Senator from Massachusetts -III!-lilfHI*****""*""*""! I '■- - ■ I « [rnmn^op r- - —. LQp j Mr. Crane was recently elected to succeed himself as United States sen ator from the state of Massachusetts. He stands high in the councils of his party and is often called upon by the president as adviser in matters of state. A MODEL CHILD VILLAGE. PROVIDED FOR BY WILL OF AN ECCENTRIC MILLIONAIRE. Aim of Seybert Institution Will Be to Train Poor Young and Develop Them—Is First of Kind in the World. Philadelphia.—The Seybert institu tion for poor children, with a $1,500, 000 fund just available under the will of Henry Seybert, who died in 1883, will go into the business of relieving poor children at the rate of 1,000 a year, first by an arrangement with the Children's Aid society to open a chil dren’s bureau at 1506 Arch street on February 15; next by creating a model village, unlike anything on earth, on a 300-acre farm at Meadowbrook, with cottages for 300 poor children and school-training facilities; next by set ting up a training school for child savers. Other branches of child-saving work will be developed in the future as need arises under the Seybert institution, created by the bachelor benefactor in honor of his father and mother, Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert. The full text of the announcements has been handed out by the trustees of the Sey bert institution, all well-known citi zens of Philadelphia. The children’s bureau, a clearing house in its way, begins business February 15 by going to the relief of the juvenile court. It offered by a let ter to Judge Bregy to “provide for destitute and neglected children and those whose delinquencies, if any, are not sufficiently serious to require com mitment to the house of refuge.” The Children's Aid society, now hav ing 1,100 children under its care, is to work side by side in the same office building and all the agencies are to be invited to participate in harmon izing and developing the work of child saving and child training, child em ployment and child legislation. The Seybert institution offers for poor girls the nearest approach to what Girard college is for orphan boys. Its model village for 300 will be the first of its kind in the world. The aim is that the life of the children shall be as near as possible like that of a nor mal child in a family home in a small community. Engineers s.nd architects are at work on the plans for Meadow brook farm on the Reading railroad 13 miles north of Philadelphia to create there the model child city, a little New Jerusalem for the boys and girls res cued from slums. Sevbert was a chemist and a son of a distinguished chemist, led a sin gle. romantic, eccentric life, studied and traveled abroad, lived three years in Paris, left a bequest, to the uni versity for investigation of spiritual ism and gave the city the bell and clock which rings and marks the hours in the belfry of Independence hall. Bible in New Language. London.—A polyglot printing house here which published the Lord’s pray er in 400 languages has been asked by a missionary in central Africa to print the grammar of a new language he has discovered. The missionary had to draw and send sketches of the letters. The grammar is on the Oden dorf system and the missionary in tends to teach the natives of the jun gle to read and write. Briar Wood Pipe Material. Increasing American Purchases of the Italian Supply. Washington.—Complying with the request of a Kentucky firm as to the manner of getting out briar wood blocks iu ftaly. Consul James A. Smith, of Leghorn, submits the following in- | formation: “The larger part of the Italian briar wood is found aiong the Mediterrane an coast, extending from Savona on the north to Calabria on the south; the Ligurian Riviera. Tuscany, Um bria, the Roman provinces, the three provinces of Calabria, as well as the islands of Corsica and Sardinia fur nishing an abundant supply. The work of excavating the root of the briar wood tree is carried on from October , until the end of May. A kind of grub bing spade with one sharp edge for cutting away the large billet or heart of the root (the valuable part) from the surrounding small roots is used in this work. The billet is known as the ciocco. After being thoroughly cleaned and trimmed, it is brought to the mill and by means of circular saws cut in to small blocks corresponding rough ly to the shape of a pipe bowl and stem. These blocks are of various sizes, depending upon the dimension and shape of the ciocco. Afterward they are immersed iu boiling water for a period of about 12 hours and then thoroughly dried. “This process completed, they are sorted, (the imperfect pieces being thrown aside), placed In large jute bags, and are then ready for ship ment. The waste pieces unsuitable for pipes are sold for firewood, being an excellent material for this purpose. Exportations of briar wood from this district to the United States have shown a decided increase during the past few years. In 1905, 11,904 bales were shipped, with a value of over $100,000, while during the first nine months of 1906 nearly 16,000 bales, with a value of over $125,000, were ex ported from Leghorn. Always in Season. “There is something wonderful about the prune,” remarked the thin boarder. “And that is?” said the lady at the head of the etable. “It seems to be always seasonable!” —Yonkers Statesman. To Chloroform Bachelors. Boston. — Unmarried women of Wakefield, Mass., have petitioned the legislature asking for a law taxing all bachelors up to 40 years old and an application of chloroform after that age. Gen. Fred Grant's Aid In Want. - i Charles Miller, an Old Indian Scout, Robbed of Last Cent. Lawton, Okla.—One of the most in timate .frlc'ds in the United States army that Gen. Henry Lawton ever had and one of the most trusted men on detail that Gen. Frederick Grant was ever associated with is practically a beggar to-day, being a laborer on a railroad Job at odd times. His name ig Charles Miller, and toe was knocked down on a street of this city the other day by a ruffian and robbed of $2.40, the last money he had on earth. More than 30 years ago Miller en listed in the United States cavalry back in Massachusetts. He was sent west with the Fourth cavalry, in which Henry Lawton and Frederick Grant were first lieutenants. Lawton was quartermaster in the garrison of a western post to which they went . and Grant was lieutenant in Miller’s company. The three fought together in many ft skirmish and in a few bat ties with the Sioux Indians on the Big Horn. Miller came back here recently just to see how Fort Sill looked since the Indians have become civilized and white people have populated the coun try. Here he sees many objects to re mind him of associations with illus trious men and here, amid such mem ories. he hopes to spend his declining years. Blindness Among Arabs. At a meeting of the Academy of Medicine, held on December 4, 1906, M. Chauvel read a paper communicat ed by M. Bolgey dealing with the sub ject of blindness among Arabs. The observations therein described showed that the principal causes of blindness among Arabs were, in order of their importance, uncleanHuess, flies, dif fused clare of the sun, dust containing sandy particles and the excessive use of koheul (sulphide of antimony). LOCATE IOWA METEOR LONG LOST ROCK FINALLY FOUND IN VIENNA. Fell Near Esterville in 1875 and Has Been Sought by George Barber for Years — Brought High Price from Purchasers. Esterville, la.—After a lapse of 32 years, the famous “Barber” meteor, for which George Barber, of this place, had searched for years, has been found in a Vienna museum, carefully labeled that all visitors may know that it is one of Iowa’s products and fell near Esterville in June, 1875. Fearing the Barber brothers, who dug up the great meteor, would be able to recover the largest "piece of the precious rock, it was quickly passed from one person to another, as soon as it was shipped east, until its whereabouts soon became a mat ter of mystery. Inspired with a desire to secure the meteor for the Iowa Historical so ciety or for the state university, many have attempted to locate the- missing rock, but search for it has been fruit less. George Barber has followed the meteor almost around the world, and Iowans have searched the museums of England and of Rome, expecting to see it among the spoils of time, but it has been left to Thomas R. Wallace, a former Iowan, to discover the rock which put Esterville on the map in one of the great museums of Vienna. Thomas R. Wallace, who has noti fied George Barber of finding the me teor in Vienna, is one of the men who saw it fall, on the farm of the Seven Lee farm, two miles north of here, about one o’clock in the afternoon of June 28, 1875. Charles and George Barber dug it out of the ground some 14 feet deep. The largest piece, which is now in Vienna, weighed 132 pounds. The smaller pieces weighed together 400 pounds, making a total weight of 532 pounds. At tne time ot me great pnenome non the land on which the rock fell bad been sold to a Mr. Lee, and only a small amount paid down. The Bar ber boys were given permission by him to dig out the meteor, but the former owners brought suit against the Barbers and the Emmet county clerk refused to accept signers to a $500 bond offered by the Barber boys under replevin proceedings, after the land owners had secured possession of the rock. While the boys were trying to re gain possession of the meteor, the par ties loaded it into a wagon and hauled it overland to Keokuk, where it was sold to eastern parties, and resold to other parties for $58,000. It was sold a year or two later to an English com pany for $100,000. Small pieces which the Barber boys secured have been sold for $500 each, but Iowans have always wanted to secure posses sion of the big piece, which now rests among the marble and bronze statues of Vienna. Within a short time the scientific world learned of the meteor. The Barber brothers were offered $50,000 for the big piece, and. believing that it could be secured, efforts have been made from time to time to get it back on Hawkeye soil. The Barbers lost $10,000 because the county clerk re fused to accept a man worth $25,000 on a bond for $500. HEART-SHAPED BRIDAL COACH. Gorgeous Equipage Designed to Boom Wedding Business. - "V Pittston, Pa.—A bridal coach, de signed to boom matrimony and do away with the custom of decorating ordinary hacks with white ribbons, has just been completed here at a cost of $1,800. The coach, which is designed In the shape of a heart, is painted maroon and black with gold trimmings, the lines arranged to form hearts everywhere possible. There are 20 hearts in all on the vehicle, in cluding eight heart-shaped windows. Two large hearts join to form the dashboard and two more crop out at the rear springs. The lamps, which have electric lights inside, are each surmounted by a Cupid, with his bow and arrow, clad in the happiest smiles. The coach is upholstered in cream-colored velour and old gold trimming, with two sets of watered silk curtains overhead and a cluster of calla lilies in the hearts of which are concealed red, white and blue electric lights. The carriage equipment likewise in cludes a speaking tube and electric bell to connect with the driver. The carriage took seven months to build. It is to be hauled by four cream-col ored horses. Sues Railroad 2,140 Times. Appleton, Wls.—Henry Miller, a farmer, has begun 2,140 suits against the Chicago & Northwestern Railway company for $21,400, or ten dollars foi* each locomotive that has crossed his farm since he advised the railroad company to construct a culvert and crossing. The complaints in these cases fill about GOO type-written pages Reserve Force. Every life has its secret well of hidden strength—a mother’s benedic tion. some consecration of early youtli, some habit, some attachment, some form of words which may sound weak and trifling to others, but are an an chor to higher living. These should be treasured in the heart as a safeguard against the temptations which press on every side, and, if allowed to tri umph, will rob the life of its deepest and truest meaning. Deaths Under Chloroform. An English physician points out that doctors are sometimes blamed for the death of patients under chloro< form, when the catastrophe is due en tirely to the parents or friends, who ignore the strict orders not- to give any food before the operaton, and by administering milk, eggs, an orange, or chocolates, to “fortify him for the operation,” bring on fatal complica tions. Italy’s State Lottery. Rome.—Italy’s state lottery took in $17,000,000 in a year and gave back in prizes $9,000,000. Much of the money came from the poorest people I SUGAR ON HER SOUL j j By GRACE SALINGER j (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Aggie May had committed a terrible crime, and now she was reaping the harvest. She knew it, because her mother had told her so, and whoever heard of a mother telling a lie? If only Aunt Mag had said it she thought there might have been a mistake, but her mother—never! And how she had said it! Aggie May’s sobs gained new force as she recalled her mother's cold face when she had said: "Aggie May, what have you been doing?" And Aggie May could feel again the sickening horror of detection. She surreptitiously put forth a small red tongue, which swiftly made the cir cle about two rosy lips to gather in all telltale crumbs. And then, secure in her belief that she had well cov ered her tracks, she had answered, unblushingly: “Nothing.” Aggie May's tongue was short, and sugar had such an unpleasant way of sticking to fat baby hands and fat baby faces. Aggie May's mamma's face grew harder still as she uttered these awful words: “Aggie May, you will never go to heaven. You are no child of mine. You have violated every one of the Lord’s command ments. He has told you not to steal, yet you have done it; he has said you must not lie. yet you are doing it. Do you think he is going to forgive you? No! He has pun ished you already. Come here." In fear and trembling awe Aggie May stepped to her mother's side. Mrs. Sangster deliberately traced the outline of a word on the child's brow. “Listen,” she said, “this is w’hat is written there. S-u-g-a-r. That spells r~-swr—:—v < Where Was She? ‘sugar.’ Aggie May, you have been stealing sugar.” Then her mother’s voice continued: “All your life you will have that word written on your forehead. And as you grow older it will probably deepen,” she added, sadly. Certainly Aggie May’s mother realized the fear ful extent of the calamity. Then she turned and cruelly left the room. Aggie May stood in a dazed stupor for a moment, then she hastily climb ed on a chair to look into the glass. It was at this juncture that Aunt Mag came in, and unconsciously set tled everything. She found Aggie May with a very sugary mouth and tearful eyes before the mirror. In a minute her own keen eyes had grasped the sit uation. "Aunt Mag,” said Aggie May. “what do you see on. my forehead?” Aunt Mag looked straight at Aggie May’s mouth, and then she said: "Sugar.” Aggie May’s ^yes grew dark with horror. “Is it written in very big and black letters?” she asked. “Very big and black,” answered her aunt. “Don’t you fink it will ever come off?” queried Aggie May, anxiously. “I should say not,” answered her aunt, “it’s so black.” “Oh, Aunt Mag,” she pleaded, tear fully, “the dirt on my finger corned off when I washed it yesterday. Don't you reckon I can wash this oif?” “I don't know,” said Aunt Mag, thoughtfully. “This is not your finger, you know; it’s your soul.” “But you said it was my forehead,” said Aggie May, with a gleam of hope. “it shines through, answered her Aunt Mag. “If you want to rub it off you’ll have to wash your soul.” Aggie May turned her small face to ward the open door. Here was a problem. She must think. Where was her soul ? Beneath the apple tree Aggie May gave way to the full horror of her mis ery and despair. How could she reach her soul? Her hands moved restless ly over her chubby body. Where was her soul? She had certainly heard it mentioned before, but no one had ever located it exactly. It couldn’t be in her stomach, she knew that, because hadn’t Aunt Mag said the blackness shone through on her forehead? Cer tainly! Of course! How stupid she was! It was in her head, underneath her hair. But how was she to get at it? Again the complication of circum stances appalled her. Clearly the first thing to do, however, was to cut off her hair. After that she might scratch a little hole right back of the forehead and get it out. The opera tion sounded painful, and at heart Ag gie May was a coward. She decided that to crop the golden treBses might be efficacious. After that she would go down and hold her head in the brook all day. Maybe the water would soak in. She started back to the house. Obviously the first thing to do was to get a pair of scissors and some soap. Aggie May crept softly into her mother’s room. It wa3 empty, with her work-basket lying just within Ag gie May’s reach. She turned back to the orchard triumphantly. By night her soul should be clean. , Through the orchard, over the meadow, into the cool darkness of the woods, Aggie May sped. The brook was deep In the heart of the forest, and she had never been there alone before, but she knew’ the way. Un der the dim aisles of quiet trees the child ran swiftly, now one direc tion, now another, until in a maze of bark and trunk she stood, a great fear arising in her heart. Where was she? But she w'ent on determinedly. The brook must be found. Mrs. Sangster stood at the door, shading her eyes with her hand. “What can make the child so late?" she said. Her sister glanced up from her work. “Perhaps she has gone to meet her father," she suggested. But the mother caught sight of a figure moving across the meadow. “No,” she said; "there comes Abe alone. Mag, something has happened to Aggie May.” She started down the path, and her sister rose, and reluctantly followed. “I last saw’ her under the apple tree about three, I should say,” answered Mag. The three hurried to the spot, half expecting to find her at play. It was Aggie May’s favorite spot to play, to think or to pout. All the great crises of her life had been enacted here: But her swing hung limp and motion less. Mr. Sangster turned to go, but his wife suddenly called him back w'ith a piercing cry. “Look!” she said. At her feet lay a heap of golden curls, and beside them, thrown upon the ground, lay a pair of scissors—her scissors. "Indians,” gasped Mag, turning white. “Gipsies," ventured the mother. “Oh, Aggie May, Aggie May, where are you?” she called, wildly. Mr. Sangster said nothing. He stooped and gathered up the handful of golden hair, and crammed it in his pocket. Then he crossed the meadow. In the open space it was still broad daylight but in the forest beyond the shadows were alw’ays black. Meanwhile Aggie May’s little feet’ sped fast and faster. The shadows thickened. How thickly they fell amid the dense growth of the forest. Ghosts and goblins loomed fantas tically behind each tree. A sharp crackling sound overhead made her crouch and hold her breath in terror. It was a dead branch falling at her feet. With a nameless fear that choVed her. she hastened on. Suddenly the trees became less dense, and the light grew brighter, as she neared the open space. She stood in wonder. It was not the fairies after all. She had reached the brook. She knelt down beside it. She took from her pocket the soap, and rubbed it carefully on the spot just behind her forehead. Her mamma would be glad to see her without that black word on her brow. The little shorn head bent low over the swiftly mov ing stream, and she caught the reflec tion of earth and sky in its dancing ripples. Suddenly she reeled, the earth slipped away, she felt the cold water grip her, and then with a cry she plunged head foremost into the current. , home instinct or motherhood guided Mrs. Sangster’s footsteps. The sound of Aggie May's voice reached her faint ly at first, then louder, until it re sounded through the stillness in fran tic echoes. Following the sound, she plunged ahead, and arrived just in time to see a small hand flung out wildly from the middle of the brook, then sped onward. It was not a heroic task to step in and rescue the fallen child. Mr. Sangster waded to the middle of the stream, and in a moment Aggie May was in her mother’s arms. Behind them, in the forest, lights were gleaming like fireflies, and the arched dome of the forest rang with shouts of Aggie May’s name. She lay very white and scared, while the water trickled down in little rivulets from her limp arms and legs. Aggie May flung a dripping arm about her mother’s neck. “It was very cold,” she said, nestling closed in the pro tecting arms, “and the water getted in my froat, but I fink it must have corned off. They ain't no sugar on my soul now, is they, mamma?” And Mrs. Sangster, with choking voice, answered: “No, dear; your soul is very white now.” Aggie May clapped her hands joy ously. “I knowed It,” she said. Then a quick shadow passed over her face. “It must ’a’ been the soap, though," she said, “ ’cause I wasn’t in the brook very long.” — Engaged. “I have here,” began the applicant, "a letter of recommendation from my minister.” “Sorry,” interrupted the merchant, “but I’m afraid—” “Pardon me,” put in the applicant, hastily, “but the minister writes that I am so worldly he utterly disap proves—” ' ‘‘Hang up your hat and coat.” Handicapped. “Have the Eskimos adopted any of the ways of civilization yet?” asked the young man with the plastered hair. “Exceedingly few,” said the arctic explorer. "Think how costly it would be, for instance, to put on a full dress suit up there and wear it to tatters in one evening.”—Chicago Tribune. Might as Well Be. Greening—What! You don’t mean to say that Cubebs is an advertising doctor? Browning—Well, he doesn’t adver tise in the papers, but he is always telling how he cured people after all the other doctors had given them up —Chicago Daily News. .* . . X ' LEADER OF ENGLISH “SUFFRAGETTES” l p Mrs. B. Borrmann Wells, most prominent of the women of England who are demanding equal electoral rights with men, is at present visiting in New York. SWALLOW’S FLIGHT IS RAPID. ' Speed of 128 Miles An Hour Determin ed in an Experiment. The French scientific weekly, Cie! et Terre, prints an interesting article about the speed of several birds, as ob served by August Vershcurin of Ant- i werp. The rapidity of flight credited to the swallow (290 feet a second) seemed exaggerated to him and he un dertook some experiments on his own hook. He sent several baskets of pigeons to C’ompeigne, France, and in a sepa rate cage a swallow which had its nest under the gable roof of the rail road station at Antwerp. On Novem ber 7, at 7:30 in the morning, all the birds were liberated at Compeigne; the swallow took a northern direction as quick as lightning, while the pig eons made several spirals in the air before they started in the same direc tion. The swallow arrived at its nest in Antwerp at 8:23, a number of wit nesses being present at its arrival. i The first pigeons only arrived at , their destination at 11:30 of the same j morning. The swallow had, therefore, | covered the entire distance of 146)4 | miles in one hour and IS minutes, j TONIC IN A SUN BATH. In Most Cases Better Than Any Medi cine Taken Internally. Some one called the sun God’3 anti septic and sterilizer, and certain it is that not half the people on the earth realize how large a part sunshine can play in cleansing, purifying and mak ing whole. No one can overestimate the value of a sun bath, and each year you see an increased number of children, wrapped up from the cold and com fortably tucked into the perambula tors, on the sunny end of the piazza, getting the benefit of this greatest of nature’s tonics. Sun baths that are taken as a rem edy for rheumatism, or to ward against sleeplessness, have better ef fect if they are followed by a wrarm sponge. If they are taken for any skin disease (and in such troubles they are exceedingly valuable), they should be followed by a warm bath. Even when there is no special dis ease to fight, but jnst a sense of lan guor and fatigue, and a run-down ner rous system, the sun bath will do good work—better than medicine.—Boston Herald. DISTRIBUTION OF RECENT EARTHQUAKES Stars on map show location of earthquakes which have done such ter rible damage within the last few weeks. which is equal to a speed of 128 Vt miles an hour, or about 189 feet a sec- I and, which is about double the speed of an express train. The pigeons only reached a speed of 35 miles an hour, or 48 feet a second. It may be gathered from these figures how rapidly the migrations of the swallows take place, as with the speed given above it would require only half a day to fly from Belgium or Central Germany to northern Africa. Revival of the Stock. The early Victorian dandy has re appeared in Piccadilly, London, herald ing a revival of the stock as the fash ionable neckwear for men. Walking down the classic avenue, a rising young author, tall and of dis tinguished appearance, attracted at tention by wearing a faithful repro duction of the stock of the 1830 period. He was otherwise faultlessly dressed in the style of 1906-7. To be a strict devotee of the new cult the modern dandy must wear a stock of black English silk, wrapped round the front of the throat, fastened at the back and tied under the chin in a large bow. The correct collar to be worn with the stock is a new style, cut low at the back and showing rounded points ia front a quarter of an inch above the stock. toooooooooooooooooooooooooo Business Women of a Maine Town. If Norway ever should have a mayor the chances are ten to one a woman would hold the office. This Oxford county village of 1,500 inhabitants has more than a score of women managing progressive lines of business. The town physician is a woman. A woman is justice of the peace. A woman manages a dry goods store. Another is photographer, a fifth is bank cash ier, a sixth is an undertaker, and still a seventh is an insurance agent. Un til her recent resignation Rev. Caro NEW IDEA FOR INVENTORS. Something the World Needs and Would Pay Well For. “Inventors would get untold gobs os free advertising if they would give t( their inventions names rymping with some one or other of our 5,000 rhyme less words,” an editor said. “Take the word ‘silver.’ It has ac rhyme. It is a stumbling block to ev ery poet. The poet uses it at a line’s end and then has to destroy the line because there is no rhyme for it. Sup pose, as he sought frantically, an in vention called the ‘dilver’ appeared. Then, in order not to lose his line, the poet would drag in the new inven tion, thus giving it an ‘ad’ worth $5 to $10, an ad like this: “ ‘The moonlit sea, a sea of silver. As perfect as a perfect dilver.’ “Do you catch the idea? Yet our in ventors exercise their best talent, call a new aeroplane a ‘woif to rhyme with ’coif,’ a.new soundless typewriter a ‘gorange' to rhyme with ‘orange,” a home ice-making machine a ‘kulf’ to rhyme with gulf,' and so on.” True Chivalry. Knicker^-Does he carry things for his wife? Bocker—Everything but the point. ^“Trmnnnnnnnnnnnoonnnni luu line E. Angell was, for 18 years, pas tor of the Univeisalist Church of Nor way. Mrs. P. W. Sanborn i3 responsi ble for the appearance of the Norway Advertiser, the local weekly. This by no means completes the list of the successful business women of Norway. —Lewiston Journal. He’s Dead. “What has become of the man who used to write plausible articles on ‘How to Live on Thirty Cents a Day?’ “ asks an exchange. Dead, most likely. •