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ENJOYED PLAY OF REAL LIFE Women Enthuslastlo Over Acts Which No Doubt Were Thoroughly Fa. miliar to Them. Robert W. Chambers, the novelist, said at the Century club in New York: "We novell8ts have got to remember that the public, while claiming stoutly to like truth and realism, really llkea?really likes?well, here's a story: "Two women stood In a queue waiting to get in to Bee a melodrama. " 'This'll be a goon Bhow,' said the first woman. 'Life, you know. Real life. Nnth??' -> ..w?u*u v/TCiUUUC. " 'Yob, 1 like life, too,' said the other woman. ' I don't want to be put to sleep, though. Still. 1 can't stand nothin' far-fetched.' " 'Same here/ said the first woman. "And then they went in and sat through fire acts wherein the hero killed thirty-six Kafirs with his naked hand, found a diamond as big as a duck's egg, smashed with his revolver from a mile away the bottle of poison that the beautiful heroine was about to swallow rather than yield to the blandishments of the villain, and finally killed the latter in an aeroplane1 duel, slightly off stage, inheriting later an unexpected dukedom, and so forth j and so on. "When the curtain fell to the sound of wedding bells the two women looked : at each other with glistening eyes. " 'Grand, wasn't it?' said the first., W 'Lifo, real life, eh?' " 'You bet,' said the second. 'That's life, that is. Nothin' far-fetched or overdone.'" wuwiAnrs PHUUKtSS GOES ON Pittsburgh Ward's Board of School Visitors Is for the Time Being Entirely Feminine. A news Item in the Leader provides striking evidence of woman's progress. Announcement was made that u whole board of school visitors in the Twentysixth ward will consist of women. It has been only a few years since the candidacy of tho late Miss Kate McKnight for a seat on an Allegheny school ty>ard attracted state-wide attention. Hut within a Bhort period the men of a city ward deemed it wise and to the best interest of the citizens to fill a board of visitors with women. The wisdom exhibited by the men in giving women an opportunity to exercise their intelligence in governing the public schools is a wholesome sign. Women are the natural guardians of children. They have charge of them in their homes. Their experienced hands will make a favorable Impression on the schoolroom. Women are already reDresented on the board of education. Their presence there Is fixed. Their position will not be changed unless their Influence Is enlarged. ? Pittsburgh Leader. The Fruitful Days. Now comes the season of accomplishment. Summer's light and heat have long ago suffused these buildings with which we wrap ourselves against the influences of the natural world and have laid up even in the feeblest of us some store of energy, some additional gift of life. Whether we see It or not,; we are ready now, If ever, against the' darkness of winter when the tides of > being are low and Its wheels turn slowly. We have before us the example and inspiration of the earth's mighty' harvest, the warning of these shorter rinva on/1 ----- ? -? 1 iuu oyui vi WVVICI WUttUier. I I Those who teach know that the suc-| cess of their year's work depends oni the drive of the next four months. Those who direct the enterprises of trade and manufacture know that this' is the time to realise what has long; been planned. If you purpose to learn anything or do anything better than in the past, now is the hour for your beginning, the beneficent strength of things is on your side, and the course of the world runs with yours. The' past is a help, but not a hindrance, and the way is clear toward whatever good may be your goal.?Collier's Weekly. ' Lead Pencil Industry. The English lead pencil industry.! which is receiving a notable Impetus through the war, dates back to the early half of the eighteenth century, when plumbago?which hitherto had served mainly for the manufacture of shot and crucibles?was first used for writing purposes. All the black lead iiflnrl In nnnnll mnbln* than Seathwalte, which enjoys tho double distinction of being the rainiest village in the British Isles, and of being the only place in the world where pure plumbago may be found. This mine yielded a huge fortune to thej Bankes family, who owned it, the output in 1813 amounting to 31 tons of pure plumbago, which realized $525,-; 000. Twenty years later foreign 1 graphite began to take the place of plumbago in pencil malting and in 1850 the Seathwalte mine was closed j down. Birds Invade Helgoland. Helgoland is now experiencing an Immense aerial invasion. In early autumn the island Is one of the rest ' places of the birds migrating from the North, and night aftef night they come in countless armies. In timet ' of peace the iilandern turn the Invasion to profit, stirring abroad all night with lanterns and nets, trapping the weak and weary birds that snatch fa few minutes' rest One observe? t records having known 16.000 larkr \ alone trapped in a single night, ol ' which n'.mher a lighthouseman caught ino bv fixing a wire net outside the ' great lantern. FLOODS OF MUD IN ALASKA Much Damage Done in Indian Village, According to Letter Received From City of Juneau. A river of mud 100 feet wide and nearly ten feet high ran into the Indian village of Klukwan the other day, carried off ten ricks of wood which the natives bad gathered, broke into tho schoolhouse, covered the floor with a two-foot layer of mud and stones, destroyed gardens and did much other damage, says a Juneau (Alaska) letter. There is an Indian tradition that many years ago a similar stream came down out of the mountains and destroyed an entire village. The village of Klukwan is 23 miles inland from Haines, on the Chilkat river. Two and one-half miles back from the village in the tops of the mountains is a great bowl, or hanging valley, which some monster glacier of prehistoric times left as a monument. This bowl is drained by a small stream, which often becomes choked with rocks. The heavy rains of the three days preceding the 13th gradually filled the surge 01 me small stream with a mass of water, mud and rocks. Between two and three o'clock on the afternoon of August 13 the natives in the village heard a deep rumbling and grinding back in the hills, according to the story j brought here from Klukwan by W. O. I Beattle, superintendent of native schools. A moment later the natives saw a river of mud coming down the mountainside, headed directly for their homes. The river covered two and a half miles at the rate of eight miles an hour, carrying rocks ranging from pebbles to bowlders. The stream continued to run for about fifteen minutes and spread for a width of over 100 feet. As soon as the water drained off the mud became so hard that picks were necessary to break up the layer. SITE OF GARDEN OF EDEN Recently Discovered Tablets Give the Legendary Spot as Island of oanrein. The history of Bahrein, In the Persian gulf, is long and interesting. Ancient tombs found in the interior tell us that the Phoenicians once settled there. The kings of Assyria frequently fought there. The Babylonians called the island Dilmun. Again the Island is the center of interest. for there has recently been discovered in Babylonia a large clay tablet recording the story of Paradise, the deluge and the fall of man. and the story tells us, says the Christian Herald, that the island of Bahrein, the ancient Dilmun, was the paradise, the Garden of Eden, where man first lived. The newly deciphered tablet recording this story was among the many inscribed objects found by the expedition sent to Babylonia from the University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Stephen Langdon, a young American scholar, who is professor of Assyriology in Jesus college, Oxford, England, a chair <,?uuncu ujr an niucricHi: lainuy, was visiting the museum in Philadelphia in the autumn of 1912. At that time he copied a number of the tablets, one of which was a triangular fragment. He took the clay tablet to Oxford, where it was shown to the eminent English scholar. Professor Sayce, and it was discovered that it recorded a part of an early Sumerian story of the flood and of the fall of man. Real, But No Qhoata. A frightened yell from a man who was walking through Union Square park, New York, brought two passersby to his assistance. In answer to what the trouble was, the man, who had been touching the harp none too gently, pointed to rows of phantom fionisoa ** A m f a v *? nui occiug iucui ; no asked. "No, they are ghosts all right, all right. This park used to be Potters Field, and I guess those fellows have come up to see the Broadway sights." What the souse saw were tho down-and-outs asleep on the benches. Since the cold spell arrived here they have discovered a way to sleep comfortably. As soon as the cops leave the park the wearyraggles wrap themselves in layers of newspapers. These, they have discovered, keep the chilly winds from getting too close to their skins. On a dark night the white figures on the benches look rather startling and coming upon them suddenly it's liable to make one's hair stand straight up. Bacteria to Make Bread? Prof. W. B. Bottomley of King's college, London, referred at the meeting of the British association at Manchester to the behavior of a special substance found in peat treated by bacteria, called auxlmones, which had remarkable effects in promoting plant growth, and which were apparently essential to plant nutrition. Professor Hartog said that the meeting of the sectfoft would be remembered for the paper, and the influenco. It would have on the food supply of 'he world. The president of the section said that the conclusion reached showed that Professor Bottomley was on the fr'nge of a wry great discovery. - v Protecting the Bison. It is stated that there are nearly ",000 bison in national parks, etc., in this country and In Canada. The American Bison society Is interested In preventing the extinction of those und in trying to foster their propagation; It Is said to !>e meet I"; f v.iih success. THE LANCASTER NEWS. J J TRAVELS ON LAND OR WATER < "Amphibious" Motor Boat, Invention of Austrian, Seems to Have Been ^ Proved a Success. \ ? A number of people have been work- ?S lng of late years to solve the problem J of constructing a vehicle capable of J traveling upon both land and water. < More than one ha3 had some degree of < success, but none is better, perhaps, V than that Invented by a Viennese engl- J neer named L. Zeiner. This "land motor boat" resemhlns an ordinary touring car in appearance ex-; cept that the body is rather higher. J| But besides its wheels, it is provided j with a propeller placed at the rear. The power of the motor can be switched from the running gear to the < propeller screw and vice versa. It is built so as to take quite steep grades with ease. Hence one may ride down ^ the sloping bank of a river, plunge into \ the current, switch the power to the , ^ propeller and cross the stream in a ? practicable motor boat. Arriving at 4 the other side, the engine is switched ! to put the wheels in commission once more, the bank is easily climbed, and ?i the journey continued without more ? ado. ^ The vehicle has made good under practical tests and is expected to be * particularly valuable for military use. < It is so built as to go well in swanmv I and muddy country. In shallow water ? wheels and propeller may be used si- | ^ multaneously; this Is a particular advantage when a sand bank Is acclden- ; Jfc tally encountered In a stream, since it ^ removes the danger of "getting stuck." J The power Is supplied by a 16-horse power, four-cylinder motor which gives a speed on land of 45 miles per hour. , This speed is diminishes' In water to about twelve miles per hour.?Literary Digest X i GREAT MEN AS PEDESTRIANS Writers and Others o' World-Wide V Fame Who Were Fond of Long *< Jaunts on Foot. ? i "There have been some famous pe- ^ destrians, with the emphasis on the word famous. Charles Dickens was a ? great walker. 'Twelve, fifteen, even ^ twenty miles a dav were none too ^ much for Dickens . . . swinging his blackthorn stick, his little figure ^ sprang over the ground, and it took } a practiced pair of legs to keep alongside of hi3 voice.' He once did 'a special feat of turning out of bed at ^ two, after a hard day, pedestrian and Jj otherwise, and walking thirty miles | < into the country before breakfast.' ^ Sir Walter Scott 'walked twenty or thirty miles without fatigue, notwith- | J standing his limp.' Browning, when < past seventy, could take long walks % without fatigue, and Wordsworth at sixty did twenty miles a day. De ^ Quincey considered fourteen miles a * day necessary to his health, and Lamb, > ^ notwithstanding his 'almost immate- V rial legs,' 'could walk during all the day.' Brahms was a tireless pedes- i trian, and Beethoven always took his daily walk or 'run' of five or more miles in all manner of weathers, ^ while Turner traveled twenty miles ^ a day, sketching as he walked. Herbert Spencer, at thirteen, in a fit of homesickness, walked forty-eight miles one day and forty-seven the i next; but was probably injured in so doing. Tolstoi, at fifty-eight, walked ^ 130 miles in three days. Great men are usually of powerful physique, and i many of us would suffer if wo emu- i j lated their walking habits, but they have not all been so vigorous. Im- 1 manuel Kant walked for at least an ^ hour every day, but doubtless Bacon or ! f Locke, Chopin or Weber, Spinoza or CalVln, who were none of them in ??i good health, would have found a walk ^ of a mile or two ouite sufficient or t even too much."?St. Nicholas. V ? ?gi NEW WAR AGAINST ILLNESS *1* ' t Classes Inaugurated, With Competent y Teachers, to Show How Health May Be Conserved. * ? ! t Recent innovations In educational effort indicate that a sort of Declara ^ tion of Independence has been started In the mattei of dealing with human V ills. The modern tendency is to appeal +4 to the personal sense of responsibill- ^ ty to prevent illness rather than to de i pend upon the traditional value of cur- ^ otivo mooouroa ? Rochester, N. Y., has introduced a plan of having two teachers, one { doctor and a nurse give lessons to ^ the public bearing directly on health ^ and life conservation. Classes, open J to women eighteen years old or over, J are taught in the public school build- i ings from four to five in the afternoon. , 4$| Information ia given as to what X diseases are preventable, how to ? void them, how the body can be, !< made resistant to disease, how to A nurse scientifically, how to reserve, X record and report symptoms, and . Jr what to do tn emergencies. The1 <%} course. Which includes instruction ic A the care of children and preparation X of food, is planned in two lessons a J week for six weeks, and is succos- V slvely Riven in different localities. Another suggestive movement has been started by the Boston Instructive ^ District Nursing association, co-oper- j V ating with Simmons college and the \ A 8chool for Social Workers. An eight ! months' course has been mapped out ; ^ to supplement the ordinary training V of nurses in order that they may deal i A practically and helpfully in asslrtinc ! + the public. VNUARY 17, 1916. k. 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