short in her fingers;
in autumn tho ships of the While tho impetuous speaker, not Piercing the heart of his friend had
struck his own, and had sundered
merchants
heeding the mischief, continued:
Came with kindred and friends, with "You are the beautllul Bertha, the Once and forever the bonds that held
him bound as a captive.
cattle and corn for the Pilgrims.
spinner, the queen of Helvetiu;
All in the village was peace; tho men She whose story I read at a stall in Wild with excess of sensation, the
awful delight of his freedom,
were intent on their labors,
the streets of Southampton,
Busy with hewing and building, with Who. as she rode on her palfrey, o’er Mingled with pain and regret, uncon­
garden-plot and with merestead,
scious of what he was doing.
valley and meadow and moun­
Busy with breaking the glebe, and
Clasped, almost with a groan, the
tain.
mowing the grass in the meadows, Ever was spinning her thread from
motionless form of Priscilla,
Searching the sea for Its fish, and
Pressing her close to his heart, as for
a distaff fixed to her saddle.
huutlng the deer in the forest.
ever his own, and exclaiming:
She was so thrifty and good, that her
All In the village was peace; but at
times the rumor of warfare
Filled the air with alarm, and the ap­
prehension of danger.
Bravely the stalwart Mild# Standish
was scouring the land with his
forces,
Waxing valiant In fight and defeating
tho alien armies,
Till his name had become a sound of
fear to the nations.
Anger was still in his heart, but at
times the remorse and contrition
Which in all noble natures succeed
the passionate outbreak,
Came like a rising tide, that encount­
ers the rush of a river,
Staying its current a while, but mak­
ing it bitter and brackish.
H ow ard Chandler Christy
The $ pinning Wheel
AVIATOR IS AT GOAL
EMPEROR M UST ABDICATE.
Rebels Insist on Absolute Surrender
o f Manchus.
Shanghai —The central machine o f
the revolutionary government does not
trust the throne, nor does it agree
Turkish troops recaptured the city
o f Dema, after killing 500 Italians
with the throne’s terms. It is, there­
and capturing the rest o f the garrison
fore, proceeding to arrange to control
in a terriffic battle.
the nation's affairs in expectation of
A pouch o f mail containing $20,000
the sucess which it regards as certain.
PIONEER AVIATO R KILLED.
in currency disappeared between Ra­
The retirement o f the machine dynasty
Almost
Mobbed
by
Enthusiastic
Spec­
leigh, N. C., and New York City, and
will be demanded.
California Air Expert Victim o f Acci­
tators—Declares Mechanism Must
no trace o f it has been found.
The official list drawn up includes
dent With Glider.
Be Revolutionized,
A United States warship has been
Dr. Wu Ting Fang, at one time minis­
San Jose, Cal.-—Professor John J.
dispatched to Tripoli, though the War
Montgomery, o f Santa Clara college, » ♦♦»♦ ♦♦ »♦♦♦♦♦„♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦a-
♦♦♦♦♦>! ter at Washington, who has accepted
department denies that it is an answer
is dead from the effects o f a terrible
the post o f secretary o f foreign a f­
to an appeal from Turkey for interven­
Statistics o f Rodgers' Flight
fall from an aeroplane glider he was
tion.
Total distance traveled, 4,231 * fairs; Wen Tsong Y do, at one time
experimenting with in the foothills
miles.
J Chinese resident in Thibet, to whom
" The department o f agriculture be­ about two miles east of Evergreen.
Actual flying time, 4,924 min- £ the post o f under secretary has been
He apparently lost control o f the
lieves that seaweed, to be found in al
utes, or 3 days, 10 hours, 4 minutes. ; offered; Ehr Tang, atone time direc­
most unlimited quantities along the machine, according to eye witnesses,
Elapsed time of journey, 49 days. S
Pacific Coast, is worth many millons and fell 20 feet, sustaining injuries
tor o f the American council o f Canton,
Average speed when flying, 51.72 j
yearly as fertilizer, containing large to the back and base o f the brain,
who has accepted the military gover­
miles an hour.
which resulted in dcgth a little more
quantities o f potash.
norship o f Che Kiang and Kiang Su
than an hour and a half after he was
Five o f the unidentified girl victims brought back to Santa Clara in the
provinces; L i Ping Shui, head o f the
o f the Chehalis powder explosion were automobile o f Dr. J. L. Beattie, who
Pasadena— In a flying machine that Shanghai gentry, who has accepted the
buried in one grave.
was summoned immediately.
held together only through the good civil governorship o f those provinces,
Professor Montgomery had been an will o f Providence. Calbraith P. Rod­
A striking machinist at Portland
and Yu Y a Chiog, a leading merchant,
authority on aerial navigation ever gers, the transcontinental
aviator,
was shot and killed in a street fight
since the first elements o f the science glimpsed the Pacific ocean Saturday, who has accepted the mayoralty o f
by a machine shop proprietor.
developed into practical result. He as he soared over the gray top of Shanghai.
The Chinese chamber o f commerce
won international fame as the in­ Mount Wilson and settled down in
Government officers are investigat­
ventor o f an electrical rectifier and of Tournament Park, amidst a clamorous has declared for the rebels and urged
ing an alleged comer in wheat.
several patent appliances to facilitate multitude, waiting to welcome him at the consular body to prevent the im­
what was virtually the finish o f his perial fleet from entering the Whang
Kyrle Bellew, once famous actor aerial navigation.
Recently he sold for 1,700,000 his flight from Sheepshead Bay. N. Y. Po river. The populace fear a repeti­
died o f pneumonia at Salt Lake City.
rights to certain aeroplane improve­ Rodgers landed at 4:10 o ’clock in the tion o f the Hankow brutalities.
Perfect order was maintained in
Excesses by victorious Chinese ments, the payment o f this sum being afternoon.
troops have temporarily checked peace contingent on the winning of a suit
Rodgers appeared on the sky line Shanghai and the outlying districts
against the Wright Brothers for al­ shortly after 3 o ’clock, a few moments the first night after the capitulation
overtures.
leged infringement.
His electrical after he had risen at Pomona, 20 o f the city to the revolutionists.
Temperance union workers have rectifier was the subject o f extensive
Li Ping Shui, responsible head of
miles away. He was sighted first by
started an anti-cigarette crusade in litigation for two or three years,
telescopes levelled at him from the the new administration in the native
Milwaukee.
which resulted in the complete vindi­ solar observatory on Mount Wilson, city and suburbs, is completing his
cation o f his right to the exclusive and word flashed down the mountain organization. - He informed the cor­
Roosevelt says the wars now in pro­
title.
by telephone caused a swarming of respondent that he recognized only the
gress Bhow the folly o f peace treaties
republic and would guarantee order.
20.000 people to Tournament Park.
on vital questions.
The aviator, flying at a height of The only disorderly elements now in
JAPS B ATTLE RUSSIANS.
Aviator Rodgers ran out o f gasoline
5.000 feet, hovered over the city for a China, he said, are the ex-officials,
and the Manchu
and was forced to land at a lonely aid One Slain When Czar's Patrol Cruiser few minutes, then warping the planes their supporters
troops, who never again woùld be per­
that
previously
had
been
as
motionless
ing in the Arizona desert, where the
Traps Poacher.
as the spreading pinions o f a soaring mitted to control.
only inhabitant was a telegraph oper­
There is reason to believe that the
Victoria, B. C.— News o f a fatal eagle, he sailed in a wide spiral and
ator. A special train brought him a sealing raid at the Copper islands by volplaned down to the greensward in revolutionary sentiment throughout
the South strongly favors the uncon­
new supply from Yuma, 60 miles Japanese sealers has been received the middle o f the park.
west.
here. The Japanese schooners Boso
Rodgers literally was mobbed. He ditional abdication o f the emperor and
Maru, Chitose Maru and Toyei Maru was borne hither and thither by the the establishment o f an entirely new
A jury investigated the Chehalis anchored off the seal rookeries in a
regime.
powder mill fire and reports that mist. The Russian patrol cruiser ar­ surging crowd. Eager hands clutched
and
scratched
him,
but
his
leather
they were unable to determine the rived and they all weighed anchor and
Colored Oranges Barred.
clothing was strong ynough to resist
cause of the fire, but held the company ran, leaving their small boats.
San Bernardino, Cal.— Because the
attack,
although
afterwards
the
avia­
blameless, as every precaution was
There were five boat crews ashore
taken and all rules o f safety fully from the three ships and when the tor declared his ribs would surely artificial coloring o f oranges is no lon­
manifest black and blue marks o f an ger permitted, by order o f the bureau
complied with.
Russian guards came to arrest them over-enthusiastic greeting.
some o f the raiders opened fire on the
Rodgers started on the last dash of o f food and drug inspection, Eastern
Thanksgiving will be
P O R TLA N D M ARKETS.
Russians with rifles.
his flight from Banning, a little town tables this
The sealers took
shelter behind out in the desert, where his arrival without oranges as far as Southern
Prominent
Wheat— Export basis : Blucstem, 83 rocks and endeavored to keep off the had interrupted the only diversion of California is concerned.
(»84c; club, 79(»80c; red Russian, 77 guards. One Russian was killed and the year— the funeral dance o f the orange shippers estimate that this sea­
Fifteen Japanese Mojave Indians.
(»78c; valley, 79(»80c; forty-fold, 80c. several wounded.
The aviator saw a son’s crop will be from two to four
squaw, 101 years old, who had danced weeks late because o f the order.
Com— Whole, $36; cracked, $37 ton. were captured.
The captives were taken to Vladi­ all night and day, fall in a swoon. Heretofore, by use o f the coloring de­
Oats— No 1 white, $31(»31.50 ton.
vice, the first o f the crop have been in
MillstufTs— Bran, $23 per ton; mid­ vostok and members o f the crew of Then he took the air at noon.
New York in time for the country’s
dlings, $31; shorts, $24; rolled bar­ the schooner Boso Maru, which has
annual feast day.
returned to Japan, say that one o f the
ley, $34»/35.
Glacial Ice Uncovered.
Hay— No. 1 Eastern Oregon, tim­ number is expected to be sentenced to
Klamath Falls, Or.— While William
Speculators Hold Fruit.
othy, $17»/18; No. 1 valley, $15(016; death.
McCully was digging gravel in Bul­
Sacramento— One hundred thousand
alfalfa, $13(0 14; clover,
$11(»12;
Post Cards Are Censored.
lard's canyon recently he was sur­ boxes o f apples are being placed in
grain, $11»/12.
Chicago- Censors will be appointed prised to encounter a large body of cold storage here by speculators, who
Barley— Feed, 31 per ton; brewing,
every Chicago sub-postal station, glacial ice several feet below the sur­ will hold them until spring, when they
nominal,
He took will be sold in California and Eastern
Fresh Fruits— Pears, 75c»/$1.75 per the superintendents o f which Postmas­ face o f the gravel bed.
Seventy thousand boxes
some o f the cakes into the town of markets.
box; grapes, 75«»$1.26 per box; ap­
ter Daniel A. Campbell has given 30
Merrill, where it was judged to be o f have already been shipped here and
ples, $l»/2.25; cranberries, 4'u5c per
lays in which to stamp out the dis­
good quality.
Thirteen years ago stored, and others are coming in car
pound.
tribution o f objectionable postcards. what is supposed to be the same body lots daily. The cold storage concern
Potatoes— Oregon, l } c per pound;
The superintendents’ salaries will be
o f ice was uncovered, but it became handling this business has decided to
sweet potatoes, $2.15»/2.25 per crate.
reduced and they will ultimately be
covered and not until the late dis­ double its storage room, although it
Onions— Oregon, $1.26 per hundred.
discharged i f objectionable cards pass
covery was it supposed to be still in has only recently completed a large
Vegetables — Artichokes, 75c per through their offices.
The chief pic­
addition to its plant in expectation o f
dozen; beans, 5(» 10c per pound; cab- tures ordered barred from distribution existence.
this business.
l>»Ke, 4(»|c; cauliflower, 5 0 «» $1 per are those o f men and women fondling
dozen; garlic, 10»/ 12c per pound; hot­ each other, women in abbreviated cos­
Mammoth's Bone Dug Up.
Fowler Decends Suddenly,
house lettuce. $1.26 per box; pump­ tumes and animal pictures.
Hillsboro, Or. Part o f the femur
El Paso, Tex.— R. G. Fowler, the
kins, 1»/1 Jc per pound; sprouts, 8(»
o f a mammoth was found here while
9c; squash, l j ( » l j c ; tomatoes, 60c»
workmen were digging a well for the eastbound coast-to-coast aviator, ar-
Rebels Fight Recklessly.
$1 per box; carrots, $1 per sack; tur­
Hillsboro ’water system.
The bone rived here at 3:10 Monday afternoon
Hankow— Hundreds were killed or
nips, $1; beets, $1; parsnips, $1.
was found 11 feet in the earth, on a on an El Paso & Southwestern passen-
Butter
Oregon creamery, solid wounded on both sides in the battle beaverdam deposit, and must have 8er train, unhurt after an accident
pack, 324c; prints, extra; butter fat, Saturday. Churches, offices and store­ been buried for thousands o f years, which compelled him to leave his bi-
rooms were uses! by the Red Cross for It is well preserved and measures six plane one mile from Mastodon, N. M.,
lc less than solid pack.
The rebels showed inches in diameter. Search was made about 14 miles west o f El Paso,
Poultry— Hens, 14c; springs, 13c; the wounded.
They charged, for other portions of the skeleton, but Fowler had made 400 miles since leav-
ducks, young, 16»/164c; geese, 114» ' reckless courage.
12c; turkeys, alive, 20c; dressed, cheering, in close formation and faced nothing was found, and it is evident ' n(t Douglas, Ariz., in the morning,
the
deadly
Maxims
unflinchingly. that the femur had been washed some when one of the sparkers on his en-
choice, 25*/ 26c.
E g g s - Fresh Oregon ranch, candled, They sacrificed probably ten men to distance after the skeleton was dis- 8ine failed to work.
the imperialists' one.
The one idea
40»/ 424c.
membered.
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o f the rebels seemed to be to go for­
________, _________
Witnesses Confirm Atrocities,
Pork— Fancy, 9(V/ 94c.
ward at any cost. The loyalists, on
Turkoy Grows for Taft.
Malta— Steamer passengers arriv-
Veal— Fancy, 13(»134c.
Newport, R. I. Horace Vose, the ing from Tripoli describe the scene as
Hops— 1911 crop, 424(»'434c; olds, the contrary, with machine-like disci­
pline, obeyed the bugles and whistles. Westerly turkey fancier, is preparing a reign o f terror. Strong military
nominal.
his annual Thanksgiving g ift for the patrols are continually conducting rig-
Wool— Eastern Oregon, 9(/il6c per
Nature Numbers Peak.
president's table.
The T a ft turkey orous house-to-house searches and on
pound; valley,
16»/17c;
mohair,
Husum, Wash.— Mount Adams has this year is a fine bronze gobbler, the smallest pretext summary punish-
choice, 3 6 » 37c.
Many victims
Cattle Choice steers, $5.60»/5.95; a number o f its own standing out in which is gaining weight every minute ment is meted out.
The number 167 is on a diet o f chestnuts, which produces have been shot in their own houses,
good ,1 $5.25»/5.50; fair,
$5(»5.25; bold figures.
In the absence o f any attempt to
p<sir, $3.75»/4.50; choice rows, $4.50 clearly discernible on the southeast­ a fine quality o f white meat. " I shall
ft/ 5.15;
fair,
$4»/4.25;
common, ern slope near the top o f the moun­ send President T aft the finest tur- discriminate between friend and foe
$2.50»/ 3.50; extra choice spayed heif­ tain, by ranchers living in the Camas key I ever gave to any President since many foreigners have taken refuge in
The the one I sent to President Grant,’ ’ their respective consulates.
ers, $4.75»6; choice heifers, $4.50»/ Prairie and Glenwwod sections.
4.60; choice bulls, $3.75»/4; good, figures, which appeared this fall for says Vose.
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Taft O ff for Cincinnati.
$3.25»/3.50;
common,
$2»/2.50; the first time, are open ground or
Trani-Atlantic Dirigible Fails.
Hot Springs, Va.— A fte r three days’
choice calves,
$7.50»/7.75; good, rocky spots on the mountain side,
$7.25»/7.50; common, $4»/5; choice where melting snow has left a stamp­
Atlantic City, N. J.— Lack o f suffi- rest here, President T a ft ’le ft for Cin-
stags, $4.50 »4 .7 5 ; good. $4.25»/ 4.50. ed number for the famous peak.
cient gas to keep the big dirigible in cinnati, accompanied by Mrs. Taft,
Hogs— Choice light. $6.95»/ 7; good
the air brought to a sudden end the Miss Helen T aft and Mrs. Thomas M.
Dowager May Be in Flight.
to choice hogs,
$6.75»/6.95; fair,
trial flight o f the airship Akron, Laughlin. o f Pittsburg.
Secretary
$6.50»/6.75; common, $5»/6.60.
San Francisco—The Chinese news­ which is scheduled to make an at- Hilles and Major Thomas L. Rhodes,
Sheep — Choice yearling wethers, paper Sai Dai Yat Po, o f this city, re­ tempt to cross the Atlantic ocean from the president's physician, will meet
east o f mountains, $3.25»/3.40; choice ceived a dispatch from Pekin saying this city some time this month. A him in Cincinnati.
President T a ft
twos and threes, $3.15»/3.26; choice that I.ung Yu, the dowager empress, propeller blade broken and a guy wire expects to appear before the election
mountain lambs. $4.250/4.75; good to had fled from the capital, taking with snapped were the only parts dam- board in Cincinnati and qualify so he
choice lambs. $4»/4.15; valley lambs, her the young emperor, and that all aged in the landing, and these can be can vote at the city and county elec-
$3.75»/4; culls, $3»/3.50.
repaired easily.
, tion.
trace o f them had been losL
Rodgers Completes Flight From
Atlantic to Pacific.
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Meanwhile Alden at home had built
him a new habitation.
Solid, substantial, of timber rough-
hewn from the firs of the forest.
Wooden barred was the door, and the
roof was covered with rushes;
Latticed the windows were, and the
window-panes were of paper,
Oiled to admit the light, while wind
and rain were excluded.
There, too, he dug a well, and around
It planted an orchard:
Still may be seen to this day some
trace of the well and the orchard.
Close to the house was the stall,
where, safe and secure from an­
noyance,
Raghorn, the snow-white steer, that
had fallen to Alden’s allotment
In the division of cattle, might rumin­
ate in the night-time
Over the pastures he cropped, made
fragrant by sweet pennyroyal.
Oft when his labor was finished,
with eager feet would the dreamer
Follow the pathway that ran through
the woods to the house of Pris­
cilla,
Led by Illusions romantic and subtile
deceptions of fancy,
Pleasure disguised as duty, and love
In the semblance of friendship.
Ever of her he thought, when he fash­
ioned the walls of his dwelling;
Ever of her he thought, when he
delved In the soil of his garden;
Ever of her he thought, when be read
In his Bible on Sunday
Praise of the virtuous woman, as she
is described In the Proverbs,—
How the heart of her husband doth
safely trust In her always.
How all the days of her life she will
do him good, and not evil,
How she seeketh the wool and the
flax and worketh with gladness.
How she layeth her hand to the spin­
dle and holdeth the distaff,
How she Is not afraid of the snow for
herself or her household,
Knowing her household are clothed
with the scarlet cloth of her
weaving!
So, as she sat at her wheel one aft­
ernoon In the autumn,
Alden, who opposite eat, and was
watching her dexterous fingers.
As If the thread she was spinning
were that of bis life and his for­
tune,
After a pause In their talk, thus spake
to the sound of the spindle.
"Truly, Priscilla," he said, “ when I
see you spinning and spinning.
Never Idle a moment, but thrifty and
thoughtful of others.
Suddenly you are transformed, are
visibly changed In a moment;
Tou are no longer Priscilla, but
Pressing Her Close to His Heart.
named passed Into a proverb.
So shall It be with your own, when
the spinning-wheel shall no longer
Hum In the house of the farmer, and
fill Its chambers with music.
Then shall the mothers, reproving, re­
late how It was In their child­
hood,
Praising the good old times, and the
days of Priscilla, the spinner!"
Straight uprose from her wheel the
beautiful Puritan maiden.
Pleased with the praise of her thrift
from him whose praise was the
sweetest,
Drew from the reel on the table a
snowy skein of her spinning,
Thus making answer, meanwhile, to
the flattering phrases of Alden:
"Come, you must not be Idle; if I am
a pattern for housewives,
Show yourself equally worthy of be­
ing the model of husbands.
Hold this skein on your hands, while
I wind It, ready for knitting;
Then who knows but hereafter, when
fashions have changed and the
manners.
Fathers may talk to their sons of the
good old times of John Alden!"
Thus, with a jest and a laugh, the
skein on his hands she adjusted.
He sitting awkwardly there, with his
his arms extended before him.
She standing graceful, erect, and wind­
ing the thread from his fingers.
Sometimes chiding a little bis clumsy
manner of holding.
Sometimes touching his hands, as she
disentangled expertly
Twist or knot In the yarn, unawares
—for how could she help It?—
"Those whom the Lord hath united,
let no man put them asunder!”
Even ns rivulets twain, from distant
and separate sources,
Seeing each other afar, ns they leap
from the rocks, and pursuing
Each one Its devious path, but draw­
ing nearer and nearer,
Rush together at last, at their trust­
ing place In the forest;
So these lives that had run thus far
In separate channels,
Coming In sight of each other, then
swerving and flowing asunder.
Parted by barriers strong, but draw­
ing nearer and nearer,
Rushed together at last, and one wan
lost In the other,
1
(TO B E C O N T IN U E D .)
A R T IS T
W HO
HAD
NO
ARMS
Miss Sarah Biffen, de Mentholon and
Hile3 Held Brushes In Their
Teeth or Toes.
Miss Sarah BlfTen was a conspicu­
ous example of the skill which arm­
less people sometimes acquire in
spite of their affliction. She was min­
iature painter to Queen Victoria and
her work was widely known for it*
beauty and delicacy.
She was born without arms, but as
a girl, having a great wish to become
an artist, she worked earnestly for
years until she could paint by holding
the brush in her teeth
In 1821. ac­
cording to the Raja Yoga Messenger,
the Judges, without any knowledge of
the means she was compelled to use,
awarded her the gold medal of the
Society of Arts, a prize sought by
hundreds of others.
M. de Mentholon and Bertram
Hiles other artists who were de­
prived of the use of their arms. The
former had only one foot, which he
used to paint with.
Mr. Hiles lost both his arms in an
accident, being run over by a street
car when he was only 8 years old
and when he was Just beginning to
acquire ski!! In drawing. He spent
two years in patient toil learning to
draw by holding tne pencil in his
teeth, at the end of which time he
won a first-class certificate from a
local art school.
He Had One Fssert.al.
Mr. Leo— "Why did you let your
daughter marry that little
bandy­
legged sport?” Mr. Monk— ‘Why, he‘e
the best climber !n the Jungle, and
that's quite important when food ia
so high.”
Eternal Feminine.
Lady— Why are you all so worried?
Captain—The fact Is, madam, we have
broken our rudder. Lady— Is that alL
Well, the rudder Is under water and
it won’t show. Let’s go on.—Toledo
Blade.
The Meekest Man.
Our notion of the meekest man Is
one who Is afraid to attempt borrow­
ing a part of his salary from hia wlfei
—Atchison Globe.
The Light Foot on tho Treadle Grow Swifter.
What We Live For.
What do we live for If not to make
the world less difficult for each other?
—George E liot