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Show MENTAL TELEGRAPH EAST INDIANS HAVE DEVELOPED ART TO FINE DEGREE. Incident That Converted Skeptic Into "Wireless" Believer Ardent System an Old One in That Land of the Occult. When pigtails anil school were her fashion, Penelope was always awakened from indolence by the possession . of a new Its resplendent cover, its crisp, clean pages the to an ambition that the old volume could never have iiAllod forth. fn Just such manner the Great grown-uTeacher the stimulates Penelope to new thought, new purand pose, new endeavor, by again again placing a bran new year In her eager hands. The new-yeaIdea is almost as old and universal as the instinct of Im mortality, but the first of January has not always been the starting point and for the procession of months, even now by no means the whole world follws the Gregorian calendar. The ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians and Persians began their year on September 22. the Greeks of Solon's time on December 21. and the Greeks of the Pericles period on June 21. Prom Julius Caesar on, the Roman civil year commenced January 1, but the Jewish ecclesiastical year had always begun at the vernal equinox, March 25, and this spring opening day of bud and blossom and uni versal hopefulness became the honored one with Christian nations genthe medieval throughout erally period. In 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 boinage to the old Human 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 Saxon spirit conquered but not tamed We are not surprised to learn, however, that soon the inhabitants of England fell into the more general habit of indulgfestivities upon the ing in new-yea- r ffith of March. The Gregorian calendar, formulated in 1582, restored January 1 as New Year'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 hole of January by offering sacri fices on 12 altars to the god with two faces, whose namesake the month text-book- d r was. inns am I: oldest of potentates; Forward I look, and backward, and be- low f count, as god of avenues and gates. The years that through my portals come and go." While the whole month was kept, the first day was the gala occasion, liitigation was suspended, reconciliations effected, impressive processions made to the capitol. offerings laid on the altars, the emperor surprised by magnificent gifts, visits exchanged everywhere, toastl spread in hospit-able houses, streets with ringing laughter and music of masqueraders. The giving of New Year's gifts was not confined to old Home. The Per- Hiana 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 Year's morning, while the bestowing of presents upon the monarch became tn absolute obligat ion. Queen Elizabeth, the people's favor ite, was simply showered with New Year's contributions "gold for her! purse, chains, necklaces, bracelets. rings, embroidered gowns and manties, petticoats, smocks, stockings and garters, and for the royal larder fat oxen, sheep, geese, turkeys, swans, capons, fruit, preserves, marchpanes " tnd sweel meats But soon this custom was regarded as a tax rather than a privilege, and during the rule of the austere Crom well It died a natural death never lobbing up again to make a popular bow. as sometimes happens to a dead itage hero recalled to life by the audience's applause new Closely associated with the year season Is the wassail bowl, its name derived from the old Saxon W'ss- Hael "To phraseyour - ' health'" over the town. "Wassail! wassail Our toast It Is white, our ale It Is brown, Uur bowl It Is made or the mnplin tree; We be good fellows all; drink to thee!" In Scotland, on New Year's eve ! 1 for some unknown reason called hog-many day the doors of the houses were thrown open at midnight to let the old year out, and the new year in, while in some of the towns, early in the evening poor children "swaddled" in sheets so folded up in front as to form an inviting pocket went from door to door after bread and small coin, announcing their arrival by some naive song, shrilly given in childish treble and enthusiasm. and shake your "Rise up, gude-wiffeathers; Dlnna think that we are beggars; We are bairns come to play, j to seek our hngmany." was Much excitement And manifested The over another Scottish custom. first person who entered a house after the clock struck midnight New Year's eve was called a "first footer," and often parties of first footers went about calling on friends and making merry generally. In striking contrast to this frivolity was the habit the next morning of opening the Scotch Rible at random, a verse In the chapter read containing a prophecy to be made good by fate during that New Year. EuAt all the courts of present-darope the New Year is celebrated with great impressiveness, it being the official feast, just as Christmas is a family one. In Belgium, on New Year's eve, the children have a special frolic tingling with the thrill of suspense. Early in the day. all the door keys In the house are spirited away from their locks into small boys' pockets. A pet relative, called. a "sugar aunt" or "sugar uncle," is tlicn beguiled into a room, and while her or his attention is di verted, a key is whisked out from its the hiding place and door is locked! Of course the pris, oner, confronted by a giggling jailer, is glad to negotiate freedom at any price- - a ransom s posa sibilities no doubt ranging from candy cane to a rocking horse, according to auntie's indulgent humor ot 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 oi 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 Christmas of New Year's 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 exIn fact, even the begtravagances. gars 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 sea. 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. Amid 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 11 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 by the small fry, now form a gorgeous procession to pass under the critical nose of the nobleman's upper window-Oxencows, goats and hogs, adorned with evergreens and red berries, are driven past, while old women bring up the rear bearing gayly decorated barnyard fowls as presents. In our own country we Americans, half pagan, half Puritan." take our New Year characteristically. With Hashing eyes and smiling we Hps greet Its dawn; dancing, feasting, uproariously blowing our little tin horns. And at the same time In our secret hearts the curtains ot pride and con vcntioualily closely drawn we sadly sit beside the dying embers of the past year's hepei ml shiver at the koocki of b. unknown future at thai Until Queen Ellzabetb'l reign, one wassail love-cu- p wai handed about the charm. d Circle gathered round the great bowl, but afterward the health was more byftaplcally, If less pic-- ! luiviquel, drunk In individual cups The poor carried m Immense wood ?n bowl, decorated with gay ribbons, around Him aeigli .hood, beggitl small coin to pa) foi the precious ingredients that nude up the festive door. oot ucUou. elick-a-ty-elie- hard-hearted- n four-chett- , -- MM C It I WALT "Many persons deride the idea of mental telegraphy, but if they would spend a year or two in India, as 1 did, and work shoulder to shoulder with the educated East Indians they would cease their .scoffing," said G. R. Scrug-haorganization manager for the Internatioual Policyholders' committee, 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 a convert. Several years ago, when I was in active work as a civil engineer as my with railroad construction specialty, 1 went to India to assist in building a line into the interior. We came to a heading where the use of rock drills, of the tripod style you see In use here In New York in making excavations, was absolutely necessary. This had been foreseen in the surveys made in advance of the construction work, and we had ordered a battery of those steam drills. Finally we worked righ up to the place where we needed them, and we could not do much more effective work until we got them. "I was in the office one day, fuming and fretting about those drills and wondering whether the steamship upon which they should have arrived had reached Calcutta and whether asked the drills were in her cargo. one of my assistants if he had heard anything from Calcutta, which was many miles away. He replied in the negative. He had not even received advices that the steamship had arrived. I was turning away in discontent when one of the East Indians who had been assigned by the government to assist us, stepped forward. He was educated highly and spoke English fluently. " 'Excuse me.' he said 'were you asking If the steamship had arrived?' " Yes we are expecting several steam drills on her and cannot do much more work until we get them,' I replied. " She arrived this morning and t he drills have been unloaded from her.' said the East Indian. "They are on the pier now, but something seems to Are they be missing from them. things that stand on three legs?' "I told him they were and showed to him a picture of one of the drills. He looked at it carefully and then replied; "'Yes: they're what are in those long packages on the pier, but that part is missing from each of thent.' 'He indicated an essential part in the body of the drills as that which was missing from each. At first I 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 had told me, and, worst of all, that when the cases were opened it was discovered the parts were missing. That meant long delay, because the drills were worthless without the missing parts. called the East InIn my dilemma dian 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 down 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 to wire to our representative in Calcutta what the East Indian had told me. With that Information gave instructions that the bales in the hold should be removed and the missing drill parts got Within three from beneath them hours I received a return message that my orders had been carried out and that the missing parts had been found exactly where the East Indian Mid thej Were concealed, In a few days thereafter the drills reached us and were put at work cutting Into the After that exrock in the heading perience, and others like It, do you believe In mental telegwonder thai raphy as It is practiced In India by the educated Kasi Indians?" 1 STRANGE MONSTER SCARES CITIZENS. WEIRD BABOON LIKE CREATURE SEEN NEAR DARBY, PA. MAY BE PRACTICAL JOKE Belated Wayfarer Frightened by and Many Arming of Delaware County Mysterious Thing Are Residents Themselves. Darby, Pa. 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 of the more timid class are thoroughly alarmed and fully believe all the tale-thare 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 have 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 have purchased pistols and go about armed, fully resolved to sell their lives dearly should they encounter the mythical 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 Zoological Gardens of Philadelphia were out looking for a lost Simian in Delaware county. Rut a telephone message to the zoo exploded the story. All the Philadelphia monkeys are safe GIRL SERVES DINNER SMOKESTACK. ON LOFTY Illinois Young Woman Entertains Guests at Unique Banquet 200 Feet in Air. Bloomington, t if the 200-foo- 111. On the dizzy top concrete smokestack I I sah' Needs for Versifiers. "is a typewriting machine essential to niv s'icec-)-;"'asked the aspiring young poetess. "No. tear ciri." rcgMed the kind but honest editor, it l not so Important a i Rood craset ind .. bright, Irresistible flame." ' BEST TEA GROWN ;p3 in their cages. Their keeper respect fully suggested that the animal down by Darby is probably a monkey of na tive Delaware county stock. several persons in Nevertheless, Springfield township are so convinced that there is a strange animal prow ing 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 crea TRY ..IT.. BVY FROM YOVR GROCER at funny-lookin- An Understudy. "Have you got I job. Sam.'" "Yes, sah ." "What are vou doing.'" "I'm an nndersiudy. sah " "An understudv Sam?" "Yes. sah My wife does wasbin' and I'm her understudy." vou ever been called "Hut bnvi upon to take her place ' "No. sah. hain't got dat far yit THE Safe They Dined High 1 in the Air. just completed by the Illinois traction system at Danville, eight persons sat down to an elaborate banquet served by Miss Marguerite Richey, one of the popular young women of Danville. At the foot of the stack was gaththousand ered a crowd of several people, greatly interested in the novel From the top of the performance. stack fluttered bunting and flags, while the banqueters appeared as mere pigmies. The entire affair came about as a sort of a prank, the first of which was a dare to Miss Richey. made more In fun than In earnest, to climb the dizzy stack and serve a banquet to the Mr. Gursuch. party. She surprised the contractor, by accepting, and throughout the ordeal she did not waver. The ascent of the stack was made on the Interior, a 'rail ladder nine inches Wide being the means of attaining the top. Mr. Gursuch ascended first with a rope tide about bis waist, the other end of which encircled the slender Four girth of the young woman times during the ascent Miss Richey was obliged to stop for breath and to recover from dizziness, but she clung firmly each time to the ladder until the attack had passed, and then bravely resumed the climb 01 tU the top was gained eight-cours- Townsend's Enamel Cream Hakes attractive faces immediately. Superior, to face powders. Its qm Is not detected. For sale everywhere). Price 50 cents If you have forgotten From the Trees He Terrifies ers by. Pass- Anything you ought to have dons In Christmas gifts, write or wlra us. We can help you out of the difficulty quick. . ESTABLISH ID. 1862 ture was reported to have been seen. It is now stated that the traps vere -- found broken, the bait devoured and all evidences on hand of a struggle 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 who, while not getting in hysterics about the matter, have quietly placed big guns in their hip pockets and are waiting for a chance to pot anything that looks like a baboon. NIGHT IN RATTLESNAKE Traveler Falls Asleep in Abode Poisonous Reptiles. St. Paul. John C. DEN of Busby, athlete, scientist and writer, has written to a friend of his in this city of a terrifying experience he had while stormbound 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 mles 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. "The 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 We 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 being no door to it. "So overcome was I by my expert- ence that I almost fell In a faint, but the beating of the rain soon revived me. With returning strength my curiosity was aroused, and going once more to the door of the hut I sprung my electric light and looked inside. The place was literally alive with snakes." MAIN ST. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Union Assay Office . 4. HANAUIR, V. 0; t a ALT P. O. BOX 144 CITY, U T AM LAKB Try Some Frozen Coffee. Frozen coffee makes a desirable change when fruit creams and water ices are no longer a novelty. Grind very fine a quarter pound of freshly roasted coffee; put it in a cheesecloth bag, and then in a porcelain farina boiler; pour on it a quart of boiling water taken at its first boil. The water should be freshly drawn. Cover and let it stand away from the Are for five minutes. Remove the bag of coffee and add half a pound of granulated sugar. Dissolve this by stirring and strain through a fine cloth. When cold add the unbeaten white of one egg. Turn into the freezer and freeze, turning slowly until the whole mass is frozen like soft mush or wet snow. Serve in frappe glasses or lemonade cups. If preferred, add cream in the quantity you do for coffee you intend to drink, Just as you are going to put il in the freezer. To Clean Matting. To clean matting it should be first swept thoroughly with a stiff broom, care being taken to follow the grain of the straw. Then brush it serosa the grain with a soft broom which has been dipped in warm water. It should then be thoroughly washed in warm water in which a handful of salt haa oeen dissolved. There Is nothing that will brighten matting as much as salt, and it will do wonders in preventing the colors from fading. Light colored matting should be washed in water in which borax has been dissolved. Interior Decoration. Caught. Say, I received - , Smith a sever shock Smythe How's that? Touch a live wire? Smith No, I was sitting in a street car reading my paper, and was not aware that the car was crowded, and that some ladies were standing. Suddenly, to my surprise, a woman who was standing in front of me said to me, "Don't you think It would be the right thing for you to give me that seat?" Smythe She had her nerve didn't Buried Alive in Ship's Hold. she? New York. When the last bag of Smith She always has. She is my green coffee had been lowered into the wife. hold of the lighter Lakewobd at the Hush stores. Brooklyn, and the men For Freckles. who had received the cargo had re Here Is a remedy for freckles which ported it safely stored Capt. James has been satisfactory, but It is ImBarr went below to satisfy himself possible to predict how soon the cura that the load had been properly dis will be effected: Thirty grains of pub trlbuted and that the work was we: verlzed borax, dissolved in two and done. The bags suddenly slid down on one-halounres of lemon Jutca. This him and he was buried as under an makes a lotion that Is very effective avalanche. One leg and his ankle were In keeping freckles In abeyance where He managed to clear sufficient it agrees with the skin. It should ba pace to get air, but he could not ex applied at night, after the face haa His calls were not been thoroughly washed and rinsed. tricate his body heard and he lay In his agony helpless for two days. Then someone heard Chocolate Cream Pie. his moans and he was rescued. There Hake the crust first, as for peach were only faint signs of life In his pie. This filling is very and H' was revived and may re there must be enough for rich, body. two pies, cover unless it Is a very large one. It is a One pint of cooking school recipe Mikado at a Sportsman. mtlk, four ounces of chocolate disThe mikado of Japan Is fond of oat solved In the milk In a double boiler. door sporTs and warmly tttOOUraged Thicken with 1 Vsi tablespoonsful of ttu- introduction of football as plaved corn starch, add one cup of sugar and Many Fich in Lake Erie. II is said thai Lake Rrl produce? In England into Japan. He Is a hunter cook It, stirring often. When It Is and fisherman of no mean ability, as done, remove and add one teaspoon Ort Sag to the square mile than an well at cood hand at lawn tennis of vanilla and cool. Then whip on thei bod) of watr In the world cup of thick cream and add to the |