One Man' Wmr ft Cilllni a lrci.li
Pnpcr from Home I'nrii Morning,
"Down in the tropics we don't gft
the newspnpirs from home every dny,"
aid the man with the tinned face,
"and when we do net them it isn't n
matter of skimming through them In
a hurry, as a man wonihl do up here,"
according to the New York Sun. "A
newspaper with real news from the
I'nlted States Is something to treas
ure up.
"When tho steamer comes In that
brings my week's accumulation of pa
pers from home I Just eklm across the
first pages to see what has happened
Of importance. Just a case of looking
t the headlines for me. Then I take
the papers and put them In order ol
their dates.
"Each morning when I sit down to
breakfast I take one paper. I read
that carefully through from the first
page to the last. If I can't ;et through
with It before noon I don't hurry, but
make It do for the late evening too
The next day I take up the next date,
and so on. We get about one mail a
week, so I Just about get through with
one batch when the next Is due."
"You fellows beat me," he said. "I
know whenever I get down to one ol
the stations I always find folks who
can ask me more questions about the
details of articles In the newspaper
that I hardly read at home than you
would think possible.
"It gives a man a pretty strong sens
of .how quiet the life muBt be in some
of those places. I should think some
of the newspapers would be worn out
the way the men go over every bit of
news which Is almost forgotten matter
by the time it get3 to them."
"It Isn't tho men alone," said the
ex-coii3ul, "who want to see the papers.
It would amuse some folks to see the
women studying up the autumn and
winter styles and discussing the pic
tures of Borne fur piece or heavy coat,
with a thermometer up in the 90s and
not showing any particular signs of
falling. Of course, when it comes to
the summer things they naturally wanl
to know, because they have a chance
to make use of those fashion hints;
but the Idea of a fur coat a few de
grees north of the equator Is a gooc"
Joke."
A passenger alighting from a rail
road train Is held, In Powell vs. Phila
delphia & R. R. Co., 220 Pa. 638, 7(
Atl. 268, 20 L. R. A. (N. S.) 10X9, tc
have a right to remain in the rallroac
waiting room a reasonable time, await
ing the arrival of friends who are t
meet him, without losing his' rights as
a passenger.
A stipulation in an insurance policj
that no suit shall be brought on i
contract unless within twelve month)
next after the damage occurs Is held
in Winston vs. Arlington Fire Insur
auce Company, 32 App. D. C. 61, 20 L
R. A. (N. S.) 9G0, not to apply to I
6ult for damages because of tho defec
tive character of repairs which the !n
surer elects to make after the loss in
accordance with its rights under thi
contract.
A town is held, in Shea vs. Whit
man, 197 Mass. 374, 83 N. E. 109G, 2(
L. It. A. (N. S.) 980. not to be bound
as matter of law to place a barrier ir
every case between a highway and a
stone lying immediately adjacent
thereto which, If within the limits oi
the highway, would constitute an ob
struction, falling over which might in
jure a traveler; and It is held to be
immaterial that there is nothing to
mark the line of the highway.
That the materially false statement
the use of which In obtaining credit
will prevent one's receiving his dls
charge In bankruptcy must be inten
tionally or knowingly untrue is de
clared in Gilpin vs. Merchants' Na
tional Bank (C. C. A.) 1(J3 Fed. 607,
20 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1023; and It is
held, therefore, that a statement by
the bookkeeper of the applicant for dis
charge, prepared from books not fully
posted, which is believed to be ap
proximately true, but which the actual
state of the business proved to be un
true, will not prevent a discharge.
Sb Knew tho Kind.
President and Mrs. Hadley were or
a train bound for New York, where
Yale's president was to speak before
a national convention. He made use
of' the hour and twenty minutes he
spent in the train by rehearsing hU
speech in a low voice, using his hand
to emphasize certain passages.
A kindly matron who was sitting
directly behind Mr. and Mrs. Hadley,
and who had been watching and lis
tenlng, leaned forward, and, tapping
Mrs. Hadley on the shoulder, said
feelingly:
"You have my olnccre sympathy,
my poor woman; 1 have one Jlst like
him at home." ladles' Home Jour
tal.
A Dei-oy.
The minister who had exchanger
with the Rev. Mr. Talcum was much
icandallzed to see Deacon Erastiu
JSnowball in the vestry, after service,
deliberately taking a 50-cent piece out
pf the contribution-box and substitut
ing a dime.
' Brer Snowball," lie exclaimed, in
horror and amazement, ' that's plain
Jlshonest doings!"
"What's the matter, parson?" tho
leacon asked, genially, conscious of
his own rectitude, "i'a led off with
that fo'-blt piece for de las' fo' years.
That ain't a contribution; that's a
tfmp'rary loan, as a noble example."
I ntiurilriiliiif.
"You must at least give that candi
late credit for speaking his mind."
replied Miss Cayenne. "Out
it's unfortunate that people most will
ing to tpeak their minds are so often
Ihoee whose mentalities are more or
rss unpleasant." Washington Star.
Dud'a Drflnlllou.
Hd, what is a pony coat?"
"Something I've got to work like a
tui'se for to keep your mother peaca
tblt.' Detroit Free Press
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AIT1NO for the return of
Al seventy-five years is very
V y I know the track on which
w urmei me iruiu win ue
We know the orbit of the
when it will swing around
tho end of a telescope will
telegram for us. Inasmuch as it will tell us how late the comet may be and
when it will glide into full view. Every night during the present year
telescopic cameras have searched the heavens for a haxy disk of light, bo
dim that the naked eye cannot see it. To Prof. Max Wolff of Heidel
berg belongs the honor of having first detected the comet on Sept 11, 1909.
As a tribute to modern mathematical astronomy it may be stated that he
found it very nearly in the exact position Indicated by the calculations.
The roturn of Halley's comet will be an astronomical event of much
pith and moment, because it was the very first body of its kind for which
a time table was computed, because an opportunity will be presented of re
vising that time table, and because it will enable the astronomer for the
first time to obtain photographs or Its striking features for comparison with
photographs to be taken by unborn astronomers in 19S6 or 1987.
Of such mathematical importance is the return of Halley's comet that tit
various times scientists have spent months in calculating the exact period
of its revolution. Even now, when comets are discovered at the rate of two
or threo a year, we know only that it may be expected to become a strik
ing object some time In the middle of April, 1910. Such are the accelera
tions and retardations suffered by every comet as it sweeps past the planets
of our solar system that absoluteness of prediction is well-nigh Impossible.
Often a comet is twisted out of its normal orbit toy planetary attraction,
with the result that we may lose sight of it forever. Jupiter la responsible
for many such deflections. Thus, in 1886 he wrenched a comet ont of its
course, derailed it, as it were, and reduced its period of revolution from
twenty-seven to seven years. In 1779 a comet known as Lexell's glided so
near him that it was never seen again. All told, Jupiter has captured a
family of thirty comets, nd holds them by virtue of his enormous attrac
tion. Saturn has similarly acquired two comets, Uranus three and Neptune
six. Obviously a comet's course may be both devious and uncertain.
Great Age of Halley's Comet.
Of all comets that have ever been discovered, Halley's is the most im
portant, because it Is the most historical. It flashed upon the world when
Egypt was young and when Greece was a wilderness inhabited by savages.
Perhaps it will continue to return when mankind is old and decrepit, and
the earth is entering that last tragic stage of its existence when it will be
reduced to a cold, dead, desolate world. Yet, ancient as the comet is, its
scientific history begins with the man whose name it bears and with Sir
Isaac Newton.
It was Edmund Halley who urged upon Newton the necessity of publish
ing that famous manuscript in which the laws of gravitation are laid down;
it was Halley who paid for the printing out of his own pocket, although he
was sorely reduced in circumstances; and it was Halley who so dramatically
drove home the truth of Newton's immutable laws and became the prophet
of gravitation, by plotting the orbit of a comet that had alarmed the world
In 1531, 1607 and 1682, and foretelling its return in 1758. He was indeed the
'Ulysses who had produced Achilles," to use the words that he himself em
p.oyed in describing hi3 relation to Newton. A man of 49 when he boldly
proclaimed the comet's reappearance, he knew that he would die before his
prediction could be verified; and so he left behind him a touching plea that
reads:
"Wherefore, If, according to what we have already said, it should return
again about the year 1758, candid posterity will ,not refuse to acknowledge
that this was first discovered by an Englishman."
No Longer an Omen of Evil.
When the comet blazed forth on Christmas day, 1758, it was forever
Bhorn of the dreadful divinity with which for ages it had been hedged, and
became an object 'of dispassionate scientific study. Newton's conclusion
that, in accordance with the laws of gravitation, comets must describe el
lipses, parabolas or hyperbolas, was brilliantly verified.
A comet is more than a neat mathematical problem. Although no longer
an omen of evil, it is still wrapped In a veil of mystery which has not been
wholly torn away by the physicist and the chemist. Indeed, it is only within
the last few years that really plausible theories to account for cometary phe
nomena havo been advanced. To understand Just what these theories are we
must first pick a comet apart, as it were, and regard it as we would a dis
membered watch. s
In a general way, it may be said that every comet comprises a nucleus
an envelope (called the "coma") surrounding the nucleus and measuring
from 20,000 to 1,000.000 miles in diameter, and a long tall which streams
behind the nucleus for sixty to a hundred million miles or more. From all
that has (been gathered, astronomers have decided that the nucleus is prob
ably a heap of meteorites varying in size from a grain to masses weighing
several tnna pnrli- a hran . it.. , .
, - ...,.,
aismuuiea graauany along the orbit.
eventually perish unless it restores its
That disintegration does occur has been
At first the barefoot youngster
Larns the game upon tin; city's lots.
rhen the prayerful, doubting player
Facing the ogre manager unit his con
ATCHISON GLOBE SI3IITS.
There is never plenty of time.
The more a man amounts to, the
susicr he is.
Somehow, we always hate to see
i woman handle a gun.
How we all adiniro discipline whin
it Is applied to r.cmeoue else!
You can't v.crU and worry at the
ame time to good advanlas.
A man who worries throws rocks, ul
jis troubles, ami hits iiiai.-cl!'.
It is as important to i.eep nut of
ourt as it is to l.u p cut or debt.
l;t oi men b.U'c ilUico . : red thai tl
nit dan,;iMouM to a . car to a lict.
An i!:i'i:;ppy woman always It; An
ii ii i . r tl.au an un'.iappy m:,n.
Kwrv i.'. mi r ,:re.-'-(a. m.;iiu o;!;f r
ia:;' i il : i ol r.n i ;; 1. MruMe ( 1: ;: :.
A li :;e tctit cf t lie Irlcir.l. ol' a
un'cr ii '.u :i he f.lvcj juu a .juall.
V.'i- u-.-vii c.uo much for the wo.;ia;i
:K :i a- "a r;r.;!;.r Lixiity wo::r.ir,."
river, i. a la; tnr i::tirid:i to 1 tju T. ho
up iu itru" to gat an early start.
It !s ;.l.ays .-'lie to !t Hint the man
ha but ; r. ;:.til a U lint i:iteie;!eil.
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ITallev's comet after n In nun nf over
much like waiting lor a train. We
the train will speed toward us; but
ou lime or noi, we cunnoi Know.
comet, but not Jhe exact miaute
tho sun. A photographic plate at
perform the functions oT a celestial
-nan? Buuuurea mat us elements are
It follows that every comet must
nucleus by collecting stray meteors
observed time and time again For
THE FIVE AGES
tract.
Then the minor star to whorn's accord
ed The cheers that always will attend
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
If It be neiessary to stir rice, use
a tori;.
Always add a pinch of salt to your
cake: it will Improve it.
Use vinegar and a copper cent to
remove paint from windows.
Always cook oats in boiling water
iin.l sprinkle them In a few at a time.
Mop off linoleum once a month with
boiled linseed oil and it will look
liUe new.
I I.) a now broom in a good soap
t-ul-i miff a we i i and see bow much
lcrrer it will hist.
lv'( p an oyster shell In the tea k"itbi
and the lime will collect on It and not
"a the ..iiics of the kittle.
IT you will add Fait to your starch
tee cloUc.i will not stick to the
i.oi.s; H.o add a little lard to make
( li t It ) lihliie.
en laundering r.tarrhed articles
in v:- !r always add lorax to the
e. anh Mi l the ciuTs aad collars will
r. lo- ..Iripe.
!' : ! '.Ins cne t ablespoo-.ful of but
ter or a 1 :M t i p of irenm to the bat
ler. p:-ii :4; s can be l),(;nl without
f;iea v.i !!: g I.MIe.
example, Blela's comet, which was discovered In 1826, burst into two frag
ments, which drifted apart a distance of one million miles. Thus It became
a twin comet. Eventually it disappeared as a comet, and in Its stead we
see a shoal of meteors whenever we cross Its track every six and a half
years. It is possible that the comets of 166S, 1S43, 1880, 1882 and 1887, all
traveling in approximately the same path, are fragments of a single large
body which was broken up by the gravitational action of other bodies in
the system, or through violent rencounter with the Bun's surroundings.
The Comet's Tall.
The luminous tall which streams behind the nucleus, and which Milton
s regarded as "horrid hair" that "shakes pestilence and war," is startling, to
say the least Despite a length which, as has been stated, may exceed a hun
dred million miles, it Is so dlaphanouBly light and subtle that It is dim
cult to compare It with any earthly fabric. The air that we breathe ha a
dense blanket in comparison. Several hundred cubic miles of the matter
composing that wonderful luminous plume would not outweigh a Jarful of
air. By reason of Its fairy lightness, it is possible for a tali occupying a
volume thousands of times greater than the sun to sweep through our solar
system without causing any perturbations in planetary movements. The
earth itself has on more than one occasion plowed through a comet's tall,
and no one was the wiser until the astronomers announced the fact, months
later, when they had finished their computations.
Because comets have whisked us with their talis it must not be inferred
that collisions with fiery wanderers are likely to occur. Such cataclysms
happen only in Jules Verne's novels and in the Sunday newspaper. The
alarming possibilities of a collision were appreciated long before the days of
sensational journalis When Olbers calculated that Blela's comet would
pass through the earth's orbit in 1832, a panic ensued. No one thought of
Inquiring where the earth would be. It was not until Arago renssurlngly
figured out that the earth would be 50,000,000 miles away when the passage
did take place that the run on human emotion was stopped and confidence
restored. The chances In favor of a collision are, roughly, one to 281,000,000,
and then only once in fifteen million years. A blind sportsman, bent on
duck-shooting, stands a better chance of hitting his target than the earth of
ramming a comet.
No celestial phenomenon has caused more perplexity than the ghostly
sheaf of light we call a comet's tall. In a day, In a few hours even, the form
of that wonderful gossamer may change Hence it is that periodic comots
are identified when they return, not by the length and arch of their tails, but
by their orbits. These alone are permanent When a comet Is first seen in
tho telescope, It appears ns a diminutive filmy patch, often unadorned by
any tail. As it travels on toward the sun, at a speed compnred with which
a modern rifle bullet would seem to crawl, violent eruptions occur In the
nucleus. The ejected matter is bent back to form the cloak called tho
"coma." With a nearer approach to the sun, the tail begins to sprout, in
creasing in size and brightness as it proceeds. Evidently there is some con
nection between the sun and the tall, something akin to cause and effect.
When the comet rushes on toward the Bun, invariably the tail drifts behind
the nucleus like the smoke from a locomotive. But when the comet swings
around the sun and travels away from it, a startling change takes place.
The tail no longer trails behind, but projects in front, as if Borne mighty
solar wind were blowing It in advance of the head. The phenomenon has
long been an astronomical riddle. Here was a kind of matter that refused
to obey the laws of gravitation and yield to the enormous pull of tho sun.
It was thought,or a time that the tall was flung away from the sun by
stupendous repelling electrical forces. That electricity plays its part in the
formation of the fairy plume is conceivable, and even probable; but recently
the physicist has discovered a new source of repellent energy which very
plausibly explains the mystery of a comet's tail. This new source of energy
is nothing less than the pressure or push of the Bun's light. Solar gravita
tion is a force more powerful than many of us perhaps realize. If It were
possible for you to live on the sun, you would find yourself pulled down so
violently that your body would weigh two tons. Your clothing alone would
weigh more than one hundred pounds. Running would be a very difficult
athletic feat. Light pressure must Indeed be powerful if it can conquer so
relentless a force.
A Tail of Dust and Soot.
So much has been discovered about the particles that compose a comet's
tall that the more progressive scientists of our day have accepted this In
genious theory. It has been discovered, for example, that the delicate
tresses of a comet are to a large extent composed of fine particles of dust
and soot.
Before we can completely accept the view that light pressure forms this
train of soot we must ascertain whether tho pressure or light is capable of
accounting for the flashlike rapidity with which a comet's tall changes A
comet may throw out a tail sixty million miles long In two days Is it ac
tually possible for light pressure to accomplish that astonishing feat Arr
henlus has computed that SCC.OOO miles an hour is the speed of a light-nun
particle of one-half the critical diameter. Because they are only one
eighteenth as large as this particle of critical diameter, cometary dust grains
would be propelled over the same 865,000 miles ia less than four minutes
It follows that the solar radiation would experience no difficulty in tossln
out a tail of sixty million miles in two days.
OF BASE BAIL.
success.
Then the baseball wonder who com
mands Respect and salary In five figures.
FACTS ABOUT NEW YORK CITY.
Over 200,000 people work ut night.
There are 132 department stores.
employing over 50,000 people.
Over 476,000,000 gallons of water
are used every day in the greater
city.
The transient hotel population Is
figured at 230,000 people a day. The
hotel properties are valued at over
$K0,O00,00O.
A child is born every four minutes,
and u death occurs every Beven min
utes. The city contains 8,000 lawyers,
.1,0' ifj actors, 3,000 act reuses, 6,000 ar
tists, 10,000 musicians, 1.1,000 ste
nographers. C9.000 salesmen and sales
women, 1,900 farmers, 1,600 undertak
ers and 852 female barbers.
The population is now 4,800,000.
London's population is D00.000 more,
but New York Is growing seven times
as fust as the British metropolis, and
should become the largest city In the
world Inside of 10 years, The popu
lation increases at the , ratio of fife
to one, compared with the increase of
the rest of the country.
And so ho plays hlH part. The fifth
Ago Blurts
Into the haa hn and a scat upon the
bench.
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.
Buckles were first made iu 1680.
The Belgian navy is the smallest in
the world.
Barometers were first mudo by Tor
ricelli in 1613.
The London police an eat ovpi- ma.
000 people a year.
Moscow has the lowest priced dally
publication. It costs a firthlng.
Young Lone Wolf, a Kiowa Indian
chief. Is a Rantlxt mlniui,. n,, i
... . u.diw . no i a a
Carlisle graduate, and reads In his
Creek testament every morning.
There are mora than ini
w vuw.u J 'J II1UIO III Ult M
facturing chocolate In the United
u . .. .
oiKiets.
Japnn'a postal and telegraph receipts
for 1908 were $18,730,000, a gain of
$225,000 over 1907.
Londoners live, en an average, to
an age of 57 years. In most parts of
England the Btandard is below this.
Elizabeth Akers Allen, who wrote
the famous poem, "Rock Me to Sleep,
Mother," fifty years ago, U 77 years
old. Horn ia Maiae, she began to
writs when sho was a girl of IS,
DYNAMITE ON A FARM
Experiment of "Shooting" the Soil
Successfully Tried in Pitts
burg, Kan.
DR. WILLIAM HAMM'S PLAN.
Nearly 3,000 Farmers Saw New
Means of Loosening: Earth and
Many Aro Converts.
Farmers in this section are greatly
Interested in the scheme of using dy
namite to loosen up the subsoil of
fields being prepared for cultivation, a
Pittsburg (Kai dispatch to the Kan
sas City Times says. Three thousand
persons watchod a demonstration of
tho system given on the grounds of
the Manual Training School.
Dr. William Hamm of Vienna was
tho first to recommend the use of ex
plosives in agriculture. Ills idea was
that the lowest strata of the soil could
not be reached by any of the agricul
tural implements now in use. To
demonstrate the feasibility of the idea
a number of interesting experiments
have been conducted by agricultural
departments over the country, among
them that conducted by the Kansas
department a few days oo.
The demonstration was bo satisfac
tory that many farmers are planning
to follow up the scheme on their farms
a.i soon as possible. If all the farm
ers who ro talking of trying the ex
plosives in farm work really make the
attempt It Mill eoon be a common oc
currence l.u this part of the state to
drive out in the country and eee farm
ers "shooting" their ground as stead
ily as if they were following the plow.
One-half of tho shots were fired by
battery and the other half was by fuse.
The dynamite was in etlck form and a
quarter of an inch in diameter. It
contained 25 per cent of nitrate am
monia powder. The sticks were placed
twenty-five feet apart and holes were
drilled to a depth of three feet. The
shots fired by the battery seemed to
give the best results, seemed to shake
the ground better and leave it in a
better condition, 8 the whole surface
of tho ground was shaken Tat once.
Tho boII was thoroughly pulverized
for a distance of six feet from each
shot. Cracks ran in each direction
from the shots, showing that the ex
plosions had left fissures in every di
rection under the ground as well as
on top.
It is estimated by those who have
experimented In this class of ground
culture that each shot leaves a reser
voir where several hundred gallons of
water can collect and furnish moist
ure from the bottom, instead of re
ceiving all of the moisture from tho
top, the water thus carried into the
ground feeding the roots of whatever
is planted much more readily than it
all the water came from the surface.
PEANUT SHELLS CAUSED DEATH.
Peanut shells poured Into the cook
stove at her home caused a column of
flame to shoot upward, which Ignited
the klmona worn by Mrs. Kate Hoov
er, of York, Pa., and before the flames
were extinguished she was fatally
burned. Mrs. Hoover is 24 years old.
She had enjoyed a lunch of peanuts,
after finishing which she went to the
stove and poured the shellB into the
fire. With her dress ablaze she hur
ried Into a neighbor's house, and then
ran again into the open. She was fol
lowed by the neighbor, who threw
water over her, extinguishing the
blaze. Her bums extended from her
feet to her head.
The I uitttnlnablp.
Kill Hitting yearned to tmtlgfy
The men who rrKklHe.
When bo resolved that he would try
To make a name and rise
They said be was too young as yet.
A few years onward rolled
And then with courteous regret
They BHld be was too old.
He once vus slender as the limb
Thnt isrowD upon a tree;
Then broader outlines came to him,
Quite comfortlntf to see.
Approval still he fails to win;
HIb friends assure hi in that
Whllo once be may have been too thin
At present lie's too fat.
He eats too much or not enouKh;
lies oversud or gay,
His languug-e Is a bit loo routrh
Or too ornate, thev snv.
No wonder that bis frame of mind
(J rows steadily more glum.
How can be ever hopo to tlnd
The happy medium?
Washington Star.
That the aurora borealls, or north
ern lights, Is an electrical display Is
evidenced by the, fact that during a
recent wonderful exhibition of this
natural phenomena It was impossible
to use the Atlantic cables or the wire
less stations.
The government of Urazll has d(ter
mlued to develop iron smelting and
the Iron and steel industry generally,
and thus make use of the vast deposits
of iron ore which exist in several por
tions ot tbe country.
COLD BATHS AID TO EEAUTT.
Cold water will enable corpulent
women to acquire sylphlike forms. Di
vine Myrma, stage diver and sw.mmer.
is the discoverer of the secret. Sines
childhood, the diver, whose real name
Is Ethel May Donough, haa been a
devotee of all aquatic sports, and
through these, she Bays, she learned
how the form can he molded Into lines
most desired. "Bathe every morning
in the outer air until it reaches a tem
perature of 45 degrees," she says.
"When outdoor bathing Is impossible,
the bathtub is a fair substitute. With
one-half pound of salt added to a tub
of water the effect is better. The bath
should be taken one-half hour after
rising and the same length of time
before breakfast."
PERUVIAN MUSIC.
t
The native tniiKle at Peru. ajvordln
to Geraldlne bulnens, the author of a
recent book on that country, is exceed
ingly interesting and strange. It
seems fitting that the people of such
an unusual country the children of a
unique social system should have a
characteristic style of national music.
Certainly the yaravis of Peru are un
like any other music.
When first I heard their plantlvfl
notes come wailing through the night
air, I listened spell bound to this new
thing. As I came to knew and levi
the ancient melodies they tssk hold of
mo in a strange way.
There is surely a similarity ia spirit
and construction between these Iadlan
paravis and the sobbing lyrics sung
by the exiles of Babylon. They ar
intensely patriotic, and deeply mourn
ful. "The memory of foraer wrsngs
has tinged their most pBa!ar songs
with sadness. The young mother lulls
her infant to sleep with verses, th
burden of which is sorrow asd despair,
and the love songs usually express thi
most hopeless grief."
Indians are always singing. Far out
On the pampas away from all human
habitations, I have beard Strang
Kccbua words crooned by little shep
herd boys; harvesters, as they toll up
hill with their immenaa loads of bar
ley, invariably sing some plalatlvo olj
soug, and families traveling along th
dusty roads unite their reloes to
strange part-harmonies to walling
melodies In a minor key. I
GUILLOTINED BY PAPER COTTEB.
mm
'llie liiMt man ever guillotined in
America was John Drey, who fell t
his death under the keen blade ot
huge paper cutter iu a paper mill al
Whippauy, N. J. Drey was employed
by a p:'.pcr company, his duty being
to see that sheets of paper were prop
erly placed under the knife, which
regularly fell and rose, cutting thou
sands of sheets at each fall. A piece
of paper fell awry athwart the knlf
plate :.nd I)rey, in stretching over it to
fiti al'.'li'i n the sheet, slipped and fell
just as the knife came down.
DEVELOPMENT.
Fast lnterurban trolley cars.
Telegraphy und telephouy without
wires.
The electric propulsion of vehicles
and boats.
The luminous arc lamps which turn
night Into day..
The tclharmonlum, which produces
electrical music.
The powerful tlectrlc searchlights
which are visible for a hundred ml'.o
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