THE DELUGE
By DAVID GfiAHAM PifflUFS, Author of “TBFCQfZ&c
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XV
TRAPPED AND TRIMMED.
There are two k:nd? of dangerous
temptations—those that tempt us. and
those that don't. Those that don',.,
give us a false notion of our resisting
power, and so make us easy victims
of the others. I thought I knew my
self pretty thoroughly, and I believed
there was nothing that could tempt
me to neglect my business. With this
delusion of my strength h-ra!y in
mind, when Anita became a tempta
tion to neglect business. 1 said to my
self: "To go up town during business
hours for long lunches, to spend the
mornings selecting flowers and pres
ents for her—these things look like
neglect of business, and would be so
in some men. But I couldn't neglect
business. I do them because my af
fairs are so well ordered that a few
hour- of absence now and then make
no difference—probably send me bacE
fresher and clearer."
When I left the office at half past
twelve on that fateful Wednesday in
June, my business was never in better
shape. Textile common had dropped
I a point and a quarter in two days
evidently it was at Iasi on its way
slowly down toward where 1 could
free myself and take profits. As for
the coal enterprise nothing could pos
sibly haopen to disturb it: I was all
ready for the first of July announce
ment and boon: Never did 1 have a
lighter heart than when I joined Anita
and her friends at Sherry's. It seemed
to me her friendliness was less per
functory, less a matter of appearances.
And the sun was bright, the air deli
cious, my health perfect. It took all
the strength of all the straps Monson
had put on my natural spirits to keep
me iron: pemg exuueraa,.
i had finally intended to he back at
my office half an nour before the ex
change closed—this in addition to the
obvious precaution of leaving orders
that they were to telephone me if any
thing should occur about which they
had the least doubt. But so comfort
able did my vanity make me that !
forgot to look at my watch until a
quarter to three. I had a momentary
qualm: then, reassured. I asked Anita
to take a walk with me. Before we
set out I telephoned my right-hand
man and partner. Ball. As I had
thought, everything was quiet; the
exchange was closing with textile slug
gish and down a quarter. Anita and
I took a car to the park.
We walked for an hour, talking with
!»ss constraint and more friendliness
ban ever before, and when I left her
I for the first time, felt that I had
left a good impression.
When I entered my offices. 1. from
force of habit, mechanically went dl
recr to the ticker—and dropped all in
an instant from the pinnacle of
heaven into a boiling inferno. For the
ticker was just spelling out these
words Mowbray Lar.guon. president
o: the Textile association, sailed un
expectedly on the Kaiser V. ilhelm at
noon A d per cent raise of the divi
dend rate of textile common, from
; he present 4 per cen* to 6 has been
determined upon
And i had staked up to. perhaps be
yond my limit of safety that textile
would fall!
Bail was watching narrowly for
some sign that the news was as bad
as he feared But it cost me no effort
to keep my face expressionless; I w-ns
like a man who has been killed by
lightning and lies dead with the ioofc
on his face that he had just before
th° bolt struck him.
"Why didn't you tell me this.' said
I Ball, "when 1 had you on the
Vihone?" My tone was quiet enough,
bir the very question ought to nave
shown him that my brain was like a
schooner in a cyclone
■ We heard ir jus: utter you rang
off." was his reply. "We've been, try
ing to get you ever since. I’ve gone
evervwhere after textile stock. Very
few will sell, or even lend, and they'
ask—the best price was ten points
abov» to-day's closing. A strong tip s
t.ir that textiles are to be rocketed.
Tee points up already—on the mere
rumor! Already ten dollars to pay on
every share I was "short"—and I short
more than two hundred thousand! I
felt the claws of the fiend Ruin sink
. into the flesh of my shoulders. "Hall
f doesn't know how Tm fixed." I remeni
i e i thought, "and he mustn't know
i i. a ciga- with a steady hand and
waited tor Joe's next words.
"I went to see Jenkins at once." he
went on. Jenkins was then first vice
president of th»- textile trust. "He's
all cur up Because the news got out—
says Lanzhou and he were the only
ones who knew, so he supposed—says
the announcement wasn't to have
been made for a month—not till Lana
rion returned. He has had to confirm
it. though. That was the only way to
free his crowd from suspicion of in
tending to rig the market.'
"All right," said I.
Have yon seen the afternoon pa
iver?' he asked As he held ir out to
me. my eye caught big textile head
lines, then Hashed to some others—
something about my going to marry
Miss Ellers!;.-.
"All right.“ said I. and with the
rtaper in my hand, went to m> outside
office. I kept on toward n inner of-,
nee. saying over my shoulder—to tee
stenographer: "Don’t let anybody in
terrupt me." Behind the closed and
loyked door my body ventured to come
to :ife again and my face to reflect
as much as it could of the chaos that
was heaving in me Like ten thousand
- warring devils
4 Three =vonths before, in the same
situation, _»y gambler s instinct would
probably have helped me out. For 1
had not been gambling in the great
American Monte Carlo all those years
without getting used to the downs as
well as tr> the ups. I had not—and
nave no:—anything of the business
man in my composition. To me. it was
wholly finance, wholly a game, with
excitement the chief factor ani the
sure winning whether the little ball
rolled my way or not. I was the
financier, the gambler and adven
turer ; and that had been my principal
asset. For. the man who wins in the
long run at any of the great frames
of life—and they are all alike—is the
man with the coo! head: and the only
man whose head is cool is he who
plays for the game's sake, not earing
greatly whether he wins or loses on
any one play, because he feels that if
he wins to-day. he will lose to-mor
row But now a new factor bad come
into the game. I spread out the paper
and stared at the headlines: "Black
Matt To Wed Society Belle—The
Bucket-Shop King Will Lead Anita Ki
lersly To The Altar.” I tried to read
the vulgar article under whose vulgar
iines. but I could not. I was sick,
sick in body and in mind My "nerve”
was gone. I was no longer the free
lance; I had responsibilities.
That thought dragged another in its
train, an ugly, grinning imp that
leered a- me and sneered: "fit.: she
won't have you now'
“She will! She must:" I cried
that ever wandered into Wall street:
A dead one, no doubt; but IT. see to it
that they don't enjoy my funeral."
XVI.
A GENTEEL “HOLD-UP.”
In my childhood at home, my father
i was often away for a week or longer.
■ working or looking for work. My
mother had a notion that ;a boy should
be punished only by his father; so.
whenever she caught me in what she
regarded as a serious transgression,
she used to say: "Yon will get a good
whipping for this, when your father
comes home." At first I used to wait
passively, suffering the torments oi
ten thrashings before the "good whip
ping" came to pass. Bnt soon my
mind began to employ the Interval
more profitably. I would scheme to
escape* execution of sentence; and.
though my mother was a determined
• woman, many's the time I contrived to
change her mind. I am not ecorn
mending to parents the system of de
lay in execution of sentence: but 1
must say tha* in my case it was re
sponsible for an invaluable discite
line. For example, the textile tangle.
I knew I was in all human proba
bility- doomed to go down before the
stocs exchange had been open an hour
the next morning. All textile stocks
must start many points higher than
they had been at the close, must go
steadily and swiftly up. Entangled as
my reserve resources were in the
eoa! deal. 1 should have no chance to
cover my shorts on any terms less
than the loss of all I had. At most. I
could hope only to save myselt from
criminal bankruptcy.
There was no signal of distress in
my voice as I telephoned Corey, presi
dent of the Interstate Trust company,
to stay at his office until I came: there
was no sisma! of distress in my man
ner as I sallied forth anc! went down
to the Power Trust building: nor did
I show or suggest that I had heard
the • shot-at-aunrise' sentence, as 1
strode into Roebuck's presence and
greeted him. I was assuming, by way
of precaution, tha- same rumor about
“HE GREW WHITE,
aloud, starting up. And then the
storm burs:—I raged up and down the
floor, shaking my clenched fists,
gnashing my teeth, muttering all
kinds of furious commands and
threats—a truly ridiculous exhibition
of impotent rage For through it all i
saw clearly enough that she wouldn't
have me. that all these people I'd been
trying to climb up amonc wnuid kick
loose my clinging hands and laugh as
they watched me disappear. They
who were none too gentle and slow
in disengaging themselves from those
of their own lifelong associates who
had reverses of fortune—what consid
eration couid "Black Mat*' expect
from them'.’ And sht—the necessity
and the ability to deceive myseif had
gone now that I could not pay the
purchase price for her. The full nid
eousness of my bargain for her
dropped its veil and stood naked be
fore me.
At iasi. disgusted and exhausted. 1
flung myself down again, and d imbly
and helplessly inspected the ruins ot
my projects—or, rather, the ruin ot
the one project upon which t had my
heart set. I had known 1 eared tor
her, but it had seemed tc m* slit was
simply on*- more, the latest, of the
objects on which I was in the habit
o? fixing my will from time to time to
make the game more deeply interest
ing. I dow saw that never bsfor-e had
I really been in earnest altout. any
thing, that on winning her 1 had
staked myself, and that my seif was a
wholly different jierson from what 1
had been imagining. In a word. I sat
face to face with that unfathomable
mystery of sex-affinity that every man
laughs at and mocks another man for
believing in. until he has himself felt
it drawing him against will, against
reason, and sense, and interest, over
th* brink of destruction yawning be
fore his eyes—drawing him as the
magnet-mountain drew Sindbad and
his ship.
But—it is not in me to despair.
There never yet was an impenetrable
siege line; to escape, it is only neces
sary by craft or by chance to hit upon
the moment and the spot for tie sor
tie. "Ruined!" I said aloud. "Trapped
and trimmed like the stupidest itucker
A SICKLY WHITE.”
me either had reached him or would
soon reach him. I knew he had an
eye in every secret of finance and in
dustry. and. while 1 believed my secret
was wholly my own. I had too much
at stake with him to bank on that,
when I could, as I thought, so easily
reassure him.
'T've come to suggest. Mr. Roe
buck." said I. "that you ler my house
—Blackloek and company—announce
the coal reorganization plan It would
give me a great lift, and Melville and
his bank don't need prestige. My daily
letters to the public on investments
have, as you know, got me a big fol
lowing that would help me make the
flotation an even bigger success that:
it's bcmri to be. no matter who an
nounces it and invites subscriptions.”
As I thus proposed that I be in a
jiffy caught up from the extremely
humble level of reputed bucket-shop
dealer into the highest heaven of high
finance, that I be made the official
spokesman of the financial gods, his
expression was so ludicrous that i al
most lost my gravity. I suspect, for a
moment he thought I had gone mad.
His manner, when he recovered him
1 self sufficiently to speak, was cer
tainly not unlike what it would have
^een had he found himself alone be
fore a dangerous lunatic who was
armed with a bomb.
" You know how anxious I am to
help you. to further your interests.
Matthew.' said he wheedlingly. “1
know- no man who has a brighter fu
ture. But—not so fast, not so fast,
young man. Of course, you w-ill ap
pear as one of the reorganizing com
mittee-1—but we could not afford to
have the announcement come tnrough
any less strong and old established
house than the National Industrial
bank." •
"At least, von can make me joint
. announcer with them." I urged.
"Perhaps — yes — possibly — well
j see." said he soothingly. "There is
plenty of time."
"Plenty of time." I assented, as if
quite content. "I only wanted to put
the matter before you." And 1 arose
to go.
"Have you heard the news of textile
common?" he asked.
“Yes." said I carelessly. Then, all
in an instant, a plan 'took shape in my
mind "I own a good deal of the
stock, and I must say. I don t lit*
this raise."
"Why?" he inquired.
"Because I’m sure it's a stock-job
bing scheme." replied 1 boldly. "1
know the dividend wasn’t earned. I
don’t like that son of thing. Mr. Roe
buck. Not because it’s unlawful—the
laws are so clumsy that a practical
man often must disregard them. But
because it is tampering with the repu
tation and the stability of a great en
terprise for the sake of a few millions
of dishonest profit. I'm surprised at
Langdon.”
"I hope you're wrong. Matthew. ’
was Roebuck's only comment. He
questioned me no further, and I went
away, confident that, when the crash
came in the morning, if comes it must,
there would be no more astonished
man in Wall street than Henry J. Roe
buck. How he must have laughed: or.
rather, would have laughed, if his sort
of human hyena expressed its emo
tions in the human way.
From him. straight to my lawyers.
Whitehouse ez Fisher, in the Mills
building.
”1 want you to send for the news
pape- reporters at once.” said I to
Fisher, "and tell them that in my be
half you are going to apply for an in
junction against the textile trust, for
bidding them to take any further
steps toward that increase of divi
dend. Tel! them I. as a large stock
holder. and representing a group of
large stockholders, purpose to stop
the paying of unearned dividends ”
Fisher knew how closely connected
! mv house and the textile trust had
been: bnt he showed, and probaoly
felt no astonishment. He was too ex
■ perieneed in the ways of finance and
financiers. It was a matter of in
difference to him whether I was trying
to assassinate my friend and ally, or
was feinting at Langdon, to lure the
public within reach so that we might,
together, fall upon it and max# a
battue.
Not without some regret did I thus
arrange to attack m;> friend in his ab
| sence. "till," I reasoned, "his blun
der in trusting some leaky person
with his secret is the cause of my
peril—ar.d I’ll not have to justify my
self to him for Irvine to save myself.'’
What effect my injunction would have
I couic nor foresee. Certainly it could
not save me from the loss of my for
tune: but. possibly, it might check the
upward course of the stock long
enough to enable me to snatch myself
from ruin and to cling to firm ground
until the coal deal drew me up to
safety.
My next call was at the Interstate
Trust company. 1 found Corey wait
ing for me in a most uneasy state of
mind.
"is there any truth in this story
about you?" was the question he
plumped at me
i "What story?" said I. and a hard
fight I had to keep my confusion and
alarm from the surface. For. appar
ently. my secret was out.
"That you’re on the wrong side of
the textile."
So it was out! "Some truth." 1 ad
mitted. since denial wouid have been
useless here. ' And I’ve come to you
for the money to tide me over."
He grew white, a sickiy white, and
into his eyes came a horrible, drown
ing look.
'To be Continued.i
-~n—nnmrrrn-Mji-Hj
Believe or Noi
Anyway, the Man Who Wrote the
Story Says He Saw the Eggs.
Colonel Adoniram Van Rensselaer.
Mrs. Colonel Adoniram Van Rens
sniaer and daughters:. Miss Angelina
Clementina and Miss Dorothea Dul
cinea o: Mocking Bird ranch. Screech
Owl township, came to town in the
cool of the morning in their forty
horse power auto to do a little trad
ing. the colonel and the Mrs. Colonel
calling to see us. as everybody does.
It seems that Miss Angelina Clemen
tina's French maid has a g-ea' liking
for poultry, and to piease her fancy
the colonel imported a setting of
high-priced French eggs
In the poultry yard is a iov.. swamp?
spot that seems to be the home of the
firefly, or lightning bug. and one par
ticular helpful hen stays out late of
evenings to catch them. She gorges
, herself on fireflies every evening, be
j fore going to roost, and it was dis
covered a few weeks ago that the
eggs laid by this helpful hen are noc
tnmally luminous, that each egg is
of the brightness of an electric bulb
of a thousand international ohms, or
electro-magnetic units, and that by
i coating them with as impervious
preparation they retain their bril
liancy for an indefinite period. So
Miss Angelina and Miss Dorothea
\9 As You Will
i painted the eggs with all the colors
; of the rainbow—blue lights for the
blue rooms, red for the red rooms.
, white lights for the rooms done in
! white, green lights for the hay mow,
i always observing the proper effects.
The seventeen rooms of the home
the barn and outbuildings are all bril
iiantly lighted with these eggs, so
the buildings, which occup.’ a prom
inent tree-embowered and vine-en
tangled bill, can be seen for miles
We accompanied Colonel Van Rens
'.eiaer to the city garage, where his
forty-horse power auto was Each
headlight of the machine carried an
egs instead of a lamp. Taking one
of the eggs into a dark room, the light
thrown off from it was of the bright
ness of the sun. and we were at once
convinced of the truthfulness of the
story .—T. B. Mnrdoek.
Comparatively few people know
that ringing a bell ruins it. That is.
a beii has a definite length of life,
and after so many blows w-ill break.
A 900 pound bell, struck blows of 17*
foot pounds of force, broke after 11,
0O0 blows A 4,000 pound bell brake
after 18.000 blows of 350 foot pounds
force A steel composition bell
weighing 1,000 pounds broke after 24
j blows of 150 fwot pounds, but its
maker said it was calculated for a
[ tighter blow-.
*
j CALLS MEDICINE PODN SC!ENVL
Prof. Schweninger, of Germany, At
tacks Present Methods.
Berlin.—Prof. Schweninger's new
book entitled "The Doctor" will cre
ate a tremendous sensation in medical
circles. It is his revenge for 20 years
3f ostracisA by the faculty, which
never has forgiven his intimacy with
j Bismarck.
The book embraces the entire duty
| ~>i a physician to humanity, more es
| pecially his patient. It is a terrible
indictment of conventional method?.
Schweninger scoffs at medical science,
its empiricism, its working in the
iark. its claim to the name of a
! science. The medical science of the
l present will be ridiculed a hundred
years hence, just as the science of the
sighteenth century is ridiculed to-day.
he says.
The work of the physician, he holds
is not science so much as art. Science
is obscure, deceptive: art is reliable,
naked, serene, true. The physicians
of to-day make the transit of the pa
tient from sickness to health bitter by
their raw ignorance, their lack of tact,
of art. They cloud over the transit
from life to death.
Schweninger attacks the system of
giving medical men a university edu
cation. They load themselves in uni
versities with ballast of no earthly
use. he asserts. They grow selfish,
pragmatical and frigid. They think
only of gain and learn where and how
they can turn their so-called science
to their own advantage or fame.
BEER IN PLUGS HIS INVENTION.
Kansas Man Discovers Way to Evade
Prohibition Law.
Topeka. Kan —Here is the real
dope, fresh out of the dreambook The
fondest hopes of the man who loves
his pretzels and beer are being real
ized.
A Topeka man has discovered how
to make and sell beer without coming
into conflict with the prohibitory law.
and also without having to pay a
share of the profits to Uncle Sam's in
I ternal revenue collectors
This is the age of concentration and
putting things into small packages.
One can purchase a tin of beef broth
for 15 cents that will feed a whole
family for a week.
But this extract of beer is the real
thing. It is put up in plugs about the
size of a dime's worth of chewing to
bacco. It has a strong resemblance
in looks to the aforesaid plug.
One plug will make from four to
six gallons of the finest beer ever
turned out of a brewery. It can all be
done at home—no middleman's profits,
no trouble, no revenue stamps, no
danger of having an ouster suit filed
against your mayor.
One gets as much refreshment as
one pleases, and all in the home. No
need to go to a "joint.” or drug store,
or club, or to an express office. Just
buy a package of concentrated extract
of hops and malt, take it home, and
make your own beer, five gallons of it
—a whole keg of beer in one bunch as
big as a cake of soap.
LONG TRIP ON HORSEBACK.
Man Wagers He Can Visit All State
Capitals in Four Years.
Washington.—William K. McBeth.
who started from Scottdale. Pa., to
; visit all o! the state capitals of the
United States on horseback, arrived in
Washington the other day.
His trip is the resni: of a wager of
$20,000. McBeth is not allowed to
buy or beg anything for the suste
nance of himself or his mount, but
mus- depend eutireiy for funds and
, shelter upon the presentation of souve
nir post cards which bear his picture
and information concerning his trip.
He is not allowed to offer them for
sale, but may present them and re
ceive in compensation whatever peo
ple may care to give him.
His average ride must be 28 miles
each da3’. and should he for any rea
: son fail to cover this distance, he
must make it up the following day. as
he has only four years in which to
complete his trip.
No consideration will be made for
delays of any kind. Even should his
horse become disabled or die McBeth
must endeavor to fulfill his wager to
the best of his ability, as no allowance
whatever wili be made for him.
When he called at the White House
McBeth was dressed in a corduroy
suit, trimmed with maroon applique,
and was thought at first to be one of
the president's many western friends.
“Sock Shower" Shocks Benedict.
St. Louis.—After friends had an
nounced that a “sock shower’" was to
he given in his honor as a testimonial
to his marriage. C. J. Leach found
the shower to be one pair of socks,
worth about ten cents, and on which
charges of one dollar were imposed.
The result has been the immediate or
ganization of a bachelors' clnb. The
penalty for deserting this organiza
tion will be a dinner, at which the de
serter is to be the host.
Clock Chases Burglar Away.
Norristown, Pa.—An old fashioned
hall clock at the residence of Frank
Willis, in Norristown, prevented a rob
bery. A burglar had gained an en
trance to the house, and in the dark
ness the man had accidentally stum
bled against the clock, which fell to
the floor with a loud crash. The noise
awakened Mr. W illis. who made an in
vestigation. He found that a burglar
had gained an entrance by forcing
open a window. A quantity of silver
ware had been taken off the sideboard
and had been placed in a bag ready
to be carried away, but the thief fled
when the clock fell down.
Liturgical Irony.
An old resident of Concord, Mass.,
twitted a physician of her acquaint
ance on his limited practice. This
spurred the doctor up a little and
brought this reply:
“The druggists think differently, for
1 send so many prescriptions that "the
glorious company of me apothecaries'
praise me.”
“Ah.” answered the lady, “but what
say the noble aimy of martyrs, your
patients T*
View Inside a Snbnarine.
Overhead is the commanding officer's platform, and tne steering-wneel.
To the rignt is the inside tilierwheei and below it tne driving-wneel to deflect
the rudders. In the middle background is the flywheel, and behind it are
tne submarine’s engines. On the left is the indicator which shows the depth
beneath tne surface and the vessel’s deflection from the horizontal. The ques
tion of escaoe from sunken submarines is seriously engaging the attention
of engineers, and also that of communication with the surface. The presence
of a disabled boat can be revealed by the detachable buoy connected with the
vessei by a reel of wire. It also establishes telephone connection. This ap
paratus is new being fitted to the U. S. submarine plunger.
FIRST IN ART OF OLD.
CHICAGO LEADS WORLD IN MAK
ING OF ART GLASS.
Stained Glass Windows Made There
Decorate Churches in Every Land
on Earth—Baffling Problem
Solved by Workmen.
Chicago.—Chicago has robbed Eu
; rope of a distinction of which it was
proud. Italy. France, and Austria have
been outdone in an art in which they
have for centuries been supreme.
Chicago now leads the world in the
designing and making of art glass and
I stained windows. The city may be
scorned as inartistic and commercial,
but the workers in coloring and lead
ed glass have advanced far beyond
their fellow craftsmen in other coun
tries. and particularly is this true of
the men who design stained glass win
dows. More than a score of firms
here are engaged in the manufacture
of art glass, and their product is now
mode widely known that that of any
I other city or country.
There are hundreds of permanent
proofs of Chicago's artistic supremacy
! in the making of stained-glass win
dows. There are manufacturers here
who can point to their office walls
hung with photographs of buildings
in far off countries, the windows for
each one of which were designed and
made in this city. It is indeed an un
civilized snot, one not blessed with
churches, where Chicago windows are
net prominent. South Africa has Chi
cago windows in a Capettown church;
Melbourne, Australia has several,
j there are two in the City of Mexico,
and a number are scattered through
Japan. In Russia Vladivostok a great
theater has Chicago windows of bril
I liant colors and intricate design, and
| Quite recently came an order from
Germany for a large number of leaded
panels to be used in the palace of the
emneror. Italy and Rome itself have
examples of this city's art. and many
of the old world cathedrals, as re
pairs become necessary, order copies
! of the original windows from Chicago.
An order just given to a Chicago
company adds one more proof to the
city's supremacy in glass work It
calls tor three immense triple win
dows. representing religious subjects,
to be placed in the Central Methodist
Episcopal church of the Philippine
islands, at Manila. Rev. Homer C.
Stuntz. D D.. superintendent of the
Philippine islands mission conference,
who brought the order to this city,
will have some original ideas em
bodied in the designs, for. while
neither the subjects nor their tech
nical handling will be different from
other ecclesiastical windows, the color
scheme is unique.
As a general thing church windows
are made of colors that add warmth to
the interior. Red and yellow tones
predominate, and are softened with
broken browns and greens. w*hile ev
ery cold color is eliminated. For Ma
nila the idea is entirely different
There the tropical sunligh- is dazzi
ing: its brilliance pains the eyes and
wearies the brain. To offset the pain
fully brilliant colors of the landscape
and to give the interior of the new
church an appearance of cool restful
ness. the windows recently ordered
will be done in thick, dark opalescent
glass that will shut out the glaring
sunlight and. with cold greens and
blues and purples, give relief and rest
to the senses
But Chicago's supremacy in window
making does not depend on widely
scattered orders from foreign cities:
it is firmly fixed by the originality
and skill of the a’-tisans. A Chicago
man first conceived the idea of lead
ing together beveled plate glass and
of using it combined with the stained
glass. And it was a Chicago factory
that solved the problem that has baf
fled glass workers for more than five
centuries, the problem of finding a
method to join pieces of glass with
hard metals, such as brass, copper
and zinc, in place of the soft lead
that has been used so long and which
is so flexible that the patterns must be
marred by heavy rods to stiffen the
windows and prevent bending.
INDIANS ARE DYING OF GRIEF.
Creeks Cannot Adapt Themselves to
New Government.
Kansas City, Mo.—Pleasant Porter,
chief of the Creeks, states that many
of his people died during the last
year, and that a great many of these
deaths are due to discouragement on
account of a change of government,
change of conditions and environment
to which the Creeks cannot become
adapted. This remarkable statement
i is contained in the annual message of
the Creek chief to the council, which
is in session here. The words of the
! chief are:
“I regret to state that a large num
ber of our people have died during
the last year. From my observation,
the cause of many deaths has been
discouragement. They had lived their
entire lives under a different system
of government, and had had the use
of their lands in common. The
change has had a decided effect upon
the older people, and the change of
methods under which they have been
accustomed to live seemed to be a
source of discouragement and was a
potent factor in causing their deaths.
"The younger class of our people
seem to be more in harmony with
present conditions, and the change
has had a great efTect in deciding
their higher aspirations, thus better
ing their condition, especially those
of our people who have been to
school. I notice that the children of
our younger women who have been
to school are doing better in meeting
the new conditions than others of onr
people."
Monkeys an Aid to Science.
Discovery Made That Temblekan la
Antidote ‘-or Strychnine.
Amsterdam.—"The Dutch colonial pa
pers report a remarkable case of ani
mal instinct. The people of the ril
, ;agc- of Negowo. in the Javanese prov
ince of Salatiga. suffered by the rav
ages of an immense horde of gray
monkeys which destroyed the planta
1 tkms.
The Dutch subgovernor recom
mended that they try strychnine, and
, the favorite fruits of the monkeys ac
cordingly were collected in qnanti
ties. heavily dosed with strychnine,
and deposited in a wood.
The monkeys ate freely and many
I were violently ill, but none died. It
was then discovered that the monkeys,
when they felt the effects of the poi
son. went in search of and ate tem
blekan leaves, a certain weed which
grows profusely in the archipelago
It was also found that the animals
too 111 to seek the weed themselves
had it brought to them by their leas
; suffering fellows.
The Batavian authorities now are
conducting a series of experiments
: with the view of asce-taining the true
curative qualities of tembiekan.
A Turkey Shoemaker.
“Well." remarked Archie, as he
came in from the farmyard, "you folks
i won’t have to eat imrefq|t turkeys
| this year."
“What do you mean?" asked his
mother.
The budding humorist grinned gen
erousiy.
“I just jhoo'd them." he replied.—
Judge.
Four Better.
“My mother wears a No. 2 shoe."
said the first little girl, proudly.
•Pooh’" rejoined the other littl*
I girl, in a tone redolent with contempt.
"That’s nothing. My mother wear*
a No.
