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>-- V -y. fP&T; J m. % Uncle Sam's Aero Beat I ?=> v '''ikri UASHINGTON.?Foreign governments have had their military and naval representatives In WaBh- j Ington watching the experiments that | tills government has been conducting , at the Washington navy yard with | the new catapult device for launching aeroplanes. The launching machine is the dosign of Capt. W. I. Chambers, In charge of aviation In the navy. It practically Is a compressed air gun that shoots the aeroplane Into tho air so that It can be lailticlied from a warship at any time and the catapult then stored below, out of the way. Several tests of tho device have been made, various hydro-aeroplanes being used. What was generally considered tho supreme test was made the other day when the new aeroboat that has been built for the navy by Glenn Curtiss was shot into the air for a succesful flight with Lieut. Theodore Ellyson, the first of the navy aviators, at the helm. The new boat Is larger and heavier than any other hydro-aeroplane tho government has used. It has a body ^Ike a light, fast powerboat, and seats j Postmen Cannot Loiter CHARLES R. MATTHEWS, superintendent of carriers In the Washington postofllce, and the man who originated what Is known as the "block" system of mall delivery, a system that has been copied all over the country, said today: "One of the most Intelligent and faithful asistants I hnve Is Mike. Mike is a very humble sort of somebody, so humble, in fact, that he even hasn't any other name. "Mike Is just an old white Jiorse. sound of body, clean of limb and brighter In his intelligence than many human beings that have been sent to me for service. "He has spent about seven of his f twenty-four years helping deliver the mall to the local hotels. Ho knows his route as well as any man who has ever served It. And, better still, he knows Just how lone It ought to take the carrier to deliver the mail for a given hotel "You can't fool him. When the hour for starting on his route comes and Ernest Miller, the carrier who owns hiin, in full uniform, gets in his seat, Mike looks first up and then down the street to see if his road is clear, being particularly careful to watch a little longer to see if an electric car Is about to start on Its way to Alexandria. "Once started, ho takes in each hoWhites on Reservations I WHITE meh are not to be allowed to have "booze" while the In* otaii goes dry on Indian reservations. There Is not to be one law for the r >d man and another for his white brother where they dwell together on the Indians' lands, the Indian bureau chief declares. The white man can have readier access to the red Ink that is really a writing fluid and which has proved palatable and exhilarating, according to the records, to those who need alcoholic excitement and find other sources dried up. And he may slake his acquired thirst from the mucilage Much Interest Being She ACCORDING to the annual report of the biological survey recently submitted to Secretary Wilson, the rearing of fur-bearing animals in the United States for their pelts continues to be a subject of much interest. Skunks, muskrats, minks and foxes are reared In captivity or on preserves under control of breeders. The large prices asked for mature black foxes for breeding purposes have resulted in confining tlie industry in the bands of f a very few. Comparatively few attempts have been made to raise minks in the United States, but experiments are being conducted in co-operation with the National Zoological park with a view to determining the most successful methods of rearing these animals Muskrat farming has probably readied its highest point of development on the eastern shore of Maryland. Muskrat marshes are v orth more, measured by their actual income, than cultivated farms of like % i X Experiments Are Watched two passengers side by sld<^ with a double-control mechanism, so that either man can act as aviator. The boat Is driven by an eighty-horse power motor, and is capable of a speed of fifty miles on the water and sixty miles in the air. This launching device is the first that has been practical and successful from a navy Btanupolnt. It was proved moro than a year ago, when Eugene Ely flew from the scoutship Hirmingham and afterward flew and alighted on the battleship I*ennsylvanla, that the aeroplane could bo launched at sea. In both these cases, nowever. a special platrorm was built i and extensive preparations were , made for the flight. The new catapult can be clamped to the top of a turret and the turret revolved to shoot the aeroplane Into j the teeth of the wind without even turning the wheel of the vessel. The device takes only half an hour to erect. lieutenant Ellyson has been the acrobatic aviator of the navy. He has been willing to try anything, and al- | lowed himself to be shot from the catapult the first time it was used, j when it was not known what effect the sudden shock would have on either the aeroplane or the aviator, j He has been anxious to develop some practical form of aeroplane launching that could be used on a warship, and some months ago llew an aeroplnne at Hammondsport off a steel cable which was stretched for an inclined launching way. When Mike Is on Duty tel In its turn. He will not permit the carrier who goes with him to stop on his way or loiter. If he tries to do so Mike simply walks on. So when he arrives at the hotel he allows time j for the'carrier to take the mall In and get back, and if he does not come hack within that time Mike simply ! moves on to his next stop. "Why, I can send the greenest sub j In the office out with Mike and he won't go astray, if ho knows how to read the labels on the mail sacks. 'He is never sick and has never lost an hour's time. When we are ready for him In the morning it takes two men to hitch hint, he is so eager \ to get on his Job. He never stands in a sleepy way like some horses. His eyes are always wide open and he seems to be always on the alert, but there is a conservatism and a dignity about him that makes me feel proud of him as a member of our delivery force." \rc as Dry as Poor Lo bottle with greater facility perhaps. These and other devices have been known to the Indian while seeking iui a. iidiuueu iiirum. Hut the white man on an Indian reservation from now on may not have whisky or other alcoholic beverage, either, for refreshment or to cure his ills or as a precaution against ail- I ments, even on a physiclan'B prescrip- , tion, as long as the ban is on the Indian. The oniy Intoxicant not under prohibition remains the wine intended solely for sacramental purposes, to be brought into the reservations under church authority. Circular No. 695, Indian bureau, signed by Acting Commissioner P. I H. Abbott and indorsed by the acting secretary of the interior, addressed to the superintendents of Indian schools and agencies, directs observance of the law in strict conformity with Its letter. - It also calls attention to ir- | regularities in obser-anco of the law that have come to the attention of the bureau. >wn in Muskrat Farming y FAftMlHC SUKF acreage in the same vicinity. Only one other animal in the world, the Kuropean rabbit, exceeds the nuiskrat In the number of skina marketed. The report also calls attention to the experiments for the extermination j r>f itrntiln ?1 1? - ---? ' w. IU uvgs*, rs'^uuu a?i 111 IH'IS iilld gophers that are being conducted by means of poison baits, traps and other methods. It is a surprising fact that the dally forage of 152 adult prairie dogs equal that required for a sheep, and that 256 gat nearly as much as a cow. \ * NEEDEDJJ01N When She Came Business Picked IU __ J II. r? !J? Ml up c?.iiu ne ueciuea brie Should Remain. BY MILDRED CAROLINE GOODRICH. "ThiBlness Is bad. very bad." said John Moore to a pausing townsman, and struck a still more dejected attitude In the doorway of his little Btore. He posed there, staring gloomily out Into tho fast darkening street, thinking how very bad was business, Indeed, and wondering why ho had ever brought his little stock of dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes and notions' to Rlverton. "I would go to a real live, wideawake town." he ruminated, "and here I am?trade <dull. stock dead, and 1 don't seem to make many friends. Heigh ho! 1 suppose being a crusty old bachelor keeps away the ladies' trade. As to others, maybe I'm too slow and old-fashioned. Guess I'll closo up. Hello!" Starting to pull up the awning, the storekeeper's foot touched a moving human object crouched back in the hallway side entrance to the building. * "Here, wake up!" called out John, with a frown. "What you doing there, anyway?" "I'm not aEleep." responded the faint, quavering voice; "and I'm here because I'm too sick and weak to gc^ any further." The speaker got to his feet with a painful effort. As he camo more fully Into view John regarded him closely. "Oh, I see." he said, rather distastefully; "you are the man who was here a month ago, and got in trouble with a riotous crowd down at the tavern." "That was me," assented tho tramp, for such he seemed. "1 was arrested. I hoped It was forgotten, for I came back hero this morning to find work. "~|~r y i "What Do You Want?" I found out that people do remember. No one would employ me. Heartsick and footsore, I crept In here to rest? maybe to die. 1 don't know, for 1 feel pretty bad." and the poor fellow's eyes filled with tears. "What do you want?" Inquired John, a tride harshly; "money, 1 suppose, to buy liquor." The tramp reached Into his pocket, drew out a folded paper and opened it so that his challenger could see what it was. "A temperance pledge, eh?" remarked John, almost contemptuously. "And your name is Lemuel l'rice?" "Yes. sir. I'm through with all that. i ve neen through with it for over a week I've done it because I'd got low enough to beg hard earned wages from iny motherless daughter. "If stopping short is going to kill me, all right?at least I'll die sober." The man was shivering as he spoke. There was a feverish tlubii to his wan face. He looked hungry. John Moore believed his story. "See here." he said; "If it's a bed and something to eat. come with me." When John had closed the store he led his pensioner to the neat suite of rooms he occupied behind the store. It seemed to brighten up the place to have company, even poor but grateful company, as Price was. It was as a new man that the latter entered on the next day. John had fed him on nutritious soup and gruels, he had given him a comfortable bed. Out of his stock he selected a neat, unsalable suit of clothes, and the extramp went out on the 3treet, cleanshaven and encouraged, to again look for work. "If you don't make it," said John, "come back, and I'll give you board and lodging for helping around tin store until you get something better to do." Price reported that afternoon. He had found a chance to work as a teamster, he said, but, he added, he had decided iirst to submit a proposition to the storekeeper. 44All rififllt wllflt iu It 9" oel/o/l tn his usual crisp, businesslike way. "Well," replied Price, "I don't want you to he offended, but I've been trying to study out why you don't do more business than you do. You have got the stock Other stores are just rushing. Saturday's, especially, the trade is big. You haven't got your share." "I have realized that for some time," said John, bitterly. "Nov, I've been thinking up matters for your good, because you have ' 1 - r^ been so kind to me," continued Price, humbly but sincerely. "I amounted to something once. Had a business, and but for drink would havo succeeded. If you will let me do a little advertising for you. I'll guarantee results." Slow-going John Mooro was dubious. but finally he agreed to try the experiment. The next day Price cleaned up the show windows. The next he repainted the front of the store In attractive colors. After that he brought a big brass bell and secured It on a standard over the store doorway with a chain running to tho Inside of tho store. Early Friday morning a sign appeared above the bell reading: "Every twentieth purchase free?announced by this bell." Just at noon the bell rnncr Tho i>t. cited customer, a farmer, was Informed that his purchaso would bo handed to him free of chnrgo. As ho left the store John camo rushing back to Price. "Say." he exclaimed, "you'll ruin me! Why, that was a twelve-dollar overcoat!" "Never mind," replied Price, confidently. "The averago will come out right." This proved to be true. Curious people came In, making only small purchases. Tho news got nround town. The crowd kept up till midnight. Tired out, but elated. John reckoned up the gains of the day. Counting In the presents given, he was over fifty dollars to the good. ? The next week Price had a new scheme, the distribution of a free paper cap to children, advertising the store. The rush kept up. "Mr. Moore," said Price one evening. "tho night business Is better than the day. That is because you don't get the trade of the ladies. I've a new suggestion to make. You need a woman behind that dry goods counter l.et me send for my daughter, Martha. We can use the two empty rooms upstairs, and you needn't pay either of us a cent of salary unless wo earn it." So this came about. The result was magical. Martha Price, bright, modest. obliging, brought in the female customers in groups. The pleased old bachelor began to humanize himself with pleasant words Instead of frowns. Fortune smiled upon him. In turn he nmilr>rt iir?r>n Mnrthn "It's no use denying it, Price," he said to her father one day, "you two have managed to transform a crusty, self-opinionated, behind-the-tlme, crusty old bachelor into a jeal human being. As to you, I'm proud of you." "Some good in the world after all, am I?" responded Price. "I'm so glad, and Martha ia happy as the day la long." John Moore did some deep thinking the rest of that day. In the early evening, when Price was eating his supper, he went over to the counter where his daughter stood. "Martha," he said, "I'm going to tell you something that 1 never told any other woman. Having had no experi * uvr, a uiucib uu iaiut'1 auu blunt." "Yes?" murmured Martha. Her color heightened. "I love you. and I want, you to he my wife. Of course, a crusty old bachelor?" "Don't call my father's best frleml hard names," interrupted Martha sweetly. "I am only a poor girl, but if true love and devotion v.ill satisfy you?" Then it. was his turn to interrupt? with a kiss. (Copyright, 1913. by YY. G. Chapman.) On Style. Idiosyncrasies of character tell even more than variety of subjects in their influence on style. No two persons are cast in the same mould. Clearly, therefore, the dress which is very becoming to one writer or speaker may be very unbecoming to another. Yet. to the end of time, in defiance of this truism, packs of imitators dog the steps of genius, as the courtiers of Alexander copied the conqueror's wry neck, or the courtiers of (Jeorge IV. his bulging cravats, or as tho under carter apes the slouch and shamble of the wagoner. This peculiar style in which Carlyle clothed his oracular utterances suited him and them, the jerkiness and joltiness of his sen fences startling the world into attention, and the difficulty of unwrapping the mummy from the cerecloths necessitating the effort of Will, without which the thought cannot be grasped. in tact, tne style or Carlyle is part of the man and of his trmperamont Hut it was good advice of the dying critic to his friend, "Avoid Carlyleso." And what is true of Carlyle and his copyists is true widely. ('an any great writer be named who has not had a herd of servile Imitators at his heels? Ia not the old saving doubly, trebly true in this application, "The best, if corrupted, becomes the w>rst?" I C.regory Smith, in tbo Oxford and Cambridge Review. Too Much of a Luxury. A friend of ours tells us that he went to consult a doctor Inst week. "1 have some queer pains," said our friend. "I see," said the doctor, looking wise. "Do you feel a sharp pain low down on your right side?" "Doc," answered our friend. "1 only get .<12 a week. Don't go look In' for any symptoms of appendicitis." The case was immediately diagnosed as indigestion Many Like Him. Hill?What kind of a fellow is Dob kins? Will?Ho can tell you how to adopt a national system of currency that would pay off the national debt, but he can't raise the price of his gro- j eery bill.? Cincinnati Hnquirer. v' - "w : iTfep&r ;-5 s? Tp^T Ki BESPERATE FIGHT | WITH UND CRABS, Thrilling Experience of Cocoanul Hunters in Samoan Islands. < STABS LlkE BAYONETS ' Men Were Cnvtrmti With RH? Head to Foot, Their Bare Feet Terribly Bitten and Swollen?Battled ^ With Axe and Heavy Wrench. San Francisco, Cal.?A terrlbU story of a desperate battle with land | crabs, which attacked two cocoanut , gatherers. Is reported from the Sam- , ' can Islands. Attracted by reports of \ plentiful fruit, the two men. one of | them a brother of Father Itogler, of | Funning island, set sail for Palmyra. , On their arrival they p-oceeded to ] make themselves comfortable for the \ night. "I was lying upon the ground," 1 says Rogier, "watching I.lga (Ills com- ( pan ion) working about the little Are, ( when I felt something jump upon my : ( arm, and the next instant there was a , sharp bite Into by neck at the right j side a little below the ear. I yelled, of course, nnd shook the thing off, \ j and Jumping to my feet saw that It ] was a monster land crab, the largest | 1 thing of the kind I had up to that > 1 time seen in all my experience In | southern seas. If thero had been only | the one we would not have cared so j , much, but instead of thr.l there were j ] dozens all about us. nnd before T had I j really recovered from my fright. I j , saw rb many as four or five of the big 1 fellows running up l,lga's body, biting j i his hands and snapping their long l j nippers Into his neck and face. He , was twisting and turning about like a crazy man, fighting the things with his hands and striking at them with the Iron frying pan which he had been holding over the fire, < "1 was satisfied at a glance that we were no match for the horde of crabs i that were upon us, and I called to Idga to make a Jump for the boat, which was not more than five paces away, under the little overhanging bank. At the same time, crushing j under my feet the big fellow that had attacked me first. I ran for the boat j and made for the little deck cabin in which our guns were lashed. "I nearly fainted when 1 saw that j the boat was already overrun with the I miserable creatures. They were so ! thick in the cabin that it was simply nilt of lti?> nnnKtinn for In our puna and dip up the necessary ammunition. Itesldes, I did not see | lust then what pood the rllles would Howled With Pain. , be to us, for the things were so numerous, crawling everywhere about and upon us that we could not poa- 1 j sihly shoot them all. "So I grabbed up the axe lying on i the deck and ran to I.iga's aid on the j shore; hut in the meantime he had decided that the only thing to do was to get out Into the water, and by the I little light of our fire I could see him standing waist high in the water | fighting off two or three of the crabs that had fastened themselves upon his firms and back. He howled with pain, i as he told me afterward, but I did not ] hear film for I was doing the same i thing myself. "Mut I was sure his plan was a good one. and 1, too, rushed into the water. One of tht' monsters rlung to my back , right between mv shoulder blades, and fhOUgll I ducked mvself nnrlnr I ho seemed to bo only getting a bottor ] bold Kinally, freed of thee erabs from his own body, hut blooding as , I though ho had boon cut by a hundrod j bayonots, l.iga came to my assistance , and cut with his pockot knifo the \ creature from my back. In doing so, however, ho loft one of the monster's , nippers In the flesh, and It Is this ] wound which Is now causing mo the j , greatest pain and the doctor the most ] trouble. i , j "Heforo making our escape we wore j i both rod men. covered with bite* ( *rom head to foot.* , Just fcr Fun. , ( Fobokon. N. J Five boys admitfet ( to rhlef of Police Hayes that they t started a fire that Saturday threaten- j ed nil of Hobokon and caused f:iOO.. j 000 damage to ' see the engines run." . I v5 I . I IMDNAnONAL ^| SDNMTSOIOOL 1 Lesson By E. O. SELLERS, Director of Evenlng Department The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 2. THE FLOOD. LESSON TEXT?Genesis ?*-U. GOLDEN TEXT?"The -*tge? of sin i? leath, but the free rift of God is eternal Ife In Christ Jesua our Lord." Rom. t:S R. V. wsb b1 cai lavi ngurusu 1U UIO t>ook of Genesis Is that of Creation, which may be divided into several lesser facts. The second great fact is that of the Fall, Which began with the temptation and ended with the exclusion from Paradise. In this lesson we come to the third great fact, the Flood, the account of which embraces the fifth to the ninth chapters. Chapter Ave gives us Noah's genealogy; six, the history of the building of the <\9k; seven, the occupancy of the ark; Bight, Noah's departure from the ark. and nine, God's covenant with Noah. In this lesson sin flourishes like the proverbial green bay tree. "Every Imagination of the thoughts of man's heart was only evil continually," v. 5. These thoughts were crystallized into the lives of men. for we read that "the earth was filled with violence." Viewing this awful development of sin, God was so deply grieved in his heart that he turned aside (repented) rrom his plan and purpose thus far, to a determination to destroy man (r. 7). Noah, however, found grace in God's sight, as we see from v. 9, even In the midst of these adverse circumstances. Environment is powerful but not all-powerful, and it is never a match for God's grace. We must not gather from this verse that Noah was faultless, but rather than he sought to conform his life to God's will and not to the standards of those among whom he dwelt. Noah gave himself to a whole-hearted service to God. We are told that the foundation of Noah's acceptance before God was his faith, Heb. 11:7, like his great grandfather Enoch, he had "walked with God" (5:22). Noah stood absolutely alone and wrs thus thrown upon companionship wllh God, compare v. 9 who i jonn l * 3. Given Due Warning. God could no longer endure the Bins of men, their iniquity was full, therefore God determined to destroy them. He did not, however, cut them off, for we read that they had 120 years' announcement of the coming of the flood (v. 13), time enough in which to repent. They also had a faithful preacher to warn them dui^ ing this time, 2 Peter 2:5. But their apoBtasy was complete and they would have none of God's mercy nor heed his warning, Prov. 29:1. Noah'a obedience as he built the ark was a daily reminder of the impending flood. Tho ark was a flat-bottomed chest ^ 450 feet long, 75 feet broad and 45 feet deep, built of Cyprus (gopher wood) and coated with pitch. Under the eaves of the roof was an open space for ventilation and its three decks were divided into comparts ments. As to the "eight souls" (I Peter 3:20) who entered the ark we need to remember that usually children and servants are understood without mention In such enumerations. We are not to Infer that of all created animals two of each entered the ark. The flood certainly was not universal and hence such a miracle was uncalled for. Race Swept Away. At last the flood arrived at the ex? act moment prophesied. Its cause seems to be twofold, a subsidence of the ground and a downpour of rain. The Euphrates valley where this event took place fills all the necessary conditions. Subsidence would allow an Inundation from the sea. Such an inundation took place In 1911 In the Yangtse vallev and snnth?r iom rendered more than ten million people homeless; the water rising from 50 to 90 feet. All that the account demands, however, is that a corrupt race was swept away and that Ood saved his righteous servant and hia household. It is the privilege of evpry believer in Ood to save his household. See Acts 16:31, 2:9; I. Cor. 7:14. The only way Ood could insure the purity bf the race was to destroy irrevocably the Impure. Skeptics have read into the story if the flood much extraneous matter. Some have sought to prove that because nearly every race under the sua has a flood tradition therefore the writer of Genesis is merely passing in a "Babylonian tradition." It is far more reasonable to believe that these traditions are corrupted forms of the truo account found in the Bible. For the younger pupils get the Rtory of the flood as told by Dean [lodges and tell a connected story of what has already happened in the past essons and tell them that the story will be continued next week Some ;ood live questions for class discus lions would be: What does It mean to *alk with Qod? Of the four?Igno ance, Indifference, consent or conlemnation of sin?which one must 3od take? What Is the difference be:ween wages and a free gift? Did ^oah earn his salvation? Is faith . 'ignore than art attitude of mind' Do hq need more hatred of sin today? ^