IWhen Dinosaurs Lived
Some footprints on a piece of sand
stone plowed un in South Hadley.
Mass., by a boy in 1802 caused much
excitement. They were at first thought
by the devout people to be the tracks
of “Noah’s Raven" made in the mud
of the subsiding deluge. When some
flagging stones were quarried in Mon
tague for the streets of Greenfield in
1835 a less religions "Mr. Wilson”
called them “turkey tracks.” Then an
attempt was made to decipher then*
scientifically by Dr. James Deane and
the eminent scientist Prof. Edward
Hitchcock, both of,whom joined in
the opinion that they were the foot
prints of prehistoric birds. As “bird
tracks" they continued to be popularly
known for more than half a century.
But developments in ichnology and
palaeonotology throw a new light on
these mysterious footprints on the
sands of time.
Dr. Richard Swann Lull, associate
professor of the Massachusetts Agri
cultural college at Amherst, the emi
nent paleontologist, in a recent me
moir issued by the Boston Society of
Natural History, states that these
footprints must have been made by
dinosaurs. The fossils of American
dinosaurs have been found mostly in
the Rocky mountains, and that region
has come to be regarded as the for
mer home of these ancient monsters.
It now appears that right here in New
England this strange race of animals
lived and flourished in countless varie
ties from the size of a small monkey
to two or three times the height of a
man.
About 15,000,000 years ago, accord
ing to Dr. Lull's calculation, tlie Con
necticut valley was a tropical jungle,
in which disported these creatures,
more grotesque than can now "be found
in an African forest. These creatures,
with the tail of a reptile, the binly
of an animal and the head of a snake,
stood nearly upright on their hind l<^s
and walked or ran with almost human
gait.
Ancient Beings of New England.
It was the red and gray sandstones
and shales of the Connecticut valley
that gave the numerous indications of
the ancient beings that peopled this
region in bygone days. "These indi
cations." says Dr. Lull, "take the
form of impressions of some part of
f "
size, but closely resembling the one
found near Springfield.
These bones indicated an animal six
to eight feet long. From the teeth as
well as other things, it is thought tc
have been carnivorous. It is also cer
tain that other larger forms of dino
saurs, which were herbivorous, exist
ed in the Connecticut valley, from
i footprints found, but no bones of sucb
have been discovered.
The anchesaurus or carnivorous
dinosaur of the Connecticut valley
was one of the most slender and deli
cately formed of all the dinosaur fam
ily. For the most part it walked erect
• on its hind legs. That its fore feet oi
! hands or paws, whichever one chooses
A LARGE MORNB0
•Dino 3auR —
to call them, were used more for seiz
mg and holding prey than walking
upon them, is shown by the fact tha’
the forefingers terminated in verj
sharp claws. A distinct feature o
this dinosaur is its small serpentlikf
head and the long slender neck o'
the same reptilian character. Its tai
was slender and flexible like the mod
ern lizard's. In these respects it wa;
very different from the horned dino
caur, with large head and short neck
This also was a carnivorous animal
Of similar form was the large herbi
vorous dinosaur.
Why Animals Rather than Birds.
Dr. Lull is very particular to stati
exactly what be believes these foot
prints to belong to animals rathe
i than to birds. ‘ The features whicl
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A5MALL PINOJAUR ANPTHE
First flying creaturestme
pterodactyls
the body, either of dermal appendages
or dragging portions of the body, such
as traces made by the tail; but by
far the most numerous of all the the
prints of the feet, which render to the
student a fairly complete knowledge
of the size, proportions and habits of
their maker."
Not only can the footprints and
marks of bodies be seen on these
slabs of stone, but the indentation of
rain drops and ripples made by an
ebbing tide 1,000,000 years ago. These
• impressions were baked in the plastic
mud by a fierce tropical sun shining
overhead and by volcanic heat from
below. When the tide came in again
laden with fine sediment the markings
were covered up and preserved for
future ages to discover.
Dr. Lull expresses the opinion that
dinosaurs abounded in this region in
great variety. Some were carnivorous
and preyed upon small animals and
fish in the shallow waters. Others
were herbivorous, and browsed on the
tropical foliage that then lined the
banks of the Connecticut. Certain of
AL
Jr Reduced size
OF RICAT FOOT OF
a Dinosaur,
the footmarks show lizardlike charac
ters, though co lizards have been
known to have lived in so remote a
time. Still other tracks resemble
early crocodiles.
It is a curious, thing that while
dinosaurs long ago completely vanish
ed from the earth, the crocodile has
managed to live on w’ith comparative
ly little change in form or habits. But
with the cooling of the earths crust
he has been forced to retreat south
ward, till the true croccdile is now
found only in African rivers.
Dinosaurs in New England.
The first fossilized bones of dino
saurs found Jn the Connecticut valley
were near Windsor, in 1818. Another
skeleton' was found near Springfield
fey Prof. Hitchcock and described
fey him in 1865 under the name of
Megadactylus. In fe884 Prof. Marsh
■» gnmdm another discovery near Manches
ter, Conn., of the bones of a larger
separate the tracks under considers
tion from those of birds.” he says
"are several, though all do not occm
in each instance. They are: First
the presence of a tail trace which is
unquestionably reptilian. This maj
be a continuous serpentine impressior
or a series of short straight ones as
though the appendage were raised a1
every step: or it may be a continuous
straight line impressing during thf
whole of the animal's walk or just be
fore sitting on its heels. The occa
sional Impression of a fore foot is an
other distinguishing character, and thf
presence of irregular dermal scute?
or tubercles upon the skin, though
rarely leaving a record, is certainlj
not birdlike.”
Though dinosaurs are shaped much
like the kangaroo of the present time
there is no evidence whatever among
the footprints of a leaping dinosaur;
that is, one in which both feet leave
the ground at the same time. One ver>
peculiar specimen of the Hitchcock
cabinet at Amherst seems to havf
tried to stop so suddenly as to siide
for a considerable space on its
haunches before overcoming its mo
mentum.
The largest of these erect walking
dinosaurs of the Connecticut valley
was the Otozoum, which had a length
of twenty feet from head to tail. It
rarely rested its hands or forefeet on
the ground, sometimes dragging its
tail and at other times holding it clear
of the ground. This animal had a foot
print twenty inches long and had a
stride of about forty-five inches. Most
of the footprints are much smaller,
twelve to fourteen inches being the
rule for the larger, species, and dwin
dling down to tiny prints only an inch
or two in length. The smallest marks
are thought to have belonged to little
dinosaurs no larger than cats or small
monkeys.—Boston Herald.
Banks Benefited by Advertising.
Does it pay for banks to advertise?
Five years ago some banks in Pitts
burg, Pa., began to advertise, and re
cently they measured the results by
comparing their business with that of
banks that did not advertise. In the
five years the banks that sought new
business through printer’s ink gained
38 per cent in assets and 85 per cent
in deposits. The other banks gained
27 per cent in assets and 11 per cent
in deposits. During the last year the
former gained 22 per cent and the lat
ter lost 7 per cent in deposits. The
question whether it pays to advertise
may not be entirely answered by such
figures, but they are calculated to pro
voke thought.—Springfield Republi
can.
Japanese Plants for America.
The national plant garden near
Chico.'Cal., has received from Japan a
large shipment of plants and bulbs,
consisting of bamboo, the Japanese
salad plant, ornamental lily seeds,
Japanese paper plant, cherry trees and
orange trees. They will be experi
mented with la the effort to propagate
and develop in this country.
Monastery of Trappistsf
(Special Cc
It was one of the great desires of a
iterary man of my acquaintance in
tome to be enabled to visit the con
sent ai that austere order of Francis
can nuns known as the “Sepolte Vive,”
jr ‘‘Buried Alive” nuns. He died with
out having his desire accomplished;
out if he had been less exigent in the
way of austerity he might have made
acquaintance with the abbot of the
Trappists, an order which is sufficient
ly retired and ascetic to gratify most
men's curiosity in this special line.
With the Trappists the rule of
silence is absolute—no monk may
speak to another on any occasion. The
exceptions are for the father abbot
and the guest-master, for the procura
tor-general, that is to say, the busi
ness agent, and the lay brothers who
receive and converse with visitors.
So man}' visitors to Rome have the
lesire of seeing a Trappist monastery,
and of catching a glimpse, if possible,
af one of these men whose silence is
proverbial, that they are induced to
pay a visit to the Tre Fontane.
The road to this suburban monas
tery leads along the river side, and
as you look forward from beneath the
shadow of the Aventine, one of the
loveliest of the many lovely views of
old Rome opens out before you. The
rude ruins on the hillside support con
vents and monastic buildings that
take the color of the ancient remains
and assume a likeness even to the
very tufa rock of the hill. Here at one
time Honorius built the walls that for
tified the Aventine, and in later centu
ries St. Dominic, the founder of the
Dominican order, established his
brethren in the old fifth century
church of Santa Sabina.
The Knights of Malta, whose heroic
deeds lighten up the records of the
middle ages, have their house and
| church all covered with designs of
1 weapons of war, on the distant peak
of the hill, and through the keyhole
in the garden gate you may behold
the celebrated view of St. Peter s
over the river known as the Keyhole
view.
Basilica of St. Paul.
About a mile and a half still further
on the road the grand new Basilica of
St. Paul, replacing that ancient one
which was burned down eighty years
ago, shows its painfully plain exterior
to the visitor and reminds him rather
of a railroad station than of a Roman
church. Within its walls your eyes
become dazzled by the bright polish
of marbles, the brilliant reflex of the
mosaics with their golden backgrounds
that shine with a sunny luster, the
semi-transparent luminousness of the
alabaster columns and pilasters, and
the smooth marble floor which reflects
as in a mirror the lights and shadows
made by the sun in its daily course.
This is the tomb of the great apostle
of the Gentiles, and the canopy of
gilded bronze and alabaster and mala
chite and lapis lazuli that overshad
ows the altar bears an inscription in
large letters of gilt bronze proclaiming
his name and his fame: and beneath
the altar, deep down below the level
of the pavement, is the sepulchre that
enshrines his remains.
From this beautiful church the road,
after skirting the river for a time,
here flowing amid flat plains bounded
by low hills in the distance, ascends a
hill to the left and passes through a
barren and well nigh abandoned land.
Scarcely a tree is to be seen; the
earth is unkindly, and even the
grasses and weeds so abundant in
rrespondence.)
A couple of miles distant from the
Three Fountains is the great cata
comb of St. Callixtus, watched over
and cared for by another band of
Trappists. One may imagine the si
lence of the catacombs and the silence
of the lone Campagna meeting at this
spot—the most silent of all—where
the solitary members dwell in a very
atmosphere of silence. No sound of
human voice is heard here save in
the lonely watches of the night, when
the choir of the fathers and the
brothers awake the echoes of the
arches in the severe and plain old
church of St. Anastasia, with its pale
frescoe on the pillars, and reecho
through the wide wastes of the deso
late Campagna.
Notable Churches Here.
The churches that are here have an
interest of their own. The one to the
right of the gate, with the squat dome
surmounted by the lantern, is known
as Canta Maria, "Scala Coeli,-' or
"Ladder of fleaven.” This name is,
according to tradition, derived from
a vision of St. Bernard, who, wher
Trappist Doorkeeper.
celebrating mass here, saw a ladder
1 reaching from earth to heaven, and
j the souls of the just ascending.
The Church of SS. Vincenzo and An
astasia, simple and antique in its con
struction. with its plain portico with
the red-tiled roof almost hidden by
groups of eucalyptus trees, is notable
among the churches of Rome for the
austere and stately grandeur of its in
terior—so admirably suited for the
austere order to which it now belongs.
The Church of the Three Fountains,
though ancient, has been renewed out
of all knowledge. It marks the place
at which an ancient tradition points
out the spot where St. Paul was be
headed. The legend tells that when
the Emperor Nero reigned over Rome
a decree went forth that St. Peter and
St. Paul should be put to death. The
latter was brought to the Aquae Sal
viae and bound to the truncated shaft
of a pillar—such a shaft is in this
churcn—and his head severed from his
body. When separated from the
trunk, the head made three leaps or
lx unds, and where it touched the
ground each time a fountain instantly
sprang forth, which continues to flow
until now.
This is the tradition; and it is fur
ther asserted that the water of the
Capuchin Cemetery.
Jiut-r pans 01 uie campagna are nere
scant and sparse.
As you proceed through this deso
late part of the Campagna down in
the distant valley, you perceive a
group of iow buildings interspersed
with the domes and facades of a
church, standing in the midst of a
very thick wood. This is the “tenuta”
or settlement of the Three Fountains,
now inhabited by Trappist fathers.
As you approach the quaint brown
tiled gate house with its spacious en
trance arch, the gate is opened to you
and you are admitted by a Trappist
lay brother, in a coarse brown habit
resembling that of a Franciscan friar,
into the grounds of the monastery.
Diet of the Trappists.
The Trappist diet consists of vege
tables only, and there are long inter
vals in the year when they eat only
one meal in the day. They work
either in the fields, or, if the weather
is unfavorable, they occupy them
selves in reading or writing.
They rise at 2 in the morning to
recite the office in church, and this is
done all the year round. The prayers
and meditations last till 4:30. Prayer
and labor, simple living and high
thinking constitute the occupations of
life for the Trappist. At the Three
Fountains he looks more healthy than
the dwellers in cities who live in lux
ury and comfort. In solitude is the
priest made perfect, said an early
monk,, and the Trappist seems to make
;ood the saying.
nrst or tnese rouniains is son aitu
sweet to the palate and almost tepid;
that of the secvind harder and cooler:
the third is icy cold. The legend
forms the subject of many works of
art, but for power and quaintness and
sincerity of expression few or none
equal Shaufelein's picture in the 1
Uffizi gailery at Florence.
Unite for Entertainment.
Many of the congressional families
find it hard to enter into the social
Xfe because of the lack of what is
considered a proper place to receive
calls. A group of ladies from one
western state have surmounted this
obstacle very cleverly for the last sev
eral winters by combining and engag
ing the parlors of a large apartment 1
hotel, in which several of them reside.
The arrangement proved a most pleas
ant and desirable one.
Diplomacy.
Somewhat the worse for wear and
tear, he was being escorted home by
a friend.
As they passed a post on the corner
he insisted on stopping and shaking
hands with it.
“But that,” urged his friend, “is a
postman, and you must not interfere
with him.”
“Zat’s righ\” was the cheerful reply,
“musn’t innerfere with ’Nited Shtates
malls. Come ’long, ol’ boy.”
Thus one more bridge was cross?'’
(Special Correspondence.)
wm farmer tsi&is ana ms iwo ieai
ess sons succeed in lifting the hoo
ioo of a half century from their new
y acquired home? This is a question
which agitates the residents of Little
Canada and the people of Marlboro,
vlass.
Ever since the genial Canadian
moved into the old Cyrus Felton
nouse and induced his two sons to
share the ghostly vigil with him the
■?yes of the neighborhood have been
glued to the house, and the people
who know the ghastly history of the
lomestead have been waiting the out
come. Meanwhile, the new owner tills
the soil, looks after his hens, smokes
his pipe in seeming enjoyment, while
over the place hangs dread super
stition and an air of mystery that for
years kept the place tenantless, and
which even now prevents the women
)f the family of the owner from com
ing to live at the farm.
Traditions of the Old Place.
“It is well for Farmer Blais and
the two sons that they do not think,
oecause it is this thinking which has
Produced mania and which has taken
away the senses of the people who
have lived in the old Felton place.”
So say the neighbors. The story, or
tradition, runs thus:
Over a century ago. when Marlboro
was but a village and Northboro lit
tle more than a settlement, the Fel
ton family built the house and out
buildings. For fifty years the house
was a resting place for travelers and
a place of entertainment for the
young people. A large hall was used
for dancing, and many a joyful party
stayed till dawn before rousing the
sleepy horses and driving back to the
village.
It was in the fifties, while one of
these parties was in full swing, that a
bride and groom from Worcester
alighted from the stage coach and
asked for lodgings for the night. At
midnight, while the musicians were
resting for a “Money Musk” to follow
after a “Virginia Reel,” and while the
young couples were seated or stand
ing around the hall, that a woman's
cry was heard. Then all was still.
It- was such a blood-curdling cry—so
filled with anguish and fright—that
the faces of the women blanched and
they clung tightly to the arms of their
escorts.
The landlord and one of the young
men, more daring than the rest,
climbed the stairs and made for the
door of the room where the young
couple had retired, scarcely an hour
before. The door was pushed open.
The lantern in the landlord’s trem
bling hand shed a light over the room,
and there on the floor, near the open
window, lay tho young bride with a
hideous gash in her white throat. The
bridegroom was found in the West
boro woods days later, a raving man
iac.
“That started the hoodoo.’’ say the
neighbors, and the tragedies which
have followed seem to indicate a ter
rible mental spell, a sort of telepathic
wave, or suicide-by-suggestion process
that lurks within the walls of the
place. It is for students of psychol
ogy to determine the exact causes,
but the facts are matters of current
knowledge as gleaned from the gossip
of those who live in the neighbor
hood.
Tragedies That Followed.
Ten years after the mysterious kill
ing of the young bridde, a traveler, to
whom the story was told one evening
is the patrons of the inn sat around
the fireplace, was found in the morn
ing with his throat cut. stretched out
jn the floor near the open window.
A month later the landlord died,
ind one of the sons undertook to run
he hotel. Its popularity was waning,
however. and he finally abandoned it
to another brother as a homestead.
In the early seventies a stranger
stopped at the house one winter even
ing and asked for shelter, as it was
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Showing Open Window in Suicide’s
Room.
snowing fast and very cold. He was
iccommodated, and as he sat by the
>pen fire and drank from the jug of
dder which his host had provided the
>Id story of the suicide room was told
lira. He laughed at the idea, and in
sisted that he should sleep in the
■oom. He showed a long bowie knife
o his host, and said that if any
;hosts came into the room and tried
o get him to commit suicide he
ivould cut them into ribbons.
Then he went to ihe room, and the
family put out the lights all over the
louse and retired for the night. At 2
j'clock a cry of “Save me!” followed
iy a fiercer cry of “Help!” was heard
oud above the shrieking of tLe win
*r storm.
Hastily springing up from his bed,
he owner of the house rushed from
lis room and to the room of the
dranger guest. The door was unlock
ed and lie pushed it open. He could
see nothing, but the fearful shrieks.
‘Help!’’ “Save me!” were piercing
:he air.
“Where are you?” he shouted, and
hen he heard a fall on the floor, over
iear the window. This was followed
by a heavy moaning, as if some one
urns in pain. He approached the oth
?r side of the room, but as he did so
be heard his wife coming along the
allway, ard_ he returned^ tor the lami
wnicn sne carrieu. 1 ney eniereu me
room and found the stranger stretch
ed out on the floor in his night gar
ments. He was clutching the long
bowie knife, and he was as white as
the snow which piled up on the win
dow sill outside.
He had fainted with fright, they
concluded. After reviving him, he
told them of a terrible dream he had.
He had dreamt that -he was going to
commit suicide, and had arisen from
bed, taken the knife from its sheath
and then began to scream for help.
He said the voice of the host had
roused him from his dream,, and he
had swooned the moment he realized
that he was saved from suicide.
Insanity and Another Tragedy.
That settled it, so far as the owner
and his family were concerned. They
moved away from the house at once,
and an old uncle was allowed to live
in it rent free. He was taken to an
asylum for the insane inside of five
years.
Then the house was idle for five
years or so, and finally Payson Brig
ham moved in. He stayed two years,
| with his wife and son, and one morn
I ing they found him with his throat
Rear View of House of Suicide.
cut and lying near the open window
Then followed ten years when nc
one could be induced to live in the
| house. At last Morrill Brigham anc
j his family moved in. They lived th$re
I apparently unmindful of the hoodoo
t until seven years ago. Then Morrill
Brigham began to do queer things
He would stay up all night singing
strange songs. He read many detec
tive stories. Hawthorne, also, came
in for a great share of his attention
He bought a banjo and learned to play
it, taking lessons from a negro who
lived in a little cabin about seveD
miles up toward Worcester.
When asked by his wife why he
had such strange notions, he would
say that he was trying to drive away
the hoodoo. But he didn’t succeed,
and one morning they found him with
a deep gash in his throat, stretched
out on the floor in the suicide’s room.
For five years after Morrill Brig
ham's death no one would stay in the
house over night. Then Farmer Blais
came along and saw the.good land,
the vacant house and a barn for a
horse if he cared to keep one. He
heard the story' of the suicide room
and the many stories of ghosts and
mysterious noises heard by the pass
ers-by late at night. But that only
made the price of the place more rea
sonable in the market, and so he
bought it.
And there the matter stands, an
enigma to students of psychology
Meanwhile the genial Canadian farm
er and his two sons are sleeping calm
ly at night, unruffled by the traditions
of the self-destruction epidemic which
cling to the upper room.
Sulphur for Diphtheria.
Sulphui is one of the most effica
cious and simple cures for diphtheria
All that is needed is flour of sulphur
and a quill, and with these, it is said,
one celebrated physician cured every
patient without exception.
He put a teaspoonful of flour of sul
phur into a wineglass of water and
stirred it with his finger instead of a
spoon, the sulphur not readily amalga
mating with 'water. When the sulphur
was well mixed the physician gave it
as a gargle, and in ten minutes the
patient was out of danger. Sulphur
kills every species of fungus in a man,
beast and plant in a few minutes. In
stead of spitting out the gargle the
swallowing of it is recommended.
In extreme cases in which the above
specialist had been called in the nick
of time, when the fungus was too
nearly closing to allow the gargling,
he blew the sulphur through a quill
Into the throat and after the fungus
had shrunk to allow of it then gave
the gargle.
Harm In Government Employ.
Senator N. B. Scott dissuades thf
young men of West Virginia from try
ing for clerkships in the departments
at Washington. "Scatter to the ‘
winds,” he tells them, "all ideas of se
curing employment under the govern
ment. but go out in the busy world,
where you can touch elbows with
hustling humanity. Don't coop your
self up in a musty government office !
at a bare living salary and permit all
your energies to remain dormant.
When the government employes have
to go out into the world again they J
have but slight business experience
outside of the dull routine of office '
and have habits which unfit them for
vocations requiring energy and close 1
application.”
Odd Breakfast Food.
Frank L. Stanton has many good
stcries of the South stored up in his
memory, and moat of them are short
and to the point. One of the best and ,
most epigrammatic concerns a Ken
tucky colonel who was just dressing ^
in the morning in his bachelor home ,
in Louisville. "Sambo,” he called ^
downstairs to his henchman, ”go out .
and mow some mint for breakfast”
Little Cholera in Turkey.
The cholera is now almost extin
n Turkish territory.
SHOBT ON INITIALS
FEW PRESIDENTS HAD MORE
THAN TWO NAMES.
If Your Son Is to Occupy High Posi
tion Avoid Handicapping Him With
an Undue Number of “Handles”—
Cases in Point.
If you are cudgeling your brain for
a suitable name for your son and have
any expectation of his being president
of the United States, don’t handicap
him by burdening him with more than ■
one given name. Of the twenty-six
presidents of the United States nine
teen have had only two names each,
while seven carried the weight of
three names.
It is a significant fa<;t that while
three-deckers in nomenclature have
risen to the highest office in the gift
of the people, there has never been a
case of a four-decker rising to this pin
nacle of fame, although people have
risen to great eminence in the com
mon walks of life with four and even
five initials to their names. Anyway,
the facts in the case are that most of
the successful aspirants for the presi
dential chair have sailed under clo>e
reefed topsails.
Another fact is that presidents of
the United States who have had three
names were never re-elected—except
in one conspicuous instance, that of
Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant. Those
having a trilogy in their names who
failed to be re-elected were John
Quincy Adams, the first president
with a triple name; William Henry
Harrison, who died after having been
in office only a short time; James K.
Polk, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A.
Garfield, who was assassinated, and
Chester A. Arthur.
On the other hand, of the nineteen
presidents who had only two names,
nine, or nearly half, were elected to
this high office a second time.
Yiew’ed from the point of time ono
finds plenty of warning against carry
ing too much headgear for those in
tending to enter the troubled waters
of politics. From George Washington
down to the election of Theodore
Roosevelt, a period of 116 years, it is
found that for twenty-eight years of
this period the presidential chair was
occupied by men bearing three names,
while during the remaining eighty
eight years the place was kept warm
by men bearing only two names.
Wherefore, let it be known to all
parents with baby boys that if they
cherish hope of their ever becoming
presidents of the United States,
chances of a realization of these hopes
will be increased by a curtailment ol
their names.
Houses Not for Rent or Sale.
“Do you know that there are sev
eral hundred houses in Philadelphia
the owners of which keep them idle
because of the death therein of a
member of the family?” said a real
estate dealer this morning.
“In the territory where I do much
business I can show you fifty houses
that have been idle from one to ten
Fears that you cannot rent for love 01
money. Many of them were deserted
soon after the death of a member of
the family, and were left completely
furnished, the owners even going to
the expense of renting anot; er hous«
to. uve in.
"A beautiful home belonging to an
eccentric old lady whoiii I know wa?
abandoned by her and her children be
?ause of the husband’s death five year?
ago. Several times have I endeavored
to induce her to rent it, but my effort
were unavailing. The interior of the
house. I understand, still contains the
beautiful furnishings it possessed
when the family moved away. In fact
you can see the lace curtains at some
3f the w indows. They have b<. n turn
?d yellow by the sun.
“Neither can you purchase the
homes referred to unless poverty
forces such families to dispose ol
them. Death alone holds the key ol
?ntranee.”—Philadelphia Telegraph.
How He Won Her.
He had asked her to be hi t. but she
had requested time to consider.
‘it is not that I do not know my
awn mind,” she .explained to her dear
?st friend the next day, ‘‘but I am
not sure that he knows his. This may
he merely aTpassing .fancy.”
A week later he and she were riding
in a Subway train.
“Isn't it glorious,” she said, "to get
to City Hall in nine minutes?”
“The time,” he murmured, “is too
short.”
Just then the train came abruptly
to a stop. “The. ear ahead has burnt
nut all its’fuses;” it was announced,
rwenty minutes elapsed. So the
watches said, but to some of the pas
sengers it seemed three hours.
The lover whispered, “How fortu
nate! I should like to stay in this
raii\ forever.-’
Twenty f minutes more passed.
‘Areiff you tired of this?” she asked.
, “Tired?” he said, “I never appre
'iated the Subway until now.”
That night she accepted him
“I am quite sure now that he love*
ne,” she said to her dearest friend.—
S'ew York Times.
Court's Curt Decision.
Justice Scott of the supreme court
n Manhattan has handed down what
>robably is the shortest decision ever
jut on record in that court. Mrs. Celia
Schlessinger is suing Adolph Schles
iinger for a limited divorce, for an
illowance of $250 a week alimony
lending the determination of her ac
ion and a counsel fee of $1,500 to
mable her to prosecute the suit. “Do
lled,” Justice Scott wrote on the pa
>eis, and Mrs. Schlessinger must con
tnue her suit without either alimony
>r counsel fee. Mrs. Schlessinger is
mown as “The Queen of Diamonds *
if the East Side and is wealthy.
„ Hew Medal of Honor.
Maj. Gen. George L., Gillespie, as
ilstant to the chief of staff of the
irmy, has been granted a patent on
he design for the new medal of honor,
rhis is the final step to be taken by
he officials of the war department to
nsure the exclusive use of this par
icular design to veterans who, by
heir valor on the field of battle, iner
ted high distinction and were decor
ited by their country with the medal
if honor.