THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE , FRIDAY , DECEMBER 12 , 1906.
FARM LIFE FOR ITALIANS.
Baron Planches Advisee Hie Country
men to Leave Cities and
Take Up Flow.
Barou Edmondo Mayer Dea
Planches , ambassador from Italy
to the United States , who is mak
ing a tour of the southern states ,
stopped in St. Louis a few days
' ago , and in the course of an ad
dress advised the Italians who
come to this country to take up
farming.
"The Italian immigrant , fresh
from the shores of Italy , gets into
New York first , because nearly all
the ships enter at that port. ' ' said
Uai-on des Planches , "lie is lined
ucated , usually , and has but little
money after he has paid his
passage. He begins work imme
diately , and takes up anything his
hands find to do. Sometimes ho
gets to blacking boots or push
ing a banana cart. The pay is
small and ho has little opportu
nity of improving his mind. His
children are brought up in the
streets , and they follow in their
father's footsteps. Occasionally
an Italian will have enough money
to get to some other city.
"What I desire is to induce
these Italians in the cities to go
to the country. There laborers
are wanted , especially in the
south. There is a great oppor
tunity for Italians in truck-farm
ing , fruit raising and general ag
riculture iu the south. Land is
cheap and may be obtained and
paid for in a few years. The im
migrant who goes to the country
linds a chance to scud his children
( o school. He learns the customs-
o ! the people of the United States
quicker , and thereby becomes a
better citizen.
"Jt has been said that I am seek
ing to promote immigration. This
is not so. My desire is to have my
fellow countrymen who seek the
United States make better citi
zens for the United States. 1
waiit them to have respect for the
laws and in other ways so conduct
themselves that they may reap
the great advantages offered in
this country. I advise all Italians
coming here to become Americans
as soon as possible and to do as
the Americans do. In this way I
feel that they will not be looked
down upon. Some day , when I am
-dead , some of them may thinlpf
the time that des Planches sent
them to the country , and they may
give him thanks. That is all th'
credit I expect to got out of it. "
DODGING REAL QUESTION.
She Bid Not Question Lady's Reputa
tion , It Was the Jelly That
Didn't Suit.
A lady Avho intended to give a
dinner to some friends at which
the piece de resistance was to be
duck shot by her husband on the
shores of eastern Maryland , de-
dded that none but the very best
jelly should be served as an ac
companiment to the dainty fare ,
relates Collier's Weekly.
So she proceeded to a gorgeous.
Broadway establishment , a place
where one pays a quarter apiece
for tomatoes and a dollar a stock
for asparagus at certain seasons
of the year. The jelly the clerk of
fered her did not appear to be just
what she wanted , so she suggest
ed another variety.
"But , madam , " said the clerk ,
haughtily , "this is the very best
jelly you can buy. It is made by
Mrs. McOuggin , of Brooklyn. "
And he pointed to the label on the
jar.
"I've never heard of it , " meek
ly suggested the lady. "Are you
sure it's all right ? Do you guar
antee it ? "
Seeing that his customer was ex
tremely mild of manner and per
haps to be easily rattled , the clerk
smiled in a patronizing way.
"Guarantee ! " repeated he , more
haughtily than ever , "madam , wo
don't have to guarantee Mrs. Me-
Ouggin's jelly. Her name is >
enough. This lady , madam , has n
reputation ! "
" 0 , I have no doubt of that , I'm
sure , " broke in the mild-mannered
lady , with a heightened color.
"I'm not questioning the lady's
reputation ; it was the jelly , I as
sure you ! "
Strange.
A man who worked for a firm en
gaged in the manufacture of b
gus antiques testified in liissui'
recover wages that he did "
honest work. " Philudelpl ) '
lie Ledger.
.
SUBMARINE MINE A DANGER
Hidden Machines Have Caused More
Damage Than Torpedo Boats
and Torpedoes.
A remarkable fact , which also
appears with regard to the torpe
do , is the infrequent hits made
when attacking ships at anchor ,
says the Navy League Journal.
In the first attack made by the
.Japanese lleet from Port Arthur
the Japanese destroyers slowed
down and jnme within a short dis
tauce of the enemy , but , ivith
everything in their favor , of the
L'tf torpedoes discharged only
three made hits. On June 2 and J ,
when the entire Russian licet was
outside the harbor , in a long se
ries of attacks by the Japanese
torpedo boats not the slightest
damage resulted. As to ships in
motion the torpedo has been
proved to be absolutely useless.
no hits having been made during
the war , although idlemptb were-
repeatedly had. It would , there
fore , appear that the efficiency of
this weapon of war had been
greatly exaggerated , for its fail-
tire cannot bo attributed to any"
want of skill or courage on the
part of the Japanese , who dis
played at all times the greatest
bravery and coolness ,
But if the torpedo has been a (
I disappointment the fear of it and j
'the ' ignorance concerning its cf
ficiency produced a marked change
in naval actions , for it forced the
lighting between the large ships
at extreme long ranges , and
proved tlmt the 6-inch guns , with
which most battleships are large
ly armed , were almost useless , the
heavy guns the 12 , 10 and 8-inch
only being effective.
The great OB t destructive agent
employed by both antagonists ,
however , has been the submarine
mine. By this means alone one-
seventh of the battleship force on
either , side has been put out of
action , and its use constitutes one
of the most serious perils of the
future unless restrained by inter
national agreement to territor
ial waters. The mine has done
what the torpedoes failed to do ,
and the long list of casualties to
its credit proves it to be a most
Ledger.'c
What has been clearly demon-
Is ! rated and can be accepted for
future guidance is that torpedoes
are not to be dreaded as formerly.
that in an engagement between
battleships the large guns only
are effective- , and that submarine
mines , while the most deadly of
all modern
instruments of war
fare , are inhuman and barbarous ,
and should be restrained by the
laws of war.
PAINT PORTRAITS OF EYES
Novel Miniatures in Natural Colors
Prized as Mementoes by Friends
of the Absent Ones.
The delicately painted picture
of the eye glowing with life is rap
idly becoming a favorite memento
of the absent friend.
The first sight of one of these
eye portraits gives one an almost
uncanny impression. From the
monotoned wall there looks down
a tiny , vivid human eye without a
face. So perfectly executed is this
eye that the flicker of laughter in
it is weird in its expressiveness.
There are several eye portraits
now on view at the galleries of the
Royal Institute of Painters in
Water Colors in London , and they
are attracting a great deal of at
tention.
A well-known
- miniature portrait
trait painter said the other day
that many men were troasurin'
portraits of their sweelliear *
eyes , and in addition ladies
their turn were keeping the
of their male friends. The- < *
mostly put into lockets. yiv
"The eye , " she said , '
the most expressive fe- js ty
face , and sometimes atuveoC
trait in itself. Iti' makes
' a I
that
expression
of Bovine S
gives its own ( cUs > The
serious. Thr ,
Qry > laugiing
the brows . shadows round
but it's tl-
Of
d oVOf hclpf cou
thegrer "llr ,0 HBht In the eye thr
, , t thing.
°
, > w do we get on with pd
f ° have fishy cyoa ? Well ,
. It's
, o't come to be painted.
, , < > opte with nice eyes , and o
. people whose eyes are the ;
0. part of their face. The j
( to' ' varies , running from five guii
oed , As you may guess it IH deli
Pub. ' 'vork , but it IB very satisfac
j when you have nice eyes to
with. "
' 'SALVATION ADVERTISING
Brlffhtly-Colorcd Insects Are Dwn
ger Signal to Their Known
Enemies.
Every meadow on a summer
day swarms with a winged host
blatantly heralding its existence -
once by colors that must seem cor
dial invitations to its enemies.
Why is it that they are not at
tacked ? asks Waldomar B.
Kaempffert , in Booklovers Mag
azine. For a long time that
question puzzled Darwin. After
much futile speculation it was
finally ascertained that many of
these gayly tinted denizens of the
air are horribly distasteful to in-
sect-eating epicureans and frequently
quently endowed with the most
nauseous qualities. They find
their salvation by advertising
themselves boldly and llamlxn-
antly. Their colors are danger
signals not to -disregarded. .
The light yellow bodof the "alev-
pillar that develops into ( Ko
magpie moth is gaudily spotted
with orange and black. A lit ! ' ,
experimental ( tiisling lias taught
every bird , lizard and frog ( o
" avoid ( he crennire ( hut wiuir. :
these colors. Thocaiorpilhu thai
strips the foliage of our oak * and
elms toward the clot-e of Kirumor
is likewise a squirming ey'h1' ' "
of black , .yellow and orange. Ir
'
sect eater's reject H oH" : <
signs of inioiistdisgust. . Ami
thus red and blade ludybiids , yol
ow striped hornets , wpsps am1
boos , black and red 1.codes , ami . '
host of insects preserve them
selves by brazenly pioclaimhi . '
Uioir o'J.'e' ' ) ive ( = ' " v : " " $ , M-
dangerous stings to all thc-nnimai
world.
Other insects that would prnVt
delicious morsels to greedy
foes have not boon slow to profit
by the immunity that is granted
by a warning garb. Thej have ar
tually mimicked obnoxious HIT
cios protected by garish hlios in
order to escape death themselves ,
and this with
such amazing accu
racy that not enl is ( he enemy
but oven ( ho collect or complololy
tricked. In the jungles of HIP
Amazon species of butterflies are
found tluil mimic the species Tloli-
conidao. IDntoinologically they
are all as distinct as horses and
cows , and yet the
one species in .1
photogrnphieallyoxaot counterfoil
of the other. The Ileliconidae
possess an atrocious odor am ]
taste , and accordingly are as
brilliantly conspicuous as oxeye
daisies in a green field. So free
are they from attack dial ( hey flap
lazily along , utterly indifferent to
danger and perfectly secure in
their sickening attributes. Tin-
mimickers so cleverly copy the
markings , form of wings , am' '
heavy flight of the ITeliconidp
that spiders drop ( hem from tlr . ' ,
webs and small monkeys re' , M
them despite their pnlatahijh / '
"
i * /
FALL OF MANNA IN Pr
| A
Substance Drops from Ski
Believed to Hesembl'
torical Bread
A substance was . ,
sentccl to the FrorW''ently pr
sciences , which IK , < Jl ( < a101n. ; ? ' '
ed to the gove , JlVieen forwi *
fallen from tlfr" * ' "jlw/n
1 he commoner . y in 5f' 8in
This spec'tot oftlkyear ,
was fouiK1 Js ° of cok-Vtial mam
ties that t ' 'In'such 'great qnnn
able dis tfio1 cnrUi for n considi
with i' , t < ftib'o was entirolycover
or pi- . . Tn some places it was fi
am1 x'lViches ' in depth. Thecalt
ly , /tf / rticularly the sheep , oag
( fcVl upon this singular prod
Wn , which was also convert
fiUo broad for the support of
Inhabitants.
Such was the information wh
'In a Hussian general , who had \
nessed the phenomenon , c
*
niunicatod to the French consu
'ersia. ' Upon examination
far substance was found to be a s
the of lichen , already described
per botanists.
the These mosses , which appea
eye bo found in vty great abunda
oi- must have been carried by
it , wind to the places whore t
urse , sudden appearance wasrcmar
iiatis A similar phenomenon wan
t iced in the same regions of Pei
eople in the year 1821. Athoniu
thev 1829.
the Constant Reminder.
often Oldchum Your wife rem
best me of a girl I once knew in Boi
price Prottyman That's notl
ineas she is continually rcmindini
licalt of every girl I ever knew-
tctory where ! Life.
MOTHER KNEW WHAT TO DO
Old Lndy Tells Kemody for Wfe Mon
key's Ailment and Parent Ape
Follows Directions.
"Mam-ma ! Mainmu ! " la the
most familiar cry at the New York
Zoological park thcoe days , says
the New York World. There are ,
counting all noses , upward of 100
babies. These number the ducks ,
chickens , monkeys , wolves , buffalo
and snakes. And the baby cry
strangely resembles the human
cry for "Mam-ma ! " in some of
these nurseries. An old lady with
the air of a martyr walked
through the park with her daugh
ter , who was evidently a college
girl , for she wore ' 'specs" and
talked in a superior way about
Darwin and Huxley.
They entered the monkey house
and there came across the babel
of simian talk ( he clear , squeaky
cry of the baby green monkey ,
born a week ago.
"Hello ! " said the old lady.
' Whose baby is that crying ? It is
a shame to bring a baby into this
place , "
And she moved along the cages
till she was in front of the cage of
the green monkey. This simian
seldom breeds in captivity and
this green monkey is a curiosity.
The baby awoke feeling ill. It
clung close to its mother's arms
and sobbed , while fts little sto'nv
nch wne convulsed with spasms ,
which the kind old lady outside
the cage understood at once.
"Tho poor little thing ! It has
the stomach ache ! " she said. "I
should rub its stomach if it WIK
mine , now ! "
And Just then , to her utter as
tonishment , the wise-looking old
mamma green monkey took the
baby on her knee and began gently
to massage its stomach , now nnd
then patting the little one on the
back and then trotting it up and
down. The old lady looked on in
consternation.
"Daughter ( " Bho exclaimed.
' That's rho humnue&t baby I ever
savr * and its mother is the human-
est Dnimal that ever was. "
BEES SAVED THEIR CLOVER
Facts Which Go to Prove That Scien
tific Panning Is Truly
a Success.
A cJQr'/t / in the department of
agi'icult Are says :
"So : /ou think that scientific
farmir , g6 \ n iillflYou demand
some illustrations of the good
that js Accomplished by the scion-
tifif ; Wiethod ? Very well.
'When clover was first intro'
d'Wd into Australia II grew
i AtVl'c beautifully , bill it nevei
/ WC't'dcd. ' The soil Was all right >
. ( I'r'he ' climate was all right. What
. * t'hen , was the trouble ?
"A scientist studied the mat
ter and this is what he found :
"lie found that Ihc native Am
tralinn bees had tongues too shot-
to veach the. 'clover's pollon-fonr '
Is ing orgnpft. These orguns , in re
cloVei\ are hidden deeply in tli
heair' . of the tubclike petals an
[
't'ltCy ' can only be fertilized by tl
< ong-tongtied bumble bee. If r
' clover is not visited by btimb
bees , who bear the golden polh
: grains from one blossom to a
i other , it never seeds it cannot'
grown. . The scientist , aware
the fact , soon put his finger on t
barren Australia clover's 1roub
lie imported a lot of Inng-tongu
bumble bees , these bees fie
ishod , and immediately Austn
an clover , which had promised
be a failure , became one of
due-1 country's richest and finest croji
t Clothed the Portrait
A half-length portrait of
Gorman empress occupied a pr l
inent place in a Catholic be
( school in the Krmolnnd distric
eastern Prussia. Kocently
this 1 chaplain happened to look clot [
sort ut the picture and was horrifiei
by find that her majesty was de I
lete. A local house painter
vided a chaste covering of lace
: her majesty's nock , whereu *
the picture was permitted tc
their reining in the schoolroom. '
triced , incident is now forming the \
no jcct of an investigation by the'
ersia , man minister of education ,
aeum , considers it a gross insult to
empress to assume that any
ture of her could be improper
mindH Helping to Locate It.
oston. Benham I wonder where .
thing : my mnbrella.
" | p Mrs. Benham Here's a t
of sa ]
in it. Judge.
ORIGINALI'i f IS A POWER.
Dy Fostering This Characteristic One
May Attain Qrcat Things
in Life.
There are a thousand poopl. ;
who will do faithfully what they
are told to one who can layout a
programme or execute it ; a thou
sand who can only follow to one
who can lead. It in a rare thing to
find a young man who has the
power of accomplishment , the
ability to put a thing through with
the force of originality , says Ori
son Swott Mai-den , in Success.
Whatever your work in life , do
not follow others. Do not imi
tate. Do not do things just as
everybody ols" has done ( hem before -
fore , but in now , ingenious ways.
Show the people in your specialty
that precedents do not cut much
of a figure with you , and ( hat yon
will make your own programme.
Resolve that , whether you accom
plish much or little in the world ,
it shall be original your own. Do
not be afraid to assert yourself
in an original way. Originality is
power , life ; imitation is death.
Do not be afraid to let yourself
out. You grow by being original ,
never by copying ; by leading , nev
er by following. Hesolve that you
will be a man of ideas , always on
the lookout for improvement.
Think to some purpose. There is
always a place for an original
man.
There is nothing else which will
kill the creative faculty and para
lyze growth more quickly than fol
lowing precedents in everything ,
jam ! doing everything in thesanu1
old way. I have known progrew
fiive young men to stop growing ,
become hopelessly rutty , and lose
all their progressiveness by goiim
into tJieir fathers' stores , fac
tories or places of business , where
everything was done in the same
old-fashioned way , ami precedents
dents wore followed In everything.
They lost all expansivencss.
There \VuR no motive for rcachinu
out for the new and original , be
cause their fathers would not t
change ; and 1 have seen these f
splendid follows , who might have
| become great and grand men I ,
shrivel ( o pygihies in their fa 1-
thers' ruts.
IIow many of our business
houses are weighted down with
f machinery , old , antiquated methods i
ods , ponderous bookkeeping , and
out-of-date appliances , when now
d devices , or new methods , with
short-cut way of doing things
H.r.
nwould enable them to economize
greatly on room and get along
owith less but t'
o- help ; they cling
AV ( he old with a fatal tenacity ,
er Thin Is why so many old con
t. corns , which have been Blronj
> and powerful for generations
gradually shrink , shrivel , get int'
it- ruts , and fail , while their ncwe
competitors , the bright youn
us- men who have gone out from thes ;
rt houses , do things in a new wu
'in- adopt up-to-date methods , keep u
ed with the times , and go on
Lhe greater success.
J'J WOMEN WASTE VITAL FORC
red Fnir Sex Lo&es Much Nervous Enerf
iblo Through Errors Which Might
Hcn Easily Bo Avoided.
an- ' \Vonien ( according to a lai
doctor ) lose much nervous for
through errois which might
| 1C easily avoided ,
ible. ) | ( noabl ( ( > instance is seen
tiicir manner of walking. Ma
nr- won.j , | have an uneven gait
ral nervous , jerky step that jars i
to NV1t ] ] > body and keeps most of
1 I .1 muscles tense and drawn.
A good way of correcting a
walk is to curr. > a waltz turn
I iho mind , ami keep step to il
far as possible without uctu
oin. .lancing. After a time the w
' * V' " heconio I' 'guhn- and buoy
and , the habit once foimed , I
! l i is no occasion of continuing
K t ? 1V
- device of keeping step to a H
°
' Wouu'n Iost' I llt < h of < heir v
' 01
'ly ' i" needless excitement an
ll ] ° misplaced sympathies. T
° '
emotions are easily drawn u
> ( ) "
UI i ml instead of reserving t
° . 1 ° powers for important occasi
. p. H
! they dissipate them on the si
\pU ' ' I < H * provocation. The rei
j' here ia to practice self-control
, , ' ° is one of the finest of nerve to
the
Chinese Cotton Mills.
pic-
Thirteen hours and a half
wlltiito the working day of a
nose mill hand in the cotton
I ' left lories , night shifts working
en hours. In spite of the [
direcMini's ( he pay is very small
aloouH " 'si workers receiving nit
< iils : i day.
WOMAN A PUBLIC OFFICIAL.
Pessimist When Talking of Alabama
Mtist Speak in Soft Tones Female -
male Secretary There.
The pessimist Who pro'tcsts
against woman'M progression , not
to mention digression , in new1
lines of work nuiHl admit there is
(
recognition of her ability abroad
in the land when a woman Is'
chosen as recording secretary of
j I one i of the southern states , sayH
the Pilgrim. VN'hen the man who
held that position with Gov. Gun.-
ningham , of Alabama , resigned
recently , Miss Mamie Offutl , who
was confidential stenographer to
the governor , waB appointed in his
place. It was a great.compliment ,
for the office demands the exercise
of much tact ami-diplomacy. By
virtue of her position Miss Offutt
i also secretary of the state board
of pardons , and keeps a record of
everything in connection with the
thousand and one applications for
pardon from inmates of Alabama
mines and prisons. She must have
a familiarity with the sfatnleHof
the state which relate to the of
fice of governor , since questions
hearing upon stale laws and stat
utes are consequently coming in ,
nnd many novel points raised. (
She must also indorse the action ;
of the governor upon such applica
tions , as well as conduct much of
the correspondence of the execu
tive department , GraciousneHK
and gentlewomanly qualities are
no less characteristic of Miss Of
futt than the knowledge of lici-du- '
ties or the efficiency with which ,
those duties are performed , and
her appointment to such respoh- ' ,
Bibilites is not only a tribute t'o' . ,
her exceptional ability , bu'l inci
dentally recognizcH the fact thai | j
there are women who can keep a , ,
secret.
MOBS ATTACK MONUMENTS
When Hlot in Russia Breaks Loose
Dig Shafts Are Maclo the Flrnt
Object of Attack.
That the disturbances in Russia
are not marked by the overthrow
of memorials is due to the care
exorcised by the police in guard
ing the column of Alexander 1.
and other historic monuments.
The police have learned through
3 experience that these public me
morials are the first objects of a
mob's attack , and they profited by
d the happenings in other lauds.
When the Commune gained con
h trol in Paris its first action was
H. the overthrow of the Vendome
< - columns , while even the historic
Nelson column , in London , has
' been mined , though in that in
stance the detonator failed to ex- .
jplode.
The statue of "William III. iu
Dublin has withstood many au
to ' attack , the recurrent nnniveiv
erse saries of the battle of the Boyne
stirring hatred afresh. The old
se statue is battered and time worn ,
; but no serious harm has yet been
M > done.
to America has few memorials to
attract or invite mob violence.
Haymarket memorial
the
CE Possibly
rial , in Chicago , may some day bo
blown up by those who regard the
anarchists executed for thecrim3
as martyrs , but the only recent at
tempt to blow u ] ) a'fi'tatue was the
unsuccessful effort to destroy the
mc :
be monument to Frederick the Great
at Washington.
in Euiopean memorials incur the
dislike of the lawless because of
their ahsochitions rather than because
, "
.
tin- i cause of their lack of artistic
the value. Were the latter defect an
.incentive to crime the park police
bad I would bo kept busy here.
i" i Ancient Crinoline.
" I In the World of Fashion of 1831V
uullv ; In a reference to "tho new stuff
* " called crinoline. " Crinoline was
yam. ; partly thread , partly horse-hair ,
hue I [ ts name being compounded of
the the French "crin , " horsehair , and
tune. " | itl ) jinx. Hats , skirts and nil
vilnl sorts of things that wore wanted
ml hi (0 possess a certain stiffness were
Their ninde of this material.
111)011 )
Ostrich Tax.
sioiiH * "w importation of ostriches
small' from So"lh Africa has practically
modv : k'1' " piohibitod by an export tax
| ' , of $187 each , intended to prosoiTO
onios. to 'Mil1 ' l'ounl''y ' > il8 ' : u > sls possible ,
the monopoly of the lucrative
trade of ostrich farming , N , Y ,
con -
Chi
fai- . Under the Ocean.
but ' ' 'n'sl Mermaid \\hat are you
"ion" P" ' " " i" ( l" w'ih ' 'hat ' shovel ?
, the ! i- < mid Mermaid See if there
1'J ' * ' mu" under my bod. N. Y.
tMlll.