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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
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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.
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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.
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"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
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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.
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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." .
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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? ^