SAVANT A CENSUS OFFICIAL
Appointment of Prof. W. B. Bailey of
, Yale Shows the High Stand
ard Required.
Washington. The high standard ot
qualifications to which the supervisors
for the thirteenth census must meas
ure finds no better illustration than
is afforded by Prof. William B. Dalley,
the supervisor for the state of Con
necticut, who Is also professor of
economics at Yale college.
Prof. Railey was born at Springfield,
Mass., May 7, 1873, and received his
Prof. William B. Bailey.
preparatory education at Wllliston
seminary. He was graduated from
Yale college with double honors in
1894, and was granted the degree ot
Ph. D. from Yale university in 1896,
In 1897 he was appointed assistant In
political economy at Yale college, and
two years later he became instructor,
advancing in 1903 to the rank of as
slstant professor In statistics. Mean'
time, in 1901, he was appointed in
structor In sociology in the Yale Divln
ity school. He is a member of the
American Statistical association; one
of the editors of the Economic Bui
letln; president of the Boys' Club
council of New Haven; vice-president
of the Organized Charities of New
Haven; chairman of the civic commit
tee of the Civic Federation of New
Haven; member of council of Lovell
house; director of Connecticut branch
of Consumers' league; chairman ol
committee on municipal program ol
National Municipal league; and was a
special expert in an advisory capacity
in connection with the formulation ol
census schedule prior to his appoint
ment as supervisor.
GOLD BELL GIVEN TO TAFT
Used by the President In Opening the
Great Gunnison Tunnel In
Colorado.
Montrose, Col. The solid gold bell
with which President Taft released
the water into the Gunnison tunnel
was presented to the chief executive.
The weight of the bell closed a con
Bell That Opened the Gunnison
Tunnel.
tact which started the machinery of
the headgate. The bell weighs 6V4
ounces, Is made ot 18-carat Colorado
gold, and was presented by the Colo
rado Telephone Company. It bears
this inscription:
"Opening of the Gunnison Tunnel
by
His Excellency, William Howard Taft,
President of the United States of
America,
, Montrose, Colo., Sept. 23. 1909."
The New Diamond Fields.
From the methods used to locate
the stones the new diamond fields in
German South Africa might very well
be called a Tom Tiddler's Ground,
says the Wide World Magazine. The
diamonds are very small, but are ex
ceedingly plentiful.
They are found in the open desert,
where nothing but sand, unrelieved
by the slightest sign of brush or shrub,
is to be seen for vast distances. The
men who search for the stones
needless to say, they are all natives
have ten miles to go every morning
from camp.
The searchers work on their hands
and knees, apparently regardless of
the blinding sunshine, sifting the
surface sand through their fingers.
Most of them are old Klmberley boys
and they are very keen on discovering
stones. The district Is hardly a para
dise for the white man, being notori
ous for its frequent dust storms and
terrific beat
If
GREAT LOVE STORIES
OF HISTORY
By ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE
NERO AND
(Coiyrigtil bj
A long train of donkeys were driven
dally to the mansion of Rome's most
beautiful woman, Poppaea Sablna.
There they were milked. The milk
was poured into a huge marble tub.
In this tub Poppaea took her morning
bath, on the plea that washing in
donkeys' milk added to her beauty.
However true or false this theory may
have been, it certainly had the effect
of advertising Poppaea. It even
brought her to the notice of the em
peror, Nero, and led to a love affair
which was to cost thousands of inno
cent lives.
Octavlus (Julius Caesar's nephew)
had turned Rome from a republic to
an empire, with himself as emperor.
His successors kept the title without
inheriting any of its originator's
genius. At last a weak, foolish man
named Claudius came to the Imperial
throne. In 49 B. C. he married his
niece, Agrippina, a wicked, clever wo
man, who induced him to disinherit
bis own son and to proclaim her young
son Nero as his heir. Having accom
plished ttals, Agrippina poisoned
Claudius and set Nero on the throne.
The young emperor was at first a gen
tle and wise ruler, meekly obeying his
ambitious mother's commands. But
flatterers at court finally prompted
him to defy her and to run the empire
to suit himself and them. Still Agrip
plna's Influence was more or less pow
erful over the youth until he met
Poppaea.
Poppaea Sablna
was wealthy and
of patrician fam
A Jealous
Husband.
ily. As a girl she bad married a no
bleman who had divorced her. Then
she bad married a daring young sol
dier and profligate named Otho, one of
Nero's boon companions. Otho loved
her jealously. So when Nero, falling
In love with the beautiful woman, sug
gested that Otho give her up, the hus
band flatly refused. In this refusal
he was backed by Poppaea herself.
Not that she cared for Otho, but she
read Nero's nature, and knew that op
position would fan his fancy for her
into worship. She was Justified in this
belief, for Nero before long found
means of separating her from the
heartbroken Otho.
Poppaea had made up her mind to
be empress. Agrippina hated her.
Nero also had a wife, Octavla. But
these obstacles did not check Pop
paea. One by one she cleared them
away. She persuaded Nero that his
mother was conspiring against him,
and worked him to such a frenzy of
THEODORA AND JUSTINIAN
The Roman capital of Constantino
ple in 525 A. D. was aghast at the
news that the consul, Justinian
(nephew and heir to the Emperor Jus
tin I.) was to marry Theodora, the
farce-comedy actress whose clever per
formances at the "Circus" had for
years set the city in a roar of laugh
ter. For an emperor's heir to make an
actress his wife was not only scan
dalous, but illegal as wall. People be
gan to inquire into Theodora's past
life. Many of the facts they dug up
were of too unsavory a nature to bear
repetition. But they learned also that
she was one of the three daughters of
a brutal fellow who had been keeper
of the wild bears in the menagerie
under the Circus building. When
Theodora was only seven her father
had died. The child was an Impish,
gay little creature with a genius for
mimicry. So she had been put on the
stage. She could not sing or dance,
but she was a born comedian. She
grew to womanhood, small, thin and
pale. Scarcely the sort of girl to at
tract the attention of the emperor's
nephew.
Rome, since the days of Nero, had
grown so great in size and wealth that
it had at last split in two because of
its own unwieldy bulk, and was divid
ed Into the eastern and western em
pires. The western empire (with the
city of Rome as its capital) was soon
overrun by barbarian tribes. But the
eastern empire
The Actress Who
Became Empress.
flourished for
many centuries.
Justin I., a Daclan peasant, had fought
bis way up from the ranks to the com
mand of the army. Then he had made
himself emperor and had proclaimed
Justinian his heir. Justinian was a
wise man, but lacking in firmness. The
sort of a man that a clever woman
could manage to suit herself. Theo
dora won his love and pointed out to
him a plan by which they two might
become emperor and empress. His
uncle's wife, the Empress Euphemla,
sternly forbade the match. But this
idid not long stand in Theodora's way.
For Euphemia died rather suddenly.
Justin was old and as much under
Justinian's Influence as the latter was
under Theodora's.
The rest was plain sailing. Justin
was persuaded to set aside the law
forbidding a prince to marry an ac
tress. Theodora and Justinian thus
were married In 625, when the girl
was only 17. Two years later Justin
died. Theodora made her husband,
the new emperor, crown her as em
press. Then she proceeded to do the
Ucn's share of the ruling, interfering
ajd having her way in nearly all state
affairs. The civilized world was thus
for a time swayed by an actress'
whims. Nor vaa she at bad aa em
c
POPPAEA
111 Aullior.)
rage and fear that he had Agrippina
murdered. Next Poppaea Induced him
to divorce Octavla and to consent to
her death. Nothing now stood in the
fair adventuress' way, and she and
Nero were formally married. Pon
paea's ambition was gratified. She
was empress of Rome. Moreover,
Nero loved her so madly that her light
est wish was his law. She could
frighten or cajole him into doing any
thing she desired. At her order one
after another of bis saner advisers
were put to death.
And now began a period of reckless
dissipation on the part of Nero and
Poppaea that nearly wrecked the em
pire. Poppaea brought out all that
was worst and maddest In Nero, and
spurred him on to terrible deeds.
Among these (which she is credited
by many authorities with suggesting
to her husband) was the burning of
Rome In 64 A. D. While the city
burned the emperor composed and
sang an ode in honor of the conflagra
tion. The plain people had been patient
under their ruler's tyranny. But the
burning of their city drove them to
fury. Nero was frightened. Advised
by Poppaea and his flatterers, he de
clared the Christians had set Are to
Rome and put hundreds of them to
death in barbarous manner by way of
pretended punishment for the crime.
This for the moment pacified the peo
ple. But soon fresh iniquities on the
part of the imperial couple angered
them again. At last, in a fit of jealous
rage, Nero one day struck Poppaea.
She died from the effects of the blow.
Nero mourned her loudly and long and
wrote poems to her memory. But his
Otho Take. ?w t,me ot retrl;
. . . butlon was at
hand. And th
man he had most wronged was to
punish him.
Otho had joined with an old general
named Galba In stirring up the Roman
armies against Nero. He marched to
Rome at the head of his legions to
avenge himself on the tyrant who had
robbed him of his wife. In spite of his
haste Otho turned aside long enough
in the march to visit the grave of
Poppaea. There, weeping, he piled her
last resting place with fresh flowers,
and passed on to his work ot ven
geance.
But Nero did not await his enemies'
coming. Deserted by flatterers and
guards alike, he killed himself to avoid
the fate he knew he must otherwise
expect at Otho's hands.
press as her early life would have
seemed to forecast. She aided her hus
band to frame the celebrated "Justin
Ian Code" of laws and In many ways
helped make his reign great.
She attracted some notoriety by do
clarlng herself the champion of wives
whose husbands sought to divorce
them, and she started besides a sort
of royal "marriage bureau." Match'
making was her fad. And certainly no
one could have set a brighter example
from her own success along that line,
Justinian's love for her did not cool as
the years went by. And she probably
made him a fairly good wife.
Once when revolutionists seized
Constantinople and clamored at the
palace gates Justinian was wild with
fear and decided to creep to the sea
shore unobserved and save his life by
flight Then It was that Theodora
threw away the diplomatic tactics by
which she had won and managed her
husband. For once In her life she let
him feel the lash of her scorn, and
couched her speech In the language of
the stage instead of that of the stately
court. She bade him fly if he chose,
but told him that death was nobler
for a monarch than exile, and vowed
that she would not stir from her
throne, preferring, as she said, to
"make empire her
Quarrel of the
Royal Lovers.
winding sheet."
Justinian, stung
Into courage, stuck to his post, and
thereby saved his crown. Once only
he Is said to have taunted her in anger
with ber humble parentage. She is
reported to have answered that her
father was quite as well born as her
husband's grandfather, who bad been
a rude peasant.
Indeed, few dared to remind Theo
dora of her past. She had a way of
putting to death persons who brought
up the subject. For 23 years this
strange pair of lovers governed most
of the civilized world. Then, at the
age of 40, Theodora died. The gen
erally accepted story of her fate Is
that she fell victim to cancer. But
some authorities hint that she tried to
"manage" her elderly husband once
too often and without her earlier tact,
and that be, in a fit of rage, had her
beheaded.
Wants Compulsory Education.
The Birmingham Age-Herald in
pleading for a strong compulsory edu
cation law in Alabama calls attentioc
to the fact that of 730,000 children of
school age only 161,000 white children
and 78,000 black children wero at
tending school, according to the ccn
sus of 1900. "When all allowances are
made," says the Age-Herald, "It Is
seen that under the voluntary sys
tern one-halt of the state's children are
sent to school and one-half are por
mitted to grow up without learning to
PAPER DOLL PEOPLE.
Taper doll people
Are queer little creatures
With such very thin fimirea
And such very fat features.
They always are drenaed
In the Intent of fashion, '
And never were known
To fly Into a passion.
They live In a book
Unth dully and nightly
Cut off their heada
And they itlll atntle politely.
SLED THAT RUNS ON LEVEL
Kansas Man Invents One with Pro
peller of Teeth That Cuts Into the
Crust of Snow.
If somebody would only Invent a
sled that would run uphill the
small boy's winter joys would be
complete. A Kansas man has taken
a step In the right direction by de
vising a sled that will run on the
level. This sled is equipped with
rows of teeth attached to bars that
slide backward and forward through
brackets along tho sides. The bars
are operated by plvotlcally attached
levers, which are punned back and
forth by the person on the sled
A Unique 8led.
The teeth are also plvotally at
tached and dig into the crust of the
snow only when the bar 1b pushed
forward. At other times they drag
along on the top. With a sled
equipped in this fashion a boy may
sit down comfortably at his front
door and propel himself merrily
along until he reaches the hill
where he wants to "coaBt." The
propelling device is so constructed
that it does not in any way Interfere
with the progress of the sled
downhill, where the levers then act as
guides.
THE OUTCAST.
Snohson (to Duderly) How's that,
new chap, your cousin, getting on?
Duderly Oh, well, of course, he's
very clever and all that sort of thing,
but really, one can't go about with a
chap who won't keep his trousers
turned up or creased, and always has
the lapels of his pockets inside. Be
sides, he's got spectacles.
Simon 8ays.
Seat yourselves In a circle and
choose one of the company to be tho
leader, of Simon, In this game. His
duty is to order all sorts of different
things to be dono, the funnier the bet
ter, which must be obeyed only when
the order begins with "Simon says."
As, for instance, "Simon says:
'Thumbs up!'" which, of course, nil
obey; then perhaps comes: "Thumbs
down!" which should not be obeyed,
because tho order did not commence
with "Simon says."
Each time this rule is forgotten a
forfeit must be paid. "Hands over
eyes," "Stamp the right foot." "Pull
the left ear," etc., are the kind of or
ders to be given.
a
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BASEBALL GAME FOR INDOORS
Amusing and Interesting Paitlme for
Children How It Is Made and
How to Play It.
First ynu get a board which Is 24x18
Inches. Then you smooth It off and
paint It one side green, like grass.
Then get some white paint and paint
baseball diamond on the green
Then cut from the pitcher's box to the
home plate a grove big enough for a
ball from a ball bearing to roll In.
The metal ball Is your ball. Cut holes
In the board at first, second, and third
base, and drive three nails at the
back of theso to keep tho ball In. Do
the same at the center, left, and right
field, and at shortstop. Put soma
nalU around at different pluces on
the field to knock the ball around. At
the end of the field put a bell. When
this boll rings ynu have a home run.
Then take a piece of wood and cut
bat about three Inches long, and
nail It in the middle so it will turn.
Put a tack on the end of the bat,
and on the board, then put a rubber
on the two tacks ho that when you
pull the bat It will knock the ball.
Put sides on tho board so the ball will
not roll off. Then It Is rendy for the
game, and this Is how it looks:
To play tho game drop the ball
along the groove and push the bat
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Homemade Baseball Game.
forward, so when you let the bat go
the rubber will make it hit the ball.
If it goes in any of the places at the
base It Is out, and when it rings the
bell It Is a home run.
DARNING CLASS FOR BOYS
Unique Plan Devised and Adopted al
Gutrdlan Angel Home In Boston
Lads Are Proficient.
Probably the most unique class ii
the city is the boys' darning class ol
the Guardian Angel Home In Uoston
There are about 130 boys In the home
and the problem of keeping 260 feel
in whole stockings all the time wai
quite a ponderous problem for tin
sisters In charge, until one ot their
thought out the clever plan ot form
ing a boys' darning class. The glrlf
of the home had a darning class, st
why should not the boys have one
too? So It was arranged to form i
class of the older boys, with Bevera
of the sisters to initiate them In thli
wonderful art. Of course there wai
plenty of fun as well as real work
In getting the class properly started
although every one of the boys wat
anxious to become a member. It re
quired much patience to teach the lit
tie chaps how to hold the needle prop
erly. Many of them Insisted on darn
ing with the needle held In the lefi
hand; then they were taught not tt
have too long a thread, and how t
keep it from becoming knotted, and
lastly to get the holes in the stocking
to disappear gradually. The boys
however, never seemed to get to tin
derstand the use of the thimble. When
they used thimbles at all the thlmbled
finger stuck out quite uselessly, and
became a hindrance to a good darning
job. So thimbles have been discarded
entirely by the boys' darning class.
The boys have all done good work,
because they were willing and anx
ious to learn, many of them have be
come really proficient In the art, and
are very happy and proud to exhibit
their work.
The boys darn for an hour twice a
week. There are about sixty boys In
the class, and the work done by It is
a great relief to the sisters and girls,
and now that the boys appreciate
what it means to darn their own
stockings they are more careful with
them.
WAY OF GETTING AMUSEMENT
Where Sclstors Are Barred Fingers
May Be Used In Tearing Out Ani
mals from Paper Scraps.
Scissors usually come under the ban
of the nursery authorities, even those
with blunt points representing pre
carious playthings for small children.
A substitute for "cutting out" may,
however, bo found in tearing paper
Into the shape of animals and figures
with the fingers, and proves just as
popular with the small nursery people
as the more dangerous amusement.
Ordinary kitchen paper may be used,
or preferably the common white pa
per which is used to line shelves.
Trees, animals, little men and women,
or even doll's furniture can be "torn
out" with tho fingers.
With rounds of cork and matches,
tribes of small Noah's ark men can be
made, the skeleton bodies being wound
with stiff paper, on which buttons can
be painted or marked in chalk, while
rounds of cork Instead of feet will en
able the family to stand alone.
THE TIDY ROOSTER.
The rooster la a tidy fowl
From morning until night
He wenra hla comb upon hla head
To keep his leathers rlKht.
-Little Folks.
ir ii x "
I rut iSBriEj C
Two Hems.
"I suppose with all this modem
prison philanthropy, abolishing stripes
and convict uniforms generally, they
will soon Introduce dress suits for the
well behaved prisoners in our penal
institutions."
"Well, you know, they already give
convicts watches and chains."
Found!
Knlcker What Is your definition of
a gentleman?
Bocker He was evidently my wife's
first husband.
PERRY ItAYItt PAINKir.T.m
hat Ho milikl tttiti. Nil nthr rnniMl iie
fiftlvit fnr rtouniaUftni, tumtmffo, it I Anew, nitnrslgle
oroolduf anjr suit. I'm up lo i, 8io nd We sollUa
A woman's Idea of a tactful man Is
one vho Is able to increase th ad
miration she has for herself.
Lew in' Kinele Binder sivei the smoker a
rich, mellow-tasting oignr, one that amokeg
and tastes better than most 10c cigars.
Somehow the majority of our habit
seem to be bad ones. 1
Mr. Window's Soothing- Hrroa,
For ebiWIren teething, stif tena tht guni, rsdncst tB
lamoiiilua, tliajri pila, curat wind cultu. tscelioMlet
The patriotism of the office seeker
is the greatest ever.
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