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fCryptok Lenses do not dt0 good looks / SAVED THE TOWN. > ^K? Fiihdrma n Lied. Stuck to Hit Story and Got a Surprise. More than two centuries ago, when An allied English and Dutch fleet, under Admiral Russell, approached Les Sables (TGionne, on the bay of Biscay, ,to bombard it, a difficulty arose. The conformation of the shore partly concealed the settlement behind a ridge, and they did not know how to train their guns. But they had captured a fishing smack in the bay, and Admiral Russell summoned the fisherman, Daniel Fricaud, and or' - A.ll l ~ oerea mm to ten exacuy uuw uie town lay and where to aim in order to destroy its principal buildings. Frieaud, who appeared to be a poor, ignorant fellow, very much frightened, I pointed to a pier with a group of old, rickety buildings. The admiral was doubtful, but the trembling fisherman -assured him that just beyond and almost exactly in range was the market square, the very heart of the town. "Do you understand," asked the admiral sternly, "that if you are telling me a lie I shall ^opn find it out and have you hanged from the yardarm of my ship?" "I know," answered the fisherman. 3 "and if I have , lied you must hang me. I can only tel| you?it is there that you should aim your guns.*' Convinced that the man would not venture a deception, Admiral Russell ordered the bombardment to begin. A little while after shells had begun to fall behind the screening ridge and shabby wharf, and great columns of * smoke arose,' which rapidly increased in volume. It seemed that half the place must be on fire. Only when he thought its destruction nearly enough accomplished did the fleet withdrawfirst releasing Fricaud and his fishing The fisherman, amazed and anxious, hastened to the town to learg what could possibly have happened, for he knew well that in the quarter that p had been shelled there were only a few worthless sheds and storehouses. " " That was why; at the risk of his neck, he bad pointed it oat. Never for a moment had he thought of aiding the enemy to destroy bis native Dlaoe, and he ~bad fully expected to pay the penalty. 'What could the smoke be? It proved that the inhabitants had practiced a clever ruse. Seeing that *.the shells were falling exactly where they did the least harm, they had built huge bonfires to convey the impression of a conflagration. The trick had probably saved the town. It had ; certainly saved a brave fisherman i from being hanged.?Youth's Compan-1 ion. **?^ /^ffifek&l^roSBi TsiL Vs I OPERA TUESDAY World Film Corp BEATRIZ MI "MRS WIGGS OF THE ylifornia Motion I arrangement wi CS IfRYPTOF U GLASSES Xk not only give comfort, but add beauty to the eyes. They give you far and near vision in one solid lens w ithout s ams or cement. I will be pleased to show them to you. DR. F. C. MARTIN , ^ or V* + O 1 1 cf" J_>\ C01gi.il. uyvv-jawci Office over Anderson's Dry Goods Store PETROGRAD IS A WONDER. j A City Buiit by Russia In Defiance of the Laws of Nature. It is an amazing monument to the despotism of the czars that Petrograd has flourished, as it was built, in de-" fiance of the laws of trade and of nature herself. As a port it is immeasurably inferior to Riga, which has a much longer open season, for Petrograd is icebound from early November to the end of April. As a building site it has been repeatedly and disastrously flooded by the Neva. The highest elevation within the bounds of the city is less than fifteen feet above sea level, and the cellars have to be baled out nearly every spring when the ice melts and the wind blows. And the rigorous climate constantly gnaws at walls and columns until the city has been twice and thri<>e rebuilt by the czars. Many of the most imposing structures are held together only by means of iron clamps, and tlie huge bowlder on which Peter rides his bronze horse is ever crumbling away. The stones of the streets are continually ?inh^iow the level, and the ' J ?o ? great Cathedral of St. Isaac never ceases to settlex on a foundation in which nearly $1,000,000 was sunk. No less than sis tiers of piles were driven for the beautiful column of Alexander I., yet that eighty foot monolith, the tallest and largest in Europe, has to be clamped in iron. As a dwelling place Petrograd re* ' mains the most fatal of any great city in the civilized world, with a mortality of twenty-eight to each 1.000 of pop illation, and within ten years its death rate actually?exceeded its birth rate-? Argonaut On the Other Side. "Is Mrs. Gaussip a friend of yours?" "No: she's a friend of my wife." "Isn't that the same thing?" "Not at all. She feels very sorry for my wife."?Stray Stories. Juvenile Logic. "Come, dear." said the mother of a little four-year-old miss: "it is getting late, and you should be upstairs in bed/" "But mamma." protested the littie/ one. "it. won't be any earlier up there than it is down here."?Exchange. Open to Any Offer. Vonn<? Man?So Miss Ethel is your eldest sister. Who comes after her? Small Brother?Nobody ain't come yet but pa says the first fellow that comes can have her.?Stray Stories. The bee that gets the honey doesn't loaf around the hive.?Chicago News. I I .} HOU S E , JUNE 29 ?oration Presents CHELENA in i CABBAGE PATCH" *icture Corp. Feature Ith the Liebler Co. 5c and lOc * I ! WORRY iS A PERi I I | It Often Causes Ills Greater by! ? Far Than Itself. LIABLE TO LEAD TO DEATH. | | ! i I- P.* n IX I I j : in lyidfljr Uddcs I I i o <711 iinpvi koiu ; j Agent In the Production of Diabeies. ! Gout, Goiter, Chronic Heart Disease | T and Other Physical Troubles. With tlie possible exception of those j j in the period of happy childhood, every j I one is at times a victim of worry. In ; j fact, the average individual thinks of j and accepts worry much as he thinks or ana accepts uisagreeauie wearner conditions?as one of tbe bitter things of life which mu^t be taken with thf sweet. In other words, he regards it as a fact, but does not attempt to analyze it. The wisest thinkers of all times have recognized the condition, and many j well known writers have expressed I their views of its psychology. What | has not been sufficiently recognized, j however, until very recently, is the ! imnfti+nn/ifl nf wnrrv not mpvplv in itself, as implying the absence of hap piness, but as the cause of ills far greater than itself, the cause predisposing to secondary manifestations which would otherwise have beon escaped altogether. Having fully comprehended this fact, the next logical step In scientific progression is to determine the exact mechanism by which these disturbances are brought about. Through the conjoined efforts of psychologists and physiologists we are just beginning to +V>/-v tmia r\Vi t-ci/ia 1 Kqci'o nf thie I I CclV.il IJJC UUU I/UJ oivui i/uoio vx . i important subject. The keynote of worry is beyond doubt a disturbance of the mind, says Dr. Erie D. Forrest in the Medical Record. It may be defined as the restless consciousness of all incumbrances which we accept under protest. To elaborate this definition, it is the mind's unrest about anything1 which concerns us. whether it relates to our future, our dear ones, a cause we hare espoused, our happiness, our salvation, our means of support, our position in life, our health, our fate or our success T 4- "HAf CAl/ilTT UU gcuriai. 11. uuco uui vv/uciot DUH,1J 1 in our interest in all these things; It is rather a disquietude arising from a feeling of helplessness before the various chances and claims of life. The popular opinion seems to be that the mental condition is one of depression. possibly because the physical manifestations are chiefly depressive in nature. The fact cannot be too | strongly emphasized, however, that the j j primary mental condition is one of ! overactivity and. moreover, overactivj ity along lines of fixed ideas. Without taking up individually the ! nhases of worrv brought about by tht' various specific causes the physical j- manifestations of worry in genera! i may be said to be depression of respii ration, sighing, disturbances in rate [ and force of heart beat, vasomotor I icfiiT-hnnr>ps in fipr?rf?tinn. iwl lor, cold extremities, relaxation and decreased motility of the alimentary tract, dilatation of the pupil, loss of^ weight, insomnia^ and general physical l exhaustion. These disturbances may vary in their prominence and may appear as groups of symptoms characterizing well known diseases. Thus worry is sometimes an important agent in the production of diabetes, gout, exophthalmic goiter and chronic heart disease. Inasmuch as worry is primarily a I disease of the mind, and since every 1 portion of the body is intimately conj nected with every other part by a network of nervous tissue of great comj plexity, we naturally seek for the | causes of these manifestations, first of all, in the nervous system. | In every individual at a given time there is a limited amount of potential energy stored up in the cells of the ! brain. This function seems to rest in the chromatin granules of the nerve cells, and it has been shown repeat euxy tnat a uueruuuu ui. ucivuuo energy, whether in response to a psychic or sensory stimulus, results in a physiological degeneration of the chromatin granules, and consequently of the cells themselves. Obviously a prolonged discharge of nervous energy diminishes by so much the amount left in the brain cells. Furthermore, stimuli of sufficient nwmber, intensity or duration may cause exhaustion and death. Origin of the Sun Flag. | The origin or tne em Diem 01 mei I sun as the Japanese national symbol ! dates back to time immemorial. The j first record of its use on land is that j of a famous war lord of the eleventh I century; again in the fifteenth century | the emblem was adopted by the feudal i lords and warriors. The connection of I the emblem with the navy is also deep j rooted, having had local usage as early I ' as 71 A. D.. and a more extended field I I in 110 A. D. The official adoption of ' the sun flag to represent the nation took I place in 1810.?Bulletin of the Japan i Society. I ? Downward Revision. Two Minutes After the Exam.?Aw, | that was a cinch. I crashed that easy! i Right between the eyes! ! One Day After the Exam.?Of course ' there were a couple of little things 1 didn't get quite right ! Two Days After the Exam.?Say, I think I got two questions all wrong. Three Days After the Exam.?Pass it? Well, I should say not I flunked It cold.?Yale Record. r Subscribe to Tbt Her^randW^'; \ DROWNING CUT A flHE. High Pressure Water Streams Tnat Tear Dcwn Rocm Part tscr.s. Just think <>f { ickinjr hi? a poml or a small re; < r\>?ir containiiiu about 000 gallons of water ami throwing it bodily at jj lire, and then jacking up ! another pond or reservoir containing i the same amount of water and throwing that at^lbe fire within a moment's ; time, and keeping up this performance every minute for an hour until the tire i is drenched witii nearly LMMUHX) gal- j Ions (A water! Quite a "bucket bri- ! gade," eh 7 Practically that is what the New j York tire department does today with : its hi^'h pressure system, for with this | method of water supply the tiremen ; can obtain 30.0X) gallons of wjiter a ; minute and. if necessary, at a inaxi- j mum pressure of 3(X) pounds to t he j square men ? sumciem pressure ui , "pushing power" behind the stream to 1 carry it from the street to the top of an eight story building or eveu higher, j It has the greatest possible advantage] over the "throwing" method, since the i firemen, with the aid of their water | towers and monitor nozzles, can direct right into the heart of the fire this im- j mMisp volume of water?enormous! streams that smash windows, tear down partitions, sweep aside merchan-! dise and squirm, twist and force them- j selves into every' nook and corner of j a building, searching out the tire bet- j ter than the firemen can and smothering it before it can reach the danger mark. " * * * * - ? ' " > /V# An(l tms IS wnj niai hi a puruim uj. New York city rioted a few rears ago for destructive tires the big fire has. in a sense, disappeared.?Charles T. Hill in St. Nidiolas. THE CORNCOB PiPE. i 1 "*" I x?_ U Hnctn't f\x I imta u b mor^j , qiiu .wv... . >. Well With a Silk Hat. The corncob pipe is a democratic institution. One evidence of the fact that this country is not so democratic as foreigners believe is that, according to the code of an American gentleman, the corncob pipe must not be smoked while wearing a silk hat On the other hand, it may be for this reason that AnnAripflns so seldom affect the silk j bat [ But some men find difficulty in adapting themselves to the "Missouri | meerschaum." They contend that the first puff fpom a new corncob pipe is like a breath from the uetiier regions. This aversion arises from the circumstance that, like a sponge, a new cob pipe should be dipped in water before j it is used. After the first pipeful of tobacco has been smoked it will be found that a liberal coat of ashes has' attached itself to the wails of the pipe, j rendering it thereafter much less likely to burn the tongue than if it were j ?Hio f/irrn?i lif-v nf hat> 1111 II& I tTVi n iiuvui tnw *vi ?..v^ r tism. There is one place, however, wbere the cob pipe is distinctly dangerous, and that is in the mouth of a beginner' in the mellow art .of smoking. Mothers who dread the day when their sons shall feel obliged to assert their entrance into man's estate by acquiring a tJiste of tobacco will do well to buy j a corncob pipe and leave it carelessly tho linnno Tn timp ft wiil be aLA/Ut IUV livuwv* _ _ missed. So will the boy's appetite. But the appetite will come back.?Indianapolis News. ! ] Artificial Skies. Sky and air are the hardest things to imitate on the stage, but this old problem has been solved. Clear sky, cloudy sky and distance effects are obtained by shootkig light on a very carefully built concrete dome. The smooth white surface of the concrete reflects the light rays in so many directions that, they ail Diena. At me same tune the light thrown on the dome is carefully filtered to obtain just the right color. | The combined result can be made to give the impression that the roof over the stage has been taken off to let the sky in. Then, with a moving picture, machine in the wings, cloud effects may be added without difficulty.?Saturday Evening Post ?? Some Pet Aversions. Julius Caesar was so much afraid of thunder that he wanted to get under ground to escape from the terrible noise. Queen Elizabeth always shuddered when the word death was pro-; nounced in her presence. Marshal Saxe, who knew no fear in the hottest 1 1 ^ -*xU -f-nAm O Dattie, wouia nee wiuj bc'iett-mo ij-v*" ? cat Peter the Great dreaded always to cross a bridge. Byron would not help any one to salt at table nor would he be helped, and if salt was spilled he would leave his meal unfinishedMany such peculiarities could be cited from the biographies of well known men. That's All. "Didn't I see daughter in the kitch- j en yesterday?" inquired father. "Yes." "That's a hopeful sign." "Don't be too hopeful," said mother wearily. "She is merely going to read a paper on domestic science at her club."?Louisville Courier-Journal. Effective. "The climax to his wooing was very romantic. He proposed to her on the! verge of a mountain gorge." "What did she do?" , "She threw him over." The Proof. "X Is the unknown quantity, isn't I itr 'Try to borrow one and yonll soon find.out"?Baltimore American. Wt&* ?r?# but** j % : PARIS A3 AN ART CEXTCn.' | t ? its Treasures In the Louvre and Its Gems of Architecture. In population Paris ranks third amonj: the* cities <?f the earth, with j more people than Washington. Mexi- j co City. Kio, Buenos Aires and Santiago together. It is tlie w Jfid's ! till iii many respects, its an treas- ! ures surpass those of any other city: j its fashions dominate the civilized ; world and even influence the uncivi-, lized: its language is the court tongue j of the earth; its history is u panorama ; of the story of civilization from the \ days of the <Joth and the Vandal j tA + lin riraconf' UU li \\J IUV jnwvuu In the heart of the city stands one > of the w orld's most noted of build-j ings?the palace of the Louvre. It is } the priceless art museum of France, i and there are contained within its, three departments ? sculpture, paint-1 ings and antiquities?examples of the ' highest expression of human genius, j The collections of the Louvre, were i they offered for sale, would bring a j total price so stupendous as to be un-1 believable. For example, in the gal-j lery of Apollo, among other treasures. Lilt; Ulil LUUUU Jiniru onviu vjl. Bonaparte, valued at $400,000; the famous Regent diamond, valued at $3,-1 000.000: the gems of man}- a beaute- j ous queen of France, and the swords and spurs of Charlemagne. A life might be spent in study here,' and libraries might be written upon the treasure which the Louvre houses. In the hall of sculpture stands the neerless Venus of Melos, a thing more ravishing than any other vision everj hewn from a stone. In this hall there j are many pieces of antiquity and of more modern times, the loss of any J one of which would be irreparable.' Yet the strange people of this city.: fired with enthusiasm for a communistic theory, once mined the Louvre, poured petroleum over it and prepared ! to destroy with gunpowder what it | had taken the world more than 2.500 ! years to produce. Paris is overrich in the possession j of the beautiful, the impressive and the magnificent, its famous Duuaings; make an almost unending list. Richest among the world's theaters is the Paris home of opera?without, an architectural delight; within, a fascinating in| spiration in snow white marble, onyx, | Jasper, malachite and bronze. Its j | famed grand stairway is a fitting pre- j TYlAi\<1o fhflf Stan ho I I 1 UCItf lu LiiC lllj^ursi UJWUO luuv vui> vv ; produced by the music on its stage. And there is not. wanting a strong! 1 element of grewsome and terrifying reminiscence in this glorious city. The traveler stands amid the wide sweep 1 of the Place de la Concorde (Place of xPeace), and he thinks that here before! r an assembled bestial mob the razor j blade of the guillotine rose and fell un-: tiring while head after head, mid bitter, I jest and song, rolled from the gory ma| chine into the great common basket j l and the quivering trunks were corded at its side. Age and youth and loveli- j ness were sacrificed to brutish passion! | on this now serene square in a way that only 'Rome had equaled. ' Every contrast is found in Paris and all varieties of excellence. Here is the I world's highest structure, tne Kirrei ; tower. This huge shaft of steel is one of the most overpowering things within the city. Forty draftsmen worked J two years on the 15.000 different de-' l signs necessary for its 15,000 sections, i Restaurants, shops and a theater are. j housed upon its seeps and within its 1 corridors. Ten thousand people can gather here at one time. * Grocers as Fiahtinq Men. In olden times' in England the gro-1 cers' trade played a useful part in na-! tional defense. The Grocers' company j was commanded in 1557 to furnish six-1 ty men for "the resistance of such in- j iquitous attempts as may be made by foreign enemies." Further demands of I the same kind were satisfied in sue-j cessive years, and in 1588 the company j supplied 500 men to resist the Spanish ' armada. Authority was granted to' press men into this service, and ap- j nnri ionrnevmen were called upon to leave the counter for the bat- j I tlefield. Sir John Philpot, an early J j master of the Grocers' company, clear- j ! ed the North sea of a horde of Scottish j pirates by means of' a fleet equipped ! enurely at his own cost ? London J I Chronicle. j | i Men in Petticoats. 1 It will probably be a matter of surprise to the general reader to learn that tha npfticoflt was first worn exclusively . by men. In the reign of King Henry VII. the dress of the English was so fantastic and absurd that it was difficult to distinguish one sex from the , other. In the inventory of Henry V. \ 1 appears a "petticoat of red damask,1 with open sleeves.'* There is no men-1 tion of a woman's petticoat before the ' Tudor period. Early Submarines. One of the earliest references to under -era tor fro ft is iri connection with piracy. Olaus Magnus, bishop of Up-1 l sala. writing in 1555, makes mention of "skiffs and vessels constructed of i leather," two of which he had seen, in which the pirates of Greenland "go! wherever they wish, either above or ! below water, and by their means pierce and make great holes in passing merchant ships."?Pall Mall Gazette. Unhappy Endings. t i "You say all the stories he writes i have unhappy endings?" "Every one or tnem." J "But he can't sell stories with unhappy endings." I "He never does sell any. That's their unhappy ending."?Houston Post Tiiere never lived a. xaaut ifctot waa pot injured by perpetual compllipents. ?Kernel] D, Hillia. 1 _ I FREAK OF THE TIDE! Curous Phenomenon That Occurs In the River Trent. , FURIOUS RUSH OF THE AEGIR. Like a Monster Tidal Wave the Water From the Sea Sweeps Up the Strearr With an Angry Roar, Flinging Its Foam High Into the Air. "Ware aegir! Ware aegir!" The river Trent lias been Cowing out to tile -sea tor hours, leaving long stretches of brown mud glittering in the light of the seiting sun. It is * calm summer evening, and we sit waiting and listening on one of the old whangs of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. IJhe cry is taken up by every boatman,"who shouts it again upstream ?a strange, eerie warning. Several small boats are now pushing off into midstream to avoid the mass of churning water which breaks on the foreshore. A group of children add to $e tumult with a shrill cry of "Wild aegir! Wild aegir!" which they consider a much better rendering than "Ware aegir!" By craning forward we can see it now, rounding a bend of the river by the shipyard. The first wave is big ? V><vVtf A<)1?ACtt3 a LIU SLLIUOIII, Middling HgUi 1- wo tthe river, with a swirl of angry water at each side: next follow five or six big rollers, which roar and foam along, leaving masses of broken water in their wake. These are called the "whelps." Presently we shall see the force of these "whelps" when they reach those big, unwieldy, square nosed barges? which, by the way, are called "keels." mere is one sucn swinging at alienor in midstream just opposite to us. For the last half hour the old keelman has been lolling about the deck smoking his clay and looking idly at the water. Now he is alert all at once, and, knocking the ashes out of his pipe, he gives a turn at the windlass to tighten the anchor chain. After a glance along the deck to see that all is secure, he looks back up the river. He is calculating where the aegir will carry him to. There is another barge higher up the mror nnr? vol- nnhodv hfls Stirred on board. The old man has noticed it for he shouts, "Ware aegir. Stoney, my lad!" and a young fellow jumps up the hatch and rUns to the tiller. The distant swish has increased to at roar now, and a feeling of intense exa^ citement grips us as we see a smatt^" boat rise up on the first wave and dis^"*" appear for f? moment in the hollow. Up again she rises, right into the froth of the "whelps." Another moment and she is through into calmer water. See! The billow dashes like a monster tidal wave against a wharf and splashes high up into the air with a roar and smother of white foam. Now it has reached the "keel." With a groan and rattle of chain she rises to the wave and is carried along with it, but not very far, for the anchor holds fast and she swings slowly round. The keel is broadside on now, and the creamy "whelps" dash right over her deck as she rolls in the trough of waves, but as quickly as it takes to tell she swings stem on to the current, which is now rushing upstream with tremendous force, and will continue to do so for two hours or more until high T*'h?Ti fho Tcntor lnzilv returns ?* CI tc 1 1 <? UV.1J t"V " -.v toward the sea. The aegirs are not all as big as tbi^ one; some are a piere swell about a foot high. The best time to see them is in the spring and autumn, when the equinoctial tides are big on the coast Just below Gainsborough the aegir is seen at its best, as it rushes along some of the longest reaches of the Trent. This curious tidal phenomenon only occurs on one or two other rivers in Great Britain, the Severn fceing one of them, where it is known as the "bore.'* Those who hare seen it, however, say that it does not equal the aegir in any way.?Wide World Magazine. How Railroads Create Wealth. Our marvelous crops would count for nothing if forced to lie in the fields where they grow, or driven to seek ?uch markets only as the farmer's team could reach. The cotton crop/ -r?nnr cTmros flnnnallv Wllltll U1U1C.O IV vu? nearly half a billion dollars of foreign gold, would be but a fruitless burden on southern winds if there were no railways to carry it to the seaboard. We take from our mines and forests and factories twenty billions of dollars each year, but without means of transportation these costly products would be worthless junk.?Robert Mavther in Leslie's. The French Horn. The, French horn, or cor de chasse, is regarded by some musicians as the sweetest and *?ellowest of all the wind instruments. In Beethoven's time it was little else than the old hunting: horn, which for the convenience of the mounted hunter was arranged in spiral convolutions to be slipped over the head and carried resting on one shoulder and under the opposite arm. The Germans still call it the waldhorn? that is, "forest horn." Glad to Play a Losing Game. "I shrink from the ordeal," she said, but there was a note of triumph in her voice. The Jady wafc dieting and exercising to reduce her flesh, and the scales bad just shown that she had slonghed off thirty; pounds. -Judge. Reeoly# to in, tot. walk ,pqwer.?Chftiflot&r, fttgtaon*