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Prayer for Suicide. Oa All Souls' Day every good Cath e joee to soma cemetery to lay Sever on the graves of loved ones. Owing to the number of suicides hy trownlnjc la the Danube there are many dead to whom this rite cannot se paid, and In honor of these a touching ceremony has been held In Budapest Several thousand persons -ralked in solemn procession to the ask of the Danube by the Fran Jtaeef bridge, and a wreath made of leather was sunk In the water, while the attendants uncovered their bends and said prayers. On one side of the wreath the words were embossed Tor the salvation of those who died In the Danube." and on tfce other sHi" "Do Jtot take this out. bsi eav it In the water" A layman then sve n address, la which re evtoMet! :? virtacs of many of those ho h keen driven to ssleiiie. ?r-l ! demned the church Or ro'vsSn? Vsslrjc to their bodies Dogfish. Jl fisherman from Montauk Point was telling his friends of caicbtnx a huge dc$hsh that had a most abnor mal skull The antler operated on his fly and worthless catch, and found i the skull alt that was left of a oce siren rubber band Evidently when U-M bi$ dogfish was little some ant'. r wh tad r?ssed up for cod or tfcer r-c:tM fish had caught the dog arxn.u.l Us .: end turned it loose. exrct"s tee tortured thins to die. T; rtcssSed tte story of how some stefs;. n rot so ?eate and humane a tie Tl!cst sssl r treat the poor hut j?ti;erc dogfishes when they arc r . fioaerally there Is an nn-tv t- r r-:t handy, and this Is ttfrt'y rcrvot -r.l tWd to the tail of the ft "it wt-oh i thrown back Into tie - 1; c-vs to the bottom, of eowrsr but "h -r?!y ru!l of that air V" firs"? proves too much tor it s'nns f'. acd it comes wig rtta w? Crst. only to o down ajca'e arc- re the rerformance un the wre'orod thinj dies. 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COLUMBIA iOAX Oa 1ST Sewtk UK. I Wooing A 1 Star I By Leviso MerrttieM tCostmsbt. tsiu br Associated Litaracr Pros) Hamilton swung up on the steps of the sleeper. The rescue portion of the train crew had started Its twelve mile push through the snowdrifts down the track to Moosebead. the nearest telegraph station. There was one chance in titty that they might meet a relief gang working toward (hem. And it. was Christmas eve. "We wont get through, sah. sai.t the porter cheerfully. "Suttiuly loo ; most unpromising for Santa Claus to night." "Never can tell. Sam. You'd better hang up your sock." Hamilton re turned. "I'm sorry for the por dev ills In the day coaches and tourist cars. How about that private lay out we tacked on at Boise City?" "Private car, sah Mnie. Heiene Ce ,sare. ' The name struck: a chord that had been Hamilton's dominant strain for ten years, tie sue nene esare. Rack in the lean yars, when she had been a slender, eEger-eyed girl with. ! a golden voice, who frankly hailed lroni Omaha, he hsd met her at o-e of his sifter's musicales tn the east, j Kit Murray, they called her then. .She was about seventeen, with a, -raass ff reddish hair, framing a tense, determined face, with, big, dreaa:y, I aliaost resentful eyes. She had been resentful, too, of his proffers c friendship and assistance so far as .her career was concerned. She woaid 'win, she had told him. win by shtvr -work and effort. It had not been with her consent that his sister had bent all her influence toward her success. Tet she had been grateful, too, and had never known how much cf it she owed to Hamilton's love for her. On his way to the private car ho met the conductor. "About six hours anyway, sir, pos sibly more," he answered Hamilton. "Tough on the people in the cars ahead. There's nothing to feed them with, and a lot of kids, too." Hamilton went on to the last car. He met madame's secretary at tho. vestibule and gave his card. When he entered the drawing room section. vf Ann. she had risen to greet him. her fur trimmed lounging cloak: slipping back into her shoulders, her eyes full of the same luminous eagerness he re membered well. "Ah, but this is kind of you," she raid. "And I am so lonesome, and cred. How much you look like your self!" The absurdity of her own re mark dawned on her, and she laughed richly, happily. "I mean as I remem fcer you, Hugh. Tell me of yourself. Sit there. We will dine presently." "But we must net, not yet. please," he interposed. "I have come to you for two reasons; first to see you. Too know how I have wanted to." "But we were on the same little carta, my friend." "Half a world away, and more. Yoa were a planet, child, and I a star wor shiper. So well, I have worshiped as a star should be worshiped." She looked at him questioningly. al most anxiously. His eyes regarded her hungrily. This was not the girl of seventeen wheni he had loved tenderly, pro tectingly. this woman with the curved !s end well-poised head, the sure, clear gaxe, and voice that stirred eld memories into life. Yet, gazing at the white perfection cf her throat and shoulders, her lew eled head, the exquisite lines of her velvet dinner gown, he thought of the mass of warped humanity on rest of the stalled train, hungry, bit ter, stunned by the prospect of a snowbound Christmas. It made no difference to Cesare. her car would be as warm, as bril liantly lighted, her dinner as per fectly served as If she were in her own Parisian apartment. And sud denly he resolved to throw all his chances on one single number. It would prove to him whether any ten derness, any womanliness still lay dormant under that breast. "I'm awfully sorry, but I simply cannot stay with you. not with those poor devils ahead stranded. There are children, too, they say. You know what that means. Kit " The old name slipped out unthink ingly, and she smiled . "It Is kind of you to give me the chance to share with them," she said. 'We will send In all that I have, ex cept our own dinner tonight. Does, that content you?" j "Will you come with me, and sing them Christmas carols?" "Why not?" She caught the infec tion of the thought gayly. "I was to sing tonight at some city; Vhere was it? My secretary knows for five thousand. What then? We will pour the voice out to your day coach pil grims, Hugh. I hope they will like me." With her hand laid lightly on his arm, she went ahead through the train, and the word spread like lire. The great singer would give her voice as freely to them for their Christmas eve as she gave from her larder to feed them. Hamilton never forgot the picture se made as she stood In the aisle of or.ch of the crowded coaches, head lilted, lips smiling, singing old heart songs and carols that left her audi ences in tears. And she enjoyed it as the girl cf ten years ago would have done, every minute of her progress, while the children reached to rub their cheeks against her velvet gown and the soft fur, and baby hands were luted longingly toward her violets. She wore no corsage bouquet by the time they had returned to the private car. There In the cold vestibule they faced each other. Hamilton knew that fate had given him a second chance after ten years. "I thought there was only the soul of the artist left in you. Kit." he said, gripping both her hands in his warm grasp. "I believed the years had killed all sentiment in you, and here you go with me and give your golden voice to those poor devils. You never looked so beautiful in your life as when you lifted that baby in your arms, the one that cried for your dia mond necklace. Do you know it, do you?" "I know that I have missed the better part of life, Hugh. They say a woman who gives her whole heart to art can follow only the one master. I used to believe that when I was & girl, but no more. One cannot be a great artist and interpret the emo tions until one has suffered oneself, has loved, perhaps." "Love is not always suffering, dear." "No?" She smiled at him with eyes filled with tears. "I found It so when I wakened after years of work, and found you gone, and only success to carry me on. I found It w&3 most bitter suffering, Hugh." The fur cloak slipped back from her throat as he held her In his arms, kissing the full, perfect lips and ten der eyes. There was a sadden com motion outside in the darkness, shouts and waving of lanterns. The train crew were returning with a re lief party. Somebody yelled that the snow plow was pushing its way through the drifts, and the train woula be moving In half an hoar. "We will reach Helena by day light. Then." said Hamilton. "I am going straight through with yoa to New York, and we will be married there, before the new year. Does that Interfere with your engagements, Kit?" Madame Cesare laughed softly, and gathered her cloak about her as she preceded him into her car. T shall never s&y It that way again. Hereafter it shall be. do my engagements Interfere with you. Hugh?" "" Better not." he flung back. "1 shall claim all the light of my star If you do." "When one has won a star. Is It not his?" Cesare's eyes were proud and; happy as she answered him. "I have had ten years of all the world can give. Now 1 ask only you." Elasticity of Human Skull. Fortunately the human skull, al though composed of bones, is elastic much more so than one would think." The average male adult skull, in fact. Is so elastic that it may bo com- pressea laterally in diameter by a blow or pressure applied at the center of area at right angles to the surface at that point by centimeters, or about six-tenths of an Inch; recover ing its original diameter and form without breakage. The material of whicn our bones are saade is so highly resistant that a cylindrical piece thereof only one square millimeter or I C.CV1S3 square inch ia area L e; only 112S millimeter or 0.044 inch in dia-n-.eter, has a tensile strength of 15 kilograms or 33 pounds avoirdupois, figuring out at about 21.300 pounds per square inch. A similar sample cf . hardwood tested in the same manner held only ten kilograms that is, bone has 50 per cent, more tensile strength than wood. A single bone fiber is: shown in the hygiene exhibition, Dres den, supporting a weight of five kilo-, grams or 11 pounds avoirdupois. Mutual Discontent. -First Clubwoman No; Im not go-, .ing to the annual dinner. The com mittee always puts ine beside the. most uninteresting people. Second Clubwoman That's just my experience. We were sitting together last year, weren't weT London Opin ion. Among the Probabilities. T see that Willis Moore, the chief weather man, says people will be fly ing from New Tork to London in ten, hours before long. Believe It?" -Well. I shouldn't wonder. He's been making some mighty good guesses lately." In These Days of High Price. Squirrel Ton seem ot have a very small family this year. Mother Clucks. Mother Clucks At the present prices of eggs it's too expensive to raise large families." Judge. ROMEO CAUGHT IN CHIMNEY Curious Antica of a Breton Lover Arouse Excitement tn Village In Brittany. Chls story comes straight from Mor ialv. a very modern place In Brittany. Our Romeo, like Chaucer's hero, was i caught In the chimney. He was go ing to his sweetheart, instead of run ning away from her. The pretty Juliette was a distance of some seven miles from his home. The enamored Romeo tramped it on foot all that distance. At night he reached the house, and called, but got no answer. As the door was shut he decided to try tta roof. On the roof he found the chimney, and it seemed to him thst was quite wide enough to let him down. He descended for some dis tance, but then, as he came near the fireplace, the chimney narrowed. He slipped and got in a narrow neck. Here he was caught, nnable to move up or down. Before long he felt a suffocating sensation. If the thing lasted much longer it would be the end of him. He could stand it no more. After groaning he yelled, and he bellowed so well that not only was his sweetheart disturbed in her slum bers, but the whole village was ex cited. The nearest chimney-sweep was called but he could not help him out. The gendarmes woke no the mayor, and he, with all the notables of the place, went to look. They consulted among them, and the only way to liberate the captive lover was to pull down part of the chimney. This was done by some masons, and he was presently released, but before being allowed his freedom a police report was drawn up, with a view to inflict ing a series of fines for breaking into private inclosure, damaging other people's property, waking np the au thorities unnecessarily, and causing a public scandal. Poor Romeo was very sad when it was all over. Paris Cor respondence, London Telegraph. ROTHSCHILDS OF THE EAST Mitsui Family of Japan Is Famous for Unsullied Honor of Their Name. The Mitsui family of Japan have been called the Rothschilds of the East; but while the fame of the lat ter has gone abroad over the world, says the Atlantic Monthly, the Mit suis have remained practically un known except to a few western mer chants who have had extensive deal ings with the Orient. The European family owes its great renown to the fact that for a century there has been no slightest stain up on its commercial honor. But its ca reer. It should be remembered, has been passed in a world where busi ness itself has been held In honor; while the Mitsnis, engaged in a pur suit utterly condemned by public sen timent, for three centuries, in spite of the demoralizing Influence of the so cial ban, have been trusted by govern ment and people alike and have kept the honor of their name unstained. Now, thanks to the new spirit ani mating the nation, they no longer stand so conspicuously alone. Other great commercial families are being ranged with this one, their mem bers not only enrolled among the peers of the realm, but ranking with the merchant princes of the west as exponents of all that is honorable in the conduct of mercantile affairs. To their number are yearly being added many of the Samirai, or nightly chiv alry of old, who once scorned all con tact with trade, but who are now re turning to bring to the rescue of their country the fine sense of honor in which they were educated under the ancient regime. That they will even tually succeed in their task, backed as they are by the Instinct of common honesty pervading the rank and file, there can be no manner of doubt- Apparatus for Finding Water. The hazel twig as a water finder has been supplanted by a remarkable in vention, consisting of a simple ap paratus. The principle on which the instrument works is the measuring of the strength of electric currents between the earth and the atmos phere. These are always strongest in the vicinity of subterranean water courses, the flowing waters of which are charged with electricity to a cer tain degree. The apparatus takes the form of a box-shaped instrument fixed on a tripod, with a dial on which a needle is used to indicate the pres ence of water. If the needle remains stationary it may be taken for grant ed that no subterranean spring ex ists; the spot where the greatest movement of the needle is obtained is that where well bortng operations should be made. How to Clean Tapestry. Shake the tapestry gently but well to remove loose dirt and then immerse it in a cleansing fluid composed as follows. Take four ounces of soap to a quart of water and boll it until it becomes a jelly; then divide this equally in two tubs of hot water, ad ding a cup of bran to each tub to pre vent the colors from running. It is best to sew the bran in cheese cloth bags, so that it will not stock to the fabric. After washing the tapestry alter nately in the two tubs, rinse in water strongly flavored with vinegar (to pre vent colors fading) and dry. After the heavier weight of the wa ter is out, stiffen with a thin boiled starch and iron quickly on the wrong side with a rather hot iron. Is It Working For You?- The dollar that is working for you is better than the idle dollar. Deposit your savings with us and we'll put your dollars to work for you. And they'll work day and night, We pay you 4 per cent interest on your deposits. 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