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Carpenter's Letter
(Continued from Twelfth Page.)
SWISS MILKMAN AND HIS OUTFIT.
also with Geneva, where, during the refor
mation John Calvin thundered forth his
denunciations of the priests.
Knowing theee things one expects to find
llshed In different parts of Europe and later the Swiss cities hoary and gray. They are
on I believe In the United States. The nothing of the kind. You have to hunt
business paid right along, and similar es- for antiquities. Geneva had houses In the
tablishments are now to be found in differ- days of Julius Caesar, but It Is now almost
ent parts of Switzerland operated by the as modern In appearance en a boom town
Swiss. The farmers bring their milk to of South Africa. The city Is French in Its
the factories and are paid so much per architecture. Its houses are of five and
quart for It. There seems no reason why six stories, divided up Into flats often,
the business should not be profitably car- having stores on the ground floor and
rled on In the dairy regions of the United
States.
Switzerland makes lots of money out of
Its cheese. It exports something like 60,
000,000 pounds annually and Its receipts
therefrom are more than $8,000,000. We
ourselves take about 6,000,000 pounds every
year and pay our grocers on the average
35 cents a pound for It. The same cheese
sells here for about 16 cents a pound. The
duty is only 6 cents so you can see that
our grocers are making a good round
profit.
I am surprised to find that no Neuchatel
cheese is made at Neuchatel, although
Neuchatel cheese Is known the world over.
Neuchatel Is a town of 20,000 people, which
Is more noted for watch making than any
thing else. It has a large house Industry
and a number of factories and uses many
American watch cases to Inclose Swiss
movements. The only cheese of account
that is exported from Switzerland Is the
large round cheese which we know as
Schweltzerkase and of which we eat almost
$1,000,000 worth every year.
Switzerland has been called the play
ground for Europe, but It Is the workshop
of the Swiss. The tourist business, big as
It Is, is a bagatelle In comparison with
the other Industries. Nearly every town
and city is a beehive of work. I have
written of Zurich as one of the most pros
perous factory towns of the continent.
Geneva has only 100,000 people, but It is
doing the business of tens of millions and
all the country around hums. There are
watch factories, music works and crock
ery establishments here which make quan
tities of goods for export and also es
tablishments turning out jewelry and
enamel work.
In Basel, a city of the same size as
Geneva, on the other side of Switzerland,
the industries are equally great. Ribbons
are made there on looms imported from
America, and there are factories of vari
ous kinds.
One of the queerest Industrial centers is
Chaux-de-Fonds in the Jura mountains.
Here the finest of Swies watches are made
and that largely by hand. The town has a
population of 32,000, and half of its people
are employed In making watches and watch
movements. The work is much divided,
each man making one kind of wheel or
part of a movement. Those who prepare
the simplest pieces may get as much as
60 cents a day, while the finer workmen
will receive $2 or more. The town turns
out something like 300,000 watches every
year, an output worth more than $7,000,000.
It is in Geneva that most of the enamel
ing of watches Is done, many of our finer
cases being sent there from the United
States to be finished. The Geneva watches
are also noted for their beautiful construc
tion. They are spoken of as jewels as well
as timekeepers. Most of the watches are
of the cheaper varieties, such as silver and
nickel about 1,000,000 of each being sent
away every year. We annually Import
something like 13.000 nickel, 28,000 silver
and 4,000 gold watches from Switzerland,
and In addition more than 64,000 watch
movements.
We are accustomed to think of Switzer
land as an old country. So it Is. It was
a thriving place in the days of the Ro
mans, even then having Its cities and vil
lages. Later on the barbarians swept over
It and It is from them that come the Swiss
people of today. Many of the cities here
were good business places in the middle
ages. This was the case with Berne and
dwellings up above.
Geneva Is well located. It is a muni
cipal jewel In a beautiful setting. The
mighty Alps look down upon it, the frosty
head of Mount Diane rises high above It
and the emerald Rhone rushes through It.
It has wide streets and fine parks and It
makes you think of a fashionable water
ing place rather than a business town.
The stores are like those of a summer
resort. Souvenirs are sold In every block.
There are windows full of wood carvings,
photographs and paintings. Women go
through the streets wheeling carts of pic
ture postal cards, selling them as our Ital
ian venders sell fruits. The silk stores.
Jewelry stores and watch establishmenU
are especially fine and everything Is ar
ranged to attract the tourist's eye.
Have you ever heard of St. Gall? It has
only a little more than 30,000 people, but
it chews up American cotton by the hun
dred of bales. It Is one of the chief towns
of industrial Switzerland, situated in tho
eastern part of the country, more than 2,000
feet above sea level. It Is there that the
famous Swiss embroideries have been made
for the last 100 years. At first they were
all made by hand, and what seems strange
to me Is that the most exquisite of them
were made by men. At present they are
made by machinery, the hand industry
having been almost crowded out of exist
ence. Some of the latest machines have
326 needles and each needle will make 10,000
double stitches in a day, so that one ma
chine makes more , than 3,000,000 stitches
per diem. In olden times every one of
these stitches had to be sewed by hand, and
you can see what an enormous saving the
machinery has made. On other machines
laces are stitched, and especially lace hand
kerchiefs, of which as many as 700,000
dozen have been sent to the United States
In one year.
Indeed our Imports of St. Gall embroid
eries amount to about $7,000,000 a year,
and this reminds me that until the admin
istration of President McKinley the St. Gall
exporters were a party to customs frauds
by which Uncle Sam lost millions of dollars
in duties. The frauds were detected and
the system of collection reorganized by Mr.
James T. DuBois, a former consul general
to Switzerland, who thereby brought a
saving to the United States government of
$1,000,000 a year.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Origin of Christmas
(Continued from Fourth Page.)
THE WHISKEY WITHOUT A HEADACHE
will not accept this, because It Is said in
the New Testament that Jesus during His
last meeting with the apostles "led them
out as far as to Bethany."
A careful study of topography at times
leads to more or less exact Identification
of certain spots. As was natural, Nazareth
Is filled with traditionally holy places, such
as the Virgin's house; but there Is one
special Incident of Jesus' Ufa at Nazareth
which points to a definite locality and that
Is "the brow of the hills whereon the city
was built," down which the Infuriated men
of Nazareth sought to cast Him headlong.
The monks transferred this scene to the
so-called "Mount of Precipitation," half an
hour southeast of the town, but high up
In the older village there Is a semi-circle
of steep cliffs now concealed partially by
undergrowth which scholars now believe
was, the scene of this attempt. In exca
vating the upper platform there recently,
many traces of ancient buildings have been
found and It Is supposed that they were
erected while the tradition of this location
was still fresh.
The value of a careful study not merely
of the modern town bearing an ancleut
name, but of the country sr.nietimes a nil'e
or two away is necessary ii our geograLy
Is to be correct.
It Is admitted that the Mosqu of On nr
Is founded on the site cf thr a'fi- tu
ple of Solomon, and the :inkii:g ' -.
at the south wa'l "i the platform u
blio'ii il'.ii I1"- a as a remarkable wall
there fur;- ,o00 feet long and 150 feet
In height. As it now stands the wall Is
considered a marvel and only halt of It U
exposed. What must It have been when
the tall towers of the tenule stood high
above it and thousands flocked toward It
from all parts of the land?
It la thought that Solomon's palace origi
nally stood at the south end of the plat
form, tor It Is there that the excavators
found great vaulted crypts. The temple
of Solomon, as tar asamen can tell from
the burled walls, must have been an ob
long 900x600 feet, with his palace 600x300
feet to the south of It.
Many years must pass before It can be
said that Palestine has been explored. Bet
ter than agitation for Its complete po
litical possession will be, probably, organ-
Ized effort to excavate and survey the Holy
Land everywhere and thus gain actual pos
session of the history of the sacred places
a far greater treasure than the ownership
of the soil.
New Cure for Insomnia
Among the recent discoveries accidentally
made Is the fact that insomnia may be
cured if the person afflicted will but spend
a few minutes before retiring each night
pulling an empty tobacco pipe. The remedy
is therefore available to those who do not
smoke as we'l as to the devotees of the
habit, says the Chicago Chronicle, for It
is nut necessary that the pipe shall have
been used by a tobacco smoker. To smokers
the remedy Involves no cost whatever, but
of nonsmokers the capital outlay of the
price of a pipe Is required. It must be a
wocden pipe, and curved, not straight.
Having retired for the night, the sufferer
should lie perfectly fiat on his back, dis
carding pillow rests, and puff steadily at
an empty pipe until he feels thoroughly
drowsy. The desired result usually is
achieved after from about sixty to 100 puffs
iiuve been made. The puffing should be
done slowly, with a deep Inhaling move
ment. The expelling motions must be
made deliberately with narrowed mouth,
During the entire operation the pipe should
not be removed, as each displacing and
replacing movement tends to wakefulness
Those capable of great concentration of
thought should. It smokers, Imagine they
see volumes of smoke, and those who
eschew the burning weed will be helped by
counting the puffs.
As sleep Is often successfully wooed while
yet the pipe Is In the mouth, bowls of
meerschaum or clay are not recommended
since these are liable to be broken when
the coming of slumber allows the pipe to
slide from the mouth. Nervous people
may be reassured that there Is no danger
In falling asleep with the stem edge of a
curved pipe caught between one's teeth.
Sleep always occasions the grip to be re
moved. That may hold also of straight
pipes, but for other and obvious reasons
these are less suitable than those with
cured stems.
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mas and Happy New Year if
your home is lighted and orna
mented by gas or electric light
fixtures put in by u4
F. M. RusseilT
313 So.15th St., ,Omaha.
A Distinction
Baltimore American: "What Is your oc
cupation?" "I havent any."
"What! you mean to tell me a bin lout
of a fellow like you don't work?"
"Oh, yes, sir, I work in a box factory."
"Well, don't you call that an occupa
tion?" "No, sir; I only get $3 a week; that's no
occupation, that's a Job."
The
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"Queen of
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IP you had ever seen a lot of youngsters
having a glorious time with a Regina you
would order one for your children. Then you
wouldn't have to entertain them yourself, and
a rainy day would lose its terrors. It plays
everything that the children like
and that you like. Christmas is
a good time to buy one. Come hear
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