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Show THE EEAVER V. COUNTY NEWS IftsasaeaeiaigtsaFattBagataaa!; Kd;tur ft Manager. L. MILFORD UP TO t'uiiie ngau. fiHitliiill friends! mini Ion teaisoii bag opened again in fi'iitrul America. Tlii- - Important Happenings in Industrial Circles in This Country and Europe $ $ l . Vf' ' w.i Imspcijiy Is still waxing and will pine for the country. Terrible lutiiles arc happening -Kith side over the (able act a hot are winning Indianapolis. heir Ind.-Tf- I 'lilted ic Harrisburg, pa. James R. Roderick, chief of mines, Issued a letter to superintendents of all the coal com- - Mine Workers of America will attempt to raise tluO.UOO as a permanent relief fund for the widows and orphans of the victims of flu Cherry (111.) mine disaster, according to the announcement of National President Thomas I.. I.ewis. President I ewis estimates hat l.ouo children have been made persons express timism hr eating I hickrn tioipiellea I If all the railroads were to drive vagrant trespassers permanently from property, a5saae5!aga8sae8a5sassss I Rome i.fc op- their j panics in the stale, inclosing copies In restaurants. of the new minor labor acts and rewith the questing their "Purls is a woman's ti v. n," slurs it state Authorities In seeing that the llostiili Ijlnhe poet. Other Auierleall laws are enforced. The superintend gents have made the same remark. enht are informed that all cerlflcates It is clumsy to break laws when It homeless by the explosion. While "hould be secured by minors on or is easier to evade them, hilt that Is the Ited Cross society Is liltending to before .liiiitiaiy 1, 1910, and that In not a good excuse for evading them liiinieiliale needs of tin destitute fam- spectors will ark to see them after believes a that date. Chief Roderick declared ilies at Cherry, .Mr. for nerliii wants an iiiiiuovatde date care of that In- - was pleased at the designathe for be raised fluid should Raster Sunday. I.et us hope they will tion of the age limit of boys employed in the future. Mr. children the Raster Sunday also get a a fninud call will he sent to inside mines at 1C years and of those llitil says hat. the 2.30(1 local orgiinizHtioiig of miners employed outside at 14 years. He for such a law for Messina la alarmed over signs of asking for contributions, lie asks that hail contended years, and said that he will enforce further earthquake shocks. Messina all contributions be l lo the seems a good place to keep away headquarters In thiR city, and it strictly In Istth the anthracite and committee bltimiinoiis regions. disi libuted by a special from. 1 will he provided for either by the (union. Rug- .- The army of tinein-ployethat The American Dreadnought Is the naiioiial executive hoard or by the in Great llritaiii has grown greatest of all. Others do well; we convention. It is (he plan, Mr. I.ewis f.iulily, and lias nor- - reached do better. They do better still when says, lo Inn c the fund held in trust Hons that are causing the invert,-we do heat. t of meld gn-u- t A uneasiness. by the ciiininillee for the beni-lispecial tin of mid stu'eiiifiit just issued by the royal widows Ihc orphans Chery Aeroplnnlst Parniaii flew for over coiiiuiissiriii on the poor law slid relief four hours the other day. The coming disaster. e of nistress declares that during the W. at S. Trade r X. dining-caa will Sydney, have to have aeropliine is at a standstill owing lo Die fircal year eliding March 31 last the attachment. great coal si l ike. A hundred dully iiiiiiihcr of iliose who were without Itiflliin triliesiiii-!send wind lo cm, I I rains have discontinued. work and who sought government aid Rpsln that they have only started to Tin- - miners employed In t In Moiuif was ;:i persons in every l.mHi of the Madrid will get little Hiilisfac-lio- Iletisain and Coledab collieries in die population, while in the fiscal year light. out of that. i.oii lierii district have gone oil strike, pieced ing only 14 out of each 1.0011 for assistance. The all oilier somhern mines are ex-h- iiiadi' npplli-uiiiu- i mid A Washington man says lie owes Til. wesl.T" ilrMitui ion ami absence of work for M loiigeviiy tii pie," In, 't'' few pnl si'"'""1 the nm mployed is not couflned tc ' '" " tlrkrns cm hang onto die pie counter 11 v l.nmliiii, but is general In practically M, l"' " ",, a whole lifelliue. ' er. v as a niafler ol principle. The all of i be iiiiiinfaeiiii'li:g cities and During the pnsl year oar :iiirnal lame Is llm case wiili III1 hi ickluyers' towns in (be Tidied Kingdom. Agricultural male la rml dr., vuieiis' unions. The Chinese goveriiiiient planted .5.1 IT.ouii.iiuO i in Russia is divided into two i which vtiileiueiil Is the biggest in.i'gcd in , he industry have ea bled linr lasei-s( Hu iiiomitcil Chinese of of iitrike ws the lo lapor and labor on Die the in story year coal Helds. The northern proprietors foot, only I lie latter being representTills disensr Ion whether or not tlern lin'd L'JU.ikhi in wages due lo the ed by the following figures showing are insects on Mats is chopping the storage dally wage pnid throughlull the liiiineilkite payment Wait till the itrikers, pretty Ili out Kifssia during the different seanf ibe amount Is doubtful. hookworm gets settled. Milwaukee. It. F. Iloekin, a mem- sons In 19)S: Springtime Male la Orville Wright says that flying is ber of llu executive board of the struc- borer. without food, 34 cents; with 20 rents; woman laborer, witheasy to learn. Few doubled tliut; It tural Iron workers, was In the city food, I the coming-dowprocess which the recently In the interest, of the pile out focal, 21 cents; with food, 13 drivers. "At no time has the de- rents, liny rutting time Male la majority want made easy. mand for men been us great ns at borer, without food, 41 cents; with The German dirigible air squadron "In Cin- food. 33 cents; woman laborer, withsaid Mr. lira-kin- . has been cxeriitlng maneuvers, and present, for our Instance, organization out food. 31 cents; with food, 26 another war geare Is due In the right cinnati, is compelled to place ordinary labor- cents. Harvest time Male laborer, little, light little Ilritish Isles. ers on structural Iron work in order without food, 41 cents; with food. 33 woiiihii laborer, without food, The germ family nre In hard luck. to complete It this fall. During the cents; 28 cents; with food. 23 cents. C37 men. we Initiated have mouth last Mra. Sage la combatting the tubereiiNew York- .- Oil Jjynnpv 11 W , lost germ, Mr. Carnegie the pellncra, the largest for any one month during. The last five years, and equal to the ployes of I lie 1 toistou & Albany are to "ami air. Ktrrgrmier tnu Hookworm. na-ornf last year. Indications are bo granted a pension system. The What are said to be the highest falls that work will remain tills way for the pensions are to be paid to the men on this continent lmve been discov- next three years." who have been in the employ of the ered In I .a bra dor. Maybe Canada was Ottawa, C'uniula. A bill has been company for a period of ten or more tired of owning only half of Niagara. introduced In the Cuiia-jUiparliament years, when they reach the nge of elglil-lioii- r work day, 70, and may be paid to men who have an for providing In Iter anil for divorce a Sacramento mill iilsn calling for h minimum rate been runtinually In the employ of the woman charged dint her husband 1!. rente an hour. Tlio set does not company for a period of 20 years, would not even buy her lee cream. of to or domestic farm laborers, or even If they lmve not reached the age Still, he way have loaded her down apply when persons employed fire members uf 70. The pensions are computed with fudge and chewing gum. of thfi employer's family. A provision on a basis of one per cent, of the for the last ten years of 'ear-ol!? Hartford loy who niiiiiils any agreement for a lower average pay That sen ice, emby the nqmber of multiplied Insisted on being taken to school after rale between the employe and man has been In Continuous a unusual years Is The nvt Ills lie attracting because did ployer. he had broken leg, sen lee. not want to spoil a perfect record for nttfiil Imi throughout the Iknulnion. N' w York.- - Hulk-tinIn more than of The board trade London. Rug. to on be counted ap nltendanre, may a dozen languages were posted In on the hours and the wages predate the value of an education and report to turn It to good account. clothing trades nf the United King- almui. New clinion hall announcing firms had granted dom shows that the total number of tluit seme forty-fivWriting of the evils of ear strain, work people employed In this scriinu the demands of the striking shlrt-wiiIk- I to which the people of a large city are is about I .'iiiii.PPii. 4IMI.OOU being no it. makers. Fully ".rtrtil young always subject, a doctor says; When About half of llicni are employed in women returned lo work as victors. the ears have been strained liy the factories unit workshops, the rest ap- The hug" linns have lost at least mdse and confusion of the day they parently being engaged in doing tlu-iS:i.'i0.noii in business since the strike may be refreshed In the evelng by storied, livery firm which gave in to work nl their homes. to music or to such other sounds iAindiin. Kng. A dispute in one sec- the strikers granted Ihe girls the ns are restful lo ilium." Perhups you tion of Hie printing trade in the working week and a 15 per cent have noticed Hie rest fid effect after a Mamlnsler district over wages mid wage advance for all grades of workhard day's wink when the clock In the hours of labor was settled by the ers en week work and h 20 per cent. street strikes six and the hurdy-gurdManclii ster Typographical society and ;ul van ( e for piece work. comes around. Lirn. Mass. The strike of the kindred societies guaranteeing the of the printers iissisieuf faith Goodyear operative at the shoe good The Si. river is an object-lessoA. R. Lillie Tompuiiy was of the terms (be lory by approved eiopoyers. In wiili r power. An enormous . are In be setili d a i'd as a result 500 shoe work-- , Tlio strikers be volume can turned to nrcounl by Inm Work- ers returned lo work after four weeks Milwaukee.- - Sirm-turu- l nd now progresmod ern nioihoils. union lias derided lo ii'sHimc an of ii'leue.-.s- . When the Goodyear opers' sive Americans and Canadians are en .Ian-1- , eratives siruek, on the ground that system, appri'iilirc uniting in an elfoit to utilise this will ad.iw r.oo nee of Heir ptiinher was connected cry 1. Tin plan has been formulated jxiwer. to eerv lext-lorn at i rect-!;- ; with a muon to which they were prentice which leoks to the erection of a dam woik ill'll one i:;-- i n I tire In Ge closing of thoSr department at ItroekviMc which will drown, out four men at artcmit-nta- l i is l.iim ili'-ci i id work all other employes the Long Sinli rapids and raise tl.c wo i k. of the factory. stream at tl.ai point IS Inches, affordGluck- New York Intel nation, ll.ilif1'.. N. S .Icnos II, McLach ing several hundred thousand horse smiths' union Is en omc; lo de- Ian. m'ii'oIuix n a.u:ivr of the Nova power, Competent engineers haxe vise in cm ns to raise i fund lo use I lit. inch of Cnited Mil:, .ronoiim 'il it wholly pirciicalde. m obtain the eic.ht-houin ail ciidi-axc:i:cri a. has lmuicht Wetki r of in all pari-- i to restrict the day for id;u Thu pnliii'iniiry report of the de ch.nyo ot of the country. of imi'iciiltiiie shows that snnj.y o' io:d i,, Noxn Scotia and part unlit Since the iv'g.iui.ation of , tin ii ii to rais-- prices iiiirearuiiably. the corn crop this year Is up to a high uu:on ar.aii.rt AYvum'cr Dick, sales agent ol iloak and Shirt level ami ertur near to nvnriHireuk-iif 't Hu- I than .Vi, 17 nionllw nc i, No. l yb-liis Th" c iii ioa Cral Company, am) flitiiics at l,d. iiboot .lol'ii It tl eni-o'Ci.O "1 bushels, wl.i. h Cowans, manager of thc nearly hundred million bushels more than half of Ihe total iiuii'bi-- of Ihe ernl't Spri; i i'.rl coal minx's. Ihiit-i'- i The birg'-sThe Pennsylvania that of 19"8 phi.i. crop ol in itie city. Poston. This city has aeoiher now railroad will add 10.0(1(1 freight cars corn over gnihvreil was that of 19011. teamster union. It will Include the (t which aggregated 2.!i.:.in:,uim bushrollaig stoxk. For the eastern lines :...iiiO hoppx-- gondola coal ear els. At the prevailing pliers the corn teen of one spreinl Hue of work. Bun Francisco. A new union, com- ami aim r'uvl underframe fiat cars crop is esti mated to be wonh more SlJeh'.flod.iiOO There s n doubt posed of i h. niff ours and helpers, was were nrdi red fue.u H e Pressed Steel than Car Company, and L"0D hopper gonthat "King Corn" doi-- his part tuward oiginlzid recently Aberdeen. S. D. A new bricklaydola roiil cars from the Siatixlard creating national wealth. ers union has been orcanicd here. Steel Car Company. ana The poet nlliee rules that hexes of I'iid, S. D. It v:n odiclally IauiiIuii. Kng. The working women randy may lie rent through the mails. nounced at the Homc!:ikc Minin?; ni Rnglaiid are rapidly joining organ- Clide Sam and Santa Claus are get- Company's olfice here that tlm mine ,lM ri (.n,jt being received Info ting ready to pull together in this would be closed at ones in antielpix - 1!(, nniir.s exxi-- week. The number matter. Sweets to the sweet. tlon of a strike of 2.501) miners emat this time is nearly 200,000 Cal. At the dose ol ployed there. The inlm'r dxMnand a The Turkish parliament, which will posed shop working agreement anil the Ihirxl quarter of the current year reconvene next week, will consider a ine official will not grant It. The con- the Carpenters' union had 5C4 uioni-bernaval program that will Involve the trolling Interest In the mine. It Is said, in gxmd standing and 810.000 to expenditure of $10().00n,ono. This sum. is held by Mrs. Phoebe lbnrs(, moth- Its erx'dll. It is estimated, will build and equip er of William It. Ilearst. Amsterdam, Holland. The Holland seven battleships of ihe North DaAustria. The total In- trade unions nre organizing those Vienna. kota type and at once advance the come of the Austrian Woodworkers workers whose occupation and nutn Ottoman empire to at least a second-ratunion rose from 810.000 in 19i2 to hers offer a field for union action. 114:1.000 In 1908; the expenditures I The unions have already done inucl; position as a sea power. from 87.500 In 1902 to 8 53.000 in 1908. ln the cities of Holland to raise wage Ia-wI- s la-w- t.t-u- j Ncw-casil- ! lu-e- r I : li:-!- n - s e r 52-ho- n rciipt-niiitcd- ' i li-- li-- e r r I.o-do- (l-- - - r - t i i s j s e 1 the doubtless tramp evil would . Chicago. Taietu Parsons was a pioneer of locomotive engineering In the Tutted which fitted we'l the States, an honor . It was no loss a ragged Jersey-manParsons who Tatem than jiersonage tan the famous locomotive John Hull over the original Camden ft Amboy allroud. A little of the railroad bistoiy of that early period will serve to explain Pa moils share In the making of It When the John Hull arrived from Rug-lanin 1SII1 it was found to be both too large and too heavy for the trick and bridges on the Camden ft Amboy line. Its weight was ten tons, while the Americau locomotive De Witt Clinton weighed only three and a half tons, and Peter Coopers famous Tom Thumb only a ton. . Tatem Parsons was one of the t ro-- t rs who looked over the problem and then recommended that the track be brought up to the requirements of the new Kngllsli locomotive. His vice was taken, and In the end he lie- came the driver of the then Luge steam machine. People came from far and wide to look uiion what was to them one of the world's greatest wonders. The-- e nre not a few people In the Cnited States who can hark back to he beginning of railroading in this j the national con- ference on the subject held two yearn ago it was asserted with au-ihorlty thr.l the ; ; 1 of vagran-- , cy was hugely de- termined by the ease wlLb which tramp could travel by rail free In of charge. this opinion railroad men and scientific smdeuta And yet of charity problems agree. when the railroad companies attempt l,n)w-- t themselves, and ultimately public, from the costly nuisance, a curious phase of ihe lack of sympathy between railroads and public promptly manifests itself. Hi veral of the railroad systems of ihe central and western states have U'ken up the problem seriously within the lust few years, only lo find from Ibe city very little mid town authorities along the ay. In some sections u very real animus-- YEARS 120 LIVE That man may by his ow n nut hods of livirg susr.iin lire until he readies the age of 1'H). or even 120 years, is the contention of Rev. I)r Newell Dwight Hillis. pastor of PlyY. mouth church, I'imoklyn.-N- . Dr. Hillis arrived In Chicago in the course of a lecture lour which carried him through the middle west, bring ing wbh him the excellent good news that the time is near at hand when we will nil be ashamed to show our faces in heaven before we are 101 Dr. Hillis is convinced years old. that present day conditions are sucl us to make for the longevity of tin d speedily very In solve Itself. IU Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis in Chicago Lecture, Foreeeca Human Longevity Advocate Suffrage. Undisputed That He Waa the Pioneer of Locomotive Engineering in America. For Union Workers UTAH MLN TO PARSONS HONOR BELONGS RAILROADS ad-th- e , 1830, but Talent Parson. gantry honor of being the only railIn road man whose life actually siaiined the dlstauce from the laying of the first track in 1828 to the accomplishment meny wonders up to the year 19i. He lived to see tlie railroad Industry In the Tnlied Slates surpass that of any other country on the f Rlol, ,tl4 , fV,p 1 n the every cobwebbing ,,,1on- - mMmmm-- k sprays the crusade Ihe race. Ik-- believes that In a thousanr years women will own all the prep i erty. io approve He was talking about "The Amer In Hlalr comity, Ientisyl- j Owned by Kansas Farmers and Said farmers. to Ee Unique in the United lea of befor and vuiila, for instance, (he Grange not State. the Conk County Teachers' iinsoclatinr Iniig ago solemnly protested against when he expressed tlio opinion that Ihe "injustice" on the part or the The only independent railroad In the span of life is to be lengthened. which sent the tramps roving the Vniled State that la absolutely ll has been proved, ho said, that over the countryside, "eoiuiiilitlng or free bonds rain kind men of of debt tlio are on an average any depredations. Is a line ten miles In length down In tour inches taller than the men o, Thin, It must be confessed. Is not BOO years ago and that the women are Radical readjust- Harber county, Kansas. entirely surprising. A score or more of wealthy wheat fivu Inches taller than the wonfen ol ments are always hurd to bring about farmers living near the village of 1789. with perfect amity, and that eliminaThe women arc getting the moat tion Of the tramp Is a radical underta- Ilardtner, ten miles west of Kiowa, and before For a raised the money with which to grade of the education of king cannot be questioned. time the activity of the railroad Is and equip this railroad. It cost them long, if the men continue to go intc pretty certain to drive the vagrant 8100.000 and Its trains are now haul- business and get their recreation it toward the paralleling highways, ing their wheat to market. The rail- the evening playing billiards, while he where can usually sustain life, ev- road has not been named. It Is sim- the women follow intellectual pur ults, the latter will be the only eduen If bis field of operations Is more re- ply known as the termers road. Hardtner isnt on the map of Kan- cated persons of the country. stricted. It is only when he becomes I dont know why the women convinced that the railroad crusade sas yet, but It is calling for a bank Is general and permanent that he will and the state bank commissioner has Ihould not vote. I am tired listening admit the Inevitable and begin to ef- - dispatched a deputy to the town to in- to these false statements about the The farmers who put up women to the effect that they were vestigate. n For the time being, therefore, the 8100.000 to build a railroad say they tnnde inferior to man and should be and cities and towns into which he Is are ready to establish a bank with a kept subject to bis authority of 825,000. should have no say in politics or ic dumped on being driven from the capital Ilardtner Is two miles from the religion. We are having too much freight car or the brake beams, must Oklahoma line. Roundabout are the trouble over that statement of Paul's assume the task of dealing with him as efficiently as the railroad has done. greatest wbeatfields of the west anda tbat women should not talk in the The practical result of this lack of railroad to haul the wheat to market church. was a necessity. The Santa Fe and sympathy Is In many cases the impoMissouri Pacific run into Kiowa, the sition of merely nominal fines or a FOR CONGRESS eastern terminus, ten miles from DLE0 MAN discharge with "move on orders the Ilardtner, hut neither would build the when tramps who have been Sixth Illinois District Voters Choose for trespass are arraigned In local lint! Int0 ,he Brc,lt whpnt l,elt- Xow Moxley to Fill Lorimer i both companies are dickering with the Place. farmers for the purchase of the line rr- u a very large extent the railroads both have offered them the cost and 7 have Increased the tramp ..111,, Chicago. Inless the plans of one of of con,"ruC,lon and equipment and facilities they have offered for free ' five an oleo on the investment. The defeated opponents sueti-ecent, per transportation. Not unnaturally, the new line will be sold to one of these margarine manufacturer will represent farmers in many sections have come the Sixth Chicago district in eongress to regard the tracks as tlio proper conqmnles. of a substitute foi The state banking department will This nianiiiactm-eplace for vagrants, and to resent any Is William J. butler Moxley and he a to charter the Hardtner peoeffort to drive them off to other pre- grant,for a bank. It is argued that a was elected after a hard campaign ple serves. Cities and towns, as well as farnilrg community that can raise So far as the records show he is thx rural districts, have also contented 81iiii.iii0 only oleo maker in congress. The and build a railroad is themselves with ordering vagrants on, trim to a bank. The population of government lias had quite satisfied that they should do the llardiner is ble with men in Mr. .ViixleyB buslnesf 75. debt i - Txi-dn- y rail-loa- d iet-t- y I to-da- y to-da- arn-ste- d - r d moving by means of stolx'n. rides so long as they departed expeditiously. This Ignores, of couree, the iMisidblllty of an ultimate cure for the evil; but temporizing is an extremely common policy in public as well as ln private affairs. The railroads, for their own protection, have begun an effort whose success will bring advantage to soHut. ciety as well ns to themselves. it Is hardly to he expected that they will accomplish the whole task alone. "An effective remedy," said Mr. .lames J. Hill when the warfare was begun, "must t"gtn with the riillro-.i- and the authorities of every community through which It is entirely probable that the first effective stx-- In the crusade is a campaign of gx'm-ra- l education as to the rxrtniuty with xxhixli the r x'an be nbuted. In tramp riub.-iiu-that this cooperation may he secured. only lind a Chicago Water Tank Hat Lasted Long. A steel water tank, erected in 18(58. is still In service at the Rock Island railroad shops in Chicago, according to the report of the committee on water service of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way association. It Is built of three-eight- s Inch and pistes. The pitting Inside is shallow, and since the outside Is now kejit well painted, though it was formerly neglected, thr tank Is exported to last double Its present life. It Is most corroded where it rests on the timber joints. One manufacturer estimates the life of steel tanks as five lire's that ol wood, which he estimates at ten ti fifteen years. paper which opposed his election called attention to the fact that Mr. Moxley had not beer without bis own clash with Uncle Sam. Mr. Moxley was elected to succeed William 1a, rimer who was elevated tc 1 Had to D'amantle Engine. Thu journals of the big recently enmph txxl at the lla'ilwin locomotive work for the Santa Fe, were removed to permit the biggest passenger engine In the world to be A Wonderful Tunnel. carried over The mountain grades The tunnel of the Tians-Andinwest of Altoona. Neeessarlly the railway was pierced atm the event smoke stack and domes are short, in was made the occasion of a great order to let the hug machine gn celebration, accord ing to a dispatch through standard tunneis and under from Santiago, Chill. This as necea ordinary bridges. rails cy project sary on quite a number of engines pre-vi- ( The Trs was approved by thx Chilian coc.grx'ss or the Haldwln us!- - turned out i In 1 10.4 and thx first of tin v.cirl.-- . ''tit nevet before was It nec s This sary to remove the journals. railway was opened in 1906. section reaches from Arica to the foot Willi Cut Off Many Hours. of the Andes, where the tunnel beAfter Ihe completion of the railroad gins. The Chilian section of the funnel was opened March 15. DOS. and Trom Christiania ,o Kergcn the Jour the wxrrk of piercing the Andxs moun- ney between the two largest Norwetains has progressed rapidly, Amer!-cu- gian cities can be made in 13 hours methods and machinery being instead of In 50 by sea. The total cost used. The tunnel is five miles lung ef this railway Is estimated at 815, and the highest In the world. The i (00,000. line r.ow reaches to the summit of the CordUlx'rn and will join a railroad of Jungfrau Railroad. The work on the Junfrau railroad l the same gauge from Mendoza. The Trans-Andlnline will rontlnue on progressing so rapidly that it wtl Ilollvla. The completed line probably be opened next year to Jung to from Arica to Ijipb will be about frau Joch. where a station and hote 300 miles long, and will cost In the accommodating 200 perron have bxvf hewn out of the aolld rock. neighborhood of 815.000,000. or-t'e- e William J. Moxley. the rank of senator last spring, lie is wealthy and his friends are certain thnt he will give the people of the Sixth district satisfactory service. Touch Wood." While we are on tbe subject of evil spirits let us listen to a correspondent who informs us that he lias lately noticed a curious superstition among the rhildren or hi village. When a motor appears the children within sight all run to touch something made of wood, retaining hold ol It until the motor is out ot sight. When asked tc give a reason for this they say that it brings good luck. 1 wonder IT any ol your correspondents in other places have noticed thi.M We think It not unlikely. And except where the road is paved with wood, we shmid judge . be incantation very h efli-iir- |