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t x . r ~~~ DEATH DREAM COMES TRUE Wife In Her Sleep Sees Husband Dead Almost at the Moment He Was Killed by Auto. Henry Fuschius, a landscape gardener on the ostate of Gen. Robert O. Bmith at Sayville, Long Island, dismounted from his bicycle and put up his umbrella when he was caught in a pouring rain before daybreak in Lakeland avenue on his way home. While on foot in the road, leading the bicycle with his right hand and holding the umbrella aloft in the left, m big seven-passenger car hit him. Fuschius was knocked 30 feet. As soon as he could get the machine stopped, Henry Huntstein, who waB driving it, got out with a nartv Of frlendb \nd picked up the injured man. A few miuntes later John 3weezy of Patchogue came along in an automobile, and hurried with the Hunt teln party and the injured man to a doctor's office. Tliero Pusehius died In a few minutes of a fractured skull. After word of the death had been telephoned to Mrs. Puschius, she said she had had a dream in which it appeared to her that her husband was killed. She said she had stayed up late worrying because of her husband's failure to return early in the evening, and after she went to bed ft remained awake, troubled for some time. When she fell asleep she said her fears shaped her dreams, and after imagining her husband repeatedly in danger she saw him dead a second before she was startled from her sleep by the telephone bell. INVISIBLE TC THE ENEMY Naval Authorities Seeking Means by Which Ships May Escape Detection When on War Duty. Owing to the enormous ranee nmi accuracy of modern naval Runs it is highly important for small war craft which depend upon speed rather than armor plate to weather the attacks of the enemy, to render themselves invisible as possible. Heretofore, a dark gray paint has been considered the best color to supply to a war vessel. Now experiments are being made with varieties of colora Ideas are being borrowed from the mimicry of nature. We find certain animals cloaked with spotted fur and others with stripes, depending upon the nature of their environment, and these colorings make them very difficult to discover in their natural habitat. In exactly the same way our naval authorities are trying to render torpedo boats invisible by painting wavy stripes on them, which at great disSC tances can hardly he distinguished from the natural wave formations of the ocean's surface.?Scientific American. This Cat Knew a Thing or Two. /\ writer in tnr spectator, London, tella this interesting story of a rat who learned to know her way about and evidently had a curious power of sensing danger of any sort: "When we were in the trenches in the front line a black cat came up from the support trench (I had seen her there previously) and wandered about in and among us. And the most extraordinary thing was that during the day she only wandered about below the parapet; it would have been fatal for her to have appeared above It. as it would have been for any man, for we were using periscopes by day. "Well, directly it got dark and we were able to look over and Are, she would make no bones about running along the very top, where all day sho never attempted to go, apparently because of the danger of being shot. This struck us as being very interesting. I think the old cat knew quite a lot about what was going on. She disappeared from our group, no one seemed to know where, but I dare say she still roams about somewhere in the trenches." A British Sex Equation. There are more women than men in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Consequently, as a member of the house of lords pointed out in debate, to grant the parliamentary franchise to women in the Rritish Islands "would mean the handing over of the country and of the empire to a female electorate, which was a perilous step to take " Still, considering the fighting qualities of the militant sisters who want to vote, the empire "might be in safe hands if it came to an armed encounter with a foreign ,foe. However, the argument was effective. for the lords defeated the woman suffrage bill which was before ..'them by a vote of 104 to 00. 4 Female Night Watchman. - The town of PribslafT. near Schivel'? ^helm, Germany, has a woman night "watihman." When the man holding this position was called to the colors his wife promptly offered to perform Ills work. Every night the courageous woman, armed with a revolver and an old sword, makes her rounds through the village looking for marauders and guarding the houses against fire. She has already made four arrests, which is more than her husband had done in many years Wouldn't Do. Mrs Day?1 thought you had made your plans to send your Harry to Yale? Mrs. \V??eks?I had, but it wouldn't c'o. You don t knew what a fright l?o i3 I P. blue.J--Puck. COULDN'T SATISFY THEM ALL First Group Calls the Visitor "Fresh" and the Second Pronounces Him "Stuck Up." First comes the introduction, in ; which it is uecessary to consider three i things?the way sounds carry in a summer evening in a village; the fact that one's own name, spoken by another, can be distinguished, though the rest of the conversation is unintelligible; and, thirdly, the difficulty In remembering just whom you've been introduced to in a strange town. Then comes the incident, leading up to tho moral wV*lr?V* i?. A ? u., nuivu to. HUtllS Hit? Use? Walking down the street the other evening we met three young women. Their faces were familiar, and we said "Good evening." They stared, but did not answer, and wo moved rapidly on, blushing. And we heard one say In a loud whisper: "Well, who's your friend?" "No friend of mine," asserted another. "His name's Hoblnson. and he's a fresh feller from the city that thinks he can speak to everybody whether he's met 'em or not." Fate so ordered it that ere our ears had ceased to tingle wo met three other young women, strolling in the same direction as the former three. And, mindful of our regrettable break, | wo scanned them closely and decided j that we did not know them. Thereforo we passed them as if they had been I trees. And again wo heard one in- | quire, "Who's that?" "His name's Robinson," was the an- | swer. "He's a stuck-up feller from j the city that goes along with his | nose in the air and don't speak to nobodv " O, dear; O, dear! We are neither of those things they said, hut what shall wo do??Cleveland Plain Dealer. CAN BLOWS UP CURIOUS BOYS They Throw It in Sewer and It Explodes, Sending Them to Hospital Badly Scorched. Three Brooklyn hoys with experimental turns of mind turned their attention to dangerous gases, with the result that one is in a hospital and two others will play hosts to a physi- j cian for several days to come. They are Prank Murray, eight years; John Kennedy, eleven, and Michael Sulli- ! van, six. There had hecn a small fire at 1041 j Pacific avenue, and after it had heen extinguished the boys found on the sidewalk a five-pound can of carbide, j They asked several persons what it j was. Someone finally told them the stuff was used "for making search- j lights," and when it was mixed with water a pretty lire followed. The hoys took the can to a sewer culvert at Pacific street and Classon 1 avenue and threw it in. In the explosion that followed, Sullivan was so uumy injured ne was sent to the Jewish hospital in haste. After the wounds of the other hoys hail boon dressed they were taken to their homes. Maine Woman in a Snake Nest. Mrs. Jane I'oore of lluxton tells a snake story which is some yarn. She says that while piling over some hoards back of her house she discovered a bunch of 38 white eggs, about as large as pigeons' eggs. On breaking one she found that it contained a small snake. She dispatched all the small snakes immediately, bill soon found an adder five feet long, which she also killed. On beginning anew her piling she came to another bunch of eggs, eight in number. As she was finishing them off she heard a hissing noise and on lookintr around aaw other adder with its mouth open coming at her. It took her a long time to kill this one. as she was in fear of it, but she finally succeeded. The last snake proved to be eight feet long.? Lewiston Journal. Girl Mayor of French Town. In a town in the south of France a girl of twenty-two has splendidly performed the functions of mayor since August. She was a teacher and secretary at the mairie, and also qualified as a military nurse. While waiting to he called upon to nurse wounded she found that the chief municipal functionaries were mobilized, and was herself urged to take charge of affairs. The administration of the commune was left in her hands, and even in difficult matters concerning construction, repairs and workmen she carried out the work efficiently with no assistance from the councilors. Blindness In America. Blindness is less common in America than in most other countries; it has apparently decreased among the youngest classes of the population in the last half century; it is more prevalent among Indians, and considerably mnrp nrnvalnnl ? r. w.w.vuv UlUUUft UC51UUO lUttU arnont? whites. The total number of blind persons In the world Is roughly estimated at 2.390,000. At the census of. 1910 there were 67,272 blind persons In the United States. ?In Siberia. During the first three centuries of Russian control of Siberia, Doctor Nansen observes, only 3,000,000 emigrants went to Siberia from Russia, hut the great empire has at last awakened to a knowledge of the riches of its immense Asiatic possessions, and from 1995 to 1914 as many imroi grants settled in Siberia as during the entire 800 years preceding. THE LANCASTER NEWS, STAGE FAVORITES NU (..One Held That Negro Minstrel Companies Will Be Only Memory Before n|, Many Years. bo toi Of all the varied and manifold kinds ]!U of theatrical entertainment negro min- bo Btrelsy is the oni which is absolutely fGi native to these states and which could we not have come into existence any- on -where else in the civilized world, rel Here in Atueric . alone has the trans- wu planted African been brought into in ha timate contact with the transplanted we European. Other nations may have we uiaiiuieu uur ciaim io tne invention of ha tho steamboat ar.9 the telegraph, but cai negro minstrelsy Is as Indisputably due to American Inventiveness as tho He tolephone itself. Here in the United pa States It had its humble beginnings; all here it expanded and flourished for gll many years; from here It was export- yei ed to Great Ilritaln, where it estab- his Hshed itself for many seasons; from chi here It made sporadic excursions into ? France and into Germany; and hero ^ at last it has fallen into decline and a degeneracy and a decay which seem to doom it to a speedy extinction. Its life was little longer than that h vouchsafed to man. threescore years and ten. for it was born in the fifth decade of the nineteenth century and in the second decade of the twentieth It lingers superfluous on tho '':l stage with none to do it reverence. Time was when the negro minstrels '' 1 held possession of three or four theaters in the single city of New York ,!l and when a dozen or more troupes co were traveling from town to town; j and now they have long ago surren- ,|j| dered their last hall in the metropolis nt< and only two or three companies wind rel their lonely way from theater to thea- Mi tor throughout the United States. The few surviving practitioners of the Mi art are reduced to the presentation of Hi brief interludes in the all-devouring variety shows or to the impersonation ' 1 of sparse negro characters in occasional comedies. The Skidmore sj? Guards who paraded so gayly at liar Do rig in and Hart's are diba ruled now Mi these many years; Johnny Wild of <"o joyous meniorv i.- no more; and ? Sweatnam liereft of liis fellows in salile drollery is seen only in a chance | comedy like "Rxruse Me," or the | "f'ounty Chairman George Christy and I>an Kmmett and Dan Itryant have gone and left only fading mem- I ories of their breezy songs, their nimble dances, and their flippant quips.? Urander Matthews, in Scrihner's Magazine. j MADE HIMSELF OF SERVICE Englishman Who Couldn't Join Army Yet Found Wav to Be of Value 4 to the Country. In (Inspiration he tried to Join his , local defense corps, hut they wouldn't have him there because, they said, : he completely spoiled the look of their parade. And when Jones expostulated and urged that the question of appearance was a matter of individual taste, and ttint for his part he would be ashamed to ho found dead wearing a face like that of the commantlor of X company, they fell upon him with ! eager hands and drill toughened feet i and threw him out once again. Then, having done his host, Jones went hack to his business. A few days ago a friend met him. to whom he related the foregoing experiences. "Hut I've found a way to help," he concluded. I " "and it's a help which they can't refuse. however overaged, undersized, ' weak-eyed, and false-toothed 1 may be." "Taking a course of elementary surgery at one of the hospitals?" he was asked. "No." "Making recruiting speeches?" "No." "Putting in overtime and Sundays at the arsenal?" "No." "What then?" "Something I've never done before," said Jones, a little shamefacedly. "I?I?I'm returning my income-tax form to the assessors with the correct amount of my income filled in."?Ixuidon Tit-Bits. Hard-Worked Student. President Ilibben of Princeton appears to confirm ^he charges of the "under graduate" who recently had an article in the Outlook, that a college student had small incentive to work and that in most instances he could loaf pleasantly through the course. This nrtic.le brought many letters to the Outlook, and the discussion took n pretty wide range President Hihhen addressed a conference of mas ters of church schools at Wayne, a Philadelphia suburb and among the rmngs mo saui was this "Men in the world must oarn thoir bread nv the sweat of their brows, but the student ran acquire knowledge quite vicariously, without having to exert himself for it. He should be made to think his way out of ditlirulties himself.' Doctor Hihhen declared that colleges connive in the tendency of the undergraduate to postpone until tomorrow the task of today by making his work agreeable. The teacher helps him over any difficulty.?Hartford Courant. Speaking In War Term*. War terms are getting into ordinary speech, as.a matter of habit. For instance, lude Johnson, while talking about a row with his wife, made this statement this morning: "1 retreated, but with great loss to the enemy."? Atchison Globe. Libraries in United States. The 18,000 regularly established 11- I hraries Ij the 1'nlted States contain more than 75.000.000 volumes, or an Increase of 20,000,000 since 1008. W L _ ... ? i ,. DECEMBER 31, 1915. % wi Appreciation. A good story comes ,'rom Loudon . . .11 . c'n oui a lav yer who engaged u n aw qc1 y. As he lia<l suffered to some ex- we] it from tiie dishonesty of tils former anc 1. he determined to try the new out y's honesty at once. He there- Kui ?o placed a L'5 note under a ight upon his desk and walked t without a word. Upon his 1 :urn, half an hour later, the note at is gone and half a crown in silver I sur d taken its place. "Hoy. when 1 *? dit out 1 left a U5 note under this light!" "Yes, sir; but you see you dn't gone live minutes when a man . mo in with a bill against you for | ^ 1 17 shillings and 6 pence. I be- i , * ?.?. ~i 1 ut-' >v me i.uaiiK? is correct. "You Hut Id a bill?" "Yes, sir; there it is. 191 receipted. The man said it had gua pped your mind for the past four eou ars, and so?." The lawyer showed 1 (l'sl 1 appreciation < .') of honesty by dis- , urging the boy at once. ! NOTHER LANCASTER CASE Proves That There's a Way Out for Many Suite ring Lancaster Folks. Just another report of a case in ncaster. Another typical case, dney ailments relieved in Lamas with 1 Joan's Kidney i'ills. Mrs. W. M. I'arton, \V. (lay S'.. < master, says; "The kidney seere- j ms were irregular in passage and j ntained sediment. My back aelted. : >. and though I doctored and tried ;T< rent medicines. 1 wasn't ben [?d. Loan's Kidney Pills, however, lioved IIU> " lStot.im.int < ircli 2 nth. 1!?1 1.) OVKK TIIItKK YKAUS I.ATKW. s. Part on said: "I use DoanV dnoy Pills w henever my kidneys! i out oi order or 1 have liark ulu 1 thoy novor fail t.t sivo me nf." Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't 1 a ply ask for a kidney v niody -et an - Kidney Piii> the snmo that s. llarton had. I'ostt r-Milliur: .. Props., HutYalo, N. 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