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Show mvm ! MENTAL TELEGRAPH EAST INDIANS HAVE DEVELOPED ART TO FINE DEGREE. Incident That Converted Skeptic Into Wlrele Believer Ardent In an One Old That System Land of the Occult. i J f When pigtails and school were her fashion, Penelope was always awakened from Indolence by the possession of a new text-booIts resplendent cover, Its crisp, clean pages the Incentives to an ambition that the discarded old volume could never have called forth. In just such manner the Great . Teacher stimulates the grown-uPenelope to new thought, new purp pose, new endeavor, by again and again placing a bran new year In her eager hands. The new-yea- r Idea Is almost as old and .universal as the Instinct of but the first of January has qpt ..always been the starting point and for. . the procession of months, even pow by no means the whole world follws the Gregorian calendar. The ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians anil Persians began their year on 22, the Greeks of Solons time "on December 21, and the Greeks of the Pericles period on June 21. ' From Julius Caesar on, the Roman civil year commenced January 1, but the' Jewlsh ecclesiastical, year had always" begun at the vernal equinox, March 23, and this spring opening day of bud and blossom and universal hopefulness became the honored one with Christian nations genthe medieval erally throughout period. the latter end of the eleventh century, England, which had strangely enough been starting Its annual records on December 25, began quite accidentally, to pay homage to the old kornan divinity Janus, for by chance William the Conqueror's coronation took place on the first of January, and the birthday of the Norman rule became the birthday of the year as well. Remembering the loyal old Saxou spirit conquered but not tamed we are not surprised to learn, however, that oon the Inhabitants of England fell Into the more general habit of Indulgfestivities upon the ing in new-yea- r 25th of March. The Gregorian calendar, formulated In 1582, restored January 1 as New Tear's day. . The Catholic countries enthusiastically accepted It, but the Protestant ones adopted It slowly, and it was not until 1752 that conservative England fell Into line. .The ancient Romans honored the whole of January by offering sacrifices on 12 altars to the god with two faces, whose namesake the month was. "Janus am I; oldest of potentates; Forward 1 look, and backward, and Sep-tembe-lr f . . bo-lo- w I count, as god of avenues and sates, Tha years that through my portals coma and go. - a ' While the whole month was kept, the first day was the gala occasion. Litigation was suspended, reconciliations effected, Impressive processions made to the capitol, offerings laid on the altars, the emperor surprised by magnificent gifts, visits exchanged everywhere, feasts spread In hospitable houses, streets ringing with laughter and music of masqueraders. The giving of New Years gifts was not confined to old Rome. The Persians always exchanged New Year's eggs, and It was the pretty custom of the Druids to give a sacred sprig of mistletoe to the faithful on their New Years morning, while the bestowing of presents upon' the monarch became an absolute obligation. Queen Elizabeth, the people's favor He, was simply showered with New Years contributions gold for her purse, chains, necklaces, bracelets, rings, embroidered gowns and mantles. petticoats, smocks, stockings and garters; and for the royal larder fat oxen, sheep, geese, turkeys, swans, capons;, fruit, preserves, marchpanes and sweetmeats on this custom was regarded Out as a tax rather than n privilege, and during the rule of the austere Cromwell it died a nitural death never liohltlng up agtiu to make a popular how, as some; line.-- h ippens to a dead stage hero recalled to life hy the audience's applause Closely uss.M'Mt d with the new year setson Is ihe wassail bowl. Its name dented f.um 'lie eld S.ivm Wj-.- . H.tel To your phrase; health" Cntll Quern I.T'tieth's reign, u- handed ainmt the channel circle gtMu-ie-ronn I the great bowl, bn1 it eiwat. the hea!:!i Wt.S nore Ingeoui l!l. It less plc-iii tj iiv dm ii i In inl.vidiini ceps love-ni- i "Many persons deride the idea of mental telegraphy, but if they would spend a year or two In India, as I did, and work shoulder to shoulder with the educated East Indians they would cease their scoffing, said G. R. Scrug-baorganization manager for the commitInternational Policyholders tee, and one of the most prominent electric railway men in Ohio, in the New York Press. It Is wonderful to what a degree of perfection those people over there have developed the faculty of wireless brains. They were using the wireless system over there centuries before Marconi and De Forest were born. Let me give you an Instance In point, and it is only one of the many which changed me from a skeptic to Wassail! wassail! over the town, a convert Several years ago, when I Our toast It Is white, our ale It Is brown. was In active work as a civil engineer Our bowl It Is made of the maplln tree; with railroad construction as my We be good fellows all; I drink to thee! In Scotland, on New Year eve specialty, I went to India to assist In for some unknown reason called building a line Into the interior. We day the doors of the bouses catne to a heading where the use of were thrown open at midnight to let rock drills, of the tripod style you see the old year out, and the new year In, In use here In New York in making was absolutely neceswhile in some of the towns, early In excavations, swad- sary. This had been foreseen In tbe the evening poor children dled in sheets so folded up in front surveys made In advance of the conas to form an Inviting pocket went struction work, and we had ordered from door to door alter bread and a battery of those steam drills. Finally small coin, announcing their arrival we worked rlgh up to the place where by some naive song, shrilly given In we needed them, and we could not childish treble and enthusiasm. do much more effective work until Rise up, and shuke your we got them. feathers; I was in tbe office one day, fuming TUnna think that we are beggars; and fretting about those drills and We are bairns come to play, And to seek our hogmitny. whether the steamship wondering Much excitement was manifested upon which they should have arrived The had reached Calcutta and whether over another Scottish custom. first person who entered a house after the drills were In her cargo. I asked the clock struck midnight New Years one of my assistants If he had heard eve was called a first footer, and anything from Calcutta, which was often parties of first footers went many miles away. He replied In the about calling on friends and making negative. He had not even received merry generally, advices that the steamship had arIu striking contrast to this frivolity rived. I was away in disconwas the habit the next morning of tent when oneturning of the East Indians opening the Scotch Bible at random, who had been assigned hy the gova verse In the chapter read containing ernment to assist us, stepped forward. a prophecy to be made good by fate was educated highly and spoke He Year. New during that English fluently. EuAt all tbe courts of present-daExcuse me, he said 'were you Is with New Year celebrated the rope the steamship had arrived?' &BklngIf ofgreat Impressiveness, it being tbe Yes we are expecting several ficial feast, just as Christmas Is a steam drills on her and cannot do family one. In Belgium, on New Year's eve, the much more work until we get them, children have a special frolic tingling I replied. ' She arrived this morning and the with tbe thrill of suspense. Early In the day, all the door keys In the house drills have been unloaded from her, are spirited away from their locks said the East Indian. They are on Into small boys pockets. A pet rela- the pier now, but something seems to Are they tive, called a sugar auut or sugat be missing from them. things that stand on uncle, Is then beguiled Into a room, and while her or his attention Is di- three legs? I told him they were and showed verted, a key Is whisked out from Its a picture of one of the drills. him to and the place hiding door is locked! Of course the pris- He looked at it carefully and then rehog-man- guile-wif- e, y funny-lookin- g cllck-a-ty-cllc- k oner, confronted by a giggling jailer, Is glad to negotiate freedom at any price- - a ransom's possibilities no doubt ranging from a candy cane to a rocking horse, according to auntie's Indulgent humor oi the size of uncle's pocketbook. The Germans have a very Impressive old custom. At Frankfort-on-the-MaiIn almost every house Is a family party, and at the first strike ot midnight from the cathedral all open wide the windows, and filled glasses lifted In their hands cry: Prosit Neujahr!" Happy New Year." France practically makes a Christ mas of New Years day. All Paris Is en fete, and the Latin Quarter jubilant with song, fiddling, and droll farces, while the poor, starved art student splurges In all sorts of culinary extravagances. In fact, even the beggars are merry, singing instead of whining their appeals for charity, and dancing a Jig for a sou. The French children find their stockings filled by good St. Nicholas, who In his Christmas rush must have thanked his lucky star that these young clients would not expect a professional call until seven days after he had attended to the impatient American youngsters over the eea. After a midday dejeuner a la the younger members of the family call on the older, and in the evening there Is a grand reunion for dinner. AuilJ all this French gayety there Is that one pathetic little touch that so often creeps Into this rainbow world of ours, where tears mingle with the sunshine of our smiles, if a member of the family has died during the past 12 months, early on New Year's morning the near relatives meet at the grave and lay upon It their offerings of love and remembrance. The Russians, following the Julian calendar, do not celebrate their New Year s day until January 13. The grown-up- . not to be outdone bv the sit.. ill fry, now form a gorgeous procession to pass under the critical nose of the uoliiem, m s upper window oven, cows, goats and hogs, adorned with evergreens and red berries, me driven past, while old women tiring ii. i the rear bearing gayly decorated but nv ard fowls us presents. Iu our own country we Americans, "half p.uait. half Im Hun." take our New Yc.u chaiucierlsllcully. With u eves ami smiling lips we Steel its dawn, dancing, feasting, blowing our little tin horns And at the same time in our aecret lieu t 'be cun, tins of pride and con veutionalii.v t losel) drawn wo sadly s.t beside In- - dvlng ember of the pat ve.u't th.-I t pes ami shiver at the ii u;iowti kuoel.s of future at Hie door hard-hearte- n four-chett- :li.-h.i- MIV C. Ill NH WALT plied: Yes; theyre what are In those long packages on the pier, but that part is missing from each of them. He Indicated an essential part in the body of the drills as that which was missing front each. At first 1 was Inclined to regard what he said as a Joke, but his seriousness impressed me. I Instructed the operator to wire to Calcutta and ascertain what the condition was. In a little while he received a reply which corroborated everything the East Indian yhad told me, and, worst of all, that when the cases were oiened it was discovered the parts were missing. That meant long delay, because the drills were worthless without the missing parts. In my dilemma I called tbo East Indian to me and said: Can you tell me whether those missing parts were shipped with the drills?' Without hesitation he replied: Yes; but they have not been taken from the ship. They are away tloun in the hold, beneath a lot of heavy bales which are going to be taken to another port, he said, with perfectly serious face. I summoned the telegraph operator and instructed him (o wire to our representative In Calcutta what the East Indian hud told me. With that Information I gave Instructions that he bales In the hold should be removed and the missing drill parts got from benouth them. Within three hours 1 received u return message that my orders had been carried out and tbut the missing parts had been found exactly where Hie East Indian Iu a few said they were eoiieeah-ddays thereafter the drills reached us amt were put at work cutting Into tbe After that exrock In the heading. perience. and ot he: s like It. do you wonder tluil I believe III menial telegraph' us It Is practiced In India by the educated Fast Indians? . An Understudy. Il.ive you goi a job. Saiu?" Yes. sah. Whui urc ynd doing?" , sah. Tin an An undeisindy. Sam?" Yes, sah M' wife doe wasliin' and I'm her unilri sillily "I tin bin i you evei been called Upon to take her place?" "Nn, sail, I Imlni got ilnt far ylt. Hull" umh-rstudy- Needs for Versifiers. machine essential to tin hictcss?" asked tin aspiring young piMte, No. desi' gPI," replied the kind hut hones) editor, "It Is not even so ss a go eiu-e,- ' ait a bright, Is a typewriting 1 Irreslslllle It it III'-- . STRANGE MONSTER SCARES CITIZENS. CREATURE WEIRD BABOON-LIKSEEN NEAR DARBY, PA. JOKE MAY BE PRACTICAL Belated Wayfarer of Delaware County Frightened by Mysterioue Thing and Many Residents Are Arming Themselves. Dat by, Pa. Their keeper respect the animal down that suggested fully Is probably a monkey of naby Darby tive Delaware county stock. several persons In Nevertheless, Springfield township are so convinced that there Is a strange animal prowling about that they have set traps for It. Frank Carr Is one of them, and he set a number of traps In an enclosure in the rear of his house near some woods where the reputed creaIn their cages. All Delaware county Is stirred up over the supposed antics of an alleged wild animal which Is asserted to look like a gorilla and to have frightened belated wayfarers almost out of their wits in various parts of the county. While it Is believed by most persons that the whole thing Is a practical joke on the part of some one who Is literally making a monkey out of himself, still many ot the more timid class are thoroughly alarmed and fully believe all the tale3 that are told about the mysterious creature. Those professing to have seen the wonderful animal, assert that it sometimes goes upright like a man and then dashes along on all fours with marvellous speed, maintaining a queer galloping gait. They furthermore feel certain that it has a coat of dark hair, but that Is not considered remarkable, as the weather is cool. Their stories of how they almost encountered the strange beast havo been so thrilling that many of the negroes In the county cannot be Induced to pass the spots where it is said to have been seen. Others Townsends Enamel For sala avarywhara. Prloa SO cants If you have forgotten Anything you ought to have done In Christmas gifts, write or wire us We can help you out of the difficulty quick. ers ture was reported to have been seen. It is now stated that the traps were found broken, the bait devoured and all evidences on hand of a struggle NIGHT . ON LOFTY SMOKESTACK. Traveler IN RATTLESNAKE DEN Falls Asleep in Abode Poisonous Reptiles. of Illinois Young Woman Entertains Guests at Unique Banquet 200 St. Paul. John C. Busby, athlete, Feet in Air. scientist and writer, has written to a friend of bis In this city of a terriBloomington, 111. On the dizzy top fying experience he bad while stormt if the concrete smokestack bound In a small hut near Holy Cross, In Dubuque county. Mr. Busby tells his story as follows: "I left Farley, Iowa, on a walking tour to Buena Vista, 20 miles away. I had covered half the distance without incident when there came up a thunderstorm which compelled me to look about for shelter. Some little distance from the road I espied an old cabin and made for it. I reached It just as the storm broke, and finding it sheltered from the rain, entered and lying down upon the floor fell asleep. Tbe night was far spent when I was awakened by the warning note of a rattlesnake. Soon I heard others, and I knew that If I made the slightest noise the reptiles would be upon me, so I lay breathless, as still as death Itself. Presently a felt the slimy body of a snake pass across my chest. It made the cold chills chase themselves up and down my spine and I thought that surely I would be bitten. By an almost superhuman effort, however, I managed to control the muscles of my body until the snake had wriggled Its way into the ground. Then with a terrific bound I literally leaped from the floor out of the opening of the cabin, there Just completed by the Illinois tracno door to It. tion system at Danville, eight persons being overcome was I by my experi"So sat down to an elaborate eight-coursence that I almost fell In a faint, but banquet served by Miss Marguerite of the rain soon revived the Richey, one of the popular young me. beating With returning strength my women of Danville. At the foot of the stack was gath- curiosity was aroused, and going once ered a crowd of several thousand more to the door of the hut I sprung my electric light and looked Inside. people, greatly Interested In the novel The place was literally alive with From the top of the performance. snakes." stack fluttered bunting ami flags, the banqueters appeared as Buried Alive In Ships Hold. mere pigmies. New York. When the last bag of The entire affulr came nliout as a sort of a prank, the first of which was green coffee had been lowered Into the a dare to Miss Richey, made mure in hold of the lighter Iuikewood at the fun than In earnest, to climb Hie diz- Hush stores, Brooklyn, nnd tho men who had received the cargo had rezy stack and serve a banquet to the it safely stored Cnpf. James ported Mr. Gursuch, party. She surprised Harr went below to satisfy himself the contractor, ami i hy accepting, bat tbe load bail been properly dis throughout the ordeal she did not wa- tributed and that the woik was wi ver. The ascent of the slack was The bags suddenly slid down on done. made on the Interior, a frail ladder him and lie was buried us under an nine inches wide being the means of avulunche. One leg ami bis ankle were attaining the top. broken, lie managed to dear sufficient Mr. Gursuch ascended first with a space to get air, but be could not exrope tide about Ills waist, the ether tricate his body. HU calls wero not end of which encircled the slender beard ami lie lay In bis agony helpless girth of the young woman Four for two days. Then times during the ascent Miss Klchey his moans and be was sottieono heard rescued, There was obliged to stop for breath ami to were only faint signs of Ilf In his recover from dizziness, but she dung body, lie was revived and may firmly each time to the ladder until the ui tack had passed, and then bravely resumed the climb until tht Miksdo as a 8portsman. top was gained. The mikado of Japan Is fond of outdoor spurts and warmly the 'Introduction of footballencouraged Many Flih In Lakt Erlu. as played It is said that Lake Erie produces In Kualaml Into Japan. He Is a huntei Dior fish to th square mile than any ami fisherman of no mean as ither bod; of water In the world. well M x good hand at lawn ability, tennis. 200-foo- e I?. V new b rhe ct tdmlri reach Pi In iquadr rears 15. ond by. made by some animal. The practical Joker who is working the scare, if such Is the case, has succeeded to an extent which may work his own harm. For there are a number of Delaware county citizens Zoological Gardens of Philadelphia who, while not getting In hysterics were out looking for a lost Simian about the matter, have quietly placed In Delaware county. But & telephone big guns In their hip pockets and are message to the zoo exploded the story. waiting for a chance to pot anything All the Philadelphia monkeys are safe that looks like a baboon. GIRL SERYES DINNER ron, 1e Amerb The n anean have purchased pistols and go about armed, fully to sell their lives dearly should they encounter the my thical monster in any of its hypothetical haunts. Others take the thing seriously without being unduly alarmed and they try to explain the matter. That it is an ape escaped from some zoological collection is the most commonly accepted theory. This was strengthened by a rumor that the authorities of the Cream Make attraotlT fare Innuedlataif. to fae powder. Iu u I not dui!il Lor! Just' b mand rank rear, quishe ink a1 rst bat 170 SALT LAKE , 'MAIN St CITY, UTAH Union Assay Office to ( MANAUIN tfe Ve lAOLHt P, O. SOI SALT 1AK0 OlTV U49 UTAtf Try Some Frozen Coffee, Frozen coffee, makes a desirable change when fruit creams and wster Ices are no longer a novelty. Grind vary fin a quarter pound ot freshly roasted coffee; put It In a cheeeecloth bag, and then In a porcelain farina hollar; pour on it a quart of boiling water taken at Its first boll Tht water should be freshly drawn. Cover and 1st it stand away from the lire , minutes. Remove the bag of coffee and tdi half a pound ot granulated sugar. Dissolve this hy stirring and strain through a fine cloth. When cold add the unbeaten white of one egg. Tara Into the freezer and freeze, turning slowly until the whole mass Is frozei Ilk soft mush or wet snow. 8enrt In frappe glasses or lemonade cupa If preferred, add cream In the qua tlty you do for coffee you Intend ts drink. Just as you are going to put U In the freezer. A fi fee round mo ourse mong t Is ci wo j rom oi very t erstltl sn olnt a stum :1s :uch I ;rver ards t her, I eaded, nt ol he Pie Cor flv A Most rick atisra, om a pllcat ost e aster, iversi 1, the d chi th yo, ss go ren tl To Clean Matting. Ha To clean matting It should be first It Is swept thoroughly with a stiff broom, lignia cars being taken to follow the grata :red i of the straw. Then brush It across o was the grain with a soft broom which has a, am been dipped In warm water. It abould itltud then be thoroughly washed In warm redlta water In which a handful of wit baa the oeen dissolved. There Is nothing that srn bj 111 brighten matting as much u salt, and It will do wonders in preventing Canine the colors from fading. Light colored ante and matting should be washed In water lu d ae 11 which borax has been dissolved. Ia Vara th' terlor Decoration. .ni ur Caught Cm severs Smith Say, I received shock U Smythe Hows that? Touch a i to-da- wire? Smith No, I was sitting In s itrect ear reading my paper, and was not aware that the car was crowded, and that some ladles were standing. to my surprise, a woman who was standing In front of me said to me. "Dont you think It would bs the right thing for you to give me that The aboil Mmen ny. Sud-denl- seat?" Smythe She had her nerVe dldot she? Smith She always has. She ll wife For Freckles. Here ts a remedy for freekln which has been satisfactory, but It I cure possible to predict how soon theof Pk will bo effected: Thirty gralai verlaed borax, dissolved In tw0 D. one half ounces of lemon Juice. T makes a lotion that la very In keeping freckles In abeyance whr It agrees with the akin. It ,hou fac applied at night, after tha rluiea- and washed been thoroughly 1 a hti At most Q ' T ?be N has text the irade a g (' be b cats cr ca cost ever; proc a. Chocolate Cream Pla. ake tha crust first, as for This Ailing ts verr rich, re must be enough for two P It ess It Is a very large onOne Plnl school recipe. king k, four ounces of chocolateboiler-ckered In the milk In n double wtlh It tablespooniM a starch, add on cup of sugar k it, stirring often. 'vhf" e, remove and add on vanilla tnd cool. Then whip W oi thick cream and add t th - t'1 U |