Vow H»claimed, It Is A Sommer He.
sort w ith k l s h t r - t w o In h a b ita n ts
tr wad the scientific world so
1 as by the discovery, three or
Bears ago, of a substance which
ed to contradict the laws of
lit' after they had been slowly
Lted during many centuries of
ation. The discovery was by
|# called an acciueut, but it is gen-
ny ascertained that they occur .most
luontly to men who were investi-
T
in* along particular lines, and so It
I w: h radium. Since the discovery
t there was a property in light
could Impress an image on a
sitve plate, every development of
'toffntphy and Its kindred science»
b r slow degrees up to the discovery
lum.
qualities of the new substance
mysterious, so contradictory, one
lay so miraculous, that the lnter-
the scientific world was instant-
sed. The factory is located at
:ur-Marne, In France.
The
A of extracting radium-bromide
f w , occupying from two to five
; tedious in the last degree and
J t Incredibly expensive.
It is
^Btted that, counting the cost of
^ ■ n e ry and labor, both of the com
J^Bvely unskilled laborers In the
;toi y and that of the trained chem-
Utjxperts who perform the conclud-
^Hperations, the cost of extracting
^^^■ilogram of pure radium-bromide,
Oli$ thirty-five pounds, would be
out $80,000,000. It Is easy enough to
^Hto that no such quantity of ra-
urn has been extracted from its ores,
e most that any scientist can
o procure is a few small par
ies» hermetically Bealed in a glass
^^a&nd these bits, most of them
e-lutli to one-tenth the size of a
i head, are the material with which
sts and physicians make their ex
te n ts.
rtne-n ’he radium factory abstracts from
nsut Qt tons
niinerals the microscopic
•Coli W ,es worth thousands of times
jxpri lr weight In gold. The materials
■ 111 . « l o s t varied, principally being
123. '-h blende. Pitch blende Is of Itself
erj remarkable compound, contaln-
_ _ the sulphates of almost all known
jB tls. By wagon loads the ma-
al is sent through a crusher, then
ject' d, In a great tank, whose con-
^shorfir re stlrred by a mechanical de
nt uai^B0 Proceases 80 numerous and
ntlli' that to give even a crude no-
of them would require a volume.
jdon’s underground tubes have
length of 145 miles,
land imported from Argentina
7 nearly $21,000,000 worth of
beef and $11,472,345 worth of
mutton.
lada has twenty wireless stations,
ew wireless service Is being es-
ed between Prince Rupert and
uver.
of the great intellects of En-
has stated that not above fifty
,nd people in all Britain can
<K and understand the ordinary
for S>n newspaper.
n soByvesant Fish, Jr., began in the
i-ovidBis Central shops in Chicago at
i, bulHary of $25 a month. Later he
; to jB d as station agent at $60 a
intBi in his eagerness to learn the
e.
from th^ bottom up.
^u*ls[hf Wesleyan conference of En-
Sail recently passed by a large ma-
a motion to admit women as
lelegates. This resolution must
ly
iroved by the synod before It
hkhH
rule of the denomlna-
wuraœsm ¡aroma
©OT!2£3ill$ra
B iW
DR.
TTDOIE
WKM®'
For every ton of pitch blende residue
over five tons of acldB and other chem
icals and fifty tons of water are re
qulred, and after continuing the sep
aratlon and purification for months
there remains at the bottom of th«
great tank a handful of Impure ra
dluin-brorulde, which Is turned over tc
chemists of long experience, for final
reduction. When they have finished
their work, there are left a 'ew grains
of the substance known us radium
bromide.
When this remarkable mineral wit
first announced there were the highest
expectations entertained among med
ical men, their patients and the pub
lic, regarding its future usefulness in
medicine. Lupus hag been cured with
it, so have persistent ulcers. Cancer,
when in its first stages, has yielded to
the power of Its rays, but deeply-estab
lished cancer has resisted its Influence.
It is now believed that the virtues at
tributed to the water of certain springs
are due to the presence of radio
activity.
The most singular property of this
magical element is the fact that It
gives out heat constantly, almost uni
formly and under all circumstances,
without loss of weight, change of sub
stance or deterioration. A particle of
radium has been known to radiate its
heat for a year or two at a time, and
when weighed again has not lost a ten-
thousandth part of an ounce. Every
one knows the various ways in which
heat is produced, but radium is a self
producer of heat, and so far as we
now can see, the process may continue
indefinitely, and It is this property
which makes the little grain of ra
dium-bromide, which looks exactly like
a grain of common salt, so wonderful
in the eyes of the chemists, for it ap
parently contradicts flatly every prin
ciple regarding the evolution of heat
Mexico, which the Mexican Herald
says is to be mined and shipped for
refining to Mobile, Ala., where a fac
tory has been erected. American im
ports of unmanufactured chalk amount
to about 125,000 tons a year, mainly
from England and Germany
7 he girls of the Boston public
schools are to have an opportunity of
taking part In outdoor Bports on the
same terms as their brothers. Out
door gamee and gymnastics will be
made a part of the curriculum Just as
soon as playgrounds for girls can be
fitted up. Baseball, basketball, run
ning, Jumping and all sorts of other
games will be taught.
The county Judge of Cook County,
Illinois, has recommended the ap
pointment of a woman as Inspector
of all institutions to which delinquent
and deficient children are committed.
He suggests a salary of $1,800 a year.
Heretofore club women of the State
have conducted examinations of such
Institutions and where remuneration
was necessary the money came out of
club funds.
The industrial census of Germany
for 1907 (Just published by the Ger
man imperial bureau of statistics)
gives 4,025,591 industrial concerns,
employing 14,348,389 persons, of whom
3,510,466 were women. The Increase
in twelve years is 4,079,120—a ratio
about four times as great as that of
the employing concerns. These fig
ures do not Include railroad, postal,
telegraph and telephone employes.
or8f|ha women of Chicago are urging
,(l ^ft-rease in the number of milk ln-
.¡f,;fct<irs for that city. They say that
tor^Bmposslble for the eight lnspect-
y -flo w on duty to make sure that
The Good Times Are Coming.
small part of its supply Is In
Oh,
the good times are cornin', no mat
borne condition.
ter what they say;
ling, selling or exporting of red You kin hear 'em hummin', hummin’,
Ig in or from Korea is now for-
for a hundred miles away;
under fines of from $50 to $500 They're a-sallln' through the summer,
d confiscation of equipment to all
an' a-flghtln' through the freeze;
except the Korean govern A-rldln’ down the rivers an' a-blowln'
In the breeze!
or firms specially authorized by
is highly valued In the orient
Cornin'
tdlclnal use.
A-hummin'—
kil's foreign trade in the first
Like a regiment a-drummln’ l
konths of this year totaled a val-
Lane has got a-turnin'.
Buttermilk's a-chumin'
So keep your lamps a-bumln'
'/* ,°°« over that of the first four
Till the good times come!
;v S s of 1908. Imports were $55,-
it :' 3*bflfr>- a decr,!a8e of $9,000,000, and Oh, the good times are cornin' you
$93,000,000, an Increase of $27,-
can see ’em on the run,
,t
Coffee Is our principal pur- A-twlnklin' in the dewdrops an’ a-
id
shinln' in the sun!
o f J ® w Japanese steamship service A-dumpin' over the daisies, an' bab
blin’ in the brook,
(il(lheen put on-between ports of Jap-
ire 3T*a Hong Kong and Valparaiso, An' lookin’ at a fellow like his sweet
heart used to look!
be H>®y 016 T°S° Klsin Kaisha Com-
pat|r ef Kokohama. The three steam-
Cornin'
are subsidized by the Japanese
A-hummln'—
iment. Other ports of the west
Like a regiment a-drummln';
if South America will also be
Lane has got a-tumtn'.
Buttermilk s a-chumln',
So keep your lamps a-burnln'
Laura A. Hecox, who for twen-
Till the good times come!
i years has tended the light of
—Atlanta Constitution.
ta crus lighthouse, has recent-
rned to her post from the last
Heeded Them la Hie Baetnees.
___ six vacations she has taken
Miss Ootrox— Nearly all my admirers
IHg that period. Since 1881 she think I should be able to get tips from
,
absolute charge of the light, you on the market.
' M all that time it has never gone
Gotrox—Encourage them In that be
during the night.
lief, my dear. It won’t be long before
-mer a ns bare discovered a deposit I'll be ready to unload the stock I'm
r *Mtlng la the Bute of n»w r».i,r carrying.—Puck.
s
In a gorge close down against the
inner base of First mountain David
Felt In 1.845 began an enterprise that
years after gave New Jersey her de
serted village. He owned a blank book
and stationery store in Brooklyn and
another in New Orleans. To supply
these with material, says the Travel
Magazine, he built a factory in the
bottom of the na-row gorge and at the
blufT edge of the level land above he
placed for his employes several com
modious houses whose back windows
looked sheer down upon the factory,
twenty feet below.
He told Thomas Stead that he had
"two barrels of specie" to start with,
and as land was cheap, lumber abun
dant on his 60(1 nr 700 acres and dress
ed stone at hand in the ruins of a
powder mill dating from the war of
1812, he built spaciously end well.
Prosperity smiled upon the hidden
village.
The Civil War changed the course
of life for the little community. New
Orleans was cut off by the blockade
and Itavid Felt, despairing over the
loss of business, sold out before the
war was over. The place passed Into
unsympathetic hands, deteriorated as
the Inhabitants moved away, and in
the early '70s was known the country
side over as the deserted village. The
great water wheel rotted down, the
little stream that had furnished the
power being neglected slipped back
Into Us old bed in the bottom of the
gorge. The acres of farm land that
lay broadly between the First and
Second mountains were covered with
weeds.
Only the shade trees profited by the
neglect that was over all and grew
into stately proportions. The natural
beauty of the spot, coupled with the
lure that attaches to a deserted vil
lage, drew to it the curious to gaze
through the broken windows into the
empty houses, stroll through the great
factory stripped of its machinery and
silent and to eat picnic lunches under
the noble trees of the unkept lawns.
To-day this Is changed. It is a
summering place for the fortunate.
The creaking doors have been fixed,
the buckling floors repaired, the scal
ing paint renewed, the overgrown
lawns mowed, the broken roadways
mended and now securely hidden in
this quiet nook there is a population
of eighty-two.
ALASKA.
LASKA has long desired a territorial status
and last year the Yukon exposition seemed
a good time to make a strong play for it.
It has a white population of 40,000, nearly
the same as Nevada, and, though this is
small for a State, it has usually been con
sidered enough to make a Territory. It
has averaged an annual output of gold of $20,000,000 In
the last five years. Since 1880 its gold product has
been over $140,000,000. It is proving to be a great cop
per country, and In 1906 9,000,000 pounds of copper were
exported from Alaska. Recent surveys, still Incomplete,
show that Alaska has coal in abundance and of the
finest quality. Surface indications of oil are reported.
Marble has been found in various quarters. Tin, sil
ver and a large number of miscellaneous metals are re
ported. All this Indicates a very rich possession, bit
the gold exceeds them all. The gold-bearing areas of
Alaska are so extensive as to make it not improbable
that it will prove to be one of the richest gold-producing
sections of the world. This indicates a land of inex
haustible riches, but President Taft tells the Alaskans
that a mining population is a wandering population and
not good material for local seTT-government.—Philadel
phia Press.
A
PI
PASSING OF THE SLEIGH.
T IS little short of treason to carp at prog
ress. We shall hardly be able to do so if
in its manifestations we balance what we
have gained against that which we have
lost. Yet a feeling of regret can hardly
be repressed at times when the things of
life and love that once carried their thrills
no longer possess interest for a new generation. It is
not more than a quarter of a century ago when the
sleighing season meant a series of road carnivals all
over New England, and in Boston in particular. Its
coming was awaited with eager Interest and enthusias
tically, almost rapturously, improved when it arrived.
Every man who owned a horse also owned a sleigh of
some description, and it was pretty sure of making its
appearance at the earliest opportunity. The press went
into descriptions of turnouts as minutely as it now re
ports the ladies’ gowns at a horse show.
There are sleighs still, and there are conservative
people who like to recall the old festival days of the
road by using them. On a pleasant Sunday there may
be heard quite a Jingling of the bells over the boule
In India there are nearly twenty-
A TRUCE TO VARIETY.
six million widows.
Brazil grows more coffee than any t4 + 4 + -H 4 + W + 4 + + + + + 4 4 + + + + + 4
other country in the world.
Having no daughters of their own,
Out of a total of eighteen south
pole expeditions nine have been Brit- Mr. and Mrs. Dillworth were very fond
of their lively niece, Clarice, and it
tlsh.
At a rose competition in Paris re was therefore a pleasant surprise
cently, sixty-nine entirely new varie when they received word that she was
going to stop over for a short visit on
ties of roses were exhibited.
her way home from Chicago. In her
The first airship annual, entitled
letter she announced that she had
“All the World’s Airships,” is to be Just been taking a course of cooking
published in England in October.
lessons, and would tieat them to the
On the shores of Cape Cod there newest and daintiest dishes. A writer
were during a period of twenty years in the Chicago News tells the tale:
following 1881 as many as 1,000
An explanation of Clarice's sudden
wrecks of vessels carrying precious interest in domestic science was af
cargoes of human beings and of forded, when she arrived, by a very
freight.
new-looking diamond
ring which
Residents of the cork regions of sparkled on her finger.
Spain heat the bark in kettles with
''I’ve brought my book of recipes,"
spouts, through which Issues a gas Aunt Amanda,” she announced, "and
that is used as an illumlnant. The I'm going to stay two weeks and do
refuse is sold as the "Spanish black" all the cooking while I'm here."
pigment.
"You're welcome, I’m Bure, my
Post houses ou Roman roads were dear,” responded her aunt. "I Just get
erected every five or six miles. Eacfi sick and tired thinking what to have
of them was constantly provided with for the next meal. It’s the same thing
forty horses and a hundred miles a over and over!”
day was an easy Journey. Any one
"Well,” exclaimed Uncle Nathan, as
using these posts must show a man he pushed back his chair after sup
date from the emperor.
per, "that certainly was a treat! The
A sum of $4,620 was paid at Chris trouble with your aunt is,” he ex
tie's rooms, London, for a set of ten plained, “ that she lets herself get into
Chippendale mahogany chairs, the a rut."
“ As there are thirty-one ways to
backs pierced with a shell and carved
with foliage and conventional scrolls, serve potatoes, that seems quite un
which at one time were, It Is believed, necessary,” said Clarice, with Just a
in the possession of Marie Antoinette touch of patronage in her tone. “Then,
American apples containing the San when one knows how to make nine
Jose scale are refused entry at Ger teen different salads, it’s easy to have
man ports, but this precaution is a variety.”
“ ‘Variety is the spice of life,' ”
criticised as superfluous, because such
apples rejected at Hamburg have been quoted her uncle, oracularly.
“ There are so many dainty desserts
shipped to England and Denmark
without having caused a spread of nowadays, too,” continued Clarice,
“ that pie really has become obsolete.
the pest.
How did you like the pineapple
A five-pound blueflsh passes east
mousse?”
ward from Vineyard Sound in the
“ Fine!” declared Dillworth. "I’ll
spring and weighs ten or fifteen
venture to say, Amanda, that you've
pounds in autumn. The blueflsh is an
neVer even tried to make a pineapple
unmitigated sea butcher and is able
mousse.”
to whip any other species not larger ,
“No," said Mrs. Dillworth, too much
than himself. He attacks menhaden
overcome to mention the fact that her
with such ferocity as to pack them in
cup custards were the envy of half
windrows a foot deep on the coast.
the women in town.
’
The Orlarlnal Airship.
During the ensuing days Mrs. Dili-
worth, whose culinary successes were
Now, while the airship fills all ears
So new and novel it appears.
mainly attributable to good guessing,
Pray who has done the Job for years T often secretly hoped for failures; but
Old Pegasus.
Clarice measured and timed herself
with what seemed to her aunt slavish
While airships make a great ado
precision, and each succeeding meal
About supporting only two.
eclipsed the previous one.
Who keeps a wife and family crew?
Old Pegasus.
Poor Mrs. Dillworth was divided be
tween envy of her niece’s achievements
While airships fiy the channel breeze and dread of the day when the burden
Who always has with equal ease
again should fall upon her own shoul
Flown Podunk creek or Carlb seasT
ders. Would Nathan, after this orgy
Old Pegasus.
of scientific cooking, ever again be sat
—New York Bun.
isfied with her humble efforts? Her
The Pessimist.
own appetite failed at the sight of
We knock the pessimist at times,
his enjoyment, and she found it diffi
Because in gloom he glories;
cult to conceal the bitterness of her
But here's a boost—he never tries
mortification.
To tell us funnystories.
“ Getting tired of my cooking, Uncle
—Puck
Nate?” Inquired Clarice, as she found
vards; but they seem comparatively lonesome and there
Is more pathos than pleasure in listening to them. The
output of these vehicles Is annually small. When the
sleighing is good the automobile can be run, and the
two methods of transportation do not sympathize. Those
who own the motors can put a little more value Into
them by cutting out the cutter. They can still be seen
on the speedways at appointed times, but r»s a public
pastime their day is nearly over.— Boston Transcript.
THE TREMULOUS ISLANDERS.
UBA revolutionless Is only a dream. Cuba
capable of self-government in an orderly
manner, capable of considering political
expedients without resort to rifle and ma
chete, is an Idea for alturists only. The
present administration has less than a year
of unprotected conduct to its credit. The
hopes that the adherents of the President and those of the
Vice President could fuse have dwindled away. Since the
American troops withdrew the politicians have drifted
farther and farther apart. They are now at odds which
can never, Jt is asserted in Havana, be overcome. It Is
only a matter of weeks before rebels will be sulking
through the canebreaks taking pot-shots at persons pass
ing along the highways. It will be only a question of
weeks before the Vice President slips from the capital
city and in some disloyal town a new flag is hoisted.—
Toledo Blade.
THE PANAMA CANAL IN WAR.
HE strategic value of the Panama canal la
estimated to be equivalent to a fleet of
large battleships. This is the conclusion
of Dr. Cornish, given before the Royal
Geographical Society in London. Taking
the cost of the canal at $500,000,000, which
would only build forty first-class battle
ships nowadays, the United States will have a good bar
gain, and be able to cover a total coast line without any
material increase in her vessels.
The canal will double the sea efllciency of our fleet
for halt the sum of money that would otherwise be
necessary to maintain communication between the Pa
cific and Atlantic coasts. At the same time the mer
chant marine of the United States will some day be de
veloped, and Justify the people in maintaining a naval
armament that will be fully equal to that of other na
tions.—National Magazine.
him one morning reading her cook
book.
"Not by a long sight!” he responded,
gallantly. “ I’m Just looking to see
how many more good things are to
come.”
The end of Clarice’s visit found her
still preparing new dishes with en
thusiasm.
“Awfully sorry I didn’t have time to
make those three other salads for
you!” she called back, as the train
bore her away. “ I hope Herbert will
appreciate my cooking as much as
you do!”
"Amanda,” said Dillworth, fifteen
minutes later, entering the kitchen
where his wife was puzzling over a
recipe for celery au gratin. “ I’ll tell
you what I would like for dinner.
Some bread—not nut bread nor scones,
but Just bread—and boiled potatoes
and fried ham and a big pie!”
"You don’t mean—” gasped his wife.
‘‘Yes, I do!” said Dillworth.
"But I thought you liked variety.”
"Variety,” said Dillworth, "is the
spice of life; but you understand,
Amanda, that there is such a thing as
having things a little too highly
spiced.”
"Well,” said Mrs. Dillworth, smil
ing, and reaching for the dough-board,
“ I’ll do the best I can to please you.”
THE BISHOP S LETTER.
and nothing about State laws pro
hibiting the Bale of beer and liquor.
The Episcopal church simply goes
back to the paramount doctrine and
Christian teaching—self-restraint. The
clergy are asked to appeal to their
flock to restrain their wills, and this
appeal is to be made along with the
given sermon of that day. There are
to be no sensational harangues, no
hysterical methods employed to ex
cite the minds of the people against
the “demon rum,” no intemperate
language is to be used; the ministers
aro simply to rely on the “ wise and
sober Christian way." The attitude of
the Episcopal church on this great
question should be an example for the
Methodist and Baptist ministry; but
one might as well try to Induce “a
Greek to lay down with a Turk in
loving embrace” as to Induce the min
isters of these two named churches "to
concentrate upon the wise and sober
Christian way" of remedying Intem
perance. Bishop Tuttle and the 66
other bishops at whose order the let
ter in question was sent out, are men
of education—men who know their
fellow-men, who know that It is hard
er to legislate for men’s appetites than
for “a camel to pass through the eye
of a needle.” Such letters as the one
referred to are refreshing.
Personality an Asset,
That an attractive personality is on»
of the most valuable assets in business
life, and particularly in the railroad
service, is the belief of George A. Cul
len, general passenger agent of the
Lackawanna railroad. No matter in
which department of the railroad a
man Is employed, if his personal char
acteristics render him companionable
among his fellows a tremendous ob
stacle has been surmounted on the
road to success. Then, too, if an em
ploye is pleasant and agreeable in his
dealings with the public, he will avoid
a great proportion of the alleged griev
ances on the part of passengerc.
Mr. Cullen has devised a "standard
of fitness” by which to measure the ef
ficiency of railroad men. They should
have a thorough understanding of all
the technical details that pertain to
the duties of their positions, but should
give requested information in plain
and simple language that the layman
may readily understand. All trainmen
should have a proper regard for their
personal appearance. A fund of gen
eral Information is invaluable, and any
extra or unexpected attention or in
formation that may be offered is al
ways appreciated and remembered by
the anxious passenger. I^st but great
est of the elements that make up an
attractive personality is that of kind
ness, a quality that can save trainmen
from many disagreeable situations
which
Inevitably
arise.—Harper's
Weekly.
Once a year the Episcopal church is
sues a letter on the subject of tem
perance, which has been a custom for
some time. It is interesting to read
the joint letter Issued on this impor
tant subject to the ministers of the
Episcopal church by Bishop Tuttle, of
Missouri, the presiding bis'hop, which
letter is also signed by the 66 other
bishops of that church In this country.
The letter reads:
"The church temperance society has
labored for years to deepen and
strengthen and extend such self-re
straint in checking and resisting the
great evils of the drink habit.
"It may conduce not a little to the
success of these efforts if, by infor
mation and exhortation in sermons
and by devotions and supplication in
prayer, the attention of our church
people can be concentrated upon the
wise and sober Christian way in which
the church temperance society essays
to do Its work.
"Therefore the society asks of the
bishops, and the bishops ask of the
clergy and people of their respective
dioceses, that they will unite in mak
ing the Sunday next before Advent,
November 21, 1909, a day of special
references to the subject of temper
ance in the prayers and sermons of
our churches."
It is worthy to note that the letter
contains no references whatever to
prohibition laws in any State of the
Union. Ministers are simply asked to
The
only gambling tip which
speak on the doctrine of self-restraint, amounts to anything is advice to keep
which contains of course, the evils of out of the game.
the drink habit. Moreover, not a
word is «aid about total abstinence
Sympathy has little effect oa tooth
and nothins about poisonous driaks. ache.