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Show HERES FOR hEALTH. MRS. WILLIAM GREASE BOOTS WITH AMBERGRIS H. TAFT Product Valued at $20 000 Wasted Sailors on Ship. by FRENCHMAN TO GAVE ARM A STROLL IN ATTRACT THE PARK San Francisco. Greasing mantis, sea REMARKABLE CASE OF SIMULAboots and oilskins wish ambergris, valTED DISEASE BROUGHT TO ued at approximately $100 a pound, LIGHT IN PARIS. sailors on the British baik Antiope wasted about $20,000 worth of the Paris. A remarkable story was reproduct, unaware of its value. of Medicine by lated John Mathieson, master of the ves- Dr. at the Academy of a man who, case the Dieulafoy sel, now learns that he let a fortune from a morbid desire to attract attenslip through his fingers. A small part tion and sympathy, willfully allowed of the "giease" had been saved and the amputation of an arm for the sakp this was identified by an Oakland of an Imaginary disease. curing druggist as ambergris. excellent The subject enjoyed The Antiope reached here from Newand well was bred, health, intelligent, castle, Austialia, a few days ago. On office, was in a government employed the way up, in lattitude 20 degrees where he enjoyed an excellent reputasouth, a large quantity of grease bewas seen floating on the ocean, and, tion. When his misfortunes first sowas of be center the friendly gan a eairn prevailing, the m"n managed few a licitude. That was years ago, to scoop up stveral bucketfuls. The "grease was found excellent, and at that time there suddenly apand it was used for slushing down the masts, the balance being used by the men on their oilskins and boots. The captain says much nioie of the material could have been collected, but thought the amount picked up by the men was enough. That the Pair The Supposition Is Went. Finally like "As for me," said he, "I should to take a stroll in the paik raised And looking at her with the to seemed say. he features of inquiry, about you? "How But as for her, sitting on the top the stars, she step and looking up at nothing said "I should "Yes, yes, said he again like to take a stroll In the park. feaAnd directing to her again the tures of inquiry he seemed to say: "Thats twice." with "Then, said she, looking at him her . incut of iosity all the b kindness the in starlight, etheieal face lovely her chin upon her hand and her elbow then, said she, gently, on her knee of Imsoftly, with a ceitain sweet air Mr. dont jou, personality "why GETS FISH WITH HAMMER. Carpenter Captures Sturgeon Six Feet in Length. Muskegon, Mich. When a sturgeon six feet long can be captured with a carpenters hammer. It Is time to cease talking "nature faking, and take up the question of the revised edition of The Complete Angler. Ferdinand Dratz, 48 Peck street, school books are erroneous. They while running his sixteen foot launch must prove that the lie was Invented, up Muskegon lake, came alongside a why It was invented, who invented it, large sturgeon lying a foot under the how It spread and became part of surface. history. They must produce the real Quick as a flash Dratz reached into history of the flag. Who designed It, his tool box under the seat, and, takand who made It. ing the first tool that his hand came Iconomethod same these the "By with, a hammer, dealt the clasts eliminate Shakespeare and in contact fish a stunning blow on the head. at eliminate Bacon, Washingguess commenced to sink, he ton's cherry tree, eliminate Key from Then, as it the fresh water monster grasped Boss! old Poor Betsy Banner. Philadelphia. the Star Spangled Washingand landed it. in his the gills through down she goes into the limbo of fakes ton at prayer at Valley Forge, William with Barbara Frietchie, who didnt Tell, Damon and Pythias, and Moses launch. The sturgeon weighed eighty pounds, wave the flag In Frederick; George in the buUrushes. inches from and measured, sixty-eigh- t a Washingtons hatchet, his prayer at Is shrine. "The Betsy Boss house to . tip. tip WV-Valley Forge, and other notabby y v.r an tlonal fetiches. After Philadelphia has for years EVOLUTION OF THE STEAMSHIP bowed the knee to the legend that In tho quaint little wooden house at 229 Arch street Betsy Ross designed and pade the first flag; after thousands of patriotic citizens had contributed a 4 dime each to buy it, and hundreds of 'i thousands of ehildien have made pilAi , grimages to it, It lias been offered to i the government as a national gift. The government turned it down. And now the historical sites comA A 4. r mittee of founder's week has turned ' I, , Ft down Betsy and the house finally. 1 .V $ Vi vW ; y Z'v '' J J; ' Noltlier of them can have a look in r w on the festivities because both, says the committee, are fakes. The school book story Is down and out. x , , )t I Wv J Philadelso has shocked vV V ' V Nothing phia since it wr definitely discovered right, ly Vnderwood from A Vmlerwoorl.N Wife of the Republican Y Candidate for President oviv.-.s-:- , v J( Vy v r w y V vv-- t 4. 54 the Pennsylvania Historical society that the Liberty bell wasnt cracked while pealing out the news of freedom at all, but while it was discreetly tolling for the death of Chief Justice Marshall. J by A $ Jonathan Hulls' steam tug is generally regarded as the father of the It was in 1?36 that Jonathan Hulls, a yeoman of GloucesterOfficials of the Betsy Ross associa- shire, England, patented a steam tug that was tried the following year. The steahn cylinder, 30 inches in diameter, which in its tion, which superintended the pur- tug had a of its effective pull. The enchase of the building, had made great Inward stroke lifted a weight equal to In Its descent during the return stroke gave the engine a of this ergy to weight In have the it plans figure largely and the reciprocating motion of the piston gave continuous rofestivities. They were horrified the double action a ratchet gear to a paddle wheel at the stern. tation by other day when the committee announced that Betsy and the houso were really a myth. It was the hand of William J. Campbell, who In the absence of Superintendent of Schools Martin G. Brumbaugh presided at the meeting of the load. Your animals were In New Orcommittee which had gathered to Agent Sends Bill for $8 for Feeding leans one mark the places of historical interest day. Please remit. Horses on la Philadelphia, which delivered the Murphys reply indicated his opinion of the railroad In particular and all blow. His report to the committee New Orleans. When Michael Mur lines In was curt but tense. It read: "Where general and hinted of eternal a bill from a southern punishment hereafter. Betsy Boss did not design the Ameri- phy received can flag. The story is a fake, and railroad for eight dollars for one meal Murdy, In the course of time, aftet there is positively no evidence In Its for a carload of flying horses used In he had collected his eight dollars, befa vo- -v, Another road consigned from Jen- gan an Investigation. "There nevei was the slightest ex- nings, La., to Mobile, Ala., his Irish brought the car to Algiers, La., from cuse for the Betsy Ross fake," de- blood wont hot. James F. Murdy, local Jennings, and the clerk at Algiers, In clared Mr. Campbell later. The agent for the railroad, sent Murphy transferring the shipment changed the character of the horses In the bill of stories which you find In the school the bill along with a statement for lading, so that when books about this imaginary heroine Murdy saw the cost of transportation. Wired Murphy document It was horses with are all pure rot, and It Is to the everplain to Murdy: no wings Naturally Murdy, obeying lasting disgrace of America that the "Food for flying horses, Is It? Was the laws of fiction has been nourished for so many humanity, ordered the Ice cream or hay? I'll have the In- horses around to the railroad feed it I have given the traditions years. most careful study, and find that the terstate commerce commission down pens. There the crew saw the mison ye! take, smiled, resealed the car ana sent story is a lie from beginning to end. Wired Murdy to Murphy, In all seri- It on to Mobile. Tho only foundation whatever for the Murphy got back h's eight dollars, yarn Is that there was a young woman ousness: Horses Is horses, be they flying or but Murdy says the Irishman has less named Betsy Ross, who took In plain sewing for a livelihood and who lived running. Louisiana laws protect ani- sense of humor than any shipper he In a house, now known as the first mals from cruelty and provide eight has encountered in his 30 years of American flag house, at 239 Arch dollars for one square meal to a car- - railroad experience. street. "As a matter of fact, Betsy Ross BASHFUL DAN BALKS NO MORE. The only unusual thing about the was no more or less than an ordinary marriage ceremony was the charge to seamstress who would have been fired After Five Futile Attempts Jerseyville the bridegroom with which Pastor with about the same amount of paMan Is Married. Jones prefaced It, His words were: triotic zeal in sewing Old Glory as she "Now, Dan, this is the last time. If would have found In darning a pair 111. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel you balk this time you neednt come Jerseyville, of Bocks. She never had any interMatthews its a fact; Jerseyvtlles to me to get married again. I wont view with George Washington, and bother any more with you. the pictures painted showing the bashful and balky five his for famed Whether the bride had made any flights ptevious father of the country beaming over the work of the handsome young hero- from the altar, gritted his teeth, similar remarks did not appear, but closed his eyes, clasped the hand of the resolute look on Daniels face beine of the flag is one gross libel on Miss Mary Fraser and said I do in spoke a determination which would, Immediately the cudgels began to Pastor Jones parsonage the other day. and did, carry him through. This was at 8:30 a. m., and an hour fir. President Adam II. Fetterolf of Suit Over Dogs Bathtub. later Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Matthews Girard college, a director of the New York. A special bathtub fot Roodhouse. for a took whack at boarded first train association, Is one of the Items In the bill her dog the committee. our honey"Were going to spend upon which Buit has been brought "I have rested my confidence In the moon there, the now proud and Mrs. Leslie Carter Payne by title of Betsy Ross as the maker and husband confided to his friends. against 6 contractor who has made alteration! of her house as the birthplace of Old "Wall be back he night," in the Seventeenth street house occuGlory upon the existence of the whole added.. pied by the actress. The suit, which common peoples faith and belief, a the ho! remarked Jerseyville is based on a mechanics lien, Is "Oli, been now has until pracbelief which who heard the last remark. , youths against not only Mrs. and universal unquestioned. tically real a not been There has but also owner the against of the of whole burden We put the proof In Jerseyville for a long house and Ezra Prentice, who was charivari of title who the attack those upon and appointed receiver when the actress They must produce time and the collecting of horns Betsy Rffsa. went into bankruptcy. cowbells Immediately. and began the teachers, that people, proof stern-wheele- r. single-actin- g one-hal- f Road Makes Unusual Charge. Merry-Go-Roun- merry-go-round- the-truth- s . Flag-hous- e reso-htt- Carter-Payne- first-clas- s the Seeking Sympathy He Suffered Amputation of His Arm. peared on his left arm a number of raw sores. The man consulted several physicians and their diagnosis was almost always different and their treatment invariably unsuccessful. The sores wrere so persistent and rendered the poor fellow' so unhappy that a suigeon finally suggesietl that he have the arm amputated. He consented and the operation was performed. Three months later the sores appeared on the right arm and then an the feet. The patient sought consultation with Dr. Dieulafoy, one of the most celebrated practitioners How In France The physician studied the case thoroughly, but was forced to reject one hypothesis after another, until one clay, in the course of his examination, Dieulafoy noticed that the sores were similar to those made by potash burns. He plied the patient with questions and accused him of. causing the sores himself. The patient met the accusation at first with Indignant denials, bu finally confessed that under the sway of an impulse too strong for his will to overcome he made all the sores himself with potash, and that the same impulse forced him to submit to the amputation. Dr. Dieulafoy said this was one of the most remarkable cases of simulated disease he had ever noted. Many faked disease for the sake of the pleasure It gave them morphlnomanes, alcoholics, and the like, he said. In the present case, however, no pleasure was attendant upon the imitated disease. The patient Buffered terrribly from the wounds and stood' the suffering heroically. FISH IS HONEST BORROWER. Hugo Pickerel Returns $10 with Cents Interest. 53 St. Paul, Minn. Nathan Rosenstein of St. Paul last August went fishing in the beautiful Lake Bemldji. Rosenstein caught seven sunfish and a perch, and was about to quit, wheD an enormous pickerel made a furious dash at his halt. strike-startleThe suddenness of the the man, and he jerked hia pole, which caught In the flap of his coat pocket. A gold piece slipped out of the pocket and rolled toward the gunwale. Rosenstein dropped the pole and grabbed for the coin, but it slid overboard. Fascinated by the sight, Rosenstein could but sit and Watch. The big pickerel, wrenching himself free from the hook, and attracted by the shining coin, swung The great jaws under the boat. opened, and the coin disappeared before Rosenstelns very eyes. Only a few days ago Rosenstein was again on Lak'x Bemldji and mado a fairly good days catch. Trolling back toward the dock In the evening, he felt a strike, and after a furious battle landed an enormous pickerel. On splitting the big pickerel, r he found the gold piece lost last fall. He poked around with the knife and uncovered 58 cents In small silver coins hnd pennies. It was interest at the legal rate on the lost gold piece. ten-doll- Go-ban- "Ah! said he, with a gf stare of satHe drew isfaction, "Ill tell jou to deliver about close to her as though confidences of seciecv, looking smugly down up at the stars, looking smugly at her, trjing his note with the air of a pampered tenor about to enjoy the plaudits of the multitude, and tunefully then he turned to her, made a cozy little gesture that was almost a caress, and began. "Last night, said he "Ah! how long it seems since then before you came it is difficult to believe that I met you only two short hours ago ah, well! Last night," said he, "seeking the cool of the trees and wishing to esI of boarders, cape the banality strolled down the avenue and into tho park. Yes, yes; into the park. He made the sad gestuies of melancholy, of a young man deserving a pity, of one misunderstood and seeking but for a communion of soul. "Into the park, said he, "into the park. Above were the stars; below was the grass; while all around He paused, bis voice vibrating Into silence, fluttering like a thread of silk held between the teeth and blown out into a semblance of rigidity, a silence of substance tangible, appealing, in'' viting, comnmnaiLg while all around she whispered. "Yes was Love, he whispered back. Quiet then he sat and1 lonely, look ing over at the park with an aspect In of wistfulness, barely discernible the shadows, dimly silhouetted against the distance, his shoulders hunched forward with the contraction of wear iness and his hands clasped around his knees with all the humility of one who dares not hope. " was Love, he whispered. Yes, yes. I looked for a seat In vain Love held them all. I wandered along the winding paths. But Love preceded me and Love followed. Arm in arm they strolled, or arm In arm they sat, happy I wandered on in blissful, content. silence while all around me murmured Love. I stopped and Love grumbled I turned and Love softly hissed between its tightened lips. Finding single seat at last, I sat me down, but Love arose and went away, grumbling its expressions and piping its opinions of all who came to see, Wherefore came away and wherefore do I suppose that I must stay away forever and a day. Quiet again he sat and lonely, but now they both looked over at the park its dark branches waving against darker sky, waving an Intricate pattern of Love, waving a warning against the Intrusion of interlopers, waving a weave of happiness and of mystery, beating time to the melody of this one singing, as he again took up the burden of his song. Ah Miss Miss Miss Miss "Miss Proone, she gently told him, he eagerly ex Ah, Miss Proone, claimed, "little do you know you who have just come from the country lit tie do you know the loneliness of a great city. All around one are the evi dences of a gayety and life. Dances He made the gesture of a finished artist. Indicating unto her the dreamy figure of a waltz, the glow of lights, the melody of countless violins. receptions He gestured anew, e ten-dolla- theaters what eloquence! Ah, then coilcerts and everything! Hundreds of times have I wished to go, but there was none with whom I cared to go. None. None His voice almost wept before It died away, and when he sat quiet again, and lonely beyond words, they both looked over toward the park with a mournfulness that verged on open tears. Making then a sudden motion, as though dismissing a subject already discussed too long, he looked at her with affected cheerfulness, saying: "Its going to be wqrmer, I think. But still her eyes dwelled on the park, her lovely face ethereal In the starlight, her chin upon her hand, her elbow on her knee; and seeing her so he dared to strike his closing chord-I- f ten-doll- Hen Proves Best Comedian. Vineland, N. J. A henB tuneful lay broke up the production of a which the ladles of the WashBiddy ington club were presenting. came on as part of the belongings of Aunt Sarah, from the country, a.d just as a solemn part In the play was reached she began to cackle lustily. The audience roared while the actors tried to smother the hen with a shawl, but the Infection was too much and soon the actors and audl ence laughed until the songster was removed farce-comed- Listening for an answering melody he saw that she was smiling not unkindly. You wont need your hat," he said, arising. Rapid, Still, Powderless Gun, Paris. The Journal announces that a French engineer named Ponteaux has invented a mitrailleuse worked by electricity, which can fire without pow-de- r and with no explosion 1,200 bullets a minute. Experiments soon will be made with the weapon, and If It Is believed the gun will modern artillery. sue-cessf- You Can Obtain Fresh While Sleeping. Air The accompanying illustration, show the construction of two different devices exhibited by the state of for the purpose of securing fresh air In sleeping rooms. Figi j shows a single bed placed before a window. A light Iron frame. Fig. 2 fits over the head of the bed and with in the window frame. This frame is covered with cotton cloth. After one is snugly tucked In bed under this shield, with the loose cloth at the end and side tucked in about him, be can raise the sash and be practically out of doors, though his body will be la a warm room, says the Country Gentle In cold weather the head man. should, of course, be protected by g warm cap, and if the window is on the side of the house it will "weather be well to place an awning on the outside of the window as one does to ;eep out the suns rays in the summer. This frame, as shown in Fig. 2 can be fastened to the inside of the window frame by screw-eje- s and hooks. A square frame, Fig. 3, can be made from laths, which would an swer much the same purpose, and he easier to cover, as the cloth could be tacked on. Another device Is shown in Fig. 4 Here the single bed has the head ex- - Two Types of Boxes. tended through the window Into a little tent-likawning, the outside 01 which is shown In Fig. 5. The Iron leg of the bed will have to be slippec back to the position shown in Fig. 1 or a wooden frame for the bed can be made by any one handy with tools. The bottom of the awning is entiiely open, while the roof has the center opening that is shown in Fig. 5. The upper end of this opening Is protected by a raised frame covered with cloth, while the lower part can be left open, to be covered in stormy nights or windy weather by a curtain on a regular spring roller, as shown. A cord runs from the curtain up over a little pulley at the top of the window frame and hangs down within reach of the occupant of the bed. A simpler cover, and one that would always protect from storm, Is shown in Fig. 6. In this case a roof of cloth projecting some six inches at the sides and at the back is raised above the entirely open top, as shown. With such a plan it might be well to provide a cloth screen, or curtain, to close the open side, from which a strong wind may be blowing. The bottom of the sash, Fig. 4, can have a cloth tacked to it, to come down to the bed, if It is de sired to keep the room within warm e during-th- night. e CAN YOU It Is Easy A CAT? DRAW Enough When You How to Do It. Know This is a cat. Perhaps you wouldn't think so from its queer shape, but you will see that by adding a line here and there it will unexpectedly develop OG a Into a good sized, puss. Get a pencil and paper, and see if you are not artist enough to copy the design and make a kitty of your fine-lookin- very own. Ditto. William had just learned how to use the ditto mark. He thoroughly apand preciated Its use as a time-save- r determined to put It to account. Therefore, his next letter home read like this: Dear Father: "I hope you are well. mother sister 1s " " brother wish you were mother was " sister brother - here. " " "WILLIAM." All. Sunday-Schoo- l Teacher And lave no brothers or sisters? I'm a Little Edna No, ma'am. the children weve got. |