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ENJOYED PLAY OF REAL LIFE Women Enthuslastlo Over Act* Which No Doubt Were Thoroughly Fak ; miliar to Them. Robert W. Chambers, the novelist, said at tho Century club In New York: "We novelists have got to remember that the public, while claiming stoutly to like truth and realism, really likes?really likes?well, here'B a story: "Two women Btood In a queue waiting to get in to see a melodrama. " 'Thls'll be a good show,' said the first woman. 'Life, vou knnw noni racivnigni ior a seat on an Allegheny school board attracted state-wide attention. Iiut within a short period the men of a city ward doomed 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 givihg 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 represented on the board of education. Their presence there Is fixed. Their position will not be changed unless their Influence Is enlarged. ? Pittsburgh f Leader. I The Fruitful Days. t Now comes the season of accom- > pllshment. Summer's light and heat 1 have long ago suffused these buildings i with which we wrap ourselves against J the Influences of the natural world and < have laid up even in the feeblest of us i some store of energy, some additional t gift of life. Whether we see it or not, j we are ready now, if ever, against the! t darkness of winter when the tides of j t being are low and its wheels turn slow-! 1 ly. We have before us the example t and inspiration of the earth's mighty j e harvest, the warning of these shorter | days, and the spur of cooler weather, i Those who teach know that the sue- c cess of their year's work depends on) the drive of the next four months.' Those who direct the enterprises of trade and manufacture know that this i is the time to realize what has long i heen nlnnnwl If ?nn nmw?? ' anything or do anything better than > In the past, now Is the hour for your: t beginning, the beneflceht strength of f things is on your aide, and the course f of the world runs with yours. The1 t past Is a help, but not a hindrance, and i the way Is clear toward whatever good I may be your goal.?Collier's Weekly. ! 1 Lead Pencil Industry. 1 The English lead pencil Industry, 8 which is receiving a notable Impetus 1 through the war, dateB back to the r early half of the eighteenth century.! * when plumbago?which hitherto had 8 served mainly for the manufacture of r shot and crucibles?was first used for r writing purposes. All the black lead used in pencil making then came from * Seathwalte, which enjoys the double '' distinction of being the rainiest vil- ' lago in the British Isles, and of be- c Ing the only place in the world where' 1 pure plumbago may be found. This I mine yielded a huge fortune to the Bankes family, who owned it, the out- c put In 1813 amounting to 31 tons of 1 pure plumbago, which realized $525,* c 000. Twenty years later foreisn ? graphite began to take the place ol t plumbago in pencil making and in r 1850 the Seathwalte mine was closed g down. fe Birds Invade Helgoland. i' Helgoland is now experiencing an * Immense aerial invasion. In early 1 autumn the Island Is one of the rest 1 places of the birds migrating from the North, and night after night they * come In countless armies. In times * _ Ik. I~1 ? A .A _ . f ui yoaun lua iiinuuara turn IIIO in- I vaslon to profit. stirring abroad all night with lanterns and netr, trapping t tho weak and weary birds that snatch | ? a few minutes' rest One observe! j " records having known 15,000 lark* * alone trapped In a single night, ol ^ which nvimber a lighthouse man caught 5100 by fixing a wire not outside tht f; great lantern. v life. Nothin' overdone.' " 'Yes, I like life, too,' said the other woman. I don't want to be put tc sleep, though. Still, 1 can't stand nothin' far-fetched.' " 'Same here,' said the first woman. "And then they went In and sat through five 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 final- j ly killed the latter in an aeroplano j duel, slightly ofT stage, inheriting later an unexpected dukedom, and so forth ( and bo 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. \ 'Llfo, real life, eh?' '"You bet,' said the second. 'That's life, that is. Nothin' far-fetched or overdone.'" WOMAN'S PROGRESS GOES ON Pittsburgh Ward's Board of School Visitors Is for the Time Being Entirely Feminine. A news item In the L.eader provides striking evidence of woman's progress. Announcement was made that a whole board of school visitors In the Twentysixth ward will consist of women. It has been only a few years since the candidacy of the late Miss Kate . vr? t?t* - - - FLOODS OF MUD IN ALAS Much Damage Done in Indian Villi According to Letter ReceiveC From City of Juneau. A river of mud 100 feet wide uearly ten feet high ran into the ilan village of Klukwan the other < carried off ten ricks of wood which natives had gathered, broke into SChOOlhOUBO. covered the flnnr uii? two-foot layer of mud and stones, strayed gardens and did much o< iamage, says a Juneau (Alaska) ter. There is an Indian tradition I many years ago a similar str< :ame down out of the mountains iestroyed an entire village. The Village of Klukwan is 23 m Inland from Haines, on the Chll river. Two and one-half miles b from the village in the tops of mountains is a great bowl, or han? iralley, which some monster glacie prehistoric times left as a monum rhis bowl is drained by a small stre which often becomes choked s rocks. The heavy rains of the three d proceding the 13th gradually filled sorgo of the small stream with a ir if water, mud and rocks. Between ind throe o'clock on the afternooi August 13 the nativeB in the vill leard a deep rumbling and grint Sack in the hills, according to the si Jrought here from Klukwan by W Eleattie, superintendent of na schools. A moment later the nati saw a river of mud coming down mountainside, headed directly for tl Somes. The river covered two and a miles at the rate of eight miles lour, carrying rocks ranging f pebbles to bowlders. The stream < linued to run for about fifteen i ites and spread for a width of over !eet. As soon as the water drained off mud became so hard that picks w lecessary to break up the layer. SITE OF GARDEN OF ED Recently Discovered Tablets Give Legendary Spot as Island of Bahrein. The history of Bahrein, in the ] dan gulf, is long and interesting. :ient tombs found in the interior ? ni ? -? jo nuti ruuumciana once set here. The kings of Assyria frequ y fought there. The 13abyloni jailed the island Dilmun. Again the island is the center ol merest, for there has recently been covered in Babylonia a large clay let recording the story of Parad he deluge and the fall of man. and story tells us, says the Christian 1 ild, that the island of Bahrein, indent Dilmun. was the paradise, harden of Eden, where man 1 lved. The newly deciphered tablet rec ng this story was among the man; scribed objects found by the exp ion sent to Babylonia from the 1 rersity of Pennsylvania. Prof. Step L.angdon, a young American schc vho is professor of Assyriology fesus college, Oxford, England, a cl rndowed by an American family, rlslting the museum in Philadelphii he autumn of 1912. At that timo he copied a numbei he tablets, one of which was a tr ;ular fragment. He took the clay et to Oxford, where it was showr he eminent English scholar. Pro lOr Sayce. and it was disrnvernri t recorded a part of "an early Sue an story of the flood and of the >f man. Real, But No Ghosts. A frightened yoll from a man \ van walking through Union Squ iark. New York, brought two pass >y to his assistance. In answer vhat the trouble wae. the man, i lad been touching the harp none tently, pointed to rows of pliant Igures. "Am I seeing them?" isked. "No. they are ghosts -ight, all right. This park used >e Potters Field, and I guess th ellows have come up to see Iroadway sights." What the so law wero the down-and-outs asleep he benches. Since the cold spell ived here they have discovered ray to sleep comfortably. As s is the cops leave the park the wei aggies wrap themselves in layers tewspapers. These, they have dis< ired, keep the chilly winds from i ing too close to their skins. Ot iarK night the white figures on tenches look rather startling i oming upon fhem suddenly it's Ha 0 make one's hair stand straight Bacteria to Make Bread? Prof. W. B. Bottomley of Kit ollego, London, referred at the ra ng of the British association at M heater to the behavior of a spei ubstance found in peat treated acteria. called auximones, which 1 emarkable effects la promoting pi :rowth, and which were appares ssential to plant nutrition. Professor Hartog said that the mi ng of the section would be remi iered for the paper, and the Indue: 1 would have on the food supply he world. The president of the section a hat the conclusion reached shot hf t Professor Bottomley was on r'nge of a very great discovery. Protecting the Bison. It is stated that there are non ,000 bison In national parVs, etc., his country and In Canada. *3 American Hlson society Is Inferos 11 preventing the extinction of th nlm^li und In trvlng to foster tli iropagatlon; It ij said tc !>e meet rith success. THE LANCASTER NEWS. JA? ;KA TRAVELS ON LAND OR WATER ?$ ?.< "Amphlbiouo" Motor Boat, Invention * I of Austrian, Seems to Have Been Proved a Success. 1 1 ? 1 fi and A nMtnl,cr of People have been work-1 j ing of late years to solve the problem i lnv of constructing a vehicle capable of 1 } tlie traveling upon both land and water.' J % ., More than nno hna hnH onmo Haoko- *%# h a BUCCOS8? but none is better, perha 3,1 ^ than that invented by a Viennese eugi- J ,jler neer named L. Zelner. ? ^ This "land motor boat" resembles an i hat ordlnary touring car in appearance ex3am cept that the body is rather higher. un(j But besides its wheels, it is provided j J J with a propeller placed at ihe rear.! jjea The power of the motor can be | Iknt 8wltched from the running gear to the + 4 ack Propeller screw and vice versa. It is | the built so as to take quite steep grades ,in with caso. Hence one may ride down ?$ ?? J. the sloping bank of a river, plunge into J JJ ent current, switch the power to the am" Propeller and cross the stream in a vith practicable motor boat. Arriving at the other side, the engine is switched ? JJ I to put the wheels 'n commission once ^ the more> tbe bank ip easily climbed, and *^*4 lass i?urncy continued without more . two ad0 X| , Tho vehicle has made ennd under 4 laise I>ract'cal tests and is expected to be ling particularly valuable for military use. ? to i It is so built as to go well in swampy q | and muddy country. In shallow water * tlvo 1 w^00'8 nn(^ propeller may be used siives ?1taneously; this is a particular ad- ?? the vantage when a sand bank is accldenhoir ta,ly encountered in a stream, since it J ^ removes the danger of "getting stuck." ba)f The power is supplied by a 16-horse % ?? an power, four-cylinder motor which gives rom a speed on land of 45 miles per hour. ^ J c This speed is dlminishef in water to V**} njn about twelve miles per hour.?Literary i**! 100 DiSCF' ?? the X * ,cro GREAT MEN AS PEDESTRIANS *0 ii p.. Writers and Others of Worla-Wide %>*** Fame Who Were Fond of Long Jaunts on Foot. tho "There have been some famous pedestrlans, with the emphasis on the ^er" word famous. Charles Dickons was a An" great walker. 'Twelve, fifteen, even J } twenty miles a day were none too t,e<* much tor Dickens . . . swinging ent" his blackthorn stick, his little figure ans isprang over the ground, and it took :o , a pracucea pair 01 legs to Keep along- "j n* side of hi3 voice.' He once did 'a f" special feat of turning out of bed at 4^^ two, after a hard day. pedestrian and 1 Use, otherwise, and walking thirty miles j into the country before breakfast.' I?" Sir Walter Scott 'walked twenty or 4&h? 0 thirty miles without fatigue, notwith-1 Jj ? standing his iimp.' Browning, when ^ past seventy, could take long walks without fatigue, and Wordsworth at sixty did twenty miles a day. De vj* Quincey considered fourteen miles a ^ ^ * day necessary to his health, and Lamh, n * notwithstanding his 'almost iramatelon rial legs,' 'could walk during all the ' ar* day.' Brahms was a tireless pedes- ^ ^ n trian, and Beethoven always took his ia r daily walk or 'run' of five or more waa miles in all manner of weathers, 1 n while Turner traveled twenty miles ^ J a dny, sketching as he walked. Her- I [ 0 bert Spencer, at thirteen, in a fit of ian- v ,,_ _ j . I Z 2 uuiucoiuiLiicss, wumt'u luriy-eigui a miles one day and forty-seven the j 11 10 next; but was probably injured In so ,e8~ doing. Tolstoi, at fifty-eight, walked *?*4 ' a 130 miles in three days. Great men 4&0T are usually of powerful physique, and i JJ a many of us would suffer if we emu- j jj lated their walking habits, but they have not all been so vigorous. 1m- ?? % manuel Kant walked for at least an N ? hour every day, but doubtless Bacon or % t iaro Locke, Chopin or Weber, Spinoza or j % crt^ Calvin, Who were none of them in who good health, would have found a walk i . of a mile or two quite sufficient or i J J even too much."?St. Nicholas. 1 *?*4 Z ... . | ? ? a" NEW WAR AGAINST ILLNESS to ?* ?* OSQ I 2 tlie Classes Inaugurated, With Competenl 4 use Teachers, to Show How Health ( on May Be Conserved. Jt JJ ar- X $ I a Recent innovations in educational fiffnrt in flinatn that a as\rt nf nnnloro A oon < iry. fclon of Independence has been started! + 4 , Qf In the matter of dealing with human *?**4 ,ov. Ills. The modern tendency is to appeal get- *? 'he Personal sense of responsibili-1 ? a ty to prevent illness rather than to de- ? 4 the P?nd upon the traditional value of cur- 4 an(j ative measures. ible. Rochester, N. Y., has Introduced a UI>< plan of having two teachers, one, X A doctor and a nurse give lessons to V 4 the public bearing directly on health 8 and life conservation. Classes, open ai?t" to women eighteen years old or over, ? t Ian- are jn tjje pUbnc nchool build- 4 r,al lngs from four to Ave in the afternoon. & < ,m(* Information is given as to what jTJj diseased *re preventable, how to! ltly avoid them, how the body can be made resistant to disease, how to sot" nurse scientifically, how to reserve, X Jl Bm" record and report symptoms, and Y J nce \ what to do In emergencies. The ot course, which includes instruction Ic the care of children and preparation j a,d of food, Is plonned In two lessons a f * week for six weeks, and Is succes- *?*4 the gjveiy given in different localities. Another suggestive movement has ?$ ??, been started by the Boston Instructive J District Nursing association, co-operating with Simmons college and the ,,n School for Social Workers. An eight months' course has been mapped out! ? ^ to supplement the ordinary training p!Sb of nurses In order that they may deal i ++4V lMr practically and helpfully In as6irtlne % 1 ^ the public. < gTARY 17, 191G. U A^A A^A A^A A^A A^ <^> "^ '^ ^W A # ^? + A" X ^ | 'A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A a^A A^A 4^ 4^4 A^A A^A A^A >r w^~^ ^"^ V < < w 5,0 r A Mf i A1U1 How Many Trade Wi There are about families in Lancastc The Lancaster ft the homes of more four hundred of the Mr &rli ifiit nui You can send yoi these twenty-four h through the column caster News cheape had a government1 See us about a ; or any size contra space. Our Job Depa "On The Ih Lanca Nev L A4A A^A A^A A^A 1^44^4^ 4^t A^AA^AJ^AA^A 4^A A^A 4^ J ^ ^ ^ ^ *4 T|r <fr ^ ^ ^ . --,. -w_. ...? - ... _ 3 { 4 4^4 A^A A^A A^A J^A A^A J^A A^A , ^r ^Jr * $ ?? ?$* *t* <? ??> VV n ft ft 4# Tx it of These th You? If it five Thousand > ir bounty. XX [ews goes into *1jtX 5 than twenty- XX se families. Xit XX TI rertiser | t? ur message to XX undred families *t*X s of the Lan t than if you ? j* PostalPermit isier ? -V' *!'! XX VR M , fi tt U-* - tf year s contract, 44 ict for any size 9 II rtment is >?? Job" II ? yy yy yy yy YY rx tC i tt YY 4 tt