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D THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 22, 1908. Changes That Are Taking: Place in the Capital City of South Africa (Copyright, 1, by Frank O. Carpenter.) APBTOWN Bpeclal Correspond I 1 niti of The Bee.) CapeTownl I I How shall I describe ItT . .. MS Africa, and H haa w thing In common with this savage Mack ...-'.' continent. Ita buildings and Ita people are all European. The town la aa bright aa a button and aa clean aa a pin. It Ilea right on the Atlantic, washing Ita feet In Table bay. Behind and above It rise the two mighty rocky formations known aa Table mcuntaln and the Don's Head. They aro bedded In green and they abut out the half desert lands which fade away Into the great Kafco, farther north. Table Mountain. Tnblo mountain la rightly ao called. It la a mighty block of rock which rtae al rreet straight lap behind the town to a height of mora than alxe times that of the Washington monument, cutting the sky lino with a Jagged horizontal front two miles In length. If you Wtfuld take one of the highest of our Allegheny mountains, slice of Its top so that It looks like a table and plant It down behind Boatcn you might have about the effect that Table mountain has at the city of the cape. The moun tain sides would need to be cut so as to be almost precipitous, and Its top should be as regular a thojgh the gods of nature had smoothed It off with a knlfo. standing In Boston there would be times when the whole great Table rock would be clear and clean cut. At other tlmea It would be lost In the mist, and again low, overhanging clouds would rest upon It and fall down over the aides like a tablecloth. ' Table mountain la 3.500 feet high. One Aide cf It Is such that it can be climbed In three hours, and In that space of time you can reach one of the flneut viwa in the world. The mighty southern ocean stretches beyond you at the front and on the right and the left. You can almost follow with your eye the course of Bar- tholomew Dlsa when ho diacoveied the Capo cf Good Hope. That was six years before Columbus started out to find the new world, and tho ocean below ua was then so rough that he named that point the Cape of Claims. It was along the time track that Vasco da On ma went on around the conil- neVit to India a few years later, skirting Capo Agulhas, the southernmost point of the African continent, which lies down there a llt'.Ie off to the left. Capetown Is Just under you. ao close that you enn toss a rock Into Its streets, and beyond it la Table bay, the great part of entry for the whole of South Africa. Diaz and Pa Gama had ships of less than K'i tons, tho mighty steamers which are floating down there at the wharf each run high into the thousands of tons and more than 2,000 of them leave and call every year. Bhlps with a tonnage aggie gating more than 10,000,000 went In and out Electric rower in Tunnels. N THE opinion of the Locomo ID tive, Engineer there is no Im mediate danger of the steam lotorjotlve bvlng consigned to the ccrap pile. Discussing the rilhtlve merits of etuam and electric traction on railroads, the editor says: , Steam locomotives are self-contained units and are not dependent on a central station for their power. If one of them breaka down ao that It cannot be temoo rarily repaired another can be aubstituted without disorganizing traffic. The electric locomotive U alao a unit which, if tempo rarily deranged, can be aldctracked and a substitute provided. Botli are thua far on an equal footing. The electric locomotive, however, helnjr dependent on a central station, has the dis advantage of possible disablement by a failure at the power house, In which case a whole section of the lino becomes In operative. This contingency Is no loubt remote, but It exists. There Is another aiid even more Important factor in the problem, and that fa the commercial valuu of the steam when compared with the elec tric locomotive. In thla as In many other things circumstances alter cases, and the successful and economical Installation of electric traction on one road does not necessarily Imply that its adjptlon would prove equally remunerative on another and differently conditioned railway. So widely do conditions vary that thero are und.mbt- edly cses where the adoption of electricity la the wiser course to pursue, even if the financial aapect of the case may not seem to warrant It. Operating dense traffic through tunnels or In crowded cities U a case In point, and at terminals where electrio current can be used for other pur- poses as well aa for moving trains is another case In point. The several partlcu- lar cases, however, where electricity may be found advantageous do not constitute a basis for concluding that electricity Is always the better of the two, nor do they lend sanction to the idea that steam pro pulsion, even If more economical from a monetary standpoint, ia necessarily always the best. The question of stenrr. ugalnst electricity Is very much like a case in liw which haa to be tried upon its merits In court. There may be precedents and there may be authority for this view or that, but tho case stands or falls in the en, by reaaon of Its own Inherent merits or Its own inherent defnets. judged by them, selvos and without depending upon how other .avtmlngiy similar caaee have been decided. team a. tCleotrlalty. Plans for completed electrification of the Pennsylvania railroad terminals In Kev York wre announced last week with the signing of a $5,000,000 contract tor the wrrk with the Weatlnghousa EUctrlo and Manu facturing company. This followed an im portant meeting of the Pennsylvania di rectory In Philadelphia. , The contract Is tor the electrification of the satire Pennsylvania system from lUr riMoa, N. -J., to Jamaica, L. I. WMIt the Initial amount of apparatus will egaregkte t&,C00,Cue, thla ts said by no means to rpre scnt the full amount. The system of trolley will probably be overhead and not the so-called third rail system. The engine to be ud will be entirely of a new type and the most powei ful tn existence. They will resamble closely the team locomotive now In use and not the type of short locomotive on tho New Haven road. Eleetrle Car tho raahlo. To demonstrate la a practical manner the advantages of the electrio carriage for use ou busy streets where the trafflo la con gested and for work la which many atop are required, such es a lady's shopping trip, Maaager R. W. Daniels of the atudebakar braaah In Boston, enisled by F. L Estey of tho Btudebaker company, conducted a novel test. Two Btudebaker cars, on an electric and the other w gasoline tourer, wero started at th tamo time from the Btudebaker ortnoa on Boylston street. They were to cover a predetermined rvute of about tea miles over many of the down In the Field of Electricity iif.-! t 7 I x m i"r"t j - TARLTAMENT of thl Port within the last twelve months, an tnl ha become one of the great water gatra of the world, The harbor looks small from the top of mountain, but It has more than two miles of quays, which can accommodate veseela drawing thirty feet. It is sheltered y break-water 3,600 feet long, and Ita larger dlvlnlon, Victoria basin, covcim thirty-six acres. Looking along the quays you can see the electric cranes, and baek of them the warehouses, which can store 70,000 tons of cargo at one time, and at the reservoirs, which hold mountains of coal, Among tho ships arc, boats from Kant and West Africa, from London and Ham- burg, and great liners on their way to Australia and India. There are the mall steamers of the I'nlon Castle company, which carry not only passengers, und ex press, but t'ie vast treasures which are always flowing out of the diamond and gold mines of this great vault. Now turn your eyeB from the harbor to the great Hill which lies across the ravine from where we are standing. That Is the town streets, each making twenty stops. The cara t.-aveled the route In opposite directions. Owing to the traffic on such streets as Tremont, Washington and others selected high-speed was out of the ques tion so the decision rested largely upon quickness in unloading and loading passen gers and atopptng and starting the car. Each machine carried passengers, who dis mounted at the prescribed stops. The electric car mado the trip In one hour and one minute, and finished at the Bturiebaker branch thirteen minutea be fore the gasoline car put In an appearance, he route was through Boylston, Tremont, School, Washington, Summer and High streets, Atlantic avenue, Summer, Bedford, Washington, Boylston streets, Dartmouth streot, Huntington and Massachusetts ave nues to Boylston street. The quickness with which the electric car could be stooped and the ease with which it wound Ita way among the other vehicles was a surprise to the passengers. The gasoline car made the stops easily and quickly, but could not get away and thread through the traffic aa rapidly as the electrio. Even on the com paratively clear stretches the gasoline car had little the better of the electric. Combination of Phono Companies. Toll lines of Independent telephone com panies in all parts of the United States, reporta the Minneapolis Journal, are Ho be united In an Immense long distance tele phone system which will cover the country from coast to coast. The Trl-State Tele- phone company of Mlnneapolia will be part of the system, which those Interested Insist is to be in no sense a telephone "trust" or combination. The extension of the system to tho north west will be merely a part of a plan which haa been forming for aome time end which haa become a reality In the east where a company with a capitalization of J200.0u0.000 has been formed for the purpose of connect- ing the toll lines of Independent companls operating between Kansas City on th west and Mobile In the south. E. H. Moulton, president of the Trl State company, said that a union of the companies in toll line connection was a certainty In the near future. "Tho plan contemplates the formation of a company which shall connect the toll lines of the Independent companies from coast to coast," aald Mr. Moulton. "The company will be In no sense a trust or combination as each independent company will retain Ita own personality and the scheme will only extend to a toll line connection for the purpose of long distance telephoning. Automatic Train Dispatcher. The Banta Fe railroad of southern Cali fornia, says Harper's Weekly, has in stalled a new automatlo train dispatcher over eighteen miles of road with success ful results. It Is expected that this will bring about a revolution 1n th present methods of train dispatching. By means of this Invention the train dispatcher and the engineer in his cab are la immediate communication, and order to proceed or to etop can reach the latter at any lime desired. The exact time a train enter or leaves a block on hi division 1 recorded on the train sheet in the dispatcher' of fice. Error In running orders, often th caua of fatal accident, are obviated by th automatic interlocking of awltohea after a signal has been set and th dis patcher cannot order a train to proceed unlets the block ahead I cUar, though h may stop any train when this i needed. The locomotive engineer I warned by a danger algnal given by the dispatcher or by the presence of a train, broken rati or' open switch in the block, and It tho engi neer falls to reduce his speed to less than five miles an hour, or whatever rat baa bean determined In th regulation, in th next 1.000 feet traveled, his train la atopped by a mechanical device. Thla automatlo atop can only be prevented by Blowing down the train to the af rate of speed. MucbanUm on the locomotive record th Hon and place whtre danger signal baa been given, the time th signal cleaf th track aud when, th uginer respond to this, to speed,' of th train at any time and the tlma and place au automatlo stop Is allowed tol occur. '. A il l! : lilf I, HOUSES ARB THE FINES J" BUILDINGS Lion's Head, which forms another part of the background of the horseshoe valley surrounding the bay. That penk is almost as high aa Table mountain, and the elec tric car which you can see whlzsing along at Ita feet, looking pygmy-like In the dis tance, will give you one of the finest street car rides of the world. You can take it In the heart of Cape Town and wind your way around the bay under thla great Table rock and come back through the valley between Table mountain and Lion's Head to the city with all the way. beautiful views In sight The Capital of South Africa. But let us go down and take a walk through this capital of South Africa. Cape Town Is the gate to this end cf the conti nent and for more than 200 years It Has been the chief door through which the whites have gone in and out. It h is now In the neighborhood of COJ.COO people und is one of the fine little cities of the world. Laid out as a Dutch town in avenues running from Table mountain to the sea and crossed by other streets at right angles, ita old Boer buildings are gradually disappearing and ft haa now shops and streets which would do credit to the largest c!tles of the United States. It has a postofflce structure which surpasses In also that of any American ilty of twice tta population, and Its Far Humcnt houses are perhaps the finest build ings In Africa. Thsy were creeled some years ago at a cost of more thnn Jl.OOO.COO. They are of tho renaissance style with porticos upheld by Corinthian columns and are surrounded by beautiful gardens, tn which a marble statue of Queen Victoria stands at the front. Each of the houses haa a floor space as large as that of the House of Commons In England, and the bulld'ng contains a throne room, showing the allegiance of the country to the k ng. The Parliament which meets here is that of Cape Colony, and It governs this vast territory, comprising the best of the lands south of the Transvaal, Including Klmberley and Its diamonds and also the chief sheep and cattle growing, fruit raising and ostrich farming parts of this continent. Business In South Africa. Cape Town Is largely the business capi tal of South Africa. It haa the head quarters of all the big banks and of the chief exporting and Importing firms. Alder- ley street, the principal thoroughfare, la lined with big business blocks, and there Is a wholesale section which haa many fine buildings. During my stny here I have had talks with some of the leading financiers as to the financial coitions of this part of the world. Business Is still bad and It has been so aince the Boer war. The re cent panlo -md depression in the United States have seriously affected the diamond mines and have led to the discharge of thousanda of hands. There' are many other men out of employment and not a few of the business men are mortgaged up to their eyea. It seems jo me that times cannot but continue bad fn South Africa for a good whll to oome. Just before the war the conditions were excellent, and during it prosperity reigned. The people here are naturally aa optimistic as we are and they have all the push and energy of a people developing a new country. When Preparing Space for the National ; .. , ,.!" ' .. ', . , . 'v . ,7 .. , . . ;. . , ' t . ' r. 'I ' : - ' , :. . ..-. 1 " ... ' ' , , I '-:-: - -. "-''.' 1 : '.,' V- ' sr ' . ' . '' ' ' ' " '-'"' - 'jf "' ,-. t ' a i -' ' , .. "..,.,' " . . i , .. i - 4 - , . . AUDITORIUM AND ITS ANNEXES, WHERE NATIONAL CORN EXPOSITION TOTAL FLOOR SPACE WILL BE u0,twu BMUARa? FEUT. ESSi if ? J I. IN AFRICA. times are good they borrow all the money they can, and bet on the future. Before the war much of their buslne.se waaf done and credit, but conditions were then com paratively fixed and they could rely on meeting their bills. As long aa the strug gle continued England's purse strings were opened and money flowed like water. Busi ness was boomed to correspond with the new conditions. Many buildings were erected In all the cities, and especially In CaP Town- Durban and Johannesburg. New ships were brought Into the carrying trade, new Institutions of all k'lnds cre ated and wages and expenses already high, were enormously Increased. Then the war ended and the soldiers left. The money flood was succeeded by a money drouth, and the creditors began to ask for the payment of bills. This caused failures In all departments of trade, the tide of Immi gration turned the other way and thou sands were thrown out of work. At the same time stores and houses became va cant, the prices of property began to drop, and the competition for tenants brought down the rents. This situation has almost steadily con tinued since the war and the country is now getting down to a hardpan basis. It will probably improve later on, but Just now 'Its condition la bad. South Africa's Big; Banks. Banking here Is not the same as in the United States. With us every little town has its Individual bank, and thero are hundreds of small Institutions operating with capitals of $30,000 and upwards. Here all the money Is handled by a half dozen great banka, with branches reaching to all parts of South Africa. These big banks report to each other and, although com- petltors, work largely In harmony. If a man's credit ia bad it soon becomes gen erally known, and if one bank drops him he has little hopes from the others. As to the extent of the banking. I have before me some reports of the big Institu tions. Ths Standard Bank of South Africa ts now doing a business of something like $150,000 pur annum, on a capital of less than $8.000000. It has about $100,000,000 worth of deposits, and Its profits are ID.OOO and upwards per year. Dur'ng a great part of Its experience It has paid as much as 18 per cent, and It la now paying 16, not withstanding the hard times. Another big institution Is the Bank of Africa, which has a capital of (5,000.000. Thla bank has deposits of $30,000.0f0 or $35. 060,000, and Its assets and liabilities are about $o0,000,000. It has been paying 13 per cent until recently, when the dividends were cut to 10 per cent, with a prospect of going down still lower. The Natal bank, which does business chiefly in Natal and the Transvaal, has a capital of only $2,500,000, but Ita deposits amount to something like ?1.000.000 or $20,000,000, and it paya about 12 per oent. The National Bank of South Africa, with a capital of over $5,000,000, haa deposits of $S8.000,000 and paya per cent, while the African Banking corporation haa running accounts of from $20,OW.00O to $2(1.000.000 on a capital of $2,000,000, and pays f per cent dividends. Nearly all of these banka have had a considerable reduction of deposits during the last two years, and their stocks have fallen in value. When ft is remembered that South Africa Is largely a desert and that ft haa, all told. only about 1,000,000 white people, the won- der la that it can support uch banks at all. It seems to me that business of all kinds Is much overdone. The steamship lines are too many, the railroads too ex- pensive and the cities too big for the pop- ulatlons. This is especially so considering that the producta cf these 1,000,000 whit a are almost altogether owned In Europe, and the profits of their labor are spent there. The diamond mines and gold mines axe owned abroad. They are worked by cheap native and Chinese labor, and the country lacks the means of prosperity of the great pro ducing regions of the United States. In deed, the Boers claim that South Africa would be far better off If It had less gold and diamonds and went more Into agricul ture. They think that a high wage rate would benefit Its industries, causing more of the money to be spent at home. Capo Colony. In many resre ts Ca, e Colony is bitter off than the Transvaal, the Orange Free State and other provincea of South Africa. It Is given up to farming and stock raising and ts a land of mixed Industries. The colony Is one of the largest of the British pos sessions of this part of the continent. It is BOO miles long and 400 or 600 miles wide, being more than four times the size of either New York Or Pennsylvania. It Is twice as big as Great Britain or Ireland, and. Including Bechuanaland, which was annexed some years ago, it ia larger than Texas or any country in Europe, with the exception of Russia Cape Colony is the oldest part of South Africa and is by far the best settled. It haa almost as many white people as Boston and its colored population numbers almost aa many as there are souls In Chicago, There are many good-aized towns. This place, with suburbs, has 200,000; Klmberley hrs about 35.00, and Port Elizabeth 33,000 or more. WooustocK nas aa.v.w, urar.a:ni.owii 14,000 and EaBt London 25,000. There are towns of from 5,000 to 10,000 scattered here and there over the country, and there are many thriving farming communities. The Farms of the Cape, In coming here from the Transvaal I rode for a day through the Orange River Col ony, and from there across Cape Colony to -the Cape of Good Hope. The land is all high and dry and the most of It haa a climate in which a white man can work. The Orange River Colony ia, about aa big as the state of New York, and it popula tion of whites la not half aa large as that of Buffalo. The country is mostly a grassy plain, fading out here and there Into dea ert. Considerable stock Is grazed near the railway. I aaw droves of cattle, a few sheep and now and then a herd of An gora goats. Most of the territory haa been practically Inaccessible until within the last ten years. As to Cape Colony, Its northern portion la of much the same nature. The land drops In mighty steps known as the Karoos. The upper Karoo at the north ranges In altitude from 3,000 to 6.0CO feet. It is almost a desert and drouths are frequent. Below this Is what la known aa the Great Karoo, consist ing of rolling plains rising gradually to a height of about 4,000 feet. This country is covered with a sort of a sheep bush, upon Corn Exposition WILL BE HELD. DECEMBER -l-THt( ' f CAPE TOWN AND TABLE BAT. which the cattle, goats and sheep feed. It Is dry and healthy and la fitted for stock raising. Still further south about the Cape and west of here back of the ocean Is a large area devoted not only to stock but to grain and fruit ralalng. Back of the Cape of Good Hope are large vineyards, which produce something like 10.000,000 gallons of wine and 1,500,000 gallons of brandy every year. They raise peaches, apricots, apples and pears and ship fruit In cold storage to London and the United Statea. A Good Stock Country. A great part of Cape Colony is well grassed and there In considerable stock farming. The average ranch containa about 3.000 acres and upward, land of that kind selling for $2 or $3 per acre. The grass Is thin and it Is estimated that every head of cattle will need from ten to twenty acres. In the Kasoo even more land will be required. At present the colony has about 12,000.000 sheep, 7,000,000 goats, 2,000,000 cattle and Curious Capers of Cupid the Girl of the Picture. ROMANCE, beginning Indirectly with the failure of the Calmon hank at Clinton, Mo., In 1303, will result soon in the marriage of Miss Bertie Stephens, daugh ter of a Clinton real estate dealer, and Meinhart Sannebeck of Mexico, Mo. Sannebeck met his fiance almost six months after he saw and fell In love with her photograph, published la a Bt. Louis paper. Soon after tne Salmon bank went Into thf h(mdB of a receveri MlM Stephens' pictuit .DDeare(i .monr a rrouD of Clinton auU whose savins; were gone. Miss Stephens, the story went, had eaved money to complete her education in college. Young Sannebeck saw the picture and showed It to his friends. They agreed to write to the girls, Sanne beck choosing Miss Stephens as the one tc whom he would addrem his letter. He waited In vain for an answer, but half a year later became acquainted with her father when the two were registered at the same St. Louis hotel. Sannebeck waa then traveling for a meat house. His business later took him to Clinton where he renewed his acquaintance with Miss Stephens' father and through him met the girl. Dramatlo Seen at Altar. Like the climax Jn a drama was the re venge of a dlscared woman at the wedding of her suitor and her rival at Fall River, Mass., October 25. The marriage of Charles J. IRoagan. banker, and Mis Mary B. Chadwlck was the social event of the sea son. The church was filled with friends. After the ceremony the bride and member of the wedding party etarted down the aisle aa tho weding march waa played. A cloaely veiled woman clad in, black rose, picked up a 4-year-old boy and held hira out to Mr. Reagan. "Stop, Charlea Reagan," she cried. "Miss Miss Sullivan?" gasped Reagan. "Yes, It' I," answered the woman. "Hero he Is. Here Is your child. I've taken care of hlro for four years. Now you must take him you and your wife." The woman turned and walked out. The brldo fainted and friends were horror atrlcken. Reagan stood alone In the church aisle holding In his arm the baby who was crying for his mother. When the bride revived she returned to her home alone. Mr. Reagan left town re fusing to make known his destination. He took the child with him. PrU Talk Man to Wed. A man applied for a marriage license at the Independence (Mo.) office of the county reoorder. W. C. Perry, th chief deputy, had an experience then that travelers in California are aald to have when for the first time they view the "big trees" of Calaveras county. He had to raise his eyes three different time before they finally rested on the face of the applicant for matrimony. R. L. Bennett was his name. He said he was 12 years old and lived at 1011 Penn street, this city. He did not give his height, but Mr. Perry said he was about six feet eight inches tall. Ha was given a Itcenae to marry Miss Emma Leona Shrank, who Uvea in the country near Kansaa City. Bennett said a prise waa recently awarded to him for being the tallest man at the Independence fair. & Merry Widow Weds Aaala. Released from the bonds of matrimony less than a week, Ethel Jackson Zimmer man, the "Merry Widow" of the opera of that name, attain risked the sa of matri mony, when aha Was married to lirnori Lockwood, Jr., an attorney of New York, at the home of Henry Wharton, brother-in-law of the bridegroom. In Chestnut Hill, Pa. Thta alio makea Mr. Lockwood's sec ond venture In the matrimonial field, his wife having been granted a divorce by tho supreme court cf New Yoik oi., September I last. When Mr. Lockwood applied for th necessary license at the marriage license bureau he said he was born In Winning ton, Del., tor'y years ago, and he resided at H East Thirty-third street. New York City. Mrs. Zimmerman, lie said, bad no occupation, and lived al 0 West Forty- A tow 500,000 horses and mules. The farmers tell mo tliat there Is some money 1n horse rais ing, as the country does not raise enough for its own needs. The market price of draft horses is now $100 and upward. The chief atock now grown here are sheep nnd goats. The climate and feed rnakx excellent wool, and the mohair Is especially good. The country la now ex porting something like $10,000,00 worth, of wool annuiliy, and its mohair brings the highest prlc?s. 1 am told that there are 2.000,000 Angora goats In the colony, and that good ones are now selling for upward of $5 apiece. As to the sheep, they remind me of those of Australia. They are Merlnoa, which were brought here centuries ago from Spain and which formed the start of the Australian atock. There la also a com mon cape sheep which thrives well. The farms are largely In the Karoo. The sheep are usually kept In large flocks, single farmers having as many aa 10,000 each. FRANK G. CARPENTER. filth street, New York City. lie was vouched for by Edwin C. Nevlns, a lawyer of Philadelphia. The bride is the daughter of an English actor, and was reared. In a convent In West Philadelphia. She waa married to J. Fred Zimmerman. Jr., of Philadelphia, sev eral years ago, and received a divorce In the New York supreme court October 21. Saved Llfe.Won Bride. Some poet or was he a philosopher said that love like the unusual. And hers 1 Just another proof of It, for Chauncey S. Hager, president of the West Over brook Tennis club, and an all round ath lete, and Miss Mabel Swanson of 1547 Robliy-J on street. West Philadelphia, have an-' nounced to their frlenda that they are roan and wife. More than tills, they have been married several months, while their friend were In Ignorance of the fact. Now It hnppened In this way, relate th Philadelphia Ledger. Mr. Hager was spend ing his vacation at Somers Point So wa Miss Swanson. Both were the best swim mers of all the throng of bathera which went down every day Into the bay to play in the wave. And each being a champion, naturally It waa not long before they bo came acquainted. Many waa the friendly conteat they held In the water until old salts and summer girls alike talked of their prowess. Now Somers Point Is separated from Ocean City by the Great Kgg Harbor bay, four miles wide, and furrowed at one stretch by the swoop of the current aa It rounds Beaaley' Point, bound Inland. Th folk along th seashore looked at Ocean City acroaa the bay and then at the two swim mers sporting In th water. Could thoy do It? The challenge waa passed, and, accom panied by a launch to help In case of trouble, tho two started on their long swim. At first the waves parted easily be fore them and their lithe limbs struck out, irt unison. Then they met the strong current sweeping on Its way from Beaa ley' Point. Miss Swanson found th waves rougher. Swimming became an effort, then an Impossibility. Hager, by her side, noticed her exhaustion and called to the launch. But perhapa It was only a whtm of the little blind god of love the engine of the launch would not work. Hager real ized the danger for Miss Swanson and telling her to rest her hands on hi shoulders began swimming for a place where the quietness of the water told htm there waa a sandbar. All but exhausted, he reached It with his burden. The water was only shoulder high and the two reated there until th launch was able to reach them. And then they were married Just two days after their adventure. . in i ft . Bridegroom 60, Bride 18. Miss Vlrgl Rmbrey. the pretty 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Ein brey of Mountvllle, Loudoun county, Vir ginia., left horn supposedly to attend Bun day school. Instead she became the bride of Clinton Tlnsman, a widower of tW years, who Is the father of eight children. Miss Embrey met Tlnsman al the church. The two drove to Purcellvllle. where they took a train for Washington. They spent the night with relatives there and went to Rockvllle, Ind., where tbey were married. Tlnsman Is said to be a man of means Ho had been paying court to Miss Embrey for some time, but because of the differ ence In the ages the young woman's parents frowned upon tho match. Hence the elope ment. The couple were accompanied by the bridegroom's son-in-law and several Wash ington filunds. the little party Uavlng fur Washington Immediately after the cere mony. A Bachelor's Reflections. A woman prays t) grt Into heuven, but she fights to get Into s c!rty. The more you tell a girl you loe her the still more she liilnl's you oji.t to If you r. ally do. Mont pe ple ere mo niiflt-il with their morality I h it thry go to eiuircli chiefly tj sh w it off. It s aw (in hurd f ,r a girl to be a CbrU tLn end hava eild 1 1 ... t makes her nose red at the um lime. i Th re n a wuinuti believes a man when! ho tells her how pitlty she louka is she ki.cws It wouliln't tie lru if he said it to komeiwdy else :, Is Jealoua of. Me Ycra Prise.